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These are questions parents have security concerns as anti-Semitism is the forefront for camp directors, security a responsibility to ask and institutions at a near-record high nationwide and it officials and parents alike. should expect to have a strong answer to.” Jewish school has been just half a year since two deadly “Parents should be asking their chil- Traditionally, camps relied on secu- synagogue shootings. dren’s camp how they are addressing rity booths, a guard at the gate, maybe By Ben Sales data from the State Depart- According to the Anti-Defamation safety and security. What are the policies security cameras and other measures. ment of Education, more League’s Audit of Anti-Semitic In- and procedures they have put in place? Upgrading security on a large scale can NEW YORK (JTA)—New than 20 Orthodox schools in cidents for 2018, 1,879 attacks were What physical security do they have at be costly, and so many camps face the York City is shuttering an Brooklyn had immunization committed against Jews and Jewish the camp? How are they training their same challenges that synagogues and day Orthodox school in Brooklyn rates lower than 90 percent institutions across the country last staff? The counselors? The campers?” said schools are facing: funding, and often, a because it has continued to last year. Experts recommend year, including the attack at the Tree of security expert Michael Masters, national lack of it. admit unvaccinated students an immunization rate of at Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pitts- director and CEO of the Secure Com- That was the message that several in violation of a city order. least 95 percent. burgh, where 11 Jewish worshippers were munity Network, which was founded in camp directors gave to New York Assem- The Central UTA Satmar Rockland County in New murdered when a gunman entered the 2004 auspices of the Jewish Federations School for Boys, a hasidic York, home to the heavily building during Shabbat services. of North America and the Conference Security on page 14A school in the Williamsburg Orthodox city of Monsey, has neighborhood, is being closed also had a significant number Tuesday afternoon for violat- of measles cases. Only about ing city orders regarding vac- 77 percent of the county Pompeo: Iran is responsible for cines and vaccination records, is vaccinated, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency state data. has learned. It is the tenth In the case of the Satmar attacking oil tankers in Gulf Orthodox school in New York school, the city official said, City to be closed this year due school officials failed to meet (JNS)—Two tankers, one than a month after Iran to the issue, according to a deadlines to provide the city carrying oil and the other was blamed for attacking four city official with knowledge with students’ immunization transferring a freight of oil tankers off the coast of the of the matter. records. When those records methanol, in the Gulf of United Arab Emirates. Williamsburg, which has were received, investigations Oman near the strategic Norwegian-owned tanker a large Orthodox popula- into the school showed that it Strait of Hormuz were at- Front Altair and a Japanese- tion, has been experiencing was still admitting students tacked on Thursday, less owned ship Kokuka Coura- a measles outbreak since and faculty who were not geous were hit in the attack. last year that has infected vaccinated. The Norwegian Martime 588 people in New York City. The school is not being Agency said that three explo- The city says the outbreak is given advance notice that it sions were reported onboard largely concentrated in the is being closed so that school the tanker. Orthodox community. administrators will not falsify U.S. Secretary of State In April, the city declared documents ahead of time. Mike Pompeo blamed Iran for a public health emergency In order to reopen, the Thursday’s attacks. over the outbreak, mandating official said, the school must “It is the assessment of the people in four Williamsburg compose a corrective action United States government ZIP codes to vaccinate. The plan that ensures that it will that the Islamic Republic of city also announced that it no longer admit unvaccinated Iran is responsible for the would be closing schools in students. Faculty will need attacks in the Gulf of Oman,” Williamsburg that allow un- to know how to act if an un- he said at a press briefing on vaccinated students to attend. vaccinated student attends. Two oil tankers were attacked on June 13, 2019, in the Thursday afternoon at the Nine of the 10 schools closed Before the school reopens, Gulf of Oman, less than a month after Iran was blamed for U.S. State Department. thus far are in Williamsburg. the city will have to approve attacking four oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab An unnamed U.S. official The tenth is in the borough the school’s plan. Emirates. also said that Iran’s claims to of Queens. City officials will check have rescued the crews of the cy IRNA had claimed that the crew members are now safely Orthodox authorities have back daily to make sure that ships are “patently false,” and 44 sailors from the ships were onboard the Bainbridge. urged their communities to the school remains closed in instead, that 21 of the crew- rescued by Iranian Navy and The crew of the Bain- vaccinate, and advocates of the interim. men from the Kokuka Coura- are currently on the Iranian bridge also reported that the communities cite data geous, operated by Kokuka Island of Jask. they saw an unexploded showing that Orthodox vac- Sangyo Co., were abroad However, the Japanese “limpet mine” on the side of cination rates in Brooklyn the USS Bainbridge missile operator of the Kokuka Cou- one of the ships attacked, re- are high. But pockets of resis- destroyer. rageous tanker that was dam- tance to vaccination remain in Iran’s state-run news agen- aged in the attack says all of its Pompeo on page 14A the community. According to PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 21, 2019 An evening of film, story and inspiration in honor of the Rebbe’s Yartzeit left that life behind to seek his to his story, without which fortune. Where a kippa once I couldn’t really understand lay there was now long wavy why that encounter meant so hair. He wore a leather jacket much to him. I needed to know and tall cowboy boots. more about where he came But what he saw intrigued from, where he was going at him. “Who could be so crazy,” the time, to understand that he thought, “to live this way moment. over here?” He got out of his “Some years later I reached car and introduced himself out to him and after some to the rabbi, who, it turned convincing he agreed to share out, was also from Brooklyn. his story—but this time all of The rabbi’s name was Nosson it. After that everything just Gurary, the Rebbe’s shliach to kind of happened on its own.” Forty some years ago, Chassidim. The young for its university’s hippy the University of Buffalo. What Avtzon means by that a young man named Eliot man was shocked. He’d counterculture vibe. Some years later, this is the inclusion of two more Lasky was driving with never seen anything like Lasky was no stranger to young man, by now a suc- individuals, Larry Caroline his friend when he saw a this in Buffalo, a city that what he’d just encountered. cessful rock ‘n roll promoter, and David “Doctor Laz” Chabad rabbi dancing on at the time was known as He’d grown up in Brooklyn in would be in New York City, in Lazerson who had also been The Lubavitcher Rebbe, the street with a few other the “Berkeley of the East” an Orthodox home, but had desperate need for an answer in Buffalo around the same Rabbi Menachem Mendel to questions that threatened time and in their own ways Schneerson, of righteous to end any connection with his had followed similar paths memory (1902-1994). faith. He turned to this rabbi, through the Chabad House who in turn recommended and ultimately 770. Orlando, “I felt like this is a that he go to 770 and perhaps As Avtzon puts it, “I wanted perfect way for us to mark the find a moment to ask his ques- the film to show how Lasky’s 25th Yahrtzeit of the Rebbe TAKING ON UBER? tions directly to the Rebbe. story, while deeply personal and celebrate his legacy of The encounter that came as and unique to him, is also inspiring people to find the a result would change his life. representative of something heights they aspire to in the It was Lasky’s story that larger that was going on at depths of their souls.” inspired the making of “The that time.” ”The Time in Between” will Time in Between,” a new The film was shot about a be screened on July 7 at 7 p.m. groundbreaking documen- year ago and was screened for in Nate’s Shul, 1701 Markham tary film by Bentzi Avtzon. the first time to an audience Woods Rd. in Longwood. To “I’d seen him once sharing of more than 300 people in RSVP or to be a sponsor of his encounter with the Rebbe Philadelphia. the event please visit www. at an event in Manhattan,” “When I heard about JewishNorthOrlando.com/ MARK LANG & ASSOCIATES said Avtzon. “But I immedi- this film,” said Rabbi Yanky TheTimeInBetween or call ately felt that there was more Majesky of Chabad of North 407-636-5994. UBER CLAIMS | LANGLAW.NET | O ces: Winter Park The benefits of belonging to a community The Jewish Pavilion’s mis- transforms a group of people of a small town and the shelter sion is to bring Jewish life gathering weekly or monthly of benevolent families. It was and culture to residents in into a close-knit family and a captivating story, but more senior living facilities. This to enable the participants to than that, it brought us closer includes Shabbat and holiday build a community within to this woman and enabled her services and programs, along the facility. friends and myself to appreci- with individual visitations. One such story was told last ate her life story. The outcome is obvious and week at a Shabbat service at The benefit of belonging to a predictable—an opportu- Westminster of Winter Park. community and the opportu- nity to enjoy the rich array After the service, I asked a nity to tell our personal stories of prayers, songs, stories, new participant to tell a little is so important throughout food, and social interaction. about herself. It was initially our lives but even more so as However, many times during for my benefit, since this was we age. The program direc- a Shabbat service, the oppor- the first time we had met. tors and volunteers at the tunity arises to go beyond the The brief story she shared Jewish Pavilion provide these words of the service or the was about her life in England opportunities through our routine of the day. Opening up during World War II. She told work with the senior living dialogues and telling personal us that as a child, she was residences. stories during the program transported with her siblings — Susan Bernstein, Jewish becomes the element that out of London to the security Pavilion program director Congregation Beth Sholom Health & Fitness Issue Sisterhood meeting The Congregation Beth The meeting and presentation women of Congregation Beth An Annual Issue Published By Sholom Sisterhood will have are open to the public. 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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 21, 2019 PAGE 3A Eyeing current polls and September elections, right-wing Knesset leaders explore new options By Dov Lipman to another deadlock in coali- Zehut Party, which also failed of his disagreements with the is no shortage of obstacles tion negotiations. to cross the threshold, told ultra-Orthodox parties and along the way. While they all (JNS)—The campaigns for As a result, reports are JNS that “the different ap- their demands. agree about strong right-wing Israel’s second elections in circulating that a number of proach which Zehut will be While all parties are asking security policy, they differ 2019 are underway and, after parties on the right may be taking in these elections is themselves what they can when it comes to economic reviewing the first polls, many considering mergers, includ- simple. We are going to do do differently to change the and social policies. Israelis are asking if they may ing two parties that did not everything we can to form result, the key to preventing Knesset member Betzalel end up with a stalemate and cross the threshold in the a technical bloc with other elections for a third time likely Smotrich, one of the lead- no government following the April election. parties that feel the way we do rests in the hands of these ers of United Right—a party second go-around. Jeremy Saltan, director of on issues regarding the Land two right-wing parties, New into which both New Right Initial polling results in- English operations for the of Israel. This will guarantee Right and Zehut. As a result, and Zehut could potentially dicate that the Israeli right New Right Party that was led a strong bloc of those faithful at least five right-wing seats combine—created the great- will once again be the closest by Naftali Bennet and Ayelet to the Land of Israel in the could not enter the Knesset est obstacle to a merger this to form a coalition. However, Shaked—whose party was Knesset.” because these two parties week. He talked openly about the numbers also reveal that only roughly 1,000 votes short There is a very clear reason didn’t cross the threshold. The his desire to be the next justice following the Sept. 17 elec- of the threshold in April—told why these two specific parties leaders of both of these parties minister to enable him to lead tions, Israel may very well JNS that he expects mergers are the ones talking about sig- realize that if those votes had Israel “back to the times of end up again in a situation on the right. nificant changes and mergers. not been wasted, Netanyahu King David and King Solo- in which Prime Minister “My expectation is that this The new elections were would have been able to form mon,” in which Israel would Flash90 Benjamin Netanyahu cannot time around the party will not called because the prime min- a right-wing government be governed by religious law. Naftali Bennett gives a form a government without run alone and will run on a ister only had 60 mandates without Lieberman. Neither Naftali Bennett of statement to the media out- both Avigdor Lieberman of the joint ticket,” he said. supporting him (instead of Meanwhile, a survey con- New Right nor Moshe Feiglin side his home in Ra’anana Yisrael Beiteinu Party and the Similarly, Shmuel Sackett, the required 61) after Lieber- ducted by Makor Rishon of of Zehut, with its more secular on June 2, 2019, hours after ultra-Orthodox, thus leading co-founder of Moshe Feiglin’s man refused to join because national religious voters platform, is unlikely to agree being fired as education found that 56.7 percent want with that stance. minister. “a complete unification of all This and many other issues the parties on the religious will need to be worked out new campaign begins. And right,” which includes New in order to create a “mega- they are going to approach the Yiddish word kicked off Right, Jewish Home, Zehut, merger” on the Israeli right. September elections differ- Otzma Yehudit and the Union But one thing is for sure: ently to make sure that every of Right-Wing Parties. Right-wing leaders are study- right-wing vote counts, and Scripps Spelling Bee finals Within the next few weeks, ing the results of the last that Netanyahu will be able there should be a stronger elections, seeing Netanyahu’s to form a government without The seventh-grader didn’t another Jewish word, this sense for how these right-wing failure to form a government, needing the help of his current quite know what to make time a Hebrew one: In round parties will merge. Still, there and studying the polls as this archrival Lieberman. of the quintessentially Jew- 8, he also spelled the word ish word, which the contest “keriah,” the traditional Jew- defined as “a Jewish way of ish mourning ritual of tearing life.” After asking what the one’s clothes. Iran increases production of language of origin of the word This is quite an amazing was, and receiving the answer feat because, according to “Yiddish,” Rishik chuckled FiveThirtyEight, Hebrew low-enriched uranium nervously: “I don’t know what words have been the toughest I expected.” (He’s smart and words to spell at the competi- By Jackson Richman nuclear deal, even the low- Tehran, reported Bloom- funny!) tion, with more than half of enriched uranium.” berg on Monday, citing a On Twitter, avid Bee watch- them stumping contestants (JNS)—Iran has increased Monday’s development senior administration official. ers (you know who you are!) over the years. Looks like its uranium enrichment since echoed former IAEA deputy The Special Trade and were stunned as well by the Rishik managed to avoid U.S. President Donald Trump Olli Heinonen’s warning last Finance Institute is an exten- challenging first word, which, that fate. withdrew from the 2015 Iran week that Iran could enrich sion of Iran’s central bank, let’s face it, not many 12-year- A Yiddish word helped nuclear deal in May 2018, enough uranium for a nuclear which is already under U.S. olds, Jewish or otherwise, are propel a contestant to the warned the International bomb within six to eight sanctions. Rishik Gandshari spelled familiar with. next round: Enya Hubers of Atomic Energy Agency on months. Barbara Slavin, who leads “Yiddishkeit” and “keriah” But Rishik is a spelling bee Ontario, Canada, aced the Monday. “Iran is actually weapon- the Atlantic Council’s Future on the way to the co-cham- veteran and a total pro—he spelling of “lekach,” the Ash- However, while IAEA chief izing uranium enrichment Iran Initiative, told JNS that pionship of the Scripps made it all the way to the kenazi honey cake served on Yukiya Amano informed