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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 44, NO. 35 MAY 1, 2020 7 IYYAR, 5780 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ $80M earmarked for nonprofits (JNS)—Seven Jewish organizations to maintain foundations joined togeth- services and/or make payroll er to launch the Jewish in the coming three to six Community Response and months. Impact Fund, which will The loan program will provide more than $80 mil- be based at the Nonprofit lion in interest-free loans Finance Fund, which will and grants as thousands act as the loan fund admin- of Jewish nonprofit orga- istrator and lender of record. nizations are experiencing It will also partner with unprecedented needs due to the Jewish Federations of the coronavirus pandemic. North America, which will The challenges have af- source and recommend loan fected every sector of Jewish applications. Shira Hutt, communal life, including or- JFNA Chief of Staff and an ganizational closures, staff experienced nonprofit and layoffs, canceled programs, philanthropic professional, a pivot to online education, is serving as JFNA’s liaison an anticipated increase in fi- to the program. JFNA will nancial-aid needs, a decrease work with key national in fundraising and and other Jewish networks, including Miriam Alster/Flash90 operational interruptions. members of the National Election posters hung by the Blue and White Party show candidate Benny Gantz and Likud candidate, Israeli Prime “We have seen firsthand Emergency Coalition, as Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Feb. 18, 2020. the acute challenges Jew- well as independent Jewish ish organizations across nonprofits, to source loan the country are facing,” applicants. said JCRIF’s funders, which The aligned grant pro- Ins and outs of Israel’s unprecedented include the Aviv Founda- gram will provide a combina- tion, the Charles and Lynn tion of emergency funding Schusterman Family Foun- for immediate needs and national emergency unity government dation, the Jack, Joseph and strategic funding to ad- Morton Mandel Foundation, dress organizational and By Dov Lipman Both leaders posted tweets upon the at the right time. We need unity to deal the Jim Joseph Foundation, sector-wide shifts catalyzed signing. Netanyahu wrote that the deal with the country’s health and economic Maimonides Fund, the Paul by the crisis. The program (JNS)—Israel’s 15-month political is a fulfillment of his promise to form a challenges.” E. Singer Foundation and seeks to provide an efficient, stalemate, which led to three election “national emergency government that The unity deal, which is structured the Wilf Family Foundation. simplified and accelerated cycles within the course of a year, has will work to save lives and the livelihoods as six months of an “emergency govern- “While this fund alone application and reporting come to a close with the signing of a of the citizens of Israel.” Gantz tweeted ment” to be followed by a more permanent cannot address all of those system for both applicants unity government deal between Israeli that “we prevented a fourth election. one, established Netanyahu as prime challenges, we believe that and grant recipients. It will Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, We will protect democracy. We will fight minister for the first 18 months, during investing together in these supplement each founda- head of the Likud Party, and Blue and the coronavirus and care for all Israeli which Gantz will be Vice Prime Minister vital pillars of Jewish life tion’s current grantmaking White Party head Benny Gantz. The two citizens.” and Minister of Defense, followed by will help ensure a stronger to Jewish organizations. sides are calling it a “national emergency Knesset member Yariv Levin, lead Gantz taking over the premiership for future for American Jewry To create an efficient government” in large part to manage negotiator for the Likud now slated to 18 months, during which Netanyahu in the months and years to process that ensures quick the ongoing coronavirus crisis, which serve as Speaker of the Knesset in the will be Vice Prime Minister. come,” they said. turnaround and deployment has stymied Israel along with the rest new government, told JNS that “this JCRIF includes two com- of resources, both programs of the world. emergency government is the right thing Unity on page 15A ponents: a loan program and will proactively source fund- an aligned grant program. ing opportunities rather The loan program will pro- than accept unsolicited pro- vide short-term unsecured posals. The fund welcomes Israeli startup can predict loans to alleviate cash flow additional investors. the spread of Covid-19 challenges and to enable By Brian Blum of the virus with uncanny precision and generating Heritage Human (ISRAEL21c)—Israelis re- actionable recommendations. ceiving daily coronavirus “Last Saturday night, we check-ins via text message can saw worrying data coming Service Award thank local startup Diagnos- from Migdal HaEmek, Ti- tic Robotics for developing the berias and Ashkelon,” Kira Heritage Florida Jewish award are individuals who cutting-edge questionnaire Radinsky, the company’s co- News is accepting nomina- do not look for recognition, that is tracking the spread founder and chief technology tions for the 2020 Heritage but perform tikkun olam— officer, told ISRAEL21c. “On Human Service Award, which repairing the world—out of Monday morning, the govern- will be presented at the an- internal motivation.” ment issued a lockdown order nual meeting of the Jewish Nominations should be in those cities.” Federation of Greater Orlando emailed to news@orlando- Diagnostic Robotics has in August. heritage.com with the subject sent its questionnaire to mil- “For more than 30 years, Human Service Award, or lions of Israelis, including individuals who have made typed on 8 1/2” x 11” paper some 2,000 Covid-19 patients. major, voluntary contribu- and sent by mail to Heritage Some 80 percent of recipients tions of their talent, time, Florida Jewish News, Human answer it. energy and effort to the Service Award, 207 O’Brien “People understand the A heat map showing areas of Israel most affected by Central Florida community Road, Suite 101, Fern Park, importance of accurate data Covid-19 on April 13, 2019. have been honored with the FL 32730. Included should for Covid-19 treatment,” selection and presentation of be the name and phone Radinsky explained. she had just received her PhD predict disasters including this award,” said Jeff Gaeser, number of the nominee, a The company is now “work- from the Technion (in which disease outbreaks, violence editor and publisher of the documented list of his or her ing on a media campaign to she enrolled when she was and natural catastrophes. Heritage. Last year’s recipi- accomplishments, and the help raise awareness even just 15 years old) and was The algorithms successfully ent was Dick Weiner. Former name and phone number of more and keep the numbers starting her own company, predicted cholera outbreaks recipients have included the nominator(s). high.” SalesPredict. in Angola and Cuba. Stuart Farb (2010)), Burt The Heritage is accepting Technion all-star team SalesPredict was bought by Radinsky’s years at eBay Chasnov (2008), and Bob nominations until Friday, Diagnostic Robotics is eBay in 2016 and Radinsky was were focused not on disease Yarmuth (2004). June 26. based on a decade of research named eBay’s director of data but rather on predicting which According to Gaeser, “Each by the 33-year-old Ukrainian- science and chief scientist in customers would buy which recipient chose their own born Radinsky, one of Israel’s Israel. She left eBay to cofound items. When the opportunity path, but made considerable top tech stars. Diagnostic Robotics last year. arose to get back into the and long-lasting contribu- When ISRAEL21c first At the Technion, Radin- tions to the Jewish commu- wrote about Radinsky in 2013, sky developed software to Startup on page 15A nity. Nominees for the 2020 PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 1, 2020 An update on The Roth Family JCC “These are interesting On Monday, May 4, the camp, as long as we can do so times, with things changing majority of the ECLC lead in a safe manner,” Dvorchik on a daily basis and so much teachers, assistant teachers, stated. The JCC camp director more that is unknown than is and specialists will be back and assistant camp director known,” said Keith Dvorchik, on the job. Throughout the began working last week to de- CEO of The Roth Family JCC month of May, the ECLC staff termine how to hold Camp J. as he shared some things the will be training on operational Both the CDC and the JCC is working on. and procedural changes while American Camping Associa- Getting back to work preparing to address the needs tion will be issuing guidelines slowly of its children and families in early May that the JCC The Roth Family JCC has after the extended closure. staff will incorporate into the received Paycheck Protection “We will be reviewing the preparations to ensure a safe Program funding and because CDC guidelines and making and healthy camp experience. of this, they can bring back the sure everyone is fully trained Dvorchik explained that it staff in a “strategic fashion,” and well-versed on what the is too early to commit to an according to Dvorchik. new reality will look like when official opening date, how- On April 27, the ECLC we reopen our doors,” Dvor- ever he said the JCC staff are supervisors, JCC department chik wrote in the newsletter. working hard to ensure the directors and accounting staff Camp J JCC can reopen as soon as it remotely went back to work. “It is our full intent to offer is safe to do so. JAO students observed Yom Hashoah remotely Jewish Academy of Or- lando observed its annual Holocaust remembrance day remotely. Fourth and fifth grade students participated in a morning of music, prayer, and remembrance. Head of School Alan Ruson- ik said, “It was important to us to deliver a developmentally appropriate program that was meaningful to our students.” The morning began with, “Eli, Eli,” a song based on the poem written by Holocaust hero, Hannah Senesh. 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Tobin interested partisan dedicated to holding onto next 18 months and generate a new election the case. While he is the undoubted idol power at virtually any cost. But contrary to which he might win even if the Israeli Supreme of Israel’s right-wing voters, he is perfectly (JNS)—Israel’s yearlong government most mainstream media coverage of Israel, Court rules that he is ineligible to stand as pleased not to be leading a narrow right-wing standoff is finally over, and the only real win- the deal with Gantz also debunks the notion prime minister because of his upcoming cor- government largely dominated by ideologues. ner is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. that he’s an extremist who is wrecking Israel ruption trial. To the contrary, his preference has always Although there were moments when it seemed by dragging it to the right, as well as sabo- Netanyahu’s enemies are lamenting what been for assembling the most broad-based as if there was no way he could hold onto office taging hopes of peace with the Palestinians. they see as Gantz’s weakness, as well as the government possible. for long, Netanyahu again proved that it’s a The new government is instead proof that way the coronavirus pandemic strengthened That was true in 2009, when he assembled mistake to underestimate his political acumen Netanyahu is at heart a consensus politician the prime minister’s hand. Still, as many in a government that included the Labor Party or survival instincts. most happy when leading from the center the Likud and in its erstwhile right-wing then led by Ehud Barak, even though he could But there’s something else about this out- and with his right-wing allies cut out of the partner Yamina Party ally are pointing out, have assembled a majority that was solely come that Netanyahu’s American detractors decision-making process. while Netanyahu got what he wanted out of composed of right-wing and religious parties. need to understand. The agreement does The deal he signed with Blue and White the agreement, the interests of the national After the next election in 2013, the same reaffirm the conventional wisdom that views Party leader Benny Gantz will likely enable camp that he has led by for a generation did thing happened as Netanyahu invited both Netanyahu as a ruthless, skilled and self- the prime minister to remain in office for the not fare as well. Yair Lapid’s centrist Yesh Atid Party and Tzipi That’s not just because the deal left both Livni’s Hatnua Party into his government, Yamina and leading Likud figures without their disappointing those on the right who wanted share of power. The unity deal also ensures him to govern with a narrow majority that ZOA calls down Biden on that outside of guaranteeing a vote on the he had won. annexation of some West Bank settlements in It’s true that those who join in coalitions the coming year, the new government is not with Netanyahu generally find the experience embracing J Street endorsement committed to the platform Netanyahu ran on. to be extremely unpleasant. Barak, Lapid and On judicial reform, economics and, yes, Livni all emerged from their time at the Cabinet By Morton A. Klein and braced J Street’s endorsement, saying: “I’m even settlement growth, the government will table determined never to do it again. That’s Mark Levenson, Esq. honored to have earned J Street’s first-ever be split rather than united. That ensures that one of the reasons that Netanyahu wound up presidential endorsement,” and, absurdly and stalemate, rather than right-wing governance, leading a narrow right-wing/religious coalition ZOA urges Joe Biden to retract his profuse obscenely, praised J Street as “a powerful voice will largely characterize the next three years— after the 2015 election. praise of extremist anti-Israel J Street and to advance social justice.” assuming, that is, that the judges don’t cut The defection of Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisra- to reject J Street’s and far-left Israel-bashing J Street’s sordid history includes: condemn- the scheme short by seeking to do what the el Beiteinu Party, which leans strongly to the socialist Senator Bernie Sanders’ endorse- ing Israel at every turn; lobbying for anti-Israel voters and his political opponents could not, right on security issues though is avowedly ments. ZOA also urges Biden to retract his United Nations resolutions; promoting the and depose Netanyahu. secular, from Netanyahu’s bloc at the end of anti-Israel video remarks at AIPAC last month, lie that the Western Wall, the Temple Mount The assumption in some quarters is that condemning and threatening Jewish com- and the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem are “oc- this is frustrating for Netanyahu. That isn’t Centrist on page 14A munities and lawful Israeli sovereignty in cupied Arab territory”; lobbying for the U.S. to Judea-Samaria. (Biden failed to attend AIPAC pressure Israel to make suicidal concessions; in person.) regularly providing platforms to leaders of the Biden’s remarks and embrace of these radi- anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions Toward a coronavirus vaccine: cal endorsements do great harm to bipartisan (BDS) movement; opposing sanctions on Iran; support for Israel. promoting the catastrophic Iran deal (which Inappropriately, during his pre-recorded Biden thanked J Street for, during Biden’s Jewish ethical questions video remarks at AIPAC, former Vice President 2016 J Street speech); justifying Arab terror Joe Biden demanded that Israel “has to stop attacks; opposing moving the U.S. Embassy By Jason Weiner For that reason, I believe once plasma dona- the threats of annexation and settlement to Israel’s capital Jerusalem; raising money tions from those who have recovered from the activity, like the recent