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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 42, NO. 45 JULY 13, 2018 1 AV, 5778 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Harriett Lake dies at age 96 clad toes, she was always impeccably dressed “to a (second) t”—like her name. In fact, the only thing that tops her fashionable ward- robe was her extremely generous spirit. Both she and her late husband, Hymen Lake, have given financially to many Jewish organizations, including Kinneret, JFS Orlando, and the Holocaust Center, as well as the Orlando ballet, the Orlando Shakespeare Theater and the new Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Harriett Lake Life wasn’t always so easy for her. Growing up one of By Christine DeSouza seven children in Lebanon, Pa., Harriett was a child of An icon of the Jewish the Great Depression. She Camp staff at Habonim Dror. community has passed away. often wore hand-me-downs Harriett Lake, born Harriett from girl friends who lived Tuck on April 7, 1922, in across the street. And that’s Lebanon, Pa., died on Tues- where she fell in love with Habonim Dror: Building a Zionist day, July 10, 2018. lavish outfits. Harriett was a special “It was my first contact lady. She was (Hello) Dolly with quality clothes,” Har- education about the ‘occupation’ Levi, Cher, Lady Gaga and riett told the Heritage in an Elton John all rolled into interview a few years ago. By Elizabeth Kratz counter-productive to the great majority “It’s clear to kids from day one that one. From the top of her “The two girls’ grandmother of American Jewish organizations. they are at a Jewish and Zionist camp, hat-covered head to the (JNS)—Several camp counselors from Eitan Goldstein, director and spokes- and that is central to the experience, tips of her designer-shoe- Lake on page 15A Habonim Dror were present at an IfNot- man for Habonim Dror North America— whether they are singing Jewish songs or Now Jewish summer camp counselor a network of six summer camps and part dancing. That is the entry point it terms training session in Boston on May 27. of a wider worldwide Labor Zionist youth of who we are and our shared history. An organization that seeks to promote movement—said he was aware that Ha- We have a foundational starting point, Einstein letter sympathy for the Palestinian narrative bonim Dror camp counselors were at the which is important before we enter into by encouraging fellow Jews to oppose event, but confirmed that IfNotNow will discussing the conflict with a multiplicity the Israel “occupation,” IfNotNow states not be part of any programming at their of perspectives,” he said. sells at auction on its website that its members “do not camps this summer. “In terms of balancing out and bring- take a unified stance on BDS, Zionism or While explaining Habonim Dror’s ing different perspectives into the room,” the question of statehood.” Yet its criti- unique, immersive version of Israel and Goldstein continued, “and maintaining cal statements against Zionist-aligned Zionist education, Goldstein was exceed- our Zionist stance and identity, the way organizations, such as Camp Ramah, ingly clear on one point: “Israel’s right the conversations are framed is not with tell another story. Its overt and covert to self-determination remains affixed ‘who’s right’ and ‘who’s wrong,’ ‘who’s actions have been divisive in many in our ideology and how we educate,” circles, and criticized as subversive and he told JNS. Occupation on page 14A A glimpse into the future at the

Federation’s Annual Meeting Albert and Elsa Einstein The Jewish Federation of Jewish Community Cam- placed into nomination as of- at 70 community celebration (JTA)—A letter written by Einstein’s home when he and Greater Orlando will hold pus. ficers for the 2018-2020 Board in April at Lake Eola Park in Albert Einstein on the day his wife were traveling to the its 2018 Annual Meeting The meeting is set to begin of Directors: downtown Orlando. he renounced his German United States. They also re- the morning of Sunday, at 10 a.m. and will wrap up at President: Brad Jacobs The Heritage Florida Jew- citizenship, after realizing he portedly put a bounty on his Aug. 5, on the Maitland noon. Coffee and bagels will Vice President: Ming Marx ish News will present its an- could not return due to the head. The day the letter was be provided. Treasurer: Danielle Krise nual Human Service Award. rise of the Nazis, was sold at written, the Einsteins were Those who attend will hear Secretary: Carol Feuerman The winner will be announced auction for $30,250. traveling back to Germany, a comprehensive update on At-large board member in an upcoming edition of the The letter written on board intending to live at their sum- what has been a year of great Yeosh Bendayan also will be Heritage. the S.S. Belgenland and dated mer home in Caputh, before transition for the Federation, re-nominated for another Federation will also honor March 28, 1933, sold at the discovering that the home which saw the departure of term. the 10 members of the current Nate D. Sanders Auction also had been raided. This led its executive director, the Of course, Federation’s Jerome J. Bornstein Leader- House in Los Angeles. Bidding Einstein to decide to renounce appointment of an interim ex- Annual Meeting is also syn- ship Development class with started at $25,000. his citizenship. ecutive director, and ongoing onymous with community a brief graduation ceremony A second letter from Ein- “We will now look for a refinement of the Federation’s awards, and three important during the meeting. Program stein written in 1938 in which hiding place for the summer,” role so that it can best serve ones will be presented Aug. 5: co-chair Patricia Bornstein is he discusses helping Jewish Albert Einstein wrote in con- local Jewish organizations This year’s Jerome J. Born- scheduled to speak. refugees escape Nazi Ger- cluding the letter. and the larger Central Florida stein Leadership Award win- The final segment of the many sold for $31,250. In the 1938 letter, also to Jewish community. ner is Loren London. A long- Annual Meeting will be a The 1933 letter was writ- his sister, Albert Einstein While the Annual Meet- time Federation volunteer, presentation and question- ten with his wife, Elsa, to his discusses helping Jews and ing always tries to provide a supporter and Lion of Judah, and-answer session about sister Maja Winteler-Einstein other persecuted people flee glimpse into the future, there London is the director of the Federation and The Roth about the dire situation in German-held countries in will be a least a little reminisc- Federation’s RAISE program Family JCC collaborating on Germany, just minutes be- Europe, including using his ing, as the Orlando Federa- for adults with special needs. key operations, as well as a dis- fore they docked in Antwerp, own funds to do so. He asks his tion, like the State of Israel, The Jewish Communal cussion of a potential merger Belgium, where Einstein sister to leave Switzerland and marked its 70th birthday in Professional Award will be between the organizations. renounced his German citi- visit him in the United States. the past year. (The modern- presented to Robby Etzkin and You can RSVP for the zenship. Later that day, Ein- day Federation was established Eric Lightman, of the Roth meeting online at www.jfgo. stein handed in his passport as the Central Florida Jewish Family and Rosen Jewish com- org/meeting or by calling at the German consulate in Community Council in 1947). munity centers, respectively, Federation office manager Antwerp. Getting down to business, for their successful collabora- Marisa West at 407-645-5933, After the Nazis seized power the following names will be tion in organizing the Israel ext. 236. in January 1933, they raided PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 13, 2018 Jewish Pavilion volunteer spotlight: Shirley Schoenberger

came over to greet her with making Shabbat and holiday sometimes. I’m so proud of This year, Schoenberger a hug. programs special. She dresses them, and the residents love is co-chairing The Jewish And, of course, they stayed up in themed outfits for all them!” Pavilion’s annual gala, which for a chat. the holidays, including a The relationships Schoen- will mark the organization’s The chatting is an im- blue dress with dreidels and berger forms with many of the milestone 18th anniversary. portant part of her work as menorahs printed on it that residents don’t only develop Gems and Jeans 2018 will be a volunteer, and it’s clearly she wears for Hanukkah. “It’s during her regularly sched- held at Hilton Orlando North something that Schoenberger the tackiest dress you will ever uled hours. When they be- in Altamonte Springs on Oct. enjoys. At the weekly Island want to see, but they love it,” come ill, Schoenberger visits 28, 2018. Lake services, she also likes she laughed. them in the hospital or rehab “Our celebration of the to bring a “treat” each week— Jewish Pavilion program center. The hardest visits have Chai anniversary will be a sometimes homemade. director Emily Newman has been to people she had grown fabulous and fun event,” said At those services, she’s been working with Schoen- very close to who were clearly Schoenberger. “We’re plan- known as the “Bim Bom girl”: berger for years and values near death. Schoenberger ning a great evening that she leads the song and brightly her highly. “Shirley has added takes these losses very hard. will entertain our guests and encourages everyone to join in warmth, enthusiasm and pure After volunteering for a leave them feeling good about and raise their arms to shout joy to the Shabbat programs while at Brookdale Island giving their support to such an enthusiastic “Hey!” after at Brookdale Island Lake,” Lake and Savannah Court, an important organization in every “Shabbat Shalom.” Newman said. “She’s both she met Gloria Newberger, a our community.” “It’s hysterical to watch,” generous and dependable longtime and very active Jew- Schoenberger said that she jokes, “because they all in every way. She not only ish Pavilion volunteer—and volunteering gives her a sense know that they better do this develops a relationship with the mother of Nancy Ludin. of purpose. “I’ve always taught or they’re not getting their the seniors but with staff and Newberger told Ludin about my children to give back. And treats!” family members as well.” Schoenberger’s warmth and this is my way of giving back. Originally from Cleveland, Schoenberger also fre- energy, and Schoenberger was Because I really do feel like Ohio, Schoenberger moved quently brings her grandsons, invited to join the Friends of I’m doing something good,” to Orlando with her husband, Noah and Jared Weiss, with the Jewish Pavilion Board. she said. Peter, more than 20 years her on visits. Of her three “The people that I’ve met “I really probably get more ago after working together sets of grandkids, Noah and through The Jewish Pavil- out of this from the residents for many years in their retail Jared are the ones who live in ion—the other volunteers than they do from me.” Shirley Schoenberger with Brookdale Island Lake resident business. She has always been the area, and other grandkids and staff—have become more Volunteering for The Jewish Jack Levitt, who celebrated his 100th birthday in March. involved in volunteering for have also joined her when in than friends. It’s another fam- Pavilion can be rewarding in various organizations, and town. ily of mine,” Schoenberger so many ways. With more than By Lisa Levine so she has plenty of time to when she learned about The “It’s amazing to see the rap- said. “You know that if you 1,000 Jewish seniors living in talk with people one on one, Jewish Pavilion she immedi- port they have with the older need these people for any- 70+ facilities around town, Whenever Shirley Schoen- catching up with family news ately felt that it would be a people, because sometimes thing, they’d be there for there are many opportunities berger visits, the room always or just letting them talk about good fit. kids can get very intimi- you. And that’s a good feeling, to get involved. For more in- gets a little warmer. That’s whatever’s on their mind. At the time, Schoenberger’s dated,” said Schoenberger. because it’s more than just a formation, go to JewishPavil- because Schoenberger, an “They’re very open, and mother was nearing 90 and “My grandsons do the service volunteer job, it’s a way of life.” ion.org or call 407-678-9363. active Jewish Pavilion volun- they’re eager to share ex- living on her own in South teer for more than four years, periences—and sometimes Florida. Schoenberger had brings with her a wonderfully things that they can’t even very much wanted her mother, upbeat attitude and a warm tell their family,” said Schoen- who was having increasing Both ‘sides’ benefit in the and caring way wherever berger. “So I become like health problems that made she goes. their surrogate family.” She her life difficult, to move to “Shirley is a ray of sunshine. also makes regular individual Brookdale Island Lake so She is so warm and friendly. visits to a few of the residents that she could get the help Inter-generational Program Her smile is contagious,” said at Savannah Court in Mai- she needed. But her mother Nancy Ludin, executive direc- tland, having formed close could not be persuaded and tor of The Jewish Pavilion. relationships with them over rebuffed other efforts to help Schoenberger helps with the years. her, leaving Schoenberger the weekly Shabbat services It’s clear from the way the frustrated that she couldn’t at Brookdale Island Lake in residents react when they do more. Longwood, greeting and chat- see her that her friendship Volunteering for The Jewish ting with residents as they is highly valued. On a recent Pavilion was her way of “ful- enter and passing out challah mid-week visit to Island Lake, filling what I couldn’t for my and wine before the blessings Schoenberger sat on a sofa in mother,” Schoenberger said. during the service. She usu- an area across from the dining With her sunny personality, ally comes early or stays late room, and friend after friend Schoenberger has a way of

Students and senior citizens learn from each other in the Jewish Pavilion Inter-gener- The Back to School Issue... ational Program. What a spectacular year elders. Laughter was shared. trust, insight and caring. of learning! The Jewish Pa- Music was enjoyed. Lessons Who can say which group vilion’s Inter-generational were learned and ideas were gained more? Program had a fantastic year exchanged. Similarities were Both side had benefits. The with more to come. This learned while coincidences teens received the wisdom program was made possible were discovered. In some of their elders, firsthand ac- in part due to grants from cases it was a who’s who in a counts of their heritage and The Moskowitz Foundation, family tree that knows some- history that could not be the Jewish Federation and the one in another’s family, while taught in books. The seniors Staples Foundation. Teens in other cases, total strang- were able to absorb some of and seniors were welcomed ers now departed with hugs the infectious enthusiasm of into each other’s minds and after a respectful exchange the teens and the wide-eyed worlds. Experience’s varied of ideas. excitement of a world yet to from group meetings, discus- In the beginning, it was come. Together, there was sions and playtime to one-on- two separate groups. The con- an exploration of thought one visitations. Programs en- clusion was one group that processes that will only lead abled teens the opportunity ended with friends, smiles, to a better tomorrow for all. to break out of their shells and hugs, respect, patience, —Walter Goldstein, pro- engage in dialogue with their understanding, admiration, gram director RAISE applications now being accepted The RAISE program for Jewish Federation of Greater If you know a young young adults with special Orlando that is open to all adult who may benefit from needs is now accepting online faiths and provides paid em- RAISE or you are interested IS BACK! applications for a limited ployment at our partnering in volunteering as a Job number of fall positions. Jewish agencies. In addition, Coach, please apply on- Publication Date: August 3, 2018 RAISE is a 6- to 12-month RAISE assists our employees line: jfgo.org/RAISE or con- work and social skills training in the transition to finding em- tact the JFGO office: 407- Advertising Deadline: July 25, 2018 program offered through the ployment in the community. 645-5933, ext 236. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 13, 2018 PAGE 3A German prosecutors mull trials for three alleged Holocaust perpetrators

