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E day and were all excited to join their families at the Seders in order to sing the Four Questions and share with them what they learned at Merton Elementary School. Merton, a member of the English Montreal School Board, offers the Heritage Language Hebrew Program . 2 The Jewish Standard, April 2012 Debating a Strike on Iran MICHAEL HAYMAN PUBLISHER AND EDITOR Ronen Bergman, an Israeli expert than 1000 miles across unfriendly air on strategic affairs, believes that the three space, refuel in the air en route, fight off JULIUS HAYMAN major factors for an Israeli strike on Iran Iran’s air defenses, use at least 100 are now in place: international legitimacy, planes and attack multiple underground B.A., L.L.B. Israel’s capability and the necessity to sites all at the same time. “I don’t think EDITOR 1937-2000 act. Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs, you’ll find anyone who’ll say, ‘Here’s Moshe Yaalon, responding to those who how it’s going to be done - handful of question Israel’s capability to launch a planes, over an evening, in and out,’”, preemptive strike, told the Herzliya says Andrew R. Hoehn, director of the Conference that “any facility that is Rand Corporation’s Project Air Force. guarded by a human being, can be pene - The Jewish Standard believes trated by a human being. It is possible to that while all options must remain on strike at all the facilities in Iran militarily, the table a pre-emptive Israeli attack at and I can say that from my experience as this point is premature, even if Iran con - chief of staff”. The threat, moreover, of tinues to hit “soft” Jewish targets Iranian retaliation is, some conclude, around the world. Sanctions are having overblown. “There will not be 100,000 an impact. Mysterious explosions have dead, “says Defence Minister Ehud Barak, killed scientists and destroyed missile “or 10,000 dead of 1000 dead. The State plants. Computer worms have set back of Israel will not be destroyed”. research programs. We are by no means Other Israeli experts are not con - suggesting that the rhetoric from vinced of the wisdom of immediate action. Jerusalem, or from its neoconservative Former Mossad chief Meig Dagan believes allies in the United States, should be a military strike now would be the “stu - toned down. Nor do we think, as some pidest thing I have ever heard.” Retired incredibly naive observers suggest, that Israeli military intelligence head Maj-Gen. all it would take to stop Iran’s nuclear Amos Yadkin echoes these comments program would be to treat Ahmedinejad arguing that if and when Iran makes the with “respect”. Mutual deterrence is not decision to get the bomb, there will still be an option either. Iran is not a “rational time for a strike to be ordered. Adds actor”. Its proxies in Lebanon and Gaza Shlomo Brom, a general retired from never consider how many of their own Israel intelligence and former deputy people might perish in a nuclear war. national security advisor, “assuming that Some fifty years ago, Levi Eshkol once they do make a decision to was being prodded by his ministers and weaponize, we will know it...There is a the public to launch an attack on window of time from the point of making Egypt. For several months Eshkol the decision and until they succeed in resisted waiting, wisely as Michael weapon making”. Indeed, some within the Oren has pointed out, until he received Israeli Defence Forces believe it could be the go-ahead from Lyndon Johnson. as late as 2018 before Iran has nuclear We think the current Israeli govern - operation capability. ment would do well to follow Eshkol’s There is some general agreement lead, a view, according to one poll, among military personnel both in Israel shared by 80 percent of Israelis. and within the international community. Barak Obama may be cautioning Israel Even the most optimistic military com - against “loose talk of war”. But if manders in the IDF admit that Israel can - Iran’s threat to block the Straits of not completely wipe out Iran’s nuclear Hormuz is not a bluff, if sanctions ulti - capabilities. Senior officers are on record mately prove to be insufficient, the as saying “we will have to go back to Iran president has stated unequivocally that a second time” and that “we have no illu - he would then be prepared to use force sion that we can delay their plans by more to stop Iran’s nuclear build-up. Yes, than two or three years.” Moreover, a Israel alone has the right to determine large scale operation against Iran would its response to threats to its national quite likely mean strikes against Iranian security. But the last thing the coun - ANITA SURMAN missile launchers in Lebanon, Gaza and try needs is further international iso - Editor maybe even Syria. Such operations would lation. We think it is in Israel’s best General News Section stretch IAF resources, even if not beyond interests if the US military doesn’t have its capabilities. Bombing Iran would to be “sucked in” against its will to fin - mean Israeli pilots would have to fly more ish the job.

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By NOAH FREEDMAN Basketball vs was denied. TAPPS main - shared American heritage of firm of Carrington, Shabbat tained that the game would religious freedom”. Among Coleman, Sloman and have to be forfeited, claim - those joining in the protest Blumenthal to represent - The Robert M. Beren ing that its bylaws stipulat - were Houston Mayor Annise ed the Academy and all Academy, an Orthodox ed that the game must go D. Parker and the former agreed to work pro bono. Jewish school located in forward. coach of the Houston While some par - Houston, has a pretty good URJ’s Rabbi Rick Rockets Jeff Van Gundy. ents were reluctant to basketball team. After win - Jacobs was at the forefront When the protest fell join in the lawsuit, the ning their regional game of the protest: “What mes - on deaf ears, Nathan and complaint proceeded Beren earned the right to sage”, he wrote, “would be Alyza Lewin, a father against the Mansfield compete in the semi-finals. sent to these scholar/ath - and daughter legal team Independent School The problem was that the letes if they were forced to based in Washington, District and TAPPS. And semi-finals were scheduled choose between their faith decided to act. Nathan that’s when TAPPs sur - for Friday March 2 and and their athletic goals? Lewin has argued sev - rendered. Saturday March 3 and the And what a powerful mes - eral religious cases TAPPS reluctantly Academy asked the Texas sage TAPPS could send by before the Supreme complied with Beren Association of Private and finding an accommodation Court and knew that Academy’s request and Parochial Schools to change which would allow Beren to TAPPS had a very weak rescheduled the semi- the times of Beren’s games. participate. Only the later position. The Lewins final game for Friday Initially the request choice could be true to our asked the Dallas-based (Please turn to page 22)

PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER AND ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ARE presented with hockey jerseys. PMO photo by Jason Ransom 4 The Jewish Standard, April 2012 FREE SPEECH CAN WAIT HOLOCAUST IMAGERY MUST BE BANNED, ESPECIALLY IN ISRAEL

