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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 42, NO. 31 MARCH 6, 2018 21 NISAN, 5778 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Sam Friedman as Hillel director tral Florida Hillel, Sam will be well positioned to support the development of Stetson’s aspirations to be among the highest quality Hillel pro- grams in the country.” The Hillel director is re- sponsible for ensuring the strategy and execution of engagement and program development, and helping the Office of Spiritual Life in creating meaningful and diverse opportunities for Jewish expression, cultivating student leaders and consis- tently promoting a welcoming and lively pluralistic Jewish Sam Friedman community. “I am honored to have been DELAND—Sam Friedman selected for this position and has been selected to be Stetson excited to start working at University’s first Hillel direc- Stetson,” said Friedman. tor. In this position, Friedman “I look forward to working will help shape Hillel as the with Stetson students, staff center of Jewish student life and faculty to nurture and Annual Yom HaShoah commemoration at CRJ this Sunday on campus and engage stu- build Jewish engagement and The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center in Maitland invites the community to its annual com- dents in Jewish life, learning community on campus, and to memoration of Yom HaShoah, A Day of Remembrance on April 8, at 2 p.m. at the Congregation of Reform Judaism. and Israel. turn Stetson into the premier The event commemorates the millions of Jews who suffered during the Holocaust and honors the liberators who “We are thrilled to have private school for Jewish life fought to defeat Nazi Germany. Sam join us at Stetson Uni- in the south. Each year, the Holocaust Center hosts Yom HaShoah, A Day of Remembrance, to remember the six million Jews versity,” said Joel Bauman, Prior to coming to Stetson, who perished during the Holocaust. On this special day, we stand with our local survivors and remember the families vice president of Enrollment Friedman worked as director they lost. We also honor the brave liberators whose heroism continues to inspire us today. Management and Interim of Community Relations and This year’s program will feature a moving performance of songs that were once performed by the Women’s Hillel adviser. “He is a na- then as assistant director Orchestra at Auschwitz. Performed by renowned violinist Matitiahu Braun, these songs remind us of our duty to tionally recognized leader at for Central Florida Hillel. In carry the lessons from this tragic history forward. Other program highlights include a survivor-led candle lighting, Hillel International and in the that position he oversaw all responsive reading, and presentation of awards for the Creative Arts Contest. wider Jewish community in marketing and branding for This family-friendly event is free and open to the public. Florida. Having helped grow CRJ is located at 928 Malone Drive, Orlando. For more information, contact Terrance Hunter at thunter@holo- the national stature of Cen- Friedman on page 14A caustedu.org. Trump honors Remembering Rabbi Menachem Lubavitcher Rebbe Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994) (JNS)—The White House courage in the face of op- published a proclamation by pression. He recognized that JNS is proud to partner Jewish leaders of the 20th Judaism for stubbornly con- U.S. President Donald Trump access to education, paired with the Embassy of Israel century. tinuing to praise Israel and honoring the memory of the with moral and spiritual de- in Washington, D.C., to cel- A talented and charismatic its military, and pray for its Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi velopment, could transform ebrate 70 of the greatest scholar, he was known across continued success. Many Menachem M. Schneerson, the world for good, and he American contributors to the world as simply “The major rabbinic figures of the stating that March 27 is rec- devoted his life to these prin- the U.S.-Israel relationship Rebbe.” As the seventh Rebbe haredi establishment tended ognized as “Education and ciples,” it said. in the 70 days leading up of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect to negatively view any aspect Sharing Day, U.S.A.” “His commitment to invest to the State of Israel’s 70th of Chassidism, he exponen- of Israel connected to its An event was scheduled on in the lives of the next genera- anniversary. tially increased the move- mostly secular government March 27 in the Oval office tion led to the establishment (JNS)—Rabbi Menachem ment’s influence and size. In (more so in the early years with Chabad-Lubavitch rep- of academic and outreach Mendel Schneerson was with- an unprecedented flurry of than today). In response, the resentatives. The date marks centers to help grow and out question a great Jewish Jewish outreach campaigns, Rebbe occasionally suggested the Jewish calendar birthday engage young minds and pro- figure, and one of the greatest he sent emissaries around the that God acts through the of the Rebbe on 11 Nissan, vide them with spiritual and world, establishing thousands courageous soldiers of the which fell on Tuesday. material assistance. Thanks of Chabad centers in cities, Israel Defense Forces, as in Israeli Prime Minister Ben- to his drive and dedication, remote locales and on col- the case of the 1967 Six-Day jamin Netanyahu also marked these educational and social lege campuses that continue War and “Operation Entebbe” the day, posting on Facebook a service centers can be found to serve the spiritual and in July 1976. link to a Hebrew article (Eng- in every state and throughout physical needs of Jews of all Rabbi Menachem Mendel Through his steadfast lead- lish version here) describing the world.” backgrounds. Schneerson, “The Rebbe” ership, the Rebbe steered the his relationship and interac- It continued: “The Even in an era before the In- Chabad movement into em- tions with the Rebbe. Lubavitcher Rebbe believed ternet, the Rebbe had a global were captured on camera and bracing a pro-Israel attitude, “Today, we honor the life that even in the darkest reach, with followers all over can today be viewed online. writing to David Ben-Gurion and legacy of Rabbi Men- place, ‘the light of a single the world. In addition to guid- For example, in one record- “that Eretz Israel in all as- achem Mendel Schneerson. candle can be seen far and ing his own immediate flock ing from 1988, Benjamin pects, both present and future, The Lubavitcher Rebbe was a wide.’ His life is an example of Lubavitcher Chassidim, he Netanyahu approaches the should constitute a factor widely respected scholar and of the power of one person to expressed great concerns for Rebbe for a blessing, and the uniting Jews everywhere, both leader of faith who believed influence the lives of many. the status of global Jewry. As Rebbe offers him a fascinat- Orthodox and non-Orthodox in the potential of all persons May we strive to be that such, he took a special interest ing combination of religious of all trends.” and sought to empower young light for future generations, in the success and welfare of guidance, along with practical Not surprisingly, many of people through education, instilling in them the value of the State of Israel. Given his political opinions and insight. his emissaries are among the character development and education and the virtues of myriad of lectures and writ- Similarly, when Ariel Sharon most fervent supporters of Is- civic pride,” said Trump’s courage and compassion that ings about Israel, many are was considering retiring from rael in their communities. The statement released by the can impact our communities surprised to discover that the the military, he consulted Rebbe continues to serve as a White House. and the world for the better.” Rebbe never personally visited with the Rebbe, who con- light of inspiration for Jews “Throughout his long and the country. Nevertheless, vinced him to remain as one around the world, with his distinguished life, Rabbi Israeli leaders of all stripes of Israel’s top generals. heartfelt dedication to Israel Schneerson inspired millions continually sought out his Rabbi Schneerson often remembered and cherished of people, across multiple gen- advice and blessing. faced disdain and derision by all who encounter his erations, through his example Many of these moments from “mainstream” haredi teachings. of compassion, wisdom and PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 6, 2018 Last call for tickets to the Citrus Club’s Toast of The Jewish Pavilion tendees to this exciting happy given to The Jewish Pavilion. start at $10 for Club members, this fun evening, visit https:// residents since 2001. You hour have the opportunity to A big credit for last year’s $15 for non-members and jpav.ticketspice.com/2018- can personally make a differ- enjoy fabulous food, beautiful success belongs to Jewish Pa- $20 at the door. The price of cocktails-for-a-cause. ence. Become a fan at Face- sunset views and enhanced vilion board member Carina admission provides attendees The Jewish Pavilion has book.com/jewishpavilion. networking opportunities, all Gerscovich. While serving as with food and one drink. To been bringing community to Make a donation or learn more while learning more about the both a volunteer last year with purchase your tickets for the doorsteps of elder-care by visiting JewishPavilion.org. important community work of The Jewish Pavilion and also The Jewish Pavilion. a member of the Club’s Lead- This is the second year in ership Alliance, Gerscovich a row the Club is hosting The worked with both groups to COS Youth Players present Jewish Pavilion. Typically, facilitate the inaugural event. a nonprofit is not invited to Because last year’s event was return in back-to-back years. so successful, The Jewish ‘Feathers in the Wind’ Carina Gerscovich But because last year’s event Pavilion will be honoring Ger- resulted in the highest at- scovich at the organization’s and poor decisions they finally Come join members of the tendance “United For a Pur- 2018 Elayne Burke Wershil realize what they need to do. Citrus Club as they honor The pose” event of the year (200 Fashion Show. The performance promises to Jewish Pavilion at the April 16 compared to the next closest The Citrus Club is located leave the audience laughing “United For a Purpose” event. attendance of 110), the Club at 255 South Orange Ave., and smiling. Hosted by the Club’s Leadership extended a repeat invitation. Suite 1800; and the event will The cast includes COS Alliance and held in the Club’s 100 percent of proceeds from be held Monday, April 16 from 4th-12th graders, in no par- scenic downtown location, at- the evening’s event will be 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Ticket prices ticular order: Jacob Slavkin, Jonah Podberesky, Mason Gold, Liam McNarny, Tobias Krause, Stephanie Krause, Enhancing membership Jared Weiss, Mitchell Spec- tor, Zachary Asarnow, Han- nah Schenkel, Sara Schen- at Temple Israel kel, Hannah Bloom, Sadie Waldbaum, Arden Wallman, Temple Israel, a progres- was made possible thanks to liturgy and a strong ability to Zoe Myers-Bochner, Emma sive Conservative synagogue, a collaboration with Temple connect with a congregation Gotlib, Marni Stein, Melissa prides itself on its lay leader- Shir Shalom and the Jew- are welcome to apply. We are Geller, Abigail Siegel, Sarah ship during services and Torah ish Federation of Greater looking for someone with a Gross, July Crawford, Abi Ko- readings. This egalitarian Orlando. This experience pleasing voice who will encour- lin, Dena Kolin, Livia Smith. model ensures that congre- whetted the members’ ap- age congregational participa- Addison Siegel, Lisi Zimmon gants will experience services petite for more singing and tion and enhance the tefillah and Maya Silver. led by people who are just like engagement. Creating that of the community rather Cantor Allan Robuck is the them on most occasions. This engagement with the congre- than perform for it. He/she musical director and Amy Ge- has proven very popular and gation is a unique skill and needs be conversant in both boff is the director/producer. a powerful spiritual model Temple Israel is looking for a traditional and contempo- Show times are Sun- which is becoming more unique person to help bring rary melodies. Torah reading day, April 15, 1:30 p.m. and common around the country. it to us on a regular basis. will continue to be handled Wednesday, April 18, 6:45 p.m. Although Jewish cantorial Therefore, Temple Israel is by volunteers and the rabbi. Pizza and salad will be sold professionals have amazing seeking to hire an experi- If you’re interested, please prior to both shows. Sponsor- skills, the bimah should be enced, personable service submit a resume and voice Congregation Ohev Shalom cal characters of the Wise Men ships and placement of ads in a place where all can lead. leader who can lead our sample recording to Rabbi Youth Players present “Feath- Of Chelm. The story takes the the playbill are available. On the other hand, Temple Is- services once a month. Canto- Joshua Neely. (rabbi@tiflorida. ers in the Wind,” April 15 and audience on a journey to try Tickets and meals can be rael recently had a wonderful rial training is preferred but org). Temple Israel is located 18 at the synagogue. “Feathers and understand what God’s purchased ahead of time at weekend with the renowned lay leaders who have a deep at 50 S. Moss Road in Winter in the Wind” is a comedy and plan is for the people of Chelm. http://www.ohevshalom.org/ vocal artist Sam Glaser, which understanding of the service Springs, 32708. 407-647-3055. musical based on the whimsi- Through a series of mishaps event/youthplay. When taxes are done, it’s time to have fun Congregation Ohev Shalom 1251 Lee Road, Winter Park. For more information, Men’s Club is celebrating the Enjoy some post-tax season contact Michael Asher at post-tax deadline recess on relief—a beer and good con- 407-401-3522. Please RSVP Tuesday, April 17 at Miller’s Ale versation with friends from to Asher at michaeldasher3@ House in Winter Park Village, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. gmail.com. Anyone want to be in a road race?