By Cnaan Liphshiz Kurt G., Herbert W. and crimes and participation in Whereas five of the names Zuroff said he could not tion in Munich of former Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Hoff- genocide, the Simon Wiesen- on the list that Zuroff gave comment on the length of concentration camp guard (JTA)—German prosecu- meister, allegedly members of thal Center’s Eastern Europe German prosecutors in 2014 time that the investigations John Demjanjuk as an ac- tors have identified three the firing squads that mur- director, Efraim Zuroff, told were not located, they were are taking. complice in the murders suspects from a 2014 list of dered Jews in Eastern Europe JTA on Thursday. Each case able to identify three who they “I don’t have the informa- of nearly 30,000 Jews in nine alleged Holocaust-era during the Holocaust, have is being handled by a different suspect were former members tion necessary to make that the Sobibor death camp in war criminals accused of been under pretrial investiga- regional prosecutor’s office, of the Einsatzgruppe C death call,” he told JTA. But, he Poland. It set a precedent shooting countless Jews. tion for months for alleged war he said. squad, which took part in said, “The German perpetra- in that being a guard at a the massacre of tens of thou- tors of the Holocaust showed death camp was sufficient sands of Jews in Babi Yar, great determination in killing to prove complicity in Ukraine, in September 1941. Jews. I hope German pros- murder. Mexico City elects The investigation against ecutors today demonstrate Previous prosecutions of two of the three men was the same sense of urgency in Nazi criminals were focused launched after the ARD tele- serving justice to those war on the architects of the vision channel interviewed criminals.” genocide, leading to “very few first Jewish mayor them in September. They The path to prosecuting convictions” of people who Manuel Lopez Obrador, the admitted to being members common executioners like actually did the killing, some- party’s leader and Mexico’s of that group on camera. All Einsatzgruppen troops was times of hundreds of Jews in a newly elected president. three men are in their 90s. paved with the 2011 convic- single day, Zuroff said. The party has promised to bring significant change to the country by cutting down Highest paid Palestinian terrorist on crime and governmental corruption. “Just because I might look family about to get a raise like a skinny scientist doesn’t mean I’m not going to crack By United with Israel, down on crime here. I will,” with files from Palestin- Sheinbaum said at a recent ian Media Watch rally according to multiple reports. Last month, Islam Abu Sheinbaum, who previously Hmeid murdered an Israeli Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo served as Mexico’s secretary soldier, earning him a spot of the environment, said among four of his brothers, (JTA)—Mexico City elected The city, home to around at a recent speech that she all of whom are serving mul- a Jewish woman as mayor 50,000 Jews, has also never celebrated Jewish holidays tiple life sentences in Israeli Sunday—setting two firsts had a Jewish mayor. growing up. prisons. for the largest city in North Sheinbaum, 55, the grand- Lopez Obrador’s landslide Hmeid, who tossed a marble America. daughter of Jewish immi- victory, which puts a leftist block from a roof at Israeli A woman had previously grants from Lithuania and party in charge for the first staff sergeant Ronen Lubar- been appointed Mexico City’s Bulgaria, is a scientist who time in generations, could sky, killing the soldier, con- mayor on an interim basis for holds a doctorate in engi- usher in a new era of politics fessed to the crime and is a year in 1999, but Claudia neering and physics. She is a in Mexico, which has been scheduled to be indicted on AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed Sheinbaum Pardo is the first member of the leftist National ruled by traditional, main- Thursday. Mother of 5 Palestinian terrorists, Latifa Abu Hmeid. woman to be publicly elected Regeneration Movement par- stream parties for nearly With the latest Hmeid to the office. ty and has close ties to Andres two decades. brother heading for the slam- paid the Hmeid family close the monkier “Khansa of Pal- mer for a murderous terror to $10,000 (34,400 shekels), estine,” a reference to a figure attack, the terrorists’ mother, with PA Chairman Mahmoud from early Islam who rejoiced Latifa Abu Hmeid, can expect Abbas meeting with Latifa to when her four sons died as Knesset passes bill that deducts a significant increase in the endorse her as a role model “martyrs” in battle. funds the clan reaps, which twice in the past year. In 2011, the PA honored are doled out from coffers Prior to Islam Abu Hmeid’s the terrorists’ mother with a terrorists’ salaries from PA that PA law designates for re- murderous attack, Abbas symbolic role in the PA’s push JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is- student who was killed by a ists or the families left behind warding terrorists and their hosted Latifa, who goes by for statehood at the UN. rael’s Knesset passed legisla- Palestinian terrorist on the by terrorists killed as part of families. tion on Monday that requires Tel Aviv boardwalk in March their attacks. After the murder, Pales- the government to deduct the 2016 while in Israel for a Since 1994, Israel has tinian Authority (PA) offi- amount of money that the study trip, was on hand for collected customs duties on cials honored the terrorists’ Palestinian Authority gives the vote. goods sent to the Palestin- mother, Latifa Abu Hmeid, to terrorists and their families The Taylor Force Act, which ians through Israeli ports with visits, lauding her as “a from the taxes it collects on ends U.S. aid to the Palestin- and transferred the tens of crown on all of our heads” Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman the Palestinians’ behalf. ian Authority unless the P.A. millions of dollars each year and a “fighter” from whom does most anything The so-called anti-Pay for stops paying stipends to Pal- to the Palestinian Authority. “we draw our determination Slay law passed a final read- estinian terrorists and their Last year, the Palestinian and our strength.” ing in the Knesset following families, reportedly prompted Authority paid about $198 The PA’s efforts are not Ricardo Torres a two-hour debate by a vote of the Israeli legislation. The million to a fund for the fami- limited to lavishing praise 87-15. Every Knesset faction Congress passed the measure lies of terrorists killed during on Latifa, but also include Handyman except the left-wing Meretz in March as part of the omni- their attacks and about $160 cumulative payments to her party and the Arab Joint List bus spending bill for this year. million to Palestinians being and her family of $1,007,611 407-221-5482 passed the law The Palestinian Authority held in Israeli jails, The Times as of press time, reported Stuart Force, the father of has refused to stop the pay- of Israel reported, citing Is- terror watchdog Palestinian Available in Central Florida Area Taylor Force, the American ments to Palestinian terror- raeli Defense Ministry figures. Media Watch. In May 2018 alone, the PA References Available Australia ends direct aid to PA, citing payments to terrorists Seeking Jewish Gestational Carrier MUST be able to provide proof of religion. If GC is (JTA)—Australia has Bishop wrote to the Pales- Abbas, encourage terror at- stopped giving direct aid to tinian Authority in late May to tacks against Israelis by giving married, must be married to non-Jewish spouse. the Palestinian Authority due ensure that Australian fund- perpetrators and their fami- to concerns that the money is ing was not supporting terror- lies financial rewards. Israeli Single, divorced or widowed is fine. being used to pay Palestinian ists and is now “concerned” lawmakers are advancing a terrorists and their families. over where that money goes. law to slash funds to the P.A. Minimum of 1 prior full-term pregnancy. You should Australian Foreign Minister “I am confident that previ- by the same amount it uses to Julie Bishop said in a state- ous Australian funding to the pay terrorists, and the United be 21-40 yrs old, & have a strong support system. ment Monday that the country PA through the World Bank States, in the Taylor Force Act, was cutting its funding to has been used as intended,” cut funding to the P.A. over Healthy, kind, communicative & understanding. the World Bank’s Palestinian she wrote. “However, I am the payments to convicted Recovery and Development concerned that in provid- terrorists and their families. Reproductive Possibilities is an agency that has Program fund. Australia will ing funds for this aspect of “Any assistance provided by redirect that $10 million in the PA’s operations there is the Palestine Liberation Orga- helped to create families for over 2 decades, contact Australian currency ($7.4 an opportunity for it to use nization to those convicted of million U.S.) to the U.N. its own budget to activities politically motivated violence us to find out more & join us in a wonderful journey. Humanitarian Fund for the that Australia would never is an affront to Australian Palestinian Territories, which support.” values and undermines the You can call 1-888-363-9457 supplies Palestinians with Israel has long maintained prospect of meaningful peace health care, food, water and that the Palestinian Authority between Israel and the Pales- or email [email protected] shelter. and its president, Mahmoud tinians,” Bishop said. PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 13, 2018 Sympathy for the stranger, but none for the rule of law?

By Jonathan S. Tobin immigration from China. The unwillingness because of economic reasons with Jews oth- Trump’s order was unnecessary or a political of the United States to open its doors to those erwise doomed to death in Hitler’s Europe is stunt. But it’s also true that this order, which (JNS)—Only hours after the U.S. Supreme fleeing Nazi Europe is also imprinted into the a function of the impulse to “resist” Trump. was well within his constitutional authority Court issued its decision to uphold U.S. Presi- Jewish consciousness by usually putting them It’s simply not sober analysis. and far from unprecedented, wasn’t a general dent Donald Trump’s right to restrict entry on the side of those claiming refugee status. Nor is there any substance to attempts to ban on Muslims, and did impact countries into the United States from seven countries, Revulsion at the way the president has compare Trump to Hitler or even to claim that where terror is rampant and where the abil- including five with Muslim majorities, Jew- engaged in demagoguery regarding immigra- disagreements over immigration policy echo ity of the United States to vet asylum-seekers ish groups were issuing condemnations and tion has deepened these convictions. Trump’s the first steps towards fascism in Germany. is limited. organizing protests. Much of the organized December 2015 call for a ban on the entry of You don’t have to be a fascist to think that Sadly, what’s happening now is not so Jewish community has been involved in op- all Muslims smacked of bigotry. Since then, the government should enforce current im- much a debate about the merits of stands on posing the administration. That opposition his comments depicting illegal immigrants as migration laws, whether or not we completely immigration as it is a situation in which left has deepened as the understandable anger criminals have appealed to our basest instincts agree with them. Officials of the Immigration and right increasingly view each other as evil over the government separating children more than concerns about security. and Customs Enforcement authority, which and unworthy of respect. from their parents who had crossed the But the idea that Jews are compelled to some on the left demand be abolished, are not The president’s instinct for division and southern border without permission ignited condemn the Supreme Court’s decision or the Gestapo, anymore than they were when incivility is greatly to blame, but his opponents a firestorm of protest. oppose the administration’s focus on border President Barack Obama was the one giving are now responding in kind as Americans This anger has set off a torrent of comments security says more about Jewish politics than orders to arrest illegals. engage in a race to the bottom of the gutter. that damn Trump as a racist and proto-author- principles. The tone of this debate reflects the Nor is the effort to evade the law by providing It’s time for both sides to step back from the itarian, as well as prompted a comparison of way the left-right divide in America has become “sanctuary” to those who entered the country overheated partisan rhetoric. the situation of current immigrants to the the function of a culture war on everything, illegally the same thing as hiding Jews from Supporting more liberal immigration plight of refugees from the Holocaust, and of rather than specific debate on the merits of the Nazis. Such analogies are an insult to the policies is legitimate, though the same can the administration to the Nazis. Yet some of any one thing. The invocation of the Holocaust Holocaust and misrepresent a debate largely be said of those who urge more caution. Still, those who have been inflaming this debate reflects a general panic felt by many liberals motivated by partisanship. Support for the it’s not the duty of Jews to promote a false believe that in doing so, they are upholding and Democrats about the Trump administra- rule of law or opposition to what amounts narrative about analogies to the Holocaust Jewish values. tion, in which they are not so much opposed to a call for open borders is not racist. Like or to feed a hysterical panic about the end of Are they right? to its policies as convinced that it is a threat all countries, the United States has a right democracy. Those who do so are now part of Concern for the “stranger” is deeply in- to democracy. to determine who may cross its borders, and the problem—and not the solution. grained in Judaism. The immigrant experience Shock at Trump’s unexpected election vic- saying so is not contrary to Judaism. Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of is also crucial to understanding the way Ameri- tory led to some apocalyptic rhetoric about The same applies to the so-called “Muslim JNS—Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him on can Jews view the world. Most Jews trace their his presidency. But rage about Trump has ban” upheld by the court. One may claim Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin. origins to the waves of migration from Eastern now gotten to the point where much of the Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centu- country cannot separate his personality and ries. That historical memory helped form both tweets from what has been for the most part the political worldview and the culture of the a rather conventional conservative govern- Is ‘non-Jew’ an insult? American Jewish community. Identification ment. Normal disagreements about border with subsequent generations of immigrants security and much else have been inflated By Andrew Silow-Carroll the words InterfaithFamily hopes to retire. from other communities were often tied to into existential questions; people feel they At the core of the debate is the traditional ideas about Jewish identity and faith. cannot agree to disagree as is necessary in NEW YORK (JTA)—A few months ago I wrote taboo on interfaith marriage. Traditionalists Supporting more liberal immigration laws any political debate. a humor piece titled “Don’t eat off the seder want to reinforce the notion that Jews should is second nature for Jews who remember that But no matter how deeply you are angered plate, and other tips for non-Jews attending marry Jews in the interest of continuity. most of their forebears arrived in this country by the “zero tolerance” policy when it comes their first seder.” It drew a miffed response from Isaac Herzog, the newly elected chairman prior to 1924, when the United States more to illegals at the border, the desire to conflate a rabbi friend who often works with interfaith of the Jewish Agency for Israel, announced or less welcomed anyone in good health that the plight of Central Americans seeking to families and suggested “it’s time to drop terms his membership in the traditionalist camp wasn’t excluded by racist laws prohibiting enter the country without permission largely like ‘non-Jew’ and gentile.” this week when he referred to interfaith mar- At the time I scoffed. Yes, it is a little weird riage as an “actual plague,” adding “there that a people who represent less than 0.1 per- must be a campaign, a solution. We have to cent of the world’s population define everybody rack our brains to figure out how to solve The end of every balloon else as “not us.” It’s like someone with lactose this great challenge.” Other traditionalists intolerance saying he doesn’t eat “dairy ice nodded, noting that support for Israel and By Jerome Marcus had a mentor, chosen from among experts in cream.” Which is technically true, although engagement with Jewish life plunges outside lasers, radar, optics, photography, fire-fighting it tends to over-privilege Tofutti. of Jewish-Jewish marriages. (JNS)—A peculiarly Israeli approach to and other fields. And yet non-Jew and gentile have their Interfaith activists want to make the com- national defense was on display recently at a Representatives from the army were also uses, especially if you write about Jews for a munity welcoming to mixed families. They also high school in Shaar HaNegev, “Gate of the there, along with people from a local college living. Whether you are making demographic talk the language of continuity, saying that Desert.” There, as described in an article in and residents of the region. There were also distinctions, writing about Jews in relation mixed families certainly will not raise their the Hebrew-language online daily Globus, 350 high school students in the crowd, mixed in to their neighbors or talking about Jewish children as Jews if they don’t feel comfortable in Israelis showed up for a Hackathon dubbed with everyone else because in Israel, it’s under- practices that cross over into wider culture, Jewish settings. And they talk the language of “What Happens to Every Balloon.” stood to make sense to put a 16-year-old into non-Jew comes in handy. Unless you want post-modernity, saying Jews can’t stand at the The event announcement called for the same group with a laser expert from the to pretend there are no distinctions between shores of multiculturalism like King Canute, volunteers to try to develop solutions for army and a professor. You never know where people who identify as Jews and people who wishing away the inevitable waves of diversity the latest “war” effort emanating from the the best new idea will come from. identify as something else—and making such that come with a free society. Gaza Strip. Balloons, filled with helium The other uniquely Israeli spin: People who distinctions strikes me as about 85 percent For those of us who do write about Jews stolen from Gaza hospitals, are equipped had never met each other were plopped into of the entire Jewish enterprise, starting at and their significant others, that means tak- with bombs, grenades and other flammable a meeting room, where they were expected Sinai—why would you retire two perfectly ing sides. Sort of. It’s not our job to judge the materials, and then sent flying into the air, to brainstorm for a day and come up with serviceable words? Who do you offend by debate between the traditionalists and the which the Arabs hope will carry the kites solutions—purely technological, purely de- keeping them? activists. But our language has nonetheless north and east to the Jewish communities fensive—to this latest threat. Then I met Lindsey Silken, the editorial evolved along with the Jewish community. nearby, to the fields where many in these At the end of the day, each group presented director at InterfaithFamily, a resource for Non-Jews itself replaced gentiles over the communities farm. Focused entirely on its work. The proposals ranged from a system of people in interfaith relationships. Lindsey years. “Jewess” went the way of the corset; civilian targets—and so a clear violation of lenses that identifies threats and then focuses and I sat on a panel at a Jewish journalism “goy” shows up only in a direct quote or if the law of war—the tactic hasn’t yet caused the sun’s rays on them to destroy them; and convention last week, and she passed around modified by “Shabbos,” which is a term of art any Jewish deaths. But it has destroyed many a flying fire-detection system, equipped with her in-house style guide. It explained why and not a slur. We now use “haredi” instead thousands of acres of Israeli farmland and a thermal cameras and the capacity to shoot they don’t use terms like “half-Jew,” “shikse,” of “ultra-Orthodox.” And we long ago stopped nature reserve, as well as caused the deaths fire-extinguishing chemicals (and to land, gentile and, yes, non-Jew. assuming “rabbi” denoted a male, a “minyan” of many animals. reload and relaunch automatically). I get why half-Jew could be offensive in that meant 10 men and “congressman” is the default More volunteers signed up than the site The event’s name is taken from a popular is assumes the subject can’t possibly identify for a lawmaker. could accommodate, and registration for children’s book published in 1974, written in as fully Jewish. (And here I am obligated to This week we’ve been sharing around the the event had to be closed. The Israelis who Hebrew, called “A Tale of Five Balloons.” It quote the famous Groucho Marx quip, when office a JTA dispatch from 1934 that is harrow- came—kippah-decked and bare-headed, men teaches, among other things, about loss. The an anti-Semitic swimming club refused admis- ing in its casual racism. (Residents of Harlem and women, and mostly young—were divided story ends with the balloon popping, and the sion to his daughter: “She’s only half Jewish,” are referred to as “the dusky, happy-go-lucky into groups with three different goals: iden- child learning that this is what happens to Groucho said. “How about if she only goes in denizens of Africa in Manhattan.” Wow.) How tifying the threat; destroying the threat; and every balloon. Halevai. If only. up to her waist?”) Shikse, that awful Yiddish will we be judged in 84 years? What words will minimizing the damage. Among these three Jerome A. Marcus is a lawyer and a fellow term that derives from Hebrew for blemish mark us as hopelessly mired in the prejudices groups, a total of 20 teams were created. Each at the Kohelet Policy Forum in Jerusalem. or abomination, is obviously beyond the pale. of our times? And gentile just feels so smug and fusty, like, So I am not scoffing anymore. I think we I don’t know, a 20th-century anti-Semitic can reduce the use of non-Jew, especially to THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. swimming club. refer to individuals. It still remains a useful ✡ ✡ ✡ CENTRAL FLORIDA’S INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICE ✡ ✡ ✡ But what’s wrong with non-Jew? 