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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 43, NO. 34 APRIL 26, 2019 21 NISAN, 5779 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Jews who made Time 100 list By Marcy Oster ed to advocating for women, designer Diane Von Fursten- (JTA)—One week after berg wrote in her entry in the winning election to a fifth Titans category. term as Israel’s head of state, In his tribute to Mark Prime Minister Benjamin Ne- Zuckerberg, also in the tanyahu was named to Time Titans category, Facebook magazine’s list of the 100 most founding president Sean influential people. Parker wrote: “Mark may Other Jewish people on have changed the world the list include: Facebook more than any living person, founder Mark Zuckerberg; so it’s surprising how little Jennifer Hyman, whose $1 success has changed him.” billion company Rent the He added that Zuckerberg Runway allows subscribers to will have to make “hard rent designer clothing online; choices” in order to keep and Leah Greenberg and the social media platform’s Ezra Levin, who started the openness while staying clear Win McNamee/Getty Images progressive activism group of privacy abuses. U.S. Attorney General William Barr speaks about the release of the redacted version of the Mueller report as Deputy Indivisible. “My hope is that he remains Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, right, and acting Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed O’Callaghan listen “Israel grows more prosper- true to the ideals upon which at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., April 18, 2019. ous. It grows more power- the company was founded— ful,” Time columnist David choosing to promote univer- French wrote for his entry for sal values like decency over 6 takeaways from the Mueller report Netanyahu in the Leaders sensationalism, intimacy category. “And as the election over social status, and human By Josefin Dolsten and dinated” with the Russian interference Jewish links and tidbits. Here is what we shows, sufficient numbers of dignity over tribalism—or Laura E. Adkins effort, which was described as “sweeping found, including the story of an unusual Israelis believe not just that in Zuckspeak, simply: ‘good- and systematic.” The report drew no gift that Jared Kushner received from the Netanyahu is partly respon- ness,’” he wrote. NEW YORK (JTA)—Special counsel conclusion as to whether the president head of a Russian government-owned sible for that success but that Indivisible, founded by Robert Mueller’s report about Russia’s or his aides had engaged in obstruction bank, the president talking about how he’s the nation’s indispensable Greenberg and Levin, who interference in the 2016 presidential of justice. he missed a former lawyer who was Jew- man.” election was released to Congress and Trump was more than pleased by the ish and how the transition team tried to Hyman is a mentor dedicat- Time on page 14A the public Thursday, adding new details findings, praising the report and tweet- influence a U.N. Security Council resolu- to what had been disclosed about its find- ing several times “No Collusion—No tion on Israeli settlements. ings by Attorney General William Barr Obstruction” on Thursday. As expected, The head of a Russian govern- when Mueller concluded his investigation Democrats did not share the view, with ment-owned bank brought Kush- AOC trivializes last month. congressional leaders calling for Mueller ner an unusual gift. The 448-page document, released to testify before the House of Representa- In November 2016, Russian Ambassa- after a nearly two-year long inquiry, says tives and the Senate. dor Sergey Kislyak requested a meeting Holocaust memory Mueller’s investigation did not establish The Jewish Telegraphic Agency the Trump campaign “conspired or coor- combed through the report in search of Mueller on page 15A (Nashville, Tenn.)—Evan- and host of the award-winning gelical leader Laurie Cardoza- Christian television pro- Moore has called out the gram Focus On Israel that ill-informed Congresswoman reaches a global weekly audi- Local genealogist helps Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for ence of over 2 billion viewers trivializing the memory of worldwide stated: “If Ocasio- the Holocaust by tweeting Cortez is going to quote cousin find her birth family a statement by Pastor Mar- someone from the Nazi-era tin Niemöller in defense of to support Omar, she needs Hear a compelling story of the anti-Semite and Muslim to quote a Nazi collabora- a woman’s search to find her Brotherhood terrorist group tor! Niemoller was against birth family, and succeeding collaborator Ilhan Omar. the Nazis and used his influ- with the help of a dedicated The statement AOC quoted ence to mobilize the Germans Orlando Jewish genealogist at was written by Niemöller who against them.” the next Jewish Genealogical lived under the Nazi regime Cardoza-Moore went on Society of Greater Orlando and used his influence to to say, “Are Ocasio-Cortez, meeting, Wednesday, May defend the innocent vic- Omar and Tlaib an example 8. The Jewish Genealogical tims of his government. In of the growing number of Society of Greater Orlando contrast, Ilhan Omar is a uneducated graduates from treasurer, Dave Rowitt, will collaborator of the Muslim U.S. schools? ‘God help us’! explain how he helped a cousin Brotherhood which histori- You just can’t make this stuff find and meet her relatives. cally supported the Nazis up! They have no clue about then, and is aggressively seek- history! Or worse, are they ac- ing the destruction of Israel tively engaged in a Goebbels- and America now. style media propaganda war Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet ap- in order to re-write history?” peared on April 13 after Presi- Cardoza-Moore contin- Dave Rowitt dent Trump tweeted a video ued: “Alexandria Ocasio-Cor- of Omar belittling the 9/11 tez is a traitor to her Sephardic Rowitt is a talented gene- attacks at a Muslim Brother- Jewish ancestors and the alogist, who has compiled hood (CAIR sponsored) terror- memory of all of us from His- much of his family history. Elliot and Lynne (last names not used for privacy reasons). ist fundraising event in which pania whose ancestors were Working with his cousin, he she described the worst terror tortured and murdered during has discovered and located family for Lynne, and that DNA data, Dave applied his attack on American soil as the Spanish Inquisition. Her the vast majority of his fam- family adopted her, resulting years of genealogy knowledge, “some people, did something”. tweet equating the President’s ily—nearly 3000—that live in in new first and last names the majority of it gained from PJTN has added the names criticism of Ilhan Omar with the U.S. His research has led for Lynne. attending JGSGO meetings, to of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Nazi-era Jews facing extermi- to interesting discoveries and While Lynne’s adoptive find Lynne’s birth relatives, and Rashida Tlaib to their Il- nation by the Third Reich is intriguing family reunions, parents provided a wonder- and arranged for Lynne and han Omar petition calling absolutely pathetic! Not only and led him to contact a ful life for her, she frequently Elliot to meet these relatives, for their removal from Con- was her statement not befit- second cousin, Elliot, which wondered if she had any including her cousins in Cali- gress in addition to Omar as ting of a U.S. lawmaker, but it eventually led to quite a gene- siblings. Years after Lynne’s fornia from her birth mother they are now working in alogy detective story. Elliot’s adopted parents died, Elliot and birth father. After joyous unison to achieve the same AOC on page 15A wife, Lynne, was surrendered and Lynne sought Rowitt’s meetings with newly-found goals. The petition has already to child welfare authorities in help to find her blood relatives. family, Lynne learned that amassed tens of thousands of 1950, months after she was Rowitt encouraged Lynne to some of her relatives had also signatures. born. New York City’s Free do a DNA test, which provided been trying to find her. Laurie Cardoza-Moore, Synagogue Child Adoption essential clues to learning president of Proclaiming Committee soon found a foster about her family. Using the Family on page 14A Justice to The Nations (PJTN) PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 26, 2019 Upcoming programs at the Holocaust Center during Yom HaShoah The Holocaust Memorial Narrated by Martin Landau, International Film Festival. memoration will take place Register for this event sion-with-the-three-wise- Resource & Education Cen- the film chronicles the story After the movie there will on Wednesday, May 1 at 6:30 at www.holocaustedu.org/ guys. ter’s Week of Remembrance of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi be a “talk back” with Joanie p.m. at the Congregation of events/all/yom-hashoah-4. Finally, instructor Dana begins on April 28 from 2 Germany in the 1930s and Schirm and Mitch Bloomer. Reform Judaism 928 Malone There will be an In- Kaplan will lead attendees p.m.-4 p.m. with the show- their lives in the Shanghai Register for this event at Drive, Orlando. Stand with terfaith Discussion with in Yoga for Remembrance on ing of the documentary film Ghetto. This film was awarded https://www.holocaustedu. the community to celebrate The Three Wise Guys on Sunday, May 5, 11 a.m., at The “Shanghai Ghetto,” produced the Audience Choice Award org/events/all/film-shanghai- the lives of local Survivors and Thursday, May 2 at 7 p.m. Roth Family JCC. Whether and directed by Dana Janklo- and the Human Rights Award ghetto/ say a prayer in remembrance at the Holocaust Center. you have done yoga before or wicz-Mann and Amir Mann. at the 2002 Santa Barbara The Yom Hashoah Com- of those they lost. This year’s Attendees will take part in not, join in this gentile, yoga program will feature Winter this interactive interfaith class to be followed by a guided Park High School students dialogue featuring Rabbi meditation. in a dramatic performance of Steven Engel, Imam Mu- Register for this event NO MORE GUTTER CLEANING, excerpts from Holly Mandelk- hammad Musri and Rev. at www.holocaustedu.org/ OR YOUR MONEY BACK – GUARANTEED ern’s “Beneath White Stars.” Brian Fulwider. events/all/yoga-for-remem- Other program highlights Register for this event at brance-3. include a candle lighting and https://www.holocaustedu. These events are free and responsive reading. org/event/interfaith-discus- open to the public. Community invited to Congregation Sinai America Sings Folk Concert Congregation Sinai will host an exciting America Sings Folk Concert with mu- sic from the 50s, 60s and 70s starting at 7 p.m. on Saturday % AND! % night, May 18, at 1200 West OFF ENTIRE® FINANCING* LEAFFILTER Broad Street, Groveland, FL 0 15 PURCHASE** 34736. This concert is open to PLUS AN ADDITIONAL the entire community. SENIOR OR MILITARY DISCOUNT! Sinai spiritual leaders Joe We offer Senior & Military discounts and Lynn Goldovitz will pro- ON TOP of the 15% off & 0% financing! vide musical entertainment for all ages. The Goldovitz  first met as teenagers singing CALL US TODAY and playing together in a Rock For A FREE Estimate! ‘n Roll band. Throughout all this time, music has been 1-877-486-2333 their life-long passion. The music that has influenced Promo Number: 285 them is varied. They enjoy Mon-Thurs: 8am-11pm, Fri-Sat: 8am-5pm performing American Folk Sinai spiritual leaders Lynn and Joe Goldovitz. 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Some of their career America Sings Folk Con- familiar. They also have a highlights include perfor- cert tickets are now on sale very complete and creative mances at the Governor’s for only $20 per person. There repertoire of special Israeli Mansion in Princeton, New will be free snacks and soft and Jewish folk music. Jersey and Ryles Jazz Club drinks, while wine will only Joe plays acoustic guitar in Boston. They perform be $2 per glass. For more and sings. Lynn is a strong locally at Gateway Center email info@congregation- vocalist, who plays electric for the Arts, the Deltona sinai.org. COS annual Holocaust Jewish Graveside Package: ceremony includes ‘The Pianist’ On Wednesday, May 1, the Roman Polanski’s “The held at Congregation Ohev • Service of Funeral Director and Staff Men’s Club of Congregation Pianist” is the biographical Shalom. is free and open to the Ohev Shalom will be hosting drama about Polish Jew- public. Light refreshments • Sacred Burial Shroud its annual Holocaust ceremo- ish musician Wladyslaw will be served. ny followed by the Academy Szpilman’s struggles to The congregation is located Award winning movie, “The survive the destruction of at 613 Concourse Parkway • Filing all Necessary Paperwork Pianist.” The yellow-candle the Warsaw ghetto during South, Maitland FL 32751. ceremony will be led by Holo- the Holocaust. For further details please call caust survivor Abraham Gold. The event, which will be 407-298-4650. • $200.00 to Chevra Kaddish Society donation for washing

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• Staff Supervison of Service at Graveside with an Israeli flavor The Israeli-American Mimouna is a three- This event will be held at • Transportation to Cemetery Council is hosting a tradi- century-old North African The Roth Family JCC, 851 tional Moroccan Mimou- Jewish celebration held the North Maitland Ave. na celebration with food, day after Passover ends, The cost is $40 per family; $4595.00 drinks, exhibits of Sephardic marking the return to $15 per adult; and $10 for customs, music and lots of eating chametz (leavened children (free for children 3 Chametz tomorrow night, foods), which are forbidden and under). April 27, at 8 p.m.—10:30 throughout the week of RSVP at https://iacorlando- p.m. Passover. mimouna.eventbrite.com. Y COS Pedalers invite cyclists on fun rides Call us to receive your free Final Wishes Organizer! Like to ride a two-wheeler? through Seminole County COS Pedalers is sponsored Please join the Congregation to just south of SR 46 near and supported by the COS Ohev Shalom Pedalers for Sanford. Men, women and Men’s Club. 407-695-CARE (2273) their next Sunday bike ride teens can all participate in COS Pedalers Sunday bike on the popular Seminole this social, non-competitive ride schedule: www. DeGusipeFuneralHome.com Wekiva trail, Sunday May bike ride. The ride start and May 5—8:30 a.m. depart time 5, starting at 8:30 a.m. The ends at the same location. June 2—8 a.m. depart time Maitland Sanford West Orange Pedalers will meet at the San Pedalers who want a shorter July 7- 8 a.m. depart time 9001 N. Orlando Avenue 905 Laurel Avenue 1400 Matthew Paris Blvd Sebastian Trailhead off of SR ride, can stop at Panera, 7 Aug. 4—8 a.m. depart time Maitland, FL 32751 Sanford, FL 32771 Ocoee, FL 34761 436 in Altamonte Springs miles from the ride start Sept. 1- 8 a.m. depart time and head north for 13 miles point for rest and refueling. Oct. 1- 8:30 a.m. depart time HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 26, 2019 PAGE 3A ZOA calls for investigation of UNC-Duke conference Zionist Organization of hosted the conference called condemn the anti-Semitism America has called on the “Conflict over Gaza: People, and bias at the conference. Presents U.S. Department of Educa- Politics and Possibilities.” In Neither UNC nor Duke con- tion to investigate whether a blog post, North Carolina demned the anti-Semitic per- SAVVY SENIORS ISSUE federal funds were misused Hillel wrote that the “con- former by name and they did to organize a one-sided “aca- ference featured speakers not condemn the conference demic” conference, hosted who demonized Israel” and organizers for inviting and al- May 31, 2019 by the University of North failed to provide balanced lowing this shameful conduct. Carolina and co-sponsored by perspectives. “Organizers It cannot be a coincidence that Duke University, which was missed the opportunity to just days after the conference, Central Florida's Fastest Growing hostile to Israel and blatantly convene a rich, educational swastikas were found drawn anti-Semitic. ZOA National forum that the UNC and Duke on UNC campus, in addition Segment of the Jewish Community President Morton A. Klein communities deserve.” to anti-Semitic posters that and Susan B. Tuchman, Esq., In addition to its anti- were found in UNC’s Davis director of ZOA’s Center for Israel bias, the UNC-Duke Library. UNC and Duke Law and Justice, sent a letter conference included an of- should face consequences to Mr. Kenneth L. Marcus, fensive and horrifying anti- for legitimizing and normal- Assistant Secretary for Civil Semitic performance by a izing a hateful, anti-Israel and Rights at the U.S. Department rapper named Tamer Nafar, anti-Semitic conference, and of Education, highlighting which came to light when using taxpayer funds to do it. the reported use of $5,000 a filmmaker named Ami The Department of Education A new supplement for the new millennium, Savvy Seniors will provide for the conference from a Horowitz posted a video of the should investigate this inci- four-year grant by the U.S. performance. This video also dent and deny both universi- informative and thought provoking articles of interest to our growing Department of Education to exposed other anti-Semitic ties future federal funding senior population. UNC and Duke’s Consortium interactions Horowitz expe- until they demonstrate that Seniors need and use a variety of products and services. Make sure for Middle East Studies. rienced at the conference. their Middle East programs your business is included on our reader's shopping list. Despite concerns of anti- The universities’ initial re- and events are truly educa- Israel bias being raised be- sponse to Horowitz’s video tional and not just a mask fore the event took place, was shamefully inadequate, for hateful, anti-Semitic and on March 22-24, 2019, UNC failing to acknowledge and anti-Israel propaganda. 