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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas railed against US President Donald Trump in a closed-door meeting with the Fatah leadership on Monday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz met with Trump in Washington, DC, to discuss the US administration’s Middle East peace plan. “Trump is a dog and a son of a bitch,” Palestinian sources quoted Abbas as saying. The PA leader said he

US President Donald Trump points past Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, DC, Jan. 28, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Brendan McDermid..

Palestinians burn posters depicting US President Donald Trump during a protest against the US Middle East peace BY REUTERS attended by Israeli Prime Minister Palestinian Authority President plan. Bethlehem, Jan. 27, 2020. Photo: Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90. Benjamin Netanyahu, the United Mahmoud Abbas. & ALGEMEINER STAFF States will recognize Israeli “This is a historic day,” had refused to answer a phone call from Washington, and predicted that “difficult days” were ahead as a result. US President Donald Trump settlements in the West Bank. Netanyahu said, comparing “They called me from Washington and I did not pick up on Tuesday proposed the creation In exchange, Israel will agree Trump‘s peace plan to former the phone. I said no and I will continue to say no,” said Abbas. of a Palestinian state with a capital to accept a four-year freeze on President Harry Truman’s 1948 “We are headed for difficult days and we are beginning to in eastern Jerusalem, in an effort new settlement activity while recognition of the State of Israel. bear the consequences of the objection. Resistance must be to achieve a Middle East peace Palestinian statehood is being “On this day, you became escalated at all points of friction. All young people must be breakthrough. negotiated. the first world leader to recognize “Today, Israel has taken a Israel’s sovereignty over areas in encouraged,” he said. Under Trump‘s proposed Abbas said that while he had been advised not to refuse to Middle East peace plan announced giant step toward peace,” Trump Judea and Samaria that are vital at a White House ceremony said, adding that he had sent to our security and central to our Continued on Page A3 a letter about the proposal to Continued on Page A4

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says nothing about the Palestinians, does not would not accept a deal that offered nearly require a withdrawal from all the territory, everything he said he wanted (ignoring what MITCHELL BARD does not mention Jerusalem, and makes he told his constituents in Arabic, namely that NEW YORK any Israeli action contingent on peace. This this was the first stage toward the liberation of “land for peace formula” was the basis for Palestine and that Palestinians should engage negotiations up until 2008. in a jihad), they moved rightward. Israel has already withdrawn from Sharon could also point to the letter he lmost every US administration has come approximately 94 percent of the territory it received from President George W. Bush, up with a peace plan, and they all have one captured (another fact ignored by Israel’s which explicitly said what Resolution 242 thing in common — failure. The Trump plan detractors), and the argument can be made it implied, namely that any peace agreement will suffer the same fate. Still, it may be valuable has fulfilled its obligations, whereas the Arab would necessitate modifications from the 1949 by setting new baselines for negotiations that White House senior adviser Jared Kushner states — except for Egypt and Jordan — have not. armistice line to accommodate Israel’s security are in Israel’s favor. arrives for the US-hosted ‘Peace to Pros- Netanyahu’s agreement to withdraw needs and to reflect the growth of the Jewish Why will the plan fail? perity’ conference, June 25, 2019. Photo: came during the Oslo process, during which population in Judea and Samaria. Bush’s Road Reuters / Matt Spetalnick. Besides the historical precedents, we Israel withdrew from more than 40 percent Map to peace proved another failure, again know that the Palestinians have had nothing Many apologists refuse to acknowledge of the West Bank and handed over control of largely because the Palestinians never fulfilled to do with the US administration and will that Obama killed the peace process. The Gaza and Jericho to the Palestinians. Israel their obligation to end terrorism. reject the plan out of hand. We also know from Palestinians thought Obama would force was prepared to withdraw from additional More of the Israeli population shifted history that no plan will satisfy the current Israel to capitulate to their demands. He territory, but not to accept a Palestinian rightward following the Gaza disengagement Palestinian leadership and that Hamas is would not and probably could not have done state (see Rabin’s last speech) or divide and the Palestinians’ violent response. The committed to Israel’s destruction. so. Regardless, Abbas refused to negotiate for Jerusalem. Oslo ultimately failed because the shattering of the “land for peace” myth was Many people insist Prime Minister both his terms and now has avoided face-to- Palestinians continued to employ terrorism as reinforced by Olmert’s failure to convince Benjamin Netanyahu is equally to blame for face negotiations with Israel’s prime minister their preferred means of trying to force Israeli Mahmoud Abbas to accept his plan in 2008. the current stalemate. First, this ignores the for nearly 12 years. concessions. Barack Obama dramatically shifted the Palestinians’ history of rejectionism, which Trump is re-calibrating expectations The baseline shifted when Prime baseline of negotiations when he pressured long predated Netanyahu, and second, people again. By recognizing Jerusalem, he has taken Minister Ehud Barak agreed to the Clinton Israel to accept a settlement freeze, something forget that the last Israeli leader to negotiate one of the most difficult final status issues off parameters and accepted the ideas of dividing the Palestinians had never demanded, and any withdrawal from the West Bank was the table. By erasing the specious argument Jerusalem, conceding most of the West Bank, — like others — endorsed the creation of a Netanyahu during his first term. that settlements are illegal and refusing to and establishing a Palestinian state. Prime Palestinian state. The Palestinians still refused The original foundation of peace condemn their expansion, he has created Minister Ehud Olmert picked up on this plan, to negotiate. Meanwhile, the ongoing attacks negotiations was UN Security Council the expectation in Israel that there will be no with minor variations, but in both instances, from Gaza left fewer and fewer Israelis with Resolution 242, which established the forced removal of tens of thousands of Jews the Palestinians again rejected the offers. a desire to give up more land or support the principle that Israel must concede territory from Judea and Samaria. In between, Ariel Sharon was elected in creation of a Palestinian state. Hence, the near it captured in the 1967 war. What many This is the relevance of the ultimate part because of the dissatisfaction with Barak’s disappearance of the “peace camp” and the people leave out when they cite 242 is that it plan. Once Israelis saw that Yasser Arafat left-leaning political parties. Continued on Page A7 Never Again? What About Palestinian Antisemitism?

Jerusalem events commemorating the 75th tion of Palestinians, and the failure to impute the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. agency to them — a liberal racism that’s just as Algemeiner Journal ADAM LEVICK That’s not all. pernicious as the right-wing variety. JERUSALEM Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian We also believe a major factor is the (USPS 927800) is published weekly Media Watch, reported recently that Abbas’ influence of intersectional theories based (except for the week of Passover Fatah movement just produced a propaganda on an intellectually incoherent yet often and Succos) video about Jewish history in Europe (which blindly accepted moral calculus that creates Subscription rate $40 per year We’ve often argued that the British it publicized on Fatah’s official Facebook a hierarchy of victimhood, whereby “white” Algemeiner Journal media’s anti-Israel bias is just as evident in the page) claiming that Jews “led the project to Jews are near the bottom and Palestinians enslave humanity” and Jewish behavior led to “of color” are often near the top. It suggests 208 E 51st Street, Suite 185 stories they ignore as in the skewed nature of European antisemitism. that such victim statuses are immutable, New York, N.Y. 10022 the stories they do cover. The nearly complete failure of journal- Furthermore, important religious figures that such power relations explain contem- Periodicals Postage ists assigned to the region to report on the have given sermons on official, PA-owned TV porary racism, and that thus the only racism Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. endemic antisemitism within Palestinian channels going even further, with one cleric that truly matters is that perpetrated by the and at additional mailing offices society, and the deleterious impact such warning that Jews pass on evil in their genes “strong” against the “weak.” anti-Jewish racism has on efforts at peace and that the Jewish threat to humanity can be Paul Pagano has written about a related POSTMASTER: and coexistence, represents one of the more stopped only by exterminating all Jews. dynamic, which not only applies to the media’s Send address changes to egregious problems with their reporting. Yet none of the British media outlets we failure to take Palestinian racism against Jews Algemeiner Journal This failure is even more problematic monitor have reported on any of these odious seriously, but also is relevant in understanding when you consider that instances of Israeli examples of hatred and incitement. why so many in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party P.O. Box 250746 What accounts for the failure of journal- continue to be blind to antisemitism: Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225 -3023 racism, whether real or, often, imagined, are frequently the focus of media reports, as is ists to report on such extreme racism, [T]he left is blind to antisemitism the narrative that Israeli society is becoming including explicit calls for genocide? [because] antisemitism differs from most Let your voice be heard! increasingly racist. It’s hard to boil it down to a single cause, forms of racism in that it purports to “punch but we’ve often written about the infantiliza- up” against a secret society of oppressors, [email protected] Though we’re accustomed to this insti- tutional media blind spot and to such double which has the side effect of making it easy to standards, there are instances of anti-Jewish disguise as a politics of emancipation. If Jews To advertise in racism so extreme that we’ve held out hope have power, then punching up at Jews is a that it would possibly pique the interest of form of speaking truth to power — a form of the new Algemeiner Jerusalem correspondents. speech of which the left is currently enamored. e-mail: [email protected] A case in point is a recent op-ed In other words, it is because antisemi- published in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, a Pales- tism pretends to strike at power that the left or call tinian newspaper controlled by the Palestinian cannot see it, and is doomed to erase — and 718-771-0400 Authority (PA) whose editor was appointed even reproduce — its tropes. by PA leader Mahmoud Abbas, literally calling Regardless of the factors motivating Photo: Screenshot for someone to shoot and kill a Jew during the Continued on Page A3 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 A3 World News. Polish Foreign Minister: Polish Resistance Hero ‘Israel is Very Important Jan Karski : Holocaust to Us as a Jewish State’ Was Humanity’s ‘Second Original Sin’ BY JNS.ORG

