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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 42, NO. 52 AUGUST 31, 2018 20 ELUL, 5778 ORLANDO, SINGLE COPY 75¢ Newton residents sue school board NEWTON, MASSACHU- wall of silence and secrecy. SETTS—On Aug. 9, 2018, the “The Newton School Com- community group Education mittee and the district’s su- Without Indoctrination filed perintendent, David Fleish- a lawsuit against the School man, have been stonewalling Committee of Newton, Mas- parents since 2011,” said sachusetts, in Massachusetts Tanya Gorlin of EWI. “And Superior Court on behalf of the classroom bias just keeps three Newton taxpayers. The getting worse every year.” lawsuit claims multiple viola- “All that secrecy has now tions of the Massachusetts crossed into illegality,” said Open Meeting Law stemming Karen Hurvitz, a member of from the school committee’s EWI and counsel for the New- handling of a burgeoning ton taxpayers in this lawsuit scandal over anti-Semitic against the Newton School lessons and the promotion Committee. “For months of Islamic religious beliefs now, dozens of Newton citi- as objective facts in the zens have come before the public school district’s his- school committee to com- Students proudly share their goals for the future on the first day of school at the Jewish Academy of Orlando. tory classes. plain about the non-objective, In teaching world history, anti-Jewish, and Islamic Newton Public Schools use religious lessons, as well as hateful educational materi- about Superintendent David Jewish Academy of Orlando als funded by the Saudi oil Fleishman, who has refused company ARAMCO and the to stop it being taught. Yet government of Qatar. As a the names of all these citizens result, Newton public school and summaries of what they kicks off school year with increases students are propagandized said were deliberately omitted The Jewish Academy of Orlando began other advances. This year, the school’s Goldstein, stated, “We are excited that with materials that slander from the school committee the new school year with advances in technology offerings include upgrades our teachers are now trained with and the Jewish people, meeting minutes month after student retention and enrollment, as well to robotics, coding, 3D printing, and cutting edge techniques to integrate and that falsify history to month.” as improvements in the technology and programming capabilities; all made pos- art and Judaic studies.” promote the Islamic religion According to the complaint, fine arts programs. sible through a matching grant from a Rusonik added, “We pride ourselves in in public schools. Just this the Newton School Commit- Year-over-year enrollment increased generous donor. continually making improvements to the past May, Newton North tee also concealed written 14 percent, and the school achieved a 95 In addition to the expansion of its school to make the student, parent, and High School invited an anti- evaluations of Superinten- percent retention rate, an improvement technology department, the fine arts family experiences the best they can be. Semitic group to screen dent David Fleishman from from prior years. program continues to grow. The We look forward to sharing even more Palestinian propaganda films the public, in contravention “We are excited to begin the school school was one of 10 schools chosen exciting news and advances in the com- to its students. For this, NPS of its own policy and the Open year with such positive momentum in to participate in a grant by the highly ing months.” Superintendent David Fleish- Meeting Law. recruitment and enrollment,” Head of prestigious Teacher Institute for the To learn more about the Jewish Acad- man earned a rebuke from In their complaint, the School Alan Rusonik stated. Arts program, sponsored by Kol HaOt emy of Orlando, please visit https://www. the New England branch of Newton taxpayer plaintiffs For years, Jewish Academy has been Art Institute, under the auspices of jewishacademyorlando.org or follow us the Anti-Defamation League seek orders compelling the a technology leader with 1:1 iPad and American/Israeli artist David Moss. on https://www.facebook.com/ and Boston’s Jewish Commu- school committee to present computer programs, innovation lab, and Jewish Academy’s art teacher, Penny JewishAcademyOrlando. nity Relations Council. all written evaluations of Parents and taxpayers Superintendent Fleishman at seeking information on what an open meeting, to acknowl- is happening in Newton class- Nazi camp guard Jakiw Palij rooms have been met with a Newton on page 15A deported from US to KCOA seeks 8 By Cnaan Liphshiz centration camp near Lublin, grated to the in , during World War II, 1949 and became a citizen in (JTA)—A former guard at and may face prosecution in 1957, but concealed his Nazi a Nazi concentration camp Germany for his actions. service saying that he spent over 80 nominees was deported to Germany Members of New York’s World War II working in a The Kinneret Council of outstanding achievements,” overnight from the United congressional delegation factory on a farm. Aging’s Annual 8 over 80 said Sharon F. Weil, director States, where he had lived last year urged the Trump Palij told Justice Depart- Honorary Dinner is designed of Programming and Develop- for decades. administration to deport Palij, ment investigators who to recognize area residents ment, KCOA. Jakiw Palij, 95, had lived in whose citizenship was revoked showed up at his door in who have contributed to the The year’s event, including , New York. He served in 2003 based on his wartime 1993, “I would never have betterment of the Central a reception and gala dinner, as a guard at the con- activities, human rights received my visa if I told the Florida community. Who will will be held in the Delaney abuses and immigration truth. Everyone lied.” be the newest honorees? Dining Room at Kinneret. , NBC reported. A federal He later admitted to offi- On Sunday, March 3, 2019, We are currently seeking court also ruled that he had cials that he attended a Nazi KCOA will pay tribute to eight nominations and ask that you assisted in the persecution of SS training camp in Trawniki individuals over the age of 80 consider who you know that prisoners at the camp, though in German-occupied Poland who have made significant is worthy of this distinction. it stopped short of finding him and then served as an armed contributions in the Central Nomination forms are avail- responsible for deaths. guard at its adjacent forced- Florida area and continue able at www.kinneretliving. A statement released by the . Nazi War Criminal to live lives of remarkable org or by calling the Kinneret White House after Palij landed According to the U.S. Ho- Jakiw Palij achievement, vitality and office at 407-425-4537. Note in Germany early Tuesday locaust Memorial Museum, civic engagement. This cov- that individuals may nomi- commended President Donald the Trawniki camp was part bility.” And Foreign Minister eted honor is one of the most nate more than one person. Trump and Immigration and of , the told the German prestigious awards for older Kinneret Apartments, lo- Customs Enforcement for Nazi operation to murder the tabloid Bild that those who adults in our community. cated in downtown Orlando, “removing this war criminal approximately 2 million “committed the worst crimes “The event creates an provides subsidized housing from United States soil.” residing in German-occupied on behalf of Germans” would overwhelming sense of com- to 280 independent seniors. “Despite a court ordering Poland. be held accountable. munity by recognizing and For information on the facil- his in 2004, past Because Germany, Poland, A reporter from ABC News celebrating these amazing 8 ity or to find out how you can administrations were unsuc- and other countries who was present when Pajil individuals who have contrib- donate to KCOA, please go to cessful in removing Palij,” the refused to take him, he con- was removed by ICE on Mon- uted their time and talent for www.kinneretliving.org or statement said. “To protect tinued living in limbo in the day morning described him the betterment of our com- contact Sharon Weil at 407- the promise of freedom for two-story, red brick home in as “looking frail with missing munity,” said Lynn Fenster, 425-4537. and their Queens he shared with his front teeth visible through Chair, 8 over 80 Gala. families, President Trump pri- wife, Maria, now 86. his white beard. The only “Each honoree has an im- oritized the removal of Palij.” Germany’s Foreign Office noise he made was a pained pactful story to tell and we Palij was born on former said its decision to accept howl as agents hoisted him look forward to their sharing Polish territory, an area now Palij showed the country was it with us as well as celebrating located in Ukraine. He immi- accepting its “moral responsi- Nazi on page 14A their legacy of leadership and PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 31, 2018 New boards usher in a New Year at The Jewish Pavilion

Jewish Pavilion Board of Directors 2018-2019. Seated (l-r): Valerie Chestnut, Susie Goebeler, Sheila Kramer, Mary Carter Eick, Marlene Adler. Standing (l-r): Sammy Goldstein, Jason Mendelsohn, Barry Kudlowitz, Peter Schoenberger, Carina Gerscovich, Faye Novick, Dick Appelbaum (former board member), Mo Kaprow, Terri Fine, Paul Stenzler, Nancy Ludin. Not pictured: Toby Vandemark, Tracey Kagen, Alan Kronenberg, Noreen Levitt, Elise Schilowitz, Geanne Share, Ken Davis.

By Lisa Levine involved in planning many of the Pavilion’s events over the The Jewish Pavilion Board years and has volunteered at of Directors welcomed a new Pavilion programs and holiday executive committee and services. She and her hus- six new members at its Au- band, Bill, have been married gust meeting. Former board for 23 years and have lived in member Dick Appelbaum Orlando for most of that time. reviewed the past year’s ac- “I am honored to be presi- complishments and installed dent of this engaged and the new executive committee caring board,” said Novick. and board. The new president “The Jewish Pavilion serves for a two-year term is Faye an important need in our Novick. Barry Kudlowitz is community. I am looking vice president, Terri Fine is forward to working with the secretary and Toby Vande- organization as we safeguard mark is treasurer. Immediate its present and future.” past president Paul Stenzler The Friends of The Jewish remains on the executive Pavilion has also launched Friends of The Jewish Pavilion 2018-2019. Seated (left to right): Gloria Newberger, Renee , Jen Landa, Elise committee and board. New a new year as the busy fall Schilowitz. Standing (left to right): Nancy Ludin, Lisa Levine, Denise Beumer, Susan Livingstone, Marlene Adler, Jane board members are Marlene season approaches. Longtime Edelstein, Randy Cunningham, Susie Stone, Marian Bromberg, Corinne Brail. A number of members are not pictured. Adler, Mary Carter Eick, Friends member Marlene Adler Sheila Kramer and Susie was inducted as president, and Pavilion and will be helping living facilities all over Central Sanford, taking over from Em- Sabbath and holiday services Goebeler. Valerie Chestnut Denise Beumer, Marian Brom- at some of the many Rosh Florida. The Gala committee ily Newman, who has retired. as a volunteer for The Jewish and Ken Davis are returning berg, Tandy Cunningham, Hashanah celebrations. of the Friends of the Pavilion “We are very excited to Pavilion for several years. to the board after a hiatus. Sondra Hoffman, Rebecca Coming on the heels of the has been working hard for welcome Susan Bernstein as Through her volunteer work, Novick has been a board Kleiman, Jennifer Landa, New Year and fall holidays many months to make it an our new program director,” Susan is familiar with many member for eight years and Terry Newman, Stacy Soll, will be the much-anticipated event to remember. said Nancy Ludin, executive of the elder care buildings a Friends of The Jewish Pa- Miriam Varnagy and Tracy Gems and Jeans 2018 Gala A new year often brings director of The Jewish Pavil- we serve. Susan is bright, vilion member for 10 years, Weiss were welcomed to the on Oct. 28, celebrating The change, and The Jewish Pa- ion. “She comes with a wealth energetic and compassionate, as well as its immediate past Friends board this year. Many Jewish Pavilion’s milestone vilion is pleased to announce of knowledge and experience and she has developed superb president. Soon to be retired of the members are very active 18th anniversary of bring- that Susan Bernstein is the in Jewish communal work. relationships with our seniors, from her event-planning volunteers at the senior living ing engaging programs and new program director for Susan is an excellent gui- volunteers and the staff at the business, Novick has been facilities served by The Jewish friendly visits to seniors in Longwood, Lake Mary and tarist and has been leading facilities.” Beth Am to host the ‘Rosh ha-Shana experience’ Monday, Sept. 10, from 4 p.m. for the occasion. This is not will encourage everyone in filiation. No ticket is necessary to 5 p.m. for all students and intended as a substitute for attendance to take a short to enjoy what Rosh Hashanah their families who will not our morning services at walk to the neighboring has to offer. At the very least have had the opportunity to Beth Am or any synagogue lake to cast away their sins we want everyone to have attend services on the 1st Day in Central Florida. This will at a Tashlich service before the opportunity to hear the of Rosh Hashanah. This will be an ‘experiential’ hour for returning home for dinner.” sounding of a shofar to usher be followed by a brief Tashlich students and their families Alman added, “We are in the New Year!” service that’s BYOB (Bring to get a taste of Rosh Hasha- opening this ‘Rosh ha-Shana More information on the Your Own Bread). nah. There will be a Shofar Experience’ to all Central “Rosh ha-Shana Experience” According to Greg Alman, Service, apples and honey, Florida Jewish students and and the High Holy Day ser- vice-president for Religious familiar chants and discus- their families, regardless of vices at Congregation Beth Activities at Beth Am, “We sion of some major themes synagogue affiliation and to Am can be found at www. were not pleased to see this of Rosh Hashanah. And we those with no synagogue af- CongBethAm.org. year’s Orange and Seminole Mark Davids demonstrates how the shofar is blown. County school calendars did not include days off for Recognizing that the Hashanah, Congregation the Jewish holidays and we JSU kickoff event this Sunday school districts of Seminole Beth Am in Longwood will wanted to do something and Orange counties will offer an innovative, alterna- about it. We designed the JSU is back in full force JSU has hundreds of clubs all For more information be in session during Rosh tive worship “experience” on ‘Rosh ha-Shana Experience” and is now in seven high over the country, with seven about the clubs or the JSU schools around Orlando. JSU of them right here in Orlando. Kick off Event, contact is a student run Jewish Club There will be a JSU kickoff Daniel Nabatian at 516- at local high schools where event on Sunday, Sept. 2 from 426-8484, dnabatian@ teens of all affiliations and noon to 2:30 p.m. at 9101 joinorlando.org or Aliza backgrounds get to explore International Dr., #1032 in Nabatian at anabatian@ “ ” Judaism in a fun, accepting, Orlando. The cost is $12 per joinorlando.org or 786- When I DO becomes and engaging environment. person. 350-0621. “ ” Explore bereavement I'M DONE. For those grieving the loss from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For registration or ques- of a loved one there is hope. 