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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 43, NO. 19 JANUARY 11, 2019 5 SH’VAT, 5779 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Remembering the Holocaust

Holly Mandelkern Center, will be held from 2 p.m to 4 p.m. In commemoration of On this date in 1945, Soviet International Holocaust troops liberated the concen- Flash90 Day, on Jan. 27, there will tration camp in Auschwitz, Ofer Doron, head of IAI’s MBT Space Division speaks near the Israeli spacecraft of the SpaceIL team’s spacecraft, dur- be a presentation by Holly Poland. International Holo- ing a press conference at the Israel Aerospace facility in Yahud on July 10, 2018. Mandelkern, author of “Be- caust Day pays homage to the neath White Stars—Holo- memory of the lives lost with caust Profiles in Poetry” an historical tribute, along With SpaceIL launch, its to the at the Winter Park Public with poetry, artwork, and Library, located at 460 E lyrical dance. New England Ave., in Win- This event is free but enroll- ter Park. ment is required. Sign up by moon and beyond for Israel The event, a partnership calling 407-623-3300, ext. By Yaakov Lappin “This is a major source of pride,” Ofer moon began in 2010, when Google an- with The Holocaust Memo- 3. You must have reservation... Doron, general manager of IAI’s Space nounced its Lunar Xprize for the first rial Resource and Education limited seating. (JNS)—In 2019, a team of Israelis will Division, told JNS. “If the small State of team that would land a spacecraft on the make history when an unmanned space- Israel can do this through a civilian mis- moon. The contest spurred three young craft they built will launch from Cape sion, then the sky and space are not the engineers—Yariv Bash, Kfir Damari Canaveral, Fla., destined for the moon. limit. Israeli children can dream about and former IAI employee Yonatan Wi- Steelers donate SpaceIL, an Israeli nonprofit organiza- reaching the moon and taking on the netraub—to build, launch and land an tion, has teamed up with defense giant next challenge.” unmanned lunar spacecraft, and founded Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to build “This is a story of initiative and SpaceIL. $70,000 the spacecraft. When it touches down Israeli daring, which allows us to do SpaceIL’s other stated goal is to inspire on the lunar surface, Israel will join an the unbelievable. It’s a highly complex the next generation in Israel and around By Marcy Oster exclusive club consisting of the United technological mission, with many chal- the world to study science, technology, States, Russia and China, which have sent lenges,” he added. (JTA)—The Pittsburgh spacecraft to Earth’s nearest neighbor. The story of Israel’s journey to the SpaceIL on page 15A Steelers’ Stronger Than Hate campaign inspired the city and the world to rally around the Jewish community in the Award-winning speaker to address wake of the shooting attack on a local synagogue building that left 11 dead. teens, parents in Federation program On Sunday, Dec. 30, the of silence the following day Steelers donated $70,000 to prior to its home game at The educators of the Jew- “Finding Our Place in becoming accountable, creat- help the Jewish community Heinz Field in downtown ish Teen Education Network the World” is JTEN’s first ing a healthy support system, and the families directly af- Pittsburgh. invite teens in 8th to 12th community-wide program for the importance of gratitude, fected by the Oct. 27 attack The team’s logo was edited grades and their parents for both teens and parents. The living with emotional pain, on Tree of Life Or L’Simcha to include a Star of David, an evening with international JTEN educators said Fried is choosing mercy and grati- Congregation building while next to the words, “Stron- award-winning speaker Scott the perfect person to deliver tude, and the essentials of worshippers were gathered ger Than Hate.” The image Fried from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, this message, having touched “being enough.” for Shabbat morning ser- was held on posters by fans Feb. 11, at Congregation Ohev more than a million people JTEN is a program of the vices. during the game, as well Shalom in Maitland. through his lectures, humani- Jewish Federation of Greater Prior to the Steeler’s home as signs reading “Shalom” tarian work and publications. Orlando. For the past several game against the Cincin- under a Star of David, and His message to teens is a years, JTEN’s programming nati Bengals, President Art “Pittsburgh Strong.” powerful one of responsibil- has focused on external issues Rooney II presented a check The next Sunday, Nov.4, ity, self-confidence, love and facing teens in our world: to the Jewish Federation of Steelers quarterback Ben self-respect. Israel, social action, commu- Greater Pittsburgh’s Fund for Roethlisberger wore cleats Fried’s discussion will focus nity, politics, anti-Semitism Victims of Terror. Rooney was to honor the victims of the on the question, “What does it and bullying. joined by Tim Hindes, CEO attack. The cleats included mean to ‘be enough’?” Using “Now more than ever, the of Trailblaze Creative, who the redrawn image of the his own story of living with world can be a confusing created the logo, and Mike Steelers’ logo and the words HIV for more than 31 years, place, and this year, we decid- Scott Fried Withrow from Underground “Stronger than Hate.” Fried will offer answers to ed to turn our programming Printing, which also partici- Earlier this month, New this important question in inward to focus on a teen’s Teens and parents can pated in the effort. England Patriots wide re- order to stimulate personal sense of self, how they fit in, register now through Feb. “Our community unified to ceiver Julian Edelman wore emotional growth and self- how they find their own place 6 at www.jfgo.org/ourplace. help the victims of the attack special cleats in honor of the empowerment. Teens and and meaning in the world,” This program is offered free of on our neighbors, friends and victims which bore the words parents will explore the self- said JTEN educator Rabbi charge by the Jewish Federa- worshippers in Squirrel Hill. “The Tree of Life” written in limiting beliefs and negative Joshua Neely of Temple Israel. tion of Greater Orlando and Our hearts remain heavy, but Hebrew, the logo of the Tree feelings that interfere with Before speaking with teens the JTEN Educators, made we are thankful to everyone of Life Or L’Simcha Congre- a teen’s ability for self-ac- and parents together on Feb. up of education professionals who was able to contribute gation, and an Israeli flag, ceptance while using Jewish 11, Fried will hold a special from BBYO North Florida Re- to the efforts to provide emo- imperatives, such as B’zelem breakout session for par- gion, Congregation Beth Am, tional and financial support Steelers on page 15A Elohim and Pikuach Nefesh, ents while teens engage in Congregation Ohev Shalom, during an unthinkable time to help teens find their place icebreaker activities lead by Congregation of Reform Ju- in our city,” Rooney said. in the world. JTEN youth directors from daism, JOIN/JSU, Southwest The Steelers rallied around Some of the major themes Congregation of Reform Juda- Orlando Jewish Congregation, the city’s Jewish community explored will include ac- ism, BBYO and Congregation Temple Israel and Temple Shir in the wake of the attack, cepting our contradictions, Ohev Shalom. Shalom. beginning with a moment PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 11, 2019 Learning can be experienced anywhere at OTA

By Shari Wladis

Learning does not have to be regulated to just a classroom. This is evident at Orlando Torah Academy, the learning spills out into the hallways and beyond. During the first half of the school year the hallways, multipurpose room, and the kitchen were transformed into learning spaces. Using a hallway floor as a backdrop, the first and second graders employed a Design Thinking cycle to arrange miscellaneous items into a page for an “I Spy” book. Another time, one may have seen these same students jumping on a student-sized number line as they explored numbers and addition. Or determining directions on a neighborhood map. The OTA middle school Making a guitar and playing through the computer in the Orlando Torah Academy mul- students have done literature tipurpose room. thinking and engineering challenges in the multipur- pose room. Other times they have done robotic coding in Working on the floor in the hallway at Orlando Torah hallways. Applying fractions Academy. to cooking has been a focus for a number of the classes dition to the curriculum at By using the variety of in the kitchen. Orlando To- Orlando Torah Academy: Art learning spaces around Or- rah Academy teachers take education. The first through lando Torah Academy, the advantage of these additional fifth graders have explored students are reminded that learning spaces to conduct landscapes and perspective as learning can be experienced guided reading sessions, en- well as warm and cool colors. in all God’s places. If you think HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES courage paired reading, and Looking at skylines, color OTA may be the right choice collaborative activites. creation and perspective in for your family contact the Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged Walking into the multi- the art classes transitions to office today for a tour at 407- exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye disorders. Protecting your eyes is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future. purpose room on some days, looking at novels and stories 270-4936 or email orlandoto- you will discover a new ad- with a new perspective. [email protected]. Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection. For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. A public service message from The Vision Council. Congregation Sinai hosts Magic Of Music Fashion Show The Congregation Sinai sale. Numerous door prizes Weiss will be donated to sev- 4 APPLE Sisterhood will host their 10th will be given out. Donations eral children’s organizations TARTLETS annual fashion show on Tues- from local Lake County and in the area. Proceeds will go

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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 11, 2019 PAGE 3A Jewish groups criticize Georgia Democrat for comparing Trump to Hitler regrets after comparing about President Trump are his focus on the need to treat Cooper of the Simon Wiesen- Trump to the one responsible unconscionable,” he added. all people with dignity. As thal Center did not mince for the deaths of 11 million “The fact that Johnson serves we’ve said before, we believe words. people—6 million of whom on the Judiciary Commit- all people must be extremely “Dealing with a seasoned were Jews. tee and the Transportation careful in drawing compari- politician” like Johnson, Coo- “I wanted to make the point and Infrastructure Commit- sons to the Holocaust or the per told JNS, making these that our democracy is under tee—and may be a judiciary Nazi regime in whatever con- remarks in a church makes severe threat, that freedom subcommittee chairman in text. The lesson that should it “all the more concerning” is threatened, and that if we the new Congress—is mind- be reinforced from that dark and is a “way to get media are not vigilant we can allow boggling.” time is that all good people attention” that “comes with tyranny to set in,” he told The The Anti-Defamation need to speak out clearly and a price.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution. League responded tepidly in quickly when morally abhor- “Tying up an emotional “I made the point that this a statement: “We appreciate rent actions are taken by those package,” he said, the com- threat to democracy is a Rep. Johnson’s strong stance in power against any group.” parison was “unconscionable trend across the world, and against anti-Semitism and However, Rabbi Abraham and uncalled for.” Sgt. 1st Class Andrea Hester/U.S. Army we can’t let this happen in Rep. Hank Johnson speaks to members of the 642d Regional our country.” Support Group attending a cake cutting Ceremony, Decatur, ‘Unconscionable and un- Ga., Apr. 8, 2017. The cake cutting ceremony was held to called for’ honor and celebrate the Army Reserve’s 109th Birthday. Honduras plans to move its Jewish scholars and orga- nizations criticized Johnson By Jackson Richman about the harm that could for his remarks. embassy to Jerusalem be done by a man named Hit- “Way over the top,” Ho- (JNS)—Rep. Hank Johnson ler or a man named Trump,” locaust scholar Deborah (JNS) Honduras will be tance. Israel will also open ing, Israel issued a statement (D-Ga.) compared U.S. Presi- he added. Lipstadt told JNS. moving ahead with plans to its market to Honduran coffee noting that Guatemalan dent Donald Trump to Adolf Johnson, who has com- The Emory University pro- open its Israel embassy in Je- imports. President Jimmy Morales Hitler this week during a ser- pared Jews to “termites” in the fessor pointed to her June 2018 rusalem, and Israel is in talks Israel and Honduras and Sara Netanyahu, wife mon he delivered at Atlanta’s past, bashed the president’s piece in The Atlantic, warning to open its Honduran embassy “agreed to pursue a plan of of Israel’s prime minister, Friendship Baptist Church. supporters. about comparing Trump’s in Tegucigalpa, following action, which includes meet- discussed the advancement “The Jewish people know “Americans elected an family-separation policy at a meeting between Israeli ings in their three respective of a Honduran embassy in Je- a thing about tyranny,” authoritarian, an anti-immi- the U.S.-Mexico border to the Prime Minister Benjamin Ne- capitals, to advance the pro- rusalem by phone last month said Johnson at the Atlanta grant, racist strongman to Holocaust: “Using historically tanyahu, Honduran President cess of the decision to open when she was in Guatemala. NAACP event to commemo- the nation’s highest office,” he invalid analogies gives those Juan Orlando Hernandez and embassies in both Tegucigalpa Guatemala and the United rate the 156th anniversary said. “Donald Trump and his responsible for these outrages U.S. Secretary Mike Pompeo and Jerusalem,” according to States are currently the only of the implementation of ‘Make America Great Again’ a chance to wriggle out from on Tuesday. a joint statement from the countries whose embassies the Emancipation Proclama- followers, who want to return the avalanche of justified The meeting occurred on three countries released by are in Jerusalem. Brazil’s new tion, which ended slavery in America back to a time where attacks on their policies. It the sidelines of the inaugura- the U.S. State Department. president has also expressed the South during the Civil white men and white privilege gives them the opportunity tion of Brazilian President Jair “The U.S., Israel and Hondu- interest in relocating its em- War. were unchallenged, and where to shift the conversation to Bolsonaro. ras are uniting as Strategic bassy there. “Hitler did not start the minorities and women were in the appropriateness of the According to reports, Israel Allies, committed to the devel- Last year, Honduras was Nazi Party, but he took over their place. These folks now comparison and the precision will upgrade its Honduran opment and security of their one of just eight countries that the party with charisma control the highest office in of the parallel.” consulate to a full-fledged em- peoples,” Hernandez said in opposed a U.N. General As- and leadership. The Nazis the land.” “Congressman Johnson bassy and provide Honduras a tweet. “The alliance will be sembly resolution condemn- and Hitler became synony- “Donald Trump’s support- is an embarrassment to help on cyber security, water great results and positively ing President Donald Trump’s mous,” he continued. “Much ers are older, less educated, the people of Georgia and a and agriculture technology, impact the HonduranB:7.25” people.” recognition of Jerusalem as like how Hitler took over the less prosperous, and they are master of offensive remarks,” and law-enforcement assis- In connectionT:7” with the meet- Israel’s capital. Nazi party, Trump has taken dying early,” he added. “Their said Republican Jewish Coali- S:6.5” over the Republican Party. lifespans are decreasing, and tion executive director Matt

