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For the last forty-seven years, Jamil “Jimmy” Ezra has marked a special, deeply private anniversary on September 1 with a ray of hope in his heart. For it was on that day in 1970 that Ezra – accompanied by his brother and sister – drove in a jeep to the Iraqi border with Iran with Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani and his assistant at the wheel. Ezra and his siblings were among more than 2,000 Iraqi Jews who were helped by Kurdish Peshmerga to escape from the Ba’athist regime during the 1970s. Th ese were dark

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A young Masoud Barzani fi ghting with the Kurdish peshmerga. Photo: File. BY JNS.ORG is an Iranian missile launched by We will not allow any infringement Hezbollah, an area occupied by on our national security,” he wrote, days in Iraq, where the remnant of a Jewish community Saudi Arabia’s Foreign the Houthi rebels.” adding, “Th e kingdom reserves the that had only recently numbered 150,000 was convulsed Minister Adel al-Jubeir on Monday “It could be considered as an right to respond in a timely manner with fear following the public hanging in Baghdad in 1969 accused Hezbollah, with Iranian act of war,” he added. to the hostile actions of the Iranian of 14 people, nine of them Jews, on trumped-up charges of support, of launching a missile on Afterwards, Jubeir tweeted regime.” spying for Israel. Ezra remembers the time with the same Saturday that targeted its capital that Iran is destabilizing the Th e statement by the Saudi deep emotion that grounds his present fears about what the of Riyadh, declaring the move as a Middle East and vowed to protect foreign minister come amid a future now holds for his Kurdish rescuers. potential “act of war.” his country’s national security. tumultuous time both domes- “My heart breaks for the 30 million Kurds, divided In an interview with CNN, “Iranian interventions in the tically and internationally for between Iraq and Turkey, Syria and Iran, and abused and Jubeir said that “the missile region are detrimental to the security the kingdom. Last weekend, launched from Yemen to Riyadh of neighboring countries and aff ect a campaign of mass arrests of Continued on Page A3 international peace and security. Continued on Page A3

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chosen to be a nation — none of these lands strong Turkish coffee. octogenarian star. “We need to separate from is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all I was struck firstly by the depth of his them (the Palestinians),” he told me. “But it DOVID EFUNE of you at war with Mercy. knowledge on the subject, especially his must be humane.” NEW YORK With this discussion surrounding familiarity with lesser-known Syrian rebel Feiglin has long held the view, as he Cohen’s views on Israel, it struck me that his groups and the complex web of alliances in explained in an AFP interview in 2008, that first yartzheit — today — may present an apt the war-torn region. Throughout the discus- the Palestinians “will have to seek the right occasion to shed some light on the matter. sion, he maintained a deep sense of sympathy to self-determination in Arab states.” Feiglin Having discussed the issue with Cohen at and concern for the victims. added, “Israel will encourage the Arabs to A year has now passed since the death of great length — and not so long ago — I felt Our discussion soon turned to Israel. emigrate to their countries and assist any the great poet and singer Leonard Cohen. He’s duty bound to contribute to the conversation. We spoke about his “Concert for Reconcilia- Arab who wishes to do so.” been remembered no doubt for his music, but It is with respect and humility that I do tion, Tolerance and Peace” in 2009, at a Ramat We didn’t discuss any of Feiglin’s other also — among Jews — for his deep sense of so, and with the full understanding that, as Gan soccer stadium, which was attended by a controversial views, some of which Cohen pride in his Jewish identity. the Forward noted, “Leonard Cohen was crowd of 47,000. He had faced criticism from would most likely have rejected. In Israel, he was lauded as a great friend far from dreaming in black and white.” I also the boycott Israel crowd for the show and had I stayed in touch with Cohen until a few of the Jewish state. Both the country’s presi- acknowledge that, as with many of us, it is attempted to schedule a parallel performance months before his death. He was always warm, dent and prime minister issued statements quite feasible that his views may have evolved in Ramallah, but had been rebuffed by the graceful, selfless, humble and very Jewish. I’m of mourning upon his passing, remembering throughout the course of his life. Palestinians. In our conversation, he seemed all our correspondence he signed off with his Cohen’s historic visit to Israel in 1973. “I will not I was first introduced to Cohen in frustrated that his overtures had been rejected. Hebrew name, Eliezer, and often included the forget how he came to Israel during the Yom mid-2015 by The Algemeiner’s chairman He appeared equally vexed by the traditional priestly blessing. Kippur War in order to sing to IDF soldiers, out and publisher Simon Jacobson, who had outcome of the peace effort he had hoped He was certainly a man of peace, and of a deep feeling of partnership,” Netanyahu said. connected with the singer decades earlier on to initiate with his donation of the proceeds made great efforts to contribute to the healing It was during that trip to Israel that Cohen more spiritual grounds. — some $2 million — to a project aimed at of the region. But — not unlike the journey wrote the song “Lover Come Back To Me,” Cohen was a regular reader of The bringing Israeli and Palestinian children traveled by many Israelis — it seemed that composed amid falling bombs in the Sinai desert. Algemeiner and when I informed him of a together. I haven’t delved into the details of the obstructionism he encountered left him The ode ends with the words, “And may the spirit planned trip to Los Angeles that summer, he how that project turned out, but got the sense more sympathetic with the Israeli view best of this song, may it rise up pure and free. May it be invited me to come meet with him at his home. that Cohen felt the money had gone to waste. expressed by the great Zionist leader Ze’ev a shield for you, a shield against the enemy.” He lived in a small, simple two-story In an effort to better understand his Jabotinsky, in eloquent testimony before the But doubts were also raised. An article house in the city’s Mid-Wilshire neighborhood current perspective of the issue, I asked if British Peel Commission on Palestine in 1937: published by the Forward asked, “Was Leonard and when I pulled up at his place late that there was a particular Israeli politician who It is quite understandable that the Arabs Cohen a Zionist?” and answered, “The short June afternoon, he was sitting on a deckchair resonated with him, whose ideas he found of Palestine also prefer to be the Arab state answer is no.” The article asserted, “The charac- on the lawn out front and beckoned for me to appealing. “Moshe Feiglin,” he responded, No. 4, or No. 6 — that I understand. But when terization of Cohen as a straightforward Zionist sit down beside him. referring to the former leader of the Manhigut the Arab claim is confronted with our Jewish is nonsense,” citing a poem from Cohen’s 1984 And there we sat — for close to three Yehudit faction of the governing Likud party. demand to be saved, it is like the claims of poetry compilation The Book of Mercy: hours — discussing the intricacies of Middle I was surprised by Cohen’s familiarity appetite versus the claims of starvation. Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, East politics, as we chewed on kosher cookies with Feiglin, no less that the nationalist Dovid Efune is the editor-in-chief and the Church that calls itself Israel, and the and his housekeeper served cup after cup of leader’s views had found favor with the CEO of The Algemeiner. revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation How the Balfour Declaration Redefined Indigenous People

