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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 42, NO. 44 JULY 6, 2018 23 TAMUZ, 5778 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Second annual Men’s Night Out coming this November Last year’s Men’s Night Out with a bit of an edge (i.e., when was such a success that there asked what her income is, she will be a second such event replies “I put it on the credit in November. Organized by card.”) She has also been de- the Men’s Clubs of Congrega- scribed as the most politically tion Beth Am, Temple Israel, balanced stand up comedian Congregation Ohev Shalom, (i.e., her son asked her what Congregation of Reform the difference between a Judaism, and South West Democrat and a Republican Orlando Jewish Congrega- was and she explained that a tion (in conjunction with the Democrat is like a nice aunt Jewish Federation of Greater who promises to take you to Orlando), the evening will Disney World, but never fol- once again have an open bar, lows through. A Republican is stupendous prime rib dinner like a grumpy uncle who tells catered by Arthur’s, and fan- you he can’t afford to take you tastic entertainment. to Disney World, but then you Michael Soll, vice president find out he went without you). Comedian Cory Kahaney and immediate past president Kahaney was a grand finalist of the Federation Board of and runner-up in the first sea- comedy show at 8:30 p.m. The Directors, explained this event son of NBC’s reality TV show cost for the evening is $100 and is different from other events Last Comic Standing. Since can be purchased at www.jfgo. because it’s open to all men in then she has been on almost all org/MNO. Proceeds from the the Jewish community. the late shows, including Late event will benefit the Jewish “Last year’s event was a Show with David Letterman, youth education programs. success because it was multi- The Late Show with Stephen Prime sponsors of Men’s generational and not unique Colbert, and The Late Late Night Out are Alan Gins- to a specific group, but drew Show with Craig Ferguson. burg and Aaron Gorovitz. together men from all corners She has even been on Next Other sponsors include the of the Jewish community, Food Network Star (don’t Harriett Lake Foundation, which allowed for rekindling worry, she isn’t preparing the the Heritage Florida Jewish of lifelong relationships,” he dinner for the evening). News, Universal Engineering told Heritage. Men’s Night Out will be Sciences, Nelson Financial Comedian Cory Kahaney held Nov. 8 in the Congrega- Planning, and Beth Shalom will keep the audience in tion Ohev Shalom Ballroom, Memorial Chapel and Dr. Cote. stitches as she shares her beginning with cocktails at 6 Sponsorships are still avail- everyday experiences in life p.m.; dinner at 7 p.m. and the able at www.jfgo.org/MNO. Students file criminal complaints

Jordan Miles holding Hamsa-Chai-Dove artwork created by Judith Segall. against anti-Israel disruptors By Edwin Black Their statement promised, “For those outsiders who Sister City presents art to Criminal complaints are disrupted the event, we will now being filed by students refer all evidence of wrong- following the belligerent doing to local prosecutors to disruption of a May 17, 2018, determine whether they have US Embassy in Jerusalem Students Supporting Israel broken the law.” By Diana van den [SSI] event at University of Bolstering the chancel- Boogaard California Los Angeles. At lors, university spokesman least a half-dozen students Tad Tamberg confirmed, COCOA—Standing in the announced they would visit “the off-campus people who crowd on the day the US the UCLA police department have been identified... have Embassy opened in Jerusalem to file formal complaints been arrested previously and was Theresa Miles, former reporting criminal disrup- are known to the police here director of The Sister City tion of a meeting, as well and have been referred to the Program of Cocoa (Florida), as disturbing the peace and prosecutor’s office.” He added and her family. She was in Is- conspiracy. that a proper police investiga- rael to celebrate the country’s The move follows media tion had already been done. StandWithUs 70th anniversary and enjoy a disclosures that UCLA was “You don’t send something Justin Feldman after filing reneging on the public pledge to the prosecutor’s office police report June 11. by two chancellors in the without first investigating it,” Daily Bruin—bolstered by a Vogelstein and three law stu- he stated. statement for the record by dents in the UCLA Brandeis The involved UCLA stu- a university spokesman—to chapter, dispatched a letter dents were to be referred to Art title plaque refer the belligerent May 17 to the university asserting university discipline rather incident to prosecutors. that the disruption crossed than prosecutors, the univer- family reunion with her sons, the director of the American The disruption and nose- the line into misdemeanor sity stated. Jordan and Brandon. She also Center, where the art will be to-nose intimidation of the violations of the California It was not clear why UCLA carried a framed artwork that on display. The Center serves students attending the May 17 criminal code. They cited students, who potentially Rabbi Joel and Tali Fox of as an educational and cultural SSI event at UCLA was docu- Title 11, section 403 (which broke the law, would not B’nai Shira in Cocoa Beach center with activities aimed at mented in a video. Disruptors covers deliberate disruption receive the same referral to had commissioned Orlando the Israeli public. suddenly and loudly stormed of a public meeting—suc- prosecutors as outsiders for artist Judith Segall to create The art, “Hamsa-Chai- into the room mid-session. cessfully used to convict the the same conduct. for the new embassy and to Dove” by Segall, uses symbols One person tore down a flag, so-called Irvine 11), section The case then took a strange honor Israel’s 70th birthday to express a hope for “Peace, demonstratively pulled away 415 (which covers malicious and unexplained twist. Three on May 14, 2018. Life, and Divine Protection.” a desk placard, and cursed disturbance of the peace), and weeks after the event, in an Praising the close ties be- Segall said her creative pro- threateningly close to the face section 182 (which forbids email, Tamberg clarified, tween Cocoa and Beit Shem- cess “goes beyond the basic el- of a panelist. With bullhorns, any conspiracy to violate the “There were no arrests, nor did esh, Israel, Jordan Miles, 21, ements of color, composition whistles, staged dancing, and other sections). from Merritt Island and now and form in order to provoke slogan shouting, the event was At the same time, two UCLA Complaints on page 14A living in Jerusalem, presented thought and evoke emotion.” shut down. chancellors, Jerry Kang and the gift to the US Embassy in Segall is deeply appreciative The Louis D. Brandeis Cen- Monroe Gorden, penned an Jerusalem on June 25, 2018. of those who commissioned ter for Human Rights Under official denunciation of the Lisa Bess Wishman ac- her to do this artwork. “I Law, led by attorney Alyza incident that was published cepted the art on behalf of Lewin, along with Director in the Daily Bruin campus the U.S. Embassy. She is Art on page 15A of Legal Initiatives Aviva newspaper. PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 6, 2018 St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society receives award Leonard Stein, PhD, of the Inquisition and in the years volume, Caribbean-Jewish University of Toronto’s Centre since. Crossings: Atlantic Literature for Comparative Literature Dr. Stein is a Connaught In- and Theory (University of and President of the Society ternational Doctoral Scholar Virginia Press), and The New for Crypto-Judaic Studies for the Centre for Compara- Literature of Hip Hop Music has announced the awarding tive Literature in a collab- for the forthcoming Oxford of a 2018 “Mini-Conference” orative program with the Handbook of Hip Hop Music to the St. Augustine Jewish Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Studies. Historical Society. Jewish Studies at the Univer- The Society for Crypto- The one-day Conference, sity of Toronto. His research Judaic Studies, an interna- to be held on Sunday, Dec. compares medieval Jewish- tional academic and secular 9 at the World Golf Village Iberian identity with modern association, fosters research, Renaissance St. Augustine literature from the Sephardic networking of people and Resort will focus on “Telling diaspora. He currently serves ideas, and the dissemination the Story of Crypto-Jews in as the President pro tem and of information regarding the the Southeast US.” Scholars program chair for the Society historical and contempo- from many disciplines are for Crypto Judaic Studies rary developments involving expected to share in their and editor for the University crypto-Jews of Iberian origins research to help develop a of Toronto Journal of Jewish and other hidden Jewish com- common understanding of Thought. His newest publica- munities around the world. Dr. Leonard Stein the presence of the descen- tions include Jubanidad and The St. Augustine Jewish dants of Jews in the conti- the Literary Transmission Historical Society promotes experience in the oldest St. Augustine in September help tell the story of the rich nental southeast Colonial of Cuban Crypto-Judaism greater knowledge and un- European city in the United 1565 to the present. SAJHS history and heritage found on Spanish America under the for the forthcoming edited derstanding of the Jewish States, from the founding of actively recruits partners to Florida’s First Coast. ‘New beginnings’—Jewish teen retreat set for August While there’s still plenty of the Orlando area, regardless of a traditional classroom or Orlando Jewish Congregation, identity and self-confidence by a Community Collaborative time left to enjoy summer va- of synagogue or youth group building. Temple Israel, Temple Shir while experiencing the joys Grant from the Federation. cation, Central Florida teens affiliation. Jewish Teen Education Net- Shalom and the North Florida of community. We think this Students can register at will soon be gearing up for a Teens will participate in a work is a program of the Jewish Region of BBYO. retreat is the ideal setting to www.jfgo.org/retreat. The new school year—and a new 24-hour immersive experi- Federation of Greater Orlando “We have several goals for inspire Jewish students as cost is $18. Students who Jewish year. It’s the perfect ence, including services, that provides shared learning this year’s community-wide they prepare for a new school cannot afford the registra- time to celebrate “New Be- learning sessions (Torah and educational experiences teen education event,” said year with new opportunities.” tion fee should contact Cohen ginnings,” the theme of the study, texts, traditions and for local Jewish students. The Jennifer Cohen, the Federa- JTEN has offered com- ([email protected]). 2018 JTEN Community-wide other topics through a Jewish retreat is a collaborative gath- tion’s JTEN coordinator. “Of munity-wide teen education Space is limited to 60 par- Jewish Teen Retreat. lens) and social experiences ering by the JTEN Educators, course, we want teens to cre- days since 2014. Last year’s ticipants. The registration The retreat, set for Aug. with the shared goal of build- representing Congregation ate Jewish connections that event, a peer-led program deadline is 5 p.m. July 30. 6-7 at Camp Challenge in ing deeper relationships and Beth Am, Congregation Ohev will stay with them beyond the called “Empower the Jew in Registration will be closed and Sorrento, is open to all ris- connections with other Jew- Shalom, Congregation of retreat. But we also want them You,” attracted more than 50 a waiting list started if capac- ing 8th- to 12th-graders in ish teens outside the confines Reform Judaism, Southwest to develop a strong Jewish student participants. This is ity is reached before that date. the first time the event has All meals will be dairy/ been offered as a retreat. The vegetarian. Dietary laws will retreat is made possible in part be observed.

