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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 42, NO. 19 JANUARY 12, 2018 25 TEVET, 5778 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Artists-in-Residence event at Temple Israel Sam Glaser, one of Amer- ica’s foremost composers, performers and interpreters of Jewish music will be visit- ing Central Florida Jan. 19-21 as the Artist-in-Residence at Temple Israel and Temple Shir Shalom in Winter Springs. Both congregations invite the community to attend four events: A Reform-style musi- cal service and festive oneg on Friday, Jan. 19 at 7:30 p.m. (no charge); A Conservative-style musical service followed by kiddish and study with Glaser on Saturday, Jan. 20, at 10 a.m. (no charge); a Gala Concert presented by Temple Israel Sam Glaser with Temple Shir Shalom on Alanna E. Cooper Saturday, Jan. 20, at 7:30 p.m. Haneshama.” He performs an- Congregants from Temple Hadar Israel in New Castle, Pa., gathering at the local Tifereth Israel cemetery to bury ritual (tickets for purchase); and a nually before thousands and objects from their defunct synagogue, Dec. 31, 2017. free family concert on Sunday, has toured the world over, and Jan. 21 at 12:30 p.m. has won Parent’s Choice, John Glaser was born in 1962 Lennon, and International to a Jewish family in Los Songwriting Competition A Rust Belt synagogue ‘runs out of Angeles and was composing awards. and performing by the age of He produces music through seven. He recorded his first his own record company, people’ and gathers to bury its past full-length album by age 11. Glaser Musicworks, as well He graduated the University of as producing scores for film By Alanna E. Cooper was a subdued sort of mourning because town with a suddenly booming economy. Colorado with a B. A. in busi- and television. He has also no friend or relative had been taken from Linked first to the canal system and later ness and a minor in music. produced albums for other NEW CASTLE, Pa. (JTA)—It was a their midst. Nor was the “death” a sudden to the railroad, the population of New He also attended the Berklee recording artists. In 1995, frigid 10 degrees on Sunday, the last day one. Indeed, the congregation had been Castle swelled at the turn of the 20th College of Music and the UCLA Glaser was appointed music of 2017, but some 20 people gathered at preparing for this day for years. century as the town’s manufacturing Film Scoring Program. coordinator for the depart- Congregation Tifereth Israel’s cemetery Deep below, the hole was lined with base grew. Tin plate and paper mills and Glaser has released 24 ment of Continuing Educa- in this city of 22,000 on the Ohio border. cardboard boxes containing yahrtzeit steel and ceramic factories brought great albums as well as four col- tion at the American Jewish A blue tent and folding chairs had been set plaques, tallit prayer shawls and other prosperity to the region. Ancillary busi- lections of lyrics and poetry, University where he super- up for attendees, and a pit in the ground ritual items that cemetery caretakers nesses cropped up to support the growing four musicals, five sheet music vised the music curriculum had been opened. had carefully lowered in a few days before. population. Many of these—drug stores, songbooks of his Jewish music No hearse would be arriving at this The mourners had come to bury, in a department stores, furniture stores, and an SATB choral book, “Kol Temple Israel on page 15A unusual burial, which was not for a sense, their synagogue. groceries—were owned by New Castle’s person. Still, a few attendees choked up Congregation Tifereth Israel was Jewish residents. when they greeted each other with hugs founded nearly 125 years ago. In 1894, and wiped tears from their cheeks. This synagogue members lived in a busy Rust Belt on page 15A Holocaust American immigration to Israel Remembrance Day The Holocaust Memo- rial Resource and Education takes a new turn in 2017 Center is commemorating International Holocaust Re- By Larry Luxner membrance Day, Jan. 27, with a pair of programs that TEL AVIV—As a group honor the legacy of the Bielski of well-wishers waved tiny Partisan group. Israeli flags and shouted Film screening and Book “Welcome home,” Diane Club discussion Hewitt of Hoboken, New Sunday, Jan. 21, at 1 p.m. Jersey, stepped off the El Al The film “Defiance” by jet that had just flown her Nechama Tec will be dis- to Tel Aviv from New York, cussed. The film is about the extraordinary experience of the Bielski partisan group and their leader, Tuvia Bielski. The film (based on the book) will be screened at 1 p.m. Mickey Bielski in advance of the book club discussion at 3:30 p.m. Lead- will share the story of what it ing the discussion will be Dr. was like to come of age in the Larry Luxner Susan A. Bach, whose father, shadow of the incredible legacy In all, 3,633 North Americans immigrated to Israel among some 29,000 total new im- Joe Abrams (Josef Abramo- of his father. He will share his migrants in 2017. wicz) and mother, Esther own, and his father’s stories, Greenberg (Ester Grinberg) with humor, passion and above cradling her 8-year-old blind and fell in love,” Hewitt said brought the total number of Abrams, were members of the all, love. beagle, Annie, in her arms. as she petted Annie, who had immigrants to Israel from the Bielski Partisan group. This pair of programs, A retired jewelry industry accompanied her as an ESA, United States and Canada to An Afternoon with held to commemorate Inter- executive, Hewitt, 65, had or emotional support ani- 3,633 for the year. Overall, Mickey Bielski, son of national Holocaust Remem- always dreamed of moving mal (Hewitt has Parkinson’s about 29,000 immigrants Tuvia Bielski brance Day, is generously to Israel, but she didn’t want disease). “You feel at home, from around the world arrived Sunday, Jan. 28, at 2 p.m. sponsored by Dr. Susan and to leave behind her daugh- and everybody is family. It’s in Israel in ‘17. Meet at the Holocaust Center Mr. Larry Bach in memory ter, Sarah. But after Sarah a feeling like no other.” The last year has seen a for a special presentation from of Susan’s parents, Joe and herself immigrated to Israel Hewitt arrived at Ben- noticeable shift in the types of Mickey Bielski, whose father, Esther Abrams. a year ago and married an Gurion International Airport immigrants coming to Israel Tuvia Bielski, was the leader Israeli, there was little to keep on Dec. 27 along with 92 other from North America, accord- of the Bielski Brothers, an or- Hewitt in her city across from new immigrants aboard the ing to Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, ganization of Jewish partisans Manhattan. last of 19 Nefesh B’Nefesh co-founder and executive who formed an armed brigade “I came to Israel for the first “aliyah flights” in 2017. The and fought against the Nazi’s time in 2014, got off the plane specially designated flights Immigration on page 15A and their collaborators. Mickey PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 12, 2018 Don’t miss the Central Florida premier of ‘The Bigot’ By Pamela Ruben More than 50 years later, acter named Jim. Answering that one reviewer called Jim, Eva, now a playwright along- the opening sentence to this ‘Archie Bunker 2.0.’ “How can you hate someone side husband, Gabi, found article, Jim hates just about “Jim feels threatened by an you have never even met?” was herself haunted by the uptick anybody he hasn’t met, espe- era of change that is not part a question frequently pondered of hate taking place in modern cially those who are ethnically of who he is,” Gabi continued. by 6-year-old Eva Mor, as a America, and throughout the and socially ‘diverse,’ and look Ultimately, as a result of a young child growing up in world. Together, the couple or act differently than himself. surprise ending (which the Poland in the year’s following brainstormed ideas for a play “The Bigot’s” lesbian neigh- Mors are not sharing), Jim’s World War II. Often harassed that addressed hate that comes bors experience his wrath, life opens up from the smallest and bullied on the way to and from a place of cultural igno- and he is open about his racist glimmer of hope. from kindergarten, or even rance, much like from her own tirades, with his son, (much Following the play’s pre- from a short walk to the park, childhood. The idea for the play to his dismay) a social liberal. miere this past summer at New the child of two Holocaust and “The Bigot” was hatched in late When asked what makes York’s Off-Broadway Manhat- labor camp survivors was per- 2016, just as local news became Jim different than “All in the tan Repertory Theatre, Eva and plexed by the hate and bigotry filled with stories of injustice Family’s” Archie Bunker, Gabi Gabi recalled the numerous directed at the Jewish mem- and intolerance. notes that while there are times neighbors and acquain- bers of her community well With the hopes of trigger- some similarities, “Archie has tances stopped them on the after the war’s end. In 1957, the ing a global conversation, the more of a gut reaction to his street to let them know they family sought refuge in Israel, Manhattan- and Orlando- surroundings, Jim attempts were still talking about the but the disturbing memories based couple created “The to defend his responses with a play. Central Floridians have from her early childhood often Bigot,” fleshed out in the twisted logic that he wants to an opportunity to join in on came to mind. form of a race-baiting char- see as the truth.” Gabi shares the conversation in February, during the play’s Orlando pre- miere at Orlando Shakespeare Rock the night away Center-Mandell Theater on Feb. 17, 18, 24 and 25. Gabi and Eva Mor To find out more about “The Bigot” visit https://www. be purchased at the theater, thebigot.ticketleap.com/the- at the Rosen JCC thebigotplay.com/ located at 812 E. Rollins St., bigot-play/ or by phone, 917- Tickets are $36 and can Orlando; online at https:// 945-7070. The Rosen JCC is going back to the ‘80s with its Decades party on Jan. 27, 2018. The evening will include live music with local cover band Switch, silent Ohev Men’s Club presents auction prizes, food and drink and Good Humor Ice Cream. There will also be a ‘80s annual World Wide Wrap costume contest and an auc- tion to sing with the band. Super Bowl Sunday is just Men’s Club member and Jew- An elaborate breakfast will The event will be held at the weeks away. That means the ish Academy of Orlando Head be served at the conclusion Rosen JCC, 11184 S. Apopka- annual World Wide Wrap of School Alan Rusonik will of the service. Three Men’s Vineland Road, from 7:30 p.m. sponsored by the Men’s Club of start the morning with a new Club members will then to 11:30 p.m. Babysitting is Congregation Ohev Shalom is presentation. As Rusonik ex- step forward with a surprise also available! Tickets are just weeks away as well. plains it, those who attend will “dramatic” program to get available at squareup.com/ Each year, Men’s Clubs from have the opportunity to “learn everyone in the mood for the store/rosenjcc/ Conservative and Masorti how t’filin is made, examine big game later that day. All proceeds from this event synagogues throughout the the inside of the t’filin, and The program will be held at benefit the Rosen JCC and the United States and beyond talk about its meaning and Congregation Ohev Shalom, Children’s Scholarship Fund. present this Federation of significance.” 613 Maitland Concourse Jewish Men’s Clubs program Following the presentation, Parkway South in Maitland, to encourage greater par- Rabbi David Kay will guide starting at 9 a.m. sharp on ticipation in the ancient and participants in the mechan- Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 4, deeply meaningful ritual of ics of wrapping t’filin as an 2018. Admission is free, but wrapping t’filin. introduction to the Sunday donations at the door are Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel This year, Ohev Shalom morning minyan service. welcome and appreciated. Proudly Serving Our Community For Over 35 Years Congregation Beth Sholom L’dor v’dor ... January Schedule From Generation to Generation Celebrate Shabbat with 18th at 1 p.m. at the Sumter Saturday, Jan. 27th: Shab- the synagogue that feels like County Administration and bat Morning Service led by • Traditional Jewish Funerals family. The Shabbat evening Library Building (with the Rabbi Karen Allen, at 10 service led by Rabbi Karen golden dome) at 7375 Powell a.m. A Kiddush will follow Allen is on Friday, Jan. 12th Rd. (near Pinellas Plaza and the service. • Non-Traditional Services at 7pm. The service will honor 466A), Wildwood. The Rabbi’s The synagogue is located the members of our board of Roundtable series explores the at 315 North 13th St. in • directors. An Oneg Shabbat current Torah Portion and Leesburg, with the entrance Interstate Shipping will follow the service. how it affects our daily lives. on Center Street. The Rabbi’s Torah Round- The roundtable provides a More information is avail- • Pre-Arranged Funerals table Discussion Group with unique opportunity to talk able on the synagogue website: Rabbi Karen Allen of Con- with the rabbi as she leads http://bethsholomflorida.org/ Shalom Assurance Plan gregation Beth Sholom, will an informal and interactive or by calling the synagogue at be held on Thursday, Jan. Torah study discussion. 352-326-3692. • Headstones, Grave Markers Crack!... Bam!... Jokers!... 407-599-1180 640 Lee Road • Orlando, Florida It’s Maj Madness at the J The strange names of the Open to people of all play- is now the 14th annual Maj tiles in Maj Jongg are music ing levels, Maj Madness is Madness and that the event W.E. “Manny” Adams, LFD to the ears of those playing $36 per person ($30 for JCC has become such a mainstay in The Roth Family’s Jew- members) and includes a light of our community,” said Per- Samuel P. (Sammy) Goldstein, Exec. Director ish Community Center 14th breakfast, morning coffee, reault. Annual “Maj Madness” Mah lunch, drinks, door prizes, The registration deadline Jongg Tournament, to be held and awards. is Jan. 21, 2018, and after Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. Co-chairs Julie Levitt and that there will be a waitlist www.bethshalommemorialchapel.com The festivities will begin Dale Perreault anticipate formed. For more informa- at 9:15 a.m. with registration a great turnout. “We are tion, please call Julie at and coffee and light breakfast excited to offer a fun event 407-926-0491 or Dale at 407- and games beginning at 10 in a relaxing atmosphere,” 622-0073. Registrations are a.m. The tournament format Levitt said. “We want it to accepted at the JCC, by call- will include four rounds be multi-generational and ing 407-621-4036 or online following the National Mah an opportunity for people to at orlandojcc.org/calendar/ Jongg League Official Rules socialize with friends.” maj2018
