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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 45, NO. 16 DECEMBER 18, 2020 3 TEVET, 5781 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ COS selects new executive director After a comprehensive search, the Congregation Ohev Shalom Board selected Rachel Rosenberg O’Brien to be execu- tive director of the synagogue. She will assume her duties on Jan. 4, 2021. Steve Brownstein has been the acting executive director since 2013. O’Brien, who has 20 years expericence in management, comes to COS from Austin, Texas, where she is involved with Hadassah and her syna- gogue. “We were immediately im- pressed by her ability to run a business with multiple stake- holders, identify and solve staff Rachel Rosenberg O’Brien and patient concerns, navigate Photo design by Emily Burack/Getty Images Shown here (l-r): Jack Antonoff, Doja Cat and the Haim Sisters. the unique challenges and The search committee opportunities that come up included Steven Hornik, Burt in Jewish organizations, and Chasnov, Rick Cohen, Rachel foster teamwork in all areas. In Gebaide, Debby Gendzier, 2021 Grammy Awards: addition to her skill set, Rachel Steven Hornik, Marcy Kast, is a warm, approachable and Terri Mayle, Nina Oppenheim, engaging individual,” said Ra- Eric Schwartz, Bill Sholk, and all the Jewish nominees chel D. Gebaide, COS president. Alaina Andino Wilder. By Emily Burak Steps.” The album, which is their third, and is nominated for best new artist. Her was released in June to rave reviews. hit song “Say So” also received nomina- (JTA) — This year’s Grammy Awards Jack Antonoff — the Jewish musician tions for record of the year and best Netanyahu wants will almost certainly be different from who has become a go-to producer for solo pop performance. She was born to past years, thanks to the coronavirus some of the industry’s biggest pop stars a Jewish mother and non-Jewish South pandemic. But despite the lack of details and often wears a Star of David in public African father in California. first vaccine surrounding the ceremony, it’s still tak- — is up for producer of the year, for his Daniel Maman, better known by his ing place, and as usual, several Jewish recent work with Taylor Swift, The Chicks professional moniker The Alchemist, artists made the nominations list, which (formerly the Dixie Chicks), FKA Twigs shares a nomination for best rap album was announced Tuesday. and Sia. He received another nod for his with Freddie Gibbs for their record “Al- Ranging all the way from the sister work on Taylor Swift’s album “folkore.” fredo.” The prominent hip-hop producer, rock band Haim to comedian Tiffany Also nominated for producer of the who has worked with dozens of rappers, Haddish, these are the Jewish artists who year is Jewish musician Dan Auerbach, from Eminem to 50 Cent, has a father made the biggest impact on the recording the frontman for the rock band The Black with Israeli heritage. industry this year. Keys, for his work on music by CeeLo And singer J.P. Saxe shares a nomi- The big awards Green, Early James, Marcus King and nation for song of the year along with Leading the way are the Jewish Haim others. His father is of Polish Jewish Julia Michaels for their hit ballad “If the sisters — Alana, Danielle, and Este — who heritage. World Was Ending.” Saxe’s grandfather are nominated for album of the year for Breakout Jewish rapper Doja Cat (real was Janos Starker, a renowned Grammy- “Women in Music Pt. III,” and for best name Amalaratna Zandile Dlamini) had a rock performance for their song “The standout 2020 after going viral on TikTok Grammy on page 14A

By Philissa Cramer for anyone who wants to be vaccinated, countries are de- Funds still needed for Reform/ (JTA) — As Israel received vising prioritization schemes. its first shipment of COVID-19 At 71, Netanyahu falls into vaccines Wednesday, Prime a high-risk group and would Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likely be eligible for early vac- Progressive synagogue in Israel announced on Twitter that he cination under any approach. aimed to be the first person Israel’s vaccines are by By Christine DeSouza in the country to receive the Pfizer, one of several compa- inoculation. nies whose clinical trials have Former Orlando Jewish “We brought the vaccines to yielded safe, effective vaccines community resident and Israel! I intend to be the first against the virus that has in Israel to get vaccinated, to crippled the globe and killed set an example for all Israeli nearly 3,000 Israelis so far. citizens,” Netanyahu tweeted. (Pfizer’s CEO and medical Recent surveys of Israelis director are both Jewish.) A found that a majority are fear- small number of doses ar- ful of the vaccines and would rived Wednesday and about not want to be included in the 100,000 more — enough for first set of inoculations. 50,000 people — are expected Netanyahu is not the only to land at Ben Gurion airport world leader to offer to be a on Thursday, according to the vaccine role model. In the Times of Israel. United States, three former At one point this fall, Israel presidents — George W. had the highest per-capita Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack infection rate in the world. Obama — have said they After a stringent lockdown Kehilat Yonatan’s building shell as of November 2020. would receive their vaccines curbed a devastating second on camera to assure Ameri- wave this fall, cases are again daughter of Arnold Stein, Lori Boyden’s son, Israel Defense years — four to be exact — to cans that the shots are safe. on the rise, and the country’s Erlich, has sent Heritage an Forces paratrooper Yonatan win a court case that involved The first vaccinations out- COVID-19 task force warned update about the progress of Boyden, who was killed in delays on the project by the side of Russia and China that last week that a third wave is Kehilat Yonatan, the Reform/ action in Lebanon in 1993. municipality of Hod Hasha- are not part of clinical trials beginning. Progressive synagogue and In 2014, Erlich and her ron. The Lod District Court took place Tuesday in Eng- cultural/education center in husband, Moshe, visited the ordered the city to halt delays land, where hospital workers Hod Hasharon, Israel. Heritage office to share their on the project and allow the and the elderly are first in line Kehilat Yonatan was found- vision of having a building synagogue to build on the to receive the shots. Because ed in 2001 and is named in for their Reform/Progressive it will take some time for the memory of Rabbi Michael congregation. It took a few Synagogue on page 15A enough doses to be available PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 18, 2020 Israel prepares vehicles for flu shots and mobile COVID-19 vaccines By Abigail Klein and 4 million from Pfizer — General for Operations Gil Leichman enough to inoculate 5 million Moshkowitz thanked Yossi Israelis — expected in early Hillel from Caravila, as well (ISRAEL21c via JNS) — In 2021, pending U.S. regulatory as Einat Segal, director of preparation for the flu season approval. the automotive department and the arrival of COVID-19 Israel also may purchase at the Ministry of Transpor- vaccines needing special COVID-19 vaccines from tation, and her engineering refrigeration, three mobile Arcturus Therapeutics and/ team, for expediting the vaccination caravans were or AstraZeneca if clinical project. commissioned by Magen trials are successful. The MDA International Spokes- David Adom, Israel’s national governmental Israel Institute man Zaki Heller tells IS- organization responsible for for Biological Research is RAEL21c he knows of no emergency pre-hospital medi- developing a vaccine called other country that has such cal care and blood services. BriLife, now in trials at two vehicles. Stationed at the National hospitals. During the first wave of Operations Center in Kiryat Manufactured by the Is- the pandemic, MDA also Ono, near Tel Aviv, the six- raeli company Caravila, the commissioned an ambulance meter (19.6-foot) caravans two-ton vehicles include a bus with space for up to 13 can offer flu vaccinations and separate entrance and exit, a patients—another first of coronavirus testing around registration station, two sam- its kind. It was built by the the country until the CO- pling/vaccination stations Israel Defense Forces’ Land A Magen David Adom vaccine caravan. VID-19 vaccines are approved and medical equipment. They Technology Brigade in co- and shipped to Israel. have solar panels to maintain operation with the Dan Bus Since the beginning of the energy off the grid. Company, funded by MDA, coronavirus outbreak, MDA Freezers that can hold Osem and Nestle. In addi- Genie Milgrom — in search of teams have sampled about thousands of doses are in tion, more than 100 MDA 2,800,000 people. each vehicle, one operating ambulances were retrofitted The Israeli government at -20°C (-4°F) to preserve to isolate the driver from has set up a national vaccine the Moderna vaccines, and exposure to coronavirus her Crypto-Jewish ancestors storage-and-distribution cen- the other at -70°C (-94°F) for patients during transport. to find 15 grandmothers in lectures around the world ter in the Negev, anticipating the Pfizer vaccines. This article was first pub- an unbroken maternal lin- bringing awareness to the 6 million doses from Moderna MDA Deputy Director- lished by ISRAEL21c. eage going back to the early topic of the Jews returning 1500 and that her family had from the Inquisition. been Converso Jews from Her books, “My 15 Grand- before the Spanish Inquisi- mothers,” “How I found My ‘Jeopardy!’ just had a Yiddish tion. She managed to com- 15 Grandmothers,” and her pile all the birth, marriage, latest book, “Pyre to Fire,” death and Inquisition docu- have won the 2015 and 2018 category and we’re kvelling ments for her family proving Latino Author Book Awards to the Beis Din (Rabbinical and she was awarded the schlep?) This one was cor- Court) that her family was State of Florida Genealogy rectly answered by contestant always Jewish. award for her outstanding Ben Ring, an accountant As she continued the achievements. originally from Allentown, research, she was able to go “The Jewish people have Pennsylvania. Mazel tov, Ben! back 22 generations to Pre- lost so many numbers not Yiddish for $400: Some- Inquisition Portugal and only to physical murder but times in the middle of the identify 30 or so relatives to assimilation and forced night I’ll head to the kitchen Genie Milgrom that were judged or burned in conversions over the centu- and do some of this from the the Inquisition. Some from ries. It is really heartwarm- Yiddish for “snacking.” As part of their monthly the Tribunal in Lisbon, oth- ing to have a family member (The answer is: What is guest speakers via zoom ers in Coimbra in Portugal. find their way back home,” nosh/noshing?) And, in case “Physically Apart — Emo- Many were brought before said Chanshy Majesky. “The you didn’t know, The Nosher tionally Together,” Chabads the Inquisitors for simple prophets have promised that is the name of our partner site of North and Greater Or- infractions such as wearing before Moshiach comes, all that’s dedicated to Jewish food. lando invite you to hear the a clean shirt on Shabbat or lost Jews will find their way Yiddish for $200: There’s no fascinating story of Genie cleaning their homes on back to their roots, perhaps Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Alek Trebek guilt in knowing that “gelt” is Milgrom on Wednesday, Dec. Friday. Genie’s story is part of a this; you’ll receive some with 23, at 7:30 p.m. Her Jewish lineage was fulfilment of that prophecy,” By Lior Zaltzman Of the five Yiddish ques- a correct response. Genie will share her jour- traced back to a small village added Fraidy Dubov. tions, only two of the three Contestant and college ney back in time as she named Fermoselle in the The entire community is “Jeopardy!” fans have been contestants got two right. administrator Tracy Arwari crossed the globe in search of province of Zamora, Spain. invited to join for this fasci- hard hit by the loss of Alex Let’s review them — read on of Newport, West Virginia, got her Crypto-Jewish ancestors. They lived as Crypto Jews nating lecture. Tickets can Trebek, who died of cancer on and see how you would do. some gelt for this one. And, Genie Milgrom was born in until the late 1600s and then be purchased for $10. Nov. 8 at age 80. But because Yiddish for $1,000: The FYI, gelt is simply Yiddish for Havana, Cuba, into a Roman as Roman Catholics until Zoom ID and password the show films in advance — word for cheap & shoddily “money,” though of course we Catholic Family of Spanish today. Many Jewish customs will be provided upon reg- and Trebek kept filming until a made goods now usually refers also love to eat chocolate gelt Ancestry. were kept in the family as istration. week before his passing — the to cheap and shoddily made during Chanukah! According to Jewish law, Spanish traditions. Genie is Reservations and more beloved longtime host is still entertainment. How would you have done? one’s Jewishness is deter- the only one of her family information can be found with us until Dec. 25. (The answer is: What is Personally, I found the ques- mined by their maternal so far that has returned to on www.JewishNorthOr- Just why are we writ- schlock?) tions all extremely easy, but, line, no matter how long the religion of the ancestors. lando.com/Zoom, 407-636- ing about this iconic game Yiddish for $800: The open- you know, I work for a Jewish they are living as gentiles. Milgrom has spoken at 5994 or ChabadOrlando.org/ show? Well, Jewish questions ing to Laverne & Shirley used publication. Nonetheless, we Amazingly, Genie was able the Knesset in Israel and Zoom, 407-644-2500. and guests are not exactly these 2 Yiddish words, one did get verklempt watching rare on “Jeopardy!”. But on meaning an oaf, the other, an Trebek impart his viewers Monday night, Nov. 30, the unlucky person. with some Yiddish knowledge, show had an entire category (The answer is: What are knowing that in just over Congregation Sinai dedicated to Yiddish. The schlemiel and schlemazel?) a month we’ll have to say clueless contestants were Yiddish for $600: This verb goodbye to him on TV. May clearly schvitzing — that’s means to haul or to move his memory be for a blessing. “sweating” in Yiddish — and with effort. This article originally ap- welcomes everyone mostly stumped. (The answer is: What is peared in Kveller. Congregation Sinai helps our community celebrate all Jewish holidays with special events and virtual services. 