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Chaya, 46, and her father, Yosef Salomon, 70, were mur- dered in their home. An aerial view of the Temple Mount Temple Mount security to prevent ‘apocalypse between Islam and Judaism’ By Alex Traiman Berko, a former colonel in JNS.org the Israel Police and former adviser on Arab affairs for the The Israeli government Jerusalem Police Department, reopened the Temple Mount told JNS.org. complex to Muslims and Islamic leaders have called members of other faiths Sun- on Muslims “to reject and day with strict new security boycott all the Israeli aggres- Elad Salomon, 36, (r) was also murdered. measures, in the wake of last sion measures,” claiming the His wife, Michal, (l) saved 5 children by locking them in Friday’s attack near the flash- changes violate a long-held a room and calling for help. She’s now a widow and a hero. point holy site, in which Arab status quo between the Is- terrorists killed two Israeli lamic Waqf, which adminis- By Adam Abrams rage,” in which riots erupted Druze police officers. ters the site itself, and Israel, JNS.org after Friday prayers in re- Israeli defense experts who which controls access to the sponse to the installation specialize in understanding Temple Mount. A Palestinian terrorist fatal- of metal detectors at the radical Islamic culture stress After metal detectors were ly stabbed an Israeli father and entrance gates to the Temple that such attacks are likely to installed at the entrance Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 two of his adult children last Mount. Israel bolstered se- occur again. gates to the Temple Mount, Israeli security officers stand near a newly installed metal Friday night in the Samaria curity following the July 14 “For many years, there has Sheikh Omar Kiswani, direc- detector (left) at one of the entrance gates to the Temple community of Halamish, Arab terror attack that killed been the motivation to create tor of the Al-Aqsa mosque, Mount in Jerusalem, July 17, 2017. amid escalating tension over two Israeli Druze policemen an apocalypse between Islam told Israeli media, “We reject Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. near the holy site. and Judaism on the basis the changes imposed by the record of using holy sites of all and encourage using weap- The terror attack in Ha- Several hours before ini- of the Al-Aqsa mosque (the Israeli government. We will faiths as arenas to promote ons, killing innocent people lamish came on the heels of name of the mosque on the not enter through these metal their radical agenda, across and creating chaos.” He noted a Palestinian-incited “day of Stabbing on page 15A Temple Mount plaza). Sheikh detectors.” the Middle East,” Berko said. that the terrorists, who came Raed Salah (the head of the Unholy act at a holy site? Berko suggested that fu- from the Israeli Arab town of Northern Branch of the Is- “Radical Muslims do not ture incidents on the Temple Umm al-Fahm, were incited lamic Movement in Israel) is give a damn about the fact that Mount are likely due to on- by radicals like Salah, who Protests ignite over very bold in using this argu- a site is holy—even to them- going “incitement and the ment day and night,” Reuven selves. They have a long track circumstances which support Security on page 14A Temple Mount (JNS.org) Anti-Israel dem- including the Temple Mount, U.S. Jewish leaders back onstrations were held across through the Islamic Waqf. the Muslim world Thursday In Istanbul Thursday night, and Friday to protest Is- Turkish Islamists protested metal detectors on Temple Mount rael’s decision to implement outside of the Neve Shalom metal detectors at the Temple synagogue with signs denounc- By Rafael Medoff Herbert Block, executive such measures until now,” Mount, following the July 14 ing Israel as a “terrorist state.” JNS.org director of the American American Jewish Committee terror attack that killed two “Israel has banned Friday Zionist Movement, said, “If CEO David Harris told JNS. Israeli police officers near the prayers at Al-Aqsa mosque There is a broad consensus the authorities responsible org. “The terror attack last holy site. for many years,” said local among American Jewish lead- for security feel certain mea- week, in which two Israelis In Jordan’s capital of Am- Islamist leader Kursat Mican, ers in support of Israel’s use sures are necessary to meet were killed, is a tragic re- man Friday, thousands of pro- the Hurriyet Daily News re- of metal detectors to intercept their responsibility to protect minder of why metal detectors testers organized by Islamist ported. “It has not stopped at terrorists on Jerusalem’s those who visit for prayer or are needed for the safety of all groups took to the streets to that and now it is harassing Temple Mount. as respectful visitors, it is no visitors and personnel.” decry the security measures. our Palestinian brothers by The Conference of Presi- different than security con- The World Jewish Congress “With our soul, with our putting X-ray devices at the dents of Major American Jew- siderations at the Vatican, at (WJC) and B’nai B’rith Inter- blood, we will sacrifice our- entrances to our sanctuary. ish Organizations “supports the [U.S.] Capitol or any other national are taking similar selves for you, Al-Aqsa,” they Our brothers are not able to taking the necessary and significant location where positions. chanted, AFP reported. “We appropriate steps to assure public access is permitted “It is not the presence of will go to Al-Aqsa in our mil- Protests on page 15A security for all and to protect under applicable law.” metal detectors that leads to lions as martyrs.” the sanctity of these holy “In a world where security violence, rather the unrelent- Jordan, one of two Arab sites,” the umbrella group’s measures are being enhanced ing incitement to violence countries that have peace executive vice chairman and in major gathering places, on the part of the Palestin- treaties with Israel, is the CEO, Malcolm Hoenlein, told it’s only surprising that the custodian of the Old City of JNS.org. Temple Mount didn’t have Consensus on page 14A Jerusalem’s Muslim holy sites, PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 28, 2017 Maccabiah Games yield ‘positive connections’ to Israel for athletes worldwide games, hosted in Jerusalem, players and lacrosse players ences back home with them,” basketball and stayed in the had the added significance of came to compete.” he said, adding, “Sports, and same hotels together. Within coinciding with the 50th an- Some of the top Israeli and the arts, are the only things just a few days, these athletes niversary of the reunification international Jewish athletes that can make such positive became friends and many of Israel’s capital city. who competed in the 2017 connections to Israel.” stayed in touch with each Tamir Goodman, a for- Maccabiah Games were Israeli Kowalsky’s perspective other,” said Kowalsky. mer Maccabiah athlete who Olympic judo bronze medal- comes from his decades of Kowalsky’s involvement gained fame during his high ists Ori Sasson and Yarden experience using sports to with the Friendship Games led school basketball career in Gerbi, French Olympic gold break down cultural and po- to him serving as head coach 1999, when Sports Illustrated medalist swimmer Fabien litical barriers. He served as of a Palestinian Authority (PA) magazine nicknamed him the Gilot, and American Olym- head coach of Israel’s under-20 basketball team after he origi- “Jewish Jordan,” told JNS. pic gold medalist swimmer women’s basketball team in nally volunteered to coach the org, “The 2017 games were Anthony Ervin. the 2009 Maccabiah Games, players without pay. Kowalsky all-around great—great for Ervin—who has won four guiding the squad to win continued in this capacity for the athletes, great for Israel Olympic medals—finished gold in the finals against the two years until “politics came and great for the thousands the Maccabiah Games with American team. Kowalsky was inside,” he said. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 of fans who got to watch and three gold medals, in the due to participate in the 2017 “The president of the Pales- Fireworks at the opening ceremony of the 20th Maccabiah cheer on the teams.” 100-meter freestyle, the competition as the technical tinian International Olympic Games in Jerusalem, July 6, 2017. Contestants competed 50-meter freestyle and the delegate for 3-on-3 basketball, Committee (Jibril Rajoub) in 43 different sports at 4×100m medley relay, setting which had been billed as a said to the players, ‘If this By Adam Abrams “positive connections” to complexes throughout Is- Maccabiah records with his highlight of this year’s games, Jewish coach from Israel will JNS.org Israel. rael. Soccer was the largest times in the latter two events. but the event was cancelled continue to practice with you, The Jewish athletes from competition, with more “Thousands of people came because not enough players you cannot play in the Pales- Some 7,000 Jewish athletes overseas had arrived in Israel than 1,400 athletes from 20 from all over the world and signed up to compete. tinian league,’” Kowalsky said. from 80 countries prepared in early July, joining 2,500 Is- countries participating. In connected with Israel during In addition to working with Ironically, it was Kowalsky to head back to their home raeli contestants in the world’s addition to the athletes, as the Maccabiah Games. This Israeli athletes, Kowalsky who founded the PA’s basket- countries this week following third-largest sporting event, many as 20,000 international is very important for Israel,” in 2006 headed an initia- ball league. the 20th Maccabiah Games, a which convenes every four visitors attended the games, said Kowalsky. tive dubbed the “Friendship “When politics comes in- two-week event that is being years and is often dubbed the injecting around $100 million “Israel is in a difficult po- Games” in collaboration with side [sports] we have a prob- praised for helping create “Jewish Olympics.” This year’s into Israel’s economy. litical situation with issues Ed Peskowitz, former co-own- lem, but when you take sport “Most of the federations such as the recent anti-Israel er of the National Basketball in its purest form, people are who sent athletes to Israel motions passed at UNESCO, Association’s Atlanta Hawks. coming to have fun and enjoy took the competition very se- and constant attacks from the The initiative offered college their time and to get to know riously,” Ilan Kowalsky, head BDS movement...these young students from 17 different each other. This is why the of the Sports Department athletes, who travel here for countries and territories the Maccabiah Games is such a at Israel’s Interdisciplinary the games with their families, opportunity to compete in a great idea,” Kowalsky said. Center research college in and may have encountered basketball tournament and “You know that peace Herzliya and a basketball anti-Semitism and anti-Israel tour Israel together. Israelis, between China and the U.S. coach, told JNS.org. “They sentiments in their home Palestinians and Jordanians started with table tennis,” he did not send third-[division] or countries, experience Israel in all participated. said. “My belief is that sport fourth-division athletes. Only a very positive way, through “For seven days, players can open a door for the next the top swimmers, basketball sport, and take these experi- from 17 countries played peace movement.” Mazel tov to award-winning scholar Rachel Levine Rachel Serena Levine of leadership, in conjunction Orlando graduated at the top with academic excellence, of a class of more than 5,000 has provided significant value bachelor’s degree candidates to the USC community, as during the 134th Commence- well as being recognized as a ment at the University of Steven and Kathryn Sample Southern California held in USC Renaissance Scholar, May. recognizing students who A member of Temple excel in two or more unrelated Shir Shalom, Oviedo, and disciplines. a graduate of the Center During her senior year at Hillel is all over—and all for International Studies USC, Levine helped found at Dr. Phillips High School the organization USC Un- under—the place! in Orlando, Levine, and 16 dergraduates Studying East Assistant Director of Hillel Sam Friedman, Danielle other straight-A students, Asia, which provided a venue McKinstry and Andrew Max took to the sea and took was honored on May 11, 2017, for students in the various this banner for Hillel with them, displaying it on the as part of a Wall of Scholars East Asian Language and bottom of the ocean. recognition ceremony held Culture disciplines to meet Hillel CEO Aaron Weil commented, “We love Hillel in the Leavey Library on and share cultural aspects of at UCF from the bottoms of our hearts and now ap- the Los Angeles, California, their programs. She was also parently... the ocean floor!” campus. As a recipient of the a tutor in the Athletic Services Emma Josephine Bradley department, as well as a men- Bovard Award, her name tor to other tutors. will be etched into glass Levine has been award a panels lining the walls of the Bachelor of Arts, summa cum Weingart Reading Room in laude, in East Asian Language FOR SALE the Leavey Library. and Culture, with minors in At the 2017 Student Rec- International Relations and Two cemetery plots at ognition Ceremony held Psychology. She has enrolled earlier in the day, Rachel, a in the Master of Arts in Asian Congregation of Reform Judaism 2016 recipient of the Phi Beta Studies program at Florida In- Cemetery located at Woodlawn Kappa key, received the Order ternational University where of Troy, awarded to graduat- she will be a teaching as- Memorial Park in Gotha, FL ing undergraduates whose sistant. 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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 28, 2017 PAGE 3A Christian Zionists still uncertain about Trump—but know they’re glad Obama is out not blessing Israel, they were and celebrate the new political deal that Obama negotiated, In describing a visit to cursing Israel,” said Bauer, climate in Washington. trading sanctions relief for the Oval Office earlier this who was recently named di- Missing from the proceed- a rollback of Iran’s nuclear year by the CUFI leadership, rector of CUFI’s Washington ings, though, was a full- program (although Trump Stakelbeck barely touched office. throated endorsement, at has yet to withdraw from it). on Trump, instead lavishing Now, Bauer said to ap- least from the leadership, of Trump is friendlier with the praise on Pence, a Catholic plause, Pastor John Hagee, the change agent: President government of Israeli Prime turned evangelical Christian CUFI’s founder, was able to Donald Trump. Minister Benjamin Netan- who became one of the coun- attend White House meetings. On a panel Monday, Ha- yahu, and this was noted by try’s most socially conserva- “J Street and their support- gee voiced concerns about speakers including Malcolm tive legislators and governors. ers like George Soros are out Trump’s commitment to Hoenlein, the executive vice “There was no teleprompt- and CUFI and Pastor Hagee the conservative group’s top president of the Conference of er,” Stakelbeck said of Pence. are in!” he said. priority, moving the U.S. Presidents of Major American “I can tell you he spoke from The audience let out a Embassy to Jerusalem. Jewish Organizations. Hoen- the heart.” cheer, relishing the scathing “Moving to Jerusalem lein spoke on the panel with Pence, the star speaker of references to the liberal Jew- would prove that our presi- Hagee and West. the conference, was not subtle ish Middle East lobby and the dent stands by his word,” “The U.S.