The Jewish Week 4-24-2020 by rich waloff

Will Gantz Ever Get to Be Israel’s Prime Minister?

New Face, from HIAS, at the Presidents Conference

Personal Rights, Public Health and the States

PAGE 7

PAGE 16

PAGE 18

www.thejewishweek.com

BROOKLYN, QUEENS, LONG ISLAND • $1.00

APRIL 24, 2020 • 30 NISAN 5780

Brisses Too Close for Comfort Amid Crisis?

SPECIAL REPORT

Inside the Murky World of Unkosher Torahs Why is the Museum of the Bible collecting unusable scrolls?

Conservative movement urges hospital procedures, but some mohels disagree. Stewart Ain Staff Writer

PAGE 13 A Torah scroll at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.

How Teaneck Eased the Grip of Coronavirus

Rabbis and municipal leaders acted quickly to limit Covid-19’s spread in the hard-hit New Jersey township. Steve Lipman Staff Writer

he rite of circumcision is the latest Jewish ritual to be upended by the coronavirus outbreak. The Conservative movement and some mohels are saying that because of the highly infectious nature of Covid-19, circumcision should be performed in the hospital shortly after birth, with a religious ceremony and procedure performed later. But the Orthodox and Reform movements, and other mohels, insist that a hospital circumcision is among the worst options — not only because of risk of exposure to the novel coronavirus, but because the later ceremony would require the ritual removal of a drop of blood, or hatafat dam brit.

The Coronavirus Crisis

s the coronavirus rampaged through the Modern Orthodox community of Westchester County’s New Rochelle in early March, just 19 miles away in northern New Jersey two Jewish deputy mayors huddled with Bergen County

rabbis in a hastily called meeting. It was just after Purim in Teaneck. Elie Katz and Mark Schwartz were watching as the number of Covid-19 cases in their township, which includes a large Modern Orthodox community, spiked. They

continued on page 10

Obituaries

Arts Guide

Editor’s Column

Sabbath

Covid-19 is making the ritual circumcision evermore complicated. YONATAN SI N DEL/F L ASH90 “Why would you subject your child to two procedures if you could wait a little bit” and do it at home as the pace of new infections drops, asked Cantor Philip Sherman, a certified mohel from White Plains. “When I do a circumcision it takes 20 seconds. An experienced physician takes 7 to 10 minutes, the baby is strapped down to a board, and the parents aren’t allowed to be there. When I do it, it is quick,

continued on page 20

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

TH E N EW YO R K

Jewish Week

VOL. 232 NO. 43, April 24, 2020

Richard Waloff PUBLISHER

Andrew Silow-Carroll EDITOR IN CHIEF

Gary Rosenblatt EDITOR AT LARGE

Robert Goldblum MANAGING EDITOR

Stewart Ain, Hannah Dreyfus, Steve Lipman STAFF WRITERS

Caroline Lagnado FOOD & WINE EDITOR

Ruth B. Rothseid SALES MANAGER

Thea Wieseltier

Recognition for Parker Jewish Institute in the battle against COVID-19

DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PROJECTS

Dan Bocchino ART DIRECTOR

Clarissa Hamilton, Janice Hwang, Dani Shetrit GRAPHIC DESIGN/PRODUCTION

Arielle Sheinwald OPERATIONS MANAGER

Parker has served our community for over 100 years, providing adult health care and rehabilitation that few institutions can match, and none exceed, as Parker is a multi-year recipient of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s coveted Five Star Quality Rating.

Stephanie Fischetti DIGITAL CLIENT SERVICES MANAGER

Arlene Bienenfeld, Stephanie Fischetti, Suzanne Puchalsky Jordan Silver, Rochelle Stolzenberg, Seth Yedwab SALES REPRESENTATIVES

In this extraordinary moment it is important that we recognize that Parker, and nursing homes like it, are on the frontlines of the battle against our globally common enemy, the novel coronavirus. We remember that it is always the soldiers on the front lines that suffer the greatest casualties, but it is these same warriors by whom victory is won. The men and women of Parker report for duty day in and day out to protect and care for our community’s most vulnerable citizens, and to them we owe a debt of gratitude.

Dara Goldstein SALES ASSISTANT Filomena Gindy Mark Schnitzler CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Gershon Fastow ADVERTISING COORDINATOR

Joshua Freedman (Marketing Intern), Nancy Greenblatt (Circulation Manager), Ed Mateo(Bookkeeper), Alynne Wesson (Copy Editing), Jeremy Uliss (Editorial Intern), Cathy Zimmermann (Admin. Asst.), April Zion (Adv./Mktg. Copy Writer)

Rachel Saifer Goldman

Parker has led this battle from the front by being a vanguard in laboratory testing for COVID-19, implementing infection prevention controls, creating a COVID-19 surveillance system, and reporting all severe respiratory infections or deaths to our New York Health Department.

PROJECT COORDINATOR, THE CONVERSATION

Lily Weinberg WRITE ON FOR ISRAEL/FRESH INK

Sandee Brawarsky (Culture), Hilary Danailova (Travel), Linda Scherzer (Write On For Israel) CONTRIBUTING EDITORS ISRAEL REPRESENTATIVE

So in this moment when we are all saddened to hear how the nation’s nursing homes have been ground zero for the worst ravages of COVID-19, it is time to stand with the real heroes of our community into whose loving care we entrust the wellbeing of those in our community who need it the most. We thank all of our supporters! Congressman Thomas Suozzi Assemblyman David Weprin Councilman Barry Grodenchik James W. Clyne, Jr., President and CEO, LeadingAge New York Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Executive Vice President of the New York Board of Rabbis Don Shulman, President and CEO, Association of Jewish Aging Services

Peter Seideman

Peter Seideman Chairman, Board of Trustees

Michael N. Rosenblut Michael N. Rosenblut President and CEO

International Media Placement P.O. BOX 7195, JERUSALEM 91077 02-625-2933, nachum@impmedia.co.il

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kai Falkenberg, President Stuart Himmelfarb, Board Chair Peter Wang, Board Chair Michael Laufer, Treasurer Jeff Feig, Secretary Richard L. Hirsch, Honorary President Billie Gold, Honorary Chair Jacob Doft, Michael Dorf, Edith Everett, Matthew Hiltzik, Gail Propp, David Sable, Jeffrey Stern, Don Winter. The Jewish Week is an independent community newspaper. Any positions reflected are solely those of The Jewish Week or its contributing writers. The New York Jewish Week (ISSN 0745-5356) (USPS 030330) is published weekly by The Jewish Week, Inc. at 1501 Broadway, New York, NY 10036. Periodicals postage paid at New York NY, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to The New York Jewish Week, 1501 Broadway, New York, NY 10036. Basic annual subscription rate: The basic annual subscription rate (52 issues) is $9 and is available to contributors of $50 or more to the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. Should you wish to cancel the subscription call 212-836-1484 or email JewishWeek@ujafedny. org. Annual subscriptions may also be purchased by others at the following rates: in New York City, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester Counties: $58; elsewhere in the U.S. and Canada, $68; foreign, $140 in U.S. currency.

OFFICE

1501 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 For subscription orders and address changes please call: (212) 921-7822

E-MAIL ADDRESS:

editor@jewishweek.org (or use a reporter’s first name before @)

VISIT OUR WEBSITE:

YIVO Archive to Capture ‘This Strange Moment’ YIVO archival photo of Jews making matzah in the Lodz ghetto. YIVO

s it has done repeatedly over its 90-year history, YIVO is collecting first-person stories from the Jewish public, this time related to the lived experience of the Covid-19 pandemic. Stefanie Halpern, director of the YIVO Archive, initiated this latest effort with her colleagues, who last week sent out a call for material through their website, word of mouth and social media. To date, they have received responses from the United States, Lithuania, Argentina, Columbia, Belgium, Canada and other countries, from people in their 20s to 80s, and continue to get new responses daily. When asked in the questionnaire to describe their Jewish identity, some write secular, Litvak, Modern Orthodox, “very, very strong,” “bad Jew,” practicing Reform Jew, “queer and diasporic,” Conservative, Jewish Renewal and “atheist missing Jewish ritual.” Individuals write about the sounds of ambulance sirens, the deaths of friends and being alone, and they speak about how the pandemåic has af-

fected their Jewish practice. One writes of never feeling more connected to the Jewish community, and others speak of joining synagogues and engaging in Jewish practice for the first time. Halpern observes, “At a time when people are completely isolated, there’s a turning toward the Jewish community.” About new activities, someone writes of hanging amulets on doors to guard against disease. Another says that his mother is convinced that the Messiah is coming. In a question about how their Passover was affected, a Holocaust survivor describes having a seder alone. A family in Argentina details its Zoom seder with family members all talking at the same time as they do in person. After the meal featuring the same food in their different time zones, they lingered for a while, “talking about things and life and this very strange moment.” Since its founding in Europe in 1925, YIVO has sent out questions, at first on topics like folklore and customs, and over the decades have reached out to collect oral histories of Jewish soldiers, witnesses of pogroms, experiences during the Holocaust and other moments of great strife for the Jewish community, preserving their voices. The latest collection will be available online and also on paper in the YIVO library when it is able to reopen. See Yivo.org/share-your-story. Sandee Brawarsky

Recovering Rabbi is Giving Back — Antibodies, That Is

ome rabbis gripe that small way to help, in our minds they give blood for it’s a no-brainer. The doctors, their congregants. In nurses and medical staff are dothis case, it wasn’t hyperbole. ing so much. This is the least we After recovering from Cocould do.” vid-19, Rabbi Aviad Bodner of The couple has three small Ramath Orah, a Modern Orthochildren, ages 3, 18 months dox congregation on the Upper and 2 months. West Side, knew what he had The program at Mt. Sinai Hosto do. The rabbi, 34, and his Ramath Orah Rabbi Aviad Bodner pital will hopefully be able to use wife Lindsey, also 34, recov- donating plasma. COU RTESY OF R AB B I BODN ER antibodies produced in those who ered and decided to donate plasma with the hopes have overcome the disease to help those fighting it. their antibodies could be used to help others. Lindsey Bodner said it was important to doRabbi Bodner said he went to the hospital after nate her plasma. having a high fever on March 6 but was told to go “The Jewish response is when tragedy strikes you home. He decided not to attend his synagogue’s have to do whatever you can,” she said. “We wanted Purim services as a precaution. to set an example. I wish we could do more.” His wife came down with symptoms a few days Rabbi Bodner, who said he closed his synagogue later and went to Urgent Care. She took a test for the the week after Purim, conducts Zoom services. coronavirus, which came back positive five days later. “We are living in an unprecedented and scary Despite the fact that it’s not known for sure time,” he said. “We must do whatever we can to if someone can be re-infected, both decided to stop the spread. I’m not a hero; I am just hoping donate their plasma. that my wife and I can help others in need. I hope “We wanted to go public with it,” said Rabbi others who have recovered will do the same.” Bodner, who is originally from Israel. “If there’s a Alan Zeitlin

Running (and Sheltering) in Place

Elisha Nochomovitz on his balcony in Balma, France, where he ran an entire marathon. COU RTESY OF NOCHOMOVIT Z

lisha Nochomovitz, a 32-year-old French Jew, was to be among the 17,000 participants in the Barcelona Marathon on March 15. But the marathon, one of Europe’s most popular running events, was postponed to October because of the coronavirus outbreak. Still, Nochomovitz found a way to do what he had been training for despite being forced to spend the past month confined to his apartment in Balma, near Toulouse, under lockdown. (He had worked at a restaurant in Toulouse, but that was shut down, too, because of the virus.) He ran an entire marathon, 26.2 miles, on his balcony — a balcony only 21 feet long. Nochomovitz, a veteran marathoner, completed the recent balcony run in 6 hours, 48 minutes — more than double his usual time because he had to turn on his heels every few seconds. But the initiative, filmed by his girlfriend Marie and uploaded to YouTube, turned Nochomovitz into an international symbol. He has been featured on CNN and CNBC, as well as in dozens of publications, including The Guardian, Time and Newsweek. “I told myself it’s the best way to take the edge off the lockdown, do some crazy challenge on the balcony but also as a gesture of support for the medical personnel,” he said in a video interview that he gave Le Parisien. He didn’t stop there: Nochomovitz did two more marathons, on his porch, improving his time considerably, the NRC Handelsblad daily in the Netherlands reported. On March 31, he lowered his time by two hours. Neighbors cheered him on as Marie offered liquids, dry T-shirts and candy. Lockdown measures in the Toulouse area would have allowed Nochomovitz to run laps outside his home, NRC reported. But he said he decided to limit himself to his artificial turf porch all the same “to make it more challenging.” Besides, as NRC noted, Nochomovitz’s balcony offers a stunning and unobstructed view of the Pyrenees Mountains. Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA

3 The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

IN THE BEGINNING

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

Nevele Resort

FOR SALE

This Week, Exclusively Online

550+ ACRES

212-930-9467 BROKERS PROTECTED

MEMORIAL OBSERVANCE Call 1-800-KADDISH Colel Chabad

KADDISH

Shel Silverstein’s houseboat, the “Evil Eye.” CH R I STIAN KLUGMAN N

Talk about a Jewish spin on Otis Redding’s classic “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay,” which found the great soul singer escaping fame alongside the San Francisco Bay in Sausalito, Calif. Turns out the famed Jewish writer Shel Silverstein, best known for iconic children’s books such as “The Giving Tree” and poetry collections like “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” lived on a houseboat named “Evil Eye” in Sausalito, from around 1967 to 1975. And you can now buy that houseboat, and live on a dock of the Bay. Read about the real estate tip of the year at thejewishweek.com.

www.thejewishweek.com

K A D D I S H & YA H R T Z E I T S E R V I C E S

718 953-1000 Ext. 113

SayKaddish.com

Here we are, stuck at home, quarantined or “socially distanced” for who knows how long. It’s precisely at a time like this that adding just a bit of flourish to a meal could make a huge difference to everyone’s emotional well-being. Check out Ronnie Fein’s tips for making homemade chutney with ingredients you likely already have at home.

www.jwfoodandwine.com

EVERYTHING FOR THE JEWISH FOODIE RECIPES, RESTAURANTS, REVIEWS AND NEWS

“Whether or not the coronavirus pandemic will genuinely lead to an end to the standardized testing era and into the era of ‘test-optional’ colleges and universities is unclear at this point. It would definitely, however, be a step in the right direction towards increasing diversity and fairness in colleges and universities across the country,” writes Samantha Rigante, a junior at Golda Och Academy in West Orange, N.J. Read the full piece now of www.freshinkforteens.com.

www.freshinkforteens.com

In the Year of the Plague: Lessons from Civil War New Orleans Halachic flexibility, then and now. Jerome A. Chanes Special to The Jewish Week

hat if the coronavirus had struck the Jewish community, not on the eve of Pesach, but right before Sukkot? How would we build a sukkah? And what about the “arba minim” — the “Four Species” of plants that are central to the holi-

the problem in New Orleans in the 1860s, when a series of events endangered the communal celebration of Sukkot. In the Civil War, the Deep South city of New Orleans was, in fact, due to historical reasons not relevant to this story, a Northern city. For that reason, all communications between it and Northern cities were cut off.

Coronavirus Diary day that commemorates the fall harvest and the Israelites’ 40 years of wandering in the desert? (They are the lulav, etrog, haddasim and aravot; in English, the palm branch, citron, myrtle and willow branches.) “Taking” the Four Species, at least on

New Orleans, 1862. In the fall of 1861, the city suffered many shortages, including a ritual object central to Sukkot. Rabbi Bernard Illowy, left, improvised a solution. WI KI M EDIA COM MON S

the first day of Sukkot, is nothing less than a biblical obligation, and has been a deeply held and observed tradition for all branches of Judaism for many centuries. (Rabbinically, we extend enjoying the Four Species throughout the holiday.) What would we do without our lulav and etrog? In fact, we have been there before, coming face to face with

Jerome A. Chanes, a regular contributor, is author of four books and numerous articles on Jewish public affairs and history. He is working on a book about 100 years of Israeli theater.

Shortages abounded. As Sukkot neared in 1861, there was not one etrog to be found in the city. There were plenty of haddasim, aravot, lulavim — all indigenous to the Southern soil — but no indigenous etrogim that would pass halachic muster, and none that could be imported. For the Jews of New Orleans, and especially for their rabbis, it was a crisis. The rabbi of the community was Bernard Illowy, a talmid chacham (rabbinic scholar). A native of Bohemia, Rabbi Illowy had arrived in the United States around

Continued on page 8

5 The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

IN THE BEGINNING

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

The Jewish Week

NEWS

Center for Jewish History Lays Off a Third of Its Staff 20 positions trimmed at leading cultural institution.

Sandee Brawarsky Culture Editor

he Center for Jewish History, one of the city’s leading Jewish cultural institutions, has laid off about a third of its staff in the fallout from the coronavirus crisis, The Jewish Week has learned. Bernard J. Michael, CEO and president of the center for Jewish History, confirmed that the center had furloughed 20 people — “across the board, in all departments.” (The layoffs apply to the staff of the center, not of the partner The Coronavirus Crisis o r g a n i z a tions: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the American Sephardi Federation, Yeshiva University Museum, Leo Baeck Institute and American Jewish Historical Society.)

“We are hopeful that as the pandemic eases and the economy hope- The Center for Jewish History in Chelsea. WI KI M EDIA COM MON S fully gets better, we will be able to bring back some if not all of them,” Michael told The About fundraising these days, Michael exJewish Week. “We are not shutting down any area of plained that the center’s longtime donors unthe center, but have made cuts in every area.” derstand how difficult these times are and how When asked about whether the center’s pro- important their donations are, but that it is harder gramming would continue, he said, “It has slowed to attract newer donors, when they can’t show down, as there are limits to what you can do.” Some them the center in person. programming has been canceled; some events are Asked if the center has received government postponed to later dates. funding in the first round of the Trump adminis“We intend to continue programming — what tration’s Paycheck Protection Program for small that is going to look like depends on what the world businesses and nonprofits, Michael said: “We have looks like,” Michael continued. “We plan to partner applied and have been approved by our bank, who with the partner organizations at the center and also has sent our approved application off to the SBA do some programs ourselves, but we will have to [Small Business Administration]. We have not see what that will look like.” heard back from the SBA yet, but expect to hear When asked whether he expects to see cuts at shortly.” the partner organizations, he said, “Not necessarily. Congress and the Trump administration are neSome have made cuts before. Some have very small gotiating another emergency funding bill intended staffs. I’m not aware of any cuts now.” to resume the Paycheck Protection Program. n

Jewish Nonprofits are Struggling. How Should Donors Rescue Them? Centralized megafund? Targeted giving from foundations? The debate is on. Ben Sales JTA

n the weeks after it became clear that the coronavirus pandemic would spark a lasting economic crisis, the Jewish world’s leading funder group put together a memo with some back-of-the-envelope projections for how much Jewish nonprofits stood to lose. The tally: at least $650 million, according to the internal document from the Jewish Federations of North America, which was based on estimates from several AmerThe Coronavirus Crisis ican Jewish umbrella organizations, such as the Foundation for Jewish Camp and the JCC Association of North America. The document was produced in March and obtained by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The document says Jewish camps, schools, community centers and other groups like college Hillels will need that much or more to make it through the pandemic, which has already caused widespread layoffs and furloughs at Jewish community centers across the United States. On Monday, a coalition of large Jewish philan-

SH UT TER STOCK

thropic foundations pledged $80 million to shore up struggling Jewish organizations. But now, with it becoming increasingly clear that the world will not snap back to its former shape anytime soon, that number appears to be a fraction of what will be needed. Doron Krakow, CEO of the JCC Association of North America, told JTA earlier this month that the need would exceed $800 million if camps have to close for the summer and a recession drags into a second year. The sudden financial blow is reanimating a

longstanding debate: Should collective, communal fundraising bodies like Jewish federations have responsibility for disbursing philanthropy across the Jewish world? Or should the wide array of private Jewish family foundations each give separately to their causes? Proponents of Jewish federations, which act as collective funding bodies for local Jewish communities across the country, have suggested a single mas-

continued on page 9

ISRAEL Their dream.

While Blue and White leader waits to see if his time will come in 18 months, resurgent Netanyahu can advance annexation.

Your Dream.

