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Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews crammed into the streets of a Tel Aviv suburb on Tuesday to mourn a 104-year-old rabbi who had signifi cantly infl u- enced a succession of Israeli coalition governments.

A New York City Police (NYPD) offi cer stands in the subway corridor, near the site of an attempted detonation Dec. 12, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Brendan McDermid.

Th e funeral ceremony of Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Stein- man in Bnei Brak, Dec. 12, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Baz Ratner. BY REUTERS & of a weapon, supporting an act of but said the couple have a ALGEMEINER STAFF terrorism, and making a terroristic six-month-old baby boy. Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman led a council of threat under New York state law, “We have found his wife and sages that controlled the small Degel Hatorah lawmakers’ New York offi cials on Tuesday the New York Police Department in-laws in Dhaka. We are inter- faction, part of the United Torah Judaism party, which has said they charged a Bangladeshi said, adding US authorities may viewing them,” one of the police often held the balance of power in Israel. man with terrorism, accusing him of also bring federal charges. offi cials toldReuters. In particular, Shteinman broke with tradition by giving setting off a pipe bomb a day earlier Investigators in Bangladesh New York offi cials on Tuesday tacit consent to the enlistment of religious soldiers in the in a crowded Manhattan commuter were questioning Ullah’s wife, said they charged a Bangladeshi fi rst ultra-Orthodox unit set up by the Israeli military. hub, as investigators in his home according to two offi cials who man with terrorism, accusing him of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose govern- country questioned his wife. declined to be identifi ed as they setting off a pipe bomb a day earlier ment includes ultra-Orthodox political parties, said the Akayed Ullah, 27, was were not permitted to discuss in a crowded Manhattan commuter Continued on Page A3 charged with criminal possession the matter publicly. Th ey did not hub, as investigators in his home provide details on the questioning, Continued on Page A3

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Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, specifically told Forbes that Israel has STEPHEN M.FLATOW/ not approved them. JNS.ORG In a lead editorial, last week challenged the claim by one Jewish official that he was secretly negotiating with Qatar to get to hand over the bodies of two deceased Israeli soldiers. If Qatar wants Hamas In a stinging rebuke to those who claim to hand them over, it does not need to meet with that Qatar is becoming “moderate,” a senior American Jews to do so. Hamas’ top leaders, Qatari cabinet minister last week visited and Khaled Mashaal and Yusuf al-Qaradawi, are embraced the leaders of the most anti-Israel, living right there in Qatar’s capital, Doha. terror-sponsoring country on earth — Iran. That’s the same al-Qaradawi who has Qatar’s minister of the economy, Sheikh publicly praised Hitler, and prayed for Allah to Ahmed bin Jassim Al-Thani, visited Tehran in help him finish the job. President Donald Trump meets with the emir of Qatar in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 2017. order to seek a huge expansion of Qatari-Iranian “Oh Allah,” al-Qaradawi declared in one Photo: White House / Shealah Craighead. sermon broadcast on Al Jazeera, “take this trade. According to Forbes, Al-Thani met with appropriate partner for negotiations, visits or In a recent letter to Trump administration oppressive, Jewish, Zionist band of people … Iran’s foreign minister and industry minister in any contacts with American Jewish leaders. officials, a bipartisan group of lawmakers count their numbers and kill them, down to the hope of increasing trade from the current Otherwise, those Jews risk being “used to expressed their “deep concern” that Doha the very last one!” $1 billion annually to a whopping $5 billion whitewash the crimes of terrorism and continues to serve as “a sanctuary to Hamas The Jerusalem Post editorial asked: annually. This follows Qatar’s recent decision antisemitism,” as the Post puts it. terrorist officials.” The House of Represen- “Given that Qatar openly supports Hamas in to restore full diplomatic relations with Iran, One Jewish official recently wrote: tatives also recently adopted a resolution its declared goal of Israel’s destruction, could following a nearly two year suspension. “Maybe by engaging the Qataris, Jewish condemning Qatar for providing “significant Qatar be using American Jews to whitewash All of this leaves a handful of American leaders can help lead the world’s richest financial and military support” to Hamas. itself? … Is Qatar playing them?” Jewish leaders with a bit of egg on their faces. country from the dark side to the light.” Histor- Congress and The Jerusalem Post are right. The Post pointed out that Al Jazeera, Earlier this year, Qatar hired a Jewish- ical experience suggests that it is more likely It’s not a morally complicated issue. the viciously anti-Israel television network, owned public relations firm in Washington to be the other way around. It’s clear-cut. Governments that sponsor is an arm of the Qatari government; Qatar to improve Qatar’s image in the United States. Those who lower themselves into the murderers of Jews should not be rewarded. “has pledged more than $1 billion to Hamas’s Soon afterward, officials of a few Jewish swamp of terror-supporting dictators might Meetings with Jewish officials, visits by Jews declared campaign for Israel’s destruction and groups met privately with Qatari officials; find themselves sinking deeper and deeper to Qatar, articles by Jews claiming that Qatar offers refuge to its top leaders,” and “Qatar is some of them even visited the Gulf kingdom. into the muck of moral compromise, as they might be changing — these are rewards for a Hamas’s ally and single largest donor, paying There were some rumors — perhaps make one excuse after another for a regime regime that is desperate to improve its image. out hundreds of millions of so far.” spread by Qatar’s Jewish friends — that the whose behavior is inexcusable. Qatar does not deserve such rewards. A regime that harbors terrorists who vow Jewish contacts with Qatar were secretly Fortunately, members of Congress from A version of this article was originally to kill all Jews should not be considered an approved by the Israeli government. But both parties are speaking out against Qatar. published by The Jewish Press. New York Times Finally Shows Some Improvement in Anti-Israel Bias

It’s almost as if the argument for the occupied Palestinian territories and its the continuing to pretend, contrary to reality, that deliberate attempts to erase the ’ Algemeiner Journal IRA STOLL Jerusalem is not Israel’s capital is so weak that historical, political, cultural and demographic BOSTON the Times feels the need to repeat it over and presence in historic Palestine.” (USPS 927800) is published weekly over again, as if sheer volume of words will Also on December 7, the Times published a (except for the week of Passover compensate for lack of logic. piece by a former Obama administration official, and Succos) In case you were fortunate enough to Steven Simon. That article criticized what it called Subscription rate $40 per year The New York Times is gradually miss any of the articles, here is a roster: Trump’s “ill-timed plan to recognize Jerusalem Algemeiner Journal improving. The cascade of commentary aimed at as the capital of Israel. Such recognition limited That’s the happiest face to put on the denying Israel its capital began with a Times to West Jerusalem might make sense to clinch 508 Montgomery Street slight improvement in how the newspaper’s staff editorial dated December 5. The online Israel’s buy-in at the endgame of a negotiation, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225-3023 editorial and op-ed page greeted President version of that editorial now carries a correc- but not at the very outset, when an ill-defined Periodicals Postage Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as tion. Uncorrected, however, is the Times pledge will antagonize Palestinians and most Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. Israel’s capital, compared with how it treated contention that Trump’s decision “Almost likely inflame the Arab world.” and at additional mailing offices Trump’s decision on the Iran nuclear deal. certainly will make an agreement harder to On December 8, Times columnist Roger Back in October, the Times published reach by inflaming doubts about America’s Cohen announced what he described as a POSTMASTER: seven editorial or opinion pieces in favor of honesty and fairness as a broker in negotia- “more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger reaction to Send address changes to Trump keeping the deal, and just two opposing tions, raising new tension in the region and Trump’s announcement.” it, a tally that I described at the time as “lopsided,” Algemeiner Journal perhaps inciting violence.” On December 9, under the headline, and an “unprecedented Times onslaught of On December 6, under the headline “Our Dashed Hopes For Jerusalem,” the Times P.O. Box 250746 cheerleading for the Iran nuclear deal.” “Trump, Israel, and the Art of the Giveaway,” published a piece by Raja Shehadeh, the Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225 -3023 It sure looks like the Times took that the Times published an op-ed by Thomas author of “Where the Line Is Drawn: A Tale criticism to heart and has made a real effort Friedman attacking Trump’s decision. “He of Crossings, Friendships and Fifty Years of Let your voice be heard! to provide more balanced coverage. This time feels the need to keep feeding his base by Occupation in Israel-Palestine.” Shehadeh around, on the Jerusalem decision, the Times fulfilling crude, ill-conceived promises he described “feeling dismayed that Washington’s [email protected] also published two articles representing what threw out to them during the campaign,” recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was might be called a pro-Israel perspective. And Friedman wrote. “Today, again, he put another made with no consideration of the discrimi- instead of seven articles on the other side, one of those promises ahead of United States’ nation and underdevelopment of the past 50 To advertise in the Times has published (at least as of this national interest.” years designed to drive Palestinians out of the the new Algemeiner writing), a mere six. On December 7, the Times published a city. The United States not only has confirmed e-mail: [email protected] Got that? Instead of seven anti-Israel piece by an executive committee member of its bias in favor of Israel but also has given op-eds or editorials for each two pro-Israel the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hanan approval to the kind of relations between Israel or call pieces published, the Times has slightly ratch- Ashrawi, headlined, “Trump Is Making a and Palestine that cannot possibly be the basis eted back its bias, so that there’s only a six to Huge Mistake on Jerusalem.” It claimed, “Mr. for peace and coexistence.” 718-771-0400 two ratio of disparity. Time for celebration in Trump is giving Israel a free hand to accel- Against those six articles — more than the pro-Israel media advocacy community! erate its policies of creeping annexation of Continued on Page A3 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017 A3 World News. Top Hezbollah Leader Hamas Threatens to Boasts of New Military Make Israel ‘Pay a Price,’ Skills Acquired Amid Latest Gaza Flare-Up Defending Assad

