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It’s a world record for largest human menorah! (JTA)—Students at a Jewish school in New Jersey broke the world record for the world’s largest human menorah. Over 500 students from Ben Porat Yosef, a private school in Paramus, stood in the shape of a Chanukah cande- labra on Wednesday morning, the first day of the Jewish holiday, Paramus Patch reported. A representative from Guinness World Records certified that the formation was indeed the largest one in the world. Sami Kuperberg and Rayna Exelbierd. Students dressed in colors to make the menorah come to life, with the younger pupils wearing red or orange to sym- bolize the flame and the older ones in white to represent the candles and dark colors to represent the menorah itself. By Christine DeSouza JSU is an after-school club that provides any high It only takes one person to school student a Jewish ex- strive to make a difference. perience through programs Sami Kuperberg is such a that strengthen their Jewish Jerusalem takes center stage as person. She had endured anti- identity. Semitism since her freshman Kuperberg planned a pro- year at Oviedo High School. gram titled “One Day Starts Students would tease her Today” with the support of movement opposes US policy shift because she is Jewish. One JOIN Orlando and StandWi- student wouldn’t let her raise thUs, a non-profit pro-Israel By Deborah Fineblum speeches and workshops, in her hand in class to answer education and advocacy or- JNS the hallways between ses- questions and grabbed her ganization that believes that sions, and over sandwiches arm and drew a swastika on education is the road to peace. BOSTON—Rabbi Rick Ja- at lunch. it. She was even punched “I have been fighting every cobs used his pulpit to com- Jacobs, the URJ’s president, and kicked just because she single day for this event and fi- pare the difficulties between had stated last week that is Jewish. nally in less than a week it will Israel and Reform Jews to Trump’s announcement as Kuperberg heard of a pro- all come together,” Kuperberg those of Joseph and his “ill-timed,” breaking with gram called Jewish Student stated on her Facebook page brothers in last week’s Torah the relatively broad Jewish Union, and reached out to before the event. “My goal is portion of Vayeshev. communal support of the Rabbi Gabi Gittleson of JOIN to fill 600/600 seats there and It was a huge congregation Jerusalem recognition. Orlando to start the club at Jacobs was addressing: the “While we share the presi- her school. Light on page 14A record-breaking 6,000 Re- dent’s belief that the U.S. form Jews gathered in Boston embassy should, at the right for the Union for Reform Juda- time, be moved from Tel Aviv ism’s 74th North American to Jerusalem, we cannot In stunning upset, Biennial General Assembly. support his decision to begin But it was President Donald preparing that move now, ab- Trump’s announcement that sent a comprehensive plan for Jones trumps Moore the U.S. has recognized Jeru- a peace process,” said Jacobs, salem as Israel’s capital and whose position was echoed Union for Reform Judaism President Rabbi Rick Jacobs be the first Democrat elected will be moving its embassy by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D- speaks at the organization’s biennial convention in Boston. to the Senate from Alabama there from Tel Aviv that was Mass.) when she addressed the since 1992. Moore said he the subject of much of the URJ conference Dec. 8. that 70 years ago Reform Maurice N. Eisendrath Bearer would not concede until conversation at the Dec. In an interview with Is- Judaism was not around the of Light Award, the Reform absentee ballots are counted. 6-10 convention of Ameri- rael Radio this week, Natan communal table when the movement’s highest honor, Moore, a former state can Jewry’s largest religious Sharansky, chairman of The state of Israel was conceived the award-winning Israeli chief justice twice removed denomination—in formal Jewish Agency for Israel, of,” Kariv told a standing- novelist—whom the left-wing for ignoring U.S. Supreme said the Reform response to room-only crowd. J Street lobby lists as one of Court rulings on church- Trump’s Jerusalem recogni- Kariv covered what he its strongest Israeli support- state separation and on gay tion was “terrible.” called “the ideological debate” ers—was openly critical of marriage, had been beset by “Everything that comes over non-Orthodox Jews’ push Israel’s political and religious allegations that when he was out of Trump is bad, from [the to conduct egalitarian prayer policies. He urged the audi- in his 30s he wooed teenage Reform movement’s] perspec- at the Western Wall, a site ence, which gave him several girls. Two women accused tive,” Sharansky said. “When long separated by gender, as standing ovations, to “make him of sexual assault. the leader of a superpower well as the fact that Reform your presence known more Moore drew criticism recognizes Jerusalem, first rabbis are not recognized by than ever before.” from some Jewish quarters you have to welcome it, then the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. He Though he said he “can’t in the last week for suggest- offer disagreement. Here it noted that all Reform rabbis understand” values like those Democrat Doug Jones wins ing that billionaire liberal was the opposite.” spend a year of their training of the Palestinian mother who the Alabama Senate seat. philanthropist George Soros At odds with Israeli policies in Israel and that each year, celebrates her child’s attacks was headed to hell and that Many of Reform Jews’ con- 500 young Israelis spend time on Israelis and hopes her other WASHINGTON (JTA)—In his agenda was “not our cerns about Israeli politics— in Reform camps in North children follow suit, Gross- a stunning upset, Roy Moore, America culture.” That was including growth of what they America “to teach and also man leveled his most intense the controversial Republican compounded by his wife, consider settlements, and the to learn from us.” criticism at Israel’s leaders, nominee backed by President Kayla Moore, at his final state’s religious policies such “If Israel is the nation-state of blaming them for alienating Donald Trump in a Senate rally on Monday night, when on conversion and Western the Jewish people, then all Jews Reform youths. race in Alabama, was pro- in defending the couple’s Wall prayer—were aired at wherever they are have respon- Grossman described him- jected to lose against his “Israel at 70: Ensuring a Jew- sibilities and rights too,” Kariv self as “a secular person and Democratic challenger. Jones on page 15A ish and Democratic State,” told JNS after the workshop. an atheist,” but he did allow his Networks called the race a workshop featuring Rabbi “Certainly not in a decision- children to celebrate their bar late Tuesday night for Doug Gilad Kariv, president of the Is- making role, but the right to mitzvahs in a Reform temple Jones, a former prosecutor. rael Movement for Reform and be heard and respected.” in Israel. The counting closed with Progressive Judaism (IMPJ). When David Grossman took Jones 1.5 percent points “We need to understand the stage Dec. 7 to accept the Jerusalem on page 15A ahead of Moore. Jones would PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 22, 2017 Federation has created a bear-y special mitzvah

Shown here (l-r): Emily Bradley and Jenna Mathis, of Nemours Children’s Hospital, and PJ Library Families Committee members Oshrat Molayem and Fiona Anavi show off some of the stuffed animals that were delivered to the Lake Nona hospital by the Federa- Rabbi Rick Sherwin entertains the children and explains how they are helping the chil- tion earlier this month. dren in the hospital.

Smiles and bear hugs were dren’s Hospital in Orlando. Families Committee co- Since 2015, Federation Even Build-A-Bear de- ish children’s literature and in abundance on a recent Federation volunteers, along chair, who has attended the has delivered nearly 100 scribed Federation’s Family music to more than 140,000 Sunday afternoon as the with PJ Library Coordinator event since its inception bears and cards—and count- Mitzvah Day as an “...incred- children around the world, Jewish Federation of Greater Jennifer Cohen, delivered the in 2015, said, “One of my less bear hugs and special ible project! We applaud the including more than 600 Orlando held its third annual bears to Nemours in early favorite programs is our wishes—to the hospital. great work you are doing families in Central Florida. PJ Library Family Mitzvah December. annual Mitzvah Day! To see Joining the families again that’s inspiring children in The program is administered Day at Build-A-Bear in Al- “We are extremely grate- so many little children lov- this year was Rabbi Rick the community to give back and underwritten locally tamonte Springs. ful and appreciative of the ingly give away an adorable Sherwin, a chaplain at and make a difference in by the Jewish Federation of More than 70 moms, dads, partnership with the Jew- bear—because they truly Nemours. Rabbi Rick helps another child’s life,” wrote Greater Orlando. babies, kids and grandpar- ish Federation of Greater understand they are doing make Family Mitzvah Day Ellie Tymorek, associate Federation’s PJ Library ents took part in this increas- Orlando and look forward a mitzvah—is priceless. even more meaningful be- cause marketing specialist at Families, formerly known as ingly popular Federation to the Build-A-Bear delivery PJ Library engagement cause he is able to explain the Build-A-Bear corporate Shalom Families, regularly holiday tradition, creating each year,” wrote Samantha programs like Family Mitz- to the children that they are office. puts on engagement events nearly 40 stuffed animals and G. Klaff, a certified child life vah Day help me teach my part of the healing journey A program of the Harold that are inspired by or rein- cards to donate to the young specialist at Nemours. children why we should be for the children and families Grinspoon Foundation, PJ force the Jewish values pro- patients at Nemours Chil- Fiona Anavi, PJ Library so proud to be Jewish.” at the hospital. Library provides free Jew- moted in PJ Library stories. Need help to pay for college? JELF can help There is an organiza- est-free loans for college and with the Stafford loan (a made of a 40-person Board JELF, poignantly stated: “You students than ever before. As tion that provides last dol- formally changed its name typical student loan), a $5,000 of Directors who are grate- can lose many things, but an the Torah portion Mishpatim lar, interest-free loans for to JELF in 1989. 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The organization is Bea Feiman, past president of resents more money to more jelf.org or email [email protected]. Brother of Israel’s greatest spy touring Central Florida By Rachel Avraham Cohen, Eli Cohen’s When, in 1967, Israel ters and a son. His remains brother’s remains returned Raskin-Zrihen last surviving sibling, will be dismantled Syrian guns on still have not been returned to Israel.” Vallejo Times-Herald speaking at Nate’s Shul as part the Golan Heights as part of to Israel, despite many dip- Before retiring in 2009, of a larger presentation on the a preemptive strike, it was a lomatic attempts to ensure a Avraham Cohen was the It could be argued that historical and ongoing issue. mystery to most how they proper resting place for “our senior economist for the in- Israel might not exist today It’s something he’s been doing knew those weapons’ secret man in Damascus.” dustrial development bank of were it not for Eliahu “Eli” in Israel for many years, but location. Avraham Cohen said that Israel, in charge of feasibility Cohen, who was executed as a abroad for only five, he said. Few knew it was the work even if his presentation studies for the electronics, spy in Syria in 1965—but not “I feel I have a mission and of Eli Cohen, a 41-year-old inspires someone to try high-tech and defense indus- before passing on information a duty to honor Eli’s memory,” married father of two daugh- and apply pressure on Syria tries. 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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 22, 2017 PAGE 3A Al Franken’s resignation pains his Jewish fans in Minnesota By Ben Sales Community Action, a lib- “He always made time for of a car in order to test its eral Jewish Minnesota activist the Jewish community when suspension. And his signa- (JTA)—It’s a shame Al group. “It was hard to lose we would go and visit him in ture character, the feckless, Franken has to go, Minnesota him from the Senate, and it’s D.C.,” Hunegs said. “When unlicensed therapist Stuart Jews say. But he has to go. also what needed to happen. he was in town, if there was Smalley, channeled stereo- That’s the feeling Minne- I think that in resigning he a visiting Israeli diplomat, typical Jewish neuroses. sota Jewish leaders expressed has an opportunity to say this he would receive the visiting As a lawmaker, Franken re- a day after the Democratic is a culture that’s toxic, and Israeli diplomat. If we had mained Jewishly affiliated, at- senator announced he would he wants to be part of that human services concerns, he tending Temple Israel for High resign his seat in the coming change rather than part of was always open to discussing Holidays services and speaking weeks following a string of the problem.” the issue” there at a 2011 dinner to honor sexual harassment allegations Franken was elected to the In his personal life, Fran- former Vice President Walter against him. Eight women Senate in 2008 following a ca- ken was not just Jewish but Mondale, a fellow Minnesota have accused Franken of inap- reer as a comedian, actor and “Jewy”—that is, highly identi- Democrat. He also sits on the propriate conduct, and many liberal political author and fied if not personally religious. council of the U.S. Holocaust of his Democratic colleagues activist. He won re-election He grew up in St. Louis Park, Memorial Museum. called on him to step down. comfortably in 2014 and rose a Minneapolis suburb with “There was a great pride in Franken denies some of the in national prominence this a large Jewish population having another Jewish sena- allegations. year for his aggressive ques- that served as the setting for tor in that seat,” said Marcia “Minnesotans deserve a tioning of President Donald the Coen Brothers’ film “A Zimmerman, Temple Israel’s Mark Wilson/Getty Images senator who can focus with Trump’s executive appointees. Serious Man.” In his recent current senior rabbi, referring Sen. Al Franken at a Capitol Hill committee hearing on all her energy on addressing As a senator, Franken was memoir, “Al Franken: Giant of to the Jewish senators who hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, Nov. 14, 2017. the issues they face every day,” a friend to Jewish communal the Senate,” Franken recalls preceded Franken in his posi- Franken, who is Jewish, said in priorities, his Jewish con- learning moral lessons from tion. “We were quite proud of tions came out, I remember Jewish supporters agree with a speech on the Senate floor stituents said. He supported his childhood rabbi at the his position and what he has Franken saying how terrible it Miller on one point: Franken Thursday. “I know in my heart parochial Jewish issues like Reform Temple Israel. done as a senator.” is, and then these allegations was right to resign. Even that nothing I have done as a safeguarding Israel’s security, “We had the Holocaust Not everyone was happy came out and he had to resign. though they appreciated his senator, nothing, has brought as well as domestic policies pounded into our heads,” he with Franken’s performance. The guy was a disaster. Good work in the Senate, they said dishonor on this institution.” favored by communal institu- told JTA in June. “That was Mark Miller, who chairs riddance.” that by facing the conse- Jewish political activists tions, like expanding access our first lesson in justice. Our the local chapter of the Revelations about the Hol- quences of his actions, he set in Minnesota and beyond to health care and social rabbi, Rabbi [Max] Shapiro, Republican Jewish Coali- lywood mogul Harvey Wein- a good example for the wave of told JTA that they have fond services. would say, ‘It’s not enough to tion, portrayed Franken as stein’s treatment of women set men accused of sexual assault memories of the senator, At times he disagreed with be for justice. You have to do an ineffective senator and in motion a series of accusa- in politics and beyond. whom they described as an legacy Jewish groups, notably justice.’ I think he was quot- moral disgrace. Miller disliked tion of sexual harassment and “There’s a loss of his voice, advocate for their agenda and in his support for the agree- ing Hillel.” Franken’s support for abor- assault by high-powered men. but the resignation is an ex- a patron of the local Jewish ment curbing Iran’s nuclear Franken also brought out tion rights and opposition to Weinstein is under investiga- pression that no one is above community. But several said program that most large Jew- his Jewishness in his comedy. conservative judges. tion in New York, Los Angeles that accountability,” said he was making the right ish groups opposed. But Steve As one of the original writers “He was a complete hypo- and the United Kingdom after Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of choice by resigning. Hunegs, executive director of on “Saturday Night Live,” he crite,” Miller told JTA, stress- 80 women came forward with the Union for Reform Judaism “I think Senator Franken the local Jewish Community co-wrote, with his writing ing that he was speaking only allegations of harassment, “We will miss that voice, but has been a really effective Relations Council, said Fran- partner Tom Davis, a skit in for himself and not for the abuse, unwanted advances, we understand and affirm his senator,” said Carin Mrotz, ken remained friendly despite which a mohel performs a Republican Jewish Coalition. retaliation and rape. courage to resign and set an executive director of Jewish that conflict. circumcision in the backseat “When the Weinstein allega- Some of Franken’s liberal example for all others.” India, China and Russian refrain from recognizing ‘East Jerusalem’ as capital of ‘Palestine’ By: Ben Cohen recognized the holy city as the estine, with East Jerusalem The Algemeiner capital of Israel. as its capital.” At this year’s The decision not to re- 15th annual meeting, their Foreign ministers from In- state the position on Jeru- statement on the Israeli- dia, Russia and China notably salem long-held by all three Palestinian conflict stressed refrained from recognizing countries was in marked support for “an independent, ‘East Jerusalem’ as the capital contrast to their joint call at viable, territorially contigu- of Palestine at their annual last year’s meeting in Moscow ous Palestinian State living meeting in New Delhi this for a “sovereign, independent, side by side in peace and week—seven days after the US viable and united State of Pal- security with Israel within Palestinian terrorist stabs security guard in Jerusalem the scene, the terrorist was quickly apprehended, while the security guard was evacu- AP/Manish Swarup ated to Jerusalem’s Shaarei Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj (C) with Chinese and Russian counterparts Tzedek Hospital in serious Wang Yi, (R) and Sergey Lavrov. condition. Doctors were able to sta- mutually agreed and interna- and India were handed an both of whom have friendly bilize the condition of El- tionally recognized borders,” unprecedented boost by Prime relations with Russia.” maliach. According to the without mentioning the issue Minister Narendra Modi’s Meanwhile, China’s official hospital, had he “come in two of Jerusalem. high-profile visit to the Jewish statement in response to minutes later there would The absence of Jerusalem state in July of this year. Trump’s decision expressed have been nothing we could from Tuesday’s statement is Russia’s individual position strong concern at the security do. That’s all that separated particularly striking given is also under scrutiny, follow- implications of the move but life from death.” the strident opposition to the ing the announcement by its stopped short of full-throated Hours before the attack, US move in the Arab and Mus- foreign ministry last April that condemnation. A spokesper- the terrorist wrote on Face- lim worlds. Turkey and Iran, Moscow was recognizing West son for the foreign ministry book, “Please let our blood both of whom retain close Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. even implied that historic be spilled—for it is of little diplomatic and security ties At the time, the Russians claims of exclusive Arab matter to spill one’s blood for with all three countries, stated their reaffirmation of ownership of the city are not our homeland, for Jerusalem, have led the denunciation their “commitment to the as clear-cut as Palestinian and for the Al Aqsa Mosque.” of the US announcement on UN-approved principles for leaders might believe. The attack came after the Jerusalem. a Palestinian-Israeli settle- “The question over the Gaza-ruling Palestinian ter- India in particular stands ment, which include the status of Jerusalem is com- ror group Hamas last week out for not having even taken status of ‘East Jerusalem’ plicated and sensitive,” for- The Jerusalem Central Bus Station. called for a violent uprising in a position on the US decision. as the capital of the future eign ministry spokesperson response to President Donald Asked for clarification of In- Palestinian state. At the same Geng Shuang said, following (JNS) An Israeli security 24-year-old terrorist, Yassin Trump’s recognition of Jeru- dia’s position on December 7, a time, we must state that in Trump’s recognition an- guard is in serious condition Abu al-Qur’a, removing his salem as Israel’s capital. spokesperson for the External this context we view ‘West nouncement. “All parties after a Palestinian terrorist coat at the station’s entrance Al-Qur’a is reportedly the Affairs Ministry said simply, Jerusalem’ as the capital of should be cautious in order stabbed him in the heart on and then suddenly drawing son of a retired Palestin- “India’s position on Palestine Israel.” That statement went to maintain peace. All parties Sunday at the entrance to a large knife and plunging ian Authority (PA) general, is independent and consistent. onto declare support “for should avoid shaking the long- the Jerusalem Central Bus it directly into 46-year-old Yousef al-Qur’a. Several al- It is shaped by our views and the two-state solution as an term foundations of solving Station. security guard Asher Elma- Qur’a family members hold interests, and not determined optimal option that meets the Palestinian issues, and Graphic security foot- liach’s heart. high-level positions in the PA by any third country.” Bilat- the national interests of the avoid creating new divisions age of the incident shows the After attempting to flee security forces. eral relations between Israel Palestinian and Israeli people, in the region.” PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 22, 2017 What Israel and the Palestinians make of Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem

By Andrew Tobin so-called “final-status issues” at the heart of state. And it’s time that the Palestinians rec- bas’ diplomatic affairs adviser confirmed that negotiations. ognize the Jewish state and also recognize the the president canceled plans to meet with Vice JERUSALEM (JTA)—Amid the global con- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fact that it has a capital. It’s called Jerusalem.” President Mike Pence this month in Ramallah, troversy over President Donald Trump’s recog- said Sunday during a visit with French Presi- Palestinian leaders, meanwhile, accused the Palestinian Authority’s de facto capital in nition last week of Jerusalem as the capital of dent Emanuel Macron that Jerusalem was as Israel of having no interest in making peace on the West Bank, because of the announcement the Jewish state, Israeli and Palestinian leaders much Israel’s capital as Paris was France’s, terms they could ever accept. By giving Israel on Jerusalem. actually found rare consensus: They agreed and that recognition of this fact was neces- something it wants for free, they suggested, “There will not be a meeting with Pence. that the development was a win for Israel and sary for peace. Trump signaled that he would not even try The matter is bigger than a mere meeting a loss for the Palestinians. “I think that what peace requires is to be to oppose its continued settlement of eastern because the United States, in its decisions on To be sure, Trump’s concession was not a built on the foundation of truth, on the facts Jerusalem and the West Bank, which they Jerusalem, crossed redlines,” Majdi al-Khalidi major one. Israel was always expected to get of the past and on the present,” Netanyahu said has made nearly impossible the creation told the P.A. radio station. a recognized capital in Jerusalem under any said. “This is the only way that you can build of the state the Palestinians demand as part Palestinian leaders warned that with the Middle East peace deal, and the president did a pluralistic and successful future.” of a peace deal. two-state solution no longer viable, their not reject Palestinian claims to have their More important, Israeli leaders contended, In an op-ed Thursday in The New York people would turn to violence. The Palestinian capital in the city, too. Trump gave the Palestinians a long overdue Times, Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian lawmaker Authority urged protests, and the Palestinian However, the change in two decades of reality check. They said the president showed and a member of the Palestine Liberation Or- terrorist group Hamas called for a new inti- American policy on Jerusalem cemented the that he would not indulge the Palestinians’ ganization’s executive committee, said Trump fada, or uprising—granted, a call they make impression on both sides that the United States attempts to deny Israel’s existence. may have “finally put to rest the dream of a habitually. A series of rockets was launched was tilting toward Israel. With Trump’s team Netanyahu made that equation explicit in two-state solution, which has been on life at southern Israel from Gaza, where Hamas working on a peace deal, Israeli and Palestin- a meeting Monday with European foreign support for years already.” governs. ian leaders debated how his decision would ministers in Brussels. He likened the Palestin- “By rewarding its claim on Jerusalem with However, by Tuesday, the status quo seemed affect the effort. ians’ opposition to recognizing Jerusalem as official recognition, Mr. Trump is giving Israel to remain in effect. To ease pressure on Trump The Israelis said their country still wants Israel’s capital with their refusal to accept the a free hand to accelerate its policies of creeping over his Jerusalem announcement, Netanyahu peace and Trump was only recognizing the ob- existence of a Jewish state, which he has long annexation of the occupied Palestinian terri- quietly delayed the final votes, slated for this vious: Israel already controls all of Jerusalem, maintained was the primary obstacle to peace. tories and its deliberate attempts to erase the week, on a bill that would make it harder for has treated it as its capital for 69 years and was “I think we should give peace a chance. I Palestinians’ historical, political, cultural and Israel to hand over any part of the city under never going to settle for anything less than an think we should see what is presented and see demographic presence in historic Palestine,” a future peace deal, Israel’s Hadashot TV news acknowledgement that Jerusalem is its capi- if we can advance this peace. But if we have to she wrote. reported Saturday. Pleased but not ecstatic tal. Whether the Palestinians can also claim begin it, I would say it’s one place: Recognize Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian Authority’s over Trump’s decision, Israelis continued their parts of Jerusalem as their capital remains an the Jewish state,” he said Monday morning in chief peace negotiator, on Thursday for the daily routines. open question, but that was always one of the Brussels. “It’s always been about the Jewish first time endorsed giving up on a separate In eastern Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Palestinian state and instead pushing for a Bank, a wave of Palestinian demonstrations binational state shared by Jews and Arabs—an petered out and schools and businesses that outcome unthinkable to most Israelis. had closed reopened. Abbas’ foreign affairs ‘P is for Palestine’ author “Now is the time to transform the struggle adviser on Sunday clarified to The Times of for one state with equal rights for everyone Israel that the Palestinians had no plans to living in historic Palestine,” Erekat told Israel’s cut ties with the United States. got one thing right Haaretz newspaper. “We are not cutting our relationship with At the same time, Palestinian leaders said America. We are protesting the move of Mr. By Stephen M. Flatow supporters have presented in several recent Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the Trump,” Nabil Shaath said. “We think Mr. JNS interviews. “Intifada is part of Palestinian capital of Israel showed once and for all that Trump has acted in a way that makes it impos- life, to resist occupation,” she told JTA. In the United States was not an honest broker sible for the United States to act as an honest The “P is for Palestine” children’s book an interview with Haaretz, Bashi elaborated, for peace. Palestinian Authority President broker. We are just expressing that.” that is causing so much controversy presents “Intifada is an aspect of Palestinian life just Mahmoud Abbas said in a statement Friday Meanwhile, the world awaits Trump’s plan anti-Israel propaganda and deeply disturbing as Bethlehem is the birthplace of Jesus that the United States was no longer fit to for what he branded as the “ultimate deal” justifications for “intifada” violence. But it also Christ.” An Israeli Arab educator named oversee the peace process. The next day, Ab- between Israel and the Palestinians. contains one very important truth. Areej Masarwa added, “It’s part of Palestin- Golbarg Bashi, the Iranian-born author, ian identity.” decided to use the device of an alphabet book Exactly right. Mass violence against Jews is to indoctrinate children with anti-Israel mes- indeed a central part of “Palestinian” identity. A credible peace plan, finally sages. The most incendiary part, which has And that tells us a lot about Palestinian identity. been at the center of much of the public debate Palestinian Arab nationalism did not arise By Caroline Glick The fact is that the alleged Saudi peace plan about the book, declares, “I is for Intifada, because of any major historical, linguistic, represents a radical break with the all the peace Arabic for rising up for what is right, if you religious or cultural differences between Monday, Dec. 4, The New York Times pub- plans presented by the Arabs, the Europeans are a kid or grownup!” Palestinian Arabs and, say, Jordanian Arabs lished the Palestinian response to an alleged and the US for the past 40 years. The accompanying illustration shows a or Syrian Arabs. That’s because there aren’t Saudi peace plan. Saudi Crown Prince Moham- Unlike all of the previous plans, the contours father and child, wearing keffiyahs, standing any. Palestinian nationalism arose as anti- med bin Salman reportedly presented it to of the plan reported by the Times guarantee near barbed wire (symbol of “Israeli oppres- nationalism. Its raison d’être is to murder PLO chief and Palestinian Authority chairman that Israel will remain a strong, viable state sion”) and flashing the V-for-victory sign. Jews and destroy the state of Israel. Mahmoud Abbas last month. in an era of peace with the Palestinians. All Victory over Israel, that is. Other nations express their distinctive According to the Times’ report, Mohammed the previous plans required Israel to accept Not surprisingly, many Jews are troubled by identity through positive cultural expressions. told Abbas he has two months to either accept indefensible borders that would have invited Bashi’s attempt to justify and glorify the waves The Palestinians express their identity by the Saudi proposal or leave office to make way aggression both from the Palestinians and of Palestinian “intifada” violence, in which bombing, shooting, hijacking, stabbing and for a new Palestinian leader who will accept it. from its Arab neighbors east of the Jordan more than 1,300 Israeli Jews were murdered. stoning Jews. Witness Sunday’s stabbing attack The Palestinians and their European sup- River. Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of Manhattan’s Ste- at Jerusalem’s Central Bus Station. porters are up in arms about the content of The purported Saudi plan is the first peace phen Wise Free Synagogue, a leading critic of Why does the character of Palestinian Arab Mohammed’s plan. It reportedly proposes the plan that foresees two viable states living in the book, correctly described it as “the glori- identity matter? Because the fight for Israel’s establishment of limited Palestinian sovereign- peace. All the other plans were based on trans- fication of the Palestinian intifada—a cruel, survival is not just a military conflict. It’s also ty over small portions of Judea and Samaria. forming Israel into a non-viable state with a murderous, and terroristic campaign that a war of ideas. Understanding the legitimacy The Gaza Strip, over which the Palestinians non-viable Palestinian state in its heartland. purposely targeted innocent Israelis, includ- of Jewish nationalism, and the falseness of have had full sovereignty since Israel pulled its While the Times report cites Western ing children, in restaurants, buses, hospitals, Palestinian nationalism, is vital. We must military forces and civilians out in 2005, would sources claiming that Egypt has rejected the schools and shopping malls...The intifada was understand why our side is right—and why be expanded into the northern Sinai, thus prospect of merging Gaza with the northern not ‘a rising up for what is right.’ It was a mass their side is wrong. So, thank you, Golbarg providing economic and territorial viability Sinai under Palestinian sovereignty, there is descent into immorality.” Bashi, for helping to remind us of the true to the envisioned Palestinian state. While the no reason to assume that the option is dead. In a Facebook post, Bashi blamed criticism nature of Palestinian nationalism. Palestinians would not receive sovereignty over To the contrary, in the aftermath of last of her book on what she called “self-proclaimed Stephen M. Flatow, a vice president of the Jerusalem, they would be able to establish their week’s massacre of 305 Muslim worshipers in powerful neighborhoods of New York City.” Religious Zionists of America, is an attorney capital in the Jerusalem suburb of Abu Dis. a mosque in the northern Sinai, it is arguably That’s pretty obvious code language for “the in New Jersey. He is the father of Alisa Flatow, There are several aspects of the alleged more relevant now than at any previous time. Jews.” who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Saudi peace plan that are notable. First, the The mosque massacre makes clear that But it’s also important to pay close atten- Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. He may Palestinians and their many allies insist that the Egyptian regime is incapable of defeating tion to the explanations that Bashi and her be reached at [email protected]. it is a nonstarter. No Palestinian leader could the Islamic State (ISIS) insurgency in Sinai ever accept the offer and survive in power, they on its own. Egypt’s incapacity is as much a THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. told the Times. The same Palestinian leaders function of economic priorities as military from Hamas and Fatah, and their allies, also capabilities. With Egypt constantly on the ✡ ✡ ✡ CENTRAL FLORIDA’S INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICE ✡ ✡ ✡ noted that the Saudi plan as reported strongly brink of economic collapse and in need of ISSN 0199-0721 Winner of 46 Press Awards Editor/Publisher resembles past Israeli proposals. constant support from the World Bank, the Jeffrey Gaeser Another aspect of the report that is notable US and the Gulf States, it is hard to make the