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that had been used for generations. In the nization’s decisions, they carried one main case of Rachel’s Tomb, UNESCO supported an advantage for Israel—they held up a mirror. Letter from Israel attempt to take over people’s minds in place of They forced us to go back to our roots, to study a physical occupation of the site which failed. them, to delve into them and understand that The Palestinians also biased UNESCO on we are not passersby in this land. We weren’t Who’s in charge? everything having to do with the Cave of the just born here, and we didn’t just move here. Patriarchs. The cave, which Abraham bought The UNESCO resolutions helped us reach the from Ephron the Hittite, was long ago stolen vital recognition that the land of Israel is not By Ira Sharkansky charges against Bibi and Sara, as well as the from us by Muslims. The fact that the two just a haven, it’s also a destination; that its wildness of son Yair. And the various assertions religions co-own it today is a generous compro- many holy sites are the cradle of our people’s Chaos in both of my countries: Israel’s against Trump as president and businessman. mise we forced the Muslims to accept about 50 birth and still correspond to our present and government collapses, and calls an election Will this be Bibi’s last election, or will he years ago. Israel, with help from the forces of our future here, which rests on more than for April 9th; U.S. government is wrapped pull out or be removed before the voting? And history, rectified a few colossal absurdities that “security needs.” up in a dispute about the wall, pulls out will Trump survive persistent rumblings about the Muslims thought would remain in place Now, without UNESCO, we’ll need to remind from Syria, and several other claims about an impeachment? forever. The Palestinians appealed to UNESCO ourselves of that from time to time. the president. I began this note almost a week ago, a day so that at least as far as people’s thinking went, Nadav Shragai is a veteran Israeli journalist. Israel’s election came under dispute about after it became clear that there’d be an elec- a bill for drafting Haredim, as well as looming tion in Israel. There followed expressions from charges against the prime minister. Contend- many of the political claimants, including the ers are clamoring, with a major question fo- still silent Benny Gantz. Everywhere cused on Benny Gantz. He’s a tall, handsome, There’ll be a number of updates until I and quiet former head of the IDF who is polling send this out. in the range of 11-15 Knesset Members, but Chaos is considerable as different individuals hasn’t said much. He recalls Dwight Eisen- indicate their intentions of creating parties Shabbat on the high seas hower, who in the run-up to the 1952 election or running as candidates in existing parties. was courted by both parties, while in the same Polls indicate that Bibi and Likud remain posture of quiet on matters political. Guesses in the lead, while a majority of Israelis oppose about Gantz range from running as the head Bibi as prime minister. Hints of dissatisfaction By Mel Pearlman Later that evening we bumped into several of of his own party, or joining something else in in Likud, along with strong expressions there the more traditional members of the tribe, who the center or left. of support for Bibi, with or without indictment. Whenever my wife and I travel overseas we indicated they were also trying to put together • Gideon Sa’ar seems to be planning to run We’re hearing of Gantz’s new party, which always listen for the sounds of Jewish! a Saturday morning minyon. This was a first in Likud’s primary. His wife has resigned as a Ya’alon, and maybe Livni and Lapid will affiliate Our latest adventure began on the Friday for me, since it had been my experience on key reader for Channel One’s news. with in one way or another. before Christmas when we boarded a cruise prior cruises that Jewish cruisers were more • Likud led by Bibi leads in the polls, even The Arab conglomerate, United List, is ship destined for the Southeast Carribean apt to attend Friday night services, and less while the legal adviser to the government also feeling the pressure, with Ahmed Tibi Sea. Since the cruise began a few days before interested in Shabbat morning services which ponders announcing an indictment before or considering a break and running on his own. Christmas, and Chanukah had already passed, competed with ship-board activities and with after the election, or not at all. And Bibi is off for a week in Brazil, with more we were not sure if the passenger manifest land excursions when in ports-of-call. • Ehud Barak is in the game, as vicious than a few Israelis hoping that he’ll stay as a would contain a significant number of Jewish Nonetheless, I was more than happy to as anyone in criticizing Bibi. He seems to be refugee, along with Sara and Yair. people to create a meaningful Shabbat service lend my support and promised to attend the maneuvering in the center and left of Israeli Ayelet Shaked and Naftaly Bennett have on board our cruise ship. Shabbat morning service. Unfortunately, politics, hoping for someplace to run and hope- declared the creation of a new party, the New Compounding our uncertainty, the ship when I arrived in the morning, we were still fully to rule. Right, said to be truly conservative, with both was scheduled to depart late Friday afternoon, two congregants short of the 10 necessary to • Ari Deri’s SHAS is struggling to get the secular and religious Jews, against the creation only an hour after boarding was completed. conduct a full community service. The prayer minimum necessary to enter the Knesset. of a Palestinian State, and separate from as- The time for Shabbat candle-lighting quickly books used the previous night were nowhere • Moshe Kahlon Kulanu party will struggle sertively right wing former colleagues Bezalel was approaching and most passengers were in sight. Apparently, no one had thought to to remain a minor player. • • Yair Lapid’s Yesh Smotrich and Uri Arial. But they indicate that not quite settled in their cabins or recovered ask guest services to make the prayer books Atid (There is a Future) will strive to become they will coalesce with Jewish Home after the from their long journeys from their distant available for a morning prayer service. prime minister. election. homes to our port of embarkation in Ft. Lau- I took it upon myself to see if I could recover In the U.S., the stock market tumbles and Commentators wondered about their wis- derdale, Florida. the prayer books for the morning service. In Trump tweets. He’s thinking of replacing the dom in praising Netanyahu, but seeking to As soon as my wife and I were processed my search for a member of the crew, I opened a chair of the Federal Reserve, defending himself carve out a place on the right, but perhaps not and aboard ship we checked the ship’s Daily door to another area of the ship. I never found against charges of a surprising telephone call as extreme, but maybe just as extreme. Much of Planner and were pleased to see that it already a crew member or the prayer books, but I did with Erdogan after which he announced a this won’t make any more sense to American contained information for the time and loca- find an individual Jew, decked in tallis and pull out of troops from Syria. Stock markets readers than it does to Israelis tion on the ship for Shabbat services. Our hope siddur sitting alone and praying. He had been elsewhere are tumbling in response. U.S. We’ll see what happens. This will go on was that enough Jewish passengers would unable to find the room where services were Government is partly closed in response to a until parties stabilize, if they do, prior to the check the Daily Planner and be interested and held the night before; and he was unaware of budget crisis, and the chief seems to be los- April voting day. organized enough to attend before the first his co-religionists praying nearby. ing support among Republicans in Congress. Comments welcome, [email protected]. seating for dinner. Telling him we had an “almost minyon” in Trump is arguing with the departing chief Ira Sharkansky (Emeritus), Department Happily and much to our surprise, when my the other room I invited him to join the oth- of staff as to whether the wall is really a wall. of Political Science, Hebrew University of wife and I arrived at the large meeting room ers to which he happily agreed. I never found There’s plenty in the media about criminal Jerusalem. designated for the services, we were met by a the prayer books, but as he followed me into roomful of Jewish people from all over the U.S. the room where the others were praying, I THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. and from many countries around the world exclaimed, “I didn’t find the prayer books, but including Jews from Mexico, Argentina, U.K., better yet, I found another Jew!” ✡ ✡ ✡ CENTRAL FLORIDA’S INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICE ✡ ✡ ✡ South Africa and Israel. If you wish to comment or respond you ISSN 0199-0721 Winner of 46 Press Awards Editor/Publisher It turned out that there were more attendees can reach me at melpearlman322@gmail. Jeffrey Gaeser than there were prayer books (which were com. Please do so in a rational, thoughtful,

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Kim Fischer • Marci Gaeser coming together to celebrate Shabbat on the law in Central Florida since 1972. He has POSTMASTER: Send address changes and other high seas. served as president of the Jewish Federation of correspondence to: HERITAGE, P.O. Box 300742, Contributing Columnists Fern Park, FL 32730. Jim Shipley • Mel Pearlman The services were led by a very knowledge- Greater Orlando; was a charter board member, David Bornstein • Ed Ziegler able self-appointed female congregant accom- first Vice President and pro-bono legal coun- MAILING ADDRESS PHONE NUMBER panied by a more traditional congregant who sel of the Holocaust Memorial Resource and P.O. Box 300742 (407) 834-8787 Production Department sang the prayers in Hebrew using traditional Education Center of Central Florida, as well Fern Park, FL 32730 FAX (407) 831-0507 David Lehman • Gil Dombrosky melodies, joined by most of the congregants as holding many other community leadership email: [email protected] Joyce Gore despite their respective religious backgrounds. positions. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 11, 2019 PAGE 5A What if the Six-Day War never took place? By Martin Sherman problem” is once again likely from their “homeland.” the PLO. Indeed, only days of the original version of the 1967 “homeland,” but on the to dominate much of the in- Sadly, this is not the case. prior to the outbreak of the Palestinian National Charter other, obdurately demand for (JNS)—If the “West Bank” ter- (and intra-) party debate. Charges of “occupation” of Six-Day War, in a somewhat formulated in 1964, a full their post-1967 “homeland” a was part of the “Hashemite To demonstrate this, imagine Palestinian land and dispos- premature flush of triumph, three years before the “West completely different territory, Kingdom” up to 1967, how for a moment that the 1967 session of the Palestinians he crowed: “D Day is ap- Bank” fell under Israeli ad- which they explicitly excluded did it suddenly become the Six-Day War never took place. were widespread long before proaching. The Arabs have ministration. from their previous homeland Palestinians’ long-yearned- Imagine that Israel had not Israel had control of a square waited 19 years for this and Article 24 stipulates pre- demands. for homeland which, up until been compelled to launch inch of the “West Bank.” will not flinch from the war cisely what was not included in This is not a trivial matter. then, they were submissively a preemptive strike in self- Indeed, as early as March of liberation...” the “homeland” of “Palestine” For a sense of nationalism is willing to cede to an alien defense to thwart the Arabs’ 8, 1965, over two years before Ominously, he threatened: and where sovereignty was not driven by a sense of belong- potentate? openly proclaimed aim of total the Six-Day War, Gamal Abdel “This is a fight for the home- sought to be exercised. Indeed, ing, inextricably associated Not since the time of Dr. genocide that resulted in it Nasser, president of Egypt, land; it is either us or the it unequivocally forswears with geographical sites in the Goebels, head of the Nazi pro- taking over Judea-Samaria, proclaimed his bloodcurdling Israelis.” Palestinian claims to “any ter- homeland, where great events paganda machine, has there which the Palestinians now intent: “We shall not enter Here again, Shukeiri’s use ritorial sovereignty over the took place that generated a ever been a case in which con- contend is their long-yearned Palestine with its soil covered of the words “liberation” and West Bank in the Hashemite distinct national historical tinual repetition of a lie has for homeland. in sand, we shall enter it with “homeland” is revealing and Kingdom of Jordan and Gaza.” memory and consequent born such great fruits... Of all Then ask yourself: If that its soil saturated in blood.” damning for current Palestin- It is difficult to imagine a coherent national identity. the Palestinian lies, there is no war had not occurred, where But what “Palestine” was ian claims. more authoritative source for But if such nation-gener- lie greater or more crushing would “Palestine” be? he referring to? It certainly After all, they clearly did exposing as bogus the Pales- ating sites were located in than that which calls for the After all, but for this war, was not the “West Bank” not apply to the “West Bank” tinian claim that the “West pre-1967 Palestine, what such establishment of a separate the “West Bank” would not and Gaza, which were under or the Gaza Strip, since both Bank” and Gaza comprise sites could there possibly be in Palestinian state in the West have fallen under Israeli ad- Jordanian and Egyptian rule were under Arab rule and their “ancient homeland.” post-1967 Palestine that could Bank.—From “Palestinian ministration. Surely then, the respectively. It could only be certainly not considered the This, of course, creates the generate a sense of nation- Lies,” by former far-left Meretz Palestinians would have no the territory within the pre- “homeland” toward which remarkably anomalous situa- hood since the Palestinians Education Minister, Profes- grievances against the Jewish 1967 borders of Israel. Palestinian “liberation” ef- tion we have today. themselves conceded that, sor Amnon Rubinstein, July state and there would be no Similarly savage senti- forts were directed. On the one hand, the Pal- up to 1967, it did not consti- 30, 1976. charges of Israel “occupying ments were expressed by Ah- The true significance of estinians profess that they are tute part of their homeland? As the new elections ap- Palestinian lands” and dispos- mad Shukeiri, Yasser Arafat’s these terms emerges with willing to forego all the terri- proach, the “Palestinian sessing the “Palestinians” predecessor as chairman of stark clarity from the text tory they claimed as their pre- War on page 15A How to teach the Holocaust going forward By Ben Cohen signs each prisoner to a differ- that were systematically dehu- colonists in southern Africa, Europe and the United States, then national security adviser, ent slave-labor brigade—most manized by the Nazi regime, the Armenians annihilated by social protest movements, like Condoleezza Rice, and asked: (JNS)—Imagine that you of which involves punishing and who knew that they faced Turkey—to this day remain the “Yellow Vests” in France “Why didn’t FDR bomb the are a Jewish doctor in a Nazi physical work in the freezing death at any second. They under-recognized. Is the Ho- and the Women’s March in camps? He should have.” concentration camp. About outdoors, with the risk of formed part of an intense, locaust any more important America, have been penetrat- But that burning question 100 of your fellow inmates frostbite, pneumonia, beat- enriching four days that I than these other demonstra- ed by Holocaust-deniers, anti- has been superseded by an suffer from diabetes, and you ings or even execution for spent with a small group of tions of inhumanity in the Semitic conspiracy-mongers even more vexing one: Why only have a limited supply of those deemed by the guards other writers and journalists world? and advocates of Israel’s should we seek to educate insulin, with no guarantee of to be slacking off. at Yad Vashem. And there’s more, much elimination. And that’s not to about the Holocaust in a more on the way. Do you give One of your fellow prison- We were there to study and more. In countries like Lithu- mention those who don’t deny world where the phrase “Never each patient the same amount ers, who is near death, begs discuss many aspects of the ania and Ukraine, wartime the Holocaust, but who do de- Again” sounds farcical to regardless of individual need, you to sneak his card into the Holocaust but we did so from collaborators with the Nazis light in invoking the Nazis as many people? There are many knowing that all of them will box of a different brigade, one a starting point that the way are now being lionized as anti- a metaphor for Israeli policies answers, and to my mind, likely die within a month? Or with lighter duties. As long we teach younger generations Communist heroes. The Is- towards the Palestinians or there are three key ones. do you reserve your supply for as your Nazi overlords don’t about the Nazi attempt to raeli government walks along go the whole hog by making First, there are still some those with a greater chance of catch you, it’s in your power destroy the Jews of Europe an undignified diplomatic fun of it in front of receptive survivors of the Holocaust. survival, meaning that those to do that. But if you decide and North Africa is changing tightrope with these states, crowds in theaters. I think specifically of a man with severe diabetes will die to help your friend, then you radically. having to balance present-day In the recent past, perhaps named Albert de Leeuw and much sooner as a result? have to switch his card out Holocaust survivors have bilateral relations with guard- the key Holocaust debate 150 other former child labor- Or imagine that you are with that of another person all reached advanced ages. ianship of the Holocaust’s was why the Allied powers ers in the Amsterdam ghetto, the Greek Jewish teenager from the same brigade, and There won’t be any in-person truths. Elsewhere, some did so little to stop it. During who have still not received from Salonika who’s picked then that person spends his testimonies to listen to within Holocaust-commemoration our group’s exchange with proper compensation from up enough German from or her days facing snow, ice a few years (even if we are left activities are so fixated with Avner Shalev, the chair of the German government, and polishing the boots of the Nazi and death from starvation. with their accounts captured a universalist approach that Yad Vashem who pioneered who continue fighting for that officers occupying your city What do you do? And, come to on video, holograms or other basic facts about the Jewish its renewal over the last two recognition in the twilight of that when you are eventually think of it, how on earth did forms of visual reproduc- character of the genocide— decades, he related the story their lives. To abandon them deported to Auschwitz, your you end up in this position? tion.) Since 1945, countless like the young diarist Anne of guiding President George now would be shameful. linguistic abilities land you a The above documented other genocides have wreaked Frank having been Jewish, W. Bush around the institute’s Second, however much low-level clerical job, instead examples are what many Holo- havoc in the Balkans, much and being deported because impressive museum. When people believe politics has of a spot in the gas chamber. caust scholars and educators of Africa, Asia and the Middle she was Jewish—are buried they reached the exhibit changed with the rise of In the camp administrative like to describe as “choiceless East, while a few of those that in a bid to be “meaningful” about President Franklin D. populism on left and right office, you have access to the choices”—appalling moral occurred before—the Herero to “everyone.” Roosevelt’s