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Vol. 47 #37 Oct. 19-25, 2018 • 10-16 Cheshvan, 5779 One Dollar Two Dollars Outside of Metropolitan N.Y.C. 2 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 3 115 Middle Neck Rd. Upholding Academic Freedom Great Neck, NY 11021 516-594-4000 The award-winning independent Jewish newspaper of Long Island UMichigan condemns denial of students study aboard in Israel Publisher & editor-in-chief Jerome Wm. Lippman BY YAIR ROSENBERG These incidents caused a Schlissel and provost Martin because she sought to study in

Assistant Editor n recent weeks, the University firestorm on campus and unsurpris- Philbert, though not perfect, is a Israel. Jeff Helmreich of Michigan has been rocked by ingly brought the university under model for other universities who Withholding letters of recom- Features Editor a series of scandals relating to mendation based on personal views Barbara Weinblatt I Israel and anti-Semitism. In mid- does not meet our university’s Travel Editor Tania Grossinger September, John Cheney-Lippold, expectations for supporting the aca- demic aspirations of our students. Editorial Assistant Megan Batt PERSPECTIVE Conduct that violates this expecta- Contributors tion and harms students will not be Douglas M. Bloomfield, Shira Dicker, an associate professor, denied a let- tolerated and will be addressed with Lawrence J. Epstein, Marcelle Sussman Fischler, Ezra Goldstein, William B. ter of recommendation to a Jewish serious consequences. Such actions Helmreich, Sandy Portnoy, Joseph R. Rackman, Erica Rauzin, Walter Ruby, student that he had initially agreed interfere with our students’ oppor- Lawrence H. Schiffman, Barbara Schultz, Jacob Stein, Carol Steinberg, Harold S. to write, after learning that she tunities, violate their academic free- Steinberg, Andrew Wohlberg, Nora Yood intended to use it to study abroad in dom and betray our university’s Donald Pleasant, Karl Grossman Israel. educational mission. Production Editor Laura Katz On Oct. 4, Emory Douglas, an Such criticism was deserved.

Staff Photographers outside speaker at a mandatory After all, if any professor were to David Karp, Sender Schwartz campus lecture, compared Hitler to refuse to provide letters of recom- University of Michgan has set a model for other universities who will no doubt be Traffic Manager Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin mendation to all students seeking to faced with similar challenges. Karen Chasin Netanyahu, splashing the words study in Iran or Egypt, their conduct Director of Advertising “guilty of genocide” across their heavy criticism. Refreshingly, the will no doubt be faced with similar would rightly be condemned as dis- Bernice Witten faces on a presentation slide. And institution’s leadership quickly challenges. Here’s why: criminatory. The Jewish state Account Executives Joyce Ehrlich, Enid Feldman, Dave Levin most recently, Lucy Peterson, a responded in a forceful manner that should be no exception. Moreover, Lee Lichtman, Joyce Rudnick, Judy Schnelwar graduate student instructor, similar- upheld the principle of academic he university leadership con- such an effort does not just impinge For Israel Advertising Information ly denied a letter of recommenda- freedom across the board. The Tdemned and punished the pro- on the academic freedom of Israeli International Media Placement tion to another Jewish student statement issued on Oct. 9 by fessor who denied a letter of recom- universities. It effectively imposes a P.O.B. 7195, Jerusalem, Israel 91071 (02) 6252933 Fax (02) 6249240 because he sought to study in Israel. Michigan’s president Mark mendation to a student, simply continued on page 26

Art Director Deborah Gruenberger The university leadership condemned and punished the professor who denied a Marketing Consultant Adam Simms letter of recommendation to a student, because she sought to study in Israel. Circulation Manager Patricia Locklin

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4 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 Holding An ‘Illegal’ Shiva For Mom Start of Sukkot delays a funeral for days and means there can be no shiva By MARK EFFRON thizers — marched through looks her over, eyes darting from back from the war. Can I look at remembers thinking: “Why didn’t I used to believe in a Jewish ver- Yorkville making trouble for the her reclining in high heels on the your want ads? attract someone who was making sion of Benjamin Franklin’s Jews, picking fights and smashing blanket, to The Times. He utters the She hands over the paper because money already?” Iadage that the only certainties windows. My mom’s father lost a lamest pickup line of the 40s. “I’m he seemed like a good guy, but continued on page 23 were death and taxes. I thought: saloon because anti-Semites sent in “the one thing you can count on an older-looking underaged drinker, and then called the authorities on FIRST PERSON him. She had a tough childhood, filled with the death of loved ones when a Jew dies is a speedy funeral due to cancer and heart attacks. followed by a restorative period of Before she was born, a set of twins shiva.” were killed when the carriage they Then my mom died and every- were riding in was struck by a thing I thought I knew about the streetcar. Her beloved father died Jewish rituals surrounding death when she was only sixteen.

Author Mark Effron with his mother Ruthie. and mourning was shaken. Like an old movie flashback, I My mom died less than a month think of her first two decades as ago, on a Saturday evening, too late bleak, black and white. That’s not to arrange for a Sunday funeral. entirely fair, of course. My mom When I spoke to our rabbi, he excelled in school, especially in informed me that since Sukkot math, had lots of friends, and started on Sunday evening, the first explored the city by foot every day day we could possibly have the after school. She worked to have a funeral was Wednesday. And normal life, but she was the because of Sukkot, there would be youngest of nine, and by the time no shiva. she was born, her mother was tired, “A wait for the funeral? No her father was old, many of her sib- shiva?” I asked incredulously. “Are lings were already adults, and she you going to tell me now it’s okay was often left to her own devices. to eat pork?” The rabbi, who was used to my impertinence, chuckled he scene changes to color right and we made plans. Tafter the war, on a beach in My mom was proudly Jewish, Rockaway. but not particularly observant. Her July 4, 1946. She’s on a blanket, I found the time until then particularly difficult because my internal Jewish clock was set to an established rhythm: death, funeral, shiva, back to life. sense of Jewishness was forged sharing it with a spread-out New growing up in Yorkville, a neigh- York Times. A coming-home borhood on New York’s Upper East Marine from that brutal war saun- Side once known as “German- ters over. No fat, just swagger. My town.” In the 1930s and 40s, mem- mom was a looker. In her words: “I bers of the Bund — Nazi sympa- had a cute figyuh, I must say.” He

JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 5 Faith: The Jews’ Improbable Divider Religious electromagnetism that connected Jewish communities is gone By AMOTZ ASA-EL Vilnius, Sana, and Fez. It was in This is the third in a five-part such a religiously welded Jewish series on the five great transitions world that a Jew in Mexico chose to reshaping the future of the Jewish be burned alive rather than people. Part four: The Hate renounce his faith, just after a Jew Dividing The Jews will run next in China jumped into floodwaters to week. save a floating Torah scroll, as hap- pened with Tomás Treviño de ur nation is not a nat- Sobremontes in Mexico City in ion except in its Tor- 1649, and with Gao Xuan in “Oahs,” wrote medieval Kaifeng in 1642. sage Saadia Gaon, referring to the Now that unity of faith is history. Pentateuch, Mishna, and Talmud. Challenged by modernity and free- dom, the Jews have become a spiri- COMMENTARY tually disjointed nation increasingly beset by a religious rift. Just what the concept “nation” meant to the philosopher and he schism that has come to split exegete who died in 942 CE, ages Tthe Jewish nation is so deep before the rise of the modern nation, photo: KAREN ABRAMSON that it is far more slicing than the is not fully clear, but what he meant A secular Jew and a religious Jew walk arm in arm as they continue to celebrate Jewish unity. iron wall that once loomed between to say was that even while the Jews disparate communities because they who was born on the Moroccan side rabbis they never met, who lived in the Jews of oppression and free- lacked a common land, government shared one faith and similar institu- of Gibraltar, could eventually lands they never saw. The same dom, or the Mediterranean that and language, they were united by tions – from the synagogue and emerge in today’s Uzbekistan, more global authority was wielded by once sprawled between the Jews of their common faith. yeshiva to the ritual bath and kosher than 4,000 miles from there, where Maimonides in Egypt, the rabbis of Muslim and Christian worlds. For centuries, this insight was butcher. he arrived as a fundraiser and stayed medieval France, and their succes- Just when faith began to divide accurate, as Saadia’s personal biog- It was thanks to this interface that as the leader of the Jews of sors in Poland and Lithuania. As a the Jews can be debated. raphy attests. Born in the Egyptian the great jurist Moses Maimonides, Bukhara. nation glued by its religion, it came Philosophically, the origins of crisis delta, his career took him to who was born and raised in Spain, The shared faith of the Jews gen- naturally to the Jews to look up to begin with Benedict Spinoza, Tiberias and Aleppo before climax- could ultimately lead the Jews of erated a spiritual electromagnetism the centers of Judaic scholarship in whose denial of the Pentateuch’s ing in Baghdad. Jews could move Egypt; or that a rabbi named Yosef that flowed between, and brought the Diaspora that gradually suc- divinity in his Theological-Political naturally between such distant and Maman Maghrebi (1752-1829), closer, their global locations. ceeded the Judean center that was Treatise (1670) arguably pioneered That is how the Mishna traveled razed by Rome. not only Jewish, but all of modern in the third century CE from the The Jewish nation’s shared reli- secularism. Galilee, where it was written, to gious ground was so solid that it Culturally, the Jewish rupture’s Babylonia, Persia, Egypt, and also provided Jewish travelers origins might lie in the 1783 publi- Europe, and quickly became the enough of a common denominator cation of philosopher Moses ultimate manual for any Jew’s daily with which to feel at home in far- Mendelssohn’s translation of the conduct. The subsequent legal flung lands where they knew no Pentateuch into German, which codices of Maimonides and Rabbi one, but still could find hospitality both encouraged and helped ordi- Yosef Karo, respectively Mishne by emerging unannounced in a nary Jews embrace the non-Jewish Torah and Shulhan Aruch, made local synagogue. world. Written in Hebrew charac- similar journeys, defying geogra- The same went for commerce. ters, it taught worshipers German phy and governing Jewish life. Medieval merchants known as while they used it to follow the The Jewish nation’s shared religious ground was so solid that it also provided Jewish travelers enough of a common denominator with which to feel at home in far-flung lands where they knew no one.

It was thanks to this shared faith Radhanites transported goods Torah reader in the synagogue. that the Talmudic academies along across the Sahara Desert, the Indian Socially, the Jewish rift was the Euphrates and Tigris functioned Ocean, and the Asian steppe while fueled by the spread in Germany of for centuries as a collective light- corresponding with distant business secular schools whose founders, house for the rest of the Jewish partners in the Hebrew they knew inspired by Mendelssohn’s legacy, nation, through a kind of Ivy thanks to praying and studying as believed in the promise of enlight- League system whose version of ordinary Jews. enment as a key to a new harmony Harvard – the Yeshiva of Sura some Faith glued the Jews not only in between gentile and Jew. 100 kilometers downstream from their journeys, enterprises, and Institutionally, the Jewish schism today’s Baghdad – enrolled 1,200 daily routines, but also in their spir- began in 1818 with the opening of students a good seven centuries itual imagination and dedication. the first Reform synagogue in before Europe established its first That is how news of the false Hamburg. Located several minutes’ university. Messiah Shabtai Zvi’s “arrival” in walk from the elegant Jungfernstieg The sages of Babylonia conduct- 1666 swept off its feet the entire promenade, it was in this cosmopol- ed a tri-continental correspondence Jewish world, after traveling from itan setting that the Israelitischer in which they issued legal rulings to Gaza, Izmir, and Amsterdam to continued on page 20 6 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 And God Said Let There Be Light Parshat Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27) By SHLOMO RISKIN since God created the world, He all the other nations home, wishing somewhat muted by the more uni- Even after Abraham’s nephew and “…and in you, all the families of can parcel out specific areas to to enjoy a celebration with Israel versalistic message of God’s next adopted son, Lot, rejects Abraham’s the earth shall be blessed.” Gen. ‘whomever is righteous in His alone. Simhat Torah, the added mandate: ‘…And through you teachings, he still wants to contin- (12:3) eyes.’ celebration of our having complet- shall all families of the earth be ue his relationship with Lot, and This tension between the partic- ed the yearly reading of the blessed.’ even bargains with God to save the ur biblical tradition seems ular and the universal also perme- Pentateuch during this festival, From this moment onwards, wicked cities of Sodom and to live in a constant para- ates the High Holy Day festival merely emphasizes the unique and both of these elements – a Gomorrah. Odox of tension between period. The universal dominates separatist significance of this holi- covenantal nation with a unique The Midrash magnificently cap- the universal and the particular; Rosh Hashanah when we crown day. relationship to God and the univer- tures Abraham’s concern with the our obligations to the world at God as the King of the entire uni- The tension is also apparent in sal vision of world peace and world and world opinion in a verse, and Yom Kippur when we God’s dealings with Abraham. At redemption – will vie for center trenchant elucidation of the open- DVAR TORAH ing verse in the portion of Vayera, where the Torah records the large and our obligations to our Go out of your land, and from your kindred birthplace and moment of God’s appearance to own nation and family. your father’s house, unto the land that I will show you. Abraham after the patriarch’s cir- This tension is evident from the cumcision in the fields of the oak opening sentence of the Torah: ‘In trees of Mamre. Why stress this the beginning God created the declare, …for My house (the Holy first God instructs Abraham, stage in the soul of Abraham’s particular location, including the heavens and the earth.’ While it Temple) shall be called a house of Go out of your land, and from descendants. owner of the parcel of trees, seems these words are a clear prayer for all people. (Is. 56:7) your kindred birthplace and your Mamre? The Midrash explains that proclamation of universality, Further, the seventy sacrifices father’s house, unto the land that I ut after all is said and done, in when God commanded Abraham Rashi’s opening comment turns offered over the course of the fes- will show you. (Gen. 12:1) Bthe case of Abraham himself, to circumcise himself, he went to the verse on its head. He argues tival of Sukkot symbolize our There are no introductions or it is the universalistic aspect of his seek the advice of his three allies – that the fact that the Torah begins commitment to the welfare of all apologies. It’s straight to the point: spirit which seems the most domi- Aner, Eshkol, and Mamre. with Creation has nothing to do seventy nations. But in stark con- Abraham is to found a new family- nant. He quickly emerges in the Now Aner said to him, ‘You with a grand universal vision, but trast, Shemini Atzeret signifies a nation in the specific location of historic arena as a war hero who mean to say that you are one hun- rather everything to do with estab- more intimate and particularistic the land of Israel. However, in the rescues the five regional nations – dred years old and you want to lishing Jewish rights to the land of rendezvous between God and next verse, this ethnocentric fervor including Sodom – from the stran- maim yourself in such a way?’ Israel. He cites a midrash that says Israel, when the Almighty sends of going up to one’s own land is glehold of four terrorizing kings. continued on page 28

JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 7 Nikki Haley’s 10 Greatest Hits The departing U.N. ambassador’s best moments defending Israel BY DAVID GERSTMAN of attending her first Security mbassador Nikki Haley, Council meeting to discuss the who announced that she Middle East: Awould be leaving her post The Security Council is supposed as United States Ambassador to the to discuss how to maintain interna- United Nations at the end of the tional peace and security. But at our meeting on the Middle East, the COMMENTARY discussion was not about Hizba- llah’s illegal build-up of rockets in year, made her mark by vigorously Lebanon. It was not about the defending Israel in the often hostile money and weapons Iran provides world body. But Haley didn’t just to terrorists. It was not about how defend the Jewish state, she also we defeat ISIS. It was not about pointed out the dangers to the how we hold Bashar al-Assad Middle East and the world present- accountable for the slaughter of ed by Iran and called tyrants to hundreds and thousands of civil- account. ians. No, instead, the meeting During her confirmation hearing focused on criticizing Israel, the one in January 2017, Haley asserted that true democracy in the Middle East. American leadership was “essen- I am new around here, but I under- tial” in international affairs. How- stand that’s how the Council has ever, she acknowledged that despite operated, month after month, for Haley and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. When her resignation was announced, he tweeted, “Thank you Ambassador Haley U.S. leadership, the U.N. is “an decades.” for standing for the truth and exposing hypocrisy at the U.N.” institution that is often at odds with But, she said, on her watch, the American national interests and U.S. is “determined to stand up to which was organized by the Israeli we have so many threats around 6) August 2017 – UNIFIL com- American taxpayers.” the U.N.’s anti-Israel bias.” mission to the U.N., the World the world,” she added. mander may be “the only person She called the U.N.’s anti-Israel Jewish Congress and numerous in south Lebanon who is blind to bias “outrageous,” and showed that 2) March 2017 – “There’s a Jewish organizations, and called out 5) April 2017 – Iran is the what Hezbollah is doing” the bias wasn’t just a perception, but new sheriff in town” the hypocrisy underscoring the “chief culprit” behind conflict in During informal remarks, Haley quantifiable. In the just-concluded In a conversation with Dan Senor Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions the Middle East blasted UNIFIL commander Maj. General Assembly session, Haley at the 2017 AIPAC Policy campaign. At the Security Council’s month- Gen. Michael Beary for his refusal noted, “the U.N. adopted twenty Conference, Haley made a big hit “And how tragic is it that of all ly meeting on the Middle East, to acknowledge that Hezbollah was resolutions against Israel and only by declaring “there’s a new sheriff countries in the world to condemn Haley, who was then serving as the amassing a significant arsenal under six targeting the rest of the world’s in town,” and at the U.N. “the days for human rights violations, these Security Council’s president, shift- his watch. countries combined.” of Israel-bashing are over.” voices choose to single out Israel,” ed the focus of the meeting. Beary, to her, displayed “an Haley said. “We should boycott “If we are speaking honestly embarrassing lack of understanding North Korea. We should sanction about conflict in the Middle East, of what’s going on.” She added: Iran. We should divest from Syria. we need to start with the chief cul- “He seems to be the only person in Not Israel. It makes absolutely no prit: Iran and its partner militia, south Lebanon who is blind to what sense. And it has no connection to Hezbollah,” Haley said. “Iran and Hezbollah is doing.” She also noted

Haley to the U.N.: “We should boycott North Korea. We should sanction Iran. We should divest from Syria. Not Israel.”

any reasonable definition of jus- Hezbollah conspire together to that his view of the situation “shows tice.” destabilize the Middle East.” that we need to have changes” in the Moreover, she pointed out that operation. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. 4) April 2017 – “Every month Iran was flagrantly violating numer- for ten years they’ve been Israel- ous Security Council Resolutions, 7) January 2018 – P.A. Haley called the U.S. abstention Haley said that there would be no bashing” “Iran’s ballistic missile tests defy President Mahmoud Abbas’s allowing passage of the anti-Israel more “freebies” for the Palestinians In an interview with Fox News, Security Council resolutions and speech “is not the speech of a per- U.N. Security Council Resolution until they negotiated in good faith Haley said that her biggest surprise further undermine the stability in son with the courage and the will 2334 “damaging,” and promised, “I with Israel. She also noted that she on assuming her post as ambassa- the region. We call on all states to to seek peace” will never abstain when the United had made a start by prevailing on dor to the U.N. was the degree and fully implement Resolution 2231, Haley’s response to a “hate- Nations takes any action that comes newly elected U.N. Secretary persistence of anti-Israel activity in which bans the transfer of weapons filled” speech given by Palestinian in direct conflict with the interests General António Guterres to with- the organization. Of the Security to and from Iran, as well as the arms Authority President Mahmoud and values of the United States.” draw a report critical of Israel that Council, which had monthly meet- embargoes against the [Iranian Abbas before the U.N. Security In the nearly two years that had been authored by an anti-Israel ings on the problems affecting the proxy in Yemen] Houthis in Council in January of this year was Haley, a former governor of South activist, Richard Falk. Middle East, Haley observed, Resolution 2216 and for Lebanon in direct and to the point. Carolina, served at the U.N., she “They’re not talking about Syria, Resolution 1701.” Abbas “declared the landmark had many shining moments as she 3) March 2017 – Anti-Israel they’re not talking about Iran.” Her stated goal was to transform Oslo Peace Accords dead. He made good on that promise. boycotts have “no connection to Instead, the ambassador said, the Security Council’s regular rejected any American role in peace any reasonable definition of jus- “Every single month for ten years “Israel-bashing sessions,” which talks. He insulted the American 1) February 2017 – The U.S. tice.” they’ve been Israel-bashing.” “don’t do anyone in the region any President. He called for suspending “will not turn a blind eye” to anti- Haley delivered the keynote “And that was something I just favors,” to constructive meetings recognition of Israel. He invoked an Israel bias at the U.N. anymore address at an event at the U.N. couldn’t believe that they put the focused on addressing Iranian bel- ugly and fictional past, reaching Haley described the experience called ‘Ambassadors Against BDS,’ time and energy into doing when ligerence. continued on page 30 8 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 Bracing Ourselves For The Storm What would happen to Long Island if a Catergory 4 hurricane hit? By KARL GROSSMAN Michael “inundates” — a term high points,” along with Plum hat would be the widely used by meteorologists Island and Gardiner’s Island. impacts to Long Island these days to describe severe flood- Moreover, it would only take, he Wif a hurricane such as ing — "entire communities” on says, a Category 1 hurricane — the Hurricane Michael or Hurricane Long Island. A Category 4 hurri- level of Hurricane Florence when it Florence struck the island? cane “inundates,” he says, the hit North Carolina, although out in “entire communities” of the ocean approaching the coast, it Amityville, Lind-enhurst, Babylon, had been a Category 3 hurricane — REPORTER’S West Islip, and Bay Shore, and in to cause Montauk Point to be “com- NOTEBOOK eastern Suffolk, North Haven, pletely cut off from the rest of the Greenport, Montauk, Westhampton South Fork,” says Professor Mandia. Long Islanders should be aware Beach, and Orient, among others. If there were a Category 3 hurri- of the projections of Professor Scott A Category 4 hurricane “inun- cane, he says, “Much of the North A. Mandia, a meteorologist who dates” in Nassau County, he fore- and South Forks are entirely under teaches courses at Suffolk County casts, the “entire” communities of water.” Superstorm Sandy, which struck Long Island in 2012 was downgraded by the time Community College on weather Woodmere, Valley Stream, Lyn- Moreover, says Professor Mandia it hit, caused nearly $70 Billion in damage, what would a Category 4 bring? on another of his web pages, Sciences at Suffolk County Com- miles per hour; Category 3 — 111 “I wouldn’t be surprised that with “Given public complacency, the munity College. to 130; Category 2 — 96 to 110; warmer water here that at some point amount of people needing to evac- He has special expertise on the Category 1 — 74 to 95. uate, the few evacuation routes off Hurricane of 1938 which ravaged Professor Mandia does not make this century a Category 5 hurricane will Long Island, and the considerable Long Island and much of New projections for the top category of area affected by storm surge, more England 80 years ago last month. hurricanes on the Saffir-Simpson hit Long Island.” lead-time is needed for a proper The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, Category 5 with winds evacuation than in other parts of the Wind Scale, which sets the cate- of 156 miles per hour and stronger, and climate change, of the conse- brook, Long Beach, Atlantic Beach, country.” gories wasn’t in use then, but today because there is no evidence that a quences of a major hurricane hitting Lido Beach, Freeport, Merrick, and Professor Mandia, of Miller the Hurricane of 1938 is considered Hurricane 5 hurricane has struck here. Wantagh, among others. Place, has a masters degree in mete- to have been a Category 3 hurricane Long Island, he said in an interview. As he details on a remarkable Also, for islands off Long Island, orology from Pennsylvania State when it struck Long Island. But, he added, “I wouldn’t be sur- series of web pages, a Category 4 a Category 4 hurricane “inundates” University and is also assistant chair A Category 4 hurricane is one prised that with warmer water here hurricane, the level of Hurricane Shelter Island “except for a few of the Department of Physical with a wind speed of 131 to 155 continued on page 30

JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 9 Morocco’s Rich Jewish History Will the community’s legacy ensure its future? By LORI SILBERMAN Despite the lack of diplomatic BRAUNER relations and direct flights to Israel orocco’s Jewish commu- (Israelis, who must obtain a visa to nity has declined from enter Morocco, currently travel Mits heyday of 250,000 through a third country such as people in the 1950s to a few thou- Spain), Abderrafie Zouitene, the sand today, but its vibrant past con- CEO of the Moroccan National Tourist Office, expressed optimism that direct flights to Tel Aviv would PERSPECTIVE be launched within a few years. tinues to be a draw for Jewish visi- “We have to be very open,” he tors and a selling point to encour- said, and “tourism is very impor- age tourism. tant for that.” (On Nov. 30, 2017, he Although the Jewish population left his post; Rachid Hamzaoui, the has diminished significantly since agency’s finance and administra- the creation of the State of Israel in tive director, has been named inter- 1948 and the independence of im director-general.) Morocco from France in 1956, Morocco has become a hot Jews maintain a visible presence tourist destination in recent years, in the kingdom, from King with 11.3 million people visiting in

