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by ASTEAD W. HERNDON explicit focal point of Amer- $6.5 Million The Open Society Founda- ican politics in recent years, tions, the philanthropic group with no sign of receding. Mr. founded by the business mag- Soros, who has at times faced nate George Soros, will an- smears and anti-Semitism over nounce on Monday that it is his role as a liberal megadonor, investing $220 million in ef- is also positioning his founda- forts to achieve racial equality tion near the forefront of the in America, a huge financial protest movement. undertaking that will support Of the $220 million, the The billionaire George Soros has fo- several Black-led racial justice foundation will invest $150 cused previous philanthropic efforts Despite this year’s uncertain- security program. groups for years to come. on racial justice groups in the United million in five-year grants for ty and challenges, the Federa- These funds allow the Fed- The initiative, which comes States, as well as on historically mar- selected groups, including pro- tion’s annual fundraising cam- eration to continue to protect amid national protests for racial ginalized groups. (Fabrice Coffrini/Agence gressive and emerging organi- paign raised a record-breaking our community, fund Jewish equality and calls for police France-Presse/Getty Images) zations like the Black Voters $6.5 million, which includes programs in Rochester, train reform ignited by the killing of Matter Fund and Repairers the annual campaign, as well young Jewish leaders and help George Floyd in Minneapolis, civil rights organizations, and of the Breach, a group found- as funds for COVID relief and Jews in Israel and around the will immediately reshape the signals the extent to which race ed by the Rev. Dr. William J. recovery and the ROCStrong world. b landscape of Black political and and identity have become the (Equality — Page 4) Ilhan Omar Endorsed by Catholic Churches Burned, Nancy Pelosi While a Primary Vandalized Over Weekend as Police Challenger Attracts Support Investigate: ‘Where’s the Outrage?’ From Pro-Israel Givers by CALEB PARKE by RON KAMPEAS A slew of Catholic church- WASHINGTON (JTA) — es from Florida to Califor- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi nia were burned and vandal- lent her considerable weight to ized over the weekend as police the reelection bid of Rep. Ilhan continue to investigate wheth- Omar, who has faced allega- er or not they are connected tions of invoking anti-Semitism. to protests targeting symbols Meanwhile, an opponent in and statues. the Democrat primary who Following George Floyd’s po- has attracted the support of lice-related death in May, Black pro-Israel givers nationwide Lives Matter leaders and pro- has outraised Omar by mil- testers called for the toppling lions of dollars. Antone Melton-Meaux (antone- of statues, from Confederate Steven Anthony Shields, 24, allegedly crashed his vehicle through the front (Challenger — Page 7) forcongress.com) symbols to former U.S. presi- doors of the Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Ocala and then set a fire in the (Churches — Page 8) building’s foyer area, according to the sheriff’s office. (Marion County Sheriff’s Office) Rabbi Injured in Poway Shooting Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud Court Rejects Petition to Curb Spyware Company by ILAN BEN ZION by BEN HARRIS JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israe- (JTA) — The rabbi who lost li court has rejected a request a finger in a shooting attack on to strip the controversial Israeli a Chabad synagogue in Poway, spyware firm NSO Group of its California, in 2019 pleaded export license over the suspect- guilty to tax fraud. ed use of the company’s tech- Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein plead- nology in targeting journalists ed guilty Tuesday in a scheme and dissidents worldwide. in which donors contributed The case, brought by Amnesty to his synagogue but then got International in January, called most of the money back, en- on the court to prevent NSO from abling the donor to claim a tax selling its technology abroad, deduction. A charging docu- especially to repressive regimes. ment detailing the scheme was Congregation Chabad Rabbi Yis- The Tel Aviv District Court unsealed in federal court in San roel Goldstein of Poway, California ruled that Amnesty’s attorneys Diego, the Los Angeles Times did not provide sufficient evi- In this March 5, file photo, journalist and activist Omar Radi speaks after a during a National Day of Prayer ser- hearing at the Casablanca Courthouse, In Casablanca, Morocco. On Sunday, reported. dence “to prove the claim that vice in the Rose Garden at the White July 12, the Tel Aviv District Court rejected a request to strip the controversial The scheme resulted in more House in Washington, DC on May 02, an attempt was made to track a Israeli spyware firm NSO Group of its export license over the suspected use than $6.2 million in fraudulent 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) human rights activist by trying of the company’s technology in targeting journalists, including Radi, and donations, resulting in a $1.5 to hack his cell phone” or that dissidents worldwide. The case, brought by Amnesty International in Janu- million loss to the federal gov- Goldstein retired from the the hacking was done by NSO. ary, called on the court to prevent NSO from selling its technology abroad, ernment. Goldstein could face Chabad synagogue in Novem- “Granting a license is done especially to repressive regimes. The court ruled that Amnesty’s attorneys up to five years in prison. (Rabbi — Page 6) (Spyware — Page 4) did not provide sufficient evidence.(AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar, File) Cerames • 2x4.5 • 040516w • SH Fax/Email: [email protected] Expositor-Ledger Newspapers Rochester Golf Week • The Jewish Ledger 2535 Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Road, Rochester, NY 14623 (585) 427-2468 • FAX (585) 427-8521 IMPORTANT… We want YOUR AD to be perfect… Your ad will run as it appears here unless we hear from you immediately. Please review this ad carefully. n Check spelling and punctuation n Check addresses and phone numbers, as well as e-mail addresses and web sites. n Check dates and times of all events listed. If there are any corrections, please call us immediately at 427-2468. Page 2 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, July 16, 2020 After Digitizing the Talmud, Sefaria Seeks to Do the Same to Democracy by SHIRA HANAU (JTA) — Could democracy take a page from the Talmud? The creators of Sefaria, a project to digitize Jewish texts, think so. 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Family Owned & texts to millions of users each Operated Since 1970 year, establishing itself as an invaluable resource for teach- Brett Lockspeiser, a co-founder of Sefaria, hopes to apply the database’s ers, students and writers. approach highlighting the interconnections between texts to other bodies Now it’s applying the same of knowledge. (Screenshots from Sefaria) approach to foundational texts LUNCH n DINNER from a different system of what makes the Constitution tural connection, this feeling of Mazel TovPRIVATE • 2x3 and 2x4 PARTY• 020416 • SH ROOM HOUSE n CATERING thought: that of American de- like the Talmud (and why it a textual tradition being some- n n mocracy. It launched the proj- stands apart) and what Jewish thing where textual voices are 3450 Winton Place 427-7350 www.Cerames.com ect, fittingly, on July 4 with a texts have to say about civil dis- talking to each other across small library of texts including course. (Sefaria’s CEO, Daniel time and space. 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Do you think there’s any- organization thinks through Lockspeiser: The real magic thing that people who are how to apply its approach to of Sefaria — and this is the real focused more on non-Jewish connecting and presenting texts magic of the Torah tradition, texts could learn from the way SHARE YOUR to other bodies of knowledge it’s not something we invented Jewish texts interact with each engagement, wedding, birth, bar/bat mitzvah announcement beyond the Jewish canon. — is in the interconnections. other? and any other simcha on both TheJewishLedger.com and The Jewish Ledger weekly newspaper for... We talked with Brett Locks- Just putting texts on websites It is really one of the core peiser, Sefaria’s chief technol- is not particularly novel and principles to interact. We want FREE. ogy officer and a co-founder, not particularly interesting in multiple voices, you don’t want Submit at TheJewishLedger.com about the power of new tech- itself. It gets exciting when you to boil things down to a bot- nology to reinvigorate old texts, click on a line of text and then tom line all the time. You want a sidebar opens and you get this to appreciate the tension that “The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man whowho stops the clock to save time.” whole array of voices that are happens between multiple voic- talking to that point and you es. We do that often by print- open things up side by side. ing them side by side. That’s Doing that for the Jewish case a principle of the democratic has actually been a lot easier process, of democratic society, than we found it to be in this is wanting to be able to respect case because our tradition has different voices playing a role. Mazel so firmly baked in this idea The text can serve as a model of citing sources and relating of what we want our society to Tov! everything you do to texts that look like. came before and this idea of How much are you thinking having commentaries that are about who is represented in really line-by-line commentar- these democracy texts, which ies. So many texts in Sefaria are largely written by white are structured, so you know men (Barack Obama being the this particular Rashi or Ram- exception)? And how do you ban is talking about this line think about whose voices are SHARE YOUR of Talmud. represented when it comes to So what that meant for us is the Jewish library? engagement, wedding, birth, bar/bat mitzvah announcement health care that our process of building our It’s kind of haphazard what and any other simcha on both TheJewishLedger.com library of connections — and in we’ve added in there. 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The News in Brief … TV Host, Rapper Nick Cannon Propagates Anti- Semitic Conspiracy Theories Online (JNS) — Actor, rapper, direc- tor and TV host Nick Cannon has recently been propagating online anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and praising Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has an extensive history of making anti-Jewish remarks. In the June 30 episode of his YouTube podcast, “Cannon’s Nick Cannon (Loren Javier/Flickr) Aaron Keyak. (Facebook) Class,” the host of the Fox show “The Masked Singer” spoke dag”) and the Frontal Landing The Israeli Air Force faces a committee. Democratic Council. with Richard Griffin, a mem- Unit. The new wing will in- number of challenges, among In 2014, he co-founded In May, Keyak co-hosted a ber of the hip-hop group Public clude an Intelligence unit and a them the threats posed by Bluelight Strategies, a Washing- fundraiser for Biden with Jew- Enemy until the late 1980s. school for Special Forces. Hamas in Gaza, Iranian pres- ton, D.C.-based consulting firm ish Democrats. Griffin was dismissed from “We are in times of region- ence in Syria and Hezbollah in with longtime Democratic strat- He also served as communi- the group after he told The al change, with a global pan- Lebanon. egist Steve Rabinowitz after cations director for Reps. Jerr- Washington Times in 1989 that demic and a battlefield be- serving as interim executive old Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Steve “the Jews are wicked. And we coming more complex every Biden Campaign director of the National Jewish Rothman (D-N.J.). b can prove this.” He added that day,” said IAF commander Maj. Taps Finance Jews are responsible for “the Gen. Amikam Norkin during Committee Community … majority of wickedness that the opening ceremony at the goes on across the globe.” Palmachim Air Force Base, Member to Lead Early in the podcast, Griffin where Wing 7 will be housed. Jewish Outreach Mazel Tov! Mazel Tov! — also known as “Professor “Our commanders understand (JNS) — Democratic strategist Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Graduations, Awards, Griff” — said that both Semitic that these changes force us to Aaron Keyak has been picked Promotions, En­­gage­­­ments, Weddings, Births… people and languages “have adapt to the challenges that the by the presidential campaign of E-mail information and photos to: [email protected] absolutely nothing to do with future holds. There is an en- former U.S. Vice President Joe or mail to The Jewish Ledger. Announcements are free. any white people.” hanced capability that makes Biden to lead the presumptive Along those lines, Cannon, our special forces more effec- Democratic nominee’s outreach Mazel tov to Rabbi Shlomo Mazel tov to Ava Mendler, who previously hosted “Ameri- tive in combat, more influential to the Jewish community. & Malkie Noble on the engage- daughter of Jason Mendler & ca’s Got Talent” on NBC, agreed in building our aerial superi- Jewish Insider first reported ment of their son Yaakov Ba- Ticia Valle, who competed on that “the Semitic people are ority and a more significant the development on Friday. ruch to Elisheva Winlarz. American Ninja Warrior Junior black people.” part of every process within Keyak currently serves on the against others in her age group He also said that “it’s never the IAF.” Biden campaign team’s finance Mazel tov to Gene Brodsky, on the ultimate obstacle course. hate speech; you can’t be an- Dr. Joel Greenberg, and Ar- ti-Semitic when we are the Se- thur Sharf, who were recently Mazel tov to Anna Rutberg, mitic people. When we are the certified as 50 Year Veteran Life daughter of Pauline & David same people who they want members at Jay Lodge Knights Rutberg on her graduation from to be. That’s our birthright,” of Pythias. Pittsford Sutherland High School adding that “we are the true and her future plans for attend- Hebrews.” Mazel tov to Aidan Leit, son ing Lafayette College. Mazel He also talked about “giving of Michael & Candice Leit on tov to Sarah Zwart, daugh- too much power to the ‘they’ — his graduation from The Harley ter of Barbara Guttman and and then the ‘they’ turns into School. Aidan has been accept- Steve Zwart on her graduation the Illuminati, the Zionists, the ed to Tulane University. He willl from Pittsford Sutherland High Rothschilds.” be deferring college and will be School and her future plans for Cannon referenced “going as serving in the Israeli Defense attending Fordgam University at deep as the Rothschilds, cen- Israeli Air Force jets fly over Jerusalem, ahead of Independence Day on April Forces this August. Aidan will Lincoln Center to pursue The- tralized banking, the 13 fam- 22. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) be studying Psychology. ater Production and Design. ilies, the bloodlines that con- trol everything even outside of America.” Regarding Farrakhan, the actor said that “every time I’ve heard him speak, it’s positive, it’s powerful, it’s uplifting … Family out of town? Weather preventing travel? for whatever reason, he’s been demonized.” In 2013, the Anti-Defamation Unable to leave your home? League criticized Cannon for Brighton Memorial Chapel offers live funeral broadcasting being in a video by the New Black Panther Party, which the for services that take place within our chapel. ADL has said is “the nation’s largest anti-Semitic and racist All at NO CHARGE. black militant group.” Israeli Air Force Unveils Joint Special-Forces Wing for ‘Enhanced Capability’ (JNS) — The Israeli Air Force 3325 Winton Road S., Rochester NY 14623 • www.BrightonMemorialChapel.com on Sunday unveiled a new squadron of joint special forces, 585-427-8520 united under a single umbrella. The units that will be part of the “Wing 7” squadron are the Airborne Combat Unit, Search and Rescue Unit 669 (“Shal- See why Brighton Memorial Chapel is Establishing a New Tradition. Page 4 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, July 16, 2020 Alexander Vindman, Jewish NSC Staffer Who Testified at Impeachment Hearing, Retires From Military Amid Allegations of Bullying by Trump

