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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 43, NO. 35 MAY 3, 2019 28 NISAN, 5779 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Holocaust Center wins tax grant 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 -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 . 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!” 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 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. As with of Israel gropes towards its literature of Second Temple Dead Sea Scrolls. He was of Judaism in that they are translations, and the process every major archaeological own identity. times, often called apocryphal a member of the academic a snapshot of what Jewish of standardization. Their use find in Israel today, the dis- Nate’s Shul is located at1701 or pseudepigraphical, and the committee for the celebra- law and belief were like in of the Hebrew language is a covery of these ancient scrolls Markham Woods Rd. Long- literature of the sect itself. In tions of the 50th, 60th and the immediate post biblical goldmine for an understand- bind contemporary Jews to wood. Tickets are $18. addition, Tefillin and Mezuzot 70th anniversaries of the period. They also illustrate ing of the linguistic develop- their past through the land Sponsors: $180 (Includes found at Qumran contain discovery of the Dead Sea the origins of mysticism, ment that took place between for it was there that so much private dinner for two with small rolled up manuscripts Scrolls held in Jerusalem and apocalypticism, and mes- the end of the Bible and the of ancient Jewish history Prof. Schiffman prior to the placed inside their cases. A he served as editor-in-chief of sianism, seminal ideas that Mishnaic period. The Dead took place. As archaeology lecture) few fragments were written the Oxford Encyclopedia of were carried forth in later Sea Scrolls truly afford a rediscovers the past, it is also For more information or to on papyrus, and some texts the Dead Sea Scrolls (2000) Rabbinic Judaism and into glimpse into the development creating the present. The is- make a reservation please visit appear in Greek or Aramaic, and for 10 years as one of the the Christian milieu of the of Western religion in these sues that the Dead Sea Scrolls www.JewishNorthOrlando. although the larger part is in editors of the journal Dead New Testament. Through most formative years. raise—God, Torah, Messiah, com/DeadSeaScrolls or call Hebrew. Linguistically, the Sea Discoveries. their biblical scrolls, we The scrolls could also help holiness—still powerfully 407-636-5994. In the huddle By Joshua Miller into our weekday routines. Even when I wasn’t on after playing only four games attended a Shabbat service or First person Saturday, of course, was the field, football was still a my junior year. I was born with dinner since high school, but game day. central part of my life. My the cyst, but I wasn’t aware of I decided to go. Football defined me. When we played in our friends were football play- it until sophomore year, when My worries disappeared For three years, I was an home stadium, my teammates ers. My conversations were I was at the peak of my college when I met other Jewish offensive lineman for the Stet- and I were greeted by the roar about football. My down time football career. students that Friday night. son Hatters Division I football of fans dressed in green and was spent watching profes- I was overcome with a mix We had meaningful conversa- team. We came together every white, our school colors. Our sional football or playing video of emotions—confusion, sad- tions about our interests and Saturday with one common away games took us across games related to football. It ness, emptiness, loneliness. our Judaism over Shabbat goal—to win. the country—North Carolina, was all I cared about. Football made me feel whole dinner. Our team had 100 players. Iowa, California. Football But my time as an offensive and purposeful. Unable to I realized that I liked Hillel, Early morning practices, made me feel like I was a part lineman was cut short. play, my self-esteem plum- and I wanted to become more roughly 2.5 hours each of something that was bigger A cyst on my brain forced meted. involved. I became a regular at weekday, were embedded than myself. me to call it quits on the field I asked myself, “Who am I Shabbat and began attending without football?” events, such as Stetson Hillel’s I was still in a rut when Chanukah celebration. I received a text message Becoming involved in Stet- Orlando Senior Help Desk from Sam Friedman, the son Hillel also helped me real- executive director at Stetson ize the importance of a Jewish Joshua Miller University Hillel. He wanted community in times of joy expands service area to meet me. and sorrow. A few days after Stetson Hillel gave me an Although I always felt a the synagogue shooting in opportunity to reconnect with By Lisa Levine represent the Help Desk at The connection to Judaism, it Pittsburgh last year, Stetson my Judaism. I discovered who Villages Fearless Caregiver had weakened over the years Hillel students organized a I was outside of football. And because most of my time was memorial service on campus, With the large and growing Conference, a complimentary football no longer defined me. dedicated to football. I decided held at the historic Holler number of seniors living in event for family caregivers Over time, Stetson Hillel to meet with Sam. We talked Fountain on a warm evening Lake and Sumpter counties, to help find the support and became my new team and about my upbringing, my in October. I was responsible where the sprawling The Vil- advice needed as they care the students—my friends— Judaism and my retirement for lighting each of the 11 lages development acts as a for their loved ones. The became my new teammates. from football. tea light candles we used to magnet for retirees, it was conference was sponsored by I realized that I didn’t have When Sam invited me to commemorate the victims. only natural that the Orlando Caregiver.com. to wear a jersey to feel that I spend Shabbat at Stetson It brought me closer to my Senior Help Desk began re- At the conference, was part of something bigger Hillel, I was hesitant. I hadn’t Jewish community at Stetson. ceiving more and more calls D’Agostino fielded questions than myself. from those areas. As staff pertaining to Medicare, find- researched and networked to ing low-cost prescription help callers find the answers medications, and key criteria they sought, it became clear when choosing a long-term- Heritage turned away that there is a large and unmet care facility, among other need in that region for the kind issues. She was able to help of in-depth and compassion- a number of conference at- from Tlaib event ate information and referral tendees find resources to Penny Goldstein services that the Orlando assist them and their loved D’Agostino offers a wealth By Christine DeSouza Emgage is an organization The Heritage reporter, Senior Help Desk provides. ones with ongoing difficulties of information to Orlando that seeks to “engage, educate however, was denied en- In response, the Help Desk related to aging. Senior Help Desk callers. Because her positions on and empower Muslim, South trance to the event, with has begun an effort to expand “It is the mission of the BDS, Israel, and the Jewish Asian and Arab American the explanation of “no me- its capacity to serve seniors Orlando Senior Help Desk to to all of the local callers. Now people have made Congress- communities through educa- dia allowed,” even though living in The Villages and its help as many seniors as pos- we’re able to expand our reach woman Rashida Tlaib a tional events, voter initiatives, nothing in the advertising surrounds. sible live in dignity and get to help many of our near controversial figure among and leadership development of the event or on the ticket Earlier in the year, the the resources they need to neighbors in The Villages, the freshman congressmen for the purpose of creating receipt mentioned that the Orlando Senior Help Desks ease the struggles of aging,” with a seniors population of and women in the U.S. gov- a community of equitable, event was not open to the began to promote its ex- said D’Agostino. “For all of the about 200,000.” ernment, Heritage wanted knowledgeable and motivated press. panded service area through years of its existence, we’ve The Orlando Senior Help to take the opportunity to citizens. Tlaib was the congress- participation in community received calls from people all Desk is a service of the Jew- hear and possibly interview “It is the first American woman who put a post-it note events. For example, in mid- over the country looking for ish Pavilion, which has been her at a recent Emgage Gala, Muslim lobbying organization labeled “Palestine” over the March, the Help Desk’s Penny help for their loved ones in held at the Crown Plaza in of its kind,” according to its state of Israel on a map when D’Agostino was invited to Central Florida—in addition Help Desk on page 15A Orlando. website. she took office. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 3, 2019 PAGE 3A What will Trump’s new UN pick bring to the pro-Israel community? By Jackson Richman Senate Majority Leader Mitch ‘She’s going to give it her all’ including Canadian Prime McConnell. While Craft, if confirmed, Minister Justin Trudeau. (JNS)—With U.S. President The U.N. ambassadorship would continue to echo the Her stances on Israel- nominating is expected to be downgraded Trump administration’s related issues such as the Iran Acting U.S. Ambassador to from a Cabinet-level position. stances at the United Nations, nuclear deal are unknown. the United Nations Jonathan Britt Brockman, a leader her style, according to Brock- Craft declined to be inter- Cohen to be U.S. ambassador in the Louisville Jewish com- man, would be quite different viewed by JNS ahead of her to Egypt, the nomination of munity, knows Craft and her than that of her outspoken nomination hearing. Kelly Craft, announced in husband personally, and has predecessor, Nikki Haley. Brockman isn’t the only February, might finally be served with her on the Uni- (Brockman offered nothing one looking forward to Craft’s submitted to the Senate in versity of Kentucky’s board but praise for Haley’s tenure, nomination. the near future. That would of trustees. which was highly regarded “With her previous ex- enable the continuation of the He told JNS that Craft was by Israel.) perience as part of the U.S. administration’s pro-Israel once with the American Israel “She would not be someone delegation to the 61st General agenda at Turtle Bay, which Public Affairs Committee on who’s trying to gain and get Assembly, Craft is no stranger has included calling out the a trip to Israel and has previ- the limelight, but [who] wants to the United Nations,” Israeli anti-Israel bias long associ- ously met Israeli Prime Min- to get the job done,” he said. Ambassador to the U.N. Danny ated with the United Nations, ister . “She works hard behind the Danon told Jewish Insider in as well as withdrawing from AIPAC has a longstanding scenes, not trying to get per- February. the U.N. Human Rights Coun- policy of not commenting on sonal glory.” “The sooner the ambas- U.S. Army Sgt. James K. McCann cil and defunding U.S. assis- presidential nominations. “I do not think that Am- sador steps in, the better it U.S. Ambassador to Canada Kelly Kraft meets with U.S. tance to the United Nations “She supports President bassador Craft takes any job is—not only for Israel, but Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Relief and Works Agency for [Donald] Trump’s positions lightly, and that she’s going for the U.S. and the stand- Chiefs of Staff. Palestine Refugees in the on Jerusalem being the capital to give it her all,” he added. ing for the U.S. at the U.N. Near East. of Israel and putting our em- “She’s going to use much I look forward to working job representing us as @ for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Craft, 57, who served as bassy there,” said Brockman. information. This has been with the new ambassador,” USAmbCanada and we know told JNS. “We expect that the a U.S. alternate delegate to “She supports the president’s her habit in every way I’ve he told JNS in March. “We she’ll be a strong voice for transition will be seamless, the United Nations under position regarding [Israeli ever known her, but she is are not worried that there America at the United Nations. ensuring continuing U.S. sup- U.S. President George Bush annexation of] the Golan going to be well-prepared, will be any change in policy #USstrong???????? https://t. port for Israel at the U.N. and and currently serves as U.S. Heights.” and if there are topics about whatsoever. co/5zude3JVXs its agencies. We wish her well Ambassador to Canada, has U.S. recognition of Jerusa- which she needs to be better “Congratulations to Kelly — Nikki Haley (@Nikki- and will miss her in Ottawa.” not made any public state- lem as Israel’s capital was de- prepared, she’ll surround Craft. She’s done a great job Haley) February 22, 2019 Brockman added, “I think ments about Israel or the clared by Trump in December herself with those who can representing us as @USAmb- “Kelly Craft is a com- she will espouse the view- U.S.-Israel relationship. The 2017, with the embassy move help her.” Canada and we know she’ll be a mitted friend to Israel, and points of the president and Kentucky native and her taking place five months later. In terms of style, Brockman strong voice for America at the we congratulate her on her vice president as relative to husband, Joe, who is a coal Trump announced the recog- said Craft “will bring her own United Nations. #USstrong,” appointment as U.S. Ambas- their views on Israel.” magnate, are major Republi- nition of Israeli sovereignty personality,” which he speci- tweeted Haley. sador to the United Nations,” In other words, he said, can donors, and are close to over the Golan Heights in fied as “subdued” but “very Congratulations to Kelly Shimon Koffler Fogel, CEO “I think there will be no fellow Kentuckian and U.S. March. well-received by leaders,” Craft. She’s done a great of the Toronto-based Centre surprises.” International funding platforms are severing ties with BDS-affiliated organizations By Sean Savage with both Donorbox and Plaid tion against companies that the German police. Odeh was group by the United States, In February, Israel’s Min- have been removed. continue supplying financial invited to Germany as a guest European Union, Canada istry for Strategic Affairs (JNS)—Several interna- Yifa Segal, director of the services to these affiliates,” speaker of Samidoun and and Israel. released a report titled tional funding platforms International Legal Forum, she said. forced to leave Germany after Many senior members of “Terrorists in Suits” that are severing ties with the told JNS that Samidoun is The action by the Interna- losing two court proceedings. Samidoun are also involved examined 13 international BDS organization Sami- clearly affiliated with the tional Legal Forum to target According to its website, in PFLP, including Khaled BDS organizations, and doun after its purported ties designated terror organiza- funding sources of Samidoun “Samidoun Palestinian Pris- Barakat, the founder of Sami- found that Hamas and PFLP to a Palestinian terrorist tion the Popular Front for comes as the group has been oner Solidarity Network is doun, who has headed foreign activists had infiltrated group. the Liberation of Palestine involved in a recent high- grassroots, unfunded organi- delegations for PFLP, as well organizations that call for According to an email (PFLP). profile case in Germany zation. We rely on the support as his wife, Charlotte Kates, Israeli boycotts, divestment obtained by JNS from the “I’m very happy that most regarding a convicted Pales- of people like you to make our who has been active in the and sanctions. International Legal Forum, of the providers we ap- tinian terrorist. work possible.” PFLP’s delegations, accord- Among the group’s pro- PayPal said it would “thor- proached were happy to On April 1, Rasmea Odeh, a However, Samidoun is ing to the watchdog group filed in the report included oughly review” Samidoun’s cooperate and comply with terrorist convicted of a bomb- the main advocate for the NGO Monitor. The group Samidoun, which the report account, and that it will “take the law. Supplying services ing attack that killed two release of Palestinian prison- is also active in organizing said “has a wide network further action as appropriate to a designated terror orga- Jewish students in 1969 and ers, many with ties with the anti-Israel events across the of ties with the Popular in this case.” nization is a serious crime, who was deported recently Popular Front for the Lib- United States, and many of its Front for the Liberation of Following similar com- and we reserve the right to from the United States, was eration of Palestine (PFLP), activists are leaders of Ameri- Palestine terrorist organi- plaints, Samidoun’s accounts undertake further legal ac- escorted out of Germany by which is designated as a terror can pro-BDS organizations. zation.” Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, killed in Poway attack, shielded rabbi By Gabrielle Birkner said Lisa Busalacchi, her Jewish chaplain at the San send this message to fight five different kinds of toma- and Marcy Oster friend since second grade. Diego Police Department. anti-Semitism.” toes”—and to talk politics, “It’s not like she gave a “Anti-Semitism is real and The rabbi told Lev that her friend recalled. POWAY, California (JTA)— million dollars for a building, is deadly,” Jacobs also wrote. Gilbert-Kaye saved his life, “She was a devout Trump Lori Gilbert-Kaye, who was but if someone was sick or “Hate crimes are real and according to the report. supporter,” Busalacchi said. killed in the attack at a someone died, she was the are deadly. Lori would have Apropos of nothing, Gil- “When he was running for Chabad synagogue near San first one there with food or wanted all of us to stand up to bert-Kaye would drop off office, she would toast” the Diego, is credited with jump- asking what she could do,” hate. She was a warrior of love gifts at her friends’ homes, president, “and after he won ing in front of the synagogue’s Busalacchi told the Jewish and she will be missed. May Busalacchi said. And she she would toast to that.” rabbi to shield him from the Telegraphic Agency in an Lori’s memory be a blessing.” didn’t send one card for a “Lori Gilbert-Kaye z’l [of gunman’s bullets. interview. Gilbert-Kaye was in syna- birthday or anniversary, she blessed memory] is a Jewish Gilbert-Kaye, 60, of San Busalacchi said that Kaye gogue on Saturday morning, sent three or four. hero, and will be remem- Diego, is survived by her was deeply committed to the the last day of Passover, to “Literally it was no less bered as a hero in Jewish husband and 22-year-old congregation, and had re- remember her late mother than three cards for every history,” Naftali Bennett, daughter. cently traveled to New York to during Yizkor, a memorial occasion,” Busalacchi said. Israel’s minister of Diaspora “Lori you were a jewel of attend the wedding of Rabbi service held on major Jew- Rare was the Friday night Affairs, said in a statement. our community a true Eshet Goldstein’s daughter. ish festivals, the San Diego that the Kayes did not have “She sacrificed her own life, Chayil, a Woman of Valor,” “It made sense that she was Union-Tribune reported. Her Shabbat guests—often there throwing herself in the path her friend Audrey Jacobs, a [at Chabad]; it was her whole husband, a physician, was in were 10 or more people at of the murderer’s bullets to Lori Gilbert-Kaye community activist, wrote life,” she said. synagogue with her. When he the table. She would invite save the life of the Rabbi. But in a post on Facebook. “You The rabbi was shot in both started to perform CPR on a friends to the family’s sukkah it is clear that such heroism Gilbert-Kaye’s Facebook were always running to do of his index fingers and re- victim and realized it was his on Sukkot, and host a break and good deeds are not only page is filled with posts a mitzvah (good deed) and quired surgery. He reportedly wife, he fainted, according to the fast after Yom Kippur. characteristic of dear Lori in raising funds for groups and gave tzedaka (charity) to continued speaking even af- the report. She made her own challah, death, but this is the way she individuals in need. Dozens everyone. Your final good ter being shot, and prayed for “God picked her to die to and recently forwarded a lived her life—at the heart of of people, mostly strangers, deed was taking the bullets unity and peace, and talked send a message because she’s Passover carrot kugel recipe her community, constantly left messages of condolence for Rabbi (Yisroel) Goldstein about remaining strong in such an incredible person,” to Busalacchi. doing charity and good deeds on her latest post raising to save his life.” the face of adversity and hate, her friend, Dr. Roneet Lev, Gilbert-Kaye loved to gar- for those in need.” funds for the Jewish charity No one was quite so Chabad.org News reported. told the newspaper. “He took den—“we’re talking eight Bennett also called her “a Chai Lifeline, where her sister thoughtful as Gilbert-Kaye, The rabbi also serves as a her for a higher purpose to different kinds of lettuce and true Hero of Israel.” works as West Coast director. PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 3, 2019 Is it still permissible to speak of a ‘Judeo-Christian heritage?’ By Jonathan S. Tobin Are they right? And even if they aren’t, in eschatology, what they had in common was far and Jew-hatred remains an integral feature this age of political correctness, is it worth greater than that which divided them. of the history of Europe to this day. But the (JNS)—You didn’t have to be French or it to try and defend an expression that is so Indeed, nothing embodied it more than same civilization that created that magnificent Catholic to see the devastating fire at Notre- clearly out of fashion? the story of the four U.S. Army chaplains—a cathedral is the foundation of so much else that Dame de Paris as a tragedy for all humanity. The answer is yes. It is worth defending pre- rabbi, a Catholic priest and two Protestant is great in our art, literature and public life. The horrifying video of the flames engulfing cisely because the notion of “Judeo-Christian” ministers—who gave up their life vests to It is bound up with Judeo-Christian thought, the 13th-century structure and the iconic values, heritage and civilization has become soldiers who might otherwise have drowned which springs from the Hebrew Bible and all spire falling prompted heartfelt laments from treated with such disdain by so many in the on a troopship sunk in the Northern Atlantic that followed from it. To deny the validity of a broad cross-section of persons, regardless chattering classes. by a German submarine, and who were last that tradition is to tear down the very founda- of background or faith, who saw the great It’s entirely true that the notion of a Judeo- seen, arms linked and praying together as tion of the West. cathedral as a symbol of the best of Western Christian tradition is relatively modern; in- they went down. To extol the Western civilization made pos- civilization, or as many of them put it, “Judeo- deed, its first use dates back only to the 19th Even in its heyday, when books such as sible by that tradition is not to deny that other Christian heritage.” century. For most of the first two millennia scholar Will Herberg’s classic “Protestant cultures produced great things. Nor does it Those words used to be considered an ano- of the history of Christianity, Christians saw Catholic Jew” expounded on the common deny adherents of other faiths the same rights dyne phrase that invoked the shared traditions their religion as essentially replacing Juda- religious culture that had been created in as Christians and Jews, or cover up a troubled of the West. But as conservative commentator ism and Jews as stubborn and threatening this country, there were those who pushed past. But to reject the importance and the Ben Shapiro learned, it’s now clear that they outliers. back against it. Some Christians were not unique nature of what the West created is a can only be used at one’s peril. Shapiro wrote It was only in the 20th century, when faced comfortable with the idea of different faiths not-so-subtle attack on a heritage of belief in on Twitter about Notre Dame, saying the event with the nihilism of and , as being treated as equally valid. Jewish scholar individual rights not found elsewhere. was “Absolutely heartbreaking. A magnificent well as the aggressive atheism of communism, Arthur A. Cohen also wrote of the concept as There is no higher mission for those who monument to Western civilization collapsing.” that unleashed violence aimed at destroy- something that had been created to essentially care about the future of free people everywhere That prompted a reply from Briahna Joy Gray, ing the modern world when many Jews and replace religion in his collection of essays than to defend the ideas and traditions of the Sen. Bernie Sanders’s press secretary, who Christians began to think that defending the published under the title “The Myth of the West. The history of the 20th century also wrote back: “Pretty sure it’s a monument to West was linked to a joint heritage created by Judeo-Christian Tradition.” teaches us that the defense of that tradition God but go off Ben.” Shapiro replied: “It is. both faiths. But the contemporary pushback against the is inextricably tied to the survival of the Jews, And that is why it is a central monument to The idea was a product of Enlightenment idea of Judeo-Christian heritage is different. who remain besieged by anti-Semitic and anti- Western civilization, which was built on the thinking that rejected strictly religious Part of this is politically motivated and Western ideologies that sought to exterminate Judeo-Christian heritage.” worldviews in favor of a common legacy of an effort to smear conservatives who wish us in the recent past, and who now rise again That set off a flood of replies, both on Twit- monotheism, ethics, literature and art. It was to preserve this tradition as alt-right white under the banner of radical Islam, as well as ter and in some liberal publications like The a liberal idea in the best sense of the word in supremacists. But it’s also a broader effort that of traditional left- and right-wing hatred. Washington Post, excoriating Shapiro and that it sought to overcome historic differences to diminish the idea that there is something If in the name of inclusion, revisionist his- anyone else caught using the phrase “Judeo- and to remind people of good faith that for exceptional about the specific culture produced tory and leftist ideology, we lose sight of all Christian” as racists and white supremacists. all of their disagreements over doctrine and by Europe. This is not so much an effort to that is great and worthy in the Judeo-Christian expand the idea of civilization beyond two traditions, then we will be sealing the fate of faiths, but an effort to denigrate the value of both the West and the Jews. what the West achieved. Jonathan S. Tobin is editor and chief of France breaks its silence France was a deeply anti-Semitic country in JNS—Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him on the 13th century, when Notre Dame was built, Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin. on radical Islam By Eldad Beck these incidents it was Christian structures Sanders slanders Israel... again and statues that were desecrated, though (JNS)—For years, French daily Le there were also a few dozen break-ins and By Ariel Bolstein The senator not only inflated the numbers Monde was one of the pillars of France’s incidents of property theft at churches across by several orders of magnitude, he even out- large-scale campaign of silence regarding the the country. (JNS)—Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), who did Hamas spokespeople in creating a false greatest problem the country, Europe and the The reasons for these anti-Christian attacks intends to run for president again in 2020, has narrative that the Israel Defense Forces was West in general have with radical Islam: Faced vary, according to the report, and they are added another “pearl” to his library of remarks intentionally attacking the civilian population. with increasing violence on the part of large often perpetrated by satanic cults, anarchists about Israel, characterizing its right-wing A year ago, when Hamas launched a serious immigrant Arab and Muslim communities in and neo-Nazis. But there is also evidence of government as “racist.” of riotous protests along the Gaza border, call- the Parisian suburbs, France’s elites and the anti-Christian activity by Muslims. As with his previous attacks, Sanders didn’t ing them “marches of return,” Sanders again local establishment have created an alternate It should be noted that France’s Christian explain his use of one of the worst insults that piped up with statements that were perfectly reality in which one cannot call the problem conservative media reported on the govern- exist in American and Western discourse. Aver- aligned with the terrorist organization’s posi- by its name. ment’s finding two weeks ago, prior to the Notre age onlookers (and there were tens of millions tion. In a TV interview, he called them peaceful Terrorism wasn’t really terrorism, but a Dame fire. Le Monde’s decision to reference of them because what he said was immediately protesters. What about the explosives devices reflection of an inferiority complex, cultural the report at this time is a sign that outside disseminated via social media and printed in thrown at the fence; the shots fired at Israeli differences and the challenges of assimila- the right-wing segments of French society the countless newspapers) were expected to simply soldiers; the vandalism to the fence itself; the tion. The constant cause of Muslim violence realization that silencing serious social and believe him. The problem is that there are kibbutz fields that were being set on fire by was eternal colonialism. Muslims could not security problems does not help resolve but millions who will. And worse, even those who arson balloons and kites; and the violation be murderers and criminals because they rather exacerbates them is beginning to seep don’t believe him will be influenced. of Israeli sovereignty? Sanders hadn’t heard were forever destined to remain victims of in. The French may have fought to separate The term “racist,” which the Vermont about any of this, and if he had, he refused Western supremacy and sovereignty. And, of church and state, but that does mean they senator applied to Israel by an irresponsible to believe it. course, the murder of Jewish men and women intend to bury their religion. flap of the tongue, will take root in the pub- But he does believe that Israel is a “racist” by Muslims is never an expression of Muslim The lesson here should be fairly straightfor- lic consciousness. Every time that Israel is state, despite the fact that it grants freedom anti-Semitism, but the result of temporary ward: Those who remain silent on the murder mentioned, the word will be associated with and equality to all its citizens, even those insanity brought on by the excessive use of and persecution of Christians in distant coun- it. That’s how propaganda works, and Sanders who openly declare that they aspire to see an drugs or the onslaught of an unexplained tries like Nigeria, Syria, Algeria, Indonesia and knows that very well. end to the Jewish state. Not surprisingly, as psychotic attack. Sri Lanka will find themselves persecuted at An analysis of Sanders’s previous comments the American public sphere was being truly With the trauma of the Notre Dame Ca- home. While there is no evidence that the about Israel demonstrates that insulting the polluted by racist comments about Jews by thedral fire still burning fresh in the nation’s Notre Dame fire was deliberate, the incident Jewish state is not a one-time slip-up by a Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Sanders rushed collective mind, Le Monde appeared to change has opened a Pandora’s box for the silencers demagogue senator trying to gather votes from to lend her a hand. In that case, like when direction, daring to publish the findings of a and the silent, sparking a public debate over the fringes of the Democratic Party. In Sand- he backed up Hamas’s claims, the fact that government report that determined that in the persecution of Christians in the very heart ers’s case, this is his approach; in everything Sanders is Jewish was a great boon for those 2018, France saw another dramatic increase of Catholic Europe. having to do with Israel, he isn’t deterred by who slander it. When a Jew hurls accusations in the number of anti-Christian attacks, This discussion should not stir hatred, but half-truths or even outright lies that reference at his own people or the Jewish state, it always including the desecration and destruction of it must redraw the borders of what French the worst anti-Semitic stereotypes. There are sounds more convincing. churches and cemeteries. society is and is not willing to tolerate. Those plenty of examples. That is nothing new, either—for anti- In 2018, France recorded 1,063 anti- who want to immigrate to France must adjust When Sanders wanted to win the Democratic Semites, Jews who turned on their own or Christian attacks compared to 1,038 the themselves to French society, and not the other nomination in 2016, he claimed that Israel had made up stories about them were always previous year. Over 1,000 attacks per year, Le way around. To the chagrin of our supposedly killed more than 10,000 innocent Palestinians, especially valuable. Monde emphasized in its report, meaning an liberal media, this should also hold true for had launched indiscriminate attacks in the Ariel Bolstein is the founder of the Israel average of three per day. This is in contrast the rest of Europe and Israel as well. Gaza Strip and had shelled hospitals in Gaza advocacy organization Faces of Israel. to the 541 reported anti-Semitic and 100 Eldad Beck is an Israeli journalist and during “Operation Protective Edge” in 2014. This column first appeared on Israel Hayom. anti-Muslim incidents reported over the same author. time. The report notes that in a majority of This article first appeared on Israel Hayom.

