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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 42, NO. 24 FEBRUARY 16, 2018 1 ADAR, 5778 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ The truth behind the Pulse massacre

Shown here (l-r): Yasmine Mohammed, Asra Q. Nomani and Orli Peter, Ph.D. Twenty months after the panel discussion—titled terrorist attack at Pulse Three women, One world, Nightclub, three courageous One peace—will be held Sun- women—a Muslim reformer, day, Feb. 18, at the American a Jewish feminist and an ex- Legion Post 53, 2874 Sanford Muslim—each of whom have Ave in Sanford. A coffee/pastry first-hand experience with the reception till be held at 11 Participants in the 2017 BBYO International Convention held in Dallas, Texas. trauma resulting from these a.m., and the panel discussion attacks, will hold an honest, will be from noon to 1:30 p.m. responsible and long overdue They will discuss how the discussion about the causes of Pulse massacre came to hap- BBYO hosts International bigotry and terrorism. This Women’s interfaith Pulse on page 15A Convention in Orlando ORLANDO—At a time when young their own. IC is one of the largest Jewish Wambach, Olympic Gold medalist and Annual J Ball people are socializing more online and communal leadership events in North FIFA Women’s World Cup champion; interacting less in person, thousands of America and the single-largest gathering and MK Omer Barlev, member of the teens converged on Orlando Thursday, of Jewish teen leaders worldwide. Israeli Knesset. There will also be video will be rockin’ Feb. 15 for the BBYO International Con- Among the many slated to address addresses from Nikki Haley, U.S. ambas- vention, which goes through Monday, the crowd at BBYO International Con- sador to the United Nations, and Justin On March 14, The Roth Feb. 19. With over 3,000 teens from 36 vention 2018 are Aly Raisman, World Trudeau, Canadian prime minister. Family JCC will host the countries, and thousands of educators, Champion gymnast and best-selling As attendance at IC skyrockets each biggest party of the year—its thought and business leaders, celebri- author; Jason Kander, CNN & Crooked year, the event is a case study for teens annual JBall. Rock the night ties, political figures and philanthropists Media contributor, and Missouri’s 39th showing increased demand for high- away from 6:30-9:30 p.m. to coming together for BBYO International secretary of state; Caryl Stern, president quality Jewish experiences with their the music of Michael Andrew Convention over Presidents Weekend, and CEO of UNICEF USA; Josh Peck, actor peers. This year’s convention theme, and the J Life Magazine this epic event will offer opportunities for and social media influencer; Susan Bro, “Together We Will,” speaks to today’s Swing Band at the Orlando Jewish teens to connect with their peers mother of Heather Heyer and co-founder Science. and consider how to make the future of The Heather Heyer Foundation; Abby BBYO on page 15A This year’s honoree to receive the Harriet Weiss JCC Legacy Award is Carol McNally, who has inspired Orlando Hadassah presents countless children as the di- rector of the Richard S. Adler Early Childhood Learning ‘Un après-midi à Paris’ Center for 29 years. While tripping the light The Orlando Chapter of Ha- her tireless efforts on behalf cancer, chronic obstructive fantastic, chomp on heavy dassah presents “An afternoon of Orlando Hadassah. This pulmonary disease, and breast Jazz singer, bandleader hors d’oeuvres, conquer the and actor Michael Andrew. in Paris,” the annual Bunny annual charity event is a per- cancer combined. Although open bar, sift through the Rosen Women’s Heart Health manent memorial to Rosen women share many of the silent auction, and play at the please e-mail register@or- Luncheon and Fashion Show, and her endeavors in support same risk factors as men, at- gaming tables. landojcc.org with the names on Sunday, March 4, 2018. of Hadassah’s good works for risk women are less likely to The attire is dressy casual & ages of your children. The The Bunny Rosen Women’s Jews in Israel and worldwide be tested or treated in a timely or business-casual clothes— $15 fee includes activities and Heart Health Endowment and in particular all women manner. And when presenting even though it is called a Ball, pizza at the science center. was established to honor the at home and abroad. with the same symptoms or this isn’t a formal event. All proceeds benefit The memory of Bunny Rosen for The Luncheon and Fash- risk factors, women are less General admission is $100; Roth Family JCC. ion Show will be held at The likely to be referred for diag- preschool and J University The Science Center is Alfond Inn with apparel pro- nostic testing that would be parents, JAO families and se- located at 777 E. Princeton vided by Evelyn and Arthur standard for men. nior citizens (65+), $75. Street, Orlando. For more in- Boutique of Palm Beach and Hadassah promotes Every If you require babysitting, formation, call 407-645-5933. Winter Park. Beat Counts TM to get the Everything about this word out to women that venue would have delighted cardiac screenings are a key Rosen, who gave this event her factor in heart disease preven- New entrance at JCC highest priority and worked tion. The program pioneers Bunny Rosen, Z”L Beginning Monday, Feb. possible logjams through our tirelessly to make it the hap- in teaching women how to 12, The Roth Family JCC’s main entrance and lobby. This pening of the year. prevent heart disease through promote women’s heart health preschool entrance was per- is a complication the staff Every Beat Counts TM is heart health programs, edu- in the greater Orlando Area. manently relocated to within purposefully chose to take on Hadassah’s Women’s Heart cational materials, a walking The luncheon and fashion the JCC, no longer allowing for in order to create a safer JCC. Health program and was program and an awareness show is open to the public. direct access from the park- “We ask that everyone founded to educate women campaign about this No.1 The menu offers a choice ing lot. The exterior facing please be patient as we all about the risks, detection killer of women. of Pan Seared Snapper or preschool doors that open to get used to the new nor- and prevention of heart dis- Orlando Hadassah is com- Wild Mushroom Ravioli. The the parking lot will become mal. Please remember to ease, the No.1 cause of death mitted to promoting heart couvert is $45 per person and emergency exit only doors for scan your JCC membership among women in the U.S. disease awareness through tables of 10 are available. Make the preschool. card even when there’s a line,” and worldwide. One in three Every Beat Counts in coordina- Checks payable to Hadassah. The new preschool entrance said Robby Etzkin, executive women over the age of 20 has tion with the chapter’s “Saving Send checks, meal selections is across from the sports and director. some form of cardiovascular Heartbeats” program which and table reservations to: fitness hallway. It will be the disease. Here’s an alarming prepares women to perform Orlando Hadassah, 1253 only entrance and exit from reality: 500,000 women in the CPR until the Paramedics Eggleston Drive, DeLand, the preschool. With nearly US die of heart disease every arrive” The Bunny Rosen FL 32724 300 children in the school, year. Heart disease kills more Luncheon and Fashion show For more information, call this will create additional women than stroke, lung contributes charitable funds to 407-415-6892. foot (and stroller) traffic and PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 16, 2018 Mossad agent tells story of capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann The Holocaust Memo- death camps, sat in a court- at 55 Fifth Street South in rial Resource & Education room for a trial that would St. Petersburg, Florida. Center of Florida, in part- be among the first in his- Avraham is a world- nership with the Florida tory to be completely tele- renowned expert in Mossad Holocaust Museum, will vised. The trial captivated operations, lecturer, writer, sponsor a conversation millions of people across exhibition and film pro- with Mossad agent Avner the globe and it was the first ducer, and curator. He is Avraham on Wednesday, time many of the details currently a senior advisor Feb. 21, at 6 p.m. of the Holocaust were re- to the Hollywood film Avraham curated the vealed. The dramatic story “Operation Finale.” In the exhibit titled Operation behind one of the world’s past, Avraham served as a Finale: The Capture & Trial most notorious escaped major in the Israel Defense of Adolf Eichmann, which Nazi war criminals being Forces, an intelligence of- is on exhibit at the Florida brought to justice is told ficer, and a detective in the Holocaust Museum in St. using recently declassified Israel Police. Petersburg, Fla. His talk will artifacts from the Mossad, There will be a short Q&A feature “behind the scenes” Israel’s Secret Intelligence following his presentation. stories of the capture of Service. Operation Finale: This program is gener- Adolph Eichmann and the The Capture & Trial of Adolf ously sponsored by Patti importance of his trial. Eichmann opened to the and Roy Ambinder. Fifty-six years ago, Adolf public on Saturday, Feb. 10, For more information re- Eichmann, who had been in and is on display through garding the Holocaust Cen- charge of transporting mil- July 15, 2018 at The Florida ter’s programs and exhibits, Avner Avraham, former Israeli Mossad agent and curator of “Operation Finale: The lions of European Jews to Holocaust Museum, located see www.holocaustedu.org. Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann.” Congregation Sinai Rollins College presents a lecture annual golf tournament on legacies of Jewish women The Jewish Studies Pro- studies programs. She is Congregation Sinai, a tournament will be held at after the round, on-course gram at Rollins College the author of “American nonprofit organization serv- Green Valley Golf Course in contests, prizes and awards. is pleased to announce a Jewish Loss after the Holo- ing the community in and Clermont on Saturday, March Contests include “Closest lecture by Professor Laura caust” (2007) and “Jews and around Clermont, often 3. Registration is at 8 a.m.; to the Pin” and “Closest to Levitt of Temple Univer- Feminism: The Ambivalent holds food drives to help shotgun start is 8:30 a.m.; and the Line.” sity titled “Jewish Women, Search for Home” (1997) those in need and interfaith lunch and award will follow Payments are due by March American Feminism: Politi- and an editor of “Judaism services and activities to pro- the game. 1, payable to Congregation cal, Religious, and Cultural Since Gender” (1997). She mote better understanding The tournament will be Sinai GT, and send to Con- Legacies.” The lecture is in is completing a book, titled among different cultures. played as a scramble with gregation Sinai, 303A US 27N, honor of Dr. Rita Bornstein, “Tainted Objects: Holocaust The annual golf tournament 4-person teams. Proper golf Minneola, Fl 34715. President Emerita, Rollins Evidence and Criminal helps grow the congregation attire is required. For more information, College and will be held Archives,” about trauma and further community The cost is $55 per golfer. contact Peter Sobel at 352- Wednesday, March 7 at 7 and loss and how material activities. This includes 18 holes of 989-4900 or email petesobe@ p.m. in the Galloway Room, artifacts make these painful Open to all golfers, the golf, range balls, lunch gmail.com. Mills Building. legacies manifest. Laura Levitt is professor This lecture is free of of Religion, Jewish Stud- charge and open to the ies and Gender at Temple community. For further in- University where she has formation, please contact Dr. Professor Laura Levitt chaired the religion depart- Yudit Greenberg, director of ment and directed both the the Jewish Studies Program, office of the Department of Jewish studies and the Gen- Rollins College at ygreen- Philosophy and Religion 407 der, Sexuality and Women’s [email protected] or call the 646-2139. 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Duda added that he would it opposed the law because Holocaust historian Efraim The United States is “dis- send it to Poland’s Consti- it would stifle historical re- Zuroff of the Simon Wiesen- appointed,” Tillerson said tutional Tribunal for review. search and debate about the thal Center. Many other Jews Tuesday, following Duda’s Ukraine, Lithuania and Latvia Holocaust. were betrayed to the Nazis by final approval of a law intro- have passed similar laws since Unlike most European na- non-Jewish Poles. duced on Jan 26 in the Polish 2010. tions under Nazi occupation, However, Poland and the parliament. It prescribes up to The State Department, in Poles were not allowed any Netherlands are the only six years in prison to anyone an unusual statement last degree of self rule and none countries in Europe where re- who blames the Polish state week, said the law could have of the Polish state’s organs sistance groups were formed or nation for crimes the law “repercussions” for U.S.- were integrated into the Nazi- exclusively to save Jews from says were perpetrated exclu- Polish relations. led genocide. In addition to 3 the Holocaust. Poland has the Polish President Andrzej Duda sively by Nazi Germany during Israeli Prime Minister Ben- million Polish Jews, the Nazis highest number of Righteous World War II. jamin Netanyahu said he killed 1.9 million Polish non- among the Nations—indi- their lives to save Jews from is followed by the Nether- The “enactment of this law opposed the law, which he Jews, whom they classified viduals recognized by Yad the Holocaust. Its tally of lands’ 5,595 recipients of adversely affects freedom of called “baseless.” Yad Vashem, as racially inferior to Aryans. Vashem and Israel for risking more than 6,700 Righteous that honor. Debate over Polish Holocaust law prompts an anti-Semitic media backlash By Katarzyna Markusz It also outlawed the phrase “The U.S. authorities were “Polish death camps.” The full of Jews in many key po- WARSAW, Poland (JTA)— bill must still be signed by sitions. Many of these Jews Debate over a Polish law the president. have been actively engaged that proposes to outlaw rheto- Historians of the era, Jew- in espionage in favor of the ric blaming Poland for Nazi ish groups, the U.S. State Soviets,” he said. crimes has prompted a wave Department and the Israeli An RMF colleague de- of anti-Semitic comments in government are all critical of nounced Zalewski’s state- the Polish media. the law, which they said could ments. RMF, one of the largest Pol- inhibit academic freedom and “I can only condemn these ish commercial radio stations, distort the historical record of words,” said Bogdan Frymor- suspended a journalist who World War II. gen, a producer and journalist. wrote about the “war with the “Poles, we are at war! We “I can only show contempt for Jews.” Poland’s state-owned are at war with the Jews! Not a man who in the 21st century, television station apologized for the first time in our his- with full awareness of the hor- to the Israeli ambassador for a tory,” wrote Bogdan Zalewski, rors of the previous century, tweet alleging that the Jewish an RMF journalist, on his goes to ‘war with the Jews,’ opposition to the law was part Facebook page on Thursday. regardless of being a public of an attempt to seize Polish “We can find ourselves in a figure. Virtually, I can spit in property. state of absolute isolation his face.” Also, a former priest be- that completely exhausts The radio station suspend- gan selling T-shirts denying us down to annihilation. In ed Zalewski, who apologized Polish responsibility for a my opinion, it is necessary and deleted his post. pogrom against Jews by their for Poles to be aware and to On Feb. 2, the Israeli Em- non-Jewish neighbors during work on the development of bassy in Warsaw condemned the Nazi occupation. the national spirit.” a tweet from the state-owned All three events came after His statement appeared just TVP Info Channel claiming Flickr Commons/Piotr Drabik the Polish Senate approved an after the Senate approved the that Israel’s reaction to the TVP, the state-owned television station in Poland, apologized to an Israeli ambassador amendment to the National amendment. new law was part of an at- for a tweet accusing Israel of ulterior motives in objecting to a new law regulating how Remembrance Act levying a He went on to blame Jews tempt to reclaim properties Poles may discuss the Holocaust. penalty of up to three years for the “iron fist” of Soviet in Poland. in prison for those who rule in Eastern Europe, and “It’s hard to find a brighter The public television sta- Last week, a TVP host and kiewicz, said he didn’t regret blame the Polish nation for accused the Jews of a reign example of an anti-Semitic tion apologized to Israeli Am- a guest mocked critics of the using the term “Jewish death the crimes of Germany com- of terror against the British fake news,” the embassy state- bassador Anna Azari, saying legislation, suggesting that camps.” mitted during World War II. and Arabs in prestate Israel. ment read. that the tweet “was a mistake” Jews were in part responsible Ziemkiewicz, a writer and and relied on an unverified for their own slaughter during journalist, also demanded the source of information. the Holocaust and joking that resumption of the exhuma- “Disciplinary consequenc- the death camps should be tion of victims’ remains in NASCAR’s first Israeli driver es will be drawn against this referred to as “Jewish death Jedwabne, the site of the 1941 person,” TVP said in a state- camps.” The host apologized, ment. but the guest, Rafał Ziem- Debate on page 15A JCC bomb hoaxer briefly escapes Israeli police custody (JTA)—The American- was chased for a short time, dumping fuel and requiring Israeli man charged with mak- tackled and then returned to military escorts, according ing hundreds of bomb threats custody. to the indictment. to Jewish community centers Kadar was charged in Israel His parents and attorney in the United States, including in April 2017 with thousands have said he has a benign The Roth Family JCC in