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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 43, NO. 21 JANUARY 25, 2019 19 SH’VAT, 5779 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Rosen JCC names Romirowsky as CEO Dr. Reuben L. Romirowsky, an accomplished executive with three decades of leader- ship roles at Jewish commu- nity organizations in New York and New Jersey, has been named chief executive officer of The Jack and Lee Rosen Jewish Community Center. Previously, Joel Berger was the executive director and Eric Lightman was the assistant director. Both are no longer at the Rosen JCC and no reason was given for them leaving. Dr. Romirowsky joins the Rosen JCC from New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, where his Dr. Reuben L. Romirowsky efforts included elevating Jewish Community Relations Council members with Congresswoman Val Demings at MLK interfaith program. annual giving to $5 million, decades of service to Jewish developing new branding and communities and great suc- JCRC show support at MLK interfaith ceremony messaging and the launch of cess developing strong finan- The Jewish Federation Jewish Community Relations Council members were among more than 100 people who a new website. cial support, his leadership participated in a march through downtown Orlando that culminated with an interfaith ceremony at the United “We’re delighted to wel- and wisdom ensure a bright Methodist Church of Orlando on Sunday, Jan. 13. come Dr. Romirowsky to future for our organization.” The ceremony, themed “Discord into Symphony,” brought together faith leaders of all kinds. Orlando,” said Rosen JCC Mayor Buddy Dyer welcomed all who participated. The program continued with the audience listening to record- President Brett Spector. “With JCC on page 14A ings of some of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous speeches. “I believe that love triumphs over hate, and I think we all have a responsibility to speak out against injustices in society,” said Rep. Val Demings (D) in an interview with WESH TV news. The event was the first of many for the week. The annual Martin Luther King parade was held Saturday, Jan. 19, Jewish pros, cons followed by Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 21. regarding Barr Rafi Layish is a book illustrator By Jackson Richman (JNS)—U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to be- on his way to the movies come attorney general has elicited mixed reviews from By Christine DeSouza can be done in three or four Jewish groups. panels, he’ll draw it. William Barr, who served Almost every year during As animation changed from in the same role under the Passover, Rafi Layish’s family free-hand drawings in Disney late President George H.W. would watch “The Prince of cartoons to digital formats, Bush, is scheduled to face the Egypt,” an animated movie Layish’s interest grew. Senate Judiciary Committee about the Exodus. He loved it. “The movie ‘Spiderman: on Tuesday and Wednesday. “It was a really cool movie Into the Spider-Verse’ was “We endorse his nomina- all around for animation, a real game changer for me tion for attorney general. We soundtrack,” said Layish. It because it presents anima- know that he has exhibited was also the inspiration for tion in a different way,” he sensitivity to protecting reli- what he wanted to do with said. Now 21, Layish is in his gious rights in the workplace,” his future. fourth year at UCF, majoring National Council of Young William Barr speaking to He loved the newspaper in experimental animation. Israel president Farley Weiss the Senate Judiciary Com- comics, too. “Pearls Before He hopes to one day be in- told JNS. “He is clearly very mittee on June 15, 2005. Swine” was one of his favor- volved in the pre-production to follow, putting me on the well-qualified having previ- ites. When he was a child, he process—planning, sketching track to where I’m going.” ously been attorney general. concerned about his lack of and friends would spend hours and story boarding for films Layish is the illustrator of a We look forward to working transparency with Congress drawing pages and pages of and television. just published book, “Hidden Rafi Layish with him.” and willingness to adhere comics. And even today if he It always helps to have a Wings of the Time Keeper” Progressive groups such as to rule of law as it relates thinks of a funny gag that paying job doing what you by Briana R. Gilbert, the first looking for an illustrator for Bend the Arc: Jewish Action to holding President Trump love while on your way to your in “the Contrary Collection” her book and I applied!” said and the Jewish Democratic fully accountable for possible goal, or as Layish says it, “It’s series. Layish. “I like to create and Council of America expressed violations of the law. The in- not the X on the map, but Author Gilbert found him opposition. dependence of the attorney like the compass, something through Facebook. “She was Layish on page 15A “The attorney general must general and the Department of be an independent voice for Justice must be paramount.” the rule of law, a role that is However, organizations more important today than such as the Republican Jew- ever before given President ish Coalition and Agudath Trump’s authoritarian behav- Israel disagreed, and instead ior,” Rabbi Jason Kimelman- applauded the nomination. Block, Washington director of “The RJC congratulates Bend the Arc, told JNS. “Wil- William Barr and the presi- liam Barr’s deeply troubling dent on this fantastic choice,” views on executive power, RJC spokesperson Neil Strauss racial justice, immigrant told JNS. “Mr. Barr is highly rights, religious freedom, re- qualified, having served productive justice and LGBTQ with distinction as President rights raise serious doubts George H.W. Bush’s attorney about his commitment to general. Barr has received equality under the law.” “As the Senate begins Barr on page 15A confirmation hearings this week, JDCA has deep con- cerns with William Barr’s nomination as U.S. attorney general,” the organization The mural Rafi designed that is on a wall in the Hillel building at UCF. told JNS. “Specifically, we are PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 25, 2019 The Central Florida Jewish Book Festival comes in February

Leah Rachel Berkowitz B. A. Shapiro Marie Benedict

The Roth Family Jewish Jewish interest subject mat- Berkowitz is a graduate Shapiro will discuss “The versity and creative writing College with a focus in Community Center of Great- ter in literature, the arts, of Brandeis University and Collector’s Apprentice,” a at Northeastern University. History and Art History, er Orlando and Writer’s Block philosophy, theology, history Hebrew Union College- story set in 1922 Paris of She lives in Boston with her and a cum laude graduate Bookstore of Winter Park and current events to speak Jewish Institute of Religion. intrigue, fake identity and husband, Dan, and their dog, of the Boston University present the Central Florida during this multi-day literary She has written extensively murder. It is a story abaout Sagan. School of Law. She has Jewish Book Festival on Feb. experience. for adults and teens about how we see only what we Marie Benedict will discuss written a narratively con- 10 and 12. These events are The first guest of the Judaism, spirituality, and choose to see, both in art “The Only Woman in the nected series of historical part of a national network Book Festival is Rabbi Leah women’s experiences. This and in life. Room,” a story about Hedy novels—“The Other Ein- of programming sponsored Rachel Berkowitz, author of is her first book for chil- Shapiro is the author of Lamarr. stein,” “Carnegie’s Maid,” by the Jewish Book Council. “The World Needs Beautiful dren. seven novels, including the Benedict is a lawyer with and “The Only Woman in This highly popular com- Things.” Story time with the A panel discussion on his- award-winning New York more than 10 years’ experi- the Room.” munity-wide event brings author and children’s craft torical fiction with authors Times bestseller The Art ence as a litigator at two of Tickets to these events together prominent and will be at 11 a.m. at The Roth B.A. Shapiro and Marie Forger and The Muralist, a the country’s premier law can be purchased at https:// emerging Jewish writers Family JCC. This event is Benedict will be held Feb. 12, national bestseller. She has firms. She is a magna cum orlandojcc.org/arts-culture/ and non-Jewish writers with sponsored by PJ Library. 7—9 p.m. taught sociology at Tufts Uni- laude graduate of Boston book-festival. Israeli guest speaker at annual Sister City (Cocoa and Beit Shemesh) gala Workers busy with new road Central Life Church (behind “A three-hundred-mem- the time of the Emperor construction in Beit Shem- Temple Beth Sholom), 5995 ber team is working hard Justinian. esh, Israel, have uncovered N. Wickham Road. over the next six months “The stones do talk,” said remains of a city from the After a light supper of to excavate the ancient Malka. “You just have to listen time of the first Temple. The Israeli food and live Israeli Beit Shemesh city,” said very carefully. There are so Sister City program of Cocoa, music, guest speaker Meir Malka, a life-time resident many mysteries that I would Florida and Beit Shemesh in- Malka from Beit Shemesh of Beit Shemesh and retired like to share with you. I can’t vites the community to learn will illustrate new archaeo- director of the Keren Sh- wait to tell you the stories more about these exciting new logical discoveries at Tel Beit emesh Foundation. He said that have been hiding for over finds at its annual member- Shemesh, of the ancient city another great discovery is 2000 years.” ship gala, on Monday, Jan. of Beit Shemesh from the time a beautiful mosaic floor in Malka has visited Brevard 28 from 5:30—8 p.m. at the of the Kings. a Byzantine church from multiple times. He recalled his first visit in 2005 when he met with the Jewish Federa- tion and others. A new video Genealogical Society helps that salutes his efforts and outlines the history of the organization, “Why Sister you learn genealogy software City?” will be shown. For 2019 Sister City plans The Jewish Genealogical fee for nonmembers, which maps, a digital version of a Purim celebration in March Society of Greater Orlando can be applied to member- the Companion Guide and and will welcome Israeli presents, “Everything You ship dues. a convenient onscreen Help scouts in June. Other activi- Wanted to Know About Family Some of Family Tree system. The technology can ties include upcoming trips Meir Malka (l) with Jordan Miles at the U.S. Embassy Tree Maker, But Were Afraid to Maker’s key features include be overwhelming, but gene- to Israel. The event is free and in Jerusalem when they presented artwork from the Sister Ask: A Discussion with Mark a user-friendly interface to alogy software is essential for open to the public. Cities to the embassy. Olsen.” quickly and easily build a anyone doing family history. Olsen is Family Tree Mak- family tree, update your tree This meeting allows you to er’s representative, and he with Ancestry.com using learn directly from the soft- will speak to the JGSGO and FamilySync, get match sug- ware company, and help you I love the ’90s, how about you? answer questions about the gestions with FamilySearch. efficiently and effectively use software, and demonstrate org automatically, view fam- the program and its many how it helps you save and ily history timelines and in- amazing features. share your family history. teractive maps, and enhance Family Tree Maker is of- The meeting is Wednesday, your tree with a photo repair fering a special price on the Jan. 30, at 7 p.m., at the tool. Family Tree Maker software at this meeting. Roth Jewish Community also includes a locations For more information, Center, 851 North Maitland database with more than go to www.jgsgo.org, email Ave., in Maitland. The three million place names for [email protected], or call the meeting is free to JGSGO consistent data entry, access society’s voicemail line, 407- members. There is a $5 to online street and satellite 494-4230.

The group Anti-Idol will perform at the Decades Party at the Rosen JCC.