By MICHAEL HAYMAN We have long The following item appeared as an editorial and immoral”. Dr. Efraim deplored the use of in the March Ontario edition of The Jewish Zuroff, director of the Holocaust imagery. A Standard, - the Editor Simon Wiesenthal Center labour leader objecting to in Israel, saw the publici - the negotiating tactics of his of the Holocaust is that of a tried to eliminate us physi - ty stunt as “an obvious employer labels him a Nazi. petrified young boy from the cally and now the Zionists abuse of the memory of the A group of protesters rally - Warsaw Ghetto standing and the media are trying to Holocaust, insulting to all ing against government cut - with his arms raised in sur - eliminate us physically”. Jews and Holocaust sur - backs accuses the govern - render. The parents of one “What’s happening now” vivors” . ment of resorting to tactics young child in Beit Shemesh added one man wearing a And so in response which would have made reenacted the scene to make yellow star, “is exactly like to the actions of some 1500 Hitler proud. Police are their point. what happened in extremists, a bill is now likened to “storm troopers” Haredi leaders made it Germany”. working its way through the when they try to disperse abundantly clear that they Israelis of virtually Knesset which will outlaw unruly mobs. had “no regret at all” for the every political stripe con - the use of Nazi imagery. It is difficult to imag - disgraceful display. demned the actions in Beit The measure, proposed by ine that North Americas and “During the Shoah”, said Shemesh. Minister-without- Uri Ariel, a right wing MK Europeans who use Nazi one official of the ultra- Portfolio Yossi Peled, a from the National Union symbols and imagery do not Orthodox Eda Haredi com - Holocaust survivor, called bloc, would prohibit all fully comprehend that the munal organization, “they the demonstrators “crazy forms of the word “Nazi” or Holocaust was unique in the similar sounding words; number of its victims, in the any epithets associated bestiality of the criminals with Nazism, the Third who were responsible for it, Reich or any of its leaders; in the limitless suffering the wearing of striped cloth - that was inflicted upon ing resembling that worn by those whom “the Final prisoners in concentration Solution” was intended to camps and yellow stars like destroy. the ones Jews were forced But if we give these to wear during the supposedly ignorant non- Holocaust. Jews the benefit of the doubt Civil rights groups we are certainly not prepared in Israel have, predictably, to do the same for Jews who defended the right to use make light of the sadistic Nazi imagery and expressed cruelty that engulfed the concern that the law will German nation, who show impose restrictions on no respect for the memory of Israelis freedom of speech. their hapless fellow Jews For Haggai Elad, executive who were stampeded to their director of The Association deaths. for Civil Rights in Israel, And so we are “the true test for freedom of appalled by recent events in speech is exactly when peo - Israel where haredi extrem - ple are using language or ists acted as if they had symbols that are offensive never seen photos of the to some or even all mem - emaciated concentration bers of society”. camp inmates. At a demon - We would hope that stration recently in Beit Elad’s views have no Shemesh ultra-Orthodox impact on Israeli legisla - Jews paraded their children tors. No one has a prob - around in mock black and IT’S ONE OF THE MOST TOUCHING IMAGES OF lem with the haredi con - white Holocaust clothing. the Holocaust. Recent events in Israel, where fronting their secular oppo - Children and adults wore haredi extremists displayed their children in a nents. Orthodox Jews have every right to protest the clothing adorned with the similar manner, has drawn criticism throughout Star of David bearing the actions of those who in word “Jude”. One of the the country and led to a move to outlaw Holocaust their opinion are forcing most poignant memories imagery. (Please turn to page 12) The Jewish Standard, April 2012 5 PASSOVER SEDER IN A DP CAMP I.F. STONE CELEBRATED PASSOVER IN 1947 IN A DETENTION CAMP ON CYPRUS

By RAFAEL MEDOFF

I.F. Stone, the (Dr. Rafael Medoff is director of The David S. Wyman the controversial issues of famed investigative journal - Institute for Holocaust Studies and coauthor, with Sonja Jewish immigration and ist, probably took part in Schoepf Wentling, of the forthcoming book 'Herbert Hoover statehood. some interesting Passover and the Jews: The Origins of the "Jewish Vote" and In a desperate race seders in his time, but he Bipartisan Support for Israel.') - The Editor for the promised land, sur - never spent one with Jews vivors were boarding aliya who felt personally connect - two-motored mosquito waiting for British permis - bet (unauthorized immigra - ed to the events in ancient plane bound for Haifa from sion to immigrate to tion) ships bound for Egypt--until 1947, when he Nicosia in Cyprus, where I Palestine. The British, bow - Palestine. More often than was a guest at a remarkable have just spent the first two ing to Arab opposition, had not, they were intercepted seder with Holocaust sur - days of Passover in camps almost completely shut the by British naval patrols and vivors in a detention camp established by the British to gates to the Holy Land. taken to Cyprus. That’s on the island of Cyprus. intern ‘illegal’ Jewish immi - Palestine itself was in where I.F. Stone’s story “This is being writ - grants seized in Palestine.” flames, as Jewish under - began. ten 3,000 feet up over the Those were turbu - ground forces waged guer - “There are two sets blue Mediterranean,” began lent times. Hundreds of rilla warfare against the of camps on the sweet- Stone’s dramatic account in thousands of Holocaust British authorities. smelling ancient Greek Isle the pages of the New York survivors crowded the Meanwhile, in Washington, of Cyprus for 11,300 City daily newspaper PM. “I Displaced Persons camps in the Truman administration refugees now held there,” am in a tiny four-passenger Allied-occupied Europe, wobbled back and forth on (Please turn to page 12) 6 The Jewish Standard, April 2012 A SETTLER’S PLEA THE TARGETING OF YITZHAR: A TEST OF JEWISH LEADERSHIP

By ADINA KUTNICKI Israel's ruling post- Like many North American Jews, The Jewish Hamas and other terror Zionists, in their struggle Standard has been highly critical of the settler movement in organizations”. against the 'settlement' Israel. In the following article, a settler presents another Paradoxically, in movement, have set up side of the case. The Editor light of the above, and straw men (particularly regardless of how many ter - since Oslo) to achieve their mains the locus of post- hotbed of Arab terror, ror 'root canals' Israel's main objective, the disman- Zionist ire, often referred to Yitzhar serves as a major forces performed since then, tlement of the Jewish pres- as 'the epicenter of settler bulwark against terrorist it seems irrational that the ence in Judea and Samaria. hooliganism'. As of late, the designs. Concomitantly, its very same security services Their leadership, both polit- level of incitement has been presence not only enrages would operate against patri - ical and military, work in dramatically increased. To Arab terrorists, but post- ots in Yitzhar and its sister lockstep with foreign funded those who aren’t familiar , Zionist Jews seeking to communities. However, if NGO's(chief among them Yitzhar(Itamar is another empty our heartland of its viewed through a post- Peace Now) assisted by a object of their wrath) was Jewish presence. Israel's Zionist prism, the increased back benching media; a left- founded in 1984 in the Security Agency (ISA) agrees pressure makes sense. ist, Arabist-tilted justice Shomron region. It was first that Nablus is a dangerous Raised to a fevered system; supported by many established in 1983, func - wellspring of Arab terror. In pitch-since the Tuba- in academia, as well as high tioning as a Nahal military a report by the 'Intelligence Zangria mosque arson in profile cultural icons. outpost. In 1984 it was and Terrorism Information the Galilee on October 2, 'Settlers' and their propo- demilitarized, Amana, Center', dated December 2011 - the rage against the nents face an increasingly Gush Emunim's settlement 26, 2007, they concluded, 'settler hooligans' has uphill fight to preserve our arm, assisted it in becoming “Nablus continues to be the become a post-Zionist rally - heartland. a residential community. focus for terrorist activity in ing cry. Politicians are duly To wit, Yitzhar re- Abutting Nablus, a Judea and Samaria, of (Please turn to page 14) The Jewish Standard, April 2012 7 EYE ON MONTREAL NAMES IN THE NEWS IN OUR CITY