by MARCY OSTER service because he did not feel reassigned to the Army. Their the 1970s fled from the former (JTA) — Lt. Col. Alexander that he could advance due to removal came just days after Soviet Union with his Jewish Vindman, the Jewish National political retaliation from the Trump was acquitted by the family, “feared that his speak- Security Council staffer who president and his supporters. Republican majority U.S. Sen- ing out would bring retalia- was among the first to raise “The President of the United ate in an impeachment trial. tion.” flags about President Donald States attempted to force LTC Vindman testified in Novem- Vindman said at the hearing: Trump’s pressure on Ukraine Vindman to choose: Between ber before the House Intelli- “Do not worry, I will be fine for to investigate a political rival, adhering to the law or pleasing gence Committee hearing on telling the truth.” is retiring from the U.S. Army a President,” Pressman said in Trump’s impeachment about In recent weeks, allegations amid allegations by his attor- a statement to CNN. “Between a July 2019 phone call be- have surfaced that Trump was ney that “he was bullied by the honoring his oath or protecting tween the president and his attempting to prevent Vind- President and his proxies.” his career. Between protecting Ukrainian counterpart, Volo- man’s upcoming promotion to Vindman made the an- his promotion or the promotion dymyr Zelensky, during which the rank of colonel, according nouncement in a tweet, which of his fellow soldiers.” Trump repeatedly pressured to CNN. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman arrives did not mention the allega- In February, Vindman was Zelensky to launch politically An unnamed source told CNN to testify at the House Intelligence tions. removed from his position as Committee hearing on the impeach- motivated investigations that that senior Army officials in- The news of Vindman’s re- an expert on U.S. policy in ment inquiry of President Trump in would help Trump’s 2020 cam- formed Vindman that he would tirement was first reported by Ukraine at the National Secu- Washington, Nov. 19, 2019. (Tom Wil- paign. Vindman was listening not be allowed to work in his CNN, which cited the claims by rity Council. Vindman’s twin liams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) in on the call in his official area of expertise, which in- the attorney, David Pressman. brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vind- capacity with the National Se- cludes Ukraine. The source also Pressman told CNN that man, was asked to leave his job Both Vindmans, who im- curity Council. said that a senior officer joked Vindman would retire after as a White House lawyer on migrated with their father During his testimony, Vind- that he could be sent to “man a more than 21 years of military the same day. from Ukraine in 1979, were man said that his father, who in radar station in Alaska.” b

FBI Director: China Is Spyware (Continued from Page 1) after the most rigorous pro- ly available for comment. dents. It doesn’t disclose clients, Greatest Threat to the US cess and also after granting the In 2018, Amnesty claimed but they are believed to include permit, the authority conducts one of its employees was target- Middle Eastern and Latin Amer- “China is engaged in a a new China-related counterin- oversight and close inspection, ed by NSO’s malware, saying a ican states. The company says it whole-of-state effort to become telligence case ever 10 hours.” as necessary,” the court said. If hacker tried to break into the sells its technology to Israeli-ap- the world’s only superpower The FBI chief accused Chinese human rights are found to be staffer’s smartphone, using a proved governments to help them by any means necessary,” FBI President Xi Jinping of initi- violated, that permit can be sus- WhatsApp message about a combat criminals and terrorism. Director Christopher Wray ating a program called “Fox pended or canceled, it added. protest in front of the Saudi In a report published last warned in a lecture in Wash- Hunt” to force Chinese expats The court issued its ruling on Embassy in Washington as bait. month, Amnesty International ington on Tuesday. He outlined to return home. b Sunday, but only made it public NSO, an Israeli hacker-for-hire said Moroccan journalist Omar those means as “a far-reaching © DEBKAfile on Monday. company, uses its Pegasus spy- Radi’s phone was tapped using campaign of economic espio- DEBKAfile is an online new NSO Group said in a statement ware to take control of a phone, NSO’s technology as part of the nage, data and monetary theft service, based in Israel, that of- that the company “will continue its cameras and microphones, and government’s efforts to clamp and illegal political activities, fers inside views and opinions to work to provide technology to mine the user’s personal data. down on dissent. using bribery and blackmail on intelligence, international states and intelligence organiza- The company has been ac- A Saudi dissident has accused to influence US policy.” Wray terror, Islamic Extremism and tions, and that its purpose is to cused of selling its surveillance NSO of involvement in Saudi added: We’ve reached a point key political events of interest save human lives.” software to repressive govern- journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s where the FBI is now opening to readers. Amnesty was not immediate- ments that use it against dissi- killing in 2018. b

Equality (Continued from Page 1)

Barber II of the Poor People’s dations, said in an interview “The demands being made ment. Heather McGhee, who is a nod to his own experience Campaign. The money will that the group believed the now will not be met overnight, on the foundation’s domestic as a Jewish person who sur- also support more established investment was about harness- and we know the gaze of media board and has been on recent vived the Nazi occupation of Black political organizations ing the momentum toward ra- and elected officials will turn calls informing groups of their Hungary. In recent years, Mr. like the Equal Justice Initia- cial justice, but also giving in other directions,” he added. new grants, said the five-year Soros has become a favorite tive, which was founded by organizations room to think “But we need these moments commitments let leaders feel target of some conservatives the civil rights lawyer Bryan long-term. Now, he said, is “the to be sustained. If we’re going “they could breathe and they and right-wing groups, which Stevenson and depicted in the moment we’ve been investing to say ‘Black lives matter,’ we can focus on the strategy and have sometimes used anti-Se- 2019 movie “Just Mercy.” in for the last 25 years.” need to say ‘Black organiza- the work.” The calls have been mitic tropes to try to recast The Open Society Founda- “There is this call for justice tions and structures matter.’” emotional, she said, as groups his giving as an effort to seek tions will invest an additional in Black and brown commu- Even before Monday’s an- that have long felt marginal- world influence. $70 million in local grants nities, an explosion of not just nouncement, progressive ized by mainstream philan- Between the local grants supporting changes to polic- sympathy but solidarity across groups, Democratic candidates thropy find out their work will and the millions for Black-led ing and criminal justice. This the board,” Mr. Gaspard said. and racial justice organiza- be sustained and supported. organizations, however, Mr. money will also be used to “So it’s time to double down. tions had been flooded with “It frees up time and ensures Soros and his foundation have pay for opportunities for civic And we understood we can small-dollar donations, break- that once the corporations stop helped answer the question engagement and to organize place a bet on these activists ing giving records and allow- putting up statements and of whether the social justice internships and political train- — Black and white — who see ing former Vice President Jo- small-dollar donations stop, groups that have dominated ing for young people. this as a moment of not just seph R. Biden Jr. as well as they can keep fighting this the current moment are here Patrick Gaspard, the presi- incrementalism, but whole- House and Senate candidates fight,” Ms. McGhee said. “If to stay. dent of the Open Society Foun- scale reform.” to post eye-popping fund-rais- you take the blinders of racism Alexander Soros, who serves ing numbers. It is the conver- off, of course you should be alongside his father as the dep- FOUNDED 1924 gence of an election year in investing in Black leadership uty chair of Open Society, said which Democrats are desper- — and these organizations in a statement that the new THE JEWISH LEDGER ate to defeat President Trump shouldn’t be worrying about investment was a response to ISSN 002165 Albert Klineman, Publisher 1924-1930 • Joseph H. Biben, Publisher 1930-1953 with an extraordinary protest money.” a time “for urgent and bold Donald Wolin, Publisher, 1953-1986 movement that has pushed This not the first effort by action.” BARBARA MORGENSTERN, Publisher and Executive Editor many to action, changing pub- Mr. Soros or his foundation to “These investments will em- Published weekly by The Jewish Ledger, lic opinion among white Amer- target racial inequality, though power proven leaders in the 2535 Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Road, Rochester, NY 14623 • Phone: (585) 427-2468 icans and ideological moder- it is the most expansive. In Black community to reimagine ates in the process. 1994, Mr. Soros started Open policing, end mass incarcera- Periodicals Postage Paid at Rochester, New York Subscription Rate: Within Monroe County $40 per year But in making the grants Society’s domestic work with tion and eliminate the barriers Outside Monroe County/Seasonal $42 per year last for five years, Open So- a focus on criminal justice re- to opportunity that have been Deadline for all copy is Monday noon – prior to the Thursday publication All comments welcome. Visit us at thejewishledger.com ciety’s leaders said, the orga- form. He has also aimed phil- the source of inequity for too VOL. XCVII, NO. 5 • ROCHESTER, N.Y. • JULY 16, 2020 • TAMMUZ 24, 5780 nization is freeing groups to anthropic efforts at historically long,” he said. b think beyond the current mo- marginalized groups abroad, © The New York Times THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, July 16, 2020 • Page 5

