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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 44, NO. 2 SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 13 ELUL, 5779 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Jason Greenblatt steps down

the leadership of President Trump. I am incredibly grate- ful to have been part of a team that drafted a vision for peace. This vision has the potential to vastly improve the lives of millions of Israelis, Palestin- ians and others in the region.” Trump thanked Greenblatt on his favored forum, Twit- ter, noting Greenblatt’s prior role as a lawyer for Trump’s businesses. “Jason has been a loyal and great friend and fantastic lawyer,” Trump said. “His dedication to Israel and to seeking peace between Israel Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images and the Palestinians won’t be Jason Greenblatt speaks forgotten.” NOAA at the Annual Champions of Barely mentioned in the Dorian stalled over Grand Bahama. Jewish Values Gala at Carn- statements released by the egie Hall in New York City, White House from Greenblatt March 28, 2019. and his colleagues, including Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Jewish groups provide emergency help By Ron Kampeas Kushner, who headed the peace team, were the Pales- WASHINGTON (JTA)— tinians. to the Bahamas in wake of Dorian Jason Greenblatt, President Kushner notably omitted Donald Trump’s top Middle the Palestinians. By Marcy Oster The hurricane stalled over Grand Ba- logical first aid and deploy water filters East peace negotiator, is leav- “Jason has done a tremen- hama Island for nearly two days, leaving to restore access to drinking water while ing the White House. dous job leading the efforts (JTA)—The Israel-based humanitarian whole neighborhoods, as well as airports conducting further needs assessments Although the “ultimate” to develop an economic and group IsraAID, B’nai B’rith International and hospitals, submerged. At least 13,000 in affected communities, the NGO said deal he helped craft has yet political vision for a long and Chabad are among those pitching homes have been damaged or destroyed in a statement. to be fully announced, the sought after peace in the in to help the Bahamas in the wake of on Abaco and Grand Bahama islands. In 2018, IsraAID said its emergency Trump administration sug- Middle East,” he said. “His Hurricane Dorian’s devastation, which IsraAID, a humanitarian aid agency response teams reached 26,300 people gested in the announcement work has helped develop the has killed at least 20 people. that responds to emergency crises and with safe water, psychological and com- that Greenblatt was leaving relationships between Israel “We are in the midst of a historic engages in international development munity support, and relief following nine now that it had been written. and its neighbors as he is tragedy in parts of the northern Baha- around the world, said Tuesday that it disasters in seven countries. The group A senior White House of- trusted and respected by all mas,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said would send emergency support to the has opened an Emergency Response Fund ficial said the plan is done. of the leaders throughout the at a news conference Tuesday, adding Bahamas. to pay for its work. “The vision is now complete region. He is a close friend and the “devastation is unprecedented and Its emergency response team will and will be released when ap- partner and will continue to extensive.” distribute relief supplies, offer psycho- Dorian on page 14A propriate,” the official said in make a positive impact on an email. the world.” Greenblatt said in a state- The low-key rollout of ment: “It has been the honor Greenblatt’s departure re- In remembering 1929 Hebron massacre, of a lifetime to have worked flects how curtailed the ini- in the White House for over top Israeli leaders visit... and make history two and a half years under Greenblatt on page 14A By Josh Hasten Hebron commemorating the 90th anniversary of the 1929 Missiles fired from (JNS)—“We are not strang- Jewish massacre. ers in Hebron, and we will Netanyahu also said that stay here forever!” were the he was proud that his gov- Lebanon strike Israel climactic remarks made on ernment approved dozens of Wednesday by Israeli Prime additional housing units last By Marcy Oster targets in southern Lebanon, Minister Benjamin Netan- year for Jewish residents of the statement said. yahu during an official state the ancient city. JERUSALEM (JTA)—Anti- A second statement said ceremony at the Tomb of the Israeli President Reuven aircraft missiles were fired that the IDF responded by Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Rivlin and Knesset Speaker from Lebanon at an Israeli firing some 100 mortar shells, Yuli Edelstein also visited military base and at military including at the cell that fired Hebron on Wednesday, along vehicles. on Israel. with other government of- “There are a number of Bomb shelters in northern ficials, to take part in the confirmed hits,” the Israel Israeli communities located day-long memorial. Defense Forces said in a state- up to 2.5 miles from the A statement released by ment on Sunday afternoon. It Lebanese border were or- the official leadership of the later confirmed that a military dered opened, with residents Jewish community in He- Josh Hasten ambulance and a military post instructed to remain in their bron, noted that “for the first Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in Hebron, marking the were hit, but that there were homes and only to enter time in Israeli history, Israel’s 90th anniversary of the 1929 massacre, in addition to vising no casualties. shelters if they hear a warn- prime minister, president the Cave of the Patriarchs, Sept. 4, 2019. Prime Minister Benjamin ing siren. and speaker of the Knesset Netanyahu, who also serves The terrorist group Hezbol- arrived in Hebron on the by Jerusalem Arabs, claiming years prior to the massacre,” as defense minister, spoke lah took responsibility for the same day.” that the Jews were prepar- he said at the symposium. about the incident late Sunday missile strikes. In August 1929, 67 Jews ing a takeover of the Temple “There are those recent afternoon at a news confer- Hezbollah said the at- were murdered by an Arab Mount and a massacre of historians who rationalize ence to mark the opening of tack was in response to an lynch mob over the course Arabs. In total, 133 Jews were that the 1929 massacre was Honduras’ diplomatic office Israeli airstrike last week on of three days while their murdered in riots in cities and aimed at the ‘Zionists’ and in Jerusalem. what Israel said were targets homes and synagogues were towns throughout British- not at the Jewish people. “We are consulting about in Syria of Iran’s Revolution- destroyed. The survivors mandated Palestine. They are twisting reality. the next steps. I have ordered were evacuated to Jerusa- Rivlin was the first to arrive The massacre was carried that we be prepared for any Lebanon on page 14A lem, marking the first time at the event in Hebron, taking out against all the Jews... scenario. We will decide on in hundreds of years that part in a symposium on the and only because they were the next steps pending devel- Hebron was void of a Jewish massacre in Hebron’s sister Jews.” opments,” he said. presence. city of Kiryat Arba. Rivlin said that Hebron in The IDF retaliated with The events unfolded fol- “Hebron’s Jewish com- strikes on the source of the lowing a blood libel started munity was present for many Hebron on page 14A missile launches and on other PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 Jewish Academy of Orlando launches inaugural Transitional Kindergarten Instead of remaining in ture their curiosity and, from a will provide an intentional “We are happy to serve the Pre-K for another year, stu- social-emotional standpoint, learning space for children community in this way and dents in the TK program are help them prepare for kinder- to develop the foundational encourage and nourish our provided the opportunity to garten.” skills necessary to be suc- kids’ love of learning.” transition to a new school, Students have classes in cessful, happy, and confident Jewish Academy of Or- Jewish Academy of Orlando. creative spaces such as the in the academic years that lando serves central Florida The program is housed, man- Innovation Lab, perform on follow.” students of all faiths from aged, and directed by Jewish the WJAO news broadcast, “Families in our com- transitional kindergarten Academy of Orlando with participate in hands-on munity voiced a need for a through fifth grade. The the cooperation, of the JCC’s learning activities and pur- transitional year before their school delivers a whole-child ECLC leadership team. The poseful playtime. TK students child enters Kindergarten. education fostering academic class is deliberately small, have the benefits of being Jewish Academy’s TK program excellence and character with an average 6:1 student to a JAO student, including provides an experience for education rooted in Jewish teacher ratio, to provide stu- classes in Hebrew, Judaic children to develop all of the values. Jewish Academy of dents with the individualized Studies, P.E., art, and music. skills necessary to be success- Orlando is accredited by the attention they need during They participate in regular ful in Kindergarten and the Florida Council of Indepen- this transitional period. classroom routines includ- rest of the elementary school dent Schools. Jewish Academy of Or- Kindergarten will provide TK allows students to de- ing individualized and small years,” stated Alan Rusonik, To learn more about Jewish lando has launched a new parents with a developmen- velop both social-emotional group learning opportunities head of school. “Our program Academy of Orlando, please academic program to serve tally appropriate, research- skills and fine and gross with extra breaks built in to is designed around an age- visit: jewishacademyorlando. the community. The school based program which grants motor skills in a warm en- give these young learners appropriate curriculum that org or follow the school on welcomed students to its new children that gift. Every child vironment. The students are time to move. is differentiated for individual Facebook facebook.com/ Transitional Kindergarten for develops as they are meant challenged academically in a “The program is designed learners,” Rusonik added, JewishAcademyOrlando. the 2019-20 school year. TK is to develop, and our current developmentally appropriate to create lifelong learners,” a grade that serves as a bridge educational structure doesn’t manner. They participate stated Nikki Buyna, director of between preschool and kin- always allow or support this in cooperative learning ac- Academics. “Our Transitional dergarten, providing students process. Programs such as TK tivities and unique learning Kindergarten is a purposeful JFGO’s annual meeting time to develop fundamental are designed with the whole experiences, including virtual opportunity to foster each skills needed for success in an child in mind and not an arbi- field trips around the world student’s curiosity, encour- awards academic setting. trary date on a calendar. I feel using VR headsets. age a love of learning, and The Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando held its “We are finding more and fortunate to partner with JAO The inaugural class is led by support an environment of annual meeting on Aug. 25. Three awards were pre- more that an extra year of as they provide a much needed Jessica Landau, a passionate positive social-emotional and sented and the new board members were announced. maturational growth has option for families and for our teaching professional with academic growth.” Federation CEO Keith Dvorchik and board member long-term positive impacts children as we prepare them expertise in teaching young School counselor Danielle Ryan Lefkowitz discussed the sale of the building on a child’s social, emotional, for their best life,” said Melissa learners in both elementary Glover added, “Social and adjacent to the Jewish Academy of Orlando and what and academic success. The Youngblood, Early Childhood and preschool. emotional growth is key to that entails for the campus. gift of time is truly one of the director of the Richard S. “My goal is to make learn- a child’s success, long-term greatest gifts that we can give Adler Early Childhood Learn- ing fun in a variety of ways,” mental wellness and healthy our children. Transitional ing Center (ECLC). Landau stated. “I want to nur- sense of self. The TK program Premier comedian headlines Men’s Night Out entertainment is top notch. The Orlando synagogue Men’s Clubs, with support from the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando, and key sponsors Alan Ginsburg and Aaron Gorovitz are bringing the men of the community one of the premier comedi- ans in the country, Johnny Lampert. This event is a wonderful Johnny Lampert Heritage publisher Jeff Gaeser (l) presents the Hu- opportunity to unite Jewish man Service Award to Dick Weiner. men from all area synagogues and organizations for a very clip of his performance and enjoyable evening. The ben- was belly laughing. Nothing eficiaries of the event are the is sacred for him—family, Shown here (l-r): Avi Abramowitz, Arnold Bierman and Jewish community children, marriage (After 16 years of Alan Ginsburg enjoy the fun at the first Men’s Night Out. as proceeds will fund diverse marriage, my wife told me Jewish youth education pro- she is bisexual—she’s sexual By Christine DeSouza 7 at Congregation Ohev grams, summer camp and when I buy her something”), Shalom, features not only trips to Israel. weight (“I’m not fat, I’m swol- The third annual Men’s great steak and a top-shelf Now, back to Lampert, len—Big difference”), singing Night Out, to be held Nov. cocktail hour, the comedic This writer listened to a short in the car—you know, things all men can relate to. Lampert is a regular at some of the best comedy Update clubs in New York City and In the article “Israeli puppeteer to teach at UCF this fall,” Sept. 6 issue, it states that Los Angeles, including The the Israel Institute is bringing Israeli theater director, puppeteer and performer Ayelet Comic Strip and The Improve. Golan, to the University of Central Florida for a teaching residency during the Fall 2019 He has also been on television, Realtor Abby Nelson (l) receives the Byron B. Selber semester. Not mentioned in the article was that the Israel Institute is a Central Florida featured on A&E, Comedy Leadership Award from Marni S. Chepenik (center) Hillel program and initiative, made possible by Hillel’s fundraising. Central and HBO Comedy and Mindy Shams, both Selber’s daughters. Showcase. 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Winter Park, Florida 32789 OFFICE: 407.645.4321 7004; or visit orlandojewish- www.KellyPriceandCompany.com fed.org/mens-night-out. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 PAGE 3A Ahead of Sept. 17 elections, Ayelet Shaked lays out right-wing vision for Israel that Israel must undertake a against Israel in Syria. We activism” of the left-leaning Shaked accused former wide-scale military operation act every time we see them Israeli Supreme Court. Palestinian Authority Prime in Gaza. beginning to take root,” “I started to do a lot there,” Minister Salam Fayyad of “We must choose the time she explained. “We must said Shaked, pointing to her making it more difficult for that is best for us, evacuate change the situation on appointments of more conser- Israel to annex Area C by the Israeli citizens who live the ground in Gaza so that vative and nationalistic judges pushing construction with- in towns along the Gaza we can do the same thing as an example of the change out permission. She believes envelope in order to give us there as well.” in direction she brought to that the defense ministry maximum flexibility, and we Shaked’s Yamina Party is the position. should make it a priority must uproot the terror from a hodgepodge of right-wing “One cannot reverse the to stop these moves, being within Gaza,” Shaked said, parties that come from differ- judicial activism initiated by “tough and committed to adding that Israel should not ent backgrounds, but share a Chief Justice Aharon Barak enforcing the law.” be tolerating rockets, incendi- nationalist agenda: the New over the course of 20 years On foreign policy, Shaked ary devices and violent weekly Right, the Jewish Home and in just four years,” she said, talked about the support Israel demonstrations that emanate National Union. All three referring to the longtime has been receiving from the Flash90 from Gaza. identify themselves as to Supreme Court justice who Trump administration. While Yamina Party chairwoman Ayelet Shaked speaks at the Israeli Prime Minister Ben- the right of Likud, though used the court to implement she jokingly told the audience Conference of the Manufacturers Association in Tel Aviv, jamin Netanyahu has been they differ when it comes his more liberal views. in Bet Shemesh that U.S. Am- on September 2, 2019. criticized by both the right to religious issues. Shaked She has also made it clear bassador to Israel David Fried- and the left for his response and the New Right include that there is more work to do man and National Security By Dov Lipman polling consistently at 10 to Hamas attacks—or more secular candidates and are regarding the legal structures Advisor John Bolton would mandates, which would specifically, what they per- more liberal; Jewish Home for settlements in Judea and be welcome in her party, she (JNS)—While many Israe- make it the fourth-largest ceive as his lack of one. is religious and conservative; Samaria, as well as combating was quick to add that despite lis might already feel fatigued party in the Knesset, Shaked Shaked pointed to two and National Union is more the influence of NGOs funded the disagreements Israel has by the upcoming elections has been very open about her examples as the basis for this extreme. by foreign entities. had with more progressive on Sept. 17, former justice nationalist vision for Israel, massive military operation. But all three unified behind On illegal construction and elements in the Democratic minister Ayelet Shaked, who including her take on the The first was “Operation the leadership of Shaked, a foreign policy Party, “Israel must work to heads the newly formed right- situation in the Gaza Strip, Defensive Shield,” which the secular woman. Another right-wing issue maintain bipartisan support wing Yamina Party, is both Israeli judicial reform, and IDF undertook in 2002 to One of her campaign’s top Shaked hopes to tackle in from its closest and most making history and surging settlements in Judea and uproot the Palestinian terror items making her popular the next government is Pal- important ally.” in the polls. Samaria. cells from the West Bank. among right-wing voters is a estinian illegal construction Regardless of how Yamina “I am the first female to On Monday night, Shaked The second is happening now promise for judicial reform. in Area C—the region in the fairs on Sept. 17, a new leader head a right-wing political made headlines when she in Syria. Shaked served as justice min- West Bank where Israel has has emerged within the Israeli party in Israel’s history,” she told an overflowing crowd of “Israel acts to make sure ister from 2015 until earlier complete military and civil- right—one who is determined told JNS. English speakers at a cam- that Iran does not establish this year, where she was fo- ian control under the Oslo to continue leading for the Heading a party that is paign event in Bet Shemesh itself and a base for terror cused on undoing the “judicial Accords. long term. Jewish and pro-Israel groups, leaders react to news of Greenblatt resignation By Jackson Richman knew how to make everyone relationship, and to the se- Jewish Coalition executive for peace,” said Greenblatt. .