without making a weapon,” these developments are “not National Spelling Bee. sixth round at last year’s Rosh Hashanah. What a sweet reporters about this develop- he said on Israel’s Army Radio, surprising as it is exactly what competition, and was valiant victory, and mazel tov to both ment, he noted, “I did not say adding that based on his “per- Iran said it would do after the By Lior Zaltzman about being eliminated. What of these young pros! Iran is implementing [the haps back-of-the-envelope” US announced a complete a mensch! (Hey, spelling bee Meanwhile, for the first JCPOA], but I did not say Iran estimate, Iran could acquire embargo on Iran’s sale of oil.” It’s Yiddish for the win at the runner-people, maybe that’s a time in the 92-year history of is not implementing either.” an enriched nuclear weapon “Iran has not yet breached Scripps National Spelling Bee! good word for next year?) De- the Scripps National Spelling Newsweek reported that in six to eight months “if they the limits set in the Iran OK, not quite, but last spite his initial hesitation, he Bee, the competition named “Amano specifically said that put in their maximum effort.” nuclear deal of 300 kilograms week, when the first rounds managed to spell Yiddishkeit eight co-champions, includ- the country had increased its Meanwhile, the United of low-enriched uranium but of the finals kicked off, the and ascend to the next round. ing Rishik. The organizers production of low-enriched States, as part of its maximum will continue to increase its word “Yiddishkeit” nearly Twitter, of course, was very ran out of words to challenge uranium, the type of uranium pressure campaign against stockpile in part to pressure stumped contestant No. 5, impressed (as were we). the finalists. that is used for producing Iran, is considering sanctions the European Union to opera- Rishik Gandshari from San Bizarrely, later in the af- This story originally ap- nuclear energy. Low-enriched against the Special Trade tionalize a trading mechanism Jose, California. ternoon, Rishik was dealt peared on Kveller. uranium has between 3 and and Finance Institute, the with Iran. The deadline Iran 4 percent concentration of regime’s counterpart to the set is July 7. So the ball is the isotope U-235. Weapons- Instrument in Support of now in Europe’s court,” she grade uranium, however, is Trade Exchanges, or Instex, continued. “We also need to see Last living survivor of Nazi around 90 percent enriched. a financial mechanism, cre- if the Trump administration Still, Iran shipped 98 percent ated by the United Kingdom, will sanction the Iranian entity of its enriched uranium out France and Germany to evade created to trade with INSTEX, death camp Sobibor dies of the country as part of the U.S. economic penalties on the E.U. vehicle.” By Marcy Oster in the gas chambers at Sobibor was one of the 300 prisoners though some have put the that managed to escape the JERUSALEM (JTA)—The number as high as 350,000. camp, and one of only 47 who last living survivor of the Nazi The camp was destroyed by survived in the days after the INVESTORS WANTED death camp Sobibor has died. the Germans at the end of uprising. He hid in the woods Semion Rosenfeld died 1943. with a small group of prison- on Monday at a hospital in Rosenfeld, who was born in ers until spring 1944, when central Israel at the age of 96. Ukraine, was drafted into the they were liberated by the Red He moved to Israel from the Red Army in 1940 to fight the Army, which he rejoined and Experienced Chef looking for Ukraine in 1990, according to Nazis. He was captured and participated in the capture of the Jerusalem Post. taken as a prisoner of war Berlin by the Soviet forces, investors for a newly opened Sobibor was built and oper- in 1941. according to Ynet. He was ated by the SS during World He was transferred to Sobi- demobilized in October 1945. War II near the railway station bor in 1943, and participated He is survived by two sons Jewish delicatessen in the area. of Sobibor in Poland. At least in the Sobibor uprising in and five grandchildren in 200,000 Jews were murdered September of that year. He Israel and the United States. Very knowledgeable chef with First EL AL flight from MCO coming July 9 many years cooking and catering Coming in for a landing on July 2 at the Orlando International Airport will be EL AL’s inaugural flight from Tel Aviv to MCO. The flight will ferry out empty back to of all facets of Jewish Delicacies. Tel Aviv. Then on July 9 at 9:30 a.m. EL AL will make its first flight out of MCO with passengers. Please contact chef Chaleur at 407-782-6013 PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 21, 2019 Nuclear secrets and terror links uncovered By Melanie Phillips Gaza, Yemen and Iraq; and continue developing for safeguards at the International Atomic ments. Now Iran is threatening to resume inter-continental ballistic missiles. Energy Agency. He certainly did not take the uranium enrichment after its self-imposed (JNS)—A few days ago, Britain’s Daily Britain has consistently and perversely British view. July 7 deadline. Telegraph revealed that in 2015 the British maintained that the deal would stop Iran from He said the information in the documents The United States is stepping up its sanctions authorities had uncovered a Hezbollah terror- getting the bomb. When U.S. President Donald obtained by Israel, along with the IAEA’s own policy still further. It has now targeted Iran’s ist plot. The key point was that this had been Trump declared the deal dead and reimposed researches, showed that Iran’s deception of the largest petrochemical company for providing kept secret until now. sanctions, Britain and the European Union IAEA as late as 2015 had led to the “premature support to the Revolutionary Guards, and is In a bomb factory on the outskirts of Lon- set out to undermine this through a special- implementation” of the Iran deal. considering ways to undermine the E.U.’s don, a total of three metric tons of ammonium purpose vehicle called Instex, designed to allow There was evidence that Iran had changed its Instex mechanism. nitrate was discovered—more than was used in payments to Iran that would bypass sanctions. documentation to conceal its military nuclear According to Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, president the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed So while it was trying to continue funding program behind a civilian one. of the International American Council on the 168 people—stashed in ice packs. the Iranian terror machine, the British gov- The IAEA, he said, hadn’t had the facili- Middle East, sanctions are working. They have This was apparently no rogue plot, but part ernment kept secret from the public a major ties to question this. The deception meant imposed such pressure on the regime that it of an international Hezbollah operation laying threat to Western security being developed that the deal had been implemented with an has been forced to cut funding to its allies, the groundwork for future attacks. in their own country by Iran’s proxy army, inadequate baseline that prevented the IAEA militia and terror groups. The London cell was uncovered by MI5 and Hezbollah, which the British government only from monitoring future developments. For the first time, the regime is frightened the police in September 2015. The British got round to banning as a terrorist group in There was evidence that Iran was in breach of the United States rather than the other way were reportedly tipped off by the Mossad. The February this year. of its undertakings under the deal. Most wor- round. According to sources cited by Israeli TV, suspicion is that the British government kept When Israel pulled off last year’s audacious rying, he told Israel’s Army Radio, “Iran is Iran is now making back-channel overtures to the discovery secret because they were heavily raid in stealing thousands of Iranian nuclear actually weaponizing uranium enrichment Washington expressing a willingness to renew committed to the Iran nuclear deal brokered program files from under the regime’s nose and without making a weapon.” Iran could now talks in a bid to find common ground. by President Barack Obama, which was agreed said these revealed Iran was far closer to get- make weapons-grade enriched uranium in However, the belief that sanctions will to the following month. ting nuclear weapons than had been thought, “perhaps half a year, seven to eight months force it to back down seems naive. It’s hard to That deal was a baleful development. Sup- the British dismissed this as irrelevant. The maximum, if they put everything into it.” believe that these Shi’ite fanatics, who have posedly aiming to prevent Iran from ever whole reason for the Obama deal, they sniffed, On Monday, the IAEA’s director-general been in a state of self-declared war against developing nuclear weapons, it would actually was that they knew Iran had been lying. The Yukiya Amano said that Iran’s rate of ura- the West since they came to power in 1979, enable it to do so a few years down the line. deal, they implied, would put an end to its nium enrichment was increasing, and the would ever agree to abandon their develop- Worse, by lifting sanctions it funneled mil- ability to deceive. deal was therefore “under tension.” This ment of nuclear weapons, let alone meekly lions of dollars into Iran. This enabled the Last week, I attended a talk at the Jeru- was the first time since the deal was signed cave in to Washington’s further requirement regime to fund Hezbollah and global terror; salem Center for Public Affairs given by Olli that the IAEA did not report that Iran was expand its predatory influence in Lebanon, Heinonen, the former deputy director-general implementing its nuclear-related commit- Terror on page 15A Israel needs American Jewry, now more than ever By Shay Attias the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions move- Israeli state as a whole. Those liberal Zionists College passed referenda demanding divest- ment on Jewish youth to turn their backs on who oppose non-violent forms of pressure on ment from and boycott of companies that (BESA Center via JNS)—The Jewish dias- their Jewish identity. Many young American Israel feel compelled to justify that opposition. do business with Israel. These resolutions pora in the United States is becoming increas- Jews do, in fact, view Israel as a moral burden The onus is on them to defend whatever degree are usually either ignored or condemned by ingly estranged from Israel. American Jewish they no longer wish to carry. of support for Israel they might retain. university officials, but they still cause dam- youth are being pushed away from affiliation American Jewish identity trends include a They are not expected to defend the abstract age to the bonds between Israel and the U.S. with the Jewish state, and some Jewish students growing interest in relationships that do not ideal of what they hope Israel might one day Jewish diaspora. are even forced to hide their religious identity or require communal institutions, the rise of the become, they are obliged to defend the Israel In the United States, thousands of campuses their support for Israel to stay safe on campus. concept of tikkun olam as a mobilizing cause, of today. That Israel is accused by the BDS around the country mark “Israel Apartheid A central issue hindering a solution to this and an increasing difficulty in speaking with movement of expropriating Palestinian land Week” every year, and have done so since 2001. problem is the continued, uncompromising one voice. for Jewish settlement, detaining Palestinians Boycotts of Israeli institutions of higher political support of American Jewry for the Israel has morphed from a uniting issue to without trial or charge, collectively punish- education are another BDS weapon. Unlike Democratic Party, which is increasingly vocal a source of tension and divisiveness for many ing two million Gazans living under a more BDS resolutions against Israeli businesses, in its disdain for Israel. Jewish communities, and there has been a than decade-long blockade, institutionalizing which are largely symbolic, academic boycotts Though Israel urgently needs to maintain a decline of the notion of unqualified support inequality between Jewish and Palestinian have very real consequences for American healthy relationship with the American Jewish for Israel, with an increase in criticism of citizens of Israel and denying Palestinian “refu- Jewish and Israeli scholars. According to the community, its foreign ministry suffers from a Israel among ostensibly Zionist organizations. gees” the “right of return” to pre-1967 Israel. BDS website, more than 1,000 faculty members critical lack of human resources, budget and Then there is the rise of the BDS movement, BDS has deprived Israel’s liberal supporters on hundreds of campuses around the world status. The ministry’s relationship with the which directly targets American Jewry and of the excuse that an aberrant “occupation” have endorsed this boycott, and many Israeli American Jewish community has been domi- works to turn students against Israel. or right-wing government is to blame for the scholars have lost funding and research op- nated for decades by an unwritten covenant All these elements, as well as others, have state’s assorted sins. The problem isn’t Israel’s portunities as a result. In the United States, regarding values, priorities and assumptions deepened the schisms on the American Jewish politics; the problem is Israel’s very existence BDS supporters have managed to ensure that about behavior. However, powerful trends center-left. It has been forced into a vise by as a Jewish state. some Jewish student groups are excluded have undermined that covenant, to the point the right on one side and the anti-Zionist left The BDS movement has grown steadily from participation in social justice causes of rendering it obsolete. on the other. Some American liberal Zionists, since its 2005 launch and has taken root on and events. The Jewish diaspora faces a great challenge: struggling to find a stable position, accept the campuses across the United States. In 2017, American Jewry is unquestionably moving the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States. boycott of Israeli products from West Bank for example, the student governments at the This can be seen in the relentless pressure of neighborhoods but not the boycott of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Pitzer Jewry on page 15A No American weapons to anti-Semitic governments By Stephen M. Flatow in Sderot. It sponsors the flaming kites and For those reasons alone, American Jewish mitic motifs, presenting Jews as treacherous, incendiary balloons that have destroyed thou- organizations should be actively lobbying to dishonest and crafty, and at the same time as (JNS)—At a time when violence against sands of acres of Israeli forests and farm land prevent arms to Qatar. But it is also important weak, wretched and cowardly.” Jews is on the rise around the world, should in the nation’s south. to consider the fact that Qatar is one of the One of the assignments in the books requires the United States provide advanced weapons Qatar also assists other anti-American leading purveyors of anti-Semitism in the students “to compare the Jews’ attitude toward to a government that actively promotes anti- terrorist groups. According to The New York world today. the Muslims in the time of Muhammad and Semitism? Times, Qatar provides groups such as ISIS, — The government of Qatar finances the their attitude toward the Muslims today, in That’s the question we need to consider as Al Qaeda and the Taliban with “safe haven, Al Jazeera international media network. Ac- light of the material learned in the lesson. the Senate debates Senate Joint Resolution 26, diplomatic mediation, financial aid and, in cording to the Anti-Defamation League, Al The students are apparently expected to infer which would block the administration’s plan certain instances, weapons.” Jazeera has “a troubling record of providing that the traits ascribed to the Jews in the to provide Qatar with 24 attack helicopters, As a result, numerous Arab countries, a platform to all manner of virulent anti- chapter—treachery, cowardice, etc.—are also 2,500 Hellfire missiles and other sophisticated including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Israel and even anti-Semitic extremists and applicable to the Jews today.” military hardware. the United Arab Emirates, broke diplomatic of serving as a propaganda tool against the At a time when the murders in Pittsburgh Qatar is the world’s leading financer of the relations with Qatar, as well as closed their State of Israel.” and Poway are still fresh in our memories, Hamas terrorists. Qatari money pays for the air space and shipping lanes to Qatari air and — The recent international book fair in Qa- when Jews are being violently assaulted in missiles that Hamas fires at kindergartens sea traffic. tar’s capital, Doha, featured books such as The the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y., and when hate Myth of the Nazi Gas Chambers and Lies Spread groups are on the rise at home and abroad, THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. by the Jews, and an Arabic-language transla- what kind of message will it send if the United tion of Awakening to Jewish Influence in the States provides weapons to a government that United States of America by white-supremacist actively promotes anti-Semitism? ✡ ✡ ✡ CENTRAL FLORIDA’S INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICE ✡ ✡ ✡ leader David Duke. I am troubled that American Jewish and ISSN 0199-0721 Winner of 46 Press Awards Editor/Publisher — According to the ADL, Qatari govern- Zionist organizations have not spoken out Jeffrey Gaeser ment-controlled media outlets regularly against the proposed arms sales to Qatar.