BY BEN COHEN mament of Hezbollah in the current situation.” Hezbollah’s complete disarmament The second-in-command of Hezbollah, is regarded by the United Nations Security Iran’s Shia proxy in Lebanon, has told an Council as a critical step toward creating peace audience in Tehran that the terrorist organiza- in Lebanon. Resolution 1701 — adopted in tion vastly improved its military and fighting August 2006 at the end of the 34-day Second capabilities during its defense of President Lebanon War — mandates “the disarmament Bashar al-Assad’s regime in in recent years. of all armed groups in Lebanon, so that…there Speaking with students at the Imam will be no weapons or authority in Lebanon Sadegh University in Tehran on Sunday, other than that of the Lebanese State.” Hezbollah deputy secretary-general Naim Described by Western military experts Qassem said that before engaging in the in a recent report as the world’s “most fighting alongside Iranian troops to rescue powerful” terrorist organization, Hezbollah Assad’s crumbing rule, Hezbollah fighters only has significantly built up its arsenal in the knew how to use “weapons like machine guns subsequent decade, and now possesses over and missiles but did not have heavy weapons 100,000 missiles, according to Israeli intel- Hamas terrorists in the , January 2017. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90. and equipment like tanks.” ligence estimates. Last month, Lebanese around midnight and set off Code Qassem underlined that Hezbollah had Prime Minister Saad Hariri accused Iran and BY JNS.ORG now “gained more experience” as a result of Hezbollah of plotting his assassination and Red sirens in the city as well as in several the fighting in Syria. “When we went to Syria, destabilizing the country. The IDF struck several of the Hamas other Israeli communities in the vicinity of we learnt how to fight in the desert and we terror group’s positions in the northern Gaza Gaza, including , Hodaya, Mash’en, also learnt urban warfare and how to liberate Strip on Monday night, after several rockets Nir Yisrael, Beit Shikma, , Ge’a, cities, one house and one street at a time,” were launched from the territory at the , , and . Qassem said, in remarks reported by Iranian southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. One of the rockets was intercepted by official news agencies. “We became skilled in The IDF tweeted that it “holds the Hamas the Israel’s aerial defense system. driving tanks and using all types of missiles.” terror organization accountable for this Explosions were heard in the area, but no Qassem — who answers directly to hostile act originating in the Gaza Strip.” injuries or damage were reported. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah — also Following the retaliatory Israeli strikes, Monday night’s rocket fire from Gaza ridiculed the idea that Hezbollah forces in Hamas warned that “the enemy must be afraid followed a similar incident early Monday Lebanon would ever disarm, in a speech to a and know it will pay a price for breaking the morning in which a rocket fired from the terri- separate “International Islamic Unity” confer- rules of engagement with the Gaza resistance.” tory exploded in an open area of the Eshkol ence in the Iranian capital. “The coming days will prove the enormity Regional Council. “America and Israel and their allies speak of the enemy’s mistake and miscalculation as Last week, Hamas called for a violent of disarmament because Hezbollah has been uprising in response to US President Donald Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem along- to the resistance’s willpower,” the Gaza-ruling successful in defeating Israel in Lebanon,” side top Iranian regime adviser Ali Akbar terror group threatened. Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Qassem declared. “Lebanon’s resistance was Velayati at a conference in Beirut in 2016. The rockets from Gaza were fired over capital. also able to effectively fight against Takfiri Photo: Reuters / Aziz Taher. (ISIS) terrorism, so nobody talks about disar- tions and was taken to hospital in police Bangladesh strongly condemned the attack. Continued from Page A2 them, the newspaper looks as if it’s trying to custody. The three bystanders sustained “A terrorist is a terrorist irrespective of Improvement serve an audience that denies Israel’s capital, minor injuries. his or her ethnicity or religion, and must be one a day — the Times deemed fit to print and as if it is using Stephens and Rosner to The NYPD and the Federal Bureau of brought to justice,” the government said in a only two on the other side of the issue. One cloak its anti-Israel coverage with a veneer Investigation were conducting the investi- statement. was by Bret Stephens, and the other was of respectability. I suppose six to two is gation in conjunction with other agencies President Donald Trump on Monday by Shmuel Rosner. They were both fine, modestly better than the seven to two tilt on through the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and said the attack emphasized the need for US but pro-Israel Times readers have a right to the Iran deal, at least until or unless the Times were asking the public for any information immigration reforms. wonder — where are the other four pieces in chooses to publish one more anti-Israel piece about the suspect. “America must fix its lax immigration favor of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital that the on Jerusalem in addition to the six it already Authorities in Bangladesh began to track system, which allows far too many dangerous, newspaper would have to print to achieve has published. Some improvement. down Ullah’s family soon after news of the inadequately vetted people to access our even a 50-50 balance on the issue? Without attack broke and they first found a cousin, country,” he said in a statement. said a third official, Mahiuddin Mahmud. The president also criticized the visa Continued from Page A1 several hundred thousand people gathered “We learned from his cousin that he had a program that allowed Ullah to enter the United Rabbi for the funeral procession, dressed in tradi- wife and a baby in Bangladesh,” Mahmud said. States in 2011 because he had family members Jewish people had “lost a central beacon of tional black ultra-Orthodox garb. The cousin, Emdad Ullah, toldReuters already in the country, saying such family visas spirit, heritage and morality.” Shteinman, born in what is now Belarus, that Ullah and his family originally lived in the are “incompatible with national security.” Special buses and trains ferried had led his community of Lithuanian-rooted Chittagong region in southern Bangladesh, but H.T. Imam, a political adviser to Bangla- mourners to Bnei Brak, a religious town on ultra-Orthodox Jews since 2012. had moved to the capital, Dhaka, years ago. desh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said he the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Police estimated that Ullah married a Bangladeshi woman about believed the attack would have no “negative two years ago and she lived in Dhaka, the cousin impact” on relations with the United States. Continued from Page A1 six-month-old baby boy. said, adding that he was educated in Bangladesh “The US government is well informed Bomb “We have found his wife and in-laws in before he moved to the United States. about the Bangladesh government’s attitude country questioned his wife. Dhaka. We are interviewing them,” one of the Bangladesh’s police chief had told regarding terror activities,” Imam said. Akayed Ullah, 27, was charged with police officials toldReuters . Reuters on Monday that Ullah had no The US Supreme Court last week handed criminal possession of a weapon, supporting New York police say Ullah set off a pipe criminal record in his home country, which a victory to Trump by allowing his latest an act of terrorism, and making a terroristic bomb in an underground corridor of the he last visited in September. travel ban, targeting people from six Muslim- threat under New York state law, the New York subway system that connects Times Square Ullah lived with his mother, sister and majority countries, to go into full effect even Police Department said, adding US authori- to the Port Authority Bus Terminal at rush two brothers in Brooklyn and was a green as legal challenges continued in lower courts. ties may also bring federal charges. hour on Monday morning, injuring himself card holder, said Shameem Ahsan, consul The ban covers people from Chad, Iran, Investigators in Bangladesh were and three others. general of Bangladesh in New York. Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen seeking to questioning Ullah’s wife, according to two New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called it an A US enforcement official familiar with the enter the United States. Trump has said the officials who declined to be identified as they attempted terrorist attack, and US officials said investigation into Monday’s attack said officers travel ban is needed to protect the United were not permitted to discuss the matter it appeared to be a rare, if not unprecedented had found evidence that Ullah had watched States from terrorism by Islamist militants. publicly. They did not provide details on attempt, at a suicide bombing on US soil. Islamic State propaganda on the internet. Bangladesh is not among the countries the questioning, but said the couple have a Ullah survived with burns and lacera- Immigration reform impacted by the ban. A4 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017 World News. Guatemalan Lawmakers Ask Their President to Move Embassy to Jerusalem