@jdgreenblatt45’s pend- comfortable and satisfied, curity of our nations, that director Matt Brooks told JNS. “This vision has the potential ing departure is another (JNS)—Jewish and pro- no matter how difficult the will long outlast his tenure “We are grateful to have had to vastly improve the lives of indication that @realDon- Israel community leaders issue. His knowledge and in D.C. We are grateful to him the honor of working closely millions of Israelis, Palestin- aldTrump has no attainable and groups reacted to the understanding of the details for his friendship and for his with him and are looking ians and others in the region.” vision for resolving the White House announcement of the Arab war against Israel staunch support of Israel; he forward to working with his “I would like to thank my Israeli-Palestinian conflict. on Thursday that U.S. Middle was extraordinary. He also will be missed.” very talented replacement, incredible wife Naomi and Like other aspects of Trump’s East special envoy Jason showed grace and aplomb, and Joseph Sabag, executive Avi Berkowitz.” my amazing six children for policy, the “ultimate deal” Greenblatt plans to resign imperturbability even under director of IAC for Action, Berkowitz, a deputy to their strength and encourage- was never more than an within the coming weeks. the greatest pressure.” said “Jason Greenblatt has White House senior adviser ment,” he continued. “I will empty promise. https://t.co/ “Mr. Greenblatt has played B’nai B’rith International been vital in creating a more and presidential son-in-law thoroughly miss working with xCO7L7RPZh a pivotal role over the last CEO Dan Mariaschin told JNS, realistic public understand- Jared Kushner, will take my friends and colleagues — Halie Soifer (@HalieSoi- two years in strengthening “Jason Greenblatt took on the ing of the Palestinian-Israeli over most of Greenblatt’s Jared Kushner, David Fried- fer) September 5, 2019 the U.S.-Israel relationship monumental task of trying to conflict. He’s shown an ex- duties, though U.S. special man and Avi Berkowitz, as “Deeply grateful for the and in working on ways to bring a realistic solution to the ceptional willingness to speak representative for Iran Brian well as the many other dedi- service and sacrifice of @ seek a peaceful resolution conflict. His tireless efforts the truth and lay out needed Hook will also take on some cated individuals within the jdgreenblatt45 as Special of the conflict,” American in pursuing that will surely criticisms. He has left the responsibilities. U.S. government who were Envoy for Middle East Peace. Israel Public Affairs Commit- be missed.” situation in far better shape Greenblatt will remain at instrumental in our efforts.” Thank you for your tireless tee spokesperson Marshall “Jason Greenblatt made a than he inherited it.” the White House for another Not everyone, however, and dedicated efforts, your Wittmann told JNS. “We are significant sacrifice in mov- “While we are sad to see few weeks until the launch seemed surprised or dis- consistent responsiveness, grateful for his service to our ing to Washington and being Jason Greenblatt depart the of the political component of heartened by Greenblatt’s and friendship,” tweeted the country, and we wish him well away from his family during administration, we wish him the peace proposal following resignation. Conference of Presidents of in his future endeavors.” these past years,” Christians much continued success in his the Sept. 17 Israeli elections. “@jdgreenblatt45’s pend- Major Jewish Organizations. “Jason Greenblatt’s depar- United For Israel founder and next chapter. [He] has done The economic component ing departure is another Deeply grateful for the ture is a great loss to American chairman Pastor John Hagee an amazing job representing was revealed in June at a indication that @realDon- service and sacrifice of @ diplomacy in the Mideast,” told JNS. “He has served his the United States, working conference in Bahrain. aldTrump has no attainable jdgreenblatt45 as Special Mort Klein, national president country honorably and made tirelessly to bring peace and “It has been the honor of vision for resolving the Israeli- Envoy for Middle East Peace. of the Zionist Organization important contributions to security between Israel and a lifetime to have worked in Palestinian conflict. Like oth- Thank you for your tireless of America, told JNS. “He strengthen the U.S.-Israel the Palestinians,” Republican the White House for over er aspects of Trump’s policy, and dedicated efforts, your two-and-a-half years under the “ultimate deal” was never consistent responsiveness, the leadership of President more than an empty promise,” and friendship. [Donald] Trump. I am incred- tweeted Jewish Democratic — Conf Of Presidents (@ Netanyahu says he will ibly grateful to have been part Council of America executive Conf_of_ Pres) September of a team that drafted a vision director Halie Soifer. 5, 2019. extend ‘Jewish sovereignty’ By Marcy Oster with G-d’s help we will apply ing Israeli sovereignty over Jewish sovereignty over all all Israeli settlements and JERUSALEM (JTA)— communities as part of the said he would not distinguish Help Wanted Prime Minister Benjamin land of Israel and the State of between settlement blocs and Netanyahu said Israel will Israel,” he told the students. isolated settlements. extend “Jewish sovereignty” Gush Katif refers to the “Netanyahu is a serial Advertising Sales over all communities in Judea evacuation in 2005 of 21 criminal: he steals from the and Samaria. Jewish settlements in the public to give money to his Salary Plus Commission • Flexible Hours He made the remarks Sun- Gaza Strip. tycoon friends, and he pushes day to the new first graders Sept. 1 annually is the first the State of Israel to commit on the first day of school at day of school throughout the a war crime of annexation a national religious school country. The prime minister that will cause the death of Call Jeff at in the Jewish settlement later visited the ORT Samaria countless Palestinians and of Elkana, located in the High School for Girls in Israelis,” Ayman Odeh, leader northern West Bank, which Elkana. of the Arab Joint List party, is Samaria. The remarks come more said in a statement that he “We will not uproot any- than two weeks before Israel’s also tweeted. “His legacy will one here. There will be no national elections. be a trail of indictments and more Gush Katif; there will Prior to elections in April, promises to settlers he hadn’t 407-834-8787 be no more uprooting, and Netanyahu called for extend- managed to fulfill.” PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 What the Jewish left needs to understand about working people By Jonathan S. Tobin of the American system that fostered social could have been uttered by their grandparents. the labor-intensive manufacturing industries mobility, and the ability of poor and working While they speak of “social justice” rather than that were fueling America’s rise to global power. (JNS)—For the overwhelming majority of class people to ascend to the middle class. The socialism, the basic intent is the same. But The vast majority of those who cross the US. Americans, Labor Day weekend is the unofficial opportunities afforded by the American com- Labor Day is an apt moment to contemplate border illegally are not fleeing for their lives, end of summer. But like other federal holidays, mitment to mass education and the principles the disconnect between the liberal rhetoric as Jewish refugees from the Nazis were. They such as Memorial Day, which were once rooted of economic freedom served as a pathway by that harkens back to the heyday of the Jew- do want a better life, but the country they in specific historical experiences such as the which the descendants of those sweatshop ish labor movement, as well as the needs and are attempting to enter isn’t the same place carnage of the Civil War, the first Monday of denizens became a Jewish community largely voting patterns of today’s average American. that welcomed Jewish immigrants, as well as September is no longer tied specifically to a composed of prosperous, college-educated Elites who mimic the rallying cries of the Jew- other nationalities, in the late 19th and early celebration of the labor movement. professionals. ish poor a century ago don’t understand why 20th centuries with the same hopes. The Labor unions are still with us, but in an Today’s American Jews have little in com- working-class voters have little interest in the industries and jobs that existed then have economy that is no longer dominated by mon with their working-class forebears, let political patent nostrums they are peddling. either disappeared or now have shrunken labor manufacturing industries they are but a alone those Americans who currently toil One example is the debate about immigra- forces. Opposition to immigration has always shadow of their former selves both in terms in blue-collar jobs. But, as Milton Himmel- tion. existed. Yet if working-class Americans are of their numbers and their political muscle. farb’s famous quip about Jews “earning like Jewish liberals raised on the memory of largely opposed to the notion of a new mass The Jewish labor movement, which was once a Episcopalians but voting like Puerto Ricans” the great migration from Eastern Europe migration into the country composed largely of dominant force in the life of American Jewry, illustrated, their politics are largely based on to the United States and the cruel refusal illegal immigration, it’s because they know an is now almost entirely a function of memory. the same policy assumptions that animated of the Roosevelt administration to rescue open-borders policy is a threat to their already A century ago, most Jews were immigrants those who marched to protest the 1911 Tri- the doomed millions who were slain in the precarious financial existence. or the children of immigrants with a large angle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York Holocaust are now the loudest advocates for The same principle applies to contemporary percentage working in sweatshop industries City and later cheered for President Franklin illegal immigrants. discussions about economic inequality. in which the labor movement was essential to D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal.” While that sounds like it is consistent While the gap between the rich and the poor the creation of better conditions and pay. But Many liberal Jews can still be heard mouth- with Jewish history and values, it is based on is troubling, the policies pushed by many Jew- while the ideologues of labor focused on class ing some of the same platitudes about the the false premise that the situation in 2019 ish liberals are not in the interests of grassroots distinctions, they underestimated the genius plight of the poor and the working class that resembles that of either 1899 or 1939. The Americans. Union members generally like their America of more than a century ago was a country that needed immigrants to work in Tobin on page 14A Everywhere Expel them now or defeat them at Emancipation, empathy the polls and America By Ben Cohen the nationalists who admire the Jewish state, By Mel Pearlman recognizes and has formal relations with the but not the Jews in their own midst? It isn’t State of Israel, along with more than 100 other (JNS)—In an interview with my colleague a competition, and it is in no one’s interest Congressional Representatives Rashida nations of the World) by refusing to partici- Benjamin Kerstein last week, Rabbi Eli Cohen, to make it so. Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) along pate in a bipartisan educational trip to Israel the executive director of the Crown Heights The core challenge posed by anti-Semitism with two other freshman democratic congress- including the Palestinian Arab administered Jewish Community Council in Brooklyn, N.Y., hasn’t really changed since the emergence women, have now been collectively tagged with areas, and to meet with leaders of the Israeli said something about the state of anti-Semi- of the modernist form of Jew-hatred 150 the moniker, “The Squad.” The descriptive government as well as the Palestinian Author- tism in America today that’s worth revisiting. years ago. Is anti-Semitism something we name for the four was quickly and enthusiasti- ity which autonomously governs 95 percent of Commenting on the continuing spate of can eradicate, or is it more prudent to seek cally adopted by the media when the hashtag the Palestinian Arab population in the disputed brutal attacks against visibly Orthodox Jews its containment? To my mind, there is no was jokingly suggested by Rep. Alexandria areas controlled by Israel. in Brooklyn, perpetrated mainly by African- more eloquent or provocative insight on this Ocasio-Cortez, one of the four members of Under Article I, Section 4, of the U.S. Consti- American males, Rabbi Cohen remarked, “You question than that provided by Max Nordau, “The Squad,” at a press conference after a con- tution each House may be “the judge of the... know, white supremacists out somewhere in one of the early Zionists, in his speech to tentious meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Qualifications of its Own Members... punish the United States, I don’t see any common the First Zionist Congress in 1897, when the The Speaker had criticized the four fresh- its Members and with the Concurrence of two denominator between that and someone pick- buzzword among Jewish communities was man congresswomen for challenging her thirds expel a Member.” ing up a rock and attacking a Jew in Crown “emancipation.” leadership in the House of Representatives, Will the Democratic leadership have the Heights.” Elaborating, he explained, “They’re “The nations which emancipated the Jews after which the four claimed they were victims courage and principle to call out these bigots certainly not part of the same causality, and I have mistaken their own feelings,” said Nordau. of racism because they were “persons of color.” and take the necessary bipartisan action to don’t see them coming from a reaction of one “In order to produce its full effect, emanci- Adding to the political mayhem that passes censor them, strip them of their coveted com- to the other.” True, the rabbi acknowledged, pation should first have been completed in for governance from the nation’s capital was mittee assignments, and if necessary expel there is a general tendency towards extrem- sentiment before it was declared by law. But the condemnation of the four congresswomen them to reflect the views of the overwhelming ism across our society, yet “I think it’s more this was not the case.” As a result, he contin- by President Trump for his absurd and hateful majority of the American people that racism important to look for solutions more locally, ued, the “emancipation of the Jews was not suggestion that they all go back to the countries and bigotry have no place in our country? while at the same time still being aware of the the consequence of the conviction that grave from which they came. Alternatively, will the Democrat Party join national environment.” injury had been done to a race, that it had been Since three of the congresswomen are native with the constituents in each of their respective If we’ve learned anything from the torrid, treated most terribly, and that it was time to born and the forth is a naturalized citizen, add congressional districts to assure their defeat often ill-informed debates about anti-Semitism atone for the injustice of a thousand years; it stupid to the president’s suggestion. in their respective primaries? over the last year—whether inside or outside was solely the result of the geometrical mode While the four congresswomen have Failing that, will the Republican Party make our borders—it’s that the hatred of Jews comes of thought of French rationalism of the 18th achieved national media attention and noto- every effort to field suitable candidates in the in bewildering varieties. So much so, in fact, century.” riety for their extreme positions which they general election to assure neither of these that there is frequently disagreement over who In other words, the various laws and con- apparently share with one another, two of anti-Semitic bigots return to congress to spout or what is anti-Semitic. For example, in the ventions that slowly, but surely, enabled Jews these women have crossed the line that dis- their hateful speech by defeating them in their last fortnight, U.S. President Donald Trump to vote, to attend public universities, to serve