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Summer Camp Hanging in the Balance Amid Crisis Postponements and cancellations likely as directors await government guidelines. Stewart Ain Staff Writer “I miss them very much,” Robert Brajer, who lives alone in Morningside Heights, says of the Dorot volunteers who regularly visited before the coronavirus outbreak. Now they call. ATI SHA PAU LSON

‘I’m Dying to Be Able to See People’ A range of groups is offering services and contact to vulnerable seniors battling loneliness, isolation.

The Coronavirus Crisis

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ome cookies, some fruit salad, some bagels and cream cheese, maybe a flip through old photo albums. That’s what Robert Brajer, 89, looked forward to during visits from Dorot volunteers over the last 2½ years. The Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, who lives in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights neighbor-

ike so many other parents, Stephanie Honig, a Syosset, L.I., mother of four, said her family is anxiously waiting to learn whether camps will be permitted to open this summer. “My kids were disappointed about school closing and the idea of not going to camp would be heartbreaking for them,” she said. “We remain hopeful; that’s all we can do now.” Many camps have already sent their families letters explaining that because of the coronavirus they

hood, retired from a career in the retail business and bartending. He has lived alone since his partner died; afflicted with the lung disease COPD, he had found it difficult to get out of the house. Now, during the coronavirus crisis, he leaves even less frequently. And when the outbreak hit, the volunteers

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Summer of their discontent? A bunk at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires. JTA are awaiting government permission to open and to learn what restrictions, testing requirements and guidelines will be imposed by the government and the camp’s own medical committees. Decisions from some overnight camps are expected to be announced this week, according to Doron Krakow, CEO of the JCC Association of North

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A Happiness Guru’s Tips for Stay-at-Home Sanity

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ow are you feeling? Tal Ben-Shahar, the Columbia University lecturer and “happiness guru,” assumes you’re feeling a lot worse than you were six weeks ago. And that’s OK: The author of “Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment” wants you to know that feeling bad is good for you, as long as you don’t wallow and occasionally allow yourself permission to express gratitude for things and people inspiring you during this crisis. Author Abigail Pogrebin interviewed Ben-Shahar April 23 as part UJA-Federation of New York’s online “CommUnity Conversations,” and about 1,000 people listened in. Here are some of Ben-Shahar’s tips for getting though the coronavirus crisis: Exercise gratitude: Appreciate the things that are going well, and express thanks to the people who deserve it. And don’t feel guilty about occasionally feeling good amidst the crisis. “Things don’t always happen for the best,” said Ben-Shahar. “But some people are able to make the best of what happens.” Exercise: Regular exercise releases endorphins, dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin, brain chemicals that play an important part in regulating your mood. Keep a journal: It’s a place to express your gratitude (see above) and acknowledge your emotions. Impose structure: Habits are good, in that it asserts control at a time when so much seems out of our

control. (Ben-Shahar says he doesn’t let himself eat anything after 7 p.m.) Go easy on the news: Tal Ben-Shahar. Ben-Shahar quotes the Rambam: All things in moderation. In the first two weeks of the crisis, he says he was addicted to the news. “Not healthy,” he said. “Now when I wake up, I check the news. But after that I disconnect — I come to this room to this very computer and I do my work.” Meditate: He calls it “present moment awareness.” That can mean sitting and noticing your breath going in and out, or doing yoga, or praying with “kavanah” — intention. Schedule connections: Speak with a friend or loved one on the phone or FaceTime at least once a day. Give back: “The most powerful intervention when it comes to increasing our own happiness is by giving to others, or increasing others’ levels of happiness,” he said. Lend an ear: To keep peace in your house, become a listener. “That’s what people need more than anything: to be listened to. Most successful therapists are the empathic ones, who can be there for you and listen.” Think small: “Learn to appreciate, and not to take for granted, the fact that another day went by and you only blew up once,” he said in response to a question from an apparently frazzled mother. “Small victories need to be celebrated.” Andrew Silow-Carroll

Pandemic Poems That Bubble Up

licia Jo Rabins writes lyrics and poetry that soar. Now her words float. Every night, after Alicia Jo Rabins long days, the singerJASON QU IGLEY/COU RTESY OF R AB I N S songwriter, poet and Torah teacher luxuriates in a bath in her home in Portland, Ore. — with candles, essential oils and plants nearby — and writes a poem. In “Bathtub Pandemic Poems,” she shares reflections, mixing ancient teachings and ordinary life that is no longer ordinary. “The first couple came out by accident,” Rabins explains in a telephone interview. “I stumble my way through the day, home schooling, trying to get my work done. Getting into a very hot bath at the end of the day is one of my favorite ways to completely shift my emotional reality, shift my perspective on things.” One night in the bathtub, she thought of some lines and jotted them down in her phone. (Editor’s Note: Don’t try this at home!) Later, after posting the poems, she got lots of responses from people

who said they were having similar feelings. The response nourished her, making her feel less alone. “I’m OK during the day, but at night I get scared, / Which makes it hard to breathe, which is a symptom/ Of the pandemic, which is what scares me. / Well played, anxiety, my old friend,” she begins one poem. Rabins, who won the 2015 APR/Honickman First Book Prize for a collection of poems titled “Divinity School,” continues to write daily and says that perhaps she’ll set her words to music, as she has done with other poems. She writes, “I used to whisper evening prayers/ Now I recite statistics/ And watch the curves/The angel of death/ Draws in the air/With his wing.” During the mornings, she teaches her two children, ages 5 and 8, and then her husband takes over. She then works on her own projects and teaches bar and bat mitzvah students via Skype. She is also writing a book of short essays about parenthood through the lens of Jewish text and Jewish mysticism, and is in post-production for a film of her chamber rock opera, “A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff.” The latter includes Rabins playing herself,

Imagine ‘Good Night Moon’ as a Book from the Bible

Enchanting: Simmy Cohen is giving children’s books a Torah trope twist. SCR EEN SHOT F ROM T WIT TER/COU RTESY OF COH EN

immy Cohen has hardly read from the Torah since his bar mitzvah. When he’s not working at his marketing job from his home in Queens, Cohen spends far more time these days reading children’s books to his 13-month-old daughter. But with a spark of comedic genius and perhaps a little quarantine-induced imagination, he put the two together in a video of himself reading — no, chanting — the classic Margaret Wise Brown picture book “Goodnight Moon” set to the sing-song cantillation known as Torah trope. Cohen hoped the video would resonate with other observant Jews whose access to live Torah readings ended when their synagogues closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. But the video quickly found a broader audience, with over 40,000 views and several hundred retweets, including one from the actor Joshua Malina, who shared the video with his 281,000 followers. Inspired by the original video, another Twitter user created his own version using the Sephardic and Moroccan vocalizations. Cohen said he was surprised by positive reactions from Jews spanning the religious and cultural spectrum. But in retrospect, he said, it’s not shocking. “I actually think people do miss the sound of leyning,” or Torah reading, Cohen said. Cohen has followed his original production with “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom,” another children’s classic, with trope written by a friend from Twitter, Avi Schwartz. Shira Hanau/JTA a bet din of Jewish grandmothers in track suits, synchronized swimmers and animation. In another poem, she writes, “As for love,/ Give it away, I tell myself:/ All your love, give it away/ While you still can.” Rabins is also doing live performances and readings, which are listed on her website, aliciajo.com. Sandee Brawarsky

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“Despite the limitations of the social distance protocols during the coronavirus pandemic, Yom Ha’Atzmaut will still go on this week. Recent Israeli bloggers have stated that they plan to blast Israeli music in their houses, eat Israeli food staples such as falafel and shawarma and join as many Zoom parties as the day will allow them. Those are great alternatives and excellent suggestions for how to maintain the typical spirit of Yom Ha’Atzmaut while still maintaining social distancing, but we can also celebrate the country and its 72 flourishing years by recognizing the many technological advances that have prepared us for a world of social distancing and coronavirus,” writes Sarah Horvath, a junior at Abraham Joshua Heschel High School in Manhattan. Read the full piece now on www.freshinkforteens.com. www.freshinkforteens.com

IN THE BEGINNING

Alone at the grave, and reciting Kaddish for a family far away. Rabbi Jonah Geffen JTA

couple of Mondays ago, I officiated my first funeral in the time of social distancing. On the eve of Yom HaShoah, I was the only non-cemetery employee present for the burial of a most incredible woman, may her memory be a blessing. She witnessed Kristallnacht as a young teen in Vienna. She escaped to Mandatory Palestine, eventually Coronavirus settling in Diary Manhattan

hip, the hip can be replaced — but the rest of your body usually can’t handle it. Things seemed OK for a couple days. She went to rehab, and I even dropped off a care package, received at the front door of the facility by a bunch of kind security personnel wearing mask and gloves. Not even clergy were allowed in. Before she passed, she was emailing, calling and FaceTiming. But her condition began to worsen — and it seems she made a decision. It was time. She would let go of life and return to her husband’s

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side after losing him six years ago. And so my role began. I put in the customary call to the funeral home and spoke to an answering service. I expected as much; I’ve read of how busy they are. Still, I never expected what I was to hear next. I’d say on a typical day at this funeral home, they have one to three deceased to care for. Members of Jewish burial societies, called chevra kadisha, come to perform tahara, the ritual cleansing and dressing of the body. Performing these rites is the most dedicated and conscious act. Not this day. Tahara is not happening. It’s not safe. Typically the body is watched until burial, guarded by members of the community. Her son called

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UJA-Federation Adds $9 Million for Covid-19 Relief New round of grants for vulnerable families, front-line workers.

Steve Lipman Staff Writer

n a third round of emergency funding, UJAFederation of New York has announced nearly $9 million in new Covid-19 relief grants to support “newly vulnerable families seeking to access Jewish life, front-line workers, and needy Jewish congregants in the New York region.” The grants will fund Jewish summer camps, day New York school scholarships, synagogue funds for the vulnerable and personal protective equipment. UJA-Federation has so far allocated approximately $44 million to help respond to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in the Jewish community. “At the core of the New York Jewish community is an incredible infrastructure of organizations that underpin our ability to sustain and strengthen Jew-

ish life into the future. In this third round of relief, we’re helping to ensure that the tens of thousands in our community directly impacted by Covid-19 are still able to access these critical Jewish resources,” said Eric S. Goldstein, the charity’s CEO. Aid so far has supported New Yorkers facing food insecurity, UJA-Federation partner organizations providing essential health and human services, Jewish Community Centers, low-income students and single parents. Funding has also ensured dignified burials, and supplemented the $75 million NYC Covid-19 Response & Impact Fund with other leading philanthropic organizations. UJA-Federation granted $300,000 to the Afya Foundation for a month’s supply of gloves and masks for its nonprofit partner agencies and $50,000 to the Hatzalah ambulance service to purchase personal protection equipment for their more than 1,000 volunteers and 100 crews. The philanthropy had earlier announced allocations of up to $6 million to support residential

UJA-Federation CEO Eric Goldstein: “Third round of relief” for the charity. and day camps even as no final decisions have yet been made regarding this summer’s camping season. “It’s evident camps will face enormous budget shortfalls,” said Goldstein. Two weeks ago, UJA-Federation also allocated more than $1 million in emergency funds to support counseling for caregivers, loan funds for small businesses and nonprofits and networks coordinating leaders and volunteers. n

