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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 44, NO. 46 JULY 17, 2020 25 TAMUZ, 5780 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Judge Alan Apte up for re-election

By Christine DeSouza

Very few things can be scarier than having to appear in a courtroom. One concern in many people’s minds is which judge will be trying their case. With almost 150 endorsements from lawyers, rest assured that those who stand before Judge Alan Apte of the Ninth Circuit Courts of Orange and Osceola coun- ties will have a fair hearing. In fact, no one walks out of his courtroom confused. He makes sure that the litigants and lawyers understand ev- erything that happens. Judge Alan Apte In a calm, straightforward and thoughtful manner, Apte way I do it, and this is from me explained the importance of being a lawyer watching other being clear in his courtroom. judges, is I explain what the He follows the old adage “Jus- facts are. I explain what the tice delayed is justice denied.” rule is, what the statute is and Jewish Academy of Orlando students put their heads together and said, ‘Let’s get back to school.’ “When done with the hear- explain my ruling. When they ing, they know the ruling and are in my courtroom, they why. That’s important, rather know why I rule in a particu- than waiting weeks to find out lar way. I think that’s what JAO to open ‘in person’ with what happened.” the community wants. The Apte continued, “My job is precautions during COVID-19 not to just grant or deny. The Apte on page 15A Jewish Academy of Orlando will pediatricians, lawyers and other profes- ing, monitoring and testing students and welcome its students back to in person sionals in the community. faculty, using a unique and state of the Nazi hate or Buddist learning this fall with precautions in “While remote learning was a smooth art ultraviolet disinfection technology, place. Consistent with the recommen- transition for our school, it was a ne- hand washing, smaller class sizes, social dations of the American Association cessity at the time. We recognize the distancing, wearing facemasks, frequent peace symbol? of Pediatrics, students will attend importance for students to have the disinfection and limiting interactions of school, while following stringent personal and social interactions with students. safety guidelines to minimize the risk their teachers and peers”, said Rusonik. Rusonik added, “We look forward to of COVID-19. In order to ensure the safest possible starting another year of learning and In May, Head of School Alan Rusonik learning environment, the school has growing when school resumes in August. assembled a re-opening task force that put in place a multi-layer approach to We are laser-focused on creating the included JAO faculty, administration, mitigating risk. These strategies will board members and parents as well as include, but are not limited to; screen- JAO on page 15A The ‘Metal Swastika Pendant Necklace’ sold by ‘Whose Holy Land?’ releases July 27 The Nazi swastika. SHEIN. By Christine DeSouza theory, is much older than perceived. According to a and the timing couldn’t be better A college student from Times of India report, it has Houston, Texas, started a now come to light that the By Christine DeSouza telling the history of Israel Hanson’s in depth research petition against the popular swastika symbol is much older through its archaeological reveals just who the modern retailer SHEIN for selling than the Aryans and even the Anyone who has heard a finds. Hanson is a natural Palestinians are, and where what she believed was a Nazi Indus Valley Civilization. In lecture by Kenneth Hanson, storyteller who makes the they came from. Archaeologi- swastika pendant. The Stop fact, the swastika dates back Ph.D., coordinator of the past come to life through cal records trace those who Anti-Semitism watchdog at least 11,000 years and has Judaic Studies at UCF, knows his books (almost a dozen), have lived in the land: from the group also pressured SHEIN been traced to Western and how passionate he is about blogs, podcasts, radio, videos Jews who had the land taken concerning the necklace. In Middle-Eastern civilizations. and television (The History from them by the Babylonians response SHEIN removed SHEIN still apologized Channel). all the way to the British. the necklace from its website. stating “we made a gigantic A scholar of Hebrew lan- “It’s time to take a fresh look This article was originally mistake by selling a product guage and the history of at the modern implications of intended to bring attention that is hurtful and offensive to the Jewish people, Hanson the science of archaeology,” to the offensive pendant and many of you, and we’re so, so has just completed a new Hanson said. its removal from the retailer’s sorry” and that it was removed book whose timing is per- Hanson is available for website through the effec- from the site. fect as Israel prepares to speaking engagements, tive watchdog pressure and Lehman also stated that give sovereignty to areas in whether by video or in person petition that shined a light many “skinheads” and radi- Judea and Samaria. “Whose (when quarantine is lifted). He on the necklace. However, cals who don’t know the dif- Holy Land? Archaeology is scheduled to speak at the upon closer inspection by ference between the Buddhist Meets Geopolitics in To- Kenneth Hanson, Ph.D. University Club in Winter Park Heritage’s production/office and Nazi symbols erroneously day’s Middle East” gathers on Sept. 21. For more infor- manager, David Lehman, the use the wrong swastika, add- archaeological evidence for “‘Whose Holy Land?’ follows mation, go to drkenhanson. pendant was discovered not ing to the confusion. the Jewish presence in Jeru- the history of Israel from com/#booking. to be a Nazi swastika, but a Several Jewish publica- salem and environs extend- the Canaanites, who have “Whose Holy Land?” is Buddhist swastika. SHEIN tions ran the story about the ing back into the Bronze disappeared, as has the entire available for pre-order on had stated so, saying it was offensive pendant, including Age during the twentieth lineage of the ancient Romans amazon.com and will be auto- a “Buddhist swastika,” with the Jewish Journal and the century B.C.E. and Byzantines. There are no delivered to Kindle devices a different design than the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, “The Land of Israel is not Egyptians, no Babylonians, on July 27. Amazon states one used by the Nazi Party and cries to boycott SHEIN just the ‘Holy Land.’ It’s an no Assyrians, no Edomites, that it will notify those who The Buddhist swastika is the also were posted on Facebook. archaeological minefield,” Hittites or Amalekites; and pre-order the hardcover or reverse of the offensive Nazi said Hanson. the list goes on. Of all an- paperback by email when a design, and is a symbol of Ancient artifacts are the sto- cient peoples, only the Jews date for delivery is available. peace and continuity. rytellers, according to Hanson. have survived. Yet, it is pre- Read an excerpt from The Indian symbol, which They are witnesses to the truth cisely the Jews who are said “Whose Holy Land?” on was hijacked by Adolf Hitler for of who lived in this ancient land. to be squatters on Arab land.” page 8A. his twisted Aryan supremacy PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 17, 2020 Continuing the “Wow” factor at Central Florida Hillel this fall ated from the University of nyon College Hillel, Denison lel is unique among Jewish how to function in warm, Connecticut with not only University Hillel and Ohio community institutions in caring Jewish communities a degree in Allied Health Wesleyan University Hillel, that it is the last place to now, they will then go out Sciences, but an ambition as well as staffing Shabbat interact with young Jews in in the world and lead their to learn more about being a at Ohio State Hillel. Kenyon a formal way and connect own communities in that leader in a community I had University named her adviser them to Judaism”, Kalef same fashion as they travel so much love for. I am incred- of the year during her tenure. commented. “We have to through life.” ibly grateful for the people I As Central Florida Hil- reach them while they are While all organizations have worked with over the lel’s associate director, in college and show them experience transitions, for years for teaching me about Kalef will be managing what it means to be part of the students at UCF, this the Jewish world and helping both the Development and a Jewish community that transition, rather than a to create an impact on the Student Life departments works toward common goals, harbinger of change, just future generations of the and has big plans for her that worships together, and means more of the same Jewish people.” upcoming inaugural year. that deeply cares about each inspired, passionate and “Following up on Dani- Kalef’s vision for Central other and our heritage. dedicated leadership of Hillel elle’s long record of suc- Florida Hillel is one of That’s ultimately what Jew- staff for the students of UCF cess is no small fete and to inclusion, inspiration, and ish community is, and if we and Central Florida for the achieve that, we turned to a increased opportunity. “Hil- can teach our young people coming year. Danielle McKinstry Liz Kalef seasoned pro that not only understands Hillel from her Approximately five years our UCF Perspectives trip own involvement on the Ex- ago, Danielle McKinstry that McKinstry led in its ecutive board of Hillel when Upcoming virtual events at graduated The University of inaugural year in 2019. she was a student at The Ohio Connecticut and landed her Whether late night calls State University, she is also first job at Central Florida with students, long days in the proud mother of a UCF Hillel as engagement associ- the office and on weekends student.” said Aaron Weil, The Roth Family JCC ate. During the ensuing five to help students create a new executive director and CEO years, McKinstry received initiative, McKinstry was of Central Florida Hillel. nearly annual promotions ever ready to help students Liz Kalef, comes from Co- until her most recent one last find their best selves while lumbus, Ohio, where she has year when she became Hil- forming a dynamic and sus- spent the past 23 years as the lel’s assistant director. As AD, tainable Jewish community executive director of two of McKinstry led an unprec- for college students in Cen- Columbus’s most esteemed edented period of growth tral Florida. With over 6,000 synagogues. Kalef is Central in the numbers of Jewish Jewish undergrad students Florida Hillel’s new associate students being active in alone at UCF, we are home director and Kalef and McK- Jewish life on our campuses to the third largest Jewish instry have been using the here in Orlando. student population in the valuable summer months to Moreover, her work as a world outside of Israel and ensure a smooth transition highly effective manager of we all owe a huge debt to in a planned manner. the entire Jewish student life McKinstry for her enviable Kalef and her husband, team eventually became the organization skills, her Jeremy, chose to make the focus of a national news story passion for creating Jewish life changing move to Or- on her excellent manage- life for the next generation lando after their youngest, ment acumen. McKinstry is and her seemingly endless Neil, graduated high school also the creator of the now reservoir of good humor and and settled on UCF for col- nationally known, “Jewber” optimism! lege. “We have always loved program at UCF, which really McKinstry will be leaving Orlando and all of our best changed the whole conversa- Orlando this summer to trav- family memories took place tion about Jewish student el to Boston where she will be here,” Kalef said. “We knew engagement on campus. starting her master’s degree we would move here eventu- Under McKinstry ‘s leader- in hospital administration. “I ally, but when Neil chose UCF ship, UCF Birthright and am so lucky to have been a we decided it was time for the Israel trip number exploded. part of the Orlando commu- rest of our life to start right The Summer Author Dollhouse,” “The Address,” Spend an afternoon in This past summer over 150 nity for the past five years. now. We couldn’t be happier Series and “The Lions of Fifth Av- Masada UCF students were signed Working at Central Florida with our decision.” The series continues enue.” Pack a bag and join oth- up for Israel experiences Hillel has shaped me into the For Kalef, coming to on Sunday, July 19 at 1 p.m. On July 26, at 1 p.m., Kris- ers on Thursday, Aug. 6, at including many non-Jewish leader, person, and confident Central Florida Hillel is like Rachel Beanland, will discuss tin Harmel will discuss her 5 p.m., as the JCC embarks students who as leaders on Jewish woman I am today.” coming home. Her first job her book, “Florence Adler new book, “The Book of Lost on an unforgettable trip to campus were able to join said McKinstry. “I gradu- after college was running Ke- Swims Forever,” in a Zoom Names.” Harmel will share Masada. It’s often described conversation. about this heart-stopping as being in the middle of Based on a true story tale of survival and heroism nowhere, yet people come and told in the vein of J. centered on a female forger from all over the world to Strategies for Action in July Courtney Sullivan’s “Saints who risks everything to help experience this “must see” for All Occasions” and Anita Jewish children escape Nazi- destination in Israel. But this Although the Holocaust Cohen, noon to 1 p.m. This ongoing atrocities. This is an Diamant’s “The Boston Girl,” occupied France. is much more than a mere Center remains closed be- event is free. interactive, online workshop Beanland’s family saga is a On Aug. 13, 1 p.m., Adeena sightseeing tour! We’ll also cause of the coronavirus, Drawing on the story of led by Unsilence, co-facilitated breathtaking portrait of just Susman will share recipes learn some cool “insider” events are still planned that Michael Bauer, the gay son by its founder, Dr. Danny M. how far we will go to in order from her Israeli cookbook, info about Masada from our can be attended virtually. of Jewish Holocaust survivors Cohen, as we consider lessons to protect our loved ones “Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Fla- professional tour guide, As part of the Strategies who lived through the AIDS the Holocaust holds for un- and an uplifting portrayal vors from My Israeli Kitchen.” Rotem Shahar, whose deep for Action programs, the crisis, attendees will think derstanding perpetratorship, of how the human spirit can These events are virtual and knowledge of all things Israel Holocaust Center presents critically about how inter- bystanderism, survivorship, endure — and even thrive free. To register please visit makes every stop on our tour on July 28, “The Limits & generational memory and in- and resistance. — after tragedy. Beanland https://orlandojcc.org/arts- a rich learning experience. Necessities of ‘Never Again’: herited trauma can require us This event is sponsored in will be interviewed by Fiona culture/author-speaker-series. The cost is only $18, ($15 for The Holocaust and Injustice to make urgent comparisons part by Matt and Shane Broff- Davis, best-selling author of Books may also be pur- JCC members). Registration is Today,” with Dr. Danny M. between the Holocaust and man and Andrew Snyder. five novels, including “The chased on the site. now open.

