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US Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) has told an audience in New York that he expects new legislation targeting Palestinian Authority payments to terrorists to pass with overwhelming bipartisan support. “Th e House could pass this bill by unanimous consent,” Schumer said at a Sunday breakfast meeting of the Jewish Community Relations Council in New York City, in reference to the Taylor Force Act, which requires the PA to repeal its laws granting so-called “martyr payments” to convicted Palestinian terrorists and their families. Th e repeal would

An old military vehicle positioned on the Israeli side of the border with Syria February 11, 2018. Photo: RE- UTERS/Ammar Awad.

Senator Charles Schumer. Photo: Screenshot.

BY REUTERS returned from a raid on a Syrian Sussan said during a Damascus be a condition for receiving aid from the US, the PA’s single & ALGEMEINER STAFF position blamed for launching an news conference. largest donor. Iranian-made drone across the “God willing, they will see “I’ve checked with every Democratic senator,” Schumer Israel will face “more border. Iran is supporting Presi- more surprises whenever they try continued. “Not a single Democrat would block it.” surprises” if it attacks Syrian terri- dent Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s to attack Syria,” Sussan added. Schumer promised that the legislation – which passed tory again, Damascus said on near seven-year civil war. Th e downed F-16 was the fi rst the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last August, followed Tuesday, after Syria’s air defenses “Have full confi dence the warplane Israel has lost to Syrian by approval from the House Foreign Aff airs Committee in shot down an advanced Israeli aggressor will be greatly surprised, fi re since the 1982 Lebanon war. December 2017 – would pass “very, very soon.” warplane during the fi ercest clash because it thought this war — this Its two-man crew survived, with “As minority leader, I’m doing everything I can to pass between the old foes in 36 years. war of attrition Syria has been injuries, after bailing out of the it,” the veteran New York senator said to applause. Th e F-16 jet was hit over exposed to for years — had made it stricken jet. Continued on Page A3 northern Israel on Saturday as it incapable of confronting attacks,” Israel retaliated by destroying Assistant Foreign Minister Ayman Continued on Page A3

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a dynamo in the fi elds of technology and R&D the contempt and horror with which he is rejectionism. Middle America understands that in large measure because of his liberalization viewed. He is accused of being racist and under Obama, the rule of law was eroded through of the Israeli economy. He has opened up new antisemitic, of undermining the rule of law, illegal immigration, the weaponization of the IRS MELANIE PHILLIPS alliances through the pivot to Asia. He has held of behaving like Mussolini. While not a shred against conservative groups and the support of /JNS,ORG the line against the Palestinian/European axis to evidence supports the claims against him black-power activists against the police. of attrition. And he is riding the wave of a new of colluding with Russia, there is mounting Th at’s why they voted for Netanyahu and regional order involving alliances with Egypt evidence that elements of the FBI and Justice Trump. And that’s why the liberal establish- Day in and day out, two men—two crucial and Saudi Arabia. Department under the Obama administration ment responsible for this onslaught on the world leaders—remain under a constant In Israel and among the Western intelligen- have acted illegally against him. culture not only damns Netanyahu and Trump, barrage of verbal attacks. Th ey are subjected tsia, however, it’s hard to overestimate the loathing Th e Democrats are talking wildly of but also the public who voted for them. to an obsessional, unhinged and unprec- he provokes. His achievements are ignored impeaching him. Th ey’ll decide on the nature In an article in Tablet, writer Paul Berman edented stream of abuse, distortion, character or blatantly dismissed. Instead, he is blamed of his crime later. Th is is not opposition; this is wrings his hands over Trump’s election. He assassination and malicious fantasies. (ludicrously) for preventing a solution to the derangement. runs through some explanations off ered by If you haven’t guessed, they are Israeli Middle East impasse. No less risibly, he was held So why are both men being treated like fellow hand-wringer Th omas B. Edsall, who Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and responsible for Obama’s hostility for eight years this? In Israel, it’s easier to blame Netanyahu in a column in Th e New York Times points to US President Donald Trump. Th e campaign running. He is said to be an incipient dictator, a than face up to the terrifying complexities of the “material grievances of the white working against them signifi es a cultural disorder in racist ethno-nationalist and an “alt-Zionist.” Th ese the existential war being waged against it and class,” and “racist animosities toward the the West that borders on the pathological. are not criticisms; these are ravings. the diffi cult choices that need to be made. blacks and the latest immigrants, together Netanyahu certainly has his faults. One Over in the United States, Trump certainly In America, Trump provokes such a with a surly hatred of the bicoastal snobs.” might list arrogance, moral cowardice and has his faults. One might list his zero concen- frenzied reaction because he operates outside Berman, however, thinks the real reason his tendency to be a control freak. He doesn’t tration span, his disregard for detail, his all conventions. He challenges unchallengeable for Trump’s election was nothing less than take criticism well. He has failed to organize carelessness with accuracy, his reckless and liberal orthodoxies on immigration, national a “broad cultural collapse.” He writes: “It is a his government to deal with the psy-ops war compulsive tweeting, his coarse and bombastic identity and victim culture, and he exposes the collapse, at minimum, of civic knowledge—a waged so devastatingly against Israel in the talk, and his failure to take criticism. frailties on his own Republican side. collapse in the ability to identify political reality, court of Western public opinion. And maybe, Yet his achievements after only one year Where both he and Netanyahu succeed is a collapse in the ability to recall the nature of who knows, some of the multiple corruption in offi ce are also formidable. He presides over in speaking for the great middling center of their democracy and the American ideal. An intel- charges against him will stick. a booming economy with huge job growth; electorates—the ordinary people who observe lectual collapse, ultimately. And the sign of this Yet his achievements are formidable. he is restoring the rule of law to immigration; with silent astonishment and fury how the cultural collapse is an inability to recognize that Donald Netanyahu enabled Israel to survive the he’s rolling back regulation; he’s made stellar and political establishment not only ignores their Trump has the look of a foreign object within sustained attempts to weaken it by President appointments to the judiciary; he’s forcing concerns, but deems them illegitimate. the American presidential tradition.” Barack Obama, arguably the most hostile Saudi Arabia to reform; and is confronting Middle Israel understands that the diffi cult You really do have to rub your eyes at this. American president to date regarding Israel. Iran, the United Nations and the Palestinians. and dangerous status quo with the Palestinians For eight years, America had in Barack Obama Netanyahu has led the Jewish state to become It’s impossible, however, to overestimate is nevertheless inevitable given their persistent a president who subverted the constitution Continued on Page A3 In Defense of Ambassador David Friedman

who unfairly mocked the ambassador. matter of time before PA leaders also chimed Th e Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) — in to support the attack. STEPHEN M.FLATOW/ which is a competitive service to JNS — used After all, during the past few weeks, the JNS.ORG this headline for its article about the situa- PA, as well as Fatah, have been falling all over the tion: “US Ambassador Accused Palestinian themselves in praising Palestinian killers of Jews. Algemeiner Journal Leaders of Praising Deadly Stabbing Attack. Th ey called the late terrorist Raed al-Karmi (USPS 927800) is published weekly But He Didn’t Cite Any.” “a precious martyr” for his role in “the killing of Yet at the time JTA published its story, more than 126 Zionists.” Th ey hailed Ali Hassan (except for the week of Passover Once again, US Ambassador to Israel a number of Palestinian leaders had indeed Salameh, one of the planners of the Munich and Succos) David Friedman has spoken simple words of praised the attack. Hamas issued a statement massacre, as “a heroic commander.” Th ey Subscription rate $40 per year truth. And once again he’s under attack from the Palestinian Authority and some on the praising the murder as a “heroic act.” Hamas praised arch-terrorist Abu Jihad (murderer of Algemeiner Journal Jewish left. It seems that having a thick skin is spokesman Abdel Latif Qanu urged the “forces at least 125 Israelis) as one of the “great person- 508 Montgomery Street one of the most important qualifi cations for of the resistance” to carry out more attacks. alities of those who have given and are giving Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225-3023 serving as America’s ambassador to Israel. Hamas political bureau member Husam Badran so much to the homeland.” And they described Following a Palestinian terrorist’s fatal hailed the stabbing as “the new heroism.” Ahmed Jarrar — who recently murdered Rabbi Periodicals Postage stabbing of Rabbi Itamar Ben Gal — a father of Hamas obviously represents a signifi - Raziel Shevach, a father of six — as “a young lion.” Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. four young children — Friedman tweeted: “20 cant portion of the Palestinian leadership. It Did anybody believe that the killer of and at additional mailing o ces years ago I gave an ambulance to Har Bracha rules Gaza, where approximately 2 million Rabbi Itamar Ben Gal would be the only Palestinians reside. In the last Palestinian Palestinian terrorist in history whom the PA POSTMASTER: hoping it would be used to deliver healthy babies. Instead, a man from Har Bracha was parliamentary election, Hamas won 74 of the and Fatah would not praise? Send address changes to just murdered by a terrorist, leaving behind 132 seats; it took 44 percent of the vote, as Sure enough, the very next day PA Algemeiner Journal a wife and four children. Palestinian ‘leaders’ compared to the 41 percent received by Fatah, spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh announced P.O. Box 250746 have praised the killer.” headed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas. that the stabbing of Ben Gal was due to “the Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225 -3023 Th e news that Friedman donated an By claiming that Friedman was at fault for Israeli occupation and the settlement policy.” ambulance to Har Bracha infuriated Gideon not citing Hamas, it seems that somebody at JTA Which is to say, the stabbing was justifi ed Levy, a veteran columnist for the left-wing wants to pretend that leaders of Hamas somehow and right and good, since it was a response to Let your voice be heard! Israeli newspaper Haaretz, who wrote an don’t count as “Palestinian leaders” — even “occupation” and “settlements.” [email protected] article mockingly (if awkwardly) titled, “US though more residents of Gaza democratically And just for good measure, the PA Ambassador to Israel’s Ambulance.” chose Hamas than any other Palestinian faction. spokesman threw in the antisemitic canard When, you might wonder, can donating Of course, anybody who follows Israeli- of dual loyalty, asking, “Does [Ambassador To advertise in an ambulance be problematic? Th e answer, Palestinian aff airs knows that it was only a Friedman] represent the US or Israel?” the new Algemeiner apparently, is when the recipient is an Israeli Friedman need not lose sleep over such community that is situated beyond the 1949 barbs. After all, if he’s being mocked in this e-mail: [email protected] armistice lines. Levy accused Friedman of manner, he’s obviously doing something right. Stephen M. Flatow, a vice president of the or call “funding war crimes,” believe it or not. Th is Haaretz columnist apparently believes that Religious Zionists of America, is an attorney 718-771-0400 the very existence of a Jewish community in New Jersey. He is the father of Alisa Flatow, beyond the old lines is a war crime. who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. And Gideon Levy was not the only one Photo: Shiryn Solny. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 2018 A3 World News. IAF Investigation: Crew’s Polish Senator Warns Emergency Evacuation That Holocaust of Inoperable F16 Survivors Not Exempt Was Correct From New Law

