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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 43, NO. 46 JULY 19, 2019 16 TAMUZ, 5779 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ NEA spreads lies about Israel By Christine DeSouza American Friends Service committee, U.S. Campaign The National Education for Palestinian Rights, Jews Association has an agenda Against Anti-Muslim Racism, that is not hidden. At the and Jewish Voice for Peace. recent NEA assembly, attend NEA will partner with the by 7,000 delegates, the order No Way to Treat Child Cam- of business to be discussed paign to pressure the Israeli included New Business Item government to end the deten- 26 that stated: “NEA will use tion and abuse of Palestinian existing digital communica- children.” tion to develop and publish “NEA is the largest labor resources to educate members union and professional inter- and the general public on est group in the United States. the apartheid, atrocities, and The organization’s original gross violations of human mission was to advance the rights of Palestinian children cause of public education, and families by the State of from pre-school to university Israel, funded directly by the graduate programs. They have United States. affiliated organizations in NEA will publish an article every state and in more than in the NEA Today on the 14,000 communities across work that is being done by the U.S. This “new business,” Seth Wenig our members and organiza- however, promotes a political In this photo from July 2, 2019, people pray at the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson in the Queens borough tions fighting for the rights agenda that includes anti- of New York. of Palestinian children and Israel/U.S. propaganda. families, such as but not Many attendees at the limited to: Parents Against convention believed this 50,000 flock to Lubavitcher Child Detention, HaMoked: was an action to normalize Center for the Defense of the anti-Semitism and Jewish Individual, Defense for Chil- Rebbe’s grave in New York dren International-Palestine, NEA on page 14A By Cnaan Liphshiz 1950 until his passing in 1994—a move- Numerous political leaders in Israel ment he had helped revive following took to social media to share tributes to (JTA)—An estimated 50,000 people its post-Holocaust re-establishment in Schneerson. US mayors have visited the resting place of the New York. Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Throughout the year, approximately yahu of Israel wrote on Twitter that Schneerson, ahead of the 25th anniver- 400,000 people visit the Cambria Heights Schneerson “changed the world and travel to Israel sary of his passing. site, many of them not Hasidim or even influenced me a lot. I’ll always re- The pilgrimage to the burial site in Jewish, the spokesman said. member him.” By Jackson Richman get prime-time headlines. Just Queens, New York, known as the Ohel In Britain, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Moshe Yaalon of Israel’s Blue and recently, in fact, a bipartisan has taken place over the past week ahead Mirvis eulogized Schneerson as “one White opposition party in a tweet called (JNS)—Turn on any cable- delegation of U.S. mayors— of the anniversary Saturday, the 3rd of of the great rebuilders of Jewish life the Rebbe “one of the greatest leaders news channel and the major- four Democrats and one Tamuz on the Hebrew calendar, accord- after the tragedy of the Shoah,” whose of the Jewish people in our generation. ity of the focus will be on Republican—visited Israel ing to a spokesman for the late rabbi’s “teachings and insights remain as He also said Schneerson’s “directive of national leaders like U.S. with the American Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. fresh and relevant today as they have ‘Ahavat Yisroel’ [love for fellow Jews] is President Donald Trump or Committee’s (AJC) Project Schneerson headed the movement from ever been.” more important today than ever.” Speaker of the House Nancy Interchange as part of an Pelosi. And while politicians effort to enhance U.S.-Israel on the national level indeed relations and learn practical command attention, state and tools at the municipal level. Israeli left, Palestinians slam US local politics move forward Led by Los Angeles Mayor at the same time, often at a Eric Garcetti, the trip in- quicker pace in terms of leg- cluded the following mayors: diplomats for sledge-hammer blows islation and reaction to crises. Shane Bemis of Gresham, Citizens often feel a more Ore.; Michelle De La Isla of To- By Marcy Oster angering Palestinian leaders direct impact from resulting peka, Kan.; Rick Kriseman of and left-wing Israeli NGOs. policies: From helping local St. Petersburg, Fla.; and Kathy JERUSALEM (JTA)—Two U.S. Ambassador to Israel businesses and revitalizing Sheehan of Albany, N.Y. U.S. diplomats participated in David Friedman and U.S. Mid- a city’s downtown to basic “Los Angeles and Israel the inauguration of a contro- east peace envoy Jason Green- trash pickup, mayors and local share so much—vibrant cul- versial archaeological tourist blatt were invited to deliver the leaders serve as the backbone tures, beautiful landscapes, site in eastern Jerusalem, final sledge-hammer blows to of getting things done across diverse communities, ties of what Friedman described as America. family and friends, our expe- a ceremonial wall covering International exchanges riences as dreamers and our the tunnel entrance to the also occur among this set of Pilgrimage Road in the City legislators that doesn’t often Mayors on page 15A of David. Pilgrim Road was discov- ered in 2004 and includes wide stairs near the Shiloach, a Heritage wins two water pool Jewish pilgrims im- Flash90 mersed themselves in before U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (l) and White ascending to the Temple. The House Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt break down a FPA awards! newly inaugurated road allows specially built wall in front of the Pilgrimage Road, at a visitors to walk from Shiloach ceremony in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, The Heritage Florida Jew- umn category for “Do we see to the Western Wall. The exca- on June 30, 2019. ish News won two awards in the battle?” by DeSouza (June vation of the road, which runs the Florida Press Association 29, 2018). This was an opinion under Palestinian homes in of Jerusalem to the Jewish last Jews of Jerusalem left Awards contest. Christine piece about the chipping away the Silwan neighborhood of people.” He also said of the their message to mankind DeSouza took first place in of our American culture and eastern Jerusalem, has been site: “This place is as much a another is being written into the Arts, Entertainment & western civilization. a point of contention between heritage of the U.S. as it is a our memories,” he wrote. “The Review Reporting category “I am very proud that this Israel and the Palestinians. heritage of Israel.” people of Israel have returned for the article “Harriett Lake’s article was recognized” De- Friedman said in his speech Doron Spielman, the vice to Jerusalem, and the City of wardrobe lives on in a coffee- Souza said. at the inauguration that the president of the City of David David has also returned as table book.” (Oct. 5, 2018) road “confirms with evidence, Foundation, which admin- an anchor of Western civili- “I love it when I am reward- with science, with archaeolog- isters the site, celebrated its zation.” ed for writing a fun article!” ical studies that which many opening in a blog post for the The Palestinian Authority said DeSouza. of us already knew, certainly Times of Israel. The Heritage then took in our heart: the centrality “Two millennia after the Diplomats on page 14A third place in the Serious Col- PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 19, 2019 Phyllis Schulman Kamenoff dies at 94 She was very active in many the new governor, Spessard away in 2003. Abe attended Medical Center counseling She cherished the memory groups, including the YMHA Holland. the University of Florida and others undergoing treatment. of her oldest granddaughter, where she was part of USY and Phyllis came to Orlando together they attended every She also has been a member of Jenny Stone Brown. B’nai B’rith Girls. She was a in 1944 to be the mistress of home game in Gainesville for the Fortune Hunters—a stock Phyllis was always proud summer camp counselor and ceremonies and sing at the 40 years. club, since 1971, meeting once of the many friendships she she and her sister wrote the beautiful supper club called In 1954, the Kamenoffs a month to share information made in Orlando—men and official camp song that was the Flamingo Club near the joined Temple Israel and and trying to stay ahead in the women of all ages. She con- sung for many years by the old Orlando airport. After Phyllis has served in almost stock market. Phyllis and Abe tinued to stay active in the campers. Phyllis loved her meeting Rabbi Morris Skop every capacity in Sisterhood were among the founders of community she loved and days spent at Miami Senior from Congregation Ohev Sha- and the Temple. For many the Jewish Community Center where she spent most of her High School, participating in lom, he asked her to bring her years, she sangin the choir; where she was a member of adult life. One of her great- many clubs and activities. At show to the San Juan Hotel to served as flower chairman for the 39ers; a lifetime meber est pleasures was her twice graduation, Phyllis was one perform at a dance for Jewish over 10 years; worked on the of Hadassah; and a member a week majhong game with of three students chosen to War Veterans. She agreed and Calendar Book and oversee- of the Holocaust Center, Kin- many ladies she played with speak at their commence- was chauffeured back and ing the High Holiday Flower neret, Jewish Family Services for over 60 years. ment. forth by Abe Kamenoff and Fund and Break the Fast. and Jewish Pavilion. She was Phyllis loved her life in Phyllis attended the Uni- his brother, Jack (Shug). Abe She also co-chaired catering also a member of the Histori- Orlando and is proof that age versity of Miami and in 1942, had just returned from the the Shabbat Luncheons. In cal Society of Central Florida. did not define her. Phyllis Schulman was on the committee that South Pacific where he served 1997, she received a Sister- Phyllis served as an inter- Funeral services and in- Kamenoff established the first Hil- for three years. Orlando’s Jew- hood Leadership Award given viewer and docent of Mosaic terment were held at Ohev lel Chapter there, becoming ish community consisted of by the Florida Branch of the of Florida when it started in Shalom Cemetery with Rabbi Phyllis Schulman Kame- president two years later. 75 families at that time and Women’s League for Con- Orlando. She also was on the Joshua Neely officiating. noff, age 94, of Altamonte Graduating from the UM most of them came to the San servative Judaism. In 2008, board and an adviser at Park In memory of Phyllis Schul- Springs, passed away on School of Music, she sang Juan Hotel to meet the Miami she was honored as Temple Lake Nursing Home. man Kamenoff, the fam- Sunday, July 7, 2019, at Ad- with the 60-piece symphony singer who was headlining the Israel’s Woman of the Year Phyllis is the mother of Sha- ily requests contributions ventHealth Hospice at Island orchestra at graduation— Flamingo Club. and in 2009, was honored with ron Stone; Kathy (Ken) Cristol to Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss lake. She was born on Oct. 28, even though her first love Abe and Phyllis were mar- the Golden Jubilee Award in and Michael (Brenda) Kame- Road, Winter Springs, 32708 1924, in Springfield, Mass., was popular music. Phyllis ried in Miami 2 1/2 months recognition of her more than noff. She is the grandmother or the American Cancer So- one of two daughters born was a member of the Jewish later and Abe brought his 50 years of dedicated service of Samantha (Rob) Furbush, ciety, www.cancer.org. to the late Harry and Lillian War Veteran’s Drum and new bride back to Orlando. to the Temple and community. Ashley (Eric) Berman, Mela- Arrangements were in- Pallot Schulman. Her family Bugle Corps as a majorette Her sister, Madaleen, married Phyllis’s community out- nie Cristol, and Brooke and trusted to Beth Shalom moved to Miami when she and became the Drum Major. Abe’s brother, Shug, seven reach extended beyond Tem- Corey Kamenoff; and doting Memorial Chapel, 640 Lee was four. In 1941, the band was invited months later. Phyllis and ple Israel. A cancer survivor great-grandmother of Bran- Road, Orlando FL 32810. Phyllis grew up in Miami to march in the inaugural Abe were happily married since 1985, she worked with don Furbush Jacob Berman 407.599.1180 www.bethsha- where she excelled in music. parade in Tallahassee for for 58 years when he passed the now Orlando Regional and Carter and Cody Furbush. lommemorialchapel.com. Hadassah welcomes support for Never Again Education Act Hadassah, The Women’s “We are thrilled that the ing comprehensive Holocaust at reducing extremism, hate The House version of this curricula should be accessible Zionist Organization of Amer- Never Again Education Act education available to every and bigotry against all people. Bill, H.R. 943, is sponsored to every school and that equip- ica, Inc. National President is moving forward with bipar- school in America. “Hadassah is grateful to the by Rep. Carolyn Maloney ping teachers with the tools Ellen Hershkin and CEO/ tisan support in the Senate. “This Bill is urgent. Stu- bipartisan group of senators and presently has 204 co- to help children understand Executive Director Janice This has been Hadassah’s top dents—and sometimes teach- leading on this bill and to sponsors. what happened during the Ho- Weinman today released the legislative priority for the past ers and administrators, too— the more than 200 Members In a JTA op-ed in April, locaust to the Jewish people, following statement on the year. Hadassah members have are painfully unaware of the of the House that have signed Hershkin and Weinman made to the Roma, to members of pending introduction of the been aggressively advocating Holocaust. We must address on to the Never Again Educa- the case for the Bill’s passage, the LGBTQ community and to Never Again Education Act for its passage and today we this because Holocaust educa- tion Act.” arguing that robust anti-hate people with disabilities. in the United States Senate: are closer than ever to mak- tion programs are important Florida principal removed after not recognizing Holocaust

Spanish River High School principal William Latson, July 2019. (JNS)—The principal of ents have the same beliefs,” he Beach County School District a high school in the heavily continued. said in a statement Monday, Jewish-populated Florida city Latson added that educa- reported The Sun Sentinel. of Boca Raton was reassigned tors have “the role to be politi- “In addition to being offensive, on Monday following an explo- cally neutral but support all the principal’s statement is sive report that he declined to groups in the school.” not supported by either the recognize that the Holocaust “I can’t say the Holocaust School District Administra- occurred. is a factual, historical event tion or the School Board.” Spanish River Community because I am not in a position Latson apologized to The High School principal William to do so as a school-district Palm Beach Post, which first Latson told a mother of a stu- employee,” he wrote. reported the exchange last dent in April 2018 who sought “Mr. Latson made a grave week: “I regret that the verbiage Everyone needs a ‘lick and a hug’ sometime to ensure that Holocaust error in judgment in the that I used when responding education was “a priority” verbiage he wrote in an email to an email message from a By Susan Bernstein, program director that “not everyone believes stating, ‘I can’t say the Holo- parent, one year ago, did not ac- the Holocaust happened.” caust is a factual, historical curately reflect my professional The Jewish Pavilion has long been partnering with Pet Rescue by Judy, a “no kill “And you have your event because I am not in a and personal commitment to shelter” that rescues dogs and cats and prepares them for adoption. 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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 19, 2019 PAGE 3A Artur Brauner, German-Jewish producer of ‘Europa Europa’ and other major films, dies at 100 By Toby Axelrod and built his career produc- Rose” (“The White Rose”) told named a new media center ing popular films that then the story of a German anti- for Brauner. He reportedly (JTA)—German-Jewish enabled him to produce films fascist resistance group whose called the recognition “the film producer Artur Brauner, on topics close to his heart, leaders were guillotined by the crowning achievement of my whose award-winning films including a number on the Nazis in 1943. film career.” include “The Garden of the Holocaust. As early as 1948, In 1992, Brauner produced Over the years, Brauner’s Finzi-Continis” and “Europa Brauner made a film about “Agnieszka,” Holland’s film company produced 700 mov- Europa,” has died at the age the escape of prisoners from about a Jewish boy who ies and TV programs. of 100. a concentration camp. disguised himself as a Hitler After World War II, he Brauner, who died Sunday His 1955 film “The Plot Youth to survive the war. convinced the German di- in Berlin, was considered one to Assassinate Hitler,” a fic- Based on the autobiography rector Fritz Lang to return of the most important produc- tionalized recounting of the of Solomon Perel, “Europa to Germany from Hollywood ers in postwar Germany. failed attempt by Claus von Europa” won a Golden Globe for a sequel to his 1933 film Born in August 1918 in Stauffenberg to kill Adolf award. “The Testament of Dr. Ma- Lodz, Poland, Brauner fled to Hitler in 1944, won several In 2003, he produced a buse,” a film that the Nazis the Soviet Union in 1939 with awards. film about the Babi Yar mas- had banned. The 1960 sequel, his parents and four siblings, He co-produced “The Gar- sacres, where many of his “The Thousand Eyes of Dr. thus escaping the fate of other den of the Finzi-Continis,” own relatives had been killed. Mabuse,” was the last film family members who were which was based on Giorgio According to the U.S. Ho- directed by Lang. murdered in the massacres Bassani’s book about a Jewish locaust Memorial Museum, Brauner and his wife Maria by German forces at Babi Yar family in 1930s fascist Italy, about 100,000 people were Stammgast, who died in 2017, in Ukraine. and the 1972 film won an murdered there. had four children, includ- Artur and Maria Brauner at the Goldene Kamera German After the war he moved to Academy Award for best foreign In 2010, the Yad Vashem ing the film producer Alice film and television awards in 2012. Berlin with his brother, Wolf, film. His 1982 film “Weisse Holocaust memorial in Israel Brauner. Bernie Sanders says being the first Jewish president would be ‘another barrier broken down’

After talking about diver- didates, the candidates who who are discriminated against sity in general terms in his speak to your needs.” every day.” first Jewish president answer, Sanders did open up a Sanders whiffed on a soft he pivoted to barriers faced smidge when asked if he has pitch when NowThis asked by other groups in American ever experienced discrimina- him who would play him in a society, from women to the tion, looking emotional as he biopic. The only right answer elderly. (Though, to be fair, said that he has experienced to this question, as demon- that one is personal to him, anti-Semitism. He connected strated by Saturday Night too. Sanders is as elderly as that experience to the dis- Live (and common sense), is he is Jewish.) crimination faced by other Larry David. Sanders should “It’s another barrier that’s minorities. know that because the two broken down,” he said. “And “Being Jewish, I get hit of them appeared together the goal of what politics in every now and then with on Saturday Night Live and America should be is to break anti-Semitism,” he said. “You they’re actually (obviously) down those barriers, to elect respond with anger, and you distant cousins. Instead, this people—whether they’re respond by appreciating what was his answer: women, whether they’re men, it is to understand that there “I don’t know,” he said. whether they’re gay, whether are people in the African- “We’ll let Hollywood decide they’re straight, whether American community, in that one.” they’re old, whether they’re the Latino community, in Let’s blame it on his lack young. Elect the best can- the gay community, women, of sleep.