A Trump-Era Compromise at the Presidents Conference

Controversy over next chair reveals Jewish organizational tensions over immigration policy. Ron Kampeas JTA

ashington — The American Jewish community’s leading foreign policy umbrella elected its next leader on Tuesday in a confirmation vote that was anything but routine, having followed a week of tumult over Dianne Lob’s nomination. Over the past week, right-wingers within and outside the Conference of New York Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations launched a pressure campaign against the nomination, citing Lob’s role as former chair of HIAS, the venerable Jewish immigration group that has clashed with the Trump administration over immigration policy. Leading the charge was Morton Klein’s Zionist Organization of America, which has strongly opposed efforts to resettle Muslim refugees from Arab countries in the United States and Europe — something that has topped the HIAS agenda in recent years because of unrest in the Muslim world. Lob was confirmed in Tuesday afternoon’s vote, which was 31-8 among the 49 members eligible to

Dianne Lob, whose HIAS group has tangled with the Trump administration on its immigration initiatives, will have to wait a year to take over leadership of a coalition that aims to bring one Jewish voice on Israel-related issues. COU RTESY OF TH E CON F ER ENCE OF P R ESI DENTS

vote, with five abstentions. Another five were absent from the meeting, which took place over Zoom. But instead of beginning her term as board chair

of the Conference of Presidents on June 1, as originally planned, Lob will take over in April 2021. Amid the change in the selection process, the members also opted to keep the current chair, Arthur Stark, in his post for another year. The decision to make her chair-elect, although hailed by the Conference as an effort “to forge greater unity in the Conference,” was a disappointment to Lob’s critics — as well as to her defenders, who felt the delay was a capitulation to the right. “We are disappointed that we have to vote for a whole new process because of a few loud and harmful voices when we would have been proud to support Dianne taking this position now,” said Sheila Katz, the National Council of Jewish Women chairwoman. “She is ready now. She’s the leader we need now.” Lob is a Wall Street financier and a member of New York City’s Central Synagogue who recently finished a term as board chair of HIAS. Her selection earlier this month drew praise from across the Jewish world. William Daroff, the Presidents Conference’s CEO, emphasized Lob’s background as a child of refugees in his first official statement. “Dianne is a visionary leader whose personal history embodies the Jewish-American story,” he

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me heartbroken. No shmirah allowed. No guard. Her body, like ours, is to be alone. The funeral director called me back. He was caring for 13 deceased. They didn’t know when she would be able to be buried; the cemetery would let the family know date and time. This funeral home alone had six bodies already heading to that particular cemetery. Later in the day, the funeral home called: Somehow she would be able to be buried the following day. On that Monday, I accompanied her burial, alone. This is partially because she has no immediate family in the city; three people could have been there. But as I said, in another time, dozens of people would have made the drive out to be there. So like my colleagues have been doing for weeks, I prepared my mask, gloves and rabbi’s manual and prepared to head out. I set up a Zoom meeting so her family could “be there.” The rabbi’s manual doesn’t have advice for this. The cemetery office had a list on the door of burials for the day. Close to 30. Nobody was allowed in the office building. And aside from mourners at funerals, the place was desolate. It’s jarring to see a place both busier than ever and emptier than ever. I arrived super early to wait for the hearse, but

hands to push some earth into the grave. I heard the familiar thud hitting a coffin. Something finally felt normal. then the funeral director called. He wanted me to know that her casket and body would come by SUV, as they were out of hearses. She arrived. And we waited our turn. Meanwhile, I had the family on Zoom. They shared memories, saw faces they didn’t see often. They caught up. It was both beautiful and so very sad. Finally it was our turn. I followed the SUV to the plot. There were the typical sights: employees of the cemetery, a large hole in the ground, a large pile of earth. There was her husband’s stone. I exited the car and prepared the people for what was about to happen. They took her to her grave, lowered the simple pine coffin into the ground and left. I didn’t expect that. I thought we would fill in the grave, as is customary. Jewish tradition does

not like to leave an open grave. But here we were. The SUV driver let me know this is how it is now. No time to fill in graves until all are dug for the day. So I was alone, next to an open grave, with a whole family on Zoom. I told them I was going to put them down for a moment while I used my hands to push some earth into the grave. And on my knees, that’s what I did. I heard the familiar thud hitting a coffin. Something finally felt normal. Then I rose and recited the memorial prayer. I had called this woman up to the Torah so many times, I knew her Hebrew name by heart. The family, together but apart, recited the Mourner’s Kaddish. I never believed that things like Kaddish, typically requiring a quorum of 10, would be OK to recite over Zoom. But times are different now. It is OK. And it’s beautiful. After the funeral, I spent most of the day at home. I even taught a class. But I’ve never been this emotionally spent from a burial. Then again, I’ve never been to one like this. When you clap for the essential workers, make sure you are thinking of the funeral home and cemetery employees who are burying more dead than they ever imagined. Think of the clergy who are finding every way they can to care for the bereaved. And think of this amazing woman. Who saw and survived the fires of the Shoah. Who was eyewitness to the worst of humanity. And still, she became the best of humanity. n

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Bill de Blasio Mayor Oxiris Barbot, MD Commissioner

TIME HAS COME TO FIGHT BACK Years of neglect and misguided policies by mainstream Jewish leaders have failed to stem the shocking surge of Jew-hatred in America. Every Jewish institution now needs security. Jews have been murdered in Pittsburgh, San Diego, and Jersey City, beaten on the streets of Brooklyn, harassed in the universities, defamed by The New York Times and CNN, and now maligned in the U.S. Congress. We propose a “Ten-Point Initiative” to counter the assaults, as a starting point to re-examine failed communal policies. For electronic copies and to join a discussion, go to: www.peaceandtolerance.org/ten

TEN POINT INITIATIVE 1. DECLARE A STATE OF URGENCY. Publicly

declare that the community is under assault and will no longer tolerate demonization of Jews.

2. INCREASE PHYSICAL SECURITY. Change the risk/reward ratio for those who would assault us: increase police presence, neighborhood security patrols, facilitate legal gun ownership, and hold public officials accountable for inaction. 3. REPRIORITIZE JEWISH COMMUNAL RESOURCES. Sanctity of life is the

highest Jewish value: allocate more for defense of the Jewish community and less for “social justice” projects.

4. EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC ABOUT THE NATURE AND SOURCES OF JEWHATRED. Jew-hatred is being distorted

for political or ideological purposes by attempts to universalize it to the meaningless abstraction of “hate” in general. Jew-hatred has always been aimed at the elimination of Judaism (forced conversion), of Jews (the Final Solution), or of the Jewish State (antiZionism). Jew-hatred is promoted by lies and demonization, propelled by class warfare and now by identity politics. Launch PR campaigns to promote our narrative. Jews need to be a protected class.

5. UPDATE THE ZIONIST NARRATIVE.

Include and emphasize the oppression and expulsion of 800,000 Mizrahi Jews from Arab countries, and the related history of Islamic Jew-hatred. We cannot let Arab oil money and Marxist ideology dominate our high school and university Middle East curriculum.

6. RETHINK HOLOCAUST EDUCATION. Its impact has become less effective by being universalized. Focus more on the accomplishments of European Jewish civilization and the importance of a Jewish state. 7. EXPOSE AND DECONSTRUCT SOCIAL THEORIES AND RHETORICAL METHODS THAT RESULT IN THE DEMONIZATION OF JEWS.

The post-modern view of the truth, moral relativism, intersectionality, and a “diversity” that excludes Jews have been weaponized against the community. We have to fight the lies

and liars including those who use double standards and hypocrisy.

8. EXPOSE AND COUNTER THE THREAT OF IMPORTING JEW-HATING IMMIGRANTS.

Vetting immigrants about their beliefs concerning Jews must be a priority. Political correctness and false historical analogies must not continue to blind us.

9. RESTRUCTURE JEWISH EDUCATION (AND MAKE IT AFFORDABLE). Increase

emphasis on Jewish pride, Jewish identity, Torah tradition, and the centrality and importance of Jewish Peoplehood (Israel); inoculate our young people, who are being hijacked by utopian cults and simplistic solutions to the human condition.

10. BUILD ALLIANCES BASED ON MUTUAL INTERESTS AND HONEST RECIPROCITY.

Jewish support has not been reciprocated. Reach out to alienated, neglected working-class Americans of all races; build alliances with other victims of the Progressive-Islamist alliance including conservatives, Christians, and especially diaspora Christian communities from Egypt, Lebanon, Nigeria, and Sudan. The Jewish community has enormous talents, and significant resources which have often been used to benefit America and the world. We now need to direct the energy and inventiveness of the community to fight the epidemic of hate that is plaguing our community.

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Day School Champion Marvin Schick, 85 His census reports on Jewish education ‘mapped the field.’ tifying Jewish day school education in North America, arvin Marvin asked, ‘how many schools are Schick, there, where are a college they and what do we professor and poknow about them?’ litical activist who There being noserved as a longwhere to look for an time leader in New answer, he mapped York City’s Orthothe field. It was very dox community hard work, but evand whose census reports on Jewish Marvin Schick was remembered erything followed day schools were this week as a politically liberal from that,” Wisse viewed as vital to Jew in an overwhelmingly conser- said in an email interview. “When Avi the field, died of vative Orthodox community. Chai conceived of a a heart attack on April 23 in his home in Borough Park, building loan program as the most practical way of helping Jewish day schools Brooklyn. He was 85. Dr. Schick taught political science expand, Marvin vetted the schools and and constitutional law at Hunter Col- administered the program. Devoted to lege and the New School for Social the religious institutions he helped to Research, and served as liaison to the build, he was exceptionally fair and disJewish community in the second ad- passionate in identifying the potential of ministration of Mayor John Lindsay. every promising branch of Jewish life.” He was active in several Orthodox As an outspoken advocate for organizations, including the charedi fair coverage of the Orthodox comAgudath Israel of America and the munity, Schick often criticized the Modern Orthodox Orthodox Union. media, including The Jewish Week, A founder of the National Jewish for alleged anti-Orthodox bias. Many Commission on Law and Public Af- of those pieces appeared in a weekly fairs (COLPA), he was the author, in sponsored column he wrote for years 1970, of “Learned Hand’s Court,” a in The Jewish Week. study of the jurisprudence of the New David Luchins, chairman of the York judge and judicial philosopher. political science department at Touro Starting in 1998, Dr. Schick con- College, called Dr. Schick “an iconoducted for the Avi Chai Foundation clast,” a politically liberal Jew in an influential census reports on Jewish overwhelmingly conservative Orthoday schools in the United States. dox community. The data helped agencies and “Marvin was a classic Hubert Humphilanthropies in their planning for phrey liberal,” Luchins said, referring what were boom years in Jewish to the longtime Democratic senator day schooling. After 2008 and the from Minnesota and unsuccessful economic downturn, “Marvin’s cen- 1968 presidential candidate. “Marvin suses,” as they became known at Avi believed deeply in government helping Chai, helped lead a new communal people, as a power for good. focus on day school affordability and “He mentored generations of sustainability. Jewish leaders” through his many “Marvin was a rare man of ideas positions in the Jewish community who recognized the difference be- and speeches at NCSY conventions, tween good and bad ones, and turned Luchins said. the best into action … he was driven Dr. Schick, who earned a Ph.D. by an exceptional sense of urgency,” in constitutional law from New York said Ruth Wisse, professor of Yiddish University, was ordained by The Rabbi Literature and Comparative Literature Joseph Jacob (RJJ) School, a yeshiva Emerita at Harvard University, and an in Staten Island, but did not work as a pulpit rabbi. He served for more Avi Chai board of trustees member. “When the board of Avi Chai Foun- than three decades as president of the Continued on page 15 dation decided to concentrate on for-

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stopped coming because of social distancing rules. “I miss them very much,” Brajer said this week. Now they call at least once a week, to make sure that he is OK. “I feel better for the rest of the day.” But, Brajer said in a telephone interview, it’s not the same as a face-to-face conversation. Thousands of elderly Jews in Greater New York are in the same situation as Brajer, struggling to cope with the loneliness brought on by social distancing throughout New York City, the country’s epicenter for the spread of Covid-19. A wide range of Jewish organizations — some whose primary focus is on Jewish senior citizens, and others that have expanded their mandate in recent weeks — are rallying to meet seniors’ physical and emotional needs. Some are staying in contact with the seniors by phone and internet, others are organizing live-streamed classes or are delivering packages of needed food and medicine while wearing masks and gloves as precautions. Much of their work is coordinated through The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, which this week began a new initiative delivering kosher food packages to more than 1,000 isolated Holocaust survivors in the New York area. The initiative is funded by private donations. The agency rented a warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, hired two dozen employees and has scores of volunteers, said David Greenfield, Met Council executive director. “It’s unprecedented.