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Glick on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 22, 2017 PAGE 5A Trump delivers a sorely needed dose of reality therapy By Sarah N. Stern cember] to engineer a U.N. Fla.) also threw his support firmed by the Senate in June of relations, up until this week, Israeli-Palestinian talks, held JNS resolution so anti-Israel that behind the move. “I commend this year, when lawmakers de- Israel had been the only one from 2013-2014, broke down it characterized the Western President Trump for following clared that “Jerusalem should whose capital had lacked rec- under Secretary of State John Dec. 6, 2017, will be forever Wall as ‘occupied’ territory.” U.S. law and recognizing Je- remain the undivided capital ognition from America. Kerry because the Palestinian remembered as a day when Meanwhile, Congressman rusalem as the eternal capital of Israel” by a 90-0 vote. Contrary to what some of Authority (PA) refused to rec- a historic wrong had been Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) issued a of the Jewish state of Israel,” Zionism is the national the State Department types ognize Israel as a Jewish state. righted. joint statement with Repub- he noted. “The Jerusalem liberation movement of the have argued, this is not a PA President Mahmoud Ab- His long-awaited speech lican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Embassy Act of 1995, which Jewish people, and finally, af- concession to Israel. This is bas’s foreign minister, Riyad drew praise from both sides (R-Fla.), highlighting again Congress passed during the ter 2,000 years, we have come American law, and has been al-Maliki, stated in December of the aisle from our Florida the profoundly bipartisan Clinton administration,” he home to our ancient home- so since 1995. Yes, prior presi- 2016 that recognizing Israel Congressional representa- nature of the decision. The continued, “requires the land, where we are no longer dents have taken advantage of for what it is, a Jewish state, tives Congressman Brian two Floridians stated that the United States not only to passive agents in history, but a presidential waiver in the was “unacceptable.” Mast (R-Fla.) called it a “day announcement “is a recogni- recognize Jerusalem as the free and active participants law, arguing that it is “not the If Trump’s statement is of celebration” and warned tion of existing U.S. law that capital of Israel, but also to in determining our history. right time.” going to cause mass violence, that “for groups like Hamas, Jerusalem is the capital of Is- eventually move the American Yet Israel has been the one According to these stale it is not the fault of the U.S. this is just another excuse to rael and that the U.S. embassy embassy to Jerusalem.” nation in the world that, up State Department types, it is nor of Israel. It is the fault of cause violence and destruc- should ultimately be located With his landmark speech, until Dec. 6, had been denied never the right time. the Palestinians, who have tion that proves they are not in the capital.” The pair added: the president accomplished the freedom to choose its own They argue that it will not even recognized pre-1967 ready to negotiate peace.” His “There is no debate that the something remarkable—he capital and have it recognized “destroy the peace process.” Israel in their textbooks, who sentiment was echoed by fel- Jewish people have a deep- brought some sorely needed by the international commu- One might ask, “What peace teach that all of pre-1967 Israel low Republican Ron DeSantis rooted religious, cultural and reality therapy to the Pales- nity, and to have the nations process?” will one day become “Pales- (R-Fla.), who lauded President historic tie to Jerusalem, and tinians. of the world respect and honor The truth is that there has tine,” and who have television Trump for is decision, after today’s decision reaffirms that Trump honored a biparti- that decision. not been any peace process programs indoctrinating “the Obama administration connection.” san commitment made over Of the 190 nations with to speak of for at least a year. worked furiously [last De- Senator Marco Rubio (R- 20 years ago—a policy reaf- which the U.S. has diplomatic The latest round of official Reality on page 15A What we talk about when we talk about Jerusalem By Andrew And of course it’s a city of Jerusalem was indeed divided: considers—these as illegal In October, the Knesset set that the United States is “not Silow-Carroll Jews and Arabs, roughly and Jordan occupied the Old City settlements, although the aside a bill—reportedly under taking a position of any final unmistakably divided into and areas to the north and Israelis insist their claims to pressure from the United status issues, including the (JTA)—E.B. White famous- west and east, with the Old south, and Israel made its Jerusalem and its environs States—that would have specific boundaries of the Is- ly wrote that there are “rough- City as a sort of (forgive the capital in the western and are longstanding and you redrawn the borders to make raeli sovereignty in Jerusalem ly three New Yorks”: the one imagery) bathtub drain into southern parts of the city, with can’t “occupy” territory that the Jerusalem municipality or the resolution of contested of the native New Yorker, the which both sides swirl, mix a narrow road acting like an wasn’t under the legitimate ever larger, absorbing the borders.” one of the commuter, and the and boil. umbilical cord between the sovereignty of any state in the Jewish communities of Maale That makes sense because New York of the “person who Anyone who likes to talk Israeli side and the Jewish first place. Adumim, Beitar Illit and Efrat Israel’s sovereignty and the was born somewhere else and about Jerusalem as “undivid- enclave on Mount Scopus. By 1993, Jerusalem’s mu- along with the Etzion bloc of borders of any future Pal- came to New York in quest of ed” is either being delusional The wall dividing east and nicipal limits had been ex- settlements. estinians state are what the something.” or hopelessly optimistic. And west was torn down after panded to nearly as far south Declarations that Jeru- peace process is supposed to To which a resident of Jeru- that’s not just because the the Six-Day War, and Israel as Bethlehem, west to include salem should remain the be about. salem might respond, “Only city is diverse, or incoherent, celebrated the city’s “reunifi- majority Arab neighborhoods “undivided capital of Israel,” Arguments for keeping three? Lucky you.” or less a typical city than a cation” by annexing the Old like Abu Dis and as far north like a unanimous Senate Jerusalem “undivided” are Jerusalem is messy, in the sprawl of boroughs or villages City and eastern Jerusalem as the Atarot, or Qalandia, resolution passed earlier this both emotional and practical. best and worst sense of the that somehow share a city hall. and taking responsibility for airport, now an army base. year marking the 50th an- The idea of a city cleaved in word. It’s a city of secular You could say the same thing the 66,000 or so Arabs living The Jerusalem municipality, niversary of the reunification two is both aesthetically and intellectuals and insular about New York. there. The new boundaries now 77 square miles, has of Jerusalem, rarely specify pragmatically troubling. haredim. It’s the seat of Israel’s “Undivided” is little more added some 40 square miles a Palestinian population of what they mean by Jerusalem “Without fail, divided cities government and flypaper for than a slogan because no to the municipality, including 293,000, or 37 percent of the In his announcement last suffer either intense economic the dreamers, fanatics, seek- one, least of all the Israelis familiar Jerusalem neighbor- city’s total. The vast majority week recognizing Jerusalem stagnation or general atro- ers and tourists from three who run the place, can agree hoods like Pisgat Zeev, Gilo of this population does not as Israel’s capital, President phy,” Nathan Diament, execu- major religion and dozens of what Jerusalem is. From the and Ramat Alon. Much of vote in municipal and national Donald Trump did not use tive director for the Orthodox cults, sects, denominations 1948-49 War of Independence the international commu- elections because they never the phrase “undivided Jeru- and movements. until the Six-Day War in 1967, nity considered—and still accepted Israeli citizenship. salem,” and indeed insisted Talk on page 15A When women rabbis say ‘#MeToo,’ communities must pay attention

By Hara Person of Women in the Rabbinate” are too revealing or too dowdy. rah: A Women’s Commentary” behavior, and issues related binic misconduct. Whether and a study we undertook on Our shoes are too sexy or too highlighted and canonized to contracts, pay equity and these experiences happen in NEW YORK (JTA)—In a rabbinic professional satisfac- old fashioned. Our voices are feminist Torah scholarship. parental leave. Intertwined congregations, in communal recent talk at Temple Emanuel tion. Although women have too soft or too strident. We’re However, women rabbis with these challenges are is- or institutional settings, in here, former first lady Michelle been Reform rabbis for 45 too emotional or we’re too still experience substantial sues of sexuality and gender rabbinic school or student Obama spoke about how years, it is painfully obvious cold. We’re called by our first obstacles: gender-based bias, nonconformity. placements; whether they women live with tiny cuts that that these issues are still a fact names while the male rabbi is inappropriate comments, The CCAR already has in happen with colleagues or build up over time, cuts that of everyday life. called Rabbi LastName. We’re sexual harassment, sexual place a robust ethics code with laypeople, when com- we endure without noticing, The rabbinate is no excep- called kiddo, babe, sugar, sexy, assault, lack of proper institu- and rigorous ethics process even as we bleed. That is what tion to the conversations honey. We’re advised to get tional support, undermining to address instances of rab- #MeToo on page 15A it is to be a girl and a woman going on in the wider world home quickly from a board in this world, she said, urging about women’s experiences. It meeting so that we can make women to own our scars, and is the rare female rabbi who, our husbands happy. to find power and healing in if married to a man, has not And it isn’t just laypeople. doing so. been asked if her husband is There are stories as well of The last weeks have been a also a rabbi. Or the joke we all rabbis in positions of power sobering reminder that sexual hear: If the wife of a rabbi is a preying on younger, more misconduct is rampant in rebbetzin, what do you call the vulnerable rabbis, inappropri- every profession, not just in husband of a rabbi? (Lucky.) ate touching or comments the entertainment industry or While seemingly harmless, during supervisory sessions, in politics. It is a reminder, as such comments nonetheless and jokes that are not in the if we needed a reminder, that undermine the credibility and least bit funny. to grow up a girl is to expect, authority of women as rabbis. In only four short decades if not accept, unwanted com- And the comments don’t since the first ordination, ments, remarks, touching stop there. There are these there are now nearly 700 wom- and assault. As women, in lines, uttered at board meet- en members of the CCAR, the our personal lives and profes- ings or during the oneg or first rabbinic organization in sional careers, we all have our even at a funeral, like “I’ve history to admit women as full stories, our workarounds and always wanted to kiss a rabbi,” members. In this time, women our scars. or “If rabbis looked like you rabbis have made profound The conversation about when I was a kid, I would have progress. The adoption in the sexual harassment and sexual come to synagogue more.” 1980s of egalitarian liturgical assault in our society comes at There’s a kind of sliding scale language and gender-neutral a time when the Central Con- to the comments, from bad to God language in our prayer ference of American Rabbis, worse. “Rabbi, please cross books and Haggadot opened the professional organization your legs when seated on up prayer and Jewish practice of Reform rabbis, stands ready the bimah, otherwise it’s too in important new ways. The to launch the Task Force on distracting.” “Rabbi, are you development of new life- the Experience of Women in pregnant? Your breasts look cycle rituals allowed for the the Rabbinate. This need be- bigger.” And so on, and so on. sanctification of experiences came evident in the aftermath Women rabbis are coun- previously outside traditional of the 2016 presidential elec- seled to wear lipstick or told Jewish practice. The publica- tion, the publication of “The not to wear lipstick. We are tion of the groundbreaking Sacred Calling: Four Decades told that our clothing choices and award-winning “The To- PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 22, 2017

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Ling’s, near however, we were back on mixing milk and meat. The the corner of Routes 146 and track for wonton and moo concept has made it to the On Dec. 23, Larry and I 9 in Clifton Park, was the shu, heading to Tallahassee to highest court in our country. traveled 400 miles to spend only restaurant open on Dec. maintain the ritual of eating According to the Judaism time with our friends, Chris 25th. (It was also the only Chinese food on Dec. 25. 101 website, Justice Elana and Bernie Grossman, in their Chinese restaurant in a 10- According to Mathew Good- Kagen brought up the Jewish/ new home in Tallahassee. And mile radius; there are now at man, author of “Jewish Food: Chinese food connection up on Dec. 25, the Shapiros and least 10!) Larry and I met half The World at Table,” the Jews’ at her 2010 Supreme Court Grossmans upheld a tradition the Jewish population of our love for Chinese food dates confirmation hearing. When as steeped in Jewish culinary community there. back over 100 years ago. The a senator asked her where she ritual as eating brisket on By the next year, we were Lower East Side of Manhat- was on Christmas, she said, Rosh Hashanah, potato latkes going to Ling’s with a group tan was populated by Eastern “You know, like all Jews, I on Chanukah, and matzo ball of friends. And by the time our European Jews, Italian, and was probably at a Chinese soup on Passover. We ate Chi- children left home, we had a Chinese. “Italian cuisine and restaurant.” back to the Grossmans and The Hebrew year is 5778 nese food on Christmas Day. standing date for a Dec. 25th especially Italian restaurants, In 2009, Brandon Miller dined on my “world famous and the Chinese year is 4715. Growing up in a small town dinner with the Grossmans with their Christian iconog- even penned a song: “I eat Chi- chocolate chip cookies,” That must mean, the old joke in Upstate New York, my fam- and several other couples in raphy, held little appeal for nese food on Christmas/Go to another long-standing holi- goes, that against all odds the ily didn’t eat Chinese food on various Chinese restaurants Jews,” Mark Tracy wrote in the movie theater, too/‘Cause day tradition for us friends. Jews went without Chinese Christmas Day, or most other throughout the Capital Dis- a 2011 Atlantic article. “But there just ain’t much else to We raised a glass of wine, food for 1,064 years. Fortu- days of the year. If there was a trict. Wherever we chose to go, the Chinese restaurants had do on Christmas/When you’re shouted “L’Chaim” (To Life!) nately, for us, we were able Chinese restaurant in Platts- we could count on sharing the no Virgin Marys. And they a Jew.” or “ganbei” (gon bay) the tra- to share fried rice, friendship burg, the “big town” near us, evening with tables of fellow prepared their food in the As you can tell by her un- ditional Chinese toast which and fortune cookies with the I don’t remember ever going Jews—including many rabbis Cantonese culinary style, decidedly non-Jewish name, literally means ‘dry cup.’ Grossmans. there. and their families. which utilized a sweet-and- Chris was not born Jewish. Once or twice a year, my The tradition continued sour flavor profile, overcooked She converted after she met father would pile my mother when we moved to Florida in vegetables, and heaps of garlic Bernie at Grinnell. Chris, and the four children into 2015, when the Grossmans and onion”—all similar to whose Hebrew name is Chava, the station wagon and drive and another of our regulars, Eastern European cuisine. keeps kosher. So on Dec. 25, the 90 minutes to Montreal. Joyce and Mel Toub, joined us Another theory was in- in a Chinese restaurant in We would weave our way in Kissimmee for three days. cluded in a 1992 academic Tallahassee, she ordered the into Chinatown and head to Of course, we had reservations (seriously!) paper by Gayle egg drop soup and flounder the Nanking Cafe. We would at the local Chinese restau- Tuchman and Harry G. Levine filet with yu shang sauce. climb a set of steep stairs rant on Christmas Day. in which they supported the The rest of us, however, ate and crowd around a table in Last year, Chanukah start- idea that Chinese food was “Safe Treyf.” Larry ordered a booth. (Family lore tells of ed on Dec. 24. Congregation ‘Safe Treyf.’ True the dishes crispy jumbo scallops with the time that my brother Jay Shalom Aleichem in Kissim- featured un-kosher foods in- black bean sauce. Bernie got drank the water in the finger mee held a community din- cluding shellfish and pork. But egg rolls and black pepper bowl.) The wonton soup and ner. I was hoping we would it was chopped and minced beef tenderloin tips (“Bernie HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES noodles would be followed be dining on huge metal and mixed with so many always eats something with by chow mein (much better pans filled with vegetarian vegetables, it was disguised. beef, no matter what ethnic Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye than the stuff we ate out of or kosher-style dishes from As stated in a 2007 blog post variety food we have,” quipped disorders. Protecting your eyes is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future. cans that we got at the local one of the two Chinese res- Feed the Spirit, “If pork was Chris). And I ordered my Grand Union). We would finish taurants close to our shul. in wontons (which looked very favorite—chicken moo shu Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection. up with fortune cookies and To my disappointment, the much like Jewish kreplach) or chicken with pancakes and For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. vanilla ice cream and head committee planning the event in tiny pieces in chop suey, it plum sauce. A public service message from The Vision Council. back home. opted for Italian. The next day, didn’t seem as bad as chowing After the main meal, we The Chinese food at Christ- we joined my brother Jay, his down on a ham sandwich. And popped open our fortune mas tradition started for me wife Leslie, and their family the Chinese typically don’t cookies and shared the Chi- after Larry and I married and for a traditional Chanukah cook with dairy products, so nese predictions for the up- bought a home in Saratoga meal in Sarasota. This year, no one had to worry about coming year. Then we went

