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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 44, NO. 33 APRIL 17, 2020 23 NISAN, 5780 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ From works of art to face shields

Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 A Magen David Adom medical worker collects samples for coronavirus testing at the entrance to the East Jerusalem village of Jabel Mukaber, April 2, 2020. Daniel Ostrov and Stephanie Cole assemble face shields in Kohelet Yeshiva High School’s “fab lab.”

Israeli researchers believe coronavirus By Josefin Dolsten was well equipped to make face shields—a transparent (JTA)—On a typical day, acrylic that covers medical vaccine testing could commence by June the art center at Kohelet providers’ entire faces to (JNS)—Israeli researchers said they will then likely expand to the general The group, funded partially by a NIS Yeshiva High School in sub- protect against bacteria and are days away from finishing production population, Katz said, adding that he 30 million ($8,225,600) grant from urban Philadelphia is filled viruses that can be present in of the active component of a coronavirus believes the vaccine will be available Israel’s Ministry of Science and Tech- with students working on droplets when patients cough vaccine that could be tested on humans first in Israel. nology, is working with regulators to a range of projects—from or sneeze. The lab’s laser cut- starting June 1. MIGAL said in late February that it ensure that the vaccine is safe to try making ceramic bowls on ter could be used to cut the “We are in the final stages and within would complete production of its vac- on humans. the pottery wheels to creat- acrylic and 3-D printers could a few days we will hold the proteins—the cine within three weeks and have it on Katz said because it will be an oral ing wooden sculptures. They make straps to hold the shield active component of the vaccine,” Dr. the market in three months, but Katz vaccine, “the quality of this kind of vac- use the 3-D printer and laser together. Chen Katz, group leader of the bio- explained to the Post that the process cine should be closer to food regulations cutter to build parts for the There was one problem: technology group at the MIGAL Galilee was delayed because it took longer than pharma regulations or somewhere robotics team. The shield required a cer- Research Institute, told The Jerusalem than anticipated to receive the genetic in between. We hope that we will not need But since the school went tain type of elastic strip to Post on Tuesday. construct they ordered from China, due to go through the complete purification virtual more than two weeks go around the wearer’s head The human trials will be conducted airways being closed and the product process like in the drug industry because ago, the 1,300-square-foot and local suppliers were on “young, healthy individuals” and needing to be rerouted. that could delay us.” center has been used to make running short. So Perl put an entirely different project: out a call on social media. face shields for medical pro- Within hours he had received fessionals treating coronavi- responses from people who VITAS chaplain ensures Holocaust rus patients. were offering up elastic they Since starting production had at home—some went as last week, the school in Mer- far as cutting it out of their survivor receives overdue recognition ion Station has made about children’s clothing and cloth 200 shields for distribution diapers. When VITAS® Healthcare weak from a long fight against to doctors and nurses in the “The response was stun- Chaplain Nicolle Grasse met advanced heart failure. community. Now it’s ramping ning,” the rabbi said. Adele Laznowski Zaveduk in Zaveduk had been receiving up production to produce that With all the materials early January in the home she care from VITAS for only a few many every day. in hand, Ostrov and wife shared with her husband, the days. Her doctors expected she “The need is overwhelm- Stephanie Cole, a graphic 82-year-old woman was visibly had only a few weeks to live. ing. Every major hospital and designer, were able to craft a Yet her eyes shone brightly as minor hospital in this area prototype that was approved she thumbed through a box has been reaching out,” said by a local hospital. On the brimming with envelopes, Rabbi Gil Perl, the head of the night of March 24, Perl deliv- each bearing her name and Modern Orthodox day school, ered the first batch of shields address scrawled by a child’s which has 260 students. to parents of students who hand. A number of schools and work as medical providers. For 25 years, she had other organizations across The following day he dropped educated children about her the country are attempt- off shields at a local hospital. experiences as one of the ing to alleviate the supply The husband-wife duo, Holocaust’s “hidden children” shortage. Some are sewing both of whom also work as in hope that shining light masks by hand or using sew- artists, were able to make on modern history’s darkest ing machines, while others, about 24 face shields a day period might prevent it from Adele Zaveduk holding her Certificate of Appreciation, like Kohelet, are using more using the method. But while reoccurring. with her husband, Ben, beside her. advanced technology. the laser cutter could quickly What her family did not Just last year, the school trim the acrylic, production know, however, is that Za- however, ensured she received much to educate children refurbished its arts center, was being slowed down by veduk’s own Holocaust experi- the recognition and closure and advocate for education,” adding a fabrication labora- using the 3-D printers, each ences had prevented her from she desperately wanted and said Grasse. tory, nicknamed the “fab lab,” of which takes six hours completing her own educa- richly deserved. Grasse, in Born in France in 1937, that includes the laser cutter to print the straps for four tion. She had never finished particular, reached out to her Adele Laznowski was five and three 3-D printers. high school, never earned a contacts at Elmhurst College when her parents were sent to A little over a week ago, Perl Sheilds on page 15A college degree—a fact that in Chicago and its Holocaust the Auschwitz concentration and the school’s art teacher, surprised even her husband of organization for assistance. camp. Her mother arranged Daniel Ostrov, learned that 63 years, Ben, when Zaveduk Zaveduk’s secret for Zaveduk and her sister to other schools were using revealed it just weeks before “Adele was deeply sad about be raised by a Catholic family. those same supplies to make she died. having never received a di- lifesaving supplies. They Zaveduk’s VITAS care team, ploma, as she had done so VITAS on page 15A quickly realized his school PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 17, 2020 Kinneret Apartments and KCOA issue heightened COVID-19 protocols bership in LeadingAge Flor- • Signs have been posted ated for Kinneret Residents town Orlando, Kinneret ida, we are working closely throughout the two-building so that they may commu- Apartments provides afford- with the governor’s office, complex with reminders on nicate with other residents able, independent senior the Florida Department of healthy habits along with and adult coloring books housing with amenities and Health, the Department of the no visitor policy posted and other individual activity social activities that enhance Elder Affairs, the Agency for at each entrance. items are being distributed the lives of our residents. 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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 17, 2020 PAGE 3A Israeli missile-production line starts churning out much-needed ventilators Israeli missile-production health and defense establish- the materials needed for pro- line starts churning out ments to see how we can call duction and has the logistical much-needed ventilators up our capabilities to assist.” prowess to get hundreds of By Yaakov Lappin IAI is working with gov- ventilation systems rolling off (JNS)—In ordinary times, ernment-owned companies the production line by next Israel Aerospace Industries and start-ups on multiple task week. “The infrastructure, Systems Missiles Space group forces aimed at finding new equipment, electronics and churns out advanced missiles, solutions to the pandemic. precision that are needed to including interceptors used After being put in touch with make missiles fit the produc- by the Arrow 2 and Arrow Inovytec via the Defense Min- tion of ventilators,” said the 3 defense systems. During istry, the cooperation quickly source. these extraordinary times, resulted in the production ‘Accelerate production the group has added a new line of the company’s Ventway rates even further’ production line—one that Sparrow ventilators. Avi Dadon, head of the produces hospital ventilators. “This is a proven machine DOPP, stated, “Once we were As Israel, like many coun- in use in Israeli hospitals and assigned the task of acquiring tries, grapples with a shortage abroad,” the source said. But and producing a maximum of ventilators in the face of a Inovytec’s small size meant number of ventilators in a potential tidal wave of vulner- it could not rapidly shift to short period of time, we saw able coronavirus patients, IAI mass production. As a result, the immediate mobilization of teamed up with Ra’anana- IAI entered the picture with the local industry. A high-tech based Inovytec, which spe- its factory, engineers, techni- medical company, working cializes in the production of cians, and infrastructure, who with the excellent defense emergency medical systems, normally work on building industry and the Ministry of to get the new production line missiles and satellites. Both Defense, has been able to de- Israel Aerospace Industries new ventilator production line. going quickly. types of production require liver an advanced production The new cooperation pro- great precision and technical line that already issues dozens is needed for the production and flown in. Those target Yossi Cohen, who stated, “My gram, which is being con- checks, the source explained. of advanced respirators within of these crucial ventilators.” numbers appear to have central objective is procure- ducted together with the De- The Defense Ministry de- just a few days. We are at the The new production line is grown substantially in recent ment and readiness for the fense Ministry’s Directorate of scribed the Ventway Sparrow beginning of the road, and one of several efforts under days, in line with potential most severe scenarios.” Production and Procurement, as “a state-of-the-art, turbine- in the coming weeks, we will way by the Defense Ministry’s worst-case scenarios. A man identified only and the Ministry of Health, powered, lightweight, easy- accelerate production rates Directorate of Production and In an extraordinary re- as H, the head of Mossad’s will soon see hundreds of to-use ventilator that enables even further.” Procurement. port aired by the Israeli Technological Branch dis- ventilators being produced, effective invasive and non-in- The Defense Ministry noted The DOPP is also oversee- investigative program, Uvda cussed how his organiza- giving Israel a domestic mass vasive mechanical ventilation on Tuesday that “all the ing the purchase of medical on Channel 22 this week, a tion joined forces with the production capability. for both adults and children. parties involved are facing equipment and protective Mossad official in charge of a Health Ministry and brought The new line was set up The ventilator has been tested challenges in the interna- gear, including ventilators joint operations room at Tel its operational expertise to in a matter of days, and has for compliance with the most tional chain of supply and and masks, abroad. Under Hashomer Hospital, involving the unprecedented overseas already produced and tested stringent medical standards, dealing with record demand the DOPP’s plan, drawn up health and defense officials, purchasing operation. The dozens of machines. and is currently used in hos- and difficulty in purchasing together with the Health Min- shed light on the overseas Mossad has been instructed “The issue of ventilators pitals and emergency medical components. As a result, all istry, this will include 2,500 operation aimed at getting to bring to Israel more than is a significant bottleneck,” centers in Israel and around of the relevant bodies in the ventilation machines—1,000 hold of the machines. 130 million items in the next an IAI source told JNS. “We the world.” State of Israel have joined assembled in Israel and an- The program also featured have been in contact with the IAI is also able to procure forces in order to achieve what other 1,500 bought abroad comments by Mossad director Ventilators on page 15A Keir Starmer, who has vowed to fight anti-Semitism, replaces Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Britain’s Labour Party By Cnaan Liphshiz success by the return of Jew- original borders of 1948” but with cautious optimism to increases for the United King- Minister Boris Johnson’s Con- ish members and those who never publicly supported Zion- Starmer’s election as party dom’s wealthiest and pushing servative Party. (JTA)—A British lawmaker felt that they could no longer ism and had a long involve- leader. for tuition to be abolished at Now, Starmer will preside who has said that he supports support us.” ment in anti-Israel activism. “We have always said that public universities. over the party at a time when Zionism will replace Jeremy In February, Starmer, a Under Corbyn’s leader- the Labour Party leader will But Starmer strongly op- none of those issues can take Corbyn as the head of Britain’s 57-year-old human rights ship, Labour had perceived be judged on his actions posed Brexit, an issue on center stage, as the corona- Labour Party. lawyer, told The Jewish News delays and inconsistencies in rather than his words and which Corbyn had remained virus pandemic occupies the Keir Starmer, who man- that he would tackle anti- its handling of thousands of this remains the case today,” noncommittal in what crit- government. Starmer has aged the party’s Brexit ap- Semitism within the Labour complaints about anti-Semitic Marie van der Zyl, the Board’s ics said reflected the radical criticized Johnson’s early proach under Corbyn, won Party “from day one” if elected speech or actions by its mem- president, said in a statement anti-globalist politics of his response to the pandemic but 52 percent of the vote in the party’s leader. He told bers, and in 2018 it became the congratulating Starmer. base. Corbyn said he would vowed to work with the prime the Labour leadership elec- the news organization that first mainstream British party Starmer shares many of not stand for reelection after minister, who has tested posi- tion, whose results were his wife, attorney Victoria to be investigated for anti- Corbyn’s left-of-center posi- Labour lost by a large margin tive for the disease, to manage announced Saturday. His Alexander, comes from a Semitism by the government’s tions, including seeking tax the general elections to Prime its spread within Britain. share of the votes was almost Jewish family and has family equality watchdog. That probe double that of the runner-up, in Israel, where he said he is still pending. Rebecca Long-Bailey, a close hoped to travel soon with his Corbyn apologized mul- ally of Corbyn. two children. tiple times for Labour anti- Pakistan rearrests four men In his victory speech Sat- “I absolutely support the Semitism, most recently in urday, Starmer apologized right of Israel to exist as a December, and pledged to acquitted in Daniel Pearl murder case for how the party has handled homeland,” Starmer told root it out. anti-Semitism within its the magazine. He added, “I But on Saturday, the Board (JNS)—The four men ac- ranks and committed to mak- support Zionism without of Deputies of British Jews, quitted in the 2002 kidnap- ing change. qualification.” a community leadership ping and murder of Wall “Anti-Semitism has been Those comments set him umbrella group, said that Street Journal reporter Daniel a stain on our party,” he apart from Corbyn, who in under Corbyn, “anti-Jewish Pearl in Pakistan have been said, vowing to “tear out this 2016 said “Israel has the right racism has been allowed to rearrested and will remain in poison by its roots and judge to exist” in what he called “the run amok.” The group reacted custody pending prosecutors appealing the ruling in the country’s Supreme Court, announced Pakistan’s interior 4.3 magnitude earthquake ministry on Friday. Three were handed life sentences, and a fourth, shakes southern Israel Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, was awaiting execution. The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered (JNS)—A 4.3-magnitude Various residents of Eilat, as “I did not understand what Karachi court last week re- by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. earthquake hit Israel’s south quoted by Ynet, were shaken happened but my heart was duced Sheikh’s sentence to on Sunday morning, ac- awake by the tremblor, which pounding,” she said. seven years for kidnapping The statement emphasized Wells, read: “We welcome cording to the Geophysical hit just after 5 a.m. Though recent earth- following the hearing of an the government’s “commit- #Pakistan’s April 3 statement Institute of Israel. “Storms, coronavirus and quakes in Israel have not appeal last month. ment to follow due process and the Sindh government’s According to the institute, now earthquake, what else? been strong, Dr. Ron Avni Following worldwide out- under the laws of the country decision to continue to detain the earthquake epicenter The 10 plagues? God save of Ben-Gurion University of rage to the overturning of to bring terrorists to task.” those responsible for Daniel was around 62 miles south us,” said Eilat resident Galit the Negev warned that they the convictions, the four A Twitter post by the U.S. Pearl’s kidnapping and mur- of Eilat in an area known as Adler Malka, according to show that the Great Rift Val- have been rearrested and will State Department Bureau of der and to mount a strong the Great Rift Valley—the the report. ley is active and could cause remain behind bars “for a pe- South and Central Asian Af- appeal. The perpetrators of edge of a tectonic plate in Zehava Attia, another Eilat great damage in Israel in the riod of three months pending fairs, signed with the initials of this horrific act of terrorism Israel that runs parallel to resident, said that she woke foreseeable future, according filing of the appeal,” said the Acting Assistant Secretary for will not escape justice.” the Jordan River. up as her bed began to shake. to Ynet. interior ministry. South and Central Asia Alice PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 17, 2020 Economic preparations for the post-coronavirus era

