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$40 PER YEAR WITHIN MONROE COUNTY, $42 OUTSIDE COUNTY/SEASONAL 70¢ PER ISSUE n VOL. XCVIII, NO. 27 n ROCHESTER, N.Y. n TEVET 2, 5781 n DECEMBER 17, 2020 Jewish Senior Life Provides Anti-Semitic Hackers Infiltrate “Small Greenhouses” as Jewish High School Website, Shelter for Family Visits Exposing Personal Information

by SHIRYN GHERMEZIAN (JNS) — An anti-Semitic cy- bersecurity attack that took place at a Jewish high school in Long Island, N.Y., on Monday has left students on edge and parents contemplating if they should keep their children at home for the rest of the school year. Anti-Semitic images, threats, slurs and songs were posted on the website of North Shore Hebrew Academy High School A view of the North Shore Hebrew Academy in Great Neck, N.Y. (Facebook/ in Great Neck. They were also North Shore Hebrew Academy) included in emails sent to the Jewish Senior Life has pur- dow visits with their loved school’s parents and students told JNS that the hacked emails The school ended early on Mon- chased small greenhouses to ones. on Monday afternoon. were first sent out Monday af- day because of parent-teacher provide protection from the Due to visitation restrictions Skyler Askari, 15, a 10th-grad- ternoon around 3 p.m. after conferences set to take place weather elements for residents’ imposed by the COVID-19 pan- er at the private high school, classes had already concluded. (Hackers — Page 6) family members during win- (Visits — Page 2) Jewish, Pro-Israel Groups The Israel-Iran Shadow War React to Morocco Agreeing Locks In on Southeastern Syria To Normalize Ties With Israel In the last weeks of the Trump administration, Israel is fast-tracking the military drive to push Iran and its helpers back from their advance on southern Syria and the Golan border. The IDF is urged to hurry up in case the Biden ad- ministration decides that Iran’s presence in Syria need not be addressed by the US in a poten- tial renegotiated nuclear deal with Tehran. Iran is using the uncertain transition period to advance on the Syrian-Israel Golan border of Deraa, Quneitra and Sweida. a special Hizballah unit and Beth-El Synagogue in Casablanca in 2017. (Wikimedia Commons) by infiltrating and hiding be- The Iranians are also practic- dozens of local armed groups hind Syrian army positions in ing clandestine tactics on the and soldiers, taking advantage by JACKSON RICHMAN on Thursday of its intention to the southern Syrian provinces Syrian Golan with the help of (Shadow War — Page 7) (JNS) — Jewish and pro-Is- normalize ties with Israel. rael groups reacted positively It’s the fourth normalization to Morocco’s announcement (Morocco — Page 8) 50th Anniversary of Leningrad Trial Observers Say EU-Funded Sparks Memories, Educational Initiatives by JUDY LASH BALINT Palestinian Textbook Review Reeks (JNS) — On Dec. 15, 1970, a small item appeared at the top Of ‘Incompetence, Concealment’ of page three of The New York by ISRAEL KASNETT In 2018, the United Kingdom Times under the jarring head- (JNS) — In a ground-break- commissioned a report on Pales- line, ‘Soviets Reported Trying ing move and in response to tinian textbooks from the Ger- 11, Mostly Jews, in Hijacking.’ the lack of change in the Pal- many-based Georg Eckert Insti- Few could have predicted that estinian Authority school cur- tute for International Textbook the trial of those young Jewish riculum and the continued in- Research (GEI), which then pub- activists held in a grim Lenin- sertion of anti-Semitism, hate lished a report that was found to grad courtroom would trans- and incitement to violence and be riddled with mistakes. The form the lives of millions of martyrdom in its textbooks, European Union then decided people on both sides of the Iron the Norwegian parliament en- to commission another report, Curtain. dorsed a cut last week in aid due to be completed this month, The accused were part of a American-born Israeli author and journalist Yossi Klein Halevi holds “I Am My to the P.A. (Textbook Review — Page 13) (Leningrad — Page 4) Brothers Keeper” sign circa 1970. (Courtesy) Page 2 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, December 17, 2020 Scarlett Johansson Criticized for Being a Zionist After Supporting Jailed Human Rights Workers in Egypt by CNAAN LIPHSHIZ The responses on social net- critics of the government of the Zionist prod- (JTA) — Scarlett Johansson’s works are to the Dec. 1 video President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi. ucts and it is well recent intervention on behalf by the Jewish actress to the Three of the initiative’s de- known that she is of civil rights in Egypt is arrest of four members of the tainees have since been re- Jewish and that prompting a mixed response Egyptian Initiative for Person- leased. she’s on the Israe- there ranging from gratitude al Rights as part of a broader “They all face bogus charges lis’ side,” Mako to anti-Semitic rebuke. wave of political arrests of that could lead to many more News reported. years in prison. In fact, their E l - S i s i t o o k only crime has been to stand power in a 2014 up for the dignity of Egyp- coup that ended tians,” Johansson said in the the short term in video published on the initia- power of Moham- tive’s YouTube page. Amnes- med Morsi and his ty International launched a Muslim Brother- separate campaign for their hood. They were release. elected following On social media, many a revolution. Egyptians thanked Johansson The pro-West- for her intervention, including ern dictator has Joseph Fahim, a film critic jailed thousands and lecturer from Cairo. of people deemed But others lambasted her. by his regime as Scarlett Johansson at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party Nashat al-Dihi, a present- Muslim extrem- at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing er and commentator on TeN ists, as well as Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., Feb. 9. (Toni Anne Barson/ TV, said Johannson “supports other critics. b WireImage/Getty Images) To The Editor: It’s a shame that the world of WWII. He visited Israel sever- allowed the development of population doesn’t know this - al times as a youngster and did an mRNA vaccine (the novel especially with anti-Semitism a year of his doctoral work at approach used by Moderna and on the rise! the Weizmann Institute. There Pfizer for dealing with COVID- Mikael Dolsten, Chief Scien- he learned cutting edge immu- 19) is University of Pennsyl- tific Officer at Pfizer, is Jewish. nology which led him to phar- vania’s Drew Weissman. A He grew up in Halmstad, Swe- maceutical science. Dolsten has Professor of Medicine at Penn, den, the son of a Jewish father referred in interviews to rising he received his BA and MA with prewar roots in Sweden anti-Semitism in Sweden. degrees at Brandeis and MD/ and a Jewish mother who es- Pfizer CEO Albert Borla is a Microbiology and PhD at Bos- caped Austria in the early days Sephardic Jew from Thessa- ton U. Weissman once worked lonika, Greece, a city whose with a fellowship at the NIH Jewish population was almost under Dr. Fauci. completely wiped out during Final related notes: Presi- WWII. The Borla family’s his- dent-Elect Joe Biden this week tory in Thessalonika goes back named his new head for the 5 centuries, and Borla visits Centers for Disease Control his remaining family members and Prevention (“CDC”): Dr. there yearly. He now lives in Rochelle Walensky, Professor New York City. Medicine at Harvard Medical The Chief Medical Officer School and Chief of Infectious for Moderna, a Cambridge, Diseases at Massachusetts Mass.-based company, is an General Hospital. She works as Israeli immigrant named Tal a physician at a Jewish camp Zaks. Previously, he served for a week each summer. Also as head of Global Oncology at in the clan is Jeff Zients, who Sanofi Pharmaceuticals. Zaks will be Biden’s overseer for received his M.D. and PhD. the entire federal coronavirus degrees at Ben Gurion Univer- response. Zients led the suc- sity and conducted post-doc cessful effort to fix the govern- research at the NIH. ment’s website when it became The scientist responsible, damaged during the launch of with a colleague, for the pio- the Affordable Care Act. b neering breakthroughs that —Kenny Dresner

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demic, family members com- in 30-minute blocks, and the ing for a window visit must sit structures are thoroughly outside, thus being exposed cleaned after each visit to keep to less-than-desirable weather families safe from the spread conditions this time of year. of disease. Being able to sit inside the ful- “We know how hard the visi- ly-enclosed greenhouse pro- tor restrictions are on our fam- vides them shelter from inclem- ily members. Sitting outside ent weather such as wind, rain, for a window visit becomes a or cold temperatures. bigger challenge during Roch- The Palram Hybrid Green- ester’s colder weather,” says Mi- houses are 4’ long by 6’ wide, chele Schirano, Administrator 7’ high, and made of a poly- of The Jewish Home of Roches- carbonate plastic material. A ter. “We’re happy to now have heater is provided inside for these enclosed small green- cold-weather visits. Eight struc- houses to make our resident tures were purchased for use families’ window visits a little at the Jewish Home and the warmer, so they can relax and Summit at Brighton. Family enjoy the time visiting with window visits are scheduled their loved ones.” b THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, December 17, 2020 • Page 3

Culture … India’s Jew Town Only Has a Handful of Jews Left. But Jewish Traditions and Landmarks Remain.

by CHRISTABEL and special ceremonial privileg- pastries) or the Cochin Jewish itism. LOBO es, which at the time were typ- spice cake — considered by “I have never felt discrimi- KOCHI, India ically awarded only to rulers. many to be the hallmark recipe nated against as a Jew living (JTA) — Take a In 1341, flooding of the Peri- of the community’s cuisine — in India. When I was studying walk down this yar River led the Malabari Jews were altered over time based on at university, they used to ask coastal city’s south to present-day Kochi, the availability of ingredients. when the festival of the New “Jew street” where they built the Kochan- An abundance of fresh spices, Year, that is Rosh Hashanah, today and you’ll gadi Synagogue, the area’s first coconut milk and tapioca starch and Yom Kippur — the fast — find bustling Kas- Jewish house of worship. By the (in place of gelatin) allowed In- would be before they set the miri storefronts A sign denotes Kochi’s “Jew street,” as it is known 16th century, a second wave of do-Jewish households to easily dates for public examinations,” selling Persian locally, which once was a hub of Indian Jewish life. Jewish emigres found refuge in adapt their strictly kosher food Sassoon warmly remembers. antiques, pash- (Christabel Lobo) Kerala’s surprisingly welcoming requirements, creating a unique “They wouldn’t put exams on mina shawls and society. Fleeing the Spanish and cuisine that’s both equally Jew- those dates because of Jewish traditional Islamic handicrafts brated with equal gusto by Ko- Portuguese Inquisitions, Sep- ish and Indian in nature. students like me.” — a stark contrast to the neigh- chi’s Jews and their non-Jewish hardic Jews, as well as Mizrahi In December 2018, the Pa- For Kerala in particular, the borhood’s heyday when every neighbors. Jews from the Middle East and radesi Synagogue celebrated its state’s deeply rooted syncretic household was Jewish. Primely situated between North Africa, came together to 450th anniversary. multiculturalism can be traced “There are only two people Kerala’s stunning labyrinthine form the second community — “Practically every person in back to antiquity when ancient left in Jew Town. One very old, backwaters and the verdant the Paradesi (which means for- that community came to Co- traders of western Asia and who spends most of her time shores of the Malabar Coast, eign in Malayalam and Hindi) chin from all over the world India placed importance on pre- in Los Angeles, and one other,” Kochi — or Cochin, as it was Jews. — I was very honored to be serving the identity of commu- said Shalva Weil, a senior re- known until 1996 — has long The Jewish community bond- the only non-Cochini invited,” nities they traded between. searcher at the Seymour Fox been a crossroads of culture, The first real dent in India’s School of Education at the He- diversity and trade. As the epi- record of welcoming commu- brew University of Jerusalem center of the subcontinent’s nities fleeing persecution came and a leading figure on the renowned spice trade, the town last year with the passing of the Jewish communities of India. attracted traders from far-flung Citizenship Amendment Act, Once a vibrant community of locations, including members which fast-tracks citizenship approximately 3,000 at its peak of India’s oldest Jewish com- to Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist or in the 1950s, only a handful munities. Jain refugees from neighbor- of elderly Jews remain here The first Jews were believed ing countries, but not Muslims, now in a city of some 677,000. to have arrived in the first cen- Jews or atheists. According to Weil, there really tury BCE as sailors on King The law is not expected to is no community in Kochi any- Solomon’s boats. They settled in impact the few Jews who chose more. the ancient port city of Muziris, to remain in India. Jew Town signage remains in the city. (Christabel Lobo) “You won’t find more than now modern-day Kodungallur, Those who have immigrated five or 10 Jews,” she said. 28 miles north of Kochi. In his ed not only over religious prac- Weil recalled. “And it was ab- to Israel are eligible for lifelong Unlike other dwindling Jew- 2019 book “One Heart. Two tices, but also through shared solutely fantastic, but it was a Overseas Citizen of India, or ish communities around the Worlds. The Story of the Jews of culinary traditions. celebration of the end of the OCI, cards that have been easily world, the Jews of Kochi did Kochi,” historian K.S. Mathew “Even though there are only a community basically. I mean available since 2017, thanks in not leave their country due to describes a thriving community few Jewish people still living in everyone knew it.” part to current Prime Minister persecution or hardship. Rather first welcomed by then Hindu Kochi, till now they observe the As a pluralistic democratic Narendra Modi’s close ties with it was the creation of the State ruler King Sri Parkaran Iravi. laws of kashrut,” Sassoon said. nation, India has long been Israel. of Israel in 1948 that attracted Three copper plates that date In “Spice and Kosher: Exotic known as a refuge for commu- “This is actually the first time many from the mostly Ortho- back to 1000 C.E. outlined 72 Cuisine of the Cochin Jews,” nities facing oppression else- I’m hearing about it,” Sassoon dox community to emigrate and liberties of the tribe that would a cookbook of Cochini Jewish where. The Paradesi and Mala- said when asked about the start a new life in the Jewish later be known as the Malabari recipes compiled by Sassoon, bari Jewish communities have amendment. “I personally have homeland. Jews. They included everything Kenny Salem and Bala Menon, always coexisted peacefully an OCI card that doesn’t expire. For Essie Sassoon, a retired from land rights and exemption ancient recipes such as Cochini with Indians of other religions I don’t need a visa if I want to doctor of obstetrics and gyne- from taxes to religious freedom pastels (crispy sweet or savory with zero traces of anti-Sem- go to India.” b cology who initially went to Israel as a medical volunteer during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, one of the main reasons to stay on was family. “When my sister and her family left for Israel, I felt that I Family out of town? Weather preventing travel? didn’t have any close relations left in India. I was very attached to my sister,” she said. “It was a Unable to leave your home? very difficult decision because Brighton Memorial Chapel offers live funeral broadcasting I love India very much. And I was in a very good position in for services that take place within our chapel. India and I was progressing. But it happened.” All at NO CHARGE. Some of Sassoon’s fondest memories revolve around her childhood spent celebrating the numerous Jewish traditions and festivities as an Orthodox Co- chini Jew in this southern India port city. From the blowing of the sho- far inside the now 452-year-old 3325 Winton Road S., Rochester NY 14623 • www.BrightonMemorialChapel.com Paradesi Synagogue on Rosh Hashanah to the annual Sim- 585-427-8520 chat Torah celebrations — an enormously popular three-day affair both in the narrow lanes, homes and synagogues of Jew Town — holidays were cele- See why Brighton Memorial Chapel is Establishing a New Tradition. Page 4 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, December 17, 2020 Bar-Ilan University Lays Cornerstone For $30 Million Alexander Grass Leningrad (Continued from Page 1) Computer Science Building