qualifies each of them to sit in the House of re-election bids in November 2020? has been excoriated by some writers as the as elected representatives and so on, were all, Representatives. If you wish to comment or respond you greatest living threat to the Jewish people, according to Nordau, the consequence of a Tlaib and Omar have demonstrated clearly can reach me at melpearlman322@gmail. while being hailed by others for being their cold mathematical calculation that accepted and unambiguously during their short tenure com. Please do so in a rational, thoughtful, greatest savior. the Jews as citizens without rejecting the in Congress that they are virulent anti-Semitic respectful and civil manner. Neither of these claims is remotely true. As baggage of anti-Jewish prejudice. Even if it bigots, both in their speech and by their posi- Mel Pearlman holds B.S. & M.S. degrees in Rabbi Cohen implies, it’s time to get away from wasn’t quite as icy and one-dimensional as tions, as reported in the press and media, on physics as well as a J.D. degree and initially the politically loaded assessments of anti-Sem- Nordau made out, his broader observation— BDS, in their known associations with and came to Florida in 1966 to work on the Gemini itism (and its oddball cousin, philosemitism) that emancipation and empathy are two very alleged financial support from individuals and Apollo space programs. He has practiced into a more analytical mindset. Only then will different things—is what stands out. and American non-governmental organiza- law in Central Florida since 1972. He has we grasp that the varieties of anti-Semitism we The historical process described by Nordau tions with known ties to overseas Arab and served as president of the Jewish Federation of encounter come from the right and the left, here doesn’t apply to the United States, where Muslim terrorist organizations, and their use Greater Orlando; was a charter board member, from Muslims and Christians, from people there was no issue of “emancipation” because of anti-Semitic tropes in their official capacity. first Vice President and pro-bono legal coun- with black and brown and white skins, from there was never a political Judenfrage (German The latest evidence of their anti-Semitic sel of the Holocaust Memorial Resource and people speaking Arabic, Polish, French and for “Jewish Question”) to generate a movement bigotry is their rejection of the existence Education Center of Central Florida, as well dozens of other languages—all brandishing for emancipation in the first place. But the of the State of Israel (even though they are as holding many other community leadership hostile tropes about Jews that resonate both deeper matter of what Nordau calls “sentiment” representatives of the U.S. government which positions. locally and globally. (public opinion is a close enough translation) The point here is not that everybody hates is highly relevant. THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. the Jews; far from it. It’s that in many cultures The struggles against anti-Semitism that and across many different communities, there have become increasingly central to Jewish ✡ ✡ ✡ CENTRAL FLORIDA’S INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICE ✡ ✡ ✡ are dense pockets of anti-Semitism. 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Box 300742 (407) 834-8787 Production Department arguments: Is left-wing anti-Semitism worse Ben Cohen is a New York City-based jour- Fern Park, FL 32730 FAX (407) 831-0507 David Lehman • Gil Dombrosky Joyce Gore than right-wing anti-Semitism? Are the So- nalist and author who writes a weekly column email: [email protected] cialists who loathe Israel a bigger threat than on Jewish and international affairs for JNS. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 PAGE 5A Will Netflix make a joke of Israel’s most legendary spy? By Moshe Phillips Cohen’s life story would Mossad to participate in an with its leaders. After a coup when his radio equipment was CBS’s Face the Nation “This have made a very exciting TV espionage operation that spied d’etat, the Ba’ath Party came detected by KGB agents, he attack will be a precedent for Netflix’s “The Spy” is a six- series even if he had never on Nasser’s ex-Nazi scientists, to power and remains in was being seriously consid- every future government in episode series about real-life gone undercover in Syria. He who were attempting to power until today. Among the ered to become either Min- Israel... Every future Israeli Israeli Mossad hero Eli Co- was deeply moved as a young build rockets; reportedly, Co- men Cohen had befriended, ister of Defense or Assistant prime minister will act, in hen. “The Spy” stars Sacha man in Cairo by the 1944 trial hen also engaged in sabotage. many became officials in the Foreign Minister. similar circumstances, in the Baron Cohen, most famous of two members of the Stern After the Mossad activities new government and were After two lengthy trials, same way.” for his 2006 adult-oriented Group (the LEHI), Eliahu in Egypt were discovered high-ranking military of- Cohen was finally sentenced The doctrine could have comedy movie “Borat,” as the Bet-Zouri and Eliahu Hakim. and most members were ficer— including the head of to death by hanging. Co- just as easily been called legendary Mossad agent. “The Hakim and Bet-Zouri were the rounded up, Cohen made intelligence, Colonel Ahmad hen was 40 years old, and left the Eli Cohen Doctrine. Spy” debuted on Sept. 6. assassins of the anti-Semitic aliyah in 1956. After a brief Suweidani, and Syrian Presi- a widow, three daughters, and Let us hope that the doc- When Eli Cohen was pub- British High Commissioner of time adjusting to life in Israel dent Amin al-Hafiz. a son. In his final letter to his trine is not ever forgotten. licly executed by the govern- the Middle East, Lord Moyne. and his service in the Israel Cohen was among the only wife, he wrote “I beg of you not For further reading, there ment of Syria on May 18, 1965, The young Cohen helped Defense Forces, Cohen was civilians to ever inspect Syr- to waste time crying for me. have been two full-length it was clear to Israelis and to organize demonstrations approached to become an ian installations on the Golan Always think of the future.” biographies about Eli Cohen Syrians that he had succeeded in support of Bet-Zouri and information analyst for the Heights. He was able to send Cohen left advice for future published in English: “The in becoming a friend of the Hakim. The demonstrations Mossad. photographs and sketches of leaders of Israel. He once Shattered Silence” by Zwy president of Syria, and had proved fruitless. The men The Mossad eventually the entire Syrian front-lines said, “Against the Arab you Aldouby and Jerrold Ballinger; penetrated the innermost Syr- were sentenced to hang, accepted Cohen’s request for back to the Mossad. In one mustn’t defend yourself. You and “Our Man in Damascus: ian government circles. What but on the scaffold they field duty. case, he was able to warn Israel must attack...” Elie Cohn” by Eli Ben-Hanan. was not yet known, however, maintained their dignity and Cohen adopted the persona of an impending attempt by Cohen’s advice was adhered Moshe Phillips is national was that he had gathered the self-respect, and sang Israel’s of a rich Arab merchant who Syrian commandos to cross to by the late Menachem director of Herut North intelligence that would later national anthem, “Hatikvah.” had emigrated to Argentina the border. Begin in 1981, when he was America’s U.S. division; Herut save the state of Israel from It has been said that thoughts and then returned to his Syr- In addition to his espionage prime minster and ordered is an international movement being destroyed. of Bet-Zouri and Hakim bol- ian homeland, calling himself work, Cohen was assigned to the Israeli Air Force to destroy for Zionist pride and educa- More than any one man, stered Cohen as he himself Kamal Amin Taabes. Under assassinate escaped Nazi war the Iraqi nuclear plant at tion and is dedicated to the Cohen, an Egyptian-born Jew, was led to be executed. this cover, Cohen gained ac- criminal Franz Rademacher, Osirak. The strike on Osirak ideals of pre-World War Two earned the Mossad its reputa- Later, Cohen was instru- cess to the most influential who was living in a Syrian established the Begin Doc- Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotin- tion as one of the best intel- mental in establishing an sectors of Damascus society, colony of ex-Nazis. The 1962 trine, which unconditionally sky. Herut’s website is https:// ligence services in the world, “Underground Railroad” that and joined the revolutionary attempt on Rademacher declared that the surprise raid herutna.org. and paved the way for Israel smuggled Egyptian Jews to Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party. failed. was not a one-time thing, but, A version of this article ap- to win on the Golan front in Israel. In the early 1950s, Co- Cohen became very active When Cohen was finally as Begin himself explained peared on Algemeiner.com on the Six-Day War in June 1967. hen was recruited by the in the party, and friendly discovered, quite by accident in a June 15 interview on August 21, 2019. AIPAC needs to live up being the ‘pro-Israel lobby’

By Morton A. Klein To many people, AIPAC’s security-minded persons to with, thought that they were ments, the Knesset members government’s platform, and public criticism of Israel was have to battle against AIPAC solely lobbying for an anti- wrote: is not part of the U.S. posi- (JNS)—The American also surprising because it policies that harm Israel’s BDS resolution and were “We would like to make tion, and the U.S. President Israel Public Affairs Com- claims to support the policies safety. unaware that they were also our position clear that the es- even removed it from the mittee, commonly known as of the democratically elected Some past examples: lobbying for the creation of tablishment of a Palestinian National Security Strategy AIPAC, recently made head- government of Israel. AIPAC’s harmful lobbying a Palestinian-Arab terror state would be far more dan- Report... This is scandalous.” lines in almost every major However, its public criti- for a Palestinian-Arab state state. gerous to Israel than BDS. Likewise, during AIPAC’s media outlet when it wrongly cism was actually indicative in Judea-Samaria (the “two- ZOA publicly urged AIPAC Pressure to establish a Pal- policy conference the previ- and publicly criticized Isra- of a longstanding prob- state solution”): This past to either remove the Pales- estinian State... opposes the ous year (2018), AIPAC’s CEO el’s just and proper decision lem: On some key, vital March, AIPAC asked its thou- tinian state language or to position of the Government gave a speech promoting to refuse to admit Jew-hating existential issues, AIPAC sands of policy conference stop lobbying for a resolu- of Israel and also opposes Palestinian-Arab statehood, Israelophobes Rep. Rashida opposes, fails to support attendees to lobby for pur- tion with such harmful, the position of the majority ignoring the pleas of Israeli Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. or waters down both the ported “anti-BDS” House dangerous language. ZOA of the public in Israel... Such government officials, and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for a will of the Israeli people Resolution 246. This reso- pointed out that the cre- a state would undoubtedly contrary to the American trip to so-called “Palestine” and common-sense posi- lution was titled “Opposing ation of a Palestinian-Arab be a dysfunctional terrorist and Israeli positions. sponsored by a terror-pro- tions to protect Israel from efforts to delegitimize the state, which would place all state, which would distance AIPAC wouldn’t support moting group Miftah. The danger. AIPAC’s stances on State of Israel and the Global of Israel in closer range of peace and undermine stabil- the Taylor Force Act for a congresswomen’s trip was these issues are particularly Boycott, Divestment, and terror-groups’ rockets, was a ity in the Middle East... [T] year until it was weakened designed to demonize Israel harmful because it bills Sanctions Movement target- greater danger to Israel than he affirmation of support for to allow the Palestinian Au- with numerous propaganda itself as the “pro-Israel ing Israel,” and should have even BDS. Polls show that establishing a Palestinian thority to receive the most events to incite hatred and lobby,” leading people to solely dealt with the subject between two-thirds to more state is so dangerous that we U.S. funding: AIPAC rejected boycotts, divestment and wrongly believe that all of in its title—namely, oppos- than 90 percent of the Israeli respectfully request that you ZOA’s repeated requests to sanctions against Israel, its positions are shared by ing BDS. However, there was public opposes the creation take that into consideration, support the initial strong with the goal of ultimately the Israeli public and Israeli a dangerous insertion into of a Palestinian Arab state. and in the future avoid de- form of the Taylor Force Law, bringing about the destruc- officials. this resolution promoting The ruling Israeli party, termining that establishing which conditioned all of the tion of the Jewish state. Unfortunately, this has a so-called “two-state solu- Israeli Prime Minister Ben- an additional Arab state on annual $500 million of U.S. AIPAC’s unwarranted, been happening for de- tion”—the Orwellian term jamin Netanyahu and the territory that is the Land of funding to the Palestinian highly publicized criticism cades. And it has forced my for creating an Iran-Hamas 2016 Republican platform Israel is part of the solution Authority on ending its of Israel harmed Israel, organization, the Zionist Palestinian Arab terrorist likewise oppose such a state. to the dispute.” heinous $400 million per American Jews and the pro- Organization of America, state. AIPAC conference at- AIPAC ignored ZOA’s re- The author of the Knesset year of “pay to slay” awards Israel community. Israeli officials and other tendees, whom ZOA spoke peated pleas, the Republi- letter moreover openly stat- to Arab terrorists to murder can Party platform and the ed that AIPAC misleads Jews and Americans. AIPAC will of Israel’s people. In- Congress, saying: instead waited until the bill stead, AIPAC continued to “Unfortunately, in recent was watered down, so that by any Israeli achievements lobby for and obtained pas- years AIPAC has been pro- only a small part of the U.S. Letters To The Editor or Jewish religious sights. We are a diverse community and we welcome your sage of the resolution with its moting the two-state solu- funding to the P.A. would be The wealthy J-Street orga- dangerous Palestinian-state tion independently. AIPAC cut. AIPAC argued that the letters and viewpoints. The views and opinions expressed nization promotes no Jewish in the opinion pieces and letters published in The Heri- language. misleads U.S. elected offi- weakened bill would have values and discourages any AIPAC also ignored 21 cials and presents the two- bipartisan support; however, tage are the views of the authors, and do not necessarily feasible economic solution reflect the views and opinions of The Heritage Florida Israel Knesset (parliament) state solution as an Israeli ZOA pointed out to AIPAC for the Palestinian problems. members who wrote a letter interest and position of the that the original bill already Jewish News or its staff. The Heritage reserves the right Indeed the mostly female to edit letters for clarity, content, and accuracy. And to Congress opposing the State of Israel, even though had bipartisan support. young people on this trip are Palestinian state insertion the two-state solution is AIPAC’s failure to support respectful of lashon hara, we will not print derogatory groomed to form a Jewish statements against any individual. into the anti-BDS resolu- not policy of the State of auxiliary for the communist tion. Similar to ZOA’s state- Israel, does not appear on the AIPAC on page 15A Please limit letters to 250 words. Send letters to P.O. sorority sisters in Congress, Box 300742, Fern Park, FL 32730. Or e-mail to news@ whose mission is the de- orlandoheritage.com. composition of the Jewish democratic State. After all, the only reason J-Street trippers have a skewed that there is no Palestinian State, only an entity, is that view of Israel the Arabs rejected statehood in 1948 and in aggressive Dear Editor: forces even though the popu- wars since then—all of which Your discussion of the J- lation is entirely Arab. they lost. Street version of Birthright The second impression is If such a State as envisioned trip to Israel records at length the ladies’ concern over the by J-Street would be created, it the impressions of three many border checks imposed would no doubt be Judenrein young ladies of their visit to on the Arabs. The latter, of and experience long intervals the Holy Land (see “3 partici- course, are necessary for between elections. pants share what they learned security reasons compelled We need to pray for the on J Street’s first alternative by the continuous incitement enlightenment of all who to Birthright trip” in the Aug. to murder Israelis from Arab sincerely desire peace in the 23 issue). All they remember is leaders. Holy Land. a village with water problems Obviously, the J-Street David G. Danziger alleviated by the Israeli armed visitors were not impressed Winter Park PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 What’s A COMPREHENSIVE Oasis of peace COMMUNITY LIGHT Happening CALENDAR SHABBAT By Ellen Hershkin equal treatment for all is an working together as a given, CANDLES AT For inclusion in the What’s Happening Calendar, copy must be sent on sepa- expression of Jewish ethics. it can still come as a surprise rate sheet and clearly marked for Calendar. 