-Israel relation- in drawing the contrast with billionaire funder of liberal Hagee said. ship is stronger than it was the Obama administration. causes, including J Street. Allen West, a former Re- last year, more vibrant, more “In President Trump, Amer- Kasim Hafeez/CUFI Some 5,000 activists from publican congressman who committed,” the Jewish leader ica once again has a leader Pastor John Hagee, left, founder of Christians United for across the country attended is immensely popular in the said. who will stand with our allies Israel, shaking hands with Vice President Mike Pence at the 12th conference of the conservative pro-Israel com- Speakers mentioned Pence and stand up to our enemies,” CUFI’s annual conference, July 17, 2017. Christian Zionist group, munity, was blunt speaking as soon as they mentioned he said in his speech Monday. which has over 3.5 million on the same panel. Trump, reassuring them- “And this president calls our By Ron Kampeas Gary Bauer, the veteran members. Members gathered “If you have spoken about selves that they had at least enemies by their name.” evangelical activist, laid it to hear from top Jewish, Israeli this and don’t follow through, one true friend in the White Pro-Israel groups to the WASHINGTON (JTA)— out at the opening session and political leaders; lobby then it’s a matter of credibil- House. left of CUFI would contest Barack Obama is gone and of Christians United for Is- for legislation, including a ity,” he said. “I believe God Almighty many of the assumptions the relief among the Christian rael’s annual conference on measure that expands anti- To be sure, the CUFI repre- has strategically placed Vice underpinning the conference. Zionists and their Jewish Monday. boycott laws and another that sentatives were clear that they President Mike Pence at the They would note that Obama friends who peopled certain A year ago, “from one end cuts nearly all U.S. funding preferred Trump to Obama side of President Trump,” said substantially increased secu- corners of Washington, D.C., of Pennsylvania Avenue to the to the Palestinian Authority and specified why: Trump Erick Stakelbeck, who hosts a this week was palpable. next, we had people who were unless it curtails incitement, opposed the Iran nuclear CUFI-affiliated TV show. Christians on page 14A The Forward sees threat from ‘censors,’ but other Jewish editors and groups differ nity attempting to “censor” media itself is on the firing of view can even be much dovish views? The president line, and freedom of expres- of a meaningful problem in of The Forward newspaper sion is under pressure from the media today. There’s all thinks so, but other editors our own government.” In the opinion you could ever and leaders of some left-of- the July 12 television seg- want on Twitter. Nobody is center Jewish organizations ment, however, The Forward’s sitting around thinking to see things differently. president, Samuel Norich, of- themselves, ‘Darn, I only wish The dispute arises from the fered a different explanation. in 2017 I could get access to July 12 episode of the Jewish He said freedom of speech is more opinions.’” Broadcasting Service (JBS) “endangered” because “there “Is [Norich] suggesting television series “L’Chayim,” is a mobilized faction in the there is a group who have for- which featured a panel discus- Jewish community that is mally joined forces to silence sion on freedom of speech in seeking to censor.” the Jewish press?” asked Ju- the Jewish community. Asked by JNS.org to identify die Jacobson, editor-in-chief At the center of the discus- the individuals or organiza- of the Connecticut Jewish sion was The Forward’s deci- tions to whom he was refer- Ledger. “If so, he needs to sion to publish a full-page ad in ring, Norich responded, “I ‘out’ that group. Name them. its June 2 edition from Jewish have no further comment.” Shame them... It is incumbent Sam Norich Voice for Peace (JVP), support- Editors deny censorship upon him to be more specific.” ing imprisoned Palestinian “I don’t feel pressured Hillel Goldberg, execu- By Rafael Medoff terrorist Marwan Barghouti. or censored,” Rob Golub, tive editor of Colorado’s JNS.org At the time, The Forward’s editor of the Wisconsin Jew- Intermountain Jewish News; publisher, Rachel Fishman ish Chronicle, told JNS. Mordecai Specktor, publisher Is a “mobilized faction” in Feddersen, said she decided org. “I don’t think any al- and editor of Minnesota’s the American Jewish commu- to run the ad because “mass leged restriction of points American Jewish World; and David Ben-Hooren, publisher of New York’s The Jewish Voice, all likewise told JNS.org that no factions in the Jewish Pence promises U.S. will community have attempted to censor their newspapers. “This idea that there is move embassy to Jerusalem some force trying to censor Scanned copy of The Forward print edition the Jewish media or com- The paid advertisement supporting Palestinian terrorist Christians United for Israel munity is all in the minds of Marwan Barghouti that was published last month in The summit in Washington, D.C. The Forward’s editors,” Ben- Forward. Pence said he and Trump Hooren said. “It’s not reality.” “stand without apology for Some left-of-center Jewish Israel’s left-wing Meretz po- Granate Sosnoff, commu- Israel today,” and touted the organizations likewise report litical party, has encountered nications strategist for JVP, president’s trip to Israel in no efforts to silence them. some “attempts to silence us,” the group at the center of May. Ori Nir, a spokesman for according to Dr. Maya Haber, the original controversy over “Standing in Jerusalem, in Americans for Peace Now, said PPI’s director of programming The Forward, told JNS.org that ancient and holy city, our there have been no attempts and strategy. She cited the fact there have been no attempts president declared for all the to prevent officials of his or- that PPI’s Detroit chapter has to interfere with her group’s world to hear that under his ganization from publishing not been allowed to participate activities or publications. leadership, the United States articles or speaking in public in that community’s Walk “This does not mean that of America ‘will always stand forums, nor any pressure for Israel for the past several ongoing attempts to silence with Israel,’” said Pence. on newspapers to reject the years. Organizers of the event us by intimidation and other Trump signed a waiver June group’s advertisements. He said PPI was excluded because means do not occur,” she said, 1 to keep the U.S. embassy in said there have been instances it promotes the boycott of pointing to anonymous post- Tel Aviv, avoiding a move to in which editors turned down Israelis who reside beyond the ers that recently appeared in Jerusalem for an additional APN’s op-eds because they pre-1967 lines. the neighborhood where JVP Vice President Mike Pence six months. Since Congress were deemed “too sensitive” or Haber also said, “Our views Executive Director Rebecca passed legislation in 1995 au- “too controversial,” although are seldom taken into account Vilkomerson resides. The un- (JNS.org)—Vice President day will come when President thorizing the relocation of the many other newspapers have even by organizations in signed posters criticized JVP Mike Pence said Monday that Donald Trump moves the embassy to Jerusalem, every published them. which we are represented.” for working with American relocating the U.S. Embassy American embassy from Tel sitting president has signed Controversy over boycot- But Haber, like The Forward’s Muslims for Palestine, a group in Israel to Jerusalem is only Aviv to Jerusalem. It is not a successive six-month waiv- ting Israelis Norich, declined requests the Anti-Defamation League a matter of time. question of if, it is only when,” ers delaying the move, citing Partners for Progressive from JNS.org to name the “I promise you that the Pence told the 12th annual national security concerns. Israel, the U.S. affiliate of organizations she is accusing. Forward on page 15A PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 28, 2017 The argument is about Jews, not metal detectors By Jonathan S. Tobin 21, with Israel facing the prospect of even ism. The Islamic Waqf was left in charge of Abbas’s motives were cynical, since he was JNS.org more violence that might get out of control, Jerusalem’s mosques, including the Temple waving the bloody banner of holy war to com- the metal detectors remained in place. Mount’s Al-Aqsa, inviolate. pete with his political foes. But the impact of To an objective observer, the crisis that How could putting metal detectors to pro- Nor was the new security measure discrimi- his statements gave the lie to the notion—so erupted in the aftermath of a bloody terror tect a holy site be considered a casus belli for natory. Any Jew or non-Jew who wishes to enter prevalent on the Jewish left—that a peace attack near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount makes what might, if the conflict escalated in the the Western Wall plaza below the Temple Mount agreement could be easily reached if Israel had no sense. way the Muslim rioters promised, lead to a compound must also pass through security, the will to try for one. His rhetoric sought to Three Arab terrorists used guns they had new holy war? including metal detectors. The same is true remind Palestinians that the conflict wasn’t smuggled up to the compound July 14 to kill The answer is that this isn’t about metal for Muslims who wish to enter the holy places over borders or settlements, but something two Israeli policemen, both of whom happened detectors. It’s about something much bigger: in Mecca during their annual pilgrimages. far more basic: a religious war that mandates to be Druze rather than Jewish. In response, the right of Jews to be in Jerusalem. So what exactly is this all about? Arab opposition to the Jewish presence. Israeli authorities set up metal detectors to This isn’t another variation on the usual For a century, Palestinian Arab leaders have This is why the PA goes to such trouble to prevent a recurrence of the crime. The response theme sounded from Israel’s critics about been playing the “Al-Aqsa is in danger” card. foment fights at United Nations agencies like to this from Palestinians was general outrage, the infringement of Palestinian rights. To The cries that Jews were seeking to destroy UNESCO intended to deny Jewish ties or rights violence and a promise of mass riots if the the contrary, Israel didn’t change the status the mosques or in some way harm Muslim to holy places, even those that are self-evidently offending machines were not immediately quo at the Temple Mount, which denies Jews rights led to a series of pogroms against Jews, proof of Jewish history like the Temple Mount removed. Upon Friday afternoon prayers July the right to pray at the holiest place in Juda- including the riots of 1929 in which Jews were and the Western Wall. massacred in Hebron. But the appeal to holy This is also why the new security measures war isn’t only a vestige of the horrors of the are merely the latest pretext for Arab violence distant past and the influence of the Nazi intended to make the point that Jews should sympathizer Haj Amin al-Husseini, the mufti not merely have no say over the Temple Mount, Shipley speaks of Jerusalem who incited those riots. but have no right to be there at all. It was the supposedly moderate Mahmoud The demonstrations and threats of more Jim Shipley Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority violence are just one more power play intended (PA), whose inflammatory statements helped to remind the world that the only solution incite the so-called “stabbing intifada” in re- Palestinians will ultimately accept is one in cent years by also claiming Jews were going which the Jews are excluded. So long as this to harm the mosques. It was Abbas, not just is their goal, it isn’t Al-Aqsa that is in danger, Science and religion—compatible his Hamas rivals or other violent Islamists, but any hope for peace. who called on Palestinians to resist the Jewish Jonathan S. Tobin is opinion editor of JNS. There is an interesting documentary on suit their own purposes and ignore history presence in Jerusalem. It was Abbas who said org and a contributing writer for National YouTube about a recent archeological expe- and science. “stinking Jewish feet” should not profane the Review. Follow him on Twitter at: @jona- dition in Iraq and Iran—what was ancient Can religion and science exist together? holy places. thans_tobin. Persia and before that Babylonia. In ancient Of course they can! Look at a spider web— texts and evidence in excavations there are chimpanzees have 98 percent of our human stories about Sodom, Gomorrah and the DNA—how can you not believe that a Higher big flood. Power, something beyond our own narrow That area of Persia/Iran was and is sus- experience had something to do with that? Letter from Israel ceptible to flooding. They use round bottom In1844 when Samuel F.B. Morse sent the first boats of the type described in Torah in the telegraph message—what did he transmit? story of Noah. But, there is no history of a “What has God wrought.” Closing the Temple Mount great flood—plenty of floods, but not one big I have failed over the years to picture some enough to bring penguins from Antarctica bearded figure, surrounded by a mystic light and giraffes from Africa. sitting on a high throne somewhere “up” in By Ira Sharkansky Muslims and Druze, coming on the heels of A lot of what we read in Torah was written heaven, handling every little problem—not two Druze policemen killed while patrolling during the Babylonian exile. Not that there is just on earth but in the billions and billions It was best not to write about this right alongside the Old City. anything wrong with that. But... like the song of stars that you can only see on a clear night away. Need to see how it would percolate. It Let sleeping dogs lie is a decent policy for says “The things that you’re liable to read in away from civilization. could have been massive or a momentary blip Israel to follow, except when pushed beyond the Bible, they ain’t necessarily so.” Much of William Shakespeare wrote: “There are more testing the level of accommodation between a point. our Torah and the New Testament consist of things in heaven and earth than are in our Israel, the Palestinians, and other Muslims. We can guess what that point may be, but stories to illustrate the existence of a Higher philosophy.” I believe there is a Higher Power Truth is, that it is still tense, with Friday can never be sure. Power and are necessary to get the reader’s of some kind and perhaps even a grand plan. prayers posing a challenge to all sides. Closing the Temple Mount on a Friday attention. And, maybe humans are just a teeny part of The initial story made the international morning, and shutting the gates of the Old People need to believe in something greater that plan. If it is a plan for peace and goodwill news, and monopolized what Israelis were City were significant messages. The actions than themselves to deal with life and what it we certainly are not the answer. hearing for a day. not only provided opportunities for security throws at them. Without Faith, we would as Is there any question that religious wars Three Israeli Arabs, from the Galilee city personnel to do what they thought appropriate, a world, be in even worse shape than we are. have killed and are killing more people than of Um al Fahm, exited the Old City from the but they kept tens of thousands of Muslims But Faith, like Joseph’s coat, comes in many all the plagues and floods in history? Every area of the Temple Mount and shot three from performing their Friday rituals on the colors. At one time it was stone idols and fire. war has started through the will and purpose policemen. They killed two, who were Druze, Temple Mount. Closing the Old City meant that Faith. Without it we would not have electricity, of some “Strong Man.” Too many times these one the father of a three week old child, and Arab shopkeepers did no business. Einstein’s theory, automobiles or trips to the tyrants call upon religion to justify their the other about to become engaged. Then the Israel must expect criticism from Muslim moon. No, Faith should never be a problem. means. Religion, not Faith. killers retreated to the Temple Mount, where regimes, especially those like the Palestinians Religion on the other hand... Could we have Faith without religion? they exchange gun shots with other police that are chronically shaky. Religious leaders take Faith and fashion Maybe. Probably. But humans tend to ques- until they were killed. It’s still not clear if we’ll pass through this it into a regimented program of belief and tion and seek simple answers. Jews? Vey! We It was especially dramatic on account of without a crisis. Muslims have been more busy discipline. Some of them throughout history are the greatest questioners of all. Go to any being early Friday morning. On such days, living their lives or killing one another than take off on their own route through Faith to city with a solid population of Orthodox Jews. tens of thousands of Muslims come from East attacking Israel with anything more deadly religion. Sometimes, strong leaders—up to They (we) do not accept the word of any fellow Jerusalem, and on tour buses from elsewhere than verbose threats. There have been protests dictators, use God to tell their followers what human just because he stands on a pulpit or in Israel to spill out from al-Aqsa and nearly and low to moderate level violence alongside God told them or what he meant. a speaker’s podium. Study and discussion— fill the platform of the Temple Mount as they metal detectors now screening entrances to Sometimes, to do this, some religious lead- okay, argue—over Torah is going on as I pray and listen to a sermon. the Temple Mount, as some Muslims pass ers have to defy reality to keep the Faithful in write and as you read as it has for centuries. The initial response of the police was to routinely through the check points and others line. Judaism started with a set of rules that all Interpretation of Torah or the New Testament close the Temple Mount, even to the head of object forcefully to their presence. these millennium later still make incredible is varied and difficult because it should be. It the Muslim religious authority (Waqf) who Among those injured by police use of non- sense. The Ten Commandments by themselves is the reason we have seminaries to train our asked special permission to enter and say his lethal means of crowd control are prominent set rules that adjusted in their wording to rabbis and our priests and reverends. prayers, and shut the gates of the Old City. Muslim clerics. modern situations would make this a most They need that base. That base comes from The prime minister announced that Israel Muslim religious and Palestinian political delightful world in which to live. Human Faith. They read and study and inter- would honor the status quo after a short pe- figures are trying to make a case against any There is not, nor is there ever, a conflict pret. But when they carry that interpretation to riod, and would assure access of Christians Israeli inspections of Muslims on the Temple between Faith and reality. God, whatever or reverse the actual facts of human development, and Muslims to their holy places. A Jewish Mount. Some are threatening another intifada. whoever he may be probably has a plan... but science and evolution—facts that are more MK repeated his often-heard demand that Commentators include those who chide the we nor any religious leader is prescient enough and more indisputable as science gains new Jews be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount, cheap politics of fanning the political flames. to know what that is. The problems arise when insights and modern tools—they are doing a but that passed without a response from the Muslims at Mecca and Jews at the Western Wall the people who are appointed or in some cases disservice to their congregation, mankind as PM. Netanyahu also worked the phones with have to pass through checkpoints similar to self-appointed start interpreting Scripture to a whole and to God—whomever he may be. Mahmoud Abbas and King Abdullah of Jordan, those now checking Muslims wanting to pray asking for cooperation. at al-Aqsa. 