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Israeli Scouts lighting candles at the memorial vigil.

Cincinnati’s Jewish community held a memorial service in remembrance of Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Sha’ar, and Naftali Fraenkel on July 2nd. The three were kidnapped and murdered in the West Bank while hitchhiking back to their homes from their yeshivas on June 12th. Cincinnatians, united in grief with Jewish communities

around the world, came together to mourn the slain boys. Over a hundred community members participated, including Vice-Mayor, David Mann.

Speakers included JCRC Vice President, Michelle Kohn, Rabbi Shena Jaffee, JCRC Director Sarah Weiss, Community Shaliach Yair Cohen, and Erez Greniman. Rabbi

Eric Slaton of Beth Israel led the attendees in prayer, and Jewish Federation Board Member Arna Poupko Fisher read from a eulogy for the boys written by Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid. As the memorial service concluded, all in attendance sang Israel’s national anthem Hatikva, or “The Hope” led by Israeli teens who

were in town to perform with the Tzofim Friendship Caravan. Prior to the memorial, Congressman Brad Wenstrup paid a visit to the JCC to express his solidarity. The event was jointly organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council, the Mayerson JCC, and the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati.

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The 15th annual Cedar Village Golf Classic Plans are being made for the Cedar Village Golf Classic which will take place Monday, August 18 at the Heritage Club in Mason.

According to Diane Slovin, Special Events and Volunteer Manager, “The Cedar Village Golf Classic, now in its 15th year, is always a wonderful opportunity for our friends from the community to enjoy a great day of golf and fun while supporting Cedar Village.” The outing co-chairs are veteran committee members, Jeff Gossard and Bill Clark.

Since the inception of the Cedar Village Golf Classic in 2000, more than $1.4 million has

been raised to benefit the residents. This year, the proceeds will be used for capital improvements to enhance the lives of the Cedar Village residents.

One of the highlights of day is the dinner following the tournament featuring the famous kosher brisket prepared by volunteers Lesley Loon and Stephanie Gilinsky. At the end of the tournament, team and individual prizes will be awarded and there will be a raffle. You do not need to be present to win one of the raffle prizes.

There will be both morning and afternoon golf sessions with a

scramble shotgun start. Morning play will begin at 8:00 a.m. and afternoon play will begin at 1:15 p.m. There will be contests on every hole, including two Hole-inOne Contests, a Putting Green Contest, and Weekend Car Rental Contests. The driving range and putting green will be open throughout the day.

The cost of the Cedar Village Golf Classic includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Golfers can play with their own foursome or Cedar Village will set up teams.

For more information or to request an invitation, please call Cedar Village.

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L. to R.: Jeff Gossard and Bill Clark, Co-Chairs

Young professionals give Shabbat a whole new sound at Wise Temple They’re Jewish. They’re talented musicians. They’re all under the age of 30, and they’re bringing a new sound to young Jewish professionals on Shabbat at Wise Temple. They’re the Next Gen @ Wise band and they’re wowing listeners with their fresh sound by infusing Shabbat worship with a new energy and a deeply spiritual rhythm. Multi-talented band leader, Mike Sarason, switches seamlessly between flute, piano, and guitar throughout the service, while also blending his vocals and harmonies with the rich and resonant voices of

Marie Krulewitch-Browne and Allie Weiner. Put it all together with the incredible talents of percussionist Ben Sloan and you get a moving, musical and, most importantly, prayerful Shabbat experience. This dynamic foursome has been busy over the past several months rehearsing, performing and building a truly unique repertoire.

Experimenting with new melodies and even some pop music mash-ups, the band is reclaiming and redefining Jewish worship for young professionals in Cincinnati. Next Gen @ Wise, the new Jewish young

professionals group at Wise Temple had their inaugural event on April 25th, 2014 on a rooftop in OTR, where the band welcomed Shabbat against the backdrop of Music Hall at sunset. Last month they were at the ArtWorks Garage in Northside.

If you are a young Jewish professional in the Cincinnati who is craving a different kind of spiritual experience on Shabbat join us. For more information contact Wise Temple.

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Congregation B’nai Tzedek plans learning series Congregation B'nai Tzedek is planning a learning series for Tisha B’Av, focusing on specific events or texts from the past.

Through these series, a deeper grasp of the impact of these selected texts or historical events is sought.

This August 2014 series is being developed in order to help understand the foundation of the traditional fast day of Tisha B'Av (the Ninth Day of the Hebrew calendar month of Av), which occurs in the summer months, through two interactive learning sessions, exhibits and a movie.

The exhibit of Holocaust survivors' recipes and recollections provides a link to a more recent interval in Jewish history where the continuity of the Jewish people was in jeopardy (and is often mentioned in the Tisha b'Av liturgy). Several members of the Cincinnati community collaborated, the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, Temple Sholom, Mt. Notre Dame High School stu-

dents, Prairie, Inc., and Jewish Family Service to make this exhibit possible.

The viewing of the movie "Almost Peaceful" -- based on an international award winning 1993 novel by Robert Bober, “Quoi de neuf sur la guerre?” -guides us to understand the challenges survivors experienced in Paris in 1946, as they pieced together their lives after WWII. The exhibit builds on this amazing capacity to rebuild lives, represented by members of our local community of Holocaust survivors.

The public is welcome to attend any and all of these learning sessions and to view the exhibit. Please contact B’nai Tzedek and let them know which part of the series you plan to attend.

The series features: Beginnings at Babylon 1. A multidimensional series exploring Jewish calamity & continuity. August 2-10, 2014, at B’nai Tzedek.

2. August 1-10 (photoboard exhibit) ongoing “cooking with history,” a visual lesson on the importance of food in the lives of Holocaust survivors & their families 3. August 4 (erev Tisha b’Av) 7:30 pm, “Tisha B’av: From Babylon To Rome To Jerusalem” An A/V lecture presentation followed by a candlelight reading of Eicha/Lamentations 5. August 9 (Unpacking Torah) 12:00pm, “Breaking & Building in the Bible” An interactive text study during the Shabbat kiddush exploring the relationship between breaking and building 6. August 10 (Sunday movie night), 7:00pm “Almost Peaceful” A European comedy-drama film & discussion about the intertwining of history and new beginnings

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JCC harvests produce for families in need Giving Fields sets an amazing example for our campers,” remarked Matt Steinberg, Director of Camp at the J. “When children see adults they know and respect working hard and donating their time to benefit someone else, it inspires and reinforces the Jewish values they are learning each day at our camp.”

Project6Million hopes to further advance Holocaust and tolerance awareness 23 million people a year have some kind of Holocaust educational experience, from visits to museums and memorials to trips to Poland and other Holocaustravaged countries. Yet, how many hold on to that experience when they get home? Not as many as there should be, and it’s a problem to solve, according to Project6Million founders and community members Brandon Sosna, Jeffrey Silverstein, and Sarah Singer-Nourie.

After experiencing the March of the Living (MOTL) trip in 2011, Sosna and Silverstein felt that the impact of this experience needed to last longer than the 2

weeks of MOTL. The impact of the Holocaust affects everyone, Jewish or not, and they wanted to figure out a way to help people hold onto the experience, through words or pictures, in what Sosna called “dropping an anchor” on the exerience.

Project6Million was then created. People who have taken part of Holocaust educational experiences are asked to send in their thoughts/feelings/observances through the website, and then over time those memories will be sent back to them, as both a reminder and as a way to ask, “are you doing what you wanted to do since having this experience?” It’s a reflective exercise, with the goal of reigniting the feelings and emotions of their experience so that a

participant can take the time to process it all over again and hopefully move forward into taking more action or getting more involved in Holocaust education and fighting intolerance.

Their long-term plan is to make this a youth movement by getting advocates in schools and youth groups and leading programs that will draw students in.

Sosna said they are also working to create an annual campaign as well as a yearly activity day that would connect everyone’s experiences.

According to the website, Project6Million understands “ the power of a personal moment of realization about humanity. It can shape a different future. The mission of Project6Million is to

advance Holocaust and tolerance awareness into action by converting moments of realization into a transformational process of empowering, connected, long term impact for individuals and a generation”.

Sosna is very passionate about this project.

While he and Silverstein are in college on opposite sides of the coast, during the school year they Skype and email often about how they can continue to move this mission forward. It’s a slow process, but they are confident that by building their base one person at a time, they eventually will have a large pool of experiences to draw from to make those important connections.

issues with the leaders of these cemeteries in the late 1990’s.

Ultimately 22 Jewish cemeteries determined that it was in their mutual best interest to create a new, merged organization, JCGC, which would assume responsibility for the perpetual care of the existing cemeteries and the creation of such new cemeteries as will be necessary to serve the Jewish community’s future needs.

“JCGC is a collaboration between the Jewish community, rabbinic community, the Jewish Federation and, importantly, the Jewish Foundation, the major funder of the project.” We are thrilled to be honoring the organization’s three founders who started the process that ensures the long-term sustainability of all of our area’s Jewish cemeteries,” says JCGC President, Brad Kaplan.

JCGC is comprised of 22 Jewish cemeteries, almost all of the Jewish cemeteries in Cincinnati and Hamilton, Ohio.

Those cemeteries include: Adath

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Cincinnati is a unique organization. It’s truly the only one of its kind in the nation where virtually all the cemeteries in the community are owned and operated by one organization. Rabbi Zola will talk about how innovative JCGC is and the historical significance JCGC has in the local Jewish community and nationally,” says JCGC Executive Director, David Hoguet. “We know everyone attending the event will find the history of this organization and its founders’ foresight fascinating,” Hoguet adds.

The first Jewish cemetery in Greater Cincinnati dates back to 1821. Since that time, 26 Jewish cemeteries have been formed in Hamilton and Butler Counties.

JCGC was incorporated in 2004.

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Jewish cemeteries of greater Cincinnati honors founders and celebrates unique history Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati (JCGC) will honor its three founders and celebrate the organization’s unique history at a reception on Sunday, October 12, 2014. The event will be held from 5:00pm to 7:00pm at Adath Israel Congregation located at 3201 E. Galbraith Rd. in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The organization’s three founders, Dr. Edward Herzig, Michael Oestreicher and Edward Marks, will be honored.

The celebration will feature videos and a program book highlighting the founders’ role in their collaboration with many other community leaders to create JCGC. The keynote speaker will be Rabbi Gary Zola, a well-known historian and popular public speaker, who holds the positions of Executive Director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and Professor of the American Jewish Experience at Hebrew Union College.

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The group picked and weighed broccoli, collards, green onions and peppers for donation. Some groups also helped with facility maintenance, applying wood stain to an untreated expanse of fence that encloses the farm.

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program of the Freestore Foodbank. The 10-acre community farm provides fresh fruits and vegetables to more than a dozen Freestore Foodbank community partner agencies, food pantries and soup kitchens. Each season, the Giving Fields harvests enough produce for 117,000 meals, delivering emergency sustenance from farm to

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On Friday, June 27, Mayerson JCC campers, counselors and agency staff rolled up their sleeves and took to the Giving Fields, a farm in Melbourne, Kentucky whose fruits and vegetables provide local families in need with healthy food.

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David Blatt riding Tel Aviv’s Euro title to NBA dream job

By Anthony Weiss LOS ANGELES (JTA) – In 1981, David Blatt moved to Israel in pursuit of a path of lifelong worship – to play professional basketball.

Now, more than 30 years later, Blatt is leaving Israel to make a different, and totally unprecedented, form of aliyah – to leave the ranks of Israeli basketball to coach in the NBA. On June 20, the Cleveland Cavaliers announced the hiring of Blatt as their head coach.

“I’m leaving my home, but not my family,” Blatt had said at a June 12 press conference as he explored his NBA options. “I’m not necessarily leaving for a better place. I’m leaving to follow my dream.”

He becomes the first coach in the history of European basketball to move directly to an NBA head coaching position. Blatt’s journey from the Boston suburbs to Israel and now back to the United States marks a triumph not only for Blatt but also for the small but storied world of Israeli basketball, and particularly for the Maccabi Tel Aviv team, famous for its underdog victories.

The most recent of those victories, which seems to have catapulted Blatt into the upper echelons of professional basketball, took place in the Euroleague Final Four in mid-May when Blatt led an undermanned Maccabi Tel Aviv squad to consecutive victories and the championship, a feat that impressed even NBA executives.

“Maccabi was outgunned at every position except coach,” one NBA general manager told ESPN. “David took down two Goliaths in a weekend. He belongs in the NBA.” It has been a long journey for Blatt, who grew up in Framingham, Mass., as an avid Celtics fan. Blatt attended Hebrew school at Temple Beth Am and later recalled putting money in jars to plant trees in Israel. But he never connected his passion for basketball with his Jewish background.

Instead, he established himself as a top basketball talent, and also had the good fortune to play for top coaches – first at Framingham South High School for Phil Moresi, now in the Massachusetts High School Basketball Hall of Fame, and then at Princeton University for Pete Carril, famed as the inventor of the “Princeton offense.”

During Blatt’s sophomore year at Princeton, a coach for an Israeli kibbutz team recruited him to play in Israel for the summer. Blatt loved kibbutz life and found that

he was hooked. By the time he competed for the U.S. team in the 1981 Maccabi Games, winning a gold medal, he knew he was coming back.

“From the time that I came here in ‘79, I knew that I wanted to play in Israel professionally for some years,” he told Haaretz. “I realized that I wasn’t making the NBA, and I wanted to continue to play basketball professionally, in terms of money, but more than anything – to keep playing.”

He played 9 of the next 12 years in Israel, before retiring in 1993 to become a coach.

His coaching career eventually brought him to Maccabi Tel Aviv – a team for which he had never played – where he served as an assistant under legendary coach Pini Gershon. When Gershon took a break from coaching in 2001, Blatt stepped into the head job for two successful seasons. Blatt went back to the job of assistant coach when Gershon returned.

Blatt then bounced around Europe, coaching several teams as well as the Russian national team, which he led to an Olympic bronze medal in 2012. In 2010, Blatt returned to Maccabi as head coach.

Among Israeli basketball teams, Maccabi Tel Aviv has long been dominant, winning the Israeli Championship 51 times and the European Championship six times since the team’s inception in 1932. That history, along with the city’s famed weather, culture and English-speaking population, has made it one of the most desirable international locales for top players, including Jordan Farmar, a Jewish hoopster currently with the Los Angeles Lakers who played for Maccabi Tel Aviv during the 2011 NBA lockout.