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Numbers 30:2-36:13 BY RABBI SHLOMO RISKIN Parshat Matot-Masei Chief Rabbi of the City of Efrat, and Dean of Ohr Torah Institutions of Israel EFRAT, Israel — What unites makes a distinction between the bread, the “heftza” in the offered the answer. “When by a common destiny (yi’ud) Jews throughout the world as two technical terms which it second instance of oath, the I lost my first family in the which they accepted upon one nation and one people? doesn’t quite define: “If a man emphasis is on the subject, the Holocaust, an atrocity which I themselves, pledging to be a What is the most critical factor makes a vow [neder] to dedi- person, the “gavra”. suffered as a passive victim of holy nation and a kingdom responsible for our amazing cate an object to the Lord, or In the Talmudic school of monstrous Nazi fascist–racists, of priest-teachers to convey persistence as a unique histor- takes an oath [shevua] to pro- Brisker methodology, much I could not even mourn proper- G–d’s message of compassion- ical entity, despite our having hibit himself from partaking of of the world may be divid- been scattered throughout the a certain food or from partici- ed between gavra and heftza, The place comforts me; the fact that my second set globe and subject to persecution pating in a certain activity, he subject and object; indeed, and pogrom, despite our having must not desecrate his word” in most instances a human of children were killed because they chose to live in been chased from pillar to post? (Numbers 30:3). My revered being, especially if he is born Israel which, is indeed a dangerous war zone, because What idea and ideal have pre- teacher and mentor Rabbi Jo- to be free ought be seen as a they chose to realize our destiny which is Jerusalem, vented us from falling prey to seph B. Soloveitchik defines a “subject.” However, if a person assimilation, from disappearing vow as pertaining to an object is enslaved, he ipso facto has because they chose to guarantee Jewish future by into the sands of time as just (a person is on a diet, and he been turned into an “object,” risking their own present lives. another grain of sand, indistin- vows that henceforth bread having been denied his funda- guishableNew to Rochester from •the 2x9 other • 021810 grains, • DS HOUSEwill become for him as pro- mental freedom of choice. simply being “a part of” rather hibited as bacon), and an oath This distinction can serve us ly and I could not be comfort- ate righteousness and moral being “set apart from”? Why as pertaining to a subject (the well in attempting to answer ed; it all seemed so absurd and justice to the world. It is this have we insisted upon Jewish person himself will no longer our opening philosophical meaningless. sense of destiny which brought exclusivity, Jewish separatism, eat bread). query about what sets Jews “Now, however, although us to Israel and compels us Jewish apartness? In the first instance of a vow, apart and makes us unique. I am devastated and unable to fight against tyranny and Our biblical portion of Matot the emphasis is on the object, But, first, a personal experi- to speak to my comforters, I terrorism. ence of significance: At the end nevertheless do feel comforted. At this time, we remember of the Yom Kippur War, while “The place comforts me; the the three pure and holy sac- on an El Al airplane on the fact that my second set of chil- rificial Jewish victims of one way to Israel, I was shocked dren were killed because they year ago — Gil-Ad Shaer, Eyal New to to discover news about an ac- chose to live in Israel which, is Yifrah and Naftali Fraenkel quaintance of mine, who had indeed a dangerous war zone, who were captured and mer- Rochester? lost his first family in Aus- because they chose to realize cilessly murdered outside Alon chwitz, remarried and had two our destiny which is Jerusa- Shvut in Gush Etzion. Tragi- sons on the West Side of Man- lem, because they chose to cally an innocent Palestinian hattan, had moved to Israel guarantee Jewish future by boy, Muhammad Abu Khdeir, and lost his eldest boy in the risking their own present lives. was cruelly murdered at the Six Day War — I discovered Both sets of children were sa- hands of misguided and evil that he had now lost his only cred sacrifices, but the first set Jewish teenagers. The Gush remaining son in the Yom Kip- were passive objects whereas lies geographically between pur War. the second were dynamic sub- Hebron — where G–d initial- I made a condolence call as jects who actively fought for ly chose Abraham and made soon as I got off the plane. our Jewish future! him the father of a multitude My disconsolate friend was Yes, the place comforts of nations including Ishma- sitting on the floor with his me…” el because he was teaching wife, surrounded by would-be Allow me to interpret this his descendants G–d’s path of comforters; no one, however, distraught but wise father’s compassionate righteousness said a word, so that the atmo- words on the basis of yet an- and moral justice (Gen. 18:18- sphere was tense with a heavy other insight from Rav Solove- 19) — and Jerusalem, where silence which shouted up- ichik. In Kol Dodi Dofek, my Jewish and world history will wards to heaven in tear-filled rebbe distinguishes between culminate in the rebuilding of protest. As I quietly intoned the Holocaust experience in a Holy Temple from whence the condolence formula: “May which the Jews were united Zion’s message of a Torah of the Place [Makom, a synonym by a common fate (goral) foist- peace and redemption will be for G–d] comfort you among ed upon them from without, accepted by all the nations of The Jewish Ledger will the mourners of Zion and Je- from a largely sinister gentile the globe. Now too, the “place” rusalem”, my friend looked world cooperating enthusias- (makom) comforts us in our make you feel at home. up. “Why does the blessing tically with the “final solu- period of national rebirth — use the word Makom and not tion” of Nazi Germanys — among the mourners of Zion Want to know about happenings in your community, Elokim or Hashem?” He didn’t and the Sinai experience, in and Jerusalem. b your neighborhood? About local Jewish events and wait for a reply, but himself which the Jews were united Shabbat Shalom issues, like anti-Semitism, that impact you and your children? Want to know who’s getting married? Or promoted? How about where to dine, shop? The latest Rabbi (Continued from Page 1)

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Farrakhan: Jews Poisoned Me to Digitizing (Continued from Page 2) Test Whether I’m a Man of God year when we signed a big deal all about Zionist literature or to be able to publish the source Yiddish literature? Or should In addition, Farrakhan said sheets of Nechama Leibowitz. it be a corner of Sefaria? So that he is the one who ex- Because most of those voic- basically it’s something we’re posed those who “suck the es are more recent, most of considering now. blood” of the poor. Urging those voices are under copy- What do you see as the long- American mayors and gover- right. So it’s a harder process term future of Sefaria? nors not to allow their police for us. When we’re not dealing The process of dealing with forces to train in Israel, Farra- with public domain texts, we data and creating software khan claimed that Israel is the have to negotiate with the con- doesn’t end because software is reason that there are guns, tent owners. We’re also actively always changing and the tech- drugs, and counterfeit money working on texts specifically for nologies we have are always in black neighborhoods. He the Mizrahi community that we changing. There is an unend- added that Israel will suffer feel like in our first pass, we ing need to have an organiza- from divine retribution and didn’t pay enough attention to. tion to continually develop the that it will not last long. We’ve gotten a lot of feedback technology that holds Torah, “I represent the uncovering from our users, so we’re work- even if it’s just the Torah that of their wickedness, fulfill- ing through a list of works that exists already, just to keep that ing the judgment that God we’re going after. relevant and useful. The new has come to bring down on What are the other applica- iPhone comes out, and the new America and the world,” said tions that you’re thinking of VR experience comes out, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan (Archives: Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP) Farrakhan. for the Sefaria software and its the new brain implant chip for “So that’s why they hate unique approach to text? learning text comes out. Just to (JNS) — On July 4, Nation showitz and former Trump me, Americans. Because they We’ve been thinking about keep the digital experience rel- of Islam leader Louis Farra- administration Middle East are wicked and they know all different options. We think evant is an unending process. khan delivered a three-hour negotiator Jason Greenblatt they cannot say that I am about other areas in literature, I think that adding texts to speech that was streamed live are Satan, and emphasized lying about them. They just American poetry. We think the library and adding features on the Nation of Islam’s You- that it is his job to expose say: ‘He is a bigot. He is an- about Shakespeare. We think to the library is also somewhat Tube channel. In the speech, Satan so that every Muslim ti-Semitic,’” he added. about Christian texts. We get of an unending process, and Farrakhan said that Jews had picks up a stone against him “Israel, let me tell you, your a lot of requests from people changing the kinds of experi- poisoned him with “radiated like they do during the pil- day is here now. You don’t who want to have a Sefaria for ences that people are capable seed” to test whether he was grimage rituals in Mecca. have to applaud. The God of Christian texts or Muslim texts, of having with our texts, I see truly a man of God, and that Farrakhan also said that the justice has something for you, other religious traditions. We’ve that as an ongoing process that his survival is proof that he reason Jews hate him is be- Israel. 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being heavily damaged, Mass Virgin Mary Statue was celebrated Saturday and in New York City Sunday, according to the local Vandalized news. Another statue of the Virgin Mary was vandalized in New Historic California York City on July 10th. Church Goes Up The Diocese of Brooklyn an- in a Blaze nounced police are investigat- Around the same time as the ing the incident in which the Florida incident, a 249-year-old statue at Cathedral Prep School Catholic church in the Archdio- and Seminary in Queens had cese of Los Angeles caught fire. “IDOL” spray-painted on it at 3 The San Gabriel church, a.m. Friday morning, the Cath- The interior of the San Gabriel Mission is damaged following a morning fire, Saturday, July 11, in San Gabriel, Calif. which was undergoing reno- olic News Agency reports. The fire destroyed the rooftop and most of the interior of the nearly 250-year-old California church that was under- vations for its upcoming 250th Fr. James Kuroly, rector and going renovation. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) anniversary, went up in flames president of Cathedral Prep, around 4 a.m., burning the roof called the incident “an act of dents and abolitionists. Activist cial media point out the lack not the biggest story of the day.” and insides of the church. hatred.” Shaun King called for all imag- of mainstream coverage of the Sean Feucht, a California The cause of the fire is under “Obviously, this tragedy sad- es depicting Jesus as a “White weekend incidents. worship leader and pastor, com- investigation. But the recent dens us deeply but it also re- European” and his mother to “Churches are being burned menting on the incidents asked, destruction of monuments to news our hope and faith in be torn down because they’re to the ground. What?,” Mike “Where’s the outrage?” Junipero Serra, the founder of the Lord as he has shown his forms of “White supremacy” Cernovich, a controversial the California mission system goodness in the many people and “racist propaganda.” right-leaning author, said in Florida Church Attacked — whom Indigenous activists who have already reached out Meanwhile, people on so- a video on Twitter. “Why is this While Parishioners view as a symbol of oppres- to us,” Kuroly said. “We are Prepare for Mass sion — will be a factor in the sincerely grateful for the help A man in Florida plowed investigation, Capt. Antonio we have received as well as his vehicle into the Queen of Negrete of the San Gabriel Fire the prayers. Please continue

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from a potential catastrophe preparing for morning Mass 11 news outlet. ted this act of vandalism and EVERY 10 MINUTES! on Saturday, poured gasoline “This will be another box hatred toward Our Lady and in the foyer, and then set the that they’re going to check off,” the Church.” alone building on fire before driving he said, adding, “It’s a tragic but I’m never alone. off, the Marion County Sheriff’s loss for our city. It’s our city Other Church Incidents I have Life Alert.® Office reports. identifier.” Over the Weekend Steven Anthony Shields, Also, another church fire in 24, was arrested and charged Virgin Mary Statue San Diego is being investigated One press of a button with attempted murder, arson, in Boston Torched by police as the 12:30 a.m. Sun- sends help fast, 24/7, burglary, and evading arrest. A statue of the Virgin Mary day morning blaze seems “sus- even when you He told investigators what he was set on fire outside a Boston picious,” the department’s can’t reach a phone. did was “awesome” and that church Saturday night, NBC 10 Metro Arson Strike Team said. he was on a “mission” as Boston reports. Calvary Baptist is a histori- he smiled and laughed while Boston police are investigat- cally Black church, though its admitting to setting the church ing a reported fire outside St. website says it has become a ablaze, according to an arrest Peter Parish at 10 p.m., where “multi-cultural faith communi- affidavit obtained by the Ocala they found the burned stat- ty” in recent years. Star-Banner. ue. The flowers in the hands President Trump has ada-

AS SEEN ON Shields, who lives in nearby of Mary, the mother of Jesus mantly opposed toppling any TV Dunnellon, told a detective he Christ, were set on fire, dam- monuments and symbols, sign- has problems with the Catho- aging her arms up to her face. ing an executive order to pro- For a FREE brochure call: lic Church and has been diag- “I was shocked,” Pastor John tect them, and punish offenders nosed with schizophrenia and Currie told the local news. with prison time. b Know Someone 5x • 5x5 • 060513 • DS HOUSE is not taking his medication, He explained the statue was © foxnews.com 1-855-942-1365 the Star-Banner reported. put up decades ago in memory Fox News’ Travis Fedschun Despite the church foyer of World War II veterans. contributed to this report. Now more than ever, make sure you and your loved ones stay connected to the Jewish world...