The Jack and Lee Rosen JCC The ‘60s had the hip-hugger at the Rosen Event Center, HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES is hosting a Decades “I love bell-bottom pants, Sonny and 11184 S. Apopka-Vineland

Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged the ‘90s” Party on Feb. 2 from Cher, and hippies; the ‘70s had Rd. in Orlando. Tickets are exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye disorders. 7:30 p.m.- 11 p.m. There will flower-power, mini and maxi $40 and can be purchased at Protecting your eyes is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future. be live music by Anti-Idol, a skirts; the ‘80s had large hair- the Welcome Center or online Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection. silent auction, food and drinks dos, disco and shoulder pads, at http://www.rosenjcc.org/ and free babysitting. There will but what is memorable about special-events/decades-party/ For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. A public service message from The Vision Council. even be a ‘90s costume contest. the 1990s? Come to the party All proceeds benefit the What did we wear that was and find out! Rosen JCC and the Children’s outlandish during that decade? The party will be held scholarship fund. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 25, 2019 PAGE 3A Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said state will sanction Airbnb for delisting Jewish settlements

By Marcy Oster disputes in the region in does target Jews specifically,” more than 81,000 cities. A cision discriminating against nomic measures against the order to make a decision said DeSantis. brief check on its website on citizens of the State of Israel company. (JTA)—Florida Gov. Ron about whether it should be DeSantis’ announcement Wednesday shows that rentals and harming them financially The Christians United for DeSantis said Florida would doing business in “the oc- is part of a steady campaign in West Bank Jewish settle- because of where they live.” Israel, or CUFI, Action Fund take action against Airbnb cupied territories.” to curry favor with the state’s ments remain listed. Erdan, who heads a com- on Tuesday issued a state- for its decision to remove DeSantis said on Tuesday large Jewish community. On Israeli’s Minister of Strate- mittee of Israeli government ment supporting DeSantis’ listings of rooms and homes that the state would suspend Monday he announced a Jew- gic Affairs Gilad Erdan praised ministers charged with coun- announcement, saying in a for rent in West Bank Jewish the use of Airbnb for state-paid ish judge as his selection to sit DeSantis’ announcement, tering the Airbnb decision, statement that: “State and settlements. travel, and would consider on the State’s Supreme Court calling it “an important deci- last month sent letters to local governments should Airbnb announced in preventing the state’s pen- during a news conference at a sion that will embolden the five governors in the United continue to take decisive November 2018 that it sion fund from investing in local Miami Jewish day school, fight against anti-Semitic States, including DeSantis, measures to limit Airbnb’s would remove the listings Airbnb. The company is not where he also announced that boycott organizations. We will urging them to express their ability to operate unless and of some 200 apartments currently publicly traded but he would travel with a state continue to act in all possible opposition to the Airbnb until this bigoted policy is and homes for rent in Jew- reportedly is planning to go delegation to Israel in May. ways to nullify the bigoted de- decision and to take eco- reversed.” ish settlements in the West public as early as June 2019, He recently announced more Bank, but not in Palestinian or at least by 2020, according money to pay for security at communities, and said that to trade publications. Florida Jewish schools. it consulted with experts to “We have a moral obligation Airbnb operates in 191 Carol Channing, the original learn about the historical to oppose the Airbnb policy; it countries and regions and star of ‘Hello Dolly!,’ dies at 97 Groups leave national By Marcy Oster Lorelei Lee in the 1949 pro- duction of “Gentlemen Prefer (JTA)—Actress Carol Blondes,” where she sang the Channing, who originated iconic “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Women’s March the starring role in “Hello Best Friend.” Dolly!” on Broadway and won Channing played Dolly By Marcy Oster SPLC has designated the “As early as 2017 we heard a Tony Award for her portrayal Levi in “Hello Dolly!” win- Nation of Islam as a hate rumblings of troubling ac- of the boisterous widow, has ning the Tony in 1964. She (JTA)—The Southern group, but did not specifically cusations of anti-Semitism died. She was 97. played the role for the last Poverty Law Center and a cite this as a reason for leaving and anti-Zionism within Channing was the daugh- time in a 1995 revival. Barbra major Reform synagogue in the national march. and amongst the leadership ter of a Jewish mother and a Streisand was Dolly in the New York have disassociated The Daily Beast also noted of the Washington march,” Christian father and identi- 1969 film version and Bette themselves from this year’s that EMILY’s List does not Hirsch said in a statement. fied as “part Jewish.” At 16, Midler also won a Tony for Women’s March. appear on the list of Women’s “At the time we pushed our she learned that her father her portrayal in the 2017 Top leaders of the main or- March 2019 partners and that discomfort aside in defer- was multi-racial, with an Broadway revival. ganization have been accused the National Council of Jewish ence to what we considered African-American mother Channing was recognized of engaging in or condoning Women told The New York the bigger issues threaten- and a German father. with a Lifetime Achieve- anti-Semitism, of not cutting Jewish Week last week that it ing our country. But now, in She wrote in her memoir ment Tony Award in 1995 ties with Nation of Islam leader would not be a partner in this the aftermath of Pittsburgh of her five-year marriage to and was inducted into Carol Channing Louis Farrakhan and of failing year’s march. and mindful of the surge her first husband, Theodore the American Theatre Hall to heed the concerns of its Stephen Wise Free Syna- in anti-Semitic incidents Naidish, that she learned to of Fame in 1981. She made the Jim Henson character thousands of Jewish backers. gogue Senior Rabbi Ammiel in the past two years, anti- speak fluent Yiddish from his guest appearances on many Sammy the Snake. Jen Fuson, a spokeswoman Hirsch announced Friday that Semitism can no longer be grandfather, Sam Cohen, who television shows including She died Tuesday, Jan. 15, of for the Alabama-based SPLC, his New York-based congrega- a narrow concern. If you lived in Brooklyn’s Brighton “Sesame Street,” where natural causes just days before told the Daily Beast that tion will disassociate from tolerate or are sympathetic Beach. she performed a parody of her 98th birthday. Channing “other projects were a prior- Women’s March Inc., and that to those who are prejudiced The Seattle native first “Hello Dolly” called “Hello was married four times and ity.” She said the organization it will join the 2019 Women’s against Jews, we cannot became a star playing flapper Sammy,” a love song to has one son. would be involved in local March On NYC under the aus- stand with you. If you deny marches where they have of- pices of the Women’s March Israel’s right to exist, we Alliance. cannot stand with you.” fices, however. 4 APPLE TARTLETS

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It is a recognition tinian nationalism—akin to something like last spring on the border between Israel This is a politically correct euphemism for of fact, both in word and deed. a state fair in America—to suggest an in- and the Gaza Strip. Many have equivocated saying: to destroy Israel. In word, Hamas’s charter infamously calls nocent, care-free excursion, which is grossly the actions of violent rioters inspired by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was more for the destruction of Israel, and its leaders misleading. “Nonviolent” protestors do not Hamas (a terrorist organization) and those explicit: to “tear down their [Israel’s] have regularly stated that they “love death carry knives, wire-cutters and improvised of Israel’s soldiers charged with defending border and tear out [Israelis’] hearts.” as the Jews love life.” firebombs. Hamas co-founder Mahmoud the sovereignty of a liberal democracy. This In carrying out this directive, a group of In action, Hamas has turned the Gaza al-Zahar even said this characterization was abhorrent argument demonstrates a false rioters that briefly managed to infiltrate Strip into a launching pad from which to intentionally deceptive as the riots were “not moral equivalence and, above all, misses into Israel were brandishing butcher realize its genocidal ambitions. When Israel a peaceful resistance.” the context of the events. knives and shouting “Jews, we’re coming unilaterally pulled every soldier and civilian Is there any clearer indication of intent? Last spring, Hamas-inspired rioters gath- to slaughter you!” out of the Strip in the 2005 disengagement, When a Hamas official publicly stated that ered on the Gazan side of the border fence And therein lies the blunt truth of Hamas: the Palestinians had the opportunity to more than 80 percent of the rioters killed in with Israel in what was billed as the “Great It is driven by a hatred of the Jewish people govern themselves and prove to Israel and a two-day period were terrorist operatives, March of Return.” With such a provocative and seeks the destruction of the Jewish state. the world that they could exist alongside the it became inexcusable to believe that these Jewish state in peace. riots were peaceful demonstrations. The world Yet Hamas seized power and increased its could no longer ignore what Israel had known rocket attacks against Israel. In response, all along: These riots were simply a different Everywhere Israel, as well as Egypt, imposed a naval tactic of the next battle in Hamas’s ongoing blockade to prevent the terror organization war against Israel and the Jewish people. Shabbat on the high seas from acquiring weapons from foreign sup- When faced with a similar situation—in porters such as Iran, its primary sponsor. which tens of thousands of rioters inspired —Part II Israel also constructed a fence along the by a terrorist organization rush its border, border to protect its civilian communities in wielding weapons and proudly proclaiming the south; Egypt would soon do the same to their intent to kill its civilians—what nation prevent infiltration from the Sinai Peninsula. would not take all necessary measures to By Mel Pearlman ligious, political, and social divisions among In the more than 10 years it has ruled the defend its sovereignty and protect its people? our people. Gaza Strip, Hamas has done nothing to im- Maybe those who believe that these were As I mentioned in my column two weeks On one hand, left-leaning progressive Jews prove the lives of the Palestinians under its simply protesters would have preferred hun- ago, whenever my wife and I travel overseas bring their secular views into the religious control. Instead, it has stolen international dreds of rioters had broken through the fence we always listen for the sounds of Jewish. context by seeking to change the traditional aid to fund its terrorist agenda, kidnapped and massacred innocent Israelis before the In that column I described how, upon customs, symbols, and texts associated with Israeli soldiers and civilians, launched thou- Israel Defense Forces took action. If Israel has boarding our cruise ship on the Friday after- Shabbat and the Jewish holidays. They wrap sands of rockets and dug attack tunnels into to choose between saving the lives of Israelis noon before Christmas, I was hoping to have their social and political positions into their neighboring Israeli communities, all while or appeasing morally bankrupt audiences, Shabbat services that evening aboard ship. I sense of religious piety which insulates them using the people of Gaza as human shields. we will always choose life. was pleasantly surprised to see so many co- from criticism in the public debate. Which brings us to the riots. Danny Danon is Israel’s ambassador to religionists appear despite their long journeys Supporting equality and fighting discrimi- Many try to claim that these were “non- the United Nations. to the ship and enduring the hassles of the nation and abuse is a worthy cause. But must boarding process. it really be done by diluting the importance What followed was a beautiful pluralistic of the Passover story for instance, which we service led by a very knowledgable self- are mandated to tell in every generation as appointed female congregant accompanied a unique Jewish historical experience? Of by a more traditional male congregant who course not! Shipley speaks sang the prayers in Hebrew using traditional On the other hand, the intolerance and melodies. Everyone was eager to share his or contempt by some orthodox Jewish sects Answering #ifnotnow her prayer book with his or her fellow Jew. for non-observant Jews is counter-intuitive Despite their diverse Jewish religious because Judaism is not only a religion; we are backgrounds and numerous nationalities, a sovereign people with a unique ethnicity, almost all of the congregants joined in the culture, and language. By Jim Shipley roles of the “March,” know that anti-Semitism singing of the Shabbat songs and prayers, a Do these orthodox Jewish sects care to feed has taken root in this once proud endeavor. testament to the universality and unity of and clothe the widowed, the poor, and the Civility. It was something basic to our Sarsour and Mallory are anti-Semites to their the Jewish people. hungry only if the recipients are observant? society. We were taught at home to be re- core. Sarsour because of her background and It was heart-warming to see Jews coming Of course not! spectful of other people, specifically those hatred of Israel and therefore Jews. Mallory together to create a Shabbat service on a Of all the gifts the Torah bestows on the older than ourselves. We were taught to as an acolyte of Farrakhan. cruise ship, respecting, or at least temporarily Jewish people, Shabbat is among the most listen to other peoples’ opinions, not inter- Birthright and the High School in Israel setting aside, their differing religious views cherished by all Jews. It is so fundamentally rupt and then offer our own take on the programs are now under attack. Those on and beliefs. Everyone recognized the special a part of the Jewish people that it was given subject—with respect. the extreme left have been reached and to circumstances that none of us were at home or to all Jews as a renewable resource to assure Recently, times have changed. When it some extent educated in a false narrative in our usual synagogues; and how important that even if we miss one Shabbat we only comes to matters Jewish, or the subject of about Israel. The target market for #ifnotnow it is for Jews to come together to celebrate and have to wait six days to again embrace its Israel, Jews can tend to be more dogmatic are young—including young Jews; very few observe Shabbat wherever they are. rest, warmth and serenity. than even the loudest of the chatterers filling of whom have been to Israel and fewer still Unfortunately, these feelings did not carry It was very unfortunate that so many Jews the 24-hour news cycle. In the beginning, it who have been there long enough to get a over to the next Shabbat on board. A week aboard that ship forgot the true meaning was simple. The Jews were a people who had true picture of daily life. later, both liberal and orthodox Jews showed of what Shabbat was all about! They really been cast out of their land. By the Romans. Is there to some extent discriminatory less tolerance and sensitivity for each other’s “missed the boat” on this one. Then the Ottoman Turks cast out the Romans. treatment of the Arab population in Israel? points of view about ritual and observance. If you wish to comment or respond you In WWI the British cast out the Turks. The Yes. But a much greater problem for them After less than a civil discussion, one group can reach me at melpearlman322@gmail. Jews saw an opportunity and the necessity arises when they want their children to be retreated to a different room resulting in split com. Please do so in a rational, thoughtful, of going back to the land that had been in integrated into the daily life and opportunities services, a shortage of prayer books for both respectful and civil manner. Shabbat Shalom the hands of foreign powers for better than in the country. Our daughter Tracy, who has groups, and insufficient wine and challah, and Happy New Year! two millennia. lived in Israel for almost two decades, tried which the ship had graciously furnished. Mel Pearlman holds B.S. & M.S. degrees Were there people living in the land? Of to start a joint Arab/Jewish opera company There was very little evidence of that child- in physics as well as a J.D. degree and ini- course. Mainly farmers, mostly Arabs and of young people a few years ago. As soon as hood song, we teach our children in early tially came to Florida in 1966 to work on most of them tenant farmers on land owned it began to get some traction, Arab militants education,“I’ve got that Shabbat feeling.” the Gemini and Apollo space programs. He by Turkish interests—although there were went to the homes of these youngsters and What was a beautiful Shabbat service the has practiced law in Central Florida since Jewish villages that had never left, even when warned their parents not to participate in any week before turned into an ugly display of 1972. He has served as president of the Jew- the Romans took over. But, the fact remains joint Arab/Israeli programs or they would Jewish disunity and acrimony. Many of the ish Federation of Greater Orlando; was a that since the Romans destroyed the Second be killed. attendees, disgusted and frustrated by this charter board member, first Vice President Jewish Commonwealth, there had been no Should Birthright include some dialogue debacle simply left and did not participate and pro-bono legal counsel of the Holocaust legal internal government in that land. and open discussion on the Arab population in services at all. Memorial Resource and Education Center of In 1947, the United Nations, in a nation-by- of the Jewish nation? Absolutely—but not a Responsibility for this fiasco must be shared Central Florida, as well as holding many other nation vote, elected to divide the land between narrative directed by anti-Israel, anti-Semitic by both sides and accentuates the serious re- community leadership positions. Jews and Arabs (the word “Palestinian” is radicals. Now, Birthright’s reaction to young nowhere to be found in the document). As we people taunting their groups on the way to THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. all know the Jews agreed to give up half their Israel is neither smart nor effective. land, but the Arabs wanted it all. These young, virtually untrained “coun- After four wars, the Arab nations gave up selors” get into arguments at U.S. airports ✡ ✡ ✡ CENTRAL FLORIDA’S INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICE ✡ ✡ ✡ the possibility of removing Jews from their as the trip is leaving. These confrontations ISSN 0199-0721 Winner of 46 Press Awards Editor/Publisher native land by force and now operate in the are not spontaneous. They are well planned. Jeffrey Gaeser shadows using money and influence to change The Birthright “counselors” obviously have

