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$1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2017 | 6 KISLEV 5778 VOL. XLV NO. 2332 Palestinian Authority Rutgers President Defends Professors Threatens to Sever Blasted for Comments Communication on Israel, Jews With Trump Admin BY SHIRI MOSHE

Th e president of Rutgers University in New Jersey defended the free speech rights of three faculty members who have recently come under intense criticism for their comments on Israel and Jews. Speaking in a town hall sponsored by the Rutgers student government on Th ursday, President Robert Barchi noted ongoing media attention focused on Michael Chikindas, a microbiology professor who published multiple antisemitic, homophobic and misogynistic social

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Photo: Kremlin.ru via Wikimedia Commons.

Th e College Avenue campus of Rutgers University in New Jersey. Photo: Tomwsulcer. BY JNS.ORG Saturday declined to renew the Secretary of State Rex operating permission for the PLO’s Tillerson informed the Palestinians media posts; Jasbir Puar, a women’s studies professor whose Th e Palestinian Authority offi ce for the fi rst time since the that the decision came in response latest book accuses Israel of injuring Palestinians “in order (PA) threatened on Saturday to 1980s. PA chief negotiator Saeb to statements made by Abbas at the to control them”; and Mazen Adi, an adjunct professor of sever communication with the Erekat called the move “very unfor- United Nations General Assembly international law who accused Israeli offi cials of traffi cking children’s organs while serving as a spokesperson for the Trump administration if the U.S. tunate and unacceptable,” and in September, when the PA regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. follows through with a threat to accused the Trump administration leader called on the International Barchi began his address by illustrating the diff erence of capitulating to Israeli pressure. Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute shutter the offi ce of the Palestine between free speech and harassment, noting that placing “a Liberation Organization (PLO) in “Th e United States is losing Israeli offi cials. American law swastika on the side of a building on campus” would not be Washington, DC. its position as a negotiator,” said specifi es that the PLO mission in a violation of the First Amendment, even if it might breach Th e Palestinian threat came Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for Washington should be shuttered if after the US State Department on PA President Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinians initiate legal action Continued on Page A3 Haaretz reported. Continued on Page A3

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members of the Knesset — representing a all time no matter where Kushner, larger group of legislators that come from six Greenblatt and Saudi Crown Prince JONATHAN S. TOBIN different parties that are in and outside Prime Mohammed bin Salman draw the Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government borders between the two states, how JNS.ORG — to Washington to meet with several like- much of Jerusalem the Palestinians minded members of Congress to promote the receive, how many descendants concept of an Israeli victory in the long conflict of the 1948 refugees are allowed What are the details of the Middle East rather than a self-defeating compromise. The to “return” to Israel or even how peace plan that President Donald Trump will launch of a joint #IsraelVictory caucus at the much money is thrown at them. use to craft what he hopes is the “ultimate Capitol Hill gathering is a small step and, That’s because the Palestinians’ deal?” Sometime in the next few months, they as of yet, hasn’t influenced the administra- national identity as a people is still will be unveiled as part of an effort to revive tion’s thinking. But the gathering, which was inextricably bound up in a futile the dead-in-the-water peace process between sponsored by the Middle East Forum think century-old war on Zionism that its Israel and the Palestinians. Though we’ll have tank, is a long overdue effort to promote a people have been taught to think to wait and see what exactly is in the proposal concept Kushner and company ought to be they will eventually win. being cooked up by a team led by presidential thinking about. At various times, the PA has Jason Greenblatt with US President Donald Trump. son-in-law Jared Kushner and chief negotiator Trump’s team is likely to embrace an declared a willingness to accept Photo: Twitter. “outside-in” strategy in which Arab states, peace. Yet every such gesture has Jason Greenblatt, the only two things that that simple. Once the Palestinians concede principally the Saudis, will use their influ- been undermined by its cradle-to-grave incite- seem certain are that it is likely to be accept- the war is lost rather than being paused and ence and money to pressure the Palestinians ment that promotes a culture of hatred for able to Saudi Arabia and that it will have zero put aside their dreams of a world without a into finally accepting a two-state solution. Israel and Jews, and makes new rounds of chance of success. Jewish state, compromise would be possible. In return, the US would get the Netanyahu bloodshed inevitable. The history of the last 24 That’s why instead of merely repeating But if the compromises precede acknowl- government to agree to terms that are likely years of negotiations since the Oslo Accords the mistakes of its predecessors, the Trump edgement of an Israeli victory, then all the to largely resemble past plans floated by the shows that peace is impossible so long as the team should try a paradigm shift that will Jewish state will be doing is trading land for Obama, Bush and Clinton administrations. Palestinians still hold onto hope of eventually predicate peace on a simple concept: the more terror, not peace. Trump may think the missing ingredient winning this war. As with every other conflict, Palestinians have to admit they’ve lost their The Trump team may not be listening for peace has been the absence of a master this one will only be settled when one side war on Zionism. Avoiding this admission in to the #IsraelVictory caucus as it hatches its dealmaker, but this scheme has no more admits defeat and that is something no one, not order to mollify them or their supporters or plans. But if the White House ignores the basic chance of working than the efforts of his even a Trump team that appears to be more concentrating, as every US administration has truths the caucus proclaims, it will be wasting predecessors. realistic about Palestinian behavior and inten- done, on pressuring Israel to make conces- its time and making the next round of violence The reason is that the essential element tions than past administrations, seems willing sions, merely makes it impossible for the more, rather than less likely. for peace is still missing. The Palestinians are to force them to do. Palestinians to accept the sea change in their Jonathan S. Tobin is opinion editor still stuck in a mindset that rejects Israel’s Critics of the #IsraelVictory idea mock political culture that is the only thing that will of JNS.org and a contributing writer for legitimacy. The Palestinian Authority (PA) its simplicity. But generations of would-be make peace on any terms possible. National Review. Follow him on Twitter at: won’t accept a deal that ends the conflict for peacemakers have forgotten that it really is It was this idea that brought two @jonathans_tobin. Why Was My Voice Silenced at the University of Michigan?