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Ten representatives from the Guatemalan Congress sent a letter to President Jimmy Morales last Friday asking him to relocate the country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The letter was also delivered to MK Haim The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Photo: Sarah Junik Jelin (Yesh Atid), who along with MK Yifat Shasha-Biton (Kulanu) visited Guatemala last week as part of an Israeli legislative delegation Israel Arrests Would-Be Palestinian to the Central American country. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The Guatemalan lawmakers’ letter (right) meets with Guatamalan President Jimmy Terrorist at Cave of the Patriarchs followed a report in the Spanish-language Morales, Nov. 29, 2016. Photo: Haim Zach / GPO. Aurora Digital website on Sunday that Guate- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- in Hebron mala’s Integration Director Sandra Hovel had yahu hosted Morales in Jerusalem last year. expressed the country’s support for President He told the Guatemalan president at the time, Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as “Latin America has always been friendly to Israel’s capital. Speaking at a meeting of Latin Israel, but I think we’re at a position where American foreign ministers, Hovel called these relationships can be far, far, far advanced.” terrorist was arrested outside the Cave of BY JNS.ORG Guatemala “an ally of the State of Israel.” the Patriarchs in possession of a knife. Days A 17-year-old Palestinian terrorist before that incident, a 17-year-old Palestinian was arrested by the Israeli Border Police terrorist attempted to enter the site with a on Tuesday in possession of a knife at the knife hidden in his shirt. A similar incident entrance to Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs occurred on Nov. 9. Palestinians Pushing UN Security — one of the holiest sites in Judaism — in the The latest instance of attempted fourth such incident since early November. terrorism at the Cave of the Patriarchs came Council to Reverse US Recognition After the terrorist attempted to enter the after a Palestinian terrorist stabbed an Israeli holy site through a security checkpoint, police security guard in the heart at the entrance to of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital discovered that he was concealing a box cutter the Jerusalem Central Bus Station on Sunday. and detained him for further questioning. The terrorist was apprehended, while the On Nov. 27, a 16-year-old Palestinian security guard remains in serious condition. BY JNS.ORG US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley defended the recognition of Jerusalem as German Chancellor Leads The Palestinians are pushing the United Israel’s capital, stating that America remains Nations Security Council (UNSC) to demand a credible peace partner in the Israeli-Pales- that the US reverse its recognition of Jerusalem tinian conflict. She blamed the world body for Condemnation of Antisemitic as Israel’s capital. being the real obstacle to peace. At an emergency session of the UNSC on “The United States has credibility with Outrages in Wake of US Recognition Friday convened by eight of the council’s 15 both sides. Israel will never be, and should members, 14 member states condemned the never be, bullied into an agreement by of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital US move. the United Nations, or by any collection of “We are satisfied that there are 14 countries that have proven their disregard for countries in the Security Council that are Israel’s security,” Haley said. defending international law, defending The US ambassador added that the UN BY ALGEMEINER STAFF shameful,” Steffen Seibert said on Monday. Security Council resolutions as they relate to has done “much more to damage the prospects “One has to be ashamed when hatred of Jews Jerusalem and rejecting the unilateral, illegal for Middle East peace than to advance them.” The US position on Jerusalem has put it at German Chancellor Angela Merkel on is put on display so openly on the streets of decisions by President [Donald] Trump two odds with the four other permanent members Monday condemned the angry antisemitic German cities.” days ago,” said Palestinian Ambassador to the of the Security Council — Russia, China, the demonstrations that broke out in various Meanwhile, in Canada, B’nai Brith UN Riyad Mansour. UK and France — who have all condemned cities in her country in recent days following condemned demonstrations in Vancouver on Due to US being one of five permanent Trump’s Jerusalem moves. President Donald Trump’s announcement of Friday and Saturday, where it said “children members of the UNSC, the passage of a US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. were encouraged to chant terrorist slogans and resolution on the matter is unlikely. Merkel spoke out in the wake of protestors stole and destroyed Israeli flags.” widespread shock in Germany over the “This is merely the latest in a worrying string of antisemitic incidents in Vancouver brazenly antisemitic character of the string hands and then ripped it to shreds. They clearly criticisms of a decision by the US government of incidents, which also took place in other in recent months,” said Michael Mostyn, chief executive officer of B’nai Brith Canada. weren’t interested in peace.” but demonstrations of antisemitism.” major cities around the world. Similar scenes were also witnessed “On Friday, we saw severe disturbances “It is simply unacceptable for pro-Israel Canadians to be physically intimidated while outside the US Embassy in London on Friday, with the burning of Israeli flags and Stars of where demonstrators chanted an Islamist David, ” Merkel said. pro-Palestinian protesters call for violence and martyrdom.” antisemitic slogan that mocks the Jewish The chancellor said that her ruling CDU tribes of Arabia for having been defeated by Party “condemns these violations of the rule of According to local broadcaster News 1130, one of the organizers of Saturday’s the Prophet Muhammad’s army at the Battle law. We condemn all kinds of anti-Semitism of Khaybar in 628 CE. and xenophobia, and no disagreements, not protest was local imam Tarek Ramadan. In November, B’nai Brith filed a police complaint “The ‘Khaybar, Khaybar’ chant heard and even over the status of Jerusalem, justify such documented at Friday’s protest outside the US actions. The government must fight all such against Ramadan after he urged his congre- gants in a sermon to wage “jihad” against Embassy in London can only be interpreted as incidents with full force.” a call to incite violence against Jewish people,” Merkel’s comments followed an earlier Israel and send “money, weapons and exper- tise” to Palestinians. a statement from the Board of Deputies of comment by a government spokesman British Jews noted. “It is outrageous that who spoke of feeling “ashamed” by the anti- “It was a very threatening and antisemitic atmosphere,” said Jake Reznik, a Jewish student these protesters thought that such a chant Israel rallies. would be acceptable on the streets of London “At certain rallies over the weekend, at the University of British Columbia who arrived at the protest carrying an Israeli flag. in 2017. That this comes in the context of a slogans were chanted, Israeli flags were firebombing of a synagogue in Sweden and an “We came to peacefully share our viewpoint, Demonstrators in Berlin brandish Turkish and burned and slander against the State of Israel attack on a kosher restaurant in Amsterdam but they grabbed our flag right out of my friend’s Palestinian flags. Photo: Screenshot. and Jews in general were spread which were only increases our concern. These acts are not www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017 A5 U.S. News. The PA’s move came in White House: Palestinians response to President Donald Trump’s recognition of ‘Walking Away’ From Peace Talks Jerusalem as Israel’s capital as well as his expression of plans to move the US embassy to by Snubbing Pence that city. Abbas’s meeting with Pence was cancelled “because the US has crossed red lines” on BY JNS.ORG Jerusalem, Abbas’s diplomatic adviser Majdi Khaldi said last The Trump administration said Sunday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is “walking Saturday. away” from peace talks after PA President Mahmoud Abbas declined to meet with Vice Presi- In his announcement of dent Mike Pence during his upcoming Middle East visit this month. the US policy changes last week, US Vice President Mike Pence. Photo: Gage Skid- more via Wikimedia Commons. “It’s unfortunate that the Palestinian Authority is walking away again from an opportunity to Trump emphasized that he discuss the future of the region,” stated Jarrod Agen, Pence’s deputy chief of staff. was not defining the borders of meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin The Trump administration “remains undeterred in its efforts to help achieve peace Jerusalem nor altering the status quo at the Netanyahu in Jerusalem and with Egyptian between Israelis and Palestinians and our peace team remains hard at work putting together city’s holy sites. President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo. a plan,” Agen said. During his visit to the region, Pence will Advocates Call for Action Against UN Official Who Headlined Anti-Israel Event at University of Toronto

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Advocacy groups are urging action against a United Nations official who headlined an event organized by an anti- Israel group at the University of Toronto (UT) last month. Michael Lynk — special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory — was the featured lecturer at a November 29th event cosponsored by Canadian Friends of Sabeel and Emmanuel College, UT’s theological school. According to the Jewish human rights group B’nai Brith Canada, “attendees at the event were required to pay for tickets, with the proceeds earmarked for Sabeel’s operations.” Sabeel is a leading proponent of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, with its work largely focused on Christian congregations in North America and Europe. The group peddles a Palestinian variation of “liberation theology,” which rejects a Zionist interpretation of the Christian Bible, and has accused Israel of operating a “crucifixion system” against Palestinians. Lynk in turn is charged by the UN with investigating “Israel’s violations of the principles and bases of international law” — a mandate criticized for both presupposing Israeli guilt and failing to address potential abuses committed by Palestinian factions. A law professor at Western University in London, Lynk has previously endorsed boycotts of Israel and was described before his appointment as “an ardent anti- Israeli activist” who “plays a leadership role in groups that advocate against Israel” by the monitoring group UN Watch. “By headlining a fundraiser for an extremist group that seeks to boycott Israel, Rapporteur Lynk breached the UN Code of Conduct,” charged UN Watch chief Hillel Neuer. “He promoted a group that targets the same state he is investi- gating, thereby violating his duty of impartiality, as well as the prohibition against using his office for third party gain.” “Rapporteur Lynk must step down from his position or be removed,” said Michael Mostyn, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada, who shared his concerns in letters sent to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. “It is now obvious that he sees himself as an advocate, rather than the unbiased expert this position requires,” Mostyn added. Adam Austen, a spokesperson for Freeland, told The Algemeiner on Monday that “the Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories is an independent appoint- ment of the United Nations Human Rights Council.” “Canada closely follows the work of the Special Rappor- teur,” Austen added, “and as is always the case, we expect that the highest standards of impartiality be applied.” A6 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017 Opinion. The Mysterious Motivation of Jewish Leaders Who Visit Hamas’ Funders in Qatar