Bar-Ilan University President Prof. Arie Zaban, Roger Grass, and university administrators bury the time capsule at the site of the future Alexander Grass Eleven of the accused at the Leningrad Trial, December 1970. (Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov) Computer Science Building. group that tried to carry out a mass demonstrations in Isra- clear. On the one hand, recalls RAMAT GAN, Israel (JNS rity of the State of Israel,” said plan in June 1970 to take over el to official protests from the Glenn Richter, co-founder of the Wire) — One of the largest de- University President Prof. Arie a small plane that would then leaders of 24 countries, and New York-based Student Strug- partments at Bar-Ilan Universi- Zaban. fly under the radar across the a deluge of protests from the gle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ), “the ty is getting a new home. When “The coronavirus has pro- Soviet border to freedom. pope, Nobel Prize winners and actions of the Leningrad trial completed, the Alexander Grass hibited us from celebrating this It was a radical scheme whose leading newspapers led to the defendants super-charged the Computer Science Building landmark occasion with our goal was to focus attention on commutations. The Kremlin Soviet Jewry movement. There will house the Department of generous benefactors, but they the plight of Jews in the Soviet campaign to bring the nascent was tremendous agitation and Computer Science, considered have sent written messages to Union and their desire to emi- Jewish freedom movement to the realization that if these a world leader in the fields of our students and scholars of the grate. Those who took part were its knees had proven to be a Jews were fighting for their artificial intelligence, robotics, future that we have placed in a seasoned activists who under- dismal failure. lives, then this was the moment cryptography and natural lan- time capsule and buried on the stood that there was a far great- In fact, when the stirring we had to do something.” guage processing. grounds of this future building. er likelihood of being killed words of Sylva Zalmanson in But, Richter tells JNS, there At a small gathering due to The time capsule also includes or arrested than of reaching the courtroom were broadcast were different reactions in the coronavirus limitations, a cor- an up-to-date, current curricu- Sweden, but they went ahead by the BBC and Voice of Ameri- United States to the trial. “The nerstone-laying ceremony was lum that may likely seem irrel- anyway. The result? Arrests, ca Radio, Jews from all over the establishment organizations held at the site of the future evant to students studying here death sentences, long years in Soviet Union who were brave went to see (President Richard) building in the heart of the 50 years from now,” added Prof. the Gulag — and the jumpstart enough to tune in were inspired Nixon; the JDL (Jewish De- University campus. Zaban. to a movement that ultimately and emboldened. fense League, based in Brook- “This is a milestone for our The estimated $30 mil- brought freedom to millions of “Even now, I do not doubt lyn, N.Y., headed by Rabbi Meir friends around the world who lion building will include a Soviet Jews, and strengthened for a minute that I will live in Kahane) made death threats have contributed to the found- two-story robotics lab, a wing the identity and commitment Israel,” proclaimed Sylva. “This against Soviet diplomats; and ing of this important project — dedicated to the Center for to Jewish peoplehood of untold dream, illuminated by 2,000 SSSJ took to the streets and a building dedicated to the De- Cyber Defense and Cryptog- others in the West. years of hope, will never leave marched on the Soviet Mis- partment of Computer Science, raphy, an innovation area, an Fifty years later, the names of me. Next year in Jerusalem! sion.” which will focus on teaching auditorium, student seating those courageous young Sovi- And now, I repeat: ‘If I forget American-born Israeli author and research in areas that are areas, and additional state-of- et Jews and their daring deed, you, O, Jerusalem, let my right and journalist Yossi Klein Ha- inextricably linked to the secu- the-art amenities. b called “Operation Wedding” hand wither.’” levi was a high school student (the Jewish activists claimed to Natan Sharansky, who was in New York in 1970 and al- be traveling together to a wed- a student at the time, told JNS ready an active member of SSSJ. ding), remain largely forgotten. “Sylva’s words gave us a very “I feel as if I remember every Many of those involved wonder big push.” The period of the minute of that period. It was why the Jewish world has paid trial was the first time Sha- such a formative time for me,” little attention to such a positive, ransky realized that strong pub- he tells JNS. “We saw this as a inspiring and dramatic move- lic opinion could actually sway historic moment. I made a clear ment. Now, two new education- the Soviet regime. “We knew decision that I was going to take al initiatives, one in Hebrew and the power of the Soviet Union, on some of the desperation of the other in English, hold the but now we understood that the Leningrad activists. That re- promise of reviving interest. there was a force that could in- sulted in several concrete steps. Neither project would have fluence the country. It was the I made the shift from SSSJ to happened without the com- first time that it brought home JDL. I began getting arrested, mitment of Anat Zalman- the idea that there is a move- disrupting concerts of Soviet son-Kuznetzov, 41, the daugh- ment, that world Jewry showed artists, harassing Soviet diplo- ter of Sylva Zalmanson and its strength and mobilized to mats in the street.” Edward Kuznetsov, who were help us.” During Passover 1973, Klein both sentenced in the Lenin- Halevi, who is the son of Ho- grad trial. ‘This Was the locaust survivors, traveled to Kuznetsov, along with Mark Moment We Had to the former Soviet Union and Dymshits — the pilot who was Do Something’ took part in a sit-in at OVIR to fly the captured plane — From the perspective of Jew- (the Soviet Visa bureau) that he was sentenced to death at the ish student activists in the describes as “a direct emotion- Leningrad tribunal on Dec. West, things weren’t quite so (Leningrad — Page 6) 24 1970 for his role as one of the main architects of the so- FOUNDED 1924 called hijacking plan. 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Hackers (Continued from Page 1) Leningrad (Continued from Page 4) that evening, which were then Skyler said the students she al response to the Leningrad ond of resentment to those who do something dramatic. The canceled because of what trans- spoke with were “really freaked trial. If young Jews in the FSU got out without spending time people I approached and draft- pired at the school. out” by the hack. “My grade could reach a point where they in prison.” ed to the group were friends The first disturbing email group chat, we were texting were willing to risk their lives As a key organizer of the who had been active for years that Askari received included and talking about it, and ev- to push open the gates, then Jewish underground in Riga, in the underground movement details of a one-way “field trip” eryone was really scared. And we in America needed to up 73-year-old Yosef Mendelevich who were in danger of being to Auschwitz for $85. The ap- we started sending [each other] the game,” he explains. “We served the longest sentence of arrested anyway. It was a group plication deadline was listed as pictures of the emails that they needed to move from a peace- any of the Jews tried in Len- created out of our solidarity “January 1945,” and the email opened before and anti-Semitic ful protest that didn’t entail ingrad in 1970. He has lived in with Israel.” said students would have to videos they got. People were any physical risks to putting Jerusalem with his wife, and He speculates that the limited “walk into an SS office and de- saying, ‘I’m not going to school ourselves in harm’s way.” Klein their many children and grand- current interest in the story of clare themselves as Jews.” tomorrow. I don’t care if classes Halevi acknowledges that the children, since his release in the Soviet Jewry movement is “I was really confused. I are resumed.’” movement to free Soviet Jews 1981 after spending 11 years in because “people are not inter- thought it was part of a pro- Jessica Askari added that “was just as much about us as Soviet labor and prison camps. ested in heroes. People are as- gram,” said the teen, who was “parents were messaging each it was about them.” Mendelevich explains to JNS tonished to find I’m still alive!” doing remote learning on Mon- other saying make sure to put In the United Kingdom, stu- that he’s always astonished Since the publication of his day. “And then a couple of min- your security alarm on and dents like Abie (“Avi”) Lehrer when Israelis or Americans book Unbroken Spirit (Gefen, utes later, we got another email just be vigilant. Everybody’s had been actively campaigning ask how he survived his sen- 2012) in English, Mendelevich saying, ‘Our website has been on edge.” with the Universities Commit- tence. “There was no difficulty has traveled all over the world updated. Let us know what you “It wasn’t just a threat email. tee for Soviet Jewry since the think.’” They have your name, personal mid-1960s. But similar to the On the school’s homepage, the information and address. They situation in the United States, North Shore logo was changed hacked into the system in every Lehrer relates to JNS that it took to a swastika; the background possible way. And parents were the Leningrad trials to galva- image was modified to show a saying, ‘We’re terrified because nize the attention of the Jewish Nazi concentration camp; and they’re not gonna hit when we establishment. His main mem- the school’s name was changed know it, they’re gonna hit when ory of the period surrounding to “North Shore Hebrew Con- everything settles down. Then the Leningrad arrests and trial centration Camp.” Its address they’re going to do something,’” is the trip he took to visit re- was also changed to that of the she continued, as parents won- fuseniks during the High holy- Auschwitz-Birkenau concentra- dered whether they should keep days of 1970. There was little tion camp. their children home for the rest discussion of the arrests, he re- “[My daughter] came to my of the year. counts, since the Soviet media room and said, ‘Mom, I’m so had kept silent about the arrests confused. Something is going Annual Hackers Aim to of the Jews while they prepared on,’” said Jessica, Skyler’s mom. Attack Israel and Israelis for the show trial. “She showed me, and I said, Images obtained by JNS show Lehrer did witness the imme- Yossi Klein Halevi at a New York City rally to protest the Jewish establish- ‘Close the email immediately.’ that several of the anti-Semitic diate after-effects of the trial ment’s lack of action about the issue of Soviet Jewry, 1971. (Steve Fox) And then I went to my email, messages sent via email were when he arrived in Israel where and it was flooded” with an- signed “OPISRAEL.” he spent the remainder of the in staying in the Gulag. I was to tell the story, but says he is ti-Semitic messages and leaked According to The Jerusalem academic year. During 1970, born in Soviet Russia, educated rarely invited to non-Orthodox personal information. Post, OPISRAEL is an annual only 1,000 Jews had succeeded in Soviet Russia, worked in So- communities. Photos, credit card infor- coordinated effort by pro-Pales- in emigrating from the FSU. In viet Russia, so I was used to a “This was one of the greatest mation, home addresses and tinian hackers meant to attack the months following the trial, condition of life in Soviet Russia moments in all of Jewish histo- other personal details about the Israel and Israelis. It has been Soviet emigration policy eased and the Gulag was just part of ry. Who today even talks about school’s students and teachers taking place annually on April and 15,000 Jews left during Soviet Russia, almost the same. it?” asks American-born Israe- were circulated in emails, and 7 for the past seven years. In 1971. “I went to the airport There was never a real problem li author and journalist Yossi students were even sent an en- June, a pro-Palestinian group to greet them, and some were to do what I did in the Gulag. Klein Halevi. “The movement tire Google document that list- released the personal informa- people I had met in the Soviet I realize it’s hard for people to has been almost completely ed all their personal informa- tion, including ID numbers, Union the previous October. We understand if they never expe- forgotten. It’s partly the fault tion, including photo numbers. credit card details and phone danced together in the hall of rienced Soviet Russia.” of those of us who were in it. At the end of the email, the numbers of hundreds of Israelis. the airport. It was fantastic!” For Mendelevich, the deci- We all moved on. We checked hackers wrote “F*** ISRAEL.” An image that Skyler shared exclaims Lehrer. sion to take part in the plan to that box. We did it, and gave According to images and vid- with JNS shows a message on While some Jews started le- capture the plane was anoth- ourselves a deserved pat on eos obtained by JNS, additional the school’s website that said, gally streaming out of the Sovi- er stage of openly confront- the back and went on with our Nazi imagery on the website “You’ve been hacked by Anon- et Union, those arrested began ing the Soviet regime. “Either lives. We neglected to tell those included a clip of marching Nazi ymous,” another hacker group. serving their lengthy prison way, whether we succeeded who came after us about what SS guards and an image of Adolf The school’s website and terms. Sylva Zalmanson, 76, or were arrested, the conse- actually happened.” Hitler. The website stated that email system is currently shut the only woman sentenced, tells quence would be publicity,” he North Shore believes “in execut- down. North Shore Hebrew JNS that she thought she would says. At one point in early 1970, ‘The Importance of ing our jews [sic], not merely de- Academy emailed an official never survive her 10-year sen- the activists in Leningrad sent Jewish Solidarity’ porting them. … We don’t want statement to parents and faculty tence. In the end, she was re- word to Israel to ask whether Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov, our jews [sic] to continue being on Monday stating that as soon leased after four years, includ- to go ahead with the plan. The now a documentary filmmaker, rats so finally erasing them from as they discovered the cyberse- ing a period of six months in response was negative — no was born in Israel following this Earth is much preferred.” curity breach, they “contacted solitary confinement. “I know government could approve of a her father’s release from the Other emails sent to stu- law enforcement, who arrived how to be alone. I have no trou- plan to steal an airplane — so a Gulag. She told JNS that she dents and parents said, “F*** on campus within minutes.” ble to be in isolation during number of the original planners was not aware of her parent’s all Jews. Arbeit Macht Frei! “Law enforcement is active- corona because of my experi- dropped out. underground Jewish activities We demand a 4th Reich!” and ly investigating the situation ences,” she quips today. They felt the plan would be or the details of their years in showed images of a swastika, and will advise us of our next Looking back, she says what counterproductive because ev- Soviet prisons and labor camps along with the message “We are steps,” said the statement. “We kept her going was the knowl- eryone was being watched by while she was growing up. “My everywhere.” have taken the school website, edge “that people in the free KGB and would certainly be ar- parents didn’t speak about it A different email said in its as well as the email system world supported us, and we rested in the airport. Then the all. I only learned about it from subject line, “LETS GO TO AUS- temporarily offline. … We will didn’t feel alone in this strug- members of the Jewish cultural watching TV or having teachers CHWITZ YOU FAGGOT.” continue to work together with gle. Also, you are with people movement would be arrested or people in the street approach The hackers also sent stu- law enforcement to ensure the in the camp; it’s another life and that nascent movement me and say, ‘Your parents are dents an email posing as one safety and security of our par- you learn there. You test your- would be stifled. “I discussed heroes,’ but nothing beyond of North Shore’s teachers ents, students and faculty.” self. It’s a school for life.” it with my mentor in Riga,” that.” and wrote in the email’s sub- The high school canceled Her daughter, Anat, adds recalls Mendelevich. “He told She concluded that “people ject box, “GO BACK TO THE classes on Tuesday, both in per- that her parents knew their me that the Jewish education- don’t know anything about this OVEN.” One student shared son and remotely, due to the friends were gaining their free- al movement, which was then inspiring story because we hav- that on the school’s website technical logistics of the work dom because of their actions. underground, could save maybe en’t taught it, and it’s not made was a video with the logo of that will need to be done in “I feel our actions were not in 1,000 to 2,000 people, but the approachable for the younger Palestinian Media Watch that the immediate short term. The vain,” emphasizes Sylva. “We only way to save our people generation. Her first effort to including imagery and a song school is also offering emotion- did something huge, and we’re from assimilation and get them correct that was to produce about killing Israelis. al counseling to students. b proud of it. I have not one sec- to leave is to break through and (Leningrad — Page 8) THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, December 17, 2020 • Page 7 Jerusalem College of Technology Announces Israel and Bhutan Establish New Name for Nursing School Diplomatic Relations cialization in geriatrics. “We are profoundly grateful to Atta and Henry Zieleniec for their generous gift to our nurs- ing school and to our new Tal Campus for Women,” said JCT President Prof. Chaim Sukenik. “The coronavirus pandemic has reminded us all of the criti- cal importance of nursing and medical infrastructure. This gift will help provide the coun- try with thousands of highly skilled medical personnel for decades to come.” JCT’s School of Nursing serves more than 1,000 students annu- ally. It is widely recognized as Jerusalem College of Technology (JerusalemFoundation.Org) the country’s premier nursing program, having received the Israeli Ambassador to India Ron Malka and his Bhutanese counterpart Vet- JERUSALEM (JNS Wire) — to Canada, where Selma devot- Health Ministry’s National Prize sop Namgyel at a ceremony establishing diplomatic relations between the The Jerusalem College of Tech- ed much of her time to support for Excellence and ranking first two countries at Malka’s residence in New Delhi, India, on Dec. 12. (Ministry of nology (JCT) has announced underprivileged youths and among 24 nursing departments Foreign Affairs of Bhutan) that it has received a generous various educational programs nationwide. gift from Toronto-based Atta in Israel. Atta and Henry Ziele- The College’s nursing pro- (JNS) — Israel and the King- agreements” concluded by Is- and Henry Zieleniec to name niec, inspired by how Atta’s gram offers a Bachelor of Sci- dom of Bhutan established full rael in September with the its nationally renowned nurs- parents strengthened Israeli in- ence of Nursing (BSN) and a diplomatic relations on Satur- United Arab Emirates and Bah- ing school “The Selma Jelinek stitutions, considered the nam- Master of Nursing (MSN) with a day, in the latest of a series rain, according to a statement School of Nursing.” ing of JCT’s nursing school the Nurse Practitioner (NP) certifi- of normalization deals to be from his office. “We are in The gift will support the most fitting tribute to Nurse cation — the latter representing signed by the Jewish state. contact with additional coun- construction of a four-story, Selma — whose legacy is more Israel’s first program of its kind. “The circle of those who tries that want to join and es- 60,000-square-foot building relevant than ever amid the ris- Further, JCT partnered with the recognize Israel is growing. I tablish relations with us,” he equipped with advanced med- ing prominence of the nursing University of Toronto to estab- would like to thank Israel’s am- added. ical simulation training labs, profession during the coronavi- lish Israel’s first academic pro- bassador to India for his work The signing ceremony took lecture halls, classrooms, facul- rus pandemic. gram in the cutting-edge field and the Kingdom of Bhutan for place in New Delhi, India, at ty offices, and a library on JCT’s When the Israeli Health Min- of health informatics, which its decision to establish dip- the Israeli embassy, with the new Tal Campus for Women. istry asked nursing schools aims to improve the quality of lomatic relations with Israel,” Israeli and Bhutanese ambas- The school is being named in across the country to train patient care by utilizing data tweeted Israeli Foreign Minister sadors to India. A joint press memory of Atta’s mother, Ho- their students in respiratory as the basis for making better Gabi Ashkenazi. release posted on the Bhuta- locaust survivor Selma Jelinek, care in the early stages of the clinical decisions. “This is a milestone in Israel’s nese Foreign Ministry’s web- who was affectionately known pandemic this past March, JCT The new Tal Campus will deepening ties with Asia,” he site said: “The establishment of as “Nurse Selma.” Born in the swiftly answered the call by be the permanent home for up said, adding that students from diplomatic relations would not small Russian town of Koretz, training 600 third- and fourth- to 3,000 of JCT’s female stu- Bhutan are receiving agricultur- only build upon the existing Selma escaped the Nazi anni- year nursing students in that dents in nursing, computer sci- al training in Israel. close ties but open the path to hilation of the Jewish presence specialty within a week. Then ence, electro-optics, industrial Ashkenazi said the agree- greater cooperation and further in Koretz and became a nurse in April, more than 30 of JCT’s engineering, accounting, and ment came after secret contacts strengthen relations between in the Russian Army. In that nursing students started work- management. The campus will and reciprocal with Bhutan in the two countries and peoples.” capacity she would go on to ing in nursing homes across provide increased opportunities recent years in a process led by U.S. President Donald Trump care for Alex Jelinek, a Russian Israel, drawing from the Col- for national religious, Haredi, the foreign ministry. announced on Thursday that tank commander and officer lege’s expertise as the country’s and Ethiopian women to pursue NewsIsraeli & Views Prime • 2x5 Minister• 021612 • DSBen - HOUSEMorocco had agreed to nor- who was injured in battle, and only academic institution that higher education and attain em- jamin Netanyahu welcomed malize relations with Israel, they married shortly thereafter. offers a master’s degree course ployment in Jerusalem’s high- the announcement, calling it following in the footsteps of the Selma and Alex immigrated in nursing with a clinical spe- tech industries. b “additional fruit of the peace UAE and Bahrain. b

