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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 44, NO. 24 FEBRUARY 14, 2020 19 SH’VAT, 5780 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Kirk Douglas dies at 103 By Tom Tugend
LOS ANGELES (JTA)— Kirk Douglas, the legendary actor who portrayed legions of tough guys and embraced his Jewish heritage later in life, died at his home in Bev- erly Hills on Wednesday. He was 103. Over a career that spanned 87 films—including 73 big screen features and 14 on television—the blond, blue- eyed Douglas, dimpled chin thrust forward, was often cast Magen David Adom responds to the request by Chabad for protective gear for communities in China amid the corona- as the toughest guy around, virus outbreak, February 2020. vanquishing hordes of Ro- mans, Vikings and assorted PhotoQuest/Getty Images Kirk Douglas poses in bad guys. 1950. Thrice nominated for an Magen David Adom sends protective Academy Award and a re- cipient of an Oscar for lifetime with the lifetime achievement achievement and a Presiden- Oscar in 1996. “Kirk Douglas gear to Chabad in China tial Medal of Freedom, Doug- never chose that. He doesn’t las evolved from an egocentric have a single character that By Faygie Holt The virus, 2019-nCov—more widely be distributed to Chabad centers, Jews and promiscuous young man makes him unique. Instead known as the novel coronavirus, which and Israelis in China, along with “the into a multi-talented actor, di- he has a singular honesty, a (JNS)—A shipment of medical supplies has caused the deaths of more than 360 Chinese people who are so helpful and rector, author, philanthropist drive to be inimitable.” from Magen David Adom in Israel were people and sickened more than 17,000 supportive of us.” and student of Torah who left Douglas was born Issur delivered on Monday morning to Chabad across 25 countries as of Monday—has Magen David Adom was not the only a deep imprint on both Hol- Danielovitch in 1916 in the in China to help prevent the spread of the led to an unprecedented level of restric- Jewish agency responding to calls for lywood and the Jewish people. upstate New York town of deadly coronavirus. tion on travel to and from China, the assistance. The nongovernmental orga- Douglas also was the au- Amsterdam, the son of an At the request of Chabad, Magen Da- world’s largest country and second- nization IsraAid was sending a shipment thor of 11 books, ranging illiterate Russian-Jewish im- vid Adom sent in 2,000 face masks and largest economy. The World Health of medical supplies to China on Monday, from personal memoirs and migrant who supported his 200 full-body protection kits. The latter Organization listed the outbreak of as a when the last flight from Tel Aviv to China a Holocaust-themed novel for six daughters and one son as includes special suits and masks, along public health emergency of international flies before a travel ban from China goes young readers to a collection a rag picker and junk man. with covers for shoes, hats and glasses in concern on Jan. 30. into effect. The supplies were donated in of poetry dedicated to his wife. A chance to escape came the event of contact with a person who Chabad, which runs centers in 12 cities conjunction with Israel-China Chamber “Most stars of his stature shortly after his bar mitzvah, may be sick. in China, requested protective gear as of Commerce, Innovation, David Ashke- are shaped out of mythic clay,” when the Sons of Israel Syna- “Magen David Adom, as Israel’s nation- they continue to operate in that country. nazi of ICCB Capital. the director Steven Spielberg al EMS organization and the country’s “I thank the MDA director general and “We are all very concerned about the said in presenting Douglas Douglas on page 15A largest humanitarian organization, im- his representatives for their prompt help spread of coronavirus, and we are grate- mediately responded to Chabad’s request and response,” said Rabbi Eliyahu Rosen- ful for all the courageous work done by in China to help deal with the spread of berg, a Chabad emissary in Guangzhou, a Chinese medical teams,” said IsraAid the coronavirus in their country. MDA port city northwest of Hong Kong. “From CEO Yotam Polizer in a statement. “It’s Data whiz predicts stand alongside the Israelis who are the moment the call was made to MDA, important for us to do our part by sending around the world and always ready to the treatment and responsiveness were relief supplies and sharing our expertise help,” said MDA director general Eli Bin extremely fast.” in the field of stress management and the Oscar winners in a statement. Rosenberg said the materials will trauma reduction.” By Gabe Friedman
(JTA)—In 2012, the first Time for change among year that Ben Zauzmer made Oscar predictions based on mathematical modeling, he received an email from a Israelis and Palestinians member of the Academy of By Christine DeSouza claim the land between the Motion Picture Arts and Sci- Jordan River and the Medi- ences, the body that chooses In the past 100 years, there terranean Sea, each as their the winners. has been an ongoing conflict national homeland. With the Zauzmer was wrong to pre- between Jews and Arabs who creation of the State of Israel dict that the silent French film this deepened into decades of “The Artist” would win best violent conflict and often all- picture, the member said—he out war. For the Jewish people and some of his friends in Israel was the fulfillment of the Academy had heard that their need for a sovereign Jew- “Hugo,” Martin Scorsese’s ish State and the end of 2000 steampunk adventure flick, Ben Zauzmer works dur- years of exile and they pre- had a better chance. ing the day as a baseball pared themselves by all means Zauzmer “politely thanked analyst for the Los Angeles to fight to preserve this home. him for his comments,” and Dodgers. But the Arabs saw this State as was proven right—“The Art- one that dispossessed them of ist” took home five Oscars that In his Hollywood predic- their rights and overwhelmed year, including best picture. tions, he continues a long them and so by many means Since 2011, his freshman trend of Jews who have been tried to fight back. Israel and year at Harvard, Zauzmer successful at forecasting—see its supporters often only saw has put his data skills to work Silver, Nate Cohn and Harry Palestinians and their Arab predicting which films have Enten in the political realm. country supporters trying to the best chances of winning He’s also far from the first end the existence of their State just about all of the Academy Jewish baseball analyst—the and “drive the Jews into the Award categories. Think of Dodgers’ president of baseball sea” and cite terrorist attacks, him as the Nate Silver of suicide bombings, knifing, Oscars night. Oscars on page 14A shootings as evidence—Pal- Zauzmer, 26, works during estinians against Israelis and the day as a baseball analyst Israelis against Palestinians. for the Los Angeles Dodgers, The result is always the same: Keith Dvorchik (l), CEO of the Jewish Federation of using math to identify strong Greater Orlando and executive director of The Roth Family players that the team could Change on page 14A JCC, with Ali Abu Awwad. potentially acquire. PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 14, 2020 Friends make a road trip to the Jewish Pavilion Fashion Show Show chair, loves this oc- Gaeser, Shirley Schoen- casion because it brings berger, Joan Sussman, Jo women of all ages together Fischer, Jane Edelstein, Ruth for a happy and fun event Darvin, Ali Polejes, Susie that showcases the latest Stone, Brenda Fisher Wet- fashions. The proceeds more, Shari Klafter, Sharon from this amazing event Littman and our honoree benefit our aging senior Penny Goldstein, are all ages, population. shapes and sizes. Every year the Fashion The Pearls of the Jewish Show is a family affair. Pavilion, $500 membership Grandmothers, mothers, or greater, event will be held daughters and even some directly before the fashion mothers-in-law have an- show. They will be treated nual dates to attend. Many to a special presentation and have been coming together gifts from Dillard’s. for years. All attendees will receive Penny O’Connell from J 10 percent off their total Life Magazine recognizes bill for merchandise sold the importance the Jewish during or directly after the Pavilion’s work and loves to event. The fashion show is at tell their story. She says J Life Dillard’s Altamonte Mall on The models for the 2019 Jewish Pavilion Fashion Show. is looking forward to cover- Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, ing this year’s fashion show. at 11a.m. By Wendy Ring Levine on their way to the Jewish Pa- her reservation, Goldstein friends. They are pleased The models, all Jewish Make reservations online vilion Fashion Show that is told her it was too much to to be part of honoring their Pavilion members and vol- at www.jewishpavilion.org Its road trip time for Penny honoring their friend. When travel from Tampa. She just friend. unteers, are scheduled for or call the office at 407- Goldstein’s friends. They are one friend called to make laughed and invited more Marci Gaeser, Fashion fittings. The models—Marci 678-9363. JAO’s gala was a wonderland of fun
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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 14, 2020 PAGE 3A Elizabeth Warren says she will skip the AIPAC conference By Ron Kampeas can Israel Public Affairs Com- “good ally” to both Israel and mittee would not comment. the Palestinians. WASHINGTON (JTA)— In a joint statement re- “We’re not doing that if we Sen. Elizabeth Warren in- leased Friday with three keep standing with one party dicated she would skip the other progressive groups— and saying, ‘We’re on your pro-Israel lobby AIPAC’s Indivisible, MoveOn, and the side, we’re going to give all conference next month and Working Families Party—If- the things you asked for,’ for did not push back against NotNow echoed the language all kinds of political reasons questionable assertions about O’Connor used with Warren domestically here and domes- the lobby from a questioner and said it was launching a tically in Israel,” she said. at a campaign event in New campaign, #SkipAIPAC, to AIPAC traditionally invites Hampshire. pressure other candidates presidential candidates to In a sign of how the lobby not to attend the conference. address its annual March has become a political light- “Israel’s decades-long oc- gathering in election years. ning rod for Democrats, War- cupation has eroded the bipar- A boycott of the conference ren answered “yeah” when tisan consensus on Israel and by Democratic candidates asked if she was planning to AIPAC, in a last-ditch effort to would signal how toxic the skip the conference in Wash- maintain influence, now an- group has become among ington in March. chors an unholy alliance with the party’s progressives, for “I’m an American Jew and antisemites, Islamophobes whom Warren is a flag bearer. I’m terrified by the unholy and white nationalists,” IfNot- So far no other candidate has Justin Sullivan/Getty Images alliance that AIPAC is form- Now co-founder Emily Mayer yet committed either way, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks during a campaign ing with Islamophobes and said. “This unholy alliance but Vermont Senator Bernie event at Tupelo Music Hall in Derry, N.H., Feb. 6, 2020. anti-Semites and white na- shields the Israeli government Sanders, Warren’s rival to lead tionalists and no Democrat from any consequences for its the party’s progressive wing, AIPAC is committed to the call to boycott the conference. in the 1990s said that Adolf should legitimize that kind actions and pushes for a blank has said he has “no objection” two-state solution. AIPAC does not invite presi- Hitler was part of God’s plan of bigotry by attending their check that has had disastrous to going. “AIPAC is a pro-Israel dential candidates to speak because his actions helped annual policy conference,” a effects for both Palestinians Warren, who has also said voice that agrees with you in non-election years. lead to the state of Israel. woman attending a town hall and Israelis. No Democrat she may leverage aid to pres- (and us) about the need for a AIPAC has taken pains in Hagee long ago apologized with Warren in Derry, New should give AIPAC political sure Israel into concessions, two-state solution negotiated the past to distance itself from for the remarks. Hampshire said Thursday. cover with their presence.” drew immediate censure for by both sides,” AJC said on members and allies who have Also named was Steve “And I’m really grateful that O’Connor pressed Warren the not confronting O’Connor Twitter. “We hope you find attacked minorities. The lobby Emerson, a terrorism expert you skipped the AIPAC con- further on whether she would on her questionable claims. an opportunity to clarify also has dedicated staff who who has made several appear- ference last year and so my ask other candidates to join “As the 2020 Dems get more that you do not agree with work on deepening the group’s ances at AIPAC conferences, question is if you’ll join me in her in boycotting the event, a & more anti-Israel, will any of the questioner’s baseless and ties to progressives. most recently in 2016. Liberal committing to skip the AIPAC fixture of the Washington po- them stand up and condemn offensive characterization of The IfNotNow statement groups have described him as conference this March.” litical calendar that has long comments like these?” Sen. the organization.” cited several examples in sup- anti-Muslim for exaggerating The Jewish anti-occupation drawn a healthy representa- Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said on AIPAC did not invite any port of its claim that AIPAC the threat of radical Islam. group IfNotNow said that tion from both of the major Twitter. “Directly? Or are they presidential candidate to its has forged an “unholy alli- Emerson has been widely the questioner, identified as political parties. Warren did too scared of the angry anti- conference last year, although ance” with racists and bigots. mocked in European media Sarah O’Connor, was acting not answer, saying instead Semitic Left?” MoveOn got traction by claim- The group faulted AIPAC for for describing some European on its behalf. that she is committed to a two- The American Jewish Com- ing that the candidates’ non- its alliance with Christian Zi- cities as off-limits to non- A spokesman for the Ameri- state solution and to being a mittee noted that like Warren, attendance was a results of its onist pastor John Hagee, who Muslims. Amid chaos, UC Berkeley student government delays vote against terrorist display By Jackson Richman met to debate student Milton “Jewish students were Zerman’s resolution titled repeatedly harassed, heckled (JNS)—The student gov- “Condemning Bears for Pal- and threatened with physical ernment at the University of estine for Their Display in threats of violence... Jew- California, Berkeley, erupted Eshleman Hall Glorifying ish students should never into chaos on Monday, delay- Violent Terrorists.” feel threatened and should ing a vote on a measure to In December, the student NEVER fear for their safety censure a display by a pro- group Bears for Palestine put while on campus,” posted Palestinian student group. on a display in the student Tikvah: Students for Israel, a The Associated Students union featuring convicted pro-Israel group on campus, of the University of Califor- Palestinian terrorists Ras- on Facebook. nia Senate’s University and mieh Odeh, Fatima Bernawi “Despite multiple threats External Affairs Committee and Leila Khaled. of violence, the ASUC ad- Super Bowl champ scores big as Jewish community role model By United with Israel