By Manfred Gerstenfeld ciency assessments will have to be undertaken The other is a possible trend in which some economic cost in terms of lost GDP and greatly on an ongoing basis. Large-scale waste and citizens view others’ civil rights as obstacles increased national unemployment against the (JNS)—The coronavirus pandemic has led abuse in such a fluid situation could make a to their own economic advancement. That need to take extreme measures to fight the to huge societal problems all over the world. In catastrophic situation even worse. could lead them to vote for more populist health impact of the virus? That discussion such an unprecedented reality, it is important The top priority has to be determining and authoritarian parties. The latter develop- will grow much louder in the coming weeks for governments to start planning as soon as what kinds of interventions can help return a ment could also result from the dashing of as pressure rises for a return to “normal,” possible for the period immediately after the country to a normal, albeit different, economy. expectations among parts of the population come what may. worst danger to public health has passed. Democracies ruled by politically centrist or about the extent of the help they will be The value of a human life is not a new subject Such an agenda should be constructed ahead center-right governments will want to return receiving from the government. in economics, though it is often kept out of of time, even if it is full of holes. New plans to a non-socialist type of reality as soon as pos- Checks and balances will have an important the public eye. There are many risk evaluations can be added as developments arise. sible. Mass injections of money into society will role to play in government policies, and not only in which a specific dollar figure is assigned to Among the multitude of issues govern- be required, but so will ongoing evaluations as far as economics are concerned. It remains a human life. Health care funds, to give one ments will face post-coronavirus, the hit to throughout. Countries that do not do this to be seen how the interventions will affect example, must determine the cost of expen- national economies will have to take priority. will risk falling into the trap of becoming de pre-coronavirus commitments to act against sive medication to be reimbursed against the Lockdowns and other government decisions facto socialist. human-caused climate change, for example. number of lives it can save. have destroyed significant portions of GDP for There are other risks as well. In view There will be a temptation to nationalize The sudden huge increase in unemployment many countries for this year, and unemploy- of the massive interventions that will be essential industries and financial institutions levels needs to be addressed through major ment has increased dramatically. required and the need to get results as fast that have sunk into deep trouble as a result of government measures. The temptation will Huge financial intervention by states will as possible, there will be a temptation in the crisis. Doing so only makes long-term sense be great to make state payouts to all citizens, be necessary to cope with these shocks, and some quarters toward authoritarianism. This with respect to state-owned industries where or to large groups of them. This can only be several countries have already taken initial contains two dangers. One is that those in re-nationalization would have been inevitable done on a large scale for a short time. The steps. The best means of intervening is far power may want to circumvent civic opposi- anyway. The failed British railway privatization exceptions are countries with small popula- from clear, and different governments will tion, which can be expensive and can delay and break-up come to mind. tions and significant income from oil or other take different approaches. As extremely large decision-making, by employing emergency For other corporations in such need of state natural resources. amounts of money are at stake, critical effi- measures that they then refuse to roll back. help that governments have to acquire shares, For this to work, a government service will nationalization should be only temporary. have to be set up to assist those who fall outside Israelis may remember that their government the safety net. Some businesses will have no became a shareholder of some of its large choice but to close down or enter bankruptcy, No, your quarantine is not banking institutions when the banking sector and their employees will become jobless. Many collapsed in 1983. When the banks became self-employed will be unable to restart their healthy again and the markets permitted it, jobs. Countries that had grown accustomed the government sold off its shares. to low unemployment levels will have to find comparable to Anne Frank’s In the meantime, another issue is coming By Sophie Levitt stay in contact with their friends and family. to the fore. How does one trade off the huge Prep on page 15A We have social media, FaceTime and Zoom There are quite a few things I’ve been seeing calls to help. all over my social media feeds ever since the Meanwhile, families like Anne Frank’s were spread of COVID-19 forced everyone to social forced to practically disappear from the world J Street’s line: Virus, shmirus; distance. There are the jokes about no longer to avoid being caught and taken to a concen- wearing a bra, comments about being confused tration camp. It pains me to have to say this, over what day it is and comparisons to Anne but these conditions are not remotely similar let’s focus on the Palestinians Frank hiding in an attic. to each other. One of these things is not like the other. Of course, it is also important to emphasize By Stephen M. Flatow What the writers of the letter forgot The U.S. government recommending indi- the incredibly differing circumstances of to mention is that at the end of 2018, 68 viduals to practice social distancing in order each event. The only similarity I can draw is (JNS)—The whole world is changing—but percent of Gazans were “‘food insecure,” to prevent the spread of a deadly virus is not at that both situations are spreading a deadly not for J Street, which, virus or no virus, is still according to the United Nations’ Office for all similar to being forced into hiding to avoid illness. One is a literal sickness and the other devoting itself to persuading members of U.S. the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. the impending threat of a state-sponsored is a figurative one: Nazism. However, that’s Congress to embrace the Palestinian cause. So, in 16 months, the rate has dropped genocide. In fact, to make the comparison is not the comparison I have seen people mak- Over the past several weeks, J Street was from 68 percent to 54 percent, yet J Street egregiously offensive. So why do I keep seeing ing—they are attempting to compare the mobilizing its supporters around the country misleadingly seeks to give the impression people doing just that? isolation aspect. In the first scenario, people to urge them to “demand the administration that things are getting worse. On Twitter, if you search “Anne Frank” now, across the globe are isolating to avoid spread- release vital assistance to help the Palestinians There are, by the way, other economic in- you will find an abundance of users tweeting ing COVID-19. In the second, the people were combat the coronavirus pandemic.” dicators that tell a similar story. For example, about how they now know exactly how Anne hiding to avoid Nazis who wanted to eliminate Think about that. In the midst of an epidemic we are constantly hearing about the high Frank felt after a week in quarantine. Some of their entire race. that has left U.S. hospitals desperately short unemployment rate in Gaza. That same U.N. these even go as far as to say that Anne Frank If I wanted to give people today the benefit of emergency equipment and has resulted office reported in January that “26 percent of had it much better than us right now. And I of the doubt, I could say that some of the in millions of Americans losing their jobs, J the Gaza workforce is unemployed.” But if you feel like I am losing my mind. tweets I have seen were made out of ignorance. Street is trying to convince the government to check the CIA World Factbook—one of the There are so many things wrong with this; But many are so clearly offensive, there is give millions of taxpayers’ dollars to two anti- most authoritative sources of information on let me count the ways. no questioning that they are intentionally American terrorist regimes: the Palestinian conditions around the world—you find that First, timing. Anne Frank’s family was in anti-Semitic. Authority and Hamas. unemployment in Gaza was 26.1 percent in hiding for a total of 25 months before they Some of these tweets, like the one above, Talk about tone-deaf! Completely oblivious 2016 and 27.9 percent in 2017 (the most recent were discovered by the Gestapo in August 1944. even imply that Anne Frank was lying. One to the suffering of American citizens, J Street’s data available). Most of us are still in our first weeks or month can claim it’s just a “joke,” but with Holocaust top priority is to give American money to two So, where’s the big crisis? of social distancing. Fourteen days versus 761 denial rising steadily, tweets like these just of the most vicious America-hating regimes The congressional letter asserts that “ac- days. Not exactly the same. encourage it. in the world. cording to the United Nations, 38 percent of Another variable are the spaces in which Tweets like these are damaging to the Jewish It’s not just a matter of priorities. It’s not [Gaza] residents live in poverty.” Do you know people are stuck. In the case of the Franks, and Romani communities, and are mocking just that most Americans don’t want their what the poverty rate in Gaza was 10 years ago, eight people were stuck inside a small annex the Holocaust and the current pandemic. money going to anti-American regimes. It’s in 2010? You guessed it—38 percent. that had approximately 450 square feet of floor The murder of over 6 million Jews and also a matter of funding terrorists. The congressional letter also claims that space. Anne herself wrote that it was relatively 500,000 Romani people is continually mini- The P.A. proudly pays salaries to imprisoned “more than 90 percent of [Gaza’s] water is luxurious compared to where many other Jew- mized with every tweet. With every retweet and terrorists and families of dead terrorists. ‘undrinkable.’ ” The members of Congress who ish people were forced to hide. The eight people like, their genocide continues to be diminished. Foreign aid is fungible. If the United States signed the letter no doubt would be surprised in this annex could not leave, and the only way It is already hard enough to deal with the gives the P.A. money for one part of its bud- to learn that just six weeks ago, the World for them to get food was through a few trusted tragedy and consequences of this pandemic. get—health care—that frees up money to Bank announced that a group of countries non-Jews who could sneak in items. They also We need to stop worsening it by degrading the pay terrorists. have pledged the funds for a massive water- needed to keep the secret annex dark because memory of Anne Frank to simply the girl in Same for Hamas. Practically every week, desalination program for Gaza—$60 million light would attract attention, and it was silent quarantine and stop minimizing the memory Hamas terrorizes southern Israel with rockets will be coming from Kuwait, $42 million from because noise would do the same. of the Holocaust by comparing it to what is or flaming balloons (on March 29, it launched nine European countries and Australia, and Americans in quarantine can still go grocery going on now. a rocket into Sderot). If America sends money $15 million from the World Bank itself. shopping and do other essential tasks. We Sophie Levitt is a 17-year-old Jewish girl to Gaza for any purpose, that will enable Hamas So, at a time when Arab and European can go for walks in non-crowded spaces. We from Chicago with a strong passion for social to spend other money on terrorism. regimes are finally promising to do their can get some sun, listen to music. And social and environmental activism. Despite these facts, J Street plunged ahead part—instead of always relying on the U.S. to distancing does not mean that people cannot This story originally appeared on Alma. with its lobbying effort, and last week, a group foot the bills—J Street for some reason insists of U.S. senators and representatives sent a letter that Americans must again trot out their check THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. to the secretary of state, pleading for money to books for the Palestinian cause. be sent to the P.A. and Hamas regimes. There is, however, one hopeful sign in this ✡ ✡ ✡ CENTRAL FLORIDA’S INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICE ✡ ✡ ✡ At the time the letter was sent, the P.A. otherwise disheartening episode. 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By Jonathan Feldstein out of the synagogues with in open contradiction (the is simply confused, as the first curse you,” Wiles treacher- pastors die of the virus. It is and the virus.” failure of the app that was instances in the United States ously substitutes his perverse ‘the evil Jews’ who are being Michael L. Brown, Ph.D. Also blaming Israeli Prime used to promote a candidacy were reported in Washington theology for biblical truth, judged by God. Minister Netanyahu and of someone who did well State. But this was all the in the process, borrowing We call upon all people of In the midst of the global Jewish organizations, Wiles in Iowa) demonstrates how fuel he needed for his con- concepts from The Protocols faith to join us in denouncing coronavirus pandemic, as said, “Let me tell you Mr. Wiles has found a way to make spiratorial theories, and to of the Elders of Zion, Mein Wiles’ words, condemning his we all pray and guard Netanyahu, God is spreading his anti-Semitic cake and eat add insult to injury, he does Kampf, and other hateful anti-Semitism, and joining our behaviors in order it in your synagogues. You’re it too, with a cherry on top. this all in the name of Jesus, anti-Semitic screeds. us as Jews and Christians to ensure the health and under judgment because you And of course, he per- himself a Jew. According to Wiles, “The in standing against this safety of ourselves and of oppose his son, the Lord Jesus petuates the baseless claim Far from promoting any Jews” are guilty. Always. If incitement. We call upon all our neighbors to prevent Christ.” embraced by anti-Semitic actual sound Christian theol- there’s a crisis in the world, people of faith to stand with its spreading, noted anti- Wiles’ recent comments adherents of replacement ogy, Wiles has made himself a blame “the Jews.” And during Israel and the Jewish people, Semitic “Christian pastor” are not unique. One might say theology over the millennia, name with a history of overt a time of great and fear and rejecting a baseless theology and “broadcaster” Rick he’s never met, or invented, that “the Jews” killed Jesus, anti-Semitic slurs. These apprehension, with millions that is the polar opposite of Wiles has proven that while an anti-Semitic conspiracy ultimately meaning that all include blaming the “Jewish of lives hanging in the bal- what God expects of all of us, there will be a cure for coro- theory that he didn’t like. Jews through all generations mafia,” the “Jewish lobby,” ance, Wiles’ rhetoric is all beginning in the Beginning. navirus, there is no cure for He’s gone so far as to blame are responsible for the death calling Jews “deceivers,” the more despicable. Directly Join us, then, in standing the older and no less deadly the fumbled Iowa caucus of Jesus. With Easter coming, and Jews as both domestic and indirectly, he potentially together and speaking out, virus of Jew-hatred. results earlier this year on the time when Christians and foreign “enemies.” In incites violence. Jews and Christians, united Most recently, Wiles said “the Jews.” celebrate Jesus’ resurrec- November, Wiles infamously It is true, of course, that against the enemies of Israel, that the coronavirus is Before the outbreak of tion, calling out “Pastor called the effort to impeach Christians want all non- among which Wiles has set spreading via synagogues and the deadly virus, Wiles dem- Wiles” has never been more U.S. President Donald Trump Christians to accept Jesus as himself out as a dangerous is a punishment from God. onstrated the unique and timely or critical, as he, quite a “Jew coup.” Savior. But by singling out leader. “Stay out of those things, paradoxical ability of being horrifically, carries out his As an Orthodox Israeli Jew Judaism as the preeminent We pray that there will be there’s a plague in them. an anti-Semitic political dangerous incitement in and a Messianic Evangelical “false religion,” calling Jews a cure and healing from the God’s dealing with false reli- contortionist, blaming “the Jesus’ name, the name in Jew, respectively, there’s a the anti-Christ and designat- the coronavirus, and that gions,” he said in a broadcast Jews” for controlling both which countless anti-Semitic lot about which we disagree. ing all Jews “the synagogue God will heal the hearts of on his network that’s become the political right and the pogroms and murders have But the points about which of Satan,” along with singling people like Rick Wiles who one of the leading propaga- political left. One glaring taken place. This is the per- we do agree are important to out synagogues as the only spread a virus no less insipid, tors of anti-Semitism. “God’s example is his blaming “the fect time to renounce such highlight. Combating anti- houses of worship in which Jew hatred plain and simple. dealing with people who op- Jews” for the failure of the un-Christian madness. Semitism is one of these. In there is a plague, Wiles is, Michael L. Brown, Ph.D., pose his son, Jesus Christ. app that was used to count Literally embracing the short, Rick Wiles twists the by definition, anti-Semitic. is host of the Line of Fire He’s dealing with the forces Iowa caucus votes, with the age-old anti-Semitic blood Bible and does so in ways That’s why he can conve- radio broadcast and author of Antichrist. And there’s contradiction that “the Jews” libel, Wiles claimed that the that are deceitful, hateful, niently ignore the churches of “Resurrection.” a plague moving upon the also wanted to promote the COVID-19 outbreak in the and dangerous. In ignoring and mosques in which many Jonathan Feldstein is earth right now, and the success of openly gay, former United States “started” in God’s mandate in Genesis of their worshipers have been president and CEO of the people that are going into presidential candidate Mayor March at AIPAC’s conference 12:3, “I will bless those who infected, as well as look the Genesis 123 Foundation and the synagogues are coming Pete Buttigieg. That these are in Washington. Perhaps Wiles bless you and curse those who other way when Christian RunforZion.com. Solace in isolation By Jerold S. Auerbach quiet solitude. Indeed, it has Civil War buff, stimulated by ativity. Solitude, after all, my penchant for solitude, to choose my own interior reinforced them. Bruce Catton’s Army of the does not equal loneliness; within my own shell. journey. I cannot relive my (JNS)—A frightening co- Where, I am occasionally Potomac trilogy, I entered for a writer, it is necessary Solitude, after all, does life down a different path, nor incidence is upon us. As asked, is this preference for the silent portal and wound for inspiration. not equal loneliness; for a would I choose to do so. To be we are about to recite the isolation rooted? Surely, it my way up flights of stairs Over time, my collection writer, it is necessary for sure, there are many—friends plagues that preceded our began in my boyhood. For past aisles of bookshelves of antiquities from Israel inspiration. and family members among ancestors’ freedom from whatever reason, perhaps until I reached the Civil became stimuli for research Since my retirement them—for whom “only” Egyptian slavery, we endure attributable to the impact of War section. and writing. On the wall from teaching a decade ago, implies lonely (often for good the terrible plague that the Great Depression of the Delighted to discover above my computer are without lectures to prepare reason). But for me, seclusion now enslaves us in anxiety 1930s, my parents seemed Gen. George McClellan’s 19th-century lithographs or papers to grade, the quiet has provided the opportunity and fear, tragically claim- happily to have settled for memoir, I found a vacant from the Holy Land. My has been my enclosure for for contemplation and intel- ing tens of thousands of only one child. Inside our desk in a corner and began unrivaled favorite is by thinking and writing. No lectual creativity. lives and decimating com- apartment, I was the one turning its pages. To my David Roberts, the Scot- accompanying background So, amid swirling waves munities worldwide. It has and only, except for gold- surprise, many margins, tish painter whose artistry music or telephone rings are of coronavirus anxiety and imposed solitude even upon fish, then tropical fish and annotated in a scrawled and captured—some have said permitted. Only the hourly fear, I find safe refuge in the most gregarious among my favorites, turtles. I was fading script, were sharply Orientalized—biblical holy chimes of two antique clocks my study. I may have paid us, forcing us to substitute fascinated by their retreat critical of McClellan’s mili- sites. His depiction of the punctuate the silence. My a high price over many electronic satisfaction for inside their shells, as I would tary hesitancy. Turning magnificent Machpelah daytime companions, ever years for isolation, but I hugs and handshakes.To be do inside my own shell of back to the inside cover, I enclosure in Hebron, burial since I was a graduate wouldn’t trade it for any- sure, the Internet provides only-ness, unaccompanied found the inscribed signa- place of the patriarchs and student, have been cats—a thing. It is who I am, and ample opportunities for con- by loneliness. To be sure, ture of Jacob D. Cox, who matriarchs of the Jewish procession of furry felines likely to remain, for as long nection, as I have learned rewarding and enduring had served under McClellan people, is riveting. with their own genetic pref- as I live—and, inevitably, from family members and friendships were forged in at the beginning of the war. In my nearby display erence for solitude. Good forever after. friends who Zoom through our apartment building, as History, I realized, was not cases are Canaanite fertil- weather always prompts an Passover, the night that online community sites into in school, summer camp carved in stone. It was a ity figures and juglets, Bar afternoon bike ride and, in is different from all other realms beyond my imagi- and beyond. But I knew debate among participants Kokhba and King Herod all seasons except winter, nights for its testimony to nation. As I glimpse, only that solitude was my safe and between past and pres- coins, intricately engraved hours of planting perennials the power of memory, re- occasionally with interest, retreat—and best of all, it ent, inviting interpretation silver tzedakah boxes, and dead-heading in my gar- veals the fascinating irony the endless stream of email was always available. and disagreement. And its copper hanukiot and an den. They are, predictably, that our freedom is inexo- communication from within An accidental discovery mysteries could be revealed ivory yad for Torah read- solitary activities. rably linked to its rules and my own Jewish community, during my freshman year in solitude, whether in li- ing. Competing for atten- I cannot prove that my prohibitions. my instinct for quiet privacy at Oberlin College in Ohio braries, books or archives. tion (not surprisingly) are adult life as a scholar and Chag Passover Sameach! deepens. Coronavirus isola- reinforced my solitary past Six decades of reading dozens of stone turtles, writer is solely attributable to Jerold S. Auerbach is tion, except for the daily plea- and redirected its future. and writing provided my including one that served my solitary childhood. I have the author of “Print to Fit: sure of a nine-mile bike ride For our required term self-monitored opportuni- as a second century BCE oil talented and accomplished The New York Times, Zion- (now through empty streets), paper, first-year students ties for solitude, freedom lamp discovered by my son friends who grew up with ism and Israel 1896-2016,” and anticipation of garden were granted freedom of and creativity. My home in an antiquities shop in siblings. But for me, the link- which was recently selected planting and snipping has choice and access (oth- “study” (“office” seemed far the Old City of Jerusalem. age is indisputable. I became for Mosaic by Ruth Wisse not disrupted my deeply erwise restricted) to the too bureaucratic) became They are, I long ago real- who I am because from an and Martin Kramer as a embedded daily patterns of library stacks. As an avid my sanctuary, my den of cre- ized, tangible symbols of early age, I was left alone, free “Best Book” for 2019. PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 17, 2020 What’s A COMPREHENSIVE Day 17: The whimsy COMMUNITY LIGHT Happening CALENDAR SHABBAT CANDLES AT For inclusion in the What’s Happening Calendar, copy must be sent on sepa- of the wee hours rate sheet and clearly marked for Calendar. Submit copy via: e-mail (news@ APRIL 17 orlandoheritage.com); mail (P.O. Box 300742, Fern Park, FL 32730-0742); 7:35 p.m. By Carin M. Smilk (and my family) sleeps, I take any surprise. This is a house fax (407-831-0507); or drop it by the office (207 O’Brien Rd., Ste. 101, Fern ARPRIL 24 in the quiet. It’s a good time of wandering Jews. Park) Deadline is Wednesday noon, 10 days prior to publication. 