Volunteers from Repair the World and Met Council on Jewish Poverty delivering food to the needy. P HOTOS COU RTESY OF R EPAI R TH E WOR LD AN D M ET COU NCI L

You’ve heard of Fresh Direct — we’re ‘Kosher Direct,’” he said. UJA-Federation of New York has approved millions of dollars in emergency funding for agencies serving the elderly and other vulnerable populations, and contributed to the multi-partner New York COVID-19 response fund. Demographic studies show that the elderly are among the most isolated, and poorest, members of the city’s Jewish community. And during the

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vulnerable during this time [of] extreme isolation,” according to an email from Selfhelp, which serves Holocaust survivors. While representatives of these organizations said few seniors display clinical signs of depression, many are “anxious.” Inka Lautman, 85, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor who lives on Manhattan’s West Side and is “homebound since March 1,” spent the war years as a child in a series of camps and ghettoes. Her current quarantine is very difficult, she said, because it “brings back memories of the ghetto, of the war. I’m reliving my childhood.” “I’m dependent” on the kindness of outsiders, including the Blue Card organization for Holocaust survivors, which has sent her cleaning supplies, she said. But, said David Schechtman, a veteran Blue Card volunteer from Armonk, “I haven’t heard them [Holocaust survivors] complain. These are people who are simply happy to be alive.”

‘I have nobody’

reenfield said Met Council’s new kosher food initiative is meeting a growing need. He cited a widowed Holocaust survivor, unable to have children after medical experiments in Auschwitz, who called Met Council this week and requested help. “I have nobody in my life,” she said.

Project Ezra, which serves the frail Jewish elderly on the Lower East Side, has distributed donated masks and direct relief checks to recipients. Blue Card is “working with their local pharmacies to arrange timely drop offs of their medication. We are paying for survivors’ medication co-pays, as well as for deliveries where needed,” the organization said in an email interview. There has been a “drastic increase” in requests for the Blue Card’s Telephone Emergency Response System units — buttons that are worn either around the neck or wrist and are activated in times of emergency. “As survivors are home alone, they fear any falls or accidents and are reaching out to us to have them set up with a unit.” Organizations that have begun to offer remote services include the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services and Jewish Association Serving the Aging, one of the city’s largest agencies serving older adults in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, have begun to offer expanded remote services. Jewish seniors “absolutely are not being forgotten” said Danielle Palmisano, JASA’s senior director of intensive services and business development. Staff members who make home deliveries are trained to observe if the recipients need anything besides food, and participants in the phone and Zoom sessions also try to be alert to other signs of need, she said. The main need of most, Palmisano said, is “social contact … having someone reach out to them.” JASA has restructured its “Sundays at JASA” series of classes and Dorot has transferred its “University Without Walls” to online meetings

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Who’s Offering Help The following organizations are among those assisting Jewish seniors during the coronavirus outbreak: Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty (metcouncil.org) Selfhelp (selfhelp.net) The Blue Card (bluecardfund.org) Project Ezra (projectezra.org)

Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services (jewishboard.org) Jewish Association Serving the Aging (jasa.org) Dorot (dorotusa.org) Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island Masbia (masbia.org) Repair the World (werepair.org)

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A volunteer for the JCC of Greater Coney Island, above. Left, a Met Council worker boxing up deliveries. COU RTESY OF M ET COU NCI L

via Zoom. Dorot has recently recruited more than 1,700 new volunteers for its Caring Calls program; participants call a senior twice a week. Rabbi Moshe Wiener, executive director of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, said the organization provides telephone reassurance calls to “thousands of isolated seniors.” A primary goal of its services — including food delivery and its Connect2: Friendly Visiting for Holocaust Survivors program — is to keep seniors in their own homes and out of nursing homes, “among the most dangerous places on the planet.” With funding from the Claims Conference and assistance from the Israeli-American Council, the Coney Island institution arranges for delivery of kosher food from two restaurants, Sage Kitchen in Manhattan and Shnitzi in Brooklyn. Several other Jewish groups have expanded their work with seniors since the coronavirus crisis began. Among them: ■ Yeshiva University, whose students have partnered with Met Council to prepare food packages for hundreds of Jewish seniors; ■ The network of Masbia kosher soup kitchens and food distribution centers, which has begun making deliveries to homebound people, including those unable to leave their home because of quarantine. Masbia has already exceeded its budget for the entire year, said Alexander Rapaport, the agency’s founding director; ■ Volunteers from Repair the World, the Jewish service organization, deliver food packages to isolated Holocaust survivors in South Brooklyn and keep in touch as pen pals, said Rachel Figurasmith, executive director of Repair the World NYC. Without the help of these organizations, the lives of isolated seniors would be “miserable — people would be starving,” said Mark Meridy, executive director of Dorot. Dasha Rittenberg, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor who lives on the Upper West Side, said she has not left her apartment for two months. Rittenberg, who is “92 … something like that,” said she spends her time reading and listening to music. “I do a lot of memory,” she said. Blue Card has helped her with financial aid and household supplies, and volunteers call her regularly. “They help a lot.” Rittenberg said she is counting the days until she can step outside again. As is Robert Brajer, in his Morningside Heights apartment. He’s waiting for the visits from his Dorot volunteers to resume. “I’m dying to be able to see people,” he said. ■

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America, which represents 150 Jewish day camps and 25 overnight camps with 100,000 campers and staff. Directors of three Jewish overnight camps, from the Conservative Ramah movement, told JTA that camp is likely to at least be postponed, if not canceled outright. But they also are also assuring parents that they are preparing to open if they can. Based upon briefings he has received, Krakow said he expects more deferred openings and “potential cancellations.” “Camps are working closely with their medical advisory committees, and those whose summer seasons start early will be compelled to make decisions and we’ll hear of deferred openings,” he said. “I would not be surprised to hear announcements that affect the entire summer. It’s possible there will be announcements about delays and potential cancellations.” And if camps are allowed to open, one parent said she fully expects to have to sign a waiver saying she will not sue should her child contract Covid-19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected shortly to publish guidelines for summer camps. A draft copy, obtained by Fox News, reportedly calls for camps in states that are in Phase One of the administration’s reopening plan to be restricted to the children of essential workers. Those in phase two would be permitted to serve only children who live in the local area. And states in phase three would be restricted to those from limited transmission areas. But Jeremy Fingerman, CEO of the Foundation for Jewish Camps, stressed in a statement that those are only draft suggestions that might apply to day camps only. “Our most pressing challenges are for overnight camps because of the lead time required, and we do not yet have any information on the CDC guidelines for overnight camps,” he said. In addition, it is not known what phase New York State will be in when camps are slated to open, pointed out Susi Lupert, executive director of the American Camp Association of New York and New Jersey. “These are just guidelines and have nothing to do with the Department of Health licensing of camps,” she said. “We’re talking about something 60 days away; the world has changed in the last 30 days. That’s a long time. We believe that if the infection rate goes down as it has been there is hope we can see summer camps happen. I believe they will be able to open in some capacity.” Two-thirds of overnight camps in the Northeast were scheduled to open on June 30 or later, according to Fingerman, giving them “another three or four weeks before they have to make a final call. The American Camp Association has been working with the CDC and is expected to follow the CDC’s guidelines for camps. Once the CDC guidelines are in place and the ACA has announced its plan of operaton, it would be up to the states to review them and “come out

Hungry for the camp experience: Some parents say their children will be “heartbroken” if summer camp is cancelled. JTA with certain mandates by mid-May that would say here is how to do camp this summer,” said Stadlin. “And those mandates might dictate to camps whether to open or not.” Many camps expect fewer campers this summer because the peak recruitment period was March and April, when states in the Northeast, as well as most states in the country, were locked down. Horwitz said she fears that if they are prevented from opening, “it would be devastating for our campers and our business model. All Jewish camps are nonprofit and we don’t have war chests or enormous endowments. This kind of closure could cause enormous financial hardship.” UJA-Federation of New York said it is allocating up to $6 million to support sleepaway and day camps, which it says will face “enormous budget shortfalls.” The Massachusetts-based Harold Grinspoon Foundation has announced a matching grant challenge of up to $10 million to help support Jewish camps, matching $1 for every $2 each camp raises. Over the last two decades, it has donated nearly $19 million in challenges, which camps have leveraged to raise more than $300 million. A 2018 census by the Foundation for Jewish Camp found that for the 155 day camps reporting financial details, total revenue amounted to $134 million for the summer. The average total revenue per camp is highest in the Northeast at about $1.1 million, the census reported, nearly double the average in the West. ‘Not giving up’ Some camps have already announced they will not operate this summer. Among them is Seeds of Peace Camp, which canceled both sessions. Founded in 1993, it brings youth and educators from areas of conflict to its camp in Maine. It cited such difficulties as getting travel permits and U.S.

visas for participants. Those same difficulties may prevent Jewish camps from hosting Israeli shlichim, or emissaries, who in partnership with the Jewish Agency for Israel come to the U.S. to foster campers’ Jewish identity and feelings of connection to Israel. Helene Drobenare Horwitz, executive director of Young Judaea Sprout Camps, said the organization’s camps usually host 35 to 40 shlichim. Nevertheless, she said she is “still optimistic for some sort of [camp this] summer. We’re not giving up. Nobody wants it more than us. We would move heaven and Earth to make this happen because we all understand that for everyone’s mental, emotional and social health we all need it.” On the whole, stressed Rabbi Mitchell Cohen, Camp Ramah’s national director, “summer camps are very healthy places — outdoors and away from technology and filled with people who are at lowschool, and was a frequent contr risk for the virus, assuming we screen out thoseish newspapers, including the J who are at high risk.” Jewish Week. But there is a debate about whether day camps He would tell friends that he or overnight camps are safer in this environment.late Rabbi Aharon Kotler, foun Krakow said he believes day camps are better ableBeth Medrash Gohova yeshiva to adapt to the new guidelines that will be issuedinto serving the Orthodox comm for camps. always insisted that of all the caus Day campers don’t eat and sleep in tight quartersJewish community], none was a as they do at overnight camps, observed Yoni Stad-education,” he once wrote. “Spi lin, director of Eden Village Camp, a Jewish farm-paramount obligation and yeshiv to-table sleepaway camp in Putnam Valley, N.Y. neshamos [souls] can be molded But their disadvantage, he said, is that the camp- “His major accomplishments ers “go home each night and [possibly then] go to aful writings over many years an movie or a party, catch the coronavirus and bring itformation about Jewish educati home [to their parents and grandparents] and thenRabbi Avi Shafran, a spokesma to the camp the next day.” of America. “What motivated h Overnight camps can be locked down so thatresponsibility to Jews instilled i neither campers nor counselors would be permittedRosh Yeshiva, Rav Aharon Kotl off the grounds and there would be no visiting day.his embrace of that responsibility Because of the advantage he sees in overnightconcern for fellow Jews.” ■

“I would not be surprised to hear announcements that affect the entire summer,” says Doron Krakow, CEO of the JCC Association of North America. COU RTESY OF JCC ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AM ER IC A camps, Rabbi David Shenker, director of Camp Nageela in upstate Fallsburg, N.Y., said his camp is launching a “campaign to get parents to think about sleepaway camps at this time. The plans of families who were considering a road trip this summer or to go to Israel or elsewhere are now completely up in the air and we are asking them to consider sleepaway camp as an option. Now is the time to do research; they don’t have to commit. I’m pretty confident camps will take applications as late as the middle of June. Even camps that were filled may find that some parents are too scared to send their kids.” Should overnight camps open, they will not look the same.

