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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 42, NO. 41 JUNE 15, 2018 2 TAMUZ, 5778 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ TOP appoints new executive director TOP Jewish Foundation has announced that Ellen Weiss was selected to fulfill the role of executive director effective May 2. The leadership transition is relatively seamless as Weiss has been on the TOP staff since the beginning of 2016 and, most recently, served as the Foundation’s associate executive director working alongside Emilie Socash, TOP’s former executive di- rector. “Ellen is assuming the role of executive director at a Israeli flag made of cookies in Atlanta breaks Guinness World critical point in our growth. We are confident in her ability TOP Foundation Execu- to tap on her experience and tive Director Ellen Weiss Record talent to propel us to the next (JTA)—The Atlanta Jewish community broke a Guinness World Record after creating an Israeli flag out of edible stage in our organization’s Weiss has had significant cookies. evolution,” remarked Jeffrey success at TOP in forging The flag assembled by volunteers on Sunday used about 117,000 cookies and stretched to 3,224 feet across the Herman, TOP’s president of new relationships, nota- plastic-covered floor of the Heritage Hall in Congregation Beth Jacob. It was created to celebrate Israel’s 70th birthday. the Board. bly expanding TOP’s terri- The previous record-holder was a flag to mark Pakistan’s 70th. The new record-holder is 32 percent larger, the “I’m thrilled to step into the tory to include the Naples Atlanta Jewish Times reported. executive director position at Jewish community. Weiss The flag was certified shortly before noon Sunday by a Guinness adjudicator, Michael Empric. such an exciting time and am brings 20 years of leader- Sponsors of the cookies at $10 each have raised more than $103,000 for the Cookies for Israel project, with the honored to work closely with ship experience in nonprofit donations going to three nonprofit organizations in Israel: United Hatzalah, the volunteer emergency medical ser- donors and organizations that management and corporate vice; OneFamily Fund, which supports victims of terrorism; and the Jewish Agency’s Partnership2Gether program. care so deeply about the future marketing. Before joining The cookies were donated to charities for distribution to be eaten. of our Jewish community,” TOP, she spearheaded the noted Weiss. Her primary countrywide expansion of the focus will be stewarding ex- Children’s Heart Foundation, isting donors, continuing to creating the only national build the legacy program and nonprofit that exclusively Congratulations to Nancy Ludin, an expanding the organization funds congenital heart defect geographically to provide the research. She is an execu- services of a Jewish Founda- tive committee member, as Orlando Magazine Woman of the Year tion in communities where one doesn’t exist. TOP on page 15A By Christine DeSouza

In the June 2018 issue of Orlando Magazine, 23 women JNF to sue Hamas are named as the magazine’s 2018 Women of the Year. The magazine asked for over kite terror nominees of women who are making a positive impact on the community, and readers responded with a plethora of recommendations. Former Jewish Pavilion Marketing Director Julie Dorsey Capps and Pavilion CFO Penny D’Agostino immediately sent in their nomination of Nancy Ludin, executive director of The Jewish Pavilion. Both women told Ludin about the nomination, so she knew about the award when

AP/Khalil Hamra Palestinian terrorists launch a fire kite.

By TPS with incendiary kites sent from Roberto Gonzalez World Israel News Gaza into Israeli territory. Shown here are five of the 23 Women of the Year (back row, l-r): Elizabeth Forrest, Nancy JNF World Chairman, Dan- Ludin, Karla Radka; (seated, l-r): Cindy LaRoe, Marnie Forestieri. Palestinians from the Gaza iel Atar, recently visited the Strip once again launched area, commenting, “It is she was invited to the photo holidays and traditions,” one Help Desk. One of the silent burning kites at civilian inconceivable that the inter- shoot by Kristin Merrick, as- nomination read. benefits of the Jewish Pavil- communities on the Israeli national community would sociate publisher of Orlando “I am very excited about ion is that we are educating side of the border Tuesday, allow Hamas not to be held Magazine. being selected by the Or- the entire community about setting hundreds of dunams accountable and pay for its “Whether it is recruiting lando Magazine as one of their Jewish culture and traditions. of farmland alight adjacent to criminal acts; not only against volunteers or sponsors, net- Women of the Year,” Ludin The staff in senior communi- Kibbutz Nir Am, Sapir College the citizens of the state of working at community events told the Heritage. “I am very ties now comprehend our and Netiv Ha’Asara. Israel, but also against nature to find additional service pro- passionate about the wonder- holidays like Chanukah and In response, the Jewish and the environment which viders, or personally making ful work we do at the Jewish Passover and even use our National Fund (JNF) an- have been severely hurt by in-room visits to residents, Pavilion and the Orlando Se- Jewish Pavilion cookbook to nounced Tuesday that it will this criminal environmental Ludin has made it her life’s nior Help Desk to enhance the prepare for Shabbat and other sue Hamas in international mission to ensure that the lives of seniors, of all faiths, festivities. We also share our legal court for the massive JNF on page 15A residents of Central Florida in elder care communities. culture through participation environmental damages senior living communities I am proud of the assistance in numerous networking inflicted on JNF land sur- routinely have the opportu- we provide older adults and groups. In the last two years, rounding the Gaza border. nity to connect back to their their family members with the Jewish Pavilion has hosted The area has been hit hard Jewish community with the issues pertaining to aging in the last two months with observance of important through the Orlando Senior Ludin on page 15A rockets, mortar shells and PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 15, 2018 Jewish Pavilion gears up to celebrate its 18th anniversary all over the community— Seeing the growth and north, east, south and west. continued thriving of the We started sending volunteers organization they started 18 to spend time with them, do- years ago is very rewarding ing services, having musical for both Meitin and Chepe- programs, whatever we could nik. “I am totally awed,” said do to make them feel that they Chepenik. “I am humbled, I weren’t forgotten.” am grateful. As a Jewish com- And it is this model of reach- munity in Orlando, we do care ing Jewish seniors where they about our elders.” live that has been a key factor Meitin compares it to in the Pavilion’s success. In- watching a child grow and stead of reaching 20 or even come of age. “It’s incredible to 40 or 50 seniors in a single think that we created some- place, the Jewish Pavilion thing that so many people care is able to reach ALL of the about and put years of service local Jewish seniors—now into. We’ve touched so many numbering several hundred lives of families as well as the Jewish Pavilion Gala Committee members (l-r), Melissa Masin, Marlene Adler, Mary Carter Eick of Griswold Home residents in more than 70 elderly.” Care, Elise Schilowitz, gala co-chair Susan Livingstone, gala co-chair Shirley Schoenberger, Sammy Goldstein, Brenda facilities throughout Central At the Jewish Pavilion, vol- Fisher Wetmore, Corinne Brail, Pavilion CEO Nancy Ludin, and Friends Board chair Faye Novick. Florida. unteers are central to the mis- Equally important, Meitin sion and the seniors it serves By Lisa Levine It all started 18 years and Meitin and Chepenik come to live in The Jewish said, are the many people are a source of strength and ago when Sheryl and Julian were able to secure a wing Pavilion, The Jewish Pavilion who have found an outlet purpose. That’s why, over the The Jewish Pavilion Gala Meitin, with aging family in Westminster Presbyterian would come to them wherever for volunteering in the Jew- next few months, the Pavilion committee is in full swing, members in town, became Home in Orlando, housing they lived. ish community, including a will be telling the stories of planning a festive and memo- concerned that Orlando’s 20 Jewish seniors. There they “We started with three fa- number who may not have some of the volunteers who rable celebration to mark the Jewish seniors were not hav- worked with the staff to ensure cilities where we knew there been very involved before. have served since its early organization’s 18th—Chai— ing their needs fully met by kosher-style meals and, with were Jewish residents and they “These were people who care days, as well as the stories anniversary. the local facilities. Sheryl’s a committed group of volun- would appreciate us coming about the elderly,” she said, of some of the seniors whose Since chai means “life” in friend Claire Chepenik was teers, saw to it that there was to them,” recalled Chepenik. “and The Jewish Pavilion was lives it has enriched for many Hebrew, the slogan for the active in the Kinneret Coun- appropriate programming Soon, at their temporary the vehicle that helped them years. Oct. 28 gala is “To Life!” It will cil on Aging, and they decided and care. The Jewish Pavilion office within Julian Meitin’s to put their care into action.” Mark your calendars for be a celebration of the spark to work together to secure a became a reality. business offices, people began “They have become the the Oct. 28th Gems and of Jewish life and culture that place where Jewish seniors But when the Westminster calling them to request visits backbone of the organization, Jeans 2018, to be held at the Jewish Pavilion brings to in need of care could feel at home wanted to reclaim the to their family members in because just about everything Hilton Orlando North in hundreds of seniors living in home. wing about two years later, other facilities. we do is done by volunteers,” Altamonte Springs, and stay elder care and independent At first, the focus was on Meitin and Chepenik and a At that point, Meitin said, Chepenik added. “And there’s tuned for more informa- living facilities in Central finding a place where Jewish team from Kinneret decided “We realized that the Jewish a place for anyone who wants tion—and for heartwarming Florida. residents could live together, that if Jewish seniors couldn’t people were really spread out to volunteer.” stories. To Life! Holocaust Center’s annual Dinner of Tribute a great success

Holocaust Center founder Tess Wise is flanked by Jeffrey Miller and Ted Maines.

On May 10, the Holo- The Tess Wise White Rose Brion Price Photography caust Memorial Resource & Award is given annually to The honorees family having HaMotzi (l-r): Dr. Gary Grossman, Jonah Grossman, Alex Grossman, Karin Grossman, Education Center of Florida community leaders who ex- honoree Jeffrey Miller, honoree Ted Maines, Althea Miller, Mark Miller, Adam Miller, Linda Miller, and Juan Fajardo. celebrated its annual Dinner emplify the ideals, courage of Tribute honoring Jeffrey and compassion of Sophie definition of an UpStander. each individual has the power “a world without hate,” the Generous sponsors of this Miller and Ted Maines. The Scholl and her brother Hans Together and individually to transform themselves and night’s theme. year’s event included Rosen event was a tremendous who, along with fellow college they generously invest their the community into one of Leading this year’s event Hotels & Resorts, Penguin En- success with more than 625 students, formed the White time, talents and resources to UpStanders. The evening sent were Dinner of Tribute co- tertainment, Harvey Produc- people in attendance and Rose Movement to stand up improve the quality of life for an inspiring message of hope chairs Mitchell Barnett and tions, WKMG/Six Advertising, raising more than $400,000 and speak out against Hitler all who live in Central Florida. and humanity, and the need Jill S. Schwartz, and a dy- and more than 120 corporate to benefit the Holocaust Cen- and the Nazi regime. Miller The presentation explored to move forward to create namic planning committee. and individual investors. ter’s educational and cultural and Maines personify those the power of one. Video, song programs. same qualities and are the very and dance illustrated how Legal Aid Society offers free legal consult to JFS Orlando In partnership with JFS He has been a strong advocate as he brings his decades of Orlando, the Legal Aid So- for the protection of children experience as both an attorney ciety of the Orange County and handicapped individuals. and judge to JFS Orlando to Bar Association, Inc. now He has been recognized as best assist our clients navigate offers free confidential legal Judge of the Year by the Ameri- the legal system,” said Eric consultations to JFS Orlando can Board of Trial Advocates Geboff, executive director of clients. JFS Orlando and and has received many awards JFS Orlando. HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES The Legal Aid Society have for distinguished service. 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It came three days after fashion designer Kate Spade died of apparent suicide in her Park Avenue apartment in New York. Spade’s husband and business partner said the 55-year-old business mogul had suffered from depression and anxiety for many years. On the network, anchors Anthony Bourdain struggled to hold back tears Anthony Bourdain at the Western Wall. as they recalled their late By news agencies and Eric Ripert. It called his death colleague in heartfelt recol- Focusing on what he called American-born settler, chats or to politically rocky terrain. Times of Israel staff a suicide. lections and urged people “the most contentious piece with members of the first When he went to Lebanon in “It is with extraordinary faced with despair, or who of real estate in the world,” all-Palestinian race car team July 2006 to film an episode of NEW YORK—Celebrity sadness we can confirm the know people who are strug- Bourdain used the episode in Ramallah, and eats fire- his previous show, the Travel chef Anthony Bourdain has death of our friend and col- gling with depression, to call to reveal his own Jewish roasted watermelon and other Channel’s “No Reservations,” taken his own life, accord- league, Anthony Bourdain,” a suicide hotline. heritage: “I’ve never been in Palestinian foods in Gaza. he found himself in the middle ing to the television network the network said in a state- Bourdain was Jewish. His a synagogue. I don’t believe Bourdain notes at the epi- of a regional conflict—the CNN for which Bourdain took ment early Friday about the mother Gladys (née Sacks- in a higher power,” he told sode’s onset that he “doesn’t Second Lebanon War—as viewers around the world for longtime food critic, who man) was an editor at The viewers. “But that doesn’t know what to think” of Is- the Jewish state retaliated the “Parts Unknown” series. revealed his Jewish heritage New York Times. His father make me any less Jewish, I rael. “It is incredibly beautiful against a Hezbollah attack in He was 61. during a 2013 visit to Israel. was Catholic, and Bourdain don’t think.” here,” Bourdain observes at northern Israel. CNN said Bourdain was in “His love of great adven- said he did not have a religious During the show, Bourdain one point. “I don’t know why Bourdain watched from Strasbourg filming an upcom- ture, new friends, fine food upbringing. puts on tefillin by the Western I didn’t expect that.” his hotel balcony as Israel ing segment in the series. and drink, and the remark- In a 2013 episode of his Wall, takes a walking tour Although Bourdain had destroyed the Beirut air- It said that Bourdain was able stories of the world made show, Bourdain took viewers of the Old City with famed never been to Israel prior to port—in part to prevent the found unresponsive Friday him a unique storyteller. His to Jerusalem, Gaza, and the international chef Yotam Ot- making that episode, he was delivery of arms—which left morning by friend and chef talents never ceased to amaze West Bank. tolenghi, eats a meal with an no stranger to the Middle East, him stranded in a war zone. For reporters covering Gaza, charges of bias overshadow the stories they witness and tell By Sam Sokol reups follow a pattern in comes secondary because we which initial impressions, are no longer debating facts, JERUSALEM (JTA)—Of and condemnations, are we are debating stories.” the more than 60 deaths that replaced by a more nuanced After every development occurred during the recent understanding of events as here, pro-Israel media watch- clashes between Israel and more information becomes dog organizations are usually Palestinians at the Gaza bor- available. Next come bitter among the first to wade into der, none was as divisive as partisan battles over what the debate. This wave of media that of Layla Ghandour. actually happened. Finally, criticism usually comes in Ghandour, an 8-month-old among pundits, media critics, response to the “knee jerk girl, died after an