7:39 p.m. (JNS)—I don’t sleep much. to write, organize photos, plan “I’m off-schedule,” he re- I never have; a good five hours the week’s dinners, RSVP for plied. was all I ever needed to feel events. To correspond with all That’s the understatement MORNING AND EVENING MINYANS refreshed and go about my day. the teacher requests that are of the year. (Please note, because of the coronavirus, all minyans have been canceled.) But in the past eight years, impossible to get to during the “Well,” I posed, “want some Chabad of South Orlando—Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Saturday, that’s dwindled down to about workday and to make lists of tea?” 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m., 407-354-3660. three hours a night (it did all the house repairs that are He paused for a second, but Congregation Ahavas Yisrael—Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 9 correlate with the birth of my impossible to get done, along then decided to get some sleep. a.m., 407-644-2500. fourth child and the fact that I with the respective sales reps As he went upstairs, I Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona—Monday, 8 a.m.; Thursday, 8 a.m., 904- moved from newspaper print you need to call to accomplish thought, when you go to bed 672-9300. to online journalism). I know that. at 4, what time do you wake? Congregation Ohev Shalom—Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-298-4650. that’s hard to believe, but it’s In the wee hours, I can I mean, at that point, you GOBOR Community Minyan at Jewish Academy of Orlando—Monday – Friday, 7:45 a.m. – true: I have the email, social- listen to news or music with- might as well roll right into 8:30 a.m. media posts and computer out ear buds, without getting the next day. Temple Israel—Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-647-3055. time logs to show for it. looks to keep the sound down. Not so long ago, that was Not that it’s something to I can sort and throw a batch filled with possibility. It meant FRIDAY, APRIL 17 brag about. Quite the con- of laundry into the washer taking a brisk walk, dropping Ahavas Yisrael—Kabbalat, 30 minutes before sundown. trary! It’s just that I can get for the next day or empty the off borrowed books at the li- so much done, and I do have dishwasher. brary, being at the post office SATURDAY, APRIL 18 an uncanny knack for staying In fact, that’s what I went when it opened to stamp your Torah Portion—Parashat Shemini: Leviticus 9:1-11:47; Haftarah: II Samuel 6:1-7:17. awake. to do last night, leaving my mail or packages, and then Of course, that was before basement hovel to check on stopping for a cup of steaming SUNDAY, APRIL19 the coronavirus. These days, it the status of clean plates and Joe to go at your neighborhood The Roth Family JCC is temporarily closed. Because of COVID-19 quarantine, Orange County can dwindle to two full hours make a cup of tea (a consum- coffee shop. is in lockdown with only essential businesses open, and residents of Seminole County are under or fits and starts of elongated mate coffee-drinker, that’s Now it means waiting op- voluntary Stay-At-Home quarantine with only essential businesses open. naps. never a good idea at certain timistically for one of the few My kids think I exaggerate. hours). The kitchen light was open markets or pharmacies FRIDAY, APRIL 24 Well, they used to, until each on, and there sat my oldest to unlock their doors at 6:59 Ahavas Yisrael—Kabbalat, 30 minutes before sundown. one of them realized it for son—the displaced college sharp, hoping to nab a roll of himself. They’ve tried to tip- student—tinkering on his toilet paper. toe into the basement to use laptop. Carin M. Smilk is the man- one of the computers to play I looked at him. He looked aging editor of JNS. a game... and BOO! There’s at me. I looked at the clock. This Reporter’s Notebook mom, tapping away on the “It’s almost 4,” I said. “What will appear starting on March keyboard. are you doing?” 16 until the end of the month Anyway, as the East Coast Notice that I did not register (or when schools reopen).

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The admissions/ The third pro- day, the school offers “Coffee school delivers a whole- gram, TAP, is a new offering and Conversation” to the child education fostering that expands the school’s aid community. The community academic excellence and to even more new families. is invited to attend Parenting character education rooted The school is working with Skills by Brenda Chappell in Jewish values. Jewish those individuals who have and Parsha and Parenting Academy of Orlando is expressed concerns and is by Head of School Alan Ru- accredited by the Florida doing its best to address sonik. These sessions will Council of Independent their needs. reconvene after Passover. Schools. • C o m m u n i t y —T h e The school’s counselor, To learn more about Jew- school continues to partici- Danielle Glover, is available ish Academy of Orlando, pate in its daily WJAO news for consultation for school’s please visit: jewishacad- program in the morning as children. emyorlando.org or follow well as its weekly Kabbalat Rusonik added, “While the school on Facebook Shabbat and Monday Morn- we are grateful for the over- facebook.com/JewishAcad- ing Minyan. In addition, the whelming positive feedback, emyOrlando/ school celebrated its first Re- we will not rest on our To learn more about Re- mote Passover Model Seder. laurels. Rather, we will con- mote Learning at Jew- • Spiritual—In addition to tinue to make our academic ish Academy of Orlando, the school’s Monday Morn- offering and remote learning please visit: https://www. ing Minyan, Kabbalat Shab- experience the best that it jewishacademyorlando.org/ bat, Passover Model Seder, can be.” remotelearning. One Jewish Academy kindergartner can hold her Teddy bear and go to school via remote learning. Jewish Academy of Or- rate of over 50 percent of • Academic—The school’s Adam Sandler pays tribute to lando continues to make families.” faculty is continuously re- improvements on remote The survey indicated that viewing and making im- learning based on parent 80 percent agree or com- provements to its academic doctors and nurses survey results. The school pletely agree that Remote offering. A new school sched- began remote learning only Learning at JAO is going ule will begin after Passover By Marcy Oster Fallon was broadcasting from light-hearted yet incredibly a day after schools across the well. Rusonik added, “We break. This schedule is his home as well. serious song. state nation were closed for know we can do even better designed to better serve JAO (JTA)—Forget about “The Sandler pulled a hoodie “We gotta build some ven- weeks or more. The admin- and we are continuing to students academically by Chanukah Song.” Actor over his baseball cap and put tilators and make some more istration conducted a parent make changes to improve providing longer face-to-face Adam Sandler’s latest ear- on sunglasses (so viewers masks / We got to now, so let’s survey to determine areas of the learning and communi- instruction from teachers worm is a tribute to doctors would not see him reading the all come together / I’m teach- success and improvement cation experience.” and needed structure for the and nurses and an exhorta- lyrics, he said) before he began ing math to my kids, and that toward its remote learning JAO parents identified five students and families. tion for people to stay home strumming on his guitar. can’t be good for America,” he offering. areas of support they fore- • Financial—The CO- to stop the spread of the “Doctors and nurses will also sang. Alan Rusonik, head of saw needing in the coming VID-19 crisis has had a coronavirus. save us from this mess if we At the end of the song, school stated, “We are grate- months: Academics, Finan- significant financial impact Sandler debuted “Quar- give them the supplies that Sandler implores listeners: ful to all of our families for cial, Community, Spiritual, on some of the school’s antine Song” from his home they need / And I hope they “Stay home as much as you their participation in our and Parenting. The school families. The school has during a guest appearance save us really soon because can, make sure to wash your remote learning survey. We is already taking steps to three financial aid programs Thursday on “The Tonight I’m getting really sick of my hands / Let’s make this damn had a tremendous response address these areas: that the school’s families Show with Jimmy Fallon.” family,” Sandler sang in the thing go away.” PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 17, 2020 Jewish NFL star Mitch Schwartz embraces his inner chef during coronavirus quarantine By Emily Burack brother Geoff, also a former his recipes and instructions. NFL lineman, he wrote the He responds to fans who (JTA)—Fresh off his Super cookbook “Eat My Schwartz: comment and is genuinely Bowl win in February, Kansas Our Story of NFL Football, enthusiastic about his subject. City Chiefs lineman Mitchell Food, Family, and Faith.” Here’s his brisket pot roast Schwartz took a vacation They tell stories about their from last week: with his wife, Brooke, to St. upbringing, being the first He started Mitch in the Lucia. Little did they know Jewish brothers in the NFL Kitch as a way to express his that when they returned, they since 1923 and their favorite passion for cooking, but also would be spending the next Jewish traditions. to connect with fans. few months holed up at home Schwartz shares that the “They obviously have an because of the coronavirus Seder is one of his favorites, interest in how you play, pandemic. and how he wishes it would but they’re also interested So Schwartz, 30, has turned “occur during the [football] in what you’re doing in your to what he loves maybe more season” so he could host a personal life, and they want than football: cooking. Passover meal for his team- to get to know you better,” Posting to his 79,000 In- mates. Schwartz told The Athletic. stagram followers using the But the bulk of “Eat My “Typically, in most house- hashtag #ChefSchwartz, the Schwartz” is food content holds, someone is cooking Jewish athlete has shared with recipes by the brothers. a meal, whether it’s once a photos of many of his favorite Cooking has always been a week or every night. Every- recipes—from waffles with passion for Schwartz, start- one has a vested interest in homemade whipped cream ing when he was a teen. He good food, so it’s just a fun Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images; Mitchell Schwartz/Instagram to bone-in ribeye to chicken explained in 2018 that he way to interact with people Mitchell Schwartz is having some fun, with food, off the gridiron. nachos. “transitioned from watching and to reach out. The re- He has essentially pivoted cartoons and sports—I still sponse has been great.” ing her a good meal or cooking couragement for others that ing to overcook something, from one of the best offen- watch sports—into watching In typical offseasons, for friends and family, you’re are trying his recipes: you’re going to undercook sive linemen in the NFL, a a lot of Food Network and Schwartz hosts his team- doing something where you His advice for those trying something. It’s all trial and Pro Bowler, to a full-on food Cooking Channel, and finding mates for a meal that he can make other people happy. to cook for the first time dur- error. It’s all fun. blogger. a way to feed myself.” cooks—there are never any It’s definitely a good feeling,” ing quarantine? “I mean, no one’s going to Schwartz is not a total Outside of his social media, leftovers. Schwartz said. “Just try it. Just have fun be too disappointed. You can stranger to being a food in- Schwartz has a food blog— “It gets a little toasty, but On Twitter, he also answers with it,” Schwartz told his always order a pizza if you fluencer, however. called Mitch in the Kitch, that’s the fun of cooking. questions from fans about local news station. “You’re need to at the end of the day!” In 2016, along with his obviously—where he posts Whether it’s my wife and mak- food and offers words of en- going to mess up, you’re go- Amen to that. ‘Blazing Saddles’ still stands as one of the great comedies—and the Mel Brooks film teaches lessons, too

By Marc Brodsky installation of a weekly col- zon, YouTube, iTunes and got a 90-minute remedy for any umn on Jewish movies and more. case of the cooped-up blues. Social distancing and TV shows that you should Family friendly? No—only “Blazing Saddles” tells the staying inside is hard. stream in quarantine. for mature audiences due to story of a ruthless scheme Thankfully, accessing good “Blazing Saddles” language and adult material hatched by a conniving aide things to watch during this Streams on: Hulu (JTA)—Confined by the named Hedley Lamarr (played time is not. This is the second Available to rent on: Ama- coronavirus plague over the by Harvey Korman) to the Passover holiday, what better inept governor (Brooks) to way to satisfy your hankering drive out the residents of the for freedom than seeing folks frontier town Rock Ridge. It’s frolicking in the wide-open about to be destroyed to make spaces of the Old West? way for a new railroad. While you’re reveling in The plan: Install a black the great outdoors, you’ll also sheriff (Cleavon Little) that be laughing uproariously. the, shall we say, racially And surprisingly learning insensitive residents will find a few lessons with Passover so offensive they’ll leave in overtones. droves. Warner Bros./Getty Images We’re talking about “Blaz- A little Yiddish story about Cleavon Little, left, and Gene Wilder in a still from “Blaz- ing Saddles,” the 1974 western Sheriff Bart: When he was a ing Saddles,” directed by Mel Brooks in 1974. HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES satire by the incomparable Mel little boy, his family was in a Brooks. It’s a film I first saw one-horse wagon train con- The film is suffused with and Korman add to the Jew- Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged as a teenager, and four-plus fronted by Native Americans the kind of Jewish humor ish mirth. exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye disorders. Protecting your eyes is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future. decades later I still say it’s the (Brooks also plays the chief). made legendary by Brooks. As for the lessons—there’s funniest ever. The Native Americans are Asked where his comedy the core principle of Juda- Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection. With the madcap Brooks, about to kill Bart’s family comes from, Brooks once told ism about welcoming the For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. you know this isn’t your ordi- when the chief mutters, “No, My Jewish Learning, a sister stranger. And love thy neigh- A public service message from The Vision Council. nary western. Add to the mix no. Zeit nishte meshuggah,” site of the Jewish Telegraphic bor. And at least one more: In that one of the writers along Yiddish for “Don’t be crazy.” Agency, in an interview: “It unity there is strength—see with Brooks is the comedy leg- Then he raises his arm to the comes from the feeling that, the people coming together end Richard Pryor and you’ve skies and exclaims, “Loze im as a Jew and as a person, you to beat their Pharaoh. gaym!” or “Let them go!” don’t fit into the mainstream Some may object to the There’s more Yiddish, too. of American society. It comes language in “Blazing Sad- The townspeople aren’t from the realization that even dles”—the use of the N word WONDERS OF exactly enamored of Bart, who though you’re better and and some unflattering terms brings in a sidekick as deputy: smarter, you’ll never belong.” for and portrayal of gays. But an alcoholic prisoner named That’s Sheriff Bart and Jim lest we forget, it’s used to poke LLC Jim (Gene Wilder). They even in a nutshell. fun at the racist thugs trying WATER use the N word, certainly ta- The amazing talents of to take over Rock Ridge. boo even back then, but used Wilder—who played a rabbi So sit back, grab a maca- Family Owned Business for shocking effect by Brooks. in “The Frisco Kid”—Kahn roon or two and enjoy. Since 1994