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He is responsible for from Hofstra University and ilies.”a With different religious ■ The Cone Sisters of Baltimore, Matisse’s returned to Rochester to join his SE Greater Rochester has an- Foundation of the Women’s Bar backgrounds but shared values, PT “Interior, Flowers and Parakeets” at the cigar and grocery business, leading the board in its activities J.D. from Hofstra University father in leading the congrega- EM nounced that Carolyn G. Nuss- Association of the State of New Cokie and Steve found common B Jewish Museum. Photo: Baltimore Museum of but it was their brothers’ and for serving as the principal School of Law. He resides in tion. Their pride in each other ER baum, partner at Nixon Peabody York, and of the Cancer Wellness ground when they met 45 years 2 Art, Cone Collection, Succession H. Matisse/Artists flourishing textile company liaison between management Brighton with his wife Melanie. is clear. This is one of the few 2 Six Years On, Lessons of Gaza LLP and a resident of Pittsford, Spa, past president of the Greater ago. The Passover Seder they , 2 Rights Society (ARS), New York. that financed most of their art and the board. Wolk is an attor- Other newly-elected board times they’ve been able to sit 0 began a two-year term as presi- Rochester Association for Wom– Page - 7) host in their Bethesda, Md., 11 Withdrawal Resonate for West Bank collecting. (It supplied denim ney with Nixon Peabody LLP. members to the JCC arehome Nancy has evolved from a small down and talk since Rabbi Avi dent on July 1. Nussbaum will en Attorneys, and(Nussbaum past president came back to Rochester to pre- LINDA GRADSTEIN BY KAREN ROSENBERG to Levi Strauss, among others.) His practice encompasses vari- Bloom of Brighton, a consultant;family gathering to an annual BY work alongside Federation ex- of the Volunteer Legal Services “Collecting Matisse and Mod- The sisters were well educated ous business and corporate mat- Loren Flaum of Brighton,event celebrated vice with loved ones pare for his role as interim rabbi SHILOH, West Bank ecutive director Larry Fine in when his father takes a sabbati- The success of the IDF’s Lebanon as a convenient for- Its presence in South Syria is ern Masters: The Cone Sisters of (Claribel, who attended Johns ters, with an emphasis on merg- president of financeand at colleagues Flaum from all walks of written a psychological drama her role as the chief volunteer (JTA) — Yisrael Medad life. This book includes the Hag- about what happens when two cal to study in Jerusalem. It’s a officer of the Federation, the cen- Baltimore,” at the Jewish Muse- Hopkins medical school, was a ers and acquisitions, commercial Management; Sharon Gray of remembers when just gadah the couple developed girls go into the woods (in up- tral planning, fund raising and um, samples the extraordinary pathologist) and well traveled. transactions, intellectual prop- Brighton, Jewish communal pro- eight families lived in Carolyn Nussbaum along the way, essays from both state New York) but only one community relations organiza- trove of European art amassed On frequent trips to Europe, erty, and public and private se- fessional; Daniel Goldstein of the red-roofed homes in Cokie and Steve, recipes and de- comes out. The lie told at the (Kilimnicks by two American spinsters in often in the company of Stein curities. Wolk also serves as a Brighton, chief financial officer this Jewish settlement tion for the Rochester Jewish tails for managing the holiday time feels like the truth 20 years Ritual Items Buried Behind Beth El deep in the hills of the community. the first half of the 20th century. and her brother Leo, they at- member of the board of trustees and partnerlogistics. at Buckingham The Roberts will ap- later when a confession emerges. – Page 6) Nussbaum has served in lead- Jeremy Wolk West Bank. The Baltimore Museum of Art tended salons and visited the and secretary of the Louis S. & Properties;pear Josef Opening Kilimnick Night, ofOct. 30, at This book explores the adults Now some 2,500 Is- ership roles for multiple com- dox day schools, the practiceowns oftheir collection — all 3,000 (Art – Page 7) Molly B. Wolk Foundation and Rochester,7:30 a pediatrician;pm. and that children become and may raelis live here, and munity organizations as well as texting on Shabbat is becoming is a member of the executive College Foundation and Temple Ron Von Perlstein of Pittsford, a lead readers to question the Award-winning novelist Myla Rabbis Avi and Shaya Kilimnick. ramped-up operations to count- ward base for attacking Israel. denied except for “a few advis- Shiloh has playgrounds, increasingly prevalent, especially, committee of the board of direc- B’rth Kodesh. He also sits on the self-employedGoldberg’s business new novel, per- “False kinds of truths we accept or re- schools and a yeshiva. but not exclusively, amongU.S. Mod- Judge: NY’s Kosher Food- tors of the Monroe Community boards of the Jewish Home of son. bFriend” has been selected for the ject. Goldberg is scheduled to The red-roofed homes ern Orthodox teens. first “JCC Reads” program, a appear at 7:30 p.m., Wed nesday, It’s a literally hot-button issue sprawl over several hills, For Modern Orthodox Teens, TextingLabeling Law Constitutional community read designed for Nov. 2. and new homes contin- Photo: WND. that teachers and principals at long-running and ad hoc book Additional highlights include Photo: Naomi Gayle. Police arrest an anti-withdrawal activist in Je- Grant Helps PJ Library Surpass 500 Members ue to be built. At the yeshiva day schools, whose ac- groups. Following on the success food columnist Leah Koenig, rusalem during the Israel’s withdrawal from On ShabbatSTEVE LIPMAN Is Increasingly CommonThe revised law attempted to The new law was challenged “The Hadassah Every Day Cook- bottom of the hill is the BY ademic year ends this week, ac- of “Bee Season,” Goldberg has the Gaza Strip in 2005. overcome problems with an ear- in a 2008 lawsuit by a Long Is- The PJ Library, a program that archaeological excava- knowledge and deal with it in book: Daily Meals for the Con- Shiloh is not likely to disappear lier kosher-labeling law, which land deli and butcher shop, provides a free Jewish book or tion of the biblical NEW YORK (N.Y. Jewish both tacit and oblique ways. For temporary Jewish Kitchen,” who anytime soon. And even in the was thrown out when a judge Commack Self-Service Kosher CD to children’s homes every will participate in a live “throw Shiloh, where the tab- Week) — At a recent camp- the most part, they extol the Arabs Throw Rocks Again er Iran’s strategy was indicated To escape Israel’s air strikes, ers.” Reported casualties are long term, any discussion of dis- found it created “excessive” en- Meats Inc., that claimed it vio- month, has signed up a total of down”; Wayne Hoffman, “Sweet ernacle is believed to grounds Shabbaton sponsored virtues of keeping Shabbat rather mantling Jewish settlements in Like Sugar,” Sharon Pomerantz, have been built. by a New York-area Modern Or- than chastisingtanglements those who between vio- synagogue lated the First Amendment. 530 children in the Greater Roch- Shiloh is often cited as one of the West Bank is haunted by Is- thodox high school, the teenage late it. and state. What is and is not kosher is a ester area since its official kick- Arabs threwBY rocks Wednesday rael’s experience six years ago The practice has become so at an Israeli carGIL between RONEN Migdal- the settlements likely to be up- participants broke into small The revised law, passed by matter exclusively for Jewish law off in March. (Book Festival this summer, when the removal– Page 20) im and Tapuach Junction in rooted under any final peace groups after the meals, as is For teens from a wide range of Or- widespreadNew that York’s it has legislature developed in 2004, to determine, Commack said in The program was created na- of some 9,000 settlers(Lessons from their thodox backgrounds, a new norm. its own nomenclature — keeping Samaria. A 20 month old girl deal with the Palestinians. It is usual, to talk with their friends. requires producers and distrib- the lawsuit. By requiring labels tionally by the Harold Grin- – Page 12) homes in the Gaza Strip was fol- Illustration photo: Michael Datikash/Jewish was injured in the face. relatively isolated, about 28 On their cell phones. “half Shabbos,”utors to manage for those – whotheir Page 17) own on food as kosher, and by send- spoon Foundation to provide Week their mouths and murder miles north of Jerusalem, and Of the 17 students who attend- observe all the Shabbat(Texting regula- The baby girl received treat- kosher certifications and keeps ing out state inspectors to verify the means for Jewish families ment from Samaria Regional Au- weapons in their hands. To these ed the weekend program, said tions except for texting; “gd halfway between the Palestinian bles. “They weren’t hiding it.” the state out of the process. compliance, the state essentially to give children the gift of Jew- thority medics and evacuated to barbarian terrorists they want to by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Iran has moved its bases, camps dismissed as “Zionist propa- cities of Ramallah and Nablus. 17-year-old Julia, a junior at the The students at the Shabbaton give a state. The Nation of Israel All food claimed to be kosher attempted once again to define ish literacy, a love for literature, a hospital. The Authority Head But with little movement in day school, most sent text mes- were not the exception for their must be labeled as such by pro- and enforce its own kosher stan- music and art. Initial funding Gershon Mesika said: “The ‘men is strong, the government needs sages on Shabbat — a violation Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, age group. According to inter- ducers and distributors, and dard, according to the complaint. in Rochester — through the of peace’ of the Palestinian mur- to learn from it and be strength- On Sunday, Sept. 18, members of the Jewish community laid to rest some of the sacred texts and ritual objects that of the halachic ban on using der authority provide yet more ened by its spirit - no to folding helped to form and strengthen their identity as Jews. Participants buried views with several students and basic information about the On Wednesday, Federal Judge Jewish Federation and the JCC, The PJ Library presented a book stand and collection of books to Hillel Com- electricity in non-emergency sit- proof, to those who still need it, and surrendering, yes to con- siddurim, chumashim, machzorim, mezuzah scrolls, tefillin, tallitot and other sacred Hebrew books containing G–d’s administrators at Modern Ortho- qualifications of the individual Nina Gershon in US District with a generous grant from the munity Day School. Left to right: students Sophia Sherin, Jonathan Miller, uations. as to just whom we are facing. struction and stamping out ter- name in Hebrew. Above, students of Temple Beth El’s religious school help bury worn-out books and other religious A Wall of Indifference: “Only three [of the 17 stu- bestowing the kosher certifica- Court in Brooklyn disagreed, say- Max and Marian Farash Chari- Max Meyerowitz-Shipper, Talia Field and Hillel School parent Rachel Field We face low life terrorists who rorism.” items on the hill behind Temple Beth El. tion must be disclosed in a pub- ing the latest version of the law table Foundation — was for up with daughter Elly. dents] didn’t text on Shabbos,” try to murder babies.” An Israeli citizen was lightly Italy’s Shoah Memorial Julia says. Most did it “out in licly available database. does not violate Jews’ religious to 500 children. wounded from rocks hurled by “They hold an olive twig in Aviv Kochavi in an end-of-year and headquarters out of the line ganda.” the open,” sitting at picnic ta- or free speech protections under Thanks to an additional grant book stands and books to five Ha’atzmaut Arabsworkshop as he at drove Temple near Halhoul. Jewish News Network On the Air the U.S. Constitution and should from the Ann Lib and Bernard local Jewish organizations as B’rith KodeshThree Arabs and were a arrestedYom be upheld. Kozel Family Supporting Foun- well as a roving book stand for YerushalayimWednesday workshop afternoon at the in con- BY Photo: Bruce Nelson. New York City is the world’s dation, The PJ Library was able other institutions in the area. Ad- JCC. Morefrontations activities with will security take forces Jews of theAKIVA world, NOVICK prepare Israeli Expats Flocking to Berlin your remote controls: The first- largest Jewish city outside of Is- to enroll an additional 40 chil- ditinally, it has hosted program- place innear connection the Kalandiya with the checkpoint. new Earlier, they threw rocks at IDF ever Jewish news network began rael. b dren. ming such as a Passover work- school year and the High Holi- broadcasts this Wednesday. shemot 0474470 90456 forces and burned tires. For the Culture and the Passport © The Jerusalem Post The Library has also donated shop at the Federation, a Yom days. (names), including old worn TOBY AXELROD b BY 0 Several dozen Arabs threw Jewish News 1 (JN1) was born 74470 90456 rocks at Border Policemen near as an alternative to the world’s BERLIN (JTA) — Aviv Russ Har Adar, not far from Jerusa- leading news networks — CNN, lem. No one was hurt. The po- Fox News and Sky News. But its summary last Thursday, Dec. of Israeli fire around Damas- The IDF is using Tehran’s stands behind a console with his main goal is to serve as the Jew- was designed, at the request of 4 licemen used riot dispersal gear headphones on and speaks into then Prime Minister Benito Mus- to scatter the rioters. ish version of al-Jazeera, which An artist’s rendering of a night view of the planned Holocaust memorial in a large microphone. Illustration: Morpurgo De Curtis Architettiassociati.solini, to reflect the ideology of “We’re here: ‘Kol Berlin,’ the has won the hearts of tens of Milan. Italian fascism. The secret track, © millions of Arab viewers over BRIDGET KEVANE German-Israeli radio program. IsrealNationalNews BY rediscovered in 1995, lies down the past 15 years. Shabbat shalom!” says Russ, 34, a quiet street a short distance b According to the The Milan Central Train Sta- an Israeli expatriate. newspaper, the channel will be away from the 24 regular plat- Nirit Bialer, from Israel, standsPhoto: in frontAP/file. of a Jewish bakery in Berlin, Germany. tion is a grandiose building and Russ has been on the radio in broadcast via satellite to Europe, forms, to the east of the station’s Nobody knows exactly how many Israelis have moved to Berlin in recent a forceful presence at the heart Berlin nearly every Friday for main entrance. The entrance years, but unofficial estimates suggest between 9,000 to 15,000 — and the Makor Rishon of the city, used daily by 320,000 about three years hosting an opens wide into a warehouse numbers keep growing. 10. “Iran has begun cutting cus towards the northern and caution to seriously bludgeon (Jewish News people. But this busy European hourlong program in a melange space where stairs lead down to railway hub harbors a dark his- of Hebrew and German that– Pageof- 7) a boxcar, a cargo lift and a single Berlin tory: Underneath the station, fers an often irreverent( take on – Page 8) train track. hidden from view, is the secret “There is no similar archaeo- being Israeli in Germany. track used to deport Italian Jews logical site in all of Europe,” Studios in Tel Aviv, Brussels and Kiev. to Auschwitz. – Page 3) Opened in 1931, the station commented Michele Sarfatti, one of Italy’s most important(Memorial histo- rians of Italian Jewry. back on its military presence in eastern parts of Syria. Iranian its assets and collaborators in 4 Photo: Herzl Yosef/archive.