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Gantz Atid and his Telem Party and day, telling Channel 13 News: important, but on the other the polls, which is why he’s dispersed, and a date for the told Channel 12’s “Meet the incorporating Eizenkot as “I’m not mad at [Ya’alon]. hand pushing for elections conducting desperate inter- next election has not been set. Press”: “I’ll lead the camp; his deputy. Politicians are allowed to in a very short time frame views and brazenly using the But the turmoil in the anti- Yair Lapid can’t form a gov- “Gadi Eizenkot understood take stock of their situations. to prevent Netanyahu from IDF for political purposes Prime Minister Benjamin ernment in Israel. His friends Gantz’s lesson,” said Ya’alon. But if you want to replace the attaining the “victory image” to rehash the fake subma- Netanyahu camp continued know this, and he knows it. “If he enters [politics], then government, Yesh Atid will be of the coronavirus vaccine and rinestory, even though he unabated and even intensified I’m ready to cooperate with it’s clear he will enter with me the only option.” containing the pandemic in himself testified to the po- over the weekend. Blue and anyone who wants to join; I’ll and my party and I will lead. Regardless, until Eizenkot several months. lice that there’s nothing to White leader Benny Gantz is move forward and people will I didn’t decide to leave Lapid; decides—if he decides—to In his interview with “Meet the story. Gantz’s advisers fighting Yesh Atid chairman follow my lead.” decisions will be made when run, officials in Blue and the Press” on Saturday, Gantz need to abandon this failed Yair Lapid; Moshe Ya’alon is Gantz also discussed the there are elections. I met with White are preoccupied with said: “I’ve spoken with Netan- strategy and advise him to squabbling with both of them; prospect of former Israel Eizenkot [last] week; he’s an the fight over the national yahu dozens of times about join the prime minister in and the names Gadi Eizenkot Defense Forces Chief of Staff excellent person, and we meet budget. Gantz continues in- this. A budget was supposed the efforts to deliver vac- and Ron Huldai are being Gadi Eizenkot’s foray into often.” sisting he won’t compromise to have been passed in August. cines, fight the coronavirus bandied about in an ultimate politics. “I’d be happy for Gadi Individuals who have on the matter. “More than Either there will be a budget, [and] bring more economic effort to replace Netanyahu to contribute politically, and spoken with Eizenkot, how- a few pundits will eat their or we will go back to the public assistance to the citizens as premier. I’d certainly be happy for him ever, told Israel Hayom that hats,” he said. “Either the 2021 and tell it we did what we could of Israel and more historic The former political allies, to join me,” he said. Eizenkot was still undecided budget will pass in the Knes- to stabilize [the country] in an peace agreements.” Gantz and Lapid, visited the Another former army chief about entering politics at all, set, or we’ll go to elections.” emergency situation, and let’s This article first appeared television studios on Saturday, and Lapid’s No. 2, Ya’alon, and in any case, his views Likud officials, meanwhile, continue forward.” in Israel Hayom. Israel’s National Security Council issues heightened terror warnings for citizens abroad (JNS) — Israel’s National Kurdish area in Iraq), as well communities, synagogues, areas; and refrain from nei said that there must be Foreign Ministry spokes- Security Council has issued as throughout the Middle kosher restaurants and Jew- congregating in public areas a “definite punishment” for man Saeed Khateebza- a warning to the country’s East and Africa,” said the ish museums.” that are not secured or are the targeted killing, without deh threatened the “Zionist citizens abroad to take special statement. According to the NSC, the in proximity to government providing specifics. But an op- regime” that if it continues security precautions. In addition to the above, upcoming Christian and Jew- institutions.” ed published in the regime- to “disrupt” what he called “In light of the threats that according to the NSC, “global ish holidays in December and The NSC’s warning comes controlled Khayan newspa- the Islamic Republic’s “ad- have been made recently by jihad organizations, espe- January “are liable to attract in the aftermath of the Nov. per, whose editor-in-chief visory presence” in Syria, Iranian elements, and given cially ISIS and its supporters, hostile terrorist activity in 27 assassination of senior was appointed by Khamenei, it will suffer a “crushing the past involvement of Ira- are demonstrating high mo- Europe.” Iranian nuclear scientist called for Tehran to respond to response.” nian elements in terrorist tivation to carry out terror- As a result, it said, it is Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, which the assassination by launch- Khateebzadeh’s comment attacks in various countries, ist attacks (pursuant to the calling on Israelis planning the regime in Tehran has at- ing an attack on Haifa that came on the heels of Israel’s there is concern that Iran attacks that have occurred to visit overseas, including tributed to Israel. “causes heavy human casu- latest airstrikes on Iranian will try to act in this manner recently in France, Austria those on official trips and Iranian Supreme Lead- alties.” and Syrian military targets against Israeli targets,” the and Germany).” business delegations, to er Ayatollah Ali Khame- A week earlier, Iranian in Syria. 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It also fails to take Zionists,” to support their objections and to definition correctly labels those who want to into account the fact that the Arabs were de- (JNS) — A group of 122 Palestinian aca- undermine the growing international support discriminate against Jews in a way that they termined at every point to refuse compromise demics, journalists, writers and filmmakers for the IHRA definition. would never think of treating anyone else — as and to treat the Jews as not merely unwelcome, signed a letter last month taking issue with the Groups like Americans for Peace Now and anti-Semites. That the United States and many but as an inferior dhimmi (“second-class”) widespread adoption of the International Ho- the New Israel Fund are now weighing in other governments have officially adopted it people who must be subjugated by Muslims. locaust Remembrance Association definition against adoption of the definition. That has is an encouraging sign that a coalition of de- Such hatred is not merely a relic of the past of anti-Semitism. Their statement has gotten made it clear that the line between groups cent people of all faiths will stand up against when Palestinian leader Amin Al-Husseini, a lot of attention and been rightly criticized that were heretofore deeply critical of Israel this hate. the Mufti of Jerusalem, fomented pogroms as both disingenuous and illegitimate since but still avowedly Zionist and those that are So it is unsurprising that those who have and then allied his people with the Nazis dur- it is absurd for a group that is the object of open about their opposition to Israel’s existence been the thought leaders seeking to normal- ing the Holocaust and encouraged the mass prejudice, as is the case with the Jews, to be and, as in the case of Jewish Voice for Peace, ize hatred of Jews in our time would push murder of the Jews. Nor is it confined to the denied the right to define the hatred that is guilty of themselves spreading anti-Semitism back against the IHRA definition. Sadly, the period when arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat led the directed at them. has become completely blurred. In doing so, Palestinian national movement is inextricably Palestinian Liberation Organization and then But as much as the Palestinian protest these groups aren’t merely expressing criticism tied to a century-old war against Zionism and the Palestinian Authority. And the drumbeat against the IHRA declaration is deserving of of Israeli policies or society, but materially aid- the Jewish presence in Israel, and its advocates of anti-Semitic incitement only continued scorn, it should not be our primary focus of ing an anti-Semitic cause that targets the sole have routinely practiced Jew-hatred. More under Mahmoud Abbas, his successor at the concern in this controversy. The real problem Jewish state on the planet for elimination, in than that, they have sought to normalize it. P.A., with the Palestinian official media and is not the unsurprising fact that a cause that addition to subjecting Jews who speak up for So when the signers of the Palestinian letter education system fomenting spread of the has become the main engine driving anti- Zionism to anti-Semitic slanders and attacks. claim that they condemn anti-Semitism while hatred of Jews. It is also an essential part of Semitism would seek to redefine it so as to The IHRA’s definition has become a rally- insisting on their right to “deny the Jewish the official doctrine of the Hamas rulers of make their hate seem more legitimate. Rather, ing point in the effort to roll back the rising people their right to self-determination” or to the independent Palestinian state in all but it is the willingness of so many Jews, including tide of Jew-hatred that has swept across the term Israel a “racist endeavor” (the wording name that exists in the Gaza Strip. The same of the IHRA definition), they are being utterly is true for groups, like Students for Justice in disingenuous. Palestine, that advocate for BDS on American More to the point, they ignore the fact that college campuses. Upcoming anti-Semitism panel there are parts of the definition they don’t con- What then motivates those Jews who speak test. These include applying double-standards in favor of this dishonest Palestinian claim? not used to judge any other democracy, let Those who identify with the far-left of the shows different rules for Jews alone one at war; accusing Jews in the Diaspora Israeli political spectrum — and therefore of dual loyalty; using “symbols and images hold views now outside the mainstream in By David Schiff tion of Antony Blinken (a Jew) as secretary associated with classic anti-Semitism” or the Jewish state — have become so alienated of state under the incoming administration comparing Israeli policy “to that of the Nazis.” from normative pro-Israeli advocacy that they (JNS) — The divisive organization Jewish of Joe Biden by expressing her hope that he Parts of the definition that they don’t contest are uncomfortable speaking up on its behalf. Voice for Peace co-hosted a panel on Dec. 15 will not “suppress my First Amendment right are commonplace examples of Palestinian All too many of them have already accepted headlined “Dismantling Antisemitism, Win- to speak out against [Israeli Prime Minister advocacy against Israel and Zionism. the false premises of the anti-Zionists and ning Justice.” Benjamin] Netanyahu’s racist and inhumane While the signers of the Palestinian attack regard those who rightly brand anti-Zionists The panel — which featured figures such as policies.” It’s a statement perceived by many on the IHRA claim that they oppose Jew-hatred as anti-Semites as political foes. Groups like U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Temple to be an anti-Semitic dog whistle. — you’d have to forget the entire history of the Peace Now and the New Israel Fund seem University professor Marc Lamont Hill, who Hill, an academic, was fired from CNN in Palestinian Arabs during the last century to more interested in delegitimizing their Zion- have themselves engaged in extensive anti- 2018 for calling for a free Palestine “from the accept the claim that classic anti-Semitism has ist critics with attempts to throw them out Semitic rhetoric, alongside outspoken Israel River to the Sea.” Beinart, the panel’s sole nothing to do with advocacy for their cause. of groups like the Conference of Presidents critic Peter Beinart — has been received with Jew, has recently advocated for the erasure Their argument seeks to give Palestinians of Major American Jewish Organizations or a mixture of shock, dismay and outright bewil- of Israel’s identity as a Jewish state. Barbara a pass because of the suffering that they were local Jewish Community Relations Coun- derment. The inclusion of these participants Ransby, the panel’s fourth participant and a caused by the return of the Jews to their an- cils than they are in calling out Jew-haters in a panel on anti-Semitism is both comically professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, cient homeland. Many on the Jewish left argue who want to destroy Israel. counterproductive and tacit approval of an in- has referred to Israel as a “project of apartheid that there is a difference between classic anti- Though some members of these left-wing tellectual environment in which anti-Semitism and ethnic cleansing.” Semitism, which is rooted in irrational hate for groups may claim that they are still Zionist and is allowed to blossom. To be clear, criticism of Israel’s policies the Jews —s uch as belief that Jews killed their opposed to anti-Semitism, their increasingly Such an initiative is unsurprising coming should not be conflated with anti-Semitism. God or that Jews secretly control the world as ambivalent attitude towards Israel, coupled from JVP, an organization that openly stated But calling into question Israel’s right to in the lies propagated by The Protocols of the with hostility to those who have called out its goal to create a “wedge” within the Jewish exist as a Jewish state, a practice in which Elders of Zion — and the Palestinian desire to Palestinians and other anti-Zionists for their community over Israel, and which has long the panelists engage, undoubtedly should erase Israel from the map. They say the latter anti-Semitism, seem far more important to been an ardent supporter of BDS campaigns be. The International Holocaust Remem- sentiment is understandable and perhaps even them. Unfortunately, they have crossed the against the Jewish state. Nor is this the first brance Alliance’s working definition of justified given that Zionism is a colonialist line that ought to separate them from those time that JVP has downplayed the issue of anti-Semitism, adopted by 28 countries, movement that sought to disenfranchise and who hate the Jews and have become their anti-Semitism, stating in 2016, for example, includes denying the Jewish people their drive out the indigenous inhabitants of the “useful idiots,” even open allies. That — and that “anti-Jewish bigotry is not equivalent right to self-determination. country. not another Palestinian attempt to deflect ac- to the structural oppression” faced by other And even in the absence of such provi- But treating Jews as having no rights to the curate charges of Jew-hatred — is not merely minority communities. sions, the choice of JVP and its cosponsors to land is a denial of history. Jews are not like a problem but a Jewish tragedy. But even by those standards, the upcoming include figures perceived by a large portion Europeans seeking to govern foreign territory Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS panel is an especially cynical take on an issue of the Jewish community as openly hostile but are instead indigenous to the land of Israel, — Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him on that JVP usually pretends to take seriously. does little to assuage fears of anti-Semitism as well as being as likely to have come from Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin. Indeed, the notion of a panel on anti-Sem- in contemporary discourse. In fact, it achieves itism comprised of a non-Jewish majority is the opposite. emblematic of the increasing hostility towards A telling indicator of this was provided by Jewish voices in academia and civil society. Beinart himself, who in an interview this Taxpayer-funded terrorists In the current political climate in the United week with The Jewish News stated that the States, it is exceedingly difficult to imagine any panel’s goal was to discuss how “the fight other minority group being asked to tolerate against anti-Semitism has become a way to sent millions to US colleges such treatment. legitimize bigotry against Palestinians.” In A panel on combating racism with little to no other words, anti-Semitism is not a problem. By Daniel Greenfield when asked. Because it fell below the $250,000 representation of people of color, for example, Rather, accusations of anti-Semitism have threshold required for reporting foreign gifts would be met with derision and scorn, let alone made it inconvenient for NGOs to pursue a (JNS) — Open question: Is there any enemy to the DoE, Harvard did not have to disclose the outcry that would rightly ensue were such BDS agenda. nation or power, from Communist China to a 2011 gift of $150,000 from the Palestinian a panel to include a participant associated with The inability to discuss anti-Semitism with- Qatar, that isn’t buying up academia? Monetary Authority to establish an annual white supremacism. But the same rules don’t out reference to the Palestinian issue betrays a It’s one thing when wealthy enemy nations graduate public service fellowship to support seem to apply to discrimination against Jews. tendency to hold Jews collectively responsible like China and Qatar do it, but the whole thing a student from the ‘occupied Palestinian ter- And then there are the panelists them- for the actions of the state of Israel, another reaches a new level of obscene absurdity when ritories’ for three years.” selves. Congresswoman Tlaib, a fervent BDS component of the IHRA working definition. it’s a terrorist entity that we fund with our tax Why is the PLO putting more of its money supporter, openly calls for the end of Israel as Anti-Semitism should not be a partisan is- dollars that’s doing it. on the table? Part of the answer may be that a Jewish state and has in the past made com- sue, and conversations about it should not be It’s not often that I’m surprised, but Mitchell the Gulf Arabs may be less prone to represent- ments downplaying Jewish suffering in the wielded as political tools. That is a dangerous Bard’s research in The Spectator turned up ing its agendas they pivot to resisting Iran. Holocaust. path, even for the likes of JVP. something I didn’t even imagine existed: It might also want more control over the Most recently, she reacted to the nomina- David Schiff is deputy editor at NGO Monitor. “A new study that I compiled for the Ameri- anti-Israel movement on campuses. can-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise found that U.S. campuses have a sizable pro-PFLP pres- THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. 