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By Ron Kampeas held captive, presumably by brother recalled. “He was the expressions of disappointment Hamas, since September 2014. light in our house, we would throughout the interview: WASHINGTON (JTA)—Ilan Meeting with Jewish organiza- feel him around the Shabbat with the Red Cross; with the Mengistu knows his pitch tions and lawmakers, they are table and on holidays.” Israeli government; with his to rescue his brother, Avera, hoping for the kind of activist Light nourishes but also brother’s caregivers, who should be a no-brainer to and diplomatic pressure that fades: Avera Mengistu, suffer- kept releasing him back to Jews—“pidyon shvuyim,” the rescued the Mengistus from a ing from a mental disorder, the family; with the soldiers redemption of the hostage, is repressive regime in Ethiopia managed to keep it under who witnessed his brother’s among the greatest of com- and brought them to Israel control as long as his older crossing into the Gaza Strip mandments. on Operation Solomon in the brother, Michael, was around. (it’s on video) and did not stop But Mengistu also knows early 1990s. He, his five other brothers and him; even with Avera. But then that the story he has to tell is For that to happen, Men- three sisters idolized Michael, he backs away. not the straightforward nar- gistu knows he must start at who Mengistu says served in “The day the Shabak [Is- rative longed for by those who the beginning of a difficult Israel’s esteemed Golani unit rael’s internal security service] would do good: Avera was not tale: The birth 31 years ago in and imposed army-like disci- came to me, I thought, ‘Gaza, a soldier, nor was he captured Ethiopia of a brother so beloved pline at home. really? Avera, you could have exactly. He crossed into the his mother named him after In 2012, Michael, deep into gone anywhere,’” Mengistu Gaza Strip of his own volition. an Amharic word for “light.” an ascetic journey, starved said. “But when someone is Mengistu came to Los An- “They say a name shapes an himself; he was hospitalized undergoing a breakdown, geles and Washington, D.C., identity,” Mengistu said, meet- and died. That’s when Avera their ability to think clearly last week with his mother to ing a JTA reporter last week began to fade. is clouded. You can’t judge.” Ron Kampeas raise awareness of the plight in a hotel lobby here. Avera He was institutionalized What’s important, he said, Agamesh Mengistu, with her son Ilan, in Washington, of his brother, who has been was ebullient and loving, his twice over the subsequent two is what happens next. D.C., Nov. 17, 2017. years, but each time released The Mengistus want what within less than two weeks. happens next to be along the that keeps the issue in the Jason Greenblatt, Presi- And then, on Sept. 7, 2014, lines of the dedicated cam- public eye as a means of getting dent Donald Trump’s envoy Avera left the family’s Ashkelon paign that brought about the through to governments that to Middle East peace, met home and walked into the family’s aliyah to Israel in 1991, have influence on Hamas, such with the family and posted a Gaza Strip. with the Operation Solomon as Qatar and Turkey. photo on his Twitter page—an He was imprisoned by airlift. “We need the Jewish com- important signal from the Hamas, the terrorist orga- It dawned on the family that munity and the American Trump administration figure nization controlling Gaza. a driving factor in the Ethio- government if we’re going to who is closest to the Palestin- Mengistu had indications from pian aliyah was the American release him,” Fenta said. ian Authority and has worked Avera’s Hamas captors that his Jewish community, which in Ilan Mengistu said they have to ease economic strife in the brother was alive, but since the 1970s and ‘80s argued to been heartened by their recep- Gaza Strip. then, nothing. a sometimes reluctant Israeli tion here on a visit arranged by “Today I welcomed the The family heeded Israeli government that the com- the Israeli government and the family of Avera Mengistu to government pleas to keep quiet munity was indeed Jewish Jewish Agency for Israel. It in- the White House,” Greenblatt for 10 months: The less pub- and in need of rescue from the cluded meetings at the Jewish wrote. “Avera has been held by licity, Israeli authorities told repressive regime in power at Federations of North America Hamas in Gaza for over 1,000 them, the likelier his release. the time. General Assembly last week in days since he disappeared in After 10 months, despairing, “There is a deep connection Los Angeles, and meetings in September, 2014. It is outra- the family asked to go public. between the Jewish commu- Washington and Los Angeles geous that Hamas will not let They reached out to an array nity here and the Ethiopian with congregational rabbis. him return home or commu- Brookdale Island Lake residents Pearl and Ruth of human rights organiza- Jewish community,” he said. They have also spoken with nicate with his family.”They enjoyed the festivities. tions and the International Yonit Fenta, a relative and StandWithUs and J Street have also met with lawmakers, Red Cross. They received as- an activist helping the family, about advocacy campaigns. including Reps. Brad Sher- surances, but not sustained translated the conversation The two groups are usually on man, D-Calif., Ted Deutch, exposure of Avera’s plight. into Amharic for Agamesh opposite sides of the pro-Israel D-Fla., and Ed Royce, R-Calif., “Human Rights Watch put Mengistu, the mother of Ilan spectrum—an indication of the chairman of the U.S. House out a report,” Mengistu said, and Avera. the breadth of the cause’s of Representatives Foreign and smiled, unable to add “Among American Jews, appeal. Affairs Committee, as well as much more. The Red Cross I can sense mercy,” said “Advocating for Mengistu’s with staff from the office of also has said it is dedicated Agamesh Mengistu, who lis- return is an issue we hope will Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. to securing the release of Av- tened quietly through most bring people and organizations “It’s not easy repeating this era Mengistu and Juba Abu of the interview, which was from across a broad swath of story again and again,” Ilan Ganima, another Israeli taken conducted in Hebrew. the Jewish community to- Mengistu said. “It requires captive after entering Gaza. The family hopes for the gether,” J Street spokeswoman emotional strength. We get Mengistu skates close to kind of sustained campaign Jessica Rosenblum told JTA. love, and it gives us strength.” An Israeli soup that warms the soul and body

The following is a recipe from the Inbal Jerusalem Hotel’s Berny Raff, who usually organizes the entertainment executive chef, Chef Nir Elkayam. The Inbal’s Orange Vegetable for COS Seniors, got to sit back and enjoy the day. Soup is one of the many soups offered during the hotel’s annual Soup Festival taking place through the winter in Jerusalem. The Inbal’s Orange Vegetable Soup Ingredients (Yields 8 servings) 2 large onions 4 garlic cloves 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 cups of pumpkin cut into cubes 2 large sweet potatoes cut into cubes 3 large carrots cut into cubes Black pepper 3 fresh thyme leaves Salt Water as needed Directions Heat the olive oil in a large pot and add the chopped onion. Cook until golden brown and add the garlic. Add the thyme and cook for a few seconds. Add the vegetables and water. Brookdale Island Lake residents Al and May. Then add water to cover the vegetables and bring to a boil. Season lightly and cook until the vegetables are soft. Jewish Pavilion Chanukah Season to taste. Enjoy! celebrations are in full ‘spin’ The Orange Vegetable Soup is one of the many soup offerings at the Inbal Jerusalem Hotel’s Soup Festival. The rich, all you- Jewish Pavilion Program Director Walter Goldstein can-eat soup buffet, runs from November through April at the performed familiar holiday and classic tunes at Brook- hotel’s Sophia Cafe. The Soup Festival is open to hotel guests dale Island Lake. Volunteers Terri Fine-Stenzler and and the general-public, Sunday-Thursday from noon-10 pm. Debbie Meitin led blessings, songs, and told the Chanu- The Inbal Jerusalem Hotel is an award-winning, deluxe kah story to a room filled with friends and neighbors. hotel situated in the heart of Jerusalem overlooking the Old Vitas Health Care and Cornerstone Hospice provided City walls, and minutes away from all the major cultural and Previously the property was voted the most luxurious hotel in cookies and calendar gifts for the residents in senior historical sites. With its Jerusalem stone exterior, the 283-room the TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Awards, as well as the best living communities. These photos are from Brookdale hotel is known for its intimate authentic Jerusalem character hotel in Israel and fourth best hotel in the entire Middle East Island Lake in Longwood. and impeccable world-class service. The hotel was recently by readers of the influential Condé Nast Traveler magazine. awarded the 2016 TripAdvisor’s Certificate of Excellence award. 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PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 22, 2017 Why kosher butchers in Western Europe are preparing to close signed in July by the govern- formed without first stunning my clientele,” Levy said at his ment with the Jewish com- the animal. meat shop. munity, according to Slagerij Jewish and Muslim reli- Across the street from his Marcus’ lawyer, Herman gious laws require animals meat shop’s blue facade, two Loonstein. The measure lim- be conscious at the time of French soldiers toting ma- its the production of kosher their slaughter, a custom that chine guns stood guard as part meat to local consumption, animal welfare activists call of their deployment around a stipulation that Loonstein cruel and anti-Muslim activ- Jewish shops and neighbor- says amounts to an export ban ists say is barbaric. hoods in Paris following the that may render the business Rabbi Pinchas Kornfeld, 2015 slaying of four Jews at nonprofitable. a communal leader from a kosher supermarket by an Community representa- Antwerp, told JTA on Mon- Islamist. tives say they reached an day that his congregation is As Levy sees it, the French oral agreement with the considering an appeal of the Jews who are leaving are ob- government that will head legislation in court. Unlike servant individuals with the off the export restrictions, the Dutch community, Ant- means to forego the French but a government spokes- werp’s predominantly haredi state’s generous welfare, and man declined to confirm community is so strict that who fear for their security fol- the claim. The spokesman French kashrut certification lowing multiple anti-Semitic told JTA only that “special may not suffice for its leaders, attacks since 2012 on Jewish circumstances may be taken placing the community and schools, supermarkets and into account” when it comes its congregants in a potential other institutions serving to export. bind when the bans go into mainly affiliated community Cnaan Liphshiz Either way, “The leash effect. members. Nissim Guedj unpacking merchandise at a kosher meat shop in Amsterdam, Oct. 26, 2017. keeps getting tighter and The current wave of legisla- “The assimilated Jew who tighter, and there are ques- tion in Belgium and the Neth- eats pork and whose son at- By Cnaan Liphshiz communal institution. With tomorrow will bring,” Levy tions on what kind of future erlands follows an earlier drive tends a public school, they’re a kiss on the cheek, Levy and told JTA about his 17-year-old there is for the industry,” said to ban ritual slaughter. In the not likely to leave,” Levy said. PARIS (JTA)—When Jerry his teenage son, Maurice, son. “All kosher delis, they Luuk Koole, the longtime latter, opposition led by the “Neither is the poor Jew in Levy’s family opened one of welcome dozens of regulars will be a thing of the past manager of Slagerij Marcus. far-right Party for Freedom social housing. But neither the first gourmet kosher meat daily to Boucherie Jerry Levy within one generation either Iris Jonah is among the and animal welfare activists is likely to come to my meat shops in France, they had who swear by the signature because they’re made illegal, hundreds of Dutch Jews who spurred a ban on kosher and shop anyway.” some of the country’s best-laid foie gras, artisanal charcute- suffocated by anti-kosher depend on the meat shop and halal practices in 2010, but it French immigration to business plans. rie and assortment of North regulations or defeated by deli; she says it’s her only was overturned by the Dutch Israel, which in 2015 peaked Hailing from a long line of African salads supermarkets.” dependable source for fresh Senate in 2012. at approximately 8,000 new- Jewish butchers in their native But like other producers of Not all kosher meat produc- kosher meat. Kosher ground In 2013, the Polish parlia- comers, has subsided, with Algeria, they had the exper- kosher meat in Western Eu- ers in France, a country with beef is on offer at several Dutch ment also banned the prac- less than half that number tise and diligence in 1977 to rope, the Levys are no longer 500,000 Jews, share Levy’s supermarkets, but only at tices, though the prohibition immigrating in the first 10 cater to the changing needs certain of the viability of their pessimism. But several of his Marcus’ can she find steaks, has since been partially months of this year. But Levy of their growing community, business. In recent years they counterparts in the Nether- veal and corned beef for her overturned. said that growing initiatives in where tens of thousands of have been suffering both from lands and Belgium do follow- family of six. Slaughter without stun- France targeting kosher meat Jewish immigrants from declining revenues due to emi- ing a fresh wave of restrictive “If they close shop, I don’t ning is now illegal in five and the Muslim variant, halal, North Africa like them were gration from France by Jews regulations and legislation in know what I’ll do, we’ll be in European Union member are compounding his losses developing both the appetite fearful of jihadist violence those countries, where a total a big problem,” Jonah told JTA states—Sweden, Denmark, and threatening the viability for quality—and the means and anti-Muslim measures of 90,000 Jews live. last month. “It’s already tough Finland, Lithuania and Slo- of his businesses. to pay for it. targeting the ritual slaughter In Holland, the viability to lead an observant Jewish venia—as well as three other The problem, he says, are Four decades on, the fam- of animals. of the country’s only kosher lifestyle here as it is without non-EU countries in Western campaigns headed by the Na- ily’s gambit certainly has paid “I want Maurice to learn a slaughterhouse, Slagerij Mar- this added complication.” Europe: Norway, Switzerland tional Front party, which op- off: Levy’s meat shop and deli trade because with the meat cus, and its meat shop are Jews in the Netherlands and Iceland. EU members Aus- poses what its leader, Marine in this city’s 17th district is a industry, who knows what under threat from a new deal could still import kosher meat tria and Estonia enforce strict Le Pen, describes as “Islamist from France even if Marcus supervision of the custom that globalization.” Le Pen won 34 closes. But the quality won’t some Jews there say make it percent of the national vote be the same, according to Nis- nearly impossible. in the first round of the 2016 sim Guedj, the France-born Attempts to promote such presidential elections. She store manager at Slagerij legislation in France, how- ultimately lost to Emmanuel Marcus’ meat shop. ever, have failed. Macron, but it was her best- “There’s no comparing the Back in Paris, Levy says his ever showing. far superior quality you get immediate concern is with the In recent years, opposition here,” he said of Dutch meat. departure of Jews and not the to halal and kosher meat has A closure could also mean introduction of laws against grown significantly amid the end for one of Dutch their food. awareness-raising efforts by Jewry’s fabled delicacies, Since 2014, at least 25,000 National Front and animal a fatty kind of corned beef French Jews have immigrated welfare activists who believe Jewish Graveside Package: known as pekelvlees that is to Israel alone—a 260 percent that the Jewish and Mus- produced commercially only increase from the 9,537 who lim custom of slaughtering at Slagerij Marcus and sold at left France for the Jewish state animals without stunning • Service of Funeral Director and Staff the iconic Sal Meijer Jewish in the previous five years. are cruel. sandwich shop in Amsterdam. 