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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 12, 2018 PAGE 5A Saying ‘thank you’ to our Christian friends By Rabbi Yechiel Jews (The Fellowship), with Washington, D.C., and a Stand former Sen. Joe Lieberman, uted more than $1.4 bil- tians in China alone, and Eckstein the goal of building bridges for Israel advocacy program “vindicated.” Today, The Fel- lion—mostly with an average hundreds of millions more JNS of cooperation and under- that today reaches millions of lowship helps roughly 1.4 sacrificial donation of $76 per in Latin America, the Far standing between evangelical people around the world every million people each year, in person—to help Israel and East and other regions. Most President Donald Trump’s Christians and Jews as well as day. Finally, 20 years ago, we Israel and around the world. the Jewish people. These are of them are where the evan- recent announcement recog- broad, grassroots support for began raising funds from Our $140 million annual not wealthy mega donors, but gelical community in America nizing Jerusalem as Israel’s the State of Israel. Christians, primarily through budget supports the most people who care wholeheart- was 40 years ago, when I first capital and declaring that the The notion of changing TV and direct response mar- vulnerable segments of Israeli edly for Israel and relate to her began working with them. U.S. will move its embassy 2,000 years of bitter history keting, to help Jews immigrate society—the poor, the elderly, and the Jewish people with They have not yet been taught from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and replacing it with a part- to Israel from the former Soviet Holocaust survivors, people unconditional love. that it is their biblical duty to did not happen in a vacuum nership marked by friendship Union, feed and care for needy with disabilities, immigrants, I am recounting this not stand with Israel and to bless or come out of nowhere. It did and acts of unconditional love Jews in Israel and around the minorities, terror victims, to herald our organization’s the Jewish people. not happen solely because of (without missionary activity) world, and provide security for veterans and others. Indeed, impact, but to remind us all It is imperative that the Jewish influence, either. It was regarded at the time as an Israel and Jewish institutions The Fellowship is today the of how the growth of Christian Jewish community invests in happened because millions unattainable pipe dream. But worldwide. It would take four largest philanthropic welfare support for Israel and the educating them, reaching out of good Christians in America I went ahead nonetheless, de- decades of hard work as well as organization in Israel. Jewish community during the to them, and rallying their urged the president to do so. spite the criticism, skepticism the financial support of just a In addition, we provide $30 past four decades contributed continued support—and that But where did this ground- and attacks. I began bringing few hundred Jews in the earlier million a year from Christians to President Trump’s historic of their children—in the years swell of Christian support evangelical leaders to Israel to years, and later of 1.7 million to help the world’s most announcement on Jerusalem. ahead. Much more needs to be come from? meet various prime ministers, Christians, to reach the point destitute Jews in the former Today, phrases like “Jews done if we seek to rely on evan- It was exactly 40 years ago starting with Menachem Begin, where we are today—the larg- Soviet Union and elsewhere and evangelical Christians gelical support in the future. when I initiated some of the and to the White House to press est global source of Christian with basic needs such as food, supporting Israel” barely raise Evangelical Christians re- earliest dialogues ever be- for pro-Israel policies. Later, support for Israel. medicine and heating fuel. an eyebrow; as if it were a main an essential, steadfast, tween evangelical Christians we launched the “Christian Over the years The Fellow- We’ve brought more than given. But Christians’ faithful strategic partner for Israel, and Jews. Little did I realize tourism to Israel” industry, in ship often came under attack, 750,000 Jews on aliyah from support for Israel was never a both in the U.S. and around then that these Christians, partnership with the National initially by Reform and liberal 28 countries where they were given. Nor is it today—espe- the world. But their contin- whom most people never Religious Broadcasters, the Jews and establishment Jew- threatened by anti-Semitism, cially if we measure it in terms ued friendship is not a given. even heard of, would grow in umbrella organization of all ish groups, and later mostly terror and economic despair, of the dwindling level of sup- We need to invest in their numbers and influence both those involved in evangelical by extremist haredi Jewish and helped found the U.S. port for Israel from the next burgeoning communities in America and around the Christian media. Today, more leaders and rabbis who even aliyah organization Nefesh generation of evangelicals. and in the next generation of world, and would become such than 1 million Christians visit refused our overtures of help B’Nefesh. We provide millions We owe these Christians a evangelicals to ensure that a crucial base of support for Israel each year. because the funds came from of dollars in security assis- debt of gratitude—of “hakarat they too stand with Israel Israel and the Jewish people. From there we proceeded Christians. Some still refuse tance to more than 100 Jewish hatov” (Hebrew for the recog- and that their support grows Five years later, in 1983, to grow broad-based political to accept our help even today. communities worldwide. nition of good). rather than diminishes in the I founded the International support for Israel among evan- But eventually The Fel- Over the years our Chris- There are an estimated 100 Fellowship of Christians and gelicals, opening an office in lowship was, in the words of tian partners have contrib- million Pentecostal Chris- Thank you on page 4A We need to stop using the phrase ‘more Jewish’ By Rachel Minkowsky that offers trips to Israel for she started. “And you’re more Am I more Jewish if I join a winter-themed greeting cards fried in oil. We’ll celebrate the Jewish mothers. The trip is a Jewish than me.” group of Jewish mothers on a adorned with my children’s fact that we’re Jews, and that (Kveller via JTA)—My fam- different concept than Birth- I resisted the urge to trip to Israel? Am I less Jewish pictures? despite thousands of years of ily joined a synagogue a few right. Participants in JWRP scream. That wasn’t the if I opted to stay home? I don’t adhere to every adversity, we’re still here. That months ago, and overall it’s trips are expected to regu- first or last time I’ve heard Am I more Jewish because I single Jewish law. I appreciate is a miracle, too. been wonderful for us. But larly engage with the group “more Jewish.” As a writer married a Jewish man? Would tradition, but realize there A Jewish life, like a miracle, after our first family Shab- that accepts them. There are and a counselor, I have been I be less Jewish if I fell in love are times that I need to do cannot be weighed and mea- bat service, I realized I had a challah bakes, workshops, trained to respect the power with someone who practiced my own thing. But my con- sured. We are Jewish. Just lot to learn. And I wanted to even Mommy and Me events. of words. And this phrase a different faith? nection to Judaism is not like Jewish. No more, no less. learn. I wanted to be a good It sounded amazing. My hus- has a weird sort of power Am I more Jewish because playing a sport, where victory Rachel Minkowsky works example for both my children, band completely supported over me. Each time I hear it, I bake challah, light candles goes to the person that’s ac- as a school counselor in but especially my 7-year-old, my desire to apply. I’m overwhelmed by a mix and sing songs with my chil- crued the most points. Being New York City. She is mar- who was thriving in Hebrew I interviewed with three of frustration, irritation and dren on Friday nights? Am Jewish is my identity. It’s my ried and the mother of two school. women and liked them in- embarrassment. Because re- I less Jewish because I use family. It’s my history. It’s my daughters. Somewhere during a fran- stantly. I told a few friends ally, what does “more Jewish” my Mr. Coffee on Saturday future. It’s how I know I’m Kveller is a thriving com- tic, late-night Google search about the trip. even mean? mornings? not alone. munity of women and parents for Jewish classes and semi- “Come with me!” I said. Am I more Jewish because Am I more Jewish because Last month, as Jews cel- who convene online to share, nars, I stumbled upon a group “It’ll be fun!” my family belongs to a local I eschew pictures with Santa, ebrated Chanukah, millions celebrate and commiserate called Jinspire. It was linked One friend shrugged her synagogue? Am I less Jewish a Chanukah bush and a of menorahs were lit simulta- their experiences of raising with the Jewish Women’s shoulders. because, at 37, I am still learn- Mensch on a Bench? Am I neously. We’ll forgo healthier kids through a Jewish lens. Renaissance Project, a group “That’s not really my thing,” ing how to daven? less Jewish because I send out dinner options and eat foods Visit Kveller.com. Lorde is swimming in anti-Semitic waters By Jonathan Marks Lorde’s decision was in- BDS has politicized an oth- freedom of the press. But we United Nations and others as the terms of our ordinary JNS spired by an open letter from erwise apolitical act. Nobody won’t think Lorde’s concerts the country most deserving political discourse. Lorde, New Zealand-based activists sees playing in Russia, for are pro-Putin because the of reproach is anti-Semitic like many others more or On Dec. 14, the star singer- Justine Sachs and Nadia example, as a political act. logic Lorde has accepted is on its face. Nonetheless, less honestly trying to do the songwriter Lorde tweeted, Abu-Shanab. Observing that That is because there is not a sort of magic logic that— that Lorde was hoodwinked right thing, is swimming in not uncharacteristically, “my 11 Palestinians have been at present an international what luck!—applies only to by BDS reflects not per- polluted waters. cutie tour mate covered the killed since President Donald campaign to turn Russia into Jewish states. sonal anti-Jewish bias, but Jonathan Marks is a pro- heart song.” Trump recognized Jerusalem a pariah state. The singling out of Israel something worse—the in- fessor of politics at Ursinus A week later, she was taking as Israel’s capital, without ob- Come to think of it, did I by the BDS movement, the filtration of such bias into College. a crash course on the Israeli- serving that the killing took mention that Lorde has not Palestinian conflict. place amidst violent protests cancelled her plans to per- By Christmas Eve, she had featuring the use of Molotov form in St. Petersburg and acquired enough knowledge cocktails, the writers claimed Moscow? That’s odd because of Middle East politics to that “playing in Tel Aviv will the Russian government cancel her June concert in be seen as giving support has been credibly accused Tel Aviv in accordance with to the policies of the Israeli not only of abetting Syrian the cultural wing of the BDS government.” President Bashar al-Assad’s movement, which seeks to That argument is disin- government as it slaughtered make Israel a pariah state genuous for two reasons. tens of thousands of civilians, by encouraging musical First, BDS is opposed to but also of itselftargeting hos- and other artists to boycott much more than the policies pitals in Aleppo. The Aleppo it. Elvis Costello is among of Prime Minister Benjamin campaign was merelyan up- the best-known entertain- Netanyahu’s administration. date of Russian President ers to refuse to perform in The 2005 “Palestinian Civil Vladimir Putin’s brutal, Israel, and Roger Waters, Society Call for BDS,” which civilian-targeting campaign who co-founded Pink Floyd, is said to have launched the in Chechnya. If Lorde accepts is a prominent figure in the present boycott movement, the logic of Sachs and Abu- BDS movement. The Rolling demands an end to Israeli Shanab, then her concerts in Stones and Radiohead, on the “occupation and coloniza- Russia will support all these other hand, have pointedly re- tion of all Arab lands,” and actions, not to speak of Rus- fused to give in to pressure to its proponents have studi- sian aggression in Ukraine. cancel concerts there. Lorde ously avoided clarity on They will also support Rus- offered no reason for her the question of whether all sian authoritarianism, which cancellation apart from hav- or just part of Israel is oc- the Freedom House am- ing “received an overwhelm- cupied Arab land. Second, ply documents in its assess- ing number of messages & if performing in Israel were ment of Russia as “not free.” letters” and having “had a to be seen as giving support The Putin administration has lot of discussions with people to the Israeli government, almost no regard for political holding many views.” that would be only because freedom, civil liberties or PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 12, 2018 SUNDAY, JANUARY 14 A COMPREHENSIVE Kehillah: A History of Jewish Life in Greater Orlando—Ongoing exhibit at the Orange County What’s Regional History Center, 65 E. Central Blvd., Orlando, and will continue through Feb. 20, 2018. COMMUNITY LIGHT Happening CALENDAR SHABBAT CANDLES AT MONDAY, JANUARY 15 For inclusion in the What’s Happening Calendar, copy must be sent on sepa- Israeli Folk Dancing—7:30-8:15 p.m. instruction, 8:15-10 p.m., requests. Cost: Free for JCC rate sheet and clearly marked for Calendar. Submit copy via: e-mail (news@ JAN. 12 members, $5 nonmembers. Info: 407-645-5933. orlandoheritage.com); mail (P.O. Box 300742, Fern Park, FL 32730-0742); 5:30 p.m. JOIN Orlando—Teens are invited to build a ReSurf Club for orphan and foster teens in Daytona fax (407-831-0507); or drop it by the office (207 O’Brien Rd., Ste. 101, Fern JAN. 19 Beach. Info: Daniel Nabatian at 516-426-8484 or [email protected] Park) Deadline is Wednesday noon, 10 days prior to publication. 5:36 p.m. JOIN Orlando—Men’s Whisky and Wisdom at the JOIN House, 109 Water Oak Lane, Altamonte Springs, 8 p.m. MORNING AND EVENING MINYANS (Call synagogue to confirm time.) Chabad of South Orlando—Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Saturday, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m., 407-354-3660. Temple Israel—Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Neely, noon—1 p.m. A parashat discussion class. Congregation Ahavas Yisrael—Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 9 Open to the public, no RSVP needed. Info: 407-647-3055. a.m., 407-644-2500. A Nosh of Yiddish—Classes in Yiddish the third Wednesday of each month sponsored by the Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona—Monday, 8 a.m.; Thursday, 8 a.m., 904- Jewish Pavilion, held at Oakmonte Village, Royal Gardens Cir., Lake Mary (Valencia Building), 672-9300. 1 p.m. Info: 407-678-9363. Coffee and refreshments served. Congregation Ohev Shalom—Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-298-4650. The Roth Family JCC—Lunch and Learn: Pillars of the Past, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Enjoy lunch GOBOR Community Minyan at Jewish Academy of Orlando—Monday—Friday, 7:45 a.m.—8:30 and participate in an in-depth look at the earliest leaders from the patriachs and matriachs led by a.m. Rabbi Michoel Rennert of Orlando Torah Academy. RSVPs requested to [email protected] Temple Israel—Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-647-3055. THURSDAY, JANUARY 18 FRIDAY, JANUARY 12 A Nosh of Yiddish—Classes in Yiddish the third Thursday of each month sponsored by the Ahavas Yisrael—Kabbalat, 30 minutes before sundown. Jewish Pavilion, held at Brookdale Island Lake, 160 Islander Circle in Longwood 10:30 a.m. Congregation Beth Am—Rabbi Merrill Shapiro leads Shabbat services 7:30 p.m. and Saturday Info: 407-678-9363. Coffee and refreshments served. morning, 9:30 a.m. Information, 407-862-3505 or [email protected] Congregation Beth Sholom— Rabbi’s Roundtable Discussion Group, 1 p.m. at the Sumter Congregation Beth Sholom—Evening service led by Rabbi Karen Allen, 7 p.m. Info: 352-326- County Administration and Library Building, 7375 Powell Road, Wildwood. 3692. Congregation Ohev Shalom Men’s Club— Bowling, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at AMF Bowling Lanes in Altamonte Springs, 280 Douglas Ave. Cost: $18 for two hours of bowling, includes shoes and pizza. FRIDAY, JANUARY 19 Ahavas Yisrael—Kabbalat, 30 minutes before sundown. Temple Israel and Temple Shir Shalom—Artist-in-Residence weekend with Sam Glaser. Reform- style musical service and oneg, 7:30 p.m. and a Conservative-style musical service followed by kiddish and study with Glaser on Saturday, Jan. 20, 10 a.m.