response to the index-card system that as- dilemmas faced by a people nation slaughtered by German Meanwhile, in Western Holocaust, Bush turned to his Teaching on page 15A ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ gets Jewish converts totally wrong By Alexandra and always for a laugh, never ish Catskills resort. Astrid My fiance and I both found or so many other things. But writer based in New York. She Pucciarelli advancing the plot. She is is much more religiously Astrid’s portrayal pretty no, she’s the token convert. received her bachelor’s degree one-dimensionally trying so observant than the family cringe worthy. It would be Many people already are from Sarah Lawrence College Since it came into our hard to be Jewish in a way that surrounds her, like when fine for there to be a run- leery about converts to Ju- and is currently a graduate lives last year, I’ve had that does not feel authentic. she fasts for Tisha b’Av, the ning joke about Astrid the daism (especially those who student of the sociology of col- mixed feelings about “The Full disclosure: My father is saddest day on the Jewish convert, but the fact that convert “for spouses”), and lective memory and trauma Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Its a convert to Judaism, and my calendar, while the rest of this is her only characteristic this kind of portrayal in the at the New School for Social jokes sometimes feel like the fiance is currently undergo- her family eats a hearty on the show is problematic. media doesn’t help. Research. She has written kind of things we say among ing the conversion process. breakfast unaware of this day She could be Super Jew, but This article originally ap- for Tablet Magazine, The L other fellow Jews, but not So when portrayals of Jew- of mourning. she could also be known as a peared on Alma. Magazine, Blood + Milk, and to the rest of the world. The ish converts in pop culture Converts are known to be super dresser or super smart Alexandra Pucciarelli is a Brooklyn Magazine. show does have a comforting miss the mark, I feel it on a more religiously strict than familiarity that makes it easy personal level. their born-Jewish counter- to binge watch; I watched the When I look at Astrid, I see parts, and “The Marvelous whole first season in a single a woman who is trying her Mrs. Maisel” brings this day. It’s like the matzah ball best. She goes to Israel 11 trope to the extreme. Therein soup of TV shows: It feels like times as a means to impress lies the problem: In this home, with all of the wonder- her in-laws and prove her extremity, Astrid becomes ful and less-than-wonderful Jewishness. My fiance echoed a thing to laugh at—look at associations that home can this sentiment—that as a the dumb goy, she doesn’t have. convert, you feel you have get what it really means One of its more discom- to prove that you are Jewish, to be Jewish. One moment fiting aspects (besides the unlike those who were born that particularly sticks out mostly non-Jewish staff and into the faith. It is hard to be is when Astrid returns from cast—a subject for a different accepted as part of the group, Israel for the 11th time with article) is the character of As- and Astrid takes her Judaism huge mezuzahs that she gives trid, Midge’s sister-in-law and to the extreme by constantly Midge and her mother. Her recent convert to Judaism. using Yiddish phrases and gift is seen as clueless rather In the newly released second pointing out the positives of than thoughtful. Later in the season, she is treated as the Judaism to those around her. episode she gives Midge’s son butt of a joke rather than a This is especially evident a set of rabbi playing cards, whole person with a full life. in season 2, which mostly which the other characters She appears infrequently takes place in a classic Jew- also view as foolish. PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 11, 2019 THURSDAY, JANUARY 17 What’s A COMPREHENSIVE Congregation Beth Sholom—Rabbi’s Roundtable Discussion Group, 1 p.m. at 7375 Powell COMMUNITY Road, Wildwood. Info: bethsholomflorida.org or call 352-326-3692. LIGHT COS Men’s Club—Bowling, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. at Aloma Bowl, 2530 Aloma Ave., Winter Park. Happening CALENDAR SHABBAT CANDLES AT RSVP to [email protected] Cost: $18. 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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 11, 2019 PAGE 7A Butterflies surround me By Marilyn Shapiro except for that one beautiful not make it, but the butterflies difficult subject understand- yellow butterfly. represented their immortal able to children.” Butterflies. Beautiful but- Since then, Friedmann’s souls. They would live on in As a Jew brought up in the terflies. Blue. Yellow. Even butterfly has symbolized to a different form.” aftermath of World War II, I black and white. I am so me the spirit of the six million Hope and resistance have known anti-Semitism. I enthralled by them. But Jews who were murdered in The symbol of the butterfly have experienced it first-hand butterflies have a greater the Holocaust. Each time I also took on a special personal through slights and rejections meaning to me than just see a butterfly, flitting from meaning for Gail Danziger and insults. Furthermore, I their beauty. flower to flower and some- Klein, a member of Colorado’s have gained a greater under- In 1993, I read a book called times even landing on me, Synagogue of the Summit. standing through reading “I Never Saw Another But- I am reminded of all those Her mother, Renee Rosen- and watching both fictional terfly,” a collection of short lost lives. berg Danziger, had survived and non-fictional accounts pieces, poems, and drawings Personal meaning the Holocaust, but Renee’s that describe in detail the completed by the children in And I believe they are with little sister had perished. The history of my people and its one of Nazi Germany’s infa- me. In July 2017, my husband only surviving memory was numerous encounters with mous concentration camps. Larry and I were taking a hike a picture of eight-year-old those who wish to destroy us. The eponymous poem was on one of Colorado’s moun- Lilli, dressed in a butterfly Personal fears of being physi- written by Pavel Friedmann, tainous trails. At one point, costume. Inspired by the black cally harmed, however, were a 21-year-old man who was we were going up a narrow, and white photograph, author never in the forefront of my transported to the Theresien- steep path—too steep for Ann M., along with Renee’s mind. Yes, when we sat in our Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the terfly earrings—silver or blue stadt concentration camp on my wimpy tastes. Under my daughter Gail, co-authored synagogues—whether it be in ADL’s chief executive. Social or purple or mosaic. Walk out April 26, 1942. breath, and then a little louder “Music of the Butterfly: A Upstate New York or in Central media platforms, he added, to our lanai, and you will see Poem of the Holocaust so that Larry could hear me, Story of Hope.” The children’s Florida, I have often sensed have “allowed the kind of two butterflies on the wall Seven weeks later, he in- I whispered, “I’m scared! I’m book recounts how “Little Re- concern that maybe, just poison of prejudice to grow over our flowers. A butterfly scribed a poem on a thin scared.” At that moment, a nee” used her imagination and maybe, our service would be at a velocity and to expand in garden, planted just beyond sheet of paper, describing his butterfly flew in front of me. her love of music to survive, interrupted by an individual ways that really are unprec- the lanai screen, draws the looking out beyond the barbed Was it the six million leading first in the ghetto and later with a gun. But I would assure edented.” beautiful creatures to my wire fence, beyond the camp, me up the path to safety? in Auschwitz concentration myself, “This is America. We And then came Pittsburgh. yard. Butterflies surround beyond “my people.” He sees The image of butterflies camp. Patricia Hardwick’s are safe.” While Jews were participat- me, as does the memory of a butterfly, what he calls “The was also seared into the mind beautiful illustrations use Or were we? In August 2017, ing in a Shabbat morning the Shoah and now of Tree of last, the very last, /So richly, of Dr. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross. the metamorphosis of the at the “Unite the Right” rally service, a gunman shouting Life. They remind me to heed brightly, dazzlingly yellow... The world-renown psycholo- caterpillar into a butterfly in Charlottesville, Virginia, “All Jews must die!” killed 11 the warnings from those who vOnly I never saw another gist known for her research as the metaphor for keeping Neo-Nazis marched in the innocent victims. Synagogues fight hate, prejudice, racism, butterfly. /That butterfly was on death and dying visited hope alive despite incredible streets, chanting racist and around the country imme- xenophobia, denial, and most the last one. /Butterflies don’t the Maidenek concentration obstacles and atrocities. anti-Semitic slogans, includ- diately upped their security importantly—indifference. live in here/in the ghetto.” camp in 1946. The now empty Barnes and Noble praised ing “Jews will not replace measures. Never again. On Sept. 29, 1944, Friedma- children’s barracks were filled the book for teaching the us.” In February 2018, the Suddenly for me, “This is First published in (Capital nn was deported to Auschwitz, with abandoned toys and importance of “standing Anti-Defamation League America. We are safe” was no Region, New York) The Jew- where he perished. His poem shoes. On the walls, Kubler- up for what is right and the documented in its annual longer true. ish World was discovered after liberation Ross saw hundreds of butter- knowledge that tomorrow can report a 57 percent increase in Since 1945, “The Six Mil- Marilyn Cohen Shapiro, a and later donated to the Jewish flies that had been scratched bring a better day.” anti-Semitic episodes, includ- lion” has always been the resident of Kissimmee, FL, Museum in Prague. and etched with fingernails Fred Zeidman former ing harassment, vandalism, number that represents all is a regular contributor to I was drawn by the power of and pebbles. Twenty-five years chairman of the Board, U.S. and assault, in the United who died in the Holocaust. In the (Capital Region NY) Jew- the poem, the image it created of working with the dying, Holocaust Museum, Washing- States in 2017. The increase my mind, the number is now ish World and the Heritage in my mind: An emaciated Kubler-Ross made the con- ton, DC, said that the book was the largest in a single year Six Million and Eleven. Florida Jewish News. She is young man in ragged black nection. “The children knew was “an important addition since the ADL began tracking Look at my neck. Sitting the author of two compilation and white striped pajamas they were going to die and to Holocaust literature for in 1979. “The diminishment on a chain is a blue enamel of her stories, “There Goes My looks out of the barbed wire were leaving their message the young, and should be a of civility in society creates an butterfly. Look at my ears. Heart” (2016) and “Tikkun fence. Everything in the pic- of hope,” Kübler-Ross later go-to resource for parents and environment in which intoler- Often my usual small gold Olam.” Marilyn Shapiro’s blog ture is in black and white— recalled. “Their bodies might teachers seeking to make this ance really can flourish,” said hoops are replaced with but- is theregoesmyheart.me. PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 11, 2019 Jewish community of Jordan Valley: ‘Bedouin carrying out a mass-scale takeover of land’ (JNS)—Residents of an recent years thanks to the dinator for Judea and Samaria. illegal Bedouin outpost adja- support it receives from the “According to the system of law cent to Maskiyot were served Palestinian Authority and in force in Judea and Samaria, with demolition orders. But a consortium of European agricultural use enables squat- instead of pulling up stakes, organizations, have begun to ters to establish certain legal they are carrying out a take- cultivate a huge tract of land, rights to the land. In this case, over through agricultural using heavy equipment, in an as in others, despite the fact that projects on state land—land attempt to establish facts on the land in question is state- that is registered to the state, the ground that will be very owned and is registered as such straddling the area’s major difficult to reverse. in the Land Registry, if the Civil traffic artery, in an area under “It should be clear that seem- Administration fails to enforce military closure orders. ingly innocent agricultural the law at the earliest stage, the The Bedouin residents of activity has significant legal result will most likely be a long, the illegal outpost, which ramifications,” says Yishai drawn-out, exhausting legal has grown significantly in Hemo, Regavim’s Field Coor- battle which, the government often simply does not bother fighting.” The agricultural takeover at Maskiyot is only one of Bat Mitzvah many such cases. “The Roots of Evil” report, released by Regavim Dena Rose Kolin Regavim in December, con- Land seizure at Maskiyot. Dena Rose Kolin, daugh- tains a detailed survey of the ter of Lawrence and Karen full extent of the methodical “Roots Project,” aims to dis- Each individual tract of Every olive tree that is planted, Kolin of Orlando, will be program of agricultural land- rupt the territorial contiguity state land that is overtaken by every terrace that is built, called to the Torah as a bat seizure being carried out by of Israeli control in Area C, P.A.-sponsored agricultural strengthens the Arab hold on mitzvah on Saturday, Jan. the Palestinian Authority and and to enable the P.A. to claim work is part of the larger Arab the territory and establishes 19, 2019, at Congregation its foreign supporters. ownership of the land under vision of mass-scale seizure of facts that may become im- Ohev Shalom in Maitland. This program, the P.A.’s the current system of law. Israeli-controlled territory. mutable down the line. Dena is in the seventh grade at Lake Highland Preparatory School. She is a member of Kadima Clermont Congregation and has participated in many student produc- tions through the Youth Sinai celebrates Tu B’shvat Program at Ohev, The Roth Family JCC and school. Dena also studies dance. The Congregation Sinai on Tu B’shvat. This open generation in a concrete and women’s outreach programs Sharing in the family’s simcha will be Dena’s sister, Sisterhood will host their participatory service will be loving way. inviting all area churches. Abi; her father’s brother, Marc and his family from Los annual Tu B’shvat holiday filled with music, special foods Congregation Sinai has Congregation Sinai regu- Angeles; her mother’s brother, David and his family from celebration service starting and a celebration. Everyone is been serving the Jewish Com- larly supplies donations of Atlanta; and grandmothers Shelley Kolin of Winter Park at 7:30 p.m. on Friday night, welcome. munity of Central Florida food and supplies for the local and Barbara Klaus of Atlanta. Friends and relatives from Jan. 18. Congregation Sinai Tu B’shvat is a Jewish since 2003. Most Sinai mem- schools as well as food and California; Miami, Ohio; Washington, D.C.; and New York will host a special Rebbe’s holiday occurring on the bers live in the Clermont, clothing for Puerto Rican will also attend the joyous occasion. Table service welcoming 15th day of the Hebrew Minneola and Groveland and U.S. Virgin Islands Relief Shabbat with a special focus month of Shevat each year; areas. Joe and Lynn Goldo- Fund. While the local Jewish Tu B’shvat is also called vitz provide unique spiritual Community attends prayer “Rosh HaShanah La’Ilanot,” leadership. This organization services and special events, literally meaning “New Year serves as a house of prayer, they have opened their doors of the Trees.” In contempo- assembly and study in which to the entire community, rary Israel, this holiday is the spectrum of Jewish ex- regardless of faith. They hold Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel celebrated as an ecological pression is cultivated, pro- ongoing food drives for the awareness day and trees are tected and nurtured. With needy and interfaith activities planted in celebration. Tu student education programs to promote understanding Proudly Serving Our Community B’shvat officially begins at for children, adult education, among our different cultures. sundown on Sunday, Jan. 20, Bible study groups, bar/bat They welcome all with open For Over 35 Years 2019. Tu B’shvat is one of four mitzvah study programs and arms and hearts to their ser- “New Year’s” mentioned in group tours to Israel; they vices. They provide a warm the Jewish Mishnah. strive to educate adults and spiritual environment for L’dor v’dor ... The 15th of Shevat was children in Judaism’s rich observance of Jewish holidays, marked as the new year for heritage with contemporary traditions and celebration of From Generation to Generation calculating the age of trees significance, while sharing our members’ life cycle events. for tithing. In ancient days, Jewish culture, rituals, tradi- For more information there was a custom of plant- tions and values. They hold about Sinai’s Friday night Tu • Traditional Jewish Funerals ing a cedar tree for a baby Shabbat Services every Friday B’shvat service and all other boy and a cypress tree for Night with Torah readings as holiday services, member- a baby girl. As the children well as ongoing Bible & Bagel ship and special events, call • Non-Traditional Services grew, they tended the trees, Study Workshops and Heal- 352-243-5353. Email info@ so the trees would grow along ing Services. They also hold congregation-sinai.org. Visit • Interstate Shipping with the children. When they many very creative service www.congregation-sinai.org. married, they often used the events for every major Jew- Congregation Sinai is located tree wood for the poles in ish Holiday. Sinai has a very at 1200 West Broad Street, • Pre-Arranged Funerals their wedding chuppah. This active Sisterhood and Men’s Groveland, FL 34736. Afford- carried the tradition for lov- Club with numerous special able annual memberships are Shalom Assurance Plan ing trees from generation to events. They also host various available.