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By Jackson Richman boycott, he noted, adding that to boost voter registration the Wiesenthal Center will not across its platforms as part of (JNS) — Anti-Defamation be part of it. a “Voting Information Center” League national director and Cooper suggested that to help educate voters on how CEO Jonathan Greenblatt has these online companies be to register, find polling places come under fire from Jewish threatened with government or send ballots in by mail. groups for appearing on the regulation, which he called The campaign launched by MSNBC show “Politics Nation “the real cudgel.” the ADL and others to target With Al Sharpton” on Sunday During the appearance, hate groups on Facebook is to promote the ADL’s call Greenblatt criticized U.S. being met with concern that for corporations to boycott President Donald Trump for it could encroach on issues Facebook in July over its retweeting a video of a Trump of free speech and lead to the unwillingness to ban hate supporter in Florida riding in censoring of political ads by speech on the social-media a golf cart and responding to a conservatives. giant’s platform. While the protester calling him a racist Greenblatt, a veteran message seems on target with, “White power! White of the Obama and Clinton with ADL’s work, the idea of power!” (Trump later deleted administrations, has also partnering with someone like the retweet.) been criticized for moving Sharpton, who has a history Greenblatt said that Trump his organization away from of anti-Semitism and other is “only able to divide and not a nonpartisan stance and ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt (r) appearing on Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show “Politics bigotry, is hypocritical, if not unite.” embracing the politics of the Nation With Al Sharpton” on June 28, 2020. counterproductive, they say. In June, the ADL joined Democratic Party. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the with several other groups, Sharpton, host of the week- Referring to the ADL’s mon- Mort Klein, national presi- ties rather than divides, like Simon Wiesenthal Center’s including the National Asso- ly one-hour show on the left- iker, Hikind retorted: “What dent of the Zionist Organiza- Reverend Al Sharpton has associate dean and director ciation for the Advancement leaning cable-news network about Sharpton’s defamation tion of America, told JNS that done for decades. It is hypo- of global social action, sug- of Colored People (NAACP), since 2011 (he had a failed run of the Jewish people?” the ADL should not align itself critical for the Anti-Def- gested that it was wrong of Sleeping Giants, Color of in 2004 for the Democratic Liora Rez, director of Sto- with Sharpton to combat amation League’s head to Greenblatt to appear the show Change, Free Press and presidential nomination), pAntisemitism.org, told JNS hatred. work with someone who has since the well-known rever- Common Sense, to target has long been embraced by that while her organization The social-media site, said long defamed Jews—and put end, who these days makes Facebook. They placed a June Democratic politicians. supports any “attempt to Klein, “should remove hate- on Congressional Record for more television appearances 17 full-page ad in The Los An- ‘Fighting an uphill help put a stop to the end- ful sites and posts, such as references to ‘Bloodsucking then leads a congregational geles Times alleging that it has battle’ less hate content taking over those promoting [Palestin- Jews’ and ‘Jew Bastards’— flock, has never apologized not done enough to combat Former Democratic New social media,” Greenblatt’s ian] ‘Days of Rage,’ Islamist without apologizing,” said to the Jewish community for hate and disinformation. York State Assemblyman Dov appearance with Sharpton, groups, hate group [Students Leib. “Surely, Mr. Green- his words and actions. “We have long seen how Hikind, founder of Americans whom Rez called “an indi- for Justice in Palestine], and blatt can find more a suit- In addition to anti-Semitic Facebook has allowed some Against Antisemitism, did not vidual that perpetuates such anti-Semitic, anti-Israel BDS able partner in policing rhetoric Sharpton has spewed of the worst elements of hold back in rebuking Green- hate,” is an “extremely trou- and demonization of Israel hate speech than someone over the years, his instigat- society into our homes and blatt, calling the ADL leader’s bling” matter. and Jews.” whose rhetoric once fueled ing violence during the Au- our lives,” said Greenblatt appearance with Sharpton Nonetheless, she expressed Bryan Leib, chairman of a targeted, lethal attack gust 1991 riots in the Crown in a statement. “When this “pathetic,” “sickening” and a willingness to support the HaShevet, a new alliance of on Brooklyn’s Jewish com- Heights neighborhood of hate spreads online, it causes “the worst hypocrisy in the boycott. young Jewish American lead- munity.” Brooklyn, N.Y., against the tremendous harm and also world.” “We have been endless- ers that was formed amid Simultaneously, Facebook Chassidic Jewish community becomes permissible offline.” “How in G-d’s name isn’t ly fighting an uphill battle dissatisfaction with main- shouldn’t be the “the only remains etched in history. Facebook CEO Mark Zuck- the ADL ashamed of them- of anti-Semitic hatred on stream Jewish advocacy or- social-media company to be Cooper insisted that boy- erberg has faced continued selves?” posed Hikind. “They Facebook since our incep- ganizations such as the ADL, targeted in this boycott led cotting Facebook isn’t the criticism for not doing more need to explain to the public tion; if a July boycott of the echoed Klein as it pertains by the ADL,” said Leib. answer. The approach, he to police his platform for false and their supporters why it social-media giant will result to Greenblatt and Sharpton, He noted “a tremendous said, should be to get social- or misleading statements, is OK to align yourself with in a decrease of bigotry and though questioned the Face- amount of hate speech on media companies “to do more including from the president Al Sharpton, a race-baiter hatred, regardless of its origin, book boycott. Twitter, Instagram and Tik- because they can.” himself. Instead, the company and inciter of violence in the we will 100 [percent] back it,” “We are committed to dia- Tok,” saying those sites should “No one’s going to keep” the has launched a massive drive Crown Heights riots.” said Rez. logue that unites communi- also be boycotted. Conference of Presidents calls for zero tolerance in the face of increased anti-Semitism NEW YORK — Arthur By taking advantage of the of property, and flagrant Also troubling is the anti- American must forcefully communities and our institu- Stark, chairman; William increased media spotlight expressions of Jew-hatred, Semitism and hate that con- reject this dangerous incite- tions must be paramount. Daroff, CEO; and Malcolm on social justice they seek to including baseless charges tinues to pervade social me- ment and denounce these There must be a meaningful Hoenlein, vice chair of the spread their bigoted messag- reminiscent of age-old ca- dia. Recent vitriol from high calls for bigotry. response from non-Jewish Conference of Presidents of es of hatred toward the Jew- nards such as the blood libel, profile personalities, some We cannot and must not leaders who can galvanize Major American Jewish Orga- ish people. To make matters directly threaten the safety spreading the racist bigotry of stand for this. The deplorable action. We should not be alone nizations, issued the following worse, this comes at a time and security of the American Louis Farrakhan, is abhorrent increase in anti-Semitism is in the fight against the world’s statement: when Jews are already expe- Jewish community. While it is and unacceptable. Those who unacceptable on all levels; as oldest hatred, in America or “We are outraged by recent riencing sharply increased clear that those perpetrating have influence should not be a society we must commit elsewhere. We must join to- instances of blatant anti- anti-Semitism in the U.S. these acts are a tiny minority trafficking in or tolerating the ourselves to having zero toler- gether to combat pernicious Semitism in America, many and abroad, including being whose views are rejected by promotion of Jew-hatred, but ance for its acceptance. When efforts to divide, to denigrate, of which manifest in actions scapegoated by extremists the vast majority of Ameri- rather should be vociferously anti-Semitism rears its ugly and to discriminate; working by anti-Israel individuals looking to place blame for the cans, we are nonetheless condemning it. head, there must be action together we must eliminate and organizations seeking COVID-19 pandemic. profoundly disturbed by this No group should have to from all levels of government this threat to our society, to co-opt the national reck- The horrific acts of hate- surge in pronouncements of suffer indignities, threats, and all sectors of society to our country, and our com- oning with racial inequity. filled vandalism, destruction Jew-hatred. and acts of violence. Every counter it. The security of our munities.” Danon: Obama’s decision to ‘abandon’ Israel was lowest moment of UN tenure By Shiryn Ghermezian Haley gave him, which is to and express my views, and years [was] the moment the He also offered this advice You’re not going to gain any- take “time before making any actually promote my views U.S. decided to abandon to Israel’s enemies and allies thing from it. [If] you have (JNS) — Israel’s outgoing commitments.” like I used to do before I was Israel” at the U.N. Security alike: “Don’t threaten Israel. concerns, speak to us.” Ambassador to the United Na- So, he said, “I’m going to in diplomacy.” Council under the Obama tions Danny Danon reflected go back to Israel and enjoy it. A former Knesset member administration, when it on his last five years in office Relax and take my time before from the Likud Party, he pre- supported Resolution 2334 and plans for the future dur- making any decisions.” viously served as minister of against Israel. He further ing his final press briefing on “But for sure, I will stay science, technology and space, accused the Obama admin- BRYAN’S Tuesday. involved; that is my nature,” and as deputy minister of de- istration of working behind Danon’s first move upon he added. “For the last 20 fense. Regional Cooperation the scenes to promote that DRAIN SERVICES returning to Israel will be to years, I was involved in public Minister Gilad Erdan will re- resolution, which condemned visit his mother, who he has life. [Now] I will be more vocal place Danon at the end of July. Israel’s presence in Judea and For All Your Water & Drain Needs not seen in almost a year, than I was in the U.N. because In January, Erdan will take Samaria, as well as eastern he said. when I was in office, I had to over Ron Dermer’s position Jerusalem. 407-427-3477 Regarding the next step in represent the Israeli govern- as Israel’s ambassador to the Nevertheless, the ambas- [email protected] his career, he shared advice ment always. Now when I United States as well. sador strongly feels that “no that former U.S. Ambassador become a private citizen, I Danon noted that his “low- one can jeopardize the bond” to the United Nations Nikki will be able to speak openly est moment in the last five between America and Israel. Mention this ad for 10% OFF PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 17, 2020 Beinart has reached his Yavne By Yisrael Medad Returning to an ideological position pro- tearing down of establishments, be they com- off from his Revisionist Party and contested moted by HaShomer HaTzair, Brit Shalom and munity institutions, historical facts or ideas. the Congress elections in 1933 was called (JNS) — Peter Beinart has laid out his politi- others in the pre-state era during the British Previously, I have expressed my view that the Jewish State Party. cal vision once again. Once again, too, he trots Mandatory regime, and which was not only since his 2010 New York Review of Books es- Beinart bumbles or he depends too much out his ignorance, his serpentine reasoning unrealistic, impractical in the circumstances say, Beinart, assuming a mantle of the “bad on research assistants (this one lists three), and his shocking immorality. and a fringe viewpoint but consistently re- boy,” has been seeking to rip out from the as he actually knows very little of his subject. It’s always crisis time for him. However, jected by the Arabs, he has published a call hearts of Jewish youth their Jewish solidarity In a form of dangerous psychological clap- this time, it’s not a solution of two states in that a new “Yavne” construct be adopted. And and pit them against Israel. Ever since then, trap, he sees that: the territory west of the Jordan River he is that a new Jewish identity be imagined: One in his book, on his closed-down Open Zion Jews have retroactively projected Nazism’s championing for “the classic two-state solu- that no longer equates Palestinian equality website and other platforms, he has been exterminationist program on Palestinian op- tion is dead,” he writes. The solution, rather, with Jewish genocide. twisting ideas, terms and concepts so as to position to pre-state Zionism. is just one state; well, sort of. And no, he is However, that “Yavne” has a sub-text confound and discombobulate a younger This is a horrible downplaying of the not promoting Caroline Glick’s book. Rather, meaning: a phase of Jewish history had run generation of Jews. willingness of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, he seeks an “equal Israel-Palestine.” its course. Yes, Beinart is still pursuing the Moreover, he is understood to be “encour- Amin al-Husseini, to collaborate with the aging the Jewish community to welcome Nazis proactively beginning in 1933, receiving discomfort.” In 2015, he wrote an op-ed financial assistance from Germany in the late in Haaretz that pushed that element of discom- 1930s, residing in Berlin during the war years What do U.S. Jews really fort a bit too close for comfort to an outright and broadcasting Nazi propaganda in Arabic to supporter for Arab terror when he wrote: the Middle East. That is in addition to raising It would be wonderful if Palestinians could a Waffen SS Muslim unit, halting the emigra- win those freedoms without causing Jews tion of Jewish children, sending his comrades think about annexation? discomfort. But it hasn’t happened that way from the 1930s to parachute into Palestine to because it never happens that way. People are kill Jews and plan for crematoria to be built for By Stephen M. Flatow education, from government authorities. The not given freedom; they take it. … Mahmoud Jews in the Dotan Valley in Samaria. hatred of so many Palestinians for Jews results Abbas is finally taking that maxim to heart.” As Daniel Gordis observes, Beinart displays (JNS) — What, exactly do American Jews from a conscious process of demonizing the Arguing with Beinart, besides awarding him “an astonishing array of sleights of hand and think about the possibility of reuniting small ‘Zionist enemy.’ There is a direct line between a profile and attention he does not deserve, misrepresentations” and his ‘piece [IS] so parts of Judea and Samaria with the rest of Palestinian terror and the growing use of is frustrating because almost every source intellectually dishonest—and manipulative.” Israel? anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi language in the to which he refers is corrupted, and he has a More outrageously, he claims: Rabbi Eric Yoffie, former president of the Palestinian media.” sophistic method of argumentation. “The depiction of Palestinians as compul- Union for Reform Judaism, says he knows. Think about that. Eight years after Israel Approvingly, he quotes Hebrew University’s sive Jew-haters — and the corresponding Writing in Haaretz this week, he declared: signed the Oslo agreement and created the Dmitry Shumsky as arguing that “the demand belief that anything short of Jewish statehood “American Jews are not happy.” Note he didn’t Palestinian Authority. Eight years after giv- for a Jewish state did not define Zionism until constitutes collective suicide — stems less say “some” or even “many.” Rather, “American ing the P.A. control of 40 percent of Judea the 1940s,” and that was true also for Ze’ev from Palestinian behavior than from Jewish Jews” — all of them, apparently — are “not and Samaria, and 98 percent of the region’s Jabotinsky. In 1931, Jabotinsky proposed at trauma.” happy” about any possible annexation. Arab residents. Eight years after peace was the 17th World Zionist Congress that it decide Less? For more than a century, the Arabs of According to Yoffie, all American Jews are supposed to have descended upon Israel and the Zionism’s endziel, its ultimate goal, is a Palestine have raped Jews, slaughtered them, “shocked,” “panicked,” “puzzled,” “confused,” the Palestinians. Eight years after all that, the call for a Jewish state, with a Jewish majority, and “above all, angry” at what he calls “the P.A. was actively waging war against Israel. on both sides of the Jordan. A group that split Beinart on page 14A monumental stupidity” of extending Israeli What has changed since Yoffie spoke those law to even the smallest part of the areas that words 19 years ago? Nothing. The “anti-Semitic have been at the center of the Jewish national and neo-Nazi language” that he said permeated homeland for more than 3,000 years. the Palestinian media still permeates it. The 52 years late isn’t too late Not that he is alone in his assumptions. P.A. continues to “nourish a culture of hatred.” Former U.S. Mideast envoy Martin Indyk, who The P.A. still “consciously demonizes” Jews and By Shoshana Bryen the Europeans players. The Camp David Ac- has spent much of his life trying to create a Israel. And there is still a “direct line” between cords posit: Palestinian state in Israel’s backyard, recently Palestinian hatred and Palestinian violence. (JNS) — As Israel considers how and when To achieve a relationship of peace, in the claimed on Twitter that there is a “Diaspora All of which brings us back to the rabbi’s to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Sa- spirit