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Michael Oren says yes. the term [neutralized] is very counter to the code of ethics. for al-Abed, the Halamish vague, highly subjective and He said he is only advocating terrorist. non-medical.” the measure when terrorists In July, al-Abed stabbed Before becoming Israel’s are clearly in the midst of an three family members to ambassador to his native attack. Determining whether death in their home as they United States in 2009, Oren someone is committing ter- were eating Shabbat dinner. was a preeminent historian rorism, Oren said, is easier The military advocate general of the Middle East and Israel. than determining whether may seek the death penalty, He ended his term as ambas- they are neutralized. but is not in this case, instead sador in 2013 and was elected “You see the person shoot- requesting four consecutive to Knesset two years later ing, you see the person life sentences for al-Abed. as part of the center-right stabbing,” he said, adding Only one person has been Kulanu party. that when he served in the sentenced to death in Israeli Oren’s position appears to Israeli army, “We were taught history: Adolf Eichmann, an contradict the IDF’s own code to shoot to kill in overcoming architect of the Holocaust. of ethics, which instructs a Syrian position. That threat Oren told JTA that he is soldiers to treat civilians with is not eliminated until the “ambivalent” about a bill dignity and to “do all in their terrorist is eliminated.” mandating that terrorists power to avoid causing harm Oren isn’t alone in advo- receive the death penalty, but to their lives, bodies, dignity cating deadlier measures for said that “shoot to kill” would Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 and property.” Asa Kasher, one terrorists. solve the problem and would Michael Oren attending a meeting in the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 27, 2017. of the code’s co-authors, wrote Avigdor Liberman, Israel’s be supported by most Israelis. in the Forward in 2016 that defense minister, wrote on “That should be the stand- By Ben Sales to terror attacks cannot deter- necessary expertise to know terrorists should be treated Facebook in 2015 that “no ing order if you see someone mine if terrorists are neutral- when an assailant can no as civilians, not as enemy terrorist should come out of in the midst of a terror attack,” (JTA)—If a Palestinian ized, as the current open-fire longer cause harm, and kill- soldiers. an attack alive” and has spon- he told JTA. “Israelis them- appears to be committing a order states. Soldiers are not ing is the only definite way to “Soldiers are required to sored a bill making it easier to selves don’t understand this terror attack, do they deserve doctors. But they must ensure remove the threat. treat a terrorist wielding a sentence terrorists to death, notion of neutralization. to die on the spot? that the terrorists pose no In his tweets, and again knife as a criminal, not as an which passed an initial Knes- During the stabbings there The answer is yes, says further threat.” while speaking to JTA on enemy in a battlefield,” wrote set vote on Wednesday. Prime hasn’t been a big outcry over Michael Oren. The former Is- Oren’s comments touch Tuesday, Oren raised the Kasher, a philosophy professor Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘We should be trying to save raeli ambassador to the United on a debate that has coursed example of Omar al-Abed, at Tel Aviv University. “The advocated the death penalty these guys.’” States, now a deputy minister through Israeli society since who was convicted last week terrorist’s attempt to kill or in Israel’s Cabinet, tweeted 2015, when a wave of Palestin- of murdering three Israelis injure ought to be foiled, but last week that the Israel De- ian stabbing attacks swept in a July attack on the West killing him is sanctioned only fense Forces should change across Israel and Israeli forces Bank settlement of Halamish. if there is no effective alterna- its rules of engagement, such killed many of the assailants. Al-Abed was neutralized, but tive—only if it’s a last resort.” that soldiers should “shoot The debate intensified in 2016 then tried to attack the Israeli Even the IDF’s own chief to kill” suspected terrorists, when an Israeli soldier killed a paramedics who were treating of the general staff has urged Custom Printing Invitations & Announcements terrorist who was already in- him following the attack. soldiers to show restraint, say- Digital & Offset Printing Brochures & Booklets instead of just incapacitat- Direct Mail Services Forms & Letterheads ing them. capacitated or, in IDF-speak, “When the medics came to ing in 2015, “The army cannot Envelopes Business Cards “Soldiers who catch terror- “neutralized.” attend to him, he jumped up speak in slogans such as ‘kill ists while carrying out attacks But Oren has a problem and could have killed them,” or be killed.’” 407-767-7110 must be ordered to shoot to kill with just “neutralizing” at- Oren told JTA. “A young sol- Oren, who also was raised 205 North Street • Longwood, FL 32750 not neutralize,” Oren tweeted tackers. dier in the middle of a terror in the U.S., disputed the www.elegantprinting.net Dec. 27. “Soldiers responding Soldiers, he said, lack the attack is not a doctor. 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By Cnaan Liphshiz city may become a Palestin- favorite target for a handful of kippah is “after all” also “a sign ian capital as well pending French Jewish provocateurs. of a kind of allegiance to the PARIS (JTA)—When Del- negotiations. Horvilleur, an author of policies of the State of Israel.” phine Horvilleur, France’s That rather mild disagree- several books on theology, is But the attack on Horvil- best-known female rabbi, ment with those who think the editor of a Jewish maga- leur was different because, began appearing regularly Jerusalem is unequivocally zine and a married mother of despite being a Reform rabbi in the media, her friends and and indivisibly a Jewish capital three who lives in the heart of in a community that is pre- relatives feared it would ex- led the French Jewish Defense this capital city. dominantly Orthodox and pose her to threats or attacks League, or LDJ, to accuse She said she has not filed increasingly conservative, by anti-Semites. her of “stabbing Israel in the a police complaint, but is she is a mainstream leader Several years later it ap- back.” considering how to proceed. of French Jewry, with strong pears they were only partially On its official Twitter ac- “I’m not going to assume a pro-Israel credentials. wrong. Horvilleur’s media count on Dec. 27, the LDJ victim role here, so, yes, I feel Horvilleur was invited last profile does invite hate speech wrote: “The scum Delphine safe and won’t be intimidated,” year to officiate alongside the and abuse online—but mostly Horvilleur proudly displays Horvilleur said. Orthodox chief rabbi, Haim from other Jews. her Kapo credentials. Unfor- The incitement against Korsia, at the funeral of Sim- Following a reference to tunately, Jews didn’t have a Horvilleur isn’t an uncom- one Weil, a Holocaust survivor Jerusalem during a television choice during the Holocaust. mon reaction in a community who became health minister interview last month, Horvil- But this liberal, left-wing ex- where many feel on edge. and one of France’s most in- leur, 43, has again become crement is a disgrace to our A wave of anti-Semitic and fluential politicians. Though the punching bag of the local community. DelphineHorvil- Islamist attacks has caused it was not Korsia’s choice—his branch of the Jewish Defense leur—shameful Jewess!” thousands of French Jews to office attempted to down- League and a vocal minority Kapos were Jews who leave and is exposing those play Horvilleur’s role at the Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur says she won’t be intimidated of ultra-conservative Jews. worked for the Nazis as po- who remain to the worst funeral—the ceremony was by hateful statements about her and threats on social media. She says they are feeling lice officers inside ghettos security threats experienced nonetheless an interdenomi- emboldened in a community and camps. by their community since the national first in France. need to be reflection on a solu- ing in getting away with its that is shifting rightward A far-right activist called Holocaust. The statements she made tion that takes into account actions as the still majority and curling inward amid Yosh Nakache sent Horvilleur Jews with extreme views during the France Inter the attachment of everyone stays mum,” Horvilleur said. lingering security fears and a threatening text message on the right as well as the left interview were no exception to the city—which doesn’t That may be a result of feelings of abandonment by warning that unnamed people regularly come under vocifer- for Horvilleur, an eloquent change the fact that today, lessons learned from the authorities. would “come and explain to ous attacks by coreligionists speaker whose observations Jerusalem is the capital of last time the Consistoire Stopping short of threaten- you loud and clear to stop for their perceived betrayal and wry sense of humor have Israel,” she told the France waded into an acrimonious ing to harm her physically, speaking for the real Jewish This happens regularly to Eric helped make her MJLF Beau- Inter interviewer. internal debate between several dozen individuals people instead of your made Zemmour, a Jewish historian grenelle congregation one of Following the incitement ultra-conservatives and an have written a series of up liberal one,” adding “The cherished by the anti-Semitic the best attended in Paris, against Horvilleur, the CRIF outspoken female spiritual hateful statements against more you speak out, the more far right and some on the far with hundreds of families fill- umbrella of French Jewish leader to many French Jews. Horvielleur on far-right sites, escalated the reaction will be.” left for his defense of French ing the synagogue to capacity communities published a In June, a rabbi from Facebook and other social Reviled by some of her citizens who collaborated with on holidays. statement stating that it con- Marseille harshly criticized media following a Dec. 25 detractors for being a woman the Nazis. “Jerusalem is being in- demns the “hateful remarks” Liliane Vana, a philologist and interview about Jerusalem for rabbi—one of the recent posts Or Rony Brauman, a former strumentalized on all sides against Horvilleur, adding expert on Jewish law, for her the France Inter broadcaster. called on her to “return to the president of Doctors Without today,” Horvilleur said in the that those who made them role in organizing a seminar In the interview, she said kitchen”—and by others for Borders and a pro-Palestinian interview when asked about should be “prosecuted and at a local Jewish community that Jerusalem should not be being a left-leaning Jew, this activist who in 2016 said, President Donald Trump’s convicted.” But the state- center that featured women used a political pawn by any has been the most intense when commenting about the Dec. 6 declaration that the ment did not indicate that reading the Torah—an ac- party although it is Israel’s episode of incitement against stabbing of an observant Jew United States recognizes the the hateful messages were by tion that some Orthodox Jews capital. She also said the Horvilleur, already a longtime in Marseille, that wearing a city as Israel’s capital. “Trump other Jews. believe is sacrilegious. declared something which is The Liberal Union of Jews As the Consistoire gingerly an administrative reality. For in France, or ULIF, denounced attempted to walk back the Israelis, Jerusalem is today the incitement in a statement harsh verbal attack, the event LIVE AT THE PEABODY IN DAYTONA BEACH the incontestable capital of that noted the hate speech escalated into a scandal. It their country, but this lacks a came “from within the com- prompted two small demon- certain broader vision.” munity” and that the Jewish strations by young Orthodox •THE STORY OF AMERICAN For some, she added, “it tradition is “unequivocal” men and a slew of insults and became almost a theological in its disapproval of such threats by other French Jews, FOLK FROM WOODY GUTHRIE assertion, as though Donald rhetoric. in Marseille and beyond, all TO BOB DYLAN & BEYOND• Trump suddenly became a Nearly 2,000 people joined critical of Vana ER: Including the music of Pete Seeger, Peter Paul & Mary, pope or a great rabbi. In others a Facebook group titled “Sup- That “rather banal state- EL Joni Mitchell, The Byrds, Harry Chapin, James Taylor & MORE it triggers the desire to contest porting Delphine Horvilleur” ments trigger such an out- AV ert Israel’s legitimacy to exist just two days after it was pouring of hate is a sign of TR onc •PLUS A SPECIAL TRIBUTE The C under any circumstances” created. how intolerant our Jewish TO LEONARD COHEN• Asked whether Jerusalem But the Consistoire, the community has become to could also become the capital organization that represents respectful disagreement, of a Palestinian state, Horvil- most of France’s Orthodox which is the essence of Jew- JAN 20 • 7:30PM leur gave what she acknowl- synagogues, has not spoken ish democratic values and edged in an interview to JTA out on the issue. thought,” Horvilleur told JTA. was a “cautious” answer. “It seems that this fringe “French Jewry is ill, and only “It could, yes, there would minority suddenly is succeed- it can cure itself.” Ringo Starr to Israel: ‘I want to hold your hand’ By JNS.org and United with Israel
Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has announced that he will perform in Israel next June with his band as part of a 2018 European tour. Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band includes fellow rock leg- ends Steve Lukather of Toto, Greg Rollie of Journey and Photographs by Jeanne Tanner Graham Gouldman of 10cc. The group will perform two Featuring Special Guest Star and Folk Legend shows at Tel Aviv’s Menorath Mivtahim Arena from June apologized for the decision. Former Pink Floyd front- Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary! 23-24, according to Starr’s Former Beatle Paul Mc- man Roger Waters has been website. Cartney performed in Israel at the forefront of encourag- Starr’s concerts come more in 2008. ing musicians and artists than 50 years after the Israeli The announcement of to boycott Israel. However, government barred The Bea- Starr’s Israel shows comes af- many artists have ignored tles from performing in Israel ter the recent decision by New him, including Radiohead, in 1966 over concerns that Zealand-born pop star Lorde which performed in Tel the band would negatively to cancel her concert in Tel Aviv in July, and Steve Vai, influence the Jewish state’s Aviv amid pressure from the who will perform in Israel youth. The government later anti-Israel BDS movement. in March. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 12, 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. Maitland Ave., Maitland • JCC South, 11184 South Apopka-Vineland Rd., Orlando • Kinneret, 515 South Delaney Museum of Jewish heritage... Marian and A.J. are just ter- Ave., Orlando • SOJC, 11200 S. Apopka Vineland Rd., Orlando The Museum of Jewish Heritage is a living memorial to the rific, caring people, deserving • Brown’s New York Deli, 156 Lake Ave., Maitland • Most Publix Holocaust. I recently received a letter from them and pass it of this great honor! Supermarkets • All Winn Dixie Supermarkets along in part: (What a fabulous event “Who will share the truth about the Holocaust when the planned by the Jewish Pavil- SEMINOLE COUNTY survivors are gone? ion. Phone them at 407-678- Heritage News, 207 O’Brien Rd., Fern Park • Barnes and Noble This is a question that grows more urgent with every passing 9363 for more details and to Booksellers, 451 E. Altamonte Dr. Suite 2317, Altamonte Springs day... as fewer and fewer survivors remain to bear witness to RSV P.) & 1260 Oviedo Marketplace Blvd., Oviedo • Bagel King, 1472 the darkest chapter in human history. All that jazz... Semoran Blvd., Casselberry • Kosher Kats, 744 W. 