The Polish Foreign Ministry had a chance to breathe easy following the conclusion last week of the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, as Warsaw’s fear that Russian President Vladimir Putin would use the event to “distort World War II history and attack Poland” did not come to pass. The event, attended by dozens of world leaders, royals and statesmen, was Poland’s Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputo- overshadowed by a bitter dispute between wicz speaks during a Reuters interview Poland—where Nazi German occupiers at his office in Warsaw, Poland May 26, operated Auschwitz and other infamous 2018. Photo: REUTERS/Kacper Pempel. camps—and Russia, the successor state to Q: Do you think it’s possible to reach a the Soviet Union, whose Red Army liberated common narrative about what happened Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945, over the historical during World War II or will we keep on memory in the West with regard to their having different national narratives? respective roles in World War II. A: I think that discussions are very Russian officials have been claiming that welcomed if they are based on facts. We Poland, invaded in 1939 by German and Soviet Polish resistance hero Jan Karski speaking to a 1981 conference on the Holocaust at the US State cannot just agree on something and seal it. Department. Photo: Screenshot. forces, actually bears the blame for starting the We are open to discussions based on facts war. Western historians see those allegations as because we know what is the truth, how it legendary career. a cynical ploy to minimize Soviet responsibility. BY ALGEMEINER STAFF happened, who made it, how many Polish “The Jan Karski Society believes that The Polish government has been infuriated by Jews and non-Jews suffered. As far as Poland is Footage of one of the most celebrated these words should be heard even louder Russia’s moves, which are believed to stem concerned, we lost 6 million lives, 3 million of Polish resistance fighters describing the today,” the group said in a statement on from Moscow’s desire to weaken Polish influ- them were Polish Jews. It’s part of our history, Holocaust as humanity’s “second original sin” Monday. ence in the European Union. our heritage, and we preserve it. Therefore was widely shared this week, as the world Born Jan Kozielewski in 1914 in Lodz, Poland’s government has defended the we built monuments, museums, we renovate marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation Karski fought in the Polish army in 1939 when nation’s record, recalling how its wartime cemeteries. We do a lot in preserving. It’s of the Auschwitz death camp. he was captured by the German invading government-in-exile sought to save Jews, and important for us because Polish Jews created “My faith makes me say that humanity forces. While being deported to a POW camp, listing cultural and economic damage that part of our history. You cannot discuss long has committed a second original sin by Karski escaped, and went on to serve the Poland suffered after Soviet troops took control periods of Polish history without the Jewish allowing the Holocaust,” said the late Jan Polish underground resistance. of its territory at the end of World War II. contribution to that history. We lost that Karski — a devout Catholic who publicized In 1942, Karski was smuggled into the Polish President Andrzej Duda, who did because of World War II and the Holocaust the facts of the Nazi extermination of the Warsaw Ghetto on two different occasions, not attend the event in Jerusalem as he was imposed by the Nazi Germans. Jews at great personal risk — in an address providing essential eyewitness accounts of the not invited to speak alongside Putin and the Q: What is for you the importance of the to Holocaust scholars at the US State Depart- suffering of its Jewish population. The following presidents of Germany, France and Israel, commemoration event in Auschwitz and ment in 1981. year, Karski met with President Franklin is set to host Israeli President Reuven Rivlin what are the lessons to be drawn from this “This sin will haunt humanity until the D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC, famously and German President Frank-Walter Stein- experience for the present and the future? end of the world. It haunts me. I want it to stay recounting afterward that the American leader meier as part of the official events marking the A: We commemorate the liberation of that way,” Karski said. had asked about the condition of horses in 75th anniversary of the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz every year, but since it’s a “round” The video was being promoted by the Poland, but not the country’s Jews. Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. anniversary the event will be an important Jan Karski Society — an NGO based in the Karski moved to America after the war, Among the participants in the event will one. For us, the most important is to give a Polish city of Kielce that promotes ethnic becoming a professor at Georgetown Univer- be Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputo- voice and to listen to survivors. It’s the last and religious tolerance in tribute to Karski’s sity. He passed away in 2000. wicz, who in an exclusive interview with Israel [few] years that they are still with us. It should Hayom, adopts President Rivlin’s proposal to be a de-politicized event—with the presence “leave history to the historians.” of presidents Duda, Rivlin and Steinmeier— Q: How come that 75 years after the Continued from Page A1 occupation” and Trump’s actions “repugnant.” paying respect and making sure that we will Resistance liberation of Auschwitz, different entities “We do not have to wait for any theatrical remember that horrible experience forever. take the call, he refused to “go down as a traitor.” declaration of the US government’s position— are fighting over historical facts? The danger is to use that history as a tool for “I was told I’ll pay a heavy price for my the main partner in the occupation,” said the A: We are rather consistent with our inter- political gains in current politics. We see that foolish behavior,” said Abbas, but “I do not statement. “Trump’s actions are repugnant pretation and contribution to the knowledge trend. For example, the recent attacks of Presi- have much longer to live and I will not go and we will resist them with every legitimate of those events. Our archives are open, our dent Putin. We should avoid using history as a down as a traitor. It’s either dying like martyrs measure.” institutes make the information available, the weapon in contemporary fights. or flying the Palestinian flag on the walls of Also on Monday, Abbas instructed PA memorials at the camps, which are on Polish Q: Why would Putin use history as a Jerusalem.” security forces not to prevent clashes between soil—Auschwitz, Majdanek, Belzec, Sobibor, weapon against Poland? The PA leader also said he would also turn Arab rioters and Israeli troops in Judea, just two Stutthof—are preserved. It is our duty. More A: I don’t think it’s against Poland but to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad for help days before a “Day of Rage” which has been than 3.5 million people visit each year these against the truth, against the ones who in defeating the US plan, the sources said. planned for Wednesday in response to the former camps. More than 2 million come to perished during World War II. Poland was Fatah released a statement on Monday expected release on Tuesday of the US plan. Auschwitz. Poland belongs to [the group of] occupied by Germany and Russia. It is an calling the United States the “main partner in the countries which best preserve material and obvious historical fact. Everybody knows facts. We treat history with full respect, and I how World War II started. A part of Poland Continued from Page A2 think that other countries follow us. was occupied almost two years by Russia, our imperative to never again allow Jew-hatred Never Again Q: At the World Holocaust Forum, Israeli citizens were forcibly expelled to Siberia and to go unchallenged, because we now know such omissions and obfuscations, journal- President Reuven Rivlin suggested, “Let’s other parts of Russia, thousands of Poles were where this leads — at the Holocaust commem- ists who ignore genocidal antisemitism are leave history to the historians.” Is it possible? executed in Katyn—among them about 500 oration events last week in Jerusalem ring doing a profound disservice to their readers A: It’s a good idea to let historians inves- were Jews. The Soviets saw them all as Poles. hollow if the principle of anti-antisemitism is in denying them information regarding a key tigate properly the facts concerning World They didn’t make any difference between not applied universally. cause of the continuing failure of both parties War II, the Holocaust and recent history. Our those of Jewish origin or not. On the German Jerusalem-based journalists who fail to arrive at a peaceful solution. knowledge should be based on facts and side, some Jewish officers survived, because to adhere to this intuitive principle in their But it also represents another, far more research made by historians. At the same they were interned in camps for officers. own reporting are guilty of a shameful moral troubling failure. time, we have to remember our recent history Why Putin is doing that? He wants to create abdication. The lofty rhetoric of world leaders, in order to be conscientious of the dangers disagreement between Western allies. He uses Adam Levick has served as managing [before] us and not to make any mistakes or diplomats, and intellectuals evoking the editor of UK Media Watch, a CAMERA affil- wrong decisions in the future. Continued on Page A7 oft-repeated idea of “never again” — the moral iate, since 2010. A4 | FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 World News.