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Fern Park, FL 32730 FAX (407) 831-0507 David Lehman • Gil Dombrosky Joyce Gore The Apocalypse hasn’t occurred, yet. email: [email protected] There’s been an increase in tension between Sharkansky on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 28, 2017 PAGE 5A The more things change... By Mitchell Bard situation on campus today is student population, esti- for the idea of the Birthright afford to take 100 students. It reason. Some may be non- worse than ever, but here are mated then at about 6,000; program; I don’t, but I did took more than a decade, but, Jews. I suggested that the Journalists and pro-Israel a few examples of what was nevertheless, attendance at write in that 1986 article: thankfully, philanthropists Jewish community create activists often share a ten- going on at that time: our Israel Action Commit- “There is no doubt that the and the government of Israel European tours for these dency to see current events At Berkeley, the Muslim tee meetings averaged fewer single best idea is to get created Birthright Israel to students, which go to all the as the beginning of history. Students Association passed than 10 students. The situ- students to Israel. I have yet offer free trips. traditional hotspots, but add I’ve been reminded of this out highlights of the Proto- ation at other campuses was to meet a student who has I made another suggestion one additional stop—Israel. lately by apocalyptic stories cols of the Elders of Zion. At similar, prompting what I come back from Israel unaf- that I don’t think anyone has Unlike Birthright, the tour regarding anti-Semitism in Arizona State, an Israeli flag later dubbed, “the rule of 20,” fected. Students return with pursued. I argued we should would not be free, but students the United States, the situa- was displayed with a swastika which says that no matter how a stronger sense of commit- also offer trips to Europe. already pay for trips to Europe. tion on college campuses and in place of the Mogen David. many Jewish students attend ment to the State of Israel and “Many students like to tour Most would never think of American public opinion. I’ve The UCLA black student news- a university, you’re unlikely to to Judaism.” Europe during summer break, adding a stop in Israel, but if been perusing my archives paper printed an anti-Israel find more than 20 activists. The secret to getting stu- especially after graduating it were already part of the tour, of articles that I and oth- article that featured a map This has not changed in the dents to Israel, I said, was to from college,” I noted. “They why not? It’s a lot cheaper to ers have written in the past of Israel with not only Judea, last three decades. make trips affordable. At that are not interested in going to get to Israel from Europe, so and thought I’d share some Samaria and Gaza labeled Then, as now, I asked, time, a yeshiva was offering a Israel; they want to go to see the tour price shouldn’t be historical observations in as occupied, but the entire “What can we do to motivate program for the bargain price the sights of Europe.” Many significantly higher. the next few columns to put State of Israel identified as Jewish students to become of $450 and received more of these students are likely to I also explored the idea of present concerns in context. “occupied since 1948.” more active on campus?” than 200 applications from fit the profile for Birthright I hear people claiming the UCLA has a huge Jewish Many people claim credit just five cities, but could only and don’t apply for whatever Bard on page 15A The most important speech ever given by a French president on anti-Semitism

By Eldad Beck and tion was the first stage in the to prod the French authorities Macron’s speech at the Vel regime, nor did they die with Semitism and opposing the Israel Hayom flagrant murder of a quarter too hard to send tens of thou- D’Hiv Roundup memorial cer- its disappearance after the existence of Israel, the Jewish of French Jewry at the time sands of Jews to their deaths. emony is the most important liberation of France from state. (JNS.org, and Aish Hato- by the Nazis and their French Senior government offi- speech ever given by a French the German occupation. In However, Macron’s his- rah Resources)—President collaborators. cials at the time initiated the president on anti-Semitism. a brave step, Macron spoke toric speech contained an Macron equated anti-Zionism Indeed, it took France de- “purging” of France, mostly Macron did not stop at com- about the murders of Jews especially jarring compari- with anti-Semitism and said cades to contend with its role from “foreign Jews.” Police pletely rejecting the historical in France in recent years. son between the murder of Jew-hatred wasn’t born with in the Holocaust. It has been officers followed their orders opinion espoused by Le Pen— He also called on the French Jews by Muslims and the the Vichy regime, nor did it die convenient for France to adopt efficiently and zealously. “We cannot build pride upon judicial system to explain why racism Muslims themselves after the liberation of France. a historical narrative that This confrontation with his- a lie”—he expanded on the the most recent murder, of suffer in France. These are French President Em- the entire country was a part tory has not been without matter as it pertains to the 65-year-old Sarah Halimi by actually two very different manuel Macron is not the of the anti-German under- opposition, as demonstrated past and the present. a Muslim shouting “Allahu phenomena that require first French president to ground resistance. It was only by far-right National Front In his speech, Macron akbar,” was not recognized as different approaches. An at- give a speech at the annual 22 years ago that then-French leader Marine Le Pen’s recent remarked that the Vichy re- an anti-Semitic hate crime. tempt to placate the Muslim memorial ceremony com- President Jacques Chirac rec- declarations challenging the gime’s anti-Semitism did not Moreover, Macron de- community and portray it as memorating the Vel’ d’Hiv ognized his country’s role in French Republic’s responsibil- sprout up out of nowhere, but clared, without embellishing, a victim of modern French Roundup in July 1942, when aiding the Nazi extermination ity in the crimes of the Holo- was rather deeply rooted in the that anti-Zionism is the new society, without calling on some 13,000 Parisian Jews—a machine and officially began caust. As she would have it, political and social realities face of anti-Semitism. Macron this community to combat third of them children—were revising history. This allowed the state ceased existing when of the Third Republic that thus justified his inviting the radicals within it, is rounded up and taken to a lo- the public to face the scope of France fell to Germany—the existed before the Nazi oc- Prime Minister Benjamin equivalent to the day-to-day cal stadium and subsequently France’s collaboration with complicit Vichy government cupation. Anti-Semitism and Netanyahu to the memorial silence in the face of racism expelled to Nazi concentration the Nazis, as well as the fact did not represent the “real racism, Macron emphasized, ceremony by showing the and death camps. This opera- that the Germans did not need France.” were not born with the Vichy connection between anti- Speech on page 15A Forget BDS—it’s anti-normalization you should be worrying about By Sara Weissman very least and having a zero- are happening everywhere ish organizations, like the ization is good or bad—and munity to recognize them. tolerance policy at most. to all kinds of speakers, from AMCHA Initiative or Canary we are. Questions about this It’s time we see the anti- (JTA)—Dear Jewish com- The things-not-to-normal- controversial scholar Charles Mission, marked speakers, concept are at the core of normalization forest through munity, ize list includes no-brainers Murray at Middlebury College professors and student lead- today’s most fraught campus the BDS trees. Because until So you wanna understand like racism, sexism, homopho- in Vermont to conservative ers as too reprehensible for debates. Does declaring ideas we do, we’re missing out on the Israel-Palestine debates on bia and Islamophobia. It also commentator Anne Coulter campus before it was cool. unredeemable limit free juicy stuff—the larger debates campus? often includes Zionism. and “alt-right” provocateur Whatever term you want speech? Or does it marginal- happening on campus and the The first thing you have to That means pro-Palestin- (read: troll) Milo Yiannopoulis to use, this isn’t just a left- ize systemic societal ills? Who real questions Jewish students do is stop talking about BDS. ian activism on campus looks at the University of California, ist movement, and Jewish decides the parameters, and are asking themselves. Shocking, right? We try. different these days—because Berkeley. students across the political when are they too broad? Sara Weissman, editor@ But really, the Boycott, all activism looks different. But anti-normalization spectrum are experiencing it I cannot answer any of newvoices.org, is the editor Sanctions and Divestment Instead of boycotts, a more does mean Jewish students, and are a part of it. these questions. (That’s a dif- in chief of New Voices, where campaign against Israel isn’t frequent form of campus particularly Zionists, are We can argue endlessly ferent, much longer article.) a version of this article origi- what Israel conversations on organizing is protesting at tackling a whole new host about whether anti-normal- But I can call on our com- nally appeared. campus are all about these and disrupting Israel-related of questions on campus: Do days. Campaigns to pass BDS events. left-leaning Zionists have a measures on major campuses A brief history: One of the place on the campus left? are actually in decline, yet earliest instances of inter- And if only non-Zionist Jew- somehow they still make up rupting Zionist speakers on ish students find acceptance the bulk of Jewish news about campus happened at the on the left, is the campus left students. University of California, Ir- tokenizing Jewish students, The truth is, divestment vine, in 2010, when students deciding who’s a “good Jew” proposals happen perenni- disrupted a speech by former or a “bad Jew” from outside ally, people freak out for two Israel ambassador to the our community? to three weeks, and then U.S. Michael Oren. In 2015, What does it mean to Jewish students on all sides return to the same thing happened to students that Zionist speakers lives of calculus, life ponder- former Israeli Supreme Court are considered indefensible ing, activism and 3 a.m. pizza. Chief Justice Aharon Barak at alongside alt-right speakers? So if we shouldn’t be talking the same school and Israeli Are Zionist students and pro- about BDS, what should we be philosophy professor Moshe Palestinian activists defining talking about? Halbertal at the University Zionism the same way? Anti-normalization. Be- of Minnesota. In 2016, it was Pro-Israel activists, mean- cause it creates a fascinatingly Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat while, are arguably already complex new landscape for at San Francisco State Uni- engaging in their own form Jewish students, who are both versity. of anti-normalization rhetoric on its receiving end and active What recently happened at and have been for a long time. participants. the Chicago Dyke March is One could even argue that If you know what I’m also a prime example. Women Jews were anti-normalization talking about, skip this marching with what march pioneers. When anti-Semitic paragraph, wise one. If you organizers saw as Zionist flags or anti-Zionist remarks on don’t, anti-normalization could not be allowed to stay campus are labeled “hate is an idea, popular on the because that would be letting speech,” that’s our commu- left, that some beliefs are so Zionism go unchallenged. nity declaring ideas too un- untenable you cannot allow What does this mean? conscionable to be expressed them to be left unprotested For what it’s worth, speaker without protest. Jewish outcry and accepted as normal. shutdowns and event protests over Linda Sarsour speaking That means calling attention don’t make us special. If you at CUNY is only one recent to their proponents at the follow campus news, these example. 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By Gabe Friedman about those dark years. The in, when to leave the rented affable trio treks through the house in the morning and (JTA)—Renting a house forest, meets with members which path to take to find in the Italian countryside of a family that helped them the cave in the forest. But and eating loads of pasta is survive and, since this is the banter is more endearing about as blissful a vacation Italy, eats plenty of pasta than whiny. One particularly as they come. along the way. humorous debate occurs For the three Anati broth- The true joy of this sweet over whether the brothers ers, however, such a trip is film, however, is the au- brought toy bows and arrows a reminder of the horrors of thentic camaraderie of the with them when they fled the Holocaust. brothers and their cultivated Florence—Andrea insists Yet the brothers—Bubi, passion for Italian culture. they did, Meme calls him 77; Andrea, 85; and Em- Bubi, who worked for years at ridiculous. manuel, 88—did just that Israel’s Weizmann Institute In spite of its charm, in 2013, precisely with the of Science, is the youngest “Shalom Italia” does not aim of reconnecting with and most earnest. He’s the glaze over the serious his- their past. guiding force behind the tory underpinning the story. The Anatis were raised in trip because locating the The film’s lighthearted an upper-class family in Flor- cave was something he had tone goes hand in hand ence. In 1942, just before the wanted to do for years. with the brothers’ ghosts deportations of Florentine Andrea, an oceanic phys- from the war. They have Jews to Auschwitz began, the ics researcher, is a whimsical interesting conversations family escaped the city. They goof—he frequently whis- about the nature of memory fled from village to village tles, hums and introduces over mouthwatering meals, and eventually settled in a himself to strangers—in which include salami, moz- forest near Villa a Sesta, a great physical shape for an zarella, tomatoes, prosciutto Tamar Tal Anati town some 50 miles from octogenarian. and pasta with pesto. The Anati brothers, from left, Emmanuel, Andrea and Bubi. Florence. With the help of Emmanuel—his broth- In one memorable scene, locals, their father dug a ers affectionately call him Andrea says he remembers that he feels this way because but was not aware that Tal Anati noted that for cave—and the family lived “Meme” (pronounced “may- their years on the run the family ate sardines dur- her father-in-law and his decades, the brothers did not underground, literally, for may”), and sometimes “Meme fondly—for him it was an ad- ing the war. brothers were Holocaust even think of themselves as several months during the mio,” or “my Meme”—is an venturous time that brought Ultimately the film is a survivors. When Bubi told true Shoah survivors. But winter of 1944 until the end internationally renowned together the entire family. testament to how memories her about the planned trip since the filming of “Shalom of the war. archaeologist. He is the most “We lived in the woods, are filtered through our to the Italian country- Italia,” which helped them The family then moved to serious of the three and has played Robin Hood and attitudes and experiences, side—and she learned of the reckon with the memories Israel, where the brothers no desire to relive his Holo- collected mushrooms,” he even the desires of those cave and the reason for the of that long-ago winter, they have lived ever since. caust memories, having long says. “I had fun during the around us. journey—she felt compelled do now “Shalom Italia,” an hour- pushed them out of his mind. Holocaust.” “It was very interesting to to film it. “Our character and the long documentary directed But Meme agrees to the trip Meme ruffles at the re- see that when you confront “I was fascinated by the way we see life is the result of by Tamar Tal Anati (Bubi’s to satisfy Bubi. mark, saying that while someone else, your memory fact that each one of them the memories we hold,” she daughter-in-law) aired Mon- On screen, the brothers’ Andrea enjoyed his youth, starts to change,” Tamar Tal has a completely different said. “And once these memo- day night, July 24, on the PBS personalities don’t exactly he was forced to grow up Anati told JTA from her home memory of the same event,” ries change, we change.” series “Point of View.” It fol- clash—they do, however, quickly. in Tel Aviv. “[And] to see how she said. “And I was curious “Shalom Italia” will lows the brothers’ return to lightly bump up against one At another point, Bubi says memory reconstructs itself.” to see how they would deal stream online at pov.org Italy in an attempt to find the another. They bicker over he cannot eat or even get Tal Anati had been mar- with the physical and mental from July 24 through Aug. cave and seek some closure which room to eat dinner close to sardines. He realizes ried to Bubi’s son for years, challenge of this journey.” 26.