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They must be signed; however, names will be withheld upon request. Due to through Congress, this con- aware are these American bility is to work externally to its politicians’ actions; and space limitations, we reserve the right to edit, if neces- sideration may include politi- Jews of Israel’s internal issues insure Israel’s public support, make determinations as to sary. Opinions printed in Viewpoint do not necessarily cal support implications. The such as housing, immigrant physical security, and insured the legal direction of the reflect the opinions of the paper. second is the American Jewish inclusion, funding for secular longevity as the homeland of Knesset. We have no more community’s entitlement to education, social support, the Jewish people. right to “demand” different demand political re-direction overburdened transportation, Diaspora Jews are members results from Israeli institu- Diaspora Jews right to influence by the Israeli government of or daily functioning Israeli bu- of the Jewish State of Israel, tions of government than an either its internal or external reaucracy? Does their narrow not to be confused with the Israeli citizen has to demand Israel’s political decisions policies. perspective distort their abil- political State of Israel. The actions by the governments Most Americans Jews are ity to understand the State’s two States are morally in- of England, Spain, Argen- By Howard Lefkowitz a year in foreign aid to Israel. ignorant or unconcerned governing obligations? tertwined, but independent tina, or the U.S. Perhaps Therefore, the U.S. is entitled with Israel’s internal political Diaspora Jews have chosen as regards governmental its time for that segment Last weekend, I had a to demand certain actions machinations or the structure not to make Aliyah and not to responsibilities. It is the of the progressive, non- heated discussion with my that it deems appropriate. of its governing institu- become citizens of the State political State of Israel that Orthodox American Jewish son-in-law, a political science My son-in-law has a point tions. There is a segment of of Israel. Therefore, we are not makes the laws, provides for community to treat Israel in professor at Virginia Tech, as regarding an exchange of predominantly progressive, entitled to enjoy the rights or defense, and deals with social the same objective manner to America’s right to demand value for foreign aid to any non-Orthodox American Jews accept the responsibilities of requirements of its citizens. that we ask from every other change in Israel’s internal country, Israel included, as who are focused on Israel’s Israeli citizens. We do not pay While certain religious laws country in the world: Speak and external political direc- it may relate to U.S. inter- right-leaning governing co- Israeli taxes or have manda- and rules may evolve thru the your minds, respect Israel’s tions. He asserted that Israel’s ests. Defining U.S. interests, alitions and its impact on tory military or civil inclusion. State governing structure, as sovereignty. But, don’t work regional activities, as well as however, is a broad topic. Ap- contemporary Jewish society. We do not have the right to such they technically apply to undermine Israel’s right internal political structure, plying it to the Middle East, These American Jews actively lobby or vote in Israeli elec- only within the political State to self-determination. could become detrimental to and Israel’s relationship to work to influence Israel’s tions nor participate within an of Israel. Howard Lefkowitz is presi- the U.S.’s best interest. He ar- its Arab neighbors, is even internal politics, specifically Israeli political party. We must So, until such time as dent of Leeds Holdings South- gued that the US provides $4B broader. However, two posi- regarding West Bank and trust that Israel functions Diaspora Jews become Israeli east, Inc., in Winter Park, Fla. Overcoming hatred for Jews By Dr. Elaine dent, a black vice president, to my pleasure, we got along suggested we open a school for husband was a strong but make sure you cross your t’s Pasternack editor and class members of well. When they met me in the these children. She was agree- quiet person. He went to the and dot your I’s.” the school administration halls, they hugged me. Even able. We bought a building department of health and Later she became our friend As a youngster said to her council. the male youngster who was that had been a funeral home asked to see the director. They and was pleased with our mother, “Why am I called a After high school, I entered quite tall would hug me and and a bank. It was perfect. It kept telling him she was busy school. We expanded rapidly. dirty Jew? I shower everyday.” state college at New Jersey. look down and smile. had a needed space for two and he could see someone In 10 years we had 200 chil- I am a Jew who has helped The tuition was $50. I had a When my children were classes, a required yard, and else. He said, “No, I will wait dren, 60 in staff, and over a many children. Let me in- scholarship. Room and board born, I stayed home for 10 rooms for giving therapy. for her.” Finally she saw him. two million dollar budget. We troduce myself. I am Elaine. was $18.50 week. I worked in years so I could have the We opened with 10 children, He explained our situation: had an excellent reputation. I was born in Elizabeth, New the cafeteria two meals to pleasure of seeing my sons a teacher, two teacher aides, We had children certified to Our children made wonderful Jersey to Jewish parents. My cover this cost. This job helped take their first steps and say and a speech and language attend, but could not until progress because of the car- background is all Jewish. All me pay my room and board. first words. I went back to therapist. we received certification. She ing, kind staff who helped the my great-grandparents and In September, I began work- substituting and worked in One problem came a phoned the person who was children reach their potential. great-great-grandparents ing in a kindergarten class preschool special education. month after we opened. At in charge of viewing our ap- They came to us not able to were Jewish. in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Children with special needs three o’clock in the afternoon plication. The director asked walk, talk or accomplish a I went to an all-girl public also taught first grade. from three to five years old, the doorbell rang and I found where was our application. task. high school. The town fathers In Brooklyn, I substituted were just starting to have someone who identified She replied it was sitting We were so proud of their tried to decrease teen preg- for a few years. I was assigned education fully funded with himself as an inspector of on her desk. She told her to progress. Sixty-five percent of nancy by having an all-girls to sub in a CRMD—children no charge to parents. the department of health. I review the application and if the children went into regular high school and all-boys high with retarded development. At one point, I saw the was operating an unlicensed all was correct to grant us a classes, some with services. school. Mine was a glorious I was apprehensive since I need for these programs, as daycare. We could only take license. The inspector was After 11 years, we had same-sex high school. We had never had contact with few programs were available. 10 children until our license upset with us for going over were everything: a class presi- special needs children. Much I approached my friend, and was granted. My partner’s her jurisdiction. “You better Hatred on page 15A An ill-deserved assault on Ambassador David Friedman By Ruthie Blum Yes, for daring to suggest ternational Criminal Court U.S. ambassador to Israel but When asked how Wash- the same people who view that Israel has the right even for “trying to impose his racist as the settlement movement’s ington would react if Israeli both Netanyahu and Trump as (JNS)—Palestinian and to “some” of its land, David visions and threatening peace ambassador to the United Prime Minister Benjamin figures who must be toppled leftist Jewish leaders called Friedman was called a “set- and security in the region, as States. By essentially giving Netanyahu followed through at all costs—if not at the bal- for America’s Israel ambas- tler” by Palestinian Authority well as exposing the Palestin- the Netanyahu government on his campaign vow ahead of lot box, then through their sador to be fired for telling chairman Mahmoud Abbas, ian people to several dangers a green light to begin unilat- the April 9 Knesset elections respective criminal-justice The New York Times in a who had previously dubbed and conspiracies.” erally annexing Palestinian to annex part of Judea and systems. recent interview that the Jew- him a “son of a dog.” J Street president Jeremy territory in the West Bank, Samaria, Friedman replied: It is peculiar, then, for ish state has, “under certain And the P.A. Foreign Min- Ben-Ami was equally in- the Trump administration is “We really don’t have a view such people to demand that circumstances, the right to istry announced that it would censed, accusing Friedman endorsing a flagrant violation until we know how much, on Friedman—a representative retain some, but unlikely all, weigh filing a complaint of “once again [making] clear of international law.” what terms, why does it make of the Trump administra- of the West Bank.” against Friedman at the In- that he is acting not as the Peace Now chimed in, refer- sense, why is it good for Israel, tion—be relieved of his post. ring to Friedman as a “Trojan why is it good for the region, After all, his predecessor, horse sent by the settler right, why does it not create more Dan Shapiro—a true blue which sabotages Israel’s inter- problems than it solves. These Barack Obama loyalist—was in this debate include Rep. ests and the chance for peace,” are all things that we’d want to not sacked for faithfully Letters To The Editor Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and urging U.S. President understand, and I don’t want conveying his boss’s Mideast We are a diverse community and we welcome your and a senior advisor to Sena- Donald Trump to “send him to prejudge.” messages. And those, unlike letters and viewpoints. The views and opinions expressed tor Bernie Sanders who packing.” In other words, he said Friedman’s, were frequently in the opinion pieces and letters published in The Heri- tweeted that it was “good” The outcry over Friedman’s nothing controversial what- reprehensible. tage are the views of the authors, and do not necessarily that “conditioning U.S. aid to perfectly reasonable remark is soever. Except in the eyes of And while on the subject reflect the views and opinions of The Heritage Florida Israel to stop settlements and worthy of note, particularly in those who consider any Israeli of the former U.S. president, Jewish News or its staff. The Heritage reserves the right end occupation (is) quickly view of what the U.S. envoy territorial or other claims il- to edit letters for clarity, content, and accuracy. And becoming the mainstream said next. legitimate, that is. You know, Friedman on page 15A respectful of lashon hara, we will not print derogatory Democratic position.” It is statements against any individual. not, and should not, be the Please limit letters to 250 words. Send letters to P.O. case. Box 300742, Fern Park, FL 32730. Or e-mail to news@ Democratic presidential orlandoheritage.com. candidates shouldn’t use this issue to help them gain mo- mentum in the media ahead Israel should not be politicized of the debates and endear them to the progressive anti- Dear Editor: used one of the most long- Israel flank of the Democratic Presidential candidate Pete standing bipartisan issues as party. They may soon find Buttigieg said in a speech a political instrument in his that using Israel’s security this week: “If Prime Minister fight for the 2020 Democratic in such a political way will Netanyahu makes good on his nomination. In doing so, But- ultimately turn them off to threat to annex West Bank tigieg is feeding the growing American voters who care settlements, he should know and alarming debate within deeply about Israel. Taking that a President Buttigieg the Democratic party which long-standing alliances and would take steps to ensure legitimizes the idea that as- politicizing them for short- that American taxpayers sistance to Israel—one of the term electoral gains is wrong won’t help foot the bill.” U.S.’s closest allies—should and will ultimately backfire. By invoking assistance somehow be on the table. Jack Rosen, president to Israel, Mayor Buttigieg Those who have engaged American Jewish Congress PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 21, 2019 What’s A COMPREHENSIVE Rocket fired from Gaza strikes COMMUNITY LIGHT Happening CALENDAR SHABBAT CANDLES AT For inclusion in the What’s Happening Calendar, copy must be sent on sepa- school in southern Israel rate sheet and clearly marked for Calendar. Submit copy via: e-mail (news@ JUNE 21 orlandoheritage.com); mail (P.O. Box 300742, Fern Park, FL 32730-0742); 8:08 p.m. By Marcy Oster rocket was not intercepted by reportedly causing significant fax (407-831-0507); or drop it by the office (207 O’Brien Rd., Ste. 101, Fern JUNE 28 the Iron Dome missile defense damage to farmland. Another Park) Deadline is Wednesday noon, 10 days prior to publication. 8:09 p.m. JERUSALEM (JTA)—A system. Gaza balloon carrying a bomb rocket fired from Gaza hit a Bomb sappers were called that detonated while flying school building in the south- to search the building for any over an Israeli community, MORNING AND EVENING MINYANS (Call synagogue to confirm time.) ern Israeli city of Sderot on unexploded fragments. causing alarm. Chabad of South Orlando—Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Saturday, Thursday evening. Early Thursday morning, a In response to the latest wave 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m., 407-354-3660. The building, identified as rocket was fired at a southern of incendiary balloons, the IDF Congregation Ahavas Yisrael—Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 9 a Jewish religious school, was Israeli town on the border with on Wednesday imposed a full a.m., 407-644-2500. damaged but no injuries were Gaza. Iron Dome intercepted naval closure on Gaza, which Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona—Monday, 8 a.m.; Thursday, 8 a.m., 904- reported. It was reported to be that rocket. prevents local fisherman from 672-9300. empty at the time of impact The Israel Defense Forces entering the sea. Congregation Ohev Shalom—Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-298-4650. and was fortified against responded Thursday morn- The balloons are an appar- GOBOR Community Minyan at Jewish Academy of Orlando—Monday—Friday, 7:45 a.m.—8:30 rockets. ing, using fighter jets to bomb ent violation of the informal a.m. No one has taken responsi- what it called in a statement cease-fire between Gaza and Temple Israel—Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-647-3055. bility for firing the rocket, but “an underground terrorist Israel. the Israeli military typically infrastructure on a military The IDF statement con- FRIDAY, JUNE 21 blames Hamas, the terrorist compound belonging to the cluded: “The IDF will continue Ahavas Yisrael—Kabbalat, 30 minutes before sundown. group that controls the Gaza Hamas terrorist organization to act against attempts to Strip. in the southern Gaza Strip.” harm Israeli civilians and SATURDAY, JUNE 22 A Code Red rocket alert was Also on Wednesday, at considers the terrorist organi- Torah Portion—Beha’alotkha: Numbers 8:1-12:16; Haftarah: Zechariah 2:14-4:7. sounded in the area and one least six fires were started in zation Hamas responsible for rocket was identified as being southern Israel by incendiary everything that is happening SUNDAY, JUNE 23 fired. 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(JNS)—Lockheed Martin about 25 new workers from south,” said Zeev Landau, JCC 39ers—Meet & Mingle Mondays, 1 p.m. in the Senior Social Hall of the Maitland JCC, has been awarded a $42 Israel’s southern area. the head of procurement for Sheldon Brook presents “Jerry Seinfeld on Broadway.” million contract by Israel’s Israel will cover half of the the navy and air force at the Defense Ministry to conduct cost over the next five years, Defense Ministry. FRIDAY, JUNE 28 “expansive maintenance ser- with the remainder condi- The IAF currently has 14 Ahavas Yisrael—Kabbalat, 30 minutes before sundown. vices to the State of Israel,” as tional on a five-year extension. F-35I Adir (“Mighty Ones”) well as to operate and main- “This project is of great aircraft built by Lockheed, and tain an F-35 training center strategic importance, par- is expected to receive a total southeast of Beersheva over ticularly for the independence of 50 planes to make two full Quote of the Week the next decade, announced of the Israel Air Force, both squadrons by 2024. “Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from the ministry. in routine and emergency The first nine F-35s became living meaningfully.” Additionally, the U.S. de- scenarios, but also for the operational with the Israeli — Menachem Mendel Schneerson fense contractor will hire economic growth of Israel’s Air Force in December 2017.