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Muslims and Christians meet said Dr. Shaden Salameh, family in the hospital garden Chabad of South Orlando—Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Saturday, peacefully every day on the head of the emergency room and noticed blankets with 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m., 407-354-3660. basis of shared concerns and at Hadassah’s Mount Scopus Middle Eastern designs folded Congregation Ahavas Yisrael—Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 9 a sense of humanity. hospital campus—the first and sitting on benches. “Our a.m., 407-644-2500. It’s not a country, though Arab woman to hold such a first thought was that they Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona—Monday, 8 a.m.; Thursday, 8 a.m., 904- it is older than many of the position in Israel. were for people feeling cold,” 672-9300. nations in the vicinity. Nor is Peaceful coexistence is she said, “but only later real- Congregation Ohev Shalom—Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-298-4650. it a mirage, though the desert practical as well as moral. ized they were Muslim prayer GOBOR Community Minyan at Jewish Academy of Orlando—Monday—Friday, 7:45 a.m.—8:30 is within view. “Israel has a lot of tension and mats for those who needed a.m. It’s the Hadassah Medical when you present a [medical] them.” Temple Israel—Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-647-3055. Center in Jerusalem. In the team that has people from all Acknowledging equal dig- corridors, waiting areas, op- walks of life it calms things nity for all has been part of FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 erating theaters, examination down,” observed Dr. Hadar Hadassah’s ethos since the Ahavas Yisrael—Kabbalat, 30 minutes before sundown. rooms, gardens and cafeterias Merhav, director of the trans- beginning, even though of the center’s two hospital plantation unit at the medical the institution hasn’t been SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 campuses, doctors, nurses center’s Ein Kerem hospital spared from the Arab-Israeli Torah Portion—Ki Teitzei: Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19; Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1-10. and technicians of different campus and a Jewish native conflict. During Israel’s 1948 Interactive Farmers Market—Children of Chabad of North Orlando and Chabad of Greater faiths and ethnicities work of Jerusalem. Dr. Merhav War of Independence, terror- Orlando will experience Rosh Hashanah through an interactive Farmers Market. For children together. Patients and visiting routinely works with Dr. Abed ists ambushed a convoy on 7-13, 10 a.m. at Chabad of North Orlando; 2 p.m. at Chabad of Greater Orlando. families reflecting the same Khalaileh, director of kidney its way to the Mount Scopus diversity rub shoulders, speak transplantation and a Pales- hospital building, killing SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 with sympathy, and often tinian native of the city. Last 78 patients and medical JCC39ers Cinema Sunday—No movie, but community song circle with Cantor Nina Fine, 2 celebrate, pray or mourn side year NBC News reported on a personnel. The building, p.m- 3:30 p.m. in the JCC Senior Lounge. Cost $5 free JCC members. RSVP to Robin Merkel, by side. liver transplant the physicians ultimately cut off behind the 407-645-5933, ext. 336. 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Or are they being of physical assaults this year. largest city. tend not to trust law enforce- more comfortable.” inspired by demonization of “Can we break down silos Lauter has no illusions that ment as much and therefore She was careful not to point individuals and groups?” between communities and she will be able to end hate don’t report hate crimes at as a finger directly at President Lauter is now the one have other groups stand up in New York. Measuring suc- high a rate. Donald Trump, who has been tasked with answering those for them?” cess can be difficult, she said, One of her goals is to spread accused of inciting animos- questions. Lauter comes to the job because it involves proving a the word to New York’s His- ity against minorities in his On Tuesday, City Hall an- after decades of doing the negative. panic community that officers rhetoric on policies toward nounced her appointment as same work in the Jewish com- “The thing that’s hard is do not ask about immigration Muslims, immigrants, Mexi- head of the new Office for the munity. For a decade she was to show what we interrupted: status when they investigate cans and African countries. Prevention of Hate Crimes. the Anti-Defamation League’s Did those programs influence crimes. “People want to push me The announcement follows a national civil rights director, and impact a child early on “We have established in that corner and say this is New York Police Department during which she led a push who then did not go on to be healthy, good, trustful rela- all about Trump,” Lauter said. report from a few months for the ultimately success- a hater?” she said. “I think tionships with law enforce- But there is an atmosphere of earlier showing a 64 percent ful passage of the Matthew everyone’s expecting, ‘OK, ment,” Lauter said of the intolerance, she said, in which rise in hate crimes in the Shepard and James Byrd Jr. we create this office and hate Jewish community. “But others “have engaged as well.” first months of 2019 over the Hate Crimes Prevention Act. crimes are going to go away.’ there are other communities And Lauter also did not same period last year. Attacks It expanded hate crimes law That’s just not realistic.” in the city that aren’t there overstate the power that Deborah Lauter is helm- on Jews in particular nearly to cover discrimination based Lauter faces different chal- yet. I would cite particularly government officials have to ing the new New York City doubled, to 110 from 58. on gender, sexual orientation lenges from Jewish and non- the Muslim community, im- control hate crimes. Office for the Prevention of Lauter plans to focus on and disability. Jewish groups. Jewish groups, migrant community. I believe “There can’t be an expecta- Hate Crimes after a career educating kids against hate— Before that, Lauter was a she said, tend to trust law en- transgender hate crimes are tion for government to fix this,” at the ADL. for example, teaching them local Jewish leader in Atlanta forcement but not always get underreported. And so one she said. “My approach to fight- what a swastika is and why it’s and also helmed a pro-Israel along with their neighbors. of the priorities of this office ing hate is everyone needs to By Ben Sales offensive. She will coordinate group in San Francisco. She said other minorities, is to do community outreach be part of the solution.” with 10 agencies, from police “I would love to see that (JTA)—Like other local of- to mental health programs, kind of coordination and ficials, Deborah Lauter can’t that are tasked in some way someone who is that kind of say exactly what’s causing the with addressing hate. And unifying voice for the differ- Portable Oxygen recent spike in hate crimes she plans to emphasize com- ent groups experiencing hate against Jews in New York City. munity relations with adults crimes,” said Evan Bernstein, For The Way It could be, in her words, in tense neighborhoods. the ADL’s New York-New “the rhetoric that’s coming Lauter praised the NYPD Jersey regional director, who You Want to Live out of various elected of- Hate Crimes Task Force for used to work with Lauter. “She ficials.” It could be animus working to protect vulnerable dealt on the ground with hate among the city’s diverse groups, but said neighbors of crimes. She understood that communities. It could be that different backgrounds don’t communities have to build the attacks are getting more always protect each other. relationships. She understood press and therefore inspiring “Do I get a sense that groups how to build the macro and copycats. It could just be a hot stick up for the other? Maybe the micro. She’s also an at- summer when people need to not as much,” she said. torney, so she understands blow off steam. “I think the Hasidic com- the law.” “It’s difficult to make gen- munity in particular is feeling For fiscal year 2020, Lauter eralizations,” Lauter said. a bit isolated and wondering if will have a budget of $1.7 “When you look at escalation others care about what’s hap- million and plans to hire six of swastikas on buildings, are pening to them,” she added, people. In the future, the of- these copycat attacks because referring to Orthodox Jewish fice will receive approximately Includes Everything You Need to Regain they’re in the press a lot and neighborhoods in Brooklyn $700,000 a year in its efforts Your Freedom At just 2.8* lbs, the Inogen One G4 is the ultralight portable oxygen concentrator you have been waiting for. The Inogen One G4 is approximately half the size of the Inogen One G3. The New York Times exposé Meets FAA Requirements for Travel By Ben Sales pened in 2012. As early as for an attack on Iran. 2009, when large protests “He banged on the table like (JTA)—As of this writing, called the Green Revolution this,” Olmert told The Times, JUST Israel has not bombed Iran’s were rocking Iran, Netanyahu “and he said, ‘General Barak, 2.8 LBS. REQUEST YOUR FREE INFO KIT TODAY! nuclear program. suggested to U.S. officials that do you know what no means? But according to an exposé a strike could destroy the No is no.” CALL TODAY! 1 855 401 5781 in The New York Times that Iranian nuclear program and The U.S. tried to stop an *With a single battery. © 2019 Inogen, Inc. All rights reserved. dropped Wednesday, it could destabilize the regime. But by Israeli attack—but also simu- still happen. And nearly did. late 2010, Israel wasn’t ready lated its own on U.S. soil. The 10,000-word story to strike. During Obama’s his first details how close Israel came By 2012, that appeared to term, according to State De- to attacking Iran, how Presi- have changed. The United partment official Wendy Sher- dents Barack Obama and States had detected Israeli man, the United States told How you can ensure Israel George W. Bush tried to deter drones taking off from Azer- Israel “please don’t go off on the Israelis and what actually baijan to spy on Iran and saw a hair trigger and start a war.” stopped the would-be bomb- clusters of Israeli planes pre- As an Israeli attack appeared has a healthy New Year. ing raid. paring for an attack. That year, more likely, American officials It also tells the story of then-Israeli Defense Minister began a tactic known as “Bi- how President Donald Trump Ehud Barak canceled a joint bisitting,” a play on the Israeli If you’re looking to make withdrew from the 2015 Iran U.S.-Israeli military exercise leader’s nickname: A senior nuclear agreement and what so it would not conflict with American official would visit a difference for Israel and secure that means for the future a potential strike. Michael Israel every few weeks, which the nation’s health and safety of the Iran-Israel-U.S. hate Oren, who served as the Israeli meant the U.S. had a window triangle. ambassador to the U.S., slept of a couple weeks before and this coming year, there’s no better Here are five takeaways with his phone by his ear, after the visit when it knew way than through a gift to from the story. ready to wake up and alert Israel would not launch the Israel came really close to the White House of a strike, strike for fear of embarrassing Magen David Adom, Israel’s the article reports. the American official. bombing Iran. emergency medical first responder, From about 2009 to 2013, Bush opposed an Israeli But the Americans also a potential Israeli attack on attack as much as Obama. made their own preparations ambulance, and blood-services Iran was the most talked- So why didn’t Israel execute for an attack on Iran. The about surprise ever. Iran the attack? most intensive was when the organization. Please give today. was suspected of developing One reason could be con- U.S. built, in the western party Shanah Tovah. nuclear weapons in secret sistent American opposition of the country, a full-scale to the idea—but not just from model of an Iranian uranium and was publicly threatening Support Magen David Adom to destroy Israel. Israeli Prime President Obama. Netanyahu enrichment facility that’s Minister Benjamin Netan- criticized Obama repeatedly embedded in a mountain. The at afmda.org/rosh or yahu responded by making as soft on Iran and, accord- Americans then detonated a the Iranian threat his focus ing to the article, “part of 30,000-pound bomb on their call 800.626.0046. and consistently threatening the problem.” But President own soil to destroy the pretend to stop Iran’s quest for the Bush opposed an attack as nuclear site. bomb. The possible Iran attack much as Obama—and was Netanyahu would have was the subject of daily news even more direct about it attacked Iran if he’d had the coverage in Israel, and a story with the Israelis. In a 2008 votes. about it graced the cover of meeting with Netanyahu’s In the end, Netanyahu told The Atlantic in 2010. predecessor, Ehud Olmert, The Times, none of that dis- According to The Times and Barak, Bush interrupted story, the attack nearly hap- as Barak was making the case Exposé on page 15A

ad-rosh-orlando-heritage-5.06x6-080619-1030.indd 1 8/6/19 10:36 AM PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 A Jewish family sold this Kandinsky painting to survive the Nazis and Amsterdam is keeping it By Cnaan Liphshiz But in an unusual and “These developments risk controversial departure turning the Netherlands AMSTERDAM (JTA)—Fol- from universal practices, the from a leader in art resti- lowing a protracted legal committee also determined tution to a pariah,” Anne fight, the family of Irma that the painting should not Webber and Wesley Fisher Klein last year finally got be returned to the family. wrote in a December op- Dutch restitution officials It cited “public interest” in ed in the Dutch daily NRC to recognize that the Nazi keeping the work on display Hadelsblad. Webber is an art occupation forced Klein to at the Stedelijk, among other restitution expert and Fisher sell her Wassily Kandinsky arguments. is the director of research painting to this city’s mu- It was the latest of several for the Conference on Jew- nicipal Stedelijk Museum for such refusals by the Neth- ish Material Claims Against a fraction of its worth. erlands based on what the Germany. Their essay was That was in 1940, several Dutch Restitutions Com- titled “It’s a scandal that months into the Nazi occupa- mittee introduced in 2013 this stolen art hangs at the tion of the Netherlands, when as a “weighted interest” museum.” Klein and her husband sold approach to looted art. It is “particularly disturb- “Painting with Houses” for It has prompted outrage ing,” Fisher told the Jewish the modern-day equivalent and concern by some ex- Telegraphic Agency, that this of about $1,600 because they perts, claimants and their is happening in the Nether- needed money to survive the representatives. They fear a lands, which is one of only Holocaust. precedent and see injustice five countries (the others In its ruling last November, by a country that used to be being Germany, Austria, the the Dutch Restitutions Com- considered a model imple- United Kingdom and France) mittee accepted the family’s menter of art restitution that set up committees to account. practices. determine the provenance of suspect artworks. Such committees were a key Irma Klein sold “Painting with Houses” by Wassily Kandinsky during the Holocaust. requirement of the Wash- ington Principles on Nazi- “Art is meant to be viewed,” appraised. But a Kandinsky “The Committee conclud- Bar Mitzvah Confiscated Art – a landmark said Chloe van der Vlugt, a painting similar in style to ed on the grounds of these document agreed upon in 19-year-old art student from “Painting with Houses” and interests that the city council Joseph Roif 1998 by 44 countries. Miami, Florida, who is in created the same year fetched is not obliged to restitute the The principles are signifi- favor of keeping the disputed $26 million at a London auc- painting,” the statement said. Joseph Roif, son of Dr. cant because they form the Kandinsky in the Stedelijk. tion in 2017.) The argument for keeping David and Orly Diamond basis for handling count- The 1909 painting by the Fisher, the Claims Confer- art accessible in resisting of Winter Park, was called less claims that cannot be Russian artist features a ence representative, said the restitution claims is not new to the Torah as a bar resolved in court because of mysterious figure crouched committee’s failure to discuss in court cases, according to mitzvah on Thursday statutes of limitations. sorrowfully in a field op- a monetary settlement did Orna Artal, a co-founder of morning, June 20, 2019, The document’s effect on posite houses with radiant not give the impression of Ramos & Artal, a dispute at Congregation Ahavas restitution efforts remains facades. good will. resolution firm in New York Yisrael in Winter Park with inconclusive. More than 21 “A lot of pillage happened in “There are a good many and an expert on provenance his immediate family in years after its publication, art, whole countries have lost ways in which a museum can and restitution of Nazi-looted attendance. more than 100,000 paintings their treasures,” she added. agree that a painting belongs art. Joseph is in the 8th out of approximately 600,000 “We need to move on.” to the family but nonetheless However, such reasoning grade at Glenridge Middle that the Nazis stole remain During two days of inter- retain the artwork,” he said. is unusual to be invoked by School. His hobbies in- unreturned, according to viewing at random some 50 “It is not reasonable that a state-created restitution clude playing the saxo- Deutche Welle. Some of admirers of Kandinsky, JTA the family in this case is not committee, Artal and Marika phone and skateboarding. them hang in museums and did not encounter a single receiving anything.” Keblusek, a lecturer from the Joseph also led minchah services in conjunction with private collections across person who favored return- Queried about the possi- University of Leiden who spe- a reception held at Interlachen Country Club on Sunday, Europe and beyond. Others ing the painting to the fam- bility of compensation, Eric cializes in the study of looted Sept. 8, 2019. are the subject of drawn-out ily after being informed of Idema, the general secretary art, confirmed. Joining in the family’s simcha were Joseph’s siblings legal fights. the dispute’s details. Those of the Dutch Restitutions According to the lawyer Yael, Shira, Ari, Sophia, and Aviva; grandparents Efrain Interviews with visitors to interviewed came from 10 Committee, said he “cannot van den Bergh, it’s happen- and Elsa Waisman of Surfside and Venezuela; grandpar- the Stedelijk suggest there is countries, including Israel. comment on this specific ing in the Netherlands in ents Dr. Morton and Louise Diamond of Ft. Lauderdale, widespread support for the “I think it should stay case.” Generally, he added, reaction to a massive resti- as well as family and friends from Israel, Venezuela, Dutch approach of resisting here, Kandinsky belongs to the committee has no man- tution claim in 2006: Some Panama, Miami, New York, and Minnesota. restitution to ensure public all of humanity,” Liad Eini, date to offer compensation. 