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These editor of Commentary, Nor- now pleading ignorance or fies the Jewish vote is of little include Fox News commen- man Podhoretz; author Hillel betrayal. strategic importance in the tator Charles Krauthammer; Halkin, who now resides in The Democrat world-view pocket of one party, second former White House Press Israel; journalist and writer that still holds an anachro- The Jewish vote is not carved in only to the monolithic vote Secretary Arie Fleischer; Bernie Goldberg; author nistic stranglehold on many of African-Americans. scholar at the American Ronald Radosh “Divided They Jews has to be reminded that stone The fact that the proud Enterprise Institute, Joshua Fell: The Demise of the Demo- no ethnic vote is cast in stone, Senator Lieberman, whose Muravchik; columnist and cratic Party, 1964-1996”; film that Jewish support for Re- By Norman based entirely on entry or nomination on the Democrat- editor of the Weekly Standard, producer David Zucker; and publican or Fusion candidates Berdichevsky exit polls but many Jews are ic ticket in 2000 caused waves Bill Kristol; political analyst comedian Jackie Mason. like Jacob Javitz and Fiorello reluctant to identify them- of ecstatic jubilation among and former campaign adviser Even those prominent La Guardia turned its back The 75 or 78 percent fig- selves as conservatives and many Jews, also refused to to President Bill Clinton, Dick Jews who argued strongly on the corrupt Democratic ures frequently referred to risk peer pressure. During the support Barack Obama in Morris; editor of Frontpage for Barack Obama in 2008, Tammany political machine by Democrat apologists as if past two presidential election 2008 and spoke at the Repub- Magazine, David Horowitz; former Mayor of New York they were the Holy Grail, are cycles, in many synagogues, lican National Convention in National Review columnist City, Ed Koch; the country’s Vote on page 15A The ‘Haley effect’ By Shari Dollinger Recently, Haley an- the United States had called ian civilians,” and then she Security Council draft resolu- Last month, I was privi- nounced that the U.S. dele- for such a meeting to address forced the Security Council tion that would have called for leged to attend the open- (JNS)—In many Jewish gation would withdraw from the issue, despite the fact that to consider a measure con- the reversal of recognizing ing of the U.S. embassy in households on Friday nights, the UN Human Right Coun- more than 10,000 rockets demning Hamas as a terrorist Jerusalem as the capital. Jerusalem, where I experi- parents bless their daughters cil—in large part because have been fired at Israel from organization. And just this These moves have made her enced this “Haley effect” in the names of our matriarchs: of its history of unfairly Gaza during the last 17 years. week, she gathered enough the most popular politician in myself. The mere mention Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and targeting and condemning Unsurprisingly, the emer- votes to pass an amend- America. A recent Quinnipiac of her name elicited spon- Leah. We do so to hold our Israel while turning a blind gency meeting to examine ment to a Palestinian-backed University poll found that 63 taneous and prolonged highest role models to our eye toward human-rights the true injustice—Palestin- resolution that would have percent of American voters applause from the crowd girls. Lately though, I’ve had violators like Syria, Iran and ian terrorism—hasn’t been condemned Hamas. When her approve of Haley’s decision- in attendance. She has the the creeping inclination to North Korea. scheduled. But the move amendment was sidelined by making skills. Her approval respect of her fellow dip- consider another name to this Earlier this year, when flipped U.N. standard operat- a procedural maneuver, she spans party lines: 75 percent lomats, the admiration of list of women in whose footsteps mothers and fathers in south- ing procedure to condemn called the effort to obstruct of Republicans, 63 percent of Americans of all political I hope my daughter will follow: ern Israel were forced to Israel in an emergency meet- the vote “shameful.” independents and 55 percent stripes and the appreciation U.S. Ambassador to the United wake their children and run ing for defending itself against She has stopped the United of Democrats say they approve of the Israelis. Nations Nikki Haley. to bomb shelters as rockets terror—be it rockets, riots or Nations from appointing a of how she’s handling her job. How could I not consider Haley represents our coun- rained down from Gaza, Haley stabbings. It’s not the first Palestinian diplomat to a U.N. I’ve seen the widespread her to be a role model for my try with bold, honorable and reassured these parents that time either that Haley has mission in Libya. admiration for her leadership own daughters? principled leadership. In no their fears will be heard. Not grabbed headlines for her She has stopped the U.N. play out in public. She has No, Nikki Haley is not a forum are these traits more only did she condemn these leadership. High Commissioner for Hu- been lauded in the press, feted Jewish matriarch, but she is lacking than the United Na- attacks, but she also called Recently, she vetoed a reso- man Rights Zeid Ra’ad al- at pro-Israel conferences and a heroine for Israel nonethe- tions. In no place are they for a U.N. Security Council lution sponsored by Kuwait Hussein from publishing a will be the keynote speaker at less, who is well on her way to more sorely required. And emergency meeting on Gaza- that made no mention of blacklist of companies that the annual Christians United being the world’s next great on no issue does this present based terror. Hamas, yet condemned Israel do business with Israel in the for Israel (CUFI) Washington diplomat. itself more clearly than her This may seem like a logi- for the “excessive, dispropor- West Bank, Eastern Jerusalem Summit on July 23. Shari Dollinger is the co- proud and consistent stand cal response to such violence, tionate and indiscriminate” and the Golan Heights. When she speaks, the pro- executive director of Chris- in defense of Israel. but it was the first time that use of force “against Palestin- And she has stopped a U.N. Israel community listens. tians United for Israel. The U.S. sends a message to the free world By Yoram Ettinger prison, is anti-American, and “take care of” opponents of The signs are not new. In leads the free world as cover other entities that are given is aligned with the ayatollahs’ the regime. Burundi, which is 2008, the UNHRC showed its for their routine attacks on U.S. aid that from now on, (JNS)—“The United Na- regime in Iran. The Congo is accused of crimes like kidnap- real face when all 47 of its mem- human rights, undermine continued support will be con- tions Human Rights Council” ruled by a dictator who mur- ping, torture and execution of bers approved the appointment American interests, and pro- ditional upon them adopting and the principle of human ders those who oppose him and those who voice opposition, of Richard Falk, who is known mote the goals of blatantly pro-American policies. rights are two things diamet- is keeping his seat in violation refuses to cooperate with for his particularly venomous anti-American nations. The days when benefits rically opposed to each other. of his country’s constitution. investigators from the council attitude toward the United This is the latest move and resources were funneled The makeup of the council, Pakistan is accused of gross, of which it is a member. Cuba States, for a six-year term as of a consistent policy: only into the pockets of entities which is determined by geo- wholesale human-rights viola- also continues to suppress the council’s special rappor- recently, the United Stattes that spit in America’s face graphic location and dictates tions, from routine executions opposition, free media and teur on human rights in the withdrew from the 2015 nu- are over. The U.N. is at risk of anti-American conduct by the to religious oppression, and human rights. Other stars on Palestinian territories. clear deal with Iran, which was losing financial support that leadership of nondemocratic serves as a haven for anti- the list of member states de- Falk accused then-Pres- never approved by Congress. comprises about 20 percent regimes, is proof of that. American terrorism. spite their consistent human- ident George W. Bush of The deal promised Iran’s of its budget, including a Council member Venezuela, Another member of the rights violations are Rwanda, whitewashing conclusions anti-American government quarter of the funds that go for example, is a dictatorship UNHRC is Afghanistan, which Senegal, Togo, Angola, Iraq, about 9/11, and even hinted generous, immediate, and to the U.N. Relief and Works that puts opposition leaders in sends out terrorist groups to Tunisia, Qatar and China. that right-wing American practical aid in exchange for Agency for Palestine Refugees, elements might have been vague promises about the which underwrites education involved. After the Boston future. It did so despite the in hatred and incitement Marathon bombing in 2013, ayatollahs’ knife moving ever to terrorism. These moves been passed. 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Quote of the Week “I know more about wheat and olives than I do about politics.” —Ariel Sharon Omri Casspi reportedly signs one-year deal with NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies (JTA)—Omri Casspi, the first Israeli to play in the National Basketball Association, reportedly has agreed to a one-year contract with the Memphis Grizzlies. Easy puzzle Reports of the deal emerged Sunday with the start of the weeklong free agency “Gan Games” by Yoni Glatt period. Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN first reported the deal. [email protected] Casspi, 30, can sign the deal on July 6. The Grizzlies will be his seventh NBA team. Across 4. Architect’s portfolio 33. Replacement player, to The 6’9” forward was waived in April by the Golden State Warriors, where he was 1. Grasp 5. Mode predecessor some under a one-year contract, after suffering an ankle injury. He reportedly is still eligible 5. Dry 6. Kylo whose mom is 34. “Elf” actor James to receive an NBA championship ring from the team, for which he played 53 games. 9. Common man, briefly 15-Across 38. Farm laborers of low Casspi is set to start his 10th season. He has also played for the Sacramento Kings, 14. Common cream in cross- 7. Episode where Yoda fights social rank where he was a No. 1 draft choice, as well as the Cleveland Cavaliers, Houston Rockets, words the Emperor 39. Strong, angry emotion New Orleans Pelicans and Minnesota Timberwolves. 15. See 6-Down 8. Notorious concentration 40. Have some babka He was a member of the championship Maccabi Tel Aviv team in Israel before 16. Pesky Persian, long ago camp 43. Animal on the Australian making himself available for the NBA draft. 17. Like a star savior from 9. High priest with a Parshah coat of arms Argentina? named after him 45. So-so 19. Cold adverb 10. Lakers’ local rivals, on the 47. Lo-___ monitors 20. The Iron ___ (former scoreboard 48. Grouchy wrestling star) 11. Discharge 49. Grant or Jackman 21. Cooped-up creature 12. “Exodus: Gods and Kings” 52. Agcy. known to shoot for “I’m lost 23. Chai, e.g. star the stars 24. ___ whiz! 13. One named Irish singer 53. Lip soother without it!” “It’s 26. “Psycho” screamer Leigh 18. Big furniture retailer 54. Geometric figure 28. Portuguese star’s treats 22. H.S. subject 57. Big credit card name, for on Hannukah? 25. Late great Wiesel short inexcusable!” 34. 52- Across team that prob- 26. Pulitzer and Stalin 58. Part of an archipelago ably won’t do as well in 2019, 27. Blasting letters 59. Capital city sluggers, for for short 28. Ability to cover a lot of short These are some of the comments we receive from readers 35. “Y” pluralized ground, as for a shortstop 61. “Black” CIA doings when they miss an issue of Heritage Florida Jewish News. 36. “A Light in the ___” (Shel 29. Biological egg source 63. New ___ (64-Down mak- Silverstein book) 30. “The Shape of Water” ers) What are you missing out on?... Subscribe today! 37. It makes men mean? director Guillermo ___ Toro 64. Steve Rogers, to his team- 38. Reads from the Torah like 31. City near Syracuse mates YES! I want to be informed. Start my subscription at once. a Brazilian star? 32. Atlas or Thanos 65. Metric weights: Abbr. Please: ❏ enter ❏ extend my subscription for: 41. “Give ___ chance” 42. Be on the same page ❏ 1 year at $37.95 52 issues 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ❏ 44. Brave, Chief or Indian 2 years at $69.95 104 issues 45. Hail ___ (cry “Taxi!”) 14 15 16 ❏ ❏ 46. Bitter month for a Brazil- 1 year out-of-state at $46.95 or 2 years out-of-state at $87.95 17 18 19 ian star? MAIL SUBSCRIPTION TO: 50. Those with addictions 20 21 22 23 51. Color shade Name ______24 25 26 27 52. See 34-Across Address ______55. Ruling great-grandson of 28 29 30 31 32 33 Solomon 34 35 36 City/State/Zip ______56. Ruth gathered it Phone______60. All time homerun leader, 37 38 39 40 41 to purists ® 42 43 44 45 # ______62. Hand for a British star? expiration date______66. Got some shuteye 46 47 48 49 67. Talk big 50 51 68. Chocolate coin Fill out coupon and mail, If different from above, fill in your: 69. Accumulate 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 with check or credit card information to: 70. Blabs Name______60 61 62 63 64 65 71. Donald and Ivana, e.g. HERITAGE Florida Jewish News Address______P.O. Box 300742 Down 66 67 68 City/State/Zip______1. Treif radios? Fern Park, FL 32730 69 70 71 Phone______2. One who moves to Israel (407) 834-8787 3. Make like the Browns in 2017 See answers on page 14A. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 13, 2018 PAGE 7A The ‘forces’ behind US and Israeli bills to withhold ‘pay to slay’ terror financing

By Alex Traiman who had served tours of duty year in salaries directly to the in Afghanistan and Iraq. Tay- murderers of Jews. (JNS)—The passage of an lor was visiting Israel as part No longer was the P.A. Israeli law to withhold funds of an entrepreneurial seminar simply guilty of incitement that the Palestinian Authority connected to an MBA program to murder through school uses to pay murderers for kill- at Vanderbilt University when textbooks, television stations, ing Jews is the correction of he was stabbed to death on a social-media avenues and fre- an unconscionable injustice. popular Tel Aviv promenade by quent speeches by Palestinian That a democratic country a terrorist from the Palestin- leaders, including P.A. head with a High Court of Justice ian city of Kalqilya. Mahmoud Abbas calling for has allowed itself to transfer The terrorist was killed the blood of Jews; the P.A. funds month after month to by police responding to the was proven to be an official Alex Traiman a murder-sponsoring entity attack. To add insult to in- terror-sponsoring entity. Shown here (l-r): Maurice Hirsch, Sander Gerber, MK Elazar Stern, Stuart Force, Itamar within its midst is not just bad jury, Palestinians celebrated Worse yet, most of the Marcus, Shai Maimon, R. Avrumi Sieger and Rivka Kidron. policy, it is completely illegal Taylor’s death, and soon funds utilized to secure its and utterly immoral. afterwards, the terrorist’s budget and make the terror the sponsorship of terror was the waiver essentially were Committee, a strong push was Israeli parliamentarians family began receiving large payments came either by way a direct violation of the Oslo suggesting that the risk of a made to pass a law that did finally awoke to the reality monthly stipends—well in of foreign aid provided by the Accords, legal concerns were P.A. collapse and the uncer- not give any option for a gov- that the P.A. pays more than excess of average Palestinian United States and others, or eased. tainty that might follow is ernmental waiver. Pressure $360 million a year to terror- salaries. through a tariff agreement The U.S. Taylor Force Act more dangerous than giving was also exerted by several ists serving prison sentences Several months later, Sand- with Israel whereby funds was signed into law in March; the P.A. funds that are then Israeli victims of Palestinian in Israeli jails and to the er Gerber, a private New York are collected on behalf of the it took several more months used to incentivize murder. terror, led by Shai Maimon. families of terrorists killed financial executive and former P.A. at ports of entry and then for Israel to follow suit. Despite Recently, the United States After weeks of deliberations, while in the act of attempt- board member of AIPAC, passed monthly by Israel to calls by Israeli Prime Minis- rejected a similar argument the law secured the support ed murder. The payment reached out to Taylor’s par- the Palestinian entity. ter Benjamin Netanyahu for by moving its embassy from of coalition and opposition scheme—on the law books ents, Stuart and Robbi Force. With this information in funds to be withheld from the Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The members and passed this week of the P.A. from as early as Gerber had recently been hand, Gerber enlisted Taylor’s P.A. from as early as 2015— Trump administration was by a resounding vote of 87-15, 2011—bases amounts to made aware of the payment parents in a campaign to coupled with his expressed warned that the move would well beyond the normal tally each terrorist or family on scheme, and was shocked to educate lawmakers. Together, support for the passage of spark widespread unrest of Knesset votes. the severity of the jail term, learn that most Israeli and they demanded that both the the Taylor Force Act—the and destabilize the region. The passage of both the U.S. with additional incentives American politicians were United States and Israel stop government sought to insert While protests ensued on the and Israeli versions of the laws for terrorists holding Israeli clueless that terrorists were sending funds that now could a waiver provision into the Gaza border, little violence to withhold funding is a testa- identification cards. being paid to kill in accor- be proven were going into the Israeli law. The