Maccabi Tel Aviv, in turn, has used that desirability to its advantage, offering low salaries to match a payroll that is relatively small by European standards.

“It’s known to be what is called among players a low-ball organization – they’ll lure you and low-ball you into signing with them because of tradition and history,” said David Pick, a senior basketball correspondent for Eurobasket.com and Israeli sports channel One.co.il. “They’re expecting players to take pay cuts to play for Maccabi, and for the most part it works.”

However, despite that edge in attracting talent, this year’s Maccabi Tel Aviv team was widely considered weak and unlikely to advance far in the playoffs.

Three of their five projected starters at the beginning of the season had been injured, and the team entered the Euroleague’s Final Four as a severe underdog.

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After coaching Maccabi Tel Aviv to a European Championship, David Blatt appears headed to the NBA.

When Maccabi took the championship in a pair of nail-biters, the victory was hailed in Israeli newspapers as a “miracle.”

Shortly after the victory, Blatt announced that he was interested

in pursuing options in the NBA. When he flew back to the United States last week for his father’s funeral, he reportedly met with new Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr for 45 minutes during

an airport layover in Los Angeles, and Golden State subsequently offered him a position as one of Kerr’s assistants. He also interviewed with Cleveland, first by phone, and then in person on June 18. They offered him the job the next day.

It is an open question, of course, whether Blatt’s success in Israel will carry over to the NBA, although the increasing success of European players in making the jump suggests that talent can transfer. And it certainly doesn’t hurt that the San Antonio Spurs just won an NBA title by dominating the LeBron James-led Miami Heat with an international roster and style of play.

A number of Blatt’s former players and coaches think he can do it. Ex-coaches Carril and Moresi have both expressed their belief that Blatt can make the transition, and former Maccabi and NBA player Anthony Parker, subsequently a scout for the Orlando Magic, has repeatedly stated that Blatt is one of the best coaches in the world.

Blatt will be leaving behind a country that has not only become his home but which has embraced him as a superstar.

“David Blatt doesn’t want to walk out in the street because he wouldn’t be able to,” Pick said.

“David can leave the coaches’ facility at 1, 1:30 in the morning just to avoid the mob.”

But, as Blatt has proven before, he’s willing to travel a long way from home to pursue his dreams.

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Nine scholars give 10 reasons for Jonathan Pollard’s release

By Dmitriy Shapiro (JNS / Washington Jewish Week) – With a little more than a year until convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard is eligible for parole, a group of nine prominent legal scholars has sent a letter to President Barack Obama arguing for Pollard’s early release.

The group of scholars and professors at top universities – led by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz and Irwin Cotler, a former Canadian justice minister – sent the letter on June 20, outlining 10 reasons for why they believe the president should release Pollard, a former U.S. intelligence analyst who in 1987 was given a life sentence in American prison for selling classified information to Israel.

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A Hebrew sign in Israel reading “We want Pollard home,” referring to jailed spy Jonathan Pollard.

to time served.

“Commutation is more than warranted if the ends of justice are to be served, the rule of law respected and

simple humanity secured,” write the scholars, who gave both legal and humanitarian arguments on why Pollard’s punishment is unjust.

“The sentence is immorally excessive,” Dershowitz told JNS in subsequent phone interview.

Pollard had pled guilty to espionage in a bargain with the prosecution in order to avoid receiving a life sentence. But U.S. District Court Judge Aubrey Robinson sentenced him to life anyway after being presented with a “damage-assessment memorandum” by then Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger.

Pollard’s sentence “is a violation of a plea bargain,” Dershowitz said, adding that “it’s important that the president know the facts, or that whoever is giving the recommendation knows the facts. So we wrote it basically as a mini-legal brief, and moral brief, so that the president or his surrogates can know the 10 reasons – basically why legality, morality and just ordinary decency requires that he be released immedi-

ately.”

Shortly after the letter was delivered to Obama, outgoing Israeli President Shimon Peres, on a visit to the White House, presented the president with what he later called an “offer” regarding Pollard. Obama said he would direct the U.S. attorney general to study Pollard’s case.

Dershowitz said the public has been misled that that Pollard committed treason, which is punishable by a life sentence or the death penalty under U.S. law. According to Dershowitz, aiding a U.S. ally, as Pollard did, does not carry a life sentence – and in cases where spies from other nations have been caught and tried by the U.S., the maximum sentence has been six to eight years, of which actual jail time averages between two and four years.

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Jewish groups stand by religious freedom law, but Supremes’ take divides them

By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – Two decades ago the Jewish community united in support of landmark religious freedom legislation. Now the Supreme Court’s application of that law has Jewish groups divided.

Leading Jewish advocacy groups denounced the court’s 5-4 decision Monday in the Hobby Lobby case granting religious freedoms protections to companies, while Orthodox groups lauded the ruling.

In ruling that closely owned corporate firms with religious objections do not have to provide contraceptive coverage in their employee health plans, the majority based its decision on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993.

“They’ve opened up a Pandora’s box through corporations claiming religiously motivated exemptions against an array of rules and regulations the government passes to enhance the public welfare,” Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center, said in an interview.

In two friend-of-the-court briefs, nine Jewish groups had opposed arguments by Hobby Lobby, a crafts chain, and Conestoga Wood Specialities, a cabinet maker, that their owners’ devout Christianity exempted them from extending to employees contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signal first-term legislation.

But the Orthodox groups that had joined an amicus brief backing Hobby Lobby and Conestoga praised the decision.

“The Court’s ruling stands for the proposition that – even when the government seeks to implement valuable policy goals – it must do so without trampling upon the consci-

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Demonstrators in Washington celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Hobby Lobby case, June 30, 2014.

entious beliefs of American citizens, especially, as is the case here, when there are many other ways to meet the policy goals without infringing on religious liberty,” Nathan Diament, director of the Orthodox Union’s Washington office, said in a statement.

Both sides referred to the law that undergirded the conservative majority’s decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito.

Saperstein said the majority ruling badly missed the point of the Religious Freedom Reform Act. “We believe deeply in RFRA and robust religious liberties,” he said. “We believe the court was wrong in saying there are religious claims corporations can make.

Corporations don’t have souls or consciences the way that people or associations of like-minded people do.”

Diament had a much different perspective on the law.

“RFRA is about keeping the government from inhibiting people’s practice,” he said in an interview. “It

doesn’t mean employees can have their employers’ religion imposed upon them, it means the government can’t force employers to violate religious beliefs.”

But even Jewish groups that are critical of the ruling are standing by RFRA. Nancy Kaufman, the CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, said the slippery slope she now feared was in the ruling, not the law.

“RFRA was not a mistake because it was designed to help protect individual people’s religious freedom – we worked hard for its passage,” she said in an email to JTA. “The problem is that the court has granted closely held corporations (without really defining what that is) religious freedom even when it means that it would take away religious liberty from their individual workers who are ‘people’” Rabbi Abba Cohen, the Washington director of Agudath Israel of America, another Orthodox group that sided with the two corporations in the case, applauded the

court for balancing the freedoms of employers and employees.

“We are all too familiar with the problem from the perspective of the employee, who often must choose between his religious beliefs and his livelihood,” he said in a statement.

“But the problem is no less compelling from the employer’s point of view, where that Hobson’s choice may likewise force him or her to sacrifice either his religion or his business.”

Liberal Jewish groups said the decision’s broader implications were troubling and could lead to chaotic menus of what might and might not be available to employees.

“While the majority’s assertion that the ruling is limited solely to the contraception mandate is worth noting, we are troubled that it may be used by corporations seeking to impose other religious beliefs on employees,” the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement.

Alito in his decision took pains to confine the ruling to contraceptive coverage.

“This decision concerns only the contraception mandate and should not be understood to hold that all insurance-covered mandates, e.g., for vaccinations or blood transfusions, must necessarily fall if they conflict with an employer’s religious beliefs,” he wrote.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her dissent for the four liberal justices chided Alito, arguing that the declaration that religious exemptions not having to do with contraception would be turned away under the ruling does not necessarily make it so.

“The court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield,” she said, a phrase that a number of groups, including the ADL, echoed in their statements.

“Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be

‘perceived as favoring one religion over another,’ the very ‘risk the Establishment clause was designed to preclude,’” Ginsburg wrote, citing Supreme Court precedents.

Kaufman of the NCJW said in an interview that Alito’s distinction between contraceptive coverage, which is offensive to some Christians, and vaccinations or blood transfusions relegated women’s health needs to second class. which are offense to Christian Scientists and Jehovah’s Witnesses, respectively, “It’s really saying contraception is not health care,” she said.

Despite their misgivings, the Reform and Conservative movements saw in the narrow ruling a way toward restoring coverage: Alito wrote that the government had failed to persuasively distinguish privately held companies from religious nonprofits, which have been granted a workaround under Department of Health and Human Services regulations, and that the same workaround could be extended to the privately owned companies.

The government “could extend the accommodation that HHS has already established for religious non-profit organizations to nonprofit employers with religious objections to the contraceptive mandate,” Alito wrote.

The government’s solution requires health insurance companies to bypass the religious nonprofit employer and provide contraceptive coverage to the employee directly.

“That accommodation does not impinge on the plaintiffs’ religious beliefs that providing insurance coverage for the contraceptives at issue here violates their religion,” Alito wrote.

That prompted a degree of hope from the Reform and Conservative movements.

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Huckabee fact-finding mission visits sites in Judea, Samaria

By Daniel Perez It’s a (literally) bubbling oasis of peaceful coexistence in a region often characterized as a focal point for ethnic strife and geopolitical conflict. The SodaStream production facility in the Judean community of Ma’aleh Adumim was thrust into the limelight recently when celebrity spokeswoman Scarlett Johansson refused to bow to pressure from antiIsrael activists, even as it cost her her position as Oxfam’s global ambassador. And it was this selfsame factory that celebrated TV and radio personality Mike Huckabee came to see for himself on Tuesday, June 24.

Huckabee began his latest Israel tour Sunday by paying a solidarity visit to the Israeli-American Frenkel family, whose son Naftali was one of three teenaged boys kidnapped and murdered by terrorists on their way home from school. On Monday, he visited sites acquired in recent years

by Ateret Cohanim in the portion of Jerusalem’s Old City commonly referred to as the Muslim Quarter.

One of these, Beit Zion, is being used as an IDF preparatory academy. The other, Beit Wittenberg, was once the site of the Mediterranean Hotel, where famed American author Mark Twain stayed during his storied sojourn in the Holy Land as immortalized in the book The Innocents Abroad. Also of note, a special Knesset caucus was convened in the afternoon, where, along with Huckabee and his party, dozens of MKs, government ministers,

National Briefs American Jewish organizations condemn murder of Arab teen (JTA) – The murder of a Palestinian teenager allegedly by Jewish extremists has drawn widespread condemnations from across the ideological spectrum of the organized Jewish world.

Jewish groups ranging from the Union for Reform Judaism to the haredi Orthodox Agudath Israel, and including erstwhile rivals J Street and AIPAC, all issued strongly worded statements forcefully denouncing the July 2 murder of 16-year old Muhammad Abu Khdeir, apparently in retaliation to the murder of three Israeli teens.

Six suspects have been apprehended in Khdeir’s murder; three reportedly have confessed.

The Jewish groups urged the Israeli government to prosecute the perpetrators to the fullest extent of the law.

“We are appalled that this

community and business leaders came together to discuss the threat of delegitimization campaigns aimed at the Jewish state.

Swords into Plowshares Tuesday’s itinerary took Huckabee and company past the Green Line, starting with the SodaStream factory. The first thing one notices before entering the factory is a sculpture bearing an inscription, in Hebrew, of the famous verse from the Book of Isaiah wherein the prophet tells of an end to war, when the nations will “beat their swords into plowshares.” A fitting ethos for the producer of a beverage product that has Jews and Arabs working together – and particularly SodaStream, as the production facility was once a munitions plant.

If the Jewish-owned company was representative of Israel’s alleged oppression of Palestinians, one wouldn’t know it by speaking with the people inside. Taking pride in his company as a model for peace and cooperation and speaking highly of his entire staff, SodaStream COO Yossi Azarzar briefed the Huckabee delegation, giving him a breakdown of the numbers. Of the factory’s 1,100 employees, says Azarzar, 600 are Palestinian, and another 250 are Arabs with Israeli citizenship; all of them working side-by-side with their Jewish Israeli counterparts, both on the factory floor and in white collar positions. When the exec pointed out that SodaStream is not only one of the few employers of heinous crime was allegedly carried out in revenge for the kidnapping and murders of three innocent Jewish teens in Gush Etzion,” said the Modern Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America and the Orthodox Union in a joint statement condemning the murder issued Sunday. “The murder of innocents is antithetical to Jewish law and tradition and must always be opposed by men and women of decency and morality.”

The murder was condemned as well by the umbrella groups that represent a broad spectrum of Jewish organizations, including the Jewish Federations of North America, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the AntiDefamation League.

While the statements were universally condemnatory, at least one organization did attempt to draw distinctions between the Israeli and Palestinian responses to the murders.

“While Israel condemned the murder and is taking steps to ensure that those responsible will be punished accordingly, it is troubling that the Palestinian Authority has historically named streets after murderers and glorified their terrorist acts,

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On the factory floor: SodaStream COO Yossi Azarzar (far right) shows Gov. Huckabee how components of the SodaStream system are produced. With Huckabee (L-to-R): Yisroel Stefansky, Exec. Director-Israel Support Fund; Dr. Paul Brody, American Friends of Ateret Cohanim executive council; Mort Klein (partially obscured), President-Zionist Organization of America; Yonah Lloyd, President-SodaStream International Ltd.

Palestinians that offers benefits (such as health coverage) to all its employees, but that the starting pay for entry-level workers is more than four times as much as that offered by local Palestinian-run businesses, Gov. Huckabee quipped: “Do you have any openings?”