Bernie Sanders

By Ben Sales a following—even though can deliver on any of his far- he was asked about what it reaching promises to inject NEW YORK (JTA)—Bernie would mean to be the first democratic socialism into Sanders wants you to know Jewish president. the U.S. government if he’s that he’s not grumpy all of The ten-minute interview, elected. The Back to School Issue... the time. titled “Twenty Questions for NowThis did also ask Ber- “There are some times I’m 2020,” was designed to help nie a couple of questions not grumpy. Now is not one Sanders try to connect with about what it would mean to of those times,” he says, a wry voters on a more personal lev- be the first Jewish president, smile crossing his face. el. It tackles Sanders’ growing and what it’s like to experi- This might be the most focus on racial justice (along ence discrimination. But in Jewish moment of Sand- with income inequality), typical Sanders style, he did ers’ latest interview with but also his sleep-deprived not seem eager to discuss NowThis—a progressive schedule, his basketball skills that part—or any part—of social media video site with and whether he thinks he his personal life. 1 in 5 say small businesses should be able to refuse Jews By Josefin Dolsten other groups as well, including percent. The other groups gays and lesbians, transgender ranged from 15 percent for (JTA)—Nineteen percent people, atheists, Muslims and African Americans to 29 per- of Americans think small African Americans. cent for transgender people. business owners should be The survey did not ask, A significantly higher pro- allowed to refuse service to however, about refusing ser- portion of Republicans ap- Jews if doing so would violate vice to Christians or straight proved of service refusals in their religious beliefs, a new people, which might have all categories than Democrats poll shows. controlled for those who were did. Twenty four percent of That is an increase from expressing support for reli- Republicans thought small 2014, when 12 percent of gious autonomy, as opposed business owners should be al- respondents agreed with to harboring prejudices aimed lowed to refuse service to Jews the statement, according at specific groups. based on religious grounds. to survey results published The proportion of Ameri- That number was 17 percent Tuesday by the Public Religion cans who think small busi- for Democrats. IS BACK! Research Institute. nesses should be able to refuse PRRI surveyed 1,100 adults The survey found increased service to gays and lesbians via phone with a margin of Publication Date: August 2, 2019 support for business owners to was the highest among all error of plus or minus 3.5 refuse service to a number of the minority groups, at 30 percent. Advertising Deadline: July 24, 2019 PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 19, 2019 Where BDS and terrorists converge By Caroline Glick Among the speakers, Catron from Samidoun veals that Kates’a husband Barakat “arranged site, which also glorifies Ze’evi’s assassination. www.carolineglick.com in particular personified the nexus between for Awad to begin his military training in 2015 In other words, it is hard to see where Sami- terror groups and the political war against in Lebanon with Hezbollah.” doun begins and the PFLP ends. On May 31, the cry went out from Times Israel. It continues, “Awad also took part in a 2015 According to a report published Tuesday in Square, New York City, to annihilate Israel Last October, Israel’s Ministry of Strategic meeting in Germany with PFLP operatives, the Times of Israel, in response to the Israeli and extend the terror war against the Jewish Affairs published an in-depth report demon- during which they discussed how to revamp Ministry of Strategic Affairs campaign against state to America. strating the central role terror Palestinian the organization’s activities.” Samidoun and other key BDS groups tied to As they did in Beirut, Berlin, London, Teh- terror groups play in the “boycott, divestment Moreover, it alleges, “Awad transferred funds the PFLP and Hamas, ten bank accounts in ran, and Dearborn, Michigan, Israel-haters and sanctions” campaign against Israel and from Lebanon and Syria to Khaled Barakat, the U.S. and twenty in Europe attached to gathered at Times Square to call for Israel’s Jews who support Israel. in Belgium, on at least two occasions during these groups have been shut down. Samidoun dissolution on the day the Iranian regime The report, titled “Terrorists in Suits: 2016-2017. Additionally, he left his personal is among the groups that have been affected, has determined to be “Al Quds Day,” that is, The ties between NGOs promoting BDS and laptop and mobile phone with convicted with three of their accounts now shut due to Jerusalem Day. terrorist organizations,” exposed that the [PFLP] terrorist Leila Khaled in Jordan before the group’s ties to the PFLP. The Middle East Media Research Institute Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine attempting to enter Israel... where he was ar- The BDS campaign is geared towards two posted a video of the event. In it, a series of and Hamas are both heavily involved—indeed, rested (July 2018).” main goals. First, as its name suggests, its speakers called over and over again for Israel’s likely control—several non-governmental Following his reported arrest, the Israeli purpose is to wage political and economic annihilation, voiced support for terrorists and organizations in Western countries that play report reveals, “Awad was sentenced to 12 warfare against Israel. By targeting Israeli terrorism and called for the war against Israel central roles in BDS campaigns. Hamas and months in prison, as well as 12 months on companies and international companies that to come to New York. the PFLP are both designated as foreign ter- probation, for membership in a terrorist orga- do business with Israel, the BDS campaign Nate Chase from the World Workers’ Party rorist organizations by the State Department nization, prohibited military training and use seeks to undermine the Israeli economy. led the crowd in chanting, “We don’t want two and the EU. of property for terrorist activities.” Moreover, by singling out non-Israelis who state! We want ’48!” Samidoun is a major actor in the BDS Catron’s Twitter page banner features a support Israel, particularly non-Israeli Jews That is, we don’t want to partition the land universe. According to the Israeli government photo of him with Palestinian hijacker Leila who support Israel, the BDS campaign seeks mass west of the Jordan River. We want to an- report, Samidoun is a U.S.-registered NGO Khaled. to make the social cost of supporting Israel nihilate Israel, which was established in 1948. founded in 2012. It has branches in Lebanon, The Israeli government report also exposes prohibitive while expelling predominantly Chase continued, “Because every inch— Canada, France, Britain, Germany, Belgium, that Barakat appears at conferences with his Jewish pro-Israel voices from the public square. from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] Greece, and the Palestinian Authority. wife, Kates. He runs the PFLP campaign for the These actions, in turn, advance two other sea—is Palestine! It is also enmeshed in, if not controlled by, release of PFLP commander Ahmad Sa’adat. goals. First, since like the terror groups, the “Israel does not exist! It has not existed, it the PFLP. Sa’adat is currently serving a 30-year prison goal of BDS groups more generally is to put doesn’t exist, and it will never exist! There is According to the Israeli government report, sentence in Israel for masterminding the an end to Israel’s existence, the BDS campaign only Palestine!” he cried. Samidoun’s international coordinator, Char- 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister works to legitimize the goal of the terrorist Rokeya Begun, from a New York-based lotte Kates, is married to Khaled Barakat, a Rehavam Ze’evi. groups. Once publics in the West are desen- Palestinian pro-terror group called Within our member of the PFLP Central Committee. Kates Samidoun runs a parallel campaign for Saa- sitized to calls for the physical destruction of Lifetime, called out, “Globalize the intifada!” is a member of several other BDS groups op- dat’s release. As the report notes, “The PFLP Israel and its Jewish citizens, they will similarly “From New York to Gaza!” erating in the U.S. and Europe. Many of them campaign website uses elements identical to support—or not oppose—terrorist action to And Joe Catron from Samidoun Palestinian are similarly affiliated with the PFLP. Some those on the Samidoun site. In light of this, bring about this goal. Prisoner [i.e. terrorist] Solidarity Network, operate as left-wing BDS groups. and in light of Barakat’s connection to Kates, Finally, by involving themselves in political led the crowd chanting, “There is only one The Israeli report further alleges that Mus- it is likely that donations made through the campaigns to defame and delegitimize Israel, solution!” tafa Awad, Samidoun’s European representa- Samidoun website benefitted Barakat and terror groups, including the PFLP, build stra- The crowd responded, “Intifada! Revolu- tive, is a Lebanese national. The report notes the PFLP.” tegic alliances with the international left. So tion!” that according to the Israeli Security Agency, The Israeli government report notes that too, as Awad’s terror training with Hezbollah in While unsettling, the pro-terror calls Awad was a member of a PFLP terrorist cell in 2016, Kates published an article praising Lebanon makes clear, the PFLP is a bridgethat going out from Times Square were helpful. operating in Europe, and was in contact with Ze’evi’s murder. She quoted “a PFLP senior links the international left with the Iranian- They laid bare the fact that terror groups are terrorist operatives from Lebanon, Syria, operative who termed the murder ‘a symbol controlled terror nexus. actively involved in the political campaigns Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. of heroism.’” against Israel. The Israeli government report further re- She also directed readers to the PFLP web- BDS on page 15A Ehud Barak, Yair Golan and Israel’s ‘New Left’ By Ruthie Blum and at shopping malls—led to Barak’s ouster Golan was not referring to the actual signs A student then asked him, “If it is a choice in 2001. Later, he would insist that his overly of pre-Nazi Germany rearing their ugly heads between [endangering Palestinian] civilians or (JNS)—Maj. Gen. (ret) Yair Golan, former generous offer to Arafat had been calculated to in Europe, however. Rather, he was raising your own soldiers, which would you prefer?” deputy chief of the General Staff of the Israel call the PLO chief’s bluff. But nobody bought them in relation to the Jewish state. Golan answered, “Civilians... [Y]ou don’t kill Defense Forces, is a gift to the left that keeps it. Or cared. The daily sounds of sirens wailing The Holocaust, he declared, “must make us a 60-year-old woman, even if she’s an Arab.” on giving. through the streets on the way to the latest think deeply about the responsibility of leader- Fuming at the mere suggestion that any But don’t take my word for it. Just ask for- blown-up bodies will do that. ship, the quality of society, and it must lead us IDF soldier would kill someone simply for mer Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who At the time, Barak was the head of the La- to fundamental thinking about how we, here being an Arab, the audience began to grill proudly displayed Golan last week in a Tel Aviv bor Party, which presented itself as the sane and now, treat the stranger, the orphan and Golan on what he proposes a soldier do when press conference that he held to announce his center-left. You know, the successors of the the widow, and all who are like them. There a 60-year-old woman poses a threat. formation of a new party to run in the Sept. founding fathers of the state. The rightful is nothing easier than hating the stranger, “Not every combat situation immediately 17 elections for the 22nd Knesset. heirs to the throne, which had been “stolen” nothing easier than to stir fears and intimi- turns us into right-wingers,” he snapped. “Not Barak’s recruitment of Golan to the yet- from them in 1977 by Menachem Begin and date. There is nothing easier than to behave every Arab woman is hiding behind a terrorist. to-be-named party—whose campaign pledge the increasingly riff-raff, right-leaning public. like an animal and to act sanctimoniously. I expect commanders to assess situations and is to “do whatever it takes” to defeat Prime Ironically, Barak was and has been the only On Holocaust Remembrance Day we ought take reasonable measures.” Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—was clear. candidate to defeat Netanyahu in an election. to discuss our ability to uproot the seeds of Golan grew more and more impatient with Older-generation Israeli politicians, particu- That historical 1999 blip, as well as a slew of intolerance, violence, self-destruction and the members of audience for defending soldiers larly failed peace-camp has-beens like Barak, “yes” men telling the 77-year-old chairman moral deterioration.” in a dilemma. continue to harbor the dated notion that hav- of the medical cannabis company, InterCure, He then went on to assert that “it’s es- “I know what I’m talking about,” Golan ing military men on their ticket is an electoral that only he can save the country, seems to sential” for Holocaust Remembrance Day to retorted angrily, pointing to a past incident draw, if not a must. be cause of his current visions of grandeur. be a national day of atonement, the way Yom in which an IDF officer’s negligence led to The idea, from a left-wing perspective, is Or maybe he’s been partaking of the product Kippur is a religious one. This breast-beating, the erroneous death of a Palestinian. “What that a highly decorated IDF uniform serves as he’s been pushing. Trotting out Golan, whose he explained, “ought to include unsettling is- do you want? For us to justify that? Is that the a shield against accusations of disloyalty or a public statements could have been made by sues,” such as the abuse of weapons by soldiers. nation in which you wish to live? One that kills lack of patriotism. It is a perfect cloak to enable Israel’s worst enemies, certainly suggests that “We believe very much in the justice of unnecessarily?” selling the country down the tubes, as Barak his judgment may be questionable. our path,” he said. “But not everything we He also appeared to contradict his point himself nearly did at Camp David in 2000, by During a speech on the eve of Holocaust Re- do is just...” by railing, “Our men don’t make mistakes? offering arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat the moon membrance Day three years ago, for instance, In a radio interview on Sunday with Israel’s None of you ever made mistakes? Are you and the stars. Oh, and swathes of Israeli ter- Golan, while still in uniform, said: “If there’s public broadcaster, Kan, Golan was given a exempt from mistakes? If so, this is a saintly ritory in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) something that frightens me... it’s the recogni- chance to retract his Holocaust comparison. community. But you are not saints, and none for the establishment of a Palestinian state. tion of the revolting processes that occurred in Instead, he doubled down. of us is...” Arafat’s response—the launch of a suicide- Europe in general, and particularly in Germany, “So, [you meant to say that we Israelis] are He concluded by admonishing, “If we want bombing war against innocent Israelis going back then—70, 80 and 90 years ago—and find- not equivalent to Nazi society, but only that to make any kind of moral complaint to the about their business on buses, in restaurants ing signs of them here among us today in 2016.” there is evidence of Nazism in our society?” nations of the world about the Palestinians, asked co-host Kalman Liebskind. we had better be very strict about our own THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. “Correct,” Golan replied. “Exactly.” morality first.” Meanwhile, Israel’s Channel 2 Online ob- Only radical leftists in Israel and abroad ✡ ✡ ✡ CENTRAL FLORIDA’S INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICE ✡ ✡ ✡ tained a 10-year-old recording of Golan telling believe that the IDF is ethically reckless, or ISSN 0199-0721 Winner of 46 Press Awards Editor/Publisher students at the Magen Shaul Pre-military that the Jewish state is not “very strict” when Jeffrey Gaeser Academy in Nokdim, “It is the job of those in it comes to monitoring its own morality. 