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Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, 321-777-2770. Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. Ellen Braunstein Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; An exhibit at the Jewish baseball museum at Milt’s Extra Innings in Chicago. At left is Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. deli worker Zahava Auerbach. Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. By Ellen Braunstein Eig saying that in baseball, wiches and working with my like Judaism, members of a co-workers,” he said. Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. CHICAGO (JTA)—Baseball “tribe... pass along a collective Debbie Harris, Keshet’s di- bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. gloves and caricatures of sense of identity—where we rector of adult programming, Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation famous ballplayers adorn the come from and who we are.” said, “We are excited to bring holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. walls of Milt’s Extra Innings— “We’re telling the story together people of all abilities com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. no surprise for a deli that’s of Jews in America through to work side by side and create a short drive from Wrigley baseball,” Aeder said. a new community. Most of all, Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; Field, the fabled home of the Extra Innings branches we are grateful to Jeff for his www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Chicago Cubs. away from the barbecue fare incredible vision and are so Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., But look closely and the next door by offering fresh pleased to be his partner in Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. picture becomes a little more meat sandwiches, prepared this new endeavor.” unexpected: The memorabilia salads and side dishes. The Aeder views the deli as a Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; on the walls celebrate Jewish deli, offering catering and partnership between the com- www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th greats and not-so-greats like takeout, is small, seating munity and the restaurants. Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. Sandy Koufax, Philadelphia only 14 The deli fare ranges “Hiring primarily special Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. Athletics first baseman Lou from soups to schnitzel to needs adults to work in the , 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- Limmer, and the catcher and whitefish salad and sweet restaurant, we’ve given them Congregation Ohev Shalom (C) sometimes spy Moe Berg. And potato salad. The workers an opportunity to live a fulfill- 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. there among the collection cure their own meats and ing life,” he said. Congregation Or Chayim (Rec), Leesburg, 352-326-8745; [email protected]; services of bobbleheads, right next to sell them in vacuum-sealed The neighboring kosher- 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month at Providence Independence of Wildwood. former catcher Brad Ausmus, pouches. A Shabbat menu certified restaurants are Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- is Moses—that Moses—grip- offers traditional fare like not in an Orthodox Jewish 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. ping a set of tablets. cholent and chicken. neighborhood, so the clientele The latest addition to the Extra Innings was a re- is diverse, Aeder said. Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for redevelopment of the neigh- sponse to customers, general “We created something for services and holiday schedules. borhoods around Wrigley is a manager Stephen Kriesler all of us to be proud of. The Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303A N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation- kosher deli that is a celebra- said. success of it is dependent on sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. tion of Jews and America’s “Our customers appreci- the community viewing it as pastime—as well as a place ated a kosher restaurant but their own,” he said. “And I Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- where Jewish adults with wanted more than barbecue,” think that the patrons gain Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv intellectual disabilities can he said. “For almost four years something from the experi- Please call for times. find meaningful work ex- we thought about what other ence of interacting with each Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- perience. foods we could do. Then the other.” Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Restaurateur and real es- restaurant next door left and Redevelopment around tate investor Jeff Aeder recent- the space became available.” Wrigley Field includes a new Temple Beth El (R), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-677-2484. ly opened Milt’s Extra Innings Most of the deli workers at five-story headquarters for Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. Extra Innings are associated the Cubs, a seven-story hotel, next door to his kosher Milt’s Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat Barbecue for the Perplexed, with Keshet and its GADOL a new residential and retail which for five years has do- program—Giving Adults complex, and an annex to the service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. nated all profits to Jewish Daily Opportunities for Liv- famed park that will include Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. causes. Milt’s Extra Innings ing. They have an intellectual retail and restaurant space. mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; will follow suit, donating all disability but are high func- It doesn’t hurt that the Thursday, 10:00 a.m. tioning, Kriesler said. Cubs won the World Series profits to Keshet, a Jewish Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: agency serving children and Overseen by a job coach, in 2016—ending a historic adults with intellectual chal- “They can hold a job, learn 107-season drought—and Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. lenges in the Chicago area. tasks, be able to communicate made it to the National League Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. The owner of a 5,000-piece with people, and help prepare Championship Series this Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; collection of Jewish base- and serve the food,” he said. year. Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. ball memorabilia, Aeder is Deli worker Shmuel Eman- “I’m a huge Cubs fan,” showcasing a small fraction uel, 24, describes his work Aeder said, “and being able to Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. of artifacts that celebrate as fun. throw that into the equation Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach, 386-252-3097; Shabbat service, 170 Jews who have played in “I like making the sand- was great.” Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 10:30 a.m. the major leagues. A mural Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. timeline on a wall tracks the history of Jews in the sport templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by from 1860 until today. Among Torah study. the framed collectibles near Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road the deli counter are a jersey 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 worn by Koufax from 1963, p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. his best year, Detroit slugger Hank Greenberg’s game-used Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. bat and a mitt used by Berg. shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. “Baseball is a great meta- HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, phor for the Jewish experi- Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, ence in America,” Aeder said disorders. Protecting your eyes is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future. 7:30 p.m. of his niche Jewish Baseball Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection. Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. Museum, where his entire col- For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. lection lives, for the moment, A public service message from The Vision Council. tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. online. The website includes a (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa quote from author Jonathan PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 22, 2017 Linda Sarsour gets warm welcome at controversial panel on anti-Semitism eliciting loud applause from idea, [and] that we have to Meanwhile, Andrew the crowd. accept you as a Zionist and Weitzner said Sarsour had Panelist Lina Morales, a a feminist because you want adequately expressed con- member of the Jews of Color to impose that on everybody cerns from critics, including and Mizrahi/Sephardi Caucus else in the movement, I’m the comment about anti- of JFREJ, called Zionism “a just letting you know that’s Semitism. It was the protest- mistake” that “has led us just not how it works in the ers outside, said the 33-year down a dangerous and hor- movement. No one else does old paralegal, who were not rible road,” while Rebecca that,” she said. participating in constructive Vilkomerson, executive di- Sarsour also clarified a dialogue. rector of the pro-BDS Jewish comment in which she said “They’re screaming ‘Am Voice for Peace, described the anti-Semitism, unlike dis- Yisrael Chai’ outside and sing- Israeli treatment of Palestin- crimination against African- ing ‘Hatikvah’—how is that a ians as “apartheid.” Americans and Islamophobia, level of debate?” he asked, not- Sarsour said she was “con- is not systemic. She said she ing the words for “the people fused” as to why some in the had meant that anti-Semitism of Israel live” and the Israeli Jewish community saw her is not encoded in the U.S. legal national anthem, respectively. as “an existential threat.” But and criminal justice system “How is that an argument on she appeared to take a slightly today, unlike discrimination both sides?” more moderate stance after against other groups. One of the demonstrators Protesters of the New School panel on anti-Semitism demonstrate outside the event. making two remarks earlier All the panelists spoke of said he was there to protest this year that had drawn the the dangers of anti-Semitism Sarsour’s views, which he saw By Josefin Dolsten journalism program, Jewish Sarsour, who helped or- ire of many in the Jewish and said they were commit- as “anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, Voice for Peace, Haymarket ganize the Women’s March community. ted to fighting it, but they anti-America.” NEW YORK (JTA)—Au- Books, Jacobin Magazine and on Washington in January, Asked by an audience mem- focused on its manifestation “She knows how to get the dience members greeted Jews for Racial & Economic has harshly criticized Israel, ber about an interview in on the right. crowd going on her side, but Palestinian-American activ- Justice, or JFREJ. once tweeting that “Nothing which she seemed to have said Some in the audience she’s not promoting peace and ist Linda Sarsour with loud Outside the auditorium is creepier than Zionism.” Zionism and feminism were believed that emphasis was unity at all and coexistences applause at an event here in Lower Manhattan, 50 That led various Jewish groups mutually exclusive, Sarsour unfair. between the Israelis and the that in recent weeks became protesters gathered behind on the center and right to said there was room for those “There was a lot of focus so-called Palestinians, or a rallying cry for both critics metal barricades waving label her anti-Semitic, and with different opinions in the on white supremacism and Jews and Muslims, or even and defenders of Israel. Israeli flags. Among them worry that she represents the feminist movement. Trump, which is totally valid, fellow Americans,” said Ariel Sarsour, a leading feminist were members of the far-right mainstreaming of anti-Israel “If you believe that you but I was hoping for a little Kohane, 46, a kosher food as well as pro-Palestinian Jewish Defense League, once rhetoric on the left. have to be part of a movement bit more introspection and supervisor sporting a kippah advocate, was the best-known deemed a terrorist organiza- Tuesday’s panelists of- where you show up and agree critique of some people in with a picture of President speaker on a panel on anti- tion by the FBI. fered plenty of attacks on with everybody, then this their own circles that are anti- Donald Trump. “She’s actually Semitism held Tuesday at Larger Jewish groups also Israel while insisting that definitely ain’t the movement Semitic,” said Uri Westrich, a brainwashing these college the New School for Social weighed in as the event such views are being labeled for you, because I don’t agree 32-year-old filmmaker. kids.” Research. Billed as a discus- neared. anti-Semitic in order to si- with half the people in the Asher Lovy, a 25-year-old Inside the auditorium, au- sion of anti-Semitism on “These panelists know the lence criticism of the country movement either,” she said. working in online sales, said dience members cheered and the right and left, the panel issue, but unfortunately, from and its policies. Sarsour, however, also the panel had failed to address clapped many times through- was denounced by pro-Israel the perspective of fomenting “Just in case it’s not clear, I chastised pro-Israel activists the types of anti-Semitism he out the speeches. Despite critics who have accused it rather than fighting it,” the am unapologetically Palestin- who have demanded that had experienced on the left. the enthusiasm in the room, Sarsour and other panelists Anti-Defamation League’s ian American and will always progressives welcome them “I’d also like to see ideo- many audience members did of anti-Semitism and charged national director, Jonathan be unapologetically Palestin- uncritically into their coali- logical purity tests on the not want to be interviewed or that the event was meant to Greenblatt, wrote earlier this ian American and always tions. left addressed as well, the would not agree to use their obscure the anti-Semitism month. be unapologetically Muslim “If you are going to come idea that if you’re Jewish you full names. they see lurking among far- The Zionist Organization American. And guess what, to the movement with the have to affirmatively prove When asked why, one man left critics of Israel. of America called Sarsour an I’m also a very staunch sup- condition, with the imposi- your anti-Zionist bona fides simply pointed to his shirt, A crowd of 400 attended “Israel-bashing, Jew-hater” porter of the Boycott, Divest- tion that people need to know before you’re let into any which featured the name of an the panel, whose organizers in a statement denouncing ment and Sanctions move- that you are a Zionist and a leftist space regardless of the Orthodox rabbinical school. included the New School’s the event. ment,” Sarsour proclaimed, feminist and only under this causes,” he said. “It’s too risky,” he said. After Nazis killed her family, this woman joined the partisans to fight back By Josefin Dolsten ing to be, I don’t care,’” Holm have women and children as Holm, whose religious family told JTA last month at her members, but the friend who had observed Jewish dietary NEW YORK (JTA)—Nazis Upper East Side apartment. recruited her—her future laws, said of eating pork. came for Rose Holm’s fam- “I never [used to] think I’m husband—told the other Many times she came close ily in the afternoon. By the going to be alive, and that’s fighters that the two were a to dying. In one incident, evening, the 16-year-old was the way I survived with the package deal. Holm entered the house of a lying among corpses in the partisans.” As part of the unit, Holm non-Jewish Pole to get food underground bunker where Today, Holm is elegantly and the other women car- and supplies. A German sol- she and her family had been dressed and soft-spoken. She ried supplies and helped dier discovered her and she hiding. wears a pearl necklace and detonate hand grenades. The ran, holding on to a sweater “I was between those dead offers