offensive in the American Jewish community Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents, — hoping to influence its leading members Rabbi Menachem Genack of the Orthodox Union and Martin Oliner of the Religious SHMULEY BOTEACH to support the regime. With Qatar deeply embroiled in a diplomatic crisis with much of Zionists of America — have recently been to President Donald Trump meets with the emir ENGELWOOD of Qatar in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 2017. the Arab world — which has in turn blockaded Doha, the capital of Qatar. Photo: White House / Shealah Craighead. the small, yet powerful emirate — the Qataris More shocking than the fact that some seem to be using the American Jewish commu- Jews have allowed themselves to be used as and the daily anti-Israel poison of Al Jazeera. nity to help them appear moderate. tools of Qatar’s false philosemitic facelift is There was recently a wave of criticism The Al Jazeera network, founded and Of course, the thought of Qatar actually the fact that this development has been met against the Zionist Organization of America, owned by Qatar, has featured some of the changing its egregious stance on Israel, the by a deafening silence in the very community headed by Mort Klein, over its decision to host most grotesque antisemitism ever aired Jewish people and support for terror is absurd. it threatens. Even as Qatari influence creeps Steve Bannon as a speaker at its annual gala. on television. For example, they famously There has been no word on toning down the into and throughout the American Jewish At the ZOA dinner, Bannon identified Turkey, televised the talks of arch Jew-hater Sheikh antisemitism and bitterly anti-Israel content community, one barely hears any protest. Qatar and Iran as the foremost threats in the Yousef al-Qaradawi, a leading figure in the on Al Jazeera. Hamas, which Qatar is the chief That’s not to say that the Jewish commu- Middle East, especially because of their hostility Muslim Brotherhood movement. funder of, has not only refused to adopt a more nity has lost its voice. toward Israel. Astonishingly, while he spoke, In one sermon, obtained by the Middle peaceful approach toward Israel, but seems When Linda Sarsour spoke on an there were Jewish leaders in the audience who East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), to be doubling down on its blood-drenched, antisemitism panel at The New School, the had just returned from a visit to the emir of Qatar. al-Qaradawi claimed that the Holocaust was murderous methods. The emirate hasn’t even Jewish community was in justifiable uproar, So why are Jewish leaders suddenly divine punishment of the Jews, adding that threatened to expel the Hamas leaders who call with its leaders offering extraordinary parading themselves in Doha? “next time, God willing, it will be at the hands Qatar home should they continue to espouse eloquence in their censures. The Jerusalem The passage of time will no doubt of the believers” — his way of beseeching their genocidal hatred of the Jews. Post editorial board, which alone has unearth significant information about the Muslims to engage in a genocide of the Jews. Qatar, it appears, won’t actually do published courageous editorials condemning mysterious hold that Qatar suddenly has on Another segment on Al Jazeera, also anything productive to earn Jewish friendship. the Qatari propaganda effort, decried the Jewish leaders, and the strange and deafening discovered by MEMRI, was a birthday party As the world’s wealthiest per-capita country, it event as “a forum of “anti-Semites on anti- silence that has gripped so many communal put on by the network for a terrorist who has decided instead to purchase a new image. Semitism’” that “makes as much sense as a organizations, as the chief funder of Hamas brutally murdered a four-year-old Jewish What we know so far is that Qatar has KKK forum on civil rights.” The Anti-Defama- slowly spreads its tentacles and its resources girl by smashing her head against the rocks already put a substantial amount of cash tion League’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, in elite New York Jewish circles. of Nahariya’s coast. As one might expect towards hiring a Jewish-owned Washington tweeted that “Having Linda Sarsour … leading Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, “America’s in a tribute to such a “hero,” the party was PR and lobbying firm to make inroads in the a panel on #antisemitism is like Oscar Meyer Rabbi,” whom and complete with an oversized cake, a melodious Jewish community. I recently saw the person leading a panel on vegetarianism.” Newsweek call “the most famous Rabbi in band and a fireworks show. who is leading this effort at a right-wing These denunciations were significant and America,” is the international bestselling Now, the virulently anti-Israel government Jewish charity event. We also know, according impactful. But Sarsour’s maximum capacity author of 30 books, including his most of Qatar, which pays for and distributes these to reports in The Jerusalem Post, that at for harm against Israel pales besides Qatar’s recent, “The Israel Warrior.” Follow him on videos, has launched a well-funded propaganda least three major Jewish leaders — Malcolm funding of a terror organization like Hamas, Twitter @RabbiShmuley.

arrest, and a host of political aides, intelli- Hezbollah allies who planned and executed gence officials and Kirchner enforcers have the bombing — remains more unattain- In Decades-Long AMIA been either locked up or forbidden from the able than ever. Former Iranian President Ali leaving the country by Argentina’s police. Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, at whose home Jewish Center Affair, the The developments are the most impor- the plan to bomb AMIA was approved, is tant in the AMIA case since Nisman’s murder dead. So is Imad Mughniyeh, the Hezbollah almost three years ago. All the lies that leader wanted by Interpol, who was killed by Truth Will Come Out Kirchner and her acolytes told — when they a car bomb in Beirut in 2008. As for those who denied there had been a pact with Iran in the remain with us, they remain, as well, under first place, when they tried to smear Nisman’s reputation people were murdered and hundreds more after his murder and when were wounded when a fuel truck rammed they insisted that his death BEN COHEN/JNS.ORG into the AMIA building on Pasteur Street in had been a suicide — have NEW YORK downtown Buenos Aires. been exposed as lies. Those Bonadio’s inquiry is based on the who continue to stand with complaint against former President Cristina Kirchner do so because of Fernandez de Kirchner and her colleagues their radical political orienta- compiled by Alberto Nisman, the federal tion, and not because they Like so many pins in a bowling alley, prosecutor investigating the AMIA bombing. respect the truth about AMIA the treacherous former Argentine leaders Nisman was found murdered in his Buenos and Nisman’s murder. who signed a secret pact exonerating Iran Aires apartment on Jan. 18, 2015, the night How extensive any trials of its responsibility for the 1994 bombing of Before being murdered, prosecutor Alberto Nisman had accused before he was due to unveil the complaint in Argentina might be is the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires are, Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner of covering up Iranian before Argentina’s Congress. debatable. Stripping Kirchner finally, collapsing under the rolling weight of involvement in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center. Nisman began working on the AMIA of her immunity will be a diffi- Photo: Twitter. judicial scrutiny. case in 2005, when his courageous efforts cult task, and her successor In a week that saw President Donald resulted in Interpol releasing six “red notices” Mauricio Macri will be wary Trump recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, for the Iranian and Hezbollah officials of giving his rival more opportunities to take Iran’s protection. one can be forgiven for not having noticed the wanted in connection with the bombing. But the center stage with the protestations of What has emerged from the AMIA momentous events that took place in Argen- as Kirchner fell under the sway of the late innocence at which she is, one has to concede, tragedy, at long last, are three indisputable tina at the same time. But these events are Venezuelan tyrant, Hugo Chavez, her policy a master. Timerman, meanwhile, is gravely ill truths. First, that Iran was responsible for the vitally relevant to the future of the Middle East, toward Iran shifted accordingly. Nisman and may not live much longer. (Although one bombing. Second, that Kirchner, Timerman where Iran — with or without a US embassy found himself out in the cold; and for all of his singular contributions — admitting, in and their collaborators willfully conspired to in Jerusalem — remains the greatest threat to that remains to be established, he may have a February 2013 conversation with Argen- cover this up. Third, that a good and decent Israel and to the region. even been murdered on the instructions of tine Jewish leaders, that Iran was responsible man paid with his life for efforts to establish For much of this year, Argentine judge Kirchner or someone close to her. for the AMIA bombing — was fortunately the truth about the criminality that collusion Claudio Bonadio has been heading a federal There is now, as a result of Bonadio’s captured on tape as part of Nisman’s with Iran inevitably brings. Is that justice? For inquiry into the allegation that in 2011, Argen- inquiry, the prospect that all this will be the evidence.) As for the others on Bonadio’s list, now, it’s the best we are going to get. tina and Iran signed a secret memorandum subject of a major treason trial. While Bonadio many of them could end up serving lengthy Ben Cohen writes a weekly column for of understanding that, in exchange for trade has asked Argentina’s Senate to strip Kirchner prison sentences, thus delivering a modicum JNS.org on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern and other benefits, Tehran and Buenos Aires of her immunity from prosecution, former of justice to the AMIA victims and their politics. His writings have been published in would establish a laughably named “truth Foreign Minister Hector Timerman — who families after 23 years of agony. Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, commission” to establish the facts of the signed the pact with his Iranian counterpart Of course, the real prize here — the The Wall Street Journal and many other AMIA bombing — until 9/11, the single worst in January 2011 at a meeting hosted by Syrian convictions of the Iranians and their publications. terror atrocity since World War II. Eighty-five dictator Bashar al-Assad — is under house www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017 A7 Opinion. Did Trump Help the ‘P Is for Palestine’ Author Israel-Diaspora Divide? Got One Thing Right

