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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.