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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 31, 2018 PAGE 3A Episcopal bishop apologizes after sharing false stories about Israeli atrocities (JTA)—A senior clergy- diers camp up to the Temple him in the back four times as though I had personally “condemnation of violence accusations, unfounded ac- woman in the Episcopal Mount and attempted to put he fell on the ground and witnessed the alleged events. on all sides of the Palestinian- cusations of violence, which Church of Massachusetts handcuffs on a three-year-old they shot him another six,” I sincerely apologize. I now Israeli conflict,” Gates said spurred more violence against has apologized for comments little boy—for bouncing a she said. understand how the framing that he grieved over the “dam- Jews.” accusing Israel of fabricated rubber ball.” Harris’ comments gener- of my words could and did age done to our relationships The meeting, which al- atrocities. In a statement last month ated widespread outrage give the wrong impression. with Jewish friends and col- lowed the two sides to “repair During a speech last month accusing the church of com- among members of the local The fault is solely mine I leagues in Massachusetts, and any rupture in our relation- to the church’s General Con- ing “close to a blood libel,” Jewish community. After vo- acknowledge also that I did rededicate ourselves to those ship,” was “not the end of the vention, Bishop Suffragen the Simon Wiesenthal Center cal opposition from the The not take the opportunity to partnerships, in which we are conversation,” she said. Gayle Harris claimed that she noted that there is a high Jewish Community Relations verify these stories. I was grateful to face complexities In a statement emailed to had witnessed Israeli security wall surrounding the Temple Council of Greater Boston and speaking from my passion .” the press, the Simon Wiesen- forces arrest a 3-year-old on Mount, making it unlikely the local branch of the Ameri- for justice for all people, but I In response, the JCRC thal Center welcomed Harris’ the Temple Mount and shoot that such a small child would can Jewish Committee, she was repeating what I received wrote on Facebook that it apology as a “first step.” a 15-year-old in the back 10 be able to bounce a ball high issued a statement clarifying secondhand. I was ill-advised “welcome[ed] this response “Bishop Harris’ apology times after making a com- enough for it to reach the her remarks. to repeat the stories without from Bishop Harris and we is full-throated, sincere, but ment to a group of soldiers. Jewish prayer-goers below.” “For my entire adult life verification, and I apologize look forward to continued incomplete,” said the center’s Harris, the second-highest A video from the Boston- I have maintained that the for doing so.” engagement with her, Bishop associate dean, Rabbi Abra- ranking Episcopal official in based Committee for Accura- State of Israel must exist, with In an accompanying state- Gates, and the Episcopal ham Cooper. the state, later clarified that cy in Middle East Reporting in safe borders and the establish- ment, Bishop Alan Gates, Diocese of MA as we seek to “Bishop Harris now admits she had heard the stories from America, or CAMERA, helped ment of respectful relation- the head of the the diocese advance our shared goal of a that she was not there, but a third party. drive the story, and it wrote a ships by and with neighboring and Harris’ direct superior, two-state solution.” uncritically repeated what “I was there a couple of years letter to Harris. CAMERA also countries,” she said. “I have acknowledged that “for Chris- “We had a very open con- she had heard from others,” ago on the Temple Mount,” referred to the accusations as strongly condemned the ac- tian leaders to relate unsub- versation. It led to some Cooper said. “Unfortunately, Harris said. “A three-year-old a blood libel. tions of extremists and bigots stantiated accounts of Israeli important soul-searching,” she has not yet brought little boy, a Palestinian with In the second case, Harris against Jewish people in the violence awakens traumatic JCRC deputy director Nahma herself to state that the two his mother, was bouncing a described how a teenager United States. memory of a deep history of Nadich told the Boston Globe. stories were in fact ludicrous rubber ball. The ball happened was walking down the street “After reviewing my words inciting hostility and violence “We made sure to have a con- fabrications presented to her to sort of roll away from him and asked a group of soldiers in the House of Bishops against Jews—a history the versation directly with them, by Palestinians that defamed and go over the side down to a question that they found from a transcription, I now echoes of which are heard and the apology was issued the the Jewish State. Will she and the Western Wall otherwise offensive. acknowledge that I reported alarmingly in our own day.” next day. We wanted them to her Church denounce such a known as the Wailing Wall. “He began to run as they stories which I had heard and Reaffirming the church’s understand the centuries of blood libel?” And immediately, Israeli sol- threatened him and they shot unintentionally framed them PepsiCo to acquire Israel’s SodaStream for $3.2 billion (JTA)—Pep- factures home carbonation Israel. I welcome the huge deal siCo will acquire the Israeli machines that work with that will enrich the state cof- home soda maker manufac- its own line of soda flavor- fers as well as the important turer SodaStream for $3.2 ings, has long been a target decision to leave the company billion, the soft drink giant of advocates of the Boycott, in Israel.” said Monday. Divestment and Sanctions Oded Revivi, who manages PepsiCo plans to maintain movement against Israel foreign relations for the Yesha the Israeli company’s cur- because it was based in the Council, a group representing rent base of operations in West Bank. the settlement movement, the Negev. SodaStream will In October 2014, SodaS- called Monday’s news a “day continue to operate as an tream announced it would of darkness for the #BDS and independent subsidiary. close its Mishor Adumim its supporters” and a “day of The American multina- industrial park factory and light for the Israeli economy.” tional agreed to acquire all move to southern Israel in the Economy Minister Eli Co- of the outstanding shares of face of international pressure hen said the purchase evoked SodaStream International from the BDS movement, “pride in local industry,” Ltd. for $144 per share. which seeks to hurt Israel’s while Justice Ministry Ayelet “PepsiCo and SodaStream economy over its policies Shaked said the firm was “an are an inspired match,” Pep- toward the Palestinians. example of Israeli creativity, siCo Chairman and CEO Indra The movement claimed that innovation, coexistence and Nooyi said in a statement. SodaStream discriminated entrepreneurship.” SodaStream CEO Daniel against Palestinian workers “Worth remembering: Pep- Birnbaum “and his leadership and paid some less than siCo boycotted Israel until team have built an extraordi- Israeli workers. 1991. Today it bought an nary company that is offering Israeli politicians framed Israeli firm for $3.2B and consumers the ability to make the significance of the SodaS- pledged it will continue to great-tasting beverages while tream aquisition in national operate from Israel. The reducing the amount of waste terms that went beyond the story of Israel’s economy in generated. That focus is well- purchase of one company. a nutshell,” tweeted Israel’s aligned with Performance “I welcome the purchase of consul general in New York, with Purpose, our philosophy SodaStream,” Prime Minister Dani Dayan. of making more nutritious Benjamin Netanyahu posted Addressing his father, who products while limiting our on . “The recent large is a Holocaust survivor, at environmental footprint. acquisitions of Israeli compa- a news conference Monday, Together, we can advance our nies demonstrate not only the Birnbaum said that he was shared vision of a healthier, technological capabilities but “proud that you have seen more-sustainable planet.” also the business capabilities your Zionist vision come SodaStream, which manu- that have been developed in true.” Son of Mahmoud Abbas doesn’t believe in two-state solution (JNS)—An Israeli report two-state solution is possible, Days before that, Mah- has revealed that the son of and that the solution is one moud Abbas met with Trump Palestinian Authority leader state with equal rights for all to express his hope that the Mahmoud Abbas told a top citizens. “deal of the century” would Trump administration official Mahmoud Abbas has re- bring a solution to ongoing that a two-state solution to the peatedly insisted that the only conflict between the Pal- Israeli-Palestinian conflict is way to peace is through the estinians and Israel. Since unrealistic. creation of a Palestinian state. then, Abbas has blasted According to Israel’s Chan- The report stated that Trump’s deal and vowed not nel 10, Tarek Abbas told White Greenblatt reached out to to engage in any negotiations House special envoy to the Tarek Abbas in order to try led by the Trump White Middle East Jason Green- to push forward the Trump House. blatt last September on the administration’s peace ef- The declaration came after Publication Date: September 7, 2018 sidelines of the U.N. General forts, according to unnamed Trump recognized Jerusalem Assembly meeting in New senior Israeli officials cited by as the capital of Israel in Advertising Deadline: August 31, 2018 York that he does not think a Channel 10. December. PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 31, 2018 Hamas-Israel ceasefire talks show peace impossible By Caroline Glick forcibly ejected the PA from Gaza and set up chief Palestinian negotiator in ceasefire talks And this brings us to the main reality that its own terror regime, which has ruled—with that brought an end to Hamas’s 50 day war the current ceasefire talks expose. The ceasefire negotiations between Israel public support—ever since. against Israel in 2014. The PLO’s international Since Hamas took over Gaza 11 years ago, and the Hamas terror group’s regime in Gaza The PLO is an umbrella organization that delegations represented Hamas’s positions in the U.S., Egypt, and Israel have believed to point to a central truth about the nature of includes several aligned Palestinian terror forums like the UN. varying degrees that Gaza is a sideshow. The the Palestinian conflict with Israel. Before groups. Fatah, which was established by Yas- The PA/Fatah was apparently blindsided by main story is Judea and Samaria. anyone speaks any more about a possible “deal ser Arafat in 1958, is the largest faction of the the current round of ceasefire discussions. In Like all previous U.S. peace proposals, of the century,” or a “two-state solution,” it is PLO. Until his death in 2004, Arafat headed these discussions, being carried out indirectly Trump’s “deal of the century” is reportedly imperative that the implications of those talks Fatah, the PLO and the PA. His successor, with Israel through several different mediators, focused on Judea and Samaria and the PA, be fully understood. Mahmoud Abbas, similarly sits at the helm Hamas is not using the PA to represent it. And not on Gaza and Hamas. The ceasefire talks are being held between of all three groups. this makes sense. But the ceasefire discussions have shown the sides of two separate international coali- Since it was established in 1964, the PLO To show his frustration with Hamas’s that Gaza and Hamas are the only game in tions. On the one side are Israel, the U.S., and has insisted that it is the sole legitimate rep- refusal to cede control over Gaza to the PA town. Egypt. On the other side are Hamas, Qatar, resentative of the Palestinians. Since the PA in any significant way, in April 2017, Abbas Since Israel removed all of its civilians and Turkey. was established in 1994, the PLO has sought stopped paying Hamas’s electricity bills. He and military forces from Gaza in 2005 and The party that has been most notably ab- to convince Hamas, the Muslim-Brotherhood’s also stopped transferring money for salaries abandoned the area, Gaza has been an en- sent from the discussions is the Palestinian Palestinian terror affiliate, to join its ranks. to the Hamas regime in April 2018. Given the tirely independent Palestinian territory. It Authority. The PA, which was formed in 1994 in Although Hamas and Fatah have negotiated acrimony between the two sides, it is little has international borders with Israel and the framework of talks between the Palestine multiple unity deals since then, many of which wonder that Hamas, uninterested in ceding Egypt. It has a population it controls. It is a Liberation Organization and Israel, is charged involved Hamas joining the PLO, none of the its power, decided to represent itself in its Palestinian state in everything but name. On with running the Palestinian autonomous deals was ever fully implemented. ceasefire negotiations. the other hand, in Judea and Samaria, there areas that Israel transferred to PLO control. Since Hamas ousted Fatah forces from Gaza, Abbas stubbornly refuses to accept his is a Palestinian autonomy inside a larger area Until June 2007, that included the Gaza Strip on the ground, PA/Fatah has served as Hamas’s growing irrelevance. Rather than trying to controlled by Israel. and the Palestinian population centers in financier and diplomatic representative. It has maneuver himself into a senior negotiating As Abbas said in a speech Saturday panning Judea and Samaria. used the internationally-funded PA budget to role, Abbas has boycotted the talks. He has the ceasefire talks, “There is no state in Gaza In 2006, the PA held elections to its legis- pay for Hamas’s regime in Gaza. Abbas’s PLO soured his relations with the Sisi regime in and an autonomy in the West Bank, and we lative council. Hamas won. In 2007, Hamas representative Azzam al-Ahmad served as the Egypt, by—among other things—refusing will not accept this. We will never accept the to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah separation of Gaza [from the West Bank].” el-Sisi’s intelligence chief, Abbas Kamel, who is What Abbas left out was that the reason the overseeing ceasefire negotiations with Hamas. Palestinians do not have a state in Judea and Until a few weeks ago, Sisi was Abbas’s stron- Samaria is because the PA/Fatah, under both Shipley speaks gest supporter. He accepted Abbas’s demand Arafat and Abbas, rejected multiple Israel and that Fatah reassert its control over Gaza in U.S offers of statehood. There is no Palestinian Nation-state law: Good for the Jews? any ceasefire deal. But Abbas’s recalcitrance state in Judea and Samaria because the PLO/ and contempt for Sisi’s regime have brought Fatah/PLO doesn’t want one. relations to a low point. Sisi, like Israel, believes Which brings us back to the Hamas state it is more urgent to prevent another war than in Gaza. By Jim Shipley a diverse nation—designed as such. We needed empower the feckless Fatah leader. Abbas also said, “Either we take responsi- immigrants. We had to fill an expanding nation Abbas’s behavior has also won him the bility for the West Bank and Gaza under one It’s an old story and has resonance prob- with people. So we created the most unique, contempt of several PLO factions. While Fatah state, one regime, one law, and one weapons, ably only for people of a certain age whose life diverse nation on earth. boycotts the Cairo talks, almost every other or Hamas will take responsibility [for the made it almost necessary to look at everything Israel is diverse. There are Jews there from PLO faction is participating in them. The West Bank]. through the “I am a Jew” lens. Back in 1969, every corner of the earth. Israel is the land of participation of the likes of the Democratic The situation in Gaza proves that is a lie. When I told my 93-year-old immigrant grand- THE JEWISH PEOPLE. It is not the land of the Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the The options aren’t Fatah or Hamas. They are mother “Bubby! We just landed a man on the Orthodox Jew or the Conservative Jew or any talks shows that Abbas’s long-held plan to Israel or Hamas. moon!” She replied, “Oh. Is that good for the other type of specific Jew. It is the land of the incorporate Hamas into the PLO has been Jews or bad for the Jews?” JEWISH PEOPLE. That too is open to some turned on its head. The PLO is joining Hamas. Glick on page 14A Well, we’ve come a ways since then. But, type of interpretation. Does that include the Israel... yeah, Israel. Not as simple as it used to black Jews of Ethiopia? The Jews discovered in be. When the State became a reality in 1948, Northern India? How far back do we have to go? Jews around the world rejoiced. We, the People But, as we understand it, there is some DNA Letter from Israel of the Book were back in their land, the land work that has proven the validity of these of the Book—never to leave again. claims from various corners of the world. So, Of course, there were those who did not we have a history thousands of years older than rejoice. Arabs who fled their homes as war the U.S. And, it makes sense that our people, A three-state solution? loomed. Arabs from around the Middle East having been sent into a Diaspora, would turn who were determined that Jews could never up in some wildly diverse corners. But, once By Ira Sharkansky nounce and implement his favored solution have their own nation back. Various religious they are there and their Jewish roots have been for Palestine and Israel. sects than never could figure why Jews didn’t verified they are citizens of the Jewish Nation. It appears that the split between Gaza and Chances are that Gaza will save Israel from just convert. Israel as we said, has a language. So, under the West Bank is serious. There’s a line of cul- having to accept any kind of solution for Pal- Israel had a left wing almost-Socialist gov- the new law, Hebrew is the official language. ture between us and them that keeps us from estine, while Abbas dithers in the West Bank, ernment, a small population, a small army and The U.S. has a language: A form of English. knowing what’s occurring. We do know that and Egypt plus Qatar do what they can to keep huge debts. Jews around the world responded. Not original, but it works. Do the people of the Fatah of Mahmoud Abbas is out of touch Gaza peaceful. The country grew. It assimilated Jews thrown Israel speak different languages? Of course. with the Hamas that controls Gaza. We don’t Yet another issue capable of affecting a out of Arab countries after centuries of be- There is Arabic and Druze and English and know more, but there’s speculation that it is three-state solution is whatever happens to ing contributing, patriotic citizens of those Spanish and Russian and ... but as in the U.S., or isn’t a matter of Abbas’ stubbornness. He’s Israel’s First Family. Currently the police are countries. eventually as generations change, everybody in his mid-80s, and ill, and there are several said to have finished with their inquiries into It educated its populace, united them under will be speaking Hebrew. competitors for his job. One or more may have Bibi’s roles in Cases #1, #2, and #4, and are a single language: Hebrew, the language of The early Jewish immigrants to America connections with Gaza. about to summarize their findings. They are the Jewish people. from Eastern Europe spoke Yiddish. Their Hamas appears to be dominant in Gaza. Its concerned with his receiving goodies from When America declared its independence, culture was built around it. From the food competitors include several groups even more rich supporters, his effort to moderate the they sat down and wrote a constitution. And, they ate to the newspapers they read to the radical; and there are lots of Gazans who seem coverage received from Yedioth Aharonoth, we have been re-writing it ever since as we radio to which they listened. primarily concerned with earning a living. and manipulations involving Israel’s telephone have grown and diversified. Israel has no con- Their children spoke Yiddish in the home So, at least for the time being, it appears company. The police summaries will take a few stitution. It does have a bunch of basic laws. and English on the street. In many homes that Gaza and the West Bank have been apart months. And somewhere in the planning is Most of which make great sense for a Jewish the same pattern emerges today. In Spanish for long enough to develop their own inner an indictment against Sara. We’re told that’ll country re-establishing itself. Some however, speaking homes, in Arabic speaking homes, cement. Qatar has stepped up to provide the come down after the holidays. do defy logic and the wishes of the majority in Moroccan homes—well, you get the idea. money seeded to pay for what’s imported to After the police present their conclusions of the population. So, the similarity between our young nation Gaza from Israel. There are two claimants on about Bibi, the prosecutor will take some Today, the government of Israel is more and the much older yet newer nation of Israel Palestine. months to review the material. That may “right” than “left.” But with the diversity of are apparent. There is one huge difference: In We’re a long way from Israel recognizing bring us into 2019, and whatever happens in parties, coalition is the only practical way to get America there is total freedom of religion and any claimant. But given that there are two of an election. things done—an art we have lost in America. religion has no place in government. them, it appears as wise to bet on three states Few are expecting the present deal with Gaza Let’s see if we can figure out how close Israel In Israel? Well... let’s save that for another rather than two in this little cluster. to last that long. But for the time being, that is to America. The United States of America is time. For the time being, things will remain pretty is what we may have. However, Israel closed much as they are. 