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school, and was a frequent contributor to several Jewish newspapers, including the Jewish Press and The Jewish Week. He would tell friends that he had been urged by the late Rabbi Aharon Kotler, founder of the prestigious Beth Medrash Gohova yeshiva in Lakewood, N.J., into serving the Orthodox community. “Rav Aharon always insisted that of all the causes of Klal Yisroel [the Jewish community], none was an important as Torah education,” he once wrote. “Spiritual salvation is our paramount obligation and yeshivos are the place where neshamos [souls] can be molded and saved spiritually.” “His major accomplishments … include his insightful writings over many years and the yield of vital information about Jewish education in America,” said Rabbi Avi Shafran, a spokesman for Agudath Israel of America. “What motivated him was the sense of responsibility to Jews instilled in him by his beloved Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Aharon Kotler … But what fueled his embrace of that responsibility was his deep love and concern for fellow Jews.” n

group activities — anything to keep the kids busy,” Dr. Deborah Birx, a White House health official coordinating the coronavirus response, said last Sunday that “social distancing will be with us through the summer.” Stadlin said such a directive “would definitely be a challenge; most camps have campers sleep in bunk beds that are really compact.” But that may give the Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp, an independent JCC in Copake, N.Y., an advantage. It has 80 private rooms that had been used for senior citizens. “If we could use them [for campers], it would make social distancing easier,” said its executive director, Adam Weinstein. n

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“Maybe activities will be just with others in the same bunk” to limit exposure to other campers, Stadlin said. “Maybe meals will be served in different shifts so the dining room will not be so crowded.” Because he heard new rules will require no more than 20 youngsters on a 60-seat bus, Rick Lewis, CEO of two JCCs on Long Island, said he will be encouraging parents to drive their children, which will reduce the price of day camp. “We are planning for the unknown,” he said. “We can’t wait for the rules to come out. We are hiring extra medical staff, purchasing masks for the staff and looking at virtual opportunities in case we are not allow to open. We’re looking at all kinds of

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OPINION EDITORIAL

What We Need to Fight Hate

pril 27 was already going to of thousands who marched in the “No be a somber day on the Jewish Fear” rally over the Brooklyn Bridge calendar. This year it coincided in January. with the start of Yom HaZikaron, IsMarches are symbolic. To fight the rael’s Memorial Day, when the country scourge of anti-Semitism, action is pauses to remember those who paid the essential. The ADL and other Jewish ultimate sacrifice for defending Jewish groups are urging Congress to pass the lives and sovereignty. Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, But the day was also the one-year which would boost federal reporting on anniversary of the deadly synagogue domestic terrorism threats and provide shooting in Poway, Calif., when a training and resources to state and local 19-year-old gunman shot and killed law enforcement. Former vice president a worshipper inside Chabad of Po- and Democratic presidential candidate way and injured the rabbi. This week Joe Biden marked the Poway anniverneighbors there sary, according to and Jews around the Jewish Telethe world regraphic Agency, Remembering the membered Lori with a three-point Gilbert-Kaye, 60, plan to counter a loving wife and anti-Semitism and Poway synagogue mother for whom other forms of the Chabad was a hate. It would inshooting. second home. Like crease Department the massacre at of Homeland SePittsburgh’s Tree curity funding for of Life synagogue seven months ear- securing nonprofit institutions, beef up lier, the Poway shooting left American federal prosecution for hate crimes and Jews feeling vulnerable in ways they examine the broader societal contexts hadn’t perhaps in decades, despite the in which hate flourishes, from social documented rise of anti-Semitic rhetoric media and technology platforms to the online. By invading synagogues, the ways troubled people with toxic ideas shooters struck at the heart of the Jewish slip through the cracks of our mental communal and spiritual enterprise, our health system. literal sanctuaries for expressing who Biden is running for president, of we are as a people. course, and he blames President Trump Of course, the Poway shooting for allowing a climate of intolerance to wasn’t the end of it. Last year saw endure. But the fight against anti-Semthe deadly attacks in Jersey City and itism and hate needs to be above parMonsey, N.Y.; a rash of assaults on the tisanship. We need general agreement streets of New York’s charedi Orthodox that anti-Semitism must be fought on neighborhoods; and the return of anti- the right and the left. We need funding Semitic rhetoric as a tool for various to make our institutions safe and legislaglobal despots. In a recent survey by the tion to give law enforcement the tools Anti-Defamation League, 54 percent they need to track, pursue and prosecute of American Jews say they either ex- hate-mongers. No matter where you sit perienced or witnessed an anti-Semitic on the political spectrum, demand that incident over the past five years. One- your candidate stand up to hate. in-five say they have been the target of And remember, too, that even anti-Semitic comments; a similar pro- at our most vulnerable, the Jewish portion say a synagogue or institution community has allies. The victims they are associated with was vandalized and survivors of Poway and Pittsor targeted. burgh were flooded with messages To be sure, American Jews as a and gestures of support from people, whole feel distinctly safe and secure. politicians and clergy of all races and Jewish life here flourishes in so many creeds. Stuck for the moment in our ways. But the fear and vulnerability are relative isolation, we can’t forget all real, as was demonstrated by the tens the connections among good people.

LETTERS

Stressing the Uniqueness of the Holocaust

Regarding your April 17 story, “Shoah Museums Telling a Multicultural Story”: In 2015, as a result of visiting the Dallas Holocaust Museum and reading your Jewish Week article then on Holocaust education (marking 70 years after the Auschwitz liberation), I wrote to 12 American Holocaust museums and Jewish educational organizations begging them not to include other persecutions in their Holocaust education. (Although not part of the Holocaust, I believe the Roma should have some educational voice as well.) The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., was among the 12. I heard from only one educational organization that did not address my plea. All 12 mailings included a copy of your 2015 Jewish Week article as well as opinion pieces from The New York Times and Newsday. When we visit the National Civil Rights Museum built around the former Lorraine Motel, in Memphis, where Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, it is about black civil rights alone, as it should be. It does not include women’s and Native American civil rights. The museum stays on point, as it should. That’s part of the impact. The uniqueness of the Holocaust is obscured when we make it a group activity. Those that promote this inclusion believe it brings in those who might otherwise not be interested. However, as a result of this misguided quest, many young people believe that the Holocaust includes all people murdered by Germans/Nazis. They don’t know the most basic fact, that the Holocaust is the Jewish experience alone. Naomi Silverberg Schwartz

Bergen County Rabbis and the Common Good

Thank you for Steve Lipman’s piece acknowledging the foresight of our local elected officials, and most notably the members of the Rabbinic Council of Bergen County (“How Teaneck Eased the Grip of Coronavirus,” April 24). The RCBC rabbis showed incredible foresight, vision and courage in forcing our way of life to be altered in unimaginable ways, for the sake of the common good. At first glance, the pronouncement published on March 12 was scary, seemingly harsh, and thought to be overreaching. In hindsight, the RCBC saved lives. Period. The textbooks will teach their actions and use their wisdom in working with all health and safety authorities as one of the greatest “game plans” in recent local Jewish history. Robert Katz Fair Lawn, N.J.

The Wrong Choice to Lead the CoP

The Jewish Week’s April 24 editorial, wrongly calling Dianne Lob the “right choice” for Chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (the “CoP”), ignores the record of HIAS, whose board of directors she chaired. The CoP’s mission is to help Israel and the Jewish people. But resettlement contractor HIAS brought multiple lawsuits, promoted legislation and ran PR campaigns to bring non-Jewish (mostly Muslim) refugees into the United States from Middle Eastern countries, where 74 percent to 93 percent of the population is anti-Semitic (according to the ADL Global 100 Antisemitism Index). No wonder Jew-hating, Israel-basher Linda Sarsour has fundraised for HIAS. In Israel, HIAS’ primary activity has been opposing, protesting and undermining Israel’s efforts to contend with and repatriate illegal, non-Jewish Eritrean migrants who have preyed on elderly South Tel Aviv residents. HIAS has also been “collaborating” (HIAS’ term) with: Islamic Relief USA — the American branch of Islamic Relief Worldwide, designated by Israel and the UAE as a terrorist organization and involved in funneling funds to Hamas; and CAIR — an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial also involved in funneling money to Hamas; and anti-Semitic UN agencies, which HIAS relies on for its refugee streams. HIAS also signed joint letters with CAIR, MPAC (which opposes Israel’s existence) and hostile-to-Israel nominally “Jewish” groups such as JVP and IfNotNow. HIAS also joined J Street in publicly defending terrorist-embracing, Farrakhan-loving Linda Sarsour. Morton Klein President Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)

‘The Plot Against America’ Took Us to a Dark Place: the Present The ‘alternate history’ of the 1940s hit uncomfortably close to home.

t took me a while to warm up to — or actually, feel the chills from — “The Plot Against America,” the six-part HBO adaptation of the Philip Roth novel. Set in Newark, N.J., in an alternative 1940s, when Franklin Roosevelt loses the election to an isolationist Charles Lindbergh, the early episodes felt slow and conventional. I expected better from David Simon, the creator of “The Wire.” The TV version lacked Roth’s propulsive, evocative prose, and the tricky meta perspective of a real-life author looking back on his own family history through a historical wormhole. But that changed somewhere around the fourth episode, when the creeping outrages of the Lindbergh administration begin literally to hit home for the Levins, the Jewish family at the heart of the series. Private incidents of anti-Semitism blossom into a national program of forced relocation and reeducation, and Lindbergh goes from Nazi sympathizer to outright ally. Reactions to the show also began to shift, from critical shrugs to suggestions that it had become essential viewing. Credit history and current events. “The Plot” wouldn’t be as eerie or resonant if its alternative history felt farfetched. It doesn’t. The book and series remind you how powerful the forces of isolation were in the 1930s and early ’40s, when Congress passed a flurry of neutrality legislation and polls showed large majorities opposed to another foreign war. In 1940, the Republican Wendell Willkie ran against FDR on a non-interventionist platform. Lindbergh, according to historian Susan Dunn, was

in fact the “glamorous public face and articulate voice of the isolationist movement.” In a typical speech, Lindbergh warned against the U.S. being dragged into the conflict “by foreign interests, and by a small minority of our own people.” We often treat the turns of history as inevitable. They aren’t. The queasiest moments of “The Plot” came when characters almost con-