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It was Consumer Berg to Larry Siegel, Stan Jewish suburb, on life support, and I can’t 1960s “Establishment” rep- Reports for kids. Hart and, more recently, Drew and changed say I’m either surprised or resented by Richard Nixon, Mad worked the same sub- Friedman, all Jews. (And all the Sholem all that sad about it. DC George McGovern and Henry versive magic on TV shows men, I know—the topic for an- Aleichem ad- Entertainment announced Kissinger. An American flag and feature films, in the clas- other essay.) Its prose dripped aptation into last week that the satirical poster from 1971 would sic parodies written by Dick with Yiddishisms, some real an angry in- magazine will stop publish- still raise eyebrows today, DeBartolo and Larry Siegel (shmuck!) and some imagined dictment of ing new content. It was like reworking the pledge of al- and drawn by Angelo Tor- (furshlugginer!). Jewish assimi- hearing about a beloved old legiance into a bitterly ironic res and Mort Drucker. “The Nathan Abrams, in an lation. relative who passed away: I statement on American divi- Oddfather” parody asked if article on Mad’s Jewish sen- Zero Mostel hadn’t had any meaningful sions, addressed to “one na- Marlon Brando was really a sibility in the journal Studies is portrayed contact in years, but had fond tion under God with liberty believable Mafia don with his in American Humor, argues as “Mr. Buck- memories of when we were and justice for all, including cheeks stuffed with cotton. If that in the 1950s and ’60s chaser,” and still close. kikes, wops, spics, niggers, the Chinese immigrant hero Mad “marinated in the same his daughters For me, that meant during WASPS, etc.” of the TV series “Kung Fu” is urban Jewish culture” that are Sheila, “A my pre-bar-mitzvah years, Watergate, the Vietnam such a pacifist, why does he produced the New York Intel- Free Sex fa- growing up in the 1970s. war, the “generation gap,” the end up whuppin’ cowboy ass lectuals. No surprise, then, natic”; Nancy, For a suburban kid bing- civil rights movement: Mad at the end of every episode? that its contributors had the a “speed freak ing on a diet of Saturday translated the issues dominat- And how come the newsroom same intellectual concerns just now,” morning cartoons and grim, ing the news of the day and crew on “The Mary Tyler of their counterparts in aca- and Joy, who adults-only dispatches on the whispered conversations Moore Show” never seemed demia and high-brow literary “Makes bombs in the attic/ was ready for the raunchier, the nightly news, Mad was a of my parents and their friends to cover a news story? magazines: “suburbia, psy- And answers the phone with more tasteless fare of “Na- hoot—hilarious, irreverent, into a comic language we kids Later I would discover Pau- choanalysis, existentialism, Quotations from Mao.” Their tional Lampoon,” and the not- slightly risqué. could understand. line Kael and Andrew Sarris, Freudianism, intellectual world is soaked in bourgeois ready-for-prime-time satire of Today I am a man, and real- But I barely remember whose movie criticism gave pretension, bohemianism, excess, and their existence “Saturday Night Live,” where ize Mad was something more. the political stuff. It is the me a vocabulary and meth- technology, disarmament, is corrupt and soulless. The Mad’s influence was obvious Many of the eulogies have education Mad gave me as a odology for understanding and containment.” last page is a cartoon jer- whenever a fake commercial focused on the political consumer—and consumer of why a piece of art works or Mad’s contributors were the emiad, with a crowd of shtetl came on selling flammable legacy of the magazine. The pop culture—that sticks with doesn’t. Mad was there first, low-brows in this media class peasants led by Chaim Topol toy cars or “Little Chocolate Denver Post once celebrated me. In a pre-ironic age, when in a visual language that we war. Jews and other sons of as Tevye condemning the Donuts” breakfast cereal. its “mid-20th-century his- advertising had insinuated absorbed by osmosis. It said, immigrants at the top rungs nouveaux riches for all the But whenever I talk back at tory of bold political satire itself into seemingly every ” I can enjoy this movie, but of the entertainment food tsurris of the 1960s, from an implausible movie or TV and anti-censorship court corner of our lives (or so we I can also see how absurd, chain—the movie makers, student unrest to pollution show, or tweet a devastating cases.” (In 1964 the Supreme thought, in the era before artificial and manipulative ad execs, book publishers to striking unions. take down of a disingenuous Court refused to hear music smartphones), Mad taught it is—and how it fails on its and publicists—were being “Now that we’ve seen the politician, I remember my old publishers’ complaints over its young readers to be wary own terms.” harassed by more Jews and Mess you’ve made,” they sing friend Mad. the magazine’s right to pub- of corporate America. Its We Jews like to claim this other sons of immigrants to the tune of “Miracle of The views and opinions lish song parodies.) Others fake ads undermined health critical distancing as some- from the bottom-feeding Miracles,” “We’re afraid God expressed in this article are suggested that its mocking claims for cigarettes and the thing distinctly Jewish—or at world of comic books and wants back his melting pot!” those of the author and do not attitude influenced the ’60s promises of cosmetics. An least a trait perfected by Jews humor rags. It’s an entire Philip Roth novel necessarily reflect the views generation to “question advertisement for “Sucka” in the mid-20th century. The This class conflict reached in a seven-page comic. of JTA or its parent company, authority.” The Washington instant coffee forced us to case can be made: The “usual its peak in the 1973 parody of I stopped reading Mad 70 Faces Media. Post called it the “most acknowledge the workers gang of idiots” who put Mad “Fiddler on the Roof,” titled regularly in the mid-1970s, Andrew Silow-Carroll is influential magazine of the who were exploited so that together included founders “Antenna on the Roof.” Druck- the magazine having done its editor in chief of the Jewish post-World War II era.” our parents could enjoy William Gaines and Harvey er and writer Frank Jacobs job on me, and pop culture. I Telegraphic Agency. Forgotten American victim of terrorism By Moshe Phillips murder Jews. A security guard mind that Ghneim was not books that are distributed entire section called “Success Rita Levine should cut across checking bags could not have some lone wolf. A terrorist in the kinds of places where Stories” featuring details of party lines. Everyone in the It was a time when the stopped it. A metal detector organization, Palestinian a potential informant might numerous cases in which Jewish community, from term “suicide attack” was would not have made a bit of Islamic Jihad, claimed re- see them. killers of Americans were left to right, should be able unknown. It was also a time difference. Any Arab terrorist sponsibility for organizing The website also features a caught thanks to the rewards to agree that Rita’s killers when everyone assumed that could board any bus without the attack. Those who mas- long list of attacks, going back program. should be behind bars. It a terrorist attack had to be detection and do something terminded the massacre and to 1983, in which Americans One of the best known is doesn’t matter what you carried out with a bomb, or similar. trained Ghneim have still not were killed and for which re- Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, mas- think about settlements or a gun, or a knife. For American friends of been captured. wards are offered. There are termind of the February 1993 refugees or Palestinian state- Thirty years ago this Israel, the attack carried More than 140 Ameri- photos of many of the victims. bombing of the World Trade hood—we should all be able month, that assumption was an extra measure of pain cans have been murdered But not Rita Levine’s photo. Center, in New York City, in to come together to demand shattered when an unarmed because the most severely by Palestinian terrorists She is not mentioned on the which six people were killed justice for a young American Palestinian terrorist turned injured passenger was a over the years and many of State Department’s website. and more than one thousand Jewish woman whose life was an Israeli civilian passenger well-known beloved attorney the killers walk freely in the The attack in which she was wounded. “In February 1995,” so cruelly and tragically cut bus into a weapon. On July from Philadelphia. For 12 territories controlled by the murdered is not listed. No the web site reports, “an short, thirty years ago this 6, 1989, a terrorist named agonizing days, Rita Levine, Palestinian Authority. Some reward is offered to encourage informant, seeing a Rewards week. Abdel Hadi Ghneim boarded 39, hovered between life and of these terrorists now serve informants to help capture for Justice matchbook and Moshe Phillips is national a bus from Tel Aviv, headed for death, until, on July 18th, she in the PA’s police and security those who organized the at- motivated by the reward, director of Herut North Amer- Jerusalem. As the bus passed passed away. forces. There are numerous tack and trained the attacker. went to the U.S. Embassy ica’s U.S. division and is from a steep ravine alongside the Rita was deeply commit- streets, parks, and summer In the State Department’s in Islamabad, Pakistan and the Philadelphia area; Herut highway, Ghneim attacked ted to the well-being of camps in Palestinian Author- eyes, Rita does not even merit provided information leading is an international movement the driver, seized the steering Philadelphia’s less fortunate ity controlled territory that a matchbook. to Yousef’s authorities.” As for Zionist pride and educa- wheel and turned it sharply residents. At a time when she are named after terrorists, The “Rewards for Justice” a result, Yousef is currently tion and is dedicated to the so that the bus went hurtling could have pursued more lu- including terrorists who program has proven itself to serving multiple sentences of ideals of pre-World War Two into the ravine below. crative employment options, murdered Americans. be an important component life imprisonment in a federal Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotin- Fourteen passengers were Rita instead chose to devote What can be done to honor of America’s war against ter- prison in Colorado. sky. Herut’s website is https:// killed, and many others were 10 years of her life to working Rita’s memory and correct rorism. The website has an The cause of justice for herutna.org. injured. for the Philadelphia Defenders the terrible injustice of her The attack was deeply Association, providing legal murderers walking free? shocking to the Israeli public aid to those who could not Start with the simplest because two aspects of it were afford it. She was also one of step: offer a reward for infor- so different from what they the authors of a Pennsylvania mation leading to the capture were used to. law protecting the mentally ill of those who organized the First, it was clear that the from abuse. bus attack. The U.S. State terrorist expected to die. He Ned Levine, Rita’s super- Department has a program was willing to give his live just visor at the Philadelphia called “Rewards for Justice,” so that he could murder Jews. Defenders Association, said: which offers multi-million This was different than typi- “She had one of the most dollar rewards for informa- cal terrorist attacks, where developed senses of justice tion that helps them catch someone would plant a bomb that I had ever seen. She was terrorists around the world. in an Israeli supermarket and against injustice wherever The department maintains then sneak away, or ambush she saw it.” a website, http://www.re- Israeli traffic with sniper fire The terrorist, Ghneim, wardsforjustice.net, where and then escape before the survived. He spent some time an informant can submit a army or police arrived. in an Israeli prison, and then tip by email. There is a toll- Second, Ghneim had no was set free in a prisoner ex- free number that tipsters can weapon. He simply took change. Today he lives a free call. 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Monday, where Trump hosted Donald Trump met with Qa- Qatar also hosts the United 40 top business leaders and tar’s leader, Emir Tamim bin States’ primary air base in Emir Tamim bin Hamad al- Hamad al-Thani at the White the Middle East: Al Udeid Air Thani. Trump lavished praised House on Tuesday. Despite a Base, home to some 10,000 on the emir, saying that he rocky start to their relations American troops and the op- has been a “friend of mine when Trump took office in erations center of U.S. Central for a long time,” and that the 2017, both countries have Command. “investments that you make grown closer in relations fol- At the same time, Qatar’s ri- are very much appreciated.” lowing last year’s visit by the vals have had been embroiled Following their meeting on emir, where Trump referred to in their own controversy that Tuesday, Trump also boosted him as a “great friend.” may be a factor in the Trump about Qatar’s promise for a Varsha Koduvayur, a senior administration reducing its “very large transaction” with research analyst and Gulf visibility with its traditional a purchase of Boeing jets as States expert at the Founda- Gulf partners. well as several other countries tion for Defense of Democra- Saudi Crown Prince Mo- getting business from the Gulf cies, told JNS that the White hammad bin Salman con- state, such as Gulfstream, Ray- House meeting is a “big win” tinues to be embroiled in the theon, General Electric and for the Qatari emir. controversy of the killing of Chevron-Phillips Chemical. “For Qatar’s Emir Tamim, dissident journalist Jamal Concerns about treatment this is his second visit, having Khashoggi, while Emirati of minorities and links to ter- come to the White House in leader, Crown Prince Muham- ror groups April 2018 as well. I expect mad bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Nevertheless, despite the some contentious topics to was also recently mentioned lavish visit, there are still very be discussed, such as Iran in the Mueller Report for his serious policy disagreements and the situation in Libya, Russian contacts. At the same and concerns between the but I doubt that Doha and time, the U.S. Congress has United States and Qatar, espe- U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin meet with Washington will come to an also recently pushed back on cially over its anti-Semitism Qatar’s leader Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani in Washington, D.C. agreement these issues, given the Trump administration’s and ties with terror groups. the host of divergences at play attempts to sell $8 billion in “Doha remains tolerant Additionally, the ADL has ties with the Muslim Brother- much pressure the adminis- between them.” weapons to the Saudis and of hate-speech in mosque uncovered virulently anti- hood and