Center study released on Wednesday. ment by quickly passing the Never Again However, 69 percent of respondents Education Act.” correctly said that the Holocaust was between “We are pleased that the House has taken the years 1930 and 1950, while 63 percent action today, on International Holocaust of respondents correctly defined the Nazi- Remembrance Day, to ensure that the lessons created ghettos as “parts of town where Jews of the Holocaust will be passed from one were forced to live.” generation to the next,” ADL CEO Jonathan Moreover, 43 percent of participants Greenblatt told JNS. “We look forward to this responded that Adolf Hitler became German law’s swift passage and to working closely with chancellor “by Democratic political process,” teachers and districts across the country to while 25 percent replied “by violently ensure that Holocaust education is uniform overthrowing German government.” Another 28 and consistent across the country.” percent saying they didn’t know or had no answer. “With antisemitism experiencing a sharp According to Pew, “the data suggests that resurgence across the nation and the world, it relatively few people in this group express has never been more important for our youth to strongly negative feelings toward Jews,” and be educated on how 6 million men, women and One of the most famous pictures of Jews being rounded up by Nazi Germans during the Holocaust, that “respondents who get more questions children were brutally murdered against a backdrop this from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. right also tend to express warmer feelings of collective silence,” said American Jewish Congress toward Jews.” President Jack Rosen in a statement. US House Passes Never Again Maloney had introduced the Never Again “The importance of this act, especially Education Act numerous times over the past in this 75th year after the Holocaust cannot years, first doing so 20 years ago. be overstated,” B’nai B’rith International CEO Education Act on International “It’s not easy to pass a bill in the United States Daniel Mariaschin told JNS. “Making available Congress,” she said when asked why it took so the resources to tell the story of the Holocaust Holocaust Remembrance Day long for the bill to finally come up for a vote. to new generations of Americans is absolutely “This has been a divisive Congress in essential to ensuring ‘Never Forget.’” many ways. First of all, you have to find the Rabbi Aryeh Spero, president of Confer- right people to work with you. And I thank ence of Jewish Affairs, told JNS: “It is a BY JACKSON RICHMAN/ disagreement about how the curriculum Stefanik and [Nebraska Republican Rep. Don] worthwhile attempt to help reduce antisemi- JNS.org should be handled and I just felt that it would Bacon for coming forward and working so tism and credit should be given to those who be better to move it to the Holocaust museum vigorously for it.” are trying to stem antisemitism.” On International Holocaust Remem- where it would become the prime focus of that Maloney noted that it’s “hard to move” a “I do, however, hope that it speaks directly brance Day, which commemorates the 75th museum to tell the story, to preserve it and to bill unless “there’s a groundswell of support to and stays focused on what the Holocaust anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz- combat antisemitism.” from the American people.” was about: Jew-hatred and the destruction Birkenau, the US House of Representatives The legislation would create an online She said that after talking about the bill of the Jewish people,” he continued. “I hope overwhelmingly passed on Monday the Never Holocaust-education repository of resources for at the Jewish Community Relations Council it does not become so universalized, as we Again Education Act, a bill that seeks to expand educators to teach both middle-school and high in her district, where Hadassah CEO Janice have often seen, that the specific intent of the Holocaust education in the United States. school students about the genocide that killed Weinman was in attendance and approached Holocaust is lost in a general and overarching The final tally was 393-5, with four 11 million people, 6 million of whom were Jews. the congressman to give her organization’s theme about hate in general or intolerance in Republicans and one Independent, Michigan Additionally, the House bill would support on behalf of its 300,000 members general … the Holocaust was designed as the Rep. Justin Amash, voting against the bill. establish a 12-member Holocaust Education nationwide and making the bill a top priority mechanism to specifically erase forever the If enacted, it would expand the US Advisory Board to carry out the responsibili- for Hadassah. Jewish people in a Final Solution.” Holocaust Memorial Museum’s educa- ties under the bill. ‘Legislation addresses a critical need “We Jews need to feel that Jew-hatred tion programming to teachers nationwide, Three of the members would be for our country’ is such a potent force that we must focus requiring the museum to develop and dissemi- appointed by the Senate majority leader, three Along with Hadassah and the USHMM, primarily on the real intention of Hitler and nate resources to improve awareness and by the House speaker, three by the Senate other organizations that support the bill the Holocaust so that this waiting-in-the- understanding of the Holocaust and its lessons. minority leader and three by the House include the Anti-Defamation League and the wings evil never happens again.” The bill heads to the US Senate, whose minority leader. Each member would serve American Jewish Congress. Malcolm Hoenlein, executive chairman of version slightly differs from the one in the House. a four-year term with four of the members “This legislation addresses a critical need the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish “We have learned over time that it’s not serving an initial six-year term. Vacancies for our country and an urgent priority for Organizations, told JNS that the bill’s passage enough to simply condemn these attacks wouldn’t affect the board’s powers. Hadassah,” said Weinman in a statement. “It is was “an important bipartisan action taken and disgusting actions,” said Rep. Carolyn Currently, 18 states either encourage or imperative that we make every effort to push on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Maloney (D-NY), who co-introduced the bill require teaching about the Holocaust. back against the hatred, bigotry, anti-Semitism Auschwitz. Education is an important compo- with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) last year, at a One-third of Americans believe and extremism fueling violent attacks—and nent in the battle against Jew hatred. But it must press conference on Capitol Hill on Monday murder of Jews ‘exaggerated’ the best way to do that is by passing the Never be part of a comprehensive program including ahead of the House vote. A survey released last year by the Confer- Again Education Act.” raising the penalties for hate crimes.” “We also need to get to the root causes ence on Jewish Material Claims Against “Improving the availability and “As with most bills, this one went through of the hatred, denial, intolerance that drives Germany revealed that a third of all Ameri- enhancing the quality of Holocaust education many versions. Bottom line it is clear that these acts,” she continued. “Studies have cans believe the scope of the murder of Jews is within our reach. Educators deserve our full younger generations of Americans need to shown that education is one of the best ways in the Holocaust has been exaggerated. support in their efforts to instill its universal learn the lessons of the Shoah, especially to knock down the lies and the denials, and The data showed that the large swath and timeless lessons in every generation,” she in a time of increased antisemitic acts and foster mutual understanding and respect.” of Americans believe that just 2 million Jews continued. “The House has spoken clearly and rhetoric,” the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Under the House bill, which had 299 were murdered during the Holocaust, rather on a bipartisan basis. Now is the time for the Rabbi Abraham Cooper told JNS. “This bill will co-sponsors—204 Democrats and 95 Republi- than 6 million. US Senate to make the same powerful state- help guide teachers and curricula issues.” cans—$2 million would be allocated annually for In addition, 45 percent of Americans could this year and each of over the next four years to the not name any of the 40 ghettos or concentration Continued from Page A1 will agree to negotiate. It places high hurdles Holocaust Education Assistance Program Fund, camps erected by the Nazis, with a whopping Peace Plan for the Palestinians to overcome to reach their administered by the USHMM’s governing body, 66 percent of millennials being unable to state heritage,” he added, using the biblical names long-sought goal of a state. the US Holocaust Memorial Council. Private the significance of “Auschwitz.” for the West Bank. “Strip away the domestic and Israeli donations for the fund would be permitted. While 93 percent of those polled said Palestinian leaders had rejected Trump‘s political considerations that determined the “It’s a start, but it’s an important start,” they believe students should learn about the long-delayed plan even before its official timing of the plan’s release, and the message Maloney told JNS at the press conference Holocaust in schools, 70 percent said people release, saying his administration was biased to the Palestinians, boiled down to its essence, when asked how the bill would keep up with are less concerned about the Holocaust than towards Israel. is: You’ve lost, get over it,” said Robert Malley, the demand in terms of funding for Holocaust in the past, and 58 percent said a Holocaust or The absence of the Palestinians from president of International Crisis Group and a education. similar catastrophe could occur again. Trump‘s announcement is likely to fuel former US National Security Council official. The original House version designated “Holocaust can be referred to, for criticism that the plan tilts toward Israel’s It remains to be seen also how Israel the US Department of Education to oversee instance, a nuclear Holocaust, a natural needs rather than theirs. responds, given the pressures its right-wing the program. The Senate version, which was disaster Holocaust,” said House Majority Israeli-Palestinian talks broke down in prime minister, Netanyahu, faces going into his introduced in July by Sens. Marco Rubio Leader Steny Hoyer at the press conference. 2014, and it was far from clear that the Trump third attempt at re-election in less than a year. (R-Fla.), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Jacky Rosen “But this is a very specific type of Holocaust. plan will resuscitate them. Both Trump and Netanyahu face political (D-Nev.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), And it is hate against a people because of their Palestinians have refused to deal with challenges at home. Trump was impeached in is identical to that. It currently has 28 ethnicity, their religion, their color of skin, the Trump administration in protest at such the House of Representatives last month and is co-sponsors: 18 Democrats, nine Republicans some factor that should be irrelevant.” pro-Israel policies as its moving the US on trial in the Senate on abuse of power charges. and one Independent. Less than half of Americans, some 45 Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. On Tuesday, Netanyahu was formally “We’re two different bodies,” said Maloney percent, know that 6 million Jews perished in US senior administration officials said indicted in court on corruption charges, when asked by JNS about the discrepancy. the Holocaust, while 29 percent weren’t sure or had no answer, according to a Pew Research they expected initial Palestinian skepticism She explained that “there was some over the plan but hoped that over time they Continued on Page A5 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 A5 U.S. News.

to the creation of a ‘Palestinian’ state, parti- Trump’s Plan the ‘Best Deal’ tioning the main settlement blocs, abandoning the settlements as an enclave inside a terror Israel’s Right Will Ever Get, US state, as happened with the community of Netzarim [in Gaza], and no to the transfer of Areas C to B, and no to additional [territorial] Official Says withdrawals.” Rabbi Eliyahu said with regard to the letter: “We are happy over the significant progress on the matter of applying sover- US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime BY ISRAEL HAYOM/JNS.org eignty. In no way can [this development] Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talk outside the facilitate the establishment of a Palestinian White House in Washington, DC, Jan. 27, 2020. A senior US official on Monday harshly criticized a letter written by a group of senior rabbis state in the holy Land of Israel.” Photo: Reuters / Kevin Lamarque. from Israel’s religious-Zionist camp to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning that Dagan said, “On behalf of all the residents According to Dagan, “The settlement US President Donald Trump’s peace plan carries the risk of “creating a terror state.” of Samaria I am thankful to our rabbis, who enterprise won’t sit idly by while its future is The official said the rabbis “are squandering the moment, and don’t understand the immense stand at the head of the camp and lead the being played with. Alongside the joy over the advantages this plan entails in terms of their worldview. The [Israeli] right will not get anything people of Israel and the State of Israel. The great achievement of applying sovereignty to better than this,” according to Israel Hayom. rabbis’ sentiment is a moral and principled the communities in Judea and Samaria, we The official also addressed claims by some on the Israeli right that the Trump plan will lead one. There are red lines that the Israeli public cannot ignore the initiative to surrender 70 to the establishment of a Palestinian state. will not cross.” percent of the area of Judea and Samaria.” “If you look at the dictionary, you’ll understand this isn’t the definition of a state. That is not what the plan allows, and so the resistance from the right and the rabbis is a mistake,” the official said. Among the signatories to the letter were Rabbi Haim Drukman, Rabbi Dov Lior, Rabbi Elyakim Levanon and Rabbi Eliyahu Zini, together with 50 other community rabbis. The rabbis penned the letter after Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan announced he would depart for Washington to attend a series of emergency meetings with senior Repub- lican officials and evangelical leaders, who comprise Trump’s voter base, to present the settlement enterprise’s red lines and to prevent recognition of a Palestinian state and the isolation of certain settlements within the plan’s framework. The letter was the brainchild of Dagan and Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu, the head of the Association of Communal Rabbis. In the letter, the rabbis wrote that while they “recognize this historic moment for the Jewish people, and sincerely support you [Netanyahu] in applying sovereignty over Judea and Samaria … we understand that the plan comes with danger— the establishment of a terror state.” The rabbis presented their red lines to Netanyahu: “No

Continued from Page A4 Peace Plan after he withdrew his bid for parliamentary immunity from prosecution. Both men deny any wrongdoing. Two-state map The US plan represented the most dramatic and detailed attempt to break the historic deadlock between Israel and the Palestinians in several years, the result of a three-year effort by Trump senior advisers including his son-in-law Jared Kushner. Trump has endorsed a proposed map outlining the two states, US officials said. The Palestinian state would be double the size of land that Palestinians currently control and would be connected by roads, bridges and tunnels, they said. Trump briefed Netanyahu and his rival in Israel’s March 2 elections, Blue and White party chief Benny Gantz, in talks on Monday. Israeli leaders have agreed to negotiate on the basis of the Trump plan and agreed to the map, the officials said. Israel’s agreement on statehood for Palestinians is dependent on a security arrangement to protect Israelis, they said. Israel will also take steps to ensure Muslim access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and respect Jordan’s role regarding holy sites, the officials said. A US official said the question for Palestinians is will they “come to the table and negotiate?” If they agree to negotiate, there are some areas that can be compromised in the future, the official said without offering details. Palestinian statehood would be dependent on Palestinians taking steps for self-government, such as respect for human rights, freedom of the press and having transparent and credible institutions, the officials said. Trump‘s plan calls for Palestinians to be able to return to a future state of Palestine and creates a “generous compensation fund,” one of the officials said. About Israel retaining the settlements, a US official said: “The plan is based on a principle that people should not have to move to accomplish peace … But it does stop future settlement expansion which we consider to be the most realistic approach. Before the Trump announcement, thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in Gaza City and IDF troops reinforced positions near a flashpoint site between the Palestinian city of Ramallah and the Israeli settlement of Beit El in the West Bank. A6 | FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 Opinion. Holocaust Desecration in Englewood, New Jersey