Mohammed VI’s senior adviser 2017 and 11.5 million expected for Communities Photo courtesy Council of Moroccan Jewish André Azoulay to the Israeli tour 2018, according to the Tourism groups traveling around the coun- Ministry. Some 51 million people King Mohammed VI, right, at the rededication of the Ettedgui synagogue in Casablanca with Serge Berdugo, president of the try; and in areas frequented by have visited the country over the Jewish community in Morocco. Jewish tourists, it is common to last five years. amble of Morocco’s 2011 constitu- there were an estimated 2,300 Jews dent, Dr. Armand Guigui, empha- find young Moroccans offering Zouitene, like many Moroccans tion, which was approved by a ref- in Morocco as of 2015, with the sized the cultural events that bring directions in Hebrew or showing we met during our nine-day trip, erendum, states: “A sovereign largest concentration in Casabla- Jews together, including Shabbat off their language skills to visitors. was quick to remind us how Sultan Muslim State, attached to its nca, with 1,000 Jews. Smaller dinners held once or twice a month, Our own delegation of Jewish Mohammed V, who later became national unity and territorial Jewish communities, according to an international Jewish festival of journalists, hosted by the Moroccan King Mohammed V, refused to integrity, the Kingdom of Morocco DellaPergola, exist in Rabat (400), sacred music, and an international National Tourist Office for nine deport any Jews when the country shall seek to preserve its diverse, Marrakesh (250), Meknes (250), gastronomic festival. Pictures of days in November, was even fea- was under the rule of Vichy France, indivisible national identity. Its tured in an article about Jewish whose own leaders had collaborat- unity, which is built on the conver- tourism in Morocco’s daily news- ed with the Nazis during World gence of its Arab-Islamic, Amazigh “The most important thing is the paper Le Matin — whose dateline War II. Among the Vichy govern- (Berber), and Saharan-Hassani symbol that represents a Jewish includes months and dates in the ment’s first acts was to impose components, is nourished and Muslim, Western, and Jewish cal- severe anti-Semitic laws in enriched by its African, Anda- community living freely, happily, in an endars. Morocco, as per Nazi protocol. The lusian, Hebraic, and Mediterranean “The most important thing is the sultan is famously reported to have constituents.” Arab country.” symbol that represents a Jewish said in response to the govern- Varying figures are given for the community living freely, happily, ment’s request for lists of Jews: number of Morocco’s Jews, whose Tangier (150), Fez (150), and past social events line the walls of Tetouan (100). There are large the dining room. expat communities of Moroccans Guigui recalled a visit from in Israel, France, Canada, and the Britain’s Prince Charles; he offered United States. the prince a kipa but was told he Valerie Davis Allouche, senior already had one. A physician who program manager for Morocco and mostly serves a non-Jewish patient Tunisia at the American Jewish clientele, Guigui noted that while Joint Distribution Committee each Jewish community in (JDC), which supports the humani- Morocco is independent, every tarian and social needs of Jewish three to four years their members communities globally, said in an e- get together to meet and exchange mail interview that there were an ideas. Guigui’s three adult children estimated 3,500 to 4,000 Jews in all live in Paris. Morocco, with smaller communi- ties of more than 60 in Fez and 200 acky Kadoch, president of the in Marrakesh. JMarrakech-Essaouira Jewish “But numbers don’t reveal the community, said Marrakesh had vibrancy of these communities, 30,000 Jews at one point; now, brimming with Jewish activities there are approximately 120 Jews and leaders who are well-respected there and a handful, at that, in the courtesy Council of Moroccan Jewish Communities Photo courtesy Council of Moroccan Jewish and dedicated to ensuring their coastal city of Essaouira. Charming King Mohammed VI and Serge Berdugo listen as Rabbi Gabriel Guessous, right, offers blessings at the December 2016 rededication of the Ettedgui synagogue in Casablanca. future,” said Allouche, who is and well-dressed, Kadoch said he based in Paris. was born in Marrakesh’s mellah, in an Arab country,” Serge “There are no Jews in Morocco … presence dates as far back as the We met with two of those com- the Jewish quarter of the city’s Berdugo, the head of Morocco’s there are only Moroccan subjects.” destruction of the second Temple in munity leaders in Fez and medina, or walled city, “over 60 Jewish community and the king- Jerusalem 2,000 years ago. Marrakesh. Over a kosher dinner at years ago.” dom of Morocco’s ambassador at spirit of coexistence is even According to Hebrew University the Fez Centre Maimonide, a While they were restricted from large, said. “It is small but vibrant.” Aenshrined in the law. The pre- demographer Sergio DellaPergola, Jewish community center, its presi- continued on page 22 10 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 The Future Is Female Women are done fearing men, now just moving to hate them By BENJAMIN BLECH put, their sex condemns them to between a married couple, is an act of the earth to create Adam, He will be guilty of envy. If I make her igotry is bad – no matter female damnation. of violence perpetrated against a took dust from every corner of the from his feet, she will be stepped who the victim. When it Do you think I’m exaggerating? woman," Catherine MacKinnon earth, so that all of humanity upon and feel inferior. I know, he Bcomes to racism, America Hear the words of some misandry said. shares its essence. concluded, I will use Adam’s side, has made it clear that prejudice spokeswomen: “If life is to survive on this plan- God also stated that it is not so that they will always stand side- based on color cannot be tolerated. “I want to see a man beaten to a et, there must be a decontamina- good for a human being to remain by-side as equals. Hatred is a horrible transgres- I know, God concluded, I will use Adam’s side, so that they sion. The Torah took note of it at PERSPECTIVE the very beginning. It is time for us Roseanne Barr destroyed her will always stand side-by-side as equals. to eradicate it in all of its forms. career with just one racist twitter From a biblical perspective there is and had to be removed from her bloody pulp with a high-heel tion of the Earth. I think this will alone. The midrash tells us that no room for both racism and own show for the transgression of shoved in his mouth, like an apple be accompanied by an evolution- when God was about to create misandry. Both of these distortions an offensive comment. in the mouth of a pig,” said Andrea ary process that will result in a woman from Adam, he considered forget the ultimate truth that all of Equality is in; demeaning Dworkin. drastic reduction of the population from which part he was to fashion us share: We are all created in stereotyping is not only out but “The more famous and powerful of males,” said Mary Daly. Eve. He said to himself: if I make God’s image. seemingly bad enough to be I get the more power I have to hurt her from his head, she will end up deemed unforgivable. men,” Sharon Stone said. hese are (and in some cases being haughty. If I make her from Rabbi Benjamin Blech is a pro- Except when one group is the “The proportion of men must be Thave been – a few have passed his lips she will be a tattler of tales. fessor of Talmud at Yeshiva target. reduced to and maintained at away) successful women whose If I make her from his heart, she University. What normally dare never be approximately 10 percent of the views are still covered by said in polite and civilized society human race.” said Sally Miller respectable publications. These are appears to be permissible – and Gearhart, in The Future – If There women who have lectured on col- sometimes laudable – when direct- Is One – Is Female. lege campuses across the country. ed against no less than half the “As long as some men use phys- Can you imagine what would hap- population, a group which promi- ical force to subjugate females, all pen to men who expressed similar nent intellectuals, professors, and men need not. The knowledge that sentiments about the opposite sex? journalists assure us deserve uni- some men do suffices to threaten And can you explain what differ- versal condemnation. all women. He can beat or kill the entiates misandry from the most Who are these terrible people woman he claims to love; he can extreme form of racism?

Even with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh, women’s voices still aren’t being heard. Most women have every right to hate men, if some actually do, when they fear walking down the street alone. exempt from the sin of stereotyp- rape women … he can sexually Jews around the world have ing? molest his daughters … THE begun to once again read the Torah They are men – those terrible VAST MAJORITY OF MEN IN with its remarkable narration of the evil representatives of the human THE WORLD DO ONE OR creation of the world. Crucial to race who are all beasts and pigs, MORE OF THE ABOVE." the story is the theme of human rapists in hiding, sexual harassers Marilyn French emphasized as she equality – equality of all races and and violent perverts. spoke. equality of both sexes. We all know the meaning of the "I feel that 'man-hating' is an The Talmud teaches, “Only one word “racism,” but have you heard honorable and viable political act, person was originally created for the word “misandry?” It refers to that the oppressed have a right to the sake of peace among human the collective hatred of men, the class-hatred against the class that is beings, so that no man should be conviction that everyone of male oppressing them." – Robin able to say to his fellow man, ‘my gender deserves to be vilified, Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor. father is greater than your father.’” ostracized, and even hated. Simply “All sex, even consensual sex And when God took from the dust JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 11 Trying To Take The Edge Off Leading American BDS group’s conference minimizes nonviolence By JNS STAFF U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Palestinian violence somehow as hen Islamists and other Rights (USCPR), an umbrella rare, but sometimes good. anti-Israel groups gath- group leading the BDS push to iso- “For instance, when the knife Wer, they’ve learned to use late and weaken Israel through boy- attacks were happening in Palestine euphemisms to take the edges off cotts and divestment drives, held a a few years ago — 2015? 2015. You some of their more extreme views. major conference. It is common for know, Palestinian youth were out in Islamists and pro-Palestinian the streets carrying out knife attacks PERSPECTIVE activists to sanitize terrorist attacks and I’d hear Palestinians and as “legitimate resistance” at such Palestinian representation scurrying They don’t call for Israel’s annihila- events, but three USCPR speakers away from this topic,” she said. “No tion like Iran’s leaders do, they just came right out and made a case for one really wanted to talk about it lock on to a “right of return” violence, going much further than because it shatters the image of the demand that demographically “boycotts and divestment.” approachable nonviolent Palestinian would wipe out the Jewish state. Two are university professors, that’s standing bare-chested in front And they use slogans such as, including one who is a frequent of Israeli soldiers that are carrying “From the River to the Sea, CNN pundit. One made a point of arms. And suddenly we were con- Palestine will be Free,” which geo- praising a terrorist murderer. The fronted with anger and that made us graphically leaves no room for other diminished non-violent A Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) protest against Israel in Melbourne, uncomfortable. And it’s this dis- Israel. protest as a path for Palestinians to Australia, on June 5, 2010. The Jewish community needs to conduct an audit of the comfort with anger, this discomfort The usual demonization of Israel follow by saying “this nonviolent impact of Operation Protective Edge inside and outside the Middle East. with violence that has created a was present in St. Paul when the thing” can be too limiting, and rais- ing a question “what legitimate violent protest” includes throwing huge gap when we speak about resistance looks like.” grenades and other explosives, Palestinian resistance.” Those words were from Marc using kites to spark massive wild- “The approachable nonviolent Lamont Hill, a Temple University fires, all under the direction of Palestinian?” The Palestinian professor, BET host, and CNN con- Hamas, the terrorist organization Authority doesn’t name community tributor, who warned his audience that runs Gaza. centers and schools for heroes of against adopting “a civil rights tra- But as Hill said at the end of the nonviolence. It does name public dition which romanticizes nonvio- clip, “we have allowed this nonvio- places for terrorists who killed lence. That’s the challenge … that’s lent thing to become so normative Israeli civilians. It pays the families the challenge. It romanticizes non- that we’re undermining our own of dead and imprisoned terrorists on violence, but how can you romanti- ability to resist in real robust ways.” a sliding scale that gives greater cize nonviolence when you have a The USCPR audience embraced reward to more violent attacks. state that is at all moments waging his comments. It is an umbrella Hamas officials routinely make it war against you, against your bod- organization considered a leader in clear that their goal is nothing short ies, poisoning your water, limiting the BDS movement. Member of Israel’s annihilation. your access to water, locking up organizations include anti-Israel your children, killing you. We can’t groups Jewish Voice for Peace he USCPR conference featured romanticize resistance.” (JVP), American Muslims for Tno talk about peaceful negotia- That’s a gross misrepresentation Palestine (AMP), Students for tions to end the conflict. No talk of the conflict, ignoring the role Justice in Palestine (SJP), and Code about pressuring Hamas to Palestinian incitement and an intra- Pink. renounce terror and devote its Palestinian political struggle fuels In June, Tablet magazine report- resources to improving the quality “A path for Palestinians to follow by saying “this nonviolent thing” can be too limiting, and raising a question “what legitimate resistance looks like.”

the conflict today. But even if it ed that USCPR “is the fiscal spon- of life for Palestinians in Gaza. But were close to fair, somehow, sor of a group called the Palestinian it did feature praise for a Jew killer. Gandhi managed to grapple with BDS National Committee (BNC), George Mason University assis- that challenge and ultimately pre- the main West Bank and Gaza- tant professor Noura Erakat helped vailed. Martin Luther King and his based cohort advocating for sanc- open the conference by hailing followers – men, women and chil- tions against Israel.” Rasmieh Odeh, who helped blow dren – endured murders, terrorist Like USCPR, BNC is a coalition. up a Jerusalem grocery store in attacks, brutal beatings, police dogs One member, the Council of 1969, killing two Israeli college stu- and fire hoses. But by steadfastly National and Islamic Forces in dents. Odeh is not a terrorist, Erakat holding to the “romanticized” prin- Palestine, includes five Palestinian said, but “our dear sister [and] free- ciple of nonviolence, they ended terrorist groups, including Hamas, dom fighter.” school segregation and secured pas- Palestinian Islamic Jihad, two President Trump, Erakat said, sage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 Popular Front for the Liberation of “for better or for worse has further and the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Palestine wings, and the Palestine entrenched the question of Palestine “The aftermath of nonviolence is Liberation Front (PFLP). into a progressive-left movement the creation of the beloved commu- Palestinian writer Miriam driven by intersectional analysis. nity” King said often, “while the Barghouti reminded the USCPR This trend is best exemplified by the aftermath of the violence is tragic conference that “Palestine from the case of our dear sister, freedom bitterness.” river to the sea is our demand.” And fighter Rasmieh Odeh [audience For Palestinian advocates, “non- like Hill, she tried to cast continued on page 19 12 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 Dealing With Iran Must Come First Trump and Netanyahu speeches focused world leaders' attention on Iran BY EYAL ZISSER lishment of the State of Israel on or a moment, it seemed that Palestinian land. the Israeli-Palestinian con- Hezbollah leader Hassan Fflict would dominate the Nasrallah, for his part, opted for a U.N. General Assembly as well as more "elegant" suggestion, saying, the international agenda for the "We do not wish to fight or destroy or throw anyone into the ocean. We call on the Israelis, in the most civ- COMMENTARY ilized way possible, to board coming year, but then came the planes or ships and return to the addresses of U.S. President Donald countries from where they came. Trump and Prime Minister "Only the Jews who lived in Benjamin Netanyahu to focused Palestine before [the Balfour world leaders' attention on the Declaration] will be able to stay Iranian issue. here. The rest, those who came Trump made it clear that his from all over the world, have to administration plans to focus on the leave." Iranian issue, just like last year, he These statements are another made it clear that he planned to good reason why Iran and its allies focus on North Korea. must be stopped. European leaders Meeting with Netanyahu on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, Trump surprised many by officially endorsing the two Meeting with Netanyahu on the state solution and then that he would support whichever solution the parties agree to. would be wise to pay attention sidelines of the U.N. General before rushing to appease Iran. Assembly, Trump surprised many that Trump is right – there is no rea- how he currently deals with Tehran. Assembly, Iranian Foreign Minister by officially endorsing the two-state son why the U.S. should give the Failing to come up with a good Mohammad Javad Zarif resorted to Eyal Zisser is a lecturer in the solution – then again qualifying that Palestinian Authority hundreds of answer to the allegations made familiar rhetoric, saying that the Middle East History Department he would support whichever solu- millions of dollars in aid only to be against them at the U.N. General Holocaust did not justify the estab- at Tel Aviv University. tion the parties agree to – and by disrespected on the world stage – at saying his administration plans to least as much as Abbas respects roll out the much-anticipated "deal Russian President Vladimir Putin, of the century" within a few who has never given the months. Palestinians a dime. The Americans may still strive to Moreover, one must remember pitch the deal meant to resolve the that international treaties rarely Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a real reflect "justice," let alone the estate transaction, as Trump himself Palestinian and their supporters' has said, but chances of that are version of "absolute justice." The slim, for several reasons. Jewish community understood First, in reality, we are no longer that in 1948, which is why it suc- One must remember that international treaties rarely reflect "justice," let alone the Palestinian and their supporters' version of "absolute justice." dealing with a two-state solution ceeded in forming a state. but rather with a three-state solu- This is why Trump and Netan- tion, namely Israel, a Palestinian yahu both chose to focus on Iran at state in the West Bank and a Hamas the U.N. General Assembly. state in the Gaza Strip. The latter is not going anywhere and it is doubt- etanyahu's speech again ful its rulers would agree to recon- Nshowcased Israel's intelli- cile with the Fatah-led Palestinian gence and operational prowess, Authority just to facilitate Trump's which time and again make Iran "deal of the century." and Hezbollah, its regional proxy, Second, despite rhetoric to the vulnerable. contrary, Arab leaders have no real Trump's speech reiterated the intention of going over Palestinian U.S. pledged to prevent Iran from Authority President Mahmoud going nuclear and continue dis- Abbas' head and accepting a deal on seminating terrorism and chaos in the Palestinians' behalf. This leads the Persian Gulf and Middle East. to the third reason – the Palestinian The American president's leadership simply cannot make the words were binding and no one necessary historic decisions. knows better than him that his Abbas can definitely protest that success and international standing "Jerusalem is not for sale" as much in the coming year of 2019 will be as he wants, but the bottom line is determined, to a large extent, by JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 13 Using Our Own Voices Who speaks for the Jews, and why do we let them? By JONATHAN S. TOBIN dissenters as beyond the pale. he confirmation of Brett The irony here is that the one Kavanaugh as the newest issue on which there can be no Tassociate justice of the U.S. debate about its importance to the Supreme Court was greeted by the Jews or the obligation for Jewish organized Jewish world in the same organizations to speak up — Israel — is often the one about which American Jews are bitterly divided. OPINION Support for the Jewish state has manner as his nomination by U.S. become controversial in some President Donald Trump. While quarters, with many opposing its some organizations stayed silent, government policies on the peace liberal-leaning Jewish groups gen- process or are offended by the erally deplored his ascension to the closeness between Israeli Prime high court. The far smaller number Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and of conservative-leaning groups that Trump. Many on the left are unper- label themselves as Jewish cheered turbed by the drift away from sup- him. port for Israel in the Democratic But the willingness of so many Party base or the rise of popular of the institutions that are tasked Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90. figures who are either critics or with representing Jewish interests Whatever American Jews feel about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally, it shouldn’t sap support for the State of outright opponents of Zionism. to seek to drag the entire communi- Israel and the security of its citizens. ty into the no-holds barred brawl question the notion that what is country had an opinion about the of those moments when Jewish n example of how this worked about Kavanaugh and the future of good for the secular partisan inter- court fight — and is generally will- institutions should be particularly Awas the battle over President the court didn’t draw much notice ests that most Jews support is what ing to view those who disagree as careful about not getting involved Obama’s 2015 Iran nuclear deal. or debate. That’s because we take it is good for the Jewish community. either evil or otherwise beyond in partisan politics that are tearing The pact was opposed by the over- for granted that such groups rarely While just about everyone in the redemption — this ought to be one the country apart. Yet few seem whelming majority of Israelis and willing to stay out of even the nas- their government as a threat to tiest and most divisive battles, their security, as well as to that of where, as was the case with the region and the world, and many Kavanaugh, the Jewish angle is far in the organized Jewish communi- from obvious. ty followed their lead. But while The argument for their actions is polls indicated that Americans based on a belief that liberal stands were split on the issue, the same reflect Jewish values about social surveys showed that U.S. Jews justice. For some, that means any- were more inclined to favor it, with thing that is identified with liberals 48 percent of Jews supporting the or Democrats can be depicted as a deal and only 28 percent of non- Jewish issue, rather than just one on Jewish Americans doing so. Most which many individual Jews have Jewish Democrats viewed the issue strong opinions. But the problem through a partisan lens; even sup- with this sort of thinking is that porters of Israel among them were once you head down that road, vir- able to persuade themselves that it