Hamas. tration places on them, but President Trump meets UAE. sermons, textbooks, and par- Semitic passages in Qatari Qatar has long supported absent external forces, Qatar with the Amir of Qatar in the Koduvayur attributes Qa- ticularly the Arabic-language state textbooks. the Palestinian terror group is unlikely to organically Oval Office: pic.twitter.com/ tar’s success in gaining a output of its Al Jazeera satel- These books claim that the Hamas, which controls the change its policy.” yTu7ABv24h White House visit after ini- lite broadcasting station,” “Jewish people are treacher- Gaza Strip. While Israel has Despite the lobbying blitz — The White House (@ tial tense relations with the wrote Simon Henderson, ous, seek to conquer the world approved of Qatar’s role in and warm exchanges, it ap- WhiteHouse) July 9, 2019 Trump administration to a a fellow at the Washington and follow a perverted, invalid providing humanitarian relief pears unlikely that Qatar’s Indeed, the emir’s visit very active lobbying campaign Institute for Near East Policy. religion. The books also con- and investment in Gaza, much relationship will significantly comes amid the backdrop by the Qatari government. Indeed, the Anti-Defama- tained numerous examples concern revolves around that deepen with the United States of both increasing tensions “Part of his [Trump’s] tion League is calling on the of anti-Christian bigotry, as relationship. due to the significant gap with Iran, as well as fractured backtracking is certainly due Trump administration to well as incitement against “Qatar is not likely to with- between the two countries. relations within the Gulf to how well the Qataris have address Qatar’s incitement the West.” draw their backing of Hamas,” Nevertheless, it is likely to Cooperation Council. Unlike deployed their media machine against Jews and other mi- Qatar’s government also said Koduvayur. “They’ve provide Qatar’s emir with an Saudi Arabia and the United in Washington, spending mil- norities, such as Christians, funds the International Union committed too much political important seat at the table Arab Emirates, which view lions of dollars on lobbyists to Shi’ite Muslims, women and of Muslim Scholars, whose capital to this cause, not to with the Trump administra- Iran as its chief regional rival further their cause,” noted the the LGBTQ community. secretary-general, openly mention millions of dollars.” tion going forward. and fear its nuclear ambi- regional expert. According to the ADL, the denies the Holocaust, accord- As such, Koduvayur does “I see the emir’s visit as tions, Qatar has forged warm According to the Center Qatari government “contin- ing to the Middle East Media not believe that Qatar will end being motivated in part to relations with Tehran despite for Responsive Politics, Qatar ues to propagate or provide Research Institute. up playing much of a role in maintain the relationship he calls by other Arab Gulf states has spent at least $24 million a platform for intolerant Concern also arises from the Trump administration’s has with President Trump,” to limit ties. Qatar and Iran in U.S. lobbying efforts since preachers and hateful mes- the government-backed Qatar push for peace between the said Koduvayur. “The Qataris jointly own the Pars natural- 2017. sages, including toward Jew- Foundation, which some have Israelis and Palestinians. likely feel that they are better gas field in the Persian Gulf, This lobbying effort was on ish people.” accused of using university “Unlike Saudi Arabia, the off having a seat at the table, grants to fund radical individ- UAE, Bahrain or Oman, Qatar even if the administration has uals and groups on American has not expressed any interest grown closer to their regional campuses. in outreach to Israel. Whether adversaries (and vice versa in Celebrities, leaders recall Similarly, there are also they will change that stance Qatar’s case also) than to be concerns regarding Qatar’s remains dependent on how absent from the table.” Lubavitcher Rebbe’s legacy By Marcy Oster visit the Cambria Heights site, met him, I’ve visited his rest- NO MORE GUTTER CLEANING, many of them not Hasidim ing place in Queens to gain OR YOUR MONEY BACK – GUARANTEED (JTA)—Celebrities or even Jewish, to pay their blessing and inspiration. With praised the teachings of the respects and to reflect on his so much discord and division Lubavitcher Rebbe on the teachings. across our society, the Rebbe’s 25th anniversary of his death. 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A government not enough for improving scheming to build concen- too many conflicting reports wrongly accused. Use of migrant detention centers report found that across five conditions at the detention tration camps. AOC and all on it,” Weiss told JTA. “We Holocaust analogies to con- on the southern border to detention centers, children facilities. Congressmen from both want everyone to have basic demn US immigration policy concentration camps. were going without showers Anti-Defamation parties have a moral obliga- access to cleanliness and be- is a distraction.” But how did they weigh in and hot food, and had few League tion to fix the humanitarian ing able to brush teeth and https://twitter.com/ on the conditions at the de- clean clothes. On Monday, What they said about disaster at the border.” things of that nature.” deborahlipstadt/sta- tention centers themselves? the Trump administration AOC: “Almost exactly one What they said about The Coalition for Jew- tus/1143196740033699840 A little background: A few contested a New York Times year ago, we urged caution the detention centers: In a ish Values David Wolpe, leading weeks ago, Ocasio-Cortez, report that migrant children when drawing compari- statement to JTA, Cooper What they said about AOC: Conservative rabbi the freshman Democratic were being held in a Clint, sons to the Holocaust and acknowledged a “humanitar- “Concentration camps were What he said about AOC: New York congresswoman, Texas facility where disease, reiterated our opposition ian crisis” and pivoted back places where Nazis inflicted “It is baffling why someone tweeted “This administra- hunger and overcrowding to the horrible conditions to Ocasio-Cortez: “Ameri- slave labor, torture and would choose a term to tion has established concen- were rampant. separating families at the cans are compassionate death upon innocent Jews condemn cruelty that is tration camps on the south- Here’s a rundown of the border,” tweeted Jonathan people and understand that removed from their homes guaranteed to make the ar- ern border of the United Jewish groups that criticized Greenblatt, national director there is a humanitarian at gunpoint and transported gument about the term and States for immigrants, where Ocasio-Cortez, what they of the organization combat- crisis at the border, but no there in cattle cars,” said not about the policy,” he told they are being brutalized said about her comment, ing anti-Semitism. “This matter how many times Con- Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer Jewish Insider. “Analogies with dehumanizing condi- and what they said about the resonates just as strongly gresswoman Ocasio-Cortez of the right-wing Orthodox that evoke the Holocaust are, tions and dying.” detention centers. today.” evokes Holocaust imagery, rabbis’ group. “To use Holo- with the rarest of exceptions, The tweet got a lot of Republican Jewish Co- https://twitter.com/ it is appalling and unaccept- caust terminology regarding presumptively offensive and people talking about how we alition JGreenblattADL/sta- able... The need for laws that the refugee situation at the unwise.” talk about the detention cen- What they said about AOC: tus/1141051354401714177 address border security while border is deeply offensive.” What he said about the ters. People on the right said “Six million Jews were killed What they said about the reflecting Americans’ his- What they said about the detention centers: “It’s ap- Ocasio-Cortez was trivializ- in the Holocaust. It is dis- detention centers: On July tory of compassion and our detention centers: “We have palling and it’s unthinkable ing the Holocaust by calling graceful for Rep. Alexandria 3, Greenblatt linked to an democracy’s historic values no first-hand knowledge and for the United States to treat the facilities “concentration Ocasio-Cortez to compare article about the govern- could not be more dire.” there are multiple conflict- people—whether they’re camps.” Some nonpartisan our nation’s immigration ment report and tweeted: National Council of ing reports, so we can’t admitted or not to the coun- Jewish groups warned about policies to the horrors car- “The pictures and details in Young Israel comment,” Rabbi Yaakov try—in such a manner, and the use of Holocaust analo- ried out by the Nazis.” this report are startling. It’s What they said about Menken, the group’s spokes- all of us should be better gies in political discourse. What they said about inhumane, period. @DHS- AOC: “Making references man, told JTA. than that,” he told JTA. “If Her defenders, including the detention centers: “We gov must end this cruelty to concentration camps in Deborah Lipstadt, Emory you can’t unite as a country a large number of scholars are horrified and angry immediately.” that context minimizes the University professor and to prevent the suffering of and left-wing activists, said about the conditions and https://twitter.com/ atrocities of the Holocaust Holocaust scholar children then we’re in just that “concentration camps” we appreciate that Speaker JGreenblattADL/sta- and cheapens the memories What she said about AOC abominable and disgraceful had a wider applicability Pelosi finally relented and tus/1146481122093785089 of the countless Jews who and the detention centers: shape.” than the death camps at supported the Senate bill to Simon Wiesenthal perished in those horrific In one tweet on June 24, Wolpe’s Los Angeles syna- Auschwitz or Treblinka, and fund humanitarian relief,” Center camps,” Farley Weiss, presi- Lipstadt condemned both gogue, Sinai Temple, has that the crowded, inhumane RJC said in a statement What they said about AOC: dent of the right-wing Ortho- Ocasio-Cortez’s language organized to provide supplies conditions merited use of this week to the Jewish “It’s an insult to the victims dox synagogue organization, and the conditions at the to migrants detained at the the term. Telegraphic Agency. Last of the Shoah to make blatant wrote in a letter. “There is centers. border. After 50 years on a dusty shelf in Germany, Hebrew scrolls return to Israel By Marcy Oster man city of Mainz to examine that had been sitting on a visited Mainz in March. He Kippur prayer book. Mainz value to its owner since it its Judaica collection, he dusty shelf for some 50 years. was there as a guest of the is known as Magentza in was housed in a custom brass JERUSALEM (JTA)— was surprised when library Jacobi, a doctoral can- Johannes Gutenberg Univer- Yiddish. container. Jacobi wondered When Leor Jacobi visited a officials showed him three didate in Jewish art at sity to study the particular During a visit to the Mar- aloud, not for the first time, Catholic library in the Ger- centuries-old Hebrew scrolls Israel’s Bar-Ilan University, Mainz version of the Yom tinus Library, Jacobi was how it ended up in the hands able to view its impressive of an Israeli souvenir dealer, Judaica collection, including sold to a priest and taken to rare books and manuscripts. Germany. Library director Helmut Not long after he returned TRANSFORM YOUR HOME AND Hinkel then brought out to Israel, Jacobi got a call three scrolls that were never from Hinkel asking if he UPGRADE YOUR STORAGE catalogued and asked Jacobi would like to help the Mainz to tell him what they were. library give the scrolls to a Jacobi determined that library in Israel. Jacobi said two of the scrolls were Ash- he consulted with his men- kenazi versions of the Book tors at Bar-Ilan and they of Esther that were at least all agreed that the scrolls 200 years old. The third was should be deposited with the the beginning of a Samari- National Library of Israel. tan Torah scroll, including Jacobi, who has a master’s the chapters of Genesis and degree in Talmud, agreed to Noah. return to Mainz last month The scrolls, he was told, to retrieve the scrolls, and had been purchased from a delivered a lecture related souvenir dealer for about $25 to the Book of Esther as part by Nikolaus Adler, a Catholic of the handover ceremony. priest in Mainz who died in And when he was handed BUY 5, GET 1 1970, while he was on a visit the scrolls there was a fourth, * to Israel in the 1960s. Adler which had been discovered said they had been sitting on behind some of the books on FREE a shelf in his former library that same dusty shelf. And office in the library for 50 this one was a bit rarer: a years. Song of Songs scroll. (Song Jacobi wrote a one-page of Songs is read in synagogue summary about each of on the Shabbat of Passover.) the scrolls for the library, The Esther scrolls will so that its officials would join the National Library’s Schedule your free design consultation understand what they had collection of approximately in their possession, never 200 partial and complete

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In January, that left an Ethiopian-Israeli at the local park when the Monday that it is unlikely that thousands of demonstrators teen dead has confirmed that shooting took place, remains the officer will be charged protested in Tel Aviv following the officer fired at the ground under house arrest and his with manslaughter, as had an incident in which police and that the bullet ricocheted name under a gag order. been expected, and that he shot and killed Yehuda Biadga, into Solomon Tekah’s body. Tekah’s family visited his could face lesser charges or 24, a mentally ill Ethiopian- The family of the killed grave on Monday to mark the disciplinary action instead. Israeli man who police say 19-year-old on Monday asked end of the seven-day shiva The Tekah family and the charged an officer while bran- the Justice Ministry’s Police mourning period. Ethiopian-Israeli community dishing a knife. A 2015 dem- Internal Investigations De- After two days of sometimes have called for manslaughter onstration at Rabin Square in partment to see the ballistics violent demonstrations last charges to be levied. “I put my Tel Aviv, following the beating report and autopsy report. week immediately following hope in the country’s judges of an Ethiopian-Israeli soldier The investigation appears Tekah’s death, his family asked and it is their responsibility by two police officers, ended to corroborate the officer’s that the demonstrations be put to ensure justice is done. I violently as police attempted claim that he shot his gun on hold until after shiva. On paid a heavy price, the com- to quell rioting by thousands after feeling threatened while Sunday, a family spokesman munity paid a heavy price,” of demonstrators. PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 19, 2019 PA is looking to mend relations with US administration with White House officials. Greenblatt’s extensive the issues and obstacles, in Representatives of Abbas and interview with Palestinian negotiations, so that we can Trump recently engaged in newspaper Al-Ayyam—not reach an agreement,” he said. secret talks to hash out the an inconsequential event “If we don’t reach a point details of the meeting, said considering the P.A.’s belief where everyone is sitting in the official. that the American adminis- one room and talking, as was “These discussions are tration is completely biased the case when the Palestin- strictly feelers, although both toward Israel—can be seen ians boycotted the Bahrain sides have shown a positive as further proof that Wash- conference, nothing will approach and made progress ington-Ramallah relations happen, and it won’t be the toward possibly renewing rela- are thawing. first time a peace process has tions,” said the official. “Greenblatt and [U.S. Am- failed,” stressed Greenblatt. According to the official, bassador to Israel David] “The thought that Washing- one of the reasons for the Friedman are personae non ton, Europe or the United Na- P.A.’s change in course is its gratae in the Palestinian tions has some sort of magic dissatisfaction over the U.S.