petition against Israel. Nineteen other faculty therefore had to be prevented. Thus, we were the in various departments, mostly tenured and treated to a surreal spectacle where a commu- Algemeiner Journal VICTOR B. LIEBERMAN some very senior, signed the statement of nity activist from Detroit who knows nothing MICHIGAN support for UMDivest. If none of these profes- about Middle East history or politics, and who (USPS 927800) is published weekly sors spoke on November 14, it’s because they has no connection to the UM was allowed (except for the week of Passover weren’t interested, or UMDivest didn’t ask to speak for at least half an hour — but a UM and Succos) them. Neither condition reflects a “structural professor who teaches the subject was not Subscription rate $40 per year On November 14, the Central Student power imbalance” within the university. allowed to speak for ten minutes. Third, UMDivest also could have enlisted Censorship is the instinctive preference Algemeiner Journal Government (CSG) at the University of Michigan (UM) passed a BDS resolu- outside academics or regional specialists, as of people who “know” in advance that there 508 Montgomery Street tion against Israel, as reported by the The they have in past years. The ready availability is only one truth, and believe that enter- Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225-3023 Algemeiner. Early in the session, many of such speakers for both sides argues further taining alternate viewpoints is a waste of time. against the view that institutional factors “Objective discourse” means a discourse that Periodicals Postage members of the CSG successfully moved to forbid UM history professor Victor prevented a level playing field. excludes views they don’t like. Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. In short, one side made better use of This is a position unworthy of a univer- and at additional mailing offices Lieberman from speaking during the debate. What follows is an open letter from opportunities equally accessible to both. sity whose raison d’etre is to promote the Imagine that the Michigan football team unfettered flow of ideas. It also runs counter POSTMASTER: Professor Lieberman to the CSG. showed up to play OSU, but OSU hadn’t to a lifetime of my own research and teaching, Send address changes to On November 14, the [University of Michigan] Central Student Government voted bothered to practice. OSU therefore claimed which has always emphasized the open- Algemeiner Journal to prevent me from delivering a carefully that the game would be “unfair” unless the ended interplay between divergent historical P.O. Box 250746 prepared talk on divestment from Israel. referee barred Michigan’s starting running interpretations. Uncertainty is what makes Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225 -3023 The argument against my speaking was back from playing — and the referee agreed. intellectual life exciting. Unfortunately the that “a structural power imbalance” within Would that be equitable? intolerance that was on display on November the university militates against the views of Obviously, the real motive for preventing 14 is part of a growing climate of intolerance Let your voice be heard! UMDivest, which could only be rectified by me from speaking was UMDivest’s fear that that has led to the shutting down of speakers [email protected] removing me from the discussion. it lacked effective counter-arguments, and on college campuses across the country. This argument cannot withstand scrutiny that I might sway the vote. Free discussion Irony of ironies: while student repre- for three reasons. First, it was claimed that junior sentatives spoke in favor of silencing me, To advertise in faculty who speak against Israel risk being fired. UMDivest supporters in the audience waved signs that read “Do Not Silence Me.” In fact, no junior faculty have ever been fired for the new Algemeiner expressing political views, and such views have The fact that the CSG debate was e-mail: [email protected] no bearing whatsoever on tenure or promotion. conducted under censorship can hardly have Second, UMDivest could have engaged weakened the university’s decision to ignore or call senior faculty to speak on their behalf. In my the CSG resolution. department alone, there are six senior profes- Victor Lieberman is a Raoul Wallenberg 718-771-0400 Distinguished University Professor of History sors publicly critical of Israel, four of whom Michigan Stadium, at the University of and Professor of Asian and Comparative History signed an American Historical Association Michigan, Ann Arbor. Photo: Ken Lund. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2017 A3 World News. French Socialist Party Kurdish Parliamentarian: Expels Gérard Filoche Iran-Backed Forces Persecuting Christians BY BEN COHEN Filoche declared. “Read how the capitalists put Hitler in power. Capitalism is competition The French politician at the center of a — it’s competition, it’s violence. ” row over an antisemitic tweet was expelled Filoche then played down the scale of from the country’s Socialist Party (PS) on his offense, protesting that he had “inadver- Tuesday, hours after he found himself in tently let a tweet pass for 40 minutes before a furious exchange with a presenter on an I removed it.” The tweet was originally posted Israeli TV channel. to his account by a member of the PS staff, Gérard Filoche — a leading labor unionist whom Filoche claimed had noticed “only the and member of the National Bureau of former references to Macron and money.” Cabana President Francois Hollande’s recently- responded that, in her view, his excuse was ousted PS — sparked outrage across France barely credible, snapping at Filoche that he with a tweet he posted last Friday promoting was “either a fool or a bastard!” classical antisemitic conspiracy theories. Former French Prime Minister Manuel The tweet showed newly-elected French Valls was among those demanding the expul- President Emmanuel Macron wearing a sion of Filoche from the PS in the run-up to Nazi armband with the swastika altered to a the party’s official announcement on Tuesday. Hashd al-Shaabi fighters in Iraq.Photo: File. dollar sign. Looming behind Macron were Party secretary David Assouline said on three leading French Jews — the economist Twitter that the National Bureau had voted to BY BEN COHEN 40,000, who remain in his home town. Jacques Attali, the investor Patrick Drahi, and unanimously to sever Filoche’s membership, “The situation of these areas is getting worse day by day,” the refugee, Amir Yaqu, the banker Jacob Rothschild — flanked by declaring that “antisemitism is incompatible Iran-backed Shia paramilitary forces said. “The Hashd al-Shaabi forces are the American and Israeli flags. Filoche added with our core values.” operating in northern Iraq have been accused by a Kurdish parliamentarian of engaging in systematically trying to change the Christian as a comment, “A dirty guy, as all the French “The expulsion of Filoche from the PS has “flagrant injustice” toward Christians in the demography of these places. They have started people will know soon enough.” been in the making for a long time,” Valls said. region which until earlier this year was in the to operate sectarian schools in churches and On Monday — after separate announce- “It took an unspeakable and antisemitic tweet grip of ISIS terrorists. religious centers.” ments from Attali and French Jewish to launch the process of expelling him.” Wahida Yaqo Hormuz — a Christian One school, named after Ayatollah organization CRIF that they would be Meanwhile, senior PS leader and former representative in the parliament of the Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s pursuing legal action against Filoche, as party secretary Jean-Christophe Cambadélis Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) 1979 Islamic Revolution, had left Chris- well as confirmation from the PS that it was announced he could no longer defend Filoche’s — said she had alerted the Vatican and inter- tians “very much upset,” Yaqo Hormuz, the preparing to expel him for his “inexcusable” continued membership of the party, explaining, national human rights groups to what she Kurdish parliamentarian, said. “We informed tweet — the embattled far-left figurehead “Today the disagreement is not political, it is called the “Shia-ification” of the Nineveh our representatives in Kurdistan and Iraq became embroiled in an angry argument on ethical; we cannot compromise on ethics.” Plains, where the northern Iraqi city of Mosul immediately,” she added. Israeli TV channel i24. One of the organizations in France is located. Conquered by ISIS in 2014, Iraqi On Monday, meanwhile, Hashd al-Shaabi Filoche and presenter Anna Cabana to have leapt to Filoche’s defense is the government forces retook the city in July. denied that it had withdrawn from two key spoke over each other for much of the Trotskyist New Anti-Capitalist Party (NAP), “This is a flagrant injustice done to Chris- regions in Nineveh. Kurdish Peshmerga exchange, as she became increasingly a leading advocate of the BDS movement in tians,” Yaqo Hormuz said, commenting on clashed with Hashd al-Shaabi fighters in the exasperated with Filoche’s constant appeals France. The NAP said it categorically denied reports that the Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitary, middle of October, as Iraqi government and to his record as a founder and activist with that Filoche — himself a Trotskyist activist a coalition of armed Shia groups supported Iranian forces seized more than 50 percent of French anti-racist group SOS Racisme. before he joined the PS — “is an antisemite.” by Iran, was preventing the return of Chris- the territory liberated from ISIS by the Kurds. “Capitalism is what feeds antisemitism,” tians who fled during the recent assault on “A number of media outlets talk about KRG-controlled territories in northern Iraq. the pullout of the Hashd al-Shaabi forces from According to a Christian refugee from Zummar and Rabiaa and their surrounding Continued from Page A1 confirmed “with the state’s attorney and with ISIS interviewed by the Kurdish news outlet areas, but this news is untrue and baseless,” Rutgers our legal scholars” that Chikindas’ postings Rudaw, Hashd al-Shaabi forces are perse- Ahmed al-Asadi, a representative of Hashd university policies against vandalism. are constitutionally protected, “so there’s cuting those Christians, once a population of al-Shaabi, claimed. His argument drew an objection from a nothing there that is actionable.” woman in the crowd, who said to applause, “it He added that the university was investi- is not free speech.” gating whether Chikindas’ postings “create an Continued from Page A1 meaningful negotiations with Israel.” “If you take that swastika and put it on environment in his work that would compro- Communication Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- the door of a dormitory, that’s not protected,” mise his ability to teach or do research.” against Israel at the ICC. yahu’s office said the Trump administration’s Barchi argued in return, “but if it is a general “That investigation is done indepen- The State Department clarified that the move is “a matter of US law. We respect the building on the university, by first amend- dently, it will conclude shortly and we’ll office’s closure could be waived within 90 decision and look forward to continuing ment rights, it’s protected.” decide what if anything we need to do from days if President Donald Trump “determines to work with the US to advance peace and He went on to address the ongoing there,” Barchi explained. “But I can tell you the Palestinians have entered into direct, security in the region.” controversies surrounding Chikindas, Puar, that up until this point, his teaching record is and Adi, noting that “the one thing that is actually very strong.” things get picked up by another newspaper, common to all of these is that they were all Barchi also defended Puar’s academic “Once again, you may not like it, but it’s there is very often a back-story to it.” brought forward by The Algemeiner.” freedom, calling her “a well-respected scholar.” protected by academic freedom, absolutely, “Trace it back to where it’s coming from Barchi called The Algemeiner — a At a 2016 talk, Puar expressed support for 100 percent,” he emphasized. and ask why is it coming from there and newspaper in circulation for over 40 years — “armed resistance in Palestine” and repeated Barchi adopted a similar outlook when what’s going on,” he claimed, “and you may “a blog out of New York, which is the follow-on allegations that the bodies of “young Palestinian speaking of Adi, who joined Rutgers shortly often get a little different perspective on those to what was a Yiddish-language newspaper men … were mined for organs for scientific after serving as a legal adviser and diplomat happenings.” that folded 10 years ago. They are the ones research,” according to a transcript provided by at the Syrian mission to the United Nations in Rabbi Yosef Carlebach, who heads that have researched each one of these stories the alumni group Fairness To Israel. New York between 2007 and 2014. Rutgers’ Chabad House, told The Algemeiner that have been picked up elsewhere.” In a 2015 essay, she also wrote that “Pales- “Issues have been raised about the fact earlier this month that while Rutgers was The Algemeiner’s print edition — which tinian trauma is overshadowed” because that he did, in the past, work for the [Syrian] generally a friendly place for Jewish students features English and Yiddish-language “Israel in particular and Jewish populations government as a diplomat,” Barchi noted, and faculty, over the years administrators articles — has never gone out of business. in general have thoroughly hijacked the adding that Adi’s history was “well-known were “going to use the freedom of expression Moreover, while The Algemeiner was the first discourse of trauma through exceptionalizing to us and well-known to the people who line to give license to absolute wrong.” to interview Chikindas, his postings were Holocaust victimization.” employed him.” The Jewish campus group Rutgers initially exposed by the Israellycool blog. Puar’s latest work — The Right to Maim Barchi said that Adi “changed his direc- Hillel similarly said last week that while Barchi acknowledged that Chikindas — — contends that the Israeli military rejects a tions,” and “has not said or done anything they “certainly believe in free speech and who described Judaism as “the most racist shoot-to-kill policy not out of humanitarian in his academic life here that would be academic freedom,” they were concerned that religion in the world” — made “crude jokes concern, but a desire to keep “Palestinian actionable.” He did not acknowledge reports Chikindas, Puar and Adi each “gives voice to about Israel, Judaism, women, homosexuality, populations as perpetually debilitated, and by a former student of Adi’s who told The traditional racist, anti-Jewish tropes.” a whole lot of things which most of us would yet alive, in order to control them.” Algemeiner — on condition of anonymity — The “hiring of such professors has find repugnant.” The book, Barchi said, “was reviewed that Adi defended Palestinian terrorism in brought national shame and embarrass- “On the other hand, they are also things independently by scholars around the class as a legitimate form of “resistance” to ment to our university, with negative media that are covered by his First Amendment right country. It was then accepted for publication Israeli “occupation.” coverage across the spectrum, from NPR to to free speech,” the president argued. “You by the Duke University Press, which is a very “We are faced with the difficult challenge to Fox News,” Hillel added. “It contributes to a may not like what the guy says, but you have prominent scholarly press, and published. It’s thread the needle on free speech and academic feeling among many that universities, as a to like the fact that he can say it.” a piece of scholarly work.” freedom,” Barchi observed. “I just ask you to Barchi said that his administration keep in mind when you hear things and those whole, have lost their moral compass.” A4 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2017 World News. Egyptian Envoy Visits Knesset, Says There's ‘Real Opportunity’ for Regional Peace

BY BARNEY BREEN-PORTNOY

Egypt’s envoy to Israel visited the Knesset on Tuesday to mark the 40th anniversary of the late President Anwar Sadat’s historic trip to Jerusalem that lay the groundwork for the 1979 peace treaty between the two countries. While at the Knesset, Ambassador The Torah scrolls that were stolen from a Jaffa synagogue on Thursday and returned on Sunday. Hazem Khairat told Israeli legislators, “There Photo: Israel Police. is a real opportunity to open a new page with the Arab neighbors, based on coexistence Torah Scrolls Stolen From Jaffa and mutual understanding for a better future Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat leading to peace.” and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein meet in Jeru- Synagogue Are Found in Hebron After hosting Khairat for a meeting in his salem on Tuesday. Photo: Edelstein’s Twitter account. office, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein tweeted, there have been outbursts of violence in the “We discussed cooperation between the two unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict. and Returned countries and talked about bolstering it in the The relationship has steadily improved fields of technology, energy, agriculture and since Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi security.” took power in 2013, after ousting his prede- “We also discussed our duty to help the cessor, Mohamed Morsi, an Islamist affiliated BY BARNEY BREEN-PORTNOY peace process, in hope of bringing the two sides with the Muslim Brotherhood. to the negotiating table,” Edelstein continued. Israel and Egypt share a number of Five Torah scrolls that were stolen from A year and a half after Sadat’s November regional interests — including the contain- a synagogue in central Israel this week and 1977 Jerusalem journey, Egypt became the ment of Iran and combating ISIS. taken to the West Bank have been found first Arab nation to sign a peace deal with the Sisi met with Israeli Prime Minister and returned, following a cooperative effort Jewish state (as part of which the Sinai Penin- Benjamin Netanyahu in September in New of Israeli and Palestinian law-enforcement sula — which had been taken control of by York City on the sidelines of the 72nd UN authorities. Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War — was given General Assembly session. The holy texts — taken from the Beit David back). It was followed by Jordan 15 years later. However, normalization of the relation- synagogue in Jaffa early Thursday morning Jerusalem-Cairo ties have at times been ship with Israel remains a sensitive topic for — were tracked down in Hebron and handed strained over the years, particularly when much of the Egyptian public. over to Israeli officials on Sunday “thanks to coordination between the Hebron District Coordination Liaison, Israel’s Police and the PA Police,” the Coordinator of Government Activi- Belgium Says Construction of ties in the Territories Unit (COGAT) tweeted. The Israel Police said the successful Palestinian Schools Still outcome was a result of its “positive relationship” with its Palestinian Authority counterpart force, Photo: Screenshot Suspended which helps it deal with crimes carried out in Israel that originated in the West Bank, including cases of murder, drug offenses and property theft.