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He was reminder that constitutional adding that “there are many religious liberty, based upon hour after Anthony Kennedy responsible for the 5-4 rul- law and the Supreme Court other ways to meet the policy the First Amendment, while announced his retirement ings that legalized same-sex can be something other than goals without infringing on expansive, did not mean as associate justice on the marriage and preserved Roe pure predictable partisan religious liberty.” the government could make Supreme Court, the National v. Wade. Although prone to politics.” Kennedy, who will be 82 certain religious behavior Council of Jewish Women disappoint liberal and centrist And as a swing vote, Ken- when he retires effective July mandatory. tweeted its dismay. groups—upholding President nedy’s rulings on religious 31 and is the 14th longest- Throughout his three- “Justice Kennedy’s retire- Barack Obama’s policy of war- liberty also won him support serving justice, decided count- decade tenure, Kennedy was ment could drastically shift rantless wiretapping, voting from conservative Jewish less cases regarding religious a fierce defender of religious the balance of the Supreme to limit campaign finance groups. His vote proved de- liberty, many of which were liberty for those of all faiths. Court, and threaten the very restrictions in Citizens United cisive in the Hobby Lobby important to—and divided— Even in his same-sex marriage rights and liberties we’ve and removing key provisions case, which found that family- American Jews on all sides. opinion, which was lauded by fought so hard to protect,” of the Voting Rights Act—he owned corporations need not They include the decisions liberals, Kennedy extended NCJW tweeted Wednesday. was nevertheless seen as the pay for employee contracep- to legalize same-sex marriage, a rhetorical olive branch “We need a justice who will last check on what is likely to tion insurance if doing so preserve Roe v. Wade and de- to social conservatives. He stand up for all of our rights, become a deeply conservative violates their religious values, regulate campaign finance, as wrote that people opposed to not just the wealthy and court. and earned praise from Ortho- well as prevent public schools same-sex marriage, including Eric Thayer/Getty Images Supreme Court Justice powerful.” “In the last few years, dox groups like the Orthodox from requiring student prayer Agudath Israel, which filed a Anthony Kennedy is shown NCJW’s is a voice of the Justice Kennedy has loomed Union and Agudath Israel of and bar the government from brief to the Supreme Court at a White House ceremony, Jewish liberal majority, which large at the Supreme Court America. endorsing a particular reli- in opposition, “reach that April 10, 2017. tends to support abortion because he so often cast a “The Court’s ruling stands gion, among others. conclusion based on decent rights, a strong divide be- deciding swing vote, often in for the proposition that— “On church and state he was and honorable religious or tween church and state, an historic ways, as in [same-sex even when the government persuadable,” Stern told JTA, philosophical premises, and were in line with left-wing extensive social welfare safety marriage] or Citizens United,” seeks to implement valuable but adding, “He was more or neither they nor their beliefs and centrist Jewish orga- net and a liberal approach to Marc Stern, general counsel policy goals—it must do less on the conservative side are disparaged here.” nizations. Thirteen Jewish immigration. at the American Jewish Com- so without trampling upon of Establishment [Clause] Kennedy’s most notable groups, among them orga- For that majority Kennedy mittee, told JTA. “While he the conscientious beliefs issues.” liberal votes—on same-sex was, at least since 2005, the was not the liberal justice of American citizens,” the Kennedy, as reflected in marriage and abortion— Kennedy on page 15A Why history still matters: The 1967 Six-Day War By David A. Harris its core issues remain unre- worse, they desecrated and armistice line dating back to was coming and their objec- manded that UN peacekeeping solved. destroyed many of those sites. 1949—familiarly known as tive was to wipe Israel off the forces in the area, in place (Aish Hatorah Resourc- Politicians, diplomats, and Meanwhile, the Gaza Strip was the Green Line. That’s after map. There was no ambiguity for the previous decade to es)—Without understand- journalists continue to grap- under Egyptian control, with five Arab armies attacked in their blood-curdling an- prevent conflict, be removed. ing what happened in the ple with the consequences of harsh military rule imposed Israel in 1948 with the aim nouncements. Twenty-two Shamefully, without even the past, it’s impossible to grasp that war, but rarely consider, on local residents. And the of destroying the embryonic years after the Holocaust, an- courtesy of consulting Israel, where we are today. Mention or perhaps are even unaware Golan Heights, which were Jewish state. They failed. Ar- other enemy spoke about the the UN complied. That left no history and it can trigger of, context. Yet without con- regularly used to shell Israeli mistice lines were drawn, but extermination of Jews. The buffer between Arab armies a roll of the eyes. Add the text, some critically impor- communities far below, be- they weren’t formal borders. record is well-documented. being mobilized and deployed Middle East to the equation tant things may not make longed to Syria. They couldn’t be. The Arab The record is equally clear and Israeli forces in a country and folks might start run- sense. Third, the Arab world could world, even in defeat, refused that Israel, in the days leading one-fiftieth, or two percent, ning for the hills, unwill- First, in June 1967, there have created a Palestinian to recognize Israel’s very right up to the war, passed word to the size of Egypt—and just ing to get caught up in the was no state of Palestine. It state in the West Bank, east- to exist. Jordan, via the UN and United nine miles wide at its narrow- seemingly bottomless pit didn’t exist and never had. ern Jerusalem, and the Gaza Fifth, the PLO, which sup- States, urging Amman to stay est point. of details and disputes. But Its creation, proposed by the Strip any day of the week. ported the war effort, was es- out of any pending conflict. Eighth, Egypt blocked Is- without an understanding of UN in 1947, was rejected by They didn’t. There wasn’t tablished in 1964, three years Jordan’s King Hussein ig- raeli shipping lanes in the Red what happened in the past, the Arab world because it also even discussion about it. before the conflict erupted. nored the Israeli plea and tied Sea, Israel’s only maritime it’s impossible to grasp where meant the establishment of a And Arab leaders, who today That’s important because it his fate to Egypt and Syria. His access to trading routes with we are today—and where we Jewish state alongside. profess such attachment to was created with the goal of forces were defeated by Israel, Asia and Africa. This step was are has profound relevance Second, the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, rarely, if obliterating Israel. Remember and he lost control of the West understandably regarded as for the region and the world. eastern Jerusalem were in ever, visited. It was viewed as that in 1964 the only “settle- Bank and eastern Jerusalem. an act of war by Jerusalem. Fifty-one years ago, the Jordanian hands. Violating an Arab backwater. ments” were Israel itself. He later acknowledged that The United States spoke about Six-Day War broke out. While solemn agreements, Jordan Fourth, the 1967 bound- Sixth, in the weeks lead- he had made a terrible error joining with other countries some wars fade into obscurity, denied Jews access to their ary at the time of the war, so ing up to the Six-Day War, in entering the war. to break the blockade, but, this one remains as relevant holiest places in eastern Jeru- much in the news these days, Egyptian and Syrian leaders Seventh, Egypt’s President today as in 1967. Many of salem. To make matters still was nothing more than an repeatedly declared that war Gamal Abdel Nasser de- 1967 on page 15A Voices from the border with Gaza By Sarah N. Stern and kites with Molotov about the suffering of Gazans screeds that serve to perpetu- know if it’s a missile coming in greenhouses. After the cocktails, firebombs, chemi- living under the ironclad rule ate the 1948 conflict, rather to our house, to our school evacuation, they lived with (JNS) It seems as though cals and other incendiary of Hamas. It is absolutely than teaching their children or signaling the beginning two of the four children in Hamas is itching for another devices attached to them. tragic that the Hamas leader- fundamental skills to better of yet another war.” caravans (two of the chil- war. No less than 45 rockets So far, these seemingly in- ship has denied the population themselves and their people. She adds: “I have tremen- dren were married). She and were fired in recent days from nocuous instruments have the opportunity to develop It is absolutely tragic that dous sympathy for the people her husband now live in the the Gaza Strip into Israel, destroyed more than 7,000 themselves and their region, Hamas has syphoned off the of Gaza. Nobody elected Ashkelon region. two of which landed near a acres of agricultural fields, and insists on using their funds and building equipment Hamas as their leaders. It She feels that the situation community center and one natural growth and habita- people as nothing more than going into the area, and used came about because of a is beyond tragic. She recalls just outside a kindergar- tion, leading to extreme artillery in their ongoing war concrete to build more un- hostile takeover in 2007, when that before the evacuation, ten—the second attack on environmental devastation to obliterate the Jewish state. derground tunnels to launch they threw their opposition when she used to pass the a kindergarten in the last and an estimated $2 million It is absolutely tragic that the surprise attacks within Israel off from rooftops. I consider roads that bordered the kib- few weeks. Operatives also worth of damage. textbooks used by UNRWA are proper. myself left-wing and am still butzim on the way to her home launched scores of balloons We have heard a great deal highly ideological propaganda One never hears of the in touch with many Gazans. in Gush Katif, there were signs suffering of the Israelis living They are miserable under posted that said: “Jews, out of near the Gaza border, how- Hamas and would like it to Gaza. Go home to Israel.” Hamas launches over a dozen ever. While in Israel, I have change, but it is dangerous for But today, because of the spoken to several. them to open their mouths. untold devastation, she only Adele Reimer, a teacher I have one friend who has feels tremendous sympathy rockets at Israel, IDF strikes back of English who made aliyah spoken out occasionally, but for those who live on the from America in 1975, lives I and he are both afraid he is kibbutzim near Gaza. “They By World Israel News targeted a vehicle used by a Sources in Gaza quoted in Kibbutz Norim near the about to be arrested, tortured don’t deserve this. Nobody group of Palestinians who by PIC said “the resistance” Gaza border. She spoke to and shot.” deserves this.” Hamas terrorists launched launched arson balloons from fired 17 projectiles at nearby me about the “relentless, “But, she says, it is Hamas Shaul recalls that before a barrage of rockets and mor- the northern Gaza Strip into settlements. ongoing stress.” Reimer said who is calling the shots—not the Hitnakut (the evacuation tar fire from the Gaza Strip Israeli territory, as well as an Sirens were heard in the “it is not fair to call this post- only for the people of Gaza, from Gaza), former Prime at Israeli communities in the observation post from which Hof Ashkelon, Sha’ar HaNegev traumatic stress syndrome. It but for the State of Israel. Minister Ariel Sharon said, south in the wee hours of the balloons were launched.” and Eshkol Regional Councils is a daily, ongoing stress. Our They have manipulated inter- “Now if they attack, we can Wednesday morning. The Palestinian Infor- from approximately 1:45 a.m. children suffer from night- national community to such go in there and devastate There were no immediate mation Center, a Hamas- to 4 a.m., sending thousands mares, bedwetting, refusal to an extent, so we are perplexed them. We can use our rockets reports of injuries or damage. affiliated news site, said that of Israelis running to bomb go to bed at night, crawling as to how to respond. We care and our missiles. But do you On Tuesday, Hamas or- an Israeli drone fired at least shelters. into bed with parents. Many too much about international think we can today? Nobody chestrated the launching of one missile at a civilian car, The Iron Dome intercepted children, and even some public opinion.” remembers. Nobody cares.” another wave of firebomb- causing it to burst into flames. three projectiles. adults, are immobilized with Susie Shaul was evacuated Sarah N. Stern is founder laden kites and balloons that According to PIC, one Pal- Schools were set to re- fear and refuse to leave the from Gush Katif in Gaza in and president of the Endow- sparked fires. estinian citizen was slightly main open as usual on house. Every Friday, we brace 2005. Her husband worked ment for Middle East Truth, “Moments ago,” the IDF injured from the explosion Wednesday. No special in- ourselves. We hear the ‘Tzeva for 27 years, the bulk of his an unabashedly pro-Israel spokesman announced on in Nuseirat, a town in cen- structions were given to Adom’ [‘Red Alert’] several working life in agriculture think tank and policy institute twitter, “an IDF aircraft tral Gaza. residents of the area. times a day, and we don’t helping to develop crops in Washington, D.C. PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 6, 2018 Jared Kushner has it all wrong on the Palestinians

By Stephen M. Flatow father’s conflict to determine your children’s continued. “Israel’s prosperity would spill or cry when I read Kushner’s statement that future.” That’s how Americans think. But over very quickly to the Palestinians if there “the people of Gaza are hostages to bad leader- (JNS)—We don’t yet know the details of the that’s not how Palestinians think. Americans is peace.” ship... It’s time for the Palestinian Authority Israeli-Palestinian peace plan that presidential put their grandfathers’ conflicts behind them. Does he think the Palestinians don’t know and Hamas to stop using the people of Gaza adviser Jared Kushner is preparing. But we do Palestinians consider their grandfathers’ that? Does he think that they are simpletons as pawns.” know how Kushner perceives the Palestinian agenda to be their own agenda. who have never noticed, throughout the They’re not hostages, and they’re not pawns. Arabs. And he’s got them all wrong. “My dream,” Kushner told Al Quds, “is for past century, how Jewish development of the They freely elected Hamas in a democratic The White House has released an official the Israeli and Palestinian people to be the country has benefited them and could benefit election. They have chosen to march—by transcript of Kushner’s June 24 interview with closest of allies in combating terror, eco- them a lot more if they made peace? the thousands and tens of thousands—to the Palestinian Arab newspaper Al Quds. It nomic achievement, advancements in science Of course, they have noticed. But they have the Gaza fence to throw Molotov cocktails at shows that Kushner subscribes to the oldest and technology, and in sharing a lifestyle of chosen to do otherwise. When Israel expelled Israelis and sail flaming kites to burn down myth of the conflict—that average Palestin- their fields. Nobody forced them to go there. ians are really just like us. Nobody forced them to do that. Here’s how he put it: “I believe that Palestin- “So yes, there is a lot of hatred and a lot ian people are less invested in the politicians’ of scar tissue,” Kushner concluded, “but I talking points than they are in seeing how a “Average Palestinian Arabs really do do not underestimate humankind’s ability to deal will give them and their future generations love.” He doesn’t underestimate it. He over- new opportunities, more and better paying jobs want to destroy Israel. estimates it. Offering the Palestinian Arabs and prospects for a better life.” better-paying jobs will not transform them It’s often hard for Americans to grasp the They really do hate Jews.” from warmongers to peacemakers. It would fact that the values and concerns of the Pal- take a complete overhaul of the P.A.’s media estinian Arabs are, in fact, radically different and school system, followed by generations from those of America, Israel and the West. brotherhood, peace and prosperity.” Yes, that’s all Jews from Gaza, they left behind fully intact of enlightened leadership and education, to Average Palestinian Arabs really do want to Kushner’s dream. Mine, too. But that’s not the greenhouses for the Palestinians to use and change their values and attitudes. destroy Israel. They really do hate Jews. The Palestinians’ dream. They are not interested in enjoy. And enjoy them they did. They enjoyed If Jared Kushner’s dangerously naive belief political culture of their society is not the joining Israel in “combating terror” because burning them down. about the Palestinians’ “ability to love” is shap- same as the democratic political culture of the they are the ones who perpetrate, glorify and Wait, that doesn’t make any sense! If the ing the Trump Mideast peace plan, then friends United States or Israel. Better-paying jobs are financially reward terror. main concern of the Palestinians is economic of Israel have reason to be deeply concerned. not their highest goal. There’s a certain contempt implicit in pre- prosperity, why would they burn down the Stephen M. Flatow, a vice president of the You can blame their attitude on the Palestin- suming to enlighten other people as to what hothouses that would give them economic Religious Zionists of America, is an attorney ian Authority’s educational system. You can they should care about and what is in their best prosperity? Because they care more about in New Jersey and the father of Alisa Flatow, blame it on decades of anti-Jewish propaganda interests. “These people know their lives will hating Jews than improving their own lives. who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored on the P.A.’s television and radio programs, and only be improved by working out the issues Which is why I don’t know whether to laugh Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. in its newspapers and books. You can blame and moving on,” said Kushner. Wrong again. it on centuries of inculcation in the values He’s the one who is interested in “moving on.” of Islam and extreme Arab nationalism. But Not the Palestinians. however you apportion the blame, it’s a fact. “The Palestinian people are industrious, Everywhere In the interview, Kushner pleaded with well-educated and adjacent to the Silicon Palestinian readers: “Don’t allow your grand- Valley of the Middle East—Israel,” Kushner Political Asylum—Are we ready to welcome the world to America? Israel has lost sovereignty By Mel Pearlman If any section of the U.S. Code cries out for reform and simplification it is our im- on the Gaza border The idea to fully enforce the immigration migration laws. The two political parties, laws of the United States, a fundamental right paralyzed as they are, immediately must set By Amnon Lord of this sort. Today, the army’s General Staff, of every sovereign nation, even democratic aside their differences in this time of crisis, GOC Southern Command, the Gaza Division ones, is not only good policy, but obligatory and act for the benefit of the country to (JNS)—What does a portrait of Israeli and the chief consultant on gender issues at under our notion of the rule of law. clearly define and simplify our immigration society mid-2018 look like? This is a country IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv are all awaiting The Trump administration however, has laws so they can be properly enforced going that has, proportionately, the most number of instructions. an uncanny ability to pursue a sound public forward. A joint committee of both houses Jews compared to the United States, but it is The political echelon must provide a direc- policy idea only to implement it with disastrous of Congress should also be established to not a Jewish country. It is more appropriate to tive, a strategic plan and define goals. How results. The idea to separate children from their separately, and without linkage, deal with characterize it as a country with a prevalent should terrorists carrying out arson attacks parents or alleged parents before vetting each the lingering and festering effects of a anti-Zionist atmosphere. be confronted? What should be done with “family” unit is not only contrary to generally defective statute weakly enforced over the The High Court of Justice functions as the the enemy’s leaders, who have discovered the accepted American values, but in fact, makes last two decades or longer. executor of decisions to evacuate settlements, strategic, game-changing ploy of fence riots it more difficult to ultimately determine who The administration should open negotia- as if on an assembly line. With nary a warn- and incendiary kites? Every level of command should get asylum and who should be denied tions with Mexico to establish a bi-national ing, some 2,500 police show up to empty a is kicking this problem up the chain to receive the privilege of entering the United States. commission to deal with undocumented few homes in Netiv Ha’avot or an outpost approval. Let us not forget that these seekers of po- immigrants illegally attempting to cross the near Tapuach. At Tel University, playing or Hamas’s strategy is succeeding for now. litical asylum began their path to American border so they can be vetted before entering the singing “Hatikvah,” Israel’s national anthem, While Israel has managed to prevent fence citizenship by breaking American law. Let us U.S.; and they should remain in Mexico with is forbidden. I suppose that if this was done breaches, it seems to have lost sovereignty not forget that they jeopardized the safety of U.S. assistance until their case is determined. behind closed doors, without an anti-Semitic over the border area. The impression is that their children by not lawfully seeking asylum Additionally, Mexico should be persuaded to public offended by the words having to hear the government is not in control over the wide through available ports of entry, and crossed liberalize its own political asylum laws to it, it would be permissible to sing the anthem. stretch of burning land around Gaza. And if it into the United States surreptitiously, hoping embrace those legitimate applicants passing In the south, across a wide swathe of land is not in charge on the border and the burning to evade contact with U.S. border authorities through Mexico from Latin America and grant adjacent to the Gaza Strip, dozens of fires rage fields, where is it sovereign? and local law enforcement. The path they to those who truly need it political asylum in daily. Fields are burning. A farmer’s entire This loss of sovereignty over the border chose does not bode well that many of them that country. world goes up in flames. Meanwhile, the chil- area is reminiscent of the years preceding the will pass the vetting process. Under no circumstances should children be dren of Kibbutz Nir Am send balloons carrying Second Lebanon War, when Hezbollah terror- Under U.S. law, a refugee is generally defined separated from their parents during any stage candy to the peace-seeking people of Gaza. ists controlled the villages in south Lebanon (with a number of statutory exceptions) as a of the proceedings, but adults falsely claiming The Israel Defense Forces behave appropriately next to the Israeli border. This undermined person who is outside his or her country of parenthood of accompanying children should and ask the civilians how to handle the fires. stability until war eventually erupted. The such person’s nationality... and who is unable or be arrested, if probable cause is found, and Destroying agriculture and burning fields same could also happen in the Gaza Strip if the unwilling to return to and is unable or unwill- charged with appropriate crimes of child en- and crops were always among the Arabs’ Israeli government has indeed lost its ability ing to avail himself or herself of the protection dangerment, abuse and kidnapping. primary goals in their war on the Jewish to make decisions. of that country because of persecution or a Strong, clear and enforceable provisions of community in Israel, ever since the granary In recent years, IDF Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. well-founded fear of persecution on account a new and effective immigration law, robust at Kibbutz Tel Yosef was set ablaze and pillars Gadi Eizenkot has boasted a policy of preserv- of race, religion, nationality, membership in vetting and cooperation with Mexico in secur- of smoke rose from Kibbutz Beit Alfa during ing sovereignty over the border and adjacent a particular social group, or political opinion. ing the safety and unity of families can restore the Arab riots of 1929. areas. On the Gaza border, he has failed. And It does not appear that many of those seek- America’s reputation not only as the land of Until recently, every platoon commander in this failure belongs to the entire leadership ing political asylum unlawfully entering the the free and home of the brave, but also as a the IDF knew how to handle terrorist attacks echelon—from the prime minister on down. country from our Southern border would meet refuge for the truly oppressed. the above criteria. 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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 6, 2018 PAGE 5A Face the facts: Don’t suppress them By Jonathan At the very least, listening ers in the 2016 Democratic them to public attention. “The right. “The center-right,” says “certain,” rather than explor- Rosenblum to the brothers is an immedi- primaries. least interesting thing about Eric, “is the blankest space on ing. They decry the effort to ate cure for anyone who thinks There is tremendous pres- Jordan Peterson is that he the canvas” to discuss and simplify the world into binary (Jewish Media Resourc- he or she is brighter than they sure, Eric notes, on campus refuses to use newly created debate new ideas. Conserva- categories—for or against. As es)—My brother recently sent actually are. Both brothers are and other left-controlled pronouns to comply with the tives are far less bothered an example, Eric cites the PBS me a three-hour video of the extraordinarily articulate on a cultural venues to salute the new gender orthodoxy,” is how by disagreement with one News Hour’s inability to use Weinstein brothers, Eric and whole range of subjects about flag of political correctness. Eric Weinstein puts it. (Actu- another. They would rather anything from a 90-minute Bret, in conversation. Eric, which most of us have never And most people play along ally, Peterson will use those debate ideas than suppress interview with him on immi- the older brother, holds a PhD heard and lack even the basic on the grounds that it is pronouns if someone asks to them. In that blank space, gration because he could not in mathematical physics from tools to discuss. simply not worth the price be addressed in a certain way. many diverse thinkers coming be pegged into a box labeled Harvard, and has published Eric is generally credited of noncompliance. But there He will simply not allow the from different disciplines have “pro-immigration” or “anti- widely in both physics and with having coined the term are always a few brave souls Canadian government or the discovered one another. immigration.” economics. He is today the “the Intellectual Dark Web” who won’t play along because University of Toronto, where Meanwhile the left be- Another aspect of the managing director of Thiel for a group of thinkers who they can’t. he teaches, to tell him what haves more and more like a left’s anti-empiricism is its Capital, the investment arm of have gained an enormous Those brave souls, the pronouns he may or may cult. Members are enjoined utopianism. The left seeks to PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. following—Jordan Peterson, brothers agree, cannot salute not use.) from contact with anyone “wish itself into a better to- Bret taught biology at Ev- Ben Shapiro, Jonathan Haidt, because they possess a fully Those who have developed whose views might prove morrow,” charges Eric. Both ergreen State College until et al.—by challenging the developed world view within their own models of how the “disconfirming.” The left has brothers label themselves as he ran afoul of the social cultural hegemony of the left which whatever they are be- world works tend to be doing revived the playground game anti-utopians for the simple justice warriors. He tried to on college campuses and in ing coerced to do does not the most interesting research of “cooties,” according to Bret. reason that all utopias end up teach his course on a “day of corporate America. fit, and they will not sacrifice because they share the Wein- Exposure to the wrong ideas as dystopias when the original absence” declared by black Though generally associ- that which they have striven steins’ perception that many is infectious and therefore hopes turn sour. students: whites were strongly ated with the right, most of so hard to attain. academic disciplines and those ideas must be sup- Nowhere is that desire to discouraged from entering these figures have actually Those who refuse to ca- societal institutions have pressed. He labels that view create a better future by wish- the campus that day. His been expelled from the left for pitulate to the authoritarians reached dead ends and are in “preposterous.” ing it into being more evident position on the far left—he their refusal to comply with trying to impose uniformity great need of reform. The orthodoxy of a cult is than in the left’s thinking was a member of the Occupy the regnant political correct- of thought turn out to be Read out of the left, the lead- the last thing needed in the about gender, which Eric sug- Wall Street movement—did ness. Eric Weinstein, like his interesting for a whole slew ers of the Intellectual Dark present moment, the brothers gests is completely detached nothing to protect him from brother, leans decidedly left. of reasons quite removed from Web have found a welcoming argue. The least important being labeled a racist. He voted for Bernie Sand- the issue that first brought place for expression on the people are those who are Facts on page 15A US interests require Israel on the Golan Heights By Yoram Ettinger Syria represents a clear, United States and thus mak- regional impact, under an toppling of all pro-U.S. Arab against Palestinian terrorists, present and lethal threat to ing Syria dramatically more Alawite or a Sunni regime regimes. while the United States was (JNS)—US interests in the pro-U.S. Arab regimes. It has explosive. (the French Mandate des- Just like Iran’s Ayatollahs, bogged down in Southeast Middle East and beyond are been a systematic violator of While Syria is currently ignated an Alawite State in so would any future ruler of Asia, severely constrained as well-served by a strategically agreements (with Lebanon, preoccupied with domes- 1920), transcend the narrow Syria—Alawite or Sunni— far as extending additional constrained Syria. Histori- Turkey, the Arab League, tic upheaval, its potential context of the Arab-Israeli view the U.S. presence in the deployment of its troops. At- cally, Syria has been a tectonic, the United States and Israel), destabilizing regional and conflict. They are a derivative Middle East as the major ob- tempting to avoid a con- volatile platform of violent, advancing the geo-strategic global ripple effects should of the unique role played by stacle on the way of reaching frontation with the USSR, intolerant and unpredictable interests of the Ayatollahs be assessed in view of the Syria (a-Sham)—the home of its megalomaniac strategic the United States requested Arab/Islamic regional aspi- of Iran, Russia and China, inherent Middle East volatil- the early Caliphs—in Islamic goal, considering Israel to be Israel to mobilize the Israel rations of grandeur, totally benefiting from North Korean ity. It should also be observed history. Therefore, the current a most effective and inhibiting Defense Forces to the joint unrelated to Israel’s existence conventional and non-con- against the background of Syrian powder keg has drawn U.S. outpost. Hence, Syria’s Israel-Syria-Jordan frontier. and policies. ventional military technolo- Syria’s multi-century key role an unprecedented number of deep strategic alliance with Israel’s prompt mobilization During the modern era, gies and hardware (chemical, in the tumultuous 14th-cen- Islamic terror organizations Russia since 1966, which triggered an immediate Syr- Syria has been a major arena biological and nuclear), while tury Islamic history. It should and jihad (holy war)-driven has provided a tailwind to ian withdrawal from Jordan, of anti-U.S. hate-education maintaining close ties with also be examined against the fighters/terrorists from the Moscow’s influence in the bolstering Israel’s and the U.S. and incitement, Islamic and anti-U.S. Cuba, Venezuela, backdrop of its current deep Middle East, Europe, Africa Middle East, the Persian Gulf, posture of deterrence, injur- international terrorism (e.g., Bolivia and Ecuador. strategic ties with Russia, the and Asia. the Horn of Africa and the ing the geo-strategic posture the blowing up of the U.S. A withdrawal of Israel’s megalomaniacal Ayatollahs of An Israeli retreat from the Eastern Mediterranean. For of both Syria and the USSR, Embassy and Marines Head- military from the mountain Iran, and transnational ISIS, Golan Heights would not example, Russia’s only naval sparing America a mega- quarters in Beirut and Pan Am ridges of the 500-square-mile the Muslim Brotherhood and quench, but inflame Damas- base in the Mediterranean is billion dollar mobilization and Flight 103), narco-terrorism Golan Heights—located 34 additional Islamic terror orga- cus’s long-term historical in Tartus, Syria. a bruising public debate, while (featuring ties with Latin miles from Damascus— nizations, which aim to erase aspirations to solidify control In 1970, the militarily su- assisting it with Israel’s own American drug cartels), a would severely injure Israel’s the current borders among of Syria, reclaim Greater Syria perior USSR-supported Syria manpower, military bases and mega-billion dollar counter- posture of deterrence, reduc- Arab states. (including Jordan, Lebanon invaded the militarily inferior supply lines. feiting of $100 bills and the ing its capabilities to extend Syria’s imperialistic aspira- and Israel) and dominate the U.S.-supported Jordan, which abuse of human rights. the strategic hand of the tions and potential explosive Arab World, which entails the was involved in a civil war Golan on page 15A The highest-ranking spy in Israel’s history By Yoav Limor caught operating in Israel, tried to smuggle drugs into increased severity while blam- to think that Israel is alone to hide his tracks. On the other he is not the worst. Oth- Israel, arranged for his Ira- ing the entire world for their on the playing field. This is hand, he was able to spy for the (JNS)—It is difficult to find ers have caused far greater nian handlers to meet other problems. wrong. Iran is a formidable Iranians for too many years better words than “treason” damage. Marcus Klingberg, Israelis, mainly from the Segev will surely pay for adversary; it is determined, until he was caught, after and “espionage” to describe who gave the Soviets secrets defense establishment. It’s his actions, but there are patient and has nerves of undoubtedly causing quite a the offenses attributed to for- from the Israel Institute for no secret that a considerable other aspects to this affair. For steel. It is here to stay, and the bit of damage. mer minister Gonen Segev. Biological Research, is the number of former defense example, Iran’s concerted ef- working assumption needs to A thorough study is now This man, who was a gov- most prominent. Some were officials roam the globe, pre- forts to recruit spies in Israel. be that other “Gonen Segevs” required to understand what ernment minister, a senior recruited; others, such as dominantly in Africa, trying Against the backdrop of the are out there. and who failed along the partner in the decision-mak- Nahum Manbar, volunteered, to wheedle business. They security branches’ successes This approach is at the way—not for the purpose of ing process, gave information usually for money; and still have knowledge, they have against Iranian activities (the forefront for Israeli security casting blame, but to prevent to Iran. Large parts of this others, such as Mordechai connections, and they have Mossad against its nuclear officials. On the one hand, the next spy before it is too affair are still under wraps, Vanunu, were ideologically appetites (and some also have program, the IDF against Segev’s detection and arrest late. but what can be said clearly motivated. criminal histories). A skilled Iranian activities in Syria, are a success, due to the fact Yoav Limor is a veteran Is- indicates that Segev was not Segev’s case is different agent who takes up with any the Shin Bet in counterintel- that he acted alone in a foreign raeli journalist and columnist duped or extorted. He chose, because he did not have “gold” of these individuals could ligence), there is a tendency country and took great pains for Israel Hayom. with eyes wide open, to help to benefit the Iranians in any learn quite a bit about Israeli Israel’s archenemy gather significant way. He served in capabilities in a number of intelligence. the government more than fields. Even worse, he could Segev was methodical two decades ago, and it is abduct one of them (as in the and shrewd; he took mea- safe to assume the classified Elhanan Tanenbaum case, for sures to cover his tracks and information he had was not anyone who needs a painful tried recruiting others. The particularly relevant. The reminder). bumbling response currently advantages to recruiting him Segev was a facilitator in coming from his camp that stem from a different goal: all these areas. He knowingly he had tried to help Israeli Intelligence agencies seek to met his handlers in secret lo- intelligence does not hold establish networks, to learn cations across the globe, and water. The case against him is processes, to understand worse, in Tehran itself. What strong, the evidence is abun- how decisions are made, to prompted him to do this? It dant, and it is corroborated identify power centers and is safe to conclude he was by Segev’s own testimony, vulnerabilities. Segev could motivated mostly by greed, which it is safe to assume have helped the Iranians in and perhaps by a desire to was extracted in the course all these areas. exact vengeance on his own of the nine days he was held That’s not all. Segev, who country, which, in his twisted in special custody without reportedly worked in Nigeria perception, threw him to the access to a lawyer. as a pediatrician even though dogs. Apparently, people like While Segev is the most his medical license was per- him do not admit to mistakes senior spy to have been manently revoked after he but tend to repeat them with PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 6, 2018 What’s A COMPREHENSIVE No room for goodbyes! COMMUNITY LIGHT Happening CALENDAR SHABBAT Often residents are moved CANDLES AT For inclusion in the What’s Happening Calendar, copy must be sent on sepa- to different communities. rate sheet and clearly marked for Calendar. Submit copy via: e-mail (news@ JULY 6 This does not mean good-bye. orlandoheritage.com); mail (P.O. 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it as a meta-reflection while is going on here?’ ‘Why are spaces, belonging to those walking the streets. people doing that?’ ‘What is environments, and will open Before the performance in this mechanism?’ ‘How do I up and acknowledge that. But a particular city, scouts ar- belong in this mechanism?’ everyone will take something rive to perfect the routes and ‘Are we really individuals?’ different out of it.” adjust the text and narration. and ‘What does it tell us about The first seven of the perfor- “The piece is a reflection ourselves?’ The performers mances of Remote Jerusalem of the individual and the meet each other and the city, were sold out almost immedi- digital voice, using the city learning about the social and ately. Giuli maintains that the as the scenery and landscape political environment.” Jerusalem show is particularly to go through this process,” “Art,” he says, “is a space compelling due to the city’s the Israel Festival’s artistic to reflect about reality, to rich history and religion. director, Itzik Giuli, tells JNS. explore.” “Each city has different “It is interesting to juxta- “It is a way to take another connotations and people are pose deep reflection about city look at something—separate different the way they behave life and the way we perceive from the way institutions and dress. Jerusalem is unique ourselves as a group and as want us to think about re- in its environment,” he says. individuals, all projected to us ality—and see something “I hope it brings Jerusalem to from a very interesting angle behind the veil,” he contin- Jerusalem,” adds Giuli. “I hope outside of the theater,” he says. ued. “Some participants will it makes the citizens and visi- “The performance creates come out with the realization tors to Jerusalem think about a space to be reflective, ask- that they are part of a big their environment and reflect Eliana Rudee ing questions such as, ‘What machine of biology, urban about cities and their lives.” Participants taking part in “Remote X” in a Jerusalem cemetery. Remote X is based on a skeleton of a narrative in which the performers are “remoted” from the normal ways they interact with the city, and instead experience it as a meta-reflection while walking the streets. By Eliana Rudee children will look you in the 2 kilometers (a little more eye. They haven’t been fully than a mile) away from the (JNS)—As part of the an- programmed. They don’t have starting point. nual Israel Festival in Jeru- a firewall yet.” “Rimini Protokoll has been salem, I boarded the light rail As the “horde” (the name working as a collective for with my fellow performers, with which Rachel so affec- 18 years, exploring original each donning a white headset. tionately referred to us per- theatrical means and tools, Our choreographer was a pre- formers) got off the light rail, and expanding them to devise programmed Siri-like female we were given frighteningly new perspectives on contem- voice named “Rachel” telling accurate directions—the porary reality,” writes an us exactly how to perform voice telling us where to turn, Israel Festival spokesperson. the show. But I am no actor, how to interact with others “Accompanied by cinematic and neither were my fellow and move our bodies, and even soundtrack, the streets of Je- performers; in fact, we were what to think about. rusalem become a theatre set, the ones who needed tickets Throughout the 105 min- and we, the performers in it.” to the show! utes of directed navigation, Remote X, the name for So there we were, in the this voice, programmed by the show that has been car- middle of a performance on the avant-garde theater col- ried out in many cities all the Jerusalem light rail. lective Rimini Protokoll, led over the world, is based on “Try to look someone in the 50 of us along the streets of a skeleton of a narrative in eye. Try! They will always look Jerusalem on an audiovi- which the performers are away. That’s their software,” sual journey that started in “remoted” from the normal instructed the synthetic a cemetery and ended atop ways they interact with the voice in our headsets. “Only a Jerusalem rooftop some city and instead experience PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 6, 2018 Walter Goldstein lights up lives with a song and a smile Long Island, NY, and it was their love of performing, but Singing is a natural fit for there he launched his sing- eventually they ended up in the Jewish programming he ing career at the age of only productions that ran at the does, and he is always find- 4. He performed songs from same time. ing connections to Jewish “Fiddler on the Roof” in a “We sat down and talked,” themes in the popular music garage for his neighbors at Goldstein said. “And we de- he sings. He is also mindful the instigation of his sister, cided we really wanted him of his audiences, taking into Penny, who also loved to sing to be in the spotlight. We account the needs of the non- and who performed with him didn’t need it to be on us as Jewish residents who attend that day. much as we wanted it to be on his programs and sometimes, “She wanted to be a star,” him.” After that, they begged he said, “outnumber the Jew- he said, “and she dragged me off performing in musicals ish residents ten to one.” He along with her with every- unless it was to fill in at the helps those non-Jewish guests thing she was doing.” The last minute for a night or two. to understand a little bit more pair continued to entertain Goldstein made a living about Jewish holidays and neighbors and friends as they as a janitor in the New York culture and how they fit into grew up. City school system and also in the larger culture. While still young children, retail, with a side business as a Goldstein’s other role at The the two started going up on DJ and karaoke MC. Then his Jewish Pavilion is as inter- the bima on Friday nights to father, living in Delray Beach, generational programming lead their small Conserva- started having health prob- coordinator. He works with tive congregation in singing lems. Goldstein realized that directors of synagogue and “Adon Olam.” The Goldstein he needed to move to Florida other Jewish youth programs family was very involved in so that he could reach his around town to arrange for the their synagogue and attended father more quickly and easily teens to visit nearby seniors regularly, and gradually the when needed. That’s when the facilities. Goldstein siblings led more Goldstein family moved from Sometimes the teens come and more of the prayers. “We New York to Orlando, where in and play games with the Walter “Sky” Goldstein performing songs recently at his Jewish Pavilion program at pretty much ended up leading his sister, Penny, now lived. residents or do other light Sonata West. the whole Friday service,” He continued in retail and socializing. Other programs Goldstein said. reestablished himself in the provide more of a learning By Lisa Levine And then there’s that voice. Sometimes they just listen, When Walter was 18 he DJ and karaoke business. experience for both the teens Clear, strong, and mellow, concert style, and enjoy. followed his father, a three- Then he met a Sammy Davis and the seniors, Goldstein When Walter Goldstein with a three-and-a-half- Sometimes they sing along. time congregation president, Jr. impersonator and the two said. For example, he said, comes to seniors facilities to octave range—“four octaves But they are always engaged on the path of leadership at began performing together “they sit and discuss current do programs, the residents on a good day”—Goldstein’s and entertained. Lindenhurst Hebrew Con- in Orlando-area senior liv- events and how they connect know they’re in for a treat. smooth singing voice calls to “I love it when he comes to gregation, joining the board ing facilities, with Goldstein with the past.” Goldstein, a program direc- mind the beloved mid-century sing to us! I could just listen and later becoming treasurer maintaining his usual per- One such recent con- tor for The Jewish Pavilion’s recording artists who brought to him all day, every day.” This as well as chairing several forming style as Sky Walters. versation connected the south Orlando region, has a the Great American Songbook reaction from one of the resi- committees and ushering When Helene began un- liberation of Jewish slaves warm and welcoming way of and Broadway and popular dents of Sonata West pretty on high holidays. He also dergoing treatment for breast in Egypt with freeing the connecting with them indi- tunes to radios, stages and much summed up the senti- began working in the family cancer, Goldstein needed to American slaves, the wom- vidually as they settle in for his movie screens all over the ments of the 15 or so people business, providing formal focus on his family, and the en’s liberation movement, programs. And he knows his country. who had come to a monthly wear for weddings and travel performing duo split up. He- and the recent student-led audiences, leading engaging With a karaoke machine Shabbat program at the new services for honeymoons. lene has been in full remission protests following the mass programs that both pull in and speakers in tow, Gold- independent and assisted Then he became involved for 10 years. When Goldstein shooting at Marjory Stone- Jewish culture and tradition stein delights residents who living facility in southwest in a community theater returned to performing, he man Douglas High School. and also remain relevant for attend his programs with his Orlando one recent Friday. company throughout most became a solo act. “Different sides are seen and the many non-Jews who also captivating renditions of the Goldstein was born and of his 20s. “I learned to do Then his sister once again different sides are heard, and attend. songs they know and love. grew up in Lindenhurst, on everything,” he said, “so if I pulled him into something. it’s all done with respect,” wasn’t onstage, I was back- Now known as Penny Gold- Goldstein said. stage helping. I knew how to stein D’Agostino, Goldstein’s Goldstein also arranges run the soundboard and the sister has been The Jewish Pa- matches between b’nei-mitz- light boards, and I knew how vilion’s CFO for several years, vah-aged teens and seniors to build the sets.” and she is also well known as for one-on-one visits in which One day he got a call from an entertainer at local seniors the teen spends 30 to 40 hours another theater group to fill facilities. She needed help in over several months getting in as Sky Masterson, a lead the Pavilion’s offices and re- to know their new friend and character in “Guys and Dolls.” cruited Goldstein, who began learning about what life was It was there he met his future working there part time to do like when the senior was a wife, Helene, who was playing what was needed. teenager himself or herself. Adelaide. When one of the Pavil- Like his roles as a musical That “Guys and Dolls” ion’s four program directors theater performer, karaoke Jewish Graveside Package: production was also where decided to retire about two host and professional singer, he picked up the nickname years ago, Goldstein, who Goldstein finds his roles at “Sky.” The play’s director already had so much experi- The Jewish Pavilion to be very • Service of Funeral Director and Staff ended up taking the produc- ence engaging with seniors in fulfilling. tion to Off Broadway. Needing local facilities and had formed “It’s not the accolades,” • Sacred Burial Shroud a professional stage name, relationships with so many he said, adding that being Walter Goldstein became Sky of them, was a natural fit for complimented on his singing Walters. It’s a name he’s still the role. tends to make him feel a bit • Filing all Necessary Paperwork known by to this day as he He continues to perform uneasy. “But I love looking performs around town both on the side as Sky Walters, out as people are listening as a singer and a karaoke MC. even in some of the same and seeing smiles.” • $200.00 to Chevra Kaddish Society donation for washing Goldstein and his wife facilities where he comes in to He finds it even more continued performing in do Jewish Pavilion programs. rewarding than his years of musicals Off Broadway and This might seem as it if could performing on stage, some- • Traditional Jewish Flat Top Pine Casket elsewhere after that pro- be confusing, but the seniors times for crowds of thousands. duction ended. Then, when who enjoy his programs so “Now I’m only in front of ten, • Staff Supervison of Service at Graveside Goldstein was 30, their son, much don’t seem to mind. twenty, thirty people at a time. Brad, was born. At first, the Joked Goldstein, “I go at, let’s I can sit and talk with them. I couple tried switching off with say, one o’clock to two o’clock can see the smiles. I can see • Transportation to Cemetery productions to accommodate as Walter, and then at two- what makes them happy,” he their family lives as well as thirty to three-thirty as Sky!” said. “I enjoy that.” $4595.00 when the Y NEXT-IN-LINE Call us to receive your free Final Wishes Organizer! becomes the 407-695-CARE (2273) ONE-IN-CHARGE www. DeGusipeFuneralHome.com Maitland Sanford West Orange MARK LANG & ASSOCIATES 9001 N. Orlando Avenue 905 Laurel Avenue 1400 Matthew Paris Blvd Maitland, FL 32751 Sanford, FL 32771 Ocoee, FL 34761 Business Succession Planning | LANGLAW.NET | Oces: Winter Park HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 6, 2018 PAGE 9A Scene AroundAround By Gloria Yousha—Call 407-657-9405 or [email protected] can be purchased at the following locations: ORANGE COUNTY JCC, 851 N. 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He was returned to Israel on charge and there are prizes! City Hall, 101 Church St, Kissimmee • Kissimmee Library, 211 Oct. 18, 2011, in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, (Oy Gevalt! Yiddish Bingo?) E. Dakin, Kissimmee • Robinson’s Coffee Shop, 114 Broadway, including some convicted of multiple murders and carrying One for the road... out attacks against Israeli civilians Esther meets Rebecca at the mall. They haven’t seen each Kissimmee • Osceola County Courthouse, 2 Courthouse Sq, Shout-Out... other for years and immediately start talking about their Kissimmee • Barnies, 3236 John Young Pwy, Kissimmee • I met the nicest guy recently at the 7-11 Gas Station on favorite subject—their children. Reily’s Gourmet Coffee, 3831 Vine St, Kissimmee • Shalom Aloma Avenue (corner of Forsythe Road). His name is JOSE “So how’s your lovely little boy Lawrence?” asks Esther. “Is Aleichem, 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd, Kissimmee • Books-A-Million, CRUZ. He is an employee there and went out of his way to he still giving you much naches?” 2605 W. Osceola Pwy (522), Kissimmee • Lower East Side Deli, help me fill up my car. I would have been confused without “He’s not so little anymore—he’s nearly 20 years old,” re- 8548 Palm Parkway, Lake Buena his help as I am no longer a kid. (Oh quiet!) plies Rebecca, “and to tell you the truth, we were upset with And speaking of no longer being young... him last year.” I really can’t perform the songs of today, especially not “Why, what did he do?” asks Esther. Sudoku (see page 14A for solution) the Rap Crap. But if you feel as I do, here is something you “He hadn’t been at Oxford University more than a fortnight should know: Powerhouse musical theatre performer, TAY when he rang to tell us he’d ‘come out,’ he’s gay,” replies Rebecca. ANDERSON, will take the cabaret stage at The Winter Park “Oy gevalt!” says Esther, “I bet you were both farmisht.” Playhouse to premiere her latest solo cabaret,“I Was Here,” in “Well, we were at first,” says Rebecca, “but then we found the theatre’s Spotlight Cabaret Series on July 18th and 19th. out he’s going out with a nice Jewish doctor.” Israeli-American Council Conference HOLLYWOOD, FL—This Jewish and Israeli-American ing the next generation, and thought leaders, influencers, month, The Israeli-American communities in the United creating a living bridge to the entrepreneurs, policymakers, Council announced plans to States. Jewish-American community and activists from the U.S., host their 5th Annual IAC “We are thrilled to an- in a host city that reflects Israel, and around the world. National Conference—which nounce that South Florida the energy, dynamism, and Pre-sale tickets are now draws thousands of partici- will host our 2018 national creativity we see in the greater available for discounted gen- pants from all over the coun- conference, which has grown IAC community around the eral admission. Press must try—in South Florida. The exponentially in the last sever- country.” register in advance to attend conference will be held from al years,” said IAC Co-Founder The 4th annual IAC Na- the 2018 National Conference November 29 to December 2, and CEO Shoham Nicolet. tional Conference in Washing- in South Florida. 2018, and will bring the IAC’s “Together, we will explore the ton, D.C., drew a record 2,700 For additional information, community signature event to most important elements of participants to the four-day please visit: http://www.israe- the heart of one of the largest community building, engag- conference and hundreds of liamerican.org/conference. Congregation Beth Sholom July schedule Celebrate Shabbat with gregation Beth Sholom will and and how it affects our will be a Kiddush following the Synagogue that feels like be held on Thursday, July daily lives. The roundtable the service. family. Our Shabbat evening 19 at 1 p.m. at the Sumter provides a unique opportu- The synagogue is located at service led by Rabbi Karen County Administration and nity to talk with the rabbi 315 North 13th St. in Leesburg, Allen is on Friday, July 13 at Library Building (with the as she leads an informal and with the entrance on Center 7 p.m. an Oneg Shabbat will golden dome) at 7375 Powell interactive Torah study dis- Street. More information is follow the service. Rd. (near Pinellas Plaza and cussion. available on the synagogue The Rabbi’s Torah Round- 466A), Wildwood. The Rabbi’s Saturday, July 28 Shabbat website: http://bethsholom- table Discussion Group with Roundtable series explores Morning Service led by Rabbi florida.org/ or by calling the Rabbi Karen Allen of Con- the current Torah Portion Karen Allen, at 10 a.m. There synagogue at 352-326-3692. PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 6, 2018 Denmark is considering a ban on circumcision “so pressed already, with ting to it,” Finn Rudaizky, a in 2016 among 1,027 adult armed police at our school former leader of the Jewish Danes, 87 percent of respon- and armed troops at shul, community of Denmark, dents said they support a ban this [debate on circumcision] told JTA. on nonmedical circumcision is sucking the marrow out of Anecdotal evidence seems of boys. wanting to be Jewish,” said to support his view. Amid the discomfort that Mette Bentow, the mother of Over the past decade, this sentiment is causing Hannah and two sons. Mette Denmark has developed some Danish Jews, they are adjust- Bentow said her boys are the of Europe’s strictest immi- ing to the new reality that first in three generations of gration policies, which The followed the 2015 synagogue her Jewish family who were Washington Post last year attack. circumcised. called “a Muslim ban [that] At the Chabad synagogue, The language of the draft was just called something machine gun-toting troops motion on circumcision that else.” wearing bulletproof vests is pending a vote in parlia- And in the 2015 elec- over camouflage fatigues ment cites only child welfare tions, the Danish People’s gently tap their feet to the concerns. Party, which The New York melody produced by some “The introduction of an Times has labeled “far right,” 30 Jews singing inside the 18-year minimum age for emerged as the second larg- building during a recent circumcision puts children’s est in parliament. It now Friday night service. They interests and rights at the supports the policies of the smile and joke with Rochel forefront,” the text states. center-right party in power, Loewenthal, the wife of Yitzi, It calls for a jail term of up including the ban passed the local Chabad rabbi, who to six years for anyone who this month on wearing face- offers them a plate of kosher performs a circumcision, and covering garments like the chicken and hummus