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Florida must take a stand https://www.timesofisrael. matter-and-self-hating-jews Bachman, in her blog, ex- against all forms of anti-Sem- com/la-jews-take-stock-after- The open-sourced facts plained her support for this itism, prejudice, and bigotry HERITAGEVIEWPOINT encourages readers to send in their opin- george-floyd-protests-batter- and evidence presented above exhibit, “Uprooting Prejudice: by removing the ‘Uprooting ions for the Viewpoint column. They must be signed; however, names will be withheld upon request. Due to local-institutions/ make an air-tight case the Faces of Change by John Prejudice’ exhibit from its space limitations, we reserve the right to edit, if neces- BLM and anti-Semitism Black Lives Matter move- Noltner contains a series of hallowed halls quietly or use sary. Opinions printed in Viewpoint do not necessarily Tablet Magazine reported, ment is anti-Israel and anti- 45 black and white portraits this controversy as a learning reflect the opinions of the paper. “Between 1939 and 1945, Semitic. The documented that capture visceral reactions moment. one-third of the Jewish people vandalism and destruction to the violent death of George Alternative exhibits and in the world were murdered. of synagogues and Jewish- Floyd … George Floyd’s death conclusion That was genocide. And since owned businesses in several became synonymous with the The ‘Jews, Money, Myth’ Anti-Semites inside our Israel took control of the West states during the BLM riots deaths of many others that are exhibit explores many of the Bank and Gaza in 1967 in a war is compelling, and ignored seen as being rooted in acts of world’s oldest anti-Semitic Holocaust Center of self-defense, the Arab popu- by the Maitland Holocaust violent prejudice or racism. tropes. If there were ever two lation in these two areas has Center director. George Floyd, https://blogs.timesofisrael. words that sound toxic when By Alan Kornman not an innocent man killed gone from just over a million Jacob Blake, and Michael com/why-my-shoah-muse- put together, they would be because of his race. to well over 4 million. That is Brown were killed while resist- um-has-exhibit-on-reaction- “Jews” and “money.” But add The Uprooting Prejudice BLM rioters are bigots not genocide. If anything, it’s ing arrest for and in the act to-george-floyd-death/ the word “myth” into the exhibit, at the Maitland Ho- “One of the most common a population explosion. of their criminal activities; The big disconnect mix, and you’ve got the dar- locaust Center of Florida, is and insidious catchphrases ‘Uprooting Prejudice’ is ing exhibition. ‘Jews, Money, in part promoting the Black in the anti-Israel campaign an exhibit promoting the Myth’ opened March 19 at Lives Matter movement, is “Free Palestine,” a notion Black Lives Matter move- London’s Jewish Museum which is irrefutably anti- seemingly of liberation but ment, which is anti-Semitic and examined the tortured Semitic and responsible for a negation of Jews’ rights “This exhibit and responsible for targeting and tangled relationship targeting synagogues and to the land of Israel … The synagogues and destroying between the words. Source: destroying Jewish-owned phrase is often adopted by Jewish-owned businesses. https://www.timesofisrael. businesses during the George other progressive groups is controversial It is the mission of the com/this-shocking-exhibit- Floyd inspired riots. This such as Black Lives Matter. HMREC to educate and expose reexamines-age-old-anti- exhibit, occupying the hal- https://www.jpost.com/opin- and dividing our anti-Semitism so a Nazi-like semitic-trope-of-jews-and- lowed halls of our Holocaust ion/the-bad-faith-behind- Holocaust never happens money. Memorial Center has resulted free-palestine-619547 again. It is the duty of the There is a no-frills traveling in well-deserved negative In Los Angeles, JTA re- community ...” Holocaust Center of Florida, “Contemporary Anti-Semi- national attention. ported about Black Lives staff, board of directors, tism” exhibit having showings The Aug. 28, 2020, Jeru- Matter riots targeting Jewish and donors to expose anti- at college campuses available. salem Post reported, “On synagogues and businesses. Why is this demographic these were not innocent men. Semitism, not to invite the Sadly, contemporary anti- Wednesday night, the 93-year- “Graffiti on the walls of Con- data worth mentioning? Be- The photograph of Michael BLM anti-Semites into the Semitism exhibits are not be- old Los Angeles synagogue’s gregation Beth El synagogue cause the recently released Brown’s father is the most Holocaust Center and glorify ing commissioned because of driveway was graffitied with read ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘f*** manifesto of the Black Lives prominent in the exhibit. them with this ironically titled political correctness, identity the words “Free Palestine.” Israel.’” Matter movement, a move- Pam Kancher, director, ‘Uprooting Prejudice’ exhibit. politics, and the uncomfort- BLM riots broke out after A statue of Raoul Wallen- ment set up to address the and Lisa Bachman, assistant Solution able nature of exposing con- police shot Jacob Blake, who berg, the Swedish diplomat issue of innocent Black men director of the Holocaust The ‘Uprooting Prejudice’ temporary anti-Semites like resisted arrest, had an active who saved thousands of who have been shot by police Memorial Resource & Edu- exhibit has received negative BLM, for example. And now arrest warrant issued for Hungarian Jews from the officers, includes a broadened cation Center of Florida are national attention for all the we have gone full circle and third-degree sexual assault, Nazis, was smeared with agenda denouncing Israel, the responsible for bringing this right reasons. This exhibit is it’s time for action … remove trespassing, domestic abuse, anti-Semitic slogans. Along Jewish homeland, for practic- controversial exhibit, “Up- controversial and dividing our the controversial Uprooting and disorderly conduct.” Ja- with the synagogues, Jewish- ing “genocide” against the rooting Prejudice, Faces of community, not encouraging Prejudice exhibit from our cob Blake was a criminal and owned buildings and stores Palestinians.” https://www. Change,” and “Conversations unity against anti-Semitism. Maitland Holocaust Center. An appalling ‘Washington Post’ editorial indeed By Sean Durns Israel and me personally.” contrary to what Diehl implies, Israel with an entire editorial? nuclear deal—evidence that tive for possible future use” by How dare he! the media doesn’t “designate” And why the language and has been in the public domain the regime. Indeed, the former (JNS) — The Washington This supposed offense, the winner of a U.S. presiden- absurd comparison? for more than two years. In this deputy director-general of the Post is at it again. The editorial suggests Diehl, makes the pro- tial election. That’s the job of Diehl tips his hand later in regard, however, the newspaper IAEA, Oli Heinonen, called board of the newspaper just U.S., democratically elected electors — a fact for which the editorial. Netanyahu, he that features “democracy dies the revelations in some of the cannot refrain from attacking premier of Israel akin to an Americans should probably laments, “has taken a militant in darkness” on its masthead documents a “jackpot.” Israel. Its Dec. 6 commen- anti-American autocrat or be grateful, considering that stand against one of Biden’s seems impervious to facts. Yet for his skepticism to- tary, “Netanyahu’s reaction to worse. Netanyahu’s “reaction both The Washington Post and principal foreign-policy pledg- On April 30, 2018, Ne- wards a “deal” with a leading Biden’s victory is appalling,” to Biden’s victory has out- The New York Times refuse es: that he would return the tanyahu revealed that Israeli state sponsor of terrorism offers more proof of the board’s stripped even that of Russian to return the 2018 Pulitzer United States to the nuclear intelligence operatives man- that has explicitly called for anti-Israel bias. President Vladimir Putin in Prizes that both outlets were accord with Iran.” And in what aged to obtain thousands his country’s destruction, the Jackson Diehl, the Post’s its malevolent audacity.” The awarded for reporting that Diehl terms a “provocative of documents, which were Post’s editorial-board mem- deputy opinion-page editor, Post’s language, and its absurd has since been discredited. act,” the Jewish state “is widely later authenticated by the U.S., ber lambasts Netanyahu as is upset. The reason? “When comparison, is unhinged. It’s Small wonder that, as Gallup reported to be behind the Nov. showing that Iran had not only “militant.” The language is U.S. media designated” for- not the language of a serious reported in September 2020, 27 assassination of Iran’s lead- lied about its nuclear program revealing. What Diehl really mer U.S. Vice President Joe newspaper. the percentage of Americans ing nuclear scientist.” but was engaged in hiding it seems to resent is the leader of “Biden the winner on Nov. Netanyahu wasn’t the only with “no trust at all in U.S. mass Diehl doesn’t mention, of during JCPOA negotiations. a democratic U.S. ally assert- 7,” Israeli Prime Minister world leader or even the only media” is at an all-time high. course, that the nuclear “sci- Yet the Post’s May 9, 2018 “Fact ing his own policy prerogatives Benjamin Netanyahu “de- world ally to wait less than a One can perhaps understand entist” in question, Mohsen Check” claimed that Israel’s instead of subordinating them layed until the next day before day to congratulate Biden on why Israel’s leader didn’t un- Fakhrizadeh, was a sworn findings were “nothing new.” to what Diehl thinks best. Israel publicly congratulating him.” winning an extremely close critically take “the U.S. media” member of Iran’s Islamic Revo- The newspaper didn’t explain, should know its place, even if Worse still, Diehl writes, “14 election. The leaders of Brazil at its word — particularly lutionary Guard Corps, a U.S.- either then or later, how it made the matter in question—Iran’s minutes later, Netanyahu and Mexico, among others, also after reading the newspaper’s designated terrorist entity that this determination without acquisition of nuclear weap- separately tweeted thanks did so. Curiously, however, the childish screed. It is less easy, has trained terror groups like viewing the documents itself. ons—is an existential one for to Trump for “the friendship Post only singled out Israel. however, to forgive the Post. Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, In fact, the Institute for Sci- the one Jewish state on this you have shown the state of And it’s worth noting that Why single out the leader of provided shelter to Al-Qaeda, ence and Security, a nonpar- planet. and murdered U.S. servicemen tisan U.S. think tank that did How dare they. and women. Nor does Diehl tell view some of those documents, Sean Durns is a senior re- remember the lessons of the Post readers that there’s been concluded that Israel’s discov- search analyst for CAMERA, Letters To The Editor evidence that Iran has been ery was a “smoking gun” that the 65,000-member, Boston- We are a diverse community and we welcome your Holocaust, namely that Hitler violating the Joint Comprehen- showed previously “unknown based Committee Accuracy letters and viewpoints. The views and opinions expressed wanted to wipe out an entire sive Plan of Action (JCPOA), sites” of nuclear activity, and in Middle East Reporting in in the opinion pieces and letters published in The Heri- people simply because they also known as the 2015 Iran that Iran’s archive was kept “ac- America. tage are the views of the authors, and do not necessarily were Jewish. Anti-Semitism reflect the views and opinions of The Heritage Florida cannot be tolerated. The mu- Jewish News or its staff. The Heritage reserves the right seum claims to use the lessons to edit letters for clarity, content, and accuracy. And of the Holocaust to promote a respectful of lashon hara, we will not print derogatory ‘moral and just community.’ statements against any individual. A George Floyd exhibit has no Please limit letters to 500 words. Send letters to P.O. connection to the Holocaust. Box 300742, Fern Park, FL 32730. Or e-mail to news@ George Floyd’s death was orlandoheritage.com. decried by all, but his death was used as a springboard for BLM’s violent protests and anti-Semitic looting and Exhibit has no connection to vandalism of Jewish busi- nesses. Anti-Semitic rhetoric the Holocaust was heard at BLM protests in the name of George Floyd. Dear Editor: berg, were survivors of the An exhibit to commemorate I protest an exhibit at the Auschwitz and Buchenwald him does not belong alongside Holocaust Memorial Resource concentration camps. exhibits of 6 million Jews and Education Center in A George Floyd Exhibit murdered in the Holocaust. Maitland, Florida, honoring has no place in a Holocaust Rabbi Dr. Bernhard George Floyd. My parents, Museum which should be Rosenberg Jacob and Rachel Rosen- dedicated to memorialize and Edison, N.J. 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The min- to ensuring appropriate levels The European Council is a.m., 407-644-2500. isters have the authority to of security awareness, specific expected to formally adopt Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona — Monday, 8 a.m.; Thursday, 8 a.m., commit their governments training for security staff and the declaration at its two-day 904-672-9300. to the actions agreed upon by law-enforcement officers, ex- meeting beginning on Dec. 10. Congregation Ohev Shalom — Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-298-4650. the council, its main decision- change of best practices and The World Jewish Congress, GOBOR Community Minyan at Jewish Academy of Orlando — Monday – Friday, 7:45 a.m. – making body. The declara- thorough implementation which for years has worked 8:30 a.m. (virtual) tion makes the fight against of appropriate measures to with E.U. leadership on codi- Temple Israel — Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-647-3055. anti-Semitism a priority of ensure the security of Jewish fying measures to fight anti- Europe’s executive branch. institutions.” Semitism at member state FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18 The declaration calls anti- Regarding the growth of and local levels, applauded Final Day of Chanukah Semitism “an attack on anti-Semitic hate speech, the move. Ahavas Yisrael — Kabbalat, 30 minutes before sundown. European values,” reading: particularly its dissemination “This declaration is a sig- “Any form of anti-Semitism, online, “crimes committed nificant step forward in mak- SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19 intolerance or racist hatred online should be punished ing Europe a better place for Torah Portion — Parashat Miketz: Genesis 41:1-44:17; Haftarah: 1 Kings 3:15-4:1. is incompatible with the just as crimes offline are and Jews,” said WJC president values and aims of the Euro- must be adequately addressed Ronald S. Lauder in a state- TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20 pean Union and its Member by means of effective prosecu- ment. “The responsibility Chabads of North Orlando and Greater Orlando — Explore biblical secrets in person or via States and must be addressed tion and other measures,” the now falls on member states Zoom at the Jewish Learning Institute, 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m., Nate’s Shul, 1701 Markham Woods through decisive action at declaration reads. “Illegal to apply the policies and un- Rd., Longwood. 