home-baked cookies. group focused on destroying the Pole had given her. Later ones, and I didn’t know if I’m As a partisan, it was a whole bridges and roads that Nazis she found bullet holes dotting alive or I’m dead,” Holm, now different story, she said. were using. the side of the sweater, where 92, recalled. “I was like a wild one,” she “A train used to come, so the soldier had shot at her and Among those shot and said. “I didn’t know what I was we used to throw the hand narrowly missed. killed were Holm’s parents, doing. Whatever I’d been told, grenades,” she recounted. “The During her time as a parti- brother and one of her sisters, that’s what I was doing.” hand grenades were very scary san, Holm didn’t think about as well as some 85 other Jews Holm is among a shrinking because if you pulled the ring life after the war. hiding in the bunker outside group of living partisans. [incorrectly], it could kill you.” “I didn’t think I was going Parczew, a town in the eastern “Each year there are fewer Partisans would sleep in to be alive,” she said. part of Poland. Only one fam- Jewish partisans who are able the forest with little to no She became close with ily member other than Holm to share their experiences,” protection from the elements the friend who recruited survived: a sister who had left Sheri Pearl Rosenblum, direc- “The first winter was a very, her, and the two went on to Josefin Dolsten the bunker with her husband tor of development and out- very bad winter. We used to marry shortly after the war Rose Holm at her apartment holding a photo of her late and young daughter before the reach for the Jewish Partisan sleep in the woods under the surrounded by the friends husband, Joe, Oct. 31, 2017. Nazis came. Educational Foundation, told snow,” Holm said. they made as partisans. In That unimaginable inci- JTA in an email. They would make do with 1945, the couple moved to Holm lives in their home son, Steven, emceed an event dent would go on to motivate On its website, the group whatever food they got from a displaced persons camp in surrounded by photos of by the foundation honoring Holm to fight back against features the testimonies of non-Jewish Poles, who had Germany before leaving for her husband, children, four surviving partisans and their the Nazis. Jewish partisans, including been threatened that they New York in 1949, where she grandchildren and three descendants. A few months later, she Holm and her late husband, would be killed if they did not found a job in a dressmaking great-grandchildren. There’s also another emo- met a childhood friend who Joe. It collected testimonies aid the fighters. factory and he in a cardboard Holm once would not tion that comes with telling recruited her to join a group from 51 Jewish partisans “For survival you do every- box factory. speak about their wartime her story: incredulousness of Jewish partisans. Members from 2002 to 2015; only 16 thing, you don’t think you’re a Joe Holm later opened experiences; talking about that she went through what of the fighting unit, which was are still alive. human being,” she said. his own butcher shop before them makes her sad. In 2013, she did and survived. under the command of Chiel Holm was one of just five Sometimes the partisans the couple founded a factory however, she told her story in “My whole life, I’m just Grynszpan, lived in the forest women in her unit, which would get a pig to grill in the producing women’s sweaters a video for the Jewish Partisan laying sometimes in bed and by day and fought the Nazis started with 25 people but forest. about 10 years after moving Educational Foundation. The thinking ‘is this true?’” she at night. grew to around 250 by the “The first time was very to the United States. They had group also honored Holm and said. “I was thinking that I was “I was thinking ‘I have to end of World War II. Partisan hard, but when you’re hun- two children. her husband at galas in 2010 reading [the story in] a book, take revenge, whatever’s go- fighter units were reluctant to gry you don’t ask questions,” Joe died in 2009. Today, and 2011. Earlier this year her that it’s not from my life.” HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 22, 2017 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA

Mother, 3 children killed step that none of his prede- ity in the Middle East.” At Donald Trump Jr., the also overseeing projects to scribed the threats as being in Hanukkah house fire cessors were willing to take least one of the incidents, a president’s son, forwarded pump out saltwater from the “an eight on the frighten flown to Israel for burial and we must honor him derailed anti-drug mission the article with a tweet read- lake in order to maintain its scale.” NEW YORK (JTA)—The for it.” in Colombia, predated the ing, “The secret backstory of potability. The authority says “Sadly, we’ve seen the bodies of a woman and her “Jerusalem is a dream Obama administration. how Obama let Hezbollah off it is extracting about 17,000 swastika make something of three children killed in a house that is present in every Jew’s The assessments by the the hook. The real collusion tons of salt each year. a comeback this year,” said fire were flown to Israel after heart,” the mayor said, “and three officials are based on story no one will cover.” In October, the Water Au- Michael Mostyn, CEO of B’nai a crowd of mourners proved Trump’s decision gives this their recall of interactions Nazi hunters recom- thority warned that the Sea Brith Canada. too large and distraught for dream clear international with other unnamed officials mend nine for pros- of Galilee was at a danger- Last month, Statistics a memorial ceremony to be recognition.” during Obama’s two terms ecution in Germany, ously low Canada reported 221 hate held in Brooklyn. Tzur added that he is and their impressions. Austria Omri Casspi lights me- crimes against Jews in Can- The New York Post reported looking into the possibility The officials are Jack Kelly, BERLIN (JTA)—Germa- norah on Golden State ada in 2016, up from 178 the Tuesday that hundreds of of inviting Trump to the the DEA supervisory agent ny’s Central Office for In- Warriors court previous year. bereaved members of the Or- opening of the facility, which who led the Cassandra task vestigation of Nazi Crimes (JTA)—Omri Casspi, the In response, B’nai Brith is thodox community gathered is slated for April. force and is now retired; has handed nine potential first Israeli to play in the calling on Canadians to stand outside Congregation Sheves U.S. recognition of Je- Derek Maltz, who headed new cases against former NBA, helped lead the Golden in solidarity with Montreal’s Achim in East Flatbush on rusalem was welcomed in DEA’s Special Operations concentration camp guards State Warriors to their eighth #Jewish community. Monday evening to mourn Israel and much of the Jewish Division until 2014 and now to prosecutors in Germany straight win, then celebrated Hanukkah menorahs Aliza Azan, 39, and her chil- community but rejected by directs a security consul- and Austria. by lighting a giant Hanukkah lit at sites of terrorist dren. much of the world. Palestin- tancy; and Asher. If tried, the nine men and menorah as part of the team’s attacks “Unable to enter the syna- ians have rioted against the “They will believe until women—who variously live Jewish Heritage Night. (JTA)—Young Jews in sev- gogue,” the Post reported, the decision, leading to numer- death that we were shut down in both countries—would Casspi scored 17 points eral countries lit Hanukkah hearses “then headed straight ous deaths and injuries, and because of the Iran deal,” be charged as accessories and had 11 rebounds in menorahs at sites targeted to JFK airport where a flight throwing Trump’s Middle Maltz said of his colleagues. to murder in several camps. the Warriors’ victory over by terrorist attacks to signal was preparing to fly them to East peace initiative into “My gut feeling? My instinct The cases, already investi- the Dallas Mavericks on their solidarity with victims Israel.” question. as a guy doing this for 28 gated by the Central Office in Thursday, the third night and celebrate resilience. City fire and police officials Obama undermined years is that it certainly Ludwigsburg, were handed to of Hanukkah, J. The Jewish The ceremonies, organized confirmed that a Hanukkah probe of Hezbollah drug contributed to why we got local prosecutors for poten- News of Northern California by members of the World Bnei menorah on the first floor of empire in pursuit of pushed aside and picked tial indictment, according to reported. It was among the Akiva youth movement, the 2 1/2-story house sparked Iran nuclear deal, ex-US apart. There is no doubt in news reports in the Berlin- top performances of his nine- included one lighting at the the blaze at around 2:20 am. officials allege my mind.” based daily Taz newspaper year NBA career. HaCarmel kosher restaurant Monday. The victims included WASHINGTON (JTA)— There were a number of and elsewhere. After the game, Casspi in Amsterdam, where earlier Azan’s sons Moshe, 11, and Several Obama adminis- arrests and prosecutions Jean Rommel, who heads helped light a menorah al- this month a 29-year-old Yitzah, 7, and daughter Hen- tration-era security offi- during the period the article the Central Office in Lud- most as tall as the 6-foot-9 Palestinian smashed the es- rietta, 3. cials are claiming that the covers, but the agents said wigsburg, Germany, con- forward. He chanted the Ha- tablishment’s windows while The father, Yosi, three chil- administration frustrated their requests for broader firmed to the German news nukkah prayers with Rabbi holding a Palestinian flag. dren and their cousin survived their pursuit of Hezbollah’s racketeering prosecutions— media that the nine men and Yosef Langer, executive di- The assault happened one the fire, but were injured in drug-dealing empire in part which would have allowed women, most of them in their rector of Chabad of San Fran- day after President Donald the fast-moving blaze, Fire to avoid jeopardizing the Iran them to piece together 90s, were stationed at the cisco, as hundreds of Jewish Trump announced that the Commissioner Daniel Nigro nuclear deal. disparate alleged crimes Ravensbrueck and Buchen- fans—some attending their United States considers Je- said at a news conference. Yosi Politico quoted on the into a conspiracy—were wald concentration camps in first Warriors game—looked rusalem Israel’s capital. Azan and his daughter Shalit, record three officials who consistently turned down Germany, at Mauthausen in on at Oracle Arena. “I’m here to light a candle 16, and son Daniel, 15—were ran Operation Cassandra, and that diplomatic support Austria, and at the Auschwitz Casspi told the newspaper for the security and safety in critical condition at Staten a task force principally run was lacking. death camp in Nazi-occupied that lighting the menorah of the Jewish community of Island University Hospital. by the Drug Enforcement The former Cassandra Poland. on the Warriors’ court was a Amsterdam,” Avichai Meyer, Two younger boys were treated Agency, as saying their ef- officials cited among oth- The 2011 conviction in Mu- “privilege, it just means the the movement’s emissary to for minor injuries. forts to bring down the Leb- ers the case of Ali Fayad, a nich of former concentration world to me.” the Netherlands, said at the Fire Department officials anon-based terror group’s Ukraine-based arms mer- camp guard John Demjanjuk Danny Grossman, CEO event earlier this week. said the house had a working drug-running network was chant detained in 2014 by as an accomplice in the mur- of the San Francisco-based David Rogovoy, the em- smoke detector, which may derailed in part out of the Czech authorities. Czech ders of nearly 30,000 Jews Jewish Community Federa- issary to Germany, lit his have alerted the boys on the administration’s “desire for authorities released Fayad in in the Sobibor death camp tion, was at the game along menorah outside the Christ- first floor to the fire. a negotiated settlement” to 2016, reportedly under pres- in Poland set a precedent in with other community and mas market where a truck Hundreds of mourners at- curb the nuclear ambitions sure from Russia, and he was that being a guard at a death spiritual leaders, and said it deliberately drove into a tended a funeral in Brooklyn of Iran, a benefactor of He- allowed to return to Lebanon. camp was sufficient to prove was appropriate that Casspi crowd last year on Dec. 19, for the mother and her 3 zbollah. Fayad was indicted in the complicity in murder. had his best night since join- killing 12 and injuring 56. children killed in a house “This was a policy decision, United States for plotting the Since then, the Simon ing the Warriors in July on a One of the casualties was an fire this morning https://t. it was a systematic decision,” murders of U.S. officials, pro- Wiesenthal Center’s chief one-year deal. Israeli woman named Dalia co/9R9odme8gX pic.twitter. David Asher, who was a Pen- viding support to a terrorist Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff, “It can’t be coincidental, Elyakim. com/H7Nf501ydE tagon illicit finance analyst organization and attempting has encouraged the public it had to be a Hanukkah Rogovoy said he was light- — amNewYork (@am- and is now an adviser to the to smuggle anti-aircraft mis- to provide tips on possible miracle,” Grossman told J. ing the candles “In honor of NewYork) December 19, 2017 Foundation for Defense of siles. The Obama administra- perpetrators, an effort titled The crowd attending the those who are not with us, Trump thanks Israeli Democracies, told Politico. tion protested the release “Operation Last Chance.” menorah lighting ranged and those people who were mayor for naming new “They serially ripped apart after the fact, but the agents In related news, an from those wearing yar- wounded and injured in ter- park after him this entire effort that was said it did little to pressure to 88-year-old Holocaust sur- mulkes and black hats to ror attacks all over the world.” JERUSALEM (JTA)—Presi- very well supported and the Czechs to extradite him vivor in Minnesota recently bare-headed Jews in War- The activists filmed the dent Donald Trump thanked resourced, and it was done to the United States. provided testimony that led riors garb, according to the lightings and posted them the mayor of an Israeli city from the top down.” The Iran nuclear deal to the indictments in Ger- newspaper. on the World Bnei Akiva who named a new park after The Hezbollah network, traded sanctions relief for many of two former guards Casspi, 29, has played for Facebook page under the him. the officials said, was par- Iran’s rollback of its nuclear at the Stutthof concentra- six NBA teams, including hashtag #LightUpTheDar- In a letter dated Dec. 13, ticularly expansive in Latin program. Israel’s govern- tion camp in Nazi-occupied five seasons in two stints kness. Thousands have Trump expressed gratitude for America, and financed Hez- ment and a number of pro- Poland as accomplices to with the Sacramento Kings. watched the videos. the gesture and satisfaction bollah’s arms purchases and Israel groups—among them murder. It remains to be seen He was signed in March as In Israel, Bnei Akiva mem- that Israelis welcomed his terror operations. the Foundation for Defense of whether they will be deemed a free agent by the Minne- bers filmed a menorah light- recognition of Jerusalem as The officials told Politico Democracies—vehemently fit to stand trial. sota Timberwolves nearly a ing outside Jerusalem’s the capital of their country— that the Justice Department criticized the deal. If so, then Judith Meisel month after being waived by Central Bus Station, where which apparently earned him refused to investigate and Hezbollah, which launched is ready to bear witness the New Orleans Pelicans— a security guard, Asher Al- the honor. prosecute a Hezbollah figure a war with Israel in 2006, is against them, she told the his second stint with the mialach, was severely injured A week earlier, David Even considered the “linchpin” of a U.S.-designated terrorist NEWSER online publication team—after breaking his in a stabbing incident this Tzur, the mayor of the Haifa Hezbollah’s criminal net- group with deep ties inside in November. thumb in his debut with the month. suburb Kiryat Yam, in north- work, among other figures, Lebanon’s government. It Sinking Sea of Galilee club. He has also played for In England, Benaya Cohen ern Israel, said he would es- and that the administration is allied with Iran and has to get infusion of de- the Cleveland Cavaliers and lit candles at the entrance to tablish Donald Trump Park in rejected repeated efforts by joined that country in prop- salinated water Houston Rockets. the Manchester Arena, where appreciation of the president’s the investigators to charge ping up the Assad regime in JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is- He was a member of the in May a suicide bomber mur- Jerusalem announcement the Hezbollah’s military wing Syria during the civil war rael is preparing to pump championship Maccabi Tel dered 23 people and injured day before. under a federal Mafia-style that has raged there since desalinated water into the Aviv team in Israel before over 500 at a concert in one “Thank you for this great racketeering statute. 