of Article 2 of the United Nations Char- Revolt” against annexation. current line, as expressed this week in Haaretz. maria — drawing its map in cooperation with ter, future negotiations between Israel and And presumably as one manifestation of that He says American Jews all agree with him in the United States and leaving a chair at the any neighbor prepared to negotiate peace and “Revolt,” 36 Conservative rabbinical students opposing annexation. Maybe he’s right. Maybe table for the Palestinian Authority — American security with it are necessary for the purpose of recently signed a statement denouncing any he’s wrong. The only way to know is to take a Democrats, the European community, parts carrying out all the provisions and principles such Israeli actions. poll — a poll with precisely worded questions, of the international Jewish community and of Resolutions 242 and 338. I’m not surprised that some Conservative not questions with vague language and “spin”- to an apparently lesser degree the Gulf Arab Peace requires respect for the sovereignty, rabbinical students lean far to the left when it able slogans. countries have been busy pronouncing them- territorial integrity, and political independence comes to Israeli issues. So do many Reform and Questions like these: selves “troubled” by the whole process. The of every state in the area and their right to Reconstructionist rabbinical students. That’s Rabbi Eric Yoffie said in the past that “anti- silent party has been the Palestinian Authority. live in peace within secure and recognized not news; it reflects long-standing ideologi- Semitic and neo-Nazi language” by the P.A. Until now. boundaries free from threats or acts of force. cal trends in those movement’s educational was undermining peace. Now he says Israeli In a text message to “the Quartet” (the The principle was carried into the Israeli- institutions. annexation will undermine peace. Which do “peacemaking” group consisting of the United Palestinian Oslo Accords (witnessed by the And it’s surely no surprise that former you agree with? Nations, the European Union, the United United States and Russia): ambassador Indyk, a professional crusader for If Israel annexes the Jewish communities in States and Russia), the P.A. declares itself The aim of the Israeli-Palestinian negotia- Palestinian statehood, conjures up imaginary Judea and Samaria, it will not add any Arabs “ready to resume direct bilateral negotiations tions within the current Middle East peace “revolts” to advance his agenda. to Israel’s population. Even if Israel annexes where they stopped” in 2014. The Palestin- process is, among other things, to establish a Yoffie himself, however, is a little more the entire Jordan Valley, it will add only a few ians are ready, the message says, to consider Palestinian Interim Self-Government Author- complicated. tens of thousands of Arabs to Israel. Do you “minor border changes that will have been ity, the elected Council (the “Council”), for As president of the Reform movement (then think annexation would pose a demographic mutually agreed, based on the borders of the Palestinian people in the West Bank and known as the Union of American Hebrew danger to Israel as a Jewish state? June 4, 1967.” It helps to know that the June the Gaza Strip, for a transitional period not Congregations), Yoffie stood up in front of If Israel doesn’t annex any territory and 4 line is not a border. It is the 1949 Armistice exceeding five years, leading to a permanent the delegates to its national convention, in instead gives the land to the Palestinian Au- Line that was rejected by the United Nations settlement based on Security Council Resolu- Cleveland, on June 3, 2001, and named the thority, Israel will be about nine miles wide at as a border for Israel in U.N. Security Coun- tions 242 and 338. real obstacle to peace. its midsection. Do you think that will make cil Resolutions 242 and 338. It is understood that the interim arrange- It wasn’t the possibility of Israeli annexation. Israel more secure or less secure? This is why the Quartet has been a spectacu- ments are an integral part of the whole peace It wasn’t the policies of Israel’s government. It Don’t count on opponents of annexation lar failure. The institutional players, plus as- process and that the negotiations on the per- wasn’t the settlements. It was Palestinian Arab carrying out a poll like that any time soon. sorted others assert that all of the territory east manent status will lead to the implementation terrorism, nurtured and sponsored by Israel’s They’re scared to death what kind of answers of the 1949 line “belongs” to the Palestinians of Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. “partner in peace,” the Palestinian Authority. they would get. for a state. Therefore, the presence of Israelis The Oslo Accords did not treat the PLO as And Yoffie criticized his own Reform movement Stephen M. Flatow is a vice president of the living on that land, and the incorporation of a country-in-waiting, nor did it promise an for not facing this bitter truth. Religious Zionists of America, an attorney in any of it into the State of Israel is an illegal independent state at the end of “the five-year “We did not pay nearly enough attention to New Jersey and the father of Alisa Flatow, who taking — an “annexation,” the relevant defini- transitional period,” only a “permanent settle- the culture of hatred created and nourished by was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Pal- tion of which is, “to incorporate (a country or ment,” and only under the terms of Resolution Palestinian leaders,” he announced at the time. estinian terrorist attack in 1995. His book, “A other territory) within the domain of a state.” 242 and 338. 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By Jonathan S. Tobin are sometimes diverging from marches is contempt for the named because, in the view exercise in tyranny as revo- great deal of France’s priceless their usual arguments about basic idea that the Ameri- of the Times, the arrival of lutionary factions tore each artistic legacy. (JNS) — In the view of racism to attacking Israel can experiment in democ- the first black slaves in North other and France apart over The impulse to destroy those cheering on the efforts with blood libels. This week, racy, flawed though it is, is a America was the true begin- the following several years. and the lack of regard for of the Black Lives Matter one BLM march up Wash- uniquely successful effort in ning of American nationhood, A little-remembered epi- individual rights that was at movement, this July 4 was ington, D.C.’s Constitution expanding the realm of liber- and the revolution in 1776 sode from that time helps the heart of the revolutionary one less of celebration than of Avenue, demonstrated its ty. As efforts like The New York was fought mainly to preserve explain why the insistence fervor symbolized all that soul-searching and reassess- solidarity with a Palestin- Times’ “1619 Project” that slavery. Once we set aside on individual rights in the went wrong in France. So ment. Thanks to the corona- ian “Day of Rage” by chanting, has served as an ideological this inherently mendacious more conservative American with Americans now looking virus pandemic, the normal “Israel, we know you murder guide to the protesters vision premise of that account, it’s Revolution was superior to to tear down monuments, it’s festivities were always going children too.” of America as an incorrigibly important to understand more “progressive” revolu- not surprising that we should to be muted. But the brutal No doubt, some will claim racist nation made plain, the that the American Revolution tions elsewhere that were now remember Lenoir. death of George Floyd on that these chants are not goal of the BLM movement succeeded primarily because rooted in utopian notions of One person who pointed May 25 sent angry crowds of typical of BLM sentiments, is not so much to reform the it was rooted in a belief in the justice that almost always led out the analogy between sometimes peaceful protest- even though the movement police or cleanse the country rule of law. to more suffering. that moment and our own ers into the streets seeking has always supported smears of hate as it is to recast the The contrast with the In 1793, as terror spread problems, however, paid the to topple monuments of not of Israel. Others might say entire national narrative French Revolution, which throughout France, revo- price for doing so. As The New just Confederates, but also that among them were “some that has provided a haven for occurred just 13 years later lutionary mobs intent on York Times reported, Keith the nation’s Founding Fathers very fine people,” a conclusion religious minorities like Jews. in 1789, is apt. That revolt, obliterating all symbols of Christiansen, the chairman and a host of other historical that few accepted when that As such, it may be an appro- inspired in part by the Ameri- the ancient regime were de- of the European paintings figures who don’t measure up sentiment was put forward priate moment for Americans can example, was born in great stroying monuments, statues department at the Metropoli- to the woke standards of the by President Donald Trump to think seriously about their hope. The old feudal regime and artwork associated with tan Museum in New York City, demonstrators. about those opposed to the origins as a nation and to ask was thrown away and replaced the country’s royal past. A posted a drawing of Lenoir As such, it is a deeply omi- removal of Confederate stat- not only whether this 1619 nar- by a progressive republic. But scholar named Alexandre defending royal monuments nous sign that some advocates ues during a neo-Nazi march rative is true, but to ponder shorn of colonial America’s Lenoir sought to defend the from the depredations of of the BLM movement, which in August 2017 in Charlot- as well why we should still be tradition of representative statues and other artifacts at revolutionary mobs on his has always been linked to anti- tesville, Va. cheering the memory of 1776. government, the exercise the royal tombs at St. Denis. Semitic intersectional claims, But at the heart of the The “1619 Project” is so became a vengeful progressive His courage helped save a Tobin on page 14A Why is there silence when Jews and Jewish institutions are attacked? By Farley Weiss But the news media remained sary to speak out in front of a Angeles: Congregation Beth months ago about the silence class president of Pomona undeterred in its mission. school assembly to condemn El, Congregation Beth Is- of his current employer, The College have been able to (JNS) — Given the racial That, it seems, should have the anti-Semitism. rael, Tifereth Avi, Morasha New York Times, during the keep their positions, despite strife in the United States been worth a story itself. But, with the environment Educational Center, Shaarei Holocaust and its abdication their expressing or sharing during the past month, the The Bubba Wallace incident now poisoned, my brother Tefillah Synagogue, Kehilas of its journalistic responsi- anti-Semitic comments, be- news media appears deter- reminded me of an actual had decided, after seeing Yaakov Congregation, Baba bilities at that time. Unfortu- cause hatred of Jews is the mined to exploit every possible noose that was placed in my the noose, to not return to Sale Congregation, Shalhevet nately, we have now recently one hatred that is accepted manifestation with partisan younger brother’s locker, the school, opting instead to High School, Mensch Bakery seen a repetition of such an on college campuses. political purpose in mind. Or when he was in high school, complete his coursework the and Kitchen, Ariel Glatt Ko- immoral silence by the media The solution to anti-Semi- so it seems. in 1981. It began when a small following year in Israel. The sher Market, Syd’s Pharmacy in regard to these attacks on tism is to shine a light on those A recent “news” story that group of his classmates carved school, to its credit —know- and Kosher Vitamins. Jewish institutions in Los engaging in it, as my brother captivated the nation’s head- a swastika on a picnic table, ing that my brother was not Anti-Semitic slurs like Angeles. did in high school, but there lines focused on the report at a popular gathering place returning — denied those “F*** Israel” were written The CHOP area of Seattle, have to be ramifications to of a noose found hanging in during school breaks, along perpetrators the right to on some of the buildings, and the devastating results those engaging in it. the garage stall of African- with the words” “The Vendetta return for their senior year. and some rioters shouted of an area without law en- In our situation, the high American NASCAR driver Lives On.” Was justice served? Was the anti-Semitic comments, as forcement, shows the great school eventually took proper Bubba Wallace. It was, it ap- The message was not to be lesson learned? We can only well, while attacking the danger of calls to defund action against those students, peared on merit, newsworthy. misunderstood. My brother hope. The jury will always businesses. the police. The Jewish com- to let it be known that there Until it wasn’t. reported the anti-Semitic be out. Is there any doubt that this munity greatly values the were strong ramifications for But the lack of credibility students to the school’s dean. In the year 2018, the FBI would have been front-page police and the protection displaying such hatred. If no of the story, and the obvious The students responded by records that Jews were 2.7 news had the perpetrators it provides that sadly was action is taken against such ramifications, continued to placing a roped noose in his times more likely than blacks, been white supremacists, lacking while its stores and hatred, as appears to have oc- be exploited for its obvious locker. and 2.2 times more likely than instead of leftist radical anti- synagogues were being at- curred in Los Angeles — and political value. It no longer The violation was certainly Muslims, to be hate-crime Semites and anarchists? tacked during rioting in Los is occurring on the campuses seemed to matter that the more ominous than the sim- victims. The rioters even attacked Angeles. The Jewish com- of FSU and Pomona — then noose was not, in fact, an overt ple break-in of his locker. As All hatred should be con- the statue of the great Swed- munity desires, if anything, a hatred grows and the danger racist display — which it was a graduate who was still con- demned, but there appears ish special envoy Raoul Wal- stronger police and security to Jews grows, as well. not — but rather a complete nected to the same school, I to be an exception for hate lenberg, who saved tens of presence due to anti-Semitic We await action against the misunderstanding of a garage approached the senior class crimes against Jews. The thousands of Jewish lives attacks like the ones in Los rioters in Los Angeles who pull-down rope, ostensibly president about the matter. He following Jewish places were during the Holocaust. One Angeles. perpetrated the anti-Semitic ubiquitous in such settings. exhibited the courage neces- attacked by rioters in Los should be outraged at the Martin Luther King Jr. attacks on Jewish religious death of George Floyd, but practiced non-violence. As a institutions and businesses, condemning that action by result, racially discriminatory and the removal of the student displaying hatred toward Jews laws were changed, and there senate president at FSU and Palestinian girl lying on the should be universally and is a federal holiday in his name the senior class president of Letters To The Editor ground, still in office? publicly condemned. and honor. Pomona. We are a diverse community and we welcome your His predecessor, John Den- Why is there silence when King also stridently op- Actions speak louder than letters and viewpoints. The views and opinions expressed ton, accused of racism, was Jews and Jewish institutions posed anti-Semitism and words. You cannot say you op- in the opinion pieces and letters published in The Heri- fired. Daraldik, a member of are attacked? 6,000,000 Jews was a strong supporter of pose anti-Semitism without tage are the views of the authors, and do not necessarily the group who supported that died in WWII, and before they Israel. He knew that you can- taking steps against anti- reflect the views and opinions of The Heritage Florida action, replaced him. “The Ho- were murdered, the precursor not fight bigotry with bigotry. Semites. Jewish News or its staff. The Heritage reserves the right locaust never ended,” he said. was attacks on Jewish-owned Jews are the biggest suf- Farley Weiss is president of to edit letters for clarity, content, and accuracy. And “It just moved to Palestine.” In businesses and synagogues ferers of hate-filled attacks in the National Council of Young respectful of lashon hara, we will not print derogatory a video posted last month, he and silence in response to America today. The student Israel. He is an intellectual statements against any individual. labeled Israelis as Nazis. It is those attacks. senate president at Florida property attorney for the law Please limit letters to 500 words. Send letters to P.O. evident that this Palestinian Bret Stephens wrote a few State University and senior firm of Weiss & Moy. Box 300742, Fern Park, FL 32730. Or e-mail to news@ Muslim student who grew up orlandoheritage.com. in Ramallah, headquarters of the Palestinian Authority, learned to hate. Anti-Semitism should have no It is shocking that anti- place at FSU Semitism is now on the rise in our universities, our cities Dear Editor: Recently you issued a state- and elsewhere in the world. Thanks for publishing the ment that “Anti-Semitism In our “blame” society, Jews article about this anti-Semitic and religious discrimination are easy targets and have been president (“FSU senate keeps have no place at Florida State for centuries. Does your uni- new president”) and the University.” How does that versity want to continue this article “Speak out against translate into action? Why is abhorrent practice? anti-Semitism on campus,” Ahmad Daraldik, the Student As a Florida resident, my (both in June 26, 2020). I hope Senate president, still in of- taxes help support your many of your readers decide fice? Using Internet posts, a university. I want my dol- to express their objections to website and instagrams, he lars sent to a school that retaining this student in a has spewed his hatred against not only speaks out against leadership position. Jews and Israel. Why is Daral- anti-Semitism but also takes The following is a letter I dik, who posted a fake image of action against it. wrote to the president of UCF. an alleged Israeli IDF soldier Lenore Richman Roland Dear President Thrasher: pressing his foot on a young Windermere, Fla. 