2 Jewish billionaires pledge $122 million for Notre Dame By Cnaan Liphshiz Advertising Deadline: (JTA)—Two Jewish bil- lionaires have pledged a total May 22, 2019 of $122 million toward the restoration of Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral, which was FOR MORE INFORMATION, ravaged in a fire. Lily Safra, a Brazilian phi- CALL: 407-834-8787 lanthropist, said she would give $22 million to fund the restoration efforts of the iconic church, which was badly damaged Monday, MEDICAL ALERT Correio 24 Horas reported. And Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, the French owner of L’Oreal, pledged another $100 Have you experienced million, according to CBS. The donations account for by the Nazi government in “Whether Catholic or about 17 percent of the $700 Germany. Bettencourt Meyers not, Notre Dame Cathedral million collected so far for the married Jean-Pierre Meyers, a is an integral part of our restoration. French Jewish businessman shared legacy and soul. Bettencourt Meyers an- descended from a family It represents centuries Kidney or nounced the donation on of rabbis, and converted to of French and European Twitter following French Judaism. faith, culture, history President Emmanuel Ma- Bettencourt Meyers has led and imagination,” AJC cron’s call on philanthropists and donated to interfaith ini- CEO David Harris said in to help collect funds for the tiatives connecting Christians a statement. Heart Issues operation. and Jews. “We share the pain of the Her father, Andre Bet- Meanwhile, the American French people and Catholics tencourt, wrote numerous Jewish Committee announced worldwide in watching this from side effects such as Ketoacidosis articles for two pro-Nazi pub- Wednesday that it will donate landmark house of worship lications during World War funds to help repair Notre burn,” he added. AJC main- caused by the Type 2 Diabetes II, one of which was financed Dame. tains an office in Paris. medication Invokana? Pelosi: ‘No taint’ of anti-Semitism You may be entitled in the Democratic Party to Compensation. (JNS)—House Speaker to do that.” https://t.co/ somebody of that doesn’t Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on MBNC5XRdB0 pic.twitter. mean... that we take that Tuesday that the Democratic com/Y7vhKkf7AK bait.” SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE Party has “no taint” of anti- — CNN (@CNN) April 16, On Tuesday, Trump ex- Semitism amid such remarks 2019 pressed no regrets about KETOACIDOSIS, KIDNEY FAILURE, HEART coming from congressional Instead, Pelosi blasted posting the video. members, especially Rep. President Donald Trump for “No, not at all. Look, she’s ATTACK, STROKE, COMA OR DEATH. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), whom tweeting a video, criticiz- been very disrespectful to Pelosi said is not an anti- ing Omar for labeling at the this country, and she’s been Semite. Council on American-Islamic very disrespectful to Israel,” “I don’t think that the Relations’s Greater Los Ange- Trump told KSTP-TV in Min- For Immediate Assistance CALL: congresswoman is anti-Se- les branch last month the 9/11 neapolis. “She is somebody mitic,” Pelosi told CNN. attacks as “some people did who doesn’t really under- House Speaker Nancy Pe- something.” stand life, real life, what it’s 321-274-1822 losi says she doesn’t think Rep. The speaker said the presi- all about.” Ilhan Omar is anti-Semitic: “I dent used the video “as a “It’s unfortunate, she’s wouldn’t even put those in the political tool.” got a way about her that is same category.” In terms of Jew hatred in very, very bad, I think for our She criticizes President her party, Pelosi said, “We country,” he added. “I think Legal help is available NOW! Trump for his tweet, saying have no taint of that in the she is extremely unpatriotic he used video of 9/11 “as a Democratic Party, and just and extremely disrespectful political tool. He was wrong because they want to accuse to our country.” PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 26, 2019 The false ‘nakba’ narrative By Raphael G. Bouchnik-Chen the Syrian historian Constantin Zureiq. In (as yet nonexistent) Arab-Israeli conflict, but Day” has become an integral component of his 1948 pamphlet “The Meaning of the rather with the post-World War I creation of the Palestinian national narrative and the The term nakba, originally coined to Disaster,” Zureiq attributed the Palestinian- the modern Middle East. foremost event commemorating their 1948 describe the magnitude of the self-inflicted Arab flight to the stillborn pan-Arab assault Similarly, in his 1956 book “Facts on the “catastrophe.” Palestinian and Arab defeat in the 1948 war, on the nascent Jewish state rather than to a Question of Palestine,” Hajj Amin Husseini, Israeli sensitivity vis-à-vis the term na- has become in recent decades a synonym for premeditated Zionist design to disinherit the the leader of the Palestinian Arabs from kba grew after it was reported that on May 15, Palestinian victimhood, with failed aggressors Palestinian Arabs: the early 1920s to 1948, used the term “al- 2007, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon transformed into hapless victims and vice Zureiq subscribed to this critical view for Karitha” to describe the Palestinian Arab col- telephoned P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas to versa. Israel should do its utmost to uproot decades. In a later book, “The Meaning of the lapse and dispersal. According to Palestinian express empathy with the Palestinian people this false narrative by exposing its patently Catastrophe Anew,” published after the June academic Anaheed Al-Hardan of the American in honor of Nakba Day. The deputy head of false historical basis. 1967 war, he defined that latest defeat as University of Beirut, this reflected Husseini’s Israel’s U.N. mission complained that the Nowadays, the failed Palestinian Arab at- anakba rather than a naksa (or “setback”), as desire to avoid the term nakba, which was word nakba was a tool of Arab propaganda used tempt to destroy the State of Israel at birth, it came to be known in Arab discourse, since, widely associated at the time with a self- to undermine the legitimacy of the establish- and the attendant flight of some 600,000 just as in 1948, it was a self-inflicted disaster inflicted Palestinian Arab disaster—either ment of the State of Israel and should not be Palestinian Arabs, has come to be known in- emanating from the Arab world’s failure to through land sales to Zionists, failure to put part of the U.N.’s lexicon. ternationally as the nakba, the “catastrophe,” confront Zionism. up a fight, or the issuing of instructions to While Israeli diplomats were busy dissuad- with its accompanying implication of hapless At that time, the term nakba was glar- the people to leave. ing their counterparts from falling for the victimhood. ingly absent from Arab and/or Palestinian Nor did the term resurface for decades P.A.’s false narrative, in July 2007 the Knesset This, ironically, is the opposite of the discourse. Its first mention—in George following the 1948 war—not even in the debated a decision by then Education Minister original meaning of the term, which was Antonius’s influential 1938 book “The Arab PLO’s hallowed founding document, the Yuli Tamir to include the nakba as a topic on the first applied to the Arab-Israeli conflict by Awakening”—had nothing to do with the Palestinian Covenant. It was only in the late annual syllabus for the Arab minority in Israel. 1980s that it began to be widely perceived The legitimization of the now common as an Israeli-inflicted injustice. Ironically, it use of the term nakba in the Israeli official was a group of politically engaged, self-styled and public discourse, whether positively or Rabbis not granted authority Israeli “new historians” who provided the negatively oriented, provides a service to the Palestinian national movement with perhaps Palestinian cause. If considered to reflect an its best propaganda tool by turning the saga integral segment of Israeli history, the term to speak in the political arena of Israel’s birth upside down, with aggressors contradicts Israel’s longstanding, rightful turned into hapless victims and vice versa, position rejecting responsibility for the cre- By Carol Greenwald and What’s downright laughable is that these on the basis of massive misrepresentation of ation of the refugee problem. In the process, Dori Parker unelected American rabbis are now willing archival evidence. it legitimizes the false Palestinian victimhood to prostrate themselves before Trump, whom While earlier generations of Palestinian narrative that defines the nakba as the “great- (JNS)—The Conservative and Reform they daily defame, calling on him to impose academics and intellectuals had refrained from est sin of the 20th century.” rabbinical leadership, along with affiliated their preferences on an electorate which has exploring the origins of the 1948 defeat, PLO The nakba is not a fact. It is a manipula- lay groups and tepid pro-Israel groups, have rejected it as an existential threat. These chairman Yasser Arafat, who was brought to tive and catchy term designed to service the revealed their elitist contempt for democracy arrogant, insulated rabbis have not learned Gaza and the West Bank as part of the 1993 Palestinian propaganda campaign against and disdain for Zionism by appealing to U.S. from thousands of rockets fired from Gaza Oslo Accords and allowed to establish his Pal- Israel. Israel should refrain from legitimizing President Donald Trump to force Israeli Prime or the tens of thousands of missiles on the estinian Authority in parts of those territories, the term, as it imposes a false sense of guilt Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to break his Lebanon border or the decades of stabbing, grasped the immense potential of reincar- or culpability for the creation of the refugee electoral pledges. They did this in a letter sent shooting, ramming attacks on Jews in Judea nating the nakba as a symbol of Palestinian problem onto the state. Nor should the word to a Jewish publication on Friday, Apr. 12, in and Samaria. But Israelis have. victimhood rather than a self-inflicted disaster. be used to refer to the mass deportation of which they called on Trump to stop Netanyahu These letter-writing hypocrites hide In 1998, he proclaimed May 15 a national day from extending sovereignty over Jewish com- behind protestations of love for Israel and of remembrance. In subsequent years, “Nakba Nakba on page 15A munities in Judea and Samaria. then condition that love on things being Why not ask Trump for what they really done their way. They threaten that the want: to overthrow the Israeli government and American Jewish community will not sup- install a secular leftist government. Because port Israel if it does not do what they want. A fading friendship? that is what they want: they don’t care about How dare they! democracy or the rule of law if Israelis dare to We witness with sorrow the power of Rep. By Yisrael Medad tell Jews to support this or that party. It does not want what they think Israelis should want. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) and her cohort in not tell you to support civil rights, homosexual The rabbis, ironically enough, are trying to the cowering of the four Jewish Democratic (JNS)—Dear (Former?) Friends, issues, health concerns, matters of the envi- declare U.S. sovereignty over Israel. They are representatives who cravenly echoed the rab- To: The ADL, Ameinu, ARZA, Central ronment or to oppose any of them. It does acting as if Israel is a vassal state of the U.S. bis’ calumny. Not one had the courage to Conference of American Rabbis, Israel Policy engage on internal Jewish activities, such as These American rabbis and those allied with demand that Rep. Omar be removed from the Forum, MERCAZ USA, National Council of Soviet Jewry in the past. But that is an issue their thinking refuse to pay any attention to House Foreign Affairs Committee, despite her Jewish Women, Rabbinical Assembly, Union of community. Your actions simply position what the Israelis have found out while waiting outrages against American Jews and against for Reform Judaism and United Synagogue of you as anti-democratic. Oh, and it distances patiently for decades while the Palestinian Ar- Israel. Now they dare to tell Netanyahu to Conservative Judaism you from the White House. abs keep repaying their every peace effort with ignore the will of his people and kowtow Your letter to U.S. President Donald Trump The essence of your actions is not all the ever-increasing terrorism: the Arab leadership to them, as they kowtow to their freshman expressing your belief that peace must be above. You have chosen to prefer a political will not agree to “live side by side in peace and colleague. Reps. Engel, Lowey, Deutch and “based on the principle of a negotiated two- persuasion over a religious belief system. security” with the Jewish state. Schneider—have you no shame? state solution,” that it “is the only formulation Whereas Eretz Yisrael is “equal to all other Most Israelis are no longer prepared to live Perhaps they all—the representatives, to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that mitzvot,” you presume that a secular, liberal, in limbo. They have already rejected what these the rabbis and their cheerleaders—fear that will ensure Israel’s future as Jewish, democratic humanist-based outlook—now “improved” American rabbis demand they accept. On Apr. they may soon be turned away by what the and secure,” and that he “affirm long-standing with radical progressivism and hardened with 9, the Israeli electorate gave a loud, resounding Democratic Party is becoming. Appeasement, bipartisan consensus that the two-state solu- an anti-Trump view—overrides all that. “no” to parties whose vision for Israel these however, is unlikely to win them a delay of tion is the essential path to an Israel existing You have distilled Judaism, altered it, Americans endorse, giving them the lowest excommunication. And since the real religion alongside a future state of Palestine in peace framed it as a reflection of your own politics, election support ever. Not surprisingly, these of their declining congregations is whatever and security and that you declare that the rather than having your politics influenced American interlopers are not listening to what this year’s Democratic Party platform is, they United States will not support any Israeli by Judaism. Israelis want at all. now attempt to foist this outrageous letter off proposals to annex the West Bank, in whole or You have been unable to pass down to a Perhaps what is most galling is that the rab- as a “Jewish” position. in part” is really presumptuous, arrant vanity second-generation traditional Jewish values bis’ outrageous Apr. 12 letter oversteps their Let us be clear: these rabbis have no author- and, more to the point, besides interfering in that stride both religion and common morality authority to speak for even American Jews ity to speak for American Jews in the political an internal Israeli debate, a strategic attempt and ethics. You have decided to play up to a within their respective denominations. They arena. They have disgraced themselves by to undercut Israel’s existence, security of its contemporary liberalism, which has little to are not interpreting Jewish law, their alleged doing so. citizens and the essence of Zionism. do with what our grandparents and parents area of expertise, but are acting as Democratic We gratefully recognized President Trump’s I could see if you had written that you, as engaged in. You have become ensnared in Party partisans, with the Democratic Party’s commitment to the Jewish state and the in- leaders of these organizations, with all your foreign gods and allowed your children to stray. allegiance to the shibboleth that two states divisible linkage between a secure Israel and membership, had added something like “and You have become extreme. Fanatic. Ir- for two peoples will bring peace. a secure United States during the 2015-2016 since we all intend to live there some day, we rational. After Netanyahu pledged to extend Israeli campaign and he has honored that commit- want this policy for our own good.” That, at least Your Judaism is becoming fake, I feel, when sovereignty to all Israelis living in the disputed ment so far during his presidency. We are would be an expression of genuine concern for I read this: “Passover’s real message is about areas that are the heartland of biblical Israel, hopeful he won’t now be swayed by these leftist yourselves. But to continue to sit there and celebrating interfaith families.” Really? The the Israeli public applauded. Israelis gave Democrats in clerical clothing. subvert Israel’s independence, its democrati- Jews that locked themselves up in their houses Netanyahu the highest proportion of the vote Carol Greenwald and Dori Parker are chair- cally elected government, promote your own in Egypt so as to avoid being together with the he has ever received in any election. men of JewsChooseTrump.org. Diasporic supremacy and endanger Israel—not Egyptians now want their Passover holiday to speak about repeating a “solution” mantra to promote intermarriage? That’s ridiculous. THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. that is wrong—is really a classic chutzpah. As long as you kept religious (mis)interpreta- It’s one thing to get involved in issues of tions to yourselves, that was one thing. Even ✡ ✡ ✡ CENTRAL FLORIDA’S INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICE ✡ ✡ ✡ culture and religion, and to demand egali- demanding room at the Kotel, while rejecting ISSN 0199-0721 Winner of 46 Press Awards Editor/Publisher tarianism at the Western Wall Plaza although, all traditional customs, was within the ring. Jeffrey Gaeser for some reason, Jewish egalitarianism at the But in demanding a two-state solution, which