important days of commemoration since the That’s right. Halfway across the world Downtown Englewood, New Jersey. Photo: Wiki- from Poland, the City of Englewood’s Board genocide — the 75th anniversary — and go to media Commons. of Adjustment could not find any other date a hearing about parking lots and a gym. SHMULEY BOTEACH to stage a zoning hearing for a Jewish day We’ve written to the Board as well as parents to come to a zooming hearing rather ENGELWOOD school’s application to build a gym with a implored the Moriah school to simply move than either organize a Holocaust memorial 180-car parking lot. I know about this hearing the date of the hearing. Why would the mayor event, attend one or at least not give them a because I am directly affected by the applica- and elected officials ever have allowed the conflict in attending one? Moriah can choose any other date for Readers of my columns will be familiar tion as the giant parking lot will be directly hearing to go ahead on this solemn date in the its zoning hearing. What is certain is that with the utterly-fractious nature of the city of adjoining our backyard yard where our first instance? Have they no decency? it should not take place on International Englewood, New Jersey, and how it’s a micro- children and grandchildren play. Much more troubling, however, is Holocaust Remembrance Day, when many cosm of American dysfunction. We in New We’ve asked the city to show some Moriah’s refusal to change the date, saying will rightly wish to attend memorials for our Jersey suffer the highest taxes for the worst decency and respect and move the hearing the rabbis of the community, with whom they martyred six million. services amid arguably the least-responsible — which could be held on any day of even consult, saw no issue with a zoning hearing This is especially true in an age where, elected officials in the country. New Jersey is that very week — so that those who wish to being held on International Holocaust according to NBC News, more than one-fifth rife with corruption and every year brings the show respect to the sacred memory of the Remembrance Day. of miillenials have never heard of the usual reports of public officials sadly indicted six million and instead attend a Holocaust You’ve got to be kidding. Or maybe not. Holocaust and, according to The Washington or going to jail. commemoration may do so. Thus far, the Englewood has a history of trivializing the Post, an astounding two-thirds of millennials Still, perhaps because we’re masochists, hearing’s date has not been changed. Holocaust in favor of construction projects. could not identify Auschwitz. we put up with it. The Moriah school, my next-door neighbor, Recall that about a year ago there was As we near a time when, God forbid, But what’s new is how a state with such a wants me to believe that a 180-car parking lot another hearing where the rabbis of our there will not be many living survivors to tell large Jewish population that just suffered the right by the swing set and monkey bars of where community — the same ones who seem the story of the Shoah, every commemora- second worst murderous attack on Jews in my children and grandchildren are outside to have greenlit this Monday’s hearing — tion, every ceremony and every public event American history — the December massacre nearly every day will not adversely affect our actually invoked the Holocaust for a for-profit can educate the world about the greatest in Jersey City — remains insensitive to the quality of life. That children inhaling all these construction project for a wealthy donor to crime in history. This is a particular obligation most important Jewish commemorations. fumes and the family putting up with the all their shuls. Englewood is also the city where for cities with large Jewish populations, Jewish This Monday is International Holocaust the noise would not be injurious to our health the rabbi who heads the Orthodox Union’s day schools and elected officials who should Remembrance Day. It is a particularly special and sanity. Why Moriah would want to do this International Kashrut Division indeed went not be so contemptuous as to take Jewish year as it commemorates the 75th anniversary in a strictly-residential neighborhood, where secretly to meet with the emir of Qatar, support for granted. of the liberation of Auschwitz. There will be the school will necessarily be constricted from arguably the world’s foremost funder of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, whom The global commemorations all over the world — I carrying out so many of its fundamental educa- terrorism against Israelis. Washington Post calls “the most famous will, God willing, be in Poland at the extermi- tional functions, is beyond me. Why would the City of Englewood’s Board Rabbi in America,” is the international best- nation camp for the solemn occasion — that Still, the last thing I want to do is oppose a of Adjustment have scheduled a hearing about a selling author of 33 books, including the is, except in Englewood, where instead of school. But now the Board of Adjustment has zoning matter for a Jewish school on International upcoming ‘Holocaust Holiday: One Family’s remembering the six million, the city’s Board scheduled a city hearing specifically for Jan. Holocaust Remembrance Day? It shows an utter Descent into Genocide Memory Hell.’ of Adjustment has chosen that day, of all days, 27, on International Holocaust Remembrance lack of respect for those who wish to remember Follow him on Twitter and Instagram to schedule a zoning hearing for a Jewish day Day, which will force parents to abandon the six million on this solemn occasion. @RabbiShmuley. school seeking to build a gymnasium. Holocaust memorials on one of the most And why would the Moriah school, its board and its Rabbinic leadership ask its

— shrewdly figured out that the sympathy of American Jews could be very helpful in Soviet What Putin Said at the dealings with the Roosevelt administration. And so, a Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was Holocaust Forum… duly launched, whose figureheads visited the United States, giving dramatic first-person accounts of the war against the Nazis and the sufferings of the Jews. the war that engulfed Europe. From left: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, But by 1946, this same committee According to Jan Grabowski, a respected Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish had been liquidated, as Stalin resumed an BEN COHEN President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Russia, 2017. antisemitic campaign that ended only with Polish historian of the wartime period, Putin’s Photo: Kremlin. /JNS.org “40%” claim proffered in Jerusalem was his death seven years later. Even in the era of “De-Stalinization” that followed, the Soviets “completely false.” It’s worth recalling that later. Putin is also right to remind the world clung rigidly to their line that the Jewish victims Professor Grabowski has long been a hate that Red Army troops liberated Auschwitz, of the Nazis were no different from any other figure for nationalists in Poland because of the extermination camp built by the Nazis victims, and that highlighting their treatment Predictably, Russian President Vladimir his own research documenting instances of in occupied Poland, on January 27, 1945. only served nefarious “Zionist” aims. Putin’s speech to last week’s World Holocaust Polish collaboration with the Nazi occupiers, But neither of those facts can forgive his In this period, when Soviet Jews faced Forum in Jerusalem raised hackles among the but that clearly hasn’t pushed him into other distortions, nor his willful abuse of the state discrimination and a ban on emigration responsible guardians of Holocaust memory. Moscow’s corner. As Grabowksi and other Holocaust to score political points against to Israel, the Soviets cemented their biggest The Russian dictator claimed that 40% of the professional historians understand all too Russia’s present-day adversaries. World War II lie of all. Soviet propaganda six million Jewish victims of Nazi slaughter well, all the nations of Europe who found Critically, there is another layer of history claimed that the Zionist movement was were citizens of the Soviet Union — a vastly themselves under the Nazi boot collaborated that Putin — stalwart defender of the Soviet an ideological bedfellow of the Nazis, and overinflated figure that can be arrived at to some degree. The torrid debates of recent Union that he is — will never bring himself to that Zionist leaders had collaborated with only if you include those Jews who resided in years over the “guilt” or “innocence” of Poles, talk about publicly. the Nazis at just the time that the USSR was countries that were occupied by the USSR. Hungarians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, and The Soviet Union was once dubbed a engaged in its heroic resistance. (This partic- Putin’s manipulation of Holocaust others have little to do with the historical “prison house of nationalities,” and that was ular piece of propaganda was, incidentally, numbers — historians generally agree that record, and everything to do with the desire especially the case for Soviet Jews. While the the main reason why Mahmoud Abbas — about one million of the six million Jews of nationalist governments to purge their Bolshevik Revolution liberated the Jews from now head of the Palestinian Authority — was murdered were Soviet citizens — comes in nations of wartime guilt by portraying the brutally antisemitic rule of the Tsar, under awarded a Ph.D. by Moscow University for a the context of an ugly dispute between Russia themselves purely as victims of the Nazis — communism, Jewish identity was frowned thesis on alleged Nazi-Zionist “collaboration.”) and Poland over responsibility for World War just as the Jews were. upon, while any expression of support for Discussion of the Holocaust during the II, in which Putin has depicted the Poles as Putin is absolutely right to remind the Jewish national rights or for the Zionist Soviet period was licensed only insofar as willing collaborators of the Germans. In turn, world of the enormous sacrifices made by movement was strictly forbidden. At the begin- the focus was on the iniquities of the Zionist the Poles have countered that the infamous the Soviet Union in the eventual defeat of the ning of World War II, Joseph Stalin’s regime movement and its alleged subversion of Soviet August 1939 Nonaggression Pact between Nazis. In the summer of 1943, the Red Army’s even played down the German atrocities that efforts to defeat the Germans. Visitors to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, which counter-offensive in the Donbass region targeted Jews specifically in the name of waging World War II monuments would look in vain effectively removed Poland from the map of “tore the guts out of the German Army,” as a “Great Patriotic War.” That only changed for any acknowledgement of the Holocaust as nations by partitioning the country between Winston Churchill memorably put it, and was towards the end of the war, when Stalin — a the two totalitarian states, was the source of a milestone on the road to victory two years true believer in the global Jewish conspiracy Continued on Page A7 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 A7 Opinion.