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More than half a century has past, yet, dance, flag football, golf, soccer, swimming, tennis, and vol- after going there with our son, RON, the other night (Irv is leyball. Phone ROBBY ETZKIN, 407-621-4031. SEMINOLE COUNTY deceased), I have to say it is still one of the finest restaurants JCC 39ers Cinema Sundays... Heritage News, 207 O’Brien Rd., Fern Park • Barnes and Noble in the area! And the service was as good as the food. (Our The movie “The Help” will be featured at the Maitland JCC Booksellers, 451 E. Altamonte Dr. Suite 2317, Altamonte Springs server, a beautiful gal, happens to be the granddaughter of Senior Lounge on Sunday, Jan. 13. Phone the JCC at 407-645- & 1260 Oviedo Marketplace Blvd., Oviedo • Bagel King, 1472 Al and Linda!) 5933 for time and details. Refreshments are available. Semoran Blvd., Casselberry • Kosher Kats, 744 W. S.R. 434, Uh Oh... upsetting news from Germany... JCC Meet & Mingle Mondays... Longwood • Central Florida Hillel, 4250 Alafaya Trail, Ste. “The World Jewish Congress has co-signed a joint declaration On Monday, Jan. 14 at Brookdale Island Lake, there will 212-363, Oviedo Most Publix Supermarkets • All Winn Dixie initiated by the Central Council of Jews in Germany condemn- be a luncheon/therapeutic music workshop. Phone the JCC, Supermarkets ing the far-right Alternative for Germany party as a ‘racist and 407-645-5933 for time and details. anti-Semitic party’ and a ‘threat to Jewish life in Germany.’ Benefitting a good cause... VOLUSIA COUNTY The declaration, titled No Alternative for Jews, was released Lovely and caring, JOANNE CROSS, hosted (for the 8th year) Federation of Volusia/Flagler, 470 Andalusia Ave., Ormond on the same day that a separate group called Jews for the AfD a Post Christmas-End of Chanukah-Halfway to New Years Din- Beach • Most Publix Supermarkets • All Winn Dixie Supermar- marked its official launch in Weisbaden. ner and silent auction to benefit Seminole County’s Salvation kets • Barnes & Noble, 1900 W. International Speedway Blvd., The declaration reads, in part: Army. It took place at the Longwood Community Building, Daytona Beach • Perrys Ocean Edge Resort, 2209 South Atlantic ‘The AfD is not a party for Jews... the AfD is a party in which 200 W. Warren Avenue in Longwood on Dec. 28. There was Ave. Daytona Beach • Debary City Hall • Debary Library • Vienna hatred of the Jews and the denial of the Shoah have a home. fabulous food and entertainment including singers, comedy Coffee House, 275 Charles Richard Beall Bl • Starbucks, 2575 The AfD is anti-democratic, inhumane, and in many parts, and dancers. And, of course, the silent auction. Enterprise Rd • Orange City City Hall • Orange City Library • right-wing extremist.’ Dunkin Donuts, 1296 S Woodland • Stetson University Carlton The recent violent neo-Nazi march in Chemnitz, the dec- Union • Deland Chamber of Commerce • Sterling House, 1210 laration continues, ‘should be enough to show the spirit of Stone St • Temple Israel, 1001 E New York Ave • Beth Shalom, the AfD, where AfD representatives marched side by side with 1310 Maximillan St • Deltona City Hall • Deltona Library • neo-Nazis, hooligans, and Pegida supporters, not shying away Temple Shalom, 1785 Elkam Dr. • Temple Israel, 1001 E from taking to the streets with people giving the Hitler salute... New York Ave, Deland • College Arms Apt, 101 Amelia Ave, The AfD sows hatred and divides society. It incites people and Deland • Boston Gourmet Coffee House, 109 E. New York Ave, attacks our democracy on a daily basis. The AfD is increasingly Deland • Stetson University Carlton Union, 421 N Woodland radicalized and does not shy away from rewriting history. Ave, Deland • Family Bookstore, 1301 N Woodland Ave, Deland The undersigned Jewish organizations and associations • Deland Chamber of Commerce, 336 Woodland Ave, Deland call upon all democratic forces within and outside the Jewish • Deland City Hall, 120 S Florida Ave, Deland • Beth Shalom, community to engage openly and visibly against any form of 206 S. Sprng Garden Ave, Deland • Orange City Library, 148 anti-democratic, anti-Semitic, racist, and nationalistic ideol- Albertus Way, Orange City • Boston Gourmet Coffee House, ogy in Germany, Austria, and France.” 1105 Saxon Blvd, Deltona • Deltona Library, 2150 Eustace Ave, (I’ve said it before: I may not be around too many more Deltona • Temple Shalom, 1785 Elkam Dr., Deltona • Deltona years, but I worry about my children, grandchildren, great Community Center, 980 Lakeshore Dr, Deltona • Debary City grandchildren, etc. NEVER AGAIN!) Hall, 16 Colomba Rd, Debary • Debary Library, 200 Florence Remembering Jewish history... K. Little, Debary Dec. 27, 1856, was the birthday of poet Naphtali Herz Imber. “Hatikvah, the Israeli Na- OSCEOLA COUNTY tional Anthem, (meaning Cindy M. Rothfield, P.A., 822 W. Bryan St., Kissimmee • Most “The Hope”) was based on JoAnne Cross (r) with Yours Truly and Judy Cotter at Publix Supermarkets • Verandah Place Realty, 504 Celebration a poem written in Palestine Salvation Army donation and party. Ave., Celebration • All Winn Dixie Supermarkets • St. Cloud in the 1880s by Naftali Herz City Hall, 1300 9th St, St. Cloud • St. Cloud Library, 810 13th Imber, a Galician Jew. It (What a sweetheart with a big heart JoAnne is! She put in St, St. Cloud • Southern Oaks, 3865 Old Canoe Creek Rd, St. became the official anthem so much time working hard and spending so much money Cloud • Plantation Bay, 4641 Old Canoe Creek Rd, St. Cloud of the Zionist movement in and she still looked prettier than me! I repeat... I can’t take • Osceola Chamber of Commerce, 1425 Hwy 192, St. Cloud • 1933 and later became Israel’s the competition!) Valencia College, 1800 Denn John Ln, Kissimmee • Kissimmee National Anthem. Shout-Out... City Hall, 101 Church St, Kissimmee • Kissimmee Library, 211 Hatikvah is about the undy- Simply the best... and the best looking! (I’m old enough to E. Dakin, Kissimmee • Robinson’s Coffee Shop, 114 Broadway, ing hope of the Jewish people, flirt if I want to!) I’m referring to server, ED MARTINEZ at my Kissimmee • Osceola County Courthouse, 2 Courthouse Sq, through the 2,000 years of favorite matzo ball soup hangout, TooJays Deli in Altamonte Kissimmee • Barnies, 3236 John Young Pwy, Kissimmee • exile that they would someday Springs. Not only is he good at his job, he has a great person- Reily’s Gourmet Coffee, 3831 Vine St, Kissimmee • Shalom return to independence in ality and a great memory. (He remembered me from my last Aleichem, 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd, Kissimmee • Books-A-Million, their homeland. Imber died in visit... and even remembered what I ordered!) 2605 W. Osceola Pwy (522), Kissimmee • Lower East Side Deli, New York City on Oct. 8, 1909. One for the road... 8548 Palm Parkway, Lake Buena The Roth Jewish Com- Isaac is one of the world’s great hypochondriacs. One day Naphtali Herz Imber munity Center... he goes to see Dr. Myers and says, with a worried look on his There will be a Maccabi face, “Doctor, you must help me.” Games Informational meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 15, from 6:30 “How can I do that, Isaac?” asks Dr. Myers calmly. Sudoku (see page 14A for solution) p.m. -7:15 p.m. at the Maitland campus. “Do you remember those voices in my head I’ve been com- Learn how to join us on the road to Atlanta from July 28- plaining about?” says Isaac. Aug. 2, 2019! The JCC Maccabi Games is the largest sports “Yes of course,” replies Dr. Myers. competition for Jewish teens in the world. Team Orlando has “Well,” says Isaac, “they’ve suddenly gone away.” a rich tradition at the Games. The days are filled with sports “So what’s the problem then?” asks Dr. Myers. and the nights with massive parties. There is also an awesome “I think I’m going deaf,” replies Isaac. Lawmakers reintroduce pro-Israel legislation By Ron Kampeas shepherd the bill through the gress that would establish Syria sanctions and reaffirm last Congress. federal legal protections for a defense alliance with Jordan. WASHINGTON (JTA)— The bill would codify the states passing laws divesting Separately, in the U.S. House Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., 2016 deal between the Obama pension funds from groups of Representatives, Rep. Chris reintroduced pro-Israel legis- administration and the Ne- that boycott Israel. Smith, R-N.J., reintroduced lation that did not get passed tanyahu government that That section of Rubio’s bill legislation that would set a 90- in the last Congress. guarantees Israel $38 billion is called “The Combating day deadline for the administra- Rubio, together with Sen. in security assistance over 10 BDS Act of 2019,” referring to tion to name an international James Risch, R-Idaho, on years, protecting the assis- the Boycott, Divestment and anti-Semitism monitor. That Thursday, the first day of the tance from the whims of any Sanctions movement target- has bipartisan backing. new Congress, combined a current or future president. ing Israel. It is separate from Jewish groups and lawmak- number of Middle East-related Ros-Lehtinen garnered mas- a more controversial anti-BDS ers have decried President bills into a single bill, jump- sive bipartisan support and got bill that also failed to make Donald Trump’s failure to fill starting the process. the bill through the House. Al- the cut in the last Congress the position left vacant since “First item the Senate will lies led by Rubio secured a ma- that would have established he took office. The position take up in the new Congress jority in the Senate, but Sen. criminal fines for joining Israel that is congressionally man- will be our bill to deal with Rand Paul, R-Ky., who opposes boycotts. A number of Demo- dated under a 2004 law, also the crisis in #Syria & support foreign aid, used the senator’s crats shied away from that bill, authored by Smith. our allies in the Middle East,” prerogative to block it. citing free speech concerns, “Now is the time to fill Rubio said on Twitter. “Groovy!” Ros-Lehtinen inhibiting its advancement in this position and provide Among the items is the said Thursday on Twitter when Congress. Its authors, Sens. all the support necessary to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen United JTA posted the news. “I’m no Ben Cardin, D-Md., and Rob carry out this all-important States-Israel Security As- longer in Congress but my Portman, R-Ohio, have indi- mission,” Smith said in a sistance Authorization Act, bills live on!” cated they would make another statement. “The eyes of the named for the Republican Also included in the Rubio try this Congress. world are looking to us to be Florida congresswoman who bill is a version of a bill that Rubio’s bill also includes the leader in the fight against just retired and who tried to languished in the last Con- sections that would enhance anti-Semitism.” PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 11, 2019 Young and ‘older’ alike enjoyed Men’s Night Out

Shown here (l-r): Mark Goodman, Richard Schwartz and Student members of UCF Hillel. Hilton Geartner. By Christine DeSouza Federation created an entry point into communal en- This year’s Men’s Night gagement post graduation. Out, the second event of The gentleman who came to its kind, was again, a suc- Men’s Night Out met with cessful venture. While last future advisers, mentors, year’s get together could be and employers, and that is defined as a reunion among the best way to bridge the men who hadn’t seen each gap between campus and other in a while, this year’s the greater community and event was a coming together ensure our students stay of generations. Several UCF active in the Jewish com- and Stetson Hillel members munity post graduation.” turned out for the good eats Not only was the gap and networking with active bridged, and friendships members of the Jewish com- made, funds were raised munity. for Jewish youth education “We are incredibly grate- programs. ful to the leadership of Fed- There were 203 men in at- A table of wise and older-generation gentlemen. eration for extending tickets tendance this year, compared to Stetson Hillel students,” to last year’s total of 162. an even better success. Andy tainment by standup comic ed to remain anonymous, Temple Israel, Southwest said Sam Friedman, Stetson And five synagogues were Rosen said that getting out Cory Kahaney, many men shared, “It’s a wonderful night Orlando Jewish congre- Hillel director. “By creating represented, compared to four of the kitchen and letting were seen in groups talking and getting away from work gation, Congregation of a space where the students last year. Arthur’s (catering) take over with other people they might and family sometimes is a Reform Judaism, Congrega- can network and meet with As with most “second annu- the food was great. not have known before this great thing.” tion Ohev Shalom and The active members of the Or- als,” improvements were made While enjoying good food, night. This event was organized Jewish Federation of Greater lando Jewish community, for this year’s event, making it good drinks and great enter- Another person, who want- by Congregation Beth Am, Orlando. Brazil applauds Netanyahu-Bolsonaro bromance, new ties with Jewish state legend) at Bolsonaro, and Ne- the attention of locals and and Netanyahu’s eagerness to tanyahu’s nickname, “Bibi.” tourists. A scene of the pair embrace the new leader Israel “We can’t understand that eating at a seafront restau- has earned mixed reactions we had to wait over 70 years rant fueled a media spectacle. at home. During a briefing for an Israeli prime minister When someone in the crowd of with an unnamed “senior to visit Brazil. It’s not just on-lookers yelled “Free Pales- Israeli political officer” dur- friendship, not a pact of inter- tine,” Netanyahu immediately ing the visit, reporters noted est, it’s also a pact of brothers,” added, “from Hamas.” that Bolsonaro has denigrated Netanyahu said in Hebrew, On Sunday, the couple was women, the LGBTQ commu- calling Bolsonaro “yedidi” (my escorted by Rio state governor nity and minorities. friend) and “mitos.” Wilson Witzel and his wife for “Netanyahu has his own “It is with great honor that a visit to Sugarloaf Mountain, positions and no one can di- today I meet the man that is to a city landmark. They headed minish them, both regarding me an example of patriotism, for the Christ the Redeemer women and regarding gays,” austerity and work for his statue that tops the moun- the official replied, according people,” Bolsonaro said. “I tain, but the prime minister to Haaretz. “He is liberal in have always mentioned Israel couldn’t leave the car for these matters, and it’s not just as an example. Look what security reasons. At night, political correctness…. But they don’t have and see what the statue was lit up with the our relations with countries they are. Look at Brazil, look blue-and-white colors of the like Brazil is important. We what we have and see what Israeli flag . do not have the privilege of we don’t have. We’ll be more The Israeli prime minister hunkering down in our for- than just good partners, we’ll met with Jewish officials from tress of purity.” Fernando Frazao/Agencia Brasil be brothers.” several Brazilian states. At a Later, Netanyahu was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, shakes hands with Brazilian President Back at their hotel, the press conference, he high- joined by Witzel and Rio Jair Bolsonaro in Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 28, 2018. Netanyahus held a private lighted Israel’s innovation and mayor Marcelo Crivella at a Friday evening Shabbat cer- high technology contribu- meeting with several evan- By Marcus M. Gilban and social media. They con- “We will be starting a emony, where Freddy Glatt, tions to the world. gelical Christian leaders who, trasted with the previous 16 difficult government from the 90-year-old president of “President Bolsonaro said fiercely pro-Israel, played a RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)— years of tension between the January. In order to overcome the Brazilian Association of he’ll move the embassy to pivotal role in supporting Israeli Prime Minister Benja- two country’s under Brazil’s the obstacles, we’ll need Holocaust Survivors in Rio, Jerusalem. It’s not a matter of Bolsonaro’s election. Brazil min Netanyahu gained pop left-wing regimes. good allies, good friends, offered the Kiddush blessing. if, but when,” Netanyahu told has the world’s second-largest star status among Brazilians “This visit is unique, his- good brothers. Like Benja- “His visit is very positive the audience about the Brazil- Christian population and the during a five-day visit to the torical, a turnover in the re- min Netanyahu,” Bolsonaro to show Brazilians the good ian leader’s promise during largest Catholic population. country to attend the inau- lationship between Israel and said about the only foreign things about Israel. Despite the campaign. “President “We have no better friends guration of the country’s new Brazil. It’s a great start of year leader he met prior to being the leftist people who are Trump said the same thing, in the world than the evan- president, Jair Bolsonaro. 