dip. holds parents and guardians ones favored by some Muslim Security was at its peak last responsible whether the act women. week during the annual Jew- Chabad of Copenhagen happened in Denmark or not. Denmark has already out- ish Culture Festival, where Rabbi Yitzi Loewenthal, kneeling left, and Chabad Copenhagen visitors, March 25, 2015. More than 50,000 people lawed the slaughter of ani- eight police and soldiers were signed a petition on the mals without stunning them on hand at an event Saturday By Cnaan Liphshiz man who gunned down the would oppose a ban or a call Danish parliament’s web- first, as required by Jewish night for young Jews attended volunteer guard, Dan Uzan. for one, but the debate about site endorsing the text, which and Muslim religious laws; by about 15 teenagers outside COPENHAGEN, Denmark But Bentow said her deci- it “makes me feel like I don’t equates nonmedical circum- that was in 2014. the city’s main synagogue. It (JTA)—In 2015, a jihadist sion to leave for Israel as soon belong, and like Denmark cision of boys with female The following year, a Mus- has two doors, and anyone killed a Jewish guard out- as she turns 18 was sealed and doesn’t want me to belong, genital mutilation. lim cemetery was desecrated seeking to enter is questioned side this capital city’s main reaffirmed by the precedent- either,” Bentow said. In Denmark and other Eu- in Copenhagen. In a separate in the middle section when synagogue, where Hannah setting steps undertaken this Her words echo a senti- ropean countries, campaigns incident in 2015, a Danish they are unable to enter or Bentow was having her bat year in this Scandinavian ment shared by many Danish to ban nonmedical circumci- man tried to burn down a leave. mitzvah party. country toward banning Jews, who are questioning sion of boys, a religious ini- mosque in the Danish capital But Hannah Bentow, Her sense of security as a nonmedical circumcision of their future in a nation where tiation rite that Muslims call while dozens of worshippers whose bat mitzvah was the Jew in Denmark was shat- boys. The Danish parliament they increasingly feel caught khitan and Jews call milah, were inside. target of the 2015 attack, tered, she told JTA last week. is set to become the first in the between Islamist extremism have been brewing for years. Against this backdrop, “the doesn’t feel these measures Bentow and dozens of teen- European Union to vote on a and the xenophobia it triggers But Danish promoters of debate about circumcision in are excessive. Weeks after agers stayed inside for long nonbinding motion calling to in their secularist society. the ban made a breakthrough Denmark is definitely part the attack, someone smashed uncertain minutes as police prohibit the practice. When Denmark’s Jewish following an amendment this of a bigger picture where the window of Denmark’s pursued and later killed the The ruling parties said they minority of 9,000 people is year saying that petitions xenophobia plays a role,” only kosher shop and sprayed that receive 50,000 signa- said Hagai Ben-Avraham, an it with swastikas. Then it tures within six months of Israel-born academic who is was attacked again in 2016. their posting on the parlia- married to a Christian Dan- And last year a 17-year-old ment’s website are expected ish woman and has lived in Muslim girl was convicted of to be brought to a vote as a Copenhagen for the past six plotting to blow up the Jewish nonbinding draft motion in years. school from which Bentow parliament. The circumci- Whatever the forces driv- recently graduated. sion proposal cleared the ing the case against cir- For Bentow and her young- signature hurdle within four cumcision, the pending vote er brother, 8-year-old Elias, months. in parliament is causing the 2015 attack “introduced To many Danish Jews, the Ruchama Elisabeth Munch, fear into their lives,” Mette arguments about child wel- a 24-year-old Israel-born Bentow said Elias has asked fare hide the real motivation mother living with her Chris- that his father, Klaus, a se- behind the ban: xenophobia. tian husband in the city curity consultant who has In addition to children’s of Aarhus, to question her worked for El Al, no longer welfare activists, “many future in Denmark. wear his kippah in public. others use the situation to At the circumcision last Enjoying the last rays of show that they are against year of their first born, Yoav, sunlight in the backyard Jews, Muslims and they can Munch said she and her hus- of her family’s river-view express anti-Semitism and band invited only close family apartment building near the xenophobia without admit- partly because they “didn’t Chabad synagogue, Mette feel comfortable” inviting Bentow said that she and non-Jews to a ceremony that her husband often tell Elias is often characterized in the not to be afraid of Muslims media as child abuse. he sees on the street, so far “But when we have more with partial success. children, of course it will af- Mette Bentow said she fect our decision whether to is deeply thankful for how live here, if we get branded Danish society “embraced” as criminals” over milah, its Jews following the 2015 she said. attack. Munch also said that she “I love Denmark, I love has been “welcomed into our royal house, I get goose- Danish society” and has expe- bumps on national holidays,” rienced no negative attitudes she said as she sat with her over her being an immigrant family around a table laden or an observant Jew. with fresh cherries, sour- “This is a tolerant country dough Danish pastries and despite everything,” she said, a pitcher of elderberry juice. “which is why I really don’t “But lately,” she added, understand why so many “the more I live here, the people here want to ban more I get the feeling this milah.” is the wrong place to raise a In a survey conducted Jewish family.”

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Silver, Tax director—along 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Ira was born in Brooklyn, with fellow MBAF Principals Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- New York. He moved to Florida Tony Argiz, Ed Blum, Emilio 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. when he was 8 years old. He Escandon, Steven Morrison graduated from Florida State and Mark Fenaughty—will Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. University in 1981. He married now oversee the legacy that jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; his wife, Sharon, in 1982. They Ira built. Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. were married for 36 years. Ira will be remembered for Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, One of Ira’s specialties was his sense of humor, kindness, the automotive industry. He generosity, and love for his 321-777-2770. was highly respected by his family and friends. Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- clients and colleagues for his He leaves behind his be- 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat commitment to helping his loved wife Sharon, his two heart transplant recipient). services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. clients, as well as his industry children, David (Sara Cohen) Donations can be made in expertise. Ira was passionate and Traci (Matthew Darcy); his memory to Give Kids the Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. about his work, and always mother-in-law Barbara Mos- World (his mother, Janice betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. went the extra mile for his kowitz; uncle, Marvin Feller; Silver, was the first executive Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. clients priding himself on and aunt, Susan Wilker. director) and New Hope for congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. being accessible at all times Ira was an organ donor (his Kids (Ira and Sharon volun- and blurring the line between father, Arthur Silver, was a teered). Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; Century-old Boston Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. synagogue receives $500,000 Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for services and holiday schedules. The Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture. Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303A N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation- By Penny Schwartz immigration, according to In 1995, a nonprofit formed sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. City Councilor Josh Zakim. to reclaim the Vilna Shul was Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- BOSTON (JTA)—A centu- “It tells a story through its allowed to purchase the build- ry-old synagogue in Boston walls, artifacts and location,” ing and land at fair market Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv that now serves as a Jewish said Zakim, the son of the late value. It has since been reju- Please call for times. cultural center will receive Lenny Zakim, the prominent venated as a thriving Jewish Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- $500,000 from the city for Jewish civil rights advocate cultural center with some Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. historic preservation. who led the New England 10,000 visitors annually, in- On the recommendation of Anti-Defamation League for cluding participants in Jewish Temple Beth El (R), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-677-2484. Mayor Martin Walsh, the City 15 years until his death at programs, tourists and school Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. Council last week unanimous- age 46. groups, Kessel told JTA. Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat ly approved the grant for the Dating back to 1919 the With the Community Pres- service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center Vilna Shul, is nestled in to ervation award, the Vilna has for Jewish Culture, under the the north slope of the city’s raised more than $3.5 million Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. Community Preservation Act. historic and affluent Beacon toward its $4 million renova- mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; The funding for the multi- Hill in what was once an tion project set to begin this Thursday, 10:00 a.m. story building, once aban- immigrant enclave of tene- fall. The city grant was one of Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: doned but now a landmark ments and, in earlier times, 35 in the Boston’s first pilot and tourist destination, will a historic African-American round of CPA projects totaling Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. be used to help make it fully neighborhood. some $8 million. It is the larg- Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. accessible for those with dis- The Vilna, the last of the est in the historic preservation Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; abilities and the elderly, and area’s 40 synagogues from category. Several local church- Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. for upgrades to its HVAC the early 20th century, was es will also receive funding, as systems. the home for Congregation will affordable housing and Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. The improvements in regu- Anshei Vilner, founded by recreation projects. Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach, 386-252-3097; Shabbat service, lating air quality will pave Jews from Vilnius, in present- The grants are being funded Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 10:30 a.m. the way for the synagogue’s day Lithuania. The building by a 1 percent property tax long-held desire to restore eventually was abandoned surcharge approved by Boston Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. noteworthy murals that and structurally condemned voters that took effect last July, templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by were painted over, accord- in the mid-1980s. along with state funding. Torah study. ing to the center’s director, Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road Barnet Kessel. It is the only Jewish institution in the 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 U.S. with three layers of p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. unique Jewish-themed folk Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. art murals painted on top of shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. one another, according to a Custom Printing Invitations & Announcements Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, history of the building on the Digital & Offset Printing Brochures & Booklets Jewish center’s website. Con- Direct Mail Services Forms & Letterheads 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, servationists have uncovered Envelopes Business Cards 7:30 p.m. small sections of the wall and 407-767-7110 Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. ceiling murals in the second tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. floor sanctuary. 205 North Street • Longwood, FL 32750 www.elegantprinting.net (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa The restoration is impor- Bring in this ad and receive 18% Discount tant to the history of Boston’s PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 6, 2018 The last link to a doomed Jewish community in Crete watches its rebirth with gratitude

Jewish lineage and the tragic half a dozen Cretan Jews who military decision that virtu- escaped the Germans in May ally eliminated one of Europe’s 1944 by hiding with Christian oldest Jewish communities. families. His story dates back to May Papadopoulos is the last 29, 1944, when he was just 2 of the survivors still living, years old. On that day, German Jewish historians working at secret police singled out and Etz Hayyim believe. rounded up 263 people across I recently met him in Her- Greece’s largest island. All aklion, Crete’s largest city, af- were arrested and carted off ter a short drive from the ship to Agia Prison for the crime that brought me to Crete from of being Jewish. Piraeus. My overnight journey Eleven days later they were crossed the same waters where forced at gunpoint into the the Tanais and its hundreds hold of a Greek merchant of victims remain entombed. vessel, the Tanais, set to sail Papadopoulos, a dealer and for Piraeus. appraiser of fine Christian Roger Rapoport “A higher proportion of the art, spoke at Daedalou Gal- Kostas Papadopoulos was Jewish community of Crete lery, his elegant shop in the one of the few survivors of was deported by the Nazis to- heart of an upscale shopping the 1944 British attack on ward a death camp than of any neighborhood where tourists the ship Tanais carrying country in Europe,” said Rabbi love to haggle. Crete’s Jews. Nicholas de Lange, a professor His survival traces back A view of the southern coast of Crete in June, 1943. emeritus of Hebrew and Jew- to his Jewish mother Xan- By Roger Rapoport ish studies at the University thippe’s decision to marry a “Some of the Greeks who his ground. The angry cus- mon values of Abraham de- of Cambridge who conducts Christian during the German heroically hid Jews were ex- tomer knocked him down. The spite their different religious HANIA, Crete (JTA)—On High Holiday services here. occupation. After Papado- ecuted as collaborators, but art dealer is still recovering affiliations. Even a pair of 2010 Sunday, 263 candles will be None of the prisoners would poulos was born in 1942, fortunately that was not the from the attack, saying it has arson attacks that destroyed lit at a special interfaith me- make it to Piraeus and a train his Christian father moved fate of the family that pro- limited his mobility and made many important records failed morial service at this lovely bound for Auschwitz. When to Athens, leaving his young tected us. They even returned it impossible for him to return to slow down the rebirth of city’s historic Etz Hayyim the ship left Heraklion as part son with his mother and special paintings we had given to Hania, two hours away, for this interfaith community synagogue. The names of local of an announced “civilian” grandmother. In 1944, when them to hide.” this week’s memorial. supported by donations from Jews who perished during the convoy, a British submarine it became clear that the Nazi For Papadopoulos, who While Heraklion’s defunct around the world. Holocaust will be read before captain, certain that the roundup was imminent, the grew up in Greece and learned synagogue was destroyed by Anja Zuckmantel, the syna- a delegation that is expected Tanais was piloted by a Ger- three of them moved into hid- his trade as an auction house the Germans at the begin- gogue administrator at the to include Chief Rabbi Gabriel man military crew, targeted ing with a Greek farm family apprentice in Europe and New ning of the Battle of Crete in heart of this week’s event Negrin of Athens, Greek Or- it near Santorini. Unaware of outside Heraklion. York, returning to Crete in the May 1941, Papadopoulos has memorializing the 263 Tanais thodox and Catholic clergy, the human cargo below deck, “My mother knew the Nazis 1970s was not a quick or easy eagerly connected with Etz victims, moved here from and ambassadors from Italy, which also included Christian were coming,” Papadopoulos decision. Hayyim in Hania. Germany 10 years ago. Germany and Israel. Greek and Italian prisoners of said. “Fortunately my family “People who do what I The historic sanctuary “Our congregation grows in One person who wanted to wars, he ordered the crew to name was Greek, which helped do, selling religious art, live was looted by the Nazis and part because so many Jewish be here will be missing. His blow up the ship. us escape the Germans. It also in places like New York or fell into disrepair following tourists want to come and name is Kostas Papadopoulos, A direct hit with two torpe- made it easier to find a fam- Switzerland,” he said. “But the Holocaust. Years after see what we have done,” she who may be the last surviving does killed nearly everyone on ily willing to take the risk of I wanted to be close to my graves were robbed and the said. “At our summer Kab- link to a proud 2,300-year board. The sole survivors were hiding us. friends, the people I grew up synagogue site became a local balat Shabbat services, we with.” dump, an international effort have services with up to 60 One of the challenges that led to its rebuilding under the participants. The number of comes with operating a first leadership of the late Nikos Jews settling in Crete is slowly class gallery in a place like Stavroulakis, former head but steadily growing as Crete Hania is the flood of bargain of Athens’ Jewish Museum is a beautiful place to live.” hunters arriving by plane and of Greece. Kostas Papadopoulos may ship, many of them Germans. The reconstruction, com- not make it to Hania for the “Customers are used to pleted in 1999, was largely the annual Tanais memorial ser- looking at knockoffs. When work of a Muslim and Chris- vice, but he’ll be there in spirit. they see real art, some believe tian crew from Albania. Re- Items on just one table at the prices are too high,” he dedication led to the creation his Daedalou Gallery are not The Back to School Issue... said. of a havurah, an interfaith for sale. It is covered with After cultivating his reputa- community including Jews, Judaica, including a menorah, tion as an art and antiquities Christians and Muslims en- Torah pointers, a samovar and appraiser, Papadopoulos has thusiastic about Stavroulakis’ other heirlooms. little patience for customers work and inclusive approach. “To be happy,” he said, “I who try to talk him down on He defined Etz Hayyim as a always have to see them.” valuable icons and jewelry “place of prayer, recollection Roger Rapoport is the Several years ago, when and reconciliation,” making producer of the feature films a towering Chinese tourist it open to everyone, in the “Waterwalk” and “Pilot Error” made a ridiculous offer of 10 tradition of Hellenistic syna- and the forthcoming “Com- euros for a valuable icon worth gogues. ing Up For Air.” Contact him far more, Papadopoulos stood This fraternity shares com- at [email protected].