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The grief religious and cultural, and France is home to both the ment involving police of- Communist parliamentarian The Jewish-German phi- wracked not only Paris and therefore connected to both largest Jewish (600,000) and ficers in Nice who forced leader Andre Gerin sparked losopher Walter Benjamin the French nation, but quick- Christian and secular French largest Muslim (5.7 million) a woman to remove her the debate that ultimately spent his last days wander- ly reverberated around the identities. populations in Europe, the modest clothing was caught led to France’s niqab ban, ing through 1940s Paris, a world. Still, the paradox of a latter a result of large-scale on camera. In 2017, the far- citing “scandalous practices city that stole his heart but Under the gaze of its crum- cathedral rising as an icon postcolonial migration from right presidential candidate hidden behind the veil.” When ultimately betrayed him, bling gargoyle guards, Notre of contemporary French Morocco and Algeria whose Marine Le Pen built her cam- I visited Paris in February, as he perished fleeing the Dame has witnessed nearly a national culture cannot migrants arrived in France, paign around demonizing the so-called yellow vests occupation of the city by millennium of Parisian his- be overlooked in a country like my Jewish mother, in Islam, comparing Muslim attacked Jewish philosopher the Nazis. In his writings of tory. Its altar was a site for where “laicite”—the strict the 1960s. prayers to the Nazi occupa- Alain Finkielkraut in the the metropolis and beyond, the weddings of kings and separation of religion and Today, laicite appears in tion of France. She stood center of the city. Benjamin argued that every queens. Napoleon Bonaparte state—reigns. Christianity the news almost exclusively behind the “eat pork or go “Dirty Zionist, you’re go- destruction unleashes the crowned himself emperor be- is an unquestioned part of in relation to Islam. Be- hungry campaign,” which ing to die!” they declared. potential to construct some- neath its buttressed ceiling. European social life, whereas ginning in 1989, a lasting pressures schools to stop “France is ours.” thing new. In 1944, celebrations marked other religions are not. controversy nicknamed “the offering alternative meals to Who are “we” and what is The scarred Notre Dame the end of the German oc- French secularism in the headscarf debates” ensued, their Muslim (and, arguably, “ours” when many Muslims Cathedral, if not “ours,” is cupation. form of laicite was enacted as as Muslim girls were sus- Jewish) students. and Jews don’t feel secure in emblematic of human his- Underneath the stories law in 1905. It did not, how- pended or expelled from Jews are targeted as well France? tory—its crumbling and of heartbreak over a global ever, resolve religion-based schools across the country by re-emerging ethno-na- Notre Dame resides on an renovation, its unstoppable architectural wonder scarred tensions. At the very same for refusing to remove their tionalist discourses that cut island in the center of Paris, dynamism, that heartbreak by flames, however, is a time, France became em- headscarves. In 2004, all across the political spec- between the right and left can give way to promise. And story of contemporary so- broiled in the Dreyfus Affair, conspicuous religious sym- trum. Desecrated cemeteries banks. The global solidarity perhaps in this moment of cial fissures in France that with the Jewish Capt. Alfred bols were outlawed in public and spray-painted swastikas that its partial destruction reconstruction, France can reach far beyond an island Dreyfus wrongly accused of schools across the country. have become increasingly has invoked creates a pow- forge a place in its culture for on the Seine. The wounded espionage in a blatant, public In 2015, Sarah, a young girl common. In 2018, the same erful image as France—like religious minorities: redemp- cathedral reveals France’s act of anti-Semitism reveal- from Charleville-Mézières, year that Holocaust survivor much of Europe—grapples tion sought through neither deepest cultural rift: the ing deep national divides. even made The New York Mireille Knoll was murdered with rising discontent from stagnancy nor division. divide between France and Anti-Semitism has remained Times after being suspended in her Paris apartment, anti- both the left and the right. The views and opinions its religious minorities. a part of French society since: twice for wearing not a Semitic incidents in France Its burning shines a light on expressed in this article are Today, Notre Dame is both Historically it has been linked headscarf but a long black rose 74 percent. a raw reality of contemporary those of the author and do not a working religious sanctuary to conservative movements, skirt—“an ostentatious While anti-Semitism is French society: longing necessarily reflect the views and among the most visited including those championed sign” of her religious belief. largely blamed on France’s for redemption through a of JTA or its parent company, tourist sites in the world. The by the Catholic Church, In 2016, numerous beach Muslim populace, both anti- stagnant, mythic past—and 70 Faces Media. ADL distorts the annexation debate By Stephen M. Flatow nouncing “any steps by Israel ensue as a “result of annexing annexing the areas where towns? Why do the Jews still of that? I would like to see to annex territory in the West the West Bank.” the Palestinian Arabs live have to be governed by the just one shred of evidence— (JNS)—Some liberal Bank.” By paragraph nine, he was is not what Netanyahu was arbitrary and cumbersome from international law or American Jewish organi- But as the op-ed pro- dramatically warning that talking about. system of the old Israeli mili- the historical record or the zations are urging U.S. gressed, Jacobson’s language “the greatest threat to the What’s actually under dis- tary administration, while the Torah—to back up that claim. President Donald Trump to became more and more slip- continuing fulfillment of [the cussion concerns the 60 Palestinian Arabs get to live And if there is no evidence to oppose Israeli annexation pery. By the third paragraph, Zionist] dream would be the percent of Judea and Samaria under their own laws? support that claim, then there of any part of Judea and he had gone from “steps to annexation of the West Bank.” that Israel still rules. There are There are large swaths of should be no opposition to the Samaria. Some conserva- annex territory in the West Scary stuff—except that the only a small number of Arabs completely uninhabited land Jewish communities in Judea tive Jewish organizations Bank” to talking about out- so-called threat is imaginary. living there. They do not pose throughout Judea and Sa- and Samaria becoming part are urging the opposite. right “annexation of the West The reason the prime a demographic threat to Israel. maria. Anybody who has ever of Israel. Good. It’s time we had a full Bank”—that is, the whole minister isn’t talking about Within the Israeli-controlled driven in those territories has So please, Mr. ADL spokes- debate in the American Jew- thing. “annexing the West Bank” regions, there are many miles seen the empty countryside man, go ahead and make your ish community about this That’s a red herring because is because 40 percent of Ju- of uninhabited land. There with their own eyes. So even case, but do it honestly and issue. Serious dialogue and Israeli Prime Minister Benja- dea and Samaria is already are also a number of Jewish if you oppose extending Israeli responsibly. Quote your op- a meaningful conversation min Netanyahu never called occupied by the Palestinian communities. That’s the real law to Jewish communities, ponents accurately. Answer are long overdue. for “annexation of the West Authority. And that’s where issue—whether Israeli law what’s wrong with extend- the real questions. Engage in Unfortunately, the Anti- Bank.” What he actually said 98 percent of the Palestinian should be extended to those ing Israeli law to the empty a real debate. American Jewry Defamation League has got- was that he might propose Arabs live. Netanyahu is not communities. land? Who, exactly, would be and Israel deserve no less. ten the conversation off to a extending Israeli law to Jew- interested in having Israel Which brings us to the key harmed by that? Stephen M. Flatow, an poor start by distorting and ish communities in Judea and return to the pre-1995 situ- questions that the ADL and By saying that Israel should attorney in New Jersey, is misrepresenting some of Samaria. ation of governing all those its allies have so far failed to never annex any part of Judea the father of Alisa Flatow, the key facts that need to be Not content with having Arabs. That’s why the P.A. address: and Samaria, no matter what, who was murdered in an considered. altered Netanyahu’s words, was created in the first place. In 1995, the Palestinian Israel’s left-wing Jewish crit- Iranian-sponsored Palestin- In an op-ed in The Forward, the ADL spokesman then All the talk about “an- Authority extended its laws to ics appear to be taking the ian terrorist attack in 1995. ADL spokesman Kenneth proceeded to argue against nexation” leading to a “de- the cities in which 98 percent position that the claim of the His book, “A Father’s Story: Jacobson began by noting what Netanyahu didn’t say. mographic time bomb” and of the Palestinian Arabs live. Palestinian Arabs to Judea and My Fight for Justice Against that the ADL was one of the Jacobson listed all sorts of an “apartheid state” is non- So why can’t Israeli law be Samaria is superior to the Jew- Iranian Terror,” has just been signatories on the letter de- frightening things that might sense. The notion of Israel implemented in the Jewish ish claim. Where’s the proof published. ‘Deal of the century’: From the Golan to Judea and Samaria By Eyal Zisser tury is reportedly light-years for the Palestinians, Israel and It could have far-reaching solution by essentially remov- gain any traction, Israel will from the concessions that Trump, the distance is great. implications for the future of ing several central issues from be able to claim, justified from (JNS)—This coming June, previous administrations, Israel, too, particularly Israeli-Palestinian relations, the agenda for both sides, its point of view, that it cannot upon the conclusion of the from Clinton to Obama, were its right-wing camp, has ex- and more importantly, the chief among them the issue wait for the Palestinian side Muslim holy month of Rama- willing to grant them. U.S. pressed trepidation over the future of Israel itself. of Palestinian refugees. The any longer and wants to take dan, the Trump administra- President Donald Trump’s deal, which could call on the First, the details of the American plan, which calls unilateral steps in the spirit tion will supposedly unveil proposal makes no mention Jewish state to concede sig- plan will become the start- for refusing these refugees of the Trump plan, which the details of its so-called “deal of the creation of a Palestin- nificant portions of Judea and ing point for any future the right of return and set- administration will presum- of the century” to bring an ian state, and also makes no Samaria. While a Palestinian discussions about the con- tling them in their current ably support. end to the century-old Israeli- demand of Israel to withdraw state won’t be established in flict. And thus, instead of countries, could materialize And thus, 52 years after Palestinian conflict. Even be- from all of Judea and Samaria these areas, the Palestinian or in conjunction with the even without a final-status the Six-Day War in June fore its birth, however, many to pre-1967 borders. Authority’s presence there Clinton outline or former agreement and hence make 1967, June 2019 could bring have already been quick to Arab countries, which can’t could become legitimized as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud it easier to achieve one in the tidings of change, even to the bury the plan. After all, many afford to be viewed at home as a fact on the ground, recog- Olmert’s offer to P.A. leader future. point of another revolution of the relevant parties aren’t “selling out” the Palestinian nized by the international Mahmoud Abbas, Trump’s And finally, the Trump in the status of Judea and hiding their reservations, issue for a pittance in Ameri- community. plan will also be evoked and plan could give the Israeli Samaria. This revolution, some openly declaring they can economic aid, will follow The script, therefore, is al- used to significantly improve government an opportunity we can assume, will receive will refuse to accept it. in the wake of the Palestinian ready written: The Americans Israel’s bargaining position to advance its vision of apply- American recognition similar The Palestinians are look- rejection. Arab rulers would will propose the plan, which opposite future American ing Israeli law over swathes of to Trump’s recognition of ing on forlornly as their be happy, of course, to bring will be rejected or squandered administrations and even the Judea and Samaria, primarily Israeli sovereignty over the dream of having all their the Israeli-Palestinian con- and relegated to the dustbin of international community, the large settlement blocs Golan Heights. demands of Israel delivered flict to an end and turn their history as “another plan” in a which still views the Clinton with regard to which there Eyal Zisser is a lecturer on a silver platter by the in- attention to the real problems long line of them throughout and Olmert proposals as the is wall-to-wall consensus in in the Middle East History ternational community goes afflicting them, such as the the 100 years of conflict. basis for any Israeli-Palestin- Israel. Department at Uni- up in smoke. While it might Iranian threat or their failing But it would be a mistake to ian peace talks. In light of the Palestin- versity. seek to meet the Palestinians’ economies. But from there to a think that Trump’s deal will be Second, the Trump pro- ian rejection, which means This column first appeared desires, the deal of the cen- willingness to lie on the fence completely inconsequential: posal could pave a path to a Trump’s deal most likely won’t on Israel Hayom. PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 3, 2019 Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Orlando—Meeting with Dave Rowitt, 7 p.m. at The What’s A COMPREHENSIVE Roth Family JCC in the Senior Lounge. Cost: $5 for nonmembers. COMMUNITY LIGHT THURSDAY, MAY 9 Happening CALENDAR SHABBAT CANDLES AT The Roth Family JCC—Celebration of Israel Independence Day, 5:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m. This event For inclusion in the What’s Happening Calendar, copy must be sent on sepa- is free. 