- Authority, and the interview formula to resolve the conflict sponsored economic summit with Greenblatt is intended to is incorrect, and therefore, we in Bahrain in June, which soften the Palestinian public’s must all sit down in the same was attended by Arab states position before returning to room and talk.” Shealah Craighead despite pleas from Abbas to the path of discourse and Greenblatt didn’t spare U.S. President Donald Trump and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in the boycott it. According to the of- accepting the Trump adminis- the P.A. leadership any criti- Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 3, 2017. ficial, Ramallah viewed their tration as a mediator between cism during the interview, participation as “a betrayal of it and Israel,” said the P.A. telling the Ramallah-based By Daniel Siryoti the Palestinian Authority According to the official, a the Palestinian cause.” official. newspaper that “the Pales- and Washington have been senior delegation led by the Another reason, said the In the Al-Ayyam interview, tinians leadership needs to (Israel Hayom via JNS)—A exchanging messages in an ef- head of the P.A. General Intel- official, is that Ramallah ex- Greenblatt said: “President internalize that the [Bahrain] senior official in Ramallah fort to smooth things over and ligence Service, Majed Faraj, is pects the diplomatic portion Trump hasn’t made a decision summit’s success proves there revealed to Israeli daily Is- end the P.A. boycott against expected to fly to Washington of the American peace plan to yet on when to publish the full are those who believe in peace rael Hayom on Monday that the U.S. administration. in the near future to hold talks be unveiled following the up- peace plan. He is weighing the and in the Palestinian people’s coming Israeli election (set for options in accordance with ability to create a good and Sept. 17), and the Palestinians the Israeli election and the flourishing economy with the want to have stabilized their decision will be made shortly.” help of numerous investors. relationship with Trump and Trump and his administra- This is an opportunity the his envoys by then. tion are aware of the obstacles Palestinian leadership can’t The P.A.’s poor economic that stand in the way of the re- afford to miss.” T situation and Ramallah’s gional peace plan, Greenblatt With that, Greenblatt in- e n a c tyi interest in renewing financial added, but are determined to sisted that the Trump ad- WINS THE RACE. aid, as well as the P.A.’s assess- move forward. ministration has no intention ment that Trump is likely to “We weren’t surprised by of “forcing its positions on be re-elected in 2020, are also the difficulties the peace Ramallah or buying the Pales- possible factors. plan entails and that there tinians with money. If there is A Palestinian news re- are those who don’t ac- a peace deal, the Palestinians And the case. port on Monday quoted U.S. cept it. Anyone who doesn’t will have a dream economy, Special Representative for understand that, doesn’t because we believe that with- International Negotiations understand the essence of out a serious economic plan Jason Greenblatt as saying the conflict. With that, all that includes investments and MARK LANG & ASSOCIATES that Trump could introduce sides need to understand initiatives, a successful peace the political portion of his that it’s not possible to pres- plan isn’t feasible.” IRONMAN | ADVOCATE | LANGLAW.NET | Oces: Winter Park peace plan before the Israeli ent a perfect plan. We need This article first appeared election. to sit together and discuss in Israel Hayom. Israeli political party: ‘Make Israel Normal Again’ By Ben Sales and separation of religion man promises to form a unity and state. government with both sides. (JTA)—Avigdor Liberman, The slogan is a clear nod (Netanyahu has signaled the man who stopped Benja- to President Donald Trump’s his intention to ally his Likud min Netanyahu from forming “Make America Great Again” party with the far right, and Jewish Graveside Package: an Israeli government this slogan. Gantz would probably ally his year, has a new campaign Liberman is positioning his party, Blue and White, with • Service of Funeral Director and Staff slogan: “Make Israel Normal party as a moderate alterna- Labor. But Gantz has prom- Again.” tive to Israel’s far left and far ised not to join a coalition with The slogan showed up, right. Liberman’s ad claims Arab-Israeli parties.) • Sacred Burial Shroud in English, at the end of that Netanyahu is ready to ally Liberman, a former Ne- Liberman’s latest cam- with the far-right and haredi tanyahu ally, foiled the prime paign ad. Liberman heads Orthodox parties. It also minister’s bid to form a new • Filing all Necessary Paperwork the Yisrael Beiteinu party, claims the prime minister’s Israeli governing coalition which has historically rival, Benny Gantz, is ready earlier this year. That trig- stood for the interests of to ally with the center-left gered an unprecedented sec- • $200.00 to Chevra Kaddish Society donation for washing Israel’s Russian-speaking Labor Party and Arab-Israeli ond election in September, immigrants, advocating parties, who are seen as far five months after the one in • Traditional Jewish Flat Top Pine Casket a hawkish defense policy left in Israel. Instead, Liber- April.

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anti-Semitic poison? Orlando Weekday Morning Minyan (Conservative/Egalitarian), services Monday- By Orit Arfa from such groups have failed radical cohorts, in part due Friday 7:45 a.m. (9 a.m.—national holidays); 2nd floor Chapel—Jewish Academy of Orlando; to take office, Rosenfeld to members’ disillusionment 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. For information call 407-298-4650. (JNS)—Scholars on anti- noted the unprecedented with the party’s past failures Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. Semitism from Europe and success of progressive left and more permissive voting JewishCelebration.org; 407-479-8377. the United States gathered politicians, such as Min- rules. at the Berlin campus of In- nesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and This brand of anti-im- Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, diana University’s European Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, perialist Jews-hatred has 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. branch on June 30 to discuss who express public support also gripped an imbal- Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- “A Transatlantic Wave of for BDS and the weakening anced French media, fueled 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. Anti-Semitism? Jew-Hatred of America’s traditionally by anti-Israel sentiment in Europe and the United strong ties to Israel. among France’s sizeable Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. States.” In contrast to the far- Muslim community, said jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; The conference was orga- right, pro-Palestinian and Yana Grinshpun, professor Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. nized by Indiana University’s left-wing supporters of the at Sorbonne Nouvelle. Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, Institute for the Study of BDS-movement are wary of “Anti-Semitism in France Contemporary Antisemitism being called anti-Semites, is intrinsically linked to Is- 321-777-2770. and spearheaded by faculty said Tammi Rossman-Benja- rael and anti-Zionism,” she Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- member, Günther Jikeli, an min, co-founder and director said, adding that in large 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat expert on European Muslim of the California-based Am- parts of French society, services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. anti-Semitism. cha Initiative, which tracks Muslims have “substituted” “Jews in America no lon- BDS activity on American Jews. “Islamophobia has Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. ger feel immune to anti- campuses. One approach replaced anti-Semitism in betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. Semitism.” to battling them is to “urge Europe, which ‘doesn’t exist Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. “There is a rise in anti- campus officials to treat anymore.’ ” congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Semitism in the United anti-Semitic expression and France has experienced States coming from the behavior as other bigotries, the highest number of vio- Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; right, from the left,” the like racism and sexism,” lent, fatal anti-Semitic at- Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. German-born Rikeli told she said. tacks in Europe, perpetrated Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; JNS. “It’s really hard to say Anti-Semitism in Eu- mostly by young Muslims Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. what the biggest threat is in rope linked to Israel, who often couch their griev- the United States; we see it anti-Zionism ances against Jews as griev- Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, here in Europe longer. The America’s robust protec- ances against Israeli policies. Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. immediate threat depends on tion of free speech and Whereas a left-leaning Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. the country. The more east academic freedom, however, Western Europe embraces bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. you get, it’s from the right, poses a challenge in insti- the “universalist” Jew, in and the more west, it’s from tutionalizing an equation Eastern Europe, Jews are Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation young Muslims.” of BDS and anti-Semitism, embraced for their par- holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. Professor Alvin Rosenfeld, unlike in Germany, where ticularism and nationalism, com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. director of the Bloomington- the Parliament, back in May, often expressed through Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; based Institute and scholar approved a motion to brand religious practice and Zion- of anti-Semitism, addressed BDS as an expression of ism, explained Janos Gado, www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. the American sphere, focus- anti-Semitism, in part due editor of Szombat, a monthly Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., ing on the most recent deadly to Germany’s sensitivity to Jewish newsmagazine based Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. boycotts of Jews. in Budapest. shootings at synagogues in Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; Pittsburgh and Southern In the United Kingdom, The nationalist Hungarian California. the political, progressive government under Prime www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th “Jews in America no lon- left is epitomized by Jeremy Minister Viktor Orbán fan- Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. ger feel immune to anti- Corbyn and the current La- cies portraying Hungary as a Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. Semitism,” he said. bour Party, once a home for champion of Israel and Hun- Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- The synagogue perpetra- British Jews. Philip Spencer, garian Jewry—a safe haven tors aligned themselves with emeritus professor of Holo- from the anti-Israel left and 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. white-supremacist groups. caust and genocide studies anti-Semitic migrants. How- Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- The shooter at Pittsburgh’s at Kingston University, and ever, the same government 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. Tree of Life synagogue pro- a former Labour Party mem- seeks to minimize any Hun- claimed that Jews are the ber, said that under Corbyn, garian role in Nazi crimes. Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for “enemy of white people.” In the party does not equate “The memory of the Ho- services and holiday schedules. turn, he inspired the Chabad anti-Semitism with racism, locaust is important, but it’s Congregation Sinai (C/R), 1200 West Broad Street, Groveland; 352-243-5353; congre- of Poway teenage gunman in which it reserves for black- not supposed to overshadow gation-sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. California, who told police: white relations. grievances of the Hungarian “Jews are committing geno- “It doesn’t accept now nation,” said Gado, adding Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- cide on my people. I want to that the State of Israel was that a similar sentiment Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv kill Jews.” a necessity for Jews after applies to Poland, where the Please call for times. “Such activities are fed the Holocaust because after “Polish law” made it an of- Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- by several sources, includ- the Holocaust is over, it’s fense to attribute crimes of Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. ing a small but passionate finished. It won’t happen the Holocaust to the Polish Christian identity move- again.” Rather, the British nation. Temple Beth El (R) / Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-675- ment that dates back to the left perceive Israel and Zion- And while anti-Semitism 6615 / 386-252-3097; Friday Shabbat Service 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. 19th century and today is ism a variation of fascism may seem to come from sec- Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. undergoing a revival in the and racism. tors at odds with each other, populist and nativist right,” “On the right, anti-Sem- Rosenfeld warned that anti- Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat said Rosenfeld. itism is about the ‘mistake’ Semitism often trumps any service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. Such far-right extremists of giving Jews rights, eman- other ideology. “There are Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. may be small in number, “but cipation... Anti-Semitism on certain alliances today that mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; they do feel energized and the left is about Jews failing could have not been imag- Thursday, 10:00 a.m. feel they could step out of the the test of emancipation,” ined readily long ago. One of shadows and proudly make said Spencer. these things that bring these Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: their case to the American Corbyn, he said, overtook people together are hatred of Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. public.” Labour, along with his anti- Jews and, most importantly, Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. While aspiring politicians imperialist, anti-American the Jewish state.” Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. OBITUARY Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by BENNIE DUEL African-Middle Eastern Ser- Steiner of Longwood and Torah study. vice medal with one Bronze Debbie Duel (Ray Perez) of Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road Bennie Duel, age 93, of and one Silver Star. He also Longwood; and his grand- 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 Longwood, passed away on received the Good Conduct children—Zach, Josh, Sarah, p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 10, 2019, at Medal. Max and Natalie. his residence. He was born in Following his wartime A funeral service, with Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. Kansas City, Mo., on Sept. 27, service he married the for- military honors, was held shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. 