202 paintings were yanked access to art. 19, an Israeli art lover on Fisher, however, insisted that from Dutch museums in leave from the army, said even a vague recommenda- favor of the Goudstikker passionately during a visit – tion on a settlement would family, whose claim was af- the second in two days—to have put pressure on the firmed by the Restitutions the Stedelijk. The city-owned Stedelijk Museum to offer the Committee. NO MORE GUTTER CLEANING, modern art museum, housed family some money. The first use of the “weight- OR YOUR MONEY BACK – GUARANTEED in a structure resembling a Stedelijk has not made ed interest” approach came huge bathtub, is considered such an offer, van den Bergh seven years later, when the one of the world’s leading said. committee recognized that institutions of its kind. The museum, which is paintings belonging to the Eini’s mother, Dorit, a being sued by the family, has late Jewish art collector teacher, hushed her son, re- said it will keep to the letter of Richard Semmel were looted, minding him to speak softly. the binding recommendation but agreed to return only one. “Paintings reach museums of the Restitutions Commit- Four paintings that Semmel at the end of sad stories and tee, which said the museum lost because of the Nazis were tragedies,” she said. “The is excused from any further kept on display, citing the Holocaust happens to be action on Klein’s Kandinsky. museums’ interest in keeping famous and evocative to us The committee also cited them accessible to the public. Jews, but it’s no exception to the failure of Klein, a Holo- It was a watershed moment the various calamities behind caust survivor who died in for the Dutch Restitutions many of these paintings all Amsterdam in 1983, to claim Committee, which has made % AND! % around us.” the painting, which the com- about 170 recommendations, OFF ENTIRE® All those interviewed said, mittee determined “had not most of them binding rulings, FINANCING* LEAFFILTER 0 15 PURCHASE** however, that Klein’s family been stolen or confiscated.” pertaining to some 1,500 PLUS AN ADDITIONAL should be offered monetary However, the committee did items. (Among the binding SENIOR OR MILITARY DISCOUNT! compensation. find that “the sale of the rulings, 84 were fully or We offer Senior & Military discounts But the elaborate ruling painting cannot, on the one partially in the applicants’ ON TOP of the 15% off & 0% financing! of the Dutch Restitutions hand, be considered in isola- favor and 56 were to reject Committee, an advisory body tion from the Nazi regime,” the claim in full.) whose establishment by the but also owed to the dire fi- The introduction of the  CALL US TODAY government in 2002 helped nancial straits faced by Klein weighted interest approach For A FREE Estimate! make Holland a pioneer and her husband in 1940. means that “ownership of in art restitution, offered It also said the Amsterdam looted art outweighed right- no reference to compensa- municipality “bought the ful ownership,” Webber and 1-877-486-2333 tion, according to Gert-Jan painting in good faith.” Fisher wrote in their op-ed. van den Bergh, the lawyer Unusually, the commit- And while the committee has Promo Number: 285 Mon-Thurs: 8am-11pm, Fri-Sat: 8am-5pm for the claimants, who do not tee then cited the painting’s ruled since 2013 in favor of Sun: 2pm-8pm EST wish to be named. His clients prominent placement to returning some looted art, do not rule out a monetary explain its decision not to they added that weighted CSLB# 1035795 DOPL #10783658-5501 License# 7656 License# 50145 License# 41354 License# 99338 settlement, he said. return it, saying in a state- interest in principle means License# 128344 License# 218294 License# 603 233 977 License# 2102212986 License# 2106212946 License# 2705132153A License# LEAFFNW822JZ License# WV056912 License# WC-29998-H17 Nassau (The value of the painting ment that the artwork “has that “[n]o Dutch museum HIC License# H01067000 Registration# 176447 Registration# HIC.0649905 Registration# C127229 Regis- tration# C127230 Registration# 366920918 Registration# PC6475 Registration# IR731804 Registration# is not known, van den Bergh a significant place in the Ste- would ever need to return a 13VH09953900 Registration# PA069383 Suffolk HIC License# 52229-H *Contact us for additonal details said, as it has never been delijk Museum’s collection.” single work of art ever again.” HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 PAGE 9A Scene AroundAround By Gloria Yousha—Call 407-657-9405 or [email protected] can be purchased at the following locations: ORANGE COUNTY JCC, 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland • JCC South, 11184 South Apopka-Vineland Rd., Orlando • Kinneret, 515 South Delaney An idol and a landsman... Winter Park Playhouse... Ave., Orlando • SOJC, 11200 S. Apopka Vineland Rd., Orlando I’m referring to Ella Fitzgerald, a long time idol of mine and The national premiere of “Desperate Measures” will take • Brown’s New York Deli, 156 Lake Ave., Maitland • Most Publix Sammy Davis Jr., a friend and also a fellow Jew. place on Sept. 20 (with previews on Sept. 19 and 20) at the Supermarkets • All Winn Dixie Supermarkets While watching the Ed Sullivan show on television recently, Winter Park Playhouse, 711 N. Orange Ave. Suite C, Winter (Yes, I watch Ed Sullivan and even watch Johnny Carson so I Park. The Playhouse phone number is 407-645-0145. SEMINOLE COUNTY will recognize the guests. I’m elderly, remember?) 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Sudoku (see page 14A for solution) pineloch.com. Finally, one says to the other, “Look how smart those Jews Hope to see you there! are! He’s taking his own blood pressure. Hebron’s Jewish history is bloody—and Zionists still need to embrace it By Nicolas Nissim Jerusalem. Hebron also is a of any other city or even area history. In modern times, as Touboul favorite destination for those in the West Bank or Gaza. early as 1807, the head of the who wish to show the evils of Breaking the Silence uses Sephardic community, Rabbi JERUSALEM (JTA)—On the Israeli occupation. reports from Hebron to make Haim Bajaio, made the first Sept. 4, Israel commemo- In 1995, a local doctor sweeping generalities about meaningful land purchases rated the 90th anniversary named Baruch Goldstein the conflict. by Jews under Ottoman rule. of the 1929 Hebron massacre, committed the worst Jew- “Hebron is a microcosm of Probably under the influence during which Arab residents ish terror attack in modern the military control mecha- of the radical changes to the slaughtered their Jewish Israeli history by shooting nism in the entire West Bank,” geopolitical situation caused neighbors, leading to a Jew- Muslim worshippers in the one testimony reads. by the Napoleonic wars, he did ish exodus for the next half Cave of the Patriarchs, kill- But painting the entire so with financial support from century. ing 29. In 2016, a 20-year-old conflict with this one brush communities spread around Since then, Hebron has soldier, Elor Azaria, killed an misses the larger story. He- the Mediterranean and as a been a battleground, both already neutralized terrorist, bron has a lot to say about way to bring the Jews back literally and for the Zion- bringing international at- Jewish heritage, history and to their ancestral homeland. ist narrative. Split between tention and national drama rights. The story of Hebron also heavily guarded Israeli- and to Hebron. As a whole, Zionist and reminds us why a strong mili- Palestinian-controlled areas, It is thus unsurprising pro-Israel groups shy away tary and independent State the hotly contested West Bank that Hebron is the focus from Hebron. Unfortunately of Israel are needed for Jews city is home to approximately of considerable anti-Israel this leaves the entire narrative to survive. Ninety years ago, 215,000 Palestinians and public relations efforts. As to be written by groups like 67 Jews were murdered in a about 1,000 Jews. the Institute for Zionist Breaking the Silence, which single day. The rioters killed The city where Abraham Strategies reported last year, then claim to represent the and looted families without and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, 27 percent of testimonies by Israeli perspective. making distinctions between and Jacob and Leah are said the anti-occupation group Jews have lived around the long-established residents to be buried is central to Breaking the Silence center Cave of the Patriarchs in He- Judaism, second only to on the city alone, far ahead bron for most or all of Jewish Zionists on page 15A PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 At summer conference, pro-Israel students learn tools to respond to hostile campus environment

Students listen to a lecture at the 2019 CAMERA student conference at Boston Univer- Aviva Rosenschein, CAMERA’s International Campus director, speaks to students at the sity Hillel. 2019 CAMERA campus conference.

By Sean Savage To that end, students from Hillel to learn more about as organizations and tools for Gaza; and CAMERA research anti-Semitism envoy Elan more than 80 campuses gath- Israel and how to stand up to research and writing.” staff. Carr have come out forcefully (JNS)—Universities have ered in Boston in mid-August anti-Israel campus groups— Bates, who characterized But one of the main goals against both issues. long been one of the tough- for a high-level training and also to know they are her university as “very anti-Is- was educating students on The connection between est environments for pro- conference to gain support not alone. rael,” noting that she has been the anti-Israel groups that the two was also a major Israel students. They have and learn the tools necessary “When people get involved verbally attacked, threatened students may encounter on theme at the CAMERA con- battled stilted curriculums to respond to the upsurge in in Israel advocacy, they don’t and even sent online death campus, specifically Students ference. when it comes to the Israeli- campus anti-Semitism and know much and don’t know threats by anti-Israel figures, for Justice in Palestine, but Ben Newhouse, a rising Palestinian conflict, and anti-Israel activism. where to start,” McKenna said CAMERA has proven to also other emerging ones. A junior at New York University more recently, grappled with Hosted by the campus Bates, a rising senior at be a strong resource for her. new challenge is ties between in Manhattan’s Greenwich Vil- on-campus pressure in the department of the Commit- George Mason University in “CAMERA has been trying SJP and other vocal anti-Israel lage, told JNS that one of the face of growing BDS activ- tee for Accuracy in Middle Fairfax, Va., told JNS. “The to show us that they are the groups, such as Jewish Voice biggest takeaways from the ity. Combined with a general East Reporting and Analysis first couple of days of the support system. They have the for Peace and IfNotNow. conference was the realization uptick in anti-Semitism, in- (CAMERA), a media watchdog conference were very inten- resources to prove or disprove Aviva Rosenschein, inter- that most of the anti-Israel cluding the deadly shootings organization, students from sive and information-based. things. They know how to national campus director for actions he has seen on cam- in Pittsburgh and Poway, the United States, Canada, There was a lot of focus on connect you and defend you,” CAMERA, said “we are giving pus are actually anti-Semitic many Jewish and pro-Israel the United Kingdom and Israel helping us know what we are she said. them very detailed informa- as well. students have increasingly took part in a four-day confer- talking about—facts about Similarly, Josh Eibelman, tion on the organizations “One takeaway from the felt under siege. ence at Boston University’s the conflict and Israel, as well a rising senior at Cornell that students may encounter conference is that they are University in Ithaca, N.Y., who on campus. From JVP to SJP very clear in saying anti- is studying psychology and and IfNotNow, what these Zionism is anti-Semitism. biology, told JNS that develop- organizations represent and Zionism is the belief that the ing a pro-Israel network was their supposed missions are, Jewish people have a right to important to him. and how they can react, re- self-determination, just like “The biggest takeaway spond or engage with them any other group of people do,” for me is I get to connect to in general,” she said. he said. “If you are saying that pro-Israel students across “You have to remember Jews don’t have this right and the country. Keep in touch, that a lot of students who are only pointing your finger collaborate and share ideas,” join these organizations are at the Jewish community, he said. not inherently anti-Semitic; then you are anti-Semitic.” Indeed, a number of ses- they are coming from a place Last year, the SJP affiliate sions at the conference were sounds like a peaceful orga- at NYU was instrumental in led by CAMERA campus staff nization, but they are being pushing the student govern- Jewish Graveside Package: to develop solidarity and bond- manipulated,” she clarified. ment to pass a resolution ing among the students. Haber said that these Jew- during the Hanukkah holiday • Service of Funeral Director and Staff “Students are dealing with ish anti-Israel groups work to divest from Israel. In the a lot of difficulties on campus,” in tandem with SJP and can spring, NYU’s Department of said Hali Haber, director of elevate not only anti-Israel ac- Social and Cultural Analysis • Sacred Burial Shroud campus programming and tions, but also anti-Semitism further voted to boycott the strategic relationships, told through the legitimacy pro- school’s own satellite campus JNS. “This conference enables vided by Jewish groups pro- in Tel Aviv. • Filing all Necessary Paperwork students to meet other people viding cover for SJP’s attacks. Newhouse, who was a with a similar experience, and “I think we are going to student at the NYU Tel Aviv to be able to converse and get see more issues on campus campus in the fall of 2018, said • $200.00 to Chevra Kaddish Society donation for washing advice to help them on their within our Jewish commu- these actions were not only campus.” nity. IfNotNow, J Street and anti-Zionist, but anti-Semitic. • Traditional Jewish Flat Top Pine Casket Practical programs for JVP are going to be our main “Reflecting back to NYU, students included “how to issues this year, and this only that really stuck with me and talk about Israel in social helps to elevate SJP. But I changed the way I view a lot • Staff Supervison of Service at Graveside situations”; “recruit, recruit, think our students are better of the anti-Israel things from recruit;” and “Twitter is my prepared after this conference last year. I would see anti- only friend: utilizing social in learning about these groups Israel events, but would say • Transportation to Cemetery media to maximize outreach.” and the history and mission.” maybe these people are just le- Participants also had some Anti-Zionism is anti-Sem- gitimately criticizing Israel,” downtime to enjoy Boston’s itism he said. “But this conference $4595.00 famous Duck Tour boat rides, At the end of 2018, Inside reaffirmed in me that a lot of a krav maga session and movie Higher Ed reported that prior what is being said on college nights. to and after the fatal shooting campuses—and in my case, ‘They are being manipu- at the Tree of Life synagogue in NYU—is just anti-Semitism, lated’ Pittsburgh in October of that plain and simple.” The conference also fea- year, “prejudicial displays have Rosenschein echoed this, tured several pro-Israel speak- plagued college campuses, saying that this kind of in- Y ers, such as Alyza Lewin, following a trend of anti-Semi- timidation students feel is no Call us to receive your free Final Wishes Organizer! president and general counsel tism on the rise at colleges and different than being attacked of the Louis D. 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at AdventHealth Hospice in Orlando Weekday Morning Minyan (Conservative/Egalitarian), services Monday- Altamonte Springs on Sat- Friday 7:45 a.m. (9 a.m.—national holidays); 2nd floor Chapel—Jewish Academy of Orlando; urday, Aug. 31, 2019. Johnny 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. For information call 407-298-4650. was born on Nov. 13, 1949, in Sousa, Dominican Republic, Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. the son of Hella Dora Codik JewishCelebration.org; 407-479-8377. and the late Max Blum, both Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, refugees from Europe. He was 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. the 100th baby born in the Sousa, Dominican Republic Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- colony. The family immigrated 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. to the United States and he Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. became a U.S. Citizen in 1961. jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Johnny was the owner/ operator of a warehouse equip- Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. ment company. Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, On Dec. 28, 1997, in Miami 321-777-2770. Beach, he married the former Edith Abusch, his wife of Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- nearly 22 years who survives 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat him. They relocated to the services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. Orlando area from Pembroke Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. Pines in 2017. betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. In addition to his wife, Jack and Roz Baumstein Johnny is survived by his Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. mother, Hella of Pompano congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. IVA ROSILAND and social events that are Beach; his son, Ari (Clau- Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; BAUMSTEIN still memorable for many. dia) Blum of Louisville; and Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. Iva Rosiland Baumstein Roz was an intelligent, daughter, Cara (Jesse) Cohen (nee Bernstein), known to tough, sincere, indepen- of Boca Raton; and Edith’s Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; her family and friends as dent woman who wanted daughter and son, Sarah Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. “Roz” or “Rozie,” passed away to bring everyone around Elizabeth Smith and Joshua Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, quietly on Sunday, Sept. 1, her up with her. She would Warren Smith. He was the Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. 2019, at the age of 92. She want everyone to know proud grandfather of Gabri- was born on March 16, 1927, that she felt that she had a ella, Misha, Charlie, Sadie, Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. in St. Augustine, Florida, to beautiful life as a woman, Ari (AJ) and Riley. Johnny’s bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. Lester and Sarah Bernstein. a wife, a mother and a brother, Edward (Ilene) Blum Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation of Boulder, Colorado, also She was a second generation grandmother. holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. Jewish American and Florid- Roz is survived by her survives him. ian. In 1948, she graduated son, Darryl; her grand- Funeral services were held com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. from Sophie Newcomb Col- daughter, Sonya; and her at Congregation of Reform Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; lege and moved back to St. extended families in St. Judaism with Rabbi Steven www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Augustine where she met her Augustine and Gainesville. W. Engel officiating. Burial Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., husband, Jack Baumstein, at A funeral service was held followed at CRJ Cemetery in her cousin’s wedding. The on Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. Gotha. Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. two wed on March 18, 1950, at 11 a.m. at Temple Israel In memory of John S. Blum, Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; at the Ponce de Leon Hotel Cemetery in Gotha. Dona- the family requests contribu- www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th (now Flagler College) and tions may be made to any tions to AdventHealth Hos- Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. raised a son, Darryl, and a Orlando Jewish organiza- pice, 480 W. Central Parkway, daughter, Randi, in Lake tion or temple to help grow Altamonte Springs FL 32714. Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. City, Florida, where Jack ran the community she cared Arrangements entrusted to Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- his business, Baumstein’s so much for. Beth Shalom Memorial Cha- 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Drugstore. They moved to JOHN S. BLUM pel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando FL Orlando in 1957 and built John Salomon “Johnny” 32810. 407.599.1180 www. Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- their house in Palomar in Blum, age 69, of Winter Gar- bethshalommemorialchapel. 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. 1959 so their children could den, passed away peacefully com. Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for be a part of a larger growing services and holiday schedules. Jewish community. Throughout her life, Roz Congregation Sinai (C/R), 1200 West Broad Street, Groveland; 352-243-5353; congre- led a very active social and gation-sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. work life. She participated Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- in a successful stock club Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv with her friends and was a Please call for times. real estate agent. She was Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman also an artist, handcraft- does most anything Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- ing jewelry, pottery and Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. metalwork at the home Temple Beth El (R) / Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-675- she and Jack built together. She was an active philan- 6615 / 386-252-3097; Friday Shabbat Service 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. thropist, participating in Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. Jewish Pavilion, Jewish Ricardo Torres Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat Family Services, Hadas- service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. sah, Jewish Federation, and the Arts to name a few. Handyman Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. In the 62 years she lived mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; in Orlando, she and Jack Thursday, 10:00 a.m. created a community of Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: friends and extended family around them between their 407-221-5482 Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. philanthropy, travel, game Available in Central Florida Area • References Available nights, dinners, holidays Temple Israel (C), 50 S. 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Neither—19 percent, Don’t In case you missed it, Is- reason why Israel is having to swing their vote to or from next prime minister and who One of the factors that know—9 percent. rael will be holding national a second, unprecedented, a big party to a small party or don’t want to lose influence, cannot be calculated numeri- In the Israeli elections, elections on Sept. 17. Yes, election in the same year is vice versa. The hope is that but risk that with him at the cally but is an overall trend, sometimes 1+1 does not equal this is the second time this because nobody was able to influences the respective number one spot. is that much of the polling is two. There are many variables year. Hopefully the outcome form a government as a result parties strength by having One of the wildcards is a referendum on Netanyahu. and potential outcomes, and will not be a stalemate like of the election this spring. a larger minority party or a the Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel The attorney general has many factors that will influ- last time. Please enjoy this If the definition of insanity larger major party. Our Home) party headed by announced the intention to ence the outcome of the elec- series of articles offering is doing the same thing and Creating an ideological left- veteran politician Avigdor Li- indict Netanyahu on a few tion. The important thing is to insight to perspectives be- expecting different results, or right-wing government is eberman. Lieberman is both potentially serious charges. pray that it is a good outcome yond whether Bibi will be there are definitely elements what the parties campaign on. loved and hated alternatively Netanyahu is now Israel’s for Israel and all its citizens, re-elected. These details of insanity in the fact that Smaller parties have already because he advocates for longest serving prime min- Arabs and Jews. are probably not understood Israel is having new elections cast their support behind the rights of secular Israeli ister and above a potential U.S.-born and educated Jon- overseas and ultimately, at in less than two weeks. the formation of a govern- Jews over the influence of indictment, some just feel he’s athan Feldstein immigrated least indirectly, is part of an- According to most polls, the ment with the heads of either the ultra-Orthodox parties, served long enough. to Israel in 2004. Throughout swering who will be Israel’s two main parties, Likud and Likud, (Netanyahu) or Blue and because he is credited/ However, while the poll- his life and career, he has next prime minister. (For Blue and White, are polling and White (Benny Gantz). blamed for preventing the ing for the two main parties, fellowshipped with Christian background about the elec- at between 29-32 seats which Ultimately, how post-election formation of a government and the general left and right supporters of Israel and shares toral system from prior to means even if they all played coalition negotiations fall out in the spring, and therefore wing camps are close to equal, experiences of living as an Or- the election in April, please nice, get over the rhetoric, is anyone’s guess. wasted time and significant and hard to see how it will thodox Jew in Israel. He writes feel free to contact me, first- and behaved like grownups One thing that is for sure is expense in holding new be possible to make any left a regular column for Standing [email protected].) to form a national unity gov- that as much as parties want elections. Interestingly, his or right wing government, With Israel at charismanews. Unlike a two-party system, ernment for the best interest to govern and have influence influence is being perceived when asked who is more suited com and other prominent Israel has a parliamentary of the country, they could according to ideologies, par- as stronger now and where to serve as Prime Minister, web sites. He can be reached democracy which means that just barely, maybe, form a 61 ties are made of people who he only had five seats in the polls show Netanyahu with at firstpersonisrael@gmail. as many as 40 parties have member coalition with only each have aspirations for previous election, he’s revived a vast lead: Netanyahu—43 com. competed to win votes to be these two. Unfortunately, themselves, or the wellbe- represented in the Knesset. mathematically, they missed ing of the country, and that People vote for a party and the chance to do so following means that even when the its list of candidates rather the April election when each votes are counted, anything How Valerie Harper’s Rhoda than for a specific candidate. party had 35 seats. Together could happen. In order to be represented that would have been a solid While mathematically it in Knesset, any party must and reasonably stable major- might make the most sense for embodied a very Jewish type receive at least 3.25 percent ity without the need to bring Likud and Blue and White to of the vote, which means that other parties and political in- form a government together, there might be as many as terests into the government. there are many factors against 12-15 parties making up the While people vote their that. Many in Blue and White 120-seat parliament. political conscious and/or will not sit in a government In order to form a govern- practically how they want with Netanyahu as prime ment, typically the head of to see the next government minister. This could mean the party with the most seats made up, there are many people in Blue and White needs to have a majority, at factors determining how the breaking away if Netanyahu least 61 members, as part of ultimate vote is split among becomes the prime minister the government. Since no the 120 seats. This means that elect, and necessitate bringing party has ever won 61 seats rather than discussing ideas in other parties to support on its own, it’s always been and swaying undecided voters 61 seat coalition. Or it could necessary to form a coali- (though there is an element of mean that there would be an tion of parties to support a that), much of Israeli politics insurrection in Likud to oust

Bettmann/Getty Images Valerie Harper, left, as Rhoda with Mary Tyler Moore in the television series “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” By Andrew a convenient foil for gentiles, only by their relationship Silow-Carroll a tradition that began with to the men in their lives. the Gospels and continued The Rhoda character was (JTA)—Theater folk in in “The Mary Tyler Moore groundbreaking too: the first England are debating a re- Show,” which debuted in 1972. Jewish leading character on cent revival of the musical Rhoda was Mary’s opposite, TV, Neal Gabler reminds us, “Falsettos,” asking whether in looks and temperament. since Gertrude Berg starred as non-Jews should be playing Considered plump only by Molly Goldberg on CBS from its Jewish characters. In an the body-shaming perspec- 1949 to 1951. open letter, critics of the tive of a television sitcom, she And just as Mary repre- religion-blind casting com- envied Mary’s figure and her sented a soft feminism, Rhoda plain that non-Jewish actors poise, but also served Mary by represented soft ethnicity: can at best portray only a helping her shed some of her Although her Jewishness was “secondary understanding” of Midwestern reserve. Her Jew- rarely made explicit (except Jewish mannerisms but have ish neuroses balanced Mary’s perhaps for that last name, no awareness of the “psychol- gentile insecurity. She said which the protagonist of Her- ogy, geography, culture and out loud what Mary had a hard man Wouk’s 1955 novel “Mar- history that have framed time admitting to herself. She jorie Morningstar” had shed these outward signifiers of threw Mary’s character into in the name of assimilation), Judaism.” high relief, and Mary returned her outward Jewish signifiers To the perennial debate over the favor. were apparent. whether non-Jewish actors “You’re talking about Mid- This has earned the show’s can or should play Jews, I have western love. I’m talking creators both praise and criti- a two-word answer: “Rhoda about Bronx love,” Rhoda tells cism. Marlene Marks wrote in Morgenstern.” Mary in Season 1. “There’s a the Jewish Journal in 1991 Valerie Harper, who died certain amount of guilt that that Rhoda proved “there was last week at age 80, starred in goes with that. My mother more to the Jewish woman “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” wants the people she loves to than the stereotype. She was as the earthy, wise-cracking, feel guilty.” not a princess. She was not a Bronx-born neighbor and best Harper was very much shrew. Yes, she was an under- friend of the WASPy, reserved, aware of how Rhoda’s Jewish- dog, but not a loser.” carefully coiffed TV producer ness informed her relation- By contrast, a character in played by Moore. She was so ship with Mary. Describing a Francine Prose short story, convincing as Rhoda that her character, she once said “Electricity,” is described as many viewers had a hard time in an interview, “All I could “assimilated to the point of believing that Harper herself do was, not being as pretty, Jewishlessness, like Valerie was not Jewish. as thin, as accomplished, Harper playing Rhoda.” “Listen,” she would tell was: ‘I’m a New Yorker, and But her Jewishness was such fans, “in my heart, I’m I’m going to straighten this nonetheless out there, by Jewish. And if you go back far shiksa out.’” the standards of the day, no enough, we’re all Jewish. The “The Mary Tyler Moore more so than in the Season Jews are an ancient people, ” Show” is remembered as a 2 episode titled “Some of My Publication Date: September 20, 2019 according to her 2013 memoir feminist breakthrough in Best Friends Are Rhoda.” “I, Rhoda.” television, depicting women Mary makes a new friend, Advertising Deadline: September 13, 2019 In the history of that who were single and career- people, Jews always served as minded and not defined Rhoda on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs Far-right Alternative for Rivlin added: “Dvir gave us just asking one single ques- team has the opportunity to their religion, ethnicity or channel for producing and Germany party makes with another responsibility, tion,” he said. “How is that pick him up. race is inexcusable. While screening the controversial large gains in two state left us another will. A com- an inflammatory question?” The team had to trim its this situation is obviously HBO series “Our Boys.” elections mitment to discourse and The woman, 27, who filmed roster ahead of its first regular disturbing, our Security team Netanyahu made the By Toby Axelrod contact between the various the incident told the Man- season game against the Ten- has investigated and found no charge in a post Friday on (JTA)—The head of Ger- tribes and streams within chester newspaper that she nessee Titans on September 8. direct threat to the individuals Facebook, calling the show many’s Jewish community is Israeli society. As the elec- reported it to the Com- Joseph, 25, was picked up appearing in the photos or to “anti-Semitic” and asserting urging democratic political tions approach, when passions munity Support Trust, an by the Browns last summer Yeshiva University.” that it “gives a bad and false parties to clearly distance are raised and the discourse organization for reporting when he was cut by the Miami Brandeis University, which name to Israel.” themselves from the right- coarsens, I implore you not to anti-Semitic hate crime. Dolphins after signing with has Jewish roots, informed The post included a graphic populist Alternative for Ger- believe the incitement and the Playground at Queens the club as an undrafted free its students and staff last sporting the logos of Channel many Party, which made large personal attacks. Do not listen private beach club tar- agent out of Florida Atlantic week that photos of some 12 and its news division, under gains in two state elections. to the voices that are eager to geted with anti-Semitic University. He played football of its students and faculty the words “fake news.” The anti-immigrant party, radicalize the discourse, to the graffiti and soccer at the Donna Klein members are posted to the The first moments of the with some politicians who also right or to the left. Take re- By Marcy Oster Jewish Academy in Boca Ra- same thread. The university 10-episode series focuses on have suggested that Germany sponsibility for our ‘together’ (JTA)—A playground at a ton, Florida. said in a letter addressed to the kidnapping in June 2014 is too obsessed with the Holo- because this ‘together’ is our private beach club in Queens Poway rabbi who lost the campus community that of three teenage Israeli boys caust, achieved second place only guarantee of our strength was targeted with anti-Semit- finger in synagogue it does not believe that there who were found dead two in elections Sunday in the and is the best guarantee for ic and racist graffiti. shooting gets lifelike is a threat to campus safety weeks later, and then focuses former east German states our safety.” The playground at the Sil- prosthetic or to the people in the photos. for the rest of the series on of Brandenburg and Saxony, Sanders calls for Ameri- ver Gull was closed, the club By Marcy Oster Twitter CEO Jack the retaliatory murder of a with 23.5 and 27.5 percent cans to stand together announced on Friday, “due (JTA)—The rabbi who lost Dorsey’s account sends Palestinian teen by Jewish respectively. In Saxony, the in appearance at largest to the recent and increasing his finger in the April shooting out inflammatory tweets extremists. Christian Democratic Union Muslim convention vandalism from within the attack on the Chabad of Poway after being hacked “They took but a few min- of Chancellor Angela Merkel By Marcy Oster club,” the New York Times in California has received a By Marcy Oster utes to show what happened won the largest percentage of (JTA)—Sen. Bernie Sand- reported Sunday. lifelike prosthetic finger. (JTA)—Twitter CEO Jack to the three, and then the votes, while in Brandenburg ers got a standing ovation at Among the graffiti, accord- The silicone prosthetic is Dorsey’s account sent out rac- plot moves away from their the Social Democratic Party the Islamic Society of North ing to the report, was “Heil meant to help his hand func- ist and inflammatory tweets heinous murder, and instead came out on top. America annual convention Hitler,” swastikas, and the tion properly and is removed including “Hitler is innocent” focuses on the horrible, but “It would be devastating in Houston. words “gas chamber” painted for sleep. after it was hacked. unique case of the murder of to sit back and relax” just Sanders spoke on Saturday on a door. Racial slurs target- Sam Heifetz, a third-gener- His account also tweeted a single Arab child,” Netan- because the right-wing party to the conventions some 6,000 ing black people also were ation prosthetist at Orthocraft that Twitter’s headquarters yahu said. did not gain first place, Josef attendees, the first presiden- discovered. Prosthetic and Orthotic Ser- is “blowing up” as well as re- “I’m not surprised that Schuster, head of the tial candidate, along with Club management called vices in Brooklyn, created the tweeting a tweet saying “Nazi Channel 12 slanders Israel, as Central Council of Jews in Julian Castro, to address the police over the incident, and High Definition Silicone Res- Germany did nothing wrong.” I am used to them slandering Germany, told the German- gathering, the largest meeting also painted over the graffiti. toration or lifelike prosthesis The tweets were up for me on a daily basis,” he said. Jewish weekly newspaper Jue- of American Muslims. It is being investigated as for Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, about a half hour before they Netanyahu has regularly dische Allgemeine on Monday. “I am here today because a bias crime, Sgt. Richard COlLive reported. were removed. criticized Keshet for its cov- He urged voters not to I believe in the concept of Firrito, a spokesman for the He lost one index finger in Dorsey has 4.2 million erage of corruption charged be complacent, and not to solidarity, and the need for United States Park Police in the attack by alleged gunman, followers. against him, including on be taken in by AfD leader all of us, no matter where we New York, told the newspaper. John Earnest, who shot with “We’re aware that @jack Saturday night when he ac- Alexander Gauland’s recent come from or what our back- The incident reportedly an assault rifle at close range. was compromised and in- cused the station on social attempts to whitewash the ground is, to stand together took place while the club “His lost finger during the vestigating what happened,” media of “committing a terror party by calling it “bourgeois.” in the struggle for justice and was open. In addition to the horrific attack in his syna- Twitter’s communications attack against democracy” Last month, Schuster said human rights,” Sanders said. graffiti, the shed used for arts gogue is a physical reminder department tweeted on Friday and of attempting to influence in an interview that the AfD “We must speak out at hate programs was broken into and of hate but his counterattack night. It later tweeted that the the outcome of the upcoming is closely interwoven with crimes and violence targeted the equipment and supplies of inner strength, trust in account was “now secure.” national elections. right-wing extremism, incit- at the Muslim community damaged. God and bringing good to Twitter has been accused Jeffrey Epstein criminal ing fears and promoting an and call it what it is: Domestic NJ rabbi sentenced to the world sheds light over and of being unable to control case is closed anti-minority atmosphere. Terrorism,” he also said. 18 months in prison for over,” Heifetz said, according hate speech and harassment By Cnaan Liphshiz Despite concerns about anti- He brought up his personal human trafficking of to the news website. on its platform. It is not the (JTA)—A federal judge in Semitism among the many history, as the “proud son of 17-year-old girl After being shot, Goldstein first time that Dorsey has been New York formally ended the Muslims in Germany, the far Jewish immigrants.” By Marcy Oster ran to the social hall where hacked either. criminal case against Jeffrey right remains the greatest “As some of you may know, (JTA)—A New Jersey rabbi congregants had gathered— Ex-imam removed from Epstein, the Jewish financier threat to Jews, he said. the issue of hatred and preju- was sentenced to 18 months as had several children, in- running in Canadian who authorities say killed Speaking to the Jewish dice is very personal for me,” in prison for his involvement cluding his granddaughter— elections over alleged himself while awaiting trial weekly in the hours following he said. He noted that those in the human trafficking and he began waving them out anti-Semitic comments on sex-trafficking charges. the weekend’s election, Schus- in his family who remained and prostitution of a 17-year of the building to safety. By David Lazarus Judge Richard Berman of ter said he was relieved that in Poland after Hitler came old girl. “I just ran, not even know- MONTREAL (JTA)—The the U.S. District Court for the the worst-case scenario—a to power were murdered by Rabbi Aryeh Goodman, 37, ing my fingers were blown Liberal Party of Canada ousted Southern District of New York bigger win for the AfD—had the Nazis. of East Brunswick, New Jer- off,” he said. a candidate for upcoming shelved the indictment on not come to pass. “And the lesson I learned sey, also will have to undergo Photos of thousands national election after B’nai Thursday charging Epstein, Rivlin remembers killed from that experience is how a year of supervised release. of Yeshiva University Brith Canada revealed past 66, with sex crimes in the yeshiva student Dvir important it is for all of us to The sentence was announced students appear on white allegedly anti-Semitic com- early 2000s in Florida and Sorek at start of school speak out forcefully whenever on Wednesday. nationalist website ments. New York. year we see prejudice and discrimi- Goodman had pleaded By Marcy Oster Hassan Guillet, a former During the session, Ber- By Marcy Oster nation,” he said. guilty to a charge of interstate (JTA)—The photos of thou- imam running for election man included a reference to a JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is- He reminded his audience travel in aid of a racketeering sands of students and faculty in a Montreal district, was re- court hearing two days earlier raeli President, Reuven Rivlin that “in the wake of Trump’s enterprise, CBS New York of Yeshiva University appear moved on Friday from conten- at which 16 women spoke opened Israel’s school year at Muslim ban, thousands of reported Friday. on a white nationalist and tion for the Oct. 21 election. about their claims against the Robert M. Beren Macha- non-Muslims from all walks Goodman met the teen anti-Semitic website. Gulliet gained international Epstein of sexual abuse, some naim Hesder Yeshiva, where of life rushed to airports all at the hotel on Feb. 1, 2018 The photos were posted attention when he spoke out allegedly committed when he memorialized murdered across this country to stand and paid to have sex with her on the Vanguard News Net- following a 2017 mosque at- they were under the age of student Dvir Sorek. in solidarity with Muslims.” after answering an online work Forum, in a thread that tack in Quebec City. consent. Statements by sev- “The radiance of Dvir’s per- Sanders was introduced by advertisement for the girl, mocked Jews’ for their appear- But according to B’nai eral other women were read sonality captured the hearts of his campaign manager, Faiz according to the Middlesex ance. The thread first appeared Brith, Guillet’s past has in- by their lawyers. everyone,” Rivlin said Sunday Shakir, the first Muslim to County Prosecutor’s Office. on June 3rd, 2018, and on June cluded celebrating the release The judge said he was in- in an address to Sorek’s class- manage a major presidential He turned himself in nearly a 27th, 2018, the first Yeshiva of a pro-Hamas activist Raed corporating by reference the mates and teachers. “One of campaign. week later to the East Bruns- University students are posted, Salah, who said Jews were be- hearing’s transcript while he the finest young men of this Hasidic Jewish couple wick Police Department while according to the YU Observer hind the 9/11 attacks; accus- “underscores the significance good land, whose grandfather harassed about Israel’s accompanied by his attorney. student newspaper. The most ing “Zionists” of controlling of the Crime Victims’ Rights Rabbi Binyamin Herling was treatment of Gaza on At the time of his arrest, he recent post of YU students was U.S. politics; and describing Act.” Among other things, the murdered by terrorists in Manchester train ride was running a religious learn- on Aug. 29. Israel as an “apartheid” state. victims’ law ensures crime Samaria, and who was active By Marcy Oster ing center out of his home. The photos include images B’nai Brith CEO Michael victims have the right to be in bringing together Arab and (JTA)—An identifiably Jew- Goodman is registered as of YU high school students Mostyn welcomed Guillet’s heard at public court proceed- Jewish youth in this area. Dvir ish couple was harassed about a Tier 3, or high-risk sex of- as well. They came from YU turfing and said, “the anti- ings regarding the accused. was truly a symbol of hope and Israel’s treatment of Gaza dur- fender, after being arrested website and publications and Semitic tropes of ‘Zionists U.S. Attorney General Wil- faith and breadth of opinion.” ing a train ride in Manchester, in 2013 for molesting a youth albums, according to the controlling governments’ liam Barr has promised Sorek, who would have England. while serving as a camp coun- report. and of ‘dual loyalty’ are two the Justice Department will turned 19 in the days follow- The anti-Semitic rant selor in 2001. He accepted a Some students have filed of the more abhorrent expres- pursue those who enabled ing his murder, went missing against the couple, dressed plea deal and served prison a report with the New York sions of paranoid anti- Jewish Epstein to carry out the sexual on August 7 while returning in Hasidic garb, was filmed time for that incident. Police Department. conspiracy theories.” assaults. from a trip to Jerusalem to buy by another passenger in the Cleveland Browns cut “Those photos are part of The Liberal Party of Canada Epstein was arrested last gifts for his teachers. His body Metrolink on Thursday night, Jewish placekicker Greg a much larger collection of said in a statement that Guil- month. He had pleaded not was found at about 3 a.m. the the Manchester Evening News Joseph images and commentary that let’s past comments “do not guilty. following day on a road leading reported. By Marcy Oster includes anti-Semitic and correspond to the party’s In requesting the shelving to the Migdal Oz settlement The man called across the (JTA)—The Cleveland racist language,” Josh Joseph, values.” of the indictment 10 days where the yeshiva, part of the train car to the couple, asking Browns have cut Jewish senior vice president of YU Netanyahu calls for boy- earlier, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Ohr Torah Stone network, is them: “Does he know about placekicker Greg Joseph. said in a statement on Friday. cott of HBO’s ‘Our Boys’ Berman, who is not related located. His murderers were the situation in Gaza?” Joseph was cut on Saturday “The content of the online By Marcy Oster to the judge, said the law arrested several days later. The man, who said he was after spending a year with forum targeting members JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is- required the dismissal after The Hesder program com- from “Palestine,” was chal- the team. He was released on of our community is appall- raeli Prime Minister Benjamin Epstein killed himself in jail bines yeshiva studies and lenged by other passengers waivers, which means another ing and offensive. Targeting Netanyahu called for the on Aug. 10, The Associated army service. but continued his tirade. “I’m National Football League individuals on the basis of boycott of an Israeli television Press reported. PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 Rabbi Sholom and The rabbi said that about ment of supplies from South supplies as well as for recovery grams are funded by special Dorian Sheera Bluming, directors 1,000 Jewish expats have made Florida that will include food, and reconstruction initia- appeals of the Jewish Federa- From page 1A of Chabad of the Bahamas in their home in the Bahamas, drinking water and mosquito tives. To tailor its response tions of North America and Nassau, have been in touch and that more than 100,000 nets for Abaco. to the evolving situation tens of thousands of indi- B’nai B’rith is accepting with the Jewish community in Jews visit the islands each The JDC, or American Jew- on the ground, JDC said it vidual donors to JDC. Relief donations to its Disaster Relief Nassau, which was relatively year. ish Joint Distribution Com- has activated its network of efforts of JDC are coordinated Fund to assist those affected unscathed by the hurricane, The Blumings have joined mittee said in a statement that partners and is assessing the with the U.S. Department by Dorian. Donations will go but have not been able to reach in the official government it would provide emergency situation in consultation with of State, USAID, the Israeli to assist local recovery and some of those living on Abaco, relief effort, calling on the medical supplies through its these local and international government and the United rebuilding teams, the group who still remain unaccounted Jewish community to help, partner the Afya Foundation, agencies. Nations, as well as local and said in a statement. for, according to Chabad.org. and is coordinating a ship- and is raising funds for the JDC’s disaster relief pro- international partners. Hebron From page 1A ceremony at the gravesite of It’s time for sovereignty in He- Alongside Israeli Justice In regard to the visit of here today. And we’re say- the victims in the ancient He- bron! It is time for the Jewish Minister Amir Ochana, he the high-profile government ing to them, ‘Amazing that 2019 is a “test of the ability bron Jewish cemetery, called community in Hebron to grow also took part in a small officials, Yishai Fleisher, you are here today, amazing of Jews and Arabs to coex- for the application of Israeli by the thousands! It’s time ritual affixing a mezuzah on international spokesperson that you are recognizing, ist together.” While there, sovereignty over the city. He for a visit to the Cave of the a newly purchased building by for the Jewish community amazing that you are re- he visited the Cave of the said: “Ninety years after the Patriarchs to be the easiest, the Jewish community called in Hebron, said “we are very membering! Let’s take that Patriarchs. 1929 massacre, we have to say most comfortable, and most “The Machpela House” oppo- pleased to have the leaders energy and build towards Edelstein, at a memorial clearly: “It’s time for Hebron! natural thing.” site the Cave of the Patriarchs. of the government of Israel the future.’” Greenblatt From page 1A officials were not invited to David Friedman, the U.S. “Jason was instrumental, on truth,” the official said. House,” she said. “We know attend. ambassador to Israel who has together with others in the Greenblatt’s resignation, he will continue to impact the tiative launched by Kushner The release of the political longstanding associations administration, when the which will come in weeks, world for the better.” has become, from Trump’s portion of the plan has been with hard-liners in the settle- president recognized Jerusa- also underscores how Trump’s Friedman also weighed in, pledges in 2017 to bring about delayed in part because Trump ment movement, appeared to lem as the capital of Israel, Middle East policy is now and like Kushner made no an “ultimate deal” to 2019, is sensitive to how its release be the preeminent figure on moved the U.S. Embassy to overwhelmingly dedicated to mention of the Palestinians, when Kushner downgraded will affect the electoral pros- the peace team. Jerusalem and recognized aligning Israel and America’s instead offering an implied dig “peace plan” to “vision for pects of Israeli Prime Minister Kushner also retreated Israeli sovereignty over the Sunni Arab allies against Iran. at the Obama administration peace” and Greenblatt ap- Benjamin Netanyahu, the from the two-state outcome Golan Heights,” the official The senior administration and casting Greenblatt’s mis- peared to spend much of his world leader to whom Trump favored by Trump’s predeces- said. official said that Brian Hook, sion as including the improve- time advising Palestinians to is perhaps closest. sors, instructing his team not The official also alluded the State Department’s top ment of U.S.