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Let at exactly this kind of venom- Tribe.” It includes New Testa- us be aware and expose them ous, inciting language, and we ment phrases and anti-Semitic for what they are: a tribe of urge the police to enforce the tropes, such as calling Jews parasites.” law,” said Jaime Kirzner-Rob- “so-called ‘inside manipula- The Friends of Simon Wi- erts, director of FSWC’s Cam- tors’ ” and stating “Everywhere esenthal Center has filed a paign Against Anti-Semitism. these people go, they infiltrate hate speech complaint with “There is no doubt that Tra- the media, they hijack the cen- the Royal Canadian Mounted vis Patron is willfully promot- tral bank, and they infect the Police, which is the Canadian ing hatred against the Jewish body politic like a parasite.” equivalent of the FBI in the people, and we are urging the The July 11 flier also accuses United States, against Patron. RCMP to take action and lay Jews of being “black sheep” “By calling Jews parasites, by charges against him as soon as who “hide and they perpetrate accusing Jews of being invad- possible. The hate spewed by and they pull the strings … ers and conspiring to control Mr. Patron has absolutely no And they laugh about it … And the media and banking system, place in our country.” they watch us … And we fight this man is evoking some of the Incitement of hatred towards each other … And they profit most dangerous anti-Semitic an identifiable group and the from our wars … And they seek tropes in history,” said Rabbi promotion of genocide are il- to control and demoralize us Meyer May, executive director legal in Canada, as outlined in every aspect of what we try of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. by sections 318 and 319 of the to do.” “Canada’s hate speech laws Criminal Code of Canada. b The flier then states, “It’s their world and we’re just a GUTTERS number to them. 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by YAAKOV LAPPIN the Jerusalem Institute for Strat- The stated aim is to constrict (JNS) — A new report that egy and Security (JISS) and at Iranian activity in Syria. maps out the ways in which Iran’s the Alma Center, authored the In the report, Mansharof noted overseas elite unit, the Quds report. He told JNS that a gap that “Syria is one of the main Force, operates in Syria under in publicly available knowledge destinations Quds Forces are ac- various guises has called on the exists about the various ways in tive in today. This is based on the United States to designate three which the Quds Force is active in Iranian strategy, which strives organizations tied to the notori- states outside of Iran. to exploit the war in the coun- ous unit as terror organizations. Mansharof’s report was pub- try and Assad’s dependence on The Quds Force of Iran’s Islam- lished at the Alma Research Iranian support (alongside Rus- ic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Education Center, an Israeli sia), in order to turn Syria into a promotes terrorism and violent organization that conducts in- front base against Israel, equipped subversive activities in order to depth geopolitical research, and with factories to manufacture ad- expand Iran’s influence across which is headed by Lt. Col. (res.) vanced weapons, and to maintain Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with a billboard of Supreme Leader the Middle East. It was com- Sarit Zehavi, a former military and strengthen Hezbollah’s supply Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the background. (Wikimedia Commons) manded by Maj. Gen. Qassem intelligence officer. Alma is an route into Lebanon and the access Soleimani until Jan. 3, when he education and research center to the Mediterranean Sea.” to the various pro-Iranian Shi’ite Mansharof interviewed senior was assassinated in a U.S. drone dedicated to studying the securi- militias in Iraq during the war former officials from the Persian strike in Baghdad, and is now ty challenges on Israel’s northern ‘Use of Associations, against U.S.-led coalition forces Gulf as part of his doctoral thesis, under the command of Esmail border. Charities and (2011-2003).” which analyzed relations between Ghaani. The unit funds, trains “It is important that the U.S. Humanitarian Yet so far, “it has not been in- Iran and Shi’ite communities in and arms a host of non-state rad- administration designates the Organizations’ cluded in the U.S. sanctions list the Gulf region. In conducting Regarding the three associa- (although the foundation’s Leb- his current research, he fused tions used by the Quds Forces anese branch came under U.S. information from WikiLeaks doc- use to operate throughout Syria, sanctions in 2010 for being an uments with the Arab and Iranian Mansharof wrote in his report Iranian money-transfer pipeline media. He also scanned Iranian that “the Iranian Red Crescent for Hezbollah institutions). In opposition sources. serves as a cover for Quds Forces Syria, the foundation’s activities “When I took this information and the Iranian Intelligence Office are linked directly to areas of and connected it with my re- (MOIS), making extensive use to strategic importance for Iran, search from the Iranian media, I advance Iranian subversion in which are critical to its Syria saw that I could really complete various countries including Leb- expansion plan,” said the report. the puzzle. The Iranian regime anon, Bahrain, Yemen and Iraq.” Mansharof’s report assessed does not want this information Based on WikiLeaks docu- that it is likely that “the Recon- to be public. Iranian protesters ments, Mansharof stated that struction Organization of the who are calling on the regime during the Second Lebanon War Holy Shrines appear to be part of to forget about Syria and look in the summer of 2006, the Quds the alleged civilian organizations after their basic needs want their Force used the Iranian Red Cres- intended to assist Iran’s establish- government to spend billions of cent as a cover to smuggle mili- ment efforts in Syria, financing dollars on Iranian civilians. Yet tary equipment and weapon sup- and arming the Shi’ite militias we know about the huge sums plies from Iran to Lebanon. operating there and may even be that Iran sends to Assad. And we STAND OUT “In light of the extensive histo- transferring financial assistance know that Iran is in competition ry the association accumulated to the [Bashar] Assad regime.” with Russia over Syria. So the Today, it’s not good enough to be one of the crowd. You’ve got to in the European and Middle East The foundation’s official role Iranian regime is very deeply stand out, be different from the competition. You need a targeted arenas, it is likely that it serves as is to renovate and look after holy invested in the Syrian story — to ad campaign that’s professional, specialized and affordable. Get a cover for Quds Forces missions Shi’ite sites in Syria, such as Zay- the point where it is difficult to noticed. Get your fair share, and more. STAND OUT IN A CROWD. in Syria as well,” it added. nab’s tomb in Damascus. believe they would reverse out of The Imam Khomeini Relief In March 2020, the U.S. Trea- Syria,” said Mansharof. Foundations has a stated pur- sury sanctioned the Iraqi branch “Iran is making sophisticated pose to “eradicate poverty and of the organization after con- and cynical use of associations, Call 427-2468 provide regime support to the cluding that it is ruled by the charities and humanitarian or- Weekly Since 1924 disadvantaged. Khamenei direct- IRGC and had “served the Quds ganizations to export the Is- ly appoints the chairperson of the Forces in order to send weaponry lamic revolution,” he added. foundation,” said the report. shipments to Iraq via an Iraqi “It has two objectives: to make ical actors, including Hezbollah, three organizations analyzed in However, the “foundation corporation, the Kosar Company, strategic regions across Syria Shi’ite militias in Syria and Iraq, this study as terror organiza- serves as one of the key chan- also controlled by Quds Forces as Shi’ite as possible, and to and the Houthis in Yemen.One It solution also tions,” statedfor oxygenMansharof, naming at nels of the Quds Force worldwide used by them, as well to collect turn Syria into a forward base maintains an extensivehome, weapons away, the Iranian and Redfor Crescent, travel the and so for example, according intelligence in Iraq and to trans- for Israel, which would provide trafficking network.Introducing theImam INOGEN Khomeini ONE Relief Founda- to WikiLeaks documents, was fer funds to Hezbollah. 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(1) Its principal (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, Notice of formation of limited liability character of the Company: any and all company (LLC). Name: 17 Fourth Ave be maintained by LP in NV is c/o CT Cor- office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The New York. (2) The Secretary of State has lawful activities. LLC. Articles of Organization filed with poration System, 701 S Carson St, Ste 200, Secretary of State has been designated been designated as its agent and the post Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) Carson City, NV 89701. A list of names and NOTICE OF FORMATION OF as agent upon whom process against it office address to which the Secretary of on June 3, 2020. New York office loca- addresses of all general partners is avail- EXODIA TECH HOLDINGS LLC may be served and a copy of any process State shall mail a copy of any process tion: Monroe County. Principal business able from SSNY. The certificate of limited Exodia Tech Holdings LLC filed Arti- will be mailed to the PLLC, 510 Clinton against it is: the LLC, c/o Old Republic location: 1924 Dublin Road, Penfield, partnership is filed with the NV Secretary cles of Organization with NYS on June 24, Square, Rochester, NY 14604. (3) Purpose: Exchange, 500 Ygnacio Valley Rd. Ste 290, New York 14526. SSNY is designated as of State, 202 North Carson St, Carson City, 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe Any lawful purpose. Walnut Creek, CA 94596. (3) Purpose: Any agent upon whom process against the NV 89701. Purpose: any lawful activity. County, New York. (2) The Secretary of LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a lawful purpose. State has been designated as its agent NOTICE OF FORMATION OF copy of any such process to: 1924 Dublin Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company and the post office address to which the LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of Formation of Limited Road, Penfield, New York 14524. LLC is to 1. Name of Limited Liability Company is Secretary of State shall mail a copy of Notice of formation of limited liability Liability Company (“LLC”) be managed by one or more members. LILAC CAPITAL LLC. 2. Articles of Organi- any process against it is: the LLC, 1 S Clin- company (LLC). Name: 535 Ridge LLC. Name: BL20 LLC. Articles of Organi- LLC is organized to engage in any lawful zation were filed by Department of State ton Avenue #2207, Rochester, New York Articles of Organization filed with Sec- zation filed with the Secretary of State act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the of New York on JUNE 4, 2020. 3. County 14607. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. retary of State of New York (SSNY) on with the State of New York (“SSNY”) on: Limited Liability Company Law. of Office: Monroe. 4. The Company does June 3, 2020. New York office location: June 10, 2020. Office Location: County of: not have a specific date of dissolution. PUBLICATION NOTICE OF Monroe County. SSNY is designated as Monroe. Principal Business Location: 3177 Notice of Application for Authority 5. The Secretary of State has been des- ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY agent upon whom process against the Latta Road, Box 119, Rochester, New York Majane & Company, LLC (“LLC”) ignated as agent upon whom process LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a 14612. Purpose: any and all lawful act filed an Application for Authority with against the Company may be served. The The name of the Limited Liability Com- the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/4/20. copy of any such process to: 15 Emerald or activity. The Secretary of State of the address to which process shall be mailed: pany is Monroe Avenue 3130, LLC; its LLC was formed in CT on 03/10/03. Office 2425 CLOVER ST., BLDG. A LOWER LEVEL, Articles of Organization were filed with Hill Circle, Fairport, NY 14450. LLC is to State of New York has been designated location: Monroe County. SSNY is desig- ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 14618. 6. Pur- the Secretary of State on June 16, 2020; be managed by one or more members. as agent of the LLC upon whom process nated as agent of LLC upon whom process pose: Any lawful activity. the County within New York in which LLC is organized to engage in any lawful against it may be served. SSNY shall mail against it may be served and shall mail its office is to be located is Monroe; the act or activity for which limited liability a copy of any process to: 3177 Latta Road, a copy of process to 34 Lafayette Road, NOTICE OF FORMATION Secretary of State has been designated as companies may be organized under the Rochester, NY 14609. Address required to Box 119, Rochester, New York 14612 Mohawk Home Services, LLC filed agent upon whom process may be served; Limited Liability Company Law. be maintained by LLC in CT is c/o Incorpo- Articles of Organization with Sec. of State NOTICE OF FORMATION OF the post office address to which the Sec- rating Services, Ltd., 59 Dogwood Road, (SSNY) on June 15, 2020. Office loca- PROFESSIONAL SERVICE LIMITED retary of State shall mail the process is NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Wethersfield, CT 06109. The certificate of tion: Monroe County. SSNY designated as LRJ LANZAFAME, LLC LIABILITY COMPANY 9 Rippengale Road, Pittsford, New York formation is filed with the CT Secretary agent of LLC upon whom process against of State, 165 Capitol Ave., Suite 1000, 14534; the purpose of its business is to LRJ LANZAFAME, LLC, filed Articles RESTREPO-JARAMILLO ORTHODON- it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of Hartford, CT 06106. Purpose: any lawful conduct any lawful business under law. of Organization with NYS on March 6, TICS PLLC has filed Articles of Organiza- process to the LLC, 45 Amberwood Place, activity. 2015. Its principal office is in Monroe tion with the Secretary of State on June Rochester, New York 14626. Purpose: any NOTICE OF FORMATION County, New York. The principal business 2, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe NOTICE OF FORMATION OF lawful activity. Dano’s Tree Stump Grinding LLC location is 633 Yardley Court, Webster, County. The Secretary of State has been ROC CITY ENTERPRISES LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION filed Articles of Organization with Sec. of New York 14580. The Secretary of State designated as agent upon whom process Roc City Enterprises LLC filed its 714 TITUS AVE, LLC has filed Articles State (SSNY) on June 22, 2020. Office loca- has been designated as its agent and the against it may be served and a copy of Articles of Organization with the New York Secretary of State on June 16, 2020. of Organization with the Secretary of tion: Monroe County. SSNY designated as post office address to which the Secretary any process will be mailed to The LLC, Its principal business location is 2604 State on June 18, 2020. Its office is locat- agent of LLC upon whom process against of State shall mail a copy of any process 214 Bretlyn Circle, Rochester, New York Elmwood Avenue #155, Rochester, New ed in Monroe County. The Secretary of it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy against it is c/o LRJ LANZAFAME, LLC, 633 14618. Its business is to engage in any York, 14618. The Secretary of State has State has been designated as agent upon of process to the LLC, 151 Dorsey Road, Yardley Court, Webster, New York 14580. lawful activity for which professional been designated as its agent and the whom process against it may be served Rochester, New York 14616. Purpose: any Purpose: Any lawful purpose. service limited liability companies may be post office address to which the Secretary and a copy of any process will be mailed lawful activity. Page 12 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, July 16, 2020