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While the (JNS)—It may be that The pro-Israel community already in place along large Reasonable people can dis- ers being ineffective is wrong, Palestinians and their sup- supporters of U.S. President already faces challenges from sections of America’s southern agree about how best to secure and Israel’s use of them pro- porters call the barrier an Donald Trump and those who supporters of the BDS move- border is rife with hypocrisy the border, but as with every- vides some insight as to how “apartheid wall,” its erection back the Israeli government ment, as well as advocates and hyperbole on both sides. thing else in contemporary they can be made to work. was an act of self-defense that led by Israeli Prime Minister of intersectional theory that Opponents who have sup- American politics, Trump’s The plain fact is that the saved human life. Benjamin Netanyahu are falsely claims that the war ported funding for a barrier involvement turns the argu- influx of tens of thousands of Various kinds of barriers now so closely aligned that against the Jewish state’s in the past—as long as it was ment into one in which both Africans who entered Israel also play a part in separating the latter have no qualms existence is morally equiva- not the 45th president asking sides feel compelled to defend illegally was ended by the erec- Israel from terrorist forces in about the Jewish state being lent to the struggle for civil for it—now deride Trump’s extreme positions that turn tion of a fence along its border Gaza and Lebanon, as well as dragged into one of the most rights in the United States. insistence on a “wall” as foolish into existential struggles that with Egypt. The security bar- the chaos in war-torn Syria. contentious American politi- With a Democratic Party or even immoral. It is equally make compromise impossible. rier that runs through parts of Israel’s fences or walls cal debates in living memory. increasingly divided about true that many of Trump’s Trump’s rhetoric and the ensu- the West Bank and Jerusalem aren’t foolproof. Hamas dug But as much as Trump is the Middle East, the last claims about a “crisis” at the ing responses from those who separating Palestinian Arab tunnels under them in order popular in Israel for his sup- thing Israel’s supporters border has been more a matter despise him have turned what areas, and Israeli towns and to facilitate cross-border kid- port of the Jewish state, it’s need is for its practices to of political expediency than ought to be a technical ques- neighborhoods, was similarly napping and murder raids. likely that most of its citizens be used as a justification for a true “national emergency,” tion—what measures can best effective in stopping the wave In recent months, the Israel would be just as happy if their Trump’s demands—demands which if he were to declare one secure the border—into an of suicide bombers that poured Defense Forces discovered border-security policies were that created a standoff with and use it to get his way would existential political struggle into Israeli cities during the that Hezbollah has been left out of the epic struggle congressional Democrats be just as extra-constitutional involving positions that are war of terrorist attrition digging its own network of over whether America should and prompted the current as President Barack Obama’s falsely identified as the moral known as the Second Intifada, build what Trump has at times government shutdown. efforts going around the law equivalent of good and evil. which took more than 1,000 Wall on page 15A The Forward’s woes deal the Jewish world a blow to the kishkes By Andrew and curiosity they deserved. stopping its print operations think like adults, and put weekly newspapers have been words—to police themselves. Silow-Carroll Seth Lipsky had reimagined altogether, and that key senior aside the kitsch and pablum shrinking, many dying, for You are okay with tuning out the paper as a quality Jew- staffers, including Eisner, are that sometimes defines the more than a decade, the result political and ideological views NEW YORK (JTA)—My ish journalistic enterprise a being laid off, hit all of us in Jewish discourse. of the double jeopardy of eco- with which you don’t agree. dad, who grew up in a time decade earlier. His successor, the industry hard. Personally, This week I took part in nomic and ethnic upheaval. You are trusting the Jewish and place where his Juda- J.J. Goldberg, kept that spirit many of those let go are my a Muslim-Jewish dialogue Readers don’t expect to pay story to outsiders, and will ism only marked him as an of inquiry alive, and as his friends. Professionally, it is an sponsored by the Shalom for the news they consume, not have the answers when outsider, never really got my managing editor I managed to ominous sign of the state of Hartman Institute of North and advertisers have fled to others confront us with their professional fascination with work with an array of people Jewish journalism. America. The focus was the a cheaper online space where versions of the truth. all things Jewish. That all far more talented than I—I But you don’t have to be a media’s treatment of our size is often all that mat- The Forverts taught my changed when nearly 20 years am lucky to call more than Jewish journalist to bemoan respective groups. I was ters. Jewish ethnic ties are Jewish immigrant grandpar- ago I got a job with the For- a few of them my colleagues the diminution of a storied reminded how lucky we are famously frayed. ents how to be American. The ward, the English-language to this day. news enterprise. Love it or as Jews to have a mature and The Forward hopes its revived Forward taught all offspring of the venerable Under Jane Eisner, the hate it (and many people do), robust tradition of communal new digital strategy will help of us how to think Jewishly Yiddish daily. Forward remained an in- the Forward represents the self-scrutiny. The Muslims in it survive these changes, in an era of assimilation and He recalled how the For- cubator and farm team for kind of serious conversation the room represented their but ultimately a journalistic acculturation. verts would arrive at his fam- excellence in writing about that Jews need to be hav- communities’ critical think- enterprise is only as good, I hope a new Forward, and ily’s home in New York state’s North American Jewry in the ing in turbulent times. Its ers, in all senses of that term, and as healthy, as its people. all of Jewish journalism, can rural Orange County, one of post-immigrant, postmodern reporters have held Jewish and more than a few quietly I wish the Forward, its staff rebound to teach us how to his parents’ few links to the and, what some warn omi- organizations and leaders bemoaned the lack of outlets and its alumni only good argue with one another, learn bustling Jewish community nously, is a post-Zionist era. accountable to the people for an honest and often un- things. The Jewish world from one another and love one downstate and a window into Some of the top Jewish media they serve. Its opinion pages comfortable discussion of the needs them. And if you doubt another. a wider world. organizations—including the raise important questions challenges facing them and that, or are gloating over the Andrew Silow-Carroll is “My father learned to be online magazine Tablet and that we might otherwise be their coreligionists. Although Forward’s financial woes, you editor in chief of the Jewish American from reading the 70 Faces Media, JTA’s parent reluctant to discuss in public, the Jewish discourse can often are arguing for a community Telegraphic Agency. Forverts,” Dad told me. organization—and at least and give voice to those—Jews be coarse, and the intramural that cannot discuss its most The views and opinions I came to the Forward in its one national magazine are of color, Mizrachim, women, fighting ugly, I am always pressing issues honestly. You expressed in this article are second generation as a revived led by its alumni. Jewish “renegades”—who proud as a Jewish journalist are trusting professional those of the author and do not weekly dedicated to treat- The news last night that too often are left out of the to be in the thick of it. and volunteer stewards of necessarily reflect the views ing its subject matter—the the Forward, already reduced communal conversation. As an industry, Jewish multimillion-dollar nonprof- of JTA or its parent company, Jews—with the seriousness to a monthly magazine, is Most of all, it reminds us to journalism is on the ropes— its—your money, in other 70 Faces Media. The era of ‘never again’ is ending By Eric Rozenman seriously now than it has in of Life synagogue and warned intended to diminish general nuclear warheads for them, to prominent Americans re- the past generation. In an in- that “hate leading to genocide tensions, in practice the move functionally asserting that portedly wanted “to go back (JTA)—Filmmaker Steven terview marking the 25th an- is as possible today as it was undercut Israel, since the “the Holocaust never hap- to Hitler times.” The U.S. Spielberg told NBC News he niversary of “Schindler’s List,” during the Holocaust.” other side continued to receive pened and we intend to fin- “alt-right”– also described as thinks society must take the Spielberg referred to the He was behind the curve. British arms and advice. ish it.” The European Union, the “alt-reich”—imagines the possibility of genocide more massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree The era of “never again” is In 1967, Israel preempted smarting at American insis- Israeli tail wags the American ending in Western Europe, a potentially overwhelming tence that it reimpose eco- dog. fading in North America and attack by Egyptian, Syrian and nomic sanctions on Tehran Not entirely dissimilar, never penetrated the Middle Jordanian forces mobilized at the expense of trade, has leaders of the Women’s March Letters To The Editor East. Relentless demonization on its border. Afterward, the sought a way around potential movement demand that Jew- We are a diverse community and we welcome your of the Jewish state renormal- philosopher Eric Hoffer noted penalties. ish activists check their white letters and viewpoints. The views and opinions expressed izes demonization of Jewish that “had [Egyptian Presi- Nazism obsessed over ra- privilege and apologize for the in the opinion pieces and letters published in The Heri- people. dent Gamal Abdel] Nasser cially inferior Jews destroy- Jews’ racist suppression of tage are the views of the authors, and do not necessarily Examples of post-Nazi triumphed... he would have ing the German people. The black and brown people. reflect the views and opinions of The Heritage Florida genocide and attempted wiped Israel off the map and no accused Pittsburgh murderer From medieval allega- Jewish News or its staff. The Heritage reserves the right genocide abound, including one would have lifted a finger fantasized that pro-immi- tions of “Christ killers” to to edit letters for clarity, content, and accuracy. And Muslim Indonesia’s seizure to save the Jews.” gration Jews threatened “his contemporary indictments respectful of lashon hara, we will not print derogatory of largely Christian East Today, Iran builds ballistic people.” The man charged statements against any individual. Timor, the auto-genocide missiles and seeks to develop with mailing letter bombs Never again on page 15A Please limit letters to 250 words. Send letters to P.O. perpetrated by Cambodia’s Box 300742, Fern Park, FL 32730. Or e-mail to news@ Khmer Rouge, suppression orlandoheritage.com. of southern Sudan’s Christian and animist Darfur region by the government of the Muslim There have been Jewish north, the murder of much of Rwanda’s Tutsi minority by presidential candidates the Hutu majority and today’s oppression by Myanmar’s Bu- Dear Editor: 2016? Also, Jill Stein was the dhist majority of its Rohingya In the Dec. 28th edition, Green Party nominee in 2016, Muslim minority. Jim Shipley states in his col- as well as 2012. In previous Two post-Holocaust mass umn that “So far, no Jew has elections, Milton Schapp ran murders of Jews already have run for president.” Anyone in 1976, Arlen Specter in 1996 been attempted. who is not living under a rock and Joe Lieberman in 2004. In 1948, five invading Arab would immediately recognize How someone who writes countries committed to the the error of that statement. for a newspaper could not be destruction of the fledgling Several Jews have run for aware of these basic facts is Jewish state. The United U.S. president—two in just shocking and epitomizes the States no sooner became the the last presidential election. public’s mistrust of the press. first nation to recognize Israel How could anyone forget Ber- Scott Ravede than it slapped an arms em- nie Sanders, who just ran in Deltona, FL bargo on the region. Though PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 25, 2019 JCC. Cost: $5 for nonmembers. 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Her only as- immutable nature of truth, Kamala Harris, the junior thing sociation with the group was while the curved glass and senator from California, is “So having grown up in the in November 2017, when she walls were built to represent reportedly set to announce Bay Area, I fondly remember was one of 17 local and federal the fluid nature of finding her bid for the Democratic those Jewish national fund politicians on the host com- justice,” she told the J. The presidential nod. boxes that we would use to mittee (i.e., “yes you can stick Jewish News of Northern Harris, 54, is a progressive collect donations to plant my name on the invitation”) California in 2016. “The on most issues who draws trees for Israel,” she said at of a party thrown by J Street’s Court, like Israel, is a beauti- some ire from the left for her the American Israel Public Los Angeles chapter. She also ful home to democracy and tough-on-crime posture when Affairs Committee in 2017. met a year ago in her office justice in a region where she was California’s attorney “Years later when I visited with the group’s director, radicalism and authori- general. She pleased Demo- Israel for the first time, I saw Jeremy Ben-Ami. tarianism all too often shape cratic hearts, meanwhile, the fruits of that effort and Harris also co-sponsored government.” with her tough treatment of the Israeli ingenuity that has a Senate resolution in early She’s big on tackling President Donald Trump’s sec- truly made a desert bloom.” 2017 that essentially rebuked hate crimes Senator Kamala Harris ond Supreme Court nominee, No mention why Harris was the Obama administration Harris created a hate Brett Kavanaugh, during his a blue box girl growing up— for allowing through a U.S. crimes unit as San Francisco Jewish civil rights groups over Feinstein, the state’s senior Senate confirmation last year. and Google was no help. JTA Security Council resolution District Attorney and made the years. senator. This was important The daughter of a mother has put a query into her office. condemning Israel’s settle- hate crimes a focus of her Her big sisters are Jew- because in California’s “jungle who immigrated from India She’s more AIPAC than ment policies. work as the state’s attorney ish primary” system the two top and a father who immigrated J Street She supported the Iran general. (Harris reported Well, in political terms, vote-getters in the primaries from Jamaica, Harris has Since being elected in 2016, nuclear deal, although she that in 2012 anti-Jewish anyway. In October 2016, she get on the November ballot some Jewish nuggets in her Harris has spoken twice at was not a senator in 2015 hate crimes were the most got key endorsements from even if they are of the same history. the annual policy conference when Congress voted on it, commonplace religion-based the state’s two Jewish sena- party. Harris was facing a She smashed a glass at of the American Israel Public and is on the record opposing hate crime.) tors—Barbara Boxer, who popular Democrat, Rep. Lo- her wedding Affairs Committee. Her 2018 the Boycott, Divestment and One of her first successful was retiring and whom Harris retta Sanchez, in the general She met her Jewish hus- speech, with the California Sanctions movement target- Senate actions was to get would replace, and Dianne election. band, Douglas Emhoff, on a delegation, was off the record ing Israel. passed a non-binding Sen- blind date in San Francisco, (itself not unusual, although Harris also digs Israel’s ate resolution that named arranged by friends. They critics of Israel were un- Supreme Court building religious institutions as pos- married in 2014—Harris’ nerved), but she gave a good “The beauty of the ar- sible targets of hate crimes, sister Maya officiated—and picture of where she stands in chitecture and spirit of and urged better hate crime smashed a glass to honor her 2017 speech. design left a lasting impres- reporting, a key demand of Emhoff’s upbringing. It was She’s for two states—so is her first marriage and his AIPAC, although, sometimes second—Emhoff has two chil- less than emphatically—but dren from his first marriage. she doesn’t believe in big- You thought Jews can be footing either side. parochial? “Most eligible In- “I believe that a resolution HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES dian American bachelorette to this conflict cannot be Custom Printing Invitations & Announcements marries fellow lawyer” is how imposed,” she said. “It must Digital & Offset Printing Brochures & Booklets Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye one Indian American media be agreed upon by the parties Direct Mail Services Forms & Letterheads disorders. 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Courtney Shapiro Photography In her welcome remarks, Loren London used an umbrella Courtney Shapiro Photography Courtney Shapiro Photography to illustrate the symbiotic relationship between the Federa- The return to the sit-down dinner was enjoyed by all the Lynn “Moira” Dictor kept the audience in stitches. tion, local Jewish organizations and the community. Choices attendees.