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Tobin mighty buildings and the troversial article in Haaretz leftists lamenting that the idea that Israel can be forced last decade, rather than (as industry, creativity, power by Ori Mark arguing that it large numbers of settlers and back to the 1967 lines, and all his critics constantly allege) (JNS)—In the interna- and wealth they represent, he wasn’t too late for two states. the political strength of their of the settlements in Judea vastly expanding them and tional hit Israeli TV series says, show the permanence of Though its statistics were supporters makes the notion and Samaria, as well as Jewish thereby rendering two states “Fauda,” the head of the Israel. The Jews are interested questionable, it made the case of throwing that many Jews neighborhoods in Jerusalem impossible. Palestinian Authority security in life rather than death, and that is still possible to draw out of their homes unimagi- built over the so-called “green The border Mark draws service is a fictional character since they can’t be defeated, a border between a viable nable. Similarly, some on the line,” demolished. Though with long and narrow cor- named Abu Maher. Played by Abu Maher believes that the Palestinian state in the West right were just as dismissive of many Arabs—and what re- ridors linking settlements to Qader Harini, an Arab actor Palestinians must choose Bank that would leave most the proposal since they believe mains of the once politically the rest of Israel, and a barely from eastern Jerusalem, Abu peace. Jewish settlements inside that the two-state solution is powerful Israeli left and their contiguous Palestinian state, Maher is reconciled to peace I’m sure I’m far from the Israel. His map would leave already a dead letter, and that foreign sympathizers—may seems crazy. So is the idea of and coexistence, and therefore only audience member who about 46,000 Jews in isolated the movement to establish still think such a scenario sending the army into the 33 willing to cooperate with the saw that scene and pondered communities that would need Israeli sovereignty over the is possible, the notion that isolated communities that Israelis to combat Islamist what life would be like if the to be evacuated in order to territories is headed towards hundreds of thousands of Jews Mark envisions being left terror. actual head of the P.A. was implement the scheme. To inevitable victory. and their communities can be behind in a Palestinian state In an episode of the show’s someone like the fictional Abu make it sound less daunting, But the problem with the uprooted is not realistic. The to drag approximately 46,000 second season (this is not a Maher, instead of Mahmoud Mark calculated that meant arguments of Mark and his settlement blocs and post- people out of their homes. But spoiler for the main plot line, Abbas or the other real-life evicting only 9,800 families. critics is that—like so much 1967 Jerusalem will stay in if ordered to do it, I believe the so you can keep reading even Fatah functionaries who are Put that way, the idea of the debate about potential place in any conceivable plan Israel Defense Forces would if you haven’t watched the still fixated on the century-old sounds vaguely doable, even if borders that has raged in the for peace. accomplish the task, even if series), Abu Maher takes his war against Zionism (in which the memory of the traumatic last 25 years since the Oslo But Mark’s article was also the cost in terms of civil peace son—a student who sympa- they have yet to admit defeat). evacuation of far fewer Jews Accords—they both largely correct when he noted that the and even potential casualties thizes with Hamas—to lunch With such a person leading the from their homes in Gaza in ignore the main obstacle to government of Israeli Prime on both sides would not be on the Jaffa beach inside Palestinians, a two-state solu- 2005 is still fresh in the minds peace: the Palestinians. Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cheap. Israel. He tells the youngster tion might indeed be possible. of Israelis. The Haaretz piece was right has more or less frozen the Yet that would only be pos- to look at the skyscrapers of I thought of that episode The proposal set off a debate about two things. number of settlements in neighboring Tel Aviv. Those when I read a recent con- with some of Mark’s fellow One is a non-starter: the place over the course of the Fauda on page 15A Why Israel needs the nation-state law By Mordechai Kedar truth). Judaism has been Palestinian National Charter, land [Auschwitz], Germany There are, nevertheless, pened with the Arab al-Ard null and void ever since Islam which says (with my inter- [Dachau], Iraq, Morocco...) Israeli Jews who oppose the Movement, the aim of which (JNS)—Much has been came to the world, so there pretations in italics): “The The new law is meant to Nation-State Law for various was to abolish Israel’s Jewish published against the new is no reason to establish a Mandate for Palestine, and make it as clear as possible reasons. The first is a politi- nature (i.e., subvert the State Israeli basic law: Israel as the Jewish state. everything that has been that the Jews are a nation. cal reason: Because many on of Israel). Al-Ard tried to run nation-state of the Jewish In addition, according to based upon it” (international As the new law states, “The the left side of the political for the Knesset (the Israeli People. Many, both in Israel Islam, Jews (and Christians) decisions to establish a Jewish Land of Israel is the historical map do not like Benjamin Parliament) in 1965 but was and abroad, ask: Why is it should live under Islamic rule State) “are deemed null and homeland of the Jewish peo- Netanyahu in general, they rejected by the necessary? How can it com- as dhimmis (“protected as void. Claims of historical or ple in which the State of Israel oppose everything he and Court. Thirty-one years later, port with democracy? Where long as they behave according religious ties of Jews with was established; the State of his coalition do as a matter in 1996, the Supreme Court does it leave minorities, to the rules of Islam”) and “pay Palestine are incompatible Israel is the national home of of course. under Barak allowed the particularly Muslim-Arabs, the Jizya out of hand while with the facts of history the Jewish people in which it The more important rea- Balad party to run for Knesset who make up some 20% of they are utterly subdued” and the true conception of fulfills its natural, cultural, son is what has happened although it had and still has the Israeli population? (Koran 9:29). Thus, Jews have what constitutes statehood” religious and historical right since the 1990s, when Aharon a similar platform to that of In order to understand the no right to a state, army, or (there is no Jewish history to self-determination; and Barak was Chief Justice of the al-Ard in the 1960s. need for the new Nation-State police, and should live in a in the Holy Land). “Judaism, the right to exercise national Supreme Court. Starting in Israel also has its share of law, we must understand the state of perpetual humiliation being a religion, is not an self-determination in the 1992, Barak focused on ad- multicultural acolytes who challenges to Israel’s exis- at the mercy of Muslims. independent nationality. Nor State of Israel is unique to vancing and shaping Israel’s naturally oppose the law. tence in the Middle East. First Next is the national as- do Jews constitute a single the Jewish people.” Constitutional Revolution When Israelis see the dam- of all, there is the religious pect. The fact that Israel nation with an identity of Just as Italy is the nation- (a phrase he coined), prefer- age wrought on Europe by aspect. According to Islam, is the nation-state of the its own; they are citizens state of the Italian people and ring and advancing human multiculturalism, they want Judaism and Christianity Jewish People is rejected by of the states to which they France is the nation-state of rights at the expense of the to ensure that they are as far are din al-batel (religions of all of Israel’s Arab neighbors belong.” (Therefore we Jews the French people, Israel is Jewish character of the state. removed as possible from this falsehood) while only Islam without exception. Consider, should leave our forefathers’ the nation-state of the Jew- The best example of this is din al-haqq (religion of for instance, Article 20 of the land and go back to Po- ish People. revolution was what hap- Nation-state on page 15A Deportation of Nazi ignites a fight between right and left—you’re surprised? By Andrew adjacent Trawniki forced- living and he didn’t need a outspoken proponents in the deporting an actual Nazi la- “Few of us would dis- Silow-Carroll labor camp, where Jews were xenophobic goon squad to do Senate. His use of “ACTUAL” bor camp guard seems a tad agree that former Nazis shot en masse (Trawniki’s it,” tweeted BuzzFeed reporter presumably referred to some inconvenient for the whole who participated in war (JTA)—In the Trump era, functions shifted over the Joe Bernstein, whose father, left-wing attacks comparing ‘ICE is a bunch of literal Nazis’ crimes should not be given even the deporting of Nazis course of the war). Even if Mike, served as assistant ICE officers to Nazis. narrative.” refuge or citizenship in the can’t bring Americans to- his role was only to prevent deputy director of the Office Conservative provocateur Beyond the political score- U.S.,” Marshall wrote. “But gether. their escape, that constitutes of Special Investigations, the Glenn Beck took a similar keeping, some observers denaturalization is extreme A number of Jewish organi- a . Justice Department’s Nazi- tack. sought to make some substan- and fraught device which zations and lawmakers were ABC News reported that hunting unit. “The men and “ICE deports White Nazi? tive points. should be employed only in quick to thank the Trump Trump told U.S. Ambassador women of OSI would be dis- I thought they were white Marshall also wanted to talk the most extreme circum- administration for deporting to Germany Richard Gren- gusted by using supremacists? Facts can be policy, not politics, specifical- stances.” Jakiw Palij, a former SS guard ell to make Palij’s deportation as a political stunt.” stubborn things,” he tweeted. ly about whether aggressive Whether you agree or not, at the Nazis’ Trawnicki con- “his No. 1 priority when he got “Palij’s deportation was James Hasson, a law stu- attempts to strip the citizen- Marshall’s argument can’t be centration camp in Poland. to ,” which had to agree ordered in 2004, the hold-up dent and frequent contributor ship of naturalized citizens reduced to a tweet. So it is But they weren’t as quick to take the deportee. had to do with him being state- to the conservative media, violates a tradition that treats unlikely that anyone will pay as the administration itself, But nothing escapes po- less, and past admins removed tweeted: “ICE arresting and all citizens the same. attention. whose news release Monday liticization in these polarized dozens of original Nazis, all announcing the deportation times, and Monday’s an- of whom are now very old or was explicit in commending nouncement was no excep- dead,” journalist Jonathan M. President Donald Trump for tion. Critics of Immigration Katz tweeted. making Palij’s expulsion a and Customs Enforcement “[I]t is not hard to see a priority while noting that pointed out that the an- malign political motive in “past administrations were nouncement arrived only the White House’s press unsuccessful in removing hours after a special ceremony campaign surrounding the Palij.” at the White House honoring deportation,” Josh Marshall “Today, @realDon- the agency. These critics said of the liberal Talking Points aldTrump got the job the timing was intended to Memo wrote. done!” White House press deflect the intense scrutiny of Republican’s seized on the secretary Sarah Huckabee the agency’s aggressive tactics Palij announcement, mean- Sanders tweeted. in removing undocumented while, to defend the agency Presidents are seldom shy immigrants, regardless of and the president. in taking credit where credit their criminal records. Some “Thank you @ICEgov for is due, and in this case it Democrats have called for apprehending an ACTUAL is certainly due: Palij lied abolishing ICE and refocusing Nazi & deporting him. This about his Nazi past when he immigration enforcement ef- would be a good occasion for entered the country in 1949 forts only on undocumented radical Democrats to recon- and became a citizen in 1957. immigrants who come to the sider their ill-advised attacks He later admitted that he was attention of law enforcement. [on] brave @ICEgov officers,” trained by the SS and served “My father denaturalized tweeted Sen. Tom Cotton, as an armed guard at the and deported Nazis for a R-Ark., one of ICE’s most PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 31, 2018 FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 What’s A COMPREHENSIVE Ahavas Yisrael—Kabbalat, 30 minutes before sundown. COMMUNITY LIGHT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Happening CALENDAR SHABBAT CANDLES AT Torah Portion—Ki Tavo: Deuteronomy 26:1- 29:8; Haftarah: Isaiah 60:1-22. 