When asked by a member of Huckabee’s entourage why SodaStream would maintain production in Ma’aleh Adumim when labor in China – where SodaStream conducts some 20% of its production – is so much cheaper, Mr. Azarzar noted simply and without hesitation: “We do so just because we are Zionists.” while Hamas celebrates violence and martyrdom,” said the National Council for Young Israel in a statement on Sunday. “The difference between Israel’s reaction to a senseless murder and that of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas is particularly striking.”

Rabbi Zalman SchachterShalomi, father of Jewish Renewal, dies (JTA) Rabbi Zalman SchachterShalomi, the father of the Jewish Renewal movement, has died at age 89.

A maverick rabbi from an Orthodox background who spent time in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, Schachter-Shalomi transitioned over time toward a New Age, neo-Hasidic approach, gaining a substantial following on his own but also influencing other Jewish denominations.

His nontraditional approaches to Jewish spirituality, including services marked by ecstatic prayer, drumming and dancing, eventually morphed into the Jewish Renewal movement.

Known to friends and followers as Reb Zalman, he lived out his later years in Boulder, Colo., where he died Thursday morning after being

Privately, we spoke with Muhammad Barhun, one of the company’s top managers, and an Arab citizen of Israel. When asked what his response is to those members of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement who would rather see SodaStream close up shop than operate in “Palestinian Territory,” Mr. Barhun told us: “You know, it’s very simple to shut down, and you can [then] find all the employees here [sitting] in their houses with no work. … But I suggest to the BDS [activists] to come here, to see how we treat the Palestinian employees over here.

Here we don’t have any discriminaill for some time. An associate told JTA that he had been battling a pneumonia infection in recent weeks.

The movement he started had its origins in the 1960s, when Schachter-Shalomi began instituting meditation and dance during prayer services. He sought to fuse the mystical traditions learned while he was Lubavitch with the sensibilities of the modern world in an effort to revitalize a synagogue practice he found stultifying.

Schachter-Shalomi led prayers in English set to popular tunes, translated Hasidic texts on mysticism into English, promoted ecologically friendly kashrut and encouraged Jews to create their own colorful tallitot, or prayer shawls.

Born in Poland in 1924 and raised in Vienna, SchachterShalomi’s family fled the Nazis and eventually landed in Brooklyn in 1941. He was ordained as a rabbi in 1947 from the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva. He later got a master’s degree from Boston University in the psychology of religion and a doctorate from Hebrew Union College, which is affiliated with the Reform movement.

tion.”

Barhun then noted with satisfaction that his company provides economic opportunity and a decent standard of living not just for 600 Palestinian employees, but for some 600 families.

Company President Yonah Lloyd (who was also a featured speaker at Monday’s Knesset caucus), seemed to only grudgingly accept SodaStream’s newfound political significance. “The company is growing very strong despite all the negative noise in the media,” said Lloyd, adding: “We’re not a political entity, we’re a business.”

When asked what message he might like to convey to those sympathetic to companies like SodaStream that are targeted by antiIsrael activists, he said: “If you want to boycott, then you should buycott.” Mr. Lloyd went on to extoll the virtues of his household soda maker, calling it “healthier” than pre-made soft drinks, as well as fun and family-friendly.

For his part, Gov. Huckabee seemed quite impressed by what he saw at the facility in Ma’aleh Adumim, praising SodaStream as a place where Israelis and Palestinians “work side by side … in peace.”

The company’s employees, he opined, “do more in a day than all the diplomats from the United States, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority have done in the past ten years. They should take a lesson from SodaStream.”

With new presence in Mississippi, Chabad now in 49 U.S. states (JNS) – Chabad-Lubavitch has a new presence in Mississippi, meaning the Hassidic movement known for its outreach efforts around the world is now working in 49 of 50 U.S. states.

Rabbi Akiva and Hannah Hall signed a lease in the city of Biloxi for what will double as their home and a Chabad center for the Jewish community of southern Mississippi, Chabad.org re-ported. The only U.S. state now lacking a Chabad presence is South Dakota.

“According to the latest figures, the entire state [of Mississippi] is said to have 1,600 Jewish souls,” Rabbi Hall said. “We believe the Biloxi-Gulfport area is a most appropriate location [for the Chabad center] because it is a growing tourist area. Since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, the area has been rebuilt beautifully, the beaches have been revamped, and vacationers and oth-ers are coming more than ever before.”

There are also “a fair number of Jews serving on Keesler Air Force Base” in Biloxi, said Hall.

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In Budapest, young Jews angling for slice of communal pie

By Cnaan Liphshiz BUDAPEST, Hungary (JTA) – Peering through dusty apartment widows isn’t an uncommon pastime in this capital city’s crime-infested 8th District, with its many drug addicts and alcoholics seeking for a fix.

But Adam Schoenberger wasn’t scouting for a place to rob on his peeping tour of the district earlier this month.

An activist who recently moved his Jewish organization’s headquarters into the neighborhood to save on rent, Schoenberger was looking for the small apartment synagogues that persist in the area despite its few Jewish residents.

Eventually Schoenberger spotted a Star of David hanging on the wall of a ground-floor apartment on Nagyfuvaros Street. Around the corner he found another small synagogue behind a heavy, locked metal gate.

The synagogues are maintained

by Mazsihisz, the umbrella group of Hungarian Jewish communities, which controls hundreds of little-used real-estate assets across Hungary. The synagogue on Nagyfuvaros Street serves a congregation of fewer than 20 people. Anearby shul on Teleki Ter normally opens on Shabbat, though not always with the prayer quorum of 10 Jewish men.

“Some of the money that maintains inactive synagogues and other heritage real estate would have much more impact if it were spent on sup-

International Briefs Knesset speaker: Albania relationship proof of warm JewishMuslim ties (JNS) – Albania is proof that warm Jewish-Muslim ties are possible, Israeli Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein said during a meeting with Albanian Parliament Speaker Illir Meta last week.

“Albania is a Muslim country that shows things can be different,” said Edelstein, the Jerusalem Post reported.

While most of Albania’s small Jewish community has immigrated to Israel, the country has a history of warm relations with Jews. During the Holocaust, Albania protected its Jewish community and took in other Jews seeking refuge, and it was one of the few European countries whose Jewish population increased after the war.

Iranian cleric: ‘most sorcerers are Jews’ (JNS) – Iranian cleric and Tehran University professor Valiollah Naghipourfar said that “most sorcerers are Jews” in a recent segment on

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Adam Schoenberger at the new Budapest headquarters of Marom, the cultural organization he helped found.

porting the grassroots Jewish scene, which lacks the funding to really blossom,” Schoenberger said.

To Schoenberger, the community’s continuing support for such synagogues – not to mention some 1,300 cemeteries across the country – reflects the misplaced priorities of Hungary’s Jewish leadership, which preserves such facilities even as it provides little support for the country’s vibrant Jewish youth scene.

Schoenberger is a founder of Marom, whose 13 employees and network of 100 volunteers operate the Budapest bar and cultural center Siraly, run an annual Jewish festival and does outreach to the beleaguered Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.

In the broadcast, Naghipourfar speaks at length about Jinns, evil mythical creatures in Islamic mythology also prevalent in Iranian culture and considered to be employed at times by sorcerers in order to torment human beings in various ways.

In that context, Naghipourfar states that “the Jew is very practiced in sorcery. Indeed, most sorcerers are Jews.”

Pro-Assad hackers warn of ‘nuclear leak’ in Dimona on IDF Twitter account (JNS) – Syrian hackers breached the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson’s Twitter account in English overnight July 3, falsely claiming the Negev Nuclear Research Center in Dimona had suffered a leak as a result of a rocket attack.

The hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army, which backs Bashar al-Assad’s government, posted the following message on the IDF’s official website: “#Warning: Possible nuclear leak in the region after 2 rockets hit Dimona nuclear facility.”

The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit promptly deleted the tweet and responded, “Our Twitter account was compromised. We will combat terror

Roma minority in Hungary, yet receive no funding from the local Jewish community. Marom and other such groups rely on donations from abroad to survive.

Mazsihisz’s president, Andras Heisler, declined to answer questions from JTA about the organization’s funding priorities. But Rabbi Zoltan Radnoti of the Bet Shalom congregation in Budapest and a Mazsihisz employee said the umbrella group has not supported Marom because it doesn’t exclude non-Jews from its programming.

Radnoti said the Mazsihisz mandate is to cater only to Jews.

“Mazsihisz cannot check if someone at B’nai B’rith or Siraly are Jewish,” he said. “There are some non-Jews that enter among Jews because it’s fun, and that’s fine. But Mazsihisz doesn’t want to give money to such activities.”

Since the fall of communism, Hungary’s Jews have struggled to manage hundreds of properties confiscated during the Holocaust that were returned after the fall of the regime.

According to a 2010 report by the Israeli Knesset’s research department, the Hungarian government gave Mazsihisz at least 100 properties following the passage of a 1991 law on communal restitution. The Mazsihisz list of rural cemeteries comprises 1,304 graveyards.

A prominent communal figure told JTA that maintenance and taxes

on returned properties amounts to a few hundred thousand dollars annually, though Mazsihisz would not confirm the figure.

Hungary is not the only post-communist country with a relatively poor Jewish population coping with vast assets inherited from a time when the community was much larger. But unlike Slovakia, Romania and other former communist countries that are home to fewer than 10,000 Jews, Hungary has 100,000 Jews – the largest community in central Europe – and its younger generation is increasingly demanding greater investment in activities that meet their needs.

Marom, which is about to reopen Siraly after it was closed down by the city last year because it was operating out of an illegal squat, is one of the major players in Budapest’s Jewish youth scene. Also active in the capital is the Israeli Cultural Institute, which promotes cultural exchange between Israel and Hungary; Haver Foundation, an informal Jewish education platform; and Minyanim, which conducts tours of Budapest, cultural events and conferences for young Jews.

None receive funding from Mazsihisz. The reopening of Siraly was made possible by a $75,000 grant from the Jewish Federations of North America.

“The Moishe House, Marom – none of us are supported by the local Hungarian Jewish community,” said Tomi Buchler, the director of

Minyanim, which receives funding from the Jewish Agency for Israel.

Meanwhile, the Mazsihisz youth division is largely inactive, according to several sources. Its former director, Mate Feldmajer, had to resign last year after saying that gays were not welcome on the Mazsihisz board, a statement that drew furious reactions from several grassroots Jewish organizations.

Mazsihisz does, however, operate large synagogues in cities like Vac and Gyongyos, where very few Jews live and where worshipers rarely reach a prayer quorum.

“It is important to show a presence in such places, which are part of who we are,” Radnoti said.

Buchler is one of several young Hungarian Jewish activists advocating greater investment in the needs of younger Jews as well as outreach to non-Jews, but he recognizes the sensitivity of the dilemma.

“My own great-grandparents are buried in cemeteries managed by Mazsihisz,” Buchler said. “Our heritage sites are part of our story. And if Mazsihisz won’t take care of our heritage sites, then no one will.”

The tension around communal resources led Buchler to help organize a conference last month about the issue. Sponsored by the Washingtonbased Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, the From Me to We conference gathered dozens of

on all fronts including the cyber dimension.”

from all sorts of experts on terrorism, this kind of event will happen probably five times in Europe over the next two years, so that means everyone has to be prepared.”

with a lifetime achievement award on July 4.

The Czech Jewish federation drew attention to Gibson’s 2004 film, “The Passion of the Christ,” which it said portrayed the Jewish people as “evil and bloodthirsty,” according to a letter ob-tained by Bloomberg News.

Festival spokeswoman Uljana Donátová said the event only honored Gibson’s “filmmaking skills and his career,” and noted that “The Passion of the Christ” wasn’t screened at the festival.

Man assaulted in Sweden for flying Israeli flag (JNS) – A 38-year-old man was severely assaulted on Sunday after hanging an Israeli flag from his window in Malmo, Sweden, police said.

Prior to the beating, the man was reportedly engaged in a verbal dispute on the street and had a stone thrown at his window.

“After that the man went out onto the street to see what was going on.

Then he was attacked and it was on the basis of the flag. That is the information we have at present,” Linda Pleym of the Malmo police told Sweden’s TT news agency.

Belgian-Jewish leader: European Jews must brace for more attacks (JNS) – The head of Belgium’s 40,000-member Jewish community and vice president of the European Jewish Congress, Dr. Maurice Sosnowski, warned that European Jews should expect more attacks in the wake of the shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels last month.

“I think that every Jewish community in the world today has to be prepared for such [an] incident,” he told Haaretz. “From what I’ve heard

Syrian-Jewish family smuggled to Israel (JNS) – A Jewish family was recently smuggled from Syria to Israel, news outlets reported Thursday after an embargo on the story was lifted.

The first two members of the family, which reportedly includes both Muslim and Jewish members, fled civil war-torn Syria several weeks ago. The rest of the family followed later. Their escape was orchestrated in part by Israeli-American businessman Moti Kahana, as well as the NGO Israel Flying Aid, which provides humanitarian aid to countries with which Israel does not have diplomatic relations. The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Israeli Ministry of Absorption were also aware of the rescue efforts.

Mel Gibson honored by Czech film festival despite Jewish protest (JNS) – The Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic protested the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for its decision to honor actor Mel Gibson

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Christian aid groups assisting Iraqi Christians fleeing ISIS (JNS) – Christian Solidarity International (CSI), a U.S.-based Christian humanitarian organization, has teamed up with the Hammurabi Human Rights Organization (HHRO) to provide aid to Iraqi Christians and others fleeing the rising terrorism of Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS).

CSI said 300,000 people have fled the ISIS invasion, with many Christians and others fleeing to Iraqi Kurdistan or to the Nineveh Plains region, home to many Iraqi Christians. HHRO, an Iraq-based Christian group, reported that nearly 500 Christian families from the city of Mosul were among the displaced in the Nineveh Plains.

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Our worst fears realized

By Marcy Oster KARNEI SHOMRON, West Bank (JTA) – For the first time in two and a half weeks, my children did not ask, upon opening their eyes in the morning, “Has there been any news about Naftali, Gilad and Eyal?”

They did not have to ask because last night our worst fears were confirmed with the announcement of the discovery of the teens’ bodies in a shallow grave in a field north of Hebron.

Actually, they were my worst fears. My children, at least the younger ones, believed throughout

this ordeal that the teens would be found alive and returned to the warm embrace of their families.