By Paul Lefton ing on the evening’s theme, tions all have made to the and vulnerable... sharing bits Celebrating Women’s Em- Jewish community. and pieces of our personal For its 25th installment, powerment. After dinner, attendees stories of what makes us who Choices, the Jewish Federa- “To me, a conversation heard from Michelle Sheplan we are,” Sheplan said. tion of Greater Orlando’s sig- about empowerment begins and Dori Gerber, both alumni “And while we are all from nature women’s philanthropy with recalling the genera- of the Jewish Women’s Renais- different backgrounds with event, returned to the simple tions of women in Cen- sance Project Momentum different experiences, we are elegance that marked its be- tral Florida upon whose trips to Israel, which are ultimately so similar in that ginning, with a festive cocktail shoulders we stand,” she underwritten in part by the we, and all the women in hour followed by a seated told the crowd. “By attend- Federation in collaboration this room, are the glue that dinner at Congregation Ohev ing tonight’s 25th Choices, with SPARK. Both Sheplan binds our families as well as Shalom in Maitland. we honor those who paved and Gerber spoke passion- this Central Florida Jewish The 250 women and men in the way as we exercise our ately about how the Israel community together.” attendance were welcomed to strength in support as we con- trips touched their lives and Gerber echoed that senti- Choices 2019 by Loren Lon- tinue to stand up for women.” inspired them to get more ment, characterizing the don, the woman who brought London then asked various deeply involved in the Greater eight-day trip as a life-altering Choices to Orlando 25 years groups of women to stand up Orlando Jewish community. journey. ago. London is also the first and remain standing based Sheplan said the personal “The experiences I had on Harriet Ginsburg Woman of on their work, philanthropy, connection she made with the that trip helped to elevate the volunteerism and other in- other women on the trip is a Jewish practices my family Choice Award winner. Courtney Shapiro Photography London, the founder and volvement in Jewish causes. testament to the common ide- and I share in our home since The ladies attending Choices enjoyed socializing before director of the Federation’s By the time she reached the als shared by Jewish women. my return,” Gerber said. The the dinner. RAISE program for adults end of her list, every woman “As the trip unfolded, each trip “helped to change the with special needs, kicked in the room was standing, a of the women in our group trajectory of my career in was a big hit with the audience, her trademark wit on full display off her discussion by focus- testament to the contribu- became more and more open education and my contribu- while sharing her take on women’s empowerment through the tion to Jewish education and eyes of “Orlando’s favorite Jewish mother.” advocacy work.” Federation staff said Dictor’s talk was pitch-perfect and As a result of the connec- made for a fitting end to the evening. tions she made during the “The feedback we received after Choices was overwhelm- trip, Gerber got involved with, ingly positive,” said Choices coordinator Marisa West, JFGO’s Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel among other organizations, office manager. “We really seemed to capture the right mix of the Jewish Council for Public socializing and fundraising, and Moira’s presentation left the Affairs, which is the hub for 16 women smiling and laughing as they headed home.” Proudly Serving Our Community national Jewish agencies and The Presenting Sponsor for Choices 2019 was Orlando more than 125 local Jewish Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies, which For Over 35 Years Community Relations Coun- provided healthcare literature and a few goodies for attend- cils, including the Orlando ees to take home. President Kelly Nierstedt also spoke to the JCRC, which is a committee crowd, emphasizing the importance of preventive health care L’dor v’dor ... of the Federation. Gerber strategies for women. currently is the co-chair of Ruby Sponsors for Choices 2019 were Krise Wealth Manage- From Generation to Generation the Orlando JCRC. ment Group of Raymond James and Florida Cancer Specialists. The evening’s featured More photos from Choices 2019 can be viewed at www.jfgo. speaker, Lynn “Moira” Dictor, org/choices. • Traditional Jewish Funerals • Non-Traditional Services Intertwined as one—a story • Interstate Shipping of the past and the present • Pre-Arranged Funerals journalist, tells the extraordi- nary account of her parents’ Shalom Assurance Plan ordeals, both in one of the darkest times in world history • Headstones, Grave Markers and their present-day lives. The multi award-winning book “THE CRATE: A Story of War, a Murder, and Justice,” 407-599-1180 which launched last sum- mer, is the true story about Levison’s parents, who in 640 Lee Road • Orlando, Florida 2010 discovered a wooden crate nailed shut under their lakeside cottage. Inside the W.E. “Manny” Adams, LFD crate were the remains of a young mother, brutally Samuel P. (Sammy) Goldstein, Exec. Director murdered. “The discovery traumatized Author Deborah Vadas my family, especially my frag- wrenching,” and “a necessary Levison. ile parents,” said Levison in read.” The themes are relevant www.bethshalommemorialchapel.com an email to the Heritage. “It and timely: of refugees and the What if a dismembered dredged up their memories of need for sanctuary; domestic corpse was discovered un- the Holocaust—of surviving violence and racial intoler- derneath your treasured concentration camps, cattle ance; and the seemingly limit- family vacation home? How cars, death marches—and less human capacity for evil. would you react? For one forced them to confront vio- It is a speculation on violence woman, this really happened lence yet again. and hate in our society. to her family. Deborah Vadas THE CRATE has been called “The Crate” is available on Levison, an award-winning “a brilliant story,” “heart amazon.com. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 25, 2019 PAGE 9A Scene AroundAround By Gloria Yousha—Call 407-657-9405 or [email protected] can be purchased at the following locations: ORANGE COUNTY JCC, 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland • JCC South, 11184 South Apopka-Vineland Rd., Orlando • Kinneret, 515 South Delaney Lifetime Achievement Award (1st ever for TV shows) was given Ave., Orlando • SOJC, 11200 S. Apopka Vineland Rd., Orlando to CAROL BURNETT. The audience stood and applauded. I was • Brown’s New York Deli, 156 Lake Ave., Maitland • Most Publix already in bed but I felt compelled to also stand up and applaud. 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Louis Farrakhan VOLUSIA COUNTY Everyone is welcome. Federation of Volusia/Flagler, 470 Andalusia Ave., Ormond Bigotry at its worst... Admission is $5 for members, $8 for nonmembers. Beach • Most Publix Supermarkets • All Winn Dixie Supermar- I read this recently and pass it along: Lots of noshes are included! (No calories!) kets • Barnes & Noble, 1900 W. International Speedway Blvd., “Following outrage from the World Jewish Congress and For further information, Daytona Beach • Perrys Ocean Edge Resort, 2209 South Atlantic other leading Jewish groups, the online streaming giant contact COS Seniors Presi- Ave. Daytona Beach • Debary City Hall • Debary Library • Vienna Netflix cancelled the release of a documentary that celebrates dent JERRY LEIBMAN at Coffee House, 275 Charles Richard Beall Bl • Starbucks, 2575 the life of Nation of Islam leader and prominent anti-Semite 407-694-0546. Enterprise Rd • Orange City City Hall • Orange City Library • Louis Farrakhan. Jewish Pavilion Dunkin Donuts, 1296 S Woodland • Stetson University Carlton Farrakhan, who has had a long history of bigotry and anti- Mensch... Union • Deland Chamber of Commerce • Sterling House, 1210 Semitism, recently delivered vile remarks referring to the Three Cheers for BEN Stone St • Temple Israel, 1001 E New York Ave • Beth Shalom, ‘Satanic Jew and the Synagogue of Satan.’ BRESLAUR of Ben’s Bakery. 1310 Maximillan St • Deltona City Hall • Deltona Library • He continues... ‘Whenever you read that God has told the During the years he was in Temple Shalom, 1785 Elkam Dr. • Temple Israel, 1001 E Jews to hear and obey, and they say, “I hear and I disobey,” business, Ben donated to the New York Ave, Deland • College Arms Apt, 101 Amelia Ave, that’s Satan. (The Jews are openly disobeying God, Farrakhan Jewish Pavilion thousands of Deland • Boston Gourmet Coffee House, 109 E. New York Ave, said. He continued... ‘He (a Jew) will take down the whole loaves of challah for its elders. 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Be- visit: jewishacademyorlando. school’s classrooms, along ing academic excellence and ginning in fall of 2019, the org or follow the school on with the clinic, library, public character education rooted in school will offer a transitional Facebook facebook.com/ restrooms, and lunchroom, Jewish values. Jewish Acad- kindergarten. JewishAcademyOrlando. PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 25, 2019 Activist who said Israel is a ‘terrorist entity’ attends Tlaib swearing-in, private dinner By Jackson Richman it, nor will Democratic Jewish with racists or supporters of groups,” Republican Jewish terrorism.” (JNS)—Congresswoman Coalition spokesperson Neil Christians United for Israel Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) met Strauss told JNS. “And it’s all “has decided that we are not with Abbas Hamideh, a Pal- because they’re afraid to stand going to dignify Rep. Tlaib’s estinian activist who has up to their rabidly anti-Israel, steady drumbeat of appalling said that Israel is a “terrorist far-left base.” statements and actions with entity,” over the weekend. However, the Jewish Demo- a response,” spokesperson Ari “I was honored to be at cratic Council of America Morgenstern told JNS. Congresswoman @RashidaT- slammed Tlaib and Hamideh. Zionist Organization of laib swearing in ceremony in “JDCA stands unequivo- America president Mort Klein #Detroit and private dinner cally against Abbas Hami- told JNS that his organization afterward with the entire deh’s radical record and his “condemns Rashida Tlaib family, friends and activists extremist anti-Israel views for meeting with a fellow anti- across the country. #Palestine which should be condemned Semite seeking Israel’s de- #TweetYourThobe #RashidaT- by all,” the organization struction, Abbas Hamideh, laib,” Hamideh tweeted. told JNS. “Since August of founder of Al-Awda—The Hamideh, executive direc- last year, JDCA has repeat- Palestine Right of Return tor of the U.S.-based Palestine edly stated our strong policy Coalition. This [is] further Right to Return Coalition, has disagreements with Rep. evidence of her hatred of Jews equated Zionists to Nazis, said Rashida Tlaib and we urge and the Jewish state of Israel.” Israel has a “delusional ISIS- her to make clear where she “Tlaib supports BDS and Abbas Hamideh/Twitter like ideology” and labeled the stands with regard to Abbas openly calls for the replace- Executive director of the Palestine Right to Return Coalition Abbas Hamideh poses with nation’s founding a “crime.” Hamideh.” ment of Israel by an Arab- Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) at a swearing-in ceremony and private dinner in Detroit on The meeting on Saturday Max Samarov, StandWi- dominated state, thus seeking Jan. 12, 2019. sparked condemnation from thUs executive director of to deny Jews the sovereign the pro-Israel community. Research and Campus Strat- independence she demands tor Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.), to a bill in the Senate that U.S. where boycotting is a “Unfortunately, we re- egy, told JNS: “It is disturbing for Palestinian Arabs,” he Speaker of the House Rep. includes combating the anti- right & part of our historical ally aren’t surprised. Tlaib is that a member of Congress continued. “She lies about Nancy Pelosi (D–Calif.) and Israel BDS movement, Tlaib fight for freedom & equality. turning out to be the exact would pose with an extremist Israel, claiming it discrimi- other Democrats to condemn attacked Republican lawmak- Maybe a refresher on our U.S. person we were warning she who glorified child murderer nates against those ‘darker Tlaib for her vicious anti- ers and opponents of BDS by Constitution is in order, then is. What is perhaps the worst Samir Kuntar as a ‘legendary skinned.’” Israel words and deeds,” he tweeting: “They forgot what get back to opening up our part about this is, Democrats Hezbollah martyr.’ Political “The ZOA urges Democratic added. country they represent.” government instead of taking won’t do a single thing about leaders should not associate Congressional leaders Sena- Last week, in response She continued, “This is the our rights away.” New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft wins $1 million ‘Jewish Nobel’ prize

By Josefin Dolsten Wednesday called the Jewish- family has given more than “This award amplifies my American NFL owner and half a billion dollars to causes ability to raise both awareness (JTA)—New England Pa- businessman “one of the including health care, educa- and additional funds to fight triots owner Robert Kraft is world’s most generous phi- tion, the Jewish community, anti-Semitism, attempts to the winner of the $1 million lanthropists whose charitable Christian organizations and de-legitimize Israel and other Genesis Prize, the so-called giving reflects the Jewish local needs. forms of prejudices,” he said Jewish Nobel. value of tikkun olam – repair- With a net worth of $6.6 in the statement. Kraft, 77, will be giving the ing the world.” billion, Kraft is the 79th rich- Kraft will receive the award money “to initiatives combat- The award honors individu- est American, according to at a gala in June in Jerusalem. ing anti-Semitism and other als who serve “as an inspira- Forbes. Kraft, who grew up He joins artist Anish Ka- forms of prejudice as well as tion to the next generation of in an Orthodox Jewish family poor, violinist Itzhak Perl- attempts to de-legitimize the Jews through their outstand- in Brookline, Massachusetts, man, former New York City State of Israel,” according to ing professional achievement is the chairman and CEO of Mayor Michael Bloomberg a statement. along with their commitment Kraft Group, a holding com- and actor-director Michael Genesis Prize chairman to Jewish values and the Jew- pany with assets in sports, Douglas as previous win- and co-founder Stan Po- ish people.” manufacturing and real estate ners. The foundation has lovets in the announcement Over decades, the Kraft development. sometimes been criticized for giving the prize to mil- lionaires, but says the goal is to leverage the recipients’ Discover the world’s influence and example to improve the world. Robert Kraft $1,500 Last year, the foundation best walk-in bathtub from recognized Natalie Portman receive the award in protest is financed through a per- SAVINGS but canceled the ceremony of Prime Minister Benjamin manent endowment of $100 after the actress said she Netanyahu’s policies. million established by The would not travel to Israel to The prize, started in 2013, Genesis Prize Foundation.