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both Israel and Hamas for Sanders has since become the Boycott, Divestment and revelation that she opposes the crisis. the main address for Israel Sanctions movement tar- aid to Israel and backs a one- That letter, in turn, referred criticism within the party. geting Israel last year in an state solution. to a May letter signed by 13 His office has released three interview on Al Jazeera. Like many proponents of an Democrats in the Senate— videos sharply critical of Israel J Street, the liberal Jew- independent state for Pales- out of 49—that used the same since the March launch of ish Middle East policy group tinians side by side with Israel, language to say Hamas and Palestinian protests on Israel’s whose overarching issue is J Street rejects any solution Israel were responsible for border with Gaza. two states, endorses more that would “threaten Israel’s the suffering of Palestinians But Tlaib remains alone than half of the Democratic identity as a democracy and a in Gaza. in her positions. caucus in both chambers. Jewish homeland.” Bernie Sanders has Sanders has also defended It pulled its endorsement of become an address for Israel on the left, rejecting Tlaib after her post-primary Tlaib on page 13A Israel criticism. The Senate letter was Rashida Tlaib appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” initiated by Sen. Bernie August 2018. Sanders, I-Vt., the Jewish candidate who ran a surpris- By Ron Kampeas March 2015 address by Israeli ingly strong campaign in 2016 Prime Minister Benjamin Ne- for the Democratic presiden- WASHINGTON (JTA)— tanyahu to Congress opposing tial nomination. (Notably, Rashida Tlaib, the Democratic President Barack Obama’s the Israeli-American media nominee in a surefire congres- Iran policy. mogul Haim Saban, a major sional district comprising Most Democrats did not pro-Israel Democratic bene- parts of , believes in see eye to eye with Israel factor, blasted the senators a one-state solution to the over how to stop Iran from for signing on.) Israeli-Palestinian conflict becoming nuclear. But frus- In that campaign, Sanders and says she would vote tration with Netanyahu set the stage for Israel-related Ask about our Rosh Hashanah against military assistance over his pugnaciousness factionalism within the party for Israel. and disagreements with when he directly challenged Does she represent a trend? a Democratic president on Israel is- & Yom Kippur Holiday Menus. Republicans would like you to led, some would say freed, sues in a debate on the eve of think so. many Democrats to criticize the New York primary. “This is the Democrat (sic) Israel’s policies regard- In the debate, Sanders used party,” the Republican Jewish ing the Palestinians. That Clinton’s favorable reception Tradition never Coalition tweeted, attached to was exacerbated by Netan- at the recent American Israel a story about Tlaib’s view on yahu’s unabashed embrace Public Affairs Committee con- tasted so delicious. military aid. of President Donald Trump, ferences as a dig against her. Is Tlaib indeed the future who pulled out of the Iran “You gave a major speech to of the Democratic Party or nuclear deal and moved the AIPAC, which obviously deals an outlier? U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. with the Middle East crisis, Democrats are more In July, 70 Democrats in and you barely mentioned the sharply critical of Israel. the U.S. House of Representa- Palestinians,” he said. It’s true that Democrats tives—more than a third of A decade ago, a major See restaurant or our website for complete menu. have become more critical the caucus—signed a letter candidate using AIPAC to of Israel. A breaking point urging humanitarian relief ding a rival would have been toojays.com | in the relationship was the for the Gaza Strip, blaming unimaginable. PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 31, 2018 Engagement How Judaism and a yearlong trip around Announcement the country inspired a run for office Alexa Lindsay Zazik and By Josefin Dolsten Another challenge to her Alexander Stuart Bourne faith came when after divorc- (JTA)—Dafna Michaelson ing her first husband, she fell Jenet traces her political in love with a non-Jewish career back to conversations man. Jenet remembers visit- around the Shabbat table as a ing the Western Wall during a 14-year-old. She remembers trip to Israel and asking God hearing her parents and for clarity. their friends discuss the “Why do you put this man challenges facing Cincin- in my life who isn’t Jewish nati, where they were living. and is the best thing that ever But the conversations would happened to me? Clearly he’s quickly be forgotten once the my bashert,” she remembers day of rest came to an end. saying. “I was distressed by this The two eventually ended because I truly believed up marrying, though the that they had the answer to decision led to several fam- the problems that I cared ily members cutting ties strongly about, that were with her. Today, Jenet is involved plaguing our community, Sophia Laster and they didn’t fix them,” Dafna Michaelson Jenet says her experiences in BBYO with two Conservative syna- Jenet said. and Hadassah gave her “the underpinnings I needed to be gogues, the Hebrew Educa- That feeling led Jenet, now a legislator.” tional Alliance in Denver and 45, to resolve not to complain Congregation Bonai Shalom about problems unless she a passion that stems from the nities. Each week she visited in Boulder. She calls her hus- was willing to solve them, a challenges faced by her son, a new state. Her subjects band “the greatest enabler of promise she calls “a driving Eitan, 16. He struggles with ranged from Alfred Tibor, a my faith.” factor” in her life. a severe learning disability well-known sculptor who cre- Prior to entering politics, After a career in nonprofit but was unable to qualify for ated art to commemorate the Jenet worked as director of organizations and a yearlong an individualized education Holocaust, to a woman in a the Holocaust Awareness trip around the country, plan in school, a setback that small community in Alabama Institute at the University Mr. And Mrs. Errol Zazik of Coral Springs and Mr. which she documented in a Jenet believes contributed to who started an afterschool of Denver and, before mov- And Mrs. R.J. Stuart Bourne of Apopka are delighted to book, the promise led her his attempted suicide at age 9. program to keep local youth ing to Colorado with her announce the engagement of their children, Alexa Zazik to local politics in Colorado, “I knew that I had the ac- from becoming involved in first husband, ran March of and Alexander Bourne. where she currently lives. cess, the privilege, the means gun violence. the Living for the Board of Alexa is a speech pathologist at Northwest Elementary In 2016, she was elected to to be able to get my son the Jenet filmed the encoun- Jewish Education of Greater School in Tampa. She received her bachelor’s degree in the Colorado House of Repre- help he needed, and I was still ters and wrote about them New York. While working communication sciences and disorders from Florida State sentatives as a Democrat with failing my son, failing him on a blog. for March of the Living, University and her master’s degree from the University the endorsement of President so much that he wanted to “No matter what they she ended up taking Jared of South Florida. Barack Obama. Last week, end his life,” she told JTA in looked like, what they sound- Kushner, then 17 years old, Alex is a transportation development associate at Obama again endorsed her, a phone interview Tuesday. ed like, how much money or on one of its pilgrimages to RS&H in Tampa. He received his bachelor’s and mas- along with 80 other Demo- Through volunteering at education they had, I [felt I] Auschwitz. ter’s degrees in civil engineering from the University of crats, ahead of the November juvenile correction facili- could show people that they “He was amazing, he was South Florida. midterm elections. ties, Jenet came in contact had the power to solve the adorable,” she said. “He really The couple resides in Tampa with their puppy, Milo. Jenet’s legislative focus is with boys who faced similar problems in their communi- liked our kids from Denver, on helping struggling youth, problems but had far fewer ties,” she said. he ended up dating one for resources available to them The project caught the a little while, and when he than her son. attention of writer Maya An- married Ivanka and all of “Who was fighting for gelou, who interviewed her this stuff, quite frankly I’m them? Ultimately when I was on the “Oprah Radio Show.” like ‘Oh no, Jared,’” she said. asked to run for this seat, I Jenet also spoke about her Jenet says that being part realized that I could make journey on “CBS Sunday of a political campaign in such a significant difference Morning.” 2016, when Hillary Clinton for children like my son and In 2015, as Jenet was work- ran for president, was “an that I could work to end youth ing on a book about her trip, unbelievable time to run for incarceration,” she said. she ran into a local politician office and be a woman.” Jenet has introduced a who suggested she run for Under the Trump adminis- number of bills to help young office. A year later she de- tration, she is focused on pro- people in her state, including feated Republican incumbent tecting rights for Colorado to allow children as young JoAnn Windholz by an eight residents that she believes Jewish Graveside Package: as 12 to obtain confidential percent margin. could be at risk, including mental health services. Other Jenet was born in Tel Aviv, women’s reproductive rights. • Service of Funeral Director and Staff measures expand access to and her parents moved to “I am really grateful that free school lunches and pro- the United States when she I am elected to serve in a vide sexual abuse prevention was a baby. She grew up in state legislature, and we are • Sacred Burial Shroud training to early childhood an Orthodox household, but authorized under the 10th providers. struggled with her religious Amendment to do what we Her journey to politics was identity. need to do to run our state,” • Filing all Necessary Paperwork a roundabout one. In 2008, Jenet felt more at home she said. “That means that she decided to quit her job in non-Orthodox Jewish if I see something coming at a Denver hospital in order settings and said her experi- down the pipe that I think • $200.00 to Chevra Kaddish Society donation for washing to travel America and meet ences in BBYO and Hadassah is going to be harmful to my with people who were making gave her “the underpinnings citizens, I can run a bill to • Traditional Jewish Flat Top Pine Casket a difference in their commu- I needed to be a legislator.” protect them.”

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Who (I’ve been to Pisa, Venice, Florence, Rome... and more, but is buried at this grave?” never visited Milan. Sounds like great fun!) “My husband’s first wife,” replies the woman. Only Jewish education can help bridge the Israel-Diaspora divide By Pinchas other. It would be wrong to religious establishment was his title and portfolio. He did Goldschmidt put the responsibility of this alienating non-Orthodox not understand that the main growing schism only on the Jews in the Diaspora. Reading question posed by Lauder was MOSCOW (JTA)—Israel’s Israeli government, or Israeli between the lines, I sensed the not “who is right and who is passage of the nation-state civil society, since Diaspora anguish of a father and grand- wrong,” but what can we do to law brought another round denominations have changed, father who sees his children minimize the divide between of barrages across the Atlan- too. The American Reform distancing themselves from Israel and American Jewry. tic underlining the growing movement, for example, their people and ancestral As American Jews are alienation of the world’s two unilaterally introduced patri- homeland. grappling with the direction largest Jewish communities. lineal descent, redefining Naftali Bennett, Israel’s their country is taking, and The issues are increasingly Jewishness. education and Diaspora min- struggling to identify with familiar: American pluralism These tensions were aired ister, responded to Lauder’s a non-utopian Israel, the versus Jewish exceptionalism, in Ronald Lauder’s recent op-ed with one of his own in search for fresh waters from Orthodox versus Liberal, op-ed in , the same newspaper, pushing the well of our Jewish sources nationalism versus enlight- in which the president of the back in defense of Israel’s right is called for. enment. World Jewish Congress argued to pass such laws. Bennett Liberal Diaspora denomi- Yes, we have a problem. that the nation-state law seems uninterested in better- nations count fewer followers Israel and American Jewry betrayed Israel’s universalist ing relations with the Diaspo- are growing apart from one values and that the country’s ra—in direct contradiction to Divide on page 15A PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 31, 2018 Before her suicide, a Dutch Holocaust scholar saw deep threats to her life’s work Gans described this effect what she called “an obfusca- became immune to rational quires concentration. Will in more vivid terms in her last tion between perpetrator, analysis,” Diamand said. you be able to ignore signs of major interview, which she victim, bystander and col- After skipping a recent con- anti-Semitism and rewriting gave to the prestigious Vrij laborator” in the Holocaust. ference in Krakow, Diamand of history?” Gans answered Nederland weekly in January. Gans was an award-winning recalled Gans telling him that that she would try but could “It has gnawed away at writer who was recognized in she was “done for” profession- not make any promises. me,” she said about her 2016 2002 with the prestigious ally because she missed the She had campaigned simi- book titled “The Holocaust, Henriette Roland Holst lit- opportunity to meet several larly twice before in recent Israel and ‘the Jew’: Histories erary prize for her book on colleagues there, all of whom years for historical veracity, of in Postwar Social-Democrat and Social- she already knew well and feeling disillusioned and an- Dutch Society.” Zionist Jews. That year she lived in the Amsterdam area. gry in the aftermath. The subject of the book began teaching at the Uni- “I told her it didn’t make any One painful episode in- was never far from the mind versity of Amsterdam, where sense but I saw I was not get- volved historian Bart Van of Gans, whose father, Marco, she had been a professor of ting through to her anymore,” der Boom, who in a 2012 survived the war by hiding in modern Jewish history until Diamand said. book claimed that non-Jews safe houses, escaping from her retirement last year. In parallel, Gans was wag- in Holland largely failed to one to the other no fewer than Last year, she retired from ing an articulate war in the help Jewish compatriots in Evelien Gans was one of the Netherlands’ foremost scholars 13 times. her long-held position as media against what she con- the Holocaust because they on anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. “When she was 6, he already senior researcher of modern sidered Holocaust obfuscation did not know the genocide’s told her everything about Jewish history and anti-Semi- and inversion. Neglecting her purpose and scope. Even By Cnaan Liphshiz shows that “her mind was on the war years. How walking tism at the NIOD Institute for own unfinished biography— Jews did not know this, he two parallel tracks”: Whereas on the left side of the street War, Holocaust and Genocide she had to wade through 12 further claimed, or they would AMSTERDAM (JTA)—On one part was preparing an or the right one could mean Studies—Holland’s foremost cardboard boxes’ worth of have escaped the minimum- July 19, Evelien Gans, one exit, another was determined the difference between life or organization of its kind. archive material, which she security concentration camp of the Netherlands’ foremost to live. death,” Diamand said. A quick-witted speaker and had arranged in the form of of Westerbork. scholars on anti-Semitism In that internal conflict, Gans was born in New York, interlocutor with a procliv- a wall in her study—she took Gans and her colleague, and the Holocaust, jumped he said, Gans’ focus on the where her parents moved ity for sarcasm, Gans was on a former ballerina over her Remco Ensel, faulted Van der to her death from her fourth- persecution of Jews “didn’t shortly after World War II. a regular guest lecturer at flawed family biography. Boom for ignoring the cruel story Amsterdam apartment, help.” Nor did her growing The family returned to the the University of Michigan In that book, author Isabel reprisals visited on relatives where she lived alone. disappointment in what she Netherlands in 1954, when and other renowned interna- van Boetzelaer claimed that and friends of anyone who Gans, 67, a retired profes- considered creeping Holo- Gans was 3 years old, because tional institutions. She was her father, a Nazi SS volunteer escaped Westerbork. But as sor at the University of Am- caust distortion and victim her father feared the outbreak interviewed frequently in the who had served in Ukraine, Gans herself bitterly noted, sterdam who had struggled blaming by some members of the Korea War would trigger Dutch media. had no knowledge of the her objections did not prevent with clinical depression for of her intellectual bubble, a third world war that would But Diamand said her Holocaust. She also stated, the flawed book from being years, prepared her suicide Diamand suggested. endanger his family in the retirement led to a loss of apparently without proof, that celebrated as a masterpiece, with characteristic meticu- And while Gans’ work was United States, according to social structure, leaving Gans her grandfather had plotted to nor its author from receiving lousness. She left a carefully only “one factor out of several” the Volkskrant daily. increasingly worried about kill Adolf Hitler. in 2012 the prestigious Libris worded note for her life part- that led her to take her own In the final and pessimistic whether she alone could Gans’ friends were dis- History Prize, and the $23,000 ner, Frank Diamand, and a life, “having to deal with anti- interview with Vrij Nederland, finish the second part of a mayed at the amount of effort in cash that went along with it. last will and testament for Semitism day in and day out is Gans spoke of an increase in monumental biography of two that she had put into debunk- Six years later, in her final her sister. not good for anyone’s health,” anti-Semitic incidents both Holocaust victims whose first ing an account so flimsy that interview, Gans revisited the Yet only hours before jump- said Diamand, a child survivor by radical Muslims, she cited part she published in 2008. few historians of her caliber subject, characterizing Van ing, Gans bought a two of the Holocaust and award- a Syrian man’s anti-Semitic Gans did not have children. felt merited their attention. der Boom’s book as an ulti- months’ supply of her favorite winning documentary film- assault on a kosher restaurant “Increasingly, she fell into Referencing this, her inter- mately successful attempt to olive oil. maker who had been Gans’ in Amsterdam in December, negative thinking patterns viewers from Vrij Nederland Diamand says the purchase significant other since 2006. among other incidents, and that didn’t make sense and she asked: “Writing a book re- Scholar on page 15A Building Community Since 1954 Rabbi Joshua Neely Cantorial Soloist Debbie Meitin The gates of heaven are open and so are our doors.