waiver would was recorded in the West ment to the relentless pursuit Israel was not the first dance with Palestinian law. hands of murderers. have given Israel’s govern- Bank and virtually none of of Gerber and Force (who were country to legislate against Gerber began a relentless For the United States, the ment the right to pass any the 250,000 Arabs living in both present for the Knesset the “pay to slay” practice. campaign to research and issue was simple: The foreign funds withheld over to the Jerusalem—some just sev- vote). At an Israeli event in In March, the United States expose the full and precise aid that America provides is P.A. at a later date based on eral hundred meters from the celebrating the outcome, passed the Taylor Force Act, nature of the stipend scheme. voluntary and can be with- security or geopolitical con- embassy—protested a move Force noted that because they which prohibits the U.S. What he found—with the held if it is deemed to not be cerns, such as pressure from that did little to impact their weren’t government officials, from sending foreign aid to help of the research and legal serving America’s interests. the international community. day-to-day lives. it might have been easier to the Palestinian Authority as teams at Palestinian Media For Israel, there were addi- Such a provision would have So, with the help of law push for the two laws’ passage. long as the payment scheme Watch—was that the scheme tional legal questions, as the rendered the law useless. sponsors MK Elazar Stern Other countries are now remains in place. was more sophisticated than funds are collected by Israel The argument in favor of the (Yesh Atid) and MK Avi Dich- taking notice. On the same The bill was named after any Israeli politicians had on behalf of the P.A. as part provision was that withholding ter (Likud), who is currently day as the vote in Israel, Aus- Taylor Force, a 26-year-old ever imagined. Hundreds of of the Oslo Accords. Yet once funds from the P.A. could lead chairman of the Knesset’s American West Point graduate millions of dollars paid each it was clearly established that to its collapse. Proponents of Foreign Affairs and Defense Financing on page 15A PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 13, 2018 Here’s to my (and your) better half By Harold Witkov tunity. I could take his Pawn inhaler. Nothing changed. I of the family, a teacher at a First person with my Queen and check started thinking the worst. Catholic elementary school, his King. That would force I thought about calling 911, got her whole class to pray for As a 66-year-old retiree, his Queen to take my Queen I thought about driving to me as well. I was touched to I play chess recreationally and I could then recapture his the hospital. Mostly, in this the core. I felt so unworthy. a few times a week. For the Queen with my Knight, thus time of great need, I yearned People were praying for me most part, I play in chess forking his two Rooks. I went for the companionship of my and I did not even know them. clubs that are open to the for it. The game was mine for wife, Judy. I drove home, a The hospital staff was won- public and are drop-in. Such all practical purposes; but he 10-minute drive, walked up derful too, and so caring. So was the case, recently, when I wanted to play it out. With the stairs, and told the love of much love everywhere. did something during a chess every move my symptoms my life, “I think I’m having a When I came out of sur- game that only a handful of intensified. Finally, he laid heart attack.” gery, Judy sat by my bedside. chess players in the history of down his King and we shook Judy drove me to the Despite my incoherence, she the game can claim: I suffered hands. hospital emergency room. read aloud to me love poems a heart attack while playing. There was now a pain in Yes, everything pointed to a by the Persian poet, Rumi: It was late afternoon on the center of my chest. It was heart attack. I had a coronary I put my heart on this hazard- a Wednesday. All the other not sharp or excruciating, angiogram that Wednesday ous road chess players had already gone but it was a pain nonethe- evening. And on Friday, June and unshackled it to follow home for the day. Kevin and I less. I told Kevin I needed to 1, I had quintuple bypass you... were the only ones remaining, use the washroom and that I open-heart surgery. My last When you come to my mind, and we were having one of our would see him next week; he words to my wife, before my my heart starts to pound typical epic battles. went home having no clue morning surgery, were “I love and tears of longing drip from We were in the middle- as to the inward turmoil I you” and “God is giving me my eyes... game when, like never before, I was experiencing. Once in an improved heart so I can If you are a sea, I am your fish. found myself so extraordinari- the men’s room, I threw cold be more loving.” If you are a meadow, I am ly invested in the outcome, I water on my face and drank My daughter and son-in- your deer... started perspiring and feeling from the bathroom faucet, all law cut short their vacation There is a path from your Harold Witkov and his better half, Judy. adrenaline rushes. My chest to no avail. and rushed home. So many heart to mine. felt a dull and strange dis- I walked to my car hoping family and friends were pull- My heart knows how to find it. riage, I am not at all surprised, moves best and has the great- comfort, and a slight feeling that it was my asthma acting ing for me and my recovery. My Judy watched over me for I know her heart was never est strength. of nausea was upon me. But up and a magic cure awaited Loved ones got their loved every day I was in the hospital, the one in need of repair. So here is to my Better Half: these seemed mere distrac- me inside my automobile. ones to pray on my behalf. and after I was discharged. Chess and life have much my wife Judy; love of my life tions. It was only the game Sitting in my Camry, I drank A lifelong friend told me he She has been with me, taking in common. In both, it seems and Queen of my Heart! And that seemed to matter. a full bottle of Gatorade would ask his rabbi to say Mi care of me, every step of the as though it’s all about the here is to all the Better Halves And then I saw my oppor- and took two puffs from my Sheberakh for me. A friend way. After 33 years of mar- King, but it is the Queen who of the world! Immunotherapy treatments being developed in Israel offer new hope for cancer patients By Michele Chabin exciting because, as opposed challenges is deciding which to other forms of therapy, promising research projects JERUSALEM—There’s a it engages the body’s own to fund. ICRF received 160 war raging in Israel with highly sensitive system for grant proposals in 2017 alone life and death consequences detecting cancer cells and and can fund only a fraction. worldwide. destroying them,” Israel said. That’s where a new partner- This war does not involve “This area will have a major ship with the U.S.-based Can- tanks, drones or tunnels, and impact on cancer outcomes cer Research Institute, known the enemy is not Iran, Hamas going forward.” as CRI, comes in. Starting or Hezbollah. That potential is partly next year, ICRF and CRI will Rather the war is being what drew Dr. Nathan Karin, be partnering to identify and waged in science labs and the an Israeli immunologist at the fund the most promising im- battlefield is the human body. Technion-Israel Institute of munotherapy research being The enemy: cancer. Technology, to immunother- conducted in Israel. Israeli scientists are experi- apy research. He’s studying A joint scientific review menting with a new weapon whether the cellular mecha- panel including expert re- in this war: immunotherapy, nisms driving autoimmune searchers and doctors from which manipulates one’s im- diseases like Type 1 diabetes around the U.S. and Canada mune system to identify, fight and multiple sclerosis can be who are involved with ICRF and destroy cancer cells. utilized to create immuno- and CRI will meet every fall While immunotherapy has therapy drugs to fight cancer. to evaluate the most promis- been around for decades, new Karin and his team are ing Israeli immunotherapy advances in the field coupled researching the interplay be- research proposals, judging Neta Milman, a scientist at the Rambam Clinical Research Institute in Haifa, is research- with recent drug approvals tween two types of cells vital them on the basis of innova- ing pancreatic tumors with an eye toward developing immunotherapy treatments for cancer. from the U.S. Food & Drug to the immune system: regula- tion, feasibility and likelihood Administration have intensi- tory T cells and effector T cells of impact. The initiative is Research Fund, which is well therapy at Sharett Institute the 1980s the first chimeric fied interest in immunother- Regulatory T cells help tame called The Immunotherapy known among Israel’s top of Oncology at Hebrew Uni- antigen receptors, or CARs— apy and its applications for immune system responses Promise. academic research centers, we versity’s Hadassah Medical cancer-fighting molecules cancer treatment, especially and prevent autoimmune The FDA approved the will be able to support more Center in Jerusalem, is receiv- constructed in the laboratory late-stage cancers that resist diseases. But by suppressing first immunotherapy drug lifesaving science in a country ing funding to support work and inserted into T-cells. For conventional treatments. Im- effector T cells, they impede recently, but the field dates that is home to some of the on a new checkpoint receptor his ICRF project, Gross hopes munotherapy drugs already the immune system’s ability back to 1891, when William world’s most talented research called SLAMF6, a protein to improve the performance of are helping patients with to fight cancer. Coley, a physician and cancer scientists.” found in immune cells. When CAR T-cells. melanoma, lung, stomach, “We believe that if you am- researcher, observed that Neta Milman, a scientist activated, these receptors For Karin of the Technion, liver and bladder cancers, as plify regulatory T cells you can some cancer patients infected at the Laboratory for Applied modulate the immune re- who is well known for cutting- well as some blood cancers. treat autoimmune disease, by Streptococcus bacteria Cancer Research at the Ram- sponse so that there isn’t too edge research into autoim- “Recent developments in and if you block their activ- experienced a dramatic and bam Clinical Research Insti- strong a response against mune diseases like MS, the immunotherapy have ush- ity you can thwart cancer,” spontaneous improvement. tute in Haifa, is among ICRF’s normal tissues But when it Israel Cancer Research Fund’s ered in a medical revolution, Karin said. He began injecting the bac- recent grantees. She is study- comes to cancer, the goal backing enabled his first foray representing a real paradigm Karin is among dozens of teria into his patients, with ing tumors called pancreatic is to inhibit these receptor into cancer research. shift in cancer treatment,” Israeli cancer researchers re- mixed results. ductal adenocarcinoma, or proteins so that the immune “ICRF’s support was the said Dr. Mark Israel, national ceiving financial support from The treatment was nearly PDAC. These tumors contain response against cancer will motivation for me to get executive director of the Israel the Israel Cancer Research abandoned amid skepticism mostly non-cancerous cells be as strong as possible into cancer immunotherapy Cancer Research Fund, which Fund. For the organization, from Coley’s peers and the that include a group of im- “If you target this protein research,” Karin said. “Now funds cancer research in the which raises money in North advent of radiotherapy and mune cells that promote effectively, it can double or most of our attention in the Jewish state. America to support cancer re- improved surgical techniques. tumor growth by producing triple the effect of immune lab is on melanoma. Without “Cancer immunotherapy is search in Israel, one of the big Today, however, new av- small particles that transport cells when they attack their them we wouldn’t be doing enues of immunotherapy genetic information to cancer target, Lotem said. what we’re doing.” research are underway, and cells. 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Though a composed the song after see- efforts. American flags in the back- plethora of symbols, such as ing the American flag flying “It becomes the tangible ground, and by World War stars of David and menorahs, defiantly above Fort McHenry symbol of why they were II the practice of displaying may be displayed, national in Baltimore during the War fighting this war,” Zola said. flags next to the bimah was flags are rare inside the sanc- of 1812. The creation of the The Stars and Stripes were “almost ubiquitous,” accord- tuary. anthem ignited “the birth of carried into the battle by ing to Zola. Meanwhile, in the United flag culture,” Zola said. the Union troops. Following Still, for some synagogues States and Canada, an Ameri- “The flag then becomes President Abraham Lincoln’s the decision to add an Ameri- can or Canadian flag (and much more than just a banner assassination, flags abounded can flag was triggered by sometimes both) are com- for identifying things,” he told as he was mourned and his quite a different event: the monly displayed on the bimah, JTA in a phone interview. “We body was transported from emergence of Zionism and or ritual stage, often alongside all are familiar with American Washington to his burial creation of the state of Israel. an Israeli flag. eagle but the American eagle place in Springfield, Illinois. After both the Balfour Dec- When did this uniquely doesn’t resonate with the Zola found evidence that laration in 1917 and Israel’s North American Jewish cus- same kind of deep, deep patri- some synagogues displayed Declaration of Independence tom originate and why? otic feelings that the flag does, American flags inside the in 1948, synagogues wanted According to historian Gary and that helps you understand sanctuary as rabbis eulogized to fly the Zionist or Israeli Zola, you can thank a patriotic the transformation that takes the president. flags. But many members felt wave during World War I and, place as a result of the poem, Still, flags were not a per- that flying a Jewish national- later, the birth of Israel. and the idea that the banner manent fixture in American ist flag without an American About a decade ago, a becomes the embodiment synagogues until World War flag wasn’t right, so they Ady Manory student asked Zola about the of the American people and I, with the popularization added both. American, Canadian and Israeli flags are displayed in the history of flags in American nation.” of the service flag, a banner In most cases, however, the S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Chapel on the Cincinnati campus synagogues. So Zola, the ex- In the following decades, that used stars to symbolize flying of the American flag of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. ecutive director of the Jacob the flag began to be used by family members who were was not a way for Jews to prove Rader Center of the American politicians as part of their fighting or killed in the war. their patriotism, but rather synagogue on the grounds other flag to the right (from Jewish Archives and a profes- political campaigns and was “These service flags, while to participate in a defining that devotion to the welfare the audience’s perspective). sor of at the Hebrew Union flown over public build- they were not literally the cultural practice, Zola said. of ones’s country “has long North American Jews are so College-Jewish Institute of ings, banks and churches. American flag, they had a “American Jews, like in ev- assumed the character of a used to the practice today that Religion in Cincinnati, set out Zola found evidence of some familiarity, they had stars on erything else, want to do what religious duty.” In 1957, Rabbi they may not realize that to to find the answer. That led to synagogues at the time being them and they were Ameri- Americans are doing. And just Moshe Feinstein, the famed most Jews around the world, a study of the history of the decorated with American can colors, and churches as the flag becomes a part of Orthodox authority, said secu- a flag seems out of place in a American flag and how it was flags, though it does not seem and synagogues began to fly American culture and begins lar symbols like flags had no house of worship. viewed at different periods in to have been ubiquitous. those service flags inside the to take on the emotional ef- place in the sanctuary; how- “We are so familiar with this time. He is currently working The Civil War was the sanctuaries as a tribute to fect that it has over a period ever, since the display of flags in America, it’s so common on an article summarizing his flag’s “big transformational the soldiers and as a patriotic of time, American Jews want does not violate halacha, or whether it’s a Reform syna- research. moment,” Zola said. At the symbol,” Zola said. to participate,” he said. Jewish law, a congregation is gogue, Conservative and even Though the American flag Battle of Fort Sumter in This opened the gates to Many synagogues didn’t not required to remove them. some Orthodox [synagogues] was officially adopted in 1777, April 1861, Confederate forces American flags being dis- come lightly to the deci- Synagogues tend to follow that we take it for granted, it’s when it featured only 13 stars bombed the fort, causing its played as a permanent fixture sion to fly a flag. In 1954, the etiquette in the U.S. Flag almost unnoticed, but when Reform Rabbi Israel Bet- Code, which says the Stars you travel the world you begin tandeclared that Old Glory and Stripes should be placed to realize, ‘Gee, this isn’t the may hang in an American on the leftmost pole, and the way it is everywhere.’” Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel These Dutch survivors have Proudly Serving Our Community been madly in love for 70 years For Over 35 Years L’dor v’dor ... From Generation to Generation • Traditional Jewish Funerals • Non-Traditional Services • Interstate Shipping • Pre-Arranged Funerals Shalom Assurance Plan Merlijn Doomernik Meijer and Tedje van der Sluis during filming in Amsterdam of a 2018 documentary film about their marriage. • Headstones, Grave Markers By Cnaan Liphshiz couple’s heartwarming story Mirjam, tell the camera that has been featured in media their father cannot function AMSTERDAM (JTA)—More across the country because when his wife is ill. Mirjam 407-599-1180 than 70 years have passed it’s moving, intimate and says he “becomes depressive.” since Meijer van der Sluis first dramatic. But its intensity When he was working, laid eyes on the love of his life. also personifies the collec- Meijer would come home for 640 Lee Road • Orlando, Florida He was at a home for child tive trauma of a community lunch every day—an unusual survivors of the Holocaust, that was hit worse than any habit in a country where lunch and he opened the door for her. other in Western Europe breaks are typically brief and W.E. “Manny” Adams, LFD He still remembers her during the Holocaust, when feature room-temperature short haircut and exactly what the Nazis killed 75 percent of sandwiches at the workplace. Samuel P. (Sammy) Goldstein, Exec. Director she wore that day. Dutch Jews. But it wasn’t to be with the “It was a black army coat,” Throughout the hour-long children, Mirjam says. van der Sluis, 91, of Amster- film titled “Tedje & Meijer: “I think it’s because they dam, recalls in a critically The Promise of Love,” the two couldn’t spend an entire day www.bethshalommemorialchapel.com acclaimed documentary that nonagenarians hug, kiss, rub apart,” she says of her parents. aired last month in the Neth- noses and joke as they sit with “As long as I see Tedje erlands about his wife of 65 their arms intertwined, each around I’m happy, I’m glad,” years, Tedje. spouse with one palm on the Meijer says in the documen- “It hit me hard. I fell in love. other’s knee. They call each tary. “Tedje has made me It glowed inside me,” he says of other “poepie,” or “sweetie” in complete.” their meeting in 1945, when Dutch, among other terms of While the couple love their both were teenagers. endearment. Seven decades later, the Their children, Ruben and Love on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 13, 2018 PAGE 11A This Jewish man survived Central Florida Synagogues