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If you really want to learn 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; By Moshe Phillips For more on Acre Prison go For more about the cen- to http://www.akko.orgil/en/ ter go to the center’s web- 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. For information call 407-298-4650. Are you or a family member Old-Acre-The-Underground- site: https://www.begincenter. Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. planning to go on Birth- Prisoners-Museum. org.il/?lang=en. JewishCelebration.org; 407-479-8377. Museum of the Under- Jabotinsky Institute right in 2019? Are you looking Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, for something more than the ground Prisoners Ze’ev Jabotinsky was the average “Israel Experience?” Another prison where the Zionist leader that created a 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Here are some ideas on what British held Irgun and LEHI bold, new vision for Zionism Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- to see if you chose to extend soldiers was Jerusalem’s after the death of Herzl The 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. your trip and your mind. Don’t Central Prison in the Russian Jabotinsky Institute in Tel Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. give in to the critics of Israel Compound. The museum Aviv houses a museum dedi- who want you to leave Birth- there has significant exhibits cated to teaching about him jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; right and see the Palestinian that relate the stories of the (see http://en.jabotinsky.org/ Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. point of view when you know heroes of the undergrounds. museum/about-the-muse- Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, almost nothing about the For more information go um/) and a intriguing special 321-777-2770. Jewish struggle to free Israel to http://allaboutjerusalem. exhibit that spotlights the Af from British control in the com/museum/museum-un- Al Pi illegal effort that rescued Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- first place. derground-prisoner. Jews from Nazi Europe and 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat Birthright may take you Etzel Museum brought them Eretz Israel. services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. to the Kotel (Western Wall), The Irgun was also known Tel Chai Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. the Sea of Galilee, the Yad as the Etzel. This museum Tel Chai was a settlement betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. Vashem Holocaust Memorial, in Tel Aviv details the history in the Galilee that was the and/or Masada and those are the Irgun and the movement’s site of a battle against Arab Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. all worthwhile but there are impact on the British decision raiders in 1920. The Zionist congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. other places to visit that will to leave Eretz Israel as well as hero Joseph Trumpeldor and Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; help you to understand the the group’s combat role in the seven other valiant defenders Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. amazing history of the pio- War of Independence. died in the defense of Tel Chai neers who fought the battles For more information go against a much larger force. Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; that allowed the modern State to https://www.jewishvirtu- Trumpeldor had been instru- Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. of Israel to be declared. allibrary.org/etzel-museum. mental in forming the Jewish Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, Below is a list of eight places LEHI Museum Legion during World War One. Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. to visit in Israel that will help The LEHI underground Jabotinsky named his Betar you to develop a more accurate launched a campaign to movement after Trumpledor. Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. picture of the struggle to build force the British to leave A large statue of a lion sits at bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. the Jewish State. Eretz Israel. Its founder Yair the sight as does a museum Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation Acre Prison (Avraham) Stern had been at kibbutz Kfar Giladi. holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. Acre Prison is where Zion- a leader in the Irgun and Rosh Pina ist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky formed the LEHI in order to Shlomo Ben Yosef is buried com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. and his comrades were im- fight the British at all costs. in Rosh Pina. Rosh Pina was Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; prisoned by the British in The LEHI museum is housed an early Zionist settlement. www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. in the building where Stern In 1938 in response to attacks 1920 for defending Jewish Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., neighborhoods in Jerusalem was assassinated by the Brit- on Jews by Arab terrorists, from Arab rioters. Later the ish in 1942. For more about Ben Yosef, a member of Betar Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. British imprisoned Irgun and the museum go to https:// and the Irgun, along with Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; Stern Group underground info.goisrael.com/en/lehi- two companions organized www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th fighters there. Several Zionist museum-beit-yair-56971. a reprisal attack. They were Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. fighters were executed there Menachem Begin Heri- subsequently arrested by by the British. The prison tage Center the British. Ben Yosef was Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. is perhaps best known for To better understand this executed by the British at Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- the 1947 escape of dozens founding father of Israel and Acre prison. 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. leader of the Irgun there is A perfect book to bring of fighters during an under- Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- ground raid that was depicted simply no better place to visit along on your Birthright trip in Leon Uris’s novel “Exo- than the Menachem Begin 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. dus” and the 1960 movie. Heritage Center in Jerusalem. 2019 on page 15A Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for services and holiday schedules. Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303A N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation- sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. OBITUARIES Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv NICHOLAS ROBERT JUDY GERSON Please call for times. PINANSKY SCHREIBER Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- Nicholas Robert Pinansky Judy Gerson Schreiber of Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. passed away on Jan. 8, 2019 at Canton, Ga., formerly of Mait- the age of 35. He was born in land, Fla., passed away on Jan. Temple Beth El (R), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-677-2484. San Diego, California, to his 12, 2019. She was 71. Judy was Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. mother, Lisa Turano Wojcik, born to the late Robert Gerson Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat and father, Don Pinansky. and Sadie Schwartz Gerson on service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. Nicholas was a senior web Aug. 17, 1947, in Macon, Ga. designer for uBreakiFix in Or- Judy married the love of her Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. lando, Fla. He was a member of life, Dr. Stephen Schreiber, mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; the Brotherhood and former who survives her, on July 17, Thursday, 10:00 a.m. vice president of Temple Israel 1970, and enjoyed nearly 49 , 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: of DeLand. wonderful years together. Temple Beth Shalom (R) Nicholas is survived by his They raised three beautiful Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. devoted wife of five years, children, whom Judy com- Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. Itana Adar Pinansky; daugh- mitted her life to, along with Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; ters, Samara Natalie, age their families. Judy’s family Judy Gerson Schreiber three, and Rosalie Sybyl, age was everything to her, and Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. two; his loving parents, fa- the true joy of her life. per, Ga.; the delight of her Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. ther, Don Pinansky, mother, Judy enjoyed Mahjong life, her seven grandchildren: Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach, 386-252-3097; Shabbat service, Lisa Turano Wojcik, step- with her friends, knitting, Jared and Andrew Rosen- Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 10:30 a.m. father, Robert Cass Wojcik; and most of all, her family berg, Hayden and Rowan and siblings, Dominic Cass and her seven grandchildren. Schreiber, and Sadi, Sam, Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. Wojcik and Devon Gabriel In her early days she was an and Abe Schreiber. She was templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by Wojcik of Fort Lauderdale, elementary teacher for close predeceased by her brother, Torah study. Florida. to 15 years, and later she was Stanley Gerson. She is also Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road Nicholas will be missed the Adult Service coordinator survived by numerous nieces, 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 by many friends, relatives, at the Roth Family JCC. She nephews and cousins. In lieu and coworkers. A graveside and Steve were members of of flowers, memorial dona- p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. service was held on Friday, Congregation Ohev Shalom tions may be made to the Roth Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. Jan. 11, 2019, at DeLand for close to 40 years. Family Jewish Community shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. Memorial Gardens, 600 E. Besides her husband Ste- Center of Greater Orlando, Beresford Avenue in DeLand phen, Judy is survived by Congregation Ohev Shalom in Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, followed by a Meal of Con- her daughter and son-in-law, Maitland, FL or Congregation 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, dolence at Temple Israel of Jodi and Michael Rosen- Kahol Kadosh Beth Elohim in 7:30 p.m. DeLand. berg of Charleston, S.C.; son Charleston, S.C. Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. Funeral arrangements and daughter-in-law, Seth A graveside service was tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. under the careful direction of and Shannon Schreiber of held Jan. 15, 2019, at Arling- the Deltona Memorial Funeral Brookhaven, Ga., and Tadd ton Memorial Park in Sandy (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa Home in Orange City, Florida. and Jenna Schreiber, of Jas- Springs, Ga. PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 25, 2019 This Greek school has a novel solution to problem faced by many small Jewish communities Europe, according to the Anti- Defamation League. The Jewish track at Pierce both shields the students from this challenge and offers Jew- ish education beyond primary school. The program, nicknamed the Athens Project, has 32 students enrolled. “The Athens Jewish com- munity only has a primary school. After that, kids lose their connections, so we’re trying to find ways to keep them together until they’re at Larry Luxner least 18,” said Iakovos Atoun, Rivkah Carl, a native of Teaneck, N.J., is one of the Jew- the community’s director of ish teachers at Pierce’s unique Jewish high school program. Jewish studies. The Jewish program would By Larry Luxner also as members of the Jewish not have been possible without community.” the impetus of businessman ATHENS—In a small, non- The project, known as and philanthropist Ronald descript classroom in Greece’s the Pierce Jewish Studies Lauder, the World Jewish capital city, 10 Jewish eighth- Program, combines Jewish Congress president who in Larry Luxner graders study a biblical text studies with informal educa- 2017 challenged the Athens Jewish middle and high school students in the Pierce Jewish Studies Program at the about Jacob and Esau under tional activities like field trips community to develop the American College of Greece in Athens study Hebrew using online software. the guidance of Rivkah Carl, a to nearby synagogues. Melina program and then put up the Jewish teacher from Teaneck, and her class took a day trip money to support it. history and Jewish traditions. She recalled how widows “Before this program start- New Jersey. recently to the synagogue in The Ronald S. Lauder Foun- The Jewish subjects come in would sell their late hus- ed, the Lauder Foundation The students chatter Chalkida, a charming town dation, which subsidizes tuition two hours of instruction twice bands’ gold rings to raise told us, ‘If you have a good loudly in Greek among north of Athens on the island for the Jewish students at a week at the end of the regular money for the Jewish primary idea about how to keep your themselves, though the of Evia. Next up was a visit Pierce, also supports the Lauder school day. school. youth connected, we’re will- language of instruction to Rhodes to learn about the Jewish Community School The program includes two The financial crisis coin- ing to invest money in that,’” is English. In an adjacent island’s rich Jewish history. of Athens, a primary school subsidized Israel trips: an cided with a surge in nativist recalled Atoun, the director classroom, nine kids—each Now in its second year, the located in the upscale suburb 11-day tour of the country sentiment and anti-Semitism. of Jewish studies. “But it was wearing headphones and program represents an inno- of Paleo Psichiko, and an online the summer after sixth grade, The neo-Nazi Golden Dawn very difficult to build a new sitting in front of computer vative approach to a problem Jewish learning program with and another one during high party captured 7 percent of the high school only for Jewish monitors—listen as their faced by many small Jewish some 150 students of all ages. school to give Greek kids vote in the September 2015 children. The only other Israeli instructor teaches communities in Europe: how “If this gift hadn’t come shopping for universities an parliamentary elections, and option was to incorporate them Hebrew. to keep Jewish education alive through, the majority of our opportunity to explore schools a 2014 ADL survey found that the students into an exist- But this is no Jewish school. in cities where stand-alone kids would have ended up in Israel. 