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The Nordic model is my application to a reason- I decided to major in Rus- early 1980s, I moved to Africa socialism.” If so, his regime an expanded welfare state (JNS)—Socialism is cool ably prestigious college, I sian and, a couple of years as a correspondent for The has a way to go. which provides a high level again, thanks not least to named Norman Thomas, later, won a place on the only New York Times. China’s “socialist market of security for its citizens, but septuagenarian Sen. Bernie six-time presidential candi- undergraduate exchange pro- Advised by Western aca- economy” creates wealth, it is also a successful market Sanders and millennial Rep. date of the Socialist Party of gram between the U.S. and the demics and “development though without liberty and economy with much freedom Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez America, as someone I ad- USSR. I soon comprehended experts” at the U.N., virtually basic human rights. The to pursue your dreams and live (aka AOC). Socialism has mired. Had I chosen William what Sanders never has: Com- every African government in state’s repression of dissidents your life as you wish.” been cool before, of course, F. Buckley instead, I suspect munism is toxic to freedom the postcolonial era chose and minorities—e.g., Ui- Back to me: Disenchanted notably during the Great I’d have wound up at a lesser and prosperity. “the socialist path to devel- ghurs, Tibetans, Falun Gong with both communism and Depression, and what became institution. Yes, theater tickets were opment.” The problem with and Christians—is severe. But socialism, I began reading known as the ’60s, the era The summer preceding cheap but, like other luxuries that, as the Ghanaian-born at least there’s income equal- up on capitalism. I came of Vietnam, the civil rights my freshman year—exactly and even many necessities, scholar George Ayittey noted ity, right? No, according to the to understand that, unlike movement, hippies and the 50 years ago, I’m afraid—I such goods were obtainable in a presentation at the Heri- International Monetary Fund, socialism, capitalism wasn’t (old) New Left. went to the Soviet Union on a only po blatu—through po- tage Foundation last week, China is “one of the world’s invented. It arose spontane- As a reporter for my high study program. Like Sanders, litical power, wielded exclu- is that “nowhere in Africa most unequal countries.” ously. school newspaper in the I was impressed by Moscow’s sively by the nomenklatura, was the socialist experiment What about Scandinavia? Initially, a “capitalist” later period, I interviewed subways (he called them “ab- the communist elite. successful.” Four years ago, responding was someone in possession Earl Browder, who had been solutely beautiful, including Soviet communism, also In Latin America, too, so- to Sanders’ claims, Danish of funds or property—not general secretary of the many works of art, chande- called “scientific socialism,” cialism has led to dismal out- Prime Minister Lars Løkke someone who believed in a Communist Party USA dur- liers that were beautiful”) and was a failure, as were the vari- comes. Venezuela is the only Rasmussen told students at specific system of economic ing the 1930s. He coined the by the “palaces of culture” ous forms of “utopian social- the most egregious example. Harvard’s Kennedy School: organization. Adam Smith, slogan: “Communism is 20th and the theaters where, he ism” that preceded it. Perhaps In a speech last month, “Denmark is far from a often called “the father of century Americanism.” enthused, “the highest price you’re thinking that there Kim Jong Un said it was socialist planned economy. I read a fair amount about of a ticket that you could get are other socialist models. I North Korea’s “historic task” Denmark is a market econ- Errors on page 15A Notre-Dame will be rebuilt—but most European Jewish sites never will be By Ruth Ellen Gruber that most of the 800-year-old religious heritage in Europe. not due to war or, as far as “Jewish heritage in France prayer houses and Jewish building and its treasures ap- I’ve been working to docu- we know at this point, attack. is also the heritage of all the cemeteries were destroyed BUDAPEST (JTA)—Archi- parently will be saved. ment and preserve crumbling People need symbols, and French people, just as the ca- during World War II, and tecture and built heritage can But they have also been Jewish heritage sites for three the world needs culture, thedrals of France also belong following the war, hundreds be powerful symbols. full of posts questioning decades, and it’s often been beauty and art. Notre-Dame to France’s Jews,” she said. more were either destroyed, Notre-Dame de Paris is why so much emotion—and an uphill battle. was and is a symbol of all such Her statement was a note- left derelict or converted for one of the most famous and money—is (or will be) spent Unlike the damage in- things—and an important worthy expression of a new other uses that totally ob- familiar buildings in the over the fate of one building, curred by the vast majority of symbol of continuity and way of thinking that has scured their original identity. world, visited by an astonish- however old or iconic, while vulnerable heritage sites, the connection. still not fully permeated In the decades that I’ve ing 30,000 people a day, or myriad other important heri- Notre-Dame fire happened The global response shows society—namely that Jew- been involved in the Jewish 13 million people a year. It tage sites are under threat dramatically, in real time, how built heritage can tran- ish built heritage is part and heritage field, many once- is embedded in global col- worldwide and millions of as thousands watched by the scend the specific and be- parcel of European heritage, ruined synagogues have been lective consciousness and people are homeless or go Seine and millions followed come a potent symbol for not distinct from it. restored, and some have been immortalized around the hungry. online or on TV. Millions of society at large. During the Holocaust, rededicated with high-level world in a zillion holiday My most recent visit to those who watched the flames Back in 1999, the then- Jewish heritage sites were ceremonies: in Berlin, Bu- snaps, videos, works of fine Notre-Dame, last October, had a direct, tangible connec- French culture minister, Cath- more than symbols—they dapest and Krakow, as well art and memories. was for the opening event tion with the building, even erine Trautmann, sought to were surrogates: In addi- as smaller towns and cities. My Facebook and Twitter of an international confer- if just as a tourist who visited make this point in an address tion to the mass murder of Some are used again (or still) feeds this week have been ence about how to save the once with a group. What’s to an international conference Jews, the Nazis deliberately as places of worship. Others full of posts grieving over the thousands of abandoned more, the fire was sudden, on Jewish heritage in Europe targeted the physical places now play prominent roles as great cathedral’s fiery fate or endangered churches, unexpected and—unlike so held in Paris and sponsored by that Jews held dear. Untold and heaving sighs of relief synagogues and other sites of many other cases—it was the French government. hundreds of synagogues, Sites on page 15A Failing at the ballot box, Jewish left lashes out By Stephen M. Flatow Democrats in Congress— with Syrians on the mountain and double standards. The left—Labor and Meretz—won several like-minded groups, Eliot Engel, Nita Lowey, Ted and we in the valley, with the purpose of the three warning a grand total of 10 seats be- acting independently as they (JNS)—In the space of 48 Deutch and Brad Schneider— Jordanian army in sight of the shots that were fired at Israel tween them. That’s 10 out of all reached into their usual hours last week, four Jew- issued a statement warning sea, with the Egyptians who last week was to intimidate 120. That’s who J Street and bag of PR gimmicks at the ish Democrats in Congress Netanyahu not to take any hold our throat in their hands Israel’s leaders and undermine Americans for Peace Now are same time. But one thing is denounced Israel’s prime “unilateral steps” that might in Gaza. This is a situation support in America for Israel’s aligned with—8 percent of the certain: It’s not a coincidence minister, two more Demo- interfere with creating a Pal- which will never be repeated democratically elected leaders. Israeli public. that they all lashed out, within crats wrote an op-ed in The estinian state. Which means, in history.” And here we get to the heart The only thing remaining hours of each other, making Washington Post denouncing of course, a Palestinian state After the Gang of Four had of the matter. Election day for the Jewish left is to mobi- nearly identical arguments. Israel’s prime minister, and along the 1967 armistice their say, the Gang of Ten in Israel has become a day lize the dwindling faithful— That’s what they’re doing 10 Jewish liberal groups is- lines—reducing Israel to just weighed in. The day after of mourning for J Street and some liberal Jewish organi- because, having yet again sued a statement denouncing nine miles wide. the four congress members other Jewish critics of Israel. zations, a few Democrats in failed in the voting booths, Israel’s prime minister. What a To sugar-coat their bitter issued their statement, 10 Every four years, they delude Congress—and try to create it’s all they have left. remarkable coincidence! statement just a bit, the four liberal Jewish organizations themselves into thinking some noise and pressure with Stephen M. Flatow, an The allegedly spontaneous acknowledged that, as they wrote a letter demanding the that the Israeli left will finally a flurry of op-eds and press attorney in New Jersey, is three-pronged media assault put it: “To paraphrase Abba same thing. triumph, and every four years releases. the father of Alisa Flatow, began with Representatives Eban, the Palestinians never Their declaration took the they watch in horror as the I’m not a believer in con- who was murdered in an Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) miss an opportunity to miss form of a letter to U.S. Presi- Israeli left goes down in defeat. spiracy theories. I don’t know Iranian-sponsored Palestin- and Gerald E. Connolly (D- an opportunity.” Neverthe- dent Donald Trump, urging It’s like Charlie Brown think- if one particular person or one ian terrorist attack in 1995. Va.), on the op-ed page of less, the congress members him to oppose “annexation by ing that this time, Lucy won’t specific group coordinated His book, “A Father’s Story: The Washington Post on April demanded that Israel search Israel of any territory in the pull the football away. last week’s three verbal as- My Fight for Justice Against 10, absurdly accusing Israeli high and low for an opportu- West Bank.” They were refer- This year’s election outcome saults on Israel’s leaders. Iranian Terror,” has just been Prime Minister Netanyahu of nity to create “Palestine” in ring to Netanyahu’s recent was the worst yet. The Israeli Maybe it was the work of published. “sanctioning violence against Judea and Samaria. remark that he might propose Palestinians in the occupied It takes a certain chutzpah extending Israeli law to Jewish territories.” The phrase “sanc- to urge a return to the pre- communities in Judea and tioning violence” linked to an 1967 borders and, in the very Samaria. article in The New York Times same paragraph, throw in a Note, by the way, that way that presumably proved that line from Abba Eban. It was back in 1995, the Palestinian charge. Eban, after all, who said to Authority extended its laws to One little problem: The Der Spiegel on Nov. 5, 1969: the cities in which 98 percent Times’ article didn’t contain “We have openly said that the of the Palestinian Arabs live. a single word about Netan- map will never again be the So why the double standard? yahu sanctioning violence same as on June 4, 1967. For Why can’t Israeli law be imple- against Palestinians. Who- us, this is a matter of security mented in the Jewish towns? ever provided Van Hollen and and of principles. The June Why do the Jews still have to be Connolly with the “facts” for map is for us equivalent to governed by the arbitrary and their article profoundly misled insecurity and danger. I do cumbersome system of the old them and sullied their names not exaggerate when I say Israeli military administra- in the process. Too bad the that it was for us something tion, while the Palestinian congressmen didn’t check of a memory of Auschwitz. Arabs get to live under their the facts before signing their We shudder when we think of own laws? names to such an outrageous what would have awaited us But let’s not confuse things allegation. in the circumstances of June by mentioning uncomfort- The next day, four other 1967 if we had been defeated; able facts. 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They also include the sees today, the word is still and Jews certainly doesn’t Jewish scholars would like rabbis of the Talmud and the anti-Semitic because it refers help with modern stereotypes him to stop doing that. creators of Rabbinic Judaism, to Jews, said Rabbi Danya around Jews and money and Buttigieg, the 37-year-old the ideological ancestor of Ruttenberg, an author who control and secret power.” mayor of South Bend, Indi- mainstream Jewish practice has criticized Buttigieg in Chris Meagher, Buttigieg’s ana, running a dark horse today. the past for using the term. national press secretary, campaign for the Democratic But in Christian discourse, She compared it to a kid on said in a statement to the presidential nomination, has the Pharisees have taken on a playground using the word Jewish Telegraphic Agency advanced the idea of liberal the role of “hypocrites, fools “gay” as an insult. Even that “Pharisee” is a common candidates using religious and a brood of vipers, full of though the kid may not be expression for hypocritical language to talk about their extortion, greed, and iniq- referring to sexual orienta- leaders. values. uity,” wrote Amy-Jill Levine, tion, Ruttenberg said, using “The Mayor expressed his The flip side of that, But- a professor at the Vanderbilt the word in a negative light concern about the hypocrisy tigieg says, is that Republican University Divinity School, still perpetuates homophobia. on the part of evangelical Alex Wong/Getty Images leaders don’t practice the reli- in an article in Sojourners “When you use that as an leaders,” Meagher said in Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., speaks at a news gious values they preach. He magazine. That’s because the insult, you’re saying that Jews the statement. “He invoked conference in Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2019. takes particular aim at Pence, New Testament Gospels say are bad,” she said. “It perpe- this Biblical reference, since who often speaks of his own Pharisee leaders criticized trates anti-Semitism: Jew as it is commonly used to show That’s similar to what a lot Other prominent liberal conservative Christian values Jesus, and then lambaste bad guy, as Christ killer, is skepticism of hypocritical of liberal rabbis have been Democrats, such as the while serving under President them for hypocrisy. one of the ways people have establishment leaders. That saying for a while. A range presidential candidates Cory Donald Trump. Buttigieg has “The teachers of the law justified murder and pogroms was the way he intended it.” of major Jewish organiza- Booker and Elizabeth War- criticized Trump for paying and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ and the Inquisition and the Buttigieg has criticized tions tend to take liberal ren, have talked about their off an adult film actress with seat,” reads Matthew, chapter Holocaust for centuries.” Pence in the context of his positions on domestic issues, Christian faith on the cam- whom he allegedly had an 23. “So you must be careful Over the past two mil- calls to build a religious left- and the Reform movement, paign trail. affair. to do everything they tell you. lennia, people have also wing movement to counter American Judaism’s largest Rabbi Jill Jacobs, the ex- Buttigieg believes that But do not do what they do, described the Pharisees as the religious right. He says denomination, is vocally left ecutive director of T’ruah, a reeks of hypocrisy, so he for they do not practice what money and power hungry, that his religious values—of wing on a broad spectrum liberal rabbinic human rights uses an age-old Christian they preach.” said Sara Ronis, an assistant caring for the poor and help- of issues. group with 2,000 member metaphor for hypocrites: the Buttigieg repeated that professor of theology at St. ing the stranger—track with Orthodox groups have rabbis, said Buttigieg need Pharisees. idea in an appearance last Mary’s University in San liberal policy. tended more to the right, and only look to the Jewish com- “There’s an awful lot about month on ABC’s “The View,” Antonio. Those traits were “I do think there are the earlier this year two major munity for an example of a Pharisees in there,” Buttigieg again right after talking about appended to the Pharisees stirrings out there in our Orthodox groups spoke out religious left. told The Washington Post this Pence. over time, she said, in part count right now of a religious against a New York law that “There’s no need to bring week, referring to the New “The Bible is full of—it because they are common left that understands that liberalized abortion policy. back the religious left because Testament while discussing talks about this,” he said. anti-Semitic tropes. living your faith might also But the major American the religious left is out there Pence. “And when you see “It talks about hypocrites. It Ronis added that many have to do with paying more Jewish denominations have and it’s strong,” she said. someone, especially some- talks about Pharisees.” modern depictions of Phari- attention to those most in found consensus on some “It’s crucial that those of us body who has such a dogmatic Pence, the former governor sees show them in striped need and not celebrating issues, like Donald Trump’s who are doing their human take on faith that they bring of Indiana, responded to But- shawls—what many Jews those who already have the 2017 travel ban, which all op- rights work out of a religious it into public life, being will- tigieg’s criticism in an inter- would recognize as the tallit, most wealth and the most posed, and last year’s family place are speaking about it in ing to attach themselves to view Wednesday with CNBC. or Jewish prayer shawl. power,” he said on “The View.” separation policy. religious terms.” this administration for the “He said some things that “So many textbooks trace purposes of gaining power, it are critical of my Christian Rabbinic Judaism to the Phar- is alarmingly resonant with faith and about me person- isees,” she said. “Using that