Today is the first day of summer vacation. My children should have been at the national opening summer program for the religious Zionist Bnei Akiva youth movement, a day at an amusement park. But it was canceled Monday following the announcement that the bodies had been found. The three murdered teens had been involved in the movement.

My kids could have been at the local swimming pool, since it has been in the 90s for more than a month.

Instead, they are all sitting with me on the couch watching the funerals on TV. Hours and hours of eulogies and video footage are tracing the 18-day drama.

The older ones check their smartphones every few minutes to track developments in the search for the kidnappers/killers. They were the first to let me listen Tuesday to the newly leaked recording on WhatsApp of the phone call made

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Israelis gather at the West Bank hitchhiking spot that was the site of the abduction of three Jewish teenagers Eyal Yifrach, Naftali Fraenkel and Gilad Sha’ar after their bodies were found, June 30, 2014.

Exodus to Egypt? Why African migrants marched on Israel’s border

By Ben Sales TEL AVIV (JTA) – For two years, Israel’s government has been encouraging its population of African migrants to leave the country.

But when 1,000 Eritreans and Sudanese marched on Israel’s southwestern border on Friday, they couldn’t get through to Egypt.

After two days of camping out in protest on the border, the hundreds who remained were arrested Sunday by Israeli authorities and placed in prison.

“We are a state,” Interior Ministry spokeswoman Sabin Haddad told JTA. “To just go to the border and cross, you can’t do that. Whoever wants to leave

needs to do it according to protocol.”

When it allows migrants to leave, Israel will only permit their return to their home countries – where they would face repressive regimes – or to one of a few thirdparty countries whose identity Israel has declined to publicize.

Israel provides grants of $3,500 to those who leave.

For those who remain in Israel, the government has built a detention facility near the Egyptian border, called Holot, that now houses more than 2,000 people. Detainees receive food, shelter and health care, but their freedom of movement is restricted as they must stand for roll call three times daily.

The detainees have no release date.

Failure to show for roll call, or refusal to answer the summons to Holot, are punishable with prison time.

“It was horrible to be in Holot and to be in prison,” said Philemon Rezene, 26, an Eritrean chosen to represent the protesters at a Tel Aviv news conference Sunday.

“They had a very miserable life.

There was a shortage of food, a shortage of sanitation, a shortage of medical care. They were always under strict control. They wanted at least to be free in an open area.”

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African asylum seekers from the Holot detention center seen in their makeshift tent city on the Israel-Egypt border, where they had marched to protest Israel’s detention policies, June 29, 2014.

A night out with Tel Aviv’s drunk teen patrol

By Ben Sales TEL AVIV (JTA) – It’s midnight here and two balding men in blue vests are on the move. Someone has sprayed tear gas at a club two blocks away.

Outside a club known as The Mossad, located in a warehouse in the dilapidated Tel Aviv neighborhood of Florentin, groups of high-school students mill about sporting stylish haircuts, revealing clothes and dazed expressions.

A boy in a black shirt and jeans lies passed out on the sidewalk as a woman in a blue vest makes sure he has not suffocated on his own vomit.

Nearby, two girls in black tank tops sit on the curb drinking water from plastic cups.

“How old are you?” another bluevested woman asks one of the girls.

“Where are you from? How are you getting home?”

Fifteen. From Modiin. She would be going home on the same bus that brought her here.

“When?”

5 a.m.

It’s the middle of a long night for the blue vests, members of a group of

Tel Aviv parents who patrol clubs looking for kids who need help – anything from a cup of water to a call to emergency services.

Known as Parents Awake (Horim Erim in Hebrew), the group was founded in 2009 after four teens died in a drunk driving accident on Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Freeway. In the Tel Aviv area alone, some 200 volunteers split into six patrols each weekend. There are 150 such squads across the country.

The squads typically patrol areas where they are likely to find groups of inebriated teens. But on nights like this one, when two clubs in the same neighborhood are holding massive parties for teens at the end of the school year, the volunteers converge on one spot.

“Stay in pairs,” Tzvika Koretz instructs a team of 18 parents, most of them middle-aged and graying. “We don’t want anyone alone in a dark alley.

We’ve had someone stuck alone with a vomiting girl. That’s not healthy.”

Koretz, 50, is the founder of Parents Awake. By day he’s a north Tel Aviv lawyer. But wearing his vest, pepper crew-cut and a no-nonsense expression, he looks like a beat cop about to break up a house party.

After Koretz’s pep talk, the par-

ents split into two groups, each heading to one of the two clubs hosting parties that night.

Outside The Artist, a club housed in a gray brick building with steel beams and no outside marking, Koretz’s wife, Einat, cordons off a rectangular area with police tape and sets down her supplies. Next to her, three 16-year-old boys wearing matching Tshirts and identical haircuts with the sides shaved stumble around arm in arm.

“This is a banging party!” yells a boy named David, insisting he didn’t drink.

Why did they come here?

“To f***!” David says.

Soon, one calls the other a son of a whore and they begin fighting.

No alcohol is served in the club – most of the crowd is under Israel’s drinking age of 18 – but Koretz says many of them drink en route to the party on buses organized by the clubs’ publicists. If they want a couple more drinks, they’ll step into an alley to polish off a bottle before heading inside.

In the club, a bass beat pounds so hard it vibrates up one’s leg. Neon strobe lights flash down on kids grinding against one another. A bar sells soft

drinks, but it’s nearly deserted. In a room behind it, couples are making out.

After a quick trip to the bathroom, Einat Koretz says that couples have taken up the ladies’ room, doing more of the same.

“The problem is the whole culture of the atmosphere,” Tzvika Koretz says. “There’s not a lot of positive energy here.”

Ideally, Koretz tells the volunteers, police would have met the party buses as they arrived, located the alcohol and poured it out – standard operating procedure for nights like these. But the police presence in the area is thin, and teens arrive from outside the city with the alcohol already in their bloodstream and out of the cops’ reach. At the club, police only intervene when the situation grows violent.

While it unequivocally opposes underage drinking, Parents Awake is a volunteer group with no power to enforce the law. The group is funded by the city and the national Public Security Ministry, but it has no official legal standing and cannot force anyone to stay with them or even to stop drinking. The most they can do is call the police or paramedics.

Outside The Artist, David, the boy who an hour earlier insisted he hadn’t imbibed, is throwing up on the pavement. When he’s done, volunteers lay out a strip of bubble wrap for him to lie down on and offer him a cup of water.

Now he admits having had “nine or 10 drinks of Finlandia” vodka.

Next to him, a boy stretched out on bubble wrap begins twitching and drooling. Parents Awake dials an ambulance, and when the paramedics come, they call his mother to get permission to put him on a stretcher.

Instead, she sends his grandfather to take him home, along with his 13-yearold brother, whom they extract from the club.

By 1 a.m., the teens have cleared out from in front of the clubs and some of the Parents Awake volunteers go home. At The Mossad, the only one left on the curb is the girl from Modiin waiting for her 5 a.m. bus.

“You know you helped kids,” Koretz says. “If you weren’t there, they would have been thrown onto the street without anyone to help them.

“But you also go to sleep with a stomachache. It’s not the most pleasant thing in the world. It’s hard to sleep after that.”

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Discord on Gaza spurs Yisrael Beiteinu’s Lieberman to split party from Likud

By Shlomo Cesana, Mati Tuchfeld and Israel Hayom (JNS) – Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beiteinu political party, announced Monday that his party is splitting from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, dissolving a partnership formed ahead of the Jewish state’s 2013 general election. Lieberman is reportedly seeking to distance himself from Netanyahu’s policies on Gaza and Hamas.

Netanyahu and Lieberman held a long private meeting on Monday morning, Army Radio reported.

Lieberman proceeded to attend a Yisrael Beiteinu faction meeting, after which he called a press conference in Jerusalem and announced the split, spelling the end of the Likud-Beiteinu Knesset faction.

“It’s no secret that the differences of opinion between the prime minister and me have become pivotal and fundamental,” Lieberman told reporters. “The situation no longer enables us to maintain the joint faction called Likud-Beiteinu.

Therefore, we plan to petition the Knesset’s House Committee in the next few days and ask it to allow us to become a separate faction.”

Lieberman said the political partnership between the two parties “didn’t really work during the elec-

Israel Briefs Israeli officials call for IDF to retake Gaza amid escalation in rockets (JNS) – Amid the announcement of the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) Operation Protective Edge in response to Hamas rocket attacks, some Israeli government officials are calling on the IDF to retake Gaza, which Israel evacuated in 2005 under former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s controversial disengagement plan.

“The Islamist terror base [in Gaza], with its thousands of rockets pointed at us, didn’t happen by accident. It happened because of our mistakes, pulling out of Gaza and letting Hamas run in the [2006 Palestinian] elections,” Likud MK Ze’ev Elkin, chair of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee said, told Israel’s Channel 2.

Hamas official says group will kidnap Israeli soldiers in event of ground operation (JNS) – Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said he hopes the Israel Defense Forces enters Gaza on the ground so that the terrorist group can

tion [campaign], it didn’t work after the elections, and it doesn’t work today.”

“There were more than a few technical problems, and when those [problems] become fundamental issues, there is no point in hiding them,” he said.

The foreign minister said his party would remain “a loyal part” of Israel’s governing coalition.

“I see no reason to dismantle the coalition,” said Lieberman. “If anything, splitting [the factions] will only make the coalition stronger. ...

This was a colorful coalition to begin with, sporting some of the widest ideological gaps in history.”

Commenting on tensions with Netanyahu, Lieberman said, “The prime minister has his opinions and I have mine. He is entitled to his opinions and I’m entitled to mine, just as everyone else in the coalition has the right to their own opinions.

This is a strong coalition and it will carry on.”

The Prime Minister’s Office made no official comment on Lieberman’s announcement.

Elaborating on his differences with Likud, Lieberman said he believed the Israel Defense Forces’ Operation Pillar of Defense in November 2012, which came in response to an unprecedented rocket barrage from Gaza terrorists, ended “prematurely.”

“[Israel’s operation] ended because it was two months before the general elections and we were not about to let Hamas dictate when Israel holds election, so ending the [operation] when we did was the right thing to do at that point. …

Still, I can recall, and I can remind you of, all the times I said we have to do something about Gaza…

Operation Pillar of Defense had significant achievements, from the assassination of Hamas chief of staff Ahmed Jabari to destroying 95 percent of Hamas’s long-range missiles,” he said.

“Since then, they have been able to manufacture hundreds of quality missiles with a range of 80 kilometers (50 miles) that can reach the outskirts of Netanya,” added Lieberman. “This reality, living with a terror group training hundreds of missiles at us-that’s intolerable. This has to stop because 1.5 million people can’t live under constant threat.”

Lieberman also commented on the recent tensions between the Arab and Jewish sectors in Israel, saying, “What’s happening is very disconcerting. There is a consensus among the Israeli leadership, the right, the left, the center-we all agree that the law must be upheld and any violence or incitement must be denounced.”

The split will see Yisrael Beiteinu become the fifth-largest party in the Knesset, with 11 MKs

(the same number as Shas), while Likud will be left with 20 MKs. Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely said Lieberman “has turned the Israeli government into a battleground” “If the foreign minister disagrees with the cabinet’s decision, he should be so kind as to resign,” she said. “Lieberman’s hypocrisy has been evident throughout his political career-he sways with the public’s mood. His conduct is an embarrassment to his position as a member of cabinet.”

According to Army Radio, Lieberman is seeking to assume a harder line than Netanyahu on Gaza and Hamas ahead of the next Israeli general election. His decision to split with Likud was apparently made after he traded barbs with the prime minister during Sunday’s cabinet meeting over the way the Jewish state has been dealing with the security situation in southern Israel.

Ministers privy to the Sunday exchange said the discord stemmed from the fact that both Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon support the Israeli military’s “quiet equals quiet” premise, by which Israel will not strike Gaza if its terror groups refrain from firing rockets, while Lieberman and Habayit Hayehudi Chairman MK Naftali Bennett demanded that the government order a large military operation in Gaza.

Bennett also urged the cabinet to announce the construction of new housing units in Gush Etzion, but the cabinet voted to postpone the move.

The difference of opinion between the ministers turned into a confrontation during Sunday’s meeting. Netanyahu, Ya’alon, and Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch were briefing the cabinet about the recent security developments, including the weekend’s riots in Jerusalem and northern Israel. Environmental Protection Minister Amir Peretz (Hatnuah) asked Netanyahu to instruct ministers to “act like cabinet ministers and not like commenters” while visiting homes in the southern Israeli city of Sderot that were hit by rockets.

Peretz is a resident of Sderot, which has endured rocket attacks for years. The prime minister responded to the comment-clearly directed at Lieberman-by saying, “You have a point. You shouldn’t use these events as an excuse for any harsh statement, and some have been voicing them not just against the government, but against me as well. There is a time and a place for expressing such opinions. Uniformity is important when it comes to the things being said and the actions taken when dealing with Hamas.”

Lieberman apparently under-

kidnap Israeli soldiers.

“As long as the occupation attacks, we’ll respond, and it will pay the price of its crimes. Our will won’t break,” Abu Zuhri vowed, adding, “I hope the occupation makes this error and enters Gaza in a ground operation, so that we’ll have an opportunity to abduct soldiers.”

A video created by BBC Trending shows that rather than posting photographs of the effects of current Israeli airstrikes, as the most widely shared photos are labeled to be, many of the most popular shared images were actually of past airstrikes, and sometimes were not even pictures of Gaza at all.

Some photos, the investigation revealed, date as far back as 2009, while others are from conflicts in Iraq and Syria.

despicable murder of your son,” Netanyahu told Hussein Abu Khudeir on Monday. “We acted immediately to apprehend the murderers, and they will be tried and brought to justice. We reject such cruel behavior.”

Israel has arrested six suspects in the killing of Mohammad Abu Khudair. Three of the suspects reenacted the crime to the Israeli police. All of the suspects, including some who are minors, are being held on terrorism charges.

Yishai Frenkel – the uncle of Naftali Frenkel, one of the Israeli teens murdered by Hamas terroristsalso called Hussein Abu Khudair to offer comfort.

respect the law will be arrested and punished severely.”