Mai- of counts on offenses that brain tumor that affects his tland, and elsewhere briefly include publishing false in- behavior, as well as a very escaped from police custody formation, causing panic, low IQ. in Israel. computer hacking and money The Jerusalem Post re- The computer hacker, 19, laundering. He was arrested ported on Monday that the from Ashkelon in southern in Israel in March in a joint United States has backed Alon Day at the NASCAR finales. Israel, attended a hearing operation with the FBI. away from seeking the hoax- in Jerusalem District Court According to the indict- er’s extradition, but may seek Israeli native Alon Day was title champion of the NASCAR excited and honored to be part on Monday. Following the ment Kadar, who has dual to have him extradited and recognized by The Algemeiner Whelen Euro Series. of a list that included such hearing, Michael Kadar was U.S. and Israeli citizenship, tried in the United States newspaper as among “The Top Day shares the Top 100 list well-known and great names.” taken to an interrogation and made threats to 2,000 insti- after he finished his trial 100 People Positively Influ- with luminaries that include Day, who regularly waves the detention center in Jerusalem tutions around the world, in Israel. encing Jewish Life, 2017.” The Ron Dermer, Israeli ambassa- Israeli flag in victory lane, before being transferred to the including the Israeli Em- The U.S. Justice Depart- accolade caps an incredible dor to the US; Senate Minority further said, “Wherever I go Nitzan Prison and Detention bassy in Washington, D.C., ment in April 2017 charged year for Day, which included Leader Charles Schumer; Vice and race, I am proud to rep- Center in Ramla, where he is and other Israeli diplomatic him with making threaten- being named “Israel’s Athlete President Mike Pence; Sheryl resent the Jewish community being held. missions, schools, malls, ing calls to JCCs in Florida, of the Year”; debuting as a Sandberg, COO of Facebook; and Israel, that will always be After exiting a police car, police stations, hospitals and conveying false information driver for BK Racing against Lillian Pinkus, president of a part of me.” Kadar, who managed to loosen airlines. to the police and cyberstalk- the world’s top stock car driv- AIPAC; Sheldon Adelson; Bob Born in Ashdod, Israel, Day a leg shackle, pushed away the Threats to three airlines, ing. The U.S. reportedly made ers in NASCAR’s highest level, Dylan; and Gal Gadot. now lives in Tel Aviv. Currently security officer accompany- including Israel’s national an informal request for his the Monster Energy NASCAR When notified of his selec- 26, he began his motorsports ing him and made a run for carrier El Al, led to planes extradition at the time, which Cup Series; and earning the tion, Day said he was “really career at the age of nine. it, according to reports. He making emergency landings, was rebuffed by Israel. PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 16, 2018 Israel built a ‘wall’ and is deporting illegal aliens—America can learn

By Caroline Glick population stood at 7.7 million, that means Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, began EU think tank that helps Brussels determine that as a portion of its total population, Israel passing laws to provide negative incentives immigration policy. EASO concluded that A decade ago, Israelis gave little thought to absorbed 95 times more illegal aliens that year to illegal aliens. One law required migrants’ Eritrean asylum seekers are not eligible for the issue of illegal immigration. than Spain did. employers to set aside 20 percent of their wages, asylum or refugee status because they face In 2006, there were 2,766 illegal migrants The illegal aliens settled overwhelmingly which the migrants would receive only upon no danger from repatriation. in Israel, nearly all of them from Eritrea and in poor neighborhoods in Tel Aviv. Violent leaving the country. Following the Knesset move, the Israeli Sudan, who had entered Israel through its crime in the areas skyrocketed with their ar- Most importantly, in 2012, Israel began government decided that all illegal migrants then-open, 150-mile border with Egypt. rival. Sexual offenses in neighborhoods with building a “wall”—an impenetrable fence— who agree to leave Israel by the end of March In 2007, the dam of illegal immigration high percentages of African migrants were 3.5 along its border with Egypt. It was completed will be paid $3500 and receive a free one-way burst. times higher than in their rates in the general in 2013. The results were dramatic. Illegal ticket, either to third countries which have According to Israel’s Immigration and Popu- population. Violent crime was 2.5 times higher. immigration fell immediately by 98 percent. agreed to accept them, or to their countries lation Authority, 5,179 African migrants—pre- Robberies occurred six times more often. In 2013, 123 African migrants entered the of origin, whichever they prefer. Those who dominantly from Eritrea and Sudan—entered A survey of area residents taken by the Israeli country. In 2017, no one arrived. refuse to leave Israel by the end of March will Israel from Egypt in 2007. The illegal migration police in 2015 showed that only 38 percent felt Today, among the 68,000 illegal migrants be incarcerated pending deportation, and Israel reached its peak in 2011, when 17,281 arrived. secure outside their homes after dark. Only from Africa who have entered Israel in the past will pay them a substantially smaller amount When you consider that in 2011, Israel’s total 43 percent felt safe in their homes after dark. decade, 40,000 still remain in the country. for leaving the country. And so last month, the Knesset passed a law But according to the U.S.-based Atlantic, enjoining the government to deport them “For the Jewish activists who believe that Israel either to their countries of origin or to willing should be built on what they see as Jewish Everywhere third countries. values, the next few weeks will be a crucial Rwanda and Uganda reportedly signed test of its identity as a nation and how it is secret agreements with Israel permitting perceived by the world.” Preserving the integrity of our the migrants to relocate to their countries. This claim—that Israel’s policy is at odds Open-borders champions leaked the deals to with Jewish values—was made by the Atlantic’s Jewish institutions the media, hoping to force the Rwandan and Emma Green in a long article criticizing the Ugandan governments to cancel the deals. new Knesset law. This month, both governments denied ever Green’s article is part of a massive campaign By Mel Pearlman although heralded by Federation and Holo- signing such agreements, although migrants being waged by Israel’s far left, with massive caust Center leadership, also raises serious are being sent to both countries. support from liberal American Jewish groups. Not everyone in the Jewish community is questions about the status of the Maitland The UN High Commissioner for Refugees The campaign’s purpose is to demonize the happy with two recent announcements con- campus and the Holocaust Center’s mission deems both countries safe. And, for that mat- law, and coerce Israel’s government into not cerning respectively, the Jewish Academy of in the years ahead. ter, in February 2017, the Swiss Administra- enforcing it. Orlando and the Holocaust Memorial Resource With the diminished presence of the Jew- tive Court determined that illegal migrants The left’s campaign against Israel bears no- and Education Center. ish Academy of Orlando from the sale of one from Eritrea will not be in danger if they are table similarities to the campaign being waged I participated in the organizational meetings of its buildings (with no guarantee that the deported back to Eritrea. That court ruling by leftist activists and Democratic politicians in back in the 1970s for what was then designated new owners will restrict the building’s use followed a report issued a month before by the to be the Hebrew Day School of Central Florida. for a Jewish purpose), its announcement that European Asylum Support Office (EASO), an Israel on page 15A I also served on the board for a number of it is opening up its enrollment to the general years. The original intention of the school was community, and now the ultimate abandon- to furnish a learning institution of excellence ment of the Holocaust Center facilities on in both secular and Judaic studies. It was built the Jewish campus in Maitland, the JCC will Letter from Israel with Jewish money for Jewish students. be the only other constituent agency, along During the course of its history, the school with Federation offices, as occupants of the had many challenges, including finding the ap- once thriving Maitland campus. What is to Palestine? propriate level and intensity of the Judaic stud- become of the campus which has served as ies curriculum that would satisfy the parents an important center for Jewish life in Central who came from various Jewish backgrounds Florida? Will other parts of it also be sold off? By Ira Sharkansky History is one of the problems. The name and levels of observance. The excellence of The Holocaust Memorial Resource and “Palestine” goes back to Rome, but there has the secular curriculum was never in doubt. Education Center has done great work in There’s a question mark alongside the title never been an independent country or state Parental intervention created tension with the teaching tolerance and mutual respect to of this note, insofar as the issues involved in of Palestinians widely recognized. The lack faculty and the several successive directors, all the diverse communities in Central Florida, assessing what is described as Palestine raise of international recognition for Jordan’s oc- of whom ended up with short-term tenures but its heart and soul is to remember the a host of questions and few clear answers. The cupation (1948-67) is part of the muddle. Only because of these difficulties. Holocaust as a unique Jewish experience from problems are normative, i.e., what should be, Britain and Pakistan saw it as kosher. After a crisis in the early ‘90s, which saw which the community can learn these lessons as well as practical, i.e., what is and what is Whose land is it? Whose was it? There’s no many students withdraw from the school for of tolerance, respect and other aspects of hu- likely. Even what is, with respect to Palestine, answer that is not a muddle. It’s possible to one or two academic years, the school regained man relations. Will the Holocaust as a unique opens us to arguments on several points. find in Israeli opinions and official actions its footing. Many, but not all of the students Jewish experience be lost and the Holocaust The history of Palestinians is as confused that the entire West Bank is “disputed” due who had sought alternative schools (includ- Center, founded by Jewish survivors, lose its as that of any people. And while the designa- to the lack of international recognition of the ing Chabad’s Torah Academy in Longwood) Jewish character in future generations by tion of Palestinians is problematic, so is that Jordanian occupation. But there is also Israeli returned to the school on the Jewish campus removing itself from the Jewish campus in of any nationality. acceptance of a Palestinian National Authority in Maitland. The school ultimately found its Maitland? Jews are as much of a mixture as any other and reservations about Israeli rights in the area equilibrium in the years following the crisis In you wish to comment or respond to any ethnic, religious, or nationality group. How- beyond the 1967 lines. And there are religious of the ‘90s, and has provided excellent secular of the contents herein you can reach me at ever, we came into existence, and have been and nationalist Jews who are convinced that and Jewish studies to our Jewish community [email protected]. Please do so arguing about ourselves for something like it’s all ours, given by God prior to the appear- up to this point. in a rational, thoughtful, respectful and civil 3,000 years. ance of any Empire. The recent announcement that the school manner. If you wish to respond by ranting and Palestinians is a designation for a people The muddle continues in confusion about will now open its doors to the general com- raving, please go into your bathroom, lock the is newer than many, perhaps traceable to Israeli policy with respect to settlements. There munity raises serious doubt whether long term door and shout your brains out. the 1920s with a name much older assigned is restraint against new construction outside the school can maintain the high quality of Mel Pearlman has been practicing law in to a fuzzily defined territory. Many who call of established settlement blocs, along with a its Judaic studies curriculum. Suppose the Central Florida for the past 45 years. He has themselves Palestinians have ancestors who tolerance of “piratical” settlements, wherever, number of non-Jewish students becomes a served as president of the Jewish Federation migrated from elsewhere within the most by small groups of highly motivated activists. significant portion of the student body and of Greater Orlando; on the District VII Mental recent century. The courts and government agencies have non-Jewish parental and financial pressure Health Board, as Special Prosecutor for the The designation of land and boundaries removed settlements or neighborhoods judged is exerted to weaken the Judaic part of the City of Winter Park, Florida; and on the Board is confused by what is, and is not, written in to have been built on private Palestinian land, daily curriculum. If that occurs it will be a of Directors of the Central Florida Research the Balfour Declaration and what came after but the process has taken years and in some setback for the Jewish community and a blow and Development Authority. He was a charter it in the Peel Commission, the 1948 war and cases remains incomplete. to Jewish continuity. member of the Board of Directors and served Jordan’s occupation of the West Bank, the Involved in the muddle are repeated Pales- The recent announcement that the Holo- as the first Vice President of the Holocaust 1967 war and subsequent events in the West tinian rejections of opportunities to acquire caust Center will be moving to a location far Memorial Resource and Education Center of Bank and Gaza firm title over substantial territory, presum- removed from the Jewish campus in Maitland Central Florida, as well as its first pro-bono Also in the picture is the Palestinians’ role as ably acquiring recognition as a Palestinian to a new and expansive home in Orlando, legal counsel. the darling of Muslim politics, the unusual sta- state. 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Palestine on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 16, 2018 PAGE 5A Why everyone should care about the fate of Z Street By Jonathan Tobin was the result of the dismay Street was a supporter of a terrorist organization by should be above politics, but now, opponents of the Trump felt by the administration and the settlement movement the U.S. government, yet were also aware that doing administration are loudly (JNS)—Justice was finally many Democrats about the at a time when Obama was somehow, contributions to so in this manner was wrong voicing their fears that the done last week for a Jewish U.S. Supreme Court’s Citi- determined to force the Israeli a group that supported Jews since they wrote to each other current White House intends activist organization. After zens United decision, which government to stop building were deemed a possible threat about avoiding an email trail to overturn the justice system nearly eight years of stall- stopped the government from in Judea and Samaria. That’s while those who distributed that could document their or otherwise interfere with ing, disingenuous excuses interfering with political why Z Street suddenly found funds in a place where involve- intentions. the functioning of democratic and outright lies, the Inter- speech made by nonprofit itself having to answer ques- ment with actual terrorists The good news is that the government. But many of the nal Revenue Service finally groups. While no direct link tions about its beliefs. Even was inevitable seemed of no government’s attempt to same people either ignored or admitted wrongdoing in between the White House worse, it was flagged for interest to the IRS. politicize the tax code in this winked at genuine—and now preventing Z Street—a pro- and IRS decisions was ever manner flopped. Though it documented—abuses carried Israel group—from obtain- produced, what followed was took six years, Z Street got its out by an administration they ing nonprofit status when it very much in line with the nonprofit status, and a year liked. applied for it back in 2010. Z administration’s desire to Rather than being filed away as old later, the Marcuses prevailed In this sense, what hap- Street’s story is unique in prevent conservatives from in their lawsuit against the pened with the IRS is very some ways in that it ended in taking advantage of the law. news, the Z Street case should be IRS. But theirs might be much like the current dis- the group’s vindication. Its But it was not until after the considered a Pyrrhic victory. pute about the origins of the founder, lawyer and journal- 2010 midterms and Obama’s setting off alarm bells since it sounds The six-year wait made it Russia investigation. Where ist Lori Lowenthal Marcus, re-election in 2012—when impossible for the group to you stand on it depends on proved that contrary to the the work of those nonprofits an alert as to how a president can use raise money; it was virtually which party you support. old saying, you can fight city might have impacted public shut down during this period. That spirit of rabid partisan- hall and win. opinion—that the contro- the enormous power of the federal Its future is uncertain. The ship, coupled with the sense But there’s more to the versy was aired and the policy Marcuses beat the govern- of self-righteous entitlement lawsuit, which she pursued reversed. government to settle political scores ment, but only because unlike to use the