used to be, Jerusalem still means something. with Haaretz, Bashi elaborated: “Intifada is an While most American Jews are not supportive aspect of Palestinian life just as Bethlehem is STEPHEN M.FLATOW/ JONATHAN S. TOBIN of West Bank settlements, backing for Israel’s the birthplace of Jesus Christ.” An Israeli-Arab hold on Jerusalem is arguably still as much of JNS.ORG educator named Areej Masarwa added that, JNS.ORG a consensus issue in the US as it is in Israel. “It’s part of Palestinian identity.” That Trump embraced the reality of Israel’s Exactly right. capital and the rights of the Jewish people to Mass violence against Jews is indeed a Jerusalem in a way that didn’t foreclose the If there’s one thing that the overwhelm- The P is for Palestine children’s book central part of “Palestinian” identity. And that theoretical (though unlikely due to Pales- ingly liberal American Jewish community that is causing so much controversy features tells us a lot about Palestinian identity. tinian intransigence) possibility of a two-state generally agrees on these days, it’s President anti-Israel propaganda and deeply disturbing Palestinian Arab nationalism did solution helped shore up that consensus. Donald Trump. The vast majority of Jews not arise because of any major historical, But while the support for Trump’s move justifications for “intifada” violence. But it also are, for the most part, supportive of the anti- linguistic, religious or cultural differences is encouraging for those hoping to strengthen contains one very important truth. Trump “resistance.” between Palestinian Arabs and, say, Jordanian the bonds between American Jews and Golbarg Bashi, the tome’s Iranian- But a curious thing happened after Arabs or Syrian Arabs. That’s because there Israelis, celebrations must be tempered. born author, decided to use the device of an Trump announced that the US is finally aren’t any. Palestinian nationalism arose as an That groups that are primarily partisan alphabet book to indoctrinate children with officially recognizing Jerusalem as the capital anti-nationalism. Its raison d’être is to murder Democrats — including most Jewish anti-Israel messages. The most incendiary of Israel. Groups representing mainstream Jews and destroy the State of Israel. Democratic officeholders — would oppose part of the book, which has been at the center Jewish opinion, even those that are clearly Other nations express their distinctive Trump on Jerusalem or any issue is to be of much of the public debate, declares: “I is for liberal, like the Anti-Defamation League identity through positive cultural expressions. expected. The same is true of left-wing organiza- Intifada, Arabic for rising up for what is right, if (ADL), applauded. The Palestinians express their identity by tions like J Street, whose primary purpose was you are a kid or grownup!” The key question, however, is whether this bombing, shooting, hijacking, stabbing and to serve as cheerleader for President Barack The accompanying illustration shows a is a last gasp of the old pro-Israel establishment stoning Jews. Witness Sunday’s stabbing Obama’s effort to pressure Israel to make father and child, wearing keffiyahs, standing — or evidence of its continued strength. attack at Jerusalem’s Central Bus Station. concessions — including on Jerusalem — or near barbed wire (a symbol of “Israeli oppres- Given the fact that most American Jews And why does the character of Pales- open anti-Zionists like Jewish Voice for Peace. sion”) and flashing the V-for-victory sign. don’t like the current US administration tinian-Arab identity matter? Because the But the willingness of the Reform Victory over Israel, that is. and are not thrilled with the government fight for Israel’s survival is not just a military movement — the largest Jewish denomination Not surprisingly, many Jews are troubled in Jerusalem either, it wasn’t a given that conflict. It’s also a war of ideas. Understanding in the US — to express “concern” because of by Bashi’s attempt to justify and glorify the a decision that was widely panned in the the legitimacy of Jewish nationalism, and the its negligible impact on the dead-in-the-water waves of Palestinian “intifada” violence, in mainstream media would meet with approval falseness of Palestinian nationalism, is vital. peace process rather than support for Trump’s which more than 1,300 Israeli Jews have been from most Jewish groups. We must understand why our side is right — move was an ominous indication that all is murdered in recent years. While AIPAC was predictably favorable, and why their side is wrong. So, thank you, not well in the relationship between Israel and Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of Manhattan’s the backing for Trump from the American Golbarg Bashi, for helping to remind us of the American Jews. The same is true of the similar Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, a leading critic Jewish Committee and the Conference of opposition from the small Reconstructionist of the book, correctly described it as “the true nature of Palestinian nationalism. Presidents of Major American Jewish Organiza- movement and the initial silence from the Stephen M. Flatow, a vice president of the tions, an umbrella group that is often paralyzed glorification of the Palestinian intifada — a Conservative movement on the issue. Religious Zionists of America, is an attorney by the ideological and denominational splits in cruel, murderous, and terroristic campaign If groups that require those studying for in New Jersey. He is the father of Alisa Flatow, American Judaism, was significant. that purposely targeted innocent Israelis, the rabbinate to spend a year in Jerusalem are who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored The favorable stand of the ADL was including children, in restaurants, buses, not prepared to enthusiastically and openly Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. He may be particularly important, because the organi- hospitals, schools and shopping malls. … The back Israel’s rights there, it begs the question reached at [email protected]. zation has been prone to taking stands that intifada was not ‘a rising up for what is right.’ It of how much they are being influenced by smacked of partisanship — both against was a mass descent into immorality.” liberal politics that have nothing to do with the Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin In a post, Bashi blamed Middle East as well as by anger stemming from Netanyahu’s government — since longtime criticism of her book on what she called “self- an understandable dismay about the lack of leader Abe Foxman was replaced by former proclaimed powerful neighborhoods of New religious pluralism in Israel. Since these groups Obama staffer Jonathan Greenblatt. But York City.” That’s pretty obvious code language can claim to represent the bulk of affiliated rather than play politics over Jerusalem, the for “the Jews.” Jews, there is still good reason to worry that the ADL welcomed Trump’s announcement. But it’s also important to pay close atten- pro-Israel consensus is fraying, if not in danger. This debate came only a week after the tion to the explanations that Bashi and her Let’s hope that rank-and-file Jews in major dustup in which Israeli Deputy Foreign supporters have presented in several recent the pews and among the groups will send Palestinian boys during a class in Gaza. Minister Tzipi Hotovely criticized American interviews. “Intifada is part of Palestinian life, to Photo: UN Photo / Shareef Sarhan. their leaders a message that whatever their Jews in an interview on the i24 News cable resist occupation,” she told JTA. In an interview views on Trump or other issues, the vast station. Many in both countries took this majority still maintain their solidarity with controversy — though overblown and the Israel on Jerusalem. For all of the warning exactly what is going to happen next. of a life in which human action and Divine result of comments that have to some extent signs of trouble, what Trump may have done That knowledge does not mean that the intervention are inextricably entwined. It is been taken out of context — as reason to start is to signal that the emotional pull of Jewish players have had their freedom retroactively all there in the verse about the doubling of to writing off the Israel-Diaspora connection. affection for Israel’s capital is, at least for the removed. All it means is that you are now Pharaoh’s dream. By delaying this information But the willingness of so many mainstream moment, still capable of matching partisan watching the match from a different time until later in Joseph’s life, the Torah shows us Jewish groups to stick their necks out even a fervor even in our hyper-partisan times. perspective. When you were in the stadium, how a later event can force us to re-interpret an little bit for Trump can’t be dismissed. Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of you were watching it in the present. On televi- earlier one, teaching us the difference between Even in an American Jewish community JNS. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_ sion you are watching it as an event in the past. two time perspectives: the present, and the that is probably less interested in Israel than it tobin. So it is with life itself. As we live it day understanding that only hindsight can bring to by day, we choose in the present in order to the past. It does so not by expounding complex shape what is for us an unknown, undeter- philosophical propositions, but by the art of and human free will. As Rabbi Akiva put it Continued from Page A10 mined future. Only looking back are we story-telling – a far simpler and more powerful Providence most famously: “All is foreseen, yet freedom of able to see the consequences of our actions, way of conveying a difficult truth. choice is given.” may seem to be a mere sequence, without and realize their part in the unfolding of our These two time perspectives are On the face of it, these two propositions design or purpose. Told another way, looking autobiography. embodied, in Judaism, in two different litera- cannot both be true. If G-d knows in advance backwards, it can be made to resemble a plot, It is then, with hindsight, that we begin to see tures. Through halakhah, we learn to make that we are going to do X, then we are not a plan, a cunningly involuted development how providence has guided our steps, leading us choices in the present. Through aggadah free not to do it. If, on the other hand, we are leading to a necessary conclusion. Being both to where G-d needs us to be. That is one meaning we strive to understand the past. Together, genuinely free, then no one can know what narrator and subject, how am I to know which of the phrase spoken by G-d to Moses: these two ways of thinking constitute the we will choose before we choose it. way to look? “Then I shall take away My hand, and twin hemispheres of the Jewish brain. We are The paradox arises because of the nature This is a truth not only about literature you will see My back, but My face cannot not free. But we are also characters in a Divinely of time. We live in time. G-d lives beyond it. An but about life. There is an intrinsic connection be seen.” (Exodus 33: 23) scripted drama. We choose, but we are also analogy: imagine going to see a soccer match. between time and meaning. The same series of Only looking back do we see G-d’s provi- chosen. The Jewish imagination lives in the While the match is progress, you are on the events that once seemed mere happenstance dence interwoven with our life, never looking tension between these two frames of refer- edge of your seat. You do not know – no one becomes, with hindsight, the unfolding of a script. forward (“My face cannot not be seen”). ence: between freedom and providence, our knows – what is going to happen next. Now This allows us to resolve one of the great How subtly and deftly this point is made decisions and G-d’s plan. imagine watching a recording of the same paradoxes of the religious life – the seeming in the story of Joseph – the supreme example contradiction between divine providence match on television later that night. You know A8 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017 Impressions.