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Ben Sales Ben Sales One of Michael Steinhardt’s more unique possessions is his group of zedonks, the off- Michael Steinhardt, who takes regular 90-minute strolls around his 55-acre private zoo, spring of a zebra and a donkey that he calls “zonkeys.” enjoys interacting with his tortoises.

bareback, a few feet away. marmosets or wallabies, an rate fields. The marmosets, Usually I try to remove my- Australian marsupial. a New World monkey spe- self from the stories I cover. “I decided to do this be- cies, live in tall, rectangular But I mount the reptile. cause I really love animals cages with a complex branch “Tortoise equestrian” is and I thought that this would infrastructure tailored for generally not the first phrase create more joy for my family climbing. Birds flit and perch that comes to mind when and I than anything else I inside an aviary. discussing Steinhardt, the could do,” he says. Steinhardt has no method hedge fund billionaire who Seconds later, he is back for choosing his animals. helped create Birthright, the to being a tour guide. Seeing one he likes, he’ll free 10-day trips to Israel for “Directly in front of you see if he can get it. He has young Jews. But Steinhardt’s is a female ostrich,” he says, a dealer he trusts, and also zoo, at around 15 years old, pointing. “To the right is a will make deals with zoos. is only slightly younger than group of guanacos. There The capybaras, for example, Birthright—and it reveals a are four different varieties of were adaptable to the cli- totally different side of the South American cameloids: mate, and he liked that they man’s personality. They are alpacas and llamas could stay underwater for Steinhardt fashions him- and vicunas and guanacos.” long stretches. Now he’s ne- self as the disruptive Jew- Steinhardt’s love of ani- gotiating a large donation to ish innovator—outspoken mals began with the para- the Smithsonian’s National about the shortcomings of keets and fish he had as a Zoo in Washington, D.C., American Judaism, discuss- child, and as an adult he has possibly in exchange for red ing it in full, extemporane- built an ecosystem of flora pandas, though Steinhardt ous paragraphs and ready and fauna from across the says he has little space to Ben Sales to put his money where his globe. If Steinhardt is a kind expand. Michael Steinhardt’s zoo includes 30 species of animals, incuding the red kangaroo, mouth is. He has embarked of Moses with Birthright, on He is vague about his zoo’s front, and ostrich. on venture after venture— a mission to bring the Jews specs—how much it costs first the free Israel trips, (briefly) to Israel, here he is to run (Steinhardt ignores By Ben Sales hour north of Manhattan, me to re-evaluate whether then a network of Hebrew- Noah—animals from all over the question), how he stays home to at least 30 species of the expression “night owl” language charter schools, the world now surround him within regulations govern- MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. animals as well as more than is really even accurate. now a museum of natural two by two. ing private zoos (it’s all legal, (JTA)—When Michael Stein- 100 birds. It’s been called Soon after, we come across history at Tel Aviv University He feels a tranquility on he assures: “The local police hardt strolls around his 55- a “private zoo,” but that’s two century-old tortoises that will open this summer. the grounds because they are are perfectly nice.”) and how acre backyard for 90 minutes true only in the sense that humping, the bottom one The museum is a way for blissfully free of the kinds of many people he employs to every morning, one of his St. Peter’s Basilica is Pope slowly crescendoing up on Steinhardt to merge his problems his philanthropy is tend to the animals (his favorite animals to see is the Francis’ local church. her wrinkled legs as her lover love of fauna with his love trying to solve. In Israel, the answer: “1.2 percent of the scimitar-horned oryx, whose I rode north for an hour cranes his long neck diago- of Israel—especially because Jews fight with the Palestin- male population of Nicara- antlers sweep back from its on a train expecting animals nally downward. The “guy on he says he’s not allowed to ians. At his zoo, the swan lies gua,” which comes out to head like the swords for in cages, a few serene ponds top,” Steinhardt informs me, import Israeli animals across with the capybara. roughly 34,000 people. He which they are named. But with exotic fish, maybe some is named Sexton—for John the ocean. “What we do differently is kidding.). Steinhardt didn’t much like petting opportunities. I Sexton, the past president He is eager to defend all of here is we have a variety of At the end of the walk finding out that a (literally) didn’t expect to pass a spiral of New York University. The these programs with statis- disparate animals togeth- through the zoo, plus a visit horny oryx had stabbed a bamboo climbing structure reason? tics proving their worth. And er,” Steinhardt says. “Even to his private strawberry gar- zebra to death during a (for humans), to take a walk “Sexton was the boss of despite his very high profile, though I’m used to it, it still den, we hop on a golf cart that testosterone-fueled mating across a rickety rope bridge NYU and this guy is the boss Steinhardt says his Jewish feels like a treat.” takes us through much of the season three years ago. in the middle of a forest, or of the tortoises,” explains initiatives are really about Many of the animals on rest of the estate—sloping The zebra incident is, to find owls squawking at Steinhardt, an NYU trustee. other people—the half-mil- the estate roam on rolling paths through unmanicured thankfully, an outlier on his me, Harry Potter-style, in the Then Steinhardt tells me lion Jewish young adults who hills enclosed with wooden forests, water trickling down sprawling estate about an middle of the day, causing I can ride another tortoise, have gone on Birthright, say, fences. The swans and capy- a rock sculpture, a large, or the students who attend baras—the world’s largest boxy house in a clearing that the charter schools. rodent—lounge on the bank Steinhardt is building for his But the zoo is all about of a pond among scattered daughter’s family. Steinhardt himself; he made landscaped trees and stones. And then, at the finish it solely so he and his family Some of the more car- of the odyssey, we see the could live among beauty. nivorous animals do live in zedonks. Half-zebra, half- Steinhardt likes to meander cages—like a group of serval donkey—Steinhardt prefers from field to field, introduc- cats—though the enclosures the word “zonkey”—they ing visitors to red kangaroos, lead out to small, sepa- stand in a trio, brown pack animals covered in black stripes, a puffy black mane and pointy ears sprouting from their necks and heads. Not far away are camels, which we all but ignore. 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Israeli-inspired avocado toast, three ways Sudoku (see page 14 for solution) By Shannon Sarna

(The Nosher via JTA)—Avocado toast has been “trendy” for several years throughout the U.S. In fact, avocados have been so trendy, an entire avocado restaurant opened earlier this year in Brooklyn. And people are putting avocados in everything lately: brownies, salad dressing, even ice cream. After all, avocados are healthy, full of good fat, delicious and satisfying. I also love avocados, but I am a purist about eating them— sliced or smashed simply with just a few seasonings with some chips, or on the side of a dish like my vegetarian Mexican lasa- gna. These Israeli-inspired toasts are a little trendy, healthful and super fun—plus they use some classic Israeli flavors like tahini and harissa. If you don’t like soft- or hard-boiled eggs, you can also top your toast with a fried egg. Mix and match your combinations. the chickpeas and avocado together. Add pinch of salt and 1/4 These are satisfying and perfect for summer since they require teaspoon cumin. Toast bread lightly minimal cooking. I would serve one of these for a hearty Spread chickpea-avocado mixture evenly on top of toast. breakfast or light lunch. Drizzle with tahini to your taste, a pinch of sea salt and fresh Ingredients: parsley. Fresh sourdough or whole grain bread To make the harissa and egg toast: Smash 1/2 avocado with a 2 ripe avocados pinch of salt and 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice. Toast bread lightly. 1-2 eggs Spread smashed avocado evenly on top of toast. Drizzle or harissa spread around 2 teaspoons prepared harissa on top. Top with feta cheese slices of soft- or hard-boiled egg, or a single fried egg, a pinch juice and zest of one lemon of sea salt and fresh parsley. 1-2 fresh radishes To make the feta and radish toast: Smash 1/2 avocado with fresh parsley and cilantro pinch of salt and 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice. Toast bread lightly. 1/3 cup chickpeas (shells removed) Spread smashed avocado evenly on bread. Top with thin tahini slices of radishes, feta cheese to your taste and 1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper to taste fresh lemon zest. dried cumin Shannon Sarna is the editor of The Nosher. Directions: The Nosher food blog offers a dazzling array of new and To make the chickpea smashed toast: Combine 1/2 avocado classic Jewish recipes and food news, from Europe to Yemen, with 1/3 cup canned chickpeas, shells removed. If you didn’t from challah to shakshuka and beyond. Check it out at ww- remove all the shells, they will naturally come off as you smash wTheNosher.com. PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 28, 2017 U.S. pilots reunite with Israeli ‘brothers in arms’ from Yom Kippur War By Andrew Tobin On June 28, they visited the Tel Nof air base, where they ex- TEL AVIV (JTA)—The ar- changed war stories with more rival of U.S. fighter jets in than a dozen Israeli pilots who Israel, part of a month-long flew the American Skyhawks. arms drop, was critical to They also re-created a photo- turning the tide of the Yom graph that several of them, Kippur War in favor of the including retired U.S. fighter Jewish state. pilot Roy “Bubba” Segars, 76, But for the American pilots and former Israeli airman Ja- who volunteered to deliver the cob “Booby” Daube, had taken aircraft, it was just another together during the war. mission. The following day, the Alan Chesterman, part of a American pilots attended U.S. Navy squadron that flew a a flight course completion handful of the jets, said he had ceremony at the Hatzerim Air little knowledge of Israel or Force base, where they heard its security situation when he addresses from Israeli Prime landed here in October 1973. Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “We knew we were flying and President Reuven Rivlin. into a combat zone, but we Rami Lothan, 65, an Israeli didn’t know anything about Air Force pilot who greeted it,” he said. “It was more the Americans in 1973 and Retired U.S. fighter pilot Roy “Bubba” Segars, left, and like I’m young, adventurous flew one of the Skyhawks Roy “Bubba” Segars, second from right, and Jacob “Booby” retired Israeli fighter pilot Jacob “Booby” Daube holding a and fearless—you might say in the war, participated in a Daube, far right, posing during the 1973 Yom Kippur War photo they took together during the 1973 Yom Kippur War young and stupid. I just lived flight show at the event, fly- at the Tel Nof air base in Israel. at the same Tel Nof air base in Israel, June 28, 2017. to fly.” ing a propeller-driven training Chesterman, 72, was one plane. He helped organize and appreciate what was happen- raised their hands. Over the for active duty and was there Until recently, Chesterman of two pilots who reunited host the trip after meeting ing. Whatever we could fly, course of two days they made for the duration. We don’t had been afraid to return to last week with some of the members of the group at flight whatever could carry bombs, their way to Israel, stopping have to do it that way in the Israel because he thought it Israelis to whom they handed shows in the United States. we flew it,” he said. “But see- several times along the way, United States.” was unsafe. But this was his the Douglas A-4 Skyhawks. Lothan said that in the ing these guys; it’s like lost including in Spain, the only Chesterman said the Israe- second trip to the county in Along with nine other Ameri- midst of the Yom Kippur War brothers. I can admire pilots European country that would lis welcomed the American the past two years, and he said can pilots and their wives, they -- a coalition of Arab armies who don’t have any connec- have them en route to Israel. pilots with a friendly meal he has learned to take comfort took a VIP tour of Israel to see led by Egypt and Syria caught tion to the Middle East, and Segars, the other pilot from on base, during which he and in the fact that “the good guys what has become of the coun- Israel unprepared on the they just completed tours in the mission now in Israel, fired his fellow pilots “did our best have all the guns.” try since they helped to fend off holiest day of the Jewish cal- Vietnam, and they all volun- some rounds toward Libya on to drink all their booze.” One Chesterman also has the surprise onslaught by its endar—the Israeli pilots had teered to come here and help the way. of the Israeli pilots who had gained an appreciation for Arab neighbors 44 years ago. not been able to appreciate the us out.” Although the Americans been drinking with them sud- the role he played in helping Since landing June 24 arrival of the Americans, who Chesterman recalled that were only in Israel for a few denly excused himself, saying Israel at a moment of profound at Ben Gurion Airport on com- at the time were still fighting he was stationed at the naval hours, Chesterman gathered he needed to return to the war. crisis and what the country mercial flights, the Americans the Vietnam War. This week’s air base in Southern Califor- that the country was fully Only then did the Americans has become. have been traveling around visit, he said, has been an op- nia when the squadron skip- mobilized for war. He recalled realize he had been drinking “I’m completely impressed the country and receiving portunity to reflect. per asked for volunteers for seeing the wife and children iced tea, not beer. by the way the Israelis conduct briefings from top military “I don’t think we had a dangerous and unspecified of a soldier camped in a tent Segars—the pilot who themselves,” he said. “They officials. enough time to sit down and mission. Nearly all the pilots along the runway of the air “fired at Muammar Gaddafi,” are proud of their country. base with their clothes drying as Chesterman put it—ear- It’s so young, with so many on an air defense battery. nestly tried to convince the smart people and technology, “That’s when it hit me: I Israelis to let him join the but also has so much history. Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel think they’re not just fighting battle. But the several beers he It’s an incredible place. for territory. They’re liter- had just downed “disabused “If it weren’t for my kids and ally fighting for their lives,” him of opportunity to go grandkids back in the States, Chesterman said. “The whole fight in someone else’s war,” Israel would be at the top of Dedicated To family was basically called up Chesterman said. my list of places to live.” Serving Our Jewish Community

