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Northern Hills Synagogue Congregation B’nai Avraham will kick off their first HaZaK program this year with a musical event on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 12:00 noon. Following a delicious lunch, the musical group, New Horizons Dixieland Band will entertain and wow the crowd. This fun group plays classic Dixieland, Ragtime, and Blues music and will include some Yiddish surprises dur-

ing the program.

Claire Lee, the choir director for Northern Hills will play the piano.

Other instruments played by the musicians include clarinet, trumpet, trombone, tenor sax, drums, and director Bruce Knapp will play the tuba. The band is a select subgroup of the larger New Horizons Band of Cincinnati, an ensemble founded to create an opportunity for everyone to make music in an enjoyable

group setting, regardless of ability, level, or age.

“HaZaK” has been going strong now for more than 15 years.

HaZaK is an acronym, the letters standing for the Hebrew words “Hakhma” (wisdom), “Ziknah” (maturity), and “Kadima” (forward). The HaZaK programs are for adults 55 and over and are open to the entire community. In addition to members of Northern Hills,

many attendees have come from the Jewish Community Center, Cedar Village, Brookwood Retirement Community, and throughout Greater Cincinnati.

The program is free of charge, however, donations are greatly appreciated. The program will take place at the synagogue. Please RSVP to Jennifer Braner at the synagogue office.

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Wise Temple offers many mitzvah opportunities in fall Wise Temple social justice projects this fall make doing a mitzvah easy and meaningful.

Instead of the traditional Mitzvah Day, Wise Temple will host two Mitzvah Mornings on S u n d a y September 21 and October 26 with various projects occurring throughout the mornings from 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM. All temple members of all ages and abilities can work side by side with other Wise Temple members doing projects that benefit Cincinnati area social service agencies. All projects will be done at Wise Center in an informal and relaxed setting. Temple members can come for the whole morning or just a portion, giving as much or as little time as their schedule allows.

Mitzvah Mornings will benefit the Freestore Foodbank, Interfaith Hospitality Network, Over the Rhine Soup Kitchen, Lighthouse Youth Services and many other agencies.

Registration is appreciated, but not necessary.

Wise Temple will continue to

do social justice projects at various Cincinnati area social service agencies as well.

On Saturday, September 13 at 12:30 PM project leader Steve

Foodbank, in the effort to end hunger in Greater Cincinnati.

As we draw closer to Thanksgiving, project leader Anne Safdi will lead temple members as they serve a turkey dinner to families in need at St. Francis Seraph Soup Kitchen, We d n e s d a y, November 26 at 4:15 PM. Wise Temple continues its commitment to helping homeless families by housing them at Wise Center during the week of S u n d a y , November 16 – Sunday, November 23. During this time, Wise Center volunteers transform the classrooms into comfortable living and sleeping spaces for the families.

Approximately 70 temple members serve home cooked meals, socialize with the guests, or spend the night at Wise Center during this week, giving them great understanding and appreciation of the issues of poverty and homelessness.

To register for any of these social justice projects, contact Margie Burgin at Wise Temple.

Wise Temple continues its commitment to helping homeless families by housing them...

Zimmerman will work with temple members at Matthew 25 Ministries sorting, counting, and packaging donated goods at this facility in Blue Ash for shipment to areas faced with disasters. On Saturday, October 25 at 1:00 PM temple members will work with project leader Susan Frankel at Crayons to Computers filling shelves with school supplies at this Bond Hill store for teachers. On Saturday, November 1 at 1:00 PM Kathy Claybon will lead temple members as they sort and pack donated food at the Freestore

Chabad Blue Ash’s ‘happiness’ lecture to feature Rabbi Yehuda Shemtov Rabbi Yehuda Shemtov, will be speaking at The Chabad Jewish Center Goldstein Family Learning Academy on Sunday, September 14, 7:00 – 9:00 PM on the topic of happiness.

What makes us happy? How can we create a happy environment? Would you like to learn about “Pink Cookie Theory?”

It’s as easy as taking part in this exciting and dynamic experiential presentation that will shake up your common conceptions of what brings us happiness. This groundbreaking seminar will help you discover the 5 most important steps on the road to happiness!

Rabbi Shemtov draws on life’s experiences to teach the relevance of the Torah in today’s fast paced technologically developed world. He is involved in many trend-setting programs and activities focusing on transmitting the ancient teachings

of Judaism and the complex spiritual teachings of Chassidut and kabbalah to the contemporary mind and experience Shemtov’s interactive presentation “Are you happy? The happiness seminar” will include exciting exercises and practical tools. The tools will help identify and focus on the happiness elements in our lives and help strengthen those areas to create a stronger and happier person in their home, work and social environments.

“We invite young and old alike, regardless of background or affiliation, to take this opportunity to get insight into the things that bring us happiness,” said Rabbi Yisroel Mangel director of Chabad Jewish Center A question and answer period will follow, to allow audience participation in this fascinating discussion.

Tickets can be purchased in

advance, or at the door for a slightly higher cost. For reservations and more information, call Chabad Blue Ash. The lecture is open to the public. No religious background or experience is necessary.

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film, but there is a nominal charge for the pizza dinner. A discussion will follow the film.

Rabbi David Siff, Northern Hills' new rabbi, observed, "I believe that significant conversations in our society happen through cinema, whether documentaries or fiction. We hope to feature films, both American and foreign, that engage these conversations. Kumare asks fundamental questions about the nature of religion. In a time when many people are turning away from religion and identifying as atheists or simply 'not religious,' it is a good steppingstone to air these questions."

As to Northern Hills' new film series, Rabbi Siff noted, "I think that as a synagogue we need to offer more than just prayer services. We need to offer different types of programs to engage different kinds of people. Movies are a way to reach people who do not necessarily identify as 'religious,' and give them a meaningful way to participate in our community."

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Northern Hills to screen “Kumare” at pizza/movie night Why do people turn to religion? Is religion for real? Or are we all just fooling ourselves?

These are some of the questions posed by the award-winning film "Kumare," the premiere feature at Northern Hills Synagogue's new pizza/movie night series. The screening will take place on Tuesday evening, September 17, at 6:30 p.m., at Northern Hills.

“Kumare" is a 2011 film which tells the story of American filmmaker Vikram Gandhi, who transformed himself into Sri Kumare, an enlightened guru from a fictional village in India, by adopting a fake Indian accent and growing out his hair and beard. Moving to Arizona, he develops a following of sincere believers. Unaware of Gandhi's deception, but inspired by his made-up philosophy, they make serious and substantial changes to their lives. Ultimately Gandhi realizes his experiment had grown out of control.

The film won the Feature Film Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2011 South By Southwest Film Festival. The late film critic Roger Ebert awarded "Kumare" three stars, noting that the film "seems to establish that that a guru can be a complete fraud and nevertheless do a certain amount of good, because what

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From Wednesday, October 8 to Sunday, October 19, the Mayerson JCC will host the “What is a Hero?” Sukkah Art Exhibit, a collaborative, open air installation. In celebration of Sukkot, the entire

Hero?” These mixed-media panels will hang side by side in the JCC’s 1,300 square foot sukkah, collectively creating a powerful visual statement. People of all ages are encouraged to have lunch in the sukkah, socialize and enjoy an afternoon amongst the art.

“It is so exciting to see dozens of agencies from around Cincinnati come together to create an impactful community-driven art exhibit,” said Betsy SingerLefton, Cultural Arts Manager at the JCC. “From October 8 to October 19, our sukkah will become a beautiful, unique space that prompts learning and dialogue thanks to the collaborative effort of our partner organizations.”

On Sunday, October 12, the JCC will host a free community event in celebration of the “What is a Hero?” art exhibit. From noon to 1:30pm, guests are invited to enjoy lunch and family activities in the sukkah. At 1:30pm, a special hero-themed program will begin in the Amberley Room.

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Manhattan’s Ramaz school clarifies advice on concealing kippahs

By Uriel Heilman NEW YORK (JTA) – When Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the principal of Ramaz, an Orthodox day school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, first heard about last week’s attack in the neighborhood on a Jewish couple by a mob bearing Palestinian flags, he had an instinctual response. Maybe the male students at his school should consider wearing baseball caps over their yarmulkes when wandering around the neighborhood, he thought.

So he dashed off an email to his head of school, Paul Shaviv, suggesting parents might want to consider talking to their kids about it.

Then Lookstein thought again and realized he “absolutely did not agree with that policy” he had just suggested.

“I think that is giving the lunatics and terrorists a real victory,” Lookstein told JTA on Tuesday.

“We have to stand up here in New York and say we are who we are, and this kind of behavior by people who try to terrorize others should never be

allowed,” he said. “I grew up in the 1930s and ‘40s, when Yorkville [part of the Upper East Side] was a hotbed of anti-Semitism. And our answer to anti-Semitism has to be that we stand up like exclamation points and not bend over like question marks.”

But Lookstein never relayed his second thoughts to Shaviv.

So when Shaviv sent a letter about school security shortly afterward to students, parents and faculty, many were startled to find in it a suggestion about concealing kippahs, which Shaviv attributed to Lookstein.

“The recent incident involving abuse and harassment of a couple in the neighborhood has aroused comment. This seems to have been – thankfully – an isolated incident,” the email said. “However, Rabbi Lookstein suggests that parents may consider advising their children to be discreet in wearing uncovered kippot, tzitzit, etc. It remains good advice not to walk around the streets displaying iPads or other ‘vulnerable’ items; not to text, or listen to music via ear buds while walking (distracting your attention from the surroundings), and

under all circumstances being prudent and aware of personal space and personal safety.”

Contacted by JTA, Shaviv took pains to say the school wasn’t advocating that students conceal their kippahs or tuck the ritual fringes of their tzitzit so much as merely passing along Lookstein’s suggestion.

“The school is not suggesting it.

We’re passing on a suggestion,” Shaviv said in an interview, noting that he had no intention of concealing his own yarmulke. “All we’re saying is it is something that some parents may wish to discuss with their kids – no more, no less.”

He added, “Rabbi Lookstein has now reconsidered and may not want to suggest that after all.”

Now, Lookstein says, his view is clear.

“We don’t want this to become Paris,” Lookstein said. “It’s our job to educate the public and the leadership of this country that we cannot allow what’s going on in Paris and London and Brussels to happen here.”

In lame-duck period, Obama administration retreats from peace endeavors

By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – Does the prospect of President Obama’s lame-duck period, coupled with the multiple foreign crises he is facing, diminish his quest for IsraeliPalestinian peace?

Little on the immediate diplomatic horizon signals an intensive U.S. interest in advancing the peace process.

There have been no announcements of high-level meetings between Obama and the Palestinian and Israeli leaders at the U.N. General Assembly, which begins this year on Sept. 16. There have been no leaks, as there have been in the past, that Obama would be making any major statements on the peace process at the G.A. John Kerry, the peripatetic U.S. secretary of state who lost count of his visits to the region until the collapse in April of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, has no plans to return anytime soon.

Rather, Kerry and Obama are focused on an expanding range of issues, including escalations in Russia’s conflict with Ukraine, pushing back against Islamist extremists throughout the Middle East and a looming deadline in nuclear talks with Iran.

Additionally, Obama administration relations with both the Israelis and Palestinians have

soured since the collapse of the peace talks, which the Americans blamed on both sides — the Palestinians for resisting a deadline extension, Israel for expanding settlement activity. Tensions were exacerbated over civilian casualties among Palestinians during Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip over the summer.

The disagreements don’t seem to have gone away, despite a ceasefire that appears to be firmly in place. On Tuesday, the Obama administration formally called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to reverse its seizure of West Bank land for settlement building, saying it was counterproductive to peace efforts.

While U.S. administrations have expressed concern about settlement activity in the past, direct calls for Israel’s government to reverse a decision are rare.

Alan Solow, a past chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and a major fundraiser for Obama’s election campaigns, said it doesn’t make sense to pursue a peace that the sides are not ready to embrace.

“They recognize they want to spend their time productively,” Solow, a confidant of the administration, told JTA in an interview on Tuesday. “Where they sense a further investment of time will not yield progress, there are plenty of

other problems they can turn to that may yield progress.”

Statements from officials suggest that the Obama administration is more interested in managing rather than resolving the conflict.

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How Jewish reporters in Muslim lands hide their identity

By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – Don’t bring it up. If it comes up, change the subject. If you can’t change the subject, consider an outright denial.

Those are some of the strategies used by Jewish reporters working in the Arab and Muslim Middle East to conceal their religious heritage.

The dangers facing Jewish journalists in the region became evident this week after the beheading of a dual American-Israeli citizen, Steven Sotloff, by the jihadist group Islamic State, or ISIS. It’s not known whether ISIS was aware that Sotloff was Jewish.

Colleagues believe his kidnapping

by ISIS-affiliated terrorists in 2013 in Syria was one of opportunity and not a deliberate targeting. James Foley, another journalist kidnapped

by ISIS and beheaded last month by the terror group, was Catholic.

However, Sotloff’s family in South Florida, his friends and colleagues — indeed much of the journalistic community — went to lengths to conceal his family’s deep involvement in the Jewish community and his Israeli citizenship in order not to draw his captors’ attention to a factor that may have exacerbated his ordeal. JTA did not report on his captivity for the same reason.

The captors of Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal correspondent kidnapped and beheaded by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002, made a point of his Jewishness. In the video showing his execution, they included Pearl saying “My father is

National Briefs Gwyneth Paltrow reportedly converting to Judaism (JTA) – Actress Gwyneth Paltrow reportedly is converting to Judaism.

The New York Post reported that Paltrow, the daughter of a Jewish father, was converting, citing “sources.”

Her father is the late film producer Bruce Paltrow and she reportedly is descended from a long line of Eastern European rabbis.