With the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl win on Sunday, its Jewish lineman Mitchell Students with UC Berkeley’s “Bears for Israel” hold a counter-demonstration at a Stu- Schwartz is shining as bright dents for Justice in Palestine rally in the fall of 2018. as the giant menorah he lights each Chanukah at Kansas ministrator and moderator students and allies on cam- cans in 2015 at the Emanuel City’s Chabad House. refused to get involved. One pus, but we know yesterday African Methodist Episcopal “He’s very comfortable in BFP member stepped into a was a win for us.” Church in Charleston, S.C. his Judaism,” Rabbi Mendy student’s face and said ‘I’m Pro-Israel groups re- “We’re proud of the Jewish Wineberg, co-director with going to kick your ass,’ while buked Bears for Pales- and pro-Israel community his wife, Devory, of Chabad another Jewish student was tine at Berkeley for speaking out of Leawood, just outside of Kansas City Chiefs’ Jewish lineman, Mitchell Schwartz. chased out of the room by “Bears for Palestine’s glori- against hate and standing up Kansas City, told Chabad. BFP members,” continued fication of terrorists is morally for themselves,” Carly Gam- org. “The first year he came Schwartz: Our Story of NFL lineman spoke to the students the post. “We, as a commu- repugnant. Even worse was mill, director of the Stand- to our menorah-lighting, I Football, Food, Family, and about Jewish pride and the nity, decided that enough the display of hatred and anti- WithUs Center for Combating offered him a sheet with the Faith.” uniqueness of being a Jewish was enough and that we were Semitism directed at the Jew- Antisemitism, told JNS. “The blessings. He replied, ‘I don’t “[W]e both thought it football player. “It brings a not going to sit idly by as our ish students who introduced anti-Israel extremists, many need that,’ and proceeded to was important to share our lot of pride, especially to the members were threatened a resolution to condemn this of whom were community say them flawlessly” story—for Jewish kids, and children, to see that you can and harassed, so we walked targeted discrimination,” members, should be ashamed Schwartz stays for the fes- in general, about how we be at the top of your game and out.” CAMERA’s Zac Schildcrout for defending the glorification tive holiday party, talking to both wound up where we are,” be proud of your Judaism, and “Yesterday wasn’t just a told JNS. “No one on campus of terrorist murder, attempted those present, taking pictures Mitchell said in an interview comfortable in your Judaism,” harassment of Palestinian would even think of openly murder and hijacking. Inci- with fans, and enjoying tradi- with JTA in 2016. noted Wineberg. students. Every marginalized supporting terrorists such dents like this make clear that tional foods, like sufganiyot Mitchell’s parents did not Before the big game, the group on this campus was as Dylan Roof or Brenton the university must do much (jelly doughnuts). allow him to play football rabbi pledged that, should threatened, and ASUC chose Tarrant, the perpetrator of more to fight anti-Semitism, Schwartz and his brother, until the ninth grade, in part the Chiefs win, their “Purim to adjourn the meeting before the [2019] Christchurch mas- ensure a safe environment Geoff, also an offensive line- because it would interfere [party] theme will be ‘Purim each of those threats was sacre. Why should it be any on campus and protect free man in the NFL, wrote a with bar mitzvah prepara- at the Super Bowl.” Now that accounted for,” posted Bears different when the victims are speech.” book in 2016 that addresses tions. the team succeeded, Wineberg for Palestine on Facebook. Israeli Jews?” JNS has not gotten a re- their Jewish identity, among At Kansas City’s Hyman said, “We would be honored if “Anxiety is running high Roof was convicted of mur- sponse from administrators other topics, titled “Eat My Brand Hebrew Academy, the Mitchell would join us!” among all the Palestinian dering nine African-Ameri- at the university. PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 14, 2020 Giving the Palestinians a dose of ‘reality therapy’ By Sarah N. Stern sympathy and receive billions of dollars in I have kept some notes throughout. Just Arafat an offer that was so good, he couldn’t donations, simultaneously eroding the com- one example: refuse it, he wouldn’t. (JNS)—Sitting in the East Room of the munity’s belief in the rightness of Israel’s On July 24, 2000, the day that the Camp “In fact, many could argue that this offer White House last week, I experienced an cause, while eroding that belief in some circles David talks between Israeli Prime Minister was so generous, it wasn’t responsible for us emotion as close to euphoria as I have ever within Israel. Ehud Barak, Palestinian Liberation Organiza- to offer it. experienced perhaps in my lifetime. I was I have become close friends with many tion chairman Arafat and U.S. President Bill “Well, he didn’t say ‘yes,’ and he didn’t say finally beginning to witness that moment in parents whose children have been lost in Clinton broke up, I was in the audience at a ‘no.’ He simply walked away from the table.” history when some rather fatal delusions that suicide-bombings, knife-stabbings and prominent Washington think tank—the Wash- That was almost two decades ago. the international community has held dear for car-rammings, and had been revolted when ington Institute for Near East Policy—when After that offer came an even more generous decades were finally beginning to erode, at least I heard diplomats from both sides of the Attorney General Elyakim Rubenstein who had one in 2008 from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud within certain quarters of the United States. Atlantic cavalierly dismiss the profound pain been with the Israeli negotiating team came Olmert to Palestinian Authority chairman I have been more than a passive player in of their losses, calling them euphemistically, to address the group. Mahmoud Abbas. This included giving the the history of trying to expose the truth about “sacrifices for peace.” “I can look every one of you in the eye,” he Palestinians the entirety of Judea and Samaria, the real intentions of the Palestinian Author- I have always felt that the greatest litmus told his audience, “and I can assure you, we (the West Bank), with eastern Jerusalem, and ity. I have witnessed their duplicitous game of test of Palestinian intentions is what they went as far as any responsible Israeli govern- placing the old city with the Western Wall talking peace in English and in Arabic, inciting teach their children and have seen that their ment could possibly go. In fact,” he continued, under international control. their children to hatred and violence. textbooks incite towards violence, demonize “what we offered was so breathtaking that Again, the Palestinian leader walked away I have seen the Palestinians “play” the Jews and teach them maps with all of Israel, many would argue that we weren’t acting from the table. Each time, the response to international community to engender world calling it “Palestine.” like a responsible government. The terms these exceedingly generous offers was met by were simply incredible for Arafat,” mused Eli, a renewed round of violence, resulting in more almost as though he was still trying to digest than 1,000 Israeli fatalities. Everywhere the news of the day’s events, trying to make The Palestinians have never once accepted some sort of sense of it. the right of the Jewish people to have a sov- “What we offered was shared sovereignty of ereign state. They have never once abided by Jerusalem, with the Palestinians maintaining the basic premise that the Oslo Accords were Two nights in Aqaba - Part I control of the Temple Mount, or the Haram el conditioned upon the total abdication of vio- Sharrif. We would give back 95 percent of the lence and incitement to terrorism West Bank, and all of Gaza, and offer a land Yet the same, tired, old, stale thinking was swap within the Negev for the five per cent that recycled. The international community, as would not be returned. We would dismantle all well as the United States, under every other By Mel Pearlman hour. He explained that he needed to fill his van of the Jordan Valley settlements, which have president would come back with a more and with fares as that would be his only revenue always been our eyes and ears to the East. And more generous offer for the Palestinians. A few years back when my son was working for the day. Joined by a number of other arriv- finally: We were offering a ‘right of return’ for Each time, Israel was denied the chance to toward his MBA at Tel Aviv University, he and ing attendees for the conference, we quickly thousands of Palestinian refugees from the have defensible borders—something that is I decided to do a father/son trip around Israel agreed to his request. Many taxi and shuttle 1948 war, and a compensatory package for absolutely essential, particularly in the volatile over a break in his studies. It was about this drivers had been laid off and the few lucky ones those who could not be absorbed. Middle East. time of the year when the temperature was still working were pooling their services on “Many of our delegation are right now, in But this plan is different. It gives Israel, for mild and Israel was relatively past its major staggered days. The suspension of air service their limousines, on the way to the airport, winter storms. to Israel by every major world airline created crying. We felt that if we just made Chairman Reality on page 15A Having survived the flight, I was met by a feeling of depression and isolation that was my son carrying a hand made cardboard sign palatable in the air. with my English name emblazoned in Hebrew However, this current trip to be with my letters. I speak, read and write a little Hebrew, son was definitely not depressing. When I Trump’s peace plan won’t work— but for me the hardest Hebrew words to read arrived at Ben Gurion Airport, the terminal are those that phonetically spell out English was joyfully bustling with activity and filled words and proper names. with passengers arriving from around the but it could strengthen relations It was great to be back in Israel after a 16 world. Hundreds of family members, local tour year hiatus and 10 hours on an EL AL air- guides and greeters were there to welcome By Einat Wilf above domestic Arab interests. Voices that in plane. Much to my chagrin, EL AL was still them. In the 16 years since my last visit, Israel the past would have never been heard in the packing its passengers into tight seats as had expanded the terminal and other airport TEL AVIV (JTA)—President Donald Trump’s Arab world now appear on local Arab televi- had been the case on previous flights dating facilities into a world class airport. Middle East peace plan will probably not sion and social media, questioning why their back many years. Their interior designers I still had to wait for arranging transporta- achieve its stated goal of bringing peace be- countries continue to hitch their wagons to must have gotten their training at Norwegian tion to my final destination, but this time it tween Israel and the Palestinians, but it might the Palestinians, who are prone to rejecting sardine canneries. was because 10 people were in line ahead of just bring about peace between Israel and more compromise. In some cases, these voices even Although I had been coming to Israel since me at the Enterprise car rental kiosk. of its Arab neighbors. Here’s why. express open support for Israel. 1963, my most previous trip to the Jewish State As we drove out of the airport I was amazed Over the past several years, Israel has be- In the past, Palestinians could generally had been in December 2001, a few months at the newly built highways and infrastructure come an appealing partner to Arab states for count on the Arab countries—not just to after 9/11. At that time Israel was isolated from and the fantastic skyline as we approached two main reasons. openly fight wars for their cause, as they did the world. Its only global air connection was Tel Aviv. I could not believe the expansion of Ever since the revolutions known as the in 1948 and 1967, but to stand firmly behind EL AL. Because of the terrorist attack on the residences and skyscrapers as we fought the Arab Spring toppled several regimes and them, accepting what the Palestinians accept World Trade Center, when four commercial traffic to Ramat Aviv where my son shared undermined and threatened the stability of and rejecting what the Palestinians reject. This airliners were simultaneously hijacked and a very modern apartment with two Israeli others, Israel’s stability in the region has is no longer the case. used as destructive missiles and the persistent roommates. become ever more apparent. So although the Palestinians were still able terrorist threat, all other major international “I felt I was visiting the Jewish State for the Moreover, as Arab countries in the Gulf to rally the Arab League—a group of Arab airlines had immediately suspended flights very first time and I could not wait to begin increasingly came to perceive Iran as a threat, countries, which is already a shadow of its to Israel and had yet to resume flights to and our father/son trip the next morning to Eilat Israel’s stability, military power and political former powerful self—to join in their rejection from the Jewish State. and the anticipated anxiety of crossing the will to limit Iran’s power became ever more of Trump’s plan, their isolation in the Arab I had arrived in Israel on that December land border into Jordan for our first night’s attractive to those states. world is growing more apparent. afternoon after a midnight EL AL flight from stay in Aqaba. So behind the scenes, Israel, Saudi Ara- This is the most important aspect, and Newark Airport. Both Orlando International If you wish to comment or respond you bia and the Gulf states grew closer, sharing the greatest news, to come out of the plan’s and Newark airports were heavily guarded by can reach me at melpearlman322@gmail. intelligence and cooperating on security to introduction. Not only does the plan reflect armed National Guard troops and bomb sniff- com. Please do so in a rational, thoughtful, confront Iran. Precarious ties with Jordan the political preferences of the vast majority ing dogs. Despite any danger, I felt compelled respectful and civil manner. and Egypt were further cemented by the joint of Israel’s Jews—with the Likud, Blue and to go to Israel to attend a conference of the Mel Pearlman holds B.S. & M.S. degrees in battle against ISIS and, more long-term, by White and Israel Beiteinu parties endorsing the International Association of Jewish Lawyers physics as well as a J.D. degree and initially the discovery and mining of substantial gas plan—but it has been cautiously welcomed by and Jurors in Jerusalem which had been sched- came to Florida in 1966 to work on the Gemini reserves on Israel’s Mediterranean coast. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Oman, the United Arab uled well before the Islamic terrorist attack and and Apollo space programs. He has practiced As all of this cooperation became more vis- Emirates and Qatar as at least a legitimate just as importantly, to demonstrate with my law in Central Florida since 1972. He has ible, these Arab countries had to find a way basis for negotiations. attendance that Israel was not alone, and that served as president of the Jewish Federation of to do so without appearing to abandon the It also makes vital regional cooperation terrorism will never defeat the Jewish people. Greater Orlando; was a charter board member, Palestinian cause altogether. more likely to continue and strengthen over It was a somber time in Israel. So few flights first vice president and pro-bono legal coun- It is easy to dismiss the concerns of non- time. were arriving in Israel during that post 9/11 sel of the Holocaust Memorial Resource and democratic regimes and argue that they can Israel, for its part, must endorse and adopt period, that the shuttle driver taking us to our Education Center of Central Florida, as well pursue their economic and security interests the plan in its entirety if it is to serve as a Jerusalem Hotel asked us to wait for another as holding many other community leadership with utter disregard for how the public views framework that enables the Gulf countries EL AL flight arriving from Europe in the next positions. them. But this opinion betrays a misunder- to pursue ever closer cooperation with Israel. standing of the extent to which even non- It is crucial that even if Israel ultimately an- THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. democratic regimes have to navigate public nexes the territory designated for Israel in opinion to ensure their continued survival. In the plan, it does so while making it clear that ✡ ✡ ✡ CENTRAL FLORIDA’S INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICE ✡ ✡ ✡ fact, for many decades, the positive sentiment the remaining territory, assigned in the plan ISSN 0199-0721 Winner of 48 Press Awards Editor/Publisher in the Arab world towards the Palestinians and to a Palestinian state, would not be annexed Jeffrey Gaeser the negative one towards Israel was actually and will be kept for a future Palestinian state.