Continued from Page A3 the possibility to address their concerns Polish Minister regarding the situation in the Middle East and Erich Fromm and Religion disinformation campaigns. It’s one of them. He Iran. It was a big success. It was the first time wants to present Russian history in a better way for many years that people saw on the same and to get legitimacy for today’s agenda. panel foreign ministers of Arab countries Without God Poland belongs to the countries, like and Prime Minister Netanyahu. We want European member states, that do not accept to contribute to peace and stability in the Putin’s current foreign policy—the aggression Middle East. That is a crucial issue for Israel. against Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea, We closely cooperate with the United States aggression against Georgia, Russia’s role in and at the same time, we are a member of the Syria, in Libya, Central Africa, Venezuela. Our European Union and aware of the different JEREMY ROSEN opinions there regarding the Middle East. policy, with our allies of the European Union NEW YORK and NATO, is simply to maintain sanctions to After the conference happened [there was] a condemn this policy because it is against the certain evolution due to some words or inter- interests of the international community and pretations made by Israeli politicians. international law. For us, international law is Q: And even ministers. the basis for international order. A: Prime Minister Netanyahu also had Erich Fromm was one of the most influ- We can not accept aggression against some unclear statements concerning the ential psychiatrists of the last century. He was Holocaust during the Warsaw Conference. But educated in Germany. When the Nazis came Psychiatrist Erich Fromm in 1974. Photo: Müller- any country. It’s not good if we, as an interna- May / Rainer Funk / CC BY-SA 3.0 (DE) via Wikicommons. tional community, allow giving Putin historical something which indeed spoiled our relations to power in 1934, he moved to Switzerland and then on to New York. He was a restless instruments to have more influence or to legiti- were the words of the newly nominated and brilliant man. I first encountered his work practice provided. Their rituals and training mize his international standing. If he is treated Foreign Minister [Israel] Katz, which were when, as a student, I read his short book You helped people think about morally right as an important leader without saying that we largely offensive to Polish society. Of course, Shall Be as Gods: A Radical Interpretation of decisions. Otherwise, humans would tend to condemn his behavior, he has achieved what there are anti-Semites everywhere, I wouldn’t the Old Testament and Its Tradition. It was take the easiest and most selfish way out. he wants. It doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t dare to say that there is no anti-Semitism Fromm often used the Bible to illustrate Poland at all. But to refer it to the whole Polish originally published in German in 1954 and maintain contact with Russia. It’s our neighbor. English in 1966. I still recommend it heartily his points of view. The story of Adam and But giving him a forum to express his ideas is nation is something unfair. President Duda Eve was, he said, an allegorical explanation made it clear that he expected a clear apology. as it is still relevant today. another thing. The Western countries have Here was one of the most acclaimed for humans defying God and struggling to to coordinate policy to somehow limit or Q: The United States is about to publish work out for themselves how to act. And, of a report on the issue of restitution, based psychiatrists of the century arguing for the constrain his aggressive behavior, to deter him. benefit of Orthodox Judaism – but without course, mistakes have consequences. The Therefore Poland cooperates closely with the on JUST Act 447. Do you think that this book of Jonah described someone who did not might be a problem for Poland? God. He was a completely non-religious, United States within NATO. NATO changed atheist Jew writing about how psychologically wish to save the people of Nineveh from the A: It depends on the substance of the its attitude in order to face challenges to the important Jewish Law and its behavioral rituals consequences of their sins. It advocated the report. When you look at our system, there is Western world made by Russia. (including keeping Shabbat and Kashrut) were importance of care and responsibility for others a clear legal procedure for restitution. Many Q: A crisis strained Israel and Poland’s for the sanity of modern society. – even if one disagreed with them. Important Poles, including of Jewish origin and of every relations two years over the amendment of He was born to an Orthodox, scholarly ideas for human beings both religious and other ethnicity, who lost their property during the Act on the Institute of National Remem- family in Frankfurt. He studied Talmud and non-religious. Autonomy, the freedom to make brance. Is there anything you regret about war and the communist [era], ask for restitu- Hasidism in depth. He had a deep knowledge of up one’s own mind, was paramount. But so was that time? tion or compensation, and it happens through Jewish mysticism. However, in 1926 he turned being part of a community. A: It was indeed a crisis, but it was solved a legal process. Poland is one of the countries, away from Orthodox Judaism and towards Fromm liked the Talmudic story of Rabbi Eliezer who, in a dispute with a majority of his very quickly because this law was repealed. which did a lot on this issue. secular interpretations of scripture. He described fellow rabbis over a minor issue of Jewish law, There were some doubts raised, mostly by Q: You don’t think that this could again his position as “nontheistic mysticism.” asked God to intervene with miracles to prove scientists and even countries, that it might poison the atmosphere between Israelis, Reading his book had a huge impact him right. But the rabbis insisted that, since limit the freedom of research or of expres- Jews and Poles? on my thinking. I had my own very personal the Torah had been given, it was no longer up sion. These arguments were convincing, so A: I don’t think it’s an Israeli resolution, relationship with God. But Fromm argued that or is it? We will provide information if there religion did not have to be circumscribed by to God to intervene in such matters but for we withdrew the law. The joint declaration of human beings to use their powers of thought prime ministers [Benjamin] Netanyahu and is a request. Again, Poland belongs to those the idea of God. Being religious without God countries, which did a lot concerning the could still be very beneficial. At the time, I was to deal with current situations and challenges. [Mateusz] Morawiecki was important. This was evidence that we should be able to It’s over. Israel is very important for us, as value of property, which was returned. coming into contact with many Jews who had Q: There was an expectation in Israel rejected the idea of God and/or Jewish practice use our deductive tools to deal with life. a Jewish state. Everything that is related to the He admired Hasidic tales in which God Jews is very important due to our history and that Poland will move its embassy in Israel and could not identify with the Jewish religion. to Jerusalem. Is that a possibility? Here seemed an answer for them. was challenged and called to account by man feelings of empathy. It’s our long-term goal to for the horrible things that happen on earth. A: As far as the moving of the embassy Fromm said that humans should take maintain good relations with Israel, not only It was dangerous to accept God unquestion- is concerned, we coordinate our policy with independent action and use reason to estab- because of the history but also because Israel ingly. The Bible, he said, was more concerned is an important country today and we have the European Union and we do not envisage lish moral values rather than blindly adhering to the dictates of authorities. He disliked with the fight against idolatry than with a many possibilities to cooperate. such a move. The policy on this issue is clear, all authoritarian systems, yet argued that correct theology. Idolatry was the worship With US Secretary [of State] Pompeo I according to the United Nations. We are for a humans needed the discipline that religious organized the Warsaw Conference, enabling two-state solution. The status of Jerusalem, the Continued on Page A8 Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu state of Palestine and peace should be negoti- ated between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Continued from Page A6 points. Yet in the murky world of international Putin said politics, fragments of truth are assembled in Continued from Page A2 has largely become moot as the Palestinian a Jewish event. Meanwhile, the Soviet press the service of a larger goal. In this case, Putin Trump’s Peace public has soured on the idea and the number dripped with crude cartoons — reminiscent of succeeded in delivering the Soviet version of deal. Regardless of its reception, Israelis will of settlements has made it nearly impossible, Nazi caricatures — that showed Israeli leaders World War II from the podium of the world’s not expect to be pressured to accept the if not impossible, to create one. with hooked noses, wearing fascist-style most respected Holocaust institution. terms pushed by Clinton and Obama. The Similarly, a new administration could uniforms that substituted the swastika with Sadly, in the years to come, as the Jewish Palestinians will complain and demand their alter the calculus. Nearly all the Democratic the Star of David. community frets that there are few Holocaust maximalist positions be accepted, but outside candidates have expressed a desire to return As ever, how we interpret history is survivors left alive to tell of their experiences, the UN and Europe, their protests will fall on to a policy similar to Clinton/Obama that often directed by the geopolitical winds of we should expect these Holocaust distortions deaf ears. Even the Arab states have become favors compromise on Jerusalem, opposes the present. The tortured, complex relation- to become more commonplace. fed up with their irredentism and no longer settlements, and favors a Palestinian state. Some ship between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Ben Cohen is a New York City-based want their own interests to be held hostage by have raised Palestinian hopes anew by saying Union — two political systems founded upon journalist and author who writes a weekly the “Palestinian issue.” they are prepared to use military aid as a lever fear as the primary instrument of rule — column on Jewish and international affairs Just as the baseline has changed over to pressure Israel, though Congress is unlikely shouldn’t be reduced to a few simple talking for JNS. the last 50-plus years, it could change again to go along. A new president, however, is not in the unlikely possibility that Abbas will going to change the Palestinians’ unwillingness be succeeded by someone who does not to accept a Jewish state coexisting with a the group together horizontally across space part. It became the world’s master-narrative of want to see the Palestinians remain in limbo Palestinian entity, nor will they alter Israelis’ and vertically across time, giving it a shared liberty, adopted by an astonishing variety of indefinitely. That leader will first have to insistence on peace for security. identity handed on across the generations. groups, from Puritans in the 17th century to vanquish Hamas, however, which he may Mitchell Bard is Executive Director of None has been more powerful than the African-Americans in the 19th and to Tibetan be unable or unwilling to do. Even then the AICE and Jewish Virtual Library. Exodus story, whose frame and context is Buddhists today. possibility of creating a Palestinian state set out in our parsha. It gave Jews the most I believe that I am a character in our tenacious identity ever held by a nation. In the people’s story, with my own chapter to write, Continued from Page A10 We call them master-narratives. They are eras of oppression, it gave hope of freedom. and so are we all. To be a Jew is to see yourself The Story about large, ongoing groups of people: the At times of exile, it promised return. It told as part of that story, to make it live in our time, self-understanding of those who tell them. tribe, the nation, the civilisation. They hold two hundred generations of Jewish children and to do your best to hand it on to those who who they were and of what story they were a will come after us. A8 | FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 Impressions.

An Open Letter to the Polish People on the Birkenau Church

BY AVI WEISS in the Holocaust is a matter of serious debate, compounded by the government’s recent Continued from Page A7 attempts to criminalize references to Polish Without God To the people of Poland: complicity in Nazi atrocities. What is not up of oneself, one’s own intelligence, and one’s own As we approach the 75th anniversary for debate is that the Birkenau church operates strength. Only by embracing freedom could one free commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz, today with the government’s approval. The Polish oneself from idolatry. Failing to do this was the root I reach out to you in the spirit of peace. We are government has the power to demand that the of psychological conflicts. grateful to the righteous gentiles who, at great risk, church be moved elsewhere, an action that would Fromm thought that modern societies focused saved Jewish lives during those dark years, and show that when Poland is in control, it will do the too much on freedom from responsibility. Too few grateful as well to those in your government who right thing. people respected the autonomy of their fellow have extended themselves to make sure that the To be sure, we are not suggesting that the human beings – what other people truly wanted commemoration ceremonies be conducted with and needed. They preferred conformity. This led to people living in the village of Birkenau be deprived honor and dignity. destructiveness – the process which tried to elimi- of their parish church. A church should be built for And yet, we are concerned about the Birkenau nate others. All of which became manifest in Nazism them in the village, away from the camp. Back in church. The church occupies the building that and Marxism. Sadly, most people find it harder to try the early 1990s when a convent was established at was the Birkenau commandant’s headquarters, to be free than to simply accept conformity. Submit- Auschwitz I, Pope John Paul II himself asked that well within the perimeter of the Birkenau killing ting one’s freedom to someone else diminishes it be closed. And it was. freedom of choice. This preference for controlled lives was a danger to religion itself as well. As I look around me nowadays I see too much of today’s Jewish life is conformism. Layers have been added for social reasons, not spiritual ones. Too many people observe rituals out of social pressure instead of religious commitment. Yet without accepting the discipline of a religious way of life, one flounders and struggles for comfort and a sense of belonging. Humans, said Fromm, need to be excited and stimu- lated by striving for goals. And to find their own places in the world. He wanted to eliminate the concept of “God” except as a “poetical symbol” of the primary and mystical ego-transcending experience of man. This was where I parted company. I believe the idea of God is important as a personal experience (more than a concept). This is what adds the spiritual dimension to the structure of the law. God is a way of reaching beyond oneself. Even if I question the theology. I agree we must try to experience life on a higher, more intense, personal level. But I also value The entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. the Torah concept of accepting first and questioning center, as shown in aerial photos. afterward (Na’aseh VeNishma). Without a structure In the same spirit, we’ve asked Pope Francis Over the years, I’ve become increasingly to begin with, one is in danger of wandering, getting to step forward and do the same with regard to the sensitive to interfaith matters, including the lost and not finding. Like a child with no discipline. Birkenau church. importance of building and maintaining good All of this makes You Shall Be as Gods one of the On January 27, marking the 75th anniver- Jewish-Catholic relations. Still, the Birkenau most important books on the relevance of religion sary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau church does not belong at the largest Jewish – even in our skeptical, modern world where every- death camp, we will be there as the survivors cemetery in the world — 96% of the murdered in thing is open to challenge. and the dignitaries gather for the commemora- Birkenau, 1.1 million people, were Jews. Rabbi Jeremy Rosen received his rabbinic tion ceremony. At its conclusion, we will walk the The church is in violation of the 1972 ordination from Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He short distance to the Birkenau church, raise our has worked in the rabbinate, Jewish education, UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection placards, and, in dignity and peace, demand that and academia for more than 40 years in Europe of World Cultural and Natural Heritage, declaring the church be moved out of the camp. and the US. He currently lives in the US, where he certain sites inviolate. Auschwitz is on that Our hope is that people of moral conscience writes, teaches, lectures, and serves as rabbi of a heritage list. Poland is a signatory to the Conven- will join us on behalf of the six million who small community in New York. tion. The church is also in violation of a solemn cannot speak for themselves, our brothers and agreement signed in 1987 by European cardinals sisters whose “blood cries out from the ground” and European Jewish leaders that “there will be demanding justice. no permanent Catholic place of worship on the In prayers for peace. site of the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps.” Rabbi Avi Weiss, National President — the The extent to which Poland was complicit Coalition for Jewish Concerns. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 A9 Legal Notice.