2019,” Israel’s ambassador to sworn in. usually harsh on him, he is he moved the embassy. And gelical community, and the Brazil’s most influential Brazil, Yossi Shelley, told JTA. Bolsonaro also joined Ne- very nice and surprisingly President Bolsonaro will move evangelical community has prime time newscasts Jornal Rio was the starting point tanyahu at a ceremony Dec. behaved with simplicity,” Glatt the embassy as well.” no better friend in the world Nacional and Fantastico for Netanyahu, his wife Sara 28 at the Kehilat Yaacov told JTA. Israel also offered assis- than Israel,” Netanyahu said. dedicated several minutes to and son Yair. After landing, synagogue in the heart of Like most Cariocas, or tance to Brazil in domestic “You are our brothers and coverage of the first sitting the prime minister headed Copacabana, Rio’s most heav- Rio natives, the Netanyahus security—a key part of Bolso- sisters and we protect the Israeli prime minister to visit straight to the Copacabana ily Jewish neighborhood. chose the beach to enjoy the naro campaign in the crime- rights of Christians.” Brazil. fort, where he was surprised Some 500 members of the 95-degree weather on Satur- ridden country—including “President Bolsonaro’s The warm feelings between to be awarded by Bolsonaro local 30,000-strong Jewish day morning. While Yair, 27, what Haaretz called the sale of first name in Hebrew is Yair, Israel’s right-wing prime min- the National Order of the community attended the took a helicopter and went on drones with facial recognition which is also the name of our ister and Brazil’s most right- Southern Cross, Brazil’s ceremony at he Orthodox a yacht ride at a pristine island technology. son. It means he who brings wing president in decades highest national honor for synagogue, shouting “mito” off Rio, the prime minister and Bolsonaro’s pro-Israel played out in public events high-ranking guests. (Portuguese for myth or wife took a stroll that drew stance during his campaign Brazil on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 11, 2019 PAGE 11A Jewish slugger Kevin Youkilis Central Florida Synagogues on Hall of Fame ballot Orlando Weekday Morning Minyan (Conservative/Egalitarian), services Monday- Friday 7:45 a.m. (9 a.m.—national holidays); 2nd floor Chapel—Jewish Academy of Orlando; ting stance won’t get him 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. For information call 407-298-4650. a plaque in Cooperstown. Although he ranks seventh Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. all-time among Jewish Ma- JewishCelebration.org; 407-566-9792. jor Leaguers in home runs Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, (150); seventh in RBIs (618); 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. seventh in runs scored (653); and ninth in hits (1,053), Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- none of those stats are Hall- 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. worthy. So Youkilis—who Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. appears on this year’s ballot jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; with 34 other candidates— Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. probably will not get the needed 5 percent of the vote Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, that would allow him to re- 321-777-2770. main on the ballot in 2020. Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- According to family leg- 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat end, Youkilis’ ancestors originally came from what services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. is now known as Romania Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. but moved to Greece to es- betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. cape religious persecution. Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. Comedian Denis Leary was visiting the Boston Red Sox congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Brad White/Getty Images broadcast booth in 2006 Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; Kevin Youkilis of the Boston Red Sox bats against the when he knelled about Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. Youkilis’ background.. Toronto Blue Jays in a game at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; June 3, 2012. “That’s fantastic,” he said. “That’s one bottle of whiskey Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. By Ron Kaplan jor League Baseball to honor away from being Irish Catho- Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, the best hitter in each league. lic. They got the Manisch- Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. (JTA)—What is more dif- He was quite good with ewitz, we got the Jameson’s. Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. ficult to fathom: that former the glove, too. Originally a It’s the same guilt, the same Jewish Major Leaguer Kevin third baseman, Youkilis won bad food. That’s fantastic. We bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. Youkilis has been retired for a Gold Glove at first base in got a Jewish first baseman!” Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation five years or that his name 2007, setting an A.L. record The only Jewish players in holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. appears on the current Hall by playing 135 consecutive the Hall of Fame are Hank com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. of Fame ballot? error-less games and becom- Greenberg and Sandy Kou- “Youk” made his big- ing the first qualifying first fax, who turned 83 on Dec. Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; league debut with Boston sacker in league history to 30. (There is some controver- www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. in 2004. Two years later, the compile a 1.000 fielding sy over the religious identity Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., team won the World Series percentage. of Lou Boudreau, a stellar Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. for the first time since 1916. Youkilis, who was plagued shortstop and manager from He might be best known with back problems over the late 1930s to the early Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; for having one of the sport’s the last several years of his 1950s.) Barney Dreyfus, www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th most unusual batting stanc- career, also appeared briefly owner of the Pittsburgh Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. es, but despite his less-than- with the Chicago White Sox Pirates in the early 1900s Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. Adonis-like physique he was and New York Yankees. His and “father” of the modern a three-time All-Star who last professional season was World Series, was inducted Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- finished in the top 10 for served overseas with the into the Hall in 2008. 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. American League MVP vot- Tohoku Rakuten Golden Ron Kaplan is author of Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- ing twice. His best season Eagles in the Japanese Pa- “Hank Greenberg in 1938: 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. came in 2008 when he had cific Coast League. He was Hatred and Home Runs in 29 home runs, 115 runs just the second Jewish player the Shadow of War” [Sports Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for batted in and a .312 batting in Japan (Richie Scheinblum Publishing, 2017] and host of services and holiday schedules. average, winning the Hank was the first). the award-winning Kaplan’s Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303A N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation- Aaron Award, created by Ma- Unfortunately, that bat- Korner on Jews and Sports. sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv Ultima Thule was a term Please call for times. Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. used by Nazis Temple Beth El (R), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-677-2484. By Marcy Oster historical Thule, also called the grandson of Holocaust Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. Hyperborea, as the ancient survivors. Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat (JTA)—Earlier this week, homeland of the Aryan race. “I had no idea Ultima NASA’s New Horizons space- The Thule Society, founded Thule had Nazi connota- service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. craft flew by what it says is in 1918 around this and tions,” he wrote. “On the one Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. the most distant object ever other occultist beliefs, later hand, it has a clear, non-Nazi mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; explored by a spacecraft. became the Nazi Party. historical meaning, similar Thursday, 10:00 a.m. But calling the trans- Mark Showalter, a plan- to terra incognita. On the Neptunian object by its etary astronomer at the SETI other hand, it would be nice Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: official designation of 2014 Institute and investigator on to go more than one day in Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. MU69 was cumbersome and the New Horizons mission 2019 without thinking about Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. who led the naming contest, Nazis.” boring for NASA scientists, Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; who considered some 34,000 told Newsweek that Ultima At least two bands—in names as part of a public Thule has a “long history” Estonia and in Sweden—are Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. competition in 2017. and that Nazism is not the named Ultima Thule, and Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. Ultima Thule, a name that first thing that people associ- four albums by European Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach, 386-252-3097; Shabbat service, ate with the term, which he bands have the name, too. It was nominated by 40 people, Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 10:30 a.m. won the public poll. It comes admits he never heard until is the name of a poetry col- from classical and medieval the naming contest. lection by Henry Wadsworth Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. literature and means any “The primary association Longfellow and a short story templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by distant place located beyond of Thule and Ultima Thule by Vladimir Nabokov. There Torah study. are with travel and exotic is a town in Arkansas called the “borders of the known Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road world.” places and cold places—it’s Ultima Thule and a creek in NASA apparently did not associated with travel gear, Australia. 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 realize that Ultima Thule it’s associated often with After New Horizons has p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. [pronounced TOO-leh) was a distant places in Greenland,” had a chance to get closer Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. term used by the forerunners he told Newsweek. “‘Beyond to the object, to determine shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. of the Nazi Party and is still the limits of the known more about its character- used by some extreme right world’—that’s such a beauti- istics, NASA scientists will Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, groups as part of their own ful metaphor for what we’re decide on a permanent name. 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, mythology. doing this year.” It must be approved by the 7:30 p.m. Newsweek first made Twitter’s ambivalence International Astronomi- Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. the connection in a March about the name was captured cal Union, which oversees tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. article. in a tweet by Jacob Aron, a all names in space. Ultima In Germany, extreme deputy news editor for New Thule reportedly does not fit (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa right occultists believed in a Scientist magazine and the union’s criteria. PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 11, 2019 A Dutch couple find forgotten Holocaust history in their countryside home checkered Holocaust-era even though it was a rare case house kept beckoning. They record. In bookstores, “The in which Dutch Jews not only eventually put her on a six- High Nest” stayed for weeks escaped the genocide but year journey of discovery on the top 10 list of locally helped others avoid capture. through interviews, studying produced nonfiction. Even as they were making archive material and cross- “Many Jews resisted, but of these discoveries, van Iperen referencing information with most of them we know very and her partner did not register survivors’ testimonies. little,” said the Jewish film- their significance—at first. The sisters, intellectu- maker Willy Lindwer, who has “The discovery story als from a Liberal Jewish produced several documenta- sounds romantic but the family, arrived at the estate ries on the Holocaust in his truth is, we just weren’t aware near Naarden in 1943, amid native Netherlands. He said of the findings,” she said in deportations to death camps the “High Nest” story “shows the interview. “It was an old and growing awareness of the not all Dutch Jews went like house—that’s also what drew annihilation of Europe’s Jews lambs to the slaughter, and us to it—and so you naturally by Hitler. that’s very important.” discover things. We talked By that time the Nazis had Lien Brilleslijper with her daughter Jalda in Berlin in But to general readers, part about it. But then we just killed 75 percent of the Neth- the 1970s. of the book’s appeal lies in closed the hidden space and erlands’ prewar Jewish popu- Roxane van Iperen the strong characters of the installed a new floor on it.” lation of about 140,000—the Around the corner from At Bergen-Belsen, Janny people who did the rescuing The renovations coincided highest death rate in Nazi- the Jews in hiding lived the met the family of Anne Frank. By Cnaan Liphshiz at van Iperen’s home: sisters with major developments in occupied Western Europe. lover of Anton Mussert, the “She was concealed in a Janny and Lien Brilleslijper attitudes to the Holocaust “Everyone who could was in head of the pro-Nazi NSB blanket,” Janny, who died in AMSTERDAM (JTA)—De- and their families. in the Netherlands, which a panic to find a hiding place,” party and the top collabora- 2003, recalled in a 1988 docu- spite its rustic charms, the Daring anti-fascist ac- received its first national Ho- van Iperen said. tor with the Nazis. He would mentary by Lindwer. “She had dream home that Roxane van tivists—Janny fought as a locaust museum only in 2016. And yet at the Brilleslijpers’ often stay over, van Iperen also no more tears to cry. They had Iperen and her partner bought volunteer combatant in the In 2012, the Netherlands house, “there was actually discovered. run out a long time before.” nearly ruined their marriage. Spanish Civil War—they used saw the creation of a grass- a lot of music and lust for But in June 1944, Eddy Janny went to check on Van Iperen, a 42-year-old connections to hide from roots network of home- life during that time, which Musbergen, one of the hun- Anne a few days later and saw novelist, underestimated the the Germans in the house in owners whose properties makes it different to the typi- dreds of Dutch gentiles who Anne’s sister, Margot, lying amount of renovating needed Naarden, situated 10 miles once belonged to Holocaust cal survival-in-hiding story betrayed or hunted Jews in dead on the floor. Anne died on the countryside estate east east of Amsterdam. But at victims. They now open we know in this country,” van hiding, reported his suspi- shortly thereafter, Janny said. of Amsterdam. She bought the great personal risk, they then dozens of houses in some 20 Iperen said. cions about the estate to the Both Brilleslijper sisters place in 2012 with Joris Len- opened their safe house to municipalities for visits by the She found sheet music authorities. survived the Holocaust— glet as a home for the couple Jews and others in need. public each year on the Dutch that the sisters—Lien was a It was an eventuality for partly because they were and their three children. Van Iperen found evidence memorial day. well-known singer—and their which the sisters had planned, persons of interest to the “We almost separated by the of the sisters’ ingenuity as Amsterdam, meanwhile, is guests composed and per- according to Rebling, Lien’s Nazis due to their anti-fascist time it was done,” she recalled soon as the renovations be- preparing a huge Holocaust formed on musical evenings. daughter. During the Gestapo credentials, van Iperen dis- in a November interview on gan, discovering double walls, monument at its center. There were worldly debates raid, her mother removed a covered. This prevented them the NPO1 television channel. secret doors and walled-off an- This year, the city and The and garden dinners—several vase from a windowsill over- from being sent directly to the But amid “the arguing, nexes that had been concealed Hague paid millions of dol- of the people in hiding were looking the access path—a gas chambers at Auschwitz, misery and work,” as she so well that they were left lars in restitution to victims artists—amid the laughter of secret sign for other tenants allowing them to survive. described it, the couple made undetected for decades. In one from whom it had unjustly children. that the house had