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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 14, 2020 PAGE 5A Waking up the children... and us! By Marilyn Shapiro my friends’ urging, I didn’t those organized to support the National Rifle Associa- show. Bristling at Ingraham’s largest protests in American vote for the Equal Rights immigrants and decry gun tion and the many politicians platitudinous, (“Our emotions history. I do believe we woke up Amendment. I laughed it off violence. who not only accepted their are with you,”) anger spilled While MFOL was organiz- the children. You think the with a popular excuse at the That is why I am so in awe money but also bowed to their out. “I don’t want this to be ing against gun violence in Flower Children of the 1960s time: I like men holding doors of the recent rise of our youth, demands? another mass shooting... the United States, a 15-year- were revolutionary? Just wait! open for me. And I decided specifically the March For Our The answer was a resound- something that people for- girl in Sweden was watching Full confession. Outside that Nixon was guilty later Lives organizers and Time ing yes. The leaders of the get.” And in what would be and wondering if she could of wearing bell-bottom pants than most of my friends, not Magazine’s Person of the Year grassroots movement were the first call to action, Hogg possibly do the same to save and trying marijuana once, believing that the president of Greta Thunberg. not adults, but MSD students stated the need “to go to your the planet. Thunberg was 11 I was not a flower child. My our country could be involved Parkland, Florida, the who survived the shoot- congressmen.” years old when her primary- first vote for a president was in such a cover-up. sight of the Margaret Stone- ing that killed 18 people, On March 24, 2018, less school teacher showed a video in 1968, and I voted for Nixon. I still am not an orga- man Douglas High School including the friends of the than seven weeks after the on the effects of a warming When fellow friends and pro- nizer or a marcher. I attended shootings, is less than 200 organizers. Their reaction shooting, March for Our Lives, world. That event, initially fessors marched against the Women’s March in Orlando, miles from us. Like the rest was immediate. David Hogg, a student-led demonstration causing her an “endless sad- Vietnam War after Kent State, armed with great signs and of the country, I followed a senior and the news director in support of legislation to ness,” inspired her to start a I joined in. But during that more passion. When one of the news with fear and for the school’s news station, prevent gun violence in the one-girl campaign to pressure entire day, I was more scared the speakers began lambast- anger. Would this be an- channeled his fury while in United States took place in the Swedish government to than passionate. Looking ing the Israeli occupation of other instance where victims lockdown by taking notes and Washington, D.C., with over meet the goals of the Paris back, I wish I had done more. Palestine, however, I vowed and survivors were offered interviewing fellow students 880 sibling events throughout Agreement. Been more. But it was not who never to go to another event “thoughts and prayers” but huddled around him. Less the United States and the On Aug. 20, 2018, Thunberg I was at the time. held by that group. I have no change in the lax gun laws than 10 hours later, he handed world. Turn out was estimated settled in a spot across the I wasn’t much of an activist passed up other opportunities that precipitated this event? his footage to Laura Ingraham to be between 1.2 and 2 mil- in the following years. Despite for public protests, including Would anyone stand up to on her prime-time Fox news lion, making it one of the Shapiro on page 15A Arabs are in an uproar (over the prospect of living in Palestine)
By Melanie Phillips Leave aside the uproar tion by Israel’s Arabs. Not the Palestinian leaders and And surely, they would all is that it would extinguish among Jewish residents of reaction by the Palestinian their Western supporters choose to become citizens the freedoms they enjoy as (JNS)—Leave aside, for the Judea and Samaria, along Authority, which was merely are shrieking that the plan of Palestine—the outcome Israeli citizens. moment, the deepening rows with certain southern areas the latest of their many rejec- would strip the Israeli Arabs we’ve been told is the absolute “The Arab Israelis’ pro- about U.S. President Donald of Israel, who are appalled by tions of a state of their own in the Jordan Valley and the precondition for ending the tests,” he writes, “are seen Trump’s “vision” for ending the prospect of a proposed alongside Israel. “Triangle” area of their Is- Arab-Israel conflict? as a message to the world the Middle East conflict. Palestinian state (it won’t Look at the Arabs them- raeli citizenship, and transfer Well, guess what. Given that they prefer to continue Leave aside the question happen because it’s condi- selves for whom that state them into Palestine by the this choice—as the evidence living in Israel and not under whether the plan’s lead au- tional upon the Palestinians is intended. What is their simple expedient of draw- has consistently indicated— another Arab dictatorship.” thor, Jared Kushner, and the ending their war to extermi- reaction to the offer of more ing its border around their many, if not most, would They hear daily about the U.S. ambassador to Israel, nate Israel, which they won’t than 80 percent of the land for villages. voluntarily choose to remain oppression of Gaza’s Arabs David Friedman, backtracked ever abandon). such a state? They’re furious. This is untrue. The Trump citizens of Israel. Who could at the hands of Hamas. And on an “immediate” Israeli Leave aside the way Israel’s This isn’t because it’s not plan states that they will possibly be surprised? recently, several students, declaration of sovereignty beleaguered Prime Minister 100 percent of the land. be able to choose between As the authoritative Israeli mostly at An-Najah Univer- over the Jordan Valley and Benjamin Netanyahu may They’re furious at the idea remaining citizens of Israel Arab journalist Khaled Abu sity in Nablus, were arrested the “Triangle” of disputed ter- be using the Trump proposal that they might find them- and becoming citizens of Toameh has written for the by the P.A. security forces and ritory (they didn’t; the need for electoral purposes (so he’s selves living in such a state. Palestine. So they wouldn’t be Gatestone Institute, the main brutally tortured. to first map out and agree on behaving like a politician; So furious that they dem- “stripped” of their citizenship reason these “Triangle” Arabs Arab students living in the the details was stated from big deal). onstrated in the thousands at all. Changing it would be strongly oppose becoming the start). Look instead at the reac- against the prospect. their choice. citizens of a Palestine state Uproar on page 15A I’ve been an Israeli settler for 30 years—Trump’s peace plan puts our communities in danger By David Ha’ivri the highly Arab-populated thought that the plan lists Netanyahu’s endorsement of have declared that Israelis slow death to some 60 Israeli mountain ridge from Jenin only 15 small towns to be the deal traps Israel into the should not be allowed to live towns in the heart of Judea KFAR TAPUACH, West to the hills of Hebron would isolated and cut off from very worst of terms that will in these areas, denying the and Samaria. Bank (JTA)—Put simply, be given to the Arabs and the Israel. A closer look at the forever be the starting point indigenous rights of the Jew- My great concern is that President Donald Trump’s Jordan Valley would remain Trump map reveals that an- for any future arrangements ish people to our historical after this plan has been “deal of the century” is bad under Israel’s control. Parts other 40 larger Israeli towns, or negotiations. homeland. embraced by leaders like news for Israel. of the lower lying areas on including my own, share a It should be no surprise, I can understand the feel- Netanyahu and Trump, only In a historic event last the western side, which are very similar fate. They will then, that Jared Kushner ings of relief on the part of a miraculous messianic event week, Trump revealed his less populated by Arabs and find themselves like isolated proudly told Egyptian TV that my brothers and sisters who could reverse the process of vision for solving the Israeli- closer to the Israeli population outposts connected to the the Trump administration is have felt for years that they losing these precious com- Palestinian conflict, which centers along the Mediter- rest of Israel by very narrow the only U.S. administration were treated like criminals for munities my people have lived he says has been one of the ranean, would also become corridors, surrounded by that has succeeded in convinc- their passion to return and and died to establish. I am most difficult and complex part of Israel. Palestinian-controlled space. ing the Israelis to concede rebuild our ancestral lands, having a hard time imagin- problems to solve. He claims President Trump says that Towns like Kiryat Arba and land to the Palestinians. years of being told that they ing—and think it unwise to that his plan offers “the most in his plan, no Israelis or Hebron that are now about Some still argue that Presi- were to blame for the lack of depend upon—the likes of detailed proposal ever put Palestinians will be forced to a one hour drive south of dent Trump’s announcement peace in the Middle East— Mahmoud Abbas riding in on forward by far,” and that it’s leave their homes. However, Jerusalem will, in the vision was a historic recognition of and even in the entire world. a white donkey waving the flag a “‘win-win’ opportunity for it also lists 15 Israeli towns of “the deal of the century,” the connection of the Jewish By contrast, it is refreshing of refusal, thereby saving the both sides.” that would become isolated only be accessible via a narrow people to Judea and Samaria to hear the president of the day for the Jews. As a Jewish Israeli who enclaves deep within the pro- artery north of Be’er Sheva, and a sign that he accepts Is- United States recognize the The views and opinions has lived in the heart of the posed Palestinian state. These which will likely take about raeli towns here as legitimate, ancient connection of the expressed in this article are Shomron area of the West towns would be under siege two and a half hours to reach rather than “illegal” settle- Jews to this land. those of the author and do not Bank for the past 30 years, by the Palestinian Authority from Jerusalem. ments or obstacles to peace. But we cannot ignore the necessarily reflect the views of as a local activist and com- and would almost certainly It is sad and frustrating to This recognition follows maps and detailed plans be- JTA or its parent company, 70 munity leader, I am sad to say be placed under a building hear voices of joy from friends decades in which countries, hind the words that, in effect, Faces Media or The Heritage that the above statements are freeze. In effect, towns that of Israel who misread this deal including the United States, decree a building freeze and a Florida Jewish News. questionable from almost any are not allowed to grow will as some kind of gift to Israel. conceivable angle. slowly dry up. Many of them who are aware of For Israelis who have sup- Their residents won’t be the horrible details of the plan ported and built Israeli towns forced to leave by law, but write off their concerns, trust- or settlements here, this plan when forced to live in detached ing that the Palestinians will is dreadful and the results may islands within a hostile Pal- never agree to the terms. So, be disastrous. In many ways estinian Authority, chances they say, there is nothing to it puts us back 30 years. This are that many would leave on worry about. The Palestinians cannot be accepted. their own. never miss an opportunity to Although claimed to be Today, Israelis are not even miss an opportunity. original and full of creativ- allowed to drive through the Well, what if they don’t pass ity, similar plans have been Palestinian Area controlled up this opportunity? Then we proposed by the left since Area A, because doing so is are in a real fix, aren’t we? Israel regained possession of life threatening. Placing a If the art of the deal is call- the West Bank in 1967. Maps small Israeli town deep in a ing the other side’s bluff, so envisioned by Israeli Labor Palestinian domain is simply far, Trump has succeeded in party leaders from Yigal Allon a death warrant for both the calling both sides’ bluffs. The through Yitzhak Rabin were individuals living in these Palestinians, true to their tra- almost identical to the one communities and for the com- ditional behaviors, are reject- presented by Trump’s team munities themselves. ing the proposal in spite of it last week. Some mistakenly take being the best deal they could These plans suggested that some consolation in the ever get. On the other hand, PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 14, 2020 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17 A COMPREHENSIVE Israeli Folk Dancing—7:30-8:15 p.m. instruction, 8:15-10 p.m., requests. Cost: Free for JCC What’s members, $7 nonmembers. Info: 407-645-5933. 