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Libby, first Jewish president of Stetson University her MBA at Cornell’s Johnson Stetson now offers new ma- School of Management. She jors and academics. Three new went on to earn her doctorate majors never existed in the in educational administration past but because of advances at the University of Connecti- in modern technologies the cut in 1994. topics are viable today. After graduating with her “We have a major called Ph.D., Libby held a few posts Centurion” Libby explained. in the for-profit world and “You can receive a degree then joined higher educa- in professional sales, food tion. Her odyssey included studies, sustainable food Ithaca, New York; Columbus, systems, economics of food Ohio; Hartford, Connecticut; deserts, cyber security, Portland, Maine; Greenville, and ethical hacking. The South Carolina; and finally students are encouraged to Columbia, Missouri, before see if they can hack into our settling in DeLand. systems. Many have where One of those positions professional companies have was with Furman University not,” she added. Wendy B. Libby located in Greenville, South Total undergraduate enroll- Wendy Libby was honored with “President Wendy B. Libby Week” in DeLand June 1-8, Carolina. She held the posi- ment today is 3,150 students, to remodel, build and then 2020. tion of chief financial officer/ 44 percent are male and 56 support a professional staff.” vice president for Business percent female, 64 percent of Alan Ginsburg, whose By Ed Borowsky ward to sleeping in a bit and the sporting events on cam- Affairs from 1995 to May 2003. the students live in college- grandson is a student at spending more time with her pus. That’s not going to stop She then assumed the presi- owned, operated or affiliated Stetson, donated the funds In 2009, Wendy B. Libby, husband of 35 years, Richard, now,” Libby said emphatically. dency of Stephens College housing and 36 percent live through the Ginsburg Fam- Ph.D., a nice Jewish girl from a retired college president, Stetson is part of the NCAA in Columbia, Missouri, from off campus. ily Foundation to renovate Brooklyn, became the ninth and their 13-year-old black Division I. Libby has enhanced 2003 until 2009. Stephens There has always been a the Hillel House, which was and first female president of Labrador Retriever named the athletics program through College, founded in 1833, is Jewish student body at Stet- named in the memory of Stetson University. Founded Puppy. She’s also looking the introduction of women’s the second oldest women’s son, which has grown today to his son and daughter-in-law, in 1883, Libby is also the forward to spending more lacrosse and beach volleyball institution in the United over 11 percent of the overall Jeffrey and Diane Ginsburg. first Jewish president. She time with her children, her programs and the reintroduc- States. From there she came general student population. The House officially opened officially retired on June 30, four grandchildren, her great- tion of football after a 57-year to Stetson. Libby was instrumental in November 2019. 2020, becoming president granddaughter, two great- absence. During her tenure, During her tenure, Libby in expanding the Hillel pres- “Stetson’s Hillel has a Ko- emerita. grandsons and her leagues Stetson saw the construction felt that her mission was to ence at Stetson. “There was a sher kitchen and is now run When asked how it feels of friends. of the Athletics Training Cen- improve the student learning Hillel, but it had no physical by Sam Friedman who is doing to retire, she remarked, “The The Libbys purchased a ter, Cooper Beach Volleyball experience. “I always wanted presence on campus. In the a wonderful job for our over most difficult thing for me house in southeast DeLand, Pavilion/Courts, the Sandra to ensure that our students, early years it was student-led 300 Jewish student body. Sam about my retirement will Florida, a few years ago in Stetson Aquatic Center and during and after attending with a faculty or staff member directs the Jewish program- be missing my friends and “preparation.” Libby said that the Edinger Golf Complex. Stetson, felt they had made as adviser. Our vice president ming, recruits students and colleagues with whom I’ve she loves DeLand and living “The path to the presidency the right choice. Our work of enrollment, Joel Baumen, raises funds.” worked for so many years. close to the campus will al- has been a long, wonderful, was to provide our students and I were committed to Libby also led Stetson Living close to the campus low them to continue to be winding road,” Libby said. everything they needed to get expanding it, but more im- through a period of significant will make my retirement more the dedicated Stetson sports After receiving her under- an exemplary education and portantly, to offer our Jewish growth and she leaves with the palatable as I still plan to come fans that they are. “During the graduate degree in biology give them the ability to go on students programming that second five-year strategic plan around from time to time.” entire time I was president, from Cornell University in and live good and productive was relevant to their lives. But Libby is looking for- we’ve attended almost all of Ithaca, New York, she earned lives,” Libby said. We needed to find the funds Libby on page 14A PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 17, 2020 ‘Whose Holy Land?’ — an excerpt Forge history? Is that the remains in place, and when ple Mount. Long ago, in the majority arrived only within sinister campaign Israel’s bib- shaken, it still produces a faint twelfth century, B.C.E., there the last century or so. To link lical archaeologists are pursu- ringing sound. In short order was a city here called Jebus, themselves to the Nabatean ing? Has a dark conspiracy audio files began appearing on after the Jebusite tribe of Ca- Arabs who lived there in an- been hatched, to take control the internet, beckoning the naanites — those conquered tiquity, and who were, after of Muslim holy sites, occupy- listener with “a voice message by the biblical hero Joshua. all, pagans, not Muslims, is at ing Islamic holy ground, and from the holy temple.” According to the Bible, the city best a vain exercise. Could it build in their place a new As amazing a find as it is, remained in Jebusite hands be that modern Palestinians Jewish temple? If so, World the little gold bell is just the until it was taken by King simply have nothing that old War III might be expected most recent episode in a long David, somewhere around the for which to dig? to arrive much sooner than saga of archeological discov- tenth century B.C.E. Such was Jerusalem is today as it has previously imagined. In any eries that have confirmed the the genesis of the city that is always been, a focal point of case, there can be no doubt biblical descriptions of Jewish today known as Jerusalem. geopolitics. From the days in that archaeology is becoming history. We are about to travel All of this, however, is which David first vanquished one more weapon in today’s back in time and explore the incessantly undermined by the Jebusites it has been ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict. most significant among them, Palestinian propagandists. attacked fifty-two times, How could a little bell pro- along with their discoverers, David and his memory are captured and recaptured duce such rancor, when its and with each one of them, we minimized, if not erased from forty-four times, besieged discovery should have been will also present, not only the history. Moreover, excuses are twenty-three times, and de- met with awe and wonder? Its “facts on the ground,” but the being made for the apparent stroyed twice. Ironically, we design is exquisite, perfectly science that underlies them lack of Palestinian archaeol- would be hard-pressed to find preserved and untarnished af- and the inevitable criticism ogy, while Jewish archaeol- any place on earth more prone ter two thousand years. Found from the Palestinians and ogy proceeds at fever-pitch. to violence and bloodshed in the remains of a drainage their advocates in the media. In a television interview for than this “City of Peace.” The tunnel dating to the first cen- Sadly, in today’s geopolitical Al-Jazeera, archaeologist fact that that subterranean tury of the Common Era (the climate such voices are as Mahmoud Hawari of Bir Zeit archaeology is on the front entrance of which lay just west much a part of the story as University declared: line in today’s conflict is but of the famed Western Wall of the discoveries themselves. The reason Palestinians are a new wrinkle in the ongoing the Temple Mount), the ex- A suitable place to begin is not as interested in archae- battle for David. For better or cavation managers declared, in a sleepy suburb in East ology as Israelis is because for worse, the diggers will con- “It appears the bell was sewn Jerusalem, the name and sig- we don’t have to prove that tinue to dig. Israel’s greatest on the garment of a man of nificance of which is of little we were here two thousand modern poet, the late Yehuda high standing in Jerusalem at interest to most —Silwan. years ago. Amichai, summed it up: the end of the Second Temple With a population of some Put simply, it is so obvious Jerusalem is like an Atlantis period.” The Bible describes forty thousand Arabs, it is, giv- that Palestinian Arabs were that sank into the sea the bluish tunic of the temple’s en the tensions of the region, living, some two millennia everything there is sub- By Kenneth Hanson, “provocation,” as Palestinian high priest as being festooned much less sleepy and much ago, in the land that today merged and sunken Ph.D. sources claim, in the ongo- along its hem with seventy- more confrontational than comprises the Jewish state, This is not the heavenly Jeru- Jerusalem, July, 2011 ing conflict over who owns two gold bells, interspersed might be imagined. This is that they are disinterested in salem but the one down below, C.E. the most disputed piece of with woven pomegranates. because Silwan is the location archaeological attempts to way down below. And from real estate on earth? Accord- Given the location of this of a major archaeological site, prove it. One might, however, the sea floor they dredge up A tiny bell. A tiny golden ing to Palestinian television find and the fact that it per- advertised as the City of David suggest another scenario. It is ruined walls bell. Might this be the “sig- news, “Israeli sources said fectly matches the biblical (Ir David in Hebrew). It is part painfully evident that today’s and fragments of faiths, like nal” for which a small sect that a gold bell had been description, it is not beyond of a natural rocky outcropping Palestinian Arabs can trace rust-covered vessels from of faithful Israelites have found in a tunnel, belonging the realm of possibility that extending southward from a their residence in the land sunken waited for two millennia, to what they call the Second this minuscule artifact may ridge-like area known as the no further back than the prophecy ships. That’s not declaring that the time is Temple Period. This once have been worn by the man Ophel, that in turn connects Muslim conquest of 634 of rust, it’s blood that has never ripe for rebuilding the ru- again highlights the efforts who presided over ancient with the south end of the Tem- the Common Era. The great dried. ined temple of Jerusalem? of the Israeli side to forge Jerusalem’s “Holy House.” By contrast might it be a the history of the holy city.” Even the miniature clapper The Orlando Senior Help Desk is here to can help

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Recently I watched on TV, Fred Astaire Stone St • Temple Israel, 1001 E New York Ave • Beth Shalom, and Ginger Rogers as they performed “A Fine Romance.” (Not 1310 Maximillan St • Deltona City Hall • Deltona Library • Rap Crap!) I love that song (“A fine romance with no kisses, a Temple Shalom, 1785 Elkam Dr. • Temple Israel, 1001 E fine romance my friend this is.”) Pope Francis New York Ave, Deland • College Arms Apt, 101 Amelia Ave, You guessed it! The song was composed by Jerome Kern and Deland • Boston Gourmet Coffee House, 109 E. New York Ave, the lyrics were by Dorothy Fields… both Jewish! OF COURSE! harming Jews were and why so many with influence said and Deland • Stetson University Carlton Union, 421 N Woodland From Lubavitch International… did nothing.) Ave, Deland • Family Bookstore, 1301 N Woodland Ave, Deland I read this referring to the pandemic and pass it along to you: The Roth Family JCC… • Deland Chamber of Commerce, 336 Woodland Ave, Deland “Every day, thousands (upon thousands) of healthcare and A letter from KEITH DVORCHIK, CEO, that arrived over • Deland City Hall, 120 S Florida Ave, Deland • Beth Shalom, essential workers are forced to make a choice… do I use my the 4th of July holiday: 206 S. Sprng Garden Ave, Deland • Orange City Library, 148 skills to help others, or do I stay at home so as not to endanger “Today we were informed that a JCC lifeguard has tested Albertus Way, Orange City • Boston Gourmet Coffee House, my family with COVID-19? positive for COVID-19. Today we were informed that a JCC 1105 Saxon Blvd, Deltona • Deltona Library, 2150 Eustace Ave, “Hospital administrators agonize over the allocation of lim- lifeguard has tested positive for COVID-19. The lifeguard, who Deltona • Temple Shalom, 1785 Elkam Dr., Deltona • Deltona ited medical supplies, while city officials weigh the risk of an is asymptomatic, had been exposed on June 23 to a person who Community Center, 980 Lakeshore Dr, Deltona • Debary City outbreak against the crushing cost of a prolonged lockdown.” later contracted COVID-19. This exposure did not occur at the Hall, 16 Colomba Rd, Debary • Debary Library, 200 Florence (I’m alive many decades now and this is the first time I’ve JCC, and the staff member has not returned to campus since K. Little, Debary lived through a pandemic… so far.) July 1, when they learned of the potential exposure. Some uplifting news for a change… We spoke with an epidemiologist with the Florida Depart- OSCEOLA COUNTY I read this in the World Jewish Congress digest: ment of Health this afternoon. Because the lifeguard has no Cindy M. Rothfield, P.A., 822 W. Bryan St., Kissimmee • Most “As the Vatican unsealed millions of pages representing the symptoms, our staff and campers wear face masks, and our Publix Supermarkets • Verandah Place Realty, 504 Celebration WWII archives of Pope Pius XII several months ago, the WJC lifeguards wear masks when not in the water and do not swim Ave., Celebration • All Winn Dixie Supermarkets • St. Cloud celebrated a step forward in the transparency of that era’s his- with the campers, the Department of Health is not requiring City Hall, 1300 9th St, St. Cloud • St. Cloud Library, 810 13th tory. WJC President Ambassador RONALD S. LAUDER released us to change any of our safety policies, nor do campers or staff St, St. Cloud • Southern Oaks, 3865 Old Canoe Creek Rd, St. the following statement: ‘In inviting historians and scholars in who were in contact with the lifeguard have to stay away from Cloud • Plantation Bay, 4641 Old Canoe Creek Rd, St. Cloud to publicly access the Vatican’s WWII archives, Pope FRANCIS the J or quarantine because of this positive test.” is demonstrating a commitment to learning and airing the Editor’s Note — After receiving this email from Dvorchik, • Osceola Chamber of Commerce, 1425 Hwy 192, St. Cloud • truth, as well as to the significance of Holocaust memory. he wrote a response written asking for updates on those di- Valencia College, 1800 Denn John Ln, Kissimmee • Kissimmee The WJC knows that the Vatican was provided on March agnosed. He replied: City Hall, 101 Church St, Kissimmee • Kissimmee Library, 211 17,1942, a detailed memorandum by the WJC representative “The good news is that none are in the hospital and the first E. Dakin, Kissimmee • Robinson’s Coffee Shop, 114 Broadway, in Geneva, describing brutal evidence of the Nazi’s plan to person is better and will be back soon. This person is asymp- Kissimmee • Osceola County Courthouse, 2 Courthouse Sq, liquidate the Jews. We never heard what happened to the tomatic so while they have the virus, they are feeling well.” Kissimmee • Barnies, 3236 John Young Pwy, Kissimmee • memo after the papal representative in Switzerland asked for Jass continues at Blue Bamboo… Reily’s Gourmet Coffee, 3831 Vine St, Kissimmee • Shalom it. But we do know what happened to the six million Jews killed I got this information from our own ALAN ROCK about Aleichem, 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd, Kissimmee • Books-A-Million, in the Holocaust. With the opening of the archives, we may upcoming shows at Blue Bamboo: Friday, July 17, 7 p.m. and 2605 W. Osceola Pwy (522), Kissimmee • Lower East Side Deli, finally learn the truth about what the Vatican knew. Due to 9 p.m., Jack Graham and Friends; Saturday, July 18, 7 p.m. and 8548 Palm Parkway, Lake Buena sustained efforts between the global Jewish community and 9 p.m., Blue Bamboo 4th Anniversary featuring the Orlando the Catholic Church in the decades since the war, the Vatican Jazz Orchestra Septet; Friday, July 24, 8 p.m., Daniela Soledade has become a friend and ally to the Jewish people. The opening with the Nate Najar Trio — Nate on guitar, Joe Porter bass, Sudoku (see page 14A for solution) of the archives represents a pivotal moment in the history of and Ed Metz, drums; Friday, July 31, 8 p.m., Cortez & Koelble. Catholic-Jewish relations and our ongoing interfaith dialogue.’ Shout Out… Since the beginning of Pope Francis’ papacy in 2013, the With the world in a terrible situation at this time, I want to pope and Amb. Lauder have met on several occasions to discuss give a shout-out to all the people putting themselves in harms Catholic-Jewish collaboration on issues, including the rise of way to keep us safe and okay. Of course, I refer to the medical global anti-Semitism. Last year, after the pope announced the workers, firemen, police, grocery workers, mail carriers and so forthcoming opening of the archives, Amb. Lauder sent an of- many more. THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART! ficial letter to Pope Francis, thanking him for his ‘principled One for the road… decision.’ He wrote in part: ‘The WJC has long urged the Vatican This sign appeared on my cell phone: to make such a vitally important move in order to clarify the “I’M STARTING A PROTEST MARCH TOMORROW. FAT many questions and concerns that have prevailed for decades LIVES MATTER!! regarding what the Holy See did and did not do during WWII. Meeting at McDonalds at 10 a.m. Followed by meeting at It is critical, for the sake of history, that historians have full KFC at 11 a.m. Followed by Chick-fila at noon.” access to these essential documents.’” (This was sent to me by my friend Patty, who is lovely and (We may finally find out where the alarmed voices against NOT fat!) Julian Edelman invites DeSean Jackson to have ‘uncomfortable conversations’ By Marcy Oster reaction to them, including things, but I do see an oppor- identifying as Jewish in the calls for him to be cut by the tunity to have a conversation,” last decade. He said he first (JTA) — New England Philadelphia Eagles. Edelman said. “I am proud of encountered anti-Semitism Patriots receiver Julian Edel- In an Instagram video, my Jewish heritage. But for me directed at him when he was man invited fellow NFL star Edelman offered to accom- it’s not just about religion. It’s called a “kike” on the football DeSean Jackson to have “un- pany Jackson to the U.S. Ho- about community and culture field in 2011. comfortable conversations” locaust Memorial Museum, as well. Edelman said the contro- about anti-Semitism and and then to join Jackson on a “Whenever I encountered versy over Jackson’s remarks hatred against Blacks. tour of the National Museum hatred, it never really felt like should not distract from the Edelman was responding of African American History it was aimed at me. It was importance of the Black to recent posts by Jackson and Culture, both located on only after I was part of this Lives Matter movement, attributed to Adolf Hitler, the National Mall in Wash- community that I learned which Jackson has been which Jackson later removed ington, D.C. how destructive that is,” said and apologized for, and the “I know he said some ugly Edelman, 33, who only began Edelman on page 14A PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 17, 2020 Summer in Israel beautiful 8th grade girl was were so happy. They were so emergency first responders long enough and did not make stabbed to death in her bed. full of life. see it all. Firsthand. And they it. A distressful story. The day before this horror, the Earlier that morning, there keep going, too. Since 2001, Rescuers With- 8th grade class of girls was at was a new swimmer during That’s why I’m sticking out Borders (aka Hatzalah the pool for their class end-of- men’s hours. He was the father with this group, and I urge Y”osh) has been the primary the-year party. They danced, of the young girl who was all of you to do the same. supporter of volunteer med- sang songs, ate ice cream, stabbed that summer a few Continue your support. Tell ics, paramedics and ambu- as girls do, enjoying their years ago. I recognized him your friends and family to lance drivers throughout last day of Junior High “girl- immediately. I had been to add our charity to their lists. Judea and Samaria, working hood” before going off to the his home with a group, had We need your help. Things in full coordination with Ma- exciting world of high school. bought wine, and regularly aren’t quieting down here gen David Adom in supplying Here in our area, most pointed out the house when any time soon. The “Trump defibrillators, medical equip- high schoolers dorm. Our bringing tours to Kiryat Plan” is causing upheaval and ment, ambulances and train- kids grow up fast. All-of- Arba. As the story goes, the restlessness. There’s always ing. Today the organization a-sudden, 14 year olds are murderer was crouching in something. But stick with has over 1,000 volunteers also living away from home. They the vineyards that morning, us. We’ll keep going. in the areas around Jerusalem hitchhike. They only come watching for the family to Very sad and frightening and the Old City. Rescuers home for Shabbat. They leave the house. When our accident last week in Kedu- Without Borders and is funded Natalie Sopinsky doing her lifeguard duty. really aren’t kids anymore. first responders were called, mim. Three boys were swim- completely by private dona- This week, again, the 8th that was the first place they ming in a well and the ladder tions and is a registered 501 By Natalie Sopinsky easy. Not much goes on. That grade girls had their end-of- went searching — the vine- fell. This is particularly scary c 3 charitable organization. is a blessing. the-year party at the pool. yards. Turns out, the killer was because so many of our boys To learn more, visit us at www. This summer, like the In the summer of 2017, They danced, they sang, they in the girl’s bedroom, hiding explore wells during the hot hatzalah.org.il past nine summers, I am right on the first day of ate ice cream. in a closet. The coward. summer days. This is a normal Natalie Sopinsky is the the Susya pool lifeguard. summer vacation, there It was a good thing I was I am stunned everyday at activity here. Our medics were director of Community Devel- Everyday my day starts at was a terrible tragedy in wearing sunglasses, because our life here. Highs and Lows. called and managed to save opment for Rescuers Without 6:30 a.m. Our summers here nearby Kiryat Arba. Some tears were bursting from my And we continue on. Living two of the boys. Sadly, the Borders. She lives in Susya, in Har Hevron are slow and of you may remember, a eyes as I watched them. They our plain ordinary lives. Our third could not tread water Israel. Stephen Jackson said DeSean Jackson is ‘speaking the truth’ about Jews Black, was noteworthy be- tweets… Here we are talking But Jackson added fuel ing the N word on camera — cause they have praised Jack- about some post on Insta- to the fire of the DeSean in arguments in recent days. son and his emergence as a gram… Know what are we Jackson controversy with Stephen Jackson appeared leading figure in the Black gonna be talking about? We his insistence that the Phila- to approach an apology on Lives Matter movement. gonna be talking about Adolf delphia Eagles player was CNN. Both Smith and Wilbon Hitler, we gonna be talk- “speaking the truth.” He “I could’ve changed my criticized the substance of ing about getting educated then wrote an Instagram words,” he said Wednesday, Stephen Jackson’s remarks, about the Holocaust and post that some took to be “but it’s nothing I said that while also arguing that the Jewish community and aimed at Jews. I support any of that.” he was damaging his own Jewish history, we gonna be “Your races [sic] pain “You didn’t hear a word credibility as an activist and talking about those things, doesn’t hurt more than out of my mouth saying I diverting attention from the instead of issues that directly the next races [sic] pain,” hate Jews. You didn’t hear a Black Lives Matter cause. involve us as Black people.” Jackson wrote. “Don’t act word out of my mouth say- Wilbon said the series Stephen Jackson was an like your hardships or [sic] ing I’m supporting Hitler,” of comments “undermines outspoken and charismatic more devastating then [sic] he said. “They can twist it everything Stephen Jackson NBA player, and since last ours.” how they want. I don’t hate said so eloquently on behalf year he has co-hosted a Next, in an Instagram nobody. I’ve been standing of Black Lives Matter.” popular podcast called “All live video discussion with for everybody.” “He has no credibility now, the Smoke.” He has emerged a user whose handle is @ DeSean Jackson has de- he has undermined all his as a leading Black Lives Mat- kosherwhitewine, Stephen leted his controversial posts Brandon Bell/Getty Images previous good work with this ter activist since the death of Jackson brought up the and apologized following Stephen Jackson speaks at a rally for police reform and garbage,” Wilbon said on his George Floyd in May. Rothschild family, which a wave of criticism and a justice for George Floyd in Minneapolis, June 11, 2020. long-running show “Pardon Jackson — who played for is featured in many anti- meeting with the Eagles the Interruption.” seven NBA teams and won a Semitic conspiracy theories Jewish owner, Jeffrey Lurie, By Gabe Friedman — is facing his own wave of The rambunctious Smith championship as a member about Jewish international saying he has “no hatred” high-profile criticism. got loud in his repudiation of of the San Antonio Spurs in financial domination. for the Jewish community, (JTA) — NFL wide re- Stephen Jackson took cen- Stephen Jackson on ESPN’s 2003 — met Floyd in his na- “Do you know who the and that Jews and Blacks ceiver DeSean Jackson un- ter stage in the controversy “First Take” morning show tive Texas at 19, and the two Rothschilds are? They con- “should be together fighting leashed an uproar with his after saying that DeSean on Wednesday. He also said became longtime friends. trol all the banks, they own anti-Semitism and racism.” tweets over the weekend Jackson was “speaking the that many in the Black Jackson often joked that they all the banks,” Jackson said. In his posts, DeSean that featured quotes dubi- truth.” He proceeded to add community respect the looked so similar that they Asked repeatedly if he Jackson had also urged his ously attributed to Adolf several incendiary com- Jewish community for their could have been twins. thought Jews were spe- followers to listen to the Hitler — including claims ments, including a reference perceived unity and noted Since Floyd’s killing earli- cifically trying to divide the Fourth of July address by that “white Jews” will work to the Rothschilds “owning the importance of learning er this year by a Minneapolis Black community, Jackson Louis Farrakhan in which to “blackmail” and “extort” all the banks.” about the Holocaust. police officer, Jackson has avoided the question. Even- the Nation of Islam leader America — and that the Nazi Among those rebuking “What ‘truth’ are you been a fixture at Black Lives tually he said “No, but I don’t defended himself against leader “was right.” Stephen Jackson were two of talking about?” Smith asked, Matter protests. He was the think they stand up for us as anti-Semitism accusations. Now his most prominent the country’s leading sports speaking about Stephen featured speaker at some much as they should.” Farrakhan over the years defender — former NBA commentators, ESPN’s Ste- Jackson. “We’ve gone from protests in Minneapolis, and Jackson has cited Riley has praised Hitler, compared player-turned-podcaster and phen A. Smith and Michael George Floyd getting choked has been noted in numerous Cooper — a former Eagles Jews to termites and spouted Black Lives Matter activist Wilbon. The criticism from to death essentially, to articles and videos on BLM player who was fined but not conspiracy theories about Stephen Jackson (no relation) Smith and Wilbon, both statues being torn down, to leaders. fired for getting caught say- Jewish power. Pittsburgh Steelers’ Zach Banner says we must ‘put our arms around’ Jews

By Marcy Oster anti-Semitic statements at- Farrakhan’s Fourth of July man entered the Tree of Life put our arms around them He has participated in tributed to Adolf Hitler. address that included anti- synagogue building in the just as much when we talk Black Lives Matter protests in (JTA) — Zach Banner of But, he said, the commu- Jewish rhetoric. city’s Squirrel Hill neighbor- about the BLM and we talk Pittsburgh since the death of the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steel- nity can only “progress by “There’s a common mis- hood and opened fire during about elevating ourselves.” George Floyd, the Pittsburgh ers wants the Black com- educating ourselves. We can’t belief that among Black and Shabbat morning services, On Thursday, he changed Tribune Review reported. munity to know: Jews “deal move forward while allowing Brown people — and I know killing 11. his Twitter profile picture to New York Times writer with the same amount of ourselves to leave another this from growing up and I’ve “I was here on the team … the Steelers Stronger than and editor Bari Weiss, who hate, similar hardships and minority race in the dark.” heard it and I’ve listened to a couple years ago when — it’s Hate logo created after the grew up in Squirrel Hill, hard times.” Banner, who is of Cham- it — that Jewish people are just tough man — during the Pittsburgh synagogue shoot- tweeted praise for Banner, In a tweet accompanied by orro and African-American just like any other white race,” synagogue shooting, in this ing. In a tweet he called the writing “What a mensch. a video, Banner said he does descent, said in the video that Banner said. “You mix them beautiful city of Pittsburgh,” image “Simple, but strong Thank you, @ZBNFL (And not want to “harp” on the he saw Jackson’s apology video up with the rest of the majority he said, his voice breaking. representation of my squad.” go Steelers!).” controversy surrounding the and “it seems like his heart is and you don’t understand that “We need to understand that Banner said that he met The ADL Philadelphia also recent social media posts of in the right place.” Jackson they are a minority as well.” Jewish people deal with the Jewish friends while a student thanked Banner in a tweet fellow NFLer DeSean Jackson has deleted the posts, which He spoke of being in Pitts- same amount of hate, similar at the University of Southern “for urging us all to be part in which the Philadelphia also encouraged the viewing burgh as a player for the hardships and hard times. California and some have of the fight against hate in Eagles wide receiver featured of Nation of Islam leader Louis Steelers in 2018 when a gun- “We need to uplift them and become like family members. all forms.” HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 17, 2020 PAGE 11A Project Proactive: Central Florida Synagogues

Empowering teenagers Orlando Weekday Morning Minyan (Conservative/Egalitarian), services Monday- By Zahava Fertig of all American adults suffer within their community that Friday 7:45 a.m. (9 a.m.—national holidays); 2nd floor Chapel—Jewish Academy of Orlando; from a diagnosable mental embraces those struggling. 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. For information call 407-298-4650. What once started as disorder. Out of every four Throughout the two-week Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. an Instagram page, Proj- people statistically, one of period, the teens will en- JewishCelebration.org; 407-479-8377. ect Proactive, co-founded them is most likely experienc- gage in workshops, multiple by Shoshana Mehler and ing mental health difficulties. discussion groups and team Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, Rebecca Shapiro, is a re- By educating, spreading work opportunities in order 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. cently formed not-for-profit awareness and normalizing to create a short and long Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- organization that works the conversation, those who term mental health related 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. toward destigmatizing men- are struggling will no longer project that they can imple- tal health in the Jewish feel alone. ment in their own schools Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. community through cre- That’s where the Project and communities after the jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; ative methods of education. Proactive Teen Leadership program. Over the course of Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. Development Program comes the program, participants will Whether it’s through weekly Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, live interviews with mental in. This summer Project Pro- gain a thorough education of health professionals and ad- active is running its inaugural the mental health challenges 321-777-2770. vocates, frequently updated two-week virtual Teen Leader- facing our communities to- Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- blog posts on their website, ship Development Program day, connections with experts 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat or educational information beginning July 27, 2020 (to and leaders in our community, services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. on a range of topics, Proj- register for this program, go an impressive addition to any ect Proactive has created a to www.jproactive.com/sum- resume or college application, Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. community and a network mer2020). Uniting a select and a chance to earn $500 betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. of Jewish people around the group of high school boys toward funding their project Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. world speaking up about and girls, Project Proactive within their community. congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. their personal and second- aims to hone in on practical Project Proactive has hand experience with mental leadership skills and mental teamed up with Yeshiva Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; health challenges, trauma, health education presented University’s Summer Con- Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. insecurities, and validation by influential leaders and sulting Task Force Interns to Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; that nobody is alone in their mental health activists in spearhead this program as Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. suffering. the Jewish community. These the Team Leaders. Shmuel Resources on the website “Mentors” include speakers Adler of Manhattan, NY Josh Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, include, but are not limited to, such as Marc Fein, Tamir Askowitz of White Plains, NY Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. mental and physical health, Goodman, Eli Nash, Rachel and Zahava Fertig of Wood- Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. trauma, relationships, addic- Tuchman, Betty Gulko, Rabbi mere, NY. These YU students bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. tion, family life, anxiety, and Uri and Aliza Polochowski, R’ will help guide, support, and proactive and preventative Eli Zians, and Shevi Samet, facilitate the process with the Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation measures. as well as many others. The program participants as they holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. This information is not Mentors will share their inner work together to create their com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. perspective and guidance on projects with the potential just for those who experi- Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; ence or know someone who a range of topics on how they to actualize them over the experiences a mental disorder. impact change on a daily ba- course of the school year. www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. This is critical for all people sis, and how the participants Recruiting has begun in Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., to know. According to Johns can empower themselves and Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Hopkins Medicine, 26 percent others to create a community Proactive on page 14A Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. OBITUARIES 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- JEROME “JERRY” WALTER HALPERIN 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. FELMAN Walter Halperin, age 95, Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- Jerome “Jerry” Felman, age passed away peacefully on 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. 