Paltrow told an event in London hosted by the Jewish community’s Community Security Trust that she wants to raise her children, Apple, 10, and Moses, 8, in a “Jewish environment.”

At private funeral for Joan Rivers, celebrities inside and fans outside N.Y. temple (JTA) – Howard Stern offered a eulogy and Hugh Jackman provided a musical interlude at the celebritystudded funeral for comedian Joan

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University of Central Florida student Melissa Catalanotto (L) , president of the UCF Society of Professional Journalists attends a candle light vigil held for journalist Stephen Sotloff on Sept. 3, 2014 at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Jewish, my mother is Jewish. I am a Jew” among his final words.

“We send our deepest condolences to the family of Steven Sotloff,” Pearl’s parents, Judea and Ruth, said in a statement emailed to JTA. “We know too well the pain of such horrific loss. Once again the world has seen the horror of terrorism in action. We continue to find strength in the belief that united, civilization will triumph and humanity will prevail.”

As ethnic and sectarian origins loom large in every encounter, keeping Sotloff’s Jewish identity under wraps made sense, said Janine Zacharia, who has reported in the region for the Washington Post.

“For me, the first question whenever I met anyone in the Arab world was ‘where are you from,’ and they weren’t asking whether it was the

United States or Canada — it was ‘are you a Muslim or a Jew?’ “ said Zacharia, who was based in Jerusalem for the Post from 2009 until 2011 and who now lectures at Stanford University.

“I would say, ‘I’m from New York or D.C.,’ and if they persisted, I would say ‘My grandfather is from Greece,’ which is true. I didn’t want to say what my religion was,” she said.

Another Jerusalem-based correspondent who asked not to be named because she is still reporting throughout the region said she drew on the experiences of extended family who are Christian to pretend she was as well.

“You hear it in conversation.

‘You’re not a Jew, are you?’ “ said this correspondent, who knew Sotloff. She said it was especially

Rivers.

Hundreds of mourners attended the private service on Sunday at Temple Emanu-El in New York City. The temple’s rabbi, Joshua Davidson, offered the opening prayer at the funeral, which was closed to the media.

In her 2012 book, “I Hate Everyone ... Starting With Me,” Rivers described her funeral.

“When I die (and, yes, Melissa, that day will come; and, yes, Melissa, everything’s in your name), I want my funeral to be a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action …

officer.

His brother also is a member of the NYPD, which has many Jewish officers but few hasidim, according to the NY1 television station.

New sergeant is highest-ranking Hasid in NYPD history (JTA) – A Hasidic New York Police Department officer was promoted to sergeant, making him the department’s highest-ranking Hasid ever.

Joel Witriol of Brooklyn attended last Friday’s promotion ceremony in traditional Hasidic garb, according to the New York Post.

His Sabbath observance will be accommodated at his new post in the 13th Precinct in Manhattan.

Witriol joined the force in 2006 at age 24, becoming the first Hasidic

Jewish groups launch fair trade network NEW YORK (JTA) – A new partnership has launched to enable the purchase of kosher “fair trade” coffee, tea and chocolate while supporting Jewish communal efforts on human trafficking and worker justice.

The Jewish Fair Trade Partnership allows individuals and Jewish institutions like synagogues to purchase fair trade products at wholesale prices while supporting Equal Exchange, Fair Trade Judaica and T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights.

Fair trade products are designed to help farmers, primarily in developing countries, stay on their land, support their families, plan for the future and care for the environment.

A portion of the proceeds from sales will support T’ruah and Fair Trade Judaica’s work promoting the end of modern-day slavery and protecting workers’ rights.

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pronounced in Libya during the overthrow of Muammar Gadhafi there in 2011. “There was so much indoctrination against Jews, but they didn’t know Jews.”

Suspicion of Jews is not straightforward, correspondents said. Often it is wrapped into other issues — for instance, being based at Jerusalem, which hundreds of foreign journalists are. Many governments in the region tend to ban entry to correspondents, regardless of religious heritage, who are based in Israel.

When they are allowed in, Jerusalem correspondents traveling to Arab countries go to lengths to cover up any Israel ties: ripping tags out of clothes, leaving Israeli cash with trusted friends in transit cities, shutting down social media accounts.

It’s not just an Israel address that can raise mistrust. First impressions in the region often take into account one’s background and presumed loyalties.

Aaron Schachter, who was based in Lebanon and Jerusalem for the BBC in the last decade, said that in Lebanon, asking one’s background was a natural opening conversational gambit. But when the answer was “Jewish,” he said, there was a patina of suspicion that he called “creepy.”

“In Lebanon it was slightly threatening because everyone pays attention to what you are — Sunni, Shia — and it’s not unusual for someone to call attention to it, but at a point it’s vaguely threatening” for Jews, said Schachter, now an assignment editor for The World, a Public

Radio International program.

“I know what you are,” he recalled an interlocutor affiliated with Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based group that repeatedly waged war with Israel, as saying. The man drew the conclusion, correctly, that Schachter was Jewish from his first name.

“I know they’re going to try to figure out who you are, whether a Maronite Christian or Orthodox Christian,” Schachter said. “But when you have someone say ‘I know what you are,’ what is the purpose of that in the course of the conversation we’re having?”

One thing journalists quickly learn is that the Jewish “tells” in the West don’t mean much in the Middle East. Jewish names obvious in the West are not at all so in the region, and stereotypical “Jewish looks” among westerners are indistinguishable from the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern features that are common throughout the Middle East.

“My name might have been Miriam Leah Goldbergstein, and I wouldn’t have worried,” said Lisa Goldman, who reported for various outlets in Lebanon and then in Cairo during the Arab Spring in 2011.

A non-Jewish Baghdad correspondent for a major U.S. outlet recalled that in 2009, she and another American staffer were alarmed when they learned that a U.S.-based staffer for the outlet was on his way in for a reporting stint. From his

to protect low-wage workers, whom our tradition knows are vulnerable to exploitation,” said Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T’ruah, in a news release issued jointly by the partner organizations. “Through this project, our sacred spaces will reflect the values of our tradition.”

ists in recent days have said they have not used the name for years.

Others upheld its use as benign. The Washington Post last month said that its non-sports coverage would omit use of the name.

ADL joins plea to broadcasters to abjure Redskins WASHINGTON (JTA) – The Anti-Defamation League signed a letter initiated by Native American groups urging broadcasters to avoid saying the name of the Redskins, the NFL’s Washington franchise.

“Some might argue that objectivity requires broadcasters to continue promoting the racial slur as long as Washington team owner Dan Snyder keeps denigrating Native Americans by using the epithet as his team’s name,” said the letter sent last week to broadcasters.

“But in this particular fight for basic equality and mutual respect, there is no ‘objective’ position. Every time the slur is promoted on the public airwaves even in a non-critical way by a journalist, it is an endorsement of the continued use of this slur.”

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Atlanta Hawks co-owner Bruce Levenson to sell team over racially offensive email (JTA) – Bruce Levenson, a coowner of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks, is selling his stake in the team after self-reporting a racially insensitive email he sent two years ago.

Levenson voluntarily reported the email, in which he racially stereotyped African-American fans, to the NBA. Levenson, who is Jewish, apologized in his statement for the email complaining that black fans were keeping white fans from attending games.

“I’m truly embarrassed by my words in that e-mail, and I apologize to the members of the Hawks family and all of our fans,” he wrote.

He added: “By focusing on race, I also sent the unintentional and hurtful message that our white fans are more valuable than our black fans.”

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Tanya Klein, right, meeting one of her mother’s rescuers, Marguerite Larose, on a 2010 visit to Belgium.

For her mother’s rescuer, a Baltimorean bids to Yad Vashem

By Hillel Kuttler BALTIMORE (JTA) – Tanya Klein grew up knowing that her mother, Tova Silverstein (nee Lowenbraun), had survived the Holocaust in hiding in her native Belgium. Mom, however, shared few details – only her rescuer’s surname, Larose, and the name of the village, Villers-Poterie.

But at a family wedding in 2009, Klein’s chat with a cousin launched a quest to find and meet one of her mother’s rescuers. And last week the Baltimore woman took another significant step: applying to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust commemoration institution, to bestow its Righteous Among the Nations award upon Angel Larose and her daughter, Marguerite.

Tova, 76, can help the effort by providing firsthand testimony.

She lives in Ramat Eshkol, a Jerusalem neighborhood not far from Yad Vashem.

From about age 4 to 7, Tova and her older sister, Manya, were hidden in several places, beginning with a monastery in Gilly.

Their parents, Zvi and Esther, who had emigrated from Poland in 1930, were hidden by the Belgian underground in 14 homes throughout the war. Esther sometimes visited, in part to preserve her daughters’ Jewish consciousness.

Manya later was hidden on a farm near Biesme, less than 10 miles from Gilly. Silverstein was moved to that town, where she stayed with Anna Visintini and her husband, a childless couple.

Their next-door neighbor, Marguerite Larose, recommended transferring Tova to the nearby home of her mother, figuring that the little girl would benefit from the open surroundings.

Tova would remain there for the rest of the war. Zvi and Esther retrieved her, even posing for a photograph on the farm’s field moments before reuniting with

Tova. The Lowenbrauns would settle in Milwaukee and then New York. Manya left for Israel and lived on Kibbutz Ein Hanatziv until her death a decade ago.

Many Jews were hidden during the Holocaust in western Belgium’s Hainaut region, where the Laroses lived, according to Dan Michman, the head of Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research.

“There were a few networks of rescuers of Jews” in that area with the German military’s presence relatively light, Michman said.

Of Belgium’s nearly 70,000 Jews, 25,000 were killed in the Holocaust, usually after being deported to Auschwitz from Mechelin, near Antwerp, he said.

But rather than being rounded up as in other countries, most deportees were apprehended at the border or turned in by non-Jews.

“There was always a danger,” he said. “Denunciations played an important role.”

But Michman said the Catholic Church as an institution – about 95 percent of Belgians of that era were Catholic – exerted a powerful influence in encouraging people to hide Jews in seminaries, monasteries and homes, as well as in deterring the turning in of Jews.

“When the priest of a church urged people to save Jews, then even people who didn’t save kids or maybe were pro-German wouldn’t say anything because the town or the priest would come out against them,” Michman said. “There was this social threat.”

For many years after the war, Esther, who died in Israel in 1968, sent letters and money to the Laroses. Tova didn’t maintain the connection, but following the ‘09 wedding, Klein took matters into her own hands.

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(JNS) – After months of rampaging through Iraq and stoking international fears that the Islamic State terrorist group could spread, a combination of Iraqi and Kurdish security forces, aided by targeted United States airstrikes, appear to have pushed back the self-proclaimed caliphate’s rampage in the region.

Yet Islamic State’s potential reach and brutal tactics continue to worry lawmakers and analysts. The terrorist group, experts say, has managed to brilliantly leverage its acquisitions—including land grabs, hostages, and oil—in a style that is part mafia tactics, part bureaucratic wile. So far, the group continues to be well-armed, flush with cash, and in possession of American and European captives.

Even with the U.S. Senate in recess, Sens. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent a joint letter to Secretary of State John Kerry on Aug. 26, calling for the Obama administration to target all aspects of Islamic State’s operational funding and to have the Treasury Department classify the group as a Transnational Criminal Organization (TCO). “[Islamic State’s] criminal activities—robbery, extortion, and trafficking—have helped the organization become the best-funded terrorist group in history,” the senators wrote.

“This wealth has helped expand

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U.S. Sens. Bob Casey and Marco Rubio (pictured) wrote in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry that the Islamic State’s "criminal activities—robbery, extortion, and trafficking—have helped the organization become the best-funded terrorist group in history."

The senators called for the Obama administration to target all aspects of Islamic State’s operational funding, and for the Treasury Department to classify the terror group as a Transnational Criminal Organization

their operational capacity and incentivized both local and foreign fighters to join them.”

Islamic State is an offshoot of alQaeda in Iraq. Islamic State’s extreme viciousness led al-Qaeda to cut ties with it. According to Thomas Joscelyn, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), most of alQaeda’s deep-pocketed, Gulf-based terrorism financiers remained with the parent organization, forcing Islamic State to adopt unorthodox fundraising methods.

At first glance, the senators’ request that the Obama administration cut off Islamic State funding sources looked to some like political posturing. Islamic State, after all, was classified by the State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 2004 and its assets within America’s control were frozen. That designation further established sanctions for cooperating economically with the terror group. With the U.S. in open conflict TERRORIST on page 22

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By Lloyd Levy Editors Note – Reprinted with permission from San Diego Jewish World - all rights reserved.

LONDON, England –I actually never thought I would have to write an article like this, from the green and pleasant land of England.

However it is becoming quite frightening to be a Jew in UK. What is so remarkable is how quickly it all appears to have happened. One can now start to experience what it must have been like in parts of Europe under Nazi threat, when friends and neighbours suddenly and without warning, turn on you because you

are Jewish.

In the last week or so alone, we have seen the London Tricycle Theatre banning the annual JEWISH film festival, which is one of the most important Jewish events of the calendar. The famous Edinburgh Fringe arts festival has also banned Israeli connected theatre groups.

We have the Parliamentary Member from Bradford, a large town in Yorkshire, announcing his town to be “Israeli” free, as well as reading that a leading Scottish Nationalist has apparently declared that an independent Scotland will be “Israeli free.” None of us are surely naive enough to not understand that

in practice it means Judenfrei, unless individual Jews renounce their loyalty to Israel.

Leading Supermarkets and kosher shops in London and Manchester have been invaded and ransacked by anti Israel terrorists, threatening staff and customers. The supermarkets have succumbed to this terrorism, with rumours swirling around that they are soon to stop selling all Israeli products. Only a day or two ago, a major supermarket in Central London, actually took all kosher products off the shelf. Think about that- all Jewish products banned, many not even from Israel at all.