BY SHIRI MOSHE named “Defiance 6,” a reference “to the fact that the previous structures that housed the school Family of Israeli Man Held Belgium is upholding its commitment were recently destroyed by Israel, since they to suspend construction projects with the were erected in Area C without the relevant Captive by Hamas in Gaza Palestinian Ministry of Education, a spokes- building permits,” PMW wrote. “The PA there- person for Brussels told The Algemeiner after fore built the new school to ‘defy’ Israel.” Urges International Action to a Belgian official was spotted at the inaugura- PMW warned that De Muynck’s presence tion of a new Palestinian school. at the ceremony suggested Belgium’s pledge Last month, the monitoring group Pales- to freeze “any projects” related to the construc- Free Loved One tinian Media Watch (PMW) revealed that a tion of Palestinian schools “was not completely Palestinian school built with Belgian aid in the honest,” and questioned whether Brussels was town of Beit Awwa was renamed in honor of “misleading the international community” BY BARNEY BREEN-PORTNOY is a mother like all other mothers, and she Dalal Mughrabi, who in 1978 helped massacre and “continuing to support PA schools.” deserves to know the fate of her son.” 38 people — including 13 children — near Tel Vanderhasselt challenged this claim, telling The brother of an Israeli man who has “We are here today, at the United Nations, Aviv. The school’s logo also includes a map The Algemeiner on Monday that De Muynck been imprisoned by Hamas in the Gaza Strip to call on the international community to erasing Israel, while its Facebook page has attended the inauguration of “the school in Wadi for more than three years urged the interna- put the full weight of its authority on anyone posted pictures glorifying Palestinian attackers. As-Seeq because this school is threatened by tional community on Thursday to act to bring who can help release my brother,” Mengistu Didier Vanderhasselt — a spokesperson demolition by the Israeli authorities.” his sibling home. declared. “Pressure the international organi- for the Belgian Foreign Ministry — told The “By sending a Belgian representative to this During a visit to the United Nations zations that have showed weakness and Algemeiner at the time that Belgium was school we emphasized the paramount importance headquarters in New York City, Ilan Gashao helplessness. And of course, pressure Hamas, initially unaware of the name change, and has of the respect for International Humanitarian Law Mengistu — the brother of 30-year-old which is holding an ill individual captive more decided to “put on hold any projects related to and the right to education,” he said. Avraham Avera Mengistu, an Ashkelon than three years, and is responsible for his fate.” the construction or equipment of Palestinian The spokesperson confirmed that resident who crossed into Gaza on his own Danon stated, “All those who demand schools” while it resolved the matter with the Belgium’s decision to “put on hold two projects accord in September 2014 and has not been an end to the humanitarian plight for the Palestinian Authority. related to the construction of new Palestinian heard from since — accused Hamas of “toying residents of Gaza must also demand the However, PMW reported last week that a schools, for an amount of 3.3 million euros … with the life of a mentally disabled civilian.” immediate release of all Israelis held by Belgian official — Eric De Muynck, representa- remains in effect until further notice.” “They are playing a cynical and cruel Hamas… Israel will not rest until all of our tive of the Belgian Development Cooperation He clarified that “projects that could not game with the life of a man who has never citizens return home.” Institution — participated in the inauguration be put on hold, ie. schools that were already harmed a soul,” Mengistu — standing between Last week, members of the Mengistu of a new Palestinian Authority school in the under construction or being built by third his mother Agarnesh and Israeli Ambassador family met in Washington, DC with several West Bank on October 18th, about two weeks parties, were not affected by this decision.” to the UN Danny Danon — continued. “I have congressional representatives, as well after the announced suspension. While Belgian authorities held several a brother — he is helpless — and he needs President Donald Trump’s international The school was allegedly built in “24 meetings with Palestinian counterparts on your help.” negotiations envoy, Jason Greenblatt. hours” with funds from the European Union, the renaming of the school in Beit Awwa, “the “Look at my mother,” he added. “She according to a report in Donia Al-Watan, an dialogue has not been concluded and is being independent Palestinian news agency. It was pursued,” Vanderhasselt said. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2017 A5 U.S. News. Abbas Freezes Ties With US Over Cathay Pacific Airways to Open Move to Close Palestinians’ Israel Office Mission in Washington BY JNS.ORG The airline currently offers around four to six weekly flights between Tel Aviv and Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific, the flagship airline of and uses the environmentally friendly 280-seat BY JNS.ORG Hong Kong, is set to launch an office in Israel Airbus A350 planes on the route. Next year, the as well as daily Tel Aviv-Hong Kong flights airline may introduce Airbus A350-1000 planes beginning in 2018. for the Israel route, increasing seating capacity Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas announced that he has frozen all “The company’s agenda is to allocate by 10 percent, according to Globes. contact with the U.S. over the Trump administration’s move to shutter the Palestinians’ mission airliners to destinations for which we see “The [Israeli customer] segment that in Washington, D.C. strong demand, and it can therefore be surprised us was business class, both in compar- “In practice, by closing the office, they are freezing all meetings and we are making that assumed that we will also increase the ison with other countries and with the forecasts,” official,” PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki told AFP. frequency of the flights to daily,” said Cathay said Bailey. “Demand for business class was huge. The Palestinians’ move comes after the U.S. State Department on Saturday declined to Pacific’s Israel manager, Jonathan Bailey, The feeling is that the passengers, especially renew the operating permission for the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Washington Globes reported. businessmen who fly a lot, appreciate what office for the first time since the 1980s. PA chief negotiator Saeb Erekat called the move “very Cathay Pacific’s first flight to Israel landed they get for their money.” unfortunate and unacceptable,” and accused the Trump at Ben-Gurion International Airport in March. administration of capitulating to Israeli pressure. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson informed the Palestinians that the decision came in response to statements made by Abbas at the United Nations General Assembly in September, when the PA leader called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute Israeli officials. American law specifies that the PLO mission in Washington should be shuttered if the Palestinians initiate legal action against Israel at the ICC. The State Department clarified that the office’s closure could be waived within 90 days if President Donald Trump “determines the Palestinians have entered into direct, meaningful negotiations with Israel.” India Reportedly Cancels $525 Million Anti-Tank Missile Deal With Israeli Firm

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India has cancelled a $525 million missile deal with Israel, in a development that goes against the grain of the growing relations between the two countries, Indian media reported on Monday. India’s 2014 deal to purchase Spike anti-tank missiles from Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has been overturned, The Indian Express reported. Instead, India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation report- edly plans to develop and produce its own anti-tank missile domestically. In April, Israel Aerospace Industries inked agreements amounting to $2 billion with India, including a $1.6 billion contract to deliver a medium-range surface-to-air missile defense system and a $400 million deal for a long-range surface-to-air missile system. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Israel in July in the first such trip by a sitting Indian head of state, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to visit India next January. India is Israel’s 10th-largest trade partner worldwide and its second-largest trade partner in Asia. In 2016, trade between Israel and India amounted to $4 billion.

An Israeli soldier displays a Spike anti-tank missile launcher. Photo: Natan Flayer via Wikimedia Commons. A6 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2017 Opinion. How Chabad Electrifies the World

synagogue prayer and study. new life into this imperiled nation. And he Every social group determines where weaponized his small Chasidic movement to become an arsenal against assimilation. SHMULEY BOTEACH its talent is channeled by what it chooses to respect. So, if American society respects He beckoned me to join him as an agent of ENGELWOOD Jewish renewal. Chabad became the passion of billionaire tech entrepueners, then its Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the smartest people will go into tech. If it respects my life. Defying my parents’ strong objections, Lubavitcher Rebbe. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. acting, then its best talent will go to Holly- I left home at fourteen to be part of the Rebbe’s wood. If it worships the body, then its best dream of a global Jewish renaissance — and Chabad to emerge as leader. Recently, my daughter Shaina got talent will dedicate themselves to sport. In never looked back. A few years later, my wife Not long ago, the Jewish people were made engaged to a young Chabad activist who Chabad, the shliach-emissary is easily the and I were his emissaries at Oxford, building to believe that if they were to succeed in the works with at-risk Orthodox youth. His most respected profession. So its best and its Jewish life at an ancient university. modern world, they would have to make accom- students came in droves to the engagement brightest ship themselves off to South Africa I knew in my bones that Chabad would modations with strict adherence to tradition. party. They sang and danced, serenading him and Australia to spread Judaism. continue to spread until it took over the Scraggly beards would have to be shaved. Large with beautiful and heartfelt melodies. I have If Modern Orthodoxy put its rabbis on Jewish world. Why? Because of the grandness families would have to give way to two kids and been part of Chabad since I was a boy. Still, the highest rung of the social ladder, then of their vision and the passion with which they a dog. Names like Elazar and Tova would have I was in awe. it too would draw the best talent to Jewish executed their mission. Other Jewish organi- change to Leo and Tiffany. Yeshiva and smicha What is it about this movement, that it’s leadership. zations sought to educate the people about would have to be forfeited in favor of Wharton able to touch so many Jewish lives and inspire An unapologetic and uncompromising their tradition. But Chabad sought to raise the and a masters. Even Orthodox Jews embraced such deep Jewish commitment? passion for Judaism and all that it represents earth’s inhabitants to a higher God-conscious- this vision, if not in the name of progress than at A few nights later, I was at the global is the hallmark of Chabad. The movement ness, and to make Judaism the driving force in least in the name of survival. Chabad Shluchim Conference dinner in refuses to make any compromises whatso- every decision of daily life. And yet, the Jewish movement that has Bayonne, New Jersey, where approximately ever on Jewish observance, Jewish law or Chabad is no longer a Jewish movement. superseded them all is the one which insisted 4,000 Chabad rabbis from all over the world Jewish thought. And it’s stalwart commitment It is Judaism. Even those who were once critics that Judaism is so potent that the world must gathered. The dinner begins with a roll-call shows in everything it does. now travel to Caribbean island vacations bend to accommodate the Jewish people, of emissaries from across the globe. From Elsewhere, I have written about my and are blown away that they can pray with rather than the reverse. Angola to Uganda to Vietnam to Washington decision to join Chabad at an early age. I was a minyan and get kosher food because of And now, with so much of the Jewish state, Chabad is there. a child of divorce searching for meaning and Chabad. No other organization even comes world already covered by its emissaries, It’s not an exaggeration to say that rootedness. And what did Chabad give me? close to its global reach and grassroots impact. what is the future for Chabad? Surely it Chabad’s global network probably dwarfs More than anything, Chabad made me feel And it is growing exponentially. lies in transcending Jewish insularity and that of the United States government, which like my life mattered. In a private audience, At the conference, they announced the embracing the Rebbe’s vision of influencing cannot possibly operate as many embassies the Rebbe told me that I was born for great 100th country where Chabad has now opened. the non-Jewish world with the light of Jewish worldwide as Chabad. In Russia, there are 400 things. It was not a message reserved for me, No doubt, with the sect’s staggering birthrate values and the blessings of Jewish teachings. Chabad emissaries. In France, more than 200. but rather one that permeated his interaction and about half of all its members dedicating Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the interna- In Thailand, 10. with all whom he met. themselves to a lifelong posting, by the year tional best-selling author of 31 books, most And what is its secret? There is no Jewish The Rebbe made me feel that I was part 2020, Chabad will be fielding more than 15,000 recently “The Israel Warrior.: The winner movement on earth drawing as much talent of an eternal people who had vastly contrib- emissaries in nearly all of the world’s nations, of the London Times Preacher of the Year as Chabad, which puts its shluchim on the uted to the dissemination of God’s light in an and will be the mainstream Jewish branch in Award, he has been called by Newsweek “the highest social pedestal, ahead of bankers, otherwise dark universe. But through perse- most. In countries like France, Russia, Australia most famous Rabbi in America” and named politicians and athletes. At the top of the cutions and holocausts, acculturation and and Britain, this has largely happened. But even by The Jerusalem Post as one of the 50 most Chabad pedestal is not money but religious intermarriage, materialism and ignorance, the in countries with robust and highly developed influential Jews in the world. Follow him on commitment, not political power but spiri- Jewish people were now endangered. Jewish communities, like the United States Twitter @RabbiShmuley. tual purpose — not Silicon Valley billions, but The Rebbe was determined to breathe and Canada, the smart money should be on

