Editorials ..................................... 4A Op-Ed .......................................... 5A Calendar ...................................... 6A Scene Around ............................. 9A Synagogue Directory ................ 11A News Briefs ............................... 13A WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 43, NO. 49 AUGUST 9, 2019 8 AV, 5779 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Shaked shakes up politics again Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 New Right Party chair Ayelet Shaked arrives at the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem for a meeting with Jewish Home Party chair Rafi Peretz after announcing their union in Jerusalem ahead of the September elections, July 28, 2019. By Dov Lipman background, and all of the A view of the graffiti covered up on the Kotel HaKatan, July 2019. polls have shown that I will (JNS)—Israel’s politics bring the list the most votes,” got another major shakeup Ayelet Shaked, former justice in recent days—this time on minister and new head of the ‘Slaughter the Jews’ spray-painted in the right, with the announce- United Right, told JNS. ment of the merger between Shaked, who took over Ayelet Shaked’s New Right last week as the chairperson Arabic on part of the Western Wall Party and Jewish Home. Like of the New Right Party from similar moves on the left last political partner Naftali Ben- By Eliana Rudee didn’t know what to do because she was While he noted that “sometimes, Arabs week, the latest union seeks nett, gained the position on a young girl, and they could not punish say the phrase out loud,” he had not seen to boost the election fortunes top of the right-wing union (JNS)—A young Arab girl and her older her,” he said. it written like this before, especially on of the smaller parties on the after former Israel Defense teenage sister spray-painted the words Once Shabbat begins, Ben-Yashar the walls of a holy site. right in order to cross the Forces’ Chief Rabbi and cur- “slaughter the Jews” in Arabic on Friday explained, Jewish law holds that Jews can- “The graffiti was very bright; clearly, it electoral threshold and have rent Education Minister Rafi on the Kotel HaKatan (“little wall” in not erase the paint, so the girl may have took her a while to do it,” he added. “Be- a stronger hand in coalition Peretz, leader of the Jewish Hebrew), a portion of the Western Wall on known—or perhaps was directed—to go cause they had to use special chemicals negotiations as the September Home Party, stepped aside. the Temple Mount about 650 feet north at that exact time to paint on the walls, that are a bit problematic, the antiquities elections approach. The merger will likely en- of the Western Wall Plaza and next to he speculated. authority tried to stop the police from “From the beginning, I sure that the two larger par- the Iron Gate entrance to the Old City. Rabbi Ben Packer, director of the Je- taking it down.” have said that the person ties to the right of the Likud “Last Friday, I was going to pray, walk- rusalem Heritage House and resident of According to Deputy Mayor of Jerusa- who leads this bloc must be cross the threshold and enter ing by the Kotel HaKatan right before the Old City, saw the graffiti on Shabbat lem Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, the police the one who brings the most Shabbat, around 7:30 or 8 p.m. At the morning while walking with a group of and Jerusalem municipality completely votes, regardless of their Shaked on page 14A entrance, I saw a small girl writing in tourists. By the time he arrived, others removed the graffiti by Sunday. Arabic right on the walls,” said Rabbi had marked the area with more spray- “Jerusalem is a place where we sanctify Shimon Ben-Yashar. paint to cross out the anti-Semitic slur. freedom of worship,” Hassan-Nahoum “I came to the police, and the police “We saw the writing in Arabic with a told JNS. “It is unbelievable that young Jewish kid covers spoke with their commander, who said heart and a Muslim symbol,” Packer told Arabs are still being brainwashed by their they would talk to her parents because JNS. “The tourists were shocked by the she was a minor,” he told JNS. “The police whole thing.” Graffiti on page 14A pres. debates last Tuesday and Wednesday night. The Jewish Telegraphic 2,300 Jewish athletes gather in Agency was fortunate enough to be assigned the “spin room” seat right next to his, and in Budapest for European Maccabi Games one of those conversations typical of the friendly yet By Cnaan Liphshiz sands of spectators gathered guarded way that reporters at a stadium in the Hungar- introduce themselves to one BUDAPEST (JTA)—More ian capital for the opening of another, it turned out Jeffrey than 2,000 Jewish athletes the 15th European Maccabi (his byline moniker) is Jewish. from 42 countries and thou- Games. KidScoop Media was found- With 180 athletes, Israel ed over a decade ago “to make sent its largest ever delegation young people’s voices a part of to Tuesday’s opening ceremo- the national conversation.” ny of the event, which is the When JTA spoke with him, 15th edition of a tournament Jeffrey and the non-profit’s that take place every four founder, Michelle Mayans, years at a different European Ron Kampeas were formulating questions city. Jefferson Henry Kraft for the candidates when they This year’s games, which is (probably) the youngest and their surrogates work the correspondent in the Demo- takes place at several venues, Sebastian Reuter/Getty Images for World Chess room after Tuesday’s debates. includes 20 categories, includ- cratic debate spin room in “When you become presi- Chess grandmasters Judit Polgar and Yannick Pelletier Detroit on July 20, 2019. ing swimming, chess, fencing, speaking to reporters at the First Move Ceremony in Berlin dent what is your plan to stop soccer and boxing. It was the on March 10, 2018. the glaciers from melting?” first time since the first Euro- By Ron Kampeas was one of the questions Jef- pean Maccabi Games in 1929 highest death rate anywhere. tional color orange, had its frey, sporting a neat black bow in Prague that Central Europe Andorra, a tiny principality own drummer. DETROIT (JTA)—For any tie and a pinstripe shirt, care- hosted the event. bordering on Spain, sent two Among the VIPs attending reporter, careening in a year fully entered into his notebook The United States was not athletes, as did Poland. was Hungarian President Ja- from reviewing restaurants in neat, large letters. far behind with about 150 Some of the athletes nos Ader, Israel’s Immigrant to covering the presidential The idea, Mayans explained, athletes, followed by France, marched in the stadium Absorption Minister Yoav debates would be a pretty South Africa and Germany. with their children riding on Galant and World Jewish fast rise. But then again, Jef- Debates on page 15A Among the smaller delega- their shoulders. The French Congress President Ronald ferson Henry Kraft is only 10 tions, with fewer than 10 delegation’s enthusiastic Lauder. years old. athletes, was that of North entrance featured athletes Following the raising of Kraft is the KidScoop Me- Macedonia, where the Nazis riding on the shoulders of the Hungarian flag and the dia correspondent covering killed more than 98 percent of other athletes. And the Dutch the Democratic presidential the Jewish community—their delegation, wearing the na- Maccabi on page 14A debates, taking place here PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 9, 2019 SPARK kicks off 2019-2020 with Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel guest speaker Nili Couzens Spark Orlando, Orlando’s To purchase your ticket, Proudly Serving Our Community organization that inspires please visit https://sparkkick- and educates Jewish women, off2019.eventbrite.com For Over 35 Years is kicking off another year Other upcoming Spark of Jewish programming for events include: the 2019-2020 year. 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