been com- Robert Brandes was spared discoveries whose signifi- secret space, van Iperen even collected taxes. One of the rug rats was promised. deportation because after his cance they realized only found wartime resistance In November, the national Robert Brandes, the 5-year- The raid occurred when detention, he was deemed months later: During the newspapers. railway company announced old son of Janny and her Janny and her son were out. by the Nazis to be only half Holocaust, their new home Dozens of Jews passed it would look into compen- husband, Bob Brandes. Robert Janny saw the vase as they Jewish. Rebling, who was 3 had been the center for one of through the safe house, which sating victims that its work- Brandes, now 79 and an artist, returned and attempted to and whose parents were both Holland’s most daring rescue is “perfectly located near Am- ers helped transport. That gave van Iperen, who tracked catch up to Robert, who was Jewish, was spirited away from operations conducted by Jews sterdam but in the middle of triggered similar action last him down, a yellowing pho- skipping along ahead of her. a detention facility by a resis- for Jews. nowhere,” van Iperen said. The month by Amsterdam’s GVB tograph taken at her home But the Germans saw them tance fighter and survived the Recounted in a best-selling nine-room estate is mostly transportation company. in 1943. He is seen splashing and they were arrested. war in hiding. book that van Iperen pub- hidden from view by large Amid these developments, in a metal tub on a sunny day The sisters and their “That we are still alive,” lished last year, the story gen- trees that afforded privacy to which were accompanied by a in the backyard flanked by his families were sent to the Rebling said during the No- erated strong media interest the tenants. steady stream of news reports cousin, Kathinka Rebling, Westerbork concentration vember interview with NPO1, amid a wave of introspection The operation’s secrecy and books on the Holocaust, Lien’s daughter, and another camp, Auschwitz and Bergen- “can only be explained by an about the Dutch society’s kept it out of the history books the secrets of van Iperen’s child. Belsen. unbroken chain of miracles.” ‘Clueless’ creator Amy Heckerling on her Jewish roots and how men have it much easier in the film industry By Curt Schleier Talking” movies, all before finity for Hollywood movies went—the butcher, the bak- “Clueless,” which was also turned into theatrical mu- er—everyone had numbers on (JTA)—Officially and for a huge success, and helped sicals. “Pretty Woman” and their arms and everyone kept the record, despite her Jewish- launch the careers of Alicia “Mean Girls,” adapted to the saying ‘Never forget.’” sounding name, Cher Horow- Silverstone and Paul Rudd. stage, are playing to capacity Both her parents worked, itz is not a member of the tribe. It spawned a sitcom on ABC audiences. While audience so Heckerling spent a lot of In fact, the Valley Girl as well and brought Valley reaction to “Clueless” has time with her grandfather, heroine of the iconic 1995 film Girl expressions—like “as if,” been kind, the critical reac- who nurtured her love of film. “Clueless” was never intended “whatever” and “harsh”—into tion hasn’t. But it wasn’t until high school to be Jewish, says her creator, the mainstream. “I just want to work on that she made a career choice. Amy Heckerling. Now the oblivious but things I want to work on and “I attended Art & Design “I wasn’t thinking in terms socially intuitive Southern not think about everybody else High School and at one point of this being a Jewish story,” California teenager and her deciding whether you are good you had to write about what she said in a telephone inter- friends are back, in a Broadway or bad,” she said. you wanted to be when you view. “I was taking the plot musical that debuted earlier That’s not going to hap- grew up,” she recalled. “I wrote of Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’ and this month and is scheduled pen, as she has learned in her that I wanted to be a writer for Mike Coppola/Gett to run through Jan. 12 at The lengthy but at times unlikely Mad magazine. Mort Drucker translating it into that world.” Amy Heckerling at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival in New Alice Griffin Jewel Box The- career in a business that has [a Mad artist and writer] was Wallace Shawn, the witty York City, April 18, 2016. Jewish actor who played a atre at The Pershing Square been historically unreceptive one of my heroes. The boy who teacher in the film, impro- Signature Center. to women directors. sat down next to me said he vised the name Cher Horowitz It was a long time in the Heckerling grew up mostly wanted to make movies, and weren’t always encourag- in a handful of West Coast while they were shooting a making. in the Bronx. Her brother went that got me angry. He always ing, either. But she made it theaters. But following its scene in which he was taking “I’ve always felt that the to Hebrew school and had copied off me, and if he could through and enrolled in the immediate word-of-mouth attendance. movie wanted to be a musi- a bar mitzvah, but she, like do movies, I could, too.” master’s program at the pres- success “Fast Times,” which “In my mind, you’re always cal,” Heckerling said. There most Jewish girls in the 1950s Heckerling said her parents tigious American Film Insti- made a star out of Sean Penn, writing versions of people you were attempts by producers and ’60s, did not have a bat were “not very happy” about tute in Los Angeles, where her was released nationally. know, and to me it felt like I who optioned the show that mitzvah. She said the family her career choice. student film earned her a shot In a bit of a Hollywood fairy was writing about the daugh- “never worked out.” In those lived in a building filled with “My father thought if I at a Universal Pictures project. tale, Heckerling quickly had ters of people in show business versions, set in contemporary Holocaust survivors. didn’t learn how to type I Heckerling was handed the her choice of projects. in L.A.,” Heckerling said. times, Cher seemed out of “My two best friends, their wasn’t going to be able to get script for Cameron Crowe’s She had a string of success- Heckerling, 64, is the direc- place. Heckerling ended up parents were in the camps,” a job,” she said. “My mother “Fast Times at Ridgemont es, but there were some dis- tor of other major box office writing more of-the-time lyr- Heckerling said. “My mother, wanted to be encouraging, High”—in part because the appointments, too. “I Could hits such as “Fast Times at ics to ’90s pop song melodies. who was born in America, but it seemed very unlikely I’d studio didn’t know what to Never Be Your Woman,” for Ridgemont High” and “Na- The confection she came up spent a lot of time writing let- be successful. It’s just that I do with it. instance—a cute, favorably tional Lampoon’s European with seems to have caught the ters for these people for whom wanted it so bad.” Universal didn’t advertise reviewed romantic comedy Vacation.” She also wrote zeitgeist of the times, when English was not their first Her instructors at New the film when it opened and directed the “Look Who’s audiences have shown an af- language. Everywhere you York University’s film school and only showed the movie Clueless on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 11, 2019 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs 2 swastikas drawn on growth seen in global trade, by Hamas on Israel have risen elections this April, the Bre- organization have been ac- ations,” he said. “Our police- apartment in Brooklyn which in 2018 is expected to dramatically in the last three itbart contributor announced cused of engaging in or men will come to Israel to get By Marcy Oster reach 4.2 percent. years. on Wednesday. condoning anti-Semitism, of familiar with the patrolling (JTA)—Two foot-long swas- The data shows that the According to the data, Israel “Together we will work to not cutting ties with Nation of techniques in conflict areas, tikas were drawn outside the goods and services sector was hit by 1,000 rockets and protect Israel, to increase Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, checkpoints and borders.” apartment door of an elderly was the strongest performer mortars in 2018, with 250 its security and to enact and of failing to heed the Congress is now 3 times Jewish woman in Brooklyn. in 2018: the export of high- intercepted by Israel’s Iron truly right-wing policies,” concerns of its thousands of more Jewish than the Miryam Marc, 77, said her tech services noted a 14 Dome missile-defense system said Glick. “This is an emo- Jewish backers. United States as a whole late husband was a Holocaust percent increase and a record and 45 landing in populated tional day for me. I call on “The controversy is damp- By Ben Sales survivor, and she escaped $51 billion, while the export areas. all those whose hearts beat ening efforts of sister marches (JTA)—More than 6 percent from Europe to Israel during of electronic and chemical The majority of the projec- with a Zionist spirit, secular to fundraise, enlist involve- of the new Congress is Jewish, the Holocaust. goods rose by 3 percent, tiles were fired into southern and religious, to join us. This ment, find sponsors and with 34 Jews among the total The large swastikas were reaching $60 billion. Israel in late November, when is your home.” attendee numbers have drasti- of 535 lawmakers in the U.S. drawn in red marker on ei- Exports to Asia grew by nearly 500 rockets were “Caroline is a relentless cally declined this year. New House of Representatives and ther side of Marc’s door on 20 percent in 2018, reaching launched at Israel in just 48 Zionist fighter,” said Bennett. Orleans is no exception,” the Senate. Saturday afternoon, WCBS- $10 billion. Exports to the hours after a botched Israel “With her, we are building chapter said. Jews make up 2 percent TV reported. European Union held steady Defense Forces’ commando today the dream team of the New Orleans has held a of the U.S. population, so The apartment building at $16 billion, and exports to raid in Khan Younis. Israeli right in order to expand Women’s March for the past Congress as a whole is more installed security cameras the United States amounted The IDF responded to the the right-wing block, and so two years. Marches are sched- than thrice as Jewish as the after the incident. to $11 billion. attacks by targeting 865 ter- that Israel can be triumphant uled for across the country country in general, according “Now I am very, very, very IEI CEO Gadi Arieli said ror and military positions in again.” on Jan. 19. to a new study by the Pew depressed and I am scared that “2019 is likely to see Gaza. Shaked labeled Glick “a On Friday, the march in Research Center on religion even in the night. I cannot significant challenges for In 2017, Hamas fired 35 courageous fighter symbol- Eureka, in Northern Califor- in the new Congress, which sleep,” Marc told WCBS. exports given the projected projectiles at Israel and even izing the real, pure, conserva- nia’s Humboldt County, was was inaugurated Thursday. The New York Police De- slowdown in global economic less the year before that. tive right. She will be a great canceled over concerns that The number is even larger partment’s Hate Crimes Task activity over the [U.S.-China] To date, Israel has com- addition to the Knesset from participants would be “over- in the Senate, where eight of Force is investigating the van- trade war.” pleted 27 kilometers of an un- our side.” whelmingly white, lacking the 100 members are Jewish. dalism. There are no suspects. Cohen noted that “the derground barrier to prevent Bennett and Shaked left the representation from several That’s 8 percent, for the math Law banning ritual international arena poses the digging of tunnels to cross religious, right-wing Jewish perspectives in our commu- challenged. slaughter of animals in complex and difficult chal- from Gaza into Israel. Israel Home Party late last month, nity,” the group said in a This Congress has four Belgium lenges for Israeli exporters, has destroyed 15 terror tun- hoping to unite religious and statement. Humboldt County more Jews than its prede- By Cnaan Liphshiz and I am pleased that the min- nels in the past year. secular Israelis. is about 74 percent non-His- cessor, which had 30 Jewish (JTA)—A ban in Belgium istry’s various aid programs According to the IDF, seven Israeli startups raise panic white, The Washington members. But it’s far from the on the Jewish and Muslim are helping exporters to cope soldiers and nine civilians record $6.1 billion in Post reported, citing Census most Jewish Congress ever. methods of ritual slaughter with international markets.” were killed, and 199 injured, 2018 Bureau data. That was the 1993 Congress, of animals went into effect on The Palestinian Author- in 87 terror attacks in 2018. (JNS)—Israeli startups Organizers in Chicago had which boasted 51 Jews— New Year’s Day. ity’s apartheid land laws Stone-throwing attacks raised a record $6.1 billion previously canceled the city’s nearly 10 percent of the total. The Flemish Region, whose By Maurice Hirsch were also down to 2,057 from in 2018. march, citing the high cost All of the Jews in the Sen- capital is Antwerp, passed the (JNS, Palestinian Media 5,082 in 2017. This figure was calculated and overextended volunteers. ate are Democrats, as are all measure in July 2017 over Watch)—A Palestinian Amer- Stabbing attacks were up with $400 million fundraised Actress Rosanna Arquette, but two in the House. The vociferous objections by faith ican who facilitated the sale to 17 from five in 2017. in December, plus the $4.5 who spoke at the 2017 Women’s Republican exceptions are community leaders. It became of an apartment by Arabs to A total of 406 weapons were billion raised in the first nine March in Los Angeles, tweet- Reps. Lee Zeldin and David effective on Jan. 1. Israeli Jews was condemned to confiscated by authorities this months of 2018, according to ed her concern about the Kustoff, from New York and A similar ban in the Wal- life in prison, with hard labor, year. The IDF said that a total a joint report from the IVC allegations of anti-Semitism Tennessee, respectively. They loon Region, another of the by a Palestinian Authority of 3,173 Palestinians were ar- Research Center and the law against national leaders. In are the only non-Christian three parts that make up the court on Monday. rested by security authorities firm Zag-S&W. response, a Women’s March Republicans in the Congress, federal kingdom of Belgium, “In accordance with the in 2018. This is in addition to an tweet assured supporters that according to Pew. is set to become effective in instructions of clause 2/274 of Woman claims Apple estimated $1.2 billion raised it would take place in Wash- Congress as a whole is over- September. the criminal procedures law, used her voice without in October and November. ington, D.C., even during a whelmingly Christian—even 2018 report shows the Grand Criminal Court, permission The total figure beats last government shutdown. more so than the country. Israeli unemployment which convened in Ramallah, By Marcy Oster year’s record of $5.24 billion. Non-Jewish governor of Seventy-one percent of Ameri- rate low, though cost of convicted the accused I.A. JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Israel is known as a “Start- Brazilian state requests cans identify as Christian, living high on the charges attributed to woman behind the female up Nation,” having the third- sound of shofar at his compared to 88 percent of (JNS)—Israel’s cost of him—an attempt to cut off Hebrew voice of the Waze most companieson the Nas- inauguration Congress. Both Protestants living is rising more slowly part of the Palestinian ter- navigation app is suing Apple daq. By Marcus M. Gilban and Catholics are overrepre- than that of other developed ritories and annex them to for using her voice as the Comedian Bob Einstein RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) sented on Capitol Hill. countries, but still maintains a foreign state [as described Hebrew Siri. of ‘Curb Your Enthusi- — The non-Jewish governor The most underrepresented a high cost of living. in] Penal Code Number 16 of Israeli radio broadcaster asm’ dies at 76 of a Brazilian state was inau- group is unaffiliated Ameri- According to a report pub- 1960. Relying on the convic- Galit Gura-Eini filed a lawsuit (JTA)—Comedian Bob gurated with the sounds of a cans. Twenty-three percent lished on Monday by the Taub tion and in accordance with last week for about $66,000 in Einstein, who often performed shofar blown by a rabbi. of Americans don’t identify Center, Israeli unemployment the instructions of clause 2 Tel Aviv District Court, the as the satirical daredevil char- The shofar “represent[s] with a religion, but that’s true is at its lowest in years, with of Decision with Legislative Israeli business daily Calcalist acter Super Dave Osbourne the call for freedom, to bring of just a sole member of consumer prices in Israel fall- Force Number 20 of 2014, the reported. The lawsuit alleges and played Larry David’s good vibes and positive ener- Congress—new Arizona Sen. ing by 5.2 percent relative to court sentenced him to life that Apple has been using friend Marty Funkhouser on gies to the new government,” Kyrsten Sinema. Muslims, the OECD average and with