While some organizations stayed silent, liberal-leaning Jewish groups generally deplored Brett Kavanaugh’s ascension to the high court.

tually any issue can be defined as was the right thing to do. the right “Jewish” stand, even if it What this means is that though is wholly unconnected to the direct support for Israel is as strong, if interests of the Jewish people. not stronger, than it has ever been, When groups see no distinction Jews are, like the Democratic between those partisan affiliations Party, divided about it or at least and the interests of the community, far more reluctant to support they are also marginalizing those Netanyahu than many Christians. who disagree. While there is no By contrast, when Jews dive doubt that most American Jews are headfirst into tussles like the Democrats, the notion that liberals Kavanaugh nomination, which are can speak for all Jews is as risible in no small measure primarily driv- as the idea that one point of view en by opinions about abortion, encompasses that of all women or those on the left do so in the any other demographic group, let knowledge that, as a 2015 Pew alone giving them the right to brand continued on page 21 14 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 A World Of Liars, Liberals, & Leakers Talking with Jeanine Pirro and her book and the darker sides of politics By ROBERT GOLOMB defense attorney. So, the fact that Clinton] who can be heard laughing here is an old extremely she employed a legal technicality to about how she played the system to troubling, yet almost forgot- beat the rape charge against Taylor successfully defend a man she knew Tten, story about Hillary and then bargained with the prose- to be guilty of raping a 12 year old Clinton, which is brought back to cutor for him to plead guilty to a girl actually has the gall to portray the surface by Jeanine Pirro’s new reduced charge, for which he was to herself as a champion of women to serve less than one year in jail, this day,” Pirro stated. “She used INTERVIEW would, arguably, have been unfair this sickening lie to get elected to to hold against her. the position of a United States book. In her New York Times best- But the story of Clinton, the Senator [elected 2000; re-elected seller, Liars, Leakers, and Liberals, rapist, and the 12 year old victim 2006], and had it not been for the Case Against the Anti-Trump does not end there. Recalling how Donald Trump, she would have Conspiracy, Jeanine Pirro — cur- she was able to successfully defend used it to be elected President. rently known to her large audience a man she knew to be guilty of such “And what never stops sickening on the hit Fox News show Justice a heinous crime, Clinton can be me,” Pirro continued, “is that rather with Judge Jeanine as “Judge heard boasting in a recorded inter- than disappear into the woods Jeanine” and known for years view that surfaced in the mid- behind her home in Chappaqua before by that same name to the 1980’s. “This guy accused of raping [New York], after losing in 2016, millions of viewers who had a 12 year-old girl. Course he she makes speeches and appears on television presenting herself as the “After losing in 2016, she made high princess of women while accusing Donald Trump of being speeches and appeared on television some sort of misogynist.” presenting herself as the high princess I could detect, even over the tele- phone, the increasing passion in her Liar, Liberals, and Leakers: States Ambassador to the U.N. of women while accusing Donald Trump voice, as she defended Trump, The Case Against the Anti- (who recently announced her resig- whom, as she writes in the book, Trump Conspiracy nation at the end of the year), of being some sort of misogynist.” has been her friend for more than 20 by Judge Jeanine Pirro Kellyanne Conway as Counsellor to years. “The President Trump that $17.33, Hardcover the White House, Betsy DeVos as watched her appear as a legal and claimed he didn’t do it and all that Hillary has the gall to try to portray Center Street Secretary of Education, and Dr. political commentator on every stuff … I had him take a polygraph, as anti-woman is the same 288 pages Heather Wilson as the Secretary of major television network — which he passed — which forever President Trump whose economic appointed scores of women to some the Air Force.” reminds her readers about the for- destroyed my faith in polygraphs.” policies have created the most num- of the highest positions in his adm- Then returning, as if reflexively, gotten history involving the 2016 The recording also revealed the ber of jobs for women in the history inistration, including Gina Haspel to the mantra of Hillary’s past ques- presidental candidate and former sordid sense of humor of Clinton, of our nation,” she stated. “It is also as the first female director of the tionable behavior towards women, First Lady. who was captured laughing as she the same President Trump who has CIA, Nikki Haley as the United continued on page 21 The story goes back to 1975 and recalled that her defense of Taylor occurred in the state of Arkansas. A was aided by the Arkansas crime beast named Alfred Taylor had been lab, which had accidentally charged with the rape of a twelve- destroyed DNA evidence tying him year old girl. The attack was so sav- to the attack. age that it left the victim, now a 55 In a fast paced, 20 minute tele-

Judge Pirro on her Fox News show Justice with Judge Jeanine. year-old woman, in a coma for sev- phone interview I recently conduct- eral days and damaged her body so ed with Pirro — also a former severely that she would be unable to Westchester County judge and have children for the rest of her life. prosecutor — explained why she The then 27 year old Clinton had felt this horrible incident, though not volunteered to represent Taylor decades old, remained sufficiently but, rather, was assigned by a judge relevant to be referred to in her to serve as his court-appointed book. “This woman [Hillary JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 15 16 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 17 Anywhere And Everywhere Finding Judaism both inside and outside of traditional synagogue spaces By BEN SALES old. Its rabbi, Sharon Brous, gave or 10 years, Rabbi Dan Ain an invocation at President Barack has tried to take Judaism out Obama’s second inauguration. Fof the synagogue. But those once-scrappy initia- He’s convened Friday night tives are adopting traditional trap- prayers in auditoriums with musi- pings. Ikar has a physical building like other large, liberal Jewish houses of worship. Hadar just insti- PERSPECTIVE tuted membership and a board. Ain cians like Matisyahu and Lisa has departed his organization for a Loeb. He’s held Rosh Hashanah pulpit. The leaders of these com- services in a bowling alley/concert munities say the move toward insti- venue. He scheduled an interview tutionalism isn’t a betrayal of their recently at an artisanal coffee shop founding principles, just a neces- in Brooklyn and showed up in a T- sary response to what their organi- shirt and backward baseball cap, zations or they themselves need. his long hair spilling out of the In other words, the synagogue is sides above his long salt-and-pep- dead. Long live the synagogue. per beard. Ain became a rabbi because he Rabbi Dan Ain is going to return to the synagogue pulpit at a temple in San Francisco for the first time in a decade after creating hen we started, it was a several Jewish programs outside of a synagogue space such as coffee shops and bowling allies in New York City. “Wscrappy startup, and I felt like the synagogue model was for people,” he said, referring to can no longer describe it that way,” old and tired. He even compared prayer groups that gather in the Brous, who was ordained at the the typical American Saturday houses of mourners. “The ability to Conservative Jewish Theological morning prayer service to “a Civil do stuff over a long period of time Seminary, said of Ikar. “People ask War reenactment.” is something I haven’t had the me, with a building, aren’t you “They’re dressed in the right opportunity to do because every- going to be a regular synagogue? clothing, they’re saying the same thing I’ve been doing goes up and And I’m not worried about it at all. words that were said in 1863 in comes down.” “We’re really a question-driven exactly the right ways,” he said. Ain is one of several pioneers of and idea-driven community. The “But there’s no stakes involved, independent Jewish communities building is just driving us to ask there’s no danger in their hearts. who have, in one way or another, these questions with a much And for a lot of people services can inched back toward the synagogue greater urgency.” feel like that.” model they once rejected. About When Ikar was founded in 2004, Which is why it may be surpris- 15 years ago, a series of Jewish it held events and services in cafes, ing that on July 1st, Dan Ain groups that began springing up bars, and private homes with a became the pulpit rabbi of thought the synagogue was not focus on drawing in unaffiliated Congregation Beth Sholom, a responding to their spiritual and rit- Jews. It remains unaffiliated, but is Conservative synagogue in San ual needs. now constructing its own building. Francisco founded nearly a century They differed in their nature but Brous also lead the community’s ago. shared a few common themes: second annual mission to Israel in To Ain, it’s not a contradiction. They did not have a permanent July — a staple of traditional syna- He is proud of the independent physical space; they did not affili- gogues. Ikar employs a large staff Jewish programs he built in ate with a Jewish denomination; for its services, programs, and pre- Brooklyn and downtown Manhat- and they did not charge annual school. tan. But as he’s had kids and membership dues. While some It has also joined with six other watched the world change since were founded by rabbis, others independent communities (includ- 2016, he says that he recognizes eschewed the idea of paid clergy. ing one Renewal Judaism congre- They did not have a permanent physical space; they did not affiliate with a Jewish denomination; and they did not charge annual membership dues.

