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Shooting at San Diego-Area Synagogue Leaves 1 Dead, 3 Editorials ..................................... 4A Op-Ed .......................................... 5A Calendar ...................................... 6A Scene Around ............................. 9A Synagogue Directory ................ 11A News Briefs ............................... 13A WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 43, NO. 35 MAY 3, 2019 28 NISAN, 5779 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Holocaust Center wins tax grant The Holocaust Memorial Greater Orlando Chamber of Resource & Education Center Commerce building at the of Florida has been awarded northern gateway to down- a $10 million Orange County town Orlando. The site was Tourism Development Tax donated by the City of Orlando grant to build a new museum with a lease for the building in downtown Orlando. The and land for $1 per year. The award was announced Tues- new museum is expected to day, April 23 at the meeting draw 150,000 visitors annu- of the Orange County Board ally and contribute millions of County Commissioners. in economic impact to Central “We are thrilled and pro- Florida. foundly grateful to the leaders “It was an honor for me and of Orange County and the the Board of County Com- Tourist Development Tax missioners to unanimously Review Board for their vision award a $10 million grant and support. A new museum for the building of the Holo- will reach hundreds of thou- caust Museum for Hope and sands of visitors to our region Humanity. The museum will Gabrielle Birkner who increasingly seek more honor the victims and survi- Mourners leave mementos across the street from the Chabad Community Center in Poway, California a day after a meaningful and transforma- vors and serve as a historical shooter killed a congregant and wounded three others, on April 28, 2019. tive travel,” said Holocaust remembrance of past events. Center Board President, Ellen It will not only be a wonderful Lang, whose mother Tess Wise resource for our local resi- founded the Holocaust Center dents but also for the millions Shooting at San Diego-area in 1981. “A new museum also who visit Orange County each offers the ability to connect year,” said Orange County with generations of students Mayor Jerry Demings. synagogue leaves 1 dead, 3 wounded in creative ways, where learn- A capital campaign to help ing about the Holocaust can fund the project has already By Ron Kampeas and the San Diego County Sheriff’s office said synagogue, Rabbi Mendy Rubenfeld, in be much more than a brief raised more than $10 million Gabrielle Birkner Saturday afternoon on Twitter. a Facebook post named the fatality as field trip, but a life-changing in private contributions. The Sheriff William Gore said in a news Lori Gilbert-Kaye, calling her “friendly experience with ongoing en- Center has contracted with (JTA)—A shooting at a Chabad conference that the fatality was an and outgoing. gagement.” award-winning HuntonBrady synagogue in Poway, near San Diego, adult woman, and the three injured “In her memory, please, please commit The museum will be called Architects to design the new California, has left one person dead and were two adult males and one juvenile to doing something special for a neighbor the Holocaust Museum for museum, working alongside three injured, including a child. female. News 10 San Diego named one or a friend!” he wrote. Hope & Humanity and will Police in Poway detained a white of the injured as the synagogue’s rabbi, Rubenfeld and his family were in rise on the site of the former HMREC on page 15A 19-year-old San Diego man in connection Yisroel Goldstein. Florida for the Passover holiday at the with the shooting on the last day of Pass- In March, Goldstein wrote a Facebook time of the shooting. Gilbert-Kaye was 60. over, and hospitals said they were taking post lamenting the deadly shooting at a Proactive congregants in the wounded people. The suspect left mosque in New Zealand. Poway Mayor Steve Vaus commented AIPAC calls out an “open letter” prior to the morning “Attacking innocent people is abhor- that this would have been a much worse attack, law enforcement said. rent,” he wrote. “It is abhorrent when it tragedy if not for the congregants’ stand “A man has been detained for question- is a shul in Pittsburg and it is abhorrent against the shooter. As there was a pause ing in connection with a shooting inci- when it is in a Mosque in New Zealand!” Bernie Sanders dent at the Chabad of Poway synagogue,” A second rabbi affiliated with the Shooting on page 15A By Ron Kampeas wing—dare I say—racist gov- ernment,” he said to applause. WASHINGTON (JTA)—The Netanyahu earlier this American Israel Public Af- month won re-election as Sixth BDS national conference sheds fairs Committee pushed back prime minister. A number against Sen. Bernie Sanders of Democratic candidates for calling Benjamin Netan- before the election blasted light on movement’s intentions yahu’s government “racist.” Netanyahu for brokering a The pro-Israel lobby, in a vote-sharing agreement with By Eliana Rudee tweet that did not mention Jewish Power, a party whose the Democratic presiden- extremist views were inspired (JNS)—At the sixth BDS tial hopeful by name, said by a rabbi, the late Meir Ka- National Conference on it was counterproductive hane, who was expelled from March 16 in Ramallah, the when American leaders used Israel’s parliament for “racist BDS National Committee “name-calling” against their incitement.” presented a comprehensive Israeli counterparts. AIPAC at the time of the 2019-2020 strategic plan for “The U.S.