would regard the shooting as “settler violence” against a “Palestinian child.” Radical Members of If Tra’ayra had not been killed, and had Israeli soldiers arrested him, that would have Congress Want to Abet constituted illegal and abusive detention, according to the McCollum bill. One final example to illustrate the real- Palestinian Terror life consequences of what these nine radical Congress members are trying to accomplish. Palestinian youths participate in the On December 25, 2014 — as McCollum graduation ceremony for a military-style camp and her colleagues were no doubt enjoying started screaming, the children saw me and organized by the Hamas terror group in Gaza the Christmas holiday with their families — on Aug. 18, 2017. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90. also started screaming, then I stabbed her in two young Palestinians decided that they STEPHEN M.FLATOW/ her upper body another three or four times. would try to burn some Jews to death. They attacks carried out by Palestinians from the JNS.ORG She tried to fight me and tried to take the knife positioned themselves on the road to the ages of 8-17, according to the watchdog group from me. The two children who were there Israeli town of Ma’ale Shomron. Along came Human Rights Voices. were still screaming, but she continued to an automobile with an 11-year-old girl riding The real abuse that Betty McCollum and resist, so I pushed her, and overpowered her.” in the front passenger seat. The two attackers her Gang of Nine should be investigating is the Asked what he would have done if he — one of them a 16-year-old “child” — threw constant effort by the Palestinian Authority was able to pull the knife from Meir’s body, Nine members of Congress have intro- rocks and firebombs at the car. (PA) to incite minors to murder Jews. “We are the Palestinian teenager said, “I would have duced a bill to prevent US aid to Israel from The car exploded in flames. Eleven-year- so proud that in this popular uprising that continued stabbing her, and if I saw another being used to arrest Palestinian terrorists who old Ayelet Shapiro jumped out, her entire has started almost two months ago, that the Jew I would stab and murder him.” are under the age of 18. body on fire. Her father’s quick action to backbone of this uprising are the youth of Meir left behind six children, ages 4-17. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Betty smother the flames saved Ayelet’s life, but she Palestine,” the PA’s UN representative, Riyad They’re also minors. But Rep. McCollum is not McCollum (D-Minn.), characterizes young suffered third-degree burns to her face and Mansour, declared during the recent wave of concerned about them. Her focus is on Pales- terrorists merely as “Palestinian children,” and upper body, meaning years of painful surgery Palestinian stabbing attacks. tinian minors such as Adais. According to the contends that their arrest by the Israeli army and skin grafts, and a lifetime of severe scars But don’t take Mansour’s word for it. Morad McCollum bill, the Israeli army’s arrest of Adais constitutes “abuse.” and emotional trauma. Abdullah Adais, the 16-year-old who butchered would be considered illegal and abusive. Therefore, it’s worth recalling a few How were the attackers caught? Israeli Dafna Meir in front of her children, told investi- Here’s another example of a Palestinian examples of the behavior for which Pales- security personnel went into the nearby Pales- gators that he was inspired to murder her after “child” in action. tinian “children” have been detained by the tinian Arab village of Azun, detained suspects, watching a PA television program depicting On June 30, 2016, a Palestinian teenager Israeli military in recent years. questioned them and eventually pinpointed Israelis as cruel oppressors of the Palestinians. broke into the bedroom of a 13-year-old On January 17, 2016, a Palestinian child the perpetrators. None of which would have How about some congressional action against girl named Hallel Yaffa Ariel, in the town of named Morad Abdullah Adais broke into the been possible under the McCollum bill. the PA’s use of American aid to sponsor such Kiryat Arba. The attacker, Mohammed Nasser home of Dafna Meir, in the town of Otniel, Yes, the Israeli army does arrest a signifi- vicious and deadly incitement? Tra’ayra, viciously stabbed Hallel again and armed with an 8-inch knife. Adais, who was cant number of Palestinian minors. That’s Stephen M. Flatow, an attorney in New again. Then he stabbed two other Israelis 16, later described proudly what he did next: because a significant number of Palestinian Jersey, is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was whom he encountered. Hallel’s father shot “I plunged the knife into her so deeply minors engage in terrorism. In the past two murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Pales- and killed Tra’ayra. Presumably, McCollum that most of it was inside her body. She years, there have been at least 79 terrorist tinian terrorist attack in 1995. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2017 A7 Opinion.