World War II in Axis-era Japan Orlando Weekday Morning Minyan (Conservative/Egalitarian), services Monday- Friday 7:45 a.m. (9 a.m.—national holidays); 2nd floor Chapel—Jewish Academy of Orlando; By Ben Sales maintain some private Jewish 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. For information call 407-298-4650. practices while living within NEW YORK (JTA)—Grow- a Nazi ally. They would eat Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. ing up in Imperial Japan Shabbat dinners at home on JewishCelebration.org; 407-566-9792. during World War II, Isaac Friday night, and his father Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, Shapiro’s best friend was a wore a kippah at those meals. 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. member of the Hitler Youth. They avoided pork, and on The friend wore the organi- Passover they imported mat- Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- zation’s brown shirt uniform zah from Harbin. 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. to their international school “We knew what has happen- Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. every day, but not because ing to the Jews in Germany jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; he wanted to—he was Ger- and we wanted Germany to Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. man and Japan was an ally lose the war,” Shapiro said. of the Nazi regime, so he was “We were very quiet about it Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, expected to project support and didn’t want the Japanese 321-777-2770. for the Fuehrer. to think we were against them. Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- Instead of instilling fear Privately, we were hopeful that 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat into his classmates, however, Japan would lose the war.” the uniform had the opposite Ben Sales The war came home in services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. Isaac Shapiro, now 87, effect—his non-German 1944, when the Japanese mili- lives in New York. Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. peers gently teased him. tary evacuated the coastline betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. “We made fun of him -- ev- day in 1933, while he was at and sent his family to live in , 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. erybody at school made fun of home with his brothers, the Tokyo, where they endured Congregation Beth Am (C) him,” Shapiro said. “We didn’t Japanese military helped a heavy American bombing. congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. support the German Reich. gang kidnap his mother and Shapiro’s family had to run Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; “He was obviously not very a family friend, Simon Kaspe. frequently to air raid shelters Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. enthusiastic about being in His mother was released in a and pump water by themselves the Hitlerjugend,” Shapiro matter of hours, but Kaspe was to put out fires. A Russian Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; added, using the German word killed. The incident was scary immigrant friend of his was Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. for Hitler Youth. enough to prompt his parents killed in a bombing. Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, Countless Jews have har- to reunite the family in Japan. “It was frightening because Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. rowing stories of growing up “The Japanese military Tokyo was burning,” Shapiro under the terror of Nazi rule, were unusually autocratic said. “The bombs fell all Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. but Shapiro has a different and difficult,” Shapiro said, around us.” bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. tale of growing up under though he allowed that in By 1945, it was clear that Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation the Axis—he was one of the general he “didn’t feel any Japan was losing the war, even holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. few Jews living in Japan at oppression or any change though the nation’s censored com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. the time. He was born in because of the Japanese tak- newspaper downplayed the 1931, the year Japan invaded ing over.” military defeats as temporary Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; Manchuria, and was living His life was shaken up again setbacks. When the atomic www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. there when the United States by the escalation of World bomb hit Hiroshima, Shapiro Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., dropped the atomic bomb on War II and the abolition of recalls it being covered as a Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Hiroshima in 1945. any vestiges of democracy in small item in the paper so as Shapiro, now 87, is the Japan. After the United States not to scare readers. Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; author of “Edokko: Growing and United Kingdom declared When the war ended, Sha- www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th Up a Stateless Foreigner in war on Japan following the piro met an American Army Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. Wartime Japan,” a childhood Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, officer who was seeking Eng- Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. memoir that first came out in Shapiro’s British school was lish speakers. He signed on 2010 and was republished late closed. His family needed to with the Army, at age 14, to Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- last year. The title is a term obtain permission whenever be a translator -- but ended up 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. that refers to someone born they wanted to leave Yoko- translating for the U.S. Navy Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- and raised in Tokyo. hama, the coastal city where in Japan after the war. 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. While Shapiro’s story con- they lived and received all “I have to go home and get tains elements of World War their news from a heavily some clothes and tell my par- Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for II-era totalitarianism—the censored English newspaper. ents,” Shapiro recalled telling services and holiday schedules. police state, the pervasive “It made us much more the Army officer at the time. Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303A N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation- propaganda—it is unique conscious of the role of the But his parents didn’t mind. sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. because it’s not a tragedy. military,” Shapiro said of the “They were in such a state Shapiro wanted the U.S. to start of the war. “Military of shock about the end of the Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- win. He survived American police were much more vis- war and occupation,” he said. Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv bombings in Japan. He had ible everywhere. They would “They were very tolerant of my Please call for times. some idea of what was hap- call on us every now and deviant behavior.” Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- pening to Europe’s Jews. But then. We felt we were under A Marine officer and his wife Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. he also has fond recollections surveillance.” took in Shapiro and, in 1946, of his Japanese neighbors Despite the tight govern- with the encouragement of Temple Beth El (R), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-677-2484. and his wartime childhood ment control, Shapiro spent his parents, moved with him Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. friends. the early years of the war in to Hawaii and acted as his “We didn’t feel we were the bubble of an international guardians. Shapiro attended Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat living among the enemy,” school. At home, he and his high school there, then went service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. Shapiro told JTA last week, family would talk about their on to college and law school Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. sitting in the living room of hopes for an American vic- at Columbia University, and mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; his apartment on the Upper tory and a defeat of Germany, a long career at the law firms Thursday, 10:00 a.m. East Side of Manhattan. “Our which Shapiro wrote about of Milbank Tweed and Skad- neighbors were pleasant, de- privately in his diary. den Arps. Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: cent people. We got the same His father played a role in In 1952, he served in the Ko- Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. food rations the Japanese got. helping Chiune Sugihara, the rean War, sweeping for mines Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. They were very fair.” Japanese diplomat who saved and interrogating Koreans in Shapiro’s family came thousands of Lithuanian Japanese. In the late 1970s, Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; to Japan after a whirlwind Jews. When some of those he and his wife got to live in Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. of international travel. His Jews reached Japan in 1941, Japan during peacetime, help- Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. parents, both Russian Jewish before Japan and the U.S. ing establish Milbank Tweed’s Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach, 386-252-3097; Shabbat service, musicians, met and married were at war, Shapiro’s father Tokyo office. in Berlin. They sensed danger would translate for them at “There were lots of Ameri- Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 10:30 a.m. early, immigrating to what the American consulate in cans by that time,” Shapiro Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. was then Palestine via Paris Yokohama. Those survivors said of Tokyo. “It was com- templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by in 1926 to escape the prospect relayed news of the Holocaust pletely different. When we Torah study. of Nazi rule. When they found to Shapiro’s family. went down to Hiroshima, it life difficult there, they moved The family also managed to was unrecognizable.” Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road to Harbin, a city in northeast- 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 ern China with a large Russian p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. Jewish immigrant population. To Publish Legal Notices For Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. In 1931, the year Shapiro was shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. born, his father took a job at a Orange, Osceola, Seminole and music conservatory in Tokyo. Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, Shapiro was born in Japan Volusia Counties, 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, but lived back in Japanese- Call Heritage Florida Jewish News 7:30 p.m. occupied Harbin from 1931 Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. to 1936 because his parents at 407-834-8787 or email had separated. While there, his tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. family got a traumatic taste of [email protected] (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa the Japanese police state. One PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 13, 2018 These academics want to mend Israel-Diaspora relations—but can this marriage be saved? challenges and support of however, Ferziger said his will real-time negotiating, with a said. “I am an historian, the the U.S. Jewish community,” primarily focus on religion: caveat that this is unofficial. world is fickle and building Assouline said. “How religion is evolving in We are building on existing too much on polls and census According to a recent study Israel, how religion is evolv- models from diplomacy for readings is detrimental.” by the American Jewish Com- ing in North America and the how to move things forward In the early 20th century, mittee, the vast majority of [how the] gap is growing. on a real practical level Ferziger said, the prevailing Jews in the United States and “There are many, many through these types of back- view based on demography Israel believe in the necessity well-intentioned and super- channel environments.” was that Orthodoxy was in of both a strong Jewish state capable people who are aware Some scholars, such as decline and the future be- and a vibrant Diaspora. How- of the tensions and gaps and sociologist Steven M. Cohen, longed to the Reform move- ever, the two communities be- conflicts,” he said, “but for a research professor of Jew- ment. Now, however, you see gin to diverge when questions the most part what I’ve seen ish social policy at Hebrew “Orthodox triumphalism” and related to the peace process are two types of reactions: Union College-Jewish Insti- “the point is that things are and religious pluralism come complaining on both sides” or tute of Religion and director unpredictable.” into the picture. superficial appeals to Jewish of the Berman Jewish Policy In 2013 the Israeli govern- More significant, nearly unity that gloss over the gaps. Archive, have indicated that ment announced the forma- 70 percent of Israeli Jews Neither approach, Ferziger while they find such efforts tion of a new initiative bring- believe it is “not appropriate said, is particularly useful. worthwhile, there are major ing together the Diaspora Adam Ferziger is a history Steven M. Cohen is a re- for American Jews to attempt “The point of departure for challenges standing in the way Affairs Ministry, the Jewish and contemporary Jewry pro- search professor of Jewish to influence Israeli policy on this center is that Judaism in of bridging an ever-widening Agency (itself a partnership fessor at Bar-Ilan University. social policy at Hebrew Union such issues as national secu- Israel and America are already chasm between two vastly between the government and College-Jewish Institute of rity and peace negotiations very different and the distinc- different but related cultures. Diaspora fundraisers) and By Sam Sokol Religion. with the Palestinians.” tions between them are grow- “The challenge is that there various American Jewish or- Naftali Bennett, Israel’s ing,” he said. “Judaism as it’s are deep-seated differences ganizations. It would put bil- JERUSALEM (JTA)—When exploring the distinctions minister of Diaspora affairs, been evolving the last 70 years and contexts and identities,” lions of dollars into efforts to Adam Ferziger wants to and commonalities of the two tends to blame the problem under a sovereign Jewish state Cohen said. reach out to Jews abroad and describe the “deteriorat- divergent forms that Jewish on the assimilation of Jews is a very different entity and He believes that while Jeru- “create a strategic plan for the ing” relationship between life has taken. in the United States, saying has unique characteristics salem’s policies have had an upcoming 25 years that will American and Israeli Jews, he His center is only the lat- his goal is “saving the Jews” to it that are truly foreign to impact on perceptions of the include a common vision and reaches back to a 2,000-year- est addition to a political and there from disappearing. He the privatized, voluntaristic, Jewish state among American more importantly an imple- old divide. academic sector trying to find also sees a vast political divide. wonderful, rich, intellectually Jews, “it’s still the case that mentation of new projects for “To use a metaphor, we that new paradigm “What the poll reflects is powerful and spiritually broad differences in American Jew- the Jewish people.” have a contemporary Jeru- Its establishment comes on that Israelis are going more and sophisticated community ish identity shape American However, within two salem and Babylon kind of the heels of the inauguration rightward and favoring more in North America. Jews’ reactions to Israel more years the Jewish Agency had dynamic,” said Ferziger, a of a similar, though not identi- traditional Judaism, as op- “What has developed in than Israel’s actions.” left the project and by 2016 history and contemporary cal master’s program, at Haifa posed to secularism, whereas America has certain things What Cohen calls the “dis- the program, now renamed Jewry professor at Bar-Ilan University. The Ruderman American Jewry are more to that are sui generis and very tancing” of American Jews Mosaic, was coming under University in Tel Aviv, “with Program for American Jew- the left and more liberal,” special and very beautiful, but from Israel is partially about fire for giving out grants to two truly significant creative ish Studies aims to educate Bennett, who heads the right- it is not the same as what’s a divide between American primarily, but not exclusively, and vibrant Jewish centers Israelis about their North wing, mostly Orthodox Jewish happening in Israel.” Jewish liberals and Israel’s Orthodox organizations. The developing across the world American cousins. It is part of Home party, told AJC leaders The Bar-Ilan center will right-wing electorate, but program ended up signifi- from each other.” a larger push by the Boston- in Jerusalem this month. “I’m include a multidisciplinary mostly about the growing cantly smaller than originally Ferziger and others point to based Ruderman Family not going to whitewash that, think tank side of the op- number of intermarried and envisioned. polls in recent years showing Foundation to reach out to but it shouldn’t be the reason eration. That’s reminiscent unengaged Jews who hardly Ferziger acknowledged the that not only are American lawmakers, thought leaders for us to fall apart So we don’t of such organizations as the identify with the Jewish state. challenges facing any attempt Jews increasingly distanc- and other influencers here. agree on everything, but we Jewish People Policy Institute The same forces propelling to revamp the Israeli-Diaspora