BY JNS.ORG suffered light injuries and was released from the hospital Sunday. An Israel Air Force probe into the According to the investigation, the pilot downing of an F16 fighter jet on Saturday of the lead plane in the formation — also confirmed that crew members correctly targeted by anti-aircraft missiles — dived evacuated their damaged aircraft, while just in time to evade the Syrian fire, saving another Israeli plane was narrowly able his aircraft. to evade being shot down by Syrian anti- Israel responded to the Syrian counter- aircraft missiles. attack by hitting 12 targets, including two Eight Israeli fighter jets in two forma- Iranian military bases, three weapons depots, tions retaliated against the Syrian infiltration six Syrian military bases, and Syria’s largest air of an Iranian drone into Israeli airspace early force base, east of Palmyra, where Israel oblit- Saturday morning. erated 54 runways and a control tower. During the bombing runs, the F16s came under heavy Syrian anti-aircraft fire. One missile exploded near one of the planes, rendering it inoperable. In a matter of seconds, the pilot and navigator were forced to bail out A sign at the Auschwitz death camp ordering “Stop!” in German and Polish. Photo: Reuters/Kacper Pempel of the plane before it crashed in northern Israel. Israel Air Force Commander Major- BY BEN COHEN killers were Poles “inspired by the Germans.”) General Amikam Norkin visited the Sen. Zaryn’s caution that even Holocaust survivors are not exempt from the legislation Maimonides Medical Center in Haifa on One of the leading advocates of the – which targets “Whoever claims, publicly and Sunday, and confirmed that the pilot’s widely-criticized World War II remembrance contrary to the facts, that the Polish Nation decision to evacuate the plane was completely legislation approved by Poland’s president in-line with IDF protocol. The pilot of the plane Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, De- or the Republic of Poland is responsible or fense Minister Avigdor Liberman, and IDF Chief last week has warned that Holocaust survi- co-responsible for Nazi crimes committed suffered serious injuries during the explosion. of Staff Gadi Eizenkot attend a security counsel vors could find themselves on the wrong side Following successful surgeries, the pilot’s by the Third Reich … or for other felonies meeting at IDF headquarters following the crash of Polish law from now on. condition was upgraded to moderate, and he Photo: Ariel that constitute crimes against peace, crimes of an F-16 plane on February 10, 2018. Sen. Jan Zaryn, a professor of history who is expected to recover. The plane’s navigator Hermony/Ministry of Defense. against humanity, or war crimes” – came represents the ruling nationalist Law and Justice as Michał Dworczyk, the head of the Polish (PiS) Party, was asked in an interview for the Prime Minister’s office, issued guidelines to current edition of the Wprost weekly newsmag- government ministries on how to discuss the Continued from Page A1 what was probably an aged SA-5 missile. azine whether the new law “can be used to Damascus new law. According to Polish media outlets, The Israeli military spokesman declined prosecute Holocaust survivors, as the Israeli around half of Syria’s anti-aircraft batteries, the guidelines include instructions to deny to comment on that report, saying the investi- Ambassador (in Warsaw, Anna Azari) alleges.” according to an initial assessment shared with any collusion between Poles and the Nazi gation was ongoing. Zaryn answered: “If a Holocaust survivor Reuters by an Israeli official who requested authorities, along with quotes supporting this Saturday’s incident stirred up further falsifies Polish history, lies and says there anonymity. case culled from the remarks of Jewish repre- questions in Israel about the effectiveness of a were Polish concentration camps during Israel has said it will press ahead with sentatives speaking during the war. coordination mechanism set up with Russia, World War II, then his status as a survivor is missions in Syria, where it has launched On the issue of the Jedwabne pogrom which has been reinforcing and arming irrelevant in the context of the lie.” scores of sorties against suspected arms specifically, representatives have been told to Assad’s army. In addition to proscribing the term transfers to Iranian-sponsored Lebanese respond that “cases of pogroms against Jews Russian President Vladimir Putin “Polish concentration camps” – a form of Hezbollah guerrillas. occurred throughout the whole of Europe responded to the flare-up by urging Israeli words which the vast majority of Jewish “There are no limitations, and nor do occupied by the Third Reich.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avoid scholars have long agreed is an unfair, careless we accept any limitations,” Defense Minister In an interview on Monday with Poland’s escalation in Syria. Moscow said on Monday representation of Nazi Germany’s extermina- Avigdor Lieberman told reporters during a TVN 24 network, Dworczyk expressed disap- it did not have information to support Israel’s tion program in Poland – the law prohibits tour of Israel’s border with Syria and Lebanon. pointment with Israel’s opposition to the allegation about an Iranian military presence any public discussion of Polish collusion with “We will continue to defend our vital legislation, arguing that Israel was among at the site bombed for launching the drone. Nazi authorities during the war. security and other interests. And I would like several countries with laws prohibiting Zeev Elkin, a Russian-speaking Israeli This includes events such as the 1941 to paraphrase the well-known saying: ‘This is Holocaust denial. cabinet minister who serves as Netanyahu’s pogrom in the village of Jedwabne, in which not the time to bark, this is the time to bite.'” At the same time, he played down the interpreter in the talks with Putin, defended 1,600 Jews, according to the Polish-American Tehran’s involvement in Syria, including suggestion that Israel’s bilateral relations with the coordination mechanism on Tuesday as historian Jan Gross, were murdered by their the deployment of Iran-backed forces near Poland were in crisis as a result of the new granting Israel “freedom of action in the skies Polish neighbors with the approval of the Nazi the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, has law. “We have common interests, we have had above Lebanon and Syria.” authorities. (Gross’s numbers have been the alarmed Israel. It has also accused Iran of very good cooperation so far between Poland “I don’t think the Russians ever pledged subject of dispute; a 2003 Polish investigation building precision-guided missile factories and Israel, and we believe that it will continue that they would take military action against concluded that no more than 340 Jews were for Hezbollah in Lebanon. to grow,” Dworczyk said. the Iranians and the Syrians for us,” Elkin told murdered in Jedwabne, but agreed that their Syria and Hezbollah celebrated the Israel Radio. F-16 shoot-down as a blow to Israeli military “We are going one-on-one against the Continued from Page A2 If this wasn’t so serious, it would be superiority. Israel’s Army Radio said on Syrians. We don’t need assistance from the Tuesday that investigators believed pilot error Damned comical to see some of our most stellar intel- Russians. We know how to deal with Syrian at home and weakened his country abroad — rather than Syrian capabilities — were lects holding their heads in their hands and anti-aircraft fire, as everyone ultimately saw.” by helping empower those who wished the mainly at fault for the F-16’s failure to evade wondering aloud what could possibly have country ill (consider the Iranian regime or the caused their country to fall into an abyss. The Muslim Brotherhood). answer is simple: them. Continued from Page A1 The PA spent $355 million on the In Trump, America now has a president Trump and Netanyahu lead the West Unanimous payments in 2017. Meanwhile, the US who is restoring respect for the constitution on a new and more hopeful path. For sure, Named in memory of Taylor Force — a provided over $700 million in indirect aid to and the rule of law, and is standing up for they aren’t perfect and much remains former American army officer stabbed to the PA and the Palestinian refugee agency American interests at home and abroad. And unaddressed. But this is the first time that the death by a Palestinian assailant in Tel Aviv UNRWA in 2016. who is also currently being targeted by what demoralization of the West has been tackled in March 2016 — the legislation prevents the A parallel bill that would deduct terrorist looks very much like an attempted establish- since the end of World War II. transfer of funds “that directly benefit the payments from money collected by Israel on ment coup against his presidency. Countries hostile to this leadership, Palestinian Authority” for a six-year period behalf of the PA is currently making its way Berman has it backwards. Trump’s including Britain and much of Western Europe, beginning in 2018 unless the PA ends its through the Israeli Knesset. election was not evidence of cultural collapse; are now fumbling the civilizational ball. The only so-called “martyr payments” policy. it was a reaction against cultural collapse. things they will be left holding are their noses. A4 | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 2018 World News. Knesset Member Behind ‘Israel’s Taylor Force Act’: My Bill Will ‘Save Human Lives’