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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 18, 2020 PAGE 7A From homeless to Congress, Florida’s Kat Cammack is ready to stand with Israel Jewish and pro-Israel com- Her campaign was also nuclear deal and what makes other U.S. adversaries. But she munity. supported by I-PAC JAX, Inc., it poor foreign policy, Cam- cautioned against immediate Her district, which is in a pro-Israel PAC that supports mack laughed and rhe- total U.S. troop withdrawals northern Florida and includes candidates out of Jacksonville. torically asked, “Where do from Iraq and Afghanistan, the University of Florida in The group contributed $5,000 I start?” though she would like to see Gainesville, has an estimated ahead of her primary, accord- She cited a lack of inspec- them eventually leaving those 3,000 permanent Jewish ing to the Federal Election tions of Iran’s nuclear facili- areas. residents. Commission. ties, the sanctions relief that Regarding Syria, she said “Only in America is that Moreover, Cammack men- was “feeding a regime that that the situation there “is possible that I’m proud to tioned that she jokingly refers supports terrorism, and the really turning into a global represent the largest Jewish to a good friend of hers out of killing of Israeli and American proxy war” with Russian student organization in the New York as “my rabbi.” citizens.” involvement, in addition to country, Gators for Israel, “He is a rabbi, but he was “From top to bottom, the “tremendous overreach from and that’s in my district,” instrumental in recruiting deal was bad,” she empha- a constitutional perspective of she said, adding that she me for the Guardian Fund, sized. our involvement there.” She looks forward to hosting the which [helps elect] women While she expressed sup- called for a global coalition Kat Cammack during a campaign event. University of Florida pro- and minorities and veterans port for a strong U.S. mili- to put pressure on Syrian Israel group as a member of to Congress,” she continued, tary and for U.S. military leadership. By Jackson Richman “Badasses, I call them, in Congress. noting that he sits on the assistance to Israel, she is She called for a global their own right,” she said. She mentioned that her group’s executive board. against U.S. ground forces coalition to combat extrem- (JNS) — In addition to “Executives, CEOs — just in- best friend from the Metro- On Iran nuclear deal and in the Middle East and else- ism and terrorism in which Kat Cammack being one of a credibly accomplished women politan State University of proxies in Syria where. The Pentagon recently “the United States cannot be record number of Republican in their own right. And they Denver, where Cammack went “Israel is an incredibly announced a partial U.S. troop the sole operators out there,” women elected to Congress outworked their opponents for her undergraduate degree important part of our global withdrawal from Iraq and continually monitoring for this past election, she will and were elected not because in international relations, is context, and it is truly our Afghanistan by Jan. 15 — a decades to come. serve as the youngest Re- they were women, but because Jewish. He visited her and strongest ally in the region. timeline in which publicizing Cammack also blamed the publican woman on Capitol they were the best person for her husband to celebrate her I don’t think that there’s any any timelines, according to United Nations for its “efforts Hill when the 117th Congress the job.” election, and according to length that we won’t go to Cammack, helps America’s to undermine Israel’s role and begins on Jan. 3. She touted, “We have quite Cammack, makes “the best protect and support our sister enemies. place on the global stage, and She easily defeated Demo- a diverse sisterhood forming challah.” nation of Israel, so I would say She said, citing her master’s continuing to vote against crat Adam Christensen, 57.1 here in the Republican Party Additionally, she said that a it’s a pretty strong relation- education at the U.S. Naval issues that are of most impor- percent to 42.9 percent, re- in Washington.” number of her campaign staff ship,” she said. War College, that “when you tance to Israel.” She said she spectively, in the Nov. 3 U.S. The 32-year-old, who is is part of “Gators for Israel,” Cammack has been to Israel enter a conflict, you need to plans to be outspoken about House of Representatives race married, was born in Colorado and that members of the once, visiting for 14 days in have an end goal in mind.” She this in Congress. in Florida’s 3rd Congressional and had a tough road to get to Gainesville Jewish commu- May 2013, four months after noted that the tribal culture She said that education District to succeed retiring Capitol Hill, first as a staffer nity supported her campaign. Yoho was first sworn in. She in, for example, Afghanistan is critical in combating the Republican Rep. Ted Yoho, and now as an elected mem- Cammack’s congressional went as part of a chiefs of doesn’t accept nation-build- BDS movement against the whom she served as his deputy ber of Congress. In 2011, she campaign was backed by pro- staff delegation organized by ing, a goal that critics such Jewish state. Organizations chief of staff and campaign and her family were homeless Israel political action commit- the American Israel Public as Trump and Cammack, have must educate members of manager. for several months after her tees, including U.S. Israel PAC, Affairs Committee. She said objected to. Congress on both sides of In an interview with JNS on parents were evicted from or USI PAC, which contributed it was a comprehensive trip She also expressed support the aisle about how and why Nov. 19, she called the afore- their ranch. $2,500 ahead of the primary that included traveling all over for withdrawing all U.S. forces Israel is crucial to the United mentioned record “amazing” Yoho’s eight terms in Con- election and $1,000 ahead of the country and meeting with in Syria, despite criticism States and the rest of the and expressed her enthusiasm gress consisted of staunch the general election, accord- business and industry leaders, that, like in Iraq and Afghani- world, she stressed. about what she notes is “an support for Israel, and Cam- ing to the Federal Election in addition to elected officials. stan, the move could create incredible group of women.” mack is no stranger to the Commission. As far as the 2015 Iran a power vacuum for Iran and Cammack on page 14A

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But I finally ish Archives at Hebrew Union which went through booms found it on my third attempt.” College-Jewish Institute of and busts before collapsing Expecting that it might Religion in Cincinnati looking during the Great Depression be a marked-off corner of a for any information about the in the 1930s. By the 1890s, larger burial ground, as is the Jews of the Slate Valley. The the Jewish community had case for many other Jewish one item in the collection was disbanded. Some went to cemeteries in Vermont, Crispe the pinkas, written between Rutland, others to New York, was “shocked” to find that it 1867 and 1874 in German, and still others to Ohio and was a full, half-acre cemetery. with Hebrew and English bits the Midwest. “And then I was really just intertwined. Crispe has been unable to David LaChance/Bennington Banner disappointed to see how so Through the pinkas, Crispe find any further traces of the Netanel Crispe works on a headstone at the oldest Jewish cemetery in Vermont. many of the older stones are learned that Poultney’s Jews founders of the Poultney Jew- fallen down, broken, although had arrived from Germany ish community. However, he By David LaChance Cane, who died on Nov. 13, effort to restore and preserve many of them are in good around the time of the Civil has made contact with 15 to 1874, and the raised hands the site. shape,” he said. War, drawn to the area’s boom- 20 members of families who EAST POULTNEY, Vt. (Ben- are an indication that he was “I decided it’s my responsi- The cemetery contains ing slate industry. Predomi- came later. nington Banner via JTA) — a kohen, a descendant of the bility to honor these pioneers some 60 to 85 graves – there nantly peddlers in Europe, “They’re just so happy to see The autumn leaves crunched sons of Aaron who served and preserve their history are no conclusive records. these new Americans became that something’s being done underfoot as Netanel Crispe as priests in the Temple in because it’s vital to the history Most of the graves date from the shopkeepers, tailors and and that their family hasn’t walked uphill toward the Jerusalem. of our state,” Crispe said. the 19th and 20th centuries. A grocers for Poultney and Fair been forgotten in this way,” northwest corner of the small Cane was a pioneer, one of Crispe first learned of the handful, parts of family plots Haven, as well as Granville, he said. “It’s been incredible cemetery. He stopped and ex- the first German Jews who cemetery while doing some that date back decades, are New York, and environs. hearing their stories, seeing amined a toppled headstone. made his way to settle in the metal detecting in town on more recent. Cane was the “They were peddlers travel- the pictures they’ve been able “The last time I was here Slate Valley along the New behalf of a historical society. first person buried here, and ing around just with whatever to send me and placing a face this was standing up,” he York-Vermont border in 1868. “I came across a house that his wife, Elisa, was the third. they had on their back and on the stones, really being able said, regarding the weathered, These families established I was told was a synagogue,” Who were these settlers, their small skills, finding jobs to connect with these people.” gray stone. “At least it hasn’t Vermont’s first Jewish com- he said. The family who owned and where have their descen- here and there, but when they There are unanswered broken.” munity here in Poultney and the house “mentioned that dants gone? came to America, this was like questions, among them the Crispe brushed away the left behind this largely forgot- there was a Jewish cemetery “Those were the two big a new life for them,” Crispe disappearance of both Torahs. leaves to reveal a carving ten place, the oldest Jewish in town, and I was blown away questions that I was asking said. “They established and Crispe said it’s possible that at the top of the stone: two cemetery in Vermont. because I had no idea.” myself as well,” Crispe said. basically became a strong one was taken by a member raised hands, the gesture used Before this summer Crispe, As both a 10th-generation His research led him to Jewish community here.” of the congregation when in the delivery of the Birkat 18, a senior at Burr and Burton Vermonter and an Orthodox “‘Members of this Book’: The The center of the new com- he moved away, and that the Kohanim, Judaism’s priestly Academy in Manchester, was Jew, Crispe is keenly interest- Pinkas of Vermont’s First Jew- munity was Poultney, where second might have gone to blessing. unaware that the cemetery ed in the history of Jewish life ish Congregation” by Robert an upstairs room in the house This is the grave of Marcus existed. 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WWW.KELLYPRICEANDCOMPANY.COM Diaspora Jews and Israeli Jews.” PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 18, 2020 Jews in the Land of Disney A diverse career path brought Keith Dvorchik to the Federation working as a psychological specialist. Dvorchik worked with prisoners in solitary confinement who had men- tal health issues. “After my stint in Solitary, I moved to the Transitional Care Unit working with patients that had severe mental illnesses. During my time at UCI, I also covered for the mental health worker who was assigned to the Death Row inmates, when she called in sick or went on vacation,” he said. “It was a great experience. Keith (center) with ECLC teachers Amy Feinberg and Working in mental health, I Carrie Mosseri. had the opportunity to use what I learned in school and In a dramatic turn in his Then at the end of the year, develop my skills working career, Dvorchik landed a job Central Florida was hit with with some fascinating cases. as assistant director of Hillel Hurricane Irma. I have stories to tell, and at the University of Florida. Once things settled down, someday I may write a book “A year and a half into my Dvorchik dug into the busi- Keith Dvorchik with his family at Chanukah. (l-r) Keith’s mom, Sue; son, Evan; son, about it, however, working in tenure at Hillel, the Florida ness model, reevaluated pro- Matthew; Keith; and his wife, Alison. an environment where bars Hillel Council leadership be- gramming and steadied the closed behind you, multiple lieved that I would be better ship. In January 2019, JFGO By Ed Borowsky my formative years through Dvorchik went back to times a day was exhausting. with the administrative role and The Roth Family JCC 10th grade when we moved to Penn State, where he re- I worked with murderers, and that the rabbi who was the signed a memorandum of un- From the time Keith Dvor- Philadelphia where I graduated ceived his master’s degree rapists — criminals of all executive director would be derstanding to work together chik was a young boy, he has high school,” said Dvorchik. in rehabilitation counseling kinds. I learned a valuable much better focusing on being and share resources. As part moved no less than eight After high school, Dvorchik with a sub-specialization in lesson working in prison the rabbi and spiritual leader of this process, Dvorchik times and has had a variety attended Penn State Univer- substance abuse. He interned and that was to never make for UF students. We worked was offered and accepted the of careers all of which pre- sity main campus, in State at the University of Florida, a promise that you couldn’t as partners to enhance Jewish position of executive director pared him for his job as CEO College, where he received where he worked at the UF keep. It would only take once, life at UF and together had a of the Jewish Federation in ad- of The Roth Family JCC and his undergraduate degree Counseling Center doing re- but if you didn’t keep your great impact. To this day, he dition to his role as the CEO of executive director of The in accounting. After gradu- search and getting published promises, you would never be is one of my favorite rabbis.” the JCC. The questions Dvor- Jewish Federation of Greater ation he began working in a with a UF professor. After trusted again. I’ve lived by my After 15 years at UF Hillel, chik asked in Seattle he has Orlando. mid-size accounting firm in graduation, he worked at the word in everything that I do,” Dvorchik accepted the posi- been asking here, “Why does “When I was four or five Washington, D.C., where he Gainesville Drug Treatment Dvorchik said. tion of president and CEO at the Federation exist? Should years old, my parents moved lived and worked for a year. Center, a minimum-security After three years Dvorchik the Jewish Federation of we continue to exist, and are from Gainesville, Fla., to Sitting at his desk at the prison, offering substance left the prison system. It Greater Seattle. we filling the needs of the Jew- Hummelstown, a small town accounting firm, crunching abuse treatment to addicted took him over six months to “I was brought in to ask the ish Community?” The answer near Hershey, Pennsylvania. numbers and pushing paper, inmates. decompress, to feel human really hard questions such as is a resounding yes, Dvorchik A year later we moved to the he realized that he needed After a year, he moved again. During this time, he ‘Why do we exist?’ I believe the said. He’s been managing the eastern shore of the Susque- something more hands on, to the Psychology Depart- took a job at an inpatient ado- Federation’s purpose is simply Federation and JCC through hanna River in Harrisburg, and wanted to spend his life’s ment at Union Correctional lescent psychiatric program. to take care of the needs of the Covid-19 crises, provid- Pennsylvania, where I spent work helping people. Institution in Raiford, Fla., After feeling ready to re-enter the Jewish community. Time, ing resources and guidance society, he began working however, brings about change, to the Jewish agencies and with HRS (now DCF) doing and the needs of our Jewish synagogues in Orlando. Cur- evaluations on families for community are changing all rently the Federation is work- reunification, recommenda- the time. We have to be fully ing with The Cohen Center of tions for interventions or aware of the community’s Modern Judaism at Brandeis Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel removing children from their needs and adjust accordingly,” University to complete an homes. He also worked as the Dvorchik said. extensive evaluation of the lead therapist at an adoles- Three years in, they were Orlando Jewish Community. Proudly Serving Our Community cent sex offender treatment missing their family back The results should be available program. east. The position of executive in Fall 2021. While working in mental director of The Roth Fam- “Once the study is complet- For Over 35 Years health, he met his wife, Alison. ily JCC of Greater Orlando ed, the information we gather “We were at a staff training became available. Dvorchik will enable us to identify what L’dor v’dor ... together and I had asked her interviewed and accepted our community’s needs are, to go out to lunch. She told the job, moving to the area and we’ll adjust accordingly. From Generation to Generation me she was busy so I left her in 2016. The data belongs to the com- alone. We kept running into The third day on the job, munity and our Jewish agen- each other and eventually Hurricane Matthew threat- cies and synagogues will be • Traditional Jewish Funerals about six months later she ened the area. In January able to use this data to better asked me out!” 2017, three bomb threats were serve the Central Florida Jew- They’ve been married for called into the campus. This ish community.” • Non-Traditional Services over 22 years and have two impacted the JCC revenue as Since the MOU was signed sons, of whom Dvorchik is 52 children were withdrawn in January 2018, the Jewish • very proud: Evan, a junior from The Richard S. Adler Federation and The Roth Interstate Shipping at the University of Central Early Childhood Learning Family JCC have continued Florida, and Matthew, a senior Center, resulting in over to work toward an eventual • Pre-Arranged Funerals in high school. $500,000 in lost revenue. merger. 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shoot jelly doughnuts Orlando Weekday Morning Minyan (Conservative/Egalitarian), services Monday- Friday 7:45 a.m. (9 a.m.—national holidays); 2nd floor Chapel—Jewish Academy of Orlando; 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. For information call 407-298-4650. Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. JewishCelebration.org; 407-479-8377. Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, 321-777-2770. Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. Wesley Guo Max Fefer of Oakland is the designer of Chanukah Goblins, a new tabletop role-playing betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. game. Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. By Maya Mirsky players create the story of the Temple Or Rishon, to gam- game through their interac- ing in high school. Beyond Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; (J., The Jewish News of tions. the Chanukah theme, the Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. Northern California via JTA) “I really like the freedom new game is deeply Jewish, Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; — Here’s something to do of that kind of storytelling,” with multiple prayers and Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. during the long nights of Fefer said. rituals incorporated as ways Chanukah under lockdown — In tabletop role-playing for the goblins to score extra Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, become a goblin with a jelly games — the best known is points. Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. doughnut launcher. Dungeons and Dragons — the “These are things people Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. players aren’t constrained by can put in their stories to That’s one option if you bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. play Chanukah Goblins, a a predesigned plot, as in a make it a really Jewish experi- tabletop role-playing game by video game, nor do they have ence,” Fefer said. Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation the indie game designer Max to follow a host of rules like a All ages can play the game, holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. Fefer that makes its debut on board game, Fefer explained. whether over Zoom or as a com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Thursday, the holiday’s first Instead, Chanukah Goblins is family, and no experience Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; night. Some of the proceeds more like a framework that’s is needed in tabletop gam- will go to charity. used to tell a communal story. ing. There will also be a live www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Fefer said the game, created Players decide the kind of gob- play-through on Twitch, the Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., during the pandemic, is all lin they are through a series game-streaming platform, Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. about finding a way to let your of prompts included with the on Dec. 15 (Fefer will link to imagination run free while game. There are scenarios it on Twitter). Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; using the framework of the to get the game started, and “Anyone can pick it up and www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th holiday to welcome everyone, players have the option to use play with their kids, play it Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. Jewish or not, to celebrate the dice to create uncertainty. with their siblings, play it Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. Festival of Lights. “It’s all there to help you tell with their grandma, even,” “This is rooted in real Jew- a story,” Fefer said. “That’s all Fefer said. Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- ish tradition,” he said. that games like Dungeons and The art for the game was 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Fefer, a 26-year-old Oak- Dragons are.” commissioned by Fefer from Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- land resident, was inspired to Fefer’s take on the tale is Kali Hayes (Kimmel’s book 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. come up with the game after different from the original, was illustrated by the late attending a party last year that and not just because the Trina Schart Hyman). Fefer Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for featured a reading of “Hershel players are Jewish goblins. was also awarded a small services and holiday schedules. and the Chanukah Goblins” (Players don’t need to be grant by a gaming mentor- Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303 N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation-sinai. by the award-winning author Jewish, of course, and plenty ship program that supports org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. Eric Kimmel. In the classic of resources are included to up-and-coming game design- 1989 book, a man named explain the holiday for non- ers from underrepresented Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- Hershel comes to a village Jews.) He wanted to delve into communities. The game can Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv plagued by goblins who won’t the subtext of the book and be preordered; it will cost $8 Please call for times. let its residents celebrate use it to create something that for an electronic copy of the Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- Chanukah. Hershel uses his subverts stereotypes about instructions and $18 for a Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. smarts to defeat them, finally Jews and helps people think book version. The paper copy trumping the goblin king about othering and exclusion, will be mailed out in January. Temple Beth El (R) / Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-675- himself. all wrapped up in a story. Fefer is donating $2 from 6615 / 386-252-3097; Friday Shabbat Service 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. “I grew up reading that Fefer, who is queer, said every electronic purchase Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. book,” Fefer said. “My mom tabletop games are great both and $4 from each game book and dad, they read that book for exploring new identities purchase to People’s Break- Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat to me.” within the game and examin- fast Oakland, which provides service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. But his game takes a dif- ing your own. much-needed food, clothing Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. “Role playing is a way to and hygiene items to people ferent slant: Hershel inspires mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; the goblins to become Jewish kind of figure things out,” without homes. If $500 is and pro-Chanukah. Armed he said. raised in game sales, Fefer will Thursday, 10:00 a.m. with powerful tools like the The ability to take a story increase the donation level. Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: gun that shoots doughnuts wherever it wants to go is After reaching $1,000, dona- Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. (or sufganiyot, a traditional something that drew Fefer, tions will go to Urban Tilth, Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. Chanukah treat), as well as who grew up in the Sacra- which provides agriculture “the babka of persuasion,” a mento suburb of Carmichael job training in Northern Cali- Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; good-luck hamsa and more, and attended synagogue at fornia’s Contra Costa County. Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by OBITUARY Torah study. Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road SOLOMON KATZ predeceased him in 2000. Due to the Coronavirus 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 They moved from Cleveland to pandemic, there was a Solomon Katz, age 100, Miami Beach and he relocated private family service at p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. passed away peacefully at his to Orlando in 2006. Congregation of Reform Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. residence on Wednesday, Dec. He is survived by his son, Judaism Cemetery, Gotha, shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. Dr. Barry (Ilyse) Katz of Mai- with Rabbi Steven Engel 2, 2020. A Bronx native, he was Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, a veteran of World War II. He tland; and daughters, Yvonne and Cantor Bryce Megdal was a graduate of City Col- (late Sorrell) Goldstein of Fort officiating. 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, lege of New York and earned Lauderdale, Jody Heckenbach Arrangements entrusted to 7:30 p.m. his CPA and JD degrees from of Santa Cruz, Calif., and An- Beth Shalom Memorial Cha- Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. Marshall College of Law and nette McDougal of Virginia. pel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando FL tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. worked as an IRS attorney. In He is further survived by 10 32810, 407-599-1180, www. 1957, in Cleveland, he married grandchildren and six great- bethshalommemorialchapel. (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa the late Phyllis Negin who grandchildren. com. PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 18, 2020 Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir wants to be the first woman on the moon that I’m the one who inspires Superman inside the space Prior to joining NASA, she others to be like me, I think station. I think it allows us to participated in a joint mission it’s my duty to continue feel like children again, to ex- of the space agency and the making that connection and press this cheerfulness which U.S. National Oceanic and inspire the next generation of sometimes we lose when we Atmospheric Administration. researchers.” grow up and become adults.” This time she and her friends But Meir doesn’t take her- Aside from the Israeli were themselves the subject of self too seriously. items Meir took with her to an experiment: As part of their My two daughters joined space, she also brought some mission, she and a number of me for the interview, and American Jewish totems with other crew members spent six when my 7-year-old, Tuti, her, including a pair of socks days underwater in a state of asked if there were any other with menorahs (for Hanuk- saturation diving. creatures in space that were kah). In an ode to Jewish Meir also spent a lot of time “human-like,” Meir answered grandmothers everywhere, researching the physiology of enthusiastically. she also baked some cookies animals in extreme environ- “I was at the space station while in space, much to the ments, such as penguins, with a few other crew mem- delight of her 250,000 Insta- seals and birds that live at bers, with American, Rus- gram followers. high altitudes. sian and Italian astronauts. In first grade, when Meir “At that point I was the They certainly looked like was asked to draw what she’d scientist and researcher – and humans,” she said. “Other like to be when she grew up, the animals were the subjects than the astronauts and cos- Meir drew an astronaut stand- of my research. Now I am the monauts who were with me at ing on the moon. At age 13 ‘animal’ being experimented NASA/Josh Valcarcel the space station, we saw no she enrolled in a NASA sum- on,” Meir said. “I think it’s Jessica Meir prepares to be submerged in NASA’s 6.2 million gallon Neutral Buoyancy other life forms or anything mer camp, and at her college a natural role we play as Laboratory for spacewalk training. that looked like humans.” graduation her parents held astronauts. She added, “I definitely a sign that read ‘Congratula- “On my mission, the stud- By Hadas Ragolsky Maine, the daughter of a what it’s like to be a role model believe that there are some tions, space girl!” ies in which I was the subject Chrissy Swedish mother and an Iraqi- for girls and women the world forms of life in outer space – But though her path was examined how space flight born father who immigrated over, and her Jewish connec- maybe there were in the past, supposed to lead her straight and a micro-gravity envi- Since astronaut Jessica to Israel as a child, fought in tions. Meir talked with us and maybe they are there to aeronautics and space ronment affect the human Meir returned to Earth in the Israeli War of Indepen- from the NASA Space Center right now, or will be in the studies, Meir first earned a body. Understanding these April from the International dence and later moved to in Houston while wearing her future. Statistically, if we look doctorate in marine biology. things will allow us to moni- Space Station, she — like all Sweden before ending up in iconic flight suit. at the sheer size of space and Her dissertation focused tor astronauts’ health and of us — has spent a lot of time the United States. Meir, the “There are some key mo- the dimensions of space and on the diving physiology will be even more relevant indoors and cooped up. youngest of five, also holds ments in becoming an astro- time, it is very unlikely that of emperor penguins and to missions that require a While many of us have spent Swedish citizenship. naut, one of which is when we are the only planet where northern elephant seals, in- longer stay in space — for our confinement dreaming of Meir, 43, was raised in a you first wear your blue flight any kind of life has evolved.” cluding research expeditions example, when we return future trips, Meir is working Jewish home, regularly at- suit,” Meir said. “This is such Later, when my 9-year-old, in Antarctica and Northern to the moon and eventually on her own travel plans to tended synagogue as a child an iconic image, which all Lihi, wanted to know what it California. travel to Mars.” a singular destination: She and feels very connected to throughout my childhood I felt like to be in space, Meir She described how that Meir says that being Jewish wants to walk on the moon. Israel. She last visited there associated the suit with my talked about how fun it was. experience connects to her is an important part of her It’s not just a pipe dream. four years ago, and she took dream of becoming an as- “Ever since I was a child, space work. identity. While in space in Meir, the fourth Jewish with her to the space station tronaut. So, wearing this suit even younger than you, I “The topics I was drawn March, she tweeted a photo woman (and 15th Jew over- a postcard from Yad Vashem when I’m being interviewed have always said I want to to, the physiology of animals of Tel Aviv that she took from all) to travel to space, made with a painting by a Holocaust here, or giving a lecture to be an astronaut. Even the in extreme environments, space. Earlier in her mission, the Guinness Book of World survivor, a medal coined in children – I suddenly realize: simple act of floating – when required work in isolated Meir tweeted a Hanukkah Records when she and fellow memory of the late Israeli ‘Wow, this is me now, I’m the you’re in a state of constant places such as Antarctica, greeting that included a photo astronaut Christina Koch astronaut Ilan Ramon and person on the other side, I’m weightlessness and floating and were driven by curios- of her menorah socks with conducted the first all-female the Israeli flag. the role model.’ And I take it around – it’s just so much ity and the need to explore,” Earth seen through a window spacewalk — lasting 7 hours, “My father grew up in Is- very seriously. fun,” she said. Meir said. “In the end, even in the background. 17 minutes — on Oct. 18, rael, and most of my relatives “It is a very important part “Everything is more fun though it didn’t seem like the This article is part of a joint 2019. Not long afterward, the from my father’s side still live of our role as astronauts, to when you’re floating, whether traditional route to becoming project of Onlife, the Gesher pair did it again. in Israel,” Meir said. “I hope I be in touch with the public, you just finished eating or an astronaut because I did Leadership Institute and JTA, Named as one of Time can visit Israel soon; it is a very to communicate with people fixing something, or doing an what I loved I excelled and I featuring some of the most magazine’s 100 Most Influen- important part of my life.” and to educate them. This is experiment, you can just take was happy. I felt satisfied and influential Jewish women tial People of 2020, Meir has We sat down recently with one of NASA’s key mission a moment and float up and made it my career, and it led from around the world. an interesting Jewish story. Meir for a Zoom interview to statements. So even though down or do some cartwheels me to fulfill another dream – Shani Tsur contributed to She grew up in Caribou, talk about her work in space, it’s still a little hard to believe in midair, or float around like reaching outer space.” this article. US Supreme Court to hear two cases related to Holocaust restitution