consensus among biblical scholars that Jesus lived and died a dedicated practicing Jew. The Boston Islamic Seminary The symposium panelists — Father Donald Senior, president of the Catholic Is Training the Next Theological Union of Chicago; Anglican priest Bruce Chilton, author of Rabbi Jesus; and Rabbi Jacob Neusner, author of numerous Generation of Extremists books on religion and several on early Chris- tianity — agreed that Jesus lived and died a Thomas Jefferson. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, US dedicated Jew, that he never mentioned or Archives. heard the word “Christian,” and that he never on its website warning that Muslims who proposed a new religion. one: God the Father, God the Son and God the seek “cleanliness” and “purity” should “not In fact, the word Christian does not Holy Spirit. He retained the moral teachings SAM WESTROP resemble the Jews.” Murphy has stated: “There appear at all in the four Gospels (Matthew, of Jesus and discarded much of the rest; Jesus is no such thing as an innocent Israeli.” LONDON Mark, Luke, and John) of the New Testament, emerges as secular and human. Jefferson Another speaker at the BIS event with which cover the three years of Jesus’ religious called his Bible The Life and Morals of Jesus Murphy was Yousef Abdallah, who serves and spiritual mission. Rabbi Neusner added of Nazareth. This version has survived, and as the “East Coast Operations Manager” for that almost all of Jesus’ teachings were drawn is on display at the Smithsonian Museum of New research by the Middle East Forum Islamic Relief, a prominent Islamist charity. from the Torah (the Five Books of Moses). American History in Washington, DC. has uncovered evidence of extreme antisemi- Abdallah has posted jokes on social media These forthright statements begged the But is the Jefferson Bible a Christian Bible? tism among faculty members and guest about “stinking” Jews, has written that Chris question that I then posed to Father Senior and The parts that Jefferson eliminated are speakers appointed by the Islamic Society of Christie is “down on his knees before the Father Chilton during the Q and A: “You have precisely the ones that Donald Senior, Bruce Boston to teach and promote its latest project: jewish lords,” and has shared a story praising convinced me that Jesus was thoroughly Jewish. Chilton and scores of other Christian scholars the Boston Islamic Seminary (BIS). “martyrs” who provide guns to “kill more than So why aren’t you Jews or Jewish Christians?” and practitioners say distinguish Christianity BIS was established in 2016 to “equip 20 jews” and “fire rockets at Tel Aviv.” They squirmed a bit at my provocation, but from Judaism. If they are discarded, isn’t what future religious leaders with the intellectual, The Middle East Forum has uncov- acknowledged that they had walked into this remains Judaism? spiritual and practical training to serve the ered several other examples. We asked the setup. Then they gave the standard answer to If so, we can conclude that Thomas American Muslim community.” Currently, it Boston branch of the Council on American- the question of what divides Judaism and Chris- Jefferson embraced Judaism — and was, offers “continuing education” classes, but it Islamic Relations (CAIR) — which often talks tianity: “Jesus is the Son of God, the promised therefore, in effect a Jew. This view is hopes to offer an accredited graduate degree about other examples of hate speech — for Messiah, who died for the salvation of mankind. supported by Rabbi Neusner’s comment that program by 2019, which will “train chaplains, comment, but it did not reply. Curiously, With the arrival of Jesus, the new path to God Jesus’ teachings — which Jefferson accepted imams, and other leaders to serve in a variety the Jewish Community Relations Council of and redemption is through belief in Jesus Christ.” — are Torah teachings. Taking this claim a of contexts.” Greater Boston also failed to respond. This view asserts Jesus’ divinity, further step further, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, in his And what exactly will this next genera- For many readers, this must all seem supported, from the Christian perspective, 2011 book, Kosher Jesus, lists the most promi- tion of chaplains and imams learn at BIS? like a familiar story. BIS is a project of the by the virgin birth (Mary, Jesus’ mother, was nent teachings and parables of Jesus and the Faculty listed on the BIS website include Islamic Society of Boston (ISB), which, impregnated by the Holy Spirit), the miracles comparable, if not identical, Torah renditions. Yahia Abdul Rahman, who is described as since its founding over 10 years ago, has that Jesus performed, and his resurrection According to Jewish law, Jefferson could an expert on “sharia-compliant” banking. On displayed much evidence of extremism. after the crucifixion. not officially be a Jew. For that you have to be his social media accounts, Abdul Rahman Inaugural trustees of the ISB included Yusuf So how does Thomas Jefferson, a born of a Jewish mother, or formally convert has posted stories from “The Ugly Truth,” Al Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the founding father and third president of the to Judaism. a website that describes itself as “intelli- Muslim Brotherhood, who was praised by Bin United States, fit into this story? But the plot thickens. gent ‘anti-Semitism’ for thinking Gentiles.” Laden,; and Abdulrahman Alamoudi, an Al Jefferson, an avowed deist who loved In 2007 Newsweek Magazine asked: “Was Elsewhere, Rahman has shared claims that Qaeda fundraiser who was jailed in 2004 for Jesus and reportedly read portions of the Thomas Jefferson the first Jewish President?” any Muslim who fails to oppose Israel is no conspiring with the Libyan regime to assas- Bible every night, was not a fan of many of the The article reported that researchers at the longer a Muslim, and is afflicted with a “Jewish sinate a Saudi crown prince. depictions of Jesus in the Gospels. His opposi- University of Lancaster in the UK discovered heart.” Other posts of his claim the Jews were In 2004, Boston Jewish leaders tion to those parts of the Jesus story that he that Thomas Jefferson’s Y chromosome “is part of complicit in the 2008 financial crisis. condemned another mosque trustee named rejected was so strong that he deleted them in a line known as K2; estimated to be about 20,000 Another BIS lecturer, Suheil Laher, previ- Walid Fitaihi, after he denounced Jews as the his personal copy of the Bible. years old; the line has been found scattered ously served as head of the (now-defunct) Al “murderers of prophets” and claimed that He wrote: “Jesus did not mean to about Western Europe, notably in Iberia, France Qaeda charity, CARE International. On his old they “would be punished for their oppression, impose himself on mankind as the son of and Britain, but it is most prevalent in the Middle website, Laher published calls to jihad and murder and rape of the worshippers of Allah.” God.” Jefferson called the writers of the New East.” The researchers speculated that the Jewish linked to an Al Qaeda fundraising website. On The very same Walid Fitaihi is now listed on Testament “ignorant, unlettered men” who Diaspora, which dates as far back as the first his current website, Laher refers to homosex- the BIS website as a faculty member. produced “superstitions, fanaticisms, and century CE, may have brought the chromo- uals as “depraved sinners.” The Boston Islamic Seminary promises fabrications.” somal line across Europe. Other current BIS faculty members to educate the next generation of Muslims The Humanist reports that one evening While their speculations are sugges- include Amr El-Fass, who suggests that in Massachusetts. These chaplains, imams in 1804, while sitting at his desk at the White tive, the researchers could not definitively Jews are to blame for intra-Arab conflict; and community leaders will in turn educate House, Jefferson “took out two Bibles and establish the Jefferson Jewish ancestry link. and Hisham Mahmoud, whom moderate Muslim communities all over America opened them to the story of Jesus. Then he Nevertheless, imaginations were sparked by Muslim groups denounced after he likened for many decades to come. Thus far, none grabbed a razor and began cutting. Working the prospect of “Monotheism, Moses and homosexuality to pedophilia, and advocated of Boston’s political or religious leaders methodically, Jefferson sliced out the parts Monticello.” Newsweek quoted Peter Ochs, that homosexuals should be punished. has expressed alarm over the extremists of the Bible that he believed and pasted them professor of Judaic studies at the University of Guest speakers are BIS are just as behind Boston’s newest Islamic institution. onto a folio of blank pages.” In cutting and Virginia, an institution founded by Jefferson: extreme. In June 2016, BIS invited Abdel- The question remains: exactly how much pasting passages from the four Gospels, he “He’s a brilliant, complex, imperfect person, like rahman Murphy to address a BIS audience. hatred for Jews and other minorities must be created a single narrative. the great Biblical models — brainy, who uses Murphy, who is a former employee of the revealed before leaders will speak out? In a letter to John Adams, Jefferson wrote: his mind to build things, and yet very human.” Islamic Society of Boston, works for the Sam Westrop is the Director of Islamist “The worthy parts of the Bible were easily distin- Further investigation of Jefferson’s Y Qalam Institute, which hosts a document Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum. guishable from the worthless.” In anothe letter chromosome by University of Arizona geneti- to a friend, Philadelphia physician Benjamin cist Michael Hammer found, “There was a Rush, Jefferson referred to his Bible as his “wee perfect match to the Y chromosome of a little book,” and added: “To the corruption of Moroccan Jew, and matches that differed by Thomas Jefferson: Christianity I am indeed opposed, but not to two mutations from another Moroccan Jew, a the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.” Kurdish Jew and an Egyptian.” The only copy of this Bible disappeared Should a direct genetic link be authen- Christian or Jew? and has never been found. But in 1820 at age ticated, then Thomas Jefferson might be 77, Jefferson created a new copy in English considered a Jew by lineage as well as by his and three others in French, Latin and Greek. theology. Jefferson’s Bible retains Jesus’ words, This brings us back to the opening That was the question pondered by teachings and some of his actions. But gone are question: How did Christianity get away from three eminent scholars — two Christian and the supernatural acts: no miracles or sugges- Judaism? one Jewish — at a symposium hosted by the IRA STOLL tions of his divinity, no virgin birth. Lazarus Bernard Starr, PhD, is professor Center for Jewish History in New York City BOSTON doesn’t rise from the dead, nor are the multi- emeritus at the City University of New more than a decade ago. tudes fed from the multiplication of five barley York, Brooklyn College. His latest book is It’s an important question and conundrum loaves and two small fish. Jefferson’s Bible ends “Jesus, Jews, And Anti-Semitism In Art: How that persists today, since Christianity is based with the burial of Jesus, so there is no resurrec- Renaissance Art Erased Jesus’ Jewish Identity on Jewish prophesy and lineage — and the fact How did Christianity get separated from tion. Also, Jefferson did not believe that Jesus & How Today’s Artists Are Restoring It.” that all of Jesus’ disciples and followers were Judaism, when the two religions have so was the Messiah, and he rejected the Christian Jews. And we should add to that the growing much in common? doctrine of the Trinity, that “God is three-in- A8 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2017 Impressions.

New York Times Remembering My Brother, Mickey Columnist Collected

Cash From Zionist BY JEREMY ROSEN on his work in different ways. Mickey died prematurely in 2010. Although our Group He Now This week is the secular date of my younger father’s relationship with Mickey ended far too early, brother’s death. he always said what a good soul Mickey was; he even Calls ‘Disgrace’ Sibling rivalry goes all the way back to Cain and liked to call him a tsaddik, a saint. Abel. As a two-year-old, I resented the arrival of my When our father died, I was angry with the world. brother Mickey, as a rival for our parents’ love. I began Perhaps because Mickey was younger, he did not have to lash out in order to get attention, but I don’t think I the anger that I did. Instead he channeled his grief and BY IRA STOLL ever took it out on him. love for our father in other, productive ways. And I soon learned not to try competing with him Now in my more advanced age, I have jettisoned my anger. When it came to mourning Mickey, despite When The New York Times hired Bret Stephens in any area. I was 10 when my second brother, David, the sense of loss and pain, I felt joy and pride, which is earlier this year as an op-ed columnist, I wrote, “His arrived, so there was no rivalry there, and 16 when precisely what the rituals of mourning are for. I realized voice will be a welcome addition and corrective to the my sister, Angela, entered this world. I was 19 when that Mickey’s death was not just a loss to the family, but Times tilt against Israel.” our father died. From that time onwards, our lives to the Jewish and non-Jewish community too. Who knew then that he’d wind up using his new took on their own paths and momentum. I was away Mourners ought to discipline ourselves to listen, platform to criticize a pro-Israel organization? at yeshiva in Israel and then at Cambridge. Mickey to be polite and to be generous enough to recognize Yet that’s exactly what Stephens did in a recent was at Jews College in London and then Israel, but at column lacing into the Zionist Organization of America different times. for allowing a former Trump administration official, After the shock of our father’s early death, Stephen Bannon, to speak at its dinner in New York. my mother had to rebuild her life. Her world had The Times columnist’s overall point — that Jews descended from a state of bliss to a battle to survive should beware antisemitism on the right as well as on and move forward. She went back to school. She read the left — is perfectly sensible. But the column suffers Semitics at Oxford while Mickey was at Jews College, from a series of flaws that hurt its credibility. and they both had to study and grapple with the Book First, it’s hypocritical of Stephens to attack the of Job. They delighted in analyzing the unusual and ZOA for associating with Bannon on the grounds that obscure words and their possible meanings, but more a website Bannon operated published articles about, significantly dealing with the awesome issues of why and in some cases by, other figures that Stephens tragedies occur, and why lives and dreams are cut short finds objectionable. “No organization that purports in such inexplicable and irrational ways, with no refer- to represent the interests of the Jewish people should ence to goodness or merit. ever embrace anyone who embraces anti-Semites,” People who witnessed their complete involve- is the way that Stephens phrases it. The hypocrisy ment in the text together always commented on what A Torah scroll. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. comes from the fact that the New York Times op-ed an amazing sight it was to behold. Their relationship, that the one we loved was loved by others, and played page, where Stephens works, has published articles at that moment, was so significant, so powerful and important parts in other lives too. by Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti and by the unique. Our mother loved us all, of course, but I think Each one of us siblings found different and foreign minister of Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif. there was a special bond between her and Mickey. personal ways of continuing our parents’ legacy. The Times reader comment platform is itself Then her world was destroyed for a second time. Mickey’s was through YAKAR, his family will undoubt- a cesspool of virulent anti-Semitism. One reader Because of internal politics at Carmel, the dream that edly find their own ways to honor him. comment on Stephens’ own ZOA column, by Peter she had of creating a girls’ school was taken away “For there was no one on earth like him, a pure Feld, said, “there’s nothing anti-Semitic about opposing from her. She was excluded and later evicted from and straight man, respecting God and avoiding sin.” a Jewish state on stolen land ruling over a captive Carmel College, despite having raised the money Job 1:1 & 2:3 population. Bannon is nothing but a symptom of the for the school, masterminded the plans and started Whenever I read these lines, I think of Mickey. It racism that has animated Zionism for over 130 years.” employing staff. I was away in yeshiva again in Israel is such an appropriate epitaph, but not just because That comment generated 67 “thumbs up” recom- at the time, so it fell to Mickey as well as David and he was as close as it gets to being such a person. It mendations from Times readers and was only one Angela to provide her with the loving compensation is because these words, these characteristics were of ten comments, out of 529 submitted, that Times she needed. precisely what Mickey aspired to. They apply even moderators awarded a gold ribbon signifying that it Mickey went into the rabbinate. His first position more appropriately to our mother. She was spared was a “NYT Pick.” This isn’t just some fluke; the Times was in Hale, a suburb of Manchester. But he had long enough to participate in Mickey’s success, and has a persistent and ongoing problem with antisemitic a dream of setting up his own center for studying yet, thankfully, not to see his premature death. reader comments. If Stephens is going to fault the Torah in a traditional but creative atmosphere. That The epitaph on my father’s grave is a quote from ZOA for associating with Bannon on the grounds of was why he established YAKAR, an acronym of our the Book of Psalms, that applies to his wife and son too: Bannon’s ties to a website purportedly populated with father’s Hebrew name — Yaakov Kopul Rosen — that “The good person will be like a tree planted by anti-Semites, that same standard would dictate that he himself had used as an occasional columnist for streams of water that gives its fruit at the right time, its Jewish organizations stop inviting Stephens himself as The Jewish Chronicle. Initially in Stanmore, YAKAR leaves do not wither, and whatever he does succeeds.” a speaker until the Times cleans up its own act. later moved to Hendon, eventually to Jerusalem, and Psalms 1:3 The column is afflicted with flaws beyond hypoc- then added a branch in Tel Aviv. YAKAR was Mickey’s The commentator says that the leaves refer to the risy. The standard Stephens proposes is impractical. As life. He succeeded in passing on his spirituality, his pupils and those that carry on that person’s teachings the eminent Israeli author Yoram Hazony commented scholarship, his individuality and his charisma to his and values. about Stephens’ column, “Herzl negotiated with the children, who, together with his wife Gilla, are carrying British empire, the Kaiser, the Sultan, the Czar, the Pope. No successful Jewish policy can be built on a politically correct doctrine of ‘liberal friends only.’” Stephens’ critique of Bannon is so broad that it would include lots of people who are not enemies of the Jews. “Unlike Nixon, whose anti-Semitism seems longtime Washington representative of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, should have been to have been of a knee-jerk and atavistic variety, written out of the organized Jewish community? Bernie Sanders has railed against “corporate media” and also Bannon’s alt-right views — his opposition to free trade, has been critical of free trade agreements. Does that make him a sinister alt-right antisemite? a liberal immigration policy, ‘international bankers,’ Finally, the Stephens column fails to disclose to readers that the columnist had a lucrative financial relation- ‘corporatist global media’ — are consonant with a ship with the organization he now criticizes as a “disgrace.” On November 12, 2013, Stephens spoke at the annual sinister worldview that always finds a way to get back awards dinner of the ZOA’s Pittsburgh district, for a fee of $7,500 plus travel expenses, according to the ZOA. In to a certain class of rootless cosmopolitans,” Stephens January of 2014, he spoke to the ZOA’s Southwest Florida Chapter. On February 19, 2015, he spoke in Palo Alto, writes. If opposition to free trade is all of a sudden a Calif., at an event sponsored by the ZOA’s West Coast chapter, for which he was paid a fee of $8,000 plus travel disqualifier, does that mean that Evy Dubrow, the Continued on Page A10 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2017 A9 Legal Notice.