2011. Sea of Galilee. making himself available for of the country’s bloodiest honor,” Trump wrote in Obama administration of- Critics of Obama and the The state’s Water Author- the NBA Draft. terrorist attacks ever. his letter. “It was a distinct ficials quoted in the article nuclear deal seized on the ity recently started work on Canada synagogues get Meanwhile, in the United pleasure to visit Israel during denied that the Iran deal Politico report. the $300 million project, hate mail saying ‘Jewry States, Bnei Akiva members my first international trip drove the obstructions faced Morton Klein, president which will take about two must perish’ filmed a candle lighting as President of the United by the former Cassandra offi- of the Zionist Organization years to complete, Israel’s MONTREAL (JTA)—At at the Houston home of States... I am thankful for cials, saying that interagency of America, sent a news Hadashot TV news reported least three synagogues in a member, Maya Wadler, your gesture and am moved to spats and broader concerns release with a summary of Monday. Canada received hate mail whose home was ravaged by know that the people of Israel about U.S. interests caused the article. With Israel apparently ap- warning that “Jewry must flooding during Hurricane are encouraged by my decision the problems. “Instead of drawing the proaching a fifth consecutive perish.” Harvey. to recognize Jerusalem as the An unnamed former conclusion that Iran was up dry year, the Sea of Galilee Police are investigating “We hope and daven [pray] capital of Israel.” Obama administration, Po- to its neck in terrorism and has dropped to danger- the envelopes delivered Mon- that this year will bring us Trump also called Israel litico wrote, offered several drug-trafficking, President ously low levels. This has day to two synagogues in pleasant weather and rains “one of our most steadfast reasons for letting Hezbollah Obama ploughed forward de- increased the lake’s salinity Montreal and one in Toronto. of blessing,” Wadler said. allies and an oasis of hope, off the hook, including “the spite to empower Iran via the and harmed the quality of Each featured a drawing of a Bnei Akiva is the largest democracy, and prosperity in fear of reprisals by Hezbollah nuclear agreement he foisted the water, which constitutes bleeding Star of David enclos- Zionist youth movement in the Middle East.” against the United States on America,” Klein said. “It is a quarter of Israel’s potable ing a Nazi swastika with the the world, with tens of thou- Tzur said Trump “took a and Israel, and the need to an extraordinary dereliction supply. slogan “Jewry must perish.” sands of members in dozens brave and unprecedented maintain peace and stabil- of duty for a president.” The Water Authority is B’nai Brith Canada de- of countries. PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 22, 2017 Europe’s only Jewish hospice gives Holocaust survivors a dignified farewell But Immanuel is the only tions, according to Jewish Only about half of the hospice in Europe for guests health care professionals. hospice’s guests are Jewish, like Goudeketting who keep Jewish “teachings and values however. Anyone diagnosed as kosher, although there are can provide comfort to them,” being terminally ill can ask to other hospitals with palliative according to a 2013 study be referred here. And though programs that offer kosher by four American research- capacity is limited because of food. They include the North ers, including a rabbi and a Immanuel’s small size, the London Hospice Group, which physician. high turnover—the average defines itself as Britain’s first Jewish liturgy, traditions stay is 11 days—means fre- “multifaith hospice.” and even a common language quent openings. It’s also the only hospice also ease some difficulties, “When we set up this home, where the staff and volunteers according to a 2009 interview we decided as a matter of “already know the special is- that Rabbi Sara Gilbert, a policy that it wouldn’t be a sues connected to caring for chaplain at Shalom Cares place for Jews only,” Martel the generation of Holocaust Hospice in Aurora, Colorado, said. “We didn’t want to send survivors,” said Sasja Martel, gave the Intermountain Jew- anyone away.” the institution’s founding di- ish News. “ Subsequently, Immanuel rector. That’s crucial, she said, At Immanuel, staff are has a second non-kosher “because at the last stage of trained to accommodate the kitchen so as not to limit the life, it’s often too late to start special needs of survivors like nutrition of non-Jews. explaining” what those special Goudeketting, who have no But one thing not on offer at issues are. family, added Martel. Immanuel is assisted suicide, A case in point: At Im- “We need to be conscious which is readily available in manuel, the staff encourages that for many of our guests we the Netherlands for the ter- guests to resist the urge “to are all that they have, which minally ill. finish their plates,” Martel is not necessarily the case in The country’s parliament is said, and only eat when they other hospices,” she said. now debating a controversial Cnaan Liphshiz are hungry. There are other sensitiv- draft bill that would allow Henny Goudeketing, left, and Anne van de Geest at the main hall of the Immanuel Jewish “Traumatized by the Ho- ity issues. For example, the even healthy people to receive hospice in Amsterdam, Nov. 1, 2017. locaust, survivors and their hospice decided not to hire assisted suicide. But ending children tend to associate a nurse who had a German one’s life is “diametrically op- By Cnaan Liphshiz turned to the city at 23 after accredited Jewish hospice eating with staying alive,” she accent, Martel said last week posed to the Jewish values that surviving Auschwitz. programs—they remain rare explained. “And that’s true, at a symposium on hospice sanctify life,” said Martel, who AMSTERDAM (JTA)—Hen- “My biggest sorrow is not on the continent, where the but at the terminal stage eat- care in Judaism in honor of added that Immanuel advises ny Goudeketting, a 95-year- being able to have children,” Jewish community was deci- ing can hasten death.” Immanuel’s 10th anniversary. patients not to give up their old Holocaust survivor, is said Goudeketting, who had mated by the Holocaust. Rabbinical or other spiri- “If it was discrimination, homes in case they wish to end ailing and preparing to leave worked for decades as a Funded through private tual counseling is available it was a positive one for our their life after being admitted the world. seamstress. donations, as well as patient to guests, as is counseling guests,” she said. to the institution. Goudeketting, who was Last month she was admit- fees and some subsidies, on accepting death, mostly One former patient, Bram Anne van de Geest is a non- sterilized in Nazi medical ted to Immanuel, a small but the hospice was built by the by volunteers. That’s an issue Koopmans, said in a filmed Jewish guest in her 90s who experiments at Auschwitz, upscale eight-room facility Dutch Jewish community for for many survivors who are interview before his death is unable to walk because of has neither children nor for the terminally ill. It is survivors like Goudeketting to conditioned to “fight death at in 2010 that the hospice was cancer that has metastasized other relatives to care for Europe’s only Jewish hos- receive top end-of-life care. all costs,” Martel said. his first contact with a Jewish throughout her body. her. Now, after multiple pice, according to Tel Aviv “I’m not sure whether this The hospice, which has an community institution since “I like the atmosphere here, infections and recurrent University’s Kantor Center for is real, the luxurious treat- annual budget of approxi- staying at an orphanage for which is quiet but lively,” she falls, she’s readying to say the Study of Contemporary ment I’m getting here,” she mately $500,000, is subtly child Holocaust survivors in said. goodbye. European Jewry. said. “I’ve never experienced adorned with Jewish symbols the 1940s. Van de Geest, who used “It’s kind of strange,” While such facilities are anything like this in my ranging from mezuzahs, me- On his deathbed, Koopmans to make jewelry and fashion Goudeketting told JTA. “I common in the U.S.—the whole life.” norahs and, atop one piece of said that after decades of accessories, said she chose know I have no future and National Institute for Jew- Take the on-demand room furniture in the main hall, a avoiding his Jewish identity, to stay at Immanuel after I’m ready to die, but I’m still ish Hospice, which was es- service. small pile of stones of the kind staying at Immanuel made him hearing good things about it afraid of actually dying.” tablished in 1985 in New “If I want a fried egg, or that Jews place on cemetery remember the Jewish blessing from friends. The Amsterdam native re- York, lists no fewer than 225 anything else, all I have to do headstones. But even though over bread, or hamotzi, which Word of mouth was also is buzz,” said Goudeketting, they are understated, the he was taught at the orphanage. how Chazia Mourali, a well- whose stay at Immanuel is symbols can have a profound Holding back tears, Koopmans known television host and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 S I L K E W R A Z A R I A covered by her insurance. effect on some guests. recited the blessing during the writer in the Netherlands, 14 15 16 “They come round in seconds “The significance of little interview while holding one heard of Immanuel, where A L O E N O A C O R O N A to terribly spoil me.” things is amplified near the hand over his head. her mother, Elise van den 17 18 19 G A L G A D O T H O T A I R The Netherlands, which last end,” Martel said. “Many “It’s been waiting in me for Brink, stayed before her death 20 21 22 23 year was No. 1 on Europe’s guests feel a need to touch years and years,” he said. “It’s in 2015. A N A D U E T S M O N G O index of public health systems, their identity, reconnect with as though I never left.” “We’re Catholic and people 24 25 L A R R Y E L L I S O N has 146 hospices nationwide it, even if only through the Koopmans asked volun- at church told us the Jewish 26 27 28 29 with an average guest satis- symbols. Or the typical Ash- teers at Immanuel to go to his hospice was the best choice,” A S P I R E P I E S faction rating of 9.1 out of kenazi Jewish chicken soup home and fetch a kippah and Mourali, whose father was 30 31 32 33 34 35 C L U E O L S E N S H O 10. And whereas Immanuel’s we serve, that they remember menorah that he had hidden born in Tunisia, told JTA at 36 37 38 39 on-demand room service is a from their grandmother, or away, Martel recalled. He also the symposium. “We liked H A R V E Y W E I N S T E I N standout amenity, patients at the white tablecloth on Shab- asked a rabbi to give him a the sound of that and she felt 40 41 42 E Y E V A N E S O G L E other hospices receive similar bat and the candle lighting. Or bar mitzvah at the hospice. right at home. 43 44 45 conditions—all for a daily just a Jewish joke.” Koopmans had a Jewish “People with our Middle R I C S U S U A L S rate of less than $70 covered The importance of a Jewish burial, which he didn’t plan Eastern mentality—a Calvin- 46 47 48 49 50 J A R E D K U S H N E R by the government or basic setting increases for many to do when he first arrived at ist Dutch hospice is the last 51 52 53 54 55 insurance policies. people facing end-of-life ques- Immanuel. thing we needed.” E R A S E P A S S E L E S 56 57 58 59 S E L E N A B E N P L A T T Light 60 61 62 U N L A C E O R A A N T I From page 1A mentor to teens who want impacted for the better. It was night all to spread the word 63 64 65 S T Y L E S T S P Y E A R to organize a program like a powerful event.” to stop the hate,” Kuperberg show that hate really will not this one. She has helped or- The program was enlighten- shared in her Facebook post. win and that this is something ganize 105 programs in the ing to many people, not just “I cannot describe how thank- the people want to hear.” Southeast, reaching more Jewish students who had expe- ful I am for all the people Her hard work and deter- than 8,000 people who may rienced anti-Semitism. After who fought with me—Gabi mination paid off. More than never have heard a Holocaust hearing Exelbierd share that Gittleson, Rayna Rose Exel- 600 people filled the Oviedo survivor’s story. her grandparents, who were bierd, Daniel Nabatian, Nicole auditorium and heard two The Oviedo audience was survivors, fought for the rights Feldman Kuperberg, Justin Holocaust survivors, Genia silent as Biegel shared about of black people after seeing Kuperberg, and so many Kutner and Gerald Biegel, his ordeal in five concentra- segregation in the South when more. I am also so thankful speak about their experiences. tion camps. Then, Kutner they came to the States, sever- for all of you who supported Rayna Rose Exelbierd, provided details about who al African-American students me, even when I was losing Southeast high school coordi- Hitler and the Nazis were, said they didn’t know that Jews the battles. You guys showed nator with StandWithUs and a and what a swastika really helped blacks during the civil me that in the end hate will third generation survivor who stands for before sharing her rights era. lose and love will win.” also spoke, told the Heritage own harrowing story. Kutner “The response was so amaz- “This is what JSU is here that the majority of those concluded that “we must ing,” Exelbierd said. “The for—to education others, who attended the event are accept each other and what message was for everyone.” be there for them,” stated not Jewish. She asked for a hatred leads to.” At the conclusion of the Nabatian. raise of hands of those who Also speaking to the group program, students lined up To learn more about JSU had never heard a Holocaust that evening was Daniel Naba- to have photos taken with or to request having the club survivor speak and 90 percent tian, director of JSU Orlando. the Holocaust survivors, and open at a high school, visit raised their hands. “This was more than I could shared their own stories of www.jsu.org or contact Dan- Exelbierd is a motivational have dreamed of,” he told the being bullied. iel Nabatian at dnabatian@ speaker for teenagers and Heritage. “So many lives were “One year fighting for this joinorlando.org. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 22, 2017 PAGE 15A Convention attendee Rabbi emphasized at the conference our people fall in love with Moore in the campaign’s Jerusalem Jonathan Aaron of Temple that it is working on initiatives Israel, with her diverse and Jones final days, recording a ro- From page 1A Emanuel in Beverly Hills, to bring more Israeli Jews to remarkable people, her found- From page 1A bocall endorsement for the Calif., told JNS that he makes the U.S. to witness American ing vision, her creativity in candidate and turning a rally A recent study commis- “a distinction between the Jewish life through a Reform its scientific, business and record on Jews, she told the he headlined in Pensacola, sioned by the IMPJ found that religious and the political” lens as well as to double the cultural achievements, and crowd, “One of our attorneys Florida, near the Alabama a small but increasing number when it comes to Israel. funding for increasing the so much more.” is a Jew.” border, into a Moore elec- of Israelis, 7 percent, identify “Yes, I’m frustrated that I Reform presence across Israel. Frank Ponder, a biennial In an acceptance speech at tion event. with Reform Judaism. At the can’t perform weddings over Rabbi Jacobs encouraged attendee from Los Angeles, 11 p.m, Jones acknowledged Establishment Republi- same time, a 2016 Pew Re- there, but as far as political attendees to increase their similarly said, “We have every his Jewish supporters. can leaders had distanced search Center study reported decisions go, it’s not our blood activism on Israeli policies. right to be critical, but I feel like “To all my Jewish friends, themselves from Moore, but that 2 percent of Israelis on the line,” he said. “The bot- “We should never shirk our it’s our job to make sure Israel Happy Chanukah,” he said. Trump heeded Moore’s most identify as Conservative and tom line is, even when there is obligation to raise objections continues to exist. It’s neces- Trump had endorsed prominent backer, Steve 3 percent as Reform, while 50 criticism, the Reform leader- to policies that weaken Israel’s sary for the future of the Jewish Moore’s primary challenger, Bannon, the CEO of Breit- percent identify as Orthodox ship knows how important Jewish democratic core and people and the world. I can Luther Strange, but pivoted bart News. Bannon, who was and 41 percent eschew any Israel is to the future of the undermine prospects for disagree with the internal poli- to Moore after he soundly a top White House adviser denominational identity. world and of Judaism. We will Israeli-Palestinian peace,” cies and their attitude toward defeated Strange in the to Trump until August, had Distinguishing between always support it.” said Rabbi Jacobs. “But we Reform Jews, but it will never September primary. The urged the president to back religion and politics The Reform movement must simultaneously help stop me from supporting her.” president went all in for Moore. Glick From page 4A Arab world. With the good are not on board with the establishment in the West due remaining faithful to a peace actual crown prince of Saudi will of the Europeans and proposal. to his trenchant opposition paradigm that has brought Arabia. But if it isn’t his plan, Palestinians would have a Americans, Sisi would secure And whereas the opposition to Iran’s rise as a hegemonic only war and instability. it should be. Or it should be viable, developed state in Egypt’s position indefinitely. to Mohammed’s purported power in the region. Why do they prefer to retain Trump’s plan. short order. This then brings us to the proposal has been largely It’s a hard sell though. Abbas’s authoritarian regime Because it is the first peace And the Egyptians in turn third notable aspect of the behind the scenes, since Mo- Mohammed’s peace plan is over a non-sovereign kleptoc- plan anyone has ever put would have the international purported Saudi plan. The hammed did not make it pub- the first peace plan that has racy in Judea and Samaria