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CARDINAL MEMORIALS HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 28, 2017 PAGE 11A Lovingly remembering and Central Florida Synagogues honoring Bert Udovin Z”L Orlando Weekday Morning Minyan (Conservative/Egalitarian), services Monday- Friday 7:45 a.m. (9 a.m.—national holidays); 2nd floor Chapel—Jewish Academy of Orlando; 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. For information call 407-298-4650. Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. JewishCelebration.org; 407-566-9792. Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, 321-777-2770. Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 301 West State Road 434, Unit 319, Winter Springs, 407-830-7211; www.betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Announcement of the memorial service Susan Bernstein leading memorial Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; for Bert Udovin. service. Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-855-0772; By Emily Newman Shabbat twice each month offered her the opportunity to Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. they became fast friends. have Bernstein lead a memo- The Jewish Pavilion volun- Susan shared memories and rial service, sponsored by the Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, teers and staff enjoyed many anectodes of the times they Jewish Pavilion, for his recent Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. Kabbalat Shabbat programs shared together. community at Cordova. Lisa Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. and holiday celebrations Lovingly known as Mr. appreciated the idea, knowing bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. throughout this past year Magic, Bert was talented with the fondness her father had for with Bert. Bert Udovin quickly his magic tricks. Whenever Bernstein. Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation became embedded in the he met someone he would A beautiful and meaningful holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. community at Oakmont Vil- offer to make them a balloon celebration of life took place com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. lage- Cordova and was proud animal and in no time they with those whose lives were Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; of his involvement with Jewish shared a laugh and a smile in touched and enriched by www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Pavilion. He befriended new amazement. knowing Bert. residents and encouraged When Program Director This program was made Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., them to join him on Friday Emily Newman learned of possible in part by a grant Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. afternoons. When Susan Bert’s passing she contacted from the Jewish Federation Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; Bernstein began leading his daughter, Lisa Thorpe, and of Greater Orlando. www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- OBITUARY 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Congregation Or Chayim (Rec), Leesburg, 352-326-8745; [email protected]; services BERTRAM ALLAN naval students attention when children, Jessica (Ryan) Kalb, 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month at Providence Independence of Wildwood. COHEN UDOVIN teaching. That early magic Danielle Thorpe, Rebecca blossomed into 67 years of Thorpe, Shane (Leslie) Smith, Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- Written by the family balloon dogs and magic for David Smith and Kimberly 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. Bertram Allan Cohen Ud- every child (and many adults!) Smith. He also had five great- Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for ovin, Capt (Ret) USNR, age he met no matter where the grandchildren, Ronan and services and holiday schedules. 92, of Woodbridge, Virginia, meeting might be. He per- Reed Kalb, Jack Streb, and Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303A N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation- and Oakmonte Village (since formed and taught magic to Skylar and Avery Smith. He is sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. October 2016) Lake Mary, all ages up until the week he also survived by many loved passed away on July 14, 2017, passed away—teaching the cousins, nieces and nephews. Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- at his residence following a residents of his Oakmonte Bert never met a stranger Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv sudden illness. 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He him to the second fallen of- ber 2015. medical professional to arrive said the organization began ficer and, finding no pulse, Sader, who like most Pal- at the Temple Mount following recruiting Muslims to serve he began CPR. estinian residents of eastern the attack in which two Israeli their own neighborhoods Soon thereafter, the sub- Jerusalem has opted not to Druze police officers were shot about a decade ago. dued gunman leapt up and pursue Israeli citizenship, said dead. The three Arab-Israeli “We formed the organiza- attacked the officers sur- violence is unacceptable in gunmen were then killed by tion to respond in every com- rounding him with a knife—a such a religious place. But as police on the scene. munity in Israel,” Poch said. moment that was caught on is common in the Arab world, Amid the carnage at the “Because we’re community video. The resulting hail of he denied historic or religious politically and religiously based, that means engaging police bullets, which killed claims by Jews to the mount fraught complex, Sader said Muslim volunteers.” the attacker, whizzed around and said he opposed allow- he simply tried to save whom- Sader said that in the past Sader as he applied compres- ing Jewish prayer and new ever he could. five years, he has responded sion with the help of another security measures introduced “It doesn’t matter who to seven major Palestinian officer. Still, he continued since the attack. the person is,” said Sader, a attacks in the Old City, often for about 15 minutes, until He did seem to concede the Muslim volunteer with United on a motor scooter provided an ambulance arrived. But Western Wall to the Jews. Hatzalah, the Orthodox Jew- by United Hatzalah. When the officer was never revived. “I respect the Kotel and ish-run ambulance service. responding to calls, Sader When it comes to the ten- other holy places, and I think “Whoever needs help most said, he leaves on his helmet sions on the Temple Mount, people should respect our gets help first.” and sometimes his sunglasses Sader said both Arabs and holy place,” he said, using the Sader joined the mostly to avoid being identified as Jews are to blame. The former Hebrew term for the Western haredi rescue service in 2012, Arab. He also tries not to site of the ancient Jewish tem- Wall. soon after his father died of speak much. ple is the holiest in Judaism. On Friday night, Sader a heart attack while waiting “I don’t want to deal with Meanwhile, two Arab prayer headed to his paid job. He for an ambulance. He said he being seen. Some Arabs might sites, the Dome of the Rock worked a 24-hour shift at hoped to improve emergency get upset. Some Jews might and the Al-Aqsa mosque, make the Terem medical clinic in medical care in the Arab quar- get upset,” he said. “I focus on it among the most important the mostly haredi West Bank ter of the Old City, which like helping people. That’s what’s places in Islam as well. settlement of Beitar Illit He other Arab neighborhoods in important.” Since Israel captured the said he respects religious Jews eastern Jerusalem has long After Friday’s attack, po- Temple Mount from Jordan in and their customs, and does suffered from lack of services. lice officers on the Temple the 1967 Six-Day War, the site not openly smoke or speak It is illegal for Jewish medics Mount saw Sader coming has become a flashpoint in the on his cellphone during his Andrew Tobin to enter Arab villages or neigh- and urged him to treat their Israeli-Palestinian conflict. breaks on Shabbat, when Nedal Sader sitting on his United Hatzalah motor scooter borhoods without a police fallen comrades. But he had Some Jews, mostly from the Orthodox Jews eschew such in the Old City of Jerusalem, July 14, 2017. escort because of security to wait for a moment until Orthodox national religious activities. concerns. the attackers—later identi- community, never accepted Typically, Sader said, he can By Andrew Tobin apartment as a sacred and “I had to do something,” he fied as cousins from northern Israel’s decision to keep the get some sleep on the Shabbat peaceful place. He prayed said. “I didn’t want the same Israel—were subdued. mount an exclusively Mus- shift. But this time he found JERUSALEM (JTA)—When there nearly every week. thing to happen to anyone The first casualty Sader lim prayer site after the war. himself pacing the halls all Nedal Sader first heard the But as a seasoned first else in my neighborhood or came upon was one of the slain Although Israel insists it has night, even when there were crackle of automatic weap- responder, he knew what gun- in Israel.” officers, whom he quickly no plans to change the status no patients to care for. on fire Friday morning, he shots sounded like echoing off United Hatzalah has about determined was beyond help. quo, Palestinian suspicions to “After a day like that, you couldn’t believe it was coming the stones of the Old City. He 300 Muslim, Druze and Moving southward, he passed the contrary helped fuel the can’t sleep,” he said. “But I’m from the Temple Mount. finished dressing, threw on Christian volunteer EMTs, the bodies of two of the attack- first and second intifadas, or OK now. We’re used to stuff As a Muslim, he regarded his medic’s jacket and raced paramedics and doctors, who ers and saw the third prone on uprisings, and the wave of like this. It wears off after a the complex just outside his to the scene. account for about 10 percent the ground, surrounded by stabbings and car-ramming little while.” Why this poster of a Jewish man and a Muslim woman kissing caused a scandal in Europe

By Cnaan Liphshiz communities disapprove of. Virtually all of the major this flier,” Tanya Hoogwerf, Bearing the slogan “In the media in the Netherlands have a Rotterdam councilwoman, AMSTERDAM (JTA)—In Netherlands, you choose your reported on the controversy told the PowNed television a country where sex toys are own partner,” the posters were around the poster campaign. channel last month. displayed in shop windows and placed in bus stops and on On the prime-time talk show Two men filmed themselves television commercials often signposts across Rotterdam. “Pauw,” the head of the Dutch destroying a poster that was feature nudity, a picture of a Supporters of the initiative Labour Party, Lodweijk As- placed on a bus shelter. clothed, heterosexual couple also handed out fliers with the scher, praised the campaign “Choose your own freedom, kissing may not seem like the images on the streets. as “beautiful.” they say,” one of the men said. stuff of scandal. The campaign features four But the posters triggered a “Rip it all the way out.” But precisely such an im- couples locking lips against a backlash among some Mus- Musa Movi, a well-known age—part of a poster cam- background featuring the port lims, including within As- Muslim comedian, in a vid- paign celebrating diversity in city’s iconic Erasmus Bridge: scher’s own party. One of eo called the campaign’s ini- the Netherlands—has trig- the Jewish-Muslim couple; Labour’s representatives on tiators “mosquitoes that you gered acrimonious debate, a Muslim woman kissing a the Rotterdam City Coun- don’t see coming, but when charges of racism, acts of blond man; two women, one cil, Fatima Talbi, wrote in an they get you—it’s over.” He vandalism and even threats by in a South Asian dress; and a op-ed that she was “furious” then slapped his own neck those who found it offensive. black man with a woman who about the campaign, which she as one does when killing a The reason: The women appears to be of South Asian said treats Muslims as though mosquito. Shirin Musa handing out fliers in Rotterdam featuring pictured in a series of posters descent. (Leefbaar Rotterdam, they are “backward” by turning The poster featuring the images from the poster campaign on free choice of partners, were wearing Muslim heads- the rightist faction that led the matter of forced marriage man wearing a kippah was May 25, 2017. carves, including one woman the municipally sponsored into “an integration issue.” the image that “drew the most who was shown kissing a man campaign, did not immedi- Tunahan Kuzu, a lawmaker attention and criticism” by “The criticism by Muslims from a different ethnicity to wearing a kippah. ately answer JTA’s query as in the Dutch parliament for the Muslims, according to Ronny was that the campaign tries yours. But you don’t have to. To some of the detractors, to whether the people in the radical pro-Islam, pro-immi- Naftaniel, the executive vice to enforce social norms on the And I think the campaign the poster campaign was a posters were real-life couples gration party Denk, which in chairman of the Brussels- Muslim minority,” Naftaniel could have been clearer about provocation designed to up- or actors posing as lovers.) the March elections won three based CEJI group, a Jewish said. “And I think we can debate this distinction,” he said. set the sensibilities of Dutch The campaign is in support seats in the parliament’s lower organization that promotes this issue: Is the campaign say- To Esther Voet, the editor- Muslims and other non-white of “women with an immigrant house, called the campaign tolerance in Europe, and a ing that it’s good if people lose in-chief of the Dutch Jewish minorities. But to campaign background from patriarchal “provocative, discriminating former director of the CIDI their identity, intermarry into Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad supporters, including some communities,” Musa said in an and patronizing.” Several of Dutch Jewish watchdog on one big mishmash?” weekly, the “intensity of op- prominent members of the interview on Dutch television the posters were vandalized, anti-Semitism. Although the campaign pro- position that this campaign Dutch Jewish community, it last month. Such women, she hateful rhetoric was directed On Maroc.nl, a news site voked no negative reactions in generated is the best proof of was an important statement said, are subjected to violence at their supporters on social and forum popular with many Jewish public circles, Naftaniel how necessary it is.” about the need to counter and coercion over their choice media and activists distribut- Dutch Muslims, a modera- said, “many Dutch Jews would It showed that in the Neth- radicalism and coercion in the of romantic partners. ing campaign fliers reported tor called the campaign the not like to see their child marry erlands today, “for many Netherlands’ growing Muslim Citing a 2014 study by the threats of violence. Police as- work of “racists and feminists a Muslim, though they don’t Muslims, seeing a member of minority. Verwey Jonker Institue, a signed officers to watch over who... provoke Muslims during feel the need to say it.” their own community kissing Initiated by a Muslim ac- social policy research group, some of the activists following Ramadan with posters of a Jew Despite his doubts about a Jew is an image that crosses tivist for women’s rights, Dutch officials say there are several incidents. kissing a Muslim woman.” how the campaign can be a line, and that creates resis- Shirin Musa, the posters are between 600 and 1,900 vic- One man told an activ- But, Naftaniel added, Mus- interpreted, Naftaniel ulti- tance,” she told JTA. “And that part of a municipal initiative tims of forced marriage in the ist from Musa’s Femme for lim detractors were more likely mately supports its message sentiment is precisely at the in support of women, mostly Netherlands. The report also Freedom organization: “I’m to focus on the depiction of promoting freedom in choos- heart of the reason that this Muslim, who face abuse if describes wives who are held going to thump you on your Muslim women and less on the ing romantic partners. campaign was started in the they choose spouses their captive or abandoned. f***ing head if you give me man wearing a kippah. “You can choose someone first place.” HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 28, 2017 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA

Jared Kushner says staff and return them to Is- the embassy at bay following ity to travel there because structure meant to symbolize children Chaya, 46, and Elad, Russia charges ‘ridicule’ rael, Haaretz reported. the incident. of my work for justice for an X-ray machine, the Haber- 36, were killed by a 19-year- Trump voters The Foreign Ministry told The Israeli media reported Palestinians, even though ler news website reported. old Palestinian attacker from WASHINGTON (JTA)—In a the Israeli media that it con- that the government is con- I’m Jewish and a rabbi,” Rabbi On Thursday, protesters a nearby village who entered rare public statement, Jared siders the incident to be a ter- sidering removing the metal Alissa Wise said in the JVP showed up at the Neve Shalom the home in the Halamish Kushner insisted he did not ror attack and related to the detectors and replacing them statement. “I’m heartbroken synagogue in Istanbul, where settlement and began stab- collude with Russia and said current Temple Mount crisis. with high-tech security cam- and outraged. This is yet they kicked the front door and bing the family members. the query into suspicions of The father of the teen eras, and is aiming to make another demonstration that hurled objects at it. Leaders They had gathered at the a relationship between Russia assailant reportedly told a the changes before Friday, democracy and tolerance in of Turkish Jews condemned Salomon home to celebrate and Donald Trump’s presi- Jordanian television station the busiest day at the site for Israel only extends to those the targeting of synagogues the birth of a baby to another dential election campaign that he does not believe his Muslim prayers. who fall in line with its in- to protest Israel’s actions. of the senior Salomon’s sons. “ridiculed” Trump voters. son intended to attack an The cameras reportedly creasingly repressive policies Following the July 14 attack, His wife, Tovah, 68, was in- “Let me very clear, I did not Israeli. However, he also said, would be located a distance against Palestinians. Israel temporarily limited ac- jured in the attack. collude with Russia, nor did “I consider my son to be a away from the gates into the Syed said in the statement cess to the holy site for men Thousands attended the I know of anyone else in the martyr for Allah.” site, so as not to offend the that he had his boarding pass under 50 and placed metal funerals on Sunday afternoon campaign who did so,” Kush- Thousands of Jordanians worshippers, who have been in hand when “the Lufthansa detectors at the entrance to at the cemetery in the central ner, Trump’s son-in-law and a demonstrated against Israel protesting the metal detec- representative informed me the site. Israeli city of Modiin. top aide, said Monday, reading in Amman on Friday over the tors by refusing to enter the that they had a direct order Synagogues, which have The area around the Tem- a prepared statement after installation of metal detec- sites and holding worship ser- from ‘Israeli immigration been targeted by Islamists ple Mount, the holiest site in appearing before the Senate tors at the Temple Mount. vices at the gates, leading to authorities’ to not allow us and other terrorists in Tur- Judaism and also the location Intelligence Committee in a Among the chants heard at clashes with Israeli security to board the plane. Further- key in the past, are heavily of the Haram A-Sharif, the closed session. the demonstration was “How forces that have killed at least more, they refused to even guarded in Istanbul by police. third holiest site in Islam, Kushner is in the spotlight beautiful it is to kill soldiers five Muslims. show us the Israeli order.” To enter Istanbul’s main has been riven with tensions because of revelations in re- in Jerusalem,” Ynet reported. BDS activists reportedly JVP said it is believed to be synagogues, including Neve since July 14 when three cent weeks that he attended The Jordan-based Islamic prevented from board- the first time that the amend- Shalom, visitors must obtain Arab-Israelis shot and killed a June 9, 2016, meeting Waqf is the administrator of ing flight to Israel ment has been enforced the permission of the Jewish two Israeli police officers at organized by his brother-in- the Temple Mount. (JTA)—Five members of an before passengers boarded community prior to arriving the holy site before they were law, Donald Trump Jr., who Jordan allows Israeli interfaith delegation to Israel their flights to Israel and there. The fact that demon- shot to death. took the meeting believing Embassy employees, were prevented from boarding the first time that Israel has strators were able to gather Israeli authorities installed it would be with a Russian including guard who their flight from Washington, denied entry to Jews, includ- outside the synagogues and metal detectors at the site in government lawyer who had killed attacker, to re- D.C., due to their activism ing a rabbi, for their support stage protests there is highly the wake of the attack and incriminating intelligence turn to Israel on behalf of the Boycott, of BDS. unusual for Istanbul. since then, Muslims have on Trump’s rival, Hillary JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Divestment and Sanctions Following the passage of In the aftermath of the refused to enter the Temple Clinton. Also under review members of Israel’s diplo- movement. the Entry Law amendment, officers’ slaying, in which the Mount, instead praying out- are reports that Kushner, like matic mission in Amman, The Jewish Voice for Peace several groups that promote three Arab-Israeli terrorists side of its gates, leading to his father-in-law in the real Jordan, including a security organization said in a state- BDS planned to organize were shot dead by police, clashes and the deaths of estate business, owes money guard who shot and killed ment Monday that the delega- delegations to come to Israel several Palestinians died in at least five Palestinians in to Russian lenders. his teenage assailant and a tion tried to check into its and test the boundaries of the riots over the past week and recent days. “I had no improper con- bystander, are back in Israel. Lufthansa flight at Dulles amendment. three Jews were murdered in Arab-Israeli man tacts,” he said. “I have not The embassy employees, International Airport, only An anti-BDS bill making the West Bank settlement of stabbed by Palestinian relied on Russian funds for who had been confined to the to be told that the Israeli its way through Congress Halamish inside their home assailant my businesses and I have been embassy compound all day government had ordered the would expand existing law by a Palestinian terrorist. JERUSALEM (JTA)—An fully transparent in providing Monday following the stab- airline not to let the five pas- that bans boycotts imposed On Sunday, a security of- Arab-Israeli man was stabbed all requested information.” bing attack Sunday evening sengers aboard. by foreign governments to ficer at the Israeli Embassy several times in the neck by Kushner suggested the by a 17-year-old and subse- In March, the Israeli parlia- include those imposed by in Aman, Jordan, killed a a Palestinian assailant in the investigation was a means quent shooting, returned late ment, or Knesset, amended international organizations man that Israel’s Foreign central Israel city of Petach of undercutting Trump’s Monday through the Allenby the Law of Entry to prevent like the European Union and Ministry said had come to Tikvah. election. Bridge. leaders of the BDS movement the United Nations. carry out a terrorist attack at The 32-year-old victim in “Donald Trump had a bet- In a statement issued from being allowed into Is- Second anti-Israel the compound Approximately the Monday morning attack ter message and ran a smarter shortly after 11 p.m. Monday, rael. The amendment applies protest staged outside 30 people were besieged in was taken to a local hospital campaign, and that is why he the Israeli Prime Minister’s to organizations that take Istanbul synagogue the embassy on Monday due with moderate wounds, Israel won,” Kushner said. “Sug- Office said their return “was consistent and significant (JTA)—For the second to the Jordanian authorities’ Police said. He is an Egged gesting otherwise ridicules made possible by the close action against Israel through time in less than a week, pro- desire to detain and ques- bus driver who was on a break those who voted for him.” cooperation that took place BDS, as well as the leadership testers demonstrated against tion embassy staff, who have getting a cup of coffee. Kushner said he remained in the last 24 hours between and senior activists of those Israel outside a synagogue in diplomatic immunity under Civilian bystanders stopped committed to his work, citing Israel and Jordan.” groups. Istanbul over Israel’s decision international treaties. the attacker, 21, from the among his many assignments The head of the Israel Se- Lufthansa spokesman Tal to put up metal detectors at Jason Greenblatt, West Bank Palestinian city bringing peace to the Middle curity Agency, or Shin Bet, Muscal confirmed that the the entrance to the Temple Trump’s envoy, heads of Qalqilya and in Israel il- East. Nadav Argaman, traveled delegation members were not Mount. to Israel to help reduce legally, while he was fleeing “I am so grateful for the op- Monday to Jordan in an effort allowed to fly per the Israeli The latest incident re- Temple Mount tensions the scene and wrestled him to portunity to work on impor- to diffuse the crisis. government’s request. Luf- ported in the Turkish media WASHINGTON (JTA)— the ground, according to the tant matters such as Middle Israeli Prime Minister thansa was not made aware occurred Saturday outside Jason Greenblatt, President Israel Police. He was arrested East peace and reinvigorating Benjamin Netanyahu and of the reason for the order. the Ahrida Synagogue on the Donald Trump’s special envoy and taken for questioning. America’s innovative spirit,” Jordan’s King Abdullah spoke Muscal said the airline European side of the Turkish for international relations, The attacker, who has not he said. that afternoon by telephone. must obey government re- capital, in the north of the is headed to Israel in a bid been named, was previously Israeli Embassy guard Abdullah told Netanyahu to quests like these to block neighborhood of Fatih, which to help reduce tensions as jailed in Israel for activity in Jordan kills assail- remove the metal detectors passengers from boarding is a stronghold of the Muslim Jerusalem’s Temple Mount against the state, The Times ant, bystander after placed at the entrances to flights. Brotherhood and other Is- remains a flashpoint and of Israel reported, citing the being stabbed with the Temple Mount used by “We don’t know who these lamist movements in Turkey. after a Palestinian terrorist Israel Security Agency, or screwdriver Muslim worshippers, put into people are,” Muscal told JTA. Responding to the Turkish killed three Israelis from the Shin Bet. Israel Police said (JTA)—An Israeli Embassy place after three Arab-Israelis “We have no information as Jewish community’s protests, same family in a West Bank they are treating the incident guard in Amman, Jordan, killed two Druze-Israeli to why the Israeli government Turkish Prime Minister Binali stabbing attack. as a nationalistic attack on an killed his 17-year-old assail- police officers in a July 14 does not want them to enter. Yıldırım said in a statement “President Trump and his Israeli target. ant and a bystander after terrorist attack near the Al- We simply have to abide by the Sunday to the media that administration are closely The Palestinian assailant being stabbed in the chest Aqsa mosque. rules and regulations of every while “limiting Muslims’ following unfolding events told investigators that “I with a screwdriver. Israel’s Security Cabinet country in which we operate.” access to Al-Aqsa mosque in the region,” a senior ad- did it for Al Aqsa,” accord- The attacker reportedly en- met for several hours Monday The Israeli Prime Minis- for whatever reason is an ministration official told JTA ing to reports, referring to tered the home of an embassy evening in an effort to resolve ter’s Office declined to com- unacceptable mistake that on Sunday night, speaking the mosque on the Temple official on Sunday evening to the crisis over security mea- ment on the report. Turkey expects Israel to undo on condition of anonymity Mount, or what the Muslims replace the furniture when he sures on the Temple Mount Three of the activists were immediately,” the Turkish and reporting Greenblatt’s call Haram al Sharif. saw the security guard and and the escalating diplomatic from JVP, including a rabbi. government “does not agree departure. There have been several stabbed him. The guard then crisis with Jordan. The other two delegation with actions actions outside “The United States utterly terror attacks by Palestinians pulled out his firearm and In the attack Sunday, the members prevented from places of worship of Jewish condemns the recent terror- and Arabs against Israeli tar- shot the attacker in the chest. assailant entered a residential boarding the flight were Rick citizens.” ist violence, including the gets since the July 14 attack Reports said the owner of building occupied by the Ufford Chase of the Presby- Yıldırım said the govern- horrific attack Friday night on the Temple Mount that left the residential building used embassy to install furniture terian Peace Fellowship in ment “expects on all citizens that killed three people at two Druze-Israeli security by the embassy was hit with a and stabbed the Israeli guard Rockland County, New York, exercise self restraint.” The their Shabbat dinner table in guards dead and led to the in- stray bullet and killed. with a screwdriver. The guard and Shakeel Syed, a national short statement did not say Halamish, and sends condo- stallation of metal detectors Jordanian police are de- shot and killed the assailant. board member with American what would happen to those lences to the families of the at Muslim entrances to the manding to question the The building’s owner, who Muslims for Palestine in Los who do live up to the govern- innocent victims,” the official holy site. Muslims have been guard, while relatives of the was standing nearby, was Angeles. ment’s expectation. said. “We are engaged in killed in clashes with Israeli stabber are calling for the killed after being hit by a The other 18 participants Israel installed the security discussions with the relevant police over the installation of death penalty. stray bullet. with the Interfaith Network devices at the Temple Mount parties and are committed to the security devices. The Israeli Embassy has Jordanian police had de- for Justice in Palestine delega- in Jerusalem, at the site the finding a resolution to the Israeli tank fires on refused to release the guard to manded to question the tion arrived Monday morning Muslims call Haram al Sharif, ongoing security issues.” Hamas post in Gaza in the Jordanians for question- guard, while relatives of the in Israel and were allowed to in response to a July 14 ter- Greenblatt would closely retaliatory strike ing, saying he has immunity. stabber called for the death enter after several hours of rorist attack near the Al-Aqsa coordinate with the National JERUSALEM (JTA)—An Jordan, meanwhile, refuses to penalty. The embassy refused detention and questioning, mosque that killed two Israeli Security Council and with Israeli army tank attacked a allow the guard to leave the to turn the guard over to the according to JVP. police officers. Jared Kushner, Trump’s Hamas post in the southern country. Jordanians for questioning, JVP states on its website At the Ahrida Synagogue, son-in-law who is a top aide Gaza Strip in response to The Israeli diplomatic saying he had immunity. that it supports boycott, which is one of the country’s and is charged with renew- rockets fired on southern team remains confined to the Jordanian security forces divestment and sanctions oldest, at least 29 men gath- ing Israeli-Palestinian peace Israel. embassy compound, despite reportedly held mobs of pro- against Israel. ered carrying signs with anti- talks, the official said. plans to evacuate the embassy testers who had gathered at “Israel denied me the abil- Israel slogans and a cardboard Yosef Salomon, 70, and his JTA on page 14A PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 28, 2017 According to Dr. Mordechai Muslim doctrine, Islam “can- preventing further violence, detectors, despite the fact that the issue object to the stricter Security Kedar—a researcher at Bar- not exist side by side” with according to both Berko and there have been no recently security measure, Berko said, From page 1A Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat another religion, and that Kedar. recorded incidents of Jews “because they are afraid. They Center for Strategic Studies “within Islam there is only the “They are violent, but if they seeking to commit acts of ter- view this move not as a step are affiliated with Hamas and and a leading scholar on Arab concept of one religion being face an iron wall, they will re- ror at the site. Now these same to protect their own prayers, were “raised on the same petri culture, who served for 25 dominant over the other.” treat—once they understand measures are being installed or to protect the mosque, dish” as the global movement years within the IDF’s mili- “Muslims do not want that they cannot defeat us,” on the Temple Mount, where but rather they treat it as an of Islamic State and other tary intelligence units—the Jews in the land of Israel, Kedar said. “And this is now tens of thousands of Arabs can attempt by Israel to control Muslim terror groups. Temple Mount has long been especially in Jerusalem, and left for the state of Israel, to gather to pray on Fridays and Al-Aqsa.” There have been numerous a