Health & Fitness Section B WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 42, NO. 42 JUNE 22, 2018 9 TAMUZ, 5778 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Krauthammer says weeks to live WASHINGTON (JTA)— Charles Krauthammer, a conservative champion of Israel, announced that he has weeks to live. Krauthammer, perhaps the dean of neoconservative columnists in Washington, wrote about his cancer in a post that appeared Friday on the websites of both of his employers, Fox News Channel and The Washington Post He said he thought he had beaten the disease. “There was no sign of it as recently as a month ago, which means it is aggressive and spreading rapidly,’ Krau- Charles Krauthammer thammer wrote. “My doctors Kevin Lim/The Strait Times/Handout/Getty Images tell me their best estimate is Krauthammer also was North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump at their historic summit in Singapore, June 12, 2018. that I have only a few weeks among a small but unyielding left to live. This is the final core of conservatives who op- verdict. My fight is over.” posed Donald Trump, even as Krauthammer, 68, has been he closed in on the Republican Here’s what the Trump-Kim summit outspoken for decades in his presidential nomination in support of Israel, and was a 2016 and then the presidency. lacerating critic of the Obama Krauthammer cautioned could mean for Israel and Iran administration. His rejection against “Trump derange- of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal ment syndrome”—criticizing By Ron Kampeas Watching President Donald Trump in how quickly the meeting seemed to was influential in galvanizing the president even when his sign a statement on Tuesday with North come together, and about what Tehran Jewish organizational opposi- policies were consistent with WASHINGTON (JTA)—Amos Yadlin Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledging to can expect if they also wish to negotiate. tion to the deal. He regularly conservative doctrine—and likes talking about the Begin doctrine, achieve “complete denuclearization,” Yadlin is in Washington, D.C., to meet made himself available for which calls for removing existential Yadlin again found himself in Begin with the Center for a New American Jewish organizational events. Krauthammer on page 15A threats to Israel before they are mani- doctrine mode. Now the head of Tel Aviv Security, a think tank that serves as fest—maybe because he lived it twice. University’s Institute for National Secu- a holding pattern for top Democratic As an Israeli Air Force pilot, Yadlin rity Studies, an influential think tank, former national security officials waiting flew one of the planes that took out Iraq’s Yadlin suggests that the Trump-Kim out the Trump administration. (They met Bias against Israel nuclear reactor in 1981, when Menachem summit means America can refocus its to discuss the Iran nuclear deal. Yadlin Begin was prime minister. As director attention on another major world nuclear has met with Trump administration of- of military intelligence in 2007, Yadlin threat. It’s the one that matters most to ficials on other occasions.) He spoke to at MA schools oversaw the operation that eliminated Israel: Iran. another nuclear reactor, this one in Syria. But there are mixed messages as well Summit on page 15A Angry parents and citi- on the Middle East until schol- zens dominated the first arly, vetted material was found hour of a scheduled Newton, to replace it. Instead, Jacobs Mass., Public School board said, Fleishman broke that ‘Deadly Medicine: Creating the meeting on Monday night, promise and continued to use in an effort to show their dis- material that was pro-Arab, gust and rage at the continued anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic. Master Race’ opens at HMREC teaching of bias against Israel Most of the anger was that has been the focus of con- directed at a May 2 all-day The United States Holo- murder, and ultimately, troversy in this heavily Jewish event at Newton North High caust Memorial Museum’s genocide. suburb for more than five School called Middle East traveling exhibition “Deadly The exhibition opened years. Waving signs of “Fire Day, during which Elec- Medicine: Creating the Mas- at the Holocaust Center on Fleishman!” and “Replace!”, tronic Intifada proprietor Ali ter Race” examines how June 17 and will be on display 70 angry citizens protested Abunimah’s nonprofit group the Nazi leadership, in col- through Aug. 31, 2018. The the mistreatment of the Jew- screened several anti-Semitic laboration with individuals Center will celebrate with an ish community by city officials films for the Newton North in professions traditionally opening reception on Sunday, the evening of June 11. students. One film, “Ismail,” charged with healing and the June 24 from 2-4 p.m., with Ruth Goldman, chair of the grotesquely aped the opening public good, used science to guest speaker Robert Tanen, Committee, restricted discus- scene of “Schindler’s