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He has been notably ruin of the Zionist dream of WASHINGTON (JTA)—Da- What Friedman said tion no longer picks at every national Criminal Court is silent about his pre-election Israel as a democratic national vid Friedman, U.S. ambassa- Friedman used neither announcement of a building considering Palestinian Au- pledge since the vote. home for the Jewish people.” dor to Israel, said Israel “has the “annexation” or “extend expansion in eastern Jerusa- thority complaints that Israel One state, two state: An- Coincident to The Times the right to retain” some of sovereignty” terms. Instead lem or the West Bank. has committed war crimes, nexation would, the peace- interview with Friedman, The the West Bank. he spoke of Israel “retaining” How the sides reacted among them actions related watching community agreed, Wall Street Journal ran a story Palestinians fumed, Jew- parts of the West Bank. Israeli settlers celebrated to its settlement activity. accelerate the death of the on growing support among ish settlers rejoiced, and the “Under certain circum- Friedman’s comments as a Palestinians say Israel violates two-state solution, which Palestinians for a single state, punditocracy predicted gloom stances, I think Israel has signal that the Trump admin- international law because it is could be a recipe for violence. one in which they would have and doom. the right to retain some, but istration was not interested in treating as its own occupied Both Netanyahu and Trump a voice. What was it exactly that unlikely all, of the West Bank,” the two-state solution reviled territory seized during a war. have retreated from expressed Jonathan Schanzer, a vice Friedman said in a New he said. by Israel’s right-wing parties. The Trump administration support for a two-state out- president at the Foundation York Times interview. And On its face, this is not un- “It’s time Israel decided has made clear repeatedly that come. for Defense of Democracies, what happens next? War, war usual: The Clinton, George its future and it’s good that it will vigorously challenge “That’s not a peace plan,” read that article and foresaw crimes trial, one state, two W. Bush and Obama admin- we have a friendly power like any ICC attempt to charge Martin Indyk, a top negotiator a recipe for violence. states? istrations envisioned Israel the U.S. working with us,” Israel, including administer- under Clinton and Obama, “Let’s be honest. The one What Netanyahu said retaining parts of the West Oded Revivi, who heads the ing sanctions on ICC officials. and a distinguished fellow at state thing is not a solution,” Before we get to what the Bank—but under a peace Efrat Regional Council, told Annexation could force the the Council on Foreign Rela- he tweeted. “And if it were ambassador said, we first have agreement, with mutual land Arutz Sheva, the media out- ICC’s hand. tions, said on Twitter. “It’s a somehow implemented, it to deal with what prompted swaps. let close to the settlement War: Trump’s Jerusalem plan for continued conflict would effectively mean the his comment. The Times The difference is that The movement. announcement helped trig- and the end of Israel as a eradication of Israel as we asked Friedman to speak on Times reporter, David Hal- Palestinians said Fried- ger the sustained protests on Jewish and democratic state.” know it.” Israeli Prime Minister Benja- bfinger, asked Friedman what man’s remarks were another the border between the Gaza The single actor still favor- At the very least, some min Netanyahu’s pre-election the Trump administration reason to skip the summit that Strip and Israel, which at ing a two-state solution, the Palestinian activists say, an- promise. would do if Israel annexed the President Donald Trump’s times have turned violent and Palestinian Authority, would nexation would force Israel Days before the April 9 vote, West Bank unilaterally. son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in April spurred an exchange be forced to give up on that to face the contradictions of a TV reporter questioned Ne- “We really don’t have a has planned in Bahrain later of combat over several days. dream, said Debra Shushan, fully governing millions of tanyahu about what was next view until we understand how this month to unveil the eco- While Kushner has alien- the director of policy and gov- people who are not citizens on the territorial agenda now much, on what terms, why nomic portion of his Israeli- ated the Palestinians, he has ernment relations at Ameri- of their state. Annexation that the United States had does it make sense, why is it Palestinian peace plan. cultivated close ties with cans for Peace Now, which also would make advocacy recognized Israeli sovereignty good for Israel, why is it good Friedman’s New York Times Sunni Arab states, and they favors a two-state outcome. for a single binational state over the Golan Heights. for the region, why does it not interview made Palestinians, will attend the Bahrain con- “Annexation would lead to easier, said Yousef Munayyer, “Will we move ahead to create more problems than it who already are boycotting ference. increased popular pressure on the executive director of the the next stage?” the reporter solves,” Friedman said. “These the Trump administration Support for Kushner’s plan Palestinian President Mah- U.S. Campaign for Palestinian asked. are all things that we’d want to after its recognition of Jeru- among those states would moud Abbas to reverse the Rights. “Yes. I will extend sover- understand, and I don’t want salem as Israel’s capital, even likely not withstand an up- PLO’s support for two states “It’s always been easier eignty,” the prime minister to prejudge.” more furious. rising among Palestinians, and its recognition of Israel’s to make an argument here responded, “but I don’t distin- One way to interpret that “In what logic does Fried- a factor that might explain right to exist,” she said in an in the United States for guish between the settlement is that the U.S. could see fit man think that Israel has the Kushner’s newfound caution email. “Palestinians would equal rights than it was for blocs and the isolated ones to accept a move by Israel to right to annex parts of the regarding his peace plan. The intensify efforts for equal separatism,” Munayyer said because each settlement is treat some areas of the West West Bank?” the Palestinian Bahrain summit will focus citizenship and rights for all in an interview. “The average Israeli and I will not hand Bank as fully part of Israel, Authority Foreign Ministry exclusively on investment between the Mediterranean American does not want to it over to Palestinian sov- short of formally annexing said in a statement. and economic opportunity for Sea and the Jordan River, and get into a nationalist dispute ereignty. them. That represents a dif- Shoshana Bryen, the senior the Palestinians. Final-status their calls would gain sup- between two foreign peoples “I will not divide Jerusalem, ference between the Trump director of the conservative issues will be discussed at an port internationally, includ- that they might not know I will not evacuate any com- administration and its prede- Jewish Policy Center, said undetermined date, if ever. ing in the U.S. Ambassador the history of—but everyone munity and I will make sure cessors, which closely watched Friedman was being appro- Netanyahu, who cherishes Friedman’s green-lighting understands equality before we control the territory west and at times condemned any priately cautious. the closeness he has cultivated of annexation, which Prime the law, equal rights, racism, of Jordan.” settlement expansion, saying “Friedman takes the posi- with the Trump administra- Minister Netanyahu will find and discrimination.” As The Jerusalem Post’s such moves either made the tion that you can’t comment Herb Keinon wrote Monday, possibility of a viable Pales- on what you don’t know about, Netanyahu appeared to be tinian state more remote or which is the only proper posi- carefully avoiding the term undermined the “road map” tion for a diplomat to take,” ‘Army of Islam’ will set out from “annexation,” which could to a negotiated settlement. she said in an interview. “Wait be a war crime under inter- Friedman, who himself for something to happen, national law. The problem raised funds for a West Bank see what happens, hold it up Jerusalem to conquer to world with that semantic maneuver settlement before becoming against a variety of conse- is that there is no distinction Trump’s ambassador to Israel, quences and make a decision.” Buttigieg promises to re-enter US into Iran nuclear deal (JNS)—Pete Buttigieg, Europe without leading up “If Prime Minister Netan- the mayor of South Bend, down a path to another Middle yahu makes good on his threat Ind., and candidate for the Eastern war. This agreement to annex West Bank settle- Democratic nomination for was concluded not to do Iran ments, he should know that a president in 2020, criticized a favor, but because it is in President Buttigieg would take U.S. President Donald Trump our national security inter- steps to ensure that American on Tuesday for withdrawing est, just as a parallel policy taxpayers won’t help foot the from the 2015 Iran deal in of confronting Iran’s support bill,” he declared. May 2018, saying that it was for terrorism and abysmal hu- Regarding the U.S.-Israel “close to a true ‘art of the man rights record reflects our relationship, the candidate deal,’ ” a reference to one of values and security interests.” said, “The closer an ally, the the president’s books. Beside Buttigieg, other more important it is that we Palestinian Sheikh Abu Hanifa Awda gives a speech at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s “Preventing the spread candidates who said they speak truth to them. The Old City. The video of the speech was uploaded to the Internet on June 2, 2019. of nuclear weapons should would re-enter the United security and survival of the remain a core tenet of our States into the Iran deal democratic state of Israel has (MEMRI via JNS)—A Pales- This is the land of the oath is written in the Koran]. A global leadership,” said But- include Sens. Bernie Sand- been and continues to be an tinian sheikh said during an of allegiance. This is where third brigade will ‘destroy tigieg, 37, in a speech focused ers (I-Vt.); Elizabeth War- essential tenet of U.S foreign address at the Al-Aqsa mosque the banners of the Caliphate whatever would fall into their on foreign policy and national ren (D-Mass.); Kamala Har- policy and is very much in our uploaded to the internet in will flutter. This is where the hands.’ A fourth brigade will security at the University of ris (D-Calif.); Amy Klobuchar national interest, which is why June that Jerusalem is the military convoys will gather, take revenge against Bashar Indiana in Bloomington. “For (D-Minn.); Rep. Tulsi Gabbard neither American nor Israeli “heartland” where the ban- and this is where the brigades al-Assad and Russia. A fifth this reason, I will rejoin our (D-Hawaii); former Housing leaders should play personal ners of the caliphate will flut- will assemble under their brigade will liberate all the international partners and and Urban Development Sec- politics with the security of ter, where military convoys banners, heralding in a new plundered Muslim countries. recommit the U.S. to the Iran retary Julian Castro; author Israel and its neighbors. and brigades will assemble, dawn—dawn of justice—and A sixth brigade will cross the nuclear deal.” and spiritual guru Marianne “Just as an American pa- and where policies will be the birth of a divine state: the oceans and put the enemy to “Whatever its imperfec- Williamson; and Wayne Mes- triot may oppose the policies designed to herald the “dawn Caliphate that will follow the shame. A seventh brigade will tions, this was perhaps as close sam, mayor of Miramar, Fla. of the American president,” he of justice” and the birth of the guidance of the Prophethood. lay siege to Rome. An eighth to a true ‘art of the deal’ as it Additionally, Buttigieg, continued, “a supporter of Is- Islamic Caliphate. Policies will be designed here. brigade will turn the White gets,” he said. “As even this who is running fourth in a new rael may also oppose the poli- Sheikh Abu Hanifa Awda From here, armies will set out House black. A ninth brigade administration repeatedly Des Moines Register/Media- cies of the Israeli right-wing said that the “army of Islam” to conquer the world—the will impose the jizya poll tax certified it was preventing com/CNN poll, warned Israeli government, especially when would set forth from Jerusa- mighty army of Islam, with on London. A tenth brigade Iran from acquiring nuclear Prime Minister Benjamin Ne- we see increasingly disturbing lem to conquer to world. all its brigades. will pray to fend off fear and weapons. It has helped con- tanyahu against fulfilling his signs that the Netanyahu Sheikh Abu Hanifa Awda: “One brigade will liber- danger on the slopes of the strain the military threat campaign promise to annex government is turning away “Indeed, oh people of Jeru- ate Palestine. Another one Rocky Mountains and the that Iran poses to Israel and parts of Judea and Samaria. from peace.” salem, this is the heartland. will ‘ravage the homes’ [as Andes.” PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 21, 2019 An Orthodox rally in Brooklyn sees vaccines as a conspiracy By Ben Sales ful. They cited no credible organizations have encour- Merck, originally connected dren—claims that have been of public health, fell from 18.2 evidence. aged their communities to to a German company of the rejected by every mainstream percent of children born in NEW YORK (JTA)—The “This is all being orches- vaccinate. same name, split off into an medical or public health 1960 to 4.3 percent in 2015, weirdest part of an Orthodox trated by the drug compa- “[C]ountless rabbinical independent American firm group. He compared those and a hundredfold since the anti-vaccine conference here nies, which are very close to figures and leaders, including in 1917, before the Nazis came promoting vaccines to a cult 18th century.) was probably when the em- the CDC,” Handler told the leading rabbis in the Agudath to power.) and cited Andrew Wakefield, “Why should I allow a cee, a rabbi wearing a black crowd in a gender-segregated Israel movement and doctors “If you had bought a mu- a British physician who lost medical establishment that’s hat and white beard, quoted room at a catering hall in serving these communities, tual fund in the ’30s, back his license after promoting overseeing this great a decline the Gospel of Luke. the Midwood neighborhood. have repeatedly encouraged in Nazi Germany, you would the debunked link between in public health mandate any- “Father, forgive them, for “The doctors all march in vaccination in the strongest have done phenomenally,” vaccines and autism. thing?” he said to applause. they know not what they lockstep with the CDC. The possible terms,” reads an the attendee remarked. In dramatic fashion, the “They clearly have no talent do!” he cried, reciting the doctors don’t think they’re April statement by Agudath After Handler, speakers coiffed Bigtree talked about at making us healthy.” Gospels nearly verbatim. marching in lockstep. They Israel of America, a leading included Dr. Daniel Neides, the “exploding cases of dia- Over the course of about Rabbi Hillel Handler don’t understand that the haredi group. “Indeed, the a former vice chairman of betes” (linked, in his mind, 12 minutes, Bigtree linked wasn’t referring to the 200 Centers for Disease Control in overwhelming majority of the Cleveland Clinic Wellness to vaccines), drawing out vaccines to the Holocaust people gathered in the base- Atlanta, Georgia, is a totally children enrolled in Jewish Institute who resigned last the word “explooooding” and then to child sacrifice. ment of a haredi Orthodox corrupt swamp... They are schools are vaccinated.” year after writing a column and shaking his body as if He compared them to Nazi wedding hall in Brooklyn criminals.” But there are some vocal questioning vaccines. (He he were reverberating from experimentation on unwill- to hear about the alleged The rally comes amid an holdouts. later apologized, saying he a bomb blast. ing Jewish medical subjects, dangers of vaccines. Rather, ongoing measles outbreak At the rally held late Tues- “fully supports vaccination” “I know that a lot of people then to the intentional ritual he was talking about the sparked by low vaccination day night, organized by an and was trying to open a con- read, ‘Oh, Del spreads misin- murder of children, in an doctors, rabbis and politi- rates, particularly in the anti-vaccine group calling versation about their safety, formation,’” he said. “That’s effort to debunk the scien- cians who he says are all Orthodox community. Ac- itself the United Jewish Com- not question their use.) an opinion. I like to call it tific consensus that a critical hoodwinked by a massive cording to the CDC, there munity Council, speakers But the bulk of the pro- missed information. This mass of vaccinated people, or conspiracy orchestrated by have been 981 confirmed cast doubt on established gram was led by Del Bigtree, a is the information that the herd immunity, means that drug companies and the Cen- cases of measles in the medical opinion and the CDC. Hollywood producer without mainstream media estab- even those who cannot be ters for Disease Control to United States this year. In The crowd, which appeared medical qualifications who lishment doesn’t want you vaccinated for genuine medi- make money off of vaccines. New York City, according to be mostly but not entirely styles himself as an expert to hear.” cal reasons will have some While the scientific con- to the city’s Department of haredi, was receptive to the on vaccines. He directed the Bigtree, along with claim- protection from getting sick. sensus supports vaccination Health, there have been 566 message and applauded. documentary “Vaxxed: From ing that vaccines are harmful “It’s hard to imagine what and regards it as a historic confirmed measles cases One attendee told another Cover-Up To Catastrophe.” to children’s health, aimed to it would be that would let you boon to public health, the since September, the highest that large pharmaceutical Last month Bigtree spoke to convince the audience that accept killing an innocent crowd, like the emcee, do not totals since 1992. The city companies like Bayer and a similar rally in Monsey, New doctors are untrustworthy child,” he said. “What if I put much stock in that sci- says most of the cases have Merck, which now produce York, also the home of a large and unreliable. He claimed presented to you that this ence. Handler and the other involved members of the Or- vaccines, had collaborated haredi community. repeatedly that we are expe- would make it worth it? This speakers charged the CDC thodox Jewish community. with Nazi Germany. (Bayer Bigtree led the audience riencing “the greatest decline is the argument, right? Herd and its purported stooges The city required immu- was a division of a larger through a text-heavy Power- in public health in world immunity. Herd immunity is with hiding the dangers nization in heavily Orthodox company that did collaborate Point presentation claiming history.” (In fact, due in large the reason we’re allowed to of vaccines and destroying Brooklyn neighborhoods ear- with the Nazis, though now it that vaccines have led to a part to vaccines, global child kill some children.” evidence that they are harm- lier this year. Large Orthodox is under different ownership. rise in autism among chil- mortality, a leading indicator The crowd applauded. Krakow street to be named after rabbi and 300 orphans murdered in the Holocaust (JNS)—The city council emony will take place on On Oct. 28, 1942, the in Krakow, Poland, has an- June 25. orphanage was brutally nounced that a municipal Kurzmann was born on May liquidated, and the or- street will be named next 25, 1865 in Rzeszow, Poland. phans were ordered to be month after Rabbi David Alter In 1887, he was the owner of transported to the Belzec Kurzmann, a caretaker of the a successful business and do- death camp. Kurzmann was Krakow ghetto orphanage. nated a large part of his income given the option to abandon During the liquidation of to charitable causes. He was the children and live, or the orphanage by the Nazis, well-known for his support of stay with them and perish. Kurzmann was offered to the local Jewish orphanage and After joining the hundreds abandon the children and live eventually began managing its of children in cattle cars, or join them in their deaths. finances in 1918. Kurzmann, along with the Some 77 years after Kurz- When World War II broke other teachers who refused mann chose the latter, Walk- out, Kurzmann invested to leave them, was murdered ative! tour guides collected much of his time in saving the at Belzec death camp, where hundreds of signatures to orphanage and its children, around 600,000 Jews ended support their cause of honor- even after it was moved to up being killed. ing Kurzmann for his dedica- the ghetto in 1941. He also Krakow tour guides affili- tion, as well as the lives of ensured that the children ated with Walkative! began the 300 orphans that were were given the values of re- their efforts to honor Kurz- Yossi Zeliger/Flash90 murdered. ligion via the Torah and basic mann in 2017. Jewish cemetery in Krakow, Poland. The street-naming cer- education. “Back then, we were cel- ebrating our 10th anniver- It was decided that the Community Center (JCC) sary and we wanted to thank next step would be to honor Krakow. Krakow for being both our Kurzmann by naming one of The street location was workplace and our passion. Krakow’s streets after him. selected with assistance from We decided to do so by com- Walkative! guides collected the Krakow Town Hall. It was memorating the orphanage hundreds of signatures to then approved by the District Call for dental coverage today to help in the ghetto by placing a support their cause. The VIII Council of Debniki, plaque in its last location, initiative was supported by where the street is located. save money on big dental bills. 41 Józefinska Street,” says the Jewish Community of The decision was given final Walkative! board member Krakow, the Galicia Jewish approval by the Krakow City Małgorzata Fus. Museum and the Jewish Council. 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She has been Christine and Daniel fall in love and decide to get married actively involved with the Friends of the Jewish Pavilion for the - but only on condition that Christine becomes Jewish. So she past five years and has worked on the committee and chaired goes to see Rabbi Levy for some advice. the gala in the past. She is well known for her decorating and Rabbi Levy tells her, “You will have to learn how to keep a organizational skills. kosher home, light shabbes candles, keep two sets of dishes Sharon has the ability to develop warm and loving relationships and a few other simple things.” with seniors. When she first started volunteering with the elders “That sounds easy to me, rabbi,” says Christine, “I can at Savannah Court in Maitland, she used to co-lead a sing-along easily do that.” called Notes and Floats, where root beer floats were served. Then Rabbi Levy says, “The last thing is, you must go to Over time, the activities staff noted Sharon’s superb inter- a mikva.” personal skills and the focus of the group shifted to a weekly “A mikva?” says Christine, “what’s that?” conversation with Jewish Pavilion volunteers. “It’s a pool of water,” answers Rabbi Levy, “and you must On Monday afternoons, you will find Sharon at Savannah immerse yourself completely for a few seconds.” Court serving root beer floats and conversing with seniors. “I’m sorry, rabbi, but I have a phobia about putting my head Several residents have told her that her visit is the highlight underwater. I’ll go into the water up to my chin but I won’t of their week. put my head under the water. Will that be OK?” Sharon normally visits along with PAM RUBEN, who is also “I suppose it will do,” replies Rabbi Levy, “you’ll be mostly on the Friends Board. Jewish but you will still have a ‘Goyisha kop.’”