bureaucracy in with her husband, Jerome, That’s where Z Street comes most other activists, they are this manner, motivates ad- than a happy ending. What in. It was applying for 501(c) and hamstring opponents both lawyers, and could devote ministrations to play fast and happened to Z Street should (3) status as a group that the time and resources to a loose with the rules to gain a scare everyone, no matter sought to educate the public battle most people could never political advantage. That is where they stand on the politi- about Israel. But its support determination as to whether This was not an inadvertent think about fighting, let alone always the most potent threat cal spectrum. The fact that so for Jewish settlements put it or not it supported terrorism error. During the course of winning. to democracy. The Marcuses few seem to care about it tells in the cross hairs of federal simply because its mission their lawsuit, the Marcuses’ That’s why what happened happen to be people I’m proud us a lot about what’s wrong bureaucrats, who apparently was concerned with the state discovery uncovered the fact with the IRS in the last ad- to call dear friends. But even if with contemporary politics. got the message from on high of Israel. that the IRS was drawing up ministration isn’t, as the 44th you disagree with them about The Z Street case must be that such an organization was What makes that even more lists of groups that opposed president’s apologists insist, a everything, the price they paid viewed in the context of what to be put through the wringer. outrageous is that during the Obama administration’s faux scandal ginned up by his to prevail against an arrogant came to be known as the IRS As was the case with the the period from 2010 to 2016 policy toward Israel by draw- political opponents. Rather federal government ought to scandal. During the first term concerted process slowdown when Z Street’s application ing upon information from than being filed away as old worry you. The fact that so few of the Obama administration, of some conservative groups, was held up, the IRS granted viciously anti-Zionist web- news, the Z Street case should were willing to back them in the IRS began subjecting the attention given to Z Street numerous applications for sites like MondoWeiss and be setting off alarm bells since their struggle or care about conservative groups that was not about whether it was nonprofit status from groups Electronic Intifada. The bu- it sounds an alert as to how a its outcome is what really applied for nonprofit 501(c) actually eligible for nonprofit that were raising money in reaucrats seeking to mold tax president can use the enormous worries me. (4) status as education or- status under the law. Rather, it the United States to spend in policy to fit Obama’s opinions power of the federal govern- Jonathan S. Tobin is edi- ganizations to the sort of was a function of the Obama Gaza, which was governed as about the Middle East were ment to settle political scores tor in chief of JNS. Follow special scrutiny not applied administration’s dislike of a terrorist state by Hamas. not only brazenly seeking and hamstring opponents. him on Twitter at: @jona- to liberal groups. This policy their particular politics. Z Hamas was designated as to politicize something that The irony here is that right thans_tobin. A very bad Polish joke By Jonathan Feldstein case, or sanitizing it to create Adding insult to stupidity, However, they still have yet to The fact is that Polish death It may not be too late to an image of how they would the timing of the Polish vote return looted property to the camps existed. Even if “Polish” influence the outcome. It’s like the beginning of like to be perceived, is not just last week took place on the eve survivors of those they mur- is only used as an adjective to If you’d like to express a bad Polish joke: A group of fake history, it’s an offense to of International Holocaust dered. Worrying about what describe the location of the your thoughts on the matter Polish politicians go into a the reality of the Holocaust Remembrance Day, specifi- terms are used to describe death camps, it’s historically to one of hundreds of Polish room to debate their role in in which Poles were willing cally designated as such on their complicitness in the Ho- accurate. Denying that is diplomatic offices around the the Holocaust... The problem partners. the day that Auschwitz- locaust, from death camps to absurd and covers up their world, please email me for a is there’s no funny punch Maybe it offends Polish Birkenau, Poland’s most the mass shooting (as in where guilt. Guilt is uncomfortable. complete list of their emails. line, except to underscore all historical revisionism that infamous death camp, was my relatives were murdered But too bad. Jonathan Feldstein was the other funny punch lines they (too) were victims. Maybe liberated. Israel’s Foreign in Kanczuga), is a pathetic I’m reminded of a joke born and educated in the U.S. of many more Polish jokes their “valiant” struggle over Ministry commented, dip- waste of time. If the Poles kids used to tell when I was and immigrated to Israel in before. the few weeks it took before lomatically, that the timing are worried about slandering growing up. “Why does the 2004. He is married and the The bill that was approved Nazi Germany to conquered was “particularly surprising their “good name,” denial of new Polish navy have glass- father of six. He has a three- by the Polish lower house of Poland is somehow a source and miserable.” their role in the Holocaust is bottom boats?” one would decade career in nonprofit parliament this past week of Polish pride. Justifying the law, Poland’s the exact wrong way to do it. ask. Answer: “To see the old fundraising and marketing (giving new meaning to the Maybe it’s uncomfortable ruling Law and Justice Party, And if they care about it Polish navy.” In the context of and throughout his life and term “lower house”), and now and inconvenient for the Poles claimed this is part of an ef- more than as a business of this law, it’s also probably to career, he has become a re- this week by the Polish Senate, to admit that for centuries, fort to prevent the “slander- Jewish pilgrimages to learn see any semblance of Polish spected bridge between Jews makes it a criminal offense Poles tolerated their Jewish ing the good name of Poland.” how we lived, and then were integrity, far beneath the old and Christians. He writes to mention Polish complicity neighbors, but did so with The irony and oxymorons murdered, they would scrap Polish navy. regularly on major Christian in crimes committed during pogroms punctuating anti- abound. this law altogether. Poland The law still needs final web sites about Israel and the Holocaust. If enacted, the Semitism with which the Jews When I mentioned once does not have a proud history approval from the country’s shares experiences of living law would fine or jail people existed daily. to my Polish-born grand- and by lying about it, they president. Maybe smarter as an Orthodox Jew in Israel. who blame Poland or Poles Maybe it’s unpleasant that mother of my interest to go make it easier for others to minds will prevail over those He can be reached at FirstPer- for Nazi atrocities committed so many Poles willingly and to Poland one day, she broke repeat. in the “lower house.” [email protected]. on its soil during World War even gleefully lined up to down in tears, pleading for II, including the genocide of participate in the genocide me not to go. “The ground millions of Jews. of their neighbors, as they is soaked in our blood,” she Even foreigners would be did with my relatives. And cried. By “our” she didn’t subject to as much as three though maybe it wasn’t their mean generically the Jewish years in prison under the plan, with few notable excep- people, which is true. She law. This leads me to wonder tions, they followed orders meant her parents, siblings, whether they would try to and were active participants nieces and nephews, friends enforce the law overseas, or and partners in the Nazi mass and neighbors who weren’t create a black list of people murders. as lucky to get out as she who have violated the law and I’m reminded of the time, had been. In fact, so inbred would be rounded up upon ar- after learning that we were was Jew-hatred that the dif- riving in Poland. Will the Poles expecting our sixth child ference between just “plain” arrest my daughter when she and only had a seven-person Jew hatred and murder was arrives on her class trip there? van, while looking for a larger like the difference in baseball Poles may be offended by vehicle I happened into a Je- of a batter connecting, and the use of the term “Polish rusalem Volkswagen dealer. following through. And with death camp” (Polski obóz They made an eight-passenger the Nazis calling the plays, zagłady) but the reality is, that car that was reputed to be the Poles excelled at their that was the reality. The Nazis reliable and a good value. “follow through.” didn’t want the dirty business Trying to sell me the car, If my grandmother were of mass murder to be over- the salesman noted that this alive, I suspect she’d go a step whelmingly in their country. model was built in Poland. I further than calling them Poland was a good choice both commented, “Then it must Polish death camps. She’d because anti-Semitism was be good, because we all know probably refer to Polish death inbred among a population how well the Poles follow Ger- culture, or Poland as a death of accomplices, and because it man orders.” country. had the highest concentration Either the salesman didn’t In fairness, Poland had of Jews in Europe. get it, or didn’t think it was so come to terms with its role Pretending it weren’t the funny. But it is true. in the Holocaust, a little. PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 16, 2018 Chabad of Greater Orlando—Kids Mega Babka-llah Bake, 2 p.m. at Chabad of Greater Orlando, What’s A COMPREHENSIVE 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland. Open to children 5-12. Info and to RSVP, www.chabadorlando.org. COMMUNITY LIGHT MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Happening CALENDAR SHABBAT CANDLES AT Israeli Folk Dancing—7:30-8:15 p.m. instruction, 8:15-10 p.m., requests. Cost: Free for JCC For inclusion in the What’s Happening Calendar, copy must be sent on sepa- members, $5 nonmembers. 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The founder of the L’Oréal as “an anti-Semite of the A spokesperson for L’Oreal Following last year’s far- cosmetics company, Eugene worst kind” for her remarks Paris told the BBC, “We agree right rally in Charlottesville, Schueller, was a Nazi sympa- on Twitter in 2014 calling with her decision to step Virginia, Bergdorf said that thizer who helped bankroll Israel an “illegal and sinister down from the campaign.” “All white people are racist,” and offered office space in state.” She also labeled Israel “We have recently been adding: “Honestly I don’t the 1930s to La Cagoule, a “child murderer” that Allah made aware of a series of have the energy to talk a violent far-right organi- will ultimately defeat. tweets posted in 2014 by about the racial violence of zation that was virulently According to the British Amena Kahn, who was white people any more. Yes anti-Semitic. Its members government’s 2016 defi- featured in a UK advertis- ALL white people ... Most of planned to overthrow the nition of anti-Semitism, ing campaign,” the com- ya’ll don’t even realize or French government and “claiming that the existence pany’s statement to the BBC refuse to acknowledge that attempted to assassinate of a State of Israel is a rac- reads. “We appreciate that your existence, privilege and Prime Minister Leon Blum, ist endeavor” and “applying Amena has since apologized success as a race is built on the country’s first Jewish and double standards by requir- for the content of these the backs, blood and death socialist leader. ing of it [Israel] a behavior tweets and the offense they of people of color.” After the war, many sup- not expected or demanded have caused. Nor is the Khan incident porters of the collaboration- of any other democratic “L’Oreal Paris is commit- the first L’Oréal scandal ist Vichy government found nation” are examples of the ted to tolerance and respect involving Israel, either. In employment and refuge at Amena Khan phenomenon. towards all people.” 1995, the American affiliates L’Oreal. Schueller’s daugh- On Monday, Khan said she It wasn’t the first time that of L’Oreal agreed to pay $1.4 ter, Lillianne, married André By Cnaan Liphshiz Khan, a British blogger on is stepping down from the a recruit who was celebrated million to settle an investiga- Bettencourt, a French politi- beauty, as the newest face of L’Oreal Paris Elvive World for a contribution to diversity tion by the U.S. Department cian who was a member of (JTA)—L’Oréal made his- L’Oréal Paris generated a lot of Care campaign because put L’Oréal on the spot. of Commerce looking into La Cagoule. tory last week when it became of positive publicity for the “the current conversations Only in September, the complaints that the com- “What a regression for a the first major cosmetics firm French firm, with CNN laud- surrounding it detract from brand dropped the British pany was complying with company whose director, An- to feature a Muslim woman ing the company for “breaking the positive and inclusive model, DJ and transgender the Arab boycott against the dré Bettencourt, published wearing a head covering in a barriers” and “becoming more sentiment that it set out to activist Munroe Bergdorf for Jewish state. anti-Semitic articles in mainstream international ad diverse” in an article that also deliver.” racist comments against But to many French Jews, the collaborationist weekly campaign for hair products. flattered Khan for “empower- “I deeply regret the con- white people just one week af- the hiring of Khan recalled The French Soil,” JSSNews The signing of Amena ing women.” tent of the tweets I made in ter she was hired as part of the a far larger and older scan- wrote. Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort to host gala for Israel’s 70th (JTA)—An event marking Speakers at the event Trump. Among the cancella- groups said the venue was of Congress, including Rep. the facts of Israel in today’s Israel’s 70th year will be held will include the U.S. am- tions were American Friends detracting from the message Ron Desantis, who is run- world. Our mission is to at President Donald Trump’s bassador to the United Na- of Magen David Adom, the of their events. ning for Florida governor; advocate for Israel, covering Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm tions, Nikki Haley; Israel’s U.S. fundraising arm of the The Boca Raton, Florida- and Jewish Olympic gold the core values of the state of Beach, Florida. ambassador to the U.N., Israeli Red Cross organiza- based group The Truth About medalist swimmer Mark Israel, and the fundamental The event scheduled for Danny Danon; and former tion. 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Tickets.CrayolaExperience.com Enter Code: HeritageFL The Florida Mall • 407.757.1700 PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 16, 2018 A nature park in Kedumim built by Jews and Christians of Israel had abandoned the More importantly, their ac- cial and political support for People of Israel. Christians op- tions proved their words. Day Israel within the United States erating under “replacement after day each year, the Fellow- and in Israel. Such support for theology” will understandably ship members got their hands Israel is laudable. While such find themselves at odds with dirty in the soil of Samaria: groups will always provide Jews who view God’s covenant moving rocks, pulling weeds, greater financial support than with Israel as everlasting, as planting grass and trees, and local churches, congregations Scriptures repeatedly state. mixing and pouring concrete possess a qualitative ability in Fortunately, the barrier to construct a water system building on-the-ground rela- of replacement theology for upper and lower pools tionships in Israel and Fellow- continues to crumble under and the wonderful waterfall ship Church believes that such the light of Israel’s modern- in between. relationships, though small day regathering to the Land. “By day we worked with and typically invisible, present At Fellowship Church, the our Jewish friends, in the an important opportunity for congregants enjoyed the evening Jews and Christians congregations to fulfill their advantage of having dealt sat side-by-side around tables own call to encourage Israel with these errors before they at the dining hall, eating and to believe God’s promises to stepped foot in Kedumim. singing heartily, with the joy the Patriarchs. Their intentions, however, that comes from the sweat of In the documentary, Diaz still had to be proven. There a hard day’s work together,” stands with Kedumim Mayor were people in Kedumim said Fellowship Church Pastor Hananel Dorani at the park. Just after Passover last year, potential in local churches to between Kedumim and the who understandably—given Roger Diaz. Acknowledging the past and Fellowship Church in Winter similarly encourage Israel; to Arab village of Qusin, a suburb the above history—strongly “Hineh mah tov u- looking to the future of the Springs began fundraising move past being mere “sup- of Shechem. Word about the expressed doubts about the m’naim.” (Behold how good Church and Israel working to- for its annual work trip to porters of Israel” politically park has gotten out and people wisdom of inviting Christians and pleasant, Psalms 133) gether, Pastor Diaz says, “This Israel. Since 2006, members or financially, but to stand from all over Samaria and into the homes of community Eventually, over a decade, is where we were supposed of the congregation have shoulder-to-shoulder along- beyond come to relax there. members. What were their the walls of suspicion have to be from the beginning: to spent a week or more each side Israel. Once-empty streets that led intentions? Did they have crumbled. Make no mistake, complement each other, to year working on a nature