78, of Winter Springs, passed Wednesday, July 8, 2020, at Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for away on Wednesday, July his residence. Dr. Halperin 8, 2020, at South Seminole was born in New York City on services and holiday schedules. Hospital in Longwood. Jerry Dec. 10,1924, to the late Sam Congregation Sinai (C/R), 1200 West Broad Street, Groveland; 352-243-5353; congre- was born on April 19, 1942, and Luba Ariev Halperin. gation-sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. in Buffalo, New York, one of He was a graduate of three children born to the Long Island University and Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- late Yitzhak Meyer and Sara received his dental degree Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv Macks Felman. from New York University. Please call for times. A high school graduate, he Dr. Halperin served in the Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- attended college for two years. U.S. Army. He married the Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. For many years, Jerry oper- former Marcia Grossman in ated Chasin’s deli in Buffalo New York on Dec. 25, 1956. Temple Beth El (R) / Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-675- before selling it and relocating They lived in New York and 6615 / 386-252-3097; Friday Shabbat Service 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to Florida in 1985. He and relocated to the Orlando area Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. Maria, his wife of 48 years in 2013. Marion Schwartz who survives him, moved to In addition to his wife, Dr. Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat the Orlando area in 2014. He Halperin is survived by his 30, 1935, to the late Joseph service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. had a second career in Florida sons, Larry (Susan) Halperin and Bessie Grossman Moldau. Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. in real estate. of Altamonte Springs and Mrs. Schwartz was a gradu- mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; ate of Brooklyn College and In addition to his wife, Jerry Alan (Wendy) Halperin of Thursday, 10:00 a.m. is survived by his daughter, New York; and hi daughter, was an elementary school Rebecca Shana (Christopher) Shelley (Fred) Rudin of New educator. She relocated from Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: Anders of Oviedo; and his son, York. He was the grandfather Connecticut to the Orlando Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. James Samuel (Maureen) Fel- of Alyson Halperin (Farrar area in 1999 and was a resi- Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. man. He is also survived by his Hudkins), Daniel Halperin, dent of Oakmont Village in grandchildren — Max Aaron Samantha (Aaron) Mandel, Lake Mary. Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; Anders, Chloe Elisabeth An- Noah, Emily, Oscar and Isaac; She is survived by her son, Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. ders, Margaret Felman, Caro- and great-grandfather of Ben- Doughlas (Carolyn) Schwartz Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. lin Felman and Julian Felman. jamin Rudin. of Easton, Conn.; her daugh- He was predeceased by his A private family graveside ter, Elizabeth Unger of Con- Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. sister, Ethel, and his brother, service was held at Congre- necticut; and three grandchil- templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by Ronald. gation of Reform Judaism dren. She is also survived by Torah study. A private burial was held Cemetery with Rabbi Steven her brother, David (Harriet) Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road Moldau of Longwood. at Congregation of Reform W. Engel officiating. 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 Judaism Cemetery with Rabbi Arrangements entrusted to A private family burial was Steven W. Engel officiating. Beth Shalom Memorial Cha- held at the B’nai Israel Cem- p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. In memory of Jerry Felman, pel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando etery in Monroe, Conn. Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. the family requests donations 32810, 407-599-1180, www. In memory of Marion shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. to Multiple Sclerosis Society bethshalommemorialchapel. Schwartz, the family requests Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, (www.nationalmssociety. com. donations to the Jewish Pavil- org) MARION SCHWARTZ ion (www.jewishpavilion.org). 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, Arrangements entrusted Marion Schwartz, age 85, Arrangements entrusted to 7:30 p.m. to Beth Shalom Memorial of Lake Mary, passed away Beth Shalom Memorial Cha- Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. Chapel, 640 Lee Road, Or- on Wednesday, July 8, 2020, pel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. lando, 407-599-1180, www. at AdventHealth Hospice 32810, 407-599-1180, www. bethshalommemorialchapel. Orlando. She was born in bethshalommemorialchapel. (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa com. Brooklyn, New York, on May com. PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 17, 2020 Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews are acting like they have herd immunity — could they be right?

nity’s efforts to respond to the community health centers Long Island and an Orthodox pandemic. where the Jewish people are rabbi, questioned whether Using a Google form dis- going to be tested for their an- any data from local clinics seminated on a blog and tibodies,” said Blimi Marcus, or groups like the Gedaliah through social media, the a nurse practitioner living in Society in Crown Heights doctors asked local residents Borough Park who has been could show that a community to self-report their symptoms, an outspoken advocate within had achieved herd immunity. when the symptoms began the Orthodox community “Unless they’re getting a and other information that for staying home to stop the random sampling of the com- would help the doctors un- spread of the virus. munity, statistically it’s worth derstand how far the virus Administrators and pro- zero,” he said. had spread. viders from four health care But residents of some More than 3,500 people clinics with locations in Orthodox neighborhoods responded quickly to a sub- Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighbor- say masks are an uncom- sequent survey asking re- hoods told JTA that they had mon sight on streets that are spondents for antibody test seen antibody positive rates bustling again, much as they results, leading the doctors that were far higher than the were before the pandemic hit. to estimate that a major- citywide data. “It’s just taken as a given,” ity of community members “In the first weeks when one Borough Park woman said could have antibodies. They they first started to offer it, of the idea that herd immunity estimated that slightly more positive rates hovered in the is protecting the community. than 70 percent of the com- 55-60 percent range,” Yosef “I’m walking now and I don’t munity’s adults between the Hershkop, regional manager see anyone wearing a mask.” ages of 25 and 65 had “been at Kamin Health, said of the Even some in the com- Avi Kaye sick with COVID-like symp- tests done at his clinic. munity who said they were Families walk on the streets of Williamsburg, May 12, 2020. toms.” Among adults over age Kamin Health has loca- initially wary about the early 65, they estimated, 55 percent tions in Crown Heights, return to normalcy say they By Shira Hanau tests suggest that as many as worked continuously and ran had been sick. Borough Park, Williamsburg have become convinced that 70 percent of the community out of the shrouds required to Without random testing, and Queens and performed herd immunity had been (JTA) – The front page of the has had COVID-19 and recov- lay the dead to rest. Funeral it’s impossible to know the thousands of antibody tests established. June 26 issue of Der Yid, one ered, and that new cases have homes recruited people with true penetration of the virus across all four locations. “Otherwise, how do you ex- of the most widely circulated slowed or stopped entirely in SUVs to transport bodies they in Crown Heights. But the Hershkop said the percentage plain zero cases after months Yiddish newspapers among their neighborhoods, despite lacked the capacity to handle. doctors’ estimates would of antibody tests that came of packed shuls, open schools, New York’s Hasidic Orthodox a near total return to normal And then, just as abruptly put the community within back positive had dropped huge weddings?” one Borough communities, made the point behavior, including large as it began, the pace slowed. the range that scientists in recent weeks but was still Park man asked. loud and clear. gatherings. One large burial society in say is likely to confer herd above 50 percent. As the summer warmed “And so it was after the “I have a sad feeling that Brooklyn said the volume of immunity, meaning enough Gary Schlesinger, the CEO up, parts of the Hasidic plague.” we can go out and about dead bodies needing prepara- of the community has re- of Parcare, a chain of health community began the usual Those words, lifted from a because we were lax,” said tion for burial dropped off two covered from a disease or care clinics, said his clinics in summer rituals. Day camps verse in the Torah and printed Yosef Rapaport, a 65-year-old weeks after Passover, which been inoculated by a vaccine Williamsburg and Borough opened, albeit with tempera- alongside photos of large gath- media consultant in Borough ended in mid-April. They had to significantly mitigate or Park had seen antibody posi- ture checks and other restric- erings of unmasked Hasidic Park whose brother and a prepared 700 bodies for burial stop the spread of the disease tive rates of 70-74 percent. tions. Children packed off to men, had a clear implication: brother-in-law were among during a period in which they within the community. Nosson Hayum, a nurse sleepaway camps, this year in After months of funerals and the hundreds of community would normally have prepared That’s exactly what the practitioner at the Perfect other states because New York fear, the modern-day pan- members to die this spring. 100. doctors said they were seeing. Health Medical Center in is not allowing them to oper- demic had passed and the time After being extremely cau- Widespread efforts toward “In our little island of Borough Park, said early ate. Wedding halls reopened had come to gather again. tious for months, even Rapa- social distancing began to Crown Heights, we have had results showed that teenage to large unmasked crowds. That sentiment appears to port admits that the lack of wane in some Hasidic neigh- relatively few new cases over boys in the community had And parts of Brooklyn emp- be guiding life in Brooklyn’s new cases has put him some- borhoods, especially Wil- the past few weeks,” they the highest rates of positive tied out as families relocated Hasidic communities, where what more at ease. But the way liamsburg and Borough Park. wrote on May 11. antibody test results. to bungalow colonies in the nearly four months after the the community got there is After thousands of people The situation had improved A health care administrator mountains. virus first arrived, synagogues something he wouldn’t repeat crowded Williamsburg streets even more by their update on at a large Williamsburg clinic Chanie Apfelbaum, an Or- and camps are open, yeshivas if given the chance. in late April for the funeral of June 5, when they reported no that serves mostly Hasidic thodox Instagram influencer resumed classes before clos- “It’s not something that a rabbi there who had died of new cases in the community. patients said she had seen from Brooklyn who moved to ing for summer break and makes me happy,” he said. COVID-19, de Blasio called out “Presumably, this is due to antibody positive results of a bungalow for the summer, wedding halls are packed “To benefit from the bad is “the Jewish community” for the large percentage of Crown around 40 percent. But that answered a question from a again, sometimes in violation something that makes me sad. failing to follow social distanc- Heights that has been already number rose to 75 percent follower about whether people of city and state rules designed But I can’t have complaints ing guidelines. Two days later, affected, conferring a substan- if you looked at males aged there were maintaining social to slow the spread of disease. that people live in the reality another funeral in Borough tial degree of immunity to us 18-34. distancing. Continued gatherings of that exists.” Park drew a large crowd that as a community,” the doctors An especially high infec- All of this is possible, one Hasidic Jews drew criticism “Yes, people are going to city police officers dispersed.. wrote on June 5. tion rate among young men health care administrator in from New York City Mayor die, but they don’t have better The abandonment of social In late June, they wrote is just one piece of the com- Borough Park said, because of Bill de Blasio and others in the options.” distancing may have seemed again that they knew of no munity’s antibodies picture. the high early infection rate. city this spring who said the The window to “flatten cavalier, but some community new local cases. Hasidic communities tend to “The frum community had communities were not doing the curve,” as public health members say it was inevitable. The Crown Heights survey be younger on average, with an advantage over everybody their part to stop the spread of officials exhorted the public “They can’t socially dis- looked at just one neighbor- couples often having as many because they were mingling the virus. But inside the com- to do in the pandemic’s early tance because they can’t hood, but Borough Park and as eight children or more. on Purim and all these other munities, the overwhelming days, in the tight-knit Ortho- be locked up, because they Williamsburg, two other According to the city’s most times,” he said. “It paid off.” perception is that most people dox communities of Brooklyn chose a way of life in which neighborhoods with large recent population data, just But while the results of this have had the virus and may may have been over long it’s impossible to exist locked Hasidic populations, appear to over 50 Percent of Borough experiment in herd immunity now be immune. before government officials up,” one Hasidic man in have had a similar experience. Park’s population is 24 years may be encouraging, the cost “That’s the feeling, that began advising New York City Borough Park said about his Overall, there is evidence old or younger and 14% are at which they were acquired they’ve had it, everybody they residents to begin social dis- community, noting that it’s that many people across New under 6. Mounting evidence was steep. know has had it, and the peo- tancing and wearing masks. not uncommon for a Hasidic York City have had COVID-19 suggests that young children “We have paid a terrible ple they know who haven’t had That’s because a majority family of 10 or 12 to live in already. In May, Gov. Andrew are unlikely to be sources of price in order to achieve this it have some kind of immunity of the cases in the Orthodox a two- or three-bedroom Cuomo said an antibody study transmission for the corona- statistic that is more than that we just don’t understand community, many believe, apartment. had shown a citywide posi- virus, meaning that Ortho- double that of our neighbors yet,” one Williamsburg health came in the days leading up No spike in cases seemed tive rate of 19.9 percent and dox communities essentially in Flatbush, and certainly administrator said. to and on the Jewish holiday to follow in those neighbor- a positive rate of 29 percent have a disproportionately much more than that of New If community members’ of Purim on March 9 and 10. hoods, according to health in Brooklyn. A study posted high share of dead ends for York City, or for that