July 8-14, 2016 Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton Volume XLV, Number 28 BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK TBE windows moved to new homes By Reporter staff this effort. Many people came forward The Federation of Greater Binghamton with funds, ideas and connections. Carl has announced that all of the stained glass Levine and Herb Kline came forward windows have been removed from the for- with stories of the Endicott merchants, mer Temple Beth El of Endicott building At right: The three as well as memories of Temple Beth El, and are on the move to their new homes. windows on the front and have promised to write histories “We are thrilled with this news,” said of the Temple Beth El for the Endicott museum. Many thanks Sima Auerbach, executive director of the building in Endicott. to my hard-working committee: Neisen Federation. “It’s wonderful to see local Luks, Charles Manasse, Rabbi Rachel history being kept local. We’ve also Esserman, Hollie Levine and Harriet raised $7,983 toward the $10,000 we need Horowitz.” to pay for the removals.” Those wishing to make a donation can do so by filling building was destroyed in a fire. out the coupon on page 3 of this issue. The final placement of the windows The windows taken from the build- include: ing include three round windows from ‹‹ Amos Patterson Museum of Local His- front, two medium-sized side windows tory – the Anna B. and Max G. Levinson from the area outside the sanctuary and window. six windows from the sanctuary itself. ‹‹ Beth David Synagogue – two medium All of these windows have found homes sized side windows. either at local Jewish organizations or ‹‹ Jewish Community Center – the Myer with descendants of those memorialized and Fannie Solomon window. in the window. ‹‹ Judaic Studies Department of Bingham- “All known descendants of the families ton University – the Moses Joseph and Lena honored in the windows were contacted Perl window, and the Charles and Anna to see if they wanted their family’s win- Goldstein window. dow or where they would like to see the ‹‹ Kline family – the Anna Weiss Kline and window placed,” said Auerbach. “The Emanuel and Fannie Lee window. Kline family requested their window to ‹‹ St. Paul’s Episcopal Church – the Lewis be placed in a family home. The Levinson and Sophie Cahn window. family wanted their window to be part ‹‹ Temple Concord – one round front of the Amos Patterson Museum of Local window. History, since that focuses on the history ‹‹ Temple Israel – two round front of Endicott. The Esserman family said they windows. were thrilled to have the Cahn window at “We are in the process of deciding St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Endicott how best to celebrate the saving of these due to the connection between the two windows,” Auerbach noted. “However, The Anna Weiss Kline and Emanuel and One of the side windows at the Temple Beth congregations.” St. Paul’s held services I, for one, am thrilled with the results Fannie Lee window in the sanctuary at El building in Endicott. at Temple Beth El for two years after its and am so pleased with the results of Temple Beth El in Endicott. Temple Beth-El Arts Committee hosting summer Jewish Film Festival in Ithaca The Arts Committee of Temple Beth-El of Ithaca has announced its second Jewish Film Festival will be held this summer in the social hall of the temple, located at the corner of Court and Tioga streets in Ithaca. The lineup includes “Dough,” which was screened on June 23, “Raise the Roof” on Thursday, July 21, and “In Search of Israeli Cuisine” on Thursday, August 18. Doors will open at 6:30 pm for free refreshments and socializing. The films will begin at 7 pm. Tickets cost $8 at the door. All films are appropriate for children ages 10 and older. “Raise the Roof” (U.S., 2015, 85 Above, left and right: “Raise the Roof” will be shown at Temple Beth-El in Ithaca on Thursday, July 21. minutes), to be shown on July 21, is a documentary by filmmakers Yari and countries, the film is said to “capture the “Raise the Roof” documents the as the centerpiece of the POLIN Museum Cary Wolinsky. The Trillium Studios film echoes of World War II while revealing challenges of the Browns and the of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. depicts the journey of Rick and Laura an optimistic and creative time in Jewish Handshouse Studio team as they begin For more information about the film, Brown, of Handshouse Studio, as they re- history that has been lost.” At one time, building the new Gwozdziec roof in visit www.polishsynagogue.com. constructed the roof and painted ceiling of there were some 200 wooden synagogues Poland. The crew had six weeks to hew, “In Search of Israeli Cuisine” (U.S., the Gwozdziec Synagogue, an 18th century across the Polish-Lithuanian countryside. saw and carve 200 freshly logged trees 2016, 97 minutes), to be shown on August structure that is said to rival the greatest None survived destruction during the Nazi and assemble the structure with period 18, is a “documentary portrait” of the Israeli wooden architecture in history. occupation of Poland. hand tools and paints. Working against people through their cuisine. Developed in Cary, who is also an award-winning “This film is about a remarkable dream the deadline and despite downpours the last 30 years from the contributions of National Geographic photographer, and and a journey of re-discovery. It is a story of and exhaustion, the team created the more than 100 cultures, Israel’s cuisine is Yari, the director, went behind the scenes larger-than-life characters – one that starts structure and disassembled it again for said to reflect the country’s advancement to reveal the Browns’ decade-long endeavor with tragedy and ends in triumph,” said shipping and eventual installation. “on many levels.” Israeli refreshments to recreate a nearly lost piece of Polish Yari. “It highlights the cautious optimism “The team recovers more than an ob- will be served. Jewish history. The film examines how of a new generation and a growing dialogue ject – they recover a lost world,” noted The film festival is made possible through the synagogue was built, who built it and between Jews and Poles about the past and the filmmakers. Menemsha Films and the National Center why. With the Browns leading more than the future, providing a unique and positive The hand-made, nearly full-scale replica for Jewish Film. For more information, 300 students and professionals from 16 way to connect with Jewish history.” of the Gwozdziec roof was unveiled in 2014 call 257-9924. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Elie Wiesel Perlman eyes inclusive world News in brief... Special Sections Remembering Elie Wiesel, Itzhak Perlman plans to use his A rocket hits a kindergarten in Legal Notices...... 4 Holocaust survivor, human rights Genesis Prize to foster greater Israel; an Israeli teen was killed in Book Review...... 4 activist and Nobel laureate. inclusivity for those with disabilities. her bed by a terrorist; and more. Beat the Heat...... 5 ...... Pages 2 and 5 ...... Page 3 ...... Page 8 Classifieds...... 8 Page 2 - The Reporter July 8-14, 2016 Opinion How Elie Wiesel inspired the Free Soviet Jewry movement By Glenn Richter some of us children of Holocaust survivors or veterans of critical period of my struggle for freedom in a Siberian (JTA) – On my bookshelves there are two rows of vol- the American civil rights movement. labor camp, I always remembered the great Elie Wiesel.” umes on the Soviet Jewry movement. Squeezed in among A year after “The Jews of Silence” was published, the Former refusenik Dan Roginsky: “For we who were the tomes is a small, well-worn paperback with pages no Six-Day War propelled us into a deep-rooted connection fighting for exodus from the Soviet Union, Elie Wiesel longer attached to the spine, “The Jews of Silence,” by with Israel and our own Jewish identities. And a year after was an example of a Jew who never gave up in his struggle Elie Wiesel. This slim volume is, however, a bridge. It that, Arthur Morse’s “While Six Million Died” exposed for tikkun olam (repairing the world) and for the future of crossed Wiesel and his readers over from his prior works, the relative silence of our parents’ generation during the the Jewish People.” hearing the screams of those silenced in the Holocaust, to Shoah. We vowed that this generation would not be guilty Dina Beilina, a leading Moscow refusenik: “Elie was [a] an eloquent challenge in 1966 to listen to the cry of our of the same sin. soldier. All his life he fought, in the beginning, alone. But silenced, but living, oppressed