1925, the son of the late Wil- mer Beverly Friedman and at Cape Canaveral National Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, liam and Mollie Duel. worked as a salesman selling Cemetery with Rabbi Arnold 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, Following high school, materials-handling equip- Siegel officiating. Bennie enlisted in the U.S. Air ment. The family relocated to Arrangements entrusted to 7:30 p.m. Force. He served in Europe the Orlando area from Miami Beth Shalom Memorial Cha- Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. as an airplane and engine in 2003. Beverly predeceased pel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando FL tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. mechanic seeing action in Bennie in 2017. 32810. 407.599.1180 www. France and Central Europe. Bennie is survived by bethshalommemorialchapel. (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa He received the European- his daughters, Susan (Jay) com. PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 19, 2019 A former lawmaker hopes HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ spurs change in Israel about the incident and even ment has yet to implement “I can only hope that the spiked tourism to the area of it, former Knesset member renewed interest in the great- the disaster. Ksenia Svetlova wrote in an est ecological disaster of the The HBO show is also a bit article earlier this month in twentieth century will eventu- of a hit in Israel, as it’s getting The Times of Israel. ally lead the media to focus not a second run on Israeli TV During her Knesset tenure only on the horror stories of next month. from 2015 to 2019, Svetlova, the two-headed chickens and Estimates of the event’s who is Russian, sought to the prematurely lost teeth, death toll vary widely, from understand why the law had but also on the actual lives of 4,000 to more than 93,000. yet to be implemented. She 1,500 Israelis who live here,” Many more suffered adverse was shocked by some of the she wrote. health effects as a result of answers she received. The series has also raised radiation poisoning. Today the “[T]he most outrageous questions in Israel about the area remains one of the most response of all was from country’s nuclear research contaminated by radiation in Deputy Health Minister center outside the city of the world. Yaakov Litzman, who told me Dimona, in the Negev Desert Chernobyl’s aftermath also that ‘research does not prove (Israel has long denied that can be felt in Israel. Some that the Chernobyl disaster the plant houses nuclear 5,000 “liquidators”—those liquidators suffer from ill- weapons). As the Times of called in to deal with the ex- nesses as a consequence of Israel points out, some worry plosion’s aftermath—moved their work at the reactor,” about Dimona’s aging nuclear to the Jewish state in the early Svetlova wrote. “Most of core. 1990s, and 1,500 are still alive them are smokers, and it is But experts say Israelis Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images and remain residents today. possible that cancer in their needn’t be overly concerned: A new HBO series portrays the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and aftermath. This image There’s even an Israeli law cases is a consequence of that While the site has vulner- shows a building at the Chernobyl exclusion zone in the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine. that gives the liquidators smoking.’” abilities, its scale and the rights to public housing, a Svetlova, who represented type of work done there differs By Josefin Dolsten dramatizes the events sur- of buzz around the world. one-time grant and medical the Zionist Union center-left from that of Chernobyl, so rounding the 1986 nuclear ex- In addition to garnering treatment in a special facility. bloc, has called on Israel to any potential damage would (JTA)—The HBO historical plosion in the now-Ukrainian critical acclaim, the series But while the Knesset passed address the needs of the re- be nowhere near the 1986 drama “Chernobyl,” which city, has generated plenty has renewed conversation the law in 2011, the govern- maining liquidators. incident. 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He was our world was indistinguishable hours of the night. for morning snooze time; no return to some semblance of Westminster! first “child,” and he taught from our own. In our 13 years Gone are the snores and the worrying over whether the normalcy, trotting outside, And Dubi, determined as us about what it meant to together, Dubi had seen all groans, the dream-induced medicine was administered in vacuuming his food, angling ever, insisted on playing these care for another being, what our children—now ages 12, growls and the canine purrs the just-right fashion. for treats and cheese every games long after his coordina- it meant to sacrifice our 9, 7 and 4—come into this that permeated our room each We let our adored dog, chance he got. He even still tion waned and his eyesight time and energy for a living world, and faithfully watched night. The foot of our bed sits Dubi—named for the Hebrew had a few tricks up his sleeve. dimmed. Even when the treats creature, one who depended each of them grow. None of would land on his head, his upon us for his every need. them knew a life without him. nose or at his feet, he would He showed us what it meant And none of them really knew continue to look up for another to love unconditionally and just how to say goodbye. But go. But a few months ago, even be loved unconditionally in as we stroked his fur, we felt Dubi understood he could no return. He taught us about him saying to us, wordlessly, longer lunge for treats, no mat- boundaries and discipline that his time was near. ter how hard he tried. 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Artist who drew anti- happened’; later apolo- were married at the syna- Guard has called off the search tion budget of about $130 Insisting his country had Semitic cartoon invited gizes gogue in 1939. Among the for a rabbi who jumped into million. the right to “recover” the Is- to White House By Marcy Oster guests was Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the ocean in a state park in The action thriller, set for raeli Golan Heights, Hussam By Marcy Oster (JTA)—A high school prin- the leader of Revisionist Zion- Virginia Beach, Virginia, sav- release in late 2020, is cen- Edin Aala said: “We demand (JTA)—An artist who drew cipal in Boca Raton, Florida, ists and mentor to Begin, who ing a student who was having tered around the pursuit of accountability and we call a cartoon that showed U.S. told a parent that “Not every- would go on to become Israel’s trouble returning to shore. the most wanted art thief in for impunity to be combated. government officials as pup- one believes the Holocaust sixth prime minister. The official search was the world. We condemn the decision of pets of George Soros and the happened.” The synagogue is depicted called off mid-Wednesday, a Netflix picked up the film the Trump administration, Rothschilds says he has been When the parent, who is not in the famous painting by full day after Reuven Bauman, after Universal Studios balked which is illegal, regarding the invited to the White House named in the report to protect Maurycy Gottlieb, “Jews 35, a teacher at Yeshiva Toras on producing, Deadline Hol- occupied Golan.” by President Donald Trump. the identity of her child, asked Praying in the Synagogue on Chaim in Norfolk, Virginia, lywood first reported. “We need to put an end to The Anti-Defamation the principal in an email to Yom Kippur,” which is now at jumped into water that was Johnson and Gadot ap- the actions of the occupation,” League called Ben Garri- clarify his remarks, telling him the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. be choppy with rip currents peared together in “Fast and he said, which is “confiscat- son’s 2017 cartoon “blatantly that the Holocaust is a “factual, Gottlieb was born in 1856 in at False Cape State Park. The Furious 6.” ing” land and “pillaging” anti-Semitic” and said that historical event,” he doubled Drohobych, then part of the student, said to be 13 years Gadot posted a teaser about resources. “the thrust of the cartoon is down, saying: “You have your Austrian Empire. old, and the 20 other students the movie on Instagram. Aala further blasted Is- clear: (then-National Secu- thoughts, but we are a public It later became part of from the local yeshiva were “So excited about this proj- rael’s practice of holding rity Advisor H.R.) McMaster school and not all of our parents Poland, was occupied by the said to be safe. ect! This is gonna be so much cabinet meetings in the Golan is merely a puppet of a Jewish have the same beliefs.” Germans, incorporated into The Coast Guard had de- fun & I can’t wait to share this Heights, and called its deci- conspiracy.” He said that as a school dis- the Soviet Union before be- ployed crews from Elizabeth one with you. Let’s do this sion to name a new commu- The cartoon, which the trict employee he cannot take coming part of Ukraine. City, N.C. and Little Creek, Va. boys!” the “Wonder Woman’ nity on the strategic plateau ADL said was commissioned a position on the Holocaust. ‘Green Book’ producer to search a total of 347 nauti- star wrote. after U.S. President Donald by right-wing radio host Mike The Palm Beach Post first Charles Wessler is help- cal miles, which is more than Johnson will be paid $20 Trump as “provocative.” He Cernovich, shows liberal Jew- reported the email exchange ing establish a new War- 450 square miles, according million to make the film. said that through such steps, ish philanthropist George on Friday. saw Ghetto museum to Coast Guard Lt. Steve Deadline Hollywood did not Washington had encouraged Soros pulling the strings of Spanish River Commu- By Cnaan Liphshiz Arguelles. A number of other report how much Gadot would Israel to “perpetrate further McMaster and former CIA nity High School principal (JTA)—Along with a group crews, including from the receive. war crimes.” director Gen. David Petraeus. William Latson in an email of contributors, Hollywood Virginia Beach police and fire Jerusalem court rules Aala was one of several Above Soros, a green hand in April 2018 first told the producer Charles B. Wessler departments and the National victims of terrorism can representatives to call on labeled “Rothschilds,” the parent, who was inquiring is working on a new museum Parks Service, participated in sue PA, PLO the U.N. High Commis- well-known Jewish banking about the school’s educational on the Warsaw Ghetto—and the search on land, air and sea. (JNS) —The Jerusalem Dis- sioner for Human Rights, family, manipulates him. plan for teaching the Holo- he’s asking for help. “It’s always a hard decision, trict Court ruled on Monday Michelle Bacelet, to publish The Rothschilds often caust, that “the curriculum In a video message posted and it’s not one we make that the Palestinian Author- a database of companies appear in anti-Semitic con- is to be introduced but not Thursday, the “Green Book” lightly,” said Arguelles told the ity and Palestine Liberation with ties to businesses in spiracy theories, which have forced upon individuals as producer asked anyone with Virginian-Pilot daily newspa- Organization can be tried in Israeli settlements, ac- them running a secretive we all have the same rights artifacts from the Warsaw per. In calling off the search, Israeli courts for 17 terrorist cording to a report in The international Jewish cabal but not all the same beliefs.” Ghetto to donate it to a new the Coast Guard considered attacks committed during the Jerusalem Post. that controls the world. The school, which has museum set to open in the the rough waters, the size Second Intifada, saying the IDF discovers attack Cernovich is known for about 2,500 students, is said Polish city in 2023. of the area searched and the organizations offered finan- tunnel under the Gaza- starting the “Pizzagate” to have one of the largest “We need your help,” says “likelihood of survivability,” cial, practical and ideological Israel border conspiracy theory, which Jewish student populations Wessler, who is Jewish and Arguelles said. He added that support for the attacks. (JNS)—The Israeli army claimed falsely that the in the county, according to whose other works include Bauman “acted heroically.” The victims and their announced on Monday the Clintons were running a the report. comedy blockbusters like Meanwhile, dozens of vol- families can now sue the most discovery of another infiltra- pedophile ring in the base- Latson, who has had his “Dumb and Dumber” and unteers from various orga- powerful Palestinian entities tion tunnel under the Israel- ment of a Washington, D.C., job since 2011, apologized in “There is something about nizations from New York, in Israeli courts for potentially Gaza border. pizza restaurant. a statement to the Post, saying Mary.” “If anyone has stories New Jersey and Baltimore, hundreds of millions of dollars According to Israel’s Chan- Garrison tweeted an im- his email “did not accurately or artifacts such as letters, Maryland joined the search in damages. nel 12 news, the tunnel is the age of his invitation to the reflect my professional and documents, photographs, or in Virginia and reportedly will In his decision, Judge 18th one uncovered since the White House for a social personal commitment to edu- objects from pre-World War continue. The organizations Moshe Drori said that the P.A. end of the 2014 Gaza war. media summit, saying he cating all students about the II and wartime Poland, please include Achiezer, Hatzalah and PLO played roles in incit- “IDF troops just revealed was “honored.” atrocities of the Holocaust.” contact us.” Air, Misaskim of Baltimore ing the Palestinian public to an underground terror tunnel Mark Mellman, who heads The school’s educational Wessler got involved in the and Baltimore Shomrim violence against Israeli Jews, dug from Gaza into Israel,” the Democratic Majority offerings on the Holocaust museum during a private visit who have arrived with boats, and that as they did not con- the army posted on the of- for Israel advocacy group exceed the state’s require- to Warsaw last month, when Yeshiva World News report- stitute a state entity entitled ficial English Israel Defense issued a statement. “By in- ments, according to Latson, he met the museum’s direc- ed. Other volunteers came to immunity from damages Forces Twitter feed. “How’d viting a cartoonist to the though not all of the offer- tor, Albert Stankowski, and with jet skis or are walking claims. we find it? While building an White House whose work ings actually take place in offered to help with collecting on the shorelines. Drori cited late PLO leader underground security bar- the Anti-Defamation League the classroom. The parent materials for the opening. The rabbi, who is listed on Yasser Arafat, who said it was rier. Why are we building an calls ‘blatantly anti-Semitic,’ proposed a change, adopted Celebrity physician Dr. the school’s website as teach- “the declared policy of the underground barrier? To stop President Trump is, again, this school year, which would Mike provides emergency ing seventh- and eighth-grade PLO and P.A. … to carry out Gaza terrorists from digging fanning the flames of hatred,” have every 10th grader read treatment to Birthright secular studies teacher and terror attacks against Israel,” tunnels into Israel. Guess it’s he said. “At a time when “Night” by Elie Wiesel. participant on Israel- third-grade Judaic studies, and condemned the