Over 100,000 people marched through London recently in an anti Israel and anti Jewish orgy of sheer hatred.

I know people whose friends are putting the most hideous antiSemitic rantings on their “Facebook” pages.

Our Jewish so called leaders have seriously let us down. I personally haven’t seen nor read any leading member of our Jewish representative bodies, or rabbis, standing up in public for our community .

This is not a good time to be a Jew in Britain. Apparently in France it is far worse.. We are being cowed and terrorised by home grown anti-

Semites, and by imported ones.

Only in the last few days have some of the leading newspaper columnists begun to wake up to the hatred they have themselves stirred up by their coverage of Gaza, replete with its ancient Jewish blood libel of deliberate child murder. In the Middle Ages we were accused of murdering children, and not much seems to have changed over the centuries..

Natan Sharansky said recently that Europe is death to Jews, and he is so correct. History shows that anything can generate the hatred. If it wasn’t Gaza it would be something else.

After Gaza conflict, preparing for a potentially stormy year for Israel on campus

By Alina Dain Sharon (JNS) – This summer’s 50-day conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, which has come to a close if a ceasefire reached last week holds, has spurred a sharp rise in both anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incidents around the world. At the same time, the boundary between anti-Zionism and antiSemitism has become increasingly blurred, particularly on American college campuses.

Trouble for Jewish students got underway even before the start of classes. At an orientation event in late August, a pro-Israel student at Temple University in Philadelphia was

International Briefs “Germany’s Angela Merkel calls on public to fight antiSemitism (JTA) – Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany called for civic action to fight anti-Semitism following a wave of incidents this summer in her country.

Merkel, speaking Saturday on her weekly podcast on the Internet, urged the public to attend a national rally Sept. 14 at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate under the banner of “Stand up! Say no to anti-Semitism.”

“I will personally do everything I can, as will my entire government, to ensure that antiSemitism doesn’t have a chance in our country,” Merkel said.

Some 240,000 people of Jewish background are living in Germany today, including about 105,000 members of official Jewish communities. In 1933, before the Nazis came to power, there were more than 500,000 Jews in Germany.

She said because of Germany’s responsibility for

punched in the face by a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and called a “baby killer,” “Zionist pig,” and “kike.”

Given this climate, pro-Israel organizations are taking special precautions for the upcoming academic year.

“We are expecting that things can get very ugly this year on many college campuses, including some that were quiet in the past,” Kenneth L. Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and former staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, told JNS. Phil Nordlinger, director of the

Hillel International branch at Temple University, said the branch has “offered members of the community a safe place to discuss their Judaism, feelings towards Israel, reactions to the [SJP] incident, or concerns about safety on campus with Hillel professionals and counselors from the university’s counseling center.”

“We are also working closely with the Temple administration to ensure that the concerns of Jewish students at Temple are heard and met,” Nordlinger told JNS. “We value our partnership with the administration and are working with them to ensure a campus climate of civility where our students feel it is safe to celebrate their

Jewish identities and show support for Israel.”

Elliott Hamilton—a student at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., and a fellow for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA)—wrote in a recent op-ed for JNS that the Temple SJP incident came “as no surprise” to him.

“SJP historically bullies pro-Israel students and invites vehemently antiSemitic speakers to campus under the pretense of ‘dialogue,’” he wrote.

In order to educate both students and staffers about the difference between legitimate criticism of Israel and hate speech, the Brandeis Center

has introduced a resource guide called the “Fact Sheet on the Elements of Anti-Semitic Discourse,” which is being distributed to campus officials across the U.S. “We want university administrators to understand that much of the anti-Israel protest activity that we see on college campuses is really not just about politics. In fact, it has roots in ancient and medieval Jew hatred,” said Marcus.

To that end, the guide builds on the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism, which confirms that “when criticism of Israel involves

crimes against humanity during World War II, the country has a special duty to stand up against hate and for democracy.

tax evasion. Other works were subsequently found in Gurlitt’s second home in Salzburg, Austria.

The investigation is now closed due to his death.

Gurlitt’s father, Hildebrand, was an art dealer on assignment to the Nazis. When the elder Gurlitt died in 1956, his son inherited the collection, which includes works by such masters as Picasso, Dürer, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Beckmann and Matisse.

He bequeathed the trove to the Bern Art Museum in Switzerland.

Brussels shooting. The journalist said he was held for a time with American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, who were killed by an ISIS member who beheaded them on camera and released the videos. Henin was released in April 2013.

dial” discussion on Thursday.

During the 45-minute meeting, Peres described his idea to the pontiff about his organization of religions modeled after the United Nations. The motivation, Peres told the Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana, is that religion is the prime trigger for world conflicts today.

Monet artwork found in late German art collector Gurlitt’s hospital suitcase (JTA) – A Monet painting was found in the suitcase that German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt took to the hospital before he died.

The executor of Gurlitt’s estate last week discovered the French Impressionist artwork in a suitcase handed over to him by the hospital, according to reports.

Gurlitt, whose uncovered trove of Nazi-looted artworks was discovered two years ago, died in early May, several months after heart bypass surgery. He had agreed to return the mostly early 20th-century paintings to the heirs of the rightful owners.

The Monet, believed to be from around 1864 and similar to the French artist’s “View of Sainte-Adresse,” will be researched to determine whether it was stolen by the Nazis as were many other works in Gurlitt’s collection.

Some 1,400 works were confiscated from his home in 2012 in the course of an investigation for

Suspected Brussels Jewish museum shooter was captor in Syria, journalist says (JTA) – The French gunman accused of killing four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium has been identified as one of the Islamists who held a French journalist captive in Syria.

The journalist, Nicolas Henin, told reporters at a news conference on Saturday that Mehdi Nemmouche was one of his captors for six months and had mistreated his prisoners. Henin called Nemmouche “violent and provocative.”

Henin said he recognized Nemmouche from video and audio recordings after Nemmouche was arrested in the

Tunisian man jailed for assaulting police at Paris pro-Gaza rally (JTA) – A Tunisian man who hurled a metal bar at police during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Paris was sentenced to two months in prison.

The man, who was not named, has been in custody since July 22 and is expected to be released in the coming days, according to the report.

During his trial, the man denied any wrongdoing, contending that someone threw the metal bar at him, and that he merely gave it to police.

Pope, Peres discuss ‘U.N. of religions’ at Vatican meeting “ROME (JTA) – Former Israeli President Shimon Peres met with Pope Francis at the Vatican and proposed a “U.N. of religions” to fight terrorism.

The Vatican said the pope and Peres held a “long” and “very cor-

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Nude selfie scandal a problem for Swiss politician – and his Jewish foes (JTA) – On a warm night in August, a 33-year-old woman arrived on the doorstep of the exwife of her former lover, a wellknown left-wing Swiss politician both reviled and revered for his support of the Palestinians and his ties to Hamas.

The woman, identified in Swiss media only as N.W., came to speak to the ex-wife of Geri Muller, the mayor of the town of Baden, northwest of Zurich. But she never made it inside.

After ringing the doorbell, the woman was detained and questioned for four hours following a complaint to police alleging that she had threatened to kill herself and publicize nude photos that Muller reportedly sent to her from the mayor’s office.

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After Gaza conflict, Israel’s Arab minority fears rising discrimination

By Ben Sales BEERSHEBA, Israel (JTA) – Handcuffed to a wooden chair in the middle of the night, Rafat Awaysha still wasn’t sure what crime he had committed.

He had announced a demonstration against the war in Gaza in a July 11 Facebook post. Soon afterward, he received a call from the police, who came to his dormitory and took him in for questioning.

Released after an hour, Awaysha, the head of the Arab-Israeli Balad party student group at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, thought the ordeal was over. But at 3 p.m. the police returned.

“You have the right to express yourself in a democratic process,” Awaysha, 20, said. “You don’t need to be in an interrogation for 12 hours for participating in a protest.”

Awaysha was one of approximately 1,500 Arab-Israelis arrested

for involvement in protests against Israel’s operation in Gaza, according to NGOs and Israeli media reports.

Mossawa, a nongovernmental organization that advocates for the equal treatment of Israel’s Arab minority, said that at least 70 Israeli Arabs were illegally fired, reprimanded or suspended from work for publicly opposing the war.

Reached by JTA, a police spokesman confirmed the total number of arrests but would not confirm or deny Awaysha’s account.

Arab-Israeli opposition to the recent conflict, which ended with a late August truce, brought the predicament of Israel’s 1.7 million Arabs into stark relief.

Community activists advocating for Arab-Israeli advancement and civil liberties say that most ArabIsraelis – even those seeking to integrate better into Israeli society – opposed Israel’s Gaza operation because of the grave risk it posed to

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Arab-Israelis protesting Israel's Gaza operation hold the Palestinian flag at the demonstration in the central Israeli city of Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, July 21, 2014.

Palestinians there. An Aug. 11-12 poll by the Israel Democracy Institute think tank found that 62 percent of Israel’s Arabs opposed the war, as

opposed to 24 percent who said they supported it.

Arab-Israelis “are not being patriotic enough for the Israelis, but at the

same time they are called traitors by their own people because they are not joining the struggle against Israel,” Thabet Abu Rass, co-executive director of the Abraham Fund Initiatives, which promotes Arab-Jewish coexistence, explained one day after the conflict.

Throughout the war, Israeli-Arabs faced discrimination from the streets, where Jewish protesters chanted “Death to Arabs,” and from the halls of Knesset: Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman called for a boycott of businesses owned by Arab-Israelis who participated in a one-day strike to oppose the war. Some Knesset members called for Balad lawmaker Hanin Zoabi, who was suspended from parliamentary activity for six months, to be punished even more harshly for several statements they called inflammatory. And last month, some rightwing Knesset members proposed a bill to demote Arabic from being an official language of Israel.

Why the U.S. and Israel are not getting along

By Uriel Heilman (JTA) – All is not well in the U.S.Israel relationship.

Somehow, the 50 days of fighting between Israel and Hamas frayed ties between Washington and Jerusalem.

How did this happen? In part, the contretemps stems from the divergent ways that the Israeli and U.S. administrations view the Gaza war.

Here’s where each side is coming from: In the eyes of the U.S. administration …

While Israel’s security concerns vis-a-vis Gaza are legitimate, the ferocity of Israel’s response against Hamas in Gaza went too far.

Furthermore, Israel’s diplomatic behavior during the crisis – especially leaks of private communications from Secretary of State John Kerry – undermined U.S. trust in Israeli officials.

If the United States is to continue to come to Israel’s defense in international arenas – to say nothing of sending arms to Israel and pressing Iran on the nuclear issue – the Israeli government is going to have to play ball and demonstrate it really wants a twostate solution. Israel’s seizure of 1,000 acres of West Bank land on Sunday does precisely the opposite – buffeting the argument made by some U.S. officials in May that the Israelis, rather than the Palestinians, deserve the blame for the breakdown of peace negotiations in April.

Let’s start with Israel’s assault in Gaza. Despite Israeli claims, the civilian death toll – including some 500 Palestinian children – and Israel’s apparent use of regular artillery shells rather than just precision munitions belied Israel’s claims that it was doing its utmost to limit Palestinian civilian

casualties. There were just too many Palestinians dead and too much infrastructure destroyed – not to mention those strikes on U.N. schools sheltering civilians, bombardment of hospitals and the shooting of kids playing on the Gaza beach. Israel either deliberately struck some civilian targets or was negligent in taking the necessary precautions to prevent civilian casualties.

In July, the White House took the extraordinary step of halting delivery of U.S.-made Hellfire missiles to Israel. Why? For one thing, the Obama administration did not want to be seen as abetting the killing of Palestinian innocents. (The $225 million bill providing extra funding for Iron Dome, which President Obama signed, was considered kosher because it was for defense rather than offense).

For another, the Obama administration was angry over the Israeli treatment of U.S. officials during the conflict. When in mid-July Kerry sent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a confidential draft of a document outlining Hamas and Israel’s demands for ending the conflict, the Israelis misrepresented the draft as an American cease-fire proposal, put it up for a Cabinet vote (unanimously rejected) and leaked it to the press. One Israeli editor called it an “American betrayal.”

This infuriated the Americans.

The breach of diplomatic protocol represented merely the latest obstruction in the long-troubled relationship between Netanyahu and Obama.

The Americans have serious doubts about Netanyahu’s commitment to a two-state solution. Rather than aggressively pursuing a deal with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, arguably the most moderate leader the Palestinians have

ever had, Netanyahu has undermined him at every turn, looking for excuses to avoid advancing the peace track with the Palestinian Authority.

The war should be a lesson to Israel of the perils of the failure to pursue peace. Netanyahu should strengthen Abbas’ hand as a counterpoint to Hamas to demonstrate that diplomacy yields more fruit than violence. Instead, he’s scuttling the twostate solution. Case in point: the 1,000-acre land grab in the West Bank, which the Israeli organization Peace Now called Israel’s largest seizure of Palestinian land since the 1980s.

“We are deeply concerned about the declaration of a large area as ‘state land’ to be used for expanded settlement building,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Tuesday. “We have long made clear our opposition to continued settlement activity. We call on the government of Israel to reverse this decision.”

In the eyes of the Israeli government …

The Americans just don’t get it.

The Middle East is burning.

Islamic terrorists are on the march everywhere from Iraq and Syria to Libya. Hamas is Israel’s ISIS, and for Israel the threat is immediate and constant. What nation should tolerate the firing of thousands of missiles on its citizens by a radical Islamic terrorist group on its doorstep?