brethren in the USSR. Elie Wiesel was our moral compass. In between our he believed in his mission and became a symbol of Jewish While today one of every seven Israelis or their descen- numerous demonstrations at the Soviet U.N. Mission, SSSJ resistance to Nazism and a symbol of our victory over evil.” dants is from the former Soviet Union, when hundreds of produced a stark white-on-black lapel button challenging Former refusenik Sasha Smukler, echoing the words of thousands of FSU Jews live in the United States and the the Jewish community: “Are We ‘The Jews Of Silence’?” his friend Yuli Kosharovsky: “He inspired us to become West, when with the click of a computer button I’d just It took years, but eventually the Jewish establishment Jews again.” arranged a frequent-flyer point flight to Israel via Moscow put its considerable muscle behind the Free Soviet Jewry “Elie was a major source of inspiration for the refuseniks,” on Aeroflot Russian Airlines, it is difficult to remember how movement. Wiesel was a featured speaker at large rallies summarized Enid Wurtman, an American Soviet Jewry ignorant American Jews were – or willed themselves to and utilized his growing moral authority to press for the movement leader who was inspired by the refuseniks to be – about the quarter of world Jewry locked in the Soviet liberation of Russian Jews. make aliyah to Israel to continue her work from Jerusalem. Union when “The Jews of Silence” was published. In 1986, 21 years after his first visit, he returned to the “He taught them about the Shoah, strengthened their Jewish For my contemporaries in high schools and universities USSR. Despite Mikhail Gorbachev’s lockdown on immi- identity, made them assertive Jews fighting against all odds in the 1960s, Wiesel’s cri de coeur was the first of three gration to Israel that year, Wiesel witnessed the miraculous to be free, fighting for their right to emigrate to Israel.” shocks that would galvanize our nascent public student rebirth of Jewish self-identification among refuseniks and Absolutely nothing can bring back the six million. Yet Soviet Jewry movement into a tidal wave of action. Wi- thousands of ordinary young Jews who flocked to Mos- when three million of our brothers and sisters in the Soviet esel ended “The Jews of Silence” thus: “What torments cow’s Arkipova Street Synagogue on Simchat Torah. Gal Union were threatened with spiritual annihilation, postwar me most is not the Jews of silence I met in Russia, but the Beckerman recounted in “When They Come For Us We’ll Jewry finally stepped forward, their march begun, as Natan silence of the Jews I live among today.” Not yet the icon Be Gone” that Wiesel told the congregation inside, “Not a Sharansky often recalls, by “students and housewives,” he later became, Wiesel reinforced his written, searing day passes when I don’t talk of you, dream of you, sing of inspired by Elie Wiesel. recollection of his visit with Jews in the USSR in talks you, pray for you. You give us so much hope throughout the “Yehi zichro mevorach” – may his memory be for us to our Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry members. We world. We owe you a thousand times more than you owe us.” a blessing. connected immediately to Wiesel: Jacob Birnbaum, the Soviet Jews responded in kind. Former Prisoner of Glenn Richter is the former national coordinator of the SSSJ’s founder, a refugee from Nazi Germany, and students, Zion Alexander Paritsky recalled, “In the hardest and most Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. The “religionization” of Israel is troubling, but the fears about it are hysterical By Shuki Friedman democratic future, religionization (“ha’datah” in Hebrew) is their worldviews and values from home to the workplace. (JTA) – Religionization! Religionization! To read the everywhere. Within Israel’s educational system, right-wing The chief of police is religious as well. And at what point newspaper headlines in Israel, to view its documentary films and religious ministers are infusing class curricula with reli- will the people’s army transform into God’s army? and attend its expert panels with academics, a stranger might gious content. The justice system in the country increasingly In such an atmosphere, the use of any Jewish content in think that upon landing at Ben Gurion Airport, he or she includes judges and other senior level officials who are official government statements; any attempt by a religious will have arrived at nothing less than a Hebrew-speaking religious, and are threatening, so it appears, to implement person to stand up for her rights; the celebration of any Jewish version of Iran. “Hebrew” law. Israel’s communications sector is suddenly holiday at any secular school anywhere; and every mention According to those who fear for Israel’s Jewish and being overrun by men wearing skull caps, who are bringing See “Fears” on page 7 In My Own Words Jewish cultural differences across time RABBI RACHEL ESSERMAN, EXECUTIVE EDITOR

We usually assume that human nature hasn’t changed revenge. What may strike contemporary minds as even for those who travel there, as long as they remain in the across the centuries. However, at least according to histor- odder is another idea: if the goel hadam catches the killer city. If they leave before the appropriate time (the death ical anthologists, the way we view an idea or event can be before he makes it to the city of refuge, the goel hadam of the high priest), then the goel hadam can still kill them very different from our ancestors. I was reminded of this may kill him even if the first death was an accident. without fear of punishment. idea recently when, while reading a section of the mishnah In contemporary America, we make far more distinctions By the time the ancient rabbis were compiling the called Makkot, I struggled to understand a biblical concept about who is responsible for a death: There’s murder, man- mishnah, a reaction against capital punishment had arisen. known as the goel hadam. slaughter, self-defense and accidents. If someone’s death Earlier in Makkot, there were quotes from several rabbis The literal translation of the word makkot is “lashes,” is accidental, we may sue for compensation – and get it basically saying that capital punishment is unacceptable. although the book discusses a variety of punishments. The depending on whether or not someone or something is at The specific mishnah I was reading showed that the rabbis particular section I was looking at deals with the cities of fault – but we still define these events as accidents. That wanted to make it difficult for goela hadam to take revenge. refuge decreed in the Torah. When a person kills someone, means we don’t place people in jail – or put them to death The section notes how the roads to a city of refuge must they can flee to these cities. If they are found innocent of – for something that is completely beyond their control. be kept in repair and that wise men travel with the killer murder, then they can safely remain in the city. If, however, Today, we leave the responsibility for punishing a to protect him by trying to dissuade the goel hadam from they are found guilty of murder, they are handed over to person to the government, rather than the family of the exacting revenge. the goel hadam – literally the avenger of blood – a close deceased. In fact, if someone takes the life of the killer, Even though I now understand the biblical reasoning relative of the victim who is then allowed to kill them. that person can be tried for murder. Our judicial system behind the mishnaic statements, I still have to pause before I’ve read this section of the Torah about cities of refuge seeks an objective point-of-view; that means letting people looking at a new section to remind myself of the difference many times, but it’s only when studying these rules in the with no connection to an event make the decision about between biblical, rabbinic and contemporary outlooks. mishnah that I realized how different the biblical perspective punishment. Of course, we also debate whether or not there These differences make the study of this particular chapter is from our contemporary one. The most obvious point is should be capital punishment. While the biblical text clearly both more difficult and more interesting as it challenges me that capital punishment was left to the family rather than supports capital punishment, the city of refuge means that to look beyond American cultural concepts to understand the government. In fact, the goel hadam is expected to seek not every death needs to be avenged. It gives a safe place the worlds of our ancestors.