announcement to to unseat pro-Israel Congresspersons and to (JNS)—The coronavirus pandemic has coronavirus are shown to be safe and effective build thousands of settlements in E1.” Biden elect hostile-to-Israel Congresspersons; lying given rise to some of the most complex and in treating current coronavirus patients, it can was actually condemning Jewish communi- for years about the anti-Israel radical George significant medical-ethics dilemmas in recent be seen as an expectation of Jewish law that ties in historic, lawful Jewish lands, and the Soros’ millions in financial support for J Street; history, namely the question of triaging ICU those who have recovered must make such possibility that, after years of delay, Israel and much more. care and, by extension, deciding who shall live blood donations if they are able to. might finally exercise her lawful sovereignty And, as liberal Democratic Professor Alan and who shall die. As society begins to con- In Jewish law, hatzalat harabim, or “saving rights and build 3,500 much-needed Jew- Dershowitz stated, “J Street has done more template how to readjust to the new normal the many,” is given more weight than saving the ish apartment units in “E-1.” E-1 is a small to turn young people against Israel than any and eventually lifts isolation measures, new individual when it comes to risk. For example, patch of land, essential for Israel’s security, organization in the whole of history.” (For and similarly challenging ethical questions in the Purim story recounted in the book of between Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives and details, see ZOA’s online book, “J Street Sides will arise. Esther, Queen Esther was permitted to risk her the Jewish suburb of Ma’Aleh Adumim. It is With Israel’s Enemies & Works to Destroy One such question that has not yet received life by approaching Ahasuerus since it was to also important to note that Israel has not Support for Israel.”) much discussion, but which I believe requires save the entire community. built a single new settlement since the Oslo It’s also alarming that, during their joint our community’s attention, revolves around Similarly, the Talmud relates that in the Accord in 1993. endorsement video: Biden told Sanders “I’m the rush to develop a vaccine. While it could city of Lod, the Roman emperor’s daughter In his AIPAC video, Biden moreover falsely going to need you not just to win the campaign take well over a year before a vaccine is avail- was murdered and the Jewish community was and absurdly claimed that such Jewish homes but to govern”; revealed that the Israel/bash- able, the associated ethical issues will likely blamed. The emperor threatened the Jews with and Israel’s assertions of her lawful rights ing Sanders’ and Biden’s teams are working arrive much sooner. mass execution unless they could produce the would “choke off any hope for peace”; “tak[e] together on policy including foreign policy and One reason developing a vaccine takes so murderer. To save the Jewish people, two in- Israel further from its democratic values”; and frighteningly assured Sanders “I promise you long is that researchers have to randomize nocent brothers, Lilianus and Pappus, stepped “undermine” U.S. support for Israel, especially I will not let you down.” test subjects into two groups. Group A gets the forward and falsely confessed to the crime. among youth. In fact, the real impediments to Senator Sanders’ anti-Israel history vaccine; group B gets a placebo. Researchers Only they were executed by the Romans, spar- peace are that the Arabs refuse to accept Israel includes: declaring that the U.S. should wait to see if more people from group B get sick ing the rest of the Jewish community. Many within any borders, and that the Palestinian divert military aid earmarked for Israel, to than those in group A. If that happens, it is a rabbinic authorities have permitted voluntary Authority continues to pay Arabs to murder instead give funds to Hamas-run Gaza (stated sign that the vaccine is effective. However, it self-sacrifice to rescue the broader community, Jews, and constantly glorifies Jew-killers. during Sanders’ speech at J Street’s confer- can take months before researchers get their based on Esther and the Talmudic praise for Furthermore, it is threats and language such ence); calling Israel’s prime minister “rac- answer because, in its simplest form, this kind these righteous brothers. as Biden’s AIPAC statement that undermines ist”—while refusing to condemn Palestinian of study depends on waiting for people to be On the other hand, other rabbinic authori- support for Israel. Authority (PA) dictator Mahmoud Abbas’s naturally exposed to the virus—which takes ties argued that although saving the com- Jews building homes isn’t “undemo- incitement of terror against Jews and Chris- even longer with social distancing measures munity is a very high value and some level of cratic.” Israel’s right to exercise sovereignty tians and payments to terrorists to murder in place. risk is acceptable to this end, these stories do over historic Jewish lands guaranteed to the Jews and Americans; employing hostile- To speed up things, an alternative is some- not prove that one who is not currently in any Jewish people under international law isn’t to-Israel staffers such as Israel-hater Linda thing called a “challenge study.” In a challenge danger may opt to risk his or her life for the “undemocratic.” Sarsour; legitimizing antisemitism by praising study, just like the traditional study above, sake of the community, since the brothers in It is Biden’s statements that are undemo- Jew-hating Ilhan Omar as “one of the greatest some people are given an experimental vac- Lod, and Esther, would have died along with cratic, and downright discriminatory. For people I know”; and repeatedly perpetrating cine and some are not—but unlike with the their community anyway. instance, under the human rights laws of false, anti-Israel blood libels that Israel killed traditional approach, everyone in a challenge This brings us back to the “challenge study.” the state where Biden attended Syracuse Law thousands of innocents in Gaza. study is deliberately exposed to the contagion. I believe that the lesson here is that it cer- School (New York), it is prohibited housing We urge Joe Biden to turn back from and Researchers then compare the two groups: the tainly would be permitted for a Jew to serve as discrimination to demand that Jews cannot abandon this divisive, anti-Israel, J Street- vaccine versus the control. Running a study in a participant in a challenge study associated live in any neighborhood. (See, e.g., N.Y. Exec. Sanders path. this manner could save months, and thousands with rapidly developing a vaccine for corona- Law, Art. 15, § 296.5.) Morton A. Klein is president of ZOA and if not millions of lives. However, deliberately virus, and indeed, would be a very pious act. It is moreover disgraceful that Biden em- Mark Levenson, Esq., is ZOA chairman. exposing people to the coronavirus involves This even according to the stricter opinion, risk: some may get very sick, and some may die. since the level of risk for those in such a study THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. How do Jewish law and values guide us in is relatively low—only young, healthy people this? When it comes to taking risks in general, would be accepted, and would receive careful ✡ ✡ ✡ CENTRAL FLORIDA’S INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICE ✡ ✡ ✡ Judaism obligates us to attempt to help those medical oversight—and because everyone in ISSN 0199-0721 Winner of 48 Press Awards Editor/Publisher in need, such as for instance jumping into a the world is at risk for contracting the coro- Jeffrey Gaeser river to save a drowning person. But the degree navirus; the participants were already at some

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The I love hiking there more than with our fellow Jews in Israel. between a kibbutz born edited the book and figures reader is left to ponder how anywhere else in Israel. Israelis and Zionists around One book to read that may as- secular Israeli high school prominently in numerous these young developed such Dov: How fortunate we are the world marked Yom HaZi- sist you to feel the depth of the girl and a religious Israeli letters from both writers. a profound closeness to these that we are privileged to be karon this year starting loss that so many Israelis feel soldier named Dov Indig, Many of the letters cen- regions so quickly and will soldiers in the IDF [Israel De- on the evening of April 27. on Yom HaZikaron is “Letters one of Israel’s fallen heroes. ter around Talia’s desire to gain a better understanding fense Forces], which defends Yom HaZikaron LeHalalei to Talia.” Indig fell in combat in the put the Jewish religion in of the pain these withdrawals the lives of Jews in Israel Ma’arakhot Israel ul’Nifge’ei Even though the words Yom Kippur War on Oct. 7, proper context in her life as have caused many Israelis. and throughout the world. Pe’ulot HaEivah, literally: in “Letters to Talia” were 1973, 11 Tishrei 5734, fight- a modern, thinking young Subjects such as religious Talia: We thought that our Memorial Day for the Fallen penned decades ago, start- ing the Syrian army on the woman and Dov’s answers to coercion and the importance amazing victory in the Six- Soldiers of Israel and Vic- ing in 1971, it is a must-read Golan Heights. Indig was a her questions plus descrip- of Israeli settlements are Day War would put an end tims of Terrorism is Israel’s human document. The He- dedicated yeshiva student tions of his army experiences. discussed at length. The to wars, and that the Arabs Memorial Day, and it is not brew edition of the book was and part of the Religious What makes the book so mov- depiction of their visits to would resign themselves to celebrated with barbecues, originally published in 2005 Zionist movement. Dov at- ing is not just the emotion that Sinai are vivid and leave the our existence, but it turns but with tears of ultimate and became hugely popular, tended the hesder yeshiva each writer attaches to their reader with a better sense of out that we made a mistake. grief. And as so many Israelis but somehow the book never program at Yeshivat Kerem search for truth but the com- what Israel lost when this Read the book for yourself, you mourn for their precious achieved the status it so richly B’Yavneh, near Ashdod, in mitment they demonstrate to vast area was surrendered will be moved by the experi- fallen fathers and mothers, deserves outside of Israel. which soldiers combine Is- the Jewish People, their love to Egypt at Camp David. ence. Grow close to Israel and sisters and brothers, sons and “Letters to Talia” is eerily rael’s requirement for military of the Land of Israel, and their Here are a few random quotes thank G-d for the blessing of daughters, and friends and reminiscent of “Self-Portrait service with advanced yeshiva faith in the State of Israel. that give a sense of the patrio- Israeli soldiers. comrades, it is not the same of a Hero: From the Let- based Talmud / Torah study. The topics tackled encom- tism of these young Israelis: Moshe Phillips is national for Jews outside of Israel. ters of Jonathan Netanyahu Kerem B’Yavneh was the first pass an entire range of issues Dov: I am happy to hear from director of Herut North Amer- We may all mourn together 1963–1976.” Both reveal the hesder program, today there from a then potential Israeli you that most of the kids hold ica’s U.S. division. Herut is on Tisha B’Av and at Yizkor on tragic loss that Israel has are nearly 70 such yeshivot. surrender of Sinai to women’s that it is forbidden to give up an international movement Yom Kippur but, tragically, it suffered by sacrificing its best In early October 2012, a book rights and from Israeli emi- Sinai and it is forbidden to be for Zionist pride and educa- is not the same observing Yom and brightest on the fields of release event was held in gration to the Diaspora to a tempted by the promises of the tion and is dedicated to the HaZikaron inside the Jewish battle for generations: nearly the Knesset for the English critique of Western culture. Arabs, who until today have ideals of pre-World War Two State as it is anywhere else. 24,000 soldiers were remem- edition and Prime Minister The lands liberated in 1967 broken all of them. Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotin- It is our task in the Diaspora bered on Yom Hazikaron this Netanyahu and other notables feature prominently in the Talia: I really envy you that sky. Herut’s website is https:// to bridge the miles and other year. “Letters to Talia” is a attended. Hagi Ben-Artzi, book. Deeply moving trips to you were on the Golan Heights. herutna.org. Let us remember what the survivors are unable to forget By Ruthie Blum and a return to the Jewish sad is the fact that the aging companionship is taking an ent, while others subsist on You have a blanket? You have homeland. survivors—most of whom are emotional toll. meager pensions or are actu- something to eat? Nobody’s (JNS)—Holocaust sur- In Israel, then, Yom Has- not adept at Internet commu- “I am lonely,” one survivor ally poverty-stricken. Some beating you?... [This] isn’t vivors do not need annual hoah is particularly signifi- nication—have been living told Channel 12 earlier this have large families, while so bad.” ceremonies to remind them cant. Not only was the Jewish in isolation for weeks as it is. month. “When I suffer from others have no one around to What is bad is the realiza- of the Nazi atrocities that state established in the wake One survivor told Channel this loneliness, I get a panic check in on them. And some tion that by next Holocaust they endured or of the family of the Holocaust, but many 12 on Monday evening that attack. I sit in a room with are more optimistic in their Remembrance Day, there will members that Adolf Hitler’s survivors fought and were the hardest part about being nobody to talk to. [Before], outlook than others. When be far fewer of the 189,500 henchmen slaughtered dur- killed in the 1948 War of alone is the lack of distrac- there was always someone asked, for example, whether survivors left in the Jewish ing World War II. No, those Independence. tion from his daily traumatic to talk to. I have friends. But the coronavirus closures state to tell their tales. memories are just as inked Their stories of unparal- memories. He explained that now... everyone stays inside evoke memories of the Holo- According to data released in their hearts and minds as leled heroism in spite of without people around, he their homes and I am alone... caust, a Buchenwald survivor this week by the Israeli Fi- the numbers tattooed on their unfathomable victimhood finds it harder to push away It’s very hard for me.” scoffed at the very suggestion. nance Ministry’s Holocaust forearms. are recounted each year at the ghosts of his past. Holocaust survivors are not “To compare that miserable Survivors Rights Authority, Indeed, it is not those the main ceremony at Yad One would think, then, that a uniform group, however. On situation to today’s?” he asked people who require the ad- Vashem in Jerusalem on the he and others like him would the contrary, some are afflu- rhetorically. “You’re home? Remember on page 15A monition “Never Forget,” eve of Yom Hashoah and at dread Yom Hashoah. In fact, but rather the rest of the other locations during the however, it is a day when the world. It is also a mantra for following 24 hours. On the day aging survivors—many of subsequent generations of itself, everyone in the country whom are widowed or have no A personal reaction to ‘One Jews to repeat and forge a stops in his/her tracks at the offspring—welcome contact collective memory of events sound of a siren to stand in with the outside world. It is that we did not experience silence for two minutes. an opportunity for them to World: Together at Home’ firsthand, but which require But not this year. meet one another, while being our ongoing attention. If, Thanks