uncle, him- spokespeople and social media reaction” of “hold[ing] Israel self only 12, brought her to the users, the discussion shifts responsible for whatever hap- edge of the protest zone, where from what happened to the pens,” said Simon Plosker, she was reported to have credibility of the press itself. managing editor of Hones- inhaled Israeli tear gas. Pal- “I wouldn’t say that the tReporting, whose stated estinians immediately raised dispute over facts disappears mission is “defending Israel Ghandour as a symbol of Is- from the conversation after a from media bias.” raeli oppression, elevating the while,” said Christian Baden, Plosker blames what he sees infant to the status of martyr senior lecturer at Hebrew Uni- as skewed coverage on a mix and blaming the Israeli army versity’s Department of Com- of bias, parachute journalism for her death. Many Israelis, munication and Journalism, by inexperienced or under meanwhile, countered in “but it becomes subordinate informed reporters and edi- angry social media posts that because the main story then tors abroad who approach the Spencer Platt/Getty Images it was irresponsible to allow is about how do we need to conflict with “a certain level Wounded protesters outside Gaza’s main hospital, in Gaza City, May 14, 2018. a child into what essentially interpret and how do we need of preconceived framing” al- was a war zone. Both Hamas to react to events.” ready in mind. Plosker said the and the Israel Defense Forces Baden added: “It shouldn’t narrative presenting the Gaza issued statements, even as really be that difficult to deter- protesters as peaceful “was US envoy to media: reports filtered out that the mine what is happening and ... skewed from the very start.” child had suffered from a it shouldn’t be that difficult to Experts on media ethics, preexisting heart ailment that determine what is objectively however, have a slightly dif- ‘Keep your mouths shut’ may have contributed to her the news, but it turns out that ferent take. Alan Abbey, a untimely death. it is actually quite complex.” former journalist and adjunct By World Israel News Some criticism of Israel Friedman said he spent a Prominent newspapers This month’s clashes were a professor of journalism at may be legitimate, Friedman great deal of time speaking such as the Los Angeles and case study in split-screen jour- National University of San US Ambassador to Israel allowed, although journalists to military experts in the New York Times ran long fea- nalism—literally. On May 14, Diego, said real-time coverage David Friedman said Monday should have worked harder to US, Israel and other coun- tures on Ghandour, probing cable news channels around of conflicts, even by the best that the media should either find alternatives to Israel’s use tries about the proper rules the circumstances surround- the world juxtaposed foot- reporters, is “incomplete at figure out a better way to deal of lethal force, which has left of engagement—which, he ing her death, describing how age of happy, smiling Israelis best, simply because details with the border protests or scores of Palestinians dead, added, reporters should have she had become a symbol and celebrating the opening of the are continuing to emerge, stop its negative coverage of before accusing the state of done—and found that the laying out the arguments of U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem outcomes are unclear, sources the Jewish state. wrongdoing. accusations against Israel both sides. Others, especially with images of Palestinians have agendas and a complete Addressing a media confer- “Nine out of ten articles” were, for the most part, un- tabloid papers such as Great running away from Israeli picture of a complicated situ- ence in Jerusalem, Friedman written about the Gaza con- founded. Britain’s Daily Express and gunfire through the clouds ation is impossible to obtain. said that news outlets have flict are critical of Israel, Friedman hinted that that The Sun, didn’t hesitate to of smoke. The coverage of the violence been unfair in their coverage Friedman pointed out. his criticism was mainly take sides, publishing head- According to Baden, such at the Gaza border was no of the deadly protests on the “You’d think that some geared towards The New York lines such as “Drones drop events follow a general pat- different.” Gaza border over the past few journalists would take the Times. lethal canisters” and describ- tern in which one or two days Abbey, who lives in Jerusa- months. time and go and meet with Slanted accounts, he said, ing Israeli tear gas agents as of confusion are followed by lem, said media watchdogs, on He advised reporters to experts and try to understand “fit a narrative. They fit an “toxic gas.” three to five days of inter- the left and right, are usually “keep your mouths shut” what could have been done dif- opinion. They fit an agenda. Ghandour became a pawn pretation, after which the quick to “assign blame, gen- unless they know better than ferently or better before they But it’s not reporting, because in a by-now-familiar game “meta-debate kicks in” and eralize and ascribe baked-in, Israel how to deal with the criticize. And I just haven’t it’s not based on hard, factual played whenever Israel and “the question of what really demonstrations. seen it,” he stressed. analysis.” the Palestinians clash. Fla- happens on the ground be- Bias on page 15A PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 15, 2018 Religious freedom for me, but not for thee? By Jonathan S. Tobin of the applicability of the free exercise clause drive him and others who have made similar sympathy for their gay friends and neighbors of the First Amendment’s protections of reli- stands not merely out of business, but out of than with Christian conservatives they’ve (JNS)—There was a time when defending gious freedom. As such, it made clear that the the American public square? never met—and whose beliefs are somehow religious freedom was at the top of the Jewish constitution protects the rights of believers to Public opinion about gay rights has un- seen as threatening—is unsurprising. But agenda. Jews understood that as a religious express their faith in the public square rather dergone a radical shift in the United States. rights are not supposed to be just for our minority, our rights could only be defended than just the ability to worship freely in private. A little more than over a decade ago, both friends and us. They must apply to everyone, when those of other religious faiths are also Yet most Jewish groups were unhappy with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ran for or they’re meaningless. respected. If a Jewish baker refused to create a Nazi- Though anti-Semitism is on the rise else- themed cake or an African-American wouldn’t where, American Jews don’t worry anymore design one for the Ku Klux Klan, then we would about their government seeking to restrict “...rights are not supposed to be just for our friends and regard any effort to compel them to do so as their rights to practice their religion. Nor absurd and deeply wrong. While gays are not should they. Arguments about reasonable ac- us. They must apply to everyone, or they’re meaningless” to be compared to those groups, the right of commodation for Jewish religious observances the Christian baker not to be dragooned into are no longer a matter of much dispute. The something that offended him is no less sacred widespread acceptance of Jews, including and shouldn’t be characterized as a form of those who are proud to practice their faith in the ruling because they perceived it as a slight president while affirming that marriage was discrimination. public, in every aspect of American society is to the rights of gay Americans. only between a man and a woman. But within Yet so great is our disdain for this baker— an accomplished fact. As in any issue in which the rights of groups a few years, not only would their positions and those who think like him—that Jew- Such success shouldn’t cause us to stop are weighed against each other, this is a com- change but also a majority of the Supreme ish groups that are supposed to care about caring about the principle of religious liberty. plicated debate. As Justice Anthony Kennedy Court would rule (in a decision also written religious freedom were willing not only to Yet that seems to be the case for many Jews, noted in the majority decision, the dignity of by Kennedy) that a right to gay marriage was disregard Phillips’s rights, but also the open including some organizations like the Anti- gays needs to be upheld, but the same applies the law of the land. contempt for religious faith that permeated the Defamation League and the Religious Action to those whose religious faith causes them to While issues like abortion still bitterly divide proceeding that condemned him. The same Center for Reform Judaism, which are tasked oppose gay marriage. us, polls show that the majority of Americans goes for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—the with the job of defending our rights. At issue here was not the right of gays or seem to have little problem with this shift in idol of liberal Jews—who cast one of the two That’s the only way to interpret the dismay any other group of people to equal service at the culture and the law. That is particularly dissenting votes. those groups expressed at the U.S. Supreme a public accommodation like a bakery. The true for Jews, who are overwhelmingly liberal Religious freedom for me but not for thee Court’s decision in the case of Masterpiece baker made clear he would sell his wares to in their politics. may feel right to those who wish to avoid any Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission anyone who wanted them, but to ask him to Yet that doesn’t mean that those who dis- offense to a gay community, whose dignity that was handed down on Monday. design and create a special cake for a ceremony agree must be driven underground, particu- and rights deserve to be defended. But it is not The high court affirmed that the Colorado that offends his religious principles violated larly if their disagreement is rooted in their one that is consistent with the constitution or commission was wrong to hold Jack Phillips, his rights. religious faith, which is explicitly protected by the long-term interest of Jews, who shouldn’t a conservative Christian baker, liable for re- Many of us may think his beliefs are wrong the constitution. forget that the defense of their rights is still fusing to create a special cake celebrating a or simply foolish. But the principle here is not The problem here is that for all too many of linked to those whose faith may be unpopular. gay wedding. A decisive 7-2 majority argued abstract. As the court noted, the same Colorado us, a willingness to defend such rights seems to Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of that the commission’s open contempt for the commission that ruled against Phillips for his extend only to those who think or believe as we JNS—Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him on baker’s religious faith compromised its ability refusal to bake the wedding cake upheld the do. That Jews, who have far more contact and Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin. to rule fairly on the issue. While the narrow rights of bakers to refuse to create cakes with ruling was far short of a sweeping defense of explicitly anti-gay messages. religious expression that some conservatives Why then have liberal Jewish groups joined hoped for, it still represented a reaffirmation with those seeking to punish the baker, and ‘Nakba,’ ‘Naksa’... nowhere By Ben Cohen Israel’s creation was a “catastrophe.” But what precisely was the “setback”? Cry for us, Argentina... (JNS)—When it comes to the Palestin- According to the Institute of Palestine Stud- ian “original sin” theory of Israel’s creation, ies, it was “a misfortune that pointed up the By Gustavo D. Perednik violence worthy of a mafia leader rather than there are two key milestones: the flight of need for a new strategy for confronting Israel the head of a sports federation. By the way, approximately 750,000 Arab refugees during and redeeming Palestine.” The immediate (JNS)—The cancellation of an event as Messi should not be criticized for his fear. To the 1948 War of Independence and the 1967 source of this misfortune was identified the well-publicized in the media as the World Cup be able to withstand the bloodthirsty talk of conquest of eastern Jerusalem, the West Bank Arab states, which had submerged the Pales- soccer warm-up match between Argentina the boycotters, you need to be Israeli. and the Gaza Strip during the Six-Day War. tinian plight into the snake-oil diplomacy of and Israel requires an immediate PR coun- Why was Israel singled out? The events of 1948 are known in Arabic as the the Arab League and its front organization, terattack from Israel and the Jewish world. However, there is another player who did nakba (“catastrophe”) and the events of 1967 the original version of the PLO. Sure enough, What unfortunately succeeded in frightening not react with fear, but expressed support for are called the naksa (“setback”). after Israel’s overwhelming victory in 1967, superstar Lionel Messi and the other members boycotting Israel. Striker Gonzalo Higuaín This week, with the 51st anniversary of the Yasser Arafat and his Fatah comrades, includ- of the Argentine soccer team is a mix of lies told ESPN that the cancellation “was the right Six-Day War upon us, Palestinians will mark ing Mahmoud Abbas, set about “Palestinian- and death threats against the players. thing to do.” “Naksa Day” on June 5 with protests and dem- izing” the struggle against Israel, winning the This is what the BDS movement is in its Yet the right thing to do is to ask the ques- onstrations—and it will be interesting to see hearts of the international left and establishing entirety: an arsenal of intimidation and lies tion of why the legitimacy of one country out whether any new wave of protests fizzles out themselves as allies of the Soviet bloc. disguised as justice, and supported mostly of 200 should be dismissed. in much the same way as those on Israel-Gaza But just as the Arab League never recognized by Europeans. Judeophobia—hatred of the Jews—has border in recent weeks that were presented Israel’s legitimacy, nor did the PLO, which was The game between Argentina and Israel existed for more than 2,000 years. Now given as a commemoration of the events of 1948. It transformed into an independent organiza- was supposed to be about nothing more than the misnomer of “anti-Semitism,” it is the will also be interesting to see whether Hamas, tion after the war. The “setback,” then, was friendship and sport. phenomenon that the Europeans export to the Islamic Jihad and allied Islamist groups will principally that Israel continued existing, even However, words of condemnation were is- world with varying measures of success. Today, use the occasion to fire another barrage of flourishing, after the Arab attempt in 1967 to sued by Palestinian leaders, who tend to focus it is used less to attack the Jewish citizen or missiles at Israel. eliminate it. on destroying others rather than building up his community and is mostly targeted against It’s increasingly clear to everyone that So perhaps the time has come to go even fur- their own wretched people. If their objective the Jewish state. neither of these strategies is working for the ther than Ambassador Haley and suggest to the had been sport and not causing damage to It may not be a coincidence that the specific Palestinians. Compare the international reac- Palestinians that, for the sake of the generation Israel, then they could have used the visit to player that did speak against Israel, Gonzalo tion to Gaza in 2018 to that of summer 2014, that will mark the centenary of Israel’s birth in invite the Argentine team to appear in their Higuaín, is the French player on the team. when Israel took military action to end the 2048, they abandon the discourse of the nakba own territory. The cancellation of the friendly soccer game daily missile launches from Gaza, and which and naksa altogether. This does not mean, of The person who stood behind the effort with Argentina is not the first insult that Israel the Palestinians similarly depicted as a total course, that the Palestinians have to become to cancel the game is no less than convicted has sustained, and it represents nothing new in war designed to deliberately kill and maim Zionists, or that they should overlook those terrorist Jibril Rajoub. This gangster, who the ongoing attempts to slander us. However, civilians. Four years on, especially among disputes with Israel where they can maximize has murdered people with his own hands, it represents an opportunity to begin removing European governments, there is much greater material or territorial gains for themselves—as bragged about the torture and murder of the the costume of justice from the boycotters and recognition that Hamas uses Gazans as human opposed to chipping away at Israel’s status as Israeli sportsmen at the Munich Olympics, and showing them in their true colors: as terrorists shields and far less lecturing of Israeli leaders a member of international society. denounced any request to hold a memorial who are expert in the art of intimidation and about the moral perils of a “disproportionate It’s tempting, particularly as we watch Ab- ceremony for them as “racist.” murder, even of world-champion sportsmen response.” As for the expected convulsion bas emerge from yet another extended stay Rajoub, who was released from an Israeli who only want friendship. of international protests, there really hasn’t in hospital, to dismiss Haley’s plea for new jail with another 1,150 terrorists in a prisoner Gustavo Perednik is an Argentinian-born been one so far. Palestinian leadership as hopelessly unreal- exchange in 1985, threatened Messi with verbal Israeli author and educator. Instead, the Palestinians are confronted istic. Some might contend that a Palestinian with a region that no longer places them civil war after Abbas departs the scene is more likely that the emergence of a secular-minded, THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. front and center, as well as an impatient international community, less willing to pro-Western peace party. Much also depends indulge Palestinian tales of Israel’s inherent on the regional environment—whether Iran is ✡ ✡ ✡ CENTRAL FLORIDA’S INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICE ✡ ✡ ✡ brutality. In her speech to the U.N. 