By MIKE COHEN

THE UNTOLD BUO - allegedly helping the parti - SPORTS BREAK - ple and was sold out months NANOTTE STORY: When sans. Luciano’s mom would FAST: High profile personali - in advance. The guest of hon - noted Jewish publicist Fred visit her sister and became so ties from the world of sports our for this year’s Sports Avertick invited me to join incensed with the situation were on hand for the 2012 Breakfast was Alan Maislin, him for lunch at Restaurant that she ended up becoming Cummings Jewish Centre for who has been involved in Buonanotte(http://www. involved with the under - Seniors Foundation Sports sports all of his life at the buonanotte" www.buonan - ground movement. It was Celebrity Breakfast on amateur and professional lev - otte), I was looking forward to because of this activity that Sunday, March 18. The els. In recent years he served meeting owners Massimo his mom was sent to Bergen $160,000 in proceeds from as the president of the Israeli Lecas, Robert Pesut, Angelo Belsen, where she was mur - the event went to support Ice Hockey Federation. Leone and Lino Lozza. dered. An aunt and uncle Seniors in Crisis, a program Israel’s Consul General for Besides the very trendy were among the many execut - that delivers much needed Quebec and the Maritimes, Buonanotte, now celebrating ed at Auschwitz and assistance to seniors who are Joel Lion, assisted in the pre - 20 years on Boulevard St. Buchenwald. “I was 15 years unable to financially look sentation of a Leadership Laurent, they also own Globe old when I lost my mother,” after their needs. The event Award to Maislin. just up the street and Rosalie said Luciano. “I am now 83 attracted more than 600 peo- (Please turn to page 16) on Avenue de la Montagne. and a day does not go by Well, a lot has been written without thinking about her. It We Extend Passover Holiday Greetings to our about these dining establish - still hurts” ments, but here is a story that Luciano ended up Jewish Friends and Guests. has yet to be told. coming to Canada. He worked May your holiday be a joyous one. Luciano Lecas, for a number of Jewish- We invite you to enjoy our warm and Massimo’s dad, feels a soli - owned companies. Before his friendly hospitality. darity with the Jewish people. formal retirement, he oversaw He finds any acts of intoler - the distribution of Italian ance unacceptable and mem - publications for Benjamin ories of the Holocaust give News. He spends most morn - him the chills. Luciano helps ings at Buonanotte, which out in the kitchen, whipping has a large Jewish clientele. up some of the best barley This is the place where movie soup and gnocchi I have ever stars hang out while in town tasted. Over lunch he shared and professional hockey play - with me the fact that while ers come to dine and for a growing up in Italy his aunt nightcap. If you go by for was put in prison by the Nazi lunch, don’t hesitate to say allied Fascist government for “hi” to him.

MASSIMO LECAS AND HIS DAD LUCIANO AT Buonanotte's noted wine cellar. See Eye in Montreal for more details. 8 The Jewish Standard, April 2012 BOOKS IN REVIEW AN “UNORTHODOX” LIFESTYLE

Reviewed by STUART NULMAN Deborah Feldman is way of life for a modern lived a strict, enclosed life still curious and rebellious. a young woman in her 20s urban girl in America. That where the Torah and Although she attended an who lives in New York City is the type of life that Ms. ancient codes of Jewish law orthodox girls’ school in with her young son Feldman enjoys today; how- dictated how Hasidic men Williamsburg, she ques - Binyamin (or “Yitzy” for ever, for most of her forma- and women should conduct tioned the validity of what short). She attends Sarah tive years, she couldn’t their lives. Women were, at was being taught. She Lawrence College, is very enjoy this lifestyle. She best, treated as second could not accept the fact curious and rebellious in was a member of the class citizens. It’s a restrict- that women were not nature. She is an avid read - Satmars, the most orthodox ed world with which many encouraged to pursue a er, her favorite authors group of the ultraorthodox outside this ultra religious career, that they existed being Jane Austen, Louisa Hasidic Jewish sect, who circle are unfamiliar. merely to attend school May Alcott, Richard Adams are based in the However, Ms. Feldman’s until they were ready to be and Lucy Maud Williamsburg section of captivating memoir married. She wanted to Montgomery. Brooklyn, New York. Unorthodox lifts the curtain explore the world outside The aforementioned For most of her on the Satmars to the out- Williamsburg, and so she description is the typical young life, Ms. Feldman side world. And what she embarked upon secret trips has to say is quite an eye- to Manhattan. Her curious We Take Pleasure in Extending Best Wishes opening reading experience. nature led her on a path of Deborah Feldman self-enlightenment. She for Passover to the Jewish Community of was raised by her strict read English language MONTREAL grandparents (both were books by popular and clas - We wish you and your family a Holocaust survivors from sic novelists which she Hungary), mainly because carefully hid under the joyous celebration. her mother left the sect (it’s mattress of her bed. later revealed that she left Unorthodox also because she was lesbian), provides a rare first-hand and her father was mentally look at the xenophobic disabled, possessed the world of the Satmars. The intelligence of a child and author learns about the was cast aside at an early importance of being a good age. Ms. Feldman was, cook and how keeping even with her sheltered life, (Please turn to page 17)

ALAN MAISLIN (SECOND FROM LEFT) IS PRE- sented with a Leadership Award and recognized at the Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors Foundation 8th Annual Sports Celebrity Breakfast by Mike Wagen (left) who chaired the event and Cookie Lazarus (right) who served as honorary chair. Looking on is Israel Consul General the Hon. Joel Lion. Photo by Rina Friedman The Jewish Standard, April 2012 9

We Are Pleased to Join in Extending Passover Holiday Greetings to Our TRAVEL Jewish Friends and Customers throughout MONTREAL AND AREA TALES HELPFUL HINTS FOR THE JEWISH TRAVELLER