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vinced me that American lives weren’t worth losing over European conflicts that had then raged for centuries. To their credit, a majority of Americans came around to the case for war by November 1941 — before Pearl Harbor. But we also know how majority opinion — for example, on gun safety, climate change and national elections — often goes unheeded under our political system. “The Plot” is also plausible when it reminds you, sometimes inadvertently, of the rot in America’s root system. In this regard, it’s important to talk about how the series deals with race. American Jews, like the Levins and the Roths, tend to buy ecstatically into the notion of the American Dream, because it worked so well for most of us: We rose from pushcarts to the professions, from the ghettos to the suburbs. The Levins, proudly

American, are outraged when asked to leave a restricted Washington, D.C., hotel; like them, we are supposed to be shocked by this rising xenophobia and antiJewish discrimination. This is 1940, however, and such discrimination, and much worse, had long been the reality for millions of African Americans and Chinese immigrants, to name just a few. I wish the script had done more to acknowledge this. It’s a subtext that lays to rest any idea that it couldn’t happen here — if by “it” we mean the systematic oppression of a people. Still, the series might have remained an interesting historical exercise if not for current events. “The Plot” is, as Simon admits, a subtweet on the rise, election and presidency of Donald Trump. It’s about a president who doesn’t accept some of the basic premises of American democracy, who has a soft spot for dictators, disdains global entanglements and is willing to make scapegoats of minorities to energize his base. It asks what happens when a populist appeals, successfully, to our neighbors’ most selfish and sometimes racist instincts. The finale aired on April 20. The week began with President Trump speaking misleadingly about the number of Covid-19 tests being made available and ended with him cancelling the daily coronavirus briefings after he mused in all seriousness about using sunlight and household disinfectants as treatments. On Monday he took to Twitter to blame the media for his troubles: “There has never been, in the history of our Country, a more vicious or hostile Lamestream Media than there is right now, even

in the midst of a National Emergency, the Invisible Enemy!” He could have been quoting Sen. Burton

The HBO series was a six-part subtweet on Donald Trump.

K. Wheeler, the Montana isolationist who serves as Lindbergh’s vice president in the series, and who in real life famously sought

to investigate the “Gigantic Engines of Propaganda” in Hollywood. Roth wrote his novel in 2004, when Trump was starring in a new hit reality show, “The Apprentice.” A year before he died in 2018, Roth told The New Yorker that a Trump victory was less comprehensible than an imagined victory for Lindbergh. “[W]hat is most terrifying is that he makes any and everything possible,” Roth said of Trump. Roth’s novel asks what might have become of America if it had chosen the wrong leader at a time of national crisis. The TV version aired when a majority of Americans decided we are living in just such a moment, and the consequences are being played out in real time. n

Seeking Sanctuary in the Crisis David Wolpe

have a book called “Synagogues Without Jews.” It contains photographs of synagogues, many of them beautiful, where the Jewish community no longer exists. All that remains is the empty sanctuary. It bears mute, eloquent testimony to the destruction of Jewish communities across the globe. In this week when we celebrate Israel’s Independence Day, Yom Ha’Atzmaut, there are once again synagogues without Jews. The pandemic has emptied houses Musings of worship, and the sacred scrolls stand in the ark awaiting our return. Unlike the desolate sanctuaries in the book, however, we will return to the synagogue. Once again, celebrations and song and prayer will rise from the now empty seats and words of Torah will be heard from the bima. Our task is to ensure that Jewish institutions remain strong throughout this crisis. The challenge of the Jewish people in this time is to make sure that our sanctuaries do not become like those in the book — testimony to a community that is gone. Continue to support your synagogue so that the Psalmist’s vision becomes our reality: “Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes in the morning” [Psalms 30:5]. 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.

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OPINION

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Take a Lesson from the British. Save Jewish Newspapers

y initiation into the world of Jewish journalism took place 50 years ago when I stumbled into a job reporting for the New York office of The Jewish Chronicle of London, the granddaddy of Jewish newspapers and an institution among British Jews since 1841. Reading recent reports of the imminent demise and apparent Between last-minute the Lines rescue of The JC, the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper, got me thinking about my gradual transition back then from a would-be academic to a career journalist. Those memories have taken on more poignancy of late, given the almost-death of The JC, the closure a few weeks ago of the

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Canadian Jewish News and the deeply uncertain future of Jewish journalism in the U.S. at a time when it is needed most. But more of that later. I knew little about The JC’s proud history back in 1970. I was a graduate student in American literature, newly married, and eager for parttime work. Fortunately, I was introduced to Richard Jaffe, a warm and elegant veteran journalist who had covered Eastern Europe after World War II and was the United Nations correspondent for The JC. He hired me for two days a week, and over the next couple of years, with Dick as my mentor, I covered a wide range of stories about Jewish life in New York. Along the way my interest in dark humor in the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne — my planned master’s thesis — waned as my curiosity about how the Jewish community functioned, and sometimes didn’t, waxed.

Gary Rosenblatt Communities need bridges that can span our increasingly deep divisions. Each week Dick would communicate with the home office in London by telex, proposing various stories. The editors there would respond up or down, and if it was a go, tell us a preferred story length — usually short — as in, “Send 250 words on synagogue defacing.” They seemed to prefer

what I came to think of as Jewish exotica rather than in-depth reporting about Jewish life in New York. I remember being surprised at how enthused the home editors were over a story I proposed on gangs in Brooklyn who were stealing streimlich (fur hats) off the heads of chasidim and selling the fur. I thought the editors would ask for a news brief, but I was wrong. “Send up to 1,000 words, possible Page 1,” the cable read, as best I remember. The JC was more than a newspaper in those days. It was the bridge that connected Jews throughout Britain. With a large and thoroughly professional staff, The JC filled its pages with deep reporting on British Jewish life and the Mideast as well as a lively opinion section and glossy supplements on everything from literature to fashion. Part of the reason for The JC’s financial as well as editorial success was that, given that

the majority of British Jews lived in the London area, the paper served both a national and local audience. The social pages were a major source of income, with people from around the country paying to publish announcements of bar mitzvahs, weddings and obituaries. Dick Jaffe was a patient and generous editor, allowing me to take on meatier stories at times: a phony “rabbi” performing interfaith marriages; UN debates on the Mideast conflict; a bitter battle between Jewish and other minority groups over a major Queens housing project. I enjoyed most of the assignments, but I sometimes lacked the grit required for a hardened reporter. When a young Jewish man hung himself in Central Park after receiving a draft notice that would have sent him to Vietnam, I was assigned to visit the shiva house in Brooklyn and interview family members. But I

Zionism Means Feeling Safe at Home

ionism is embedded in Jewish memory; in prayers uttered daily for 2,000 years for the rebuilding of Jerusalem; and in a religious calendar that follows the agricultural cycle not of where Jews live today but of the land from which they were exiled. The purpose of the Jewish national liberation movement is to satisfy the universal human instinct to go home. We o b s e r v e o u r h o m e c o m i n g o n Yo m Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, on the fifth of Iyar, which fell this year on April 29. And like every holiday, milestone, custom, Rhoda Smolow is national president of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America.

personal or cultural ritual in these challenging times, we view this recurring occasion in a new light. What stands out for me is the “home” in homeland. D u r i n g m y f a m i l y ’s Zoom seder three weeks ago, I was struck by the account of the 10th plague, when God passed over the Jewish dwellings in Egypt — their door frames smeared with lamb’s blood — and spared families from the death of their first born. I realized that divine protection then was like the “new normal” of social distancing: conditioned on our staying home. In every land in which our forebears lived they had homes that provided shelter from many ills, but not from persecution. What liberated Zionism from the pages

Rhoda Smolow From Egypt to Austria, we yearned for independence. of the prayer book and the collective memory of exile was the passion ignited in Theodor Herzl when he witnessed throngs shout-

ing “Death to the Jews” in France, a nation he considered the cradle of enlightenment. Herzl decided it was time to go home — for Jews in France, Germany and Russia, in Morocco, Egypt, Yemen and Iraq. It was also time to provide a safer home for those whose ancestors had never left the land of Israel, or who had returned over the previous two millennia. Independence allows the Jewish people not only secure family homes but also a national homeland in which to develop cultural and communal institutions that uplift the citizens of Israel, inspire the diaspora and benefit humanity. Israel has served the world as a model in fields like agriculture, conserva-

tion, immigrant absorption, self-reliance, science and technology. And I am especially proud to add medicine: Hadassah, the organization I am privileged to lead,American Zionist Medical U started building the healthmobile hospital that sailed from care foundations of the Jew-York, reaching Palestine in A ish state with two nurses1918 during the Spanish Fl in 1913. By the time Israeldemic. In its first year of ope achieved independence inthe unit also encountered trac 1948, Hadassah had a net-malaria, typhoid, cholera an work of more than 100 hos-bonic plague. A century late pitals, clinics, infant welfaredassah’s world-class medical stations and dispensariesis taking the lead in Israel in tr — most of which it turnedCovid-19 patients and in testin over to the new state, keep-also part of a wider Israeli ef ing only its flagship medicaldevelop therapies and find a va There is another way in center in Jerusalem. The coronavirus crisistoday’s conditions remind provides a window throughHadassah’s early years. Inst which we can look backoperating a medical center th clearly to Hadassah’s ori-can reach with a 10-hour flig gins. What is today the Ha-are cut off, once again sust dassah Medical Organizationour mission in a place as phy grew out of the 44-memberremote as it was a century ag

couldn’t bring myself to go. Instead, I called the house and was relieved when told the family didn’t want to talk to the press. In addition to his JC post, Dick of British Jews was also associate editor of The Jewondon area, the ish Week-American Examiner, then th a national and a small-circulation, privately owned The social pages New York paper that later evolved into ource of income, today’s Jewish Week. Thanks in part to om around the his help and encouragement, I became g to publish anassistant editor of The Jewish Week in of bar mitzvahs, 1972, and have remained in the field obituaries. ever since, still passionate about the was a patient vital role a Jewish newspaper can play editor, allowing in the life of a community. meatier stories That message is getting increased ny “rabbi” perattention these days. Speaking at a Foraith marriages; ward-sponsored webinar last week on n the Mideast the perilous state of Jewish journalism tter battle betoday, Jonathan Sarna of Brandeis Uniand other miversity said the role of Jewish media is over a major “to shape and maintain community.” He ing project. I added that Jewish media should serve of the assignas “a watchdog over the Jewish commetimes lacked munity and as a purveyor of truth. And ed for a hardwe run the risk of having neither.” When a young That’s because, like media orgahung himself nizations everywhere, community k after receivJewish newspapers have endured a ice that would steep decrease in advertising amidst to Vietnam, I an internet culture where readers, and o visit the shiva especially younger people, are used klyn and interto getting their news instantly and for members. But I free. And that was before the coronavirus cratered the national economy. Sarna said he feared the community will only realize the depth of its loss when Jewish newspapers go out of business. nt absorption, Andres Spokoiny, the president and , science andCEO of the Jewish Funders Network, nd I am espeadd medicine: e organization ged to lead,American Zionist Medical Unit, a ng the healthmobile hospital that sailed from New ons of the Jew-York, reaching Palestine in August h two nurses1918 during the Spanish Flu panhe time Israeldemic. In its first year of operation ependence inthe unit also encountered trachoma, sah had a net-malaria, typhoid, cholera and buthan 100 hos-bonic plague. A century later, Hainfant welfaredassah’s world-class medical center dispensariesis taking the lead in Israel in treating hich it turnedCovid-19 patients and in testing. It is w state, keep-also part of a wider Israeli effort to agship medicaldevelop therapies and find a vaccine. There is another way in which salem. navirus crisistoday’s conditions remind us of ndow throughHadassah’s early years. Instead of an look backoperating a medical center that we dassah’s ori-can reach with a 10-hour flight, we today the Ha-are cut off, once again sustaining al Organizationour mission in a place as physically he 44-memberremote as it was a century ago. We