By Jackson Richman stance, if the perpetrators returned to the heirs of foreign sovereign nation may Bazyler called for the Su- that “Germany violated in- took it as part of an effort to four Jewish art dealers in be sued in U.S. courts, either preme Court to “make clear ternational law principles (JNS) — The U.S. Supreme deliberately create conditions Germany. state or federal. that the Holocaust began in by extorting the Guelph Court heard two cases on of life which were calculated The dealers have argued Francisco also noted that 1933, and reject the specious Treasures from individuals Dec. 7 related to the issue of to destroy a religious or eth- that they were forced to sell it although the 2016 Holocaust argument made by Germany who did not have the rights of Holocaust restitution. nic minority group, and so to the Nazi-controlled Prus- Expropriated Art Recovery and supported by the United all other non-Jewish German The court will decide if the violated international law sian government in 1935 in (HEAR) Act “demonstrates States that German Jews had citizens, and it cannot now United States has the juris- by committing genocide,” what they called a “genocidal Congress’s concern with art civil rights before the start defend its action because of diction, in accordance with Arthur Traldi, who was of taking.” seizures that occurred as of World War II and before the rule supported by the so- the 1976 Foreign Sovereign counsel in filing a brief on The collection, worth part of the Holocaust,” that the beginning of the mass licitor general that says that Immunities Act, to rule about behalf of the American As- around $225 million, consists law doesn’t “create a cause of murder that began in 1941.” the Sovereign Immunities crimes that happened abroad sociation of Jewish Lawyers of medieval church relics and action in U.S. courts” for the Nathan Lewin, national Act would relieve Germany where there was no American and Jurists in support of the was owned by the House of heirs’ case. vice president of the Na- of liability in a U.S. court.” involvement. plaintiffs, told JNS. Guelph in 1671 until it was Michael Bazyler, a law tional Jewish Commission ‘Win something without Although foreign govern- “Our courts have juris- sold to a group of art dealers professor who is an expert on Law and Public Affairs, doing much for others’ ments usually cannot be sued diction as long as there is in 1929. The items currently on Holocaust restitution and filed a brief in support of the In Republic of Hungary v. in U.S. courts, exceptions for a sufficient commercial sit in the Kunstgewerbemu- joined a group that filed a plaintiffs in the case against Simon, the Supreme Court acts of terrorism or acts of nexus to the United States, seum (Applied Arts Museum) brief in support of the plain- Germany. He emailed JNS will hear the case of 14 Ho- property confiscation violat- whether or not the plaintiffs in Berlin. tiffs, told JNS that “depending that the Supreme Court locaust survivors—four of ing international law have are United States citizens,” ‘It cannot defend its ac- on how the justices decide, it “should take judicial notice whom are naturalized U.S. been made in the past. The he continued. “The lower tion’ will determine the viability of the indisputable fact that citizens—suing the Hun- plaintiffs in both cases, Fed- courts found a sufficient In a May 26 filing, then- of suing European countries Jews in Frankfurt Germany garian government and the eral Republic of Germany commercial nexus as to these U.S. Solicitor General Noel that participated in the Ho- (like the owners of the Guelph government-owned railroad v. Philipp and Republic of defendants, and that issue is Francisco argued that the locaust in the United States.” Treasures who had to capitu- for their role in transporting Hungary v. Simon, will seek not on appeal.” heirs have failed to make the “The case will also deter- late to the proposal made by Jews to death camps. They to have their cases heard In Federal Republic of case, in accordance with the mine the viability of filing Hermann Goering through are seeking restitution for based on the latter. Germany v. Philipp, the Foreign Sovereign Immuni- suits in American courts a bank intermediary) were the property that was con- “The Foreign Sovereign Supreme Court will hear ties Act, that the collection for Nazi-looted art against not ‘citizens’ of Germany in fiscated by the government Immunities Act gives our the case about a German art was confiscated “in viola- museums, galleries and other June 1935 even though the at that time. courts jurisdiction over museum and whether or not tion of international law” private collectors that have law that stripped them of Jeremy Rabkin, a consti- lawsuits alleging property a treasure trove known as in that the Nazi seizure was such art in their collections, citizenship was not enacted tutional and international was taken in violation of the “Guelph Treasure” (or domestic. That law includes especially art located in Eu- until September 1935.” international law—for in- “Welfenschatz”) should be limitations as to whether a rope,” he said. Lewin went on to claim Restitution on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 18, 2020 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs A new Jewish stream- Farkash-Hacohen at a cer- during their terms, are slated it must not implement these of this work in our region,” in 2017 would go down in his- ing service, launched in emony in Jerusalem on to become official in the next steps,” said the statement, ac- he said. “When people get to tory with President Harry S. London, aims to connect Wednesday. few weeks. cording to Reuters. know one another, conflict Truman’s recognition of the Jews and make them Israel triples pre-order In October, Trump appoint- According to Reuters, a con- is reduced, share prosperities State of Israel. proud of Moderna vaccine to 6 ed real estate executive Loren fidential IAEA report details increased, and peace becomes “Exactly three years ago, By Cnaan Liphshiz million doses Flaum and South Carolina Iranian plans to install three reality.” President Trump became the (JTA) — A Jewish group (JNS) — Israel’s Ministry of Ports Authority chairman Bill more cascades, or clusters, of “We cannot take this mo- first world leader to recognize based in London has launched Health has signed an agree- Stern to the council as well. advanced IR-2m centrifuges ment for granted,” he conclud- Jerusalem as the capital of Europe’s first Jewish streaming ment with pharmaceutical Orthodox Jewish groups at Natanz. ed. “Opportunity is knocking, Israel,” said Netanyahu at Sun- service, with the goal of “con- giant Moderna to triple the laud federal discrimina- The 2015 Joint Comprehen- and we must open the door.” day’s Cabinet meeting. necting all sorts of Jews to their number of vaccines it will tion suit against New sive Plan of Action nuclear The gala also featured Is- “The proclamation will culture and history.” purchase from the company in York village agreement limits Iran to raeli Defense Minister Benny now be prominently displayed JEWZY.tv, which is current- 2021 from 2 million to 6 mil- By Faygie Holt using only first-generation Gantz, who spoke about how on the wall of Israel’s Cabinet ly available only in the United lion doses, according to a joint (JNS) — Orthodox Jewish IR-1 centrifuges at Natanz the coronavirus pandemic has room here in Jerusalem. It States — or to a computer statement by the ministry and groups are praising the U.S. and stipulates that it may brought with it “challenges and will be displayed alongside connecting via a US-based the Prime Minister’s Office. Department of Justice after only accumulate stocks of opportunities,” and that people President Harry S. Truman’s server — on Friday announced Six million doses will be it filed a lawsuit on Wednes- enriched uranium using these should be “a source of strength 1948 proclamation recogniz- its launch as “chicken soup for sufficient to inoculate 3 mil- day against the Village of machines. and support for each other, no ing the newly established State the eyes,” The Jewish Chronicle lion citizens, according to the Airmont in Rockland County, “Iran’s recent announce- matter what comes.” of Israel. These two historic reported. statement. N.Y., claiming that its zoning ment to the IAEA that it intends The online event concluded proclamations will never be The new service follows the Israel had previously pre- laws are “discriminatory” and to install an additional three with a performance by Iranian- forgotten,” he said. launch of two other Jewish ordered doses of both the Pfiz- aimed at Chassidic Jews. cascades of advanced centri- Israeli singer and actress Liraz The Israeli premier noted streaming services: ChaiFlicks er and Moderna vaccines cur- The suit alleges that the vil- fuges at the Fuel Enrichment Charhi, star of the Apple TV that as significant as that and Izzy. Its editorial focus rently in clinical trials in the lage’s 2018 zoning regulations Plant in Natanz is contrary to series “Tehran,” who sang one recognition was, it was but is on “hidden gems,” Jeremy United States, pending their not only violate the Religious the JCPOA and deeply worry- of her favorite Iranian tunes one of many historic decisions Wootliff, Jewzy’s founder, told approval by health regulators. Land Use and Institutionalized ing,” said the three powers. from a venue in the Old City that Trump made during his the Chronicle. “We go out and The country is also developing Persons Act (RLUIPA), they are The Europeans further of Jaffa. presidency. find the wonderful movies and its own vaccine, called BriLife, “applied … in a discriminatory criticized a new Iranian law re- The IAJF raised more than “He recognized Israel’s TV programs that have been which began clinical trials on fashion against Orthodox Jew- quiring the government to stop $5 million as a result of the gala. sovereignty over the Golan forgotten over time,” or may Nov. 1. ish residents.” United Nations inspections Cruz reintroduces bill to Heights. He recognized Israel’s not have enjoyed the exposure Israeli Prime Minister Ben- “As a jury found over two of the country’s nuclear sites label Muslim Brother- legitimate rights in Judea and they deserved when made, he jamin Netanyahu said that the decades ago, the Village of and to increase enrichment hood as terrorist group Samaria, proposed a realistic said. new Moderna deal was cause Airmont was born out of a spirit beyond the limits established (JNS) — Sen. Ted Cruz (R- peace plan that acknowledges An annual subscription for hope though warned that of animus against a religious by the JCPOA. Texas) has reintroduced a bill those rights and maintains costs $59.99 and offers 100 it wasn’t time to celebrate minority,” Acting U.S. Attorney “Such a move would jeop- that calls on the U.S. State Israel’s ability to defend itself. titles a month, including “Dark just yet. for the Southern District of ardize our shared efforts to Department to designate the He forged the historic Abra- Horse” starring Mia Farrow; “I am pleased to announce New York Audrey Strauss said preserve the JCPOA and also Muslim Brotherhood as a ter- ham Accords, which ushered “The Double” with Jesse Eisen- that today we signed with Mod- in a release. “Sadly, rather risks compromising the impor- rorist group. in a new period of peace that berg and “Defiant Requiem,” a erna for the supply of 6 million than working to overcome that tant opportunity for a return to His office announced on is dramatically changing the feature documentary about the vaccines for you, citizens of shameful legacy, Airmont has diplomacy with the incoming Dec. 2 that the senator is face of the Middle East before Theresienstadt concentration Israel. This is triple the number flagrantly ignored the terms of U.S. administration,” they said, again pushing for the Muslim our very eyes,” said Netanyahu. camps. Many of the titles are of vaccines in the original con- a court judgment and imple- according to the report. Brotherhood Terrorist Desig- “He withdrew from the about Israel or made there. tract with Moderna. This gives mented land-use practices that UAE ambassador on Is- nation Act, which requires the dangerous Iran nuclear deal, Jewzy’s agenda goes beyond us hope. We see the light at by design and operation are rael ties: ‘We expect joint State Department to report to placed crippling sanctions on providing entertainment to the end of the tunnel,” he said. again meant to infringe unlaw- ventures in virtually Congress about whether the Iran and took out the world’s subscribers. Its goals also He emphasized, however, fully on the rights of a minority every sector’ transnational Sunni Islamist most dangerous terrorist, include promoting positive that the pandemic was not over religious community.” By Shiryn Ghermezian organization founded in Egypt Qassem Soleimani. And, of images of Jews and Israel and yet, and that the public needed The lawsuit is the latest salvo (JNS) — The Emirati ambas- meets the legal criteria for course, he brought the U.S.-Is- countering anti-Semitism to maintain discipline. in the ongoing battle between sador to the United States said designation. rael alliance to unprecedented and bigotry. But its lineup is “We need to follow the the Village of Airmont and a on Sunday that Israel and the The bill is co-sponsored by heights,” he added. nonpartisan, Wootliff told the rules. Our mission is to bring growing Chassidic presence United Arab Emirates hope to Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), “For all this and more, thank Chronicle. vaccines. Your mission is to in its community. Airmont, cooperate in making advance- Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Pat you, President Trump.” “We want to bring Israel and follow the rules. If we do this, which was founded in 1991, ments in all fields following Roberts (R-Kan.). Investment in Israeli the diaspora all together and we are going to win. Together, split from the Town of Ramapo, the signing of the Abraham “I am proud to reintro- companies to reach under one roof,” he said. we will defeat the coronavirus,” N.Y., amid concerns that lax Accords. duce this bill and to advance record $10 billion despite Bahrain changes tune, he said. zoning regulations would lead United Arab Emirates Am- America’s fight against radi- pandemic says won’t allow imports Health Minister Yuli Edel- to a large influx of Orthodox bassador to the United States cal Islamic terrorism,” said (JNS) — Despite the global from Israeli settlements stein called the deal “wonder- Jews in their midst. Yousef Al Otaiba was a featured Cruz in a statement released coronavirus pandemic, Is- (JNS) — Bahrain will not ful news for the citizens and Since then, the village, guest at the Iranian American by his office. “I commend the raeli companies raised a record allow imports from Israeli economy of Israel.” located about 35 miles north Jewish Federation’s 2020 vir- current administration’s work amount of capital in 2020, settlements in Judea and “There will be no citizen who of New York City, has been the tual gala on Sunday night. Dur- calling terrorism by its name according to a new report by Samaria, Bahrain’s Industry, wants to be vaccinated whom subject of federal lawsuits and ing his remarks, he highlighted and combating the spread of an Israeli NGO. Commerce and Tourism Min- we will be unable to provide judicial oversight. how the “significant amount of this potent threat, and I look According to the report, istry said on Friday according with a vaccine,” he said. “Airmont has a long history cooperation” between the UAE forward to receiving the addi- released by Start-Up Nation to a report by the state news Echoing Netanyahu’s words, of ugly bias against the Jewish and Israel since the signing of tional information this new bill Central, as of the beginning of agency BNA. The ministry’s Edelstein added that while community, and clearly the At- the normalization agreement requests from the Department December, Israeli companies statement contradicted the “the professional teams have torney General [William Barr] on Sept. 15, including in arti- of State. had raised $9.5 billion in capi- country’s trade minister, who begun expedited work on the is as frustrated by this as we in ficial intelligence, health care “Many of our closest allies tal, putting 2020 on course to said during a visit to Israel allocation of the vaccines,” it the Jewish community, along and the creation of commer- in the Arab world have long break the $10 billion threshold last week that they would be would take “several months” with all who value religious cial flights to and from both ago concluded that the Mus- for the first time — a 20 percent allowed. to vaccinate everyone, and freedom and the rights of countries. lim Brotherhood is a terrorist increase over the $7.7 billion Bahraini Industry, Com- until then, “we must all strictly property owners everywhere,” “We expect a host of other group that seeks to sow chaos raised by Israeli companies in merce and Tourism Minister adhere to the directives and not Rabbi Pesach Lerner, president similar joint ventures in across the Middle East, and all of 2019. Zayed bin Rashid Al Zayani’s become complacent.” of the Coalition for Jewish virtually every sector going I will continue working with The amount of capital al- statement “was misinterpret- Trump plans to appoint Values, said in a press release. forward,” he said. “As more my colleagues to take action ready raised is nearly 20 per- ed,” the ministry said, adding five individuals to US Ho- Rabbi Abba Cohen, Agudath trade is conducted and more against groups that finance cent more than the $7.7 billion, that “the ministry is commit- locaust Memorial Council Israel of America’s vice