Make this a race to remem- which includes entry into the Wednesday: noon-8 p.m.; ber and win one of the top male race, a race t-shirt, and post- Thursday: noon—8 p.m.; or female awards in your age race bagels, bananas and pool Friday: noon—5:30 p.m.; bracket. party. Register at www.or- Saturday: 10 a.m.—4 p.m.; The 34th Annual 5K Road landojcc.org/calendar/5k and Sunday (race day): 7 a.m. Who says Federation events are serious? Race starts at 8 a.m., Sunday, Registrations after 6 p.m., All proceeds will benefit That’s Federation’s leadership—(back row) Rhonda Forest, Ed Bromberg, Geanne April 29, at The Roth Family April 24 will be $35. the JCC’s Marvin & Bon- Share, Jeannie Leavitt, Michael Soll and Ming Marx; (front row), Danielle Kris and JCC in Maitland and finishes Race packets will be avail- nie Friedman Scholarship Brad Jacobs—cutting loose at Choices 2018; and a group of the women attending at 1 p.m. at the JCC. able at the JCC beginning Fund and JCC programs and Choices just having fun. See the story about Choice 2018 on page 8A. The cost to enter is $25, Wednesday, April 25: services. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 6, 2018 PAGE 3A At Mar-a-Lago, Christians and Jews celebrate Israel, unity and a strong partnership cies towards Israel, such as his recognition of Jerusalem as its capital. It also comes as last year many charities and other organized canceled event plans at Mar-a-Lago following Trump’s contro- versial remarks after a white- supremacist rally that turned violent in Charlottesville, Va. ‘A new era where Israel wins’ Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon received The Fellowship’s “Defender of Israel Award” at the gala and told JNS that Capehart Photography in representing Israel at the Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon (l) and The United Nations, “sometimes Fellowship Founder and President Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein I feel that I am alone, but I at the “Together in Fellowship” gala. know that I am not. I know that we have millions of Chris- Danon’s late father taught ther was a “life-longer admirer tians and Jews who support him about speaking up and of the Jewish people,” and a Capehart Photography Israel. And tonight is a sign “standing strong” in support “strong and vocal opponent” More than 500 evangelical Christians and Jews from across North America gathered at of the great support that we of Israel, he told the audience. of anti-Semitism in Canada. Mar-a-Lago on March 25 for the “Together in Fellowship” gala. have from different countries He said, “Nowhere have I felt Harper discussed radical around the world.” the importance of my father’s Islam and the Iranian re- By Shiryn Solny group of people,” Trump told where Christians together The ambassador also talked words more than at the UN It’s gime, particularly the Iranian the gathering in a video mes- with Jews are celebrating about Israel’s upcoming sev- why I came to the UN I heard nuclear program that threat- (JNS)—As many as 500 sage recorded shortly before the 70th anniversary of en-decade anniversary, saying stories about this place. I didn’t ens both Israel and Western evangelical Christians and the gala. The president left his the state of Israel. It’s not he believes it’s a “miracle” that realize how bad it was until I nations. He then talked about Jews from around the world weekend retreat several hours Christians inviting Jews and Israel has come so far and ac- arrived, but let me tell you, the Boycott, Divestment and gathered on March 25 at U.S. before the start of the event Jews inviting Christians; it’s complished so much in such a today we are shaking things Sanctions movement and President Donald Trump’s to head back to Washington, Christians and Jews, and that short period of time. He told up at the UN We are bringing a urged pro-Israel supporters Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm D.C. “I wanted to be there so is the theme for us tonight... JNS.org “we are very proud new future for Israel at the UN that “whenever we encounter Beach, Fla.—otherwise badly. I had to leave—we have there were those who were of what we have achieved in A new era where Israel wins.” [BDS], we should denounce it known as the “Winter White some pretty big things going dubious, there was those who the short 70 years,” adding The Fellowship also hon- vocally, loudly and with every House”—for a one-of-a-kind on with our country, but our said no it cannot be done, and that he will be celebrating ored Museum of the Bible fiber of our being.” event celebrating Israel’s up- country is doing really well. here we are together.” the landmark by taking 70 Chairman and Hobby Lobby He concluded his speech coming 70th anniversary, as Your taxes are down, your Eckstein also talked about ambassadors from the world President Steve Green, and by insisting that Israel is not well as the unity of Christians regulations are down, a lot the organization’s new head- body on a trip to Israel. VitaQuest Founder Edward at fault for the lack of peace and Jews supporting the Jew- of good things are happen- quarters, “The Fellowship On stage at the gala, Danon Frankel with a Bridge Builder in the Middle East. “It is not ish state. ing, we’re appointing a lot of House,” which will be, as talked about U.S.-Israel rela- Award. The event’s keynote because of anything Israel had Hosted by the International fantastic federal judges, and I he said, a “home away from tions, especially at the United speaker was former Cana- done or not done,” he said in Fellowship of Christians and think you are all very happy home” for the 1.5 million Nations. He said U.S. Ambas- dian Prime Minister Stephen his final remarks. “It is not Jews (also known as “The with the results. So I’ll see you Christians who visit Israel sador to the United Nations Harper. because of Israel’s failures or Fellowship”), the “Together next time. I hope you have a each year. The rabbi said it Nikki Haley once told him ‘Where religious free- imperfections, Israel’s exis- In Fellowship” gala raised fantastic evening.” will be located “right next that as long as she is around, dom and religious toler- tence or policies... In too many $1.67 million that will be put Guests hailed from through- door” to the new U.S. embassy America “will always have ance flourishes’ countries, it is still easier to toward two causes: a new out the United States, Canada, in Jerusalem—an announce- Israel’s back.” During his speech, Harper scapegoat Israel then copy its educational campaign for the Israel, the Netherlands, Ja- ment that drew loud applause “[It’s] the strongest alley we said Trump “deserves enor- success, and it’s only in Israel next generation of Christians maica and Brazil. Half were from the crowd. He noted have,” said Danon. “Seventy mous credit and congratula- where religious freedom and and Jews to help deepen their Christian, half were Jewish. that Israeli American bil- years later, the U.S. remains tions” for recognizing Jeru- religious toleration flourishes bonds with Israel and the Jew- The evening began with a VIP lionaire Haim Saban is one of the first country to stand by salem as the capital of Israel. in the Middle East. ish people; and helping elderly poolside reception, with hors the Fellowship’s “greatest sup- Israel through thick and thin, “That was one of the rare times “I tell my friends in politics Holocaust survivors living in d’oeuvres and drinks, followed porters,” who has contributed and there is nowhere I feel I actually wish I was back in around the world, never be poverty by providing them by a general sit-down recep- $1 million toward the new that more than what I feel at office, and I could’ve stood afraid to take the right posi- with food, medicine, heating tion and three-course meal headquarters. the UN... Me and Ambassador and done that with President tion on Israel. And I also tell fuel and personal visits they inside Mar-a-Lago’s exquisite The decision to hold the Haley, we play defense and Trump,” he said. organizations like this, never desperately need in their final ballroom. event at Trump’s South Flor- offense.” The former premier addi- be reluctant to be proud of Is- years. The latter is already one The Fellowship’s founder ida property was likely a stra- He also addressed the five tionally spoke of his “clear” rael... [It is] an oasis of wealth, of the more than 400 global and president, Rabbi Yechiel tegic decision by Eckstein. His resolutions against Israel and “very consistent” defense freedom, culture, technology initiatives undertaken by The Eckstein, started off the organization draws heavily passed at the United Nations of Israel, and his “special ad- and security in the most dan- Fellowship. evening speaking about the from support by evangelical on Friday, saying, “I’m telling miration” for the Jewish state. gerous and troubled part of “It’s a great honor to have gala’s distinctiveness. He told Christians, who also over- you now, [the] U.S. will take He said his ancestors have the world. I think Israel may be everybody at Mar-a-Lago, the crowd: “Tonight is the whelmingly support Trump action and Israel will take always been pro-Jewish, and the most remarkable country a special place for a special first time I believe in history and have applauded his poli- action [against them].” told the audience that his fa- that has ever been created.” Alan Dershowitz on Israel at 70: ‘A Light Unto the World’ Q: What prompted you and Q: What else are you doing lives through its medical your friends to donate an to celebrate Israel’s big year? technological breakthroughs, ambucycle to United Hatzalah A: I’ve been to Israel through its agricultural for Israel’s 70th? for every one of its major breakthroughs and A: There is a group of guys birthdays from the 30th on. through its pharmaceutical I’ve known since kindergarten. I’m hoping to be there to breakthroughs. Israel saves We’ve known each other for 75 celebrate Israel’s 70th, and my more lives in teaching years, more or less. And we try real goal in life is to be there the world how to prevent to spend several weekends a to celebrate its 80th. terrorism, in teaching year together and try to get Q: What do you think of the world how to absorb together on New Year’s Eve. when you reflect on Israel immigrants... Israel has really We all went to yeshivah in at 70? been a light unto the world Borough Park in Brooklyn A: No country in the for 70 years, and I think it’s together. We all went different history of the world ever important to commemorate ways, but we are still very contributed more to the and look forward. close. We are turning 80 this welfare of humankind in Q: How do you define the year, and we thought it would such a short period of time U.S.-Israel relationship at this be nice commemoration of than Israel. Hatzalah is a point in time? our birthdays to do something perfect representative of that. A: It couldn’t be stronger. United Hatzalah that saves lives, and I can’t In Hatzalah, you have Jews It’s very, very positive, but Alan Dershowitz speaking at a ceremony highlighting his donation of a ambucycle to imagine a charity more worthy and Arabs, Christians and there are trends that are quite Israel’s volunteer medic organization, United Hatzalah. than Hatzalah. It has led the Muslims, atheists, religious dangerous—trends among way in quick availability on and secular, people living in young Democrats [turning] By Eliana Rudee author Alan Dershowitz JNS interviewed Mr. the scenes of acts of terrorism. the territories all working away from Israel pose risks to announced that he is donating Dershowitz about this gift And so we all agreed to together to save lives. It the bipartisan consensus in (JNS)—Ahead of Israel’s an ambucycle to Israel’s and to hear his thoughts on make contributions and represents the best of Israel. support of Israel. And that’s 70th birthday in May, volunteer medic organization, Israel at 70—and what the to dedicate this ambucycle People call Israel the startup why I remain within the longtime Harvard University United Hatzalah, in honor of next seven decades might on Yom Ha’atzmaut [Israel nation, and I call it the life- law professor, attorney and his 80th birthday. look like. Independence Day]. saving nation. Israel has saved Dershowitz on page 15A PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 6, 2018 John Bolton’s appointment is an ‘America First’ move By Caroline Glick since the Reagan administration, is a creature North Korea. In exchange for shuttering its confirmation. But in 2016, Rice, along with of the Washington foreign policy swamp. nuclear installations, North Korea received her mentor, former secretary of state James President Donald Trump’s decision to ap- While it is true that Bolton held senior light water reactors from the U.S. and massive Baker, and her deputy and successor as national point former UN Ambassador John Bolton foreign policy positions in both Bush admin- economic relief. As Bolton warned it would, security adviser, Stephen Hadley, openly op- to serve as his national security adviser is istrations, he has always been a thorn in the North Korea pocketed the concessions and gifts posed President Trump’s intention to appoint arguably the most significant single step he side of the establishment rather than a member and continued to develop its nuclear weapons. Bolton deputy secretary of state. At the same has taken to date toward implementing his of that establishment. In other words, far from preventing North time, all three lobbied Trump to appoint outgo- America First foreign policy since taking office. For the better part of three decades, Bolton Korea from developing nuclear weapons, the ing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. The news hit America’s enemies and has bravely held positions that fly in the face of Agreed Framework preserved the North Ko- Bolton was a vocal opponent of Rice’s nucle- competitors—from Pyongyang to Teheran the establishment’s innate preference for ap- rean nuclear program and enabled the regime ar diplomacy with North Korea, undertaken to Moscow to Beijing—like a wall of bricks peasement. He was a vocal critic, for example, to develop it effectively with U.S. assistance. after Pyongyang conducted its first nuclear Thursday night. of then-President Bill Clinton’s disastrous For his warnings, Bolton has been reviled test in 2006. He also opposed Rice’s pursuit of Early criticisms on the political right of nuclear diplomacy with North Korea. as a “warmonger” and a “superhawk” by the diplomatic ties with Iran through negotia- Bolton’s appointment have centered on two The 1994 “Agreed Framework” that Clinton foreign policy elite. tions in Iraq. In both cases, as events showed, points. First, it is argued that Bolton, who has concluded with Pyongyang was touted as a President George W. Bush appointed Bolton Bolton’s criticisms were all in place. been involved in U.S. foreign policymaking peaceful resolution of the nuclear crisis with to serve as UN ambassador in 2005 in a recess Rice’s nuclear diplomacy with North Ko- appointment. Three moderate Republicans on rea emboldened the regime, and enabled its the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Lincoln continued testing of nuclear weapons and Chafee (RI), Chuck Hagel (ND), and George development of ballistic missiles. Swedish meatballs for Voinovich (OH), signaled that they would op- In Iran’s case, Rice’s negotiations with the pose Bolton’s confirmation. Iranians in 2007 and 2008 set the stage for At the time, rumors surfaced that then- then-President Barack Obama’s nuclear talks Palestinian terrorists Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had quietly with Tehran, which led to the 2015 nuclear deal. undercut Bolton’s confirmation in private con- That deal, like the 1994 Agreed Framework By Stephen M. Flatow Not starving, but simply malnourished? versations with senators. Those rumors were UNICEF screened 7,969 Gaza children for denied, and Rice publicly supported Bolton’s Glick on page 15A (JNS)—Have you ever read a news report malnutrition-related disorders in 2016. It about a Palestinian Arab who starved to death? found a total of 489 children were malnour- Even one? Of course not, because it never ished. That’s 6 percent. happens. Yet the foreign minister of Sweden Wallström either knows that number or Letter from Israel is now claiming that the Palestinian Authority could obtain it in two minutes. Yet she prefers must provide salaries to terrorists and their to falsely suggest that large numbers of kids families because otherwise, they will “starve.” are on the brink of “starvation” and would Sweden, which was the first country in the drop dead if the P.A. didn’t give them financial Terror here and elsewhere European Union to recognize the P.A.-occupied rewards for the murderous attacks carried territories as the “State of Palestine,” has given out by their imprisoned or deceased parents. By Ira Sharkansky personnel. One can doubt that Israel will solve the Palestinians more than $700 million in aid And in case you’re wondering how the its problem with the Palestinians any sooner since 1993. The Swedes are now in the middle Palestinian malnutrition rate of 6 percent A Palestinian used his car as a weapon and than Americans will deal with its guns. of handing out another five-year, $183 million compares to a similar rate in the United drove into a cluster of soldiers alongside an A recent incident of police killing a black man grant package to them. States, note that according to the organization IDF base in the West Bank. He killed two and holding a cell phone, then saying it looked like In an interview by the Swedish Jewish news- “Feeding America,” one in six (16.7 percent) injured two others. A few days later, a Pales- a pistol, suggests the limits of arming teach- paper “Judisk Krönika” (Jewish Chronicle) on of American children “don’t know when their tinian stabbed a security guard in Jerusalem’s ers as a response to mass attacks at schools. March 19, Swedish Foreign Minister Margot next meal will be.” Old City. Parkland has provoked a mass response in Wallström was asked how she felt about Swed- According to the United States Department Those were the third, fourth, and fifth favor of doing something about weapons, but ish tax dollars contributing to the P.A.’s policy of Agriculture, 16.6 percent of American deaths so far in 2018 attributed to Palestinian the task is enormous. Responses can vary of providing salaries to imprisoned terrorists households with children under the age of 6 terror. That equals the number of American between 50 states and thousands of local and the families of dead terrorists. The foreign live with “food insecurity,” which is defined Jews that we know were killed by gunfire. jurisdictions. Advocates of control are talk- minister squirmed. as being “uncertain of having, or unable to Four Jewish students and one Jewish teacher ing about increasing the age of those allowed “Are people supposed to starve to death or acquire, enough food to meet their needs.” were killed in the school shooting at Parkland, to buy guns, or tweaking the details of the what? What are these families supposed to A few days after the interview with Wall- Florida. weapons available. do if they don’t receive money?” she replied, ström, it occurred to somebody in her press The number of Israeli deaths from terror has There are advocates of a general response according to a translation provided by the office that the minister’s comments might ranged from 6 to 36 annually in recent years. from the Supreme Court, equivalent to the Swedish-born journalist Annika Hernroth- sound less than plausible. So, they sent a We can quarrel if the numbers are as impor- 1973 decision about abortion. It could take Rothstein. “clarification” to the interviewer, insisting that tant as the continued threat, or what can be the form of a ruling that the Second Amend- That’s an interesting propaganda tactic. Sweden’s aid to the P.A. does not go directly done to deal with it. Just as dead and tragic are ment stands for the right of States to maintain Pretend that what your opponent advocates into the pockets of imprisoned terrorists or more than 30,000 Americans and about 300 militias in the form of the National Guard, will result in the death of innocent people. That their families. Israelis who die annually from traffic accidents. and not for a general right of citizens to have immediately discredits anyone who disagrees That’s just one more cheap trick. Foreign In terms of the incidence of traffic deaths per firearms. One shouldn’t bet a great deal of that with you. After all, anybody who wants to see aid obviously is fungible. Sweden’s lavish aid billion vehicle miles, American roads and/or happening anytime soon. little children—of any background or national- grants to the P.A. free up other funds are then drivers are about 30 percent more dangerous Israel takes care in providing gun permits. ity—die of starvation is surely a wicked person used to reward terrorism. than those of Israel. And according to murder Among the requirements are prior military who must be ignored. If the Swedes are truly concerned about rates, Americans are three times more danger- service, approvals as to criminal record, mental We hear similar demagoguery when the quality of nutrition among the families ous than Israelis. and physical health; and either a work place Palestinian advocates want Israel to permit of imprisoned or dead terrorists, why don’t We’ve also been reminded of Islamic or residence where a weapon is considered the entry of all goods into Gaza. Right now, they ship them food? Instead of sending the terror in France. The most recent terror necessary. Israel prevents the Gaza Strip from importing money to the PA.