National … Orthodox Organization Bonei Olam Raises Over $6 Million for Fertility Treatments Amid Covid

by AVITAL CHIZHIK- said one Orthodox mother who GOLDSCHMIDT gave birth to a child earlier this When Schlomo Bochner, a year. “Bonei Olam offered to Bobov Hasid and non-prof- cover all expenses. It was so it founder, set about raising helpful to know that I can focus money to help Orthodox cou- on the procedures without hav- ples conceive healthy pregnan- ing to worry about how I am cies, he had no idea how much going to pay for it.” people would donate amid the The assistance, though, Covid-19 financial crisis. comes with conditions. “They The answer: well over $6 help a lot of people, it’s a tre- million. mendous chesed what they do, That’s how much the Ortho- raising all these funds,” said a dox fertility support organi- Haredi woman who is currently zation Bonei Olam has raised undergoing treatment with sub- in an online fundraising cam- sidies from Bonei Olam. “Any paignthis week thus far. money comes with a price you Bochner pointed to the coro- have to pay, and the price you navirus pandemic and the new have to pay is holding by their challenges it has wrought on rule book, by their chumros,” those seeking fertility treat- she said, referring to religious ments for the largesse. “Quar- (Image by Bonei Olam/Youtube) stringencies around sperm re- antine has taught us all the trieval for IVF, a procedure that meaning of loneliness,” Boch- and IUI treatments. that until recently, Orthodox medical issue, which makes it rabbinic authorities disagree ner wrote. “For our couples, By Monday night, the group couples dealing with infertility incredibly difficult for people on. “Especially when you’re loneliness remains a fact of life. had already surpassed its $5 faced great stigmas, living in a to get to the right resources. going through infertility, we’re The ever-present empty feeling million goal, raising $6.3 mil- society that surrounds procre- By advertising and opening just not in a place to be strict of being alone follows them lion. ation and family values. up the discussion, and making now.” wherever they go.” As part of the campaign, “Infertility has been a events in every community, In the Haredi community, Founded in 1999 by Bochner Bonei Olam is asking women taboo for many years, not at Bonei Olam tries to take a little the organization has become and his wife Chanie after they to combine their Shabbat can- all exclusively to the Ortho- bit of the taboo away from this synonymous with fertility endured 22 years of infertility, dle-lighting ritual with a small dox Jewish community,” said topic, as well as offering guid- medicine — and its ubiquity Bonei Olam subsidizes fertility weekly donation towards their one Orthodox woman who ance and support to these cou- among frumfamilies, across treatments and genetic research work – a further step in nor- received financial support ples, helping them financially the spectrum of Orthodoxy, has in the Orthodox community. malizing conversations around from the organization. She, through the process.” shifted the way many think of According to its website, the infertility in the Orthodox com- like other women interviewed For many Orthodox fami- infertility. organization has subsidized munity. While many charities for this story, declined to give lies, these subsidies are essen- As one woman, who had re- treatments for 8,723 children try to connect their work with her name for privacy reasons. tial, and twenty years after its ceived medical guidance from to date. Their 2020 campaign candle-lighting (often by pro- “Until today, people suffering founding, just about everyone Bonei Olam’s team, said: “The offers donors opportunities to viding a pushkebox, to be held through infertility feel they knows of someone who had more we speak about Bonei sponsor a variety of expenses next to a household’s candles), don’t want to discuss it and a “Bonei Olam” baby. “Going Olam, the more everyone is ready for Orthodox couples — con- connecting the ritual to a cause have a harder time reaching through infertility treatment is to talk about infertility.” b sultations, blood work, drugs, like fertility is notable, given out for help than any other very stressful and expensive,” ©Forward. Reprinted with authorization. Legal Notices …

NOTICE OF FORMATION Department of State on June 29, 2020. Its authority to act for the Company solely Jurisdiction of Organization: Delaware. Division of Corporations, 401 Federal St., 121 SOUTHVIEW TERRACE, LLC office is located in Monroe County. The by virtue of being a member. Purpose/ Date of Organization: 6/22/2020. Office Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any business Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State has been designated character of the Company: any and all location: Monroe County. Principal busi- permitted under law. Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 6/25/2020. Office as agent of the Company upon whom it lawful activities. ness location: 986 Monroe Ave., Roches- location: Monroe County. SSNY designat- may be served and a copy of any process Notice of Filing of Application Notice of Filing of Application ter, NY 14620. SSNY designated as agent ed as agent of LLC upon whom process shall be mailed to 3 SWEDEN LANE, APT for Authority of Foreign LLC. of the LLC upon whom process may be for Authority of Foreign LLC. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail 34, BROCKPORT, NY 14420. The purpose Waters Edge 1 Apartments LLC served and SSNY shall mail process to Waters Edge 2 Apartments LLC copy of process to c/o the Company, of the Company is any lawful purpose. (LLC) filed App. of Auth. with Secy. of (LLC) filed App. of Auth. with Secy. of 117 Southview Terrace, Rochester, New c/o Excelsior Communities, 986 Monroe State of NY (SSNY) on June 25, 2020. York 14620 Notice of Formation of Limited Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Address of State of NY (SSNY) on June 25, 2020. Liability Company (“LLC”) Jurisdiction of Organization: Delaware. office required to be maintained in the Jurisdiction of Organization: Delaware. Date of Organization: 6/22/2020. Office NOTICE OF FORMATION of Name: JJB Mechanical, LLC. Articles jurisdiction of formation is United Corpo- Date of Organization: 6/22/2020. Office HOME GROCERS LLC location: Monroe County. Principal busi- of Organization filed with the Secretary rate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Rd. Ste C, Articles of Organization filed with the of State with the State of New York ness location: 986 Monroe Ave., Roches- location: Monroe County. Principal busi- Dover, DE 19904. The name and address Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on (“SSNY”) on: May 18, 2020. Office Lo- ter, NY 14620. SSNY designated as agent ness location: 986 Monroe Ave., Roches- June 11, 2020. Location: Monroe County. cation: 235 Elmdorf Avenue, Rochester, of the LLC upon whom process may be of the authorized official in its jurisdic- ter, NY 14620. SSNY designated as agent SSNY designated as agent for service of New York 14619 County of: Monroe. served and SSNY shall mail process to tion of organization where a copy of its of the LLC upon whom process may be process on LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy Principal Business Location: 235 Elmdorf c/o Excelsior Communities, 986 Monroe articles or organization is filed is: Jeffrey served and SSNY shall mail process to Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Address of W. Bullock, Delaware Secretary of State, of process to: HOME GROCERSLLC, 115 Avenue, Rochester, New York 14619. c/o Excelsior Communities, 986 Monroe Liberty Pole Way, Rochester, New York Purpose: any and all lawful act or activi- office required to be maintained in the Division of Corporations, 401 Federal St., Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Address of 14604. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. ty. The Secretary of State of the State of jurisdiction of formation is United Corpo- Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any business New York has been designated as agent rate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Rd. Ste C, office required to be maintained in the Notice of Organization: permitted under law. of the LLC upon whom process against Dover, DE 19904. The name and address jurisdiction of formation is United Corpo- BlueWave Boating, LLC was filed it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the authorized official in its jurisdic- Notice of Filing of Application rate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Rd. Ste C, with SSNY on 6/29/20. Office: Monroe of any process to: 235 Elmdorf Avenue, tion of organization where a copy of its for Authority of Foreign LLC Dover, DE 19904. The name and address County. SSNY designated as agent of Rochester, New York 14619 articles or organization is filed is: Jeffrey Waters Edge 1 Management LLC the LLC upon whom process may be of the authorized official in its jurisdic- W. Bullock, Delaware Secretary of State, (LLC) filed App. of Auth. with Secy. of served. PO address which SSNY shall NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION tion of organization where a copy of its Division of Corporations, 401 Federal St., State of NY (SSNY) on June 25, 2020. mail any process against the LLC served Notice of formation of limited liability Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any business articles or organization is filed is: Jeffrey Jurisdiction of Organization: Delaware. upon it: 28 Mount Liberty Dr, Penfield company. Name: FSI MLFD LLC (the permitted under law. W. Bullock, Delaware Secretary of State, Date of Organization: 6/22/2020. Office NY 14526. Purpose is to engage in any Company). Articles of Organization filed Division of Corporations, 401 Federal St., lawful activity. with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on NOTICE OF FORMATION OF location: Monroe County. Principal busi- LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any business 04/13/20. NY office location: Monroe ness location: 986 Monroe Ave., Roches- NOTICE OF FORMATION County. SSNY is designated as agent 535 Exch Court IL LLC filed Articles ter, NY 14620. SSNY designated as agent permitted under law. NW UJAMAA LLC of Organization with the NY Department upon whom process against the Compa- of the LLC upon whom process may be Articles of Organization filed with of State on 6/24/2020. Its office is located NOTICE OF FORMATION ny may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy served and SSNY shall mail process to Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 06/29/2020. in Monroe County. The Secretary of State of any such process to: c/o the Company, ALEXANDRA ELISE PHOTOGRAPHY Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of the Company c/o Excelsior Communities, 986 Monroe 90 Goodway Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. LLC has filed Articles of Organization designated as agent of LLC upon whom upon whom process against it may be Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Address of The Company is to be managed by one with the Secretary of State on July 2, process against it may be served. SSNY served, and a copy shall be mailed to 600 office required to be maintained in the or more managers. No members of the 2020. Its office is located in Monroe shall mail copy of process to c/o the Com- East Avenue, Suite 200, Rochester, NY jurisdiction of formation is United Corpo- Company shall be liable in their capacity pany, 1274 Dewey Avenue, Rochester, 14607. Its purpose is any lawful business. rate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Rd. Ste C, County. The Secretary of State has been as members of the Company for debts, New York 14613 designated as agent upon whom process obligations or liabilities of the Company. Notice of Filing of Application Dover, DE 19904. The name and address against it may be served and a copy of NOTICE OF FORMATION OF No member of the Company, solely by for Authority of Foreign LLC of the authorized official in its jurisdic- BOWER HOLDINGS, LLC reason of being a member, is an agent Waters Edge 2 Management LLC tion of organization where a copy of its any process will be mailed to The LLC, 27 BOWER HOLDINGS, LLC filed Articles of the Company for the purpose of its (LLC) filed App. of Auth. with Secy. of articles or organization is filed is: Jeffrey Trout Creek Run, Mendon, NY 14472. The of Organization with New York State business, and no member shall have the State of NY (SSNY) on June 25, 2020. W. Bullock, Delaware Secretary of State, purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity.  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, July 16, 2020 • Page 13