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PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 26, 2019 Palestinians ‘definitely’ going to reject Trump’s Mideast peace plan By Ariel Ben Solomon Erekat, extremely generous Semitism in the world,’ and formula since the signing of starts treating the P.A. like ing, according to Marcus, by offering P.A. leader Mah- PMW was not at all surprised the Oslo Accords.” a terror-supporting entity who notes that these projects (JNS)—The Mideast moud Abbas 100 percent of by this finding. The anti- P.A. will change only if it’s and isolates them politically. don’t get the publicity they peace plan soon to be pre- the land area he demanded, Semitism taught through ‘forced to change’ Once the P.A. stops being deserve. sented by the U.S. adminis- the division of Jerusalem and official P.A. structures Marcus spends much of his artificially propped up by the Marcus has his own for- tration is likely not going to the acceptance into Israel promote the worst hatred time traveling and speaking international community, mula for peace: “Peace will get very far upon its initial of 150,000 “refugees,” yet imaginable, including the to world parliaments and the Palestinian people may be built through people- presentation, but it could Abbas rejected it. message that the Jews are government officials in order “eventually rise up against to-people contacts and not provide Israeli Prime Min- The Trump plan is bound the fundamental evil force to educate them about what their corrupt leadership and by politicians working over ister Benjamin Netanyahu to offer the Palestinians in the world and therefore is really going on inside replace them with better texts of peace agreements. and U.S. President Donald much less, so rejection is need to be eliminated for Palestinian society under di- leaders.” In 1996, following 30 years Trump with an opportunity certain. the benefit of all humanity,” rection of the its leaders. He Not only the Israeli gov- of Israeli administration— to alter the dynamics of the PMW monitors and re- said Marcus. recently visited parliaments ernment, but many govern- and daily contact between conflict. ports on the activities and For example, a P.A. preach- in the Netherlands, Sweden, ments and legislators around Israelis and the Arab popu- Itamar Marcus, founder statements of the Palestinian er on official P.A. TV said in Norway and Canada. “They the world, including Trump’s lation—the most important and director of Palestinian leadership daily. It continues December that Jews pass on have heard of Palestinian advisers, receive regular up- Palestinian pollster found Media Watch, told JNS in to warn about the P.A.’s evil in their genes: “Human- incitement, but until they dates from PMW, and some that Palestinians thought an exclusive interview that ongoing hate and terror ity will never be able to live actually meet with me, they of them tweet PMW findings that Israel was the best in the Palestinian Author- incitement, especially in with them … count them don’t realize the full extent to their followers. the world in democracy and ity “will definitely reject” the education of Palestinian and kill them one by one.” and danger of P.A. indoctri- ‘Peace will be built through human rights, compared the upcoming U.S. backed youth, and the P.A.’s contin- Marcus sees the conflict nation to hate and terror.” people-to-people contacts’ to the U.S., France and the peace plan, and that past ued denial of Israel’s right to as continuing until the “I show them that the Asked if Netanyahu and P.A. itself.” Palestinian behavior does exist and anticipation of its Palestinians change their fundamental P.A. ideol- Trump are likely aware of the Marcus added “that was not lend support to any destruction. culture of hate. “Until that ogy regarding Israel is not probable Palestinian rejection because from 1967 to 1994, chance of compromise. “The root of the conflict happens, talk of land for that different from Hamas, of the upcoming proposal and borders were open, and there The plan offered by former is not merely territorial. A peace is a recipe for more including denying Israel’s are planning to move forward was no Palestinian Authority Israeli Prime Minister Ehud poll by ADL in 2014 found tragedy. Israel has paid with right to exist, rewarding ter- with Netanyahu’s campaign to poison the minds of the Olmert was, according to that Palestinians ‘showed many deaths every time we rorists and naming schools promise of extending sov- population.” PLO chief negotiator Saeb the highest levels of anti- followed the ‘land for peace’ and sporting events after ereignty to the West Bank, “A peace plan that has a murderers. However, the P.A. Marcus replied that if this chance to work today must leaders’ policy of duplicity occurred, he predicts that increase cooperation and has been very successful, and Palestinian opposition would contact between Palestin- much of the international not be that explosive, despite ians and Israelis of all ages, community thinks they are likely attempts to incite vio- and change all the funda- Call for dental coverage today to help peace-promoting,” contin- lence by Abbas. mentals of P.A. education ued Marcus. Abbas and his official and public messaging.” save money on big dental bills. 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JCC39ers Terrific Deltona • Temple Shalom, 1785 Elkam Dr., Deltona • Deltona Henri Landwirth—From Hate to Hope Community Center, 980 Lakeshore Dr, Deltona • Debary City “My father, who passed away last April at the age of 91, Thursdays... On May 2nd at 1:30 p.m. Hall, 16 Colomba Rd, Debary • Debary Library, 200 Florence survived the worst of humanity during the Holocaust, but K. Little, Debary emerged as the brightest beacon of hope, creating a new life the book club meets. The Robby Etzkin book discussed will be “The for himself in America and becoming an altruist in the truest OSCEOLA COUNTY sense of the word by devoting his life to helping children and Woman in Cabin 10” by Ruth Ware. It will be led by LOIS LILLING. Cindy M. Rothfield, P.A., 822 W. Bryan St., Kissimmee • Most others who need clothes, are hungry or homeless—all the Publix Supermarkets • Verandah Place Realty, 504 Celebration things he endured in the camps,” said Gary Landwirth. “By Shout-Outs... 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Valencia College, 1800 Denn John Ln, Kissimmee • Kissimmee parents during Days of Remembrance this year,” said ROB- Another shout-out goes to a cute and funny, kind and City Hall, 101 Church St, Kissimmee • Kissimmee Library, 211 ERT TANEN director of the Museum’s Southeast regional caring waiter (you thought I stopped eating out, didn’t you? E. Dakin, Kissimmee • Robinson’s Coffee Shop, 114 Broadway, office. “Henri was a remarkable man who survived the Well, you were wrong!) Kissimmee • Osceola County Courthouse, 2 Courthouse Sq, horrific atrocities of the Holocaust to become an exemplary His name is CORY JOHNSON and he is a server at the Kissimmee • Barnies, 3236 John Young Pwy, Kissimmee • humanitarian who gave so many beautiful children and their Metro Diner in Casselberry... where the food and service families the opportunity to smile, relax and simply have are terrific! Reily’s Gourmet Coffee, 3831 Vine St, Kissimmee • Shalom fun at Give Kids The World Village. The Holocaust robbed One for the road... Aleichem, 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd, Kissimmee • Books-A-Million, Henri of a normal childhood, but his inspiring legacy has Ruth takes one look inside her 10-year-old son Daniel’s 2605 W. Osceola Pwy (522), Kissimmee • Lower East Side Deli, provided magical experiences for nearly 170,000 children bedroom and immediately goes downstairs to confront him. 8548 Palm Parkway, Lake Buena and their families.” “Daniel,” she says to him, “I thought you told me that you Anti-Semitism is on the rise... had thoroughly cleaned your room. I’ve just taken a look at Jews around the world are under assault again. Across it and it’s still a big mess. What have you got to say about it?” Sudoku (see page 14A for solution) the globe, anti-Semitic forces are energized and openly “I really don’t know why you’re making such a fuss, espousing their hatred. Jews are dying and the state of mom,” Daniel replies. “After all, I never actually told you Israel is threatened. my room was clean.” A recent FBI report showed that hate crimes against “Oh but you did, Daniel,” says Ruth. American Jews rose by 37 percent in 2017. The European “No, mom, you’re wrong there,” says Daniel. “What I Union Agency for Fundamental Rights released a compre- actually told you at 5:10 p.m. this afternoon was, ‘OK mom, hensive report on discrimination and hate crimes against I’m done with the cleaning of my room’.” the Jews in the EU, finding that 9 out of 10 European Jews Ruth can’t help but smile. “OK smarty pants,” she says, believe anti-Semitism is getting worse, and according to a “I should have remembered that you want to be a lawyer study commissioned by the World Jewish Congress, an anti- when you grow up. You’re obviously going to make a bril- Semitic message is posted to social media every 83 seconds. liant lawyer.” In 2018 alone, there were 21 UN resolutions singling out the State of Israel, while only a total of 6 resolutions criticized some of the world’s worst human rights abusers like Syria, Iran and North Korea. (These facts and figures are deeply troubling. I’d hate to

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407-221-5482 Available in Central Florida Area References Available Richard Rodgers PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 26, 2019 Netanyahu’s promise to annex West Bank settlements, explained By Ben Sales last-minute bid to draw right- Jordan River. About 2.5 mil- future. Palestinians, most of army does conduct opera- Golan Heights in 1981, but wing votes in a tight election lion Palestinians and 400,000 the international community tions there, but its presence no U.S. president officially (JTA)—Just days before race. But what does annexing Jewish Israelis live there. and the Israeli left see it now is relatively minimal. recognized the move. Israel was to hold national West Bank settlements mean? Jordan conquered the West as occupied Palestinian terri- Area B is mixed: subject Netanyahu saw Trump’s elections, Prime Minister Ben- How would it affect Israeli- Bank after Israel’s 1948 War tory. They say Israel’s control to Palestinian civil laws, but Golan decision as a signal jamin Netanyahu promised to Palestinian peace talks, and of Independence. Then Israel is illegal and want the West under the control of the Israeli that annexation, in a broader annex parts of the West Bank the general geography of the captured the territory from Bank (or nearly all of it) to army. The vast majority of sense, is kosher now. as Israeli territory. Jewish state? Will it actually Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day be the site of a Palestinian Palestinians live in Areas A “Everyone says you can’t “I’m going to extend sov- happen? War, but never fully annexed it state. But Israel’s government and B. hold an occupied territory, ereignty,” he said in an in- Here’s what you need to into the country. So for more says it rightfully controls the Area C is everything else, but this proves you can,” terview with Israeli Channel know. than 50 years, the West Bank West Bank. and it’s fully controlled by Netanyahu told reporters. “If 12 on Saturday night, adding What is the West Bank? has been controlled by Israel, So is the West Bank part the Israeli army. This is where occupied in a defensive war, that “I don’t differentiate The West Bank is a territory but its status has been under of Israel? all of the settlers, and a small then it’s ours.” between the settlement blocs sandwiched between Israel debate. Not officially, no. The State number of Palestinians, live. What would this mean and isolated settlements.” and Jordan named for its loca- The debate is over who of Israel has controlled the It takes up about 60 percent for Israeli-Palestinian The campaign promise is a tion: the western bank of the should control the area in the area, sometimes known in of the West Bank’s total land peace? Israel by its biblical name, area. If you support a Palestin- Judea and Samaria, for half The three areas aren’t ian state, this is bad news. In Portable Oxygen a century without annexing neatly sliced. They are inter- the past, Israel has offered to it. That is what could change spersed with each other in a withdraw from nearly all of the For The Way if Netanyahu makes good on maze-like tapestry. West Bank in exchange for a his promise. How would annexation peace agreement. But making You Want to Live Many Israelis believe it’s change things? much of the West Bank part already part of the country. Annexation would make of Israel would foreclose the The Israeli right, and some some or all of the settlements possibility that it would one Israel supporters abroad, see officially part of Israel. This is day become part of a state of the West Bank as disputed a huge deal. Palestine. territory that doesn’t belong For 50 years, Israel has been Dennis Ross, a former U.S. to Palestinians. They say Israel holding the West Bank in a negotiator in Israel, tweeted controls it legally because it kind of temporary capacity that after annexation, Pales- was won in a defensive war— and repeatedly has offered to tinians would abandon hope the third in the country’s first cede nearly all of it in a peace of their own state and start 20 years of existence. agreement. 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Some of the the collapse of the Palestinian legations against Netanyahu settlements deep in the West Authority, which governs the and a bunch of other issues. " Our family has been focused on Bank are fiercely ideological Palestinian areas of the West But Tamar Zandberg, the world-class steak for over 100 years… and religious communities. Bank. The group says annex- chairwoman of the left-wing Many others are middle-class ing all of the settlements will Meretz party, said Gantz suburbs of Jerusalem and Tel cost Israel $2.35 billion. should condemn the annexa- Aviv, distinguishable from On the ground, little would tion vow. " pre-1967 Israel only by their likely change in the Pales- “Annexing the settlements GUARANTEED. location and some added tinians’ daily lives—at least is dangerous for the state of security measures. initially. 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center of a measles outbreak Orlando Weekday Morning Minyan (Conservative/Egalitarian), services Monday- By Ben Sales Jewish Nurses Association, no longer do. The Anshei Friday 7:45 a.m. (9 a.m.—national holidays); 2nd floor Chapel—Jewish Academy of Orlando; said the anti-vax movement Lubavitch Day Care Center 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. For information call 407-298-4650. (JTA)—Rabbi Mordechai has taken hold among some in Fair Lawn, a Bergen Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. Shain isn’t sure about vac- haredi Jews due to lack of County town, used to have JewishCelebration.org; 407-479-8377. cines. education and distrust of one unvaccinated child out of Nearly all of the 400 kids authority. more than 300, according to Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, in the school he runs, from “There’s a lack of trust in school Rabbi Levi Neubort. 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. 3 months old to eighth-grade the government that goes But that ended this year Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- teens, are vaccinated. About way back,” she said. “You because Neubort feared the 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. eight or 10 are not. But he’s have others who really care school could become a mag- skeptical that immunization about their kids who are not net for anti-vaxxers. Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. works at all. educated. … They’re not out “I got a number of calls jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; “My doctor in shul says in the real world hearing from parents that want to Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. everyone should take a flu real science. They’re not place their children in a Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, shot, so a lot of people went,” taught to discern between school that still took a reli- said Shain, the head of conspiracy theories and real gious exemption,” he said. 321-777-2770. school at the Tenafly Chabad science.” “God forbid we would end up Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- Academy in Northern New (The New Jersey Depart- with a concentration of non- 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat Jersey, about 13 miles from ment of Health has informa- vaccinated kids, something services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. Manhattan. “Ninety percent tion about measles preven- I would not allow.” that took a flu shot got flus tion and reporting here.) Children with legitimate Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. and the 10 percent didn’t In late February, Bergen medical exemptions also de- betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. get the flu. … I speak to so County saw one case of pend on “herd immunity”— Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. many doctors and they’re measles, which is highly that is, being in a population congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. saying just the opposite, that contagious and can stay in where others are vaccinated. vaccines are good, but they the air for hours after an Schools in haredi areas in Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; put in the vaccine different infected person coughs. Brooklyn have taken mea- Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. methods that give you more “We say our community sures to stem the measles Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; danger than the vaccine is is pro-vaccine, but then we outbreak. In December, the Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. saving you from.” let an anti-vaxxer into our New York City Department of Later he added, “In the school and they have measles Health banned unvaccinated Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, vaccine there are things and our immuno-com- kids from Brooklyn yeshivas Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. there that are putting you promised kids get exposed after haredi neighborhoods Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. at higher risk.” and our pregnant women in the borough experienced bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. (According to the Centers get exposed,” Weisinger 39 measles cases within two for Disease Control, flu vac- said. “Those people are all months. Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation cinations reduce the risk of susceptible to people from Schools had also indepen- holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. contracting the illness by 40 Rockland County coming dently barred unvaccinated com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 60 percent.) into our community.” kids, leading in one case to Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; Shain’s school, located in Jewish institutions in legal action. After their child the Jewish population center the county have urged their was kept out of Oholei Torah, www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. of suburban Bergen County, members to vaccinate. A De- a Brooklyn yeshiva, Sholom Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., is the only one among about cember statement signed by and Esther Laine sought Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. more than 40 Bergen County an injunction last year that a dozen Orthodox schools Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; there that still accepts un- rabbis and Orthodox school would force the school to vaccinated kids, according officials said Jewish law com- accept their religious exemp- www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th to L’via Weisinger, a school mands vaccination. tion to vaccines. Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. nurse who runs a group of “Vaccination is not only Reached by phone on Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. nurses at Bergen Jewish an obligation to protect the Thursday, Sholom Laine Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- schools. health of our children and would not comment because The vaccine issue has ourselves, but a respon- the legal battle is ongoing. 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. become especially urgent as sibility we have towards Joseph Aron, a Brooklyn Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- measles has spread in nearby others,” the statement said. attorney focusing on reli- 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. haredi Orthodox communi- “Those who do not vacci- gious and constitutional ties with low vaccination nate can potentially spread issues, said that according Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for rates. Rockland County in life-threatening diseases to to New York state law, the services and holiday schedules. New York, which borders others who are vulnerable. school was well within its Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303A N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation- Bergen County, barred un- We strongly urge all parents rights. sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. vaccinated minors from to vaccinate their children as “There’s no obligation for public places, but a state recommended by the Ameri- a school to accept a religious Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- judge rescinded the ban can Academy of Pediatrics.” exemption,” he said. “The Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv this week. The county has Shain’s school does not school has total autonomy. Please call for times. had 153 confirmed cases of allow parents to exempt The school doesn’t have to Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- measles since October. their kids from the measles bend backwards and accept Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Despite institutional pres- vaccine for religious reasons. me if I have a medical reason sure, a strain of opposition But it does accept notes from to not get vaccinated.” Temple Beth El (R) / Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-675- to vaccines has persisted in doctors exempting children In New Jersey, the state 6615 / 386-252-3097; Friday Shabbat Service 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. haredi communities claim- from vaccines. Other schools government is advancing a Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. ing that vaccines are inef- will run doctors’ notes by a bill to remove the religious fective at best and harmful local health board for veri- exemption. Shain says most Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat at worst. A pamphlet cir- fication. parents are happy that the service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. culating among Orthodox “I would always check with school no longer accepts Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. communities, published by the board of health before religious exemptions. But he mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; an Orthodox anti-vaccine I would accept a medical says he hears from parents on Thursday, 10:00 a.m. group calling itself Parents exemption because they’re the other side as well. Educating and Advocating not all legitimate,” Weisinger “Most parents want that Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: for Children’s Health, falsely said. “Unfortunately there we don’t accept religious [ex- Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. claims that doctors obscure are some rogue doctors out emptions] and we should be Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. evidence that vaccines are there who are anti-vaccine vaccinated,” he said. “Some harmful, and links vaccines and support the anti-vaccine parents are saying why do we Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; to brain swelling, paralysis community, and there’s a lot have to vaccinate?” Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. and death. (In reality, last- of pseudoscience out there.” UPDATE: The Tenafly Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. ing negative effects from But Shain says he accepts Chabad Academy notified vaccines are extremely rare.) doctors’ recommendations the Jewish Telegraphic Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. The group also hosts at face value. Agency on Wednesday that templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by regular conference calls fea- “If they have a doctor and it does not accept religious Torah study. turing anti-vaccine doctors, the doctor can give a letter exemptions for the measles- Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road according to Gothamist. that for this child it’s not mumps-rubella (MMR) vac- 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 “[S]ome of what we are good to do vaccines, then cine, and that as of June 24, told about vaccines is sim- it’s under medical guidance, it will not accept religious p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. ply untrue,” the pamphlet’s so the Torah says you follow exemptions for any vaccines. Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. introduction reads. “From the doctor,” Shain said. “The The school also said that it shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. our research (and, for some doctor doesn’t have to tell me requires all students, staff of us, from personal experi- the reason. The doctor can and faculty to show proof Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, ence) many more than ‘one say I’m a licensed M.D., and of vaccination, and that 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, in a million’ lives have been according to my observa- the school nurse “works in 7:30 p.m. ruined by vaccines. We don’t tion they shouldn’t take the conjunction with the State of Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. want any more people to be vaccine.” NJ, Department of Health to tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. hurt needlessly.” Multiple schools in the receive an approval” for any Weisinger, a former board area used to accept religious medical exemption to vac- (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa member of the Orthodox exemptions to vaccines but cination. PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 26, 2019 Unusual gap year-program is grooming new kind of European Jewish leader By Larry Luxner and instruction meant to bolster leadership qualities BERLIN—Vanessa Roth and Jewish identity. planned to go straight to law The participants are young school after graduating high people committed to Jewish school in Trier, Germany. community but from places But when she saw a flier at without significant Jewish in- her local synagogue advertis- frastructure. They need not be ing a Jewish gap-year program very Jewishly knowledgeable, offering professional training but they must have strong within a Jewish milieu, her Jewish commitment. interest immediately was “Sometimes, people are piqued. Trier has a tiny Jew- very committed to Judaism, ish community, and Roth or to professional success, was eager both to meet other or to being involved in their young Jews and advance her community. What’s rare is professional ambitions. to be committed to all three things,” said JAcademy’s So Roth put off her law Young Jews committed to Judaism, professional success and community leadership are the backbone of the JAcademy interim program director, school plans. Now in the gap-year program. final weeks of the JAcademy Daniel Fabian. “We’re looking gap-year program, Roth, 19, for people who are profession- said Kapeta, who has a bach- in Odessa, Ukraine before budget data for government Central Council of German has spent the last year living ally ambitious and seriously elor’s degree in architecture. moving to Germany. “When regulators. In London, Becher Jews. and learning with European interested in dedicating their “I grew up in a Christian you go for an interview, they interns at an asset manage- Noam Miller, JAcademy’s Jews, and doing internships at gap year to discovering their Orthodox environment, so I want to see a CV and 15 years ment company. She’s hoping director of education, said a think tank in Jerusalem, a Jewish roots.” had to tolerate people around of experience. This project her Berlin internship will be he hopes to show young political party in London and Competition for acceptance me who didn’t know I was was created to give people in strategic consulting. Europeans that one can live a law firm in Berlin. into the program is fierce. For Jewish.” different experiences in one “I was looking to take a Jewish life and succeed in “Before JAcademy, I wasn’t this year, its third, over 90 Jews This month, students are year so when they go looking some time before getting my business—whether on Wall involved that much in Jewish ages 18-26 applied for just 17 interning in London. Last for jobs they’re prepared. It’s master’s to figure out where Street or Fleet Street. And be- life,” Roth said. “It’s taught slots. The program is funded fall, they flew to New York to something new and unique.” I want to go,” Becher said. ing an observant Jew doesn’t me a lot about myself—my by the Ronald S. Lauder Foun- spend two weeks meeting with JAcademy alumni have “JAcademy has been an amaz- necessarily mean moving to strengths, my weaknesses. dation in conjunction with the successful CEOs, managers, landed prestigious jobs, in- ing opportunity to do just that Israel. I’ve also learned how to speak Genesis Philanthropy Group, rabbis and Jewish leaders, cluding a Greek woman who while staying connected to my “We’re not against aliyah,” in public, because I want to go the American Jewish Joint including businessman and started her own art gallery Judaism and gaining profes- Miller said. “It’s just that the into politics.” Distribution Committee, the philanthropist Ronald Lauder. and a Ukrainian who became sional experience.” premise is that Jewish life is Roth is among 17 young Pratt Foundation, various Later this spring, they’ll do a a partner in a local kosher Jan Laiter, 18, was born in going to continue in Europe, Jews from Germany, private funders and student third internship in Berlin. The wine venture. the small German town of and must be strengthened.” Ukraine, Spain, Greece and fees of about $16,000 per year. year also includes shorter field The program’s main focus, Magdeburg, which is home to Josh Spinner, CEO of the elsewhere in this year’s co- Private funders underwrite trips, including to the Euro- however, is to bolster the fu- only 600 Jews. His parents im- Lauder Foundation, said that hort of JAcademy, a unique scholarships for those who pean Union headquarters in ture of Jewish life in Europe. migrated there from Ukraine. what makes JAcademy special Europe-centered, Jewish cannot afford the fees. Brussels and to sites of Jewish “We want people to stay “School doesn’t really teach is its unified approach to the gap-year program. The idea The highlights of the year interest in Poland. here and build communities you how to deal with your opportunities and challenges is to give ambitious Europe- are the various trips and in- Between trips, the students in their hometowns and be future,” Laiter, who speaks facing young Jews today. an Jews before university or ternships. Participants spend live in apartments in Berlin’s active,” Tarivierdiieva said. Russian, German, English, “To succeed professionally, between degrees the chance two months of the year in Mitte neighborhood and “We’re basically creating a French, Spanish and Hebrew, personally and as a Jew, it is to develop professional Israel, including a six-week take classes at the nearby community of future Euro- said in an interview in Berlin. not enough simply to have skills and gain practical job professional internship in the JAcademy building. Subjects pean Jewish leaders.” “Here, you have a big Jewish values,” Spinner said. “You experience within a Jewish field of their choice. include business English, Noemi Becher, 22, of Frank- community. It was a good must live those values, and context. Louna Kapeta, 26, from critical thinking, conversa- furt, enrolled in JAcademy change for me to come here, have the tools to do so.” The ultimate goal is to Thessaloniki, Greece, recently tional Hebrew and Jewish after obtaining her bach- to find out who I really am This article was spon- help preserve Jewish life in completed an internship studies. Classes range from elor’s degree in economics in society, and where I’d like sored by and produced in Europe by grooming a young at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem interpretation of Biblical texts and business administration to go in my professional and partnership with the Ronald generation of European Holocaust Museum, where to Zionist history. from Frankfurt’s Goethe religious life.” S. Lauder Foundation, which Jewish leaders. Based in she helped find and register “I know what it means University. In Israel, Laiter interned works to strengthen the fu- Berlin but including stints Holocaust survivors. to have a diploma but not For her Israeli internship at Jerusalem’s Eyal Hotel, ture of Jewish life in Europe in London, New York and “Greece is wonderful, but that much experience,” said through JAcademy, Becher, working the reception desk. through supporting excellent Israel, the program has a the Jewish community is JAcademy’s project manager, who speaks fluent Hebrew, In London, he’s working at the Jewish schools. This article nine-month curriculum that really small and I wanted to Elmira Tarivierdiieva, 26, went to Israel’s Finance Min- Athenaeum Hotel. In Berlin, was produced by JTA’s native includes three internships explore Jewish life abroad,” who was born and raised istry, where she helped collect he’ll help plan events for the content team. More than a dozen right-wing groups want Trump to recognize an Israeli annexation of the West Bank By Ben Sales Donald Trump tacitly asking certainly headed to a fifth politicians in Israel have been letter says. “It is unfair special relationship with him to respect a potential