BY BENJAMIN KERSTEIN

Elazar Stern, an opposition Israeli lawmaker who previously served as a leader in Israel’s military, has touted the benefits of a new bill he’s spearheading that would cut funds to the Palestinian Authority that are used to support terrorism. Rabbi Yitzchak Eliezer Yakav, chief slaughterer from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, responsible for The proposed law will “save human kosher slaughter of cattle imported from South America. Photo: Kobi Gideon / Flash90. lives,” said MK Stern, a member of the Yesh MK Elazar Stern. Photo: Hatnua via Wikicommons Atid party who introduced the bill, which ($400-3,400), thus providing an incentive for Poland Set to Criminalize passed a preliminary hearing at the Knesset committing the most deadly attacks possible. on Monday, the first hurdle on the road to Stern notes that his bill enjoys massive passage. He believes the bill will move forward support from nearly all the parties in the Kosher Slaughter to a first reading on Sunday. Knesset. “We are in the opposition,” he noted, The bill would deduct funds used by “Zionist Union is in the opposition. It’s not the PA to pay salaries to terrorists and their including the Arab parties and Meretz, only families from tax monies collected by Israel they are not there.” kosher meat from Poland. BY JNS.ORG on behalf of the Palestinians. Asked whether, as some have claimed, The law stipulates that animals cannot be Inspired by the similar Taylor Force the bill could destabilize the security situa- slaughtered unless they stand on all their feet. Just one week after passing a contro- Act currently before the US Congress, which tion and even the PA itself, Stern responded, Kosher slaughter typically involves lifting the versial law outlawing statements indicating would cut aid to the PA in accordance with its “I discussed this issue with all the high level animal in order to eliminate pressure on the Polish responsibility for crimes against Jews financial support for terrorism, Stern took the people and my bill is after that. Maybe for a knife that would cause the animal pain and during the Holocaust, Poland’s ruling party proposed law to major figures in government, while it can cause something, but in the end of render the slaughter unkosher. has sponsored a new bill including a clause the defense and intelligence establishments, the day it will save human lives.” The Polish parliament initially outlawed that would criminalize kosher meat slaughter. the Knesset parties, and the IDF. They regis- The bill is heavily backed by groups repre- kosher slaughter in 2013, but Poland’s courts If the law is passed, anyone found guilty of tered no objections, and the bill began its senting victims of terrorism and their families. reversed the decision. slaughtering animals in accordance with journey toward passage. According to a press statement, these include Poland’s recent decision to pass a law traditional Jewish practice would face a prison In an interview on Monday, Stern told the Koby Mandel Foundation, the Forum of that would punish anyone in the country — sentence of up to four years. the Algemeiner, “The idea was that we cannot Bereaved Families, the Choosing Life Forum, including foreigners or visitors — for using The restrictions against kosher slaughter continue the situation in which we collect the Forum of American Victims of Palestinian terms such as “Polish death camp” with up are contained within a general bill on animal money for the Palestinian Authority — and Terror, as well as private individuals. to three years in jail was passed over fierce welfare and include a ban on exporting kosher at the end of the day it’s their money, but they Stern believes this support is essential, objection from Israel. meat. Israel currently imports some of its use it to encourage terror. We cannot allow saying, “It’s important for us to realize the them to encourage terror with their money.” price” of terrorism and “it’s important to hear” He called Israel’s current policy “direct those who have suffered as a result of Pales- Gaza Hospital Stops Performing encouragement for the next terror action.” tinian violence, especially as many of these Quoting former Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter, Stern terrorists are even now receiving financial Surgeries Due to Cleaners’ Strike said it is like “putting an M16 in their hands.” support from the PA. The Palestinian Authority currently One of the bereaved survivors, Shai spends 1.1 billion shekels ($300 million) a Maimon, who helped start the campaign for year supporting terrorism, prisoners, and their the bill, stated, “It is unconscionable that Israel families. This includes 488 million shekels promised to pay the outstanding salaries, supports terror through the collection and BY JNS.ORG ($140 million) for terrorists held in Israel jails but only did so for two months, leading the transfer of more than NIS 1 billion each year and 660 million shekels ($187 million) for to the PA that is being used as a reward and Gaza’s largest medical complex cleaners to renew their strike. families of dead and imprisoned terrorists. All incentive for the murder of Israeli citizens. announced Sunday that it was suspending all Hamas, which maintains primary of this amounts to a whopping seven percent The very weapon used to murder my friend non-emergency surgeries due to a cleaners’ control over Gaza, has accused the PA of of the PA’s annual budget. Malachi Rosenfeld, z”l, and to injure me, was strike. failing to provide promised funds to the Gaza Terrorists in Israeli jails are given higher paid for with PA money given each month as Shifa Hospital will not have medical health system despite an accord between the salaries depending on the length of their a stipend to a terrorist that was released from refuse removed until workers are paid groups in 2017. sentences, ranging from 1,400-12,000 shekels prison – all under Israel’s auspices.” overdue salaries, the second time such a strike Gaza’s 13 hospitals and 73 medical has taken place in just a few weeks. centers employ cleaners at a cost of $267,000 Last month, the Palestinian Authority a month. In all, the gifts were worth more than one legislation and other means”. million shekels ($280,000), the statement said. Netanyahu, who denies wrongdoing, has Netanyahu’s lawyers have said the been questioned several times by police since presents were simply tokens of friendship and the start of 2017. Israeli Police Recommend Bribery no quid pro quo was given. In a televised address from his Jerusalem The second, Case 2000, also alleges residence just minutes after police made Charges Against Netanyahu “bribery, fraud and breach of trust by the public their recommendations, Netanyahu prime minister” and by the publisher of the said he had never sought personal gain in his biggest-selling Israeli newspaper Yedioth public service. Ahronoth, Arnon Mozes. The two men, police Against the backdrop of Israeli flags, he BY REUTERS more serious end of the range of charges say, discussed ways of slowing the growth of a spoke in somber tones as he recounted his that had been expected to be leveled against rival daily newspaper, Israel Hayom, “through days as an Israeli commando and reaffirmed & ALGEMEINER STAFF Netanyahu, now in his fourth term. The inves- his commitment to Israel’s security. Israeli police on Tuesday recommended tigations have gone on for more than a year. “I will continue to lead Israel responsibly indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- One of the cases, known as Case 1000, and faithfully for as long as you, the citizens yahu for bribery in two criminal investigations alleges the “committing of crimes of bribery, of Israel choose me to lead you,” he said. “I but the Israeli leader, calling the allegations fraud and breach of trust by the prime am certain, I am certain, that the truth will baseless, vowed to remain in office. minister, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu.” be revealed, and I am certain that at the next Now deep in a cloud of uncertainty over In a detailed statement, police named elections, which will be held on schedule, I will his political future, the right-wing leader will Arnon Milchan, a Hollywood producer and earn your trust again, with God’s help.” await a final decision by Israel’s attorney- Israeli citizen, and Australian businessman Israel is next scheduled to go to the polls general on whether he will face charges, a James Packer, saying that they “over years Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in late 2019. process that could take weeks or even months. awarded gifts of various types,” including attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime “Because I know the truth, I tell you … Minister’s office in Jerusalem January 7, 2018. things will end in nothing,” Netanyahu said. The recommendations, which police champagne, cigars and jewelry to Netanyahu Photo: REUTERS/Abir Sultan/Pool/File made public on Tuesday night, were at the and his family. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 2018 A5 U.S. News.

the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas, and has had on my mental health.” Jewish Student at University of leaving unharmed — despite “the constant “University of Nebraska administra- threat of rocket fi re” — due to the ubiquity of tors have shown they value Kleve’s right to Nebraska-Lincoln: White air raid sirens and bomb shelters. hate speech more than they value my right “Israel’s government recognized a to safety,” Markon continued, “and that’s threat, and it took active measures to ensure unacceptable.” Supremacist Peer Poses ‘Clear the protection of its citizens,” he observed. Th e ADL announced earlier this month “The same can not be said for the administra- that white supremacists targeted US univer- Threat to Minorities tion at UNL.” sity students with propaganda 147 times Markon said he “felt a sense of fear and during the 2017 fall semester — more than dread” after seeing Kleve walking on campus triple the amount recorded over the same last week, “greater than the fear I felt while in period in 2016. BY SHIRI MOSHE an active war zone.” Th e materials may feature calls to “save “Administrators have claimed there are the white race,” and often demonize minorities A Jewish student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) has decried the presence safety nets in place to protect students, but as I including Jews, Blacks, Muslims, immigrants, of a self-professed white nationalist on campus as “a clear and undeniable threat to minorities looked around, there were no offi cers or safety and the LGBT community. like myself.” personnel in sight,” he recounted. “As a Jew, I Since September 2016, the ADL Zach Markon, a sophomore and assistant sports editor at UNL’s student newspaper, wrote felt more fear in the Nebraska Union than I felt documented over 340 incidents of white on Monday that he feels unsafe at his university due to the continued enrollment of Daniel Kleve, while hiding in a bomb shelter in Israel. Th at supremacist propagandist activity on 216 a peer who has described himself as “the most active white nationalist in the Nebraska area.” should speak volumes about the eff ect Kleve college and university campuses. Kleve fi rst came to public attention last Monday, after the group Anti-Fascist Action Nebraska posted a recording of a video conference during which he asserted that his “present- able” appearance “doesn’t mean that I don’t love violence. You don’t have to look like a violent person to be violent.” Kleve — who has argued that his remarks were miscon- strued — has also called eugenics “reasonable,” and allegedly participated in the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last summer. While he has been photographed shaking hands with former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, as well as holding the fl ag of Vanguard America — which the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) calls a “white supremacist group” — Kleve has denied being a member of “any organization,” claiming instead to be part of “the larger alt-right.” Some 200 people gathered at UNL to protest Kleve’s views on Wednesday, with some demanding his expulsion and accusing the university of inaction, the Lincoln Journal Star reported. UNL Chancellor Ronnie Green responded to the controversy the following day, acknowledging that multiple calls were made for Kleve’s removal, “based on concern for safety and outright disgust and rejection of the ideologies represented.” While personally rejecting the student’s “hateful and intolerant” views, Green emphasized that they are “protected by the First Amendment.” “Th at is the law, even if we disagree,” the chancellor said. In a bid to address student concerns, administrators organized two “listening conversations” last week, which were attended by top campus offi cials including Donde Plowman, UNL’s executive vice chancellor and chief academic offi cer. “We have a world renowned team of threat assessment experts as well as our own law enforcement … who have been monitoring actively this situation for quite sometime now,” Plowman told students during the second session, according to the Daily Nebraskan. “We rely on their expertise … to indicate if they feel like there is a substantial immediate threat. So far, they don’t feel that that is the case.” Green took the opportunity to again denounce Kleve’s comments, but emphasized that they were constitutionally protected and do not warrant punitive action. While Markon said he understood the university’s defense of Kleve’s free speech rights, he contended that the student’s “presence and statements” violate UNL’s code of conduct — a charge UNL rejects. “Section 5 prohibits ‘physical abuse, verbal abuse, threats, intimidation, harassment, coercion, and/or other conduct that threatens or unreasonably endangers the mental or physical health, safety or reputation of any person,’” he wrote. “I can say without hesitation, Kleve has endangered both the physical and mental health of hundreds of minority students at UNL.” Markon recalled visiting Israel during its 2014 war with

Th e Sheldon Sculpture Garden at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Photo: Phil Roeder. A6 | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 2018 Opinion. It’s Time for Jewish Leaders to Stop Legitimizing Qatar