ing themselves from both “When we talk about are all Jews, for heaven’s sake. in Jerusalem, which is affili- these changes in Ameri- relationship but remained organized Jewish life and bridging the gaps, often the We’re all one family.” ated with the Jewish Agency. can Jewish self-perception upbeat. the State of Israel, but Israeli proposed solutions are to For his part, Assouline Ferziger said the new center also make creating common “In the end of the day no Jews are growing less and less teach American Jews about seems happy that Bar-Ilan also will create a generation of ground difficult. However, matter what, we are going to interested in the views and Israel,” said Dvir Assouline, University is pursuing a simi- leaders through its master’s he adds, it is possible to have succeed because we are going opinions of their Diaspora the Ruderman Foundation’s lar program on Israel and the program. The most novel an influence by reaching out to begin a process of creating cousins. advocacy and communica- Diaspora. aspect of this undertaking, to elites and opinion makers, a generation of Jewish leaders It is this growing divide that tions director. “The more people under- however, may be what he calls although he suggests this may and thinkers and activists who Ferziger said he is trying to Among the foundation’s stand the importance of con- a “framework for actually do- not yield dramatic results. are knowledgeable,” he said. mend through the establish- programs are Knesset del- necting Israelis to American ing hard core negotiation.” Ferziger said that while he Gur Alroey, who runs the ment of the Impact Center for egations that visit the United Jews, the better,” he told The center, he elaborates, respects Cohen’s work, “we Haifa University program, also Research on Judaism in Israel States for an immersion in JTA. “The result, of course, will also serve as a “backchan- have really enslaved so much believes that Americans and and North America. American Jewish communal is that we are witnessing nel” that will bring together of Jewish policy to demog- Israelis can think their way to What is needed, he said, is culture. more activities in the field leaders from government, raphy.” a stronger relationship. a “new paradigm” for looking “Over the years, we’ve and more Israeli leaders who religious organizations and “I am careful not to draw “I’m optimistic,” he said, at the Diaspora-Israel rela- exposed MKs from mul- understand the importance other groups “in a completely absolute conclusions based “and I believe in education tionship, one that he thinks tiple coalitions and opposi- of this relationship.” private, non-publicized type on demography because it can and I believe in long-term will be best found through tion parties to the history, Unlike the Haifa program, of environment in order to do be overly deterministic,” he learning.” Ghost writer revisits her own amazing Holocaust survival story in Amsterdam creativity and editing skills At least 75 percent of the anywhere in Europe over the yield satisfying results even country’s Jews were mur- persecution of Jews. for clients whose resumes are dered during the Holocaust— Following the roundup of not exactly the stuff of spy the highest death rate in 457 Jews by Nazis, hundreds novels (think retired bank- occupied Western Europe. Yet of thousands of laborers an- ers, plastics manufacturers, alongside widespread collabo- swered the resistance call for midlevel civil servants and ration there were significant a general strike that Febru- family doctors), she says. acts of disobedience on a ary. Dutch industry ground But Dubi-Gazan’s own scale unmatched by any other to a halt for three days. The astonishing life story needs country in Western Europe. Germans cracked down on the none of the tricks of her trade. The ideological divide be- strikers, killing nine of them Born in 1945 to Jewish tween the two men at the and imprisoning hundreds, parents in a cellar in Amster- center of her own survival sto- until the strike was broken dam, where they were hiding ry—Simon Dekker, the Nazi by brute force. from the Nazis, Dubi-Gazan collaborator, and his freedom Underground, the resis- was registered falsely as the fighter brother, Ewert—is a tance was busy hiding thou- courtesy Dubi-Gazan daughter of a Nazi collabora- microcosm of Dutch society sands and helping thousands Miriam Dubi-Gazan (l) with her brother in 1945. tor without his knowledge. during the occupation. more to safety. Miriam Dubi-Gazan today. It was part of a daring deceit “It shows you how sharply The Netherlands has 5,669 civilians unreservedly en- by authorities 5 guldens for by the Nazi’s own brother—a divided Dutch society was,” Righteous Among the Na- listed to the Nazi project of every Jew they brought in— By Cnaan Liphshiz resistance fighter—to keep Dubi-Gazan, 73, said of the tions—non-Jews recognized murdering the Jews of the the equivalent of a week’s pay her alive. family of the resistance fight- and honored by Israel for hav- Netherlands and Europe. for unskilled laborers. The AMSTERDAM (JTA)—As In December, during her ers who saved her. “Within ing risked their lives to save Soon after the Nazis in- bounty was later raised to 7.5 a seasoned ghost writer who first return to her place of the same household you had Jews. It’s by far the highest vaded in 1940, men from the and then to 40 gulden. This specializes in biographies, birth, Dubi-Gazan, who has people working for the Nazis figure in Western Europe and group known as the Hen- group alone caught thousands Miriam Dubi-Gazan says lived in Israel since 1962, told and people who were risking the second highest worldwide, neicke Column began hunting of victims. there is no such thing as a JTA that her rescue story dem- their lives to stop them.” second only to Poland’s 6,863 Jews for pay. Led by a cabby Anne Frank, the teenager boring life story. onstrates both Dutch society’s In 1941, the Netherlands rescuers. named Wim Henneicke, some Her attention to detail, shame and its glory. saw the first mass protests Yet Dutch police and many 80 bounty hunters were paid Writer on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 13, 2018 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA

Israeli honeymooner In an interview with ABC cially food and medicine, ing that “Toy” was plagiarized The Valley Eyewear com- Regev late last month killed, wife injured in News for a segment titled would still be allowed into from the White Stripes’ sig- pany shot the photos for the announced that she had zip-line accident in “Progressive Democrats in- Gaza through the crossing, nature song, “Seven Nation campaign for its Black Zero “decided to be faithful to my Honduras creasingly criticize Israel, but will require special per- Army,” released in 2003. collection at the Spomenik conscience” and vote against RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)—A and could reap political re- mission. The letter requests clari- memorial at the site of the the plan, due to political pres- newly wed Israeli man was wards,” Omar rejected ac- Palestinian protesters and fication stemming from the Jasenovac extermination sure. The chair’s permission killed and his wife seriously cusations of anti-Semitism rioters have been gathering at similarity of the harmonic camp, the Sydney Morning is necessary to advance the injured in a zip-line accident by conservative critics. the border with Israel since progression in the chorus of Herald reported. plan. during their honeymoon in “These accusations are mid-March as part of the so- “Toy.” No lawsuit has been More than 70,000 people— Prime Minister Benjamin Honduras. without merit,” the Minne- called March of Return. The filed. mostly Serbs and Jews—were Netanyahu, who is pushing Egael Tishman, 24, and sota state representative said. use of incendiary objects as a Among the possible solu- murdered at the camp by the plan, took Regev’s place Shif Fanken, 27, were on a “They are rooted in bigotry tactic began with the border tions would be for Medalie order of the Nazi-allied as head of the committee. zip line over a treetop canopy toward a belief about what protests. and Beger to turn over the Croatian government during Days later, Shaked asked near Roatan on the island of Muslims are stereotyped to Thousands of acres of Eurovision-winning song’s World War II, which estab- Netanyahu to allow her to re- Bahia when they crashed into believe.” farming land and natural rights to Universal, which lished the camp in 1941. sign. Hours later, Netanyahu each other on Thursday, ac- Earlier she had tweeted a forest have been consumed would make the company The Spomeniks are a series named Energy Minister Yuval cording to local media. response to a critic who had in the flames sparked by the the song’s publisher and of concrete sculptures and Steinitz of Likud, a supporter “The girl stayed halfway on accused her of anti-Semi- flying firebombs. At least 17 distributor, the Israeli daily monuments commemorating of the plan, as the replace- the cable and the guy came tism: “Drawing attention to fires were sparked on Sunday Yediot Acharonot reported. historical events throughout ment for Shaked. from behind and hit her the apartheid Israeli regime alone from the kites and Israel won the right to host the former Yugoslavia. The On Thursday, Jerusalem up there,” chief firefighter is far from hating Jews. You balloons. the 2019 Eurovision after Jasenovac memorial ap- Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Wilmer Guerrero told La are a hateful sad man, I pray Female tourists barred singer Netta Barzilai won the peared in the background of repeating a rabbinic rul- Prensa newspaper. to Allah you get the help you from Israeli cable car competition in May. the photos and video shot for ing, said the entire Western Fanken was taken to a local need and find happiness.” She because haredi men re- Four Israeli cities are the eyewear firm. Wall is holy, including the hospital in serious condition added, sarcastically: “Well fuse to ride with them said to meet the criteria to Valley Eyewear Director Robinson’s Arch area at the and later flown to a hospital you know, if a Muslim says JERUSALEM (JTA)—Three host Eurovision and submit Michael Crawley apologized southern end where the in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, something negative about female tourists were barred bids: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, to Peter Wertheim, head of egalitarian section is located. where she underwent surgery Israeli government, they from riding a cable car down Haifa and Eilat. the Executive Council of He also ruled that “all the to stabilize her condition. must hate Jews. Didn’t you the Manara Cliff in northern Nigerian mother and Australian Jewry. laws of a synagogue and a The Israeli Foreign Minis- get that memo.” Israel because a group of her 4 children deported “Valley Eyewear was com- house of study apply,” and try said Friday that its em- Minnesota’s primary elec- haredi Orthodox men would from Israel after being pletely unaware of the sen- that “No person has permis- bassy in Guatemala was ar- tion is Aug. 14. not ride with them. jailed for 3 weeks sitivity of a number of the sion to trample a holy site, ranging for Tishman’s body Omar, who is among sever- The women and their male JERUSALEM (JTA)—A locations, in particular the not through transgressing to be flown back to Israel al Muslim women in the U.S. tour guide waited a short time Nigerian woman and her four Jasenovac site where a photo Shabbat or festivals and not for burial. running for Congress, wrote for the next car, Israel’s Chan- children were deported from shoot was undertaken for with men and women praying According to the La Prensa in a tweet in November 2012 nel 10 news reported. Israel on Sunday night after approximately 30 minutes,” together.” news website, the couple was that “Israel has hypnotized “There was a specific group they spent three weeks in an Crawley said in a statement Plans to renovate the site, on a cruise that had stopped the world, may Allah awaken that requested of us, at a time Israeli prison. to the newspaper’s parent with a budget of more than in Roatan, a popular tourist the people and help them when we were not experienc- The case of the woman, company, Fairfax Media. $7 million, have continued, destination. The island has see the evil doings of Israel. ing heavy crowds, that when identified as Marcy, who had The company has not despite the suspension of a several zip-line attractions #Gaza #Palestine #Israel” they go down in the cable car been in Israel illegally since offered a public apology, comprehensive plan approved that zoom tourists over tree- The tweet came two days not to have men and women 2010, gained public atten- however. in 2016. tops at high speeds. after the Israeli army began together. We agreed as a tion after her children were Valley Eyewear had trav- In June 2017, the Cabinet In April, Honduran Presi- an operation in Gaza trig- gesture of good will,” Doron brought to prison three weeks eled to Croatia, Serbia and suspended the deal as a result dent Juan Orlando Her- gered by the launching of Medina, director of the site in ago, after school let out for Bosnia to create a market- of negotiations between the nandez canceled his trip to 100 rockets at Israel from the the Upper Galilee, told Chan- the summer. The children ing campaign document- Reform and Conservative Israel to participate in the strip over a 24-hour period. nel 10. “They only waited a range in age from 2 to 7 ing locations of Spomenik movements, the Women of torch-lighting ceremony for Omar has neither apolo- few minutes for the next car. years old. sculptures. the Wall, the Jewish Agency Israel’s 70th Independence gized for nor retracted the We explained it very nicely to Marcy, who had defied Tourists have come under for Israel and the Israeli Day ceremony amid calls for tweet. their guide. We won’t go on several court orders to leave fire in recent years for taking government. The suspension the invitation to be rescinded She is running to succeed doing it, it was an isolated Israel, departed after be- selfies at the former site of the came after the government’s over what critics called “gross Democratic Rep. Keith Elli- incident.” ing persuaded by Nigerian Auschwitz Nazi camp and the haredi Orthodox coalition violations of human rights” son, who was the first Muslim Channel 10 reported that diplomats there. One of the Berlin Holocaust memorial, partners pressured Netan- in his country. elected to the Congress. El- the site regularly accedes diplomats accompanied her among others. yahu to scrap the agreement, In March, Honduras and lison is running for attorney to such requests, including on the flight back to Nigeria, “The purpose of these including threatening to Paraguay announced that general in Minnesota and is groups that do not want to Israel’s Channel 10 News re- monuments to the victims bring down the government. they were ready “in principle” not seeking re-election. ride with Arabs. ported Sunday night. The and survivors of the Holo- The plan would have in- to proceed in relocating their Omar has received some The site said in a state- TV station first reported the caust is to evoke a response cluded a common entrance embassies soon to Jerusalem pushback on social media in ment to Channel 10 that woman’s story. from an audience that will to the Western Wall plaza on the condition that Israeli recent weeks. management would conduct Her husband was deported give them some level of for all three sections and a Prime Minister Benjamin A tweet from a Twitter user an investigation based on the a year ago. insight into events that are public board to oversee the Netanyahu makes an of- with the handle @shabbosgoy issues raised in the report. “The long stay of the well beyond their range of ex- egalitarian prayer space and ficial visit to each of their called her a “proud Jew hater” The report comes less than mother and her children perience and understanding,” would include representa- countries. after she made a brief appear- a month after an El Al flight in custody was initiated by Wertheim told the Sydney tives of the non-Orthodox Gal Gadot visits Vir- ance in the music video of the from New York to Israel was the mother, who could have newspaper. movements and Women of ginia children’s hospital pop group Maroon 5’s song delayed by more than an flown to Nigeria many days “In an educational or cul- the Wall. in full Wonder Woman “Girls Like You.” hour after four haredi Or- ago,” Israel’s Immigration tural context, this can be a South Carolina is first costume The ABC News segment thodox men refused to take and Population Authority told powerful experience. But if state to adopt uniform (JTA)—Israeli actress Gal noted the recent upset pri- their assigned seats next to Channel 10 in a statement. images of these monuments definition of anti-Sem- Gadot took a break from film- mary victory of Alexandria women. Two women eventu- “The mother preferred not are commercially exploited to itism ing the sequel to the 2017 Ocasio-Cortez in New York, ally agreed to change their to cooperate and to stay with market products, especially if (JTA)—South Carolina movie “Wonder Woman” to calling her one of several pro- seats in order to allow the her children in prison in order the purpose is to glamorize or became the first state to adopt visit a Virginia children’s gressives whose willingness flight to take off. to exert pressure on the deci- otherwise add to the appeal a uniform definition of anti- hospital in full costume. to criticize Israel’s actions Days later, the airline’s CEO sions of the Israeli courts.” of the products, then the Semitism, but it is only on On Friday, Gadot posed for have paid off politically. announced that El Al will Marcy wanted to remain in effect is the opposite, one of the books for the next year. photos with patients and staff Israel to close main “immediately” remove any Israel, even if it meant being desensitization.” The definition is contained at Inova Children’s Hospital crossing with Gaza over passenger who refuses to sit in prison, in order to get her Another resignation in a proviso to the annual in Annandale during her visit. flying firebombs next to another passenger son medical treatment for keeps Knesset commit- state budget bill, which was The hospital posted photos JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel for any reason, hours after a what is reported as severe tee on Western Wall signed into law on July 6. of the visit on Twitter. Several will close the main crossing major Israeli tech company asthma, though reports of his egalitarian section from Under the measure, uni- Gadot and “Wonder Woman” between Israel and Gaza in announced it would no longer condition have varied. meeting versities must take the defi- fan pages also posted the response to repeated arson fly its employees on El Al due Two other children also JERUSALEM (JTA)—The nition into account when photos. attacks from incendiary kites to gender discrimination. were incarcerated with their third member of the Knes- reviewing charges of dis- Gadot has been spotted in and balloons coming from Plans for Eurovision mother, a migrant from set ministerial commit- crimination or bias. Virginia and the Washington, the coastal strip. 