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St. Petersburg, FL 33707 St. Petersburg, FL Avenue 6416 Central Tampa Jewish Press of Inc. Bay, Tampa The Jewish Press Group of www.jewishpresstampa.com VOL. 32, NO. 9 TAMPA, FLORIDA A NOVEMBER 15 - 30, 2019 16 PAGES IDF airstrikes kill 2 Jihad leaders; Gaza responds The Jewish Press Group U.S. POSTAGE PAID U.S. POSTAGE of Tampa Bay, Inc. Bay, Tampa of PRESORTED with 450 rockets STANDARD (JTA) – An Israeli airstrike into Gaza to carry out the targeted killing of a Pal- estinian Islamic Jihad senior commander sparked two days of intense rocket fire into Israel and Israeli counter airstrikes that took out another Islamic Jihad leader by the time Photo courtesy of Magen David Adom a ceasefire took hold on Nov. 14. An ambulance responds after rockets from Gaza strike southern Israel on Nov. 12 during two days of attacks. Before the dust settled, 58 Israelis were JustJust Compliedaa nosh..fromnosh.. JTA news service injured during the wave of rocket attacks During the two-day conflict, dubbed In retaliation, a total of 450 rockets were UNC at Chapel Hill agrees to resolution fired by terror groups from Gaza and 34 Operation Blackbelt, the Israel Defense fired from Gaza at Israel. One hit an assist- over anti-Semitism complaint Palestinians, most of them reported to be Forces killed two Palestinian Islamic Jihad ed-living facility in the southern Israel city members of Islamic Jihad and other Gaza senior commanders – Baha Abu al-Ata and of Ashkelon, injuring a woman in her 70s. (JTA) – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Rasmi Abu Malhous. Hill has agreed to a resolution agreement with the terror groups, were killed. AIRSTRIKES continued on PAGE 6 U.S. Department of Education over an anti-Semitism complaint. The Zionist Organization of America filed the complaint with the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights in April over a university-sponsored confer- After prison, Mark Yaffe rises to help downtrodden ence the previous month titled “Conflict over Gaza: People, Politics and Possibilities.” The conference By RACHEL FREEMAN inflated audit report and in 2015, Yaffe featured a performance by the Palestinian rapper Tamer Jewish Press pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit Nafar that was condemned as anti-Semitic. Days after It may seem out of place for a Jewish bank fraud. He was sentenced to 20 the conference, swastikas and anti-Semitic fliers were man to be involved with a Christian or- months in federal prison and was re- discovered on campus. ganization, but for Mark Yaffe, a mem- leased after serving 16 months. Under the resolution, the university agreed to re- spond to and investigate allegations of anti-Semitic ber of the Hillsborough County Salva- “Everything isn’t as it appears to be in the media,” Yaffe told the Jewish harassment and to issue a statement that such harass- tion Army Board of Directors, the reli- ment will not be tolerated. UNC also said it would host gious connotation doesn’t mean much. Press. “It’s easier to gossip than to say, meetings for students and staff to talk about concerns The only thing that matters, he said, ‘The system made a mistake.’ The sys- over anti-Semitism and to include anti-Semitic harass- is the opportunity to help people who tem does make mistakes. It works to ment issues in staff training. find themselves lost or in need – a posi- protect the system, not the individual.” “UNC has agreed to take concrete, meaningful steps tion he empathizes with, after serving Yaffe said if local media outlets had that will make it clear to the entire university community that anti-Semitic harassment is illegal and will not be time in prison for fraud. not focused on the repossession of his tolerated,” Morton Klein, ZOA’s national president, and Yaffe was the co-owner of the 29,000-square-foot mansion, there Susan Tuchman, director of its Center for Law and Jus- would have been less of a public fuss Tampa-based company National Gold Mark Yaffe, center, chair of the Salvation Army’s tice, said in a statement. Exchange, which was reportedly one over his case. “It wouldn’t have been bell ringer campaign in Hillsborough County, with The complaint was filed under Title VI of the Civil of the world’s largest coin dealers. In as big of a deal if I didn’t have a big fellow board member John Osterweil, left, and Rights Act. Title VI prohibits national origin and other forms of discrimination at federally funded programs, 2009, the business’s bank received an YAFFE continued on PAGE 13 Yaffe’s daughter Sarah with their dog Bella, right. and protects Jewish students from anti-Semitic harass- ment. Alina Feoktistova Chabad of Poway rabbi, who lost finger at the Tikva Israeli ambassador to in shooting, retires 7 months after attack Jewish