to coronavirus honored and, above all, heard. By Paul Jeser tions were, for the most part, advanced testing, a vaccine, that is, we are to recognize lockdowns—the emphasis of To such people, who tend well done. The three hosts and is a model for dealing and combat anti-Semitism which ostensibly is to protect to be in their 80s and 90s, the At first I was not going to (Stephen Colbert, Jimmy with this virus, this was, not in all its ideological—and the elderly—the ceremonies onset of COVID-19 has dealt watch this presentation be- Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel.) surprisingly considering the military—manifestations. are void of participants. With an especially severe blow. cause 1) I did not know most were actually funny (and, WHO’s bias, horrible in many The Knesset thus ruled in the exception of speeches by Aside from belonging to the of the participants, and 2) the thank goodness, did not ways. 1951 that Holocaust Remem- prominent politicians and highest-risk category where fact that it was in support of use their pulpits to bash the The outstanding: We es- brance Day would be marked performances by singers to corona is concerned (the first the WHO was a ‘turn off.’ president). It was simulcast pecially loved these two on the 27th of the Hebrew empty halls, all commemora- Israeli to die of the virus, on However, the fact that it all over the world—very presentations: month of Nissan, which falls tions and survivor testimo- March 20, was 88-year-old dealt with the Coronavirus impressive! • Elton John—“I’m Still between Passover and Israel nies have been held online and Aryeh Even, a survivor from and that it was simulcast on • To watch the full 2 hour Standing”: https://youtu.be/ Independence Day—two cel- televised. Hungary), their inability to the three major broadcast production: https://youtu.be/ NCLagU-dr9A ebrations of freedom, victory What makes this especially go outside for fresh air and networks and streamed on- j0_4DuglJkQ • Celine Dion, Andrea Bo- line all over the world was • Article which includes celli, Lady Gaga, Lang Lang, enough of an influence to get links to many of the presen- John Legend perform “The me to watch it. And I’m glad tations: https://www.timeso- Prayer”: https://youtu.be/ in fact they are asking for I did—IT WAS JUST OUT- fisrael.com/top-global-musi- SYJCYr1I-Sk Letters To The Editor cians-kick-off-all-star-event- Watch it. You will be im- We are a diverse community and we welcome your funds for helping individual STANDING!—with one major fighting-covid-19/ pressed and inspired! letters and viewpoints. The views and opinions expressed Palestinians. reservation—see below. The bad: Supporting and Paul Jeser lives in Los Ange- in the opinion pieces and letters published in The Heri- The COVID-19 virus does The good, the bad, the raising funds for the WHO! les, Calif. This is his own per- tage are the views of the authors, and do not necessarily not recognize borders or ugly... and the outstand- The ugly: No Israel! Con- sonal review and has nothing reflect the views and opinions of The Heritage Florida check points. 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Thus supporting COVID-19 helps Israel too the Palestinians to combat Dear Editor: certainly recognize that Mr. COVID-19, is also by default In the 17 April 2020 edi- Flatow has many issues with helping Israel and its citizens tion of the Heritage Florida certain policies of J Street, it in the fight against this Jewish News in the article is short sighted to complain dreadful pandemic. by Stephen M. Flatow (“J about asking support to help Edward E. A. Bromberg Street’s line: Virus, shmirus; the Palestinians avoid or at Orlando let’s focus on the Palestin- least minimize the effect of Please note that these com- ians”) he takes J Street to COVID-19. He implies that J ments represent my point of task for advocating help to Street is asking that the U.S. view and are not necessarily the Palestinians to combat the supply funds to Hamas and the those of organizations that I COVID-19 pandemic. While I Palestinian Authority, when am associated with. PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 1, 2020 What’s A COMPREHENSIVE American Jews feel less safe COMMUNITY LIGHT Happening CALENDAR SHABBAT CANDLES AT For inclusion in the What’s Happening Calendar, copy must be sent on sepa- now than a decade ago rate sheet and clearly marked for Calendar. Submit copy via: e-mail (news@ MAY 1 orlandoheritage.com); mail (P.O. Box 300742, Fern Park, FL 32730-0742); 7:43 p.m. By Jackson Richman The survey was conducted that a person wearing a yar- fax (407-831-0507); or drop it by the office (207 O’Brien Rd., Ste. 101, Fern MAY 8 by leading public opinion and mulke (kipah) or other public Park) Deadline is Wednesday noon, 10 days prior to publication. 7:47 p.m. (JNS)—Nearly two-thirds data analytics firm YouGov display of Judaism would be of American Jews believe in January 2020, prior to the physically assaulted or ver- MORNING AND EVENING MINYANS that they are less safe today outbreak of the coronavirus bally harassed on the street (Please note, because of the coronavirus, all minyans have been canceled.) than a decade ago, accord- pandemic. It was released or in a public place. Chabad of South Orlando—Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Saturday, ing to a new survey by the ahead of Yom Hashoah, or Meanwhile, 14 percent of 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m., 407-354-3660. Anti-Defamation League Holocaust Remembrance Day, those polled know someone Congregation Ahavas Yisrael—Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 9 on Jewish encounters with on Tuesday. who has been physically a.m., 407-644-2500. anti-Semitism in the United “We recognize the reality attacked because they are Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona—Monday, 8 a.m.; Thursday, 8 a.m., 904- States. on the ground has changed Jewish. 672-9300. The survey found that 54 dramatically for Jewish com- Additionally, 22 percent of Congregation Ohev Shalom—Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-298-4650. percent of American Jews munities, as it has for all com- respondents are affiliated with GOBOR Community Minyan at Jewish Academy of Orlando—Monday—Friday, 7:45 a.m.—8:30 have either experienced or munities, in recent months; a Jewish institution that has a.m. witnessed an incident they this survey offers a snapshot been vandalized, damaged Temple Israel—Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-647-3055. deem was motivated by anti- of a window in time prior to or defaced because of anti- Semitism, while 63 percent of the coronavirus outbreak Semitism. FRIDAY, MAY 1 Jews say their communities that has so altered our daily Moreover, some 27 percent Ahavas Yisrael—Kabbalat, 30 minutes before sundown. are “less safe” than they were lives,” said Greenblatt. “We of Jews have employed at a decade ago. are also assessing the state of least one strategy to avoid SATURDAY, MAY 2 “Our tracking has shown anti-Semitism in the current being targeted, with the most Torah Portion—Parashat Aharei Mot-Kedoshim: Leviticus 16:1-20:27; Haftarah: Amos 9:7-15. that lethal and nonlethal anti- environment and its impact common strategy (12 percent) Semitic attacks have been on on the Jewish community, being avoiding markers of SUNDAY, MAY 3 the rise in recent years, and and will have additional data Jewish identification, includ- The Roth Family JCC is temporarily closed, but will be slowly opening its doors. Because of now we’ve also found that to share in the weeks and ing not using one’s last name, COVID-19 quarantine, Orange County is in lockdown with only essential businesses open, American Jews are deeply months ahead.” or not wearing a Jewish star and residents of Seminole County are under voluntary Stay-At-Home quarantine with only concerned for their personal Survey does not address or identifying as Jewish on a essential businesses open. safety and their families’ and role of anti-Israel attacks, social-media site. communities’ security in a rhetoric, violence Finally, 11 percent respond- FRIDAY, MAY 8 way that they haven’t been In the survey, 49 percent ed having trouble sleeping Ahavas Yisrael—Kabbalat, 30 minutes before sundown. in more than a decade,” said of Jews say they have heard or concentrating or feeling ADL CEO and national direc- anti-Semitic comments, slurs anxious after experiencing tor Jonathan Greenblatt. “It or threats targeting others, online hate or harassment. is a sad state of affairs that in while 21 percent have them- In 2019, American Jews Quote of the Week the face of widespread anxiety selves been directly targeted were barraged with news “There is no better exercise for the heart than reaching down and helping to lift about anti-Semitic attacks, by anti-Semitic remarks. about violent anti-Jew- someone up.” some Jewish Americans are An estimated 14 percent of ish attacks, including a — Bernard Melzer modifying their routines and Jews have experienced anti- Shabbat-morning shoot- avoiding public displays of Semitic harassment online. ing at Chabad of Poway in Judaism to minimize the risk Roughly half of those sur- of being targeted.” veyed said they were worried Safe on page 15A

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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 1, 2020 PAGE 7A Jewish burial societies face difficult choices By Shira Hanau older, but also the most sacred this process a “virtual tahara,” mitzvah, commandment— a simulated way to honor the (JTA)—Sometime in that of giving honor to the dead while allowing the mem- March, the Chesed Shel dead. For those who believe bers of the chevra kadisha to Emes Jewish burial society in in an afterlife, the tahara stay safely at home. Brooklyn added a new respon- process is considered criti- The decision to halt all in- sibility to the sacred tasks its cal for preparing the body to person taharot was a difficult 700 volunteers had committed pass through to the afterlife. one, Frank said. When the to uphold: paperwork. And unlike a Passover Seder, chevra kadisha met March Bodies were piling up be- which happens every year, 15 to discuss how to move cause of the coronavirus pan- the opportunity to perform forward, schools were already demic, and helping funeral the burial rites for any given closed and Pennsylvania Gov. homes with their clerical work person arises only once. Tom Wolf would declare a had grown just as essential to “We want so much to state of emergency the fol- ensuring respectful Jewish continue to perform this lowing day. funeral rites as washing and mitzvah,” said Malke Frank, “There were those who Members of Chesed Shel Emes, a burial society based in Brooklyn, transport a body for guarding bodies before they a member of an independent, were adamantly opposed to burial at the cemetery it operates in Woodridge, N.Y. were buried. nondenominational chevra performing taharot and those Between Purim on March kadisha that has created a who, with proper PPE, would In fact, there may be some tell families of the deceased and prayer,” he said, referring 10 and Passover, which ended social distancing version of continue,” Frank said, using risk from contact with the that they would not perform to the physical preparations last week, the burial society the tahara ritual. the initials for proper protec- body of a COVID-19 victim. a tahara for their loved ones. of the body and the spiritual performed about 500 purifica- Until the pandemic, when tive equipment. A medical study published “We come from earth importance of the process. tion rituals, known as taha- the members of Frank’s burial But within a few days, a last week reported that a and return to earth,” said “When we teach this stuff, rot—five times the number society, the New Chevra Kadi- nondenominational organiza- worker in Thailand became Berger, who noted the we teach that the rituals are it handled during an average sha of Greater Pittsburgh, tion providing education and infected with the virus after importance of the tahara for the person, for their soul, month before the pandemic. came together to perform the training to chevra kadishas having contact with the process to the deceased’s for their family, for the com- Their workplaces closed, purification rite, they gath- formally recommended end- corpse of a COVID-19 vic- transition into the afterlife. munity, for the people who are members of the burial society, ered in a room at the funeral ing in-person taharot. The tim. The authors suggested “We try to bury them as doing it. You can’t separate or chevra kadisha, donned home. They began by asking chevra kadisha fell in line, that morgue and funeral soon as possible because we it out.” protective gear and extended the deceased for forgiveness donating the PPE they had home workers take similar believe that once a person For the chevra kadisha in their shifts to keep up with before pouring water over already purchased to a nursing precautions to those taken passes away, the body wants Pittsburgh, performing the the need. the body and reciting verses home and a hospital. by medical workers, such as to return to the earth.” virtual tahara from home “Since people are quar- and prayers. They finished by David Zinner, the executive wearing personal protective It is because of this emo- has given participants a new antined, they can sit in the dressing the body in white director of that organization, equipment and disinfecting tional imperative that other perspective on the ritual. funeral homes and just do burial shrouds, placing it in Kavod v’Nichum, said the cur- facilities. chevra kadishas have con- “We’re doing it on our own, one after another,” said Rabbi the coffin and again asking for rent crisis has little precedent. Berger of Chesed Shel Emes tinued their work amid the we’re by ourselves and that Mayer Berger, the chevra kadi- forgiveness for any mistakes Comparing the coronavirus said his chevra kadisha had pandemic. Some have taken to in itself is pretty powerful,” sha’s director of operations. they may have made during pandemic to the AIDS epi- consulted with the New York working in groups of two peo- Frank said. But should they? the tahara process. demic and more recent out- City Medical Examiner’s office ple to minimize interactions, The chevra kadisha has At a time when nearly all Now they meet over Zoom breaks, Zinner pointed to an and were told that the risk while others have changed the maintained its practice of other aspects of communal with a screen set up where important difference. of infection from a corpse process to pouring water over having participants reflect Jewish life have shut down the body lies. Using pitchers “In each of those, we weren’t is small. a body bag rather than directly on their experiences with or moved online to stop the of water and empty bowls worried about the people who “Saving lives is more im- onto the body to limit the the rituals after they are spread of the disease, chevra set up next to their home were alive, we were worried portant than doing taharas,” physical interaction among complete. kadishas face difficult deci- computers, they pour water about the contagiousness of Berger said. “If I’m putting members of the group with “What people have said sions about how to perform from one vessel into another the disease of the person who myself really at risk, it’s a the body. is that it’s as powerful as the rituals safely—or at all. while reciting the verses and had died,” Zinner said. “Here different story, but here it’s “No two groups do it exactly when they’ve done their first At stake is not just the visualizing pouring the water it’s something different: We’re not the case.” the same way,” Zinner said. tahara,” Frank said. “The health of chevra kadisha over the body itself. worried about the people who Berger said it would be “It’s a really interesting whole experience takes on a members, many of whom are The chevra kadisha calls are alive spreading the disease.” emotionally traumatic to blend of practical and spiritual different level of holiness.”