non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the Minister Arthur Balfour and his declaration is the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in hardly justified. Algemeiner Journal JUDEA PEARL any other country.” First, the idea that the Arab popula- A close examination, however, reveals tion of Palestine harbors national aspiration (USPS 927800) is published weekly LOS ANGELES two asymmetries which, by today’s standards, would have been news to Balfour, just as it (except for the week of Passover would probably evoke bitter objections. First, would have been to any political observer in and Succos) the words “people” and “national” are attached 1917. Khalidi admits as much in his book, The Subscription rate $40 per year It has been 100 years since the Balfour to Jews, not to the non-Jewish inhabitants of Iron Cage, in which he labors to explain why Algemeiner Journal Declaration — issued by the British govern- Palestine, who are referred to as “communi- Arabs did not develop a ripe sense of national 508 Montgomery Street ment on November 2, 1917 — offered the first ties.” Second, the non-Jewish communities identity until the late 1920s, when it was too Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225-3023 international recognition of Jewish national are assured “civil and religious” rights, not late to “crush the Zionist Movement.” aspirations. In many ways, its importance national rights, let alone a “national home.” T Second, the Balfour Declaration did not Periodicals Postage is obvious: it encouraged some 400,000 his asymmetry is probably what infuri- preclude the creation of a “national home” for Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. European Jews to emigrate to Palestine in the ated Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi other national groups in the region, side by and at additional mailing offices years 1917-1940, and made it possible to lay who, in an emotional lecture on September side with the Jewish polity. Ottoman Palestine, the groundwork for the state of Israel. 25 of this year, reportedly pounded the table as we recall, embraced a huge territory which POSTMASTER: But there is another significance that and blasted the Balfour Declaration as “a included Jordan and parts of Syria. Various Send address changes to has not been fully recognized among modern declaration of war by the British Empire on partitions and co-existing constellations were Algemeiner Journal historians, even though it tells us more about the indigenous population of the land it was proposed in the course of time, most notably P.O. Box 250746 the current obstacles to peace than any of promising to the Jewish people.” by the Peel Commission of 1937 and by the Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225 -3023 the usual explanations. I am speaking of Subsequent to this lecture, the Pales- United Nations in 1947. While Khalidi’s book the politico-philosophical precedent set by tinian Authority Ministry of Information has never mentions these proposals as options, the Balfour Declaration regarding national informed us that the Balfour Declaration is, and we understand why, it was in effect the Let your voice be heard! identity, land ownership, self determination “The greatest political crime in the history of Balfour Declaration that opened these oppor- mankind.” Additionally, a Fatah spokesman tunities for Palestinian statehood. [email protected] and the notion of “indigenous people.” On the surface, the declaration’s text elevated Balfour to “the most horrible crime Third — and this is critical — the concept touches on none of these issues. Known as in the history of mankind,” etc. of “indigenous population” has undergone a To advertise in “history’s most famous letter,” this 67-word Khalidi’s outrage at former British Prime profound transformation since 1917, which text actually reads like a holiday greeting card: Palestinian society refuses to accept to this the new Algemeiner “His Majesty’s Government view with favour day. By championing the Jewish plight for a e-mail: [email protected] the establishment in Palestine of a national homeland, the Balfour Declaration made it home for the Jewish people, and will use their absolutely clear that there are other claim- or call best endeavors to facilitate the achievement ants to the title “indigenous population of the 718-771-0400 of this object, it being clearly understood land,” and that the arguments of those other that nothing shall be done which may preju- claimants are no less defensible and no less dice that civil and religious rights of existing The late Arthur Balfour.Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Continued on Page A4 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2017 A3 World News. Jewish Family Home in Prime Minister Netanyahu Paris Faces Arson to BBC: Iranian Takeover Attack of Middle East Must Be Stopped BY BEN COHEN home and raped the wife in front of her husband. Gang members have said that Jews are targeted French authorities are hesitating over out of the belief that all of them are wealthy and whether to treat an arson attack on the home of can pay ransom money. a Jewish family near Paris last Friday night as an In September, robbers broke into the home antisemitic attack. of Sephardic leader Roger Pinto, in the Livry- The French newspaperLe Parisien on Gargan neighborhood. They then cut off the Monday quoted a local law enforcement repre- electricity in the house, tied up Pinto’s son, and sentative in the suburb of Creteil commenting, held and beat his wife, all the while insisting, “Nothing at the moment allows us to say that it “You are Jews, you have money.” is an attack of antisemitic nature.” The family, In what remains the worst example of this however, believe that the fire set to the door of their home was started by an Islamist neighbor of North African origin who had previously uttered antisemitic threats. On October 29, the family’s car was torched, and the suspect remains at large. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears on “The Andrew Marr Show,” Nov. 5, 2017. On Friday night, the Photo: YouTube screenshot. family were alerted by their barking dog to the smoke that BY ALGEMEINER STAFF five-day trip to London, Netanyahu noted of was quickly enveloping their the latest development across his country’s apartment. They immedi- French authorities have hesitated in recognizing antisemitic attacks. The resignation of Lebanese Prime northern border, “It says what the Middle East Photo: File. ately began stamping on the Minister Saad Hariri on Saturday and his criti- is really experiencing. It’s experiencing the flames with their feet. After cism of Iran should serve as a “wakeup call for attempt of Iran to conquer the Middle East, to trend so far, in April Jewish pensioner Sarah extinguishing the blaze, they discovered that a everyone,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin dominate it and subjugate it.” bottle of highly flammable white spirit had been Halimi was beaten and tortured by an Islamist “I think that when Israelis and Arabs… neighbor who broke into her apartment. The Netanyahu said in a BBC interview on Sunday. left outside. Appearing on “The Andrew Marr Show” agree on one thing, people should pay atten- The BNCVA — a French Jewish security assailant then threw Dr. Halimi out of a third ahead of his return to Israel following a tion,” Netanyahu continued. “We should stop organization with a particular focus on protec- floor window to her death. In this case as well, this Iranian takeover.” tion for Jews living in heavily Muslim areas, the assailant was known to the victim, having where complaints of antisemitism are rife — made antisemitic remarks to Dr. Halimi and her daughter in the past. Continued from Page A1 to Saudi Arabia, Lebanese Prime Minister said that the attack was further confirmation Saudi French prosecutors waited for several Saad Hariri on Saturday announced his resig- of a pattern that has seen antisemitic violence Saudi royals, ministers and businessmen was months before examining the antisemitic nation as the country’s leader, and accused impact Jews inside their own homes, as well launched by Crown Prince Mohammed bin motives behind Halimi’s murder, amid what Iran and Hezbollah of plotting his assassina- as on the street and in Jewish institutions and Salman, who experts believe is attempting to French Jewish leaders angrily denounced as tion as well as fueling conflict throughout the buildings. The organization pointed out that consolidate power. Additionally, during a visit Creteil had been the site of another antisemitic a politically-motivated conspiracy of silence Middle East. attack in 2014, when robbers raided a Jewish around the crime. understand why my brother had an exemp- Ezra said. “We came to New York.” Many other Continued from Page A1 morning — they would fight over the dirty tion permit from the army, so our driver kept Iraqi Jews who escaped around the same time Kurds water,” Ezra said. “My aunt would send me explaining, ‘He’s not well, he’s not well.’ Eventu- went to Israel, as well as the UK, Canada and suffering,” Ezra told The Algemeiner on with food and clean water for my brother, and ally, the soldier said, ‘Ok, ok, you can go.'” other countries. Monday. he would beg me to take him away.” Arriving at the meeting point agreed Ezra’s thoughts over the last month have Ezra will be speaking about his experi- At this point, Ezra said, he and his sister with Barzani’s advisers, Ezra remembered been dominated by the fate of the Kurds, ences with Masoud Barzani – son of the Gilda decided that it was time to leave Iraq. He that a high-level Kurdish intelligence official whose 93 percent vote in favor of indepen- legendary Mullah Mustafa Barzani and, until ventured north to Iraqi Kurdistan, then enjoying “came out and started briefing us.” dence in the September 25 referendum last week, the president of the Kurdistan a measure of autonomy under an agreement To maintain secrecy around Kurdish resulted in an Iranian-backed onslaught Regional Government (KRG) – at downtown with Baghdad that was soon reneged upon by assistance to escaping Iraqi Jews, the official involving Iraqi government forces and the Manhattan’s prestigious Center for Jewish Saddam Hussein. Arriving in the Kurdish town instructed Ezra and those with him to person- Shia Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitary group. History on Tuesday night, during a special of Haj Omran on the Iranian border, he came ally approach Masoud Barzani, who would be More than 50 percent of the territory liber- two-part series on the Kurds sponsored by across an Iraqi Jewish family he knew who were sitting in a cafe at an agreed time, and pretend ated from ISIS by the Kurds has been lost, the American Sephardi Federation. It is a taken across the border into Iran that same they had a brother imprisoned by Kurdish including the historic city of Kirkuk, while story that began when Ezra was a boy of 17 night. Ezra, meanwhile, was given a mattress in forces. “We had to act,” Ezra said. “We had to Kurdish political leaders have been painted in Baghdad, living with his aunt and uncle, a room where he bedded down with ten Kurds. beg and plead in front of Masoud.” into a corner as they try to maintain as much and still grieving from the sudden death of his “I told them about how the Jews were suffering,” Following this ruse, the Ezra siblings got autonomy from Baghdad as feasible. father from a heart attack on the very same he said. “They promised to take me to Mustafa into a jeep alongside Masoud. At the border “I follow the news of the Kurds, I pray for day in July 1968 that Saddam Hussein and his Barzani the following day.” with Iran, Masoud got out and bade his them,” Ezra said. “I know their history, how they Ba’athist comrades seized power. The next morning, Barzani’s aides farewells. “We had a gift for Masoud and his were divided between four countries after World “One day in 1970, my brother Farid was hatched a plan that involved Ezra and another adviser,” Ezra said. “It was a Parker 21 pen, that War One. America has betrayed them, Britain walking in the street when he was stopped for Jewish family returning to Baghdad to collect was a big deal back then. We wanted them to and France have betrayed them. Israel tried to an ID check,” Ezra recalled. “He had a permit their relatives, after which they would travel to take it, but they refused and refused. They help, but they were limited by the Americans exempting him from serving in the army, and a meeting point back in northern Iraq. “That said, ‘We are doing this because we care and dictating to them how much they could do.” on every page it was written in red, yahudi, was on Monday; on the Thursday, back in we want to help you.'” Ezra wants American Jews to urge yahudi, yahudi (Jew).” Baghdad, I woke up my brother Farid, who “They never took any money, any gifts, their legislators to protect the Kurds, a long- Farid was arrested and imprisoned on was suffering badly from his trauma in prison, unlike the smugglers who would rob the Iraqi standing American ally. “What happened to a spying charge. His voice breaking, Ezra and I told him, ‘Come on, you and me and Jews they were supposed to be helping,” Ezra the Jews could still happen to them,” Ezra said, recalled how his brother was beaten and Gilda are going on a short vacation,'” he said. continued. casting an eye on Saddam Hussein’s infamous tortured by his jailers until he suffered a Had they been stopped and discovered After crossing into Iran on September 1, attempts to obliterate the Kurds with chemical nervous breakdown. Farid was then trans- at one of the many security checkpoints along the Ezras survived a long and arduous journey weapons attacks in the late 1980s. ferred to a prison for the criminally insane. the way, certain imprisonment in a Ba’athist jail to Tehran, where they stayed at the aptly- “Measures need to be taken to prevent “In the hot summer, the prisoners would would have awaited — and, indeed, the family named Hotel Sinai — then full of escaped Iraqi that,” he said. “This should be an emergency for all run outside to drink the unfiltered river was pulled over by a soldier. “Luckily, the guy Jews in transit with the Jewish Agency’s assis- the UN Security Council. The issue of the Kurds water that was brought in by a truck in the was an idiot,” Ezra remembered. “He couldn’t tance. “On October 2, we arrived in America,” has to be kept alive every day of the year.” A4 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2017 World News. Israel Delivering Emergency Assistance to Madagascar as Island Nation Copes With Plague Outbreak