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With $1 million prize, Itzhak Perlman Temple Israel will hold a “Welcome Home” celebration on Sunday, September 25, from 4-7 pm. The event will celebrate moving into the new building. For more details, eyes a more inclusive world see future issues of The Reporter. By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman JNS.org OF NOTE In his book, “To Heal a Fractured World,” Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks recalls how Israeli-American violinist, conductor and pedagogue Itzhak Perlman came onto the stage at Lincoln Center in New York City to play a violin Miller and Stuppel concerto – presumably something he had done many The board, faculty and staff of Hillel Academy has times before. But as Perlman sat down to play this time in expressed its congratulations to its 2016 graduates. 1995, one of the strings on his violin broke. The audience Susannah Jewel Stuppel is the assumed that Perlman would have to find another violin daughter of Dr. Ian Stuppel and or another string for the one he was using – delaying the Dr. Lisa Newman, and sister of concert. Instead, Perlman waited a moment, closed his Alexander, a Hillel Academy 2015 eyes and signaled the conductor to begin. He played the graduate. Susannah’s grandpar- entire concerto on just three strings. Afterward – following ents are Elaine Newman Hudson, a standing ovation – Perlman spoke. He said, “Sometimes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) handed and Samuel and Moira Stuppel. it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can the Genesis Prize to Israeli-American violinist Itzhak She will attend Vestal Middle still make with what remains.” Perlman at the Jerusalem Theater on June 23. (Photo by School next year and Camp JCC That story, retold by Israeli Knesset Speaker Yuli-Yoel Kobi Gideon/GPO) this summer. Edelstein during a ceremony held at the Knesset on June Cara Miller is the daughter 22, was meant to encapsulate the message that “we have impediment,” said Mizrahi. “He talked to God and said of Eileen and Dan Miller, and to make the world a better place with what we have,” he should not be the leader because of his disability. And Susannah Jewel granddaughter of Richard and said Edelstein. yet, God chose Moses. Aaron was like an accommodation Stuppel Numa Lavy. She celebrated the On June 23 in Jerusalem, Perlman received the 2016 for him…. Someone with a disability might need someone simcha with her brothers, Alex Genesis Prize, an award that honors individuals who have without a disability to partner with him, but the utmost and Brian, who are both Hillel attained excellence in their professional fields, have made a can be achieved.” Academy graduates. Cara will significant contribution to humanity and serve as an inspi- Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky said he grew attend Vestal Middle School in ration to others through their dedication to Jewish values up when being Jewish was a “disability” in and of itself. the fall. This summer, she will and the state of Israel. The annual prize, a partnership of the “We knew nothing about our Jewishness, our tradition attend Pinemere Camp, a Jewish state of Israel, the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Gen- or history, nothing about our religion, but we knew very summer camp in the Poconos, for esis Prize Foundation, carries a $1 million reward, which well we were Jewish because it was written on the ID of four weeks. Perlman said he will use to primarily to invest in projects our parents and all the conversations at home were about “We are very proud of their suc- that foster greater integration of people with disabilities restrictions,” Sharansky said at the Knesset, noting that cess,” noted a school representative, into Israeli and North American societies. in the former Soviet Union, Jews could not learn certain who thanked the parents of the stu- The Knesset event on June 22, which besides for honor- subjects or hold certain jobs. dents for being “active members of ing Perlman highlighted the work Israel is doing to integrate “The message from our parents was that because you Cara Miller the Hillel Academy family.” people with disabilities into society, discussed integration were born with this disability called Judaism, you must challenges and plans for improvement. In recent years, be the best in the class – the best at physics or music or the Israeli legislature has become a leader in the field of chess – that is the way to survive,” recalled Sharansky. integration of people with disabilities. In 1998, the Knesset “[Perlman’s] story of overcoming extraordinary personal passed the Equal Rights for People with Disabilities Law. challenges to excel as one of the world’s greatest musicians Today, the Knesset employs 20 individuals with special and humanitarians is so reflective of the inherent strength of needs in various roles. “Those Knesset employees prove See “Perlman” on page 7 day in and day out that helping the disabled lead creative, productive lives is not charity, but that it is in our own collective interest to do so,” said event emcee Donna Weiss. 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Notice of formation of county in which the principal place The date of filing of the Articles liability company (LLC). Name: Dowd, PO Box 1905, Binghamton, CLEARWATER CORNER, LLC. Trustee of business of the Company shall of Organization of the Company Congdon Appraisal LLC. Articles of NY 13902. Purpose: Any Lawful Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of be located is Broome County. with the Secretary of State was Organization filed with Secretary of Purpose. Date of dissolution: None. State of NY (SSNY) on 06/22/16. Sales The Secretary of State has been June 3, 2016. The county in which State of New York (SSNY) on May ______Office in Broome County. SSNY designated as agent of the Company the principal place of business of 9, 2016. NY office location: Broome has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may the Company shall be located is County. SSNY has been designated X93 BFF, LLC, a domestic LLC, of the LLC upon whom process Auction be served. 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SSNY shall mail process Endicott, NY 13760. Purpose: any Broome County. The Secretary of be located is Broome County. to: 111 Newlands St., Chevy Chase, lawful activities. Notice of Qualification of Forge State has been designated as agent Published by the The Secretary of State has been MD 20815. Purpose: any lawful ______Construction, LLC. Authority filed of the Company upon whom process Jewish Federation designated as agent of the Company activities. with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on against it may be served. The of Greater Binghamton Secretary of State shall mail a copy upon whom process against it may ______NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 06/01/16. Office location: Broome To place your ad, be served. The Secretary of State LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: County. LLC formed in Texas (TX) of any process against the Company shall mail a copy of any process NOTICE OF FORMATION OF on 05/12/05. 