I believe that while Jewish PR mogul Nick The Israeli government, it turns out, was Qatar maintains close relations with Iran and not as pleased. Muzin was soliciting the “Qatari Quintet” of terrorist groups such as Hamas. Photo: File. Jewish leaders — Malcolm Hoenlein of the SHMULEY BOTEACH In a blunt statement to Haaretz, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish ENGELWOOD spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in sanctuary in Qatar. Washington said: “We oppose this outreach Organizations, who upon his return from Doha Thanks to Mort, we learned other impor- effort in the Jewish and pro-Israel commu- invited the Emir’s brother to his daughter’s tant things. The Emir is also a liar. He told Mort nity.” The spokesman then added, “Anyone wedding; Jack Rosen, of the American Jewish that the trip would be kept secret, but Qatar claiming that these trips received the ambas- Congress; Rabbi Menachem Genack of the leaked it anyway. And why wouldn’t they, since Just as Israel is battling Iranian aerial sador’s blessing is not saying the truth.” Orthodox Union, who is allegedly returning to it’s critical to their propaganda efforts to show encroachment from Syria and Iranian Pretty harsh words — to basically call all Qatar; Martin Oliner of the Religious Zionists that Jewish leaders are prepared to undertake, expansion across the Middle East, more and those who have been hiding behind the excuse of America; and Alan Dershowitz, who upon as Mort put it, “an exhausting 13-hour plane more Jewish leaders and businessmen are of “I’m-meeting-the-Emir-because-Israel- his return publicly compared Qatar to Israel ride each way” just to meet the Emir. disgracing themselves by traveling to Iran’s asked-me-to” a bunch of manipulators. — Qatar might actually have been secretly Not surprisingly, the Emir also lied to close ally Qatar. Is the allure of a $350 billion The bigger question is how an official filming these leaders. Mort about Qatar’s support for Hamas and the sovereign wealth fund just too much to resist? representative of Chabad met openly with In fact, my friend Mort Klein of the Muslim Brotherhood. Last week, I received a threat from a the foremost funder of Hamas. How was Zionist Organization of America — who Qatar has no intention of changing its Chabad rabbi, warning me to stop writing criti- he not reprimanded by the leaders of the himself decided to accept a trip from the Emir policies that threaten American interests cisms of Jewish leaders who visit and whitewash movement — Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky and — provided important and valuable informa- and undermine our values. The only conces- Qatar. He wrote: “[I] highly suggest you tread Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky? After all, the Rebbe tion about the meetings. In an interview with sion that the Emir agreed to was to get rid of very carefully. You may be opening yourself up was famously and vociferously opposed to Seth Frantzman of the Jerusalem Post, Mort antisemitic books at the Doha book fair. That’s to a point of no return. This may get very expen- any and all Jewish figures granting legitimacy revealed that the Emir had actually asked him nice, but it doesn’t come close to stop funding sive for you and even [your rich friends] may not to Arab leaders who had Jewish blood on to lobby American lawmakers: terror or curbing the Emir’s alliance with be able to bail you out of this one.” their hands. He castigated even great heroes The Qataris did ask [Klein] to meet with genocidal Iran. The rabbi in question had already like Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir for members of Congress. Klein says he won’t It’s time for Jewish leaders to stop legiti- published a column admitting that he, too, meeting with Arab leaders who had threat- do that until there is real change. A junior mizing Qatar. had embarrassed himself by agreeing to meet ened Israel. official even hinted that a meeting could be Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, “America’s the Emir of Qatar — a leader that this rabbi The Rebbe mourned every Jew murdered arranged with Hamas’ Khaled Mashaal. Rabbi,” whom the Washington Post calls admits is “the head of a country that funds by Arab terrorists. He would have been Doesn’t this sound like a set-up? The “the most famous Rabbi in America” is the Hamas, a terrorist organization that seeks the appalled that one of his emissaries publicly foremost funder of Hamas asks the head of international best-selling author of 31 books destruction of the State of Israel, had founded crowed about meeting the Arab leader who a renowned pro-Israel organization, in the including his most recent, The Israel Warrior. Al Jazeera,” etc. Nevertheless, he noted that he has stood behind so much of the murder and privacy of his palace, to become his lobbyist to For tickets to The Champions of Jewish attended a meeting with the Emir and “was mayhem of Hamas. Congress — and, in addition, to meet with the Values Awards Gala on March 8, go to www. pleasantly surprised.” And it gets worse. very head of Hamas, who has been granted thisworldgala.com.

who have killed Israeli civilians, and an dignity and worth of every human being, and educational curricula consisting of constant of all nations great and small; establishing The US Must StopSupporting brainwashing for violent jihad to murder Jews conditions for justice and respect for interna- and liberate all of “Palestine.” tional treaties; and employing international For example, pageants are held that machinery for the promotion of the economic and Funding UNRWA involve children as young as four dressed and social advancement of all peoples. in military garb with rifles in hand. Pales- How these UNRWA camps and their tinian children are being systematically hate-infested educational system can be an UNRWA is the only refugee agency in programmed to die for “Al Quds” (Arabic for agency of the United Nations — with its lofty the world whose mission is not to resettle Jerusalem), or any other part of “Palestine.” founding principles — continues to baffle me. This is the worst sort of child abuse and Given the deeply entrenched institu- SARAH N. STERN/ refugees — or integrate and re-enter them exploitation imaginable. And these efforts are in tional biases of the United Nations against JNS.ORG into the workforce of their host countries — but to instill in their minds that they will one total conflict with UN General Assembly Resolu- Israel, we can expect that UNRWA will soon day return to their grandfathers’ (or rather, tion 54/263’s own “Convention on the Rights of find other donors. But that doesn’t mean that great-grandfathers’) orchards and vineyards the Child: Optional Protocol on the Prohibition the United States, by far the largest donor US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki in Haifa and elsewhere. of Children in Armed Conflict,” barring the use nation, has to continuously foot the bill. Haley made headlines on January 2 by saying In the absence of a solution to the Pales- of children under the age of 15 in combat. The American taxpayer has other — and that President Donald Trump has decided to tinian refugee problem, UNRWA continues to But when it comes to this egregious Pales- better — priorities than continuing to fund stop funding UNRWA — the United Nations redefine the word “refugee” to mean anyone tinian practice, the United Nations chooses to this corrupt and hypocritical agency. Relief and Works Agency — until the Palestinians who is a descendant of refugees from the 1948 look the other way. That directly conflicts with Sarah N. Stern is founder and president agree to come to the negotiating table. war. Thus, from the original 700,000 refugees, an institution whose very charter speaks about of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, an On January 16, Trump — on the advice of UNRWA now claims to service approximately practicing tolerance and living together with unabashedly pro-American and pro-Israel US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson — agreed five million Palestinian refugees. one another as good neighbors; reaffirming think tank and policy shop in Washington, D.C. to transfer $60 million to UNRWA for now, The agency’s conduct, although dressed faith in fundamental human rights, in the as opposed to slashing all of the funding in the benevolent clothing of a welfare agency, overnight. But the other $65 million of the US’s borders on the immoral — because it promotes usual installment at this time of year has been an unrealistic expectation that only serves to held in reserve. The total amount of money keeps the conflict alive. And not only does it Macramé for Terrorists paid to UNRWA by American taxpayers is perpetuate a psychology of victimhood, but approximately $370 million per year. it entraps those being served into an endless UNRWA was established in the wake state of poverty. Rather than getting on with while in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correc- of the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 to handle their lives, they are trapped into perpetually tional Center (MCC), his lawyer, Xavier PATRICK DUNLEAVY the Palestinian refugee problem; in short, it reliving a conflict that happened 70 years ago. Donaldson, told US District Judge Richard NEW YORK was set up to deal with the immediate crisis A new study of UNRWA textbooks, Berman. Rahimi would like to continue to resulting from the Israeli War of Indepen- recently published by the Center for Near pursue this course, and enroll in several other dence. But it now has camps in Judea and East Policy Research, found that, for decades educational programs in business and enter- Samaria, Gaza, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. now, UNRWA has used textbooks that delegit- prise risk management. Refugees from World War II were aided imize and demonize the state of Israel and The theater of the absurd will soon have Unfortunately, that’s not all he’s been by the UN High Commission for Refugees, the presence of Jews there. These education a new actor — if convicted Islamic terrorist doing at the MCC. Rahimi has been radical- whose mandate called for immediate resettle- materials also advocate for violent struggle — Ahmad Rahimi has his way. Rahimi has asked izing other inmates to his jihadist cause in the ment of refugees in their host nations. The as opposed to peaceful co-existence — with to be allowed to take part in a variety of prison prison mosque. He also has shared instruc- Arab League, however, rejected that for the the Jewish state. programs while serving a life sentence for tions on how to build an improvised explosive Palestinian refugees — because it wanted In fact, inside UNRWA schools, there setting off several bombs in the New York-New device with them. them to be a constant thorn in the side of the are pictures of Israel depicted as “Palestine,” Jersey area in 2016. The prosecutor in his case wrote that posters praising the “brave shahids” (martyrs) newly established Jewish state. Rahimi has been taking a drama class Continued on Page A7 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 2018 A7 Opinion.