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The Caribbean Jews played a key to be the author. numerals in the Omer book role in shaping American I, too, would have ignored didn’t match his handwrit- Jewish history by sending the miniature volume if I ing. I also knew that Moses spiritual leaders, congregants hadn’t been obsessively re- couldn’t even write his name and funds north to U.S. con- searching Moses for a book in Hebrew, let alone pen a gregations. The Brandons I am writing about multira- Hebrew manuscript of this helped fund Philadelphia’s cial Jews during the Age of quality. But mere months be- second synagogue building, Emancipation. At the heart fore the book was written, the and their cousin’s husband of my narrative are siblings extremely learned Sephardic became its hazan. Sarah Rodrigues Brandon rabbi Raphael Haijm Isaac While the Barbados Omer and Isaac Lopez Brandon, Karigal, who had authored book did not lead to a wide- who were born enslaved to the first rabbinical sermon spread change in ritual prac- Moses’ mother. Sarah and printed in the U.S., came to tice in early America, it Isaac obtained their freedom Barbados, where he became has strong parallels with with the help of their wealthy a close friend of the Lopez later Omer revivals and with JTA montage Sephardic father, converted to family. The handwriting the influx of Eastern Sep- The discovery of a new text from Barbados turns our understanding of when Kabbalah Judaism, left Barbados and matches Karigal’s surviving hardic Kabbalism during the came to America on its head. married well. letters. The meditations also 20th century. As the 1820s But the Brandons could correspond to those Karigal bloomed, Caribbean com- By Laura Arnold lieved that American Jews prayer books contained the not leave their enslaved learned and used in Hebron, munities ceded their central Leibman first started using the 49-day basic count. In contrast, the pasts completely behind, as where he was raised. role to Jewish communities First person count as a form of self-help Barbados Omer book leads Moses and Matthias Lopez The Barbados Omer book is in northern cities. sometime between 1880 and readers through a series of immigrated to New York and the earliest known American Tracing the travels of early PORTLAND, Ore. (JTA)— 1920, when masters of the daily mystical meditations Philadelphia shortly before example of contemplative Caribbean immigrants to the From the day after Passover Jewish mystical tradition, or focusing on Psalm 121, “I the siblings did. The Lopezes Kabbalah aimed at laypeople. United States reveals where through Shavuot, Jews count Kabbalah, arrived in New York shall raise my eyes to the served as a reminder of Sarah Karigal died in Barbados these West Indian Jews went, down the days to commemo- from Eastern Europe. mountains”; “Ana Bekoach,” and Isaac’s early life in bond- two years after writing the what they took with them and rate the barley sacrifice, or But a recently rediscovered an incantation attributed to age. book. Moses Lopez lived on, how they changed American Omer, given at the Temple text the size of a smartphone a rabbinic sage of the first Consequently, when I go and migrated north when Jewish life. in honor of the Israelites’ shows that in truth, Ameri- and second centuries CE; to any archive, I always look the economy floundered in The views and opinions journey from Egypt to Mount cans began their Kabbalistic and the names of God. These for evidence from both fami- the Caribbean, bringing the expressed in this article are Sinai. counting over 100 years meditations were believed to lies. In essence, I have been small book with him when he those of the author and do not Although you could fulfill earlier. have healing and protective stalking Moses and Matthias moved to the United States in necessarily reflect the views the mitzvah of “counting the In 1821, Matthias Lopez, a powers. Lopez, eager to see what the 1790s. of JTA or its parent company, Omer” merely by reciting prompter for a Philadelphia The book fills an im- light they shed about former The book’s journey is tell- 70 Faces Media. the blessing and stating the theater company, donated portant gap in our previ- day’s count, many Jews use a small Hebrew manuscript ous understanding of how the Omer period to renew from Barbados, “Sefer Shel Kabbalah was used in early their souls. People enslaved Sefirot HaOmer” (1775), America. Yet historians have Gov. 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Contrary to popular belief, been my personal dream, so things are discussed there, JewishCelebration.org; 407-479-8377. summer is not only for the please forgive me for quoting too, most of them having lighter things in life. It can the description of her Pink to do with race and the Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, be the best time for luxurious Palace at length: American South and the 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. nostalgia and dark rumina- “I also was greatly taken by legacy of slavery. It turns out Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- tion. Like Lana Del Rey, I’ve Mrs. Zimmerman’s overview that Stingo’s increasingly 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. often got that Summertime of her establishment, which dilettante-ish life is being Sadness. she expounded as she led me partially funded by the sale Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. This may be the reason around the premises. ‘I call of a black person his ances- jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; why, without fail, as soon this Yetta’s Liberty Hall,’ she tors kept in bondage, a pill Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. said, every now and then that Stingo (and Styron too, as the weather turns prop- Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, erly muggy, I turn my office giving me a nudge. ‘What perhaps) at turns denies and upside down looking for my I like to see is my tenants struggles to swallow. 321-777-2770. tattered copy of William enjoy life... Not that I don’t The novel is also so soaked Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- Styron’s “Sophie’s Choice.” gotta have rules.’ She lifted in sex—having it, trying to 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat In fact I’d venture to say it’s the pudgy nub of a forefinger have it, thinking about hav- services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. the perfect summer read. and began to tick them off. ing it—that I’d say, in some But whenever I bring this ‘Rule number one: no play- ways, the book is deeply Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. up to others, they think I ing the radio after eleven about sexuality and the betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. am making an insensitive o’clock. Rule number two: ways it gets wrapped around Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. joke. I am not. you gotta turn off all the trauma, obsession, darkness congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Yes, the novel’s title has lights when you leave the and history. Stingo marvels become a kind of catch- room, I got no need to pay at the uninhibited f***ing of Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; phrase, culturally synony- extra to Con Edison. Rule Sophie and Nathan, which Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. mous with an impossible three: positively no smok- he can hear in great detail Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; choice between two terrible ing in bed, you get caught happening in the room above Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. outcomes—and also with smoking in bed—out... Rule him, and a solid 75 pages are Jewish genocide. But it may number four: full week’s pay- taken up by his own quest to Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, surprise you to know that ment due every Friday. End get laid by a cool Jewish girl Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. less than a third of the book’s of the rules! Everything else named Leslie whom he meets Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. hefty 562 pages concerns the is Yetta’s Liberty Hall. Like on the beach at Coney Island. bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. Holocaust, and we don’t ar- what I mean is, this place is “Leslie and I are in the rive at the death camps until for grownups. Understand, bar of a restaurant called Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation page 235. I’m running no brothel, but Victor’s and I am getting a holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. The central character of you wanna have a girl in your little drunk,” Stingo writes com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. room once in a while, have in his journal. “I have never “Sophie’s Choice” is actually Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; a 22-year-old man-boy from a girl in your room... And felt such sexual electricity Virginia named Stingo who is the same thing goes for the in my life. This Jewish dryad www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. “struggling to become some young ladies in my house, has far more sensuality Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., kind of writer.” The novel if they want to entertain a in one of her expressive Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. concerns “that summer” boyfriend now and then. thumbs than all the locked- Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; of 1947, told in an ominous What’s good for the gander up virgins I ever knew in first person retrospective is good for the goose, I say, Va. & N.C. put together.” www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th point of view that promises and if there’s one thing I (It comes as no surprise Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. essential self-revelation a la hate, it’s hypocrisy.” that “Sophie’s Choice” was Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. Plath’s “The Bell Jar” or Julie Six others live in Yetta’s banned in several countries Buntin’s “Marlena” (both of boarding house—five Jews as well as in high schools Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- which, perhaps not coin- and a blonde Catholic Polish across America when it first 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. cidentally, also take place Holocaust survivor named came out.) Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- largely in summer). There is Sophie. Sophie is engaged In short: Even though 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. something about summer, it in a passionate sexual af- Sophie’s plot line gets the seems, that makes us want fair with Nathan, one of the titular spotlight, I’m here Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for to confess. other residents, and before to say that “Sophie’s Choice” services and holiday schedules. “In those days cheap long Stingo gets roped into is decidedly not a Holocaust Congregation Sinai (C/R), 1200 West Broad Street, Groveland; 352-243-5353; congre- apartments were almost an exciting costume-wear- book no matter the reputa- gation-sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. impossible to find in Manhat- ing, picnic-having tricycle tion it’s gained. Sophie’s rev- tan,” the book’s opening line friendship with the couple. elations serve not so much Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- reads, “so I had to move to “The weather was gener- to highlight the evil of the Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv Brooklyn.” ally fine that summer,” Sty- Nazis as to illuminate what Please call for times. We follow Stingo through ron writes, “but sometimes it means to be an American, Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- the evenings got hot and both touched and untouched his days at a thankless job at a Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. second-rate publisher, where steamy, and when this hap- by the horrors of the past. he has been tasked with writ- pened Nathan and Sophie Sophie is a survivor, but also Temple Beth El (R) / Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-675- ing a detailed summary of ev- and I often went around the a complicit witness, and by 6615 / 386-252-3097; Friday Shabbat Service 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. ery unsolicited manuscript corner on Church Avenue to listening to her story, Stingo Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. sent there. Before long he an air-conditioned ‘cocktail and the reader are, too. becomes disillusioned, quits lounge’ called the Maple So I’ll be there this sum- Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat and moves from Manhattan Court.” mer, in the sand, feeling service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to a boarding house in Flat- It is at the Maple Court turned on and sad and epi- Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. bush run by a Jewish woman that Sophie ultimately cally lost in the mindfields of mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; named Yetta Zimmerman tells Stingo about working trauma and history. Join me. that is painted entirely pink (somewhat reluctantly) as This story originally ap- Thursday, 10:00 a.m. (Yetta’s ex-husband got a part of the Polish resistance peared on Alma. Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; OBITUARY Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. DANIEL BACHRACH 1991, married the former Dylan, Sara, Katyln, Jenna, Susan Mendelsohn, his Kayla, Kyle, Tyler and Carley. Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. Daniel Bachrach, 85, of wife of over 28 years. In He was predeceased by his templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by Winter Park, passed away addition to his wife, he is sister, Barbara. Torah study. on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, survived by his sons, David A graveside service was held Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road at AdventHealth Hospice— (Elizabeth) Bachrach of New at Ohev Shalom Cemetery 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 Orlando. Born in Newark, Jersey, Douglas Bachrach with Rabbi Arnold Siegel of p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. New Jersey, he was the son of of New Jersey, and Paul Jewish Family Services of- the late Louis and Jeanette (Karen) Bachrach of New ficiating. Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. Nichauser Bachrach. He Jersey; and his daughter, In memory of Daniel Ba- shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. served as a Navy airman in Janet (James) Finney of chrach, the family request Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, Korea and earned his mas- New Jersey. He is also sur- contributions to AutismCares ter’s degree from Seton Hall vived by his step-son, Jeff (www.autismcares.org). 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, University. Dan was a Middle (Carol) Blau of Atlanta; and Arrangements entrusted to 7:30 p.m. School educator and taught his step-daughter, Robin Beth Shalom Memorial Cha- Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. Shop. Eichenhold of Winter Park. pel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando FL tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. He relocated to the Or- Dan is also survived by his 32810. 