Rockets disrupt Israeli final exams, summer camps, public recreation (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS) – Students taking their English final exam in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Monday had their test interrupted by “Color Red” incoming rocket sirens.

Elisha Peleg, principal of Beersheba’s AMIT Wasserman High School, said both the high school students taking the test and sixth-graders in school for summer camp “displayed remarkable resilience and acted responsibly.”

BBC investigation reveals Gaza pictures not what they claim to be (Israel Hayom//Exclusive to JNS) – BBC Trending, the broadcasting service’s social media department, reported Monday that many images posted on social media under the hashtag #GazaUnderAttack are not necessarily what the people who posted them claim them to be.

Arrest of Jewish suspects reignites Arab riots across Israel (JNS) – Violent Arab riots were reignited on Sunday evening following the news that Israeli authorities had arrested six Jewish suspects in the abduction and murder of Palestinian youth Mohammad Abu Khudair.

In northern Israel, hundreds of young masked Arabs threw stones at police forces and set fire to tires and trash cans, Israel Hayom reported.

Netanyahu expresses condolences to slain Arab youth’s father (JNS) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the father of murdered Arab teen Mohammad Abu Khudair to express his condolences.

“I want to express my shock, and the shock of all Israeli citizens, at the

Netanyahu on riots: Israeli Arabs ‘can’t have it both ways’ (JNS) – Amid continuing riots in eastern Jerusalem and in Israeli Arab towns, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israeli Arabs who enjoy the benefits of Israeli citizenship “can’t have it both ways.”

“They can’t enjoy National Insurance stipends and child allowances while simultaneously violating the most basic laws of the State of Israel,” Netanyahu said at his weekly cabinet meeting. “I call on the leaders of the Arab community to act responsibly and stand up to this outpouring of violence and restore calm. Anyone who fails to

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High school matriculation exams held in Sderot despite rocket fire (JNS) – Many high school students in Sderot were forced to sit through their matriculation exams on July 3 under continual Color Red sirens as rocket fire continued from the Gaza Strip on southern Israel.

Aviv Levy, a 10th grader who took his communications exam on Thursday, told Israel Hayom, “The exam was stressful, because of the material and also because of the Qassams. There was a Color Red siren just before the test started.

Before that, they gave us instructions about what to do and how to stay calm, and that’s what we did.”

Amid continued rocket attacks on Israel, IAF airstrikes kill terrorists (JNS) – Another Gaza rocket was fired at Beersheba, southern Israel’s largest city, as part of a barrage of 20 rockets directed at Israel on Monday morning. No deaths or injuries were reported.

In response to the rocket fire, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck 14 targets in Gaza in two separate waves.

The airstrikes killed nine terrorists, including seven Hamas operatives inside of a tunnel in Rafah, the Jerusalem Post reported.

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SUPER SUNDAY PHONE-A-THON ON MARCH 23 Thanks to our amazing volunteers, donors who answered the call! Together we raised funds for the programs and agencies that build our community.

Volunteers and their families also took part in social action projects to benefit our community, including making matzah covers and collecting Kosher for Passover sweets for JFS Passover delivery boxes, mailing flyers for Cedar Village, and more. Hillel students registered people for the national bone marrow database. And we all had a blast!

Special thanks to our co-chairs, Women’s Philanthropy.

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Jim Friedman and Leslie Newman

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Bundling pencils to benefit Cincinnati Hebrew Day School and Rockwern Academy, Ayala Weinreb, Aliza Wucher and Rachel Sollofe.

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Rabbi Dovid Spetner making calls for the community

Making matzoh covers for JFS Passover delivery boxes

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Cincinnati Hillel’s “Gift of Life” Bone Marrow Drive

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Bistro Grace a comfortable spot to dine, drink, shmooze

By Bob Wilhelmy Contributing Columnist “Neighborhood Gems” are eateries that rank high on the list of Open Table, a website that specializes in linking diners with tables wherever one happens to be in the good old U.S. of A. That may be important to you because Bistro Grace recently made the Top 100 eateries on that Neighborhood Gems list. When one considers the hundreds of thousands of restaurants in our nation, being in the top 100 is pretty lofty.

The concept behind Bistro Grace was devised by Suzanne McGarry, the daughter of a Chicago restaurateur, who wanted a special ambiance for her eatery.

She said she wanted to create a comfortable landing spot for people wanting good service, delicious food, reasonable prices, and a neighborhood setting in which to enjoy themselves.

“That’s the nature of a bistro, more casual than fine dining, with a neighborhood comfortable feel and good value,” she said. “All our entrees and our chef’s specials are under $21. This is a place where, if you want to come for a few hours and maybe drink wine or beer, share a plate, and just relax and enjoy friends, you can do that. Or you can come to dine and feel good about that experience too. Bistro Grace is perfect for all of that.”

McGarry focuses on buying local or regional as much as possible. Five Creek Farms in Ohio supplies almost all the bistro’s produce. Meats come from upstate Ohio as well as from Baker’s Acres farm in Kentucky. The local emphasis feeds a scratch kitchen that turns out almost everything, notable exceptions being the bread, and the opera cream cake (from Bon Bonnerie).

One reason for Bistro Grace to be on the top 100 list, is the creative nature of McGarry and her staff. For instance, behind the bar is a clear glass urn with a dispensing spigot. The urn is full of fresh pineapple slabs in which vodka is steeping, thus infusing the vodka with the sweet pineapple flavor.

“We make pineapple vodka martinis and mojitos using our infused vodka, and people love them,” she said, noting the martinis go down so easy, a body has to be careful.

Combining the creativity and the scratch kitchen has produced some wonderful treats for diners.

For instance, the kitchen even makes its own ice cream, including the featured summer flavor, which is a white chocolate “stout” mousse. The recipe includes a little flavoring of stout beer, which enhances the intensity of the

Katelyn Ettinger, bartender at Bistro Grace.

chocolate, according to McGarry.

The same creative sense influences salads, entrees, sides and desserts at Bistro Grace. “We try lots of things in our kitchen, wanting to bring something special to people who dine with us. Not everything we try is a success, and those don’t make it out of the kitchen. But being a bistro allows us a lot of flexibility in changing the menu or accommodating special requests of the diners,” she said. This is important to Jewish diners who may want this or that ingredient left out of a meal choice for dietary reasons.

McGarry says they do that all the time for diners.

Bistro Grace offers both indoor and patio dining, as well as a bar area. The patio is off the back of the bistro, seating 35 people in an intimate, secluded setting away from street traffic. Inside, especially on weekend evenings, diners will find a Cheers-like setting. The ambiance can be a bit boisterous and energetic, but not loud or over the top - just comfortable, according to McGarry.

There are nine plates to share in the appetizer section, with items

from which to choose including marinated olives, hummus, beer cheese and pretzel crostini, beet salad and Margherita flatbread.

Stars of the main-dish menu are: marinated summer chicken; Portobello-stuffed ravioli; grilled hanger steak (most popular entrée); grilled chicken sandwich; and the weekly special, a seafood item, such as the salmon featured at the time of this writing.

In the spirit of offering local choices, the bistro features six local taps, changing the brands frequently. Current selections are: Lesser Path, Wiedemann, Mad Tree happy amber, Rhinegeist truth, Mt. Carmel summer wheat, and Triple Digit chickow. A sizeable bottle list rounds out the beer selection, and there is a bistrostyle wine list with plenty of reds and whites from which to choose.

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How to Answer a ThreeFingered Salute

By Daniel Perez “Restraint” seems to be the buzzword du jour in the international community right now.

Specifically, that Israelis and Palestinians (but especially the Israelis) need to show “restraint” after the savage murder of three Jewish teens – high school kids whose only crime was existing in a part of the Holy Land that, in the eyes of those urging said restraint, ought to be completely free of Jews.

So often do I find myself railing against the hypocrisy of our administration and the moral bankruptcy of the UN that it feels sometimes as if I’m talking to a wall.

And last week, I suppose I was.

Well, not to a wall, but in front of one. Last week I had the honor of accompanying former Arkansas Governor (and future U.S. president? One can hope!) Mike Huckabee and Dr. Joe Frager, chairman of American Friends of Ateret Cohanim – both men of profound integrity and vision whom I respect greatly. And when I wasn’t sitting in on Knesset sessions or meeting with community leaders in the occupied territory of Yehuda and Shomron (it’s true: most of Judea is under Arab occupation!), I spent much of my time praying at the Kotel HaMa’aravi, the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. No matter where I went, the one topic on everyone’s lips was the abduction of our boys, Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar, and Naftali Frenkel [HY”D]. At the Kotel this meant additional tehillim (psalms) and prayers appended to every service, pleading with the Almighty for the boys’ safe and speedy return.

Unfortunately, the freedom fighters who bravely attacked a trio of unarmed high school students ensured that the answer to those prayers would turn out to be “no.”

While what happened was an unspeakable tragedy, I’m sorry to say that part of me is, in a certain sense, relieved: relieved that the boys were killed quickly, rather than smuggled across the border into Lebanon or Syria, to be imprisoned and tortured indefinitely, while Israeli officials wail, gnash their teeth and sit on their hands, until the time came to reward the terrorists by freeing hundreds (or thousands) of their unrepentant, bloody-handed compatriots in exchange for our three kids, dead or alive. (To the terrorists’ credit, they understand one thing: A lifeless Israeli body is worth at least as much as a thousand of their lives. I just wish that wasn’t the de facto exchange rate.)

“Restraint,” begs our State Department, on “both sides.”

Considering that one of the “sides” in this is a horde of bus-bombing, child-abducting thugs who think “martyrdom” means “dying while committing mass murder,” it’s difficult to imagine what sort of “restraint” is applicable in any conceivable legal or ethical framework. Frankly, I think it would show tremendous restraint on Israel’s part if we don’t wake up tomorrow to find that Gaza and the West Bank have been turned into a couple of smoldering glow-in-thedark craters! Not that I’m suggesting a course of action – the fallout, both literal and political, make this option an untenable one.

But let’s be serious for a moment. Since the establishment of a Palestinian Unity Government that includes both the (openly terrorist) Hamas and the (terrorist but pretends to be moderate in front of news cameras) Fatah, every attack on Israel – each rocket launch and each citizen murdered – is an act of war. Given that the enemy in this case makes no distinction between combatant and bystander, and launches missiles indiscriminately into population centers (that their aim is lousy does nothing to change the fact that this is an actual war crime – UN Human Rights Commission take note!) makes Israel’s measured response all the more remarkable. We’re talking about an army that drops leaflets, that calls their targets on the phone to let them know they’re about to be bombed. You may recognize this as the worst possible method for launching a surprise attack. But the Israelis, being concerned for some reason with the lives of noncombatants, routinely jeopardize the success of their own military operations in order to minimize civilian casualties. Contrast this with the Hamas/Fatah strategy which frequently employs human shields, and then – if Israel has the chutzpah to defend itself anyway – uses their deaths to great effect as part of their PR/psychological operations against the Jewish state.

At the end of the day, as long as somebody dies, Hamas is happy. In fact, I think that may be their slogan.

The people who distributed candies to celebrate the kidnapping/murder of Yifrach, Shaar, and Frenkel were the same ones dancing in the streets as the Twin Towers came down. Perhaps you have seen or read about the “Three Shalits” Campaign, where terrorist sympathizers showed their support for the valiant child abductors with photos of themselves giving a three-fingered gesture of solidarity.

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By Stephen M. Flatow (JNS) – It’s time to say the Gword out loud. Palestinian terrorism is not just another form of violence.

It’s genocide by another name.

A word such as “genocide” should never be used lightly. If it is to have any meaning, it dare not be flung about just to make some political point or to award victim status to some aggrieved party that has suffered far less than mass murder.

At the same time, we have to be willing to use the G-word when it applies – even if doing so is politically inconvenient or unpopular.

I recently spoke at the 11th National Conference of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. It was the first time I have ever addressed such an event. I was one of the speakers in a session involving individuals connected to genocides other than the Holocaust.

There we were: a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, a son of victims of the Armenian genocide, and me, the father of a victim of Palestinian terrorism. At first glance, it must have seemed to some in the audience that the three of us had nothing in common. But the more I have thought about it, the more I have come to realize that, sadly, we have everything in common. All three of us have experienced not only the consequences of genocide itself, but also the added tragedy of politics preventing a response to genocide.

Jacqueline Murekatete spoke at the Wyman conference about how family was brutally slaughtered by the Hutu mass murderers in Rwanda in 1994, about her narrow escape from that fate, and about the Clinton administration’s decision not to intervene. A few days after her address, the New York Times reported that the Obama administration is refusing to declassify 100 internal White House cables from 1994 that

reveal what U.S. policymakers were discussing about Rwanda as the genocide was taking place. Those policymakers included senior Clinton officials who are now senior Obama officials, such as National Security Adviser Susan Rice.

Dr. Hagop Deranian spoke about the ornate rug woven by Armenian orphans in 1925 and given to the White House in appreciation for American humanitarian aid to survivors of the Turks’ genocide of the Armenians. He spoke, too, about the Obama administration’s refusal to permit the rug to be seen in public, evidently for fear of offending Turkey, which to this day denies that it committed genocide.

And I, too, spoke about a genocide that is politically uncomfortable to acknowledge: the genocide that Palestinian terrorists have been trying to carry out since the early 1900s.

It’s uncomfortable to acknowledge because it flies in the face of everything that the pundits and the State Department and the United Nations constantly claim – that the Palestinians have become moderate, that there is violence “by both sides,” and that enough Israeli concessions will produce peace.

But the truth is that when genocide is involved, no amount of concessions will make any difference.

On April 9, 1995, my daughter Alisa, a 20 year-old junior at Brandeis University, boarded a bus that would take her to a seaside resort in Gush Katif, a region then under Israeli control. She never made it because a young Palestinian terrorist, recruited by the group Islamic Jihad, rammed her bus with his explosives laden van and detonated a massive explosion. Alisa was one of eight people murdered in that attack.

They were eight of the thousands of Jews who have been murdered by

Palestinian terrorists in Turkishruled Palestine, in British-ruled Palestine, and in Israel over the course of the past century.

What was the motive of these Palestinian attackers? The answer to this question is crucial. Motives matter. They matter very much.

Because if the Palestinians’ motive is simply to secure some territory – and then live in peace next to Israel – then much of the world can see some justification in their violence.