BY ALGEMEINER STAFF Benjamin Memmi, and Madagascar’s Bureau for Natural Disasters.” “Israel has a long standing tradition of Israel is sending aid to Madagascar as the offering humanitarian assistance and coordi- Indian Ocean island nation copes with its worst nating relief to alleviate disease, hunger and “Black Death” plague outbreak in half a century. poverty,” Black continued. “We have experience At least 1,800 people in Madagascar have French-Tunisian movie producer Said Ben Said. Photo: SBS Productions. in helping countries going through natural and been infected with the disease and 127 have died. man-made disasters and will always provide According to the African Independent, assistance to help those in need.” Top French-Arab Movie Produc- the Israeli assistance shipment was organized by the Jewish state’s Foreign Ministry and the Magen David Adom er Denounces Arab World’s emergency service. “We expect all packages to be deliv- ‘Antisemitic Majority’ ered to the International Red Cross in Madagascar in the next few days,” Ayelet Black — Israel’s deputy ambassador to South Africa — was quoted as telling BY BEN COHEN Ben Said recalled that as a schoolboy in the African News Agency. “The delivery Tunisia, he had been taught through Quranic of different medical equipment such verses that “the Jews were…treacherous, falsi- as gloves to carry out medical proce- French-Tunisian movie producer Said fiers, immoral, evil, etc., and, most importantly, dures is being coordinated between Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. Ben Said. Photo: SBS Productions. Photo: Sascha Grabow via Wikimedia Commons these verses were the words of God.” Israel’s honorary consul in Madagascar, A prominent Tunisian-born French “Every Arab child grows up with these movie producer has issued a frank denun- images,” he observed. “In an Arab Gulf ciation of antisemitism in the Arab world after Continued from Page A2 is based on intellectual attachment and monarchy, for example, today’s textbooks being compelled to pull out of North Africa’s Balfour historical continuity, no less than on physical state that Jews are descended from monkeys most prestigious film festival because of his supported by hard evidence and trust deeds. presence or genetic lineage. because a verse from the Quran (II-65) work with Israelis. The Balfour Declaration overturned the In 2014, when peace negotiations threatens that Sabbath transgressors will be Said Ben Said revealed in an op-ed for narrow conception of “indigenous people” as seemed somewhat hopeful, Palestinian chief turned into monkeys.” the French daily on Tuesday that an invitation a group of tribes or families who happened to negotiator, Saeb Erekat was reported in The Too many Muslims were unaware that to preside over the jury of the 28th Carthage own land in a particular geographic location New York Times as saying: “the Palestinians “the Jews of the Quran were, in reality, the Jews Film Festival in Tunisia had been rescinded and pass it to their heirs over a number of could never accede to Israel’s demand that of Medina, who had first been perceived by because of his work with Israeli film director generations. By focusing on the Jewish narra- they recognize it as the nation-state of the Muhammad as potential allies before becoming Nadav Lapid and his participation on the tive, the declaration broadened the concept Jewish people. … I cannot change my narra- his mortal enemies, since they did not recognize judges panel at the Jerusalem Film Festival of indigeneity to include peoples who have tive.” A few months later, when pressed to him as a prophet,” Ben Said continued, before earlier this year. The 51-year-old Ben Said is maintained vivid collective memories of past explain what narrative defines his position accusing Muslim clerics of turning criticism of seen as one of the brightest talents in inter- civilizations and who shaped their identity Erekat told the Times of Israel: “I am the proud Jews within a specific context into general anti- national cinema, having produced movies by through dreams of returning to the cradles of son of the Netufians and the Canaanites. I’ve Judaism and outright antisemitism. such directors as David Cronenburg, Roman those civilizations. been there for 5,500 years before Joshua. ” As a result, antisemitic myths were now Polanski, Brian De Palma and Thierry Klifa. This shift in the definition of indigineity On this centennial celebration of the entrenched in the Arab world, Ben Said noted. Ben Said said he bore Carthage’s was only implicit in the 67-word declaration. Balfour Declaration it is worth reminding organizers no ill-will, writing that “the festival It was made explicit two years later, however, Erekat and Khalidi that the declaration’s most was probably right to spare both themselves in Balfour’s introduction to Nachum Sokolow’s profound imprint on the world’s conciousness and me a media lynching.” The real culprit, book, History of Zionism, 1600-1919. has been a universal understanding that the the producer argued, was the prevalence of “The position of the Jews is unique,” essence of indigineity is cultural and intellec- antisemitism fueled by Islamist extremists Balfour wrote. “For them race, religion and tual, not genetic or geographical. across the Middle East. country are inter-related, as they are inter- Palestinian resistance to accepting their “No one can deny the misery of the related in the case of no other race, no other neighbors as equally indigenous to the region Palestinian people, but it must be admitted religion, and no other country on earth. … In has been so obsessive and so counter-produc- that the Arab world is, in its majority, antise- the case of no other religion is its past devel- tive that it begs to be enlivened through a mitic,” Ben Said wrote. “This hatred of Jews has Photo: Screenshot opment so intimately bound up with the long hypothetical scenario, however imaginary. I redoubled in intensity and depth not because political history of a petty territory wedged in can’t resist imagining Balfour attending Khali- of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but with the rise of between States more powerful far than it could di’s lecture at Columbia, raising his hand and “How many times have I heard people say a certain vision of Islam.” ever be; in the case of no other religion are its asking politely: in Tunisia that harvests are bad because the Successive opinion polls in the Arab world aspirations and hopes expressed in language “Professor Khalidi, can you name a Canaanite Mossad poisons the soil, or that the Mossad over the last decade tend to confirm Ben Said’s and imagery so utterly dependent for their figure that you are proud of? A Canaanite poem staged the 9/11 attack to help Americans get assertion. A Pew Research poll in 2011 found meaning on the conviction that only from this that you enjoy reciting? A Canaanite holiday that their hands on Iraqi oil?” he asked. that between 96 and 98 percent of respondents one land, only through this one history, only you celebrate? A Canaanite leader who is a role Emphasizing his pride in being Tunisian, in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinian by this one people, is full religious knowledge model to your children? Muslim and French, Ben Said concluded by territories held hostile views toward Jews, while to spread through all the world.” Replace the word “Canaanite” with saying, “[T]he evil is there, lurking deep inside us.” a global Anti-Defamation League poll in 2015 A man of wisdom and character, Balfour “biblical” and you will find four questions that “Its roots are deep,” he wrote. “Hundreds recorded similar levels of antipathy. Even in considered himself primarily a philosopher, every Israeli child can answer half asleep. of thousands of Arabs are murdered by other Tunisia, a relatively liberal nation with a small not a historian or a statesman. It is amazing There is merit and wisdom in hypothet- Arabs in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, but that is Jewish population, the ADL found that 86 how this multifaceted individual managed ical scenarios. In this case, I would hope it less important to us than crimes committed percent of respondents were antisemitic. to take time off his duties as Britain’s foreign could mitigate the Palestinian claim to exclu- by the Israeli army.” One part of the challenge, Ben Said secretary, and study carefully the role that the sive ownership of the title “indigenous people” The Carthage Film Festival is no stranger argued, was the denial among Arabs that a Land of Israel had played in Jewish life through — and, God-willing, usher a genuine reconcili- to controversy around Jews and Israel. In problem existed in the first place. He took the ages. He captured this essence better than ation effort based on mutual recognition and 2014, protesters met the French-Jewish issue with the common argument in the Arab some of our most revered history professors, shared indigeneity. philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy with signs world that because Arabs were so-called for whom Zionism is a 19th century invention Judea Pearl is Chancellor’s Professor of denouncing “Zionist power” in Tunisia. And “Semites,” they could not be “antisemitic.” that started with Theodor Herzl in 1896 and Computer Science and Statistics at UCLA and in July of this year, Michel Boujenah, a French- “Nothing could be more wrong,” he wrote. ended with the Six-Day War of 1967. president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation. Jewish comedian, was the target of Tunisian “The term ‘antisemitic,’ invented in Europe in Balfour understood that Eretz Israel is an This article was originally published by BDS activists over his performance at another the nineteenth century, never concerned the inextricable part of Jewish identity. Accord- The Jewish Journal. cultural festival in Carthage. Arabs. It designated Jews exclusively.” ingly, he also understood that indigeneity www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2017 A5 U.S. News.

years ago, because they see our interests as not ready yet to accept the Jewish state, but if Israel Will Be America’s ‘Most being aligned with theirs… Many things are the Arab governments are, then I think that happening underneath the surface, many will put enormous pressure on the Palestin- Important Ally’ in the 21st remarkable things.” ians to decide whether or not they want to “How you translate that into an effective waste another century, or they want to work peace process is very difficult, because those with Israel on building a better future. I hope Century, DC Envoy Predicts same governments have essentially poisoned they’ll make the latter choice.” their citizens for 70 years — against Israel, Dermer was speaking at the closing against Jews, against Christians, sometimes plenary of the four-day IAC gathering at the against America. So it’s very hard for them to Walter E. Convention Center in the nation’s BY BARNEY BREEN-PORTNOY simply pivot. While they’re not democracies, capital. Other conference participants on public opinion is relevant.” Monday included a bipartisan group of US The US-Israeli alliance will only grow stronger in the coming years, the Jewish state’s envoy The ambassador emphasized the House of Representatives members — Repub- to Washington predicted on Monday. negative Palestinian reactions to last week’s licans Ed Royce of California, Joe Wilson of “I believe Israel is going to be the most important ally of the United States in the 21st celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the South Carolina and Chuck Fleischmann of century,” Ambassador Ron Dermer said at the fourth annual Israeli-American Council National issuance of the Balfour Declaration. Tennessee and Democrats Brad Sherman of Conference. “The Palestinians, unfortunately, have not California, Ted Deutch of Florida and Brad “The reason why is because…for the foreseeable future…most of the major security crossed this historic Rubicon, to recognize the Schneider of Illinois. challenges facing the United States are going to emanate from the Middle East,” Dermer one and only Jewish state,” he said. “So they’re continued. “And you do not have another reliable partner, that is democratic, in that region.” “If you think about who is the best partner for the United States around the world, in keeping its own citizens safe and its allies safe on the security side, and also making its citizens

Israeli Ambassador to US Ron Dermer speaks at the Israe- li-American Council National Conference in Washington, DC, Nov. 6, 2017. Photo: Perry Bindelglass. more prosperous, with all the technology that’s happening [in Israel], I think that Israel is the most important ally of the United States,” he added. Turning to the July 2015 nuclear agreement reached by Iran and six world powers, Dermer said, “What the deal essentially did, it put all of us in a car, on cruise control, heading over a cliff.” The Israeli diplomat praised US President Donald Trump’s recent change of tack toward the Tehran regime, as expressed in an Oct. 13 address in which Trump announced the decertifi- cation of the JCPOA. “He has shifted American policy, rather dramatically, from containment to prevention, on the nuclear side…[and] essentially from accommodation to rolling back Iran on the regional side,” Dermer said. “And there a lot of tools they have in their arsenal to affect that.” “I do think it’s possible for the Untied States to work with Europe, work with Congress, to try to put fixes in and to correct the deficiencies in the deal,” Dermer noted, highlighting the issues of ballistic missile development, inspections and the nuclear agreement’s sunset clause. “I do think it’s possible to get a fix. I wouldn’t call it necessarily a better deal, I think it’s possible to turn a bad deal into a good policy vis-à-vis Iran. But I also think if you can’t, then Presi- dent Trump should walk away from this deal.” Dermer also reiterated Israel’s opposition to growing Iranian entrenchment in Syria. “We don’t want to see Iran have a permanent presence in Syria, to establish, essentially, a third terror front against Israel,” he said. “They have Hezbollah, they cooperate with the terror organizations in Gaza. And now to establish another permanent base — a land base, a sea base, air bases in Syria — we don’t want to see that happen.” Finally, referring to Israel’s diplomatic ties with its Arab neighbors, Dermer revealed he felt “more optimistic than I have ever been at the prospects for reconciliation with the broader region.” “We’ll have to see if that’s also going to be true with the Palestinians,” he added as a caveat. Dermer went on to say: “I’m more optimistic now because I see a change in the region. The Arab governments are in a different place than they were five years ago, certainly ten years or 15 A6 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2017 Opinion. An Open Letter to Larry David About the Holocaust