education (JTA) — Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of the Chabad of complex US to speak in Tampa Poway, who lost his finger in the April 27 attack that in Odessa, Ron Dermer, delayed until a killed one, has retired as the congregation’s leader. Ukraine. Israel’s Ambassa- new government Rabbi Goldstein, 58, founded the Chabad of Poway in 1996. His son, Rabbi Mendel Goldstein, will assume dor to the United is in place, which the leadership of the synagogue and its religious school, Photo by States and previous remains in limbo the Los Angeles Times reported. Cnaan Liphshiz advisor to Prime two months after “We are grateful for Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein’s thirty- Minister Benjamin the election. plus years of leadership, especially in the aftermath Netanyahu, will be Previously, of the terror attack, and he will forever be a part of our In Ukraine, aid for needy the featured guest Dermer served community’s story,” the synagogue said in a statement. speaker at the Isra- from 2005 to 2008 “As a community we have suffered a great deal, more Ron Dermer than any community should know of,” the statement el Bonds Cocktail as Israel’s Minis- added. “We are working hard to heal and get back on Jews comes with a catch Supper. ter of Economic our feet.” By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ fers tuition and room and board The event will take place Affairs in the U.S. He also Since the attack, the rabbi has given speeches JTA news service at no charge. Founded in 2003, on Wednesday, Dec. 18 at spent four years from 2009- around the world about the shooting and its aftermath, ODESSA, Ukraine – Alina the university features five-year the Bryan Glazer Family 13 as senior adviser to Ne- while spreading the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Feoktistova always knew she programs in a number of fields, JCC, 522 N. Howard Ave., tanyahu. Mendel Schneerson’s teachings about light and love. was Jewish, but the first time she including foreign language, early Tampa, beginning at 6:30 Although Dermer has not His activities have taken him to the White House and the United Nations, and to other countries such as Brazil sought contact with the commu- childhood education, law, busi- p.m. publicly expressed any po- nity was to see if it could pay her and Poland. ness and Jewish studies. Dermer has served as Is- litical aspirations, the Jeru- In September he received a life-like prosthetic finger tuition. “I was crying. I really didn’t rael’s top envoy to the U.S. salem Post recently quoted and has undergone physical therapy, while also suffer- Feoktistova’s family couldn’t want to do it,” said Feoktistova, since 2013, during both Netanyahu privately as nam- ing from phantom pains. afford to send her to college, but 28, who studied literature at the the Obama and Trump ad- ing Dermer as a worthy suc- The accused gunman in the Poway shooting, John the local Jewish community pro- school. “[My family had] no funds ministrations. Dermer was cessor. Earnest, 20, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder. The murder charge has been vides an alternative in the form of for college for me. The Jewish set to complete his term as “Netanyahu likes Dermer, the Jewish University of Odessa, community was there for us.” classified as a hate crime, making Earnest eligible for ambassador in September, respects him, trusts him, and the death penalty. an accredited institution that of- UKRAINE continued on PAGE 5 but his departure has been DERMER continued on PAGE 13 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible goes Brazilian-born Holocaust survivor has bar mitzvah at 91 on display at Musuem of Bible in D.C. By MARCUS M. GILBAN from Europe. (JTA) – A 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible, called the Washington Pentateuch, was unveiled Nov. 14 at the Mu- Andor Stern at JTA news service Nov. 12 was a unique day in his RIO DE JANEIRO – At 91, Ho- life: Stern, who is recognized by the seum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. his bar mitzvah It is one of the oldest intact Hebrew Bible manuscripts with Rabbis locaust survivor Andor Stern no Brazilian Association of Holocaust Survivors and across the country as in the U.S., according to the museum. The bible was first David Weitman, longer fears the Nazis who impris- owned by a Jewish community in Ukraine, which gave it left, and Toive oned him in Auschwitz. Living in the only Brazilian-born Holocaust as a gift to a local archbishop in the 19th century. In the Weitman, who his native Sao Paulo, Brazil’s larg- survivor, celebrated his bar mitzvah 20th century, the manuscript was owned by collectors in leads the Sao est metro area of nearly 25 million, a mere 78 years late.

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