the need for stability, a reliable Many, though not all, were created gation) to form the Jewish community and, yes, physical per- by alumni of Conservative institu- Emergent Network. The network manence. tions. — with congregations from Seattle An organization that holds Several have found success, like to Chicago to Washington, D.C. — Shabbat services with the lead Ain’s Brooklyn organization, is not a traditional movement like singer of Guster may create a mov- Because Jewish, which was found- Conservative, Reform, or Orthodox ing musical experience. But Ain ed in 2015. Manhattan’s Kehilat Judaism, Brous says. Its member knows that you can’t count on it if Hadar, one of the first independent congregations differ in ideology, you need to say a daily Kaddish, minyans, or prayer groups, is in its but collaborate on fundraising and the mourning prayer, for a dead 18th year, and its founders are resources. And Ikar in particular, parent. among the thought leaders of a she says, is still defined by the “I was always in the back of my wave of egalitarian, traditionally ideas and priorities that animate it, mind desiring of a community in committed Jews. Ikar, a Los not where it meets. which I could have a shiva minyan Angeles community, is 14 years continued on page 27 18 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 Edge continued from page 12 applauds], who I had the recent pleasure of being with in Amman, who is shining everywhere she goes, who teaches us what survival and thriving looks like. So, if we all just collectively send out energies to Rasmieh. Rasmieh is a freedom fighter, a former political prisoner.” In fact, Odeh’s prosecution for naturalization fraud took place before Trump took office. After an appeal overturned her conviction, Odeh pleaded guilty in April 2017 and was deported to Jordan. In her signed plea agreement, she admit- ted lying about being arrested and convicted in the Jerusalem bomb- ing. “She made the false statements intentionally,” it said, “and not as a result of any mistake, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or any other psychological issue or condition or for any innocent rea- son, and not withstanding any other statement or testimony defendant Odeh may have made at any other time regarding those answers.” In another session, the audience was instructed what to do if anyone asks whether they support Hamas. The answer? Evade the question. Say you support Palestinians living in Gaza. When an unidentified audience member described the strategy, Tanya Keilani from the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) endorsed it wholehearted- ly. “That also brings us to what you were saying, which is how do I deal with the Hamas question, right? [Unidentified name] did so well. And again to bring it back to the root cause, reminding people of the root cause is super important, right? Also noting that throughout history people have responded to oppres- sion in various ways, right? But we all know that nothing justifies this form of oppression, right? So bring- ing it back to the root cause, redi- recting. No one needs to know the details of the Hamas charter. There, you know, what date this happened, what meeting or negotiation or whatever. It’s too much informa- tion, so it’s usually a diversion tac- tic.” The USCPR conference comes weeks after the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) held a con- vention featuring an admonition not to “humanize” Israelis, a denial of Palestinian radicalism and incite- ment, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. And like ISNA, the USCPR con- ference makes it clear the goal is not peace, with no ambition for any- thing but tragic bitterness. JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 19 What is novel about the current as historic aberrations. Practical art, the deal that for 70 years helped Back when David Ben-Gurion Divider showdown is its duration, scope, responses, however, varied. secular and religious Israelis share devised it, no one foresaw the sud- and depth. The ban on marrying Reform one national roof now looms as an den release of Soviet Jewry, much continued from page 6 The clash that now enters its third Jews was part of a broader attitude engine of the great Jewish rift. less its arrival here with some Tempel’s 65 founding families century involves the entire Jewish of circling the wagons and redou- The status quo is a paragon of 300,000 children and spouses of introduced prayers in German and people while challenging Ortho- bling the ghetto walls. That is how pragmatism and compromise that intermarriages. Few, therefore, deleted from the prayer book the doxy with two previously unthink- ultra-Orthodoxy came into being. contrasts with intra-Muslim blood- placed much significance in Israel’s pleas for the return to Zion. able realities: Most Jews ignore rab- That attitude was later modified shed in today’s Middle East, and early years on the politicians’ plac- Though there were earlier begin- binical law and a critical mass – by the outreaching Menachem intra-Christian strife in yesteryear’s ing of conversion, too, in the hands nings elsewhere in Germany, this possibly the majority – is not reli- Schneerson in America and Ovadia Europe. of the Chief Rabbinate, which has one lasted while reforms proceeded gious at all. Yosef in Israel, who launched vast It took millions of fatalities and a since morphed from modern- from changing prayers and accom- Judaism’s thinkers, unlike educational networks dedicated to 30-year war for Europe’s Catholics Orthodox to ultra-Orthodox. panying them with music to moving Now, the result of what was the Sabbath to Sunday, as Berlin’s The ban on marrying Reform Jews was part of a broader arranged in the 1950s is that the Reform congregation did in the Jewish state is effectively helping 1840s; canceling circumcision, as attitude of circling the wagons and redoubling the ghetto ultra-Orthodoxy fend off converts the Friends of Reform in Frankfurt by weighing on their conversion did in 1842; abolishing the second walls. That is how ultra-Orthodoxy came into being. process. If anything, it is making the day of biblical festivals, as the procedure even more demanding Breslau rabbinical conference did Christianity’s and Islam’s, never drawing secular Jews back to their and Protestants to reach the 1648 than it was anyhow. in 1846; abandoning rabbinical cared that the rest of the world did forebears’ observance. Peace of Westphalia in which the In this regard, ultra-Orthodoxy’s divorces, as a rabbinical conference not join their faith. However, they Kook’s attitude was markedly rival denominations accepted each harshest critics are modern- did in Philadelphia in 1869; or sure did expect all Jews to be obser- different because it lent religious other’s realms, and thus gave up on Orthodox rabbis such as Haim shedding the dietary laws, as vant, and never prepared for whole- meaning to a partnership between the quest to change their adver- Drukman and Shlomo Riskin. America’s Reform rabbis did in a sale non-observance of the sort that secular and observant Jews, as saries’ beliefs. The Israeli status As they see it, Israel’s conversion conference in Pittsburgh in 1885. Jewish Orthodoxy has come to face. opposed to ultra-Orthodoxy’s dis- quo was, for the fractured Jewish candidates are unique because their A comet had fallen in the midst That is why the theological missal of Zionism as a product of faith, that kind of deal, only it flawed Jewishness is the result of of the Jewish faith, and the response to this transition has been Jewish heresy. involved no violence. Soviet persecution, meaning they shocked rabbis on its crater’s a mixture of denial and missioniz- That, along with Kook’s prag- That alone is an accomplishment are “seeds of Israel” whose admis- opposite end lost no time regroup- ing. matic attitude toward secular stud- many fail to appreciate. Such has sion process should be eased, for ing. The denial has been particularly ies – as reflected in his addressing also been the status quo’s preven- instance, by refraining from check- “All that is novel is forbidden blunt in the thought of A.I. Kook, the Hebrew University’s inaugura- tion of a nation-splitting marriage ing whether a convert lives obser- from the Torah,” quipped an British Palestine’s first chief rabbi, tion in 1925 – inspired more than a ban like Sofer’s in Europe 200 years vantly after converting. embattled Rabbi Moshe Sofer who argued that secularism was century of cooperation between ago. The legally required Orthodox More deeply, the conversion con- (1762-1839), the founder of ultra- part of the process of Redemption, a modern-Orthodoxy and secular divorce has made secular Israelis troversy is over Sofer’s vision of a Orthodoxy, who in 1811 prevented passing phenomenon that would Zionism in building the Jewish religiously eligible to marry obser- shrunken, but maximally observant the establishment of a Jewish vanish once the Jews complete the state. vant Israelis. Jewish people: ultra-Orthodox rab- school that planned to teach secu- bis want to uphold his legacy; their lar subjects in his town, today’s modern-Orthodox opponents want Bratislava. to defy it. While that measure was local, Modern-Orthodoxy is in this his response to the establishment regard in synch with secular Israel, of the Reform Temple in Hamburg which embraces the semi-Jewish bore profound national meaning. immigrants in the spirit of Ariel Firing the sharpest arrow in his Sharon’s loose definition of “Who quiver, he ruled: “Had it been up to is a Jew,” which this series men- me, I would remove them [Reform tioned earlier. Jews] from our borders… they will However, the ultra-Orthodox be in their realm, and we will be in politicians, for now, have the upper ours.” hand, and thus deepen the Jewish rift on both its Russian and wo centuries on, the psyche of American ends – on the former, by Tdivorce that this ruling sparked keeping at arm’s length Israel’s has yet to lose its fervor. semi-Jews, and on the latter, by Sofer’s marriage ban was but an delegitimizing Judaism’s Reform opening shot in a trench war that and Conservative versions. steadily pitted premodern Judaism This is besides the fact that against three bearers of modernity: Israelis are funneled from infancy Reform, secularism, and Zionism. into separate school systems that In itself, schism within Judaism define them for life as either reli- was not new. Sofer’s marriage ban was but an opening shot in a trench war that steadily pitted premodern Judaism against three bearers of gious or secular. This, then, is how modernity: Reform, secularism, and Zionism. Ancient Judea’s Sadducee faith is splitting the Jewish people priests were challenged by the return from Exile to Zion. It was in this spirit that, after Then again, the status quo was in the Jewish state. Pharisee jurists; East Europe’s Today, Shas activists wooing Kook’s death in 1935, the Jewish never a peace agreement. It was an The situation in the Diaspora is emotional Hasidim defied the non-observant Israelis like to say state enshrined the socalled status armistice. The Jewish state band- no better, perhaps worse. more intellectual mitnagdim; and that secularism is “a social inven- quo – the set of arrangements that, aged the wounds of Judaism’s great The Diaspora’s religious vitality medieval Jewry’s Rabbinites, who tion,” part of the European baggage for instance, placed marriage, and schism, but it did not heal them. – once its hallmark – is now a fad- believed in the oral Torah, were that was imposed by Israel’s divorce in the hands of an Orthodox Now it is aggravating them. ing memory. challenged by the Karaites, who Ashkenazi elite on the Middle bureaucracy; determined which With a majority of Diaspora Jews believed only in the written Torah. Eastern Jews who arrived in Israel parts of the public domain would aving previously been sur- now marrying non-Jews, with more That is why Saadia, who led the since the 1950s. operate on the Sabbath, and which Hprised by mass demand for than one in five American Jews say- rabbinical counterattack in that All walks of Jewish Orthodoxy – would not; and imposed Jewish secularism, Orthodoxy in recent ing they are agnostic or atheistic, war, said in the statement with itself a term that did not exist until dietary laws on all military decades was caught off guard by and with the once dominant which we opened that the Jews are the rise of its modern alternatives – kitchens. mass demand for conversion. So Conservative Movement reporting united by their Torahs, in plural. saw non-Orthodoxy and secularism In many ways a work of political was the status quo. continued on page 23 20 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 Epstein referred to both the Times Nobel prize winning econo- Robert Mueller, Deputy Attorney Goldberg, which has since been Leakers method of transportation and loca- mist Paul Krugman, whom she General Rod Rosenstein, former watched on television and over the tion of the destinations with ridicules for incorrectly predicting Head of the FBI James Comey, for- internet by hundreds of millions of continued from page 15 monikers: Epstein’s jet as “The that the stock market would ‘plum- mer Director of National people throughout America and the Pirro stated, “Just remember, as I Lolita Express,” and the name of met’ as a result of Trump’s eco- Intelligence James Clapper, and for- rest of the world, Pirro stated, “so document in the book, when Bill Epstein’s privately owned nomic policies; ABC’S news mer CIA chief John Brennan. you want me to tell you about my was president, Hillary, from an ad Caribbean paradise as “Orgy broadcaster Brian Ross whom she feelings about Whoopi Gold-berg hoc ‘war room’ set up right in the Island.” Pirro stated with the unmis- rebukes for falsely reporting that er comments, I understood, and how she treated me on her middle of the White House, takable sound of anger in her voice, former National Security Advisor Habout these other Trump haters show. employed Mafia like tactics of fear, “for a former President of the General Michael Flynn was pre- would have to wait for (hopefully) “Let me paraphrase what I threats, and intimidation directed United States to fly on a plane pared to testify that Trump had another interview. But there was already said on my own show, Sean against women who her husband named ‘The Lolitta Express’ to a instructed him to contact Russia one person whom I knew I had to Hannity’s, and others: Goldberg’s had sexually assaulted to scare them place called ‘Orgy Island’ as the before the election; the collective ask her about before we hung up the mistreatment of me that day for my from going public with their accu- guest, no less, of a convicted news team at CNN, whom she lam- phone. That person, unless you had respect and admiration for Presid- sations against him. So, of course, a pedophile, is sickening beyond basts for airing the soon later been living on another planet since ent Trump and for my documenting woman like that does not care about words; and, sadly, the same liberals proven lie that members of the July 19, 2018, you would probably his tremendous accomplishments the measurable gains women have and liars in the media who have Trump campaign had close connec- have already guessed, is named with the economy and foreign achieved from Trump, because the been Clinton lap dogs for years tions with the people at WikiLeaks Whoopi Goldberg, one of the five affairs just proves that, Goldberg, truth is she disdains women, just as have tried their best to keep this — a controversial website whose co-hosts of the ABC afternoon tele- like most other liberals, hates much as she disdains the President.” story from the public.” founder, Julian Assange, facing vision live talk show, The View. President Donald J. Trump far more After discussing the Clintons, I espionage charges from the United As the former judge and I than she loves the millions upon irro’s indictment in the book was ready to ask Pirro about those States government, lives in asylum rehashed, it was on that day that millions of Americans whose lives, Pand during the interview of both “liars and liberals in the media” in the Ecuadorian Embassy in Pirro, appearing as a guest on the after just 19 months in office, he Hillary and Bill for their mistreat- whom she castigates throughout the England. show, and Whoopi Goldberg, a self- already has so greatly improved.” ment of women does not end there. book for using fabrications, distor- Nor, I realized, would I have the announced Trump hater, engaged in I must confess that even as Pirro According to Pirro, each has found tions, and deceptions in their time to ask Pirro to elaborate on the a fierce debate concerning the was kindly wishing me well as the common cause and even friendship scheme to destroy the Trump presi- long list of ‘liars and leakers’ cur- President. As that debate devolved interview concluded, I was thinking with pedophiles. In Hillary’s case dency. But then I heard in the back- rently or previously working in high into a mutual shouting match, about questions I still wanted to ask the pedophile was Alfred Taylor; in ground the voice of one her assis- level positions in the federal gov- Goldberg told Pirro and her own her, and, yes, planning how I might Bill’s case the pedophile was his tants informing her that there were ernment, whom she denounces in stunned colleagues “say goodbye, arrange a follow-up interview with close friend, Florida billionaire only three minutes remaining her book for being part of the “Deep I’m done” and walked off the stage. the good judge, who has become Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted child before this 20 minute interview was State” purported to be a government The battle, though, was to contin- America’s most well-known and sexual predator. Following the scheduled to end. within a government, that, Pirro ue. Encountering Pirro backstage toughest critic of liberals, liars, and Clinton presidency, Epstein used So I realized I would not have the contends, has conspired to under- after the show ended, Goldberg leakers. his private jet to, on numerous occa- time to ask Pirro to comment about mine the Trump presidency. These reportedly shouted, “F*** you, get sions, fly the former commander- those ‘liars and liberals in the high ranking anti-Trump officials the f*** out of this building.” Robert Golomb is a columnist for in-chief to sometimes extremely media’ she excoriates in her book. named in Liars, Leakers, and Anticipating the question I would the Long Island Jewish World news- questionable destinations. Some of them include the New York Liberals include Special Counsel ask about her confrontation with paper group.

and only 28 percent oppose some- them being liberal or partisan. cally Jewish issues aren’t at stake. option. That is something those who Voices thing like the Iran deal, liberal- While the numbers back up these Not all U.S. Jews may be fans of claim to speak for the Jews should leaning groups aren’t wrong to assertions, that doesn’t necessarily Netanyahu, but support for Israel never forget. continued from page 14 conclude that their members (and mean that Jewish organizations are and the security of the Jewish peo- Research Survey revealed, most much of the community) don’t right to squander their clout and ple as opposed to secular concerns Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in Jews are far more enthusiastic sup- think there’s anything wrong with credibility in fights where specifi- — is a Jewish obligation, not an chief of Jewish News Syndicate. porters of Roe v. Wade than they are of Netanyahu and Israeli security. On other issues, the Jewish angle is there, but isn’t as clear-cut as some on the left assert. As the descendants of immigrants with memories of the Holocaust always present, most Jews are generally supportive of immigration and sym- pathetic even to those who are here illegally. But there is a difference between those principles and sup- port for open borders, as well as opposition to enforcing the laws. When synagogues declare them- selves “sanctuaries” for illegals and some Jewish Community Relations Councils embrace their plight with an enthusiasm that might exceed their level of support for Israel’s positions, the disconnect between Jewish interests (which ought to include the rule of law, as well as compassion for those who violate it) and the stands of those who claim to speak for the Jews remains clear. Yet as long as 83 percent of Jews are in favor of legal abortion

JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 21 Of Kadoch’s own three children, and Jewish cemetery in Meknes. History two live abroad with their families. From the national to neighbor- His middle son, 32, returned to hood level, “the country takes continued from page 10 Morocco after completing his security very seriously,” said Jason moving out of the mellah until degree. Why does Kadoch remain? Isaacson, associate executive direc- Morocco’s independence from “Because I have my responsibilities tor for policy and managing direc- France in 1956, Kadoch recalled in the community,” he said, which tor of government and internation- his excellent relations with Arab include overseeing the needs of al affairs at the American Jewish neighbors there; they would eat in poor people in partnership with the Committee. Isaacson, who visits each other’s homes and, during the JDC. the country for meetings at least end-of-Passover Mimouna festival, Acknowledging the “large, aging once a year, added, “I have always Muslims would come and even population in this community,” felt safe in Morocco.” bring “simanim,” symbolic holiday Allouche said the JDC works And while the ongoing Israeli- foods. Once Jews were able to live “together with the community to Palestinian conflict precludes the in more modern neighborhoods ensure the highest-quality care, establishment of diplomatic rela- such as Gueliz, expanded educa- including an old-age home that has tions between Morocco and Israel tional opportunities became avail- recently acquired a fully-equipped (for example, after President able in mainstream French-speak- physical therapy room.” Addition- Trump issued his statement recog- ing schools. ally, “we help provide subsidized nizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capi- Kadoch recalled an example of housing and basic goods for the tal, street-level protests erupted in Photo by Lori Silberman Brauner the king’s unwavering support for poorer members of the community, Morocco), “if you talk to educated the community. In 1989, all street ensure holiday celebrations for Moroccans,” he said, “there’s also names in the mellah with Jewish those who cannot afford them, and a real appreciation of the Jewish names were removed by the gover- Dr. Armand Guigui, president of the Fez Jewish community; behind him are photos medical services for a variety of age history in Morocco and also the nor in an effort to “Arabize” the of past communal social events. groups and socio-economic levels.” potential relationship with Israel.” community. After the king got He cited the creation of the wind of this, he ordered the streets despite the thousands of Moroccan who study overseas remain abroad ut in Casablanca, at least, Association Mimouna (whose title restored to their original names. expats who visit for holidays such afterward, and he acknowledged Bthere is more of a Jewish references the end-of-Passover Despite good relations with the as Passover and to pray at graves of there is no viable community out- infrastructure, she said, with three holiday), a group of young, global- king, Kadoch acknowledged it is revered rabbis, will come back for side of Casablanca: “All of the Jewish secondary schools, includ- ly-oriented Moroccan Muslims “only a dream” that the Jews, good. Most Jewish young people cities [are] finished.” ing the Alliance Maimonides, who are interested in teaching Ecole Normale Hebraique, and Moroccan society about the coun- Rashi schools. Some of these try’s rich Jewish heritage; hun- schools also have Muslim students. dreds of young people are active in A new Jewish community center in within it. the city was also established last September, Allouche said, which s for the encouragement of “offers a wide variety of activities Aeven more political contact and events for the whole communi- between the Moroccans and ty.” Israelis, Isaacson said, “Morocco “We remain bullish about the is not yet ready to establish formal Jewish future in Morocco, having relations with Israel, but that the privilege of working with com- should not inhibit political con- munity partners who are eager to tact” to discuss common chal- ensure that the best education and lenges and opportunities. He cited Jewish communal options are “ongoing engagement” with pub- available,” Allouche said. “Yes, lic officials and “receptivity.” young people often travel outside While there is great “sympathy for of Morocco for higher education the Palestinian cause” in Morocco, “If you talk to educated Moroccans, there’s a real appreciation of the Jewish history in Morocco and also the potential relationship with Israel.”

and certain job opportunities, but Israelis of Moroccan roots “find they are very fortunate to have a ways to make business happen” wide variety of choices for Jewish there, and “we hope to encourage life if they stay or return.” more of that, and political dia- “We maintain all the structures logue.” that we had when we were 200,000 Noting the “pride in the diverse [community members],” said heritage of their country,” Isaacson, Berdugo, “and it works.” who was named Chevalier of the While security remains a con- Order of the Throne of the cern in Morocco, Allouche said the Kingdom of Morocco by community is “blessed with Jewish Mohammed VI, said, “Before leadership and a government, led Islam came to Morocco, there were by King Mohammed VI, that is Jews.” proactively dedicated to its security and takes many measures to protect Lori Silberman Brauner is a Jews living in the country.” During staff writer for North Jersey our journalists’ visit, we had police Jewish News. escorts in areas such as the mellah NJJewishNews.com. 22 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 non-Orthodox American Jews than boys; and 66 percent hold a Sabbath religion may in several generations The greatest adapter of Judaism Divider Israeli rabbis are from secular meal including Friday night’s loom as a major divider between a to historic change was Yohanan Ben Israelis. Kiddush. Theirs is a simple but largely post-religious Diaspora and Zakkai, the sage who, following continued from page 20 The rising class of middle-aged, broadly shared connection with a traditionalist Jewish state. Rome’s destruction of Jerusalem, that 95 of its 675 synagogues closed modern-Orthodox Israeli rabbis Jewish heritage. The road from there to religious revised Jewish observance to suit down in less than a decade – it is fair such as Yuval Sherlo, David Stav, At the same time, a growing num- estrangement might be short, in the the Temple’s disappearance. to suspect that the Diaspora’s Re’em Hacohen, Yehuda Brandes, ber of secular Israelis are studying spirit of what Ezekiel reported dur- His greatest reform was to relo- Judaism is slowly but steadily evap- or Benny Lau all served in the army Jewish texts, while a growing num- ing the brief days when Jerusalem cate the national assembly, the orating. with Israelis of every walk and con- ber of observant Israelis are joining had yet to be leveled, but an early Sanhedrin, to Yavne, south of What is not evaporating is the tinue interacting with them daily in new feminist prayer forums, some transport of Jewish deportees, today’s Tel Aviv, despite the ban on Diaspora’s observant flank, but it, settings that transcend denomina- of which revise texts, and some of including that prophet himself, had convening that forum outside the too, besides being compact, has tional limits. which have women giving sermons already arrived at the rivers of Temple. arguably lost its dynamism. Such rabbis can be frequently and even serving as rabbis. Babylon: Less famously, but with no less It has been a generation since the vision, he also salvaged conversion passing of the three great sages pro- It took millions of fatalities and a 30-year war for Europe’s by canceling the prospective con- duced by the postwar Diaspora: Catholics and Protestants to reach the 1648 Peace of vert’s duty to make a sacrifice at the Hasidic leader Menachem Mendel Temple. Schneerson, halachic ruler Moshe Westphalia in which the rival denominations accepted each In terms of understanding histo- Feinstein, and modern-Orthodox ry’s demands, it was the perfect thinker J.B. Soloveichik. None was other’s realms. opposite of the Israeli Rabbinate’s followed by a successor of their current handling of its own conver- stature and authority. found officiating at a non-observant Moreover, observant Israeli women “Keep far from the Lord,” people sion crisis. Ultra-Orthodoxy’s leading Amer- Israeli’s wedding or funeral or deliv- increasingly attend special back in Jerusalem were saying of Back in 70 CE, the Jewish faith ican yeshivot in Lakewood, New ering a lecture in memory of a fall- Talmudic colleges whose very exis- the Diaspora’s founding inhabitants, was salvaged by rabbis who Jersey, and in Baltimore, Maryland, en secular soldier. America’s tence was once anathema to “the land [of Israel] has been given grasped history’s menace – in their and its European flagship in Orthodox rabbis less frequently Orthodoxy. as a heritage to us” (Ezekiel 11:15). case, the loss of the center in Gateshead, England, graduate hun- have such interactions with their In short, the spirit of Judaic What they meant was that there was Jerusalem around which Judaism dreds of students annually as does non-Orthodox brethren. experimentation that originated in no way of being Jewish while living had revolved. Today’s crisis is not modern-Orthodoxy’s Yeshiva Univ- At the same time, Israeli Jews are Germany and then traveled to outside the Land of Israel, and that about Judaism losing Jerusalem, but ersity. However, they are failing to cultivating from below a non-rab- America is now fermenting in an the Diaspora’s pioneers had better about Jews losing faith, Judaism produce leaders whose sway would binical traditionalism. Israeli society that is both courting find themselves another faith. losing Jews and Israel losing the transcend the local sphere, not to and changing tradition. The Subsequent history proved that Diaspora. mention the national. recent polls show 90 percent of Diaspora, by contrast, appears to be there was a way to be a Jew abroad, Will anything reverse this trend, At the same time, Orthodox rab- AIsraeli Jews observe the increasingly shrinking in size and a way without which Judaism would and if so – what? bis in the U.S. – representing an Passover Seder; 60 percent fast on religiosity. not have become the inventive and estimated one tenth of American Yom Kippur; 70 percent keep It follows that, after having rup- adaptive faith Saadia described as Amotz Asa-El is a former execu- Jewry – are even more distant from kosher; 94 percent circumcise their tured the Diaspora for 200 years, the Jewish nation’s glue. tive editor of the Jerusalem Post.

an unknown comic with a cult fol- are you even here, Mark?” your article on coconut oil and I just tery, and we weren’t sure what to Shiva lowing, who happened to be your I wondered that myself. I could- bought some zucchini pancakes expect when we got there. But I mother. n’t banish the thought of my moth- from Glicks and I made them for should have channeled my mother continued from page 5 “I have a lot of problems with er not here, but not there. dinner and they were very good. So and assumed the best. The cemetery Thus began a love affair that computers and technology. People I had a dream: My mother has that went right to use, I made it with was dry, and the graveside portion stretched from that beach, produced five years younger than me get it.” died. My father, who is still alive, the coconut oil I had. And your arti- went off perfectly. my brother and me, five grandchil- “Even when Zayde’s stories did- tells me that I can go in the room to cle said it was healthier than every- Back at our house, we held a non- dren, and ended with my father n’t make sense, they still had a good view her. With trepidation, I walk thing else, olive oil and everything.’ shiva shiva. Mirrors stayed uncov- Irving’s death in Florida four years punch line.” into in the room. My mom strikes “I am not quite sure how to artic- ered, family and friends and col- ago. My mother was a model of “The New York Times is so amaz- up a conversation: “How are you ulate what this reveals about my leagues descended upon our house modernity, loving fashion, the latest ing, I don’t understand half the Moishe? You look worried.” We Grandma Ruthie, but I think it says and we talked about my mother novel, the cool French movie, and things I’m reading.” talk about cottage cheese and pasta, something about her zest for life. well into the night. There was plen- as many parties as she and my “I didn’t get that email you sent her favorite dish, the grandkids, and How she treated my (and all her ty of food, plenty to drink. father could get invited to. me. Maybe it’ll come in tomorrow’s what she’ll miss. I go out of the loved one’s) suggestions and ideas That’s when I realized that, She loved parties! delivery…” room and say to my father: “We with the utmost respect and imme- though I might have felt thrown out She went to services because my “I’m home for the night. Just me can’t bury her. She’s talking to me.” diately put them to use. How she of sync at first by the unexpected father dragged her. When my son and Bill Maher.” He says: “We can’t anyway. It’s was open to embracing new and scheduling, it really was all for the Micah was about bar mitzvah age, Sukkot.” alternative oils and ways of think- good. My mother got a grand send- my mother was embarrassed that ecause of logistics, the funeral The bleak weather exacerbated ing, even in her nineties. Being off, filled with at turns poignant and she couldn’t read or speak Hebrew, Bwasn’t going to take place my unsettled mood. On Tuesday with her, for me, was like being hilarious paeans to her warmth and so she learned Hebrew for the sake until Thursday, a day after the first and Wednesday, it rained all day, with my aspirational kindred spirit. sense of humor. And she would of her grandchildren. That led to her opportunity that we could hold it. I heavy torrents that flooded parts of I admire her and I feel so deeply have loved the non-shiva shiva. It having a bat mitzvah in her 60s, found the time until then particular- New Jersey. I ran from the building connected to her, like we were wasn’t interrupted by a minyan and along with a great party. ly difficult because my internal where my classes are to the parking made from the same cloth.” solemnity. It was just a damn good During her life with Irving, her Jewish clock was set to an estab- garage and forgot to open the I felt at peace. Sad of course, but party. personality took a back seat to a lished rhythm: death, funeral, umbrella I was carrying. relieved that my mother lived into As my mother told us as we were man who was always on, prone to shiva, back to life. Instead I had Thursday finally arrived, a day of her 93rd year, and though the last planning her 90th birthday party in suck all the oxygen out of any room four-and-a-half days when I could- brilliant sunshine and temperatures two years were tough, she did have Florida three years ago: he was in. My father was hysterical- n’t say kaddish, kept picturing my in the low seventies. The funeral special moments, like when Leah “All I care about is that we’re all ly funny. It turns out, my mother mother’s earthly remains in the was a celebration of my mother’s and her husband, Nate, staged a together … and the hall is nice … was as well, but we didn’t see that at morgue at the funeral home, and deep humanity and unbridled opti- separate wedding ceremony, com- and the food is delicious.” first, because Irving was the head- wasn’t surrounded by my immedi- mism. My daughter Leah spoke: plete with chuppa, at the nursing liner. That started to change with his ate and extended family. So, I went “A few nights ago I was re-listen- home. Mark Effron, a veteran television illness and her emergence. We dis- back to work, to the university ing to some voicemails that I had My equanimity was threatened executive, now teaches journalism covered her unintentional hilarity. It where I teach, and had to answer saved from my Grandma Ruthie. I when the Rabbi informed us that and television and digital media at was like going to some hole-in-the- well-meaning questions from my found one from March of 2014… the rains of the past two days had Montclair State University in New wall comedy club, and discovering sympathetic colleagues as to “Why ‘I wanted to tell you that I read dropped 11 inches onto the ceme- Jersey. JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 23 Digging Deeper Tunnels The U.S. and Israel continue to collaborate on tunnel detection By SETH J. FRANTZMAN more complex tunnel systems. In with the armored vehicles, and the reason to boost U.S.-Israel to enshrine the tunnel cooperation he U.S. and Israel are con- Iraq, for instance, ISIS honey- way they used them was really research and development efforts in legislation. tinuing joint work to combed cities with tunnels whose effective,” Lt. Ron Semel told the against this growing threat. In December, the United States’s Timprove tunnel detection, exits were contained inside civilian Times of Israel. fiscal 2018 National Defense specifically those used by militant homes, hidden from aerial view. In the last six months, Israel has n March, 56 members of Authorization Act included contin- organizations such as Hamas and The U.S. Marine Corps trained detected and destroyed several ICongress wrote in a joint letter ued monetary support for the joint with Israeli paratroopers in March impressive tunnels constructed by to the Committee on Appropria- tunnel program. According to the on combating the tunnel threat, and Hamas. One of these tunnels COMMENTARY research and development funding sought to reach into Egypt and was the Islamic State group. The collab- stands to benefit both countries in struck in January. Israel has called oration will continue through 2020, developing technology, such as its strategy of using technology and this year’s budget is expected to acoustic-detection systems, that and intelligence to combat the tun- reach similar levels as the $80 mil- will aid in future battlefields and nel threat a “steel dome”in contrast lion the U.S. contributed in 2016- modern threats. to its Iron Dome system that con- 2017. As part of Juniper Cobra 2018 fronts missiles. In Iraq, ISIS honeycombed cities with tunnels whose exits were contained inside civilian homes, hidden from aerial view.