park With that in mind, Fellow- to the park from the rest of hidden motives? The whole each year the project presents work alongside each other; not in Samaria while staying in ship has produced a documen- Kedumim are now lined with concept of Jews and Christians unique challenges to mem- to oppose each other. We have the homes of Israeli families. tary of the project, titled “The new houses. living and working together bers of both communities, but 2,000 years of that. Enough Working and living together K’dumim Project: Confirming The barriers that stand with the common goal of they are challenges that are of that! Let’s work together, for a week at a time each year the Promises,” that seeks to between Christians and Jews building up The Land of Israel tackled together, including let’s be one.” has served to bring down some share the Christian duty to working together have been in was novel enough that ques- finances, logistics and what As a congregation, Fellow- of the traditional barriers support the People and Land place for a long time and they tioning Fellowship Church’s seems to be inevitable and ship Church wants to share between Christians and Jews of Israel. can be slow to come down. One motives was natural. usually anonymous opposi- their story of the Kedumim and, because of those barriers, Tznirim (tz-near-eem) major barrier on the Christian “Why are you here?” Was a tion to Christians and Jews Nature Park Project and to has not been without its chal- Park, located in the town of side is the thought that Chris- common enough question in working shoulder-to-shoulder challenge other local church- lenges. As those challenges Kedumim in Samaria, takes tianity has replaced Israel as the early years of the project. with a common goal. es to step into the adventure have been met, the members its name from the peculiar God’s covenant people. It is Genuine curiosity mingled Today in the United States, of standing with the People of Fellowship grow increas- and rare “half-pipe” geologi- not a new doctrine, originat- with genuine concern. there is a strong support for Is- of Israel at this time. Please ingly excited about the small cal formation at the base of ing in the first few centuries of Fellowship’s answer, spo- rael. A majority of Americans contact Fellowship Church but meaningful opportunity the park. When the first group the modern era. Some of the ken by one church member are more-or-less pro-Israel at [email protected] to request to encourage the People of started work in 2006, the lo- early Christian leaders looked after another followed the and the Israel-focused Chris- a copy of the documentary. Israel to fulfill its destiny as cation stood on the outskirts around at the condition of the simple line, “To encourage tians United for Israel boasts Fellowship’s next work trip stewards of the Land of Israel. of the community, adjacent Jewish people in dispersion you to believe that God is with over three million members. to Israel is scheduled for Feb. They are also excited about the to olive groves in the valley and concluded that the God you as you redeem The Land.” CUFI members provide finan- 24- March 10. Kinneret Council on Aging Readies for the 8 over 80 Gala The Kinneret Council on to be held on Sunday, Feb. Lynn Fenster, Carol Feuer- Doris Gilbert, Bette Ann and holiday celebrations as ship information, contact Aging is in final preparation 25th, 2018. man, Phyllis Kamanoff, Mol- Leider, Rosalind Levitt, well as excursions including Sharon Weil at 407-425- for the 2018 8 over 80 Gala Committee members lie Savage and Geanne Share Eva Ritt, Gerald Robison, trips to Publix, Walmart 4537, ext. 211. KCOA is along with Kinneret Direc- Charles Schulman and Dick and area restaurants. KCOA a nonprofit agency that tor of Programming and Weiner. also continues to fund the provides ongoing programs Development Sharon Weil The 8 over 80 honorary popular twice-monthly food and services to residents are hard at work finalizing dinner will be held in the pantry, which provides a of Kinneret Apartments, Bat Mitzvah what will be a grand evening. Delaney Dining Room at bountiful grocery bag to a limited income indepen- The event recognizes active, Kinneret Apartments and residents at no cost. This dent living senior facil- Rebecca Hayaliah Kira inspiring people who con- will benefit KCOA, which program offers an array of ity located in downtown tinue to make a difference provides programs for resi- healthy foods to residents, Orlando. For information Rebecca Hayaliah Kira, through volunteerism and dents that are not included many who enjoy cooking on the facility or to find daughter of Debra and Sef philanthropy to their com- in the resident’s monthly their own meals. Currently out how you can donate to Kira of Longwood, will be munity and family. rent. These programs in- over 120 residents are par- KCOA, please go to www. called to the Torah as a bat The honorees for the 2018 clude onsite weekly exercise ticipating in this program. kinneretapartments.com mitzvah on Saturday, Feb. event are: Lillian Berkowitz, classes, cultural activities For ticket and sponsor- or contact Sharon Weil. 17, 2018, at Congregation Beth Am in Longwood. Rebecca is in the sev- enth grade at Milwee Need Senior advice? Middle School where she is a member of Mathletes, the Nation Beta Club and the Yearbook staff. Her hob- Call the Orlando Senior Help Desk bies and interests include theater, piano, singing, art The Jewish Pavilion website • Selecting an assisted- and astronomy. 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Tu’BShevat was cele- brated with the residents of Brookdale Island Lake in Longwood and the 5th grad- ers of Congregation Ohev Shalom of Orlando. Such heartfelt visits and celebrations are shared with excitement and enthusiasm by the students and seniors. On a recent Sunday morning, a Tu’Bshevat program was presented including songs, a short skit, planting seeds and decoration flower pots. Jewish Pavilion programs are often presented as a group program and there are many residents who would benefit and enjoy a personal room visit. Such opportunities are available throughout Orange and Seminole county right in your own neighborhood. Call the Jewish Pavilion of- fice at 407-678-9363 to get involved. PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 16, 2018 Water-saving device clinches first prize for Robotics A promising, prize-winning 3 gallons of water used, the The Water-Saving Shower electronic device designed to system activates blinking LED project will now compete in save water has been conceived, lights. At the 9-gallon mark, a the national FLL-Israel finals, designed, programmed and buzzer is sounded. Water used and the school is explor- produced in Israel. A search beyond this point is automati- ing funding resources for a for the inventors’ boardroom cally charged to the bather’s possible patent application. and laboratory leads not to a credit card.” Robotics coach Avi ‫Hadad hi-tech start-up, but to a class- The project is the brain- is convinced that the young room in Boys Town Jerusalem child of Boys Town Jeru- designers have won an even where the champion team salem’s extra-curricular greater prize. “The boys don’t of eight 7th and 8th graders robotics club. There, dozens yet realize that their work pro- conceptualized and created of young robotics enthusiasts cess, from analyzing market the prototype from scratch. are guided by two coaches, needs to building a prototype, The apparatus, which clinched three 12th grade mentors, is identical to that of hi-tech First Prize in the Jerusalem and students at BTJ’s College start-up teams. They’re mak- Regional FLL-Israel Robot- of Applied Engineering. The ing ready to transform the ics Competition, could now year’s highlight, the FLL- future.” qualify for a patent. Israel (FIRST Lego League) Boys Town Jerusalem is “We searched for a tech- tournament, challenges stu- one of Israel’s premier institu- nological solution to ease dents to build, program and tions for educating the coun- the water shortage,” explains operate a robot, as well as try’s next generation of lead- team member Yonatan Ben to develop a technological ers in the fields of technology, Hamo, 14. “Eventually we solution for a “real-world” commerce, education, the focused on saving water often problem (this year involving military and public service. wasted in showers at fitness hydro dynamics). After weeks Since its founding in 1948, centers and pools. The aver- of round-the-clock efforts, BTJ has pursued its mission age shower uses 9 gallons of the BTJ team scored a blue of turning young boys from the three part curriculum into productive citizens of 7,000 graduates hold key water, so we devised a ‘smart ribbon for their project’s limited backgrounds into at Boys Town -academic, tomorrow. Boys Town’s 18- positions throughout Israeli card’ to use for entry to the “Innovative Solution,” plus young men with limitless technological and Torah - is acre campus is a home away society. For more informa- gym or pool and then to a Mechanical Design trophy futures. From Junior High designed to turn otherwise from home for its more than tion, please visit our website swipe at the shower. Every for their robot. through the college level, disadvantaged Israeli youth 900 students. More than at boystownjerusalem.org. Why is Ireland the most anti-Israel country in Europe?

choose between violating appear to tie back into their of the most powerful groups the Irish law or violating the own troubled history with the in Europe. U.S. Export Administration United Kingdom. The Ireland-Palestine Soli- Regulations,” said Kittrie. “The Irish see Israel as darity Campaign (IPSC), “Violations of these U.S. an- acting as the U.K. did when it which has been at the fore- tiboycott laws are punishable occupied all of Ireland [until front of anti-Israel sentiment by fines and by imprisonment Irish independence in 1921] in Israel, recently led to Israel for up to 10 years.” and Northern Ireland until banning some 20 activists As such, in requesting the the present day,” said Kittrie. associated with the Dublin- postponement of the vote “Specifically, they analogize based group from entering on the bill, Irish Foreign Israel’s settlements in the the Jewish state as part of Minister Simon Coveney West Bank to the Protestants a recent “blacklist” by the noted that the bill may from Great Britain who settled Israeli government targeting violate an E.U. law that all in Northern Ireland.” anti-Israel BDS groups. members have a common Irish-Jewish relations “It’s an Irish obsession to commercial policy. Coveney haven’t always been this sour. identify with the perceived also expressed concern that In the early 20th century, underdog. It’s very disappoint- the bill would harm relations many Irish leaders were sym- ing and a complete distortion with Israel and thus Ireland’s pathetic to the Jewish people, of the facts on the ground,” the ability to play a constructive with the Irish drawing heavily Irish4Israel spokesman said. role in the Middle East peace on historical parallels with “If Israel wants to change the process. Jews, including their suffer- Irish mentality towards Israel, Current E.U. law stipulates ing, the large-scale migration it needs to engage with Ireland that Israeli products origi- of Irish in the 19th century more.” William Murphy/Flickr nating from beyond the pre- and their upward struggle for Can Irish eyes smile on Pro-Palestinian protesters near the Irish Parliament in Dublin at a rally against Israeli 1967 lines cannot be labeled national self-determination Israel? air strikes in Gaza in 2009. as “Made in Israel.” Israel against the British. However, one major loom- By Sean Savage postponed, many in Israel “On its face, the bill is about considers the West Bank to But following Israel’s inde- ing challenge in engagement saw it as another example of pressuring Israel to evacuate be disputed territory, with pendence in 1948, Irish sym- are recent reports that Israel (JNS)—The Irish and Jew- the growing effort in Europe the West Bank and turn it over borders to be determined in pathies inexplicably shifted. is mulling closing down its ish people share a common to single out and boycott the to Palestinian rule. However, any peace negotiations with The Irish no longer viewed embassy in Ireland as part of history of suffering cruel Jewish state. as in so many cases of BDS, the Palestinians. Israel as the underdog strug- plans to shutter seven embas- persecution and achieving Israeli Prime Minister Ben- it appears the goal was at Nevertheless, despite the gling for national rights, but sies worldwide due to budget national redemption against jamin Netanyahu’s office said least also a broader one: to delay and concerns, Kittrie instead as a foreign occupier concerns, Yedioth Ahronoth immeasurable odds. But that the legislation’s “sole contribute to delegitimizing believes that the bill will on someone else’s land—the reported. today, modern Ireland is one purpose is to support the BDS the state of Israel,” he said. eventually pass, especially if Palestinians—similar to the Israel first opened its em- of Europe’s fiercest critics of movement and harm the state A spokesman for the Irish the peace process continues Irish experience with British bassy in 1996—one of the last Israel. This tension was on of Israel.” pro-Israel group Irish4Israel to stall. control over Northern Ireland. countries in the E.U. to have an display last week as the Irish The Israeli Embassy in Ire- said that the bill was also “Watching the debate in Ireland did not extend Israeli embassy—after years of Senate was considering legis- land also denounced the bill, backed by several anti-Israel the Irish Senate, it appears recognition to Israel until negotiations. Despite strained lation aimed at criminalizing saying that it “only offers an NGOs, including Christian Aid that the majority of Irish 1963 and did not establish political relations since then, trade with Israeli settlements. incentive to those who wish and Trocaire, in addition to Senators are far more sym- an embassy in Tel Aviv until trade between Ireland and The legislation, titled “Con- to boycott Israel and stands in trade unions in Ireland. pathetic to the Palestinian 1996. Furthermore, Ireland Israel has grown significantly trol of Economic Activity (Oc- stark contrast to the guiding “The bill was endorsed perspective than the Israeli was one of the first European as both countries have become cupied Territories) Bill 2018,” principles of free trade and by trade unions and others, one,” he said. countries to call for a Pales- global leaders in areas such calls to “prohibit the import justice.” and had the support or many “A version of the bill, pre- tinian state in 1980 and has as technology and pharma- and sale of goods, services and Orde Kittrie, a professor of smaller parties. The motiva- sumably one revised to re- insistently focused on the ceuticals. In 2016, Israel was natural resources originating law at Arizona State Univer- tion is a naive hope to show move the conflict with E.U. Palestinian refugee issue. Ireland’s 11th-largest export in illegal settlements in occu- sity and senior fellow at the solidarity with the Palestin- law, seems likely to pass when Today, despite its subor- partner, with $1.63 billion. pied territories,” according to Foundation for Defense of ians,” the spokesman said. it is voted upon in four or five dinate position within the Despite growing economic Sen. Frances Black, the bill’s Democracies, told JNS that Economic consequences months, unless there is sig- European Union behind such ties, Kittrie believes that Israel sponsor. the proposed legislation was In the days leading up to nificant progress on the peace larger powers as France and needs to improve its outreach While the vote on the clearly aimed at delegitimiz- the vote, a debate emerged in process or the Irish Senate Germany, Ireland has played to the Irish if the Jewish state legislation was eventually ing the state of Israel. Ireland over impending eco- becomes more sympathetic to an outsized role as a voice on hopes to improve relations nomic consequences for the the Israeli perspective or the matters concerning Israel with the country. country if it went ahead with Irish Senate comes to better and the Arab-Israeli conflict. “Israel has a good story to NATHALIE TOLEDANO the legislation. Of particular understand how the bill, if Last year, the Irish Parliament tell. It needs to do a far better REALTOR® concern was the possibility enacted, would gravely under- passed a symbolic resolution job of telling it to the Irish that the legislation could run mine Ireland’s economic links calling on the government to people,” he said. (407) 488-2763 CELL afoul of both E.U. and U.S. to the United States,” he said. recognize Palestinian state- “Watching the debate in the (407) 647-1211 EXT 3685 BUSINESS (407) 628-1210 FAX law, potentially jeopardizing Irish-Israel relations hood. Ireland was also the Irish Senate, one would think [email protected] critical ties. But how did the Irish, who first European country to that the lack of peace between “This bill would make U.S. like the Jewish people have recognize the Palestine Lib- Israel and the Palestinians companies with subsidiaries also faced centuries of perse- eration Organization as well. is entirely the fault of Israel. in Ireland, Irish companies cution, end up so sympathetic At the same time, the BDS That is just not true. I think RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE 400 Park Avenue South, Suite 210 with subsidiaries in the U.S., to the Palestinian cause? 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For information call 407-298-4650. the only big event on Super departed friend who had was finishing their meal, Co- Bowl Sunday this month. worked as a scribe, Rusonik President and event-planner Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. Once again, the Men’s Club of opened the t’filin “boxes” as he Neal Blaher set the stage for JewishCelebration.org; 407-566-9792. Congregation Ohev Shalom— explained what they contained that evening’s Super Bowl Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, like its brother organizations and signified. Game with an “A & Q,” Jeop- 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. throughout the United States Following the presenta- ardy style. The singular topic and beyond, under the aus- tion, Rabbi David Kay guided was famous Jewish sports Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- pices of the Federation of Jew- participants in the mechanics figures over the past century. 