But Israel is held to an impossible standard when it comes to its fight against these radical Islamists, and Hamas is treated as an equal party rather than the terrorist organization that it is.

One of the main reasons the casualty count in Operation Protective Edge was so lopsided is because

Israel spent its money on a missile defense system and building bomb shelters while Gaza’s rulers spent the Palestinians’ money on terror tunnels and rockets. Moreover, Hamas is to blame for the Palestinians’ civilian casualties. Hamas hid behind civilians not just to make it more difficult for Israel to target Hamas fighters, but because every Palestinian civilian death bolsters the international isolation of Israel.

As for specific errant strikes in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces cannot provide details that might reveal sensitive operational affairs or expose Israeli soldiers to prosecution by international bodies known to have an axe to grind with Israel.

The Gaza conflict drove home two more salient points for the Israeli government.

One, it would be foolhardy to withdraw from the West Bank the way Ariel Sharon withdrew from Gaza, lest the same terrible outcome of Hamas conquest, rockets and terrorism occur in the West Bank, which is much closer to Israel’s major population centers. This is why in any final settlement the Palestinian state must be demilitarized and Israel must maintain the strategically vital Jordan Valley.

Two, the worldwide reaction to the conflict underscores more than ever the need for Israeli self-reliance.

Hamas, a radical Islamic group that oppresses its own people, publicly executing alleged collaborators and with a history of suicide bombings against civilians, seemed to come under less public criticism than Israel, a democratic state with an army that does more than any military in the world to avoid civilian casualties.

The anti-Semitic surge in Europe and widespread condemnation of Israel show that criticism of Israel has

more to do with logic-defying hatred of the Jews and Israel than anything else.

Even Israel’s best friend and closest ally, the United States, cannot be relied upon. The Obama administration took the highly unusual step in July of halting a weapons shipment to Israel – in the midst of a war, no less.

In May, U.S. officials blamed Israel for the breakdown of IsraeliPalestinian talks when it was the Palestinian Authority that had just signed a unity agreement with Hamas, a terrorist organization. And the United States continues to make what Netanyahu called a “historic mistake” by pursuing talks with Iran while the Islamic Republic continues its clandestine march toward nuclear weapons.

(As far as the spat over the leaked Kerry cease-fire document in July, it’s not clear whether Israeli officials deliberately misrepresented the document so they could prolong the campaign against Hamas, leaked the document to take a swipe at Kerry or genuinely believed the United States was floating a cease-fire that backed Hamas demands.)

As for Sunday’s land appropriation, it’s in an area of the West Bank near the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, which Israel plans on keeping as part of any final deal with the Palestinians.

And after the traumatic kidnapping and killing in June of three Israeli teens in that same West Bank area, there’s a message here to the Palestinians: Violence against Israel will be punished, not rewarded.

Finally, and this is no small point: If the world is going to condemn Israel no matter what it does, then Israel should do what it believes is in its best interests, international opinion be damned.

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Israel’s land seizure: Political favor or West Bank game-changer?

By Ben Sales TEL AVIV (JTA) – In the days after the war in Gaza concluded, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to bear left.

He spoke of a “possible diplomatic horizon” for Israel on Aug. 27 and suggested a return to IsraeliPalestinian peace talks. Reports emerged that Netanyahu had met secretly in Amman with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

But on Sunday he took a sharp right turn, seizing nearly 1,000 acres in the West Bank as state land near the Etzion settlement bloc. The move is a prerequisite for settlement expansion and prohibits Palestinians from using the land for building or agriculture.

According to Israeli reports, the government seized the land in response to the nearby kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens in June.

The land seizure – Israel’s largest in decades – drew condemnation from the Israeli left and from the international community. The U.S. State Department said it was “counterproductive” for the peace process.

In a statement, the left-wing NGO Peace Now called the move “proof that Prime Minister Netanyahu does not aspire for a new ‘Diplomatic Horizon.’ ” “Israel is trying to be territorially maximalist in the area and to deny territorial contiguity to the

Israel Briefs Nigerian woman quarantined in Jerusalem found to be Ebola-free JERUSALEM (JTA) – A Nigerian nurse visiting Israel who was quarantined in Jerusalem for fear she may have contracted Ebola does not have the deadly virus.

Doctors determined on Saturday that the woman, a tourist who works in Nigeria’s public health system, had an infection of the digestive tract, which improved after she was given antibiotics, according to reports.

She had arrived in Israel several days ago and was admitted Sept.

3 to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem with a high fever. She was quarantined last Friday.

Abbas: Hamas unity pact is off is gov’t doesn’t run in Gaza JERUSALEM (JTA) – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he would break his government’s unity

sion in Israel’s courts. If the appeals fail, the government still has to make an additional decision to legalize building there before any construction can begin.

Courtesy of Miriam Alster

Children seen playing in the streets of the settlement of Gvaot, Sept. 2, 2014. Two days earlier the Israeli government declared part of the settlement, located near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, as state land.

Palestinians,” Hagit Ofran, the head of Peace Now’s Settlement Watch, told JTA. “The message of this act is clear: The inclination of Israel is not to peace and compromise but to continuation of settlement.”

But some experts said that though the move hurts Israel diplomatically, critics overstate its importance on the ground. The area is a strip of land adjacent to the West Bank that Israel intends to keep under any peace deal. Declaring it state land was, they said, a way for Netanyahu to placate his allies on the right after opposing their suggestion to depose Hamas during the Gaza war.

“I think it falls in a certain pat-

tern,” Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, told JTA. “The government does something that is unpalatable to the right wing, whether it be making concessions in the peace process or, in this case, agreeing to a cease-fire in Gaza, and then it attempts to palliate the right by building in Judea and Samaria or, in this case, reclassifying land.”

According to Maj. Guy Inbar, spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces’ Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, the seizure is only the first step toward a potential settlement expansion.

Palestinians who claim the land have 45 days to challenge the deci-

agreement with Hamas if Hamas does not allow the unity government to operate in Gaza.

“We won’t accept a partnership with them if the situation continues like this in Gaza where there is a shadow government running the territory,” Abbas said late Saturday night in Cairo, where he was scheduled to address the Arab League, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.

“If Hamas won’t accept a Palestinian state with one state and one law, then there won’t be any partnership between us. This is our condition, and we won’t back away from it.”

Independent reported Sunday.

Unnamed senior Irish sources told the newspaper that there would “almost certainly” have been U.N. casualties or deaths without the Israeli help, which was described as “decisive.”

Report: Israeli military prevented Irish U.N. peacekeepers’ deaths JERUSALEM (JTA) – Irish soldiers serving in the Golan Heights would have been killed or taken hostage by Syrian rebels if it weren’t for the military intervention of the Israeli army, an Irish newspaper reported.

Israeli soldiers assisted the Irish troops last week as the latter attempted to rescue a contingent of Filipino peacekeepers who were surrounded and in a gun battle with the Islamist rebels, the Irish

Palestinian teen dies a week after being shot by Israeli troops at protest JERUSALEM (JTA) – A Palestinian teenager shot by Israeli troops during an eastern Jerusalem demonstration a week ago has died of his wounds.

The teen, from eastern Jerusalem, died Sunday morning in Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital, the Palestinian Maan news agency reported.

The father of Muhammad Abd Al-Majid Sunuqrut, 16, told Maan that his son was shot in the head with a rubber-coated bullet during the Sept. 1 rally in the Wadi Joz neighborhood. Abd al-Majid Sunuqrut claimed that his son was talking on his phone and not taking part in the demonstration.

Israel Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told The Associated Press that the teen was hit in the leg with a sponge-tipped bullet while throwing stones during the demon-

An illegal Israeli settlement outpost, Gvaot, already sits on a portion of the land. Several surrounding Palestinian villages, according to Ofran, have laid claim to the land.

But Inbar said an Israeli investigation found the land has not been used for decades.

Netanyahu has backtracked before on settlement expansion plans following international criticism. In 2012, Netanyahu announced Israel’s intention to build in an area known as E1, which sits between the Palestinian cities of Bethlehem and Ramallah, as well as between Jerusalem and the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim. The United States opposed the plan, and nearly two years later the land sits empty.

But Sunday’s seizure does prohibit Palestinian use of the land. And Israeli politicians and commentators have criticized Netanyahu for alienating Abbas and Israel’s allies just as the sides could have restarted peace talks following the Gaza cease-fire agreement. “[The] announcement, which wasn’t brought to the Cabinet, regarding 900 acres of land for building in the Etzion bloc harms the State of Israel,” Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid of the centrist stration. He then fell and injured his head, according to reports.

Arab League ministers agree to join international fight against ISIS JERUSALEM (JTA) – The foreign ministers of the Arab League agreed to cooperate on an international and regional level to combat the Islamic State, or ISIS. The ministers, who met Sunday in Cairo, also said their countries would take all necessary measures to fight ISIS terrorists.

“What is happening in Iraq, and the presence of an armed terrorist group that not only challenges the state authority but its very existence and that of other countries ... is one of the examples of the challenges that are violently shaking the world,” Nabil Arabi, the Arab League’s secretary-general, he told the gathering, according to The Associated Press.

France largest source of immigration to Israel in 2014 (JTA) – Reaching a 25-year high, immigration to Israel from France has become the largest single source of newcomers to Israel so far this year.

Some 4,566 French immigrants

Yesh Atid party said Tuesday in a speech. “Maintaining the support of the world was already challenging, so why was it so urgent to create another crisis with the United States and the world?”

Meanwhile, the future of peace talks remains unclear. Negotiations ended in April after nine months as Israel reneged on a scheduled release of Palestinian prisoners.

Abbas responded by applying for Palestinian accession to a range of international treaties, and talks collapsed as Abbas formed a unity government with Hamas.

According to reports, Abbas said he won’t return to talks unless Israel proposes a border in their initial stage. Should Israel refuse, Abbas reportedly plans to turn to the United Nations Security Council to call for an Israeli West Bank pullout.

Palestinian officials also threatened recently to apply for membership to the International Criminal Court, which could allow the Palestinian Authority to sue Israel for settlement building and allegedly violating Palestinian rights. But Abbas has yet to submit the application.

“Given that there’s no negotiations, trust with the P.A. and Abbas is not at a premium,” said Jonathan Rynhold, a senior research associate at Bar-Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. “If [Netanyahu] offers a fairly generous territorial offer, this will be irrelevant.” arrived in Israel from January through Sept. 1, surpassing Russia, with 2,632 immigrants, and Ukraine, with 3,252 immigrants.

The United States, whose Jewish population is more than 10 times that of France, has sent 2,218 new immigrants to Israel so far this year.

Between 1989 and 2013, an average of 1,943 French immigrants arrived in Israel per year.

Israel plans 283 more homes in West Bank settlement of Elkana (JTA) – The Israel Land Authority published a tender for constructing 283 housing units in the West Bank settlement of Elkana.

The Sept. 4 announcement, advancing an expansion the Israeli government first approved in 2012, comes after international criticism, including from the United States, over Israel’s recent appropriation of approximately 1,000 acres in the West Bank.

The United States and European Union consider Israeli construction in the West Bank an impediment to reaching a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.

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2014 SILVER CIRCLE SOCIETY CELEBRATION On May 21, the Jewish Federation celebrated over 100 of our Silver Circle Society members - donors who have been giving, at any level, for 25 years or more. Our guests learned about new initiatives to increase legacy giving in the community, including The Legacy Flame exhibit, which opened on June 2 at the JCC. More photos on Page 12.

Silver Circle leadership team and co-chairs for the reception – Fred Abel, Charlotte Hattenbach, Edie Rau and Jim Levinson.

ANNOUNCEMENTS ENGAGEMENT tuart and Pearl Averbach of Pittsburgh, PA are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Elyse Beth Averbach to Joshua Howard Weprin, son of Michael and Karen Weprin and the late Jamie Weprin of Dayton, OH. Elyse holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Chatham University and currently works in childcare.

Josh graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in consumer sciences. He is the owner and co-founder of Fusian Inc. Sharing in the couples’ happiness are their grandparents Ferne Meadowcroft and the late Wayne Meadowcroft of Pittsburgh, PA, Rosa Averbach and the late Edward Averbach of Pittsburgh, PA, the late Wolf and Lenke

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HADASSAH CHAI SOCIETY The Cincinnati Chapter of Hadassah hosted its inaugural Red & Black Brunch on Sunday, March 9, 2014, kicking off Hadassah's new Chai Society level of giving. Dr. Shelly Ben Harush Negari, a Hadassah Medical Center pediatric doctor from Israel, was guest speaker. She is in Cincinnati as part of the collaboration of Hadassah Hospital and the Israel Exchange Program in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Ben Harush Negari is in her second year of clinical fellowship studying Adolescent Medicine with Dr. Jessica Kahn. She focused her talk on eating disorders, adolescent medicine and the importance of the establishment of a multidisciplinary program that addresses the needs of these patients.

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A 20-year milestone for Ambar India, thanks to quality, consistency

By Bob Wilhelmy If you dine out regularly and move your dining dollars around to different places, you know restaurants can be fleeting: here today, gone tomorrow. Just one more reason why Ambar India in Clifton is such a big deal, having recently celebrated its 20th year in business.

Restaurants with staying power generally please their patrons with good, quality food and consistency in the kitchen. The Ambar group of restaurants is doing just that, according to Jesse Singh, founder and owner of Ambar, and four other Indian eateries in the Greater Cincinnati area.

So what’s the secret to his success? “We are celebrating 20 years and there is no secret recipe or anything. The secret is quality, and consistency. Nothing frozen here (except spinach); we use all fresh ingredients. Our chicken is fresh, not frozen, and that costs more (about $40 more, per crate, he said).

But it is better quality, giving you better flavor and a better dish.”