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It’s an tales of those who left ultra- out last week, Esty keeps important and engrossing Orthodoxy, such as Shulem searching for her happi- autobiographical work. Deen, Jericho Vincent and ness—in clandestine piano “Unorthodox” has in- Abby Stein, who has a small lessons, in a marriage that she spired an incredible new role in the show. hopes will bring her freedom Netflix miniseries by the same Haas brings a powerhouse (spoiler: it does not), and then name. Starring Shira Haas of performance, and Esty’s by escaping from Brooklyn to “Shtisel,” this is reverent and character is powerful and Berlin, where her ex-Hasid beautiful television. specific. Yet it’s a universal mother lives. While she finds a Haas plays Esther “Esty” tale found in the stories of new community of musicians Shapiro, a woman struggling Hasids who have gone “off in the German capital, and to find her place in the same the path”—those who feel a way to follow her love for Brooklyn Satmar community like a square peg in a round music, it’s safe to say there is where Feldman grew up. Like hole in their restrictive and no way to neatly tie this story in a happy-ever-after knot. Anika Molnar/Netflix There is no place in the world Shira Haas stars in “Unorthodox,” a new Netflix miniseries, with Amit Rahav. that will be a square hole for this square peg. Just a place It’s striking to see a show wedding shows Esty dipping how to be a mother because Bat Mitzvah that perhaps feels a little less in which Yiddish is front and in the ritual bath, impatient of it. It is never addressed in painful, a little more right. center. I found myself admir- and giddy with excitement. the show, but undergoing the Paige Isabel Rosenblatt Many do find their place ing the show for its beauty, As a viewer, the scene felt journey to find her own hap- and happiness within ultra- musicality and warmth. One even more shocking than piness is not only something Paige Isabel Rosen- Orthodoxy: It offers them scene that features a song in the lovemaking scenes of the that Esty does for herself, but blatt, daughter of Jessica faith, community and com- Yiddish is breathtaking. And two—they entail no nudity for her future children and and Seth Rosenblatt of forting rituals. But for those the choice of Yiddish helped but can be stomach-churning their well-being. She does not Altamonte Springs, Fla., who grow to feel out of place, engross me in the community because of Esty’s discomfort. want them to grow up with an will be called to the Torah the exit is arduous and in- being portrayed—a complex But intimacy and sacred- unrealized, angry or absent as a bat mitzvah on Aug. credibly painful and, in some one, like all communities, ness are communicated in parent, as she did. 22 at the Congregation of ways, never truly complete. with villains and heroes and the show, and nothing feels “Unorthodox” is a beautiful Reform Judaism. “Unorthodox” portrays this everything in between. salacious. show, and Esty is a magnifi- Paige is in the seventh journey with emotional elo- Esty’s husband, Yanky, Yanky is distraught when cent character. Her harrowing grade at Teague Middle quence. played by Rahav, is a par- Esty leaves him without say- coming-of-age tale is univer- School where she is a mem- If you are worried that ticularly strong and complex ing a word. And he follows her sal, and I feel like many of us, ber of the band, Bridge this show contains a two- character. His love and devo- to Berlin—a complex place for religious and secular, will see Club and National Junior dimensional portrayal of tion—his desperation for the Satmar community. For ourselves in certain moments Honor Society. ultra-Orthodoxy, let me as- her to remain with him—is Esty it’s where her mother of the portrayal. Her hobbies and inter- suage your fears. Sure, unlike heartwrenching. sought freedom from her A show this profoundly hu- ests include art, tennis, reading, spending time with “Shtisel,” the Israeli show Yanky offers to love Esty, community, and where she man is exactly what we need friends, and playing the tuba. about haredi Jews, this show quirks and all, and at first she is comes looking for her own. now, in days where we all feel She is also a member of the Girl Scouts and Junior centers on someone who thrilled by the concept. On their But the Satmar community so lonely and so detached from GORFTY. rejects their religious com- wedding day, the exhilaration was started in Europe and re- our communities—and so Sharing in the family’s simcha will be Paige’s sisters, munity. But the portrayal of on Esty’s face is intoxicating— established itself in New York scared that things will be this Laney and Erin; grandparents, Pam and Eric Foxman of Orthodoxy is handled with you see that she truly believes in the wake of World War II, on way forever. “Unorthodox” re- Longwood, Fla., and Ed and Tanya Rosenblatt of Atlanta, utmost sensitivity and care. that in marriage she will find the ashes and trauma of the minds us that life is a constant Ga.; as well as aunts, uncles and cousins from Florida, For a start, the show is part- freedom. But it all sours as the Holocaust. The show really search, that happiness is not Georgia, Texas and Pennsylvania. ly in Yiddish—a novel choice couple work to consummate drives home that point—in always the end goal, and that that feels very respectful and their marriage. Esty feels op- a way that sometimes feels a sometimes you just have to very right. Both Haas and her pressed by her husband’s sexual bit didactic, but still powerful. work through some—pardon co-star, Amit Rahav, learned desire and her physical inability Motherhood is an impor- my French—real tough shit the Jewish tongue spoken by to return it. tant part of the show—both before you come through on the Satmar community for The marriage scenes are the void that Esty’s absent the other side. the show. It was difficult for the most intimate. A journey mother created as well as Es- This story originally ap- both actors, entailing hours to the mikvah before the ty’s fear that she will not know peared on Kveller. 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So is Danny’s sister, my cousin GAIL with hooked noses on top of money bags. Participants have MARCUS of Boynton Beach!) also dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan and Islamist ter- One for the road... Sudoku (see page 14A for solution) rorists. Again this year they were prepared to use stereotypical Monty meets up with his friend Cyril in the Park. cartoonish representations of Jews and Muslims. “Nu Cyril, why the glum face?” asks Monty. “It’s not like Commenting on the decision, WJC President Ambassador you to look so sad.” RONALD S. LAUDER said, ‘I would like to thank UNESCO and “Oy Vay iz meer, do I have a problem,” replies Cyril. “The its Director-General, Audrey Azoulay, as well as the committee Credit Crunch is killing me—I just have to raise $200,000 members, for taking a principled stance against anti-Semitism in the next fortnight or else my 20-year-old business is and ensuring the removal of the Aalist Carnival from the Cul- doomed.” tural Heritage List. This list is meant to preserve traditions, “Don’t worry, my friend,” says Monty, “You can easily over- for future generations. Parading larger-than-life puppets of come your problem.” hooked-nose Jews through the streets of European cities is one “How can I do that?” asks Cyril. we should soon forget. There is no place for this sort of hateful “Here’s what you do,” replies Monty. “Go out into the streets symbolism in the 21st century. He continued: ‘Although the and sell 200,000 shoe-laces for $1 each.” carnival will still proceed, despite the delisting, I call on the “But I don’t have any shoe-laces,” says Cyril. organizers to distance themselves from this hateful imagery, “Oy, then you have a problem,” says Monty. if only for the sake of ensuring that their children will grow (Actually he is lucky the coronavirus didn’t shut his busi- up in a more tolerant world. ness down!) Slivered Almond Toffee made from leftover matzah By Myrna Ossin Grease a 12” sheet of parchment. In a small pan, stir the ingredients until mixed. Cook on medium-high heat, stir- Passover is over, but I still will be using up my leftover ring constantly, until the oil begins to separate. Cook 1-2 Matzah meal, potato starch and other Passover items. Matzah minutes more until the almonds are coated with a caramel meal is a great binder for hamburger, meatloaf, salmon cakes, color. Remove from heat and carefully pour the separated and more. I make the vegetarian Lasagna, Matzana, all year. oil into a heat resistant cup. Use care. The mixture will be Make potato pancakes as a side dish or for breakfast or use very hot. Pour the mixture onto the parchment and press the starch as a thickener like cornstarch for sauces and stews. the nuts into one layer with the back of a spoon. Immediately Finely crunch the Matzah squares in the food processor for a cut into pieces before it cools or leave it in a block to break streusel topping for an apple crisp or as bread crumbs to coat irregular pieces to top ice cream, yogurt, berries or cakes. fish. Use your imagination to create your own special recipes. The empty pan can be filled with hot water and allowed to Here is a recipe to enhance your desserts or enjoy as a treat. sit so that the sugar will dissolve for easy cleaning. This Slivered Almond Toffee, Parve and Kosher for Passover is not a recipe for young children to cook, but will be an 1/4 cup brown sugar enjoyable to eat. 1/4 tsp. salt Myrna Ossin is the author of “What to do with Your Leftover 1/2 cup slivered almonds Matzah, the Fifth Question, the Guide to a Perfect Seder”and 1/3 cup vegetable oil is available on Amazon. PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 1, 2020 Day 23: Weather or not? By Carin M. Smilk men?) after an unseasonably That, too, should have been temperate March. a hint. That something was (JNS)—What’s with this Last month, we had a off. That something was very weather, anyway? tornado warning here. For wrong. I mean, the majority of us about 15 minutes, the winds I don’t particularly like have accepted our lives as in- pounded our brick house and talking about the weather. It door cats right now, but a little branches flew as we watched makes me feel old. I love older sun wouldn’t hurt, especially the trees sway from the people, and I love listening to in the U.S. Northeast, where kitchen window. We go from them rattle off what they had as of today, the highest cases room to room, view to view. for lunch in-between weather of COVID-19 can be found in That was on the heels of and traffic reports. I’m just New York, New Jersey, Mas- another tornado at the end of not there yet. sachusetts and Pennsylvania. October, when we got a warn- Or maybe I am. Because I’m not thrilled to be part of ing at midnight so ominous that’s a big activity at this this group, but that’s what it is. that my husband grabbed point. We’re all looking out Since I work remotely in the kids from their beds and the window, physically and my basement directly under brought them down to the metaphorically, until this a window, I theoretically basement, where I was work- coronavirus hot point passes, monitor the weather around ing. That might have been a which we all hope, though the clock (as well as notice the sign: early room-sharing. don’t really know, it will. cobwebs that start to gather Lately, every night at April’s nearly over. We want at the corners of said window around midnight, I crack the to be out in May, picnicking in … does that really mean that storm door open and listen. June and playing Frisbee on a spider owns them?) Listen to nothing. It’s the the beach in July. We would This afternoon, thunder quietest I’ve ever heard the be thrilled if our kids were unnerved the skies with its streets near me and maybe at camp in August. And then Sean Savage loud claps and down came the streets anywhere at all. On back to school in September. Snow in the Boston suburbs over the weekend of April 17-19, 2020. rain (again) after a wet, warm, Sunday night, there was a Even though, deep down, snow-free winter. frost warning (this is mid- we’re really not planning for sun’s supposed to shine. The coats back out. After dinner, Carin M. Smilk is the man- Of course, this past week- April, people). I keep check- any of that. high is estimated to be 57. The we’ll gather some wood and aging editor of JNS. end in New England, it ac- ing on my four reddish-pink As for us, I just checked the low—get this—is expected to kindling for a fire pit. I’ll need This Reporter’s Notebook tually did snow. Kids were tulips, in full bloom now, but weather online. It’s forecast- go down to about 36 degrees to buy marshmallows. will appear starting on March social distancing between whose buds popped out at the ing rain for the next week, at night. In fact, I’m deeming them 16 until the end of the month mini-snowmen (why always end of February. except for tomorrow, when the So I’m getting the winter essential. (or when schools reopen). Israeli falafel shop owner cries during TV interview and becomes a symbol of coronavirus’ economic toll give them. I have nothing to seen crying like this,” he told you. We’re going to help give them to eat. I don’t know reporter Noga Nir-Neeman. everyone.” what to do.” “I love this country. I’m Netanyahu posted video of Carmi had reopened his 56 years old and I still do the call on Twitter. shop on Sunday, believing the reserve duty. Carmi responded gratefully relaxing of some regulations “My whole life, I’ve paid and said he did not blame the to control the coronavirus national insurance, income prime minister for the eco- crisis allowed him to do so. tax. Everything, everything nomic struggle. He suggested But he was soon shut down by on time.” that Netanyahu’s advisers “are police, who said he could only Nir-Neeman was later not telling you what’s going offer delivery service. caught by her own camera on with the people.” But as a one-man op- crew wiping away tears as she In a follow-up interview eration, Carmi said he had no stood in the store, as Carmi, with Channel 13, Carmi said ability to make deliveries. And also wiping tears, prepared that he received a call from a besides, he said: “It’s falafel. her a falafel. stranger who had seen him Falafel has to be eaten hot “I can’t,” she says, her voice give free falafels to a group of and fresh.” trailing off from under a pink soldiers at his store a couple He said he had not been facemask as she runs from months ago. The caller asked able to reach any govern- the store. if he could at least pay for ment official to discuss a Since the interview was their meals in an effort to Yuval Carmi’s story resonated across the country. possible small business loan widely shared, strangers have help him. Carmi declined, from the government, saying reached out offering Carmi saying it was his mitzvah, By Marcy Oster as a symbolic encapsulation wallet during the Channel it is “impossible” to reach assistance. The day after, he or good deed. of the economic toll that the 13 interview. “I don’t have a anybody. Carmi said anyone also received a phone call from “I thank the people of Israel. JERUSALEM (JTA)—An Is- coronavirus is taking on small shekel in my pocket.” following the news “would Prime Minister Benjamin But I did not turn to the people raeli falafel shop owner broke businesses. He added: “I’m embar- think we’ve been given mil- Netanyahu. of Israel for money,” Carmi down in tears in a television “Look at my wallet, it’s rassed to face my children, to lions. Not a shekel. Nothing. “I saw you yesterday and said. “I don’t want donations. interview on Sunday that empty,” said the shop owner, tell them I have nothing I can Nothing.” you touched my heart,” Ne- I just want to make an honor- resonated across the country Yuval Carmi, pulling out his buy for you. I have nothing to “It’s not nice for me to be tanyahu said. “And I’ll help able living.” Jewish nonprofits are struggling—how can donors help? By Ben Sales centers and other groups is reanimating a longstand- loans to Jewish organizations simple and straightforward, education, leadership and like college Hillels will need ing debate about the best way on the brink of going broke. but they are anything but,” engagement, though a press NEW YORK (JTA)—In the that much or more to make to support America’s robust Among them is Krakow, Andres Spokoiny, CEO of the release did not provide fur- weeks after it became clear it through the pandemic, infrastructure of Jewish who has called for private Jewish Funders Network, ther detail on those fields. that the coronavirus pan- which has already caused nonprofits. Should collec- Jewish foundations and Jew- which convenes Jewish do- The fund will provide demic would spark a lasting widespread layoffs and fur- tive, communal fundraising ish federations, which act as nors and foundations, wrote short-term loans to organi- economic crisis, the Jewish loughs at Jewish community bodies like Jewish federations collective charities for Jew- in a recent essay in the publi- zations to meet payroll and world’s leading funder group centers across the United have responsibility for dis- ish communities across the cation eJewish Philanthropy. maintain operations in the put together a memo with States. bursing philanthropy across country, to create a loan fund “As leaders it’s our re- next three to six months, and some back-of-the-envelope On Monday, a coalition of the Jewish world? Or should of $1 billion. sponsibility to accept real- will also award grants that do projections for how much large Jewish philanthropic the wide array of private “There’s a need to know ity and focus on practical, not have to be repaid. Partici- Jewish nonprofits stood to foundations pledged $80 Jewish family foundations with confidence that we can smaller-scale, sector-specific pating foundations include lose. million to shore up strug- each give separately to their keep one eye on the horizon solutions that can work,” the Jim Joseph Foundation, The tally: at least $650 gling Jewish organizations. causes? and know that there’s a day Spokoiny wrote. “The aggre- Maimonides Fund, Charles million, according to the But now, with it becoming Proponents of the network after,” he said. gate of all those will be surely and Lynn Schusterman Fam- internal document from the increasingly clear that the of Jewish federations, which But some in the world larger than any central fund ily Foundation and others. Jewish Federations of North world will not snap back to act as collective funding of Jewish philanthropy are and will produce a richer and “We have also seen first- America, which was based its former shape anytime bodies for local Jewish com- already raising questions more vibrant result.” hand the acute challenges on estimates from several soon, that number appears munities across the country, about whether a centrally The $80 million fund, an- Jewish organizations across American Jewish umbrella to be a fraction of what will have suggested a single administered megafund is nounced Monday, appears the country are facing,” read organizations, such as the be needed. Doron Krakow, massive pool of coronavirus the best strategy to shepherd to attempt a third way. It’s a statement from the funders. Foundation for Jewish Camp CEO of the JCC Association philanthropic assistance, to geographically and program- a coalition between the “While this fund alone and the JCC Association of of North America, told JTA be managed centrally. No matically diverse organiza- Jewish Federations of North cannot address all of those North America. The docu- earlier this month that the overarching plan has been tions through the crisis. America and eight large challenges, we believe that ment was produced in March need would exceed $800 mil- put forward yet, but the Jew- “A ‘Billion Dollar Fund,’ Jewish philanthropic foun- investing together in these and obtained by the Jewish lion if camps have to close for ish Telegraphic Agency has a ‘Jewish New Deal’ [or] a dations. Called the Jewish vital pillars of Jewish life will Telegraphic Agency. the summer and a recession learned that several leading ‘COVID czar’ are fine and Community Response and help ensure a stronger future The document says Jewish drags into a second year. funders are working to form well-intentioned ideas that Impact Fund, it will prioritize camps, schools, community The sudden financial blow a fund that would provide look good on paper and seem organizations that focus on Donors on page 11A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 1, 2020 PAGE 11A OBITUARIES Central Florida Synagogues