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By Hanna Gerber explosives—but those who of warrior.” Qaraqe’s ministry The Executive Order allows fighter, and a man who left his against Palestinian terror assist terrorists, often behind provides monthly stipends to the designation of “persons impression on everyone and leaders as well. With the recent passage of the scenes. The legislation prisoners and released pris- determined by the Secretary who was a school for giving, With the Trump adminis- the Taylor Force Act, Congress specifically targets those who oners who, as defined under of the Treasury... to assist in, resolve, and courage. We are tration’s clear commitment called on the Palestinian Au- provide banking services to Palestinian law, are “anyone sponsor, or provide financial, proud of him as one of the to eradicating terrorism, and thority “to stop payments for terrorist groups and funding incarcerated in the occupa- material, or technological symbols of the Palestinian in the immediate aftermath acts of terrorism (...) and to for terrorist attacks. tion’s prisons for his participa- support for, or financial or national struggle.” of the March 2018 enactment repeal the laws authorizing This Executive Order can tion in the struggle against the other services to or in support Qaraqe’s designation could of the Taylor Force Act, the such payments.” In response, also be applied to those who occupation.” That is anyone of... acts of terrorism.” help efforts to reform the Treasury Department must the Palestinian Authority re- provide material assistance who has aided or carried out a Qaraqe clearly fits this Palestinian Authority by send- act. It is time for the end of the affirmed its “national right” to for acts of terror. One such terrorist attack against Israel. definition as he is the direc- ing a message that the U.S. Palestinian exemption, and for financially support terrorists person is Issa Qaraqe. He must The list of recipients is a tor of a ministry whose sole government will not allow Treasury’s anti-terror powers and has even increased its be designated for what he who’s who of cold-blooded purpose is to “provide finan- a Palestinian exemption for to apply equally to anyone who budget to do so. is—a facilitator and sponsor killers, including Mohammed cial support” to terrorists. terror financing. Concerning sponsors these abhorrent acts. This is a blatant disregard of terrorism. Abdel Basset al-Kharoub, who Indeed, his unambiguous Qaraqe himself, this designa- Designating Palestinian of- of U.S. policy, and it’s time for Qaraqe is the director of the murdered American teen Ezra and enthusiastic support tion will bar him from U.S. ficials would send a powerful the Treasury Department to PLO Commission of Prisoners Schwartz and two others. Also for terrorism is evident in travel, prohibit him from message that the U.S. will take target the administrators of and Released Prisoners’ Af- featured on the ministry’s pay his comments following conducting business with action against terrorists and the “Pay to Slay” practice for fairs. He heads a department list is Bilal Abu Ghanem, the the erection of a monument U.S. companies, and freeze their sponsors, whether they sanctions. committed solely to providing killer of Richard Lakin, an honoring Abu Sakkar. The his assets in the U.S. are ISIS members in Syria, United States Executive financial remuneration and elderly Israeli-American. Palestinian terrorist planted Designating specific indi- Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, or Order 13224 gives the Trea- other support for Palestinian In 2017, the Commission a bomb in Jerusalem in 1975 viduals has been used against Palestinian officials wearing sury Department a powerful terrorists imprisoned in Israel. of Prisoners and Released that took 15 innocent lives, Iranian officials, such as the business suits in Ramallah. tool to combat terrorism. The Commission’s website Prisoners’ Affairs had a bud- including an American and recent designation of the head Hanna Gerber is a contrib- It focuses not only on the states that Palestinians who get of $161 million, all spent her husband. of the Iranian central bank, uting author at The Tower, obvious villains—those who commit acts of terror “deserve to incentivize terrorism and Qaraqe stated that “Ahmad and now it is time for Trea- a publication of The Israel pull the trigger or smuggle the legal and legitimate title support terrorists. Abu Sukkar is a real man, a sury to employ this measure Project. Dear ‘Washington Post’: You got it all wrong! By Stephen M. Flatow from the third floor of a much of what the Post tells have written “Palestinian Thrown by whom? Why? The Washington Post is building struck 20-year-old its readers about the Pales- Kills Israeli Soldier.” But, no. Have they done these sorts not the only newspaper that (JNS)—To the editor: Ronen Lubarsky, shattering tinians. He just “dies,” in the passive of things before? The Post does this. Almost every major Do you want to know why his helmet and inflicting The news about the mur- tense. A reader might think wouldn’t say. American daily newspaper, most American Jews don’t severe injuries. Three days der-by-rock of Lubarsky was he suffered his injuries in a Acknowledging that rocks wire service and television believe what you publish later, he died of his wounds. confined to the Post’s “news traffic mishap, or a friendly- can kill reminds readers that news program incorporates about Israel? An article in The This episode is especially briefs” section. And it was near fire accident. many Palestinian “protest- a similar bias when it comes Washington Post this week newsworthy because it runs the end of the briefs—below The article began: “The ers” are would-be murderers. to Israel. That’s why I’m ad- explains it all. so counter to the narrative much longer ones about Ebola Israeli military says” (note Acknowledging that Palestin- dressing this letter to all of It had to do with a Pal- that is typically presented by vaccinations in the Congo and the word “says,” as if there is ians have murdered 16 Israelis you. Because you’ve all given estinian Arab rock-thrower the American news media. plans for a right-wing march a doubt), “a soldier who was in rock-throwing incidents American Jewry a mountain murdering an Israeli man. Mobs of Palestinian Arabs in Germany. seriously wounded in action reminds readers of the dan- of reasons to distrust what The facts of what hap- throwing rocks at Israelis Not only was the story last week has died.” He was gers Israelis face. Giving such you publish about the Jewish pened are beyond dispute. are portrayed as peaceful buried, it was miniscule. The “wounded in action.” By a story prominence would only state and its citizens. On May 24, Israeli soldiers protesters. Rocks are not murder of a young man by whom? The Post wouldn’t say. create sympathy for Israel. All Sincerely, entered al-Amari, a neigh- considered potentially lethal terrorist merited just a single The article continued: “The of which impedes the cam- Stephen M. Flatow borhood near the Palestin- weapons, even though 16 paragraph. A grand total of soldier was mortally wounded paign to create a Palestinian Stephen M. Flatow, a vice ian Authority capital city Israelis have been murdered 60 words. Thursday when, during an state in Israel’s backyard. president of the Religious of Ramallah, in pursuit of by rock-throwers. And, incredibly, the word arrest near Ramallah”—a And it’s clear that is why Zionists of America, is an terrorists. Residents took So here we have an im- “Palestinian” never appeared city name which most read- the Post handled the story attorney in New Jersey and to their rooftops and began portant man-bites-dog story. in the article. Not once. ers would not recognize as the way it did. The motives of the father of Alisa Flatow, hurling objects at the sol- Maybe that explains why The headline read: “Is- Palestinian—“a large marble the editors are transparently who was murdered in an diers. A chunk of concrete The Washington Post buried raeli Soldier Wounded in block was dropped on his head obvious. This isn’t journalism. Iranian-sponsored Palestin- thrown by a Palestinian it—because it contradicts so Action Dies.” They could from the top of a building.” It’s blatant political advocacy. ian terrorist attack in 1995. Letter to Yad Vashem: Do not whitewash history By Shalom Pollack a while and it leaves me ing people, the powers that be Amin El Husseini, leader of this question with Yad Vash- There are rumors that our no rest. will take note and truth may the Arabs (Palestinians). Op- em, I was told that the new popular peace partner, Faisal I return to the continuing I am asking for yet another prevail. I urge you to make posite it was an equally large museum “concentrates on Hussaini himself insisted that one-man battle that I have attempt to draw the attention your thoughts known to him. photo of Jewish volunteer the victims rather than the his uncle’s photo be removed been trying to wage in recent to the whitewashing of our Dear Mr. Shalev, soldiers of the Jewish Brigade. perpetrators, and therefore from the museum. years. history. My name is Shalom Pollack, It was an excellent study in does not offer much space In any case, it is deeply As a tour guide, I have I will not be silenced by the veteran tour guide. contrasts and historic roles to them.” disturbing and a national visited Yad Vashem many forces of political correctness, I have visited Yad Vashem and was greatly appreciated However, there is indeed a tragedy that a new generation hundreds of times, both especially in the hallowed hundreds of times during my by my guests. full wall of very large photos of visitors, Jew and non-Jew, the former and the current ground of our Yad Vashem. almost 40 years of guiding In the new Yad Vashem, of German perpetrators just are not educated to a very version. Many structural The following is a letter tourists in Israel. this is gone. In its place is a a few steps from the small basic and significant part of and technical innovations I sent to Mr. Avner Shalev, In the “old” Yad Vashem, tiny photo of the Mufti with Himmler - Mufti one. the Holocaust. have upgraded the visiting the current chairman of Yad there was a floor to ceiling Himmler. Hitler is gone. I assume that it was decided I insist, in the name of all experience. However, one Vashem. (avnr.shalev@yad- photograph of the infamous Today far fewer visitors at to tone down and hide the Arab those misled and denied the very glaring content change veshem.org.il) meeting between Hitler and Yad Vashem even learn of the (Palestinian) role due to the facts, that this is rectified has caught my eye now for If I am joined by other car- the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Arab (Palestinian) role in the post Oslo attitude and policies immediately. Holocaust. of building bridges with our Thank you, In the past when I raised new peace partners. 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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 15, 2018 PAGE 7A ‘Judaism, Zionism and the Land of Israel’ fills a void Land of Israel.” It is designed ately in need of history and opened up his Manhattan to bridge the intellectual current realities.” East Synagogue for the book’s space between Israel’s cul- Prize-winning journalist Manhattan launch. StandWi- tural, political, intellectual, Yossi Klein Halevi, whose thUs added its name to the diplomatic, juridical, and works, such as “We Were endeavor and gave logistical historical pillars. Skillfully Like Dreamers,” set forth support for his book launches. and doggedly, Rabbi Eliach the religious, political, and What began on a typewriter weaves in the biblical and cultural perspective of Israel in the 1980s was finally com- talmudic quintessence that also blurbed the book: “With pleted on a computer only laces it all together. passion, clarity, eloquence earlier this year. In an unusual The work spans the mil- and most of all love,” he publishing move, the book has lennia between Abraham’s wrote, “Yotav Eliach lays out been released simultaneously covenant with God right the story of Zionism and the in 17 countries. through the fiery twentieth case for Israel. At a time when At a time when Jewish and century and into the mod- that story is under growing Israeli history is being battered ern, post-Oslo Accords era. and systematic attack, Rabbi by revisionist theories and In this compilation, God Eliach has given the Jewish alternate narratives amplified is an acknowledged factor people an indispensable gift.” by hate groups, “Judaism, Zi- as much as turning-point Rabbi Yotav Eliach Four of Long Island’s most onism and the Land of Israel” wars, crumbling interna- distinguished rabbis agreed to cements the centuries to- tional agreements, and frac- ligious rigor—myself in- assemble at Rambam Mesivta gether in one binding that will tious diplomacy. 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Spencer Platt/Getty Images Gershon Elinson/Flash90 The June 2014 abduction of three Israeli yeshiva teens in Judea and Samaria sparked Bat-Galim and Ofir Shaer, left, the parents of slain Israeli teenager Gil-ad Shaer, plant rallies in Jewish communities worldwide calling for their safe return. trees in memory of their son at a Judea and Samaria kibbutz with kids who were named after him, Feb. 2, 2018. By Renee Ghert-Zand worldwide were gripped by his the day they went missing, June 12 disappearance along within minutes of entering to being household names. “I saw his empty place at Meanwhile, the siblings of JERUSALEM—It’s easy with two Jewish 16-year-olds, their abductors’ car. Their sons’ joint funeral was the Shabbat table, and that’s the murdered teens joined to spot Iris Yifrach as she Naftali Fraenkel and Gil-ad During the search, the televised live, and their shivas when it hit me,” Yifrach said. support networks like the walks through the crowds Shaer, who went missing one families were interviewed were public affairs. “I realized that we needed to youth division of OneFam- in a packed shopping mall Thursday night while hitch- exhaustively. The mothers Four years later, the pain do something to pick up the ily, which organizes outings, in central Israel. And it’s not hiking home from their West flew to Geneva, Switzerland, and loss endures. But the boys’ pieces.” support groups, weekends just because she’s wearing Bank yeshiva. to make an appeal to the family members also have The family began psycho- and overnight camps for fam- a bright yellow blouse and Israeli security forces UN Human Rights Council established a new normal. therapy. Yifrach, 47, and her ily members of terror victims. matching headscarf. and volunteers searched Racheli Fraenkel, the only It’s not that they have left husband, Uri, 49, continue The organization also helped Yifrach has been a public exhaustively for the three one among them who was behind their trauma; they’ve to attend weekly couples some of the parents with figure since June 2014, when boys, and Jews around the fluent in English, became been shaped by it. One parent therapy sessions. Yifrach private English tutoring, her 19-year-old son, Eyal, was world organized prayer ral- the face of the “Bring Our wrote a best-selling memoir says it has strengthened their which came in helpful on kidnapped and murdered by lies for them under the Boys Home” campaign in the about mourning her son. marital bond. In addition, trips overseas. Hamas terrorists in the West slogan #BringBackOurBoys. international media. Another found solace in video counseling has helped their For Racheli Fraenkel, heal- Bank. Ultimately, the teens’ bodies Almost overnight, the three therapy. The sister of one of six surviving children, now ing came on the bat mitzvah For 18 days that month, Is- were found on June 30, 2014. families went from leading the boys went to the United aged 7 to 24. trip that she and her daughter rael and Jewish communities They had been shot and killed anonymous and private lives States on