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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 14, 2020 PAGE 7A Amid a spate of Palestinian attacks, Israel’s security forces seek to prevent an explosion of violence This effort, to isolate the inci- the widespread anger at what during the sensitive Islamic dents, is aimed at preventing Palestinians see as Israel’s in- Friday prayers. the wider Palestinian public tention to annex territory. The Meanwhile, in Gaza, a vis- from getting pulled into the political arguments over the ible guiding hand is at work violence. so-called “deal of the century” escalating the situation. Over- Roughly 150,000 Pales- cannot ignore the fact that night between Wednesday tinians work in the State of Washington’s proposals were and Thursday, terrorists fired Israel and in Israeli settle- always going to be viewed as three mortars into southern ments, with each one sup- a pro-Israeli plan in Palestin- Israeli territory, triggering porting entire families and ian eyes. alerts, but failing to cause households. This contributes A few ‘matches’ can casualties. Hamas has sig- greatly to economic stabil- spark a fire naled to smaller Gazan armed ity and a higher standard of Still, it’s far from in- factions that they are free to life. In general, the IDF has evitable that this anger must fire such projectiles. Hamas been working hard in recent somehow result in a third operatives have also been years to boost the Palestinian intifada. The very fact that directly behind the ongoing economy, supporting the cre- the Palestinians of the West launching of explosive bal- ation of industrial zones and Bank have much to lose and loons in the direction of Israeli removing as many impedi- have little interest in pay- villages and towns in recent IDF commanders and soldiers from the pursuit of the assailant who committed the ments as possible for travel. ing personal costs, like the days—all part of an effort to shooting attack at “HaParsa” Junction. Feb. 6, 2020. The relatively good economic people of Gaza do for Hamas’s extort the Israeli government situation of many West Bank wars against Israel, improves into further concessions in By Yaakov Lappin apprehended the Palestinian Two Palestinians were Palestinians has been a key Israel’s chances of being able ceasefire negotiations. car-ramming attacker who killed during the clashes, stabilizing force. to contain the latest flare-up. The Israeli Air Force struck (JNS)—The quick succes- injured 12 Golani Brigade one of them a member of the Maintaining this situation So far, there appears to two Hamas military assets in sion of Palestinian attacks infantry soldiers in Jerusalem, Palestinian Authority security and preventing deterioration be no visible guiding hand Gaza in retaliation, and IDF on Israeli security forces in one of them seriously. The in- forces. That will put a further require a delicate balancing behind this escalation. Inci- officials are warning that the past 24 hours appears to jured include one lone soldier strain on the ability of the act. It entails responding dents such as the significant Israel will not tolerate such be a chain reaction of unor- from the United States. IDF and the P.A. to maintain firmly to terrorism while riot in Hebron that broke attacks. Since March 2018, ganized incidents, each one Meanwhile, tensions in the security coordination—a avoiding wider disruption out Wednesday, which saw Hamas’s game plan has been forming the “inspiration” for West Bank city of Jenin remain coordination that has served to the Palestinian economy one Palestinian youth who to engage in controlled esca- the next attacker and each extremely high a day after the security interests of both and fabric of life; this is the hurled a firebomb killed in lations in Gaza to pressure attack forming a link in the Israeli security forces entered sides well for years against IDF’s strategy going forward. clashes with the IDF, appear the Israeli government to terrorist chain. the city to demolish the home the common enemy: Hamas. This balance is reflected to be spontaneous, although lift security restrictions on The goal of Israel’s security of a terrorist who took part in After a situation assess- in comments made by IDF social media is helping to fan Gaza. Hamas has been able to forces now is to cut that chain a deadly attack in 2018. ment, the IDF’s senior com- Spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan the flames. calculate with a high degree and freeze the momentum of The IDF units ran into a mand decided to inject backup Conricus on Thursday, who The incidents underline of accuracy has far it can go incidents before they snowball major Palestinian riot in the forces into the West Bank to said that the military “does the highly flammable nature without sparking a war. Yet if into a wider wave of violence city, with attackers hurling increase the army’s ability not seek escalation, but it will of the arena and demonstrate warnings coming out of Israel that will be far more difficult IEDs and firebombs, and gun- to immediately respond to maintain security and seek to how easily a few “matches” are an indication, it’s very to control. men launching sniper attack incidents and deter potential apprehend perpetrators.” can spark a fire. The IDF’s close to the red line. In a joint operation launched on soldiers, who returned fire. attackers. However, this mission will effectiveness as “firefighters” As a result, both Palestinian by the Israel Defense Forces Such scenes have not been At the same time, the army be made more difficult by the who arrive to put out the arenas are tense going into and the Shin Bet domestic seen in Jenin for a long time is also seeking to minimize seething Palestinian anger at flames and stop them from the weekend, but neither has intelligence agency, security and may signal a new level of disruption to the fabric of the Trump administration’s spreading will be put the test so far gone past the point of forces on Thursday evening escalation. life of ordinary Palestinians. new Mideast peace plan, and in the coming days, including no return. PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 14, 2020 Chabad on Campus emissaries train at Yad Vashem to be Holocaust educators
The newly certified Holocaust educators spent a week training at Israel’s official memorial Through the partnership between Yad Vashem and Chabad on Campus, said Rabbi Moshe to the victims of the Holocaust, representing the first time that Yad Vashem has gathered Cohn, head of the Jewish World section at Yad Vashem, “thousands and thousands of young a group of campus leaders for an intensive training, February 2020. people will be exposed to Holocaust education with accurate history and proper pedagogy.”
By Eliana Rudee University of Melbourne in he said provides a new way understanding of “how pre- According to Rabbi Yossy Hecht reflected on a Australia; the Lauder Busi- to make sense and connect cious our heritage is.” Gordon, executive vice presi- particularly meaningful (JNS)—Some 30 campus ness School in Vienna; and to tragedy. Dalia Kulek, co-director at dent of Chabad on Campus moment during the week; Chabad-Lubavitch emissar- York University in the United For students who find it the University of Hartford- International, the impor- after she heard from a Ho- ies concluded an eight-day Kingdom. difficult to connect to the Rohr Chabad House in Con- tance of such a partnership locaust survivor who was training program at Yad The newly certified Holo- Holocaust and its lessons, necticut with her husband, lies in today’s distancing of her son’s age during the Vashem in Jerusalem, learn- caust educators spent last he said “it is important, now Rabbi Yosef Kulek, told JNS young people from the Holo- years of World War II, she ing cutting-edge, relevant week training at Israel’s more than ever, to have the that the entire week was an caust, and at the same time, video-chatted with one of and effective tools that will official memorial to the right narrative.” “aha moment.” the growing acceptance of her sons, who had just re- allow them to teach about victims of the Holocaust (Yad “There is an unspoken As a non-Ashkenazi Jew anti-Semitism in the world. ceived his first chumash (a the Holocaust and the grow- Vashem), representing the myth that young Jews are (her father is from Kurd- “If we do nothing, the distant printed Torah) in a school- ing problem of Holocaust first time that Yad Vashem interested in the Holocaust,” istan and her mother is memory of the Holocaust wide ceremony. denial. Equally important has gathered a group of cam- he told JNS, noting that on from Mexico), she said she will fade further and so will “I was overwhelmed by was guidance on how to pus leaders for an intensive his Canadian campus, it was didn’t learn much about the opportunity for young the juxtaposition. Here I was grapple with and counter training. like “pulling teeth” to get the Holocaust growing up. people to embrace their with a child survivor who increasing instances of Rabbi Yisroel Bernath, students to attend a sur- As the number of survivors Yiddishkeit, which would was forced to pretend to be anti-Semitism on college who co-directs the Chabad vivors’ testimony, perhaps diminishes, she told JNS that be a terrible crime,” Gordon Christian in order to sur- campuses. The emissaries center at Concordia Univer- because his campus “prides “we need people to tell their told JNS. vive—and very few children hailed from campuses in sity in Montreal with his wife, itself on being an activist story and do something to With recourses and teach- his age survived,” she said. North America, Austra- Sara, called the experience university where BDS is draw them in.” ing materials that preserve “The Nazis tried to extermi- lia and Austria, including “eye-opening and transfor- passed as much as the Jew- “I am already planning the memory of those mur- nate the Jewish people with Dartmouth College in New mative,” and found meaning ish quarter of Jerusalem is classes,” she said. dered with “integrity, re- a 90 percent success rate in Hampshire; Princeton Uni- in “finding the humanity” Jewish.” Through the partnership spect and understanding,” many countries, but as I saw versity in Jew Jersey; the within the Holocaust, which Sara Bernath left with the between Yad Vashem and the partnership with Yad my child and 30 others in his Chabad on Campus, said Vashem, said Gordon, was school with strong Jewish Rabbi Moshe Cohn, head of “the way to go.” identities, I understood that the Jewish World section at Esti Hecht, co-director ultimately, the Nazis failed.” Yad Vashem, “thousands and of Chabad at American Uni- “I am going home with thousands of young people versity in Washington, D.C., a greater appreciation of will be exposed to Holocaust with her husband, Rabbi what we have Jewishly,” she education with accurate his- Yehoshua Hecht, said that continued. “The Nazis took tory and proper pedagogy.” while “Holocaust education away the gift of marking The “net gain for the Jew- is equally important now as time, celebrating birthdays, Custom Printing Invitations & Announcements ish people” will “connect it was before, fewer people holidays and praying, which Digital & Offset Printing Brochures & Booklets young people to their history are in a position to educate, takes away the ability to take Direct Mail Services Forms & Letterheads and increase involvement so educating the educators is stock of who you are. 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family and the coronavirus Orlando Weekday Morning Minyan (Conservative/Egalitarian), services Monday- By Cnaan Liphshiz Friday 7:45 a.m. (9 a.m.—national holidays); 2nd floor Chapel—Jewish Academy of Orlando; 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. For information call 407-298-4650. (JTA)—Like many parents Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. when their small children JewishCelebration.org; 407-479-8377. are a bit under the weather, Ofer Dekel measures his boy’s Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, temperature frequently. 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. But in Dekel’s case, his Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- concern for his son Liam is 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. exacerbated by living at the epicenter of the coronavirus Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. epidemic: Wuhan, China. jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Dekel, a 56-year-old busi- Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. nessman originally from Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Two policemen guard a hotel housing quarantined people Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, Haifa, Israel, has lived in in Wuhan, China, Feb. 3, 2020. 321-777-2770. Wuhan for many years with his Chinese wife, Nana, who is nothing more serious than “Nana cleaned the closets Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- the mother of his two young- a common flu. and found a surgeons mask 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat est children, both of whom are As of Friday, Chinese gov- and goggles that she forgot services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. under 10. ernment figures showed the she’d even bought, at the time Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. Authorities have placed virus had killed at least 636 to protect her face while cook- the city under lockdown to people and infected at least ing,” he wrote. “Thanks to that betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. stop the virus’ spread. Any- 31,161, and many believe mask, Nana can go outside Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. one whose temperature rises those official statistics are far and stock up on food. We’re congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. higher than 99.32 degrees from complete, The New York not hungry here but food is Fahrenheit is sent to large Times reported. The fatality running out and we need Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; quarantine centers. rate for Hubei province, where to buy. There are no home Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. On Friday morning, Liam’s Wuhan is located, as a whole deliveries. Nana will be able Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; temperature rose to close to was 2.8 percent as of Thursday. to come out protected and Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. 99 degrees. The scare has prompted bring back food.” “I will do whatever I can several major airlines, includ- Tensions are beginning to Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, so that we spend this Shab- ing KLM and Air France, to form around Dekel’s vegetari- Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. bat together at home,” Dekel suspend flights to all of China, anism, which is a challenge Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. wrote on Facebook. affecting trade. The virus has because it means he can’t eat bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. Dekel has been writing spread to other countries in canned meat. on the social media site in Asia and beyond. In one passage about this, Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation Hebrew several times a day People with a fever in Wu- Dekel wrote: holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. about the situation, giving han are now moved to an ob- “‘You’re causing food prob- com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. an intimate view, complete servation center, where health lems,’ Nana says tiredly before Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; with videos and photographs, ministry personnel determine we turn in. ‘All the yummy www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. of how his Chinese-Israeli who has the virus and who has food is for you because you family is coping. He worries an unrelated fever and can be don’t eat meat. Vegetables are Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., about Liam’s temperature, discharged. as rare as diamonds now, and Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. isolation, caring for his lonely “The problem is that in you get to have 80 percent of Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; neighbors and friends and se- the observation facility, one the diamonds.’” www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th curing supplies with minimal is surrounded by hundreds Last week, residents orga- interaction with the infected of sick people, some of them nized a solidarity action in Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. outside world. are bound to be infected with which millions of people stood Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. “We just heard the decision the virus,” Dekel wrote. “I near their shut glass windows Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- was changed: There won’t can’t imagine seeing my boy in the evening, and chanted: be house inspections to not transferred to such a facility.” “Wuhan jia yu,” which trans- 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. risk transmitting the virus. Dekel’s family has been lates to “Go, Wuhan, go,” Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- We’re required to report required to stay indoors for Dekel wrote. 