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International Speedway Blvd., (To find out how to become a member or support the Museum, Altamonte Chapel, 825 East Daytona Beach • Perrys Ocean Edge Resort, 2209 South Atlantic phone 1-646-437-4334. I have personally visited the Museum. A.J. Kronenberg SR 436, Altamonte Springs. Ave. Daytona Beach • Debary City Hall • Debary Library • Vienna It is a most important reminder of what our people suffered.) There is a donation of $10 to Coffee House, 275 Charles Richard Beall Bl • Starbucks, 2575 Who knew? Not me... attend and all are welcome. And if there are questions, folks Enterprise Rd • Orange City City Hall • Orange City Library • This information comes from The American Israel Public can phone 407-339-5208. Dunkin Donuts, 1296 S Woodland • Stetson University Carlton Affairs Committee (AIPAC). I pass it along: The emcee will be our own wonderful ALAN ROCK. Union • Deland Chamber of Commerce • Sterling House, 1210 “Every year, the Palestinian Authority pays annual salaries (This is NOT to be missed!) Stone St • Temple Israel, 1001 E New York Ave • Beth Shalom, to jailed terrorists and to the Shout out... 1310 Maximillan St • Deltona City Hall • Deltona Library • families of those who died I am living in Central Florida for more than half a century Temple Shalom, 1785 Elkam Dr. • Temple Israel, 1001 E while committing acts of (although I always consider myself a Brooklynite). When my New York Ave, Deland • College Arms Apt, 101 Amelia Ave, terrorism against Israelis and spouse and I first moved here we asked around for the best Deland • Boston Gourmet Coffee House, 109 E. New York Ave, Americans. Last year, total restaurant in the area and were told “Linda’s La Cantina Deland • Stetson University Carlton Union, 421 N Woodland payments to these murder- Steakhouse on Colonial Drive.” So we went and were not Ave, Deland • Family Bookstore, 1301 N Woodland Ave, Deland ers reportedly amounted to a disappointed in the least. • Deland Chamber of Commerce, 336 Woodland Ave, Deland staggering sum of more than For many years I forgot about the wonderful experience, • Deland City Hall, 120 S Florida Ave, Deland • Beth Shalom, $300 million.” and surely, I thought, the restaurant must have closed down 206 S. Sprng Garden Ave, Deland • Orange City Library, 148 (To find out how we can be by now... but they are still there and still the best! Albertus Way, Orange City • Boston Gourmet Coffee House, heard on this subject, phone My son, RON, took me there a few nights ago and we found 1105 Saxon Blvd, Deltona • Deltona Library, 2150 Eustace Ave, AIPAC in Washington, DC, at that the manager is KAREN HART, the daughter of Al and Deltona • Temple Shalom, 1785 Elkam Dr., Deltona • Deltona 202-639-5200.) Linda. We also were delighted to have the best service of the Community Center, 980 Lakeshore Dr, Deltona • Debary City Gems & Jeans... best food. Our waiter was ANDY TY TRAN. He is superb at Hall, 16 Colomba Rd, Debary • Debary Library, 200 Florence (Is this about me? All I ever what he does. K. Little, Debary wear is jeans! Only kidding!) (I never experienced such service! Thank you Andy.) One for the road... The Jewish Pavilion Gala OSCEOLA COUNTY honoring MARIAN BROM- Rabbi Levy finishes yet another of his long, dry and somewhat Cindy M. Rothfield, P.A., 822 W. Bryan St., Kissimmee • Most BERG and A. J. KRONEN- boring sermons. This time, however, before he sits down, he Publix Supermarkets • Verandah Place Realty, 504 Celebration BERG, will be held on Sunday, announces to his congregation that he wishes to meet with Marian Bromberg Ave., Celebration • All Winn Dixie Supermarkets • St. Cloud Jan. 28th, 2018, beginning at the shul’s Board of Representatives immediately after the service. City Hall, 1300 9th St, St. Cloud • St. Cloud Library, 810 13th 5 p.m. at the Sheraton Orlando North Hotel, 600 North Lake The first man to arrive and greet Rabbi Levy is a total stranger to St, St. Cloud • Southern Oaks, 3865 Old Canoe Creek Rd, St. Destiny Drive in Maitland. him. “Thanks for coming,” says the rabbi, “but you must have mis- Cloud • Plantation Bay, 4641 Old Canoe Creek Rd, St. Cloud The special evening will include hors d’oeuvres, gourmet understood my announcement. This is a meeting of the Board.” • Osceola Chamber of Commerce, 1425 Hwy 192, St. Cloud • dinner, live music, dancing, silent auction and surprise en- “Yes I know,” says the man, “but if there’s anyone here more Valencia College, 1800 Denn John Ln, Kissimmee • Kissimmee tertainment! bored than I am, then I’d like to shake his hand.” City Hall, 101 Church St, Kissimmee • Kissimmee Library, 211 E. Dakin, Kissimmee • Robinson’s Coffee Shop, 114 Broadway, Kissimmee • Osceola County Courthouse, 2 Courthouse Sq, Aharon Appelfeld, renowned Kissimmee • Barnies, 3236 John Young Pwy, Kissimmee • Reily’s Gourmet Coffee, 3831 Vine St, Kissimmee • Shalom Aleichem, 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd, Kissimmee • Books-A-Million, 2605 W. Osceola Pwy (522), Kissimmee • Lower East Side Deli, Israeli author, dies at 85 8548 Palm Parkway, Lake Buena JERUSALEM (JTA)—Aha- in 1975 and the Bialik Prize ron Appelfeld, an Israeli for literature in 1979. He was author who published more shortlisted as a finalist for Sudoku (see page 14 for solution) than 45 books in Hebrew and the Man Booker International won his country’s top prize for Prize for 2013. literature, has died. He taught at Ben-Gurion Appelfeld, a Holocaust sur- University of the Negev until vivor, died early Thursday. He his retirement in 1979. was 85. His most recent book Appelfeld, whose given was published three months name was Ervin, was born ago; his books were translated in the former Kingdom of into many languages. Romania in an area that is Most of his fiction dealt now Ukraine. His mother was in some way with the Holo- murdered by the Nazis when caust, mainly its effect on his he was about 8, and he and his sometimes autobiographical father were sent on a forced characters, and the begin- march to the Transnistria Ulf Andersen/Getty Images nings of the State of Israel. He labor camp. Aharon Appelfeld, seen in a 2010 photo in France, wrote fought in Israel’s 1948 War for Separated from his father, fiction about the Holocaust but rejected the label of Holo- Independence. Appelfeld escaped the camp caust writer. Much of his work is autobio- and hid for two years—includ- graphical. Appelfeld rejected ing in the forest with a band of a group of orphaned children In Israel, he earned an the label of Holocaust author, thieves and in the home of a in immigrating to Palestine undergraduate degree and however, calling it limiting. Ukrainian prostitute. He then in 1946. a master’s degree in Hebrew Appelfeld won the Israel joined the Soviet Army, where Appelfeld was reunited with and Yiddish literature at Prize for literature in 1983, he traveled to Bulgaria. Fol- his father in 1957 in Israel the Hebrew University in and twice received the Prime lowing World War II, he spent after finding his father’s name Jerusalem. Minister’s Prize, as well as the time in a displaced persons on a Jewish Agency list of He is survived by his wife Brenner Prize for literature camp in Italy before joining survivors. and three children.
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Irene Steinberg, far right, at the UJA-Federation of New York Scarsdale Women’s Open- Ari Weiss performing at Camp Ramah Darom in Clayton, Ga. ing Event with Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Oct. 26, 2017.
By Josefin Dolsten UJA-Federation of New York, “He very much was think- Hannah Weiss—a sopho- the American Jewish Commit- ing about working towards more enrolled in a joint NEW YORK (JTA)—Mem- tee and Seeds of Peace. peace in the Middle East in ei- program at Columbia Uni- bers of two families killed in William helped introduce ther the State Department or versity and List College, the a plane crash in Costa Rica his family to Seeds of Peace, a think tank or an NGO,” said undergraduate school of the were being remembered for an organization that pro- Clarke Reeves, the programs Jewish Theological Semi- their involvement in Jewish motes conflict resolution, and development manager for nary—cared deeply about the and philanthropic causes. including between Israelis Seeds of Peace. “He felt that environment. The Steinberg family of and Palestinians. He attended the program in Jerusalem, On campus she was involved Scarsdale, New York, and a Seeds of Peace camp in the mediation and negotia- in a handful of organizations the Weiss family of Belleair, Maine in the summer of tion seminar, would kind of promoting sustainability and Florida, were killed Sunday 2015, where he focused on lay the foundation for him for hoped to double major in when the small plane in which dialogue between Indians a lifetime of public policy and sustainable development and they were passengers went and Pakistanis, as well as a global citizenship.” Jewish thought, said Shuly down in the Central American leadership session in 2016 Irene Steinberg’s efforts Rubin Schwartz, dean of nation’s northwest shortly and a Jerusalem trip last sum- for UJA-Federation of New graduate and undergraduate after takeoff. mer. The Steinberg family York included serving on its studies at JTS. Hannah also Bruce Steinberg, left, with son William at the Seeds of The nine victims in the supported the organization Scarsdale Women’s Board. spent a summer volunteering Peace Camp in Otisfield, Maine. families were among 12 ca- and attended benefit events. She raised awareness about at an organic goat cheese farm sualties—10 U.S. tourists and A fellow program par- the organization’s work, in Israel. more student to be present- gardening and sustainability two local crew members—in ticipant, Paul Guenther, participated in fundraising “She was trying to get at ing her vision to the chan- program. the accident in Guanacaste. 18, remembered William as efforts and organized events. that deeper imperative to cellor of JTS—in a totally “It was one of the things Costa Rican investigators supportive and deeply caring. Irene, who previously improve the world,” Schwartz respectful and appropriate that set her on the trajectory said Monday that the cause “He was a real mentor and worked as a social worker, said. “She really did so in any way,” said Jobanek, who to be such an advocate for en- was probably strong winds supportive figure at camp for was passionate about Israel way that she could. She was met Hannah prior to her vironmental issues and social or mechanical problems, The me,” Guenther said. and social justice, said Tali only a sophomore, only in her work at List College, when justice,” Menkowitz said. Associated Press reported. Guenther, who is not Jew- Strom, a senior development third semester, but she was so the two taught at Hebrew Ari lit up the camp through People close to members of ish, said that William taught executive at UJA-Federation. clearly a rising star.” school at B’nai Jeshurun in music, playing guitar, bass the Steinberg and Weiss fami- him about Judaism when the “She really was someone Hannah led a group effort Manhattan. and piano at concerts. lies spoke to JTA on Tuesday two visited Jerusalem last who wanted to make a differ- to introduce composting to Prior to moving to New “It’s not an exaggeration about the victims’ commit- summer. At a Shabbat dinner, ence in this world and woke her student dorm, recalled York, Hannah spent summers to say he was a rock star,” ment to bettering the world. William helped lead the group up every day and did that, and Jessica Jobanek, the Jewish at Camp Ramah Darom, a Menkowitz said. The Steinbergs—Bruce, an in celebrations, and during a did that for UJA,” Strom said. life director at List College, Conservative summer camp This made Ari a big name investment banker, and wife visit to the Western Wall, he “She raised three boys who adding that Hannah wasn’t in Clayton, Georgia. Ari Weiss throughout the camp, even Irene, along with their sons helped give Guenther the lay were basically following in afraid to stand up for what also attended the camp. among those who were not Matthew, 13; William, 18, a of land. her footsteps. They were an she believed in. During Suk- “They were really stars, in his immediate circle of student at the University of “He was telling me what incredible family.” kot this year, she approached the two of them, just shining friends. Pennsylvania; and Zachary, to do so I wouldn’t stick out,” The Weiss family—Mitchell JTS Chancellor Arnold Eisen bright,” camp director Geoff “It’s a rare talent when you 19, a student at Johns Hop- Guenther said. and Leslie, both physicians; to tell him about her work to Menkowitz said of the siblings. have a ninth- and 10th-grader kins University—attended William was interested in their daughter, Hannah, improve sustainability at the “It’s a huge loss that we are all that can excite the staff, the the Westchester Reform Tem- pursuing a career in interna- 19, and son, Ari, 16—were school. reeling from and heartbroken counselors,” Menkowitz said. ple in Scarsdale. They were tional affairs and believed that members of Congregation “I actually remember be- from right now.” “They were not politely clap- involved in Jewish and social conflict resolution skills could B’nai Israel in St. Petersburg, ing struck by how bold and As a camper, Hannah was ping [for] him. He had fans justice causes, including the serve as a stepping-stone. Florida. brave she was as a sopho- involved with the organic that were real fans.” Camp establishes scholarship in memory of family killed in Costa Rica plane crash By Josefin Dolsten a Jewish family of five from heartbroken from right now,” Scarsdale, New York. he said. NEW YORK (JTA)—A Jew- Hannah and Ari Weiss at- As a camper, Hannah was ish camp has created a schol- tended Camp Ramah Darom involved with the organic arship fund in memory of a for 10 years. Leslie Weiss and gardening and sustainability family who died in a plane her sisters also attended Ra- program. crash in Costa Rica. mah camps as children. “It was one of the things Camp Ramah Darom, a The Weiss Family Scholar- that set her on the trajectory Conservative summer camp ship Fund was created at the to be such an advocate for en- in Clayton, Georgia, estab- request of relatives of the vironmental issues and social HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES lished a fund in memory of Weiss family. It will be used justice,” Menkowitz said. the Weiss family on Tuesday. “to enable other campers to Hannah later went on to Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye disorders. The Weisses, of Belleair, experience the magic of Ra- promote sustainability in vari- Protecting your eyes is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future. Florida—Mitchell and Leslie, mah,” the camp website said. ous initiatives as a student in both physicians; their daugh- Camp Ramah Darom’s di- a joint program at Columbia Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection. ter, Hannah, 19, and son, Ari, rector, Geoff Menkowitz, told University and List College, JTA on Tuesday that the Weiss the undergraduate school For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. A public service message from The Vision Council. 16—were killed Sunday when the small plane in which they children left big impressions of the Jewish Theological were passengers went down on the camp. Seminary. in the Central American na- “They were really stars, Menkowitz said Ari lit up tion’s northwest shortly after the two of them, just shining the camp through music, takeoff. Another eight people bright. It’s a huge loss that playing guitar, bass and piano died in the crash, including we are all reeling from and at concerts. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 12, 2018 PAGE 11A OBITUARIES Central Florida Synagogues