Ours. Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signing their unity government agreement Monday. GPO

David Horovitz The Times of Israel

goodly chunk of the 14-page “Coalition Agreement for the Establishment of an Emergency National Unity Government,” signed Monday night by Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, is devoted to complex legalese intended to ensure Analysis that neither of these rivals-turned-partners can trick the other out of the prime ministership. It could hardly have been otherwise. For over a year, through three bitter election campaigns, Gantz denounced Netanyahu as divisive and dangerous to Israel, and vowed never to sit in government with him, while Netanyahu derided Gantz as weak, slow and entirely lacking in the skills necessary to lead the country. Now that Gantz, in one of the more spectacular U-turns in Israeli political history, has opted to join forces with his nemesis after all, he understandably wants to ensure that the prime ministerial prize will indeed be his 18 months from now. Hence the clauses that he hopes will prevent Netanyahu from David Horovitz is editor in chief of The Times of Israel.

finding some path or pretext for clinging to power beyond October 2021. And now that Netanyahu can look forward to the start of another spell as prime minister, he wants to be certain that the justices of Israel’s High Court will not hand Gantz the premiership ahead of schedule by accepting any of the various petitions that seek to disqualify him as PM because of his indictment on corruption charges. Thus, along with its sections on the division of responsibility between the two men and their loyalists, its highly significant provision for potential annexation in the West Bank, its shift in the staffing of the committee that selects Israel’s judges, its clauses on how many charedi men will be conscripted to the IDF and who will appoint which of Israel’s top ambassadors, the deal marks an attempt by both men to overcome, by force of lawyerly language, their mistrust of each other. Gantz would like to believe that the agreement gives Netanyahu little or no wiggle room on rotation. It swears Gantz in as prime minister-inwaiting from the get-go, with no new vote or decision required for him to take over. And it features a seemingly potent deterrent to Netanyahu dissolving the government in its first 18 months — mandating a resort to elections over a months-long transition period, during which Gantz would

Happy 72 Years, Israel! www.masaisrael.org | findit@masaisrael.org

automatically become prime minister. Netanyahu might believe he could win those subsequent elections — given that Gantz is far less electable these days, and the surviving Israeli opposition is much weakened. But the Blue and White leader is apparently betting that even the temporary relinquishing of power — via so naked and unstatesmanlike an act of political betrayal — with the accompanying enforced departure from the official residence, would prove a sufficient disincentive for Netanyahu to such underhanded maneuvering. Netanyahu, for his part, hopes he’s achieved the least-bad arrangement in the event of the High Court attempting to seal his fate — with a formula that ensures Israel moves automatically to new elections if he is disqualified within the government’s first six months, the period during which the court is most likely to issue any such ruling. In many respects, the deal is the equal power-sharing arrangement first proposed by President Reuven Rivlin after September’s elections, before Netanyahu had been indicted. Rivlin couldn’t persuade the rivals to accept it then; today’s combination of a pandemic, Gantz’s disillusion with the seemingly endless political fight and Netanyahu’s fear of the High

Court has proven more effective. It’s by no means clear that the additional “don’t betray me” clauses are legally enforceable; there’s precedent for the High Court choosing not to intervene (Hebrew link) when petitioned over the breach of political agreements. Dropping his political bombshell on March 26, Gantz said he was abandoning his opposition to a partnership with Netanyahu because the combination of the coronavirus crisis and the threats to Israeli democracy necessitated atypical decisions and actions. His erstwhile allies, astounded that he was acting the loser when he had been endorsed for prime minister by a (mutually exclusive) majority of MKs, accused him of stealing the votes of their electorate, and warned that Netanyahu would devour him politically. But Gantz insisted that if the gambit marked the end of his brief political career, he would know that he had striven to put Israel’s interests ahead of his own ambitions. The coalition agreement reflects this mindset to some extent, even though its protracted negotiation rather belies the “emergency” designation. For its first six months, the coalition is to focus almost solely on tackling the pandemic, and Gantz and

continued on page 31

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

In ‘Unity’ Deal, Gantz Hoping to Be PM One Day

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

THE JEWISH WEEK

SPOTLIGHT ON EDUCATION PUBLISHING JUNE 12

THE JEWISH WEEK’S SPOTLIGHT ON EDUCATION SPECIAL SECTION WILL NOW PUBLISH IN OUR JUNE 12TH ISSUE. THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO HONOR YOUR 2020 GRADS AND TO HIGHLIGHT THE UNIQUE BENEFITS OF YOUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM. Education is a priority for the Jewish Week’s affluent audience - and they can afford the best in Education for their children and grandchildren.

SPOTLIGHT ON EDUCATION

• 80% are college grads • 50% hold graduate degrees • Average household income is $255,257*

EDUCATION ISSUES FOR 2020

JUNE 12 ISSUE | RESERVATIONS, COPY, AND ART DUE JUNE 1 All advertisers in Spotlight on Education will receive a bonus advertorial - the number of words will be based on the size of your ad. AD SIZE

BONUS ADVERTORIAL

Full page

500 words

Half page

350 words

One-Third page

300 words

Quarter page

250 words

Eighth page

150 words

Here is the schedule of our Education Special Features for 2020.

SPECIAL OFFER - RESERVE IN ALL 3 EDUCATION ISSUES - RECEIVE 10% off on your October 16 ad August 21, Learning 2020 Reservation/Art Due August 10 A special editorial section on educational news and trends October 16, Spotlight on Education Reservation/Art Due October 6 Ad + Advertorial

To reserve your space, please contact your salesperson or: Ruth Rothseid | Ruth@jewishweek.org | 212.997.2954

“WE INTERRUPT THIS WEEK FOR AN IMPORTANT NEWS BREAK.” Now you’ll find updates on world, national, and local news as it happens all week long.

www.thejewishweek.com

Coronavirus Diary continued from page 5

1850 and taken up the New Orleans was the right thing to do. pulpit in 1861. Contemporary reThe Holocaust, of course, forced ports indicate that he was immedi- similar agonizing decisions on the ately successful in his ministry, and rabbis who were serving beleaguered understood well the nature of his communities throughout Eastern EuAmerican Jewish community. rope. The visionary Rabbi Ephraim Rabbi Illowy’s response to the Oshry of Kaunas, Lithuania, author etrog crisis was straightforward: of “The Annihilation of Lithuanian Take the lulav in hand, he said, and Jewry,” comes to mind. With Jewish use a lemon — but without a bracha, life all but ground to a halt because of the required blessing. Rabbi Illowy the Nazis, he and other rabbis wrote was concerned, legitimately, about numerous responsa (rabbinic answers the possible loss of a beloved ritual, to halachic questions) on the broadest even for a year. Would people, es- conceivable range of issues affecting pecially the young, forget about the traditional Jewish life. They preserved etrog? Using the lemon, even though Jewish lives and preserved Judaism. the substitute did not pass normative Our rabbis, especially in leaderhalachic muster, was the answer. ship positions across denominational And it worked. For Jews in the lines, are doing a good job in respondBig Easy, Rabbi Illowy’s approach ing to our current crisis. But there is ensured that the etrog would not be still much for them to learn from the forgotten. New Orleans experience. Rabbinic A century and a half later, we have leadership ought to ponder ways to our own crisis. be more flexible Yes, it’s vastly — indeed to redifferent qualilax certain strictatively and in tures — within Would people, scope, but a dihalachic paramsaster that, among eters. This would especially the young, apply to situaother things, tests our rabbinic tions that are by leadership. And nature public forget about the events — providit does so across ing a minyan for denominational se’udat mitzvah, lines. Our rabbis etrog? Would a or festival meal, are called upon to for a brit milah; develop creative saying Kaddish and courageous lemon possibly do? in a minyan; and solutions to a other minyan-remyriad of halalated activities for chic dilemmas resulting from the pandemic and the which there is already rabbinic writsocial distancing rules, and indeed ing on “remote” participation. Certain isolation, that it has forced upon so- Shabbat matters, too. And there is, of course, mikvah, the Jewish ritual ciety. We have models from Jewish his- bath, crucial in the lifecycle of traditory for responding to extreme situ- tionally observant families. The list ations. In the depths of the cholera is endless. A step in this direction is the epidemic of 1848, a disaster that devastated much of Eastern Europe, decision by a group of Orthodox Rabbi Yisrael Salanter made kiddush municipal chief rabbis in Israel perand ate on Yom Kippur morning in mitting Zoom conferencing, under front of the synagogue in Vilna. Rabbi certain restrictions, of Pesach seders Salanter, one of the great 19th-cen- in order to allow families separated tury rabbinic leaders but then a young by the pandemic to connect with rabbi, knew that fasting would put one another during this “sha’at halives in danger. And he understood d’chak” — a halachic construct for that it would be a desecration of Ju- addressing times of emergency. The daism if Jews died by observing the Conservative movement’s Rabbinifast. He appeared to be acting on the cal Assembly has likewise put forth Jewish principle of “pikuach nefesh,” a more lenient position permitting rewhich mandates that the preservation mote minyanim. Where are our Rabbi Illowy, Rav of life supersedes all other religious obligations. Rabbi Salanter took his Salanter, Rav Oshry? We are finding lumps for his action, but he did what them in our midst. ■

continued from page 6

sive pool of coronavirus philanthropic assistance, to be managed centrally. No overarching plan has been put forward yet, but JTA has learned that several leading funders are working to form a fund that would provide loans to Jewish organizations on the brink of going broke. Krakow has called for private Jewish foundations and Jewish federations, which act as collective charities for Jewish communities across the country, to create a loan fund of $1 billion. But some in Jewish philanthropy ask whether a centrally administered megafund is the best strategy to shepherd geographically and programmatically , Michael ex-diverse organizations through the crisis. me donors un- “A ‘Billion Dollar Fund,’ a ‘Jewish New Deal’ [or] s are and howa ‘COVID czar’ are fine and well-intentioned ideas hat it is harderthat look good on paper and seem simple and straightey can’t showforward, but they are anything but,” Andres Spokoiny, CEO of the Jewish Funders Network, which convenes d governmentJewish donors and foundations, wrote in a recent essay rump adminis-in the publication eJewish Philanthropy. gram for small “As leaders it’s our responsibility to accept reality said: “We haveand focus on practical, smaller-scale, sector-specific our bank, whosolutions that can work,” Spokoiny wrote. “The agoff to the SBAgregate of all those will be surely larger than any central . We have notfund and will produce a richer and more vibrant result.” expect to hear The $80 million fund, announced Monday, offers a third way. It’s a coalition between the Jewish stration are ne-Federations of North America and eight large Jewish g bill intendedphilanthropic foundations. Called the Jewish ComProgram. n

ive, communal ations have reopy across the rray of private e separately to

s, which act as wish communid a single mas-

munity Response and Impact Fund, it will prioritize organizations that focus on education, leadership and engagement, though a press release did not provide further detail on those fields. The fund will provide short-term loans to organizations to meet payroll and maintain operations in the next three to six months. It will also award grants that do not have to be repaid, which can also go to longerterm strategic goals. Participating foundations include the Jim Joseph Foundation, Maimonides Fund and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. Applications for loans and grants will be solicited by invitation only. The loans will range from as low as $150,000 to as high as $3 million, and will carry no interest. Organizations will have four years to repay the loans. Beyond that fund, experts in American Jewish philanthropy doubt large individual donors and family foundations will put their money in a giant pool. While federations used to dominate the Jewish giving scene, large individual donors have become more involved in the causes they fund and more particular about how their money is spent. “Donors are leery of giving large amounts of their philanthropy to a pot that will be divided up, not according to their own wishes but according to the directives of some body that would make the decision. Federations obviously have suffered from this,” said Jack Wertheimer, a professor of American Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Still, many Jewish family foundations give to their local Jewish federations and, in turn, sit on their boards or have influence over where the federation money goes.

“The golden rule of, the size of your donation impacts the size of your involvement, is very relevant to the world of Jewish federations,” said Hanna Shaul Bar Nissim, a visiting scholar at Brandeis University and deputy director of the Ruderman Family Foundation. “The more you give, the more you can have a say and become involved.” And Lila Corwin Berman, a professor of American Jewish history at Temple University, said the American tax system incentivizes individual giving over collective philanthropic bodies like federations. “So much of this has to do with how and whether American policies are going to more permanently change to redistribute capital in ways that don’t recommend that individual model,” said Berman. Other Jewish philanthropies have also started doling out funds. UJA-Federation of New York has announced $44 million in grants to social service organizations, JCCs and individuals in need. And the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, which usually gives approximately $3 million annually to Jewish camps, has announced an additional $10 million in matching grants to help camps survive. The foundation’s leadership understands that $10 million is not nearly enough to fill camps’ anticipated needs — that would take about $150 million, the foundation estimates. Still, Sarah Eisinger, who heads the foundation’s camp initiative, said they hoped to set an example and give the camps a measure of hope. “It’s only one intervention,” she said. “It’s only one slice of a much larger pie. But the early impact of that money and the psychological lift of a shot in the arm will fuel a sense of optimism and a possibility to raise resources.” n

NEW YORKERS:

STAY HOME TO STOP THE SPREAD OF CORONAVIRUS New Yorkers working together and staying home can slow the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in New York City. When you go out for essential needs, work or to get fresh air, keep distance between yourself and others and take the following precautions.

PROTECT YOURSELF AND OTHERS • Keep at least 6 feet between yourself and others. • Wash your hands with soap and water often. • Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue or sleeve when sneezing or coughing. • Do not touch your face with unwashed hands. • Monitor your health more closely than usual for cold or flu symptoms.

IF YOU ARE SICK • Stay home. • If you have a cough, shortness of breath, fever, sore throat and do not feel better after 3-4 days, consult with your doctor. • If you need help getting medical care, call 311. • NYC will provide care regardless of immigration status or ability to pay.

PROTECT THE MOST VULNERABLE • Stay home if you have lung disease, heart disease, diabetes, cancer or a weakened immune system. • Stay home and call, video chat or text with family or friends who have one of these conditions.

Text COVID to 692-692 for real-time updates or visit nyc.gov/coronavirus. Call 311 to report harassment or discrimination. Call 888-NYC-WELL, text "WELL" to 65173 or chat online at nyc.gov/nycwell to connect with a counselor. *Messages and data rates may apply. Check your wireless provider plan for details.

REDUCE OVERCROWDING • Stay home. • Telecommute if possible. If you do go out: • Stagger work hours away from peak travel times. • Walk or bike. • Do not gather in crowds.

Bill de Blasio Mayor Oxiris Barbot, MD Commissioner

9 The Jewish Week n www.thejewishweek.com n April 24, 2020

Nonprofits

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

Coronavirus Crisis continued from page 1

didn’t want a repeat of New Rochelle, whose Young Israel synagogue was the early focal point for the spread of the disease in New York State. “We learned from New Rochelle,” Katz said. “We saw how serious this is.” The Rabbinical Council of Bergen County called the March 12 meeting on short notice, bringing together every local pulpit rabbi, medical experts and political leaders, including Katz and Schwartz. Physicians described how devastating the disease could be, local hospital officials forecast a likely shortfall in ventilators and a depletion of other resources.

The rabbis immediately banned all public Jewish events, including synagogue and home-based prayer minyans, shared Shabbat meals, shiva visits and other joint activities or celebrations. A few days later, Teaneck’s mayor and city manager put into place similar social-distancing and quarantine measures, which many people saw as draconian. Teaneck became one of the earliest municipalities in the country to take such sweeping steps. “We were the first,” said Katz. Teaneck, like many communities, is still in the grip of coronavirus. As of April 20, there were 882 “presumptive” cases of Covid-19 in the township of 40,000, up slightly over last week, and 63 people have

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS are invited to compete in The Norman E. Alexander Awards for Excellence in Jewish Student Writing by submitting a 500-word essay.

FIRST PLACE:

$500 plus the Alexander Award Medal and will have his/ her essay published in The New York Jewish Week and on the websites of The New York Jewish Week, Fresh Ink for Teens and the Jewish-American Hall of Fame.

RUNNER-UP:

His/her essay will be published on the websites of The New York Jewish Week, Fresh Ink for Teens and the Jewish-American Hall of Fame.

ALL SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE BY MAY 31, 2020. Consideration will be given to originality, creativity and writing style. All entries must include the name of the high school and grade of the entrant. There is a limit of one entry per student. Open to all high school students. SEND ALL ENTRIES TO LILY@JEWISHWEEK.ORG.

SPONSORED BY:

Two members of the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps. “The disease has really affected us,” a member says. PHOTOS COURTESY OF TEANECK VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS died of the disease. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the town had more cases per 100,000 people than New York City. And the town’s heavily Jewish Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps is still handling many more emergency calls than normal. But the spread of the virus seems to be slowing. Just a few weeks ago, Teaneck was the hardest-hit municipality in the hardest-hit county in New Jersey, making it what Mayor Mohammed Hameeduddin called Bergen County’s “ground zero.” As of Monday, the county, connected to Manhattan by the George Washington Bridge, reported 13,011 positive test results and 787 deaths. Last week, the number of Teaneck residents diagnosed with coronavirus was 837, surpassed by nearby Hackensack’s 891. “Our rate is tremendously going down,” Schwartz said. Township Manager Dean Kazinci said last week that Teaneck had seen a decrease in the growth of the number of people being diagnosed with the virus. Between March 9 and 21, he said, it took approximately 1.98 days for the number of new cases to double. From March 22 to April 16, it took 7.6 days. Jacob Finkelstein, a veteran member of the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps (teaneckambulance.org), said he has witnessed a weakening of the disease’s grip over the last two weeks. Before the arrival of Covid-19, he said, the volunteers had handled an average of 12-15 emergency calls per day; at the height of the crisis, the number doubled; now it’s down to 17-20 per day. Finkelstein said the independent, privately supported Corps has already exceeded this year’s budget. And about half of the several dozen volunteer members are not on the job now, because they or someone in their family was diagnosed with the disease. “It really has affected us.” Prominent local Jews who died from causes related to the coronavirus include Perry Rosenstein, 94, a longtime civic leader and philanthropist who founded the Puffin Foundation; Janice Preschel, 60, an activist who ran a food bank; and Deborah Price Nagler, 66, a Jewish educator and technology consultant to day schools. Teaneck is diverse, however, with large AfricanAmerican, Hispanic and Asian-American communities. “This is not a Jewish disease,” said Katz, who served

Though the number of calls the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps answers is now finally falling, the emergencies are still far more than normal.

“I do not recall anything of this nature taking place,” Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University, told JTA. “This

kind of organized statement by a central body, telling every Orthodox synagogue to shut down, that I do not recall seeing.” Rabbis from outside communities have approached Teaneck’s rabbis in recent weeks for advice about taking similar steps. Deputy Mayor Katz has taken part in weekly, inspirational phone messages that are offered by clergy of various faiths. Schwartz said he heard the other day from a member of a family whose son had spent a year studying for his upcoming bar mitzvah. No guests can be invited to the now small-scale event. That is difficult, the young man’s father said. “It’s also difficult to sit shiva,” Schwartz said. ■

Watch for Special Programming on

Yom HaZikaron

Angry Residents

he life-saving decision of the Rabbinical Council last month was not an automatic

Yom Ha’Atzmaut

call.

Rabbi Larry Rothwachs of Congregation Beth Aaron told JTA that he had entered the post-Purim meeting with his rabbinical colleagues with one set of ideas about how his community should respond to Covid-19, and exited a few hours later with another: He was sure that drastically curtailing Jewish traditions and rules would be crucial to stem the spread of the deadly disease. “I don’t think everybody was on the same page coming in. I was not on the page I am at right now,” the rabbi said. “By the time that we left, I do think there was an overwhelming consensus.” Nevertheless, Katz, who became one of the public faces of the town’s overnight shutdown, said he was the object of intense criticism from the Jewish community as well as the general community for his role in curtailing Teaneck activities. Members of the general community were upset that their businesses were closed, Katz said. Jews were upset that their worship services and simchas were cancelled. “Not everyone was in favor of closing down the houses of worship,” he told The Jewish Week. “I was yelled at by people — very angry, irate residents.” Schwartz said he also met criticism from Teaneck residents, as did Rabbi Shiowitz for the Rabbinical Council’s decision. Now Katz and Schwartz are being hailed for their foresight. The complaints largely stopped once the gravity of the coronavirus threat became apparent, Katz and Schwartz said. People are “appreciative,” Katz added. “It was a brave move” by the rabbis and politicians, said Dr. Zvi Marans, a pediatric cardiologist who has lived in Teaneck since 1989. He said the proactive actions by the Rabbinical Council and the township, and the concurrent urging of residents to be tested for the virus, likely prevented the numbers of people who contracted the disease and died from it from rising even further. “It was super-effective,” he said. “They saved tens of lives – maybe even more.”