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Although the the “Double Simcha” by My husband, Larry, was bond proposal, which was companies. munication ceased. In the elderly man had shared none sponsoring both the oneg born the week that the State strongly supported. The In order to counteract mid-1960s, Rose received a of his past history, Aaron felt at our synagogue and the of Israel was born. For the rest following spring, the prime the Boycott/Divest/Sanc- letter from Aaron saying that a connection with his great refreshments at the Shalom of his life, his birthday celebra- minister traveled to New York tion movement, in 2016, the he was living in New York and nephew, who was attending Club, our community’s Jewish tion would be entwined with City to help launch the first organization launched a new wanted to reunite with his sis- Northeastern University in social club. G-d willing, Larry the founding of a new country. bond campaign. In the next initiative to counter campus ter. Larry’s parents met Aaron Boston. During Larry’s visits, and I will have many more In 1961, Larry’s entire year, bond sales totaled $52 anti-Israel activism activi- in New York City. After talking Aaron frequently asked Larry, occasions to celebrate Larry’s bar/bat mitzvah class and million, over twice as much ties. The alternative to the to Aaron and asking specific “How is Boston?” This made birthday and to appreciate his their families participated as initially believed could be Boycott/Diversity/Sanctions family-related questions, they the family believe, that Aaron connections to Israel. in a special presentation raised. Movement begun by Israeli were able to assure Rose that may have spent time there in Marilyn Cohen Shapiro, a conducted by Israeli Bond By Larry’s bar mitzvah in bonds is called the Bonds Aaron was indeed her brother. his “lost” years. In his mind, resident of Kissimmee, FL, is representatives. As a result, 1961, Israel Bonds had ex- Donated to Schools initiative A joyful reunion followed. Aaron believed Israel was still a regular contributor to the Larry’s parents, along with panded its network through- and encourages donation of Several years later, Aaron fighting the War of Indepen- (Capital Region NY) Jewish many other families at the pre- out U.S. and Canada. Along Israel bonds to universities. had a stroke, and Larry’s par- dence and questioned Larry World and the Heritage Flor- sentation, purchased several with the initial targets, the Simon Perez, past president ents relocated him from his often as to how the war was ida Jewish News. She is the bonds in honor of their son’s bonds also funded the coun- and Nobel laureate, stated apartment in New York City going. That made Larry and author of two compilations upcoming simcha. try’s industrial and agricul- “The strong ties between to a nursing home in Sara- his family aware how impor- of her stories, “There Goes While I was writing this tural sectors. Israel bonds and Israel has toga Springs. As his cognitive tant Israeli’s independence My Heart” (2016) and “Tikkun article, Larry wondered aloud In the following years, a been as resilient and fruit- abilities declined, Aaron only was to Aaron. Olam.” Marilyn Shapiro’s blog if Israel Bonds were still sold. series of wars, including the ful as the Land of Israel recognized one member of his Last year, when Larry and is theregoesmyheart.me. We were surprised to learn of Suez Crisis (1956), the Six Day itself. Philanthropist Warren its interesting history and its War (1967), the Yom Kippur Buffet recently recognized expansive role in Israel, the War (1973) and Persian Gulf Israel Bonds as a “deserved 3 LOTS ON ANZLE AVENUE | WINTER PARK United States and the world War (1991) brought in sales endorsement of a remarkable PRICED INDIVIDUALLY OR IN COMBINATION, TOTALING 17,545 SF today. that shattered the one billion country.” The brainchild of David dollar mark, a benchmark that Besides the coincidence of Ben-Gurion, the Development has continued through today. Larry being born the week Corporation of Israel was de- Initially, Israel Bonds of- “Israel has risen,” to quote veloped shortly after Israel’s fered one security. As the Ben-Gurion, and the push for War of Independence. The program became increasingly the purchase of Israel bonds war had wreaked havoc on the successful, multiple invest- prior to his bar mitzvah, there economy as well as the popula- ment options were made have been other family con- tion—more than 1 percent of available, ranging from $36 to nections that his family has the country’s population was a minimum of $25,000. to Israel that have touched killed. Furthermore, with What began as a predomi- him deeply. hundreds of thousand of im- nately Jewish investors intent Larry’s grandmother, Rose migrants pouring in from post on helping Israel with their Applebaum, was living in World War II Europe and the financial support became Russia in the early twentieth Middle East, the country faced more and more diversified. century with her parents food and housing shortages. Investors now include over and several siblings. 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Leading the seder enhanced each attendee’s For information on the facil- were Emily Block, associate experience. ity or to find out how you director of Jewish Student Life “The seder provided our can donate to KCOA, please for Hillel at Rollins College and residents and their families go to www.kinneretliving. Sharon Weil, director at Kin- an opportunity to gather on org or contact Sharon Weil at neret Council on Aging. The this special evening and to 407.425.4537, ext. 211. PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 3, 2019 What it’s really like for Palestinians at the Israeli checkpoints

Laura Ben-David Laura Ben-David Volunteers from the Institute for Zionist Strategies Blue & White Human Rights program Not every Palestinian crossing into Israel is going for work. Some 15 percent cross the check if Palestinians need assistance crossing into Israel. border for medical, educational or other purposes.

Laura Ben-David Laura Ben-David Nearly everyone who comes through the crossing has one thing in common: They’re Palestinian men wait by the side of the road near Checkpoint 300 in Bethlehem, minutes putting their belt back on after a security check. from Jerusalem. By Laura Ben-David them on my own. I’d heard places where Israeli soldiers stories of humiliation and humiliate the population BETHLEHEM, West Bank waiting, mostly on the in- whose movements they re- (JTA)—I believe in the Jewish ternational news. Of course, strict? people’s right to live in our I know why the crossings I had my chance to find homeland. That profound exist. I remember the first out when I went to take belief has no bearing on the intifada and lived in Israel photographs at Checkpoint rights of others to live here through the second one. 300, located in Bethlehem as well. The news too often featured near Rachel’s Tomb, mere There are Palestinians who blown up buses, bombed minutes from Jerusalem, live and work in the land of restaurants and nightclubs Israel’s capital. Although I see Israel, and while I may sel- that had become scenes of Palestinian workers every day, dom agree with the positions mass casualty. I never thought about where of their elected officials, the Because of the diligence they come from or what it Palestinians are certainly of the Israeli army, including takes them to get there. In entitled to live their own careful inspections at cross- my neighborhood, which is lives with the same dignity ings and various checkpoints over the Green Line, it is less as anyone else. on the roads throughout the of an issue since there is no I also believe in peace, and I West Bank and into Jeru- border to cross to get from deeply wish for peace for all of salem, bombs have largely a Palestinian village into my the Jews and Arabs who share been abandoned and terror own. But for the thousands of this tiny stretch of land. has gone low-tech. But it has Palestinians working within Recently I went out of my never gone away. Not long Israel proper, the only way to comfort zone and took a ago, a woman was caught get to work is through one of Laura Ben-David hard look at the things in my with a knife in a container the six checkpoints into the These commuters finally get to board their buses to their final destination. backyard that I always knew of Pringles at the Qalandiya country. were there but never thought checkpoint. Had she not been These checkpoints can Israeli woman, and I was there crossings that are staffed by conflict, it’s important to about. stopped and caught, she may potentially add many miles with a big camera, clearly not Israeli soldiers (other check- understand the people and Every day, over 80,000 well have killed someone with onto a commute, not to a Palestinian looking to cross points are run by private se- the everyday experiences Palestinians cross into Israel. that knife. mention the additional time into Israel. curity firms) in the mornings involved—not just the politi- Eighty-five percent of them But still I had questions: spent waiting to get through But I also wasn’t an 18-year- to see the facts on the ground cians and leaders. These pho- are men who work in Israel. Are the crossings really mere the actual checkpoint, and old Israeli soldier staffing the and offer assistance to Pales- tos humanize the Palestinians The rest come for medical, ed- security barriers, similar to then waiting for organized crossing, asking people to tinians with any issues they in a way that Israelis don’t ucational or other purposes. airports where those with ne- transportation, which is remove their belts and scan- may have dealing with Israel. often see and force us to see Though I knew about the farious intentions are caught? the only way Palestinians ning their bags—no different A refreshing sight indeed. a glimpse of the endless wait- border crossings, I never saw Or, as some claim, are they can get from the crossing from what any security agent I started photographing the ing that is their plight. There to their destination within would do in any airport or people tentatively, afraid they are few experiences more Israel. border crossing around the would be hostile—or worse. I frustrating, and human, than What I was first struck by world, mind you, but perceived imagined them seeing me as waiting. I hope that seeing on that early morning was the by many Palestinians as any- the enemy. Perhaps they did. these photos will help others mass of Palestinian men, well thing from an unwelcome But once I became comfort- humanize Palestinians — not over a thousand, all milling inconvenience to threatening able, I found the reactions to see them as the enemy or as Custom Printing Invitations & Announcements Digital & Offset Printing Brochures & Booklets about. I was told that this and aggressive. my presence ranging from the victim, but as people just Direct Mail Services Forms & Letterheads was ordinary. Some were pac- Aside from a few Israeli none to mild interest, and like you and me. 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Lillian Berkowitz (Actually, almost 2 weeks after the event that shook me community to celebrate at Dunkin Donuts, 1296 S Woodland • Stetson University Carlton to the core). the Israel Independence Day Union • Deland Chamber of Commerce • Sterling House, 1210 In 2006, my late spouse and I visited Notre Dame Cathe- Festival from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 9th. Stone St • Temple Israel, 1001 E New York Ave • Beth Shalom, dral in Paris, France. (Of course, not for religious purposes, There will be Israeli dancing, choir performances, Israeli 1310 Maximillan St • Deltona City Hall • Deltona Library • rather because we considered it one of the wonders of the food, kids activities and more. Temple Shalom, 1785 Elkam Dr. • Temple Israel, 1001 E world and because it is more than 8 centuries old.) Contact ROBBY ETZKIN at 407-645-5933 for further New York Ave, Deland • College Arms Apt, 101 Amelia Ave, I hope it will be rebuilt... and soon, so my children and details. Deland • Boston Gourmet Coffee House, 109 E. New York Ave, grandchildren can visit. Deland • Stetson University Carlton Union, 421 N Woodland And speaking of Paris... Ave, Deland • Family Bookstore, 1301 N Woodland Ave, Deland According to the World Jewish Congress, “In Europe, • Deland Chamber of Commerce, 336 Woodland Ave, Deland Judaism is once again under attack.” • Deland City Hall, 120 S Florida Ave, Deland • Beth Shalom, In Paris, Brussels and Copenhagen, Jews have been mur- 206 S. Sprng Garden Ave, Deland • Orange City Library, 148 dered on the streets. Albertus Way, Orange City • Boston Gourmet Coffee House, In numerous locations across the continent, Jewish cem- 1105 Saxon Blvd, Deltona • Deltona Library, 2150 Eustace Ave, eteries, synagogues and memorials have been desecrated Deltona • Temple Shalom, 1785 Elkam Dr., Deltona • Deltona with swastikas. Community Center, 980 Lakeshore Dr, Deltona • Debary City And reminiscent of the 1930s, black-shirted neo-Nazis Hall, 16 Colomba Rd, Debary • Debary Library, 200 Florence are marching, openly espousing their anti-Semitic vitriol K. Little, Debary once again. Most recently, hundreds attended a march in Sofia, OSCEOLA COUNTY , to celebrate the legacy of Hristo Lukov, who was Cindy M. Rothfield, P.A., 822 W. Bryan St., Kissimmee • Most complicit in the deportation of more than 11,000 Jews from Publix Supermarkets • Verandah Place Realty, 504 Celebration Greece and Yugoslavia to meet their deaths in Treblinka. Ave., Celebration • All Winn Dixie Supermarkets • St. Cloud This march is now an annual affair that features dark-clad City Hall, 1300 9th St, St. Cloud • St. Cloud Library, 810 13th demonstrators, often clutching torches. (Reminds me of Hannah Hausman St, St. Cloud • Southern Oaks, 3865 Old Canoe Creek Rd, St. Virginia.) Cloud • Plantation Bay, 4641 Old Canoe Creek Rd, St. Cloud But anti-Semitism in Europe is not only perpetrated A new star is born... • Osceola Chamber of Commerce, 1425 Hwy 192, St. Cloud • by booted, black-shirted thugs... it also comes delivered I’m referring to lovely HANNAH HAUSMAN, who has Valencia College, 1800 Denn John Ln, Kissimmee • Kissimmee by seemingly respectable people under the guise of the relatives across the United States, including right here in City Hall, 101 Church St, Kissimmee • Kissimmee Library, 211 growing Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, Central Florida. E. Dakin, Kissimmee • Robinson’s Coffee Shop, 114 Broadway, which is gaining momentum and threatens the economic Hannah has inherited the talents of her mother, ESTHER Kissimmee • Osceola County Courthouse, 2 Courthouse Sq, existence of Israel. and father, KEN, and especially the beautiful voice of her Kissimmee • Barnies, 3236 John Young Pwy, Kissimmee • (We cannot stand by in silence as Jews die in Europe, and maternal grandmother, VICTORIA, who is no longer with us. Reily’s Gourmet Coffee, 3831 Vine St, Kissimmee • Shalom neo-Nazis and anti-Semites march through our streets in Hannah currently has two terrific CDs “Honey & Soul” Aleichem, 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd, Kissimmee • Books-A-Million, the same dangerous manifestation of the very ideology that and “Ripe Fruit” available and I have heard them and thor- 2605 W. Osceola Pwy (522), Kissimmee • Lower East Side Deli, brought about the near destruction of European Jewry. We oughly enjoyed them! 8548 Palm Parkway, Lake Buena should not tolerate any form of anti-Semitism that threat- (By the way, all the songs were written by Hannah and ens the Jewish state. And little by little, the United States her talented partner, JACK HANSON.) is becoming as threatened. BE AWARE!) Shout-Out... Our precious holiday of Passover recently passed. But, our And speaking of music, those of us who attended the Sudoku (see page 14A for solution) exodus from Egypt was not the end of our story. Rather, it is April 14th COS Seniors show featuring WILLIE CINTRON the beginning of a historic struggle that continues to this (Willie “C”) were delighted with his talent! day. So while we retold the story of Passover this year, and He is truly an entertainer extraordinaire and worthy of celebrated the freedom of the ancient Israelites, an increas- this praise... and he sang songs that we all remember and ing number of Jews around the globe are facing intolerance, understood. (No crap... oops, rap.) harassment and violence... and the situation seems to be One for the road... worsening. Let us remember that all Jews are responsible A Gabbai approaches a guest in the synagogue and says, for one another. Together, we must remain vigilant against “I want to give you Aliyah. What’s your name?” the resurgence of anti-Semitism, which is rearing its ugly The man answers, “Rifka bat Jacov.” head around the world, including in the United States. The Gabbai says, “No, I need your name.” (With Pesach over, now is the time to call attention to the The man says, “I told you, it’s Rifka bat Jacov.” urgent threats that many Jews still face on a daily basis.) The Gabbai asks, “How can that be your name?” A reminder... The man replies, “I’ve recently been in some serious finan- On Sunday, May 5th at 2 p.m. in the senior lounge of the cial difficulties and so everything is now in my wife’s name.” ZOA condemns Islamic massacre of 300 (ZOA)—Zionist Organiza- who were the victims of the ton, Senator Bernie Sanders, By contrast, after the hor- tion of America President worst terror attack since 9-11. and Congresswoman Ilhan rendous New Zealand mas- Morton A. Klein and ZOA As Klein recently testified in Omar all failed to name both sacre, Obama specified that Chairman Mark Levenson, Congress, and in keeping with the Islamic perpetrators and he grieved with “the Mus- Esq. released the following Egyptian President Abdel the Christian victims of the lim community.” Secre- statement: ZOA condemns Fattah El-Sisi’s famous 2015 massacres in Sri Lanka. For tary Clinton likewise called the Islamic terrorists of the speech calling for a “religious instance, instead of acknowl- the victims “Easter worship- National Thowheeth Jama’ath revolution” among Muslims, edging that the victims were ers.” Sanders merely tweet- Islamic terrorist organization, Imams at the leading Islamic Christians, or the Muslim ed about “victims” with no and the international Islamic center of Al Azhar University, identity of the perpetra- attempt at identifying them terror group suspected of as- and throughout the world, tors, Obama called the Sri or the perpetrators. Omar sisting them, for perpetrating must take the lead in reform- Lanka massacres “attacks on likewise avoided identifying the horrific multiple bomb- ing Islam so that murder and tourists and Easter worship- victims and perpetrators. ings of Catholic churches and terror attacks in the name ers” and “an attack on human- We cannot solve the prob- tourist hotels in Sri Lanka on of Islam are no longer ac- ity.” Commenters justifiably lem of Islamic terrorism Easter Sunday. We mourn ceptable. wondered “Do we have people unless we acknowledge it, and pray for the nearly 300 ZOA is also appalled that who worship Easter?,” and confront it, and call upon murdered and 500 wounded former President Obama, “Why can’t you call them Muslim religious officials to mostly Christian innocents, former Secretary of State Clin- what they are... Christians?” lead widespread reform. PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 3, 2019 5 Jewish things to know about By Ron Kampeas the audience called him a Biden represents a state, Biden, born in 1942, to look at her. I said, ‘The must do? We are grateful “mensch.” Biden went on to Delaware, with a Jewish popu- likes to recall a childhood picture you paint.’ She said, for the assistance we have WASHINGTON (JTA)— describe the pile of yarmul- lation estimated at 15,000. memory of his salesman ‘Oh, don’t worry. We have’—I received, but we are not to Joe Biden, a born and raised kes he had accumulated from How deep is Biden’s Jewish father, Joseph Sr., and the thought she only said this be threatened. I am a proud Roman Catholic who likes to attending Jewish events. record? So deep that it was international debate in 1948 to me. She said, ‘We have a Jew. Three thousand years cross himself when making Goodness knows, he’s hard to pick just five Jewish over whether to endorse secret weapon in our conflict of culture are behind me, a point, knows what faith been collecting them for a things to know about him. the existence of the new with the Arabs. You see, we and you will not frighten he would be if he were ever while, and his Jewish ties Here are his greatest hits, State of Israel. Typically he have no place else to go.’” me with threats. ” overcome with doubt about run deep: One of his first sure to be repeated now that leavens the tale with details Biden has a Jewish Biden was chastened his own. overseas visits in his long Biden, 76, announced on suggesting a raucous Irish- family. He jokes about enough that two years later “If I’m going to switch, I career as a senator was to Thursday that he is entering American upbringing in it. But it’s complicated. he appeared at the annual know where I’m going,” the Israel, on the eve of the 1973 the stakes for the Democratic which folks liked talking over Biden has three children conference of Herut Zion- former vice president said Yom Kippur War. presidential nomination. one another more than they who grew to adulthood. (His ists of America (Herut was in 2016 at an Ohio politi- Which is all the more re- He learned pro-Israel did eating. first wife, Neilia, and a baby Begin’s original party) and cal event when someone in markable considering that from his dad. “My education started, daughter, Naomi, died in a blamed the impasse in as some of you know, at my car crash right after his 1972 Middle East peace on Saudi father’s dinner table,” Biden election to the Senate.) Arabia, Jordan and the Pal- said at an American Israel Two of them married Jews: estine Liberation Organiza- Public Affairs Committee an- , whose mother tion. Biden’s pledge then: nual conference in 2013. (“As was Neilia, married Hallie “My first order of business “ ” some of you know” was an Olivere. Ashley Biden, his in the new Senate will be understatement: Many folks daughter with his second to educate my colleagues When I DO becomes on the pro-Israel circuit have wife, Jill, married Howard on the financial sacrifices memorized Biden’s Jewish Krein. Israel has made as a result anecdotes, but that doesn’t “By the way, I’m the only of Camp David.” diminish the applause.) Irish Catholic you know who In 2010, a matured Biden “ ” “We gathered at my dinner had his dream met because figured out passive ag- I'M DONE. table to have conversation, his daughter married a Jew- gressiveness worked better and incidentally eat, as we ish surgeon,” he said at that than fist banging when it were growing up. It was at 2016 Ohio political event. came to settlements. On a that table I first heard the This is where it gets com- friendly visit to Israel, Biden phrase that is overused plicated: Beau died of cancer was surprised to learn that MARK LANG & ASSOCIATES sometimes today, but in a in 2015. Hallie subsequently Prime Minister Benjamin sense not used meaningfully had a romantic relationship Netanyahu’s government Divorce & Family Law | LANGLAW.NET | Oces: Winter Park enough—first I heard the with his younger brother had announced new build- phrase ‘Never again.’ (also a son of Neilia), Hunter, ing in eastern Jerusalem. “It was at that table that who was splitting up with his Biden’s payback? He made I learned that the only way wife, Kathleen. (It’s not clear Netanyahu wait 90 minutes to ensure that it could never if the relationship with Hallie for a dinner meeting. happen again was the estab- precipitated the divorce.) 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Gaza see remarkable growth Orlando Weekday Morning Minyan (Conservative/Egalitarian), services Monday- 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. Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. JewishCelebration.org; 407-479-8377. Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, 321-777-2770. Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. Aerial photo of new neighborhoods being built in the Halutza communities of the Gaza betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. Envelope. Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. By Eliana Rudee ager of Avshalom Industrial point and source of attraction congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Park. He told JNS, “There is for tourists in the northern Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; (JNS)—During times of a problem with transportation Negev, planted by the Jewish Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. when there are red alerts; National Fund, the Israel Na- tension and violence between Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; Gaza and Israel, international meetings are cancelled be- ture and Parks Authority and media tends to focus primarily cause nobody wants to drive the Regional Council. Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. on the latest destruction and on the roads.” Amid the economic op- Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, deaths, especially in Gaza, “Businesses in the region portunity, quality of life and Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. compared to the deep psycho- already experience challenges fulfillment of the Zionist Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. logical consequences of war. being far from infrastructure, vision, Oppenheim acknowl- “If it bleeds, it leads” as New and then when you add snipers edged that there are many bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. York magazine journalist Eric and bombs to that, we see a challenges living and owning Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation Pooley once said. negative impact,” he added. businesses in the region. holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. But even rarer than dia- Even so, Maimon has wit- “Kites, riots and rockets com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. logue regarding long-term so- nessed the growth of com- grate on us,” he said. “If I cial consequences of violence munities and companies in haven’t slept in two days Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; is post-conflict discourse of the region, as well as business because my house has been www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. the economic consequences cooperation with those com- shaking, my kids won’t sleep Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., of tensions and terrorism. panies, “not just as a charity at night, so I don’t sleep. I Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. In the context of the recent case, but as a good business can show up to work, but I economic growth of Israel’s decision.” won’t be very productive,” he Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; Gaza Envelope region, rockets ‘Making the desert explained. www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th represent a serious chal- bloom’ With trauma caused by Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. lenge—not only to the physi- Similarly, according to the rockets, he continued, Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. cal and emotional well-being Itzhak Oppenheim, American sometimes his employees’ of families in the area, but also expat and owner of a medical- children don’t feel well, and Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- for the economic well-being of device factory in the Gaza instead of going to school, the 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. the region. Envelope, economic growth parents will bring the children Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- in the region increases by 5 into work. Over the past year, the 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. Gaza Envelope population has percent to 7 percent every “This also economically increased, and with it, positive year—double the rest of the impacts a business from a Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for signs of economic growth. country’s growth rate of about productivity standpoint,” he services and holiday schedules. Despite the threat of spillover 3 percent. He described what said, adding that as “a small- Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303A N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation- from the Palestinian “March the region was like five or six business owner with a heart sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. of Return” on the Gaza border years ago as “the American and living in the area, I try that has taken place nearly equivalent of Wyoming, with to understand my employees’ Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- every Friday for a year, in that a lot of sand, dust, and some struggles and let them come Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv same time frame more than agriculture, but not much in on a flexible schedule.” Please call for times. 50 families have relocated to beyond that.” To improve quality of life the Gaza Envelope area—20 But in the last year, Op- during difficult times, Op- Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- to the Kerem Shalom border penheim told JNS, he has seen penheim also mentioned Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. community alone. A new startups moving to the region, contributions from the gov- Temple Beth El (R) / Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-675- mayor was elected in Sha’ar including a food-technology ernment and organizations 6615 / 386-252-3097; Friday Shabbat Service 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. Hanegev, Ofir Libstein, whose company, a brewery, and a like JNF that promote growth platform and vision focuses on medical-device research and and jobs in the area. Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. boosting economic growth in development center. “I spend a lot of time on Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat the region. Several hundreds “I have seen a tremendous the road, and at every bus service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. of new housing developments influx of employees moving stop, there’s a bomb shelter,” Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. are being built in Sderot and here seeking economic op- he said. “When I see someone the surrounding communi- portunities, to continue the being paid to paint the bomb mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; ties, and new businesses have Zionist vision and [seek] a bet- shelters, I not only see that Thursday, 10:00 a.m. emerged to diversify the local ter quality of life here than in my employees will be more Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: industry. Tel Aviv,” he maintained, not- comfortable driving on the Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. Clearly, the communities in ing that there’s high demand roads and knowing they’ll be the Gaza Envelope are seeing to live in the Eshkol region, safe, but I also see regional Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. the fruits of their focus on with a waiting list for many of opportunity and growth.” Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; economic development. the moshavim and kibbutzim ‘Building the periphery’ Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. But while they have spent (communities reminiscent Yedidya Haroush, JNF the past year moving forward, of Israel’s pioneering, agri- liaison for Negev community Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. when tension increases—as cultural and close-knit com- development, observed simi- Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. the communities witnessed in munal beginnings). lar regional economic growth, templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by the most recent bout of Pales- Oppenheim moved from challenges and motivations Torah study. tinian rockets in March—the Jerusalem to B’nei Nitzarim, after moving to the Halutza region’s businesses are often a community fewer than 15 community in the Negev. Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road thrown back into disarray. kilometers (10 miles) south According to Haroush, his 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 Rockets introduce various of Gaza, because of the higher community—largely com- p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. challenges to continued eco- quality of life and actualizing prised of families relocated Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. his “Zionist vision” of “mak- from Gush Katif, Haroush’s nomic growth, especially for shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. the shipping and manufactur- ing the desert bloom by living family included—has grown ing industries that are com- somewhere where nobody since late 2009, thanks to a Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, mon in the south. has lived,” he said, recalling partnership with JNF. With 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, “Security issues and red his “sand driveway” when he the vision of “helping people 7:30 p.m. alerts have a negative impact moved in. and providing jobs,” the proj- Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. on regional economic devel- “And now we have the ects have “allowed us to build opment,” said Ofer Maimon, best park in all of Israel,” he a state-of-the-art medical tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. CEO of Eshkol Regional En- said, referring to the HaB- (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa terprises Company and Man- sor National Park—a green Gaza on page 15A PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 3, 2019 UNRWA schools continue teaching Palestinian children to wage war on Israel