407.599.1180 www. lando area from New Jer- grandchildren—Jonathan, bethshalommemorialchapel. (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa sey in 1989 and on Feb. 3, Ella, Brian, Michael, Chiara, com. PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 21, 2019 A famed French-Jewish philosopher is afraid to leave his home By Cnaan Liphshiz protest against government the anti-establishment yellow austerity polices. vests. Melenchon, whose party PARIS (JTA)—As a French But that incident paled has faced repeated accusations celebrity philosopher, Alain in comparison to what hap- of anti-Semitism—including Finkielkraut belongs to a tiny pened in February, when by Finkielkraut—called a group of VIPs who get to lead marchers from the populist special news conference over normal, paparazzi-free lives yellow vests protest move- the incident. despite having film star-like ment spotted him on a street “His detestable opinions recognizability here. near his home on Boulevard notwithstanding, in that in- Unlike most countries, du Montparnasse in the heart cident not his opinions were France makes celebrities out of this capital city. attacked. It was denying his of intellectual heroes. They’re “I was curious to see the humanity,” Melenchon said revered, quoted and featured procession, so I came outside,” of the philosopher. regularly on primetime televi- he said during a recent talk The incident prompted an sion and even in film. before members of the CRIF indictment for racist offensive But unlike many celebri- umbrella group of French discourse against the man ties, intellectual stars are Jews. “I was shocked by how who had said that Finkielkraut spared the spying and harass- quickly I was recognized.” was “going to die,” a 36-year- ment from the media and The encounter, which was old convert to Islam named over-eager fans. French VIP filmed and widely shown Benjamin Weller. thinkers have enjoyed the best in the media, was brief but Nothing about the inci- of both worlds since before violent. Finkielkraut, a tall, dent suggests that France the 1930s, when the likes of soft-spoken and at times is an anti-Semitic country, Jean-Paul Sartre and Pablo self-effacing man sporting a Finkielkraut said at the CRIF Picasso could be seen rub- trademark disheveled haircut, talk. Cnaan Liphshiz bing shoulders with ordinary is seen standing silently as “On the contrary, as the Alain Finkielkraut mulls the answer to a question at an appearance in Brussels, Belgium, Parisians at Café de Flore in men approach him to hurl response to this incident April 3, 2016. the Latin Quarter here. insults while dozens boo in demonstrates the opposite,” For Finkielkraut, though, the background. he said. What it does show, Finkielkraut replied with critics, including Pierre Nora, name dignifying a different this privileged existence has “F*** off, you dirty piece though, is that “the histori- his own question: “Does Eu- a left-of-center fellow histo- identity is separatist.” become increasingly difficult of shit Zionist,” one man cal role of anti-Zionism is to rope have a future in Europe?” rian, also Jewish, who accused It’s a common mainstream because he is a Jewish sup- hollers, adding an obscen- install anti-Semitism as a Sharansky said the comeback Finkielkraut of “provocative sentiment in France, where porter of Israel. ity about Finkielkraut’s late form of anti-racism,” he said. showed “pessimism much simplicity” in Nora’s letter much of the country’s found- Amid growing anti-Sem- mother, a Holocaust survivor He also interpreted Weller’s deeper than mine.” welcoming Finkielkraut to ing ethos seems to revolve itism and social unrest in from Poland. As police usher assertion about whom France Some consternation over the forum. around a secular and unhy- France, Finkielkraut, a best- Finkielkraut to safety, more belongs to as a claim that the incident involving Weller Nora’s criticism notwith- phenated French identity. selling author and retired men and women converge “France belongs to Islam— and Finkielkraut had little to standing, Finkielkraut is an But here, Finkielkraut was university history professor on him, screaming about not to the French, not at all. do with Jews. enemy of far-right populism: speaking out of his family’s at the prestigious École Poly- Palestine, Zionism—and his And I have no place there. In a country where a jihad- In 2017 he called Bruno Goll- own experience as integra- technique in Paris, has been mother. This is anti-Semitic violence ist in 2015 murdered 16 people nisch, a European Parliament tion-seeking immigrants. He accosted repeatedly by street One of the accosters then that is new, that echoes other at the Charlie Hebdo satirical lawmaker for the National often juxtaposes that story protesters in violation of the points to his own scarf, a modalities of anti-Semitism.” magazine, the intimidation of Rally party of Marine Le Pen, with the sectarianism of many law and the unwritten pact kaffiyeh, or Palestinian shawl, Finkielkraut has positioned a writer on the street seemed a successor of French Nazi French Muslims. between French society and shouting: “France belongs himself at the forefront of to many like a dangerous collaborationists. His parents, Daniel and its brightest minds. to us! You racist! You hater! those warning against a rise transgression. But some left-wing crit- Janka, fled their native Poland “I can no longer show You’re going to die!” in violent anti-Semitism in Bernard Henri-Levy, an- ics—including protest lead- in the 1930s for France. In my face on the street,” At the CRIF talk, France and creeping tolerance other Jewish, centrist French er Frédéric Lordon, who in 1941, Daniel, a bag maker, Finkielkraut, 69, told the Finkielkraut said the video of it. In 2017, he joined other philosopher, is often as- 2016 called Finkielkraut was betrayed by a neighbor in magazine Marianne in April is more dramatic than how intellectuals in an open letter signed police protection these “perhaps the most notori- Paris, arrested by French offi- after protesters nearly pre- he experienced the exchange. alleging a “denial of reality” by days. But then Levy by his own ous propagator of capital- cers working for the Germans vented him from speaking at “I’ve been commended authorities and the media. It admission is no stranger to ist and identity-driven, and sent to Auschwitz, which a Paris university. His lecture for my dignified demeanor followed the relative silence brawling. racist violence”—resent he survived. Janka survived was announced as canceled— during this exchange, but about the murder of a Jewish The attacks on Finkielkraut, Finkielkraut’s speaking out in hiding. Both their nuclear but it actually was moved I’m afraid that’s only an in- woman by her anti-Semitic, by contrast, were particularly early on about the perceived families were all murdered in in a cat-and-mouse game terpretation of my attempt to Muslim neighbor. shocking because of the jux- failures and excesses of lib- the Holocaust. designed to throw off far-left understand what these people (In April, he signed on to taposition between their eral multiculturalism. So when Alain was born in demonstrators. were shouting,” he said. another letter wondering vulgarity and his own meek In 2005, Finkielkraut was 1949, his parents commemo- While Finkielkraut is re- The French public reacted whether “psychiatry is the demeanor and literary genius. one of the first well-known rated their fathers in the dis- viled in some far-right circles with shock and disgust to the new tool for denying real- A prolific and innovative thinkers to address what he tinctly French name of their for his Jewishness and pro- incident, which was a flagrant ity” over the unusual deci- writer of essays and books called the “ethnic and reli- only child, the philosopher establishment sentiments, violation of the unwritten sion of the judge presiding about everything from cul- gious dimension” of rioting said during the CRIF talk. he has become increasingly code of conduct vis-à-vis over that case to signal his tural identity to nuance in in heavily Muslim French “But naming me Aharon- reviled by the radical left for a celebrity philosopher. (It support for the defendant’s art, Finkielkraut was admit- neighborhoods—a taboo at Lazar Finkielkraut would’ve his criticism of political Islam was ironic considering that insanity plea.) ted in 2009 to the Legion of that time. been a bit too much of a and support for Israel (but not Finkielkraut had spoken Such pessimistic questions Honor—his country’s high- In April this year, good thing,” he said, drawing its control of the Palestinians: out in favor of the yellow are typical of Finkielkraut. est recognition. In 2014, he Finkielkraut said that the laughs. Finkielkraut is a founder of vests movement.) It received During a now-famous pri- received the ultimate honor “integration of immigrants Finkielkraut said his par- the dovish European Jewish front-page coverage and vate exchange in 2014, Natan for an academic when he has clearly failed” in France ents were “angry, the fury was J Call group styled after J uniform condemnations— Sharansky, the former refus- was named a member of the because last year, 18 percent there” for the betrayal they Street). even from sworn enemies of nik and one-time chairman of Academie Francaise, a council of newborn babies were given had experienced by France. In 2016, amid booing and Finkielkraut. the Jewish Agency for Israel, of 40 greats elected for life. Muslim names. “But they gave me a French calls accusing him of fascism, Among them was Jean-Luc asked Finkielkraut whether Bearing such accolades, his “The first gesture toward first and middle name: Alain Finkielkraut and his wife were Melenchon, a far-left populist “European Judaism has a admission to the Academie integration is a French first for Aharon and Luc for Lazar,” chased away from a pro-labor with many supporters from future in Europe.” alarmed and infuriated some name,” he opined. “And a he said. Episode in new Netflix series mocks diarist Anne Frank By Jackson Richman series “Historical Roasts,” finds itself in the midst of a FDR did—and look the other “If one mocks someone who he told the Jewish Journal was which mocks the young backlash. way.” has wrongly and innocently taped after the Oct. 27 Tree of (JNS)—The new Netflix Jewish diarist Anne Frank, One particular episode fea- Frank perished at Bergen- experienced horrific pain, it Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue tures actress Rachel Feinstein Belsen concentration camp in indicates that one supports shooting in Pittsburgh that as Frank, Gilbert Gottfried as 1945 at the age of 15. and applauds that horrific resulted in the deaths of 11 Adolf Hitler and Jon Lovitz Groups, including the Si- pain,” Zionist Organization of Jewish worshippers during as U.S. President Franklin mon Wiesenthal Center, America president Mort Klein Shabbat-morning services— Roosevelt. These performers instantly reacted to the pro- told JNS. “In this case, it’s sick the deadliest attack in Ameri- are Jewish. gram. and anti-Semitic.” can Jewish history. “Everyone knows you as a “This is beneath contempt. StandWithUs co-founder “As a comedian, you do hero and a best-selling author, Irrelevant that Jews are in- and CEO Roz Rothstein told things that no one’s ever done, but to me you’ll always be volved,” SWC associate dean JNS that “Jews cope with the and roasting Anne Frank little number 825060,” says Rabbi Abraham Cooper told trauma of the Holocaust in sounds outlandish, it sounds Gottfried as Hitler to Anne, JNS in an email. “At a time many different ways. It is risky, but to me, the riskier adding that, “Of all the ac- of raging anti-Semitism and unfortunate that in this case, move would be to ignore the counts that I’ve read, Anne, Holocaust denial, there is Jewish comedians chose to most provocative and the most HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES your book is by far the most ZERO that is humorous about deal with it through tasteless, emotional stories,” he said. flammable.” mocking Anne Frank.” insensitive humor about Anne “People always talk about the Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye Jeff Ross, the host, who is The Anne Frank House in Frank. As the daughter of Holocaust and they say ‘never disorders. Protecting your eyes is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future. Jewish, dons a yellow Star of Amsterdam labeled the show Holocaust survivors, I am of- forget,’ but young people, I’m

Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection. David armband and remarks “tasteless satire,” while the fended and sincerely hope they sorry, they are forgetting. that “genocides continue to Dutch-based Information will exercise better judgement They need to hear these sto- For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. take place around the world.” and Documentation Center in the future.” ries, and I use Anne Frank A public service message from The Vision Council. “If you’re offended by on Israel, which monitors Netflix referred JNS to not just as a hero from World anything you see tonight,” anti-Semitism, tweeted that comments made by Ross, War II but as a cautionary tale says Ross, “just do what the comedy was “unwelcome.” defending the episode, which of today and anti-Semitism.” HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 21, 2019 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs

Jewish directors domi- commitments under the deal Jews while marching against Congress wants to behind Turkey’s Cilicia beach- tection Act of 2019 to autho- nate at Tony Awards known as the Joint Compre- discrimination.” protect US forces using es and those along the coast rize the Secretary of the Army By Marcy Oster hensive Plan of Action or Rocket attacks make Israeli defense system of Barcelona, Spain. to procure for the U.S. military (JTA)—“Hadestown,” a JCPOA. May Israel’s deadliest By Marcy Oster Not all Mediterranean two Iron Dome short-range musical about the Greek myth He told reporters that Iran’s month in two years (JTA)—The Congress wants coastal cities were included air-defense-system batteries. of Orpheus and Eurydice and uranium enrichment has By Cnaan Liphshiz to use Israeli technology in the investigation. “Iron Dome is a proven the underworld, won best new increased, but could not say (JTA)—Rockets attacks to protect American forces According to WWF, 46 defense system that will pro- musical at the Tony Awards, how much. from Gaza made May Israel’s overseas. pounds of plastic waste wash vide increased protection for and a coveted prize for its Iran said last month that it deadliest month in almost two The House of Representa- up every day along a single our troops in the field,” said Jewish director. would partially withdraw from years, tripling the number of tives introduced a bill on kilometer of Tel Aviv beach. Sherrill. “Access to this tech- Rachel Chavkin won the the nuclear deal, a year after terrorists attacks over April’s Monday that would have Barcelona’s beaches accu- nology addresses critical gaps Tony Award for best director the United States withdrew, tally. the Army purchase two Iron mulate 57 pounds of plastics in our current capabilities. It of a musical for “Hadestown,” and keep its excess enriched The increase to 449 in- Dome missile defense batter- a day, and Turkey’s beaches is an important interim step the tenth woman ever to win uranium and heavy water cidents in May over April’s ies from Israel. The measure more than 68 pounds. as we invest in the future of best director for a Broadway rather than limit its stockpile 126 incidents owes to the has bipartisan support. All in all, the amount of our military, and I’m glad play or musical, during the by selling it to other countries, launching of hundreds of Four months ago, Israel’s plastic dumped into the sea to join with Representative award ceremony on Sunday as mandated under the deal. rockets last month from Gaza Defense Ministry announced equals approximately 33,800 Wilson, my colleague on the night. Jewish Pride flags al- into Israel, the Israel Security that the U.S. military would plastic bottles’ worth every Armed Services Committee, Sam Mendes, the Jewish di- lowed into DC Dyke Agency said in its monthly re- purchase the system from its minute. to introduce this bill.” rector of the “The Ferryman,” March after standoff port for May published earlier developer, Rafael Advanced Egypt was found to be the AIPAC told JNS on Tuesday also won for best director of By Marcy Oster this week. The rockets killed Defense Systems Ltd., under biggest plastic waste culprit in that it supports the measure. a play. “The Ferryman” also (JTA)—A handful of pro- four people and wounded an agreement between the the region, followed by Turkey. At an April 2 hearing by the earned a Tony for Best Play. testers carrying Jewish Pride eight. TWoother Israelis were ministry and the U.S. Depart- NYT to scrap daily politi- House Armed Services Com- Mendes is known for his work flags, a rainbow-striped flag injured in a stabbing attack in ment of Defense “for immedi- cal cartoons over anti- mittee, Chief of Staff of the on the James Bond films with a Star of David in the Jerusalem. ate needs of the U.S. Army.” Semitism controversy Army Gen. Mark Milley said “Skyfall” and “Spectre,” and middle, were allowed into the Terrorist attacks in the The U.S.-Israel Indirect (JNS)—The international “the Iron Dome is a very ca- won an Academy Award for DC Dyke March despite a ban West Bank, meanwhile, de- Fire Protection Act of 2019 edition of The New York Times pable system. It has basically directing “American Beauty.” on the flags. creased by 43 percent, from was sponsored by Rep. Mikie will no longer feature daily a 100 percent track record in Actress and comedy leg- The march, a leftist alter- 88 in April to 50 last month. Sherrill, a Jewish New Jersey political cartoons, according combat. We clearly need it to end Elaine May received her native to the main LGBTQ Last week, the Israel Secu- Democrat, and co-sponsored to the paper’s editorial-page protect our formations.” first Tony award—for best parade in Washington, D.C., rity Agency, or ISA, revealed by Joe Wilson, a South Caro- editor James Bennet. Iron Dome system is manu- leading actress in a play. She the next day, said it was ban- it had foiled a plan by Hamas lina Republican. While Bennet says the factured by Raytheon and stars in Jewish playwright ning the flag because it looks to set off an explosive charge “Iron Dome is a proven de- policy change has been in the Rafael Advanced Defense Kenneth Lonergan’s “The too much like the flag of Israel. inside Israel on April 9, dur- fense system that will provide works for a year, one of the Systems. Waverly Gallery,” his semi- The march banned the flags ing the general elections. increased protection for our paper’s leading cartoonists, The U.S. Marine Corps has autobiographical play about a of countries with “specific op- A 23-year-old man, Yihia troops in the field,” Sherrill Patrick Chappatte, said the expressed interest in acquir- family dealing with the declin- pressive tendencies.” The flags abu Dhia, whom ISA says is said in a statement. “Access decision was directly related ing the anti-missile defense ing health of its matriarch. of Israel and the United States a Hamas operative, was ar- to this technology addresses to a public outcry against system, which has an almost Actor Bryan Cranston, were the only two mentioned rested on March 31 in the West critical gaps in our current an April caricature of Israeli 90 percent success rate, re- whose father is of Austrian specifically in the ban. There Bank village of A-Zaim in con- capabilities.” Prime Minister Benjamin Ne- ported Marine Corps Times. Jewish descent, won the Tony was no such ban on Palestin- nection with the alleged plot. Since it was deployed in tanyahu as a dog wearing More than half of House Award for best leading man in ian flags. He had agreed to carry out a 2011, Iron Dome has inter- a Star of David collar and Democrats slam any a play for his performance as Some would-be marchers suicide bombing for handlers