By MIKE COHEN NORTH MIAMI The brothers bought BEACH’S GRILL TIME: For an existing restaurant those of us living through called Grill Time and totally cold winters, there is noth - overhauled the interior, ing quite like travelling to menu and the staff. “To this South Florida. I love the day two of our chefs have beach, the palm trees, the been with us since day one shopping, different attrac - while the others came a tions and the dining couple of years later,” Lior options. On my most recent says. “The same can be said trip I discovered what is for our servers. Customers clearly the foremost kosher appreciate consistency. We restaurant in the area do not have to advertise. called Grill Time The locals and the tourists We Join in Extending Passover Holiday (http://www.grilltimer - know who we are.” Greetings to Our Jewish estaurant.com. Decorated in a gold Growing up in the cream colour scheme, Grill Friends and Customers Tel Aviv area of Israel, Time is set in a modern brothers Lior and Neal atmosphere with a touch of May your celebration be a joyous one Karni learned the art of the French Italian ambiance. occasion for family and friends. restaurant business from The Karnis work closely their father Gershon. Eight with their partners, fellow years ago they decided to Israelis the Yousafans, who move to America, settling operate the New York City in North Miami Beach, part of the business. This Florida and launching Grill includes the popular Sushi Time. Located in a small Metsuyan dining establish - strip shopping center at ment. 16145 Biscayne THE MENU: Grill Boulevard, Grill Time Time is distinctive because seats 120 and is consis - it is so much more than tently filled to capacity. meets the eye. You walk in Here you will find a loyal thinking Middle Eastern following of regular cus - food, but you find a variety tomers and tourists from of international dishes that around the world. The will engage both your eyes charismatic Lior works the and your appetite. The front. Beginning at Karnis believe that in order lunchtime, he greets diners to make a restaurant a suc - on a first name basis. Neal cess, you must strive to set focuses on the kitchen, yourself apart from the regularly coming up with crowd and be unique. One trendy new menu items. of the ways they have There are many Israelis added enticement is by among the staff. serving nine complimentary “We started in this fresh house salads to your business when we were lit - table with all entrees. tle boys,” said Lior. “My A typical Grill Time father gave us the potatoes experience begins with a and told us to start peeling. variety of Israeli-style fusion We knew this was our future.” (Please turn to page 19) 10 The Jewish Standard, April 2012 We Join in Extending Best Wishes HATRED ON On the Occasion of PASSOVER to our Jewish Friends in Montreal CAMPUS May your Festival of Freedom celebration ISRAEL APARTHEID WEEK MUST BE FOUGHT be a joyous one for family and friends. By DORE GOLD

Anti-Israel hatred on 2001 at the first Durban campus crests each year Conference, proclaim - during an event called ing "no apartheid South “Israel Apartheid Week.” Africa in the 20th century With this ominous name and no apartheid Israel in and programs that thrive on the 21st." This battle cry ignorance and blind disre - sparked the BDS movement gard for the facts, tens of calling for boycotts, divest - thousands of college stu - ment and sanctions to pun - dents are urged to rise up ish Israel, and it all evolved against Israel – painfully into an invective-loaded evoking the types of racist campaign that found a characterizations of the degree of favor on campuses Jewish people which coast to coast, not to men - defined attitudes once tion among labor unions, heard in Europe in the mid - churches, media and cul - dle of the last century. tural institutions. But it is These campus ini - tiatives were incubated in We Join in Wishing Our Jewish Friends and Customers a We Join in Wishing Our Jewish Friends Joyous Passover and Clients throughout Celebration MONTREAL A Joyous Passover celebration.

DR. DORE GOLD IS President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and for - mer Ambassador of Israel to the United Nations. He is a senior adviser to the Prime Minister of Israel. To find out about a screen - ing of Crossing the Line readers can visit www.StepUpForIsrael. com/ctl/ The Jewish Standard, April, 2012 11 based on a lie. an apartheid state is a false Typically, those and malicious one that pre - We Are Pleased to Join in Extending hurling these charges cludes, rather than pro - against Israel hope that motes, peace and harmo - Passover Holiday Greetings to Our their audiences are ignorant ny." Goldstone, it should be Jewish Friends and Customers throughout of the facts. In apartheid remembered, did not have a South Africa, blacks were problem criticizing Israeli MONTREAL AND AREA not allowed to use white policies in the aftermath of hospitals, they could not its 2008-2009 military op- attend white universities eration in the Gaza Strip. and they could not partici - But when it came to calling ENTREPRISES pate in the South African Israel an apartheid state like parliament. Visit Hadassah the old South Africa, with Hospital today, or any other which he was intimately PAVCO INC. health facility in Israel, and familiar, he firmly rejected see Jewish and Arab doc - the charge which was com - Removal of reservoirs and tors caring for Jewish and pletely divorced from the Arab patients. Witness for reality of modern Israel. installation yourself at Hebrew No nation has University or any institution fought racism more consis - Decontamination of higher learning as Jewish tently than the Jewish peo - Removal of contaminated soil and Arab professors teach ple, whether through the students of different back - anti-apartheid activists in - Dangerous materials grounds. Go to the the South African Jewish Knesset, and observe the community or through debates involving both those American Jews who Jewish and Arab parliamen- joined the civil rights move - 12153 Pierre Blanchet tarians. ment and locked arms with Given this reality, Martin Luther King, Jr. The 514 924-6594 Justice Richard Goldstone, Jewish state was founded a former judge on the South on the very same moral out- African Supreme Court look, reflecting the We extend best wrote in the New York Jewish value of Tikkun Times on October 31, 2011: Olam, or repairing the wishes to the Greater "The charge that Israel is (Please turn to page 21) Montreal Jewish community On the Occasion of Passover. 12 The Jewish Standard, April 2012