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a judgment of foreclosure and sale Weisberg & Conway, P.C. Attorney(s) whose whereabouts are unknown to appear. If you fail to appear it will entered on September 21, 2017 I, for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street – and if any of the aforesaid persons be be assumed that you do not object to the undersigned Referee will sell at Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin the relief requested. You have a right public auction to the highest bidder 10801 (914) 636-8900 and distributees whose names and to have an attorney appear for you, at ROOM 224 F/K/A ROOM 274 OF AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1 places of residence are unknown and and you or your attorney may request KINGS COUNTY SUPREME COURT, if the persons died subsequent to the a copy of the full account from the 360 ADAMS STREET, BROOKLYN, NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: decedent herein, to their executors, petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.] NEW YORK 11201 on December 7, KINGS COUNTY. THE BANK OF NEW administrators, legatees, devisees, AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1 2017 at 2:30 PM premises known as YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF assignees and successors in interest 2371 East 70th Street, Brooklyn, NY NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE whose names and places of residence Notice of formation of AROMA FOOD Notice of formation of Limited Liability 11234. ALL that certain plot, piece CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, are unknown and to all other heirs BANQUET LLC. Art. of Org. filed Company (LLC) MWC MusicalWorks or parcel of land, with the buildings INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST at law, next of kin and distributees with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on LLC ARTICLES OF Organization filed and improvements thereon erected, 2005-50CB, MORTGAGE PASS- of SIDNEY YELLEN A/K/A SIDNEY 10/25/2017. Office location: Kings with the Secretary of the State of New situate, lying and being in the Borough THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES W. YELLEN, the decedent herein, County. SSNY designated as service York on September 18, 2017 N.Y. Office of Brooklyn, County of KINGS, City 2005-50CB, Pltf. vs. ROGER DELONEY, whose names and places of residence for process. SSNY shall mail process location: Bronx County. Secretary of and State of New York. Block: 8448 et al, Defts. Index #504313/2013. are unknown and cannot after due to: The LLC, 2670 Coney Island the State of New York has been desig- Lot: 12 Approximate amount of lien Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure diligence be ascertained, A petition Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11235. Purpose: nated as an agent upon whom process $496,432.92 plus interest and costs. and sale dated Sept. 14, 2017, I will and an account having been duly any lawful purpose. against it may be served. The Post Premises will be sold subject to sell at public auction in room 224 of filed by the Public Administrator of AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1/8/15 Office address to which the SSNY shall provisions of filed judgment Index the Kings County Supreme Court, Kings County, who has offices at 360 mail a copy of any process against # 507445/2013 Jageshwar Sharma, 360 Adams St., Brooklyn, NY 11201 Adams Street, Room 144A, Brooklyn, SUPREME COURT – COUNTY the LLC served upon him is C/O the Esq., REFEREE STEIN, WIENER AND on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017 at 2:30 New York 11201, United States. YOU OF KINGS U.S. BANK NATIONAL LLC Michael William Caesar 626 East ROTH, L.L.P., ATTORNEYS FOR THE p.m. prem. k/a 1067 Bushwick Ave., ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, 240th Street Bronx, NY 10470 Purpose PLAINTIFF ONE OLD COUNTRY Brooklyn, NY 11221 a/k/a Block 3340, CAUSE before the Surrogate's Court, IN TRUST FOR THE REGIS- of LLC: To engage in any lawful act or ROAD, SUITE 113 CARLE PLACE, NY Lot 51. Said property located on the Kings County, at 2 Johnson Street, TERED HOLDERS IF CITIGROUP activity. 11514 DATED: October 27, 2017 FILE easterly side of Bushwick Ave., 50 ft. Room 319, Brooklyn, New York, on MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, AJ; 10/20/ 27; 11/3/10/17/24 #: DOVEN 63793 northerly from the corner formed by December 12, 2017, at 9:30 o'clock in ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH AJ; 11/3/10/17/24; the intersection of the said easterly the fore noon of that day why: (a) The CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-AHL3, Notice of formation of limited liability side of Bushwick Ave. with the north- account of proceedings of the Public Plaintiff against KAMWIL DUPOINT, company (LLC) Name: 7th STREET NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT erly side of Palmetto St., being a plot Administrator of Kings County as et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a CAPITAL 285,LLC. Articles of organi- COUNTY OF KINGS Pennymac Corp, 80 ft. x 16 ft. 8 inches. Approx. amt. of Administrator of the estate of SIDNEY Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale zation filed with the Secretary of State Plaintiff AGAINST Donald Bradley judgment is $465,695.27 plus costs YELLEN a/k/a Sidney W. Yellen, a entered on May 2, 2017. I, the under- of New York (SSNY) on 08/28/2017 a/k/a Donald E. Bradley; Doreen and interest. Sold subject to terms summary of which has been served signed Referee will sell at public Office location: Richmond County Bradley; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant and conditions of filed judgment herewith, should not be judicially auction in Room 224 of the Kings SSNY has been designated as the to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale and terms of sale. HELENE BLANK, settled; (b) The Public Administrator County Courthouse, 360 Adams agent of the LLC upon whom process duly dated September 25, 2017 I, the Referee. DRUCKMAN LAW GROUP of Kings County should not be paid Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 14th against it may be served. SSNY shall undersigned Referee will sell at public PLLC, Attys. for Pltf., 242 Drexel Ave., his commissions pursuant to SCPA day of December, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. mail a copy of the process to: Gabor auction at the Kings County Supreme Westbury, NY 11590. File No. 37418. §2307 in the amount of $15,103.74, as premises described as follows: All that & Marotta, LLC, 1878 Victory Blvd., Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, #93253 set forth in Schedules C-1 and I of the certain plot, piece or parcel of land, Staten Island NY 10314. purpose: all Brooklyn, NY 11201 on December AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1 Account; (c) The Public Administrator with the buildings and improvements lawful activity 14, 2017 at 2:30PM, premises known of Kings County should not be paid thereon erected, situate and being AJ; 10/20/ 27; 11/3/10/17/24 as 392 Fenimore Street, Brooklyn, NY Supreme Court County Of Kings his administrative expenses pursuant in the Borough of Brooklyn, County 11225. All that certain plot piece or Federal National Mortgage Associa- to SCPA §1106(3) in the amount of of Kings, City and State of New York, Notice of formation of limited liability parcel of land, with the buildings and tion, Plaintiff AGAINST Noel Brown, $3,701.25 as shown in Schedules C-1 bounded and described as follows: company (LLC) Name: NRIA 7th improvements erected, situate, lying et al, Defendant Pursuant to a and J of the Account; (d) The Court BEGINNING at a point on the westerly STREET CAPITAL Manager, LLC. and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale should not fix, determine and approve side of East 31st Street distant 400 feet Articles of organization filed with County of Kings, City and State of duly dated 9/5/2017 and entered on the legal fees of Cullen and Dykman northerly from the corner formed by the Secretary of State of New York NY, Block 4814 Lot 20. Approximate 9/26/2017, I, the undersigned Referee, LLP, counsel to the Petitioner, in the the intersection of the westerly side of (SSNY) on 08/28/2017 Office location: amount of judgment $466,536.43 will sell at public auction at the Kings amount of $22,207.48 as shown in East 31st Street with the northerly side Richmond County. SSNY has been plus interest and costs. Premises County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Schedules C-1 and J of the Account; of Tilden Avenue; THENCE westerly designated as the agent of the LLC will be sold subject to provisions of Street, Brooklyn, NY on December (e) The Court should not fix, deter- parallel with Tilden Avenue, 100 feet; upon whom process against it may filed Judgment Index# 509000/2014. 14, 2017 at 02:30 PM premises known mine and approve the disbursements THENCE northerly parallel with East be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of Steven Naiman, Esq, Referee Shapiro, as 77A Somers Street Brooklyn, NY of Cullen and Dykman LLP in the 31st Street, 25 feet; THENCE easterly the process to: Gabor & Marotta, LLC, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for 11233. All that certain plot piece or amount of $462.00 as shown in Sched- again parallel with Tilden Avenue, 100 1878 Victory Blvd., Staten Island NY the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boule- parcel of land, with the buildings and ules C-1 and J of the Account; (f) The feet to the westerly side of East 31st 10314. Purpose: all lawful activity vard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) improvements erected, situate, lying claim of the New York City Human Street; and THENCE southerly along AJ; 10/20/ 27; 11/3/10/17/24 759-1835 Dated: October 27, 2017 and being in the Borough and County Resources Administration, in the said side of East 31st Street, 25 feet 49613 of Kings, City and State of New York, amount of $127,885.47, as shown in to the point or place of BEGINNING. Notice of Formation of Grove Devel- AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1 BLOCK: 1539, LOT: 68. Approximate Schedule D of the Account, should not Said premises known as 108 East 31st opment Partners LLC. Arts of Org. amount of judgment is $663,522.18 be allowed; (g) The claim of the New Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11226. (Block: filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on SUPREME COURT – COUNTY plus interests and costs. Premises York State Department of Taxation 4901, Lot: 21). Approximate amount 10/6/17. Office location: Kings County. OF KINGS DEUTSCHE BANK will be sold subject to provisions of and Finance, if any, should not be fixed of lien $ 560,911.47 plus interest and SSNY is designated as agent of LLC NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS filed Judgment Index # 017681/2009. and determined; (h) The Petitioner costs. Premises will be sold subject upon whom process against it may TRUSTEE UNDER THE POOLING Sean R. Smith, Referee FRENKEL should not be permitted to distribute to provisions of filed judgment and be served. SSNY shall mail process to: AND SERVICING AGREEMENT LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & so much of the net estate to the terms of sale. Index No. 501492-14. POB 67, NY, NY 10159. Purpose: any RELATING TO IMPAC SECURED GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay decedent's distributees, as now known Jacob Gelfand, Esq., Referee. Eckert lawful activity. ASSET CORP., MORTGAGE PASS- Shore, NY 11706 or hereafter determined, as their inter- Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC AJ; 10/27; 11/3/10/17/24;12/1 THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1 ests may appear, and to deposit any Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 10 Bank Street 2004-2, Plaintiff against HERBERT amount not so distributed with the Suite – 700 White Plains, N.Y. 10606 Application for Authority of Exocode WILLIAMS A/K/A HERBERT A. File No. 2016-4935/A PA. No. 147189 Commissioner of Finance of the City (914) 949-2574 LLC filed with the Secy. of State of WILLIAMS; HERMAN WILLIAMS SURROGATE'S COURT, KINGS of New York to be held for the benefit AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1 NY (SSNY) on 10/12/17. Formed in S/H/A JOHN DOE #1; CATHERINE COUNTY, THE PEOPLE OF THE of decedent’s unknown distributees DE 4/6/17. Office loc.: Kings County. WILLIAMS S/H/A JOHN DOE #2, STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace or for the benefit of any distributees of Notice of formation of limited liability SSNY is designated as agent of LLC et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a of God Free and Independent TO: the decedent who are under disability company (LLC) Name: BROOKLYN upon whom process against it may be Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Seth Levine, Stephen Levine, Donna for whom no guardian of the property CAMERA,LLC.Articles of organization served. The address SSNY shall mail entered on September 26, 2017. I, Katzman, Attorney General of the has been appointed; (i) The Petitioner, filed with the secretary of state of New copy of process to is 620 Wilson Ave., the undersigned Referee will sell at State of New York, New York State upon fully complying with the Decree York(SSNY)on 05/18/2015 . Office #101, Brooklyn, NY 11207. The office public auction in Room 224 of the Department of Taxation and Finance, to be made in this proceeding, should location: Kings county. SSNY has been address required to be maintained Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams New York City Human Resources not be released and discharged of and designated as the agent of the LLC in DE is 203 NE Front St., Ste. 101, Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 14th day of Administration, JACK WASSERMAN, from any and all liability, responsi- upon whom process against it may Milford, DE 19963. Cert. of formation December, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. premises GOLDIE WASSERMAN, SALMA bility and accountability with respect be served. SSNY shall mail copy of the filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, DE Secy. described as follows: All that certain WASSERMAN, CINDY PRESS, AND to the Petitioner's acts and proceed- process to: The LLC 302 Weirfield St, of State, Div. of Corporations, PO Box plot, piece or parcel of land, with the DARLENE PRESS, if living but if ings as Administrator as set forth and Brooklyn, NY 11237 Purpose: all lawful 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any buildings and improvements thereon dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin embraced in said account and the activity lawful activity. erected, situate, lying and being in and distributees whose names and Court grant such other and further AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1/8/15 AJ; 11/3/10/17/24;12/1/8 the Borough of Brooklyn, County of places of residence are unknown relief as it deems just and proper; Kings, City and State of New York. Said and if they died subsequent to the Dated, Attested, and Sealed, October NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT premises known as 1125 East 92nd decedent herein, to their executors, 18, 2017, HON.MARGARITA LOPEZ - COUNTY OF KINGS Bayview Loan - COUNTY OF KINGS LNV Corpo- Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11236. (Block: administrators, legatees, devisees, TORRES, Surrogate, Doreen A. Quinn, Servicing, LLC Plaintiff -against- ration, Plaintiff -against- Vincenzo 8180, Lot: 29). Approximate amount assignees and successors in interest Chief Clerk; Joseph J. Borges, Esq., Rockie Ojomu-Kayoes a/k/a Rockie Stanzione a/k/a Vincent Stanzione, of lien $ 661,492.06 plus interest and whose names and places of residence Attorney Firm: Cullen & Dykman Ojomu Kayoes a/k/a R. Ojomu FJC, Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., City costs. Premises will be sold subject to are unknown AND The spouse, if any, LLP, Address: 44 Wall Street, NY, NY Kayoes, City of New York Department of New York Department of Transpor- provisions of filed judgment and terms and any and all unknown distributees 10005-2407, (212)701-4175. [NOTE: of Transportation Parking Violations tation Parking Violations Bureau, Mrs. of sale. Index No. 507070-13. Bart and creditors of SIDNEY YELLEN This citation is served upon you as Bureau, Leroy Williams Defendant(s) Stanzione, Defendant(s) Pursuant to Verdirame, Esq., Referee. McCabe, A/K/A SIDNEY W. YELLEN, deceased, required by law. You are not required Continued on Page A10 A10 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2017 Tradition. Legal Notice.