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IS BACK! For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. Publication Date: August 3, 2018 A public service message from The Vision Council. Advertising Deadline: July 25, 2018 HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 6, 2018 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA Jewish editor among reporter and editor. On his in in recent days following On the verge of tears, he thousands of Middle East The pro-Israel publication five killed in Annapolis LinkedIn page, he described fighting in Syria’s seven- said: “I am convinced that immigrants. Some Hungar- features an activist and newspaper shooting himself as a beat reporter year civil war in which ap- Ernst and Agathe Saulmann ian Jews say it encourages a hostile attitude toward (JTA)—One of the five for University of Maryland proximately 500,000 people would have welcomed this anti-Semitism, but others radical Islam. It also covers victims killed in a shooting athletics and the Balti- have died. agreement.” dispute the claim. organized crime regularly at a newspaper in Annapolis, more Orioles minor league More than 120,000 people Hungarian Jews see This week, TEV announced and thoroughly. Maryland, was Jewish. system. He also helped put are believed to have fled their anti-Semitism as a seri- it was forming a partner- Jamakovic’s message was Gerald Fischman, 61, the together the daily sports homes this week alone amid ous problem ship with counterparts in over reports of his alleged editorial page editor at the section. a major offensive by the army (JTA)—Two-thirds of Poland, Slovakia and the expressions of sympathy Capital Gazette, was killed Winters “was in many of President Bashar Assad Hungarian Jews believe Czech Republic to begin joint for the Islamic State terror- Thursday along with four ways the best part of the to recapture areas that have anti-Semitism is a serious monitoring. ist group. He also sent the others—sales assistant Re- newspaper in that she cared been under the control of problem in their country, Spanish city votes to email to the DDS, WNL and becca Smith, 34; editor Rob so much about the city,” said Sunni rebels. according to a new survey, boycott Israel in defi- GeenStijl news sites. Hiassen, 59; reporter and former Gazette editor Steve Israeli military sources though fewer than half say ance of court rulings Last week, a projectile editor John McNamara, 56; Gunn. Winters worked as said that Israel will not allow they have experienced it (JTA)—Defying multiple was launched at the office and reporter Wendi Winters, community reporter for the anyone to enter its border firsthand. rulings in Spain that de- of the Dutch magazine 65—by a lone gunman. paper. She had four children. from Syria, citing security The survey, which the clared boycotting Israel Panorama. No one was hurt Jarrod Ramos, 38, of Lau- Israel using advanced concerns. prominent sociologists An- illegal, the municipality of a and a 41-year-old man was rel, Maryland, was arrested technology to fight Israel has remained largely drás Kovács and Ildikó Barna city near Valencia declared arrested. and charged with five counts Gaza’s incendiary kites neutral in the war in Syria, conducted in 2017 through itself an “Israeli apartheid- On Thursday, an American of murder, the Baltimore Sun (JTA)—Israel has deployed which is largely fought along face-to-face interviews with free space.” man with a legal dispute reported. The report did not a new system that it says can sectarian lines. The Jewish 1,879 Jewish adults, was The City Council of Sa- against the Capital Gazette say how he pleaded. Police neutralize much of the threat state, which is technically in published Thursday at a news gunto, a city of 64,000 in- newspaper in Annapolis, said Ramos had been the from the thousands of incen- a state of war with Syria, has conference in Budapest. It is habitants, passed a motion Maryland, over its coverage subject of critical coverage diary kites and balloons that intervened several times to a follow-up to a 1999 survey Tuesday declaring itself part of the man is believed to have in the paper. Gazans have been sending take out weapons before they of Hungarian Jews that asked of the Boycott, Divestment shot dead five people in an Fischman, who worked into Israel in recent weeks. reach Hezbollah. The Shiite about perceptions on a range and Sanctions campaign attack on the paper’s news- for the Capital Gazette since The Sky Spotter system, terrorist group is aiding the of topics. against Israel, the ACOM room. The incident high- 1992, was known for his an- which was designed to deal army of Assad, who is an On anti-Semitism, 48 pro-Israel group in Madrid lighted the issue of attacks nual editorial on Christmas, with drones, was deployed Alawite—a minority group percent of the respondents said in a statement Thursday. on journalists worldwide. despite the fact that he was around Israel’s border with with ties to Shiite Islam. said they heard anti-Semitic ACOM said it was preparing Last year, a Denk lawmak- Jewish, the Sun reported. Gaza earlier this month and Iran, a Shiite Muslim rhetoric on the street in the legal action. er implied in a parliamentary Colleagues described him as has been able to pinpoint nation, is a staunch ally of year preceding the survey, Separately, the High Court document that JTA’s Europe a quiet, committed profes- and track multiple targets Hezbollah and Assad Syr- down from 75 percent in of Justice in Asturias, in correspondent was an Israeli sional who was humorous, during peaks of activity ian Druze are also a part of 1999. The number of re- Spain’s north, ruled last week government agent. extremely knowledgeable by dispatchers of incendi- Assad’s coalition, which is spondents who said they had that another city council’s Belgium prince says and polite. He always wore a ary objects, Channel 2 supported by Russia under experienced at least three policy of boycotting Israel criticism of his conduct V-neck cardigan, regardless reported. President Vladimir Putin. instances of anti-Semitism was unconstitutional. The reminds him of the of temperature, and often The system, which is based Berlin museum returns was 6 percent, compared to City Council of Castrillon Holocaust would work a midnight to on powerful optics, provides Nazi-looted sculpture to 16 in 1999. passed a motion in August (JTA)—A senior royal in 5 a.m. shift. Colleagues an interactive 3-D image heirs of Jewish owners However, asked to quantify effectively boycotting Is- Belgium said that criticism typically would arrive in of the border area at great (JTA)—A Berlin museum the extent of anti-Semitism rael, Israeli businesses and of his conduct reminds him the morning to find sticky resolution. Flagged objects said a 15th-century religious in Hungary, 55 percent of companies doing business of the persecution of Jews notes from Fischman on appear as red lines suspended sculpture looted by the Nazis the respondents said it was with Israel. A regional court during the Holocaust. their desks asking them to above the topography. The was returned to the heirs of “great” and another 10 per- suspended the motion and Prince Laurent, who has fact-check his editorials. system tracks the objects its former Jewish owners cent said it was “very great.” the High Court scrapped it, a record both of making “He was kind of a myste- as they drift eastward from and then sold back to the “In 2017, the situation was declaring it discriminatory, provocative statements and rious guy,” reporter Joshua Gaza on breeze blowing museum. perceived as much worse the Lawfare Project organi- of controversy around his Stewart told the Sun. “He inland from the Mediter- The Bode Museum said than it had been perceived zation said. use of public funds, made wasn’t social, and this was ranean. Monday that it had reached in 1999,” the authors of the The Lawfare Project and the remark in an interview the most interaction we had Operators can then engage an agreement with the heirs, survey wrote. ACOM have fought dozens of for Het Nieuwsblad that was with him. It was a testament the objects with remote- The Local reported. The piece In its annual report for boycott votes against Israel published last week, prompt- to his work.” operated drones. was sold for an undisclosed 2017, the Jewish community’s in court and in talks with ing criticism by Belgian Jews. The Sun also said he mar- The system can also cal- sum. watchdog on anti-Semitism, relevant institutions. Laurent said he feels that ried late in life, to a Mongo- culate the projected point of Michael Eissenhauer, the TEV, said it recorded 37 anti- Last week, a motion pro- he has become a “punching lian opera singer he had met impact with or without inter- head of Berlin’s public mu- Semitic incidents, compared moted by factions of the bag” solely “because I’m the online. At an awards event ception, allowing operators seums, said the agreement to 48 in 2016, constituting a far-left Podemos party on brother or son of a king. shortly after he wed—Fis- to dispatch firefighters to the was “righting an injustice” 23 percent decrease. Most of the City Council of Valencia, When this sort of thing hap- chman won many regional expected area to extinguish and thanked the heirs for the incidents recorded last Spain’s third-largest city and pens, I think immediately prizes for his work—he was the flames before they spread their “grand gesture,” which year and in 2016 featured a major eastern port city, was about the Jews who were asked how he met his wife. or even when they are still in keeps the piece on display. hate speech. The rest were passed declaring a boycott of shot dead only because they “I typed ‘Mongolian opera the air, the report said. The carved sculpture circa cases of vandalism. Israel and Valencia an “Israeli were Jewish.” singer’ into a dating site,” he The report said the system, 1430, which shows three In terms of demographics, apartheid-free zone.” The prince—younger replied. which was developed by the angels floating on clouds and the survey authors said that Tribunals in Spain, includ- brother to Philippe, king of Ramos’ dispute with the Rafael Advanced Defense a sleeping infant Jesus, once Hungarian Jewry’s numbers ing the nation’s Supreme the Belgians—is the subject Gazette began in 2011 when Systems, detects and tracks belonged to the private col- are somewhere between Court in three of its rul- of criticism in parliament a columnist wrote about a 100 percent of all incendiary lection of the Jewish indus- 70,000 and 110,000. The ings, have voided a total of allegedly for submitting criminal harassment case objects sent Israel’s way even trialist Ernst Saulmann and community is losing about 17 boycott motions passed inaccurate reports of his against him. He brought a when dozens are launched his wife, Agathe, one of the 2,000 members every five by municipalities. Another work hours. defamation suit against the almost simultaneously. few female pilots of her era. years, it said. seven municipalities volun- Last year, Laurent faced a columnist and the organiza- Before the system’s deploy- The couple fled Germany The proportion of mixed tarily scrapped their boycott reduction in pay for attend- tion’s editor and publisher. A ment, the Israel Defense in 1935, initially for Italy. marriages has started to motions under threat of legal ing without authorization court ruled in the Capital Ga- Forces recruited drone op- The Nazis confiscated their rise again following a drop action by ACOM. a ceremony celebrating the zette’s favor and an appeals erators to intercept the land, business, mechanized and stands at 62 percent Dutch Muslim political 90th anniversary of the court upheld the ruling. incendiary objects. cotton mill, private library, among respondents aged activist wishes cancer founding of China’s People’s Police said 170 people were The use of incendiary ob- art collection and Agathe’s 18-34. It had fallen to half on ‘filthy Jews’ at pro- Liberation Army—in its inside the Gazette’s building jects as a tactic began this plane. Their more than 100 of respondents aged 35-44. Israel paper earliest years, a repressive during the attack. Staffers spring. Hundreds of acres artworks were sold off at a In the 45-54 age, 66 percent AMSTERDAM (JTA)—A tool that China’s Communist scrambled to find cover from of farming land and natural Munich auction in 1936. are intermarried. former staffer at a Muslim rulers used to kill millions the bullets, some diving be- forest have been consumed The Saulmanns left fascist Three-quarters of respon- political party in the Neth- of political opponents and hind desks, witnesses said. At in the flames. Italy for France, but when the dents said they felt a “strong erlands sent an email to a countless others. The gaffe least three people sustained Israel gives at least 60 Nazis invaded that country, emotional attachment” to newspaper that was attacked cost him 10 percent of his an- serious injuries in the shoot- tons of gear, food to the couple was sent to an Israel, but the number was this week saying “May you get nual allowance of $359,000. ing, Radio WMFE reported. displaced Syrians internment camp. They slightly lower, at 66 percent, cancer, you filthy, far-right Following criticism over Smith, the sales assistant, (JTA)—Israel’s army gave survived, but Ernest died in among the younger group, cancer Jews.” the comparison, Laurent said “was kind and considerate, food, equipment and medi- 1946, a year after the war the non-affiliated and un- Hussein Jamakovic, who he would visit the Kazerne and willing to help when cine to Syrians fleeing the ended, due to health issues observant. About half of worked for the Denk Muslim Dossin Holocaust Memo- needed,” her boss, Marty fighting in the southern part that started at the camp. respondents said they have party, which Dutch Jews al- rial in Mechelen in Septem- Padden, told the Sun. “She of their country. Agathe committed suicide contemplated