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SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR Articles of Organization filed with the a/k/a MARGARET L. FRIESON lately amount of judgment $1,100,693.49 ALLIANCE MORTGAGE BANKING secretary of state of New York(SSNY) domiciled at 91-31 175th Street, plus interest and costs. Premises CORP., CHEMICAL BANK, THE FIRE on 04/08/2019. Office location: Bronx Jamaica, New York 11432, in the will be sold subject to provisions of COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY OF County . SSNY has been designated County of Queens, State of New York, filed Judgment Index# 504322/2014. NEW YORK, CITY OF NEW YORK as the agent of the LLC upon whom granting Limited Letters of Adminis- Steven Naiman, Esq., Referee Shapiro, ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL process against it May be served. SSNY tration upon the estate of the decedent DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for BOARD, GEORGE BRYANT, HENRY Shall mail copy of process to: Haakim to Tommy C. Frieson, Diane Frieson, the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boule- CLARK, SHAWN CAMPBELL, Wasiym Bell P.O. Box 802 bronx, NY or any other distribute, or if they fail vard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment 10451. Purpose: all lawful activity to qualify to the Public Administrator 430-4792 Dated: December 20, 2019 of foreclosure and sale entered on AJ; 1/10/17/24/31; 2/7/14 of Queens County, and if permitted 67254 Notice of formation of limited liability September 20, 2016 I, the undersigned to renounce the right to Letters, then AJ; 1/17/24/31; 2/7 company(LLC) Name : NORTH Referee will sell at public auction to the CINE MAGIC SUNSET PARK to Petitioner’s nominee Oscar Prieto KEERAGOOL ARCHITECTURE PLLC highest bidder at ROOM 224 F/K/A STUDIOS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with upon duly qualifying, that the quality of NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT Articles of organization filed with the ROOM 274 OF KINGS COUNTY the SSNY on 01/03/2020. Office loc: the representative under the foregoing COUNTY OF KINGS FREEDOM secretary of state of New York (SSNY) SUPREME COURT, 360 ADAMS Kings County. SSNY has been desig- letters be limited to accepting service MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Plain- on 11/15/2019 Office location: Kings STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK nated as agent upon whom process of process on behalf of the estate of the tiff AGAINST ABBEOLA AARON county. SSNY has been designated 11201 on February 13, 2020 at 2:30 PM against the LLC may be served. SSNY deceased in a foreclosure action on a AKA ABBEOLA O AARON, ALVIN as the agent of the LLC upon whom premises known as 309 ARLINGTON shall mail process to: The LLC, 11 Kent first mortgage held by the petitioner, ASHBY, MARCIA CROAL, ET AL., process against it may be served. SSNY AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11208. Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222. Purpose: its successor and/or assigns, dated Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment shall mail copy of process to: The LLC ALL that certain plot, piece of land, Any Lawful Purpose. October 21, 1998 and recorded at Book of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 69 Halsey Street,3RD floor Brooklyn, situate, lying and being in the Borough AJ; 1/17/24/31; 2/7/14/21 5087, Page 1052 in the Office of the May 18, 2018 I, the undersigned NY 11216 purpose: all lawful activity of Brooklyn, County of KINGS, City Queens County Clerk on January 19, Referee will sell at public auction at the AJ; 12/27; 1/3/10/17/24/31 and State of New York. Block: 3927 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE 1999 in the original principal balance Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Lot: 61 Approximate amount of lien OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF KINGS of $56,100.00, on the Decedent’s real Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME $479,903.07 plus interest and costs. WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS property located at 139-38 232ND New York 11201, on February 27, 2020 COURT COUNTY OF KINGS 21ST Premises will be sold subject to TRUSTEE FOR BANC OF AMERICA STREET, LAURELTON, NY 11413. at 2:30PM, premises known as 1091 MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Plain- provisions of filed judgment Index # ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-7, HON. PETER J. KELLY, Surrogate E 96TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY tiff AGAINST ANDREW GRANT, et al., 501183/2015 JEFFREY R. MILLER, V. JEAN SCHICK A/K/A JEAN SHICK; James Lim Becker, Chief Clerk Dated, 11236. All that certain plot piece or Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment ESQ., REFEREE STEIN, WIENER AND ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE Attested and Sealed, January 8, 2020. parcel of land, with the buildings and of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated ROTH, L.L.P., ATTORNEYS FOR THE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Name of John J. Ricciardi, Esq. Attorney improvements erected, situate, lying 1-10-2018 I, the undersigned Referee PLAINTIFF ONE OLD COUNTRY Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated for Petitioner: Gross Polowy, LLC Tel. and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, will sell at public auction at the Kings ROAD, SUITE 113 CARLE PLACE, NY February 21, 2018, and entered in No. 716-204-1700 Address of Attorney: County of Kings, City and State of New County Supreme Court, Room 224, 11514 DATED: January 3, 2020 FILE #: the Office of the Clerk of the County 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 412, York, BLOCK 8184, LOT 31. Approxi- 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on WELLS 66757 of Kings, wherein WELLS FARGO Westbury, New York 11590 Note: mate amount of judgment $412,546.22 February 13, 2020 at 2:30PM, premises AJ; 1/10/17/24/31 BANK N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR BANC This citation is served upon you as plus interest and costs. Premises will known as 433 Jerome Street, Brooklyn, OF AMERICA ALTERNATIVE LOAN required by law. You are not required be sold subject to provisions of filed NY 11207. All that certain plot piece or SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF TRUST 2006-7 is the Plaintiff and to appear. If you fail to appear it will Judgment for Index# 501950/2012. parcel of land, with the buildings and KINGS GOSHEN MORTGAGE JEAN SCHICK A/K/A JEAN SHICK; be assumed, you do not object to the LEONARD C. SPECTOR, ESQ., improvements erected, situate, lying LLC, AS SEPARATE TRUSTEE ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the relief requested. You have a right to Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, FOR GDBT I TRUST 2011-1, undersigned Referee will sell at public have an attorney-at-law appear for for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite County of Kings, City and State of New Plaintiff -against- CHRISTO- auction at the KINGS COUNTY you. 67694 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 67335 York, Block 4030 Lot 39. Approximate PHER CLEMENTE; MARSHELLE COURTHOUSE 360 ADAMS STREET, AJ; 1/17/24/31; 2/7 AJ; 1/24/31; 2/7/14/ amount of judgment $753,960.02 MCCROREY A/K/A MARSHELLE ROOM 224, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, plus interest and costs. Premises will VICTORIA MCCROREY; COURTNEI on February 20, 2020 at 2:30 pm, Notice of formation of limited liability Notice of formation of limited liability be sold subject to provisions of filed CLEMENTE, et al Defendant(s). premises known as 615 HENDRIX company(LLC) Name: 22 NORTH company(LLC) Name: 6 MILDRED Judgment Index #503926/2014. Bruno Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11207: Block 6TH STREET 8B LLC. Articles of PLACE LLC. Articles of Organiza- F. Codispoti, Esq., Referee Carter and Sale dated October 23, 2019 and 4075, Lot 7: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT, organization filed with the secre- tion filed with the secretary of state Conboy Case Blackmore Maloney & entered on November 14, 2019, I, the PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH tary of state of New York(SSNY)on of New York(SSNY) on 06/27/2019. Laird, PC 20 Corporate Woods Blvd. undersigned Referee will sell at public THE BUILDING AND IMPROVE- 10/07/2019. Office location: Kings Office location: Kings county. SSNY Albany, NY 12211 26743 67079 auction at the Kings County Court- MENTS THEREON ERECTED, county. SSNY has been designated has been designated as the agent of AJ; 1/10/17/24/31 house 360 Adams Street, Room 224, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN as the agent of the LLC upon whom the LLC upon whom process against it Brooklyn, NY on February 13, 2020 at THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, process against it may be served. may be served. SSNY shall mail copy NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court 2:30 p.m. premises situate, lying and COUNTY OF KINGS, CITY AND SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 22 of process to: Anderson registered County Of Kings U.S. Bank National being in the Borough of Brooklyn, STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will North 6th Street 8B LLC 16 Melbourne agents 7014 13th Avenue,Suite 210 Association, as Trustee for Credit County of Kings, City and State of be sold subject to provisions of filed Road great neck NY 11021 . Purpose: Brooklyn, NY 11228.purpose: all lawful Suisse First Boston 2006-1, Plaintiff New York, bounded and described as Judgment Index # 4267/2008. Doron all lawful activity activity AGAINST Shira Frank, Avraham follows: BEGINNING at a point on the Leiby, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, AJ; 1/17/24/31; 2/7/14/21 AJ; 1/24/31; 2/7/14/21/28 Frank, et al, Defendant Pursuant to easterly side of East 96th Street, distant LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale 278.15 feet southerly from the corner 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attor- Notice of location of limited liability NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT duly dated 4/26/2017 and entered on formed by the intersection of the neys for Plaintiff. company(LLC) Name: SKY CASTLES COUNTY OF KINGS JPMorgan Chase 5/11/2017, I, the undersigned Referee, easterly side of East 96th Street and AJ; 1/17/24/31; 2/7 CONSTRUCTION LLC. Articles of Bank, National Association, Plaintiff will sell at public auction at the Kings the southerly side of Flatlands Avenue; organization filed with the secre- AGAINST Bruno Brancaleone; Maria County Supreme Court, 360 Adams being a plot 20 feet by 100 feet by ADMINISTRATION CITATION tary of state of New York (SSNY) on Brancaleone; Robert Goldschmidt; Street, Brooklyn, NY on February 13, 19.78 feet by 100.01 feet. Block: 8204 File No. 2018-2423 SURROGATE’S 10/24/2019. Office location: Kings Antonella Goldschmidt; et al., 2020 at 02:30 PM premises known Lot: 26 Said premises known as 1183 COURT QUEENS COUNTY county.SSNY has been designated Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment as 799 East 8th Street, Brooklyn, NY EAST 96TH STREET, BROOKLYN, CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE as the agent of the LLC upon whom of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated July 11230. All that certain plot piece or NY Approximate amount of lien STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace process against it may be served. SSNY 14, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee parcel of land, with the buildings and $585,911.49 plus interest & costs. of God Free and Independent, TO: shall mail copy of process to: Legal- will sell at public auction at the Kings improvements erected, situate, lying Premises will be sold subject to provi- The heirs at law, next of kin, and corp Solutions,LLC 11 Broadway Suite County Supreme Court, 360 Adams and being in the County of Kings, sions of filed Judgment and Terms of distributees of MARGARET FRIESON 615 New York, NY 10004. Purpose: all Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 City and State of New York, BLOCK: Sale. Index Number 511952/2017. a/k/a MARGARET L. FRIESON, lawful activity on February 27, 2020 at 2:30PM, 6496, LOT: 53. Approximate amount JEFFREY MILLER, ESQ., Referee deceased, if living, and if any of them AJ; 1/17/24/31; 2/7/14/21 premises known as 2051 West 10th of judgment is $573,284.05 plus inter- Kosterich & Skeete, LLC Attorney(s) be dead to the heirs at law, next of Street, Brooklyn, NY 11223. All that ests and costs. Premises will be sold for Plaintiff 68 Main Street, 3rd Floor, kin, distributees, legatees, execu- NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME certain plot piece or parcel of land, subject to provisions of filed Judgment Tuckahoe, NY 10707 tors, administrators, assignees and COURT COUNTY OF KINGS HSBC with the buildings and improvements Index # 3261/2009. For sale informa- AJ; 1/10/17/24/31 successors in interest whose names Bank USA, National Association, as erected, situate, lying and being in the tion, please visit Auction.com at www. are unknown and cannot be ascer- Trustee for Nomura Asset Acceptance Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832. Notice of formation of limited liability tained after due diligence TOMMY C. Corporation Mortgage Pass-Through City and State of NY, Block 7096 Lot Jeffrey R. Miller, Referee FRENKEL company(LLC) Name: LAW OFFICE FRIESON DIANE FRIESON PUBLIC Certificates, Series 2006-AF2, Plain- 62. Approximate amount of judgment LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & OF MAARIA MAHMOOD, PLLC. ADMINISTRATOR OF QUEENS tiff AGAINST Roberto Martinez; $1,227,564.11 plus interest and costs. GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Articles of Organization filed with the COUNTY A petition having been duly Deborah Martinez; et al., Defendant(s) Premises will be sold subject to Shore, NY 11706 secretary of state of New York(SSNY) filed by SN SERVICING CORPORA- Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure provisions of filed Judgment Index# AJ; 1/10/17/24/31 on 12/12/2019. Office location: Kings TION, as servicer for ELL 09-2009, and Sale duly dated July 4, 2018 I, the 15699/2013. Shmuel Taub, Esq., county. SSNY has been designated LLC, a corporation organized and undersigned Referee will sell at public Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME as the agent of the LLC upon whom existing under the laws of the United auction at the Kings County Supreme Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS process against it may be served. States of America, who is domiciled Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL SSNY shall mail copy of process to: at 323 Fifth Street, Eureka, California, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on February 20, York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR Law Office of Maaria Mahmood,PLLC 95501 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED 2020 at 2:30PM, premises known as November 20, 2019 66817 NOMURA ASSET ACCEPTANCE 615 W. 186th street New York, NY TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surro- 938 Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, NY AJ; 1/24/31; 2/7/14/ CORPORATION, MORTGAGE PASS- 10033. Purpose: all lawful activity gate’s Court, Queens County, at 11233. All that certain plot piece or THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES AJ; 1/10/17/24/31; 2/7/14 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, parcel of land, with the buildings and NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT 2005-AP3, Plaintiff -against- MARIA NY 11435 on March 5, 2020 at 9:30 improvements erected, situate, lying COUNTY OF KINGS JPMorgan Chase POSNER A/K/A M. POSNER A/K/A Notice of formation of limited liability o’clock in the fore noon of that day, and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, Bank, National Association, Plain- MARIA POSNET, MORTGAGE company(LLC) Name: KING HI why a decree should not be made in County of Kings, City and State of ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION CLOTHES & ENTERTAINMENT LLC. the estate of MARGARET FRIESON NY, Block 1714 Lot 12. Approximate Continued on Page A10 A10 | FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 Tradition. Legal Notice.