term after winning last pushing annexation of some and unreasonable to hold Israel in the days and years (JTA)—A coalition of more Israeli annexation of West week’s election, promised or all Israeli settlements for these Jewish communities ahead,” it says. than a dozen conservative Bank settlements. voters he would move to years. hostage to the continuing A separate statement groups, most of them Jew- Prime Minister Benjamin annex at least part of the The letter comes in re- intransigence of the Pales- from Zionist Organization ish, sent a letter to President Netanyahu, who is almost West Bank. Many right-wing sponse to a coalition of tinian Authority.” of America, also sent Tuesday, centrist and liberal groups The signatories include the endorses annexation of the who last week urged Trump Coalition for Jewish Values, settlements as “a step that not to recognize a potential a right-wing Orthodox rab- is overwhelmingly desired Israeli West Bank annexa- binical group; the National by Israel’s people, is essential tion. Council of Young Israel, an to Israel’s security, and will Sent Tuesday, the conser- Orthodox synagogue asso- bring stability to the area.” vatives’ letter never explicitly ciation; and the Republican The letter to Trump last advocates annexation or asks Jewish Coalition, along with week was signed by the top Trump to support it. But a a range of smaller Jewish Reform and Conservative press statement accompany- groups. Jewish organizations as ing the letter said it aimed A few non-Jewish groups well as the Anti-Defamation to urge “President Trump to also signed the letter, includ- League, Israel Policy Forum, permit Prime Minister Ben- ing Turning Point USA, a National Council of Jewish jamin Netanyahu a free hand group for conservative col- Women and Ameinu, a liberal to extend Israeli sovereignty lege students, and Proclaim- Zionist group. HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES over Jewish communities ing Justice to the Nations, a “We respectfully request in Judea and Samaria,” the pro-settlement evangelical that you affirm long-standing Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged biblical Jewish term for the group. bipartisan consensus that exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye disorders. West Bank. Tuesday’s letter concludes the two-state solution is the Protecting your eyes is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future. “For decades, Israel has by thanking Trump for sup- essential path to an Israel Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection. attempted to nurture coex- porting Israel. existing alongside a future istence with Arab commu- “We gratefully acknowl- state of Palestine in peace For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. A public service message from The Vision Council. nities which desire to live edge your ongoing support and security,” that letter said, outside Israeli governance, for Israel’s self-determina- “and that you declare that the while retaining control over tion and its right to defend United States will not support its borders and national and protect itself, and look any Israeli proposals to annex security in that very hos- forward to the continued the West Bank, in whole or tile part of the world,” the strengthening of America’s in part.” HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 26, 2019 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs

Official US maps now reported due to contact are proud in Chicago to foster the face of this tragedy that is ernment rejects BDS rative put forward and that’s show Golan Heights as with the Israeli man known an environment that makes burying our country,” tweet- resolution important.” part of Israel as “Michigan’s patient zero” agreements like this pos- ed Francis Kalifat, president By Jackson Richman Ahead of the vote, an Is- By Ron Kampeas are in Oakland County, The sible,” said Emanuel. “Around of the Conseil Représentatif (JNS)—Cornell Univer- raeli student at Cornell, Shir WASHINGTON (JTA)—Of- Washington Post reported the country and increasingly des Institutions juives de sity’s student government Kidron, whose home was ficial U.S. maps now include Friday. The man was in around the world, our city France, the umbrella orga- rejected a resolution on hit by a rocket launched by the Golan Heights as part the area fundraising for a is known as an emerging nization for Jewish organiza- Thursday calling for the Hamas from Gaza was told in of Israel. Brooklyn-based charity. technology and innovation tions in France. school to divest from entities a Facebook comment by a pro- Jason Greenblatt, the top The number on March hub with the workforce and The roof was undergoing “profiting from the occupa- Palestinian campus group to White House Middle East 26, when the Detroit Jewish education backbone that can construction. As of Tuesday, tion of Palestine and human- “quit complaining about how peace negotiator, posted a News reported the outbreak, support it.” the fire was being called an rights violations.” it ruined your brunch plans.” map Tuesday on his Twitter was 18. “This is another mean- accident, though an investi- The final tally done by Kidron wrote in the feed. The Israeli had visited ingful milestone cementing gation is underway. secret ballot was 14 votes in Sun about the experience “Welcome to the newest synagogues, businesses and the relationship between The American Jewish Com- favor, 13 votes against and and warned about the grow- addition of our international yeshivas before the Purim Chicago and Israel. A broad- mittee said it is “heartbro- one abstention, plus two ing ramifications of BDS. maps system after @POTUS holiday after arriving from shoulders, can-do attitude ken.” “community votes” against In March, Cornell Uni- issued a proclamation rec- New York, where there is a infuses both parties, and “This is a tragedy for the measure. versity president Martha E. ognizing Israeli sovereignty measles outbreak in some Or- when their innovative efforts Catholics, the people of The motion for a secret Pollack rejected BDS. over the Golan Heights,” thodox Jewish communities. are leveraged, great things France, and all who revere ballot, despite its passage, XPRIZE to award $1 Greenblatt said. New York City shuts happen, for Chicagoans and that majestic edifice. We are violated the Student Assem- million to SpaceIL for President Donald Trump down Brooklyn yeshiva Israelis,” JUF executive vice hopeful that it will be swiftly bly’s bylaws, which “dictate orbiting moon in March recognized Israel’s preschool over measles president Jay Tcath told JNS. restored to its prior splendor,” that secret ballots may only be (JNS)—The nonprofit sovereignty over the strategic vaccination violations “From law enforcement to tweeted AJC. used during executive meet- organization XPRIZE an- plateau. Israel captured the By Marcy Oster water research exchanges and We are heartbroken follow- ings,” reported The Cornell nounced on Friday that it heights from Syria in 1967 (JTA)—New York City from civil society collabora- ing the fire at the Notre Dame. Daily Sun. will award SpaceIL with a $1 and annexed the area in 1981. closed a Brooklyn yeshiva’s tions to booming trade rela- This is a tragedy for Catholics, The “community vote,” million award for being just The Trump administra- preschool for defying a Health tions, the ties between our the people of France, and which couldn’t be split, was the seventh nation to orbit the tion also has mostly ended Department order to provide beloved Chicago and Israel all who revere that majestic 248 in favor, 330 against moon, despite not landing on the practice of referring to medical and attendance have never been stronger.” edifice. We are hopeful that and four abstentions. Net- the moon on Thursday after a the West Bank as “occupied” records regarding measles “From day one to these fi- it will be swiftly restored to IDs, which is an electronic failure in its main engine just and recognized Jerusalem as vaccinations. nal few days as mayor, Rahm its prior splendor. individual identifier for Cor- before touchdown caused it to Israel’s capital, later moving The preschool at the Unit- Emanuel has made deepen- — AJC (@AJCGlobal) April nell members, were used to crash into the lunar surface. its embassy there. ed Talmudical Academy in ing these ties a priority, 15, 2019 check eligibility. A motion “SpaceIL’s mission not only Jewish ICE detainee the largely haredi Orthodox hosting new partnerships “Notre Dame Cathedral is by a pro-BDS representative, touched the moon, it touched may not be getting ko- Williamsburg neighborhood in Chicago and leading a an icon of the Parisian skyline senior Omar Din, to remove the lives and hearts of an sher food is the first yeshiva program delegation of entrepreneurs and a testament to human the two community votes entire world that was watch- By Josefin Dolsten to be shut down by the city to Israel a few years ago to ingenuity. Let us all hope for was rejected by the student ing,” said XPRIZE executive NEW YORK (JTA)—A Jew- since Mayor Bill de Blasio explore new possibilities,” a speedy resolution to this government. chairman and founder Peter ish man being detained by declared a public health he continued. “Chicago and tragedy before more priceless Another resolution co- Diamandis in a statement. Immigration and Customs emergency over the mea- Israel face many daunting history is lost,” tweeted the sponsor, senior Mahfuza “The legacy SpaceIL will Enforcement in New York sles outbreak in Brooklyn’s challenges. Among the rea- World Jewish Congress. Shovik, disparaged the anti- have on the future of the state has complained of haredi community earlier sons each have for optimism Notre Dame Cathedral BDS crowd. space industry is significant. receiving meals that are not this month. is their partnership, signaling is an icon of the Parisian “It concerns me that there This team’s ability to build a strictly kosher, according to De Blasio ordered unvac- what’s possible and a shared skyline and a testament to are people standing against lunar lander for $100 million Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y. cinated people living in four path to that better future.” human ingenuity. Let us all this resolution without know- and less than 50 engineers is In a statement Tuesday, ZIP codes in the Williams- Emanuel, who is Chicago’s hope for a speedy resolution ing the facts,” she said. “The remarkable, a leap forward Velazquez said that the law burg neighborhood to get first Jewish mayor, did not to this tragedy before more opposition inaccurately por- towards affordable and acces- enforcement agency “has a the vaccine or be required to seek re-election and will be priceless history is lost. trayed this resolution as an sible space exploration. Con- troubling pattern of ignoring pay fines of up to $1,000. As replaced in May by Demo- — WJC (@WorldJewish- act of BDS.” gratulations to Morris Kahn, important religious consid- of Monday, New York City crat Lori Lightfoot, who was Cong) April 15, 2019 However, S.A. vice presi- their primary benefactor and erations for those of many has confirmed 329 measles elected earlier this month. “From Berlin, the heart dent for external affairs con- the entire SpaceIL team for all different faiths who are in cases, nearly all in Brooklyn, Got the munchies? Is- struck in front of the flames, demned the anti-Israel mea- their accomplishments—we their custody.” since the outbreak began in raeli company raises $1 the ravage and the ashes. A sure. are so proud.” A day earlier, Velazquez October. million to infuse canna- treasure of civilization, for “I have been extremely The spacecraft “Beresheet,” sent a letter to ICE in which The preschool serves 250 bis in pizza the one who believed in heav- disappointed by the way this named after the first word she said that Dovid Kohn, who students aged 3 to 5, accord- (JNS)—Cannibble Food- en and for the one who did resolution has been handled and the first book in the is being detained upstate had ing to The New York Times. Tech Ltd., has raised more not believe in it. The Europe by everyone involved,” said ju- Torah (meaning “in the complained that his food is The Department of than $1 million to infuse of civilization, of holy hopes, nior Savanna Lim. “You can’t beginning”), lifted off from not being prepared according Health threatened to fine or pizza with cannabis, an- of greatness and of sweetness. expect a student government Cape Canaveral on Feb. 21 to Jewish dietary laws. even close yeshivas in Wil- nounced the Israeli food Struck in the heart,” tweeted to solve a geopolitical crisis.” and almost completed its “Mr. Kohn has expressed liamsburg if students who company on Monday. French Jewish intellectual StandWithUs and the AM- 6.5-million-kilometer jour- grievances over the prepara- are not vaccinated against Cannibble, through 1,100 Bernard-Henri Lévy. CHA Initiative applauded the ney to the lunar surface. tion process employed by the measles are allowed to at- backers, was the first to A memorial to those de- outcome. Immediately after the re- facility when unwrapping tend classes. The department raise more than that amount ported from Vichy France to “With this vote, the Stu- sult, Israeli Prime Minister products from their factory- has issued 23 violations to by utilizing Israeli crowd- Nazi concentration camps dent Assembly ensured that Benjamin Netanyahu an- sealed packaging,” Velazquez yeshivas and day care fa- funding platform Pipelbiz, a during the Holocaust, Mé- would not further divide nounced that Israel will make wrote. “In addition, there are cilities in connection with spokesperson for the latter morial des Martyrs de la Dé- students for an unjust cause,” another attempt, likely in the concerns over the use of non- unvaccinated children or told Calcalist on Monday. portation, is located under- said its managing director of next two to three years. kosher trays to serve meals.” not complying with records Founded in 2018, Can- ground behind the cathedral. campus affairs, Rena Nasar, in “If at first you don’t suc- In her letter, Velazquez requests, according to The nibble infuses already-made White House invites a statement. ceed, try again,” he said. emphasized that “Such integ- Washington Post. food and beverages, including Jewish leaders over for “Good for the students The project started eight rity is critically important, Also Monday, a group iced coffee mix, sweeteners, a talk for seeing through the BDS years ago when its co-found- especially since the Passover of Brooklyn parents filed cake mixes, and both pizza By Ron Kampeas scam,” AMCHA director ers attempted to win the holiday is quickly approach- a lawsuit in Kings County and popcorn toppings with WASHINGTON (JTA)— Tammi Rossman-Benjamin Google Lunar XPRIZE chal- ing.” Supreme Court in Brook- THC, the key ingredient The Trump administration told JNS. “BDS resolutions lenge by being the first private ICE spokesman Khaalid lyn against the mandatory in cannabis that could get has invited Jewish leaders on campus, while masquerad- team to land a robotic space- Walls said the agency was measles vaccination order. consumers high, according over for a briefing on “perti- ing as part of a human rights craft on the moon, travel 500 working to make sure the Partnership agreement to the company. nent” issues. campaign, in reality are a PR meters, and transmit back to Kohn’s religious needs were signed between Chicago Earlier this month, Israel “Gathering with Jewish device meant to divide the Earth high-definition video met. and Israeli nonprofit enacted a new law that de- leaders,” an invitation viewed campus, shut down discourse and images. The contest “When a complaint was By Jackson Richman criminalize personal canna- by the Jewish Telegraphic and debate, and marginalize ended in March 2018 with brought forward, ICE began (JNS)—Outgoing Chicago bis use and possession. And Agency says. “You are in- and incite hate against those no winner. coordinating closely with an Mayor Rahm Emanuel and in January, Israel’s Knesset vited to a discussion with key students who support Israel. However, SpaceIL’s imple- outside religious provider to Chemi Peres, son of former passed a bill to approve the Administration officials on Largely this hate is directed menters Yariv Bash, Kfir ensure meal needs were being Israeli President Shimon export of medical cannabis, pertinent issues impacting against Jewish students, even Damari and Yehonatan Wein- met,” Walls said in an email Peres, signed a memorandum which could generate several the community.” those that don’t take a stand traub pressed on, acquiring to the Jewish Telegraphic of understanding on Mon- hundred million in tax rev- It’s not clear how many on politics or Israel advocacy.” the backing of multiple do- Agency. “This effort is cur- day to create a partnership enue for the state. Jewish leaders are invited to “The victory is a tribute nors, including Kahn. rently underway and the between “technology and Jewish community re- the meeting set for Tuesday, to the sustained, collabora- SpaceIL’s effort was assist- agency expects a mutually innovation ecosystems.” acts to fire that ravaged or what the “pertinent” is- tive efforts of students and ed by NASA. Only the United agreeable outcome.” Chemi Peres is chair the Notre Dame Cathedral sues are, or who the “key community members at the States, Russia and China have Measles cases in Detroit Peres Center for Peace and in Paris officials” are. university, as evidenced by the landed crafts on the moon, area linked to haredi Innovation. (JNS)—Members of the President Donald Trump two community votes against with India working on it. Orthodox traveler rise The two seek to further Jewish community reacted has said he will soon be the resolution, which proved The Moonshot Award will to 39 “innovation and entrepre- with sadness to the massive ready to release his Israeli- to be decisive in the outcome,” be given to SpaceIL at the By Ron Kampeas neurship” in the Windy City fire that burst through the Palestinian peace plan. Jew- Liel Asulin, campus coordina- nonprofit’s annual Visioneer- (JTA)—The number of and the Jewish state by unit- roof of the Notre Dame Ca- ish community officials also tor for CAMERA on Campus, ing Summit in October “with people who have contracted ing business, academic, civic thedral in Paris on Monday are concerned about secu- told JNS. the hope that they will use measles in the Detroit area and government leaders, led and toppled its spire. rity since an alleged white “Like all BDS resolutions, these funds as seed money because of contact with a by World Business Chicago. “Terrible images of the supremacist massacred 11 its biased, anti-Israel content towards their education haredi Orthodox traveler has “Shimon Peres believed in Cathedral of Paris in flames. Jewish worshippers at a Pitts- fuels misinformation on the outreach or Beresheet 2.0, a more than doubled in the past the transformative power of Solidarity and fraternal burgh synagogue in the worst campus,” she added. “The second attempt to fulfill the three weeks to 39. technology and innovation as thoughts to the Catholics of attack ever on U.S. Jews. outcome of the vote serves mission,” said XPRIZE CEO All but one of the cases a pathway to peace, and we France. Immense sadness in Cornell’s student gov- to reject the distorted nar- Anousheh Ansari. PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 26, 2019 9 takeaways from Israel’s historic election