presi- investment is executed, the terrorism.” and well above the amount of ted to the Bahraini govern- (JNS) — U.S. President dent of government affairs and relationship will only grow. In the same statement, In- high-tech investment recorded ment’s unwavering stance Donald Trump announced its Washington director, said, More business means more hofe said “since the founding this year in Europe, Asia or the regarding adherence to the his intention on Thursday his organization is “looking people-to-people connec- of the Muslim Brotherhood in United States. resolutions of the United Na- to appoint five individuals to forward to a satisfactory resolu- tion, more understanding Egypt, Brotherhood-affiliat- “The impressive investment tions, the Arab League and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial tion to this case. Agudath Israel and ultimately, more shared ed groups have consistently figures are remarkable at this the Organisation of Islamic Council. and others worked so hard to interests.” preached and incited hatred time of global crisis,” says SNC Cooperation concerning the Those named to the council, get RLUIPA passed because we “A vision has been set by the against Christians, Jews and CEO Eugene Kandel. “They Israeli settlements in the West which is the governing body knew how valuable it would leaders of these countries. It is other Muslims while sup- indicate global investors’ trust Bank and the Syrian Golan of the U.S. Holocaust Memo- be in fighting actions that now to up to all of us in govern- porting designated radical in the maturing ‘Start-Up Na- Heights.” rial Museum in Washington, too often mask religious bias. ment and the private sector to terrorists.” tion,’ and that support for the Palestinian Foreign Minister D.C., include David Marchick, Kudos to the Justice Depart- make it a successful reality. We The Trump administration Israeli tech-innovation sector Riyad al-Maliki claimed that in who served as the Deputy U.S. ment for rightfully making need to create a better future has reportedly considered des- over the last decade has paid a phone conversation with him, Assistant Secretary of State this a priority.” together,” he added. ignating the Muslim Brother- off,” he said. Zayani had denied ever making in the Clinton administra- France, Germany, Brit- The ambassador also noted hood as a terrorist group but SNC director of research the comments. tion; Republican strategist ain find Iranian plan for that “beyond the obvious eco- has received pushback from Aviv Alper attributes the excess “The alleged comments … Jeffrey Miller, founder and new centrifuges ‘deeply nomic opportunities,” he is Pentagon and other officials. performance of the Israeli totally contradicted his coun- CEO of Miller Strategies; U.S. worrying’ looking forward to the personal Netanyahu thanks Trump tech ecosystem to the “grow- try’s [Bahrain] supportive posi- International Development (JNS) — France, Germany connections that will flourish on three-year anniver- ing demand for Israel-led tion of the Palestinian cause,” Finance Corporation CEO and Britain expressed concern between both countries. sary of US recognition of technologies and the unique said a statement from Maliki’s Adam S. Boehler; Miami Beach in a joint statement on Mon- “We are going to see a gen- Jerusalem qualities of the Israeli innova- office, according to Reuters. investor Jimmy Resnick; and day regarding Iran’s declared eration of young people who (JNS) — Israeli Prime Min- tion industry.” Al Zayani was in Israel last former U.S. Housing and Urban intent to install additional are working together to address ister Benjamin Netanyahu on These qualities include week at the head of a 40-mem- Development General Deputy advanced centrifuges at its the challenges of tomorrow. Sunday thanked U.S. President “rapid response to change, ber delegation. He signed a Assistant Secretary Daniel underground fuel enrichment And whether it’s health care, Donald Trump for his great cumulative technological historic Memorandum of Resnick. facility at Natanz. agriculture, conversation or support for the Jewish state, experience and Israel’s brand- Understanding (MOU) with The appointments, which “If Iran is serious about pre- technology, the UAE and Israel saying that his recognition of ing as a global high-tech hub,” his Israeli counterpart Orit are made by U.S. presidents serving a space for diplomacy, or going to be at the forefront Jerusalem as Israel’s capital according to the SNC. PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 18, 2020 Erdogan confidant proposes Israel-Turkey maritime deal that cuts out Cyprus By Dean Shmuel Elmas posal, meanwhile, the mari- Therefore, Yayci is endeavor- tion of sovereignty in what a senior Israeli official said normalization, trust-building and Ariel Kahana time borders between the two ing to resolve both Ankara and they consider their own ter- that while improving relations measures must be put in place, countries will come together Jerusalem’s problems in one ritorial waters as an invasion. with Ankara was a welcome which before all else requires (Israel Hayom via JNS) — at the expense of Cyprus. fell swoop, through a bilateral Secondly, Israeli agreement to development, any proposal the return of ambassadors Following years of diplomatic From the perspective of the agreement between Turkey the Turkish proposal would that comes at the expense of and consuls.” strife, Turkey over the week- Turks, the deal proposed to the and Israel that leaves Cyprus also represent recognition Cyprus is a non-starter. “Cy- Yanarocak added: “For the end signaled to Israel yet again Israelis is an extension of the in the lurch. of Turkey’s position on the prus is an ally of Israel and the sake of any relationship built its desire for rapprochement. maritime border the former Also of potential benefit to EEZ near the Greek islands maritime border between the on mutual trust, Turkey needs On Monday, former admiral admiral constructed with Israel, based on Yayci’s pro- of Rhodes and Kastellorizo. countries is recognized by the to change the nature of its Cihat Yayci, a close confidant Libya. That deal was signed in posal, is connecting Israel’s in- Finally, it would put Israel United Nations and European discourse toward the State of of Turkish President Recep Tripoli on Nov. 27 of last year tended gas pipeline to Europe in an uncertain position in Union,” the official explained. Israel. In other words, it must Tayyip Erdogan, is expected to and is the source of the cur- to the already existing Turkish relation to the United Arab “In light of the recent stop with the delegitimization publish a first-of-its-kind pro- rent tensions between Ankara pipeline. According to Yayci, Emirates, for two reasons. reports of rapprochement of Israel that harms its image posal for an agreement on the and Athens. If to this point the this option would be “signifi- This first: Abu Dhabi Crown between the countries’ intel- in the Turkish street. Beyond countries’ shared exclusive Greeks were already enraged cantly more practicable and Prince Mohammed bin Zayed ligence agencies, Yayci’s very that, Ankara must scrap its economic zones in the Medi- over their maritime contigu- cheap for Israel in comparison recently signed a defense pact proposal put forth in the intimate relationship with terranean Sea. The article will ity with Cyprus being severed, to the EastMed project.” with Greek Prime Minister article he penned indicates Hamas. If Erdogan does this, appear in the Israeli academic then such a deal would make Any Israeli consent to Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Beyond Ankara’s desire for a new it’s reasonably safe to believe journal Turkeyscope — pub- things even more difficult for Yayci’s proposal, meanwhile, that, the tensions between the upgrade of relations [with Jerusalem will strive to find lished by the Moshe Dayan Athens and Nicosia. would almost certainly spark UAE and Erdogan and his Qa- Israel],” said Turkeyscope edi- ways to make the relation- Center for Middle Eastern and First and foremost, the strident resistance from tari partners could lead to real tor Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen ship prosper again, as has African Studies at Tel Aviv former Turkish admiral is Greece and Cyprus. First and diplomatic fallout between Yanarocak. “With that, for happened in the past.” University — indicating in focusing on transferring blocs foremost, they would view Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi. the two countries to upgrade This article first appeared and of itself a desire to quell 8, 9, 11 and 12 from Cypriot any Israeli-Turkish applica- As for the Turkish proposal, relations to the point of real in Israel Hayom. tensions with Israel. to Israeli hands. Bloc 12 is the Israel Hayom has learned location of the significantly this was the second such sized Yishai-Aphrodite gas Grammy signal of reconciliation from field, northwest of Israel’s From page 1A shortly before Passover, fitting Waititi-led Holocaust satire, originally read Frank’s words Turkey as it pertains to Israel’s Leviathan gas field, controlled for a production that tells the received a nomination in best in performance. energy market. Four months by Israeli company Delek, winning cellist and Hungar- tale of Moses and the Exodus compilation soundtrack. Israeli cellist Matt Haimov- ago, officials in Ankara sent industry giant Shell and U.S.- ian Holocaust survivor. story. For best music film, Spike itz is also in this classical their Israeli counterparts a based Noble Energy. The gas Jewish comedians, of “A lot of times you put stuff Jonze’s “Beastie Boys Story” compendium category, for clear message about Turkey’s field, discovered off Cyprus’ course out there and don’t know how received a nomination. It’s a “Woolf, L.P.: Fire And Flood.” desire to launch talks on the shores in 2011 by Texas-based Two Jewish comedians are it’s being received. So if people documentary that premiered His last nomination was a matter. Due to the corona- Noble Energy, is estimated to up for best comedy album: have found something inspir- on Apple TV earlier this year decade ago, in 2010. virus pandemic, however, contain between 7-10 billion Jerry Seinfeld for “23 Hours ing or comforting, there’s just telling the tale of the pioneer- Other notable nomina- the process stalled. The next cubic meters of gas on the to Kill” and Tiffany Haddish no greater gift a writer can ask ing rap group — whose three tions proposal followed a report last Israeli side and about 100 for “Black Mitzvah.” Haddish for,” Schwartz told the Jewish members were all Jewish. Black Jewish rapper Drake week in an Erdogan-affiliated billion cubic meters on the celebrated her bat mitzvah Telegraphic Agency. Jonze, known for directing added three Grammy nomina- Turkish media outlet about Cypriot side. As a reference, on the same day the Netflix Schwartz will be compet- the movies “Her” and “Where tions to his long list of acco- secret talks between Mossad the estimated value of 100 special premiered. ing against a Jewish super- the Wild Things Are,” is also lades — for best music video, officials and their Turkish billion cubic meters of gas is “When I came up with the star pair: Alan Menken and Jewish. for the accompaniment to the counterparts. According to about $9 billion. concept for my special,” Had- Howard Ashman. The new And while superstar Be- track “Life Is Good,” and for the report, in these talks, The maritime border be- dish explained to Alma, “I was off-Broadway cast recording yoncé is not Jewish her visual best melodic rap performance too, Erdogan’s representa- tween Israel and Cyprus in the trying to figure out a way to of composer Menken and lyri- film “Black Is King,” which and best rap song for “Laugh tives expressed a desire to area of the Yishai-Aphrodite tell my truth, my experiences cist Ashman’s “Little Shop of adapts the story of Moses, also Now, Cry Later.” readjust relations with Israel. reservoir is still under dis- in life, and also maybe open Horrors” was also recognized received a nomination in that Leonard Cohen, who passed The report also noted that in pute, despite all the other other people’s eyes to the in the musical category. The category. away in 2016, received a post- recent months the Turkish agreements the countries fact that in African American two of them also worked on An orchestral Anne humous nomination for best leader has ceased making have signed. At the same culture, there is nothing that “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty Frank adaptation folk album for “Thanks for the belligerent statements about time, Cyprus and Turkey are says, ‘Okay, you’re officially a and the Beast” and “Aladdin.” Nominated for best classi- Dance.” The record, his fifteenth the Jewish state. mired in numerous disputes woman,’ or, ‘You’re officially Ashman passed away in 1991 cal compendium is an orches- and final studio album, was According to Yayci’s pro- over their maritime borders. a man.’ There’s no ceremony. at age 40. tral adaptation of “The Diary finished by Cohen’s son Adam. There’s no rite of passage.” In the film soundtrack of Anne Frank,” narrated by And Joanie Leeds‘ “All the Musicals and movies category, Jewish composer Isabel Leonard and conducted Ladies” is up for best children’s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 C A R D O A P T S M A T A Stephen Schwartz’s West Thomas Newman received a by Michael Tilson Thomas for album. 14 15 16 End adaptation of “The Prince nomination for his score for the San Francisco Symphony The Grammys are set to air A S E A T M A R E C H E N of Egypt” received a nod for “1917.” If he wins, this would Orchestra. Thomas produced on Jan. 31 on CBS, hosted by 17 18 19 F A C E S I R O N C O A T best musical theater album. be Newman’s seventh Gram- the work back in 1990 with the Trevor Noah of “The Daily 20 21 22 The recording was released my. “Jojo Rabbit,” the Taika help of Audrey Hepburn, who Show.” E R R Y E R U S H A L M I 23 24 25 26 E L I E L B I D S 27 28 29 30 Cemetery H A I F A A A R O N museums, the town of course, and the surrounding areas, monters may think, he warns. 31 32 33 34 35 From page 8A S A T E S A B L E E V A and different Jewish commu- and really just bring people “Although we have so many 36 37 38 39 a congregation in Rutland. nities around the state. It’s a together with a great kind historic buildings, and you see T H E S O U N D O F M U S I C The deed for the cemetery has collective effort.” of goal and mission in these history everywhere around 40 41 42 Y A D T N U T O R C A S long gone missing – “no one Crispe has established a troubling times.” us … we’re losing it every 43 44 45 has the slightest clue where GoFundMe account – Save Crispe has dedicated him- year because there’s no laws E T Z E L K A S O L it might be, or if it still even Vermont’s Oldest Jewish self to helping to preserve the preventing it,” he said. “If we 46 47 48 B A L I B E T A R exists,” he said – and so the Cemetery – which had raised state’s historic places. They’re lose our history, we lose our 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 town has taken responsibility nearly $7,000 by early De- not as secure as some Ver- identity.” H A M A C H P E L A T U G for the site. cember. 56 57 58 59 A Y E S I L S A T R I P E Crispe has a threefold Ideally he would like to add 60 61 62 plan: Restore and preserve to the cemetery a genizah, a Cammack D O N T D A T I V E N O M the cemetery and all of its place for the proper disposal of up and call out folks that are 63 64 65 From page 7A J U D O E Y E R S I G N S stones; create a fund to ensure worn-out or damaged Jewish really coming from a place of that it can be maintained in religious items. Cammack cited that, com- ignorance.” perpetuity; and obtain official “I’ve contacted different ing from an agricultural state, She expressed hope that, recognition of the cemetery’s rabbis in the state and most she has worked to educate as a member of Congress, historical status. synagogues don’t actually “the agricultural community she’ll be able to take agricul- “I’m applying for a state have one,” he said. “They about the contributions of tural producers in the United historic marker to be placed would love to have something Israel to agriculture.” States to Israel for educational here, and I want to get a nice like that available.” “I tell people all the time, tours, and “do some sharing gate – if we can raise the funds “Really the main goal of the they made the desert bloom,” of techniques and technology – that says Poultney Hebrew project is to reunite the Jew- she said. “It’s really important so that we can become better Cemetery, which is what it’s ish communities of Vermont, that we start every conversa- stewards of the resources that referred to,” he said. bring together the Jewish life tion from an educational we have” and “really utilizing “I’ve been connected with with the secular life and the standpoint, though it comes that cutting edge that Israel different historical societies, communities of Poultney back to being willing to stand is famous for.”