He mentioned other ingredients, too: “The same with our rice, basmati rice; the best quality rice; better than regular. Some Indian restaurants use basmati, but cut it with cheaper Asian rice. When you do that, there is a big difference in food cost, but the quality of the food is not as good. We want the quality and the consistency, and that is why our customers keep coming back: quality and consistency.”

In addition, the amount of food prepared and the number of patrons ordering that food is important to both quality and consistency, Singh contends. “If you don’t have volume (people in the seats of your restaurant), then the food you prepare sits around longer—a day, two days—and food that sits is not as good, not as tasty and delicious. So you need the volume, or the food sits and waits for the customer. We have the customers and the food is not sitting around, so that is better quality too.

“At Ambar, we highlight what our customers like to eat. Spinach dishes are very popular; chick peas, lentils, rice dishes—all very popular.

Also, popular are the chicken, lamb and fish dishes.”

Among the most ordered vegetarian entrée dishes are: saag paneer, a flavorful combination of homemade cheese cubes cooked with spinach and cream; aloo choley, a dish of chick peas and potatoes prepared in North Indian style; and dal makhani, an entrée of lentils in cream, prepared with a touch of spices. Add a personal favorite to this list—the bhartha, which is eggplant cooked with other veggies and mildly seasoned. There are many more veggie dishes from which to choose—21 in all.

There are 16 chicken specialties

The kitchen staff at Ambar.

A plate of tandoori chicken with a side of vegetable samosa (a deep-fried pastry stuffed with potatoes and green peas).

offered on Ambar’s menu. Chicken curry, among the most ordered of all entrees on the menu, offers the chicken cooked in a mildly spiced sauce that is delicious with nan (traditional Indian-style bread).

Another special is chicken tikka masala, featuring lightly broiled chicken that then is cooked in a savory tomato, onion, and bell pepper mélange. In addition, there are tandoori-cooked chicken dishes on the menu, such as the one pictured in this article.

Lamb specialties include a curry

dish, and the lamb is simmered in the curry to infuse the flavor in the meat. For those who want really hot, spicy lamb, there is vindaloo, simmered along with potatoes.

Spiciness of dishes is the diner’s choice at Ambar, the range being one to six, the higher the number, the spicier the dish. “When we first opened the restaurant, more people ordered dishes that were not spicy— mild seasonings,” said Singh.

“Now, most customers order medium spiciness (three or four on the scale). More people are eating the

From Ludlow Avenue, a view of the exterior of Ambar India.

hotter dishes on the menu,” and that includes non-Indian diners. Singh said that the really spicy choices (five and six level) are so hot that after a bite or two the spiciness obscures the tastes and flavors of the other ingredients. He recommends diners stay in the middle range of spiciness, in order to better enjoy the dishes they choose.

Ambar mixes its own curry seasonings, which is typical of the Indian kitchen. There is no recipe list of ingredients for a curry. “For me, curry is a mix of onions, garlic,

and ginger, and all the mixed spices go into that: cardamom, cumin, coriander, black pepper, paprika, ginger powder and garlic powder,” he said.

“We focus on very clean dishes that are low in fat and provide the flavors of India to our customers,” he said.

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When burning Jews isn’t news

By Stephen M. Flatow (JNS) – On Aug. 30, Palestinian terrorists set a Jewish man on fire in Jerusalem, and on Sept. 1, other Palestinian terrorists tried to set an entire bus full of Israeli Jews on fire.

Yet I couldn’t find any mention of these horrific attacks in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or any other major American news outlet. Why is it that news about burning Jews is not considered fit to print?

The first of the firebomb attacks took place in Jerusalem’s City of David neighborhood. A Molotov cocktail—a flaming bottle of gasoline which explodes upon contact—was hurled through the window of a historic 19th-century house known as Beit Meyuhas. One of the residents, a 45-year-old man, was struck by the firebomb and set on fire. He suffered first and second-degree burns to his face and head.

Second-degree burns often result in permanent scarring and require skin grafting.

Burning one Jew is not enough to satisfy the appetite of Palestinian terrorists. On Sept. 1, two firebombs were thrown at an Israeli bus traveling on Route 505, between the towns of Migdalim and Kfar Tapuach. The attackers’ goal was to set the entire bus on fire and burn all of its passengers alive. They almost succeeded. The flaming bombs exploded as they crashed through the front windshield of the bus. Flying glass slashed the driver. It was only by a miracle that he was able to stop the bus without crashing—and that the flames did not spread through the entire vehicle.

Palestinian terrorists sometimes use rocks instead of firebombs. Stoning is, after all, a time-honored method of execution in that part of the world.

Recently, they certainly have been trying to do just that.

On Aug. 20, Palestinian rockthrowers attacked an Israeli automobile traveling near the Yitzhar junction. An 11-month-old baby was wounded. Medics on the scene were quoted as saying that it was a “miracle” she survived, since the rock that hit her was the size of a fist.

Three days later, Yedaya Sharchaton, his wife Hadassah, and 1-year-old daughter Nitzan were driving in the Gush Etzion region. Arab rocks smashed through the front windshield, causing Yedaya to lose control of the car. It flipped over. All three family members were injured; Yedaya suffered internal bleeding.

It turns out that my family was on the same road as the Sharchaton’s just a few days before as we headed to celebrate my granddaugh-

ter’s bat mitzvah by serving hot dogs to Israeli soldiers at a base in the Hebron hills.

On Aug. 29, a mob of Palestinians emerging from prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount threw rocks at Israeli police officers. It would be interesting to know if anything in the sermons they had just heard encouraged them to try to murder Jews. Two of the rockthrowers were arrested; they were minors. One wonders what they are learning in school about the idea of stoning Jews to death.

The next day, Palestinian rockthrowers targeted Israeli policemen in another section of Jerusalem. Three of the officers were injured. Their names were not mentioned by the Israeli media. Nor were the extent of their injuries. Did one of them lose an eye? Was one of them permanently disfigured? Three more anonymous, forgotten victims of Arab terror.

On Sept. 1, the rock-throwers chose the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’ev.

Spotting an Israeli bus coming down Uzi Narkis Street, from Pisgat Ze’ev to the adjoining Arab neighborhood of Shuafat, the would-be killers attacked. The rocks smashed the windows, one striking and injuring a 3-year-old girl. The Magen David Adom paramedics who rushed to the scene to provide emergency treatment knew that the difference between life and death for that little girl was just bad aim.

So once again, they are burning and stoning Jews. Yet the New York Times and the others are not interested. Why? Because it doesn’t fit their preferred narrative.

Most of the editors and reporters in the mainstream media subscribe to a narrative of the Israeli-Arab conflict in which the Israelis are the aggressors, and the Palestinians are the victims. That narrative supports the political outcome that most editors and reporters personally endorse: an Israeli retreat to the 1967 lines, a division of Jerusalem, the rise of a Palestinian state.

But when you report about Palestinians burning and stoning Israelis, that changes everything.

Americans—from the average person in the street to Members of Congress—regard such behavior as barbaric. They naturally conclude that giving a state to such violent extremists is crazy. Telling the truth about Palestinian behavior makes it harder to mobilize pressure on Israel to give in.

That’s why in the editorial offices of the New York Times and so many other newspapers, news about burning Jews isn’t fit to print. Sadly, it’s that simple.

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By Sarah N. Stern (JNS) – On Labor Day weekend, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder welcomed thousands of Muslims to Detroit for the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). As someone who grew up as the sole Jewish kid in my neighborhood school, I have always cherished our tradition of welcoming religious minorities to our shores, and our constitution that enshrines the protection of religious minorities.

But when one looks at the roster of radical Islamic speakers highlighted in the ISNA program, one wonders about the wisdom of Snyder, a U.S. state’s top official, speaking at such an event and therefore bestowing a state’s legitimacy upon the host organization.

This occurred during the same month in which we witnessed pictures of the gruesome beheading of James Foley by the Islamic State terror group, and in which many Americans have abruptly woken up to just how lethal and brutal Islamic fundamentalism can be.

These charismatic speakers are influencing the hearts and minds of many young Muslims throughout the United States today. Now that it has been widely recognized that more than 100 young American Muslim recruits have volunteered to fight and die alongside their comrades with Islamic State, some of the following speakers may potentially be creating future recruits for members of Islamic State, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, al-Shabab, or alQaeda.

Among those who spoke this past weekend were: Jamal Badawi, a Canadian-

Egyptian who was removed by former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano from a “no-entry list” to the U.S. He has often praised suicide bombings against Israelis and Jews. He has close ties to Hamas and Hezbollah, is deeply rooted in the Muslim Brotherhood, and is the founder of the Muslim American Society, which is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Zaid Shakir, who was born Ricky Mitchell and converted to Islam in 1977. He believes America has a “brutal and genocidal legacy that drives its current policies.” He has not claimed outright that Muslims were not responsible for 9/11, but he is quick to recommend an author who does. Shakir wrote in 2007, “This article will not examine what actually happened on 9/11, although the glaring weaknesses and inconsistencies in the official narrative call for such an examination. For those seeking greater clarity concerning the events of that day see David Ray Griffin’s ‘Debunking 9/11.’” He has also said, “Muslims are not to blame for 9/11, but America’s genocidal policies [are].”

Yasir Qadhi, president of the Islamic Circle of North America and dean of the Memphis-based Al Maghrib Institute, the largest American-Muslim academic institution that has the capacity to reach impressionable young Muslims. Qadhi is a graduate of the Islamic University of Medina in Saudi Arabia and spreads Wahhabaist Islam. He speaks frequently on podcasts and the radio and has denied the Holocaust, saying that Hitler “never intended to mass-destroy the Jews.” He has called accounts of the Holocaust “false propaganda.”

Zahra Billo, executive director of the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations (CAIR) San Francisco office, who has called American soldiers “terrorists.”

When a Portland, Ore., Muslim teenager attempted to detonate a bomb at a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony, she called it a “a publicity stunt by Islamophobes” and said that the FBI “was looking for a sensational story.” She cautions American Muslims to “build a wall of resistance around the FBI by not talking to them.”

Muzammil Siddiqi, a former ISNA president, who has said, “America has got to learn, because if you remain on the side of injustice, the wrath of Allah will come.”’ He has also said, “When people carry out jihad, they carry on Islam in its peak, and in its totality.” At a rally in Lafayette Park in Washington, DC, he claimed, “Al-Aqsa, my brothers and sisters, is our sacred mosque. It belongs to Islam. It belongs to all the Muslims of the world, 1.5 billion Muslims of the world, it belongs to them. We cannot accept any threat to the alAqsa mosque. We cannot give up Jerusalem. Jerusalem belongs to Islam.”

Nihad Awad, one of the founders and the executive director of CAIR, has documented past ties to Hamas and has openly defended Hamas leaders and charities. Awad was present at the notorious 1993 Muslim Brotherhood Philadelphia meeting, which the FBI considers to have been attended by Hamas supporters. Awad also served as the public relations director of the now-defunct Islamic Association for Palestine, which served as a WEEKEND on page 19

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émigrés from the desert to travel first to Shekhem was like bringing visitors straight from Ben Gurion airport to the Kotel.

But it’s not just a history lesson.

When the Jews are commanded to write the Torah on twelve stones, past memory becomes future destiny. For although the Jewish right to the land may be historic, Jews will not be able to live on their land unless they keep the ethical, moral and ritual commandments of Torah.

This is what guarantees that Israel will not be the mere gravesite of our past, but will remain the homeland of our future.

And the Torah is more than the Constitution of Israel. The verses concerning the Jews setting up these twelve stones end (Deut.

27:8) with the words ‘be’er hetev,’ which literally mean ‘explained clearly.’ Quoting from the Mishnah Sotah (7: 1), Rashi explains that ‘be’er hetev’ means that the Torah was written “in 70 languages,” symbolizing the 70 nations. In other words, the sages understood that a further condition for our maintaining sovereignty over the land is that we must teach at least the moral laws of the Torah to the entire world.

When God first elected Abraham, He explained that the Patriarch will be the father of a great nation through which all the families of the earth will be blessed.

Indeed, God chose Abraham because he was “teaching his household to guard the ways of the Lord, to do compassionate righteousness and moral justice”. (Gen. 18:18-19).

In the covenant with Abraham, “between the pieces” God established Israel, the nation; in the Covenant at Sinai, God established Israel, the religion; and in the Covenant at Shekhem, God established Israel, His witnesses to the world! It is precisely this Third Covenant which expresses our universal mission.

Shekhem is also where Joseph, the son of Jacob, is buried. Joseph, who never forgot God’s charge to Abraham to bless the world; Joseph, who dreamt of Egyptian agriculture and eventually brought his entire family to Egypt;, Joseph, who taught Pharaoh about the God

of Israel and the world; this is the same Joseph who set the stage to teach the greatest power in the ancient world that God created every human being in His image and that God demands the inviolability and fundamental freedom of every individual. Joseph began the process which led to the Arab Spring today.

Finally, it was in Shekhem that the children of Israel waged their war against a tribal “nation” which perpetrated an act of rape upon their sister Dinah, seemingly with impunity. This was the first example of the necessity of Israel to champion moral justice and human rights before the eyes of the world in the Fertile Crescent, the first place where Israel fought terrorism.

Perhaps this is why our Promised Land is at the crossroads of the continent. From the very moment we crossed the Jordan, God charges us with perfecting the world under the Kingship of a God of love and universal law.