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agreed. He asserted that if Jewish newspapers are no longer around to serve as “the American Jewish public square” for dialogue and debate, the result will be more extremism and an even greater divide among us. Spokoiny said part of his role today is to highlight to foundations and major donors the importance of independent Jewish newspapers in “our Jewish ecosystem,” as necessary as day schools, camps and human services. I hope our community hears these messages and sees the closure of Canada’s 60-year-old national Jewish newspaper and the drama playing out in England over The JC as serious warning signals. And time for action. The group that rescued The JC last week said it viewed the enterprise not as “a commercial venture but as a community asset.” The consortium is establishing a charitable trust to control the paper and allow it to remain “a vital pillar of communal life,” it said in a statement. The Jewish Week has made no secret of its financial crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic. It was heartening and deeply gratifying to see that more than 500 readers have responded to the paper’s appeals for support, which has helped raise much-needed funds in recent weeks. But far more is needed to ensure the survival and sustainability of the newspaper serving the largest Jewish community in the world. As American journalism has seen the business model collapse and give way to a philanthropic model, it is time for our communal leaders — foundations, federations and major donors — to step up, or face a community missing the bridge that can span our increasingly deep divisions. ■

give thanks for the technology that allows us to connect virtually to our homeland and projects. In country after country, in century after century, the Jewish people were subjected to discrimination, hatred, forced conversion, expulsion and death. Anti-Semitism is a disease — an anti-social pandemic — that has crested and waned but never disappeared. Democracy and education are proven factors in mitigating the spread and virulence, but, like ventilators and PPE’s today, there is more demand than supply. The most effective strategy in allowing the Jewish people to control their own destiny is Israel’s independence. Especially in these difficult times, that’s something worth celebrating. ■

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THE ARTS Cooking Up a Main Course of Coexistence In ‘Abe,’ a 12-year-old wannabe chef bridges an Israeli-Palestinian family’s divide. Noah Schnapp, as Abe, and Seu Jorge as Chico, his street chef mentor.

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atherings in one Brooklyn Israeli-Palestinian family often end in political jabs that sometimes lead to harsh words. But the Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian-Muslim grandparents keep coming back to the table, that is, the dinner table. “Abe” is a new film about the 12-year-old son of an Israeli-American mother and Palestinian-American father; one side of the family calls him Avraham or Avi, and the other side calls him Ibrahim, but he prefers Abe. Caught in the crossfire, Abe SolomonOdeh loves food, and the only FILM thing he loves more is cooking; he hopes to finally bring together the extended family he loves, in peace, over a great meal. Conceived by Brazilian director Fernando Grostein Andrade, the coming-of-age film was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival. It was beautifully shot in Brooklyn by Italian cinematographer Blasco Giuratois (“Cinema Paradiso”). Noah Schnapp (“Stranger Things”), now 15, shines as the very likeable Abe, and Brazilian musician, songwriter and actor Seu Jorge (“City of God”) is cool and charismatic as Chico, the street chef who mentors Abe without his family’s knowledge. Chico, whose popular outdoor pop-up restaurant near the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge specializes in fusion cooking, believes that “mixing flavors can bring people together.” In a telephone interview, Andrade explains the film was very much inspired by his own life. His maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland, who fled persecution in Europe in the 1930s, met in Uruguay, moved to Argentina and then “Abe” is available on demand and on digital.

moved to Brazil. His father’s family was Catholic. Andrade’s father died when he was 10, but before his death encouraged his son to become a bar mitzvah, which he did. He grew up close to both sets of grandparents and also to his very diverse extended families from the former spouses of both of his parents. He has warm memories of big holiday meals together, when his Jewish grandmother brought her varenikes, or Ukrainian dumplings. Andrade had been thinking about doing a film on identity for the past 13 years, since his nephew Joachim was born, also in a family of mixed religion. Coincidentally, he finished editing the film on the day of the boy’s bar mitzvah. Andrade grew up and continues to identify as a Jewish man, although at many points in his life was made to feel marginalized. He says that he turned to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict as a setting for this film out of a sense of responsibility. “You can call me naïve,” he says. “I dream about peace.” As part of his research, he and the production designer spent a month in Israel, meeting with Israelis and Palestinians, sometimes together, from different backgrounds, and with many in the food business. (In fact, he is now completing a documentary, “Flavors,” about seeing the Middle East conflict through the lens of food.) There’s great food scenery in “Abe.” Viewers will enjoy Abe’s bold creativity in his family’s kitchen and then the choreography of slicing, simmering and tasting in a hectic restaurant kitchen

— with Brazilian samba in the background — when Abe convinces Chico to let him work there. While his parents think he is at summer day camp, Abe washes pots and hauls garbage before Chico begins to teach him about cooking. As for Abe’s early culinary efforts — a ramen taco he brings from home — Chico says, “You’re mixing fusion with confusion.” Veteran actor Marc Margolis is kind and loving as the Jewish grandfather, even as he is at odds with his daughter’s in-laws. There’s talk of

English-speaking film. He collaborated with two Palestinian-American screenwriters, Lameece Issaq and Jacob Kader, who co-created the play “Food and Fadwa,” which premiered at New York Theater Workshop. Andrade worked very closely with them on the script, “to be honest to the Jewish people and the Palestinians, so that they could each hear the other’s point of view. We were dreaming what most people think impossible.” Originally from Sao Paolo, Andrade now lives in Los Angeles. While in Brazil, he ran a theater group for inmates in a maximum-security penitentiary, and later cast some of the people he worked with in his films and television series. He hopes to get involved in a similar project in the U.S. “In a penitentiary, you think you are going there to help, but after a while you realize that the people there are helping you — to broaden your vision, to understand other people’s pain. We helped them gain self-esteem and learn empathy, emotional tools they would need to start a new life.” Brooklyn was the last place that

Fusion cooking: Abe brings both sides of the family together over a meal. Abe’s bar mitzvah, fasting for Ramadan, drinking wine for kiddush in one home and abstaining in the other. After some drama and comedy, more failed dinners where attempts are made to “take politics off the table,” there are final scenes that hint at hope, delicious food and vibrant views of a crowded Brooklyn park that now seems a relic of the distant past. This is the debut narrative feature film for Andrade, who has made awardwinning documentaries and television series on social issues, and it is his first

Andrade traveled with his late father, when he was a boy younger than Abe. For this Brazilian, the film is a tribute to New York’s diversity. Referring to the current pandemic, he says, “We are in a moment when we need to rethink ourselves. The birds here in L.A. are singing in a way that they’ve never sung before. The skies are clear in a way they haven’t been before. We’re not the same people. We have an opportunity to think about peace and empathy, to see life through others’ eyes.”

ARTS GUIDE

‘ETGAR KERET: BASED ON A TRUE STORY’ A virtual screening of “Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story,” the hybrid documentary film investigating why storytelling is an essential aspect of the wildly popular Israeli author’s life, with a live, virtual Q&A featuring Keret and guests. — The film will be available for streaming Wednesday, April 29, 7 p.m.-Thursday, April 30, 7 p.m.; the Q+A will take place on Thursday, April 30, 2 p.m., Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, eventbrite.com/e/ virtual-screening-etgar-keretbased-on-a-true-story-tickets-103369053622. $5.

VIRTUAL UNPACKING THE BOOK: JEWISH WRITERS IN CONVERSATION A Zoom conversation with Esther Safran Foer (“I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust 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/unpackingthe-book-4302020. Free.

BOB DYLAN: ‘OH, MERCY’ The iconic 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 Whitman-esque title “I Contain Multitudes” (which actually name-checks 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. — Thursday, April 30, 7:15-9 p.m., 92Y, 92y. org/class/bob-dylan-ohmercy. $50.

‘CRESCENDO’ Loosely inspired by Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, this feature film directed by the Academy Award-nominated Dror Zahavi focuses on worldfamous conductor Eduard Sporck (Peter Simonischek, “Toni Erdmann”), who creates an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra. But the young musicians from both sides are far from able to form a team, forming two parties that deeply mistrust each other, both on and off stage. — Opening May 1 at virtual theaters nationwide, menemshafilms.com/ crescendo.

PAUSE/PLAY — SHABBATON ATZMAUT EDITION Israel is 72 years young so celebrate the Jewish state’s birthday and appreciate its diverse flavors and cultures with online family-friendly activities including Israeli dancing and music, Israeli arts and crafts, and many more sophisticated, tasty and enriching elements of Israel. — Saturday, May 2, 3-6 p.m., Virtual LBA Arts + Culture, 14streety.org/ virtual-14y/virtual-artsculture/, Facebook: https://bit. ly/2KJjXJ7. Free.

BANG ON A CAN MARATHON Six hours of live-streaming adventurous music, with new works commissioned especially for the day, played by some of the most renowned performers in new classical music. Join composers Meredith Monk, cellist Maya Beiser, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Adams, Martin Bresnick and others for 26 live performances from the musicians’ homes. — Sunday, May 3, 3-9 p.m., marathon2020. bangonacan.org. Consider purchasing a ticket! $10, $20, $50, whatever you can spare. To commission a new piece, $1,500 does the trick.

ZALMAN MLOTEK AND MATTHEW LAZAR IN CONVERSATION Zalmen Mlotek, artistic director of the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene will join Maestro Matthew Lazar,

rovision Song Contest and the current trends of world music, blending the diverse cultures that make up the Israeli nation. — Sunday, May 3, 5-5:45 p.m., jccmanhattan.org/programs/virtual-program-yomhaatzmaut-story-israel-song. Free.

YIDDISH MAY DAY CONCERT While the world observes International Workers Day, also known as May Day, Workers Circle will present a virtual, sing-along concert with all-star Yiddish singers and klezmer musicians from around the world, including Daniel Kahn (Germany), Theresa Tova (Canada), Svetlana Kundish and Patrick Farrell (Germany), Timur Fishel (Estonia), Psoy Korolenko (New Jersey), Cindy Paley (California) and Sarah Gordon (Brooklyn) among others. Introductions will be made in Yiddish, with English writ-

Vocalist Svetlana Kundish and accordionist Patrick Farrell are part of a Yiddish May Day concert on Sunday, May 3. PAT T YSOU N DS.COM founder and director of the Zamir Choral Foundation, in a conversation via Zoom. The two will discuss music in challenging times. — Sunday, May 4, 4 p.m., The Zamir Choral Foundation, us02web. zoom.us/meeting/register/ tZAucOmuqDIqGtGXoLrZIATPIPrs43fTeVqF. Free.