74470 90456 Syria as a result of our opera- forces have also been drawn Syria for the purpose of driving 0 tions,’ he said, “but there is still down. Hizballah and Syrian home Israel’s determination to a long way to go before the job armed units have been left to drive them out. b is done.” The tempo and quality anchor Iran’s presence in the © DEBKAfile of Israeli strikes against Iranian south. Moreover, reported IDF DEBKAfile is an online new Since assets in Syria, including kinet- air strikes on IRGC positions at service, based in Israel, that of- 1924 ic operations, the general said, Abu Kamal in eastern Syria on fers inside views and opinions a have been enhanced this year, the sensitive border with Iraq on intelligence, international along with more numerous co- showed Israel to be undeterred terror, Islamic Extremism and For Convenient Home Delivery 427-2468 vert and clandestine missions.” by the proximity of US bases. key political events of interest Online at thejewishledger.com Iran had also significantly Tehran is acting on the as- to readers. Page 8 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, December 17, 2020

Morocco (Continued from Page 1) Leningrad (Continued from Page 4) deal in the past four months CEO David Harris said “Moroc- and security.” between Israel and Arab coun- co’s announcement is further The agreement included the tries, after the United Arab affirmation of the growing rec- United States recognizing the Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan. ognition by Arab leaders that disputed territory of Western These nations follow in the establishing relations with Isra- Sahara as part of Morocco, wake of Egypt and Jordan, el will be mutually beneficial.” becoming the only Western which made peace with Israel Republican Jewish Coalition country to do so. The deal also in 1979 and 1994, respectively. national chairman and former includes agreeing to grant over- In a JNS webinar on Thurs- Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) flights and also direct flights to day, Aaron Klein, strategic ad- called the announcement an and from Israel for all Israelis. viser to Israeli Prime Minister “important step towards great- Israel and Morocco also agreed Benjamin Netanyahu, said “the er stability and peace in the to open reciprocal embassies in Teutonic plates are shifting.” region.” Rabat and Tel Aviv, respective- “The entire concept of peace “Morocco and Israel have ly, immediately. that we are seeing unfold now agreed to reopen their liaison between Israel and the UAE, offices, with the intention of ‘A Recognition of Two between Israel and Bahrain, opening embassies later. Offi- Historical Realities’ Israel and Sudan, now Israel cial contacts, economic coop- “These landmark diplomatic and Morocco, a lot of this traces eration and direct flights be- agreements set the Middle East back to the Netanyahu Doc- tween the two countries will on a different path, where rec- trine, peace through strength, also commence,” he said in a onciliation replaces rejection- peace in exchange for peace,” statement. “All of these steps — ism and old enemies become said Klein. and we hope to see even more new friends,” said a statement In applauding what he called to follow — will enhance the from the Conference of Presi- “another outstanding accom- security and prosperity of both dents of Major American Jewish plishment for the current ad- countries.” Organizations. ministration,” Rabbi Yaakov B’nai B’rith International CEO “We salute the American, Menken, managing director of Daniel Mariaschin told JNS that Israeli and Moroccan diplo- the Coalition for Jewish Values, “official ties between Morocco mats who achieved this histor- Yosef Mendelevich arrives in Israel in time for Purim 1981. (Israel GPO) highlighted the difference be- and Israel make sense for many ic agreement,” continued the tween those peace agreements reasons, not the least of which organization. And “we look and direct an award-winning grades based on Nativ’s huge and the four normalization is the storied history of the Mo- forward to the exchange of documentary in 2016 about her stash of unique archival mate- deals with Israel that have been roccan Jewish community, and ambassadors and embassies, parents’ role in the hijacking rials. Nativ is working with the made this year. its many contributions to life in economic cooperation, and attempt. Ministry of Education to adopt “Normalizing ties with Is- Morocco and Israel. We want greater cultural bonds between Now, the Refusenik Project the portal to offer to teachers in rael is the new normal in the to recognize the important role Israel and Morocco in the days that she co-directs with Chana all schools. Part of the Israeli Middle East, which decades of played by the United States in ahead.” German, director of the Look- school curriculum requirement expert commentary told us was bringing this about. This is yet Christians United for Israel stein Center at Bar-Ilan Uni- is “peoplehood” and “that’s a the ‘impossible dream,’” Menk- another vital building block in founder and chairman Pastor versity in Ramat Gan, utilizes perfect fit,” Sophie Kotzer, head en told JNS. “Instead of a cold bringing peace and stability John Hagee said “with each of a lot of the research Zalman- of Nativ’s Research and Infor- détente attained via surren- to the Middle East and North these announcements, we get son-Kuznetsov did for the film. mation Division told JNS. der to unreasonable demands, Africa.” one step closer to true peace The English-language site went Much of the material used these new agreements promote Nathan Diament, executive in the region. It is our sin- live last year with material for the new portal had to be true peace based upon com- director for the Orthodox Union cere hope that the Palestin- geared for school-age youth for declassified before being made mon security needs and mutu- Advocacy Center, told JNS that ians see the benefit of ending use in both formal and informal available to the public. Nativ’s al medical, technological and the latest “agreement will help their conflict with Israel and learning settings. activities in the FSU included financial benefits.” unite nations in the Middle will one day soon choose to “The idea is to keep the story clandestine efforts to provide “History has once again been East region to deter Iran’s ag- finally ‘beat their swords into of the Soviet Jewry struggle Jewish cultural material and made with the announcement gression and improve Israel’s plowshares,’” told JNS, citing alive and be relevant for today’s Zionist education to Jews in all that Israel and Morocco will security and economic bonds a phrase from the Book of Isa- kids.” corners of the Soviet empire. normalize diplomatic rela- with its neighbors.” He added iah. “Fake news? Show them ar- Until 2002, Nativ was a division tions,” said the American Israel that his organization looks for- There’s not only a political, chives of KGB and Soviet media of Israel’s Intelligence Service Public Affairs Committee. ward to more countries joining but also historical, significance that were complete lies. How and is subject to Israel’s Ar- American Jewish Committee the expanding circle of “peace about the development, accord- to get protest and get media at- chives Law that all material can ing to American Sephardi Fed- tention without violence. They be released only after 30 years. eration executive director Jason can learn a lot from the Soviet “Now the time is right,” says Guberman. Jewry movement.” The import- Kotzer. The material is becom- He said the announcement ant thing, according to Zalman- ing available, and Nativ direc- “is a recognition of two histor- son-Kuznetsov, is to focus on tor Neta Briskin Peleg has pri- ical realities: the Kingdom of the positive — the importance oritized education. “Nobody Morocco’s territorial integrity, of Jewish solidarity and how to knows what we do. No one which includes sovereignty over win a campaign, and not on the knows what our mission was HAPPY CHANUKAH the Moroccan Sahara, and the suffering. behind the struggle. I want kingdom’s independent lead- For Morey Schapira, a former people to know what the Is- ership in forging a decades-old President of the Union of Coun- raeli government did for Soviet relationship with Israel.” cils for Soviet Jews, who is a Jewry,” she adds. In an email, Guberman said consultant to both educational Other online events marking Morocco agreeing to estab- programs created by Zalman- the 50th anniversary of the lish diplomatic, economic and son-Kuznetsov, the refuseniks Leningrad Trials include a con- other ties with Israel “must be were modern-day Maccabees. ference in English titled “The understood in its context,” as “They should be honored in a Jewish National Movement in “900,000 Moroccan-Sephardic similar manner,” he tells JNS. the USSR, Marking the 50th Jews live in Israel and keep “Anyone concerned with the Anniversary of ‘Operation Wed- the sacred chords of memory terrible growth in anti-Semi- ding,’”sponsored by the Gold- with the kingdom alive through tism in the world today should stein-Goren Diaspora Research their traditional observances, learn how the refuseniks stood Center, the Museum of the Jew- building bridges with Moroccan up to Soviet anti-Semitism.” ish People at Beit Hatfutsot and Muslims and travels to Moroc- The Israeli “Let My People the Jewish Agency for Israel. co.” Go” portal created by Zalman- Several former U.S. Soviet In fact, he noted, “Israel is- son-Kuznetsov was created Jewry activist leaders are spon- 1080 PITTSFORD VICTOR ROAD, PITTSFORD, NY sued a postage stamp in honor in partnership with Nativ, a soring an online screening for 585.672.5500 of Morocco’s Chief Rabbi and branch of the Prime Minister’s teachers of the documentary WWW MORGDEVO COM the Rabbi of Jerusalem Hakham Office responsible for Israel’s film “Operation Wedding,” . . 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Genesis 41:1-44:17 BY RABBI SHLOMO RISKIN Parshat Miketz Chief Rabbi of the City of Efrat, and Dean of Ohr Torah Institutions of Israel EFRAT, Israel — “The Lord meaning of the Biblical verse wisdom.” The prohibition seems and hedonism. HaGra 18) both allow the study shall broaden and beautify as they read it, “The Lord may to be absolute. So our legal codes I believe it is because Juda- of science and philosophy. Al- Japheth, and he [or perhaps He] broaden and glorify Yafet [Greece forbid us from raising pigs — or ism always valued wisdom — though the Vilna Gaon is cited shall dwell in the tents of Shem” and Greek wisdom], but only He even benefitting in any way from philosophy and science — and (Yoreh Deah 179) as saying that (Gen. 9:27) [the Lord, without Greek wis- pigs or pig skins. appreciated art and music. Wit- the “accursed philosophy turned Why is there no clear religious dom] may dwell in the tent or However, as far as Greek wis- ness the Books of Proverbs, Job Maimonides astray,” one of the prohibition against the study of Shem”. dom is concerned, the story is and Ecclesiastes, which are even Vilna Gaon’s best students, Rav Greek wisdom and intellectu- There is one Talmudic pas- strangely different. The Talmud part of our sacred canon. The Menashe from Ilia, wrote that, al involvement in philosophy, sage (B.T. Baba Kama 82b) that praises the Greek language and artist-architect of the Desert “these words never emanated mathematics, the sciences, sec- seemingly prohibits the study of deems “Greek wisdom” a skill Sanctuary, Bezale,l has a name from the Gaon’s pen nor from his ular music, art, literature and Greek wisdom. It cites an inter- necessary for international polit- which means “in the shadow of sacred mouth”. theater? Why was no prohibition necine battle between two broth- ical discourse (ibid 83a). In fact, G–d”; music abounded in the Indeed the Vilna Gaon is quot- made against the study of all the ers, Hyrcanus and Aristobulus, a parallel account at the end of Holy Temple: King Solomon was ed by Rabbi Barukh Shik of Shk- expressions of Greek culture that descendants of the Hasmonean Tractate Sota defines “Greek wis- highly praised for his worldly lov: “To the extent that a person we know as Hellenism? dynasty (the instigators of the dom” in the context of the prohi- wisdom. The Talmud praises lacks knowledge of wisdom, he Hanukah does not merely cel- Judean victory over the Jewish bition as a “special language of science, maintaining that those will also lack one hundred mea- ebrate our military victory over Hellenists and the Greek-Syrians nuance and riddle” used for espi- who are capable of studying sures of the wisdom of Torah, an enemy who wished to remove at Hanukah). An elderly man onage. This is how Maimonides it and do not do so “are mak- since Torah and wisdom are political independence from knowledgeable in Greek wisdom (Commentary on last Mishnah ing themselves blind to G–d’s bound up together.” As a result of Judea. Our main celebration is urged Aristobulus (whose army in Sota) understood the Talmu- handiwork” (B.T. Shabbat 75a). the importance that our Tradition the lighting of the menorah, the was outside of the walls of Jeru- dic decree, adding that “Greek Maimonides places philosophy gave to the wisdom of philosophy stylized “tree of life” This cere- salem) to hoist a pig instead of a wisdom” has since disappeared and science under the rubric and science, it would have been mony makes the statement that bullock over the ramparts, thus from use, and hence the prohi- of gemara, insisting that these inconceivable for the Sages to ban “the candle is commandment, preventing and even desecrating bition no longer has practical disciplines must be a necessary Greek wisdom. Hence, an alter- and Torah is our light” (Proverbs the daily Temple sacrifice which application. part of the curriculum in an nate interpretation of the opening 6:23). In other words, it is G–d’s continued to be offered by Hyr- How can we understand this Academy of Talmudic studies, verse quoted above would serve will and His miracles — as in the canus from within Jerusalem. refusal to ban Greek wisdom? It as part of the commandment to as an introduction to this com- small cruse of oil only sufficient The actions of this devotee of is particularly strange since the strive to know G–d. mentary, “The Lord shall broaden to last for one day, but which Greek wisdom who wished to Books of Maccabees demonstrate The Rashba (Rav Shlomo ben and beautify Yaphet (Greece), lasted for eight — and not human destroy our Hebrew civilization that the battles commemorated Adrat, Spain d.1310) wrote three and he (Yaphet) shall dwell in reason that must direct human led to a devastating earthquake by Hanukah were waged by reli- responsa in which he banned the tents of Shem.” “The beauty affairs and activities. in the land of Israel. “From that gious Hasmoneans, who rebelled the study of philosophy, but only of Yaphet must adorn the tents of According to this view, the day onwards” ruled the Sages, against the elite ruling priest- for those under the age of 25 Shem”. (Gen 9:27, Gen Rabbah Haredim are right, at least as “Cursed be the individual who hood, which had been captivated (Responsa 415,416,417), and Rav ad loc.). Torah must be wed to far as banning university is raises pigs and cursed be the fa- by the “modern” Hellenistic cul- Moshe Isserles and the Vilna university study. b concerned. This is precisely the ther who teaches his child Greek ture and its philosophy, esthetics Gaon (Yoreh Deah 346,4; Biyur Shabbat Shalom