emigrating lege is anti-Semitic, wrote ber, according to Michael seemed to really enjoy to The transfer took place in 1951. from Hungary, with 19 per- the message to Telegraaf, the Freilich, editor in chief of be working in the media Thursday night and included The Saulmanns’ descen- cent saying they considered country’s largest-circulation the Joods Actueel newspaper. business.” the delivery to refugee camps dants hired researchers who it “seriously.” daily, as well as three other In 2016, Belgian Prime Smith lived with her fiance on the Syrian side of the managed to locate 11 art- The survey was done in news organizations. Minister Charles Michel in eastern Baltimore County Golan Heights of 300 tents, works from their collection, partnership with the Szom- The message came amid banned the prince from and actively posted images 13 tons of food, 15 tons of which landed in five German bat Jewish paper and TEV. elevated concern in the unauthorized talks with documenting her social life. baby formula, three pallets of museums and three private Hungary’s government Netherlands for the safety senior foreign officials fol- Hiassen’s wife, Maria, told medical gear and medicine, collections. is facing criticism for its of journalists following the lowing a series of unapproved NBC that her late husband and 30 tons of clothing, the “My family was able to billboard campaign and attack Tuesday on Telegraaf, excursions, including to the “loved being a dad, an edi- Israel Broadcasting Corp. reach different agreements propaganda against George when a van drove into the Democratic Republic of the tor who helped shape young reported. with all these institutions Soros, a Jewish billionaire newspaper’s entrance in Congo and to Libya between talent, and a creative writer Thousands of displaced and collectors,” Felix de and Holocaust survivor who Amsterdam. Police do not 2008 and 2010, where he had and humorist.” The couple Syrians live in tent camps Marez Oyens, one of the funds liberal causes and have any suspects in custody. been hoping to go into busi- had three children together. near the border with Israel, heirs, said at a recent news organizations and supports Telegraaf is seen to have ness with one of Moammar McNamara was a veteran with many hundred pouring conference. the settling of hundreds of a center-right editorial line. Ghadafi’s sons. PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 6, 2018 Orthodox-trained rabbi makes history as head of a mostly Christian theology center

By Rob Gloster kind of Christian dominance his successor is part of the “And also I think we’re liv- is very deep and filled with and hegemony, which is so consortium’s evolution as ing in a time where there are empathy.” SAN FRANCISCO (J. The much a part of American his- an interreligious institution. real global challenges that Lehmann envisions a Jewish News of Northern tory, is being transformed,” Such changes reflect global require religious responses,” larger community role for California via JTA)—Break- Lehmann told J. “I think it’s changes as well as the direc- he said, citing environmental GTU, in part by develop- ing religious barriers is a recognition that there are tion of religious studies in concerns and gender inequal- ing digital platforms and nothing new for Rabbi Daniel religious traditions that need the 21st century. ity. “We’ve got some real also by expanding events Lehmann. to be given greater voice.” “When the GTU began in problems, and I’m not con- and programming beyond Ordained at New York’s Five Protestant seminaries the 1960s, it was hard enough vinced that the mechanisms the East Bay to San Fran- Yeshiva University, the flag- joined to form GTU in 1962, being ecumenical. Since of our secular democracies cisco and the Silicon Valley. ship of Modern Orthodoxy, creating the first cooperative then, we’ve really embraced are enough. Greater collaboration with he most recently was presi- graduate study program in a world that’s very plural- “There’s a lot the religions the neighboring University dent of Hebrew College near the United States leading to istic,” Potterveld said. “It’s can learn from each other. of California, Berkeley, is Boston, which is devoted to a doctor of theology degree. important to embody some There are profound differ- another option, he said, Daniel Kates/Hebrew College pluralistic Jewish education. The first Catholic seminary knowledge and awareness ences, and they should be especially since the univer- Rabbi Daniel Lehmann During his tenure, Hebrew joined the group two years of the values and perspec- celebrated and understood. sity discontinued its under- will be the first rabbi to lead College became the first later. Within a few years, the tives that come out of those It’s not about the homogeni- graduate religious studies the Graduate Theological non-Christian member of the member institutions pooled traditions. It’s not just about zation of religions. It’s about program in 2017 due to a Union based in Northern Boston Theological Institute, their collections to create one studying other religions, but seeing the insights that I lack of enrollment. California. a consortium of nine gradu- of the nation’s top theological also about how they affect think the world desperately “I think the GTU has been ate schools of theology. libraries. the world.” needs, and I’m excited to play kind of a hidden gem, and one interreligious learning and Now Lehmann is about A Center for Judaic Studies Lehmann, who also has a small part in that.” of my goals is to bring it out leadership.” to break another barrier, was established in 1968, and been a professor of plural- Aranoff also pointed to a of the closet, so to speak,” he “I’m coming as an outsider becoming the first rabbi GTU has added several other ism and Jewish education at global “communication cri- said. “I think we have to figure to the dominant Christian to lead the Berkeley-based centers in recent years while Hebrew College while serving sis” because of the abundance out how to engage a broader culture that has nurtured Graduate Theological Union, expanding its curriculum to as the school’s president, is of information now available audience. It’s probably true GTU, and that’s inevitably a consortium of more than include a greater focus on ar- slated to begin Aug. 1 at GTU. to everyone on the internet, that Northern California going to bring a different set 20 mostly Christian institu- eas as diverse as art, women’s Moving to the Bay Area will and said that makes inter- is more secular than many of perspectives,” he said. tions that calls itself the most studies and Black Church/ reunite him with his brother, religious work even more other places, but on the other “I’m not representing a comprehensive center for the Africana Religious Studies. Len, a Palo Alto engineer valuable. hand there’s also a palpable majority culture, so for the graduate study of religion in Deena Aranoff, director and philanthropist who co- “There’s a lot of misinfor- interest in spirituality.” other minority religious cul- North America. of what is now known as founded Kehillah Jewish mation and partial under- A broader GTU contri- tures I think there’s going to He is moving to Northern the Richard S. Dinner Center High School and now runs standing,” she said, which bution to the Bay Area be a sense that there’s greater California’s Bay Area from for Jewish Studies, said it’s Portola Vineyards. means that the “deep, ongo- Jewish community is an- openness and acknowledg- Massachusetts after leading significant that a non-Chris- Lehmann said that inter- ing inquiry and the steady, other of Lehmann’s goals. ment of the kind of equal Hebrew College since 2008 tian will now be leading GTU. religious collaboration and constant relationships that His groundbreaking ap- playing field that the religious and serving as board chair “To have someone who is understanding are more im- are formed among students pointment as president of traditions need to have within of the Boston Theological not Christian leading the portant now than ever, given and faculty at GTU are the consortium makes that the GTU consortium and Institute for the past year. He consortium speaks to the the religious diversity in the crucial. People who study connection much more likely, culture. And I think I’m go- will become the eighth presi- fully interreligious character U.S. and elsewhere and the at the GTU become ambas- since he said the selection ing to bring a different set of dent in the 56-year history of of the Graduate Theological religious violence in many sadors of a certain kind of of a rabbi “demonstrates symbols that I hope will just GTU, which includes centers Union,” she said. “It means parts of the world. knowledge of the other that the commitment of GTU to open up the conversation.” and affiliates covering faiths we’re in a new era of interre- from Buddhism to Islam to ligious scholarship and it no Swedenborgianism. longer needs to be facilitated “Most people think of by the Christian majority.” Complaints GTU as being a place where Riess Potterveld, a United From page 1A training program, appeared sures.” Feldman stated that statements. One such mes- Christian institutions en- Church of Christ minister at the UCLA police depart- “most students simply do not sage urged disruptors “to shut gage each other, but if you who is retiring after five anyone file a police report or ment accompanied by Yael know about the process and it down.” have a rabbi as president, I years as GTU president, said complaint regarding the May Lerman, SWU legal director, what measures can be taken Within 24 hours of Feld- think that means that the the selection of Lehmann as 17 disruption, hence there to formally file his complaint. to hold people accountable.” man’s complaint, UCLA con- was no police investigation.” More than a few of the “Justin’s courage will serve firmed that the matter would Tamberg explained his prior students harassed during the to empower other students indeed be referred to prosecu- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 B A N G S M F A E L S E assurance about a referral to May 17 event were trepidatious at universities across the tors. “UCPD has reviewed the 13 14 15 prosecutors actually involved about filing a police report. country who will realize that video of the May 17 disrup- A R I E L O L D N A P S the disruption of an earlier, But, according to Lerman, students can help move justice tion, and is investigating the 16 17 18 completely unrelated Feb. the police made the whole forward when administra- information in the incident B I L L Y J O E L G R I T 26, 2018, event with Treasury process “comfortable,” acting tions can’t or won’t,” added report for any new evidence 19 20 21 A S E A U N E C A R L E Secretary Steve Munchin. “helpful and respectful.” After Roz Rothstein, cofounder and about the disruption that it 22 23 24 Prosecutors and police a short wait at the station, CEO of StandWithUs. may contain,” stated univer- T K T S A R G Y L E assert that without the filing officers Robert Chavez and A campus police spokes- sity spokesman Tamberg. He 25 26 27 28 Lowell Rose escorted Feldman person assured that the de- added, “UCPD will forward the F L O O R G L U E D of actual police complaints, 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 no investigation or referral into a small room where his partment would investigate incident report to the Los An- U E S A R E A L D A D S to the prosecutor can take report was all complaints in the matter. geles City Attorney’s Office.” 36 37 38 39 place. None of the disrupted taken during an hour-long Feldman’s complaint is just A prosecutor has already S A C V I S I O N V I E students contacted said they interview in what Lerman the beginning. been assigned. Tamberg stat- 40 41 42 43 S P A S S T A T E I N A had filed a report, with two described as an “unrushed” At press time, Alyza Lewin, ed UCPD “will discuss both the 44 45 46 47 saying they did not even know session. COO of Louis D. Brandeis Cen- report and the video with the R A T E S W A D E R they had the right to file such Lerman credited Feldman ter in Washington, D.C., had prosecuting attorney in July, 48 49 50 51 a complaint. Hence, no action for his actions. “What Justin dispatched its director of legal when that person returns S L I V E R L O T R 52 53 54 55 56 57 could be taken. did in filing was critical in initiatives, Aviva Vogelstein, from leave.” P E S O S M I A C A T E After the media disclosure, moving the process forward. and a law clerk to fly to Los “This case is a turning point 58 59 60 numerous students stepped The [UCLA] administration Angeles to meet with numer- for all students across the L U A U H A N K A A R O N forward to file complaints. has known about this for ous other students who are country,”asserts SWU’s Roth- 61 62 63 A M A R A T E I D I O T The first was Justin Feldman, weeks and has chosen not to scheduled to file complaints. stein. Lewin of the Brandeis 64 65 66 president of the SSI chapter move this forward. So now the Law students in the UCLA Center agreed stating, “Stu- T I C S N E S D E A N S at Santa Monica College, students have to.” Brandeis chapter will observe dents across the country now enrolled at UCLA for the fall After emerging from the po- the process. recognize the importance of semester. Feldman stated he lice station, Feldman stated, The police currently are promptly reporting incidents feared for his personal safety “I feel empowered.” He added, reviewing a list of 10 individu- like these to the police.” during the incident. “I feel it is so important for als who allegedly perpetrated Edwin Black is the New On June 11, Feldman, who students to take matters into the disruption, along with York Times bestselling author had previously completed a our own hands, and not leave screen captures of their text of “IBM and the Holocaust” StandWithUs high school them to bureaucratic mea- messages and social media and “Financing the Flames.”