Nazi concentration camp, really crossed a families during the Holocaust, a crime that line. I’m not here to condemn you for it, but claimed six million lives, among which were Larry David. Photo: Wikimedia Commons SHMULEY BOTEACH to explain why. 1.5 million children. ENGELWOOD The Holocaust was the single greatest But here’s the thing. The memory of the There is something else, Larry. crime in the history of the world. Holocaust is under attack all over the world, and A few years ago I heard a rabbi give a Like you, I was raised with Holocaust not just by antisemites and Holocaust deniers. speech about how the Holocaust was punish- education. But even I — having immersed Just a month ago, we witnessed a bizarre attack ment for sin. He offered the usual drivel about myself in its details throughout my life — was on the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, by a promi- the Jews of Germany not being religious, Dear Larry, astonished at its scope and horror when I took nent scholar writing in a Jewish publication. violating the Sabbath and intermarrying, As a big fan of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” my family on an extended Holocaust educa- Then Canada opened its Holocaust museum and said God therefore caught up with them I find you hilarious and entertaining. I’ve tional journey this past summer. Wherever without even mentioning the word Jew on via the Holocaust. Now aside from this rabbi watched every season. And I love you on one travels in Europe, they slaughtered nearly the plaque outside the building; it spoke of being an ignoramus — because the Jews of, “Saturday Night Live.” all the Jews in that location, however far apart. the “millions of men, women and children say, Poland, were extremely religious — he is America is not a very funny place these Travel to Warsaw, and you witness the murdered during the Holocaust.” also a charlatan and a fraud, not to mention days. There is just too much political strife and horrors of the ghetto and the hundreds of Yes, they corrected it, but it demonstrates borderline antisemitic, as he depicts a division, too many sad stories about hurricanes thousands who were liquidated two hours a growing disassociation of the Holocaust murderous, vengeful God who delights in destroying people’s homes — and, especially, away in Treblinka. A few hours south is from Jewish suffering, something I witnessed punishing wayward Jews. too many people being shot to death in mass Krakow, and the Auschwitz Extermination in Budapest where there is a moving memorial But there was something particularly sick shootings and terror attacks — to really laugh. camp, where one million Jews were murdered on the banks of the Danube to the shoes of the in what he said. He added that proof of the In the midst of that, you come with your with poison gas. Two hours north is Lodz, victims of the Nazi terror — that does not once non-piety of the victims of the Holocaust was off-beat humor, and you entertain the nation where 275,000 were sent to the ovens. mention the word Jew. This despite the fact that, when the SS forced the women to undress and make us forget our troubles for a time. Incidentally, at Lodz the Jews were under that nearly half a million Hungarian Jews were before being shot or gassed, the women walked As someone who laughs with you, I’m so much pressure to cooperate with the Nazis murdered in just a few months there in 1944. around naked without shame. As I listened to grateful. in their own extermination that on September Is there a conspiracy behind all this these sick ramblings, I felt sorry for a man who You’re also a proud Jew, throwing your 4, 1942, the head of the Jewish Council, denial? I’m not sure. But I do know this. had little soul, sense or compassion. Jewish identity into nearly everything you Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, actually gave Minimizing the tragedy of the Holocaust Now, you’re not like that, Larry. You do. Hollywood has a history of Jewish actors a speech pleading with the Jews of the ghetto makes it easier for humanity to minimize would never justify or minimize the horrors of who have changed their names or who to “give me your children,” to turn over to the genocide and mass murder happening in our the Holocaust. But when you make fun of it, or never celebrated their Jewishness. You’re SS. The next day there was a wave of suicides time. If the Holocaust is not so horrible — if when you depict the women of the Holocaust different — engaged as you are in constant throughout the ghetto. Over the next days, the we can make jokes about it or assert that it as objects of male attraction to be hit on, you self-deprecating Jewish humor and “Curb SS tore 6,000 children from their parents and wasn’t as bad as it seemed, or if we can dilute diminish the unimaginable suffering, degra- Your Enthusiasm,” has had loads of regular, if sent them to a certain death. the identity of its victims – then it will lessen dation and, ultimately, murder, to which these sometimes off-color, Jewish laughs. In Bialystok, we searched for, and, about our resolve to fight genocide in our time. If the millions of women were subject. I was never offended by your Holocaust midnight, eventually found the iron cupola of suffering of the Jews doesn’t really matter, then Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the international humor, not even by the famous “survivor” the synagogue where on June 27, 1941, the the gassing of Arab children in Damascus or best-selling author of 31 books, most recently episode, where participants in the CBS TV city’s Jews were forced inside and burnt alive. Aleppo doesn’t matter either. “The Israel Warrior.” The winner of the London reality show of the same name met with survi- Sadly, very few of the city’s current inhabitants That’s how a Rwanda happens. You can Times Preacher of the Year Award, he has been vors of the Holocaust. had any idea where the memorial lay, even watch 1,000 people dying every hour, as they called by Newsweek “the most famous Rabbi in But, respectfully, your humor in your though it’s smack in the middle of the town. did in Rwanda between April and June 1994, America” and named by the Jerusalem Post as “Saturday Night Live” opening standup I need not list all the horrors to have you and not do a darn thing, because you are one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world. routine last week, in which you thought of understand the unimaginable suffering of inured to the horrors of genocide. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley. pick-up lines for dating Jewish women in a

founded the publication as a provocative it wasn’t antisemitic. Yet since style often alternative to mainstream liberal journalism, becomes indistinguishable from substance, The False Claims About in part because of the need for a pro-Israel Bannon is branded as a “white supremacist” outlet. It has remained true to that mission even if his views don’t justify the label. Bannon and Antisemitism since Bannon took over after Breitbart’s Bannon’s reputation has become so untimely death in 2012. toxic among Jews that one community leader But along with preserving its Zionist bent, expressed to me his reluctance to appear at a Bannon made it a home for the sort of populist local ZOA event simply because the Breitbart conservatism that Trump would champion in publisher will appear at the group’s dinner destroy them, and are feeling no reticence 2016. That involved some pandering to the in New York. Goldberg credits such hysteria about damning Bannon as an antisemite and far right. At one point, Bannon even claimed to “an epidemic” of Jewish insecurity. That’s Nazi sympathizer. But while I’m no fan of JONATHAN S. TOBIN it was a “platform for the alt-right.” But, as especially true for liberals who are genuinely either man, there must be some limits. That’s JNS.ORG - BREITBART.COM Goldberg points out, that term embraces a panicked by Trump’s rise. Since his appeal is especially true when it comes to Jews lobbing wide range of views, from conservatives who incomprehensible to them, they put it down around accusations of antisemitism at a time are against illegal immigration to genuine to hate rather than resentment of the guard- when a rising tide of antisemitism has been racists. They are united by hostility to the ians of the status quo. sweeping across the globe. CEO and former White House senior establishment and civility, not antisemitism Just as important is that, in spite of Lately, Bannon has been under fire counselor Steve Bannon has called himself or white supremacy. their abhorrence for him, many on the left from moderate Republicans who don’t like a “Leninist.” It’s an apt description because, There’s a lot to dislike about the way have embraced Bannon’s approach in which his attempt to seize control of their party. though a conservative, he agrees with the Bannon and Trump have flirted with dog political opponents must be delegitimized They’ve echoed the same litany of charges — communist dictator’s view that politics is whistling to extremists. But the same can be rather than merely opposed. You don’t have including antisemitism — that many on the war. He takes a dim view of policy debates as said of liberals who tolerate left-wing antisem- to like Bannon or many of his ideas about left have been using to attack him. That has a way for reasonable people to put forward ites and anti-Zionists out of a common desire immigration and foreign policy to understand led one ally on the right — Zionist Organiza- competing ideas and ultimately agree to to “resist” Trump. Moreover, despite Bannon’s that crying “wolf” about antisemitism is as tion of America (ZOA) President Morton disagree. The essence of Breitbart’s approach boast, antisemites and white supremacists dangerous to the Jews as it is wrongheaded. Klein — to leap to Bannon’s defense, noting, is that politics is no-holds combat in which weren’t actually provided with a platform at Unless you agree with him about turning among other reasons, his record of steadfast the sole object is the utter destruction of your Breitbart. the public square into a Bolshevik fight to support for Israel. opponent. Indeed, the one instance cited as proof the death, even Bannon’s liberal opponents Klein is, however, not alone. One liberal That is why President Donald Trump of its antisemitism — an article by David need to stop calling adversaries antisemites voice, Forward columnist J.J. Goldberg, has is Bannon’s kind of politician, and between Horowitz claiming William Kristol was a or white supremacists just because they can’t written that while he despises Bannon’s views, the two of them they’ve done a lot to coarsen “renegade Jew” because of his opposition to stand their politics. the evidence does not justify calling him an American political life. Trump — was actually a case of one conser- Jonathan S. Tobin is opinion editor antisemite. So it’s hardly a surprise that many of vative Jew attacking another because he of JNS.org and a contributing writer for Goldberg is right. Part of the problem is those who can’t stand Bannon and Trump believed Trump’s election was necessary National Review. Follow him on Twitter at: that most of those who assume Breitbart is a — including many in the Jewish commu- for Israel’s security. I thought Horowitz was @jonathans_tobin. latter-day version of the Nazi rag Der Sturmer nity — are using the same playbook to try to wrong to attack Kristol in that fashion, but don’t read it. Journalist Andrew Breitbart www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2017 A7 Opinion. Tradition. Is the JCPOA Working? The World’s Oldest Man