By Marcy Oster it comes to legislation dealing If nothing big changes in to have passed the electoral forming the new government. to be 65 seats, giving him a with a host of issues they care the coming days, the new threshold of 3.25 percent of With Likud and Blue and strong 10-seat cushion over JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is- about, such as the enlistment Knesset will have the same the total vote. White tied at 35, or even if that the opposition—will allow rael’s election on Tuesday was of yeshiva students, public number of women as the 6. A let-down for stoners too total changes by a seat or two him to govern comfortably contentious, historic, crazy— transportation on Shabbat last: 29 out of 120. That In the last few months lead- in either direction, Rivlin will and effectively. Still, there will and somewhat predictable. and the push for egalitarian places Israel in 76th place ing up to the election, Moshe look at which leader will be be big bumps for him along Benjamin Netanyahu prayer at the Western Wall. internationally, in terms of Feiglin was hailed as one of the more likely to be able to form the way. seems poised to become the 3. Arab parties are getting women’s representation in most important players in any a government. In order to do Netanyahu promised at the longest-serving prime min- weaker government, down from 66th upcoming Knesset coalition. so, Rivlin will meet with each very end of the campaign to ister in Israel’s history, with In the last election, the place in 2015. He seemed to be attracting party head and ask who he or annex the West Bank. If he the help of his strengthened Arab parties joined together 5. A worse day for two right- a large following of young she (there is one she—Tamar does so, he’s certain to provoke right-wing parliamentary and called themselves the wing stars people with his libertarian Zandberg of the liberal Meretz an enormous amount of inter- bloc. But that didn’t mean Joint List. They won 13 seats Two of Israel’s most promi- policies—including support Party) will recommend to lead national scrutiny, especially the results didn’t bring some in that election. This time nent and outspoken right- for full legalization of mari- the government. since the move would likely surprises. around, however, squabbles wing lawmakers will likely juana. But his Zehut party Rivlin on Wednesday an- mean the end of a traditionally Here are the big takeaways. split the list into separate par- not make it into the next gov- also failed to pass the electoral nounced that the consulta- formulated two-state solution 1. Two winners? ties. Two Arab party coalitions ernment: Education Minister threshold. tions will be broadcast live, to the Israeli-Palestinian No Israeli party had ever made it into the new Knesset: Naftali Bennett and Justice (Feiglin, like Bennett, has and the party heads will be conflict. The Trump admin- garnered more than a million The Hadash-Taal list received Minister Ayelet Shaked. said that the soldier’s ballots able to give official statements istration is slated to roll out votes in an election, but two 6 seats and the Raam-Balad The pair broke away from will push him over the line.) at a press center set up at the its Middle East peace plan not did on Tuesday: Netanyahu’s List barely squeaked past the the Jewish Home Party, for- 7. Voter turnout overall was president’s residence. The long after the dust settles from Likud Party, and former electoral threshold of 3.25 merly headed by Bennett, to a little low post-election press center the election, and all signs have Israeli military chief of staff percent of the total vote to form The New Right Party, The final total voter turn- is nothing new, but the live indicated that it will include Benny Gantz’s centrist Blue garner 4 seats, for a total of which they called a party out was 67.9 percent of eligible broadcast certainly is, and is full Israeli control of the West and White Party, which in- 10 seats representing Arab- based on a “full and equal Israeli voters, down nearly 4 being done “in the name of Bank. cluded the other prominent Israelis. partnership” between Or- percentage points from 71.8 transparency,” according to Finally, Netanyahu’s appar- politicians Yair Lapid and But Arab voter turnout thodox and secular Israelis. percent from the last election a statement from the Presi- ent crowning as “King Bibi” Moshe Yaalon. They won the was historically low—nearly The party was designed to in 2015. This was despite the dent’s Office. does not mean that his cor- same amount of seats—35— half the traditional rate. That give secular right-wingers a fact that Election Day is a During the campaign, Ne- ruption scandals and looming but Netanyahu’s right-wing was despite calls by Arab comfortable place to put their national holiday, and all public tanyahu told members of the indictments are going to go coalition is better positioned politicians and religious lead- vote, and increase the size of transportation between cities Likud in a statement captured away. News reports the day to form a government. Still, ers—the latter of which took the right-wing bloc. was free to help people to get on tape that Rivlin “is just after the election indicated Gantz’s showing was impres- to muezzins to encourage the The attempt seems to have to their polling places. More looking for an excuse” to tap that Attorney General Avichai sive, and his bloc could be- public to vote. backfired: The Jewish Home than 150,000 Israelis man- Gantz to form the next gov- Mandelblit, who announced in come a formidable opposition One reason was likely Party, which joined with the aged to visit national parks on ernment—so the end of this February that he would indict in the years to come. disgust with the parties that Kahanist Otzma Yehudit, Election Day, hopefully after process could be interesting. Netanyahu in three cases, There’s also always the ran in the 2019 election, for or Jewish Power, party and they went to the polls. 9. What comes next? pending a pre-indictment chance that Netanyahu forms not being able to find a way the National Union Party for 8. One man makes the final During his upcoming term, hearing, would schedule that a unity government, joining to continue together as the the 2019 vote, had 5 seats in decision Netanyahu will become the hearing for some time in the with Blue and White—but more powerful Joint List. the last Knesset, and earned Israel’s president, Reuven country’s longest-serving coming three months. Netan- that is unlikely. Some were also disappointed the same number again. But Rivlin, gets to decide which prime minister, and it looks yahu denies any wrongdoing 2. Orthodox parties keep with the parties’ inability to The New Right do not appear party head gets a chance at like his coalition—projected in the cases. getting stronger prevent pieces of legislation Two haredi Orthodox par- such as the nation-state law, ties have gained seats in the which codified Israel as a Pittsburgh new Knesset, or parliament, Jewish state. Election Day From page 6A Founded in 1967, the PFLP In a recent letter to the bounds of what is not widely and reportedly have pledged reports also showed that some is a Marxist-Leninist far-left editor in the Cornell Sun, considered to be legally rep- to support Netanyahu in the 1,200 cameras were placed in at Binghamton University Palestinian organization a Jewish student said that rehensible.” prime minister sweepstakes. Arab polling stations by the shared its own imagery from that has carried out numer- language used by SJP may At the same time, the The Sephardic Orthodox Likud Party, which claimed it PFLP. The caption reads: ous terror attacks, including “devolve into the targeting endorsement by these SJP Shas Party gained one seat for was protecting against voter “Three Palestinian posters the hijacking Israeli and of Jews and the Jewish com- affiliates of the PFLP terror a total of 8, and the United To- fraud. Arab leaders said tactic celebrating International Western planes in the late munity on this campus,” and group comes as emerg- rah Judaism Party gained two intimidated members of the Working Women’s Day. The 1960s and early ’70s, the as- that Cornell SJP “has likened ing evidence that the BDS seats also for a total of 8. Their Arab community and kept first two were produced by sassination of former Israeli Zionist ideology to white movement has extensive combined 16 votes could put them from the polls. the Popular Front for the Knesset member Rehavam supremacy and Nazism.” ties to Palestinian terrorist them in the driver’s seat when 4. Not a great day for women Liberation of Palestine.” Ze’evi in 2001, and suicide- Cornell’s president, Mar- organizations, using the “The PFLP is, for very good bombings during the Second tha Pollack, recently issued “social justice” movement reason, a U.S.-designated Intifada. Several countries, a letter rejecting SJP’s call as a veritable human shield 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 A L I S T H B O M B R E M Foreign Terrorist Organi- including the United States, for a boycott of Israel. for anti-Israel ideology and 14 15 16 zation. The group’s long Japan, Canada, Australia Similarly, at Binghamton, activism. This unabashed B A T H S Y E N T A E R A history of deliberate attacks and the European Union SJP was banned in 2014 after support for such a despicable 17 18 19 B R E A K S B R E A D N A G on innocent Israeli civilians consider the PFLP a terrorist a document was leaked to the organization, as many SJP 20 21 22 23 through airplane and bus hi- organization. public titled “Declaration chapters have done in the I A M B A R E G O O S E jackings, suicide-bombings The SJP affiliates at both of Principles and Strategies past, is deeply disturbing, 24 25 26 27 B U N I N T H E O V E N and shooting attacks is schools have had a his- of Binghamton University and is a direct attack on the 28 29 30 31 entirely without moral jus- tory of anti-Israel and anti- Students for Justice in Pal- campus’ Jewish communi- A V I A R A D R A S H A tification,” Zac Schildcrout, Semitic actions that have estine.” ties. It should be condemned 32 33 34 35 36 A I N T I S E R S T A M a campus coordinator with intimidated and threatened According to Canary Mis- by all who seek peace in the 37 38 39 40 41 42 CAMERA, told JNS. “This Jewish students. In 2014, sion, the document shut Middle East.” B A H C H A M E T Z I A M unabashed support for such after failing to pass a BDS down any possibility of Last year, the Zachor Legal 43 44 45 46 47 B L A B I L L A T O N E a despicable organization, resolution, SJP members dialogue with pro-Israel stu- Institute submitted a letter 48 49 50 51 as many SJP chapters have were recorded saying “F*** dents, entrenching a policy to the Department of Justice B A S K S S E C O N D S done in the past, is deeply you, Zionist scums,” and “I known as “anti-normaliza- urging the U.S. government 52 53 54 A P I E C E O F C A K E disturbing and is a direct at- will f***ing slap you.” In tion,” while it also gave “its to open an investigation into 55 56 57 58 59 60 tack on the campus’s Jewish 2017, in response to a Yom members directives on how the ties between Palestinian M A T Z O R E S L A S T communities. It should be Ha’atzmaut celebration, SJP to disrupt pro-Israel activi- terror groups and several 61 62 63 64 65 A V A P I E I N T H E S K Y condemned by all who seek held a “die-in” in the same ties with maximum impact U.S.-based BDS groups, in- 66 67 68 peace in the Middle East.” room. while staying “within the cluding SJP. Z E N U P S E T E S S E N 69 70 71 E S T S O A R S E S T E E Family From page 1A The JGSGO is a non-profit “like” us at www.facebook. for nonmembers, which can organization founded in com/jgsgreaterorlando. The be applied to the annual This fascinating genealogi- 1990, dedicated to sharing JGSGO voicemail line is 407- membership dues. cal research that Rowitt will genealogical information, 494-4230. People who can’t attend demonstrate is intended to techniques and research tools The meeting is May 8, at 7 in person can watch a live help you in your quest to with anyone interested in p.m., in the Senior Lounge feed of the meeting on the build your family tree. 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Time From page 1A draws on the local grassroots our own status of a minor- Johnson, who was honored in tactics of the conservative Tea ity group that has been the Artists category. are married, is “a powerful Party movement to advocate persecuted calls on us to “If you have had the pleasure network of folks ready to fight against President Trump and support others who are to work with him, as I have on for justice and inclusion in his policies. under attack,” Greenberg, a the ‘Fast and Furious’ films, health care, at our borders and “I see myself as being Reform Jew, told the Jewish you know that he is full of heart in the Supreme Court,” Mas- part of a tradition of Jews Telegraphic Agency in 2017. and creates an environment sachusetts Rep. Ayanna Press- organizing for social jus- Israeli actress Gal Gadot on set filled with warmth and ley wrote. The organization tice, and recognizing that wrote the entry about Dwayne positivity,” she wrote. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 26, 2019 PAGE 15A the town was occupied by but ultimately voted in favor Papadopoulos, a Greek- Kushner, advised that it was attorneys general had pro- Mueller the Soviet Union and then of the resolution like all the American former Trump ad- bad optics for the Campaign tected the presidents under From page 1A Nazi Germany, which turned other members of the coun- viser, spent 14 days in federal to develop hidden Russian whom they served. it into a ghetto. Conditions cil, except the United States, prison last year for lying to contacts, and told Kushner Trump then told McGahn with the president’s son-in- were bad and the Nazis would which abstained. the FBI. He has said he met both that the Campaign that he wished he had Roy law and senior adviser, accord- come in at will and kill peo- Flynn would later plead with two Israeli businessmen should not highlight Russia Cohn, the late Jewish law- ing to the report. Kushner ple. Kushner’s grandmother guilty to lying to the FBI in 2017 over a “routine” invest- as an issue and should handle yer and notorious political agreed and two weeks later escaped through a tunnel about his contacts with Kis- ment proposal. (Papadopolous any contacts with Russians fixer—not to be confused the meeting took place, with dug by Jews and lived in the lyak regarding the Security had shown an interest in with care,” the report reads. with Michael Cohen, the Jew- Flynn joining as well. woods for nine months with Council resolution and other Israel’s energy sector and in The report also describes ish attorney who also served During the meeting Kush- her sister and father. issues. April 2016, just days after a meeting between the two Trump as a fixer—working for ner said the incoming admin- The report talks about Mueller looked into wheth- he was named to the Trump men in August 2016, dur- him. Priebus recalled that the istration wanted “to start the U.N. Security Coun- er George Papadopoulos campaign, attended an energy ing which Simes “provided president described Cohn as a afresh with U.S.