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. the past 16 days, and have had The gesture, which thun- daily if anyone’s temperature Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for raises beyond 37.4 °C [99.32 only a few brief opportunities dered through the city’s °F]. That pressure’s off,” he to go outside to stock up on deserted streets and into its services and holiday schedules. wrote Friday. His followers food. On Thursday, Dekel residents’ homes, moved him Congregation Sinai (C/R), 1200 West Broad Street, Groveland; 352-243-5353; congre- responded with hundreds of wrote humorously about the to tears, he wrote. gation-sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. tips on how to keep the boy’s “miracles” that his family is On Jan. 24, Dekel and Liam Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- temperature down. blessed with while inside. One flew an Israeli flag outside Earlier this week, Dekel was the “Bamba miracle”— their window after hearing Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv wrote about running a high the discovery of a forgotten that Israel is not aware of any Please call for times. fever himself and his worry bag of the popular Israeli Israelis living in Wuhan. Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- that he had contracted the peanut-flavored corn snack. “I want people to know we Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. virus. The fever eventu- Another was what Dekel are here and that Israel is also ally broke, appearing to be called “the mask miracle.” a part of this,” Dekel wrote. Temple Beth El (R) / Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-675- 6615 / 386-252-3097; Friday Shabbat Service 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat OBITUARY service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. LESLIE HALPERN Federation of State Poetry mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; Societies and the Editor’s Thursday, 10:00 a.m. Leslie Halpern died sud- Award for Poetry from the denly on Dec. 19, 2019. A Gwendolyn Brooks Writer’s Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: graduate of the University Association of Florida, but Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. of Kentucky and the Rollins her greatest award was her Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. College Masters of Liberal son, Alexander, of whom Studies program, she was an she was extremely proud. Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; author, journalist, teacher, Ms. Halpern was a member Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. and poet. She wrote for The of Florida Writers Associa- Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. Hollywood Reporter, Daily tion and served as president Variety, Orlando Sentinel, of Orlando Area Poets and Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. served on the staff of the Heri- secretary of Florida State templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by tage Florida Jewish News and Poets Association. Torah study. more. Her books include “Reel “Leslie Halpern was one Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road Romance: The Lovers’ Guide of us,” said Al Rocheleau, 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 to the 100 Best Date Movies” president of Florida State p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. and “Dreams on Film: The Poets Association. “She was Cinematic Struggle Between first well-known as a prose “Leslie was deeply thought- Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. Art and Science.” In addition writer in Florida, a writer of ful, poignant at times, funny, shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. she wrote a “Silly Childrens’ stories, memoirs, travelogues, yet always a person of order Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, Poem” series. Her latest book, reviews of the arts, especially and decorum,” Rocheleau “Poodles & Doodles, Poems of film, and also of works for said. “Leslie Halpern was 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, about Dogs” told of her travails children. All these genres in competent at anything she 7:30 p.m. raising her newly adopted which she was expert some- did,” he continued: “I can say Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. puppy, Snickerdoodle. how left enough threads of that Leslie loved her son, and tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. Ms. Halpern won nu- gold rime for ventures into was hopeful for his future, as merous awards for her the ‘undiscovered country’ well as for her own. I think (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa writing from the National of poetry,” he said. she was hopeful for all of us.” PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 14, 2020 The National Archives got Ford to sponsor an Auschwitz exhibit—Henry Ford’s role in the Nazi machine was not mentioned The exhibit’s omission into the ties between Ford 1944 determined that the comes shortly after the in Dearborn, Michigan, and Ford plant in Cologne had venerable institution came its subsidiaries in Nazi- been “considerably enlarged” under fire for altering a photo occupied Europe concluded, to manufacture military of the 2017 Women’s March “the increased activity of the vehicles. The Nazis compen- to obscure language that French Ford subsidiaries on sated Ford’s German opera- attacked President Donald behalf of the Germans re- tion when Allied bombers hit Trump and words that refer ceived the commendation of its plants. to women’s anatomy. The the Ford Family in America.” In 1965, The Nation re- Archives apologized and Ford’s German subsid- ported, Ford asked the U.S. pulled that exhibit. iary used slave labor while Foreign Claims Settlement The National Archives did Dearborn was still a ma- Commission for further not return at least six JTA jority owner. In a lengthy compensation for the de- requests for comment on the examination of Ford’s role struction of plants run by Ford exhibit. The Ford Fund in upholding the Third Reich its Nazi-loyal subsidiary. It referred questions on the in The Nation published in received $1.1 million. exhibit to the Archives but 2000, Ford said its executives The exhibit at the National issued a statement of its own. at the time were unaware of Archives occupied a small “Ford Motor Company the use of slave labor. hall adjacent to the rotunda National Archives photo by Susana Raab condemns anti-Semitism What was clear however containing the Charters An exhibit at the National Archives marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Aus- and every form of discrimi- was that German Ford lion- of Freedom, which include chwitz, in a photo taken Feb. 5, 2020. nation,” the statement said. ized Adolph Hitler in its in- the Constitution, the Bill of “Ford Motor Company Fund, house publications, of which Rights and the Declaration By Ron Kampeas of 1942—three years into U.S. Treasury official who the company’s philanthropic the executives in Dearborn of Independence. the war, nine years after negotiated the fund. arm, has supported the Na- would have been aware. One It had two sides: The side WASHINGTON (JTA)— Nazis rose to power, and “It is a good thing [Ford tional Archives Foundation 1940 issue featured a poem, facing out featured a photo The three-week exhibition five months after the United is] contributing” to the and other historical groups titled “Fuhrer,” elegized, of liberated inmates at Aus- at the National Archives States entered the war—by exhibit, the former official, for many years to foster “Like currents in a torrent chwitz and a handwritten showcased documents, video which time it had built a Stuart Eizenstat, told the awareness and understand- lost, We all flow into you.” letter home from a U.S. and a marquee sponsor, an- third of the German army’s Jewish Telegraphic Agency ing of our past. We remain In 1939, Ford Germany Army medic describing the nounced in large font on trucks. The subsidiary used in an email. “But it should committed to the advance- contributed 35,000 marks horrors he witnessed. On the banner at the National slave labor. make full disclosure about ment of understanding and to a 50th birthday gift for the other side was a small Archives: “This exhibit is Reckoning with its role their wartime role, not just goodwill among all races, Hitler. bench tucked against a cove, paid for in part by the Na- in the Holocaust, Ford in Henry Ford’s well-known religions and cultures.” Company founder Henry facing a screen tucked into tional Archives Foundation 2001 added $2 million to anti-Semitism.” Documents—some of Ford, moreover, was a noto- a wooden column running through the general support a $5 billion fund meant to One of the labels on the them in possession of the rious and influential anti- silent archival video of the of the Ford Motor Company compensate victims of slave small exhibit in the Eastern National Archives—show Semite, using his newspaper, liberation. Fund.” labor. It also set aside $4 mil- Rotunda in the National that Ford Motor Company The Dearborn Independent, On the outside of the col- What the small exhibit lion for research on human Archives building, a short encouraged French Ford to spread calumnies drawn umn, two signs positioned on marking the 75th anni- rights and slave labor. walk from the National Mall, to collaborate with Nazis from “The Protocols of the either side warned visitors, versary of the liberation of The National Archives explained its purpose. after the Nazi occupation of Elders of Zion” from 1920 “The film contains content Auschwitz lacked was any exhibit contains documents “This display of historic France. A 1943 U.S. Treasury to 1922. that some may find disturb- mention of Ford’s role in outlining some of that his- records and footage is pre- Department investigation U.S. intelligence in May ing.” building the Nazi machine. tory, but none was shown sented in memory of all American Ford retained in the exhibit, which closed Jewish victims of the Holo- majority control of its Ger- Wednesday. That omission caust and other victims of man subsidiary until May raised eyebrows of the former Nazism,” the label said. Redrawing maps while wearing a red string: 5 takeaways By Laura E. Adkins Kushner elaborated: Ivanka to write a speech for “If you look at the munici- his official announcement,” NEW YORK (JTA)—Jared pal boundary of Jerusalem, he told Turx. Kushner didn’t realize his it’s very different from the “So he never sat down and Presents father-in-law was serious way it was in 1967, and I be- told you he was running; about running for president lieve it’s possible to say that you just figured it out when until Donald Trump asked the part of Jerusalem Israel he asked your wife to write SAVVY SENIORS ISSUE his daughter Ivanka, Kush- will retain as an undivided that speech,” Turx said he ner’s wife, to help launch his city in the context of the responded. campaign. people to whom that state- “Yes. I believe we got to- March 6, 2020 That’s one revelation in ment is important. gether on a Sunday for lunch.” Kushner’s exclusive interview “It’s also possible that a He’s ready to talk tachlis— Central Florida's Fastest Growing with the Orthodox weekly Ami portion of what is technically after the Israeli elections Magazine about his role in the the municipal boundary of Kushner told Turx that Trump administration. We Jerusalem in East Jerusalem he’s ready to start working Segment of the Jewish Community took a look at the full interview can become the capital of a on a “technical map” of the (available only in print or on- Palestinian state. But becom- peace plan—in his words, line with a subscription) and ing the capital of a state isn’t “going line by line and street five things stood out. something that’s based on by street to decide where to Kushner didn’t know a religious claim, it’s just a put the borders”—as soon he’d be working on a claim they put in their charter as Israel has settled its third peace plan, either back when they formed their round of elections in less Apparently the president organization. When Jordan than a year. The vote is in asked Kushner to spearhead controlled the West Bank, its March. A new supplement for the new millennium, Savvy Seniors will provide the effort toward Israeli- capital was Amman, not East Later Kushner explained informative and thought provoking articles of interest to our growing Palestinian peace during the Jerusalem. When they relin- why the details matter so senior population. transition based on his real quished that claim and the much to him. estate experience. As Kushner Palestinians took over, they “When you disagree about Seniors need and use a variety of products and services. Make sure told Jake Turx, Ami’s senior created a new claim that they a concept, you have to figure your business is included on our reader's shopping list. White House correspondent: wanted to have their capital out the details and then figure “We talked a lot about our in East Jerusalem. The world out what’s the bid and what’s deals. Whenever I made a good signed on because people said, the ask—the unbridgeable deal he would say, ‘I would ‘Why not?’” factors,” he said. “If I can take have loved to have done that. He then clarifies: “It means a big conceptual gap and nar- How’d you do it?’ He would that the portion that would be row it down to a few technical always joke about how I got a in Israel’s control is an undi- details, it’s much easier to find lot of deals that other people vided capital of Jerusalem.” a compromise.” might not have. He just threw Ivanka might have writ- He’s still wearing a red me into it.” ten that famous escala- string Jerusalem, the (sort of) tor speech In kabbalah, or Jewish undivided capital Who can forget Trump’s mysticism, wearing a thin During the announcement grand escalator slide into the red string around the wrist Advertising Deadline: of his Middle East proposal, 2016 presidential race—and is said to ward off bad luck. Trump said that under his the colorful speech that fol- Kushner and Ivanka Trump, February 26, 2020 plan, Jerusalem will “remain lowed? not to mention celebrities like Israel’s undivided capital” but Kushner suggested that Madonna, have been spotted that a Palestinian capital will Ivanka Trump wrote it. wearing the talisman before. FOR MORE INFORMATION, be located in East Jerusalem, “We thought [Trump] was According to this interview, seemingly altering the his- pretty serious in the lead-up to Kushner is still maintaining torical position of the United the [2016] election, which we the practice—and his kids are CALL: 407-834-8787 States. knew for sure when he asked now, too. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 14, 2020 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs
Yad Vashem apologizes a Pee-wee podcast—and is in The Expressen report on New emoji is Israelis’ The Israel Defense Forces references, Jerry Seinfeld is for ‘unfortunate errors’ talks to develop an animated Friday afternoon’s incident way of saying ‘wait a has had to establish special coming out with another in films screened at series centering on Pee-wee in Nybro named neither the minute’ guidelines in dealing with the book about comedy. Auschwitz commemora- and the puppets from his old woman nor described the By Marcy Oster star, including forbidding fel- More than 25 years after tion TV show’s Puppetland. Most three male assailants, but it (JTA)—A symbol of low soldiers from taking self- he sold a million copies with By Cnaan Liphshiz intriguing of all, he’s been did say they were in their 20s. pinched fingers—ubiquitous ies with her or photographing “Seinlanguage,” the star of (JTA)—Yad Vashem apolo- pitching studios on “The After the woman fought among Israelis saying “wait a her on the base, Channel 12 the megahit “Seinfeld” and gized for what it said were in- Pee-wee Herman Story,” a off the attackers, one of them minute” or “have patience”— reported. “Comedians in Cars Getting accuracies in some Holocaust very un-Pee-wee-sounding tore off the pendant and has been included in the 2020 She later posted a photo of Coffee” will present the best films shown at a ceremony it screenplay that takes his “mocked her religion,” ac- list of approved emojis. herself on Instagram in her of his stand-up material from hosted last month. puckish TV persona into dark cording to the police descrip- But the nonprofit Unicode uniform. nearly a half-century honing The apology, sent Monday and unexpected territory tion of the incident based on Consortium, the organiza- Israeli lawmaker his craft. by email to several prominent (Pee-wee gets sent to a mental the woman’s complaint. The tion that approves new emo- donates kidney to a Simon & Schuster said the Holocaust scholars, noted “a hospital for shock treatment men fled and entered a parked jis, is calling the emoji show- stranger as-yet untitled book will be number of inaccuracies that for his alcoholism, no joke). car nearby. ing all fingers and thumb By Marcy Oster out in early October. resulted in a partial and un- The latter part of that could Police are treating the held together in a vertical JERUSALEM (JTA)—A “Whenever I came up balanced presentation of the be inspired by Reubens’ real incident as a hate crime, orientation the “Italian hand Knesset lawmaker is recov- with a funny bit, whether historical facts.” life darkness, which includes Expressen reported. gesture,” or “finger purse.” ering in the hospital after it happened on a stage, in a Specifically, the statement two arrests—in 1991 for pub- The number of anti-Se- Italians use the symbol to donating his kidney to a conversation, or working it noted the films did not men- lic indecency and in 2002 for mitic hate crimes recorded show disagreement. stranger. out on my preferred canvas, tion the 1939 division of Po- owning child pornography. in Sweden rose to a record Try telling that to Israelis. Yehiel (Hili) Tropper, 41, the big yellow legal pad, I kept land between Nazi Germany While he had some celeb high in 2018, jumping 53 They will only be able to think of the Blue and White coali- it in one of those old-school and the Soviet Union or the defenders—including Bill percent over the 2016 figures, of it as the symbol for “rak tion in a widely reported accordion folders,” Seinfeld, conquest of Western Europe Cosby—the arrest essentially government statistics show. rega,” or just a minute. announcement to his friends 65, said in a statement, The in 1940. “In addition, the ended his career. Reubens The Swedish National Meanwhile, the Arab world and supporters on Monday Associated Press reported. maps show incorrect bor- made occasional public ap- Council for Crime Prevention also claims the gesture, with said he had the surgery the “So, I have every piece of ders between Poland and its pearances, but became more listed 280 anti-Semitic hate the Twittersphere celebrating day before at Hadassah Ein stand-up comedy I thought neighbors and erroneously of a cult figure. crimes in 2018 compared to the new emoji by calling it the Kerem hospital. was worth saving from 45 identify concentration camps Reubens—whose father 182 in the previous surveyed “Arab mom’s favorite emoji.” “The surgery went well, years of hacking away at this as exterminations camps,” was one of the founding year, which was 2016. At least Israelis and Arabs and the kidney was trans- for all I was worth.” Dan Michman, the head of the members of the Israeli Air Sweden has about 20,000 can agree that they are happy planted successfully,” Trop- According to reports, the International Institute for Force—reprised the Pee-wee Jews. with the new character. per said. “For the next few book will show how Sein- Holocaust Research, wrote character in a 2016 Netflix Paris metro passengers The Unicode Consortium’s days, I will stay in the hospital feld’s comedy has evolved in the statement. film. stop Arab men from ha- main function is to develop and then I will go home for since he broke into the Hosted by Yad Vashem but “People have argued I have rassing Jewish man a universal character en- recovery. I will of course be comedy biz in the 1970s as organized by the World Holo- done everything consciously By Cnaan Liphshiz coding scheme, allowing available for any matter, only a college student. caust Forum, the Auschwitz or unconsciously to destroy (JTA)—Passengers aboard people around the world to a little further away for the “Seinlanguage,” from commemoration was held [the character], but it’s a a metro train in Paris stopped use digital devices in any upcoming period of time. I 1993, was among the top under a cloud of controversy brand that won’t die,” he told four Arab men from pursu- language. But it is more com- hope to get back to things sellers that year. Seinfeld also as Russia and Poland traded The Hollywood Reporter. ing a Jewish man they were monly known for selecting fully soon.” is the author of the children’s accusations over their re- Facebook’s Sheryl Sand- harassing over his faith, the the emoji icons used by the Tropper, a father of four, book “Halloween” from 2002. spective culpability in the berg is engaged nearly victim said. world’s smartphones based told Ynet that he will meet Tom Stoppard explores Holocaust in the run-up to 5 years after husband’s The incident late Saturday on submissions from indi- the donor next week. his Jewish heritage for the event. Polish President sudden death night unfolded as the train viduals and organizations The Jerusalem Post re- the first time in new Andrzej Duda eventually By Marcy Oster approached the Jaures sta- who present their case with ported that Tropper is the first play ‘Leopoldstadt’ declined to attend the event (JTA)—Sheryl Sandberg, tion in northeast Paris, the evidence for why each one is Knesset member to donate a By Gabe Friedman in Jerusalem because he said the chief operating officer of National Bureau for Vigilance essential. kidney in Israel. (JTA)—Tom Stoppard, he had been denied a marquee Facebook, is engaged nearly Against Anti-Semitism, or The organization last week The transplant was ar- the winner of multiple Tony speaking slot while Russian five years after the death of BNVCA, reported Sunday. announced the approval of ranged through Matnat Awards and an Oscar, and the President Vladimir Putin was her husband. The four men asked a Jew- 117 new emojis for 2020. Chaim, a nonprofit organiza- author of plays such as “Ros- given one. Sandberg will marry Tom ish man wearing a yarmulke Among the new symbols are tion based in Jerusalem that encrantz and Guildenstern The apology amounted to Bernthal, the founder and for a cigarette, said the report people hugging, a gender works to encourage kidney Are Dead” and “Travesties,” an acknowledgment that the CEO of the Los Angeles-based based on the man’s testi- neutral Santa and a father donations. is often described as one of museum had allowed itself to strategic consulting agency mony. When he said he didn’t feeding baby. Oh, and an Tropper entered the Knes- the best living playwrights. be dragged into the continu- Kelton Global, People first re- have one, one of the men told anatomical heart. set with the Blue and White He’s not often described as ing political squabbles over ported, citing a Sandberg rep. him: “You Jews have enough Sefaria, the online free coalition after the April Jewish, which he is, perhaps wartime records. The couple were engaged money to buy some.” Jewish library, last year elections last year and was in part because he has never “We apologize for the on Saturday following a The Arab men then cor- designed a Torah emoji that re-elected in September. He explored Jewish themes in unfortunate errors in these mountain hike and picnic nered the man against the it planned to submit to the is 12th on the coalition’s list his work. short films, which do not lunch at Vermejo Park Ranch, wall of the train car, but he consortium for consider- for the March balloting. That could change after his represent Yad Vashem’s ap- according to the magazine. escaped. The men pursued ation. In May, the Conference In HBO’s first ‘The latest play, “Leopoldstadt,” proach to the historical issues Media mogul Ted Turner him but were blocked by other of European Rabbis called on Plot Against America’ debuts at Wyndham’s Theater portrayed,” Michman wrote. owns the nearly 600,000- passengers. the consortium to add new trailer, Jews are under in London on Feb. 12. “As Israel’s and the Jewish acre ranch in northeastern Jews make up less than one emojis to represent Jews — attack The story involves multiple People’s national memorial New Mexico and southern percent of the French popula- namely, a man wearing a By Gabe Friedman generations of a wealthy in- and research institution on Colorado. tion, were they were targets kippah and a woman wearing (JTA)—The first trailer termarried family in Vienna’s the Holocaust, we reiterate Sandberg, 50, posted a of most of the documented a head covering. for HBO’s adaptation of old Jewish quarter in the early our ongoing commitment photo of the couple on Insta- racist hate crimes 2019. The There are now about 3,000 the Philip Roth novel “The part of the 20th century. The to historical truth, and to gram and wrote: “Engaged!!! French Interior Ministry approved emojis. Plot Against America” was Jewish Chronicle reports it research that stands opposed @tom_bernthal, you are my published the data last month Israeli pop star Noa released on Thursday. involves a seder, a “hilari- to efforts at obfuscation and everything. I could not love in a report that counted 687 Kirel joins the Israeli The series, co-created by ous” bris and discussions of distortion by the political dis- you more.” anti-Semitic incidents last army David Simon and based on assimilation. course in various countries.” Her former brother-in- year out of a total of 1,142 By Marcy Oster Roth’s 2004 novel of the same Leopoldstadt was the name Pee-wee Herman is back law Rob Goldberg set up racist hate crimes. JERUSALEM (JTA)—The name, premieres on March of Vienna’s Jewish ghetto with a tour, and possi- the match. Sandberg, the Red Hot Chili Peppers Israeli teen pop star Noa Kirel 16. It stars John Turturro (as during World War II, and bly much more second-in-command at Face- will headline a new Is- is a soldier now. a rabbi), Winona Ryder, Zoe it’s symbolic of how far the By Curt Schleier book behind founder Mark raeli music festival Kirel, who joined the Is- Kazan and Morgan Spector Jewish family involved in the (JTA)—Thirty-five years Zuckerberg, has two children. By Marcy Oster raeli army on Sunday, became (best known for his role on plot has come. after his breakthrough film Bernthal, 46, has three. Both JERUSALEM (JTA)—The a viral hit on YouTube in 2015 “Homeland,” the American Stoppard told the Chron- “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” are Jewish. Red Hot Chili Peppers an- and has gone on to star in adaptation of the Israeli series icle that the story is not and 29 years after that notori- Sandberg’s late husband, nounced that they will per- Israeli movies and television “Hatufim”). autobiographical, but he ous incident in a Florida adult Dave, who was the CEO form in Israel this summer. series. Fans of the Roth novel feels close to the theme of movie theater, Paul Reubens of Survey Monkey, died in The performance in Tel She will serve in the should be excited, as the not feeling connected to is back. 2015 after sustaining a head Aviv’s Yarkon Park scheduled orchestra corps, which per- trailer shows that the mini- one’s Jewishness. Stoppard, The comedian known as trauma when he fell off a for June 10 will come in the forms in parades, official series is faithful to the book’s born Tomas Straussler, didn’t Pee-wee Herman is embark- treadmill while on vacation middle of the band’s Euro- military and state ceremo- plot. In the novel’s alternate know he was Jewish until ing on 25-city, two-month in Mexico with his family. pean tour. nies, graduation courses and history, Charles Lindbergh, a relative told him in the tour that will take him She wrote a heartfelt essay The group will headline to entertain troops. Kirel will the aviator-turned-anti- 1990s. His family fled their across the country. Each which she posted to Facebook Funkyard, a new Israeli music have her own band rather Semitic-populist, becomes native Czechoslovakia during performance on the tour will to mark the shloshim, or end festival. than join an already estab- president and stokes anti- World War II to Singapore, be followed by a screening of of the 30-day Jewish mourn- The Red-Hot Chili Pep- lished army band. Jewish fear throughout the and then left to India after “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.” ing period after the burial of pers last appeared in Israel Several Israeli stars in U.S. Japan began attacking there. But get ready for even more a close relative. in 2012, at a concert that recent years have evaded be- “There’s a lot of hate out Stoppard’s father was killed of everyone’s favorite in- Swedish-Jewish woman, brought tens of thousands ing drafted into the Israeli there, and he knows how to by a Japanese bomb. nocent man-child bedecked 60, fights off 3 purse of fans to Yarkon Park. military, most notably model tap into it,” Spector’s charac- Stoppard’s mother married in a suit two sizes too small, snatchers During that concert, the Bar Refaeli, who married a ter Herman says of Lindbergh an English man and gave her with the signature red bow By Cnaan Liphshiz band talked about the Israeli- family friend in order to avoid in the trailer. children his surname. tie and Schwinn bike: Other (JTA)—A Jewish woman born Hillel Slovak, their service. Jerry Seinfeld writing Stoppard’s son Ed, an ac- possible Pee-wee projects are about 60 years old was robbed Jewish founding guitar player Kirel said she is looking new book tracing 45 complished actor in his own in the works. of her Star of David pendant who died from a drug over- forward to performing for years of his stand-up right, plays a part in “Leop- This was in The Hollywood and insulted for being Jewish dose in the early 1990s. Band the soldiers. routines oldstadt.” Reporter last week: after fighting off three purse leader Anthony Kiedis talked “It is a crazy and a huge By Marc Brodsky “I’ve never felt