heavy water that it is allowed to possess does Seven times promised a land, when not include the quantity that is being stored for Sarah died, he owned not a single square inch BY YIGAL CARMON & it in Oman and not being sold — while at the JONATHAN SACKS of territory in which to bury her, and had to A. SAVYON same time Iran is continuing to produce more LONDON entreat the Hittites to let him buy a field and heavy water. burial cave. This was a life of disappointed d. The core of the plutonium reactor hopes and delayed fulfillments. What kind of at Arak — According to Ali Akbar Salehi, man was this that the Torah can say that he All JCPOA supporters rely on the notion head of the Atomic Energy Organization Of On 11 August 2017, the world’s oldest died “in good old age, old and satisfied”? that “the agreement is working” and on the Iran (AEOI) and a member of Iran’s nuclear man passed away, just a month short of his I learned the answer to this question fact that the International Atomic Energy negotiating team, Iran never dismantled the 114th birthday – making him one of the ten through a series of life-changing encounters Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that Iran is in core of the plutonium reactor at Arak, but left longest-lived men since modern record- with Holocaust survivors. They were among compliance with the agreement eight times it intact, saying that Iran needed it for research keeping began. If you knew nothing else the strongest, most life-affirming people I since it came into force in January 2016. purposes. He also said that only the external about him than this, you would be justified in have ever met. For years I wondered how they Reality, however, contradicts this, on four pipelines of the reactor had been filled with thinking that he had led a peaceful life, spared were able to survive at all, having seen what levels: cement, and that it would not take very long of fear, grief and danger. they saw and known what they knew. They a. Violations of the agreement in letter, for Iran to reactivate it. According to the Insti- The actual truth is the opposite. The man had lived through the deepest darkness ever not just in “spirit,” in issues that are critical, not tute for Science and International Security in question was Yisrael Kristal, Holocaust to have descended on a civilisation. marginal. (IISS), Iran has also tried to make changes to survivor. Born in Poland in 1903, he survived Eventually I realised what they had done. b. Developments on the ground that the fuel design for the modified Arak reactor, four years in the Lodz ghetto, and was then Almost without exception, when the war was contradict the aim of the agreement. that differ from what the JCPOA requires. transported to Auschwitz. In the ghetto, his over, they focused with single-minded inten- c. The lack of real inspection, making the e. Production of uranium enriched to two children died. In Auschwitz, his wife was sity on the future. Strangers in a strange land, IAEA’s confirmation invalid. 5% — Iran is continuing to produce uranium killed. When Auschwitz was liberated, he was a they built homes and careers, married and had d. The IAEA’s role in this deliberate enriched to 5% beyond the quantity permitted walking skeleton weighing a mere 37 kilos. He children and brought new life into the world. misrepresentation that there is real inspec- it. Two such violations have been recorded by was the only member of his family to survive. Often they did not talk about their experi- tion and that Iran is upholding the agreement. the IAEA. Iran has exported the surplus for He was raised as a religious Jew and ences during the Shoah, even to their spouses, This paper will present evidence that the storage in Oman, in a procedure that does not stayed so all his life. When the war was over and their children and their closest friends. This agreement is not working. exist in the agreement and is not allowed. his entire world destroyed, he married again, silence lasted, in many cases, for as long as fifty I. Violations of the JCPOA II. Developments on the ground that this time to another Holocaust survivor. They years. Only then, when the future they had built a. Section T — Iran is refusing to allow contradict the aim of the JCPOA had children. They made aliyah to Haifa. There was secure, did they allow themselves to look IAEA inspectors to monitor Section T of the a. The 8.5 tons of enriched uranium he began again in the confectionery business, back and bear witness to what they had suffered agreement, which prohibits Iran from carrying shipped out from Iran according to the as he had done in Poland before the war. He and seen. Some of them wrote books. Many of out “activities which could contribute to the JCPOA are not being monitored by the IAEA, made sweets and chocolate. He became an them went around schools, telling their story development of a nuclear explosive device.” and in fact the shipment disappeared in innovator. If you have ever had Israeli orange so that the Holocaust could not be denied.[1] Iran is refusing to allow International Russia, as attested to by the Obama adminis- peel covered in chocolate, or liqueur choco- First they built a future. Only then did they allow Atomic Energy Agency to carry out inspec- tration’s State Department lead coordinator lates shaped like little bottles and covered with themselves to remember the past. tions in accordance with Section T of the on Iran, Stephen Mull, at a House Foreign silver foil, you are enjoying one of the products That is what Abraham did in this week’s JCPOA, which prohibits Iran from “designing, Affairs Committee hearing in February 2016. he originated. Those who knew him said he parsha. He had received three promises from developing, fabricating, acquiring, or using (Theoretically, however, since the uranium’s was a man with no bitterness in his soul. He God: children, a land, and the assurance that multi-point explosive detonation systems location is not known, the possibility that wanted people to taste sweetness. he would be the father, not of one nation but suitable for a nuclear explosive device” and Russia, Iran’s ally, has returned it to Iran In 2016, at the age of 113, he finally of many nations (Gen. 17:4-5). At the age of also from “designing, developing, fabricating, should not be discounted.) celebrated his bar mitzvah. A hundred years 137, he had one unmarried son, no land, acquiring, or using explosive diagnostic b. Oman, a political satellite of Iran that earlier, this had proved impossible. By then, and had fathered no nations. He uttered not systems (streak cameras, framing cameras has no capability for confronting Iran, has his mother was dead and his father was a single word of complaint. It seems that he and flash x-ray cameras)” — unless these become the warehouse for Iran’s surplus fighting in the First World War. With an almost realised that God wanted him to act, not to activities are “approved by the Joint Commis- heavy water and enriched uranium. The poetic sense of fittingness, Yisrael died on wait for God to do the work for him. sion for non-nuclear purposes” and “subject storage of this material in Oman is nothing erev Shabbat Ekev, the parsha that includes So, when Sarah died, he bought the first to monitoring. more than a fiction covering up Iran’s viola- the second paragraph of the Shema with its plot in what would become the Holy Land, What this violation means is that in the tions of the agreement. commands to wear tefillin and teach Torah to the field and cave of Machpelah. Then he most critical area of the nuclear agreement III. Lack of real inspection, making your children, “so that you and your children instructed his servant to find a wife for Isaac, — developing options for a nuclear explosive IAEA confirmation invalid may live long in the land that the Lord swore his son, so that he might live to see the first device — Iran is refusing to allow monitoring The IAEA cannot conduct real inspec- to your ancestors.” Jewish grandchildren. Lastly, in his old age, he of its activity, as the agreement requires. tions in Iran, and therefore its confirmation Yisrael Kristal faithfully did both. On his married again and had six sons, who would bar mitzvah he joked that he was the world’s eventually become progenitors of many oldest tefillin-wearer. He gathered his children, nations. He did not, except briefly, sit and grandchildren and great-grandchildren under mourn the past. Instead he took the first steps his tallit and said, “Here’s one person, and look toward building the future. how many people he brought to life. As we’re all That, in his own way, is what Yisrael standing here under my tallit, I’m thinking: six Kristal did – and that is how a survivor of million people. Imagine the world they could Auschwitz lived to become the world’s oldest have built.” This was an extraordinary man. man. He too died “in good old age, old and His life sheds light on one of the most satisfied.” tantalising verses in the Torah. Describing That is what the Jewish people did collec- the death of Abraham, our parsha says that tively when, a mere three years after standing he “breathed his last and died in good old age, eyeball-to-eyeball with the angel of death at old and satisfied” (Gen. 25:8). His is the most Auschwitz, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed An Iranian nuclear facility in Natanz. serene death in the Torah. Yet consider his life, the Jewish State in our people’s ancient Photo: Wikimedia Commons. fraught as it was with trial after trial. homeland, the land of Israel. Had world Jewry To pursue the call of God, he had to say sat passively and wept from then till now b. Building advanced centrifuges — that Iran is complying with the JCPOA is goodbye to his land, his birthplace and his for the murdered generations of European Iran is building (IR-8) and operating (IE-6) invalid, for the following reasons: father’s house and travel to an unknown desti- Jewry, it would have been an understandable larger numbers of advanced centrifuges than a. The inspection that the IAEA is nation. Twice, famine forced him into exile, reaction. But it did not. It was as if the Jewish is allowed by the agreement. permitted to conduct, and through which where his life was in danger. Promised count- people had said collectively, in the words of c. Heavy Water — Iran’s actual heavy Iran receives confirmation that it is meeting less children – as many as the dust of the earth King David, “I will not die but live” (Ps. 118:17), water quota exceeds the quantity permitted it the terms of the agreement, is carried out and the stars of the sky – he remained child- thereby giving testimony to the God of life. by the agreement, since according to standard solely in the limited areas where Iran allows less until old age. Then God told him to send That is why the West’s oldest nation is still IAEA verification practices, changes in heavy inspection — that is, the sites that it itself has away his son by Sarah’s handmaid Hagar. And young, a world leader in life-saving medicine, water inventory are registered not when the declared to be nuclear sites. No other site in if that trial were not heartbreaking enough, disaster relief, and life-enhancing technology. heavy water is removed from the territory of the Iran, including military sites, are included in God then told him to sacrifice his only son This is a transformative idea. To survive country exporting it, but only when it arrives at the regulations for this inspection. Further- with Sarah, Isaac, the one whom God had told tragedy and trauma, first build the future. the destination country that purchased it. For more, with regard to the military sites, Iranian him would be his spiritual heir and bearer of Only then, remember the past. Iran, however, the calculation of the quantity of the covenant into the future. Continued on Page A8 A8 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2017 Impressions.

Continued from Page A7 JCPOA No, Israel Is Not an Apartheid offi cials have stressed that the IAEA will never be allowed to enter them. b. Th e agreement has created a unique inspec- State tion framework for Iran that is less stringent than that for the other Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) member countries. For example, Iran has been allowed to accept the Additional Protocol voluntarily from individuals truly representative of Israel’s — that is, it was not mandatory as it was for the others BY KEVIN BUDNING policies? Of course not. — meaning that it can drop out of the Additional When the National Democratic Party of Protocol at any time (for instance, when it is required On October 24, the CBC published an anti- Germany gains seats in the Bundestag and advocates to allow inspection of military sites inspections that Israel opinion piece penned by one of its own for anti-immigration and fascist policies, do I the IAEA is allowed to carry out under the Additional journalists, Neil Macdonald. Th e article — which automatically assume that Germany is once again Protocol) without this being considered a violation of is inherently fl awed — accuses Israel of being supporting Nazism? No, I do not. I do my research. the JCPOA. Th at is, Iran has the option of preventing an apartheid state. In order to prove his point, Yet if we dig a little deeper, we can see that inspection of its military sites, both under the JCPOA Macdonald resorts to baseless and emotionally Macdonald tends to blame Israel for everything — and because it is not bound by the Additional Protocol, loaded arguments, applies a double standard to regardless of how obtuse the claim may be. because its acceptance of the Additional Protocol is Israel, and purposely omits highly relevant facts. In another attempt to support his argument, voluntary. Israel is not an apartheid state and here is why: Macdonald goes after Israel’s settlement policy. While c. Th e agreement has created a supreme political First of all, Macdonald somehow wrote an entire article accusing Israel of apartheid without I am certainly not a supporter of the settlements or the actually providing a defi nition for the term. discrimination that many Palestinians face, I cannot According to the Rome Statute Art.7(2,h), apartheid acquiesce that this constitutes apartheid. requires “total systematic oppression and domina- And Macdonald fails to mention the admin- tion by one racial group over any other racial group istrative responsibility that Fatah and Hamas have