VERA AMAR Orlando, with Rabbi David and Leah relocated to the Orlando Weekday Morning Minyan (Conservative/Egalitarian), services Monday- Vera Amar, age 64, of Val- Kay officiating. Clermont area. In addition dosta, Ga., and formerly of Or- Arrangements entrusted to to his wife, Stan is survived Friday 7:45 a.m. (9 a.m.—national holidays); 2nd floor Chapel—Jewish Academy of Orlando; lando, passed away peacefully Beth Shalom Memorial Cha- by his sons, Mark (Cindy) 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. For information call 407-298-4650. at her home on Wednesday, pel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando FL Magath of Winter Garden Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. April 22, 2020. She was born 32810, 407-599-1180, www. and Bruce (Hillary) Magath of JewishCelebration.org; 407-479-8377. in Satu Mare, Romania, to the bethshalommemorialchapel. New Jersey. He was the proud late Same and goldie Pearl com. grandfather of Derek, Nicole, Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, Lax. Vera was an educator Alex, Jordan and Ryan; and 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. for many years, receiving STANLEY MAGATH great-grandfather of Henry. Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- her master’s in psychology Stanley Magath, (Zal- He is also survived by his 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. from Monmouth University in man ben Avraham Yitzhak sister, Esther. New Jersey. She was the wife v’Sarah), age 87, of Clermont, Due to COVID-19, a private Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. of Mark Amar, who survives passed away on Wednesday, family interment was held jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; her. In 1994, they relocated April 22, 2020, at South Lake at Ohev Shalom Cemetery, Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. to Orlando from New Jersey Hospital in Clermont. Stanley Orlando, with Orrin Krublitt Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, and joined Congregation was born on Nov. 15, 1932, in and Cantor Doug Ramsay Ohev Shalom. They recently Brooklyn, New York, to the officiating. 321-777-2770. moved to Valdosta to be closer late Abraham Jack and Sarah The family requests that Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- to family. Kaplan Magath. He was a high memorial contributions be 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat In addition to her husband, school graduate and served in made to the American Dia- services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. Vera is survived by her sons, the United States Army. On betes Association, www.dia- Adam (Karli) of Lake Park, Jan. 27, 1952, in Brooklyn, betes.org. Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. Ga., and David (Sarah) of he married the former Leah Arrangements entrusted to betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. Lake Placid, Fla.; and three Franklin, his wife of over 68 Beth Shalom Memorial Cha- Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. grandchildren. years who survives him. Stan pel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando FL congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Due to COVID-19, a private was the owner/operator of a 32810, 407-599-1180, www. family interment was held retail electronics business bethshalommemorialchapel. Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; at Ohev Shalom Cemetery, in New Jersey. In 2017, he com. Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; Donors Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. Jewish philanthropy. Many The foundation’s leader- Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, From page 10A Jewish family foundations ship understands that $10 Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. for American Jewry in the give to their local Jewish million is not nearly enough Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. months and years to come,” federations and, in turn, to fill camps’ anticipated Beyond that fund, ex- sit on their boards or have needs—that would take bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. perts in American Jewish influence over where the about $150 million, the Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation philanthropy say that large federation money goes. foundation estimates. Still, holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. individual donors and fam- “The golden rule of, the Sarah Eisinger, who heads com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. ily foundations are likely to size of your donation impacts the foundation’s camp initia- eschew putting their money the size of your involvement, tive, said she hoped the $10 Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; in a giant pool. While federa- is very relevant to the world of million dollars would set an www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. tions used to dominate the Jewish federations,” said Bar example and give the camps Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., Jewish giving scene, they Nissim, who is also deputy a measure of hope. Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. and their ethos of collec- director of the Ruderman “It’s only one interven- tive giving have ceded more Family Foundation. “The tion,” she said. “It’s only one Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; ground to private founda- more you give, the more you slice of a much larger pie. www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th tions, as large donors have can have a say and become But the early impact of that Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. become more involved in the involved.” money and the psychologi- Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. causes they fund and more No matter how the debate cal lift of a shot in the arm particular about how their is settled—or whether it is at will fuel a sense of optimism Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- money is spent. all—it’s clear that funders and a possibility to raise 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. “If we’ve seen any trend in must move quickly if they resources.” Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- philanthropy over the course are to blunt the effects of The foundation moved 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. of the last number of decades, the pandemic, which has quickly in part because its it’s to targeted giving,” said rendered at least 20 million president, Winnie Grinspoon, Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for Jack Wertheimer, a professor Americans jobless in just realized that hewing to long- services and holiday schedules. of American Jewish history four weeks. standing giving practices, Congregation Sinai (C/R), 1200 West Broad Street, Groveland; 352-243-5353; congre- at the Jewish Theological Other Jewish philanthro- or waiting for them to be gation-sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. Seminary. “Donors are leery pies have also started doling renegotiated, would deepen of giving large amounts out funds. New York’s UJA- the financial devastation that Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- of their philanthropy to a Federation has announced is already unfolding. Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv pot that will be divided up, $43 million in grants to “This is an unprecedented Please call for times. not according to their own social service organizations, situation, as we all know, and Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- wishes but according to the JCCs and individuals in need. the rules and restrictions directives of some body that And the Harold Grinspoon we might operate under at Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. would make the decision. Foundation, which usu- a normal time go out the Temple Beth El (R) / Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-675- Federations obviously have ally gives approximately $3 window,” Grinspoon said. 6615 / 386-252-3097; Friday Shabbat Service 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. suffered from this.” million annually to Jewish She added, “This is the But there’s still interplay camps, has announced an moment to give boldly, to Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. between large donors and additional $10 million in go beyond our normal giving Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat federations, said Hanna matching grants to help structure and limitations for service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. Shaul Bar Nissim, a visiting camps survive whatever fi- those who are able to reach Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. scholar at Brandeis Univer- nancial damage this coming deep into their pockets, so we sity who focuses on American summer may bring. don’t look back with regret.” mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, 10:00 a.m. Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. Seeking Jewish Gestational Carrier Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. MUST be able to provide proof of religion. If GC is Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. married, must be married to non-Jewish spouse. Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. Single, divorced or widowed is fine. templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by Minimum of 1 prior full-term pregnancy. You should Torah study. Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road be 21-40 yrs old, & have a strong support system. 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 Healthy, kind, communicative & understanding. p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. Reproductive Possibilities is an agency that has shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, helped to create families for over 2 decades, contact 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, us to find out more & join us in a wonderful journey. 7:30 p.m. Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. You can call 1-888-363-9457 tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. or email [email protected] (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 1, 2020 The real history behind HBO’s ‘The Plot Against America’

By Lior Zaltzman trying to win the Orteig Prize, journals, suggest that he was which was being offered by the both a white supremacist and (JTA)—The new TV show American hotelier Raymond an anti-Semite. based on Philip Roth‘s novel Ortieg to whomever could In 1939, he wrote in Read- “The Plot Against America,” complete the first nonstop er’s Digest: “We can have helmed by David Simon, the flight from New York to peace and security only so Jewish creator of “The Wire,” Paris. The award came with long as we band together to has premiered on HBO and $25,000—the equivalent to preserve that most priceless made a splash with critics about $370,000 today. possession, our inheritance and fans. “Lucky Lindy,” as he was of European blood, only so The eerily captivating se- nicknamed, became an long as we guard ourselves ries, which borrows details American icon following the against attack by foreign from the iconic Jewish au- flight and crowds greeted armies and dilution by for- thor’s life and a crucial mo- him wherever he went. His eign races.” ment in American history, autobiographical tale about Lindbergh, the son of Scan- depicts an alternative reality his flight, “WE,” became a dinavian immigrants, was a in which isolationist Charles bestseller and President Cal- believer in eugenics. He also Lindbergh defeats Franklin D. vin Coolidge awarded him the believed that Germany had a Roosevelt in the 1940 presi- Distinguished Flying Cross “Jewish problem,” and that the dential election and encour- medal. A statue of his likeness influence of Jews in society ages anti-Semitic attitudes was erected in Maryland— should be limited. throughout the country. ironically by a Jewish sculptor, He was close friends with The story follows the Jew- Louis Rosenthal. Henry Ford, another known ish Levin family—young The tragic kidnapping of anti-Semite. Philip, his brother Sandy and Lindbergh’s 20-month-old Did Lindbergh really Bettmann/Getty Images his parents, Bess and Her- baby in 1932 became a huge give that rousing anti- Charles Lindbergh poses alongside the Spirit of St. Louis, the plane in which he completed man—caught in an America story. Lindbergh paid the Semitic speech? the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. that’s veering toward fas- ransom, but his son was found In the first episode of “The cism, where anti-Semitism dead two months after the Plot Against America,” Her- idea is not simply a product Was Lindbergh really a grow up in a suburb of has become mainstream and abduction. man Levin hears a Lindbergh of Roth’s imagination. In friend of Hitler’s? New Jersey? commonplace. Lindbergh used his fame speech on the radio full of 2000, when Roth was read- No, but he did receive a Yes, Roth grew up in the While “The Plot Against to become an activist and anti-Semitism. ing an autobiography of the medal from the Fuehrer. In Weequahic neighborhood of America” is a work of fiction, it promote the field of aviation The “greatest danger to this historian Arthur Schlesinger 1938, Lindbergh was awarded Newark, just like the Levins features many real newsreels around the world. But he country lies in their [the Jews’] Jr., the famed Jewish author the Service Cross of the Ger- in the TV series. from the period and involves also became a leader of the large ownership and influ- “came upon a sentence in man Eagle by Hermann Goer- His dad’s name also was several true stories. Let’s America First movement. ence in our motion pictures, which Schlesinger notes that ing on behalf of Adolf Hitler. Herman, his mother, Eliza- separate fact from fiction and As Uriel Heilman wrote our press, our radio and our there were some Republican Lindbergh also had con- beth, also went by the moniker explore the real historical for the Jewish Telegraphic government,” Lindbergh said, isolationists who wanted to tacts in the Nazi Foreign Bess, and his older brother, figures and events behind Agency in 2016: “Created in among other things. run Lindbergh for president Ministry. Sanford, went by the nick- “The Plot Against America,” 1940 after Hitler already had Infuriated, Herman calls in 1940,” Roth told The New As JTA reported in 1962, name Sandy. And just a with some help from the JTA invaded Poland, the America over his wife, Bess, and York Times. “in a communication reminder, the littlest Levin archive. First Committee argued says “He’s calling us war “That’s all there was, that marked ‘most urgent and in the show is named Philip. Who was Charles Lind- that the U.S. should take agitators.” one sentence with its refer- top secret,’” the Nazis Roth was born in 1933—that bergh? a neutral approach toward The answer is yes: The ence to Lindbergh and to a told the German Foreign would have made him 7 years He was a decorated U.S. Nazi Germany, and even do excerpts played in the show fact about him I’d not known,” Ministry and the German old during the 1940 election. aviator, writer, activist and, business with it, because the come from a real speech Roth said, “It made me think, chief of general staff that Just like Sandy in the book sadly, anti-Semite. Nazi regime did not threaten that Lindbergh delivered in ‘What if they had?’” “Lindbergh represents the and series, Roth’s real brother In 1927, the 25-year-old Air America directly.” Des Moines, Iowa, on Sept. Is the poll about the best of the Americans, who was a gifted artist. And just Mail pilot from Detroit rose to Was Lindbergh anti- 11, 1941. attitude toward Jews are most important for us like the TV father, Roth’s fame, literally, when he flew Semitic? But while in “The Plot quoted in “The Plot now and in the future. The real dad was an insurance the first nonstop solo trans- Lindbergh’s words, both in Against America” the public Against America” real? contacts with him are main- salesman. Atlantic flight. Lindbergh was speeches and in his letters and embraces Lindbergh’s speech, At another point in the tained through a group in Was anti-Semitism in reality his words were met first episode, a Jewish news- the general staff which has really a part of Roth’s with an outcry from across reel projector tells Herman the greatest importance as a childhood? the country. As JTA reported, about a 1939 poll in which counterweight against Jews “Even before I started veterans, religious leaders “Only thirty-nine percent of and warmongers.” school,” Roth told The New and editorials in newspapers the respondents agreed that What really happened York Times the year “The Plot across the country denounced Jews should be treated like in the 1940 presidential Against America” came out, the speech. everyone else. Fifty-three election? “I already knew something Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman “The voice is Lindbergh’s percent believed that ‘Jews Roosevelt easily defeated about Nazi anti-Semitism does most anything but the words are the words are different and should be the Republican Wendell Wilk- and about the American of Hitler,” one major newspa- restricted.’ And ten percent ie, a dark-horse candidate and anti-Semitism that was being Ricardo Torres — Handyman per wrote. believed that Jews should be former Democrat, to cap- stoked, one way or another, by Did Lindbergh really run deported.” ture an unprecedented third eminent figures like Henry 407-221-5482 for president? Sadly, that was a real Roper term. The popular incumbent Ford and Charles Lindbergh, Available in Central Florida Area • References Available No, he did not—but that Poll from that year. picked up 55 percent of the who, in those years, along with popular vote and won in the movie stars like Chaplin and Electoral College by a wide Valentino, were among the margin. most famous international Did Philip Roth really celebrities of the century.”