We are here because someone, the LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE One, wanted us to be, and He has set When the “I” is Silent us a task only we can do. We emerge strengthened, transformed. ROTH, L.L.P., ATTORNEYS FOR THE September 26, 2017, I, the undersigned More than prayer changes PLAINTIFF ONE OLD COUNTRY Referee will sell at public auction at G-d, it changes us. It lets us see, ROAD, SUITE 113 CARLE PLACE, the Kings County Courthouse 360 change G-d? Surely G-d does not NY 11514 DATED: November 3, 2017 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, feel, know that “G-d is in this place.” change. Besides which, does not FILE #: BAYVIEW 68274 NY on December 14, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. How do we reach that awareness? prayer contradict the most funda- AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1 premises situate, lying and being in the JONATHAN SACKS By moving beyond the first person mental principle of faith, which is Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, LONDON singular, so that for a moment, like Notice of formation of 752 City and State of New York, bounded that we are called on to do G-d’s will Jacob, we can say, “I did not know PATTERSON LLC. Articles of Organi- and described as follows: BEGINNING rather than ask G-d to do our will? the I.” In the silence of the “I,” we zation filed with the Secretary of State at a point on the westerly side of East What really happens when we pray? meet the “Thou” of G-d. of NY, SSNY on 10/31/2017. Office 57th Street, distant 300 feet southerly It is one of the great visions of Prayer has two dimensions, located in Richmond County. SSNY from the corner formed by the inter- the Torah. Jacob, alone and far from one mysterious, the other not. has been designated for service of section of the westerly side of East home, lies down for the night, with There are simply too many cases process. SSNY shall mail copy of 57th Street with the southerly side of Continued from Page A8 only stones for a pillow. He dreams of prayers being answered for us process to: 752 PATTERSON LLC, 421 Linden Avenue; being a plot 100 feet 'Disgrace' Home Ave, Staten Island, NY 10305. by 30 feet by 100 feet by 30 feet. Block: of a ladder set on earth but reaching to deny that it makes a difference expenses, according to the ZOA. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 4682 Lot: 22 Said premises known as heaven, with angels ascending and to our fate. It does. A few days ago I Each fee amounted to more for one AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1/8/15/ 116 EAST 57TH STREET, BROOKLYN, descending. The question is: what is heard the following story. A man in speech than the median journalist NY Approximate amount of lien it a vision of? a Nazi concentration camp lost the makes in two months of work. Notice of formation of limited liability $621,435.76 plus interest & costs. There are many answers in our will to live – and in the death camps, company(LLC) Name: THE GOOD Premises will be sold subject to provi- One might argue that disclosing tradition, but the simplest is – prayer. if you lost the will to live, you died. PAW LLC. Articles of organization sions of filed Judgment and Terms the financial relationship would Jacob, according to the sages, estab- That night he poured out his heart filed with the Secretary of State of New of Sale. Index Number 7244/2011. strengthen Stephens’ argument, lished Maariv, the evening prayer. in prayer. The next morning, he York(SSNY) on 10/25/2017. Office AARON D. MASLOW, ESQ., Referee because he must really have a location Richmond County. SSNY has Westerman Ball Ederer Miller Zucker was transferred to work in the strong conviction about something been designated as the agent of the & Sharfstein, LLP Attorney(s) for camp kitchen. There he was to put that kind of income stream LLC upon whom process against it Plaintiff 1201 RXR Plaza, Uniondale, able, when the guards were in jeopardy. Or one might argue may be served. SSNY shall Mail copy NY 11556 The above sale, originally not looking, to steal some of the process to: Rachael Lanning 511 scheduled for November 16, 2017 at that it would weaken it, making potato peelings. It was these Rensselaer Avenue staten Island, NY 2:30 p.m. has been postponed. The readers wonder if the column has peelings that kept him alive. 10312 purpose: all lawful activity new sale date has been rescheduled more to do with Stephens’ speaking I heard this story from AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1/8/15 for December 14, 2017 at the same business — had the ZOA fees time and place. AARON D. MASLOW, his son. Perhaps each of dried up? Does he have other paid Notice of formation of limited ESQ., Referee. us has some such story. In speaking customers that compete liability company(LLC) Name: IRL AJ; 11/24;12/1/8/15/ times of crisis we cry out with the ZOA for pro-Israel donors? COLLECTIVE,LLC. Articles of organi- from the depths of our soul, zation filed with the Secretary of State Notice of formation of limited liability — than with the underlying merits. and something happens. of New York(SSNY) on 07/11/2017 company(LLC) Name: Brooklyn UC I emailed Stephens and a Times Sometimes we only realise Office location: Kings county. SSNY Group LLC .Articles of organization spokeswoman on Friday afternoon it later, looking back. Prayer has been designated as the agent of filed with the Secretary of State of New to ask about the speaking fee issue makes a difference to the the LLC upon whom process against it York(SSNY) on 01/25/2017. Office and to give Stephens an opportu- may be served. SSNY shall Mail copy location kings county. SSNY has been He himself gives the most moving world – but how it does so is myste- nity to address it. I got no response of the process to: United states corpo- designated as the agent of the LLC account of his experience: rious. There is, however, a second from them. ration agents, 7014 13th Ave. Suite upon whom process against it may When Jacob awoke from his dimension which is non-myste- At the Palo Alto ZOA event, 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: all be served. SSNY shall Mail copy of the sleep, he thought, “Surely the LORD rious. Less than prayer changes lawful activity process to: Mark J. Nussbaum,ESQ. Stephens said, according to a is in this place, and I did not know it.” G-d, it changes us. Literally, the AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1/8/15 225 Broadway 39th floor New York, NY YouTube video of the speech, “It’s He was afraid and said, “How Hebrew verb lehitpallel, meaning 10007 Purpose: all lawful activity especially a pleasure and an honor awesome is this place! This is none “to pray,” means “to judge oneself.” It NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: AJ; 11/24;12/1/8/15/22/29 to speak for the ZOA. The ZOA is very KINGS COUNTY WELLS FARGO other than the house of G-d; this is means, to escape from the prison of dear to my heart for many reasons, BANK, N.A.; Plaintiff(s) vs. CESAR L. Notice of formation of limited liability the gate of heaven.” the self and see the world, including but I want to single out one, which ROCHA; MARVIN E. ZUNIGA; et al; company(LLC) Name: The Covenant Only in hindsight do we ourselves, from the outside. Prayer I think is particularly important. Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff TC/03G,LLC. Articles of organization appreciate the resonances of this is where the relentless first person (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCI- filed with the secretary of state of New ZOA is not afraid to be unpopular. sentence. A synagogue is a “house of singular, the “I,” falls silent for a ATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, York(SSNY) on 10/20/2017 Office And I think that that is probably G-d.” Prayer is “the gate of heaven.” moment and we become aware Fishkill, New York, 12524, 845.897.1600 location: Bronx County SSNY has been the quality that is most desperately The result of prayer – if we have that we are not the centre of the Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure designated as the agent of the LLC needed today in political discourse and sale granted herein on or about upon whom process against it may truly opened our heart – is to know universe. There is a reality outside. generally, but speaking as a Jew, in November 28, 2016, I will sell at Public be served. SSNY shall Mail copy of the that “G-d is in this place, and I did That is a moment of transforma- Jewish discourse particularly.” Auction to the highest bidder in Room process to: M. Ross & Associates,LLC not know it.” There is, though, one tion. If we could only stop asking This probably won’t make me 224 OF Kings County Supreme Court, 560 Sylvan Ave., Englewood cliffs nuance in the text that is missed the question, “How does this affect 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY New Jersey 07632 Purpose: all lawful too popular with Stephens, but in translation, and it took the me?” we would see that we are 11201. On December 21, 2017 at 2:30 activity here it is: he had it more right in Hassidic masters to remind us of it. surrounded by miracles. There is pm. Premises known as 41 LOGAN AJ; 11/24;12/1/8/15/22/29 California back in 2015 than he did Hebrew verbs carry with them, in the almost infinite complexity and STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11208- in his recent Times column. 1312 Block: 4102 Lot: 4 ALL THAT Notice of formation of limited liability their declensions, an indication of beauty of the natural world. There CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL company(LLC). Name: LOLLYGAG, their subject. Thus the word yadati is the Divine word, our greatest OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS LLC. Articles of organization filed means “I knew,” and lo yadati, “I did legacy as Jews, the library of books AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON with the secretary of state of New not know.” When Jacob wakes from we call the Bible. And there is the LEGAL NOTICE ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND York(SSNY) on 09/06/2017. Office his sleep, however, he says, “Surely unparalleled drama, spreading over BEING IN THE BOROUGH OF location: Bronx County.SSNY has been the Lord is in this place ve’anokhi forty centuries, of the tragedies and BROOKLYN, COUNTY OF KINGS, designated as the agent of the LLC Continued from Page A9 lo yadati.” Anokhi means “I.” In triumphs that have befallen the CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK. upon whom process against it may this sentence, it is superfluous. To Jewish people. Respectively, these Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure As more particularly described in the be served. SSNY shall Mail copy of the and sale entered on May 11, 2017 I, judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold process to: Cheyenne Moseley Legal- translate it literally we would have represent the three dimensions the undersigned Referee will sell at subject to all of the terms and condi- zoom.com, Inc. 101 N Brand Blvd 10th to say, “And I, I did not know it.” of our knowledge of G-d: creation public auction to the highest bidder tions contained in said judgment and floor Glendale Ca. 91203. Purpose: all Why the double “I”? To this, Rabbi (G-d in nature), revelation (G-d in at ROOM 224 F/K/A ROOM 274 OF terms of sale. Approximate amount of lawful activity Pinchas Horowitz (Panim Yafot) holy words) and redemption (G-d KINGS COUNTY SUPREME COURT, judgment $57,813.40 plus interest and AJ; 11/24;12/1/8/15/22/29 gave a magnificent answer. How in history). 360 ADAMS STREET, BROOKLYN, costs. INDEX NO. 508093/2015 Mark do we come to know that ” G-d is in Sometimes it takes a great crisis NEW YORK 11201 on December 14, A. Longo, Esq., Referee Notice of formation of limited liability this place”? By ve’anokhi lo yadati to make us realise how self-centred 2017 at 2:30 PM premises known as AJ; 11/17/24;12/1/8/ company(LLC) Name: BROOKS AND 1050 East 86th Street, Brooklyn, NY GAYLES DAY CARE LLC.Articles – not knowing the I. We know G-d we have been. The only question 11236. ALL that certain plot, piece LEGAL NOTICE OF POSTPONE- of organization filed with the Secre- when we forget the self. We sense strong enough to endow existence or parcel of land, with the buildings MENT OF SALE SUPREME COURT tary of State of New York(SSNY) on the “Thou” of the Divine presence with meaning is not, “What do I need and improvements thereon erected, - COUNTY OF KINGS JAMES 11/14/2017. Office location: Bronx when we move beyond the “I” of from life?” but “What does life need situate, lying and being in the Borough B. NUTTER & COMPANY, Plain- county.SSNY has been designated egocentricity. Only when we stop from me?” That is the question we of Brooklyn, County of KINGS, City tiff -against- GISELE CADET AKA as the agent of the LLC Upon whom thinking about ourselves, do we hear when we truly pray. More than and State of New York. Block: 8037 GISELE NICHOLAS ADA GISELE process against it may be served. become truly open to the world and prayer is an act of speaking, it is an Lot: 172 Approximate amount of NICOLAS CADET AS HEIR AT LAW SSNY shall Mail copy of the process to: AND NEXT OF KIN OF THE ESTATE Petrina T Brown 1930 Schieffelin Ave the Creator of the world. act of listening – to what G-d wants lien $731,132.32 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject OF GERARD CADET; ETC..., et al Bronx, NY 10466 purpose: all lawful This answers some of the great from us, here, now. What we discover to provisions of filed judgment Index Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment activity questions about prayer. What differ- – if we are able to create that silence # 505895/2015 Joel E. Abramson, of Foreclosure and Sale dated AJ; 11/24;12/1/8/15/22/29 ence does it make? Does it really in the soul – is that we are not alone. Esq., REFEREE STEIN, WIENER AND September 11, 2017 and entered on www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2017 A11 Social.