New York Times Movie Review An Open Letter to The New Praises ‘Devastating School and Parsons on Linda Indictment’ of Israel Sarsour

BY IRA STOLL BY SIDNEY GROSS and the uncertainty of our future. Linda Sarsour is salt in all of those wounds. She Sometimes the worst anti-Israel venom from Th e Dear President Van Zandt, has demonized my community and people. She has New York Times shows up not in the news or editorial My dream was always to attend a school like the spoken recklessly and hurtfully about Jewish people columns, but in the movie reviews. Parsons School of Design, currently housed at Th e and the Jewish state. Does Ms. Sarsour reserve the Th e latest example of this phenomenon (earlier New School. I am committed to a career in fashion right to express her views? Absolutely. But not in this cases were covered here and here) comes in a review design, and I know that Parsons would provide me setting. Putting her on a panel to address antisemi- by Times movie critic Manohla Dargis of a movie, with a phenomenal education in this fi eld. tism is an appalling, egregious decision. “Foxtrot,” that the review describes as “Israel’s Oscar entry in the foreign language category.” Dargis describes the fi lm as “a devastating indict- ment of a nation.” She sees the movie as saying that

A scene from the Israeli fi lm “Foxtrot.”Photo: Screenshot / YouTube.

“normalizing catastrophic violence — and routinizing mourning — is fi nally little else than nihilism.” Th at’s certainly one way to view this movie. But it’s not the only way. Hoff man, writing in Vanity Fair, said, “this is an allegorical fi lm and, although its Linda Sarsour (right). Photo: Screenshot. temperament is very Israeli, its content could just as well be about any nation and its Army.” Hoff man called And yet today, I am making one of the most Harvey Weinstein is entitled to his opinions the movie “a fascinating look at the grieving process.” painful decisions of my life thus far. Despite about women, but should he be invited to speak Dargis makes much of the fact that the Israeli spending signifi cant time on my application and on a panel about feminism? Should David Duke soldiers in the fi lm “bunk in what looks like a repur- design project, I will NOT be proceeding with my speak on a panel about black people and racism? posed, derelict shipping container.” Yet when it was application to your prestigious school. Wouldn’t it be our responsibility to speak up about Catskills hipsters rather than Israeli soldiers who were Th e impetus for my decision is the recent the hypocrisy of such an appearance? living in shipping containers, the Times took a diff erent choice by Th e New School to host Linda Sarsour It’s preposterous to imagine that Linda approach. “Eco-friendly and aff ordable, shipping as a member on a panel discussion on the topic of Sarsour could speak about solutions to a problem containers are gaining popularity as an alternative to antisemitism. In case you were not aware, Linda that she is at the very center of. By allowing her to traditional houses,” the Times reported in September Sarsour has applauded convicted Palestinian terror- participate in the panel, your university is seriously in its real estate section. “Containers are loved by the ists and murderers like Rasmeah Odeh, and has undermining the credibility of this panel, the goals hip and the practical, artisans and DIY-ers, engineers proclaimed that “nothing is creepier than Zionism” it claims to be in service of, and the venue that has and construction foremen, as they are both sustain- and that “Zionists could not be true feminists.” chosen to host it. able and aff ordable… some industry professionals It’s crucial for me that you understand the When researching this issue, I have found that consider them the future of home building.” It’s a following: I do not aspire to hide in a “safe space” it is not the fi rst time that Parsons has been on the classic Times double standard. during my university years. Quite the opposite. wrong side of the topic of antisemitism. As an Asian Even if the fi lm is critical of Israel, one might view My upbringing and my schooling has taught me Jew who was born in China and raised by Jewish its existence not as an “indictment,” but rather as an to embrace dialogue and nuance, and to seek parents, I am a double minority — and I must be an endorsement. Truly tyrannical societies, after all, don’t to understand opinions across the spectrum — advocate. Th is is my moment to do so, and I hope it allow fi lms critical of the security establishment even to especially those that are not my own. might compel the school to change its ways. be made, let alone enter them in the Academy Awards. I believe in the marketplace of ideas, and I For me, this was an agonizing choice. Attending Th en there’s the possibility — a possibility the want to trade in that marketplace. I believe, whole- Th e New School would be a dream beyond words. Times shows no sign of having considered — that the heartedly, in the protection of free speech as a core But there are values more important than personal nation being “indicted” by the movie isn’t Israel, but civil liberty. ambition. Th e voice that compels me to send this rather the nation or nations violently attacking it and And yet … there are times to take a stand. And letter is the voice of conscience, the voice of responsi- denying its right to exist peacefully. Or the possibility the off ensive decision regarding Sarsour make this bility for myself and for my people. For most of us, the that “routinizing mourning,” as the Times review puts one of those times. day comes that we must speak not just with our words it, isn’t “nihilism,” but rather a time-tested religious As a young Jewish person, I worry about the — but with our actions. For me, that day is today. tradition’s way of embracing the continuation of life. recent spike in antisemitic and anti-Israel senti- Sincerely, If the Dargis review is a “devastating indictment” ment across America, and what it means for my Sydney Gross of anything, it’s not Israel, but of the Times itself, which, generation. For me, it strikes the most personal of Class of 2018 sadly, can’t even seem to publish a movie review chords. It speaks to the travails of our Jewish past — Shalhevet High School without letting its anti-Israel bias seep in.. Los Angeles, CA www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017 A9 Legal Notice.

