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Israel Reshapes Black: Region’s Natural When Disruptions Gas Industry Become Criminal Page 5 Page 17 Vol. 47 #22 June 15-21, 2018 • 2-8 Tammuz 5778 One Dollar Two Dollars Outside of Metropolitan N.Y.C. 2 JEWISH WORLD • JUNE 15-21, 2018 JEWISH WORLD • JUNE 15-21, 2018 3 115 Middle Neck Rd. Zionism At Camp Great Neck, NY 11021 516-594-4000 The award-winning independent Jewish newspaper of Long Island Anti-Israel groups push agenda Publisher & editor-in-chief Jerome Wm. Lippman By JONATHAN S. TOBIN educating) Jewish campers. are getting about the Middle East during the violence in Gaza since Assistant Editor ccording to some young Those promoting this effort have and to tap into the idealism that IfNotNow’s founding in 2014 Jeff Helmreich American Jews, it’s time all the enthusiasm of youth and the comes naturally to those involved. seems to embody the sort of uni- Features Editor to start telling kids the versalist approach that resonates Barbara Weinblatt A truth about Israel. Upset about with many American Jews. Travel Editor Tania Grossinger what they consider to be a steady ut camp directors, donors, Editorial Assistant Eli Feldblum COMMENTARY Bparents, and most especially, Contributors the impressionable kids this group Douglas M. Bloomfield, Shira Dicker, diet of pro-Israel propaganda that is out to influence shouldn’t be Lawrence J. Epstein, Marcelle Sussman Fischler, Ezra Goldstein, William B. ignores the plight of the deceived. What this effort repre- Helmreich, Sandy Portnoy, Joseph R. Rackman, Erica Rauzin, Walter Ruby, Palestinians, some who are sents is not balance, but imbalance Lawrence H. Schiffman, Barbara Schultz, Jacob Stein, Carol Steinberg, Harold S. employed as counselors at various when it comes to truth about Israel Steinberg, Andrew Wohlberg, Nora Yood camps have, with the help of the and the Palestinians. Indeed, rather Donald Pleasant, Karl Grossman IfNotNow organization, launched than point out how badly the offi- Production Editor Laura Katz an effort to use Jewish summer cial Jewish community is mislead- Staff Photographers camps to begin educating their ing Jewish kids about what’s going David Karp, Sender Schwartz charges about the Palestinian nar- on in the Middle East, this story is Traffic Manager rative about the conflict. As far as a reminder of how our institutions Karen Chasin they are concerned, camps and of learning are failing at giving Director of Advertising other Jewish institutions need to children any education at all about Bernice Witten get on the right side of what they Activists from the group IfNotNow say they seek “balance” in what Jewish camps Israel that is worth anything. Account Executives teach with regard to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Joyce Ehrlich, Enid Feldman, Dave Levin consider the great outrage of our What’s more, it also represents Lee Lichtman, Joyce Rudnick, Judy Schnelwar time: indifference to the sins of the passion of true believers. Seen And for some of them, their desire the problems associated with the For Israel Advertising Information “occupation.” from their point of view, all they to say Kaddish — the Jewish Jewish community’s obsession with International Media Placement And the place to start, they say, are doing is seeking to put some prayer for the dead — for preserving a big tent encompassing P.O.B. 7195, Jerusalem, Israel 91071 (02) 6252933 Fax (02) 6249240 is by educating (or should I say, re- balance into the education that kids Palestinians who have been killed continued on page 27 Art Director Deborah Gruenberger All they are doing is seeking to put some balance into the education that kids are Marketing Consultant Adam Simms getting about the Middle East and to tap into the idealism that comes naturally. Circulation Manager Patricia Locklin Counsel Steven D. Cohn Don’t Excuse FDR All material in this paper has been copyrighted, is the exclusive property of this newspaper, and cannot be reproduced without the consent of the publisher. The Authors ignore policies that abandoned Jews views and opinions expressed by our columnists do not necessarily reflect the editor’s point of view. By RAFAEL MEDOFF do not always make it easier to see Jewish as rumors had it. Needless he United States and its allies Composition responsibility: This uring the Holocaust, the the forest. She points out, for to say, such trivia serves to clutter Tconfirmed in late 1942 that the newspaper will not be liable for errors appearing in advertising beyond the cost Roosevelt administration example, that one of the board's rather than illuminate the larger “cold-blooded extermination" of of the space occupied by the error. Advertiser assumes responsibility for Dclaimed that rescuing Jews Europe's Jews was underway, but errors in telephone orders. We are not was too difficult, bombing insisted nothing could be done to responsible for the Kashruth of any product or establishment advertised in Auschwitz