a therapeutic bat “I came to understand that took to the U.S. in 2015. One mitzvah trip, thanks to an I was subconsciously looking of Yifrach’s daughters said organization that assists for Eyal in the other kids. the same of her experience Israeli victims of terrorism, That isn’t OK, and I work at the Jewish sleepaway camp OneFamily. Another sibling hard not to do that now,” in Ontario. received support from that Yifrach said. “Each of the kids Belzberg said it’s impor- Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel organization to attend a Jew- has worked hard on defining tant to listen to the needs ish sleepaway camp in Canada their own identity separate of bereaved families rather and escape the tumult at from Eyal.” than offer one-size-fits-all Proudly Serving Our Community home. Ofir Shaer also struggled therapy. OneFamily, which For Iris Yifrach, traveling with parenting issues as he she founded along with her For Over 35 Years abroad—something she had mourned his son Gil-ad. After husband, Marc, in 2001 never really done before her the murder, he suddenly had following a terrorist attack son’s murder—has been new responsibilities in ad- at a Sbarro pizza shop in L’dor v’dor ... extremely therapeutic. Her dition to trying to focus on Jerusalem, offers terror family has taken several trips his surviving five daughters. victims and their families From Generation to Generation to Europe and America in the He spent a lot of time on the services ranging from indi- past four years. Memorial Foundation for the vidual counseling, support “Spending time together Three Boys, which the families groups, youth programs and • Traditional Jewish Funerals has been very important. established to advance the na- camps to financial, legal and It’s like we’re finally getting tional and global Jewish unity bureaucratic assistance. The to know one another,” she that had been galvanized by group paid for some of the • Non-Traditional Services said. “At first OneFamily gave the search for the teens. overseas trips by the three us these trips, and now we “People want to hear and families because OneFam- • Interstate Shipping are taking them on our own see these people, and this puts ily considered the vacations because we feel they are so demands on their time with essential to the healing important. And we feel like their family,” said Chantal process. • Pre-Arranged Funerals we’ve gotten a big hug from Belzberg, co-founder of One- Bereaved families need American Jews.” Family “It’s hard enough to support even years after their Shalom Assurance Plan Israel has no shortage of be a high profile person—just initial trauma, Belzberg said. families struggling to over- imagine adding bereavement “We are currently looking • come the loss of loved ones onto that.” after 2,800 families, each Headstones, Grave Markers to terrorism. But the heal- Shaer discovered he need- consisting of four to five ing process for the Yifrachs, ed time for his own healing. people,” she said. “We want Shaers and Fraenkels has Amid work, family and speak- families to eventually stand been complicated by the ing engagements, he enrolled on their own two feet, but we 407-599-1180 high-profile nature of the in a video therapy course for never say goodbye to them. killings, making it difficult bereaved parents. Together We are with them as long as 640 Lee Road • Orlando, Florida for them to retreat from the with other fathers who lost they need us.” spotlight. sons to terror or in combat, Yifrach says the most im- “It was overwhelming Shaer said in interviews, he portant thing she has learned W.E. “Manny” Adams, LFD in the beginning. People worked through his feelings since Eyal’s murder is that came into our home im- about balancing his grief for suffering is not itself a virtue. Samuel P. (Sammy) Goldstein, Exec. Director mediately—the army, the Gil-ad with trying to be pres- “If we suffer, it won’t bring police, relatives, friends and ent for his daughters. him back,” she said. “We’ve neighbors,” Yifrach recalled. His wife, Bat-Galim, found decided to choose life.” “At first it was good to have writing therapeutic. Last fall, This article was sponsored www.bethshalommemorialchapel.com people with us all the time, she published a memoir of her by and produced in partner- but then I couldn’t get any first year of mourning that ship with OneFamily, the private space. I couldn’t even would become a best-seller. It leading organization re- cry privately.” included pages from her late building, rehabilitating and A month after the funeral, son’s diary, which had been reintegrating the lives of the Yifrachs finally found recovered from the terrorists’ Israel’s victims of war and themselves alone in their burned car and returned to terrorism. This article was home in Elad, in central the family 10 months after produced by JTA’s native Israel. the murder. content team. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 15, 2018 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. 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The either effectively endorsed based in religion that some decision, published Monday, anti-LGBT discrimination people view as politically was relatively narrow: The or missed an opportunity to incorrect and want to have baker was within his rights, prohibit it. restricted,” Diament said. “Re- Justice Anthony Kennedy “As Americans and as Jews, ligious liberty jurisprudence wrote for the majority, be- we affirm that discrimination is what’s going to be essential cause a member of the Colo- is not ‘religious freedom,’ and to preserving those practices rado Civil Rights Commission pretending otherwise is an in- for the Jewish community in had made comments hostile to sult to those who have suffered the United States.” his faith while initially ruling religious persecution,” read Diament also appreciated on the incident. a statement by Stosh Cotler, a passage in Kennedy’s opin- “[T]hese disputes must CEO of Bend the Arc, a liberal ion stating that “a member be resolved with tolerance, Jewish activist group. “We are of the clergy who objects to without undue disrespect to relieved this decision was not gay marriage on moral and sincere religious beliefs, and the sweeping negative ruling religious grounds could not without subjecting gay per- it could have been.” be compelled to perform the sons to indignities when they But the O.U., employing ceremony without denial of seek goods and services in an similar ideas, reached the his or her right to the free Joe Amon/The Denver Post via Getty Images open market,” Kennedy wrote. opposite conclusion: That the exercise of religion.” He said Jack Phillips, owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop, celebrates in his Colorado store after Conservative groups had ruling strikes a blow against that sentence will protect the U.S. Supreme Court voted 7-2 in his favor in a dispute with a gay couple, June 4, 2018. hoped the ruling would be discrimination. Codifying the Orthodox synagogues that broader, allowing private notion that the government decline to celebrate Jewish By Ben Sales religious liberty in a negative gious freedom. For decades, businesses to refuse service cannot disparage religious same-sex marriages. light, especially as they seek that meant keeping religion to LGBT couples based on groups, Diament told JTA, will Orthodoxy is the only major (JTA)—Seven Supreme to advance policies to which out of the public square and their religious beliefs. Liberal be helpful to Jewish groups in Jewish denomination that Court justices sided with a some have sincere dissent,” promoting so-called “public groups, likewise, hoped the the future. opposes same-sex marriage. Colorado baker in his legal Nathan Diament, the O.U.’s accommodation” laws that court would ban such actions “It’s crucial for Jews and for The O.U. was one of the few fight with a gay couple. And executive director for public require places open to the as illegal discrimination. other minority communities Jewish groups that criticized seven major Jewish groups policy, said in a statement. public to grant customers Liberal justices Stephen that religious freedoms be the 2015 Supreme Court deci- weighed in on the decision. “Today, the United States Su- full and equal treatment. This Breyer and Elena Kagan, given the strongest and widest sion legalizing such unions. Six of the Jewish groups dis- preme Court sent a clear mes- was partly due to a fear that who are Jewish, sided with scope,” he said in an interview The OU generally favors agreed with the decision. But sage: that the demonization of allowing religious exemp- the majority. Justices Ruth Tuesday. “The intent of the public policies that allow for one Jewish organization, the religious beliefs—especially tions would amount to a tacit Bader Ginsburg and Sonia policymakers is going to be broader practice of religion. Orthodox Union, dissented in policymaking—is consti- government endorsement of Sotomayor dissented, with taken into consideration when It supports government aid from the rest, calling the tutionally unacceptable.” Christianity. Ginsberg saying that the they’re evaluating a policy.” to private religious schools, ruling a victory for religious The O.U. stance is signifi- But in recent years the O.U. majority opinion did not Diament said the ruling as well as federal vouchers for freedom. cant because Jewish groups has supported a number of ef- take fully into account the could aid Jewish groups, for private education. It likewise “Too many pundits and across the spectrum have long forts to allow more public reli- baker’s unwillingness to serve example, if a government body supported a bill this year pro- politicians have lately engaged based their policy positions gious expression, contending customers because of who tries to pass a bill outlawing viding federal security grants in rhetoric that seeks to paint on a robust defense of reli- that expanding those rights they are. Jewish practices like circum- to religious nonprofits. It’s a big deal that Argentina cancelled its soccer game in Israel By Ben Sales tinian conflict. Israelis want tion are manna for Israelis, ances because of the conflict. A Palestinian official also 1972 Munich Olympics by the to portray their country as a and a setback for the Boycott, Earlier this year, the singer name-checked Regev, and the Palestinian Black September (JTA)—Israelis want noth- thriving democracy like any Divestment and Sanctions Lorde cancelled a Tel Aviv Jerusalem move, in a letter terror group. ing more than for their coun- other—violence on the border movement, which aims to iso- concert after pressure from requesting that the game be “We’re talking about an try to be considered normal. and the occupation notwith- late Israel internationally. So pro-Palestinian activists. cancelled. old-new terror that scares, That may have to wait. standing—and a full member the BDS community seemed And Natalie Portman, an “After political pressure deters and frightens players, A much-anticipated soccer of the family of nations. ecstatic to claim the Argen- American-Israeli, refused to took place from the Israeli the same terror that led to game between the Argentine And they appreciate when tines’ decision as a result of show for a prestigious prize government, as it was openly the murder of the 11 Munich and Israeli national teams was other countries treat them their political pressure. ceremony because of her said by Israel’s Minister of victims in the 1972 Olympics,” cancelled Wednesday because, that way. Thousands of Is- The truth seems murkier. opposition to Prime Minister Culture and Sports Miri she said. “The true story here Israeli and Argentine officials raelis lined the streets for The president of the Argentine Benjamin Netanyahu. Regev, the match was moved is not Haifa and not Jerusa- say, of physical threats made the Giro d’Italia cycling race Football Association, Claudio Soccer is Israel’s most to Jerusalem,” Jibril Rajoub, lem. The true story here is the to the Argentine players— last month, even though it’s Tapia, apologized to Israel and popular sport, and Messi’s president of the Palestinian threats on Messi’s life.” including megastar forward not a popular sport in Israel. said players had received professional squad, FC Bar- Football Association, wrote Regev also accused Ra- Lionel Messi. The exhibition Celebrating that international threats. Protesters outside celona, is the most popular in a letter to Tapia obtained joub of inciting terror and game was set for Saturday sporting event, perhaps the the team’s practice facility in international team in Israel, by Haaretz. “The Israeli gov- accused opposition Israeli night in Jerusalem, less than largest to be held in Israel, Barcelona also waved Argen- according to a recent survey. ernment has turned a regular Knesset members for “back- a week before the beginning one of Israel’s leading news- tine soccer jerseys covered in So watching him face off sports match into a political ing up terror” because they of the World Cup. papers ran a full front-page fake blood—leaving it up to against Israel’s team on its tool.” wrote tweets criticizing her Beyond the disappointment photo with the headline observers to decide whether home turf would have been Rajoub also called on Pal- conduct. Regarding the idea of tens of thousands of Israeli “We’re on the map.” the blood was meant to sym- an especially big deal. estinians to burn their Messi that the move to Jerusalem soccer fans, the cancellation Last month an Israeli, Netta bolize Palestinians who died Israelis are outraged—and jerseys in protest of the game. directly caused the cancel- shows Israelis once again that Barzilai, won the Eurovision or soccer players who might. split on who is to blame. Even And this isn’t his first foray lation, she said “there is no even seemingly innocuous song contest, a 43-country This cancellation, never- if the ultimate decision was against Israeli soccer. In 2015, bigger lie.” cultural events, like a soccer competition that this year theless, cuts especially deep. not a direct response to BDS he unsuccessfully tried to get “How much stupidity can match, aren’t immune from drew some 186 million viewers. Israelis feel stung when pressure, many accuse Israeli Israel kicked out of FIFA, the you talk all the time? How the festering Israeli-Pales- Such signs of normaliza- foreigners cancel appear- Culture Minister Miri Regev international soccer organi- much nonsense can you say?” of inflaming the opposition zation. she said. “How nasty and by politicizing the game. In an informal online mean can people be? Don’t Regev told Israel’s Army Ra- poll conducted by Ynet, a people have national pride?” Seeking Jewish Gestational Carrier dio that she moved the game news website that tends Regev pledged that “we will from the northern city of to oppose Netanyahu, al- continue to host international MUST be able to provide proof of religion. If GC is Haifa to Jerusalem, specifi- most 60 percent of respon- events.” She noted Israel is set cally to exhibit Israel’s claim dents blamed Regev for the to host the Eurovision contest, married, must be married to non-Jewish spouse. to the city. She also linked match’s cancellation. Ben according to its annual tradi- the game to “our fight over Caspit, a journalist for the tion, next year. Single, divorced or widowed is fine. the [United States] embassy Israeli daily Maariv, tweet- But will Eurovision actually moving to Jerusalem,” which ed that Messi visited Jerusa- end up coming to Jerusalem? Minimum of 1 prior full-term pregnancy. You should happened last month amid lem in 2013 without incident According to Yossi Sharabi, objections from Palestinians, “because no one turned director-general of Regev’s be 21-40 yrs old, & have a strong support system. the European Union and the the event into a political Culture Ministry, maybe not. United Nations. campaign.” The Jerusalem In the wake of the soccer can- Healthy, kind, communicative & understanding. “From my perspective, decision, he wrote, “woke cellation, he acknowledged the important thing is that the Palestinians up and that in Israel, planning these Reproductive Possibilities is an agency that has Argentina’s national team and awakened the mob.” events is never simple. Messi are coming to Israel and But Regev is known for “Eurovision in Jerusalem? helped to create families for over 2 decades, contact playing in Jerusalem ahead of being bombastic, and she It isn’t at all a given,” Sharabi the World Cup,” Regev told isn’t backing down. In a fiery told the Sports 5 TV channel. us to find out more & join us in a wonderful journey. Army Radio on Monday, two statement Wednesday night, “It’s too early to talk about days before the cancellation she blamed Palestinian ter- this. Everybody wants it to be You can call 1-888-363-9457 “Jerusalem is on the map. rorism for the cancellation, in Jerusalem. But there could In this era—which includes and compared the threats well be other considerations.” or email [email protected] BDS—in this era nothing is against Messi to the murders JTA briefs editor Marcy Os- more important.” of 11 Israeli athletes at the ter contributed to this report. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 15, 2018 PAGE 11A The Chabon speech Central Florida Synagogues By Eliana Rudee then it impedes our hunger for the good.” Orlando Weekday Morning Minyan (Conservative/Egalitarian), services Monday- (JNS)—Author Michael Chabon, he said, “was sing- Chabon ignited controversy ing his own literary version of Friday 7:45 a.m. (9 a.m.—national holidays); 2nd floor Chapel—Jewish Academy of Orlando; in the Jewish world following John Lennon’s ‘Imagine.’ The 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. For information call 407-298-4650. his May 14 commencement only trouble is John Lennon Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. speech at the Hebrew Union sang it better.” JewishCelebration.org; 407-566-9792. College-Jewish Institute of “You might just as easily Religion in Los Angeles with seek intellectual guidance Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, students and prominent from a pro-football star. But 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Reform rabbis criticizing as I do not expect him to Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- the Pulitzer Prize-winning have spectacular opinions on 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. novelist for his take on Jewish household detergents, neither inner-marriage and various do I expect him to have quot- Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Israeli security policies. able opinions on the state of Michael Chabon at the He- Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. “Security is an invention of Judaism and the world. His brew Union College-Jewish humanity’s jailers,” he said to role was not to give voice to Institute of Religion in Los Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, the audience of young people. what many Jews believe; it was Angeles, May 14, 2018. 321-777-2770. “Anywhere you look, it is and to inspire Jewish professionals has always been a hand of who were embarking on their continuation of the Jewish Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- power drawing the boundar- careers. While I admire him as people and inspiring Jewish 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat ies, putting up the separation a writer, as a Jewish thinker, professionals embarking on services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. barriers, and propagandizing he leaves a lot to be desired,” their careers. Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. maintained Salkin. hatred and fear of the people ‘It should be of great con- betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. on the other side of the wall. Morin Zaray, a recent cern to us’ Security for some means graduate of HUC’s master’s Rabbi Michael Boyden, re- Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. imprisonment for all.” program in nonprofit man- ligious leader and founder of congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. While many congregations agement, left the ceremony Kehilat Yonatan Reform Con- Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; in protest. In her op-ed in within the Reform movement gregation in Hod Hasharon, Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. accept and sometimes even the Jewish Journal of Los Israel, and former founding facilitate intermarriage, Cha- Angeles, she denounced HUC rabbi of the Ra’anana Reform Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; bon expressed views against for inviting Chabon and cri- Congregation, said in a Times Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. marrying in, despite having tiqued Chabon’s reductionist of Israel article that Judaism’s Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, a Jewish wife. “Endogamous anti-Israel rhetoric. distinctions and divisions, Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. marriage is a ghetto for two,” “For someone who presents which Chabon criticized as he said. “It draws a circle himself as an intellectual— “insularity, exclusion and Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. around the married couple, steeped in nuance—Michael segregation,” are precisely a bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. inscribing them and any Chabon has a remarkable prerequisite for survival. Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation children who come along in ability to present a one- “There was something un- holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. the figurative wall of tradi- dimensional reality in which cannily symbolic in the fact tion, custom, shared history the Jews are evil oppressors that the flimsy, ill-fitting kip- com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. and a common inheritance of and the Palestinians are pah that the writer, Michael Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; chromosomes and culture.” powerless victims, with no Chabon, wore fell off his head www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Chabon later said he sees agency, no responsibility and in the middle of his presenta- Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., intermarriage of all types no blame,” wrote Zaray. “Such tion,” he said. as “the source of all human a careless disregard for depth “The views that Chabon Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. greatness,” adding that “any and complexity dishonors an expressed are shared by many Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; religion that relies on compul- institution of higher learn- Jews, particularly younger www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th sory endogamy to survive has, ing—particularly a Jewish Jews who question the need to Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. in my view, ceased to make the one—particularly on a gradu- remain within the Jewish fold, case for its continued validity ation day.” but also the policies adopted Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. in the everyday lives of human In the face of the ensuing by the State of Israel in terms Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- beings.” criticism by Zaray and other of dealing with the conflict 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin, senior leaders in the Reform move- that we have with the Pales- Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- rabbi of Temple Solel in Hol- ment, Rabbi David Ellenson, tinians,” explained Boyden. lywood, Fla., and a prominent interim president and chan- “His presentation, rather than 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. blogger on religionnews.com, cellor emeritus, and Joshua persuading anyone, is more Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for said of his alma matter and Holo, dean of the Los Angeles reflective of issues that exist services and holiday schedules. that speech, “HUC had every campus of HUC-JIR, defended within the Jewish world, and Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303A N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation- right to invite him. But I found their decision to bring Chabon it should be a great concern the speech deeply troubling, to campus, maintaining that to us.” sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. not only because of its over- speakers with a wide variety As a religious movement, Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- the-top criticism of Israel, but of ideologies are invited to the he maintained, “we are in- Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv because he seems to have no campus, and that Chabon is a terested in preserving and Please call for times. real juice for Judaism.” “moral voice” that embraces strengthening the Jewish To JNS, he said, “He con- Israel and its need for security. people. But Chabon’s views Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- tinually advocated a world “Embrace of disagreement on intermarriage, according Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. without borders and without is an expression of HUC’s to Boyden, will ensure the Temple Beth El (R), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-677-2484. distinctions. In that sense, he academic mission,” they said opposite. Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. is calling for the disappear- in a statement published in “All of the surveys I’ve ever ance of Judaism.” JTA, praising the “energetic, seen show very clearly that Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat Even more, Salkin added fearless marketplace of ideas.” the chances of children being service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. While they acknowledged that “he has rendered dark raised as Jewish is consider- Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. and sour judgments against that “it pains us to have of- ably less when the parents do mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; Judaism itself, especially the fended some in our audience,” not share the same religious Judaism that the Reform they also posited, “What background,” continued the Thursday, 10:00 a.m. movement upholds. If he greater civic responsibility for rabbi. “As a consequence, Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: speaks of a world without dis- a Jewish institution of higher people interested in a Jewish Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. tinctions, then what does that learning than to encourage future will seek either Jewish do to Reform Judaism’s quest public conversation on knotty partners or those who are Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. for social justice? If there is problems of great Jewish mo- interested in converting to Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; no distinction between right ment?” Judaism.” Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. But other Reform rab- and wrong, between ethical And this, he stated, “will Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. and unethical, if you sing bis have named other civic ensure the future of our ‘kumbaya’ with everyone, responsibilities, such as the heritage.” Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach, 386-252-3097; Shabbat service, Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 10:30 a.m. Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by OBITUARY Torah study. Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road BERTHA WEINSTEIN 2013. As an avocation, Mrs. Hannah and Aubrey; and by 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 Bertha Weinstein, age 88, Weinstein taught modern her siblings—Benjamin, Jack, p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. of Winter Park, passed away dance for many years. She Isaac and Priscilla. In addition Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. on Wednesday, June 6, 2018, relocated to the Orlando area to her husband, she was pre- shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. at her residence. She was born in 2015 from New York. deceased by her brothers and in New York City on Aug. 7, Mrs. Weinstein is survived sister, Milton, Hy and Sylvia. Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 1929, to the late Abraham and by her sons, Irwin (Patricia) A graveside service was held 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, Lillian Ruderman Bialek. A Weinstein of Winter Park, Eric at Montefiore Cemetery, St 7:30 p.m. homemaker, Mrs. Weinstein (Julie) Weinstein of Scarsdale, Albans, New York. Arrange- Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. was a high school graduate N.Y., and Stuart Weinstein of ments entrusted to Beth tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. and was married for 63 years Wantaugh, N.Y. She is also Shalom Memorial Chapel, to her late husband, Mark, survived by her grandchil- 640 Lee Road, Orlando 32810. (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa who passed away on May 1, dren—Rachel, David, Adam, 407-599-1180. PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 15, 2018 Capt. Elgen Long—last surviving member of flight crew that saved Yemenite Jews in 1949 ‘We just kept going’ ing seven days of nonstop ing for the remains of Amelia Long’s brush with fate back-and-forth transport. Earhart, which Azani told happened while working as “We slept very little, taking guests “added to the mystery a commercial-flight naviga- shifts and stealing naps when of the man.” tor for Alaska Airlines in the we could,” he told JNS. “Even- Last fall, Azani and Stand- late 1940s. During a stop in tually, we didn’t look or smell WithUs organized a trip for Shanghai in January of 1949, too good from the experience. Long to return to Israel and his crew received a telegram But we just kept going.” tour the country he hadn’t from company heads issuing Finally, they rested for one seen since 1949. Over the instructions to make for a day. After a decent night of course of a 10-day trip, Long British Royal Air Force base sleep, they made five more told JNS that he marveled at in Aden, a port city in Yemen. runs, clocking 12 trips in the innovative nation that There, his crew took part in total. While unloading pas- “he could barely recognize” a daring rescue mission that sengers in Tel Aviv, Long still from nearly seven decades would come to be known as remembers the reception his ago. “On Eagle’s Wings”—a refer- crew received from Israeli “I remember when there ence to Exodus 19:4—to help military personnel. was just an airfield,” he said. airlift tens of thousands of “I’ll always recall one young “Now it’s Ben-Gurion Interna- Yemenite Jews facing persecu- Israeli officer who came on tional Airport, where millions tion and death out of Yemen board, looked at us and told of people come through. And and into Israel, a nation less us, ‘You’ve done a great thing,’ everywhere we went, there than a year old at the time. ” recalled Long. “I can still was so much being built. Israel Shahar Azani “For us, it was a job,” Long see him, still hear him saying is an amazing place.” Capt. Elgen Long is embraced by Yemenite Jews during a visit to Israel last fall. told JNS. “But, in the end, it those words to us when I close Azani said that in Israel, turned out to be much more my eyes and think real hard.” trip organizers offered Long By Oren Peleg receive an education. Now, “hero of Israel and the Jewish important than we thought “On Eagle’s Wings,” which meetings with high-ranking here I am, a doctor who has people.” it would be.” also goes by the name “Op- politicians, awards and ap- (JNS)—With city lights pursued higher education. Long, a native of Oregon, During his remarks, Long eration Magic Carpet,” saved preciation ceremonies. But dotting the night behind And, because of you,” she told guests that returning to outlined the details of how his nearly 50,000 Yemenite Jews he had only one thing on his her, Dr. Dee Gaines, a neu- said, rubbing her belly, “a fifth the City of Angels—a place he crew saved 1,800 refugees—a who have more than 750,000 mind. ropsychologist, sat for good generation lives on.” knows well from his past— prospect that seemed dim descendants, including “He just wanted to see how reason—she’s very pregnant. Snow-haired and perpetu- was a privilege. After serving when their DC-4 aircraft Gaines and her family. the Yemenites he helped save But when Capt. Elgen Long, ally misty-eyed, Long, who as a U.S. naval officer during touched down in Aden. With ‘The mystery of the man’ were doing,” he said. “He kept the last surviving member turns 91 in August, bowed his the Second World War, Long only 48 seats on board and Another one of those de- asking, ‘How are they doing? of a commercial flight crew head graciously in reply from attended the University of thousands of starving Ye- scendants, Shahar Azani, How are their lives here? that saved nearly 2,000 Jewish a podium. Nearly 100 guests California, Los Angeles, on the menite Jews camped out on a 41-year-old StandWithUs How are their children?’ I’m refugees stranded in Yemen seated at tables applauded G.I. bill. While in school, his and around the base, Long’s employee whose grandpar- so happy I got to be with him almost 70 years ago, finished roundly in the backyard of part-time job was delivering crew got creative in the face ents escaped Yemen, came when we made that happen. his speech, she felt compelled a private home in Beverly telegrams door-to-door, often of a “life and death situation.” across Long’s story while They don’t make them like to stand. Hills, Calif. to movie stars, in the Beverly “One of our mechanics sug- visiting an exhibit at a Jew- him anymore.” Her voice shook with emo- The event organized by the Hills area. gested taking out the seats on ish museum in Anchorage, Reuniting with members of tion behind a microphone nonprofit, pro-Israel educa- “Now, to be back here more the aircraft,” he said. “If we Alaska, showcasing the role the Yemenite-Israeli commu- handed to her. tion group StandWithUs for than 70 years later is incred- did that, he told us, we could of Long’s flight crew in the nity that he helped rescue was “My great-grandmother its prominent donors took ible. It feels like my life has fit about 150 people on the rescue. Azani came across a joyous occasion for Long, and my grandmother were on place on May 30 and honored come full circle,” he said. “I plane sitting on the floor. We a copy of On Eagles Wings: but one in which he couldn’t those planes. In Yemen, they Long, who, thought not can’t believe I’m here as an originated that idea, I’m fairly The Untold Story of the Magic help but think of his fellow couldn’t read. They couldn’t Jewish, was introduced as a honored guest.” certain.” Carpet, a book Long wrote on crew members who didn’t live After receiving permis- his experience. to see it. sion from the head rabbi “I knew then and there “That was one of the best of Yemen to take off on the that I had to meet this man,” moments of my life,” Long Sabbath, Long and his crew he said. told JNS. “But everything that began making runs to Israel When Azani first tried to get happened to me, I can’t take delivering batches of refugees. in contact with Long several credit for. It was my entire Their route, which called for a years ago to arrange a meet- crew and me, and I wish they 20-hour flight day, was com- ing and begin the process of could’ve been there. There’s plicated by the inability to ac- honoring him, Long’s family a certain serendipity to it cess air space over Arab lands. members informed Azani that all—that a guy from a small Upon landing in Tel Aviv, they the 90-year-old was “out at town on the Oregon coast turned right around, complet- sea.” He was on a crew search- experienced all of this.” Eurovision—only if it’s in Jerusalem JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel hosts the following year’s Eurovision organizers in an should withdraw as host of the contest. Shortly after the vic- email to JTA dismissed as Eurovision song contest if it tory, both Barzilai and Regev “speculation” reports of politi- is not held in Jerusalem, an said the competition would be cal tensions over Israel’s host- Israeli government minister held in Jerusalem. ing of the song contest next said. Israel has hosted the Eu- year. The organizers said that “I will recommend to the rovision contest twice before they are finalizing the event government that if the Eu- in Jerusalem, a city that most with Israeli officials. rovision is not in Jerusalem, countries do not recognize as Ynet reported Wednesday then it wouldn’t be right to Israel’s capital. that the organizers made Health & Fitness Issue host it,” Culture and Sports A senior Kan source told clear to Israeli officials that An Annual Issue Published By Minister Miri Regev told Is- Haaretz on Wednesday that if the location of next year’s rael’s public broadcaster Kan officials at the European competition became too HERITAGE Florida Jewish News on Thursday morning. Broadcast Union were un- much of a political football, Her statement came a day happy that Regev, and Com- it would move the venue. The and Featuring a Variety of Thought-Provoking after Argentina’s national soc- munications Minister Ayoob organizers also asked for two cer team canceled a friendly Kara, announced that the cities to submit proposals to Articles on Health and Fitness Related Subjects match in Jerusalem over contest would be held in host the competition, accord- pressure and physical threats Jerusalem. ing to Ynet. from pro-Palestinian groups. Late last month, a message In recent days, Regev has “It will cost Israel NIS 50 on the official Eurovision come under fire for moving Publication Date: June 22, 2018 million ($14 million) and Twitter account warned fans the Argentina soccer match Reaching a Responsive, is designed to market the not to book flights to Israel canceled on Wednesday from country. So I personally say if “just yet” and instead “keep Haifa to Jerusalem, with op- Health-Conscious Market the Eurovision won’t be held an eye out for announce- ponents suggesting that she in Jerusalem, it’s not right to ments on our official chan- was politicizing the match, Deadline for this Important Issue is invest the NIS 50 million in nels,” leading to speculation which led to its cancellation. public funds,” Regev told the of disagreements between “Jerusalem is the capital Friday, June 15, 2018 public broadcaster. organizers and Israeli offi- of world Jewry and the State Israel won the 2018 contest cials over various aspects of of Israel. It is not a politi- CALL TODAY TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE on May 19 with the song “Toy” the competition, including cal issue,” she said during a by Netta Barzilai. According matters connected to the Wednesday evening news con- to the annual competition’s Israeli-Arab conflict. ference regarding the match. 407-834-8787 rules, the winning country At about the same time, “Jerusalem is our capital city.” HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 15, 2018 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA

‘The Band’s Visit’ wins murdering a Jewish German cused of child rape and other EBU officials next week, the we do, prays for the success Deutsch made the announce- 10 Tony Awards, includ- teenage girl. charges for allegedly assault- Israeli business daily Globes of this effort,” Netanyahu ment on his Facebook page: ing for best musical Ali Bashar, 20, a former ing the girl, whom he knows. reported Monday. said. “Now, imagine, imag- “For many New Yorkers, (JTA)—“The Band’s Visit,” Iraqi asylum seeker, was The investigation in that case The Israelis reportedly ine: Imagine that President including religious Jews a jewel-box musical based scheduled to be interrogated led to the illegal recording will present Jerusalem, Tel Trump would come back and Muslims who observe on an Israeli film about an by German investigators on charges. He was released on Aviv, Haifa and Eilat as pos- with some deal, and Britain, modesty laws, there isn’t an Egyptian band stranded in Sunday, after arriving back $100,000 bail and ordered to sible host cities. The cities France and Germany would opportunity to utilize our a hardscrabble Negev town, in Germany from Iraq on wear a GPS bracelet. will have to submit detailed applaud it and South Korea City’s beautiful beaches. I’m won the 2018 Tony Award for Saturday. Patriots’ Julian Edel- bids to be considered. They and Japan would say that it excited to offer the chance for best musical. Bashar fled from Germany man apologizes to fans reportedly are the only Israeli endangers their existence. EVERYONE to enjoy!” “The Band’s Visit” domi- after the murder last week, for failed drug test cities to meet Eurovision’s You’d think you’d listen to Men and boys will be able nated its categories dur- and was discovered in Zakho (JTA)—New England Pa- requirements, which include this, right? to swim at the southern ing the 72nd annual Tony in Iraq’s semi-autonomous triots wide receiver Julian a stadium with a capacity of “So the same thing hap- Brooklyn beach on Friday, Awards ceremony at Radio Kurdish region, where he Edelman responded to re- at least 10,000; a press center pened with the Iran deal. June 29 from 9 a.m. to 3 City Music Hall Sunday was arrested on Friday night. ports that he violated the for about 1,500 journalists; This deal was applauded by p.m. Women and girls will night. The girl, identified by NFL’s policy on performance- hotel capacity of about 3,000 many in the international be invited to do the same on Ari’el Stachel, the Califor- police as Susanna Maria Feld- enhancing drugs with an rooms; round the clock public community who are not in Friday, July 27. nia-born son of an Israeli- man, was found Wednesday apology. transportation; and in the the missile range of Iran, Religious Jewish and Mus- Yemeni father and an Ash- outside Wiesbaden, a city Edelman is appealing the vicinity of an international but Israel and Saudi Arabia lim women adhere to strin- kenazi mother from New in western Germany. On four-game suspension for the airport. and others said this deal will gent laws of modesty that York, won the award for best Thursday, police said two violation, which was reported Israel won the right to ultimately give Iran a nuclear do not allow them to wear featured actor in a musical male asylum seekers were first on Thursday by ESPN. host the 2019 Eurovision arsenal, and they will use it bathing suits in front of men. for his performance as a ro- detained in connection to “I am very sorry—I don’t after Netta Barzilai won last first against us, and then Deutch has raised $400 mantic Egyptian trumpeter her rape and murder. One know what happened,” Edel- month’s competition with with the long-range missiles per day to cover the cost of in the musical. was later released. man wrote Friday on Ins- the song “Toy.” At the time that they’re building and lifeguards and other staff, the Tony Shalhoub (“Monk”) There is no formal extradi- tagram. “I’ve taken many, of her victory, Barzilai pro- that the deal doesn’t prevent New York Post reported. The won for Best Actor in a Mu- tion treaty between Iraq and many tests obviously over claimed that the competition them from building, against beach at Kingsborough Com- sical and Katrina Lenk for Germany. Bashar arrived in the course of my career, and would be held in Jerusalem, everyone else.” munity College, next to the best actress in a musical for Germany in 2015 along with nothing like this has ever which was echoed by Israel’s Netanyahu said Middle popular Manhattan Beach their roles as, respectively, his parents and five siblings, happened. I apologize to the culture and sports minister, East peace is illusive not be- in south Brooklyn, is usu- the leader of the band and the French news agency AFP Kraft family, my coaches, Miri Regev. cause there is no Palestinian ally closed on those Fridays the Israeli cafe owner who reported. His request for teammates and fans. As this Jerusalem as a venue has state, but because the Pal- since there are no summer takes him in. asylum had been rejected matter is being appealed, become increasingly contro- estinians have conditioned classes then, according to “The Band’s Visit” also the following year and he I can’t say anymore but no versial, including early calls peace on there not being a the newspaper. won awards for best book (by remained in Germany wait- matter what, I will be ready for a boycott of next year’s Jewish state. “I have a lot of Orthodox Itamar Moses), best direction ing for his appeal, according to play and pursue another song contest. Ynet reported “Imagine what would hap- Jewish and Muslim constitu- of a musical, best original to reports. championship with our team last week that Eurovision pen if President Abbas would ents in my district who have score (by David Yazbek), “During interrogation fol- and for Patriots fans around organizers made clear to not invest hundreds of mil- never been able to go to the best lighting design, best lowing his arrest, the young the world.” Israeli officials that if the lions of dollars each year beach before,” Deutch told orchestration and best sound man originally from Kurdis- Edelman, 32, will miss location of next year’s com- in paying terrorists and the the Post. “They’ve never been design. tan confessed to killing the the Patriots’ first four regu- petition became too much of families of terrorists who able to smell the beach, to Stachel, 26, is making German girl,” Tariq Ahmad, lar-season games. He would a political football, it would murdered innocent people,” walk in the sand. Everyone his Broadway debut in “The police chief for the Dohuk be permitted to participate in move the venue. he said, speaking of the Pal- should be able to enjoy the Band’s Visit.” The play is province of Iraqi Kurdistan, training camp practices and Last week Argentina’s na- estinian Authority leader. beach.” based on the 2007 award- told reporters, according to preseason games. tional soccer team canceled “Imagine that he invested Responses on Facebook to winning Israeli movie di- AFP. “He said that the two The Jewish Pro Bowler a friendly match in Jerusalem this in the project of peace. Deutch’s initiative ran from rected by Eran Kolirin. In of them were friends but that missed all of last season after over pressure and physical Imagine that they invested “great idea” and “Thank you. her acceptance speech, Lenk they had a dispute, and that suffering a knee injury in the threats from pro-Palestinian it in Ramallah, or for that This is amazing,” to “Since we paid tribute to the late Israeli he killed her when the girl preseason. Edelman, one groups due to its location. matter in Gaza. Imagine what are going to have now Gen- actress Ronit Elkabetz, who threatened to call the police.” of quarterback Tom Brady’s The match had been moved this would do. And I think it tile-free days on the beach, originated her role in the Police said there was no favorite targets, is entering to Jerusalem from Haifa. would change the world, and can we also have a couple of film. evidence that religion had his 10th season. Israel previously has host- the Palestinians could aspire Muslim-and-Jew-free days In his acceptance speech, been a factor in the violent He has caught as many ed the Eurovision contest to become scientists and per week also? I think it will Stachel acknowledged his crime. The Central Council as 105 passes in a sea- twice before in Jerusalem, doctors. Instead, they erect be only fair solution.” parents, who were in the of Jews in Germany in a son, played in three Super a city that most countries statues to mass murderers. Another Facebook follower audience, saying the musical statement confirmed that Bowls, starred in a series of do not recognize as Israel’s “It’s never been about a wrote: “This is not Tel Aviv led him to again embrace an Susanna was a member of the comedic videos and written capital. Palestinian state. It’s always or even close to it. and if you identity he had long avoided. Jewish community cautioned a children’s book. In April, Globes reported that the been about the Jewish state. want something like that “Both my parents are against attributing any anti- he was credited with helping total cost to Israel of hosting Recognize the Jewish state. perhaps go there?” here tonight. I have avoided Semitic motive. The Coun- to stop a potential school Eurovision will run between Stop paying terrorists. And Israel destroyed Hamas so many events with them cil wrote that “premature shooting by a Michigan teen. $41 million and $53 million. invest in peace.” terror tunnel that because for so many years conclusions or speculation Jerusalem not the only Israel is required to hand over Netanyahu also called on stretched out to sea of my life I pretended I was [about the case] are out of Israeli city to be consid- a guarantee of $14 million to Diaspora Jews from the non- JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is- not a Middle Eastern person,” the question.” ered as Eurovision host the European Broadcasting Orthodox streams to visit the rael’s military destroyed a he said. “And after 9/11 it Kosher restaurant own- JERUSALEM (JTA)—Je- Union, or EBU, in August, egalitarian prayer section of Hamas terror tunnel that was very, very difficult for er near Boston charged rusalem reportedly isn’t the according to the report. the Western Wall, which has reached several yards into me, and so I concealed and with filming customers only Israeli city in the mix Netanyahu hopes North been enlarged and upgraded, the sea, which would have I missed so many special in the bathroom to host the 2019 Eurovision Korea deal will be better though a more comprehen- allowed the group’s naval events with them. And (JTA)—The owner of a ko- song contest. than the one with Iran sive plan to ensure egalitarian commandos to launch an they’re looking at me right sher restaurant in suburban Israeli officials are set to JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is- prayer at the holy site has attack on Israel from its coast. now and I can’t believe it.” Boston has been charged present four cities as possible raeli Prime Minister Benja- been frozen by his govern- The tunnel was destroyed He also thanked producer with illegally recording his hosts for the contest after the min Netanyahu called on the ment. The freeze enraged by the Air Force on June Orin Wolf “for telling a small customers as they used the Ministry of Communications world community to support many non-Orthodox Jewish 3, when Israel carried out story about Arabs and Israe- bathroom, allegations that announced Sunday that poli- President Donald Trump’s groups in the Diaspora. several airstrikes on Gaza lis getting along at a time arose after he was charged tics would be kept out of the efforts to denuclearize both “You should visit it. We’re in retaliation for rocket and where we need that more last month in the rape of a decision. North Korea and Iran. enlarging it. We’re making mortar fire on southern than ever.” 12-year-old girl. The ministry said in a “Dangerous regimes it accessible, so anybody can Israel, the IDF said in a “Angels in America,” Prosecutors said Tze statement following a meet- should denuclearize,” Ne- pray at the Western Wall,” statement issued on Sunday, playwright Tony Kushner’s Chung, 63, who owns the pop- ing between Israel Public tanyahu said Sunday night he said. a week after the airstrikes. 