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46 45 45 Issue Week of April 15 - 22, 2016 • 7 - 14 Nissan, 5776 Vol. 9 • Issue 16 45 PAGE 6 PAGE 27 45 PREPARING THE DOUGH FOR BAKING SHMURAH MATZAH GOVERNOR KASICH VISITS THE CHILDREN AT SHEMA KOLAINU CAUSE FOR CONCERN IN ISRAEL WHEN THE PALESTINIANS HEAD TO THE UN 46 The key to stop the latest Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas, PA President is an isolated stance and veto a resolution. bid to get Israel denounced at the UN’s expected in December to promote yet On the one hand, there are several rea- Security Council lies with US President another try to get the UN to condemn sons to assume that the Obama adminis- Barack Obama. He will be in the uneasy Israel’s actions in East Jerusalem and the tration could abstain and allow it to pass. position of having to either veto a resolu- West Bank. The US needs Arab allies in its fight tion despite agreeing with its content, A uncovered draft of the planned against the Islamic State group and may or to refrain or support it, thus further resolution voices “grave concern” over not want to provoke them over the Pales- CHAZAQ EVENT FILLS THE ENTIRE HALL isolating America’s reliable ally in the fading hopes of a two-state solution and tinian question. Furthermore, Obama — Middle East and allowing political op- demands Israel to “immediately and who, during his last months in office is IN THIS WEEK’S ponents at home to portray his party as completely cease all settlement activities keen on leaving a tangible legacy in the anti-Israel. in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, region — might still be bitter over Prime ISSUE Not like the last time, Israel con- including East Jerusalem.” Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s blatant Avos / Chapter 1 fronted a hostile resolution at the UN’s China, Russia, Egypt, Malaysia, Sen- effort to thwart the nuclear deal with Iran Breindy Reiss...................................7 Security Council, in December 2014, this egal, Venezuela and France are certain to by addressing the US Congress and try- Mitzraim Today time there is practically no chance that it support the draft. It is difficult to meas- ing to get American Jews to oppose their Roy Neuberger...............................10 will fail to gain the necessary majority. ure whether the US will once again take government. From Rejection to Redemption Rabbi Naphtali Hoff.......................18 My Name is Elizabeth and I am Jewish Despite wane in Palestinian ter- I’m Cancelling Pesach! RABBI AVI BAUMOL Racheli Fried...................................24 rorism, Israel’s Shin Bet warns of I am privileged to teach all types of people in Krakow; concrete threat JNS NEWS.....................................36 Jews, non-Jews, old, young, those who knew they were Jew- ish all their lives and those who just found out and are re- SHLOMO CESANA You Can’t Compare — Or Can You? connecting to the Jewish world. One of my students, Eliza Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz...............40 Is the current wave of Palestinian terrorism waning? The Schwartzman, has a remarkable story which I would like to Israeli Shin Bet security agency’s latest data says yes. But share with you. the agency maintains that the Islamic Movement in Israel is Ever since I was a child I knew I was Jewish; I also still trying to stir violence on the Temple Mount holy site, knew I could never reveal my Jewish identity. and that terrorist groups plan to perpetrate large attacks CONT. ON P4 CONT. ON P38 ,urb ,eksv Kerry’s resounding Iranian ‘success’ Use Three Little Words to 7 Nisan ixhb "z BEN COHEN Reduce Your Anxiety Parashat Metzora DR. JOSEPH MERCOLA (Shabbat Hagadol) Here’s the latest episode of outreach to Iran from the When you’re feeling anxious, do you lips of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. After condemn- 7:16 P.M. FIVE TOWNS ever tell yourself to calm down and relax? ing, during a press conference in Bahrain, the “destabilizing 7:18 P.M. 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BAUMOL interesting about themselves (I response. Finally I confronted vartsman and I proudly showed CONT. FROM P1 have a pony, I like ice cream, I am him in his home – where I had my identity card to my father. been countless times – and cried It’s hard to believe that in left-handed…), with a big smile He was shocked – but deep out to him, ’what happened?’ His the 21st century a Jew still has on my face I stood up and said, “I down I believe he was proud. response sends shivers down my to hide their Jewishness, but that AM JEWISH!” I still did not know what Juda- spine to this day. is exactly what I went through My teacher’s face soured, the ism was about. My father said growing up in Dnepopetrovsk, exercise ended immediately and “Never talk to me again Eliza. he would never take me to Ukraine over the last 20 years. we were all told to go to our seats You are disgusting, your people synagogue, never celebrate the Yes, officially, there is Jewish life and open our textbooks. are evil, I wish you were dead.” holidays and never have anything in Ukraine, and yes thousands of Jewish in the house. Except one That night my parents sat I didn’t understand, I don’t Jews live and attend Synagogues day, which I found out was Passo- me down and told me how dis- understand. How was I differ- and Jewish cultural centers in my ver, he gave in and finally brought appointed they were to receive ent? Did he have any idea what a hometown. But tens of thousands me to the synagogue. It was amaz- a phone call from the principal Jew was? I had no idea and I was still fear the repercussions of ing. I was so happy to see my her- complaining of my ‘bad behav- Jewish! How could he? How did revealing to the outside world that itage. I asked a million questions ior.’ I didn’t understand at the he say he loved me yesterday and they are Jewish. My story is one to understand what the service time (I’m not sure I understand he hated me today? I was (am) so of these and only when I moved was about and what the holiday today as a women of 22), but I confused. to Krakow, Poland was I able to meant to the Jewish people. After followed my father’s orders and understand how crazy my situa- I was crushed but not de- that, perhaps because of my grow- never mentioned it to my friends tion was that in this day and age I stroyed. I couldn’t explain it but ing interest in Jewish traditions or again. was forbidden to tell anyone my I would not let that hate defeat other reasons, he never took me to secret. What happened in Kra- Until I was 14 – when I had me. I would not hide my identity; the synagogue again. kow? That is for the happy ending my first love. His name was Dmi- I would embrace it! I decided Fear, hate, terror – these of this sad tale, and I will speak tri* and we were in love together. to change my name! Because words hovered over my father about it later. We spent so much time having my father was so nervous about with a name like Shvartsman and fun, going out, and cherishing anti-Semitism, instead of giving My first memory of Judaism he honestly thought he was doing each other. I was convinced that me his name, Shvartsman, as my was very positive.
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