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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 17, 2020 PAGE 9A Scene AroundAround By Gloria Yousha—Call 407-657-9405 or [email protected] can be purchased at the following locations: ORANGE COUNTY JCC, 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland • JCC South, 11184 South Apopka-Vineland Rd., Orlando • Kinneret, 515 South Delaney A word about Passover... Ave., Orlando • SOJC, 11200 S. Apopka Vineland Rd., Orlando Our shared Jewish heritage and traditions bind our global • Brown’s New York Deli, 156 Lake Ave., Maitland • Most Publix family together, especially during difficult times. And with Supermarkets • All Winn Dixie Supermarkets Passover just ended, we recognize that this year’s commemora- tions were unlike any in recent memory as we found ourselves SEMINOLE COUNTY unable to gather with loved ones, friends and neighbors. Heritage News, 207 O’Brien Rd., Fern Park • Barnes and Noble 75 Years After A Nightmare... Booksellers, 451 E. Altamonte Dr. Suite 2317, Altamonte Springs Of course I refer to Auschwitz, which was liberated 75 & 1260 Oviedo Marketplace Blvd., Oviedo • Bagel King, 1472 years ago. Semoran Blvd., Casselberry • Kosher Kats, 744 W. S.R. 434, I read this in the World Jewish Congress digest and pass it Longwood • Central Florida Hillel, 4250 Alafaya Trail, Ste. along to you: 212-363, Oviedo Most Publix Supermarkets • All Winn Dixie Ambassador RONALD S. LAUDER, president of WJC and Supermarkets chairman of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation, joined some 200 Holocaust survivors and heads of state VOLUSIA COUNTY from more than 22 countries recently for the official memo- Federation of Volusia/Flagler, 470 Andalusia Ave., Ormond rial event marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Beach • Most Publix Supermarkets • All Winn Dixie Supermar- Auschwitz-Birkenau on the site of the former German Nazi kets • Barnes & Noble, 1900 W. International Speedway Blvd., concentration camp. Daytona Beach • Perrys Ocean Edge Resort, 2209 South Atlantic Delivering a keynote address at the commemoration on Annette Edelstein Ave. Daytona Beach • Debary City Hall • Debary Library • Vienna behalf of the Pillars of Remembrance, private donors who Coffee House, 275 Charles Richard Beall Bl • Starbucks, 2575 support the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and its mission (Annette is one of the sweetest people I know. Glad she is Enterprise Rd • Orange City City Hall • Orange City Library • to preserve the authenticity of the memorial site, Amb. Lauder recovering nicely!) Dunkin Donuts, 1296 S Woodland • Stetson University Carlton emphasized that it was the scourge of anti-Semitism combined Another uplifting bit of news... Union • Deland Chamber of Commerce • Sterling House, 1210 with world indifference that led to the Holocaust. He urged Stone St • Temple Israel, 1001 E New York Ave • Beth Shalom, citizens and government leaders everywhere to speak out 1310 Maximillan St • Deltona City Hall • Deltona Library • against intolerance and hatred. Temple Shalom, 1785 Elkam Dr. • Temple Israel, 1001 E “Today is about you, the survivors, and I cannot begin to tell New York Ave, Deland • College Arms Apt, 101 Amelia Ave, you how grateful I am that you are here and, in some cases, Deland • Boston Gourmet Coffee House, 109 E. New York Ave, here with your children and grandchildren. Seventy-five years Deland • Stetson University Carlton Union, 421 N Woodland ago, when Soviet troops entered these gates, they had no idea Ave, Deland • Family Bookstore, 1301 N Woodland Ave, Deland what lay behind them. And since then, the entire world has • Deland Chamber of Commerce, 336 Woodland Ave, Deland struggled with what they found inside. When we hear some- • Deland City Hall, 120 S Florida Ave, Deland • Beth Shalom, thing that is anti-Semitic, when we hear someone talk about 206 S. Sprng Garden Ave, Deland • Orange City Library, 148 Israel unjustly, when Jews are attacked on your streets, do not Albertus Way, Orange City • Boston Gourmet Coffee House, be silent. Do not be indifferent. And do not just do this for the 1105 Saxon Blvd, Deltona • Deltona Library, 2150 Eustace Ave, Jewish people around the world. Do this for your children, do Deltona • Temple Shalom, 1785 Elkam Dr., Deltona • Deltona this for your grandchildren.” Community Center, 980 Lakeshore Dr, Deltona • Debary City When Ronald Lauder first visited Auschwitz with his fam- Hall, 16 Colomba Rd, Debary • Debary Library, 200 Florence ily in 1987 while serving as U.S. Ambassador to Austria, he K. Little, Debary found a state of disrepair that threatened the disappearance of the historic site. Committed to its preservation for future OSCEOLA COUNTY generations, he brought in curators from the Egyptian Wing Cindy M. Rothfield, P.A., 822 W. Bryan St., Kissimmee • Most at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to assess the Publix Supermarkets • Verandah Place Realty, 504 Celebration needs and create a plan. With the help of Auschwitz survivors, Ave., Celebration • All Winn Dixie Supermarkets • St. Cloud KALMAN SULTANIK and ERNEST MICHEL, Lauder raised City Hall, 1300 9th St, St. Cloud • St. Cloud Library, 810 13th $40 million from 19 countries to ensure the site’s preservation. St, St. Cloud • Southern Oaks, 3865 Old Canoe Creek Rd, St. In 2003, with the financial support of the Ronald S. Lauder Sid Luft and Judy Garland. Cloud • Plantation Bay, 4641 Old Canoe Creek Rd, St. Cloud Foundation, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum • Osceola Chamber of Commerce, 1425 Hwy 192, St. Cloud • opened its Conservation Laboratories. The laboratory’s mission I recently watched the story of SID LUFT on a television Valencia College, 1800 Denn John Ln, Kissimmee • Kissimmee is to preserve material traces of the camp, including every shoe, special. It mostly covered the years he was married to movie City Hall, 101 Church St, Kissimmee • Kissimmee Library, 211 every document and every building that remains at the site. star, Judy Garland. E. Dakin, Kissimmee • Robinson’s Coffee Shop, 114 Broadway, Today, Lauder remains deeply involved in the preservation (Memories... memories. WAIT! I’m not THAT old!) Kissimmee • Osceola County Courthouse, 2 Courthouse Sq, of the memorial site through his role as Chairman of the JCC and JCC39ers Dine Around Town... Kissimmee • Barnies, 3236 John Young Pwy, Kissimmee • Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation, a New York based (If it is NOT cancelled) Reily’s Gourmet Coffee, 3831 Vine St, Kissimmee • Shalom nonprofit organization that was established in 2012. On Thursday, April 30th at 1 p.m., meeting is set for Chili’s Aleichem, 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd, Kissimmee • Books-A-Million, ‘Nothing was more important for the 75th anniversary of Restaurant, 397 E. Altamonte Drive, Altamonte Springs. 2605 W. Osceola Pwy (522), Kissimmee • Lower East Side Deli, the liberation of Auschwitz than having the survivors of this RSVP to FLO GOLDMAN, 407- 359-5982. 8548 Palm Parkway, Lake Buena horrible place present to help the world bear witness,’ said Shout-Out... Amb. Lauder. ‘ The survivors are the direct link. Let the world On the Greek Isle of Zakynthos in September 1943, when Nazi see them; let the world hear them; make the world remember.’ officials demanded a list of the island’s 275 Jewish residents, The WJC is committed to preserving the memory of the Mayor Loukas Karrer turned to local Greek Orthodox Bishop Sudoku (see page 14A for solution) Holocaust and of the millions of Jews and countless Jewish Chrysostomos for help. communities destroyed during the Holocaust, to advocating on behalf of the survivors and their families, and to raising public consciousness of the dangers of religious, racial and ethnic oppression and persecution. (Still today, I meet people who are Holocaust deniers. Also, many of the younger generation never heard of the Holocaust, the greatest crime in human history. It is up to us to keep the memory alive!) Speaking of the younger generation... Anti-Semitic acts that individual students, groups, and even professors have done to our pro-Israel children and grandchil- dren on campuses are: (To name but a few. If I named all, I would need at least a two-page column.) • Disruptions of Israel or Jewish events and speakers. • Swastikas & fake eviction notices placed on student dormitory doors. • The labeling of Zionist students as “white supremacists” by professors or other student groups, because they support Israel. • Grade reprisals for students who are supporters of Israel and challenge their professor’s biased positions. Mayor Loukas Karrer and Bishop Chrysostomo. • Denial of recommendation letter for a student to study in Israel As the Bishop negotiated for their lives, most of the island’s • Jewish students questioned about their identity or if they Jews fled to remote villages where non-Jewish locals hid them. have visited Israel when they apply for a student committee. When the Germans again demanded the names for deporta- • BDS debates and votes taking place on Jewish holidays tion, Bishop Chrysostomos presented a list bearing only two or on the Sabbath. names... his and the mayor’s. “Here’, he said, “are your Jews.” Some good news for a change... (At the end of the war, all 275 Jews were still alive!) A note from another Jewish member of the Red Hatter’s, One for the road... JANNY YAPO: It’s Henry and Diane’s second wedding anniversary and I spoke with one of our member’s husbands. for a surprise, Henry decides to send some flowers to her ANNETTE EDELSTEIN is doing well after neck and office. He even instructs the florist to write on the card: - back surgery. “From Henry. Happy Anniversary. Year Number 2” She is eating solid food and sleeping a lot. Diane is thrilled with the flowers, but not so pleased with the She has a drainage tube in her neck and is receiving physi- card. It reads: - cal therapy. “From Henry. Happy Anniversary. You’re Number 2” They Do Not have a discharge day yet. (Oy vay. It either means she is his other love or she is feces!) PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 17, 2020 Impact of closures in Jewish community wreak havoc with food and finances, institutionally and individually

Faygie Holt Faygie Holt A closed park in New Jersey in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, March 2020. Empty store shelves at Target in East Hanover, N.J., in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, March 2020. By Faygie Holt be able fulfill previous pledges be more proud of them,” he or increase donations to meet continued. “The crazy thing Rosenn, executive director of temic impact on the entire New York to continue its (JNS)—The worldwide pan- the deficit because of the about this is while there the Hebrew Free Loan Society, community. I don’t think operations and supply food demic COVID-19 is wreaking economic downturn. may be areas slightly more which helps people in New we’ll be able to isolate this to a pantries across the state. The havoc in its relentless sweep “Federations in every com- impacted, it is truly a global York City, in an online pro- specific sector,” he said during funds will also help provide across the planet, not only munity are deeply involved crisis.” gram last week sponsored by an interview with JNS. One of emergency Passover meals in terms of health needs and with their community and are The closing of stores and the Jewish Funders Network, the concerns, he pointed out, to more than 180,000 Jewish care, but in economic terms already responding to needs of businesses of all sizes is which connects philanthro- is that many Jewish organiza- New Yorkers in need. as well. It has quashed the their communities,” said Eric causing a financial impact to pists to needs in the Jewish tions host major fundraising “Met Council is on the front booming stock market and Fingerhut, president and CEO schools, Jewish community community. “A lot of people events in the spring. Those lines with UJA-Federation decimated unemployment of the Jewish Federations of centers and other agencies, are already under financial are now canceled. dealing with an unprec- lows, with such turmoil ex- North America. “Obviously, added Stephan Kline, the in- pressure.” “There is going to be a big edented crisis unfolding in pected to continue for the next we know we have a large num- terim director of the Washing- The Hebrew Free Loan, loss because of how the galas our city. After health care, the few weeks and maybe months. ber of people who are isolated ton, D.C., office of the JFNA. which provides aid to indi- work. There’s a whole econ- No. 1 concern that we should While the long-term im- and quarantined. We have Jewish Nevada, the local viduals and small businesses omy in the nonprofit world have is feeding struggling, pact of the coronavirus is yet Pesach coming up, and we are federation office based in Las in Westchester County, N.Y., that lives off these fundraising homebound and elderly New to come, Jewish communal going to need to make sure Vegas, has already mobilized Long Island and New York, has events,” explained Spokoiny, Yorkers,” said David G. Green- organizations are already everyone all the people in our to help residents, with its already altered its repayment noting that nonprofits are field, CEO of Met Council. hearing from small business, community have the ability website also posting a special schedules for the 130 business telling their donors that even “The emergency food-pantry individuals and groups that to have a seder, kosher-for- COVID-19 section with a host that have borrowed money though the events are off, system is strained in a way have immediate financial Pesach food, and that those of resources and links. and changed some terms of donation requests are on. that we have never seen needs as they try and cope who are isolated are cared “As we continue to assess its loans for others. “So far, the response from the before. This emergency fund- with the shutdowns. At the for and have essential needs. the needs of the community, “The HFLS Board just ap- philanthropic community is ing from UJA will allow us to same time, many are con- “This is what the collec- we have opened a COVID-19 proved last night allowing all very encouraging. People are serve hundreds of thousands cerned that donors may not tive exists for, and I couldn’t relief fund that will help us to of our borrowers to hit pause committing to give the same of New Yorkers who are now address needs as they come on repayments for the next sponsorship even though the in crisis.” two months,” Rosenn said in event is not taking place.” One element that everyone NATHALIE TOLEDANO in,” said Stefanie Tuzman, president and CEO of Jewish an interview with JNS. “That However, he added, “we’re agrees will be critical for ® REALTOR Nevada. “But we have imme- will keep money in the pockets still at the beginning.” Jewish organizations at the (407) 488-2763 CELL diately provided financial sup- of lower-income people who Noted Fingerhut, “We have frontlines of providing assis- (407) 647-1211 EXT 3685 BUSINESS port to our synagogues and are going to need to marshal many wonderful, innovative tance to their communities (407) 628-1210 FAX agencies, which are receiving all their financial resources in programs in our community is some assistance from the [email protected] direct requests for assistance the weeks and months ahead. that we want to support and federal government. from their congregants and That will create a $1.3 million sustain, but we have to do To that end, the Jewish members. We are working problem for us in terms of cash some triage... anyone who Federations of North America RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE closely with our Jewish Fam- flow, but better us than our thinks we are not going to signed on to a letter signed 400 Park Avenue South, Suite 210 ily Service agency to not only borrowers. We need to be tak- lose something from this total by more than 40 other major Owned And Operated Winter Park, FL 32789 provide funding support, but ing actions that we would not mosaic of Jewish communal nonprofit agencies requesting By NRT LLC www.floridamoves.com/nathalie.toledano to provide food for Passover for normally consider, because life is being dishonest.” a $60 billion in aid to help homebound seniors, as well as it’s not a normal time.” Recognizing that signifi- those most in need. Also, volunteers to help deliver food The organization has also cant numbers of families are signing on to the letter was to those who are restricted.” created a special “Coronavi- already struggling financially, the Orthodox Union. Mirroring other free loan rus Financial Impact Loan,” the Orthodox Union has According to Kline, who societies across the country, awarding loans of between launched several initiatives serves as Federation’s point the New York-based Hebrew $2,000 and $5,000 to low- to address food insecurity. person in Washington, D.C., Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman Free Loan Society is already income households to help Among efforts are an online like all other industries— seeing the effects of the eco- with child care for those who portal called Kosher Food transportation, tourism, the does most anything nomic downturn caused by have to work, medical bills, Lifeline, where people can arts—the nonprofit sector, the coronavirus. loss of wages and other needs. post about the availability of which accounts for 10 percent Ricardo Torres — Handyman “We have to move fast and According to Rosenn, 300 free or low-cost kosher food in of the gross domestic product, 407-221-5482 be thoughtful—and those two loan applications were down- different communities. Those needs to lobby for its specific things don’t always come to- loaded as of the end of last needing a meal can search needs. Available in Central Florida Area • References Available gether,” acknowledged David week, and “about a dozen the database for a food source “The president and Con- completed so far, but we just near them. gress are talking about a put it up, and we expect vol- “The crisis has deprived trillion-dollar aid package... ume to increase very soon.” many families of income, and can we get a great package Before the outbreak, “we were others are confronting wholly of support for the nonprofit on track to make $20 million unanticipated, nondiscretion- sector?” posed Kline. Among in loans—a total of 1,400 ary expenses—all the more the items that Federation and loans. We anticipate 40 to 50 devastating during this period other nonprofits are asking coronavirus loans per week, leading to Passover,” said Or- the government for are chari- for the next 12 weeks for a thodox Union executive vice table tax incentives or loans Custom Printing Invitations & Announcements total of 480 to 600 loans [at president Allen Fagin. “The and grants “that would be Digital & Offset Printing Brochures & Booklets a cost of] $2.4 million to $3 OU is devoting significant bring in added new revenue.” million.” resources to help with the “What’s at risk here,” added Direct Mail Services Forms & Letterheads ‘A systematic impact on food-insecurity issues that Fingerhut, “is the individual Envelopes Business Cards the entire community’ our community is facing due needs of members of the Jew- Andres Spokoiny, the presi- to the COVID-19 outbreak.” ish community, which we are 407-767-7110 dent and CEO of the Jewish Also helping with emer- delivering on, but also the Funders Network, believes gency food needs is the Met institutional structure of the 205 North Street • Longwood, FL 32750 the economic impact of the Council on Jewish Poverty Jewish community. We will www.elegantprinting.net coronavirus will affect many of New York. The agency just not allow the capacity of the different groups. received a $1,750,000 grant Jewish community to serve all Bring in this ad and receive 18% Discount “We are looking at a sys- from the UJA-Federation of its constituents to fall apart.” HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 17, 2020 PAGE 11A The personal impact Central Florida Synagogues

of the corona virus Orlando Weekday Morning Minyan (Conservative/Egalitarian), services Monday- By Marilyn Shapiro Another friend, also diag- ily cannot celebrate birthdays, Friday 7:45 a.m. (9 a.m.—national holidays); 2nd floor Chapel—Jewish Academy of Orlando; nosed with cancer, was told weddings and bar mitzvahs. 