Textbook Review (Continued from Page 1) again using the GEI. ‘Criticism Must Be Austrian MEP Lukas Mandl, the blamed the British government purposeful, and the E.U. is inten- Marcus Sheff, CEO of the Je- Investigated Seriously’ TFI chair in the European Parlia- for spending taxpayers’ money tionally denying it. rusalem-based NGO Institute for Christian Tybring-Gjedde (FrP), ment, said “it’s unacceptable that “on a review which appears deep- “Members of European parlia- Monitoring Peace and Cultural vice chair of Norway’s Foreign Af- the E.U. is funding Palestinian ly flawed and which we may ments have complained, but the Tolerance in School Education fairs Committee, offered JNS his textbooks that glorify terrorism never have the chance to see.” commission continues as if it all (IMPACT-se), expressed shock perspective on the GEI study and and peddle anti-Semitism.” He accused the government does not matter,” he said. that the European Union Com- the Palestinian textbooks. He told Niclas Herbst, a member of the of “hiding behind the E.U. to “They understand very clearly mission dealing with this mat- JNS he is “concerned about the European Parliament, told JNS escape accountability for its own what is really in the Palestinian ter is appointing the GEI, which quality of the GEI report,” saying that “these are serious mistakes inaction,” and demanded that the textbooks,” he stressed. “There Sheff believes has essentially he is aware that there are “some and the E.U. commissioner is United Kingdom “immediately are very clear examples which disqualified itself as an hon- significant shortcomings” in it. trying to cover it all up.” suspend all P.A. aid related to the we have brought to them. There est player by making so many, “Members of parliament in He also stated in that letter that delivery of the P.A. curriculum is no possibility of anyone in the seemingly intentional mistakes other countries have reacted to he is “equally concerned” over until wholesale and urgent revi- commission being able to say, in its research findings. this,” he added, highlighting the the E.U.’s interim report. “Some- sions are guaranteed.” ‘we did not know.’” “Clearly, there is an enormous importance of this issue. thing went very wrong in this LFI vice chair and Member of The question, according to Sheff, problem in the commission “When the GEI final report is research process and must be put Parliament John Spellar sent a is what is the endgame here? with respect to the report,” he published, it must be studied right,” he said. letter to the government on this “Why are they intent, seem- told JNS. “It is astounding that carefully,” he said, “and the criti- With respect to the European same issue, asking for an expla- ingly, on continuing to be part they insist on denying what cism against it must be investigat- Commission’s cooperation with nation. of the incitement of Palestinian the GEI’s own researchers have ed seriously. I expect the Norwe- GEI, the legislators from four In an emailed statement to JNS, children, rather than aligning admitted, but more importantly, gian Ministry of Foreign Affairs major political groups said that a spokesperson for the Delegation themselves with those politicians continuing the report as if noth- to do this work thoroughly.” in light of the GEI’s “deeply trou- of the European Union to Israel in Europe who want it stopped?” ing was wrong.” Tybring-Gjedde said European bling and error-ridden interim re- defended the flawed GEI study as he asked. “Do they want this to The GEI review made serious politicians “should not be com- view, it is inconceivable that the “being carried out according to go away through the publication mistakes that undermined the fortable” with E.U. money being institute’s final report, due to be best international standards with of a flawed report?” credibility of the report. These used to incite anti-Israel hate and released in December, can possi- native Arab speaking experts Sheff noted that the concerns included analyzing the wrong violence among Palestinian chil- bly reflect a serious and scholarly being part of the research team.” coming from representatives of textbooks and attributing Ara- dren. “We have to be absolutely assessment of the textbooks.” The statement said that the the United Kingdom and Norway bic-language Israeli textbooks certain that the taxpayers’ money E.U.’s Final Report “will be fi- are more interesting than the Eu- to the P.A., ignoring anti-Semi- goes to educate children to live in ‘Suspend P.A. Aid nalized by the end of the year. … ropean Parliament itself. tism and ignoring incitement to peace and reconciliation.” Related to Curriculum’ Given that the final report has “The E.U. is used to batting violence, martyrdom and jihad. In October, 20 members of the Benjamin Strasser, a German not even been published yet, any back questions that came from In a turn of events that expos- European Parliament urged the politician of the Free Democratic criticisms at the stage are clearly its own parliament,” he said. es the E.U.’s seeming engage- E.U. to partially withhold fund- Party, also expressed his con- premature in our view, in partic- “But when other parliaments like ment in pretense, Riem Spiel- ing to the P.A. until it ends an- cern and told JNS, “false school ular as they have been based on Westminster and the Norwegian haus, the head of the study at ti-Semitic incitement. materials can cement hatred and alleged leaks regarding a prelim- parliament start getting involved, GEI, actually admitted to Ger- Citing the most recent research prejudice for decades. Neither inary report which had no other you would imagine they would man daily newspaper Taggess- by IMPACT-se, MEPs associated German tax revenues nor our value than to inform the scoping feel this is a bigger issue.” piegel in October that the Israeli with the Transatlantic Friends of contributions to the Palestinian of the study. … We should clar- Now, he pointed out, with the textbooks were indeed mistak- Israel (TFI) interparliamentary Authority may be used to pro- ify that the E.U. does not fund end of the year and the supposed enly included in the review. group also asked the E.U. exec- mote anti-Semitism and hatred and will not fund Palestinian deadline for the final report According to IMPACT-se, utive branch in an open letter against Israel.” textbooks.” looming, “people are genuinely the E.U. is trying to cover up to discontinue its collaboration Steve McCabe MP, chair of According to Sheff, much of questioning what the commis- the mistake. with GEI. Labour Friends of Israel (LFI), the faulty research by GEI was sion is going to do about this.” b Page 14 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, December 17, 2020

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State Of New York Has Been Designated Webster, New York 14580 of being a member. Purpose/character CONSERVATIVE Temple Beth El • tberochester.org of the Company: any and all lawful As Agent Of The LLC Upon Whom Process 139 Winton Rd. South 473-1770 NOTICE OF FORMATION activities. Against It May Be Served. SSNY Shall Mail MODERN DEVELOPMENT ROC, LLC A Copy Of Any Process To: 18117 Biscayne Articles of Organization filed with NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Chabad Lubavitch • chabadrochester.com Boulevard #1168, Miami, FL 33160. Prin- Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 11/04/2020. Notice of formation of limited lia- 1037 Winton Rd. South 271-0330 cipal Business Location: 18117 Biscayne Office location: Monroe County. SSNY Boulevard #1168, Miami, FL 33160. The bility company. Name: FCP Driving Congregation Beth Hakneses Hachodosh designated as agent of LLC upon whom Foreign Limited Liability Company Was In Park LLC (the Company). Articles of process against it may be served. SSNY congbhh.org • 19 St. Regis Dr. North 406-7561 Existence In Its Jurisdiction Of Formation Organization filed with Secretary of shall mail copy of process to c/o the Com- At The Time It Applied For Authority To State of NY (SSNY) on 11/05/20. NY pany, 1900 Empire Boulevard, Suite 116, Congregation Beth Sholom Conduct Business Within New York State office location: Monroe County. SSNY Webster, NY 14580 bethsholomrochester.org • 1161 Monroe Ave. 473-1625

And Is Currently In Existence. Authorized is designated as agent upon whom ORTHODOX Officer Where Articles Of Organization Notice of Formation of Limited process against the Company may be Congregation Light of Israel (Sephardic) Liability Company (“LLC”) Are Filed: Florida Secretary of State, The served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any lightofisrael.org • 1675 Monroe Ave. 271-5690 Centre of Tallahassee, 2415 N. Monroe Name: Mattiacio Group, Batavia such process to: c/o the Company, 90 Street, Suite 810, Tallahassee, FL 32303 LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Goodway Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. Ohel Avraham • ohelavraham.net the Secretary of State with the State of Notice of formation of limited The Company is to be managed by one Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave. 389-2525 liability company (LLC) New York (“SSNY”) on: November 9, or more managers. No members of the OTHER 2020. Office Location: County of: Monroe. Name: Shaheen Kozlowski, LLC. Company shall be liable in their capacity Principal Business Location: 1505 Lyell Articles of Organization filed with the as members of the Company for debts, Avenue, Rochester, New York 14606. Org. filed with CO Secy. of State, 1700 NOTICE OF FORMATION Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) obligations or liabilities of the Compa- Purpose: any and all lawful act or activity. Broadway, Suite 200, Denver, CO 80290. OF MERAN SDN LLC on October 19, 2020. Office location: ny. No member of the Company, solely The Secretary of State of the State of New Purpose: any lawful activity. Meran SDN LLC filed Articles of Or- Monroe County. SSNY designated as by reason of being a member, is an York has been designated as agent of the ganization with NYS on November 12, agent of LLC upon whom process against agent of the Company for the purpose LLC upon whom process against it may NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of of its business, and no member shall be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any ROCHESTER SPRAYFOAM County, New York. (2) The Secretary of process to: P.O. Box 17785, Rochester, NY have the authority to act for the Compa- ASSOCIATES LLC State has been designated as its agent 14617. Purpose: to engage in any lawful process to: 1505 Lyell Avenue, Rochester, New York 14606 ny solely by virtue of being a member. Rochester Sprayfoam Associates and the post office address to which act or activity. Purpose/character of the Company: any LLC filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State shall mail a copy NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NOTICE OF FORMATION and all lawful activities. NYS on 11/12/2020. (1) Its principal of- of any process against it is: the LLC, LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 1800 ENGLISH ROAD PROFESSION- fice is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The 2300 Buffalo Road 100-D, Rochester, NY AL BUILDING LLC has filed Articles of NOTICE OF FORMATION Notice of formation of limited liabil- Secretary of State has been designated 14624. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Organization with the Secretary of State CAROLINA HAVEN LLC (the “LLC”) ity company (LLC). Name: Sprouting as agent upon whom process against it NOTICE OF FILING OF APPLICATION Speech LLC. Articles of Organization on November 10, 2020. Its office is locat- filed Articles of Organization with the ed in Monroe County. The Secretary of New York Department of State on OC- may be served and a copy of any process FOR AUTHORITY OF SUMMIT filed with Secretary of State of New KNOLLS TOWNHOMES LLC State has been designated as agent upon TOBER 5, 2020. Its office is located in will be mailed to the LLC, 388 Mason York (SSNY) on June 23, 2020. New York Name: Summit Knolls Townho- whom process against it may be served MONROE County. The Secretary of State Road, Fairport, NY 14450. (3) Purpose: office location: Monroe County. Principal mes LLC (LLC). Authority filed with NY business location: 572 Granger Circle, and a copy of any process will be mailed has been designated as agent of the Any lawful purpose. to The LLC, 1800 English Road, Rochester, Secretary of State (SSNY): 11/06/20. LLC Webster, New York 14580-1673. SSNY is Company upon whom process against NOTICE OF FORMATION organized in Delaware: 11/04/20. NY designated as agent upon whom process New York 14616. The purpose of the LLC it may be served and a copy of any Meristem Solutions, LLC filed Ar- office location: Monroe County. SSNY against the LLC may be served. SSNY is any lawful activity. process shall be mailed to THE LLC, c/o ticles of Organization with Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom shall mail a copy of any such process to: Anthony B. Iacovangelo, Esq. 180 Canal NOTICE OF FILING OF (SSNY) on November 4, 2020. Office process against it may be served. SSNY 572 Granger Circle, Webster, New York APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY View Blvd., Suite 100, Rochester, NY shall mail copy of process to The LLC, location: Monroe County. SSNY des- 14580-1673. LLC is to be managed by OF 50 MIDDLE LANE LLC 14623. The purpose of the Company is 940 Summitville Drive, Webster, NY ignated as agent of LLC upon whom one or more members. LLC is organized Name: 50 Middle Lane LLC (LLC). any lawful purpose. 14580. Address of office maintained in to engage in any lawful act or activity Authority filed with NY Secretary of process against it may be served. SSNY jurisdiction of formation: 1675 South NOTICE OF FORMATION for which limited liability companies may State (NYSS): 11/6/2020. LLC organized in shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 355 State Street, Suite B, Dover, Delaware be organized under the Limited Liability Delaware: 11/4/2020. NY office location: ORANGE 345 LLC has filed Articles Paul Road, Rochester, New York 14624. 19901. Copy of Certificate of Forma- Company Law. Monroe County. NYSS designated as of Organization with the Secretary of Purpose: any lawful activity. tion on file with Delaware Secretary of agent of LLC upon whom process against State on October 30, 2020. Its office State, 401 Federal Street, Suite 4, Dover, NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Notice of Formation of LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY it may be served. NYSS shall mail copy is located in Monroe County. The Sec- Delaware 19901. Purpose: Any lawful Wordsongs Online, LLC (1) Name: Schaeffer HVAC & Home of process to the LLC, 195 Via Marina, retary of State has been designated as purpose. Service LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Palm Beach, FL 33480. Address of office agent upon whom process against it The name of the limited liability Organization of the LLC were filed with maintained in jurisdiction of formation: may be served and a copy of any process company is Wordsongs Online, LLC. Disenyo.co LLC filed Art. of Org. the Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange will be mailed to The LLC, 1080 Pittsford Articles of Organization were filed with with SSNY on 8/10/20. Off. Loc.: Mon- October 30, 2020 (3) Its office location Street, Wilmington, DE 19801. Copy of Victor Road, Suite 200, Pittsford, New the New York Department of State on roe County. SSNY design. as agent of is to be in Monroe County, State of New Certificate of Formation on file with York 14534. The purpose of the LLC is November 9, 2020. The office location LLC upon whom proc. may be served & York. (4) The SSNY has been designated the Delaware Secretary of State at 401 any lawful activity. is Monroe County, NY. The Secretary mail to 26 Lawendra St., Rochester, NY Federal Street, Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901. 14624. Purp: any lawful. as agent of the LLC upon whom process of State of the State of New York is against it may be served. The post office Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qualification of Analog Properties LLC designated as the agent of the limited NOTICE OF FORMATION OF address to which the SSNY shall mail a NOTICE OF FORMATION LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Authority filed with Secy. of State liability company upon whom process copy of any process against the LLC is: KANEBRIDGE ESTATES LLC has filed MADE Creative Marketing + De- of N.Y. (SSNY) on September 22, 2020. against it may be served. The Secretary 2978 Church Road, Hamlin, NY 14464 (5) Articles of Organization with the Secre- sign LLC filed Articles of Organization Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. Office location: Ontario County. LLC of State of New York shall mail a copy tary of State on November 10, 2020. Its of process to PO Box 25124, Rochester, with the NYS Department of State on office is located in Monroe County. The formed in Colorado (“CO”) on Novem- 11/16/2020. Its office is located in Mon- LEGAL NOTICE: NOTICE OF NY 14625. The Company is formed for FORMATION OF LIMITED Secretary of State has been designated ber 30, 2017. SSNY designated as agent roe County. The Secretary of State is any and all lawful purposes. The Com- LIABILITY COMPANY: as agent upon whom process against it of LLC upon whom process against it designated as agent of the Company The name of the Limited Liability Com- may be served and a copy of any process may be served. SSNY shall mail process pany is to be managed by one or more upon whom process against it may be pany is 50 Faraday LLC. The Articles of will be mailed to The LLC, 1080 Pittsford to: 1 South Nevada Avenue, Suite 200, members, and no member shall be held served, and a copy of any process shall Organization were filed with the New Victor Road, Suite 200, Pittsford, New Colorado Springs, CO 80903. address of liable in their capacity as members of be mailed to 933 University Ave., Apt. York Secretary of State on November York 14534. The purpose of the LLC is any LLC: 1 South Nevada Avenue, Suite 200, the Company for any debts, obligations 233, Rochester, NY 14607. Its purpose is 5, 2020. The office of the Company is lawful activity. Colorado Springs, CO 80903. Arts. of and liabilities of the Company. any lawful business.  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, December 17, 2020 • Page 15

