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XLI NO. 9 PUBLISHED BI-WEEKLY WWW.JEWISHLEADERWEBPAPER.COM MAY 8, 2015/19 IYAR 5775 NEXT DEADLINE MAY 15, 2015 16 PAGES HOW TO REACH US - BY PHONE 860-442-8062 • BY FAX 860-443-4175 • BY EMAIL [email protected] • BY MAIL: 28 CHANNING STREET, NEW LONDON, CT 06320 Community Night StandWithUs on May 11 of Jewish Learning RESPONDING TO ANTI-SEMITISM - Monday, May 11 at 6:30 pm - Members of the Jewish community of East - ern Connecticut are invited to join together to his coming you are cor embraceSaturday the giftevening, of Torah May with 23, a 2015multi-faceted, at 8:00 dially invited to join our high school teens for a very spe PMmulti-disciplinary at Congregation immersion Beth El. in Jewish culture Tcial evening at Jewish Community High School at Temple- on - Emanu-El. - - With anti-Israel and antisemitic sentiment increasing on col- Congregations Beth El, New London; Beth Ja lege campuses across the Jasminecountry, asPatihi, well as becoming more po cob, Norwich; Bnai Israel, Willamantic and Aha litically correctStandWithUs. in general, you are urged to attend this 90-min vat Achim, Colchester and the Jewish Federation ute free program to hear a representative from of Eastern CT will join together for a regional the group She will tell us how we can respond- Tikkun Leyl Shavuot (Night of Jewish Learning) when met with negative comments and hate speech regarding Damas Pakada met with PM Binyamin Netan- Israel and the Jewish people. You will leave this program ener featuring text study, drumming, tai chi, debate, yahu in the prime minister’s Jerusalem office on singing, guided meditation and Israeli dance – gized and motivatedTemple to STAND Emanu-El, WITH ISRAEL. - May 4. Pakada has urged calm among the Ethio- The program, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Eastern and did we [email protected] ice cream? g pian community after he was assaulted by police CT,StandWithUs takes place at 29 Dayton Road in Water Please RSVP by Thursday, May 21 to 860- near Holon last week. 442-0418 or so enough ford. ice cream is purchased for everyone to enjoy. StandWithUs is an international, non-profit organization Congregation Beth El is located at 660 Ocean Mending fences founded in May 2001. It believes that education is the road to Ave.OPINION in New London. By Edgar Asher, Ashernet peace. is dedicated to informing the public about IsraelStandWithUs and to combating the extremism and anti-Semitism that- Israel stands alone often distorts the issues. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met believes that knowledge of the facts will cor By Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal with Damas Pakada, 21, in his Jerusalem office rect common prejudices about the Arab-Israeli conflict, and will- - promote discussions and policies that can help promote peace in - Monday morning, May 4. Pakada, an IDF soldier who originally came from Ethiopia, was seen the region. Through print materials, speakers, programs, confer- Recent conversations with senior Israeli of ences, missions to Israel, campaigns, social media and internet- ficials are shot through with a sense of incre on a CCTV camera to have been assaulted by - resources, the group ensures that the story of Israel’s achieve dulity. They can’t understand what’s become of police near Holon last week in what appeared to be an entirely unprovoked incident. - ments and ongoing challengesStandWithUs is told on campuses and in com U.S. foreign policy. munities around the world. They don’t know how to square Barack Following the incident there have been seri ous disturbances by Ethiopian Israelis in Jeru Based in Los Angeles, has sixteen offices across Obama’s promises with his policies. They fail the U.S., Canada, Israel, and in the UK. to grasp how a president who pledged to work salem and Tel Aviv due to what the Ethiopian - toward the abolition of nuclear weapons is community sees as racism by the police. The pushing an accord with Tehran that guarantees- Israel Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino their proliferation. They are astonished by the said that the policeman who was filmed beat nonchalance with which the administration ac ing Pakada would be expelled from the police, quiesces in Iran’s regional power plays, or in al pending a detailed hearing. Danino also said Qaeda’s gains in Yemen, or in the Assad regime’s- that he would establish a team to examine the continued use of chemical weapons, or in the claims of the Ethiopian community of the way battlefield successes of ISIS, or in Russia’s deci- the police treat members of the community. sion to sell advanced missiles to Tehran. They From this investigation he would formulate wonder why the president has so much solici ways to deal with the problem. tude for Ali Khamenei’s political