source of radical Islamic particularly on the Temple decide whether Israel will suc- during the month of Ramadan. In addition to the new metal cases of weapons stockpiling incitement against Israel and Mount. Islam, as a religion, cumb to the dictates of Islam, Berko noted that recom- detectors, Berko said Israel on the Temple Mount in recent the U.S. cannot accept a Jewish state. or not. The more determined mendations for stricter secu- must strengthen the powers years, with multiple incidents “There are hundreds of They view Judaism as a threat Israel is in this regard, the rity measures at the Temple of police around the Temple of stone-throwing and fire- recordings of sermons from on Islam,” said Kedar, adding better the chances that this Mount were presented in Mount, improve surveillance, bombing. Last Friday’s attack the Temple Mount, replete that while murderous acts are round of violence will be short, 2014, “but they were not and strengthen coordination was the first major incident with violence, replete with considered unholy to Jews and and on low gear.” implemented.” He stressed between the police and the in recent years involving incitement against the Jews, Westerners, acts of martyr- For more than a decade, the sensitivities Israel must Shin Bet security agency to automatic weapons. against Israel. And unfortu- dom can be considered holy worshippers or tourists wish- contend with when dealing gather better intelligence on “Many times within the nately, Israel just lets it go,” in Islamic culture. ing to visit the adjacent West- with Jordan, which controls attacks before they occur. Al-Aqsa mosque, we discov- Kedar told JNS.org. Determination to prevent ern Wall—a site revered by the Islamic Waqf; the Pales- “The only ones that can ered several hiding places, Kedar said the violence future attacks Jews in absence of full permis- tinians, many of whom are prevent Al-Aqsa from turning stockpiled with means to kill,” stems “from an ideological Understanding Islamic sion to enter and pray on the employed by the Waqf; and into a base for terror opera- Berko said, referring to his imperative to prevent Israeli culture and using it to develop Temple Mount—have been Muslims who pray on the site. tions,” he said, “are the Israeli time with the Israel Police. sovereignty,” noting that in sound policies is a key to forced to pass through metal Muslims with a stake in police.” Consensus From page 1A B’nai B’rith Interna- has not taken a position It is expected, anticipated States go through metal commonsense and relatively tional said in a statement on the issue, but several and reasonable.” Cooper detectors daily in order to unobtrusive way to protect ian Authority that does not provided to JNS.org that prominent Conservative said he was surprised to enter public buildings and the safety of both Jews and cease,” said Betty Ehrenberg, the Israeli government rabbis are speaking out in learn that metal detectors most Israelis go through Muslims on the Temple the WJC’s executive director “cannot look the other favor of the metal detectors. have not been used on the metal detectors to even Mount and its environs, and for North America. “In the in- way in the face of acts of Writing from Israel, Rab- Temple Mount until now. enter a shopping mall, so that erecting them does not terest of protecting the safety violence, especially in light bi Neil Cooper of Temple “It should be welcomed if needed to help security alter the site’s status quo.” and security of all visitors of the killings of its police Beth Hillel-Beth El, near by everyone who abhors on the Temple Mount, there Americans for Peace Now to the Temple Mount and in officers. Metal detectors are Philadelphia, pointed out violence and will impede should be no discussion.” agreed that “security mea- keeping the peace at the holy one way, used globally, to that not only do many Is- those desiring to harm Among dovish groups, sures are obviously neces- site, the metal detectors need keep the public safe. There raeli malls and restaurants others,” he said. Dr. Michael Koplow, policy sary at this spot,” although to remain in place, as they are may be other methods, as have metal detectors, but in Rabbi Joel Meyers, execu- director of the Israel Policy the organization added that at the Western Wall and in well, but doing nothing is addition, “When one enters tive vice president emeritus Forum (IPF), told JNS.org, it “reserves judgment on many sensitive and holy places not an option.” the Western Wall Plaza, of Conservative Judaism’s “IPF’s position is that metal the specifics of the security around the world, including The United Synagogue one is required to pass Rabbinical Assembly, not- detectors at the entrances tools utilized in Jerusalem’s Mecca and the Vatican.” of Conservative Judaism through metal detectors. ed, “Most of us in the United to the Temple Mount are a Holy Basin.” Christians From page 3A taken in by the U.S. since 2013 Aviv to Jerusalem,” he said. At his first encounter as a with friends like President that. We love the affinity that are Christians, and Christian “It is not a question of if, it is candidate with a Jewish group, Donald Trump and Vice we’ve seen witnessed between rity assistance to Israel and refugees were disproportion- only when.” in December 2015, when he President Mike Pence, who are Trump and Netanyahu.” pursued the Iran deal because ately represented among the As Indiana governor and spoke to the Republican Jew- standing by Israel’s side and CUFI remains ostensibly he believed it to be the only Syrian refugees absorbed before that as a congressman, ish Coalition, Trump said he determined to defeat every nonpartisan—there were no means to keep Iran free of from that country’s civil war. Pence had a long and intimate would prefer to remain neutral boycott of the Jewish state,” Democrats speaking at the nuclear weapons. As he has in the past, Pence relationship with the pro- on the Israeli-Palestinian con- he said, repeating himself to conference, but they were Hagee in a passing remark offered assurances that the Israel community. His state flict and would not commit be heard above the cheers. invited, staff said. said that under Obama, U.S. Embassy in Israel would was among the first to pass to recognizing Jerusalem as Pastor Scott Thomas, who But deference to bipartisan- America took in fewer Chris- move to Jerusalem. laws targeting the boycott Israel’s capital. heads CUFI’s Florida opera- ship, eagerly observed once tian refugees from the Middle “I promise you that the Israel movement. Trump eventually adjusted tions, said Trump’s advent was upon a time, was treated East—a myth popular among day will come when President “For my part, like all of you, his views on Israel to bring a relief in and of itself. almost as an amusing after- the former president’s critics. Donald Trump moves the my passion for Israel springs them mostly in line with “We’re very encouraged thought at this conference. Nearly half of all the refugees American Embassy from Tel from my Christian faith,” he the pro-Israel right, and by the disappearance of day- Quipped John Bolton, a said. “The songs of the land enthusiasm for the president light between the U.S. and former U.S. ambassador to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 and the people of Israel were among the CUFI membership Israel relations,” he told JTA the United Nations, “Unlike T A L M U D S H E M E S P the anthems of my youth.” remains high. Hagee, launch- in an interview, an allusion to the last eight years—that’s 14 15 16 A R I A N A S E L A L A A Trump, by contrast, had ing the conference Monday Obama’s rejection of the con- sort of a random number—we 17 18 19 few Israel affiliations before morning, just had to mention cept of “no daylight” between don’t have bad state-to-state P A R I S R A E L I S A M S his presidential run, although Trump’s name to elicit huge the United States and Israel at relations with the government 20 21 22 23 S B A E I S D A H L I A S he has always had plenty of cheers. Notably, however, the outset of his presidency. of Israel anymore.” 24 25 26 Jews in his orbit, not least Hagee also coupled Trump’s “We want to see that closer JTA Washington intern M A N I C O N E A his daughter Ivanka and his name with Pence. and we believe this Trump Giovanna Paz contributed to 27 28 29 30 31 32 S T U T T G A R T E R B E L T son-in-law, Jared Kushner. “God has provided Israel administration is bringing this report. 33 34 H A R A E A R N S 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 E L I R I G A D N A T E D JTA 42 43 vant Jews to carry objects and our school board and siphon- Bronx, and eight states in the B A N O T S A R A From page 13A 44 45 46 47 48 49 push strollers outside of their ing funds for their yeshivas. South, left a big mark in New Z A G R E B B E N A C H M A N The Israeli attack came homes on Shabbat. Also, they buy houses which Jersey, covered John Kerry’s 50 51 The Orthodox community they claim is for religious presidential run and helped E L I E S A L L Y early Monday morning after 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 two rocket attacks Sunday on told The Associated Press that purposes and do not pay taxes. lead the politics team in New L E V I T E S L A O B A P Israel—in the morning and it had been given permission They should stay where they York,” Times International 60 61 62 63 to hang the piping by the are and leave our town alone.” Editor Michael Slackman and D I E B E L F A S T D A Y S late evening. Both rockets 64 65 66 fell in open areas and did not utility company But town New York Times names Deputy International Editor A N I S L A M K H A K I S cause any damage, according officials said the piping is David Halbfinger new Greg Winter said in the an- 67 68 69 banned because it is consid- Jerusalem bureau chief nouncement of Halbfinger’s S U N P S P S A S L A N T to the Israel Defense Forces. The Code Red siren alerts ered signage. (JTA)—The New York appointment. were not sounded since both More than 1,200 people Times has named David On Twitter, Halbfinger said rockets were heading toward have signed an online petition Halbfinger, its deputy na- the new job was “A dream unpopulated areas. calling for the eruv to be taken tional editor, to serve as fulfilled.” He will begin work There were no reports on down. Many of the dozens of the newspaper’s Jerusalem after Labor Day. His wife and damages or casualties in the comments accompanying the bureau chief. three children will move to retaliatory attack. petition, titled “Protect the Halbfinger, a 20-year vet- Jerusalem in August. New Jersey town orders Quality of our Community eran of the Times, has served The family are members of religious boundary in Mahwah,” refer to “these as a reporter for the metro, Congregation Shomrei Emu- taken down people” and express concerns national and culture sections. nah in Montclair, New Jersey. (JTA)—A town in New Jer- about falling property values. He also covered John Kerry’s The synagogue is affiliated sey has ordered an Orthodox Most of them are anonymous. presidential run in 2004. with the United Synagogue of Jewish organization to take “I don’t want these rude, The Times’ announcement Conservative Judaism. down its eruv, or religious nasty, dirty people who think called the Israel post “one of Halbfinger succeeds Ian boundary, by early next they can do what they want the scrutinized (and most Fisher, who took the posi- month. in our nice town,” one of the prestigious) jobs in journal- tion in January after Peter Mahwah, which is located comments reads. ism.” Baker, who had served there across the New York state Another says: “I do not “He has written hard- for one year, left to cover border, told the South Mon- want the town of Mahwah to hitting investigations of Donald Trump’s presidency sey Eruv Fund to remove the turn into an undesirable place corrupt public officials and in Washington, D.C. Fisher, white plastic piping from util- to live. These people do not businessmen, murderous who has been at the Times for ity poles that it uses for the assimilate with other people prison guards, law-breaking 28 years, will spend the next symbolically enclosed area by outside their community. I Hollywood moguls, roamed year with his family in Italy, Aug. 4. An eruv allows obser- do not want them controlling his native Long Island, the according to the newspaper. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 28, 2017 PAGE 15A underwent surgery Saturday of aiding Omar in the attack. Stabbing morning. Further, the IDF and Is- From page 1A The Palestinian terrorist, rael’s Shin Bet security agency Abed, knocked on the door and arrested 29 Hamas members, tiating Friday night’s attack, burst into the Salomon fam- including some of the terror 19-year-old Palestinian ter- ily’s home as they gathered group’s senior officials, in rorist Omar al-Abed wrote on around the table for a festive overnight raids in the dis- Facebook, “There is no life af- Shabbat meal, celebrating puted territories. ter what is seen in [the Temple the birth of a new grandson. “The wave of detentions... Mount compound’s] Al-Aqsa As Abed entered, armed with was part of the preventive ef- [mosque].” Abed added, “All I a knife, Elad’s wife rushed a forts of the Shin Bet security have is a sharpened knife, and group of children to safety in service and the Israel Defense it responds to the call of Al- a nearby room, holding the Forces against the terrorist Aqsa... God will take revenge door shut while calling the organizations, particularly on you.” police. The terrorist stabbed during the past week and due The Jordanian-run Islamic four members of the family to the tension surrounding Waqf, which administers before a neighbor, who over- the Temple Mount and the the Temple Mount, is not heard screaming, ran over and unrest in the area,” the Shin “addressing Israel’s security shot him. Bet said. needs, or that the metal detec- “The scenes of a bloodbath Deteriorating Israeli-Pal- tors were installed as a result that greeted us when we ar- estinian relations of terrorism coming out of rived on Saturday evening at When news of the Halamish the Temple Mount plaza,” the Salomon home shocked us terror attack reached Hamas- said Dan Diker, director of all to the core—even the most controlled Gaza, jubilant Pal- the Political Warfare project veteran ZAKA volunteers,” estinians took to the streets to at the Jerusalem Center for Yehuda Meshi Zahav, chair- celebrate and hand out sweets. Public Affairs (JCPA). man of the ZAKA emergency Hamas praised the “heroic” Yehezkiel Itkin/ZAKA Waqf officials are “express- response group, told JNS. attack, while Palestinians The ZAKA volunteer emergency response group—including its chairman, Yehuda Meshi ing their sense of humiliation org. “It was painstaking work in Gaza fired a rocket at the Zahav (pictured in front, center)—cleans up the scene of Friday night’s deadly Palestinian from having to go through to gather up so much blood, Israeli city of Ashkelon early terror attack at the Salomon family home in Halamish. Zahav said the “scenes of a blood- these unilaterally imposed but we were determined to fin- Sunday morning. The rocket bath... shocked us all to the core—even the most veteran ZAKA volunteers.” Israeli security measures, and ish so that the victims could “exploded mid-air” and caused they see this as a fundamental be buried as soon as possible, no injuries or damage, the “Any time you have terror terms of passive and active rience,” he said, “that these breaking of the status quo” at in keeping with Jewish law.” IDF said. attacks against Israel, which measures, it always looks like things don’t necessarily indi- the holy site, Diker told JNS. Israel makes ‘preventive Palestinian Authority (PA) puts Israel in the position things are escalating.” cate that there’s going to be a org, adding, “If they perceive efforts’ as tension escalates President Mahmoud Abbas, of having to defend itself in “We’ve learned from expe- major war.” that their Islamic sense of Abed, who was treated for meanwhile, announced the honor is being crossed, it his wounds at Rabin Medical cancellation of security co- is a very difficult challenge Center in Petah Tikva, is in ordination with Israel as part Protests [for Israel] to confront and the Israeli defense establish- of a general freeze in com- From page 1A overcome.” ment’s custody. He was ar- munication with the Jewish At the same time, Diker said rested several months ago by state. It was the first freeze of pray at the Al-Aqsa mosque. the current tension surround- Palestinian Authority security Israel-PA security cooperation This is limiting to freedom of ing the Temple Mount “does forces on suspicion of plot- announced