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Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, current pro-Donald Trump The way Wohl tells his 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. provocateur, you’ll see a story, he began his first hedge Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- stream of insults directed at fund, Wohl Capital Invest- 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. , liberals and ment Group, with money from a proposed plastic straw ban. high school classmates and Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. And that was just Friday their parents. In a Bloomberg jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; morning. profile, he claimed the princi- Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. To his 158,000 followers, pal of his high school invested Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, Wohl, 20, describes himself with him. Subsequently he as “Conservative, Trump Sup- started another investment 321-777-2770. porter, Zionist.” So he seemed fund, Montgomery Assets. Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- like an interesting person to Both funds are currently 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat profile for JTA. And in the 19 inactive. Jacob Wohl services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. minutes before he hung up But the young investor, on me, Wohl said his share who has been called “The himself as a campaign surro- Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. of interesting things. Wohl of Wall Street,” soon gate for Trump. Wohl has fol- betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. He complained about chil- ran into trouble and has lowed in his father’s footsteps, Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. dren of immigrants who been investigated by multiple appearing on as congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. couldn’t speak English in regulatory organizations. He early as 2015 to discuss his his second-grade class. He also posted personal ads on hedge fund. Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; insisted that Puerto Rico, a seeking attractive His political activism Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. territory of the United States, women while claiming to ramped up with the start of Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; has a socialist government. run a modeling agency, ac- Trump’s campaign in 2015, Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. He equated the Palestinian cording to . and since has skyrocketed. Authority with ISIS. One woman accused him of In addition to his Twitter Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, “I think that conserva- posting her photo online, in activity, Wohl writes pieces Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. tives find that I really have a bra, as the “Wohl Girl of the for the right-wing site The Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. my finger on the pulse of Month” without her permis- Gateway Pundit, runs his own bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. the issues that matter,” Wohl sion. The domain WohlGirls. right-wing news site called said of his hyperactive Twit- com expired last month. The Washington Reporter Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation ter feed, which has gained Wohl told JTA that he now and co-hosts a podcast with holds services at 1308 E. 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On Sun- “I’m not going to tell you titles have included “The Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. day, Wohl called Trump “the because I don’t like journal- Caliphate Comes to Toronto” Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; greatest friend of the Jewish ists meddling in my private and “Full Commie.” www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th People to ever occupy the business,” he said. “It can Loomer boasts of “con- Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. White House.” A day earlier only cause problems when fronting public figures” in the he called on Barack Obama journalists start meddling style of Project Veritas, the Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. 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Mrs. Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: er, Martin, of Sorrento. Wise served as president of Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. Funeral services and in- both the Friends of the Or- Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. terment were held at Shara lando Public Library and the Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; Tfilo Cemetery in West Rox- League of Women Voters. She bury, Mass. Arrangements later worked at the informa- Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. entrusted to Beth Shalom tion service of the Orlando Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. Memorial Chapel, 640 Lee Chamber of Commerce, as a Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach, 386-252-3097; Shabbat service, travel agent, and welcomed Road, Orlando FL 32810. Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 10:30 a.m. 407-599-1180. visitors to the Orlando area as NAOMI (BOBBI) AVA a guide for the International dor Wise, Caleb Asher Levin, Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. JACKSON WISE Visitor Program administered and Jeremy Barak Levin; sister templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by Naomi (Bobbi) Ava Jackson through the U.S. Informa- of Rose Jackson, Zelda (Tiny) Torah study. Wise, 86, died on Aug. 21, tion Agency. Mrs. Wise was a Arbuckle, the late Jean Brown, Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road 2018. She was born in New Ro- longtime member of Temple the late Ruth Longchamps, chelle, N.Y., on July 25, 1932, Israel and Hadassah, the the late Aida Colein, and the 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 to the late Louis and Fanny women’s Zionist organization; late Pearl Gordon. p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. Jackson. Bobbi Wise was a and a supporter of the Jewish Funeral service and burial Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. beautiful woman of boundless Federation. were held on Wednesday, shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. energy and optimism. She was She was the loving and Aug. 22, 2018 at Temple Israel a loyal friend, an avid reader, devoted wife of Zelig O. Wise, Cemetery in Orlando. Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, and a consummate hostess who predeceased her; mother Contributions in her 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, who relished international of Michael Z. Wise, Daniel memory may be made to 7:30 p.m. travel. She grew up in Bethes- Z. Wise, and Deborah Wise the Friends of the Orange Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. da, Maryland, where she lived Levin; grandmother of Jacob County Library System, the tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. until moving to Miami Beach D. Wise, Sophia Pearson Wise, Jewish Academy of Central in her last year of high school. Sylvie Pearson Wise, Arielle Florida, Temple Israel, and (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa A graduate of the University of Rachel Levin, Solomon San- the Alzheimer’s Association. PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 31, 2018 Why a former Israeli military intelligence chief stands with the Druze

principle of “equality” of all passed by a larger majority the balance toward the Jewish citizens, although this is en- in the Knesset and should be identification of the state, it shrined in other legal tenets. written in flexible and broad does not override the many Due to these flaws, the terms that reflect the dynamic checks and balances that new law does not command nature of Israeli society. infuse Israel’s democracy, legitimacy. It stirs negative But the sky is not falling. Is- including the sacred principle emotions and polarizes the rael’s democratic character is of equality. public debate. It alienates safeguarded through myriad, And don’t think for a minute parts of the Arab sector and overlapping mechanisms, that some minority political has strained the special bond including a wide body of quasi- leaders are not using this with the Druze community, constitutional legislation, ill-advised law to grandstand which serves in the Israeli an independent judiciary, and pursue their own political military. Moreover, the law a vibrant civil society and agendas. The fallout from the has damaged ties with the one of the world’s most free- law obscures many new, posi- Jewish Diaspora, especially wheeling media sectors. tive developments, including in the United States, which Moreover, Israeli democ- soaring rates of Arab advance- Israel can ill afford. racy is resilient and has flour- ment in higher education and In a world increasingly ished despite our country’s in the workplace, including defined by images, the new long and intense struggle for women. law creates bad optics and for security and peace. Far There is much more that plays into the hands of Israel’s lesser security and political needs to be done to ensure adversaries, who are already challenges have seriously greater opportunities for pe- predisposed to single out damaged democratic life in ripheral populations—Arab, Israel in the international other countries, Turkey being Bedouin, Druze and even arena. just the latest example. Jewish—but this misguided The law must be amended Democracy has many mod- law does nothing to nullify in ways that align it fully els. The United Kingdom, a or erase the enormous strides Amos Yadlin, third from left, sits with leaders of Israel’s Druze community at a Tel Aviv with Israel’s Declaration of well-established democracy, that our society has taken rally against the controversial nation-state law, Aug. 5, 2018. Independence, which states lacks a written constitution. toward a truly shared society. that the country “will ensure The U.S. has just two po- This was a case of political By Amos Yadlin country’s bedrock guarantees The Jewish state’s democratic complete equality of social litical parties and winner-take- “friendly fire,” a self-inflicted for free speech and the right foundations remain vigorous, and political rights to all its all elections. Israel, unique wound. But the understand- TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israel’s to protest. deeply rooted and incredibly inhabitants irrespective of among democracies, has a low able consternation should not new “nation-state” law, which It was a quiet, dignified ral- resilient. religion, race or sex; it will electoral threshold and rules be exaggerated or misinter- is widely viewed here as ly, with representation from The law touches on sensi- guarantee freedom of religion, that allow even the narrowest preted as undermining Israel’s clumsy, unnecessary and across our diverse society. In tive issues that David Ben- conscience, language, educa- of constituencies to gain repre- democratic traditions, which unwise, must be amended. contrast to the ill-advised vote Gurion and the founders tion and culture.” sentation in national politics. remain strong and resolute. That’s why I was proud to join in the parliament two weeks preferred not to decide. These Article 4 must be amended Over many decades, Israel Amos Yadlin, Maj. Gen. tens of thousands of Israelis on ago, Saturday night’s rally matters require time, sensitiv- to restore the standing of built up a body of quasi-consti- (ret.), a former head of Israeli Saturday night in a peaceful, displayed “Israeliness” at its ity and the broadest possible Arabic as one of the state’s tutional law that judiciously Military Intelligence and one unifying protest led by the best. Israeli flags fluttered in consensus. They cannot be de- official languages. reinforced and routinized the of the country’s best known Druze community. the square and everyone sang cided haphazardly, especially Although the focus of less country’s democratic institu- defense and foreign policy I came to this city’s Rabin “Hatikvah,” our national an- hours before a parliamentary attention, Article 6, which tions. The supporters of the experts, is executive director Square to stand with the them, at the end of the rally. recess, and they most cer- deals with ties between Israel new law argued that it was of the nonpartisan Institute Druze, with whom I fought As the initial storm over the tainly should not be decided and World Jewry, should also time to further enshrine the for National Security Studies. to protect the State of Israel. new law subsides, any level- by the barest of majorities (in be amended to underline state’s Jewish character, and The views and opinions But I also came to celebrate headed assessment reveals this case, 62 Knesset members the strategic value of these this set off an unfortunate expressed in this article are Israeli democracy; the pub- that its principal damage has voted in favor and 55 opposed). relations and to enshrine the competition among certain those of the author and do not lic’s commitment to equality been to stir up negative pub- The new law does not go far principles of partnership, factions for narrow, populist necessarily reflect the views of and democratic values; our lic discourse—in Israel and enough in protecting minor- peoplehood and unity. political gain. JTA or its parent company, 70 independent media; and our abroad. But make no mistake: ity rights and upholding the An amended law should be Although the measure tilts Faces Media. Randi Weingarten wants the teachers’ union to love Israel By Ben Sales million members in 3,000 raeli Prime Minister Benjamin chapters, is not. It’s typically Netanyahu and President (JTA)—The statement, more concerned with issues Donald Trump. “What we need issued the day Israel passed like raising teachers’ pay and to do is work with progressive a controversial bill defining strengthening public schools voices and activists in Israel, itself as a Jewish nation-state, than with, say, the actions of of which there are many, to could have come from any a local police department in help bring Israel to its better number of liberal American a country on the other side of angels.” Jewish groups. the globe. AFT is not the only union “We condemn this de- But in an era when a grow- to have a history of support- spicable law, as well as the ing number of unions back the ing Israel. American labor anti-gay surrogacy law the movement to boycott Israel, unions had heavy Jewish Knesset recently enacted, Weingarten says supporting representation at the time and the detainment of Rabbi a progressive vision of the of Israel’s birth, and the Dov Haiyun for conducting Jewish state is part of her country’s socialist roots and a non-Orthodox marriage,” union’s mission. And in recent still-powerful national union the July 19 statement said. years, AFT’s position on Israel appeal to American labor “These anti-democratic and sounds like that of a liberal leaders. Labor officials have nativist actions make it more Zionist group: Rather than told JTA that notwithstanding imperative to support the boycott Israel or disengage its right-wing government, progressive voices in Israel from it, the teachers’ union there’s a lot they admire in who are fighting to reclaim is embracing left-wing Israeli Israel—from universal health Israel’s place as a functional, activists—and criticizing the care to robust workers’ rights. thriving democracy in the country from a place of love. In 2007, a long list of Middle East.” “I think that Bibi and his major labor leaders signed Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, wants her union The author is Randi We- followers are moving in the a statement opposing BDS, to build relationships with Israeli progressives. ingarten, the president of wrong direction just like I the Boycott, Divestment and the American Federation of believe that Trump is moving Sanctions movement against The group’s president, Stuart ing Israel’s progressive camp. Weingarten said the union’s Teachers. in the wrong direction,” We- Israel. Labor unions have also Appelbaum, said he is worried In 2016, Stav Shaffir, a young work in Israel is of a piece Weingarten is Jewish. Her ingarten told JTA on Monday, given millions of dollars to the about Israel losing the support liberal Israeli lawmaker from with its international work as union, which counts 1.7 referring, respectively, to Is- Yitzhak Rabin Center, a mu- of U.S. progressives, but that the Labor Party, spoke at the a whole. She points to AFT’s seum and educational center major unions still support AFT convention. support for labor movements honoring the assassinated Israel. That year, the union also worldwide, from supporting Israeli Labor Party leader who “Labor remains committed passed a resolution to partner the Solidarity movement signed an Israeli-Palestinian to a strong and secure Israel,” with Hand-in-Hand, an Israeli in communist Poland and peace accord. Appelbaum told JTA. “I think network of bilingual Hebrew- progressive causes in Latin The Jewish Labor Commit- there is a shared commitment Arabic schools with a mixed America to opposing apart- Custom Printing Invitations & Announcements Digital & Offset Printing Brochures & Booklets tee, which acts as the Jewish to democracy and workers’ Jewish and Arab student body. heid in South Africa. Direct Mail Services Forms & Letterheads community’s representative rights.” He said support of Weingarten said she visits “We were part of the Envelopes Business Cards in the American labor move- Israel has not lessened, “but with both Israeli and Pales- democracy movement, of ment and organized the 2007 there are serious concerns tinian unions on her trips to helping, first, that fledgling 407-767-7110 anti-BDS statement, released about the current govern- the region. She has spoken at democracy, and then ulti- 205 North Street • Longwood, FL 32750 its own condemnation of ment.” multiple conferences of the mately being a supporter www.elegantprinting.net the nation-state law as “ill- Weingarten in particular liberal Israel policy organiza- Bring in this ad and receive 18% Discount conceived and ill-timed.” has leaned into AFT support- tion J Street. Weingarten on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 31, 2018 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA

Israeli equestrian rider members of the Senate’s defaming the State of Israel yahu to scrap the agreement, attack on Jewish center synagogue withdraws from world bipartisan Gang of Eight, and the IDF on the UN stage.” including threatening to in Russian village sues city and county championships due to which sought in vain to reach “The Palestinian repre- bring down the government. (JTA)—Russian authori- over destuctive Skirball conflict with Yom Kip- agreement on a comprehen- sentatives, along with the Netanyahu had promised ties identified a suspect in fire pur sive immigration bill. MKs from the Arab parties to expand the area follow- the anti-Semitic graffiti (JTA)—The Leo Baeck JERUSALEM (JTA)—An “The Senate, the United are planning steps which are ing the suspension of the attack on a Jewish center Temple in the Los Angeles Israeli equestrian rider States, and the world are intended to sully Israel and comprehensive deal, though in the Russian village of neighborhood of Bel Air has has withdrawn from next lesser places without John damage its image through the expansion has been ap- Lyubavichi, the cradle of the filed a lawsuit against the month’s world champion- McCain,” Schumer, who is incitement and lies,” he also pealed to Israel’s Supreme Chabad Hasidic movement. city and county over last ships because the competi- the minority leader in the wrote. Court over concern that it The suspect was a man year’s Skirball Fire. tion will take place on Yom Senate and who is Jewish, On Monday, Israel’s Tour- would damage an important from Murmansk, a city locat- The fire, which broke out Kippur. said Saturday on Twitter. ism Minister Yariv Levin archeological site. ed hundreds of miles north on Dec. 6, 2017, destroyed The International Eques- “Nothing will overcome accused the Arab lawmakers Last month, the three of Lyubavichi, according to six homes and damaged 12 trian Federation event, the loss of Senator McCain, of “treason” and said that members of the Knesset min- Yuri Ivashkin, the mayor of others, and required the which will take place this but so that generations he hoped they would be isterial committee charged the village in western Russia. evacuation of about 700 year in , is a remember him I will be prosecuted on the charge with deciding whether to “We knew immediately homes as well as an apart- prelude to the 2020 Olympic introducing a resolution to in Israel. approve the plan to upgrade this was not the work of a ment building. It damaged Games in Tokyo, where Is- rename the Russell building Joint List lawmaker Dov the Western Wall’s egalitar- local,” Ivashkin told JTA. 475 acres. rael’s equestrian federation after him,” Schumer said. Khenin responded to the ian section resigned over “Police are still working on It was sparked by an illegal hopes to compete for the Sen. Jeff Flake, like Mc- criticism saying it was “anti- political pressure from the identifying an accomplice.” cooking fire at an area home- first time. Cain, an Arizona Republican, Democratic and hypocriti- haredi Orthodox parties. The inscriptions, reading less encampment. Israeli rider Dan Kramer said he would cosponsor cal, certainly when it comes Netanyahu placed himself “Jews out of Russia, our The Temple suffered sig- sent a letter earlier this such resolution. “There are from close associates of as head of the committee. land” and featuring the Bal- nificant smoke damage and month to the international many other things we need Netanyahu, who met and The comprehensive plan tic variant of the swastika, was not be able to reopen its federation saying that he to do but that’s a good one,” befriended anti-Semites would have included a com- were spray-painted on the facilities right away follow- would not compete due to the Flake said on Sunday on around the world,” Hadashot mon entrance to the West- wall of the Hatzer Raboteinu ing containment of the fire. conflict with the holiest day “Face the Nation” on CBS. reported. ern Wall plaza for all three Nesieinu Belubavitch earlier The Stephen Wise Temple, on the Jewish calendar, Ynet “John McCain had his of- Loophole allows expan- sections and a public board this month. American Jewish Univer- reported last week. fice just right near mine in sion of Western Wall to oversee the egalitarian Ivashkin’s statement fol- sity’s Familian Campus and “I decided not to join the the Russell building. That’s egalitarian prayer sec- prayer space and would in- lowed attended the dedica- the Skirball Cultural Center other members of the Israeli where he was his entire tion clude representatives of the tion of a perimeter fence all were closed due to the fire national team and not to time. I think that’s a fitting JERUSALEM (JTA)—A non-Orthodox movements around one of the Jewish and the institutions’ Torah participate in the upcoming tribute.” plan to expand the Western and Women of the Wall. cemeteries in and around scrolls were removed for world championships in the Flake’s status as McCain’s Wall’s egalitarian prayer sec- Jewish video gamer Lyubavichi safekeeping. United States, because the fellow Republican and Arizo- tion received final approval, kills 2 and himself Attendees traveled Sun- The lawsuit filed in Los competition is taking place nan lends the proposal heft. using a loophole that applies (JTA)—A video gamer day from Moscow to the village Angeles Superior Court on on Yom Kippur and I want Because the proposal to handicapped-accessible opened fire during a tour- of 200 people to celebrate the Thursday against the city to honor this day as well as involves congressional prop- sites. nament in Jacksonville, completion there of a preser- and county of Los Angeles the Israeli public and Jewish erty, it would not need the The approval was first Florida, killing two and then vation project headed by the by the Leo Baeck Temple Diaspora,” Kramer wrote in a signature of President Don- reported late Sunday in fatally shooting himself. European Jewish Cemeter- alleges that the city and letter to the Israel equestrian ald Trump. Haaretz, which did not say The gunman was identi- ies Initiative, or ESJF. The county could have helped federation’s chairman Kenny Arab-Israeli lawmak- when the meeting to approve fied as David Katz, 24, of nonprofit organization has to prevent the fire had they Lalo, Ynet reported. ers ask UN to condemn the work took place. Baltimore, Maryland. The completed similar projects in not ignored the complaints Kramer, who is living in nation-state law Approval of the work under Forward reported that Katz 102 cemeteries across Eastern of residents, the Los Angeles Belgium, grew up on Moshav JERUSALEM (JTA)—Ar- the special regulation cut is Jewish. Europe with funding from the Jewish Journal reported. Hayogev in northern Israel, ab-Israeli lawmakers and months off the time it would Nine other people were German government. The city and county “knew where his family owned a the Palestinian Authority take to begin the work, since wounded in the shooting “Initiatives like these are or should have known that horse and he dreamed of want the United Nations to it need only be approved Sunday at the Madden NFL vital because of neglect, eco- this presented a fire hazard, competing in the Olympics. condemn Israel’s nation- by the municipal engineer 19 eSports video game nomic and agricultural de- as the area is prone to wild- He suffered a leg injury while state law. and not also by both the tournament. It was held in velopment, and vandalism,” fires because of the trees, serving in the Israel Defense Several lawmakers from regional and local planning a gaming bar that shares said Rabbi Isaac Schapira, bushes and other vegeta- Forces, and returned to the Joint List, an Arab-Israeli committees. space with a pizzeria at the the founder and chairman of tion and foliage,” according riding as part of a physical political party, are involved The scheme to approve Jacksonville Landing, a col- the ESJF board. The project to the lawsuit. The lawsuit therapy regimen. He quali- in an effort to get the U.N. the fast-track process for lection of restaurants and in Lyubavichi was his organi- also argues that the city and fied for next month’s world General Assembly to of- the work was supported by shops along the St. Johns zation’s first in Russia since county should have removed championship last year. ficially condemn the law, the Prime Minister’s Office, River. The bar was live- its founding in 2015. the encampment, or at least Other members of the along with Riyad Mansour, according to the report. streaming the competition Joseph Popack, a Jewish- provided the public with a team were divided over the the Palestinian ambassador The attorney general’s of- when the gunfire started. American donor, funded warning about it. decision by Kramer, whose to the U.N., Hadashot news fice reportedly was against It is the third major mass the new fencing at a cost of The temple lists four absence could cost the Israeli reported Sunday. using the loophole of as a shooting in Florida in the $100,000. causes of , includ- team an Olympic berth. The move comes less than way to approve a major and last two years. Located near Smolensk ing claims that the city Charles Schumer wants a month before the U.N. controversial project. The Katz was competing in and the border with Belarus, and county maintained a to name Senate build- General Assembly, scheduled plan was approved by the the eSports tournament and Lyubavichi became a major dangerous condition on ing for John McCain to open on Sept. 18. Israeli Jerusalem municipality’s used “at least one handgun” Jewish hub following the set- public property and allowed WASHINGTON (JTA)— Prime Minister Benjamin legal counsel, however. to carry out the shooting, tling there in 1813 of Rabbi a public nuisance. It is ask- Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Netanyahu is planning to Plans to renovate the site, Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Dovber Schneuri, a leader ing for more than $25,000 has garnered backing from join other world leaders in with a budget of more than Williams told reporters. The of the Chabad movement of in damages. a key GOP senator in his bid speaking at the General $7 million, have continued, tournament was a regional Hasidic Orthodox Jews. Los Angeles Mayor Eric to rename a Senate building Assembly. despite the suspension of qualifier for finals in Las The movement, perhaps Garcetti declared a local for John McCain. Israel’s Ambassador to a comprehensive plan ap- Vegas with a $25,000 prize. best known for its outreach to state of emergency in re- The building currently is the United Nations, Danny proved in 2016. On Sunday evening FBI non-Hasidic Jews, also refers sponse to the Skirball Fire, named for Richard Russell, Danon, was asked by Rose- In June 2017, the Cabinet agents searched the home to itself as Chabad-Lubavitch requesting state and federal a Georgia Democrat who mary DiCarlo, United Na- suspended the deal that of Katz’s father in an upscale in reference to how the assistance. It was one of served from 1933 until 1971 tions under-secretary-gen- came about as a result of townhouse complex near town’s name is pronounced several fires burning in and who was notorious for eral for political affairs, to negotiations between the Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. in Yiddish. southern California. The leading opposition to civil respond to the charges. In a Reform and Conservative Katz competed in several Chabad established in other fires were known as rights reforms advanced by message to Knesset Speaker movements, the Women of video game tournaments Lyubavichi an information the Thomas, Rye and Creek President Lyndon Johnson Yuli Edelstein, Danon ac- the Wall, the Jewish Agency under the monikers Bread or center and museum, which fires burning in Ventura and for upholding racial cused the Arab lawmakers of for Israel and the Israeli MrSlicedBread, and report- Ivashkin says attracts 500 County, Santa Clarita and segregation. having a “close partnership” government. The suspension edly won a similar tourna- visitors monthly to the im- Sylmar. California Gov. Jerry Schumer and McCain, with Palestinian representa- came after the government’s ment in 2017. poverished village, which is Brown also declared a state the Arizona Republican who tives in the U.N. “with the haredi Orthodox coalition Suspect identified in comprised of many dilapi- of emergency in Los Angeles died this weekend, were both goal of inciting against and partners pressured Netan- anti-Semitic graffiti dated houses. and Ventura counties.

Tlaib From page 7A the two-state outcome and on their constituents and of the Arab American Insti- outcome, and the Republican that our current administra- resisted signing onto the BDS their own ethnic communi- tute and a Democrat close to Party platform in 2016 also tion has distanced itself from When it comes to the one- movement. ties. Sanders. removed two-state language. the two-state solution,” he state solution—that is, a bina- “We have a very, very small Consider, for instance, “Rashida is a Palestinian- Of course, the one-state said. tional “Isratine” in which West number of problematic can- Sen. Robert Menendez of American woman who grew outcomes favored by Repub- Zogby, a proponent of the Bank and presumably Gazan didates with views on Israel,” , who is as strident up heavily steeped in her cul- licans is one preferred by the two-state outcome, says sup- Palestinians are given the said Haley Soifer, the CEO of as ever in his insistence on ture and the circumstances pro-Israel right, not the pro- port for one state is also fueled vote—Tlaib is even an outlier the centrist Jewish Demo- isolating Cuba, although his of her issue,” he said. “She’s Palestinian left. That version by the actions of an Israeli among the two women with cratic Council of America. Democratic Party has moved more aware of the Palestinian envisions permanent Israeli government that seems set on whom she is most frequently Remember who Tlaib is. since Obama toward more issue than anyone in Congress control of much of the West closing off the former. grouped, Alexandria Ocasio- Much of the focus of the “is openness. Democrats are before her. It’s in her bones, Bank. But that posture creates “Saying ‘I support two Cortez of New York and Ilhan Tlaib a trend” talk is on the not likely to second-guess a it’s in her blood.” openings for the far left, ac- states’ has become a way of Omar of Minnesota. degree to which the Demo- Cuban American for being a You want a one-state cording to Logan Bayroff, the absolving yourself and doing Like Tlaib, they are both crats are ready to impose party hardliner. trend? Look to the Re- director of communications nothing while Israel every day progressive House nominees discipline. But there has been That thinking would apply publicans. for J Street. makes achieving two states who have sharply criticized a tradition within both parties to Tlaib, whose parents are The Trump administration, “Any conversation about harder to achieve” through Israel in the past. Unlike of allowing lawmakers to stray from the West Bank, said meanwhile, has retreated rise in support of a one-state settlement expansion and her, both have embraced from orthodoxies depending James Zogby, the president from endorsing a two-state solution should note the fact other measures, he said. PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 31, 2018 Progressives have a new definition of racism: prejudice plus power—what does that mean for Jews? By Charles Dunst who used the “prejudice mulation of racism has prob- of Jews based on false biologi- tive director of the left-leaning recent events in the U.K. with plus power” definition in the lematic implications for Jews, cal theories.” Last month, a T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for the Labour Party,” Johnson NEW YORK (JTA)—Are 1970s. As a stand-up come- for multiple reasons. federal judge ruled that racial Human Rights, largely refutes told JTA. Jews too powerful to be con- dian might explain it, racism First, it equates Jews with discrimination law applies this idea. Corbyn “understands rac- sidered “victims” of racism? means “punching down,” not white and presumably insti- to Jews, noting that anti- “There is a difference be- ism purely through the prism Some progressives think so punching up. tutionally privileged people, Semites hate Jews for their tween anti-Semitism and of power—which, in his and have been downplaying Prominent activists such ignoring the history and “Jewish blood” and for “the accusations of racism against simplistic and vulgar Marx- accusations of anti-Semitism as Linda Sarsour and Melissa ongoing prevalence of anti- fact that they were Jewish.” white people, who are not a ist worldview, Jews possess,” in light of a debate over preju- Harris-Perry have promoted Semitism. However, especially on the coherent historical ethnic according to Brookings Insti- dice and power. the idea as well, and applied it “If Jews are seen as ‘white’ left, some see anti-Semitism group, and who have never tution fellow James Kirchick. This week, The New York to defend people they consider (which, in this permutation of as a wholly separate phenom- been the victims of systemic Bret Stephens, a conserva- Times took heat for hiring relatively powerless against progressivism, they are), and enon from—and perhaps a prejudice,” Jacobs told JTA tive columnist for The New Sarah Jeong, a technology charges of anti-Semitism. ‘whites’ cannot be subjected lesser form of bias than—rac- “Jews have experienced a York Times, also worries writer, to its editorial board. “The thing I’m always wor- to racist attacks, then anti- ism. Racism, in this line of genocide within living memo- about the effects of redefining Some have called her racist ried about in the world is pow- Semitism becomes a trivial thinking, is fundamentally ry, and continue to experience racism as only able to “punch against white people, point- er, and how power is wielded concern,” K.C. Johnson, a worse than all other forms of anti-Semitism both in words down.” ing to past tweets in which in ways that cause inequity,” history professor at Brooklyn prejudice precisely because it and in actions. “The criterion for racism she proclaimed that “White Harris-Perry said earlier this College, former Fulbright in- is systemic. “Ashkenazi Jews enjoy is either objective or it’s men are bullshit” and “#Can- year about Nation of Islam structor at Tel Aviv University “I want to make the distinc- white privilege much of meaningless,” he wrote in a celWhitePeople.” founder Louis Farrahkhan, and regular Washington Post tion that while anti-Semitism the time, but also regularly column welcoming Jeong to The debate over her tweets a notorious anti-Semite. contributor, told JTA. is something that impacts encounter anti-Semitism The Times. “If liberals get to often centered around the “So if you can show me that Second, it ignores the Jewish Americans, it’s differ- perpetrated by people of many decide for themselves who is or very notion of anti-white rac- Minister Farrakhan has fact that Jews as a class are ent than anti-black racism or backgrounds.” isn’t a racist according to their ism, and especially whether taken his position and used often falsely maligned as too Islamophobia because it’s not Johnson and others suggest political lights, conservatives minorities (Jeong is Korean his position to create inequity powerful—which, paradoxi- systemic,” said Sarsour, the that the prejudice-plus-power will be within their rights to American) can be accused of and inequality for Jewish cally, would make them fair Women’s March leader and dynamic is in play in England, ignore them.” racism when ridiculing the people, then I will denounce game for ridicule under the prominent activist in the an- where Labour Party leader Jacobs, on the other hand, white power structure. that tomorrow.” prejudice-plus-power defini- ti-Israel Boycott, Divestment Jeremy Corbyn has been said she is interested in mov- Former Bernie Sanders She went on to contrast tion. and Sanctions movement, in accused of enabling anti- ing beyond the so-called campaign aide Symone Sand- Farrakhan to President Don- “Antisemitism is a strange a video posted to Facebook Semitism within his party. “oppression Olympics” and ers said on CNN last week that ald Trump, whom she consid- form of prejudice,” Olivia by Jewish Voice for Peace According to this theory, toward actual problem- Jeong was not being racist ers a bigot and an anti-Semite Goldhill wrote in Quartz. in April. “It’s not systemic, Labour is nonchalant about solving. because racism is only “preju- who wields actual power. “Rather than denigrating and we need to make that attacks on Jews because they “There is still a lot of work dice plus power”—implying “Because Louis Farrakhan Jews as inferior, it casts distinction.” are as a whole relatively afflu- to be done to dismantle rac- that only those in positions is empowered to do what? He them as maliciously supe- Jews, this argument pur- ent and politically influential ism, sexism, anti-Semitism of power over others can be runs an organization that rior”—and thus worthy of ports, are too embedded unlike say, Muslims, who lack and other isms within our racist. controls what resources? And denigration. within the system—that the same institutional power society,” the rabbi told JTA. Sanders’ point is not new— creates what policy? And owns The U.S. Holocaust Memo- is, too powerful—to have and therefore need increased “We should focus on doing she is building off the work property where?” Harris- rial Museum recognizes anti- prejudice effectively wielded defending. that work rather than argue of others, such as social sci- Perry asked rhetorically. Semitism as racism and as against them as racism. “We’ve had a preview of how about hierarchies of privilege entist Patricia Bidol-Padva, Some think this new for- “prejudice against or hatred Rabbi Jill Jacobs, the execu- this approach operates with and power.”