See JBSTV.Org For Program Schedule And Watch On

DIRECTV–388 * FIOS–798 * SPECTRUM–219 * OPTIMUM–138 * RCN–269 Watch Live & “On Demand” on APPLE TV * ROKU * fire tv * jbstv.org Visit JBS Website For Daily TV Schedule (jbstv.org) Sign up to receive Weekly Email Schedule (jbstv.org) Support JBS with a Tax-Deductible Donation (jbstv.org/Donate) CONTACT US AT: mail@jbstv.org

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

as mayor from 2006-08 and as acting mayor in 2016. He said the high number of Teaneck residents who submitted to early testing — before most other New Jersey communities — made the extent of the disease there appear even more dire. “We scared people enough to go get tested early. I think we were the most vocal — we brought more attention [to the importance of testing]. Now the rest of the world is following.” The ongoing pandemic has had a visible effect on the town. Shabbat mornings, when sidewalks and side streets are usually crowded with people headed to synagogue, are quiet. Parks are closed. Holy Name Medical Center has converted its pediatric unit into an isolation ward for coronavirus patients, half of its Emergency Department is an isolation ward for PUIs (“patients under investigation”) and the hospital reached out to its longtime competitor, Hackensack University Medical Center, for help. But conditions are improving. “We’re doing OK,” said Rabbi Kenny Schiowitz, president of the Rabbinical Council.

OBITUARIES

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

Noach Dear, 66, ‘Blazed Trail’ for Orthodox Politicians Fierce defender of Jewish causes succumbs to coronavirus. Steve Lipman Staff Writer

oach Dear, a Brooklyn Supreme Court justice and f o r m e r N e w Yo r k C i t y Councilman who represented parts of Brooklyn with large Orthodox populations, died on April 19 of coronavirus. He was 66. Mr. Dear, who was term-limited out of office in 2001 and was then elected to the Brooklyn Supreme Court, earned a reputation as an outspoken defender of Jewish causes and

Kaddish for Coronavirus Victims More obituaries on page 23.

the State of Israel. The terms “combative” and “controversial” were often attached to his name, as were “dedicated” and “persistent.” “I’ll do what’s good for the State of

Israel, my constituents and the country — in that order,” he once vowed. Growing up in Brooklyn after World War II, Mr. Dear was a member of the Pirchei Agudas Yisrael Choir. He later attended Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, and graduated from Brooklyn Law School. His public service career began as a district leader and as district manager of Brooklyn’s Community Board 12. As a City Council member for 18 years, he supported the Soviet Jewry movement and racial equality in policing, and took an active stand against anti-Semitism. He was the only Brooklyn Democrat to vote against a civil rights bill that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in employment, housing and public accommodation. In 1998, he lost a primary bid for the congressional seat vacated by Chuck Schumer, in part due to heated opposition by the LGBT community.

Judge Noach Dear introduces Rachel Freier, the first chasidic woman elected to office in the United States, in Brooklyn in 2016. AN DY K AT Z/PACI F IC P R ESS/LIGHTROCKET VIA GET T Y I MAGES

Anthony Wiener won the primary and the general election. A Democrat who raised money for Bill Clinton and Al Gore, Mr. Dear also supported the 1993 mayoral candidacy of Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican, against Mayor David Dinkins, whom he blamed for the unrest that led to the killing of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Jewish student from Australia, in the 1991 Crown Heights riot. Dov Hikind, a former member of the State Assembly who represented much of the same Orthodox constituency, in a statement called Mr. Dear

Ease Your Family’s Worries During a Difficult Time. With a Sinai Chapels funeral pre-arrangement, your family is relieved of making funeral arrangements at a most difficult time. For four generations, we have served New York’s Jewish Community. Our experienced funeral directors will personally guide you through the options and help you organize a pre-need plan.

To learn more, contact us today:

718.445.0300 | 800.446.0406

“a champion, a friend and a fighter for his people. He will be sorely missed.” Councilman Kalman Yeger, who now represents Dear’s former district, said Mr. Dear was “compassionate, funny, pragmatic, always patient.” After leaving City Council, Mr. Dear ran several unsuccessful campaigns for higher office, before being elected as a civil court judge, then to a 15-year term on the Supreme Court in 2015. In 2018 he was removed from the Brooklyn Civil Court, where despite being on the state Supreme Court, he had

Continued on page 23

NEWS

What a prominent evangelical’s gift of unusable scrolls to the Museum of the Bible reveals about the murky world of Torah appraisal. This article was reported in partnership with Type Investigations.

Hella Winston Special To The Jewish Week

ne of the many attractions at the $500 million, 430,000-square-foot Museum of the Bible (MOTB) in Washington, D.C., is a gray-bearded scribe imported from Beit Shemesh, Israel, who sits in a gallery and “engages with guests as he works to [create] a Torah scroll,” according to the museum’s website. Nearby are close to 200 Torahs no longer fit for ritual use due to damage or defect, uncovered and rolled up like bolts of fabric on racks behind a glass wall. The display is accompanied by an introductory text that proclaims “The Consistency of Jewish Scriptures” and a key that lists for each Torah an approximate date and region of origin; most are from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Special Report These Torahs are part of a vast collection of decommissioned, or pasul, Torahs — 1,835, according to museum officials — all of which were donated to the museum by Hobby Lobby and the Green Collection between 2011 and 2014. The Green Collection is a private repository amassed by the founders of Hobby Lobby craft store chain, which along with its affiliates does over $3 billion in annual sales. Steve Green, Hobby Lobby’s president, is one of the most prominent evangelical Christians in America; he is also a founder and chairman of the board of the museum. In addition to the pasul Torahs behind the glass wall, there a few open ones on display in the museum. The rest of the collection is kept in storage. According to Jewish law, a pasul Torah must be buried in a Jewish cemetery or stored in a protected space, although there are some exceptions. These include for dancing on Simchas Torah; use as “spare parts” for the repair of another Torah; or education. And it’s the latter purpose the museum — which is, of course, not bound by Jewish law— claims. According to Herschel Hepler, the museum’s associate curator of Hebrew manuscripts, the MOTB is playing an important role in preserving Jewish history for the world. “From everyone I’ve talked with,” said Hepler, who holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in theology from a private evangelical university in Oklahoma, “there’s a pretty broad consensus that” the non-kosher Torahs may be used in educational ways because the collection “benefits our continued memory of Jewish tradition across all the traditions, right?” “Memory” would seem to be a curious term for a tradition that is currently thriving. But beyond that, some experts with deep knowledge of Judaica say

At the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., unusable Torahs are rolled up like bolts of fabric on racks behind a glass wall. P HOTOS BY H ELL A WI N STON/JW

that these manuscripts are of limited historical importance. They also say that they may have been appraised in ways that raise issues under U.S. tax law. (The findings about the pasul Torah appraisal process come as the museum has come under scrutiny of late for allegedly buying forged Dead Sea Scrolls fragments and displaying thousands of other antiquities that critics say have questionable provenance.) At the very least, these Torahs highlight a gap between how religious Jews and scholars, on one hand, and the murky world of evangelical religious antiquities collectors, on the other, value Jewish artifacts.

Buy Low, Appraise High

ast year, the scholars Joel Baden and Candida Moss, authors of “Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby,” published an article in The Daily Beast about the museum’s pasul Torah collection drawing on material that appeared in their book. The researchers suggested that Torahs were particularly appealing to Green, who sees them as proof of the Bible’s unchanging nature over time. But the duo discovered another, unexpected rationale for the museum’s large collection: the rather substantial tax benefits they could generate for their donors. Baden and Moss quoted an interview they had conducted with a Bible scholar named Scott Carroll, who says he began traveling the globe in 2009

on behalf of Steve Green, in search of biblical artifacts to acquire. (Carroll says he parted ways with the Greens in 2012). Carroll, who chronicled his acquisition adventures on social media, has raised eyebrows among some academics, who have questioned whether, in the quest to amass a collection quickly, he sacrificed proper vetting. (He has also come under fire for using dish soap to dismantle ancient Egyptian mummy masks). Carroll told Baden and Moss that when Steve Green began collecting, he “wanted to identify artifacts for purchase that could be donated to the museum for tax purposes,” according to The Daily Beast article. Specifically, Carroll said that the average purchase price of a pasul Torah when he started working to assemble the Green Collection was between $1,000 and $1,500 (by 2015, Carroll said, prices had gone up to $7,500-$10,000.). Those same Torahs, Carroll explained, could later be appraised at anywhere from $50,000 to an upper range of $250,000 or more for rarer items, putting the “fair average” at $70,000; he apparently arrived at that range by starting with what it would cost to replace a Torah and then adding to that number based on other factors, like age or whether it survived the Holocaust. “It’s a great opportunity to buy something that is [priced] low that would in a Western market appraise high,” he said. The Jewish Week contacted Hobby Lobby by phone and with a detailed email seeking comment on Carroll’s numbers and additional information about the Green Collection’s acquisition and donation of pasul Torahs to the MOTB, and did not receive replies. However, our reporting, in partnership with nonprofit newsroom Type Investigations, uncovered information suggesting that other donors have purchased pasul Torahs intending to have them appraised at higher values for tax deduction purposes when gifted to Christian institutions. Using Carroll’s “fair average,” it is possible that the Green Collection could have purchased the 1,835 Torahs now in the MOTB’s collection for close to $2 million and had them appraised for many millions more, potentially generating a very hefty tax deduction for Hobby Lobby. The problem: Carroll’s way of calculating value is not consistent with IRS guidelines. IRS guidelines indicate that an appraisal is supposed to reflect not the replacement value of an item, as Carroll indicated, but its fair market value (FMV). The IRS defines FMV as the price the property would sell for on the open market. And when it comes to much fine art, antiques and collectibles, experts say, the most common market is considered to be the auction market. Four recognized Judaica appraisers contacted by The Jewish Week expressed skepticism that Torahs like the ones in the MOTB’s collection could fetch prices anywhere near those cited by Carroll on the open market. They also said that those valuations

continued on following page

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

How Much is an Unkosher Torah Worth?

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

Special Report

and Moss, Carroll stressed that he “was never privy” to the financial details of any of the Green’s transactions (although in a speech at a Christian university in 2013, he told the audience that he was involved in many of those purchases); he also said that he is “not an appraiser” and has “never

continued from previous page might reasonably raise red flags with the IRS. According to Sharon Mintz, senior consultant in Sotheby’s Judaica department and the curator of Jewish art at the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, the most important factor in determining the value of a Torah scroll is its age. Mintz, who is not familiar with the MOTB’s collection, says there are many Torah scrolls from “the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries still extant” — like the majority on display at the museum — and, as a result, “their commercial value” is much lower. Condition also plays a role, Mintz adds: a very old scroll that is also complete “will have the most value.” Within the past 10 years, Sotheby’s has sold several extremely rare Torah scrolls from before the 15th century, including a complete scroll from 13thcentury Northern Spain that fetched $398,500 and a complete 13th-century Ashkenazi scroll for $310,00. In 2015, the auction house sold a 12th-century Samaritan Torah scroll to the Green Collection for $162,500 (this is one of only a few open Torahs on display in the museum and accompanied by a detailed provenance). It would be almost impossible for any outside appraiser to determine the value of the MOTB’s pasul Torahs because none of them is publicly accessible to be inspected, let alone subjected to carbon dating, which Mintz says Sotheby’s has been requesting for almost every early Torah scroll it has sold. For their part, museum officials would not comment on the appraised values of any of the MOTB’s Torahs and told The Jewish Week that information related to their dates and location of origin, which would inform any appraisal, “was not part of the paper with the scrolls in a detailed way.” They did note that the museum is engaged in a multi-year research project, led by its curator of Hebraica & Judaica, which eventually will result in a database of its Torahs accessible to scholars and the public. For now, however, the only details the museum’s chief curator, Jeffrey Kloha, was able to furnish were that most of the Torahs in the collection were acquired “through Israel” and are from “North Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Europe.” During a tour of the museum, Hepler noted that the collection includes Torahs bearing the stamp of Israel’s Ministry of Religious Services, which, he said, served as a repository for Torahs coming into the country

Torah scribe Rabbi Eliezer Eitan Adam, from Beit Shemesh, Israel, works at the museum to create a Torah scroll. At right, the museum’s striking entrance. after World War II. He added that many of the Torahs in the collection are not stable enough to be displayed.

Warehouses of Torahs

ased on these facts alone, several experienced Judaica dealers and appraisers expressed doubt that the Torahs rolled up behind the glass wall, or those in storage, could be legitimately appraised at anywhere near the values Carroll quoted to Baden and Moss. Two religiously observant Judaica dealers in New York City, who requested anonymity so as not to compromise their businesses, told The Jewish Week that while Jewish law prohibits the sale of a pasul Torah, they do change hands. They estimated the going rate for a “run-of themill” pasul Torah at about $300-$500. (These dealers also made a point of saying that they would not sell one to anyone who planned to use it in a way that violated Jewish law, let alone to a non-Jew.) A New York-based Judaica appraiser told The Jewish Week that there are warehouses of deteriorated Torahs that will sell them for anywhere between $5,000 and $35,000, typically to synagogues who cannot afford to pay for a new Torah and will instead repair the old one. Because of these considerations, according to a Brooklyn-based dealer named Yizrael Mizrachi, “an average Judaica auction house wouldn’t deal with [selling a pasul Torah], especially not in quantity. If it has historical importance, [if] you’ll find a text that has narration or something that’s important to scholars, that’s another

story. But just an old Torah, [no].” Sources knowledgeable about the situation told The Jewish Week that they were not aware of any Judaica dealers in the New York area who had been willing to sell pasul Torahs to representatives of the Greens and believed that most of the Greens’ collection was acquired through sources in Israel, as museum officials indicated. Mizrachi told The Jewish Week that after the war, many pasul Torahs ended up in various Israeli government offices, where they were stored for decades before being auctioned off for what Mizrachi says were “pennies.” While museum officials did not identify any of the dealers connected to its Torahs, two people with knowledge of the situation confirmed to The Jewish Week that one early source was a man named Moty Sender. In 1986, Sender, along with his wife, founded a silver, Judaica and jewelry business based in Israel called Pasarel. When reached via text, Pasarel did not reply to a request to confirm whether it was a source of Torahs for the Green Collection (several emails also did not receive replies). In mid-December, most of the Torahs Pasarel was offering on eBay were listed for a fraction of the values estimated by Carroll. (Two other individuals with information about the Green Collections’ acquisition practices named additional Israel-based Torah sources, including one with ties to Yemen. The Jewish Week was not able to confirm these peoples’ involvement.) When asked by The Jewish Week about the valuations he gave to Baden

given an appraisal.” That said, he explained that the spread he described between the purchase prices and appraised values of the Torahs could be attributed to the fact that there are effectively two discrete markets for them. “There is a different view of how [pasul Torahs] are valued by, by let’s say ... Jewish people, traditional religious people, because they’re pasul, as opposed to someone who might see them as a valuable object for the study of writing and history and things like that … that is, the value it would have in one community as opposed to another.” This same explanation — that there are two markets for pasul Torahs —appeared on the now defunct website of a company registered in 2013 by a Christian writer named Todd Hillard, called Ancient Asset Investments (AAI). The site — which was the subject of a 2015 blog post by the Italian ancient historian, Roberta Mazza — touted a fourstep process through which its clients could often acquire artifacts “for onethird or less of appraised values,” have them researched, appraised, and then gifted to a nonprofit in exchange for a tax deduction. Among the artifacts on offer were non-kosher Torahs. While these Torahs had “lost their purity for religious purposes,” the site explained, “the same imperfections and anomalies that DECREASE their value on the foreign and religious markets make them MORE valuable to collectors and researchers in North America.” AAI, which has since been closed as a result of “tax forfeiture or an ad-

facts in the overseas markets.” (Carroll currently works with another organization, God’s Ancient Library, helmed by an evangelical couple who, through it, acquire and donate pasul Torahs.) AAI also claimed it was willing to sell its artifacts at a discount because it bought collections, thus “passing on the savings to individual items,” and also in the hopes that lower prices would encourage clients to acquire and then gift them to institutions that might otherwise not be able to afford them.

Driving Demand

or his part, Carroll told The Jewish Week that the price of pasul Torahs went up after the Greens started collecting because they were driving demand by buying “Torahs in large quantities.” He added that “at the start of the buying frenzy, Torahs were purchased in large quantities and they were not carefully vetted.” “There was a gap in knowledge,” Carroll added, suggesting that the initial sale prices were low because sellers did not know the value of what they had on hand. He claims that things have since changed. “Scholars, collectors, people selling on the market began to collaborate, carefully studying Torahs to learn as much as they could before selling them and to set a proper price based on the researched value. Every detail and aspect of the Torah is (must be) carefully assessed.” Carroll said that the “the cost of this work is reflected in the increased

price of carefully vetted Torahs on the market and the research also raises the value of the Torah.” Carroll also told The Jewish Week that the prices of pasul Torahs were driven up as the Greens sought to buy up more and more of them and in “in this process, the Torah has become more important and consequently valuable.” He added that “these pasul Torahs have found new life, not piled like a prop in a room or forgotten, but carefully studied to extract each story. Each has a powerful story to tell. The realization of this has also led to the increase in value of the Torah.” This logic is puzzling to the expert appraisers consulted by The Jewish Week. They acknowledge that a database containing information about such a vast number of pasul Torahs might serve as a useful reference to help scholars better date and place other Torahs. However, all said that the idea that the “story” behind a Torah could increase its value would be applicable only in cases where that “story” includes being very old, very rare and/or having a particularly notable author or owner. By contrast, there is at least one appraiser The Jewish Week identified, Lee Biondi, who seems to share Carroll’s view that there are two distinct markets for pasul Torahs, one Jewish and the other Christian. Biondi is a California-based rare book dealer and Christian who told The Jewish Week that he has appraised pasul Torahs for clients involved in donating them to Christian institutions. According to his CV, Biondi spent the 1980s working as a TV and film producer and chain bookstore manager before going on to manage an antiquarian bookshop in Los Angeles and then opening his own gallery and rare book and manuscript business now based in Santa Barbara. The CV also notes that he believes he is the only dealer “ever to purchase and sell actual Dead Sea Scroll Biblical fragments.” (In recent years, some DSS fragments have been determined to be fakes.) In response to a question from The Jewish Week about whether he appraised any of the Torahs that were donated by the Green Collection to the MOTB, Biondi said that “by agreement” he could not “comment on any aspect of the Green Collection.” He told The Jewish Week that he did not do any pasul Torah appraisal work for the MOTB and but said that he “has looked at some of” the MOTB’s Torah scrolls and added that for every scroll that is in the museum, “they have commissioned an expert rabbinical report,” though a

non-disclosure agreement he signed with the museum prevented him from revealing who these experts are. Biondi made a point of saying that these rabbinical reports are critical, as the IRS “will never trust the original seller’s description.” Three people familiar with the MOTB’s practices told The Jewish Week that one of those scribes was a Rabbi Reisman. A Nov. 24 comment posted on a blog and attributed to “Elliot Reisman” claims that he was “employed by the Greens to evaluate some of their Torah scrolls.” Elliot Reisman’s Facebook page contains a photo that matches that of a Rabbi Yitzchok Reisman, a Lower East Side rabbi who restores Torahs and, together with a scribe and Judaica dealer named Itzhak Winer, became well known in 2009 for identifying what experts thought was the oldest surviving Torah from Spain’s Golden Age. Attempts to reach both men were unsuccessful. Dorothy Lobel King, an archaeologist and writer based in London, in 2015 obtained and circulated widely documents from the AAI site, which included an appraisal Biondi conducted for Scott Carroll on behalf of an anonymous donor in 2013. It included 10 Torahs and the valuations ran from $90,000 to $570,000. It also named a group of “scholars and experts of record”: Scott Carroll, Moty Sender, Amedeo Spagnoletto, Ron Sieger and Dirk Obbink. Sieger is a certified sofer, or scribe, in Los Angeles while Spagnoletto is an Italian sofer and the Chief Rabbi of Florence, who has also worked with the MOTB. Obbink is an Oxford professor in papyrology and Greek literature who was suspended from Oxford in October during an investigation by the university and the Egypt Exploration Society for allegedly illegally selling Egyptian manuscript fragments to the MOTB (the matter reportedly was made known to Thames Valley police in November of last year). Obbink has denied the allegations.