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. For information call 407-298-4650. As we tread carefully by her Florida doctor that the High school and college Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. surgery would be postponed students cannot celebrate through the fourth month of JewishCelebration.org; 407-479-8377. the corona virus pandemic, until the pandemic had sub- graduations. Jews cannot the emotional and physical sided. Fortunately, she was gather around a huge table or Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, devastation this plague has able to find a doctor in her meet in a large room to hold a 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. caused is felt acutely by so hometown of Pittsburgh who seder. Most tragically, family Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- many. As our days of shelter- could operate within the week. and friends cannot even help 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. ing at home continue, it has She and her husband made a those who lost a loved one to become much more real, hasty trip up for the proce- grieve, to offer hugs and hu- Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. much more personal, much dure. I am happy to report man touch. jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; more frightening. that her surgery was a success. One day, in the unforesee- Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. My husband Larry and I Last week, Larry was in- able future, the corona virus are feeling the impact, as I volved in a bicycle accident will be behind us. We will Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, suspect many of you are. Our when he slipped on some gather together and hug each 321-777-2770. community already has had wet pavement. His primary other tightly and even plant Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- two confirmed deaths from physician insisted Larry go kisses on each other’s cheeks 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat the virus. A friend from my to the emergency room for a that are wet with tears of joy. services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. writing group, who had been tetanus shot and for potential We will hold our friends and sick with bronchitis, posted stitches for the gash on his family not only in our hearts Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. the following message on elbow. I freaked out, fearing he but also in our arms. betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. a Monday on her Facebook would contract the virus in the On Friday, March 20, for the Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. page: “I have pneumonia and waiting room. “Please don’t first time in the five years of congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. am in the Poinciana Medical go,” I begged. “Stay home. serving as our spiritual Rabbi Center where I am getting I’ll stitch it up myself.” That Karen Allen did not conduct Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; fantastic care. Take care. freaked him out. Wearing a Shabbat services at Congrega- Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. Be well.” Two days later, her surgical mask, he left for the tion Shalom Aleichem in Kis- Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; hospital, where he was imme- simmee. The synagogue, like brother, Brian Joyce, posted Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. that she had been diagnosed diately ushered into a sterile churches, mosques, and other with COVID-19 and was on a examining room. He came religious meeting places, were Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, ventilator. His daily updates home two hours later with a closed. In a letter to the entire Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. only offer more grim news that sore arm from the shot, ban- congregation, Rabbi Allen Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. she is still fighting for her life. dages on his wounds— none suggested that at 8 p.m. that bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. Friends and family are all requiring stitches— and high evening, “when we would sharing stories of people they praise for the medical staff. all prefer to be together in Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation know who have been diag- Two days after Larry’s ER the sanctuary, let’s do two holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. nosed with the corona virus visit, our friends Belinda and things that are emblematic com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. and those who have lost the Bob Garcia were anxiously of the worship service: recite battle. A longtime congregant awaiting the birth of their the Sh’ma and Mi Shebeirach Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; of our synagogue in Upstate first grandchild. The impend- prayers.” www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. New York succumbed to the ing delivery was made more Like Rabbi Allen, Larry Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., virus this week. My son’s stressful as it was uncertain and I could not be together Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. brother-in-law’s grandfa- whether their son could be with other members of our ther in California died after in attendance because some congregation. Instead, we set Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; contracting the virus from New York City hospitals were the table with white linens and www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th his daughter. Each day the not allowing any partners in good china and crystal wine Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. numbers continue to climb. the delivery room. Everyone glasses. We lit the Shabbos Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. Although most of my was relieved to learn that candles, said Kiddish, and ate friends are retired, many he could accompany his the delicious warm challah I Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- have children on the front wife during delivery, but had made from scratch. We 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. line as medical staff or first the planned birth was still recited the Sh’ma. Then we Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- responders. They post and fraught with worry. Thank- prayed for all of those—too 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. text pictures of their son or fully, the baby was born many to even count— in need daughter in full protective without complications. The of healing. Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for gear or—worse yet—reused proud grandmother sent me Mi shebeirach imoteinu, services and holiday schedules. masks and garbage bags for a picture taken in the hospital m’kor ha-bra-cha l’avoteinu Congregation Sinai (C/R), 1200 West Broad Street, Groveland; 352-243-5353; congre- scrubs. Originally, it was of the father dressed head to Bless those in need of heal- gation-sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. believed that the virus mostly toe in scrubs, and a surgical ing with r’fu-a sh’lei-ma attacked the elderly and those mask gingerly holding the The renewal of body, the Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- with underlying conditions. swaddled baby in his gloved renewal of spirit, Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv That “reassurance” no longer hands. All that were visible And let us say Amen... Please call for times. were the father’s proud eyes. Stay well. Stay safe. Stay works, and my friends are Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- worried that their children or The corona virus has taken home. grandchildren will contract it. much from us, but the in- Marilyn Cohen Shapiro, a Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Any medical procedure ability to congregate, to be resident of Kissimmee, Fla., Temple Beth El (R) / Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-675- becomes a cause for serious together, to hug one another is a regular contributor to the 6615 / 386-252-3097; Friday Shabbat Service 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. concern and even panic. A in times of joy or sadness is (Capital Region N.Y.) Jewish Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. friend scheduled for cancer the most painful. In normal World and the Heritage Flor- surgery was terrified that he times, we gather together to ida Jewish News. She is the Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat would catch the virus and celebrate the birth of a baby, author of two compilations service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. would be told he must cancel. to support ill friends, to say of her stories, “There Goes Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. Meanwhile, his wife had to goodbye to a beloved friend or My Heart” (2016) and “Tik- mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; drop him off at the hospital relative. During this time of a kun Olam” (2018). Both books and pick him up two days “new normal,” grandparents available in paperback and e- Thursday, 10:00 a.m. later. She couldn’t physically cannot hold their newborn book format on Amazon. Her Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: be there for him. grandchild. Friends and fam- blog is theregoesmyheart.me. Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by Torah study. Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye disorders. Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, Protecting your eyes is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future. 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, 7:30 p.m. Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection. Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. A public service message from The Vision Council. tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 17, 2020 Online Judaism: A parents’ guide on engaging Jewishly in the time of corona schools are also jumping night from her place via At her home in Hadera, on the bandwagon. Over Zoom—“for services, Israel, Isabelle Dalia Fitoussi at Temple Israel in Sha- there’s something more is with her four kids, ages ron, Mass., principal Rabbi powerful doing it from the 10 to 20 pretty much 24/7, Mordechai Rackover says synagogue; there’s a real along with her husband when his teachers have picked up sense of kedusha, of holiness he’s not at work. And it’s where they left off courtesy here,” says the rabbi. going surprisingly well, she of Zoom. “We’re talking with Even so, he’s planning on says. “We do tefilla together the students, and they’re moving his live-streaming as a family each morning talking with each other and apparatus into the chapel: and watch Torah classes seeing each other; this way, “It’s just a lot more intimate for kids (mostly in French), we can make sure we all in there.” with math and history and stay in each other’s lives,” Youth groups and be- more classes,” she says. In says the rabbi, who says one yond addition, there is daily out- recent class had 20 students For many teens, youth door play and ulpan(Hebrew show up remotely, almost group is where they turn for classes) for the kids and the perfect attendance. “It also Jewish contact in the years parents alike. makes us an address that between bar/bat mitzvah and And, thousands of miles families can go to when- college. “A lot of people think away, in West Hartford, ever they could use some of it as a second home, as a Conn., Jason Kay says even Chen Leopold/Flash90 support.” chosen family,” says Arielle though there are currently A young student learns via remote learning at her home in Moshav Haniel, Israel, on Across the ocean in Israel Shofman, president of the no Shabbat guests and no March 18, 2020. the same technologies are youth group at Temple of synagogue, “we’re still mak- allowing students to stay Aaron, a Conservative con- ing Shabbat meals a special By Deborah Fineblum fairs, how can parents keep coursework or hanging engaged. At the Tanakh gregation in St. Paul, Minn. time to do the blessings, and the Jewish flame alive? out with their friends on Yeshiva School in Zikron Thanks to Zoom, members sit and talk about our week.” (JNS)—It wasn’t so long Schools their Chromebooks between Yaakov, founding principal will be able to take part in They also joined an online ago when life was so over- For Andrea Kasper, head of classes, they’re not fighting, Rabbi Shimon Rapport says the youth group’s upcoming Havdalah with JTConnect the-top busy that you longed school at Solomon Schechter and by 7:30, our 4-year-old the online capacity to keep Passover program. (Jewish Teen Learning Con- for some quiet unstructured Day School of Greater Hart- is ready to see what his his 180 high school boys “We need to stay con- nection), a Jewish learning time with your children. ford in West Hartford, Conn., teacher’s posted for the day, focused on their schoolwork nected to each other,” she program, which the Connec- The coronavirus pan- seeing how her parents and ” says Kay, who has children is a huge gift. says. “Youth group is where tion followed with a family demic has granted that wish. students have rallied has in sixth and fourth grades, “We get them up for 9 a.m. we talk about Judaism and trivia game. And then some. made her “the proudest as well as in preschool. classes because teenagers everything else in our lives.” “The purpose of it all is With no end in sight of I’ve been in my five years at Weekdays of late start with would happily sleep till 11,” Most college-aged stu- to bring the Divine into QT (Quality Time), many Schechter.” And the school’s online morning prayers and says Rapport. “We know they dents have by now been sent your life and your work, but schools have come to a Jewish curriculum has been songs, “and it helps that they need the structure.” home from university mid- especially your home.” parent’s rescue with online a big part of this—from the can hear all the kids singing The online curriculum semester or from Israel pro- Says mom Orah Moshe in classes through a range of preschoolers to the eighth- and saying tefillot (prayers) includes Tanach, Jewish grams that were supposed to Pardes Hanna, Israel, she technologies many of us had graders—classes delivered together.” studies and secular classes last the year, and still others and her husband and their never heard of two weeks ago. now through Google Class- Ethan Simon, an 11th- including English, all con- who were looking forward to two kids are having long Ironically, those screens room, Zoom and Seesaw. grader at the Jack M. Bar- ducted through Google being in Israel on Birthright conversations they would that were once the bane of “For the 2-year-olds, it re- rack Hebrew Academy in Classroom, Zoom and and other trips this spring otherwise not have had the a parent’s existence—the ally makes a difference that Bryn Mawr, Pa., participates Google Meet. The kids also are disappointed. And while time for. “They miss their computers, lap tops, cell they can hear the songs and in a virtual minyan every have a good hour’s worth college students may be friends (they’re teenagers), phones and tablets guilty see their friends and teach- morning at 9 a.m. before of homework each day with getting their coursework but being home we’ve had of commandeering their ers,” she says. “And for the the beginning of class. “Of opportunities for feedback online, many are missing discussions about both the children’s minds and bodies big kids, it means keeping course, it doesn’t really on the chat function. “Every- the Jewish piece. science and religious issues are the lifeblood for keeping up their learning and social- count as a minyan, but we’re one—students and teachers To fill this gap, Hillel In- behind this illness, and the kids learning, productive izing, too, starting the day acting like it’s one,” he says. alike—has learned he adds. ternational has launched an the fact that uncertainty and feeling some sense of with doing morning prayers “It helps us remember that “It’s amazing that, if this had online platform to meet col- is a part of life. We’re able structure and normalcy in together.” just because you’re away happened five years ago, we lege students’ educational, to take a breath from our these unpredictable times. Jason Kay is one Schech- from school doesn’t mean would not have this ability spiritual and social needs frantic lives,” she adds. “I But with many syna- ter parent whose kids are you’re away from Judaism. to keep the education going during this difficult time. On made my kids French toast gogues locked up, religious settling quickly into their And it’s not so hard for us like we can today.” Hillel@Home students will today for the first time in a schools and day schools in new routine, including long- to get used to this because Synagogues find such online experiences long time.” abeyance, with JCCs shut- distance learning, prayers, our generation is used to At a time when the world’s as video meet-ups, courses “Now that we finally have tered and Shabbat meals now phys ed and more. “The electronics.” synagogues are either closed and opportunities to inter- the time, we can spend it with intimate (nuclear) family af- older kids are engaged in After-school religious for the duration or where act with such superstars as our husband or wife and our only 10 people can enter (just Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks children; we can learn the enough to make a minyan), and NBA legend Amar’e Torah we never had time for or where people are praying Stoudemire, who now lives and dip into all the online CLOG-FREE GUTTERS outdoors with plenty of space in Israel. 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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 17, 2020 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs Pop star Pink, having Glazer, Ben Platt and team of Jews and non-Jewish catch] coronavirus and live “Head of a Woman” is at least Israeli citizen arrested recovered from corona- many more celebs to Passover enthusiasts felt it out the rest of his days sick $10 million, The Wall Street on suspicion of spying virus, is donating $1M lead a ‘Saturday Night was more important than in prison,” the tweet said. He Journal reported. for Iran to fight the disease Seder’ to raise money ever to channel creative also called it “karma.” Last year, the heirs of Paul By Marcy Oster By Marcy Oster for CDC fund energies and gather com- Ben Artzi frequently von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy JERUSALEM (JTA)—An (JTA)—Jewish pop star By Gabe Friedman munity,” head writer Alex tweets criticism of Ne- asked New York art dealer Israeli citizen was arrested Pink and her 3-year-old son (JTA)—An all-star team Edelman said in a news tanyahu, whose trial on Larry Gagosian if he would on suspicion of spying for have recovered from the of Jewish celebrities (and release. “We’re thrilled to corruption charges has help them sell the drawing Iran, the Israel Security coronavirus, she announced some non-Jewish ones) are be reinterpreting the time- been delayed due to the if they ever recovered it, ac- Agency announced. on Twitter. putting on a virtual Passover less story of liberation and pandemic. He was referring cording to the report. They The man was indicted on She and her son Jameson Seder—which is sure to renewal while raising money to the stalled talks between said it is difficult for the charges of security offenses were sheltering at home in include plenty of music and for those on the front lines Netanyahu and Benny Gantz several dozen descendants in Lod District Court. There Los Angeles when they began comedy—on Saturday night enduring—and fighting— to form an emergency unity to share one artwork. is a gag order on publishing experiencing symptoms and to raise money for a Center an actual plague.” government to deal with the Von Mendelssohn-Bar- his name. tested positive for COVID-19 for Disease Control fund Grandson of Yitzhak coronavirus crisis. tholdy, a descendant of The security agency, two weeks ago, she wrote in for first responders work- Rabin wishes coronavi- The Likud party in a tweet composer Felix Mendels- known as the Shin Bet, an- a series of tweets Saturday. ing during the coronavirus rus on Benjamin Netan- slammed Ben Artzi. sohn, sold the pastel work nounced Tuesday that the A retest in recent days came outbreak. yahu, then apologizes “Even when the prime for less than its real value in man was arrested March 16 back negative, she said. The full list, seen here, By Marcy Oster minister is saving the lives 1934 along with at least 15 after being secretly in con- She added that she was includes names such as Idina JERUSALEM (JTA)—The of Israeli citizens, the hate other significant artworks tact abroad with Iranian in- donating $1 million to fight Menzel, Mayim Bialik, Ben grandson of assassinated knows no limit,” Likud because he feared the Nazis telligence officials several the coronavirus: $500,000 Platt, Ilana Glazer, Josh Gro- prime minister Yitzhak wrote. “Do you think anyone would confiscate his estate. times as well an operative each to the Temple University ban, Debra Messing, Henry Rabin wished in a tweet that will open an investigation He died the following year. of the Popular Front for Hospital Emergency Fund in Winkler, Billy Eichner, Andy Benjamin Netanyahu would against him?” In 1938, von Mendels- the Liberation of Palestine Philadelphia and the City of Cohen, Harvey Fierstein and contract the coronavirus The family of Yitzhak sohn-Bartholdy’s family in Lebanon, according to Los Angeles Mayor’s Emer- Michael Solomonov. The before apologizing. Rabin, and Israel’s left, have bank, Bank Mendelssohn & the Kan public broadcaster. gency Covid-19 Crisis Fund. non-Jewish Rachel Brosna- “I don’t wish for anyone blamed Netanyahu for incite- Co., was seized by the Nazis He was in possession of The donation to Temple, han, who plays the lead in to get sick with coronavirus, ment that led to Rabin’s 1995 and transferred to non- encryption devices and a she wrote, is in honor of her the popular and very Jewish including Netanyahu. Apolo- murder during a peace rally Jewish ownership. disk drive that he tried to mother, Judy Moore, who series “The Marvelous Mrs. gies for that,” Yonatan Ben in Tel Aviv by a right-wing “Head of a Woman” was destroy during his arrest. worked there for 18 years Maisel,” will also participate. Artzi tweeted Tuesday night. assassin. sold to art dealer Justin He reportedly received in the Cardiomyopathy and The show will be free for He deleted his original Nazi-looted Picasso Thannhauser in 1934. The funds and training. Heart Transplant Center. viewers and streaming here tweet, posted close to 5 p.m. up for sale by heirs of National Gallery of Art ac- The suspect reportedly “Thank you to all of our through StoryCourse and Tuesday, though it was saved German-Jewish banker quired the work through a was asked to carry out terror healthcare professionals on Buzzfeed’s Tasty brand by his critics in screenshots. By Marcy Oster donation in 2001, according attacks against Israelis in and everyone in the world YouTube channel. Those “If Netanyahu lied to the (JTA)—A Pablo Picasso to The New York Times. the name of “liberating Pal- who are working so hard to watching will be encouraged Israeli nation and in fact only drawing that will be returned The museum announced estine,” and to recruit Arab protect our loved ones. You to donate throughout. It was pulled a trick by saying ‘we by the National Gallery of Art last month that it would Israelis in the mission. He are our heroes!” wrote Pink, produced in association with need an emergency unity in Washington, D.C., to the return the Picasso “to avoid also was to provide informa- whose real name is Alecia Reboot. coronavirus government’ heirs of a German-Jewish the heavy toll of litigation,” tion on security and strategic Beth Moore. “In a time of confinement and actually meaning elec- banker is up for sale. not because it agreed that sites in Israel, according to Idina Menzel, Ilana and uncertainty, a rag-tag tions, then he deserves [to The asking price for the the heirs’ claims were valid. the Shin Bet.