—whose notoriously corrupt attacks in Israel here have produced the Aside from cynicism, fatalism, and another weapons and dual-use items, such as concrete. leaders routinely siphon off funds intended for usual responses. Media devoted considerable rendition of the problems in the way of true Even U.S. Mideast “peace processor” Dennis humanitarian purposes—Sweden could send attention to the incidents, interviews with peace between Israelis and Palestinians, there Ross has admitted that allowing the entry care packages directly to families. family members and friends of those killed, seems little to be done that hasn’t already of concrete is a mistake because the Hamas That said, the families of terrorists shouldn’t and updates on the condition of the wounded. being done. regime uses it to build terror tunnels instead count on receiving packages of Swedish meat- Members of the Palestinian driver’s family With respect to killing by car, the IDF is of resident housing. balls any time soon. Officials in the Nordic insisted that it was a traffic accident; that extending the protection of problematic lo- Hamas’s Western apologists often claim that country don’t genuinely care about the well- the young man was law abiding and had no cations with meter-high concrete posts put little Palestinian children in Gaza are starv- being of individual Palestinians. They only connection with politics. After a few hours in place at bus stops where Palestinians had ing to death because of Israel’s cold-hearted spout this nonsense about “starving” children of questioning, the driver admitted that he used their cars to attack people waiting for blockade. In reality, the only way they are not when they want to bash Israel or protect the intended to kill Jews, but that it was a spur transportation. eating enough is if their normal diet consists P.A. from criticism. of the moment decision and had no connec- Officials are warning security personnel of hand grenades and automatic rifles. It’s just one more rhetorical weapon in tion with anyone else. and the public that we’re approaching several You can be sure that if even a single Pales- the never-ending international campaign of Israeli security forces have already closed events likely to be associated with increased tinian Arab ever died of starvation, it would be harassment against the Jewish state. his family residence, and have begun the attacks: Land Day when Arabs commemorate front-page news around the world for weeks Stephen M. Flatow, a vice president of the legal process intended to destroy it. Some 70 an event in 1976, Passover, Israel’s 70th an- on end. You haven’t heard about it because it Religious Zionists of America, is an attorney members of his extended family have lost the niversary, the movement of the US Embassy hasn’t happened. in New Jersey. He is the father of Alisa Flatow, permits that allowed them to work in Israel. to Jerusalem, and Ramadan. Do you know what percentage of Pales- who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored No doubt some will continue to arrive We can expect the closing of crossing points tinian children in Gaza are malnourished? Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. surreptitiously. That may be more difficult, between Palestinian and Israeli areas on several however, if Israeli officials continue with their of those occasions, as well as increased police THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. announced intention of extending the security and military patrols. wall to put their village on the other side. 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Kim Fischer • Marci Gaeser Some politicians are calling for the applica- Further afield, and more dangerous, are the POSTMASTER: Send address changes and other tion of the death penalty. Others dispute the continued actions of Iran to supply and incite Contributing Columnists correspondence to: HERITAGE, P.O. Box 300742, effectiveness of a death penalty; see it as a spur violence against Israel. There may be thou- Fern Park, FL 32730. Jim Shipley • Mel Pearlman David Bornstein • Ed Ziegler to more terror; and cite the legal hassles, time, sands of missiles capable of reaching Israel. MAILING ADDRESS PHONE NUMBER and expense likely if a military court uses exist- Things could be better, and they’ve been P.O. Box 300742 (407) 834-8787 Production Department ing provisions to sentence the driver to death. a lot worse. Fern Park, FL 32730 FAX (407) 831-0507 David Lehman • Gil Dombrosky The Palestinian who stabbed a guard in We can be optimistic, but cautious. email: [email protected] Joyce Gore the Old City was shot and killed by security Comments welcome. [email protected]. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 6, 2018 PAGE 5A Why AIPAC can literally count on support By Jonathan S. Tobin were easily explained by a Israel in the United States hit raging. It’s easy to understand because researchers have of Republicans sympathize Republican base dominated record levels. Americans of why images of Israelis been asking these same with Israel, as opposed to 49 (JNS)—At this year’s AIPAC by Christian conservatives every age, ethnicity, religious suffering missile attacks as questions of the public for percent of Democrats. That conference, a great deal who are passionate about group and political stripe like a form of revenge against decades. That makes the still means that fully half of of attention was given to Israel, and a Democratic base Israel, and back it against America’s effort to rescue fact that Israel’s favorability the Democrats stand on the organizational efforts to whose activists are vulnerable the Palestinians. Those who Kuwait or being blown up in ratings come in at an all-time side of the Jewish state. present Israel as an attractive to specious intersectional question why U.S. foreign buses and cafes by Palestinian high is something for both We’re also told that young cause for Democrats and arguments that portray the policy remains so pro-Israel terrorists would engender its friends and its critics to people are rejecting Israel. liberals to continue to Palestinians as the moral need to reckon with the fact sympathy. But Israel is not ponder. Indeed, in the last 12 It’s true that many college embrace. As I noted earlier equivalent to blacks in the that most Americans just love currently being attacked. The months, which coincide with campuses have seen a rise in this month, while perils are Jim Crow Deep South. The the Jewish state. assumption has been that Trump’s first year in the White support for the BDS (boycott, associated with any attempt fact that the leadership of the The basic numbers are President Donald Trump’s tilt House, the already positive divestment and sanctions) to “rebrand” the Jewish state Women’s March—the engine impressive. The percentage towards Israel would alienate numbers increased again. movement. But Gallup also without addressing the core of the increasingly important of Americans who favor Israel both centrists and liberals In 2017, Israel was viewed tells us that 65 percent of issues of the conflict, the anti-Trump “resistance”—is over the Palestinians scores who see anything associated positively by 71 percent of Americans ages 18 to 34 back group got generally good dominated by sympathizers 64 percent. That ties an all- with him in a negative light. Americans and negatively by Israel. While that’s admittedly reviews for working hard to of Louis Farrakhan, and time high that has only been The unpopularity of Prime 27 percent. In 2018, the totals lower than the 80 percent of address major concerns for Israel opponents like Tamika reached twice before in 1991 Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are 74 percent positive and support Israel gets from those the pro-Israel community. Mallory and Linda Sarsour, and 2003. is also supposed to be a drag only 23 percent negative—a 55 and older, it still reflects a Fueling those worries was has only highlighted this What’s so fascinating about on Israel’s popularity, as net gain of nine points. solid consensus. a recent Pew Research Center problem. that number is that Israel is the mainstream media’s To put that in perspective, Nor is there anything poll that highlighted the But for all of the fears of the should be so popular at continued assertions that West there are no U.S. politicians in the poll to encourage growing gap between how growing polarization between this particular time. Those Bank settlements, rather than and few foreign places or Israel’s foes. Only 27 percent Republicans and Democrats the parties, the predictions two previous years came in Palestinian intransigence, people viewed as positively by of Democrats view the view Israel. While the GOP of the death of the bipartisan moments of crisis. In 1991, remains the obstacle to peace Americans as Israel’s net plus Palestinians favorably, as seems to be leaning more pro- consensus on Israel are, to Israel was under attack from in the Middle East. 51 percent favorability rating. opposed to a mere 13 percent Israel, the Democrats seem paraphrase Mark Twain, Iraqi SCUD missiles during But the numbers don’t back It’s true that a huge gap of Republicans. to be heading in the opposite greatly exaggerated. As a new the Persian Gulf War. In up those assumptions. exists between the two parties. direction. Those numbers Gallup poll shows, support for 2003, the second intifada was Gallup’s survey is useful A staggering 87 percent AIPAC on page 15A Israel, don’t shut the door in the faces of asylum seekers like me By Monim Harun behind my mother and sisters, been perpetrating genocide. three years and later was told many others, stem from It is obvious to me that and the people I loved. But In 2011, the Sudanese that I would be deported to the state’s approach to us the majority of the Israeli JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel, I knew that in doing so, I dictatorship decided to attack the country from which I fled, as “infiltrators” rather than public does not know why the don’t shut the door in our would be able to acquire the area in which I was despite my request for asylum refugees. The economic Sudanese and Eritreans arrive faces. new skills that would help studying. I was forced to flee and my statement that my life punishments inflicted upon in Israel. They do not see us My name is Monim Harun, me rebuild my community the Blue Nile region when would be in danger if I were us have indeed made our lives as “refugees.” an asylum seeker from Sudan. on my return. In the Blue the security forces began sent back. I was imprisoned for difficult, but that is certainly This raises the question: I was born in a small village Nile region I completed searching for me in order a year and a half in Saharonim not what bothers us the most, How would you define a nested between mountains elementary through high to arrest me. After trying prison and then was held in nor is it what stands at the refugee? and forests, where we lived school, and was accepted to many times to return and the Holot detention center head of our struggle as asylum A person who suffered together as one big family. At Blue Nile University. I spent finish my studies, I finally until January 2015. seekers. Our struggle is to be force labor, violence, rape and a young age I was separated three years there studying realized in 2012 that I would Israel’s current deportation seen, and treated, as human torture in his own country— from my family and the people toward a degree in electrical not be able to remain in the plan is the final stage in beings. is he not a refugee? Someone I loved most in the world when engineering—five years are country. The security forces its established policy of What is incredibly who was persecuted only the militia forces attacked our required for the program. continued searching for me pressuring us, the African frightening to me is how because of her religion and village. They went through the During those years I joined and arrested some of my asylum seekers, to leave the the Israeli government has ethnic background—is she village killing every man and a student organization that friends, one of whom was held country. Israel has already succeeded in disconnecting not a refugee? boy in sight, but by a miracle fights against the rule of in captivity for three years been taking some of the itself from the history and A person forced to flee his I survived. My mother wanted radical Islam in Sudan, and only released in 2014. I money that we earn from values of the Jewish people. home only because of his skin me to live in a safer place and and calls for a democratic, fled to Egypt but was unable our work in the lowliest jobs How can the Jewish people color—is he not a refugee? have the opportunity to study, secular and liberal system of to remain there because available (asylum seekers forget the meaning of the word Someone whose village so in 2001, at the age of 12, government. My involvement the Muslim Brotherhood, must put aside 20 percent “refugee”? was burned and her family she sent me to the other side in social and political advocacy who were in power at that of their salaries until they How can a people who were members killed in front of her of the country, to the Blue wound up placing my life in time, were sympathetic to leave Israel) by refusing all forced again and again to eyes—is she not a refugee? Nile region of the Republic great danger, all the more Sudan’s Islamist government. of our asylum requests and flee their homes decide not And he who survived a of Sudan. so because my Fur ethnicity I made my way to Israel, imprisoning many of us to give temporary refuge to genocide—is he not a refugee? When I left the village is one against which the arriving in June 2012. Upon indefinitely in Saharonim. those who are fleeing their it felt bittersweet—leaving Sudanese government has arrival I was sent to prison for All of these policies, and homes today? Asylum on page 14A The end of the era of Palestinian deception By Sarah N. Stern Covenant was adopted on appointed; no meetings were (“martyr”) and to encourage After so many years of this prisoners and the families of May 28, subsequently announced. their youth to follow in this systematic indoctrination, it’s “martyrs” to the tune of $355 (JNS)—For a quarter of 1963, in which most of the Yet the international media “glorious path.” no wonder that murdering million a year. a century, the Palestinian 33 articles invoke an “armed was ablaze with headlines of As Itamar Marcus of Jews and Israelis is seen as Does this not constitute Authority has cynically struggle” until “the Zionist how the P.A. had renounced Palestinian Media Watch a heroic act in the eyes of material support for terrorism? wrapped itself inside a fig entity is totally wiped out and the charter. Peter Jennings, writes, “P.A. libels claim that many Palestinians, and a At least, however, so far leaf dubbed as the “Peace Palestine is liberated.” the anchor of “World News Israel conspires to infect regnant value of the P.A. In as the U.S. Congress is Process.” The naked truth, Note that this happened Tonight” began his broadcast Palestinians with AIDS, spread 2015, Palestinian Authority concerned, the gig is finally however, is that it has been four years before the 1967 with: “They said it couldn’t be drug addiction, conspired and leader Mahmoud Abbas said: up. using every means available Six-Day War, so it had nothing done. The P.A. has revoked successfully murdered Arafat, “We bless every drop of blood Sarah N. Stern is founder to incite for, incentivize to do with the disputed its charter calling for the and more. The P.A.’s goal has that has been spilled for and president of the and reward terrorism. With territories that followed that destruction of Israel.” been to inculcate hatred to Jerusalem, which is clean and Endowment of Middle East Friday’s passage of the war, and everything to do with The PNC didn’t convene the degree that fighting and pure blood.” Truth, EMET, an unabashedly Taylor Force Act, which the 1948 War of Independence until 2009, in which Fatah murdering Jews and Israelis In defiance of the United pro-Israel and pro-American aims to deduct payments to and the sheer existence of spokesman Nabil Shaath said will be glorified as heroic States, the P.A. just announced think tank and policy shop in Palestinian prisoners and Israel. that “the covenant cannot be self-defense.” that it will now directly pay the Washington, D.C. martyrs, fissures are finally In April 1996, amid the changed.” Azaam al Ahmed, emerging in its iron wall of euphoria of the signing of the another P.A. spokesman said “it deception. Oslo Accords and under much [the covenant] will remain as is. The phrase “Peace Process” political pressure from the It won’t be subject to change. served as an ingenious Clinton administration, the We have the right to practice linguistic sedative, lulling Palestinian National Council all forms of national struggle.” the international community had a well-publicized vote to Nevertheless, for decades into the dream of a peaceful discuss whether to “revoke the world convinced P.A. The harsh reality is that the covenant.” Despite the themselves that the P.A. was the objective of the P.A. has fanfare, they voted simply to actually a peaceful entity, never been peace, but the extend the period of time to the moderate alternative to gradual, staged elimination decide on what to do. Hamas. of the State of Israel. The P.A. spokesperson Marwan The P.A. has been playing P.A. has been consistently Kanfani emerged from the a dubious game. It had teaching their children that meeting, saying: “This is not used all means available to Jews and Israelis are odious, an amendment. It is a license systematically indoctrinate detestable creatures, and their to start anew, to found a new their people to despise and final elimination would be of resolution, a new charter. murder Israelis and Jews, huge benefit to the Palestinian This is really a vote to form using textbooks, children’s people, the Arab world and all a committee to look into it.” television shows, sporting and of humanity. The committee never was cultural events to demonize The Palestinian National formed; the members never Jews, to praise the shahid, PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 6, 2018 FRIDAY, APRIL 6 A COMPREHENSIVE Seventh day of Passover What’s Ahavas Yisrael—Kabbalat, 30 minutes before sundown. 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Hector Emanuel for the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism • Headstones, Grave Markers Jewish students leading the Reform movement to the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C, March 24, 2018. By Ron Kampeas jory Stoneman Douglas High ence it before your eyes.” She 407-599-1180 School in Parkland, Florida, was so overcome with emotion WASHINGTON (JTA)—The on Feb. 14, when a gunman describing the day, she threw organizers of the March for roamed their halls and killed up—and then completed her 640 Lee Road • Orlando, Florida Our Lives, almost all of them 17 students and faculty. speech, with encouragement under 20, had a gun control On the stage on Pennsylva- from the crowd. agenda packed with specifics. nia Avenue on Saturday, Aali- Marchers came from across W.E. “Manny” Adams, LFD They were able to get 800,000 yah Eastmond and Samantha the country, among them at people on and off of this city’s Fuentes described the terror least 2,500 Jewish teenagers Samuel P. (Sammy) Goldstein, Exec. Director Pennsylvania Avenue in three they felt at Stoneman Douglas from as far afield as California, hours. They attracted A-list when the gunman burst in on Colorado and Minnesota. They celebrities. They turned out their Holocaust studies class. threw sleeping bags on the marchers at more than 800 Two students in the class, floors of local synagogues and www.bethshalommemorialchapel.com satellite events held around Nicholas Dworet and Helena Jewish community centers the world. Ramsey, were killed. under the aegis of the Reform But the politics and lo- Fuentes said she wanted a movement’s North American gistics of the weekend often world where “you don’t have to Federation of Temple Youth, paled next to the simple, and worry about going into a Ho- or NFTY. harrowing, stories of the locaust history class to learn students who were inside Mar- about death, and then experi- March on page 15A PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 6, 2018 Choices 2018: Celebrations and transformations

Studio T Productions Studio T Productions More than 350 women and men attended the annual Choices event. Shown here (l-r): Amy Geboff, Carol McNally, Helen Greenspun, Debbie Meitin, Gail Gold, Karen Broussard, Loren London, Rhonda Forest, Shira Spector, Judy Kahan Davis, Margo Lightman, Amy Imber, Phyllis Bochman, Susan Flower, Sasha Hausman.