But if the Palestinians’ motive is simply to kill Jews, then their actions is genocide. Nothing can justify that, and no surrender of territory will ever put an end to it.

Obviously not everyone who has been harmed in Palestinian attacks has been Jewish. When a terrorist blows up a plane or machine-guns a crowd, non-Jews die, too.

And not every victim of Palestinian terrorism has been an Israeli. Alisa wasn’t. The terrorists don’t know, in advance, the nationality of each of their intended victims.

But we do know who they are trying to kill. And we know it for one simple, harsh reason that no pundit or State Department official ever acknowledges: Palestinian terrorists never try to murder Israeli Arabs.

Think about that. Israeli Arabs are Israeli citizens. Indeed, we are constantly told that they are, overwhelmingly, completely loyal to the State of Israel. So if that is the case, why don’t Palestinian terrorists ever attack them? If the Palestinians’ grievance is against the policies of the State of Israel – and not against Jews – then they should be attacking Israeli Arabs just as they attack Israeli Jews. But they don’t.

If they were just against “Israelis,” the Palestinian GENOCIDE on page 19

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presented by the biblical text. The Hebrew Samokh (Semikhah) principally means to lean on, so that the picture being conveyed is that of an elderly Moses leaning with his hands upon a younger Joshua. The message seems not to be that of a young Joshua dependent on the authority of an elder Moses; it rather seems to be that of an elder Moses dependent for his support on a younger Joshua. Rabbi Soloveitchik looked at us, his studentrabbis, with great yearning and expectations. “It is I who am dependent upon you. Without you, my Torah and my unique teaching, indeed all of the traditions which I imbibed from the previous generations, will all die with me. You are my insurance policy. It is through you and your teachings that my Torah will continue to live.”

This is why Moses had to put down Korah – who wanted to usurp power for a false end – but encouraged Eldad and Medad, who were influenced by a Divine spirit. And this is the true meaning of our Sages’ adage that a father is never jealous of a child nor is a teacher ever jealous of a disciple. Politics yield power, which disappears in the sand-dunes of times; learning and piety breed influence, which last for all eternity. The Israelite Kings are scarcely remembered while the Israelite prophets and sages are still being studied and interpreted today. Lust for power is ultimately consumed by fiery flames, while the influence of Torah education will enable the light of the menorah to emblazon the path to the tree of life in our return to Eden.

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T EST Y OUR T ORAH KNOWLEDGE THIS WEEK’S PORTION: PINCHAS (BAMIDBAR 25:1—30:2) 1. Who led the counting of the Children of Israel a.) Moshe b.) Yehoshua c.) Elazar d.) Pinchas 2. Was the tribe of Levi counted separately like the first census? a.) Yes b.) No 3. Were women counted? a.) Yes 4. A 27:16 Moshe prayed to Hashem to choose a leader who could forebear different personalities and temperaments. Rashi 5. C 27:17

EFRAT, Israel – “And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Take for yourself Joshua the son of Nun, an individual who has spirit within him, and lay (or lean) your hand upon him. Stand him up before Elazar the Priest and before the entire congregation, and command him before their eyes. And give of your glory upon him in order that the entire congregation of the children of Israel may obey him” (Num. 27:18-20).

In these three verses we see the “passing of the guard,” the succession of leadership from Moses to Joshua.

Embedded within the three different actions which God commanded Moses to perform, we may begin to define three different forms of traditional Jewish leadership. Firstly, Moses was to “lay his hands” upon Joshua, an act which expressed a conferral of rabbinic authority, semikha (literally a laying upon or leaning upon), from master to disciple (cf.

Mishnah Sanhedrin 1:1). Since Moses was traditionally known as Moshe Rabbenu (our religious teacher or rabbi) and since Joshua is biblically and midrashically pictured as Moses’ devoted disciple, it is perfectly logical to assume that the first transference from Moses to Joshua was that of religio-legal authority.

Moreover, Moses was a great prophet who conveyed the Divine word to his nation; since the scholar (hakham) is heir (and even superior) to the prophet, and since the prophet was always expected to be a great intellectual and spiritual personality, Moses was bestowing upon Joshua his own authority as religious master and prophet (Rabbenu) by the act of his laying of his hands upon Joshua.

Moses is then commanded by God to “stand Joshua up” before Elazar the Priest. The Kohen Gadol or High Priest was certainly a leader in ancient Israel – but his Divine service was formal, ritual and external, very much limited to the Sanctuary or Holy Temple. It was necessary for the Rabbi – scholar-prophet to be recognized and respected by the High Priest, and vice versa; however, whereas the former had to constantly bring the living word of God to the people and in the process often came into conflict with the ruling authorities and even with the majority of the Israelites, the latter merely had to perform the precise Temple ritual so that the continuity of the Divine service from generation to generation could be maintained. Joshua therefore had

to appear, or be stood up, before the High Priest, but he was not given the ritual authority of the High Priest.

Moses and Joshua were the seat of religious, moral and ethical authority; Aaron and Elazar were the seat of ritual authority. The Rav was expected to teach and interpret God’s word for every generation; the High Priest was expected to ritually perform and maintain the ritual structures from generation to generation.

And finally, Moses was to “give of his glory (Hebrew hod) upon (Joshua) in order that the entire congregation of Israel may obey him.”

In addition to being the Rabbi – scholar-prophet, Moses also served as authoritative King (cf. Deut. 33:4-5), the chief executive officer of the Israelite nation. This authority was the power, or glory, he conferred upon Joshua as well. Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, defines the distinction between both aspects of Moses’ leadership as that of influence verses power. Moses, as master prophet and religious teacher, wielded enormous influence, not only in his generation, but in every generation, including our own which still studies Moses’ divine words. Moses, as King of Israel, controlled much power, and so – in the final analysis – managed to quell the rebellions of all his detractors: Korah, Datan and Aviram, and Zimri ben Salu.

But influence and power are very different sources of authority. Rabbi Sacks sees this distinction as emanating from the Midrash (Bereshit Rabbah 21:15), which compares the giving over of power to “a pouring out from one vessel to another,” whereas the conferral of influence is likened to “the kindling of one candle from another candle.” When wine, for example, is poured from one goblet into another, the first goblet becomes emptied and devoid of its joy-giving liquid. Similarly, when a political leader leaves office and his successor takes over, no authority remains in the hand of the incumbent.

How different is the realm of influence. After the initial candle has kindled its flame onto another candle, the light of the first candle has in no way become diminished; much the opposite, now there are two candles shining brightly, providing double the amount of light in the room. My revered teacher, Rabbi Joseph B Saloveitchik, went one step further, when he interpreted the Biblical text of our weekly portion at the celebration of my class’s rabbinical ordination. The “laying of the hands” is usually interpreted as an inter-generational conferral of authority: the master from a former generation is “handing over” the authority of our ancient tradition (trado in Latin means to hand over) to the younger generation.

However, says Rav Soloveitchik,that is not the picture

b.) No 4. Who used the term “The Lord of all spirits” a.) Moshe b.) Elazar c.) Pinchas d.) Yehoshua 5. How did Moshe describe the role of his successor? a.) King b.) Judge c.) Shepherd

3. B 26:64 The women were not counted because they desired to live in Canaan, therefore they were not under the decree to die in the desert. Rashi

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ANSWERS 1. A,C 26:1 2. A 26:57 The tribe of Levi did not receive a portion in the land of Canaan

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By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist Canadian Landsmen All Over the Tube I am actually looking forward to seeing the sit-com, “Working the Engels,” a CanadianAmerican co-production that starts tonight. It stars the very funny Andrea Martin (who is Armenian/Canadian; but often plays Jews) with Canadian EUGENE LEVY, 67, her former “SCTV” co-star. Martin plays Ceil Engel. Her lawyer husband died suddenly and left her family in deep debt. She and the rest of the family go to work at her husband’s storefront law firm. The problem is that only one family member, daughter Jenna, a newly-minted lawyer, is qualified to practice law. Levy appears in a recurring role as Arthur Horowitz, a prominent nice-guy (Jewish) attorney who is secretly a bit sweet on his neighbor, Ceil, and is hoping to retire and give a few good clients to Jenna. Levy’s real-life daughter, SARAH LEVY, 27, plays his daughter, IRENE HOROWITZ. One reviewer states, “Irene may seem like a good Jewish girl, but underneath is a wild, bad girl in training – seeking experience, danger, and the arms of her hot neighbor, Jimmy Engel.” Meanwhile, Martin Short, another hilarious SCTV veteran, plays a pastry mogul who used to be sweet on Ceil when he was a hippie baker in the ‘70s, but now he’s embroiled in a lawsuit with one of Jenna’s clients.

“Seed” is a Canadian TV comedy that was just renewed for its second season. The CW (American) station picked-up the first season for broadcast and it will premiere early next week. It stars ADAM KORSON, 32, who grew up in a Toronto suburb, as Harry, a likeable bartender who discovers he has offspring from his sperm donations. The series focuses on his relationship with his biological kids and their families.

The Holocaust Meets Vampires “The Strain”, a horror/detective drama, begins this weekend.

The TV show stars COREY STOLL, 38, who is best known for his Oscar nominated role in “Midnight in Paris” (Hemingway) and his Golden Gold nominated role in “House of Cards” (Peter Russo). The premiere “Strain” episode begins with a plane landing at JFK airport with the lights off and doors sealed. Epidemiologist Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (played by Stoll) and his team are sent to

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investigate. On board they find two hundred corpses and four survivors. The situation deteriorates when the bodies begin disappearing from morgues and, shortly thereafter, there’s a mysterious viral outbreak that has the “hallmarks” of vampirism.

It turns out that a Professor Abraham Setrakian, a Holocaust survivor turned pawn-shop owner, has answers about the outbreak (John Hurt plays Setrakian in the pilot. David Bradley plays him thereafter. Newcomer Jim Watson plays Setrakian in flashback concentration camp scenes).

The back story on Setrakian: A Romanian Jew, he escaped from a Nazi death camp. After that, he met and battled vampires and, while elderly, he can still swing a sword and kill them. He knows the habits and biology of vampires and wants to pass on his knowledge to Goodweather. (Not your average zaideh type!)

Shalom Marzurksy Director/writer/ and sometime actor PAUL MAZURSKY, who died on June 30, age 84, was a great unsung genius who, more than anyone, “got it right” in the films he made which were “Jewish-flavored” or had explicitly Jewish characters. So, please treat yourself and binge-view these flicks – his “most Jewish” – for a real kosher treat: “I Love You Alice B. Toklas” (1968); “Next Stop Greenwich Village” (1976); and “Enemies: A Love Story” (1989). Basically, ignore the “Alice” title. It’s the tale of a very conventional Jewish attorney (played by the late PETER SELLERS) whose meshugeneh brother is a hippie. The depiction of the attorney’s Jewish parents and fiancée is hilarious without being mean. The attorney’s quest for more meaning in life by adopting (for a time) the hippie life is funny and touching, but not silly. The movie also features a brief scene with the real-life “twin cantors”. They were huge on the Jewish wedding circuit during the ‘60s. Meanwhile, while “Next Stop” is not that great a film, it is “very Jewish” – and it is basically an autobiography of Mazursky’s life just before he headed out to Hollywood to become an actor (he got some roles, but directing was where he made his mark). Much better is “Enemies,” based on a novel by ISSAC BASHEVIS SINGER. It was the only film taken from his work that Singer really liked. The late RON SILVER stars in this comedy/drama about a Holocaust survivor in New York who has to juggle the three women in his life.

FROM THE PAGES 150 Y EARS A GO Rev. Wm. Armhold from Pittsburgh, PA, is at the present in this city. He speaks highly of his congregation, whose spiritual adviser he hs been for the last ten years.

The object of his visit to this city is, we understand, to make himself familiar with the ritual he adopted in the Lodge Str. Synagogue. It is evident that Reform is spreading wide its wings over all our enlightened congregations.

For sale: “The Essence of Judiasm” by Rev. Dr. I.M. Wise.

Apply at this office, either personally or by letter. This is a neat volume, bound in cloth, and will sent to any address in the United States for thirty-five cents. A liberal discount allowed to the trade.

Miss Josephine Fringant is betrothed to Mr. Abraham Eiseman.

– August 5, 1864

125 Y EARS A GO The marriage of Mr. J. Clarence Workum, only son of Mrs. Elizabeth Workum, of this city, and Miss Coralie Buxbaum, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.C. Buxbaum of Louisville, was celebrated at the latter city last Monday evening.

Quite a number of Cincinnati friends and relatives were present.

Mr. Workum, who is one of our most popular young men, has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Cincinnati Club for a number of years, and he was the recipient of an enjoyable bachelor’s dinner at the club last Thursday evening. Miss Buxbaum formerly resided here, and is a favorite in social circles.

After a bridal trip of six weeks in the East, the young couple will return to this city, where they will be welcomed by a host of friends.

Adoplh Pilhashy, a member of the confirmation class of ‘89, Plum Street Temple, was buried yesterday afternoon. The class attended the funeral in a body and sent a magnificent floral piece. He died of lockjaw, resulting fron a slight injury received while celebrating the Fourth of July. – July 20, 1889

100 Y EARS A GO Julius Rosenthal, aged fifty-six years, a well known and highly respected citizen in this community, died on Sunday, July 5, after a brief illness, at his late home in the West Sommerfield apartments, Avondale.

Burial was at the Walnut Hills Cemetery on Tuesday afternoon.

Mr. Rosenthal is survived by his widow, Bertha Rosenthal, who is a daughter of the late Nathaniel Newburgh, two sons and one daughter.

Jacob Levy, aged sixty-two, died on July 5, at his late home in the San Marco, Walnut Hills. He was the

husband of Flora Levy nee Goldberg. The remains were cremated and the funeral services were held at the Crematory on Tuesday evening.

Mrs .Emma Rosenthal announces the marriage of her daughter, Nettie, to Mr. Edward E. Altman of Cincinnati, O., on July 8, 1914, at her residence, 5703 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill. No cards. – July 9 1914

75 Y EARS A GO Dr. Albert B. Sabin, of the Rockefeller Institute, New York City, will enter upon his reserach duties at Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, in September.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Levy, 731 Red Bud Avenue, are touring the East to the World’s Fair in New York City and to Atlantic City.