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. ish Men’s Clubs—sponsored of wrapping t’filin, and Can- The program provided much Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. its annual World-Wide Wrap. tor Allan Robuck then led enlightenment into not only jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; This year’s program fea- the Sunday morning minyan the tremendous accomplish- tured Ohev Men’s Club mem- service. ments of these athletes in Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. ber and Jewish Academy of A hearty breakfast rang- their respective sports, but Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, Orlando Head of School Alan ing from lox and bagels to also their philanthropy and 321-777-2770. Rusonik starting the morning kugel and scrambled eggs service to the community, and , 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- with some background on the with cheese was prepared their strong Jewish identity Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O) origins of the ancient ritual of by Men’s Club chefs Richard regardless of their level of 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat wrapping t’filin. Conveying Schwartz, Andy Rosen and actual ritual observance. services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. The youngest Schindler’s list Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; survivor is still telling her story 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; Jews and other minorities, she says. Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. And she called the Polish Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, bill that would criminalize Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. those who blame Poland for Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. the Holocaust a “disaster.” Yes, she says, Poles were killed, too, bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. at the Nazi death camps. But Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation she adds that the Poles were no holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. angels, citing Polish violence com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. against Jews during and after the war. Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; “I was in Auschwitz, and www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. there were Polish prisoners,” Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., she said. “But what they say, Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. that the Poles were all sweet- ness and light? No. In any case, Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; they didn’t really like the Jews.” www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th Eva Lavi, who was 2 years old when the Nazis invaded As the Holocaust survivor Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. Poland, addressing the United Nations last week. population shrinks—Lavi was Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. born just two years before the By Ben Sales factories, Lavi lived a quiet war—she sounds conflicted Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- life in Israel. She served in about how best to perpetuate 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. NEW YORK (JTA)—Eva the army, lived on a kibbutz, Holocaust memory. On the Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- Lavi’s earliest memories are worked as an administrative one hand, she acknowledges 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. of the Holocaust. assistant and raised a family. that survivors’ stories are She remembers how her She remembers the early years extensively documented. On Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for mother made her hide out- in Israel when survivors were the other hand, she knows services and holiday schedules. side in below-zero weather, disparaged as weak and pas- nothing is more powerful than Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303A N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation- clutching a standing pipe, as sive. But as interest in the Ho- a firsthand account. sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. Nazis searched her home in locaust increased, she became One way to transmit the Poland. She remembers her more vocal in recounting her experience, she says, is movies. Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- father telling her to swallow experience. Now she speaks She’s grateful for the research Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv a spoonful of cyanide—bet- to groups at Yad Vashem, the work that Spielberg did while Please call for times. ter than death at the hands Israeli Holocaust authority, making “Schindler’s List,” Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- and travels to Poland every year of the Nazis—only to have which won the Academy Award Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. her mother object at the last with a group of high school for best picture. One scene fea- minute. She remembers see- students. turing her as a child, she says, Temple Beth El (R), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-677-2484. ing her twin cousins shot to “It’s true testimony from is mostly accurate: Nazis sepa- Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. death as they ran up a hill at someone who was there. It’s rated her from her mother, but a labor camp. not a story,” she told JTA in a Schindler saved her by telling Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat Lavi was 2 years old when separate interview last week, the guards he needed her small service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. Nazi Germany took over adding that once Israelis fingers to operate machinery. Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. her hometown of Krakow in became interested in the Ho- She believes that movie and mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; September 1939. Now 80, she locaust, “the survivors opened those that have followed play Thursday, 10:00 a.m. wants to make sure her stories their mouths and began to tell a positive role in educating aren’t lost after she’s gone. the story. It’s not just a story. people about what happened, Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: “There was no childhood It’s the worst and cruelest even if some are fictional. Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. for children my age,” she said thing that happened in the “They did a lot of movies that Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. last week in a speech to the world.” had influence,” she told JTA. United Nations General As- Although Lavi now regu- “They engaged the heart, even Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; sembly following International larly returns to Auschwitz, if they’re not true, but they Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. Holocaust Remembrance Day she says the experience still have to be faithful to truth.” Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. isn’t easy. Each time, she on Jan. 27. “Regularly, we saw, After decades of telling her Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach, 386-252-3097; Shabbat service, heard and understood every- finds herself looking around story around the world, Lavi thing the Nazis were doing in horror and crying. But by says addressing the United Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 10:30 a.m. to us. At 6 years old, children now she’s used to it. Nations gave her a sense of clo- Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. were cynical old people trying “Every time I go, I cry here sure. For years she has carried templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by to survive.” and there because it’s a terrible guilt for surviving where so Torah study. Lavi is the youngest survivor thing,” she told JTA. “Every many perished. But with this to have been on Schindler’s person that went there saw speech, she said, she achieved Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road list, the Jews saved by German the ovens, the gas chambers. something to justify her life. 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 industrialist Oskar Schindler Everything was real. It’s very “It was very hard to be a p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. and immortalized in Steven scary, but because I’ve gone child survivor,” she told JTA. Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. Spielberg’s 1993 film. Lavi was so many times, I take it dif- “I felt guilty. I began to talk shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. put in a ghetto in Poland with ferently. I don’t think about to God: Why did he save me? her family immediately after myself. I think about how the I imagined my Jewish broth- Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, the Nazi takeover, transferred kids are reacting.” ers, me and them together, 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, to a labor camp and then to Lavi also feels a sense of we’re walking, and then God 7:30 p.m. Auschwitz. urgency in telling her story pulls me out. Now that they’ve Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. After being saved by because she thinks the world sent me to the U.N. to speak in tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. Schindler, who sheltered hun- hasn’t gotten better since she front of the world, it’s as if I did dreds of Jews who worked in his was liberated. There are groups something to satisfy God after (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa kitchen goods and armament that still seek to annihilate my death.” PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 16, 2018 Germany recognizes Algerian Jews as Holocaust survivors

affected—about 20,000— compensation settlement for Muslim society. The first local now live in France. On Mon- Algerian Jews. novels written in French were day morning, the Claims “There is now the possibil- by Jews.” Conference opens a website ity of compensation in the Saadoun said over one- where survivors can make framework of the so-called third of doctors in Algeria an appointment to go to a Hardship Funds. The JCC were Jewish, as were nearly Help Center. The first Claim [Jewish Claims Conference] one-quarter of the lawyers. Help Center opens in Paris on and the German Federal Vichy anti-Jewish laws, Tuesday morning. Ministry of Finance estimate issued first in early October Located across the street that around 30,000 people 1940, stripped Jews of French from the U.S. Embassy, just might be concerned,” he wrote citizenship and forbade them a block from the Seine in the to JTA. “The JCC will decide from working in army, press, 8th Arrondissement, the cen- about the individual cases, civil service, industrial and ter in the French capital will considering the guidelines commercial jobs. They were have a staff of 24 to assist the which were decided upon then prohibited from work- Paris area’s 12,000 Algerian together between the JCC and ing in education, law and survivors in assembling the the German Federal Ministry medicine. documentation they need in of Finance.” It was deeply traumatic, In an undated photo from the Yad Vashem Archives, Algerian Jews are shown celebrat- order to establish that they Today almost no Jews re- said Saadoun. The com- ing Passover. lived there between 1940 main in Algeria—fewer than munity did not know then and 1942. 50, according to the Jewish that it would last just two By Debra Nussbaum executive vice president of person’s childhood was turned Satellite centers to serve Virtual Library. years. Jews opened their own Cohen the Conference on Material upside down because of this another 8,000 Jews will soon But in 1940 it was a differ- schools in Algiers, Oran and Claims Against Germany. It is persecution targeting Jews. open in Marseille, Lyon and ent story. A Vichy government Constantine: 70 elementary NEW YORK (JTA)—Nearly the last settlement Germany It becomes a huge part of a other French cities in the census showed about 118,000 schools and five secondary 80 years after being per- will make with a large group person’s identity. The experi- next few weeks. The Paris Jews there, according to Wes- schools, he said, which were secuted by the Nazi-allied of Holocaust survivors, he ence during the war for so center will be open through ley Fisher, the Claims Confer- run by Jewish administrators Vichy French government, added, since it was the only many people defines them, April. After that, people will be ence’s director of research. but regulated by the Vichy some 25,000 elderly Algerian major population remaining is the seminal experience of able to apply by downloading They had been citizens of government, which did not Jews are being recognized for without that recognition. their lives. All these decades a form from the website and France since 1870. It was a permit the Jewish community the first time as Holocaust Each survivor approved it’s never been acknowledged.” mailing it in. community full of profession- to open its own university. survivors by the German will receive a hardship grant Israel had earlier recog- Some 4,000 surviving als and artists and writers. The Claims Conference has government. of 2,556 euros, the equivalent nized Algerian Jews as Ho- Algerian Jews live in Israel. The Algerian Jewish com- tried to keep this story under Algerian Jews had their of approximately $3,100. The locaust survivors. But the Since the Israeli government munity was the most as- wraps until now, in part to French citizenship stripped euro figure is the equivalent German government did not, keeps a registry of survivors, similated of any Muslim make sure a system was in in 1940 by the Vichy govern- of 5,000 Deutschmarks, a and not being acknowledged their addresses were available country, said Haim Saadoun, place to pay claimants directly ment, which then ruled the sum the Claims Conference as survivors has “undermined to the Claims Conference. a professor at Israel’s Open without them having to pay area. Nuremberg-like laws negotiated with the German their core sense of self, espe- Letters to them were mailed University and director of attorney’s fees. banned Jews from working as government in 1980. The cially when they see all the out on Sunday. The Documentation Center “On a communal level, we doctors, lawyers, teachers and money will be distributed other groups getting recog- The rest of the survivors of North African Jewry Dur- are unfortunately reaching in government. Children were beginning in July. nized,” Schneider said.” live in Francophone Canada, ing WWII. Though they were the time when the stories of kicked out of French schools. The youngest Algerian “It’s a psychological trau- mostly around Montreal, generally less religious than the Shoah pass from memory On Tuesday, 78 years after survivors, born in 1942, would ma. The validation and ac- according to the Claims Con- Jews in neighboring Morocco to history,” Schneider told they endured suffering that today be 76 years old. Most, knowledgment, for so many ference. Eventually they, and Tunisia, there were still JTA. “Germany recognizing left families penniless and however, are in their 80s and people that’s what this will too, will get assistance in hundreds of synagogues in the persecution is very impor- starving, and pariahs in their 90s, Schneider said. As im- stand for.” applying for the new German hundreds of cities, towns and tant for the historical record. own country, the Conference portant as the money is, even The Claims Conference has recognition. villages. It helps combat Holocaust on Material Claims Against more valuable is acknowledg- negotiated with the German The German government Anti-Semitism had been a denial. Fifty years from now, Germany will begin taking ment of their suffering, he told government for about five has spent nearly 75 billion strong force in Algeria since 100 years from now, it will be their applications for recogni- JTA in an interview from Paris, years to get this done, Schnei- euros, about $93 billion, on the late 19th century. It was much harder to refute. tion as survivors, making each where he was getting the Help der told JTA. Being recognized compensation and restitu- far worse even than in France “In the 1930s and ‘40s, eligible for a one-time “hard- Center set up. as victims of the Holocaust tion to Holocaust survivors during the Dreyfus Affair, said Jews were abandoned by their ship grant” and additional “They weren’t murdered,” now entitles survivors to so- between 1953 and 2016, the Saadoun. towns, their friends, society services like food vouchers Schneider said, “but there cial services like home care, most recent year for which Despite that, Jewish life and even the Jewish commu- and in-home care. were lots of deprivations” food and transportation to there is a record, according was vibrant. Jews, he said in nities” in other places, he said. “For the first time they’re under the anti-Semitic Vichy doctor appointments in local to figures provided by Martin an interview, “were part of all “We will never do that again. being recognized as Nazi vic- laws. communities funded through Chaudhuri, a spokesman for the political life, the artistic “Even though it’s 70 years tims by the German govern- “There weren’t extermina- the Claims Conference. the German Finance Ministry. life, in music, they were very later, we’re still fighting. I wish ment,” said Greg Schneider, tion camps in Algeria, but a The vast majority of people Chaudhuri confirmed the involved in French and in it had been sooner.” Everyone loved this French-Muslim singer’s Leonard Cohen cover—Then they read her Facebook posts seeming to embody the values The same year, one day ing,” Ayari wrote Tuesday on with his televised plea for co- of coexistence and tolerance