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Alberto Nisman and Sarah Halimi Jewish Federation of NEPA Non-profit Organization 601 Jefferson Ave. U.S. POSTAGE PAID The Scranton, PA 18510 Permit # 184 Watertown, NY Change Service Requested Published by the Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania VOLUME X, NUMBER 12 JUNE 15, 2017 Federation announces co-chairmen for the 2018 UJA Campaign Doug Fink, the newly-elected president to Israel, and had some of her children Medicine. He has been in private practice of the Jewish Federation of Northeastern join her for the experience. as an allergist in Scranton since 1995 and Pennsylvania, has announced that Dr. For the past seven years, Leah has simultaneously is involved as an adjunct Joel and Leah (née Lipschitz) Laury have helped to organize the Jewish Commu- clinical associate professor with the De- agreed to chair the Federation’s forthcom- nity Center’s annual Chanukah Event. partment of Internal Medicine Allergy/ ing 2018 UJA Campaign. The Campaign She has also been involved with the Immunology at the Lake Erie College of is scheduled to begin in September and Jewish Resource Center of the Poconos Osteopathic Medicine and the teaching continue through May 2018. in Stroudsburg, helping to organize its faculty at Temple University’s Internal “Leah is an established leader of our Passover retreats several years ago. Medicine Residency Program. He is also community and her community involve- During the summers, she and her family a volunteer faculty member in the Clinical ment dates back decades,” Fink said. After go to Chapman Lake, where she serves on Science Division of the Geisinger Com- attending a year of study in Israel (post the board of Stein’s Grove Synagogue. monwealth Medical College. His other high school), she attended Stern College Dr. Joel and Leah Laury, 2018 UJA She has also put in more than a decade of professional activities have included using for Women (Yeshiva University) and grad- Campaign co-chairmen work as the Al Cohen Day Camp director his expertise as an investigator for clinical uated with a B.S. degree in psychobiology. in that area. Along with her husband, research trials; grand rounds at three city After her marriage to Joel, she attended has also been called “very devoted” to Joel, both have enjoyed the company of hospitals; numerous talks to community Columbia University, where she received Bais Yaakov of Scranton, for which she their seven children, two daughters-in- groups and physicians on asthma, rhinitis a master’s degree in occupational therapy. continues to run fund-raisers and dinners, law and son-in-law, as well as their four and sinusitis; as well as appearances on She then worked in the New York area as well as directing high school plays and grandchildren, who are all said to be “at Channel 16 (an ABC affiliate), Channel for several years. She and Joel moved to community events. the center of their lives.” 22 (a CBS affiliate), Channel 28 (an NBC Scranton 22 years ago, and she worked Leah has served on the board and the Joel, a physician, received his medical affiliate) and Channel 44 (public radio) on part-time as a therapist at several health Executive Committee of the Jewish Fed- degree from the Albert Einstein College of these and other medical subjects. facilities in Northeastern Pennsylvania. eration of Northeastern Pennsylvania and Medicine in the Bronx and his B.A. (mag- “We’re honored that Joel and Leah have Married for 28 years, Leah and Joel have the board of Webster Towers. She currently na cum laude) from Yeshiva University in agreed to co-chair our 2018 annual UJA raised seven children. serves on the board of the Jewish Home New York. His activities within the Jewish Campaign, which is the lifeblood of our Leah is said to have been “very in- of Eastern Pennsylvania and as board community have included participation on Jewish community” Fink noted. volved” in the Jewish community of secretary at Jewish Family Service of the board of the Jewish Home of Eastern “When one reads the history of Leah Scranton “virtually from the moment of Northeastern Pennsylvania, where she Pennsylvania, the Scranton Hebrew Day and Joel’s involvement in both the gen- her arrival,” especially in the areas of chaired JFS’s second annual “Community School, the Board of Trustees of the Jewish eral and Jewish communities, it becomes children’s programming and communi- Matters” event. Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania clear immediately that they bring to this ty fund-raisers. That involvement has She has also shown her commitment and the JCC Board of Directors. position the wisdom and experience that included participation on the Scranton to Israel through her involvement in as- Professionally, in the mid-1990s, he this Federation will require as we plan for Hebrew Day School board, as well as sorted programs, fund-raisers and parades received Board certification from both the the future of Northeastern Pennsylvania serving as president of both the PTA and in support of the Jewish state. She has American Board of Allergy and Immunol- Jewry,” said Mark Silverberg, Federation’s Women’s League for many years. She participated in two Federation missions ogy and the American Board of Internal executive director. Israel courts Muslim allies as it returns to Africa “in a big way” BY ADAM ABRAMS countries that is the basis of the automatic ment’s multifaceted “return” to Africa is JNS.org majority against Israel in the U.N. and to establish diplomatic relations with Mus- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu international bodies,” Netanyahu told lim-African states. The first fruits of this visited western Africa recently as part of reporters on June 3, before departing for effort came last summer, when Netanyahu a broad government initiative to expand Liberia to address 15 African nations at travelled to east Africa for the 40th anniver- Israel’s influence on that continent, fol- the Economic Community of West African sary of the 1976 hostage rescue operation lowing Netanyahu’s historic trip to eastern States (or ECOWAS) conference. in Entebbe, Uganda, which resulted in Africa last year. The objectives of Israel’s “This is the first time they have invited his brother Yoni’s death. During the visit, pivot toward Africa include improving the leader of a non-African country to Netanyahu visited Uganda, Kenya, Ethi- the outcomes for the Jewish state on U.N. address them. I very much appreciate it. opia and Rwanda. The Israeli leader met votes, expanding economic cooperation, Israel is returning to Africa in a big way,” with the presidents of Somalia and Kenya, curbing Iranian influence in Africa and said Netanyahu. two countries that had severed diplomatic establishing diplomatic relations with Upon arriving in the Liberian capital of Liberian President Ellen Johnson- relations with Iran in January 2016. Muslim-African states. Netanyahu’s Monrovia, Netanyahu – accompanied by Sirleaf (left) greeted Israeli Prime See “Africa” on page 3 Africa trip in 2016 was the first visit to a large diplomatic delegation, including Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upon the continent by a sitting Israeli prime Ethiopian-Israeli Member of Knesset Netanyahu’s arrival in Liberia on June minister in 29 years. Avraham Neguise (Likud) – was greeted 4. (Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO) According to the Prime Minister’s by Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sir- Federation Office, Israel aims to enhance collabora- leaf. Netanyahu then met with Marcel Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. tion with African states in areas including Alain de Souza, president of ECOWAS, to “This has been a dream to come here to “agriculture, desertification and climate discuss how to advance Israel’s economic this organization in west Africa. And there on Facebook change, water, trade, education, health, cooperation with the African bloc. is so much… that we can do for the bet- The Jewish Federation of Northeast- homeland security, cyber and commu- Netanyahu addressed the 15 member terment of our peoples,” Netanyahu said. ern Pennsylvania now has a page on nications, energy, culture and science,” states of ECOWAS, including Benin, Due to Netanyahu’s presence, Moroc- Facebook to let community members as well as in the fight against terrorism. Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivo- co’s King Mohammed VI cancelled plans know about upcoming events and keep “The purpose of this trip is to dissolve ire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea to attend the conference. connected. this majority, this giant bloc of 54 African Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, A major goal of the Israeli govern- Candle lighting INSIDE THIS ISSUE June 16 ......................................... 8:20 pm Mizrahi matchmaking Kosher soul food Israel news in brief June 23......................................... 8:22 pm June 30 ........................................ 8:22 pm A new online dating site uses real An African-American Jewish More Ethiopian Jews make aliyah; matchmakers to connect far-flung cook uses food to fuse his two Abbas may shelve construction PLUS Mizrahi Jews to each other. identities. freeze demand; and more. Opinion .......................................................2 Story on page 5 Story on page 7 Stories on page 11 D’var Torah ...............................................8 2 THE REPORTER ■ JUNE 15, 2017 A MATTER OF OPINION Alberto Nisman and Sarah Halimi: the shared fate of two very different Jews BY BEN COHEN progress in identifying and tracking down two years after it happened – that Nisman murdered by an antisemitic Parisian gang JNS.org the Iranian and Hezbollah terrorists re- was murdered. in 2006, Sarah Halimi’s inhumanly painful This is a story about the shared fate of sponsible for blowing up the AMIA Jewish In Sarah Halimi’s case, by contrast, death has been followed by an undignified, two quite different Jews. center in Buenos Aires in July 1994, in nobody doubts her death was caused by sleazy spin exercise about “psychiatric They were separated from each other which 85 people were killed and hundreds murder.
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