Nazi From page 1A by Assemblyman Dov Hikind, question of his guilt. It was York Post in 2013 that he was “I am not SS. I have noth- said that although the “deci- petitioned the Trump admin- imperative that someone “starting to get used to it.” ing to do with SS,” he added. sion comes late, it is a good from his wheelchair onto the istration regarding Pajil. responsible for Nazi atroci- “They told us we would be Efraim Zuroff, the Eastern and positive action and we are ambulance stretcher.” “I never gave up on this is- ties be held accountable for picking up mines. But that was Europe director of the Simon grateful to the United States His deportation comes sue because Palij’s presence his crimes. While his victims a lie,” he told the paper. “In Wiesenthal Center, said in for bringing this evil man to after years of protests by here mocked the memory of can no longer seek justice, that camp they took us—17-, a statement that a “14-year receive punishment for his Jewish groups. Earlier this the millions who perished,” I am delighted that our 18-, 19-year-old boys. I am one long campaign has finally crimes.” year, a group of more than Hikind said in a statement President’s administration of them. They did not give us been crowned with success. Mosberg was quoted Tues- 80 New York politicians, led Tuesday. “There was no took it upon themselves to Nazi uniforms. They gave us Trawniki guards do not de- day during a tour of the Aus- deliver justice.” guard uniforms: pants, black; serve the privilege of living in chwitz memorial museum in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Although members of the shirts, light brown; and hats the United States and that was Poland. He attended it with R E B A R E G Y P T S P A Jewish community of New with one button in the front. finally achieved last night.” four Republican members of 14 15 16 A M O L E A R A R E U A S York have held demonstra- You could tell we were not Edward Mosberg, a 93-year- Congress as part of a delega- 17 18 19 20 tions outside of his house in Nazis. If you tried to run old Holocaust survivor from tion of the From the Depths J O R D A N R I V E R N R A Queens for years, Palij seemed away, they take your family Poland and now a property Holocaust commemoration 21 22 23 T E A R S S N L S D S unimpressed, telling the New and shoot all of them.” developer from New Jersey, group. 24 25 26 27 28 29 G I D M A D E L I Y A H U 30 31 32 33 34 A V O W S I S H D R E A M Glick 35 36 37 D E M I M O P E L I S H A From page 4A in Gaza and Sinai. Like the look like if any U.S. or other “No one will be fully pleased 38 39 40 41 PA, Hamas has used Europe’s peace proposal that requires with our proposal, but that’s T H E R E D S E A In 2004, Israel decimated hostility towards Israel, and Israel to transfer control over the way it must be if real peace 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 J O S H U A N A P N A S A Hamas’s leadership in Gaza. the Islamic bloc’s control over the areas to the PA/Fatah is is to be achieved. Peace can 50 51 52 The next year it walked away UN agencies (including the UN implemented. only succeed if it is based on O N E I S A T M A S S U R from Gaza, handing the area General Assembly), to mask The Palestinians—as a realities,” it read. 53 54 55 56 57 T E A C H E R S I N I N K to the PA/Fatah lock, stock its crimes and blame Israel people—are not interested in While it is true that peace 58 59 60 61 62 and barrel. for its aggression against the establishing an independent can succeed only if it is based R T E L B S A S S A D Rather than use the op- Jewish state. state. They are committed on reality, it is also true that 63 64 65 66 N O T B R O K E N W A T E R portunity to build a state, Despite Hamas’s failure to to annihilating Israel. This is there is no realistic prospect 67 68 69 the PA/Fatah militarized develop Gaza economically, why all of their political fac- for peace. Hamas’s terror state Y U L A I R E D E R I C A Gaza and orchestrated ever- and its use of Gaza’s civilian tions are terror groups. That’s in Gaza is the apotheosis of 70 71 72 U S E M O S E S R I C K Y escalating mortar and rocket population as human shields why one of Abbas’s possible Palestinian aspirations. This assaults against Israel. Gaza’s behind which it builds its mili- successors is in prison for five is what the Palestinians seek militarization and the open tary capabilities and attacks counts of terrorist murder and to build in Judea and Samaria transfer of massive quanti- Israel, the people of Gaza have the other has called for Israel and, in due course, this is ties of armaments to Gaza maintained their support for to be wiped out with nuclear what they want all of Israel through the Egyptian border the terror regime. weapons. to become. gave Hamas the ability to re- Far from pushing it out for This is why, in a bid to shore Under the circumstances, build its forces—and, in less failure to govern in any rec- up popular support for Fatah, the Trump administration than two years, oust Fatah ognizable sense of the term, Abbas is calling for a renewal has a choice to make. Does from power. a majority of Gazans continue of terror attacks against Israel. it want Judea and Samaria Like the PA, Hamas uses to support the jihadist group And this is why Hamas, whose to look like Gaza? Or does it its control over Gaza not to and to share its program of record is one unblemished by want Judea and Samaria to build a state but to expand its continuous warfare against phony peace processes with look like Israel? The ceasefire ability to strike Israel. This it Israel, with the aim of an- Israel, is more respected and talks between Hamas and has achieved by, among other nihilating the Jewish state. trusted by the Palestinians in Israel are proof that there is things, developing close rela- Moreover, polling data show Gaza and Judea and Samaria. no third option. tions with Iran, Turkey, and that if elections were held in Last week, Trump’s top Caroline Glick is a world- Qatar, serving as an arm of Judea and Samaria, Hamas advisors on the Palestinian renowned journalist and their foreign policies towards would win them. conflict with Israel, Jared commentator on the Middle Israel, Egyptm and the wider All of this leads to one clear Kushner, Jason Greenblatt, East and U.S. foreign policy, Islamic world. Hamas has conclusion. UN Ambassador Nikki Haley,, and the author of The Israeli also developed close ties Hamas-ruled Gaza is what and Ambassador to Israel Solution: A One-State Plan with the so-called “Islamic a Palestinian state looks like. David Friedman issued a for Peace in the Middle East. State” and affiliated al Qaeda It is what a Palestinian state statement on their much Read more at www.Caroline- organizations that operate in Judea and Samaria would touted plan. Glick.com. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 31, 2018 PAGE 15A before them, and to halt Schools must investigate how infectant,” said Hurvitz. biased one, vet all future “new” anti-Semitism and Newton all discussions of Superinten- biased teaching was intro- We want Newton Public curriculum materials for ac- objective Islamic history with From page 1A dent Fleishman’s professional duced into its high schools Schools to adopt a policy curacy and objectivity, inform all Newton teachers. Superin- evaluation until these orders and implement safeguards to of total transparency on its students that they have been tendent Fleishman is clearly edge the public comments are carried out. ensure it never happens again. curriculum, immediately misled, and hold mandatory unfit for this task and should and discussions happening Ultimately, Newton Public “Sunshine is the best dis- stop teaching the current workshops on teaching the be replaced.” Fauda From page 5A trading land for peace rather euphoria—that the Palestin- emergence of a P.A. leader like Fatah, in addition to Hamas writers, debates about how to than for more terror, as they ians had given up their centu- the fictional Abu Maher, who and other Islamist groups who draw a line between two states sible if the Israeli government learned they had done at Oslo ry-long war against the Jews. could count on the support are willing to sacrifice more in the small territory shared that gave that order had the and with the 2005 withdrawal Such a development doesn’t of most Palestinians and also generations of Palestinian by two different peoples re- support of the majority of from Gaza. require a sensible map or a be trusted by Israelis. Such a children on the altar of their main so much hot air. the Israeli people. And the That would require most realistic plan for evicting a person would have to be will- never-ending war. Jonathan S. Tobin is editor only way for that to happen Israelis to be convinced—as specified number of Jews from ing not only to establish peace But as long as such a figure in chief of JNS—Jewish News would be if most Israelis were many were for a short while their homes. with the Jews, but also to fight is just a figment of the imagi- Syndicate. Follow him on convinced that they were during the period of post-Oslo It merely requires the and defeat the radicals inside nation of a team of Israeli TV Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin. Nation-state From page 5A their prerogative to do so. But law is meant to ensure that Is- senior research associate at Syria, Arab political dis- other Islamist groups. Israelis do not wish to lose their rael is not sacrificed on the very the Begin-Sadat Center for course, Arab mass media, BESA Center Perspectives destructive idea. If Europe- national identity, their ances- same altar on which Europe is Strategic Studies. He served Islamic groups, and Israeli Papers are published through ans are bent on committing tral homeland, their state, and committing suicide. for 25 years in IDF military Arabs, and is an expert on the generosity of the Greg cultural suicide, it is of course their culture. The nation-state Dr. Mordechai Kedar is a intelligence specializing in the Muslim Brotherhood and Rosshandler Family. Divide From page 9A , Lauder was Having the honor to meet great strides in recent years replacing “dogma, tradition are increasingly shrill and among the first to understand and speak to many of the toward this goal. The great and authority with reason, simplistic, polarizing friends in the U.S., and the Jews there that Jewish continuity, espe- thousands of graduates of majority of their children debate and institutions of and family members. Let us are being assimilated into an cially in the secularized post- our schools in Moscow, I can receive a formal Jewish educa- truth-seeking.” Yoram Hazo- try to regain some balance increasingly secular country. Soviet countries, can only be attest to the impact on the tion; there is no reason why ny of The Herzl Institute, in a and perspective for the sake of The empty synagogues will guaranteed by formal Jewish identity and personal com- this should not be attainable response to Pinker, said that our future, of our children— have to be replaced with the education. The establishment mitment to the Jewish cause in the U.S. if the response of the Jews to before it is too late. classrooms of Jewish schools. of two dozen schools in East- of the students of the Lauder Every Diaspora Jew is the the Enlightenment had been Pinchas Goldschmidt has The challenge of giving over ern and Central Europe in the school. These children’s lives carrier of dual identities—the absolute, then the Zionist been the chief rabbi of Moscow 1 million Jewish children a beginning of the ‘90s by the are forever changed. national one and the Jewish movement—which drew its since 1993, serving at the minimal Jewish education Ronald S. Lauder Foundation What Lauder has achieved one—trying to juggle and rec- passion and strength from Moscow Choral Synagogue can and should be tackled if guaranteed a positive Jewish in Central and Eastern Eu- oncile and build a symbiosis. the vast sources of Jewish and since 2011 as president of the government of Israel will identity for tens of thousands rope should be applied now Trying to strike the balance tradition and history—would the Conference of European take a lead and major Jewish of children of Jewish families. in the United States, where between enlightenment and never have been born and we Rabbis. philanthropists will join. (Full disclosure: My wife, the continuity of the largest tradition has not been easy. wouldn’t have had a Jewish The views and opinions In the beginning of the Dara, is the head of the Lauder community outside of Israel Harvard psychologist Ste- state today. expressed in this article are 1990s, when the Jewish Zion- Etz Chaim School in Moscow, is in danger. ven Pinker, in his latest We as a people are out of those of the author and do not ist establishment vehemently the largest Jewish day school in Communities such as the book “Enlightenment Now,” balance. The world is out of necessarily reflect the views of opposed the idea of establish- the former Soviet Union with United Kingdom, Australia argued that the Enlighten- balance. The climate is out JTA or its parent company, 70 ing schools in the former currently almost 600 children.) and France have achieved ment improved humanity by of balance, and geopolitics Faces Media. Scholar From page 10A and downtrodden following that book, Gans said, “The on Gans, a left-wing activist in As an outpatient, she tried Gans’ suicide is “ultimately a a dispute with Chris van der Jews allowed themselves to the 1970s whose participation to participate in group therapy personal tragedy,” Diamand “defend the actions of average Heijden, a historian whose be murdered, collaborated in violent protests acquainted but felt too estranged from the insisted. Her focus on the countrymen” in a nation where father served in the SS. Fo- and are now perpetrators” of her with the inside of a police other patients to discuss her Holocaust and anti-Semitism, collaborators worked with the cusing on a handful of Jewish similar crimes in Israel. car, she began drawing inward. issues in the group. he said, was “a factor, not the Nazis to murder at least 75 supporters of the Dutch Nazi These polemics not only Things became so bad in the “I told her, ‘who cares, just factor” in her decision to end percent of Dutch Jewry—the party in the 1930s, van der depressed Gans, Diamand spring that she was hospital- use this group therapy tool to her life. highest death rate in Nazi- Heijden “heaped anti-Semitic said, but “made her enemies.” ized voluntarily for a month get better,’ but it was beyond “A whole set of elements led occupied Western Europe. stereotypes” in a 2008 book, As these and other issues at a psychiatric treatment her ability,” Diamand said. her to her painful and wrong Gans also was left drained Gans told Vrij Nederland. In continued to take their toll facility. Despite its broader context, decision,” he said. Wohl From page 11A Wohl said he agrees with far as public safety,” he said. relates to Israel. Wohl would Wohl’s political opinions “coffee shop hipster liberals” Trump “on 90 percent or “What’s coming across our like to see the president, are no less pointed on Twit- praising the president. He contradicts tenets within 95 percent of his posi- southern border is in many who has been friendly to the ter, where he focuses his has said so six separate times. Islamic law.” tions”—first and foremost cases, not in all cases, but Israeli government’s agenda, commentary on praising I wanted to ask Wohl “Laura is on the cutting immigration. He said that in many cases tremendous take an even harder line the president and opposing about this surreptitiously edge of stopping the Sharia “illegal immigration has crime. against the Palestinian Au- his opponents. Wohl said pro-Trump hipster cafe. I invasion that’s happening in just devastated communi- “When Trump came down thority, which administers proudly that Trump has also wanted to ask him more the United States, the Islami- ties” in Southern California, the escalator and said ‘We’re the Palestinian areas of the retweeted him three times about his Judaism, as well as fication of neighborhoods,” something Wohl said he going to build a great, great West Bank. and replied to one of his his future plans. But he hung Wohl said on a recent podcast, realized when most of his wall and we’re going to make “I would like to see the tweets, which he said is “a up on me after I asked him referring to Islamic religious second-grade class could Mexico pay for that wall,’ he Palestinian Authority de- recognition that you’re doing a follow-up question about law. “They want Sharia courts. not speak “a lick of English.” had my vote,” Wohl said, re- funded completely by the something right.” his claim that Puerto Rico This is what they’re calling He said that hindered his ferring to Trump’s campaign United States and treated like Other tweeters have en- is socialist. for, this is their vision, is to education. launch. ISIS or any other terrorist joyed mocking Wohl for a “You’ve got a terrible at- establish a caliphate in the “A wall would change a lot One of the issues on which organization because that’s curious trope he repeats: titude,” he said before ending West.” about a lot of border states as Wohl disagrees with Trump what they are,” he said. a contention that he hears the call. Weingarten From page 12A AFT president, following A handful of unions in the from American progressives. predecessors like Sandra United States have joined But she does not believe broad of the democracy in Israel,” Feldman and Albert Shanker. major unions abroad in progressive support for Israel she said. “There’s been a “I am a Ramahnik,” she endorsing BDS. In the past has become untenable. She longstanding relationship said. “I grew up as a pro- school year, a local branch feels that just as American between our unions and gressive Zionist. I grew up of AFT, the Graduate Em- progressives oppose the Israel because of the fight believing that Israel was an ployees’ Organization of agenda of the Trump ad- for democracy, and that inclusive, democratic Jew- the University of Illinois at ministration, they need to relationship has continued ish state that you needed Urbana-Champaign, backed oppose the policies of Israel’s during my tenure as president to fight for, but inclusive a divestment campaign on government while still engag- of the AFT. It is part of our and democratic was as im- campus. ing with the country long-term worldview of the portant as Jewish. And just “We are saddened and dis- “The occupation and the importance of democracy.” like the work that we do in appointed in the hostility that influence of the settlers and Supporting Israel is also America can make things AFT leaders such as Randi lack of recognition for steps HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES a personal cause for Wein- more inclusive, more focused Weingarten have expressed to toward the two-state solution garten. She grew up in an on justice, more focused on the internationally-respected has corroded a lot of faith Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) involved Jewish home and at- sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, opportunity, that’s the work and non-violent tactic of that a lot of progressives leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye disorders. Protecting your eyes tended Camp Ramah in New that I try to do in terms of BDS,” a June statement by have around the world in the is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future.

