THE JEWISH STANDARD JUNE 30, 2019 1929 - 2019 NINETY YEARS OF SERVICE TO CANADIAN JEWRY - www.thejewishstandardmag.com CANADIAN JEWRY TO YEARS OF SERVICE 1929 - 2019 NINETY (Cover story on page 5) 2 The Jewish Standard, June 30, 2019 Three Congresswomen Jews MICHAEL HAYMAN PUBLISHER AND Can Live Without EDITOR They are the darlings of the And who stands shoulder to mainstream liberal media. They shoulder with her? The anti- JULIUS HAYMAN are fawned over by talk show Semitic Nation of Islam leader PUBLISHER AND EDITOR hosts Stephen Colbert, Seth Louis Farrakham, who urges 1937-2000 Meyers and Trevor Noah. It may Omar to keep reminding be true that unlike white Americans that “Israel and supremacists they do not pose a AIPAC pays off senators and con- physical threat to Jews attending gressmen to do their bidding.” synagogue services or families Joining Omar and Tlaid in enjoying leisure time at a com- their anti-Israel vendetta is munity center. But the three Ocasio-Cortez, her Jewish her- freshmen Democratic congress- itage and her tepid support for women, Rashida Tlaid, Ilhan Omar, a two state solution notwith- and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are standing. The attacks from a menace that Jews best not ignore. Gaza are nothing more than All three falsify history, smear adolescents making a nuisance Israel and unapologetically promote of themselves and Israel’s the all too familiar anti-Semitic response is nothing short of a tropes. “massacre. She implies that Tlaib’s imaginary version of American Jews are overly sensitive history reveals her ignorance of and asks why Congress doesn’t the land she calls her ancestral condemn bigotry when other homeland. It was the Palestinians minority groups are targeted. The who lost their homes in the “name congresswoman also has a new of trying to create a safe haven for pen pall. It’s that paragon of Jews, post Holocaust”, she virtue Jeremy Corbyn. laments. Pro Israel lawmakers, We acknowledge the right she claims, “forget what country of the three amigos to promote they represent”. Tlaib undoubtedly their progressive agenda. But shares the Palestinian Authority that agenda, which includes view that the recent decision of the transforming the United States German parliament to label the BDS into a socialist entity, makes movement as anti-Semitic is the Jews and Israel one of its prime result of Israel’s invoking the victims. Halie Soifer, Executive Holocaust to “blackmail” European Director of the Democratic countries. And at a swearing in cele- Council of America, is of course bration she proudly poses for a correct when she says that it is photo-op with the extremist Abbas “ridiculous to argue that Hamideh, who has equated Democrats hate Jewish people”. Zionism to Nazism and called But the reverential treatment these Israel a “terrorist entity”. squadmates are receiving among ANITA SURMAN And then there are the Jew the progressive wing of her party GENERAL NEWS baiting rantings of Ilhan Omar should make every Jew feel EDITOR who tells a podcast host that “It’s uncomfortable. We can only hope all about the Benjamins, baby!” that when Democrats meet at their and that she “wants to talk about convention in 2020 they choose a the political influence in this candidate who will give Tlaib, Omar country that says it’s ok to push and Octavia-Cortez an extended allegiance to a foreign country time-out. The Jewish Standard is published monthly in Toronto and Montreal by Michael Hayman, B.A., M.A., Editor and Publisher. 1110 Finch Ave W, Suite 1029, Toronto, ON M3J 3M2. (905 417-5252) 4340 Walkley, Montreal, Quebec H4B 2K5 1-866-825-2944 Printed and bound in Toronto, Canada by Regal Press Canada. Publication Mail Registration Number 40715545 The Jewish Standard, June 30, 2019 3 THE WORLD IN REVIEW NEWS OF THE RECENT PAST IS REVIEWED By NOAH FREEDMAN British Jewry anti-Semitism become some parliament to reverse this blatant anti-Semitism. Loses a Friend sort of pawn,” said Arkush. year’s de facto ban on pro- Vlaams Blok, who founded “We felt May had our back ducing halal and kosher its predecessor the Finish For Theresa May’s without leveraging the meet in two of Belgium’s Black in 1979, was convict- enemies her departure issue”. three states. He also wants ed of being a racist. The could not have come soon to “do something about New Flemish alliance won enough. But for British First Ever Orthodox Jew things that concern me, 15% of the vote, after Jewry, whether supporters Elected in Belgium including immigration, ter- receiving only 4 percent in rorism and extremism”. “It 2016. It elected 18 seats up of Brexit or among those is not normal”, he says “that from three. who want a second referen- Michael Freilich, dum, her exit is being greet- heavily armed soldiers still who edited the Antwerp ed with considerable sad- have to guard our schools Joods Actueel monthly for Jerusalem Rabbi ness. “Prime Minister May”, and streets.” 