Studio T Productions Studio T Productions Helen Greenspun (r) with the help of Shira Spector, lights a candle representing the 12 The Federation leadership: (l-r), Michael Soll, Rhonda Forest, Ming Marx, Brad Jacobs, women honored. Ed Bromberg, Jeannie Leavitt, Danielle Kris, and Geanne Share.

More than 350 women and start to finish, a celebration of board secretary Ming Marx, On the way out the door, Executive Director. “They re- • A “Charmed by Charity” men converged on the Mait- women’s empowerment. Co- and his wife, Hilary, joined by women received “swag bags,” ally enjoyed having the extra event on May 24 at Alex and land Jewish Community Cam- chairs Shira Spector and Judy their two young sons, took the take-home totes that in- time to socialize and catch up Ani, 356 South Park Ave., Win- pus on the evening of March Kahan Davis welcomed the stage to talk about their life cluded a sweet treat and with their friends, and I loved ter Park. During this special 26 for Choices, a community crowd and thanked Present- journey and how the Jewish other items from Choices that I was able to speak with shopping event, 15 percent of tradition that took on a bold, ing Sponsor Harriett Lake for Federation played a signifi- sponsors, along with a spe- more women and thank them the proceeds from all sales at new look for its 24th year. her support before segueing cant role in helping them find cial keepsake button that in person for their support of Alex and Ani will be donated to Themed “Women Trans- into the poignant “Lights of a “home” in the local Jewish featured original artwork Federation.” the Federation. Keep an eye on forming Lives,” this year’s Empowerment” presentation. community through the PJ submitted by children who Forest said she was also the Federation website (www. fundraiser in support of the The candle-lighting ceremony Library program, meaningful participate in the Federa- pleased that the Federation jfgo.org) and the Fed Friday Jewish Federation of Greater was a tribute to women from family events and the Born- tion’s PJ Library, PJ Our Way was able to have the high- email in the weeks ahead for Orlando was all about trans- 12 categories and vocations stein Leadership Development and JTEN programs. profile event on the Maitland more details. formations, starting with that have played a significant Program. Based on feedback from campus, which has a storied • Women in Politics, a the venue, the Roth Family role in transforming the local After the formal program, previous Choices fundraisers, history in the local Jewish discussion of women serv- JCC gymnasium, which was Jewish community. A 13th women had another hour to the Federation limited the community and has long ing in elected office, will be draped, staged, decked out and candle was lighted in tribute socialize as co-chairs Spec- formal program to a half-hour been a hub for Jewish life in presented in August by the lighted in dramatic fashion to to the Jewish women who tor and Davis announced the so that attendees would have Orlando. Federation’s Jewish Com- create a formal yet intimate passed away over the last few lucky winners of the Choices ample time to socialize. The In addition to Harriett Lake munity Relations Council. atmosphere. The production, years as well as women whose Raffle, which this year fea- revision was a hit with the and AV Media, top Choices Details and speakers are which included a 20-foot HD names were shared in remem- tured more than $10,000 women who attended. sponsors included Ruby Spon- still being confirmed for video screen, was the work brance by Choices attendees. worth of prizes—including, “I lost count of how many sors Orlando Health and Krise this event. of AV Media, the event’s Dia- The women were the subject for the first time, reserved women complimented us on Wealth Management. You can view all the photos mond Sponsor. of a musical tribute video that parking spaces on both the all the changes we made this Forest announced two from Choices 2018 on the Fed- Visual transformations concluded the presentation. Rosen and Roth Family JCC year to Choices,” said Rhonda more upcoming Federation- eration’s Choices web page, aside, Choices 2018 was, from Following the video, JFGO campuses. Forest, Federation’s Acting sponsored events for women: www.jfgo.org/choices. Israeli food for thought: 33 percent of its eats goes to waste (JNS)—A new report pres- value since it includes the there is enormous levels of ents, for the first time in entire investment: growth, food waste that can be saved, Israel, a detailed model for production, packaging and if only there was a greater level the estimation of food loss transportation. of public awareness and the in the retail and distribution This refers specifically implementation of adequate sectors: in retail chains, open to food that is produced for governmental regulation. markets, local grocery stores marketing and consumption, Eighteen percent of the and small retailers. and is lost even before reach- population in Israel lives in Leket Israel, in partnership ing the consumer. Due to the food insecurity, when Israel with BDO, released its “Third characteristics of the loss at ranks 18th in food insecurity National Report on Food this stage, the vast majority of as compared to other OECD Waste and Rescue in Israel” at the food is rescuable and can countries, and places ninth in a press conference on Tuesday. be prevented from becoming expenditure on food in private It reveals that food loss in waste. Of the NIS 7 billion ($2 consumption spending.” Israel this year amounts to billion) worth of food that can Kroch said Leket rescued 2.3 million tons with a market be saved, NIS 3.5 billion ($1 15,500 tons of fruits and value of NIS 19.3 billion ($5.6 billion) is in the retail and vegetables, and 2.3 million billion). A large part of the loss distribution sectors. cooked meals valued at NIS is salvageable; approximately The report also reveals that 150 million ($43 million) this 1.1 million tons, valued at NIS rescuing 470,000 tons of food year, and continues its efforts 7 billion ($2 billion). Almost loss each year—constitut- to raise the profile on food Gidi Kroch, CEO of Leket Israel, with food that was deemed unsalvageable. half of the value of salvage- ing about 20 percent of the waste in Israel. able food is found in the retail total amount of food loss in “Since the publication of said Krosh. “I am calling on set a national goal similar chief economist at BDO, “Is- and distribution sectors, with Israel—will fill the gap be- the Inaugural Food Waste and the other government offices to the U.N.’s resolution of rael is lagging behind Western total food loss in these seg- tween food consumption and Rescue in Israel Report, two to advance this issue, to create a 50 percent reduction in countries in formulating a ments amounting to 400,000 the normative expenditure of years ago, Leket Israel initi- a national program that will food waste by 2030, [which national policy on food rescue, tons this year, worth NIS 4.2 the Israeli population living in ated and implemented new work to reduce food waste, in- has] since adopted by other and as a result, the national billion ($1.2 billion). food insecurity. programs for food rescue with crease food rescue and actively nations, including the U.S. economy loses NIS 4.5 billion The loss in the retail and According to Gidi Kroch, the support and through part- promote the enactment of the administration,” concluded [or $1.2 billion] every year.” distribution sectors is of CEO of Leket Israel, “The nerships with the Ministries law to encourage food rescue.” Kroch. particularly high economic report brings to light that of Agriculture and Welfare,” “It is imperative that Israel According to Chen Herzog, Food on page 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 6, 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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By Josefin Dolsten color outside the country in a “I just really didn’t see a constrained. You didn’t have directly. I’m not criticizing way that perpetuated stereo- way to do an entire issue on a world of choice. This was a them in any way. What I will (JTA)—The editor in chief types. Natives were pictured race, and then spend the year small kibbutz in the middle say is we’re in a moment of of National Geographic Maga- “as exotics, famously and covering race if we didn’t look of the desert, right on the reckoning as a society, as a zine made waves when she frequently unclothed, happy into our history as well,” she border of a bunch of other country, where people are will- admitted that the magazine’s hunters, noble savages—ev- said. “I just didn’t think we countries, and it just made ing to look back at actions of past coverage was tinged with ery type of cliché,” Goldberg would be credible.” me realize that it wasn’t themselves or their organiza- racism. wrote. Goldberg, who identifies as going to be the lifestyle for tions and lay out maybe a lot of “For decades, our coverage In a phone interview with a Reform Jew, grew up in Ann me,” she recalled. really great history but [also] was racist. To rise above our JTA earlier this week Gold- Arbor, Michigan, the grand- Instead, she set her sights some things that weren’t so past, we must acknowledge berg, 58, said she was not daughter of immigrants from on pursuing a journalism good,” she said. it,” Susan Goldberg wrote in a surprised by Mason’s con- Eastern Europe who came to career in the U.S. She enrolled The magazine also plans letter for the magazine’s April clusions, pointing out that the country in the beginning at Michigan State University to focus on Muslims, Latinos, issue, which marks the 50th racism in the magazine had of the 20th century and settled but dropped out to accept a job Asian Americans and Native anniversary of Dr. Martin Lu- been written about previously, in predominantly Jewish as a full time reporter at the Americans. Though the mag- ther King, Jr.’s assassination. including in a book by Robert neighborhoods in Detroit. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She azine examines racism and The letter forced readers Poole. “These neighborhoods later returned to Michigan other forms of bigotry there and staff to grapple with the Some of Mason’s most were really so ghettoized that State to pursue a bachelor’s are no plans at the moment legacy of the magazine, which Susan Goldberg is Nation- egregious findings did shock my mother, who was born in degree in journalism. to look into anti-Semitism, has been reporting on the al Geographic Magazine’s her, like a 1916 article on the United States, in Detroit Throughout her career, she said. world’s far-flung peoples and first female and Jewish Aboriginal Australians that in 1927, went to kindergarten she has been the first woman “That’s not to say in the places since 1888 and has re- editor-in-chief. called them “savages” who when she was five years old in many of her positions, future that we wouldn’t, but flected—and been a reflection “rank lowest in intelligence [and] she didn’t speak Eng- including as managing edi- we don’t have anything that of—all the cultural changes, of all human beings.” lish, she only spoke Yiddish,” tor of the San Jose Mercury we’ve planned right now,” and prejudices, since then. that their persecution by “It’s very difficult to read Goldberg said. News, editor-in-chief of the she said. But Goldberg also made Christians “increased their something like that,” she said. Growing up, her family Cleveland Plain Dealer and Goldberg, who lives in waves in 2014 when she be- intense activity, their cunning Goldberg said the issue of celebrated Jewish holidays but executive editor of Bloomberg Washington, D.C., with her came the first woman—and, in business, in order that they race is especially important was “probably more cultur- News’ Washington bureau. husband Geoffrey Etnire, a incidentally, the first Jew—to might live at all against such in light of recent events, such ally Jewish than religiously She joined National Geo- real estate lawyer, said that serve as editor in chief of opposition, and it produced in as the white supremacist and Jewish,” she said. She was graphic as executive editor in since starting her position, a magazine that has often them the traits that are now neo-Nazi rally in Charlottes- involved in the Habonim La- January 2014, and succeeded her “biggest push” has been stumbled in reporting on made the basis for denounc- ville, Virginia, last year. bour Zionist youth movement, Chris Johns as editor in chief to increase gender, ethnic and women and Jews. ing them.” “After Charlottesville, if it and at the age of 17 she lived a few months later. racial diversity on the staff. “It was a place with a lot In her letter, Goldberg wasn’t already clear, it became for six months on a kibbutz Goldberg’s letter drew both Currently about a quarter of of white men,” she told JTA, details how she enlisted John even more clear that we have in southern Israel. praise, from those who lauded the staff are people of color. referring to the magazine’s Edwin Mason, a scholar of Af- a very fraught situation going Though she describes the her for looking critically at the “I just don’t think that beginnings as the journal rican history and the history on in the United States with experience at Kibbutz Grofit magazine’s coverage of race, you are going to end up with of the National Geographic of photography at the Univer- regard to any kind of discus- as “a fantastic thing to do as a and criticism, from others authentic stories if you’ve only Society, an elite club of sity of Virginia, to critically sion around race,” she said. very young woman,” she said who wondered why it took got an all-white staff, and a academics, philanthropists examine the magazine’s past. The April issue launches it made her realize that she the magazine so long to do majority male staff, and that and adventurers interested in He found that the publica- a series of articles on race, did not want to immigrate to so and said the letter did not is what it was,” she said. “We’ve travel and exploration. tion largely ignored the lives which will continue through the Jewish state. go far enough in addressing been working very hard to Even an otherwise sympa- of African Americans in the the end of the year, but Gold- “The lives of the women the issue. change it. We’re not there yet, thetic article on the Jews in United States until the 1970s, berg felt it important that the on the kibbutz were to my “I can’t explain why other but we’ve been making a lot the July 1919 issue suggested while also covering people of magazine first look inward. way of thinking kind of editors haven’t done this of progress.” How an Israeli woman stands up to biased UN Human Rights Council law, and his 2016 appointment Turning to the adoption of Alan Baker told WIN, “Israel was protested by the Canadian five new anti-Israel resolu- has not been a member of government. tions, US Ambassador to the the UNHRC for a number of “Special Rapporteur Lynk’s UN Nikki Haley slammed years. We should now stop all latest rhetoric is a stark re- the Human Rights Council. contact with them. Their reso- minder that he is unqualified “They are foolish. When the lutions have no significance for his role,” stated Herzberg. Human Rights Council treats whatsoever and are just non- “It is completely inappropri- Israel worse than North Ko- binding recommendations. ate for a UN official charged rea, Iran, and Syria, it is the The Human Rights Council with assessing human rights Council itself that is foolish lost all credibility as a viable to behave in such a partisan and unworthy of its name,” organization because of its manner and to use this kind Haley said in the statement, absolute bias against Israel, of inflammatory language. We continuing, “It is time for the while largely ignoring the will continue to monitor and countries who know better world’s most pressing issues expose the use of anti-Semitic to demand changes. Many of human rights.” language in UN reports as well countries agree that the Baker’s advice is to not get as Lynk’s close partnerships Council’s agenda is grossly excited. “The media and the with and reliance on radical biased against Israel, but too political leaders get upset by anti-Israel groups that dis- few are willing to fight it.” these resolutions, but they credit his work. As long as he When the focus is on Israel, get little publicity outside of Anne Herzberg, the legal counsel for NGO Monitor, was censured by the biased anti-Israel continues in his position, he Haley continued, “the Coun- Israel. There is no reason for UN body for calling out its anti-Semitic language. compromises the legitimacy cil fails to fulfill its duty to panic, for which I blame on of the entire UN.” uphold human rights around the hysteria led by reporting in By Steve Leibowitz UN Human Rights Council, in the Arab-Israeli conflict Inaccurate, unverified, the world.” the Jerusalem Post,” he said. World Israel News held in Geneva. as “avaricious,” “rapacious,” and false reporting Haley also warned that the Herzog does not favor the Herzberg was addressing and “pathological”—un- Herzberg told World Israel US is still weighing whether US pulling out of the UNHRC In response to her criticiz- language in a report by “UN precedented language that News, “There must be a basic it plans to remain on the altogether. She told WIN, “The ing the apparent use of anti- Special Rapporteur on the is well beyond standard UN change in the UNHRC char- council, adding that Friday’s US has been very supportive Semitic propaganda by a UN situation of human rights condemnations of Israel. NGO ter, which mandates them resolutions were another blow in exposing the anti-Israel official, NGO Monitor Legal in the Palestinian Territory Monitor will be filing a formal to single out Israel for con- to the institution’s credibility. bias and they are threatening Advisor Anne Herzberg was occupied since 1967” Michael complaint against Lynk for demnation. It brings shame “The United States continues to leave the council. I believe called to order for violating Lynk, which characterized the exceptional language in and embarrassment to the to evaluate our membership in they can have more impact if the “sense of respect” during Israel as greedy. Lynk re- his report. UN. They produce about a the Human Rights Council. they remain in the organiza- Friday’s 37th session of the ferred to Israel and its role In addition to an oral dozen anti-Israel reports Our patience is not unlimited. tion and use their funding as statement before the Coun- annually, all flawed by inac- Today’s actions make clear leverage and place conditions cil, NGO Monitor published curate, unverified and false that the organization lacks on the aide money. European a report describing Lynk as reporting.” the credibility needed to be democracies have shown a unqualified for his position Herzberg also points out a true advocate for human profound lack of courage. The as Special Rapporteur. Ac- the UNHRC’s lack of transpar- rights,” Haley added. US should be encouraging cording to NGO Monitor, Lynk ency. 