Kenesiah Business and Professional Womens’ Group of the Jewish Center plans an opera Monday, July 17th, at the CocaCola Auditorium. The committee includes Mrs. Margaret Wolf and Mrs. Gertrude Braun.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Frank have returned to their residence in Vernon Manor from Rochester, where they visited their son-in-law and daugther, Mr .and Mrs. Eugene Lowenthal.

Miss Joyce Wasserman, Cincinnati violinist, has won the Woolley International Scholarship, entitling her to a year’s study in Paris. She will leave in September.

– July 13, 1939

50 Y EARS A GO Mr. and Mrs. Morris A. Zipkin, 2196 Bluegrass Lane, announce the forthcoming Bar Mitzvah of their son, Jeffrey Warren, Saturday, July 25, at 9 a.m., at Ohav Shalom Synagogue, 1834 Section Road.

Friends and relatives are cordially invited to worship with the family and attend the Kiddush following the service.

A reception in Jeffrey’s honor will be held at the Ohav Shalom Synagogue that evening, July 25, from 9:30 pm. to 12:30 a.m. No cards.

Jeffrey is a grandson of MRs. Sarah Jaffe, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and the late Mr. Henry Jaffe, and Mrs. Frieda Zipkin of Newark, N.J., and the late Mr. Hyman Zipkin.

Mr. James E. Rappoport has graduated from Cornell University, College of Architecture. He was on the dean’s list for excellence in scholarship.

Mr. Rappoport’s graduation thesis was a model redevelopment of Mount Adams, Cincinnati. He worked under a grant from the Ford Foundation during the summer of 1963 in research on the material.

A public display of the model

and drawings will be arranged in September.

Mr. Rappoport is the son of Mr. and Mrs Milton J. Rappoport of Revel Lane. – July 16, 1964

25 Y EARS A GO Dr. and Mrs. Stanford Ullner announce the engagment of their daugther, Teri Illene, to Harlan D. Meyer, son of Dr. and Mrs. Tearle L. Meyer of Columbus.

Teri is the granddaughter of Paul and Jean Morton, Myer Ullner, and the late Esther Ullner. Harlan is the grandson of Leslie and Lil Weber of Dayton, Bertha Meyer of Columbus, and the late Dr. Paul D. Meyer.

Teri si a graduate of the University of Cincinnati with a bachelor’s degree in communication arts and a master’s degree in labor and employment relations. She is an employment specialist with Metroweb Corp., Erlanger, KY. Harlan is a graduate of Tufts University and will receive his M.D. degree from U.C. in June, 1990.

A spring wedding in Cincinnati is planned.

Cheryl Late Steinberg and Jim Steinberg announce the birth of a daughter, Jillian Brett, July 7. Jillian has a sister, Jordan, and a brother, Jared.

Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Steinberg of Cincinnati and Mr. and Mrs. Louis D. Slate of Boca Raton, FL. Great grandmother is Louise Buka of Cincinnati. – July 20, 1989

10 Y EARS A GO Deena and Ray Frewen proudly announce the birth of their son, Nathaniel Aidan (Naftali Zvi) on July 6, 2004. Nathan’s siblings are Alyssa, Melanie, and Jeremy.

Naternal grandparents are Penina Frankel and the late Naftali Frankel Paternal grandparents are Edna and Ron Frewen.

Andrea (Pravda) and Bradley Joselit, of Northbrook, IL, announce the birth of their son, Eli Wesley Joselit on June 27, 2004. Eli has a sister, Charlotte Pravda Joselit and a brother, Jack Sharf Joselit.

Maternal grandparents are Myra and Dr. Marvin Pravda of Montgomery, OH. The maternal great grandparents Dr. Samuel Harris of Montgomery and the late Charlotte (Teddy) Harris and the late Joseph and Claire Pravda of Bronx, NY. The paternal grandparents are Harreit and Herb Bartick of Scottsdale, AZ, and the late Roy H. Joselit of Chicago, IL. The paternal great grandparents are Adele Sharf of North Miami Beach, FL, and the late Jack and Norma Sharf adn the late Roy and Irene Joselit of Los Angeles, CA. – July 29, 2004

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EXODUS from page 9 asylum from Eritrea and Sudan, which are ruled by repressive regimes.

But Israel says they are economic migrants seeking a higher standard of living, and it fenced off its border with Egypt in 2012 to prevent future migrants from entering. Anyone who crosses Israel’s border illegally now faces a year in prison.

Last year, Israel approved the financial grants for voluntary departure and opened the Holot facility. Approximately 3,000 out of Israel’s African migrant population of 60,000 have chosen to voluntarily depart.

Chafing at their restrictions, the detainees who marched toward the Egyptian border last week aimed to cross into Egypt and wait there for assistance from the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, according to Liat Bolzman, an Israeli who accompanied them.

Blocked by Israeli border guards, the protesters set up camp

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on the border, sheltering themselves with sheets, and surviving on food and water brought by supporters.

Two days after the initial march, units of Israeli immigration police and border guards forcibly dispersed the camp and sent the remaining protesters to Saharonim Prison, next to Holot. Bolzman said six protesters were injured during the operation.

“They were ready to cross,” she said. “It’s better than sitting in the detention center for they don’t know how much time. They said we can’t live like this anymore, we’re ready to take this risk and cross the border rather than be here.”

But though the migrants say they are fed up with Israel, crossing the border and receiving U.N. help in Egypt may not be realistic.

Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is known among migrants for harrowing stories of kidnapping and torture. And the representative in Israel of the U.N. high commissioner for refugees said that migrants who cross the border

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without proper documentation should not expect prompt assistance from the United Nations.

“In order to make this possible, you can’t just start marching for the border,” said the representative, Walpurga Englbrecht, while also urging Israel to improve conditions for migrants. “You cannot just assume everything will be arranged at the end if there are no arrangements made beforehand. If you go to another country, you need a passport. You need an entry visa.”

Anat Ovadia, spokeswoman for Israel’s Hotline for Migrant Workers, an aid organization, suggested that the goal of the march was more to gain Israeli sympathy for the migrants, not for them to cross the border.

“This step was a protest step to get Israel’s attention and get U.N. attention,” Ovadia said. “It’s a testament to how much Israel is despairing them.”

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SALUTE from page 16 one-fingered salute. And maybe a bullet to the head. Except, would you believe, a lot of the people celebrating the abduction/murder of three teenagers are Arab children? I don’t think I could fathom a more despicable form of child abuse than turning a child into a soulless monster like that.

At least when some scumbag parent hits their child (God forbid), the kid still retains their humanity!

Bottom line: If U.S. policymakers were to say anything to the Israelis, it should be short and simple, like this: Dear Israel, Do what you have to do. If you can do it without leaving a Middle East-sized hole in the planet, we’d be much obliged.

Love, America PS: Thanks for taking care of Osirak – you really saved our asses.

So yes, I firmly believe this situation calls for restraint. We need to show restraint when it comes to dictating Israel’s defense policy to them. We’re supposed to be watching their GENOCIDE from page 16 Authority’s newspapers and radio and television shows would be inciting Palestinians to hate Israeli Arabs with the same vehemence that they hate Israeli Jews.

They would be accusing Israeli Arabs of being evil and Nazilike. Their political cartoons against the “occupation” would be showing Israeli Arabs as monstrous occupiers. Instead, their cartoons show “occupiers” with huge hooked noses, side curls, beards, and yarmulkes.

Palestinian terrorists don’t plant bombs in supermarkets in Israeli Arab neighborhoods. They don’t machine-gun bus passengers in Israeli Arab towns. They don’t kidnap Israeli Arab teenagers from hitchhiking posts and murder them.

The reason is simple, and there is no other reasonable explanation: their goal is to mur-

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(513) 531-9600 back, not stabbing it. And we need to restrain ourselves from providing any further aid to the Palestinian “government.”

Governor Huckabee said it best when he explained that “even by the State Department’s liberal standards,” Hamas is recognized as a terrorist organization. Our government’s policy, he noted, is not to negotiate with terrorists – so we sure as hell shouldn’t be funding them!

The Israelis have been fighting an uphill battle for decades, and they’ve just suffered a devastating tragedy. The last thing they need is a warning not to “destabilize the situation.” The message that sends is that the situation is apparently stable, so long as it’s only Jews being killed.

If we in the United States consider our great nation a friend of Israel – AKA the lone beacon of democracy, freedom, and human rights in the Middle East-then we’d damned well better start acting like it!

Daniel Perez is a freelance writer and media consultant based in New York City.

der Jews.

The international legal definition of the crime of genocide is found in Articles II and III of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide: “Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”

That is what they have been doing, whether with knives and bombs, airplane hijackings and suicide bombers, or kidnap-murders of hitchhikers. It’s an inconvenient truth. It doesn’t suit most political agendas. But it’s the reality.

It’s time to acknowledge the nature of what Palestinian terrorists have been doing to the Jews for more than a century – and about what they have now done to three Jewish teenagers. It’s not politics, it’s not policies. It’s genocide.

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Wedding Celebrations Zell’s Bites

by Zell Schulman The day your child gets married is as exciting as the day he/she was born. First there is the engagement party, followed by bridal showers, bachelor parties, then, the rehearsal dinner and a brunch for those from out of town, just to name a few. The prenuptial parties, haven’t changed but the wedding ceremony has now become a “Destination.”

Where to begin your preparation for any of these affairs can be overwhelming no matter what the event.

The mother of the bride or groom enjoys putting her own personal touch to the simcha. When my daughter got married, I made the napkin rings. When my first son got married, I made the confections for the tables as well as these quick and easy nibblers. I cannot give you a recipe for napkin rings but for the confections and nibblers I can.

Enjoy, enjoy!

CHOCOLATE DIPPED CONFECTIONS Dried fruits nuts, pretzels, and citrus peel dipped in chocolate, add elegance to any occasion. When dipping anything in chocolate the temperature is very critical. Chocolate must be melted at the correct temperature (even the weather can affect the chocolate – dry days are the best). Get together with friends or family and turn it into a fun project.

Ingredients 1/2 lb Semi-sweet chocolate Method l. Break Semi-sweet chocolate into pieces. Place in a food processor and pulse several times until chopped then place the semi-sweet chocolate pieces in the top of a lquart double boiler, over boiling

water and stir the chocolate continuously until melted and smoth, or place in a 4 cup glass measure and microwave for 30 seconds, stir and microwave 5 to 10 seconds more.

Remove from the microwave and stir well until melted and smooth.

2. Proceed to dip your confections into the chocolate. Place on a jelly roll pan which has been covered with parchment or wax paper.

Set in the refrigerator until the chocolate has hardened, about 15 to 20 minutes, then store in an air-tight container with wax paper between the layers.

Zell’s Tips: I store mine on my back porch or a cool area SPICED NUTS (Nibblers) Makes 4 cups Quick and easy to make. They may be made ahead and kept in the freezer until needed.

Ingredients 2 tablespoons butter 2/3 cups Worcestershire Sauce 2 dashes of Tabasco Sauce 1/4 teaspoon cumin 4 cups unsalted, mixed nuts ( whole pecans, blanched almonds and cashews halves) Method l. In a 2-cup glass measure, or a 2 quart saucepan, place the butter, Worcestershire, Tabasco and cumin.

Microwave on High for l minute or heat in small saucepan for 2 minutes, stirring continuously until melted together. Remove from heat and stir in nuts.

2. Preheat the oven to 300º F. 3.Grease or line a jellyroll pan with parchment paper and distribute the nuts evenly on top. Place in oven and bake for l5 to 20 minutes, until crisp, shaking the pan now and then.

Watch so they don’t burn.

4.Empty the nuts onto the greased or lined pan and lightly sprinkle with kosher salt if you wish.

Set the pan on a rack and allow the nuts to cool completely, about 20 to 30 minutes. Store in an airtight container.

Atlantic City: Sun, sand, and saltwater taffy Wandering Jew

by Janet Steinberg From the Boardwalk to the Bay, Atlantic City, New Jersey has been drawing people to its shore for over a century. This major resort city, 120 miles south of New York City on Absecon Island, exudes a small town charm coupled with an international big city environment.

The home of the Miss America Pageant, Atlantic City was founded in the late 19th century as a resort destination, but it fell out of favor in the last half of the 20th century.

After legalized gambling was revived in 1976, casinos began popping up on the Atlantic City boardwalk.

The Atlantic City Boardwalk, the world’s first boardwalk and the backbone of this seaside resort city, served as the inspiration for the original version of the board game Monopoly. The streets in this world famous board game, take their names from Atlantic City’s streets.

Atlantic City’s 4-mile long Boardwalk, the oldest in the United States, is home to most of the city’s casinos. While walking is the most popular way of navigating the boardwalk, there are also old-fashioned shaded surreys that can be rolled up and down the length of the Boardwalk by experienced guides.

The rolling chair was introduced in the 1880’s and was the only vehicle permitted on the Boardwalk at the time. It was once a sign of luxury for vacationers to ride in a rolling chair.

A ride in a rolling chair on the Boardwalk is a great way to get to a particular destination or to relax and enjoy a scenic tour. National

Geographic called it the “grandfather of boardwalks”.

Several piers radiate from the Boardwalk. The Steel Pier is a legendary part of Atlantic City history.

Delivering cutting edge family fun, it features both classic and new amusement park rides, games and food, The Garden Pier is known as the arts and cultural center of the Atlantic City Boardwalk complete with Atlantic City Historical Museum and Atlantic City Art Center.

“Here she is…Miss America…”

Who can forget Bert Parks crooning that song as the each new Miss America was crowned? Parks hosted the annual contest from 1955 to 1979. Today, a bronze statue of the iconic Parks in the garden fronting the Sheraton Atlantic City

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Convention Center Hotel, still crowns visitors and sings his song as you stand beneath the crown he is holding.

Within the hotel, in the lobby rotunda, is the Miss America Dress Exhibit featuring some of the dresses (or replicas) worn by former Miss America’s. Miss America 2014 lent her original stunning yellow satin mermaid-style dress to the exhibit.

In the second floor rotunda of the hotel is the “Shoe Bar” that displays the collection of unusual shoes worn by the contestants in the Miss

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America Parade. During the parade, spectators would shout, “Show us your shoes!” Their shoes are elaborately decorated with themes from the states the girls represent.