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5300, 5327, 10, WHOLE, 1, All Trustee, will sell at public & 29, WHOLE & WHOLE, 2, All CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR Plaintiff, CORDS OF OSCEOLA PROBATE DIVISION set forth below. Season-Float Week/Float Unit, auction to the highest bidder Season-Float Week/Float Unit, OSCEOLA COUNTY, v. COUNTY, FLORIDA. File No. 2020 10838 All creditors of the decedent 2017-2019, $4,057.51, $1.40, for lawful money of the United 2017-2019, $2,080.36, $0.76, FLORIDA AMADOU G. NDIAYE, and commonly known as: PRDL and other persons having 5591-2559-2563; THE BOSS States of America, on the front 5591-2596-2601; MIRIAM DE CASE NO.: 2018 CA UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF 2075 JAN LAN BLVD, SAINT Division Probate claims or demands against TRUCKING OF RAYNE LA steps of the Osceola County FERESE & PASCUAL FERESE 002694 AMADOU G. NDIAYE & ANY CLOUD, FL 34772; including IN RE: ESTATE OF decedent’s estate on whom a LLC., A LOUISIANA LIMITED Courthouse, 2 Courthouse Pascual Ferese Mun 4068 P.O. LIMOSA, LLC, UNKNOWN PERSON(S) IN the building, appurtenances, MARJORIE ANNE HURRLE copy of this notice is required LIABILITY COMPANY 622 Square, Kissimmee, Florida Box 025352 Miami, FL 33102, Plaintiff, POSSESSION, and fixtures located therein, Deceased. to be served must file their East E St Rayne, LA 70578, 34741, all right, title and 5100, 5117, 37, WHOLE, vs. Defendants. at public sale, to the highest NOTICE TO CREDITORS claims with this court ON OR 6200, 53AB, 4, WHOLE, 1, All interest in the property situated 1, Fixed Week/Fixed Unit, JACOB HUDSON, NOTICE OF SALE UNDER and best bidder, for cash, at 2 The administration of the BEFORE THE LATER OF 3 Season-Float Week/Float Unit, in the County of OSCEOLA, 2017-2019, $5,539.04, $1.79, Defendants. F.S. CHAPTER 45 Courthouse Square, Suite 2600 estate of Marjorie Anne Hurrle, MONTHS AFTER THE TIME 2017-2019, $3,976.60, $1.35, Florida, described as: (SEE 5591-2596-2601; JEMAL A NOTICE OF SALE Notice is given that under a / Room #2602, Kissimmee, FL deceased, whose date of OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION 5591-2559-2563; AUGUSTINE EXHIBIT “A”) Time Share BRADLEY 14115 Martin Road NOTICE IS GIVEN that, in Final Judgment dated July 25, 34741, on JUNE 16, 2020 at death was February 28, 2020, OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS ASUQUO & CHRISTIANA Interest(s) (SEE EXHIBIT “A”) Warren, MI 48088, 6100, accordance with the Final 2019, and in Case No. 2019- 11:00 A.M. is pending in the Circuit Court AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE ASUQUO 6 B Alake Lane Ojota according to the Time Sharing 33G, 6, WHOLE, 1, Fixed Judgment of Foreclosure CA-922 of the Circuit Court Any persons claiming an for Volusia County, Florida, OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE Lagos, NIGERIA, 6200, 42CD, Plan for WESTGATE TOWN Week/Float Unit, 2017-2019, entered on March 20, 2020 of the Ninth Judicial Circuit interest in the surplus from Probate Division, the address ON THEM. 47, WHOLE, 1, All Season- CENTER, recorded in Official $3,342.24, $1.13, 5591-2596- in the above-styled cause, in and for Osceola County, the sale, if any, other than the of which is 101 North Alabama All other creditors of the Float Week/Float Unit, 2017- Records Book 1564, at Page 2601; LATINA D BRADLEY Armando R. Ramírez, Osceola Florida, in which HANOVER property owner as of the date Avenue, Deland, FL 32724. The decedent and other persons 2019, $3,353.73, $1.18, 5591- 1479, of the Public Records PO BOX 2330 Phoenix, AZ county clerk of court shall sell RESERVE HOMEOWNERS of the lis pendens must file a names and addresses of the having claims or demands 2559-2563; SELL TIMESHARE, of Osceola County, Florida 85002, 6100, 33G, 6, WHOLE, to the highest and best bidder ASSOCIATION, INC., the claim before the clerk reports personal representative and against decedent’s estate LLC & ANDREEA R FUFA, (the “Plan”). Together with the 1, Fixed Week/Float Unit, for cash on May 5, 2020 at Plaintiff and AMADOU G. the surplus as unclaimed. the personal representative’s must file their claims with this AUTHORIZED AGENT 10701 right to occupy, pursuant to 2017-2019, $3,342.24, $1.13, 11:00 A.M., at Suite 2600/Room NDIAYE the Defendant(s), Stacey-Ann Saint-Hubert attorney are set forth below. court WITHIN 3 MONTHS Boca Pointe Dr Orlando, FL the Plan, Building(s)/Unit(s) 5591-2596-2601; FRANCES M #2602 of the Osceola County the Osceola County Clerk of (813) 229-0900 x1523 All creditors of the decedent AFTER THE DATE OF THE 32836, 5100, 5132, 6, WHOLE, (SEE EXHIBIT “A”), during Unit LEACH 715 FERNDALE AVE Courthouse, 2 Courthouse Court will sell to the highest Kass Shuler, P.A. and other persons having FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS 1, Fixed Week/Fixed Unit, Week(s) (SEE EXHIBIT “A”), Winston-Salem, NC 27107, Square, Kissimmee, FL 34741 and best bidder for cash at 1505 N. Florida Ave. claims or demands against NOTICE. 2017-2019, $4,799.42, $1.57, during Assigned Year(s) - (SEE 5400, 5463, 39, WHOLE, the following described Osceola County Courthouse, Tampa, FL 33602-2613 decedent’s estate on whom a ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED 5591-2559-2563; NORALEEN EXHIBIT “A”). WESTGATE 1, Fixed Week/Fixed Unit, property: 2 Courthouse Square, Suite ForeclosureService@kasslaw. copy of this notice is required WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS A CARTER 31 TOMS LAKE TOWN CENTER 4000 Westgate 2017-2019, $3,667.93, $1.27, BEGIN AT THE SOUTH- 2600/Rm #2602, Kissimmee, com to be served must file their SET FORTH IN FLORIDA RD WAYNE, NJ 07470, 5300, Boulevard Kissimmee, FL 5591-2596-2601; JENNIFER J EAST CORNER OF LOT FL 34741, at 11:00 a.m. on April 10, 17, 2020 claims with this court ON OR STATUTES SECTION 733.702 5314, 8, WHOLE, 1, All Season- 34747 Said sale will be MCLEAN 35 MONTROSE AVE A, BLOCK 7, CAMP- June 24, 2020, the following L 185949 BEFORE THE LATER OF 3 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. Float Week/Float Unit, 2017- made (without covenants, or BUFFALO, NY 14214, 5300, BELL CITY PLAT, OF THE described property set forth in MONTHS AFTER THE TIME NOTWITHSTANDING THE 2019, $4,719.46, $1.57, 5591- warranty, express or implied, 5365, 44, WHOLE, 1, Fixed NORTHEAST 1/4 OF THE the Final Judgment: OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION TIME PERIODS SET FORTH 2559-2563; CHRISTOPHER regarding the title, possession Week/Fixed Unit, 2017-2019, NORTHEAST 1/4 (MARY Lot 66, Hanover Reserve, OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED A RUDDY & JANETTE M or encumbrances) to pay the $4,799.42, $1.57, 5591-2596- B. MORGAN’S SUBDI- a Replat, according to the AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE RUDDY 68 Gun Ln Levittown, unpaid assessments due in the 2601; MARIE E GREEN 1471 VISION) IN SECTION 1, map or plat thereof, as VOLUSIA COUNTY OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S NY 11756, 5400, 5421, 47, amount of (See Exhibit “A”), Wales Baldwin, NY 11510, TOWNSHIP 25 SOUTH, recorded in Plat Book 24, ON THEM. DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. WHOLE, 1, Fixed Week/Fixed with interest accruing at the 5300, 5365, 44, WHOLE, 1, RANGE 28 EAST, OSCEO- Page(s) 133, of the Public LEGALS All other creditors of the The date of first publication Unit, 2017¬2019, $4,054.90, rate of (See Exhibit “A”) per Fixed Week/Fixed Unit, 2017- LA COUNTY, FLORIDA, Records of Osceola Coun- decedent and other persons of this Notice is April 10, 2020. $1.35, 5591-2559-2563; day, pursuant to the Timeshare 2019, $4,799.42, $1.57, 5591- RUN THENCE WEST ty, Florida. having claims or demands Personal Representative: JASON JOSEPH 3 TYLER Plan, advances, if any, under 2596-2601; EDUARDO LOPEZ 125.00 FEET, THENCE Any person claiming an interest against decedent’s estate Richard Turney POINT RD BARRINGTON, RI the terms of said Claim of CANDOCIA PO Box 195451 NORTH 75.0 FEET, in the surplus from the sale, if IN THE CIRCUIT must file their claims with this 2441 IL Route 84 02806, 5100, 5144, 8, WHOLE, Lien, charges and expenses of San Juan, PR 00919, 5200, THENCE EAST 125.0 any, other than the property COURT OF THE court WITHIN 3 MONTHS Thomson, IL 61285 1, Fixed Week/Fixed Unit, 2017- the Trustee and of the trusts 5224, 30, WHOLE, 1, Fixed FEET, THENCE SOUTH owner as of the date of the lis SEVENTH JUDICIAL AFTER THE DATE OF THE Attorney for Personal 2019, $4,799.42, $1.57, 5591- created by said Claim of Lien. Week/Fixed Unit, 2017-2019, 75.0 FEET TO THE POINT pendens must file a claim within CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS Representative: 2559-2563; JOY THOMPSON Obligor(s) shall have the right to $4,788.02, $1.57, 5591-2596- OF BEGINNING. 60 days after the sale. VOLUSIA COUNTY, NOTICE. Michelle Adams Gumula 124 MILL CREEK CIR LOT 7 cure the default which occured 2601; ROSA M BETANCOURT Property Address: 1654 WITNESS my hand this 3rd FLORIDA ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED Attorney for Richard Turney JESUP, GA 31545, 5700, 5715, on (See Exhibit “A”), and any 1135 CALLE BOGOTA San LIME STREET, KISSIM- day of April, 2020. CIVIL DIVISION WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS Florida Bar Number: 110015 12, WHOLE, 1, All Season-Float junior lienholder shall have Juan, PR 00920, 5200, 5224, MEE, FLORIDA 34746 Sarah E. Webner, Esq. Case No.: 2020 10040 SET FORTH IN FLORIDA Hoyt & Bryan, LLC Week/Float Unit, 2017¬2019, the right to redeem its interest 30, WHOLE, 1, Fixed Week/ ANY PERSON CLAIMING AN Florida Bar No. 92751 CIDL STATUTES SECTION 733.702 254 Plaza Dr. $4,647.92, $1.57, 5591- up to the date the Trustee Fixed Unit, 2017-2019, INTEREST IN THE SURPLUS WONSETLER & WEBNER, P.A. Cathy Baker, WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. Oviedo, FL 32765 2559-2563; FIONA MACKIE issues the Certificate of Sale $4,788.02, $1.57, 5591-2596- FROM THE SALE, IF ANY, 860 North Orange Avenue, Plaintiff, NOTWITHSTANDING THE Telephone: (407) 977-8080 Carretea De Malaga 44, #60 by paying the amounts due as 2601; MALU B B FIGUEIRA OTHER THAN THE PROPERTY Suite 135 vs. TIME PERIODS SET FORTH Fax: (407) 977-8078 Alhaurin El Grande Malaga, outlined above. This is a non- & MAURO C FIGUEIRA R OWNER AS OF THE DATE OF Orlando, FL 32801 Scott Carini, ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED E-Mail: michelle@hoytbryan. 29120 SPAIN, 5100, 5117, 30, judicial foreclosure proceeding Sousa Lopes 65 Apto 143 Sao THE LIS PENDENS MUST FILE Primary E-Mail for service: Defendant. TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE com WHOLE, 1, Fixed Week/Fixed to permit WESTGATE Paulo, 02436-000 BRAZIL, A CLAIM BEFORE THE CLERK [email protected] NOTICE OF ACTION – AFTER THE DECEDENT’S Secondary E-Mail: patti@ Unit, 2017-2019, $5,487.32, TOWN CENTER OWNERS 5800 & 5800, 65C & 65D, 42 REPORTS THE SURPLUS AS Secondary E-Mail: CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. hoytbryan.com $1.79, 5591-2559-2563; NAYO ASSOCIATION, INC. to pursue & 42, WHOLE & WHOLE, 2, UNCLAIMED. [email protected] NOTICE BY PUBLICATION The date of first publication April 10, 17, 2020 COFER 542 LAKECOURT DR its in rem remedies under All Season-Float Week/Float If you are a person with a (P) 407-770-0846 TO: SCOTT CARINI of this Notice is April 17, 2020. L 185905 MCDONOUGH, GA 30253, Florida law. By: GREENSPOON Unit, 2017-2019, $2,613.86, disability who needs any (F) 407-770-0843 YOU ARE HEREBY Personal Representative: 5900 & 5900, 611C & 612A, 7 & MARDER, LLP, Trustee. $0.92, 5591-2596-2601; LISA accommodation in order to Attorney for Plaintiff NOTIFIED that a complaint for /s/ Jennifer L. McCain 7, WHOLE & WHOLE, 2, Fixed EXHIBIT “A” – NOTICE OF MILLER FARMER & VERONICA participate in this proceeding, April 10, 17, 2020 partition has been filed and Jennifer L. McCain RAINBOW TITLE & LIEN, INC. Week/Float Unit, 2017-2019, TRUSTEE’S SALE E MILLER 1779 2nd Ave Apt you are entitled, at no cost to L 185929 commenced in this court and 2770 Summerfield Street 3389 Sheridan Street, PMB $4,666.60, $1.57, 5591-2559- Owner(s) Address Building Unit 5G New York, NY 10128, 5100, you, to the provision of certain you are required to serve a copy Deltona, Florida 32738 221 2563; PATRICIA L YBARRA Week Year TS Undiv Int Season 5136, 35, WHOLE, 1, Fixed assistance. Please contact of your written defenses, if any, Attorney for Personal Hollywood, FL 33021 3920 SAN MAR DR NE Yrs Delinquent Amount Per Week/Fixed Unit, 2017-2019, the ADA Coordinator, Court IN THE CIRCUIT to it on Rocky Rinker, attorney Representative: 954-920-6020 OLYMPIA, WA 98506, 4000, 79, Diem COL Rec Info $5,539.04, $1.79, 5591-2596- Administration, Osceola County CIVIL COURT for the Plaintiff, whose address Bridget M. Friedman, Esq. NOTICE OF SALE 7, WHOLE, 1, Fixed Week/Float MARIA DE ROJAS & 2601; CLOTILDE DE ORTEGA Courthouse, 2 Courthouse OF THE NINTH is 222 2nd St. N, St. Petersburg, Florida Bar Number: 20538 Rainbow Title & Lien, Inc. will Unit, 2017-2019, $3,342.24, OSWALDO ROJAS Av Ppl & JOSE L ORTEGA Pasaje Square, Suite 6300, JUDICIAL CIRCUIT FL 33701 and file the original Friedman Law, P.A. sell at public sale at auction the $1.13, 5591-2559-2563; De Sebucan Res Colibri 5B Hinojosa Lote 40 Y Calle 13 Kissimmee, Florida 34741, OF FLORIDA, IN with the clerk of the above 600 Rinehart Road, Suite 3086 following vehicles to satisfy lien April 17, 24, 2020 Caracas, 0 VENEZUELA, 5100, Pifo (Parroquia) Quito, 170906 (407) 742-2417, at least 7 days AND FOR OSCEOLA styled court on or before 30 Lake Mary, Florida 32746 pursuant to Chapter 713.585 L 185989 5164, 37, WHOLE, 1, Fixed ECUADOR, 5400, 5415, 36, before your scheduled court COUNTY days from the first publication Telephone: (407) 830-6331 of the Florida Statutes on Week/Fixed Unit, 2017-2019, WHOLE, 1, Fixed Week/Fixed appearance, or immediately CIVIL DIVISION of this Notice; otherwise a Fax: (407) 407-878-2178 04/30/2020 at 10 A.M. *Auction $4,799.42, $1.57, 5591-2596- Unit, 2017-2019, $4,799.42, upon receiving this notification Case No. 2019 CA default will be entered against E-Mail: bfriedman@ff- will occur where vehicles are NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S 2601; MIRIAM DE FERESE & $1.57, 5591-2596-2601; if the time before the scheduled 000376 you for the relief prayed for in attorneys.com located* SALE PASCUAL FERESE Mun 4068 DENISE A PERRY 10200 appearance is less than 7 days; Division 20 the complaint or petition. Secondary E-Mail: 2016 Nissan WESTGATE TOWN CENTER I P.O.Box 025352 Miami, FL BELLE RIVE BLVD APT 257 if you are hearing or voice SPECIALIZED LOAN This notice shall be published [email protected] VIN#1N6BA1F28GN508506 26896.0803 (ROJAS) 33102, 5100, 5117, 38, WHOLE, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32256, impaired, call 711. SERVICING LLC once each week for four April 17, 24, 2020 Amount: $3,495.00 At: 2600 On 5/21/2020 at 11:00 am, 1, Fixed Week/Fixed Unit, 6100, 15G, 51, WHOLE, 1, Dated: April 2, 2020. Plaintiff, consective weeks in Heritage L 186005 S Woodland Blvd, Deland, FL GREENSPOON MARDER, 2017-2019, $5,539.04, $1.79, Fixed Week/Float Unit, 2017- Michelle A. DeLeon, Esquire vs. Florida Jewish News. 32720 LLP, 201 E. Pine Street, Suite 5591-2596-2601; MARGARET 2019, $3,163.45, $1.13, 5591- Florida Bar No.: 68587 CHERYL L. WILLIAMS, JOHN WITNESS my hand and the Notice to the Owner or Lienor 500, Orlando, Florida 32801, D WOOD & THOMAS J WOOD 2596-2601; PAUL D PERRY Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & R. WILLIAMS, JR., GLORIA seal of said court at Pinellas, IN THE CIRCUIT that he has the right to a hearing as Trustee pursuant to that 2920 Middle Fork Rd Hays, 1016 EASTWARD CIR APT B Boyer, P.A. I. WILLIAMS, WILMINGTON Florida on this 11th day of COURT FOR prior to the scheduled date of Appointment of Trustee NC 28635, 5400, 5465, 40, ZANESVILLE, OH 43701, 6100, 255 S. Orange Ave., Ste. 900 SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, March, 2020. VOLUSIA COUNTY, sale by filing with the Clerk of recorded on 11/20/2019 WHOLE, 1, Fixed Week/Fixed 15G, 51, WHOLE, 1, Fixed Orlando, FL 32801-3454 FSB, AS TRUSTEE OF Laura E. Roth FLORIDA Courts. Owner has the right to in Official Records Book Unit, 2017-2019, $4,895.00, Week/Float Unit, 2017-2019, (855) 287-0240 STANWICH MORTGAGE LOAN Clerk of the Circuit PROBATE DIVISION recover possession of vehicle 5627, and Page 1249 of the $1.57, 5591-2596-2601; $3,163.45, $1.13, 5591-2596- (855) 287-0211 Facsimile TRUST A., AND UNKNOWN Court File No. 2020-10349- by posting bond in accordance Public Records of OSCEOLA ANTONIO F MIRO & IVONNE 2601; SAUL A FREEDMAN E-mail: servicecopies@ TENANTS/OWNERS, By: Jennifer Vazquez PRDL with Fla. Statutes Sect. County, Florida, by reason J CAPARROS 513 Carey Way 5 Whitetail Ct Moorestown, qpwblaw.com Defendants. (CIRCUIT COURT SEAL) Division: Probate 559.917 Proceeds from the sale of a now continuing default Orlando, FL 32825, 5400, NJ 08057, 5200, 5215, 45, E-mail: mdeleon@qpwblaw. NOTICE OF SALE Deputy Clerk IN RE: ESTATE OF of the vehicle after payment by Obligor(s), (See Exhibit 5454, 46, WHOLE, 1, Fixed WHOLE, 1, Fixed Week/Fixed com Notice is hereby given, Rocky Rinker MICHAEL JOHN SIMPSON lien claimed by lienor will be “A”), whose address is (See Week/Fixed Unit, 2017-2019, Unit, 2017-2019, $4,799.42, April 10, 17, 2020 pursuant to Final Judgment of Attorney at Law, P.A. A/K/A MICHAEL SIMPSON deposited with the clerk of the Exhibit “A”), in the payment or $4,895.00, $1.57, 5591-2596- $1.57, 5591-2596-2601; RINA L 185916 Foreclosure for Plaintiff entered Attorney for Petitioner Deceased. court. Any person (s) claiming performance of the obligations 2601; MARION B CLAWSON & LO & YVES LO PO Box 9438 in this cause on December 222 2nd Street North NOTICE TO CREDITORS any interest(s) in the above secured by said Claim of Lien ROLAND S CLAWSON PO Box Motu Uta Papeete Tahiti, 98715 19, 2019, in the Circuit Court St. Petersburg, FL 33701 The administration of the vehicles contact: RAINBOW recorded in Official Records 11104 Salt Lake City, UT 84147, FRENCH POLYNESIA, 5400, IN THE CIRCUIT of Osceola County, Florida, 727-466-3411 – Phone estate of Michael John Simpson TITLE & LIEN, INC. (954-920- Book (See Exhibit “A”), at Page 6100 & 6100 & 6100, 28E & 42C 5454, 41, WHOLE, 1, Fixed COURT OF THE Armando Ramirez, Clerk of [email protected] a/k/a Michael Simpson, 6020) ALL AUCTIONS ARE (See Exhibit “A”), of the Public & 42D, 24 & 2 & 2, WHOLE Week/Fixed Unit, 2017-2019, NINTH JUDICIAL the Circuit Court, will sell the Florida Bar #: 94249 deceased, whose date of death HELD WITH RESERVE. 