2019 in Israel continue Ethiopia, in the Givon Prison, tee charged with deciding Efforts earlier this year to D.C., area, where she is film- Prime Minister Benjamin despite plagarism ac- Channel 10 reported. They whether to approve the plan pass a permanent version of ing “Wonder Woman 1984,” Netanyahu said the decision cusations are aged 1 and 3. to upgrade the Western Wall’s the law were frustrated when which is scheduled for release announced Monday to close JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Prison staff have brought egalitarian section resigned. concerns about an impinge- in November 2019. the Kerem Shalom crossing European Broadcasting toys, books and candy for the Religious Services Minis- ment on free speech hindered Muslim Democratic was taken in agreement with Union is continuing plans children. The prison is not ter David Azoulay quit the its advance in the Senate. congressional candidate Defense Minister Avigdor to host the 2019 edition of equipped to handle young committee on Sunday His The proviso uses as its calls Israel ‘apartheid Liberman. Eurovision in Israel despite children, according to local resignation follows the res- template the State Depart- regime’ Kerem Shalom is the only accusations of plagiarism reports. ignations last week of the ment definition of anti- (JTA)—A Somali-Ameri- crossing for commercial against the song that won Sunglasses company committee chairwoman, Miri Semitism, which includes as can congressional candidate goods and the main crossing this year’s edition. holds a photo shoot at Regev, and Justice Minister anti-Semitic calls for violence running for the Democratic for humanitarian aid between The EBU told The Jerusa- Croatian Holocaust Ayelet Shaked. against Jews, advancing con- nomination in Minneso- Israel and Gaza. lem Post late last week that memorial Azoulay, of the Sephardic spiracy theories about Jewish ta called Israel “the apartheid On Monday, Netanyahu it considers accusations (JTA)—An Australian sun- Orthodox Shas party, re- control and Holocaust denial. Israeli regime.” called the closing “a signifi- against Israel’s song “Toy” glasses company that used signed following instructions It does not target speech, only Ilhan Omar’s tweet came in cant step.” as “baseless rumors.” a Holocaust memorial in from the party’s rabbinic unprotected conduct such as response to accusations that “There will be additional Songwriters Doron Med- Croatia for a photo shoot has leadership in order to prevent harassment, assault and van- a tweet she wrote in 2012, ac- steps,” he told the Knesset. alie and Stav Beger received removed its new advertising the committee from meeting, dalism, according to Stand- cusing Israel of “evil doings,” “I will not go into details.” a letter last week from the campaign and apologized to according to The Jerusalem amounts to anti-Semitism. Humanitarian aid, espe- Universal Music Group claim- a Jewish leader. Post. JTA on page 14A PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 13, 2018 their stolen credit cards and suggest I think otherwise is cording to the complaint, On Facebook, Vaisman Witnesses said the man JTA ATM cards while the other offensive and irresponsible.” the Borough of Woodcliff wrote: “New national re- accosted the Jewish children From page 13A two stayed behind. They also New Jersey borough Lake imposed a substantial cord! After 46 years, it was on the street, shouting anti- stole jewelry from the apart- discriminated against burden on Valley Chabad’s my turn, my opportunity Semitic profanities at them. WithUs, an Israel education ment. Orthodox congregation, religious freedom by repeat- and finally I did it. It’s hard Thirty minutes later he al- organization that operates on “Jews, you have money at federal lawsuit alleges edly meddling in its attempts to express all the feelings and legedly began harassing the college campuses. home, you do not put it in the (JTA)—The federal govern- to purchase property in the to show how excited I am, but family of a Jewish man from In a statement, Stand- bank,” one of the assailants ment is suing a New Jersey area and citing subjective now I’m just looking forward Zurich whom Blick identified WithUs praised Gov. Henry said during the attack. borough over allegations that and misleading reasons to and getting ready for my next only as Johnny T. He followed McMaster for signing the Hatri said that it was “for it improperly restricted an justify denying its zoning challenge.” the family, who were walk- proviso. my brothers in Palestine” Orthodox Jewish congrega- application.” Roth-Shahamorov said af- ing to synagogue with small “We need to define Anti- before suggesting they “gas” tion from expanding its house An attorney for Woodcliff ter the race that “A burden has children, from some distance Semitism in order to defeat their victims with teargas, of worship. Lake disputed the claims. been lifted off my shoulders,” while shouting and brandish- it,” said Roz Rothstein, the the French news service AFP The U.S. Attorney’s Office “There is no evidence The Jerusalem Post reported. ing a knife. group’s CEO. “Thankful- reported. filed a civil lawsuit against to support the claim that She told Vaisman at the When the family began ly, South Carolina is leading The men denied that they Woodcliff Lake, a Bergen borough officials did any- finish line: “You chose to do to run away from the man, the way.” had anti-Semitic motives in County suburb about 20 thing to interfere in the it here. Based on what I see, whose name was not pub- 3 who committed Paris- carrying out the attack. miles northwest of New attempts by Valley Chabad you can still improve. You lished, he lunged at them. A area anti-Semitic rape The incident sparked out- York City. to purchase other proper- have the legs to do it. Now passer-by, who was Jewish, and robbery are sen- rage in France’s Jewish As reported by NorthJer- ties,” Ronald Dario told give it everything you have intercepted the knife wielder tenced to prison community and came amid sey.com, the Valley Chabad NorthJersey.com. “In fact, in competition.” and subdued him until police (JTA)—Three men who a string of anti-Semitic at- congregation operated a the borough has attempted Vaisman, of Ashkelon, is arrived and the man was ar- committed an anti-Semitic tacks. 3,194-square-foot building to assist Valley Chabad by serving in the Israeli army. rested, the report said. rape and robbery in a Paris Illinois governor: ‘Vote on a 1.27-acre site since 1998, identifying other larger The world record for wom- A police spokesman, Marco suburb four years ago were for anybody’ but neo- often holding events off-site, plots that can easily ac- en in the 100 meters is 10.40 Cortesi, told the news web- sentenced in a French court. Nazi congressional as it claimed the site did not commodate their needs. set by American sprinter Flor- site: “A man approached the Two of the men, Abdou candidate meet its needs. For reasons unknown to ence Griffith-Joyner in 1988. Orthodox Jews and made Salam Koita, 26, and Ladje (JTA)—The governor of The congregation attempt- the borough, Valley Chabad At the ‘72 Olympics, 11 anti-Semitic remarks. He Haidara, 23, who commit- Illinois, who called on a ed to relocate at least three has walked away from other Israeli athletes and coaches carried a knife with him. He ted the rape in Creteil, were neo-Nazi candidate for a times since 2005, but could projects and failed to enter- were killed by Palestinian ter- was obviously very drunk.” sentenced to eight years and Chicago-area congressional not because of action by tain the idea of building on rorists in what has come to be The suspect is “neither a 13 years, respectively, on seat to drop out of the race, the borough council or its approved locations within called the Munich Massacre. Nazi nor an Islamist,” Cor- Friday. They were in court has called on voters to “vote members. the borough, which were Knife-wielding man tesi said. in Val-de-Marne, southeast for anybody” else. In 2014, the congregation in conformity with the threatens Swiss Jewish Jonathan Kreutner, sec- of Paris, when the sentences Last week, Republican Gov. applied to the borough zon- borough’s land use regula- family on way to syna- retary-general of the Swiss were announced. Bruce Rauner denounced ing board to raze its building tions.” gogue Federation of Jewish Com- A third man, Houssame Arthur Jones, also a Repub- and replace it one nearly Israeli sprinter breaks (JTA)—A man was arrested munities, in an interview Hatri, 22, remains on the lican and a former leader of six times larger. The board country’s record set at in the Swiss city of Zurich with Blick called the incident lam and was sentenced to the American Nazi Party, held 18 hearings, eventually 1972 Munich Olympics after allegedly threatening “startling.” 16 years. but declined to endorse suggesting six alternative JERUSALEM (JTA)—An Orthodox Jewish children “It is not commonplace for Two accomplices in cus- the opposing Democratic properties, before denying Israeli sprinter broke her and chasing a Jewish family Jews in Zurich to be threat- tody were sentenced to five candidate or recommend a the application, causing country’s women’s record in with a large knife. ened on the street in such a and six years in prison. write-in candidate for the 3rd Valley Chabad to lose money, the 100 meters set at the 1972 The incident, in which no manner,” Kreutner said. The court recognized the Congressional District seat. according to the lawsuit. Munich Olympics. one was injured, occurred Physical attacks on Jews anti-Semitic nature of the His response differed from “Federal law protects all Diana Vaisman, who will be Saturday night, the Blick are rare in Switzerland. 2014 attack on the young Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of religious communities from 20 at the end of the month, news website reported Sun- In 2011, a Jewish man was couple in an apartment. Texas, a former presidential discrimination and unlawful ran the race in 11.38 seconds day. The man was released stabbed in front of his family The attackers chose their candidate, who in a tweet had barriers when they seek to last week at the Israel Athletic the following day pending an near Geneva by a man who victims because they were called on Illinois voters to build a place of worship,” U.S. Championship in Tel Aviv investigation, the report said. was later found to be unfit sure they had money since “write in another candidate, Attorney Craig Carpenito to beat the time of 11.45 by Police said he “was obviously to stand trial because of a they are Jewish. The couple, or vote for the Democrat” said in a news release. “Ac- Esther Roth-Shahamorov. very drunk.” mental disability. aged 19 at the time, were running against Jones. staying at the apartment of On Thursday, Rauner clari- the man’s parents. fied in a tweet: “To the voters Occupation Haidara raped the woman of the 3rd Congressional From page 1A of the kibbutz movement are ‘It’s important to grapple aliyah has been worked into while another guarded her District: vote for anybody but taught each summer to its with everything Israel is’ the movement’s educational boyfriend inside the apart- Arthur Jones. Nazis have no responsible and who isn’t,’ more than 1,100 campers in During the upcoming camp programming. ment. The third went out to place in our country and no but that this story is a part North America, with the old- staff week before the kids ‘How we’re coming at the withdraw the couple’s money one should vote for him. For of us—something that we est age group (10th-graders) arrive, Goldstein said he issue to begin with’ Anya from a cash machine with the media or anyone else to can choose to be responsible spending their last “camp” would be helping to clarify Friedman-Hutter, who re- for in terms of how we want year in Israel. The Israel and reclarify the organiza- cently wrote an article about

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Israel to look as young Jews. summer comprises a North tion’s Zionist priorities with her experience in Hadassah H O L D A R I D P L E B E We want that to be an au- American kvutza (age group) camp staff, noting that the magazine, explained why she 14 15 16 thentic responsibility, to give of approximately 100 campers topic comes up biannually at decided to embark on aliyah. A L O E L E I A H A M A N perspectives on the conflict drawn from Camp Miriam the organization’s national “From my first years at Camp 17 18 19 M E S S I A N I C I C I L Y in age and developmentally in Vancouver, Camp Gilboa meetings. Galil [in Ottsville, Pa.], I 20 21 22 23 appropriate ways.” in California, Camp Gesher “We will be having a conver- learned about hagshamah [re- S H E I K H E N T E A “I want to be perfectly clear in Ontario, Camp Moshava sation with our staff in terms alization, fulfillment]—that 24 25 26 27 G E E J A N E T that any nightmarish vision of in Maryland, Camp Tavor in of what our Zionist education if I cared about something, I 28 29 30 31 32 33 11- and 12-year-old campers Michigan and Camp Galil is,” he said, “and it is certainly had to turn my feelings and R O N A L D O U G H N U T S learning about the horrors of in Pennsylvania. A smaller a part of those conversations dreams into actions. After 34 35 36 C A V S I E S A T T I C the occupation all day long program in this same kvutza every year.” years of leadership positions at 37 38 39 40 41 is simply untrue. Campers spend their summer in North “If we want young people the camp and working for the A N A P E L E I N S I T A come in with varying levels America. to be taking responsibility for movement, I decided to form 42 43 44 45 A G R E E P R O A C A B of knowledge, some who have The camps are noteworthy Israel, its present and future, a garin [aliyah-bound collec- 46 47 48 49 lived in Israel for all of their in that they operate fully as [and] if we want youth to lead tive] with my age cohort.” N E Y M A R C H E S H V A N lives, and some who may “kibbutz” experiences, with the way in ways that honors Friedman-Hutter’s edu- 50 51 U S E R S H U E not be able to point to Israel each camper having a anaf the Herzlian dream or the cational mission, as she 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 on the map. We offer these “work group” as part of their chalutzim [“pioneers”] and refers to it, is to work in the N B A A S A G R A I N campers the building blocks responsibilities each day, such chalutzot in the early years local branch of the youth 60 61 62 63 64 65 A A R O N B E C K H A M S A to understand the complexi- as taking care of animals, gar- before the State of Israel was organization HaNoar HaOved 66 67 68 ties of Israel’s reality. dening, cleaning bathrooms established, it’s important VeHaLomed, Habonim Dror’s S L E P T B R A G G E L T “These campers will learn or serving meals. Songs and to grapple with everything sister movement in Israel. Af- 69 70 71 A M A S S Y A P S E X E S about the different groups idealized stories about Labor Israel is, which includes the ter the decline of the kibbutz that live in Israel and the Pal- Zionism, socialist revolutions conflict,” he said. movement in the 1990s, as a estinian territories, and their and past struggles of the Jew- Goldstein explained that way of continuing the legacy, relationships to one another. ish people are taught along Habonim Dror’s immersive HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed Education about the conflict with the histories behind experience is unlike other began exploring alternate and the military occupation them. camping movements, par- life paths for its members, is a component of the Zionist Habonim Dror’s alumni ticularly in how Jewishness which had been focused on education that we offer; it is engagement numbers are im- and Judaism is experienced. settling kibbutzim in garinim certainly not the only Zionist pressive; most alumni exhibit “One of the more powerful after their army service. The education that we offer,” said a strong regard for Israel even ways in which kids experience Habonim Dror model now fol- Goldstein. years after their experience in Judaism is not through prac- lows the HaNoar model, which Hebrew, (colloquially) for the movement. A 2013 study tice, but the feeling of being started to be put forward when “the builders of freedom,” by Professor Steven M. Cohen part of a people—through graduates of the movement Habonim Dror is a socialist, and Steven Fink found that 85 speaking Hebrew, through formed small urban com- Labor Zionist movement that percent of the 2,000 Habonim learning about Zionism munes working in society, originated in Europe in the Dror alumni surveyed had and Israel, and Jewish com- particularly in education. early 20th century. In 1982, visited Israel more than once, munities throughout the “We teach the respon- Habonim, originally founded and 70 percent have lived in world, and through learning sibility to lead the Jewish in 1929 in England, merged Israel for at least five months. about the countries around people and the right to self- with Dror, founded in Poland Some 49 percent were found to the world that have active determination, the Jewish in 1915. have contributed financially Habonim Dror movements,” people being able to actualize Both organizations’ rich and regularly to a Jewish- he said. what we have set out to do in histories as partners in the sponsored or Israel-related In fact, Goldstein said, in terms of creating a peaceful, initial wave, and now modern organization that promotes recent years, the thought- just society based on equality,” aliyah stories, and the birth social change. to-action concept of making Goldstein concluded. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 13, 2018 PAGE 15A Harriett loved clothes, years ago. “I found him. He a “hopeless swamp.” Martin always approachable, al- Cultural Auditorium at The Lake but she also had a strong was so poor I almost didn’t Marietta paid $1 million for ways charitable, kind, and Roth Family JCC in Maitland; From page 1A core. In 1943 she enlisted marry him.” the property, now part of dressed to the nines. She in the Harriett Performance in the Marines and was Hy and Harriett married the Lockheed Martin site. often came to the Heritage Hall at Mad Cow Theatre in ran a Red Light District and stationed as a payroll clerk in 1950 and moved into In 1962, Harriett and Hy on Fridays dressed fashion- downtown Orlando; in the she would buy high-style in California. After her a single-room efficiency. moved to Orlando with their ably head to toe to pick up Harriett Lake Costume Shop clothes from New York every enlistment, she moved to Their financial picture children, Michael and Shel- her copy of the Heritage. at the University of Central season—fur coats, grey flan- Florida, where she met Hy soon improved, though, as ley, who survive her. Always stopping to say hello Florida; and at Harriett’s Bar, nel suits. I mean they were on the steps of a synagogue Hy bought and sold land “You just never know what to Jeff Gaeser, publisher, and at the Lowndes Shakespeare drop-dead-call-out-the-cops in Miami Beach. throughout Florida. His first tomorrow will bring. Life’s the staff. Center. gorgeous these clothes,” Har- “I moved to Miami in 1948 big sale was a tract off Tur- an adventure,” she said at Now the Lake’s name will Funeral arrangements are riett unabashedly shared with searching for a husband,” she key Lake Road in south Or- that time. always be remembered in entrusted to Beth Shalom a laugh. said jokingly to this writer lando that Harriett deemed That was Harriett Lake— the Harriett & Hymen Lake Memorial Chapel.