is contained in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Considerations on the LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE The Story We Tell Government of Poland (1772). This is an unlikely place to find insight Continued from Page A9 THE HOLDERS OF THE J.P. MORGAN About Ourselves on the Jewish condition, but it is tiff AGAINST Necta Dupuy; Frantzy ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-A5 there. Rousseau is talking about Dupuy; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH the greatest of political leaders. to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale CERTIFICATES, Plaintiff against First of these, he says, was Moses duly dated October 18, 2018 I, the ISAAC SHOUELA, A/K/A ISAAC undersigned Referee will sell at public SHOELA, ELI SHOUELA A/K/A did for me when I came out of who “formed and executed the ELI SHOUELA, et al Defendant(s). astonishing enterprise of instituting auction at the Kings County Supreme Egypt.’ (Ex. 13:8) Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclo- as a national body a swarm of JONATHAN SACKS 3. “In days to come, when your Brooklyn, NY 11201 on February 27, sure and Sale entered on September child asks you, ‘What does this wretched fugitives who had no arts, 2020 at 2:30PM, premises known as 25, 2018. I, the undersigned Referee LONDON will sell at public auction in Room mean?’ say, ‘With a mighty no weapons, no talents, no virtues, 8610 Avenue N, Brooklyn, NY 11236. no courage, and who, since they had All that certain plot piece or parcel of 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, hand the Lord brought us out of 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on Egypt, out of the land of slavery. not an inch of territory of their own, land, with the buildings and improve- ments erected, situate, lying and being the 5th day of March, 2020 at 2:30 Sometimes others know us were a troop of strangers upon the (Ex. 13:14) in the Borough of Brooklyn, County p.m. premises described as follows: better than we know ourselves. The Israelites had not yet face of the earth.” All that certain lot, piece or parcel of Moses, he says, “dared to of Kings, City and State of NY, Block In the year 2000, a British Jewish left Egypt, and yet already Moses 8083 Lot 5. Approximate amount of land, with the buildings and improve- research institute came up with was telling them how to tell the make out of this wandering and judgment $703,916.99 plus interest ments thereon erected, situate, lying a proposal that Jews in Britain be story. That is the extraordinary fact. servile troop a body politic, a free and costs. Premises will be sold and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of redefined as an ethnic group and people, and while it wandered in subject to provisions of filed Judgment Why so? Why this obsession with New York, known and designated not as a religious community. It was storytelling? the wilderness without so much Index# 1128/13. Steven Naiman, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC as Lots Numbers 63 and 64, Block a non-Jewish journalist, Andrew as a stone on which to rest its The simplest answer is that Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile 6826, on a certain plan of lots called Marr, who stated what should have we are the story we tell about head, gave it the lasting institution, “Brooklyn Harlem” (temporary Name) proof against time, fortune and Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New been obvious. He said: “All this is ourselves. There is an intrinsic, York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: surveyed for Wood Harmon & Co., shallow water, and the further in perhaps necessary, link between conquerors, which 5000 years January 15, 2020 March 1902 by Samuel H. McElroy, you wade, the shallower it gets.” narrative and identity. In the words have not been able to destroy or AJ; 1/24/31; 2/7/14/ C.E. and C.S. and filed in Kings County It is what he wrote next that I even to weaken.” This singular Register’s Office, March 23, 1902, and of the thinker who did more than bounded and described as follows, found inspirational: “The Jews have most to place this idea at the centre nation, he says, so often subjugated Notice of formation of limited liability company(LLC) Name: SOMETHING to wit: Easterly at East 21st Street, 40 always had stories for the rest of us. of contemporary thought, Alasdair and scattered, “has nevertheless FRENCH,LLC Articles of organiza- feet as shown on said plan; Southerly They have had their Bible, one of the MacIntyre, “man is in his actions maintained itself down to our days, by Lot 62 in Block 100 feet as shown scattered among the other nations tion filed with the secretary of state great imaginative works of the human and practice, as well as in his of New York(SSNY)on 10/10/2019. on said plan; Westerly by lots 26 and without ever merging with them.” spirit. They have been victim of the fictions, essentially a story-telling Office location: Kings county. SSNY 25 in said Block 40 feet as shown on worst modernity can do, a mirror animal.” We come to know who we Moses’ genius, he says, lay in has been designated as the agent of said plan; Northerly by Lot 65 in said Block 100 feet as shown on said plan. for Western madness. Above all they are by discovering of which story or the nature of the laws that kept Jews the LLC upon whom process against it Said premises known as 1946 E. 21st have had the story of their cultural stories we are a part. as a people apart. But that is only may be served. SSNY shall mail copy half the story. The other half lies in of process to: Osher Battal 2247 E. 66 Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11229. (Block: and genetic survival from the Roman Jerome Bruner has persuasively 6826, Lot: 27). Approximate amount this week’s parsha, in the institution street Brooklyn, NY 11234. Purpose: Empire to the 2000s, weaving and argued that narrative is central to of lien $ 1,153,565.15 plus interest and of storytelling as a fundamental All lawful activity thriving amid uncomprehending, the construction of meaning, and AJ; 1/24/31; 2/7/14/21/28 costs. Premises will be sold subject to hostile European tribes.” meaning is what makes the human religious duty, recalling and provisions of filed judgment and terms re-enacting the events of the Exodus NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT. of sale. Index No. 20507-13. Steven J. every year, and in particular, making COUNTY OF KINGS. U.S. BANK Baker, Esq., Referee. Eckert Seamans children central to the story. Noting TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 Cherin & Mellott, LLC Attorney(s) that in three of the four storytelling MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, for Plaintiff 10 Bank Street - Suite 700 passages (three in our parsha, the Pltf. vs. JUDY BRATHWAITE, et al, White Plains, New York 10606 (914) Defts. Index #502954/2013. Pursuant 949-2574 fourth in Va’etchanan) children AJ; 1/31; 2/7/14/21/ are referred to as asking questions, to judgment of foreclosure and sale entered Dec. 20, 2018 and order the Sages held that the narrative entered June 10, 2019, I will sell at NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT of Seder night should be told in public auction in Room 224 of the COUNTY OF KINGS, FEDERAL response to a question asked by a Kings County Supreme Court, 360 NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCI- child wherever possible. If we are Adams St., Brooklyn, NY on Thursday, AITION, Plaintiff, vs. GLEN R. the story we tell about ourselves, Mar. 5, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. prem. k/a 211A EDMONDS, ET AL., Defendant(s). Lewis Avenue, Brooklyn, NY a/k/a Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure then as long as we never lose the and Sale duly filed on August 21, 2018, story, we will never lose our identity. Block 1625, Lot 8. Said property begin- ning at a point on the Easterly side of and a Decision and Order filed on This idea found expression Lewis Avenue, distant 40 ft. South- December 6, 2019, I, the undersigned some years ago in a fascinating erly from the Southeasterly corner of Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room The Jews have always had condition human. No computer encounter. Tibet has been governed Lewis Avenue and Lexington Avenue; 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY stories for the rest of us. I love that needs to be persuaded of its by the Chinese since 1950. During being a plot 20 ft. x 80 ft. Approx. amt. the 1959 uprising, the Dalai of judgment is $709,220.23 plus costs on February 27, 2020 at 2:30 p.m., testimony. And indeed, from early purpose in life before it does what premises known as 429 Decatur Lama, his life in danger, fled to and interest. Sold subject to terms on, storytelling has been central to it is supposed to do. Genes need Street, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain Dharamsala in India where he and and conditions of filed judgment and the Jewish tradition. Every culture no motivational encouragement. terms of sale. For sale information, plot, piece or parcel of land, with the many of his followers have lived has its stories. (The late Elie Wiesel No virus needs a coach. We do please visit Auction.com at www. buildings and improvements thereon once said, “God created man not have to enter their mindset to ever since. Realising that their stay Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832. erected, situate, lying and being in the because God loves stories”). Almost understand what they do and how in exile might be prolonged, in 1992 BRUNO CODISPOTI, Referee. COHN Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 1677 certainly, the tradition goes back to they do it, because they do not have he decided to ask Jews, whom he & ROTH, Attys. for Pltf., 100 East Old regarded as the world’s experts in Country Rd., Mineola, NY. #98293 and Lot 48. Approximate amount of the days when our ancestors were a mindset to enter. But humans do. judgment is $713,853.33 plus interest maintaining identity in exile, for AJ; 1/31; 2/7/14/21/ hunter-gatherers telling stories We act in the present because of and costs. Premises will be sold around the campfire at night. We things we did or that happened to us advice. What, he wanted to know, subject to provisions of filed Judgment was the secret? The story of that SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF are the storytelling animal. in the past, and in order to realise a KINGS HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL Index # 1597/2015. Philip L. Kamaras, But what is truly remarkable sought-for future. Even minimally to week-long encounter has been told ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, FOR Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & is the way in which, in this week’s explain what we are doing is already by Roger Kamenetz in his book, The Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite Jew in the Lotus. One of the things 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for parsha, on the brink of the Exodus, to tell a story. Take three people Seder. Through it for 2000 years, they told him was the importance of Plaintiff Cash will not be accepted. Moses three times tells the Israelites eating salad in a restaurant, one even in very difficult times, Jewish memory and storytelling in keeping AJ; 1/31; 2/7/14/21/ how they are to tell the story to their because he needs to lose weight, the people remember their liberation a people’s culture and identity children in future generations. second because she’s a principled from slavery to freedom and this Notice of formation of limited liability alive. They spoke about Pesach 1. When your children ask you, vegetarian, the third because of has brought you hope in times company (LLC) Name: BRIDGETTE’S and the Seder service in particular. ‘What does this ceremony mean religious dietary laws. These are of difficulty. We are grateful to DINING & EVENT HALL, LLC. So in 1997 Rabbis and American Articles of Organization filed with the to you?’ then tell them, ‘It is the three outwardly similar acts, but our Jewish brothers and sisters dignitaries held a special Seder secretary of state of New York(SSNY) Passover sacrifice to the Lord, they belong to different stories and for adding to their celebration of service in Washington DC with the on 01/23/2020 . Office location: Kings who passed over the houses they have different meanings for the freedom the thought of freedom for Dalai Lama. He wrote this to the county . SSNY has been designated of the Israelites in Egypt and people involved. the Tibetan people.” as the agent of the LLC upon whom participants: spared our homes when He Why though storytelling and Cultures are shaped by the process against it may be served. “In our dialogue with Rabbis struck down the Egyptians.’ (Ex. the Exodus? range of stories to which they SSNY shall mail copy of process to: and Jewish scholars, the Tibetan 12:26-27) One of the most powerful give rise. Some of these have Bridgette’s Dining & Event Hall,LLC people have learned about the 200 Utica Avenue store Brooklyn, NY 2. On that day tell your child, ‘I do passages I have ever read on a special role in shaping the this because of what the Lord the nature of Jewish existence secrets of Jewish spiritual survival 11213 purpose: all lawful activity in exile: one secret is the Passover Continued on Page A7 AJ; 1/31; 2/7/14/21/ www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 A11 Social.