DAVID JACK EPSTEIN IRA KIRSCH Orlando Weekday Morning Minyan (Conservative/Egalitarian), services Monday- David Jack Epstein, age 88, Ira Kirsch, age 64, of Reis- Friday 7:45 a.m. (9 a.m.—national holidays); 2nd floor Chapel—Jewish Academy of Orlando; of Orlando, surrounded by terstown, Maryland, passed 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. For information call 407-298-4650. family, passed away peace- away in Orlando on Friday, fully on Friday, Dec. 29, 2017. Dec. 29, 2017, at Florida Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. He was born Nov. 23, 1929, in Hospital—Orlando. A native JewishCelebration.org; 407-566-9792. Toledo, Ohio, to the late Belle of Baltimore, he was born on Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, and Emil Epstein. March 29, 1953, to David and 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. He graduated from Ohio Beverly Lieberman Kirsch Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- State University in 1953 with and was an executive in the a J.D. degree. After his service insurance industry. 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. in the Air Force as a first Funeral services and in- Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. lieutenant, he practiced law terment were held at Beth El jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; in Toledo Ohio for 32 years. Cemetery in Randallstown, Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. A private pilot, an avid skier Maryland. Arrangements Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, and photographer, he was entrusted to Beth Shalom also a 33rd degree Mason and Memorial Chapel, 640 Lee 321-777-2770. High Priest of the Zenobia Road, Orlando 32810. 407- Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- Shrine in Toledo. After retir- Jonathan Greenberg, M.D. 599-1180. 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat ing to Orlando, he traveled services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. worldwide with his wife and the ORMC Trauma Center ELAINE R. Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. visited over 50 countries. He open to support patients who MARKOWITZ also volunteered for 20 years needed critical care. Elaine Markowitz, age betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. as a tax specialist for AARP. An active member of the 75, of Bartow, passed away Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. Mr. Epstein is survived by community, he enjoyed on Dec. 17, 2017, at Bartow congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. his wife of 65 years, Rach- cooking for the homeless Regional Medical Center. Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; elle Epstein; his three sons, and playing classical piano She was born in Philadel- Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. Steven, Lawrence, Richard in his spare time. phia, Pa., on Feb. 25, 1942, and their spouses Cathi and Dr. Greenberg is survived to the late John and Diane Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; Karen; his four grandchil- by his wife, Dr. Myriam Gabler Rappaport. Elaine Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. dren—Sara, Adam, Maci and Garzon; and his children— was a high school graduate Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, Marc; as well as his great- Danielle, Gabi, Samantha, and attended college. She Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. grandson, Joseph Epstein. Nathaniel, Ilana; and his spent many years working Graveside services were granddaughter, Jordana, as a clinical assistant in an Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. held on Dec. 31, 2017 at Glen as well as his sisters and ophthalmology lab. Elaine bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. Haven Cemetery with Rabbi brother. His death is a loss to was the widow of the late Ar- Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation Robert Lefkowitz and Rabbi his family, his patients, and thur Markowitz, who passed holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. Moshe Lazaros officiating. the Orlando community to away in July 2015. Following com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. In memory of David Ep- which he dedicated his life. their move to Orlando from stein, the family requests A funeral service was New Jersey in 1997, Elaine Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; contributions to Shriners held at Congregation Ohev worked as the administrative www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Hospital for Children. Shri- Shalom, on Thursday, Jan. assistant at Congregation Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., nersHospitalsForChildren. 4th at 1 p.m. Interment fol- of Reform Judaism. She is Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. org. lowed at Palm Cemetery in survived by her sons, Marc Winter Park. (Diane) Ashe of Port St Lucie, Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; HOWARD MARK In memory of Dr. Jona- Fla., and Jeffrey (Rachel) www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th GOLDSTEIN than Greenberg, the family Ashe of Marlton, N.J.; and her Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. Howard M. Goldstein, age requests contributions to step-sons, Jeffrey Markowitz Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. 74, of Orlando, passed away Second Harvest Food Bank, of Marlton, N.J., and Ronald Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- on Dec. 30, 2017, at Health 411 Mercy Dr., Orlando Markowitz of Maple Shade, Central in Ocoee. A native 32805; Magen David Adom, N.J.; and her daughter, Randi 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. of Brooklyn, New York, he 3300 PGA Blvd, Suite 970, (Michael) Bonner of Bartow. Congregation Or Chayim (Rec), Leesburg, 352-326-8745; [email protected]; services was born on Nov. 25, 1943, Palm Beach Gardens, FL She was the proud grand- 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month at Providence Independence of Wildwood. to the late Jacob and Nancy 33410 and the Pearlman mother of Heather, Jimmy, Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- Weiss Goldstein. Howard was Food Pantry, 2300 Lee Road, Quinn, Jaime, Melanie, 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. a graduate of New York Uni- Winter Park 32789. Brandy, Brittany, Lauren and versity and was an executive Arrangements entrusted Brett. She is also survived Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for in the publishing industry. to Beth Shalom Memorial by her brother, Bruce (Judi) services and holiday schedules. On June 20, 1965, in New Chapel, 640 Lee Road, Or- Rappaport of Meadowbrook, Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303A N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation- York, he married the former lando 32810. 407-599.1180. Pa., and sister, June Posner sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. Lynn Hochman Goldstein, of Cherry Hill, N.J. She was his wife of nearly 52 years who DR. BARRY J. KAPLAN predeceased by her sister Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- survives him. In April 2016, Dr. Barry J. Kaplan, age Sandra Zaslow. Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv Howard and Lynn relocated 67, of Sorrento, passed away A funeral service was held Please call for times. to the Orlando area from on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2017, at Beth Shalom Memorial Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- Dorado, Puerto Rico, where at his residence. A native of Chapel with Rabbi Arnold Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. they had been living. Atlantic City, New Jersey, he Siegel of Jewish Family In addition to his wife, was born on April 3, 1950, to Services officiating. Inter- Temple Beth El (R), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-677-2484. Howard is survived by his the late Harold Kaplan and ment was at Florida National Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. son, Matthew (Joanne) of Lenore Vilensky Kaplan. Dr. Cemetery, Bushnell. Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat Chesapeake, Virginia; and Kaplan graduated from Penn Arrangements entrusted service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. his daughters, Rachel Telvi State University and served to Beth Shalom Memorial of Coral Springs, Fla., and in United States Navy. He Chapel, 640 Lee Road, Or- Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. Heidi (Brian) Weiss of Dur- lived in Houston before re- lando 32810. 407-599-1180. mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; ham, N.C.; and his grand- locating to Central Florida. Thursday, 10:00 a.m. children—Olivia, Eric, Zev, In Orlando, the family was NETTIE NEWBURGER Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: Jacob and Isabella. He is also involved in theatre and were Nettie Newburger, age Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. survived by his brother, Fred, members of Congregation of 100, of Apopka, passed away of Prescott, Ariz. Reform Judaism. On June on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2017, Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. Funeral services and en- 23, 2002, in Houston, he at Hospice of the Comforter Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; tombment were held at The married the former Arielle in Altamonte Springs. She Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. Sanctuary of Abraham and Benjamin, his wife of nearly was born in Chicago, Il- Sarah in Westwood, N.J. 17 years, who survives him. linois, on July 30, 1917, to Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. Arrangements entrusted to In addition to his wife, Dr. the late Charles and Fanny Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach, 386-252-3097; Shabbat service, Beth Shalom Memorial Cha- Kaplan is survived by his Marks Barnett. Nettie was Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 10:30 a.m. pel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando sons, Raleigh and Levi; and the widow of Eugene Leroy Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. 32810. 407-599-1180. his daughter, Layla. Newburger who passed away templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by A memorial service for on March 3, 2011, after 73 JONATHAN Dr. Barry J. Kaplan was held years of marriage. They were Torah study. GREENBERG, M.D. at Congregation of Reform the owner/operator of a used Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road Dr. Jonathan Greenberg, Judaism with Cantor Jacque- food-processing equipment 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 age 67, passed away on Jan. line Rawiszer officiating. The company. In 1972, they relo- p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. 1, 2018, at Florida Hospital- family requests memorial cated to Miami from Chicago Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. Orlando. Originally from Fall contributions to the Can- and then moved to Orlando River, Mass., Dr. Greenberg tor’s Discretionary Fund in 2002. shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. graduated from Columbia and the Cultural Arts Fund Nettie is survived by her Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, University Medical and Law at Congregation of Reform son, Jerome of Apopka; and 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, Schools. He was a dedicated Judaism, 928 Malone Drive, granddaughter, Karin, of 7:30 p.m. and well-recognized neuro- Orlando 32810. Arrange- Forest Park, Ill. Arrange- Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. surgeon in Orlando for 25 ments entrusted to Beth ments entrusted to Beth years. While chairman of the Shalom Memorial Chapel, Shalom Memorial Chapel, tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. Department of Neurosurgery 640 Lee Road, Orlando 640 Lee Road, Orlando (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa he worked tirelessly to keep 32810. 407-599-1180. 32810. 407-599-1180. PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 12, 2018 Fake news then and now By Norman “without a doubt, internal,” worse than the printed press ally, a responsible press, which Berdichevsky thus contradicting the earlier was in the newspaper age. The has enough time to determine studies, through the use of time deadline is the most com- whether a “demonstration” More than a generation a much more sophisticated pressed to “get out a story.” was simply made solely for the ago, the passion to be the technology. What seems to fascinate the benefit of the media or was a first to report the news led to Similar catastrophically cameramen and the demands spontaneous manifestation of the Chicago Tribune’s banner mistaken predictions, polls of their producers for a news- crowd behavior, should make headline of Nov. 3, 1948: and analyses only belabor the worthy event involves a trait this distinction clear. “DEWEY DEFEATS TRU- point; the 1936 poll predict- common to primitive societies It is clear from the many MAN!” President Truman ing an Alf Landon victory everywhere—a belief in what made-for-TV film presenta- delighted in posing with the (based on telephone calls from anthropologists call “sympa- tions of the news where Mus- paper and beaming a smile randomly selected telephone thetic magic” that “like pro- lims, who are illiterate in their from ear to ear. The Tribune books at a time when the only duces like” so that trampling own languages, are carrying had accepted as gospel the home telephones were all upon or burning a flag (most signs with slogans in English. previous Newsweek’s monthly landlines) for the Republicans preferably, American, British, Interviews with the “man in cover story of an imminent over a second term reelection or Israeli) or ripping apart in the street” are hardly reliable. President-elect Harry S. Truman holds up copy of the Republican landslide: “Fifty for FDR; the election call in effigy a dummy or doll made In many third world countries, Chicago Daily Tribune with a headline that jumped the gun. Political Experts Unanimous- favor of Democratic candidate to portray Uncle Sam, or a they are either unwilling or ly Predict a Dewey Victory” Al Gore in 2000 before the similar representation of a unable to act reliably for fear of height of irresponsibility.” including the entirety of the (Oct. 11, 1948). polls had closed in Florida’s Western country, or trashing retribution. Often, the camera We know now that this was old Jewish Quarter (the most Even worse in the history Panhandle; the presentation a fast food western chain res- crews are wholly ignorant of almost certainly the case populous residential area of of American journalism was by the BBC, CNN and others, taurant like McDonalds, will the local languages and unac- under the provisions of the the city in which Jews formed coverage of the “Sinking of Iraqi spokesman “Baghdad somehow, through the magic companied by interpreters. Un- Foreign Intelligence Surveil- the largest group since 1850), of the Maine,” revealed as Bob” without any editorial of the media’s “voodoo,” result like the previous generations of lance Act of 1978 (FISA) to Mt. Scopus, site of the origi- false news by an official U.S. comment when the infor- in real life damage against the newspaper readers, reporters oversee requests for surveil- nal Hebrew University whose Navy report. Two official U.S. mation he presented clearly actual country, business firm do not dispose of the same lance warrants against foreign foundation stone had been laid government investigations in violated the elementary facts or national leader. The report- leisure time to carefully wade spies inside the United States by Albert Einstein, Hadassah 1898 and 1911 confirmed the on the ground of the deep ers thus have no difficulty in through and weigh the facts by federal law enforcement hospital, and the “Western view that the ship had been advances made by American explaining that the mob is and follow-up reporting that and intelligence agencies. Wall” remnant of the last destroyed by a mine. In 1974, forces into Baghdad; the film “venting its anger” on its evil may take days or even weeks The warrant was most likely Jewish temple destroyed by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover footage presented as