FREE SPEECH CAN WAIT PASSOVER IN A DP CAMP (Continued from page 4) (Continued from page 5) them to live by unaccept - dard material for any World Stone explained. “Both are Distribution Committee, able “ethical standards” We War 11 documentary. It is being enlarged to meet the dropped in on the Efrati will even grant the haredi true that a disquieting apa - expected Spring rush of family on Passover eve. the right to engage in a cer - thy may have set in, even Aliyah Beth boats which will Moshe Efrati, 35, “a laun - tain amount of civil disobe - among Jews, perhaps even probably boost the Jewish dryman by trade”; his wife dience. But creating a pho - among some Israelis. But population to 20,000 before Rachel; and their children, tomontage of a police chief nothing justifies the trivial - the end of June.” 15 year-old Miriam and 12 in a Nazi SS uniform must ization of Nazi infamy. The detainees were year-old son Eliezer. be banned in a country in Israeli soldiers and police living in Nissen huts, which Despite the lack of an invi - which so many still relive aren’t the SS and secular Stone described as “the tation, the visitors “were at the nightmare of the Israelis aren’t committing ugliest architecture known once made welcome.” Holocaust. genocide. And to be fair to to mankind--a sort of tin “Father Efrati sat at The extent of the the haredi residents of Beit igloo with cement flooring the head of the table, reclin - Holocaust began to filter Shemesh, religious Jews set in bleak rows on the ing on a pillow as is cus - into the Jewish and non- and settlers are not, as the level grassless plots near tomary for the seder,” Jewish world in the immedi - left sometimes calls them, the sea, surrounded with Stone’s account continued. ate post war period. As the “Judeo-Nazis”. The new barbed wire and a row of “On his right, sat his bright- concentration camps were Israeli law, if it passes, latrines.” A typical hut eyed son of 12, already a exposed and the news cam - should act as a deterrent to housed three families in student in the yeshivah eras depicted their human those so insensitive to the three rooms. organized by religious Jews devastation, the rage Holocaust that they must be “Unexpected and in the camp.” On the against the infamous perpe - silenced. And if freedom of unannounced,” Stone and a father’s left sat his good trators rose. “Atrocity pic - speech suffers as a conse - friend, Alex Taylor of the wife and daughter. Alex and tures” have become stan- quence, so be it. American Jewish Joint I were given hagadas and Best Wishes for a Joyous Passover

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www.lazaruscharbonneau.com The Jewish Standard, April 2012 13 the seder went on.” explained and translated as only be six months or so in chance to go to Palestine.” “It was no hop-skip- he went along...” Cyprus.’ ” `But British rule in and-jump affair, as is cus - Stone, himself a Stone thought Palestine did not last anoth - tomary in most American secular Jew, was deeply Efrati’s prediction too opti - er 18 months. That Jewish homes,” Stone moved by the warmth and mistic. Given the severe autumn, in the face of the noted. “Efrati left nothing religious devotion of the British restrictions on Jewish underground’s mili - out. We rose to drink our family, especially in the Jewish immigration, “it will tary assaults and sharply wine with blessings, par - midst of such difficult sur - take 18 months before the escalating international took of the bitter herbs and roundings. “The mother latest arrivals get their (Please turn to following page) first matzohs.Efrati sang looked on as if she didn’t the parts with relish and know how one man could be so bright,” he wrote, “and We Join in Extending the daughter was fascinated Passover Holiday while the son’s eyes shone.” What struck Stone Greetings to Our the most was the connec - Jewish Friends and tion between past and pre - Customers throughout sent. “The Passover has a MONTREAL deep personal meaning for May your celebration these Jews...For them the ancient cruel taskmasters be a joyous one for your were no fable: they had family and friends. been in slave labor camps under German occupation. For them, the God who smote the Egyptians was the same God who brought the Third Reich low.” As he strolled around the camp the next day, Stone was impressed by the vibrant life he encountered among the Cyprus exiles. “Life flows on strong, and vigorous babies are being born at the rate of 30 to 40 monthly,” he reported. “There have been almost 600 weddings since We Join in Extending the camps were established Best Wishes to the last August, and there were 135 nuptials during the two Jewish Community of weeks before Passover.” MONTREAL AND “There are schools AREA and synagogues, camp On the Occasion of newspapers, an art exhibi - PASSOVER tion, and workshops,” not to mention “several soccer May your Festival of teams which often play the Freedom holiday be a British guards and boast joyous occasion. they have never been beat - en.” What did the future hold? The seder with the Efratis offered a clue. “Were [the DPs in Cyprus] not like the Jews under Moses?” Stone asked. “Moses went through one kind of wilder - ness or another to the promised land. And as Efrati explained in his own running commentary to the service comfortingly, ‘We had to go down into Egypt for 400 years, but we need 14 The Jewish Standard, April 2012 PASSOVER IN A DP CAMP We Join in Wishing Our Jewish (Continued from preceding page) Friends and Customers throughout pressure, generated in part whose plight I.F. Stone MONTREAL by sympathetic journalists helped publicize with his such as Stone, the British impassioned prose, the exo - A joyous Passover Celebration for your surrendered. Seven months dus was over and home - after Stone’s Passover with coming was finally at hand. family and friends. the Efratis, London accept - ed the United Nations vote on partitioning Palestine We Join in Extending BONBON RIO CANDY and announced it would Best Wishes to the withdraw. Four months Jewish Community of INC. later, the first British troops Montreal began leaving, and two months after that, on May for a joyous Manufacturers of Ice Cream Cones 15, 1948, the British with - Passover for Taffy & Soft Sugar Cones drawal was completed. family and friends. For the Efratis and the thousands of other DPs 12451 Blvd. Industriel • (PAT) Montreal,Quebec H1B 5M7 SETTLER’S PLEA Tel: (514) 645-7788 Fax: (514) 645-8966 (Continued from page 6) email: [email protected] pressured, increasingly des - perate to bring the culprits to heel. The security ser - We Join in Extending Best Wishes to the vices are determined to reel them in - evidence, or the Jewish Community of Montreal lack thereof, be damned. On the Occasion of HONENU Legal Defense Organization, under the PASSOVER highly capable guidance of May your celebration be a joyous occasion for attorney Adi Kedar, has thus far managed to have We Extend Best Wishes to family and friends. the cases thrown out of Our Jewish Friends and court due to lack of evi - Clients throughout dence. Undeterred, the MONTREAL AND AREA security services/police On the Occasion of have upped the ante. PASSOVER On October 31, May your holiday be blessed 2011, in a brutal raid befit - with happiness. ting the capture of terror - We invite you to enjoy our ists, approximately 50 spe - fine food and warm and cial forces from the Yassam friendly hospitality. Police Unit descended upon Yeshivat Od Yosef Chai in Yitzhar, ostensibly to scoop up a Shomron resident in relation to the mosque arson. Their tactics includ - ed spraying pepper gas in all directions, resulting in injuries to several Rabbis and students. There is no higher visible poster child for met - ing out punishment to the settler public than Od Yosef Chai, the centerpiece of Yitzhar. Therefore, it was 'fitting' that they zeroed in on its affiliated high school, the Dorshei Yehudcha Yeshiva. It was ordered closed by the Education The Jewish Standard, April 2011 15