more con- He’s at work on a radio snatchers near an ATM in about Hillel on stage and privilege,” she told Israel’s NEW YORK (JTA)—Get nected to my heritage,” Ed project—something akin to Sweden. yelled, “Hillel Slovak forever!” Channel 12 news. ready with the “yada yada” Stoppard told the Guardian. PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 14, 2020 succeeded, it transformed my go to the Army, they don’t actions on the ground. Stop proclaiming it will be pushed ment,” adding, “as long as we Change political mind,” he said. “I had see themselves as occupiers, complaining about punish- into the sea. They enter Jewish have dialogue we aren’t killing From page 1A been blinded by arguments— killers, whatever, no. They ment and take responsibility settlers’ homes to kill; ambush each other.” about blame, victimhood, see themselves as kids going for themselves and look and Israelis out for a day of hiking; Dialogue alone will not Jewish fear and Palestinian punishment and justice. But to protect their country. But redesign themselves in that kidnap hitchhiking Israelis. bring peace. It is a stepping hate. It is a vicious, seemingly now I realized that showing they are a part of the humili- land. Awwad professes that it is the stone to what needs to be done unending cycle. my humanity in a nonviolent ation of another nation,” he “We are not asking any- minority of Palestinians who for peace. Awwad’s vision is to The world has attempted way was the best weapon to explained. “I would never one to change who they are. chant the hatred, incite the see hundreds of thousands to curb the violence through achieve my rights.” allow my rightness to cause Not asking Jewish people to violence. of people coming together peace initiatives that have Another turning point for a price of a Jewish person a change who they are and I’m Looking this reporter in to force the political leader- only resulted in more hatred, Awwad was the death of his piece of his dignity. I expect not asking Palestinians to the eyes, he stated, “I and ship to sit and find a solution more fear, more violence. brother, Yousef. Unarmed, the same from my people.” give up who they are. We are the Palestinians recognize that “two truths”—Israelis Former resistance fighter he was shot in the head by an Peace for Palestinians, he asking everyone to change the Jewish rights to the land.” and Palestinians—can live and now a leading peace Israeli soldier at a checkpoint said, is to start living again. their behavior.” He recognizes the Jewish in the land with dignity and activist, Ali Abu Awwad sees because he argued with the “We are breathing, but we Israelis have a responsi- settlers right to live in the freedom. a way out of this cycle. Aw- soldier. “My brother wasn’t are not alive. And when I bility to change too West Bank. He also recognizes “Our freedom will not be wad is the founder of the a criminal or a terrorist, he say ‘alive’ society, I mean a Before founding Taghyeer, the Palestinians right to live built on Jewish graves. It peace-building initiatives was my best friend...” he re- healthy, secure, functional, Awwad worked with Rabbi in the West Bank. And he will be built through Jew- Taghyeer (Change) Palestin- called. “But taking revenge independent, democratic, Hanan Schlesinger, director knows the majority do not ish hearts. We aren’t going ian Nonviolence Movement was not the answer for me. secular society,” he stated. of International relations for want violence. anywhere. The Jewish people and the Karama Center. His Not because there was a lack Then he asked a question, Roots, a joint Palestinian- “Just imagine,” he said, aren’t going anywhere. We are life and work have been fea- of pain or anger but because “How can you create a demo- Israeli grassroots peacemak- “what would prevent us from working on a way to co-exist.” tured in two award-winning what I wanted was justice. Yet cratic state under military ing initiative dedicated to killing Jewish people every However, Awwad said that films, Encounter Point (2006) the only real justice—to have occupation? Teach me how to understanding nonviolence day? With 30,000 Palestinians before they can speak about and Forbidden Childhood my brother back again—was do that. I’m willing.” and transformation. Together crossing to Israel every day co-existence, they need to (2008), and he has written impossible.” Awwad often referred to they have toured throughout to work, why don’t they blow create a new environment. his memoir, “Painful Hope: Then Yitzhak Frankenthal, the ‘occupation’ of the West the international community themselves up? They can... “Our vision is very clear—an Seeking peace, reconciliation an Orthodox Jewish man Bank. He explained Palestin- sharing the message of non- but they don’t want to. On environment that will guar- and hope, through nonviolent asked to visit with his mother ians see themselves in an oc- violence. the other hand, one suicide antee independence, security solutions to conflict” (pub- at her home. The rabbi had cupation because the Israeli In an article in My Jew- bomber can affect the whole and dignity for all.” lished in Arabic 2016). heard of the unjust killing of government controls much ish Learning (Painful Hope, public opinion of the Jewish How will that happen? Ac- Awwad recently spoke at Yousef. He had also lost his of their way of life. In Area June 26, 2015), Schlesinger world.” cording to Awwad, change the The Roth Family JCC about son. Frankenthal brought C, Palestinians can’t build spoke of the Jewish peoples’ The times they are a mindset. Taghyeer is build- the movement and the ob- with him a Jewish delegation without a permit (which is deep-seated fear and shared changin’ ing a grassroots movement stacles to be overcome by of other bereaved parents. “I rarely given); travel from one what he sees as the Israelis’ When this conflict started, by equipping hundreds of both groups. saw my mother sitting, hold- village to another is often ob- responsibility in this conflict: Awwad said it was to be or not emerging Palestinian leaders Through Taghyeer, Awwad ing hands with this Jewish structed (“Students often have “We say at the Passover seder to be, whether the PLO de- and activists to build trust is changing the mindset of vic- mother who had also lost her to walk under protection a mile ‘in every generation they rise stroys Israel or Israel destroys through a nonviolent identity. timization, hate and revenge son, and I knew that if these around a settlement to get to against us to annihilate us.’ the PLO. It’s not the story now. There are 13 geographic among the Palestinian people, two moms can sit and cry schools.”); water and electricity It is as if built into the fabric “Most Palestinian kids want areas around the West Bank in tandem with the Israelis’ and hold hands, anything is are controlled by Israel. of Jewish existence as it plays just to go to university, to that are working with the responsibility to change their possible,” Awwad said. “I live in a home that some- itself out in this universe... have the right of movement... core community organizers mindset of fear and distrust. He set his course to achieve times during the whole month It always was like that and we have to create new mod- in Taghyeer leadership to “I think peace starts from a peaceful solution to the we don’t have water. We have always will be, until the era of els—alternatives. We have to strengthen the nonviolence responsibility on both sides, Israeli/Palestinian conflict to buy these big tanks and final redemption. Our conflict focus on the commonalities charter within Palestinians not from understanding and that “guarantees individual put them on the roof. And with the Palestinian is just between us. Peace for me is society. not from hope,” Awwad told freedom, dignity and a secure sometimes, the IDF shoot at one more layer in the age-old to be able to live with our The Friends of Taghyeer the Heritage in an interview life for all.” the tanks, and this promotes Jewish fate. And so we accept differences.” Movement in the U.S. wel- shortly before his talk. How is he going about this? anger,” Awwad said. it. We grit our teeth and plod Many Palestinians agree. come your involvement in The “change” started with- “We are uniting Palestinians Awwad explained the an- on with a certain satisfaction In 2016, more than 3,000 Pal- this initiative. Specifically, in himself. He was born in a around a nonviolent identity ger Palestinians feel. “Daily that we are an authentic link estinians gathered in Jericho they are looking for legal and refugee camp in 1972. His that will guarantee devel- suffering under military oc- in the chain of tradition. We to learn about the nonviolent 501c3 organizational develop- mother was a PLO political opment and promote new cupation promotes so much are one with our forefathers, movement and since then ment assistance, fundraising activist under Yasser Arafat. conditions of life because this anger. If you don’t adapt that suffering what we are sup- involvement has grown. Aw- expertise, website develop- Awwad saw her arrested anger has to find a place. It’s anger and use it the right posed to be suffering. wad refers to the group as the ment/social media assistance, several times. His hatred for not acceptable—just as the way, without causing anyone “But now I see things differ- Silent Majority. “The Silent and partners to build a board the IDF grew as he witnessed Jewish fear is not acceptable. the price of his dignity or life, ently. I see our blunders—and Majority want change, but as they consider 501c3 status. the humiliation his mother “Our way is not to promote we’re going to keep killing those of the Palestinians... they have to be involved, to Friends of Taghyeer offers endured with each arrest. hate. Our way also is not each other.” I see the mutual blindness, raise their voice. The problem volunteer and leadership op- Twice Awwad was arrested to be aggressive and stand He continued, “I can blame insensitivity and insularity isn’t with the minority who portunities in the U.S. as well for rock throwing. During his against everything. Our way Israel with a million reasons... that are part of this conflict. disagree. The problem is with as volunteer opportunities second confinement, he began is to change the mind set,” he but I’m not playing the victim. I see the fear, the competition the silent majority who want with Taghyeer in Palestine. to study the works of Gandi, reiterated. Why? As long as we keep of suffering and the culture of change,” he stated. Inquires can be made to Mandela and Martin Luther Perception is reality [playing] the victim role, we victimhood that are prevent- Engaging through dia- Stephen Stern, Friends of King Jr. In 1993, he learned His view of peace for Pales- victimize each other. Worse ing us from leaving the past logue Taghyeer Movement, 5322 the power of nonviolent ac- tinians is different than peace than that, we have a competi- behind and working towards Awwad is not afraid to enter Broad Branch Road, NW, tion through a 17-day hunger for Israel. tion of suffering. Who suffers a better future.” into dialogue with those who Washington, D.C. 20015. For strike in order to visit his “Peace for Israel is about more? I’m tired of that.” Addressing the violence disagree with his philosophy. more information, contact mother, who was also in prison security because it is a coun- “Palestinians have a great There are Palestinians who Awwad stated that dialogue Stern at taghyeer.change@ at the same time. “When we try. As Jewish Israeli kids responsibility to change their rail against the Jewish State; is “the secure place for argu- gmail.com. Oscars From page 1A As Zauzmer explains it, his statistical chances of win- Laura Dern, for “Marriage dataset includes anything ning. There is always room Story” operations, Andrew Friedman, about movies that he can for surprise. Best Original Screenplay— Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman and the new “chief baseball of- put a concrete number on. For example, even Zauzmer Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin- ficer” for the Boston Red Sox, The best predictors usually was surprised when “Moon- won, for “Parasite” does most anything Chaim Bloom, are two other turn out to be previous award light” won best picture over Best Adapted Screenplay— prominent examples known shows—if a director wins the “La La Land” in 2017, and Taika Waititi, for “Jojo Rabbit” Ricardo Torres — Handyman for heavily using analytics Director’s Guild award earlier not because of the infamous Best Animated Feature— 407-221-5482 to make baseball decisions. in the season, for instance, envelope mix-up. “La La Land” “Toy Story 4” (Gabe Kapler, the manager of he or she has a good chance had dominated awards season Best Documentary Fea- Available in Central Florida Area • References Available the San Francisco Giants and of winning the Oscar for best before then and was therefore ture—“American Factory” a former player, is also known director—but it also includes a heavy favorite in Zauzmer’s Best International Fea- as an analytics guru.) critic ratings or “scores” on model. ture—“Parasite” Zauzmer, who hails from aggregation sites like Rotten “It’s why my math doesn’t Best Production Design— a suburb of Philadelphia and Tomatoes. present 100 percent or 0 “Once Upon a Time in Hol- says his Reform synagogue The success of his formu- percent for any nominee,” lywood” was his family’s “home away las—in 2018, he correctly he said. “Probability is only Best Cinematogra- from home,” doesn’t see Jews’ predicted 20 out of the 21 probability, and not a guar- phy—“1917” love for statistics as too coin- categories that he put into antee.” Best Original Score— cidental. his models—has earned The 92nd Academy Awards “Joker” “One thing I love about him an annual column in took place last Sunday, Feb. 9. Best Original Song—“(I’m the Reform Judaism that I The Hollywood Reporter, in Here are Zauzmer’s predic- Gonna) Love Me Again,” from grew up with, and of Juda- addition to other freelance tions for this year. Was he “Rocket Man” ism in general, is that we’re pieces for the likes of The correct?: Best Film Editing—“Ford always taught to ask why... New York Times and else- Best Picture—“1917” v Ferrari” to try to understand things where. He documented his Best Director—Sam Best Visual Effects— for ourselves,” he said. “And approach in a 2019 book, Mendes, for “1917” “Avengers: Endgame” that same spirit with which “Oscarmetics: The Math Best Actor—Joaquin Phoe- Best Costume Design— we approach religion is also Behind the Biggest Night nix, for “Joker” “Little Women” I think a very useful one to in Hollywood.” Best Actress—Renee Zell- Best Makeup and Hairstyl- approach statistics with: to Of course, each year brings weger, for “Judy” ing—“Bombshell” not just accept anything, but surprises, and Zauzmer’s Best Supporting Actor— Best Sound Editing—“Ford to actually dive into the data predictions are never per- Brad Pitt, for “Once Upon a v Ferrari” and prove it or disprove it for fect—they just represent Time in Hollywood” Best Sound Mixing—“Ford yourself.” the nominees with the best Best Supporting Actress— v Ferrari” HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 14, 2020 PAGE 15A also squeezing in Broadway ings