Continued from Page A6 Macramé Rahimi “continues to attempt to wage jihad New York Times Olympics from his prison cell.” So what prison rehabili- tation program would best address his Editor Takes Sabbath Rest situation? Basket Weaving for Bombers? The stark reality is that there is none. Two years ago, Assistant Attorney General From Social Media for National Security John Carlin acknowledged An ISIS terrorist. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. that neither the Bureau of Prisons nor the DOJ had a program that successfully dealt with incar- people in prison for supporting ISIS. Add to cerated terrorists — and a recently released study that the hundreds of others who supported family and friends. Radical, isn’t it? from George Washington University’s Program Islamic terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda Now why possibly could anyone have on Extremism confirmed that. The study went or the Taliban, and have been incarcerated for decided to choose “Saturday” as her “one day on to warn that the continued failure to have an decades, and one wonders what — if anything IRA STOLL a week off,” her “weekly cleanse,” a day to focus adequate de-radicalization program would only — has been done to lessen the threat that their BOSTON on family and friends instead of work, a day increase the threat of radicalization in prison. beliefs pose. to cut radically back on use of technology? Why is there such reluctance to initiate Are terrorists like 1993 World Trade Where could this idea have originated? a much needed program? What irrational Center bomb plotters El Sayyid Nosair and If Minsberg’s choice has anything to do thinking drives some to oppose confronting Mohammed Salameh, would-be Al Qaeda The New York Times has an interview with Jewish religious tradition or the biblical the threat of radicalization head on? bombers Jose Padilla and Richard Reid, with its own “Talya Minsberg, a social strategy commandments to remember and guard the When the FBI attempted to initiate a or countless others being exposed to any editor for TheTimes who is in Pyeongchang, Sabbath day, that is one connection that the program that would address radicalization therapeutic program specifically designed to South Korea, to cover the Winter Olympics.” Times, for whatever reason, is determined to correct their jihadist behavior? in society as a whole, particularly involving The article reports: keep a secret from its readers. More than 300 ex-cons who were in prison young people who were most vulnerable the job demands consuming a lot of In today’s New York Times, all the old for terror-related crimes now walk the streets. to the allure of groups like ISIS through the media in all forms. Day to day, Twitter takes taboos or restrictions on what used to be They served their time and were released. Internet, it was met with stiff resistance from up most of my time and energy. I also dedicate allowed in the newspaper seem to have gone Does anyone know exactly where they are? several groups — including the American- a good amount of my attention to Facebook, out the window. The SundayTimes book Is there a post-release registration program Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, which Reddit and Instagram at the office. review was a sex issue, with a cartoon of an felt that the program singled out Muslims. that notifies law enforcement agencies when I’m very much still working on how I someone who has been convicted of terrorism orgy on the cover and articles about sex toys In some cases, defense attorneys have handle the deluge. … and a “recovering sex and porn addict.” The raised concerns that any de-radicalization moves into their community? We do it with sex I’ve found it’s helpful for my mental well- Sunday Times magazine cover story is “What program that attempts to change an inmate’s offenders. Why not terrorists? being to take one day a week off from social Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn.” religious beliefs, even those as twisted as a Given that the vast majority of people media. For me, that’s Saturday. It feels like The sole remaining taboo topic in the committed jihadist, would violate both the convicted of terrorism crimes are not serving a weekly cleanse and sometimes it’s truly a Times news columns seems to be acknowl- Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the life sentences — and that as many as 100 of challenge, which makes me realize just how edging anything positive or worth embracing First Amendment. them will be released in the coming years — much I really need to push myself to do it. For in traditional Jewish religious texts or practice. Several convicted terrorists in US prisons the Department of Justice must act quickly to one day a week, I try to use my phone as one remedy the situation. For the Times, it’s news not fit to print. have already sued the Bureau of Prisons over thing and one thing only: a way to text and call that very issue, including American Taliban The Bureau of Prisons’ response to the fighter John Walker Lindh and underwear GW study was to claim that “prisoners linked bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. So to terrorism have access to programs … Continued from Page A10 preserve its spirit. Almost every generation Value perhaps it’s a fear of continued litigation including education and vocational training.” contributed something to the heritage of that hinders the development of any viable Maybe. But Macramé for Terrorists isn’t in space, but we do have Shabbat, the Shabbat, if only a new song, or even a new de-radicalization program that terrorists in the solution to the continuing threat of prison “sanctuary in time.” Recently, a senior figure tune for old words. Not by accident do we prison would be required to attend. radicalization. in the Church of England spent Shabbat with speak of “making Shabbat.” The Jewish people But what if the program were voluntary? IPT Senior Fellow Patrick Dunleavy is the us in the Marble Arch Synagogue. He was with did not create the day’s holiness but they did In the United Kingdom, the overwhelming former Deputy Inspector General for New York us for the full 25 hours, from Kabbalat Shabbat co-create its hadrat kodesh, its sacred beauty. majority of inmates convicted of terror crimes State Department of Corrections and author to Havdallah. He prayed with us, learned with Ariely’s point applies here as well: the greater simply refused to attend any de-radicalization of The Fertile Soil of Jihad. He currently teaches us, ate with us, and sang with us. “Why are you the effort we put into something, the greater program and still were released from prison. a class on terrorism for the United States doing this?” I asked him. He replied, “One of the the love for what we have made. The GW study notes that there are 140 Military Special Operations School. greatest gifts you Jews gave us Christians was Hence the life-changing lesson: if you the Sabbath. We are losing it. You are keeping it. want people to value something, get them I want to learn from you how you do it.” to participate in creating it. Give them a The answer is simple. To be sure, it challenge and give them responsibility. The Dogsled Racer Talks About was God who at the dawn of time made the effort we put into something does not just seventh day holy. But it was the sages who, change the object: it changes us. The greater making “a fence around the law,” added many the labour, the greater the love for what we Being the Only Jew in Her laws, customs and regulations to protect and Community, Trying to have made. Integrate Jewish Culture in Her Town

keep Jewish heritage alive in her town. “The synagogue ‘near’ me is wonderful, SHIRYN SOLNY but I end up going maybe twice a year, since NEW YORK 75 miles is a long drive on icy roads late on Friday nights. And I’m usually running dogs on Friday nights,” she said. “Even so, in our town of 500 people, I do what I can to share the more accessible parts of Jewish culture. Blair Braverman and one of her dogs. Photo: Twitter. A successful dogsled racer opened up I’ve been baking hamantashen for Green Bay for people to think they’ve never met certain students nor the teachers have met a Jewish in a recent interview about the struggle of Packers games, and this winter I recruited a kinds of people. Like if you think you don’t person before. She further discusses the being the only Jewish person in her town and bunch of neighbors for a dreidel tournament.” know any queer folks, or immigrants, or Jews experience in her book Welcome to the how she is trying to introduce community Braverman grew up reform in California — that’s how groups of individual humans are Goddamn Ice Cube, and told Hey Alma that members to Jewish culture. and as a child went to Jewish summer camp. reduced to symbols and ideas.” the schoolchildren were “so curious [and] Blair Braverman, 29, lives on a farm in Her parents now live in Corvallis, Oregon, She added, “If I know someone, if I’ve lived very interested” by the information she gave rural Wisconsin with her husband, according where her mother helped open the town’s first with them, I don’t want them to be able to tell them about Hebrew, the high holidays, and to the website Hey Alma, which interviewed synagogue. She said its important for her to be themselves that they’ve never met a Jew.” more, and that she was asked to come back the athlete and published writer. The nearest visibly Jewish. She told the website, “I’ve lived During the interview Braverman also a half dozen times and spoke to nearly all the synagogue is 75 miles away and Braverman in places where I’m the only Jew, particularly opened up about leading “Ask-a-Jew” sessions students in the school. said it feels “lonely” having no other Jews in rural Norway. And it’s dangerous, I think, at a school in Norway, where neither the around her. Still, she does what she can to A8 | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 2018 Impressions.

Hold the Phone? Poland, Jews and the Kielce Olympics Organizers Pogrom — of 1946 Apologize to Iran

for Apparent BY OREN SAFDIE much of a role did the Poles play in the Holocaust? One interesting fact that I found out was that the Gift Gaffe I was somewhat understanding when the Poles had a boycott against Jewish businesses before Polish cabinet recently approved a bill that would the Germans had even invaded the country — just to criminalize the use of the phrase “Polish death calm the restless working class who, like Germans, camps” in reference to Nazi-run extermination felt that the Jews were making too much money. BY REUTERS & ALGEMEINER STAFF camps in occupied Poland. But once the bill Then, of course, I had a personal account of included a provision criminalizing anyone who events from my mother, none of it flattering. Born accuses the Polish nation or state of complicity in in 1937, she spent much of her childhood in hiding Organizers of South Korea’s Winter Olympics the Holocaust, I heard the words of my mother in — two years under the staircase of a Polish family, apologized to the Iranian team before Friday’s opening my head: “The Poles will never change.” taken in not from the goodness of their hearts, but to ceremony for what they called a misunderstanding It was only a few years ago that I took my extort as much money as they could from my grand- over gifts of Samsung mobile phones. first trip to Krakow. There, I met the director of the mother, who was able to pass for Aryan and worked Iran on Thursday had summoned South Korea’s Jewish Community Centre, Jonathan Ornstein, who several jobs to keep my mother and sister alive. ambassador over reports its athletes would not each showed me around the very hip, modern facility I had always assumed that when the war receive a $1,100 smartphone. run by a mostly non-Jewish staff. He told me how ended, my mother — along with her sister and News reports said 4,000 of the phones were being his weekly Shabbat dinners had grown in size, and mother — had immediately emigrated to Palestine. given to athletes attending the Pyeongchang games, now included many non-Jews who were interested But this was not the case. Almost all of the surviving but that athletes from Iran and North Korea would in learning about Jewish culture. Jews simply returned to their towns and villages, be excluded because of UN sanctions against the two The tour continued out the door, into the with many of their homes now occupied by their countries over their nuclear programs. surrounding Jewish Quarter, where Jonathan neighbors. Still, the idea of picking up and moving The IOC stepped in late on Thursday to say extolled the virtues of this burgeoning new relation- to another war-torn region was the furthest thing athletes from both countries would receive the ship between Poles and Jews. I believe the word from their minds. My mother ended the war in phones, but that the North Koreans would be asked “Jewish Renaissance” was used several times. an orphanage in nearby Czestochowa, where she not to take the devices home. The old synagogues and cemeteries were stayed until my grandmother could earn enough Iran had summoned South Korea’s ambassador brought to life by Klezmer-playing musicians, and to Tehran to the Foreign Ministry, to explain the street artists selling sketches of Jewish Orthodox apparent snub. men. Stages and seating were being set up for the “If Samsung does not apologize for its unwise Krakow Jewish Festival, one of the largest of its kind action, this will greatly affect Samsung’s trade relations in Europe. There was even a hummus and falafel with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the state news restaurant that made you feel like you could be in agency IRNA quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Tel Aviv. When Jonathan saw some hesitancy in my Bahram Qasemi as saying. expression, he quickly pointed out that while Jewish Samsung said the IOC was responsible for schools and synagogues in the rest of Europe had to distributing gifts at the Olympics and had no further be protected by security forces, his Jewish Centre comment. had no one standing outside its door. A memorial at the site of the 1941 massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland. Photo: Aw58 via As he sent me off with a JCC t-shirt and a bag Wikimedia Commons. full of literature, Jonathan left me with one last story about an elderly Polish woman who had recently come into his office — and broke down in tears. money to look after her. Back in Kielce, only a Apparently, after her parents died, she had been hundred or so Jewish families returned, everyone going through some boxes and found a diary that doing their best to assume some kind of normalcy. indicated that she was Jewish. This same story, But on July 4, 1946, one year after the war Jonathan added, was playing itself out every week. ended, almost to the day, a young Catholic boy No sooner had I left the country, than I read went missing. It was just after Passover and rumors that the Polish government was considering a ban quickly spread. Security forces surrounded a known on the practice of circumcision. Plans were also Jewish apartment building. By mid-morning, 22 of Samaneh Beyrami Baher of Iran carries the national the residents were shot dead in what was quickly flag at Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics – being discussed to ban kosher meat — in lieu of a Opening ceremony on Feb. 9, 2018. more humanitarian method of killing. At the time, deemed a “misunderstanding.” Naturally, people — Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Barria/ I had just started working on a new play about an many of them Jewish friends and relatives — started architect struggling to come up with a design for a to gather to catch a glimpse of the ambulance On Friday, Games organizers POCOG said: “A new Holocaust museum. I decided that I would set workers removing the bodies. All of a sudden, out of letter was today sent from POCOG President Mr Lee my hypothetical museum in Poland, which would nowhere, a mob of workers — some say a thousand Hee-beom to the Chef de Mission of the National give me an opportunity to do more research into — who had just been let out from the factories, came Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran my ancestral homeland. I chose Kielce to be the marching up the street with clubs, bats and rods, and to apologize for the misunderstanding regarding the setting; a small town in the South, and the birth- started swinging at the heads of anyone who looked distribution of mobile phones to the Iranian athletes. place of my mother. Jewish. Meanwhile, the police simply looked on. In “The IOC has confirmed that the Iranian athletes Coincidentally, a new museum of Polish the end, 42 Jews were killed and 47 were injured. are entitled to receive and keep the phones. Jewish history was about to open in Warsaw, It was after this that my mother — and almost “Samsung Electronics delivered over 4,000 and I surfed the Internet for any controversy that all the other survivors — took a risk and moved to Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Games Limited Edition might be fodder for my drama. I thought that Palestine, or wherever else that would take them. – a special edition of Galaxy Note8 – to the IOC and there could be something to the fact that, like the The Polish government might not want to have a Pyeongchang Organizing Committee. The company Jewish Museum in Berlin, the word “Holocaust” public debate as to whether the Poles played an instru- was not involved in the decision-making process was omitted from the museum’s name — but I was mental role in the Holocaust, but there is no denying regarding the distribution of the phones.” unable to determine whether this was by choice of that the reason that there are so few Jews living in Iran has four competitors at the Olympics which the founders, or a directive from the government. Poland today rests squarely on their shoulders. run from Feb. 9-25. What I did find was that when the Polish govern- At least, let them come to terms with that. Reclusive North Korea and the rich, democratic ment granted permission and allocated funds for Oren Safdie is a playwright and screenwriter South are technically still at war because their 1950-53 the Jewish museum, it was only on condition that living in Venice, CA. His latest play “Things To Do conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. another museum of equal size and budget be built In Munich” opens at the Arkansas Public Theatre to commemorate the Polish victims of the war. in November 2018. This got me digging further into the past. How www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 2018 A9 Legal Notice.