Ministry. Od Yosef Chai's Most significantly, retribution was an immedi - in the same manner in We Join in Extending Best Wishes to the ate reduced government which the democratic right Jewish Community of Montreal subsidy. to due process was violated when Jewish nationalists On the Occasion of We Join in Extending were detained/arrested PASSOVER Best Wishes under the British Mandate May your celebration be a joyous one for On the Occasion of orders of Administrative Detention Jewish rights your family and friends. PASSOVER have been abrogated, to the Jewish once again, due to the Community of undemocratic closure of MONTREAL Yitzhar's educational insti - LALLEMAND tution. AND AREA According to The May your celebration Yeshiva World News of be a joyous one. November 2, 2011, “In an INC. unprecedented move, the Director-General of the FRESH • DRY • INSTANT Ministry of Education, Dr. BEER AND WINE YEAST Shimshon Shoshani, is cutting the funding for the QUALITY BAKERY INGREDIENTS Dorshei Yehudcha Yeshiva High School based on 1620 Préfontaine, Montreal “confidential” information that he is not at liberty to TEL: 514-522-2133 discuss...Shoshani adds FAX: 514-522-2884 that the book Torat HaMelech is not in line with the educational val - We Join in Extending Best Wishes ues expected from a rabbi On the Occasion of and educator”. Not com - pelled by law to reveal the PASSOVER evidence against the to Our Jewish Friends and Customers. school, even to their attor - May your celebration be a joyous one. ney, there are no charges to refute. In a state in which democracy is hailed We Join in Wishing Our as the supreme mantle to behold, citizens are Jewish Friends and expected to place their trust/faith in a system Customers in which hides behind “secret evidence” MONTREAL All of the above A Joyous Passover leads full circle to their penulti mate target, Rabbi celebration for family Yitzhak Shapira, a main Yeshiva head in Yitzhar. and friends. The distinguished rabbi was recently investigated for the 'crime' of authoring a leading Jewish legal trea - tise called Torat HaMelech, the King's Torah, Its essence explains when is it permissible under Jewish law to shed the blood of non-Jews belonging to the enemy population. The text, deeply sourced, thoroughly and painfully explored by Torah pin-pointed examination,

(Please turn to following page) 16 The Jewish Standard, April 2012 MEN AT WORK ishment of Yitzhar is pur - face of this (latest) Jewish sued along many paths. At nationalist outrage? And (Continued from preceding page) this juncture it involves the will our communities step discusses the Jewish popu - hideously offensive to our dismantlement of Yitzhar's up to the plate, making lation's precedence over the post-Zionist politicians. By spiritual institutions. sure that whatever funding non-Jewish enemy popula - placing halacha and nation - The open questions is cut is replaced through tion during war time. This alist ethos above post- are these: Will our Jewish private donations and Torah based discussion is Zionist ideology, the pun- leadership, in Israel and the attendant communal diaspora, stay silent in the efforts? • EYE ON MONTREAL (Continued from page 7) Michael Wagen, the ball field in Pierre Elliott event chair and president of Trudeau Park after Carter. the Cummings Centre Other guests included former Foundation, was presented Canadiens captain and head with the Harold Greenspon coach Guy Carbonneau, Award in recognition of the recently arrived Chief critical role he has played in Operating Officer Kevin making this one of the most Gilmore, former head coach anticipated events on the Jean Perron (the coach of the Jewish sports calendar. The Israeli National Team), former big surprise was the presence NHL defencemen Igor of three players from the Kravchuk and Bobby Dollas, Montreal Canadiens – for - sports rapper Annakin Slayd wards Max Pacioretty and and Shea Emry, Ray Lalonde Louis Leblanc and defence - and Eric Lapointe of the man PK Subban. Former Montreal Alouettes. Montreal Expos player WASSERMAN THE - Warren Cromartie was on ATRE : The Segal Centre for hand to take part in a special Performing Arts President tribute to legendary catcher and Chairman Alvin Segal Gary Carter, who recently lost and CEO Manon Gauthier his battle with cancer. Johnny recently announced the Elias, a longtime friend of appointment of Audrey We Join in Extending Best Wishes to the Carter and a veteran coach at Finkelstein as the Artistic Jewish Community of Montreal the Maccabiah Games level, and Program Coordinator of On the Occasion of was part of the ceremony as the Dora Wasserman Yiddish well. Côte Saint-Luc Mayor Theatre (DWYT). Finkelstein PASSOVER Anthony Housefather has worked closely with her May your celebration be a joyous one. announced that his commu - predecessor Bryna nity will name its main base- Wasserman over the years, co-