Philanthropy … Jerusalem College of Technology Announces New Name for Nursing School (JNS Wire) — The Jerusalem hilation of the Jewish presence When the Israeli Health Campus for Women,” said JCT cation — the latter representing College of Technology (JCT) in Koretz and became a nurse Ministry asked nursing President Prof. Chaim Sukenik. Israel’s first program of its kind. has announced that it has re- in the Russian Army. In that schools across the country to “The coronavirus pandemic has Further, JCT partnered with the ceived a generous gift from capacity she would go on to train their students in respi- reminded us all of the criti- University of Toronto to estab- Toronto-based Atta and Henry care for Alex Jelinek, a Russian ratory care in the early stag- cal importance of nursing and lish Israel’s first academic pro- Zieleniec to name its nation- tank commander and officer es of the pandemic this past medical infrastructure. This gram in the cutting-edge field ally renowned nursing school who was injured in battle, and March, JCT swiftly answered gift will help provide the coun- of health informatics, which “The Selma Jelinek School of they married shortly thereafter. the call by training 600 third- try with thousands of highly aims to improve the quality of Nursing.” Selma and Alex immigrated and fourth-year nursing stu- skilled medical personnel for patient care by utilizing data The gift will support the to Canada, where Selma devot- dents in that specialty within decades to come.” as the basis for making better construction of a four-story, ed much of her time to support a week. Then in April, more JCT’s School of Nursing serves clinical decisions. 60,000-square-foot building underprivileged youths and than 30 of JCT’s nursing more than 1,000 students annu- The new Tal Campus will equipped with advanced med- various educational programs students started working in ally. It is widely recognized as be the permanent home for up ical simulation training labs, in Israel. Atta and Henry nursing homes across Israel, the country’s premier nursing to 3,000 of JCT’s female stu- lecture halls, classrooms, facul- Zieleniec, inspired by how drawing from the College’s program, having received the dents in nursing, computer sci- ty offices, and a library on JCT’s Atta’s parents strengthened expertise as the country’s only Health Ministry’s National Prize ence, electro-optics, industrial new Tal Campus for Women. Israeli institutions, considered academic institution that of- for Excellence and ranking first engineering, accounting, and The school is being named in the naming of JCT’s nursing fers a master’s degree course among 24 nursing departments management. The campus will memory of Atta’s mother, Ho- school the most fitting tribute in nursing with a clinical spe- nationwide. provide increased opportunities locaust survivor Selma Jelinek, to Nurse Selma — whose leg- cialization in geriatrics. The College’s nursing pro- for national religious, Haredi, who was affectionately known acy is more relevant than ever “We are profoundly grateful gram offers a Bachelor of Sci- and Ethiopian women to pursue as “Nurse Selma.” Born in the amid the rising prominence of to Atta and Henry Zieleniec for ence of Nursing (BSN) and a higher education and attain em- small Russian town of Koretz, the nursing profession during their generous gift to our nurs- Master of Nursing (MSN) with a ployment in Jerusalem’s high- Selma escaped the Nazi anni- the coronavirus pandemic. ing school and to our new Tal Nurse Practitioner (NP) certifi- tech industries. b Legal Notices …

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF in any and all business activities per- York Secretary of State on November with the Americans with Disabilities Act) mailed to The LLC, 84 Wakecliffe Drive, LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY mitted under the laws of the State of 19, 2020. The office of the Company is with respect to employment opportu- Rochester, New York 14616. The purpose BD Sandstone Hollow Apartments New York. located in the County of Monroe, State nities. of the LLC is any lawful activity. Member, LLC filed Articles of Organi- of New York. The New York Secretary Notice of Formation of NOTICE OF FORMATION OF of State is designated as the agent of NOTICE OF FORMATION zation with the NY Department of State S.D.K Properties LLC MEDICAL TREATMENT GROUP the Company upon whom process in Notice of formation of limited liabil- on 11/10/2020. Its office is located in S.D.K Properties LLC filed Articles OF ROCHESTER PLLC any action or proceeding against it may Monroe County. The Secretary of State of Organization with NYS on 10/30/2020. Medical Treatment Group of Roch- ity company (LLC) Bear Spruce, LLC. be served, and the address to which is designated as agent of the Company Its principal office is in Monroe County, ester PLLC filed Articles of Organization Articles of Organization filed with the the Secretary of State shall mail a copy upon whom process against it may be New York. The principal business loca- with NYS on 11/25/2020. (1) Its principal Secretary of State of the State of New of process in any action or proceeding served, and a copy shall be mailed to tion is 3611 Culver Rd. Rochester NY office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The York (SSNY) on November 25, 2020. against the Company served upon him P.O. Box 1823, Lenox, MA 01240. Its 14622. The Secretary of State has been Secretary of State has been designated as Office location: Monroe County. SSNY or her is 1216 Lake Road, Webster, New purpose is any lawful business. designated as its agent and the post agent upon whom process against it may York 14580. The purpose of the business designated as agent upon whom process office address to which the Secretary be served and a copy of any process will NOTICE OF FORMATION OF is any lawful business. against it may be served. Address to LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY of State shall mail a copy of any process be mailed to the PLLC, Attn: Seth Rock- which SSNY shall mail a copy of process against it is c/o S.D.K Properties LLC, Sandstone Hollow Apartments Notice of formation of BLONSKY off, 919 S. Winton Road, Rochester, NY 1279 Pittsford Mendon Road, Mendon, 3611 Culver Rd. Rochester NY 14622. FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC PLLC 14618. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Member, LLC filed Articles of Organi- New York 14506. Purpose: any lawful Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of zation with the NY Department of State State of NY (SSNY) on 11/13/20. Office in Notice of Formation of purpose. on 11/10/2020. Its office is located in NOTICE Professional Service Limited Monroe County. SSNY has been designat- Monroe County. The Secretary of State Articles of Organization with respect Liability Company (“PLLC”) NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ed as agent of the PLLC upon whom pro- is designated as agent of the Company to Shankev Properties, LLC, a New Name: Christopher J Richardson, HARD ROAD REALTY LLC cess against it may be served. SSNY shall York limited liability company, were DO PLLC. Articles of Organization filed Hard Road Realty LLC filed Articles upon whom process against it may be mail process to the PLLC, 3019 MONROE filed with the Secretary of State of the with the Secretary of State with the State of Organization with NYS on November served, and a copy shall be mailed to AVE ROCHESTER, NY, 14618. Purpose: State of New York on November 17, of New York (“SSNY”) on: November P.O. Box 1823, Lenox, MA 01240. Its Any lawful purpose 24, 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Mon- purpose is any lawful business. 2020. The county in New York State 10, 2020. Office Location: County of roe County, New York. (2) The Secretary where its office is located is Monroe NOTICE OF FORMATION Monroe. Principal Business Location: 69 of State has been designated as its agent NOTICE OF FORMATION OF County. The Secretary of State has Notice of formation of limited liability Cascade Drive, Apt. 402, Rochester, New and the post office address to which the LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY been designated as agent of Shankev York 14614. Purpose: to practice the company (LLC) KAPC, LLC. Articles of Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any Sandstone Hollow Apartments, Properties, LLC upon whom process Organization filed with the Secretary of profession of Medicine. The Secretary of process against it is: the LLC, PO Box 230, LLC filed Articles of Organization against it may be served; and the post State of the State of New York (SSNY) State of the State of New York has been Henrietta, NY 14467. (3) Purpose: Any with the NY Department of State on office address to which the Secretary of on November 13, 2020. Office location: designated as agent of the LLC upon 11/9/2020. Its office is located in Monroe State shall mail a copy of any process Monroe County. SSNY designated as whom process against it may be served. lawful purpose. County. The Secretary of State is desig- against, Shankev Properties, LLC served agent upon whom process against it may SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: Methodical Transport, LLC filed nated as agent of the Company upon upon him or her is c/o the Company, be served. Address to which SSNY shall 69 Cascade Drive, Apt. 402, Rochester, whom process against it may be served, 1337 North Goodman Street, Rochester, mail a copy of process 750 St. Paul Street, New York 14614 Articales of Organization with the New and a copy shall be mailed to P.O. Box NY 14609. Shankev Properties, LLC is Suite 1100, Rochester, New York 14605. York Department of State on 11/18/2020. 1823, Lenox, MA 01240. Its purpose is formed for the purpose of engaging Notice of Formation of It’s office is located in Monroe County. Purpose: any lawful purpose. Wrays Properties, LLC any lawful business. in any and all business activities per- The Secretary of State has been desig- NOTICE OF FORMATION Wrays Propeties, LLC filed Articles mitted under the laws of the State of nated as agent of the Company upon NOTICE OF FORMATION OF of Organization with NYS on 10/27/2020. New York. FLOWER CITY RE LLC has filed Arti- whom process against it may be served LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY cles of Organization with the Secretary Its principal office is in Monroe County, 3300 Brother Blvd Bartlett TN LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION New York. The principal business location and a copy of any process shall be mailed HANGING TOOTH, LLC of State on November 23, 2020. Its office filed Articles of Organization with the is located in Monroe County. The Sec- is 160 Despatch Dr., East Rochester, NY to: Methodical Transport, LLC, P.O. Box Hanging Tooth, LLC filed Articles of NY Department of State on 11/2/2020. retary of State has been designated as 14445. The Secretary of State has been 31144 Rochester, NY 14603. The purpose Organization with the NY Department of Its office is located in Monroe County. agent upon whom process against it may designated as its agent and the post of the Company is Commercial Trans- State on November 3, 2020. Its office is The Secretary of State is designated be served and a copy of any process will office address to which the Secretary portation. located in Monroe County. The Secretary as agent of the Company upon whom be mailed to The LLC, 19 Orchard Street, of State shall mail a copy of any process of State has been designated as agent NOTICE OF FORMATION Fairport, New York 14450. The purpose against it is c/o Wrays Properties, LLC, 160 process against it may be served, and a of the Company upon whom process Despatch Dr., East Rochester, NY 14445. 209 Sanford Street LLC has filed Ar- copy shall be mailed to 600 East Avenue, against it may be served, and a copy of the LLC is any lawful activity. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. ticles of Organization with the Secretary Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14607. Its pur- of any process shall be mailed to 324 NOTICE OF FORMATION of State on December 1, 2020. Its office is pose is any lawful business. Burnt Mill Rd, Churchville, NY 14428. The NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMELIGHT TREE HILL LLC has filed located in Monroe County. The Secretary purpose of the Company is any lawful Articles of Organization with the Secre- LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NOTICE of State has been designated as agent business. tary of State on November 20, 2020. Its Swiftwater Strategies LLC filed Articles of Organization with respect upon whom process against it may be to Almar Meat Markets, LLC, a New NOTICE OF FORMATION office is located in Monroe County. The Articles of Organization with the NY De- partment of State on November 19, 2020. served and a copy of any process will be York limited liability company, were LAKEPORT PROPERTIES, LLC has Secretary of State has been designated Its office is located in Monroe County. mailed to The LLC, 16 Smallwood Drive, filed with the Secretary of State of the filed Articles of Organization with the as agent upon whom process against it The Secretary of State has been desig- Pittsford, New York 14534. The purpose State of New York on November 16, Secretary of State on November 19, 2020. may be served and a copy of any process 2020. The county in New York State Its office is located in Monroe County. will be mailed to The LLC, 1080 Pittsford nated as agent of the Company upon of the LLC is any lawful activity. where its office is located is Monroe The Secretary of State has been des- Victor Road, Suite 200, Pittsford, New whom process against it may be served, and a copy of any process shall be mailed NOTICE OF FORMATION County. The Secretary of State has been ignated as agent upon whom process York 14534. The purpose of the LLC is to 145 Culver Rd., Ste. 160, Rochester, NY 537 South Goodman LLC has filed designated as agent of Almar Meat Mar- against it may be served and a copy of any lawful activity. 14620. Its purpose is any lawful business. Articles of Organization with the Secre- kets, LLC upon whom process against any process will be mailed to The LLC, 49 LEGAL NOTICE tary of State on September 30, 2020. Its it may be served; and the post office Vineyard Hill, Fairport, NY 14450. The Westgate Nursing Home Inc d/b/a NOTICE OF FORMATION office is located in Monroe County. The address to which the Secretary of State purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity. Creekview Nursing and Rehab Center is Lanmark 1 LLC has filed Articles Secretary of State has been designated shall mail a copy of any process against, LEGAL NOTICE: NOTICE OF an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) of Organization with the Secretary of Almar Meat Markets, LLC served upon FORMATION OF LIMITED employer and does not discriminate on State on December 1, 2020. Its office is as agent upon whom process against it him or her is c/o the Company, 1337 LIABILITY COMPANY: the basis of race, color, national origin, located in Monroe County. The Secretary may be served and a copy of any process North Goodman Street, Rochester, NY The name of the Limited Liability religion, gender, age, veteran status, of State has been designated as agent will be mailed to The LLC, P.O. Box 326, 14609. Almar Meat Markets, LLC is Company is 1216 Lake LLC. The Articles political affiliation, sexual orientation, upon whom process against it may be Manchester, New Hampshire 03105. The formed for the purpose of engaging of Organization were filed with the New marital status or disability (in compliance served and a copy of any process will be purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity. Page 16 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, December 17, 2020