25% Records of OSCEOLA County, & WHOLE & WHOLE, 3, All $4,799.42, $1.57, 5591-2596- CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR property situated in Osceola March 27; April 3, 10, 17, 2020 was November 25, 2019, is Buyers Premium Some vehicles Florida, including the breach or Season-Float Week/Float Unit, 2601; OSCEOLA COUNTY, County, Florida described as: L 185797 pending in the Circuit Court may have been released prior to default, notice of which was set 2017-2019, $3,578.82, $1.20, April 17, 24, 2020 FLORIDA LOT 18, HICKORY HOL- for Volusia County, Florida, the sale date. Lic#AB-000125 forth in a Notice of Default and 5591-2596-2601; OSCAR I L 185986 CASE NO. 2019- LOW UNIT THREE, AC- —————————————— Probate Division, the address Interested Parties must call Intent to Foreclose provided ANDRADE & ROZANGELA S CA-922 CORDING TO THE MAP of which is P.O. Box 6043, one day prior to sale. to the last known address of ANDRADE Sqsw 300 Bloco HANOVER RESERVE OR PLAT THEREOF AS IN THE CIRCUIT DeLand, FL 32721. The names April 17, 2020 Obligor(s), (See Exhibit “A”), by P Apto 205 Brasilia Distrito IN THE CIRCUIT HOMEOWNERS RECORDED IN PLAT COURT FOR and addresses of the personal L 185956 Certified/Registered Mail or by Federal, 70673-054 BRAZIL, COURT OF THE ASSOCIATION, INC., a Florida BOOK 8, PAGES 32 AND VOLUSIA COUNTY, representative and the personal publication by the undersigned 6100 & 6100, 17A & 17B, 29 NINTH JUDICIAL Not-For-Profit Corporation, 33, OF THE PUBLIC RE- FLORIDA representative’s attorney are PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 17, 2020 A census question poses a dilemma for American Jews—are you white, and if so, what are your ‘origins’? By Ron Kampeas ing and checking “white.” He discrimination. The first “Ashkenazi.” “The whole Lewis, 59, who entered “Ash- “It’s important for me to entered “Eastern European census counted “free white national origin for Eastern kenazi Jewish.” identify as white because I WASHINGTON (JTA)—It’s Ashkenazi Jew” in the origins males, free white females,” European Jews is complicated Susan Turnbull, who lives benefit from white privilege the ninth question on the box. “all other free persons” and and not at all translatable to in Washington’s Maryland and am perceived as white,” census, and for many Jewish Jeff Weintraub, 72, an “slaves.” [one] modern country.” suburbs and has held leader- Marks said. “When you are respondents, it’s a surpris- academic who lives in the Now it is a means of redress- Considering that history ship positions in national forced to dig deeper, to go ing—and sometimes unwel- Philadelphia area, said he ing discriminatory practices. was also difficult emotionally, Jewish organizations and beyond the just ‘I’m white,’ come—invitation to consider thought the race/ethnicity/ “This data helps federal Dropkin said. the Democratic Party, took you’re put in the same boat who exactly they are. national-origin questions on agencies monitor compliance “Family records for Rus- her cue from the categories as other people.” For the first time, the U.S. the census form “were a little with anti-discrimination sian Jews rarely exist and it’s made popular by the recent Others welcomed the op- Census question on race is bizarre.” provisions, such as those in hard to know very much more proliferation of DNA testing. portunity to express in the asking white and African- “I checked ‘White’ and the Voting Rights Act and the about our ancestors because “Ashkenazi Jewish—100 census the otherness that they American respondents to dig then, for elaboration, wrote Civil Rights Act,” it says on the of all the pogroms,” he said. percent of my DNA descrip- feel separates them from being deeper and fill in more detailed something along the follow- census website. Felicia Grossman checked tion,” she said. simply white in America. origins. ing lines in the box: ‘Jewish— For decades, the race cat- “white” and entered “Ameri- Suellen Shapiro Kadis, Rebecca Einstein Schorr, “Mark one or more box- grandparents from the former egory has had four broad can” for “origins” after dis- a lawyer who lives in the a rabbi at Lafayette College es AND print origins,” the Russian Empire & the former categories: white, black, Na- cussing it with her husband. Cleveland area and is a board in Easton, Pennsylvania, printed form says. For white, Austro-Hungarian Empire,’” tive American and Asian, “We all came early enough member of JTA’s parent orga- checked “some other race” it adds, “Print, for example, he said. with “some other race” as the that we were never considered nization, 70 Faces Media, said and entered “Ashkenazic German, Irish, English, Ital- One complicating factor: fifth option. Whether one is of full ‘citizens’ of any other she entered “Russian” but was (Jewish).” ian, Lebanese, Egyptian, etc.” The online census form makes Hispanic origin is a separate country, and half the places not happy with it. “My experience moving The request for “origins” it appear as if the “origins” question. don’t exist anymore as it is (i.e. “My dad was born in Eng- through society differs from has existed for decades for question is not optional—but This year’s extension of the ‘Bavaria,’ ‘Austria-Hungary’ land on the way over. His those who are white,” she Native American, Hispanic it is. “origins” option to whites and and the Ottoman Empire— immigration papers say ‘He- said. “The constant sense of and Asian/Pacific Islander Leave the space empty, click blacks was a result in part of not to mention places that brew,’ which I always thought being othered. The sense of respondents. But whites and continue and the page won’t lobbying by groups of Middle didn’t exist and now do was a way to discriminate, but anti-Semitism.” blacks were previously asked change. The blank field will Eastern and North African i.e., Lithuania, Belarus, and maybe it’s more accurate than Some respondents were to simply check a box. be highlighted, urging the origin who said their con- Ukraine), so there’s an argu- my answer,” she said. wary of the question. The question has launched user to fill it. Click one more stituents were uncomfortable ment that it’s the most accu- Rafaella Gunz, a 26-year- “I can’t think of anything countless Jewish conversa- time, however, and you’re able checking “white” and thought rate answer,” said Grossman, old writer from New York, good the census bureau tions: “What did you list?” to move to the 10th question the “some other race” option 37, an author of historical checked off “white” and en- would be using the ethnicity “What should I?” without filling it in. That’s not was overly broad. For a period romances who lives in the tered “Jewish.” origin data for,” said Frederick The answers reveal a explained on the census form. leading into the 2020 census, Cleveland suburbs. “I did this to document Winter, 72, a retired federal community grappling with That hurdle led some to U.S. Census bureaucrats Lloyd Wolf, an Arling- that though I am white in employee living in Arlington. what it means to announce believe that the “origins” considered making “MENA” ton, Virginia, photographer, certain contexts, especially “I understand that by law one’s Jewishness in the 21st question required typing in a separate category. packed as much as he knew in the U.S., I’m actually ethni- census data is not shared with century, and to consider an answer. Austro-Hungarian what? into his answer. cally distinct and come from a other agencies, but I have my the myriad paths that have “Ashkenazi, just because,” Many of those replying “I put in something like group of people with our own doubts.” brought American Jews to the said Debra Rubin, an editor in to a query from the Jewish ‘Jewish of German, Austrian unique history,” Gunz said. He checked “white” and present day. the Washington, D.C., area. Telegraphic Agency said and Polish origin’ because (Jewish) Pride and (anti- entered “USA” for origins. “I didn’t see a box for ‘state- “It didn’t allow me to skip, they were not sure how to that’s what my background Jewish) prejudice For one couple, sensitivi- less people being abused and and I don’t understand why respond because their ances- is, at least the past several Some respondents wel- ties about being Jewish in a kicked out of one Eastern Eu- the question is there. I guess tors’ countries of origin no generations,” he said on Face- comed the opportunity to non-Jewish society broke in ropean region after another,’ I could have put American.” longer exist or have shifted book. celebrate their origins. opposite directions. so this seemingly straight- What’s in a question about borders, or because their Same country, different “I simply don’t identify as Gabriel Botnick, a Los forward question turned out race ancestors were not precisely peoples anything else other than Jew- Angeles-area rabbi, was set to be quite a head-scratcher,” Race has been a factor in the from a single place—born Morris Lewis, a health care ish,” said a Hasidic respondent to enter the fifth option, said Jonathan Kopp, a com- U.S. census since the first one, in one country to parents consultant in Caldwell, New who asked not to be named. “some other race,” and add munications strategist who in 1790, but for the nation’s from another. For many, Jersey, said his neighbors Judith Marks said she was “Jewish” because he does lives in Brooklyn. first century and a half, the “Askenazi” or “Sephardic” growing up in Mississippi proud to answer “Askenazi not identify as “white”—he Kopp, 53, abandoned the answers were used as a means became a default because it and Georgia were likelier to Jewish.” said “I have been made to form for a while before return- to codify rather than crush expressed an ethnicity in a identify his family as Jewish “Being Jewish is a huge feel” not white in the past. simple way. than with the non-Jewish part of my identity, it’s my His wife, also a rabbi and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 “The vast majority of my neighbors whose ancestors primary identity,” the pro- originally from Britain, J O S E P H D A N I E L family’s ancestral origins are had arrived from the same gram manager at a nonprofit asked him to check “white” 13 14 15 C O R N E A A N A G R A M Russian/Ukrainian Jews, but countries. in Boston said. and skip the origins. 16 17 putting either of those didn’t “We may have shared space Marks, 31, said she thought “She said this current C H I R P S T O R N A D O seem quite accurate,” said with Poles, Germans, etc., but the question could help climate makes her uneasy 18 19 20 Alex Dropkin, 29, a Chicago- we have a completely separate shatter the sense of privilege with being listed as Jewish A P B E N C S I P area brewer who answered ethnicity and culture,” said among other whites. somewhere,” Botnick said. 21 22 23 24 W A G E R E D E D U 25 26 27 28 V I C E R O Y S A T R A P 29 30 31 I P A T A I V A ‘If Gazans start dying, we will make 6 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 N E B U C H A D N E Z Z A R 39 40 R H O N E O M A million settlers unable to breathe’ 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 B U T L E R P H A R A O H (MEMRI via JNS)—Hamas to come true for the Zionist as payment for the money he breaths, and when there 48 49 leader Yahya Sinwar threat- entity,” said the Hamas leader. had given them. This is the are no ventilators—I say to E S H A T A L O S S ened last week that if Gazans “I would like to use this common practice of Ben- Bennett that we will make 6 50 51 52 53 E U R P I T D E N start dying of COVID-19 due opportunity to say a couple nett, and of the entire Zionist million Israeli settlers unable 54 55 56 57 58 59 to a lack of ventilators, the of words to Zionist Defense system that has occupied our to breathe.” T R I B E C A A I S L E S terrorist group would make Minister Bennett: I refer you land. I refer him to the book With regard to the United 60 61 “6 million settlers unable to to the book of Ezekiel, Chapter of Ezekiel, Chapter 17, about States, Sinwar said the pan- S E V E R A L S N O O Z E 62 63 breathe.” 17, to read what awaits you, what awaits them from this demic was God’s punishment R E L I N K S U N S E T Speaking with Hamas’s Al- and what awaits your filthy pandemic and from other for U.S. President Donald Aqsa TV and Shehab News [Zionist] entity, because the things.” Trump declaring Jerusalem Agency on April 2, Sinwar kind of language that you use Sinwar emphasized that the capital of Israel. addressed Israeli Defense can be expected only from Hamas does not need any aid “When I saw Trump signing Minister Naftali Bennett, who someone who has a Merchant from Israel to cope with the his decision to allocate $2.2 he said had a “Merchant of of Venice mentality. coronavirus pandemic, and trillion for the coronavirus Venice mentality along with “The Merchant of Ven- has been working “day and response, I recalled how he the rest of Israel. Bennett ice gave people loans, and night” towards the liberation had signed in the same man- should read the prophecies when the time came and they of Palestine. The coronavirus ner his decision to declare contained in Chapter 17 of could not repay their debts, he pandemic, he said, had been Jerusalem as the capital of Ezekiel, which are “about started to cut off their flesh sent by God as retribution for Israel. I said then: You and the the move of the U.S. embassy Americans will pay the price to Jerusalem and because for this unjust and criminal God is “not pleased about the decision. Today, our Lord, by way the things in this world means of this virus, which are run.” cannot be seen by many “As for the question about telescopes and microscopes... 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Ostrov and Cole real- Ostrov and Cole believe they face shields,” Cole said. Ostrov said. another five weeks. “We’re not going to finish ized that they could make the will be able to make some 200 But they say seeing the The couple is constantly In speaking about his it. We’re not going to solve the straps with a thicker acrylic shields a day. responses from health care tweaking their design, which school’s work, the rabbi shortage,” he said. “But if we that could be cut using the The pair hasn’t taken a day providers makes it all worth they are sharing online so invoked the oft-cited Jewish can do something, if we can laser cutter. off since they started on the it. others with similar tools teaching from the Mishnah: make a dent, then that’s our On Friday, they started project a little over a week ago. “As tiring as our side is, can use it. “You are not obligated to com- responsibility.”