was impractical, and help them except win the war. this newspaper. All advertisements designed and prepared by the Jewish Jewish activists, by contrast, were World are the sole property of the convinced that, if there was a will, newspaper and can not be reproduced PERSPECTIVE without the consent of the publisher. ways could be found to save lives. Published weekly by the Empire Publishing corporation. Jerome Wm. even if the president wanted to They were backed by members of Lippman, President. Long Island Jewish World (ISSN 0199-2899) is published weekly for help, his hands were tied by Congress who, in the autumn of $26 per year by Empire Publishing Corporation, 115 Middle Neck Road, Great Congress and public opinion. Now 1943, introduced a resolution urg- Neck, N.Y. 11021. Periodicals postage paid at two young historians are making ing the establishment of a rescue Great Neck, NY. POSTMASTER: Send form 3579 to many of the same excuses. These agency. The Roosevelt administra- L.I. Jewish World, P.O. Box #220297. Great Neck, NY 11022-0010. excuses were untenable then, and tion, trying to head off pressure to Includes the Long Island Jewish Press, the passage of time has made them take rescue action, sent Assistant founded 1942, serving Queens, Nassau and Suffolk. no more credible. Secretary of State Breckinridge Local Offices: 1441 President Street Brooklyn, N.Y. 11213 Rebecca Erbelding’s Rescue Long to Capitol Hill to testify 311 W. 37th Street New York, N.Y. 10018 Board, her first book, focuses on against the measure. the War Refugee Board, a small Long's prevarications ignited a U.S. government agency created in firestorm of criticism in the press CANDLE LIGHTING 1944 to save Jews from the Nazis. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt did too little too late to save Jews during the and galvanized the Senate Foreign The main achievements of the Holocaust. Relations Committee to unani- Friday June 15 board have been chronicled by emissaries "always wore a white story. Erbelding's penchant for pil- mously adopt the resolution. Candles 8:11 pm many previous scholars since the shirt; he abhorred colored ones," ing on irrelevant details is, howev- Meanwhile, a handful of Treasury Shabbat Ends 9:25 pm late 1960s. Erbelding adds more and that another was "at most, one- er, the least of her book's flaws. Department officials discovered details to the story, but more trees sixteenth Jewish," rather than half- continued on page 20 Friday June 22 Candles 8:13 pm Trachtenberg paints a portrait of an America divided between good guys — FDR, Shabbat Ends 9:26 pm Democrats, intellectuals, minorities—and everyone else, racist and reactionary. 4 JEWISH WORLD • JUNE 15-21, 2018 The Middle East Transformed Texan, Israeli partners reshape economic and political landscape By FELICE FRIEDSON AND none of that existed,” explained picture as more states move to gas, The story of Noble’s venture hearing the words “fossil fuel.” CHARLES BYBELEZER Keith Elliott, Noble Energy’s sen- a more transportable and environ- into Israel begins in Oklahoma, And while the company is today othing is easy,” is a ior vice president of offshore, mentally-friendly energy-generat- generally not the first place in the headquartered in everything-is- common refrain in from his Houston office. ing source.” United States one thinks of when continued on page 21 “NIsrael and, for that “That required us to work with matter, throughout the Middle the Israeli government and busi- East, where many of the comforts nesses to create methods to ensure things are done in a safe and reli- able manner,” Elliott continued. REPORTER’S “This is also part of the big success NOTEBOOK story though — Israel has essen- tially gone from having no [natural taken for granted and accepted as gas] industry to it having a very universal in the West have been large impact on society in less than assigned four-letter-word status. ten years.” So building an entire natural gas industry from scratch in the ften viewed as “isolated,” world’s most volatile region might OIsrael is by no means alone, reasonably be expected to be an with massive natural gas discover- arduous process. But, to para- ies across the region reshaping This platform at the Tamar natural gas field is located some 50 miles west off the coast of the northern Israeli city of Haifa. phrase the timeless adage, for both internal and broader geopolit- Noble Energy — the Texas-based ical realities. company spearheading Israel’s “One of the things we see occur- still-ongoing transformation into a ring is a common understanding of “In every place in the world you work there are obstacles ... since we first started producing gas in 2004 we have not had a single interruption because of any safety issue.” potential major player — there is the importance that energy plays in no better reward than triumph over creating prosperity and security, trial, tribulation, and layer upon and this is causing countries to layer of bureaucratic red-tape.