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ten translations. — Sunday, May 3, 12-1 p.m., https://bit. ly/2SfGiCd. Free, but those who are able are encouraged to make a contribution to help defend and protect the rights of frontline workers during the Covid-19 pandemic at circle. org/donate/makeagift/.

YOM HA’ATZMAUT — THE STORY OF ISRAEL: IN SONG

‘INVISIBLE YEARS: OPENING THE HOLOCAUST DRAWER’

From “Jerusalem of Gold” to the music of Idan Raichel, celebrate songs that tell the story of Israel. This MusicTalks event starts with music from the foundation of Israel, through the era of the popular army bands and the rise of Mizrahi music, to such phenomena as the Eu-

The launch of Daphne Geismar’s new book, an intimate portrait of a Jewish family living in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. As Geismar’s relatives were slowly restricted from public life and sensing the murderous consequences of deportation,

A conspiracy theory poster featured in Andrew Goldberg’s documentary “Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations,” premiering May 26 on PBS. U.S. HOLOC AU ST M EMOR IAL M U SEU M they decided to separate and go into hiding. Through letters, diaries and interviews, Geismar presents the story of nine family members in their own words, alongside a trove of photographs and artifacts. Join the Zoom webinar with the author in conversation with Robert Jan van Pelt, chief curator of the exhibition “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.” — Monday, May 4, 2 p.m., Museum of Jewish Heritage, mjhnyc.org/events/ invisible-years-opening-theholocaust-drawer-booklaunch-and-discussion/. Free.

‘HEADING HOME: THE TALE OF TEAM ISRAEL’ This documentary charts the underdog journey of Israel’s national baseball team competing for the first time in the World Baseball Classic. Its lineup included several Jewish American Major League players — Ike Davis, Josh Zeid and ex-Braves catcher Ryan Lavarnway — most with a tenuous relationship to Judaism, let alone ever having set foot in Israel. — Available May 5 on DVD and Blu-ray (now available on Digital HD and Videoon-Demand), menemshafilms. com/heading-home.

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RADIO THEATER Vintage radio plays from the Golden Age of WEVD Yiddish Radio, featuring two episodes from “A Velt Mit Veltelekh” by Nahum Stutchkoff in Yiddish with English translation subtitles. — Wednesday, May 6, 7:30 p.m., Folksbiene LIVE!, nytf.org/live/.

VIRAL: ANTISEMITISM IN FOUR MUTATIONS Filmmaker Andrew Goldberg explores anti-Semitism’s infectious behavior as he travels through four countries to speak with victims, witnesses and anti-Semites as well as Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Fareed Zakaria, George Will and Deborah Lipstadt. The film spotlights the American farright, the English far-left, the Hungarian prime minister’s campaign against Jewish philanthropist George Soros and violence against Jews in France. — Premieres Tuesday, May 26, 9 p.m., on PBS.

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hree of the most important I shudder to think of how this virulent words in the Torah are found in disease will manifest itself at the next this week’s parasha: “V’ahavta sharp economic downturn, which may l’raiacha komocha” — “Love your be now or coming soon. How the Jewfellow as yourself” [Leviticus 19:18]. ish community should react to these Rabbi Akiva said that this is the Klal despicable manifestations has been Gadol — a fundamental principle of a subject of much debate within our the Torah. Hillel a century earlier said community. that “what is hateful to you, do not do Internecine strife has been a plague to your neighbor; that is the whole Toamong Jews throughout our history. rah, the rest is commentary” [Talmud This year, not only our own people Shabbat 31A]. The Gospels and the but the entire world has been stricken Fred Ehrman Koran adopted this principle as their with another plague, the coronavirus. own, indicating its importance in world We all need protection from the forces ‘Tolerance has civilization. that rain death and disease among us become a rare Too often overlooked is that, almost all. The pandemic will end; but anticommodity.’ identically, the three words are repeated Semitism has been a more long-lasting only 16 verses later. When speaking of problem. the Ger, the stranger, the proselyte, it Some years ago I read a Midrash says, “V’ahavta lo komocha,” [Lev. 19:34], “Love him that I had to reread three times to make sure I was not as yourself.” In describing the object of this love, in the misinterpreting the words: “Rabbi Elazar Hakapar says: ‘Peace is so important, that even if the Jews practice Avodah Zara (idolatry), but do it in one ChaShabbat Acharai Mot/Kedoshim burah (one fellowship), the attribute of strict justice (Midat Hadin) will not harm them’” [Midrash Tanfirst instance he is described as your fellow, your neigh- chuma Parshat Tzav 7:1]. bor, your friend. As to the Ger, he is just a “him.” Why? Idolatry is one of the three cardinal sins that are a It is much easier to love someone who is like yourself, capital crime, but to God peace among His people is someone who thinks like you and is easily compatible a priority, a mighty shield to protect them from seriwith your own self. The stranger who may be very dif- ous harm. ferent could present a challenge. But the Torah equates About three years ago after reading that amazthe two when it comes to how we are commanded to ing Midrash and seeing the developing cancer of relate to one another. Jew hatred, a plan was formulated: Operation AchToday, 75 years after the end of the Holocaust, dut (Unity), with the goal of engendering a feelanti-Semitism is once again rearing its ugly head. ing of oneness among all Jews, with togetherness Acts of violence have become more commonplace. despite our differences. Its brochure states on the cover page the following: “Achdut is civility, not Fred Ehrman is a retired investment adviser and security agreement; diversity, sameness; variety, not unianalyst. He has held leadership positions in several Jewish formity; color, not monochrome; wants to change organizations. He is in his fourth cycle of Daf Yomi. attitudes, not minds; wants to stop the fighting, not

stop the disagreement.” The new wrinkle here is that whether we admit it or not, relationships among others, especially in recent years, have gotten frayed not just at the edges but through the whole cloth. Tolerance and respect for another’s viewpoint has become a rare commodity. Asking each of us to love the other, the Klal Gadol, has become a difficult task. The goal is to bring back civility and affection among all Jews despite our differences. One thing we can do as a start is beginning the day with a pledge introduced by the Arizal (Isaac Luria Ashkenazi, 1534-1572): “I hereby take upon myself the positive commandment of ‘love your fellow as yourself’ (“Haraini mekabel alai mitzvat asai shel v’Ahavta l’raiacha kamocha”). For those who pray every morning, it should be said at the very beginning of the service. There are some prayer books that already contain these words. For those who do not have a fixed prayer schedule, this pledge can begin his/her day. Frankly, this goal is a high mountain to climb. But I truly believe that if we can get Operation Achdut started, the Jewish people the world over will have added a strong layer of Divine Protection for our people and an example for everyone else to emulate. It is something we will need in the weeks, months and years ahead. Rabbi Akiva knew whereof he spoke; the rest is commentary. ■

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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 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 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 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 ATLANTIC FAIR OAKS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/18/20. 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 Renee Campanile, 22 Plymouth Road, East Rockaway, NY 11518. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 BGMA CONSULTING AND MANAGEMENT LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 1/29/20. 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 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 Boats Against The Current LLC. Articles of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/23/20. 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 Humes & Wagner, LLP, 147 Forest Avenue, Locust Valley, NY 11560. Purpose: General. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 BOYZ CAPITAL LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/2/2020. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC5/ whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 19 Pine Rd., Valhalla, NY 10595, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

C.MarksCo, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/24/2020. Office in Westcheter Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 22 Rose Ln., Rye Brook, NY 10573, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 CAT ASSOCIATES LLC Articles of Org. 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 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 CUSTOM GLASSWORKS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/15/2020. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 5 Penn Plaza, 23rd Fl., NY, NY 10001, which is also the principal buisness location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 DID YOU SEE IT, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/2/2020. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to PO Box 187, Jefferson Valley, NY 10535. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Principal business location: 819 Mahopac St., Jefferson Valley, NY 10535. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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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

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

Notice of Form. of 413 W. 145 LLC. Arts. Of Org filed with SSNY on 1/23/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in NJ on 12/9/16. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 810 Seventh Ave., NY, NY, 10019. Arts. of Org. filed with NJ SOS. PO Box 450, Trenton, NJ 08646. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

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

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

Notice of Form. of 6H Fee Owner LLC. Arts. Of Org filed with SSNY on 12/31/19. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 12/23/19. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 120 West 45th St., NY, NY, 10036. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

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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 JC ELITE MAINTENANCE LLC App. for Auth. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/19/2020. LLC was organized in DE on 3/18/2020. Office in Nassau Co. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY to mail process to 601 E. Bay Dr., Long Beach, NY 11561. Required office at 614 N. Dupont Hwy., Ste. 210, 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 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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

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 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 MARVIN SILVA TATTOO 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, 53 Orchard Beach Boulevard, Port Washington, NY 11050. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 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 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

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

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

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

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 UWSLC LLC. Arts. Of Org filed with SSNY on 5/24/11. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 5/17/11. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 52 Vanderbilt Ave., NY, NY, 10017. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 Notice of Form. of VALHALLA5, LLC. Arts. Of Org filed with SSNY on 2/24/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 1/31/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 120 Wall St., NY, NY, 10005. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 1265 Richmond LLC. Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/3/20. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1265 Richmond Ave., Staten Island, NY, 10314. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 Notice of Formation of 1373 GREENE LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/16/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 5014 16TH Avenue, Suite 9, Brooklyn, New York, 11204. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 Notice of formation of 402 MAIN STREET MANAGEMENT COMPANY LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/15/20. Office in Westchester 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, 402 Main St, Ste 6 Armonk, NY, 10504. Purpose: Any lawful purpose JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 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 A & R 57 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/2/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 643 57th St., Brooklyn, NY, 11220. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

Notice of Formation of 9 ADAMS STREET REALTY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/17/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Farrell Fritz, P.C., Attn: Damian J. Racanelli, 400 RXR Plaza, Uniondale, NY 11556. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 Notice of Formation of ACCOUNT DISTRIBUTION GROUP, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/18/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2804 East 19th Street 3f, Brooklyn, New York, 11235. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

Notice of Formation of DJTOD RICCARDI LLC. Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/3/20. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 3 Foxholm St., Staten Island, NY, 10306. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 ATHLETES HOSPITALITY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/21/20. Office location: Westchester County. Princ. office of LLC: 6 Fairview Ct., Cross River, NY 10518. 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 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

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 Ava Realty NJ, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/5/20. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 652 Huguenot Ave., Staten Island, NY, 10312. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

Notice of Formation of GM Of Liberty Realty LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/9/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 26 Court St., Brooklyn, NY, 11242. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

Notice of Formation of Beautiful Holdings LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/3/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1850 81St St., Brooklyn, NY, 11214. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

Notice of Formation of Great Fan Realty LLC. Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/25/19. Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 145 Huguetnot St, New Rochelle, NY, 10801. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

Notice of Formation of Boconcept Westchester NY, 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 10300 Howe Ln., Leawood, KS, 66206. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

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 CAS Design Associates LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/25/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 535 Madison Ave., NY, NY, 10022. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 Notice of Formation of CREDIT POINT DEBT RECOVERY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/18/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2804 East 19th Street 3f, Brooklyn, New York, 11235. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 Formation of DIAMOND US BUILDING LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/16/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 942 41ST STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11219. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Paramount Capital Advisory 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: Ben Haghani, 175 Great Neck Rd., Ste. 402, Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