-Israel relations. curb their enthusiasm. The Palestinians, who were to use the term “two states.” to Greenblatt’s transition Iran official who has led the “It’s been a tremendous This summer, the Trump enthusiastic initially about Notably, the senior admin- from his first year on the job, charge squeezing that coun- privilege to work with Jason administration rolled out the push led by Kushner, istration official, in listing carefully listening to multiple try’s finances, will formally these past few years on the the economic portion of the were embittered in December Greenblatt’s accomplish- parties, to his second and third join the team. critical tasks of repairing and plan, which relied heavily on 2017 when Trump recognized ments, did not include any- year, jousting on Twitter with Ivanka Trump, the presi- strengthening the U.S.-Israel regional Arab businessmen Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. thing that might be seen Palestinian officials about dent’s daughter and adviser relationship and seeking investing in the West Bank They have since said that the as conciliatory toward the U.S. policies. and Kushner’s wife, also com- peace and stability within the and the Gaza Strip. Palestin- plan is a stalking horse that Palestinians. Instead, the of- “Jason has also been instru- mented on the departure. Middle East,” Friedman said. ian officials boycotted the embraces outcomes favored ficial emphasized Greenblatt’s mental in helping to reframe “The kindness and unique Avi Berkowitz, Greenblatt’s rollout in Bahrain, and Israeli by hard-line Israelis and that advocacy for the recognition the discussions about the con- talents of Jason Greenblatt, assistant, will play a greater of Israel’s claims to Jerusalem flict, using the approach that a dear friend and colleague, role on the team, the senior and the Golan Heights. a real peace can only be built will be missed in the White administration official said. Lebanon Israel went on high alert in the of the missile attack: “All Later Sunday evening, Custom Printing Invitations & Announcements From page 1A Digital & Offset Printing Brochures & Booklets wake of the strikes last week. those who seek to harm us Blue and White party Direct Mail Services Forms & Letterheads ary Guard Corps’ Quds Force In a televised speech Satur- should know that we are chairman Benny Gantz, Envelopes Business Cards and Shiite militia. The strike day, Hezbollah chief Hassan ready and willing to defend Netanyahu’s main opposi- killed two Hezbollah fighters. Nasrallah said the group’s re- Israel’s citizens wherever they tion in the upcoming na- 407-767-7110 It also was responding to an sponse had been “decided” and are, without hesitation. 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You should know that situation.” 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 the crash of two drones said time,” Nasrallah said. the border can only be quiet if “When it comes to actions A O R T A C R A B T R I G to be carrying explosives in a President Michel Aoun of it is on both of its sides.” taken against those attempt- 14 15 16 I C E A X I A G O H E L L Hezbollah-controlled area of Lebanon had called the strikes It is not clear if the Sunday ing to harm Israeli citizens 17 18 19 Beirut that are alleged to be a “declaration of war.” attacks make up the entire or Israel’s sovereignty, there R A M B L I N M A N E L L A by Israel. Israeli President Reuven retaliation decided by Hez- is no opposition or coalition,” 20 21 22 A L E V E G O O F I E R Military bases in northern Rivlin said Sunday evening bollah. he also said. 23 24 25 26 27 O G R E A M A N O T R E 28 29 30 31 F O R T U N A T E S O N Tobin 32 33 34 35 36 37 From page 4A fewer jobs as businesses fire so much of public educa- deeply embedded in Jewish A M I S S L D L Z A C K people they can no longer tion to become a dead-end faith, law and tradition. Yet 38 39 40 41 42 43 G E E D R E A M O N D O I health-care plans, but if the afford to pay. for today’s children trapped blue-collar Americans are 44 45 46 47 48 “Medicare for all” plans of the This leveling impulse is also in poverty, liberals now see far more likely to view liberal E R S T N O N A S M A D left were adopted, they would having a deleterious impact schools for gifted kids as fixes as a threat to their jobs 49 50 51 52 B O R N T O B E W I L D lose their current insurance on the other engine of social an obstacle to schemes that and their values. Those who 53 54 55 56 57 and be condemned to endure mobility: education. are more interested in racial seek to revive the spirit of A U D I T A R A O R S O worse coverage. In New York City, liberal quotas than advancement. the Jewish labor movement 58 59 60 61 62 S T I L T E D L A U R A Liberal economic ortho- elites led by Mayor Bill de It is any wonder then that should recognize that what 63 64 65 66 67 doxies do more to block the Blasio are seeking to un- today’s average voter rejects they are selling is exactly the S E M I R E B E L R E B E L traditional path to better dermine, if not completely liberal elites and helped elect sort of limousine liberalism 68 69 70 abolish, public schools that Donald Trump president? that today’s American work- A R E S I C E S G I L D A jobs and entry to the middle 71 72 73 class that served past gen- cater to gifted students. Such They know that these top- ers understand is out of touch Y O S I C O D S E N E W S erations so well than to ease special schools offered the down schemes are more likely with their needs. their way. For example, rais- children of the Jewish poor to hurt than help them and Jonathan S. Tobin is editor ing minimum wages is part a way to exploit their talents rightly resent being told that in chief of JNS—Jewish News of the left-wing catechism, and ascend to the heights of their opposition makes them Syndicate. Follow him on though hiking hourly rates every sector of American life. “deplorables.” Twitter at: @jonathans_to- for workers always lead to But while they have allowed Concern for the poor is bin. Oasis From page 6A kidney specialist. “We have Branch” podcast series, the what it will look like: The bus- people coming from the Pal- Hadassah website regularly tling hallways, gardens and zation regained it only after estinian territories... people reports on such stories and shared spaces of the Hadassah the Six-Day War. Meanwhile, [who] know what Hadassah initiatives that reflect the Medical Center. Hadassah built the newer Ein is. They know they will re- goal of a shared society. Just Ellen Hershkin is national Kerem campus to continue ceive medical care without as the kibbutzim made the president of Hadassah, The its mission of healing, and borders.” Patients also come desert bloom, these oases of Women’s Zionist Organiza- where today all operating from the wider Arab world, peace push back the desert tion of America, Inc. HWZOA rooms are in an underground including Jordan, Syria, Egypt of misunderstanding. is the world’s largest women’s complex fortified to with- and Saudi Arabia. No one can say when peace Zionist organization and pro- stand conventional, biologi- Israel has many other will reign between Israel and ducer of The Branch podcast, cal or chemical attack. examples of Arab-Jewish all its neighbors or when the which offers a glimpse into The medical center “is like friendship, collaboration, notion of Middle East peace the lives of Jews and Arabs Noah’s ark, because Arabs, business partnerships, civic will cease to be seen as an in Israel forging meaningful Jews and Christians are seen coalitions and communal oxymoron. But when it does relationships in a peaceful here,” said Dr. Khalaileh, the programs. Through “The come, we already have an idea coexistence. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 PAGE 15A hostile anti-Israel voices: the AIPAC conferences and to important cabinet posts State. And when the ADL to do the same, but was met AIPAC AIPAC conferences have have had to resort to holding in the Obama administra- attempted to derail Mike with silence. From page 5A given platforms to some events “off site.” tion and prior administra- Pompeo’s confirmation AIPAC’s open, widely cov- voices that are hostile to AIPAC’s silence on tions. AIPAC also remained with absurd accusations of ered public criticism of Israel (or take a position) on “settle- Israel, along with more key appointments and silent when a top Obama Islamophobia and former for rightly refusing entry to ments” and the right of Jews moderate and legitimate insults: AIPAC was si- administration official hostile-to-Israel ambas- Tlaib and Omar was unfor- to live in Judea-Samaria: Re- pro-Israel voices. Why does lent about the prospect of called Israel’s prime minis- sadors tried to block David tunately just the tip of the peated Israeli governments a pro-Israel lobby bother anti-Israel Congressman ter a “chicken****.” AIPAC Friedman’s confirmation, iceberg. It’s time to examine asked AIPAC to support the to give a platform to those Keith Ellison becoming the also didn’t speak up to AIPAC was silent. It was other policies that AIPAC right of Jews to live anywhere who are hostile to its stated chair of the Democratic Na- support strong pro-Israel ZOA that stepped up to needs to change in order to in Judea-Samaria. Yet to this mission? Yet, for years, tional Committee. AIPAC attorney David Friedman’s the plate, and debunked live up to its billing as the day, AIPAC has not supported certain staunch pro-Israel similarly failed to oppose confirmation to become the ADL’s and the former “pro-Israel lobby.” Israel’s unquestionable in- groups, such as ZOA and various anti-Israel indi- U.S. Ambassador to Israel hostile ambassadors’ false Morton A. Klein is the ternational right to live and representatives of Judea- viduals, such as Charles or pro-Israel CIA director assertions. national president of the build anywhere there. Samaria communities, have Freeman and John Bren- Mike Pompeo’s confirma- In so many instances, ZOA Zionist Organization of AIPAC gives platforms to been denied platforms at nan, from being confirmed tion as U.S. Secretary of spoke up and asked AIPAC America. Exposé From page 7A “If I’d had a majority, I opposed a strike. He’s now at nearly every opportunity. officials say Netanyahu inad- something that changed the would have done it,” Ne- running against Netanyahu He went so far as to deliver vertently advanced the very equation, the Israelis were suaded him from an attack. tanyahu told The Times. in elections being held in less a controversial speech to the agreement he abhors. going to act militarily.” What ended up putting the “Unequivocally.” than two weeks. U.S. Congress in March 2015 “Netanyahu achieved ex- President Trump took of- kibosh on the strike was Among the opponents were Netanyahu’s threats may lambasting the pact. actly the opposite of what he fice in 2017 with a promise to internal opposition in Israel. Meir Dagan, the head of the have helped lead to the Iran But The Times article wanted,” one Israeli official withdraw from the Iran deal, Netanyahu and Barak sup- Mossad, Israel’s intelligence deal he hates. suggests that Netanyahu’s said. which he did the following ported a strike into 2012, but agency; Yuval Diskin, the head As U.S. negotiations with threats of an attack may have Did the Israeli pressure year. Since then, tensions it was publicly reported that of the Israel Security Agency, Iran progressed toward an persuaded Obama to resolve affect the decision to begin have risen and Israel has senior military and security or Shin Bet; and Gabi Ashke- agreement during Obama’s the situation diplomatically. talks? struck Iranian proxies. Now, officials in Israel opposed nazi, the head of the Israel second term, Netanyahu piv- Although some people, in- “Without a doubt,” said according to the article, Ne- one, as did a majority of the Defense Forces. Ashkenazi’s oted to vociferous opposition, cluding Netanyahu, dispute Dennis Ross, who advised tanyahu is again considering Cabinet there. successor, Benny Gantz, also decrying the impending deal that cause-and-effect, other Obama. “Unless we could do attacking Iran. Zionists From page 9A over the city, Jews suffered since the riots. Incitement hold, spreading violence in almost any other place in control and empty of any sort from various forms of discrim- is alive and well throughout against Jews throughout the the world. But under present of Jewish presence. and newcomers, or Zionists ination, and most famously the Palestinian Authority, West Bank. In the four decades circumstances, this presence The uneasiness that liberal and their religious opponents. were forbidden from entering and it is now coupled with since the reinstallment of the can be ensured only by the Zionists feel about the situa- The 1929 riots were excep- the building of the Cave of denial of the Jewish history Jewish community in and Israeli military—the army tion in Hebron is legitimate. tional in their intensity and the Patriarchs or even going and connection in the area around the city, the violence is all that stands between But the shame is not: Hebron a turning point in modern further than the seventh step altogether. has continued. The current 1,000 Jews and utter chaos. tells us a story that is complex Jewish-Arab relations. But leading to it. Today, Hebron and villages mayor, Tayseer Abu Sneineh, It is a heavy price to pay in and far from perfect, but it is throughout the Islamic rule Hatred has only grown around it are a Hamas strong- himself is among the murder- terms of freedom of move- a vital part of Jewish history ers of six Jews (including two ment for everybody in the from which we should not Americans and one Canadian) Israeli-held area. But this is a shy away. Students in a 1980 mass shooting—a consequence, not the cause, The views and opinions From page 10A many Israelis are unaware just to speak to five students, biographic detail he brushed of the Arab refusal to admit expressed in this article are what is going on overseas. but to speak to a 100 people, off during his 2017 election the tiny Jewish minority back those of the author and do not Jewish students take off their “I didn’t understand; I as well as meet with various campaign. in the city. necessarily reflect the views kipah or not observe Shabbat. didn’t know enough about other coalitions and partner- Jewish presence in He- Eighty percent of Hebron of JTA or its parent company, This is part of our identity. what is going on. This is a ships on campus. We also want bron is more justified than is entirely under Palestinian 70 Faces Media. That’s something people need reality that we as Israelis don’t to have the speaker be involved to understand and proudly say know exists,” she said. in the entire event process— on campus.” “We fight for each other. 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By Gabe Friedman careers that many people in Los Angeles, the duo joined Hollywood dream of. the writing staff of “The Of- (JTA)—Lee Eisenberg Not long after graduating fice” on the strength of a TV and Gene Stupnitsky have from college and moving to script they wrote together. Ed Araquel/Universal Pictures Shown here (l-r): Keith L. Williams, Jacob Tremblay and Brady Noon in “Good Boys.” After contributing to the Goldberg, the Jewish duo ease they have cultivated show for several seasons, who wrote the 2007 coming- over nearly two decades. they co-created the HBO of-age comedy. Eisenberg Stupnitsky, 41, was born in comedy series “Hello Ladies” and Stupnitsky wrote the Kiev, Ukraine, but moved with Stephen Merchant (the screenplay for “Good Boys,” with his parents to the Chi- Call for dental coverage today to help co-creator of the original and Stupnitsky directed. cago suburbs when he was 9 save money on big dental bills. British “The Office”). The movie has already months old. Eisenberg, also The pair also worked received pretty positive 41, grew up in a suburb near with Harold Ramis on the reviews, which say that the Boston and attended a Solo- This is real dental insurance from Physicians prehistoric comedy “Year script has heart, in addition mon Schechter day school One” and wrote the movie to the usual slew of curse from kindergarten through Mutual Insurance Company that helps pay for over 350 “Bad Teacher,” which starred words and sex jokes. Ads for eighth grade. Cameron Diaz and Justin the film harp on the fact that Stupnitsky’s grandpar- procedures – cleanings, fillings, crowns, even dentures. Timberlake. its own stars are too young ents were observant Jews, Despite all of that, they’ve for the mature comedy in it. his parents less so. Still, • No annual maximum, no deductible mostly flown under the In the trailer, Rogen spells he grew up with a sense of mainstream radar. That this out for the three lead Jewish identity and had a bar • See any dentist you want – including your own might change after Friday, actors. mitzvah. when their latest brainchild, “That’s f***ed up!” Brady “Communism was the • Over 50? Coverage as low as $1 per day “Good Boys,” hits theaters. Noon, who plays Thor (yes, religion of the state,” he said It’s a raunchy R-rated com- that’s his name, not a nick- of the former Soviet Union. edy about three rising sixth- name), says to Rogen. Eisenberg, on the other Call now to get this graders who find themselves “That is f***ed up!” Rogen hand, remembers sneaking embroiled in shenanigans responds. “You can say that. off from his class on a school FREE Information Kit over the course of a day on But you can’t watch yourself field trip to eat a non-kosher the way to a “kissing party,” say that.” hot dog, and subsequently 1-855-841-8696 where one of their crushes In Variety, Dave McNary worrying that his life might will be hanging out. wonders if “Good Boys” could then be over. dental50plus.com/heritage If it sounds reminiscent of be the hit that rejuvenates “I can’t think of anything “Superbad,” there’s one pos- the comedy blockbuster, more Jewish than that,” he

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