Rabbi Gil Perl delivers a batch of face shields to the Lankenau Medical Center in Wyn- One of the Kohelet Yeshiva High School’s 3-D printers making straps for the face newood, Pa. shields. VITAS From page 1A put to work as a child in a family presented Zaveduk with a an educator and her witness the most moving experiences resolution read: “Although store. Years later, she moved special award in an early to life and human rights,” said I’ve ever been a part of.” she did not define herself by Her parents survived, but she to Chicago, married Ben and January ceremony at the Matheney. An Illinois Holo- Zaveduk died peacefully at her wartime experiences, she and her sister did not recog- found her passion for teaching couple’s home. “She commit- caust Museum representative home on Jan. 23, 2020. Less felt sharing her story could nize them—or their Jewish children about the Holocaust. ted her life’s purpose to this praised Zaveduk’s service and than two weeks later, the Il- help in the fight.” heritage—when they were Thank to Grasse’s inter- endeavor so that others might the value of survivors’ stories. linois State Senate adopted Read more hospice wish reunited in 1945. Zaveduk’s vention, Elmhurst College remember and never allow it “Adele and her husband SR 0971 honoring her posthu- fulfillment stories like Za- father soon died, her mother President Troy VanAken and to happen again. We honor were speechless and tearful,” mously as “a strong life force veduk’s and learn more about remarried and Zaveduk was Chaplain H. Scott Matheney her life of service, her role as recalled Grasse. “It was one of packaged in a tiny body.” The end-of-life care at VITAS.com. Ventilators From page 3A agency is pursuing. The bilities in everything related a ventilator assembly plant multiply our production capa- for medical staff. Some 11 operation should result in to dealing with the COVID-19 is a very complex task, made bilities and supply ventilators million surgical asks will two months that are needed a million-and-a-half N95 virus pandemic,” Defense possible by the collabora- in the shortest possible time be available by April. The to fight the coronavirus, in- masks—vital for medical Minister Naftali Bennett tion between the Ministry frame. We are operating in company will also produce cluding protective gear, test teams—700,000 surgical stated on Tuesday. “We can- of Defense and the defense a challenging time, and in 5.5 million N95 masks, and kits, medicines, and most of masks and a large number not remain dependent on industry. We are continuing a global ‘war’ to acquire the hundreds of thousands of all, ventilators—the subject of of ventilators. procurement from other in the race around the clock necessary components and overalls and protective gear. fierce international competi- ‘We cannot remain depen- countries. We must develop to translate the extraordinary fulfill our mission.” “A unique machine was tion around the world. dent on procurement from independent, advanced ca- tech capabilities of the defense Also this week, the Defense brought to Israel with the “The world is selling them other countries’ pabilities.” establishment to the fight Ministry announced a new assistance of the Defense in between the cracks. We At the same time, officials Brig. Gen. (res.) Dr. Dani against corona.” agreement with the Sion Ministry, in order to enable must find those cracks,” said in Israel are stressing the Gold, director of the Director- Udi Kantor, Inovytec CEO, Medical company in Israel, Sion to open the production H. “We activate our special ties need to develop rapid self- ate for Defense Research and added that “the collaboration whose factory is in Sderot, line for advanced masks. The to win in this competition.” sufficiency in this field. Development in the Defense with IAI and with the Minis- for the purchase of 35 mil- machine is the only one of its He spoke of thousands of “The State of Israel must Ministry, said, “Turning a try of Defense is amazing at lion masks and hundreds kind in Israel,” the Ministry leads that the intelligence develop independent capa- missile-production line into this time, and it allows us to of thousands of Uniforms said in a statement. Prep From page 4A of their neighbors. Germany, would have been helpful to pass legislation through their amounting to hundreds of have to be addressed quickly for instance, kept some medi- devalue the Italian currency. national parliaments grant- billions of euros to assist them as the world emerges from the ways to help the suddenly cal equipment for itself and This is no longer possible. The ing loans to Italy like those with their financial problems. coronavirus pandemic. much greater numbers of did not export it to other coronavirus crisis shows once made to Greece. This is not These bonds can only be sold Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld is jobless citizens. European countries. It also again what a huge mistake only because of the larger if there are proportional na- a senior research associate at This necessitates immedi- closed its borders to citizens it was to introduce a joint sums required; Euroscepti- tional guarantees. Germany, the BESA Center and a former ate planning for extensive from several neighboring E.U. currency while individual cism has greatly increased in the Netherlands and Austria chairman of the Steering retraining programs. Govern- countries. member countries continue recent years in several E.U. have announced their total Committee of the Jerusalem ments should assess vacancies The 1985 Schengen Agree- to employ divergent fiscal countries. opposition to this. This may Center for Public Affairs. He and determine what jobs ment was a great step forward and economic policies. (As Only a few weeks ago, it was turn into the largest conflict specializes in Israeli–Western can be filled by the newly in terms of easing travel an aside, Brexit looks far believed that even if funding about mutual solidarity the European relations, anti- unemployed. This is even within the European Union. more sensible nowadays. for Italy were forthcoming, European Union has ever Semitism and anti-Zionism, more relevant in European A European could move from The British government can the harsh accompanying faced. Tensions on this issue and is the author of “The War countries where the birth rate one participating country to make plans for the United conditions demanded by the are rising fast. of a Million Cuts.” is below, sometimes far below, another without having to Kingdom’s economic recovery European Union would prob- These are only a few of the This article was first pub- replacement level. go through passport con- without having to navigate ably lead to the collapse of the many issues affecting the lished by the Begin-Sadat The debate on the need to trol, which created a sense through Brussels.) Italian government. A new Eu- economic sector that will Center for Strategic Studies. reduce the impact of global- of unity and meaning on Ianis Varoufakis was Greek rosceptic government headed ization has already started. the continent. The recent finance minister during part by Matteo Salvini, leader of Governments will have to closure of borders by some of that country’s economic the Northern League, might rethink which products im- E.U. countries has had the crisis. He recently published introduce an alternative ported at a low cost from opposite effect. an article in which he relates currency to be used in Italy abroad should be made in All this pales, however, the economic dictat that was in addition to the euro. This their own countries instead. against the enormous fi- imposed on Greece by the could be a way of gradually Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman nancial problem created European Union. He explains taking Italy out of the joint India, for example, struggled does most anything to provide the drugs it needed by the pandemic. Initially, that in practice, the economic currency. at the height of the crisis attention was focused on restrictions were dictated by Yet another problem for because the raw materials Italy, which was hit harder Germany. None of the propos- the European Union is that could not be delivered from than any other European als he made on behalf of his Italy has been an important Ricardo Torres locked-down China. country. Its suffering will country were even considered. annual net contributor. That The pandemic has had a likely continue even after the Varoufakis warns that such a may now end. huge impact on the European peak of the health threat, as policy cannot be repeated in In the meantime, the Eu- Handyman Union—so huge it calls Euro- the virus could have an even the case of Italy, which is far ropean Union has been over- pean solidarity into question. greater impact on Italy’s bigger and more powerful. taken by a far bigger problem. European governments have economy than on that of Even before the coronavi- Ten E.U. members, including 407-221-5482 made decisions in the face of other E.U. members. rus crisis, it would have been Italy, Spain, France and Available in Central Florida Area the crisis that served their In the years before the 1999 extremely difficult for many Belgium, want the European own interests at the expense introduction of the euro, it European governments to Union to issue Eurobonds References Available PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 17, 2020 So Bernie Sanders won’t be the first Jewish president—here are 10 people who could be By Philissa Cramer, Mark Cuban done in Washington. He’s the president to lash out at House run. Indeed, Garcetti Gabe Friedman, Mark Cuban shares at least toyed with White House bids him on Twitter. fueled speculation about his Ron Kampeas a few qualities with Donald in the past. “The moral imperative out- ambitions by visiting states Trump: He’s a wealthy busi- Jacob Frey lined by ‘tikkun olam,’” Frey with early primaries, includ- (JTA)—When Bernie Sand- nessman who has made a Elected mayor of Minne- told the Jewish Telegraphic ing Iowa, South Carolina and ers announced on Wednesday flashy name for himself in apolis in 2017, the 38-year-old Agency last year, referring New Hampshire. In addition that he was suspending his pop culture, through a big TV Frey is just starting his politi- to the Hebrew phrase for to pursuing progressive poli- presidential campaign, he show (“Shark Tank”) and by cal career. But Minnesota has the Jewish precept to heal cies for Los Angeles, Garcetti closed the door on the last being the passionate, always- been a launching pad for many the world, “is something I has already waded into the sliver of possibility that on-the-sidelines owner of the politicians with national am- believe in strongly and is perilous waters of Middle America would elect its first NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. bitions (though none has yet foundational both to Juda- East politics, saying on a Jewish president in 2020. But politically he is more made it to the White House). ism but also my philosophy trip to Israel last year that That leaves Jewish White akin to a fiscally conservative, A Democrat who wants his in government.” he is “both pro-Palestine and House history to be made. socially liberal, all-around city to add more affordable Eric Garcetti pro-Israel” but also supported Here are 10 people who moderate independent like housing, Frey made the na- The mayor of Los Angeles President Trump’s decision to could be positioned to make Mike Bloomberg, and a Cuban tional news last year when he since 2013, the 49-year-old move the U.S. Embassy there it—one day. (Don’t read campaign would likely focus declined to provide security Garcetti declined a presi- to Jerusalem. anything into the order—it’s on his ability to use his busi- for a local Donald Trump dential bid for 2020 but did Bob Iger alphabetical.) ness acumen to get things rally—a decision that caused not rule out a future White The current chairman (and Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty former CEO, for 15 years) of Images The Walt Disney Company, Ivanka Trump at the White Bob Iger has won respect House, Dec. 12, 2019. throughout his industry and beyond for taking the Democrat, won Pennsyl- corporation to new levels of vania’s attorney general success and relevance. Execu- race in 2016 at a time when tives who pressured him to Trump carried the state in run in 2020 saw him as a foil the presidential race, so it’s to Donald Trump: smooth, clear he has some crossover composed, intelligent and appeal. Barack Obama and moderate politically. Hillary Clinton both backed Jared Polis his candidacy, and Shapiro Polis, a Democrat, became also has a fan in the head of the first openly gay governor the Philadelphia-area Jewish in the United States when he day school from which he was elected in 2018, defeating graduated. the incumbent Republican “I would love to see him as holding the post. The 45-year- the first Jewish president of JEWISH CAPITAL ALLIANCE old made millions of dollars in the United States,” the school tech before entering politics, leader told JTA in 2018. “I and OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, INC. and ran for governor on a everyone else here would sign platform calling for a transi- onto his campaign.” tion to renewable energy, pub- Shapiro says Jewish values 1151 Orange Avenue licly funded early childhood influence his work, which has education and reductions in included documenting abuses Suite 200 income inequality. by the Catholic Church. “I derive a lot of the values “Fundamentally, Judaism Winter Park, Florida 32789 that I try to bring into the is teaching that none of us is public sphere from my private required to complete the task, faith,” Polis told JTA in 2017. but neither is any of us free March 29, 2020 J.B. Pritzker to refrain from it,” he told the J.B. Pritzker had the po- Philadelphia Jewish Voice in litical chops going into the 2008. “It is really what guides Jewish Capital Alliance of Central Florida, Inc., is painfully aware coronavirus crisis to consider me in my public service.” a run for the presidency: He Elissa Slotkin of the economic and operational challenges facing our Jewish won the governor’s race The freshman Democratic institutional colleagues in Orlando. Therefore, JCA is reaching decisively in a major Mid- congresswoman is part of western state; he has long the prominent “Gang of 9” out to our Jewish community to advise: been involved in Democratic and a rising leader in the politics; and he is the scion party’s moderate wing who of his philanthropic family’s led a push to get moderates hotel fortune. Now his plain to back Trump’s impeach- talk and clashes with Trump ment. Her level of ambition WE ARE HERE TO HELP! during the crisis have elevated isn’t quite clear yet, but some him in the eyes of Democrats. predict an even higher ascent Pritzker, whose sister Pen- for the tough Michigander JCA is the one organization that is chartered to lend funds to ny sat in President Barack and former CIA analyst who Obama’s Cabinet, has cred- turned her Rust Belt House any JEWISH AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION that requires ited his Jewish upbringing in seat blue. assistance in meeting its operational directives. JCA Board’s the family that founded the Ivanka Trump Hyatt hotel chain for shaping The president’s daughter directive is to immediately provide emergency-needs funding his outlook. He has served on has the most White House the board of the American experience of anyone on this to Orlando Jewish organizations that require help in navigating Israel Public Affairs Commit- list, having worked as a senior tee and praised the Hebrew adviser for her father since he the current critical financial environment. Therefore, JCA is Immigrant Aid Society, the was elected in 2016. Ivanka lead Jewish immigration Trump hasn’t expressed offering to immediately provide interest free loans with deferred advocacy group, for helping any specific political goals, his family settle in the United but her father promotes her repayment structures, to assist our Jewish organizations in States after fleeing pogroms heavily: Just this week, he dealing with today’s unforeseen hardships. in Ukraine in 1881. suggested that she had cre- Adam Schiff ated 10 percent of all jobs in Schiff, a U.S. congressman the United States. from Southern California Ivanka Trump became an To inquire, please contact one of the following since 2001, played a starring observant Jew after convert- board members at the email addresses below: role in the impeachment trial ing before marrying Jared of Trump in early 2020, draw- Kushner in 2009, and has ing ire and possible threats since spoken out against anti- from the irascible president. Semitism. Kushner’s portfo- Board of Directors As the head of the House lio in the Trump White House, Intelligence Committee, he which includes the Middle Jewish Capital Alliance of Central Florida, Inc. was the lead prosecutor in the East, suggests that he might trial, and while a Republican- harbor political ambitions [email protected] majority Senate ultimately of his own, but Ivanka is the acquitted Trump, Schiff’s one whose name gets thrown Howard Lefkowitz, Director Rhonda Pearlman, Director powerful closing testimony around when discussions of made him a hero for many of a Trump dynasty arise. She Ed Kleiman, Director Ian Robinson, Director those hoping for a different and her brother were the [email protected] [email protected] outcome. top finishers in a 2019 poll [email protected] [email protected] Josh Shapiro about Republicans’ preferred Shapiro, a 48-year-old candidates in 2024.