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T EST Y OUR T ORAH KNOWLEDGE THIS WEEK’S PORTION: KI TAVO DEVARIM 26:1-29:9 1. Who tried to destroy our forefathers? a.) Egyptian b.) Aramean c.) Philistine 2. What is done with the first fruits? a.) Give them to the Priest b.) Recite verses of praise to Hashem c.) Place them and wave them before the altar d.) All of the Above 3. A person is cursed if he strikes his friend a.) In a hidden way b.) In his money c.) With a stick

5. B 29:1-8

EFRAT, Israel - “When you have crossed the Jordan into the land the Lord your God is giving you, set up some large stones and coat them with plaster. Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I command you today . . .” (Deut. 27:2-4) Why are the Israelites commanded to leave Trans Jordan and travel through the heart of enemy territory all the way up to Mt. Ebal overlooking Shekhem? After forty years of wandering in the desert, what’s the rush to get to Shekhem?

The command is especially strange since the Israelites will then almost immediately return back to where they started from! And why the urgency to write out the Torah on twelve stones in Shekhem?

The first explanation is based upon the Biblical record that Abraham, heeded God’s commandment to leave his land, (Ur of the Chaldees, in modern-day Iraq) taking with him his wife Sarai, his nephew, Lot, and all their belongings. When they reached Canaan, Abraham continued to traverse the promised boundaries of Israel as far as Shekhem. There, he built an altar to God who had appeared to him.

(Gen. 12:5-7) The Gaon of Lutzk, Rabbi Zalman Sorotozkin, (1881-1966), author of Oznayim LaTorah, points out that by coming to Shekhem, the Israelites establish the fact they’re not newcomers to Israel; their historical roots in this land goes back to Abraham. They were exiled in Egypt, but now they’re returning to re-establish Abraham’s legacy. It was not the land’s fruit trees, or physical beauty that brought them back to Israel; it was the fact that Israel was their Promised Land, originally settled and acquired by Abraham.

In addition, Shekhem is one of three locations (along with Hebron and Jerusalem), which was paid for in cash. Jacob, after his long stay with Laban in Aram, returned and bought an open field, Shekhem, for 100 kesitah. (Gen. 33:19).

This combination of historical right (Abraham’s acquisition by settlement) and law (Jacob’s purchase), makes Shekhem unique among Israel’s cities. Hence for the

It was not the land’s fruit trees, or physical beauty that brought them back to Israel; it was the fact that Israel was their Promised Land, originally settled and acquired by Abraham.

4.The enemy that will attack Bnei Yisroel is compared to which animal? a.) Lion b.) Bear c.) Eagle d.) Snake 5. What is the theme of the section after the “Tochacha”? a.) Hashem gave the Torah at Sinai b.) Kindnesses Hashem has done for Bnei Yisroel c.) Special commandments of the Land of Israel

3. A 27:24 A hidden way is to slander another person 4. C 28:49

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By NATE BLOOM Contributing Columnist New TV Shows: Jewish Stars Two broadcast TV shows premiering next week have Jewish stars. Here’s the official description of “The Mysteries of Laura”: “Debra Messing stars as Laura Diamond, a brilliant NYPD homicide detective who balances her ‘Columbo’ day job with a crazy family life that includes two unruly twin boys and a soonto-be ex-husband - also a cop who just can’t seem to sign the divorce papers. Between cleaning up after her boys and cleaning up the streets, she’d be the first to admit she has her “hot mess” moments in this hilariously authentic look at what it really means to be a ‘working mom’ today. Somehow she makes it all work with the help of her sexy and understanding partner.”

MESSING, 46, had a huge hit as the co-star of “Will and Grace,” but is coming off the cancellation of the musical series, “Smash,” which faded in the ratings after a big start. “Mysteries” has a “sneak preview on NBC on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 10PM. The pilot episode will be replayed at the show’s regular day and time: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24.

Starting on the 17th, over on Fox (9PM), is “Red Band Society”. Again, here’s the official “411”: “Set in the children’s ward of a Los Angeles hospital (and narrated by a kid who’s in a coma), Red Band Society is a coming-of-age drama that follows a Breakfast Club -esque group of patients as they such face life-changing (and lifethreatening) challenges as cancer and heart defects.” Playing one of the youngish patients is ZOE LEVIN, 20. She was born and raised in a religious Jewish home in suburban Chicago. Levin played Steve Carrell’s pretty teen daughter in the 2013 sleeper hit, “The Way, Way Back”, and costarred earlier this year with SARAH JESSICA PARKER, 49, in “The Commons of Pensacola,” a hit off-Broadway play about a Jewish family that was penned by actress AMANDA PEET, 42. Also in “Red Band,” playing a hospital doctor, is DAVE ANNABLE, 34 (“Brothers and Sisters”). His mother is Jewish.

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in pro sports. The son of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father, Pederson was raised Jewish and played for Israel in the 2013 World Baseball Classic. This year (2014) he was named Pacific Coast League (top minor league) player of the year and he was the first PCL player in 80 years to hit 30 homers and steal 30 bases in one season.

Jewish’ Wedding on Vulcan Most “Star Trek” fans have seen the original (1967) “Trek” episode (“Amok Time”) in which Spock is compelled, by Vulcan physiology, to return to Vulcan, his home planet, and wed a Vulcan woman (“T-Pring”) to whom he was betrothed as a child. Sadly, ARLENE MARTEL, an exotically beautiful Jewish actress from the Bronx, who played Spock’s reluctant fiancée, died on August 12, age 78. Born Arline Sax, Martel was married three times, including a long marriage to second husband JERRY DOUGLAS, now 81, and they had two children together. Douglas, born Gerald Rubenstein, found fame and job security as star character John Abbott on the “Young and the Restless” soap opera. He played that role from 1980 to 2006.

Sadly, Martel never landed a similar breakthrough role. Still, her “Trek” role is known to millions—even if few know “how Jewish” an episode “Amok Time” was. It was the episode that introduced the split finger Vulcan greeting. As most Jewish fans know, the Vulcan greeting— which requires the “greeter” to spread their fingers to form a “V”-- is a copy of the positioning of the hands of kohanim during the priestly blessing or benediction. The use of this gesture (with the palm up) was suggested by LEONARD NIMOY, now 80, who played Spock. In one interview, Nimoy recalled that it was hard for Martel to master the split finger, although she was Jewish.

As viewers recall, “T-Pring” rejected Spock and custom forced Spock to fight Captain Kirk (played by the kosher WILLIAM SHATNER, now 80), for her hand. Also, presiding over the whole ceremony (and fight rules) was “T-Pau”, a very elderly and politically powerful Vulcan woman. She was played

by Celia Lovsky, who wasn’t Jewish, but she stood by her Jewish husband, actor PETER LORRE, as the Nazis took over their native Austria, and settled with him in America.

FROM THE PAGES 150 Y EARS A GO Betrothed: Mr. S.L. Mode to Miss Mathilda Loventhal, both of this city; Mr. Gustav Mendel to Miss Nettie Hyman, both of this city, no cards sent; and Mr Moses Shelt to Miss Betty Rice, both of Cincinnati, O. Wanted, $20,000 in sums of five dollars of each delinquent subscriber, for which we will send a receipt for the Israelite and Deborah.

Wanted: a young man to go in the country, to act as salesman, in a Dry Goods and Clothing Store.

Apply at 139 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, O. On September 28, at the Portuguese Synagogue in New Orleans, Mr. David J. Workum of this city married Miss Lizie, eldest daughter of Isaac Hart, Esq. of New Orleans. No cards sent. – October 7, 1864

125 Y EARS A GO The seventieth birth anniversary of Jacob Davis, of Windsor Street, Walnut Hills, was the occasion of a gathering of his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, together with other relatives and friends. Mr. Davis was the recipient of some handsome tokens of esteem.

Babette Hesselberger, beloved wife of Theo. Hesselberger, died in her 82nd year, on Thursday, September 14th, at her late residence, 810 Mound Street, Cincinnati, O. Mrs. M.A. Tuite will reopen her dancing class at Hotel Alms, Saturday, October 14th, at 2 p.m.

An omnibus will be run to the Hotel Alms for the accommodation of the Avondale pupils.

Beauty is blood-deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathartic, cleans your blood and keeps it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all impurities from the body. Begin today to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets-beauty for 10 cents. All druggists, satisfaction guaranteed. – September 21, 1889

100 Y EARS A GO Miss Fanny Straus, one of the oldest Jewish residents of the city of Cincinnati, celebrated her ninetieth birthday on Tuesday, September 8.

Mrs. Straus was born in Alsace in 1824, the family moving to Paris twelve years later. Mrs. Straus went to New Orleans at the age of twenty, where she was married to David Straus. Mr. and Mrs. Straus came to Cincinnati in 1854, where he died ten years later, leaving the widow

with seven sons and one daughter, Mrs. Ida Henly, who died eight years ago. The two oldest sons, Louis and Gus, have also passed away. The surviving family consists of five sons, Henry, Samuel, Robert, Isidor, and Charles, ten grandchildren and twelve greatgrandchildren. Mrs. Straus is a wonderfully preserved woman, in spite of her great age. The birthday was celebrated on Tuesday evening at 740 So. Crescent Avenue, at which the family only was present.

Mr. Oscar A. Berman and Miss Elsie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Lang, were married on Sunday, September 6, at the residence of the bride’s parents, 225 Northern Avenue, Avondale. Dr. Grossmann officiated. – September 10, 1914

Leon Nidich.

Miss Josephine Harris, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Harris of 7916 Stillwell Road, has been appointed to the faculty of the Deparment of Social Work at West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati and University of Pittsburgh, Miss Harris is a candidate for the degree of doctor of social work at the University of Pennsylvania. Before going to Philadelphia for advanced study, she was acting director of Psychiatric Social Services at Rollman Hospital in Cincinnati. – September 17, 1964

75 Y EARS A GO

Avital Ingber appeared at a recent Cincinnati Reds vs.

Philadelphia Phillies game as a celebrity bat girl.

Avital, 8, the winner of a celebrity bat boy/bat girl contest sponsored by Milk Duds/Jolly Ranchers Candies, sat in the dugout and met Reds players.

In addition to receiving a bat girl t-shirt, baseball, bat and free tickets to the game, Avital got the thrill of seeing her name in lights - on the Reds scoreboard.

“It was exciting,” she said.

Avital is the daughter of Rabbi Abie and Shelley Ingber.

Randy and Diane Slovin (Lieberman) announce the birth of a son, Aaron Jess, Aug. 19.

Maternal grandparents are Jean and Bert Lieberman of Dayton.

Paternal grandparents are Sylvia and Rubin Slovin of Cincinnati.

Maternal great grandparents are Reeva Kolstein and the late Harry Kolstein and the late Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lieberman. Paternal great grandparenrts are Goldie Slovin and the late Max Slovin and the late Mr. and Mrs. Sam Goldberg. – September 21, 1989

Mrs. Mark G. Feder and Miss Alma M. Bloom are expected hom on the SS Orizaba. They have been in Glasgow, Scotland since their escape from the torpedoed SS Athenia.

Mr. and Mrs. Victor Jacobs announced the engagement of their daughter, Dorothy, to Mr. Jack Rosenstein, son of Mr and Mrs. Martin M. Fields, Lexington Avenue.

A triple celebration will be held Sunday, Sept. 24th, on the occasion of the 55th wedding anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Morris Greenfinkel, the 80th birthday of Mr. Greenfinkel and the 70th birthday of Mrs. Greenfinkel, at the home of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Siebler, Wilson Avenue.

It will be in the form of a family reunion.

Mr. and Mrs. Greenfinkel recently retired from their duties at the Orthodox Jewish Home after 22 years of service. – September 21, 1939

50 Y EARS A GO Dr. Darryl Goldberg has enlisted in the Air Corps as a captain. He and his family have taken residence at Jacobstrasse 35, Wynnyeiler, Germany.

Dr. Goldberg is stationed at Sembach Airforce Space Hospital.

He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Goldberg of Scottwood Avenue, Bond Hill, and his wife, Marilyn, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Moskowitz of Stratford Place. They have two children, Robbin and Andy.

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey S. Katz (Barbara Levy), 7815 Dawn Road, announce the birth of a daughter, Beth Lynn, Friday, Aug. 28.

The grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Leslie M. Levy and Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Shostle and the late Mr. Bernard Katz. The paternal great grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.

25 Y EARS A GO

10 Y EARS A GO More than 200 athletes and fans of all ages participated in th JCC Sports Spectacular on Sunday, Sept.

12, at Princeton H.S. Athletic Fields and Queen City Racquet & Fitness Club. Kids had fun playing PeeWee Soccer and T-Ball, Youth Baseball and Soccer, and Girls Volleyball.

Proud parents filled the stands for the trophy presentations to JCC Youth Baseball league players; and teens played sports with the younger children and also accepted awards, then gathered to watch the JCC Men’s Fast Pitch Softball League’s Fred Raboff Memorial All-Star Game. Everyone enjoyed the JCC’s “famous” grilled hot dogs and snacks all afternoon. – September 30, 2004

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This Year in Jerusalem This Year in Jerusalem

by Phyllis Singer “Mon tracht un Gott laucht.”

“Man plans and God laughs.” An old Yiddish proverb that many people know.

Although I have been familiar with that proverb for many years, this year I experienced it first-hand – not in Jerusalem but in the United States, in Chicago.

During August, I traveled around the States to visit family members who live in New York City, Cincinnati and Chicago. I planned to spend approximately two weeks in Chicago with my youngest family members – Sid and Lisa and their two children, Abby (8-1/2) and Jack (5), my two youngest grandchildren, who are still young enough to want to spend time with and play with grandma.

(It doesn’t take too much longer before kids begin to grow up and prefer to play with friends instead of grandma. But right now, Abby and Jack still like to spend time with me!)

“Mon tracht un Gott laucht.”

On the way to Chicago on Friday afternoon, Aug. 15, I got sick on the airplane – as it RESCUER from page 7 “I wanted to say thank you to the woman who rescued my mother,” Klein told JTA in an interview at her home in this city’s Pikesville neighborhood, photographs of her ancestors and of Marguerite Larose blanketing her kitchen table.