Australian Rock Star Nick Cave to Boycotters: ‘I Love Israel’

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Australian rock star Nick Cave is facing backlash from BDS supporters following a performance in Tel Aviv, where he accused the anti-Israel movement of trying to bully and censor him. In a statement on Tuesday, former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, a leader of the boycott of Israel by performing artists, said he “read Nick Cave’s press conference statements with a mixture of sorrow, rage and disbelief.” Israeli soccer star Eran Zahavi. Photo: Nir Keidar via Wikimedia Commons. “What if it was your demolished home? Your invaded country? Your villages razed to the ground to build stadiums for the invaders to promote pop Israeli Soccer Star Named Most concerts on?” Waters said. “Nick thinks this is about censorship of his music? What? Nick, with all due Valuable Player in Chinese League respect, your music is irrelevant to this issue, so is

BY JNS.ORG Th e Israeli player has a $7 million annual contract with the Chinese team that ends in 2020. Israeli soccer star Eran Zahavi was named this Before playing professional soccer in China, Zahavi year’s most valuable player in the Chinese Super League spent the majority of his career in Israel with the Hapoel (CSL) last weekend. Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv clubs. He also played Zahavi, 30, garnered the award after a season in briefl y in Italy and was the captain of Israel’s national which he scored 27 goals, just one short of the league soccer team. record. Nick Cave. Photo: Wikipedia.

mine, so is Brian Eno’s, so is Beethoven’s….Th is isn’t about music, it’s about human rights.” During a press conference prior to his perfor- mance on Sunday in Tel Aviv, Cave said he had faced Miss Israel, Miss Iraq Find ‘Peace pressure from the BDS movement to cancel his shows in Israel, and that he had been approached by record producer Brian Eno to sign a boycott list. But Cave and Love’ Amid Mideast Tensions said he wanted to take a “principled stand against anyone who wants to censor and silence musicians.” “On a very intuitive level I did not want to sign that [boycott], there was something that stunk to me BY JNS.ORG water in recent years. In 2015, Miss Lebanon, Saly Greige, about that list,” Cave said. nearly lost her title after she posted a photo on social “So at the end of the day, there are two reasons In a rare sign of Middle East solidarity, Miss Israel media appearing with Miss Israel, Doron Matalon. In why I’m here. One is that I love Israel and I love Israeli Adar Gandelsman and Miss Iraq Sarah Idan took to August, dual Swedish-Lebanese citizen Amanda Hanna, people, and two is to make a principled stand against social media to put friendship over division ahead of the who won the Miss Lebanon Emigrant 2017 competi- anyone who wants to censor and silence musicians. Miss Universe competition later this month. tion, was stripped of her title after it was revealed that So really, you could say in a way that the BDS made Gandelsman on Tuesday posted a picture with she had visited Israel using her Swedish passport on an me play Israel,” he said. Idan on Instagram, saying, “Get to know, this is Miss Iraq academic trip in 2016. and she’s amazing,” followed by a heart emoji. On her Instagram page, Idan also posted the picture, along with the caption “peace and love from Miss Iraq and Miss Israel.” Like many Arab countries, Iraq does not recognize Israel and is openly hostile towards the Jewish state. Yet Israel and Iraq’s Kurdish community, which the Jewish state backed for independence from Iraq in September, do enjoy warm relations. Idan, 27, from Baghdad, and Gandelsman, 19, from Ashkelon, will compete at the Miss Universe pageant in late November in Las Vegas. Despite the warm social media posts, fraternizing Miss Israel Adar Gandelsman’s Instagram post. Nick Cave. Photo: kingArthur_aus with Israel has landed other Arab beauty queens in hot Photo: Screenshot. www.algemeiner.com Attention Not-For-Profit Organizations

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