evidence enemies and that their griev- to clarify. procured under an invented the Romans. All of these areas asked naval historians to by Reuters, AP and the French ances are therefore somehow Another area of visual dossier and false pretenses by were acknowledged even by undertake a reexamination television network France 2 newsworthy and “authentic.” media distortion that was FBI operators with a severe Palestinian Arab negotiators of the sinking of the Maine that was pasted together to Since Dec. 7, newspaper re- not so acute when the me- anti-Trump bias, thus further as certain to become part of to determine whether the make it look like a 12-year-old porters and cameramen have dia was largely limited to discrediting Special Prosecu- Israel in a final agreement). cause of the explosion was boy, Mohammed Al-Durah, been disappointed by the rela- the power of the written is tor Robert Mueller. Proclamation of the Rus- a mine or an internal explo- had been killed by Israeli fire tive mild nature of anti-Israeli now practiced universally Both the press and televised sian Foreign Ministry in April sion. Professional engineers on Sept. 30, 2000. demonstrations in the West on television by editing out news have been guilty of many of this year (six months before interpreted photographs of The television news media Bank and East Jerusalem. interpreters—almost always sins. In spite of all the great Trump’s announcement), that the wreck to study the ship’s are with heir penchant for Even more counter-intuitive an “invisible” person. The advances in the technology it recognizes West Jerusalem structure. Their conclusion entertainment, highlighting has been the rise in applica- interpreter, frequently used of communications, what as Israel’s eventual capital was that the explosion was, blood and mayhem infinitely tions among Palestinians in in television interviews, is cut unites them over more than and, that at the time of a East Jerusalem to acquire out by manipulating camera a hundred years has been the final settlement, it intends to Israeli citizenship during this angles so as to convey to the “rush to judgment” in order recognize East Jerusalem as same time period. audience that heads of state to out-scoop rivals. Newspa- the capital of an Arab entity. It is often a small step for or “the man in the street” are per journalists could always Declaration by both Houses the sponsors of such events actually conversing with each excuse the need to meet of Congress that Jerusalem is to incite the mob to try to other or the reporter. deadlines with the explana- the capital of Israel in 1995 transfer their anger to the real In my one experience with tion that it was not possible to and that the embassy should Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman flesh and blood objects of their the BBC at their studios while wait and find confirmation in be moved there. does most anything hatred and frenzy instead of I lived in London (1993), I was the field because they lacked The moral weight of the rags and dolls. We thus have called on to provide a 2-minute the technical “eyes and ears” many East European nations Ricardo Torres — Handyman the most sophisticated mass simultaneous translation into of information gathering that including Poland, Romania, communication technologies English of remarks made by would allow them to check Hungary, Bosnia-Hercegovi- 407-221-5482 of the 21st century catering to then Prime Minister Yitzhak the validity of their sources. na and Latvia that abstained Available in Central Florida Area • References Available primitive mob behavior. Ide- Rabin. The final segment They knew however that the from voting as did the Czech telecast that evening reduced readers would expect follow- Republic whose parliament the coverage to 19 seconds. up reporting to verify and voted to recognize Jerusalem While the prime minister interpret events with careful as Israel’s capital and request- was seen on television and his research and analysis. ed the government to take muted voice could be heard in There is usually no curios- steps to do so. The Czechs, Hebrew, my voice was heard ity or search for relevant prec- more than anyone else know in English by viewers. I had edents to events. The recent of the failure and worthless to do four “takes” because the near-universal criticism of promises of the “great powers” producer was not satisfied that President Trump’s remarks and international organiza- my voice was significantly stated intention to recognize tions to guarantee their sover- “cruel enough” when I used Jerusalem as Israel’s capital eignty in the face of threats. It the term “harsh punishment,” usually omitted any reference also demonstrated the moral which Rabin promised would to the following: bankruptcy and disunity of be meted out to demonstrators As clarified by noted at- the European Union whose committing violence against torney Alan Dershowitz (see appeasement policies and Israeli civilians or soldiers. Algemeiner, Dec. 23, 2017), pressure on Eastern Europe Today, the old adage that it was lame duck President to accept Muslim refugees, “one picture is worth 10,000 Obama, in a spiteful act of these countries reject. words” is simply wrong. It revenge against Prime Min- Unfortunately, much of the may well be that a few words ister Netanyahu, who gave press, which should be more are worth much more than approval of the American patient and get the news right a misleading or fabricated abstention vote in the U.N. before commenting, does not picture created by digital Security Council (much more see a special responsibility to photography or it may be that important than a resolution be a counterweight to the vi- we really need 10,000 words to by the general Assembly) in sual media. It is not interested understand what we see and December 2016 criticizing in reviewing any qualifying be aware of what we do not Israel alone for “illegal occu- relevant information to its see or has been hidden from pation.” This step removed the conclusions. The role of the the camera. fig leaf cover that, until a final press has traditionally been With today’s computer- agreement to be negotiated by to bring a more balanced generated images, pictures the parties was reached, no interpretation and explana- can be made to show anything alteration in the final political tion of the significance of the the designer wants and make status of the territories of the “news” and put it in perspec- it look believable. A free press cities of Jerusalem and Beth- tive, but all too often, it tries should make it a sacred duty lehem and their surrounding to compete with television not simply to “cover” what is of the 1947 Partition Plan des- and compounds the distorted most visibly apparent to the ignated as an “international image we frequently get. The eye but to penetrate areas zone,” would be as legal. The worst examples of this involve where cameras are usually December 2016 U.N. resolu- both the “rush to judgment” forbidden so as to provide tion violated that provision by and the self-flagellating, analysis of the backgrounds declaring Israel as an “illegal masochistic penchant of and people behind events. occupier.” In this regard, many reporters and news Yet when Donald Trump Jordan was just as much an teams to “sell” a story that first used the expression illegal occupier of the parts of uses dramatic visual images “Fake News,” he was pilloried the international zone it had in which the “man bites dog” by the media who ridiculed seized and occupied from 1948 element can be exploited. Fake his assertions about Trump to 1967 including sites uni- and sensationalist news will Tower being bugged as “the versally recognized as Jewish always have a huge audience. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 12, 2018 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA Barbra Streisand slams Pence postponed a planned won’t be terrifying to hear family to buy nearly $200 mil- tactics being used to defend “As someone with con- Golden Globes for not mid-December visit to Israel your name read out loud,” lion of Manhattan apartment injustice against Palestinians siderable family in Israel, giving award to women so he could preside over the Meyers quipped. He noted that buildings and build a luxury and to suppress an artist’s this policy will be a personal directors vote on a tax overhaul favored Weinstein was not present at rental tower in New Jersey; the freedom of conscience. We hardship. But I am also heart- JTA—Barbra Streisand by Trump. It was believed that the ceremony, adding: “But company’s purchase of several support Lorde’s right to take ened by this indicator of the criticized the sexism of Hol- the vice president may have don’t worry, he’ll be back in floors of the former New York a stand,” the letter says. It BDS movement’s growing lywood while presenting an been needed to cast the decid- 20 years when he becomes the Times headquarters building also says that Boteach “has strength, and hope that it will award at the Golden Globes, ing vote in the closely divided first person ever booed during in Manhattan from Israeli nothing to teach artists about bring the day closer when just pointing out that she is the Senate, but he was not as the the In Memoriam.” businessman Lev Leviev; and human rights.” as I go to visit my friends and only woman to have received plan passed. Portman, who is also a at least four loans from Israel’s Lorde said last month she family in Israel, so will Pales- its best director award. The original trip had in- director, addressed inequality largest bank, Bank Hapoalim. would cancel her Tel Aviv tinian friends and colleagues “Backstage I heard they cluded meetings in Bethlehem in Hollywood in presenting Sarah Silverman’s concert less than a week after be able to return home,” said I was the only woman... with Palestinian Authority the award for best director, birthday wishes to her it was announced following Rebecca Vilkomerson, Jew- to get the best director award, officials. announcing “Here are the nephew in the IDF bring criticism by pro-Palestinian ish Voice for Peace executive and you know, that was 1984: On the newly scheduled all-male nominees.” out the haters fans in her native New Zea- director, said in a statement That was 34 years ago. Folks, trip, prior to visiting Israel, Golden Globe winners are (JTA)—Comedian Sarah land. issued Saturday. time’s up!” Streisand said Pence will meet in Egypt decided by the Hollywood Silverman posted birthday New Zealanders Nadia Abu- Ronald Lauder praises before presenting the final on Jan. 20 with President Foreign Press Association, wishes on Instagram to her Shanab and Justine Sachs— Trump as ‘man of award of the night for best Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and in a nonprofit organization. At 19-year-old nephew showing the former Palestinian and incredible insight and motion picture. Jordan on Jan. 21 with King the ceremony, the associa- a photo of him as a baby and a the latter Jewish—wrote an intelligence’ Streisand’s best director Abdullah II. tion announced $2 million in photo of him as an Israeli sol- open letter on the website The NEW YORK (JTA)—Amid award at the Golden Globes “At President Trump’s di- grants to the International dier, leading to hateful mes- Spinoff saying that Lorde’s a public debate about Donald was for the movie “Yentl,” in rection, the Vice President is Consortium of Investigative sages in response. scheduled performance in Trump’s fitness for office, which she also played the title traveling to the Middle East to Journalists and the Commit- “This baby is now a 19 Israel “sends the wrong mes- World Jewish Congress Presi- character. reaffirm our commitment to tee To Protect Journalists. year old soldier. OY. HAPPY sage.” dent Ronald Lauder praised “We need more women work with the U.S.’s allies in Jared Kushner’s family BIRTHDAY, @adar_abramow- “Playing in Tel Aviv will be the president as “a man of directors and more women the region to defeat radicalism business reportedly still itz_silverman I LOVE YOU A seen as giving support to the incredible insight and intel- to be nominated for best that threatens future genera- making financial deals ZILLION!!” Silverman said policies of the Israeli govern- ligence.” director,” the famed Jew- tions,” Pence’s press secretary, with Israeli companies in her message posted on ment, even if you make no Lauder, heir to the Es- ish singer-actress also said. Alyssa Farah, said Monday (JTA)—The family real es- Saturday. comment on the political tee Lauder Companies, in “There are so many films in a statement. “The Vice tate business of senior White Adar Abramowitz is the son situation,” they wrote. a statement Monday noted out there that are so good President is looking forward House adviser Jared Kushner of her sister Rabbi Susan Sil- Lorde said in a statement that he had known Trump directed by women.” to meeting with the leaders of reportedly has continued to verman and Yosef Abramow- about the cancellation that for over 50 years, since the Later tweeting some of her Egypt, Jordan, and Israel to make large financial deals itz, CEO of Energiya Global she educated herself about two studied at the University remarks, Streisand added: “I discuss ways to work together with Israeli companies and Capital, who live in Israel. Israel before booking the con- of Pennsylvania. also would have liked to see to fight terrorism and improve businesspeople. Adar and his brother Zamir cert, but that “I didn’t make “The President I have seen director @PattyJenks and her our national security.” Kushner, the Jewish son- were adopted by the couple, the right call on this one.” is a man of incredible insight film @WonderWomanFilm ‘The Marvelous Mrs. in-law of President Donald who also have three biological Jewish group among 6 and intelligence. But he is recognized because it shows Maisel’ wins big at the Trump, resigned as chief daughters. put on Israel’s boycott not a politician and that how strong women can be, Golden Globes executive officer of Kushner Messages in response called blacklist confuses his critics,” Lauder not only as characters but (JTA)—“The Marvelous Companies in January 2017 the soldier an “Israeli terror- JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is- said. “When President Trump also at the box office. The Mrs. Maisel,” about a Jewish before taking up his White ist,” “a 19 year old apartheid rael’s Strategic Affairs Minis- refuses to speak in stale politi- three highest-grossing films housewife in New York City House post, but still has a colonial enforcement officer? try has placed the left-wing, cal platitudes, his critics think last year were all carried by in the late 1950s, won best stake in the family business. must be so proud;” and said: California-based Jewish Voice he is missing something. But women.” television series, comedy, at In May, shortly before “I am Palestinian and it for Peace and five other U.S. the truth is President Trump The Israeli actress Gal the 2018 Golden Globe awards. Trump’s visit to Israel, the breaks my heart to see kids groups on a BDS blacklist. speaks to the country in an Gadot starred as the title char- Rachel Brosnahan, the first diplomatic trip of his forced to serve. It adds to the Hadashot News, the Israel authentic and genuine way acter in “Wonder Woman.” non-Jewish actress who plays presidency, Kushner Com- oppression and subjugation. Television News Company, that Americans understand Streisand also praised the very Jewish Midge Maisel panies received a $30 million I hope this young man sees first reported Saturday night and appreciate.” Hollywood movers and shak- in the Amazon Studios series, investment from the Israeli humans beings all the same that members of JVP, which Lauder’s statement was ers for changing the way took home the best actress insurer Menora Mivtachim, and chooses not to participate has over 200,000 online sup- first shared on Twitter by New they do business in the wake award for a television comedy one of the country’s largest fi- in the oppression.” porters and 70 chapters, could York Times reporter Maggie of the sexual harassment in Sunday’s awards