-Israel alliance vote-sharing deal also blasted serves America’s interests,” Jewish Power as “racist,” AIPAC said Tuesday on Twit- although it did not explicitly ter. “We benefit from the fault Netanyahu for making close bonds between the the deal. governments and peoples. “AIPAC has a longstand- Name-calling by political ing policy not to meet with leaders against the democrati- members of this racist and cally elected government of reprehensible party,” it said in Israel is counterproductive a February tweet, referring to to maintaining close ties and the far-right party. advancing peace.” Sanders at the town hall An AIPAC official con- also called himself “100 per- firmed that the tweet was cent pro-Israel.” A view of the BDS National Conference held in Ramallah in the West Bank March 2019. aimed at Sanders, I-Vt., cur- “Israel has every right in the rently the front-runner in world to exist, and to exist in the movement, focusing on dards and BDS efforts in According to BDS experts the race for the Democratic peace and security and not be expanding boycott practices, the Palestinian territories. Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuper- presidential nomination. subjected to terrorist attacks,” implementing a strict “anti- Raising eyebrows within the wasser and Dan Diker, proj- Sanders defended his out- he said. “But the United States normalization” policy with Jewish and international ect director for the Program spoken criticism of Israel in needs to deal not just with Is- Israel and seeking to lobby key community, the conference to Counter Political Warfare a CNN town hall on Monday rael, but with the Palestinian international organizations was supported and promoted and BDS at the Jerusalem broadcast from Manchester, people as well.” such as the European Union by the terror-affiliated Pales- Center for Public Affairs, the New Hampshire, the first against Israel. tinian National and Islamic organizers’ affiliations and primary state. Conference workshops Forces, and attended by lead- cooperation with terrorist “The goal must be to try were focused on BDS poli- ers of the Popular Front for the groups indicate that BDS is to bring people together and cies, labor sectors and trade Liberation of Palestine and the not just support one country, unions, normalization stan- Palestinian Liberation Front. BDS on page 15A which is now run by a right- PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 3, 2019 World-renowned expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls to visit Orlando The Dead Sea Scrolls are Hebrew of the Qumran sect manuscripts that were dis- represents a dialect that only covered between 1947 and they used. The scrolls contain 1956 in 11 caves on the shore many literary genres. of the Dead Sea. These caves On Sunday, May 5, at 7 p.m., were located in Jordan until Lawrence H. Schiffman, pro- the Six Day War of 1967 when fessor of Hebrew and Judaic they came into the possession Studies at New York University of Israel. Carbon 14 dating will be visiting Nate’s Shul in and paleography (the study of Longwood to give a lecture on the scripts) have determined the Dead Sea Scrolls. these scrolls to be about 2000 He will also speak at Chabad years old. While some of the of South Orlando, 7347 W. scrolls were quite long, most Sand Lake Road, Orlando, on of them have only survived as Monday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m. fragments. Prof. Schiffman is a special- Below the caves on the ist on the Dead Sea Scrolls and plateau is the settlement has published many books and of Qumran. This building hundreds of articles, appeared complex housed the people in numerous TV documenta- who, most scholars believe, ries and lectured around the collected the scrolls. They are world about these ancient most often identified with the manuscripts. Essenes, a Jewish sect known Shiffman was Fellow of the from ancient historians. It is Institute for Advanced Stud- estimated that the sect inhab- ies of the Hebrew University ited this site from about 135 in Jerusalem as part of a BCE to 68 CE. research group dealing with A portion of a Dead Sea Scroll Prof. Lawrence H. Shiffman The contents of the scrolls the Dead Sea Scrolls and was can be divided into three sec- on the International Editorial The Dead Sea Scrolls are can observe the role of local us clarify our own relationship resonate as the modern state tions: biblical books, other Team for Publication of the important to the history texts, the sources of ancient to the Land of Israel.
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