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Arts of psychiatry nursing services. www.thereportergroup.org Company is any lawful business of Organization of the Company Org. filed with the TX Secy. of July 8-14, 2016 Page 5 - The Reporter “Reverse Birthright” gives Israelis a look at America’s Jews, from Philip Roth to the Three Stooges By Ben Sales NEW YORK (JTA) – Instead of visiting the Western Wall, they visited Ellis Island. Instead of hiking in the Negev Desert, they took a day trip to a Habonim-Dror summer camp. Instead of basking in the sun on the Tel Aviv beach, they watched clips of the Three Stooges mocking At right: A cohort of Israeli the Nazis. And instead of Birthright, a 10-day trip meant master’s degree students to acquaint American Jews with Israel, a cohort of Israeli researching American Jewry graduate students participated in a 10-day trip to get to took a group photo on the know American Jews. program’s annual trip to The trip, which began on June 18, is the highlight of New York last year. (Photo a year-long master’s degree program at Haifa University, courtesy of the Ruderman the Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies. The Program for American program teaches 25 students about American Jewish history, Jewish Studies) religion and culture to have them better understand and identify with their American counterparts. “In Israel, they don’t teach about Jewish Americans,” said Haifa University history professor Gur Alroey, who runs the program. “American universities are full of Is- need to be active in that regard. That’s not a given in Israel.” attend a Yiddish theater performance and see a documentary rael studies departments. It’s important that Israelis will The program attracts some 100 applicants each year, on American Jews in film. The trip also includes a lecture understand that they live in Israel, but they’re not alone.” but the 25 students don’t necessarily reflect the average by journalist Peter Beinart, a self-described liberal Zionist. In the program, students attend class all day once a Israeli. Many have had experiences with non-Orthodox A few students said they were surprised by how much week, allowing them to work on the side. Classes cover movements, which have a scant presence in Israel. A few American Jewish movements have in common, even as they everything from American Jewish immigration and Amer- are studying to be Reform rabbis. Others have lived abroad emphasize their differences. Almost everyone they meet, said ican Zionist movements to American Jewish culture and for long periods of time. The trip is billed as a “reverse student Yehuda Lahav, speaks positively about the LGBT contemporary issues. Along with history books like Arthur Birthright” and aims to get Israelis to like American Jews in community. “I don’t know if they realize that the direction all Hertzberg’s “The Jews in America” and Jonathan Sarna’s the same way Birthright aims to create pro-Israel Americans. the streams are going is the same,” he said. “Some have been “American Judaism,” students read excerpts from “Port- But while Birthright has brought more than half a million there for a while, some will get there in the future. None of them noy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth and watch some Three young Jews to Israel, the master’s program is orders of see a contradiction between Jewish life and American life.” Stooges films from the late 1930s. They also look at how magnitude smaller. Sarna, who teaches American Jewish The students are largely bullish about the American Hebrew translation to English changed as American Jews history at Brandeis University, said the program aims for Jewish community and the values it represents. Some grew more assertively Zionist. depth of impact rather than breadth. praised American Jewry’s pluralism and downplayed the Omri Asscher, who teaches a course on American Jew- “The Birthright people don’t have much preparation challenges and divisions that afflict its subgroups. Israelis, a ish culture and identity, said students already appreciated beforehand; these people are getting an M.A.,” Sarna said. few suggested, have much to learn from Judaism’s success cultural touchstones like “Seinfeld,” or superheroes like “I don’t see these folks like Birthright participants in [terms in America’s free market of religion. Batman and Superman, before knowing or caring that they of] numbers. I see these folks as future leaders.” “American Judaism, despite the challenges and prob- were created by American Jews. But Asscher said a cultural On the trip, which takes place entirely in New York, the lems it’s facing, can embody a different and in many ways disconnect remained. His students, for example, had trou- students hear from leaders of all four major denominations positive model of Judaism that is very important for us in ble appreciating the role decorative objects – tchotchkes and meet with a range of Jewish organizations. They explore Israel to know,” student Assaf Gamzou said. “Israelis a like a cup with Hebrew writing or even a Jewish National the history of Jewish immigration to America, visiting Ellis lot of the time have a very monolithic sense of themselves Fund charity box – played in solidifying communal Jewish Island as well as the Tenement Museum on Manhattan’s and our place. Sometimes we think Israel is the center of identity. “We talked about how being a Jew in America is a Lower East Side. Along with “Fiddler on the Roof,” they Jewish experience, but it is not necessarily so.” question of choice,” Asscher said. “You can choose to be, and you can choose not to be. And if you choose to be, you NEWS IN BRIEF

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Weekly Parasha A hierarchical society Korach, Number 16:1-18:32 RABBI RACHEL ESSERMAN, EXECUTIVE EDITOR THE REPORTER GROUP The idea of a hierarchical society based on inherited be farmers and shepherds. The answer can be found in The biblical tax is a reasonable one, unlike that demanded family status seems to go against the grain of American Numbers 18:25-28, when God tells Moses to say to the by many kings; people gave one-tenth of what they raised. society. Family fortunes and influence wax and wane over Levites, “You will speak to the Levites and say to them, If there was a bad harvest, then everyone – including the time; the major players in each decade can belong to different ‘When you take a tithe [tax] from the children of Israel Levites and priests– would suffer. Of course, according ethnic and religious groups. However, in biblical times, that I [God] have given to you, you will set apart of it a gift to the biblical text – which claims that if people behave certain types of status were clearly decreed by God. For for the Lord... and you will give that gift that was also set correctly, they will have a good harvest – a bad harvest example, in the opening sections of Korach, this week’s apart to the Lord to Aaron the priest.” While the Levites would mean that God was unhappy with Israel. parasha, God rejects the rebellions of Korach, Dathan receive a percentage of produce raised by others for their While the idea of a hierarchical society may not resonate and Abviram, showing that the priesthood belongs only own use, they also have to tithe what they receive. That with us, the idea of supporting those who work for the good to Aaron’s family. The portion also make clear that the portion is said to be an inheritance for God, although it’s of others still does. We have institutions – our synagogues, tribe of Levi is to play an important role in the religious the priests who receive the actual goods. the Federation, Jewish Family Service, etc. – that could offerings, the sacrifices, which were demanded by God. When you think about it, it makes sense that if society not help others without public support. Rather than giving Once a priestly class is selected, a problem arises: (or God) requires people to perform certain tasks for the part of our earnings to the priestly class, we can give that How is society to support them? After all, if the priests good of society (in this case, the sacrifices that keep God tithe to help those in need – if only to show our gratitude are spending their days doing God’s work, they can’t happy), then the rest of the population should support them. for all we do receive. Congregational Notes Temple Israel Beth David Synagogue Temple Concord Rabbi: TBA Affiliation: Orthodox Union Union for Reform Judaism Address: 4737 Deerfield Pl., Vestal, NY 13850 Rabbis: Aminadav Adamit and Zev Silber Rabbi: Barbara Goldman-Wartell Phone: 723-7461 and 231-3746 Address: 39 Riverside Dr., Binghamton, NY 13905 Address: 9 Riverside Dr., Binghamton, NY 13905 Office hours: Mon.