with hard labor. The lawsuit her voice recordings without HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusi- according to organizers of the Buddhists, Hindus and Uni- wages increasing. was submitted to the court on authorization. asm,” died Wednesday after a inauguration in the state of tarians are also represented Israel’s employment rate is Dec. 23, 2018, and the verdict Apple has responded that bout with cancer. He was 76. Rio de Janeiro. in Congress. currently at 78 percent, hav- was given approximately a her “voice on the Siri app is Einstein was the older Wilson Witzel, an ardent More than half of new ing risen by 7 percent among week later.” [WAFA, official nothing but syllables joined brother of the comic and film- supporter of Israel who is immigrants to Israel in men and 13 percent among P.A. news agency, Dec. 31, together by an algorithm.” maker Albert Brooks. Their not Jewish, took office sur- 2018 were not consid- women—more than in all 2018] Gura-Eini has been the late father, Harry Einstein, rounded by several members ered Jewish other OECD countries. The basis for the P.A.’s voice of Siri since it launched was a radio comedian best of the local Jewish community By Marcy Oster However, the discrepancy prosecution of Palestinians in Hebrew in 2016, according known for playing the Greek at a ceremony held Wednesday JERUSALEM (JTA)—More between high earners and for selling land to Jews is to the report. Earlier this year immigrant Parkyakarkus. in Rio’s Legislative Assembly. than half of the immigrants those below the poverty line article 114 of the Jordanian she asked Apple to remove In a memorable episode On Sunday, Witzel and his to Israel in 2018 were not remained among the highest Criminal Code (1960), which her voice from the Siri app, a of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” wife escorted Israeli Prime recognized as Jewish under in the OECD, according to the P.A. later adopted. The request that was denied. David invites Funkhouser Minister Benjamin Netanyahu religious law. the report. original Jordanian provision The lawsuit also alleges that to a new Palestinian-owned during a visit to Sugarloaf According to end of the The report comes as Israel stated that a person who at- Apple has turned her voice chicken restaurant in Los An- Mountain as part of his five- year data released by the announced a 2019 wave of tempts to sever any part of the “into a vehicle for improper geles. The Einstein character, day visit to Brazil, the first by a Central Bureau of Statistics, price hikes for electricity, Jordanian territory in order to and humiliating speech,” and who has become more serious sitting Israeli prime minister. of the 30,300 immigrants water, gas, cell phones, food, annex it to a foreign state will that people have been using about his Jewishness, refuses “One of the most touching who arrived in Israel last year drink, insurance and prop- be subject to at least five years her voice to produce sexual, to takes off his yarmulke be- moments during my cam- under the Law of Return, some erty tax. of hard labor. racist and otherwise violent fore going inside. paign was when I heard the 12,600 were recognized as Israeli exports world- In 2014, P.A. leader Mah- speech through the Siri app, Brooks, on Twitter, remem- shofar at the Beit Lubavitch Jewish and 17,700 were not. wide mark record perfor- moud Abbas passed an amend- Calcalist reported. bered Einstein as a “great synagogue. It gave me the That means 54 percent of mance in 2018 ment to the law—Govern- Gura-Eini’s voice was re- brother, father and husband” strength I needed to carry on,” the new immigrants are not (JNS, Israel Hayom)—Is- ment Decision with Legisla- corded in 2007 by Nuance and a “brilliantly funny man.” Witzel told reporters. Jewish. Some 39 percent are raeli exports hit a record tive Effect (No. 20), 2014—in Communications Inc. Gura- New Orleans cancels Witzel, 50, is a right-wing recognized as Jewish and 7 high of $110 billion in 2018, which he raised the maximum Eini gave Nuance the rights to Women’s March politician who is affiliated percent are Arab. up 8 percent from 2017, when sentence to life imprisonment use the recordings in speech By Marcy Oster with the Social Christian Under the Law of Return, exports totaled $103 billion. with hard labor. production software, and for (JTA)—At least two more Party. Elected in October to a anyone with a Jewish grand- According to Economy and The prosecution of Pal- “legitimate” purposes only, Women’s Marches have been four-year term, he has pledged parent can immigrate to Industry Minister Eli Cohen, estinians for selling land to according to Calcalist. canceled, including in New to fight corruption and clean Israel. But he or she must have the government’s exports Jews is not new and enjoys Her voice was deleted from Orleans, where its chapter up politics—language that is a Jewish mother in order to be goals are to cross the $120 bil- overwhelming Palestinian the Waze app last year. cited “several issues.” aligned with newly installed registered as Jewish. lion mark by 2020. This year’s support. Caroline Glick joins “Many of the sister marches President Jair Bolsonaro, his Most of the immigrants performance may realize this Full report at PMW. ‘New Right’ party have asked the leaders of political godfather. came from Russia, Ukraine, goal sooner. IDF data sheds light on (JNS)—American-Israeli Women’s March, Inc. to resign Last month, Witzel spent France and the United States. According to a report by number of rockets, at- political pundit Caroline Glick but as of today, they have yet a week in Israel to learn anti- Up to 400,000 citizens of the Economy and Industry tacks, arrests in 2018 will be joining Israeli Educa- to do so,” the New Orleans terror techniques that can Israel are registered as “lack- Ministry and the Israel Ex- (JNS)—The Israel Defense tion Minister Naftali Bennett chapter said in its announce- be deployed against urban ing a religion” by the Interior port Institute, the increase Forces released statistics on and Justice Minister Ayelet ment Saturday. violence in his home state. Ministry because they are not in Israeli exports exceeds the Sunday showing that attacks Shaked’s new party ahead of Top leaders of the main “We have very similar situ- halachically Jewish. PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 11, 2019 Can anyone beat Benjamin Netanyahu? It’s the security, stupid a senior contributing editor of new parties may only help remain prime minister even Netanyahu’s international for The Jerusalem Post, wrote Netanyahu by fragmenting if he is formally charged with critics—the United Nations, to JTA. “He keeps the focus on his opponents. The past a crime. the European Union, the security and his credentials few elections have seen sev- Will that cost him the elec- former Obama administra- as an expert on that front, as eral new parties spring up, tion? Probably not, Harkov tion, liberal American Jew- much as possible.” all competing for the same said. Netanyahu frequently ish groups, leading liberal It’s true that two former bloc of voters. Meanwhile, the demonizes the Israeli press newspapers—have portrayed Israeli generals, both chiefs right has remained relatively (and, like Trump, often claims him as too aggressive in Gaza, of staff, have founded new united around Netanyahu’s that negative articles are “fake too cavalier with the lives of parties this year specifically leadership. news”). At this point, Harkov Palestinian civilians and un- aiming to oppose Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s opponents said, Israelis are just tired of willing to make peace with the But so far, neither is attack- say the only way to beat him the back-and-forth. Netan- Palestinian Authority. That’s ing Netanyahu directly on is by joining together. Ehud yahu’s opponents, as well as not to mention the protests security issues. Moshe Yaalon, Barak, Israel’s most recent government watchdogs, have over his policies on African one of Netanyahu’s former de- left-wing prime minister, said called his decisions dangerous asylum seekers, religious plu- fense ministers, said his party Netanyahu would be defeated to Israel’s democracy. But if ralism in Israel or the status would represent “the good, only “if, in the center-left Israelis are feeling squeamish, of Arab Israelis. values-based, clean-handed camp, a bloc comes together.” it isn’t showing in the polls. But in Israel, polls show land of Israel.” Benny Gantz, He called for Yaalon, Gantz “There’s so much news that most Jews think Netan- a former general, has only and several other opposition about Netanyahu’s investiga- yahu is not aggressive enough begun to open up about his parties to unite. But only the tions that they don’t take it in Gaza. In November, his de- platform. In a television in- opposite has happened: A seriously anymore,” Harkov Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images fense minister resigned, com- terview Thursday, he said he center-left alliance, the Zion- wrote. “Yes, there are corrupt Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at a plaining that Netanyahu was would leave several West Bank ist Union, split in dramatic politicians who go to prison, menorah lighting at the start of Chanukah in Ramat Gan, too risk-averse in deploying settlement blocs in place but fashion this week. but enough people seem to Dec. 2, 2018. the military. When it comes that an agreement with the “The center-right is com- be willing to shrug the latest to the army, his centrist rivals Palestinians would bolster peting to lead the state, while things off as just champagne By Ben Sales “They think that if he may have only tried to talk tougher Israel’s security. the center-left is competing in and cigars or point to the have received bribes or played than the prime minister. “We need established, on- an internal primary to see who incessant leaks to the media (JTA)—Israeli police want with Israel’s telecom market In 2014, following a war in going efforts, in light of any has the most power within as a sign of bias by both the him to be indicted in three to have personal gain, this has Gaza that saw Israel pilloried challenge, to reach a diplo- its camp,” Ovad Yehezkel, a press and the police.” separate corruption cases. nothing to do with the way he in international forums, a matic accord, with the un- former centrist Israeli govern- Netanyahu’s last election He’s embattled from left confronts Iran or the way he left-leaning group of former derstanding that this is part ment official, wrote on the campaign, in 2015, also and right for his attacks on handles things in Syria,” said generals praised Netanyahu of our resilience, this is part Israeli news site Ynet. “In that was plagued with scandal— Gaza and his policy in the Israeli political journalist Tal for his “level-headed leader- of our security,” Gantz told sense, the fragmentation of though he was not indicted. West Bank. He’s made a point Schneider, referring to some ship.” Jewish Israelis tend to Israel’s Channel 16. “There parties helps the center-right Leading up to Election Day, of cozying up to controver- of the corruption allegations see their fighting in Gaza as needs to be a real diplomatic win elections. And paradoxi- it appeared he could lose. But sial right-wing nationalist against Netanyahu. a necessary response, not a effort, without being suckers cally, the center-left rolls out he pulled off a comeback vic- leaders, from Brazil’s Jair “I think in Israel, you win war of choice. and without being irrespon- the red carpet to the Prime tory, emerging in a stronger Bolsonaro to Hungary’s Vik- elections on security issues On the diplomatic front, sible.” Minister’s office for its rivals.” position than before. And tor Orban—and especially only,” she said. “It’s very easy both Israelis and Palestinians A fragmented opposition Corruption fatigue the longer he stays in power, to President Donald Trump. to speak to people’s fears have despaired of any hope A chorus of other candi- Netanyahu’s main prob- Schneider said, the more Many American Jewish lead- because in Israel, fears are for a peace accord anytime dates has also failed to match lems of late have been the inevitable his victories seem. ers say his policies are driving real. It’s in people’s lives on a soon. The other topics—from him at the polls. Yair Lapid, potential indictments against In Israel, there are no term away Diaspora Jews. daily basis.” minority rights to religious a one-time news anchor and him and a growing aura of limits. And if the upcoming Israeli Polls ahead of the April 9 policy—generally don’t even finance minister who leads the corruption. Former Prime “The people of Israel don’t election were to be held today, election have Netanyahu’s register as election issues in centrist Yesh Atid party, has Minister Ehud Olmert (he see anyone else in Israel who Prime Minister Benjamin Likud party holding a wide Israel. a strong base but hasn’t been ended up going to prison) can do it,” she said. “With Netanyahu would almost lead over a growing group of “Security is pretty much able to broaden his appeal. resigned even before police the time passing, he’s get- definitely win for the fourth competitors in the opposition. always the number-one issue The once-robust Labor Party, recommended that he be ting stronger and stronger time in a row. Probably in a Likud is slated to win around for Israeli voters, and it comes headed by former telecom indicted. But that has already because when you sit in that landslide. 30 seats in Israel’s 120-seat before the diplomatic front executive Avi Gabbay, is mired happened for Netanyahu and chair, you’re the incumbent. Why? In a sentence, it’s parliament, the Knesset, put- when Israelis rank their pri- in the single digits. he shows no signs of back- You can use all the facilities because enough Israelis trust ting Netanyahu in the best orities in polls,” Lahav Harkov, If anything, the multiplicity ing down. He has vowed to to keep promoting yourself.” him with their security. To position to form a ruling co- his voters, everything else is alition. His closest opponents commentary. would get half that number. Alfred Bader, Milwaukee philanthropist 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 D O R A R E B E L S E R S 14 15 16 I T E S E M I L I O T I E and art collector, dies at 94 17 18 19 S O V I E T U N I O N H O G 20 21 22 Queen’s University in Ontario, Bader completed his doctor- In 2009, Bader Philanthro- P O L A N D N I K I T A Canada—his alma mater— ate in organic chemistry at pies began supporting Israeli 23 24 25 26 E L O N S M O R O C C O and institutions in Great Harvard. social service organizations 27 28 29 30 31 Britain and Israel, where his A year later, while working and researchers to tackle is- L E N W A R O F A P E S foundation funds research, as a researcher for Pittsburgh sues of aging, with a focus on 32 33 R A V E D S N I P E treatment and care-giving Plate Glass company at their the Jewish state’s diverse cul- 34 35 36 37 38 innovations for people with plant in Milwaukee, he co- tural population, according B I B L E S T O D A T E Alzheimer’s disease. founded Aldrich Chemical to the philanthropy website. 39 40 41 42 U S U A L A D I O S Bader was born in 1924 in company. It filled a void for Among the programs it sup- 43 44 45 46 47 Vienna, the son of a Jewish researchers who needed a ports are a collaboration with B U L B O L I V E C P C father and a Catholic mother, consistent source for hard- the University of Wisconsin- 48 49 50 51 G E R M A N Y C H A I R from an aristocratic Hungar- to-find, high quality chemical Milwaukee and programs at 52 53 54 ian family. After his father died compounds. From the niche Israel’s Melabev-Community A Z A L E A F R A N C E when he was 2 weeks old, he market, he built that company Clubs for the Elderly. 