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From page 1A Shemesh. with the Bridges for Peace Relations for Beit Shemesh, cities: which is partnerships, Miles said, “from the Sister “Today we are gathered here Zealots program to help new praised the “remarkable genuine people-to-people City Program we say thank wish to thank Rabbi Joel and to acknowledge a partnership, immigrants, Holocaust sur- friendship between two com- relationships and friends for you for giving us this oppor- Tali Fox of B’nai Shira (Cocoa a friendship, and a long-term vivors and the poor. munities, separated by thou- a lifetime,” said Jordan Miles. tunity to stand by your side Beach) for bringing this to relationship between two Miles visited Beit Shemesh sands of miles; but which are “We are so grateful for through the good times and fruition,” she said. cities, but more importantly in December 2016 as part of close together in each other’s this opportunity to bless the the bad and that we will always The Sister City Program two amazing countries,” said the Sister City Peace Ambas- hearts.” people of Israel,” said former be here to support you.” Kennedy From page 3A law that restricted abortion branch, at the time headed President to control recog- League, American Israel also noting, however, that access. by Obama, maintained the nition determinations,” he Public Affairs Committee, “he’ll be missed.” nizations representing the In 2015, Kennedy wrote the exclusive right to decide the wrote), provoked anger from Hadassah, the Jewish Council On both sides of the politi- Reform, Reconstructionist majority opinion in Zivotof- sovereignty of any territory, diverse swaths of the Ameri- for Public Affairs and NCJW, cal divide, activists increas- and Conservative streams, sky v. Kerry, which ruled that including Jerusalem. can Jewry. among others, signed a brief ingly value judicial partisan- joined an amicus brief sup- a boy born to American par- Kennedy’s thinking, al- “Many Jews, not all, did expressing displeasure with ship over Kennedy’s ability to porting same-sex marriage. ents in Jerusalem did not have though focused on executive not welcome the Jerusalem the decision. cross ideological lines. Several national Jewish the right to have his birth power, not Jerusalem’s status decision,” Stern told JTA, “Whether he was good or When the next justice is organizations applauded the nation listed as Israel on his as the Israeli capital (“This carefully refusing to speak bad for the Jews depends on appointed, Stern said, “de- Supreme Court’s 2016 deci- passport. Kennedy’s opinion case is confined solely to for the panoply of American where you think the Jews mands in ideological parti- sion striking down a Texas declared that the executive the exclusive power of the Jews. The Anti-Defamation ought to be,” Stern told JTA, sanship will be very strong.” 1967 From page 3A territories, seized from Egypt, Since 1948, every time we’ve They want the world to tlement-building is the key comes to the Arab-Israeli Jordan, and Syria, would be had something on the table, we believe the 1967 war was a obstacle to peacemaking. The conflict, dismissing the past in the end, regrettably, did the basis for a land-for-peace say no. Then we say yes. When bellicose act by Israel. It was Six-Day War is proof positive as if it were a minor irritant not act. accord. Feelers were sent out. we say yes, it’s not on the table an act of self-defense in the that the core issue is, and at best, irrelevant at worst, Ninth, France, which had The formal response came on anymore. Then we have to deal face of blood-curdling threats always has been, whether won’t work. been Israel’s principal arms Sept. 1, 1967, when the Arab with something less. Isn’t it to vanquish the Jewish state, the Palestinians and larger Can history move forward? supplier, announced a ban on Summit Conference famously about time to say yes?” not to mention the maritime Arab world accept the Jewish Absolutely. Israel’s peace trea- the sale of weapons on the eve declared in Khartoum: “No Today, there are those who blockade of the Straits of Ti- people’s right to a state of their ties with Egypt in 1979 and of the June war. That left Israel peace, no recognition, no wish to rewrite history. They ran, the abrupt withdrawal of own. If so, all other conten- Jordan in 1994 powerfully in potentially grave danger negotiations” with Israel. want the world to believe there UN peacekeeping forces, and tious issues, however difficult, prove the point. At the same if a war were to drag on and More “no’s” were to follow. was once a Palestinian state. the redeployment of Egyptian have possible solutions. But, time, though, the lessons of require the resupply of arms. Underscoring the point, in 2003, There was not. and Syrian troops. All wars alas, if not, all bets are off. the Six-Day War illustrate It was not until the next year the Saudi Ambassador to the They want the world to be- have consequences. This one And they want the world just how tough and tortuous that the U.S. stepped into the U.S. was quoted in The New lieve there were fixed borders was no exception. But the to believe the Arab world had the path can be—and are breach and sold vital weapons Yorker as saying: “It broke my between that state and Israel. aggressors have failed to take nothing against Jews per se, sobering reminders that, yes, systems to Israel. heart that [PLO Chair] Arafat did There was only an armistice responsibility for the actions only Israel, yet trampled with history does matter. And finally, after winning not take the offer (of a two-state line between Israel and the they instigated. abandon on sites of sacred David A. Harris is the the war of self-defense, Israel deal presented by Israel, with Jordanian-controlled West They want the world to meaning to the Jewish people. executive director of the hoped that its newly-acquired American support, in 2001). Bank and eastern Jerusalem. believe post-1967 Israeli set- In other words, when it American Jewish Committee. Facts From page 5A der, a fellow law professor at for many of America’s current University, in which she cited altered by “angry petitions, ir- rorism in which name-calling another law school, wrote an ills: Depression-era levels of her experience at Penn Law ritable gestures, or professors’ takes the place of argumenta- from any empirical research op-ed arguing that all cultures male wage-force participation; School to the effect that stu- removal from the classroom.” tion and in which too many about actual human beings. are not equal and the “bour- the opioid crisis; skyrocketing dents who had been accepted Charges like Islamophobia “disconfirming” viewpoints Another is the left’s view, of- geois values” that dominated rates of illegitimacy and chil- via affirmative action lagged are ways of shutting down and facts are excluded from ten codified in governmental American culture from the dren raised by single mothers; behind their classmates in discussion of important issues the discussion. regulations and court deci- end of World War II through ill-prepared college students grades. Her own dean sus- such as the impact of Muslim A society in which empirical sions, that differences in out- the end of the ’60s and ’70s are lacking basic numeracy and pended her from teaching immigration on Western facts are suppressed and truth comes—for instance, rates more likely to prepare people literacy. mandatory first-year courses, countries. But they do noth- is no defense is one that will of school discipline among to be “productive citizens Fully half of Wax’s law despite her past awards for ing to solve the problem. (My necessarily have a difficult blacks and whites—can only in a modern technological school colleagues promptly excellence in teaching, and example, not Wax’s.) time solving its internal be explained by racism and society.” published a letter rejecting her she was accused of having Attempts to suppress awk- problems and responding to oppression. What were those values? heterodoxy and urging stu- violated the law school’s policy ward facts only convinces the new societal needs. Having Amy Wax, a chaired pro- “Get married before you have dents to monitor her classes on grade confidentiality. public, in Wax’s words, that observed the havoc wrought fessor at the University of children and strive to stay for signs of “stereotyping In a response in the Wall “truth yields to power.” That by the cultish behavior of the Pennsylvania Law School, and married for their sake. Get the and bias.” She was labeled a Street Journal (“University use of political power to deter- left elsewhere—not the least likely the most credentialed education you need for gainful white supremacist and racist, of Denial,” March 22), Wax mine objective reality is one of in its contempt for religious member of the faculty—Yale employment, work hard, and charges repeated so frequently insisted “[there is] an objective the hallmarks of totalitarian liberty—may we be wise BS summa cum laude, Mar- avoid idleness... Be a patriot, that they have begun to lose reality that exists independent societies, she notes. enough to preserve the open shall Scholarship to Oxford; ready to serve the country... their force. of what people want reality Is there a cautionary tale discussion needed to address Harvard MD, Columbia JD, Avoid coarse language in Wax was in even hotter to be.... Hiding facts is not here for our own society? I’m our most pressing challenges. six years in the Solicitor public... Eschew substance water after an old interview the same as changing them,” not sure. But it does strike Jonathan Rosenblum is a General’s office—ran afoul abuse and crime.” Loss of that surfaced of her speaking to especially when those facts me that all tightly knit com- columnist for the Jerusalem of that orthodoxy last year, “cultural script,” Wax and Alex- Glenn Loury, a conservative have real world consequences. munities may be vulnerable to Post and Israeli director of when she and Larry Alexan- ander argued, was responsible black economist at Brown Those consequences will not be certain forms of internal ter- Am Echad. Golan From page 5A would have accorded Moscow that similar scenarios could Jordan-Israel border, Israel dent Lyndon Johnson a map Israel relations and the Middle a dramatic gain, while dealing plague the region in the would be transformed from of Israel’s minimum security East. He served as Minister The Israeli deployment may the U.S. a major economic and future, especially in view of a unique national security requirements. The map was for Congressional Affairs at have ensured the survival geo-strategic setback. Jordan’s growing vulnerabil- producer and a regional en- based on the general’s own Israel’s Embassy in Wash- of the pro-U.S. Hashemite A Golan-less Israel would ity to external and domestic forcer for the United States assessment of U.S. interests, ington, D.C.; Israel’s Consul regime, preventing a Syrian be unable to provide the upheaval, requiring the en- to another national-security Middle East reality and Israel’s General to the Southwestern occupation of Jordan, with United States with such a cost- hancement of U.S.-Israel stra- consumer. security requirements, and it USA; and director of Israel’s a potential spillover into the effective, dramatic benefit. tegic coordination. However, On June 29, 1967, Gen. included Israel’s control of the Government Press Office. militarily much weaker pro- The inherent unpredict- without the Golan Heights, Earl Wheeler, the chairman Golan Heights. This article was originally U.S. Saudi Arabia and the ability, volatility and violence which dominates northern of the U.S. Joint Chiefs-of- Ambassador Yoram Et- published at www.TheEt- pro-U.S. Gulf States, which in the Middle East suggests Israel and the joint Syria- Staff, submitted to U.S. Presi- tinger is a consultant on U.S.- tingerReport.com.

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By Alix Wall What started as a way for seasons and one session about Israelis to stay connected with yeast, never repeating a topic. SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)— their culture in a Hebrew- The one for Independence In the compact, open kitchen speaking environment has Day had the women cooking of the apartment here that burgeoned in unexpected seven dishes reflecting the Dalit Gvirtsman shares with ways: With Israeli food enjoy- diversity of Israeli culture: her husband, about a dozen ing unprecedented popularity maakouda, a Moroccan savory women are jostling for space. and interest around the world, pie, Algerian bulgur salad, One is chopping tomatoes, the groups have become a way Russian blini with sour cream another is sauteing onions for others to connect with or and caviar, Polish chopped and another is squeezing a few learn more about Israel, too. liver, Russian Olivier salad, dollops of honey into cooked “Now the focus is to bring Egyptian majadara (a len- egg noodles. Israel and pluralistic Judaism tils and rice dish with fried Just beyond, the dining to the Diaspora around the onions) and a Polish noodle room table is set; each place world,” said Dana Greitzer- kugel. setting features a napkin with Gotlieb, the Bay Area Regional Gvirtsman’s curriculum is the Israeli flag. A platter of director of the WZO and the used by all the groups, though bourekas with miniature originator of the idea. “That once the program expanded, Israeli flags has already been is why we’re translating the the WZO hired Israeli chef demolished. curriculum and starting new Einat Abramovich Partin, who It’s another monthly groups in English.” lives in San Diego, as program installment of Mevashlim But in another unantici- manager. Partin now helps B’Ivrit, or “Cooking Up in pated outcome, non-Jews are with the recipes and trains Hebrew,” with this Thursday wanting to take part, too. each facilitator via phone call night event celebrating Yom Mevashlim B’Ivrit is in its or Skype. Efi Asaf (l) and Rachel Brown cooking matzah balls at a Mevashlim B’Ivrit class in Ha’atzmaut, or Israeli Inde- third year in the Bay Area. There’s no rhyme or reason Boise, Idaho. pendence Day. This group Gvirtsman held it in another to where the groups pop up; of women, all Israelis, have woman’s home in Berkeley the it’s organic. Often an Israeli Asaf taught a class about says she feels like a mini- of ways. One participant in the come together to cook, eat first year, but since then has with a love for cooking will Passover to 20 women this ambassador for Israel, as other San Diego English-speaking and schmooze—and then eat used her own San Francisco contact Greitzer-Gotlieb or year, none of them Jewish. topics of discussion are bound group that Partin hosts is a little more. home. Gvirtsman, having read or All were “believers” of some to come up. Maryam Tarsa, an Iranian The program is part of the Gvirtsman and Greitzer- heard about the program kind, Christian and Mormon. “Sometimes they ask about immigrant who was raised World Zionist Organization’s Gotlieb cooked up the pro- elsewhere. But Partin is well Rebecca Baughman attend- politics or whatever’s happen- Muslim. Department for Diaspora Ac- gram during a brainstorming connected and knows Israeli ed the Passover class—and ing then, and I tell them how Tarsa attended Yeshiva tivities. The get-togethers are session when Greitzer-Gotlieb expatriates in many places. can’t wait for the next series. I feel about it, but we mostly University’s Albert Einstein opportunities to learn a little saw and smelled the croissants For example, Boise, Idaho. Baughman, who is Chris- keep it centered around food,” College of Medicine and about the Jewish calendar and that Gvirtsman pulled out of Partin asked a friend of hers tian, studied in Israel for a she said. befriended many Orthodox Israel, explore Jewish cultures her oven. living there whether she’d semester in college. Besides Asaf has taught an all- Jews there. When she sent her through their cuisines, and “You made those?” Gre- want to be a facilitator. While the cooking, she appreci- Israeli group as well, and children to the JCC preschool forge bonds among Israelis, itzer-Gotlieb asked. this friend was too busy, she ates being invited into the said the differences are huge. in San Diego, she became local Jews and sometimes “Yes,” Gvirtsman answered. said she knew the perfect facilitator’s home—in this When explaining a dish to friendly with Partin. non-Jews living in various “From scratch?” person and introduced her to case Asaf’s—which adds so Israelis, they’ll all have several She loves Cooking Up in communities. Again: “Yes.” Efi Asaf by phone. much to the experience. opinions about how to tweak Hebrew because “I’m not a San Francisco’s is one of 19 “The wheels started turn- “When you talk to a per- “What a precious woman the recipe, or share a memory good cook, I don’t really know such groups formed around ing,” Greitzer-Gotlieb said. son, you can tell in the first Efi is,” Baughman said. “I about it. With non-Jews, she how, and I figure it’s a good the world, though most of Gvirtsman, a Hebrew two minutes if it’s a match,” want to be her friend. That she has to explain the unfamiliar basic thing for me to know them are in the United States. teacher at an area Jewish Partin said. “I’ve never met lets us come into her home dishes in much more detail. how to do at 48,” she joked. Thirteen are for Hebrew day school, has a passion for Efi in person, but even over to learn more about her and “People really love Israel Plus, she loves the socializing. speakers. (A Los Angeles ver- cooking. the phone, I fell in love with her culture and religion is so and our traditions in Boise,” As for Israeli food, she said, sion is in Hebrew “specifically “Food connects people,” her right away.” special. She lets us in on her she said. “Most people here “People from different coun- geared towards LGBTQ and she said. “Food is love. And Partin is looking for two life and what she believes. are very interested in other tries bringing their food tradi- ally Jews.”) There are others the subject of Israeli food and qualities in a facilitator. “I don’t know how to make cultures and religions, so they tions from around the world in Poland (in Polish, mainly Jewish food is so large.” “She needs to love food Jewish food, so it’s fun to have really like to hear about other means it’s not just one taste. for university students) and “Plus, cooking allows a cer- and she needs to love people,” her walk us through recipes places. Food is also such a That’s what makes the food so Uruguay (in Spanish); both tain kind of experience,” Gre- she said. “Food brings people and then let us loose in her great connector because most amazing and taste so good.” facilitators heard about the itzer-Gotlieb added. “When together, and if you love to kitchen, guiding us along of us are moms and cooking To start a group in your program and volunteered to you create something with cook, you are cooking with the way.” all the time anyway.” area (in Hebrew or English), start it. A new Hebrew-speak- your own hands, you remem- your soul and with love, people Given that the Boise group This kind of food as diplo- contact chefnati.wzo@gmail. ing group is being formed ber and enjoy it more.” really feel that.” is made up of non-Jews, Asaf macy is taking root in all kinds com. in London next year, as are But they don’t only cook. English-speaking groups in Gvirtsman plans each session, Toronto, San Francisco and and each one has a different Oregon. theme (her own group has a Film producer, TV’s Superman honored Some of them are women year’s head start on the others, only and serve as a kind of so they are the “guinea pigs”). “girl’s night,” but men also The evening starts around by Holocaust remembrance group attend in some places. Some the table with a few readings participants become such chosen by Gvirtsman meant to tary film titled “Architects of good friends that they sched- foster discussion of the theme. Denial” about the Armenian ule time to see each other She has done fall soups, for genocide. outside of the sessions. example, cooking with the In a speech before 150 people attending the award ceremony, Garfein, a native of what is now Ukraine, recalled his horror at racial segrega- tion in the United States im- mediately after arriving from Europe in 1946. That year, a bus driver told him not to sit in the back of the bus because that part of the vehicle was “for blacks only,” Garfein said. “I thought, ‘I came to America for this? For unbelievable racism?’ This Superman actor Dean Cain hopes all countries will rec- is why I have fought and Jack Garfein ognize the Armenian Genocide as “it is a historical fact. continue to fight racism my whole life.” mosexuals, as well as blacks. (JTA)—Jack Garfein, a Award for Dialogue earlier Garfein is among a hand- Garfein fought for the rights HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES former movie producer who this month at a ceremony ful of Holocaust survivors of African-American actors, survived 11 concentration along with fellow survivors who had major roles in the From the Depths said.

Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) camps during the Holocaust, Edward and Cesia Mosberg, American movie industry and Jonny Daniels, the founder sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, was honored in New York by who have worked to foster are still alive. of From the Depths, said the leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye disorders. Protecting your eyes is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future. a Poland-based group com- greater understanding be- In 1957 he directed his first recipients worked for stories memorating victims of the tween non-Jewish Poles and of only two feature films, “The from the Holocaust to be Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. genocide. Jews, organizers said. Strange One,” about students “heard by as many people Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection. Garfein, 87, a former Also honored was Dean facing an ethical dilemma at a as possible” out of “a sense For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. teacher and director at New Cain, who portrayed Super- military college in the Ameri- of responsibility” in view of A public service message from The Vision Council. York’s famed Actors Studio man in the 1990s television can South. It was among how soon the world would no and civil rights activist, re- series “Lois & Clark.” Cain the first such productions to longer have survivors left to ceived the From the Depths recently produced a documen- tackle the persecution of ho- tell them.