-Thurs. 8:30 am-4 pm; Fri. 8 am-3 pm. Phone: 607-722-1793 Office hours: Tues.-Thurs., 10 am-5 pm; Fri., 10 am-1 pm. E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Rabbi’s Office: 607-722-7514 Phone: 723-7355 Website: www.templeisraelvestal.org Fax: 607-722-7121 Fax: 723-0785 Service Schedule: Friday, 5:30 pm; Saturday, 9:30 am. Office hours: Mon. closed; Tues. 9 am-3 pm; Wed. 9:30 am-noon; Office e-mail: [email protected] Regular Tuesday services and Friday Kabbalat Shab- Thurs. 9 am-1 pm; Fri. 9:30 am-noon Website: www.templeconcord.com bat services will be held at 5:30 pm in the library of the Beth David e-mail address: [email protected] Regular service times: Friday, 8:15 pm; Saturday, 10:35 am, Rabbis’ e-mail: [email protected]; rabbisilber@stny. when religious school is in session. Jewish Community Center, 500 Clubhouse Rd., Vestal. rr.com On Saturday, July 9, at 9:30 am, there will be Shabbat On Friday, July 8, at 8:15 pm, there will be Shabbat Website: www.bethdavid.org services, with Visual Tefillah in the library, led by Rabbi services in the meeting room at the Jewish Community Shabbat Services: Center, 500 Clubhouse Rd., Vestal. Services will be Friday, July 8...... 7:15 pm Barbara Goldman-Wartell. led by Howard Schwartz, Steve Gilbert, Art Siegel and Shabbat, July 9...... 9 am On Saturday, July 9, at 9:15 am, there will be the Leonard Feld. Bima guest will be Howard Warner. The ...... Mincha/Maariv 8:10 pm program “Music of Consolation” with Milwaukee-based Torah portion will be Numbers 16:1-18:32. The haftarah Weekday Services: singer/songwriter and Jewish educational programmer Mornings: will be I Samuel 11:14-12:22. Marge Eisman. She will lead the Saturday morning Torah Sun., July 10...... 8:30 am study group. The program will include music, storytelling Mon.-Fri., July 11-15...... 6:40 am and text. All are welcome to attend. Evenings: Temple Beth-El of Ithaca Sun.-Thurs., July 10-14...... 8:25 pm On Friday, July 15, at 8:15 pm, there will be Shabbat Affiliation: United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Classes: Rabbi Aminadav Adamit will teach “Tractate Kiddushin” services led by Rabbi Barbara Goldman-Wartell. Rabbi: Scott L. Glass on Shabbat afternoons 45 minutes before Mincha. Rabbi Zev On Saturday, July 16, at 9:15 am, there will be Torah Address: 402 North Tioga St. (the corner of Court and Tioga Silber will hold his weekly Talmud class every Tuesday evening study. streets), Ithaca, NY 14850-4292 after services. Phone: 273-5775 E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] Penn-York Jewish Community Website: www.tbeithaca.org Norwich Jewish Center President and Treasurer-Secretary: Harvey Chernosky, Co-presidents: Jerry Dietz and Richard Wallace Orientation: Inclusive 570-265-3869 Sisterhood Co-presidents: Elizabeth Hess and Esther Rabbi: Rafael Goldstein B’nai B’rith: William H. Seigel Lodge Racoosin Address: 72 South Broad St., Norwich, NY 13815 Purpose: To promote Jewish identity through religious, Director of Education: Rabbi Suzanne Brody Contact: Linda Horovitz, 336-7236 cultural, educational and social activities in the Southern Administrative Assistant: Jane Griffith Contact: Guilia Greenberg, 373-5087 Tier of New York and the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania, Services: Friday 8 pm; Saturday 10 am, unless otherwise Purpose: To maintain a Jewish identity and meet the needs of including Waverly, NY; Sayre, Athens and Towanda, PA, and announced. the Jewish community in the area. surrounding communities. Religious School/Education: September-May: Classes meet Services: Held twice each month on certain Fridays at 7 pm on Sunday, 9 am-12:30 pm and Wednesday afternoons, except in December, January and February. Call for dates or 3:45-5:45 pm. The Midrashah (eighth grade and high school) more information. Temple Brith Sholom classes will meet at times designated by their respective Adult Ed.: Saturday morning study is held at 10 am. Call for Affiliation: Unaffiliated teachers. more information and to confirm. Address: P.O. Box 572, 117 Madison St., Cortland, NY 13045 Adult Ed.: Numerous weekly courses, several semester-long On Friday, July 15, at 7 pm, there will be Shabbat services. Phone: 607-756-7181 courses and a variety of mini-courses and lectures are offered On Saturday, July 16, at 10 am, there will be a study class. President: Glen Goldwyn, [email protected] throughout the year. Call the temple office for more details. Service leaders: Lay leadership On Friday-Saturday, July 8-9, the bar mitzvah of Shabbat services: Either Friday evening at 7:30 pm or Toby Kurzweil, son of Todd and Deirdre Kurzweil, will Congregation Tikkun v’Or Saturday at 10 am from Rosh Hashanah to Shavuot. be celebrated. Affiliation: Union for Reform Judaism Holiday services are also held. Check the weekly e-mail Address: PO Box 3981, Ithaca, NY 14852; 2550 Triphammer Rd. for upcoming services. Contact the president to get on On Saturday, July 16, Tot Shabbat will be held at (corner of Triphammer and Burdick Hill), Lansing, NY the e-mail list. 11:15 am. Phone: 607-256-1471 Religious School: Students are educated on an individual On Sunday, July 17, at 3 pm, at the temple, “The World Website: www.tikkunvor.org basis. of Salomone Rossi,” a look at an Italian Jewish musician, E-mail: [email protected] Temple Brith Sholom is a small equalitarian congregation will be presented by guest scholar Nina Lazar Sobelman, Presidents: Dorothy Debbie and Nina Cummings serving the greater Cortland community. Congregants an expert on early Jewish music and musicians. Sobel- Rabbi: Brian Walt span the gamut of observance and services are largely Religious School Director/Admin. Coordinator: Naomi Wilensky dependent on the service leader. The Friday night siddur man resides in Rehovot, Israel, where she teaches piano Services: Fridays at 7:30 pm unless otherwise noted. Family services is “Likrat Shabbat,” while the Saturday morning siddur and harpsichord. She also conducts an ongoing series and Tot Shabbat once a month at 6:30 pm. Call for weekly schedules. is “Gates of Prayer.” The community extends a warm th of lecture-demonstrations about 18 century music for Religious School: Preschool through seventh grade classes meet welcome to the Jewish student population of SUNY the harpsichord. The talk is part of the 40th Anniversary on Sunday mornings. Sixth grade Hebrew and seventh grade b’nai Cortland, as well as the residents of local adult residences. Lecture Series in honor of Rabbi Scott Glass. mitzvah classes meet on Wednesday afternoons. Adult Ed.: Special classes and discussion groups held regularly. Essential Judaism classes offered in the fall and spring. Call the office for details. Kol Haverim Rohr Chabad Center Affiliation: Society for Humanistic Judaism Affiliation: Chabad-Lubavitch Address: P.O. Box 4972, Ithaca, NY 14852-4972 Rabbi: Aaron Slonim, E-mail: [email protected] Temple Beth El of Oneonta Phone: 607-277-3345 Address: 420 Murray Hill Rd., Vestal, NY 13850 Affiliation: United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 797-0015, Fax: 797-0095 Rabbi: Molly Karp Website: www.kolhaverim.net Website: www.Chabadofbinghamton.com Address: 83 Chestnut St., Oneonta, NY 13820 Chairman: Jonathan Joseph Chabad on the West Side Mailing address: P.O. Box 383, Oneonta, NY 13820 Kol Haverim: The Finger Lakes Community for Rabbi: Zalman Chein, E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 607-432-5522 Humanistic Judaism, is an Ithaca-based organization Address: 27 Bennet