Iranian nuclear program Photo: Wikimedia Commons. forum — the Joint Committee of the JCPOA — which is aimed at relieving the IAEA of its exclusive authority and transferring it to a political forum that supersedes it, and also aimed at ruling in matters that are under A mock IDF checkpoint set up during a past “Israeli Apartheid Week” at the University of California, the statutory decision-making authority of the IAEA. Los Angeles campus. Photo: AMCHA Initiative. IV. Th e IAEA’s role in the misrepresentation of over the Palestinians residing in these territories. reality — i.e. that Iran is complying with the JCPOA or groups and committed with the intention of Th e population in Gaza and in the West Bank are not and that the IAEA is indeed carrying out real inspec- maintaining the regime.” Israeli citizens, they do not pay Israeli taxes, they rarely tions there Now that we have a working defi nition, we contribute to the economy, and — like every other a. Th e IAEA does not consider Iran’s rejection of must ask ourselves, is this a reality in Israel? Th e country in the world – they should not be entitled to inspections, which constitutes “activities which could answer, of course, is a resounding no. the same rights as another country’s citizens. contribute to the development of a nuclear explosive While Macdonald focuses solely on the Pales- Macdonald also fails to mention why so many device” as per Section T, to be a violation of the JCPOA, tinian issue — which I will address later — he fails of these discriminatory laws exist. Mainly, he omits and calls for handing the issue over for discussion to to mention the roughly two million Arab-Israeli the short history Palestinian terrorism, antisemi- the political body — the Joint Committee. citizens who have full rights under the law. Th ese tism and how Hamas’ charter literally calls for the b. Th e IAEA carried out a scandalous inspection rights include participation in the political system destruction of the Jewish people. Th ese are some of at the Parchin military site, that was aimed at closing (including voting for Arab citizens, who represent the many diffi cult cleavages that Macdonald delib- Iran’s Possible Nuclear Dimensions fi le in accordance Arab parties in the Knesset), freedom of speech, erately chooses to ignore. with a predetermined political decision. IAEA inspec- freedom of movement, freedom of religion, If we return to the aforementioned defi nition tors did not themselves visit Parchin, and the samples freedom to own and sell land, freedom of sexual of apartheid, we can see that Israel’s main goal is from these sites were taken by the Iranians themselves orientation and, basically, every other freedom not to oppress and dominate the Palestinians, with and handed over to the IAEA inspectors without that was denied to black people under the South the sole objective of maintaining a hegemonic any way of ascertaining that the samples taken were African apartheid regime. regime. If that were the case, Arab-Israelis would the ones handed over to the IAEA. Furthermore, Th ese precious freedoms that Israel guaran- not be amongst the happiest, freest, wealthiest, IAEA Secretary-General Yukiya Amano was allowed tees to all of its citizens, regardless of religion, are most educated and healthiest people in the region. entrance to Parchin for only a few minutes, and he was unheard of in almost every other country in the In Israel, there are no separate water fountains not permitted to bring in any equipment, not even a Middle East and in Africa. Yet Macdonald does not for Arabs and for Jews; there are no “Muslim only” cellphone. Th rough this process, the IAEA even agreed explain why he chose to target Israel’s “apartheid” hospitals; there is no distinct university for minori- not to question nuclear scientists, as it had demanded regime, and not those of Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Syria, ties; and there are no “pass books” for Arabs to show to do over the years. Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and so on. the IDF as they walk down the streets of Jerusalem. c. Th e IAEA is refusing to wield its authority by Furthermore, Macdonald argues that Israel is Th at is apartheid. initiating inspections of military sites, as permitted by an apartheid state simply because many scholars, And Mr. Macdonald, if you’re still convinced both the Additional Protocol and UN Security Council President Jimmy Carter, the Israeli “news” media that Israel is an apartheid state, then I’m afraid Resolution 2231, and despite statements by IAEA Secre- (basically only Haaretz, and only then on occasion) you’ve fallen down the “slippery slope” of bad tary-General Amano that he has the authority to do this. and the leaders of extreme right and left-wing Israeli journalism. d. Th e IAEA acting vis-à-vis Iran is in violation of parties have warned that this might be the case. 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Staten Island NY 10314. purpose: all Sumpter Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233. Treasury - Internal Revenue Service on said Schedules of the total assets lawful activity All that certain plot piece or parcel of Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment on Schedules A, A1, and A2 plus any AJ; 10/20/ 27; 11/3/10/17/24 land, with the buildings and improve- of foreclosure and sale entered onSep- additional monies received subse- ments erected, situate, lying and being tember 25, 2017 I, the undersigned quent to the date of this account, Notice of formation of limited liability in the Borough of Brooklyn, County Referee will sell at public auction as the fair and reasonable amount company (LLC) Name: NRIA 7th of Kings, City and State of NY, Block to the highest bidder at ROOM payable to the Office of the Public STREET CAPITAL Manager, LLC. 1520 Lot 54. Approximate amount of 224 F/K/A ROOM 274 OF KINGS Administrator for the expenses of said Articles of organization filed with judgment $857,250.36 plus interest COUNTY SUPREME COURT, 360 office pursuant to S.C.P.A. §1106(3); the Secretary of State of New York and costs. Premises will be sold ADAMS STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW and why each of you claiming to be a (SSNY) on 08/28/2017 Office location: subject to provisions of filed Judgment YORK 11201 on November 30, 2017at distributee of the decedent should not Richmond County. SSNY has been Index# 511289/2015. Doron Leiby, 2:30 PM premises known as 1405E 7th establish proof of your kinship; and Notice of formation of limited liability designated as the agent of the LLC Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, St, Brooklyn, NY 11230-5712. ALL that why the balance of said funds should company (LLC) Name: CONFIDANT upon whom process against it may LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 certain plot, piece or parcel of land, not be paid to said alleged distributees PR,LLC.Articles of organization filed be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, situate, lying and being in the Borough upon proof of kinship, or deposited with the Secretary of State of New the process to: Gabor & Marotta, LLC, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 of Brooklyn, County of KINGS, City with the Commissioner of Finance York(SSNY) on 08/21/2017. Office 1878 Victory Blvd., Staten Island NY Dated: September 28, 2017 49002 and State of New York. Block: 6570 of the City of New York should said location: Kings county. SSNY has 10314. Purpose: all lawful activity AJ; 10/27; 11/3/10/17 Lot: 81 Approximate amount of lien alleged distributees default herein, been designated as the agent of the AJ; 10/20/ 27; 11/3/10/17/24 $733,640.24 plus interest and costs. or fail to establish proof of kinship, LLC upon whom process against it SUPREME COURT - COUNTY Premises will be sold subject to Dated, Attested and Sealed 19th day of may be served. SSNY shall Mail copy NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: OF KINGS RETAINED REALTY, provisions of filed judgment Index # October, 2017 HON. PETER J. KELLY of process to: United States corpora- KINGS COUNTY WILMINGTON INC., Plaintiff -against- YVETTE 507879/2013 Dominick J. Famulari, Surrogate, Queens County James Lim tion agents, 7014 13th Ave. Suite 202 SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB E. JOHNSON, et al Defendant(s). Esq., REFEREE STEIN, WIENER AND Becker Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: all D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclo- ROTH, L.L.P., ATTORNEYS FOR THE GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ. (718) lawful activity INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE sure and Sale entered herein on May PLAINTIFF ONE OLD COUNTRY 459-9000 1981 Marcus Avenue, Suite AJ; 10/13/20/ 27; 11/3/10/17 FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE 11, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee ROAD, SUITE 113 CARLE PLACE, NY 200 Lake Success, New York 11042 ACQUISITION TRUST; Plaintiff(s) will sell at public auction at the Kings 11514 DATED: October 20, 2017 FILE This citation is served upon you as Notice of formation of limited liability vs. SERAFIN VASQUEZ; et al; County Courthouse 360 Adams Street, #: WELLS 69027 required by law. You are not obliged to company(LLC) Name: MAJESTY Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Room 224, Brooklyn, NY on November AJ; 10/27; 11/3/10/17 appear in person. If you fail to appear it RESUME LLC . Articles of organiza- Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & 30, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. All that certain will be assumed that you do not object tion filed with the Secretary of State ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, File No.: 2016-1269/A CITATION THE to the relief requested unless you file of New York(SSNY) on 09/18/2017. Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, lying and being in the County of Kings, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW formal legal, verified objections. You Office location: Richmond County. 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment of Borough of Brooklyn, City and State of YORK BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE have a right to have an attorney-at-law SSNY has been designated as the foreclosure and sale granted herein on New York, known and designated as AND INDEPENDENT To: Patricia appear for you. Accounting Citation agent of the LLC upon whom process or about January 12, 2017, I will sell at Block 4688 and Lot 52. Said premises Berry, Anna Mae Cohen, Joann AJ; 10/27; 11/3/10/17 against it may be served SSNY shall Public Auction to the highest bidder in known as 462 EAST 92ND STREET, Baker, Bradley H. Dichter, Steven R. Mail copy of the process to : The LLC Room 224 of Kings County Supreme BROOKLYN, NY Premises will be Dichter, Lance E. Dichter, Burton NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT 15 Blaine Court Staten Island, NY Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, sold subject to provisions of filed Kopito, Sondra Shatsky, Jeffrey Kopito, - COUNTY OF KINGS HSBC BANK 10310. Purpose: all Lawful activity New York 11201. On November 30, Judgment and Terms of Sale. We are a Howard Levine, Vincent Antonac- USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS AJ; 10/13/20/ 27; 11/3/10/17 2017 at 2:30 pm. Premises known as debt collector attempting to collect a chio, Frances Antonacchio, Gerard TRUSTEE FOR NOMURA ASSET 293 POWELL STREET, BROOKLYN, debt. Any information obtained will be McGann, Carol McGann, Henry ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION, Notice of Formation of Artemisia NY 11212-8136 Block: 3763 Lot: 11 used for that purpose. Index Number Stern, The Queens Library Founda- MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH Consulting, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR 21632/2013. CHARLES M. SPORN, tion, Attorney General of the State of CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-AP3, with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING ESQ., Referee STAGG, TERENZI, New York The unknown distributees, Plaintiff -against- MARIA POSNER on 09/21/17. Office location: Kings AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH OF CONFUSIONE & WABNIK, LLP legatees, devisees, heirs at law and A/K/A M. POSNER A/K/A MARIA County. SSNY designated as agent BROOKLYN, COUNTY OF KINGS, Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 401 Franklin assignees of Michael Davidowitz, POSNET, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC of LLC upon whom process against CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK. Avenue, Suite 300, Garden City, NY deceased, or their estates, if any there REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. it may be served. SSNY shall mail As more particularly described in the 11530 be, whose names, places of residence AS NOMINEE FOR ALLIANCE process to: 480 3rd Ave., #4L, Brooklyn, judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold AJ; 10/27; 11/3/10/17 and post office addresses are unknown MORTGAGE BANKING CORP., NY 11215. Purpose: any lawful activities. subject to all of the terms and condi- to the petitioner and cannot with CHEMICAL BANK, THE FIRE AJ; 10/13/20/ 27; 11/3/10/17 tions contained in said judgment and NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME due diligence be ascertained. Being COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY OF terms of sale. Approximate amount COURT COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. the persons interested as creditors, NEW YORK, CITY OF NEW YORK Notice of formation of limited liability of judgment $850,187.63 plus interest BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, legatees, distributees or otherwise ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL company(LLC) Name: UNTIL HELP and costs. INDEX NO. 21054-13 Julie AS TRUSTEE FOR ADJUSTABLE in the Estate of Michael Davidowitz, BOARD, GEORGE BRYANT, HENRY ARRIVES,LLC. Articles of organization A. Clark, Esq., Referee RATE MORTGAGE TRUST 2006-03, deceased, who at the time of death CLARK, SHAWN CAMPBELL, filed with the secretary of state of New AJ; 10/27; 11/3/10/17 ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE- was a resident of 77-11 35th Avenue, Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment York(SSNY) on 09/27/2017. Office BACKED PASS-THROUGH 5L, Jackson Heights, NY 11372, in the of foreclosure and sale entered on location: Kings county. SSNY has been Supreme Court County Of Kings Wells CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-3, Plain- County of Queens, State of New York. September 20, 2016 I, the undersigned designated as the agent of the LLC upon Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST tiff AGAINST CARLAN MURRAY, SEND GREETING: Upon the petition Referee will sell at public auction whom process against it may be served. Tino Estrada, 584 Linwood St. Corp., et et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a of LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, Public to the highest bidder at ROOM SSNY shall Mail copy of the process to: al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Administrator of Queens County, who 224 F/K/A ROOM 274 OF KINGS United States corporation agents,inc. of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated duly dated September 05, 2017 I, the maintains her office at 88-11 Sutphin COUNTY SUPREME COURT, 360 7014 13th Ave. Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 5/16/2017 and entered on 5/30/2017, undersigned Referee will sell at public Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens County, ADAMS STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW 11228. Purpose: all lawful activity I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at auction at the Room 224 of Kings New York 11435, as Administrator YORK 11201 on November 30, 2017 AJ; 10/13/20/ 27; 11/3/10/17 public auction at the Kings County County Supreme Court, 360 Adams of the Estate of Michael Davidowitz, at 2:30 PM premises known as 309 Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, deceased, you and each of you are ARLINGTON AVENUE, BROOKLYN, Notice of formation of Limited Liability Brooklyn, NY on November 30, 2017 on November 30, 2017 at 2:30PM, hereby cited to show cause before NY 11208. ALL that certain plot, Company (LLC) MWC MusicalWorks at 02:30 PM premises known as 584 premises known as 713 JEROME the Surrogate at the Surrogate’s Court piece of land, situate, lying and being LLC ARTICLES OF Organization filed Linwood Street Brooklyn, NY 11208. STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11207-7509. of the County of Queens, to be held in the Borough of Brooklyn, County with the Secretary of the State of New All that certain plot piece or parcel of All that certain plot piece or parcel of at the Queens General Courthouse, of KINGS, City and State of New York on September 18, 2017 N.Y. Office land, with the buildings and improve- land, with the buildings and improve- 6th Floor, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, York. Block: 3927 Lot: 61 Approxi- location: Bronx County. Secretary of ments erected, situate, lying and being ments erected, situate, lying and being Jamaica, City and State of New York, mate amount of lien $479,903.07 the State of New York has been desig- in the Borough and County of Kings, in the Borough of Brooklyn, County on the 14th day of December, 2017 at plus interest and costs. Premises nated as an agent upon whom process City and State of New York, BLOCK: of Kings, City and State of New York, 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the will be sold subject to provisions of against it may be served. The Post 4050, LOT: 124. Approximate amount BLOCK 4333, LOT 57. Approximate Account of Proceedings of the Public filed judgment Index # 501183/2015 Office address to which the SSNY shall of judgment is $704,389.87 plus inter- amount of judgment $811,502.41 Administrator of Queens County, as JEFFREY R. MILLER, ESQ., REFEREE mail a copy of any process against ests and costs. Premises will be sold plus interest and costs. Premises will Administrator of the Estate of said STEIN, WIENER AND ROTH, L.L.P., the LLC served upon him is C/O the subject to provisions of filed Judgment be sold subject to provisions of filed deceased, a copy of which is attached, ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAIN- LLC Michael William Caesar 626 East Index # 24323/2010. Jaime Lathrop, Judgment for Index# 501179/2015. should not be judicially settled, and TIFF ONE OLD COUNTRY ROAD, 240th Street Bronx, NY 10470 Purpose Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS SHMUEL DUVID TAUB, Esq., Referee why the Surrogate should not fix SUITE 113 CARLE PLACE, NY 11514 of LLC: To engage in any lawful act or WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for and allow a reasonable amount DATED: October 20, 2017 FILE #: activity. Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 of compensation to GERARD J. WELLS 66757 AJ; 10/20/ 27; 11/3/10/17/24 AJ; 10/27; 11/3/10/17 Williamsville, NY 14221 49333 SWEENEY, ESQ., for legal services AJ; 10/27; 11/3/10/17 AJ; 10/27; 11/3/10/17 rendered to petitioner herein in the Notice of formation of limited liability NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME amount of $20,194.57 and that the Notice of Formation of Grove Devel- company (LLC) Name: 7th STREET COURT COUNTY OF KINGS PNC NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME Court fix the fair and reasonable opment Partners LLC. Arts of Org. CAPITAL 285,LLC. Articles of organi- Bank, National Association, Plaintiff COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS additional fee for any services to be filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on zation filed with the Secretary of State AGAINST Alishea Lambert; et al., U.S. Bank National Association, as rendered by GERARD J. SWEENEY, 10/6/17. Office location: Kings County. of New York (SSNY) on 08/28/2017 Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment Trustee for Credit Suisse First Boston ESQ., hereafter in connection with SSNY is designated as agent of LLC Office location: Richmond County of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated Mortgage Acceptance Corp., CSFB proceedings on kinship, claims etc., upon whom process against it may SSNY has been designated as the March 15, 2017 I, the undersigned Mortgage Backed Pass-Through prior to entry of a final Decree on this be served. SSNY shall mail process to: agent of the LLC upon whom process Referee will sell at public auction at Certificates, Series 2004-7, Plaintiff accounting in the amount of 6% of POB 67, NY, NY 10159. Purpose: any against it may be served. SSNY shall the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 -against- Sammy Esses, Molly Esses, assets or income collected after the lawful activity. mail a copy of the process to: Gabor Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, Citibank, N.A., New York State Depart- date of the within accounting; and AJ; 10/27; 11/3/10/17/24;12/1 & Marotta, LLC, 1878 Victory Blvd., NY 11201 on November 30, 2017 ment of Taxation and Finance, United why the Surrogate should not fix and at 2:30PM, premises known as 259 States of America - Department of the allow an amount equal to one percent Continued on Page A10 A10 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2017 Legal Notice.