forward that makes sense. support they need both eco- backlash against the plan, lic, the Palestinians and their ever offered the Palestinians with a Hamas terrorist state Not only does it secure the nomically and militarily to like the backlash against international supporters have a chance at a real state. It’s in Gaza to an alternative future of both Israel and the defeat ISIS completely and to Mohammed, has been furious. been grabbing every available the first plan that ever envi- without either? Why doesn’t Palestinians, it enables Arab rebuild their national econ- Abbas has reportedly been microphone to condemn US sioned a situation where the Abbas support it if his chief states like Saudi Arabia to omy. Indeed, as advocates calling every international President Donald Trump’s Palestinians have a state that aspiration is the establish- work openly with Israel to de- of the plan note, by yielding leader he can think of to op- recognition of Jerusalem as doesn’t imperil Israel. People ment of a viable Palestinian feat their joint Iranian enemy, control over the northern pose the deal. The Europeans Israel’s capital. who actually care about the state and actually wants while ensuring that Israel can Sinai to the Palestinians, reportedly also oppose it. With or without a public Palestinians and Israel should peace with Israel? survive and remain a credible and so enabling a viable French President Emmanuel announcement of his alleged welcome and support his The New York Times ally to its Arab neighbors for Palestinian state to form, Macron’s adviser reportedly peace plan, Mohammed has position. article may or may not be decades to come. Egypt would become again contacted the Americans to become a hated figure in wide People who oppose it have an accurate portrayal of a Originally published in The the indisputable leader of the make clear that the French circles of the foreign policy to explain why they insist on real plan presented by the Jerusalem Post. Reality From page 5A The Arabs and Palestinians not work, but rather begets Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and bloodshed, which eventu- In this way, Trump’s Dec. have always used the threat of more violence. called the “soft bigotry of ally becomes a self-fulfilling 6 speech was a sorely needed children that Haifa, Tel Aviv, violence as a negotiating tool. By using appeasement, we low expectations.” They are prophesy. dose of reality therapy for the and west Jerusalem will all The longer we cower to the do not gain the respect of the simply being patronizing to The Palestinians need to Palestinians. someday be theirs. threat of violence, the more we international community, nor the Palestinians. learn that no matter what Sarah N. Stern is the On Nov. 29, 1947, prior reinforce that as a legitimate of the Muslim and Arab world. What message does that dangerous illusions of con- founder and president of the to President Harry Truman tool of negotiations. As Osama bin Laden had said, send to the Palestinian leader- quest they are teaching their Endowment for Middle East recognizing Israel at the Either we have a policy “When someone sees a weak ship when there are govern- children, Israel will never cede Truth (EMET), which de- United Nations, people had and a law, or we do not. horse, and a strong horse, it ment spokesmen around the its capital of Jerusalem—not scribes itself as an un- told Truman that the recogni- We should not change our is natural to bet on the strong globe saying that we expect after 3,000 years of history. abashedly pro-Israel and tion would only lead to mass policies to appease the most horse.” the Palestinians to engage And they need to learn, pro-American think tank and rioting. What would have hap- violent participants on the Those who argue otherwise in violence? We are giving once and for all, that Israel is policy institute in Washing- pened if Truman had listened? world stage. It simply does are engaging in what the late them a pretense for violence here to stay. ton, D.C. Talk From page 5A who heads the the Israeli an “undivided Jerusalem” And no one expects Israel peace plans have called for a But even short of a com- advocacy group Terrestrial that also accommodates to unilaterally give back all consolidation of surround- prehensive peace plan, it is Union Advocacy Center, has Jerusalem. “There are two Palestinian aspirations for that it won and consoli- ing Jewish neighborhoods worth asking what is meant written. national collectives in Je- a state and capital of their dated in war and built in within Israel, with various by “Jerusalem.” In the bibli- Critics of the term “undi- rusalem, one endowed with own? It is, but it will take an peace—not just the current land swaps to accommodate cal and rabbinic imagination, vided Jerusalem” say it is a political rights and the other honest discussion of what government, which pro- the Palestinians. the city has always been slogan that hides ugly truths permanently disenfranchised “Jerusalem” is and isn’t. Like motes a Greater Jerusalem Meanwhile, as long as the as much an idea as a real- about occupation and disen- and disempowered.” Trump, no Israeli and no Jew and is indulgent of plans Palestinians insist that no ity—an earthly Jerusalem franchisement. And certainly some ideo- elsewhere wants to go back to build housing units in part of Jerusalem is Israeli, (Yerushalayim shel matah) “Fifty years on, Jerusalem logues use it that way, drawing to the pre-1967 reality, when areas that Palestinians and peace is impossible. If the and a heavenly Jerusalem is more binational, more con- their own lines in the sand Jordan blocked Jews from the their international backers Palestinians are to achieve (Yerushalayim shel maalah). tested and more divided that (and borders on a map) and Western Wall and limited consider disputed, and not their own state, they, too, will Hopes for peace rest on wise at any point since 1967,” says daring anyone to cross them. Christian and even Muslim any government one could have to accept the reality of leaders who understand the attorney Daniel Seidemann, Is it possible to imagine access to holy sites. foresee. That’s why credible what Jerusalem is and isn’t. difference. #MeToo From page 5A an important project on pay open a communitywide con- munity and enhance the in the Rabbinate will study and bring healing, hope and equity with Women of Reform versation beyond the ethics professional and personal the realities facing women greater strength to our rab- plaints are reported, they Judaism. process about these experi- lives of Reform rabbis is in order to identify their binates and the communities are responded to with the But we must do even more ences, and examine the way central to the mission of the root causes and potential we serve. seriousness that they deserve. to create safe and sacred com- that women in the rabbinate CCAR—it is our ethical and solutions. It will engage Rabbi Hara Person is the WRN, the Women’s Rabbinic munities for both those who face systemic and ongoing professional mandate to ad- our membership, laypeople chief strategy officer for the Network, has been tackling are participants in those com- challenges. dress these deeply troubling and partner Reform insti- Central Conference of Ameri- these issues for decades and munities and those who serve The responsibility to challenges. The Task Force tutions. Ultimately it will can Rabbis and the publisher is currently spearheading them The time has arrived to strengthen the Jewish com- on the Experience of Women create change for the good of CCAR Press. Butchers From page 10A buys the leftover meat from recommendation for such la- city of Marseille, calls this vi- animals are stunned as their halal slaughter,” noted a team him. But with demand falling beling, prompting passionate sion “alarmist.” Jews, he said, throats are cut. of researchers who in 2013 cess of a campaign launched for that product, “slaughter- condemnations by Jewish and “will always eat kosher, and, Post-cut stunning is published a report on post-cut that year by the Vigilance houses don’t view us as the Muslim faith leaders. thank God, we have enough shunned by most Orthodox stunning. Halal association founded by ideal customers anymore,” But even without obliga- Jews in France.” certifiers of kosher meat, with Technical advances and an anti-halal veterinarian and Levy said. tory labeling, the awareness- But Jews make up less than 1 the exception of a handful in the Muslim communities’ promoted by National Front. “They are paying less than raising campaign means that percent of France’s population Austria and the United States. relative openness mean room This has lowered the de- 10 years ago,” he said. “a non-Jew today wants to of nearly 67 million, meaning But its acceptability is grow- for adapting halal slaughter mand for meat left over from Meanwhile, politicians in buy neither the meat of the that “in reality, the only thing ing among Muslims, whose “without compromising its animals that were used for France are pressing for the cruel Jews nor the terrorist protecting kosher slaughter is rules on ritual slaughter deep and essential meaning,” ritual slaughter, Levy said, obligatory labeling of meat Muslims,” Levy said sarcasti- the electoral power of the far- are not as strict as those of they added. explaining that kosher rules that does come from animals cally. As pressure mounts, “it larger Muslim population” of Orthodox Judaism. That’s bad news for Levy allow Jews t0 use only 15-20 that were slaughtered without will become more and more 5.7 million, said Levy. “The Jewish community and others in the kosher meat percent of the cow. stunning. difficult in the kosher and Yet even that protection seems united in opposing pre- industry, he said. Once a shochet, or certified In 2013, an advisory com- halal industries.” may be temporary due to the slaughter stunning, while the “The minute the Muslims slaughterer, has taken the ko- mittee of the French Senate Albert Elbaz, a kosher meat growing acceptance among Muslim community is divided accept post-cut stunning,” sher bits, the slaughterhouse on the meat industry for the shop owner from Aix-en- French Muslims of post-cut on the question whether stun- Levy said, “the kosher meat where he performed the work first time made a nonbinding Provence, near the southern stunning—a method in which ning should be allowed before industry is done for.” PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 22, 2017 The five weirdest kosher foods for 2018

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By Josefin Dolsten as Stars of David and Passover immediately to aid in focus, greetings. The manufacturer, recovery, endurance and SECAUCUS, N.J. (JTA)— Independent Ink, uses color- stamina,” Max Lewis, direc- “Caution: Meat and dairy ful, edible ink that is kosher tor of sales for Formula Four sampling on show floor,” read for Passover. Beverages, told JTA. a sign at the entrance to Mead- Customers placing large The oxygen is not in gas owlands Exposition Center. orders can also customize form, meaning it won’t escape That may seem like an matzahs with any image they the bottle when it’s opened, unusual warning outside a desire. Lewis added. convention center, but to “It gives you the ability Oxigen bottles retail at the crowd attending the food to be creative for your seder stores nationwide for $1.69 expo there on Tuesday, it plate,” said NK Ranganathan, to $1.99, while the shots sell made sense: Kosherfest is the Independent Ink’s chief oper- for $2.79 to $2.99. world’s largest kosher food ating officer. “You can have Salted caramel frozen trade show, where the vast ma- a variety of designs, and it pizza jority of those attending follow becomes very interesting for It’s a pizza, it’s a frozen the Jewish prohibition against the kids.” dessert—it’s a Frizza! mixing meat and dairy. Customers can buy Mat- The Salted Caramel Frizza More than 4,000 food in- zohgram online beginning from Elegant Desserts won dustry professionals gathered Nov. 20: It’s $10 for a box of the trade show’s award for best for the annual two-day event, mini-matzahs and $16 for the dessert. The dairy-free treat which featured more than regular size. consists of a cookie bottom, 325 vendors showcasing an Oxygen-infused water salted caramel ice cream and array of products, from candy If Oxigen’s claims about caramel sauce. Josefin Dolsten to wine. its water—that it improves “Everybody, when they Cooks need only add eggs to this sauce to make shakshuka. Naturally, there were lots both post-workout and or come over, they go crazy about of samples. post-hangover recovery time it because it’s entertaining, Ready-made shakshuka can have a nice, hot breakfast.” Segal has expanded his line Reporting can be a tough and mental clarity—are true, it’s fun, it’s different,” said Craving shakshuka but The sauce contains toma- of sauces to include flavors job, but somebody had to taste then Gatorade may have some Benjamin Weisz, president short on time? toes and spices and comes in that draw on both his Jewish everything. Amid the offer- serious competition. of Elegant Desserts based in This sauce is perfect for mild and medium spicy variet- and Southern roots—the ings of many obvious treats A bottle of the oxygen- Brooklyn. any busy person who loves ies. A 24-ounce jar retails in pomegranate honey barbecue (lox varieties and bagel fla- infused beverage contains At Kosherfest, the friz- this Israeli breakfast food, stores nationwide for around sauce, which Segal came up vors, for example), there were 1,000 parts per million of zas were cut into bite-sized which consists of eggs cooked $4.50. with when making brisket for some surprises. These are the stabilized oxygen, compared squares, but they are meant with spices in tomato sauce. Rabbi-approved BBQ Rosh Hashanah, is a favorite. five most unexpected foods to 5 to 40 parts per million in to be served by the slice, like a To make this version of the sauce “It sells really well in the and beverages JTA sampled at regular water, according to its pizza. Each pie contains eight hearty dish, one only needs Want a barbecue with a non-Jewish market, too, be- this year’s Kosherfest. manufacturer. Those in need to 16 servings, depending on to open a jar, crack a few eggs rabbinic seal of approval? cause nobody has a barbecue Patterned matzah of even more O’s can take an how it’s sliced. and cook the delicious mess Look no further. Rabbi Men- sauce that flavor yet,” he told Matzohgram, which was Oxigen shot, which contains Elegant Desserts, which on the stovetop or in the oven. del Segal, who founded the JTA. “But Jews catch onto it crowned by Kosherfest the 5,000 parts per million. sells frizzas online for $36.50 “It makes it very quick,” said Kansas City Kosher BBQ right away.” best Kosher for Passover prod- “When you drink the water, each, also sells the pies in Tami Bezborodko, vice presi- Festival, now offers three va- An 18-ounce jar of sauce re- uct, is matzah printed with the oxygen gets into your flavors such as cookies and dent of marketing for Iron rieties of his RaBBi-Q sauce. tails at select kosher markets Jewish-themed patterns, such bloodstream and goes to work cream and strawberry. Chef. “In seven minutes you Since launching in 2015, nationwide for $4.99. Roasted Winter Squash with Tahini Recipe to the dish and makes it feel a little extra special, especially for a Friday-night dinner or Thanksgiving celebration. You might also add some pomegranate molasses for sweetness and tang, or some pomegranate seeds or chopped fresh herbs for color and brightness, or nothing at all. Note: You will want to go easy on the olive oil, so that the squash develops a nice caramelized texture and isn’t too oily. Ingredients: 2 honey squash (or 1 medium butternut squash) 1 tablespoon olive oil Salt and pepper 3 tablespoons good quality tahini, at room temperature Pomegranate molasses, pomegranate seeds, chopped fresh herbs (optional) Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 425 F. HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES 2. Peel the honey squash, cut off the ends and cut into 1/2- By Shannon Sarna inch thick rings. Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) 3. Spread squash out in a single layer on a baking sheet. sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, (The Nosher via JTA)—I recently fell in love with honey Sprinkle with salt, pepper and olive oil, and using your hands, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye disorders. Protecting your eyes is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future. squash, a new variety of hearty winter squash bred specifically make sure squash is evenly coated. to be concentrated in flavor and adorable in appearance. OK, 4. Cook on first side for 10-15 minutes. Turn over the rings Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. maybe it wasn’t specifically grown to be adorable, but the result and cook another 10-15 minutes, until just caramelized. Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection. nevertheless is the same. 5. Drizzle with tahini. Top with additional pomegranate For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. I found honey squash at several New York- and New Jersey- molasses, pomegranate seeds or fresh herbs if desired. Serves 6. A public service message from The Vision Council. area farms and farmers markets, and I know that Whole Foods Shannon Sarna is the editor of The Nosher. has also been selling them. But even if you cannot find this The Nosher food blog offers a dazzling array of new and super sweet squash, you can substitute regular old (delicious) classic Jewish recipes and food news, from Europe to Yemen, butternut squash, acorn squash or delicata squash. from challah to shakshuka and beyond. Check it out at ww- Drizzling tahini over roasted vegetables just adds a richness wTheNosher.com.