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The U.K. still at the UNHRC’s treatment of armaments to the Jewish supported two of the “Agenda Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. Israel and warned that the U.S. state. It passed by a vote of Item 7” resolutions. jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; would reconsider its member- 27 to 4 with 15 abstentions. Palestinian Authority Am- Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. ship in the body. Three additional resolu- bassador to the U.N. in Geneva Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, “When the Human Rights tions included one calling Ibrahim Khraishi said if Israel 321-777-2770. 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Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. “The United States contin- Jews in Judea and Samaria, Avigdor Lieberman said in a ues to evaluate our member- commonly referred to as the tweet that Israel “has no busi- betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. ship in the Human Rights West Bank, and a resolution ness being in the UN’s Human Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. Council. Our patience is not condemning Israel for com- Rights Council.” He stated congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. unlimited,” she added. “To- mitting human rights abuses that its “presence there gives Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; day’s actions make clear that against Palestinians. All the legitimacy to... anti-Semitic the organization lacks the resolutions, which were au- resolutions, and the farce Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. credibility needed to be a true thored by the Organization must end.” Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, Study on Jewish Day Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. School students Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. Cedarhurst, NY—The to maximize what technology to the broader landscape Digital Citizenship Project, has to offer by understanding of research on technology com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. a Cedarhurst based organi- how it’s inherent challenges use in the digital age and Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; zation dedicated to teaching impact them.” in particular to the Jewish www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. digital responsibility in the The study consists of 2027 education community, con- Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., age of technology has re- student surveys from 17 tinued Shapiro. leased their 2-year-long study Jewish Day Schools and Ye- Findings include, device Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. (2015—2017) on the digital shivot from across the United ownership rates, age of acqui- Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; life of Jewish Day School States. Respondents were sition, percentage of students www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th students. between grades 5 -12 and who have parental controls Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. “This study gives us the self-identified as either Or- activated, rules and policies quantitative data needed to thodox, Modern Orthodox, about technology at home, Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. address the growing challeng- Chabad or Conservative. “As device dependence, percent- Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- es and opportunities that digi- technology ownership and age of students disturbed by 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. tal technology presents in the habits amongst children are images and videos online as Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- world of education and Jewish very much socially driven, well as how students benefit education” said Temima Feld- it is critical to have com- from technology engagement. 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. man, associate director of The munity specific data that For more information on Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for Digital Citizenship Project. informs practice”, said lead The Digital Citizenship Proj- services and holiday schedules. “Our goal is to empower par- researcher Dr. Eli Shapiro. ect, please visit www.thedigi- Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303A N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation- ents, educators, and students “We are proud to contribute talcitizenship.com. sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv Israel delays deportation of Please call for times. Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- migrants to after Passover Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Temple Beth El (R), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-677-2484. JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is- Prior to that, the Popula- For now, deportation no- Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. rael’s deportation of African tion and Immigration Au- tices will not be issued to migrants will be delayed until thority notified the migrants women, children, fathers of Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat after Passover. that as of Jan. 1, they must children, anyone recognized service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. On Tuesday, the Supreme return to their own countries as a victim of slavery or human Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. Court agreed to a government or to a third nation, or be trafficking, and those who had mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; request for an extension on sent to jail until they are requested asylum by the end Thursday, 10:00 a.m. the court’s order for a brief to deported. According to the of 2017 but have not received outline the state’s deportation government plan, migrants a response, Haaretz reported. Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: policy and related issues to who choose to leave by March There are up to 40,000 Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. April 9. The original deadline 31 will receive a payment of Eritreans and Sudanese liv- Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. was March 26. $3,500 as well as free airfare ing in Israel, including 5,000 The state said it needed and other incentives, accord- children. Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; more time to respond to ing to reports. Human rights activists in Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. the court’s request for clari- They are believed to be Israel and major U.S. Jewish Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. fication of the policy and sent to Rwanda, and pos- organizations have urged Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach, 386-252-3097; Shabbat service, said it will submit classified sibly Uganda, according to the Israeli government not documents as part of its filing, reports, which also say that to go ahead with the plan to Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 10:30 a.m. which are believed to include the migrants’ rights have been force the migrants to choose Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. information on the African violated in the third country. between jail and deportation. templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by nation that Israel is deporting Torah study. them to. The state also said it likely Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road will grant refugee status to 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 Sudanese migrants from the p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. Nuba area, as well as 300 Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. refugees from Darfur. shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. The Supreme Court froze Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman the deportations in mid- Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, March in response to a peti- does most anything 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, tion. 7:30 p.m. In January, the Israeli Cabi- Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. net approved a plan and the Ricardo Torres — Handyman tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. budget to deport thousands 407-221-5482 of migrants from Sudan and (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa Eritrea. Available in Central Florida Area • References Available PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 6, 2018 Why did anti-BDS bill fail in Massachusetts when it succeeded in other states? By Rafael Medoff ing Discrimination in State froze the legislation for the He noted that since 2016, of the JCRC’s request, the New ‘More we could have Contracts, would have made foreseeable future. anti-BDS bills have been England Regional Council done to mobilize other (JNS) Legislation to combat it illegal for state agencies to Jeremy Burton, executive enacted almost exclusively in of Carpenters supported the groups’ the Boycott, Divestment and do more than $10,000 worth of director of the Jewish Com- states where the legislatures anti-BDS bill. “It’s troubling that the Sanction movement against business with companies that munity Relations Council are Republican-controlled or, Rev. Edwin Johnson of St. JCRC has managed to bus Israel has been adopted in discriminate on the basis of of Greater Boston, which in the case of New York and Mary’s Episcopal Church, in hundreds of Jews to rallies more than 20 states in recent national origin, including, by helped draft and promote the Maryland, where the governor Dorchester, Mass., who par- for other issues, but failed to years, but it was derailed last implication, Israeli national measure, told JNS that the used an executive order to ticipated in a JCRC-sponsored bring the manpower needed month in Massachusetts. Pro- origin. bill fell victim to “the overall combat BDS. study tour of Israel in 2015, for rallies or more substantial Israel activists are divided over The bill was referred “to political climate in [heavily Last year, the American told JNS that the JCRC “did lobbying at the State House the reasons why. study” by a regulatory over- Democratic] states, where Civil Liberties Union came out not ask me to take a position to fight BDS,” said Charles The Massachusetts bill, sight committee of the state anti-BDS legislation is seen as against anti-BDS legislation, [on the anti-BDS bill]. Did not Jacobs, head of the Boston- known as the Act Prohibit- legislature on Feb. 8. That conflicting with free speech.” claiming it could “chill pro- mention it at all.” based pro-Israel group Ameri- tected expression by scaring Burton pointed out that cans for Peace and Tolerance. people into self-censorship.” Rev. Dudley Rose, associate Jacobs believes that part of Although that position has dean of the Harvard Divinity the reason the JCRC was not as been challenged by many legal School, who took part in an forceful as it could have been is experts, the ACLU has filed earlier JCRC trip to Israel, did that its ranks include groups suit against anti-BDS mea- speak out in favor of the bill. such as the Workmen’s Circle, sures in a number of states. “There were contacts with which opposed the legislation. In Kansas, the ACLU filed our interfaith allies [regarding The broader problem, in suit against a recently enacted the bill], but I can’t discuss Jacobs’s view, is that JCRC Presents anti-BDS law on behalf of a my private conversations with leaders “are genuinely con- member of the Mennonite them,” Burton told JNS, add- fused by the fact that left-wing SAVVY SENIORS ISSUE Church USA, which promotes ing, “I don’t expect every one groups whose causes the JCRC divestment from Israel. A fed- of them to support us on every has always championed have eral judge issued a temporary one of our issues.” turned against Israel. If the May 11, 2018 injunction on Jan. 30 blocking He said that “we value our JCRC leadership can’t figure implementation of the law. long-term relationships with how to effectively respond, ‘Nuanced considerations them, and there are nuanced then the community needs Central Florida's Fastest Growing in each case’ considerations in each case leaders who can.” Some voices in the Boston that we have to weigh.” The JCRC’s Burton ac- Segment of the Jewish Community Jewish community charge Burton said he did not knowledged that “in retro- that the local JCRC did not recall whether or not his spect, there was more we do enough to promote the organization asked Harvard could have done to mobilize proposed legislation. In its University Law Professor Alan other groups, to make more coverage of the hearings Dershowitz, a prominent lo- public noise about the bill.” A new supplement for the new millennium, Savvy Seniors will provide concerning the bill, the Bos- cal opponent of BDS, to help But, he emphasized, “I don’t informative and thought provoking articles of interest to our growing ton-based Jewish Advocate promote the legislation. think it would have mattered senior population. reported that “no representa- Some in the Boston Jewish because people who know Seniors need and use a variety of products and services. Make sure tives of any non-Jewish groups community contend that the the Massachusetts legislative with whom JCRC collaborates JCRC made insufficient efforts process from the inside have your business is included on our reader's shopping list. spoke in favor of the bill.” in the period preceding the told us that there were just too Pam Wilmot, executive vote. “All Burton managed many obstacles to overcome.” director of Common Cause was a few blog posts and a He noted that a number of Massachusetts, with which desperate email blast the day legislators declined to sup- the JCRC has partnered on before the vote,” according to a port the bill as a result of the voter-registration legisla- Feb. 21 editorial in The Jewish Kansas court ruling. tion, confirmed to JNS that Advocate. “Burton obviously The JCRC has not yet her group took no position grossly overestimated the effi- decided if it will seek re- on the anti-BDS bill. Amy cacy of his online organizing, introduction of the Massa- Grunder, director of legisla- as well as JCRC’s clandestine chusetts bill. tive affairs for another JCRC politicking, if there was any.” “There needs to be a se- partner—the Massachusetts Former Boston Globe cor- rious conversation in the Immigrant and Refugee respondent Deborah Schuss, pro-Israel community about Advertising Deadline: Advocacy Coalition—told writing in The Jerusalem Post, what strategy can win over JNS that “we did discuss the argued that the defeat was liberal pro-Israel folks on is- May 2, 2018 bill [with the JCRC], and we due in part to the fact that sues like this,” acknowledged were asked if we would op- “communal organizations Burton. “At the same time, we pose the bill, and we said we supporting the bills failed to need to explore if there other FOR MORE INFORMATION, would not.” She added that mobilize advocates during legislative methods that can some coalition members did that period—a lethargy that be used to strengthen the CALL: 407-834-8787 oppose it. was not lost on members [of Israel-Massachusetts eco- Burton said that as a result the legislature].” nomic relationship.” PA applies for entry into eight treaties at UN