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Hernandez, Esq., Referee Crane, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 28 Kings, City and State of New York. Articles of organization filed with the March 1, 2018 at the Kings County Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for East Main Street, Suite 1800 Rochester, Premises known as 546 Chauncey Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 N.Y. 14614 (585) 232-7400 Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233. (Block: on 10/02/2017. Office location: Kings Street, Brooklyn, County of Kings, State Williamsville, NY 14221 51088 AJ; 2/2/9/16/23; 1517, Lot: 117) Approximate amount county. SSNY has been designated of New York, at 2:30 P.M., the premises AJ; 1/26; 2/2/9/16/ of lien $625,716.67 plus interest and as the agent of the LLC upon whom described as follows: 1861 61st NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT costs. Premises will be sold subject to process against it may be served. St Brooklyn, NY 11204 SBL No.: 5519 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COUNTY OF KINGS Homebridge provisions of filed judgment and terms SSNY shall Mail copy of the process to: - 53 ALL THAT TRACT OF PARCEL COURT COUNTY OF KINGS PNC Financial Services, Inc., Plaintiff of sale. Index No. 501136/2014. Jeffrey United States corporation agents,inc. OF LAND situate in the Borough of Bank, National Association, Plaintiff AGAINST Josianne Valery; et al., R. Miller, Esq., Referee. Davidson Fink 7014 13th Avenue, suite 202 Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Kings County, State of New AGAINST Renata Ramdass; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 28 East NY 11228. Purpose: all lawful activity York The premises are sold subject to Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, NY AJ; 1/12/19/26; 2/2/9/16 the provisions of the filed judgment, of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated February 1, 2017 I, the undersigned 14614-1990 Tel. 585/760-8218 Dated: Index No. 501886/2015 in the amount September 14, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at January 26, 2018 Notice of formation of limited liability of $532,366.32 plus interest and Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 AJ; 2/9/16/23; 3/2/ company (LLC) Name: Melinda costs. Megan S. Kale, Esq. Woods the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, Michael LLC. Articles of organization Oviatt Gilman LLP Plaintiff'sAdams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on March 8, 2018 at 2:30PM, Notice of qualification of CHROME filed with the secretary of state of New Attorney 700 Crossroads Building, NY 11201 on March 1, 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known as 871 East 46th CAPITAL CONSULTANTS LLC. York(SSNY) on 01/04/2018. Office 2 State St. Rochester, New York premises known as 964 East 43rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11203. All that Authority filed with the Sect’y of State location: Richmond County. SSNY has 14614 Tel.: 855-227-5072 Street, Brooklyn, NY 11210. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, of NY (SSNY) on 01/19/18. Office been designated as the agent of the AJ; 1/26; 2/2/9/16/ certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements in Kings County. Formed in NJ on LLC upon whom process against it with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the 12/15/17. SSNY has been designated may be served. SSNY shall Mail copy Notice of Formation of WOODHULL erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, as agent of the LLC upon whom of the process to: Shanna Walker 65 RECORDS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block 4980 Lot process against it may be served. Grand View Avenue Staten Island NY with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) City and State of NY, Section 23 Block 51. Approximate amount of judgment SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 10303. Purpose: all lawful activity on 10/16/17. Office location: Kings 7746 Lot 59. Approximate amount of $405,534.36 plus interest and costs. 1130 Bedford Ave #68 Brooklyn NY AJ; 1/12/19/26; 2/2/9/16 County. SSNY designated as agent judgment $384,277.96 plus interest Premises will be sold subject to 11216. Purpose: Any lawful purpose of LLC upon whom process against and costs. Premises will be sold subject provisions of filed Judgment Index# AJ; 2/16/23; 3/2/9/16/23 Notice of formation of limited liability it may be served. SSNY shall mail to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 501049/2014. Joseph Defelice, Esq., company (LLC). Name: Polished & process to CFG-NY, Inc., 80 8th Ave., 502013/2014. Steven H. Richman, Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE Professional Staffing, LLC. Articles Ste. 301, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: Any Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile STATE OF NEW YORK BY THE of organization filed with the secre- lawful activity. LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND tary of state of New York (SSNY) on AJ; 1/26; 2/2/9/16/ Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: INDEPENDENT To: Bertha Keller, 12/28/2017. Office location: Bronx New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 December 27, 2017 50905 Louise Asaraf, Diane Newman, Mary County. SSNY has been designated REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE Dated: January 18, 2018 51322 AJ; 2/2/9/16/23; Heuser, George Ferchland, Jr. Laura as the agent of the LLC upon whom IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME AJ; 1/26; 2/2/9/16/23; 3/2 Delaney, Michelle Ferchland, Robert process against it may be served. SSNY COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS CW Fulton LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/ Froehlich, Ronald Froehlich, Robert shall mail copy of process to: Ivette CITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff – Notice of formation of limited liability SSNY 1/22/18. Off. in Kings Co. SSNY Ferchland, Doreen Ferchland, Susan Torres 3139 Waterbury Ave. Bronx , against – ANTHONY FONTANA, et al company(LLC) Name: Sweetcase desig. as agt. of LLC whom process Randall, Thomas Ferchland, Bernard NY 10465 . Purpose: all lawful activity Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment Studio,LLC.Articles of organization may be served. SSNY shall mail Harvey, Jr., Linda Alford, Barbara AJ; 1/12/19/26; 2/2/9/16 of Foreclosure and Sale entered on filed with the Secretary of State of New process to the LLC, 150 Myrtle Ave., Fl. Ferchland, Rosemary Ferchland, January 17, 2017. I, the undersigned York(SSNY) on 12/19/2017. Office 2, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose: any Christine Ferchland, Patricia Ferch- Azna Realty LLC Arts. Of Org. Filed w/ Referee will sell at public auction, in location: Kings county SSNY has been lawful activity. land-Bingham, James Ferchland, Jr., SSNY 12/27/17.Off.in Kings Co..SSNY Room 274 of Kings County Supreme designated as the agent of the LLC AJ; 2/2/9/16/23; 3/2/9 Walter Jackel, Roy Jackel, Carol Pugh, desig.as agt.of LLC whom process may Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, Upon whom process against it may Kenneth Will, Irene Staudt, Raymond be served.SSNY shall mail process to NY 11201 on the 1st Day of March, be served. SSNY shall Mail copy of NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: Will, Frances Will, Helen Rock, the LLC, 919 81st St., Brooklyn, NY 2018 at 2:30 p.m. All that certain the process to: Sweetcase Studio LLC KINGS COUNTY. CACTUS PAPER, Caroline Jaigobind, Robert Chioffe, 11228. Purpose: any lawful activity plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, 115 8th Ave. Apt.6 Brooklyn, NY 11215 LLC, Pltf. vs. NUR NOBI, et al, Defts. Michael Chioffe, Ronald Chioffe, Helen AJ; 1/12/19/26; 2/2/9/16 lying and being in the Borough of purpose: all lawful activity Index #507102/2014. Pursuant to Chioffe, Debora A. Carver aka Debora Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and AJ; 1/26; 2/2/9/16/23; 3/2 judgment of foreclosure and sale Mastrangelo, Jennifer A. Mastran- Notice of formation of limited liability State of New York. Premises known entered Jan. 18, 2018, I will sell at gelo, Frederick Cornell, Anthony company(LLC) Name: Marta Marie as 1942 East 34th Street, Brooklyn, Notice of Qualification of GFE public auction in Room 224 of the Mastrangelo, Matthew F. Mastran- LLC Articles of organization filed with. New York 11234. (Block: 8500 and BROADWAY-BROOKLYN LLC Appl. Kings County Supreme Court, 360 gelo, Brennan Cornell, Sean Cornell, Secretary of State of New York(SSNY) Lot: 64) Approximate amount of lien for Auth. filed with Secy. of State Adams St., Brooklyn, NY on March 15, Janet Cullen, William Cullen, Dorothy on 01/02/2018. Office location: Kings $574,360.05 plus interest and costs. of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/17. Office 2018 at 2:30 p.m. prem. k/a 419 Eldert Ballard, Kathleen Dube, John Chioffe, county. SSNY has been designated Premises will be sold subject to provi- location: Kings County. LLC formed Lane, Brooklyn, NY a/k/a Block 4178, Marie Nester, Attorney General of as The agent of the LLC upon whom sions of filed judgment and terms of in Delaware (DE) on 11/03/17. SSNY Lot 1. Said property beginning at the the State of New York The unknown process against it may be served. SSNY sale. Index No. 500204/2014. Charles designated as agent of LLC upon corner formed by the intersection of distributees, legatees, devisees, heirs shall Mail copy of the process to: Marta L. Emma, Esq., Referee. Davidson Fink whom process against it may be the northerly side of McKinley Ave. at law and assignees of Ruth Ferchland Castaing 279 Prospect Pl.#3 Brooklyn, LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 28 East served. SSNY shall mail process to with the Easterly side of Eldert Lane, aka Ruth E. Ferchland aka Ruth Ellen NY 11238. Purpose: all lawful activity Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, NY the LLC, Attn: George Fellows, 462 being a plot 36 ft. 8 ½ inches x. 103 ft. Ferchland, deceased, or their estates, AJ; 1/19/26; 2/2/9/16/23 14614-1990 Tel. 585/760-8218 Dated: Mariner Dr., Jupiter, FL 33477. DE 4 inches. X 18 ft. 9 ¼ inches x 105 ft. if any there be, whose names, places December 19, 2017 addr. of LLC: c/o National Registered 6 inches. Approx. amt. of judgment is of residence and post office addresses Notice of formation of limited liability AJ; 1/26; 2/2/9/16/ Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. $115,092.90 plus costs and interest. are unknown to the petitioner and company (LLC) Name: Tzvi Vchomid 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. Sold subject to terms and conditions cannot with due diligence be ascer- LLC. Articles of organization filed NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 of filed judgment and terms of sale tained. Virginia Ruckh, Joanne Ruckh with the Secretary of State of New COURT COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: and the right of the United States of and Marilyn Ruckh, if living and if York(SSNY) on 12/14/2017. Office BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Any lawful activity. America to redeem within 120 days dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin location: Kings county. SSNY has been SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF AJ; 2/2/9/16/23; 3/2/9 from the date of sale as provided by and distributees whose names and designated as the agent of the LLC AMERICA, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO law. LEONARD SPECTOR, Referee. places of residence are unknown and if upon whom process against it may LASALLE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF THE MARGOLIN & WEINREB LAW they died subsequent to the decedent be served .SSNY shall Mail copy of FOR MERRILL LYNCH FIRST KINGS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, GROUP, LLP, Attys. For Pltf., 165 Eileen herein, to their executors, administra- the process to: Tzvi Vchomid LLC 134 FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN NA, Plaintiff against ZISEL BRIEGER: Way, Ste. 101, Syosset, NY. #94062 tors, legatees, devisees, assignees and South 9 Apt. 4-A Brooklyn, NY 11211. TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET- LARRY BRIEGER, et al Defendant(s). AJ; 2/9/16/23; 3/2/ successors in interest whose names Purpose: All lawful activity BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclo- and places of residence are unknown AJ; 1/26; 2/2/9/16/23; 3/2 2007-2, Plaintiff AGAINST ANNISA sure and Sale entered on December REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN and cannot be ascertained after due DANCE and RUSSELL DANCE, et al., 2, 2016. I, the undersigned Referee FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT diligence. Being the persons interested STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment will sell at public auction in Room – COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK as creditors, legatees, distributees COURT: COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT or otherwise in the Estate of Ruth NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE February 01, 2017 I, the undersigned 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY Ferchland aka Ruth E. Ferchland aka BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Referee will sell at public auction at the the 8th day of March, 2018 at 2:30 BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE Ruth Ellen Ferchland, deceased, who AS TRUSTEE FOR CITIGROUP Room 224 of Kings County Supreme p.m. premises described as follows: OF SW REMIC TRUST 2014-2 at the time of death was a resident MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST INC., Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, All that certain plot, piece or parcel WITHOUT RECOURSE, Plaintiff – of 87-14 92nd Street, Woodhaven, ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH New York 11201, on March 01, 2018 of land, with the building improve- against – DARREN DOWNES, et al Continued on Page A10 A10 | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 2018 Tradition. Legal Notice.