cepted over 2,000 rockets fired seemingly guiding a blind U.S. Israeli-Palestinian plan newscaster Howard Beale in carrying the Jewish Pride in Gaza, ISA said. at Israel from Gaza. President Donald Trump, who that does not include 2 “Network.” flag were blocked by Jewish The intended target was For first time at UN, was wearing a yarmulke. states Sound designer Nevin marshals at an entrance point a traffic artery in Ma’aleh India votes with Israel “In April 2019, a Netanyahu By Ron Kampeas Steinberg and Jessica Paz to the march. In video taken Adumim, a settlement near and against group with caricature from syndication WASHINGTON (JTA)— were awarded for their sound of the event, Jill Raney, a Jerusalem, ISA’s statement ties to terror reprinted in the international More than half of the Demo- design of “Hadestown.” marshal also affiliated with read. By Jackson Richman editions triggered widespread crats in the U.S. House of James Corden hosted the the left-wing Jewish group Ryan Braun breaks (JNS)—For the first time outrage, a Times apology and Representatives say a peace awards ceremony. IfNotNow, said they could Hank Greenberg’s record ever, India voted last week the termination of syndicated plan that does not expressly Iran accuses Israel of enter if they removed the Star for most home runs by a with Israel at the United cartoons,” Chappatte said have as its outcome two states threatening to destroy it of David from the flag. Jewish Jewish player Nations against granting ob- on his website. “Weeks later, would endanger the prospects By Marcy Oster stars were welcome in any By Gabe Friedman server status to a Palestinian my employers tell me they’re of peace. JERUSALEM (JTA)—Iran’s other context. (JTA)—Ryan Braun now human-rights organization ending political cartoons al- The resolution, a dig at foreign minister accused Is- “In order to have the Jewish holds the record for most named “Shahed.” together by July. I’m putting the Trump administration’s raeli Prime Minister Benjamin Pride flag not be about Zion- home runs by a Jewish base- The motion at the U.N. down my pen, with a sigh: peace policies, was backed by Netanyahu of threatening to ism, all you have to do is move ball player. Economic and Social Council that’s a lot of years of work J Street, the liberal Middle destroy the Islamic Republic the star,” Raney told a group of The 35-year-old outfielder was rejected by a 28-14 tally. undone by a single cartoon— East policy group. It says not and warned that Tehran would Jewish marchers holding the passed Hank Greenberg on “Thank you #India for not even mine—that should mentioning two states in a not remain passive. flags. “With respect, we are all Friday when he hit his 332nd standing with @IsraelinUN never have run in the best deal would “put a peaceful “You should ask a regime Jewish dykes here and we just career homer in a game and rejecting the request of newspaper of the world.” end to the conflict further possessing nuclear weapons want to march in solidarity against the Pittsburgh Pi- terrorist organization “Sha- The paper apologized for out of reach.” about how Netanyahu stands with Palestinian dykes, and rates. hed” to obtain the status of the offensive cartoon, but The non-binding resolu- next to the Dimona (reactor), if y’all want to march also, Braun, who has spent an observer in #UN. Together then days later published tion, which so far has garnered a nuclear weapons site, and great.” his entire career with the we will continue to act against another cartoon featuring 123 co-sponsors out of 235 says Iran should be destroyed,” The group holding the flags Milwaukee Brewers and now terrorist organizations that Netanyahu, this time with in the Democratic caucus, Mohammad Javad Zarif said included representatives of also holds the team’s all-time intend to harm,” tweeted blacked-out eyes, holding alludes to the as-yet- un- Monday in Tehran during a Zioness, a women’s group home run record, tarnished Maya Kadosh, deputy chief of a stone tablet emblazoned veiled peace plan drafted by news conference with visit- that demonstrates openly as his reputation in the baseball mission at the Israel embassy with a Star of David while ap- President Donald Trump’s ing German Foreign Minister pro-Israel activists in progres- community in 2012. After in India. pearing to take a selfie with a son-in-law and senior adviser, Heiko Maas. sive spaces, A Wider Bridge, a testing positive for outlawed Kadosh told ThePrint that smartphone. Jared Kushner. Kushner has His comments came on pro-Israel LGBTQ group, and performance-enhancing Shahed is connected to the The decision to scrap the not counted out Palestinian the same day as the United the local Jewish Community drugs, Braun lied about his terrorist groups Hezbollah cartoons will come into effect statehood as an outcome, but Nations nuclear watchdog, the Relations Council. use of them and lobbied fel- and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. on July 1, according to a state- he also says that the phrase is International Atomic Energy “You are creating a binary low players to support his “This is a good sign... In- ment by Bennet on Monday. not a useful one. Agency or IAEA, said that in which the only way to be a false claims. dia was the first country to US reps introduce bipar- The resolution, introduced Iran is increasing its uranium dyke is to explicitly denounce Braun is the son of an Israeli support us amongst the Asia tisan bill to purchase last month by Rep. Alan enrichment. the existence of the Jewish father and has said he is proud group, so we are very happy,” Iron Dome air-defense Lowenthal, D-Calif., who is Netanyahu responded to state, which is an important of being Jewish but does not she said. system Jewish, calls for “a two-state Zarif by saying that he is “ly- thing for most Jews, the vast observe the faith. “This is a truly historic vote. By Jackson Richman solution that is consistent ing again.” majority of Jews in the world” Incendiary balloons By taking a principled stand at (JNS)—U.S. Reps. Mikie with the broadly held consen- “Iran is the one that openly said Amanda Berman, the from Gaza ignite fires in the United Nations, India has Sherrill (D-N.J.) and Repre- sus positions for resolving the threatens, every day, to de- founder of Zioness. “We sup- southern Israel finally broken a voting pattern sentative Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) conflict’s final status issues as stroy the State of Israel. Iran port liberation for all dykes. By Marcy Oster reminiscent of the Cold War introduced on Monday the reflected in previous United continues to entrench itself You support the Palestinian JERUSALEM (JTA)—In- era,” Vijeta Uniyal, founder of U.S.-Israel Indirect Fire Pro- States proposals.” militarily in Syria. And today, flag. You support Palestinian cendiary balloons ignited Indians for Israel, told JNS. “In the IAEA reports that Iran nationalism.” three fires Tuesday in the my opinion, the position taken is accelerating its nuclear The marchers were even- Kissufim forest on the border today by Prime Minister [Na- program,” Netanyahu said tually allowed to enter the with the Gaza Strip. rendra] Modi’s government Monday evening in a state- march. The march aimed to A day earlier, incendiary finally reflects the long held ment issued by his office. focus on combating gentrifi- balloons ignited four fires— of wishes and attitudes of the “I repeat: Israel will not cation and displacement. several in the same forest and Indian people.” Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman allow Iran to develop nuclear The march’s Facebook another in a wheat field—that Tel Aviv beaches found weapons that threaten our page was full of comments burned dozens of acres. to be among most does most anything existence and endanger the criticizing the decision to ban The balloons, carrying plastic-polluted entire world,” Netanyahu said. the Jewish Pride Flag, accus- flammable materials, are lit (JNS)—Israel was featured Ricardo Torres International Atomic En- ing the organizers of placing and sent to fly over the bor- in a report by the World ergy Agency Director-General “an unwarranted burden of der fence with Gaza toward Wildlife Fund last week as Handyman Yukiya Amano in his quarterly proof [on] Jewish dykes that southern Israel. home to the third most report failed, for the first time they don’t approve of the ac- The arson attacks are a plastic-polluted shoreline in since the signing of the Iran tions of another country [in] violation of an unofficial the Mediterranean, according 407-221-5482 nuclear deal in 2015, to state which they do not vote,” and cease-fire between Israel and to a report by Ynet. that Iran was observing its “discriminat[ing] against gay terror groups in the strip. The Tel Aviv coast ranked Available in Central Florida Area • References Available PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 21, 2019 Orthodox synagogue in Atlanta breaks from national Young Israel movement after political spat

By Ben Sales members voted to disaffiliate necessarily please everyone all Three months ago, the Na- did not necessarily speak for behalf, with divisive issues from Young Israel. the time, and even if you do tional Council of Young Israel all members. that are not representative,” (JTA) — A large Orthodox “After deliberation and nothing because you’re afraid issued a statement defend- The National Council has Starr told JTA in March. “My synagogue in Atlanta is break- through an open and inclusive of alienating people, there ing a political deal with the been vocally supportive of approach is not about whether ing away from the Young Israel process, our members have will be people angry at you Israeli far right orchestrated the Israeli right and President it’s right wing or left wing. synagogue movement. decided to no longer affiliate for doing nothing,” he said. by Prime Minister Benjamin Donald Trump. Its gala dinner A synagogue organization The exit comes months with the National Council of “I know we had a very public Netanyahu. Critics of the deal this year featured Republican should not be making deeply after its rabbi protested the Young Israel due to our orga- disagreement, but they have said it legitimized a fringe leaders as keynote speakers, as divisive political statements movement’s right-wing politi- nizations not being a strong done everything very respect- extremist group. well as vocal Trump support- on our behalf.” cal positions. fit for one another,” the state- fully in their decision, and we Starr protested the state- ers. A statement Wednesday Lipstadt received an email In a statement provided ment by Rabbi Adam Starr appreciate that, and they have ment at the time and one of from the organization con- from Starr on Wednesday that Wednesday afternoon to the and synagogue president Marc every right to do what they his congregants, Holocaust demned Democratic presiden- read “Welcome back!” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Sokol said. decided to do.” historian Deborah Lipstadt, tial candidate Pete Buttigieg “I think it’s great,” Lipstadt the Young Israel of Toco The president of the Na- The synagogue will remain quit the synagogue in pro- for threatening to withdraw told JTA afterward. “I resigned Hills announced that its tional Council, Farley Weiss, a member of the Orthodox test of the National Council. aid from Israel if it annexes because I disagreed with name would henceforth said he wished the Atlanta Union, a larger umbrella The Atlanta synagogue was West Bank settlements. what the National Council of be Kehillat Ohr Hatorah, synagogue well but that he group. The synagogue added one of 22 Young Israels to Starr told JTA this year that Young Israel did... I’m very Hebrew for “light of the does not anticipate making in its statement that “We sign a statement objecting he did not think the National happy to quietly rejoin. I love Torah.” any changes based on its wish the National Council of to the National Council’s Council should be opining on the synagogue. I think it’s a An email sent to the congre- decision. Young Israel the best as they position. hot-button political issues. wonderful place. I appreciate gation Wednesday said that 93 “With any organization, continue to serve Klal Yisrael,” The National Council later “I would have liked an the leadership and I’m glad to percent of voting synagogue any business, you can’t always Hebrew for the people Israel. clarified that the statement apology for speaking on our be fully back on board.” Security From page 1A hundreds, maybe thousands for nonpublic schools, includ- old, but the underlining ers in the middle of the night. “We’ve made a big emphasis of kids on campus. ing for security funding, was objective is to flee and get to “While we lost the building, on improving relationships blyman Simcha Eichenstein “There is a pattern of hate— among the organizations that safety... We have an obligation it demonstrated to all of us with local police departments, just a few weeks after he took a pattern of anti-Semitism championed for the passage to provide a skill set of tools that director Eliav Bock and and we’ve welcomed the local up his post as the Democratic nationwide right now, un- of Eichenstein’s legislation. to the professionals who work his staff’s preparedness and fire department and sheriff’s assemblyman representing fortunately—so why not be “The idea of protecting kids in the camp, a skill set to the almost obsession with safety departments. These are re- the heavily Jewish neigh- proactive?” he said. “Are we year-round really spoke to us counselors and a skill set for procedures made a differ- ally nice relationships that borhoods of Midwood and really waiting for something and really spoke to our larger the campers,” so everyone ence,” said Cohen. help out in myriad ways. It’s Boro Park in Brooklyn, to happen? I mean look what’s mission of fighting and advo- knows what to do. Similarly, when the town not just about emergencies, N.Y. Eichenstein sprang happening; we had the second cating for children. For us, ‘The quality of prepared- that houses Ramah New but about good community into action, spearheading shul shooting in six months,” this was a natural extension ness’ England was under a tornado relationships.” legislation that would allow alluding to events in Poway of that mission,” said Maury With security concerns warning, the kids and staffers Ramah has even rolled out sleepaway camps in New York on April 27. Litwack, director of Teach about terrorism or a lone rode out the danger in secure the welcome mat to firefight- to apply for a share of the $25 He added that as it relates NY, which is affiliated with gunman foremost in people’s es. “It’s not just about the ers like those who fought the million in grants available to to schools, this allocation, the Orthodox Union. “We’ve minds, experts say that prepa- safety,” stressed Cohen, “it’s devastating Thomas Fire in nonpublic schools, day-care which was approved, should been receiving calls on this ration and training also has to about the quality of prepared- Ventura County. The fire, in centers and cultural muse- not be seen in any political since the program was an- address disasters of another ness—in this case, having December 2017, came peril- ums for security measures context. “This is not about nounced. Camp directors are kind: natural disasters. snacks and drinks available ously close to the Camp Ra- as part of the Securing funding religious institu- very excited because just like “Both issues are brought up and staffers who can engage mah in Ojai, and that’s where Communities Against Hate tions,” said Eichenstein. “It’s with day schools, they want constantly, and we continue the kids in an emergency.” fire officials decided to make Crimes Grant Program. about keeping people safe to be able to provide more to be involved and to make According to SCN’s Mas- their stand against the blaze. “While we are focused on when they are exercising security for the kids.” sure that our staff is training, ters, one important step that “They moved into our camp, houses of worship and schools, their constitutional right to Though there hasn’t been and we’re [always] bringing in all camps can take is to build had meals in our dining hall which definitely need addi- worship.” an attack on Jewish camp, new voices, new consultants relationships with local emer- and heroically saved our camp tional security funding, we ‘A skill set of tools’ one of the deadliest attacks and new safety training tech- gency officials—fire, police, from destruction.” also need this,” Eichenstein Teach NY, a nonpartisan by a lone gunman occurred in niques,” said Rabbi Mitchell Co- the sheriff’s department and Across the country, Camp said in an interview with JNS. organization advocating for July 2011 at a summer camp hen, director of the National Ra- more—as that can make the Ramah Dorom in Georgia “Some of these camps have equitable funding in New York in Norway. Some 70 teens mah Initiative, which runs nine difference should the need for hosted hundreds of weary were murdered in the attack overnight camps in the United emergency aid arise. firefighters in 2017 who were