after a jihadist terrorist attack Twitter about Ibtissem. existence and acceptance, was in a country with a notorious in Nice in which 86 people The debate about Ibtissem found to have called in the past integration problem. died, she seemed to peddle comes on the heels of a similar for a genocide against Jews. But in a repeat of recent a popular conspiracy theory brouhaha surrounding the “Hitler was nothing com- scandals involving ambas- that Muslims are being framed hiring by the French cosmet- pared to the Israelis. Someone sadors for diversity in Eu- for false-flag attacks. ics firm L’Oreal of a British would have to finish his work rope, Ibtissem’s social media “It’s becoming a routine: Muslim woman to model a 60 years ago,” he wrote on activity showed a different An attack each week!! And line of hair products. Twitter in 2014, adding, “Only side of her—one that spread sure enough, the ‘terrorist’ Initially celebrated as a answer to Israel is total exter- pro-Palestinian propaganda, takes with him his iden- milestone for diversity, Amena mination, annihilate the cock- conspiracy theories and accu- tity CARD. Of course, when Khan’s contract fell apart fol- roaches #1945 #WeHateIsrael.” sations that the French state, planning a dirty you always lowing the discovery of state- Coming from a “Voice” not jihadists, is responsible for take papers! #DontTakeUs- ments she wrote about Israel. favorite—the panel of judges terrorism. ForFools,” she wrote on In 2014 she tweeted that the unanimously celebrated her It was that last remark, Facebook. country is an “illegal and performance of the Cohen posted by the 23-year-old In a separate post in sinister state.” She also labeled song as “moving” and “sin- singer on social media in 2016, Ibtissem said her coun- Israel a “child murderer” that cere”—Ibtissem’s past re- 2016, that prompted the TF1 try has “a shitty society,” that Allah will ultimately defeat. marks hit a sour note for television network to consider she is “sick of the French In September, L’Oreal many in France, not least for disqualifying Ibtissem from system” and that she’s “eager dropped the British model, relatives of the Nice victims. the show. to get the hell out of here.” DJ and transgender activ- The National Bureau for “We cannot keep on the Henda Ayari, a French ist Munroe Bergdorf for racist Vigilance Against Anti-Sem- show a person who made il- feminist and author who grew comments against white peo- itism, or BNVCA, joined many legal statements,” a network up in a Muslim family, said ple. Following last year’s far- other anti-racism groups in Mennel Ibtissem performing “Hallelujah” on France’s spokesman told television L’Affaire Mennel indicates right rally in Charlottesville, condemning Ibtissem and version of “The Voice.” host and journalist Jean-Marc an eagerness in the French Virginia, Bergdorf said that demanding she be taken off Morandini on Tuesday. media and beyond to seek the “All white people are racist,” the air. By Cnaan Liphshiz The blue-eyed Muslim In her 2016 remarks Ibtis- semblance of tolerance rather adding, “Honestly I don’t have “The candidate’s beauty woman sang Arabic and sem, the show’s first con- than the real thing. the energy to talk about the and charm, her talent, must (JTA)—In a deeply divided French-language renditions tender to perform while wear- “Wearing a veil does not racial violence of white people not in any way serve as a nation that is still reeling from of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelu- ing a Muslim head covering, make one a saint, modesty any more. Yes ALL white pretext for the television a toxic presidential election jah” on national television in wrote following the murder needs no veil, beauty needs people.” channel,” the organization last spring, as well as jihadist France while wearing a head of a priest in Saint-Etienne- no pretty face to shine, ex- In February, a Muslim said in a statement. “Mennel and racist attacks, Mennel Ib- cover. She was a favorite on du Rouvray by an Islamist ternal beauty does not mean baker in the Netherlands, cannot serve as a role model tissem’s performances offered the French edition of “The that “the real terrorist[s] are internal one. Never rely on Rachid el Hajoui, who moved a rare vision of hope. Voice” talent and reality show, our government.” appearances, they’re deceiv- many viewers in his country Ibtissem on page 13A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 16, 2018 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA Republican Jewish White House: Netan- Each year the Wolf Founda- mon in some African Muslim company for violating laws progress toward a negotiated Coalition chairman yahu’s claim of US- tion awards $100,000 prizes communities. against sexual harassment peaceful resolution of the says its members are Israel talks on annexing in five fields. More than 30 “We hope to bring aware- and sexual abuse. Israeli-Palestinian conflict ‘thrilled’ with Trump settlements is ‘false’ winners have gone on to ness of the relevance and The lawsuit could harm would render a cut-off of (JTA)—The chairman of WASHINGTON (JTA)—The receive the Nobel Prize. importance of brit milah,” a deal to sell the Weinstein US assistance all the more the Republican Jewish Co- White House denied Israeli The announcement called the rabbi told JTA, using the Company, which had been dangerous. Deliberately ex- alition said its members are Prime Minister Benjamin Ne- McCartney “one of the great- Hebrew-language word for expected to be finalized on acerbating the hardship “thrilled” about the perfor- tanyahu’s reported claim that est songwriters of all time. Jewish ritual circumcision, Sunday, and push the com- of the Palestinian people mance of President Donald the United States and Israel His versatility underlies an which is typically performed pany toward bankruptcy, The and reducing the ability of Trump, especially with his are discussing the annexation extraordinary wingspan, from on boys when they are eight New York Times reported. their government to func- approach to the Middle East. of West Bank settlements. the most physical rock to days old. “We hope to bring The lawsuit filed in New tion would only contribute “I think they’re feeling “Reports that the United melodies of haunting and this awareness to local Ice- York State Supreme Court to the benefit of those who thrilled,” said former Min- States discussed with Israel heartbreaking intimacy. His landic people and especially to on Sunday includes “new and reject engagement. Extrem- nesota Sen. Norm Coleman in an annexation plan for the lyrics have an equally broad lawmakers in their decision on extensive allegations about ist and anti-Israel groups an interview with McClatchy West Bank are false,” White range, from the naive and rules, which we hope will have longtime company CEO Har- would be all too eager to fill at the weekend’s annual RJC House spokesman Josh Raffel the charming to the poignant a religious exemption clause.” vey Weinstein’s vicious and in the vacuum, deepening leadership conference in Las said in an email to JTA. “The and even desperate. He has Feldman and his wife exploitative mistreatment of their hold in the region and Vegas. “If you look at the United States and Israel touched the hearts of the visited Iceland in December company employees,” the of- expanding their destructive change of what has happened have never discussed such a entire world, both as a Beatle and organized a Hanukkah fice of state Attorney General influence on the prospects with Israel, in terms of mov- proposal, and the president’s and in his subsequent bands, celebration for the commu- Eric Schneiderman said in a for a peaceful resolution of ing the capital to Jerusalem, focus remains squarely on including Wings. nity, which is made up of some statement. the conflict.” the tough approach to Iran, his Israeli-Palestinian peace McCartney shares the prize locals and Jewish expatriates It follows a four-month Reps. Peter Welch of Flor- holding the U.N. finally ac- initiative.” with conductor Adam Fisch- from the United States and investigation that included ida and David Price of North countable... I think there’s a The statement was unusu- er, who the prize committee Israel. The couple hopes to interviews with multiple Carolina circulated the letter. great deal of enthusiasm in ally forceful for a White House called an “eloquent defender set up an educational frame- company employees, ex- J Street, the liberal Middle the center-right, pro-Israel that enjoys a close relationship of human rights,” particu- work for Jewish children, a ecutives and survivors of East policy group, rallied community about President with the Israeli government. larly “his protest against the synagogue and a mikvah, or Harvey Weinstein’s sexual lawmakers to sign the letter. Trump.” Hours earlier, Netanyahu political developments in his Jewish ritual bath, none of misconduct. Israel has ‘absolute The McClatchy reporter had told the Likud faction native Hungary.” which exist in Iceland, a na- Executives of The Wein- right to defend itself,’ noted that in March 2016, in the Knesset that he was Seven other prizes also tion of some 300,000 people. stein Company “repeatedly US Defense Secretary Coleman wrote an op-ed in “historic” talks with the were announced in the fields A Chabad spokesman said failed to take meaningful James Mattis says titled “I will never vote for Trump administration about of mathematics, chemistry, Reykjavík is one of only a steps to protect company (JTA)—U.S. Defense Sec- Donald Trump” in which he annexing settlements. Netan- physics and agriculture. handful of European capital employees or curb Harvey retary James Mattis defended called the then-presidential yahu delivered the remarks in According to the Wolf cities without a synagogue. Weinstein’s misconduct,” the Israeli airstrikes in Syria. candidate “A bigot. A misogy- a bid to stave off individual Prize, the prizes will be The absence of infrastruc- lawsuit alleges. “Israel has an absolute nist. A fraud. A bully.” Knesset members from ad- presented to the winners by ture for Jewish communities The civil rights lawsuit right to defend itself, and I Reminded about the op- vancing bills to annex the Rivlin at a special ceremony can be seen as “a challenge,” calls for the defendants to pay think that’s what happened ed, Coleman replied, “There settlements, saying that such to be held at the Knesset in the rabbi said, “but it’s also restitution and damages to yesterday,” Mattis told re- are things I agree with the a bill should be government Jerusalem, at the end of May. a tremendous opportunity, the victims, something that porters before leaving on a president on, things I dis- initiated and be timed to The Associated Press report- to set up a living breathing was not provided within the European trip on Sunday. agree with. When it comes solidify U.S. support for an- ed that the prize foundation community.” framework of the sale of the The Israeli Air Force to Middle East policy, when nexation. had notified McCartney rep- Notwithstanding, local company. downed an Iranian drone it comes to what he’s doing in Within minutes of Raffel resentatives of the prize, but Jews have celebrated holi- Half of House Demo- in airspace over northern Iran, absolutely I’m thrilled releasing his statement, Ne- that it was not immediately days in Iceland also without crats urge Trump to Israel on Saturday morning, he’s doing it, I’m thrilled tanyahu’s office sent a mes- known if the former Beatle a resident rabbi, often with preserve funding for and followed the infiltration he’s here.” sage to Israeli reporters that would attend the ceremony. help from yeshiva students UN’s Palestinian relief by attacking 12 targets in The annual gathering took did not quite walk back his McCartney has appeared and Chabad rabbis who came agency Syria, including three aerial place at the Venetian/Palazzo earlier remarks, but that once in Israel, for a concert there especially to celebrate (JTA)—Some 102 Demo- defense batteries and four Hotel, owned by one of the noted that President Donald for over 50,000 fans in Tel the dates, Feldman said, call- cratic congressmen sent a Iranian targets that are part RJC’s and Republican Party’s Trump remained committed Aviv’s Yarkon Park in 2008. ing this “inspiring and very letter to President Donald of Iran’s military establish- main benefactors, Sheldon to reviving the peace talks. Iceland is getting its special.” Trump calling on him to ment in Syria. Adelson, who was in Israel “Prime Minister Benja- first resident rabbi in Despite the decades-long continue funding for U.N.’s Mattis told reporters that for a friend’s funeral and did min Netanyahu updated the decades ban on ritual slaughter in Palestinian relief agency. the United States was not not attend. Americans about initiatives (JTA)—The Chabad move- Iceland, “the country actu- The State Department last involved in supporting the While others at the event arising in the Knesset and ment is sending a rabbi and ally has a lot more kosher month announced that it had airstrikes, but he pointed a were similarly enthusiastic the Americans expressed his wife to Iceland, an island products than many people put a hold on $65 million of finger at Iran. about Trump’s Middle East their unequivocal position nation with 250 Jews where realize,” Feldman said. This the $125 million annual al- “It is interesting that policies, McClatchy noted that they are committed to ritual slaughter of animals is because the island depends location to the United Nations everywhere we find trouble mixed feelings among the advancing President Trump’s is illegal and circumcision is on imports from Europe and Relief and Works Agency for in the Middle East, you find RJC membership. peace plan,” the WhatsApp likely to be outlawed as well. the United States, “so this Palestine Refugees in the the same thing behind it. “For center-right Jews message said. Rabbi Avi Feldman, 27, of means you can find products Near East, which distributes Whether it be in Yemen or such as myself, that’s been Trump has suggested that Brooklyn, New York, and his with a kosher label in your its assistance in the Gaza Beirut, or in Syria, in Iraq, the problem, is that on cer- Israel would have to com- Sweden-born wife Mushky, average minimarket.” Strip and the West Bank, as you always find Iran en- tain things he’s been overall promise on settlements and are slated to settle with their Mushky Feldman, who well as to refugee camps in gaged,” Mattis said. positive—on the U.S.-Israel has cautioned Israel against two daughters in Reykjavík, grew up in Gothenburg, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. “So when Syria, which has relationship, no question he’s radically altering the current the world’s northernmost Sweden, said she looked for- Days later, the State Depart- made no—has not hidden at better than Obama,” said status of the settlements. capital city, later this year, ward to “bringing the light of ment announced that a $45 all, made no excuse for what Noam Neusner, who served Trump’s son-in-law, Jared the couple told JTA last week. Judaism to one of the world’s million payment pledged for they’re doing alongside Iran, as a speechwriter for Presi- Kushner, is spearheading the The country is not known darkest places,” a reference the UNRWA food aid program when they are providing dent George W. Bush. “But bid to restart the peace talks. to have had a resident rabbi to how Reykjavík in January would also be held up. throughput for Iran to give on so many aspects of how The Palestinians in December servicing an active Jewish enjoys only 4 1/25 hours of According to UNRWA, the weapons, including more he’s handled the presidency, retreated from the “talks to community there since 1918, daylight. “But sunrise comes United States provided more sophisticated weapons, to how he’s conducted himself, start the talks” after Trump the year it gained indepen- after 11 a.m., so that means than $350 million in aid to the Lebanese Hezbollah, perhaps certain issues of recognized Jerusalem as dence from what was then we’ll get to see the sunrise the organization in 2017. Israeli has an absolute right leadership, fitness—it’s been Israel’s capital. the Kingdom of Denmark. every day.” she noted. In the “Continuing to freeze to defend themselves. They a challenge.” Paul McCartney wins The announcement closely summer, Reykjavík has days this aid will harm American don’t have to wait until their Trump has recognized Israel’s prestigious Wolf followed news last month that with 18 hours of daylight. interests by exacerbating the citizens are dying under Jerusalem as Israel’s capital Prize lawmakers from four political The Feldmans said they threats facing both peoples attack before they actually and made plans to move the JERUSALEM (JTA)—Paul parties in Iceland submitted a will travel to Reykjavík next and reducing the United address that issue.” U.S. Embassy to the city McCartney is one of nine lau- bill proposing to outlaw non- month to organize a Passover States’ ability to help the Is- Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary from Tel Aviv. He also has reates announced for Israel’s medical circumcision of boys seder. raelis and Palestinians reach of State Rex Tillerson arrived declined to certify the Iran prestigious Wolf Prize. younger than 18 and equates State of New York sues a two-state solution,” said the in Egypt on Sunday, part nuclear deal and pulled the McCartney is one of two re- that practice, common among Harvey Weinstein letter sent Thursday signed by of a five-nation visit to the United States out of the cipients of the 2018 Wolf Prize Jews and Muslims, with fe- (JTA)—The state of New more than half of the House Middle East that does not United Nations’ economic in Music, Israel’s President male genital mutilation—the York has filed a lawsuit Democratic Caucus. include Israel. Tillerson also and cultural agency over its Reuven Rivlin announced custom of removing parts of against Harvey Weinstein, his “The deterioration in the is scheduled to visit Kuwait, anti-Israel bias. Monday. a girl’s clitoris, which is com- brother and their production near-term prospects for Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.