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SSNY shall mail copy of the tary of State of New York(SSNY) on the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 holders of Park Place Securities, Inc., Rosario Rodriguez; et al., Defendant(s) process to: The LLC 302 Weirfield St, 11/14/2017. Office location: Bronx Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certifi- Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure Brooklyn, NY 11237 Purpose: all lawful county.SSNY has been designated 11201 on January 4, 2018 at 2:30PM, cates, Series 2005-WCW3, Plaintiff and Sale duly dated October 16, 2017 activity as the agent of the LLC Upon whom premises known as 133 Milford Street, AGAINST Karen Black, Margaret I, the undersigned Referee will sell at AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1/8/15 process against it may be served. Brooklyn, NY 11208. All that certain Carroll, et al, Defendant Pursuant to public auction at the Kings County SSNY shall Mail copy of the process to: plot piece or parcel of land, with the a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Notice of formation of 752 Petrina T Brown 1930 Schieffelin Ave buildings and improvements erected, duly dated 7/29/2016 and entered on Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on PATTERSON LLC. Articles of Organi- Bronx, NY 10466 purpose: all lawful situate, lying and being in the Borough 8/23/2016, I, the undersigned Referee, January 18, 2018 at 2:30PM, premises zation filed with the Secretary of State activity of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and will sell at public auction at the Kings known as 842 Belmont Avenue, of NY, SSNY on 10/31/2017. Office AJ; 11/24;12/1/8/15/22/29 State of NY, Block 4189 Lot 8. Approxi- County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Brooklyn, NY 11208. All that certain located in Richmond County. SSNY mate amount of judgment $446,679.50 Street, Brooklyn, NY on January 11, plot piece or parcel of land, with the has been designated for service of Notice of formation of limited liability plus interest and costs. Premises will 2018 at 02:30 PM premises known as buildings and improvements erected, process. SSNY shall mail copy of company(LLC) Name: Black Don be sold subject to provisions of filed 733 East 102nd Street, Brooklyn, NY situate, lying and being in the City of process to: 752 PATTERSON LLC, 421 Entertainment,LLC. Articles of organi- Judgment Index# 512354/2015. ***No 11236. All that certain plot piece or New York, County of Kings and State Home Ave, Staten Island, NY 10305. zation filed with the Secretary of State Cash Deposits Accepted*** Doron A. parcel of land, with the buildings and of NY, Block 4039 Lot 0016. Approxi- Purpose: Any lawful purpose. of New York(SSNY) on 08/18/2017. Leiby, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro improvements erected, situate, lying mate amount of judgment $874,653.84 AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1/8/15/ Office location: Bronx County. SSNY & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the and being in the Borough and County plus interest and costs. Premises has been designated as the agent of Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard of Kings, City and State of New York, will be sold subject to provisions of Notice of formation of limited liability the LLC upon whom process against it Rochester, New York 14624 (877) BLOCK: 8190, LOT: 22. Approximate filed Judgment Index# 505837/2014. company(LLC) Name: THE GOOD may be served. SSNY shall mail copy 759-1835 Dated: October 25, 2017 amount of judgment is $585,101.53 Leo Salzman, Esq., Referee Shapiro, PAW LLC. Articles of organization of the process to:Raymond Mcclinton 49571 plus interests and costs. Premises DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for filed with the Secretary of State of New 1296 Sheridan Ave., Bronx, NY 10456. AJ; 12/1/8/15/22/ will be sold subject to provisions of the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boule- York(SSNY) on 10/25/2017. Office Purpose: all lawful activity filed Judgment Index # 502049/2012. vard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) location Richmond County. SSNY has AJ; 12/1/8/15/22/29; 1/5 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT Sean R. Smith, Referee FRENKEL 759-1835 Dated: November 8, 2017 been designated as the agent of the COUNTY OF KINGS Wells Fargo LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & 49973 LLC upon whom process against it NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT Bank, NA, Plaintiff AGAINST Jose GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay AJ; 12/15/22/29; 1/5 may be served. SSNY shall Mail copy COUNTY OF Kings, MTGLQ Inves- Valdez a/k/a Jose M. Valdez; et al., Shore, NY 11706 of the process to: Rachael Lanning 511 tors, L. P, Plaintiff, vs. Rogelio Clark, Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment AJ; 12/8/15/22/29; SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF Rensselaer Avenue staten Island, NY ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated KINGS QUICKEN LOANS INC., 10312 purpose: all lawful activity Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale and September 25, 2017 I, the undersigned 347 BERRY LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with Plaintiff against ALEKSANDER AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1/8/15 Order to Amend Caption duly filed on Referee will sell at public auction at the SSNY on 11/09/2017. Office loc: KHARKOVER, et al Defendant(s). October 25, 2017, I, the undersigned the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Kings County. SSNY has been desig- Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclo- Notice of formation of limited Referee will sell at public auction at the Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, nated as agent upon whom process sure and Sale entered on November liability company(LLC) Name: IRL Kings County Supreme Court, Room NY 11201 on January 4, 2018 at against the LLC may be served. SSNY 29, 2016. I, the undersigned Referee COLLECTIVE,LLC. Articles of organi- 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, 2:30PM, premises known as 17 Jerome shall mail process to: The LLC, 32 will sell at public auction in Room zation filed with the Secretary of State NY on January 04, 2018 at 2:30 p.m., Street, Brooklyn, NY 11207. All that Court Street Penthouse, Brooklyn, NY 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, of New York(SSNY) on 07/11/2017 premises known as 269 East 52nd certain plot piece or parcel of land, 11201. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on Office location: Kings county. SSNY Street, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain with the buildings and improvements AJ; 12/8/15/22/29; 1/5/12 the 18th day of January, 2018 at 2:30 has been designated as the agent of plot, piece or parcel of land, with the erected, situate, lying and being in the p.m. premises Lying and being in the the LLC upon whom process against it buildings and improvements thereon Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, Notice of Formation of Brooklyn Borough of Brooklyn and State of New may be served. SSNY shall Mail copy erected, situate, lying and being in the City and State of NY, Block 3922 Lot Perfume Company LLC. Art. of Org. York. In the condominium known of the process to: United states corpo- Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, 22. Approximate amount of judgment filed Sec'y of State (SSNY) 9/21/17. as “THE 235 OCEAN PARKWAY ration agents, 7014 13th Ave. Suite City and State of New York, Block 4658 $311,718.71 plus interest and costs. Principal Office: 120 Wyckoff St. CONDOMINIUM.” Together with 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: all and Lot 40. Approximate amount of Premises will be sold subject to Brooklyn, NY 11201, Kings County. an undivided 5.56% interest in the lawful activity judgment is $441,593.93 plus interest provisions of filed Judgment Index# SSNY designated as process agent. Common Elements. Said premises AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1/8/15 and costs. Premises will be sold 504851/2015. Jageshwar Sharma, Esq., Process Service address: 120 Wyckoff known as 235 Ocean Parkway, 2A, subject to provisions of filed Judgment Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC St. Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose: any Brooklyn, N.Y. 11218. (Block: 5339, Lot: Notice of formation of limited liability Index # 510070/2014. Shmuel D. Taub, Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile lawful purpose. 1103). Approximate amount of lien company(LLC) Name: Brooklyn UC Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New AJ; 12/8/15/22/29; 1/5/12 $ 504,479.28 plus interest and costs. Group LLC .Articles of organization & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Ste. York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: Premises will be sold subject to provi- filed with the Secretary of State of New 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for October 25, 2017 49578 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT sions of filed judgment and terms of York(SSNY) on 01/25/2017. Office Plaintiff AJ; 12/1/8/15/22/ COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. Bank, sale. Index No. 501108-14. Robert location kings county. SSNY has been AJ; 12/1/8/15/22/ National Association, as Successor L. Howe, Esq., Referee. McCabe, designated as the agent of the LLC 984 BERGEN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Trustee to Bank of America, N.A., as Weisberg & Conway, P.C. Attorney(s) upon whom process against it may Supreme Court County Of Kings with the SSNY on 09/28/17. Office: Successor By Merger to LaSalle Bank, for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street – be served. SSNY shall Mail copy of the Deutsche Bank National Trust Kings County. SSNY designated as N.A. as Trustee for the Certificate- Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York process to: Mark J. Nussbaum,ESQ. Company, as Trustee, in trust for agent of the LLC upon whom process holders of The MLMI Trust, Mortgage 10801 (914) 636-8900 225 Broadway 39th floor New York, NY the registered certificate holders of against it may be served. SSNY shall Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series AJ; 12/15/22/29; 1/5 10007 Purpose: all lawful activity First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust mail copy of process to the LLC, 44 2006-AR1, Plaintiff AGAINST Cheryle AJ; 11/24;12/1/8/15/22/29 2006-FF5, Mortgage Pass-Through Ferris Estates Road, New Milford, CT Williams a/k/a Cheryle E. Williams REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN Certificates, Series 2006-FF5, Plaintiff 06776. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. a/k/a Cheryle E. Dent a/k/a Cheryl E. FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT Notice of formation of limited liability AGAINST Christopher Grey, et al, AJ; 12/1/8/15/22/29; 1/5 Dent; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to – COUNTY OF KINGS CITIMORT- company(LLC) Name: The Covenant Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale GAGE, INC., Plaintiff – against TC/03G,LLC. Articles of organiza- of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT duly dated December 5, 2016 I, the – LUIS BUSTAMANTE A/K/A LUIS tion filed with the secretary of state 1/26/2017 and entered on 2/16/2017, COUNTY OF KINGS MTGLQ Inves- undersigned Referee will sell at public ALBERTO BUSTAMANTE, et al of New York(SSNY) on 10/20/2017 I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at tors, L.P., Plaintiff AGAINST Winston auction at the Kings County Supreme Continued on Page A10 A10 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017 Tradition. Legal Notice.