organiza- working.” antisemitic incidents are Latson was not disciplined bound flight is the father of five children. tions for idolizing terrorists Israel is currently building increasing at an alarming for his emails. By Cnaan Liphshiz The water on Tuesday was by naming streets and plazas a 40-mile-long, $700 million rate, President Trump should Ukraine synagogue (JTA)—The celebrity physi- reported to be choppy with rip after them, celebrating them anti-tunnel security barrier withdraw his invitation to where Menachem Begin cian known as Dr. Mike may currents, and area lifeguards in public rallies, and lauding and detection system along this purveyor of anti-Jewish was married gets Torah have saved the life of a Birth- had raised a red flag, which them in official publications. the border with the coastal hate and condemn all forms scroll right participant aboard the means that swimming is pro- The ruling, which included enclave. of bigotry.” By Cnaan Liphshiz flight to Israel. hibited, the local channel ABC allied organizations as well as Work on the barrier began 5 Israeli soldiers injured (JTA)—The Ukraine syna- Mikhail Varshavski admin- 13 news reported. Swimming rival terrorist groups Hamas in 2016, and is due to be in car-ramming attack gogue where the late Israeli istered emergency treatment is prohibited in that area of the and Islamic Jihad, was made in completed by the end of 2019. By Marcy Oster prime minister Menachem to a 26-year-old who was state park as well. response to suits by dozens of Coldplay’s Chris Martin JERUSALEM (JTA)—Five Begin was married received having an acute allergic re- Local rabbi Gavriel Rudin families who lost loved ones in visits Israeli kindergar- Israelis soldiers were injured its first Torah scroll since action about two hours after told the CBS affiliate News the attacks, the first of which ten for Jewish and Arab in a car-ramming attack in World War II. takeoff, Ynet reported. Flight 3 WTKR that volunteers occurred in 1996 at the Tomb children the West Bank. Leaders of Ukrainian Jewry attendants asked whether would continue to search for of Joseph in Shechem/Nablus By Gabe Friedman The driver suspected of gathered Wednesday at the there was a doctor aboard, Bauman. during Arab uproar over the (JTA)—Coldplay front- ramming his car in to the Choral Synagogue in the according to the report Thurs- “We know the chances are opening of the Western Wall man Chris Martin visited a group of soldiers near the western city of Drohobych day on last week’s incident. slim, but we have not given tunnels in Jerusalem. kindergarten for Jewish and Hizme checkpoint northeast to celebrate the introduction Varshavski, himself a Birth- up and Jews throughout the The P.A. and PLO have been Arab children in the central of Jerusalem, was arrested of the scroll in a ceremony right participant 10 years ago, world are hoping and praying ordered to pay NIS 5.5 million Israeli city of Jaffa during a later the same night after a featuring songs, dances and monitored the patient’s condi- for his safe return,” he told the (about $1.5 million) in legal quick visit. manhunt, the IDF said in a speeches. tion until the plane landed. news channel. fees to the families. The English rock star was statement issued on Sunday Completed in 1865, the This time, the 29-year-old He added that in Judaism, Monday’s ruling followed a spotted by a reporter for Is- morning. synagogue inspired by the Russia native was a guest of finding his body and giving precedent set by Judge Drori rael’s Channel 12 show “Good The driver was arrested, Rundbogenstil school was the group America’s Voices it a proper burial is also of in a 2014 case involving the Evening with Guy Pines” on along with his father, in Hizme among the region’s most in Israel, which performs “incredible importance.” highway shooting deaths of Monday. and taken for questioning, impressive. It became aban- advocacy work by bringing “I’m sure you know the fam- three Israelis at the beginning Martin donates to the foun- according to the report. doned in the Holocaust, when celebrities to the Jewish state. ily is really struggling now, of the Second Intifada in 2001. dation behind the Bustan Yafa The soldiers were in the most of the region’s Jews were Varshavski, whose fam- and we want to bring them In that case, Drori ruled that network of schools, accord- area on an “operational mis- murdered by the Nazis. It was ily immigrated to the United that closure and show Rabbi the P.A. and PLO were not ing to The Jerusalem Post. sion.” They were evacuated a furniture warehouse during States when he was 5, has been Bauman the proper respects immune to tort claims and The schools teach multiple to two Jerusalem hospitals communist times. featured on BuzzFeed and in if that’s what it comes to,” ordered the P.A. to pay $17.6 religions and languages, and with three of the soldiers In 2013, philanthropist People magazine’s 2015 issue he said. million in damages. preach tolerance and coex- moderately injured and two Viktor Vekselberg funded a of The Sexiest Man Alive. He Gal Gadot to star in Net- Syria has right to ‘recov- istence. lightly injured. $1 million restoration of the has a YouTube channel that flix’s biggest film yet er’ the Golan Heights, After touring the Jaffa The IDF said in its state- synagogue. The project—led provides medically themed By Marcy Oster says country’s UN envoy school, Martin reportedly ment that the attack was by Vekselberg’s father, Felix, educational entertainment. (JTA)—Israeli actress Gal (Israel Hayom via JNS)— visited the West Bank before terrorist in nature, and that who was born in that city— Official search called off Gadot will star in the biggest Syria’s U.N. envoy on Mon- leaving on Tuesday. the driver ran them over on was completed last year. Vik- for Virginia rabbi who feature film ever made by day called for Jerusalem to Martin has attempted to set purpose. tor Vekselberg, who was born jumped in ocean to save Netflix. withdraw from the Golan up a concert in Israel for years Florida high school in Drohobych as well, also student “Red Notice,” also starring Heights at a meeting of the to promote Israeli-Palestinian principal: ‘Not everyone donated the scroll. By Marcy Oster Ryan Reynolds and Duane world body’s Human Rights coexistence, but the plan has believes the Holocaust Begin, and his wife, Aliza, (JTA)—The U.S. Coast Johnson, will have a produc- Council. never taken shape. PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 19, 2019 New York City is considering a ban on fur—hasidic Jews and Jewish fur dealers aren’t happy By Josefin Dolsten ing he would want a potential the garment industry. In- ban to be phased in over time deed, Kaufman’s own family NEW YORK (JTA)—It’s time to have a less dramatic entered the industry in 1870 summer and Marc Kaufman impact on the industry. after emigrating from Russia, has thousands of coats in The New York State Senate Germany and Hungary. the basement of his store in and Assembly also are consid- Since ready-to-wear cloth- Midtown Manhattan. For a fee, ering bills to ban the sale of ing production was a new in- the fifth-generation fur dealer fur in the state. dustry, Jews faced fewer barri- cleans and stores them for his Stores that earn the major- ers than in already established customers to help prevent ity of their revenues through fields, Soyer said. Some Jews heat damage. the sale of fur employ about also brought relevant skills Upstairs there are racks and 1,110 people, according to Fur from their native countries. racks of coats for sale—lynx, NYC, which opposes the ban. The number of Jews work- mink, chinchilla, sable and That doesn’t include a supply ing in the garment industry coyote, Kaufman’s personal chain that includes market- remained high through the favorite. There’s everything ing, banking and insurance, 1920s (in 1910, three-quarters from a long white fox coat says the trade group. of the furriers in the city were speckled with bright pink, “A fur ban would be cata- Jews). It started decreasing black and blue to a bluish strophic to New York City— in the 1960s with the rise of gray bomber-style chinchilla eliminating a historic manu- mass-produced clothing, ac- jacket. facturing community, along cording to Soyer. Coats sell for an average of with thousands of jobs for New Animal rights activists say $3,000 but can go for up to Yorkers who’ve never made the practice and methods of $150,000. Kaufman has sold another living and millions of killing animals for their fur is to big names such as Jen- tax revenue that fund critical cruel. Starting in 1992, People nifer Lopez and 50 Cent, and government programs that for the Ethical Treatment of his grandfather sold fur to help New Yorkers,” according Animals, or PETA, began a to Fur NYC. memorable “Rather Go Naked Marilyn Monroe and Liberace. Josefin Dolsten But new legislation pro- Like many other stores Than Wear Fur” campaign There are more than 150 fur stores in New York City, according to a group advocating posed in the City Council here in New York’s Fur District, that eventually included ce- against a proposed fur ban. could threaten Kaufman’s there are signs posted on lebrity spokespeople. livelihood, and those of some Kaufman’s store protesting During a hearing on the legislation contains a reli- and untenable. Bezalel Stern, not mandated by Jewish law. 150 other stores in New York the proposal. proposed legislation last gious exemption that would an attorney at Kelley, Drye & “It is not required to actual- that earn the majority of their “If they don’t want to month, Johnson showed allow the sale of fur to those Warren, LLP, representing ize holiness,” said Yanklowitz, income through fur sales. wear furs, they don’t [have graphic images of animals using it as part of their faith. the International Fur Federa- who is Orthodox. “What is In March, City Council to] wear it,” he told the Jew- housed and killed for their “If we ban fur and then you tion, says the exemption vio- required, however, is the need Speaker Corey Johnson intro- ish Telegraphic Agency last pelts. A number of celebrities, have people that are still out lates the First Amendment’s to follow the notion of ‘tzar duced legislation that would week. “If they don’t want to including fashion guru Tim there wearing it, considering Establishment Clause because ba’alei chaim’: not causing ban the sale of new fur apparel. eat meat, let them not eat Gunn, have spoken out with the fact that hate crime in it would favor religion and needless pain to animals.” “As an animal lover, I meat. But don’t impose your PETA in favor of the ban. New York City is on the rise, have the government evalu- Jewish Veg, which advo- believe it is cruel to kill an views on me.” In addition to fur dealers, a people will be targeted on the ate the validity of a person’s cates for veganism in the animal just for the purpose Jews once dominated the number of groups oppose the streets, saying, ‘Why are you religious claim. Jewish community, also threw of people buying and wearing New York fur and garment proposed ban. They include wearing this if there’s a fur Stern fears that if the law its support behind the bill. In a fur coat. There is really no industry. The boom of the members of the African- ban?’” Deutsch, an Orthodox were to pass, the religious a statement, the group said need for this,” Johnson said in ready-to-wear clothing in- American community, for Jew, told The New York Times. exemption would not stand that fur industry practices a statement ahead of introduc- dustry after the Civil War whom fur continues to be Alexander Rapaport, a Ha- up in court. constitute “egregious viola- ing the bill. coincided with a large influx a status symbol, and some sid who runs a Brooklyn-based “I think the [City Council] tions of Jewish ethics.” In May, the council heard of Jewish immigrants from environmental activists, who network of kosher soup kitch- speaker knows that the reli- “Judaism mandates that we testimony from opponents Eastern Europe, said Daniel argue that it will lead to an ens, echoed Deutsch’s fears. gious exemption is unconsti- treat animals with exquisite and critics of the ban. Fol- Soyer, a professor of American increase in non-biodegradable “There are thousands and tutional and he’s putting it in and sensitive compassion, lowing the hearing, Johnson Jewish history at Fordham fake fur coats. thousands of citizens who because he wants to—excuse and the practices of the fur slightly changed his tune, say- University who researches Also opposing the ban wear [the shtreimel] for cul- my pun—pull the fur over industry grotesquely violate are Hasidic Jews, who often ture and tradition, and it’s people’s eyes in order to get this mandate,” the organiza- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 wear the cake-shaped sable almost symbolic to their way it passed,” Stern said. tion said. N A M S A N D H E A D S hats known as shtreimels on of life,” he told JTA. But the ban has Jewish Meanwhile, Kaufman says 13 14 15 E R A O R C A A X L E S Shabbat and holidays. Made Rapaport questioned the proponents, too. he’s more focused on running 16 17 18 from the tails of sables and efficacy of the bill, since it Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, his business than worrying G E D A L I A H M E C C A foxes, the hats can cost as would only ban fur in New the founder of Shamayim: about the legislation, which 19 20 21 much as $5,000. York, and wondered whether Jewish Animal Advocacy, he believes is unlikely to pass. A N A T A L P A C A Councilman Chaim it would put “a bulls-eye on criticized Hasidic opposi- “God will take care of 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 T A M M U Z I A N T D S Deutsch of Brooklyn cited every shtreimel.” tion to the ban in an email everything,” he said. “Furs 29 30 31 32 the Hasidic custom as a reason Some see the religious to JTA, saying that wearing come from God, it’s part of E S E T A M A R W R I T why he opposes the ban. The exemption as problematic shtreimels is a custom but the Bible.” 33 34 R I C E N A A V A 35 36 37 38 39 N E B U C H A D N E Z Z A R Diplomats 40 41 C I L I A B O S E From page 1A claims our attendance at this 42 43 44 45 46 47 historic event supports ‘Juda- I R O N C O A S T O R G criticized the participation ization’ of Jerusalem/is an act 48 49 50 51 of the U.S. diplomats. PLO of hostility vs. Palestinians. S E O T A B E S T H E R Secretary-General Saeb Er- Ludicrous. We can’t ‘Juda- 52 53 54 55 M A I L E D O M R I ekat referred to Friedman as ize’ what history/archeology 56 57 58 59 60 “an extremist Israeli settler” show. We can acknowledge it A G E N T Y I S H M A E L in a tweet about the event. & you can stop pretending it 61 62 63 D O O K U E D O M G A L “We should show this to all isn’t true! Peace can only be 64 65 66 who participated in Manama,” built on truth.” S O S A S D I N O E D S the tweet also said, referring The left-wing NGO Emek to last week’s U.S.-led Mid- Shaveh, whose goal is to east economic conference in preserve archaeological sites Bahrain. as a shared heritage, said that Before being named ambas- there is not enough evidence sador, Friedman led a group to say that the street was part that raised money for the West of the pilgrimage route. From Yoav Dothan’s photo of the road ascending toward Bank settlement of Bet El. Dozens of activists from the Temple Mount, on the ancient Jerusalem pilgrim road that Greenblatt took issue with Peace Now protested outside was used by pilgrims ascending from the Pool of Siloam to the criticism, tweeting: “PA of the event. the Temple Mount via the Hulda Gates in the Southern Wall. NEA From page 1A news outlets to express that in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tion also includes expressing this is wrong. signed a bill in May 2019 hatred for Jews, calling for hatred. This “new business” “Shine a light on this making anti-Semitism illegal the killing or harming of a item on its agenda clearly travesty,” said local resident in K-12 textbooks and cur- Jewish person, criticizing reveals that the NEA is Donna Render. “Don’t sit back riculum in Florida. the collective power of the trying to spread lies and and wait for someone else to The bill also includes an Jewish community, or accus- encourage misconceptions do it. This is a very dangerous extensive definition of anti- ing Jewish people or Israel of about Israel. situation as these teachers Semitism, including speech inventing or exaggerating the Already several people are influence the minds of our that makes dehumanizing Holocaust. Whether this bill sharing this information on children.” or stereotypical allegations covers misconceptions about social media, encouraging With the rise of anti- about the Jewish community. Israel’s treatment of Palestin- everyone to write to NEA and Semitism nationwide, here The anti-Semitism defini- ians is inconclusive. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 19, 2019 PAGE 15A we’re going to continue to Mayors look for opportunities.” From page 1A Kriseman mentioned meet- ing several times in the past common belief in democracy,” with the Florida-Israel Busi- said Garcetti in a statement ness Alliance and an Israeli by AJC. “Our delegation is business called ECOncrete, showing how cities lead on the which uses environmentally world stage, how mayors get friendly concrete methods things done and how urban and first started in St. Pe- centers can tackle everything tersburg. from innovation and climate Sheehan of Albany told change to immigration and JNS about a meeting with economic growth.” one Israeli startup that could While the mayors saw help them better connect with A bipartisan delegation of U.S. mayors visited Israel with the American Jewish Committee’s Project Interchange as part many of the aspects that their constituents. of an effort to enhance U.S.-Israel relations and learn practical tools at the municipal level. make Israel special, one of This startup has “a new the biggest takeaways was product that is focused solely development and workforce that no matter where they on municipalities and help- issues,” adding that while are—in small-town America ing us to better understand Israel currently has a low or in the Middle East—many public sentiment, so that’s unemployment rate, the West of the daily challenges remain something that’s of interest Bank and Gaza exhibit the comparable. to me to follow up on,” he said. opposite. According to AJC, the visit “AJC has worked closely On the trip, she did observe is intended to provide these with mayors and municipal efforts in the West Bank to re- local policymakers with a leaders for decades on issues of cruit engineers in improving firsthand understanding of mutual concern,” said Melanie the area’s technology sector Israel, and its economic and Maron Pell, AJC managing and universities “to ensure social entrepreneurship. AJC director of regional offices, that they’re accessing the full said that the goal is for these who joined the delegation in workforce that is available.” mayors to observe Israel’s Israel. “The mayors learn a The mayors also met with democracy, diverse society great deal about high-tech top leaders across the political and regional challenges. and economic development, and social spectrum, includ- During the visit, the mayors immigration absorption, ing Israel President Reuven met with their Israeli counter- diversity and emergency Rivlin, U.S. Ambassador to parts to discuss best practices services that will assist them Israel David Friedman, high- for their home communities in their governance of their ranking government officials, U.S. mayors spend time at an Israeli school. on smart-city development, respective cities.” leaders of Israel’s minority economic growth technology In addition to visiting communities, and Jewish and described. “And the grand- “In looking at the differenc- While the mayors saw startups, urban revitalization significant historical and Arab civil society leaders. parents were there.” es even among communities many of the aspects that and city administration. They cultural sites, the delegation They also received a briefing He continued, saying “it we visited in Israel, it also sort make Israel special, one of also spoke with an executive visited Tel Aviv; Haifa; Israel’s from Brig. Gen. Nitzan Nuriel was just so familiar to the of resonated because I look at the biggest takeaways was from Intel in Israel. border areas, including up regarding the security situa- mayors because it was like, New York State, for example, that no matter whether they “Part of the reason I travel north near Lebanese; and tion in neighborhoods near ‘Kids are all the same, no mat- and you have New York City are in small-town America or outside of not only my city Jerusalem, including the the Golan Heights and the ter where they are. Obviously, with its own issues,” she said. in the Middle East, many of and state but our country Old City. The delegation also Gaza Strip. parents are still the same, no “And then you have the rest of the daily challenges remain is we see our city as an op- met with Palestinian civic Bemis recalled that one matter where they are.” New York State, which is very comparable. portunity, especially in the and business leaders in the of the most memorable mo- City issues are comparable different.” “The issues of a mayor are technology area, where in Palestinian Authority in the ments of the trip was going to The delegation also ob- “You sort of see the same not that dissimilar, no matter Israel it is a startup capital of West Bank. Several sessions an event at a small community served how Israel balances thing in Israel,” she contin- where they are in the world,” the world, really, in the largest dealing with Israel’s strate- school in Kiryat Shmona. the preservation of its heritage ued. “There’s Tel Aviv, which said Bemis, who cited garbage hub of tech outside of Silicon gic environment, diversity “It felt exactly like I was with modern municipal man- is a very different place than pickup and potholes as ex- Valley,” said Kriseman. “We and coexistence, and inter- in my own city. The parents agement and the provision of some of the cities we visited amples. “One of the other big think there are opportunities religious cooperation were were the same, videotaping... social services. that were clearly different takeaways that the mayors felt for companies that may have discussed, according to AJC. the kids. Parents had smiles Sheehan said that Haifa, from the cities we visited on was that a mayor is a mayor, started in Israel to locate a Sheehan mentioned hear- on their face. The kids were like Albany, is a diverse the West Bank, but also differ- no matter where they’re at. branch of their business, their ing about “some of the ap- singing the same way, albeit city, specifically in terms of ent from some of the northern The issues are almost always U.S. location, in our city, so proaches around workforce in a different language,” he religion. cities we visited.” the same.” BDS From page 4A signed with the Palestinian report showed, the EU and its served as PFLP’s representa- Mitrochin in The World Was February, illustrating how few Authority in the 1990s, the member states fund massive tive to Fatah bodies. Fatah, Going Our Way: The KGB and degrees of separation there Thus, it is not surprising West Bank was divided into Palestinian operations to seize the main faction of the Pales- the Battle for the Third World, are between these trendy that communists and PFLP- three areas dubbed Area A, lands in Area C both along tine Liberation Organization beginning in 1970, the PFLP terrorists and actual elected aligned BDS agitators joined Area B, and Area C. Areas major highway arteries and of which the PFLP is a mem- was largely controlled by the officials. The Samidoun Pal- forces to call for Israel’s A and B are the Palestinian adjacent to and surrounding ber, is the PA ruling faction. KGB. The KGB was drawn to estinian Prisoner Solidarity destruction and support ter- population centers. They were Israeli communities in Area C. Like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the terror group, which was Network, whose leadership rorism at Al Quds Day dem- transferred to the control of As Regavim outlines, the the PLFP in Gaza attacks Is- the pioneer of international includes at least one Popular onstrations from Dearborn to the PA, which has ruled them primary means the Palestin- rael with rockets and mortars. passenger jet hijacking in Front for the Liberation of New York to Beirut. Al Quds as an autonomy for the past ians use to seize vast tracts Then too, Bashar Al Khiri part because of its Marxist- Palestine official and whose Day was created by Iran to 23 years. of land is agriculture. And served as the President of Leninist veneer. Today, using events frequently feature present the Shiite ayatollahs Israel retained control over the main Palestinian group the UAWC Advisory Board its leftist roots, the PFLP is PFLP’s flag, has also thrown as the tip of the spear in the Area C, which includes ap- involved in the operations is from 2005 until 2010. Before pioneering the fusion of po- its support behind Ocasio- global war against Israel. proximately 60 percent of the called the Union of Agricul- taking up his position at the litical warfare and terrorism Cortez and fellow freshman Moreover, as we shall pres- West Bank. Area C includes tural Work Committees. Like UAWC, he was in an Israeli as a means to legitimize both Rep. Ilhan Omar. Rep. Rashida ently see, through their all of the Israeli communi- Samidoun and other major prison after being convicted yhr PFLP itself, and its goal of Tlaib, D-Mich., posed for a addition of political warfare ties and military bases in the BDS operatives, according to on terror charges. In 2012, annihilating Israel with the photo with a Samidoun’s to their terrorism portfolio, West Bank. It also includes the Regavim report, the UAWC the Israel Law Center, an Is- international left. U.S. coordinator Joe Catron terror groups, including the the international border is riven with ties to the PFLP. raeli legal group that defends A case in point is the celeb- last month. PFLP, are able to secure the with Jordan in the east, and According to the report, terrorism victims informed rity status that PFLP airplane The Palestinian terrorist cooperation and in some cases the mountain ranges that “Both the PFLP and the UAWC Australian authorities that hijacker Leila Khaled enjoys groups responsible for the on- the funding of European gov- control both central Israel have attempted to obscure two Australian NGOs were in on the far left. In the early going terror campaign against ernments and the EU, which and the eastern border. In their close ties, in order to por- violation of Australian and 1970s, Khaled carried out Israel are not the only actors support their political warfare other words, as Israeli Major tray the civilian organization U.S. anti-terror laws due to two airline hijackings. Last involved in the political war against Israel. General (retired) Gershon as an independent non-profit. their financing of the PFLP- month Justin Rossomando being waged against Israel in BDS is not the only cam- Hacohen set out in a detailed Notwithstanding their efforts, tied UAWC. pointed out in the Washington the West, and on the ground paign in which the PFLP is study of Area C published there is clear evidence of their According to the Regavim Examiner that leftist groups in Israel. intimately involved. If BDS is earlier this year, Israel can- ideological and financial report, UAWC receives funds now view Khaled as a heroine. But their involvement in the battle for the hearts and not defend itself either from interdependence.” from Norwegian People’s Aid, Her images are frequently BDS campaigns has worked to minds of the nations of the Palestinian terror threats or The report cites an internal a Norwegian government featured in BDS propaganda legitimize the organizations West for the cause of Israel’s from foreign infiltration and USAID document from 1993 funded group. In the past, on university campuses. themselves, their terrorist destruction, on the ground invasion without Area C. which refers to the UAWC as USAID viewed NPA as a part- Rossomando notes that the aggression against Israel in Israel, the PFLP is also As the Regavim report “the agricultural wing of the ner in its projects on behalf Left’s iconography of Khaled and ultimately, their goal of actively involved in another recalls, in 2009, then Pales- Popular Front for the Libera- of the Palestinians. However, shows that support for the annihilating the Jewish state campaign to seize lands that tinian Prime Minister Salam tion of Palestine.” the Regavim study reports, in PFLP “has gone mainstream in the eyes of a large cross Israel requires to defend its Fayyad laid out a program for The affiliation with the 2017, the U.S. Department of elsewhere on the progressive section of the hard core, and vital strategic interests and seizing Area C from Israel. The U.S. and EU designated terror Justice indicted NPA on ter- Left.” increasingly influential, hard its citizens. EU gave official, full-throated group is ongoing, Regavim rorism finance charges. “The U.S. Campaign for left in America. In November 2018, Re- supportfor the program. As reports. For instance, Jamil According to the Regavim Palestinian Rights and its Originally published at gavim, an Israeli NGO dedi- Regavim’s report exposes, Muhamad Ismail Al Majda- report, “During the course Executive Director Youssef Breitbart.com. cated to protecting Israel’s the program was based on lawi, who served as the vice of the trial, NPA admitted Munayyer have tweeted their Caroline Glick is the senior state lands and natural re- land seizures in tactical president of the UAWC in to supporting Iran, Hamas support for this designated Middle East Fellow at the sources published a major and strategic choke points, Gaza, is a senior PFLP com- and a number of other terror terrorist group,” he wrote. Center for Security Policy in study of Palestinian land without which Israel will be mander. Regavim relays that organizations.” He added: Washington, DC, the deputy seizures in Area C of the West hard-pressed to defend its he served as the PFLP com- According to the KGB Rep. Alexandria Ocasio- managing editor of The Jeru- Bank. In the framework of the citizens’ lives and its vital stra- mander in Gaza. archive published by Chris- Cortez retweeted Munayyer salem Post and a contributor peace agreements that Israel tegic needs. As the Regavim In 2013, Al Majdalawi topher Andrew and Vasili on an unrelated issue in to the Jewish World Review. PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 19, 2019 The new Netflix show ‘Family Business’ is a French-Jewish version of ‘Breaking Bad’ By Canaan Liphshiz particular, the series has The daring plan, which multiple hidden layers of involves growing $3 million (JTA)—One fan’s recent meaning, and offers astute worth of dope in time for description on Twitter of the observations about Juda- planned legalization, is also new Netflix series “Family ism’s ability to adapt and partly born out of crisis in Jo- Business” isn’t too far off: a survive even when all seems seph’s family. His Sephardic “French Breaking Bad but lost—in France and beyond. father is not adjusting well with weed.” The decline of the Ha- to the recent loss of Joseph’s The French series, which zan family’s meat shop Ashkenazi mother. debuted last week, is a wacky in the Marais district, for The fusion of Sephardic comedy about a Parisian instance, echoes the real- and Ashkenazi ancestry is Jewish family, the Hazans, life departure of Jews and celebrated in the family’s that turns its failed kosher their businesses from the diet, which insiders will rec- meat shop into a marijuana area that once was the beat- ognize both as an accurate factory. 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