(JNS)—The Palestinian Ban Ki-moon accepted the Authority has filed official Palestinians entry into 10 requests this past week to join of the treaties as non-state eight international treaties, members. P.A. leader Mah- including the U.N.’s Inter- moud Abbas has vowed to national Convention against apply to 22 international Apartheid in Sports and the treaties, including 18 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation United Nations in December Treaty according to a report in 2017, following the official Israel’s Hadashot news. recognition by U.S. President Israeli Ambassador to the Donald Trump of Jerusalem as United Nations Danny Danon the capital of Israel. said the latest attempt by the The most recent applica- P.A. to raise its status within tions were reported just a day the international commu- after the U.N. Human Rights nity and delegitimize Israel Council adopted a slew of five is a campaign to “establish resolutions in condemna- facts on the ground by mak- tion of Israel, including one ing detours and unilateral which called on Israel to give moves.” the strategic Golan Heights In April 2014, the P.A. to civil war-torn Syria. All applied for membership to of the resolutions were pre- 15 international treaties, sented under “Agenda Item including the Convention on 7” by member countries of the Elimination of All Forms the Organization of Islamic of Discrimination against Cooperation. Women, the Fourth Geneva Israel is the only coun- Convention and the U.N. Con- try that has a permanently vention Against Corruption. dedicated agenda item at the Then U.N. Secretary-General council. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 6, 2018 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA

Netanyahu backtracks, States and Israel asked that The defense minister also The Jerusalem Post cited “I’m not sure how, in the On Friday, Israel’s presi- suspending African mi- the discussion be postponed asserted that Israel would act unnamed Israeli sources as future, most terror victims dent, Reuven Rivlin, sent a grants deal he praised to Saturday due to beginning more forcefully if the violent saying that there are photos will be able to proceed suc- letter of condolence to the hours earlier of the Passover holiday and protests continued. and videos to back the Israel cessfully with a suit under the Knoll family. (JTA)—Israeli Prime Min- the first seder night. On Saturday night Liber- Defense Forces claim that Anti-Terrorism Act,” she said. “On behalf of all of Israel, I ister Benjamin Netanyahu is “While Jews around the man tweeted: “I do not under- it only fired on violent pro- The PLO in a statement send our sincere condolences. freezing an agreement made world gathered with their stand the choir of hypocrites testers who posed a threat praised the decision. “This The fact that this terrible with the United Nations family at the Seder table to who are calling for a com- to the border fence, Israeli decision reaffirms the vital incident took place merely that would have relocated celebrate the Passover holi- mission of inquiry. They got troops or civilian Israelis. relationship between the two weeks before the date thousands of African asylum day, the Palestinians sunk confused and thought Hamas The evidence will be shown Palestinian and American when we mark Holocaust Re- seekers to Western countries. to a new deceitful low so organized a Woodstock festi- to international officials people, which depends on membrance Day and mourn Just hours after announc- that they could use the U.N. val and we had to meet them who accused Israel of using mutual respect and, as im- the victims compounds the ing and praising the agree- to spread lies about Israel,” with flowers.” disproportionate force, ac- portantly, on respect for the heartbreak,” Rivlin said in ment, Netanyahu said Mon- Israel’s ambassador to the At least 30,000 Palestin- cording to the report. rule of law,” Husam Zomlot, the letter. day that he needed to consult U.N., Danny Danon, said in ians protested at six points But one video clip being the PLO envoy to Washing- Knoll, 85, who escaped with residents of South Tel a statement. along the Gaza border with widely distributed by news ton, said. deportation to a Nazi death Aviv before carrying it out. “This shameful exploita- Israel on Friday to mark Land outlets, the Palestinians and Several administrations, camp when French police Many of the migrants reside tion of our holiday will not Day, which has been observed on social media shows an including President Donald rounded up Jews in Paris in in that region of the Israeli succeed in stopping us from by Palestinians around the 18-year-old Palestinian man Trump’s, worried that such 1942 by escaping to Portugal, city. speaking the truth about world since 1976, when six shot in the back and killed by lawsuits could undermine returned to Paris and spent In the agreement an- the Hamas terror-gatherings Israeli Arabs were killed Israeli snipers while running American foreign policy most of her life living in the nounced earlier Monday with that aim to destabilize the and another 100 injured in away from the border fence. interests. U.S. Solicitor Gen- apartment in eastern Paris the U.N. High Commission region,” he also said. clashes on March 30 with It is not known what actions eral Noel Francisco sided where she was killed. for Refugees, Israel would Hamas said the lack of a Israeli soldiers and police the fleeing Palestinian man with the PLO in February, Trump wishes Jewish have allowed thousands of resolution from the Security during protests over the took before he was shot. drawing rebukes from con- community a Happy African migrants to stay in Council about the border expropriation of Arab-owned Pope Francis calls for servatives, including some of Passover the country for up to five clashes due to the U.S. rejec- land in northern Israel by the peace in the Holy Land the Trump administration’s (JTA)—U.S. President years. The rest, some 16,000 tion showed that Washington state for housing for Jewish on Easter most steadfast Jewish com- Donald Trump offered holi- or so, would have been settled is “fully biased” for Israel citizens. (JTA)—Pope Francis called munity defenders. Lawmak- day greetings for Passover. in countries such as Canada, and said it was “encouraging This year’s protests have for peace in the Holy Land ers in Congress from both “During the sacred holiday Germany and Italy. Israel to commit more vio- been dubbed the March of saying the violence between parties had urged the Trump of Passover, Jewish families The plan put Netanyahu lence and terrorism against Return, and are set to be fol- Israel and the Palestinians administration to back the around the world give thanks under fire from several con- Palestinian children” lowed by six weeks of protest “does not spare the defense- plaintiffs. to God for liberating the Jew- servative politicians, includ- The head of the Palestinian at the border until May 15, less.” “The United States has in ish people from bondage in ing some in his own Likud Authority’s delegation to the the date on the Gregorian Francis’ Easter address, effect assented to the juris- Egypt and delivering them to party. Naftali Bennett, head United States in a statement calendar marking 70 years known as Urbi et Orbi, or to dictional hurdles imposed the promised land of Israel,” of the right-wing Jewish issued on Saturday called since the establishment of the city and the world, was by the [appeals court], which Trump said in a greeting re- Home party, said it would the killing of the at least 16 the state of Israel, which the delivered Sunday from the will prevent many if not most leased on Friday, which also “turn Israel into a paradise Palestinian demonstrators a Arab world calls the Nakba, balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica victims of international ter- was combined with Easter for infiltrators.” crime against humanity. or catastrophe. It is also the at the Vatican, two days after rorism from suing to hold greetings. Netanyahu will also meet “Our legitimate protest date by which the Trump at least 15 Palestinians were their terrorist attackers ac- He said in his message with Interior Secretary Aryeh against Israeli military oc- administration has pledged killed and hundreds injured countable,” the ZOA said at released on YouTube that Deri, head of the religious cupation, colonization and to move the U.S. Embassy on the border between Israel the time. the sacred celebrations of Shas party, before reconsider- apartheid is granted in inter- to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. and Gaza. Sokolow told JTA in an Passover and Easter “remind ing the agreement, according national law and must be pro- The six weeks of protest The pope called for “recon- interview at the time that us that God’s love redeems The Times of Israel. tected by the international are set to include several tent ciliation for the Holy Land,” he was shocked by the so- the world.” US blocks UN Security community,” Dr. Husam camps housing thousands which he said was “experienc- licitor general’s filing, cit- Trump also quoted the Council resolution call- Zomlot said. He added that of protesters living near the ing in these days the wounds ing Trump’s invocations of book of Isaiah: “For, behold, ing for investigation of “the 70-year-old practice of border. of ongoing conflict that do “America first” when it comes darkness shall cover the Gaza border violence Israel’s shoot-to-kill policy The Israeli army on Sat- not spare the defenseless.” to foreign policy. earth, and gross darkness the (JTA)—The United States and dehumanization of the urday evening announced Francis also prayed for The Trump administra- peoples; but upon thee the blocked a United Nations Palestinian people must end that at least 10 of those killed peace for “the entire world, tion said last month that it Lord will arise, and His glory Security Council statement and Israeli criminals must in the Friday clashes were beginning with the beloved “sympathizes deeply” with shall be seen upon thee… calling for an investigation be brought to justice. These “known terrorists with track and long-suffering land of the families, but the case the Lord shall be unto thee of Israel’s use of force against atrocities deserve the stron- records of terrorist activity.” Syria, whose people are worn does not meet the standards an everlasting light” (Isaiah Palestinians who massed on gest condemnation from the The IDF spokesman also re- down by an apparently end- for Supreme Court review. 60:2, 20). Gaza’s border. US government and action to leased photos of the ten men less war.” Netanyahu calls son of The president concluded: The statement proposed on uphold international law.” and information about their US Supreme Court deals murdered Holocaust “In America, we look to the Saturday by Kuwait called for European Union foreign terrorist activity. ‘terrible blow’ to fami- survivor in Paris to of- light of God to guide our an “independent and trans- policy chief Federica Mogh- “Hamas operatives cam- lies suing the PLO fer condolences steps. We trust in the power parent investigation” of the erini said in a statement ouflage themselves among WASHINGTON (JTA)— JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israe- of the almighty for wisdom Israel Defense Forces use of about Friday’s violence that civilians, turning a protest The U.S. Supreme Court li Prime Minister Benjamin and strength and we praise live fire, rubber bullets and “Freedom of expression and from peaceful to an area of dealt a setback to victims of Netanyahu called the son our heavenly father for other crown control methods freedom of assembly are fun- terror,” the IDF spokesman terrorism seeking the right to of an 85-year-old Holocaust the blessings of freedom to push back the estimated damental rights that must be said in a tweet. sue the Palestine Liberation survivor from Paris who was and the gift of eternal life. up to 30,000 Palestinians in respected.” Earlier Saturday, Hamas Organization. burned and found dead with Happy Passover, Happy six spots along the border. The statement also said: publicly acknowledged that The court declined Monday 11 stab wounds in what is Easter.” Some of the Palestinians “The EU mourns the loss of five members of its military to consider an appeal of a de- being called an anti-Semitic Steven Bochco, Emmy- threw firebombs and rocks, life. Our thoughts are with wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qas- cision in a case known as So- attack. winning creator of ‘Hill and planted explosives on the the families of the victims. sam Brigades, were among kolow v. Palestine Liberation Netanyahu on Sunday Street Blues’ and ‘LA border, according to the IDF. The use of live ammunition those killed in the clashes. Organization. The plaintiffs spoke with Daniel Knoll, the Law,’ dies at 74 The statement also ex- should, in particular, be The bodies of two of the won $656 million in a 2015 son of Mireille Knoll, who was (JTA)—Steven Bochco, the pressed “grave concern at part of an independent and Hamas gunmen report- federal jury verdict, but it was found dead in her apartment Emmy-winning television the situation at the border” transparent investigation. edly are being held in Israeli overturned a year later by an on March 23. writer and producer who was and reiterated that he Pal- While Israel has the right to custody. appellate court. “The people of Israel and responsible for iconic series estinians have the right to protect its borders, the use of Israel’s Foreign Ministry The court upheld that the State of Israel is with such as “Hill Street Blues,” “peaceful protest.” force must be proportionate in a statement issued on appeal. you. This was a shocking “NYPD Blue” and “L.A. Law,” At least 15 Palestinians at all times.” Saturday said that the bor- The lead plaintiff, Mark murder,” the prime minister has died. were killed and more than Israeli soldiers ‘did der fence between Israel and Sokolow, his wife and two of reportedly said during the Bochco died Sunday at his 1,000 injured during the what was necessary’ on Gaza “separates a state that his daughters were injured in phone call. “The story of home following a years-long Friday clashes along Israel’s Gaza border, defense protects its citizens from a Jerusalem suicide bombing your dear mother, who was battle with leukemia. He had southern border with Gaza. minister says murderers who send their in 2002 that killed an 81-year- cruelly taken, is a reminder received a stem cell trans- Following the meeting JERUSALEM (JTA)—Isra- people into danger. The fence old man. His fellow plaintiffs for us that the struggles of plant from an anonymous on Saturday, United Nations el’s Defense Minister Avigdor separates an army that uses are families of victims of ter- our people are still before us.” donor in 2014, according to Secretary-General Antonio Liberman asserted that there force in self-defense and in rorist attacks in Israel that At least 10,000 people the Hollywood Reporter. He Guterres said in a statement will not be an international a focused and proportionate killed 33, including several participated in a memorial was 74. that an impartial and trans- inquiry into the Gaza border manner, from Hamas, which Americans, and wounded march in Paris on Wednesday The winner of 10 Emmy parent investigation must be clashes that left at least 15 has for years—including yes- over 450. for Knoll; many of the march- Awards and four Peabodys, conducted into the deaths Palestinians dead and hun- terday—been trying to harm Their suit argued that the ers were Jewish. Earlier the Bochco also created the pop- and injuries of Palestinian dreds injured. millions of Israelis, and which late PLO Chairman Yasser same day, French President ular series “Doogie Howser, protesters during the Friday “Israeli soldiers did what sanctifies murder and death.” Arafat had paid attackers Emmanuel Macron attended M.D,” starring Neil Patrick Land Day clashes. “He also was necessary. I think all Israeli Prime Minister and their families, and that Knoll’s funeral in the Paris Harris. appeals to those concerned our soldiers deserve a medal,” Benjamin Netanyahu in a they had standing to sue his suburb of Bagneux. He wore Bochco worked on “Hill to refrain from any act that Lieberman told Army Radio statement issued on Saturday organization under the 1992 a kippah and was seen talk- Street Blues” at MTM Enter- could lead to further casu- Sunday. “As for a