Tunnel warfare isn’t new, and the exercise in March, the Marines and In the first week of June, the IDF joint effort against the threat brings the Israel Defense Forces participat- destroyed a tunnel in Gaza with an

together experience that Israel and ed in a variety of drills. The sub- airstrike. Unlike most of the tun- Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images the U.S. have from current and pre- exercise Kaya Green, for example, nels built by Hamas - which are A Palestinian youth climbs out of a smuggling tunnel, destroyed by Israel, in the Rafah vious conflicts. The U.S. confront- included training aimed at learning built to penetrate Israel or used for refugee camp by the southern Gaza Strip's border with Egypt on Jan. 22, 2009. ed extensive tunnel systems in from Israel’s experience in tunnel smuggling from Egypt - this one Vietnam. However, militant groups warfare. This built on major strides was built underwater to allow tions’ Defense Subcommittee that legislation, 50 percent of that fund- are increasingly resorting to tunnels Israel has made over the last decade Hamas seaborne commandos to “our own nation faces similar ing must be used for “research, as a way to avoid surveillance by in engineering, intelligence, and use move undetected at sea. It was threats [to those in Israel]. In Iraq, development, test and evaluation drones and other aerial assets. of technology to find and destroy almost 3 meters deep and only 3 Afghanistan and Syria, ISIS has activities in the U.S. in connection As technology improves, adver- tunnels. kilometers from Israel’s border, an used subterranean passages to with such support” - and the pro- saries have sought to counter such “We did a joint training session IDF spokesman said. smuggle weapons, avoid detection, gram was extended through 2020. innovation by digging deeper and with them, fighting side by side, But the tunnel-detection systems ambush troops, and launch tunnel So far, more than $82.5 million Israel has been pioneering with bomb attacks.” was spent in 2016-2017 on the joint U.S. support has wider implica- For their part, Reps. Brad program, and similar figures are tions. Schneider, D-Ill., and Dan expected in the coming years. The Geographically speaking, U.S. Donovan, R-N.Y., have sought to anti-tunnel efforts build on previous lawmakers have pointed to North pass the United States-Israel Anti- successful collaborative efforts to Korean subterranean tunnels as a Tunnel Defense Cooperation Act counter missile threats that have seen Israel develop the Iron Dome, Arrow and David’s Sling systems. But the tunnel-detection technol- ogy goes beyond purely military applications. Elbit Systems reportedly wants to export some of the technology that it has helped develop as a partner in the program. The detection system could be used to combat tunnels used for smuggling drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border, among other areas. In April 2016, the U.S. uncovered a tunnel stretching half a mile from Mexico into San Diego, California. It was the largest of 13 uncovered since 2006. There are also a network of tun- nels left over in areas liberated from ISIS in Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria. These continue to bedevil the return of civilians, who suffer casu- alties from improvised explosive devices and fear ISIS may be hiding out in elaborate tunnel systems that have not been fully explored or destroyed.

Seth J. Frantzman is a writer for the Jerusalem Post. 24 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 The Algorithms Translating Talmud Edition of Babylonian Talmud has human translating with advanced algorithms By SIMONE SOMEKH reader. “In Italian, we say ‘Tradurre early 500 years after the è tradire,’ which means ‘to translate Babylonian Talmud was is to betray.’” Nprinted in full for the first Ascoli also believes that studying time in Venice, the same text is the Talmud from its translated ver- being printed once again in Italy, sion is like studying a scientific sub- ject from the solutions rather than the exercises. As well, he feels wary ANALYSIS about making the Talmud available this time accompanied by an to the general public indiscriminate- unprecedented Italian translation. ly. The true innovation is not the trans- “There are more benefits than lation itself, but the language pars- potential risks,” he concluded. “We ing algorithms developed by a are reappropriating a heritage that small, state-funded startup compa- has been out of many people’s reach ny that were essential to this ambi- for too long, and that’s most impor- tious project. tant.” Behind the first two volumes that As the translation goes forward, have been published so far, there is the Traduco software is turning into a team of researchers, coders, trans- a precious source that can change lators, and editors, who have been The software doesn’t translate the Talmud; it makes suggestions to the human translator, increasingly developing an the way we study the Talmud. The interconnectivity between different passages. working on software that aids them more translations that are stored in in the translation process. The effort The small team of developers Michael Ascoli has curated the trac- of the Talmud among Italian Jewish the system, the greater its level of is headed by Clelia Piperno, the vig- Piperno recruited knew that no tate of Ta’anit. “It’s an exceptional youth. fluency with the language, seman- orous law professor who first envi- existing translation software could exercise,” he said of the collabora- Despite his enthusiasm, Ascoli tics, and structure of the text. sioned this collaboration between handle this type of work; new algo- tive translation effort, noting that has also been hesitant: An inaccu- “The database is one of the most the Italian Jewish community and rithms were needed. Based in the project is incentivizing the study rate translation may mislead the continued on page 28 the computational linguistics Rome, the group created a comput- department of the National er-assisted translation software that Research Council. memorizes all translations per- “It may seem like a utopia,” formed by the human collaborators, Piperno said during a presentation storing them in a cloud in order to held at the United Nations head- facilitate future ones. They named it quarters in New York during the “Traduco,” which means “I opening week of the 73rd General Translate” in Italian. Assembly. Together with diplomats and rabbis, she gave the crowd a he translators divide the text glimpse of the initiative, which Tinto paragraphs and strings, involves almost 100 translators and then select the portion they want to editors. translate; the software searches for New media, Piperno said, are similar excerpts and corresponding The software searches for similar excerpts and corresponding translations in its database and offers the translators a list of suggestions. often used to spread racist propa- translations in its database and ganda, but she wants to use the offers the translators a list of sug- same technology to bridge the dis- gestions. tance between peoples and commu- “The software has ultimately nities. become an excellent tool for analy- The Babylonian Talmud is an sis of the text itself and of the qual- 8,000 page long dialogue between ity of the translations,” said Michael rabbis collected between the third Dollinar, an IT manager who and fifth centuries in the worked on Traduco. Mesopotamian region. The text He explained that the software hosts a multitude of voices, stories, doesn’t translate the Talmud; it and opinions and is one of the main makes suggestions to the human sources of Jewish religious law and translator, increasingly developing thought. an interconnectivity between differ- Translating such a long and at ent passages that no other transla- times cryptic text from its original tion software allows. This feedback Aramaic into a modern language is loop is meant to enhance the work’s a major enterprise, even in the digi- overall accuracy and coherence. tal era. An Italian rabbi based in Haifa, JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 25 community must be free to express their defense of the speaker’s right the subject matter. They assert that weaponize the unspeakable suffer- Freedom their own ideas in response. to offend. They also expressed the speaker’s words are protected ing of the Jewish people to attack This was also the right call. regret for his words: but “do not necessarily represent them once more. The university continued from page 4 While it is reasonable to debate Hitler and the genocide that he the views of the university,” and could have been stronger in professor’s political views on a stu- whether the speaker should have led, however, represent a horrific leave it at that. But of course, if an expressing its dissent from this dent, denying them their academic been invited to campus in the first level of evil with few if any paral- offensive speaker has academic horrifically offensive claim, but the freedom to study where they wish. place, once he was, his words fell lels in human history. We under- freedom to say bigoted things, so fact that it distanced itself from it is No serious defender of academic under the traditionally wide aca- stand how these images are offen- does the university to call out that worthy of commendation. Other freedom could allow such conduct demic latitude granted to lecturers sive, particularly in this case to bigotry. The claim that Israel has schools, when confronted with to stand, and Michigan did not. similarly ugly campus conduct, The institution’s leadership quickly responded in a forceful should feel empowered to do the t the same time, the university manner that upheld the principle of academic freedom same. Adefended the deeply offensive Given the polarized state of our comparison of Netanyahu to Hitler, across the board. politics and the controversy sur- which declared them both “guilty rounding Israel on some college of genocide,” as protected under the to provoke and challenge their lis- Jewish students. We are sorry stu- committed genocide is demonstra- campuses, these issues are likely to umbrella of academic freedom: teners. Without this protection, dents were hurt by this experience. bly false. arise again in other contexts. And For our university to fulfill its speakers would not be able to This step is particularly praise- In fact, the Palestinian Bureau of when they do, other universities role as a place for discovery, broach deeply controversial sub- worthy. Many universities, when Central Statistics records a four- would do well to look to Michigan growth and increased understand- jects on campus without fear of confronted with bigotry from fold increase in the Palestinian as a model for how to respond ing of the complex world we serve, sanction. speakers on campus — including population since Israel’s founding. while standing firmly on principle. speakers must be free to express white supremacists and anti- Accusing the Jewish state of geno- their ideas even when they might be rucially, however, the universi- Semites — use academic freedom cide is thus a blood libel on a Yair Rosenberg is a senior writer offensive. And all members of our Cty leaders did not stop with as a shield to avoid engaging with national scale and an attempt to at Tablet magazine.