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Danish Bible Society’s suspect are carriers, in order countries with large Jewish (JTA)—The New Jersey also extremely unusual and and able to help the Palestin- translation omits dozens to curb the spread of the virus. populations. man arrested for allegedly it, of course, deserves every ians living under P.A. rule of references to Israel Tom de Nooijer, a member “Not only have the numbers ordering the vandalism of two condemnation.” to combat the spread of the By Cnaan Liphshiz of the City Council of Old- increased substantially but the synagogues in other states on Student government at coronavirus, the P.A. only (JTA)—The Danish Bible ebroek, a town situated some worst types of attacks grew, behalf of a neo-Nazi group was UC Irvine repeals BDS remains interested in con- Society has omitted dozens 40 miles east of Amsterdam, which should be extremely released from jail and sent to resolution tinuing its diplomatic warfare of references to Israel from was among the many who disturbing for leaders and house arrest. (JNS)—The student gov- against Israel,” Danon said in translations of the Hebrew criticized the tweet. authorities around the world,” Richard Tobin was released ernment at the University of a statement. Bible and the New Testament. “Remove that star, Arnoud. EJC President Moshe Kantor last week by a federal magis- California, Irvine, has voted “The Palestinian leadership Defending the deletions, You have no right to refer- wrote in a statement about trate in Camden on a $100,000 to repeal a 2012 resolution will have to choose between the society said they prevent ence it,” wrote de Nooijer, the report. bond, The Associated Press that called for the school to slandering or receiving sup- confusion with the modern- who represents the pro-Israel He added that the coronavi- reported late Monday. He was divest from firms that conduct port from Israel. It cannot day country. Christian SGP party. rus pandemic is changing the ordered to stay off the internet business in Israel. have both,” he continued. “Its The omissions occurred in Worldwide population of way in which anti-Semitism is and refrain from contact with The March 12 resolu- rhetoric against Israel, the a project titled “Bible 2020” 14.7 million Jews falls being expressed. current and former members tion passed with 16 votes in [Israel Defense Forces] and that was published earlier well short of pre-World “Since the beginning of the of the neo-Nazi and white favor, six against and two the Jewish people is inciting, this year under the society’s War II numbers COVID-19 pandemic, there supremacist groups called abstentions. baseless and threatens to undo supervision, the 24NYT news By Marcy Oster has been a significant rise in The Base and Atomwaffen It stated that “anti-Sem- any progress we’ve made in site reported Sunday. It’s the JERUSALEM (JTA)—The accusations that Jews, as indi- Division, AP reported, citing itism is a universally con- combating the virus.” first translation into Danish worldwide population of Jews viduals and as a collective, are court records. demned discriminatory ac- In his letter to the U.N. in more than 20 years. stands at 14.7 million, still behind the spread of the virus Tobin, who was arrested by tivity that premises itself on Security Council, Palestin- Jan Frost, a Bible enthusiast short of the pre-World War II or are directly profiting from the FBI in November, is ac- ethnic, cultural and economic ian representative to the and supporter of Israel from numbers, according to a report it,” Kantor said. “The language cused of using The Base social practices that seek to un- United Nations Riyad Mansour Denmark, drew the media’s by Israel’s Central Bureau of and imagery used clearly iden- network to find volunteers for dermine the legitimacy, life claimed that IDF soldiers are attention to the omissions Statistics. tifies a revival of the medieval the September graffiti attacks and property of the Jewish spitting on Palestinian cars on YouTube and other social The figures, which are simi- ‘blood libels’ when Jews were on synagogues in Michigan people,” and that “a sustained and homes, and dumping networks. He counted 59 lar to the population of world accused of spreading disease, and Wisconsin. campaign of harassment and trash, needles and used gloves omissions out of 60 references Jewry in 1925, were released poisoning wells or controlling Tobin also allegedly said he intimidation has been waged between villages. to Israel in the Greek origin for ahead of Yom Hashoah, or economies.” planned the attacks as part against Jewish students and He also accused Israel of New Testament texts. Refer- Holocaust Remembrance Day. After racist tweets sur- of a nationwide campaign their allies on UCI’s campus forcing Palestinian workers ences to “the People of Israel” The numbers are current to face, Republican Jewish he called Operation Kristall- with impunity.” to return to P.A.-controlled were replaced with “Jews,” the end of 2018. Coalition withdraws sup- nacht, a reference to the 1938 The resolution also said territory through wastewater while “Land of Israel” became World Jewry reached a port for GOP congress- pogrom against Jewish homes, that the BDS resolution “has tunnels, so to smuggle them “the land of Jews.” population of 16.6 million man’s challenger synagogues and Jewish-owned created a noxious campus past P.A. authorities mandat- In other places, references right before the start of World By Ron Kampeas businesses in Germany and climate that has fostered the ing coronavirus testing. to Israel were translated as War II in 1939. WASHINGTON (JTA)—The Austria. aforementioned campaign of Late last month, Special Co- referencing all readers or all Israel’s 6.7 million Jews Republican Jewish Coalition is He has also confessed harassment.” ordinator for the Middle East of humanity. make up 45 percent of the withdrawing its support for a to driving to a New Jersey Moreover, its “very title is Nickolay Mladenov praised the The Song of Ascents from world total. Some 5.2 million challenger to a Kentucky GOP mall with a machete that he an Orwellian smear intended recent cooperation between the Book of Psalms in the Jews were born in the country, gadfly after racist tweets by the planned to use to kill black to stain indelibly any who Israel and the Palestinians in Hebrew Bible, a popular Shab- while about 1 million are na- challenger surfaced. shoppers. would question its true and the fight against the corona- bat hymn for Jews, originally tives of either Europe or the The RJC’s political ac- Neo-Nazis crash Holo- malicious intent” as the “base- virus pandemic. states that “He who watches Americas, as well as about tion committee had donated caust survivor’s Zoom less and bigoted assertion that This year’s Celebrate Is- over Israel will neither slum- 293,000 of Africa and 164,000 $5,000 to the primary cam- testimony the State of Israel is apartheid rael parade is called off ber nor sleep.” In the new of Asia. paign of Todd McMurtry, By Ariel Kahana is nothing less than a blood as New York City cancels translation, Israel is replaced The United States has who is facing off against Rep. (Israel Hayom via JNS)— libel.” events through June by the word “us.” the second-largest Jewish Thomas Massie in a primary. Neo-Nazis on Monday crashed Palestinians launch By Shira Hanau A Bible Society representa- population with 5.7 million, It was a rare move last month an online Holocaust Remem- diplomatic offensive to (JTA)—Among the many tive told Frost that the decision followed by France at about when the PAC involved itself brance Day event hosted by the prevent Israeli annexa- signs of summer that the was made to avoid confusing 450,000 and Canada at some in the primary. Israeli embassy in Germany. tion coronavirus pandemic is the Land of Israel with the State 392,000. Next is the United Massie’s campaign un- The embassy hosted survi- (JNS)—PLO Secretary- silencing: the annual parade of Israel. However, the names of Kingdom (292,000), Argentina earthed recent tweets by Mc- vor Zvi Herschel, who told his General Saeb Erekat said on that draws tens of thousands other countries from that time (180,000), Russia (165,000), Murtry in which he disparaged story to the public through the Sunday that he was in talks of supporters of Israel to New that still exist, such as Egypt, Germany (118,000) and Aus- Mexicans and transgendered Zoom meeting application, with various international York City’s Fifth Avenue. have not been changed. tralia (116,000). people, and decried the “de- when suddenly Nazi activists parties about the need to The Jewish Community “The old theological expres- In 1948, on the eve of the monization of white people.” appeared on the screen, wav- “preserve the two-state solu- Relations Council of New sion for this is ‘replacement establishment of the State of “The RJC has consistently ing photos of Nazi dictator tion” in the face of possible an- York, which organizes the theology,’ in which you replace Israel, the number of Jews in spoken out against hate, big- Adolf Hitler and shouting anti- nexation by Israel of territory Celebrate Israel parade, con- Israel with the church,” Frost the world was 5.11 million, otry, and racism,” the group Semitic slogans. The incident in Judea and Samaria under firmed Monday that this year’s wrote Monday on Facebook. including 650,000 in prestate said Friday on Twitter. “As a brought the event to a halt. the Trump administration’s parade, scheduled for June 7, Dutch-Muslim politician Palestine, according to the result of troubling comments After the embassy was Mideast peace plan. will not take place. Organiz- tweets Jewish yellow star report. that have come to light by able to remove the neo-Nazis Erekat listed the European ers are working on a virtual to protest coronavirus Also on the eve of Holocaust congressional candidate Todd from the platform, the video Union Representative for the event to take place that day, surveillance plan Remembrance Day, Israel’s McMurtry which don’t share conference was resumed, with Middle East Peace Process according to Michael Miller, By Cnaan Liphshiz Ministry of Finance reported our values or the values of embassy staff approving each Susanna Terstal, United Na- the council’s executive vice AMSTERDAM (JTA)—On that there are about 189,500 the GOP, we are asking for of the participants individually tions Special Coordinator president and CEO. the eve of Holocaust Remem- Holocaust survivors living a refund & withdrawing our so as to prevent a recurring for the Middle East Peace “We’re saddened by the brance Day, a Dutch-Muslim in Israel, with some 31,000 PAC support.” incident. Process Nickolay Mladenov, necessity of canceling this politician has tweeted a pic- over the age of 90 and more Massie had angered the GOP Restrictions imposed on Spanish Foreign Minister parade,” Miller said. “Its ab- ture of a Jewish yellow star than 800 over 100 years old. establishment by invoking his public gatherings over the Arancha González Laya, Rus- sence on Fifth Avenue will be to protest plans to monitor In the past year, some 15,170 prerogative to insist a majority coronavirus pandemic have sian Deputy Foreign Minister notable, but its absence in the coronavirus carriers. survivors have died. of members of the U.S. House seen most Remembrance Day Mikhail Bogdanov and Irish hearts of New Yorkers, Jewish Arnoud van Doorn, a mem- Violent anti-Semitic of Representatives attend a gatherings canceled in favor of Deputy Prime Minister Simon and non-Jewish, who support ber of the City Council of The crimes worldwide vote on the pandemic stimulus online events. Coveney as being among those Israel is incalculable.” Hague, posted the picture on reached 5-year record in after most had retreated to In response to the incident, he was in contact with regard- The Celebrate Israel parade Monday, the birthday of Adolf 2019 their homes because of the Israeli Ambassador to Germa- ing the issue. was first held in 1965 on Hitler. Yom Hashoah, Israel’s By Cnaan Liphshiz coronavirus. He had already ny Jeremy Issacharoff tweeted: “Erekat discussed in his Riverside Drive on the Upper day of mourning for Holocaust (JTA)—The number of been in the sights of Jewish “During a zoom meeting on talks the situation in the West Side. In recent years, the victims also observed by many anti-Semitic violent crimes Republicans for opposing the eve of #Holocaust Memo- Palestinian territories and the parade has marched up Fifth Jews worldwide, starts in the documented worldwide last Holocaust education funding rial Day by the Embassy of prospects of the Palestinian- Avenue. Approximately 40,000 evening and extends to Tues- year rose to 456 cases, an 18 and actions condemning the Israel in Berlin that hosted Israeli settlement based on people march in the parade day evening. percent increase over 2018 boycott Israel movement. survivor Zvi Herschel, anti- international laws, serving the each year, according to the or- In 2018, van Doorn tweeted and the highest tally since His contrarianism spurred Israel activists disrupted his peace process with the help of ganizers, including thousands a prayer to Allah to “extermi- 2014, the European Jewish condemnation by President talk posting pictures of Hitler the international community, of Jewish day school students. nate the Zionists” and said that Congress said. Donald Trump. Rep. Liz and shouting anti-Semitic especially members of the The decision to cancel fasting on Yom Kippur won’t EJC and the Kantor Center Cheney, R-Wyo., the third- slogans. The event had to be U.N. Security Council, and had seemed inevitable as the help Jews atone for Israel’s for the Study of Contemporary ranked House Republican, do- suspended. the release of [Palestinian] pandemic brought New York sins. His Party of Unity says European Jewry presented the nated to McMurtry, as did the “After a short break the prisoners,” the PLO said in a City to a halt, but on Monday on its website that it strives to data on Monday in a report, the RJC and other Republicans. event was reconvened without statement, according to The morning, Mayor Bill de Blasio “promote the interests of the Annual Report on Antisemi- McMurtry was well known in the activists and conducted in Jerusalem Post. announced that all non-essen- Islamist community.” tism Worldwide 2019. conservative circles as a law- an appropriate and respectful Danon slams claims that tial events scheduled for June, His tweet shows a yellow More than a quarter of the yer for a high-schooler whose way. To dishonor the memory Israel is impeding Pales- including concerts, rallies and star of the kind that Nazis cases that are classified in the encounter on the National of the #Holocaust and the tinian efforts to combat parades, would be nixed. made Jews wear during the report as violent were threats. Mall with a Native American dignity of the survivor is be- coronavirus “They will be back,” said Holocaust bearing the words The rest involved actual physi- was depicted in some media yond shame and disgrace and (JNS)—Israeli Ambassador de Blasio, who mentioned “corona app.” Its caption cal violence, including 242 as racist. shows the blatant anti-Semitic to the United Nations strongly the Celebrate Israel parade reads “No obligatory corona cases of vandalism, 21 cases Cheney has since dropped nature of the activists.” criticized a letter by the Pal- along with the Pride Parade app,” a reference to a test be- of arson and 62 assaults on her support for McMurtry and, He later told Israel Hay- estinians to the U.N. Security and Puerto Rican Day Parade ing carried out by the Dutch people, with about a quarter like the RJC, has asked for her om that “in the three years I Council accusing Israel of as hallmarks of New York government for a