68 percent of Greeks harbor ing, reputable school, but In Athens’ dwindling Jewish Jewish high schools aren’t going to public school,” said But emigration to Israel is anti-Semitic attitudes—the also give them some Jewish community, now at about practical or possible due to Joanna Nahmias, a member of not the ultimate goal, Nah- highest levels of any country education.” 3,000 members, there simply the small size or relative the Lauder School’s board of mias says. in Europe. Ultimately, Atoun said, the aren’t enough children to secularity of the local Jewish directors. “There they would ­“Israel and Greece are be- Due to emigration, the project is about ensuring a support a Jewish middle or community. have to stand up in a class of coming very strong business Jewish primary school is now Jewish future in Greece. high school. “As Jewish communities 30 children, completely un- partners—in energy, defense down to 98 students, from 141 “If we don’t help our chil- So community leaders like ours get smaller, there protected, say ‘I’m Jewish’ and and agriculture,” she said. “If in 2013. dren to develop a strong, came up with a unique solu- needs to be some way to explain why they’re not going these children know how to To keep the school viable, proud Jewish identity we will tion: a special Jewish track continue Jewish education to say the morning prayers.” speak Hebrew, they’ll have an the community voted 10 years lose them, and that will be at the prestigious American without necessarily having At Pierce, instead of Jesus advantage over everyone else.” ago to open enrollment to any the end of our community,” College of Greece, a private your own Jewish school,” said or Virgin Mary portraits— Greek Jews are going child with at least one Jewish Atoun said. school founded by Christian Minos Moissis, president of the common in Greek class- through a challenging period. parent. Over half the school’s “We didn’t survive here missionaries in 1875 with a Jewish Community of Athens. rooms—there are portraits The country is still reeling students come from interfaith in Greece for 2,000 years middle school and high school The need for the program of famous American novel- from the 2009 financial crisis, marriages. through challenges and trag- division called the Pierce in Athens was particularly ists like John Steinbeck and which pushed unemployment Nevertheless, more than edies only to have our Jewish School. acute. Economic hardship and Ernest Hemingway. rates above 25 percent, nearly 90 percent of graduates from future slip from our hands. “We are very happy to violence—from the far left The American College of forced Greece out of the Eu- the Jewish primary school We’re working hard to make have this program here in and the extreme right—have Greece is the oldest and larg- rozone and ravaged the life enroll in the Jewish track at sure that Jews in Greece have Greece,” said Nina Negrin, led growing numbers of Greek est U.S.-accredited college savings of millions of Greeks Pierce—an astonishing rate not just a great past, but a whose 12-year-old daughter, Jews to emigrate over the past or university in Europe. Its — including many previously given the highly assimilated great future.” Melina, attends the school. decade. Moreover, Greek pub- Pierce division, which starts wealthy Jews. nature of Greece’s Jewish This article was spon- “For many years there was no lic schools require the study in the seventh grade, is con- “Our community had al- community. The special sored by and produced in continuation of Jewish educa- of Greek Orthodox Christian sidered one of the country’s ways been self-sustaining,” partnership between Pierce partnership with the Ronald tion after age 12. Anything to texts and prayers; Jews are best private high schools. It’s Nahmias said. “Over the years and the Jewish community S. Lauder Foundation, which do with Judaism just stopped excused only if they publicly also one of the few that does we’ve donated more than $40 ensures that the Jewish kids works to strengthen the fu- suddenly. Now they continue declare their Jewish identity not hold classes on Saturdays. million to Israel. But then get spots at the competitive ture of Jewish life in Europe their Jewish education and in the classroom. That’s a Besides math, physics, suddenly wealthy, prominent school, and tuition subsidies through supporting excellent they stay together. These tall order for 12-year-olds in chemistry, literature, Greek Jews started needing aid be- from the Lauder Foundation Jewish schools. This article things are very important to a country with the highest and English, the Jewish kids cause their businesses went of 25 to 100 percent ensure was produced by JTA’s native us, not only as parents but levels of anti-Semitism in at Pierce study Hebrew, Jewish bankrupt.” they can afford it. content team. A Jewish cafe owner in San Francisco deals with weekly protests over his ‘Zionist ideals’ By Marcy Oster restaurant in downtown San become a better informed Bay Area,” in December called Yekutiel reportedly has met “Yekutiel’s belief in the Francisco a “civic social gath- and more involved citizen,” on the public to “boycott Man- nearly all the requirements of Jewish State’s right to exist (JTA)—Manny Yekutiel ering space.” His goal for the he told the San Francisco ny’s and its ‘woke-washing’ of United to Save the Mission, a is, it seems, the only accu- opened his eponymous Man- Mission District eatery was Examiner. the Mission.” coalition of more than a dozen rate allegation made against ny’s in November, calling “to create a central, accessible Manny’s has earned praise In a letter to the media, the neighborhood nonprofits him,” columnist Joe Eskenazi the Middle Eastern cafe and and affordable place to go to for hosting talks with speak- project said “the proprietor of and activist groups. They wrote Monday in the Mission ers on issues ranging from Manny’s, Emmanuel Yekutiel, include bilingual signage Local. Black Lives Matter to urban has unequivocally espoused and staff, moderate prices While he supports Israel’s sustainability. racist, Zionist, pro-Israel ide- (a cup of coffee is $1.75) and right to exist and celebrates But Yekutiel, who is Jewish, als that we will not tolerate or food prepared by a nonprofit the Jewish state, Yekutiel is being protested weekly, accept in our community. … employing homeless, formerly has said he does not support accused of espousing “racist, We will not tolerate gentri- incarcerated and low-income everything the Israeli gov- Zionist, pro-Israel ideals.” fiers and Zionists attempts at community members, who ernment does and disagrees Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman His café has been vandalized invading and destroying our earn all the food revenue. with its treatment of the does most anything and painted with anti-Semitic community through ‘woke- Community groups can use Palestinians. and anti-Israel slogans, ac- washing’!!” the space for free. He was His father fled Afghanistan cording to reports. Other groups that have par- asked to have awnings to for Israel, according to the San Ricardo Torres — Handyman The Lucy Parsons Project, ticipated in the anti-Manny’s make it more welcoming for Francisco Examiner. 407-221-5482 a self-described “radical black protests include the Black Latino families, but has not The cafe has a mezuzah queer direct action group and Brown Social Club, Gay installed them, according to on the door, the Forward Available in Central Florida Area • References Available fighting anti-blackness in the Shame and the Brown Berets. The Mission Local. reported. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 25, 2019 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs

IKEA Israel to open The brewery obtained its Group of 77. He is scheduled en’s March sponsorship ish over many centuries.” and other commemoration fifth store in Tel Aviv kosher certification from to address the General As- By Ron Kampeas Presidential spokesman Nabil efforts should address the (JNS)—The Swedish fur- Oregon Kosher, which is a sembly, which elected the WASHINGTON (JTA)— Abu Rudeineh told Palestin- issue of complicity. The niture and home accessories member of the Association of “State of Palestine” in July The Jewish Democratic ian Wafa news agency on Mazsihisz Jewish federation chain IKEA will open its fifth Kashrut Organizations un- to head the bloc. Council of America said the Monday. has accused the government store in Israel later this year der the auspices of Rabbi The Palestinians’ presi- party will not sponsor the na- Jewish-American of whitewashing this com- in Tel Aviv. Sholem Fishbane, kashrut dential spokesman, Nabil tional Women’s March in the businessman among 21 plicity, though EMIH has The store will have just administrator of the Chicago Abu Rudeineh, called it “an wake of accusations of anti- killed in Nairobi terror- disputed this. 21,500 square feet of floor Rabbinical Council. important historical event.” Semitic associations against ist attack A memorial to those mur- space. It will focus on kitch- House GOP leader says “It is also an important the movement’s leadership. By Ron Kampeas dered on the banks of the ens, reported Globes on Steve King will face achievement to assert the In a statement Tuesday, (JTA)—Jason Spindler, a Danube was erected in 2005. Thursday. consequences Palestinian identity in the the JDCA said the Demo- Jewish American whose life “Shoes on the Danube” fea- IKEA’s largest Israeli By Ron Kampeas international community, cratic National Committee was changed when he sur- tures dozens of pairs of empty store, in Rishon Lezion, WASHINGTON (JTA)— which colonial powers have was joining the increasingly vived the 9/11 attack in New shoes lined up at the edge of is 366,000 square feet and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the tried to abolish over many popular strategy of joining lo- York, was killed in a terrorist the river, where the Jews were was opened in 2010, but not Republican minority leader centuries,” he told the Pal- cal women’s march organiz- attack in Nairobi, Kenya. told to step out of the footwear before the first one in the in the U.S. House of Repre- estinian Maan news agency. ers while avoiding affiliation The shooting attack Tues- before being shot so the shoes country opened in 2001 near sentatives, said Iowa Republi- The G-77 has recognized with the national group. day on a business complex, would not fall in the water. Netanya. can Steve King will face con- Palestine as a member since “JDCA supports the ob- claimed by the Somali Is- “Whether this is contro- The other megastores are sequences for wondering why 1976. The bloc is made up of jectives of the Women’s lamist terrorist group Sha- versial or not is really not in Kiryat Arba, opened in the term “white supremacist” 134 member states, repre- March and stands with sister bab, claimed at least 21 lives. an issue,” Koves said of his 2014, and Beersheva, opened was offensive. senting at least 80 percent marches across the country Shabab said it was motivated group’s efforts to find the re- in 2018. “That language has no of the world’s population, this weekend,” its executive in part to commit the attack mains of Arrow Cross victims. IKEA is also planning to place in America,” McCar- though it originally started director, Halie Soifer, said by President Donald Trump’s “The only thing that matters open a location that is a little thy, R-Calif., said Sunday on with 77. It was designed in a statement. “At the same recognition in 2017 of Jerusa- is the major mitzvah of bring- more than 269,000 square CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “I to promote its members’ time, we welcome the DNC, lem as Israel’s capital. ing the victims to burial.” feet in Eshtaol, near Bet have a scheduled meeting economic advancement and SPLC, Emily’s List, and other Spindler, a young invest- The rabbi said the govern- Shemesh, in 2020. with him on Monday. I am uses its size to leverage its organizations’ decision to not ment banker in 2001, helped ment was helpful in obtaining The chain currently has having a serious conversa- negotiating capacity. sponsor and participate in save lives in New York on 9/11, permits for the searches. more than 420 stores in 52 tion with Congressman Steve Palestine was elevated to the Women’s March and take friends told The Washington Stolen stumbling stone countries. King on his future and role in nonmember observer state a principled stand against Post. Holocaust memorials US military purchases this Republican Party.” in the General Assembly, anti-Semitism.” The experience led Spin- replaced Israeli missile-defense CBS said that McCarthy the same status given to the JTA has asked the DNC to dler to leave investment ROME (JTA)—A group of systems said off camera that con- Vatican, in 2012. confirm its nonparticipation banking, earn a law degree 20 Holocaust memorials in (JNS)—The U.S. military sequences might include Last week, Abbas began in the national Women’s from New York University downtown Rome that were has completed a nearly removing King from commit- serving the 15th year of the March. and join the Peace Corps. stolen in December have been $80 million purchase of tee assignments, depriving four-year presidential term Emily’s List is a group He was in Kenya as a social replaced. the Israeli-developed mis- the congressman of the key to which he was elected in