greatest gift we can give people is LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE to give them the chance to create. Why We Value What This is the one gift that turns the recipient into a giver. It gives them 459-9000 1981 Marcus Avenue, Suite Avenue 239.96 feet southeasterly from dignity. It shows that we trust them, 200 Lake Success, New York 11042 This the corner formed by the intersection We Make have faith in them, and believe they citation is served upon you as required of the southwesterly side of Gerritsen are capable of great things. by law. You are not obliged to appear Avenue with the southeasterly side of in person. If you fail to appear it will be Barlett Place; Running thence south- We no longer have a Sanctuary assumed that you do not object to the westerly parallel with Barlett Place and to take the people through a role Continued on Page A7 relief requested unless you file formal part of the distance through a party reversal. Instead of His doing things legal, verified objections. You have a wall 90 feet to the northeasterly side for them, He commanded them to right to have an attorney-at-law appear of Abbey Court; Thence southeasterly JONATHAN SACKS for you. along the northeasterly side of Abbey LEGAL NOTICE LONDON make something for Him. This was AJ; 2/16/23; 3/2/9 Court 16 feet; Thence northeasterly not about God. God does not need a parallel with Barlett Place and part Sanctuary, a home on earth, for God Continued from Page A9 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT of the distance through a party wall is at home everywhere. As Isaiah COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK 90 feet to the southwesterly side of NY 11421, in the County of Queens, The behavioural economist NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS Gerritsen Avenue; and Thence north- said in His name: “Heaven is My State of New York. SEND GREETING: TRUSTEE FOR CREDIT SUISSE FIRST westerly along the southwesterly Dan Ariely did a series of experi- throne and the earth My footstool. Upon the petition of LOIS M. ROSEN- BOSTON MORTGAGE SECURITIES side of Gerritsen Avenue 16 feet to ments on what is known as the What house, then, can you will BLATT, Public Administrator of CORP., CSMC MORTGAGE-BACKED the point or place of beginning. Said IKEA effect, or “why we overvalue Queens County, who maintains her build for Me?” (Is. 66:1). This was PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, premises known as 2850 Gerritsen office at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, what we make.” The name comes, about humans and their dignity, SERIES 2006-2, Plaintiff AGAINST Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11229. (Block: Jamaica, Queens County, New York of course, from the store that sells their self-respect. DANIEL SCHONBRUN, HILLEL 8914, Lot: 279). Approximate amount 11435, as Temporary Administrator self-assembly furniture. For practi- With an extraordinary act SCHONBRUN, et al., Defendant(s) of lien $ 445,747.49 plus interest and of the Estate of Ruth Ferchland aka cally-challenged people like me, Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclo- costs. Premises will be sold subject of tzimtzum, self-limitation, God Ruth E. Ferchland aka Ruth Ellen sure and Sale duly dated January 10, to provisions of filed judgment and putting an item of furniture together gave the Israelites the chance to Ferchland, deceased, you and each 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will terms of sale. Index No. 501000-14. is usually like doing a giant jigsaw make something with their own of you are hereby cited to show cause sell at public auction at the Room 224 Mark A. Longo, Esq., Referee. Stern & puzzle in which various pieces are hands, something they would value before the Surrogate at the Surro- of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Eisenberg, PC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff gate’s Court of the County of Queens, missing, and others are in the wrong because, collectively, they had made Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York Woodbridge Corporate Plaza 485 B to be held at the Queens General place. But in the end, even if the it. Everyone who was willing could 11201, on March 22, 2018 at 2:30PM, Route 1 South – Suite 330 Iselin, NJ Courthouse, 6th Floor, 88-11 Sutphin item is amateurish, we tend to feel contribute, from whatever they had: premises known as 1926 EAST 27TH 08830 (732) 582-6344 Boulevard, Jamaica, City and State a certain pride in it. We can say, “I “gold, silver or bronze, blue, purple STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11229. All AJ; 2/16/23; 3/2/9 of New York, on the 5th day of April, that certain plot piece or parcel of land, made this,” even if someone else or crimson yarns, fine linen, goat 2018 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, with the buildings and improvements ADMINISTRATION CITATION designed it, produced the pieces, why the Account of Proceedings of erected, situate, lying and being in the FILE NO.: 2017-3537 SURRO- and wrote the instructions. There is, the Public Administrator of Queens Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, GATE'S COURT - Queens COUNTY County, as Temporary Adminis- about something in which we have City and State of New York, Block CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE trator of the Estate of said deceased, invested our labour, a feeling like 7305, Lot 17. Approximate amount of STATE OF NEW YORK By the Grace of a copy of which is attached, should that expressed in Psalm 128: “When judgment $696,259.33 plus interest God Free and Independent TO: To the not be judicially settled, and why the you eat the fruit of the labour of your and costs. Premises will be sold subject heirs at law, next of kin, and distribu- Surrogate should not fix and allow a hands, you will be happy, and it will to provisions of filed Judgment for tees of Jacquelyn Louise Jacobs a/k/a reasonable amount of compensation Index #503204/2015. Mark A. Longo, Jacquelyn Jacobs, deceased, if living, go well with you.” to GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., for Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC and if any of them be dead to their Ariely wanted to test the reality hair, red-dyed ram skins, fine leather, legal services rendered to petitioner Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle heirs at law, next of kin, distributes, and extent of this added value. So herein in the amount of $27,815.30 acacia wood, oil for the lamp, balsam Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY legatees, executors, administrators, and that the Court fix the fair and he got volunteers to make origami oils for the anointing oil and for 14221 51819 assignees and successors in interest reasonable additional fee for any models by elaborate folding of the fragrant incense,” jewels for the AJ; 2/16/23; 3/2/9 whose names are unknown and services to be rendered by GERARD J. paper. He then asked them how breastplate and so on. Some gave cannot be ascertained after due SWEENEY, ESQ., hereafter in connec- much they were prepared to pay NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT diligence. Queens County Public their labour and skills. Everyone tion with proceedings on kinship, COUNTY OF KINGS WELLS FARGO Administrator Cynthia Jacobs New to keep their own model. The had the opportunity to take part: claims etc., prior to entry of a final BANK, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST York State Department of Taxation average answer was 25 cents. He women as well as men, the people as Decree on this accounting in the JOSEPH CAMPISI and RYAN SARACO, and Finance A petition having been asked other people in the vicinity a whole, not just an elite. amount of 6% of assets or income et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a duly filed by CIT Bank, National collected after the date of the within what they would be prepared For the first time God was Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly Association as Servicer for One West accounting; and why the Surrogate to pay. The average answer was asking them not just to follow His dated June 06, 2016 I, the undersigned Bank N.A. f/k/a One West Bank, FSB, should not fix and allow an amount five cents. In other words, people pillar of cloud and fire through the Referee will sell at public auction at the who is domiciled at c/0 75 North Fair equal to one percent on said Sched- were prepared to pay five times wilderness, or obey His laws, but to Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Oaks Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103 ules of the total assets on Schedules Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW as much for something they had be active: to become builders and A, A1, and A2 plus any additional New York 11201, on March 22, 2018 CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, made themselves. His conclusions creators. And because it involved monies received subsequent to the at 2:30PM, premises known as 1934 Queens County at 88-11 Sutphin were: the effort that we put into their work, energy and time, they date of this account, as the fair and PROSPECT PLACE, BROOKLYN, NY Blvd., Jamaica, New York on April 5, reasonable amount payable to the something does not just change the invested something of themselves, 11233. All that certain plot piece or 2018 at 9:30 a.m. in the forenoon of Office of the Public Administrator for object. It changes us and the way we individually and collectively, in it. parcel of land, with the buildings and that day, why a decree should not the expenses of said office pursuant to evaluate that object. And the greater To repeat Ariely’s point: We value improvements erected, situate, lying be made in the estate of Jacquelyn S.C.P.A. §1106(3); and why the Estate the labour, the greater the love for what we create. The effort that we and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, Louise Jacobs a/k/a Jacquelyn Jacobs should not pay for the interment of the County of Kings, City and State of New lately domiciled at 2465 Hogan Rd., what we have made. put into something does not just decedent’s ashes, if interred; and why York, BLOCK 1465, LOT 30. Approxi- Atlanta GA 30344 In the County of This is part of what is happening change the object. It changes us. the Last Will and Testament dated mate amount of judgment $524,555.47 Fulton, Georgia, granting Letters of in the long sequence about the Few places in the Torah more October 29, 2002, copy attached, also plus interest and costs. Premises will Administration upon the estate of building of the Sanctuary that begins attached are copies of the three prior powerfully embody Rabbi Yohanan be sold subject to provisions of filed the decedent to Cynthia Jacobs and Wills dated 09/10/91, 11/19/93 and in our parsha and continues, with few saying that “Wherever you find Judgment for Index# 5843/13. Edward if she defaults to The Queens County 01/09/02, should not be admitted interruptions, to the end of the book. God’s greatness, there you find His Mark Rappaport, Esq., Referee Gross Public Administrator, and if they to Probate; and why the Letters of There is no comparison whatsoever humility.”[3] God was giving the Israel- Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff are permitted to renounce then to Temporary Administration issued to between the Mishkan – the holy and 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williams- petitioners nominee, Scott Gordon, ites the dignity of being able to say, “I the Public Administrator should not ville, NY 14221 51269 Esq. Upon duly qualifying. That the the Holy of Holies – and something helped build a house for God.” The be revoked; and why Letters of Admin- AJ; 2/16/23; 3/2/9 authority of the representative under as secular as self-assembly furni- Creator of the universe was giving istration CTA should not be issued to the foregoing letters be limited as ture. But at a human level, there are His people the chance to become the Public Administrator; and why SUPREME COURT – COUNTY follows: To represent the estate of the the net residuary estate should not psychological parallels. creators also – not just of something OF KINGS GRAND BANK, N.A., decedent in a foreclosure action on be paid pursuant to the Last Will and The Mishkan was the first thing physical and secular, but of something Plaintiff against MARIE GLEASON, property located at 147-47 Ferndale Testament as follows; STATEMENT the Israelites made in the wilder- profoundly spiritual and sacred. Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11435 HON. OF PROPOSED DISTRIBUTION ness, and it marks a turning point Hence the unusual Hebrew of Foreclosure and Sale entered on Peter J. Kelly SURROGATE James Lim $1,000.00 plus 1/6 of the residuary March 24, 2017. I, the undersigned Baker Chief Clerk Dated, Attested in the Exodus narrative. Until now word for contribution, Terumah, estate to Jennifer Mastrangelo $500.00 Referee will sell at public auction in and Sealed February 7, 2018 Name God had done all the work. He had which means not just something we plus 1/6 of the residuary estate to Room 224 of the Kings County Court- of Attorney for Petitioner Frenkel, struck Egypt with plagues. He had give but something we lift up. The Anthony Mastrangelo $500.00 plus house, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, 1/6 of the residuary estate to Matthew taken the people out to freedom. builders of the sanctuary lifted up on the 22nd day of March, 2018 at 2:30 LLP Address for Attorney 53 Gibosom Mastrangelo $250.00 to Brennan He had divided the sea and brought their gift to God, and in the process p.m. premises described as follows: Street, Bayshore, NY 11706 Tele. No. Cornell $250.00 to Sean Cornell them across on dry land. He had of lifting, discovered that they All that certain plot, piece or parcel of 631-969-3100 NOTE: This citation is ½ of the residuary estate to Debra given them food from heaven and themselves were lifted. God was land, with the buildings and improve- served upon you as required by law. Mastrangelo aka Debora Carver ments thereon erected, situate, lying You are not required to appear. If you water from a rock. And, with the giving them the chance to become Dated, Attested and Sealed 8th day of and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, fail to appear it will be assumed you do exception of the Song at the Sea, the “His partners in the work of creation,” February , 2018 HON. PETER J. KELLY County of Kings, City and State of not object to the relief requested. You people had not appreciated it. They the highest characterisation ever Surrogate, Queens County James Lim New York, Bounded and described have a right to have an attorney-at-law were ungrateful. They complained. Becker Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court given of the human condition. as follows: Beginning at a point on appear for you GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ. (718) Now God instructed Moses This is a life-changing idea. The the southwesterly side of Gerritsen AJ; 2/16/23; 3/2/9 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 2018 A11 Social.