With the help of LouisPhilippe Arnhem, an official in Belgium’s Department of Home Affairs, Klein found Andre Larose, Marguerite’s nephew.

Marguerite remembered the little Jewish girl her mother sheltered, the child she would take around in her bicycle’s basket.

Four years ago, Klein visited Villers-Poterie accompanied by Arnhem and Danny Gottlob, a second cousin she discovered in Brussels. They went to the grave of Tova’s infant brother, then to Visintini’s grave. Afterward they met Andre Larose, who took them to the nursing home where Marguerite lived. The facility’s staff served fruit pies and cakes

approached O’Hare airport and the pilot announced, “We are beginning our descent into O’Hare.” All of a sudden, I had severe abdominal pains and began to throw up.

Clutching the disposable bag from the seat pocket (often referred to as a “honey bucket”), I rang for the flight attendant, told her I was sick and needed a wheelchair to take me out to my son who was picking me up. I then called Sid to tell him I was sick and would be outside as soon as a wheelchair came to pick me up.

After a long wait, the wheelchair attendant arrived. We picked up my luggage and met Sid outside.

As we were driving from the airport, my abdominal pains worsened, and I was in total agony. I told Sid to stop the car, call 911 and request an ambulance to pick me up and take me to the nearest hospital emergency room.

The ambulance came and took me to the emergency room at Swedish Covenant Hospital. The pain was so severe that I can hardly remember what happened. First of all, I’m a non-resident – not only of Chicago, but of the United States.

What kind of insurance do I have? I had the best available travel insurance from Israel, so that was no problem. Sid just had to find the policy, either in my purse or my carry-on bag.

Then the questions began.

When did the pain begin? When did I begin to throw up? Had I ever had prior abdominal surgery? Please sign the release to permit surgery.

And then they put me out.

At first I had misunderstood what the emergency room doctors

said. I thought they were going to do exploratory surgery to determine the problem. But that was not necessary. They did exploration by imaging (MRI, CT) and external examination. And determined that I had a strangulated bowel! Which can be a life-threatening situation!

“Mon traucht un Gott laucht.”

But I guess He was looking out for me, since fortunately, I was in a major hospital in a major American city – not 35,000 miles above the mid-Atlantic!

Doctors kept me stabilized in the emergency room for the rest of Friday and performed the necessary surgery on Saturday. The surgeon removed the necrotic part of the bowel and then sewed together the remaining sections. He even showed me a picture, but I didn’t keep it.

The strangest thing is the explanation of what can cause a strangulated bowel. It turns out that scar tissue from a previous abdominal surgery can wrap itself around the bowel and cause the strangulation.

And the previous abdominal surgery might have taken place many years earlier. I had abdominal surgery 27 years ago. Weird! (Check Google for “strangulated bowel” if you’re interested in more information.)

On Sunday, the nurses had me up and walking down the hall. My recovery went well with a few setbacks. But overall, the doctors were very pleased. When I began to ask about going home (to Sid and Lisa’s house in Chicago, not my apartment in Jerusalem), the surgeon said, “maybe five, maybe seven days, maybe eight days.”

baked for the occasion.

Klein had sold some of her jewelry to purchase a chain and a gold medallion M. Engraved on the back, in French, a Talmudic quotation read, “Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.”

In Marguerite’s room, Klein draped the chain over Marguerite’s neck. She also presented Marguerite with a poster showing group photographs of six American households: Klein’s; four of her five siblings; and their parents, Tova and Shraga. In all, 45 people appear.

Across the middle of the poster appears the same phrase as on the medallion.

As Marguerite, a widow, gazed at the poster, “she told me she never had children,” Klein recalled. “I said, ‘Yes, you did.

These are all your children.’

“Last year, Andre Larose wrote to inform Klein that his aunt had died at age 92.

“I felt good I was able to catch her in her lifetime and give

her joy, knowing that she did something unbelievable,” Klein said, adding that their meeting “was very touching and moving.”

Arnhem said he feels similar emotions. Since 2004, he has regularly handled requests for family information from people around the world. Many, like Klein’s, come from Jews inquiring about loved ones hidden during the Holocaust.

Some of those rescued were told by their adopted parents that they had been abandoned.

Arnhem’s research proved otherwise.

“You see that you can almost rebuild a life for a few old people,” said Arnhem, who is not Jewish. “It was a mitzvah for me.”

Of the Klein-Larose meeting, he said, “I felt a privileged witness.” Arnhem calls Klein his “Yiddishe mama.”

If Klein’s effort succeeds, she hopes that he and the Larose clan can join her for the ceremony at Yad Vashem.

Everything would depend on my progress.

On Thursday, the surgeon told me that I was progressing so well that perhaps I could go home on Friday if my vital signs were good.

Friday, he said everything was fine, and I could leave. I then settled in at Sid and Lisa’s for 10 days with a caregiver who helped me take care of myself. But I couldn’t really play a lot with Abby and Jack – only quiet games or drawing or reading.

No trips to the zoo or the Children’s Museum or other places we have visited in the past.

“Mon traucht un Gott laucht.”

My family came to visit while I was in the hospital and while I was recovering at Sid and Lisa’s: my son Michael and my brother David from Cincinnati, my son Joe from New York and my daughter and son-in-law Roz and Robby from New York. And there were ongoing

conversations with Hanan in Israel and, of course, with the insurance company in Israel. On Thursday, Aug. 28, I saw the surgeon in his office; he removed the staples from the incision and said he thought I had recovered enough that I could return to Israel. The insurance company then booked a return flight on Sept. 1 for me and Roz, who was going to accompany me and stay in Israel for a few days while I adjusted to life at home. She left Sunday night, and now I am more or less on my own, with an aide who comes in to help several hours a day.

So my planned trip to the States was different this year. Hopefully, it never recurs! “Mon traucht un Gott laucht.”

Best wishes to The American Israelite and the entire community for a Happy and Healthy New Year. May we all be inscribed in the Book of Life.

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in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal.”

We all know about the high number of Muslims living in Michigan, and we are also aware that politicians need votes to remain in office. But a representative of the U.S. state’s government has no business whitewashing these ISNA conference speakers and what they stand for. It is about time that we take our heads out of the sand and realize that if we are not careful, someone else’s nightmares may soon become our own.

Hamas support group, and distributed anti-Semitic Hamas materials in the U.S. Unfortunately, the list of outrageous speakers goes on and on.

ISNA, which grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood, says that its mission is “to advance the cause of Islam and serve Muslims in North America so as to enable them to adopt Islam as a complete way of life,” and it fashions itself as a sort of Islamic AntiDefamation League.

But in 2007, during the Holy Land Foundation Trial, the biggest terrorism-financing trial in our nation’s history, Judge Jorge Solis deemed ISNA an unindicted co-conspirator and linked it to Hamas. The ruling has been upheld to this very day. During the trial, a memo was introduced into evidence from a raid in a Philadelphia apartment, and read as follows: “The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan (Brotherhood), must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad

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Missouri: The “Show Me” state has shown me Wandering Jew

by Janet Steinberg Winding and weaving its way around 1,100 miles of shoreline, Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks, has been likened to a twisted dragon. This undulating Lake of the Ozarks is filled with fascinating stories and soft adventure.

As our 3-hour drive from St. Louis to the lake was concluding, we made a stop at The Willmore Lodge.

This historic 1930 log building is home to the Lake Area Chamber of Commerce as well as the Bagnell Dam History Museum.

This Adirondack-style, 6,500 square foot lodge was constructed in Oregon for Missouri’s Union Electric Company. After the structure was cut and assembled from Western white pine logs, and approved by Union Electric’s president, it was then marked, disassembled, and transported by train to Missouri. It was finally reassembled at the present site using

only square wooden pegs and overlapping corner saddle notchings to hold it together. The building was reassembled and completed in about three months at an approximate cost of $135,000.

In 1930, the Bagnell Dam was still under construction, so the view from the Lodge was only wooded valleys and grassy fields along the narrow little Osage River. The sprawling dragon shaped Lake of the Ozarks was over a year from being open to the public and as yet to be named.

In 1945, under a cloud of scandal, Union Electric sold the Lodge, a hotel, pleasure boats, forty thousand acres of lakefront property, and eight hundred miles of shoreline to Cyrus Crane Willmore for $320,000.

Ultimately, many years after Willmore’s death, Union Electric reacquired the building and adjoining property. The Lodge is now preserved as a historic site, and houses the history of its region.

Construction of the Bagnell Dam, to impound the Osage River, started just months before the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression. It was completed in 1931 and the resulting reservoir is what we now know as the Lake of the Ozarks.

At the time of construction it was one of the largest man-made lakes in the world and the largest in the United States.

When it comes to lodging, Lake of the Ozarks certainly provides

Historic Willmore Lodge

The Japanese Gardens at the Lodge of Four Seasons

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honey in their ingredients, helping us to look forward to a sweet and healthy New Year.

TEA-LICIOUS

enough choices. You can pick your accommodation from a delicious menu of rustic cabins, comfy condos, fully equipped houseboats, familyoriented resorts or luxurious pampering retreats. For those of you who know me it will not come as a surprise that I chose one of the latter.

The Camden on the Lake Resort, Spa & Yacht Club at Toad Cove is the newest and most luxurious full-service resort to open at the Lake of the Ozarks in nearly a decade. The hotel is located adjacent to the Toad Cove Entertainment Complex and covers over a quarter of a mile of shoreline.

After a full day of driving and sightseeing, dinner at Camden on the Lake’s H. Toad (as in Horny Toad) was the perfect place for a relaxing casual dinner with a drop-dead lake view.

Following a night’s rest at Camden on the Lake, we were ready to let the good times roll. The options for fun at the Lake of the Ozarks are unlimited.

The imposing architecture and breathtaking scenery of Ha Ha Tonka State Park makes it one of Missouri’s most treasured spots. The park features the stone ruins of a turn-of-the20th-century mansion built high atop a bluff by a prominent Kansas City businessman. The mansion was nicknamed the “castle,” because it was modeled after later European castles from the 1500’s.

Golf is also an option at some fifteen courses including Old Kinderhook’s Tom Weiskopf Signature course carved out of the Ozark hills and ranked as the #2 course in Missouri; the Club at Porto Cima a private Jack Nicklaus Signature Course; and the Osage National Golf Club with 18 of its 27 holes designed by Arnold Palmer.

The Lake of the Ozarks offers a variety of other activities throughout the year. You can go waterskiing, tubing, biking, zoom around in a speedboat, or take a delightful lake cruise on the 150-passenger Tropic Island motor yacht. You can just drop a fishing line and dangle your feet in the water, or you can just do nothing. You can eat yourself into oblivion or spa yourself into supermodel form.

My quest for supermodel form began with a couples massage at Spa 54 at Copper Door Aveda Spa in the Camden on the Lake Hotel. My husband and I felt rejuvenated and revitalized, but no supermodel form emerged.

Next day I was off to The Lodge of Four Seasons, the luxurious grande dame of the Lake of the Ozarks, for a day at the iconic Shiki Spa. Aaaahhhh, the Shiki Spaaahhhh… one of the largest resort spas in the Midwest. “Shiki” means “four sea-

by Zell Schulman

Ingredients 2 tablespoons of your favorite tea leaves 1 quart of boiling water 3 or 4 very thin slices of fresh ginger or 1 tablespoon of ground ginger 1 teaspoon of honey 1/4 cup of fresh orange juice

My next door neighbor and newest friend, Judy Adama, gave me a publication she subscribes to called Health Radar. The tag line on the front page read, “Get Healthy, No Matter What Your Age.” This has been a priority of mine since I turned fifty and at this senior stage of my life, now in my 80’s, the timing was perfect.

An article dealing with nutrition and wellness had several beverage recipes that were perfect for keeping our bodies hydrated and healthy. At this stage of my life, my body seems to crave more liquids. I try drinking at least 6 glasses of water a day, but somehow there are days when my calendar is full and making sure I am hydrated isn’t a priority.

The recipes were easy, could be prepared ahead and refrigerated, and most importantly, were very flavorful. The Tea-licious gave me the most options because of the variety of fruits that could be added to the base. I also liked the idea of using fresh peppermint leaves and of course, with the high holy days coming in a couple weeks, I know I will be busy in my kitchen preparing my family’s traditional Rosh Hashanah favorites, which they look forward to. These drinks do have

Method 1. Steep the tea in the boiling water for 3 to 5 minutes along with the ginger slices and honey.

2. Pour through a strainer into a one quart container. Stir in the orange juice.

3. Place in the refrigerator 10 to 15 minutes to cool. Add 3 ice cubes into your favorite glassware and pour in the tea.

sons” in Japanese, and the spa follows an Asian theme to bring guests a unique and unparalleled experience.

Following my Spa Shiki Supracor Exfoliation & Massage and my Anti Gravity Facial, I am certain you would not have recognized me.

And my handsome hunk of a husband looked even more handsome after his Gentleman’s Facial. But we still did not make the supermodel cut.

Our beet and goat cheese salad lunch at Spa Shiki’s café was very, very healthy and our dinner at HK’s, the signature restaurant of the waterfront Lodge of the Four Seasons, was very, very divine. No calorie counting there.

HK is named after the resort’s beloved founder, the late Harold Koplar, a Jewish, Russian-American hotelier and businessman who established the development at Lake of the Ozarks in 1964. Located off the main lobby, HK’s, features floor-to-ceiling

windows with panoramic views of the lodge’s beautiful Japanese Gardens and of the Lake of the Ozarks main channel. The food was as beautiful as the view.