1993 epic about the AIDS ular Taam China restaurant Broadcasting Corp.’s CEO, to some 2,500 participants “Anyone here is welcome. The IDF said that it has epidemic, won the award in Brookline, Massachusetts, Eldad Koblenz, and Commu- in the American Jewish Welcome. Feel free to come known about the tunnel for best revival of a play for may have recorded custom- nications Ministry Director Committee Global Forum in here. Feel free to pray,” he for several months and was the 2018 iteration starring ers up to 20 separate times General Nati Cohen that the Jerusalem. said. “When you touch the waiting for the right time Andrew Garfield. beginning as early as 2015, public broadcaster, and not The delegates to the forum, Wall, know this truth: This to destroy it. Hamas divers Lindsay Mendez won for The Boston Globe reported. the government of Israel, will being held for the first time is your home. And this will would have been able to dis- best performance by an On Friday, Chung pleaded conduct negotiations with outside of the United States, always be the home of every cretely enter Israel in a short actress in a featured role in not guilty in Brookline Dis- officials from the Eurovision came from 26 countries. Jew.” amount of time by using the a Musical for the revival of trict Court to 15 counts of song contest. Netanyahu noted the up- Chancellor Sebastian Kurz tunnel, according to the IDF. “Carousel.” Mendez, whose illegal recording. He was During the meeting, “it coming meeting between of Austria was scheduled “The IDF will not allow father is Mexican American released on $7,500 bail and was agreed that all the mat- Trump and North Korean to deliver a major address any threat to the security of and who identifies herself must wear an electronic ters relating to the produc- President Kim Jong-un, ac- to the AJC forum on Mon- the State of Israel and will as “a Mexican-Jewish girl,” monitoring bracelet. tion of content and the other cording to a readout of part day evening. continue to act with deter- said she had been advised Chung, who has run the issues of production will of the speech issued by the New York City council- mination against terror of all to change her surname to restaurant for 20 years, is ac- include the contacts with Prime Minister’s Office. man to provide day of kinds. The IDF is determined downplay her ethnicity when cused of primarily recording the European Broadcasting The Israeli leader used the gender-segregated beach to continue performing its she first moved to New York, a waitress at the restaurant Union, with the emphasis occasion to again ridicule for Jewish and Muslim task of defending the citizens but was glad she refused. whom he used to see ro- that there will be no govern- the Iran nuclear agreement constituents of the State of Israel and its Iraqi man extradited to mantically, according to The ment political involvement in reached in 2015. Israel ob- (JTA)—A New York City sovereignty,” it said in a state- Germany after admit- Boston Globe. She did not these matters,” said a state- jected to the deal led by the councilman is renting a city ment posted on social media. ting to rape and murder know she was being recorded. ment from the ministry. United States and signed as beach on Coney Island in or- Hamas has been increas- of Jewish teen Chung has been ordered to A delegation from Israel’s well by China, France, Rus- der to host gender-segregated ing its naval prowess and (JTA)—An Iraqi man was stay 100 yards away from her public broadcaster is sched- sia, the United Kingdom and swim days for his Jewish and power for some time, a senior extradited to Germany after and from the restaurant. uled to travel to Geneva, Germany. Muslim constituents. Navy official said in a state- admitting to raping and Last month, Chung was ac- Switzerland, to meet with “I think the entire world, as Brooklyn Democrat Chaim ment. PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 15, 2018 Banned from marrying interfaith couples, Conservative rabbis are finding other ways to celebrate them By Josefin Dolsten congregation in Scarsdale, As a result, some are try- New York. ing to find creative ways to NEW YORK (JTA)—Emily The Conservative move- honor and welcome couples, Schorr Lesnick and Jamila ment bans its rabbis from per- who might otherwise steer Humphrie always knew that forming interfaith marriages, clear of their synagogues and Judaism would play a part in so Rabbi Adam Baldachin sug- perhaps find spiritual homes the life they wanted to build gested performing an aufruf elsewhere. together. But experiences with for the couple, a ceremony “The Conservative move- Conservative Jewish institu- usually done ahead of a Jewish ment in some ways has tions had made the couple wedding in which the couple created a barrier for many feel less than welcome. is called up to the Torah for rabbis with the policies that Schorr Lesnick, 28, re- a blessing. Baldachin and his are constantly reinforced members encountering ho- synagogue’s ritual committee and talked about,” said Rabbi mophobia at her Jewish had recently decided to offer Jesse Olitzky of Congregation Conservative summer camp. aufruf ceremonies to inter- Beth El in South Orange, New Humphrie, 29, who was raised faith couples as an alternative Jersey. “Families are making Christian but does not identify way to celebrate their unions. the assumption that because with a religion, felt singled out Schorr Lesnick and of said policies there is no as a non-Jewish and biracial Humphrie say that planning place to ritually welcome an person when she accompanied the aufruf, which will take interfaith couple or an inter- Schorr Lesnick to synagogue. place in June, has made them faith family.” The experiences “made us more open to exploring Jewish In October, the movement feel very unwelcomed and very rituals and religious practices. doubled down on its intermar- Jamila Humphries (l) and Emily Schorr Lesnick are an interfaith couple that is taking uninterested in participating “I do think that it turned riage ban, after a number of part in an aufruf ceremony in a Conservative synagogue. in anything in Conservative on a light switch that ‘it’s rabbis performed or said they Jewish spaces, specifically,” not all the same, and we can would perform marriages probably marry a Jew, but if still value your relationship, after a portion is read from Humphrie told JTA. make our own spaces, we can between a Jew and a non- you don’t marry a Jew I don’t we still value your lives, we the Torah. Rabbi Baldachin The two women, who live in make a choice about this,’” Jew. Marrying a non-Jewish want you to think that you want to support you in your and the synagogue’s cantor, Harlem, got married in a civil Humphrie said. partner is common among don’t belong here,’” he said. journeys and your lives.’ Gerald Cohen, will recite a ceremony on New Years Eve The Conservative move- non-Orthodox Jews: A 2013 Rabbi Dahlia Bernstein “I don’t think there’s a blessing for the couple in in 2016. At the time they did ment has long urged outreach study by the Pew Research at Congregation Beth Or in reason to say ‘tsk-tsk’ and not Hebrew and English. not consider having a religious to interfaith families, on the Center’s 2013 study of Ameri- Bellmore, New York, said that have the Jewish spouse have a It will be Baldachin’s first ceremony. theory that a welcoming can Jewry found that more many interfaith couples think celebratory aufruf before the time performing an aufruf for But at the insistence of atmosphere will encourage than 70 percent have done so they are not welcome in her wedding,” he added. an interfaith couple. Schorr Lesnick’s father, they them to engage with Jewish since 2000. While the Reform community. In 2017, the umbrella body “This just seemed an easy agreed last year to meet with life and raise their children movement allows its rabbis to “A lot of people assume that for Conservative synagogues way for me to be in relation- the rabbi of her family’s with a Jewish identity. But perform intermarriages, the just because you’re a Conser- approved a resolution to al- ship with interfaith families longtime synagogue, Shaa- many rabbis say the intermar- Conservative movement, like vative congregation you will low individual congregations without the ability to perform rei Tikvah, a Conservative riage ban presents a hurdle. the Orthodox, prohibits them. not be welcoming of interfaith to decide whether to grant their wedding,” Baldachin Olitzky has performed au- families, and my synagogue membership to non-Jews. said. fruf ceremonies for a handful is not like that, it is radically Some Conservative Jews have Prior to allowing aufrufs of interfaith couples. welcoming,” she said. qualms about allowing non- for interfaith couples, Shaarei “My job and my goal is to Though the issue of inter- Jews to participate in certain Tikvah’s ritual committee make sure that all members of faith aufruf has not come up Jewish rituals. spent time studying the is- the Jewish home feel a part of in her community, Bernstein Glen Rock Jewish Center sue. The synagogue already every life cycle event,” he said. said she is happy to offer her in Glen Rock, New Jersey, allowed non-Jewish partners Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman “I think the aufruf is a good congratulations to interfaith allows non-Jewish partners to participate in other ways does most anything example of how we can do couples on their marriage. to accompany their spouses in the service, such as being that in welcoming the couple’s “I generally personally on the bimah, or ritual stage, invited on the bimah during Ricardo Torres — Handyman commitment to building that reach out and say mazal tov, for an aliyah honor on their their child’s bar or bat mitzvah home.” and check in with them, and child’s bar or bat mitzvah, par- ceremony and opening the 407-221-5482 Rabbi Steven Abraham of give them space to talk and ticipate when a child is given Torah ark. Before allowing an Available in Central Florida Area • References Available Beth El Synagogue in Omaha, kvell if they want to and lis- his or her first prayer shawl, interfaith couple to take part Nebraska, observes but does ten,” Bernstein said. “I think and read certain prayers in in an aufruf, Baldachin will not support his movement’s that a lot of Jewish communi- English. Still, some members ask how they plan to maintain 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 T O D A Y Y I D S A L E S ban on intermarriage. ties try to use shame as a way remain skeptical about non- a Jewish home. 14 15 16 “The irony of the aufruf for of ‘maybe if we are secretive Jews’ ritual participation, said For Baldachin the differ- A R A V A U R E A M O A T an interfaith couple is that about it then no one will know, Rabbi Jennifer Schlosberg. ence between marriage and 17 18 19 L E W I S B L A C K A U R A most likely, unless the rabbi and it’s not going to promote “There are community an aufruf comes down to 20 21 22 made some decision on his or intermarriage,’ and it’s not members for one reason or Jewish law. A H A R E S T I N G her own, they’re not going to the right approach.” another who feel uncomfort- The blessing “for an aufruf 23 24 25 26 27 28 B A L T I M O R E H E S S E be performing the wedding,” Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky able with their involvement, in general is not a ritual that 29 30 31 he said. “So this is as close as of Ansche Chesed in New even if it is permissible. One changes anyone’s status,” he L A U E R A Y E R U B you’re going to get to a public York City supports the Con- of the challenges for me is said. By contrast, a ritual that 32 33 34 35 36 A R I D S H E D E R M A L ritual where you’re pronounc- servative movement’s ban on trying to educate the other changes a couple’s status from 37 38 39 40 ing fact that they’re going to intermarriage, but says he is community members to help single to married is seen as C O S L O U R E E D A V E be married.” open to performing an aufruf them become more comfort- binding. 41 42 43 44 K N E A D S S M S A Y I N In performing an aufruf for for an interfaith couple. able with these things while For Schorr Lesnick being 45 46 47 an interfaith couple, Abraham “We want to say that it’s also recognizing their own able to celebrate her marriage R I O M O E A B E N D wants to send the message to possible to have a welcoming voice,” Schlosberg said. in her childhood synagogue 48 49 50 51 S C A R P A N T I V I R U S others that interfaith mar- face to community and still During their aufruf at holds a large significance. 52 53 54 riage “isn’t a capital crime.” have in-marriage norm,” he Shaarei Tikvah in Scarsdale, “It’s exciting to think about P R I V A C Y N I L “I would be able to very easily said. “We want to say it’s pos- Humphrie and Schorr Lesn- being able to have an oppor- 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 R E N E L O U I S V I L L E tell that young person who’s sible to say to intermarried ick will go up together to the tunity where we can imagine 62 63 64 sitting in the service, ‘Listen, couple and the children of bimah. Schorr Lesnick will what Jewishness could mean A D E N U R N S A T E A M I would much prefer that you that intermarried couple, ‘we recite the blessings before and for us,” she said. 65 66 67 T O R T E S A U S Y N C S Ugandan rabbi: ‘We... need to be treated like any other Jewish community’ By Josefin Dolsten

(JTA)—A Ugandan rabbi called on Israel to recognize his community after the government ruled against allowing members to move to the Jewish state. Rabbi Gershom Sizomu confirmed a report in Haaretz last week that the Israeli Interior Ministry had denied a community member’s im- migration application. The Interior Ministry, according

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Hamas has proved operation, said the kibbutz “Look at this field,” he the most important thing I do said the new homes have been Standing in the commu- that they have no humanity; has sustained dozens of kite told TPS while surveying the every morning is to raise the completely taken by young nity’s garage, just 500 meters not just toward human beings, attacks over the past month, damage from the latest at- Israeli flag onto the tractors. I families seeking membership from the wheat field, there but also toward animals and in addition to rocket and tack. “They burned about 50 want the Palestinians to know in the kibbutz, meaning they was no indication of an attack natural resources,” reported mortar attacks that have dunams—that’s about NIS and understand that we aren’t see a long-term future here. until Liberman looked over the Jerusalem Post. set fire to the kibbutz wheat 25,000 shekels in economic going anywhere.” Still, kite terror is unlike the road and saw a plume of To date, 265 fires have been fields in recent years. He said losses. But that can be made Despite the threat posed the challenge that border black smoke rising. When we observed since the arson kite the attacks have cost the kib- up with one shipment of wheat by burning kites, the com- communities have faced arrived less than five minutes phenomenon was introduced butz more than NIS 1 million from Europe or the United munity’s steadfast commit- from cross-border missiles later, the field was half-burned. by Gaza rioters, burning close in economic damages, but States. ment to developing the area since the year 2000, for the Ten minutes later the thriving to 700 acres of JNF forests. added that the challenge here “The far more serious is- cannot be shaken, with Nir simple fact that it appears to wheat crop had turned to ash. Bias From page 3A “I’ll often see parts of my Following the Gaza clashes, reporting weaponized by dif- reporters asked why thou- conspiratorial bias where ferent sides, taken out of con- sands of mostly unarmed none may exist.” He added text, or parts of a story will be people had been hit by live that a “laser-like focus on quoted to support a narrative fire and if it was necessary individual headlines or even or to make an accusation of or disproportionate. At times stories misses the sweep and bias,” this correspondent said. the IDF provided reporters breadth of a news organiza- “I can’t help that, but I really with detailed breakdowns tion’s ongoing coverage of try to keep the white noise in of casualties, listing their people, places and events,” the background. affiliations and the actions which taken together give a “It’s not about my opinion. that led to their deaths, but more accurate picture of an I see my role as trying to other times reporters were outlet’s approach. gather as many reports and brushed off. “Such groups don’t really facts and people’s sentiments However, the foreign cor- understand how news orga- and present them, and I think respondent said, he and nizations work,” Abbey said. my audience is smart enough many of his colleagues also “Media operations are more to read it and draw their own were careful to cover Israel’s haphazard, sloppy and impro- conclusions.” security concerns. visatory than self-proclaimed While Hamas did want “You talk to all sides who watchdogs understand or journalists to tell the story of a have an interest and who are believe.” tragic clash between peaceful involved,” he said. “Of course, Baden agreed, noting that protesters and trigger-happy I would talk to an Israeli and there is a “perceptual bias” in soldiers, the reality on the also talk to a Palestinian about Spencer Platt/Getty Images how we read the news. Dubbed ground was more complicated a conflict between Israelis Palestinians protest at the border fence with Israel in Gaza City, May 14, 2018. the “hostile media phenom- than that simple narrative, and Palestinians, which is enon” by researchers, this bias the correspondent said, not- elementary.” to respond, when Defense