matter assumptions are correct, While the mayor and gover- professionals there, reinforc- in early June of over 28,000 the virus, or at least a larger any other community in the Brooklyn’s Orthodox neigh- nor were still days away from ing the sense for many that antibody test results in the proportion of people who are country,” the Gedaliah Soci- borhoods would stand alone. shutting down schools and the danger had passed. New York City area showed at lower risk of becoming ety wrote on May 20. “This Even in the few places such businesses, parties and prayer Meanwhile, a group of local that 44 percent of respondents seriously ill. high rate of past infection as Sweden that have explicitly services on Purim seeded the doctors working to track CO- who walked into clinics for Schlesinger, who is not a community-wide will, with pursued a strategy of trying epidemic in Crown Heights, VID cases in the Hasidic com- antibody testing were found doctor, doesn’t claim to know the help of Hashem, protect to reach herd immunity, an- Borough Park and other munity in Crown Heights, to have them. (That study has why the community has seen us from the virus reactivating tibody tests show that most of neighborhoods with large where distancing guidelines not yet gone through the peer so few cases despite syna- and spreading again locally, the population there has not Orthodox communities. appeared to be more widely review process.) gogues and schools reopen- which would thereby put the yet been infected. A week later there were just adhered to for a longer period But none of those studies ing. But if you assume that vulnerable at high risk.” But a confluence of bad tim- over 800 confirmed corona- of time, found that local newly offers a picture of the situa- antibodies confer immunity, And behind the veil of nor- ing, large families in cramped virus cases across New York symptomatic cases peaked on tion in Hasidic communities, he said, then the numbers malcy — and the pain of loss apartments and a highly City. More than 100 had come March 15. which are relatively insular. point to herd immunity. — linger deep and unsettling social way of life that can’t from just one Borough Park The doctors began work- Even the city’s data, broken “If you’re talking in the 70s questions about how safe the be replaced virtually gave clinic serving Orthodox Jews. ing together in March under down by Zip code, is an imper- and if herd immunity means community really is. residents of Brooklyn’s Or- That was the beginning. the auspices of the Gedaliah fect measure for communities something, then that’s what One concern is that older thodox neighborhoods little Over the coming weeks, the Society, a professional devel- that are spread over multiple it is,” he said. people and others who are at opportunity to try to prevent communities were ravaged opment group that functioned Zip codes that include many But Dr. Aaron Glatt, the higher risk may be continuing a major outbreak. Now local by the disease. Death notices in relative obscurity before the non-Jews. chief of infectious diseases to isolate for fear of infecting health care providers and ad- were posted hourly on Ortho- pandemic but quickly became “What’s more helpful are and hospital epidemiologist at ministrators say surveys and dox news sites. Burial societies an authority in the commu- what we’re getting from the Mount Sinai South Nassau on Immunity on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 17, 2020 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs

Survey finds Israelis great-grandson Mahmoud Abbas, said in a July Immunities Act — that the removed the one op-ed that ing hate on our platform. They split on annexing West By Gabe Friedman 3 interview by France 24 that collection was confiscated “in it published. want Facebook to be free of Bank territory (JTA) — The trailer for Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah violation of international law” Jonathan Tobin, the editor hate speech and so do we.” By Marcy Oster “An American Pickle,” the had pledged $1 billion in sup- in that the Nazi seizure was in chief at JNS, told the Jewish Stone said that Facebook JERUSALEM (JTA) — Is- upcoming movie in which port of the second intifada, domestic. That law includes Telegraphic Agency that the has banned more than 250 raeli public opinion is split Seth Rogen plays a 1920s which lasted from 2000-05, limitations as to whether a news outlet is investigating white supremacist organiza- on whether the government Jewish immigrant who falls and that today, the Arabs and foreign sovereign nation may the six op-eds that it pub- tions and created new policies should annex parts of the into a pickle vat and wakes up the whole world would stand be sued in U.S. courts, either lished, “but in the meantime to prohibit voter and census West Bank and which territory 100 years later, is finally here. by the Palestinians if things state or federal. those posts are being removed interference. should be included, a survey We caught a first glance continue as they have been. Francisco also noted that from our website.” Benny Gantz enters found. of Rogen looking the part Europe will not tolerate an although the 2016 Holocaust The purported writers were quarantine as Israel The Israeli Voice Index for in a historically accurate Israeli annexation of the West Expropriated Art Recovery contributors to two news hits highest total of June 2020, a monthly sur- picture released in April. Bank, he said. Act “demonstrates Congress’s websites, The Arab Eye and confirmed coronavirus vey conducted by the Israel Now, the trailer shows that Shaath, who claims to have concern with art seizures Persia Now, which appear to cases in 24 hours Democracy Institute, found Rogen actually plays both taught U.S. President Donald that occurred as part of the be linked, and to be fake, in- By Marcy Oster that 24.5 percent of Israelis main characters: Herschel Trump at the Wharton School Holocaust,” that law doesn’t cluding having a nonexistent JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel support applying sovereignty Greenbaum, the poor ditch- of the University of Pennsyl- “create a cause of action in mailing address, according to recorded more than 1,300 new to all of the West Bank; 14 digger from “Schlupsk,” a vania, where Shaath served as U.S. courts” for the heirs’ case. the Daily Beast. cases of the coronavirus in 24 percent support applying fake region of Eastern Europe, a professor, said that Trump New York Jewish Week is The articles praised the hours ending on Wednesday sovereignty to the West Bank and Ben Greenbaum, his had been a poor student and putting print edition on United Arab Emirates and morning, its highest total settlement blocs; 8 percent great-grandson who works is unpredictable, specifically hiatus called for a more heavy- since the start of the pan- support applying sovereignty as a computer programmer in with regard to the issue of By Marcy Oster handed approach to Qatar, demic. to just the Jordan Valley; and modern-day Brooklyn. Israeli annexation of parts of (JTA) — The New York Turkey and Iran, according Benny Gantz, the defense 25 percent oppose applying The trailer also fills out the the West Bank. Jewish Week said it will put to the report. minister and prime minister sovereignty to any part of plot, which is based on a short In addition, Shaath said its print edition on hiatus as Twitter has suspended the designate, entered quarantine the West Bank. Some 28.5 story by Simon Rich. When that PLO chairman Yasser it transitions to a “digital-first accounts of 16 of the fictitious on Wednesday after he came percent responded that they Herschel wakes up in the Arafat had been “martyred” model.” writers in the wake of the Daily into contact with a family don’t know. future, he attempts to get Ben by Israeli poison because of The last print edition of the Beast investigation. member with COVID-19. When asked if Israel should to start a pickle business with his position, and that the nearly 50-year-old weekly — Civil rights groups lead- The Cabinet met to discuss still apply sovereignty if it is him after Ben loses his job. United States will cease to be at least for now — is scheduled ing the Facebook ad whether to declare some areas conditioned on the establish- The trailer suggests a the leader of the world within for July 31, according to an boycott met with Mark with high numbers of cases ment of a Palestinian state, 49 wealth of Jewish references. five years. announcement published Zuckerberg restricted areas. Jerusalem percent of survey respondents In one snippet, the two are El Al bailout of $400 Tuesday on The Jewish Week By Marcy Ostser is among the cities where said it should and 38 percent shown talking about how million likely to result website. (JTA) — Mark Zuckerberg restricted zones could be de- said it should not. polio has been cured. Ben says in airline being nation- The move is in part due to hasn’t changed his tune about clared, Israel’s Channel 12 re- Some 55 percent of respon- the doctor who discovered alized the financial effects of the Facebook’s stance on the ported Wednesday night. The dents said that there is a low the cure was named Jonas (JNS) — Israel’s national coronavirus crisis “and how it spread of hate on the social restrictions would differ in or very low chance that Israel Salk. Herschel asks if he was carrier El Al announced on has hurt our bottom line and media platform. each area, including up to a will go ahead with plans to a Jew, and when Ben says yes, Monday that it had agreed to a that of our advertisers,” said That’s what the heads of complete closure. annex parts of the West Bank Herschel pumps his fist. government bailout deal that the announcement signed several civil rights groups, in- Gantz said in a state- this year. The movie is out on HBO will likely result in the airline’s by Kai Falkenberg, board cluding the Anti-Defamation ment that he feels good and On the coronavirus pan- Max on Aug. 6. being nationalized. president of the Jewish Week League, said following a meet- will continue to work from demic, respondents gave the Israel successfully According to the terms Media Group, and Andrew ing Tuesday with Zuckerberg quarantine. His contact with government a grade of 5.4 launches new spy satel- of the deal, the airline will Silow-Carroll, the paper’s and other Facebook execu- the confirmed coronavirus for its handling of the crisis, lite receive a $250 million gov- editor in chief. tives to discuss the demands of carrier took place more than where 10 is excellent. By Marcy Oster ernment-backed loan and “As so many of our loyal the advertisers that joined the a week ago. He will have a Meanwhile, some 56 per- JERUSALEM (JTA) — Is- raise another $150 million readers have discovered in #StopHateForProfit move- coronavirus test. cent of respondents said they rael successfully launched the by selling shares on the Tel the past few months, life ment. On Tuesday, the Knesset’s felt President Donald Trump new Ofek 16 reconnaissance Aviv Stock Exchange, with the online offers opportunities “It was abundantly clear in Ministerial Committee on is better for Israel’s interests satellite. state purchasing any unsold for engagement, flexibility our meeting today that Mark Declaring Restricted Zones than Democratic challenger The spy satellite was blasted stock, AP reported. and information-sharing that Zuckerberg and the Facebook declared Beitar Illit, a haredi Joe Biden, while 16 percent into space early Sunday According to the report, Is- can’t be matched by print team is not yet ready to ad- Orthodox city in the West favored Biden. Twenty-eight morning from a launch site raeli Transportation Minister products, even daily ones,” dress the vitriolic hate on their Bank, restricted for a week percent said they did not in central Israel, the Ministry Miri Regev said that was the they also wrote. platform,” read a statement beginning on Wednesday. know. of Defense said in a statement. “first step taken to return El The announcement asked issued by the leaders after the The Cabinet directed the The survey was conducted Following the launch, the Al to the runway. We will work the paper’s “loyal readers” to meeting. “Zuckerberg offered Ministerial Committee on between June 28 and June satellite began to orbit around to assist the company during “be more proactive in access- the same old defense of white Declaring Restricted Zones to 30, and interviewed 609 men earth and transmit data, in the interim as is needed, with ing and sharing the wealth supremacist, anti-Semitic, Is- meet following the formula- and women in Hebrew and accordance with original the aim of protecting Israel’s of content available on our lamophobic and other hateful tion of final recommendations 149 in Arabic. The survey has launch plans. aviation independence.” website.” groups on Facebook that the from the Health Ministry. a sampling error of plus or Ofek 16 is an electro-optical El Al was privatized more The newspaper said its Stop Hate For Profit Coali- Other cities that could be de- minus 3.7 percent. reconnaissance satellite with than 15 years ago. It has suf- special programs, including tions, advertisers and society clared restricted are Ashdod, Israeli man who rescued advanced capabilities, accord- fered financial losses over the Public Forums, Write On at large have heard too many Beit Shemesh, Bnei Brak, Bedouin woman and her ing to the statement. It was years, though none as signifi- For Israel, The Conversation times before.” Kiryat Malachi, Lod, Modiin 3 children to be posthu- developed and produced by cant as those resulting from and Fresh Ink for Teens, will Dozens of Facebook’s larg- Illit, Ramla and Raanana. mously honored Israel Aerospace Industries, the coronavirus crisis, which continue. est advertisers are boycotting Jewish Agency releases By Marcy Oster led by the Defense Ministry’s has caused the airline to halt The Jewish Week also will the platform this month, numbers of Jewish (JTA) — An Israeli man Space Administration. The operations completely. be closing its Midtown Man- according to the movement. coronavirus deaths from who drowned while rescuing last satellite in the Ofek series The bailout deal still needs hattan office, in the heart of Among them are Starbucks, countries around the a Bedouin woman and her was launched three years ago. to be approved by a Knesset Times Square, this month. Hershey, Coca-Cola, Ben & world three children from drowning “The successful launch of committee. Canada’s flagship national Jerry’s, the North Face and By Marcy Oster in a lake will be honored with the Ofek 16 satellite overnight US Supreme Court to Jewish newspaper of record, Patagonia. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jew- a posthumous award. is yet another extraordinary hear case of Nazi-stolen the Canadian Jewish News, Led by the ADL, the groups ish deaths around the world President Reuven Rivlin achievement for the defense art became a coronavirus casu- launched the campaign to pro- from the coronavirus — ex- will present the Civil Medal of establishment, for the defense (JNS) — The U.S. Supreme alty in April after being in test Facebook’s unwillingness cluding the United States, Distinguished Service to the industries as a whole, and for Court agreed on June 2 to hear print for 60 years. But unlike to police hate speech or monitor Israel and the countries of wife and children of Michael Israel Aerospace Industries in the case about a German art The Jewish Week, the weekly posts for misinformation. The the former Soviet Union — Ben Zikri, 45, who died on particular,” Defense Minister museum and whether or not did not maintain an Internet campaign has issued a list of 10 total about 2,200, the Jewish Friday after jumping into a Benny Gantz said. “Tech- a treasure trove, known as version. demands, including a perma- Agency said Wednesday. lake near Ashkelon to help nological superiority and the “Guelph Treasure,” should Conservative news nent civil rights infrastructure, The group, which works to four people struggling to stay intelligence capabilities are be returned to the heirs of four outlets were duped into independent audits of identity- bolster Israel-Diaspora rela- afloat. Ben Zikri succeeded in essential to the security of the Jewish art dealers in Germany. publishing Middle East based hate and misinformation, tions, released these numbers getting them out of the water State of Israel. The fact that The dealers have argued ‘hot takes’ from fake and an internal mechanism on a Zoom call that included but did not manage to get out Israel is one of the 13 countries that they were forced to sell it columnists to automatically flag hateful the leaders of several Diaspora himself. in the world with satellite to the Nazi-controlled Prus- By Marcy Oster content in private groups for Jewish communities that are His body later was pulled launching capabilities is not a sian government in 1935 in (JTA) — Conservative news human review. suffering financially from out of the water by a rescue given, and was made possible what they called a “genocidal outlets, including some re- The Stop Hate for Profit the current crisis: 33 Jewish team. He was pronounced by the people who have been taking.” porting on the Jewish com- leaders said the Facebook deaths from countries in the dead at the scene. investing in these systems The collection, worth munity, were duped into executives — COO Sheryl Middle East, 40 from Chile, The woman and her chil- and advancing breakthrough around $225 million, consists publishing Middle East “hot Sandberg and the chief prod- 50 from Mexico, 70 from Ar- dren were released from capabilities over the years.” of medieval church relics and takes” from fake columnists, uct officer, Christopher Cox, gentina and 100 from Brazil. the hospital on Sunday. The satellite is expected was owned by the House of the Daily Beast reported. joined Zuckerberg — only Jewish Agency Chairman In an interview with the to send its first images next Guelph in 1671 until it was The news outlets, including addressed one item on the list, Isaac Herzog said his organi- Kan public broadcaster, the week. sold to a group of art dealers The Jerusalem Post and Jewish and that it was unsatisfactory. zation was not able to confirm children’s father called Ben Third intifada could ‘ab- in 1929. The items currently News Syndicate, were among The leaders of the ADL, figures for the United States Zriki a hero. solutely’ be on the way sit in the Kunstgewerbemu- 46 publications that published NAACP, Color of Change and the FSU. The Civil Medal of Distin- (MEMRI via JNS) — The seum (Applied Arts Museum) opinion pieces by 19 nonexistent and Free Press were in the Herzog added that some guished Service is a new honor Palestinians have a right to in Berlin. authors originating from a mas- meeting. Diaspora Jewish communities meant to commend exemplary confront Israel, and a third In a May 26 filing, U.S. sive Middle East propaganda Afterward, Facebook have entered into “literal pa- behavior in Israeli society. intifada may be on the way, Solicitor General Noel Fran- campaign that appears to have spokesman Andy Stone called ralysis” due to the coronavirus ‘An American Pickle’ said senior Palestinian official cisco argued that the heirs started in July 2019, according the meeting “an opportunity crisis. Some cannot provide trailer shows Seth Rogen Nabil Shaath on Friday. have failed to make the to a Daily Beast investigation for us to hear from the cam- basic communal services, plays both 1920s Jew- Shaath, an adviser to Pal- case — in accordance with published Monday. paign organizers and reaffirm welfare services or Jewish ish immigrant and his estinian Authority leader the 1976 Foreign Sovereign The Jerusalem Post has our commitment to combat- educational activities, he said. PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 17, 2020 Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan declare opposition to Israeli sovereignty plans