Two Different Markets

hen asked by The Jewish Week how he typically arrives at his valuations, Biondi echoed Carroll, telling The Jewish Week that pasul Torahs are “not respected as objects in Israel because they are not kosher. The Christian market doesn’t care. That’s not a barometer of value or anything.” How does the Christian market value them? According to Biondi, “Value characteristics are: age, condition, significance, if it can be traced to a particular region. Rare areas are

more valuable.” Without access to Hobby Lobby’s tax returns it is impossible to know the dollar amount of the deductions it may have taken on the pasul Torahs it donated to the MOTB. The museum’s 990 from 2011 show $23 million in donated artifacts from Hobby Lobby Stores; in 2015, the cumulative value of donated artifacts had jumped to $201 million (according to a note in the 2016 990, the museum elected on July 1 of that year “to no longer recognize donated or purchased artifacts in the statement of financial position ... in accordance with accounting policies generally followed by museums with similar collections”). In their 2018 article, Baden and Moss report that the museum’s chief curatorial officer told them the museum owned 2,559 items, which would mean that, at that time, pasul Torahs made up around 72 percent of the entire collection. A spokesperson from the IRS told The Jewish Week that “federal law prohibits” the agency “from commenting on or confirming or denying anything related to a specific taxpayer.” However, Victor Wiener, who heads a New York-based art consultancy and appraisal company, has taught at NYU and served as the executive director of the Appraisers Association of America for 21 years, told The Jewish Week that in general “buying cheap” to get a tax deduction is a “standard operation of tax promoters” that is “immediately going to trigger some type of button at the IRS and they are going to recognize it as potential tax fraud.” While Wiener has no specific knowledge of the pasul Torah market or the MOTB’s collection, he stressed that in order to claim that an object’s value has increased significantly over a short period of time, “you really need absolutely firm data.” “There’s nothing wrong with a bargain sale per se,” Wiener said. “The question is, is it legitimate? Can it be repeated? And is there substantiation that it was competitive or that you weren’t taking advantage of someone one way or another? Or that it wasn’t a sale that was motivated by getting a tax deduction and it’s all fictitious. Is there more than one buyer?” That last question is perhaps the most salient of all, as even Scott Carroll himself suggests that the Greens have essentially cornered the market in pasul Torahs. “Given the decrease in the number of Torahs available and the increase in the cost of Torahs, I don’t think there could ever be a collection that could surpass the number they have acquired. It is staggering.” n

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

ministrative forfeiture by Texas Secretary of State,” according to Texas public records, also claimed an “exclusive business relationship” with Scott Carroll Manuscripts and Rare Books. It described Carroll as “a leading expert” with “unparalleled access to undocumented and unidentified arti-

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

The Jewish Week

OPINION EDITORIAL

Conference of Presidents Names the Right Chair

he Conference of Presidents of cal in its politics, hostile to the Trump Major American Jewish Orga- administration and un-Jewish in its nizations is, by its own descrip- activities, positions and partnerships. tion, “the central coordinating body But those critics speak for a narrow representing 53 national Jewish orga- sector that defines Jewish identity and nizations on issues of national and in- self-interest according to their own ternational concerns.” The organized particular ideologies. HIAS, founded Jewish community’s foreign policy to serve Jews but now advocating for umbrella seeks consensus on U.S.-Is- populations that reflect the shifting rael policy, Israeli security and global contours of the world’s resettlement threats to Jews and their interests. crisis, is Jewish to its core. Treating the Forging that consensus is not always stranger fairly is a fundamental value easy. The Conference’s members are as of American Jewish identity. That the diverse as the communities they repre- once bipartisan issue of assisting refusent. Its leaders often spend as much gees from oppressive regimes has now time wrangling cooperation within the become hopelessly partisan does not conference as they do enmake that value any less gaging with world leadvalid or binding. ers. Agreement on policy Critics of HIAS also is supposed to emerge ignore the importance of from this deliberative proworking across borders cess, and not be imposed and within coalitions – from the top. especially at a time when Earlier this week the anti-Semitism is rising Conference announced on the right and left. The that Dianne Lob, the gunman who killed 11 immediate past chair of HIAS’ Dianne Lob has Jews in Pittsburgh cited HIAS, has been nomi- been tapped as new HIAS’ advocacy for imnated to become its next chair of the Conference migrants in his targeting Presidents. chair. It’s a welcome of of the synagogue. The CON F ER ENCE OF P R ESI DENTS choice. As a leader of outpouring of support America’s historic Jewfor the Jewish commuish immigration agency, which has nity after the Tree of Life shooting, been at the center of an era-defining from Christians, Muslims and people debate over U.S. borders and refugee of other faiths, was in part the result of resettlement, she has shown the skills goodwill won on the battleground of and temperament to work within coali- immigration policy. tions, seek consensus and speak truth Lob is poised to become chair at a to power. As head of Global Business moment of transition at the Conference Development for AllianceBernstein, of Presidents: William Daroff, who led the investment firm, she has flourished public policy for the Jewish Federations in professional settings where elbows of North America, is the new CEO, sucare sharp and tough negotiating skills ceeding Malcolm Hoenlein, who was are a requirement. named executive vice chairman. As in Lob would also be the third any organization, new leadership sigwoman to serve as chair, and the first nals new opportunities for growth, for since the late June Walker, who served innovation and for renewed relevance. from 2007-08. She’ll bring fresh perIn a statement about the Covid-19 spective to a field where a small mi- crisis, outgoing Conference chair Arnority of women hold top leadership thur Stark notes that the organization’s positions. members “may differ when it comes A first-generation American and the to political leanings or religious affiliachild of refugees from Germany, Lob tions, but we approach this challenging has been active with UJA-Federation time more united by common purpose. of New York. We all gain through this unity.” We’re Opponents of Lob’s nomination, confident Dianne Lob is the right few but vocal, dismiss HIAS as radi- choice to foster this common purpose.

LETTERS

The Holocaust Must Be Seen as Unique

Often I write about the uniqueness of the Holocaust and how it is completely different from other genocides. There are those who believe that the only way to preserve the memory of the Holocaust is by making it a universal lesson regarding the traumas and tribulations other peoples and nations have suffered. The article “Shoah Museums Telling a Multicultural Story” (April 17) by Steve Lipman reported on Holocaust educators who are teaching the similarities between the Holocaust and other genocides. By doing so, I believe we are diluting the significance of the Holocaust. The Nazis’ intention was to murder every single Jew in every single country throughout the world. While it is important to stress that we should not be bystanders while others are murdered or discriminated against, we should remember that the Holocaust was anti-Semitism carried to the extreme of total annihilation. Unless we preserve the memory of the Holocaust and tie it to Jewish observance and ritual by including the Holocaust in prayer services, the Holocaust will become a mere date in history. It will be regarded as just another genocide in the history of genocides. My parents of blessed memory were both Holocaust survivors. I was born in a displaced persons camp and came to the United States as a refugee. Growing up without grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins, made me the person I am today. The memory and lessons of the Holocaust will be kept alive by future generations if we have pride in the accomplishments of the survivors and preserved Judaism through education. Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg Edison, N.J.

When Families Rewrite Their Painful Histories

I read Abby Meth Kanter’s Back of the Book essay (“Pandemic Victim is Erased from Family History,” April 10) in astonishment. The story of her “missing” grandmother reminded me of my husband’s “missing mother.” Following World War II, she died in a DP camp at age 37. Three months later, father and son (my husband) sailed to America. Within the year, my father-in-law married another Holocaust survivor who had been in Paris during the war. My husband’s stepmother had a large

family and he gained aunts, uncles, and many cousins but unfortunately his mother was never mentioned. Her memory was not being erased on purpose , it was just that life — school, Torah learning, forming a new family unit — continued under difficult economic conditions. What was done on purpose was not telling the grandchildren that my husband’s stepmother was not their “real” grandmother. One Shabbat, as we were sitting around the table, my 11-year-old son asked my husband, “How come you and Zeyde speak Yiddish and Bubbe speaks French?” It was time to tell them and we did. I was never comfortable with the secret but did not want to disagree with my father-in-law, and my husband was willing to acquiesce. The fear was that the grandchildren would respect their grandmother less if they knew she was not their “real” one. The years have passed and I am happy to relate that my mother-inlaw’s memory is very much alive. My son has become very interested in genealogy and has done extensive research into her lineage. This past year brought two wonderful examples of “m’dor l’dor,” from generation to generation. One of my daughter’s sons interviewed his grandfather for “Names Not Numbers,” a Holocaust documentary project. Her older son was a counselor in Camp HASC. One of his campers lives in Munich, Germany, where his father is a Chabad shaliach (emissary). This compassionate rabbi went to my mother-in-law’s grave and sent us photos of the headstone. As Abby Meth Kanter so aptly wrote, “the beloved young wife and mother” is being remembered and we, the grandparents, are committed to telling our grandchildren “the rich, including painful, stories of our family.” Shelly Mohl Fort Lee, N.J. Letters to the Editor: The Jewish Week welcomes letters to the editor responding to our stories. Letters should be sent with the writer’s name, address and email address. Please keep letters to 300 words or less. The Jewish Week reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Send letters to editor@jewishweek.org.

Covid-19 Might Just Kick Us into the Jewish Future

efore 70 CE, Jerusalem was the physical and spiritual center of the Jewish commonwealth. After the Romans destroyed the Temple, Judaism emerged as something different: a religion and people without a temple, sacrifices or even a state. What happened between Before and After? The destruction of the Temple is marked on the 9th of Av; the late scholar Jacob Neusner once wrote that he was interested in what happened on “the ‘next day,’ the 10th of Av in Yavne.” Transitions are a hard story to tell, but our sages gave it their best shot. They embodied the drama in the story of one man, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai. The Talmud and other sources tell us Rabbi Yochanan lived in Jerusalem during the Roman siege. In the best-known story about him, Yochanan realizes that resistance to the Romans is futile; he defies the Jewish rebels and leaves the city to negotiate with the Roman general Vespasian. Vespasian grants Yochanan his one request: “Give me Yavne and its sages.” Yochanan goes on to establish a place of study there, well to the west of fallen Jerusalem. In a fitting piece of symbolism, Yochanan is said to have escaped Jerusalem in a coffin; it is a resurrection story, after all, with Yavne symbolizing a new form of Judaism that transforms animal sacrifices into oaths of repentance and acts of loving kindness and a Temple-centered system into a portable faith of study, prayer and mitzvot. Of course, the Yochanan story stands in for a long period of evolution, experimentation and anxiety that ended up with rabbinic Judaism as we know it today.

Fundraising, ritual and community may never be the same.

Right now, it feels like we are in the middle of another such period, forced on us by a public health and economic crisis beyond our control and imagining. The closest thing to it was the 2008 recession, when fundraising collapsed, and synagogues and institutions lost members and laid off employees. Experts predicted that the dire consequences of the Great Recession would provide “opportunities for

Andrew Silow-Carroll

further experimentation in creating new forms of Jewish expression and also accelerate their disengagement from traditional infrastructures,” as Steve Windmueller, professor in Jewish Communal Service at Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion, put it in a paper at the time. I am not sure his predictions panned out: The economy proved surprisingly resilient, as did the old ways of doing things in Jewish life. The 2008 crisis only accelerated one major trend in Jewish life: a consolidation of Jewish communal power among “mega-donors.” There is already an emerging literature on what the post-Covid-19 Jewish world will and should look like. Yehuda Kurtzer of The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America has called for “collective mobilization” organized around “a coherent and clearly prioritized set of commitments.” Windmueller is again predicting “pro-

found changes in the Jewish world,” writing that we will see “a fundamental economic restructuring of the communal enterprise, just as we will experience the reshaping of our larger social networks, our systems of practice, and our focus on a different political environment.” One reason I think such predictions may actually come true this time is that the changes are already happening. Take “systems of practice.” Last week I spoke with Rabbi Mark Biller, of Temple Gates of Prayer in Flushing. In one eight-day period earlier this month, he performed funerals for three congregants who died of complications from Covid-19. Even in that brief period, new rituals based on social distancing — performing a funeral remotely, sitting shiva on a Zoom conference call — went from unthinkable to the new normal. He took inspiration from other rabbis who were adjusting Jewish legal requirements as fast as the conditions were changing. But for all the dislocation, Rabbi Biller says he was “amazed watching the upside.” Writing on Facebook about his “virtual” experience with mourners, he described the satisfaction in “connecting them to each other, the giving of a ritual scaffolding for the human needs of mourning, crying, appreciating, remembering.” Like rabbis and Jewish communal professionals everywhere, Biller has moved nearly all of his synagogue’s functions online, and invented new ones. Major philanthropies have assured their grantees that they will relax some of their old rules about getting and spending money. Most of the changes are temporary, but it’s also possible that new processes, rituals and forms of engagement will

survive long after the virus is defeated. A dozen years ago Windmueller wrote of a different era in American Jewish reinvention: The Great Depression. “The American

Is this our ‘Yavne’ moment? rabbinate saw a unique opportunity to galvanize Jews to engage in volunteer service in both the Jewish and larger American frameworks; to employ for the first time radio broadcasts and newspaper advertisements in reaching out and encour-

aging Jewish learning and synagogue involvement; and to speak out on public policy and social justice issues,” he wrote. “Similarly, fundraising by Jewish charities in the 1920s achieved extraordinary results….” I suspect the economic damage, personal trauma and technological shifts of this bizarre moment in history will also make it impossible for Jewish institutions — the ones that survive — to go back to business as usual. And a dozen years from now, we will look back at the coronavirus crisis as an inflection point. There is no one remedy to the crisis we are seeing within Jewish life. But Yochanan ben Zakkai understood that healing is impossible unless we dare to imagine new forms, new leadership and new territory beyond our current walls. n

Gratitude Before Grievance David Wolpe

assover is done, but may I bring one more word about matzah? Rabbi Simcha Bunim, a great chasidic master, once pointed out the strange sequence in the seder. Matzah represents freedom and the bitter herbs slavery. The seder begins with the Israelites enslaved. Why then do we eat matzah before maror, the bitter herbs? His answer was that we need to apMusings preciate freedom before we can understand the bitterness of slavery. Matzah must come first. When we lament that we are trapped at home, it is because we understand the joy of being able to go where we wish. Every grievance is the flip side of a gift. We are sad now because we know the joy of earlier times. Rabbi Bunim was teaching us the art of appreciation even in a difficult time. Although the lesson was from Passover, it remains powerful throughout the year. Gratitude before grievance. Let’s remember that the seder ends in freedom, in the matzah of the afikomen. We cherish the hope that the pandemic will end in freedom and safety soon.

Rabbi David Wolpe is spiritual leader of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. His latest book is “David: The Divided Heart” (Yale University Press). Follow him on Twitter: @rabbiwolpe.

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

EDITOR’S COLUMN

OPINION

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

Cautious Leaders Aren’t ‘Nazis,’ but They Aren’t Above Scrutiny

t was the sort of thing that sets Jewish teeth on edge. Some of the signs displayed at the recent protests against the restrictions that have been imposed on citizens in order to halt the spread of the coronavirus, referred to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as a “Nazi.” In the context of the rising tide of anti-Semitism that has swept across the globe in recent years, A Matter the “Heil of Opinion W h i t mer” and swastika posters carried by demonstrators were quickly interpreted by some as not merely inappropriate — as is the case with virtually all Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.org and a columnist for the New York Post and National Review. Follow him on Twitter at: @ jonathans_tobin.

analogies that reference the imagery of the Holocaust — but also linked to conspiracy theories circulating that claim the pandemic was a Jewish plot. Like virtually other major crisis, anti-Semites have seized upon Covid-19 in order to spread hate. Yet these far-right extremists aren’t alone in seeing the coronavirus as evidence of Jewish perfidy. The same elements in the Arab and Muslim world that have been spewing blood libels and canards about Zionist plots for decades have done the same with the virus. Even as Israel and the Palestinian Authority were being praised by the United Nations for working together to combat the contagion, Israeli TV reported that PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh was claiming that Israeli soldiers were intentionally spreading Covid-19 in order to harm Palestinians.

Jonathan S. Tobin Testing the tradeoffs between civil liberties and emergency measures aimed at saving lives. The practice of blaming Jews for the ills of the world goes back to ancient times and led to mass murder during the 14th-century “Black Death” pandemic. So it is hardly surprising that the diverse range of contemporary anti-Semites are operating out of the same playbook.

But the images of gun-toting, Confederate flag-waving demonstrators comparing politicians that have imposed pandemic lockdowns to Nazis have short-circuited a more fundamental debate about the tradeoffs between civil liberties and emergency measures aimed at saving lives. Concerns about giving government too much power over our lives are not confined to extreme right-wingers in the United States. In Israel, so-called “black flag” demonstrators have chafed against the even more extreme lock down orders imposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Just as the American anti-lockdown movement is mixed up with the arguments for and against President Donald Trump, a lot of the anger about the pandemic counter-measures in

such difficult decisions. Suffice it to say that when ercise of one’s individual rig whether it is to buy a gun, a church service, a minyan or ding — directly endanger the ri others to life and liberty by pote Israel has been conflated spreading the coronavirus, th with the movement to oust be overridden. Netanyahu from office. The law has always reco It’s easy to dismiss those some limits to the exercise of th seeking to defend the sale of firearms or holding mass prayer meetings during a pandemic as crackpots. Yet, regardless of your feelings about guns, megachurches or Netanyahu, in most circumstances, they’d be right. The essential purpose of any government should be to defend individual rights. Placing the kind of power required to enforce the lockdowns in the hands of any government is a scary business. That’s especially true when they involve electronic surveillance of those with the virus. The calculus by which one can trade rights for security is always hard to discern. In most cases, the tradeoff isn’t worth it. But the current emergency is proof that sometimes one must make

How Charedi Orthodox Theology Failed Its Followers

ur hearts go out to the members of the charedi Orthodox community in Israel and worldwide. Charedim are found in disproportionate numbers among the sick and the dead of the coronavirus epidemic. They are civilian casualties of the cruel, unrelenting war on all humanity being waged by Covid-19. Numerous people have angrily blamed the charedim for the high losses in the community, arguing that initially their leaders rejected medical Rabbi Yitz Greenberg is a public intellectual and communal activist and the author of forthcoming “The Triumph of Life,” from which this column is adapted.

instructions. Various charedim have continued religious gatherings and Torah learning after health authorities called for social isolation. Those religious activities spread the disease much more in their midst. Bad judgment does not justify rejection or hatred of innocent victims. Before the Shoah, many chasidic leaders told their followers not to go to Israel or America. During the catastrophe, many advised against flight (especially when done in cooperation with Zionists) and strongly opposed resistance. The outcome was a much higher percentage of deaths among charedim, perhaps 90 percent of those who chose to stay. But nobody would think of condemning the victims

Rabbi Yitz Greenberg Lack of secular learning and magical thinking helped spread the coronavirus. for following bad advice and policies. The charedim are flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone and of the Jewish people. They deserve com-

passion and care at this time of their troubles. Proper understanding of the charedi situation includes acknowledging the legitimate factors that increased their vulnerability to the pandemic. Charedi families are larger and they typically live in tight quarters, which leads to increased contagions. They live a rich, more intense religious communal life. But these experiences multiply unintentional transmission of the virus. At the same time, respect for the truth — and the commitment to prevent a recurrence — require that we critique the flawed charedi theology that leads to greater losses in these communities. First and foremost, they

follow a biblical model in which God controls and does everything in history. They firmly believe that as long as humans please God by doing mitzvot, God will defeat their enemies and grant them victory (see: the Exodus and the splitting of the Red Sea). They are oblivious to the main rabbinic interpretation of the Bible’s covenant idea: that God has self-limited. In this interpretation, God has asked humans to take a more active role in history. See, for example, the Talmudic interpretation of Purim in which Exodus/redemption would not have happened unless Esther and Mordechai executed their plans to defeat Haman. When asked whether charedi schools should be closed

Tobin and Second Amendments. After all, Abraham Lincoln suspended the Constitution to defend the Union and ultimately abolish slavery. Yet here Jewish religious law also has something to teach us. The principle of “pikuach nefesh” — literally “saving a soul” — enables the breaking of almost all laws in order to save lives. This principle cannot be twisted to support permanent abridgement of rights and lib-

erty. Yet the efforts to prevent a public health catastrophe must in certain limited instances take precedence. Once the danger passes, we can have a spirited debate about whether pandemic counter-measures were inadequate or an overreaction that caused as much if not more harm as good. We can also then assess who deserves blame for the impact of the disease and whether anti-Semitism

tainted the debate about government overreach. In the meantime, if giving up some of our liberty to congregate is truly the difference between life and death for those who are most vulnerable to the disease, such as the elderly and those who are already have respiratory illnesses or are immunocompromised, then that is a price that must be paid. ■

Greenberg

8b. Some charedim, like many Evangelicals, allowed themselves to be exposed to coronavirus under the belief that God would protect them. This is nothing but magical thinking, and the Torah treats magic as abhorrent. The Bible insists that no Divine action can be compelled by human gifts, behaviors or tricks. Magical thinking also disrespects God’s miraculous creation by claiming to override the objective and dependable system of natural processes and laws. Pre-modern, magical thinking is the sad outcome of the lack of a secular education. To protect people’s religiosity, charedi rabbinic leadership inhibits secular education and excludes most uses of the internet as well. As a result, charedi Jews are seldom equipped to participate in the science and medical fields that are key to preventing and finding cures for dangerous pandemics, and the average charedi Jew lacks understanding of the serious threat of coronavirus and the urgency of taking preventive actions. Unfortunately, the Gedolim — the Torah greats — who make these rulings are as uninformed as their followers. The community has paid a terrible price for its leadership’s ignorance of science and secular knowledge. In the last century, when they opposed Zionism, the charedi Gedolim, overall, were guided by the same defensive, insular theological thinking and lack of secular information. As a result, the Jewish community in pre-state Palestine became more secular, while the fervently religious in Europe were exposed to the catastrophic Nazi assault. Their leaders should have been turned out of office (as would happen in a democratic political system) — or they should have begun integrating modern thinking and Jewish religion. Instead, in the name of preserving the religion, they were granted unlimited authority. By charedi definition, Ruach Hakodesh

Continued on page 22

3611-14 AV. SUITE 225 BROOKLYN, N.Y. 11218

NEW YORKERS ARE EAGERLY ANTICIPATING

36 UNDER 36 Each year The Jewish Week celebrates a new group of 36 young emerging leaders from across denominations, professions and interests. We honor individuals who have demonstrated unique initiative and creativity, and the ability to inspire others. Our 36ers are high achievers and philanthropists engaged in the world around them.