scrutiny, especially by those do so—with success, I believe. manifests itself in how news ing that participants had One flashpoint in the Minister Avigdor Liber- posting on social platforms I follow all the rules I learned consumers view reportage of a range of motivations for media war was the death man told reporters that such as Twitter. at Columbia Journalism divergent viewpoints. Baden joining the protests. of Gazan photojournalist Murtaja, who sold photos One correspondent, an School. I make sure to include explained that people tend “The situation is always Yaser Murtaja, who was to numerous international American based in Lebanon a variety of perspectives in my to equate reporting of their more complicated... and that’s shot while wearing a flak outlets, was also a member who likewise asked to remain stories and present them as opponents’ positions with an the value of having someone jacket marked “press” while of Hamas who was using his anonymous, was pilloried by objectively as possible,” this endorsement of those positions. on the ground,” he said. “I’d photographing the clashes. media business as cover to Israelis after a series of tweets correspondent said. “But the One foreign correspondent like people to know that jour- The Foreign Press Associa- obtain drone footage of IDF expressing her displeasure Israeli-Palestinian conflict is who covered the clashes from nalists in Gaza are working tion, which represents the positions. The Washington with the death toll in Gaza. not my beat, therefore I felt the Gaza side of the fence and their asses off. It doesn’t just international media in Post, meanwhile, said that These posts, she told JTA, comfortable tweeting per- asked to remain anonymous come to you. It takes many Israel, immediately issued Murtaja had recently been were held up as an example sonal opinions on the events agreed, telling JTA that he hours and interviews and a statement urging the IDF vetted and approved for a of a more generalized media in Gaza knowing they would thought that many people double checking. I’m always to “show restraint in areas U.S. government grant. bias, which she found ironic not color my coverage.” follow news coverage in search thinking ‘how can I explain where journalists are oper- According to Baden, the given that she is also regularly Meanwhile, the debate over of reinforcement of their about this with all its complex- ating and to conduct a fast fight over media coverage dubbed a “a Mossad spy and an the infant Layla Ghandour preconceived viewpoints. His ity to people who just want to and open investigation into isn’t new, but the participa- Israeli stooge almost daily” for goes on. Last week, Gaza’s role, as he sees it, is to do his know and aren’t just trying this incident.” It warned its tion of the broader public her coverage of the Lebanese Hamas-run Health Ministry “best to be a witness on the to seek confirmation of their members to exercise cau- in what was once an elite militia Hezbollah. said she had been taken off a ground, to explain what I see, own opinions?’ I’ve been very tion. Palestinians claimed discourse certainly is. One of “I firmly believe that good list of Palestinians killed in the to explain what I don’t see, to impressed with my colleagues’ that the photographer had the consequences of this shift journalists should be able to Gaza border clashes, saying try to present the different coverage. You can find a lot of been intentionally targeted. is that the views of journalists put aside their opinions when they are awaiting results of a perspectives.” important nuance.” Israel took several days have come under increasing they work, and I try my best to pathologist’s report. Uganda From page 14A Israel’s Law of Return gives that is who we are, and we will the Law of Return, seemingly tablished Jewish community thing was done in accordance anyone who has at least one never change that, whether opening a path for its mem- that deserves to be recognized with Jewish law, or halachah. to Sizomu, said the decision Jewish grandparent, is mar- they recognize us or not.” bers to immigrate to Israel. by Israel,” Sizomu said. Schonfeld said that the represented its stance on the ried to a Jew or has converted The Ugandan commu- However, the Abayudaya have On Friday, Rabbi Julie movement and its allies were Ugandan Jewish community, to Judaism the right to move nity, also called the ‪Abayu- struggled to obtain govern- Schonfeld, who leads the Con- planning “to use all means at not just the applicant, Kibita there. Yosef, who is staying at daya, traces its roots to the ment recognition to do so. In servative movement’s Rab- our disposal to see that this is Yosef. a kibbutz in southern Israel, is early 20th century, when a December, Israel denied a visa binical Assembly, called the reversed.” Sizomu, who leads the the first Ugandan Jew to try to former leader read the Bible application by another mem- Israeli decision “unlawful.” Sizomu said that despite the community of approximately immigrate to Israel, according and embraced Judaism. Most ber of the community to study “This is completely incon- latest decision, he remained 2,000, urged Israel to give to Sizomu. members were converted at a yeshiva in Israel, leading sistent with more than two hopeful about his community Ugandan Jews the same rights Sizomu emphasized that under the auspices of U.S. to accusations of racism. decades of Israeli practice of gaining status in Israel. In Au- afforded to Jews worldwide. his community was not look- Conservative rabbis in the Today the community, Conservative converts—who gust, 40 young Ugandan Jews “We as a Jewish community ing to immigrate to Israel early 2000s and thus are not which is based in the rural are by the way halachically will travel to the Jewish state on need to be treated like any en masse and that the deci- recognized as Jewish by Is- town of Mbale, has sev- converted to Judaism under a trip organized by Birthright, other Jewish community in sion would not change their rael’s mostly haredi Orthodox en synagogues—including our auspices—who had been an organization that provides the Diaspora,” he told JTA practices. Chief Rabbinate. a 7,000-square-foot center recognized as Jewish for free trips to Israel to young from Kampala, where he “We are not Jewish for In 2016, the Jewish Agency that opened in 2016—a mik- the purposes of the Law of Jews around the world. It is the serves as a member of the purposes of immigration,” he for Israel recognized the com- vah and two Jewish schools. Return,” she told JTA, using first time that Ugandan Jews Ugandan parliament. said. “We are Jewish because munity for the purposes of “We feel like we have an es- a phrase meaning that some- will participate in such a trip. PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 15, 2018 As night falls, Jerusalem’s old-school Jewish market transforms into a hipster hangout

Ben Sales Ben Sales A dried fruit and nut seller giving change to a customer in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda Beer Bazaar, a craft beer shop in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market, aims to combine market, May 7, 2018. the variety of a bazaar with the atmosphere of a chic pub.

By Ben Sales ket. By day, it’s a traditional rather than tarps spread on pressed juice and smooth- have remained have con- a produce merchant. “It’s Middle Eastern bazaar that the ground, and many have ies—advertising an acai tributed to the market’s new becoming an entertainment JERUSALEM (JTA)—In serves the residents of Israel’s hung signs above their shops. bowl in English and Hebrew. feel. Many of their gates are zone. People don’t come to another life, Kobi Frig would capital city. But by night, it But it’s still far less formal Nearby was Fishenchips, one painted with graffiti portraits buy. They come to hang out, have been sitting behind vats is increasingly becoming a than a grocery store. Sell- of the shuk’s first small sit- of Jewish historical figures, to travel.” of spices in Jerusalem’s bus- tourist attraction filled with ers will sit on stools at the down places geared toward so when the stores close, the Some new stores have tried tling, labyrinthine Mahane cafes, bars and sit-down res- front of their stores, hawking twenty-somethings. Farther market becomes a public art to bridge the gap between old Yehuda market, hawking taurants. The change, which tomatoes, halva or chicken along was a gelato shop, and exhibit. market and new. The front of paprika, zaatar and cinna- began about a decade ago, is in loud, hoarse, competing there were bars around the Baristas and waiters at the Beer Bazaar, which opened mon like his grandfather and thrusting Mahane Yehuda’s voices. Regulars from all corner. Young people sat market’s newer shops say in 2015, could almost pass as father did before him older merchants into a new walks of Jewish Jerusalem chatting over meals and beer they love their workplace and a Middle Eastern market for Instead, Frig obeyed his fa- era. life conduct business on a at elevated tables. its fusion of old and new. At Israeli craft beer. It’s narrow ther’s wishes, went to college, “It’s changed from end to first-name basis—and pay in “It’s an amazing atmo- Roasters, a third-wave cafe, and crowded, advertising a and started a chain of events end,” said Yosi Avrahami, who cash. The food is kosher—and sphere—good people, al- Esther Bromberg said she wide range of Israeli brewer- that transformed the market has sold nuts in the market for the entire market shuts down ways smiling, a fantastic loves hearing neighboring ies and selling varieties that and led to the closure of his more than 40 years. “You used for Shabbat before sundown atmosphere, bro,” said Dima merchants yell their cappuc- can be hard to find elsewhere. family’s shop. He became a to see stores with vegetables on Fridays. Kasachuck, 20, who worked cino orders to her—while she But the back looks like a community activist, orga- and food—tons of vegetable On a recent weekday eve- behind the counter at a Mexi- feels free to store milk in their comfortable pub, where pa- nizing art and music fairs stores... I think that will be ning, the shuk’s central can restaurant and sported refrigerators. trons can order dinner along in the market that opened it disappointing, if it will all avenue looked like it has for bleached hair, ear gauges “What I like the most about with their drink. One sand- up to a young clientele and become beer.” decades. Shoppers lugged and a long-sleeve t-shirt the shuk is the combination of wich on the menu is named brought in a wave of cafes Covering a network of collapsible carts from stand emblazoned with a skull. “I the old-school Middle Eastern after filmmaker Quentin Tar- and restaurants. Last year, a dozen streets in central to stand, doling out money worked in lots of other res- vibes and the hipster up-and- antino, in honor of the time when Frig’s father retired, Jerusalem, the shuk is a and accumulating plastic bags taurants, but it was a lower- coming young vibes that we he ate there with his Israeli he shuttered the spice shop crowded pedestrian mall with of fresh food. Counters piled key atmosphere there. There have going together,” said fiancee, Daniella Pick. and leased the space to a bar. hundreds of shops. Since the with olives, challahs, dried were more serious people, Bromberg, 24, an Australian Yarden Rivlin, who works at “The third generation market began operating in the apricots and rice seasonings less fun, less chilling, fewer expat. “We’re best friends. Beer Bazaar, pointed out that didn’t see itself selling late nineteenth century under beckoned locals and tourists jokes, just serious work, and We make them coffee—obvi- the bars and restaurants tend nuts and wanted to make a Ottoman rule, most of those alike—though a branch of it’s not fun.” ously, it’s all free—because to keep different hours than change,” said Frig, 42, an shops have sold staple foods Israel’s largest coffee chain, The transformation began we’re all just neighbors and the food stands, so there is event producer. “There’s no like produce, baked goods, Aroma, has also taken up in 2006, when Frig persuaded friends.” not too much conflict. He question something changed. meat, fish, spices, dried fruit, shop there. merchants to remain open But some of Bromberg’s feels the shuk has retained Whether it’s for the best is a nuts and household items. In the center of the street, late one night for a party on neighbors feel differently. The its character—even if the of- matter of perspective. You Other stores sell inexpensive a young girl in a pink fleece the Jewish holiday of Purim. market’s older occupants do ferings have changed. have good relationships clothing, Judaica, sweets or played the recorder in front of It ended up drawing 4,000 not all appreciate the new “In the shuk, everyone between the stores and the souvenirs. It has been the a donation basket. Off to the people. In subsequent years, atmosphere and clientele, needs to be friends with ev- restaurants. The food busi- target of at least seven ter- side, a emissary of the Chabad he put on a series of art, who sometimes come along eryone,” said Rivlin, 25. “Ev- nesses buy [ingredients] rorist attacks since 1968. It Hasidic outreach movement music and culinary festivals with loud music, drunken- eryone brings a different kind from their neighbors, so the invariably opened for business checked his phone while in the shuk that exhibited ness and loud conversation. of personality. During the day, market is maintaining itself.” the next day, if not the same manning a table with a pair its potential as a communal Worse, they said, tourists are the stores are open and there The story of Frig’s fam- afternoon. of unraveled tefillin. space for the city’s youth. there to stroll, gawk and take are fruits and vegetables and ily shop has been happen- It has undergone a few But a side street looked like Restaurateurs soon began selfies—not to actually buy nuts and sweets, and at night ing across Mahane Yehuda, renovations since its found- it came straight out of the renting out storefronts and the food they’re selling. we open up the tables and the known to locals simply as ing: Merchants now sell their city’s Zagat guide. A stand replacing traditional sellers. “It used to be good, now atmosphere changes. It’s a the shuk, Hebrew for mar- food from physical stalls, near the entrance sold fresh- Even the merchants that it’s not,” said Chai Noach, shuk—just a little different.” Frozen Limonana: The Israeli slushie your summer needs By Chaya Rappoport followed suit, reimagining the drink in iced, slushed and Directions: alcoholic variations. It’s been a nationwide hit ever since. 1. Combine water, sugar (The Nosher via JTA)—Limonana is a classic Israeli The ubiquitous drink is peddled by vendors on nearly and half of the mint leaves drink that combines freshly squeezed lemon juice and every street in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, but those of you in a small saucepan. Bring mint leaves for a unique Israeli-style lemonade treat that’s across the ocean can make this simple, invigorating ver- to a boil, stirring until beloved throughout the country. sion at home. Creating a simple syrup with the sugar and sugar dissolves. Simmer for Limonana is a combination of the Hebrew and Arabic water, which turns the sugar liquid, means it’s much easier 1 minute. words “limon” and “nana,” which mean lemon and mint, to blend into a cold drink, and steeping mint in the simple 2. Remove from heat and respectively. While the drink may have originated elsewhere syrup infuses the drink with an extra layer of flavor. let syrup steep, about 30 in the Middle East, it’s an Israeli advertising agency that It’s delicious as is, but you can make it alcoholic (look minutes. Discard the mint provided the catchy portmanteau of a name in the 1990s. below for my margarita inspired variation) for a fun, adult leaves and refrigerate the In an attempt to get public bus advertising off the ground twist on the classic. syrup to let it cool. in Israel, the agency advertised a new soft drink called Or if you’re feeling really adventurous, substitute Arak, 3. Combine the mint Limonana in sprawling ads across the sides of buses and an anise-flavored spirit that’s popular in Israel, for the simple syrup, the rest of reported that local athletes and celebrities couldn’t get tequila and see where it takes you. the fresh mint leaves and enough of it. With or without alcohol, you’re going to want to make the fresh lemon juice in a Although the drink was advertised on buses only, the ad these icy, cooling, sweet and tart slushies all summer long. blender. Blend at high speed campaign was a huge success. Customers begged for the Ingredients: until well mixed. drink and stores pleaded to carry it until the advertising 3/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice, from around 3 lemons 4. Add the ice and blend agency was forced to admit the truth: no such drink existed. 1/2 cup loosely packed mint until the ice is thoroughly Undeterred, soft drink companies began to manufacture 6 tablespoons sugar crushed. Pour into glasses the flavor-- the drink that had existed only as a market- 1 cup water and serve immediately. ing ploy was now a reality. Restaurants and cafés quickly 4 cups ice cubes Serves 2.