Vote From page 5A sober and proud to give a Truman that if a Jewish state Bronx Democratic leader Ed apathy to lynching, restric- In 1920, they threw out two deserved slap in the face to were proclaimed without U.S. Flynn and former New York tive immigration policy, Democrat Jewish congress- in New York in the 1940s and the Democrats in the run up recognition, Republicans, the governor Herbert Lehman, attendance at a special fes- men and elected 10 Repub- 50s. Jews, from the time of the to the presidential election of left leaning American Labor warning about the electoral tive showing of the racist licans and two Socialists to first post-Civil War election 1948 in spite of their idealiza- Party and the newly formed repercussions in New York film “Birth of a Nation” in Congress. This information until 1932 traditionally voted tion of FDR. By early 1948, leftwing Progressive Party if he abandoned the Jews. the White House, sympathy that no ethnic vote is cast in Republican or even Socialist Truman had been cowed by under former Vice President A Congressional vote in the for the Ku Klux Klan and stone hasn’t yet been absorbed rather than for the party his State Department advisers Henry Wallace would lead a Bronx had already unseated promotion of the notorious by Jewish dinosaurs who can identified in large parts of the to abandon the partition pro- chorus of protests and capture a veteran Jewish Democrat to sedition laws (‘red scares’) swallow any insult and pro- country until the 1960s with posal for Palestine and were the Jewish vote. The admin- fill a vacant seat and Truman in which thousands of East claim that black is white, in- Sunday “blue laws,” discrimi- preparing to announce that istration would pay a high realized he had to make good European and Jewish im- sulting Israel’s elected leader nation against blacks, and U.S. preferred “international political price in Jewish votes on his original pledge of parti- migrants were deported and or that Jewish values mean segregation. I knew this from trusteeship”– meaning no for it is especially important tion and recognition of Israel. imprisoned for their stand same-sex marriage and un- my father’s own experience. Jewish state. in the upcoming presidential Under Democrat President against American entry into limited abortion as long as the Even as late as 1948, Ameri- White House adviser Max election. Truman received Wilson, with his dismissal the war, caused a revulsion democrats have proclaimed can Jews were still sufficiently Lowenthal urgently warned crucial phone calls from of blacks from federal jobs, among Jewish voters. that it is “progressive.” Financing From page 7A funds. In the United States, law, a review of the Palestin- presentation will be made as against the P.A. in court. This decades of incitement and the State Department must ian budget line items and to whether the payments have represents the truest form of terror financing. tralia also announced it would provide evidence that the pay- payment scheme must take halted or not. If not, funds can justice: to take the funds once Israel has two men to thank withhold funds from the P.A. ment scheme remains in place place at the end of each cal- be withheld in February. designated for the murderers for taking these legislative European nations may soon for the funds to be withheld. endar year. According to this Gerber, Force and the and to provide them instead steps: Sander Gerber and do the same. According to the Taylor Force provision—unless a stricter backers of the Israeli law are to the victims. Stuart Force. May the memory The issues now relate to the Act, that discovery process interpretation of the law is de- pushing for any funds with- Both the U.S. and Israeli of Stuart’s and Robbi’s son, implementation and enforce- needs to begin now, some 90 manded—Israel will continue held to be paid out to the laws represent the first ma- Taylor, be a blessing for peace ment of the laws, as well as days after the law’s passage. to send the monthly payments victims of Palestinian terror jor steps in holding the P.A. and comfort to all victims of what to do with the withheld According to the Israeli until the start of 2019, when a who have secured judgements accountable for nearly three Palestinian terror. Love From page 10A Jewish children who survived Tedje was 12 when her twined is probably connected children: “We’ve tried not to asked her to stop because it in hiding while their entire father and sister were taken to their uprooting during the pin an Auschwitz identity on made her “uncomfortable.” It children, their love for each families were murdered in to the Westerbork concen- war,” Minderaa says. Their them. We tried not to be like reminded her of the tattoo of other “was so strong, so the Holocaust. tration camp, and later to apparent inability to be with- those people who always talk a number that the Nazis gave intense” when the kids were “We had, of course, lost Auschwitz. She was arrested out one another “feels like about the persecution, about her at Auschwitz. growing up “that there was everyone,” Meijer says in the later and asked to be sent a solution to their problem Auschwitz.” Ruben, the couple’s son, actually no space for anyone documentary, which was there, too. But she was sent to of not belonging anywhere But as with many Holocaust became a rabbi but moved else between them. Not even produced by the Jewish pro- another camp, and from there anymore. They ground one survivors whose entire family to Zurich. their children,” Mirjam says. gramming division of the EO to Auschwitz. Her mother had another.” was murdered, moving for- “In Dutch Jewry there’s a But what begins as a docu- public broadcaster. “Almost died before the Holocaust, Meijer says he used to feel ward from the Holocaust has constant preoccupation with mentary about the effects of all of us were orphans; we lost when Tedje was 8. the need to “offset the pain proven to be an uphill battle. the Holocaust that I found an unusual family relation- our entire families.” In one of the many articles caused to his wife.” But, he “It felt like every night suffocating and needed to ship evolves into an explora- He hid in the attic of his written in the mainstream adds, the desire is “naive.” around the dinner table, get away from. Synagogues tion into the tragic root of Amsterdam home when the media about the film, its “It’s not something I could Auschwitz was sitting with us weren’t destroyed the same the special bond between the Nazis took away his sister maker, Heleen Minderaa, told hope to do, I realize now that at the table for a bite to eat,” way there,” he says of Swit- spouses—and the tragedy’s and parents; they all would the NRC Handeslblad daily I am old,” he says. Mirjam says. Birthday par- zerland, which the Germans effects on at least two genera- be murdered. Meijer and his that being alone in the world Mirjam, the couple’s ties featured “a five-minute did not occupy. “It feels more tions of Dutch Jews. older brother survived the had a defining effect on the daughter, sees their part- talk about the weather, three comfortable.” Formally, the home where rest of the war hiding north relationship between Meijer nership as a pact. minutes about food and for Back in Amsterdam, Meijer the couple met was a high of Amsterdam. His greatest and Tedje, whose real name “They agreed that they the rest it was the war.” and Tedje give talks at school school called GICOL, for regret in life is not being able is Rika. (Her father had nick- were moving forward and At least once a week, Mei- about the Holocaust. those whose secondary ed- to save his sister, as he says named her his “teddy bear,” were going to make some- jer would note the birthday “It’s not a happy story I’m ucation was interrupted in the documentary. a nickname she adopted in thing good out of it all,” she of some relative who was about to tell you,” Meijer tells because of World War II. “We had no home, nothing. adulthood, introducing her- says. “They promised that to murdered. the students in his introduc- In reality, however, it func- No one we had known was self as Tedje.) one another.” When Mirjam painted on tion. “But it does have a happy tioned as an orphanage for alive,” he says. “How they became inter- Meijer says of his two her arm once, her mother end. We’re the happy end.” Writer From page 12A she was born on Jan Luijken pro-Nazi milkman reported leave for Israel when she was week. Up north in Groningen, But with time, she said, Street, around the corner the family to the police, she 5 years old. She attended the the synagogue is a museum her attitude softened. She whose diary became one of from the Van Gogh Museum, said. As the Nazis banged on Rosj Pina Jewish School in with a souvenir shop selling recently honored the Dekker the world’s best-known testi- with a film crew from the the front door, Miriam’s highly Amsterdam in one of the wine and kosher products family (“the good side, that is,” monials from the Holocaust, Israel Broadcasting Corp. pregnant mother jumped with first classes opened after the from Israel. And in Deventer she said) by planting a tree in may have been betrayed with Before going there, she met her son over a fence to disap- Holocaust. in the east, a 207-year-old their honor in Israel. her family. with Henk and Wisje Dekker, pear in the maze of gardens Her class had only seven stu- synagogue is being turned “It’s true that many col- In that atmosphere, it was Simon and Ewert’s nonage- that was the building’s inte- dents—all of them child sur- into a restaurant following laborated. But many non-Jews imperative that a baby born narian siblings. rior yard. vivors of the 140,000-member its sale to a Dutch-Turkish also suffered, some for helping at a resistance safe house, Ewert, her rescuer, died a “I can’t believe my mother Jewish community that lived entrepreneur. Jews,” she said. “They went like Miriam Dubi-Gazan, few years ago, she learned. lived through all of that,” in the Netherlands before “I grew up with a lot of to concentration and labor have papers. Anyone caught As did Simon, a former high Dubi-Gazan said in the room, the war. anger toward the Dutch,” said camps and their children, with an undocumented baby school teacher who imme- visibly moved. But after a Today’s Dutch Jewish Dubi-Gazan, who has two I’ve come to discover, were risked a Gestapo interroga- diately after World War II few minutes she was ready community, estimated at daughters. “I wasn’t raised to scarred by that experience as tion that was liable not only left the Netherlands amid to leave. 45,000, is heavily con- think of this place as home.” deeply as I was.” to end with the dispatch the authorities’ sweep to “I want to get out of here. centrated in Amsterdam, to Auschwitz of the baby catch and punish Nazi col- Let’s go, this is enough now,” where it has several cultural and her parents, but to the laborators. she said as she climbed up centers and synagogues, as exposure of the resistance In the half-light of an over- from the cellar. well as an elementary and cell that hid them, she cast morning, Dubi-Gazan After the Holocaust, her secondary school. 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Pinch of cayenne, or to taste minutes, or until the mango Add an extra chili and a bigger 3 tablespoons brown sugar, has softened and the liquid pinch of cayenne if you can or to taste (or substitute with has slightly reduced. Turn off take the heat. your preferred sweetener) the heat and add the vinegar I like amba that is a little 1 cup water to the mango mixture. Taste thick with small chunks of 1/2 cup white vinegar and adjust to your liking by mango, but if you like yours Directions: adding more vinegar, sugar, smoother and thinner, purée 1. Peel your mangoes, then salt or spices if needed. it until smooth and add water slice the fruit around the pit. 4. Using an immersion to thin it out to your desired Dice the mango into small blender or blender, puree the consistency. cubes; they do not have to mango to the desired con- As versatile as it is delicious, be even or perfect. Add the sistency. I like mine a little amba is unlike any other diced mango to a large non- chunky with about half of hot sauce. In our home we reactive bowl. Add the salt the mango pieces still intact. especially like to have it on to the mango and toss until If you would like your amba hand during the summer- everything is well-coated. smoother, purée it for longer Sonya Sanford time because it goes great Cover the bowl and refriger- and add water to thin it out. Amba goes great with just about any grilled protein: chicken, steak, tofu or fish. with just about any grilled ate for 1 day. Note that amba will thicken protein: chicken, steak, tofu 2. After the mango has slightly as it cools. By Sonya Sanford seed, turmeric, chili and fenu- but you might want to make or fish. It’s also nice to have cured in the fridge, over 5. Once cooled, transfer the greek. Fenugreek, an herb amba when you don’t have for a grain bowl topping. Amba medium-low heat add oil to amba to jars and refrigerate. (The Nosher via JTA)—If that is often used in Indian, access to five sunny days in a added to some yogurt with a a large pot or deep sauté pan. Amba keeps well in the fridge you’ve been to a falafel or Persian, Turkish and Middle row—or you just don’t want little lemon juice also makes Add the mustard seeds to the for about 2-3 weeks. Makes shwarma stand in Israel, then Eastern cooking, has a unique to wait that long. a perfect dip for vegetables or oil, and when they begin to 3 pints. you have probably heard of maple syrup-like aroma and Inspired by the techniques pita chips. Amba adds a tangy, make popping sounds, add Sonya Sanford is a chef, amba. It’s a spiced pickled can add an herbacious sweet- of many home cooks, I decided fruity pop of heat to any dish. the finely minced garlic and food stylist, and writer based mango condiment whose ness to a dish. to make a quicker-pickled Ingredients: diced chili. Sauté until soft- out of Los Angeles. popularity in Israel comes by Traditionally, amba is amba. You still salt the mango, 3 pounds, or 4 large firm ened and fragrant, but before The Nosher food blog offers way of the Iraqi Jewish com- made by slicing and salting and you let it sit in that salt unripened mangoes anything begins to brown, a dazzling array of new and munity. This flavorful condi- green mangoes and placing overnight, but that’s the 3 tablespoons kosher salt about 2-3 minutes. Add the classic Jewish recipes and food ment is commonly found in them in a jar in the sun to extent of the wait time. The 3 tablespoons oil remaining spices: turmeric, news, from Europe to Yemen, Iraq and across the Middle ferment for five days. After- cured mango then gets cooked 6 cloves garlic, finely minced fenugreek, coriander, cumin from challah to shakshuka East, as well as in India. In ward, the mango is removed with a variety of spices and 1 medium Fresno chili, seeded and cayenne. Stir and sauté for and beyond. Check it out fact, amba originated in India, from the jar and left to dry aromatics, and finally vinegar and diced fine, or to taste an additional minute. at www.TheNosher.com. and the word means mango in sunlight for three to four is added in Marathi. hours. Once dried, the mango Amba is ideally made with You can find countless reci- is simmered with spices and green, unripe mangoes, which pes and variations for amba, then jarred for use. You’ll can be tricky to find. For this Ukrainian general implies but the main and required definitely get a deeper fla- recipe any mango will work, ingredient is mango. Most vor if you allow for longer but it is best to use ones that recipes also include mustard fermentation of the mango, are firm and not fully ripe. Jews want bloodshed By Cnaan Liphshiz always a Parvus. They want EU military official who sug- to do the same to Ukraine.” gested Jews wanted to drown (JTA)—A Ukrainian mili- Efraim Zuroff, Eastern the country in blood would be tary prosecutor suggested Europe director for the Simon removed immediately,” Katz that Jews seek bloodshed in Wiesenthal Center, called wrote, adding, “And you do his country, prompting calls Matios’ claims “outrageous want to join the EU, right?” for his dismissal by the Simon and false.” Whereas Matios and Matios’ “incitement of ha- Wiesenthal Center and others. other communist leaders were tred against Jews,” as Zuroff Col. Gen. Anatoliy Matios, Jewish, “they weren’t acting called it, “is part and parcel Ukraine’s chief military pros- as Jews. Their inspiration was of a bigger problem, which ecutor and a highly decorated in Moscow, not Jerusalem.” is the resurgence of virulent officer who also holds the title Matios “need to be fired,” he anti-Semitism in Ukraine,” of deputy prosecutor-general said. Zuroff said the “anti- he said. of Ukraine, spoke about at Semitic implication from Last year, the number least one Jew in an interview Matios’ words are undeniable.” of anti-Semitic incidents that the Insider magazine On Twitter, Dovid Katz, a recorded in Ukraine doubled published Monday. In it, he prominent activist against from 2016 to more than 130 named a communist Jewish anti-Semitism in Lithuania cases, according to a report by theoretician, Alexander Par- and Eastern Europe, won- Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora ENDORSED BY COMMUNITY LEADERS vus, and said the revolution dered whether “there is any Affairs. The tally for Ukraine Parvus supported “drenched chance” that Ukraine’s presi- surpassed the number for Slavs with blood for decades.” dent and government “would all the incidents reported Noting Parvus’ Jewish eth- consider, you know, firing throughout the entire region Gary Siegel, Esq. nicity, Matios said: “There is this madman? Any senior combined, the report said. Attorney and Former State Senator representing Orange County. Plaque honoring SS officer unveiled in Estonia Bill Segal By Cnaan Liphshiz There is no evidence that The celebration was for Rabane was involved in the the June 23, 1941, uprising Businessman and Former Orange County (JTA)—A town in Estonia murder of Jews, Alla Jakobson, staged by the Lithuanian Ac- unveiled a plaque honoring the chairwoman for the Jewish tivist Front. Many scholars of Commissioner representing District 5. a Waffen SS officer, spurring Community of Estonia, told the Holocaust say this was the protests from the Jewish com- JTA. But men who served in beginning of the Holocaust in munity. “an organization recognized Lithuania, in which locals, A nonprofit unveiled the as a criminal by the Nurem- some affiliated with the plaque in Mustla for the lo- berg International Tribunal,” Lithuanian Activist Front, Corey Cohen, Esq. cal Nazi collaborator Alfons she said of the SS, “is hardly began butchering Jews even Rebane, who fought with worthy of commemoration.” before the German troops Attorney and Former President of the Seminole the Germans against the Separately, in Lithuania, arrived to wipe out nearly the Russians as part of the Nazi the official website of Vil- entire Jewish population of County Bar Association. armed force. nius, the country’s capital that country with help from Across Eastern Europe, city, advertised a nationalist collaborators. collaborators with the Nazis, group’s motorcycle parade The Defending History including perpetrators of the through the old city last week group, which monitors Ho- VOTE AUGUST 28TH OR BY MAIL Holocaust, are celebrated as to celebrate a rebellion led by locaust distortion in Eastern heroes, often for their fight a militia that was responsible Europe, on its website called against what many in the for spreading anti-Semitic lit- the parade a show of “extraor- Political Advertisment Paid for and Approved by the Committee to Re-Elect Adam McGinnis, region consider Soviet oc- erature and then killing many dinary insensitivity” by the Non Partisan for Orange County Judge Group 11 cupation. Jews during World War II. city authorities.