needs, and so Damas Pakada himself has urged calm in his little for Benjamin Netanyahu’s. community. Pakada, who is an orphan, came to Opinion Journal Video Israel seven years ago with his four siblings. Global View Columnist Bret Hebrew©ASHERNET Ladies Aid/Rose Blonder Stephens on the U.S. decision Scholarship Applications Now Available to send an aircraft carrier to the Yemeni coast. Plus, what To request an application: does the MidEast disorder 1. You must be a high school senior or already mean for Israel? Photo credit: in college, Ambassador Martin Indyk draws crowd 2. A resident and member of the Jewish community Getty Images. l-r: Dan Bendor, JFEC Vice President of Middle Eastern Affairs, Am- of Eastern Connecticut, and In a word, the Israelis bassador Martin Indyk, Jerry Fischer, JFEC Executive Director, and 3. Show financial need haven’t yet figured out that Steven Daren, JFEC VIce President of Israel Programs and Partner- what America is isn’t what ship 2gether following Indyk’s talk to 150 people at Congregation are due America was. They need to Completed applications Beth El on Sunday, April 12. Daren and Bendor, Beth El members, start thinking about what- FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2015 were instrumental in bringing Indyk to Eastern CT as the 2015 Beth at 860-442-8062 or comes next. Contact Mimi [email protected] El Weiner-Tom Endowment Lecturer. TheALONE most CONT.tempting ON PG ap 13 2 THE JEWISH LEADER, MAY 8, 2015 Mention & Menschen nim , an engineer. They live in Manhattan. Sara NADINE LIPMAN received her PhD in Physical Therapy from- [email protected] Touroter in Manhattan.College, where Rachel she wasWeissman valedictorian is an imfor- her class; she works for a sports therapy cen Rachel Schwell migration lawyer; she received her law Moshedegree , Ph.D, Associate Professor of- andfrom Esti Brooklyn Weissman College (and passed the bar on- Mathematics, is this year’s recipient of Central- herlightful first great-grandchildrentry!) They all live in Manhattan.Fraida and Dan. Connecticut State University’s annual Excel are the parents of Sue’s de lence in Teaching Award: 2014 – 2015. Accord - ing to the Award Committee: “Her approach to Esti is a social worker and talented musician; Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (c) and his wife Akie (2nd teaching is “rooted in inquiry-based learning”- Moshe is in the electronics field. As to the par from left) during visit to US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Wash- which involves getting her students to share- ents, Chaya is the bookkeeper for a big Brooklyn ington on April 28. their individual approaches to problem solv Yeshiva, and Richard has recently established ing. As stated by one student, “rather than be a new program for graduate college students, Abe visits Holocaust museum ing TOLD what to think we were FREE to think.” who are interested in extending their Yeshiva By JTA Another student commented, “I missed the studies. Sue feels very fortunate to have them - class afterwards, partially because of the way close by as she is able to enjoy them for many of my mind felt fully alive during the class.” Her the holidays here in New London as well as in Japan’s prime minister at a visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memo method of “freeing students to think and to find- New York. Then, there is the family in Israel!!!!- rial Museum in Washington on April 28, honored the Japanese joyents, in Jerome the process and Deborahmakes Rachel Schwell Schwell truly. Herrently twin reside Israeli in Jerusalem. granddaughters, They are Maayan the daugh and- envoy who helped thousands of Jews escape the Holocaust. - .an excellent teacher.” Needless to say, her par Netaters of Rikin Erez served Rikin andin the the Israeli late Orna army Weissman and cur Shinzo Abe, who met with President Barack Obama, said Michael R. Fein of Ledyard, Rikin. - while at the Holocaust museum on Monday, “As a Japanese citi- theare ranktruly ofproud. Professor at Johnson and Wales Uni- zen, I feel extremely proud of [Chiune] Sugihara’s work.” was recently promoted to For those of you wondering about Su As Japan’s imperial consul in Lithuania, Sugihara defied or sanne herself, she has a total 10 grandchildren,- ders from his superiors in order to issue at least 2,000 visas to versity. He is currently Assistant Dean Maierof the most of them still in school except for the older Jews between 1939 and 1940. andCollege/School: Sunny Fein Arts and Sciences, Department: ones mentioned above. She is currently teach During his visit, Abe and his wife each lit a commemorative Humanities.Still an another This set of proud parents,Nathan ing Hebrew at Connecticut College, which she candle in the Hall of Remembrance and met with three survivors and Carly Nasser, reside of Waterford.