ceremony nancial institutions, The New Messages in support read: be banned from entering the Haberman, who said it was scandals that have rocked in Beverly Hills, California. York Times reported Monday, “soldiers don’t serve the country. “unsolicited.” the industry. Creator Amy Sherman- citing a Menora executive. (democratically) elected gov- The BDS blacklist has It comes amid the debate “I’m very proud to stand Palladino, who is Jewish, The money from the deal, ernment. They serve the 20 organizations on it. The about Trump’s mental health in a room with people who accepted the award for best which was not made public, country and protect their ministry issued the full list ignited by the publication of speak out against gender comedy series. went into 10 Maryland apart- families. Like here in the US, on Sunday after the Hadashot “Fire and Fury: Inside the inequality, sexual harass- James Franco won for best ment complexes controlled by our Army isn’t Republican news report. BDS stands for White House,” a tell-all book ment and the pettiness that actor in a feature comedy for Kushner Companies, accord- or Democrat;” “Looks like the Boycott, Divestment and about Trump’s presidency has poisoned our politics,” his portrayal of the eccen- ing to the report. you have grown to become a Sanctions movement against written by author and journal- she said. “And I’m proud that tric director Tommy Wiseau There is no evidence that fine young man who is serv- Israel. ist Michael Wolff. our industry, when faced with in “The Disaster Artist,” a Kushner was personally in- ing your country well!”; and The other U.S. groups on On Saturday, Trump re- uncomfortable truths, has semi-fictional retelling of the volved in the deal, according “Bless you and your nephew. the list are: American Friends sponded to claims he was vowed to change the ways we production of Wiseau’s 2003 to The Times, which cited You should be proud. The Service Committee; American not fit for office by calling do business.” film “The Room”—popularly government ethics filings that hateful people on this feed Muslims for Palestine, Code himself “a very stable genius” Actress and director Natalie known as one of the worst he is the beneficiary of a series are pathetic. Happy birthday Pink, National Students for on Twitter. Portman, who is Jewish, also movies ever made. The Jew- of trusts that own stakes in to a very handsome soldier!” Justice in Palestine; and the Netanyahu proposes al- addressed the inequality in ish actor praised his longtime Kushner properties and other Silverman wrote in re- U.S. Campaign for Palestinian ternative to US funding Hollywood while presenting collaborator Seth Rogen, who investments worth as much as sponse to one person who Rights. of Palestinian refugee the award for best director, had a part in “The Disaster $761 million. said he would be unfollowing European groups on the agency saying “Here are the all-male Artist,” and his brother Dave Christine Taylor, a spokes- her: “go for it but he can’t help list include BDS France; BDS JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is- nominees.” Franco, who co-stars in the woman for the Kushner being Israeli and having to Italy; War on Want; Friends of raeli Prime Minister Benja- Women have been nomi- film and whom he called “my Companies, told The Times serve. He isn’t the govt. let’s Al-Aksa; The European Coor- min Netanyahu said the U.S. nated in the Golden Globe’s own Coen brother.” that the company “does no hope he’s part of the solution.” dination of Committees and should transfer its funds away best director category only Jewish actresses such as business with foreign sover- The post received nearly Associations for Palestine; and from a United Nations agency seven times since 1943, ac- Gal Gadot, Natalie Portman, eigns or governments, and 22,000 likes. Ireland Palestine Solidarity that deals specifically with cording to the Los Angeles Debra Messing and Tracee El- is not precluded from doing Over 100 artists sign Campaign. The BDS National Palestinian refugees to an- Times. Streisand also was lis Ross joined dozens of other business with any foreign open letter supporting Committee; BDS Chile; and other UN body that supports nominated in 1991 for “The actresses in wearing black to company simply because Lorde’s Israel concert BDS South Africa also are all the world’s refugees. Prince of Tides.” the awards ceremony to take Jared is working in the gov- cancellation on the list. Netanyahu at the start Mike Pence’s Middle East a stand against sexual harass- ernment.” JTA—More than 100 artists The groups that appear of Sunday’s weekly Cabi- visit rescheduled ment and gender inequality Kushner attorney Abbe including musicians, writers, on the list are those that are net meeting addressed U.S. (JTA)—Vice President Mike in Hollywood. The move also Lowell said in a statement: actors and directors signed an “working in a clear and con- threats to cut funding to the Pence will visit Israel later this promoted the “Time’s Up” “Jared Kushner has not been open letter published in The sistent manner to encourage a United Nations Relief and month, his office announced. initiative spearheaded by involved in, nor spoken about Guardian in support of pop boycott of Israel and conduct a Works Agency for Palestinian Pence will travel to the several prominent actresses, any Kushner Companies’ star Lorde’s right to cancel campaign of delegitimization Refugees in the Near East, or Middle East Jan. 19-23, with and supported by hundreds activities or project, since her show in Israel. against it,” Hadashot News UNRWA. other stops in Egypt and Jor- more, to fight sexual harass- shortly before the Inaugura- The letter published on reported. The United States is the dan to meet with their leaders. ment, assault and inequality tion. He has an ethics agree- Friday also slammed the full- The Interior Ministry will largest single donor to In Israel on the last two days for women in the workplace. ment, reviewed by lawyers, page ad calling Lorde a “bigot” be responsible for enforcing UNRWA, contributing $368 of the trip, the vice president The initiative has raised more with which he is in full com- published in the Washington the list, reportedly beginning million of its $1.2 billion an- is scheduled to meet jointly than $15 million toward a fund pliance. Connecting any of his Post and funded by Rabbi in March. nual budget last year alone. with Prime Minister Benjamin for victims in the week since well-publicized trips to the Shmuley Boteach’s World Not every person who is a The threat to cut U.S. funding Netanyahu and President Re- its founding. Middle East to anything to do Values Network organization. member of such an organi- to the Palestinian refugee uven Rivlin, and to address the Golden Globes host Seth with Kushner Companies or Among the signers of the zation or who has expressed agency came last week, an- Knesset. He also is scheduled Meyers addressed the issue its businesses is nonsensical letter were actor Mark Ruf- support for such an organiza- other result of the U.N. Gen- to visit the Western Wall and and in particular disgraced and is a stretch to write a story falo, singer Peter Gabriel, tion would be barred from eral Assembly condemning, Yad Vashem. Hollywood producer Harvey where none actually exists.” Pink Floyd front man Roger entering Israel. It is reported at the Palestinian delegation’s Palestinian leaders refuse Weinstein in his opening Other deals that were re- Waters, actor John Cusack, to be limited to those who behest, Trump’s recognition to meet with Pence in the wake monologue. ported previously include the British director Ken Loach, hold senior or key positions last month of Jerusalem as of President Donald Trump’s “For the male nominees in Kushner Companies teaming writer Angela Davis and writer in the groups that appear on Israel’s capital. recognition last month of the room tonight, this is the up with at least one member Alice Walker. the blacklist, or important or Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. first time in three months it of Israel’s wealthy Steinmetz “We deplore the bullying high-profile activists. JTA on page 15A PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 12, 2018 Will Iran protests kill the nuclear deal? for killing a deal that much nothing should hold us back Another measure would of the world believes is work- from siding with the people be to remove sanctions on ing. Widespread revulsion at and against their oppressors” U.S. information firms doing oppression of the protesters, The protests are exactly business in Iran, Nader said. if it intensifies, could change the wrong time to end the That would “make sure that that calculus. nuclear deal. Iranians have access to tech- • Whether to waive the Dan Shapiro, who was nology that gets information nuclear sanctions: The deal Obama’s ambassador to Israel in and out of Iran,” he said. requires the U.S. president to from 2011 until a year ago, said On Thursday, a top Trump do. The sanctions are renew- scrapping the deal would play administration official said able every 120 days under laws into Khamenei’s claims that freeing technology use for passed early in the Obama outside actors are trying to Iranians was on the agenda. administration. Trump may influence the protests. “It is absolutely a core U.S. also reimpose the nuclear sanc- “It would undercut one of interest that this informa- tions by executive order at any the areas where protesters are tion flow into Iran and the time. Not waiving the nuclear rightfully blaming the regime operation of key social media sanctions or reimposing them for squandering relief on sup- platforms like Telegram, like would effectively pull the United porting terrorists and foreign Instagram, is preserved,” States out of the deal. adventurers,” said Shapiro, Andrew Peek, the deputy as- We asked experts who favor who is now a fellow at Israel’s sistant secretary of state who and oppose the Iran deal two Institute for National Security handles Iran, told the BBC’s questions: How would the Studies. Persian service. He also said STR/AFP/Getty Images protests influence Trump’s Daryl Kimball, who directs that sanctions were in the Iranian students protesting at the University of Tehran, Dec. 30, 2017. decision-making on whether the Arms Control Association, works targeting individuals By Ron Kampeas him to pull the United States will see great support from to stick with the deal? And is said killing the deal would be who violated human rights. out of the pact. the United States at the ap- there a connection between a gift to Khamenei. The nuclear deal helped get WASHINGTON (JTA)—Ira- On Dec. 28, anti-inflation propriate time!” the deal and the protests? “If Trump decides to re- us here, in a bad way. nians are taking to the streets protests broke out in Mash- In a Washington Post op-ed Here’s what they had to say. impose the nuclear-related Deal opponents say the in spontaneous demonstra- had, Iran’s second-largest city published Thursday berating The protests may be the sanctions waived under the nuclear deal freed up cash tions across the country to and generally a stronghold the Obama administration straw that breaks the deal’s terms of the Joint Compre- that the Iranian regime is protest government corrup- of support for the theocracy. for its handling of Iran, Vice back. hensive Plan of Action, he will now using to fund its military tion and a failing economy. They quickly spread, fueled President Mike Pence said that Mark Dubowitz, the director be creating a nonprolifera- adventurism—and to repress The depth and breadth of by anger not just at economic additional actions definitely of the Foundation for Defense tion and security crisis and protests. popular Iranian anger have mismanagement but at Iran’s were an option, given the of Democracies, who has providing top Iranian offi- In his op-ed, Pence said the taken the West by surprise, military adventurism over- latest protests. counseled the White House cials—particularly Ayatollah pact “flooded the regime’s nowhere more so than in seas. At least 20 protesters “We have already issued on its Iran strategy, said the Ali Khamenei—a propaganda coffers with tens of billions of Washington, where the focus have been killed. new sanctions on Iran’s Is- protests could spur Congress bonanza,” Kimball said. “If dollars in cash—money that on Iran since Donald Trump The feared Revolutionary lamic Revolutionary Guard and America’s European allies Trump unilaterally reimposes it could use to repress its own assumed the presidency has Guard Corps has joined in the Corps, and the president is to finally take up Trump’s chal- all the nuclear sanctions, it people and support terrorism been on whether he would crackdown and the country’s weighing additional actions lenge in October. That’s when will allow the Iranian regime across the wider world.” preserve the 2015 nuclear supreme leader, Ayatollah to punish the regime for its the president refused to certify to blame the U.S. for the The nuclear deal helped get deal. Ali Khamenei, has sought to belligerent behavior and as- Iranian compliance with the regime’s failures to address us here, in a good way. Until Dec. 28, this was the blame outsiders for spurring sault on its own citizens,” deal and essentially said his goal the grievances of those who Obama-era officials sent calculus: Would Trump kill the protests. Pence wrote. is to “fix it or nix it”—amend are marching in the streets.” mixed messages on the deal the agreement or be content Trump has yet to say how Would those include re- the terms or walk away. Additionally, Shapiro said, when it was being negotiated. with dismissing it as “the the protests affect the nuclear suming the narrow nuclear- Dubowitz said the protests it was not in the West’s interest Some, like Secretary of State worst deal” in history? The deal, but he has condemned related sanctions relaxed “may increase the incentive to free an Iranian regime al- John Kerry, hoped it would deal forged between Iran and the crackdown and warned as a result of the Iran deal? for all sides to come together ready rattled by the protests to moderate the regime. Oth- six major powers trades sanc- Iranian leaders that he is Pence did not spell that out, and find a legislative solution.” accelerate a nuclear breakout. ers, like Treasury Secretary tions relief for a rollback of watching their actions. but he blamed the Iran deal “The protests reinforce the The Iran deal, for at least 10 Jacob Lew, argued that tak- Iran’s nuclear program. “Such respect for the people for enriching the regime and administration’s view that the years, keeps Iran a year away ing a nuclear threat off the Now the question is of Iran as they try to take back enabling it to crack down on Iranian regime is an odious, from a nuclear bomb. table—however temporar- whether Trump sees the their corrupt government,” its citizens. expansionist and destructive If sanctions were lifted, ily—made it easier to squeeze demonstrations and their Trump said Wednesday on In mid-January, Trump has force in the Middle East,” he he said, “We could be right a recalcitrant Iran for its other repression by Tehran as an ad- Twitter, his seventh tweet two deadlines looming: said. “Its foreign adventurism back to Iran two to three bad acts. ditional spur—or even the last about the uprising since it • Whether to certify Iran’s and domestic repression must months away from a nuclear Nader of the Rand Corp. straw—that would convince began a week earlier. “You compliance with the deal: be confronted using all instru- breakout.” said the latter argument ap- Under a 2015 law passed ments of American power.” Alireza Nader, a senior Iran pears to have been validated, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 by a Congress skeptical of Richard Goldberg, a former expert at the Rand Corp., a to a degree: Non-nuclear B A R E S N O K I A C P A top Senate aide who helped think tank that frequently con- sanctions that Obama kept 14 15 16 President Barack Obama’s F L A M E E A R N S H I T agreement, the deal requires shape the nuclear sanctions, sults with the Pentagon, said it in place and Trump has re- 17 18 19 certification every 90 days. said it made little sense for made no sense to rattle the Iran inforced have afflicted Iran’s G E F I L T E F I S H O L E Trump to waive them now. deal when there were many economy, helping to spur the 20 21 22 Trump refused to certify the T R E A D S E E L S last time the 90 days were up, “With people pouring into other non-nuclear sanctions uprising. But the real villain 23 24 25 26 27 in October, effectively punting the streets crying out for a new options that could squeeze is the regime’s incompetence A L I A S E S S A R G E N T regime, it’s hard to imagine the regime. Taking Iran off and corruption. 