smartphone of them involving a weapon. money back. have been here as an ambas- impeding efforts by the Pal- City culture that had to be app that would help authori- The data were not aggre- NJ man accused of or- sador, I see that the major- estinian Authority to combat suspended to protect public ties monitor the whereabouts gated according to country, dering attacks on syna- ity of Germans respect the the coronavirus pandemic in health. “That joy and that and interactions of people, though the report does include gogues released from jail memory of the Holocaust. This the West Bank. pride that all of these events including those they know or many Western countries and By Marcy Oster incident is unfortunate but “As Israel remains open bring will be back.” PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 1, 2020 These Jewish teens are mentoring girls in science and powering tiny houses for the homeless excited,” Forman said, “that really realized why I was doing the teens manufactured 100 gives me goosebumps.” these projects, and that really JuiceBox systems, as well Forman is now a freshman codified and solidified in my as an off-grid solar-powered at Brown University, and mind that a big part of my shower (a ShowerPod) and she is working on develop- drive was coming from my laundry facilities (a WashPod), ing a similar program with experience as an American the nonprofit organization local elementary schools in Jew.” Olshin launched to support Providence, Rhode Island. Olshin, whose bar mitzvah the work, Shine, has helped Meanwhile, other students project consisted of organiz- five communities in Portland at her high school have kept ing people to prepare soups containing 20-50 houses. Forman’s initiative running and deliver them regularly “I have been working for there. to those living in homeless a long time on this project,” In 2019, Forman was award- shelters or on the streets, has Olshin said. “It’s been an ed a Diller Teen Tikkun been interested in homeless- amazing journey.” Olam Award for her efforts. ness for some time. Now a freshman at Pomona The prize is given annually As a high school sopho- College in Claremont, Califor- to a select group of Jewish more, Olshin accompanied nia, Olshin is working on a teenagers who demonstrate his father to a community of new iteration of the JuiceBox outstanding leadership in tiny houses aimed at helping with about 10 times more the Jewish value of tikkun recently homeless people. power but only twice the cost, Diller Foundation/JTA olam, repairing the world, and Part of a larger movement for about $1,000 each. Los Angeles native Elyse Forman is helping mentor girls in science, while Solomon Ol- comes with $36,000 to help of micro-houses, the tiny He also created a club at his shin of Oregon is spearheading a project to help people transitioning out of homelessness. further their initiative or pay homes—typically about 8 by school to work on the project for their education. 12 feet and with a price tag of and recently won a $50,000 By Eric Berger the STEM subjects: science, effort to spur their interest in Diller also organizes a about $2,000—have been ad- grant from the U.S. Depart- technology, engineering and science and technology. For- Shabbat retreat for all the opted by some municipalities ment of Energy. The club Growing up in Los Angeles, mathematics. man said her goal was to build winners. as a low-cost alternative to the plans to broaden the mission Elyse Forman always tried to The reason for the gap? a “kehillah”—a supportive “The Diller experience traditional homeless shelter to create “environmentally take the highest-level science “Stereotype threat,” ac- community—for these girls was transformative for me system and a way to help sustainable, cost-effective” courses she could, like A.P. cording to one prominent and the mentors. because it allowed me to people avoid the stress that products that won’t just physics and chemistry. researcher. “Luckily I had amazing connect with so many other comes with the uncertainty of help people transition out of Forman often found she “A female student taking female mentors who helped teens who wanted to make a sleeping on the streets. homelessness but also could was the only female in those a math test experiences an me out with this and encour- deep impact in the world the The tiny houses were “a be used in disaster recovery. classes. extra cognitive and emotional aged me,” Forman said. “But same way that I do,” Forman way to bring back a sense One of the most impor- “You can’t help but feel burden of worry related to the so many girls don’t have that, said. “The award’s emphasis of dignity and basic level of tant consequences of the that you don’t belong when stereotype that women are and so I created this program on tikkun olam helped me human amenities to people projects, Olshin said, is that you’re not like everyone else not good at math,” Catherine in order to bridge the gender better understand that it is who were really struggling,” people learn about homeless in the class, when people don’t Hill, a former vice president gap.” our job to repair the world Olshin said. Americans. think that you have the right for research at the American Forman began with an before we move on to any- Part of a program at his “It helps them understand answers to questions, when Association of University eight-week program at two thing else.” high school focused on using what these communities are they look at you weirdly if Women, wrote in a recent predominantly African-Amer- Another Diller award win- technology to address social and what they need to be suc- you participate,” the 18-year- report for the association. ican and Hispanic elemen- ner was Solomon Olshin and environmental needs. cessful,” Olshin said. old said. Once Forman became tary schools. Eight mentors of Portland, Oregon, who Olshin and some friends This article was sponsored What Forman didn’t real- aware of the larger problem, worked with 20-30 students spearheaded a project to help spent months devising a solar- by and produced in partner- ize is that the issue is also a she decided she wanted to do at each school. people transitioning out of powered electrical system to ship with the Helen Diller national concern. something to about it. The The mentors helped the homelessness. provide a basic level of power, Family Foundation, which While women comprise summer before 11th grade, students build roller coasters, “I had the opportunity to light and heat to residents sponsors the Diller Teen Tik- nearly 60 percent of U.S. she launched Girls in STEM, model lungs and atoms, learn develop some really close of the houses. Calling it a kun Olam Awards, annually college graduates, according a weekly afterschool program coding, and study interactions friendships with people from JuiceBox, they reached out awarding $36,000 to Jewish to the National Center for in which students from her among the brain, nose and all different backgrounds— to local companies to obtain teens demonstrating excep- Education Statistics, they high school visited third- taste buds. socioeconomically, ethni- discounted parts and raised tional leadership in repairing earn only about 35 percent of through fifth-grade girls at “When you see a girl who cally—all related to the Jewish about $75,000 from contests the world. Nominations/appli- the undergraduate degrees in low-income schools in an will not talk at all on the first community,” Olshin said of like the Lexus Eco Challenge cations for 2019 are now open. day of class and by the end his experience at the Shabbat and companies like eBay. This article was produced is raising her hand and is so retreat. “Before Diller, I hadn’t In the three years since by JTA’s native content team. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 F A D C R A M P B E S T S 14 15 16 I M A S A M O A A N N U L Centrist 17 18 19 F E R D I N A N D S C A L E From page 4A lishing Israeli sovereignty what he sees as an out-of- represent a broad consensus 20 21 22 23 over more of the West Bank control Israeli judiciary that believes that in the A N T I T R A E K I D when he’s content merely to branch. And if that leads to absence of a credible peace 24 25 26 27 28 2018 led to the long stalemate S H A U N T H E S H E E P that has just ended. That discuss the possibility while stasis rather than pushing partner, the best Israel can 29 30 dispute, along with others still resisting—as he has ahead the agenda of the do is to manage the conflict S P U R S H I R E throughout his career—pres- settlement movement or oth- and secure those areas—like 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 that led to other right-wing S U P S M E E T I Y U L figures such as Telem Party sure on Israel to make con- ers in his core constituency, the Jordan Valley and the 39 40 41 42 43 44 chief Moshe Ya’alon and other cessions to the Palestinians. Netanyahu won’t shed a tear settlement blocs—that the O R A L B A M B I C E N T While Netanyahu’s flacks so long as his grip on high Jewish state will never sur- 45 46 47 48 49 former members of Gantz’s L L Y O D C A V S S O S Blue and White coalition to attacked Gantz as a leftist office remains secure. render, even if peace were 50 51 52 53 54 take sides against the prime during the three election The easy way that Netan- possible. C R O S S A R I E minister, was rooted more campaigns of 2019-20, the yahu and Gantz, who ran to Say what you like about 55 56 57 58 C H I C K E N L I T T L E in personal animosity rather prime minister and the the right in the elections Netanyahu, whose ultimate 59 60 61 62 than ideology. new defense minister/future to appear as close to the fate will be settled in court, C E E T I N O N A V I Netanyahu is probably prime minister are largely in prime minister on the peace but calling him an extremist 63 64 65 66 67 68 M A C H O D U C K T A L E S quite glad to see his Yamina agreement on most security process as possible, will be is simply untrue. 69 70 71 allies decide to go into oppo- issues. When they clash, it able to cooperate on security Jonathan S. Tobin is editor O S K A R E S R E I A N I sition, as opposed to joining will be about Netanyahu’s issues demonstrates another in chief of JNS—Jewish News 72 73 74 N E S T S R E C A P W T S his new government. Yamina efforts to gain immunity element of Israeli politics Syndicate. Follow him on wants to prod Netanyahu to from prosecution or when that most Americans still Twitter at: @jonathans_to- push the envelope on estab- he pursues efforts to reform struggle to understand. They bin.

To Publish Legal Notices For Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia Counties, Call Heritage Florida Jewish News at 407-834-8787 or Email [email protected] HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 1, 2020 PAGE 15A The system was already Sample questions Startup up and running with several Among the questions From page 1A hospitals and HMOs in Israel asked: “Have you provided when Covid-19 hit. Radinsky face-to-face service to more healthcare space, she didn’t and her partners quickly than 10 people in the past hesitate. realized that, with just a few two weeks?” “Do you have Radinsky teamed up with tweaks, the same platform one or more of the following two of her colleagues from the could be used to triage pa- pre-existing conditions?” Technion—robotics expert tients possibly infected with and “Did you measure your Moshe Shoham and graduate the novel coronavirus. temperature over the last 24 Jonathan Amir—and raised “A month before the virus hours?” $24 million in 2019. With hit us here in Israel, we already COVID360 incorporates ad- Amir as CEO, Diagnostic Ro- decided to adapt our existing ditional valuable data sources, botics has a team of 100 data systems to track its spread such as travel between cities, scientists, economists, engi- in the country. For the past population density and the neers, doctors and designers. month and a half, we have distance between areas that Triage tool been working day and night can help identify how one city When Radinsky and her to put the finishing touches will influence another. partners were dreaming up on a digital platform that is a Data on the history of mor- Diagnostic Robotics, Covid-19 one-stop shop for managing bidity by region is provided by did not exist. the disease,” Radinsky said. the Ministry of Health. While They intended to use pre- The system, dubbed CO- the questionnaire doesn’t col- Diagnostic Robotics was founded by a powerful Technion triad of entrepreneurs, shown dictive analytics and artificial VID360, is now integrated lect any identifying details, here (l-r): Yonatan Amir, Kira Radinsky and Moshe Shoham. intelligence to reduce the with all four of Israel’s HMOs such as names or telephone healthcare load on over- and the Magen David Adom numbers, it does ask users to This helps the Ministry of past two weeks,” she told days between infection and crowded emergency rooms by system—all for free. list what street they live on. Health decide which areas the Israeli business journal the appearance of symptoms; “directing patients to the most The data collection starts The questionnaire is easiest should go into lockdown. Globes. “In order to predict that the loss of taste and smell relevant medical setting— with a link to an anonymous to access via a web link on a By using historical data, two weeks ahead, we need can appear as far as 30 days the emergency department, questionnaire, available in smartphone, but mindful that Diagnostic Robotics was also at least five times this win- after the start of infection; urgent care clinic or remote Hebrew, Arabic, English, Rus- not all populations in Israel able to determine that the dow—in other words going and that some patients never consultation,” Radinsky tells sian and Spanish. Recipients have the latest phone tech- source of the mass infection back ten weeks.” develop a fever. ISRAEL21c. are asked to respond daily. nology, a workaround using in the city of Bnei Brak was Once the initial outbreak Diagnostic Robotics’ sys- Diagnostic Robotics’ soft- “The platform analyzes a just SMS—and sometimes due to large gatherings for began spreading outside of tem is operating in Israel and, ware “analyzes a patient’s patient’s clinical symptoms even old-fashioned phone the Jewish holiday of Purim China, Diagnostic Robotics as of this week, in cooperation medical history and current and underlying health sta- calls—is also available. That and not the improvised prayer predicted it would reach Israel, with India’s Odisha Covid-19 medical case using AI and NLP tus, generates a personalized approach won’t help with the services that took place in the the United States and other triage and monitoring plat- technologies,” while integrat- risk profile for Covid-19 and epidemiological mapping but weeks afterward. locations, Radinsky said. form. Radinsky hinted at ing “multiple sensory output provides next step guidance,” can aid in care management. When will it end? COVID360 also can de- additional implementations data,” such as blood tests and Radinsky explained. Perhaps the most dramatic One thing Diagnostic Ro- scribe Covid-19 disease pro- in the works. EKG results, along with “bil- For doctors and HMOs, a visual coming out of the CO- botics can’t predict is when gression. By surveying mil- “If anybody needs help, and lions of medical records and special dashboard enables VID360 system is a “heat the pandemic will end. lions of Israelis, the system our system can be helpful patient historical records” remote monitoring and risk map” showing where Covid-19 “At the moment, we only has confirmed that there is for them, we will be helping from around the world. assessment. infections are most prevalent. have full information for the an average gap of four to five them,” she said.