that such a provocation Douglas embarked on an less. He fell into a deep depres- his first book of poetry, “Life Douglas and television appearances. would end his own Hollywood intensive regime of Torah sion that nearly led him to take Could Be Verse,” in which From page 1A He was also known for ego- career. Douglas was honored study with a number of young his own life. he expressed his enduring centricity in a town with no for that stance in 2011 by the rabbis and celebrated a second A few months later, he made love for his wife as well as his gogue offered to underwrite shortage of oversize egos and San Francisco Jewish Film bar mitzvah at age 83, telling his first public appearance to heartbreak at the death of his rabbinical studies. Doug- for bedding an endless string Festival. the Hollywood luminaries accept the lifetime achieve- his youngest son, Eric, who las firmly declined, declaring of women, from movie queens With increasing fame and crammed into the 200-seat ment award. died of a self-induced drug that he would become an to casual pickups. fortune, Douglas showed little chapel at Sinai Temple for the “Whether he’s dealing overdose. actor. He held fast to that In the 1950s, he starred in interest in Jewish practice, occasion: “Today, I am a man.” with a character on screen or Along with his wife, Doug- ambition while attending 23 movies. He earned best though there were exceptions. Neither of his two wives— with the all-too-real effect of las has given over $100 million Saint Lawrence University on actor Oscar nominations “I always fasted on Yom the late actress Diana Dill and a recent stroke, courage re- to charitable causes in the a wrestling scholarship and for “The Bad and the Beau- Kippur,” he told a reporter. “I Anne Buydens, whom he mar- mains Kirk Douglas’ personal United States and Israel. The during World War II service tiful” and “Lust for Life.” still worked on the movie set, ried in 1954—were Jewish, and professional hallmark,” couple have established nearly in the U.S. Navy. And in 1953, he starred as a but I fasted. And let me tell and none of his children were Spielberg said in presenting 400 playgrounds in poorer His first movie role came in Holocaust survivor in “The you, it’s not easy making love raised in the faith. But his the award. sections of Los Angeles and 1946, when he played Barbara Juggler,” the first Hollywood to Lana Turner on an empty oldest son, the actor-director Through rigorous speech Jerusalem, an Alzheimer’s Stanwyck’s husband in “The feature to be filmed in Israel. stomach.” Michael Douglas, has recon- therapy, Douglas taught him- hospital unit, and a theater Strange Love of Martha Ivers.” He opened the decade of In his later years, Douglas nected with Judaism and won self to speak again—slowly, facing the Western Wall fea- Douglas received favorable re- the 1960s with “Spartacus,” would come to embrace his the 2015 Genesis Prize, a $1 with a slight slur. He later turing films on the history of views, but his career wouldn’t perhaps his most enduring Jewishness, a shift he dates million award recognizing published a book about the Judaism and Jerusalem. really take off until three movie, in which he played the to a near-fatal collision in Jews of great accomplishment experience titled “My Stroke In 1981, Douglas received years (and six films) later, leader of a slave rebellion in 1991 between his helicopter who exhibit Jewish values. of Luck.” the Presidential Medal of when he portrayed Midge ancient Rome. The film won and a stunt plane in which In 2014, at Douglas’ Among his other books Freedom, America’s highest Kelly, a ferocious and amoral four Oscars, though none for two younger men died. The 60th wedding anniversary, are “Let’s Face It,” which civilian award, from President boxer in “Champion.” The Douglas. crash compressed his spine by Buydens startled the guests proclaimed that romance Jimmy Carter. performance earned him an But Douglas did distin- three inches. While lying in a by announcing that she had begins at 80; “I Am Sparta- Along with his wife and son Academy Award nomination guish himself for insisting hospital bed with excruciating converted to Judaism. cus!,” focusing on making Michael, Douglas is survived for best actor. that writer Dalton Trumbo, back pain, he started ponder- “Kirk has been married to the film and breaking the by sons Peter and Joel Doug- During the 1950s and ’60s, who had been blacklisted as ing the meaning of his life. two shiksas and it’s about time blacklist; and “Climbing the las, seven grandchildren— Douglas ranked consistently a communist for a decade “I came to believe that I was he married a nice Jewish girl,” Mountain,” which traced his Cameron, Dylan, Carys Zeta, as one of Hollywood’s top male but continued to write under spared because I had never she proclaimed. search for spirituality and Kelsey, Jason, Tyler and stars for his single-minded a pseudonym, be credited come to grips with what it In 1996, Douglas suffered Jewish identity. Ryan—and a sister, Ida Sahr focus on his craft, while onscreen despite dire warn- means to be Jewish,” he said. a stroke that left him speech- In 2014, at 98, he published of Schenectady, New York. Reality From page 4A Palestinians recognize Israel Arab world has found very their people can climb out of For once, time is not on their to negotiate in real faith, they as a Jewish state. It demands difficult to do since 1948: ac- the cycle of poverty and self- side. After continually walk- are losing, both figuratively the very first time, real, defen- that the Palestinians abolish cept the reality of Israel as a imposed victimhood. ing away from the negotiating and literally, the ground that sible borders with the natural the incitement in the text- Jewish state. This time, Abbas would table and resorting to vio- they have been planning to be topographic boundary of the books. It calls for the end of It would give the Palestin- not even take Trump’s phone lence, they have come to the standing on. Jordan Valley—something so the revolting “pay-for-slay ians 70 percent of the West call, calling him “a dirty dog,” point where their bad behavior Sarah N. Stern is founder important in an age of increas- program,” incentivizing ter- Bank and $50-plus billion in among other worse epithets. will not be rewarded. They will and president of the Endow- ing Iranian hegemony. rorism with greater payments investment in an economic But this time, the Palestin- have to learn that Israel is here ment for Middle East Truth, a It does not erase the Jewish for the greater number of infrastructure to build in- ians will have to learn that the to stay and cannot be wished pro-Israel and pro-American people’s history or claim to the Israelis they murder. And it stitutions of democracy, and patience of the international away. The Palestinians will think tank and policy institute holy sites. It demands that the calls for something that the for an educational path so community is not infinite. have to learn that by refusing in Washington, D.C. Shapiro From page 5A named Friday’s for Future, eternal economic growth,” base that supported gun children, or flower children calling my legislators, writing to one day a week. By the she stated. “How dare you!” control, women’s rights and fails, need to get on board. my columns and letters to the street of the Swedish parlia- end of the year, she had been Her wish to follow in the clean energy. Abraham Joshua Heschel, editors, and joining people of ment building. She was armed joined by tens of thousands footsteps of the activists “Adults didn’t take care reflecting on his participation all ages to effect change. And with a sign that read “Student of students across Europe. from Marjorie Stoneman of these problems, said then in the 20th century civil rights who knows? Maybe, like Greta Strike for the climate” and a By fall 2019, Thunberg had Douglas High School had 17-year-old Jaclyn Corin, the movement, stated, “When I and Dave and Jaclyn and Rabbi flyer that explained her pur- been joined by millions across been realized. chief organizer of Washing- marched in Selma my feet Heschel, I will start praying pose. It included the admoni- the world. In this past year, what ton, D.C., event, “so we have were praying.” with my feet. tion: “Since you adults don’t In her speech in front of Time called “the power of to take care of them.” I am no longer the young The youth have taken the give a damn about my future, the UN General Assembly in youth” protests spread to As an adult who feels girl who stood on the sidelines. lead. It is our responsibility I won’t either.” September 2019, Thunberg, include Hong Kong, Iraq, strongly that the need for Tik- Like many of today’s youth, I to them to follow. She sat alone on Day One. like David Hoggs before her, and Lebanon. And November kun Olam, leaving the world a am passionate about issues Marilyn Cohen Shapiro, But a person joined her on Day expressed her anger and elections in Virginia, in which better place, I believe that the that impact all of us: Gun a resident of Kissimmee, Two, and a few others on Day disgust. We are in the begin- Democrats took control of battles for which the youth are violence. Climate Change. Im- Fla., is a regular contributor Three and so on. By Septem- ning of a mass extinction, both houses, was propelled fighting should also be taken migration policies. Women’s to the (Capital Region N.Y.) ber she had enough support and all you can talk about by a “younger, more diverse up by all of us. Maybe it is time rights. As we head to the Nov. Jewish World and the Orlando to limit her strike, which she is money and fairy tales of and more liberal” Democrat for those who were flower 3, 2020, elections, I will be Heritage Florida Jewish News. Uproar From page 5A in their own homes, not there’s zero possibility that guided Western consensus the Palestinian Arabs may all the odds never stops only be ruled by those they the Palestinian Arabs would because it is nervous of ever have had must be yearning to repair the rift disputed territories, he says, say they want to rule them, ever agree to it—such an pushing too hard against considered forfeit many with those to whom you will can only envy Israeli Arab but that they should also be apparently perverse offer its allies, even its two-faced times over as a result of always feel linked. students who are free to hold invited to remain instead is being made at all. “friends” in Europe and their century-old war of Peace between the Arabs political activities on Israel’s citizens of the country their One answer is that many Britain. extermination. and the Jews, however, campuses. people have been trying to in the West, including, it In addition, right from So why are the Israeli won’t come through re- Regardless of this reac- wipe out. seems, Jared Kushner, still the start, the Jews of Is- Jews so benign towards drawing the map of the tion to the proposed Pales- And all this while these naively believe that, offered rael have been strikingly these enemies? Middle East, but only if tine state, it’s important to people are still led by a the prospect of massively ambivalent about the Arabs Maybe there’s a sub- the Arab and Muslim world note just how bizarre this regime inciting them to leveraged prosperity, the who lived in the land, de- merged degree of guilt, stops trying to wipe the particular aspect of the continue their war—and Palestinians will eventually spite the war waged by those particularly among secu- State of Israel off it. Trump proposal is. who are regarded as such a realize that their interests Arabs to deny the Jews their lar Jews from a European But the generosity Israel In other wars, the dis- permanent threat that they lie in peace rather than rightful home. background who originally is displaying towards their placement of at least parts can never be trusted with war. This suggests a failure Thus, during Israel’s war felt themselves to be cul- Arabs by offering them this of a population is com- full sovereignty over their properly to internalize the of independence, the em- tural outsiders and were choice of nation—and the monplace, which hardly own airspace and other true cause of this conflict, battled Jews declared they therefore sympathetic to reason for their response— occasions any comment. security issues. which is not the absence of didn’t want the Arabs of the situation of the Arabs provides an opportunity to In no other conflict have On the face of it, there- a Palestinian state but the the land to leave the Jewish living in the land. educate Jews whose view the victims of aggression fore, the proposal for such intention of exterminating state that they were at that At the same time, maybe of Israel is increasingly suggested, as under this a Palestine state is suicid- Israel. very time desperately fight- the Palestinian Arabs are shaped by its enemies in plan, that members of this ally stupid for Israel. So For its own part, vulner- ing the Arabs’ armies to a necessarily ambiguous what being a Jewish state aggressive people should we should ask why—even able Israel has felt obliged establish. Even during that enemy because they are actually means. not only be allowed to stay though its conditions mean to go along with this mis- struggle for existence, they family. A stepfamily, for And some Israelis need drew a distinction between sure: as the Torah tells us, to learn that, too. the leaders and the led. the descendants of Ish- Melanie Phillips, a Brit- There’s a direct line from mael who, with his mother ish journalist, broadcaster Tarantino that to the Israel of today— Hagar, was driven out into and author, writes a weekly From page 9A about the missiles fired from in Hebrew. He said the birth of not just to the two-staters the desert by his father, column for JNS. Currently a the Gaza Strip, Tarantino said, his child will encourage him on the left who seem blind Abraham. columnist for “The Times of of his child and described his “I’m not scared at all. Like to learn more Hebrew. to the potential threat that But with that common London,” her personal and life with Pick—saying they everyone else here, I don’t “I can’t have a conversation Palestine would pose, but father, family nevertheless. political memoir, “Guardian have a routine where he writes, really notice it.” now, but I know many words in to Jewish centrists who And however much your Angel,” has been published she makes lunch, he writes Tarantino just won a Gold- Hebrew,” he explained. “Ob- believe that the Palestin- family hurts and threatens by Bombardier, which also more, and they watch movies en Globe for Best Screenplay viously, I’m going to learn. ians are entitled to a state you, even with uncon- published her first novel, together—and added, “Really, for “Once Upon a Time... in I don’t want my boy or girl of their own. scionable barbarism and “The Legacy,” in 2018. Her it’s very, very pleasant.” Hollywood,” and in his accep- to speak a language I can’t Yet by any normal moral savagery, there’s often still work can be found at: www. When asked how he feels tance speech, he thanked Pick understand.” standard, whatever rights a part of you that against melaniephillips.com. PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 14, 2020
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