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BY SHIRYN SOLNY

A Florida lawmaker is demanding that venues in Miami and Tampa cancel upcoming concerts by New Zealand pop star Lorde, who called off a show in Israel to comply with the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. “BDS is an antisemitic, terrorist movement and we should not force taxpayers to subsidize it,” State Representative Randy Fine (R-Palm Bay) told The Algemeiner on Friday. In letters to the Miami Sports and Exhibition Argentine Federal Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered in January 2015. Photo: Reuters/Marcos Brindicci. Authority and the Tampa Sports Authority, Fine warned that Lorde’s April performances would violate Florida law, which bars state and local governments Streaming Giant Netflix to from conducting business exceeding $1 million with Produce Miniseries on Murder of Argentine AMIA Bombing

Prosecutor Alberto Nisman Lorde. Photo: Instagram. any organization engaged in a boycott of Israel. “Florida has no tolerance for antisemitism and boycotts intended to destroy the State of Israel,” Fine BY BEN COHEN arrest warrants issued by global law enforcement wrote. “That’s why Florida passed groundbreaking agency Interpol — for the Iranian officials wanted in anti-BDS legislation several years ago … Current connection with the AMIA bombing. The pact was statues are clear — local governments cannot do Internet streaming giant Netflix has reportedly voided by Argentina’s Supreme Court following Kirch- business with companies that participate in antise- begun production in Buenos Aires on a documen- ner’s electoral defeat by current President Mauricio mitic boycotts of Israel.” tary miniseries probing the January 2015 murder of Macri in November 2015. “When Lorde joined the boycott in December, Alberto Nisman – the federal prosecutor who spent While the Kirchner government’s initial efforts she and her companies became subject to that more than a decade investigating the 1994 bombing to portray Nisman’s murder as a suicide have been statute,” the representative continued. “The taxpayers of the AMIA Jewish center in the Argentine capital, completely discredited by official forensic analysis of of Miami and Tampa should not have to facilitate and then later exposed the role of former President the crime scene, the exact reason behind his murder bigotry and antisemitism.” Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her colleagues in and the identity of his killers is yet to be revealed. Lorde is currently scheduled to perform in Tampa on a cover-up of Iran’s responsibility for the atrocity. According to Argentine news outlet Diario 26, the April 11th and in Miami on April 12th. The singer cancelled Reports in the Argentine press on Monday said producers of the Netflix series are hoping to obtain a Tel Aviv concert set to take place in June as part of her that Catalan production company JWP had been interviews with Kirchner herself; Nisman’s former world tour, which will include stops in Russia and Indonesia. commissioned by Netflix to produce the series. assistant Diego Lagomarsino, who was indicted in Fine told The Algemeiner that he has not yet Founded by the British documentary film director December 2017 as an accomplice to the murder; and received a response to his letters, but is optimistic that Justin Webster, the company has produced award- with a number of the key officials who claimed that the venues will comply with his demands. “When they winning documentaries on Spain and Latin America, Nisman took his own life. scheduled the concerts Lorde had not joined the BDS including a film about the celebrated Colombian Often described as the “86th victim” of the movement and perhaps they’re not even aware that writer Gabriel García Márquez and another on the AMIA bombing, Nisman took over the case in 2005 she did,” he said, “but I’m certain that [they] will follow Basque terrorist group ETA. after the previous corrupted investigation into the the law and cancel the concerts.” Nisman was found dead in his Buenos Aires attack collapsed. Eighty-five people were killed and Fine and Florida Senator Jeff Brandes have apartment on January 18, 2015, hours before he was hundreds more wounded after a truck packed with introduced a bill to amend the current law allowing due to deliver a complaint to the Argentine Congress explosives drove into the AMIA building in downtown state entities to do up to $1 million in business with that charged Kirchner, former Foreign Minister Hector Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994 in what remains the organizations that support BDS. The lawmakers want Timerman, and several key aides and cabinet officials worst terrorist attack on Latin American soil. to reduce that $1 million cap to zero, Fine explained, with having negotiated a pact with Iran that involved “which would make Florida a zero-state tolerance for the cancelation of six “Red Notices” — international governments doing business with antisemitic bigots.” He expressed confidence that the bill — which passed the Florida House of Representatives with a 109-3 vote several weeks ago — will be approved by the Senate as well. www.algemeiner.com Attention Not-For-Proﬁt Organizations

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