that encourages women to entrepreneur, helping others The Stolpersteine, or sile-defense system Tro- outlet for influence in the 2005 to replace the late Yas- run for office. The Southern start small businesses as a stumbling stone, memo- phy to protect tanks and body. Republicans also could ser Arafat. Poverty Law Center tracks means of alleviating poverty. rial project was begun in armored-personnel carri- join in a motion of censure, Israeli pop star turns hate groups. An avid climber, he main- the 1990s by the German ers, announced the Rafael which the Democratic leader- down Eurovision perfor- Top leaders of the national tained a goofy sense of artist Gunter Demnig. Brass Advanced Defense Systems ship has indicated it might mance Women’s March organization humor: In November, on plates, like cobblestones, are contractor Leonardo, which initiate. (JNS)—One of Israel’s have been accused of engag- Facebook, he posted a picture placed in front of the homes is American. “White nationalist, white most popular singers, Omer ing in or condoning anti- of the Finger Board Room of people deported during the This development comes supremacist, Western civi- Adam, has rejected an offer to Semitism, of not cutting ties in his Houston hometown Holocaust, with the name, after the United States lization—how did that lan- perform at the international with Nation of Islam leader synagogue, Beth Israel, and year of birth and fate of the reached a similar $200 mil- guage become offensive?” singing competition Eurovi- Louis Farrakhan and of fail- captioned it “Synagogue or person memorialized. lion agreement last summer. King said in a New York Times sion because rehearsals for ing to heed the concerns of its climbing gym #badclimb- Demnig personally installs As part of the agreement, profile last week. “Why did the finale will be held on thousands of Jewish backers. ingjokes.” the stones, and he replaced the United States is expected I sit in classes teaching me Shabbat. Palestinians to lead Spindler’s Houston-based the stolen ones in Rome to pay an additional $120 mil- about the merits of our his- According to a statement, UN’s largest bloc of na- family was flying to Kenya to ahead of Tuesday’s ceremony lion for more defense systems, tory and our civilization?” he declined “despite the great tions retrieve his body and would attended by the city’s mayor, contingent on final approv- King later said he rejects honor,” and “thanks them (JNS)—The Palestinians hold a funeral service for him Jewish leaders and other als, bringing the sum of the “those labels and the evil from his heart for approach- are set to lead the largest on Monday on what would dignitaries. two contracts to around $400 ideology they define,” but ing him.” bloc of members in the United have been his 41st birthday. In addition, on Tuesday million, according to a Rafael the damage was done. The Adam, while not Ortho- Nations, known as the Group Sweep of the Danube and Wednesday he installed spokesperson, as reported by entirety of the GOP House dox, has made it a matter of of 77 (G77) and China, on riverbed finds no bones 26 other stumbling stones in The Times of Israel. leadership condemned the principle not to perform on Tuesday. of Holocaust victims various parts of Rome. He will The Trophy consists of remarks, as did the Republi- Shabbat. Palestinian leader Mah- By Cnaan Liphshiz install others this month in a radar-detection system can Jewish Coalition. The finale of Eurovision moud Abbas is expected to be (JTA)—A sonar scan of the more than 30 towns and cities that recognizes incoming Jewish man assaulted is scheduled to take place in in New York for the ceremony, bottom of the Danube River in around Italy. missiles and projects their in Brooklyn’s Crown Tel Aviv on Saturday, May 18, followed by a meeting with Budapest revealed no human Yad Vashem designer trajectories, with launchers Heights with rehearsals taking place U.N. Secretary General An- remains. Moshe Safdie among that shoot metal pellets, By Marcy Oster throughout the day. tónio Guterres, U.N. Security Volunteers for Zaka, an winners of Israel’s Wolf causing the incoming mis- (JTA)—A 19-year-old Jew- Adam was born in the Council president Francisco Israel-based Orthodox Jewish Prize sile or rocket to explode away ish man was attacked by a United States, grew up in Antonio Cortorreal of the group, conducted the search By Marcy Oster from the tank. group of black teenagers in Israel, and has risen to the Dominican Republic, in ad- Tuesday for the bodies of JERUSALEM (JTA)—The It was created by Rafael the Crown Heights section top of the charts. His most dition to other world leaders. some of the thousands of Jews architect who designed the and the Israel Aircraft In- of Brooklyn. popular song of 2018, “Sheni Because the Palestinians shot dead on the banks of the Yad Vashem Holocaust me- dustries’ Elta Group, and There have been several Meshugaim” (“Two Crazy have the status of a non- river in 1944-45 by Hungar- morial and museum in Jeru- became operational in 2009. assaults by blacks on identifi- People”) garnered more than member state at the United ian Nazi collaborators. salem was among the winners First kosher brewery in ably Jewish victims in Crown 48 million hits last year on Nations that would have Slomo Koves, the head of of the 2019 Wolf Prize. Portland opens tap- Heights, a neighborhood YouTube. made them ineligible for the the Chabad-affiliated EMIH Moshe Safdie, 80, chosen room with large Hasidic Jewish Gal Gadot to voice Won- chairmanship of the bloc Jewish federation of Hungary, for architecture, was one (JNS)—Portland’s first and black populations, over der Woman in ‘The Lego without a special vote, the told JTA that the team operat- of five recipients honored kosher brewery announced the last year. Movie 2’ U.N. General Assembly held ing the sonar will be back next Wednesday at the president’s this week that it will expand The victim was “violent- By Marcy Oster one last October to temporar- month for another scan. Zaka residence in Jerusalem. The and open a taproom. ly assaulted,” Collive re- (JTA)—Gal Gadot will be ily elevate the Palestinians’ provides emergency services Wolf Prize is given by the Leikam Brewing co- ported, and was taken to heard as Wonder Woman status at the world body to and collects human remains president of Israel on behalf founder Sonia-Marie Leikam Maimonides Hospital to be long before the sequel to her resolve the issue. for burial after natural and of the Wolf Foundation. told Willamette Week that treated for light injuries. megahit film is screened in The G77 was established in manmade disasters. Each year the Wolf Founda- she and her husband, head A nearby security camera 2020. 1964 and seeks “to articulate In October 1944, tens of tion awards $100,000 prizes brewer Theo Leikam, have captured the teens on video, Gadot will voice the char- and promote their collec- thousands of Hungarian Jews in five fields. acquired a building that used though not the actual assault, acter in “The Lego Movie tive economic interests and were shot on the banks of the This year’s other winners to house a Thai restaurant according to the report. The 2: The Second Part,” which enhance their joint negoti- river and their bodies dumped are: Jeffrey Friedman, Rock- in the Mount Tabor neigh- alleged assailants fled. will open next month in U.S. ating capacity on all major in the water as part of mass efeller University; Mathemat- borhood. The New York Police De- theaters, according to movie international economic is- executions by members of the ics: Gregory Lawler, Univer- “We have plans for com- partment is investigating the blogs and fan sites, including sues within the United Na- Arrow Cross party. sity of Chicago and Prof. Jean- munity-focused activities attack in conjunction with Flickering Myth. tions system, and promote In 2011, human remains Francois Le Galle, University like trivia nights, jewelry- the Hate Crimes Task Force. The Israeli actress will be South-South cooperation were discovered during con- Paris-Sud Orsay; Agriculture: making classes and gather- Mahmoud Abbas set to joined by several others who for development,” according struction work on a bridge David Zilberman, University ings,” Sonia-Marie Leikam assume chairmanship of portray DC characters on the to its website. overlooking the Danube. of California; Chemistry: Ste- told the outlet. “And we will major UN bloc big screen, with Jason Momoa “This is an important DNA tests run on the bones phen L Buchwald, MIT, and continue to give back to local By Marcy Oster voicing Aquaman and Margot historical event added to in August 2015 found that at John F Hartwig, University of nonprofits with designated (JTA)—Palestinian Au- Robbie as Harley Quinn from the political achievements least nine of the 15 samples California, Berkeley. sales from beers going back thority President Mahmoud “Suicide Squad.” of the State of Palestine were Ashkenazi Jews from Rivlin noted that no wom- to the community.” Abbas arrived in New York “The Lego Movie” was since it joined the UN as an Europe and that six others en were named this year. The timeline has yet to City to assume the chair- released before Gadot first observer state in 2012. It is could also be. “The Foundation would do be determined, though the manship of a major bloc of performed as Wonder Woman also an important achieve- The murders by the pro- well to make sure that each couple aims to open it in the developing countries at the in “Batman v Superman: ment to assert the Palestinian Nazi Arrow Cross are at the year they find a groundbreak- summer. In addition to beer, United Nations. Dawn of Justice.” identity in the international heart of an ongoing and ing woman scientist and art- a limited kosher food menu Abbas on Tuesday will suc- Jewish Democrats say community, which colonial polarizing debate in Hungary ist, who certainly exist, and will be available. ceed Egypt as the leader of the party has dropped Wom- powers have tried to abol- about how government-led award her a prize.” PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 25, 2019 Why did ‘Three Identical Strangers’ ignore just how Jewish this story was? By Rokhl Kafrissen (Spoilers ahead) In 1961, of Nazi cruelties, casting a identical triplets were born shadow over what we usually In 2005 a miracle happened to a single Jewish mother. think of as the safe, loving in Israel, albeit with a tech- The boys were placed in three sanctuary of New York’s nological assist. Sisters Hana different adoptive homes; very Jewish suburbs. Look- Katz and Klara Bleier were none of the families were ing back on their placement reunited 61 years after being told about the existence of in the study, triplet Robert separated in the Budapest the other two brothers. A Shafran is the one who says ghetto, each having survived chance encounter at college what the audience is think- the war thinking herself the in 1980 sparked a family ing: “That’s some Nazi shit.” only one. reunion that made national The thought that it was now Decades later they both headlines. Jews replaying this trauma deposited testimony with Even in the pre-internet on other Jews was what kept Yad Vashem and, with the age, it wasn’t entirely un- me from watching “Three help of a new computerized likely the boys would find Identical Strangers” until database, realized that they each other. The adoption now. were in fact not alone. As fate agency had placed the boys The subjects of Neubau- would have it, Hana and Klara within a 100-mile radius er’s experiment were placed had both settled in Israel and of each other, in part, one in the adoptive homes raised families a mere 45 presumes, to facilitate psy- by Louise Wise Services, miles apart. chiatrist Peter Neubauer’s a social services agency “Three Identical Strangers” is a documentary about triplets separated at birth by a While most survivor re- ongoing study of separated founded in 1916 to connect Jewish-affiliated adoption agency in 1961. union stories are not quite as twins and triplets, a study Jewish orphans with new dramatic as Hana and Klara’s, in which the triplets had families. Louise Wise (nee E. 94th St. in Manhattan. left to wonder what more we many times people say, postwar family reunions are been placed without their Waterman) was educated They demand information might have learned about the ‘I haven’t eaten like this an emblematic Holocaust consent. at the Comstock Finishing about the placements of the families had the story been since my mother was alive, narrative, weaving together Among the three fathers, School and even attended boys and the scientists who told by someone from the or since my grandmother the anguish of loss with the it is David Kellman’s who an Episcopalian Sunday had been studying them for inside—someone who spoke was alive.’” bittersweet shock of reunion. is portrayed as most un- school. Like other wealthy, years. They get little in the the language, as it were, of Knowing what we do about I couldn’t help but think reservedly ecstatic about educated women from high- way of answers and leave, that time and place. the trauma inflicted on the of their reunion when I the discovery of two new ly assimilated, aristocratic dejected. By chance, one of For a time the triplets ran boys, and the way their real watched the hit 2018 docu- biological brothers. In the German-Jewish families, the fathers runs back into the a themed restaurant called family and history was ripped mentary “Three Identical words of Richard Kellman, Louise Waterman dedicated building to retrieve an um- Triplets Roumanian Restau- away from them, their deci- Strangers,” now short-listed also known as Bubala, “I have herself to improving the brella. Doing so, he stumbles rant in Soho. The restaurant sion to open an Ashkenazi for an Academy Award in the two more sons.” Though it’s lot of the poor, especially on the agency heads clinking is shown briefly in the movie, soul food restaurant is all Documentary category. The only mentioned obliquely, her impoverished Eastern champagne glasses, as if with clips of customers danc- the more poignant, if not film tells the story of triplets we are made to understand European coreligionists. to toast their good luck at ing raucously, the brothers heartbreaking. But the separated at birth, raised that Richard Kellman is a These kinds of projects, dodging a bullet. at the center. It seems kind audience barely gets a peek by three different families, Holocaust survivor, as are while well meaning, also This scene in particular of bizarre, even for a novelty inside the boys’ complicated and reunited as young men. other members of the