The News in Brief … Authorized to Publish England’s Senior Reform Rabbi, Laura LEGAL NOTICES Janner-Klausner, Is Stepping Down in Monroe, Ontario, Genesee and by MARCY OSTER movement announced. Jewish young adults who are Orleans Counties. (JTA) — England’s senior Reform Chair Geoffrey Marx involved in online communities a Reform movement rabbi, Laura said she “has made Britain and seeing how this impacts on Janner-Klausner, has led the better.” their perception and participa- movement in supporting ref- Janner-Klausner will begin tion in our in-person communi- ugees, fighting anti-Semitism, working on a doctorate in digi- ty activities. I am also going to working for LGBT rights and tal theology at Durham Univer- be training leaders in resilience, making the progressive case sity at the start of the coming especially in times of crisis.” for Israel. academic year, according to a The statement said “Re- Now Janner-Klausner, who statement posted on Reform form Judaism will now take has led Reform Judaism since Judaism’s website. a period of time to review and 2012, is leaving that post. She She said her research “will consult before announcing its 427-2468 • [email protected] will step down on Oct. 1, the be looking at the experience of intentions.” b Legal Notices …

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF of engaging in any and all business activi- Road, Byron, NY 14422. Principal Busi- in their capacity as members of the Com- to engage in any lawful act or activity for LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ties permitted under the laws of the State ness Location: 6734 Hessenthaler Road, pany for debts, obligations or liabilities of which limited liability companies may be Amira Parenting LLC filed Articles of of New York. Byron, NY 14422. The Foreign Limited the Company. No member of the Compa- organized under LLCL. Liability Company Was In Existence In Its ny, solely by reason of being a member, is Organization with the NYS Department NOTICE OF FORMATION NOTICE OF FORMATION of State on 7/2/2020. Its office is located Jurisdiction Of Formation At The Time It an agent of the Company for the purpose Notice of formation of limited liabil- Applied For Authority To Conduct Busi- of its business, and no member shall have 3725 S Parker Road, LLC filed Articles in Monroe County. The Secretary of State ity company (LLC) Shouting Hill, LLC. of Organization with the NY Secretary of is designated as agent of the Company ness Within New York State And Is Cur- the authority to act for the Company sole- Articles of Organization filed with the rently In Existence. Authorized Officer State on June 30, 2020. Its office is located upon whom process against it may be ly by virtue of being a member. Purpose/ Secretary of State of the State of New Where Articles Of Organization Are Filed: character of the Company: any and all in Monroe County. The Secretary of State served, and a copy of any process shall be York (SSNY) on June 30, 2020. Office lo- Secretary Of State Of Delaware, John G. lawful activities. has been designated as its agent upon mailed to 6 Stonegate Lane, Pittsford, NY cation: Ontario County. SSNY designated Townsend Building, 401 Federal Street, whom process may be served and a copy 14534. Its purpose is any lawful business. as agent upon whom process against it Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901 NOTICE OF FILING OF APPLICATION of any process shall be mailed to 26 Au- may be served. Address to which SSNY FOR AUTHORITY OF LILY CACHE tumn Wood, Rochester, New York 14624. Notice of Formation of Limited shall mail a copy of process is 48 Howell NOTICE OF FORMATION CREEK BOLINGBROOK, IL. LLC The purpose of the Company is any lawful Liability Company (“LLC”) Street, Canandaigua, NY 14424. Purpose: TRIPPANY SIGN COMPANY LLC (the Name: Lily Cache Creek Boling- activity permitted by laws of New York. Name: 63 West Road, LLC. Articles any lawful purpose. “LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with brook, Il. LLC (LLC). Authority filed with of Organization filed with the Secretary the New York Department of State on NY Secretary of State (SSNY): 07/01/2020. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GP Property Inpections LLC of State with the State of New York NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MAY 1, 2020. Its office is located in MON- LLC organized in Delaware: 06/27/2014. LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (“SSNY”) on: July 7, 2020. Office Location: ROE County. The Secretary of State has NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY GP Property Inspections LLC filed 50 Ridgeland LLC filed Articles of Articles of Organization with NYS on County of: Monroe. Principal Business been designated as agent of the Com- designated as agent of LLC upon whom Organization with the NY Department 7/14/20. Its principal office is in Monroe Location: 4700 Clover Street, Honeoye pany upon whom process against it may process against it may be served. SSNY of State on 6/30/2020. Its office is located County, New York. The principal business Falls, New York 14472. Purpose: any and be served and a copy of any process shall mail copy of process to The LLC, 270 in Monroe County. The Secretary of State shall be mailed to THE LLC, 548 BRIDGE- Commerce Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. location is 402 Crosby Lane Rochester NY all lawful act or activity. The Secretary of is designated as agent of the Company 14612. The Secretary of State has been State of the State of New York has been WOOD DRIVE. ROCHESTER, NY 14623. Address of office maintained in juris- upon whom process against it may be diction of formation: Corporation Trust designated as its agent and the post office designated as agent of the LLC upon The purpose of the Company is any lawful served, and a copy shall be mailed to 50 purpose. Center, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, address to which the Secretary of State whom process against it may be served. Ridgeland Road, Rochester, NY 14623. Its Delaware 19801. Copy of Articles of Or- shall mail a copy of any process against SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: purpose is any lawful business. NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION ganization on file with Delaware Secre- it is c/o GP Property Inspections LLC 402 4700 Clover Street, Honeoye Falls, New Notice of formation of limited liability Crosby Lane Rochester NY 14612. Purpose: NOTICE OF FORMATION tary of State, 401 Federal Street, Suite York 14472 company. Name: Viking Advisors LLC 4, Dover, Delaware 19901. Purpose: Any Any lawful purpose. Macarthur Ellis Systems LLC filed (the Company). Articles of Organization lawful purpose. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LAZER Notice of Formation of LLC Articles of Organization with Sec. of State filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) GROUP OF ROCHESTER LLC 270 On East MM, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. (SSNY) on July 1, 2020. Office location: on 07/06/20. NY office location: Monroe NOTICE OF FORMATION OF of Org. with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) Monroe County. SSNY designated as County. SSNY is designated as agent upon LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Lazer Group of Rochester LLC filed on 07/07/2020. Office location: Monroe agent of LLC upon whom process against whom process against the Company may Notice of formation of limited liability Articles of Organization with NYS on 7/9/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Mon- County. SSNY designated as agent of the it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any company (LLC). Name: Revive RE LLC. Ar- roe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State LLC upon whom process may be served process to the LLC, 74 Selye Terrace, New such process to: c/o the Company, 128 ticles of Organization filed with Secretary York 14614. Purpose: any lawful activity. has been designated as agent upon whom and SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at Greece Ridge Center Drive, Rochester, NY of State of New York (SSNY) on July 10, 14626. The Company is to be managed 2020. New York office location: Monroe process against it may be served and a c/o Christa Construction, 64 Commercial NOTICE OF FORMATION copy of any process will be mailed to the St. Ste. 401, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: Motorific LLC filed Articles of Or- by one or more managers. No members County. Street address of the principal of the Company shall be liable in their business location, if any: none at this time. LLC, 919 S. Winton Road, Rochester, NY any business permitted under law. ganization with Sec. of State (SSNY) on 14618. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. July 8, 2020. Office location: Monroe capacity as members of the Company SSNY is designated as agent upon whom Notice of Formation of LLC County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for debts, obligations or liabilities of the process against the LLC may be served. LEGAL NOTICE: NOTICE OF 270 On East, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of upon whom process against it may be Company. No member of the Company, SSNY shall mail a copy of any such pro- FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Org. with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) served. SSNY shall mail copy of process solely by reason of being a member, is an cess to: P.O. Box 26347, Rochester, New on 07/07/2020. Office location: Monroe to the LLC, 164 Donovan Street, Suite 8, agent of the Company for the purpose of York 14626. LLC is to be managed by one The name of the Limited Liability Com- County. SSNY designated as agent of the Webster, New York 14580. Purpose: any its business, and no member shall have or more members. LLC is organized to pany is Roxy2DL, LLC. The Articles of the authority to act for the Company sole- engage in any lawful act or activity for LLC upon whom process may be served lawful activity. Organization were filed with the New ly by virtue of being a member. Purpose/ which limited liability companies may York Secretary of State on July 13, 2020. and SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at NOTICE OF FORMATION character of the Company: any and all be organized under the Limited Liability The office of the Company is located in c/o Christa Construction, 64 Commercial Lord of the Barflies LLC filed Articles lawful activities. Company Law. the County of Monroe, State of New York. St. Ste. 401, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: of Organization with Sec. of State (SSNY) The New York Secretary of State is desig- any business permitted under law. NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION NOTICE OF FORMATION OF on July 7, 2020. Office location: Monroe LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY nated as the agent of the Company upon County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC Notice of formation of limited liability whom process in any action or proceeding Notice of Formation of Limited Notice of formation of limited liabil- upon whom process against it may be company. Name: FSI Acquisitions LLC against it may be served, and the address Liability Company (“LLC”) ity company (LLC). Name: Luxe Devel- served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to (the Company). Articles of Organization to which the Secretary of State shall mail Name: HQ252, LLC. Articles of Orga- opment LLC. Articles of Organization the LLC, 77 East Blvd, Apt B-1, Rochester, filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) a copy of process in any action or proceed- nization filed with the Secretary of State filed with Secretary of State of New York New York 14610. Purpose: any lawful on 06/30/20. NY office location: Monroe ing against the Company served upon (SSNY) on July 10, 2020. New York office with the State of New York (“SSNY”) on: activity. County. SSNY is designated as agent upon him or her is 22 County Clare Crescent, location: Monroe County. Street address 6/29/2020. Office Location: County of: whom process against the Company may Fairport, New York 14450. The purpose of NOTICE OF FORMATION OF of the principal business location, if any: Monroe. Principal Business Location: 350 be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any the business is any lawful business. East Avenue, Suite 204, Rochester, New LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY such process to: c/o the Company, 90 none at this time. SSNY is designated as York 14604. Purpose: any and all lawful Notice of formation of limited liability Goodway Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. agent upon whom process against the NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY act or activity. The Secretary of State of company (LLC). Name: L2P Westside MM The Company is to be managed by one LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy the State of New York has been desig- LLC. Articles of Organization filed with or more managers. No members of the of any such process to: P.O. Box 26347, Notice of formation of limited liability Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) Company shall be liable in their capacity Rochester, New York 14626. LLC is to be company (LLC). Name: Palermo’s Market nated as agent of the LLC upon whom on July 9, 2020. New York office loca- as members of the Company for debts, managed by one or more members. LLC is LLC. Articles of Organization filed with process against it may be served. SSNY tion: Monroe County. Principal business obligations or liabilities of the Company. organized to engage in any lawful act or Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on shall mail a copy of any process to: 350 location: 312 State Street, Rochester, No member of the Company, solely by activity for which limited liability compa- July 15, 2020. New York office location: East Avenue, Suite 204, Rochester, New New York 14608. SSNY is designated as reason of being a member, is an agent nies may be organized under the Limited Monroe County. SSNY is designated as York 14604 agent upon whom process against the of the Company for the purpose of its Liability Company Law. agent upon whom process against the NOTICE LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy business, and no member shall have the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: 312 State Street, authority to act for the Company solely NOTICE OF FILING OF ARTICLES of any such process to: 21 Arnold Park, Articles of Organization with respect to OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED Rochester, New York 14608. LLC is to be by virtue of being a member. Purpose/ LIABILITY COMPANY Suite 8, Rochester, NY 14607. LLC is to Reside in Rochester, LLC, a New York managed by one or more members. LLC is character of the Company: any and all be managed by one or more members. 1) The name of limited liability com- limited liability company, were filed with organized to engage in any lawful act or lawful activities. 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Essay … Reflections On ‘Aliyah’ by RUTHIE BLUM Entebbe Raid on July 4, 1976, (JNS) — This week marks America’s bicentennial Indepen- the 43rd anniversary of my ali- dence Day. yah. In July 1977, I arrived in News of the spectacular hos- Israel for what I had thought tage-rescue operation in Uganda was going to be a 12-month exploded during the evening stint. But when I completed the like the fireworks that my par- one-year program for overseas ents and I watched from the students at the Hebrew Uni- Brooklyn Bridge apartment of versity the following summer, family friends. The jubilation I returned to the United States surrounding Israel’s phenom- not to remain there, but to tie enal bravery did not detract up loose ends. These includ- from the celebration of Ameri- ed informing the University of ca’s 200th birthday. On the con- Chicago, where I had spent my trary, it enhanced the sense on freshman and sophomore years, the part of the patriotic guests that I wouldn’t be back in the in attendance that the United fall, and persuading my parents States and Israel were two sides in New York that I hadn’t lost of a special partnership — one my marbles. that brings out the best in both, The latter turned out to be El Al Lockheed Constellation plane. (David Eldan via Wikimedia Commons) while illustrating the power of less of a problem than I had an- and potential for human great- ticipated. I wasn’t dropping out “white music” and announced way that I believed a guy should however: Had the topic been ness. of school, after all; just finishing to my uber-liberal peers — all of be, not someone whose flaws or different, the essay would have This uplifting sentiment was my degree at about one-tenth whom read Betty Friedan’s The misfortunes prevented him from been treated to a more sympa- hard to recreate when I got back of the price — and in a much Feminine Mystique and called dodging the draft. Nothing like thetic reading. to Chicago in September. For warmer climate, both literally marriage “no more than a piece the liberal Jewish boys I knew, It’s not as though I hadn’t one thing, Jimmy Carter was and figuratively. of paper” — that I was in col- whose way of impressing a date been keenly aware of that fact elected president a few weeks Indeed, the campus of the U lege to find a suitable husband. in those days was to let her pay when I schlepped through the later. That in itself was enough of C hit arctic temperatures in As if that weren’t sufficient for her own dinner. snow to the library to research to dampen my spirit. the winter, requiring everyone cause for being ostracized or Flaunting my right-wing ide- the 15-pager or during the hours It wasn’t even fun anymore to to wear down coats, fur-lined not taken seriously, I openly ar- ology was like a fashion state- that I spent banging it out on be an oddball — the only kid in water-proof boots, thick gloves gued against affirmative action ment, so it worked as a shtick my manual Olivetti—all the the dorm who was bored by Bob and ski masks with which to and disagreed with the mantra in social settings. But it was to while worried that I’d have to Dylan and Pink Floyd, yet could confront the fierce winds. It was that abortion is an issue of a my detriment when it emerged start typing from scratch if I sing the lyrics to every Jackson also a chilly environment for a woman’s right to reign over her in the classroom. failed to leave two spaces after 5 song; a Jewish Republican; teenager like me, who registered “own body.” Lacking the maturity to know a period. an upper-middle-class denizen as a Republican in my second Nor did I join the “amen when to err on the side of ap- In other words, my bad judge- of the Big Apple who held mar- semester as soon as I turned 18, crowd” ranting against the re- peasement, I opted to write a ment had been premeditated. riage and motherhood in higher preferred Motown to what the cently ended Vietnam War and term paper on black anti-Sem- So, too, was my subsequent esteem than a doctoral degree; kids on the block in my large- looking askance at the lone vet- itism. Whether the poor grade “impulse” to escape to the Holy a baby boomer who practically ly Hispanic and black neigh- eran among us. He impressed that it garnered was warranted Land — home of the comman- threw up at the sound of the borhood in Manhattan called me as a hero — manly in the is unclear. One thing is certain, dos who had carried out the (Reflections— Page 16)