55 56 57 58 59 N O R T H E H O L Y L A N D was adopted by his father’s and several others into some of The scope of Bader’s phi- 60 61 62 sister and raised as a Jew. He the world’s largest, according lanthropy reflects his lifelong N O I R A V I N E V A I O later converted to Judaism, to industry publications. array of interests in science, 63 64 65 A S A O N E T O A E N C S according to the Journal The Jewish Federation of history and art—subjects he Alfred Bader Sentinel. Milwaukee oversees the Helen mastered against the odds of At 14, he escaped via the Bader Scholarship Fund, the upheaval and challenges By Penny Schwartz Kindertransport to England. which provides $500,000 an- of his early life, which he and In 1940, he was among nually to families to expand others have said inspired him (JTA)—Alfred Bader, a other war refugees deported to accessibility for children to to do good and leave a mark. refugee who escaped Nazi- Canada. There he was held for attend area day schools, ac- “He had an incredible life,” occupied Vienna as a young nearly two years at a detention cording to the Bader Philan- his son Daniel, who oversees teen in 1938, and later became center before he was taken thropy website. Bader Philanthropies, told the a chemist, businessman, phi- in by Martin Wolff, a Jewish The scholarship, which Journal Sentinel. “He built an lanthropist for Jewish and railway engineer in Montreal has donated more than $7.5 incredible dynasty with his other causes, and an influ- and a historian of Canadian million since 1992, also es- business accomplishments. ential art collector, has died. Jewish life. Wolff welcomed tablished a $10 million day He has a legacy in three differ- Bader’s charitable giving Bader as part of his family and school endowment. ent areas—in art, chemistry established a legacy for Jew- encouraged him to complete The fund is named for and philanthropy.” ish education in Milwaukee, his education. Bader’s aunt Bader’s first wife, a convert to His lifelong devotion to including for its day schools. died at the Nazi concentration Judaism, according to Bader’s collecting led him from an He died Dec. 23 at his camp at Theresienstadt. obituary in the Milwaukee early interest in stamps to home in the Wisconsin city. Facing discrimination Journal Sentinel. The couple a keen eye and passion for He was 94. against Jews in higher edu- had two sons before divorcing art, notably 17th- century Bader and his family foun- cation, Bader eventually was in 1981. Bader then married Dutch masters, including dation donated millions of accepted at Queen’s Univer- Isabel Overton, his first love, Rembrandt. Over decades, dollars to social, medical sity and earned dual degrees who he met in 1949 and with the Baders donated hundreds and cultural institutions in chemistry and history. whom he has pursued philan- in Milwaukee, along with In 1950, on a scholarship, thropic giving. Baker on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 11, 2019 PAGE 15A “Infrastructure and tech- which will land it on the moon’s after being fitted with a time to Earth, the spacecraft and placed the time capsule into SpaceIL nological know-how are Sea of Tranquility region after capsule that will remain on information within the time the spacecraft on Dec. 18. From page 1A needed for this project,” said two months. the lunar surface indefinitely. capsule’s disks will possibly “This is a very emotional mo- Doron. The unique coopera- “We have calculated the It consists of three discs, be found and distributed by ment. We do not know how engineering and mathemat- tion between a startup NGO, precise route that will take it each containing hundreds future generations,” said IAI. long the spacecraft and the ics. The NGO then attracted whose business model is based on a lunar orbit,” said Doron. of digital files, including “This is another step on time capsule will remain on a $100 million donation by on donations, and a large “Once on the moon, it will national symbols, like Israel’s our way to the moon,” said the moon,” he said. “It is very Morris Kahn, a philanthropist defense corporation enabled conduct scientific missions Declaration of Independence, Ido Anteby, CEO of SpaceIL. possible that future genera- and businessman, as well as the project to literally take off. with the Weizmann Institute the Bible, Israel’s national “Inserting the disks into the tions will find this informa- donations by Dr. Miriam and ‘Once on the moon, it will of Science [based in Rehovot, anthem and the Israeli flag. spacecraft, which is a real tion and want to learn more Sheldon Adelson, and others. conduct scientific experi- Israel], checking the moon’s It will also contain cultural ‘time capsule,’ indicates the about this historic moment.” Israel’s Science and Tech- ments’ magnetic fields.” objects such as paintings, spacecraft’s readiness to blast The spacecraft, which nology Ministry contributed No team that entered The lunar spacecraft has collected over many years off from the launch site in a weighs only 600 kilograms, 7.5 million shekels (nearly $2 Google’s competition managed also recently been fitted with from the public for sending to few weeks. SpaceIL’s crews will be the smallest to land on million) to the project. to get a spacecraft to the moon a laser reflector that will al- the moon; dictionaries in 27 and IAI have completed test- the moon. Most of this weight SpaceIL’s educational pro- in time for the deadline, but low NASA to have a precise languages and encyclopedias, ing of the spacecraft and its is fuel, and it will number grams have reached approxi- that has not stopped the Israeli reference point on the moon. such as Wikipedia, to reflect systems, and are preparing for only 150 kilograms when it mately a million Israeli pupils initiative. The Israeli craft is due “We think it will be active knowledge accumulated by all the beginning of the amazing lands. Its maximum speed so far. At the same time, to launch in the first quarter for a few days, before intense of humanity thus far, Israeli and complex journey that will exceed 36,000 kilometers engineers from IAI and Spa- of 2019 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 heat overcomes it,” said songs, the “Wayfarer’s Prayer” exemplifies innovation, cre- an hour. ceIL got to work building rocket to an altitude of 60,000 Doron. and photographs of Israeli ativity and courage.” Doron concluded that “ulti- the spacecraft at IAI’s Space kilometers. From there, it will But the spacecraft will also landscapes. Yonatan Winetraub, one mately, this is a badge of honor Division. enter a series of widening orbits, have a more enduring mission “With no plans to return of three SpaceIL founders, for Israel’s space capabilities.” Steelers From page 1A Synagogue on Saturday by Alleged gunman Robert use of a firearm to commit he condemned HIAS, the Tribune-Review reported. 123Shirt.com, the company Bowers was charged with 29 murder during and in rela- Jewish immigrant aid group, The Steelers said the signs with the hashtag #stronger- that printed the T-shirts counts including 11 counts tion to a crime of violence. He on his website. are a “constant show of sup- thanhate. bearing the Stronger Than of obstruction of exercise of reportedly shouted “All these The Stronger than Hate port for those who lives were Another $18,000 was pre- Hate logo and sold them to religious beliefs resulting in Jews need to die” during the logo remains on signs around taken and support for those sented to the Tree of Life benefit the victims fund. death, as well as 11 counts of attack. Before the shooting, Heinz Field, the Pittsburgh impacted.” War From page 5A have nothing to do with their was condemned as a colonial, tional Covenant was replaced and all that has been based “West Bank” had remained attachment to the land, but fascist, expansionist power. by a 1968 version, which, in on them are considered under the rule of the Hash- Indeed, if the “West Bank” everything to do with driving The pre-1967 implication the guise of “the liberation null and void. The claims emite Kingdom, where would was part of the “Hashemite the Jews from any portion of is clear. To remove enduring of Palestine,” continued to of historic and spiritual ties “Palestine” be? Kingdom” up to 1967, how the land between the Jordan “tension and turmoil” in the advocate the destruction of between Jews and Palestine The inevitable answer did it suddenly become the River and the Mediterranean region, their “source” (Israel) Israel as a necessary precursor are not in agreement with would be: Wherever the Jews Palestinians long-yearned-for Sea. must be removed. for Mideast peace in blatantly the facts of history and the are... homeland which, up until Indeed, even within the Clearly then, the only explicit terms. conception of what consti- Is it too much to hope that then, they were so willing to pre-1967 lines, long before conceivable “plain English” Article 22 states that the tutes statehood.” simple truths will determine cede submissively to an alien today’s alleged “occupation” translation for the “liberation “liberation of Palestine will So, going back to our attitudes in the next election? potentate. and “settlements” were part of the homeland” must be the destroy the Zionist and impe- mental experiment and the Martin Sherman is the Clearly then, the aspira- of the discourse, much less “annihilation of Israel.” rialist presence and will con- original question it posed: founder and executive direc- tions of the Palestinians facts on the ground, Israel The 1964 Palestinian Na- tribute to the establishment If the 1967 Six-Day War had tor of the Israel Institute for of peace in the Middle East.” never taken place and the Strategic Studies. Any thoughts that this Teaching reference was to the post- From page 5A look at art and music, or our being Jews. Many of them 1967 “occupied territories” is relationship with technology resisted, in a variety of ways. quickly dispelled by Article 19, in the last several years, and our agonizing about in- And far too many were faced which declares: “The partition the Holocaust remains a clusiveness in our society. As with the “choiceless choices” of Palestine in 1947, and the truly foundational moment we prepare to mark the 80th that symbolize the reality of establishment of the state of our era and the source of anniversary of the outbreak the Holocaust. of Israel are entirely illegal, Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman many of the international of World War II, expect much Ben Cohen writes a weekly regardless of the passage of does most anything institutions that, for good more reflection on all that. column for JNS on Jewish af- time... ” or ill, manage international Thirdly, if we are to teach fairs and Middle Eastern poli- Article 20 delves even Ricardo Torres relations today. Look back our children the basic facts tics. 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We know that from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem? Q: Do you have any specific ramifications, then I’d be many of the security issues A: Good move. plans in Congress regarding better equipped to answer that that America has faced have Q: Do you mind elaborat- the U.S.-Israel relationship, question. I would like to hear come from that region, and ing? such as introducing relevant what Israel’s response is to the JCPOA doesn’t really do A: That was something, I legislation? that, and that will tell me a lot. anything to thwart that. believe, that enhances Israel’s A: There’s going to be ongo- Q: Israeli Prime Minister From the perspective I got, identity on that front and ing efforts that are promoted Benjamin Netanyahu said it appears to be a bad deal. America’s commitment to Is- by AIPAC, by different organi- that he talked to Trump and Q: What is your stance on rael. This has been something zations that are supportive on U.S. Secretary of State Mike BDS? a number of administrations that front. Once I’m sworn in, Pompeo, and Netanyahu said A: It not only is harmful to over the course of time had once I get an opportunity to that it’s “America’s decision.” the State of Israel, but I think said or wanted to do, and the get more intelligence on the A: Sounds like a tentative it’s also harmful to innocent current administration did it. specifics of what’s going on, I response there. I simply don’t Palestinians because it has a That was advantageous to the think it will be more clear the know the ramifications of [a negative impact on economic leadership in Israel. pathway I need to take. withdrawal]. activity and some of the em- Q: What is your response Before I jump in and try to Q: What’s your reaction to ployment opportunities for to those who said that moving launch legislation indepen- some of the anti-Israel ver- the Palestinian people. It’s the embassy doesn’t advance dently, I need to be more edu- biage coming from fellow new backfired on what its initial the cause of peace? cated. I need to understand Democrats Reps. Ilhan Omar, intent was to be. It’s not a A: I’m sure you can make the efforts that are underway Russ Fulcher Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria good effect. that case in more directions now and potentially try to Ocasio-Cortez? Q: What are your thoughts than one. From what I un- aid on that front. If it turns By Jackson Richman think they’re an incredibly A: I never fully understood on funding for Israel’s mili- derstand, that was something out there is a gap that needs important ally. I will continue the whole reason behind anti- tary, especially in the after- that was desired by the Israeli to closed or something that (JNS)—Republican Rep. to stand in support of positive Semitism. It’s clearly been a math of the latest conflicts leadership, which is our pri- needs to be done, then I’m Russ Fulcher, 56, defeated American-Israeli relations. factor throughout the course against Hamas and Hezbol- mary partner, and I for one not shy about being the one Democratic nominee Cris- Q: When were you last of history, but why are the lah? would tend to be sympathetic to steer those types of things. tina McNeil in Idaho’s 1st there? Jewish people being singled A: You’re talking to some- to their counsel as opposed to Q: Do you plan on going on Congressional District in the A: It’s been several years. I out on that front? Anytime one who hasn’t been sworn naysayers. AIPAC’s annual trip to Israel 2018 midterm elections to used to be in the technology that takes place, frankly, it just in yet, so understand the Q: What is your reaction for legislators in the summer? replace Republican Rep. Raúl industry, and I work for a needs to be stopped, and by the perspective I’m coming at you to national and international A: I’d like to. I don’t know Labrador, who unsuccessfully memory component manu- way, that’s not just unique to from. I’m not normally a huge anti-Semitism? any details. Some colleagues ran for governor of the state. facturer, Micron Technology, the Jewish people. If someone supporter of a lot of exporting A: I’m not supportive of it have mentioned that there is JNS talked with Fulcher by which is one of the largest has a bias or discrimination of money. anywhere. As I mentioned potentially going to be one. As- phone. The interview has been semiconductor companies against anyone, I think it’s However, in the case of se- earlier, I never really fully suming that the ethics issues edited for brevity and clarity. in the world. We had some dangerous. The fact that it has curity assistance—and that’s understood why it continues aren’t breached or anything Q: What is your overall technical partners in Israel, manifested itself over time to what this would be—that the to raise its head. like that, then I would say stance on the U.S.-Israel and I know Intel has a large be more prolific with the Jew- U.S. sends to Israel, you can Look at it this way: If that’s a high probability. relationship? facility there. I’ve also been ish people is something I don’t make a strong case that more Jewish people can be threat- Q: Are you familiar with A: I get that America and on a biblical tour through fully understand. There’s just funds come back as a result ened, if they can be dis- the Anti-Semitism Aware- Israel have a very unique the region. no room for that in society. of what goes out in the first criminated against and be ness Act? relationship based on shared Q: Do you mind elaborating Q: What is your stance on place. That’s a function of targeted, so can any other A: No. cultural-religious histories. on the biblical tour? the 2015 Iran deal and overall intelligence and the benefit body of people. There’s just Q: Is there anything else Most importantly, there’s A: I’m an evangelical Chris- Iranian threat? that has come as a function not room for that, and we our readers should know common values that our na- tian, so part of my interest on A: The Joint Comprehensive of that. shouldn’t stand for that; about you? tions share: freedom, liberty, that front is to be able to see Plan of Action should’ve been Q: What is your stance on we shouldn’t allow that to A: Upon taking office and democracy. and understand better the sent to the Senate as a treaty, U.S. funding for the Palestin- transpire. We should use at being a member of Congress, I I’ve been there on numer- history firsthand, and the not an agreement. There’s a ian Authority? least whatever influence we anticipate being an outspoken ous fronts, and I don’t think role that the nation has played couple of problems [with the A: The situation with the have to discourage it. proponent of positive relations that America has a more im- in history, in my faith, and deal] that stand out. Palestinian people, quite Q: Are you familiar with between the U.S. and Israel, portant ally. Certainly, when something that is a personal The first thing is that it frankly, I’m a little less fa- reports of young evangelicals and I say that for the reasons you consider the volatility interest as well. tolerates Iran’s long-term miliar with. being targeted by anti-Israel, you and I have already talked in the Middle East—and the Q: What’s your reaction desire for a nuclear weapon. However, if there’s going anti-Semitic propaganda? about. situation that Israel is in and to U.S. President Donald They’ve proven they’re not to be peace in that region, A: Yeah, and evangelicals For one thing, we don’t have the value that Israel brings Trump’s announcement that responsible on that front, and everybody—and in this case, in general. That’s part of the a stronger ally in the region, to America in terms of intel- troops will leave Syria? I don’t think it’s in anyone’s especially the Palestinians— discriminatory movement. I and I believe the result of that ligence-gathering and overall A: I don’t know the rami- best interest for Iran to have needs to identify and at least guess I’m not as intelligent alliance, in part, has been that support for that region—I fications of that. If you give a nuclear weapon. acknowledge Israel’s right to as a historian I need to be, America has suffered less in exist. 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