Nation for peace, it has become dent broke a test tube in chemistry are related in a symbiosis. When Holocaust museum, touting it as a clear that acts and policies of class, he was expected to create a one grows sick, so does the other. surprising investment for a school Justice nations in other parts of the world new one in the glass-blowing lab. A When one grows strong, the other devoted to STEM education. But have far-reaching effects not only New York Times article celebrating cannot remain weak. In this sense, the museum in the school’s base- continued from page 4 upon their immediate neighbors but the school’s opening reported, “It is science does not exist in a totalitar- ment grounds is the natural legacy became a naturalized citizen. In also on us.” The country braced the belief of the principal, Dr. ian world, no matter how assidu- of its founder: for Meister, scientif- 1921, he completed his doctorate in itself to protect American democra- Morris Meister, that the laboratory ously and cleverly its technical men ic research and political freedom science education at Columbia and cy and Meister understood his job can supply many of the answers that operate. The climate of science is were inseparable because both married Florence Glickstein. He as fundamental to that effort. the boys may not find in their text- the climate of democracy.” During required the honest assessment and founded the Bronx High School of books. Students will be encouraged the War, he attended conferences addressing of social ills. Science in 1938, as Hitler occupied penly acknowledging prob- to leave the trodden path and delve like one called “Scientific Spirit and Meister believed that goals for Austria and FDR warned in that Olems and innovating solutions into unexplored fields.” Meister Democratic Faith,” with panels science education had to be aligned year’s State of the Union that, “In to them were aims central to the welcomed the unpredictability and titled “The Authoritarian Attempt with political and social goals. In spite of the determination of this school’s original mission. If a stu- improvisation inherent to high to Capture Education,” “Demo- terms of admissions reform, we school education as integral to a healthy democracy. Meister welcomed the unpredictability Bronx Science was widely hailed and improvisation inherent to high as a success by the time its first graduating class left. But instead of school education as integral to a growing complacent, Meister pushed his faculty to keep innovat- healthy democracy. ing. In 1942, he published a report on the new integrated curriculum cracy and Education,” “Can Free need to think critically about the his teachers developed for fresh- Communication be Achieved,” and political and social conditions pro- men. He explained his sense of pur- “Science and the Humanization of ducing the schools’ working defini- pose, “We write about this work Society.” tion of “merit.” The most basic with some reluctance. So much Kaplan test prep for the SHSAT remains to be done; the problems eyond cultivating an educa- starts at $999. Considering recent unsolved are so much more numer- Btional climate of transparency, research that demonstrates how the ous than the achievements. Yet the Meister’s specialized high school test has evolved to put some stu- need to tell others must be met, if was founded with the explicit goal dents at a distinct disadvantage only for the purpose of clarification of promoting social and cultural because of their cultural and eco- and the help which comes from the progress. In 1946, he argued, nomic backgrounds, it seems very reactions of colleagues.” Clarity, “The public is quite ready to much in the spirit of Meister’s orig- self-scrutiny, and open communica- agree that science teachers have a inal plan to acknowledge the prob- tion were hallmarks of Meister’s crucial role to play in an atomic age. lem, pay attention to data about it, educational philosophy — perhaps After our statesmen have labored and innovate solutions. The stan- unsurprising for a child exposed so long and hard to establish reason dard of “merit” on which the early to the horrors of tyranny. and peace among nations, and after admissions exam relies is outdated. If this link between his formative our political scientists and philoso- Working backward from clear years and his professional life phers have formulated bases for social and political goals to build seems tenuous, consider an essay he social and economic conduct within an aligned system of science edu- published in 1945, “What’s Ahead and among countries, there is still cation is more in the spirit of for Science in General Education?” the task of education in science to Meister’s legacy than being petri- Meister argued, “Human blood and be done if blueprints are to become fied by fear of change. substance are being spent in an realities.” In other words, he under- effort to protect the democratic stood science education and Annie Abrams teaches and faith. Yet the sacrifice will be tragic humanitarian aims to be inextrica- writes in NYC. She holds her doc- and useless if the scientific spirit is bly intertwined. A few years ago, torate in American literature from abandoned. Science and democracy Tablet reported on Bronx Science’s NYU. 26 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 volunteering. It has been meeting don’t think wanting some kind of founders, Danielle Rugoff and her “There’s a trend to silo our- Anywhere weekly in the same space, a permanency and routine is the husband, Rabbi David Singer, selves,” he said. “I think there is a Conservative Jewish day school, same as the old-fashioned syna- moved to San Diego, where Singer real reluctance for people to enter continued from page 18 since 2011. Once populated largely gogue model.” is a Hillel rabbi. But Rugoff says into synagogue life because of all of “What we learned early on is by recent college graduates, it is they are exploring a return to the meshugas that comes with com- that a lot of the successes and best now creating more structured chil- n other cases, institutional con- Dallas, where they could recreate munity, all of the real intermingling practices of how to engage people dren’s programming — including Icerns can lead to a successful Makom as a fully independent of people and different personali- in Jewish life were inaccessible or paid babysitting every week, a reg- prayer group shutting down. That’s organization. ties. But the fragmentation leaves missing,” Brous said. “People are “There’s nothing out there for people isolated and lonely.” even more desperate to find a way Conservative Jews that was relevant Ain, similar to Brous, says being for their Jewish tradition and faith and compelling, that also was a a permanent and more traditional community to help them make space where Jews by choice, space will not necessarily have to sense of what it means to be an Reform Jews, interfaith couples, mean letting go of experimental American, to be a Jew.” where people could come in and be musical experiences, or even his One of the founders of Hadar, able to really witness and feel a penchant for meeting at a cafe in a Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, says it makes Judaism that was closer to some- T-shirt. Kaunfer also says that syna- sense that older independent com- thing that they would practice,” she gogues have adopted practices and munities are seeking permanence said, describing her impetus for co- melodies pioneered by the prayer as they expand. In many cases, he founding Makom. “Talking about groups. says, young prayer groups don’t big ideas and the value of life and Others still dislike the idea of have a building simply because everything else Judaism can offer is permanence. If the second iteration they cannot afford one. something people want.” of Makom does end up happening, “Having a building is about the For Ain, the choice to move from Rugoff says, it will still appeal to benefits of having a space you con- a bowling alley to a bimah is partly people who are still looking for trol, which does track onto organi- Rabbi Sharon Brous at an event at the El Rey Theater in Hollywood, Calif., in 2006. practical — fundraising was tough something other than what their zational maturity and the next stage ular children’s service, and early what happened to Makom, an off- in Brooklyn — but it’s also ideolog- parents’ synagogue has to offer. of growth,” said Kaunfer, who dinner for kids when the communi- shoot of a Dallas Conservative syn- ical. He believed that by attracting a “I don’t think Makom would ever wrote the book Empowered ty meets on Friday nights. agogue, Congregation Shearith group of like-minded young people, become a brick-and-mortar syna- Judaism: What Independent But the new board president, Israel. Makom once counted 1,500 he was missing out on the some- gogue,” she said. “I think we’re Minyanim Can Teach Us about Emily Scharfman, notes that the participants — a large number in a times difficult but also intricate talking about people where the idea Building Vibrant Jewish Comm- group still does not have clergy or midsize Jewish community like mosaic of a typical synagogue com- of membership doesn’t make sense unities. “Having a building or a paid staff of any kind. Dallas. Makom was active from munity. People may not agree on to them. I built a community I want- permanent space is not an ideolog- “Kehilat Hadar is deeply inter- 2012 to 2015, and met for services everything and they’ll come from ed to raise my family in, and no ical step. It’s a practical step.” ested in feeling like a permanent in a loft space wallpapered with different generations, he says, but matter where I go, I’ll be looking Earlier this year, Hadar created a davening community,” she said, whiteboards that attendees were they will be there both for bar/bat for that.” formal nonprofit board and mem- using a Yiddish word for prayer. “I free to draw on before the event. mitzvahs and funerals. The political bership structure based on either think that’s fundamentally and Differences with the synagogue polarization of the current era has Ben Sales is a writer for the annual dues or a certain amount of deeply important to all of us here. I led to Makom’s dissolving, and its only reinforced that notion for him. Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 27 every human being! fascinating and mysterious sources working remotely and in groups. Abraham truly internalized this of wisdom in history. “We’re doing the same. All I hope Light mission of Abraham Judaism, to Talmud “The Talmud is a collective is that this one won’t take cen- bring the blessings of the God of work. It was put together by schol- turies.” continued from page 7 love and lovingkindness to every continued from page 25 Eshkol said to him, ‘How can you human on earth. treasurable and important elements An inaccurate translation may mislead do this? You will be making your- Since Abraham’s vision wants of Traduco,” said Dollinar. the reader. “In Italian, we say ‘Tradurre self unique and identifiable, differ- to embrace all of humanity, how The potential clash between arti- ent from the other nations of the do we understand his willingness ficial intelligence and halakhic è tradire,’ which means ‘to translate is world.’ Mamre, however, said to to cast his own flesh and blood to expertise can make some rabbis Abraham, ‘How can you refuse to the desert? The Tosefta on uncomfortable. to betray.’” do what God asks you? After all, Masekhet Sotah, commenting on “I still hope that people will con- God saved all of your two hundred the verse spoken by Sarah in Lekh tinue asking questions to the rab- ars who lived in different places Simone Somekh is a New York- and forty-eight limbs when you Lekha (third weekly Torah por- bis,” said Ascoli, when queried and times,” said Ascoli, drawing a based author and journalist. He's were in the fiery furnace of tion): “…I was derided in her about how technology may change parallel with today’s translation lived and worked in Italy, Israel, Nimrod. If God asks you to sacri- [Hagar’s] eyes. Let God judge our approach to religious texts. project, which is very much about and the United States. fice a small portion of only one of between me and you,’ expands “However, I hope rabbis will use your limbs, how can you refuse?!’ this theme and demonstrates how computers in regards to the notions.” So far, two tractates — Rosh PPROFESSIONALR O F E S S I O N A L SERVICESS E R V I C E S He argues the fact that the Torah begins Hashanah and Berakhot — trans- with Creation has nothing to do with a lated with the assistance of Traduco’s algorithms, have been grand universal vision, but with published by Giuntina, the historic Jewish publishing house in Italy. establishing Jewish rights to the land Ta’anit and Kiddushin are expected to come out by the end of the year. of Israel. Italians, few of whom are Jewish, have been purchasing the volumes, Because Mamre was the only per- Abraham and Sarah held two very curious to take a look at what is son who gave him positive advice, different world-views, the Sages in considered to be one of the most God chose to appear to Abraham the Tosefta fill in the following dia- by the oaks of Mamre. (Gen. Raba logue between Sarah and Abraham: 42:14) “I see Ishmael building an altar, What I believe is truly remark- capturing grasshoppers, and sacri- able about this midrash is that it ficing them to idols. If he teaches pictures Abraham as ‘checking this idolatry to my son Isaac, the out’ the advisability of circumci- name of heaven will be desecrat- sion with his three gentile friends ed,”says Sarah to Abraham. and allies, in order to discover just Abraham replies, “After I gave how upset they would be by the her [Hagar] such advantages, how introduction of this unique and can I demote her? Now that we nationalistic sign upon his flesh. have made her a mistress [of our Abraham is concerned because house], how can we send her Abraham is a universalist. away? What will the other people And Abram and Nahor took for say about us?” (Tosefta Sotah Increase Customers themselves wives; the name of the 5:12) With Little wife of Abram was Sarai. (Gen. Sarah’s position is crystal clear. Or No Cash 11:29) She is more than willing to work together with Abraham to save the ntil that time, the women are world – but not at the expense of Ugenerally anonymous, with her own son and family. She all the ‘begetting’ seeming to take teaches us that our identity as a place because of the men alone unique people must be forged and [Gen. 5]! Hence when the Bible secure before we can engage in records: dialogue and redemption of the And Abram took his wife Sarai nations. … and all their substance that they God teaches Abraham that had gathered and the souls that Sarah is right: Whatever Sarah they had gathered in Haran. (Gen. says to you, listen to her voice, for 12:5) through Isaac shall your seed be Rashi hastens to explain based called. (Gen. 31:12) on the Midrash, that to ‘gather Indeed, one of the tragedies of souls’ meant that ‘Abraham con- life is that we often fail to appreci- verted the men, and Sarah convert- ate what we have until we lose it – ed the women.’ At least our Sages or almost lose it. It may well be believed that they truly worked argued that the subsequent trial of together as consecrated partners to the binding of Isaac comes in no accomplish the work of the Lord. small measure to teach Abraham And indeed throughout this to properly appreciate – and be Biblical position, Abraham is seen truly committed to – his only son as a Jewish “Missionary” building and heir. altars to God and calling out to the local inhabitants to believe in Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is Chief the God of creation and love for Rabbi, Efrat Israel. 28 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE Notice of Qualification of SDC 78TH LLC. Notice of Qualification of 13 HARRISON Notice of Formation of babygr LLC. Arts. Notice of formation of Kevin Nan Jiang Notice of Formation of FIL AND Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of of Org. filed with Secy. Of State of NY Orthopaedic Surgery PLLC. Arts of Org. 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The first path, she resist its aggression.” observed, “will get the Palestinian Hits people exactly nowhere.” continued from page 8 9) February 2018 – Haley 10) May 2018 – Condemning back to the 17th century to paint takes Saeb Erakat to school. Hamas rocket attacks Israel as a colonialist project engi- After her speech criticizing Haley had convened an emer- neered by European powers,” Abbas for his lack of courage in gency meeting of the Security Haley remarked. seeking peace with Israel, Council following a barrage of “A speech that indulges in out- Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat more than 100 rockets and mor- rageous and discredited conspira- called Haley “impudent,” and said tars fired from the Hamas-con- cy theories is not the speech of a that she should “shut up.” trolled Gaza Strip into Israel. person with the courage and the The ambassador responded in She blasted the Council for fail- will to seek peace,” Haley the Security Council by promising ing to agree on a statement con- observed. And while she said that “I will not shut up,” adding that “I demning Hamas, calling such a February 20, 2018: The day Haley told Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat that she the U.S. “remains fully prepared would not “shut up.” will respectfully speak some hard condemnation a “no-brainer.” She and eager to pursue peace,” which truths.” also added, “Apparently, some would require compromise, “hate- action taken by Iran. are making plans to stay in Syria.” Those truths, according to Council members did not think filled speeches and end-runs Haley told the U.N. Security Haley called the incursion of Haley, were that the Palestinians Hamas launching rockets quali- around negotiations take us Council that the violation of the drone “an egregious and must “choose between two paths,” fied as terrorism. The United nowhere.” Israeli airspace by an Iranian unprompted escalation.” She con- one of “absolutist demands, hate- States begs to differ.” drone is “a wake-up call for all of tinued, “Iran was once again ful rhetoric, and incitement to vio- 8) February 2018 – Stern con- us.” She added that the incursion doing what it does – risking con- lence” and the second that of David Gerstman is Senior demnation of a provocative showed that “Iran and Hezbollah flict and testing the will of its negotiation and a willingness to Editor at The Tower.

83 miles of Suffolk’s south shore to, We’re putting 110 million tons in large part, ostensibly withstand every day of man-made, heat-trap- Storm hurricanes. The Army plan is still ping pollution into the sky. That’s around as a $1.3 billion project. But why the oceans are getting so hot. continued from page 9 the dunes reinforced in the project That’s why Hurricane Florence that at some point this century a would rise, at their highest, to 15 intensified so rapidly. That’s why Category 5 hurricane will hit Long feet — about half the height of the there are fish from the ocean swim- Island.” worst hurricane storm surge esti- ming in the streets of Miami at high When Hurricane Michael hit mated by Professor Mandia for tide — because of the melting ice Florida at 155 miles per hour, it was Long Island. and sea level rise.” just a mile per hour less than being “Resiliency” is the word the “The scientists were spot on in a Category 5. That’s why it is being Army Corps and politicians have warning us about all of those conse- termed an “historic” monster hurri- been using since Sandy in 2012 as quences,” said Mr. Gore. “Now the cane — extreme even for often hur- to what’s needed to protect Long evening news every night is like a ricane struck Florida. Island from hurricanes and other nature hike through the Book of fierce storms. It’s a nice word, but Revelations…This is a really criti- he key factor causing loss of the Army Corps’ Fire Island to cal choice that we have to make. We Tlife and damage from a hurri- Montauk Point scheme is billion must change. The second question: cane is storm surge. Storm surge is buck wishful thinking. Can we change? We have the abili- defined by the National Oceanic Professor Mandia says: “Hurr- ty and the technologies to do it.” and Atmospheric Administration as icane storm surge causes approxi- Meanwhile, says Professor Man- “the abnormal rise in seawater level mately 90 percent of all storm The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has awarded Suffolk County Community dia’s pages, the impacts from a during a storm, measured as the deaths and injuries and much of the College Meteorology Professor Scott Mandia the AGU Ambassador Award, given major hurricane “point to a likely height of the water above the nor- damage, therefore it is important to annually to honorees for their contributions to the Earth science community. future disaster in Suffolk County.” mal predicted astronomical tide. residents of Long Island … to be that “almost rewards people for hoop ten feet above the floor and To eliminate the cause of increas- The surge is caused primarily by a aware of the areas that will be building in dumb locations,” said consider a dunk to be a storm over- ingly severe hurricanes, says Mr. storm’s winds pushing water affected by the storm surge. The Professor Mandia in our interview. topping a sea wall or other barrier. Gore, there must be an end to onshore.” southern shore of Long Island is The gargantuan elephant in the Now imagine humans have caused reliance on fossil fuel and a move to And if a Category 4 hurricane most vulnerable to storm surge hurricane room now is climate that floor to rise by a foot. It is much green, clean, non-carbon emitting hits Long Island, the storm surge, inundations because hurricane land- change. Professor Mandia says cli- easier to dunk a basketball now. energy led by solar and wind power. says Professor Mandia, would be fall will first occur there and the low mate change, global warming, is More flooding just like we saw in Mr. Gore says, “We have the ability more than 20 feet and as high as 28 elevation will allow sea water to responsible for the increased sever- Sandy, Harvey, Maria, Florence and and the technologies to do it.” and 29 feet, in some areas of move well inland.” ity of major hurricanes. every hurricane from now onward.” For more hurricane information, Suffolk and Nassau Counties. Complicating things today, as He explains: “All coastal storms Climate change is caused by the please visit http://www2.sunysuf- The Army Corps of Engineers, in Professor Mandia notes on his web are now worse due to sea level rise use of fossil fuels. folk.edu/mandias/38hurricane/hur- charge of protecting the coast of the pages: “Unfortunately, in the past caused by human activities that are Al Gore, who first took on cli- ricane_future.html U.S. from hurricanes, believe it can decades, the coastal population has warming the climate. A warmer cli- mate change as a U.S. senator and win against hurricanes. In 1962, also increased substantially which mate means more ice melt, which continued as vice president and now Karl Grossman is professor of when I started out as a Long Island- further increases the hurricane adds water to our oceans. Warmer a citizen-activist, said in an inter- journalism at the State University of based journalist, the Army Corps risks.” water expands and thus rises view with Bloomberg Business- New York/College at Old Westbury was first advancing its Fire Island to And then there is the federally- upward, a double-whammy for sea week recently: “We’re still treating and host of the nationally-aired tel- Montauk Point Project, to bolster subsidized flood insurance program level rise. Imagine a basketball the atmosphere as an open sewer. evision program Enviro Close-Up.

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