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 on Utoya Island. States and one in Canada. “All For instance, he explained, battling a nearby fire. Unlike A T T R A G S S L I D E S Providing training for what of our camps have engaged if the first time a sheriff’s in Ojai, however, the fire was 14 15 16 to do in situations where new security consultants to deputy comes onto camp not a threat to the camp itself. L A U H E R A C E R E A L 17 18 19 there’s an active shooter or walk the grounds and analyze grounds is during an emer- At the end of the day, say P O R K Y P I G H A S B R O other emergency situation is where there are strengths and gency, it may take that person security officials like Masters, 20 21 22 critical not just for the staffers weaknesses.” a few minutes to look around emergency preparations can- T I M I D M U D A N O 23 24 25 26 at camp, but for the campers In recent years, several and get acclimated. If, how- not be left to the last minute, N O L T E C A L S T E P themselves. Ramah camps have faced ever, local law enforcement is and must be ongoing and 27 28 29 30 “There’s always an age ap- challenging emergency situ- familiar with the layout, that evolving. S P E E D Y G O N Z A L E S 31 32 33 propriate way to train some- ations. Two years ago, an can save precious time in an “Just like we plan for secu- A T S A R O D C A S T one to address a situation and electrical fire at Ramah in emergency. rity at houses of worship and 34 35 36 react,” said Masters. “It will be the Rockies necessitated an That’s something Ramah schools,” he noted, “we have P E P E L E P E W 37 38 39 40 41 42 different for a 10- or 14-year- evacuation of staff and camp- camps have taken to heart. to do that for camps.” O R A L I S L E O F A 43 44 45 46 T A S M A N I A N D E V I L 47 48 49 Pompeo E T A S T K T A L E R T From page 1A tankers off the coast of the sistance and will continue to requested an emergency 50 51 52 53 United Arab Emirates. assess the situation,” White meeting of the U.N. Security G O N R O E R E B A R ported CNN, citing a U.S. The White House said that House press secretary Sarah Council to discuss the situa- 54 55 56 57 58 A M A Z O N M E L B L A N C defense official familiar with U.S. President Donald Trump Sanders said in a statement. tion in the Gulf, which comes 59 60 61 the situation. has been briefed on the tanker ‘World cannot afford is a amid heightened tensions be- D A N U B E I D O L C O B These mines are the type attacks. major confrontation’ tween Iran and the America. 62 63 64 S N A R E S T O N E T D S attached to a side of a ship’s “The president has been U.N. Secretary-General Trump pulled out of the hull using magnets. They were briefed on the attack on ships António Guterres said that the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in also suspected of being used in the Gulf of Oman. The U.S. world cannot afford a major May 2018 and has since in the May attack on four oil government is providing as- conflict in the Persian Gulf. imposed heavy sanctions on “I strongly condemn any the Islamic Republic. He now attack against civilian ves- seeks to block all oil exports sels,” Guterres told a Security from Iran. Council meeting on U.N. coop- This week, Japanese Prime eration with the Arab League. Minister Shinzo Abe visited “Facts must be established Tehran in what was widely and responsibilities clarified,” seen as a bid to ratchet down he added. “If there is some- the tensions between the two thing the world cannot afford, countries. it is a major confrontation in “There is [the] possibility the Gulf region.” of an accidental conflict, and Arab League Secretary- a military conflict should be HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES General Ahmed Aboul Gheit prevented at all costs,” Abe Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged also called the incident a said during a press conference exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye “dangerous development.” in the regime on Wednesday. disorders. 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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 21, 2019 PAGE 15A to derail the nuclear deal, far because it knows a U.S. nounced that it was sending were attacked in the Persian will merely mean that, a few Terror the Obama administration military attack could finish an aircraft carrier strike Gulf, with Iran being con- years down the road, the West From page 4A terminated the eight-year it off. group and air force bombers sidered the chief suspect. On will be menaced not just by operation run by the Drug So it might choose just to the Middle East, as well Thursday morning, two more Hezbollah terrorism, but to limit their missile program Enforcement Administra- to sit out the Trump presi- as Patriot missiles and addi- oil tankers were damaged by a nuclear Iranian enemy and their involvement in the tion aimed at combating dency in the hope of a pliable tional troops, to “send a clear near the Strait of Hormuz bent on the annihilation of region’s wars. Hezbollah’s collusion with Democrat replacing him in and unmistakable message” in another suspected attack. Israel and the destruction of Furthermore, according the drug trade. The Trump the White House. to Iran. It’s hard to see how the Ira- the West. to Emanuele Ottolenghi of administration has not yet The drumbeat of war, U.S. officials said that the nian regime can be stopped Melanie Phillips, a Brit- the Foundation for Defense resumed the attempt to shut though, is increasing. The decision was based in part on without some kind of military ish journalist, broadcaster of Democracies, Hezbollah off this financial spigot. top commander of U.S. forces intelligence that the Iranian action being taken against it. and author, writes a column earns millions of dollars every As sanctions make the in the Middle East says he regime has told some of its Those like Britain and the for JNS every two weeks year from Latin American regime feel increasingly believes the Iranians or their proxy forces that they could European Union who believe and is also a columnist for drug cartels, which supply cornered, it may be more in- proxies may orchestrate an now target American military that is unthinkable and can “The Times of London.” Her the drugs flooding Britain clined to use violence. Some attack at any moment. personnel and assets. best be avoided by the Obama work can be found on her and Europe. analysts believe it won’t risk Over the last month, the The day after that an- deal are wrong. website, www.melaniephil- Shockingly, in order not provoking Washington too Trump administration an- nouncement, four oil tankers Failing to neutralize Iran lips.com. Jewry From page 4A and groups that promote Trump arrived at the scene U.S. diaspora, and the BDS Shay Attias was the found- Minister’s Office and is a hatred of the USA, Israel, and of the attack, Israelis were movement will be ready to ing head (2009-13) of the doctoral candidate in inter- away from Israel and Judaism. Jews on North American col- heartened and American Jews exploit that schism. That will Public Diplomacy Depart- national relations at Bar-Ilan The Pew Research Center has lege campuses”), many Jewish were offended. Some of them be a dangerous day for Israel. ment at the Israeli Prime University. shown that nearly 60 percent students decline to support it. even blamed him for the at- of American Jewish marriages To many American Jews, tack. Trump, who historically since 2000 were mixed. A 2007 the prophetic and messianic recognized Jerusalem as the Hatred study found that around half role of the Jewish people— capital of Israel, is seen by From page 5A There are doctors, lawyers, tred, Israel will not be pushed of American Jews under 35 defined as the obligation to many as the most pro-Israel physicians, and business into the ocean. Hopefully our would not see Israel’s destruc- make the world a better place, president in American history, to close. There were many people who have willingly antagonists will accept Jews. tion as a personal tragedy. or tikkun olam—is central to but that very status taints him new regulations, and as a helped people regardless of My prayer is for peace and Of course, not all of this their identity as Jews and as in the eyes of many American single agency we had no their ethnicity. Jew’s have no more killings in syna- is solely due to BDS, but liberals. A Pew Research Cen- Jews. As some of the most way to satisfy government always been family and edu- gogues or elsewhere. Let’s stop there is no doubt that BDS is ter survey of American Jews strongly liberal Democrats in requirements. I cried for cation oriented. We have kept these horrible incidence such exploiting and doing its best in 2013 found that among the the U.S., they oppose Trump many years. Although I was to the teaching of the Torah, as Pittsburgh and recognize to maximize the gap between five million American Jews, as a matter of course. retirement age, I did not “Love they neighbor as thy each other with love rather the Jewish diaspora and the most regarded “working for Israeli diplomacy needs to want to retire. self.” Despite the Arabs’ ha- than hate. State of Israel. Many Jewish justice and equality” as a pillar prepare for the day in which How many people, Jewish students are being pushed to of their Jewish identity. a liberal American president or gentile, could have the avoid any kind of identifica- The divide between Is- returns to the Oval Office. accomplishments, I have tion with Israel. And when new rael and American Jewry was When that happens, he or had? Do haters of the Jewish ways of fighting BDS emerge clearly visible at the time of she will be supported by a people still hate me? 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AIPAC, the pro-Israel boycott Israel movement and Israel activist were to conjure lobby, welcomes hundreds of draws frequent criticism from an image of an anti-Zionist synagogue delegations to its pro-Israel voices, including for synagogue, they’d probably annual conference. its role in co-hosting a peace come up with something like Tzedek Chicago was born of dinner in 2008 featuring Tzedek Chicago. a desire to escape all of that. Iranian President Mahmoud A congregation of 180 But the synagogue doesn’t Ahmadinejad. people that meets in a church disengage from Israeli-Pal- “Being in a space where basement, Tzedek Chicago’s estinian discourse. It goes in organizing for an end to hu- “Core Values” declare that the opposite direction. There man rights abuses against it’s non-Zionist. In practice, are no flags at the front of the Palestinians feels like a natu- though, that means an ex- sanctuary, and instead of cel- ral extension of organizing plicit emphasis on advocating ebrating Israeli Independence around social justice more for Palestinian rights and Day, they commemorate broadly as opposed to this criticizing Israel’s conduct. Nakba Day. thing that gets siloed off... it’s Those themes were woven “There were no places very liberating,” said Michael throughout its service last for Jews—we believe there Deheeger, a founding member Yom Kippur—from the rabbi’s are a significant number of of Tzedek Chicago who worked sermon to the Torah service them—who either were not as an organizer with JVP. “It’s to the liturgy itself. Zionist or were engaged ac- just in line with all the other Discussing the biblical tively in Palestinian solidarity actions going on.” story of Jacob and Esau, a work and really wanted their Although Rosen split from Ben Sales speaker said that Esau, the social justice identity to be his Reconstructionist syna- Rabbi Brant Rosen of Tzedek Chicago once was a liberal Zionist before advocating a scorned older brother, expe- expressed through the life gogue, he remains “an active boycott of Israel. rienced a “personal Nakba,” of the congregation,” Tzedek and valued member” of the the name Palestinians use Chicago Rabbi Brant Rosen movement, according to of JVP and Tzedek make them the traditional rituals with long discussions of what it for the catastrophe they com- said. “We state specifically Rabbi Elyse Wechterman, outliers among Jews. A survey four plant species grown in means to be a member at memorate on the anniversary that one of our values is we the executive director of the this month by the American Israel, the synagogue gath- Tzedek.” of Israel’s independence. The do not celebrate the fusion of Reconstructionist Rabbinical Jewish Committee found that ered leaves from oak, sumac Much of being a Tzedek sermon was about a recent trip Jewish tradition and political Association. The movement 62 percent of American Jews and willow trees, along with Chicago member has nothing to Gaza. For the martyrology, nationalism.” has traditionally been pro- agree “strongly” or “some- an Osage orange. Rosen notes to do with activism. Deheeger a section of the service that Rosen, 56, once was a gressive Zionist, but is also what” that caring about Israel the four plants are indigenous enjoys the programming for traditionally commemorates liberal Zionist serving as “a big tent and [has] members is a “very important part of to the Chicago area. young families. Chaden loves Jews who died for their faith, rabbi of the Jewish Recon- with a variety of viewpoints my being a Jew,” while only “Israeli culture is 100-plus the congregational singing. the synagogue instead me- structionist Congregation and positions on these issues,” 15 percent and 18 percent years old,” he said. “It’s an And Rosen says that because morialized Gazans who died in suburban Chicago. He’s she wrote in an email. Another “disagree strongly.” invented culture, really, and I so many of the worshippers in clashes with Israel on the also the past president of the prominent co-founder of JVP’s Tzedek has collaborated don’t deny that is a robust and work for activist groups, border. Reconstructionist Rabbinical Rabbinical Council, Rabbi with other Jewish groups in sophisticated culture in its he tries to create a space And in addition to aton- Association. But successive Alissa Wise, also is Recon- the area beyond JVP. But it own right. If we’re really going apart from that work during ing for personal misdeeds, trips to Israel and Palestinian structionist. is not listed in the local fed- to celebrate Jewish culture, we prayers. the congregants collectively areas, especially surrounding A decade of right-wing eration’s directory of Chicago should celebrate the varieties “It’s not particularly Shab- beat their chests to repent for Israeli wars in Gaza, led him government, religious di- synagogues. The federation, of Jewish culture, and the besdik to go on and on about Israel’s actions. to affiliate with Jewish Voice vides and a moribund peace called the Jewish United one that’s being created in Israel’s oppression of Palestin- “For the sin we have com- for Peace, which advocates a process have cooled what was Fund, does not fund groups the Diaspora community in ians in our service, or about mitted before you for block- boycott of Israel and identifies once a passionate love affair that advocate a boycott of which we live.” oppression of undocumented ading 1.8 million Gazans as anti-Zionist. Rosen is the between Israel and American Israel. Pro-Palestinian activism immigrants,” he said, using a inside an open-air prison,” the co-founder of JVP’s rabbinical synagogue-goers. For Tzedek Chicago, being isn’t the sole focus of Tzedek term that means “appropriate congregation recited. “For the council. “Although a vast majority non-Zionist extends beyond Chicago. The congregation for Shabbat.” “It is not par- sin we have committed before After the 2014 war in Gaza, of them still care about Is- political advocacy. Rosen will host a “Promoting Im- ticularly Shabbesdik to bring you for wedding sacred Jewish Rosen says “it became impos- rael, there is now much more says the synagogue aims migrant Justice” session that level of protest into Shab- spiritual tradition to political sible for me to do my work ambivalence toward it and for Diasporaism, where the on the upcoming Jewish bat, which should be about nationalism and militarism.” anymore,” and he resigned much less agreement about its congregation immerses itself holiday of Shavuot. Its core renewal and replenishment Even as they disagree over from his former synagogue. politics,” wrote Dov Waxman, in local culture rather than values include nonviolence, and rejuvenation.” whether God exists or where He and a group of former a professor of political science, Israeli culture, which he calls spiritual freedom and equity. But for some members, the Torah comes from, syna- congregants founded Tzedek international affairs and Israel a “Western colonial culture.” And before atoning for what non-Zionism is an inherent gogues across the country of Chicago the next year. Rosen studies at Northeastern Uni- Rosen says he still has a they see as Israeli sins, the part of that rejuvenation. all denominations take sup- says it’s loosely affiliated versity. Among younger Jews, “deep-seated connection to Yom Kippur worshippers also Uncomfortable in nearly ev- porting Israel as a matter of with J V P. that ambivalence is even more Israel,” and acknowledges listed American militarism ery other synagogue they’ve course. Many recite prayers During the week, Rosen is pronounced. that the Land of Israel is a and mistreatment of minori- encountered, they say they for the state and its army. It’s the Midwest Regional director Even so, the non-Zionism major motif in Jewish his- ties and immigrants. finally feel at home. standard to see Israeli and for the American Friends Ser- and pro-Palestinian activism tory, sacred texts and prayer. “How do you set up what’s “It felt like an LGBTQ per- But he says the congregation called a tent of meeting?” son coming out of the closet,” downplays it now because he asked Caryn Chaden, Tzedek said Lesley Williams, a JVP believes the land has become Chicago’s president, describ- member who belongs to Tze- NO MORE GUTTER CLEANING, inextricably connected to the ing the experimental nature dek Chicago. “We were able to State of Israel. of the 4-year-old synagogue. say who we are without being OR YOUR MONEY BACK – GUARANTEED So on the Jewish harvest “How do you solve this? How judged or ostracized or kicked festival of Sukkot, instead of do you solve that? We’ve had out of the Jewish community.”

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