by Abbas since he religion, faith and worship.” not necessarily mean we are ting terror attacks. An Israeli assumed office in 2005. The Turkish Chief Rabbin- going towards a full-blown military official said the ter- Israeli Defense Minister ate Foundation condemned conflagration,” and that a rorist’s parents were known Avigdor Lieberman said Israel the protest and urged authori- further escalation in violence supporters of the Palestinian will manage without coordi- ties to take action. is “not self-evident.” terror group Hamas. nating security with the PA, “We are condemning the ‘Scenes of a bloodbath’ Early Saturday morning, slammed Abbas for failing to provocative act in front of the The three victims in Friday IDF troops raided the Abed condemn Friday night’s terror Neve Shalom synagogue and night’s Halamish terror attack family home in the village of attack. “He’s not a partner, expecting related authorities were Yosef Salomon, 70, his Kaubar, searching for weap- he’s not looking for peace,” to do what’s necessary,” the daughter Chaya, 46, and his ons and additional suspects. Lieberman said of Abbas, foundation posted on Twitter. son Elad, 36. Yosef’s wife, Tova, The IDF surveyed the home for Yedioth Ahronoth reported. Other protests against Is- 68, was wounded and rushed demolition and arrested the Regarding the current es- rael were held in the Lebanese to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek terrorist’s brother, 21-year-old calation of Israeli-Palestinian city of Beirut and the Malay- Medical Center, where she Monir al-Abed, on suspicion tension, the JCPA’s Diker said, sian city of Kuala Lumpur. The Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount. Forward of his articles, but “they of speech is endangered in any position on that problem The Forward “has now set a versity legal scholar Thane From page 3A come from individuals, not way,” Yoffie said. is entirely inverted.” She precedent [by publishing the Rosenbaum, who also took says “has at times provided a organizations, and they don’t Another participant in the pointed to recent instances Barghouti advertisement] part in the July 12 JBS panel platform for anti-Semitism.” bother me.” JBS television discussion, in which pro-Israel speakers that its pages are a welcome discussion. “They made this Former Union of Reform “Generally speaking, I Amanda Berman, director of and events on college cam- place for terrorists aiming decision without anyone’s Judaism President Rabbi believe that we are blessed legal affairs at The Lawfare puses have been disrupted or to perpetuate genocidal help. If they were a true Jewish Eric Yoffie, who was part of with a lively and open discus- Project, told JNS.org there shut down “by raging mobs viewpoints and outright lies,” news source, they would have the July 12 JBS panel, said sion in the American Jewish is “a censorship problem re- chanting genocidal slogans Berman said. practiced self-censorship, and he has received harassing community, and I don’t see lated to Jewish and pro-Israel and expletives.” Instead of “No one silenced The For- not given voice and moral emails in response to some much evidence that freedom advocacy, but Sam Norich’s focusing on such activities, ward,” said New York Uni- support to a killer of Jews.” Sharkansky From page 4A It’s a curious contrast with how much people are willing that may be getting closer to reflect the nature of the a Muslim. And a middle-age the chronic concern with a to spend on a distant issue the Prime Minister. We’re also Middle East other than Israel’s Arab woman was killed as a International media have peace process, or the plight of that activists seek to make reading about the detritus conflict with Arabs. A young feud between families in her noticed, but not made a big Palestinians without a state. It significant. apparent here and elsewhere, Christian woman was killed by village escalated to firearms. deal about the attack from helps to define the borders be- Israeli media is sharing i.e., traffic accidents, domes- relatives, seemingly because So what else is new? the Temple Mount or what tween symbolic and practical Old City developments with tic violence, and unpleasant she threatened the family’s Comments welcome. has occurred subsequently. politics, what’s fashionable, or several police investigations weather. A couple of items honor by falling in love with [email protected]. Bard Back in 1986, I was also need to know on topics from an undergrad at UC Santa more active in the Jewish com- the needs and concerns of the From page 5A unimpressed with the qual- anti-Semitism to Zionism, Barbara searching for answers munity. I observed that stu- campus community directly trying to integrate Israel into ity of the material available and has more than 800,000 to Israel’s detractors. Unfortu- dents saw the establishment to the people who can provide the Eurail system so that stu- to students. I argued that we visitors per month, but it is nately, the book is no longer as a plutocracy. If anything, the resources needed to fight dents could use passes to get to needed to develop information severely understaffed and given to students by AIPAC, this perception may be worse the war on the campuses.” Israel inexpensively, perhaps discussing the major issues in underfunded. as it was in my day, and too today. I stand by the sugges- Dr. Mitchell Bard is the by ship (I used my pass in 1980 a way “American students can AICE also publishes Myths few students are familiar with tion I made at that time: “We author/editor of 24 books to go from Greece to Egypt), understand and appreciate.” and Facts: A Guide to the the information it contains. have to bring college students including the 2017 edition and gain free or discounted Today, we have a surfeit of Arab-Israeli Conflict, the One last recommendation onto the boards of the various of Myths and Facts: A Guide access to Israeli trains. I don’t material, however, we can still “bible” for activists. Myths, that I made that has also organizations so that they will to the Arab-Israeli Conflict, know if anything like this is do better. For example, AICE’s then published by AIPAC, largely been ignored to the not only feel like a part of the The Arab Lobby, and the possible, but it might be worth Jewish Virtual Library offers helped launch my career as detriment of the cause is to Jewish community at-large, novel After Anatevka: Tevye revisiting. students everything they a campus activist when I was recruit students to become but will also be able to express in Palestine. Speech tive Council of French Jewish problems facing immigrant fact or denying it will only in their communities and University in Paris; he was From page 5A Institutions did. Muslim communities in exacerbate the problem. encouraging them to inte- Middle East affairs corre- that Macron himself de- Macron has taken it upon France and Europe. But it Internal reconciliation will grate into European societ- spondent of IDF Radio and nounced. Indeed, the modern himself to bring about an must be stated that those be facilitated not just by ies rather than trying to the newspaper “Hadashot,” murderous anti-Semitism in all-encompassing internal who wish to see us abandon acknowledging that Muslims change them. as well as the Paris-based France and Europe is rooted reconciliation so that all the humanity, democracy and are victims of European rac- Eldad Beck is a promi- correspondent of IDF Radio, in Islamic circles, and this French may find their place. liberty all generally come ism, but also by demanding nent Israeli journalist and the Jerusalem Report, the must be stated clearly, as the This reconciliation necessi- from a specific religious that Muslims take respon- author. He studied Arabic Jerusalem Post, and Israel’s president of the Representa- tates bravely coping with big background. Ignoring this sibility for the radicalism and Islam at the Sorbonne Channel 2. PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 28, 2017 How an Oregon-born immigrant to Israel found a job giving tours of Hamas tunnels soldiers in action or need a quick comment from the IDF on breaking news. On Aug. 17, Weiss finally will be turning off her army- issued phone. At 29, she is stepping down from her post and retiring from the military. Weiss is not your typical Israeli soldier. Born in the United States and raised in Portland, Oregon, she moved to Israel in her early 20s and enlisted in the army soon afterward. She didn’t have to join up—at the ripe old age of 23, Weiss could have skipped military service—but the thought of foregoing army service didn’t even occur to her. “There was never any doubt Satellite image of the area from Gaza to Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, where the Hamas tun- in my mind that I wanted to nels extended. During Israel’s 2014 war in Gaza, Israeli army Capt. Libby serve,” Weiss said “I saw it Weiss was the first to bring foreign reporters into the Hamas as the basic responsibility of tunnels discovered linking Gaza to Israel. anyone who is a citizen, and the soldiers sit hunched over challenging and demanding. process I had experienced in it was also a way from me to a bank of computers editing Suddenly, Weiss found her- Israel,” Weiss recalled. By Renee Ghert-Zand reporters into the claustro- adopt my Israeli identity.” video footage shot in the self dealing with hundreds Nevertheless, Weiss feels phobic space. She has worked in the field and uploading posts to of journalists a day rather she missed out on the power- TEL AVIV—Capt. Libby Her inaugural tour went IDF Spokesperson’s Unit for the IDF blog and the army’s than with dozens. She did ful emotional experience that Weiss spent most of the to Jodi Rudoren of The New practically her whole military Facebook, Twitter, Instagram on-camera interviews 10, most North American immi- summer of 2014 in a Hamas York Times and CNN anchor career. Since March, Weiss has and Snapchat accounts. Most 20, sometimes 30 times a grants get by taking an aliyah tunnel, and she wouldn’t have Wolf Blitzer. headed the international so- of the soldiers in the division day. Often they were inter- flight organized by Nefesh wanted to be anywhere else. “It was really chilling to cial media department, over- are immigrants -- from North rupted by air-raid sirens that B’Nefesh alongside dozens of Israel’s military captured be inside there,” Weiss said. seeing a team of 14 enlisted America, South America and sent Weiss and the reporters other new immigrants with the tunnel, which extended “There were empty potato chip soldiers and one junior officer France jumping into ditches to take a one-way ticket to the Jew- from Gaza into Israel near bags and water bottles strewn who produces viral content in Weiss got her start in the cover from incoming rockets. ish state. Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, dur- about on the ground. It made English, Spanish and French. unit’s foreign press branch, Weiss said the war tested “I think I would have ing Operation Protective Edge you realize just how close the Their mission: tell the story of doing media tracking and her ability to separate the per- enjoyed the significance of against Hamas in Gaza. As a enemy was.” Israel’s army, and promote a crisis management. Though sonal from the professional. deplaning and having the spokesperson for the Israel For the past six years, Weiss positive image of an army that she initially signed on for only “When you are an Israeli community that welcomes Defense Forces, Weiss was has been on call 24/7 for is often condemned by critics a year and a half of service, she citizen and there is a war, you you the minute you touch tasked with showing the journalists from all over the overseas. was soon hooked. feel involved. It’s here in your Israeli soil,” she said. “That tunnel to journalists, and she world. Reporters turn to her Working in a nondescript “I was fascinated by the backyard. Then add to that underscores and reinforces was the first to bring foreign when they want to film Israeli building in central Tel Aviv, work and understood its im- being in a military uniform,” what a big decision it is, that portance from Day 1,” she said. she said. you are now joining—or “I didn’t have to think twice “You are exposed and you rejoining—the Israeli people” about staying on and taking know about troop movements Nefesh B’Nefesh honored leadership roles.” and military plans before they Weiss last month with its 2017 Soon she was named head are carried out, and you find Bonei Zion Young Leadership of the North American media out details that are life chang- Award. She also received nu- department, where she spent ing for people, like when a merous other awards during four years. She quickly worked soldier is killed. It warrants her military career, including her way up to the rank of an emotional response on all the prestigious Presidential captain. levels, but as a professional Award of Excellence in 2014. With her phone constantly you can’t have that.” Weiss’ parents and older The Back to School Issue... ringing, no day was ever Growing up as the young- siblings all still live in the routine. Weiss always kept est daughter of Israeli-born United States. They say they her field uniform and safety parents in Oregon, Weiss are proud of Weiss. equipment at the ready in never imagined she’d become “Once Libby moved to Is- her car. an IDF officer. And she didn’t rael, it didn’t really surprise Sometimes her work took know she would live in Israel. us that much that she joined her overseas. After the 2013 “I don’t know if I ever saw the military,” said her brother, Philippines typhoon and the myself, at least back as a teen- Gil, a Chicago physician. “She 2015 Nepal earthquake, Weiss ager, immigrating to Israel,” had a strong sense of wanting deployed with the IDF disaster Weiss said. “But we definitely to do what was required of her relief delegations to those felt connected to Israel. It was peers and to carry out that countries. part of our identity. I attended responsibility.” “Every time disaster struck a Jewish day school and my Now that she’s leaving across the world, Libby was my parents spoke to us in Hebrew the military, Weiss plans to clear choice for deployment at home. We saw ourselves take some time off and then because I could count on her as Israeli Americans, and we go into business. She com- completely,” said former IDF were certainly Zionists.” pleted the Kellogg-Recanati spokesman Lt. Col. Peter After graduating from International Executive MBA Lerner, Weiss’ boss and men- Northwestern University in program at Tel Aviv University tor for much of her time in 2010 with a degree in political while in the military. the army. science, Weiss spent a year As she begins this next life On assignment abroad, participating in the Israel chapter, Weiss says she has Weiss witnessed some horrific Government Fellows, a se- no regrets—either about her sights -- and some miracles. lective MASA Israel program time in the army or her deci- In Nepal, she saw a teenage run by the Menachem Begin sion to move to Israel. boy trapped for many days Heritage Center in Jerusalem. “I see myself as both Ameri- under rubble pulled out alive Midway through the year, can and Israeli, and I am ap- and brought for treatment at Weiss decided to make Israel preciative of both countries,” the IDF field hospital. her permanent home, and she said. “He survived on a bottle of officially made aliyah once This article was spon- ghee, or clarified butter, that the program ended. Because sored by and produced in part- happened to be in an air pocket she was an Israeli citizen from nership with Nefesh B’Nefesh, with him,” Weiss recalled. birth due to her parents, all which in cooperation with In the Philippines, Weiss she needed to do to immigrate Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah, was present for the birth of the was go to the Interior Minis- The Jewish Agency, KKL and first baby born in the IDF field try, show her Israeli passport JNF-USA is minimizing the hospital there. His parents and receive an Israeli identity professional, logistical and named him Israel. card. social obstacles of aliyah, IS BACK! “I became quite friendly “Here I was making the and has brought over 50,000 with the family, and we are biggest decision I had made olim from North America Publication Date: August 4, 2017 still in touch,” she said. thus far, and maybe the big- and the United Kingdom over Of all her army experi- gest I will ever make, and it the last 15 years. This article Advertising Deadline: July 28, 2017 ences, Israel’s war with took me 15 minutes and was was produced by JTA’s native Hamas in 2014 was the most the least painful bureaucratic content team.