KISLEV – TEVET 5779 DECEMBER 2018 HAPPY chanukah Chanukah in JNF Young at INSIDE the City Heart Mission THIS Dates, times, and locations Plan your next trip to Israel ISSUE: GEORGE FREY OAM - FOUNDING EDITOR, 1964 was successful. It is true to say that without this transition EDITORIAL Shalom would not exist today and the Queensland Jewish CHANGES AT community would have lost SHALOM – one of its most long-lived and vital institutions. Charlotte can Editorial GOODBYE AND take much of the credit for the survival of Shalom and the role David Jacobs WELCOME it plays in our community for which we thank her. Graphics and Digital There has been a very Development Editor important change at Shalom Charlotte will be remembered as Kel Bogan Magazine recently which we wish all our loyal readers to playing one of the most Shalom Magazine is produced and know about. significant roles with Kellie a former Sinai College published in Brisbane, Queensland, Shalom since the late Charlotte Friedlander has student is part of the Bogan by The Jewish National Fund of George Frey founded the Queensland. stepped down from her role on family a name well known in the editorial team of Shalom magazine in 1964. Brisbane. To Contact Us after being with us for over 6 Charlotte has been a pleasure Kellie, or Kel as he prefers to be Email years. to work with and the support called, comes to us not only with [email protected] Charlotte has in recent times and professionalism she has extensive professional graphic given to Shalom, JNF QLD and skills and qualifications but with Mobile needed more time to devote to myself is something that will a firm desire to contribute to 0412 578 368 her career and personal life, and although it is regretful to see not be forgotten and we wish the Jewish Community through Copyright © Shalom Magazine. her leave Shalom, we at JNF her and Jordan all the very best the publication of Shalom. All rights reserved. QLD, the publishers of Shalom, for the future. This December edition is his first and we know you will enjoy Reproduction of any part of this publication understand and appreciate her True to her dedication to without the expressed written consent of the situation. Shalom Charlotte indicated that the personal style and touches publishers is strictly prohibited. she would not step down until Kel brings to the publication. Although all efforts have been made to ensure Charlotte came to us in 2012 the accuracy of the information contained in while she was still a student at someone suitable for Shalom We are looking forward to a this publication, Shalom Magazine does not was found to take over her role warrant such accuracy. UQ and from then on devoted long creative and productive – a task that was going to be Nor does inclusion of business within this herself over the following years association with Kel as Shalom publication imply connection, endorsement easier said than done. or awareness by Shalom Magazine of such to ensuring that the transition Magazine continues to go from business and/or their trade practices. of Shalom Magazine from a After many months of searching strength to strength. 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For a confidential discussion please contact: Romy Dinte P 02 9386 9559 E [email protected] 4 | Shalom Magazine | December 2018 IN AMERICA ‘There Is Still So Much Evil’: Growing Anti-Semitism Stuns American Jews By Laurie Goodstein - 1 November 2018 Until recent years, many Jews in America believed that the worst of anti-Semitism was over there, in Europe, a vestige of the old country. merican Jews were welcome in universities, comes at a time when attacks on Jews are on the rise A country clubs and corporate boards that once in Europe as well, with frequent anti-Semitic episodes excluded their grandparents. They married non-Jews, in France and Germany. moved into mixed neighborhoods and by 2000, the first The hate in the United States came into full view last Jew ran for vice president on a major party ticket. year as white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, So the massacre on Saturday of 11 people in a Pittsburgh Virgina, with lines of men carrying torches and synagogue, by a man who told the police when he chanting, “Jews will not replace us.” surrendered that he “wanted all Jews to die,” was for Swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti many a shocking wake-up call. have been cropping up on synagogues and “This kind of evil makes me think of the Holocaust Jewish homes around the country. Jews and how people can be so cruel, that there is so much online are subjected to vicious slurs and evil in the world, still,” said Moshe Taube, 91, a retired threats. Many synagogues and Jewish day cantor from Congregation Beth Shalom in Pittsburgh schools have been amping up security and a survivor of the Holocaust. But it did not come measures. out of nowhere, said experts in anti-Semitism. At the The Anti-Defamation League logged a 57 percent same time that Jews were feeling unprecedented rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States in acceptance in the United States, the climate was 2017, compared to the previous year — including bomb growing increasingly hostile, intensifying in the two threats, assaults, vandalism, and anti-Semitic posters years since President Trump was elected. And it and literature found on college campuses. Cont. Picture: When white nationalist groups marched through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville in August 2017, some chanted, “Jews will not replace us.” ANTI-SEMITISM Credit Mykal Mceldowney/The Indianapolis Star, via Associated Press | 5 Shalom Magazine | December 2018 IN AMERICA ‘There Is Still So Much Evil’: Growing Anti-Semitism Stuns American Jews (Continued.) Cont. Prominent recent examples include unfounded Activists on the left — sometimes including young Jews — conspiracy theories about Gevorge Soros, a wealthy, call for boycotts and divestments from companies doing donor to Democratic Party causes and a Jewish émigré business in Israel, or the occupied territories. Mainstream from Hungary who survived the Nazis. Jewish groups are now branding such campaigns as anti- Semitism. Where to draw the line between criticism of On Oct. 5, Mr. Trump asserted on Twitter that the Israel and anti-Semitism is a growing source of friction women who stopped Senator Jeff Flake in an elevator to in many colleges and state capitals. plead with him to vote against advancing the nomination of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court In Europe, Jewish leaders have been confronting open were “paid for by Soros and others.” In a rally in Missoula, hatred toward Jews, also sometimes linked to animosity Mont., on Oct. 19, the president told the crowd that the toward Israel. news media prefers to interview protesters who were In France, Jews have increasingly faced attacks and paid by “Soros or somebody.” insults from members of the country’s large Muslim Mr. Soros has also been accused of financing the caravan community. In March, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, of Hondurans and Guatemalans fleeing north on foot Mireille Knoll, was knifed to death in her apartment by through Mexico — another claim with no factual basis. a young man who shouted “Allahu akbar.” Prosecutors classified it as an anti-Semitic hate crime. A day after a pipe bomb was discovered at Mr. Soros’s home in Westchester, Representative Kevin McCarthy, In a 2015 study, 42 percent of French Jews surveyed the House majority leader, wrote on Twitter, “We cannot said that they had suffered insults or aggressive acts at allow Soros, Steyer and Bloomberg to BUY this election! the hands of Muslims. Get out and vote Republican Nov. 6.” In Germany, anti-Semitism remains a daily occurrence, Tom Steyer is an Episcopalian and is of Jewish descent. sometimes taking on the form of criminal attacks on Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, Jews or Jewish institutions, but often in more casual is Jewish. After more explosive devices were found in insults or the questioning of the country’s post-World the homes and offices of other Democratic leaders and War II commitment to “never again” repeat the Nazi supporters, Mr. McCarthy deleted the tweet. Holocaust. Anti-Semitism has also become a charged topic One of the most prominent anti-Semitic attacks this year, on many US college campuses, with Israel as the in which a young Syrian struck a man wearing a skullcap detonator. on the street of a trendy Berlin neighborhood, prompted Cont. Adrienne Wager, left, and Shannon Haldeman of Harrison City, Pa., laid flowers on Sunday near the site of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Credit Michael Henninger for The New York Times 6 | ANTI-SEMITISM Shalom Magazine | December 2018 ‘There Is Still So Much Evil’: Growing Anti-Semitism Stuns American Jews (Concluded.) Cont.