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Continued from Page A9 2004-2, Plaintiff against HERBERT amount not so distributed with the Suite – 700 White Plains, N.Y. 10606 Application for Authority of Exocode WILLIAMS A/K/A HERBERT A. File No. 2016-4935/A PA. No. 147189 Commissioner of Finance of the City (914) 949-2574 LLC filed with the Secy. of State of WILLIAMS; HERMAN WILLIAMS SURROGATE'S COURT, KINGS of New York to be held for the benefit AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1 NY (SSNY) on 10/12/17. Formed in S/H/A JOHN DOE #1; CATHERINE COUNTY, THE PEOPLE OF THE of decedent’s unknown distributees DE 4/6/17. Office loc.: Kings County. WILLIAMS S/H/A JOHN DOE #2, STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace or for the benefit of any distributees of Notice of formation of limited liability SSNY is designated as agent of LLC et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a of God Free and Independent TO: the decedent who are under disability company (LLC) Name: BROOKLYN upon whom process against it may be Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Seth Levine, Stephen Levine, Donna for whom no guardian of the property CAMERA,LLC.Articles of organiza- served. The address SSNY shall mail entered on September 26, 2017. I, Katzman, Attorney General of the has been appointed; (i) The Petitioner, tion filed with the secretary of state copy of process to is 620 Wilson Ave., the undersigned Referee will sell at State of New York, New York State upon fully complying with the Decree of New York(SSNY)on 05/18/2015 . #101, Brooklyn, NY 11207. The office public auction in Room 224 of the Department of Taxation and Finance, to be made in this proceeding, should Office location: Kings county. SSNY address required to be maintained Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams New York City Human Resources not be released and discharged of and has been designated as the agent of in DE is 203 NE Front St., Ste. 101, Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 14th day of Administration, JACK WASSERMAN, from any and all liability, responsi- the LLC upon whom process against Milford, DE 19963. Cert. of formation December, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. premises GOLDIE WASSERMAN, SALMA bility and accountability with respect it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, DE Secy. described as follows: All that certain WASSERMAN, CINDY PRESS, AND to the Petitioner's acts and proceed- of the process to: The LLC 358 Grove of State, Div. of Corporations, PO Box plot, piece or parcel of land, with the DARLENE PRESS, if living but if dead, ings as Administrator as set forth and Street APT 11D Brooklyn, NY 11237. 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any buildings and improvements thereon to their heirs at law, next of kin and embraced in said account and the Purpose: all lawful activity lawful activity. erected, situate, lying and being in distributees whose names and places Court grant such other and further AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1/8/15 AJ; 11/3/10/17/24;12/1/8 the Borough of Brooklyn, County of of residence are unknown and if they relief as it deems just and proper; Kings, City and State of New York. Said died subsequent to the decedent Dated, Attested, and Sealed, October NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT premises known as 1125 East 92nd herein, to their executors, administra- 18, 2017, HON.MARGARITA LOPEZ - COUNTY OF KINGS Bayview Loan - COUNTY OF KINGS LNV Corpo- Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11236. (Block: tors, legatees, devisees, assignees and TORRES, Surrogate, Doreen A. Quinn, Servicing, LLC Plaintiff -against- ration, Plaintiff -against- Vincenzo 8180, Lot: 29). Approximate amount successors in interest whose names Chief Clerk; Joseph J. Borges, Esq., Rockie Ojomu-Kayoes a/k/a Rockie Stanzione a/k/a Vincent Stanzione, of lien $ 661,492.06 plus interest and and places of residence are unknown Attorney Firm: Cullen & Dykman Ojomu Kayoes a/k/a R. Ojomu FJC, Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., City costs. Premises will be sold subject AND The spouse, if any, and any LLP, Address: 44 Wall Street, NY, NY Kayoes, City of New York Department of New York Department of Transpor- to provisions of filed judgment and and all unknown distributees and 10005-2407, (212)701-4175. [NOTE: of Transportation Parking Violations tation Parking Violations Bureau, Mrs. terms of sale. Index No. 507070- creditors of SIDNEY YELLEN A/K/A This citation is served upon you as Bureau, Leroy Williams Defendant(s) Stanzione, Defendant(s) Pursuant to 13. Bart Verdirame, Esq., Referee. SIDNEY W. YELLEN, deceased, required by law. You are not required Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure a judgment of foreclosure and sale McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, P.C. whose whereabouts are unknown to appear. If you fail to appear it will and sale entered on May 11, 2017 I, the entered on September 21, 2017 I, Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot and if any of the aforesaid persons be be assumed that you do not object to undersigned Referee will sell at public the undersigned Referee will sell at Street – Suite 210 New Rochelle, New dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin the relief requested. You have a right auction to the highest bidder at ROOM public auction to the highest bidder York 10801 (914) 636-8900 and distributees whose names and to have an attorney appear for you, 224 F/K/A ROOM 274 OF KINGS at ROOM 224 F/K/A ROOM 274 OF AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1 places of residence are unknown and and you or your attorney may request COUNTY SUPREME COURT, 360 KINGS COUNTY SUPREME COURT, if the persons died subsequent to the a copy of the full account from the ADAMS STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW 360 ADAMS STREET, BROOKLYN, NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: decedent herein, to their executors, petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.] YORK 11201 on December 14, 2017 NEW YORK 11201 on December 7, KINGS COUNTY. THE BANK OF NEW administrators, legatees, devisees, AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1 at 2:30 PM premises known as 1050 2017 at 2:30 PM premises known as YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF assignees and successors in interest East 86th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11236. 2371 East 70th Street, Brooklyn, NY NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE whose names and places of residence Notice of formation of AROMA FOOD ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of 11234. ALL that certain plot, piece CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, are unknown and to all other heirs BANQUET LLC. Art. of Org. filed land, with the buildings and improve- or parcel of land, with the buildings INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST at law, next of kin and distributees with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on ments thereon erected, situate, lying and improvements thereon erected, 2005-50CB, MORTGAGE PASS- of SIDNEY YELLEN A/K/A SIDNEY 10/25/2017. Office location: Kings and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, situate, lying and being in the Borough THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES W. YELLEN, the decedent herein, County. SSNY designated as service County of KINGS, City and State of of Brooklyn, County of KINGS, City 2005-50CB, Pltf. vs. ROGER DELONEY, whose names and places of residence for process. SSNY shall mail process New York. Block: 8037 Lot: 172 Approx- and State of New York. Block: 8448 et al, Defts. Index #504313/2013. are unknown and cannot after due to: The LLC, 2670 Coney Island imate amount of lien $731,132.32 Lot: 12 Approximate amount of lien Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure diligence be ascertained, A petition Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11235. Purpose: plus interest and costs. Premises will $496,432.92 plus interest and costs. and sale dated Sept. 14, 2017, I will and an account having been duly any lawful purpose. be sold subject to provisions of filed Premises will be sold subject to sell at public auction in room 224 of filed by the Public Administrator of AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1/8/15 judgment Index # 505895/2015 Joel provisions of filed judgment Index the Kings County Supreme Court, Kings County, who has offices at 360 E. Abramson, Esq., REFEREE STEIN, # 507445/2013 Jageshwar Sharma, 360 Adams St., Brooklyn, NY 11201 Adams Street, Room 144A, Brooklyn, SUPREME COURT – COUNTY WIENER AND ROTH, L.L.P., ATTOR- Esq., REFEREE STEIN, WIENER AND on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017 at 2:30 New York 11201, United States. YOU OF KINGS U.S. BANK NATIONAL NEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF ONE OLD ROTH, L.L.P., ATTORNEYS FOR THE p.m. prem. k/a 1067 Bushwick Ave., ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, COUNTRY ROAD, SUITE 113 CARLE PLAINTIFF ONE OLD COUNTRY Brooklyn, NY 11221 a/k/a Block 3340, CAUSE before the Surrogate's Court, IN TRUST FOR THE REGIS- PLACE, NY 11514 DATED: November ROAD, SUITE 113 CARLE PLACE, NY Lot 51. Said property located on the Kings County, at 2 Johnson Street, TERED HOLDERS IF CITIGROUP 3, 2017 FILE #: BAYVIEW 68274 11514 DATED: October 27, 2017 FILE easterly side of Bushwick Ave., 50 ft. Room 319, Brooklyn, New York, on MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1 #: DOVEN 63793 northerly from the corner formed by December 12, 2017, at 9:30 o'clock in ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH AJ; 11/3/10/17/24; the intersection of the said easterly the fore noon of that day why: (a) The CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-AHL3, Notice of formation of 752 side of Bushwick Ave. with the north- account of proceedings of the Public Plaintiff against KAMWIL DUPOINT, PATTERSON LLC. Articles of Organi- NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT erly side of Palmetto St., being a plot Administrator of Kings County as et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a zation filed with the Secretary of COUNTY OF KINGS Pennymac Corp, 80 ft. x 16 ft. 8 inches. Approx. amt. of Administrator of the estate of SIDNEY Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale State of NY, SSNY on 10/31/2017. Plaintiff AGAINST Donald Bradley judgment is $465,695.27 plus costs YELLEN a/k/a Sidney W. Yellen, a entered on May 2, 2017. I, the under- Office located in Richmond County. a/k/a Donald E. Bradley; Doreen and interest. Sold subject to terms summary of which has been served signed Referee will sell at public SSNY has been designated for service Bradley; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant and conditions of filed judgment herewith, should not be judicially auction in Room 224 of the Kings of process. SSNY shall mail copy of to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale and terms of sale. HELENE BLANK, settled; (b) The Public Administrator County Courthouse, 360 Adams process to: 752 PATTERSON LLC, 421 duly dated September 25, 2017 I, the Referee. DRUCKMAN LAW GROUP of Kings County should not be paid Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 14th Home Ave, Staten Island, NY 10305. undersigned Referee will sell at public PLLC, Attys. for Pltf., 242 Drexel Ave., his commissions pursuant to SCPA day of December, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. auction at the Kings County Supreme Westbury, NY 11590. File No. 37418. §2307 in the amount of $15,103.74, as premises described as follows: All that AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1/8/15/ Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, #93253 set forth in Schedules C-1 and I of the certain plot, piece or parcel of land, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on December AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1 Account; (c) The Public Administrator with the buildings and improvements Notice of formation of limited liability 14, 2017 at 2:30PM, premises known of Kings County should not be paid thereon erected, situate and being company(LLC) Name: THE GOOD as 392 Fenimore Street, Brooklyn, NY Supreme Court County Of Kings his administrative expenses pursuant in the Borough of Brooklyn, County PAW LLC. Articles of organization 11225. All that certain plot piece or Federal National Mortgage Associa- to SCPA §1106(3) in the amount of of Kings, City and State of New York, filed with the Secretary of State of New parcel of land, with the buildings and tion, Plaintiff AGAINST Noel Brown, $3,701.25 as shown in Schedules C-1 bounded and described as follows: York(SSNY) on 10/25/2017. Office improvements erected, situate, lying et al, Defendant Pursuant to a and J of the Account; (d) The Court BEGINNING at a point on the westerly location Richmond County. SSNY has and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale should not fix, determine and approve side of East 31st Street distant 400 feet been designated as the agent of the County of Kings, City and State of duly dated 9/5/2017 and entered on the legal fees of Cullen and Dykman northerly from the corner formed by LLC upon whom process against it NY, Block 4814 Lot 20. Approximate 9/26/2017, I, the undersigned Referee, LLP, counsel to the Petitioner, in the the intersection of the westerly side of may be served. SSNY shall Mail copy amount of judgment $466,536.43 will sell at public auction at the Kings amount of $22,207.48 as shown in East 31st Street with the northerly side of the process to: Rachael Lanning 511 plus interest and costs. Premises County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Schedules C-1 and J of the Account; of Tilden Avenue; THENCE westerly Rensselaer Avenue staten Island, NY will be sold subject to provisions of Street, Brooklyn, NY on December (e) The Court should not fix, deter- parallel with Tilden Avenue, 100 feet; 10312 purpose: all lawful activity filed Judgment Index# 509000/2014. 14, 2017 at 02:30 PM premises known mine and approve the disbursements THENCE northerly parallel with East AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1/8/15 Steven Naiman, Esq, Referee Shapiro, as 77A Somers Street Brooklyn, NY of Cullen and Dykman LLP in the 31st Street, 25 feet; THENCE easterly DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for 11233. All that certain plot piece or amount of $462.00 as shown in Sched- again parallel with Tilden Avenue, 100 Notice of formation of limited the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boule- parcel of land, with the buildings and ules C-1 and J of the Account; (f) The feet to the westerly side of East 31st liability company(LLC) Name: IRL vard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) improvements erected, situate, lying claim of the New York City Human Street; and THENCE southerly along COLLECTIVE,LLC. Articles of organi- 759-1835 Dated: October 27, 2017 and being in the Borough and County Resources Administration, in the said side of East 31st Street, 25 feet zation filed with the Secretary of State 49613 of Kings, City and State of New York, amount of $127,885.47, as shown in to the point or place of BEGINNING. of New York(SSNY) on 07/11/2017 AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1 BLOCK: 1539, LOT: 68. Approximate Schedule D of the Account, should not Said premises known as 108 East 31st Office location: Kings county. SSNY amount of judgment is $663,522.18 be allowed; (g) The claim of the New Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11226. (Block: has been designated as the agent of SUPREME COURT – COUNTY plus interests and costs. Premises York State Department of Taxation 4901, Lot: 21). Approximate amount the LLC upon whom process against OF KINGS DEUTSCHE BANK will be sold subject to provisions of and Finance, if any, should not be fixed of lien $ 560,911.47 plus interest and it may be served. SSNY shall Mail copy NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS filed Judgment Index # 017681/2009. and determined; (h) The Petitioner costs. Premises will be sold subject of the process to: United states corpo- TRUSTEE UNDER THE POOLING Sean R. Smith, Referee FRENKEL should not be permitted to distribute to provisions of filed judgment and ration agents, 7014 13th Ave. Suite AND SERVICING AGREEMENT LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & so much of the net estate to the terms of sale. Index No. 501492-14. 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: all RELATING TO IMPAC SECURED GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay decedent's distributees, as now known Jacob Gelfand, Esq., Referee. Eckert lawful activity ASSET CORP., MORTGAGE PASS- Shore, NY 11706 or hereafter determined, as their inter- Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1/8/15 THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES AJ; 11/10/17/24;12/1 ests may appear, and to deposit any Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 10 Bank Street www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2017 A11 Social.