By Shlomo Deutsch Campbell attacked Singh Arnon Groiss, an expert on calling Campbell’s accusation textbooks do not mention ‘Preparing children for war’ for providing “vague and un- Arabic-language education, to “inaccurate and misleading.” “Israel” even once; instead, David Bedein, director of (JNS)—Elizabeth Camp- substantiated criticism” that examine and translate all Pal- Up until 1967, Jordan and the Jewish nation has been the Center for Near East Pol- bell, head of the Washington UNRWA fosters extremism. estinian Authority textbooks Egypt oversaw the education replaced with the “Zionist icy Research, has conducted Representative Office for the She called the claim an “old used in UNRWA schools ever of Palestinians in the West Occupation.” extensive research on the United Nations Relief and repetition of an untruth,” and since the Palestinian Author- Bank and Gaza, respectively. Fifth-graders, as part of operations and motivations of Works Agency wrote a piece asserted that the 715 UNRWA- ity began producing its own The books were filled with their Islamic-education class, UNRWA in the last 30 years. on April 5 in The New York run regional schools present a materials in 2000. anti-Israel and anti-Semitic are taught that holy sites He noted that from 1993 to Times in response to an April 2 positive approach to conflict In an interview with Groiss material. like the Western Wall have 2000, during the first seven article in the same newspaper resolution, tolerance and hu- at the Center for Near East In 1967, Israel continued no connection to Jews: “The years of the peace process by Michael Singh of the Wash- man rights. Policy Research, he said he using the same books, yet de- Al-Buraq Wall is part of between Israelis and Palestin- ington Institute of Near East The Center for Near East was “astonished” to read leted the obvious anti-Semitic the western wall of Al-Aqsa ians, it was thought that the Policy, which characterized Policy Research in Jerusalem Campbell’s description of and anti-Israel parts. The Pal- Mosque and it is an absolute publishing of school books UNRWA education as teaching draws different conclusions. Singh’s criticism as being estinian Authority replaced right of the Muslims alone,” overseen by the Palestinian extremism. The Center has retained Dr. vague and insubstantial, Egypt and Jordan in ministry instruct the textbooks. In Authority was going to be a of Palestinian education in their social-studies textbooks, catalyst for peace. 1994 and reintroduced the eighth-grade students are Instead, Bedein told JNS, he pre-1967, uncensored books. prompted: “Let us think and has never once found a Pales- Due to complaints from Israel, discuss: I will compare the tinian textbook that promoted the P.A. proceeded to publish tragedy of the red-skinned peace with Israel—or even 240 of its own textbooks from Indians, the original inhab- mentioned Israel or Israelis 2000-06 to form a curriculum itants of America, and the in a positive light. Rather, meant to be more balanced tragedy of the Palestinian he observed that the books towards Israel. people.” While learning Ara- promote a Palestinian state Presents Groiss issued a series of bic, ninth-graders read a story not alongside Israel, but to reports, from 2000 until that mentions a “barbecue replace Israel entirely. SAVVY SENIORS ISSUE 2010, where he evaluated the party”—that is, a bus in the He expressed his frustra- newer P.A. curriculum and Psagot “colony” (a Jewish tion with UNRWA’s passive presented his findings to all settlement in the West Bank) stance on the matter, citing an May 31, 2019 donor nations, to the P.A. and being burned by Molotov unprecedented U.S. Govern- to UNRWA. cocktails (presumably filled ment Accountability Office These reports, posted at with people). report, declassified in Febru- Central Florida's Fastest Growing www.israelbehindthenews. And third-graders are ary, which concluded that the com, documented that the taught in a national/social- U.S. State Department had Segment of the Jewish Community new P.A.-UNRWA curricu- upbringing class that Jeru- been lying by issuing false lum carried an extreme salem has no historical or assurances that the United anti-Israel message, despite modern-day connection to States had been preparing A new supplement for the new millennium, Savvy Seniors will provide the assurances of the U.S. Jews: “Jerusalem is an Arab peace materials for UNRWA informative and thought provoking articles of interest to our growing UNRWA representative Eliza- city built by our Arab ances- schools. senior population. beth Campbell, who used to tors thousands of years ago. Bedein discredited UNRWA, oversee UNRWA policies for Jerusalem is a holy city among saying it is a “U.N. agency Seniors need and use a variety of products and services. Make sure the U.S. State Department. 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Sussita Excavations expedition/University of Haifa The ancient milestone marker found in Moshav Ramot in 2018 has finally been deciphered. (JNS)—A large stone ar- last month, utilizing the tifact that once served as a simple, old-school method of decoration in the garden of paper rubbing. a home in Moshav Ramot Greek epigrapher Stab has been identified as a is a new member of an ar- rare Roman-era milestone chaeological team engaged inscribed with the name of in a 20-year excavation of Roman emperor Maximinus the Kinneret-region site of Thrax, a commoner who Sussita. briefly became leader of Rome The new marker would have 1,800 years ago. been placed somewhere be- The marker is one of three tween Sussita and the Golan. discovered in 2018 in the small Maximinus was born to an agricultural town of Moshav average Roman family around Ramot in the Golan Heights. 173 C.E., and rose up through When they were created, the the ranks of the Roman army markers were erected approxi- to lead the Italian Fourth Le- mately every mile along the gion. He was elected emperor nearly 1,000 miles of road the by the Praetorian Guard, an Romans laid down in Israel. elite unit of the Imperial Ro- Upon discovery, Haifa Uni- man army whose members versity set about to decipher served as personal bodyguards the Greek inscription chiseled to the Roman emperors, in into the item using state-of- 235 C.E. the-art technology, but were Just three years later, his unable to determine what it troops deserted him while said. Ultimately, Gregor Stab marching on Rome, and he from Cologne University was and his son were executed by able to crack the riddle just rebellious troops. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 3, 2019 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs

Florida Passover guests Congress members called on Irving for next 5 years to Sri Lanka dovish J Call group styled ognized a Dutch couple as left in the lurch when the Department of Homeland By Marcy Oster By Marcy Oster after the J Street lobby in the Righteous Among the Nations program organizer fails Security to admit Israel into (JTA)—British Holocaust JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel United States. for hiding two Jewish boys to pay resort or vendors a program that allows some denier David Irving has been issued a travel warning of a In February, police ex- during the Holocaust. By Josefin Dolsten of its visitors expedited entry barred from entering Lithu- “high and concrete (terror) tracted Finkielkraut from a A ceremony was held Mon- (JTA)—Guests at a Pass- into the United States. ania for the next five years. threat” in Sri Lanka. hostile crowd after he was day at the Holocaust remem- over program in Florida faced Reps. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., The ban, announced on The warning issued by recognized on the street brance center in Jerusalem eviction after it emerged and Brian Mast, R-Fla., sent a Wednesday, was requested by the Israel National Security by participants of so-called for Jantje and Johannes Krijl. the organizer owed at least letter Wednesday to the acting the country’s Foreign Minis- Council’s Counter-Terrorism yellow vests demonstrations One of the boys saved, Ger- $75,000 to the resort, vendors Homeland Security secretary, try, according to reports. Bureau on Thursday, four days over the cost of living. His shon Eisenmann, was on hand and staff. Kevin McAleenan, urging him “Irving’s views and his after a terror attack at eight assailants called him a “dirty along with his family. The late The A Different Pesach to admit the Jewish state into efforts to trivialize the Ho- churches and hotels in three Zionist” and told him to “go Mechel Jamenfeld, the other program had promised guests the Global Entry program locaust are unacceptable cities in Sri Lanka killed at back to Tel Aviv.” boy saved, was represented would stay in private villas in for “pre-approved, low-risk and constitute a crime in least 359 people and injured Netanyahu says he wants by his wife. Orlando with shared com- travelers.” Lithuania,” ministry spokes- hundreds, called on Israelis to name a new commu- The award was presented to munal spaces, including a “Israel’s full participation woman Rasa Jakilaitiene told already in Sri Lanka to leave nity on Golan Heights Sandra Krijl, a granddaughter synagogue tent, and kosher in this program would grow reporters. as soon as possible and for after Donald Trump of the rescuers. food for the eight days of the U.S. economy, strengthen The announcement comes those planning trips to cancel By Marcy Oster Jamenfeld and Eisenmann Passover. national security at each of more than a month after or delay those plans. JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is- became very attached to But after hundreds of our borders, and increase Irving advertised that he It is the bureau’s second raeli Prime Minister Benjamin each other while in hiding at guests arrived, it emerged that opportunities for people- will lead a tour of Nazi death highest warning. Netanyahu wants a new com- the Krijls, according to Yad program owner Ben Atkin had to-people exchange, which camps in , including The decision to issue the munity on the Golan Heights Vashem. Jamenfeld’s parents not paid for all the expenses, bolsters our already unique Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec warning came in consultation named for Donald Trump. were killed in the Holocaust. and on Sunday some guests bilateral relationship,” the and Majdanek, as well as other with representatives of Israeli The announcement Tues- Eisenmann’s parents survived received eviction notices on letter reads. Nazi historical sites. security organizations and day comes a month after the and took in Jamenfeld after the villas in which they were Israel has been participat- Earlier this month, a War- the Foreign Ministry, accord- U.S. president signed a proc- World War II. The Krijls had staying, The New York Jewish ing in a limited pilot version saw-based Holocaust com- ing to the Counter-Terrorism lamation recognizing Israel’s given Jamenfeld the choice Week reported. The following of the program since 2012. In memoration group petitioned Bureau. sovereignty over the stra- to remain with them perma- day, resort told those guests March, all 100 members of the the Polish border police to The Islamic State claimed tegic heights, which Israel nently, but also told him it that they could not use some Senate signed a letter urging block Irving’s entry to the responsibility for the Easter captured from Syria during was OK to live with his “own of the common areas since the Department of Homeland country. Sunday attack. the Six-Day War in 1967 and people.” Atkin owed money. Security to expedite Israel’s Lithuania is concerned that Two Jewish teenage siblings annexed in 1981. The United Jamenfeld’s sister, Miriam, Meanwhile, Atkin had left full membership into the Irving might try to bring the from London, who were dual States is the first country to who also survived in hiding the premises and his where- program. tour into Lithuania, which citizens of the United States, recognize the Golan as part in the Netherlands, stayed abouts were unknown. Thirteen countries partici- borders Poland, and Latvia. were among those killed in of Israel. with her rescuers after the On Tuesday, operations pate in the program: Australia, The head of the Lithuanian the attack. In a video message posted Holocaust. managers for A Different Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Jewish community Faina Paris conference featur- to YouTube Netanyahu said: Jamenfeld moved to Israel Pesach, Brian Goldberg and the Netherlands, Panama, Kukliansky told reporters that ing Jewish philosopher “I’m here on the beautiful in 1952. Eisenmann remained Dennis Ratzker, told The Jew- Germany, Singapore, the the community welcomes held under security amid Golan Heights. All Israelis in Holland. ish Week that they have paid United Kingdom, Colombia, the ban. threat of protests were deeply moved when The Krijls were officially more than $15,000 of their Switzerland, Argentina and 4 children of couple By Cnaan Liphshiz President Trump made his recognized as Righteous own money to cover costs. India. murdered in West Bank (JTA)—Amid threats of pro- historic decision to recog- Among the Nations in Oc- Some guests also offered to One of ’s 3 re- sue Syria and Iran in tests against Jewish philoso- nize Israel’s sovereignty tober. Their names will be pitch in. maining Judaica stores federal court pher Alain Finkielkraut, or- over the Golan Heights. added to the Wall of Honor in This wasn’t Atkin’s first is closing By Marcy Oster ganizers of a conference at Therefore, after the Passover the Garden of the Righteous failed Passover program. In By Josefin Dolsten (JTA)—The four children of a Paris university where he holiday, I intend to bring to Among the Nations at Yad 2003, more than 450 guests NEW YORK (JTA)—Locals a couple who were killed by a was scheduled to speak an- the government a resolution Vashem. at a program he organized at and visitors looking for a Palestinian Hamas terror cell nounced the event’s cancel- calling for a new community An Australian comedian a hotel were evicted due to a Judaica store here will soon while driving in the West Bank lation, and then relocation on the Golan Heights named joked about Nazi gas payment dispute, the Orlando only have two options. have filled a $360 million civil before holding it as planned after President Donald J. chambers. A Jewish au- Sentinel reported. J. Levine Books and Ju- damages wrongful death law- under heavy security. Trump.” dience member was not Israel will participate daica, a longtime seller of suit against Iran and Syria in The organizers of the event Netanyahu, his wife, Sara, amused. in 2020 World Expo in Jewish books, gifts and ritual federal court in Washington. Tuesday on Europe’s future at and their two sons spent By Henry Benjamin Dubai objects, will close at the end Eitam and Naama Henkin Sciences Po wrote it had been Tuesday touring the Golan SYDNEY, Australia (JTA)— By Josefin Dolsten of May, owner Daniel Levine were killed on Oct. 1, 2015, cancelled because “Security is Heights, the Prime Minister’s Here’s a stand-up comedian’s (JTA)—Israel said it is par- told The New York Jewish when the Palestinian at- our top priority and it’s prefer- Office said in a statement. email response to an email ticipating in the 2020 World Week. tackers, who originally had able to take no risks.” Then, Israeli teen who fell to complaint about his material Expo being held in the United Levine, the Midtown Man- intended to kidnap the couple, in what the Valeurs Actuelles death in Yosemite was involving Nazi gas chambers: Arab Emirates. hattan shop’s fourth-genera- instead shot them at close website described as a con- re-enacting iconic social “if you can’t stand the heat get Israel’s Foreign Ministry tion owner, said his business range in their car. The chil- fusing cat-and-mouse game media post out of the oven.” made the announcement was hurt by the rising popu- dren, then ages 9, 7, 4, and 10 between the university and By Marcy Oster Isaac Butterfield had asked Thursday. Countries from larity of online shopping. months, witnessed the mur- protesters, it was reported to (JTA)—An Israeli teen who his audience at the Melbourne around the world will show- “The next generation der from the back seat of the have moved to the IPAG Busi- fell to his death last year while Comedy Festival in Australia case their