Ave., Binghamton, NY 13905 Website: www.templebetheloneonta.org that brings people together to explore and celebrate Phone: 722-3252 E-mail: [email protected] Jewish identity, history, culture and ethics within Regular service times: Daily 7:30 am, Friday evening 6 pm, Regular service times: visit the temple website for days of a secular, humanistic framework. KH is part of an Shabbat morning 9:30 am, Maariv and Havdalah one hour services and times international movement for Secular Humanistic Judaism after candle-lighting time, Sundays 9:30 am. Religious School/Education: Religious School, for grades and is affiliated with the Society for Humanistic Judaism, Linking Hearts for youngsters with special needs: This kindergarten through bar/bat mitzvah, meets Sunday mornings. a national association with over 30 member communities program connects Jewish special-needs children and Rabbi Karp conducts services and holds classes in Torah, and congregations around the country. Established teenagers, ages 5-14, who have mental, physical and/or beginning Hebrew and Maimonides. in the spring of 1999, it offers celebrations of Jewish functional disabilities, with student volunteers who will visit For a schedule of services, classes and events, see the website. holidays, monthly Shabbat pot-lucks, adult education, participating youngsters weekly in their homes. a twice-monthly Cultural School for children, and a bar To join the mailing list, for up-to-date information on adult and bat mitzvah program. education offerings or to arrange for a private tutorial, for Friday, July 8, light candles...... 8:23 pm KH welcomes all individuals and families, including those details concerning the Judaica shop and resource center, or Shabbat ends Saturday, July 9...... 9:23 pm from mixed religious backgrounds, who wish to strengthen for assistance through the Piaker Free Loan Society or Raff Friday, July 15, light candles...... 8:19 pm the Jewish experience in their lives and provide their Maasim Tovim Foundation, call Chabad’s office at 797-0015. Shabbat ends Saturday, July 16...... 9:19 pm children with a Jewish identity and experience. July 8-14, 2016 Page 7 - The Reporter Jewish Community Center JCC Friendship Club

The JCC Friendship Club met on June 29, and heard a also. When he got out of the boat he promptly fell into the faintness, nausea and vomiting, hives, rapid heart beat and/ talk by Dorothy Gardner. She talked about “Surviving the water. The first one saw what happened and said, “Maybe or cramping. After calling 911, have the person lie down and Summer.” She brought her friend Kate, who is in our age we should have told him where the rocks are.” loosen clothes. Cover with a blanket and turn him or her on bracket and we were pleased to meet her. Dorothy started Dorothy continued by saying that when the weather is the side if vomiting occurs. We talked about the Zika Virus. by telling a joke about three men who were fishing. One hot, you should stay hydrated and drink extra fluids. The It is in the U.S., but has not reached the northern states yet. got out of the boat and walked across the water to the shore hottest time of the day is between noon and 3 pm. Try to After all this, she said to enjoy the summer. to use the restroom. The next one did the same thing. The stay out of the sun for outdoor activities such as walking Morty Hofstein read some jokes from a book compiled by third one thought that if they did it then he could do it and gardening. She said to wear a wide brimmed hat, long Henny Youngman. The first one was,”Do you know what I sleeves and insect repellent. She mentioned that biting and got for Father’s Day? Answer: The bills from Mother’s Day.” stinging insects are attracted by women’s perfume and men’s The meeting was called to order by Sylvia Diamond. shaving lotion. If a bite or sting starts to swell, she said After the Pledge of Allegiance, Ann Brillant said the you should wash it with soap and water, and take Tylenol blessing over the cookies supplied by Morty. Morty gave for pain. Dorothy said she got better results by applying a the treasurer’s report. On Wednesday, July 13, we will baking soda solution than using calamine lotion. She said celebrate the birthdays of those members who were born that if you are unable to get a tick off, you should go for in July. Rabbi Benny Kelman will bring his guitar and Isaac Mizrahi exhibit help. A tick may cause Lyme Disease. If you have any of entertain us. Come join us at the JCC at 1:30 pm. the following symptoms, you should call 911 and go to Sylvia Diamond The Jewish Museum in New York City will the emergency room: swelling of lips and face, dizziness, President hold the exhibit “Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History” through August 7. This is the first mu- seum exhibit to focus on the American fashion Perlman Continued from page 3 designer, artist and entrepreneur. It will explore Mizrahi’s position at the intersection of high style and popular cul- the Jewish character,” said the Genesis Prize Foundation’s which is amplified by matching funds that raise the total ture. While best known for his clothing designs, Mizrahi’s chairman and co-founder, Stan Polovets. to $3 million – to improve access and infrastructure, and creativity has expanded over a nearly three decade career to Perlman, who was born in Israel, said he is “proud to be change the public’s attitude. He noted that some changes embrace acting, directing, set and costume design, writing an Israeli” and noted that while the Jewish state has taken might require legislation, while others will center on educa- and cabaret performance. Spanning his first collection in many positive steps to include and empower people with tional campaigns. For example, he envisions an educational 1987 to the present day, the exhibit weaves together the disabilities, “there is still work to be done.” Israelis with program for architects and interior designers that would many threads of his career, juxtaposing work in fashion, disabilities, like people with disabilities in other countries, show them what it is like for a person in a wheelchair to film, television and the performing arts. For more infor- face physical barriers. At times, they are unable to have maneuver in a closed space. mation, visit http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions or access to spaces that others take for granted, including As a maestro, Perlman has traveled all over the world. contact the museum at [email protected] or 212-423-3200. public and religious spaces, community centers, parks and He said that he has encountered countless hotels with so on. “I speak from personal experience,” said Perlman. one or no accessible room. “That does not work for me,” Exhibit about Jewish cookbooks “This is all very personal to me.” Perlman said. “We have to have a way of life so we don’t The Center for Jewish History in New York City is Jay Ruderman – president of the Ruderman Family have to worry about what, if anything, is accessible. I want holding the exhibit “Nourishing Tradition: Jewish Cook- Foundation, which prioritizes the issue of disability rights to be able to go to a concert, to go and say I know I can books and the Stories they Tell” through September 9. and has worked to improve accessibility in Israel over the get in there. I don’t want to have to call ahead... This is a The exhibit looks at how food serves as a touchstone and last 12 years – said inclusion laws in Israel are solid, but goal and a dream, and I hope one day it will come true.” marker of tradition in Jewish culture. For Jews, food serves are often not enforced. Further, there are barriers created He continued, “This is not charity work. Israel is a small a religious purpose as well as a cultural one. It also shows in Israel by attitudes toward people with