Ibtissem From page 12A Reacting to the contro- “I love my country, and But her Arabic-language The verse was written an unsigned op-ed, wrote that versy Ibtissem, an English of course I wholeheartedly rendition of Cohen’s song years ago by a singer from the altered version went to for uninformed fans. She is teacher in training who was condemn terrorism, which shows she took some artistic Kuwait, Muhamad Al Hus- the heart of the controversy not a good role model, she born in France to a Syrian fa- was the reason for my fury: licenses with that message, sayn, who is known for set- surrounding Ibtissem. is not a good choice, she is ther and an Algerian mother, How can you imagine that according to the Tribune ting Islamic proselytizing “To the uninitiated French dangerous.” wrote on Facebook that her I would defend the indefen- Juive weekly. Whereas the lyrics to Western pop melo- public, Mennel began to sing BNVCA also noted a 2015 statements about terrorism sible!” Ibtissem wrote. French-language translation dies. It exchanges Cohen’s a poetic story drawing on video of a song she wrote and had been “taken out of con- She said her message is one of the song’s first verse was iconoclastic musings about Psalms and King David, who performed titled “Smile Pal- text” and “do not reflect any of “love, of peace and toler- faithful to the English origin, King David’s lust for Bath- ruled a Jewish kingdom in estine,” in which she sings of of my views.” ance and the proof of this is Ibtissem proceeded to sing in sheba and female sexuality Jerusalem,” the op-ed read. “a life of despair” for the Pal- She did not attempt to re- to sing Hallelujah by Leonard Arabic a verse that stripped with the story of a man who “But to her many followers estinians amid “slaughter of contextualize her remarks, Cohen, a song that illustrates away its sensual language was “surrounded by dark- who speak Arabic, this artist mothers, fathers, little sisters but added that she was born perfectly the message that I and unmistakably sexual ness” until he found God. had a very different religious and little brothers.” in France. wish to express as an artist.” allusions. A Tribune Juive author, in message.” PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 16, 2018 Poland isn’t the only country trying to police what can be said about the Holocaust

By Cnaan Liphshiz against Holocaust revision many in the former Soviet opposition leader. Citing his in Ukraine. “I wish we had; Union blame on Jewish com- credentials as the son of a (JTA)—In 2015, Ukraine’s maybe this law could have munists. Holocaust survivor, Lapid said president signed a law whose been stopped in Ukraine.” In 2010 Lithuania—a coun- the Polish law is designed to critics say stifles debate on To activists like Dolinsky, try where Nazi collaborators hide how Poland was “a part- the historical record of World the singling out of Poland virtually wiped out a Jewish ner in the Holocaust.” War II and whitewashes reflects the ongoing politici- community of 250,000— Jewish organizations, in- local perpetrators of the zation of the debate on East- amended its criminal code, cluding the Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust. ern Europe’s bloody World prescribing up to two years in Center, said for their part that Law 2538-1 criminalized War II history. They say the jail to anyone who “denies or they understand the Polish any rhetoric insulting to the conversation is distorted by grossly underestimates” the frustration with terms like memory of anti-communist geopolitical tensions involv- crime of genocide or “other “Polish death camps,” which partisans. And it celebrates ing Russia, populism, igno- crimes against humanity or seem to shift the blame for the legacy of such combat- rance and unresolved national war crimes committed by Nazi war crimes to Poland— ants—ostensibly including traumas. the USSR or Nazi Germany one of the few Nazi-occupied Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images the ones who murdered count- There are clear similari- against Lithuanian residents.” countries where the Nazis Polish President Andrzej Duda (l) nominating Mateusz less Jewish and Polish citizens ties between the Ukrainian Similar legislation in Latvia did not allow any measure of Morawiecki to be the prime minister at the presidential palace while collaborating with Nazi and Polish laws, according from 2014 imposes up to five self-rule or integrate locals in Warsaw, Dec. 11, 2017. Both support the controversial Germany. to Alex Ryvchin, a Kiev-born years in jail for those who deny into the genocide. law on the term “Polish death camps.” The law generated some Australian-Jewish journalist the role of “the foreign powers And the term is especially backlash, including an open and author who has written that have perpetrated crimes offensive in Poland, where the Holocaust distortion there. der of 35,000 to 50,000 Jews in letter by more than 70 his- about the politics of memory against Latvia and the Latvian Nazis killed at least 1.9 million The singling out of Poland a series of pogroms between torians who said it “contra- in Eastern Europe. nation,” without mentioning non-Jews in addition to at least and Hungary, he said, is “not 1918 and 1921, when Petliura dicts the right to freedom of “Both seek to use the le- the involvement of Latvian 3 million Jews. least because the issues of the was head of the Ukrainian speech,” ignores complicity gitimacy and force of law to SS volunteers in murdering But, many Jewish groups Holocaust, anti-Semitism and People’s Republic. in the Holocaust and would enshrine an official narrative nearly all of the country’s added, the legislation in Po- restrictions on democratic “There is less willingness “damage Ukraine’s national of victimhood, heroism and 70,000 Jews. land ignores how many Poles expression in these countries to speak out on Ukraine security.” righteousness while crimi- The denial of local culpa- betrayed or killed Jews and have never been perceived in media, in the scientific But as with similar mea- nalizing public discussion of bility during the Holocaust is therefore detrimental to primarily through the same community and in Western sures in Europe’s ex-commu- historical truths that con- is at the root of opposition the preservation of historical binary lens of pro-and anti- governments, so it seems,” nist nations, the Ukraine law tradict or undermine these to Poland’s law, which sets record and free speech. Putin.” Dolinsky said. generated little opposition or narratives,” he said. Yet, he a maximum of six years in Dolinsky in Ukraine isn’t a Under that alleged cover But this alleged turning of even attention internation- noted, “The reaction to the jail for “whoever accuses, fan of the Polish legislation, of silence, in Ukraine and a blind eye, he added, is a dis- ally—especially when com- Polish law has indeed dwarfed publicly and against the facts, either. the Baltic countries there is service. “Ukraine needs to join pared to the loud objections the response to persistent the Polish nation or the Polish “But I don’t quite under- a rapid lifting on taboos that Europe as a civilized member to a similar measure in Poland state revisionism elsewhere state of being responsible or stand why it and only it pro- had been in place for decades of that family of nations. And that was signed into law on in Europe in spite of the fact complicit in the Nazi crimes voked such a strong reaction,” on the honoring of war for that to happen, it needs Tuesday by the president. The that the rate of collaboration committed by the Third he added. “We needed that criminals, even including SS to speak honestly and openly law had passed both houses of was generally lower in Poland Reich” or ”grossly dimin- strong reaction two years ago volunteers who enthusiasti- about its history,” he said. parliament in recent days. The than in Ukraine and Latvia.” ishes the responsibility of in Ukraine. This fight needs to cally participated in the mass To Ryvchin, the Australian United States and Israel joined The Baltic nations of Lithu- the actual perpetrators.” On apply to all these cases. For killings of Jews and Poles. author, the “particularly historians and Israel’s Yad ania and Latvia were pioneers Tuesday, President Andrzej the pressure to be effective, it Largely ignored by the forceful reaction to the Polish Vashem Holocaust authority in nationalist legislation that Duda said he would sign the shouldn’t be selective.” international media, Latvian law is likely because Poland in decrying the bill. limits discourse about the laws (which he did later in Dolinsky believes that President Raimonds Vejonis is seen as the epicenter of “The Ukrainian and Pol- Holocaust in their territories. the day), finalizing them, but Ukraine—which, unlike Po- last week gave the final ap- the Holocaust,” he said. The ish laws are similar, but in Critics say these laws also shift also refer them for review by land, shares a border with proval for a law that offers Germans built extermination Ukraine’s case we didn’t see the blame for the murder of Poland’s highest court. Russia—is getting a free financial benefits to all World camps only in Poland, accord- anything even close” to the Jews, which was done with Israeli Prime Minister Ben- pass from the West because War II veterans—including ing to Holocaust historian avalanche of condemnations local helpers, to Nazi Ger- jamin Netanyahu, who in the it is subjected to hostility SS volunteers who murdered Efraim Zuroff. that Poland received, said Ed- many alone. They also seem past has been criticized for from Russia under President Jews. Latvia is the only coun- “Any attempt to distort or uard Dolinsky, director of the to equate the Nazi genocide not calling out his country’s Vladimir Putin. try in the world known to disguise what happened in Ukrainian Jewish Committee with political repression by Eastern European allies on In 2014, Russia annexed have an annual march by SS Poland is seen as a particu- and a longtime campaigner the Soviet Union—which these issues, called the Pol- Crimea from Ukraine amid veterans, which takes place larly egregious attack on the ish legislation “baseless” and ongoing psychological war- with the approval of authori- history of the Holocaust and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 said Israel opposed it The U.S. fare against the Baltic nations, ties’ on the country’s national the memories of the dead,” S A G A D A Y A N U R S A State Department in a state- often involving the deploy- day in the center of its capital, Ryvchin said. 14 15 16 E R O S I N I G O N E T S ment suggested it could have ment of Russia’s mighty army sometimes with mainstream Ironically, Poland is per- 17 18 19 “repercussions” for bilateral around those countries in politicians in attendance. haps singled out for criticism W A S H I N G T O N R B I S relations with Poland. blunt loudspeaker diplomacy. Last year, the municipality because of the country’s vocal 20 21 22 23 S B S D E E R U S A B L E Israeli Education Minister “There is a lot of Russopho- of Kalush near Lviv in Ukraine civil society and the lively 24 25 26 27 Naftali Bennett’s scheduled bic sentiment worldwide and decided to name a street for debate it is generating over I L L R O O S E V E L T visit to Poland this week it means international silence Dmytro Paliiv, a commander the politics of memory, Katz 28 29 30 31 P A P A Y A N E V E was canceled after he criti- on countries with a conflict of the 14th Waffen Grenadier suggested. 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 cized the law, which Israel’s with Russia,” said Joseph Division of the SS, also known Even today, he said, Po- A R E S B I B I E L W A Y embassy in Poland said was Koren, chairman of the Latvia as the 1st Galician. land and Hungary “have 40 41 42 43 I E R L I N C O L N H B O generating anti-Semitic hate Without Nazism group. Ukraine’s state television robust liberal movements that 44 45 46 47 speech in the media. “Poland and Hungary observed a moment of silence themselves counter official L A S S O C E N T P O E M Back in Israel, the Polish are in a different category,” for the first time last year for government policy on many 48 49 50 51 O R C A D R I L L S Embassy condemned what agreed Dovid Katz, a scholar Symon Petliura, a nationalist issues—unlike the Baltics, 52 53 54 55 56 57 it called ignorant remarks of Yiddish in Lithuania and killed by a Jewish communist where dissent is often quashed J E F F E R S O N U S E by Yair Lapid, a prominent longtime campaigner against for Petliura’s role in the mur- using the full force of the law.” 58 59 60 61 62 63 A R I A N A G O E S S A G 64 65 66 67 K O T B M T R U S H M O R E 68 69 70 E D I E E G E S T G M A N PACE to Palestinians—stop funding terror 71 72 73 S E N D R I S E S M E M E By United with Israel ration of its president on financial payments. The more $300 million annually on Jerusalem.” Israelis killed and the longer terrorists’ stipends, totaling A Knesset delegation to Palestinian Authority (PA) the terrorist is sentenced to approximately $1 billion over the Parliamentary Assembly leadership is refusing to re- prison, the higher the PA the past few years. At the same of the Council of Europe was turn to the negotiating table payment to the terrorist or time, the PA receives massive successful in softening the completely and has repeatedly their family. international aid and exists on language of a resolution de- announced it will reject any For instance, a Palestin- the verge of bankruptcy. nouncing the US’ recognition peace plan proposed by the ian terrorist who murders In addition to adding the of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital Trump administration. innocent civilians and is clause demanding Palestin- and Israeli construction in the The head of the Israeli del- sentenced to over 30 years in ians stop incentivizing terror, “occupied territories,” while egation, Member of Knesset prison receives over $3,000 the Israeli delegation thwart- successfully pushing it to call Aliza Lavie, succeeded in add- US dollars a month. ed a Palestinian initiative to on the Palestinians to cease ing to the final draft a clause Palestinian terrorist pris- add five clauses to the final their practice of financially in which, for the first time, oners are regarded by the PA draft that condemn Israel. incentivizing Palestinian the Council of Europe called as patriotic “fighters” and as Since Israel has only observer terrorists. on the PA to stop providing employees of the PA govern- status at the council’s Parlia- The final resolution, sub- financial support to prisoners ment. While in prison, these mentary Assembly, the Israeli mitted to PACE’s Committee convicted of terror acts and to terrorists and their families delegation recruited the sup- on Political Affairs and De- their families. The resolution are paid premium salaries port of MPs from a number of mocracy at the initiative of was adopted on Thursday with and given extra benefits as European countries. Palestinian delegates, states a vast majority. rewards for their “service.” Following the vote, Lavie that “the role of the USA as According to PA laws and On release from custody, the said, “The obsession of the a serious broker in the peace regulations, every terrorist terrorists become civil service European institutions with process was undoubtedly arrested, tried and imprisoned employees. undermined by the decla- in Israel receives monthly The PA spends at least PACE on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 16, 2018 PAGE 15A the weekend that will focus place in life. Additionally, the International Conven- weekend unlike any other, desire for action cultivated BBYO on empowering and energiz- conference will showcase the tion will also be home to a as teens gather in Orlando here to future endeavors.” From page 1A ing teens to partner with diversity of the BBYO com- gathering of “Movements to interact with diverse For those unable to at- each other to bring new ideas munity, with 235 delegates and Shakers,” sponsored and compelling leaders tend IC 2018, BBYO will be vital need and incredible op- to fruition, including nearly from 36 countries attending by BBYO, NCSY, NFTY, USY they would not have access livestreaming select ses- portunity for young people 60 direct service projects the iconic event. For the and Young Judaea. This to anywhere else,” said sions on Facebook Live. to unite communities of all and leadership labs at sites first time, delegates from conference of more than Matthew Grossman, Chief Livestreaming will be accessi- faiths, races and cultures throughout the Orlando Australia, China, Colombia, 100 professionals and vol- Executive Officer of BBYO. ble on BBYO’s Facebook page, toward shaping a stronger, area. The programming Mexico and Spain will join unteers will meet to explore “Participants are going to and videos will later be posted fairer and more democratic will also spotlight inspir- the conference, enhancing collaboration opportunities leave with a great deal to on BBYO’s YouTube channel. society for all people. ing stories from speakers BBYO’s celebration of Jewish around reaching and inspir- think about, and our expec- Schedules for streaming will IC 2018 will offer a range who took an unlikely path culture in a way that only ing Jewish teens. tation is that they’ll bring be posted on BBYO’s Interna- of programming throughout to their current work and BBYO is poised to do. “This is going to be a the spirit of creativity and tional Convention event page.