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 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 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 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 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 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

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 TKO VISION HOLDINGS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/02/20. Office location: Westchester County. Princ. office of LLC: 20 Lounsbury Dr., Baldwin Place, NY 10505. 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 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 Y & C 668 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/28/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 720 57TH ST #4D, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11220. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

Notice of formation of ZEN HEART LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/15/20. Office in Nassau 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, 139 Fairview Blvd Hempstead, NY 11550. Purpose: Any lawful purpose JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 Notice of Qual. of 90MC Holdings, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 04/02/2020.Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 12/21/2018. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 444 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor New York, New York, 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 Notice of Qual. of AQUINNAH/HOWJO LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 03/09/20. Office location: Westchester. LLC formed in DE on 12/26/19. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 59 Crescent Lane Sudbury, Massachusetts, 01776. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 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 LESOYA, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/16/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 12/27/2017. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to275 Seventh Ave, 7th fl, New York, New York, 10011. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 Qual. of ROOSEVELT MEZZ LENDER LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/14/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 4/9/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O S3 Capital Partners, 535 Madison Ave,19th Floor, New York, New York, 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

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 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

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

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

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 Qualification of CES SPACKENKILL SOLAR, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/22/20. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/17/20. Princ. office of LLC: 100 Summit Lake Dr., Ste. 210, Valhalla, NY 10595. 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. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 Qualification of DANT REALTY 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 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 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 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 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 SNL YONKERS, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/16/20. Office location: Nassau County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/08/18. Princ. office of LLC: 3333 New Hyde Park Rd., Ste. 200, Lake Success, NY 11042. 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. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St.-Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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

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 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 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 NY BIOTEK, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/20/20. 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, 949 Willowbrook Road, Staten Island, NY 10314. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 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

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OZKARE, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY of State (SSNY) 3/30/2020. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporate Service Bureau Inc., 283 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12206, which is also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

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PENTHOUSE SAFETY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/20/20. 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 Daniel Ostrower, Penthouse Safety LLC, 225 Buffalo Avenue, Freeport, NY 11520. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 PMT REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/14/04. Latest date to dissolve: 01/30/2059. 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 James A. Cartelli, Esq., 81 Main Street, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 QUBIT 7A, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/10/2020. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 12 East 88th St., Apt 7A, NY, NY 10128, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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 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

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 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 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 SOHO INCUBATOR NY LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/20/2020. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 51 Wooster St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 SOHO PUBLISHING NY LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/20/2020. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 51 Wooster St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 SOHO RECORDS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/20/2020. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 51 Wooster St, 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 SOUNDVIEW PW LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/11/20. Office in Nassau Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Ripco Real Estate, Attn: Mark Kaplan, 100 Jerciho Quadrangle, Ste. 120, Jericho, NY 11753. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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

RUELILY LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/31/2020. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 31 West 34th St., NY, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

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

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

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

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

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

Te Nona Kafe LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/12/2020. Off. Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY desig. As agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1209 Bay St., Staten Island, NY 10305. General Purposes. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 THE GRACIOUS HOME BY FRANCINE VAL, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/08/20. 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 Francine Ingrassia, 115 Weyford Terrace, Garden City, NY 11530. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5 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

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

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 THE QUAD GODS, 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, 34 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 200, Lynbrook, NY 11563. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/1,8,15,22,29 6/5

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what does it matter when my appointments have all been cancelled? Perhaps this lost sense of time also accounts for my new investment in Omer-counting. The process provides structure and clarity. But mostly, there is something reassuring in its defined Every year, I drop the ball before length — a fixed 49 days — as we face we even start counting on the second a quarantine of uncertain duration. Not night of Passover. But my husband, de- that I’m kvetching. We have a Torah obtermined to see the Omer through to ligation to preserve life above all. Better the end, usually counts in synagogue safe indoors than sorry. If we’ve perhaps gotten some sleep after the evening prayer service. With and are in a state of mind the building shuttered for to look for them, there are six weeks already, he has insights and lessons to take been reciting the blessing away from this experiin our den instead, where ence, especially about our he is isolating because need to loosen the control of his ongoing Covid-19 we think we have on the exposure as a physician. course of our lives. But the Days into the current worry, the exhaustion and Omer cycle, this floor plan the many emotions runsuddenly made me want to Merri Ukraincik ning amok at full intensity share in his counting. Now I call down to him nightly, “Have you may make it impossible for us to see Omered?” I’m grateful when I keep him them right now. Each of us is struggling, and managfrom forgetting. It is striking to me that I remember ing, in our own way. Our other chalthe Omer at all, when it could well take lenges do not brake or even slow down me a full minute to recall the current for a public health crisis. Rather, it is on day of the week, unless it is the date of us to figure out how they will coexist a hard-won food delivery or Shabbat. with the corollaries of a pandemic — Also, I misplaced my calendar, hav- the close quarters and disruption in rouing set it aside before Passover, though tine, and our anxieties about our jobs,

Keeping Count — of the Omer and the Corona Lockdown

t first glance, life seems to be unfolding as it normally does this time of year. The seder plate is back in the storage cabinet, the tulips are in bloom and we’ve swapped boxes of matzah for yeasty bagels by the dozen. But really nothing is normal in this Twilight Zone of corona lockdown, not even the annual Counting of the Omer. First Person Each night for seven weeks, we recite a blessing and a simple formula — for example, Today is nine days, which is one week and two days of the Omer — to sanctify the passage of time between Passover and Shavuot. The trajectory between the two holidays, like our biblical wandering in the desert, gives us the chance to prepare ourselves spiritually for the gift of receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai. Merri Ukraincik, a regular contributor, lives in Edison, N.J., and is a columnist for the New Jersey Jewish News. Follow her at merriukraincik.com

finances and very lives. I am usually glass half-full, and there are indeed moments that are easy, teeming with gratitude, laughter and memories in the making. But there are others that are rougher for our hearts to bear. It is then that I let The Shirelles croon in my head, “Mama said there will be days like this.” Indeed, both the upbeat, hopeful ones and those that make us feel we cannot hold out a minute longer. The final chapter of the Torah describes a heart-wrenching scene that keeps replaying in my mind. God tells Moses, the beloved prophet who led us out from Egypt, that he may not enter the Land of Israel with his people. Moses pleads with Him — Let me cross. Let me see it. But his prayer is only partially answered when God offers him a panoramic view of the Promised Land from the distance of the mountain. As I gaze out my window, Moses’ longing resonates. For now, I can only wonder when we will re-enter our world — picking up our lives, seeing family and friends, and returning to work, school and shul. On the day I write this, it has been 44 days, which is six weeks and two days of my family’s corona lockdown. But this is a marathon, not a sprint, and I know that the main thing — the only thing — is to make it safely across. ■

said. “As the child of refugees who fled Nazi Germany and the grandchild of family members murdered in the Holocaust, she understands the role of Jewish leadership during these uncertain times and the unique importance of the Jewish State of Israel in securing our survival.” But the ZOA’s Klein, who prides himself on confronting Israeli leaders over actions he feels endanger Israel and chides other Jewish officials for not following his lead, claimed Lob lacked experience with Israel and was “unknown” to the Jewish communal leadership. But most of his criticisms were of HIAS, which he says allies itself with critics of Israel and helps resettle Muslims here, thus making Jews in America less safe. Picking up Klein’s charge were other right-wing groups and columnists. d day camps Lob’s defenders note that HIAS works to protect n as no finalthe world’s most vulnerable people, and that, in isions have yetfact, all recent terror attacks against Jewish Amerin made regard-cans have been carried out by native-born Amerithis summer’scans, including the deadly Tree of Life shooting in mping season. Pittsburgh whose perpetrator said he was motivated “It’s evidentby hatred of HIAS. hortfalls,” said The rancor between Klein and HIAS erupted in 2018 with a complaint filed by HIAS against the n also allocatedZOA, which accused the group of violating Presidents unds to supportConference rules by making ad hominem attacks. The for small busi-complaint earned the ZOA a rare reprimand. s coordinating Klein’s campaign against Lob has unleashed a countervailing burst of criticism of the ZOA leader. And the resulting compromise sparked furious reactions from Jewish women leaders and from those on the left who see the Presidents Conference as overly cowed by the right wing. Lob would be only the third female chair in the umbrella group’s nearly 65-year history, and the Presidents Conference has been slammed on social media for group photos that are exclusively male. une 1, as origi- On Twitter, Rabbi Jill Jacobs, who leads T’ruah, a in April 2021.rabbinical human rights advocacy group that is not a cess, the mem-member of the Presidents Conference, said the decit chair, Arthursion “demonstrates that [the Presidents Conference] is held hostage by a small and loud group of right-wing elect, althoughextremists who do not at all represent the overwhelmffort “to forgeing views of the American Jewish community.” as a disappoint- Some 70 Jewish students at top universities her defenders,wrote to the Presidents Conference this weekend n to the right. ve to vote for a loud and harmproud to support id Sheila Katz, M A N H A T T A N en chairwoman. e need now.” d a member of Private e who recently Room AS. Her selecU O rom across the

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the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic was a factor behind the proposed change. “Given the extraordinary time in which we are living with the uncertainty caused by COVID-19 and its ramifications, this strategy is particularly relevant and impactful,” the statement said. But others attributed the decision to delay Lob’s term to the pressure campaign from Klein’s group, which spurred not just like-minded right-wing organizations to oppose Lob, but center-right groups to urge the Presidents Conference leadership to consider a compromise. Lob’s defenders say the pandemic frustrated efforts to push back against Klein’s initiative. Lob was unable to personally meet with the leaders of the groups to assuage concerns. She will also forgo the traditional immediate inaugural trip to Israel post-election. That trip would have provided photo-ops of Lob with Israel’s right-wing government and gone some way to tamp down criticism of her Israel credentials. The nomination fight comes as the Presidents

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he injection of immigration politics into Presidents Conference deliberations underscores the degree to which the left-right divide in Jewish communal affairs has increasingly expanded beyond narrow Israel matters to reflect the country’s wider political discord. The group mostly lobbies the U.S. government’s executive branch. HIAS has clashed repeatedly with the current administration on its immigration policy, Lob’s critics pointed out, and has been lead plaintiff in at least two lawsuits against the administration. One possible result of the delay in Lob becoming board chair is that Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee who is much more sympathetic to HIAS’ immigration posture, may be president when she takes over. The White House, according to a Jewish organizational source, did not object to Lob as the conference chairwoman as long as immigration was not on the agenda — an easy ask, considering the Presidents Conference does not deal with domestic issues. A Trump administration official who deals with the Jewish community did not respond to requests for comment. The vote leaves the Presidents Conference openly divided at a crucial moment. Lob has been forced into a defensive position, emphasizing in a letter to the group’s constituents her bona fides as the daughter of German refugees and her embrace of mainstream pro-Israel positions, including rejecting the boycott Israel movement as “reprehensible” and calling anti-Zionism “a modern form of Jew-hatred.” Klein in an interview prior to the vote said the compromise was “somewhat positive, but minimal” because Lob’s election, once it occurs, appears irreversible, even if it is delayed for a year. One of Klein’s complaints was that Lob appeared to be uninvolved in Israel issues. But he said the leadership transition could stave off his criticism. “We do have almost a year to get to know her and see if she can learn more,” Klein said. ■

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