To Publish Legal Notices For Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia Counties, Call Heritage Florida Jewish News at 407-834-8787 or Email [email protected] HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 18, 2020 PAGE 15A When you don’t have a menorah … By Bernice Lerner their insides scooped out, ultimately commit more than they served as holders for 600,000 men to the Battle of (JNS) —So you don’t have a oil, into which she inserted the Bulge. menorah. And you don’t have twisted threads. For each The answer to Rachel’s access to supplies that would of eight nights, two women Chanukah prayers would not enable you to create a reason- in her barracks took turns come for five months. Five able facsimile of one. This lighting these “wicks” with months that included a six- was the position my mother, the shamash — a tall kitchen week death march through Rachel, was in when she was match sunk into a potato half. the Sudetenland. Towns- 15 years old. These women led the small, people gawked at the parade A great miracle had oc- forlorn group of teenagers in of a thousand ragged “witch- curred four months earlier quiet prayer and song. Stand- es” trekking through their — Rachel had been selected ing in the glow of lit threads, streets. In the countryside, to leave Auschwitz for a slave Rachel hoped she would see Wehrmacht guards ordered labor camp. After two-and-a- her parents again. She prayed fearful farmers to provide half months in the shadows for another miracle: the war’s for their captives some mea- of the gas chambers and end, a moment in which the ger form of sustenance and crematoria, she was sent to Jews would prevail. nighttime accommodations Christianstadt, a Frauenarbe- This was not entirely a pipe in barns. Starved, parched other of Christianstadt’s the thousands. On April 15, Remembering history while itslager (women’s work camp). dream. After the battles in and incensed at the shootings survivors arrived in Bergen- Rachel and others who were living it. Three weeks later, another Normandy and the Nether- of innocents who could not Belsen — a hellish camp in emaciated and deathly ill saw Bernice Lerner, author miracle: An SS officer chose lands, leaders of the Supreme keep up, Rachel endured. Her northwest Germany — the a miracle they had not the of “All the Horrors of War: A her to work in the kitchen — a Headquarters Allied Expedi- prayers morphed into magical largest depository for inmates strength or will to celebrate. Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, privileged post of war. tionary Force felt confident thinking — if she recited a who had already survived so Finally, three weeks before and the Liberation of Bergen- Given her access to provi- they would soon breach the special mantra, she would be much, having evaded the gas the war’s official end, units of Belsen” (Johns Hopkins Uni- sions, Rachel could contribute fortress of Germany, winning able to quiet a barking dog chambers, labored for the Nazi the British Second Army had versity Press, 2020), is the to a clandestine Chanukah the war. But their offensive and make it to a farmhouse war machine and suffered come to save them. former dean of adult learning celebration. On Dec. 1, the strategies gave way when 15 door to beg for food. grave depredations. And in Chanukah 1944 was a at Hebrew College and a senior first night of the holiday German divisions launched The worst of Rachel’s or- this place devoid of habitable bright interlude in the darkest scholar at Boston University’s in 1944, she pilfered pota- a surprise attack in the Ar- deals was yet to come. In housing, sanitary facilities of times. An improvised me- Center for Character and So- toes from the kitchen. With dennes region; America would mid-March 1945, she and and food, they were dying by norah. Prayers for a miracle. cial Responsibility.

Synagogue From page 1A pated in the congregation’s without a place to pray,” activities, and Kehilat Yo- Erlich said. parcel of land allocated to it natan also has become a This future building will in 2013. center for cultural and edu- provide a permanent home for “This is a very challeng- cational programs for the these Jews to learn and grow. ing project because of the entire Sharon region. It is a The Kehilat Yonatan Cul- religious inequality here in place for people to connect tural Community Center & Israel,” said Erlich. “In our to their Jewish identity. Synagogue will incorporate a city of Hod Hasharon there “People flock to our cul- synagogue, lecture hall, com- are more than 60,000 Jews tural lecture series which munity hall, classrooms and and there are more than 60 includes presentations by a kindergarten. In February Orthodox synagogue build- important speakers, includ- 2020, construction began on ings … and not a single (yet ing the late, world-renowned the approximately 13,000-sq.- ...) Reform/Progressive syna- author Amos Oz, who was a ft. building. They have already gogue building.” frequent guest speaker at the raised over $1m and are now She continued, “Having congregation,” said Erlich. urgently in need of a further grown up at the Congregation But the congregants don’t $350,000 to complete the shell of of Liberal Judaism — from have a place to pray because the building to ensure the future NFTY/GORFTY youth group, the religious establishment in of the project, and then another bat mitzvah, confirmation, Israel only supports Orthodox $2.5 million to complete the wedding — and as a young synagogues. They set out to entirety of the building. person growing up in Orlando, build a building so that the Erlich said they are ap- An artist’s rendition of the completed building. I took my Jewish liberty for modern, liberal families in proaching their fundraising granted. Living in Israel for the town will have a place in two stages: one in the community has “Your donation will make www.kehilat-yonatan.org/ the past 40 years, I realize to learn, pray and celebrate First, they have established connections to any of these a difference and help further en/ or contact Rabbi Mi- that it is our responsibility their Judaism. In the past, the Jewcer crowd-funding organizations that they think our shared struggle for re- chael Boyden at boyden@ to work hard to ensure that the congregation met in campaign to recruit $350K to might be interested, the con- ligious pluralism in Israel!” zahav.net.il all Jews in the world and in rented facilities. However, complete the building of the gregation would appreciate Erlich said. The congregation is regis- Israel can have the freedom they were told just before the shell asap. As of Dec. 11, they those connections. To help support the build- tered as a nonprofit with the and ability to practice their High Holidays that they could had raised $36,449. There are opportunities ing fund, visit https://www. Israeli tax authorities and has Judaism in a way that works no longer rent the sanctuary After that, they will proceed for naming gifts, including jewcer.org/project/kehilatyo- entered into an arrangement for them and in a synagogue at the school where they held with a broader campaign to naming of the entire building natan/ that enables donations to be that works for them.” their prayer meetings. enlist a grant/fund/larger or parts of the building, such Please contact Kehilat made in North America that There are nearly 2,000 “We are now essentially donor to complete the entire as the sanctuary, classrooms, Yonatan for more informa- are recognized by the IRS as families who have partici- homeless — a congregation building. Erlich asked if any- gardens, etc. tion via its website at http:// tax deductible.

Restitution From page 12A so could raise foreign-policy Traldi remarked that “the In an email, Rabkin also One example he cited was find ways in which these can problems at a time when we’re United States has worked warned that Arab petitioners that in 2014, as special advi- be mediated.” law professor at the Antonin all supposed to be welcoming around the world for decades will say “it’s all connected sor for Holocaust issues in Were the plaintiffs to win, Scalia Law School at George a return of improved U.S.- to give Holocaust survivors to genocide or enough so to the U.S. State Department, a while it would ultimately Mason University, told JNS European relations.” and their heirs a chance to justify property compensa- position he still holds, he got be up to Hungary and Ger- that because questions sur- Rabkin cautioned that if realize their moral rights tion claims. And there’s [no] a French railway company, many in their respective round the jurisdictional the case against Hungary to restitution for the mass statute of limitations, so SNCF, to give $60 million in cases to issue restitution, aspect, even if the plaintiffs goes forward, it could set a thefts that were part of the no reason not to dredge up compensation to Holocaust neither country would want win in any or both of the precedent for cases in U.S. Shoah. Congress has found claims from the 1940s … survivors deported by the to ignore the highest court cases, they would be sent courts against other coun- restitution is in our national as the U.S. Supreme Court railway during the Nazi in the United States, stated back to the lower courts for tries. “The trend of Supreme interest. Preserving access to has just agreed is proper,” takeover of France. Eizenstat, who declined to years of litigation in which Court rulings over the last 20 American courts for survi- although he predicted that In 1998, while serving in take a position on the cases the victims could lose and years has been rather cau- vors and their heirs is a vital the court likely won’t rule the U.S. State Department, due to his current role in the not get restitution. tious toward transnational part of that process.” in favor of the plaintiffs in Eizenstat got a Swiss bank Trump administration. On the other hand, in the litigation, in part because Rabkin said that while the cases that will be heard to give out $1.25 billion in On an interesting note, case against Germany, the justices recognize the for- “everyone feels sympathy on Monday. claims to Holocaust survi- Lewin’s brief includes a bib- victims could “negotiate a eign-policy complications,” for Holocaust victims,” he Stuart Eizenstat, a long- vors. lical quote in the original compromise settlement” that he noted. warned that the precedents time diplomat who has made “All of these were done Hebrew. would probably include “a ‘Likely to be deployed surrounding the cases “are the issue of Holocaust restitu- because of the reputational From Kings I (“Melachim stipulation that Germany does against Israel’ likely to be deployed next tion part of his life’s work, said damage that would’ve been Alef” in Hebrew), it chal- not regard the payment (for The World Jewish Con- against Israel.” contrary to Rabkin’s claim, done to the companies if they lenges what Lewin called this case) as acknowledging gress, Holocaust Survivors “Arab claimants will say that while the cases won’t hadn’t settled, and because “Germany chutzpah in tak- liability for similar cases later Foundation USA, and other the [Israel Defense Forces] cause Arab plaintiffs to sue the U.S. government chose ing this issue to the Supreme on,” explained Rabkin. “So the groups and individuals, filed destroyed their homes—or the Jewish state, instead of to make it a priority, and Court by quoting what Elijah plaintiffs can win something amici curiae briefs in support the Irgun did in 1947—and using the power of the Su- to elevate the issues and to said to King Ahab after without doing much for others of the victims in both cases. Israel needs to compensate preme Court, it’s best to have insist that justice be done Ahab’s Queen Jezebel had in their situation.” An amici curiae brief was also them,” he said. “They will say governments like that of the quite apart from the legal arranged to murder Naboth In the case against Hun- filed on behalf of a group of they have no more chance of United States use their power technicalities,” he told JNS. so that Ahab could seize gary, he said the “justices are members of the U.S. House getting a fair hearing in Israeli in leveraging foreign govern- “So what could happen [in Naboth’s vineyard. … ‘Have likely to be very wary of let- of Representatives in support courts than Hungarian refu- ments and entities to give the Supreme Court cases] you murdered and also in- ting this go forward”; doing of the victims in both cases. gees in Hungarian courts.” Holocaust-era restitution. is the same thing, trying to herited?’ ” PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 18, 2020

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