DISCOVER THE 2020 HONOREES IN A SPECIAL PRINT AND ONLINE ISSUE. Publishing May 29 Advertising Reservations Deadline is May 20 Material due on May 22

For Sponsorships + Advertising information, please contact Rich Waloff at 212-997-2917 or rich@jewishweek.org

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

such difficult decisions. Suffice it to say that when the exercise of one’s individual rights — whether it is to buy a gun, attend a church service, a minyan or a wedding — directly endanger the rights of others to life and liberty by potentially een conflated spreading the coronavirus, they can ement to oust be overridden. om office. The law has always recognized dismiss those some limits to the exercise of the First efend the sale holding mass ngs during a s crackpots. less of your to prevent infection, Rabbi Chaim t guns, megaKanievsky, a leading authority in IsNetanyahu, in rael, replied: “God forbid. Learning tances, they’d Torah protects and saves” the Jewish people, citing Talmud Sotah 21a. ial purpose of He dismissed medical considerations nt should be to because God controls every detail of ual rights. Plachistory. Learning Torah would please power required the Lord, who would protect Jewry. lockdowns in This is the same theology that underny government girds the charedi refusal to let their siness. That’s youth serve in the Israel Defense e when they inForces. Not tanks and jet fighters but ic surveillance the exempted students learning Torah he virus. are the real defense force of the Jews by which one ish state. ts for security In reality, the 90 percent of Isrd to discern. raelis who serve in the military and s, the tradeoff sometimes give their lives save the . But the curfervently religious from the folly of a cy is proof that theology that makes the Torah unlivne must make able for a whole society. In the case of coronavirus, this interpretation proved devastating. The second serious misinterpretation in charedi theology is to see sickness and natural catastrophes as divine punishment for sins rather than as natural phenomena. The Talmud ical model indisagrees: “The natural order operates ntrols and doesobjectively”; it does not differentiate history. Theybetween righteous and wicked peothat as long asple. (See Talmud Avodah Zara 54b.) se God by do-Rabbi Kanievsky was quoted as sayGod will defeating that the virus is a punishment for and grant themlashon hara (harmful gossip); if peohe Exodus andple would stop and repent, the plague f the Red Sea).would stop. ivious to the However, the Book of Job was ininterpretationcorporated into the Bible by the rabbis covenant idea:to make clear that sickness and disasself-limited. Inter are not retribution but part of the ation, God haslarger scheme of nature. God rebukes to take a moreJob’s friends for insisting that his sins history. See, forhave caused the tragedies in his life. Talmudic inter-Moral: the innocent victim should not urim in whichbe blamed for his/her suffering. mption would The flip side of punishment for sin ened unless Es-is the Haredi teaching that if you are echai executeddoing a religious act, God will keep defeat Haman. you safe. “Those who are agents dod whether cha-ing a mitzvah will not be harmed,” R. hould be closedElazar asserts in Talmud Pesachim

The Jewish Week n www.thejewishweek.com n April 24, 2020

Brisses

continued from page 1 gentle, compassionate and performed in the comfort, safety and security of their home on a pillow. And it meets all of the requirements of Jewish law.” In addition, Sherman, who is Orthodox, said he worried about the “risk of exposure [to the virus] by doctors in a hospital, which is greater than mine. … The last place I would want a circumcision is in the hospital because that is where all the sick people are.” Sherman, who has performed brisses for 43 years, said he stopped on April 2 because of the dangers posed by Covid-19. He said he plans to resume “within a week or two” now that the danger of infection has eased in the metropolitan area. He is among several mohels who have stopped performing brisses this month because of Covid-19.

‘I know some parents who are very, very worried about

“The last place I would want a circumcision is in a hospital because that is where all the sick people are,” says veteran mohel Cantor Phil Sherman. COU RTESY OF P H I L SH ER MAN

it. But [brisses] are being done with great, great caution.’ Dr. Deborah Greenbaum, a pediatrician and certified mohel from Great Neck, L.I., said she stopped performing brisses “within the last couple of weeks” and will decide “on a week-to-week basis” when to resume them. “Gov. [Andrew] Cuomo just expanded the [restrictions and closures] for another month,” she told The Jewish Week. “If I can’t even see my grandchildren, how can I go into someone else’s house?” “Right now I’m referring people to those who feel they can do it, or tell them we have the option of having the baby circumcised in the hospital by a doctor and having a ceremony later to properly welcome the baby into the covenant,” said Greenbaum, who was trained and certified by the Reform movement. “If we say just let’s wait and see what happens in the next few weeks to months, we may end up having the baby put under anesthesia [for the bris] and I don’t want that for the baby.” Cantor Mark Kushner, who has homes in Manhattan and Philadelphia, said he continues performing brisses outside of New York, but that it has been “about three or four weeks since I did a bris in New York. I am ready to reopen my practice there May 1 or May 15, I just want to make sure the curve continues to flatten.” Among those who have delayed their son’s bris with Sherman are Adam and Sabrina Katz of Purchase, N.Y. The baby was born April 4, and they took him home the next day after hospital personnel encouraged them to leave as quickly as possible.

Emily and Lawrence Lejfer and their newborn son Matthew at Weill Cornell/NY Presbyterian Hospital. They are awaiting guidance from their mohel, Cantor Phil Sherman, about scheduling a bris. COU RTESY OF TH E LEJ F ER S

“We trust him a lot,” Adam said of Sherman. “My wife was leaning towards postponing it and once he said to postpone it, we thought that was the right thing to do.” Another couple, Lawrence and Emily Lejfer of Manhattan, said they are delaying the bris because Sherman assured them “that from a health standpoint waiting a few weeks wouldn’t be an issue.” Rabbi Elliot Dorff, who authored the brit milah guidelines for the Conservative movement, said he wrote that a circumcision in the hospital would be best (followed later by hatafat dam brit). A urologist

he consulted “pointed out to me that after two weeks a boy would need anesthesia to be circumcised properly.” He said the second-best option would be to have a bris as normal, eight days after birth. Rabbi Zev Zions, who has continued performing brisses in the New York metropolitan area — with gloves and a mask, he emphasized — said he totally opposes hospital circumcisions. Under Jewish law, a medical circumcision without the accompanying blessings and rituals does not fulfill the requirements for a brit milah, or religious circumcision, which is usually performed eight days after birth. The blessings and rituals, conversely, must also be accompanied by at least the drawing of a drop of blood. “You can’t make it up later with a drop of blood,” insisted Rabbi Zions, who was ordained at the charedi Orthodox Beth Medrash Govoha Rabbinical College in Lakewood, N.J. “That’s not making it up. That’s a very small part of the procedure that can be made up later. But it is not in lieu of the bris. It is not a bris.” He continued: “If someone has a Jewish baby boy, there is no reason to do anything less than what is prescribed by Torah law. If one can’t perform a bris, delay it and do it when things are better. But discuss it with a certified mohel who is trained. Decide each situation case-by-case. It is better to wait than to have a circumcision in the hospital.” Rabbi Zions said that since the outbreak of coronavirus, he checks before he goes into a house to perform a bris to make sure that the family is healthy. “The only ones in the room are the baby and the father. There are no grandparents and the mother is watching from another room.” Rabbi Paysach Krohn of Kew Gardens, Queens, said he performed a bris recently wearing gloves and a mask with a “minimal amount of people” in attendance. “I know there are some parents who are very, very nervous about it,” said the Orthodox mohel. “But they are being done with great, great caution.” And Rabbi Mark Cooper, a Conservative rabbi and certified mohel from South Orange, N.J., said he is continuing to perform brisses with just the immediate family present. He wears a mask and gloves and leaves his shoes at the door. He said he spends time with the family and those watching on Zoom because “this needs to be a relevant experience that connects people to Jewish tradition and speaks about the continuity of our way of life. I give a brief narrative that I make even more brief than usual. We want to move through the ceremony at a crisp pace, but not rob it of its meaning.” The Orthodox Union’s ou.org/covid-19 website says, simply, “Brit Milah should be held privately.” Guidelines of the Central Conference of American [Reform] Rabbis say a bris should be done on the eighth day, and that if it is delayed a bris can be done anytime during the first six weeks or when the baby “grows larger than 12 pounds.” “The evidence is that babies, including newborns, are far less susceptible to COVID-19 than are older adults, unless the infants have some other health problem,” the guidelines say. “It appears that the adults who would be present at a brit milah could be at greater risk than the infant himself.” n

ARTS GUIDE

MY LIFE THROUGH MUSIC: DAVID BROZA The Israeli superstar’s music reflects the three countries in which he was raised: Israel, Spain and England. — Thursday, April 23, 6:30 p.m., Virtual Streicker, emanuelnyc.org/ streickercenter/virtual/. Free.

Taub was part of the 2018 Passover seder show performed by Broadway actors and composers and partially underwritten by the Jewish cultural group Reboot; fittingly, she sang her tune “Huddled Masses,” inspired by a

JEWISH RESILIENCE THROUGH CHOCOLATE Join a discussion on Zoom Video Conferencing with Rabbi Deborah Prinz, author of “On the Chocolate Trail,” the inspiration behind the Temple Emanu-El Bernard Museum’s exhibit “Semi[te] Sweet: On Jews and Chocolate,” which travels throughout the

Israel’s longest-serving consul-general in New York and the tri-state area to date, appears in a discussion via Zoom Video Conferencing. — Wednesday, April 29, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Virtual Streicker, https://temple-emanu-elstreicker-center-classes. ticketleap.com/israel72-years-of-statehoodamb-ido-aharoni/details. Free.

The Brothers Nazaroff. His Yiddish cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” has gone viral, with over 700,000 views. — Wednesd a y, A p r i l 2 9 , 7 p . m . , Folksbiene!LIVE, nytf.org/ live/.

BEHIND THE SCENES WITH ‘SHTUMER SHABES’ (SILENT SABBATH) Join Facebook Live to go

‘STAN LEE: A LIFE IN COMICS’ (BOOK LAUNCH) He created Spider-Man, Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, and Stan Lee’s Jewish roots ran deep. Join author Liel Liebovitz for the launch of his new book about Lee and a discussion with “Unorthodox” podcast co-host Stephanie Butnick about the surprising connections between Lee’s celebrated comic book heroes and the ancient tales of the Bible, the Talmud and Jewish mysticism. — Thursday, April 23, 7 p.m., programs. cjh.org. Free.

SHAINA TAUB — JOE’S PUB LIVE! A live-stream of the archived 2018 performance from songwriter-performer Shaina Taub’s residency at Joe’s Pub. The show was a creative laboratory as Taub, her band and special guests debuted new songs and performed lots of selections from Taub’s “Old Hats” (the Bill Irwin/David Shiner musical) and her album “Visitors.” The New York Times says, “The singer and songwriter Shaina Taub belongs to a breed of performers who, apart from being artists, are gravitation forces around whom others cluster like filings to a magnet.” In the spirit of the season,

VIRTUAL UNPACKING THE BOOK: JEWISH WRITERS IN CONVERSATION Join us for a Zoom conversation with Esther Safran Foer (“I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A PostHolo¬caust Memoir”), a former CEO of the Sixth & I congregation in Washington, D.C., and mother of Franklin, Jonathan and Joshua; Keith Gessen (“A Terrible Country”), founding editor of n+1; and Tablet Magazine and “Unorthodox” podcast’s Stephanie Butnick. — Thursday, April 30, 7 p.m., The Jewish Museum, thejewishmuseum.org/calendar/ events/2020/04/30/unpacking-the-book-4302020. Free.

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

Editor’s Note: Check out “The Stream: What’s Going on in NYC This Week Online” on our website (thejewishweek.com) for daily updates.

BOB DYLAN: ‘OH, MERCY’

Next up in the Folksbiene!LIVE online series is Daniel Kahn, the Detroit-born, Berlin-based singer/songwriter who gives klezmer some clever twists and turns. The event is Wednesday, April 29 at 7 p.m. PAI NTEDB I R D.DE Trump travel ban protest poster that quoted Emma Lazarus. — Friday, April 24, 8 p.m., publictheater. org/productions/joes-pub. Free.

YOM HA’ATZMAUT M a r k t h i s y e a r ’s Yo m Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, on Facebook Live with a lecture by award-winning Israeli journalist Amir Tibob on the impact of the coronavirus on Israeli politics. Tibob, currently the Washington correspondent for the Israeli daily Haaretz, will discuss the recent events and answer questions on the subject. — Monday, April 27, 7 p.m., Virtual 14Y LABA Arts + Culture, 14streety.org/virtual-14y/ virtual-arts-culture/. Free.

country. — Monday, April 27, 6:30-7:45 p.m., Virtual Streicker, emanuelnyc. org/streickercenter/virtual/. Free.

A LOOK AT ‘FUNNY GIRL’: JOHN KENDRICK A talk with Kendick (“Musical Theatre, A History”) via Zoom. He’ll discuss Jule Styne’s musical about Fanny Brice that originally starred Barbra Streisand. — Tuesday, April 28, 6:307:45 p.m., Virtual Streicker, emanuelnyc.org/streickercenter/virtual/. Free.

ISRAEL — THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES: AMBASSADOR IDO AHARONI Ambassador Aharoni,

ELLEN BASS ON ‘INDIGO’ A live reading in celebration of Ellen Bass’ new poetry collection, “Indigo,” which features the poem “Photograph: Jews Probably Arriving to the Lodz Ghetto circa 19411942,” with poets Victoria Chang, Nick Flynn and Ben Purkert. — Wednesday, April 29, 7-8 p.m., Books Are Magic, https:// www.facebook.com/ events/908602032911936/. Free.

DANIEL KAHN PRESENTS YIDDISH BLUES IN BERLIN The Detroit-born, Berlinbased singer/songwriter concocts furious “alienation klezmer” and leads

behind the scenes and back in time with the creative team from “Shtumer Shabes,” the new play by LABA Fellow Rokhl Kafrissen. It’s a show about Yiddish theater, human experimentation and making art in the most difficult times. In other words, a comedy. Cast members will perform short excerpts from the play, set in the early 2000s East Village and 1930s Warsaw. Then Kafrissen and director Aaron Beall will join special guests in conversation about what inspired the show. — Wednesday, April 29, 2 p.m., 14Y LABA Arts + Culture, 14streety.org/ virtual-14y/virtual-artsculture/. Free.

The great troubadour has been busy of late: first, dropping a 17-minute song (and journey through American culture), “Murder Most Foul,” about the JFK assassination; then a few weeks later a song with the Whitmanesque title “I Contain Multitudes” (which actually namechecks Anne Frank). The songs on Dylan’s 1989 “Oh, Mercy” album are born of personal crisis, not the least of which was his own feeling that he was written out. The story of the writing of these songs and the making of this album was brilliantly told by Dylan in his autobiography, “Chronicles: Volume I,” and Louis Rosen will explore the details, drawing from the tracks on the album as released, as well as some terrific songs that were held back only to see the light of day years later via Dylan’s own subsequent Bootleg Series of recordings. Timeless tunes from the album like “Ring Them Bells” and “Everything is Broken” will doubtless echo down to today. —

Continued on next page

SABBATH WEEK

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

azria, a portion of Leviticus, instructs us that after a woman gives birth she is impure (tamah) for seven days for a male child and 14 days for a female child, similar to the impurity of menstruation. Then the Torah says, “for thirty-three days she shall dwell in the blood of her purity” for a male child and “for sixty-six days she shall dwell in blood of purity (tahara) for a female child. The expression, the blood of purity, is found nowhere else in the Torah. Several times we learn “the blood is the soul” (or the life, according to Rashi) [Leviticus 17:14] and also “the soul is in the blood” [Levit. 17:11]. The woman is given the privilege of “sitting,” the word used by Nachmanides, in the life and soul of purity with her focus only on her child. After birth, Tazria- a mother falls Metzorah in love with her baby. It is a very precious and even holy time. The child’s survival depends upon the mother, which is similar to our dependence on God. In taking care of the child, the mother must teach the child that life and the world are good, that there is food when you are hungry and that there is love when you need to be held. In Tazria, the Torah creates this

The Holy Ties That Bond

Rabbi Jill Hausman is spiritual leader and cantor of the Actors’ Temple in Manhattan.

special and pure time of Reeds. bonding where women For the mother, the need not enter the sancbaby is both Self and tuary or present offerOther, which also deings. It is an exemption scribes our relationship and not a restriction. The with God: part of, yet Talmud [Sukkah 26a] separate from, needteaches us that one “who ing care, food and love. is occupied with the perBeginning with this preformance of a religious cious time, the mother duty is free from the ful- Rabbi Jill Hausman must bring forth the fillment of other religious child’s unrealized poThe child’s duties.” Clearly, God is tential to be a living, givsurvival on the side of mothers! ing, caring human being, depends upon This time of hyper-purity capable of eventually the mother, will not be disturbed, nurturing new life. And which is even by God. It is too imperhaps this is why the similar to our portant for the developwoman has 66 days of dependence ment of the new person. purity with her daughter. on God. For the baby, the The female baby may woman must become God. This time become a mother herself. God decided has similarities to our Exodus, when that the child would benefit from an God brought us out of Egypt “on the extended time of bonding, especially wings of eagles” [19:4]. As the mother because male children have historically eagle flies her baby eaglets on her back been valued as higher than female chiluntil they are strong enough to fly on dren, and perhaps even today in some their own, the human mother brings families and cultures, still are. forth a child, carrying and feeding her We learn so much from parents: how child until the baby is seen as a viable to love, show respect, feel gratitude and human being. In Talmudic Judaism, the so much more. With the teachings in point of viability is seen as the 30th day Tazria, God ensures that the relationship of life, which is why the Pidyon HaBen between a new person and others gets off ceremony for a male child does not oc- to the right start. As we grow from incur until viability is assured [Numbers fancy to adulthood we are able to transfer 18:16; Shabbat 135b]. Interestingly, we the love, gratitude and respect from our arrived at Sinai approximately 66 days parents to others and ultimately, to God. after going through the parted Sea of Without the time of purity given to moth-

Greenberg

Arts Guide

continued from page 19 — the Holy Spirit — speaks in them, even when they speak with little or zero knowledge of the realia. We can only hope that the reality check of the plague will lead to new directions in their religious thought and their attitudes towards to the rest of society. All Jews are responsible for each other. The proper response is not blame or rejection but to consider together how to end the political coalitions and manipulations that have provided funding and special privileges to keep the charedi community unaccountable and on its current path. The sad outcome is an expanding, sometimes even inspiring community, but one deprived of essential knowledge, often mired in poverty and now vulnerable to disease. Everyone, together, must draw the lessons of this disaster to prevent a future repetition. ■

continued from previous page

Thursday, April 30, 7:15-9 p.m., 92Y, 92y. org/class/bob-dylan-oh-mercy. $50.