Viewpoint … Anti-Semitism and Hate Speech are Rampant on Twitter. Policing Trump Doesn’t Solve the Problem. by EMILY SCHRADER intended. direct attack on the network. While the anti-Semitism on its platform, what is TEL AVIV (JTA) — President Donald Twitter has long faced criticism for executive order is deeply flawed and it dealing with instead? Trump has a well-established reputa- political bias from many directions. likely won’t stand up to legal scrutiny, In the past few weeks Twitter, inten- tion for being aggressive, petty and The far right argues that Twitter has it’s a serious act of hostility toward the tionally or not, provoked a fight with even at times completely incoherent on an agenda of silencing right-wing fig- social media site and will certainly rile Trump by adding warnings to multiple Twitter. On May 29, he crassly tweeted, ures such as Laura Loomer, and most Trump’s base. tweets. In May, Twitter added a fact “When the looting starts, the shooting recently Katie Hopkins, who were both While at war with the Trump admin- check to the president’s tweet about starts,” a phrase used by a white police permanently kicked off the platform. istration, Twitter is also ignoring far mail-in ballots with a point-by-point commissioner in regards to racial ten- Twitter also faces criticism for its con- more dangerous content. Iran, which refutation of his claims in its own voice. sions and riots in the 1960s. tinued failure to rein in Holocaust has banned Twitter for its own citizens, Note that Twitter at the time hadn’t fact- With the enhanced scrutiny on social denial, hate speech, Nazi imagery and routinely uses the platform to incite checked any of China’s misinformation media networks to stop hate speech openly anti-Semitic leaders like Louis against Israel and the United States, about COVID-19 by its diplomats, nor and misinformation, Twitter has im- Farrakhan and former Knights of the and has even shared an image calling Turkey’s propaganda campaigns nor plemented inconsistent policies to “fact KKK Grand Wizard David Duke. Only for the “Final Solution” — a cartoon in any other world leaders. Additionally, check” and label tweets from the presi- after massive uproar did Twitter re- which Iran controls Jerusalem. the entire world of “fact-checking” is dent and other public figures. Facebook move Farrakhan’s notorious tweet com- In recent weeks, Iranian leaders have fraught with errors from the left to the now plans to do the same. paring Jews to “termites,” and even also been vocal in latching on to the right. So why has Twitter made itself Unfortunately, attempts to moderate after that, it did not ban him from the Black Lives Matter movement in an the arbiter of truth, opening up the Trump’s behavior will do more harm platform. effort to criticize the United States. platform to accusations of hypocrisy than good. Far from solving the prob- While I find Trump’s looting and Twitter has not placed warnings on and selective enforcement? lem, it will perpetuate it: Just as the shooting tweet absolutely inappropri- tweets from Khamenei or other Iranian Regardless of how offensive and in- media ultimately helped Trump win the ate and offensive, I don’t see it as more leaders. Similarly, there’s a well-docu- appropriate Trump’s rhetoric is, Twit- election by giving him so much air time, inappropriate or offensive than other mented track record of Iran, Turkey, ter is giving him more press, more so, too, will these new policies backfire. content that Twitter chooses to ignore. China and Russia using bots and Twit- ammunition and more attention by Having spent the past decade work- Twitter damages its own credibility by ter campaigns to promote pro-regime singling him out repeatedly. This is the ing to combat anti-Semitism online, ignoring these threats while respond- messages and misinformation. Though same method that much of the media and as the architect of the StandWithUs ing to Trump by placing a warning that these coordinated campaigns are often adopted prior to the last election, and digital department, I witnessed first- his tweet “glorifies violence.” discovered and the accounts removed, the result was the people pushing back hand how even the most well-inten- Indeed, Twitter’s efforts have already it’s always after the fact. against an almost obsessive Trump ha- tioned effort to police online speech backfired. On May 29, Trump issued If Twitter has proven incapable of tred. If Twitter continues on this path, can easily run into pitfalls or produce an executive order to prevent online handling state-sponsored misinforma- it will have done its part to help Presi- results that are the opposite of what’s censorship in what was perceived as a tion, Holocaust denial and rampant dent Trump secure a second term. b  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, July 16, 2020 • Page 15

Opinion … Return to Rewarding Terrorism? (JNS) — Two years ago, Congress cut lion, 59 members of the House of Repre- off funds to the Palestinian Authority sentatives — all Democrats — signed a because it pays salaries to terrorists. letter demanding that the United States Now a group of Democratic members “restart U.S. humanitarian assistance to of Congress are trying to restore that Palestinians, including UNRWA.” funding, even though the P.A. continues UNRWA is the U.N. agency aiding to dole out salaries to terrorists. Palestinian Arab “refugees” that vastly In March 2018, the Taylor Force exaggerates the number of refugees, and Act became law. Named after a 28-year- uses anti-Israel and anti-Semitic text- old West Point graduate and U.S. Army books in the schools it runs. Would such veteran who was visiting Israel as a an agency be an appropriate destination part of a graduate program when he for American taxpayers’ dollars? was brutally stabbed and murdered The letter of the 59 did not state exact- by a Palestinian terrorist, it was long ly how much aid they are proposing. The overdue. From its earliest days, the P.A. signatories knew their demand would had a policy of handing out salaries to encounter fewer objections if they left imprisoned terrorists and the families of the dollar amount up in the air, but not dead terrorists. The Clinton, Bush and for long. Obama administrations gave the P.A. Former U.S. serviceman Taylor Force, who was stabbed and killed in March 2016 by a Palestinian When the Palestinian advocates began $500 million annually, despite the pay- terrorist in Israel. (Facebook) moving their proposal through the leg- to-slay policy. islative process, the enormous amount That meant U.S. taxpayers were con- Force Act. But they couldn’t openly op- In response, the Trump administration they have in mind finally became clear. tributing to financial rewards not only to pose the bill (who could support paying offered a concession. Breaking with its Last week, the Democrat-controlled murderers of Israelis, but murderers of terrorists?), so they watered it down previous vow to hold back all aid to the House Subcommittee on State, For- Americans as well. More than 140 U.S. by proposing to add clauses allowing P.A. until it stopped paying terrorists, eign Operations and Related Programs citizens, including my daughter, Alisa, U.S. aid to continue to Palestinian Arab the administration announced a $5 mil- officially adopted an amendment to have been killed in Palestinian Arab hospitals, wastewater projects and vac- lion grant via the “hospitals” loophole. send $250 million in aid to the P.A., terror attacks since the 1960s. cinations. What that meant, in practical terms, even though the pay-to-slay policy has Money sent to the P.A. is fungible. Those exceptions seemed innocuous is that the P.A. would be able to give $5 not changed. Even if America’s aid package didn’t enough, so supporters of the Taylor million less to its hospitals and channel If enacted, this would bring us back to go straight into the terrorists’ bank ac- Force Act accepted them in order to that money back to the murderers it con- the dark, pre-Taylor Force days in which counts, it covered other P.A. expenses, have a larger majority in favor of the siders “heroes” for bombing, shooting, the United States helped foot the bill for thereby freeing up the funds that were legislation. But Palestinian advocates stabbing and running over Jews. rewarding and encouraging murder, paid to the murderers. soon began looking for ways to exploit Pro-Israel organizations decided not to including the murder of Americans. Research by the Jerusalem Center for the loopholes. raise a fuss about the sum. They were Pro-Israel organizations need to speak Public Affairs and Palestinian Media This past March, 23 Democratic mem- probably afraid that they would look too out now to stop this madness before it Watch documented this evil policy and bers of Congress signed a letter calling harsh if they opposed the fungible coro- advances any further. mobilized public opinion against it. for U.S. economic aid to the P.A. to navirus aid. So they were silent. Stephen M. Flatow is a vice president Then came the brutal murder of Taylor combat the COVID-19 crisis. Eight sena- Bad move. of the Religious Zionists of America, an Force in the Israeli city of Jaffa in 2016. tors — Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Seeing that the administration would attorney in New Jersey and the father of Congress finally took action. Warren (D-Mass.), et al — signed the give an inch, the P.A.’s friends on Capitol Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Certain left-of-center members of Con- letter, along with 15 members of the U.S. Hill began demanding a foot. Two weeks Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist gress were never happy about the Taylor House of Representatives. after the announcement of the $5 mil- attack in 1995. b