MONTREAL CANADIENS PK SUBBAN WAS AMONG the sports celebrities invited to the 8th annual Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors Foundation Sports Celebrity Breakfast. Photo: Rina Friedman . The Jewish Standard, April 2012 17 directing The Wise Men of she said. “Growing up with Chelm, assistant directing Bryna, I had the rare opportu - reetings to the Jewish C God of Vengeance and Fiddler nity to learn from a true mas - tend G ommu e Ex Occasion of Pass nit on the Roof, and appearing in ter of the craft. I am con - W On the over y Yiddish Theatre productions vinced that our shared love throughout her career. She and devotion to the DWYT will has numerous directing and take it to new heights.” acting credits under her belt, NEW RABBI : In and she has studied with February, Westmount’s luminaries of theatre like Temple Emanu-El-Beth Robert Lepage. “I am honored Sholom invited members, to take on the role of Artistic friends and family to meet and Program Coordinator,” Rabbi Lisa Grushcow, who will become the congrega - tion’s new Senior Rabbi on Nous nous joignons à tous nos amis juifs We Extend July 1. Rabbi Grushcow will Best Wishes for de Montreal be assuming her new role as pour souhaiter nos meilleurs voeux et sincères PASSOVER Rabbi Leigh Lerner retires after 23 years as Senior félicitations a l’occasion des fêtes de to Our Jewish Friends Passover and Customers in Rabbi of the congregation and assumes the role of Montreal Rabbi Emeritus. The May your celebration Temple’s main sanctuary was be a joyous one. full as young and old gath - ered to hear Rabbi Grushcow deliver the guest sermon, “Breaking Bread with God: In Search of Sacred Relationships.” She hosted a number of events and even visited the West Island. I had a chance to meet her. She is a warm and vibrant young woman who should gain a nice following. A copy of Rabbi Grushcow’s resume is available on the Temple web - site at www.templemontre - al.ca CSLKOSHER.COM : Hats off to Avi Brook, We Join in Wishing Marianna Roth and their the Jewish team at Cote St. Luc Kosher Community of and Kosher Self Service. An MONTREAL impressive new website has been launched whereby cus - A joyous Passover tomers can browse the full celebration for menu of takeout options. Just family and friends. go to www.cslkosher.com. We are always Mike Cohen’s email address is info@ mike pleased serve you. cohen.ca Readers can log on to www.mikecohen.ca and follow him on Twitter @mikeco - hencsl. • BOOKS IN REVIEW (Continued from page 8) a good kitchen was vitally important for girls in the sect; we find out how the elders insisted that their community write and speak only in Hebrew and Yiddish (Please turn to following page) 18 The Jewish Standard, April 2012 BOOKS IN REVIEW Best Wishes for Passover (Continued from preceding page) (they regarded English as detailed and vivid, and she “poison” for the mind); the provides the reader with a PERFECT OPTICAL only sources of “outside” unique insight into why the information the community people who were part of her CORPORATION got were through newspa - Hasidic world lead their 1265-71 Ducharme Ave., pers the Satmars published lives in such a strict man - Montreal, Quebec that contained outdated ner. She explains why she H2V 1E8 information and Biblical believes they misinterpret interpretations; we also get sacred religious Jewish 514 274-9407 a rare glimpse of how the texts for the sole purpose Satmar marriage process takes place (Ms. Feldman We Join in Wishing We Are Pleased to Join in Extending got married at the age of 17, the Jewish and by the time she was 19 Community of Passover Holiday Greetings had her son), where MONTREAL to Our Jewish Friends and Customers arranged marriages are the order of the day (the bride A joyous Passover May your holiday be blessed with happiness for and groom meet only a celebration for family and friends. mere few weeks before the family and friends. wedding). She also describes the unsanitary We are always pleased atmosphere of the ritual serve you. DESJARDINS ENR bath called the “mikvah”, Sales-Service-Installation all brands and the humiliation she had to endure at the hands Notifier authorized dealer of the women who ran the FREE ESTIMATES bathhouse. But the road to her defection from the Satmars 2170 Leger, LaSalle began with her marriage to 514 768-6315 Eli, an ignorant, indifferent warehouse labourer who imposed even further restrictions on her life after We Join in Wishing the Jewish Community of their wedding (Eli’s inability MONTREAL to enjoy any intimacy with his wife did not help mat - A joyous Passover ters). However, it was when celebration for family and friends. Ms. Feldman began to Nous nous joignons à enroll in poetry and writing tous nos amis juifs de We are always pleased serve you. courses at Sarah Lawrence College, and encountered Montreal people from outside the pour souhaiter nos sect, that her defection was meilleurs voeux et accelerated. She did give Eli a second chance, agree - sincères félicitations a ing to attend.a session with l’occasion des fêtes de a Jewish marriage coun - Passover selor. But Eli reacted indif - ferently and suggested divorce. Deborah was only too willing to comply. What makes Unorthodox such a com - pelling read is Ms. Feldman’s erudite prose style. She does not blast the people and lifestyles that were part of her Hasidic upbringing in a gossipy, tell-all memoir. Her descriptions of this iso - lated way of life are quite The Jewish Standard, April 2012 19 of having these interpreta - she was trapped within the tions fit that lifestyle. confines of the Satmar com - Our Best Wishes for a Happy Passover Case in point: when munity in Williamsburg, to Our Jewish Friends Deborah begins to cry dur - she would have been sub - ing a Friday night Shabbos ject to swift condemnation. meal, her grandfather ques - As Ms. Feldman so elo - tions her reason for crying, quently states at the con - and then explains the path clusion of the book: “For to true happiness called those of you who shove “menuchas hanefesh”, the words like sinner and deep, inner serenity that heretic in my face, the ones prevails even in the face of who ask ‘How dare you?’ let persecution. “When you me just say, I dare because have faith”, Zeidy says, “you I am free. I own myself, and can grasp how meaningless so I have full power to make life is, in terms of the bigger decisions that concern me. picture. From the perspec - And if you want that too, tive of heaven, our suffering that’s okay, because that’s Nous nous joignons à tous nos amis juifs de is minuscule, but if your something we all deserve. Montreal soul is so weighed down Even if they tell you differ - that you cannot see beyond ent.” pour souhaiter nos meilleurs voeux et sincères what’s in front of you, then Unorthodox is a riv - félicitations a l’occasion des fêtes de you can never be happy … eting memoir of religious Passover How to find such inner oppression and ultimate lib - peace that nothing can eration as seen from the sway it? The world around inside of one of the most me is so real and tangible, I mysterious branches of cannot resist; heaven Judaism. In Unorthodox seems hardly as wonderful we learn why the Satmar a prospect.” sect adheres to such an Deborah Feldman is insulated way of life and free to raise questions why this lifestyle and code about the Satmar lifestyle of behaviour were rejected in her book. If she had by one who had the courage dared to raise them when to break free. • TRAVEL TALES We Join in Extending Best Wishes to the Jewish (Continued from page 9) Community of Montreal appetizers: warm pita, mashed potatoes, rice, hummus, chick peas, sweet majadra or french fries. On the Occasion of chilli cauliflower, vegetable Their specialty drink list PASSOVER eggplant, potato salad and includes smoothies with an more. assortment of tropical fruit May your celebration be a joyous one for The rib eye steak flavors. family and friends. offers a taste that exceeds So what does dad words and is only one of think about the restaurant? It is always a pleasure to serve you. many house specialties “He comes to visit at least while the baby lamb ribs are once a year and heads right so soft, they melt in your into the kitchen,” Lior says. mouth. Beef sliders are “He’ll inspect the food and juicy enough that you do give us some advice. I think not need to even garnish he is proud that we followed them with mustard or the family tradition. ketchup. Another favourite Everything here, except the is the Chilean sea bass filet, pita bread, is homemade.” surrounded by roasted gar - OPENING HOURS: lic and broiled in sambuca Grill Time is opened Sunday and herbs that has a rich through Thursday for lunch yet delicate flavor. Salmon and dinner and Fridays for and tilapia dishes are avail - lunch only, serving up until able as well. All entrees are 4:30 p.m. For more infor - served with tomatoes and mation call 786-274-8935. grilled onions, steamed veg - You can access their full etables and choice of roast - menu on the website. ed potatoes, home-style (Please turn to following page) 20 The Jewish Standard, April 2012 TRAVEL TALES Happy Passover to Our Jewish Friends and Patrons (Continued from preceding page) SHERATON AIR - www.sandboxworld. com/tr PORT MONTREAL: I have avel and follow him on always been among those Twitter @mikecohencsl. people who prefers to take his own car to Trudeau We Extend Best Wishes International Airport in to the Dorval rather than cab - bing it back and forth. Jewish Community of The problem is the daily MONTREAL AND unaffordable price the air - AREA port charges. Enter the May your Passover Sheraton Airport Montreal celebration be a Hotel, which has conve - joyous one for family nient park and stay pack - ages. Here you can relax and friends. in their newly renovated guest rooms and avoid the We Join in Extending Passover Holiday Greetings expense of airport park - ing. Spend the night (for to the Jewish Community of as little as $144) with MONTREAL AND AREA them before your trip, then park for up to eight, May your celebration be 15 or 22 days at no addi - tional cost. You can book a joyous occasion for family and friends. online(sheratonmontre - alairport.com) or by call - ing 866-716-8101 and mentioning promo code SDQ. If you just want to leave your vehicle there, minus the hotel stay, the cost is only $12.50 per We Extend Best night (taxes included). Wishes to the “This is absolutely a better Jewish Community of value,” says Stephan Bricault, director of devel - MONTREAL We Extend Best Wishes to the opment and marketing, AND AREA pointing to superior secu - May your Passover Jewish Community of rity with gates and cam - celebration be a eras, a price lower than MONTREAL AND AREA the $18 to $23 range at joyous one. May your Passover celebration be a the airport and a compli - mentary shuttle which joyous one for family and friends. runs every 15 minutes. This hotel was only rebranded as a Sheraton last year. It underwent a WESTMOUNT $15 million renovation job and also introduced a new kosher kitchen facility ANIMAL HOSPITAL that is being made avail - Dre. C. Hours, M.V. able to two of Montreal’s most prominent and well Dr. Leskiewicz respected kosher caterers: www.hopitalveterinairewestmount.ca Romano Giorgi, owner and chef of Tradition Catering and Alan Serour, co-part - DR. J.M. VAILLANCOURT, M.V., M.Sc. ner and chef at ETMO 349 VICTORIA, WESTMOUNT, Qc Catering Mike Cohen’s email 514-487-5300 address is info@mikeco - Chatonnel Light Litter hen.ca. You can keep up with his travels at http:// The Jewish Standard, April 2012 21 HATRED ON CAMPUS Nous tenons à exprimer à nos amis juifs (Continued from page 11) the world, which is deeply strong counter-force to this de Montréal et de la région held across the Jewish reli - mass exercise in propagan - nos meilleurs voeux à l’occasion de bonnes fêtes de gious spectrum. When da. Studies confirm that Israeli medical when accurate information PASSOVER teams rushed to interna - about Israeli policies, soci - tional disaster zones in ety and values is provided, Turkey (1999), Kosovo the false arguments are uni - (1999), the Democratic formly rejected. Republic of the Congo Our most critical (2008), and Haiti, help - challenge is to educate the ing the afflicted regardless young and to begin this of their race or creed, they process during high school were driven by the very years or earlier--long before same core Jewish value. they arrive on college cam - Moreover, no group puses. Our students feel cherishes or champions confident and empowered freedom of speech more when they know the facts than the Jewish people. and can challenge group- But, the systematic dissem - think favoring Israel's isola - ination of hate-based lies is tion, dismantlement or Meilleurs voeux et sincères félicitations not what freedom is about. destruction. We are duty- à la communauté juivre de This crosses the line. No bound to engage students one has a license to lie, in creative, effective ways, MONTRÉAL manipulate or manufacture through the media they best et à nos clients et amis juifs. falsehoods. Make no mis - relate to: Facebook, Twitter Nous sommes toujours heureux de vous servir. take, the primary charac - and other Internet commu - teristics of Israel Apartheid nication. We must knock Week programming are ter - down the posturing of the rible, unjustified charges IAW agitators, who could expressly aimed at demo - not care less about promot - nizing Israel. Unsub- ing peace or helping people stantiated allegations, con - in the Mideast. Encouraged stantly repeated, take a toll by foreign governments that on American opinion, do NOT share Israel's com - despite bedrock gut sup - mitment to democracy and port for Israel which, human rights, they are the thankfully, exists as a (Please turn to following page)