disabilities, country. Its strength is the talent of the Jewish people. We how food conveys tradition and memory – whether it be the which make it difficult for individuals with special needs must cultivate every citizen’s potential.” “sauerkraut and small noodles” from a poem that written to achieve their full potential, said Perlman. “People with Mizrahi said Perlman has long been “a role model by Holocaust sufferers, the recipes gathered by a Sephardic talent are seen through the lens of their disability, rather for something that is my passion – showing the abilities Sisterhood, or cookbooks advertising modern versions of than ability,” he said. “Society stands to lose from this of people with disabilities. He never lets his disabilities old favorites. Objects featured illustrate the diverse tradi- unfulfilled potential... Don’t look at that person cannot limit him, and he is a stigma-buster with disabilities of the tions of Jewish culture and cooking worldwide. For more walk or talk. Ask: What can you do?” highest order.” She added, “Giving the Genesis Prize to information, visit www.cjh.org/ or call 212-294-8301. Perlman said he will use his $1 million prize money – an individual with a disability has the power to be trans- formative in our community.” In the United States, according to the U.S. Census, 18.6 Fears Continued from page 2 percent of Americans have a disability. In 1990, Congress of God within the context of the Israel Defense Forces is to sometimes compromise. Only then will it be possible passed the Americans with Disabilities Act. But all faith- more proof that religion is taking over our lives – that we for the unique and valuable combination – a Jewish and based organizations were exempted from that law. As are in the throes of a terrible process of religionization. democratic state – to thrive. such, many Jewish institutions are devoid of ramps or have The reality, however, is clearly different from this Nevertheless, critics of religionization talk about it as if it doors that are too narrow to enter in a wheelchair. Many perception. Tel Aviv is not Tehran. Neither is it Jerusa- is a demon uniquely threatening Israel’s culture and society. buildings do not even have a single accessible bathroom. lem. The IDF is fighting for the country and its people, This is the easy way out for politicians, activists, members A RespectAbility survey of 2,607 engaged Jews found that not God. Israel’s educational system is not rediscovering of the media and the academy. When there is a common one out of every five Jews with disabilities have “been religion en masse. And while the Israeli public is most enemy that is as threatening as the religious demon it is turned away or unable to participate in a Jewish event or certainly changing, it’s actually doing so in the direction much easier to close ranks, hiding together behind the issue. activity because of their disability.” The survey also found of secularization. The status quo in the country between Yet demonizing religion comes with a price. And the that 32 percent of Jews with disabilities said they had never religion and state is long since dead. Commercial and leisure price is high. The price is the suppression of all public been to Israel, compared to 13 percent of all respondents. activities during the Sabbath are more widespread today debate on this and related issues. The price is the sti- Mizrahi said that she is among those who are hopeful than in the past, and homosexual couples are receiving fling of every serious attempt to address in an open and that through the Genesis Prize, which was granted to former official recognition. All this in spite of the fact that for 30 comprehensive manner the topic of religion and state, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2014 and years there has existed an ultra-religious veto, overtly or and the relationship between Judaism and democracy. actor Michael Douglas in 2015, Perlman will play an even covertly, within the government. Fear-mongering over the religious demon leads to exag- greater role in changing this reality. “You are an advocate Israel is a Jewish and democratic state. I, as well as many gerated, hysterical descriptions that occur whenever an for those whose bodies are disabled but whose spirits nev- citizens, religious and secular, believe that these two charac- attempt is made to add a Jewish dimension to the Israeli er are,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told teristics are critical to the country’s existence. Just as Israel’s public sphere, or to promote the expression of Jewish Perlman in his speech at the June 23 prize event. “I think Jewish image and identity must be cultivated, so must its spiritual treasures not only inside of synagogues, but you are a source of inspiration for those without special democratic character and liberal and humanistic values. And within Israeli life itself. needs, because it tells us what we can achieve if we choose no, there is no contradiction between Jewish and democratic. The hysteria over this issue is dragging us straight to to overcome our disabilities.” The exact balance between these values is not gospel. the bottom. Instead of dialogue, we are being subjected to Actress Helen Mirren, the Genesis Prize event emcee, Neither is it the exclusive knowledge of the religious or a cacophony of screaming from all sides. This demon must added, “When you look at someone like Perlman, you secular. Even the Supreme Court, which has occasionally be put back in the closet, which should then be buried deep realize there are no boundaries.” had to rule on these issues, has often done so mechanically. in the ground. In place of this demon, the public sphere How, then, can we determine the location of the golden will be filled with serious and meaningful dialogue on the mean? Only through public discussion that is serious and Jewish and democratic values of Israel. Happy Chanukah from open to all. 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From JTA said none of the reported incidents showed a direct link to antisemitism. Rocket fire hits Sderot kindergarten building U.S. sales of “Mein Kampf” will benefit Holocaust survivors Rocket fire from the Gaza Strip hit a building in Sderot that reportedly is a kindergarten. in Boston The building was empty at the time of the July 1 attack, the Associated Press reported. The U.S. publisher of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” says it will donate all revenues In response, Israeli airstrikes hit components of Hamas’ infrastructure in Gaza, the army from the antisemitic book to a Jewish organization that helps Holocaust survivors in said in a statement on July 2. No one was injured in the exchange. the Boston area. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which is based in Boston, had initially Netanyahu begins Africa tour with Entebbe commemoration planned to donate proceeds from the Nazi leader’s tract to several non-Jewish cultural Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a tour of East Africa by marking organizations, but changed plans after Jewish leaders criticized it, the Associated Press the 40th anniversary of the raid at Entebbe that killed his brother. “We were powerless no reported on June 30. The publisher worked with Boston’s Jewish Federation to determine more,” Netanyahu said on July 4 of the July 4, 1976, Israeli commando raid on the Ugan- “how best to provide aid directly to the victims of the horrific events of the Holocaust,” dan airport where German and Palestinian terrorists were holding more than 100 Israelis Andrew Russell, the publisher’s director of corporate social responsibility, said in a hostage after having hijacked a plane. His older brother, Yoni, who commanded the rescue statement, according to AP. Proceeds will be directed to Jewish Family and Children’s unit, was killed in the raid. Netanyahu laid a wreath at a plaque marking the rescue. Also Service of Greater Boston for “direct support of the health and human services needs of speaking at the commemoration was Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. On his tour (Holocaust) survivors,” Russell said. From 2000 until last year, proceeds from “Mein traveling with 80 businessmen in order to cultivate trade ties in Africa, Netanyahu will also Kampf” had gone to various organizations that fight antisemitism. However, according visit Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia; he will address the Ethiopian parliament. In Uganda, the to the AP, last year Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced plans to use the money for prime minister will meet with leaders from countries as well as Zambia, Tanzania and South cultural organizations as well, prompting an outcry from Jewish critics. “JF&CS will Sudan. Netanyahu is the first Israeli prime minister to visit sub-Saharan Africa since 1987. direct the grant money exclusively to support the needs of the Holocaust survivors we meet with every day,” the Jewish agency’s CEO, Rimma Zelfand, said in a statement. Dutch Jewish woman evicted after antisemitic abuse, threats “As Holocaust survivors grow increasingly frail, many of our clients have a far greater by neighbor need for care than is covered by our existing funding.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt -de A Dutch court reviewing a neighborly dispute ordered the eviction of a Jewish woman clined to say how much money “Mein Kampf” brings in each year. Houghton Mifflin whose neighbor reportedly threatened to kill her and used antisemitic insults against her. Harcourt has published a version of the book continuously since 1933, according to the The court ruled in favor of the Ymere housing corporation, which asked the court to evict AP. During World War II, proceeds went to the U.S. Justice Department. From 1979- the woman, Gabriela Hirschberg, the AT5 television channel reported the week of June 2000, the publisher kept the proceeds for itself and has since donated it. 30. Ymere asked the court to have Hirschberg evicted in connection with her years-long Turkish ship with Gaza-bound aid docks at Ashdod quarrel with her Amsterdam apartment building neighbor. Last year, the neighbor offered A Turkish ship packed with aid for the Gaza Strip arrived in Israel, the first since in a Facebook post to pay 10,000 euros, about $11,500, to anyone willing to kill Hirsch- Turkey and Israel reached a reconciliation deal that allows such transfers. The cargo ship berg. The man posted the message recently along with antisemitic statements. “I have one docking at Ashdod, just north of Gaza, on July 3 was bearing 10,000 tons of humani- desire in my life: To tear out this nest of devils,” he wrote in reference to Hirschberg’s tarian equipment and food, Haaretz reported. Israel and Turkey in late June agreed to apartment. Naming Hirschberg and her partner, he added, “Each head is worth 10,000 fully re-establish ties ruptured by Israel’s raid on a Turkish-flagged aid flotilla in 2010. euros to me.” The neighbor also wrote: “Anyone may come along as long as I have the Israeli commandos killed 10 Turkish nationals in violent encounters during the raid on pleasure of punching the lights out.” Facebook followers offered to come and help find the Mavi Marmara, one of the ships attempting to breach a blockade on the strip imposed “a final solution” to the problem – language that echoes Nazi rhetoric about Jews during by Israel after the 2009 Gaza war with Hamas. As part of the deal, Israel is keeping the the Holocaust. The two neighbors have been in conflict since 2009, when Hirschberg blockade in place, but is easing the transfer of Turkish aid to the strip. Israel also will complained to police about the neighbor for excessive noise, De Telegraaf reported. They pay $20 million in compensation to the families of the Turkish nationals. Turkey will have since filed multiple complaints against each other, including for the destruction of press Hamas to return the bodies of two Israeli soldiers slain during wars with Hamas property. Ymere sought to have Hirschberg evicted rather than her neighbor because she and two Israeli citizens still being held in the strip. The families of the slain soldiers and at one point was more than $2,000 behind on her rent, AT5 reported. The debt has since their supporters protested the arrival of the ship, Haaretz reported. been resolved. She was selected for eviction also for subletting a room in her apartment, the report also said. Hirschberg said she was ill, calling her eviction, which is to become Israeli girl, 13, stabbed to death in her bedroom by Palestinian effective on July 7, “inhumane.” Ymere confirmed they are aware of her illness, but said assailant it was a chronic condition that cannot interfere with the decision to have her evicted. A 13-year-old West Bank Israeli girl was stabbed to death by a Palestinian teenager Peter de Vries, a journalist who covered the affair for theDe Telegraaf daily, criticized while she was asleep in her bed. Hallel Yaffa Ariel of the Kiryat Arba settlement was the ruling as “turning reality on its head” by punishing the victim, he wrote on Twitter. stabbed several times and died of her wounds at a Jerusalem hospital, where she report- Brexit poll: Jews voted 2-1 to remain in EU edly arrived unconscious and not breathing on June 30. Civilian guards shot and killed Twice as many British Jews voted to remain in the European Union than those who the attacker. A civilian guard of the community located adjacent to Hebron was stabbed backed the Brexit, according to a new survey. Conducted the week of June 30 by the while struggling with the attacker and also sustained gunshot wounds, with the Israeli Survation polling firm for the Jewish Chronicle, the opinion poll of 1,000 British Jews media reporting that he was shot accidentally by other civilian guards who arrived at showed that 59 percent were displeased by the narrow vote on June 23 to leave the EU, the scene. A photo released by the Israel Defense Forces showed the bloodstained bed, compared to 28.3 percent of respondents who were pleased with the result. Surveyed after pillows and rug in the girl’s room. The attacker was identified as Muhammad Nasser the vote, 59 percent of respondents said they voted Remain and 31 percent voted Leave. Tarayrah, 17, of the village of Bani Naim, adjacent to Kiryat Arba, the Palestinian Maan Six percent did not vote, they said. Of those who voted for a British exit, or Brexit, 11 news agency reported. He reportedly jumped over the fence to enter the settlement; the percent said they now regret their decision. A similar poll conducted ahead of the vote private home is located near the settlement’s security fence. The breach set off an alarm showed a 50-50 split. As a result of the referendum, 38 percent of Jews indicated they and guards were already heading to the area when the attacker started stabbing the teen, felt less safe, compared to 42 percent who said they did not feel any decrease in their according to reports. “The horrifying murder of a young girl in her bed underscores the level of security. Xenophobic hate speech saw an uptick in Britain following the vote, bloodlust and inhumanity of the incitement-driven terrorists that we are facing,” Israeli with dozens of cases involving nationalistic rhetoric observed within days of the vote. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. “The entire nation deeply But the Community Security Trust, the Jewish community’s watchdog on antisemitism, identifies with the family’s pain and declares to the murderers: You will not break us.”

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