DR. EDITH EVA EGER IN CONVERSATION WITH TOVA FELDSHUH: ‘THE CHOICE’

Acclaimed psychologist and Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eva Eger talks May 3 with the great actress Tova Feldshuh about coping with the Covid-19 crisis and how to bring changes to our lives. DR EDITH EGER.COM

Now in her 90s and an internationally acclaimed psychologist, Dr. Eger is one of the few Holocaust survivors old enough to remember life in the camps. This event is a rare opportunity to hear her astonishing story, with its message for us all: “We have the capacity to hate and the capacity to love. Which one we reach for,” Eger says, “is up to us.” In this online event, she will also share her wisdom on how to cope with the Covid-19 crisis and changes to our lives. — Sunday, May 3, 6 p.m., 92Y, 92y.org/ event/dr-edith-eva-eger. $40 general/$20 for those age 40 and under. Ongoing:

PLAY MAH JONGG FROM HOME Real Mah Jongg Online allows you to

ers, the Torah seems to say, something vital and holy would be lost. The Torah suggests that there is a higher purity than the physical; a higher purity than the ritualistic or the communal, and that higher purity can only be found in the relationship of one person to another, at a time of unconditional love. There are three times in our lives when we might experience unconditional love: as children for our parents, as young adults for a mate and as parents for our own children. Perhaps these three experiences of unconditional love are given to us to teach us how God loves each of us. Our task is to take this knowledge and bring it to others, striving to fulfill the most difficult mitzvah in Torah, “Love your fellow as yourself” [Levit. 19:18]. ■ RiveRside MeMoRial Chapel

For

212-362-6600 Generations RiversideMemorialChapel.com A Symbol of A subsidiary of Service Corporation International, 1929 Allen Parkway, Houston, TX 77219 713-522-5141

Jewish Tradition.

Shabbat Shalom

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat Tazria-Metzora, Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Iyar Candlelighting: 7:27 p.m. Torah reading: Leviticus 12:1-15:33 Haftarah: Isaiah 66:1-66:24 Shabbat ends: 8:30 p.m.

play American Mah Jongg online against computers and your friends on either a computer, iPad or tablet. A 14-day trial is free and then it’s $5.99 per month after that. If you would like to connect with other players from the 14th Street Y, please email Karine Wittes at KWittes@14streety.org or Julie Gayer Kris at JGayerKris@14streety.org.

OMER AVITAL’S ‘NEW YORK PARADOX’ The new album by Omer Avital’s quintet Qantar — five expat Israelis who regularly get together to share Middle Eastern-inflected jazz music and Turkish coffee — was supposed to launch April 14 at Brooklyn’s Wilson Live. But “New York Paradox” is newly available for listening and purchasing at https://smarturl.it/QantarNYParadox. Avital, a bassist and composer, is “one of the most exciting musicians to come onto the jazz scene in the last 20 years,” according to DownBeat Magazine, and The New Yorker calls him “one of the key figures in the new wave of jazz.”

been moonlighting two times a week on debt cases. Mr. Dear was a role model for a generation of young Orthodox men and women interested in political life, said Adam Dickter, who covered him for two decades as The Jewish Week’s political reporter. Mr. Dear and Hikind were among the first political office-holders to openly proclaim their affiliation as Orthodox Jews, Dickter said. Previously, “it was rare to see politicians with a beard and yarmulke. They blazed a trail.” Mr. Dear was an effective political leader, working on a wide range of issues, Dickter said, because “he knew how things work, he understood the political process, he worked both sides of the aisle.” A prodigious fundraiser for himself and other proIsrael political candidates, “he helped his constituents have their say in public affairs.” Mr. Dear’s survivors include his wife, Rickly (Neiman) Dear, a speech pathologist, and four daughters: Rivka, Adina, Chaviva and Aliza. n Isaiah Kuperstein, 70, First Director of Education at U.S. Holocaust Museum Isaiah Kuperstein was known for his big, booming voice and even bigger personality. But those close to him appreciated his softer side, a quality that came across in the way he treated his wife, Elana. Even after 43 years Isaiah Kuperstein of marriage, Kuperstein still called her his “bride” and often held her hand in public. A child of Holocaust survivors, Kuperstein also cared deeply about imparting Jewish culture and tradition to future generations. He was the founding director of the Holocaust Center of Greater Pittsburgh, and later the first director of education at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.. He was a co-curator of “Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story,” the museum’s primary exhibition for young people, which helped educate countless children about the Holocaust. Kuperstein died of Covid-19 on April 4. He was 70. Born in Israel, Kuperstein emigrated to the United States with his family and earned degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University. Kuperstein lived just outside of Indianapolis, where for decades he owned Double 8 Foods, a chain of grocery stores serving inner city neighborhoods. John Adler, Polymath Descended from Chasidic Royalty John Adler was a descendant of chasidic royalty, tracing his family lineage back to Reb Shmelke of Nikolsburg, one of the earliest chasidic rabbis. But for years, Adler was estranged from Jewish practice. That changed some time after he arrived in Bristol, England, where for nearly three decades he worked in the drama department at the Uni-

John Adler versity of Bristol until his retirement in 1999. Adler got involved in the local synagogue, Bristol Hebrew Congregation, eventually serving as its president. And he became something of a stickler for enforcing its religious standards. “He was somewhat of a paradox in the sense that he was extremely caring and looking out for people, seeing what he could do to help and welcome, but at the same time he was a man of absolute principles,” recalled Rabbi Mendy Singer, the synagogue’s rabbi. A lifelong bachelor, Adler died March 30 of the coronavirus. He was in his early 70s. He ran two publishing imprints — Pomegranate Books and Herbert Adler Publishing — as well as a marketing firm, according to Adler’s LinkedIn profile. Alby Kass, 89, Klezmer Musician Who Built Northern California Jewish Community Alby Kass, one of the founders of the Russian River Jewish Community some four decades ago, has died March 31 of complications from Covid-19. He was 89. After spending the past year battling a number of other illnesses, he died after contracting a coronavirus infection at Gateway Care and Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home in Hayward where at least 66 patients and employees have been infected by the coronavirus, and 10 have reportedly died. Kass, who was born in the Bronx to an immigrant family, was a Yiddish singer with a strong baritone voice, a member of the Jubilee Klezmer

Adam ‘Yitz’ Friedman, 75, Publicist and Chasidic Scion In another lifetime, Adam “Yitz” Friedman might have been a chasidic rebbe rather than the Madison Avenue publicist he eventually became. Named for his grandfather, Yitzchok Friedman, the Sadigura rebbe, Friedman hailed from a line of chasidic rebbes that included the leaders of the Ruzhin and Rachmastrivk dynasties. But Friedman, who was born in Brooklyn in 1945, was destined for a different life. He went into public relations, making a name for himself in a business all about promoting other people’s greatness. In 1999, he founded his own firm, Adam Friedman Associates. Nevertheless, Torah always was an integral, daily part of Friedman’s life. “To my father, Torah is not a text or an activity, but an all-encompassing worldview that encompasses and enriches every part of life,” his eldest son, Israel Friedman of New Rochelle, wrote in a tribute shared with members of his synagogue. “He presented Torah life values through mesmerizing stories that conveyed nuance through simplicity and through books.” Friedman died in New York of coronavirus on April 10. He was 75. Friedman leaves behind his wife of 52 years, Shirley Friedman; three sons and their families; and several grandchildren. His two younger sons, David Friedman and Joseph Friedman, both live in Denver. Lee Konitz, 92, Jazz Saxophonist Lee Konitz, a legendary alto saxophone soloist who took part in Miles Davis’ historic “Birth of the Cool” jazz sessions in 1949 and became best known as a forward-thinking improviser, died on April 15 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. He was 92, and the cause was pneumonia, related to Covid-19. Konitz was born in Chicago to two Jewish immigrant parents; his father Abraham owned a laundry. “There was something in-groupish about the Jewish people that I saw, that I didn’t like,” he once recalled to an interviewer. Still, he acknowledged, “When you’re Jewish, it’s hard to keep it a

Alby Kass Ensemble and one of the founders of the Russian River Jazz Festival, according to Sonoma West Times and News. When he and his wife, Wallie, moved to the area in the mid-’70s, they took out an ad in the Guerneville paper looking for Jewish families with whom to celebrate Passover. They figured they’d hold the celebration in their house — until 75 families responded. “That was the giant ignition of the Russian River Jewish Community,” said Larry Kass, the couple’s son, who lives in Berkeley. “All the Jews crawled out from their little homesteads. There was a real outpouring of interest.”

Lee Konitz secret…. But I don’t broadcast it. If someone asks, I tell them my heritage, but I don’t practice ‘Jewishness’ — except with jokes!” He also expressed a fondness for the Jewish composers of the American songbook, including George Gershwin and Jerome Kern. “Without Jerome Kern, I might be in the laundry business!” he once said. n

The Jewish Week n www.thejewishweek.com n April 24, 2020

Obituaries continued from page 12

Classifieds The Jewish Week

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

visit us on the web – just go to

www.thejewishweek.com/classiﬁeds or call Arlene Bienenfeld at (212) 921-7822 x209; fax (212) 921-8420 arlene@jewishweek.org WANTED TO BUY

HEALTH / FITNESS

JOB MART

Saving a Life EVERY 11 MINUTES

SERVICE GUIDE MERCHANDISE MARKET REAL ESTATE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES LEGAL & PUBLIC NOTICES

BUSINESS HOURS

Monday – Thursday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Friday 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

INQUIRIES

Please contact Mark Schnitzler at mark@jewishweek.org 212-921-7822 ext. 204

DEADLINE

Monday 4:00 pm

PAYMENTS

We accept: American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa, checks and money orders.

Job Mart HELP WANTED COMPUTER & IT TRAINING PROGRAM! Train ONLINE to get the skills to become a Computer & Help Desk Professional now! Now offering a $10,000 scholarship for qualified applicants. Call CTI for details! (844) 947-0192 (M-F 8am-6pm ET) JOB OPPORTUNITY $18.50 P/H NYC $16 P/H LI Up to $13.50 P/H UPSTATE NY CDPAP Caregiver Hourly Pay Rate! Under NYS CDPAP Medicaid program you can hire your family or friends for your care. Phone: 347-713-3553 TRAIN AT HOME TO DO MEDICAL BILLING! Become a Medical Office Professional online at CTI! Get Trained, Certified & ready to work in months! Call 855-543-6440. (M-F 8am-6pm ET) ANNOUNCEMENTS Borough Park Lodge #409 I.O.O.F Meets Once a month at Temple Shalom Mill Basin Brooklyn: Member benefits include Networking, Scholarship, Community Action and Burial For further Information contact Alan at 917-755-3915 or DecoRada@aol.com

alone I’m never

WHY GIVE IT AWAY WHEN YOU CAN SELL IT! Get Top Dollar for your 50s, 60s & 70s MODERN Furniture, Lighting and Art.

Life Alert® is always here for me even when away from home. One touch of a button sends help fast, 24/7.

Help at Home with

FIRST AID

GPS !

! FREE

I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!

Batteries Never Need Charging.

Help On-the-Go

KIT

WHEN YOU ORDER!

For a FREE brochure call:

1-800-404-9776 HEALTH / FITNESS

DENTAL Insurance Physicians Mutual Insurance Company

A less expensive way to help get the dental care you deserve! CALL NOW!

FREE Information Kit

MODERN TODAY CALL COOPER COOPER MODERN FOR YOUR COMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATION

212-254-0309

You’ll be paid what you deserve for your cherished Modern items! WWW.COOPERMODERN.COM MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

1-855-225-1434

Get help paying dental bills and keep more money in your pocket This is real dental insurance — NOT just a discount plan You can get coverage before your next checkup

Don’t wait! Call now and we’ll rush you a FREE Information Kit with all the details. Insurance Policy P150NY 6129

1-855-225-1434

Discover the world’s best walk-in bathtub from

Visit us online at

www.dental50plus.com/nypress MB17-NM003Ec

ERRORS IN ADS

Please review your ad proof prior to first insertion. All ads placed over the telephone are read back for verification of copy. In the event of a Jewish Week error, we are responsible for the first incorrect insertion.

POLICIES

The Jewish Week reserves the rights to edit, reclassify, reject or cancel classified ads at anytime. We can only give appropriate credit not to exceed the cost of one insertion. We are not liable for complete omissions. Any discrepancies must be Brought to our attention within 30 days of the first day the ad ran, in order to receive consideration for credit. Under no circumstances will be liable for consequential damages of any type.

WRITE OR SEND COPY TO

The Jewish Week Classified Department 1501 Broadway Suite 505 New York, NY 10036

Service Guide AUTOMOTIVE Donate your car to Wheels For Wishes, benefiting Make-A-Wish. We offer free towing and your donation is 100% tax deductible. Call (917) 336-1254

HEALTH / FITNESS

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

SAVE ON YOUR NEXT PRESCRIPTION! World Health Link. Price Match Guarantee! Prescriptions Required. CIPA Certified. Over 1500 medications available. CALL Today For A Free Price Quote. 1-866-569-7986 Call Now!

DISH TV $59.99 For 190 Channels + $14.95 High Speed Internet. Free Installation, Smart HD DVR Included, Free Voice Remote. Some restrictions apply. 1-888609-9405

VIAGRA & CIALIS! 60 pills for $99. 100 pills for $150 FREE shipping. Money back guaranteed! Call Today: 1-855-579-8907

COMPUTER SERVICES COMPUTER ISSUES? GEEKS ON SITE provides FREE diagnosis REMOTELY 24/7 SERVICE DURING COVID19. No home visit necessary. $40 OFF with coupon 86407! Restrictions apply. 844-892-3990 HEALTH / FITNESS Lung Cancer? And Age 60+? You And Your Family May Be Entitled To Significant Cash Award. No Risk. No Money Out Of Pocket. For information call 877-225-4813

Merchandise Market WANTED TO BUY Freon Wanted: We pay CA$H for cylinders and cans. R12 R500 R11 R113 R114. Convenient. Certified Professionals. Call 312-361-0601 or visit RefrigerantFinders.com

Get DIRECTV! ONLY $35/month! 155 Channels & 1000s of Shows/Movies On Demand (w/SELECT All Included Package.) PLUS Stream on Up to FIVE Screens Simultaneously at No Additional Cost. Call DIRECTV 1-888-534-6918

5 Reasons American Standard Walk-In Tubs are Your Best Choice 1 Backed by American Standard’s

140 years of experience

Includes FREE American StandardRight Height Toilet

Limited Time Offer! Call Today!

888-609-0248 Receive a free American Standard Cadet toilet with full installation of a Liberation Walk-In Bath, Liberation Shower, or Deluxe Shower. Offer valid only while supplies last. Limit one per household. Must be first time purchaser. See www.walkintubs.americanstandard-us.com for other restrictions and for licensing, warranty, and company information. CSLB B982796; Suffolk NY:55431H; NYC:HIC#2022748-DCA. Safety Tubs Co. LLC does not sell in Nassau NY, Westchester NY, Putnam NY, Rockland NY.

1,50

$ entering and exiting 3 Patented Quick Drain® fast water removal system 4 Lifetime Warranty on the bath AND installation, INCLUDING labor backed by American Standard 5 44 Hydrotherapy jets for an invigorating massage 2 Ultra low entry for easy

SAVING0S

FREE IN-HOME EVALUATION!

To Place A Classified Ad Contact: Arlene Bienenfeld 212 921 7822 x 209 or email: arlene@jewishweek.org

Tyler Antiques

EST. 1940

WE BUY

• Oil Paintings • Judaica • Porcelains • Furniture • Tiffany Items • Oriental Rugs

• Silver • Jewelry • Watches • Bronzes • Chinese Objects • Marble Sculpture

A HEIMISHE FAMILY BUSINESS FOR THREE GENERATIONS!

Shomer Shabbos

(718) 496-9484 (718) 856-1659

Real Estate REAL ESTATE

“All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise ‘any preference, limitation, or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.’ “We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All personas are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.”

tylerantiquesny@aol.com

ATTENTION REALTORS WE MADE ROOM

FOR YOU!!! WHERE??? Location! ion!

Locat

Location!

THE JEWISH WEEK REALTORS DIRECTORY

BE TH E FI RST TO MOVE I N .

CALL TODAY Arlene Bienenfeld

(212) 921-7822 EXT 209

163 EAST PARK AVENUE MANAGEMENT LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/27/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Farad Zaghi, 172 East Park Avenue, Long Beach, NY 11561. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 16TH AVENUE ASSOCIATES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/04/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 72 North State Road, #502, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 18-61 REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/07/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 9 Summit Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 194 Buffalo Avenue LLC. Articles of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/04/19. Off. loc.: Nassau Co. SSNY des. as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, c/o Gabriel Uziel, 355 Meadowview Avenue, Hewlett, NY 11557. Purpose: General. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 2187 ASTOR HALL EQUITIES, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/09/2020. Office loc: Bronx County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 2187 Holland Avenue, Unit 3G, Bronx, NY 10462. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 251 ASI LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/13/20. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 75 Noel Street, Staten Island, NY 10312. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8

Real Estate LEGAL NOTICES 1037 DESIGN, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/28/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 282 Katonah Avenue, Unit 1037, Katonah, NY 10536. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 105 OHIO AVE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/27/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 20 Woodacres Road, Brookville, NY 11545. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 124 EAST STREET, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/28/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 282 Katonah Avenue, Unit 1037, Katonah, NY 10536. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 147 Duane St LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/6/2020. Cty: New York. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 471 Washington St., Apt. 1A, New York, NY 10013. General Purpose JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29

303 LEX FB LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/12/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Terence Tubridy - Member, 141 DeMott Avenue, Rockville Centre, NY 11570. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 3134 TREMONT REALTY LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/24/19. County: Bronx. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Raymond Iryami Law Firm P.C., 305 Madison Ave, 46th Fl, NY, NY 10165. Purpose: any lawful act. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 326 Collins Avenue, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/3/2020. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 1133 Westchester Ave., Ste. N208, White Plains, NY 10604 . General Purpose JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 33 AINSWORTH LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/09/20. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Sgarlato & Sgarlato, PLLC, 1444 Clove Road, Staten Island, NY 10301. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 40 GANS HOLDINGS LLC,Art.of Org.filed NY DOS 3/5/20,NY Co.S/S C/O C & B Developers LLC 161 Chrystie St.,Ste.2A,NY,NY 10002.To engage in any lawful act or activity.Perpetual existence.Full indemnification. JW 4/10,17,24 5/1,8,15

3410 BAILEY LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 3/3/20. Off. Loc.: Bronx Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to the LLC, 3152 Albany Crescent, Bronx, NY 10463. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 3418-26 BAILEY LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 3/3/20. Off. Loc.: Bronx Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to the LLC, 3152 Albany Crescent, Bronx, NY 10463. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 40 GANS LESSEE LLC,Cert. Of Formation filed in DE 3/5/20,App.for Auth.filed NY DOS 3/6/20,NY Co. S/S C/O C & B Developers LLC 161 Chrystie St.,Ste.2A,NY,NY 10002.DE Agent:Diversified Corporate Services 508 Main St.Wilmington,DE 19804. Authorized officer in DE is:DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg.Federal St.Dover,DE 19901. JW 4/10,17,24 5/1,8,15 40 GANSEVOORT LLC,Art.of Org.filed NY DOS 3/5/20,NY Co.S/S C/O C & B Developers LLC 161 Chrystie St.,Ste.2A,NY,NY 10002.To engage in any lawful act or activity.Perpetual existence.Full indemnification. JW 4/10,17,24 5/1,8,15 4001 HYLAN BLVD. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/26/20. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 44 Robin Court, Staten Island, NY 10309. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 44 HILLSIDE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/06/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 44 Hillside Avenue, Manhasset, NY 11030. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 4712 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/18/20. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Chestnut Holdings of New York, Inc., 5676 Riverdale Avenue, Suite 307, Bronx, NY 10471. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 56 MARWOOD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/27/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 84 South Bayles Avenue, Port Washington, NY 11050. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 61 GRANDVIEW DEVELOPMENT, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/05/12. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Rocco Sollecito, 4459 Bronx Blvd., Bronx, NY 10470. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 67-21 REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/07/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 9 Summit Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 68 BURHANS AVENUE LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/28/2019. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 7 University Ave., Yonkers, NY 10704, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: To engage in Real Estate Holdings as well as anything related thereto. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 89-31 JAMAICA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/06/05. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 43 West 47th Street, Ste 203, New York, NY 10036. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

86 ELM LLC App. for Auth. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/13/2020. LLC was organized in DE on 2/25/2020. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY to mail copy to 2 Depot Plaza, Ste. 201C, Bedford Hills, NY 10507, which is also the principal business location. Required office at 8 The Green, Ste. R., Dover, DE, 19901. Cert. of Org. filed with SSDE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Alpine Acquisition LLC App. for Auth. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/13/2020. LLC was organized in Wyoming on 2/26/2020. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY to mail to: 2 Depot Plaza, Ste. 201C, Bedford Hills, NY 10507, which is also the principal business location. Required office at 30 N. Gould St., Ste. R, Sheridan, WY 82801. Cert. of Org. filed with SSWY Business Division, Herschler Building East, 122 W. 25TH St., Ste. 101, Cheyenne, WY 82002. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 ANCESTRAL HOMAGE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/05/19. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Legalinc Corporate Services Inc., 1967 Wehrle Drive, Suite 1, #086, Buffalo, NY 14221, which also serves as the registered agent address. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 ARM’d Forward LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/24/19. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 702 Eileen St., Franklin Square, NY 11010. Registered agent address is c/o Andrew R. McKenna, 702 Eileen St., Franklin Square, NY 11010. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 ARONOVA PARTNERS, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/13/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the PLLC, 100 Garden City Plaza, Suite 500, Garden City, NY 11530. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Law. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 ARTIE’S 4257 LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/26/2020. Office in Nassau Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 4435 Austin Blvd., Island Park, NY 11558. Principal business location: 4257 Austin Blvd., Island Park, NY 11558. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 ASG FUNDING LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/2/2020. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to PO Box 63, Waccabuc, NY 10597. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Capture Consulting LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/23/2020. Cty: New York. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Marisa Mirabello, 2 Longview Rd, Southampton, NY 11968. General Purpose. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 CAREFULLY CURATED DESIGNS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/13/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 440 Doris Avenue, Franklin Square, NY 11010. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 CARINO PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/06/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 24 Calton Lane, New Rochelle, NY 10804. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

25 The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

160 IMLAY3E5, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/27/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 11 Pearl Street, Valley Stream, New York, NY 11581, ATTN: Joel Charleston. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

WANTED TO BUY

CAT ASSOCIATES LLC Articles of Org.