-Russian cil vote that condemned acted as an Israeli agent. conference in Israel.) Papa- Kushner the Clinton-related winner and a fixer, that Cohn relations” and asked Kislyak Israeli settlement. In a section addressing dopoulos later accused the information that he had would win cases for him that for a contact close to Putin. In December 2016, the whether any members two men of trying to frame promised.” The next few lines had no chance, and that Cohn In December, Kislyak asked transition team was con- of the Trump campaign him. He said that an Israeli, of the report, which describe had done incredible things for a second meeting, but cerned with an upcoming were acting for foreign George Tawil, introduced him the information, have been for him. this time Kushner wasn’t as vote at the Security Council governments, it emerges to Shai Arbel, who co-founded blacked out for “personal pri- Kushner tried to stay in eager, instead saying one of on a U.N. resolution con- that Mueller looked into the Israeli cyber intelligence vacy.” However, it states that the room before Trump fired his assistants, Avi Berkowitz, demning Israeli settlements, whether George Papado- company Terrogence, as part Simes had previously written Comey. could attend in his stead. fearing—correctly, as it poulos, a former mem- of a scheme to plant marked in a memo to Kushner about At 4 p.m. on Feb. 14, 2017, During that meeting, Kislyak turned out—that the outgo- ber of the president’s hundred dollars bills on him information regarding what following a Homeland Secu- told Berkowitz that he had a ing Obama administration foreign policy advisory in order to incriminate Pa- he called “a well-documented rity briefing, Trump dismissed contact in mind for Kushner: would use the occasion to panel, acted on behalf padopoulos when FBI agents story of highly questionable those gathered and asked to Sergey Gorkov, the chairman deliver a parting shot at an of the Israeli govern- searched his luggage upon his connections between Bill speak alone to FBI Director of the Russian-government Israeli government with ment. return to the United States. Clinton” and the Russian James Comey. Sessions and owned Vnesheconombank which it often disagreed. The Papadopoulos and his wife A Russia-born think government. Kushner for- Kushner lingered, but the bank. report says that Trump and had both previously made tank CEO warned Kush- warded that memo to senior president “shooed them away,” Kushner met with Gorkov other members of the transi- claims to the media that ner about not highlight- campaign staffers with the along with Priebus, who had the next day. Seemingly eager tion team were in touch with Mueller had probed his ties ing Russia during the message “suggestion only.” attempted to enter the room. to create a favorable impres- foreign government officials with Israel. The report con- presidential campaign. Trump longs for his old In an interview with The sion, Gorkov brought with in an effort to get them to firms their accounts. From April 2016 until the lawyer Roy Cohn. New York Times on July 17, him two gifts. One, according delay the vote or vote against “While the investigation election, Kushner was in On March 3, 2017, the day 2017, the president denied to the report, was a painting. the resolution. Kushner led revealed significant ties contact and met with Dimitri after then-Attorney General that he shooed anyone out of The other was a bag of soil the effort. between Papadopoulos and Simes, the Russia-born CEO Jeff Sessions recused himself the room, and then deflected from the town in Belarus Former National Security Israel (and search warrants of the Washington, D.C.-based from the Russia inquiry, by asking his granddaughter where Kushner’s family came Adviser Michael Flynn was in were obtained in part on that think tank Center for the former White House coun- Arabella Kushner, who had from. Though the report does touch with Russia multiple basis), the Office ultimately National Interest. Simes, who sel Don McGahn met with just entered the interview not elaborate on the gifts or times about the vote and determined that the evidence advised Kushner on foreign Trump, Chief of Staff Reince room, to say hello to the how they were received by asked Russia to vote against was not sufficient to obtain policy, warned him about Priebus and chief strategist reporters in Chinese. Kushner, the dirt was likely or delay it, but ultimately and sustain a conviction making sure Russia did not Steve Bannon in the Oval The Mueller report, how- from Navahrudak, where Kislyak said Russia would under [the Foreign Agents become an issue that could Office. The president was ever, concludes that “Despite his paternal grandparents, not do so. Trump was in Registration Act] or Section hurt Trump’s campaign. angry at the Sessions recusal, those denials, substantial evi- Reichel and Joseph Kushner, touch with Egypt, which 951” of the tax code, the “Simes raised the issue saying “I don’t have a lawyer,” dence corroborates Comey’s lived. During World War II, postponed the vote by a day, report reads. of Russian contacts with and mentioning how previous account.” AOC From page 1A “The three uneducated wash Islamism. We the his voice heard on the Both Muslim Brotherhood for women or for the under- Congresswomen that arose people, especially women issue. Now it’s time for front groups.” privileged. Ocasio-Cortez is is also an embarrassment to from the anti-Semitic, un- of Hispanic-Latino descent, him to act to oust them Cardoza-Moore conclud- a disgrace to Latinos, a our ancestors and shows her American, Women’s March will not idly stand by as from Congress. We are still ed: “As a descendant of Sep- disgrace to women and a dis- lack of education. She needs are waging an unholy war subversive forces openly awaiting an investigation hardic Jewish immigrants, I grace to America. It’s time to stand down and Americans in Congress to belittle the work to destroy our country by the Justice Department refuse to stand by while these these three anti-Semitic of Hispanic/Latino descent Holocaust, normalize anti- from within. into Ilhan Omar’s fundrais- women perpetuate a climate uneducated women were need to join me in calling Semitism, mainstream an- “The President has taken ing activities for CAIR and of anti-Semitism. They do marched out of Congress her out! ti-Americanism and white- the first step by making Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA). not speak for immigrants, once and for all.” Nakba From page 4A League’s secretary-general). 17, 1958. He addressed the with its consequent harvest controversial than the initia- General of the Arab League The Arab states’ expulsion of refugee issue without using of bloodshed, misery, panic tive of Arab governments for speaking for the governments Jews from the Arab states, as their Jewish populations was the term nakba: and flight, there would be the conflict out of which the of six Arab states. ‘It will be a doing so creates an impres- an unequivocal act of ethnic “The Arab refugee prob- no problem of Arab refugees refugee tragedy emerged. momentous massacre to be sion of equivalent injustice. cleansing. lem was caused by a war of today. Once you determine the The historic origins of that spoken of like the Mongolian The flight of the Palestinian Israel would be well-advised aggression, launched by the responsibility for that war, you conflict are clearly defined by massacre and the Crusades.’ ” Arabs was the direct result of to hearken again to the mo- Arab states against Israel have determined the responsi- the confessions of Arab gov- Dr. Raphael G. Bouchnik- a failed “war of extermination mentous speech of Abba Eban, in 1947 and 1948. Let there bility for the refugee problem. ernments themselves: ‘This Chen is a retired colonel who and momentous massacre” then Israeli ambassador to be no mistake. If there had Nothing in the history of our will be a war of extermina- served as a senior analyst in (in the words of the Arab the United Nations, on Nov. been no war against Israel, generation is clearer or less tion,’ declared the Secretary- IDF Military Intelligence. Errors From page 5A A century later, Karl Marx Despite the starkly con- ingly popular among young view socialism positively, socialists of various stripes. wrote about the “bourgeoi- trasting track records of people in the past several “the same as in 2010.” What Sanders and AOC may be capitalism,” never used that sie” whom, he predicted, capitalism and socialism, the years, following Democraatic has changed are their views among the beneficiaries. If term. “An Inquiry into the would inevitably be over- next Democratic candidate Socialist Bernie Sanders’ un- of capitalism, which have so, the rest of us, those who Nature and Causes of the thrown by the global prole- for president could be a self- derdog run for president and undergone “a marked shift have managed to learn a Wealth of Nations,” published tariat, the “workers of the declared socialist. the authoritarian creep of the since 2010, when 68 percent thing or two over the years, in 1776, was more descrip- world” united. Teen Vogue, formerly an ultra-capitalist, anti-socialist viewed it positively.” Only 45 will be the losers. tive than prescriptive. He Though intended as a pe- adolescent fashion magazine, Trump regime.” percent do so today. Clifford D. May is president observed the positive results jorative, “capitalism” came now apparently an ideological You may be unsurprised Most responsible for that, of the Foundation for Defense produced by free markets, to be embraced by proponents journal of the left, tells its to learn that Teen Vogue has I suspect, are America’s of Democracies and a col- incentives, enlightened self- of entrepreneurship and op- readers: “To conservatives’ been careless in its research. universities which, since umnist for The Washington interest and voluntary divi- ponents of collectivized and dismay, the modern idea of so- According to Gallup, about the ’60s, have been increas- Times. sions of labor. command economies. cialism... has become increas- 51 percent of young people ingly occupied and ruled by Via Israel Hayom. Sites From page 5A A year ago, however, a A stately domed building projection onto the walls of searcher, photographer and those of the author and do not powerful public installa- that seated 2,000, the Great the Blue Tower of a shim- public speaker. necessarily reflect the views cultural landmarks. tion in the heart of Warsaw Synagogue was blown up mering, ghostly image of the The views and opinions of JTA or its parent company, In Warsaw, once home to elevated the symbolism of by the Nazi occupiers on grand synagogue that once expressed in this article are 70 Faces Media. 350,000 Jews and the most Jewish built heritage in a May 16, 1943, following the stood there. important pre-Holocaust way aimed at touching the destruction of the ghetto. A The huge projected im- Jewish center in Europe, city as a whole. sleek skyscraper known as age, organizers said, was only one prewar synagogue Held on the 75th anni- the Blue Tower now stands “animated in such a way remains standing today. versary of the outbreak of on the spot. that the viewer will have an No synagogues were rebuilt the failed Warsaw Ghetto Directed by the artist Gabi impression that the building when parts of downtown War- Uprising, the installation, van Seltmann and organized is rising from the ruins.” Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman saw, primarily its war-leveled with a second edition planned by the Open Republic Associa- Warsaw’s Great Synagogue does most anything Old Town, castle and cathe- for this year on April 18, tion Against Anti-Semitism will never be physically re- dral, were reconstructed entailed the public “virtual and Xenophobia, the “virtual constructed. from rubble after World War reconstruction” of the Great reconstruction” featured a I look forward, though, to Ricardo Torres — Handyman II. As far as I know there are Synagogue, the most impos- multifaceted sound collage the day when Notre-Dame is. 407-221-5482 no plans to rebuild any in ing of the city’s destroyed integrated with a visual Ruth Ellen Gruber is an the future. shuls. centerpiece—an animated award-winning author, re- Available in Central Florida Area • References Available PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 26, 2019 Was a UNC-Duke conference on Gaza anti-Semitic?

By Ben Sales ding? Even if he was kidding, criticizing what it called the views is critical in a demo- “The idea of the university is it still anti-Semitic? overall anti-Israel bias of the cratic society and a central sponsoring a musician who (JTA)—“This is my anti- Let’s back up: In late conference, as well as calls by tenet of American’s edu- would sing about anti-Semi- Semitic song,” Tamer Nafar, March, the Middle East some speakers for a boycott of cational system,” Holding tism in an at-worst glorifying a Palestinian-Israeli rapper, Studies departments at Israel, but not Nafar’s song. It wrote in a letter to Secretary way and at best belittling and said at the opening of a con- Duke University and UNC appears to have become an is- of Education Betsy DeVos. lighthearted way, they’re not ference on Gaza last month co-sponsored a conference sue only after Ami Horowitz, “However, it is irresponsible, happy about it,” he said. “You at the University of North called “Conflict over Gaza: a pro-Israel videographer, re- immoral and unproductive still have the option to bring Carolina at Chapel Hill. People, Politics, and Possi- leased video from the confer- for taxpayer dollars to fund speakers who don’t play fast “I know it might sound bilities.” Much of the confer- ence last week that included overtly biased advocacy and loose with this language, [like] R&B stuff, but don’t ence consisted of panels and a clip of Nafar talking about under the guise of academic and if you want to push the think of Rihanna when speeches by academic and anti-Semitism onstage but discourse.” envelope, you have to cover you sing it, don’t think of policy experts. not the song’s lyrics. The local Hillel is calling your bases.” Beyonce,” he continued. But the opening night In the days after, Hillel, on the school to conduct a The Jewish Telegraphic “Think of Mel Gibson. Go of the conference featured UNC’s chancellor and one of senior administrative review Agency reached out to Nafar that anti-Semitic. Let’s try Nafar’s performance. The the departments sponsoring of the conference to deter- for comment. After commu- it together because I need musician, who identifies as the conference have put out mine if there were additional nicating with JTA over the your help. I cannot be anti- Palestinian, is a citizen of statements condemning the instances of anti-Semitism. course of a day, he did not Semitic alone.” Israel and a member of the performance. UNC Global, Lara Friedman, the presi- respond with a statement by Nafar then launched into Palestinian hip-hop group a department that focuses dent of the Foundation for press time. Tamer Nafar, a Palestin- “Mama, I fell in love with a DAM, which has been ac- on “supporting, promot- Middle East Peace, did not But Elyse Crystall, a com- ian-Israeli rapper, is being Jew,” a joking song about tive since 2000. One of its ing and facilitating UNC’s see the concert but spoke parative literature associate accused of anti-Semitism for a Palestinian who becomes songs was the theme for global priorities,” said it was at the conference the next professor at UNC who is the a performance at the Univer- infatuated with an Israeli “Arab Labor,” a sitcom in “heartbroken and offended” day and said it stayed within faculty adviser for the cam- sity of North Carolina last woman soldier while stuck Israel about Arab Israelis. by the song. the bounds of appropri- pus chapter of Students for month that defenders said in an elevator. (Sample lyric: This year, ahead of the Israeli “A performance during ate discourse on the issue. Justice in Palestine, said she was meant ironically. “Was it meant to be? Could elections held last week, he a recent conference held Friedman self-identifies as a felt that Nafar was ironically she be the one?/Her name wrote a song encouraging on our campus contained liberal Zionist. She said the poking fun at American no- fliers warned of “an evil is not Janie but she’s got a Arab Israelis to vote. disturbing and hateful lan- conference included criti- tions that Palestinians and Jewish plot” and said “do gun.”) In the weeks following guage,” read a statement cism of Israel, Hamas and Arabs are anti-Semitic. everything you can to fight Was the performance anti- the conference, the UNC by Kevin Guskiewicz, UNC’s the Palestinian Authority, as “The way I heard that was, the silent covert Jewish at- Semitic? Was Nafar just kid- Hillel put out a statement interim chancellor, on April well as of U.S. policy on Gaza. ‘All of you here probably tempt to enslave and kill good 12. “I am heartbroken and “It was within the norms think that because I’m Pales- Americans,” according to the deeply offended that this and bounds of reasonable tinian, I’m anti-Semitic, and UNC Hillel. performance happened. I discourse on this issue,” she maybe you’ve been sitting No one has drawn a link stand steadfast against anti- said. “There was nothing in here waiting for me to say between the conference and Semitism and hate in all its the discourse here that isn’t something negative, so here’s the fliers. forms.” heard in any discussion on the song you’ve been waiting It also appears that the U.S. Rep. George Holding, Israel-Palestine.” for,’” she said. “I don’t think conference has not sparked Custom Printing Invitations & Announcements R-N.C., is calling for the But Ari Gauss, the UNC he was being anti-Semitic. I significant student protest. Digital & Offset Printing Brochures & Booklets Department of Education to Hillel’s executive director, think he was satirizing our Kyra Rubin, a senior who Direct Mail Services Forms & Letterheads investigate the conference. said Nafar’s performance own stereotypes of Palestin- is active in both student Envelopes Business Cards According to the News & crossed a red line. ians and maybe Arabs more government and J Street 407-767-7110 Observer, a local paper, the “Whether he’s attempting generally as anti-Semitic.” U, the campus arm of the 205 North Street • Longwood, FL 32750 conference used $5,000 in be a comedic provocateur, I The video of Nafar’s per- liberal Israel lobby, wrote to www.elegantprinting.net federal funding. don’t know, but I didn’t find formance came during the JTA in an email Tuesday, “To Bring in this ad and receive 18% Discount “Honest academic debate it funny,” said Gauss, who same week that anti-Semitic be quite honest, this is the featuring diverse perspec- was not at the performance fliers were found at a library first I have heard about this tives and a wide range of but saw footage of it. on the UNC campus. The conference.”

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