International News … Iran Supreme Leader Khamenei Hands Power to Son Due to Health by AARON REICH Tehran’s attempts at downplaying its Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali severity, Newsweek reported. Khamenei may have transferred power If his reports are true, it would mean to his son amid concerns over his de- that Khamenei is stepping down fol- clining health, Iranian journalist Moma- lowing increased tensions with the US had Ahwaze reported Saturday. and Israel, as Tehran blames the Jewish Taking to Twitter, Ahwaze wrote in state for the assassination of its chief Arabic that sources in Iran were con- nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, cerned regarding the 81-year-old lead- on November 27. er’s health, and those close to him are In addition, it is unclear if the suc- reportedly “very concerned” over his cession will be permanent, as it goes deteriorating condition. against the constitution’s rules regard- As such, his powers have reportedly ing appointing a new supreme leader. been transferred to his 51-year-old son, According to Article 111 of Iran’s con- Sayyid Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, who stitution, the supreme leader’s succes- currently oversees several important sor is to be chosen by the Assembly of security and intelligence departments Experts, which currently consists of 88 in the country. European sources have ayatollahs. In the interim, the country pegged Mojtaba as a potential succes- would be administered by a provisional sor to the supreme leader’s position for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (KHAMENEI.IR) leadership council, which would consist over 10 years, and British news outlet of Iran’s president, chief justice and a The Guardian even dubbed him “the cancel some important meetings, such to French news outlet Le Figaro in 2015, member of the guardian council. gatekeeper to Iran’s supreme leader” in as a recently scheduled meeting with Western sources believed the supreme However, according to articles from a 2009 article. President Hassan Rouhani, according leader had suffered from prostate cancer. the prestigious Washington Institute for Ahwaze noted that it is unclear what to Ahwaze. No official confirmation has been Near East Policy think tank, it may not be has caused such deterioration in the Khamenei has been in power since made regarding any potential transfer as simple as that, with outside pressure supreme leader’s condition overnight, 1989, having taken over following the of power, and media outlets have been such as from the Islamic Revolutionary though he did suspect it could be pros- death of the Islamic Republic’s founder, unable to confirm it. Guards Corps likely wanting a role in tate cancer. Ruollah Khomenei. However, he has had The Iranian journalist gained noto- the process, due to the military body’s Khamenei’s deteriorating health has health issues in the past, and in 2014 riety due to his coverage of the Islamic influence on the Assembly of Experts. b also reportedly seen the supreme leader had surgery on his prostate. According Republic’s COVID-19 outbreak, despite ©The Jerusalem Post Legal Notices …

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION no member shall have the authority the Company shall be liable in their virtue of being a member. Purpose/ The Secretary of State has been des- Notice of formation of limited li- to act for the Company solely by capacity as members of the Company character of the Company: any and ignated as agent upon whom process ability company. Name: IBH HQ LLC virtue of being a member. Purpose/ for debts, obligations or liabilities all lawful activities. against it may be served and a copy (the Company). Articles of Organi- character of the Company: any and of the Company. No member of the of any process will be mailed to The Company, solely by reason of being a NOTICE OF FORMATION zation filed with Secretary of State all lawful activities. OF HURRICANE 22 LLC LLC, 308 Edgemere Drive, Rochester, of NY (SSNY) on 11/30/20. NY office member, is an agent of the Company NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Hurricane 22 LLC filed Articles of New York 14612. The purpose of the location: Monroe County. SSNY is for the purpose of its business, and Organization with NYS on 12/2/2020. LLC is any lawful activity. designated as agent upon whom Notice of formation of limited li- no member shall have the authority ability company (LLC). Name: WF El- to act for the Company solely by (1) Its principal office is in Monroe process against the Company may be County, NY. (2) The Secretary of Morillo Strategic Consulting served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any mridge LLC (the Company). Articles virtue of being a member. Purpose/ State has been designated as agent LLC filed Articles of Organization such process to: c/o the Company, 90 of Organization filed with Secretary character of the Company: any and of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/19/20. all lawful activities. upon whom process against it may with the New York Department of Goodway Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. be served and a copy of any process NY office location: Monroe County. State on 07/30/2020. Its office is locat- The Company is to be managed by NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION will be mailed to the LLC, 2370 Mon- SSNY is designated as agent upon ed in Monroe County. The Secretary one or more managers. No members Notice of formation of limited li- roe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618. (3) whom process against the Company of the Company shall be liable in their ability company. Name: FSI DWO3 Purpose: Any lawful purpose. of State has been designated as agent may be served. SSNY shall mail a capacity as members of the Company LLC (the Company). Articles of Orga- of the Company upon whom process copy of any such process to: c/o the NOTICE OF FORMATION for debts, obligations or liabilities nization filed with Secretary of State against it may be served and a copy of the Company. No member of the Company, 550 Latona Road, Building of NY (SSNY) on 11/24/20. NY office 707 PVR LLC has filed Articles of of any process shall be mailed to 21 A, Rochester, New York 14626. The Organization with the Secretary of Company, solely by reason of being a location: Monroe County. SSNY is Goodway Drive #1002, Rochester, NY member, is an agent of the Company Company is to be managed by one State on October 19, 2020. Its office designated as agent upon whom 14623. The purpose of the Company for the purpose of its business, and or more managers. No members of is located in Monroe County. The Sec- process against the Company may be is any and all lawful act or activity. served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any retary of State has been designated such process to: c/o the Company, 90 as agent upon whom process against NOTICE OF FORMATION DEATH NOTICE Goodway Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. it may be served and a copy of any MORRIS HOLDINGS GROUP, LLC The Company is to be managed by process will be mailed to The LLC, 1080 Pittsford Victor Road, Suite 200, Articles of Organization filed with Dr. Jesse Bresloff one or more managers. No members Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 12/03/2020. of the Company shall be liable in their Pittsford, New York 14534. The pur- Brighton: December 15, 2020 Office location: Monroe County. capacity as members of the Company pose of the LLC is any lawful activity. at the age of 98 with his family SSNY designated as agent of LLC for debts, obligations or liabilities Notice of Formation upon whom process against it may be by his side. He is predeceased of the Company. No member of the WaistNot Skin & Body Wellness, served. SSNY shall mail copy of pro- by his beloved wife of 70 years, Company, solely by reason of being a LLC. Articles of Organization filed Rose & sons, Mark & Michael member, is an agent of the Company Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/23/20. Office cess to c/o the Company, 6 Crabtree Bresloff. He is survived by his for the purpose of its business, and location: Monroe County. SSNY des- Circle, Webster, NY 14850 no member shall have the authority ignated as agent of LLC upon whom devoted daughter, Karen (Mi- Notice Of Authority Of to act for the Company solely by process against it may be served. Foreign Limited Liability chael) Haymes; grandchildren, virtue of being a member. Purpose/ SSNY shall mail copy of process to 192 Company (“LLC”) Benjamin Haymes & Michelle character of the Company: any and Penhurst Street Rochester, NY 14619. (Rob) Dupont; caregiver & best all lawful activities. Purpose: any lawful activities. Name: Semify, LLC. Jurisdic- friend, Marjorie Gutzmer; spe- NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION tion: Virginia. Date Of Formation: Notice of Formation of Limited 05/13/2008. Office Location With- cial nieces & nephew, Liz Relin, Notice of formation of limited lia- Liability Company (“LLC”) in State Of New York: County Of Barbara Dankoff & Robert Dan- bility company. Name: FSI 2599 LLC Name: Rum Buffer LLC. Articles Monroe. The Secretary Of State Of koff; also survived by extend- Due to COVID restrictions, (the Company). Articles of Organi- of Organization filed with the Secre- zation filed with Secretary of State The State Of New York Has Been ed family, Randy, Bob, Jamie, funeral services will be private, tary of State with the State of New of NY (SSNY) on 11/19/20. NY office York (“SSNY”) on: December 7, 2020. Designated As Agent Of The LLC Doug, Shelley, Josh, Awilda, with burial taking place in Mt. location: Monroe County. SSNY is Office Location: County of Monroe. Upon Whom Process Against It May Sophie & Jonah. Hope Cemetery. b designated as agent upon whom Principal Business Location: 300 Hylan Be Served. SSNY Shall Mail A Copy process against the Company may be Drive, Suite 6 #302, Rochester, New Of Any Process To: 46 B Sager Drive, served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any York 14623. Purpose: any and all Rochester, NY 14607. Principal Busi- such process to: c/o the Company, 90 lawful act or activity. The Secretary ness Location: 46 B Sager Drive, Roch- Goodway Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. of State of the State of New York has Authorized to Publish The Company is to be managed by been designated as agent of the LLC ester, NY 14607. The Foreign Limited one or more managers. No members upon whom process against it may Liability Company Was In Existence LEGAL NOTICES of the Company shall be liable in their be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of In Its Jurisdiction Of Formation At in Monroe, Ontario, Genesee capacity as members of the Company any process to: 300 Hylan Drive, Suite The Time It Applied For Authority To for debts, obligations or liabilities 6 #302, Rochester, New York 14623 Conduct Business Within New York a and Orleans Counties. of the Company. No member of the State And Is Currently In Existence. Company, solely by reason of being a NOTICE OF FORMATION member, is an agent of the Company 1919 NORTH UNION LLC has filed Authorized Officer Where Articles for the purpose of its business, and Articles of Organization with the Sec- Of Organization Are Filed: Virginia no member shall have the authority retary of State on December 7, 2020. Secretary of State, 1111 E Broad St #4, 427-2468 • [email protected] to act for the Company solely by Its office is located in Monroe County. Richmond, VA 23219  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, December 17, 2020 • Page 17

The News in Brief …

Floridians Can The bipartisan slate of four tourist destinations, and Israel’s munity this year, Now ‘Stand with lawmakers who initiated the deserts in bloom.” especially here Israel’ on their law passed this year launch- The plate will go into pro- in Pittsburgh,” ing the competition along with duction once 3,000 applicants Banner told JNS. License Plates Gabe Groisman, the mayor of have paid for presale vouch- “The Tree of Life by RON KAMPEAS Bal Harbour, served as the ers. Proceeds will go in part s y n a g o g u e i s (JTA) — Floridians can now judges. to Hatzalah of Miami-Dade, such a major fix- stand with Israel even while “The concept focuses on an organization of volunteer ture in our city, stuck in traffic. Florida’s state flower, the or- paramedics. and I see so much A graphic designer from Boca ange blossom,” Ackerman said overlap between Raton has come up with the in the release. “The beauty of Steelers ‘Mensch’ their mission winning design in a contest to this flower, contrasted against Zach Banner to and the mission create a specialty license plate the Star of David in the form Donate Part of of my founda- saying that “Florida Stands of a tropical leaf, represents tion [B3 Foun- with Israel.” Daniel Ackerman’s the Florida-Israel relationship Gameday Check dation] champi- blue, white and orange design and the fruit this partnership to Tree of Life on. To build and was chosen among more than bears, ultimately benefiting by FAYGIE HOLT strengthen com- 100 submissions in a compe- both states. The symbol inter- (JNS) — Pittsburgh Steeler munity, to heal di- tition sponsored by the Israe- acts with the two waves on Zach Banner announced Mon- vision and bring li-American Council, the group top and bottom giving nod to day that he was donating a people together. Zach Banner, offensive tackle for the Pittsburgh said in a news release. the Israeli flag, Florida’s sandy portion of a game-day check to This is my way of Steelers. (Twitter/Zach Banner) Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Syn- saying thank you agogue, the site of the mass for the ongoing support I’ve and face the “same amount of shooting in October 2018. received and to stand as an hate [and] similar hardships.” “I’m crashing Hanukkah this ally for my Jewish brothers and The Twitterverse responded year guys… by donating part sisters.” to Banner’s latest announce- of my game day check to the Earlier this year, the offensive ment of tzedakah with gusto Tree of Life synagogue here in tackle took to social media in with people calling the football Pittsburgh. Happy Holidays!” support of the Jewish commu- player a “mensch” and inviting tweeted Banner. nity after fellow NFL player him for latkes, coffee and even He signed off as “Hulk,” a DeSean Jackson posted anti-Se- to Friday-night Shabbat dinner. reference to Marvel superhero mitic comments made by Hitler. Representatives from the con- Bruce Banner. In his July video, Banner gregation responded: “We look “I have been so moved by urged the “black and brown forward to inviting you to cel- The Israeli-American Council released the winner of a design contest for a the support and love I’ve re- community” to understand that ebrate the holidays in person Florida license plate, Dec. 15, 2020. (Courtesy IAC) ceived from the Jewish com- like them, Jews are a minority sometime soon!” b Legal Notices …