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

26 filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/26/-

2020. Office in Nassau Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 81 Peachtree Dr., East Norwich, NY 11732, which is also the principal buisness location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 CHIC SOCIALS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/17/2020. Office in Nassau Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 30 West St., Farmingdale, NY 11735, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: To do event planning and all things related to the business. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 CINDY BRYKS CAPITAL ENTERPRISES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/27/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 339 Livingston Place, Cedarhurst, NY 11516. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 CLIMAT CONSULTING L.P. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY 3/9/2020) . Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent of LP whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 14 N. Aqueduct Ln., Irvington, NY 10533, which is also the principal business location. Name and address of each general partner is avail. from SSNY. Purpose: To provide Consulting. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Courtlandt Avenue Realty LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/8/2018. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Rodney Sani, 1 Penn Plaza, Ste. 3620, NY, NY 10119. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29

East 5th Strategies LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/08/19. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 338 E. 5th St., #13, New York, NY 10013. Registered agent address c/o Lisa Keitges, 338 E. 5th Street, #13, New York, NY 10003. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 EDWARD BLUTH CAPITAL ENTERPRISES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/27/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 339 Livingston Place, Cedarhurst, NY 11516. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 ELS FAMILY ASSOCIATES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/04/18. Latest date to dissolve: 12/31/2115. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 60 Highland Avenue, Roslyn, NY 11576. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 ELZEEZS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/10/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 3 Hillside Avenue, Port Washington, NY 11050. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 ESCAPE VENTURES VIRTUAL LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/17/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 19 Gloria Drive, Woodbury, NY 11797. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29

D.K. Honeywell LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/12/2020. Cty: Bronx. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 2332 Newbold Ave., Bronx, NY 10462. General Purpose JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29

EXOHIKO LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/26/2019. Office in Nassau Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to William Spanos, Esq, 1225 Franklin Ave., Ste. 325, Garden City, NY 11530, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1

DK Armand Place LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 3/8/2020. Cty: Bronx. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 2332 Newbold Ave., Bronx, NY 10462. General Purpose JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29

FINKELSTEIN REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/04/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 630 W. 246th Street, Apartment 730, Bronx, NY 10471. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

DK Glebe LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/2/2020. Cty: Bronx. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 2332 Newbold Ave., Bronx, NY 10462. General Purpose JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 DK Unionport LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/18/2020. Cty: Bronx. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 2332 Newbold Ave., Bronx, NY 10462. General Purpose JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 DK Wallace LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/2/2020. Cty: Bronx. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 2332 Newbold Ave., Bronx, NY 10462. General Purpose JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 DUNETTA PUPETTA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/26/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 159-04 86th Street, Howard Beach, NY 11414. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 EARMGT LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/11/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Schlacter & Associates, 450 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1308, New York, NY 10123. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1

FIVE COUSINS REALTY LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 01/09/2020. Off. Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 545 CLAWSON STREET, Staten Island, NY 10306. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 GAZIVODA 118 LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/2/2020. Office in Bronx Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 3331 White Plains Rd., Ste.101, Bronx, NY 10467, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 GLOBAL TECH CONSULTANTS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/04/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 63 Ganung Drive, Ossining, NY 10562. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 GOG 2 61 Stepney LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/27/2020. Cty: Richmond. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to PO Box 225, Hazlet, NY 07730-9998. General Purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 JVLD, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/04/20. Off. Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY desig. As agt. upon whom the process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 3211 Richmond Rd., Staten Island, NY 10306. General Purposes. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

GREEN ENERGY NYC LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/27/18. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Peter Blake, 4 Bevers Street, HastingsOn-Hudson, NY 10706. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 HOLLY PLACE ASSOCIATES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/16/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 1244 Sawmill River Road, Yonkers, NY 10710. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/10,17,24 5/1,8,15 INTEGRAL ENGINEERING SERVICES, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/07/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Durante, Bock & Tota, PLLC, 2000 Maple Hill Street, Suite 206, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Professional Engineering. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 INVICTUS X LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/09/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 37 Gallows Hill Road, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 JACMAR CONTRACTING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/14/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 10 Milano Court, Croton-OnHudson, NY 10520. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 JBF HVAC LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 1/29/20. Off. Loc.: Richmond Co. John P. Matthies designated as agent upon whom process may be served & shall mail proc.: 127 Kreischer St., Staten Island, NY 10309. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 JERRY SILVA CONSULTING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/28/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 10 Evans Drive, Glen Head, NY 11545. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 JES WHITE PLAINS HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/25/20. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Sopher Management, 6132 Riverdale Avenue, Bronx, NY 10471. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 JONATHAN BUCHSBAYEW, LCSW, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/08/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the PLLC, 113 Linden Street, Woodmere, NY 11598. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Licensed Certified Social Work. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Juxtapose Ventures II, L.P. Authority filed SSNY 2/25/20 Office: NY Co LP formed DE 2/20/20 exists 1209 Orange St Wilmington, DE 19801. SSNY design agent upon whom process against the LP may be served & mail to 9 Great Jones St Fl 4 New York, NY 10012 Cert of Regis Filed DE SOS 401 Federal St #4 Dover DE 19901 General Purpose JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 KOUMOULOS PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/02/20. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o 74 Forest Avenue, Paramus, NJ 07652. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/10,17,24 5/1,8,15

KS ENTERPRISE L-TOWN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/15/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Kyungmin Song, 31 Aerie Court, Manhasset, NY 11030. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29

MLK CONCIERGE SERVICES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/09/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 729 Boelsen Drive, Westbury, NY 11590. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22

Lima Consultants LLC. Articles of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/26/20. Off. loc.: Nassau Co. SSNY des. as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, c/o Mason & Mason, PLLC, 394 Old Country Road, Garden City, NY 11530. Purpose: General. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29

NAVLIV REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/04/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 9 Summit Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

Lindsey Property Management, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/09/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 182 Lindsey Ave., Buchanan, NY 10511. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 LMKM Creations LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/09/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 42 Butterwood Lane East, Irvington, NY 10533. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 LUNA & RAMIREZ REALTORS LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 1/27/20. Off. Loc. : Bronx Co. United States Corporation Agents, Inc. designated as agent upon whom process may be served & shall mail proc.: 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 M&M GROUP CONTRACTORS LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 2/21/20. Off. Loc.: Richmond Co. Marcelo Carrasco designated as agent upon whom process may be served & shall mail proc.: 348 Harold Street, Staten Island, NY 10314. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 MAPLEWOOD ROAD LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/25/20. County: Westchester. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: The LLC, 1451 Roosevelt Pl, Pelham Manor, NY 10803. Purpose: any lawful act. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 MARK J. BLUTH CAPITAL ENTERPRISES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/27/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 339 Livingston Place, Cedarhurst, NY 11516. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 MARTIN H. BLUTH CAPITAL ENTERPRISES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/27/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 339 Livingston Place, Cedarhurst, NY 11516. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 MFN PAINTING LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/11/2020. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 17 Crosshill Rd., Hartsdale, NY 10530, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 MIDWOOD CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/10/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 339 Midwood Road, Woodmere, NY 11598. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Nicole Toal Interiors, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/9/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 33 Rosedale Ave., White Plains, NY 10605. General Purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

NEOTECH PRODUCT SOLUTIONS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/19/2020. Office in Nassau Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 2099 Bellmore Ave., Bellmore, NY 11710, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 NICE STAY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/07/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 524 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10801. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 NICK’S RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/31/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 50 S. Oakdale Avenue, Bethpage, NY 11714. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

Notice of Formation of 463 Fulton LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/24/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, 620 Washington Ave., Plainview, NY 11803. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Formation of 622 MAIN STREET REALTY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/16/20. Office location: BRONX County. Princ. office of LLC: 1250 Waters Pl., PH-1, Bronx, NY 10461. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 Notice of Formation of 90 Florida Street LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/26/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 90 Florida St., Farmingdale, NY 11726. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Formation of 90 MONTGOMERY ATLANTIC BEACH, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/01/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Registered Agent Solutions, Inc., 99 Washington Ave., Ste. 1008, Albany, NY 12260, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22

Noes LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/14/2020. Cty: Richmond. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 539 Cary Ave., Staten Island, NY 10310. General Purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1

Notice of Formation of AFF DYNAMIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/06/20. Office location: Nassau County. Princ. office of LLC: 3 Dakota Dr., Ste. 300, Lake Success, NY 11042. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Howard Fensterman, Esq. at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

NOROC BRISTOL 16B LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/12/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 6 Rural Drive, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

Notice of Formation of AIRHUGGERS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/9/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the LLC, 85 Leonard St, #1, NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activity. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

NORTH 8TH STREET MANAGEMENT, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/15/2020. Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 252-62 Brattle Avenue, Little Neck, NY 11362. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Form. of 9 Dekalb Developer, LLC. Arts. Of Org filed with SSNY on 3/9/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 1/4/19. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 15 North Mill St., Nyack, NY 10960. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Formation of 10 NORTH ROAD LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/11/20.Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Jordan J. Levine, Esq. Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.,17 State Street, 24th Floor, New York, New York, 10004. Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 Notice of Formation of 45-55 LAFAYETTE REALTY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/10/20. Office location: Bronx County. Princ. office of LLC: 1250 Waters Pl., PH-1, Bronx, NY 10461. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1

Notice of Formation of BALDOR PENNSYLVANIA QOZB LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/25/20. Office location: Bronx County. Princ. office of LLC: 155 Food Center Dr., Bronx, NY 10474. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Formation of BALDOR PENNSYLVANIA QOZB REALTY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/25/20. Office location: Bronx County. Princ. office of LLC: 155 Food Center Dr., Bronx, NY 10474. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Formation of BUILD ISLE PKY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/12/20. Office location: Nassau County. Princ. office of LLC: 124 Meacham Ave., Elmont, NY 11003. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Formation of DC FAMILY 2020, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/09/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Munir Dauhajre, 30 E. 71st St., Apt. 11A, NY, NY 10021. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

Notice of Formation of DUNKIRK PROPERTIES 300, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/30/20. Office location: Nassau County. Princ. office of LLC: 80 Skyline Dr., Ste. 101, Plainview, NY 11803. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 4/10,17,24 5/1,8,15 Notice of Formation of FREEPORT RENTAL PROPERTIES, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/18/20. Office location: Nassau County. Princ. office of LLC: 57 Denton Ave., New Hyde Park, NY 11040. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Fadi Ajam at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 Notice of Formation of G4 18198, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/25/19. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o G4 Development Group, LLC, 14 Skillman St., Roslyn, NY 11576. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 Notice of Formation of Glow & Grow Therapeutic Services LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/03/2020. Office location: New York County . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy to principal business location: 341 West 24th St Apt 6F, New York, NY 10011. Purpose: To engage in lawful activity JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of formation of HB ADVISORY LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/09/19. Office in New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 325 WEST 16TH ST, STE 4W NEW YORK, NY, 10011. Purpose: Any lawful purpose JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Formation of JAO GROUP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/11/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Formation of JEG LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/28/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 50 Broadway, 1st Fl., Lynbrook, NY 11563. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Formation of JIA WANG 88 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/20/19. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 917 56TH Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11219. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Formation of JIA WANG NY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/20/19. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 917 56TH Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11219. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29

Notice of Formation of Jordan Goldman, CPA, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/24/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 46 N. Clover Dr., Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: to practice the profession of Public Accountancy. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Formation of KBTC Devco LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/06/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, 245 10th Ave., Apt. 4W, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 Notice of Formation of KBTC LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/06/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, 245 10th Ave., Apt. 4W, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 Notice of Formation of Kwok’s LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/11/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 137 Montague St., Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Formation of Kwok’s LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/11/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 137 Montague St., Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,25,22,29

Notice of Formation of MERCURY NOTIFICATIONS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/26/19. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: LENCORE ACOUSTICS CORP, 1 CROSSWAYS PARK DR W, WOODBURY, NY 11797, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Formation of New En Lai Realty LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/16/2020. Office location: Nassau County . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Principal Business Address of the LLC is: 7-18 119th St College Point, New York 11356. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Formation of NEW YORK PAIN MEDICINE ASSOCIATE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/10/20. Office location: Nassau County. Princ. office of PLLC: 717 Front St., Hempstead, NY 11550. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Didier Demesmin, M.D., 18 Rockledge Ct., Belle Mead, NJ 08502. Purpose: Medicine. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Formation of Newport 92 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/24/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, 620 Washington Ave., Plainview, NY 11803. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

Notice of Formation of Kyle’s Deals, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/10/20. Office location: New County . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy to principal business location: 206 9th Ave, Apt. 4N8, New York, NY 10011. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22

Notice of Formation of NOT GOING QUIETLY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/12/20. Office location: Nassau County. Princ. office of LLC: 8 Haven Ln., Levittown, NY 11756. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

Notice of Formation of LOCI ARCHITECTURE PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/27/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 594 BROADWAY, SUITE 506,NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10012. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29

Notice of Formation of NYC Watchmaker, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/6/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 25 East 67th St., NY, NY, 10065. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29

Notice of Formation of Long Island Spa Group, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/28/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, 246 East Market St., Long Beach, NY 11561. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Formation of M & P USA LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/02/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 2132 BAY RIDGE PARKWAY APT 2F, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11204. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Formation of MARKET SQUARE PRESERVATION GP, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/13/20. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 60 Columbus Cir., 19th Fl., NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Formation of MAXIMILIEN CARE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/05/20. Office location: Kings County . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy to principal business location: 1763 Linden Blvd. Brooklyn, NY 11207. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8

Notice of Formation of ODILOTID USA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/10/2020. Office location: New York County . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: Jose G Barron 2561 Bent Spur DR, Acton, CA 95310. The Principal Business Address of the LLC is: 200 South Wilcox Street, Suite 332, Castle Rock, CO 80104. Purpose: Sale of software license for books loan JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 Notice of Formation of OR 665 ST. MARKS, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/10/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 485 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York, 10017. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Formation of Ostfeld Architecture, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/27/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 60 East 42nd St., NY, NY, 10165. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Formation of PEDRINE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/01/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22

Notice of Formation of Phantasy Pictures, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/07/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1010 Northern Blvd., Ste. 208, Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 Notice of Formation of PLATINUM PROPERTIES MELVILLE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/16/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Philip Delprete, 475 Main St., Farmingdale, NY 11735. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Formation of PMG CORNAGA, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/24/19. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 220 Fifth Avenue 9th Floor New York, New York, 10001. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Formation of Pro-Arc Welding LLC. Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/27/19. Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 3 Northridge Rd., Cortlandt Manor, NY, 10567. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Formation of R&L HOLDINGS NYC LLC.Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/4/20.Office location:New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.SSNY mail process to 15 Renwick Street, #601 New York, New York, 10013.Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Formation of RBMK DENTISTRY PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/10/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 45 Neptune Ave., Woodmere, NY 11598. Purpose: Dentistry. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Formation of Reditus LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/02/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The Company, 5 Oak St., Bayville, NY 11709. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 Notice of Formation of ROLL BOUNCE ROCK SKATE WEAR, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/16/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 115 Lenox Road, Apt A3, Brooklyn, New York, 11226. Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 Notice of Formation of Ron’s Piping And Heating LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/5/19. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 512 E 91st St., Brooklyn, NY, 11236. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Formation of Royal Capital Funding, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/5/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1276 50th St., Brooklyn, NY, 11219. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29

Notice of Formation of SCARDIPDAP, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/29/19. Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 2A Adrian Ct., Cortlandt Manor, NY, 10567. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Formation of SFH CAPITAL HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/19/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, c/o 135 Harborview South, Lawrence, NY 11559. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 Notice of Formation of Silver Beach LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/17/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, c/o Marc S. Bekerman, PO Box 365, Woodbury, NY 11797. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 Notice of Formation of STUDIO CORE ARCHITECTS, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/05/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 535 Split Rock Rd, Syosset, NY 11791. Purpose: to practice the profession of Architecture. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 Notice of Formation of T&L IDEAL HOLDING LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/31/20. Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 526 MAIN ST, NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK, 10801. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Formation of TELECARING ASSOCIATES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/04/19. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 391 Riedel Avenue, Staten Island, New York, 10306. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Formation of The Bloc Value Builders, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/9/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 32 Old Islip, NY, NY, 10005. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Formation of WEST VILLAGE EQUITIES SPE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/13/20. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Time Equities, Inc., 55 Fifth Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10003-4398. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Robert Kantor, 55 Fifth Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10003-4398, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/27 4/3,10,27,24 5/1 Notice of Formation of ZARICA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on August 23, 2011. Office location: New York County . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy to principal business location: 301 East 47th Street New York, NY 10017. Purpose: To engage in any lawful activity. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22

Notice of Qual. of KKR CREDIT ADVISORS (US) LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 03/17/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 06/24/04. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 15 North Mill Street,Nyack, New York, 10960. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 Notice of Qual. of MANHATTAN LEARNING LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 03/16/20. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 2/27/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: ATTN: Jason Bishop 7825 4th Avenue, Apt E5 , Brooklyn, New York, 11209. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Qualification of 2020 CONTEMPORARY, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/09/20. Office location: Nassau County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/04/20. Princ. office of LLC: 990 Stewart Ave., Garden City, NY 11530. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o VCorp Services, LLC, 1013 Centre Rd., Ste. 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, DE Secy. of State, DE Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Qualification of 241 FIFTH RESTAURANT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/09/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/02/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Boca Seasons 2300, LP, 1200 N. Federal Hwy., Ste. 200, Boca Raton, FL 33432. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Qualification of ALLIANT RETIREMENT SERVICES, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/25/20. Office location: Nassau County. LLC formed in California (CA) on 01/31/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. CA addr. of LLC: 1301 Dove St., Ste. 200, Newport Beach, CA 92660. Cert. of Form. filed with CA Secy. of State, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 Notice of Qualification of Arisaig Partners Research Services US LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/7/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/5/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Corporation Service Company (CSC), 80 State St, Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE address of LLC: CSC, 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy of State, Townsend Bldg, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22

Notice of Formation of SACHI FERIS/RRCC, LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/03/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 212 Gates Avenue, Apt A, Brooklyn, New York, 11238. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/10,17,24 5/1,8,15

Notice of Qual. of KKR CAPITAL MARKETS HOLDINGS L.P.. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/25/20. Office location: New York. LP formed in DE on 12/7/01. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 15 North Mill Street, Nyack, New York, 10960. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8

Notice of Qualification of CRYSTAL IBC LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/25/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in California (CA) on 01/31/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. CA addr. of LLC: 1301 Dove St., Ste. 200, Newport Beach, CA 92660. Cert. of Form. filed with CA Secy. of State, 1500 11th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 4/10,17,24 5/1,8,15

Notice of Formation of Sam MNB Sheffield Avenue LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/4/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 183 Wilson St., Brooklyn, NY, 11211. Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29

NVC LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 2/11/20. Off. Loc. : Richmond Co. United States Corporation Agents, Inc. designated as agent upon whom process may be served & shall mail proc.: 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22

NYC PIZZA KITCHEN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/09/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 90 Boulder Road, Manhasset, NY 11030. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/10,17,24 5/1,8,15