12 years before entering says Jonathan Arkush, the Despite Freilich’s Ordains Gay Student politics, has become the former president of the victory, the New Flemish first Orthodox Jew to be Board of Deputies of British Alliance lost eight seats, Daniel Atwood a gay elected to the Belgium fed- Jews, “followed a line of even though it remains the 27-year-old rabbinical stu- eral parliament. Freilich what you might consider largest party with 25 seats. dent at New York’s Yishivat was number 5 on the list of leaders who are attentive to Of concern is that the real Chovevei Torah, was intially the center-right New the Jewish community, as winner in the election was told that the school would Flemish Alliance and well as to Israel”. The the Flemish Interest party, ordain him after he complet- received 13,000 votes from Board’s current president, whose founders included ed his studies. But the lib- Marie van der Zyl, called Jews and non Jews in collaborators with Nazi eral Orthodox seminary May a “true friend” of the Antwerp. Freilich, 38, has Germany and whose law- reversed its decision forcing Jewish community. set his sights on getting makers are known for their Atwood to look elsewhere. May’s government Rabbi Dov Linzer, the adopted the International school’s president, said Holocaust Remembrance that the decision was due to Agency’s definition of anti- something that happened Semitism. It blacklisted all some six months ago. He of Hezbollah, not just its would not be specific but it military wing. The United is generally agreed that the Kingdom led Europe in vot- school drew the line when ing against a permanent Atwood and his partner got article against Israel in the engaged on the stage of a United National Human concert in New York and Rights Council. Her govern- kissed after making the ment also helped facilitate announcement. Prince William’s visit to Jerusalem rabbi Israel, ending an unofficial Daniel Landes, former long- boycott of Israel by senior time head of the co-ed, non- members of the Royal denominational Pardes Family. And she made it Institute of Jewish Studies, quite clear that the would announced that he would reject any attempt by the ISRAEL PRESIDENT REUVIN RIVLIN MEETS WITH ordain Atwood during a semi- Foreign Office to appear Premier Doug Ford on his whirlwind visit to chah ceremony for a group of impartial on the historical Canada. “During our meeting, “said the premier, his students. Landes has significance of the Balfour previously rocked the boat by Declaration. “we reflected on Ontario's good fortune to have granting ordination to But what British large and active Jewish and Israeli communities Orthodox women. Jewry most appreciated was that act as important bridges between our “I wouldn’t have May’s refusal to use the economies and societies. Maintaining these strong done it”, said Landes, anti-Semitism crisis within economic, political, cultural and social ties will “unless he took a thorough the Labour Party for the test and I had heard from benefit of the Conservatives. strengthen our trade and investment relationship, others that he knew his “It would have been very and support innovation and collaboration across stuff”. Landes described harmful had the fight against various sectors.” (Please turn to page 13) 4 The Jewish Standard, June 30, 2019 THE WARSAW GHETTO MEDICAL SCHOOL CANADIAN HELPS UNDERGROUND SCHOOL ENDURE AS A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION Submitted by CEDARS-SINAI As death closed in most a dozen, survived the It's a story of courage pitted to recognize Yom Ha'Shoah on the Jews of the Warsaw massive deportations to against carnage. It's a story —also known as Holocaust Ghetto during World War II, death camps that began in of defiance pitted against Remembrance Day—on May some of those coping amid July 1942, the destruction domination, but most of all, 2. It's also a key part of the the wretched conditions of the ghetto in May 1943 it is a story of the essence of history of the Jewish affirmed life in an extraordi- and the rest of the education pitted against the Contributions to Medicine nary way: They operated a Holocaust. essence of attempted cul- mural by artist Terry clandestine medical school. Yet for Leo A. tural annihilation," Gordon Schoonhoven in the Harvey By one estimate, as Gordon, MD, a surgeon on said. Morse Auditorium. many as 500 students the Cedars-Sinai staff for 40 The secret school Gordon has been received some medical edu- years, the short-lived secret never had an actual name. captivated by the story of cation through the school school endures as a source But Gordon calls it "The the medical school since while it operated for 15 of inspiration.