I reveled in my accommodations in Atlantic City. Revel Atlantic City Hotel gives new meaning to the word “revel”. Atlantic City’s newest casino hotel has raised the bar on pure pleasure. It is Atlantic City’s premium destination… a luxury hotel/resort that just happens to have a casino.

Revel’s futuristic design and décor makes most hotel/casinos seem outdated. Light flows through floor-to-ceiling windows…smoking areas are well-planned… rooms are high tech with drapes, lights, and thermostats all controlled by the TV remote.

This 57-story hotel, the tallest structure in Atlantic City and the second tallest in the state of New Jersey, is the northernmost casino on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.

Because of its location on the north end of the Boardwalk, this visually stunning venue is a peaceful respite from the hustle and bustle of the lower Boardwalk.

Relaxing, a word that is not de rigueur at most casino/hotels, comes easily at Revel…either in the SkyGarden, an outdoor oasis 114 ft. above sea level between sand and sky…on the sandy beach… at the In-Out swimming pool that begins indoors and continues outside…or in the Spa. Aaaahhh the Spa! Exhale, the Mindbody Spa at Revel, is a spa dedicated to elevating wellbeing.

Within this stunning 35,000 squarefoot sanctuary, you can socialize in the healing co-ed bathhouse, restore your mind and body in one of 32 spa rooms, and revive in the mind body studio and gym that offers a plethora of classes.

Exhale has a saying: “The deeper the inner journey, the greater the outer results.” Well, let me tell you, my Swedish-based Fusion Massage provided me with an unparalleled hour of relaxation and great outer results. And my Power Facial made me feel 10-years younger… even if I didn’t look it.

And of course, what’s a grand hotel without grand restaurants?

With Revel’s 10 dining venues to choose from, I had major decisions to make. But I came up with a couple of real winners.

American Cut is a modern American steakhouse where Iron Chef Marc Forgione puts a delicious spin on traditional favorites in a sexy and vibrant atmosphere. The ArtDeco- inspired main dining room features an open show-kitchen and stunning views of the Atlantic.

Azure by Allegretti transports the allure and high style of the Mediterranean to the Jersey Shore.

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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014

Audi’s 2015 A3 1.8T may be small, but it’s got power and luxury to spare Audi is betting that Americans still love the small car, through plans to have its new A3 dominate the premium small-sedan segment. This is a auto catergory expected to explode, and Audi expects the growth to happen not just in sales numbers but diversity of product.

Thus, Audi plans to cover all the bases with a whole slew of A3 variants, including this four-door sedan, a two-door cabriolet, a Q3 crossover, and, also in 2015, the A3 e-tron fivedoor plug-in hybrid.

Audi designed the A3 sedan specifically with hatchback-phobic Americans in mind. The four-door is thus the first A3 model to arrive.

The A3 is more than half a foot shorter than its prime competitor, the slinky Mercedes-Benz CLA-class, and a dimensional near-duplicate of the original, B5-generation A4 sedan (sold from 1995 through 2001).

Built using Volkswagen’s flexible MQB architecture that also underpins the MkVII VW Golf/GTI and 2016 Audi TT, among many other VW Group products, the A3 is 10 inches shorter than the 2014 A4, but within about an inch of its bigger brother in height and width. As such, the A3 slides into the space left open when the A4 grew into the ’tweener it is now. Like many Audis, the front wheels have been moved forward from the platform baseline, by about 1.5 inches in this case, to give the car better dash-to-axle proportions.

Two of the A3’s most noteworthy elements are the beautifully integrated ducktail shape of the short decklid—no tacked-on spoiler!— and the wedge line that rises from the front axle to the rear bumper. The latter catches a broad swath of light near the rear fender arch, imparting a sense of forward lean. The A3 also

has its own LED light signatures.

The A3’s zero-gap panel fits and excellent materials give its streamlined interior a true luxury brand ambience, even when modestly equipped. Nicely grained surfaces and the requisite soft-touch surfaces grace the dash and doors. To dress up the space, spring for the Aluminum Style package, which adds silver inlays and a knurled ring around each HVAC vent. A standard retractable info screen serves as the display for Audi’s MMI system, while the available Navigation Plus system includes a larger screen and character input capability via a touch pad atop the MMI controller.

The A3’s standard-issue front seats are comfortable enough, and the driver’s chair features 12-way power adjustments; a $550 Sport package is available on higher-end trims, which brings on shift paddles,

Porsche Cayenne a family vehicle that’s both practical and stylish The Porsche Cayenne began its existence as a crossover counterpoint to Porsche’s lineup of lean, focused sports cars; but it’s now earned its place on the lot as the brand’s top seller, and it’s not the “outsider” anymore. As the brand's top-seller, A successful family vehicle, and a highly practical utility vehicle, the Cayenne manages to incorporate much of the personality of the

brand's leaner-and-lower models.

The model line is also getting longer: last year they added a diesel model, and in 2014 they added the Cayenne Turbo S, with 50 hp more than the Turbo. this model line keeps getting longer—last year, with addition of a diesel model, and now for 2014 with a new Cayenne Turbo S, making 50 hp more than the Turbo.

Wrap a rather sleek, modern utility-vehicle silhouette in with the

rough approximation of the 911's curves, and you get the Cayenne— which is at odds with the more traditional SUV. There's very little rugged about this design—even though it's deft off-pavement. Inside, the Cayenne is even less typical, with a coupe-like cockpit up front, with curved surfaces, upscale materials, and even an analog clock.

sport seats, and the Audi Drive Select system, the latter for tailoring shifting, throttle mapping, and steering effort to the driver’s liking. The rear seat splits and folds to expand the A3’s trunk space from a minimum 12.3 cubic feet (10.0 with Quattro). Another highlight is a large moonroof that Audi describes as “panoramic,” over the front-seat area.

The A3’s offers an industry-first optional 4G LTE connectivity, which uses a NVIDIA graphics processor for quick loading of Audi’s Google Maps–based navigation, smooth audio streaming, and even a cool “picture navigation” feature that lets you send a geotagged picture to your car and set it as a destination. The system also turns the A3 into a mobile hotspot, should you feel like sharing your data dollars with friends and family. It also

offers a sparklingly crisp optional Bang & Olufsen surround-sound audio system, with its 14 speakers and 705 watts—some 200 watts more powerful than similar systems in the A4 and A5.

The A3’s electric steering is direct, precise, and nicely weighted, especially at higher speedsl. Not surprisingly, with the 18-inch wheels and lower-profile 40-series tires (vs.

45-series rubber with the 17-inchers), steering feedback improves slightly, but the difference in ultimate grip is remarkable. Impacts are nicely absorbed, and, thanks to the innately solid MQB structure, sound insulation, and other sound-deadening measures, not even the grainiest road surfaces intrude upon cabin serenity.

The Audi A3 1.8 T starts at $26,115.

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Dershowitz also pointed to the misinformation provided by the government and high-ranking intelligence officials, many of them Jewish, to scapegoat Pollard.

“Secretary Weinberger, who hated Israel with a passion largely because of his own Jewish heritage which he was embarrassed about and despised, allowed personal

FINKENSTEIN, Marica, died July 4, 2014; 6 Tammuz, 5774.

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DISCORD from page 10 stood the hint, retorting, “You’re one to talk. The one to take advantage of the situation, to call a press conference before the funerals [of murdered Israeli teens Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach, and Naftali Frenkel] and give statements to the press was you, Mr. Prime Minister. You stood there and used slogans you can’t back up.

At least my statements follow a set [political] line. You said you would act harshly against Hamas, you ran for election on that slogan-so act on it.”

Netanyahu stressed that some decisions were best left to the

Diplomatic-Security Cabinet’s discretion, telling Lieberman, “Maybe if you attended cabinet meetings you’d understand.”

The foreign minister said he was absent from recent cabinet meetings because he was on a series of state visits, which he cut short given the recent events. Netanyahu proceeded to remind Lieberman that he was absent from last week’s cabinet meeting despite being in Israel, to which Lieberman responded, “Don’t patronize me,” adding that he had a meeting with Albania’s parliamentary speaker and that one “can’t cancel a meeting with foreign dignitaries on two hours’ notice.”

vendetta to get in the way and he committed perjury in his affidavit,” said Dershowitz.

Another high-level official who called for Pollard to receive a life sentence was Admiral Sumner Shapiro, then director of the Office of Naval Intelligence.

Attempts by Pollard supporters and Israeli government officials to ask for presidential clemency, dating back to the presidency of Bill

Clinton, have so far failed due to opposition from U.S. officials.

Dershowitz said that Jews in highranking government positions have long been sensitive to accusations of having dual loyalty to the U.S. and Israel. This has caused Jewish officials to lean “over backwards to try to prove their patriotism,” he said.

Other arguments against Pollard’s release include accusations that he sold secrets to apartheid-era

South Africa. Dershowitz called that a “false and racist” charge intended to sway the trial judge, who was African American.

At the time of Pollard’s sentencing in 1987, federal law required parole eligibility for those serving life sentences after 30 years, with good behavior. Now 59, Pollard is eligible for parole on Nov. 21, 2015.

But Pollard’s release is not guaranteed, Dershowitz said.

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widely seen as a forced retirement connected to alleged financial irregularities, though Heisler denies this.

“For the first time in a long time, there is a chance for change, but it will be gradual and slow,” said Mircea Cernov, CEO of the Haver Foundation. “It will take time to change the current distribution of resources within the Jewish community, which is designed to resist change instead of encouraging development and growth.”

Buchler is hoping for a more radical change, one that will do more than

just redistribute community funds. His organization is working to instill a culture of giving in a country where years of corruption and militant communism have left many with a cynical attitude toward social altruism.

“Heritage preservation is done with the government’s money and young Jewish groups operate on funding from abroad, but almost nothing is coming from the community itself,” Buchler said. “We need to focus on changing that through instilling financial transparency. The rest will follow.”

God that allows something like this to happen.

For the last 18 days, many of these teens have been living and breathing the believed captivity of the teens, not considering that they were killed right away and their bodies dumped in a shallow grave outside of Hebron. They have attended special prayer services, recited psalms in public and private, and decided to take on additional mitzvot to convince God to bring the boys home. And they have returned home – just not in the way that we hoped they

would.

The Education Ministry this morning sent a letter to parents, emailed by our local schools, to help us guide our children through this difficult time and return them to their “full and active lives.”

At this moment, seeing on television the teens’ fathers saying the Mourner’s Kaddish over their sons’ shrouded and flag-draped bodies, it is hard to believe that things will ever be normal again.

But I know they must. For all of our children, for us and for our country.

an unending array of beers and Irish coffee.

You can shop ‘til you drop at The Pier Shops at Caesars. This upscale mall, on the historic Boardwalk, was built on what was once an industrial pier. This upscale shopping destination features such world-class names in fashion as Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Michael Kors, and Burberry. The more budgetminded can make their way to the Tanger Outlets, right behind Caesars casino.

When it’s time for a pickup and you need a sugar rush, head to Fralinger’s, the most famous name in Salt Water Taffy since the 1880’s.

Legend has it that Salt Water Taffy received its name by accident. A young candy merchant opened a taffy stand on the first Atlantic City Boardwalk – then just two steps above sea level. One night a generous tide brought in surf that sprayed sea foam over his establishment and dampened his stock of candy. The next morning, the merchant was dismayed to find his merchandise wet and responded to a girl’s request for taffy with a sarcastic but witty, “you mean Salt Water Taffy.” The name stuck!

Lucy the Elephant, located along the beach in Josephine Harron Park

in the nearby town of Margate, is a 6-story high building in the shape of an elephant. Built in 1881, and listed on the National Park Registry of Historical Landmarks, this is a piece of Americana not to be missed. This iconic elephant, whose picture is painted on the town’s water tower, survived the 2012 Hurricane Sandy.

Guided tours take you inside Lucy the Elephant. If you are wondering how you get inside an elephant, the answer is simple…through her front door. If you are wondering how you see outside from within an elephant, the answer is also simple…through her window eyes. I love Lucy!

The 157-year old Absecon Lighthouse is New Jersey’s tallest Lighthouse and the third tallest in the country. If you choose to ascend the 228 steps of the Absecon Lighthouse, you’ll have breathtaking views of the Atlantic City skyline and up top you’ll come face-toface with the original first-order Fresnel lens, first lit in 1857.

A trip to the real Jersey Shore beat watching the TV reality show of the same name. Don’t take your vision of Atlantic City from that show, but rather from the Monopoly board: “Do Not Pass Go”… but do go directly to Atlantic City

young Jewish activists in Budapest for sessions on how to reconcile the competing commitments in Hungary and elsewhere.

The discussions come amid a larger debate about reforming Mazsihisz policies and finances in the wake of a recent shakeup that saw Peter Feldmajer, the group’s former president, replaced by Heisler. Shortly after, Gusztav Zoltai, who had served for decades as the organization’s all-powerful director, resigned in what was FEARS from page 9 disturbed to realize that my children had already heard them.

Last night, following the announcement about the bodies, our community rabbi invited the youth of our community to join him to talk about their feelings upon reaching the end of this tragic episode. My teenage children went. They said the discussion was emotional and touched on an array of issues – from what they should do going forward to how they can continue to relate to a ATLANTIC CITY from page 21 Alain Allegretti, a native of Nice, France, combines his perfect French technique with his Italian heritage to create a fresh and flavorful spin on Riviera fare.

When I finally pulled myself away from Revel’s pampering paradise, I found lots of food and fun in the outside world.

The Knife and Fork restaurant has led a long and colorful life in Atlantic City for over 100 years. The distinctive four-story Flemish structure was originally established in 1912 as an exclusive men’s club. In 1927, the club was converted into a public restaurant, which eventually hosted celebrities the likes of Frank Sinatra and Burt Lancaster. The Knife and Fork signature dinner of chowder, salad, and surf and turf was a winner.

For cheap eats, you can’t beat the affordable lunches at The Irish Pub. And the food is as great as the prices. The history of the Irish Pub dates back to the 19th century and its walls display the memorabilia to prove it. It has survived wicked weather and wars. It has hosted the famous and infamous. Lest I forget, this establishment that has been called “America’s Greatest Pub” has

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