28 29 30 31 the issue to Congress. Doing R A N T L A B A N O N E A so again would have the same how the president waives the list of Muslim-majority “The economy in Iran is 32 33 34 35 36 effect; it would be up to Con- sanctions and keeps money nations whose citizens are abysmal, and U.S. sanctions K U G E L I N T O T R L flowing into the regime’s banned entry to the United have contributed to that,” he 37 38 39 gress to reimpose sanctions. B R I S K E T Congress demurred last coffers,” he said. “Whether States would be a signal to said. “But the No. 1 blame 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 time because no one at the you were a supporter or op- Iranians that the United States should go to the Iranian re- N S C S O S O B A B K A ponent of the nuclear deal, is heeding their plight. gime for being corrupt.” 49 50 51 52 53 54 time wanted responsibility E C H O M I N E R D A M S 55 56 57 58 T R A U M A S V A N E S S A 59 60 E L S E L O C A L S Flight attendants sue Delta Air Lines 61 62 63 64 65 66 C A L C H I C K E N S O U P 67 68 69 U M A C A C H E N O O S E for anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli attitude 70 71 72 E S H A R E A S A N N A N (JTA)—Four current and assumption that ethnic Jews restricted their employment Delta responded in a state- former flight attendants have and Israelis, as employees and rights, denied them promo- ment that it “strongly con- filed a federal lawsuit against passengers, cannot be trusted, tions, or subjected them to demns the allegations of Delta Air Lines alleging that are aggressive and inappropri- harassment and abuse, for discrimination described in the company’s management ate, and engage in what are pretextual reasons.” this suit and will defend itself has “an anti-Jewish, Hebrew deemed to be ‘strange’ be- Among the incidents cited, vigorously against them. As and ethnic Israeli attitude.” haviors by conducting prayers according to reports and first a global airline that brings The suit was filed Tuesday on the flight and requiring reported by TMZ, is a flight people across the world to- in U.S. District Court in New special dietary accommoda- attendant who says she was gether every day, Delta values York’s Westchester County. tions (kosher meals).” fired in March because she is diversity in all aspects of its The plaintiffs worked on the The lawsuit also claims that Jewish. While the company business and has zero toler- airline’s New York-Tel Aviv Delta has punished Jewish says it fired her because she ance for discrimination.” route. Two are Jewish and two and other flight attendants, missed a flight, the woman Delta’s New York-Tel Aviv say there were disciplined or including with suspension or says she was on maternity line was discontinued after subjected to a hostile work en- termination, for legally shar- leave at the time. the 9/11 attack in 2001 and vironment for their association ing their companion travel In a second incident, a reinstated in 2008. The airline with Jewish flight attendants passes with Jewish individuals non-Jewish flight attendant also has a direct flight to Tel and passengers, attorney Brian who fly to Tel Aviv “solely on who shared her travel com- Aviv from Atlanta. Mildenberg said in a statement the basis of their Jewish and panion pass with a longtime Following its merger with issued Tuesday. Israel ethnicity and ancestry,” Jewish friend was suspended Northwest Airlines in 2008, In the suit, the plaintiffs It also says Delta has punished without pay and had her travel Delta dropped a Minnesota allege that Delta management them for being Jewish or for privileges revoked. She alleges rabbi from its frequent flier “through words and deeds, their association with Jews that it is because the friend program for earning too many operate under an express and Israelis, “and has either was Jewish. miles. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 12, 2018 PAGE 15A retain some vibrancy. Still, as with the agreement that they Reconstructionist congrega- Rust Belt the population continued to could rent backspace from the tion in Cleveland, a Reform From page 1A age and young people became new owners and continue to temple in South Carolina and scarce, it became difficult to meet in the sanctuary. They three summer camps. Bright eyed and lively, gather a minyan, or quorum, donated their synagogue Next month, the last re- Bruce Waldman told me that for Shabbat services. Mem- records, photographs and a maining scroll will be donated he was born in New Castle bers began to consider the few ritual items to the Rauh to the Hillel Jewish University in 1942, and that one day he possibility of winding down Jewish History Archives at Center of Pittsburgh amid a will be buried here. His plot in synagogue operations. the Heinz History Center in weekend of festivities. the Tifereth Israel cemetery “We never ran out of mon- Pittsburgh, the Klau Library Even with the great care is already designated. Wald- ey,” Sam Bernstine, the of Hebrew Union College- to find a home for each ritual man’s father also was a New congregation’s president said, Jewish Institute of Religion object, some remained or- Castle native and is buried “but we ran out of people.” and the Lawrence County phaned. Among them were here. His grandfather, who About five years ago, Tem- Historical Society. prayer books, prayer shawls, was among the New Castle ple Hadar Israel members The yahrtzeit plaques posed curtains for the Torah ark Jewish community founders, reached out to the Jewish a more delicate problem and many unclaimed yahrtz- had emigrated from Eastern Community Legacy Project, because each of them has a eit plaques. Rather than Europe via Pittsburgh, 50 or JCLP, an organization that connection to a particular dispose of them, a burial was miles south. works with small, dwindling person. Members who still live planned. When Waldman was a congregations to help insure in New Castle claimed their On Dec. 30, the members boy in the 1950s, the town’s their legacies. A partnership family members’, and efforts of Temple Hadar Israel held Alanna E. Cooper population reached its peak of the Jewish federations, were made to locate relatives prayer services in their sanc- A hole at the cemetery was lined with cardboard boxes of 48,834. At the time, the the Reform and Conservative of those who grew up in New tuary for the last time. Every containing yahrtzeit plaques, tallit prayer shawls and other Jewish community boasted movements, and two national Castle but were now scattered person was called to recite ritual items from the once vibrant synagogues in New Castle two synagogues, the Reform Jewish historical societies, across the country. a blessing during the Torah that merged to form Hadar Israel. Temple Israel joining Tifereth the JCLP helps congregations Whoever took control had reading—an honor known Israel, with 300 to 400 active preserve historic documents, to face the question of what as aliyah—and people offered families in total. catalog and dispose of ritual to do with the plaques. reflections at the final kiddush way that we honor a deceased that happened here matters, As the economy changed in objects, create oral histories “I am not going to throw lunch. The following day, person. and will continue to matter.” the 1960s, New Castle’s popu- and divvy up assets. JCLP says them out, but I don’t want congregants drove through The ground was too cold to As Lidji concluded, some- lation dwindled, along with so it has worked with 50 such them hanging in my living the snowy cemetery grounds shovel dirt. Instead, congre- one in the huddled group many other Rust Belt cities. communities and identified room,” one woman told me, to the pit that held the last of gants took hold of a few final spoke up. By 1990, the numbers had 100 more that meet its criteria speaking about her parents’ their items. Their part-time items—including the prayer “Shall we say Kaddish?” this dipped to 28,334 residents; for assistance. plaques. She placed them in rabbi, Howard Stein of Pitts- books that had been used person asked, referring to the today the number stands at Bernstine cares deeply a box and keeps them in her burgh, was not in attendance, for Shabbat services the day Mourner’s Prayer. about 23,000. Those look- about the congregation, basement. Alan Samuels took as his own father had passed before—and together tossed Their prayer books were in ing for a more robust Jewish which helped raise him after his parents’ plaques to the away the day before. I attended them into the hole. the pit, but everyone seemed community for their children he lost his mother to cancer cemetery and affixed them as part of my research into To close the ceremony, Eric to know the words by heart. went elsewhere. Others simply when he was 9 years old. His into their headstones. what congregations do with Lidji, director of the Rauh They recited the prayer to- moved away for better eco- loyalty, though, never got in Temple Hadar’s nine Torah their material objects when Jewish History Program and gether, memorializing their nomic opportunities. Wald- the way of his pragmatism. scrolls went to congregations they merge, downsize or shut Archives, offered a few words shared past, their last act as man’s two sons left for college “Do you want a dignified across the world to help those down. of reflection on the verse a congregation. Final hugs and never returned. One now end?” he asked his fellow struggling to get by and rein- A few weeks prior, Stein from Ecclesiastes: “There is were exchanged as the group lives in Sydney, Australia, and congregants. “Or do you want vigorate others. One went to told me that his plan was to a time for scattering stones dispersed with lowered heads. the other in New York. the last person left to have to the new Progressive congre- conduct the ceremony like a and a time for gathering They returned to their cars, Faced with shrinking num- shut off the lights?” gation Beit Centrum Ki Tov in funeral. In his absence, the stones.” Although Temple driving in a procession up bers, the town’s two Jewish Bernstine said his goal was Warsaw and another was sent event was brief, ad hoc and Hadar Israel has disbanded, the snowy hill and out of the congregations merged in to have the congregation face to a tiny community in Indo- raw. One man read a passage Lidji explained, its stones have cemetery. 1997. The newly named Tem- its own end in a “respectful nesia that recently revived about the Cairo geniza, a been gathered in the archives Alanna E. Cooper is direc- ple Hadar Israel operated out manner,” to be “in control its connection to the Jewish famed storehouse of centu- and here, too, in the cemetery. tor of Jewish Lifelong Learn- of the Tifereth Israel building of our own destiny.” Step by world. One went to a Houston ries of damaged Jewish texts “These are big things that ing at Case Western Reserve and remained affiliated with step the synagogue divested congregation that suffered and ritual objects. Another say ‘we are here’ and ‘we be- University and an adjunct the Conservative movement. of its material assets. The damage in the recent floods. man spoke about honoring long here,’” he said. The mark- assistant professor in its The consolidation helped congregants sold the building, Other recipients included a the word of God in the same ers convey that “everything Department of Anthropology. Immigration From page 1A Most immigrants move to they came mostly (in de- The year’s last aliyah flight “We want to make sure Phyllis Zur said. “It’s taken locales with strong English- scending order) from New also included Aviya Johnson, individuals in the Diaspora me until now, at age 72, to director of Nefesh B’Nefesh. speaking communities, such York, California, New Jersey, a 40-year-old African-Amer- know there are options and realize it.” The nonprofit organization as Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Mo- Florida, Ontario, Maryland ican school nurse from Oak- real opportunities in areas “I believe Israel is the works with Israel’s Ministry diin, Beit Shemesh and Raa- and Quebec. land, California. A longtime that they might not have insurance policy of the Jew- of Aliyah and Integration, nana. But a growing number Then there were those who, member of Congregation explored,” Fass said. He ish people,” she added while The Jewish Agency for Israel, are finding homes elsewhere. like Betsy and Michel Messeca B’nai Israel in nearby Vallejo, noted that smaller towns waiting for her luggage. “I Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael In 2017, Nefesh B’Nefesh of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Johnson said she decided to in northern and southern want to be an example to my (KKL) and JNF-USA to facili- launched “Go Beyond,” an hail from places not known make aliyah with her daugh- Israel are “far more af- grandchildren.” tate Jewish immigration to initiative organized in part- for having large Jewish com- ter, Shmira, because “in fordable than Tel Aviv or This article was spon- Israel from the United States, nership with KKL to encour- munities. America, there are so many Jerusalem.” sored by and produced in Canada and Great Britain. age new immigrants to settle Betsy, 72, is a fifth-gen- things that hinder us as Jews, Since its founding in partnership with Nefesh Over the last year, there in Israel’s less densely popu- eration New Mexican whose so many barriers wrapped 2002, Nefesh B’Nefesh has B’Nefesh, which in coopera- has been a rise in the num- lated northern and southern German Jewish ancestors around our daily lives.” brought nearly 55,000 peo- tion with Israel’s Ministry of ber of single, non-Orthodox regions. Hundreds answered settled in the Southwest in Johnson plans to live in ple to Israel from the United Aliyah, The Jewish Agency, young adults moving to Tel the call. the 1860s. Michel, 76, was Karmiel, a northern town. States, Canada and the KKL and JNF-USA is mini- Aviv, Fass said. About 65 All told, last year’s 3,633 ar- born in Cairo, left Egypt in Among the other popular des- United Kingdom. mizing the professional, percent of Americans and rivals from North America— 1957 and moved to France. tinations in northern Israel December’s most recent logistical and social obstacles Canadians immigrating to ranging in age from 5 weeks The couple met in Paris. Upon in 2017 were Safed, Zichron arrivals included Phyllis Zur of aliyah, and has brought Israel as families consider to 102 years—included 377 retirement, they moved to Yaakov and Tiberias. The top and her Israeli-born husband, over 50,000 olim from North themselves Orthodox, while families, 677 children, 358 Albuquerque. Then, in the choices for those settling in Nitzan, of West Orange, New America and the United King- approximately 60 percent of Israeli soldiers, 54 doctors waning days of 2017, they the south were Beersheba, Jersey. dom in the past 15 years. This single olim are non-Ortho- and 16 psychologists. Broken picked up once more and Ashkelon, Eilat, Ofakim and “I had a lifelong dream to article was produced by JTA’s dox, he noted. down by state and province, moved to Raanana. Mitzpe Ramon. become a citizen of Israel,” native content team. Temple Israel From page 1A Orthodox and Chassidim. URJ Biennial, Orthodox Union for the JCC Macabee Games Robertson neighborhood of tion of Greater Orlando. Visit He has performed at the top and Hadassah. and as music director for the Los Angeles with his wife,
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