Unity From page 1A to an end, which would leave greatest contention between automatically trigger a fourth a professional minister from the portfolio, but it will be the coalition with a Knes- the two sides: judicial appoint- election, with Gantz serving the Arab sector. available for Yamina should Knesset member Moshe set minority and lead to an ments and the court ruling as interim prime minister. The Labor Party will be the party choose to join the Ya’alon, of Yesh Atid-Telem, election. against Netanyahu serving The court has asked Attorney joining the government as government. which used to be part of Blue The agreement dictates as prime minister. General Avichai Mandelblit, part of Gantz’s camp, and will The agreement gives and White but split off due that the emergency govern- During the last five years, Netanyahu, Gantz, Likud be given the economy and Gantz’s bloc control over to Gantz’s partnering with ment won’t move forward the justice minister has come and Blue and White to submit welfare ministries. the Foreign Affairs and De- Netanyahu, attacked the with any significant leg- from the conservative camp, their replies to the complaint Likud will control the min- fense Committee, in addition deal, telling JNS that “this islation not related to the and significant reforms were by Thursday at 2 p.m., after istries of finance, public secu- to the House Committee, government is bad for Israel.” coronavirus crisis, with one made to the system in an at- which a hearing on the issue rity, transportation, housing, which controls the Knesset He insisted that “Israel exception: Israeli sovereignty tempt to appoint conservative will be scheduled. environment, intelligence, agenda. Likud will head the needs leadership that will re- over Jewish communities in judges to the bench. Largest Cabinet in Is- regional cooperation, periph- Finance Committee and the habilitate Israeli democracy the West Bank. Blue and White demanded raeli history ery, energy, Jerusalem affairs special committee handling with checks and balances be- Levin told JNS that “we that former labor-union chief The coalition agreement and foreign affairs (for the the coronavirus crisis. Ne- tween its branches. Instead, have a historic opportunity to MK Avi Nissenkorn be ap- dictates that the government latter 18 months). In addition, tanyahu retains control over we now have a dictatorship apply our sovereignty in Judea pointed justice minister. To will start with 32 ministers, Likud will hold the position of who will serve as ambassador of one person: Netanyahu. and Samaria [the West Bank], counter the left-wing influ- divided equally between the Knesset Speaker for the full to the United Nations, the Israel needs a leader who sets and it is best to do so with a ence over the ministry and two sides. 36 months. Likud will give United Kingdom, France a personal example with no wide, unity government.” continue the move towards Blue and White will hold the interior, health and reli- and Australia for the entire corruption. But now, we have Blue and White, which had more conservative judges, the the following portfolios: gious affairs ministries to the lifespan of the government. a leader who only cares about been against such a move, has Likud demanded veto power defense; foreign affairs (for ultra-Orthodox parties that The ambassador to the United himself and not the people.” compromised and agreed that over judicial nominations. the first 18 months); justice; are part of Netanyahu’s bloc. States will be chosen by Unity-government legis- from July 1—assuming that The two sides agreed that immigration and absorption; A question mark remains whoever is prime minister lation there is American support MK Zvi Hauser from Gantz’s culture and sport; communi- regarding the Education at the time. The deal will be formally for it—Netanyahu can bring camp would serve on the cations; agriculture; strategic Ministry. At the moment, The 72-seat coalition will signed next week after Yom a vote for annexing parts of committee for judicial ap- affairs; tourism; social equal- the right-wing Yamina Party, expand from 32 to 36 min- Ha’aztmaut, Israel’s Indepen- the West Bank to the Knesset, pointments. Hauser is a ity; science and technology; led by current Defense Min- istries after the initial six- dence Day, to be celebrated and that this legislation will conservative who served as and diaspora affairs. They will ister Naftali Bennett, is not month emergency govern- on April 28-29. The first be expedited by the Knesset Netanyahu’s Cabinet secre- also create a Minority Affairs joining the administration. ment, making it the largest order of business will be to committees. Blue and White tary in the past and who has Ministry, which will be led by As a result, Likud will head government in Israel’s history. pass legislation to set the members will be allowed a strong voice for judicial Netanyahu-Gantz rotation to vote according to their independence; he is also vocal in motion. ideology, though a Knesset against right-wing attacks Safe While Israeli law allows a majority will be required for on the courts, making him From page 6A and stabbings at a Hanuk- by Jews; for instance, whether prime minister to serve while this move. a committee member who kah celebration in Monsey, people experienced physical under indictment, it prohib- During the first six months, satisfies both sides. Southern California by a N.Y., on Dec. 28, injuring attacks, vandalism, etc.,” an its a minister from doing so. the government won’t fill This element of the agree- lone teenage gunman with multiple Jewish guests ADL spokesperson told JNS. A law will be passed to enable key vacancies, such as posi- ment was attacked harshly white-supremacist views on and leading to the death of “Whether these incidents Netanyahu to serve as vice tions of state prosecutor and by the opposition, with MK April 27, leading to the death 72-year-old Yosef Neumann. were motivated by anti-Israel prime minister (the official police commissioner. During Yair Lapid, chairman of Yesh of 60-year-old Lori Kaye; a The ADL survey omits the anti-Semitism was not within title is “acting prime min- this period the two sides will Atid, tweeting that Blue and fatal shooting at a kosher role that Israel-related anti- the scope of this particular ister”) when Gantz becomes negotiate the platform for the White has “agreed to allow the supermarket in Jersey City, Semitism plays. survey and would require re- the prime minister, despite remaining 30 months of the criminal defendant to appoint N.J., on Dec. 10 that led to “The specific focus of this spondents to speculate about the fact that he may be in government’s term. the judges that will adjudicate four deaths, including two survey was to document the the specific motivation or middle of his trial on cor- The agreement does ad- his affairs.” Chassidic Jews, a store em- types of experiences related subtype of anti-Semitism of ruption charges at the time. dress the controversial issue As was expected, appeals ployee and a police officer; to anti-Semitism experienced a perpetrator.” A law will also be passed of the conscription of the were filed with Israeli’s Su- that says that if either of the ultra-Orthodox (haredim) to preme Court, asking its jus- two decides to leave and col- the Israel Defense Forces. The tices to prohibit Netanyahu Remember lapse the government, the sides have agreed to pass a law from forming a new govern- From page 5A In other words, even with- for TV highlights—are liter- leader of the other party be- that gives the government ment and becoming prime out the outbreak of COVID-19, ally out of sight. comes prime minister auto- the power to set the annual minister while under indict- more than 15,000 survivors the number of people who No matter what they do matically, with new elections quotas that must be met by ment. Netanyahu asked Gantz died over the past year, emerged from the ashes of the until the day they die, the being delayed for six months. this specific segment of Israeli to agree that if the court does amounting to approximately Nazi genocide is dwindling. Holocaust is and will be on This law addresses the fear society, a victory for the ultra- so, then Blue and White would 41 per day. It’s not clear to what extent their minds. The rest of us in Blue and White that in Orthodox parties that wanted support a law to circumvent This figure, though unfor- the virus will have played a cannot say the same. order to prevent Gantz from to maintain such control. the court’s decision and allow tunate, makes sense, since part in the statistics. Ruthie Blum is an Israel- becoming prime minister, Judicial appointments him to serve. 77 percent of the remaining It is this that Israelis should based journalist and author Netanyahu will simply pull The unity deal was signed Gantz compromised, agree- survivors are over the age of “never forget,” especially now, of “To Hell in a Handbasket: Likud out of the government after compromises were ing that if the court issues 80; 16 percent are in their 90s; when all the survivors—other Carter, Obama, and the ‘Arab as the first 18 months come reached on the two issues of such a ruling then that will and 800 are older than 100. than the ones cherry-picked Spring.’” PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 1, 2020 Meet the dad bringing Jews stuck at home the sounds of Torah—set to classic children’s books By Shira Hanau “For those missing the idea it would be popular, but sound of leyning,” he wrote in it seemed to kind of resonate (JTA)—Simmy Cohen has his post of the video to Twit- with people. hardly read from the Torah ter, using the Yiddish word How did you write the since his bar mitzvah. When to describe the vocalization trope? he’s not working at his mar- used when reading aloud from It’s kind of an art, there’s keting job from his home in the Torah. not really a science to it. It’s Queens, New York, Cohen Cohen hoped the video more what feels right and spends far more time these would resonate with other sounds right based on what days reading children’s books Orthodox Jews whose access you’ve heard. In terms of actu- to his 13-month old daughter. to live Torah reading ended ally writing it down, it’s harder But with a spark of comedic when their synagogues closed because this is in English, so genius and perhaps a little because of the coronavirus it’s backwards [from how the quarantine-induced imagina- pandemic. trope marks would be denoted tion, he put the two together But the video quickly found in Hebrew]. Avi wrote it for the in a video of himself read- a broader audience with over second video, so you can see it ing—no, chanting—the clas- 40,000 views and several hun- in the video and I think that When he’s not working from home, Simmy Cohen keeps himself busy chanting classic sic board book “Goodnight dred retweets, including one added a lot. It could be like a children’s books to Torah trope. Moon” set to the Torah trope. from the actor Joshua Malina, tutorial for people who are who shared the video with his learning it, though it could be 281,000 followers. Inspired by more confusing than helpful the original video, another because of the way it’s inverted Twitter user created his own in English. version using the Sephardic He wanted me to do the and Moroccan vocalizations. “shalsheles” in the part right Cohen said he was surprised before “chicka chicka” to em- by positive reactions from phasize that—I’m breaking it Jews spanning the religious down for you as though this and cultural spectrum. But is some important thing—I in retrospect, he said, it’s not think there’s only three or four shocking. of them in the whole Torah. “I actually think people do They’re for real, real emphasis miss the sound of leyning,” and there’s all kinds of opin- Cohen said. “That was the joke ions on why they appear and of the caption, but I think it’s what does it mean, they’re not kind of true.” picked randomly. Whereas Cohen has followed his I’m sort of just picking what original production with a sounds right. JEWISH CAPITAL ALLIANCE chanting of “Chicka Chicka Are you planning to do Boom Boom,” the classic more videos? OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, INC. story of an anthropomorphic I know that I want to do alphabet’s nighttime adven- haftarah next to mix it up, ture. A friend from Twitter, definitely some more kids’ 1151 Orange Avenue Avi Schwartz, wrote the trope books. Maybe it’ll be some- but insisted that Cohen chant thing else, a famous speech Suite 200 it because people already rec- or something. But there will ognized his voice. definitely be another one. Winter Park, Florida 32789 We chatted with Cohen Twitter only lets you post about what inspired his videos 2 minutes and 20 seconds, and what he’s working on and I don’t even like going March 29, 2020 next as he works through his that long because you lose daughter’s bookshelves. This people’s attention. “Good- interview has been edited for night Moon” was 40-some- Jewish Capital Alliance of Central Florida, Inc., is painfully aware length and clarity. thing seconds. Even with JTA: How did you come up “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” of the economic and operational challenges facing our Jewish with the idea for these videos? I rushed through it because Cohen: About a year ago I don’t think people want to institutional colleagues in Orlando. Therefore, JCA is reaching I started a Twitter account, hear me for 2 minutes and out to our Jewish community to advise: Don Zemmer, where I post 20 seconds. But the haftarah these baseball songs where trope is slower. It’ll sound I replace all the words with weird if I rush it. baseball player names. The People are like, oh do Dr. reason it’s called Don Zem- Seuss, but those books are WE ARE HERE TO HELP! mer is because “zemer” is super long. I actually did “I Hebrew for song and Don love you forever” to haftarah Zimmer was this lovable but it’s 5 1/2 minutes, it’s too JCA is the one organization that is chartered to lend funds to baseball personality. long. We’re going to look at But for this specific video, “The Giving Tree.” But beyond any JEWISH AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION that requires someone shared with me a those, that’s kind of where YouTube video of a rabbi giv- my knowledge of children’s assistance in meeting its operational directives. JCA Board’s ing a speech. The whole thing books end. directive is to immediately provide was in Yiddish, so I didn’t Did you read it for your emergency-needs funding understand a word of it, but daughter before you posted to Orlando Jewish organizations that require help in navigating the gist was that he was tell- it online? ing a mundane story but he No, I have to break that out the current critical financial environment. Therefore, JCA is was leyning it. I understood for her. She likes to wander enough to appreciate it, so I around while I read, it’s hard offering to immediately provide interest free loans with deferred guess the concept was in the to get her to sit still and then back of my head. And I have she likes to turn the pages repayment structures, to assist our Jewish organizations in my kid and I’m reading her herself, and she’ll turn like books and at some point I four pages at once, so it’s her dealing with today’s unforeseen hardships. decided to do it and thought, pace, not mine. So I don’t oh “Goodnight Moon,” ev- know if that’ll go over well, To inquire, please contact one of the following erybody knows that. I had no but I should try it. board members at the email addresses below:

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