Other culinary treats at the Lake included lunch at Baxter’s Lakeside Grille. It was an “ooh” and “aah” lunch…first because of the view, and then because of the food. This classic American restaurant builds on the rich history and tradition of excellence that the Lake Area is known for.

The menu is a taste-pleaser, no matter your taste preference.

Dessert followed at Randy’s Frozen Custard where a Turtle Concrete concoction totally eradicated my supermodel fantasy. To quote their motto: “You Know It’s Fine, When You See The Line!”

After years of wanting to get to the Lake of the Ozarks, I’m glad I finally made it! It is truly a lake to love!

COOL DOWN DELICIOUS Ingredients 2 cups of cold water 2 slices of cucumber 3 or 4 fresh peppermint leaves Juice of one lemon or lime 2 slices fresh ginger 1 tablespoon honey Processor Method 1. Place all the ingredients in the bowl of your food processor and process until smooth. Pour over ice and enjoy.

Zells Tips: If you don’t have a food processor, divide the ingredience in half and use your blender.

You may also place everything in a pitcher and pour it through a strainer.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Audi A8 is a top-notch sedan that looks as great as it drives The Audi A8 has taken the long road in becoming a legitimate competitor for the full-size MercedesBenz and BMW sedans. When it debuted with an optional W-12 engine and its aluminum space frame, it was dazzling. But, it's the newest generation of A8 that truly stands out as a fully realized contender The A8 offers a set of interesting drivetrains and an abundance of technology to help sway shoppers toward the rings.

It's a real player in the segment now–competing happily at virtually every level–and even winning some of the categories along the way. For 2015, it gets that much better with even more attractive LED headlamps standard across the lineup, and more power with better efficiency amongst some of its drivetrains.

The A8 comes in standard-length A8 and extended-length A8 L models, depending on which drivetrain is specified. Reviewers recommend the A8 L and its five inches of additional wheelbase and overall length. Nearly all of it goes to rear legroom: you get a roomier rear seat, with easier entry and exit, and no significant sacrifice in maneuverability. Trunk space is abundant in both versions. Included in the W12 and available in V-8 models are lavish individual seats in back that might just be cause to get someone else to do the driving. Four-zone climate control keeps everyone comfortable, the rear seats are poweradjustable, and the right-side one includes a footrest while the left-side seat includes massage and recline functions. Spring for the two-panel panoramic sunroof as it brightens the interior without interfering with headroom.

The Audi A8 comes with the latest version of Audi's MMI system, which is completely redesigned versus the previous generation.

Consumers get a rotating controller to scroll through menus, but the special new feature is MMI Touch--a scratchpad that makes address or info entry much easier by simply scratching out individual letters. Steeringwheel controls also let you see an abbreviated list of options, and a new Google Maps–based navigation system uses its own data connection to get live-updated mapping and routing information. That system and an integrated wireless hotspot have been made standard, though the data is on subscription from T-Mobile.

Serious audiophiles will want to go for the top Bang & Olufsen Advanced sound system, which has 19 speakers, including small tweeters at the front of the cabin that emerge at startup, along with more than 1400 watts of power. Also on offer in back is a rear-seat entertainment system with its own 20GB hard drive and two 10.2-inch screens, or—for the classic executive car need—a folding table.

With the A8, Audi's fielded a sedan with arguably less compelling

The interior of an Audi A8

looks than its own lissome A7 hatchback. But the job of a German fullsize four-door isn't to draw stares, it's to avert gazes. The details do the talking: the LED running lights and taillamps are heirloom-quality, and there's not much other jewelry laid out for public inspection. It's inside where the Audi hides its wealth: the cockpit's lavish in a restrained way, with hides and wood and aluminum and even carbon fiber laid side by side, radiantly and so carefully, the sueded headliner takes some time to pick up.

The usual A8 lineup of V-6, V-8, and W-12 engines has been joined by a V-6 turbodiesel with outstanding economy and very good performance. It adds a useful dimension to the A8, a blast of 800-mile-per-tank, 36mpg practicality to an $85,000 sedan that bolds and underscores Audi's commitment to diesels. All the other powertrains offer better acceleration and qualitative performance, outside of fuel economy: of them, we'd opt for the S8's revtastic twin-turbo V-8 and its 520 horsepower over the 333hp supercharged six or the detuned 435-hp twin-turbo V-8 that both come in either wheelbase. There's also the patriarchal long-wheelbase W-12-powered car, with 500 hp, and it seems decadent in a car intent on being less conventional and more thoughtful.

A well-calibrated eight-speed automatic and all-wheel drive are standard equipment on every A8, and the combination accent its surefooted

feel. It's light to the touch until you make it not so via Audi Drive Select, the electronically calibrated, driveradjustable system that governs pow-

ertrain, steering, and suspension feel.

Drive Select gives drivers the choice of Dynamic, Comfort, Auto, or Individual modes. Overall, it's an

excellent setup that brings out the best in this big sedan, whether you're in tight switchbacks or cruising on the highway.

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looks and name, she said, they immediately surmised he was Jewish.

Stoking their alarm was the fact that local Iraqi hires were unabashed in their anti-Jewish hostility, at least in conversation with the non-Jewish American staffers, said this correspondent who asked not to be named to speak freely.

So she and the other American devised a plan: The incoming reporter would be met in Amman, Jordan, by the local Iraqi hires and taken out for dinner before traveling to Baghdad. Neither the incoming reporter nor the Iraqis knew the true agenda of the dinner, and the Iraqis

were not told that the reporter was Jewish.

Afterward, she recalled, she casually asked the local hires for their impressions of the newcomer — would he fit in? Their reactions were universally positive; no one had guessed he was Jewish.

“It’s an issue,” said this correspondent, who knew Sotloff and after his kidnapping obsessively tracked on the Internet whether his Jewishness was exposed.

“There’s so much conspiracy indulgence,” she said. “There’s so much suspicion about spies, Israeli spies.”

Jamie Tarabay, a senior staff writer for Al Jazeera who is not Jewish, said the anti-Jewish hostility

alarmed her during her reporting in Baghdad for a number of major U.S. outlets.

“All I know is that people who might have been Jewish in Baghdad, you kept it quiet, you did not talk about it,” she said.

Goldman said that the educated professionals she encountered in Lebanon and Egypt were at pains to distinguish between Jews and Zionists.

“People’s minds are very muddled, they talk about the people of the book, the tolerance that the Prophet had for the Jews, but they are aware most Jews support Israel as an identity issue,” said Goldman, now the director of the Israel-Palestine initiative at the New America Foundation,

a think tank.

Goldman recalled a casual conversation she had in her pidgin Arabic with a cab driver in Cairo in 2011, during the uprising. The mood was festive and it began well, she said. “‘Where are you from?’

‘Canada.’ ‘Walla! Are you a Christian?’ ‘No I’m Jewish,’” Goldman recounted. “He must have changed color five times and went silent.”

She asked an Egyptian friend later about the encounter and was told that years of anti-Jewish government propaganda had left its mark. “ ‘He was probably wondering where your horns were,’ “ her friend told her

under the TCO classification through the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act. The bill was passed unanimously by the House in July and is currently awaiting approval from the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research at FDD and a former terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Treasury Department, said that the TCO designation would allow for a broader scope to investigate and cut off Islamic State’s funding sources.

“It allows the intelligence community to work with a broader array of actors to counter [Islamic State], and it allows for the FBI to have a greater role as well,” said Schanzer.

“It basically widens the ability of the United States government to act on multiple levels with multiple players—inside and outside the United States. If it’s considered a criminal organization, the FBI can look into whatever assets may be here. So, in other words, it becomes a warfare issue as well as a criminal one.”

Operating like an organizedcrime family, Islamic State has surprised—and even, in a dark sense, impressed—the international community with its numerous, creative methods to fund itself.

“The common assumption has been for a long time, and I don’t know where it comes from, but there

are a lot of people who have surmised that Islamic State’s funding comes from various Gulf individuals or a number of different Gulf governments including Qatar and Kuwait,” said Lee Smith, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. “This is not true. There has been some money in the past but this is not the main source of Islamic State’s funding. The main source of funding comes from the fact that Islamic State sells oil on the black market.

That’s the number-one source of income. The number-two source of Islamic State’s income is its extortion rackets in towns it runs —and it runs a few, including Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq, which are both fairly large Arab cities.”

Islamic State’s most profitable venture is the selling of oil that is produced in areas under the group’s control. Two of its biggest oil wells are located in a region it occupies in northern Syria—the cities of Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa. Upon occupying an oil field or oil-producing city, the group makes the local populace an offer it can’t refuse, said Columbia’s Long.

“That’s what they try to do.

People don’t always cooperate, but in general, if somebody says, ‘We’re going to keep paying your salary, just keep showing up for work’ and the alternative might be something bad happens to you, then you can either keep showing up for work or

you can become a refugee, and I think a decent number of people don’t want to become refugees understandably,” Long said.

Much of the oil is then sold internally, to the Syrian and Iraqi residents of Islamic State-occupied territories.

“People have lots of cars,” said Long. “Iraq is just like every modern country, but in some sense is more dependent on it. You need trucks to move food around—without gasoline, the economy grinds to a halt.”

The rest of the oil is smuggled out and sold abroad and, surprisingly, some of the buyers include governments that are fighting Islamic State—such as Syria and Turkey.

“That’s a pretty typical feature of Arab warfare,” said Smith. “People make all sorts of deals with all sorts of different people.”

Determining who exactly is bypassing sanctions and buying oil from Islamic State sources—or even exactly how much of it is being bought—is difficult to determine.

The oil is sold on the black market and transported by smugglers to refineries located mostly in Turkey.

“The oil could be going across the border in Turkey, and the Turks maybe aren’t asking too many question about who it comes from, hypothetically, because of course it won’t be necessarily somebody waving the Islamic State flag that drives the tanker truck across the border,”

Long said.

Once the crude oil gets to a participating refinery, it is mixed with crude from other sources, making the final product even harder to trace. Just as difficult to track are the proceeds, mostly in cash, which make their way into the hands of middlemen, smugglers, and corrupt politicians as kickbacks.

What makes this oil attractive to even those at war with Islamic State are the vastly discounted prices offered. According to a recent estimate by BBC News, Islamic State exports about 9,000 barrels of oil per day at prices ranging from about $25-$45 a barrel—a significant discount from the current international price of around $100 per barrel.

With prices so low, both Islamic State and its enemies win from the transaction.

Islamic State’s second major source of funding comes directly from the population it controls, coming in forms such as religiously mandated tithing called “zakat,” tributes from religious minorities who remain in Islamic state-controlled territory, bank robbery, and mob-style protection rackets.

“So you go to a business and you’re like, ‘Oh, it would be a shame if something terrible happened to this nice business,’” Long said.

CAMPUS from page 8

“playing a very active role” in addressing the situation, said Hillel spokesperson Arielle Poleg. Every campus is different, with some facing more antiIsrael activity than others, but Hillel is generally working to create a secure environment on each campus in the aftermath of the Gaza conflict.

“A lot of Hillel directors have been working closely with campus police or campus security at their universities just to make sure their facilities are secure, that Jewish students know that they are safe,” Poleg told JNS. “Of course, students are being advised not to engage in any kind of physical confrontation and to always place physical safety first.”

Upon their return to campus, Hillel is engaging about 4,000 students who

participated in Hillel-led Birthright trips to Israel this summer. During the Gaza conflict, Hillel worked with the Birthright organization to “adjust itineraries as needed to ensure the safety and security of all groups,” said Poleg.

Students who are active with Hillel on various campuses have also applied to receive Israel Solidarity Grants from the Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC), a Hillel partner organization. ICC’s grants are a new initiative to help students, campus professionals, and faculty launch visible initiatives in support for Israel on their campuses. Checks are set to go out to the first 65 grantees for projects such as leadership dinners, rallies, statements signed by student leaders and published in campus newspapers, and more.

D EATH N OTICES

REPORTERS from page 6

LEVINE, Shirley, age 94, died September 2, 2014; 7 Elul, 5774.

SPALTER, Adam, age 43, died September 3, 2014; 8 Elul, 5774.

CARSCH, Tom, age 79, died September 7, 2014; 12 Elul, 5774.

TERRORIST from page 7 with Islamic State, is there really more to be done to choke off Islamic State’s cash flow?

“I think there are [additional] things we can do to try and cut off the funding; it’s really hard,” said Austin Long, assistant professor in security policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. “Even when there were 100,000 U.S. troops in Iraq at the height of the surge, we couldn’t cut off all the funding to alQaeda in Iraq, the predecessor of the Islamic State.”

When a group is designated a TCO, its operations are restricted, as outlined in Executive Order 13581, which prevents members of TCOdesignated organizations, and those aiding and abetting them, from transferring, paying, exporting or withdrawing assets in the U.S. “or in an overseas branch of a U.S. entity”—essentially the same barriers currently facing Islamic State.

Some of the groups presently listed as TCOs include: The Brothers’ Circle (Eurasia), Camorra (Italy), Yakuza (Japan), Los Zetas (Mexico), Yamaguchi-Gumi (Japan), and Mara Salvatrucha (El Salvador).

Sens. Casey and Rubio are part of a larger group of lawmakers pushing to include the Lebanon-based terrorist organization Hezbollah

demonization, double standards, or delegitimization, there’s often something more involved than just politics,” Marcus explained.

“For example, when anti-Israel activists obsess about the ‘Israel Lobby,’people need to understand that this notion is rooted in old-fashioned ideas about Jewish conspiratorial control,” he said.

The Hillel International umbrella, meanwhile, is working to strengthen its continued mission to help students develop their Jewish identity and their connection to Israel.

Amid the increased harassment and intimidation of Jewish and proIsrael students on campus, Hillel is

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