commis- night praised the country’s Anti-Terrorism Act. ing with Knoll’s friends and prises, a production company alties and in particular any sion of inquiry—there won’t soldiers for “guarding the Susan Tuchman, the di- relatives. started by Mary Tyler Moore, measures that could place be one.” country’s borders and al- rector of the Center for Law Two men, including one for five of seven seasons, civilians in harm’s way,” a Liberman said that Israeli lowing Israeli citizens to and Justice of the Zionist of her neighbors, have been during which time it won 26 spokesperson for the Secre- soldiers did not fire on peace- celebrate the holiday quietly.” Organization of America, said indicted in connection with Emmys. The Jewish writer tary General said. fully protesting Palestinians “Israel acts firmly and with in an email that the Supreme what is being tried as a and producer later formed the The Security Council first and only targeted those who determination to protect its Court’s decision was a “ter- murder with aggravated cir- Steve Bochco Productions met in a closed meeting on charged the border fence in sovereignty and the security rible blow” for those seeking cumstances of a hate crime. company. Friday night to discuss the an attempt to breach it or to of its citizens,” Netanyahu to hold backers of terrorism They are also charged with violence even after the United plant explosives there. also said. accountable. robbery. JTA on page 14A PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 6, 2018 These North American baby boomers teach Israeli kids English don, a Canadian with Israeli have schools where we are the “They didn’t choose to parents who taught Hebrew in English program—we do not be born into this conflict,” Ottawa. A former classmate of recommend that.” Gordon said of the students. Gordon who taught English English is usually a key part “They didn’t choose to go to in Israel told her about some of the school curriculum in Is- the army in two years. We of her Arab-Israeli students rael, and is viewed as a gateway should just be empathetic to who were struggling to pick to cultural exposure, academ- their reality.” up what would be their third ic excellence and professional But Gordon emphasizes language. So Gordon matched success. Students in Israeli that the point of the pro- them with Canadian seniors high schools receive four to gram is to rigorously teach she knew who could tutor five hours of English educa- English, not just to create them from afar. tion per week, and an entire informal video pen pals. Most Since then, Israel Connect section of Israel’s version of of the students’ chats hap- has mushroomed. It spread the SAT is devoted to English pen while they’re at school, to Toronto and a few areas in proficiency. But Gordon said under a teacher’s supervision. the United States, from New most of the students’ practical Gordon said that out of 300 Jersey to Baltimore to Florida. knowledge of English comes alumni of the program, all but It now has 400 volunteer tu- from pop culture. four scored over 90 percent on tors, mostly baby boomers “They watch a lot of TV and the English comprehension and older, and 500 Israeli listen to a lot of music,” she said. section of the standardized high school students from “It’s not uncommon for them to test. 35 schools. Gordon said baby show up the first week and [as] “They’re more confident in boomers are a good fit because they’re talking with a retired reading, in their interactions they wake up early and tend dentist or brain surgeon, they’ll talking with the volunteers,” to have free time. say, ‘Hey, what’s up, dude.’ And said Ofira Mor, a teacher at The schools are mostly on the teacher will say, ‘We start Koskas’ high school. “They Israel’s periphery—smaller with ‘Hi, how are you?’” have a wider vocabulary.” An Israeli high school student videoconferences with a North American baby boomer for and often poorer towns that The core of Israel Connect’s But volunteers say that a weekly English lesson. are distant from Jerusalem curriculum is the one-page aside from the tutoring, they and Tel Aviv The students handouts on Israeli locales, enjoy having direct exposure By Ben Sales the snow outside his window, them to North American cul- themselves come from a which come with pictures. to life in Israel through the particulars of the local ture (she now knows how to range of religious, ethnic and Volunteers will help the young people’s eyes. Beverly (JTA)—There’s no reason malls. Koskas says she now pronounce “read” in the past socioeconomic backgrounds. students read through the Grostern, a volunteer from Hodaya Koskas and Barrett understands that in Canada, tense, for example). Gordon said she has a waiting paragraphs, and then will Ottawa, took her first trip to Brickell would know each people hit the malls with a “I want to find out about list of 100 schools that want to discuss them before pivoting Israel in decades after a year other. bigger bag than in Israel, so their personal lives,” said join, and is hoping to expand to casual conversation. of tutoring an Israeli girl. Koskas, 14, is a high school they can buy more stuff. Brickell, who taught fifth and her volunteer base. The only restriction Gordon “It’s reintroduced me to Is- student from a small city in “I feel a connection to sixth grade for nearly 20 years, “Most of our volunteers are gives is to avoid politics. Some raeli life, to their food, to their central Israel who takes bal- another world,” Koskas told and now tutors three kids as connecting with students in of the participating schools attitude,” she said. “They’re let classes and hopes to be a JTA of the conversations. “I part of Israel Connect. “I end towns they’ve never heard of are in West Bank settlements, like your typical teenager any- dancer. Brickell, 71, is a retired talk about what’s done there up liking them a lot. The time before,” said Gordon, who now and Gordon stresses that the where. I ask them something, schoolteacher from Ottawa, and what’s polite there. We I get to spend with young co-directs the organization program does not take politi- what’s your favorite activity, Canada. talked about how they shop people is very meaningful to full-time with her husband. cal positions and aims to serve what do you like to do, and But they’ve been video and how we shop.” me, and I have a feeling that “We take the ones that have Israeli kids regardless of where nine out of 10 it’s like, ‘I like chatting every week since The Israeli teen and the Ca- they enjoy it.” the strongest need. Some of they are. Retired doctors are to go shopping, I like to visit September. The unlikely pair- nadian retiree are participants The program began in 2011 the schools we work in don’t also told not to provide medi- my grandmother, I like my ing begins by having Koskas in Israel Connect, a program as a side project of Sarah Gor- have English teachers. We cal advice. computer.’” read a one-page English de- where older North American scription of a place in Israel, adults tutor Israeli kids in perhaps the Western Wall or English once a week via video JTA a mall. Then they shift into chat. For seniors like Brickell, From page 13A directed by Steven Spielberg, in 1971 that he wrote and I Bochco was born in talking about their lives. the program is a relatively easy and with that came the first directed,” Spielberg said in a New York and attended Koskas talks about an way to connect with Israel and He had his first job at Uni- of 34 Emmy nominations, statement. “We have support- the High School of Music upcoming ballet competition help kids. For kids like Koskas, versal after graduating from according to the Hollywood ed and inspired each other and Art in Manhattan, that, if she wins, could lead to the sessions expand their Carnegie Mellon University Reporter. He stayed at Uni- ever since, and through many where he sang. His father, a trip to New York City. Barrett vocabulary, improve their in Pittsburgh in 1966 with a versal for 12 years. deep mutual friendships we Rudolph, was a violinist, talks about life in Canada— pronunciation and introduce theater degree and worked on “Steve was a friend and a have stayed connected for and his mother, Mimi, “Columbo” for a few seasons. colleague starting with the 47 years. I will miss Steve was a painter and jewelry 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 F I L A A G A S S I O T C The first episode he wrote was first episode of ‘Columbo’ terribly.” designer. 14 15 16 A D I N R E L O A D P O H 17 18 19 R I C K M O R A N I S E L I Friedman 20 21 22 worked for the Jewish Federa- strategy for the Federation Israel and Russia, and Zionist E L A D N I T B R I E From page 1A 23 24 25 26 tion of Palm Beach County and increased the visibility education and advocacy. A S N E R Z A C H B R A F F the organization, which in- as Israel and global initia- of Palm Beach’s global impact Friedman is expected to 27 28 29 30 creased student engagement tives associate. While there through large-scale, innova- begin his duties at Stetson B U S S K I E A S E S 31 32 33 34 35 by 20 percent. Prior to that he he designed a new branding tive programs, delegations to on April 30. A B E T A T P E E K 36 37 38 39 40 J E R R Y S E I N F E L D 41 42 43 44 O U S P R O D O E S Asylum 45 46 47 48 49 50 From page 5A Last year they started using ing whether their relatives are us, it gives us inspiration. A L E P H A S P B L T chemical weapons. This is still alive. If you live in Israel, Only you can protect us now 51 52 53 54 55 56 S E T H R O G A N O A S I S If these people are not what has already been hap- they travel next to you on the that we have lost hope in 57 58 59 considered refugees in Israel, pening on a daily basis in the bus, they wash your dishes in every other direction. Please L A C Y G O D S U I T than who is? Nuba Mountains and the Blue the restaurant in which you don’t shut the door in our 60 61 62 63 64 A S H B R A D G A R R E T T Believe me, it is not pleas- Nile region. will eat tomorrow and they faces. Don’t let this disaster 65 66 67 ant for anyone to leave his In fact, just a week ago, on clean the streets on which happen. N E E Y E L L E N E R O S country, his house and his March 22, the area in which you walk. And all the while, Monim Harun is a Suda- 68 69 70 T D S E S S E N E R S V P family, and to go in search of I was born and raised was at- they are living in constant nese asylum seeker, com- asylum in a place he does not tacked again. Dozens of people fear for the lives of the people munity activist and a mem- know. One will only do this if were killed, most of whom are they love. ber of the African Students he has come to the conclusion women and children. We understand that the Organization in Israel based that an unknown future in a There are many more like government of Israel does in Jerusalem. foreign land is better than a me in Israel, people whose not want us here, but we have The views and opinions certain death now. families are being attacked nowhere else to go. expressed in this article are The area in Darfur from every day in the Nuba Moun- Therefore, our last and those of the author and do not where I originated has been tains, the Blue Nile region and only hope lies with the Is- necessarily reflect the views of attacked many times by in Darfur, asylum seekers who raeli people and the Jewish JTA or its parent company, 70 the Sudanese government. wake up every day not know- nation. When you stand with Faces Media. Food From page 8A effective policy measures products this year, which is thrown away instead of be- to reduce social gaps in the is taken directly out of the ing donated to the needy—is “Israel, more than any economy, and it is a critical consumer’s pocket.” a serious failure on economic, other country, has an eco- oversight that the govern- “Surplus food in the retail social and environmental nomic advantage in rescuing ment has not yet formulated and distribution sectors is levels.” food, due to the combination a comprehensive national inevitable since retailers are One way that Americans of high expenditure on food plan to rescue food.” required to ensure a wide, can support food rescue for and the growing levels of He went on to point out varied and readily available the needy in Israel is to shop inequality across the demo- that “retail chains and food food supply at all times,” said Amazon with Amazon Smile. graphic,” said Herzog. “Food manufacturers lost NIS 3.5 the economist. “However, the For more information, rescue is one of the most billion [$1 billion] worth of reality—in which excess food please visit: www.leket.org. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 6, 2018 PAGE 15A domestic problem—is how Act, and what impact you to the Palestinians that the A: It’s very important crimes is very antithetical to Dershowitz to resolve disputes between hope it will make regarding world and the United States for [Israeli Prime Minister democracy, and I’m strongly From page 3A the haredi community and the United States and the will not tolerate the Palestin- Benjamin] Netanyahu to be opposed [to it]. the modern Orthodox com- Palestinians? ians talking out of both sides able to continue with the Q: What are your hopes for Democratic Party—to try to munity, and the secular com- A: The Taylor Force Act is of their mouths: on the one work he’s doing in terms Israel’s next seven decades? strengthen the Democratic munity. That is a very, very mostly symbolic. It sends a hand, nominally condemning of diplomatic successes on A: For Israel to get even Party’s approach to Israel. But serious issue. And number powerful message that the terrorism; and on the other behalf of Israel with China, stronger. I can imagine what it’s a real challenge. three: how to make peace United States will not toler- hand, naming streets and Russia, with South Africa the peace dividend would be Q: What are Israel’s current with the Palestinians, to make ate Palestinian terrorism, parks glorifying terrorism and and Africa, and I strongly if Israel were allowed to turn challenges at 70 years? some kind of compromised whether from Hamas or from glorifying terrorists. So the oppose what I call the its swords into plowshares, its A: I think the biggest chal- peace with the Palestinians. the West Bank, and that the Palestinian leadership has to criminalization of political nuclear weapons into nuclear lenge is Iran, both a nuclear Those are the issues facing Palestinian Authority has to make a decision about which differences. If people don’t medicine. The peace dividend Iran and [Iranian-supported] Israel today. do a lot more to constrain it side of the terrorism issue it’s like what Netanyahu is would be incredible. And that’s Hezbollah to Israel’s north. Q: As a legal expert, can and condemn it, and not to on. It can’t be on both sides. doing, then they will vote why I am a strong supporter of Another challenge facing Is- you comment on the current promote it. I think a very pow- Q: What is your take on against him. But the idea of Israel and a strong supporter rael—one that is really Israel’s status of the Taylor Force erful message needs to be sent Netanyahu’s legal woes? turning what he’s done into of the peace process. Glick From page 4A multiple ships suspected of in its adoration of diplomacy Iraq in 2003. But it is also true as America’s most powerful antithetical to American transferring illicit weapons over a firm, fact-based pur- that he opposed the nation- ally in the Middle East. He op- national security interests. with North Korea, preserves, systems to other states and suit of America’s national building strategy that stood poses Palestinian statehood Bolton’s healthy skep- rather than dismantles, Iran’s to non-state actors. interests lies at the heart of at the root of America’s failure and an Israeli withdrawal ticism for international nuclear program while provid- Like Trump, Bolton is an the foreign policy establish- to achieve its aims there. from the West Bank. agreements; his support ing Iran with the financial opponent of international ment’s opposition to him. It is also true that like Bolton rejects the notion for a foreign policy that means to expand its regional treaties that bind the U.S. Indeed, the level of hos- many of the neoconserva- that American values are prioritizes the advance- power through its terrorist in a manner that may be an- tility the foreign policy tives, Bolton is a firm sup- universally applicable, and ment of American national proxies. tithetical to its national in- establishment has directed porter of Israel. However, argues that nation building interests over multilateral On the other hand, terests, and prefers bilateral toward Bolton over the years Bolton is actually far more and humanitarian interven- diplomacy; and his belief that Bolton’s actions while in agreements that are tailor- has been so ferocious, it is a supportive of Israel than the tion are both antithetical to Obama’s signature diplomat- office brought extraordi- made to defend America’s na- testament to his diplomatic neoconservatives are. As a American national security ic achievement, the nuclear nary benefit to US national tional interests. Bolton was skills, and success, that he nationalist, he supports U.S. interests. Bolton’s opposi- deal with Iran, is a disaster, security. For instance, as a firm opponent of the Rome has managed to persevere allies because he understands tion to nation-building and all make him the senior Bush’s undersecretary of Treaty, which established in Washington, in and out that the stronger America’s humanitarian interven- diplomat most aligned with state for arms control and the International Criminal of office for 40 years. allies are, the better able tionism was all borne out President Trump’s America international security, in Court. He worked avidly to As to the second charge they are to defend their by events. As the so-called First agenda in Washington. 