27 The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

NOTICE OF FORMATION of DG & AC NYC LLC. \~ Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/29/2020. \~ Office location: New York County. \~ SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. \~ SSNY shall mail a copy of process to 315 West 39th Street, Suite 1508, New York, NY 10018. \~ Purpose: Any lawful act. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1

Notice of Qualification of DANT REALTY

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

28 LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of

State of NY (SSNY) on 03/16/20. Office location: Nassau County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/10/20. Princ. office of LLC: 18 Westbury Rd., Garden City, NY 11530. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 18 Westbury Rd., Garden City, NY 11530. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1

Notice of Qualification of DEEPWOOD RESIDENTIAL ASSETS, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/24/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/21/19. Princ. office of LLC: 350 Park Ave., 20th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Qualification of FAHERTY SOUTHAMPTON, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/12/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/09/20. Princ. office of LLC: 80 Broad St., NY, NY 10004. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Retail store. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 Notice of Qualification of HIGH STREET VALUATIONS, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/25/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in California (CA) on 01/31/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. CA addr. of LLC: 1301 Dove St., Ste. 200, Newport Beach, CA 92660. Cert. of Form. filed with CA Secy. of State, 1500 11th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 4/10,17,24 5/1,8,15 Notice of Qualification of IDRA LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/13/20. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/02/15. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with State of DE Secy. of State, 820 N. French St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 Notice of Qualification of JAY STREET OFFICE LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/12/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/19/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Company (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 Notice of Qualification of NYAIT LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY on 3/19/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware on 3/13/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to:c/o The LLC, 500 8th Ave. Rm.908, NY NY 10018. Address to be maintained in DE: 850 New Burton Rd., Ste.201, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. JW 4/10,17,24 5/1,8,15

Notice of Qualification of JUJAMCYN MEDIA LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/06/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/20/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 Notice of Qualification of NJ2 HVAC LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/26/20. Office location: Nassau County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/18/20. Princ. office of LLC: 510 Saddle Ridge Rd., Woodmere, NY 11598. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 4/10,17,24 5/1,8,15 Notice of Qualification of PROSPECT JOHN SG LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/24/20. Office location: Nassau County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/06/20. Princ. office of LLC: 10 W. Forest Ave., Englewood, NJ 07631. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Real estate holding company. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Notice of Qualification of STEWARD ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/24/20. Office location: Nassau County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/28/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. The regd. agent of the company upon whom and at which process against the company can be served is Sheryl Ann Wirch Mejia, 109 Oxford Blvd., Garden City, NY 11530. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 Notice of Qualification of TEND, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/01/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/20/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 Notice of Qualification of THREE UNCANNY FOUR, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/26/20. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/13/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 4/10,17,24 5/1,8,15 O’CONNELL LAW, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/03/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the PLLC, 34 Pine Avenue, Floral Park, NY 11001. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Law. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

Notice of Qualification of WW NORTH AMERICA HOLDINGS, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/30/20. Office location: Nassau County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/25/89. Princ. office of LLC: 999 Stewart Ave., Ste. 215, Bethpage, NY 11714. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 Notice of Qualification of WW.com, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/30/20. Office location: Nassau County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/22/99. Princ. office of LLC: 999 Stewart Ave., Ste. 215, Bethpage, NY 11714. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: The Corporation Trust Company, Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 OLD MILL RIVER, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/28/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 282 Katonah Avenue, Unit 1037, Katonah, NY 10536. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,24 5/1 PENA CLEANING SERVICE LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/19/2020. Office in Nassau Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 160 Lewis Ave., Westbury, NY 11590. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 PENROD GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/10/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 57-26 Penrod Street, LL, Corona, NY 11368. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Pershing64 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/09/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 84 S. Bayles Avenue, Port Washington, NY 11050. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 PLAN B SHOW LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/27/19. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 153 Hudson Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 PLATINUM SHIELD AGENCY LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/5/2020. Office in Richmond Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 1973 Forest Ave., Staten Island, NY 10303. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Pronar Health LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/1/2020. Cty: Richmond. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 337 Mason Blvd., Staten Island, NY 10309. General Purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 READY CUBE LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 2/14/20. Off. Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served & shall mail proc.: c/o Anthony Thebuwanage, 246 Brighton Ave., Staten Island, NY 10301. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

RESIDENTIAL DYNASTY HOLDING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/26/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 65 George Street, Roslyn Heights, NY 11577. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 RIVERSIDE 3556 LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/12/2020. Office in Nassau Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 3836 Illona Ln., Oceanside, NY 11572. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 Rosetown, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 3/19/2020. Cty: New York. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. General Purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 RSR CASTLE LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 2/27/20. Off. Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served & shall mail proc.: c/o Mohammad Khalid, 746 Broadway, Newark, NJ 07104. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 RUNAWAY NY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/27/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 3000 Marcus Avenue, Suite 1W5, Lake Success, NY 11042. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8 RWG HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/08/13. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 8 Holiday Pond Road, Jericho, NY 11753. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 S&S Machine LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/20/2019. Cty: Richmond. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 91 Winant Pl., Staten Island, NY 10309. General Purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 SACRED SOULS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/19/2020. Office loc: Bronx County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 377 E. 153rd St., Apt. 3B, Bronx, NY 10455. Reg Agent: U.S. Corp. Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave., Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 SAMANTHA FINKEL, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/10/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the PLLC, 3038 Cheryl Road, Merrick, NY 11566-5446. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Law. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 SAMAS 1103 CARROLL HOLDINGS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/9/2019. Office in Richmond Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 35 Windy Hollow Way, Staten Island, NY 10304. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 SAMAS 134 17 HOLDINGS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/9/2019. Office in Richmond Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 35 Windy Hollow Way, Staten Island, NY 10304. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 SANDERS BARSHAY GROSSMAN PARTNERS, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/13/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the PLLC, c/o Incorp Services, Inc., One Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12210-2822. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Law. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1

SEA BRIGHT OCEAN CAPITAL, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/10/20. Latest date to dissolve: 12/31/2040. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Billy Geier, 18 Ueland Road, Red Bank, NJ 07701. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,20,17,24

the vegan marshmallooow Limited Liability Company Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/3/2020. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Starts New York Realty, LLC, 420 Lexington Ave., Ste. 430, NY, NY 10170, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

SHOPNER NIR PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/05/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 141 Crescent Drive, Albertson, NY 11507. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1

THE WAX LOUNGE NYC, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/14/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Arieanna Smith, 174 Belmont Boulevard, Elmont, NY 11003. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

SILVERSTONE EQUITIES LLC. Auth. Filed w/SSNY on 11/6/19 w/ fictitious name of SE Lends LLC. Office: Nassau Co. Formed in DE on 11/16/2016. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 55 Hilton Ave, Suite 205, Garden City, NY 11530. DE address: 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, DE 19808. Filed w/DE Sec. of State: 401 Federal St. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

THERAMANAGER LLC. App. for Auth. filed with the SSNY on 03/06/20. Originally filed with Secretary of State of Delaware on 12/13/2011. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 270 Madison Avenue, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24

SOUTH COUNTRY MOTOR CARS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/10/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 53 West Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 SURGICAL SUPPLY CORE LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/28/2020. Office in Nassau Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 93 Fourth St., Garden City, NY 11530, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 SUSTAINABLE LIFE SATISFACTION LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/26/2020. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer, LLP, Attn: Jason Reska, Esq., 850 Third Ave., 14th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 SYNERGY ARTISTS GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/18/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Paula A. Miller, P.C., 308 West Main Street, Suite 204, Smithtown, NY 11787. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 TAO FUNDING, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/25/2019. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 146 Chambers St., #2, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/27 4/3,10,17,24 5/1 THE GRAZIANO CORNER PROPERTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/01/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 1097 Hempstead Turnpike, Franklin Square, NY 11010. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 THE LAVELLE FIRM, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/17/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the PLLC, 100 Herricks Road, Mineola, NY 11501. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Law. JW 4/17,24 5/1,8,15,22 THE NEW KNOLLWOOD LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/17/2020. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o John C. Schnaufer, ESQ, LLC, 280 N. Central Ave., Ste. 311 Hartsdale, NY 10530. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29

TMK MANHASSET I LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/06/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 26 Winchester Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 TOWN CAR LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/23/20. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 593 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 3/20,27 4/3,10,17,24 VALTO HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/26/19. Latest date to dissolve: 12/31/2070. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 145 Mount Vernon Avenue, 1st Floor, Mount Vernon, NY 10550. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/18 Wenew World LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 3/16/2020. Cty: New York. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 136 East 36th Street 9F, New York, NY 10016. General Purpose JW 4/24 5/1,8,15,22,29 ZARO’S WATER USA, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/27/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 40 Roselle Street, Mineola, NY 11501. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 4/3,10,17,24 5/1,8

SAVE TIME!

FAX

your classified ad

(212) 921-8420

YOU REACH

MORE HOMES EVERY FRIDAY IN THE JEWISH WEEK

CLASSIFIEDS

Realtors Directory Manhattan

West Hempstead

DAVID ZIVOTOFSKY RealtyConnectUSA

Serving West Hempstead Since 1950 WEST HEMPSTEAD - FRANKLIN SQUARE

bringing exceptional service to the greater nassau county community for over 30 years.

Cedarhurst OffiCe

516.374.0242

Life Long Resident • YI Member

West hempstead OffiCe

Big team service | Small team care

516.565.4392

The Friedman Team friedmanteam@compass.com 917.717.9881

info@sharonabeckrealty.com www.sharonabeckrealty.com

To Place A Classified Ad Contact:

Call David anytime (516) 539-0022 • Davidzivo@gmail.com

www. realtyconnectusa.com f Click on David Zivotofsky-Realtor

Englewood/ Teaneck

Arlene Bienenfeld 212 921 7822 x 209 or email: arlene@jewishweek.org JEWISH WEEK CLASSIFIED ADS GET THE JOB DONE Mail to: The Jewish Week, 1501 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 Name Address City Phone Credit Card No. Enclosed is $

State

Zip

Expiration Date for (number of insertions)

212/921-7822 MasterCard, VISA, Discover, and American Express Charges Accepted. In Person: Come to our ofﬁce at 1501 Broadway, Manhattan, bet. 43 &44 Sts. Between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. By Mail: Type or print your ad clearly in form below. Then return this form with your credit card information, personal check or money order payable to The Jewish Week. Payment must accompany order. Please do not enclose cash.

Allow 30 characters per line. Each letter, number, space between words and each punctuation mark count as one character.

DEADLI N E MON DAY 4:00 P.M. Rates (per line) • 4 Line Minimum

(Boxed Ads) • Rates per Col. Inch

1 time..............................$14.00 per line Box number charge $35

1 time..............................$65.00

Ask Abo ut Ou r Frequen cy Disc o u nts!

www.thejewishweek.com Connecting Jewish New York to the Jewish world

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

West Hempstead/ Five Towns

BACK OF THE BOOK

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

ing chametz. I also knew that at 7:12 p.m. we would be lighting candles with the family members who can safely be with us this year, that we would be having two seders over the next couple nights, celebrating Shabbat — with only four of us, but filled permoon,” when the moon was un- with meals, prayers, socially distanced usually close to earth. It was so clear walks, maybe naps, and some deep, it reminded us of the wonders of the soul-searching discussions of what this world and nature, and for a moment pandemic means to us and the world. we briefly forgot that anything was The sense of structure I was lacking for several weeks was suddenly back. amiss. The Torah reading The fullness of the for the first day of Passmoon reminded me that over — which, sadly, we we were approaching couldn’t read in synathe middle of the Jewish gogue this year — was month of Nisan and the from Parshat Bo. It dearrival of Passover. It ocscribes what occurred the curred to me that the disnight of the 14th of Nisan ruption of time caused by as the Israelites were to the Covid-19 pandemic begin their exodus from had been slightly eased David Gleaner Egypt and into freedom. by recognizing our Jewish calendar. Once Rosh Chodesh If you had read a few pages earlier, Nisan, the beginning of the month, you would see that the description of arrives our tradition tells us to begin the plagues is interrupted by the first preparations for Passover by ridding commandment given to the nascent our homes of chametz and preparing nation of Israel, that of the Jewish calour special foods. And for the first endar. Until then they had no concept time in almost a month, I knew just of time; days were controlled by the taskmasters. Our ancestors enslaved what I would be doing. I knew that on April 8 by exactly in Egypt could not choose when to eat, 10:48 a.m. I would no longer be eat- rest, pray, celebrate, or mourn. The

Jewish Calendar Proves Time is Still on Our Side

s the days turn into weeks that we deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, it becomes increasingly difficult to even sense the normal progression of time. Early on, I remember seeing a Facebook post that stated, “I’ve had 14 meals and 6 naps and it’s still today.” Since I am basically not working, as working remotely is not possible for me, First Person it is very difficult to have set routines, which may include morning rituals, commuting to work, meeting with co-workers, lunch-time meetings, visits to the gym, errands on the way from work and maybe a date night with my wife. I have had a hard time even motivating myself every morning and figuring out what day of the week it is, what needs to be done, what can be done, and how can we keep our sanity, not to mention our health. Then, one evening last week we saw that beautiful and rare “pink su-

David Gleaner is a dentist in Bayonne, N.J.

first commandment we received gave us the ability to do these things at the proper times and as stated in the Torah. I heard someone say that “there will be no Passover” this year. On the contrary, no matter what Covid-19 has taken away from us, one thing we still have was given to us over 3,000 years ago: our Jewish calendar and holidays. My “suffering” — an inability to structure time — was eased with the new moon. I knew when to celebrate, what and when to eat, and when to pray. As I heard our leaders in the medical community offer their best guesses as to how many days or weeks we will have to continue our isolation, we, as Jews, already know that in 49 days, we will celebrate once again, this time the festival of Shavuot. Our ancestors suffered as slaves when they didn’t have a say on how to structure their own time, and by giving them the ability to keep time and control their schedule, God restored their freedom. These days are difficult for everyone. But we can appreciate that although we may have days, weeks, or even months of disruption ahead of us, the structure that was given to our nation with the first commandment will continue to guide us and ground us through these very troublesome times. ■

Private Room

M A N H A T T A N

Private Room

Gourmet Butcher Shop

Gourmet Butcher Outside Catering Shop Outside Catering

U O

Glatt Kosher

Sun-Thurs U O 12 noon to midnight

Glatt Kosher

Sun-Thurs 150 West 46th Street Friday to Reservations 212-869-090012 noon 12 noon www.lemarais.net

to 3pm midnight

150 West 46th Street Reservations 212-869-0900

www.lemarais.net

Friday 12 noon to 3pm

BODHI KOSHER VEGETARIAN VEGAN RESTAURANT

The Original

BUDDHA BODAI KOSHER VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT Eat InOur • Take Out • Parties • Elegant Dining Check Out Newly Renovated Dining Space

TRY OUR CHEF’S SPECIALS

Check Out Our Newly Renovated Dining Space DIM SUM SERVED DAILY

Vegetarian

hbujnm

DIM SUM SERVED DAILY 5 Mott Street • NYC • (212) 566-8388 Fax (212) 566-1717 Kosher Spvsn: Rabbi Israel Meyer Steinberg Visit us at: www.chinatownvegetarian.com

With this coupon For Dinner with Cash Expires May 31st, 2020

OFF

With this coupon For Dinner with Cash Expires May 31st, 2020

w BODHI KOSHER VEGETARIAN VEGAN RESTAURANT hbujnm Original Buddha Bodai under Kent Management

hbujnm

Original Buddha Bodai under The best vegan DimKent SumManagement ever, available all day long. Chef’s special BBQ, Turnip cake, General Tso’s Chicken.

The best vegan Dim Sum ever, available all day long.

10%

Luxury diningChef’ room for 120BBQ, people, s special Turnip cake, General Tso’s Chicken. Kosher wine and beer

77 Mulberry Street • New York, NY 10013 212-233-2921 • Fax 212-233-2852 Luxury dining room for 120 people, WE ACCEPT BuddhaVegetarian.com CREDIT CARDS BuddhaVegetarian@gmail.com Kosher wine and beer Kosher Spvsn: Rabbi Israel Meyer Steinberg 77 Mulberry Street • New York, NY 10013 212-233-2921 • Fax 212-233-2852 BuddhaVegetarian.com WE ACCEPT BuddhaVegetarian@gmail.com CREDIT CARDS

OFF

With this coupon For Dinner with Cash

OFF

With this coupon For Dinner with Cash

Kosher Spvsn: Rabbi Israel Meyer Steinberg

Great Celebrations Start at SimplySimchas SimplySimchas is the new online party planning marketplace from the Jewish Week Media Group. It simplifies event planning by featuring everything needed to create memorable occasions. Whether your taste is traditional, adventurous or something in between, you’ll find inspiring ideas when you visit SimplySimchas.com.

Great Celebrations Start at SimplySimchas SimplySimchas is the new online party planning marketplace fromweddings, the Jewish Week Mediabirthdays, Group. anniversaries, It simplifiesreunions, event For bar/bat mitzvahs, planning by featuring everything needed to create memorable corporate events and more! occasions. Whether your taste is traditional, adventurous or something in between, you’ll find inspiring ideas when you visit You’re invited! Promote your business, organization or SimplySimchas.com. venue on SimplySimchas and reach the affluent Jewish Week audience. Please contact SimplySimchas@jewishweek.org.

For weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, birthdays, anniversaries, reunions, corporate events and more! Palestinian “Peace to Prosperity” vision. It’s not

Israel continued from page 7

definitively clear from the agreement’s disparate clauses whether Gantz and his allies are free to vote his allies will thus be playing the role he sought at against such a move, in line with his position that the heart of government in trying to minimize the annexation should not be unilateral, but they’re not business, organization impact of Covid-19. You’re invited! Promote your allowed to block it and almostor certainly won’t have The Blue and White leader has also ensured that the numbers to stop it. venue on SimplySimchas and reach the affluent Jewish Week former Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein, who defied a He has granted the right potential veto power in High Court of Justiceaudience. order last month to put his jobSimplySimchas@jewishweek.org. up the panel that appoints Israel’s High Court judges, Please contact for a vote, will not be returning to the post. His ally Avi with the appointment of Derech Eretz MK Zvi Nissenkorn is to take over as justice minister, in place Hauser — a former Netanyahu cabinet secretary of Likud’s Amir Ohana, a leading Netanyahu loyal- — to the committee. And he has given the ultraist and critic of the courts and the state prosecution. Orthodox parties the means to continue to thwart And in a move aimed to symbolize the legitimacy of any effort to compel more members of their conIsrael’s Arab minority in the face of relentless attacks stituency to perform national service. from the right, he is reportedly set to install an Arab The biggest compensatory gain for Gantz, needIsraeli as a minister for minority affairs. less to say, would follow 18 months from now, But Gantz has made a hugely significant conces- when he is supposed to become prime minister. sion by accepting that, as of July 1, Netanyahu can Gantz’s ex-allies in the Yesh Atid party, unhold a vote, in the government and/or the Knesset, swerving in their mistrust of Netanyahu and their on unilaterally extending Israeli sovereignty into fury at Gantz’s change of course, were adamant the West Bank — potentially to all the settlements late Monday that this will simply never happen. and additional swaths of the territory — in accor- Instead, sources in that party were sniping, Gantz dance with U.S. President Donald Trump’s Israeli- has merely handed Netanyahu at least another six-

The Jewish Week ■ www.thejewishweek.com ■ April 24, 2020

M A N H A T T A N

month stint as prime minister, during which the incumbent will further boost his current muchimproved popularity by quashing the pandemic, healing its economic consequences and pushing ahead with annexation. If the High Court disqualifies Netanyahu as prime minister during this period, the terms of the coalition deal would require new elections, in which he would run on a platform promising legislation to heed the will of the people by overriding the court. And if the court does not intervene, Netanyahu will dissolve the Knesset and force elections anyway when he judges the time is ripe, paying the small price of being out of office for a few interim months, rather than meekly handing over power as agreed. Set against such cynicism, Channel 12 political analyst Amit Segal noted late Monday that Netanyahu has now unprecedentedly “picked up a pen and signed off” on a date for the cessation of his prime ministership, having promised in an interview with the same channel three weeks ago that, if Gantz sealed a deal with him, he would “hand over power on the date that we agree — no tricks.” We shall see. ■

WEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;VE GOT ISRAEL COVERED. In these trying times, our heroic doctors, nurses, technicians and staff have got Israel covered. In fact, Shaare Zedek has the largest COVID-19 unit in all of Israel. Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem is proud to be the place all Israelis know they will receive the best care, both those patients fighting Corona and those needing more routine emergency care. For more than 100 years, Shaare Zedek has been helping patients heal through compassionate caregiving and cuttingedge treatments. Learn more at www.acsz.org