cultures and in- doesn’t shop in stores,” he car and were uninjured. Eitam ness School near Sciences Po hiking in Yosemite National to “imagine the joy of people novation at the event. told The Jewish Week. “That’s Henkin held both Israeli and university, but was eventually Park in California was trying when they heard the Jews were A representative for Is- the nature of the world.” American citizenship. held as Sciences Po. to re-enact another iconic sent to the gas chambers,” the rael’s Foreign Affairs Ministry Levine said he would con- The terrorists were sen- Protesters tried to block ac- social media photograph city’s Herald Sun newspaper said in a statement that the tinue to operate an online tenced to life in prison by a cess to IPAG and Sciences Po when he fell. reported. country would be “sharing store, but it would be smaller military court in the West but were held at bay by police. Tomer Frankfurter, 18, of A Jewish woman who was our innovative spirit and the than it is now. Bank in June 2016. The event included other Jerusalem, asked a woman to in the audience wrote to the advances our entrepreneurs A city that once was home The lawsuit explains that speakers, but they were not take his photo while he was comedian. and innovators are making to dozens of Jewish book- Hamas receives material named in the letter threaten- over the edge of the “Sitting there hearing in the various fields such as stores will now have only support from Syria and Iran, ing protests. Finkielkraut was top of Nevada Fall when he fell about Jews being gassed, eight water, information and medi- two independent ones in including financing, training accosted recently on a Paris 600 feet to his death, The As- million perished including cal technologies.” Manhattan—West Side Ju- and weapons procurement. street for being a “Zionist.” sociated Press reported. The children, watching family On Twitter, Prime Minister daica on the Upper West Side The lawsuit was filed on In their statement, the teen was on a two-month trip members being gassed or tor- Benjamin Netanyahu said and Judaica Classics on the Wednesday by the Washing- authors of the call to dem- to the United States prior to tured or shot, is not remotely the country’s participation Upper East Side. In 2017, the ton-based international law onstrate outside Sciences entering the Israeli army. funny,” her email said. represented its “rising status former announced it would firm Stein Mitchell Beato & Po wrote: “We cannot accept Reports originally said that Anti-Defamation Commis- in the world and the region.” be closing. But following the Missner, and MM LAW. Finkielkraut’s ‘modern Eu- Frankfurter died while taking sion Chairman Dvir Abramov- The Gulf States do not news customers flocked there, “If these despotic regimes rope’ and his Islamophobic, a selfie. AP obtained the new ich said in a statement that have formal ties with Israel, allowing West Side Judaica to think they can get away with racist, sexist and homopho- information after filing a “It’s never OK to spew such but they have been growing stay afloat, according to The murdering American citi- bic rhetoric.” A Sciences Po Freedom of Information Act hate rhetoric, and Isaac But- closer in recent years. The Jewish Week. In addition, sev- zens, then they are wrong,” spokesperson called the group request. terfield should be ashamed countries share a goal of eral boutique Judaica stores Jonathan Missner, the Henkin “far-left.” The Israeli was imitating a for his hideous remarks that countering Iranian influence remain in Manhattan, mostly children’s’ lead attorney said The university recently photo taken by tourists at Tele- crossed all lines and which in the Middle East. connected to museums or in a statement. “This lawsuit canceled an event on “Israeli graph Rock in Rio de Janiero. trampled on the memory of Jason Greenblatt, the White synagogues. sends a clear warning that apartheid,” which the protest- An unnamed woman took the the dead. House’s top Middle East ne- The shrinking number of those who finance, support ers alleged as showing a pro- photos for Frankfurter, who “It is beyond shocking to ex- gotiator, praised the United Jewish bookstores shouldn’t and encourage terrorism Israeli bias by faculty. then asked for help climbing ploit the extermination of six Arab Emirates in a tweet be seen as a decrease in in- must be held accountable Finkielkraut is a centrist back up. million Jews in the Holocaust about Israel’s participation terest in Judaism, historian and forced to answer for their thinker who has criticized He slipped from the hands to generate despicable jokes. in the event. Jonathan Sarna told The Jew- actions.” the far right, as well as Mus- of three other hikers as they When you consider that the “UAE continues to welcome ish Week. Eitam Henkin was an lim communities and far-left tried to haul him back over corpses of those killed with & include all. Thank you to our Instead it is “a message to American citizen and the son activists, for failing to inte- the edge and fell to his death, the poison gas were often great friend and ally #UAE for others who are thinking of of Rabbi Yehuda and Chana grate. A best-selling author, AP reported. cremated in ovens, Mr. But- this continued momentum,” opening Jewish bookstores,” Henkin, the founders in 1990 Finkielkraut entered the Yad Vashem posthu- terfield’s email response of ‘get he wrote. said Sarna, a professor of of Nishmat, an institute for pantheon of French academia mously recognizes a out of the oven’ is disturbing Congress members call American Jewish history advanced Torah study for in 2016 when he was admitted Dutch couple for hiding and vicious,” Abramovich for Israeli visitors to at Brandeis University. “It’s women in Jerusalem. The into the Academie Francaise, 2 Jewish boys during the also said. have easier entry into cheaper and easier to shop at parents moved to Israel from a council of 40 greats elected Holocaust He called on Butterfield to US Amazon.” the United States in the 1970s. for life. By Marcy Oster apologize and to meet with By Josefin Dolsten Lithuania bans Ho- Israel issues strong A Zionist supporter of JERUSALEM (JTA)—Yad Holocaust survivors to hear NEW YORK (JTA)—Two locaust denier David warning against travel Israel, he is a member of the Vashem posthumously rec- their stories. PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 3, 2019 These 7 Jewish comedians prove moms are really, really funny By Arielle Kaplan and Italian parents’ noses, appeared on numerous TV Jewish men and incest, and shows. Her latest album, “Kill When screenwriter Amy overall her incredibly dry Me Now,” came out last year, Sherman-Palladino gifted humor. Though she hasn’t and she’s also a hilarious guest the world with “The Marvel- performed live in quite some on Kveller’s very own podcast, ous Mrs. Maisel,” we here time, the former “Saturday “Call Your Mother.” Listen to at Kveller went wild. At last Night Live” writer’s hourlong it here! there was a show (a major special, “One of the Greats,” https://www.youtube.com/ hit, no less!) that seemed to is currently streaming on watch?v=4hQJBJKrKJg be aimed directly at American . If you’re not too sore 4. Natasha Leggero Jews—specifically speaking, from laughing when you’re Subjectively speaking, Jewish mothers. done watching it, give Peretti Natasha Leggero is the fun- Although the titular char- a follow on Twitter. In 2014, niest Jewish momedian on acter Midge Maisel has been Paste Magazine included her Instagram. Who else would criticized for being an absen- in their roundup of the best share a photo of themselves tee parent to her two young Twitter accounts—and we dripping in gold jewelry while children, she is equally praised couldn’t agree more. breastfeeding their daugh- for her spitfire standup com- https://www.youtube.com/ ter? Glamorous, hilarious edy. Jews and humor notori- watch?v=0VecPOUcAJw and gorgeous, the “Another ously go together like cream 2. Robin Fox Period” star’s shock-comedy cheese and bagels, but another For 17 years, Robin Fox hasn’t changed much since unwavering and less flattering was a certified New Jersey she welcomed her daughter stereotype is that women— housewife. That all changed last year with her husband Collage by Arielle Kaplan/JTA even Jewish women—aren’t when she picked up a mic and (and fellow Jewish comedian) funny. The marvelousness never put it down. For the past . The Italian of raunchy humor while My (Reluctant) Journey Into special “Growing” promises of Mrs. Maisel is that her decade, Fox has given crowds comedian converted to Ju- maintaining a religious life- Motherhood” was featured to stay on brand, but you can comedic genius busts that throughout the tristate area daism before marrying her style. “He wouldn’t be upset in The New York Times and expect knee-slapping takes sexist trope and gives Jewish the content they came for: Orthodox-raised husband, if he caught me in bed with had three sold-out extended on the joys of womanhood, mothers pursuing stand-up suburban Jewish mom jokes. and though she hasn’t per- another man,” Reese has runs at The People’s Improv marriage and pregnancy. The the representation and valida- Her sets include stories about formed stand-up since giving joked about her husband. Theater. If you missed that “I Feel Pretty” star has been tion they deserve. her 27-year marriage, rais- birth, Leggero and Kasher “Unless we were eating a ham performance, never fear! Ad- scrutinized for her explicit The thing is, Mrs. Maisel ing children and life as a recently released their hour sandwich.” Catch her spitting erski’s latest stand-up show, content but, an exemplary isn’t real. She’s a perfectly stay-at home mom. Having special “The Honeymoon witty Jewish jokes at your “Celibate and Pregnant,” is feminist, she stands tall in the curated character with seem- performed at popular venues Special” on Netflix. local synagogue, Stand Up running until April. When face of trolls. While you wait ingly zero flaws that no Jewish like Gotham Comedy Club, https://www.youtube.com/ NY, Comic Strip Live or the she’s not fending off disses for her special to come out, mother—or any woman— Broadway Comedy Club and watch?v=cMJyzEI6zms Greenwich Village Comedy from her mother-in-law, Ad- binge her newish podcast “3 should compare herself to. Caroline’s, when you see Fox 5. Talia Reese Club—you won’t regret it. erski enjoys white wine and Girls One Keith” on Spotify, Luckily, there are real life Jew- on the stage, you know you’re By day, Talia Reese serves https://vimeo. raw oysters. and read her autobiographical ish stand-up “momedians” in for a treat. lunch in her daughters’ com/189843778 https://www.youtube.com/ book “The Girl with the Lower who prove that women can be https://www.youtube.com/ school with other yeshiva 6. Jamie Aderski watch?v=iO73JEeqMMU Back Tattoo,” which helped funny and exemplary parents. watch?v=B8pVhWvJq_U moms. By night? The Or- South Jersey native and 7. Amy Schumer her land a spot as the first Obviously, we rounded them 3. Judy Gold thodox momedian performs New York City-based comedi- OK, so she’s not a mom yet, woman on Forbes’ highest- up for you. Judy Gold is a household stand-up with “a bunch of an Jamie Aderski loves to talk but the Long Island-bred Amy paid comedian list. 1. Chelsea Peretti name—that is, unless you’ve foul-mouthed comics.” The about how unprepared she was Schumer is very nearly in the https://www.youtube.com/ “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star been living under a rock for New York lawyer, married for kids. Currently expecting momedian club. Infamous watch?v=sXdF8PgD3Cc Chelsea Peretti has been a a while. While raising her to another Jewish lawyer, her second child, Aderski’s for her sex jokes, Schumer’s This article originally ap- member of the the momedian now young adult sons, the manages to juggle a world one-woman show “Cry Baby: second upcoming Netflix peared on Kveller. club for just two years, but lesbian Jewish comedian her comedy career started worked her tuchus off and long before that. Married to snagged not one but two Em- fellow comedian Jordan Peele, mys for her work as a writer Here’s how Jewish groups are we loved when the 40-year-old and producer on “The Rosie mom pumped breast milk for O’Donnell Show.” Gold has her son Beaumont Gino at championed nearly every the Oscars last year. Peretti medium: She hosts the “Kill planning for the next Pittsburgh is notorious for joking about Me Now” podcast, starred in inheriting both her Jewish two one-woman shows and By Ron Kampeas record describing details of something to make it worse.” hide. Someone was yelling for security procedures. According to the tabletop the worshippers to duck, but WASHINGTON (JTA)— The three-city scenario exercise, keeping in touch his training kicked in and he 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 S U R F T R A I L A M A R Imagine three Pittsburghs, imagined a car-ramming and was vital not only to sum- fled. Weiss encouraged others 14 15 16 simultaneously—a multi- shooting attack on the Jewish mon law enforcement (it took to follow suit, saving lives. A F A R H E N S A C U T E pronged murderous attack Community Center in Mem- Pittsburgh first responders “I knew that getting down 17 18 19 C O M E D I A N S M A S O N at Jewish institutions across phis, including surveillance less than three minutes to was not the best thing, it was 20 21 22 the country. by a mysterious drone, and al- confront the Tree of Life to get out of the room,” he P E O N A A M I L N E The Jewish community’s most simultaneous shooting killer), but to identify threats said. By exiting the sanctuary, 23 24 25 26 27 28 P G A R A I M I S I C E top security arm did just that attacks on a Jewish student in advance. The tabletop exer- Weiss was able to warn others 29 30 31 32 last week at an exercise join- barbecue at the University of cise included early warnings of in the three-congregation O R G A N I Z E D C R I M E ing community leaders from Michigan and a Boston-area threats on Jewish institutions complex to get out of the 33 34 35 L I E V R O Z H A R across the country with senior synagogue. in California. building. 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 U.S. law enforcement officials. Michael Masters, SCN’s The problem with that As part of the advance E N D I S D O T H A M A S Six months after the mas- director, made it clear that portion of the tabletop, par- training for attacks on Jew- 44 45 46 47 48 N E D N I B T A C O sacre of 11 Jewish worshippers such a nightmare was not out ticipants said, was that often ish institutions, Pittsburgh 49 50 51 52 at the Tree of Life synagogue of the question. there are no advance warn- first responders learned how E D U A R D O S A V E R I N complex in Pittsburgh, sev- “From the dark recesses of ings; the Pittsburgh killer had to tend to the wounded while 53 54 55 E C O N O T A T E T D S eral dozen officials met in a the internet to world capitals been below the radar. police were still engaging the 56 57 58 59 60 conference room overlooking we see an increase in activity, Pittsburgh officials said the attacker, which likely also G L A S G O W C I T I the National Mall here and an increase in threats to our community had run two exer- saved lives. 