of disconnected events. It takes the LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE passage of time for us to be able Divine Providence to look back and see the route we have taken, and the right and wrong of the building known by the St. No. parcel of land, with the buildings and and Human Choice turnings on the way. 125 and 135 Oceana Drive East, improvements erected, situate, lying The novelist Jacobson Brooklyn, New York 11235) which and being in the Borough and County Residential Unit #2F is situated on the of Kings, City and State of New York, puts this thought in the mind of the building known as and by the St. No. BLOCK: 4008, LOT: 9. Approximate narrator of his novel, The Confes- 135 Oceana Drive East, Brooklyn, NY amount of judgment is $492,922.05 At that stage we had no idea sions of Josef Baisz: 11235 (the “Building”) said Residential plus interests and costs. Premises what the dreams signified. Were Told one way, looking forward Unit being designated and described will be sold subject to provisions of JONATHAN SACKS they a prophecy, or were they the as it were, and proceeding from as Residential Unit No. 2F in that filed Judgment Index # 502154/2014. certain declaration dated Mar. 9, 2005 David J. Hernandez, Referee FRENKEL LONDON fevered imagination of an over- one event to the next, my story made by the Grantor under the Article LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & indulged, overambitious young Continued on Page A7 man? The tension of the Joseph 9-B of the Real Property Law of the GORDON LLP 53 Gibson StreetBay State of New York (the Condominium Shore, NY 11706 narrative depends on this ambiguity. Act) establishing a plan for condo- AJ; 12/15/22/29; 1/5 Joseph is languishing in prison. Only now, chapters and years later, LEGAL NOTICE minium ownership of the Building Then, at the beginning of this week’s are we given the vital information and the land (the Land) upon which Notice of formation of limited liability sedra, a sequence of events takes that a dream, repeated in different the Building is situated (which Land company(LLC) Name: ALWAYS A place, leading to the most rapid, images, is not just a dream. It is a Continued from Page A9 is more particularly described on DOLLAR LLC .Articles of organiza- Schedule A annexed hereto and by tion filed with the Secretary of State radical change of fortune in the message sent by G-d about a future Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment Bible. Pharaoh has two dreams that will soon come to pass. this reference made a part hereof) of New York(SSNY) on 10/24/2017. of Foreclosure and Sale entered on which declaration was recorded, Office location Bronx County . SSNY that trouble his spirit. None of his Why were we not given this June 14, 2016. I, the undersigned collectively, as the Declaration); the has been designated as the agent of priestly retinue can decode the information earlier? It may be that Referee will sell at public auction, in Residential Unit is also designated as the LLC upon whom process against dreams in a way that satisfies him. it was only later that G-d disclosed Room 274 of Kings County Supreme Tax Lot 27256 in Block 8720 Section it may be served .SSNY shall Mail Pharaoh’s butler remembers Joseph. this to Joseph. Or perhaps Joseph Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, 6 on the Tax Map of the Real Property copy of the process to: The LLC 4022 Hurriedly he is taken from prison, has only now come to understand it. NY 11201 on the 18th Day of January, Assessment Department of the City of Baychester Ave., Bronx, NY 10466. 2018 at 2:30 p.m. All that certain New York for the Borough of Brooklyn Purpose: all lawful activity plot, piece or parcel of land, with the and the Floor Plans of the building (the AJ; 12/15/22/29; 1/5/12/19 buildings and improvements thereon “Floor Plans”) certified by Schuman, erected, situate, lying and being in the Lichtenstein, Clamon and Efron, NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings Architect and filed in the City Regis- COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK City and State of New York. Premises ter’s Office, County of Kings on April NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS known as 1425 East 98th Street, 11, 2005 in CRFN No. 2005000206354. TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST Brooklyn, NY 11236. (Block: 8263, Together with an undivided 0.91% TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL Lot: 21) Approximate amount of lien interest in the Common Elements (as ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE $438,999.76 plus interest and costs. such terms is defined in the Declara- AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER Premises will be sold subject to provi- tion) appurtenant to the Residential TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL sions of filed judgment and terms of Unit Approx. amt. of judgment is ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE sale. Index No. 11772/2013. Roger $2,201,391.27 plus costs and interest. FOR CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF Siegel, Esq., Referee. Davidson Fink Sold subject to terms and conditions of BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 28 East filed judgment and terms of sale LEO SECURITIES I LLC, ASSET-BACKED Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, NY SALZMAN., Referee. COHN & ROTH, CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-HE2, 14614-1990 Tel. 585/760-8218 Dated: Attys. for Pltf., 100 East Old Country Plaintiff AGAINST Davrin Faison, November 14, 2017 Rd., Ste. 28, Mineola, NY. #93492 Stephanie Faison FKA Stephanie AJ; 12/15/22/29; 1/5 AJ; 12/15/22/29; 1/5 Bennett, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME Sale duly dated January 12, 2017 I, the given a wash and change of clothes, Or it may simply be a literary device COUNTY OF Kings, CIT Bank, N.A. COURT COUNTY OF KINGS undersigned Referee will sell at public and brought before the ruler. to create and maintain tension in f/k/a OneWest Bank, N.A., Plain- FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE auction at the Room 224 of Kings Not only does he interpret the the unfolding plot. It may, though, tiff, vs. Katherine A. Chavis, ET AL., ASSOCIATION ("FANNIE MAE"), A County Supreme Court, 360 Adams dreams: he becomes the world’s first signal something altogether deeper Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on economist, inventing the theory EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF January 18, 2018 at 2:30PM, premises about the human condition seen October 25, 2017, I, the undersigned of trade cycles. The dreams mean through the eyes of faith. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, known as 937 EAST 103RD STREET, Referee will sell at public auction at the Plaintiff AGAINST JACQUELINE R. BROOKLYN, NY 11236. All that certain seven years of plenty followed by It is only in retrospect that we Kings County Supreme Court, Room REID and 591 OSBORN LLC, et al., plot piece or parcel of land, with the seven of scarcity. Having diagnosed understand the story of our life. 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment buildings and improvements erected, the problem, Joseph proceeds to Later events explain earlier ones. NY on January 18, 2018 at 2:30 p.m., of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated situate, lying and being in the Borough solve it: store surplus grain in the At the time, neither Joseph nor his premises known as 310 Greene September 28, 2017 I, the undersigned of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and years of plenty, then use these brothers could know that his dreams Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain Referee will sell at public auction at the State of New York, BLOCK 8211, LOT plot, piece or parcel of land, with the reserves in the years of famine. were a form of prophecy: that he was Room 224 of Kings County Supreme 25. Approximate amount of judgment buildings and improvements thereon Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, $919,651.37 plus interest and costs. Pharaoh invites him to implement indeed destined for greatness and erected, situate, lying and being in the the strategy, appointing him second that every misfortune he suffered New York 11201, on January 18, 2018 Premises will be sold subject to provi- Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, at 2:30PM, premises known as 591 sions of filed Judgment for Index# in command in Egypt. Joseph moves had a part to play in their coming City and State of New York, Block 1967 OSBORN STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 9736/13. Nancy Mottola Schacher Esq., from prisoner to Prime Minister in true. At first reading, the Joseph and Lot 22. Approximate amount of 11212. All that certain plot piece or Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney one effortless leap. story reads like a series of random judgment is $591,015.57 plus interest parcel of land, with the buildings for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite That is the narrative on the happenings. Only later, looking and costs. Premises will be sold and improvements erected, situate, 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 50308 subject to provisions of filed Judgment surface. One apparently insignifi- back, do we see that each event was lying and being in the Borough of AJ; 12/15/22/29; 1/5/ Index # 500301/2016. Philip Kamaras, Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and cant detail, however, stands out. part of a precise, providential plan Esq., Referee Windels, Marx, Lane & Pharaoh has had not one dream but to lead a young man from a family State of New York, BLOCK 3628, LOT Notice of Formation of With Gratitude Mittendorf, LLP, 156 West 56th Street, 18. Approximate amount of judgment Box LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY two: one about cows, the other about of nomadic shepherds to become New York, New York 10019, Attorneys $418,007.56 plus interest and costs. Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/7/17. Office ears of grain. Joseph explains that second-in-command of Egypt. for Plaintiff Premises will be sold subject to provi- location: Kings County. SSNY is desig- they are the same dream, conveying This is a truth not about Joseph AJ; 12/15/22/29; 1/5 sions of filed Judgment for Index# nated as agent of LLC upon whom the same message through different alone but about us also. We live our 504109/2015. Helene E. Blank, Esq., process against it may be served. SSNY images. Why then were there two? lives poised between a known past NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney shall mail process to: 305 Nevins St, KINGS COUNTY. WIILMINGTON This is his explanation: for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite Brooklyn, NY 11215. Purpose: any and an unknown future. Between SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB That Pharaoh has dreamed them lies a present in which we 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 49894 lawful activity. D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT AJ; 12/15/22/29; 1/5 AJ; 12/15/22/29; 1/5/12/19 this twice means that G-d is firmly make our choices. We decide INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE resolved on this plan, and very between alternatives. Ahead of us FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE ACQUI- NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court Notice of formation of limited liability soon He will put it into effect. are several diverging paths, and it SITION TRUST, Pltf. vs. ALEXANDER County Of Kings Bayview Loan company(LLC) Name: SEAY STRAT- (Genesis 41:32) is up to us which we follow. Only KOGAN, et al, Defts. Index #507379/15. Servicing, LLC, a Delaware Limited EGIES LLC. Articles of organization At first sight, this looks like looking back does our life take on Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure Liability Company, Plaintiff AGAINST filed with the Secretary of State of and entered May 11, 2017 and order just another piece of information. Edgardo G. Marquez, Valeria T. New York(SSNY) on 08/14/2017. the character of a story. Only many amending the judgment of foreclo- Understood in the full context of years later do we realise which Marquez, et al, Defendant Pursuant Office location: Kings county SSNY sure and sale dated Oct. 10, 2017, I to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale has been designated as the agent of the Joseph narrative, however, it choices were fateful, and which will sell at public auction in Room 224 duly dated 3/2/2017 and entered on the LLC upon Whom process against changes our entire understanding irrelevant. Things which seemed of the Kings County Supreme Court, 4/6/2017, I, the undersigned Referee, it may be served. SSNY shall Mail copy of events. For it was not Pharaoh small at the time turn out to be 360 Adams St. Brooklyn, NY on Jan. will sell at public auction at the Kings of process to: Seay Strategies LLC 57 alone who had two dreams with the decisive. Matters that once seemed 18, 2018 at 2:30 p.m., prem. k/a 135 County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Herkimer apartment 208, Brooklyn, same structure. So too did Joseph at important prove in retrospect to Oceana Drive East, Unit 2F, Brooklyn, Street, Brooklyn, NY on January 18, NY 11216. Purpose: all lawful activity NY a/k/a The Residential Unit (the the very beginning of the story: one have been trivial. Seen from the 2018 at 02:30 PM premises known as AJ; 12/15/22/29; 1/5/12/19 “Residential Unit”) in the Condo- about sheaves of wheat, the other perspective of the present, a life can 163 Montauk Avenue, Brooklyn, NY minium Oceana Condominium No. 11208. All that certain plot piece or about the sun, moon and stars. appear to be a random sequence 9 (the “Condominium”) (comprised www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017 A11 Social.

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