Notice of Formation of Limited served, and a copy shall be mailed process to the LLC at 26 Guilford Way, NOTICE OF FORMATION NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been Liability Company (“LLC”) to 600 East Avenue, Suite 200, Roch- Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any busi- RTST Group, LLC filed Articles of Orga- designated as agent upon whom process Name: Tall Poppy Farm, LLC. ester, NY 14607. Its purpose is any ness permitted under law. nization with the New York Department against it may be served and a copy of any Articles of Organization filed with lawful business. of State on December 7, 2020. Its office is process will be mailed to the LLC, 2370 the Secretary of State with the State NOTICE OF FORMATION OF located in Monroe County. The Secretary Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618. (3) of New York (“SSNY”) on: December LEGAL NOTICE 1901 LAC DE VILLE BLVD, LLC of State has been designated as agent of Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 9, 2020. Office Location: 1921 Harris Notice of Formation of Retrolight 1901 Lac de Ville Blvd, LLC filed the Company upon whom process against Road, Penfield, NY 14526 County Studios, LLC a domestic Limited Articles of Organization with NYS on it may be served and a copy of any process NOTICE OF FORMATION OF of: Monroe. Principal Business Lo- Liability Company (LLC). Art. of Org. December 9, 2020. (1) Its principal office shall be mailed to 28 Samantha’s Way, AAA 70 CEDARFIELD, LLC cation: 1921 Harris Road, Penfield, filed with the SSNY December 7, is in Monroe County, New York. (2) The Pittsford, NY 14534. Any lawful purpose. AAA 70 Cedarfield, LLC filed Articles NY 14526. Purpose: any and all law- 2020. Office location: 253 Hollybrook Secretary of State has been designated as ful act or activity. The Secretary of NOTICE OF FORMATION OF of Organization with NYS on 12/10/2020. Road, Rochester, New York 14623. its agent and the post office address to LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, State of the State of New York has which the Secretary of State shall mail a been designated as agent of the LLC SSNY is designated agent upon Notice of formation of limited liability NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been copy of any process against it is: the LLC, upon whom process against it may whom process against the LLC may company (LLC). Name: Prince Develop- designated as agent upon whom process 71 N. Country Club Drive, Rochester, NY be served. SSNY shall mail a copy be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy ment Group, LLC. Articles of Organiza- against it may be served and a copy of any 14618. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. of any process to: 1921 Harris Road, of any process to The Company 253 tion filed with Secretary of State of New process will be mailed to the LLC, 244 Kirk York (SSNY) on December 14, 2020. New Penfield, NY 14526 Hollybrook Road, Rochester, New Notice of Formation of Limited Road, Rochester, NY 14612. (3) Purpose: York office location: Monroe County. York 14623. COUNTY OF FORMA- Liability Company (“LLC”) LEGAL NOTICE: NOTICE OF Principal business location: 1537 Pleasant Any lawful purpose. TION: Monroe PURPOSE: To engage FORMATION OF LIMITED Name: Tortarella Properties, LLC. Harbour Way, Tampa, FL 33602. SSNY is LIABILITY COMPANY: in any lawful act or activity. Articles of Organization filed with the NOTICE OF FORMATION OF designated as agent upon whom process LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the Limited Liability Secretary of State with the State of New against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Tessera Wealth Management, LLC Company is Abundant Solar Power York (“SSNY”) on: December 11, 2020. mail a copy of any such process to: 1537 (Erwin) LLC. The Articles of Organi- PROFESSIONAL LIMITED filed Articles of Organization with the LIABILITY COMPANY Office Location: County of Monroe. Prin- Pleasant Harbour Way, Tampa, FL 33602. zation were filed with the New York NY Department of State on 12/8/2020. Tracy Nemecek, LMHC, Men- cipal Business Location: 823 Arlberg Circle, LLC is to be managed by one member. Secretary of State on December 7, Webster, New York 14580. Purpose: any LLC is organized to engage in any lawful Its office is located in Monroe County. 2020. The office of the Company is tal Health Counselor, PLLC filed and all lawful act or activity. The Secre- act or activity for which limited liability The Secretary of State is designated as located in the County of Monroe, Articles of Organization with the tary of State of the State of New York has companies may be organized under the agent of the Company upon whom pro- State of New York. The New York NY Department of State on Novem- been designated as agent of the LLC upon Limited Liability Company Law. cess against it may be served, and a copy Secretary of State is designated as ber 9, 2020. Its office is located in whom process against it may be served. shall be mailed to 500 Linden Oaks, Suite the agent of the Company upon Monroe County. The Secretary of Notice of Formation SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: #301, Rochester, NY 14625. Its purpose is whom process in any action or pro- State has been designated as agent 44 Hurst Avenue, LLC (“LLC”) filed Ar- 823 Arlberg Circle, Webster, New York any lawful business. ceeding against it may be served, and of the Company upon whom pro- ticles of Organization with the NY Sec. of the address to which the Secretary of 14580 State (“SSNY”) on 12/2/20. Office location: cess against it may be served, and a Notice of Formation of Limited State shall mail a copy of process in Monroe County. SSNY is designated as copy of any process served upon him NOTICE OF FORMATION OF KB Liability Company (“LLC”) any action or proceeding against agent of LLC upon whom process against & SON PROPERTIES LLC the Company served upon him or or her shall be mailed to P.O. Box it may be served and shall mail a copy of Name: The Quiet Place Getaways, her is 700 W Metro Park, Rochester, 25295, Rochester, New York, 14625. KB & Son Properties LLC filed Articles process to 461 Claybourne Road, Roches- LLC. Articles of Organization filed with New York 14623. The purpose of the The profession to be practiced is of Organization with the New York Secre- ter, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activity. the Secretary of State with the State of business is any lawful business. mental health counseling. tary of State on December 10, 2020. (1) Its New York (“SSNY”) on: December 14, principal office is in Monroe County, New NOTICE OF FILING OF APPLICATION NOTICE OF FORMATION NOTICE OF FORMATION FOR AUTHORITY OF YES 2020. Office Location: County of Monroe. York. (2) The principal business location is Principal Business Location: 823 Arlberg EMPIRE DP INVESTORS LLC has Notice of formation of limited lia- PARKS NEW YORK, LLC 15 Stamber Lane, Spencerport, New York Circle, Webster, New York 14580. Purpose: filed Articles of Organization with bility company (LLC) DMZ Properties Name: YES Parks New York, LLC 14559. (3) The Secretary of State has been (LLC). Authority filed with NY Secretary of the Secretary of State on December LLC. Articles of Organization filed any and all lawful act or activity. The 9, 2020. Its office is located in Mon- designated as its agent and the post office State (NYSS): 12/1/2020. LLC organized in with the Secretary of State of the Secretary of State of the State of New roe County. The Secretary of State address to which the Secretary of State Pennsylvania: 11/24/2020. NY office loca- York has been designated as agent of the State of New York (SSNY) on Decem- shall mail a copy of any process against it has been designated as agent upon tion: Monroe County. NYSS designated as LLC upon whom process against it may ber 1, 2020. Office location: Monroe is c/o The LLC, 15 Stamber Lane, Spencer- agent of LLC upon whom process against whom process against it may be be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any served and a copy of any process will County. SSNY designated as agent port, New York 14559. (4) Purpose: Any it may be served. NYSS shall mail copy of process to: 823 Arlberg Circle, Webster, be mailed to The LLC, 69B Monroe upon whom process against it may be lawful purpose. process to the LLC, 200 North Monroe Avenue, Pittsford, New York 14534. served. Address to which SSNY shall Street, Suite 100, Media, PA 19063. Ad- New York 14580 The purpose of the LLC is any lawful mail a copy of process 408 Mt. Airy NOTICE OF FORMATION dress of office maintained in jurisdiction San Gabriel LLC filed Articles of Orga- activity. Drive, Rochester, NY 14617. Purpose: AMD GROUP PROPERTIES LLC has of formation: 600-G Eden Road, Lancaster, filed Articles of Organization with the PA 17601. Copy of Certificate of Formation nization with the New York Department NOTICE OF FORMATION OF any lawful purpose. Secretary of State on December 14, 2020. on file with the Pennsylvania Secretary of of State on 12/09/20. Its office is located in LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of Formation of LLC. Its office is located in Monroe County. The State at 401 North Street, Harrisburg, PA Monroe County. The Secretary of State has Centre Park DeSoto TX LLC filed Clifford TIC, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. 17120. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. been designated as agent of the Company Articles of Organization with the NY Secretary of State has been designated as upon whom process against it may be Department of State on 11/19/2020. of Org. with Secy. of State of NY agent upon whom process against it may NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Its office is located in Monroe Coun- (SSNY) on 10/19/2020. Office location: be served and a copy of any process will be MBDAJD VENTURES LLC served and a copy of any process shall be ty. The Secretary of State is designat- Monroe County. SSNY designated as mailed to The LLC, 146 Old Meadow Drive, MBDAJD Ventures LLC filed Articles mailed to San Gabriel LLC PO Box 10819 ed as agent of the Company upon agent of the LLC upon whom process Rochester, NY 14626. The purpose of the of Organization with NYS on 12/10/2020. Rochester NY 14610. The purpose of the whom process against it may be may be served and SSNY shall mail LLC is any lawful activity. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, Company is general. Page 18 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, December 17, 2020

Hate … Here’s How Experts Say Joe Biden Should Respond to the Past Four Years of Rising Antisemitism.

by ARNO ROSENFELD fostered antisemitism even when his audio recording obtained by The Inter- Holocaust Remembrance Alliance defi- President-elect Joe Biden announced comments were directed at Mexican cept. But he also suggested a level of nition of antisemitism. While the defi- his bid for the White House invoking immigrants or Muslim-Americans. inflexibility, at one point shouting at nition itself does not mention Israel, it is the far-right protest in Charlottesville “The tenor of the entire administration Derrick Johnson, chief executive of the controversial among critics of Israel and and ran a campaign focused on national was basically to define an ‘us’ and a NAACP, who expressed concern about Zionism because it cites “denying the unity, placing a “battle for the soul of ‘them,’ as opposed to a common enter- what he saw as a lack of racial diversity Jewish people their right to self-determi- the nation” above major economic or prise of Americans together,” Stern said among the cabinet nominees Biden has nation” as an example of antisemitism. health-care reforms. in a recent interview. named so far. Stern, who runs the Bard center, said Biden’s rhetoric offered a sharp con- Abe Foxman, former director of the there is a tendency for a public figure’s trast with President Donald Trump, who Anti-Defamation League, broke his his- Debate Over Focus stance on Israel to become paramount has drawn ire for failing to forcefully toric nonpartisanship to endorse Biden While Jewish groups are largely uni- in debates over antisemitism, with those condemn his white-nationalist support- shortly before the election. Foxman fied in seeking a renewed emphasis on on the right defending people who sup- ers and making insensitive comments said that while no president can stop fighting antisemitism from the White port the Jewish state but may invoke about a variety of minority groups in- antisemitism completely, Biden should House, there is disagreement over how antisemitic tropes, and the left tending cluding Jews. use his massive platform to push back to balance concerns over right-wing to dismiss even legitimate claims that a Now, those who fight hate for a living against discrimination. white nationalism and left-wing criti- critic of Israel is antisemetic. are wondering how a Biden administra- “The most important element in fight- cism of Israel that some say bleed into “We tend to give extra berth or justifi- tion will differ from the last four years ing antisemitism is the number one bigotry. cation to people who see Israel the way of Trump’s leadership when it comes voice — the number one bully pulpit,” Progressives generally think the that we do,” Stern said. “That doesn’t to combating antisemitism. Most agree Foxman said, “and that voice has to be Trump administration put too much really help fight antisemitism.” that simply changing the holder of the clear and has to be direct on antisemi- emphasis on the latter. Secretary of State Many mainstream Jewish organiza- world’s most powerful megaphone will tism.” Mike Pompeo announced in November tions support the IHRA definition, and make a positive difference — but they’re Biden emphasized his commitment to that he would seek to identify and de- a focus on anti-Zionism, as part of the also eyeing who Biden will appoint to using rhetoric to unify the country in a fund nonprofits that support the Boycott, fight against antisemitism. The ADL, for fill key roles and how he will balance private call with civil rights leaders last Divestment and Sanctions movement example, applauded Trump for signing competing definitions of antisemitism. week, The Intercept, a left-leaning news targeting Israel as part of the adminis- the executive order last fall, and the Kenneth S. Stern, director of the outlet, reported. tration’s fight against antisemitism. Jewish Federations of North America Bard Center for the Study of Hate, said “The words of presidents matter,” Trump also signed an executive order in a November letter called on the in- Trump’s rhetoric fueled a climate that Biden told the group, according to an last year endorsing the International (Joe Biden — Page 19) Kicker … ADL: We’re Proud of Our Record Defending Jews — and Muslims

by JONATHAN A. GREENBLATT a century: “to stop the defamation of the and impact have surged. over again by its founder, Omar Bargou- As one of the oldest civil-rights organi- Jewish people and to secure justice and At the same time, ADL, like the vast ti, is not intended to make Israel better, zations in the Jewish community, we’re fair treatment to all.” Over that history, majority of the American Jewish com- but rather to make the Jewish state dis- not unaccustomed to criticism, even in we have been at the forefront of fighting munity, is proudly Zionist. We are com- appear. But denying the Jewish people the pages of one of America’s oldest Jew- for civil rights for American Jews — and, mitted deeply to a democratic and Jewish the same right to self-determination that ish news outlets. But the OpEd by Salam alongside many storied civil-rights lead- homeland in Israel. We will make no you would extend to other people and Al-Marayati, president of the Muslim ers and groups, for marginalized people apologies for this stance. delegitimizing the validity of the Jewish Public Affairs Council, which the For- including African-Americans, the LGBTQ And yet, that does not inhibit us from narrative are little more than modern ward published on Tuesday morning, was community, refugees and the Muslim criticizing the government of Israel in manifestations of the oldest hatred, an- illuminating about how certain quarters community. We have taken risks, dealt regards to certain policies. We’ve done so ti-Semitism. Again, we will not apologize in our society desperately try to employ with countless threats and not always in recent years around the highly-prob- for opposing BDS. cancel culture to silence others. In this succeeded at our task, but always labored lematic nation-state law passed in the In his OpEd, Al-Marayati called on “ADL case, the author is trying to marginalize to create a more inclusive society. Knesset in 2018 and the talk by Israe- to fulfill its mission as a human- and ADL and make support for the State of Indeed, over the past several years, li leaders about annexing of the West civil-rights organization by denouncing Israel disqualifying in pursuing civil we have been especially outspoken in Bank, and we also spoke out against the all instances of dehumanization, discrim- rights for all Americans, including the our defense of American Muslims. ADL recent appointment of a new head of Yad ination, and state-sponsored violence, Muslim-American community. has filed amicus briefs in numerous civil Vashem who has made a series of hateful regardless of who commits such acts…” Al-Marayati argues that ADL is a source rights and freedom of religion cases on claims slandering Palestinians. ADL already does this and will contin- of “anti-Muslim” rhetoric and cannot be behalf of Muslim communities and indi- We also repeatedly have called out an- ue to do so. fully trusted as an ally in the fight for viduals. This includes taking a strong, ti-Arab racism in Israeli society, criticized But we don’t limit ourselves to OpEds civil rights because of our support of the unequivocal stand in public and in court the Israeli government for its ill-treatment or Tweets, where many seem to think Jewish state. It is an argument taken from opposing President Trump’s hideous at- of African asylum seekers, and launched the work takes place these days. Instead the playbook of a fringe smear campaign tempts to ban immigrants from Muslim A League of Respect, a new initiative to we will continue to press forward on the being run against ADL that, to its credit, nations. fight bigotry and racism in Israeli sports. ground across America — in schools, MPAC has not signed his name to, but ADL repeatedly has called out xeno- ADL also remains a staunch supporter community centers, houses of worships which he still chose to directly quote in phobic policies of the Trump Administra- of the two-state solution. Even if it is out and city halls where, on a daily basis, his piece. Still, their campaign is wrong tion, many of which impacted the Mus- of vogue in some circles, we firmly be- we support victims of hate as well as and without merit on a number of levels. lim community. In September 2018, ADL lieve that it is the only just solution to the engage educators, elected officials, pub- It is also dangerous, creating a space condemned the Trump Administration’s Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one that pro- lic figures and coalition partners of all where we as a Jewish organization are decision to cut annual refugee-admission vides the Palestinian people with dignity backgrounds. judged more for what we do or do not say numbers to 30,000 — the lowest level in and statehood even as it provides Israelis In closing, I am open to a dialogue about Israel than for all of the advocacy history. “This decision is a moral failure,” with safety and security. Repeatedly, we with Al-Marayati and other community work we do here in the U.S. and abroad ADL said. “These xenophobic immigra- have stood our ground on this position, leaders who are ready for authentic, pro- fighting for marginalized communities. tion policies fly in the face of our values even when attacked on both ends of the ductive dialogue. The work will continue This is a common tactic in a smear as Americans.” political spectrum for doing so. regardless of any efforts to smear our campaign — narrow down a broader When it comes to security, we share And we believe that the Boycott, Di- organization by those who want to score argument (in this case, about the Israe- our expertise on protecting religious vestment and Sanctions campaign is meaningless political points. ADL is above li-Palestinian conflict) into a singular, institutions and sensitive locations with antithetical to this value. It is absolute that. That’s how we have accomplished so unfounded allegation (in this case, that local mosques and Islamic Centers in fiction to claim, as Al-Marayati does, that much for more than 100 years, and how ADL is Islamophobic because of our communities across the country so that ADL “has campaigned to make [BDS] we will stay on the path for the next 100 support for the Jewish State). But the they can better protect themselves from a criminal act.” We strongly advocate years or however long it takes to create a allegation that ADL falls along the same threats. We also share the signature for resolutions condemning BDS, while society that truly is no place for hate. b side of Islamophobes is patently false. work of our Center on Extremism, which also recognizing that it’s protected free Jonathan A. Greenblatt is CEO and Let’s look at the facts. tracks, exposes and combats violent do- speech. But let’s be clear, the BDS move- National Director of the Anti-Defamation ADL was established in 1913 with a mestic threats from white supremacists ment is misguided and dangerous. The League. mission that hasn’t changed in more than and other extremists, whose numbers BDS movement, as described over and ©Forward. Reprinted with authorization. Cerame’s Italian Villa • Size • Date • Designer [email protected] Expositor-Ledger Newspapers Rochester Golf Week • The Jewish Ledger 2535 Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Road, Rochester, NY 14623 (585) 427-2468 • FAX (585) 427-8521 IMPORTANT… We want YOUR AD to be perfect… Your ad will run as it appears here unless we hear from you immediately. Please review this ad carefully. n Check spelling and punctuation n Check addresses and phone numbers, as well as e-mail addresses and web sites. n Check dates and times of all events listed. If there are any corrections, please call us immediately at 427-2468.

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