England. She is a member of Israel.” the local union read. “Such democracy of Israel,” she said. Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. Congregation Beth Simchat Some local unions, like leaders are out of touch and “We need to actually support Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection.

Torah in and other progressive organiza- out of step with the rank and the progressives in Israel. I For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. is newly married to its senior tions, support BDS in ex- file of our union.” think Bibi Netanyahu wins if A public service message from The Vision Council. rabbi, Sharon Kleinbaum. pressing their values on the Weingarten said she is people support the extremes And she is the latest Jewish Israeli-Palestinian conflict. worried about calls for BDS and if people despair.” PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 31, 2018 Ben Kingsley carried a photo of Elie Wiesel with him while filming ‘Operation Finale’

By Naomi Pfefferman you back for that. You have I looked at a picture of Elie Kingsley unabashedly not distorted or poisoned my that I carried in my pocket sees his character as evil LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Ask mind.’” and said ‘I’m doing this for “What other adjective can Ben Kingsley about why he Kingsley went on to por- you,’” Kingsley said. you use?” he asked. “Not only was keen to portray Nazi tray the Nazi hunter Simon “Operation Finale” tells did he commit these crimes criminal Adolf Eichmann Wiesenthal in the HBO film the story of Peter Malkin as an architect of the Final in the new film “Operation “Murderers Among Us”; the and other Mossad agents Solution, he went to his grave Finale” and he describes the Jewish accountant Itzhak who covertly hunted and proud of what he had done— traumatic childhood incident Stern in “Schindler’s List”; captured Eichmann hiding in utterly unrepentant.” in which he first learned about and Anne Frank’s father in a Argentina and brought him to Yet Kingsley said he chose the Holocaust. 2001 ABC miniseries. He also Israel for trial in 1961, where not to portray Eichmann as The 74-year-old British won an Academy Award for he was ultimately executed. “a B-movie, cartoony, comic actor was then in grammar his turn as the titular Indian The heart of the story is the strip villain.” school and at home alone independence leader in 1982’s cat-and-mouse game between “That would have done when he turned on a docu- “Gandhi.” Malkin (played by Oscar Isaac) a terrible disservice to the mentary about the liberation During research for his and Eichmann, both of whom victims and the survivors I of the Bergen-Belsen concen- Shoah-themed films, Kings- were master manipulators, ac- know and love,” he said. “It’s tration camp. ley became close friends with cording to the film’s director, important for us to accept, “I remember my heart Holocaust survivor, activist Chris Weitz (“About a Boy” to stomach and to swallow stopped beating for a while,” and author Elie Wiesel. Not and “A Better Life”). that the Nazis were men and Kingsley, who is not Jewish long before Wiesel’s death in “Each one is trying to con- women—‘normal’ people. but believes he may have 2016, the actor vowed to him vince the other of something,” Twisted people, but they didn’t Valeria Florini/Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures some Jewish relatives on that “the next time I walk onto Weitz said in a telephone come from Mars.” Ben Kingsley stars as Adolf Eichmann in “Operation his mother’s side, said in a a film set that is appropriate to interview. “Malkin wanted to Weitz, 48, had his own Finale.” telephone interview. “I nearly your story, I will dedicate my convince Eichmann to sign personal connection to the ma- passed out. And I have been performance to you.” a paper indicating that he terial. His father, the fashion As research for the film, of the Holocaust, and so indelibly connected to the So when Kingsley was was willing to go to trial in designer John Weitz, escaped both Weitz and Kingsley relied chose to do so through the Holocaust ever since.” offered the Eichmann role Jerusalem. And Eichmann is in 1933 at the in part on the expertise of lens of the Mossad agents’ His connection was even in “Operation Finale” after trying out various defenses age of 10. Nine years later he former Mossad agent Avner memories. more enhanced when he asked Wiesel’s death—a film that that he will eventually use in arrived in the United States Abraham, who has curated a “The agents’ memoirs his grandmother about the debuted Aug. 29 and focuses Israeli court. So in that regard and later became a spy for now-touring exhibition about indicate that they all found atrocities, and she said that on the Holocaust architect’s there is the subterfuge of the the OSS, the precursor of the Eichmann. Weitz eschewed it deeply unsettling to be so “Hitler was right” to have capture—the actor jumped escaped war criminal and also CIA. He interrogated Nazi war photographing the famed near the person who had taken killed Jews. at the chance. Just as he the subterfuge of the spy as criminals and helped liberate glass booth in which Eich- part in the murder of their “I went into deep shock and famously carried a picture he’s trying to turn a source.” Bergen-Belsen, “which forever mann spent his trial—a part families,” Weitz said. “Some of was unable to counter her,” of Anne Frank during the As for Eichmann, Weitz changed him,” his son said. of the exhibition—because them were disappointed that Kingsley said. “But some- filming of “Schindler’s List,” said, “I think the evidence The filmmaker grew up he feared that might be “blas- all this evil could have the face thing must have clicked in he carried a photo of Wiesel shows a very chameleon-like with his father’s war stories phemous.” of this rather unprepossessing my innermost soul that said during the filming of “Opera- figure who is constantly try- and ultimately helped the The director also said he man, which felt terribly out of ‘Grandmother, I will make tion Finale.” ing to serve his own ends and patriarch write multiple books had “endless trepidations” scale to all the damage that you eat your words. I will pay “[E]very day as promised, ambitions.” about Nazi war criminals. about depicting images had been done.” Here’s how JTA covered the real-life story of ‘Operation Finale’ and Eichmann’s capture By Ben Sales On June 3, 1960, there transferred on Shabbat; and lawyer said, but believed he was a brief article, gleaned how the U.S. press at large was only a “small cog in the (JTA)—When undercover from reports in the Argentine was covering the story. machine.” Israeli agents captured Nazi press, with some details of the A series of articles focused During the trial, Eichmann war criminal Adolf Eichmann Mossad operation. Agents who on an Argentine-Israeli dip- sat in a bulletproof, glass- in 1960, JTA’s reporters were had been tracking Eichmann lomatic crisis due to the enclosed case. The lead pros- just as surprised as everyone waited until he was walking unauthorized, secret Israeli ecutor was Israel’s attorney else. home after his usual bus ride. operation on Argentine soil. general, Gideon Hauser. An article dated May 23 of “A car moved quickly to the Argentina wanted Israel to “There was only one man,” that year described an abrupt curb and Israel [sic] secret return the Nazi, and declared Hausner declared, “in the sa- announcement of the opera- agents jumped out and seized Israel’s ambassador persona- tanic structure of who tion by Israeli Prime Minister him,” JTA reported, quoting non-grata. Israel refused and was almost entirely concerned David Ben-Gurion to the the Argentine reports. “His was backed by the United Na- with the Jews and whose busi- Israeli Knesset. JTA described family became alarmed by his tions Security Council. ness was their destruction. his mood as “hushed, almost absence and checked hospitals A day after Eichmann’s This was Adolf Eichmann, incredulous.” Ben-Gurion’s and morgues. Realizing that capture, JTA reported that who for years saw his destiny he must have been abducted, he had identified himself in and calling—to which he was announcement did not in- Central Press/Getty Images clude the place and time of the family fled into hiding, an initial hearing and, in devoted with enthusiasm and Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann on trial in Jerusalem, the capture, which had taken without knowing that six German, pleaded not guilty endless zeal—the extermina- 1961. place 12 days earlier in Argen- hours after the seizure, Eich- to 15 counts, including crimes tion of the Jews.” tina, nor how it happened. mann was on an Israeli plane against humanity and crimes At the start of the trial, ac- planned to kill all 11 million Arye Nir ordered Eichmann’s “For a moment, there was headed for Tel Aviv.” against the Jewish people. cording to JTA, Eichmann had Jews in Europe. prison uniform changed silence in the chamber,” the The reports recalled that Even so, JTA reported that a “pose of arrogant boredom.” The trial concluded in Au- from red to gray in order to article said. “Then there was Eichmann had been living “[m]any Jews who were sur- But by the trial’s third week, gust 1961, four months after improve his mood and keep a burst of wild applause. Mr. under an assumed name in vivors of Nazi extermination “He had clearly lost weight. its start. JTA reported that him from suffering a nervous Ben-Gurion’s promise that Latin America for eight years. camps have telephoned police There was an inch gap be- Eichmann said he received breakdown. Eichmann will be tried under Until the Mossad operation headquarters volunteering tween his neck and his shirt “fair and decent” treatment In March, Israel’s Supreme the law providing for trials of was revealed, the world had their services as executioners collar. The suit which had fit- in his trial. In the months fol- Court declined an appeal of Nazis and Nazi collaborators no inkling that Eichmann of Eichmann in the event he ted so well two weeks ago was lowing, he wrote at least three Eichmann’s sentence. His May was not lost on the House.” was living as a fugitive in is convicted and sentenced sagging. His face was wan.” volumes of memoirs, and that 31 request for clemency was The events of that story— Argentina. Seven months to death.” Like many JTA dispatches November his guards asked declined, as was a request from how the Mossad found and earlier, JTA had reported The trial itself opened of the day, the article carried to be relieved of their assign- philosopher Martin Buber not apprehended the architect of that he was suspected to be nearly a year later, in April no byline. ment because “they could no to execute Eichmann. the Holocaust in Buenos Ai- hiding out in Kuwait. And 1961. In the meantime, a JTA reported on the defense longer stand the sight of the JTA reported that before res—will be retold in the film only a few days before Ben- film on Eichmann’s capture team’s contention that he was defendant.” Eichmann’s execution, two “Operation Finale,” which Gurion’s announcement, a called “Operation Eichmann” not in charge of the machinery In December 1961, one day former Nazis tried to smuggle premiered on Aug. 29. JTA story detailed prepara- was screened in New York. of the Holocaust. But under before he was found guilty him a razor blade so he could But judging from JTA’s tions for Eichmann’s trial in Also, the Israeli government cross-examination, according and four days before being kill himself. In one instance, relentless coverage of Eich- Frankfurt—should he ever approved a $20,000 pay- to the news agency, he admit- sentenced to death by hang- they hid the blade under a mann’s imprisonment, trial be located. ment ($169,000 in 2018) to ted that he knew the term ing, Eichmann made a public stamp on a postcard. In an- and execution, the aftermath But once he was captured, Eichmann’s German defense “Final Solution” meant mass statement. other they embedded it in a of the capture was also a JTA reported assiduously lawyer, Robert Servatius. extermination and proceeded “I carry my share of respon- box of matches. Israeli agents captivating drama. From the about his hearings and im- Two months before the with the plan—though he sibility,” he said. “What was found the blades both times. moment of the capture to his prisonment, and how they trial, Servatius debuted Eich- evaded other questions, in- done cannot be undone. It Eichmann was hanged on hanging two years later, JTA, were playing in Israel and mann’s infamous defense that cluding about his part in was done as the result of mass June 1, shortly after midnight. then as now a news service around the world. Stories cov- he was “only obeying orders” ordering poison gas for the hysteria, artificially stoked up According to a pastor’s wife syndicating its content to ered debates over the date and when, as a lieutenant colonel concentration camps. and then used by individuals who visited Eichmann with dozens of Jewish media outlets place of the trial; how it would in the SS, he designed the Eichmann later told the for their own ends.” her husband before the ex- and subscribers, published relate to Israeli elections; systematic murder of 6 million court that the Holocaust was One month later, in Janu- ecution, the doomed man more than 600 articles related protests by haredi Orthodox Jews. Eichmann did not deny the “gravest crime in human ary 1962, JTA reported that “showed no sign of confession to the ordeal. Israelis that Eichmann was the facts of the Holocaust, the history.” He also said the Nazis Israeli Prison Commissioner or repentance.”