List,” help legitimize persecution, director of the U.S. Holo- sion of the controversy to only except with actors playing caust Memorial Museum’s seven speakers from among Jewish soldiers as the Na- Southeast region. Members those who came to protest zis, and Palestinians as the of the exhibit committee will the on-going defamation of Jews. “This blood libel,” said be on hand to answer ques- Israel and Jews in Newton’s Jacobs, “the ‘Jew-as-Nazi’ lie tions and engage in relevant school rooms. More than 15 is the ‘narrative’ that drives dialogue. The committee is had signed up to speak. Jew-hatred around the world Charles Jacobs, president of and here you are teaching this comprised of local leaders courtesy of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum—Archiv zur Geshichte der in areas of: anthropology, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin-Dahlem Americans for Peace and Tol- to our children.” genetics, medicine, law, and Dr. Otmar von Verschuer examines twins at the Kaiser erance, reminded the board That morning, the Jewish spiritual leaders. Wilhelm Institute’s Department for Human Heredity. Ver- that Mayor Ruthanne Fuller Community Relations Coun- This is a unique experience schuer, a physician and geneticist, examined hundreds of had promised the Jewish cil abandoned its six-year- to have these experts on hand pairs of twins to study whether criminality, feeble-mindness, community “transparency” long denial and “hands-off” and available for discussion tuberculosis, and cancer were inheritable. In 1927, he in what is being taught at the posture in this dispute and as exhibit attendees explore recommended the forced sterilization of the “mentally and schools, but she has not de- joined Boston’s ADL to send these themes throughout the morally subnormal.” Verschuer typified those academics livered. This, after the school a harshly-worded letter to exhibition. whose interest in Germany’s “national regeneration” provided system was forced to remove Superintendent Fleishman “Deadly Medicine explores motivation for their research. from its curriculum the Arab demanding to know pre- the Holocaust’s roots in then- World Studies Notebook, cisely what happened on May contemporary scientific and of the individual with the needs globe and political spectrum, which falsely taught students 2 and what was taught to the pseudo-scientific thought,” of the larger community.” believed that through careful that Jews torture and murder explained exhibition curator Eugenics theory sprang controls on marriage and re- Arab women in Israeli prisons; Bias on page 15A Susan Bachrach. “At the same from turn-of-the-20th-centu- production, a nation’s genetic and after the School Superin- time, it touches on complex ry scientific beliefs asserting health could be improved. tendent David Fleishman had ethical issues we face today, that Charles Darwin’s theories The Nazi regime was promised Jewish community such as how societies acquire of “survival of the fittest” founded on the conviction leaders this past October that and use scientific knowledge could be applied to humans. he would remove the schools’ and how they balance the rights Supporters, spanning the HMREC on page 14A entire World History section PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JUNE 22, 2018 After a loss, the Jewish Pavilion’s Grief Support Group helps people to heal initially very doubtful that it “It’s a participating group. port was a comfort. “He gave would be of help. She had been It’s not me lecturing. It’s them me the impression that if I deeply mourning her mother’s interacting and talking,” said needed him, he was there for loss for several months. “My Rabbi Kaprow, who recently me, and that for me was very grief felt really personal and wrapped up the summer ses- meaningful.” like it really wouldn’t be help- sion. “We give people strate- Rabbi Kaprow sees such ful to me to talk to strangers gies on how to deal with grief.” continued availability as about it,” she said. One of the first topics of dis- essential to his role. “If you But then she reconsidered. cussion with a newly formed start something, you can’t just “I thought, why not go any- group is common myths sur- drop it,” he said. “You have an way? Can’t hurt.” rounding grief, Rabbi Kaprow obligation to the individual to And like Appel, Edelstein said. One such myth is that it see it through.” also found that her participa- takes a year to get over a loss. After the six weeks of meet- tion in the group helped her “The truth is, it doesn’t take a ings are over, the support far more than she had an- year. Some people it can take doesn’t just end there. About ticipated. less, some people it can take a month later, Rabbi Kaprow “I found it extremely help- much more.” reconvenes the group to check ful to sit and listen to other Also, he said, people grieve in with everyone and see how Rabbi Maurice Kaprow Howie Appel Jane Edelstein people talk about what they differently depending on the things are going.