Pulse From page 1A Event organizer, Debra the practice of journalism at has also testified before the Accelerated Psychology, a many survivors around the Corso, will moderate the dis- Georgetown University, she U.S. Senate Committee on clinic in Beverly Hills that world, including survivors of pen. What was the mindset of cussion. Corso and her family is co-director of the Pearl Homeland Security, and has integrates neuropsychology the 9/11 attacks, Iranian refu- the perpetrator of this vicious had a personal connection to Project, a faculty-student, appeared on Real Time with and clinical psychology to gees, sexual abuse victims, murdering spree? Will there the attack at Pulse, and she investigative-reporting proj- Bill Maher. help traumatized people. Dr. and traumatized Palestinian be more of these attacks in is now a community activist, ect into the kidnapping Yasmine Mohammed is Peter is a former associate and Israelis. the future? devoted to ending extremism and murder of her former an Arab-Canadian college professor of psychology and Debra Corso, the event’s Asra Q. Nomani, Yasmine and religiously sanctioned colleague, Wall Street Jour- instructor, activist, podcaster director of the Graduate Psy- organizer, is a yoga instructor, Mohammed, and Orli Peter, hatred and violence. nal reporter Daniel Pearl. and writer who has written chology Programs at Mount living in Central Florida and is Ph.D. have each been per- Meet the panelists... She is a cofounder of the a memoir, “From Al Qaeda St. Mary’s University. She also the panel’s local speaker. She sonally affected by violence, Asra Q. Nomani is a former Muslim Reform Movement, to Atheism.” Mohammed’s assisted in terrorism research led workshops and retreats at understand this essential Wall Street Journal reporter which advocates for an in- message is one of hope to fel- at Rand Corporation. Her home and abroad for nearly principle and have joined and the author of two books, terpretation of Islam that low ex-Muslims, atheists and experiences as the daughter 15 years. hands and hearts to begin including “Standing Alone: promotes peace, secular gov- freethinkers. of a Holocaust survivor and The cost for the event is a candid and courageous An American Woman’s ernance and human rights, Orli Peter, Ph.D. is a neu- as a trauma survivor inspired $10; free for Heritage readers conversation on healing after Struggle for the Soul of including rights for women, ropsychologist and clinical her to research, teach, and or if you mention Chris Hart, trauma. Islam.” A former scholar in LGBTQ and atheists. Nomani psychologist who directs provide treatments for the radio commentator. Debate From page 3A over 10 years ago by the pres- deaths of “millions of Jews” shirts with the inscription “I Miedlar is associated with prosecutor’s office for selling sure of Jewish organizations,” in Poland. am not sorry for Jedwabne.” Polish nationalists and last the shirts. massacre of hundreds of Jews he wrote on Facebook. The Nazis often forced Jews Counterprotesters chanted year was indicted in the west- “In my worst nightmares by their non-Jewish Polish Ziemkiewicz said the exhu- to police the ghettos, usually the slogan during an anti- ern Poland city of Wroclaw I never expected to hear neighbors. The controversial mation could provide evidence under threat of death. racism march in Bialystock in for “public incitement to jokes about Auschwitz, plan was proposed in 2014 in that the crime “was commit- Surmacz is the author of 2011. Two years later a court hatred based on religious and Jews and gas chambers on an effort to provide conclusive ted by the Germans.” a 2013 Forbes article accus- said the chant was incitement national differences.” In 2016 state-owned television,” forensic evidence about the The head of the Polish Press ing Polish Jewish leaders of to hatred and sentenced those he gave a speech in which he Piotr Kadlcik, a prominent massacre. Agency, Wojciech Surmacz, personally benefiting from counterprotesters to prison called for hatred against Jews Warsaw Jewish leader, told “Since we already have a also blamed Jews for the the restitution of prewar terms of six to 10 months, and Ukrainians. JTA. “I sincerely hope that war, I appeal to the Institute deaths of other Jews during property. Forbes later apolo- which were suspended. Their Michał Szczerba, a mem- the Polish president will veto of National Remembrance the Holocaust, sharing on gized. lawyer said that “research ber of the parliament from this law and we will be able to to take this opportunity to Twitter a photo of Jewish Also last week, a former shows that nearly 50 percent the opposition Platforma start the process of putting finally make exhumation in ghetto police. He said the priest, Jacek Miedlar, began Poles do not want to apologize Obywatelska party, said he back together Polish-Jewish Jedwabne, blocked effectively police were responsible for the producing T-shirts and sweat- for Jedwabne.” would report Miedlar to the relations.” Israel From page 4A support deporting the illegal the government’s intention forefront of the fight to force Second, as Israel’s current Green quoted Elliot Vaisrub migrants. Only 23 percent to deport the illegal migrants. Israel to naturalize its African situation indicates, cham- Glassenberg, an American the U.S. demanding amnesty disagreed with the govern- He likened the situation in Is- migrants. Currently, the NIF pions of illegal immigration immigration activist working for illegal aliens in America. ment’s policy. The rest had rael to the situation in the U.S. is underwriting at least six have no intention of making in Israel. Israeli opponents of am- no opinion. with the so-called “Dreamers” different groups in Israel to any deal. They are not fight- Vasirub Glassenberg ex- nesty for African migrants But Israel’s far left has (children brought illegally prevent the enforcement of ing for illegal aliens because plained, “For American Jews, are not simply reviled as rac- never been moved by public to America as minors), and Israel’s immigration laws and they want to make the world what is the number one thing ists, however. Over the past opinion. Backed by wealthy insinuated that Israel, and government decisions. a better place. They are cham- that it means to be Jewish: Tik- two weeks, leftist pressure liberal American Jewish Americans who oppose am- In an open letter, NIF CEO pioning their cause because kun olam: Working for a more groups and activists have organizations including the nesty for Dreamers, are racist. Daniel Sokatch told support- they want to make Israel a ethical world. But when you equated amnesty opponents Anti-Defamation League, (Before joining the ADL in ers that the group is support- different place. And since most asked Israelis what it means to Nazis. the Hebrew Immigrant Aid 2015, Greenblatt worked in ing the campaign to block the Israelis like Israel the way it is, to be Jewish they answer, Africans who enter Israeli Society, the Reform Move- the Obama White House un- deportations “financially and there is no common ground ‘Well, I’m Jewish. This is my illegally in search of work are ment’s Religious Action der President Barack Obama’s with expert advice.” to be found. identity.’” equated to Jews in Europe Center, J-Street, T’ruah, senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, For Americans interested Which brings us back to Originally published in during Holocaust desperate and the New Israel Fund, directing the Office of Social in finding solutions to the Green’s article in the Atlantic. Breitbart.com. to escape the Nazis. the Israeli far left responded Innovation and Civil Partici- illegal immigration crisis in Green noted that at the end Caroline Glick is the The Israeli public sup- with rage and slander to the pation.) the U.S., Israel’s experience of the day, the dispute about senior Middle East Fellow ports deporting the illegal law and the government’s The New Israel Fund, a radi- is instructive on two counts. illegal immigration in Israel is at the Center for Security migrants—by a huge margin. decision. cal American Jewish group First, border security really a fight between Israelis Policy in Washington, DC, A poll of Israeli Jews published Speaking at a conference that spends millions of dollars works. The combination of and liberal American Jews, the deputy managing editor this week by the mass circula- in Tel Aviv Wednesday, Anti- every year in Israel funding legislation and the border wall who make up the majority of The Jerusalem Post and tion daily Israel Hayom found Defamation League Director radical leftist and Palestin- ended infiltration by illegals of the pro-illegal immigrant a contributor to the Jewish that 58 percent of Israelis Jonathan Greenblatt blasted ian groups, has been at the almost instantaneously. activists in Israel. World Review. Palestine From page 4A in that direction, and many to what Trump has said. Some Israelis’ distrust of Palestin- by national leaders about estinian rights and Israeli other countries grant the have acted to replace what the ians may render the issue Palestine. injustice. that families moving to such Palestinians some degree of US said it would no longer be of a Palestinian state moot- It’s convenient to arrange It’s best to avoid specula- areas must take account of diplomatic status. paying for the problematic -at least for the foreseeable for Mahmoud Abbas an honor tion. Those feeling certain the risks. The United States has efforts of UNRWA. future. guard, a public handshake, about one moral posture The Palestinian leadership signaled something like a The status quo has at least Is Israeli opposition to a and another dollop of money. or another will continue to is at high bombast, asserting recognition of the status the potential of dynamism. Palestinian state morally What else? What comes next? preach, most likely produce that there was not a historic quo, without actually us- Whatever happens, if any- justified? has been more elusive. little more than responses presence of Jews in the Jeru- ing those words. Trump thing, may show the impact Self-defense is a powerful Recent news is that im- from people also confident of salem, along with the impro- moved substantially beyond of what Palestinians do, explanation, against a back- portant Muslim authorities, their moral position. priety of Balfour, and variously Obama in his rhetoric about along with actions of Israel, ground of chronic violence for including leading members Anyone certain of move- insisting on the boundaries of Jerusalem and the marginal international organizations, at least a century, with several of the Saudi regime, have ment in one direction or 1947 or 1967. nature of Israel-Palestine and the numerous national waves severe in the numbers sought to downsize Palestin- another should not bet more Sweden has joined a num- among other problems of governments concerned with of casualties. ian aspirations, while other than a few cents on their pas- ber of Third World countries the Middle East. Palestine. Among the questions dan- messages coming out of the sions or predictions in recognizing a Palestinian Other countries have react- The spread of Jewish settle- gling is the degree of lip ser- same regimes have expressed Comments welcome, state, Slovenia has moved ed in varying degrees of shock ments, the power of Israel, and vice in sentiments expressed what’s traditional about Pal- [email protected]. PACE From page 14A unequivocal call to stop the flict did not begin with Presi- existence of the State of Israel, forts are bearing fruit, albeit urgent procedures—not only support for terrorists and dent Trump’s declaration or in any territory.” partially. does this not promote peace, Israel has remained the same, their families. construction in Jerusalem,” She said that behind the However, “the insistence it pushes it further away and but with a determined effort “Unfortunately, many she argued. ”Rather, it stems scenes, more countries are to continue to accept every encourages the Palestinians we managed, for the first time, members of the council are from the Palestinians’ consis- sympathetic to Israel’s claims, Palestinian demand to adopt to avoid direct negotiations,” to add to the final report an blind to the fact that the con- tent refusal to recognize the and Israel’s diplomatic ef- unfounded resolutions in she stated. PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, FEBRUARY 16, 2018 Summer camps offer kids an immersion in Israel’s tech prowess By Ellen Braunstein camp is starting this summer few things to it to make your at the Bender JCC of Greater own song.” CHICAGO (JTA)—Sam Washington in Rockville, Omer Kariv, 19, is typical Rosen, a 10-year-old Mine- Maryland. And this summer of the Israeli shlichim, or craft player, builds virtual will mark the third year for emissaries, who teach the castles at his computer and a BIG IDEA program at the workshops. He spent one protects himself from mon- Kaplan JCC on the Palisades summer in Tenafly after be- sters. His mother, Carrie, a in Tenafly, New Jersey. In ing released from the Israeli high school math teacher, its first two years in New army’s Intelligence Corps. knows the game teaches tech Jersey, an all-Hebrew track A counselor at BIG IDEA in skills and engineering—valu- drew day campers from an Israel, Kariv came to New Jer- able skills he can build on in Israeli-American community sey knowing the latest tech- school. already familiar with the BIG nologies it offered back home. So when JCC Chicago an- IDEA brand. He is studying mechanical nounced plans to roll out a This year, an English track engineering and competes tech day camp for the first will open up the program in robotics competitions. He time this summer, Carrie to more families who don’t hopes to attend MIT and then signed up Sam, understand- necessarily want Hebrew im- the Technion-Israel Institute ing that he would learn pro- mersion, said Aaron Atlas, the of Technology. gramming or, as she calls it, camp director at the Kaplan “I love the way we make the “the back end of games.” JCC on the Palisades. kids interested in high tech,” The new specialty camp, The U.S. camps offer Kariv said of the BIG IDEA offering different tech work- two-week workshops in 3-D program. “We show them the shops for second- to ninth- modeling, coding and com- high-tech world through their graders, is one of the first puter programming, web own games. Instead of the North American partnerships design, DJ mixing, digital hard robotic stuff I learn in Campers at Big Idea/JCC Day Camp in Tenafly, N.J., incorporate robotics into Lego projects. for BIG IDEA in Israel. BIG photography, robotics, jew- college, we add programmable IDEA, a 10-year-old tech elry design, graphic design, robotics to Lego projects, years, in everything from tech campers with an introduc- ers were lectured on how to sleepaway camp located on the video production, animation making it fun and functional.” to targeted sports training, tion and feeder track to its launch a startup. outskirts of Zichron Yaakov, and virtual reality. Campers The specialized workshops the arts, sciences and film- programs in Israel. Ariel Oren most remembers the is where 1,000 elementary can enroll in one or more for of no more than eight kids are making. The Foundation for Oren, 17, of Toronto, attended new and lasting friends he to high school-aged children multiple sessions. No experi- combined with unplugged Jewish Camp, which runs an the camp in Israel for two made at BIG IDEA. from around the world get ence with the technology is time for swimming, arts and incubator for specialty camps, summers—one as a camper “What’s really unique was a taste of Israel’s culture of necessary. sports. said the options are necessary for two weeks, the other as a the fact that this is really an innovation every summer. It At the end of the two weeks, “It’s a good mixture with for attracting youth who are counselor in training for four international camp and I re- also runs travel trips and a campers present a final proj- being outside enjoying sum- bombarded with competing weeks. He remembers surfing ally connected with a lot of gap year program. ect. All the software links are mer, but it’s technology that programs and responsibilities. in the morning, learning 3-D people who are now friends,” “This is pretty new and sent home for campers to keep my son is really into,” Carrie “To make camp appeal- modeling and taking a course he said. exciting for us,” said Dot- working on projects. Rosen said. ing,” the foundation wrote in in entrepreneurship. The Chicago JCC is com- an Tamir, the 34-year-old Guy Goren, 8, is continu- “They really bring the a report last year, specialty He and his team members mitted “to bringing Israel to founder and CEO of BIG IDEA ing to explore programming Israeli technology spirit to camps “need to continue created a survey and did mar- life for kids who have probably Educational Projects, of the since he attended a coding kids,” said Sharon Goren, marketing their newness, to ket research for an app that never been there,” said Jamie Chicago spinoff. “It’s part of workshop at the Tenafly JCC. Guy’s mother, “teaching them new campers coming for their connects young adults beset Lake, its day camp marketing our mission to help kids in the He took a break from his how to be more creative and first experience and return- by mental illness with a thera- manager. “It’s interwoven Jewish world dream of a better computer to tick off all the expand their knowledge in a ing campers who want to do pist. Business moguls judged within the fabric of the camp, world through innovation and fun activities during his day at laid back environment.” something different from last the entry and gave feedback on helping kids connect to mod- creativity—things Israel is camp, including lunch. Jewish summer camps summer.” the product and presentation. ern Israel, giving them a sense known for.” “I did like DJ,” Guy told JTA. have been adding specialty BIG IDEA’s satellite camps The session included a visit to of pride in Israel’s success in A second BIG IDEA day “You choose a song and add a camps at a fast clip in recent in North America provide a university where the camp- technology.” Orthodox Union will not penalize synagogues that already have women clergy By Ben Sales allowed to remain members that must be weighed, advanced a woman should not be ap- seminary here that ordains without making any changes. and nurtured.” pointed to serve in a clergy women as clergy. The maharat NEW YORK (JTA)—The A fifth synagogue also em- Last February, the O.U. position.” title, which was coined by the Orthodox Union will not ploys an ordained Orthodox adopted a policy, based on a Representatives of the O.U. seminary’s founder, Rabbi Avi penalize its member syna- woman, but seemingly not in rabbinic committee’s ruling, later met with each of the syna- Weiss, is a Hebrew acronym gogues that already employ a position the O.U. considers saying that while there is a gogues that have female clergy for “Jewish legal, spiritual women as clergy, but it has to be clergy. place for women at synagogues hoping to persuade them to and Torah leader.” In prac- reaffirmed a policy that pro- “Each of the four shuls has to teach Torah, hold profes- comply in some way with tice, graduates take a range hibits other synagogues from had female clergy in their em- sional leadership positions and the ruling. The synagogues, of titles, including rabba and hiring women in rabbinic ploy for a considerable period of advise on certain Jewish legal however, have not changed rabbanit. positions. time—and certainly well before matters, Jewish law prohibits the titles or job descriptions “The ordination of women A statement adopted at the the issuance of the Rabbinic Re- women from filling a role akin of their women clergy. has unquestionably been a umbrella Orthodox synagogue sponses and the OU Statement,” to a pulpit rabbi. “We also recognized, and positive development for Or- association’s board meeting the board statement read, refer- “The formal structure of conveyed to each of these thodox Judaism and Yeshivat ring to the women clergy ban synagogue leadership should shuls, that a significant por- Maharat is proud to be at the last night and obtained by Maharat Ruth Friedman JTA states that while the O.U. adopted last year. “Moreover, more closely reflect the hal- tion of the functions and ser- forefront of recruiting the prohibits synagogues from we are taught that communal akhic ethos,” the decision vices admirably performed by best and the brightest in our that “we intend to continue a hiring women as clergy, the unity and darchei shalom read, using a Hebrew term for these women—particularly community into the ranks process of dialogue and explo- four synagogues that already [Hebrew for ways of peace] are Jewish law. “For the reasons in the areas of Torah educa- of leadership,” Rabba Sara ration to identify and evaluate employ women clergy will be significant core Jewish values stated above, we believe that tion, and family and pastoral Hurwitz, the dean of Yeshivat approaches to maximize the counseling and guidance— Maharat, said in a statement. participation of women within fall, in our understanding, “The work our graduates are the ranks of synagogue profes- within the parameters of the doing is within the scope of sionals in a manner consistent Responses of the Rabbinic Jewish law and we will con- with the Responses of our Panel,” the board statement tinue to provide a pathway Rabbinic Panel, and commu- read. “However, certain of to women who want to serve nal needs and sensitivities.” their activities do not; and as spiritual leaders and share Maharat Ruth Friedman, the concept of female rabbinic their Torah knowledge with who works at the Orthodox clergy itself falls outside the their communities through Ohev Sholom synagogue in parameters of the Responses our rigorous and comprehen- Washington, D.C., said she of the Rabbinic Panel.” sive curriculum.” was not pleased with the deci- The O.U. will take no action The O.U. statement added sion. While it means her job against the synagogues that that other synagogues, while is safe, she is unhappy that employ the women, although they are encouraged to hire it bars other women from the statement says that “this women in professional posi- having the same opportunity. determination is not—and tions, should not hire women “I don’t feel a sense of relief,” should not be viewed—as as clergy. It suggested that she told JTA on Wednesday. an endorsement of such ar- synagogues that seek to do “I consider myself part of a rangements.” The group will so should reconsider their great institution and I have a continue to negotiate with the membership in the Orthodox strong camaraderie with all of synagogues to find common Union. my colleagues from Yeshivat ground on the issue for three “As a condition of contin- Maharat. “Grandfathering me years. After that, the O.U. will ued membership, all current into the seat but not opening re-evaluate the decision. O.U. synagogue members the door to future opportuni- All four leaders in question will be expected to adhere to ties for my colleagues, this are graduates of Yeshivat O.U. standards,” the board does not bring a sense of relief. Maharat, a liberal Orthodox statement reads, adding later It’s very upsetting.”