En Route to Tokyo Olympics, Israeli Speed Skater Takes Bronze at European Championship

BY LAUREN IZSO

Israeli speed skater Vladislav Bykanov claimed a bronze medal this week at the European Short An image of one of the Palestinian terrorists who took part in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. Track Speed Skating Championship in Hungary. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Bykanov, 30, took the bronze for the 1,500m race with a time of two minutes and 26.075 seconds, while Itzhak de Laat of the Netherlands earned the ‘Fauda’ Writer Works on New silver medal at two minutes and 25.960 seconds and Hungarian Shaoang Liu won gold with a time of two minutes and 25.871 seconds, according to the Inter- TV Series About Mossad Agents national Skating Union (ISU). The Hungarian competitor stole the title from Hunting Down Munich Massacre his own brother, Shaolin Sándor Liu, who lost his Perpetrators

BY SHIRYN GHERMEZIAN both Israelis and Palestinians, honing in on two or three characters from each side, but will focus on Mossad The head writer of the second season of “Fauda,” agents and their mission to find the perpetrators of the the popular Israeli drama, is working on a new series Munich attack. about Mossad agents who tracked down members of “In today’s television market there is hunger for the Palestinian terror group Black September after the real-world stuff, spy stories and period [drama],” Mann 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, in which 11 Israelis told Variety. “This is about the start of using worldwide Israeli speed skater Vladislav Bykanov. Photo: Instagram. were killed. media for terrorism and impacting world opinion, and Amir Mann’s new eight-part series, called “Band of governments starting to do targeted assassinations.” balance and fell down on the track, coming in 7th Spies,” is an international co-production and a collabo- The story is set in Europe in the 1970s and will take place. ration between Reel One Entertainment, the French place in multiple countries, including Israel, Lebanon, The three-day ISU event in the eastern company Capa Drama, the Israeli media group Ananey France, Germany, Greece and Italy. It is expected to Hungarian city of Debrecen took place from Jan. Communications and its subsidiary Nutz Productions, be a multi-language project and Mann told Variety the 24-26. Variety reported on Tuesday. storyline could span several seasons, with the possi- Bykanov previously won the gold medal in the “Band of Spies” will showcase the viewpoints of bility of continuing the series by following events from 3,000m speed skating track at the 2015 and 2018 the 1980s and 1990s. European Championships. He qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, becoming the first male athlete to qualify from Israel in short track speed skating. He was named Israel’s flag bearer in the opening ceremony, and one of only five Israeli athletes who qualified for the games. ‘My Life Here is So Wonderful,’ Bykanov came 19th in the 500m, 24th in the 1,000m, and 25th in the 1,500m. He also competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Director Quentin Tarantino Says Korea. If Bykanov qualifies for Tokyo 2020, it will be his third Summer Olympic Games. Next week, he is set to compete at the Speed About Living in Israel Skating World Cup in Calgary, Canada.

BY JNS.org His time in Israel so far has been “great” he said, adding, “I love the country, and the people are really nice, Film director Quentin Tarantino spoke to Yediot very nice to me, and they seem excited that I’m here.” Achronot in a full-length interview published last week According to Yediot, Tarantino and his wife live in all. Like everyone else here, I don’t really notice it.” about his new “wonderful” life in Israel with his wife, Ramat Aviv Gimel, a tony residential neighborhood in Tarantino just won a Golden Globe for Best Israeli singer and model Daniella Pick, who is pregnant northwest Tel Aviv. Screenplay for “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” with their first child. He is excited about the birth of his child and and in his acceptance speech, he thanked Pick in The “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” director described his life with Pick—saying they have a routine Hebrew. He said the birth of his child will encourage told the publication, “Really, my life here [in Israel] is so where he writes, she makes lunch, he writes more, and him to learn more Hebrew. wonderful.” they watch movies together—and added, “Really, it’s “I can’t have a conversation now, but I know He said he has some “short trips” back to the United very, very pleasant.” many words in Hebrew,” he explained. “Obviously, States planned for the Oscars awards ceremony, but his When asked how he feels about the missiles fired I’m going to learn. I don’t want my boy or girl to family will be in Israel before and after Pick gives birth. from the Gaza Strip, Tarantino said, “I’m not scared at speak a language I can’t understand.” www.algemeiner.com

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