Essay … We Simply Do Not Need Another ‘Fiddler On The Roof’ by A.R. VISHNY ond-generation American Jews. This story originally appeared There are Israelis. There’s even on Alma. a Norwegian Jew! The actor Hey, did you hear? There is who played the rabbi, Zvee a new “Fiddler on the Roof” Scooler, was born in the Pale of movie in the works! Settlement in 1899. Molly Picon, (Cue groan.) who played Yente, was a legend Listen, it’s nothing personal. of Yiddish theater and film. The team putting it together While there are of course sounds stellar. Tommy Kail (of many fantastic Jewish actors “Hamilton” fame) and Steven now, ones with such close ties Levenson (who wrote “Dear to the sources and influences of Evan Hansen”) are on board, the show no longer exist. and they are some of the best Besides, I don’t think I’m talent working in American alone in being fatigued by theater. “Fiddler.” If you’re a Jew with But is this really necessary? any musical theater exposure, Look, I get it: Nostalgia sells, chances are you’ve seen the and there is intense nostalgia movie several (hundred) times. around classic movie musi- (Header image design by Grace Yagel; photos by United Artists/Getty Images) Chances are you have seen a cals like “Fiddler.” The current staged production, or several. movie-musical landscape is ev- nal film. Some of the recent re- that studio cash would still be Jewish actors with a wide range Perhaps one of the five Broad- idence of studio preference for makes have certainly attempted better spent on something en- of backgrounds within the Ash- way revivals, the four West the familiar. Whether it’s all the that, whether by rewriting rac- tirely new. kenazic experience. End revivals, the recent Yid- live-action Disney remakes, “A ist lyrics (Disney’s “Aladdin”) But when it comes to “Fid- Of course, there is Chaim dish adaptation Off-Broadway, Star Is Born,” “Cats” (shudder), or ensuring the cast is not an- dler on the Roof,” one question Topol, who played Tevye not or the countless international, or the forthcoming “West Side other whitewash (“West Side remains: How do you conceiv- only in the film but in multiple local, regional and high school Story,” studios like betting on Story”). These changes, how- ably improve on the 1971 film? Israeli, American and British productions of the show put on nostalgia. ever, aren’t really enough to fix The casting doesn’t get more productions of the show, be- every year. In theory, a remake might be the structural racism and other authentic. The majority of the coming for most the definitive Given that the original is an able to improve upon the origi- limitations of these shows. All Jewish characters are played by Tevye. There are first- and sec- (Fiddler — Page 16) Page 16 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, July 16, 2020 America … Bay Area Community Rallies for Family of Dr. Ari Gershman, Killed in Shooting in The Sierras

by GABE STUTMAN terrain vehicle. “Neither vic- dition and did not need medi- just under 3,000, according to guage therapist who is under- A GoFundMe campaign for tim knew the shooter, and the cal attention,” the release said. the most recent census data. going cancer treatment. Paige the family of a Bay Area Jewish act appeared to be a random He was given food and water It had not seen a homicide in is “in the fight for her life,” the doctor shot and killed while act of violence,” police said in and transported to the sheriff’s 17 years. fundraising page states. off-roading with his teenage the release. The two victims office, where he was reunited The Gershman family is af- “He was humble and easygo- son in a remote part of Sierra were transported to the hospi- with his mother, according to filiated with Temple Isaiah in ing,” said a former colleague of County, Calif. has so far raised tal with injuries reported to be police. Lafayette. The coroner’s inves- Gershman’s at Genentech, the over a half-million dollars. non-life-threatening. Police set up a checkpoint on tigation is ongoing and a fu- pharmaceutical company in Ari Gershman, a 46-year-old After receiving Jack’s call, of- Saddleback Road and later that neral has not been scheduled, South San Francisco. “He really pulmonary doctor who worked ficers were able to locate Gersh- day encountered the suspect, according to a spokesperson for seemed like a wonderful guy, in pharmaceutical research, man, who was found deceased. driving a utility terrain vehicle Sinai Memorial Chapel in San with everything going for him.” was with his son Jack when A multi-agency team began a at high speed. “A vehicle colli- Francisco, which is handling The family’s GoFundMe page the attack occurred on July 3. search for Jack, a student at San sion ultimately occurred,” the the arrangements. raised more than $375,000 in They were in a brand new Jeep Ramon Valley High School, that release says, and shooting took A semi-private candlelight just two days to support funer- exploring near Downieville in lasted the entire night and well place before officers arrested vigil is scheduled for July 14 at al costs, chemotherapy treat- the Tahoe National Forest, ac- into the next day. The agencies 40-year-old John Thomas Con- the family home, with pictures ments, family counseling and cording to police and the Go- included the U.S. Forest Service, way of Oroville. to be posted on social media. other expenses. “The financial FundMe page created for the California Highway Patrol, Cal- Conway was a fugitive want- “Ari was an avid bicyclist, a burden is overwhelming,” the family. ifornia Department of Fish and ed by the Butte County Sheriff’s vegetarian, an outdoorsman, page says. Jack, 15, fled into the woods Wildlife and more than five Office on a felony warrant for an Internal Medicine Doctor, Jared Stratton, one of more after the attack. He called police, police departments from Sierra vandalism, battery and two a devoted and loving father than 3,800 donors, shared a saying his father had been shot and nearby counties. counts of making terrorist and fantastic friend that was message in support of the fam- and that he was lost, according On the afternoon of July 4, threats, according to the Chico willing to drop anything for ily along with a $5 donation. to a press release from the Sierra with help from a K-9 tracker, Enterprise-Record. his friends and family,” reads “It is not much but it is what County Sheriff’s Office. officers found Jack, who had The case was referred to the the GoFundMe page. “He was I can give today,” he wrote. Earlier in the day, police had survived more than 30 hours Sierra County district attor- witty and wise. He died doing “This poor kid went through received a report of two other alone, drinking from a stream, ney’s office, which had not an- what he loved with his son in hell for 30 hours. His mom is people sustaining gunshot wearing only shorts and a nounced charges as of July 13. an area he had hoped to retire sick. There are also other chil- wounds in the vicinity, near T-shirt, according to the San Bordering Nevada, Sier- in one day.” dren in the family. This is a Poker Flat about 10 miles north Francisco Chronicle. Despite ra County is one of the most Gershman is survived by tragedy.” b of Downieville. The suspect spending the night outdoors, sparsely populated counties in three school-age children and This story first appeared in Jweekly.com. was said to be driving a utility “he was in good physical con- the state with a population of wife Paige, a speech and lan- Reposted with permission.

Reflections(Continued from Page 14) word “career,” the feminist ver- were in the process of procuring would have been received at was killed by a Minneapolis po- free to replicate — and per- sion of what men had no prob- future spouses. a comparable U.S. institution. lice officer — is incidental. The haps even surpass — Ameri- lem referring to as a “job.” Passengers on public trans- There was no doubt in my mind movement behind it was lying can self-destruction. This malaise accompanied me portation would shout at driv- that this young man never in wait for the right moment to I spent this Fourth of July in up the ramp of the El Al flight ers who missed their stop — a would allow his date to pay for unleash the lava. New York, holed up in corona- that would change the course common occurrence due to the dinner. Unfortunately, Israel’s un- virus isolation with my parents, of my history. When I landed in distraction involved in turning I was smitten almost instantly canny ability to progress in observing the once-vibrant me- Tel Aviv, I practically kissed the up the volume on the radio to with Israel for not emulating the every field at lightning speed tropolis revert to the dangerous ground, but not in the way that enable even people at the back aspects of the United States that means that it is not exempt and dirty hellhole of my child- many ardent Zionists recount of the bus to hear the regular made me want to abscond in the from the kind of cultural revo- hood, and reading about similar having done. The feeling, rath- news bulletins. first place. Though America, lution taking place across the filth and violence in Chicago, er, was one of relief. Israel was The first student of the op- too, had been built and contin- ocean. Campuses across the the city where I voted in my first not as I had expected; it was posite sex whom I encountered ued to be cultivated by heroes, Jewish state are filled with election. even better. at the Hebrew University book its radicals were gnawing away radical professors accusing Over the decades, I have been Gorgeous Jewish soldiers of shop — getting ready for his at its fabric. it of crimes against human- asked whether I love living in both sexes were everywhere, first semester after serving three Today’s “cancel culture” ity, while art exhibits, plays Israel. My answer is that it’s no walking easily with Uzis hang- years in the army — promptly didn’t happen overnight; it’s and films portray the Israel longer a question; it’s simply ing over their shoulders, eating hit on me with the line, “Hey, been in the making for a long Defense Forces as villainous. my life. On this particular an- ice-cream cones, gossiping and baby, what’s your major?” time. That its current mani- If not for constant genuine niversary of my aliyah, I would flirting, taking their uniforms I couldn’t help laughing at festation seemed to erupt like threats from external enemies amend that reply to say that if and guns as much for granted how such an act of “male chau- a volcano on May 25 — when armed with actual weapons, I hadn’t moved to Israel when I as the assumption that they vinism” (as it used to be called) African-American George Floyd the nation would have been did, I would be doing it now. b

Fiddler (Continued from Page 15) excellent movie with a virtually heart. It asks many of the same first same-sex romantic kiss on the infamous 1913 murder of and proves their capacity to irreplaceable cast, and there’s questions asked by “Fiddler” a Broadway stage. The show Mary Phagan and the subse- be exciting and interesting to something of a cultural oversat- about how a family is supposed upends one conceit of “Fiddler,” quent lynching of the falsely modern audiences. There are uration of “Fiddler,” could we to cope with a shifting way of that “the old country” can be convicted Leo Frank, this is Israeli musicals, like “Kazab- please consider adapting some- life, only with less bottle-danc- summed up with shtetl kitsch a weighty show that tackles lan” and “Tipat Mazal,” which thing else? I have suggestions! ing and more baseball. and Cossacks. racism, anti-Semitism and the focus on the experiences of Want to make a movie about Want to make a film that “Indecent” is a gorgeous piece danger of memorializing the Mizrahi Jews. Those could use another Jewish family facing draws on a piece of classic Yid- that challenges the dominant Confederacy. a revamp, and as the recent down the tides of modernity? dish literature? Then adapt “In- narrative about the purpose “Parade” deliberately evokes success of “The Band’s Visit” Then maybe adapt the musical decent.” and character of Yiddish story- classic movie musicals in style on Broadway suggests, Israeli “Falsettos.” The Tony Award winner is a telling, and deserves a quality and form while subverting the movies adapted into American Set in late 1970s and early play about a play. Specifical- film adaptation. tropes. It’s a powerful and un- musicals have lots of potential ’80s New York City, “Falset- ly, “Indecent” follows the true Want to adapt a show that fortunately relevant show, and for success. tos” follows an unconventional story of Yiddish writer Sholem has the form and style of a would translate well to film. If that’s still not enough, Jewish family trying to main- Asch’s “God of Vengeance,” classic musical? Then maybe I could go on. The National there are countless great Jew- tain their closeness against the which was a success when it consider the 1998 musical “Pa- Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, ish books and movies ripe for backdrop of Reaganism and the toured interwar Europe but shut rade,” with music and lyrics the oldest continually operating adaptation. AIDS epidemic. The show han- down when it reached Broad- by Jason Robert Brown (“The Yiddish theater company in the Just please, anything, any- dles Judaism, gender roles and way for featuring a love scene Last Five Years,” “Songs for world, regularly revives forgot- thing, other than another “Fid- family conflict with humor and between two women — the a New World”). Based on ten Yiddish plays and musicals dler on the Roof!” b