(JNS) — France, Ger- “We exchanged views on the The statement contin- two-state-solution based on of the territory in question, tanyahu “made it clear that many, Egypt and Jordan current state of the Middle ued: “We also concur that international law and the in accordance with U.S. Israel is prepared to conduct declared that they would East Peace Process and its such a step would have relevant U.N. resolutions. President Donald Trump’s negotiations on the basis not recognize any moves regional implications. We serious consequences for We discussed how to re- “Peace to Prosperity” plan of President Trump’s peace on Israel’s part to extend concur that any annexation the security and stability start a fruitful engagement that was unveiled in January plan, which is both creative sovereignty to the Jordan of Palestinian territories of the region, and would between the Israeli and the at the White House. and realistic, and will not Valley, and parts of Judea occupied in 1967 would be constitute a major obstacle Palestinian side, and offer Also on Tuesday, Netan- return to the failed formulas and Samaria. a violation of international to efforts aimed at achiev- our support in facilitating a yahu announced that he of the past.” In a statement released law and imperil the founda- ing a comprehensive and path to negotiations.” had spoken on the phone on In addition, the two agreed on Tuesday by the German tions of the peace process. just peace. It could also The statement was refer- Monday night with British to strengthen bilateral rela- Foreign Ministry following a We would not recognize any have consequences for the ring to Israeli Prime Minis- Prime Minister Boris John- tions in a range of fields, joint video conference on the changes to the 1967 borders relationship with Israel. We ter Benjamin Netanyahu’s son. According to the Israeli especially to deepen coopera- issue, the foreign ministers that are not agreed by both underline our firm com- stated intention to begin Prime Minister’s Office, dur- tion in the battle against the of the four countries stated: parties in the conflict.” mitment to a negotiated applying Israeli law to parts ing the conversation, Ne- coronavirus. Beinart From page 4A Palestinians and sympathiz- can make Jews whole. Pales- to the Land of Israel, includ- he requires that Israel “would side of voting booths,” add- ers that Israel’s treatment tinian liberation [is] integral ing close settlement on the need consider the trimming of ing “no redistribution of burned them, stabbed them, of Palestinians parallels to our own.” land, and create a Palestine the Law of Return.” wealth or land.” Another re- stoned them and engaged Nazi treatment of Jews. I Essentially, Beinart cares Mandate, the Arabs living in But already, the other side, sponded that Beinart was but in the most horrific acts of have heard that Zionism is more about Palestinians than that area would still be known they are ridiculing him and another Jew “self-centering murder and maiming. And Nazism.” he does about Jews. Paradoxi- today as Southern Syrians. proving that he still has a long once again.” all that is somehow just a This cancerous dehuman- cally, if it were not for Zion- He blindly supports Yasser way to go to placate them. For Beinart, Yavne signifies reflection of Jewish trauma. ization he blames on the Jews. ism’s diplomatic victory in Arafat’s former adviser, Knes- As one pro-Palestine activ- that a phase of Jewish history On this, Ross Singer notes He parades his perverse getting the League of Nations set member Ahmed Tibi, and ist tweeted: His 1-state vision had run its course. He now that “imagining the enemy as immorality by claiming that: to award the Jews the right his vision as being “profoundly entails no decolonization or has reached his Yavne. a Nazi is not limited to the “Only Palestinian freedom to reconstitute their Jewish in line with the central reparations. It’s a last-ditch Yisrael Medad is an Amer- Israeli side… I have heard — a precondition for true National Home predicated principle aspects of Zionist effort at averting radical ican-born journalist and countless claims by both peace in Israel-Palestine — on their historic connection political imagination.” And struggle that happens out- political commentator. Tobin From page 5A when it is associated with to fellow museum staffers and discourse and the principle of tion that destroys art and all ideals of the American Revolu- unpopular or discredited the social-media swarm that defending public art against symbols of the past quickly tion that the BLM movement personal Instagram account. causes, is the obligation of quickly demanded his head. the whims of fashionable moves from attacking mixed- and the country’s largest He correctly noted, “How civilized people, especially in For the moment, he still has mobs. If one of the nation’s metal statues to live human newspaper so denigrates. Op- grateful we are to people like times of social upheaval. But his job. His boss, Met director leading art institutions seems beings. So if you think that posing the vandals and those Lenoir who realized that their in this moment of moral panic Max Hollein, has disavowed ready to disavow that tradition once all the Confederates will trashing American history is value, both artistic and histori- in which preserving civilized his critique of the mob with in order to avoid a similar be toppled that it will just be not just an anodyne sentiment cal, extended beyond a defining standards of conduct has been the requisite cant about white canceling at the hands of statues of Christopher Colum- representing standard holiday moment of social and political discarded in favor of revolu- privilege. And Christiansen latter-day Jacobins, then bus, George Washington and fare. It is also an implicit and upheaval and change.” tionary fervor against alleged has been forced to disavow his genuine liberalism, and the Thomas Jefferson that are in vital defense of the interests But Christiansen seemed systemic racism, Christiansen correct comparison of today’s soul of the arts and culture danger, you’re wrong. of American Jews … and all not to know that criticizing had committed a cardinal sin. iconoclasts to Jacobin vandals world, is in real danger. It actually isn’t a great dis- citizens who depend on the woke mobs, even by implica- As the Times’ Robin Po- with the usual Cultural Rev- If that is possible, then why tance to travel from toppling survival of the rule of law for tion in these revolutionary grebin noted in an article in olution-style struggle-session should we be surprised when statues of America’s past to our security. times, is an invitation to a which she did not trouble to humiliation. the basic premise of Ameri- chanting blood libels about Jonathan S. Tobin is editor virtual version of being hauled find a single source, in the art What is at risk here is not can freedom is called into Jews killing children. Which in chief of JNS — Jewish News out in a tumbrel to meet the world or elsewhere, to speak so much his future as that of question? If history teaches is why it is more important Syndicate. Follow him on contemporary social-media in Christianson’s defense, his the Western tradition of open us anything, it is that a na- than ever to stand up for the Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin. version of Madame Guillotine. implied critique of the BLM Preserving public art, even movement was unacceptable Libby to Significance” campaign, on the mission of academic “There is still plenty to do!” 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 From page 7A A M T S S C E N T E B B S which had a goal of $200 excellence and vitality of the said Libby, as she serves as a 14 15 16 at a close. She has guided an million. “In order to ensure university. director on the boards of a G A U L A H E A D Y A L E effort to enhance the reputa- financial viability of the Libby has won a multitude Volusia County community 17 18 19 E M M Y A W A R D S E D E N tion of Stetson, which is now campus we’ve increased our of honors and awards over the bank and a food service dis- 20 21 22 ranked No. 5 in 2020-Regional endowment to over 50 per- years. The one she holds dear tributer in Tampa, continuing O B O E S S I A A H M A D Universities South. The law cent from when I came. This to her heart was being added her role as the ASUN (Stetson 23 24 25 F A R S I M E L B R O O K S school has been ranked No.1 enables us the freedom to of- to the Wall of Distinction at is a member of this athletics 26 27 28 in the nation for trial advocacy fer quality programming and James Madison High School. conference) representative T M C A C L U for over 20 years. ensures our self-sustainability Her name stands proud next to the NCAA Division I Presi- 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 A V A O H R A T S E T N A Libby takes pride in her for years to come.” to Nobel and Pulitzer Prize dent’s Forum, consulting for 39 40 41 accomplishments. • Libby rejuvenated Stet- winners, famous writers and a major higher educational D I C K V A N D Y K E S H O W • Since 2009 she has in- son’s beautiful historic down- producers, and Olympians, professional association. 42 43 44 V I C I Y A S S E R S A N creased the undergraduate town DeLand campus and such as Supreme Court Jus- Libby leaves the university 45 46 47 48 enrollment nearly 50 percent helped increase energy effi- tice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with strength and financial O L G A D M S while increasing the qual- ciency and she dramatically actor Martin Landau, TV stability, which will ensure 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 S A U L B L O O M I N S E T ity of students, including its decreased the schools deferred personality Judith Sheindlin the financial independence 58 59 60 ethnic, racial and geographic maintenance. (Judge Judy), Senate Minority of Stetson far into the future. M I N T S K A I N A I V E diversity. • She put into place a Leader Chuck Schumer and “You never really leave your 61 62 63 A N T I C A R L R E I N E R • She helped raise $218 newly-formed team of senior singer/songwriter Carol King, alma mater. It’s always with 64 65 66 million in the “From Success executives, who will carry to name a few. you,” Libby said. S T E M U P E N N L A R S 67 68 69 H I D E T I D E S S I T E Edelman From page 9A Before the Super Bowl number of occasions. In a 2014 After the Pittsburgh syna- in 2012, Edelman acknowl- game, for instance, he wore a gogue shooting in the fall actively supporting on social edged that he has a Jewish pin featuring the Israeli flag. that killed 11, he wore special media. father and his mother is not He has tweeted about Jewish cleats with Hebrew to honor “We need to listen, we need Jewish. He was not raised in holidays. He even went on a the victims. And in December to learn and we need to act,” the faith. Birthright-style trip to Israel, he wore custom cleats to Edelman said. “We need to “I’m kind of Jewish, but not and has written a children’s support the Israel Baseball have those uncomfortable really,” he said at the time. book that references modern- Association. They were auc- conversations. If we’re going But since then he has day Zionism founder Theodor tioned off to raise money for to have real change.” shown his Jewish pride on a Herzl. the cause. Proactive From page 11A learn more and apply ASAP Supporting Project Pro- can make a difference in at www.jproactive.com/sum- active is one step toward destigmatizing mental search of participants who mer2020, as spots are already normalizing the conversa- health and keep an eye out are motivated, confident, being filled. tion. 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Jewish please visit: jewishacad- quality education experience VID-19 pandemic has had a virus impact our resolve to transitional kindergarten Academy of Orlando is emyorlando.org or follow to our students that our com- devastating impact on our provide the best education through fifth grade. The accredited by the Florida the school on Facebook munity has come to expect,” country and around the world. available to young students school delivers a whole- Council of Independent facebook.com/JewishAcad- commented Rob Gebaide, Jewish Academy of Orlando is in our community” child education fostering Schools. emyOrlando. Apte From page 1A divisions. Currently, he is the profession by administering changes in the courtroom. Ninth Circuit Judge Mentor justice fairly and displaying Until March, judges did not community needs to know coordinator, and he serves an even-tempered judicial have the ability to take the and have an understanding. in the Guardianship, Men- demeanor. He has earned testimony of a witness from I think that’s important that tal Health, Risk Protection the respect of lawyers, non- out of state, unless the wit- people understand what the Order, Jimmy Ryce Division, lawyers and litigants who ness was there in the court- facts are, and what the rul- presiding every day over appear in front of him. Judge room. Now, if the judge can ing is.” cases for the most vulner- Apte has earned the right to see a person with identifica- There are 597 judges on able individuals — those continue to serve the Ninth tion and match the face to the Florida Circuit Court, who can’t take care of them- Judicial Circuit.” the name, he can swear him each elected via nonpartisan selves whether due to mental Since the COVID-19 pan- in and take his statement elections. They serve six-year health, substance abuse or demic began, Apte has not through Zoom. terms, after which they must disability issues. slowed down. He still works Outside of the legal profes- run for re-election if they wish The Jimmy Ryce cases in- five days a week whether he is sion Alan has dedicated him- to retain their seat. volve individuals who’ve gone in the courtroom or at home self to serving the community Apte has been a Circuit to State prison for sex offenses. (thanks to the Internet). The through various charitable Court judge almost 18 years, Before they are released from Florida Supreme Court listed and voluntary organizations. and he is up for re-election. prison, the Department of six essential types of cases to Throughout the years he He has dedicated more than Children and Families evalu- continue presiding over. Apte has coached youth soccer, 27 years in service to the com- ate them to see if there is any has three of the six: Baker mentored young people, Judge Apte conducting court via Zoom. munity as a prosecutor and potential of reoffending. The Act, which covers mental mentored young lawyers, civil litigator. As a lawyer, he State can seek to civilly com- health issues; Marchman and assisted seniors through judge, I have to make a deci- provided service to the com- has first-chaired more than mit them outside prison to a Act, primarily for chemical a variety of local nonprofit sion. Follow the rules, you munity,” he shared. 100 jury trials and “scores State hospital. dependency/substance abuse organizations and activities. can never go wrong”; and his To read more about Apte’s and scores” of non-jury trials. 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Some of Cha- painted in three synagogues and The Violinist (1910), gall’s works depict people and in three different towns, and show the familiar setting objects defying the earth’s when he completed painting, of his homeland. gravity, hovering over a scene he fell off his ladder and died, In St. Petersburg, Cha- below. These images reflect with each of the three differ- gall met Max Vinaver, who the earthly and heavenly ent synagogues claiming he became his patron, sending figures of Chagall’s real and had died in their synagogue. Chagall to Paris and offering idealized life and world, and Chagall adopted this man as a monthly allowance. Ac- they offer a window of un- his fictitious grandfather in cording to Susan Tumarkin derstanding into the artist’s his autobiography. In reality, Goodman, curator of the mind and work. his mother was supportive of 2001 Jewish Museum of Chagall’s Humble Be- the artistic talent Chagall had New York exhibition “Marc ginnings discovered in himself, though Chagall: Early Works from Chagall, born in 1887, his father was less so. Russian Collections,” Chagall found inspiration for much Chagall studied art in developed his unique style of his work in his upbringing St. Petersburg on scholar- in these years prior to World in Vitebsk, Belorussia. There, ship and counted among War I. a folktale is told of an artist his most influential teach- Chagall took his homeland

Images of earth and air co-mingle in Chagall’s enduring work.

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