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RABBI YONATAN SANDLER AND HIS TWO SONS were brutally murdered at the Otzar Hatorah MATERNITÉ School in Toulouse, France. The horrific crimes show that anti-Semitism in France has yet to be curbed despite the platitudes being spoken by 1007 Laurier O 514 274-2442 French political leaders. 22 The Jewish Standard, April 2012 HATRED ON CAMPUS We Join in Wishing Our Jewish (Continued from preceding page) Friends and Parons purveyors of hatred, akin minute documentary expos - throughout to many others before them. es the growing anti-Israel Here's the good sentiment taking root on MONTREAL AND AREA news. Friends of Israel are college campuses across A Joyous Passover Celebration not backing off. Important North America. Once you new initiatives are already understand the problem, I working hard to roll back hope you will join me in my the hatred. We must spare quest to make sure all no effort to protect full legal Jewish students are educat - rights and freedom of ed with the facts about speech for pro-Israel stu - Israel. dents on campus. Visual If modern Jewish communications which have history has taught our gen - the power to speak the truth eration anything, it is that immediately and graphically no threat to our exis - are one super-critical tool tence should ever be required for this process. ignored. Generations to 5403 Cote St.Luc Rd., Specifically, I con - come will judge us for what clude with a vitally impor- we do today to secure 488-4011 tant call to action, as easy Israel's future. I urge you to to do as it is effective: I view “Crossing the Line” invite you to watch a film of today and to share it with monumental importance the high school and univer - We Join in Wishing Our Jewish Friends called “Crossing the sity students in your family throughout Line”. This powerful 30- and in your community. • MONTREAL WORLD IN REVIEW A Joyous Passover celebration for (Continued from page 3) afternoon. reference to “strange family and friends. The Robert M. activities. Beren Academy won its The Bernsteins, of semi-final game but then course, deny all the alle - despite a spirited come - gations. They maintain back lost in the finals that they were always 46-42 to Abilene open about their inten - Christian. tions in India, which was to provide religious ser - vices to the local com - Rabbi Expelled munity after its long- From India time rabbi passed away. They said they made no Indian authorities secret of the fact that recently expelled Chabad they would be organizing Rabbi Zalman Bernstein prayer services, helping and his wife for failing to celebrate Jewish festi - declare on his visa appli - vals and looking after cation that he was enter - the synagogue. As for ing the country to engage spying for Israel, this in religious activities, was, as Israeli consul specifically trying to con - Eyal Siso, said “non - vert foreigners. The sense”. rabbi was serving the The Jewish com - tiny ancient Jewish com - munity of Cochin, in the munity of Cochin, India. Indian state of Kerala, at The local reporter for the one time numbered Times of India also around 2400. But most accused the rabbi and emigrated to Israel in his wife of spying for 1954 and today, without Israel, although he did the presence of Rabbi acknowledge that his Bernstein, there are not allegations were based enough men for a solely on a police report minyan. WE EXTEND BEST WISHES TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY ON THE OCCASION OF PASSOVER

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