Israel and Russia Team to Digitize Famed Günzburg Collection of Jewish Works

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The collection, amassed by three generations of the Jewish-Russian Günzburg family, includes tens of thousands of printed books, manuscripts and incuna- bles (works printed, not handwritten, prior to the year

Pastor John Hagee. Photo: Facebook. 1501 in Europe). It also includes thousands of works from the medieval period covering a wide range of subject matters, including biblical commentary, Talmud, Kabbalah, philosophy, astronomy, medicine John Hagee Ministries Donates and magic. A donation from the Moscow-based Peri More Than $2.1 Million to Israeli Foundation facilitated this unprecedented coopera- tion between the National Library of Israel (NLI) in Jerusalem and National Library of Russia in Moscow. Charities The collection will be scanned and digitized, and will be made accessible to the general public through NLI’s new digital platform, Ktiv. The platform already includes tens of thousands of rare centuries-old BY JNS.ORG Hagee’s son, Pastor Matt Hagee, who serves as manuscripts and nearly 5 million images. Cornerstone Church’s executive pastor, said that Chris- The collection, amassed by three generations of John Hagee Ministries (JHM) announced a tians “have a biblical mandate to stand with Israel.” the Jewish-Russian Günzburg family, includes tens of donation of more than $2.1 million to Israeli charities “As any parent will tell you, the best way to instill thousands of printed books, manuscripts and incuna- during the recently held 36th annual Night to Honor values in the next generation is to lead by example, and bles (works printed, not handwritten, prior to the year Israel at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio. we hope that when young men and women see JHM’s 1501 in Europe). It also includes thousands of works Started in 1981, Pastor John Hagee’s Night to Honor efforts to support Israel and its people, they will take note from the medieval period covering a wide range Israel is one of the country’s longest-running Christian and do likewise when they are able,” Matt Hagee said. of subject matters, including biblical commentary, Zionist events, and has amassed donations of more Organizations receiving support from JHM this Talmud, Kabbalah, philosophy, astronomy, medicine than $100 million to Israeli and Jewish charities. At this year include the Afikim Family Enrichment Associa- and magic. year’s event, Hagee focused a significant portion of his tion, American Friends of the International Young A donation from the Moscow-based Peri comments on the Iran nuclear deal. Israel Movement, American Jewish Joint Distribu- Foundation facilitated this unprecedented coopera- “Every American…should be applauding the tion Committee, Bikur V’Esras Cholim, Congregation tion between the National Library of Israel (NLI) in efforts of President Trump to change the Iran nuclear Beth Yeshrun, Galilee Medical Center, Herzl Institute, Jerusalem and National Library of Russia in Moscow. agreement or cancel the agreement,” said Hagee, who Holocaust Memorial Museum of Houston, Just One Life, The collection will be scanned and digitized, and is also the founder of Christians United for Israel, which Koby Mandell Foundation, Nefesh B’Nefesh, Ohr Torah will be made accessible to the general public through describes itself as “the largest pro-Israel grassroots Stone, Save a Child’s Heart, Shurat HaDin — Israel Law NLI’s new digital platform, Ktiv. The platform already organization in the United States.” Center and Women’s International Zionist Organization. includes tens of thousands of rare centuries-old manuscripts and nearly 5 million images.

3 Millionth Tourist to Israel This tourism sector is expected to keep expanding, and the Tourism Ministry is working on ways to improve Year to Be Given Dream Vacation tourists’ experience in Israel.

BY JNS.ORG said on Sunday that he was “excited to welcome the tourist and break the 3 million barrier.” On Tuesday, the 3 millionth tourist to land in Israel “We are about to end the year with a great achieve- this year is scheduled to arrive, marking the Jewish state’s ment — a result of the enormous efforts we are investing record-high total for incoming tourism in a single year. into marketing Israel worldwide, in exceptional The lucky visitor will be given a special prize package to cooperation with airlines, and the ties we are working celebrate the event and promote tourism to Israel. to strengthen with travel agents,” Levin said. “All this Photos of the tourist’s upgraded vacation will be has been bearing fruit and has so far brought in some used to market Israeli tourism as part of a campaign to 17 billion shekels ($4.8 billion) and thousands of jobs to attract workers to Israel’s tourism industry. the Israeli economy.” Tourism Minister Yariv Levin, who was planning This year, Israel is on track to see a 20-percent to meet the tourist at Ben-Gurion International Airport, increase in incoming tourism compared to 2016. The The Tel Aviv shoreline.Photo: Wikimedia Commons. www.algemeiner.com Attention Not-For-Profit Organizations

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