Kell- carried with them the shows how “Three Identical restaurant built around the inner lives, especially the “Three Identical Strangers” man family. It’s hard not to paternalistic (or perhaps Strangers” is a story about triplets’ sudden celebrity. Jewish aspect. Instead of is absolutely compelling, in see Richard Kellman’s joy- maternalistic) condescen- power: the power of social What the movie doesn’t benefiting from an outsider’s part because it carries within ful embrace of his two new sion of her class. service agencies to create, tell you is that Triplets perspective, the story of it surprising, discomfiting “sons” as another iteration Unsurprisingly, when and destroy, families, as well Roumanian Restaurant was “Three Identical Strangers” echoes of stories like Klara of postwar reunion, another Louise Waterman started as the power of the scientific based, almost note for note, just feels incomplete, often and Hana’s. I knew enough chance to expand his family dating a young Hungarian- establishment to turn hu- on Sammy’s Roumanian frustratingly so. about the triplets that just after decades apart, a point American rabbi named Ste- man beings into subjects. Steakhouse. Indeed, Wardle is clear putting in the DVD filled me of view that might not be phen Wise, the Watermans One of the urgent questions Sammy’s Roumanian is that when it came to the with a sense of dread. What shared by the more American did everything they could to raised by the movie is what, an iconic Lower East Side inescapable comparisons to I wasn’t prepared for was the parents of the other boys. thwart the match. They were if anything, will it take to restaurant that’s still going Nazi twin experimentation, disappointing way the film And like those post-Holo- unsuccessful, and Stephen force the powerful to admit strong today, “still loudly, “I didn’t want to make it too minimizes the deep Jewish- caust reunions, this one, too, and Louise Wise became the fault to the powerless? raucously, endlessly, em- explicit, I wanted the film to ness of the story. was haunted by the specter first co-equal Jewish power That all the players in bracingly Jewish, a per- feel universal.” Universality couple of the 20th century. the triplets’ story—social manent underground bar comes at a price. The audi- In 1916 Louise revolution- service agency, scientists, mitzvah where Gentiles can ence is mostly left on its own 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 C O C O O M A R A B U T S ized the care of Jewish or- parents, babies, even the act like Jews and Jews can to spin out the horrific impli- 14 15 16 phans by founding the Free newspaper editor who broke act like themselves.” The cations of this very Jewish, A L A N C O L E N E P A L Synagogue Child Adoption the story—were themselves triplets had worked together ongoing, intergenerational 17 18 19 M E R C I T R O N T A S T E Committee (later Louise Jewish makes the whole at Sammy’s before opening trauma. I have to ask how a 20 21 Wise Services). Louise Wise thing even more disturbing. Triplets. According to an director can divorce a story D E N O T E D A S H E D Services would become so In this story, rather than article written at the time, like this one from its par- 22 23 24 25 A D I C P A H E C T O R S powerful that decades later, conflict between Jews and Triplets wasn’t so much a ticulars and still do justice 26 27 28 when the triplets’ families non-Jews, the key distinc- throwback as ahead of the to its protagonists. B O N J O U R N A L I S T S were interviewing law firms tions fall along lines of social curve on the Jewish roots In 2019, when we’re all so 29 30 C L A N G S A R I D to take on a potential lawsuit standing, education and food movement. sensitive to who is entitled 31 32 33 34 35 36 against them, the law firms class. Yet the filmmakers “Syrup pitchers of to use and profit from other S E L F S K A A H A S turned them away, fearful seemed reluctant to explore schmaltz (rendered chicken cultures and stories, how is 37 38 39 40 A R A B A T T E S T that a suit against Louise the deep, complicated Jew- fat) sit on each table, along it still OK to whitewash a 41 42 43 44 Wise would sour the chances ishness of the story. with blue siphons of seltzer. story as uniquely Jewish as C U L D E S A C R I F I C E of any associates who wanted Director Tim Wardle says The seltzer is essential for the triplets? 45 46 47 N A T I V E S E I N N H S to adopt through them. in the commentary track the egg creams diners with This article originally ap- 48 49 50 In one of the most haunt- that he’s not Jewish, but any appetite left mix up after peared on Alma. I R O N E D C L E E S E ing moments in the docu- his Jewish mother-in-law dessert, using the traditional The views and opinions 51 52 53 54 L O P E R V O I L A T K E S mentary, the families of the bought him a Yiddish dic- Fox’s U-Bet chocolate syrup expressed in this article are 55 56 57 three boys descend on the of- tionary to deal with the and milk.” those of the author and do E L I A B A M A L Y E A R fices of Louise Wise Services, language he was encounter- One of the twins, Eddy not necessarily reflect the 58 59 60 S E A R S L O C A E N T S the former Joseph Hodges ing as he interviewed the Galland, is quoted say- views of JTA or its parent Choate Mansion at 10-12 families. Hearing that, I’m ing, “I can’t tell you how company, 70 Faces Media. JCC From page 1A agency’s CEO for 20 years, In 2015, after five years of selecting Dr. Romirowsky to from 1994-2004. He earned a growth, the The Jack & Lee lead the Rosen JCC into the Previously, he served as bachelor of social work from Rosen Jewish Community future,” Harris Rosen said. senior director of planning Temple University, a master Center was incorporated as “His passion for service, his and development for Hadas- of social work from Columbia an independent organiza- long and distinguished career sah: The Women’s Zionist University and a doctorate tion. The following year, with and his vision for the center Organization of America, in social work from Yeshiva the assistance of additional will be a tremendous asset senior vice president of phil- University. donations from Harris Rosen to Central Florida’s Jewish anthropic resources for Jew- The Rosen JCC began in and The Harris Rosen Foun- community.” ish Federations of North 1994 as a satellite branch of dation, the facility added a The Jack and Lee Rosen America, executive director the Jewish Community Center $3.7 million multipurpose Southwest JCC is located at of the Westchester Region for of Greater Orlando, head- theater to serve its growing 11184 S. Apopka Vineland Rd. UJA-Federation of New York quartered in Maitland, Fla. needs. in Orlando, and is accessible and later the federation’s vice Following years of growth, Today, the thriving site from Dr. Phillips, Winder- president of financial resource in 2009 Orlando hotelier and features classrooms, meeting mere, Celebration, Hunter’s development. philanthropist Harris Rosen space, a fitness center, gym- Creek, Winter Garden, Ocoee, After four years as assistant contributed $5.1 million to nasium, babysitting room and MetroWest and Williamsburg. director of Jewish Family Ser- develop a state-of-the-art music practice rooms. For more information, visit vice of MetroWest New Jersey, community center and school “I congratulate Brett and RosenJCC.org or call 407-387- Dr. Romirowsky served as the in southwest Orlando. the board of directors for 5330. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 25, 2019 PAGE 15A members of Congregation to Weil about the plain grey Layish Ohev Shalom. When Layish walls. “I asked him what he From page 1A was in Scouting, his Eagle thought that we should do Scout project was to design a about it,” Weil shared. “He enjoy creating characters mural on a wall at Longwood answered that perhaps we and stories. But the thing Elementary School. An Eagle could do a mural... It really is, I’m not a great writer. My Scout project has to demon- encompasses the mission of strong suits are more toward strate qualities of leadership Hillel through art, and spe- the artistic side of it, so I’m and management, so Layish cifically, through the eyes of always looking for people to couldn’t just draw his mural. student artist Rafi Layish.” collaborate with.” He recruited friends and The mural has been re- This collaborative team is family to help him with the printed for holiday cards and working well. “She had solid project. He designed the work, email campaigns for Hillel. ideas of art that she wanted,” sketched the outline on the Layish is currently working he said. So after several talks wall and directed his helpers on his portfolio and would like and many drawings they got to “fill it in.” The project was to gain entry level professional on the same page (no pun to raise money for Families in experience and eventually intended). Layish plans to Transition, an organization move into the field of digital illustrate several more books the helps homeless children in media. He is always looking for with Gilbert in the Contrary Seminole County reach their more “stuff to do” and posts Collection. educational potential. his art through Instagram, This isn’t the first time Another Layish mural is on @rafi.layish. His artwork can Central Floridians have seen the wall on the second floor be seen at http://rafaellayish. his work. Layish, who is of the Hillel building on the foliohd.com the son of Nancy Layish of UCF campus. According to “Hidden Wings of the Time Maitland and Dan Layish of Aaron Weil, CEO of Central Keeper” is available at http:// Orlando, grew up in Maitland. Florida Hillel, it is a “one of a thecontrarycollection.com He attended the Hebrew Day kind, iconic piece of art that “I’d like to see a movie come School and Edgewater High is now the most photographed out with my name somewhere School’s engineering, science image in our building.” in the credits,” Layish said and technology magnate The iconic work came about with a big smile. It probably program. His family were because Rafi commented will happen. Two illustrations in the book “Hidden Wings of the Time Keeper.” Barr From page 1A next attorney general of the him on issues of concern to Accepting an award from why I am so concerned by Although he is likely to United States,” the group said the Orthodox Jewish commu- Agudath Israel in 1992, Barr instances of anti-religious be grilled by the Judiciary praise from Republicans and in a statement published by nity,” they added. “He proved said: “Freedom of religion activities and hate crime, and Committee about his remarks Democrats alike; Joe Biden Baltimore Jewish Life. himself to be a great champion requires not only freeing particularly by the increasing on Special Counsel Robert even called Barr a ‘heck of an “From 1991 to 1993, Mr. of religious liberty, as he took religion from undue govern- level of anti-Semitic incidents Mueller’s probe of possible honorable guy.’” Barr served as attorney gen- a leadership role in protecting ment regulation and interfer- in this country. The Anti-Def- collusion between the Trump “Agudath Israel of Amer- eral in the administration the civil rights of Orthodox ence. It also requires freeing amation League reports that campaign and Russia in ica congratulates President of President George H.W. Jewish communities that were religion from discrimination 1991 was the fifth consecutive 2016, Barr is expected to be Trump on his nomination of Bush, and Agudath Israel had encountering harassment and and from vile acts of hatred year of increased anti-Semitic confirmed with bipartisan William Barr to serve as the occasion to work closely with discrimination.” and persecution. That is acts nationwide.” support. Wall the issue there been one pri- with those of his opponents, to harm those on the other From page 5A marily about defending the you can forget about a rational side. While any country has tunnels into the Jewish state border from armed enemies, discussion about the merits a right, and a duty, to control with similarly murderous as it is for Israel. of fences, whether in North its borders and determine who intentions. Both Hamas and Just as important, Israel’s America or the Middle East. may enter, Israel’s barriers Hezbollah have also shown borders are not so much de- The real danger for support- are not about politics. If you that they can fire rockets fended by fences or walls as ers of Israel is not so much find yourself claiming that and missiles over any fence in they are by smart technology that the Jewish state is being all walls are immoral so as to order to spread terror inside in areas where the integrity of dragooned into justifying make a rhetorical point about the Jewish state. the barrier is put at risk by the Trump’s plans as it is that Trump, you might do well to The scale of Israel’s fencing designs of its enemies. Instead the reaction to the president’s remember that Israel’s fences HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES projects is not as vast as any of just focusing on construc- desire for a wall will wind up are a matter of life and death, Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged tion, there’s a lot that America justifying those who attack and not a referendum on your exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye project to extend existing disorders. Protecting your eyes is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future. fencing between the United can learn from the way Israel Israel’s need for barriers. least favorite politician. States and Mexico. Moreover, uses high-tech expertise to Whether or not you think Jonathan S. Tobin is editor Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection. while some who cross into monitor its barriers. the flow of illegal immigrants in chief of JNS—Jewish News For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. America illegally are involved But as long as support for into the United States is a Syndicate. Follow him on A public service message from The Vision Council. in criminal activity, not since any sort of border barrier or crisis, there should be no Twitter at: @jonathans_to- the U.S. Cavalry chased Pan- wall is identified with Trump’s patience for claims that Is- bin. cho Villa back into Mexico attitudes about illegal immi- rael built its security fences more than a century ago has gration and opposition to it for ideological purposes or ELIMINATE GUTTER CLEANING FOR LIFE! Never again From page 5A theism, with its damned “thou 34 tell CNN they’ve never shalls” and “thou shall nots,” heard of the Holocaust. 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