2003 Bolton conceptualized vacate America’s signature by conservative critics, that interests. Since American Arab Spring showed—and Given the hatred Bolton and launched the Prolifera- from the treaty. Due largely Bolton is a neoconservative allies—particularly Israel— indeed, as Turkey’s demo- inspires in the Washington tion Security Initiative. The to his cogent opposition, interventionist, the fact is share America’s interests, cratic transformation into swamp, it took great courage purpose of the PSI was to the Bush administration de- that he is neither a neocon- the more powerful they are, an Islamic theocracy also for Trump to appoint him. empower nations to interdict cided not to submit the treaty servative nor is he a knee- the more secure America’s demonstrates—American America and its allies will be ships suspected of carry- to the Senate for ratification. jerk interventionist. Rather, interests are, and the less values are not universal the primary beneficiaries of ing weapons of mass de- Bolton concluded 100 bilat- Bolton supports the judi- the U.S. needs to assert its values at all. Supporting this bold move. struction, delivery systems, eral treaties with nations cious use of American power power abroad. Bolton urged democratic processes with Caroline Glick is the and related materials from committing them never to in the world to advance U.S. Israel to destroy Iran’s nucle- no concern about the values senior Middle East Fellow states and non-state actors present complaints against national security and eco- ar installations during the and culture those processes at the Center for Security of proliferation concern. U.S. military personnel be- nomic interests when the Obama presidency. Rather empower is unwise and Policy in Washington, D.C.; Originally launched with 11 fore the tribunal. use of force is the best way than treating Israel as what irresponsible, and as the the deputy managing editor state members, today the PSI Bolton’s nationalist con- to achieve those interests. Rice referred to patroniz- rise of Islamist regimes in of The Jerulsaem Post; and has 105 state members. Its victions, and his refusal to It is true that Bolton sup- ingly as America’s “special Gaza, Egypt, Turkey, and a contributor to the Jewish members have interdicted join the foreign policy elite ported the U.S. invasion of friend,” Bolton views Israel beyond make clear, it is also World Review. AIPAC From page 5A polling. While the shift of the There is also no evidence tanyahu or settlements has Europe, is very different. But ments—not even decades of Democratic Party to the left is that Trump’s willingness done so, or that the youth of hard as it may be for the Jewish Palestinian propaganda or What conclusions can we troubling, the numbers also to move the United States America will eventually reject state’s critics to accept, Ameri- anti-Semitism masquerading draw from this survey? dictate that those competing closer to Israel after President Israel once their elders die. cans care deeply for Israel. as anti-Zionism—can change The most important one is for that party’s presidential Obama’s eight years of seek- This shouldn’t breed com- Support for it isn’t the result that. that the idea that the pro-Israel nomination in 2020 must ing more “daylight” between placency among advocates of a conspiracy or campaign Jonathan S. Tobin is editor consensus is fading is bunk. realize that smart politics will the allies has discredited the for Israel, and it must be fundraising. Americans love in chief of JNS—the Jewish Israel is as popular as it has ever compel them to stay firmly in pro-Israel cause. Nor is there understood that the situa- Israel, period. And Trump, News Syndicate. Follow him on been in the history of American the pro-Israel camp. any reason to think that Ne- tion elsewhere, especially in Netanyahu, Israeli settle- Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin. March From page 7A “Tomorrow I will pray with “We saw the SWAT team...,” night. “We stayed with him color,” said Rachel Berlowe OUR CHILDREN,” read one my feet, and with every step, I Rumsky said. all night waiting for Alyssa’s Binder, a Duke Univer- placard, using a salty Yiddish It took 21 hours for 75 will think of those few hours “We heard the gun- name to be said on the news, sity student speaking at the term for the elderly.) teens to bus in from Minne- a month ago when I didn’t shots...,” Renert said. so we would be there.” NFTY event. “The death rate Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of apolis-St. Paul. They turned know if my friends were alive “My sister Sophie was in The disciplined message, from gun violence is 10 times the Orthodox Ohev Shalom up outfitted in T-shirts that or dead.” the middle school,” Good- delivered to lawmakers on higher than among white Synagogue in Washington were colored orange for gun And so they grieved by man said. “I had no idea what Friday, honed at the NFTY children.” planned to walk the more control and read #Dayenu, “it telling their stories. was going on.” event on Saturday and reiter- One of the speeches that than seven miles from his would have been enough” in “I will not stand idly by They slowed down and got ated again and again by the drew the loudest cheers was shul to the rally with 75 Hebrew. the blood of my classmates,” back to what brought them speakers at the main event by Naomi Wadler, 11, from kids from around the coun- At an event in a ballroom survivor Zoe Fox-Snider told to Washington. on Pennsylvania Avenue, was Alexandria, Virginia. try spending Shabbat with deep in the bowels of Wash- the marchers gathered in “Those people we lost on multi-pronged. It called for a “I am here today to ac- his community. Jews and ington’s Marriott Marquis the hotel ballroom Saturday that day, that’s who we’re ban on the purchase and sale knowledge and represent Muslims Acting Together hotel in the hours before morning, paraphrasing Le- here for,” Rumsky said. of assault weapons, on the the African-American girls also planned on marching, the march, the NFTY lead- viticus 19:16, “after spending “It hit home so hard,” sale of high-capacity maga- whose stories don’t make the according to an organizer, ership—as with the wider two-and-a-half hours fear- Renert said. zines, the institution of uni- front page of every national Walter Ruby, carrying sings demonstration, the Jewish ing for my life in the storage “We have a lot of nervous versal background checks for newspaper,” said Wadler, reading “Quran and Talmud presence was largely orga- room of the media center.” energy,” Goodman said. gun purchasers, and ending who is African-American say, ‘If you save one life, you nized by teenagers—gave The evening before at “We’re using this as an background check exemp- and Jewish. “I represent the save the world.’ Prevent Gun them permission to vent. Washington Hebrew, she outlet.” tions for purchases online African-American women Violence Now!” “We march today because told congregants about her Rumsky later drew a and at gun shows. who are victims of violence, Friday night’s interfaith it’s what we have to do to thoughts in the storeroom. placard reading “NRA, stop There was plenty of glitz who are simply statistics service at the National sleep tonight,” said Zoe “I was forced to text my killing my friends.” at the march itself, including instead of vibrant, beauti- Cathedral began with the Terner, the social action mom, ‘I love you and ev- Marlee Gordon, a coun- performances by Broadway ful girls who are full of Washington Children’s Choir vice president for NFTY’s eryone. This is real,’” she selor at Camp Coleman, the stars Lin-Manuel Miranda potential.” singing “Al Shlosha Dvarim,” Southern Tropical Region. recalled. Union for Reform Judaism and Ben Platt, by rapper There were the moments a Hebrew song about the “This is how we grieve.” At a media opportunity camp in Georgia attended Common and by pop stars of faith. Marchers spilled out three pillars of Jewish faith. Five of the slain at Stone- organized by NFTY, Stone- by a number of Stoneman Miley Cyrus and Ariana of churches along Pennsyl- Rabbi Jonah Pesner, the man Douglas were Jewish man Douglas students Talia Douglas High students, re- Grande. (The survivors vania Avenue. Edna Chavez, director of the Reform move- and the school is estimated Rumsky, 16, Charlie Good- membered when she heard on stage, who sounded so who lost her brother to ment’s Religious Action Cen- to be 40 percent Jewish. man, 15, and Kayla Renert, that Alyssa Alhadeff was wizened, became kids again gun violence in south Los ter, delivered a sermon based Terner, 18, attends high 15, started an interview by among the missing and when Grande finished sing- Angeles, crossed herself as on Yom Kippur’s Al Cheit, a school in nearby Delray talking about the Jewish presumed dead. Alhadeff had ing “Be Alright,” rushing she walked on stage. Some recitation of communal sins. Beach and has made friends values that brought them to been a Coleman camper un- her for selfies, which she Jewish marchers held signs “’Al Chet Shechatanu from Stoneman Douglas the march. But Renert soon der another friend’s charge. accommodated with a grin.) emblazoned with words Lifanecha’—for being un- through the movement. lapsed into remembering the “He refused to believe she There was an acutely from Leviticus 19:16) “Do derstandably outraged by a The night before, at a day, and the others started had died,” recalled Gordon, self-aware sense of why they not stand idly by while mass shooting in an affluent, Shabbat service at Washing- talking over her. 19, who along with two other were able to attract that star your neighbor’s blood is majority white community, ton Hebrew Congregation “We had to run past the friends at the University power. shed.” (Not all the signs and being all too silent when in the capital’s Northwest middle school ...,” Renert of Georgia kept her fellow “Gun violence dispropor- were so reverential. “ALTE children of color are mur- quadrant, Terner pledged: said. counselor company that tionately affects people of KAHKERS STAND WITH dered every day,” he said. PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 6, 2018 Shock and emotion follow barbaric murder of Holocaust survivor in Paris By Yossi Lempkowicz A Holocaust survivor, Knoll a second man, according to “Twenty years ago, I left The Paris prosecutor said, had managed to evade as a Le Figaro. Paris knowing that neither “We do not dismiss any (EJP / Exclusive to JNS child the 1942 Vel d’Hiv Nazi- A family member of Mireille my future nor that of the hypothesis. A preliminary via JNS)—The umbrella rep- directed roundup by French Knoll said she suspected a Jewish People is to be found examination of the elements resentative body of French police of more than 13,000 neighbor who used to come to there,” wrote Goldfarb, who of the crime does not reveal an Jewish organizations, known Jews who were sent to Nazi see her and was in the apart- lives in Herzliya, Israel. “But anti-Semitic characteristic, as Crif, has called for a death camps. ment during the day. It is this who would’ve thought that but this possibility has not rally on Wednesday in Paris Her murder, one year after man, born in 1989, who was I was leaving my relatives been discounted as police in memory of Mireille Knoll, a similar crime against Sarah placed Saturday in custody. where terrorism and cruelty investigate further,” said a an 85-year-old Jewish woman Halimi, a 66-year-old Jewish “Apparently, my mother knew would lead to such a tragedy. spokesperson for the Jewish brutally killed in her apart- teacher and physician, by him very well and considered Grandmother was stabbed to Community Protection Ser- ment. her Muslim neighbor caused him a son,” the victim’s son death 11 times by a Muslim vice, which works closely with Knoll, who lived alone in shock and emotion within the told Agence France Presse. neighbor she knew well, who the French police. the 11th district of Paris, was Jewish community. A granddaughter of Knoll, made sure to set fire to her “The barbarity of this found after her apartment Two men have been ar- Noa Goldfarb, wrote on Face- home and left us not even one murder sends us back to that was set ablaze, police sources rested over the killing of book that the neighbor was object, a letter, a photograph, of Sarah Halimi just one year said. An autopsy showed her Mireille Knoll. One man was a 35-year-old Muslim the to remember her by. All we ago,” said Francis Kalifat, charred body also had at least placed Saturday in custody, murdered woman had known have are our tears and each president of Crif. He urged 11 stab wounds. and a few hours later, so was since he was a child. other.” “the fullest transparency” by Mireille Knoll the authorities investigating the killing, “so that the mo- said, “The World Jewish Con- tive of this barbarous crime is gress stands together with the known as quickly as possible.” French Jewish community Joel Mergui, president of in deploring the horrific and the Jewish Consistory, said barbaric murder of an elderly he doesn’t want “to allow to Holocaust survivor in Paris reproduce the silence that this week, and in calling on the followed the assassination of French authorities to dem- Sarah Halimi a year ago in the onstrate full transparency in same district.” the ongoing investigation, to The World Jewish Congress ensure that the motivation also called on French authori- behind this heinous crime is ties to show full transparency known as soon as possible, and in the investigation. that is treated with the utmost Its CEO, Robert Singer, seriousness it deserves.” Dark Chocolate Espresso Truffles

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(The Nosher via JTA)—Most of us need few excuses to make GIVING MADE SIMPLE a batch of chocolate truffles, especially when coffee is involved. Created with a single tax-deductible donation of cash, stock, or real estate, My take on chocolate espresso truffles combines a velvety you can name your fund and give at your own pace—we manage the rest. We will chocolate base with just enough espresso flavor to give you help you create a personal fund through which you can grow your assets tax-free your caffeine fix. The fact that this version is vegan, kosher for Passover and healthy (no added sugar!) is just icing on the cake. and conveniently direct grants to Jewish National Fund and other charities. I make these truffles with whatever nuts I have on hand (hazelnuts are to die for and make them taste like Nutella). GIVING MADE FLEXIBLE Roll them in cocoa powder, unsweetened shredded coconut, You can make grants from your fund as often and shaved dark chocolate—or all three! for as much as you like, with zero administration fees. Ingredients: 1 cup cashews 1/2 cup almonds GIVING MADE PERSONAL 1 cup pitted medjool dates (roughly 10-12, depending on size) Your Donor Advised Fund allows you to pass on your philanthropic values and build a 1/4 cup cocoa powder, plus 1/2 cup for coating powerful legacy for the land and people of Israel and for your family here at home. It can be 1 teaspoon ground coffee shared with your spouse or partner and passed down to your children or grandchildren. Directions: 1. Combine the cashews and almonds in a food processor and process until very finely ground. With the motor running, Contact our Planned Giving Department today at 800.562.7526 add the pitted dates one by one until a consolidated dough begins to form. Add the cocoa powder and ground coffee, and or [email protected] to learn how a Jewish National Fund process until fully incorporated. Donor Advised Fund can empower your giving. 2. Working with 1 tablespoon of dough at a time, roll the dough into balls. Pour 1/2 cup cocoa powder into a shallow dish and roll the balls around until coated. Serve at room temperature or place in the refrigerator until ready to serve. jnflegacy.org Makes 15. 800.562.7526 Izzy Darby is a vegan food blogger at Veganizzm. The Nosher food blog offers a dazzling array of new and classic Jewish recipes and food news, from Europe to Yemen, from challah to shakshuka and beyond. Check it out at www. TheNosher.com.