61 62 63 64 65 66 G A B L E N E T A N Y A H U reviewed the lessons of that community,” he said. cises in the year previous. As Another recommendation 67 68 69 awful day as a means of deal- The lessons were communi- a result, the Tree of Life rabbi, was to select in advance the E I L A T E R E V K N O W ing with future attacks. cation, communication, com- Jeffrey Myers, who is Sabbath site most amenable to gath- 70 71 72 D R E W S Y A L E E S T S The most surprising and munication: Between nation- observant, was persuaded to ering families and sorting poignant recommendations al security agencies and local carry a cellphone, and he was through information. Pitts- came from survivors of the state and law enforcement, the first caller to alert police. burgh set up a command cen- Pittsburgh shooting—for and local Jewish agencies and Orthodox synagogues, ter at the local JCC, which was better or worse. They re- law enforcement. Security participants said, were now near the scene of the attack. called practices that already officials should be familiar interested in early warning Brad Orsini, the com- were in place and probably with how communities most systems suitable for Shabbat, munity security director in saved lives, among them per- commonly communicate for when the observant eschew Pittsburgh, said ushers should suading otherwise Shabbat- the more mundane realities of mobile phones and broadcast be trained to lead the response observant rabbis to carry Jewish life: Find out the list- technology. Such systems during attacks. Unfortunately, cellphones strictly for emer- servs and WhatsApp networks would use phones designated he said, his experience was gency use and urging people for religious schools, for adult only for emergency calls and that most ushers at syna- to flee a shooting rather than Jewish education, for sports. alarm systems that would gogues were “900 years old,” hide in place. Get out information that warn worshippers in case and he called for communi- The tabletop exercise was delivers the facts and is of a nearby attack. In Pitts- ties to train younger ushers. organized by Secure Com- stripped of emotive language, burgh, Orthodox worshippers There was knowing laughter munity Network, an arm of and recommends specific learned of the attack only in the room. the Jewish Federations of actions. when alerted in person that A number of officials ad- North America and the Con- “We don’t want to start they were to remain indoors dressed the logistics of pro- ference of Presidents of Major a panic. Law enforcement during a lockdown. viding warnings to broad American Jewish Organiza- should tell us what level the Stephen Weiss, a teacher networks of member institu- tions. The Jewish Telegraphic threat is,” one participant who was in the Pittsburgh tions, particularly schools or Agency was invited to cover said. “You can’t just send out synagogue complex, learned synagogues that are pretty the session on condition that an alert after alert. We need to from exercises held in advance it not quote officials on the give people an action step, not that it was better to flee than Planning on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 3, 2019 PAGE 15A told the Journal. “We are go- ently had anti-Semitic intent. Earnest may have been in- go to the people that were seven shots, and that the rabbi Shooting ing to protect ourselves.” “I have heard that this was volved in a mosque arson in affected, the families, their had two fingers blown off. From page 1A After the suspect ran, someone with hate in their Escondido, California, earlier loved ones. By the—obviously The Anti-Defamation congregants retrieved a gun heart, hate toward the Jewish this year, and whether the at- it looks like right now based League said it is on the ground in the shooting—whether his kept in the building and community,” he said. tack on the synagogue was a on my last conversations looks in San Diego “working with gun jammed or he was reload- gave it to an off-duty Border Vaus later added: “It was a hate crime. like a hate crime, hard to be- local authorities to set up a ing—congregants swiftly patrol officer. The agent, who hate crime,” an assessment he CNN quoted the Palomar lieve,” he said before leaving community support center moved the children to safety was working as a synagogue said was based on “statements Medical Center Poway as for Wisconsin for an election for those directly affected by and then rushed the shooter guard, fired on the suspect as that were made when the saying it was expecting four rally. “We’ll see what happens. the shooting.” who then ran out of the he fled the building, hitting shooter entered.” He would trauma patients from the It looks like a hate crime.” Trump spoke about the building. his vehicle. The suspect called not elaborate. shooting. The shooting on the last day shooting at the rally Saturday Congregant Oscar Stew- police and turned himself in, NBC 7, a local television Poway, about 20 miles of Passover was six months night in Green Bay. art told the Wall Street exiting his car with his hands station, identified the shooter north of San Diego, is an to the day after the deadliest “Our entire nation mourns Journal, “As he saw me, he up when police arrived where as John T. Earnest. The sher- upper-middle-class city with anti-Semitic attack in U.S. the loss of life, prays for dropped his weapon, turned he had pulled over. There was iff confirmed that Saturday about 48,000 residents. history, when an alleged white the wounded and stands in and ran.” an assault rifle in the car. evening, saying the suspect President Donald Trump, supremacist murdered 11 solidarity with the Jewish “People need to know that Vaus told CNN that the dan- had no prior contact with speaking in Washington, D.C., worshippers at a Pittsburgh community,” he said. “We we’re not sitting targets in ger was over. He said congre- the police. told reporters “it looks like a synagogue complex. forcefully condemn the evil synagogues,” Roneet Lev, a gants had engaged and helped Gore said law enforcement hate crime.” CNN quoted witnesses as of anti-Semitism, which must longtime Chabad member, to stop the shooter, who appar- was examining evidence that “My deepest sympathies saying that there were six or be defeated.” BDS From page 1A director general of the Israel in Israel proper and tens of destroying the Jewish (D-Minn.) reliance on anti- that BDS is a grassroots, Ministry of Strategic Affairs of thousands more in joint state,” he added. Semitic tropes to make their peaceful organization dedi- aimed at annihilating the and head of the Research projects with Jews in the With such overt and cases in support of BDS, cated to pave the way to a Jewish state—the political Division of IDF Military West Bank industrial zones. negative implications and together with the spike of Palestinian state next to form of terrorism. Intelligence. Thus, he said, enforcing affiliations, Kuperwasser anti-Semitic assaults and Israel.” Currently led by Omar “With heavy involvement anti-normalization would maintained that it’s becom- harassment from college “This is false,” said Barghouti, founding com- of terrorist activists, BDS is mean that many Palestin- ing easier and easier to see campuses to the public Diker. “BDS maintains mittee member of the Pales- supporting the same goals ians would lose their liveli- through the BDS move- square in the name of that there should be no tinian Campaign for the Ac- as terrorism—delegitimiz- hoods and income. ment’s true intentions. Even BDS, has triggered larger political coexistence with ademic and Cultural Boycott ing Israel—with a different “The Palestinian working notorious critics of Israel questions about the BDS a Jewish entity, and any- of Israel, the BDS movement way of action,” he told JNS. public has demonstrated a like Norman Finkelstein and movement. thing short of replacing “globally exports political ‘Something that should deepening interest in work- Noam Chomsky have come These questions have Israel with the 23rd Arab, warfare and support for be fought against’ ing closely with Israel, prov- out against BDS, saying “we led to growing condemna- Palestinian and Islamic terrorism as evidenced by Conspicuously, both Dik- ing that BDS does not repre- can be critical of Israeli poli- tion by European leaders state is a loss. And BDS co-equal membership by er and Kuperwasser agreed sent the 30,000 Palestinian cies, but we are not in favor of BDS as a demonstrably leaders are radical activ- international Palestinian, that by promoting anti- men and women working in of destroying it.” anti-Semitic crusade— ists whose sole objective Islamic and Arab terrorist normalization, BDS clearly 14 industrial zones of Area C “Many people around the from British Prime Minister is to isolate, delegitimize organizations on the BDS shows that it does not aim of West Bank, together with world and in the mainstream Theresa May to German and dismantle the state of National Committee,” Diker to help the Palestinians, Israelis and protected by have come to the conclusion Chancellor Angela Merkel Israel as we know it today.” told JNS. as the Palestinians are the Israeli labor law,” said Diker. that BDS is something that to French President Em- Following the national “BDS is the comple- ones who gain the most “What we witnessed should be fought against,” manuel Macron, “who have conference and in order mentary activity of the by normalizing and work- through the BDS Nation- said Kuperwasser. “Neither all said that BDS is simply a to expose the BDS move- terrorist organizations,” ing together with Israelis, al Conference is an even conservatives nor liberals repackaged anti-Semitism,” ment for what it is, Diker similarly stated Kuperwas- whereas Israel would do greater suicidal tendency of want to collaborate with ter- continued Diker. suggested that American ser, director of the Project just fine without cooperat- the Palestinian NGOs in the rorists, and now understand However, he argued, this and Jewish mainstream, as on Regional Middle East ing with the Palestinians in BDS movement by showing that BDS aims to destroy perspective has not yet well as European, leaders Developments at the Je- business. they would prefer to destroy Israel and represents the filtered through to the Eu- must “hold up the evidence rusalem Center for Public Kuperwasser noted that the Palestinian political and new face of anti-Semitism.” ropean public, whose blind of BDS’s active support for Affairs (JCPA), and formerly 100,000 Palestinians work economic future in service Diker noted that U.S. support for Palestinian terror and political warfare House Reps. 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By Ron Kampeas terprotester, who died when 2020 issue. Biden, even before sought to defend his initial in that group that were there the neo-Nazis and the white one of the marchers rammed he announced, was leading in comments on the day of the to protest the taking down, of nationalists. They should be WASHINGTON (JTA)—Joe his car into a crowd. the polls, and other candidates march when he blamed the to them, a very, very impor- condemned totally. You had Biden launched his presiden- “And that’s when we heard in the race have not hesitated violence on “many sides.” tant statue and the renaming many people in that group tial campaign by accusing the words of the president to call Trump a racist. “If you reported it accu- of a park from Robert E. Lee other than neo-Nazis and President Donald Trump of the United States that Republicans want to re- rately, you would say that the to another name.” white nationalists.” with failing to unreservedly stunned the world and verse that dynamic. Trump neo-Nazis started this thing,” Trump’s words shocked Although the protests had condemn neo-Nazis whose shocked the conscience of and members of Congress he said at a press conference many Americans, and led at been billed as a defense of a march two years ago ended this nation. He said there have been eager to focus at Trump Tower in New York. least one of his Jewish advis- Confederate statue, a white with deadly violence. were quote, ‘very fine people on statements perceived as “They showed up in Charlot- ers, Gary Cohn, to consider supremacist group openly The launch underscored on both sides.’ Very fine anti-Semitic by a freshman tesville. Excuse me. They quitting. sought the permit for the the degree over which the people on both sides?” Democrat, Rep. Ilhan Omar, didn’t put themselves down as His defenders have since march. Real-time television battle for the Jewish vote “With those words, the D-Minn., and sharp criticisms neo-Nazis. You had some very noted that within moments coverage showed marchers has already figured in the president of the United States of Israel by some Democratic bad people in that group. You of saying “very fine people,” bearing neo-Nazi flags and campaign and, more broadly, assigned a moral equivalence presidential candidates, par- also had some very fine people he said, “You had people torches and chanting anti- how each party is endeavor- between those spreading ticularly Sen. Bernie Sanders, on both sides. You had people and I’m not talking about Semitic and racist slogans. ing to attach the taint of anti- hate and those with the I-Vt., who is breathing down Semitism to the other party. courage to stand against it. Biden’s neck in the polls. “Charlottesville, Virginia And in that moment, I knew Republicans say that the is home to the author of one the threat to this nation was party has not done enough British student told to ‘be like of the great documents in unlike any I had seen in this to censure Omar and Trump human history,” the former lifetime.” has called Democrats “anti- vice president said in a three- Over the course of the week- Jewish.” Israel and cease to exist’ and-a-half minute video he end’s events in Charlottesville, Biden, who has deep ties to posted Thursday morning. the president initially blamed the U.S. Jewish and pro-Israel (JNS)—A student at Bris- does not mean it is valid and this stuff. We need to set a The reference was to Thomas both sides for the violence, a communities, said in the video tol University in the United worth entertaining.” precedent.” Jefferson, who authored the day later condemned the Ku that Trump’s presidency was Kingdom was told by the “I never see you even try Nina Freedman, president Declaration of Independence. Klux Klan and neo-Nazis, and an inflection point. school’s ethnic minority to contribute anything. You of the Bristol Jewish Soci- “Charlottesville is also on the subsequent Tuesday “We are in a battle for the officer to “be like Israel and just always come with some ety, condemned Chowdhury. home to a defining moment said there were “some very soul of this nation,” Biden cease to exist.” hella smarmy, asinine s***,” “Jewish students are upset for this nation in the last fine people” on both sides of said. “I believe history will After pledging “zero tol- he added. “So please, be like that an elected BME officer few years,” he said. “It was the clashes. look back on four years of this erance of racism,” Omar Israel and cease to exist.” has made such a deeply offen- there in August 2017 that Biden is the 20th Democrat president and all he embraces Chowdhury won the position Posen replied, “Well that sive anti-Semitic remark, and we saw Klansmen and white to enter the 2020 race, and the as an aberrant moment in of black, minority and ethnic escalated quickly. And you we hope that an appropriate supremacists and neo-Nazis debate has focused so far on time. But if we give Donald representative last month even managed to get Israel course of disciplinary action come out into the open.” a plethora of issues, includ- Trump eight years in the within the school’s Students’ in there!” will be taken,” she said. Biden spoke over footage ing jobs, health care, foreign White House, he will forever Union. Members of Bristruths A university spokesperson of the marchers saying “Jews military interventions and and fundamentally alter the But Chowdhury’s com- called for Chowdhury to be told The Times that the uni- will not replace us.” He de- the corruption investigations character of this nation, who ments during a debate on ejected from his role. versity is investigating the scribed them as “baring the besetting Trump. we are, and I cannot stand by the Facebook group Bris- “If they don’t kick [him] off matter, and that the adminis- fangs of racism, chanting But Biden’s opening gam- and watch that happen.” truths included telling Izzy the SU committee, it is such tration is “committed to pro- the same anti-Semitism bile bit shows the degree to Trump used the phrase Posen, “Your comments are a double standard,” posted viding a positive experience heard across Europe in the which Democrats plan to use “very fine people on both like Israeli settlements: al- one student. “Jewish people for all students and staff, and 1930s.” Trump’s perceived jabs at sides” three days after the ways popping up where they are repeatedly swept under actively encourage members Biden referred to the mur- Muslims, Hispanics, blacks, violence, at a press conference aren’t wanted,” and that “Just the rug. People are continu- of our community to report der of Heather Hyer, a coun- the disabled as well as Jews as a on Aug. 15, 2017 at which he because you have an opinion ally allowed to get way with concerns.”

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