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Battling Covid: Innovation and Uncertainty

Remembering the ‘Architect of Modern Orthodoxy’

JTS Names First Woman as Chancellor

Rabbi Norman Lamm

Shuly Rubin Schwartz

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Outrage from Minneapolis to Midtown Manhattan Jews of color respond to the George Floyd protests. Page 9 Editor’s Column: History calls. Trump lets it ring. Page 17 A Minneapolis rabbi’s change of heart. Page 18

A Backlog of Burials For the Indigent Dead

Hebrew Free Burial Association, under siege, braces for a second wave. Stewart Ain Staff Writer

ike all relatives and friends who come to Mount Richmond Cemetery in Staten Island during the coronavirus pandemic for the burial of a loved one or friend, Michael Tokar was asked to wait. He sat in his car until his father’s body could be brought to the site by four workers and then placed in a grave

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and covered with dirt by a machine. But after a few minutes, Rabbi Shmuel Plafker walked up to Tokar’s car and told him the burial of his father, David, 92, would not happen that day. “The hospital was so overwhelmed and when the funeral director came to pick up the body, it couldn’t be located,” explained Rabbi Plafker, who officiates at all burials at Mount Richmond Cemetery.

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uesday, March 3, was the day the American Jewish community began to confront the immediate threat of the deadly coronavirus. It was the last day of the annual AIPAC national policy conference in Washington, attended by more than 18,000 proIsrael Americans from around the country. Mark Charendoff, president of the Maimonides Fund, was on his way home to New Jersey from the conference when Lisa Eisen of the Charles he received a call and Lynn Schusterman from his daughter, Family Foundation. a student at SAR High School in Riverdale. She told him that the

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Food as Gratitude for Health Workers

tacy Rotner, an attorney by training who has spent a decade heading the philanthropy and corporate citizenship arm of a prominent Manhattan law firm, has proved during the last two months that she is a better fundraiser than prognosticator. As she watched the TV reports of overtaxed frontline medical personnel here in early April as the coronavirus pandemic spread and the number of hospitalizations grew, Rotner decided she wanted to help. She called a friend, Dr. David Kessler, a pediatric emergency room physician at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center who was recruited to deal with Covid-19 patients. “Would sending meals help?” she asked. Yes, he said — since hospital cafeterias and many local restaurants were closed, doctors and nurses working extended shifts had few food options. Finding no current organization to her liking, Rotner used her legal and administrative background to raise money for meals for doctors and nurses, the frontline healthcare workers in intensive care units and emergency rooms. GratiFoodNYC.org (“Sending Gratitude through Food”), a grassroots initiative, was born. Rotner thought she would raise, through Facebook, $6,000 to provide 70 meals at three local hospitals. Instead, she raised, $65,000 for 6,000 meals at a dozen medical centers, purchasing meals from several local restaurants and caterers. “I’m a doer,” says Rotner, whose altruistic interest grew out of an eight-month pro-bono externship in

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which she participated while practicing as an associate in her law firm’s (Sidley Austin LLP) investment management group in 2009. “I was raised with a strong sense of tzedakah.” A Westchester native, she lives on Manhattan’s East Side and is an active member of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun. With her original goal well surpassed and with coronavirus hospitalizations here decreasing, she has turned her attention to the wider crisis of food insecurity in New York City. With an initial goal of $100,000, which has grown to $1 million, she is raising money on behalf of New York Common Pantry (nycommonpantry.org), a nonprofit that includes a soup kitchen, two food pantries in East Harlem and the South Bronx and more than 100 food distribution locations. While organizing and running GratiFoodNYC from her apartment, “I was basically working two full-time jobs,” Rotner says. With whatever free time she had left, Rotner, a world traveler, thought she would learn Italian online. She took one lesson. Then GratiFoodNYC took up her time. “I didn’t get to learn Italian.” Steve Lipman

Tel Aviv Artists Reclaim a City Under Quarantine

hen the coronavirus arrived in Tel Aviv, sending everyone to shelter at home, curator Dafna Kron went outside to look for pandemic-related art on the empty streets of the city. “Everything went virtual,” said Kron. “But whenever I was outside, I was looking for artistic signs that would offer some comfort. All I could

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find were the handwritten signs on the front doors of shops and cafes that were like love letters to their customers.”

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In response Kron, created “Exit Strategies,” a citywide interdisciplinary exhibit of installations, video art, sound and light works, created by 40 artists; it ran for two days last week. The works varied widely. A light installation by Daniel Landau was placed on one of Tel Aviv’s best-known cultural institutions, the shuttered Habima Theater. Four artists, Yossi Mar Chaim, Shimon Levi, Yuval Maskin and Nomi Yoeli, performed a ceremony, “Older People with Underlying Conditions,” to banish the pandemic in Ginat Duvnov. Video art by Shahar Kramer took over the dark screens in the empty Tel Aviv Cinematheque square. There was an online musical session online from Zeev Tane and the “I’ve Had Enough” band, as well as a rowboat on the Yarkon River for couples who

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his upstate New York resort’s lake, bowling alleys and cabins were the setting for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”’s Catskills summer retreat. Now it can be yours for a mere $6 million. The Scott’s Family Resort in upstate Deposit, which has been operating for 150 years, is on the market. The owners had announced in a January Facebook post that they were forced to close “due to circumstances beyond our control.” The resort had become too expensive to keep up, according to The Journal News website lohud.com. “This whole coronavirus thing has brought everything to a screeching halt,” Patty Scott Holdrege, a daughter of the current owners, told lohud. “I’m sad — this is all I’ve ever done.” The resort had been in operation since 1869 but faced declining business in recent years. The property was put up for sale in 2018 but managed to stave off closure after the episodes of “Mrs. Maisel” aired. The creators of the Emmy-winning Amazon Prime comedy chose the resort for its décor, which had remained relatively unchanged since the 1950s, when the show is set. The era was the heyday of the Borscht Belt, when New Yorkers would stream out of the city for summers in the Catskill Mountains’ Jewish resorts and bungalow colonies. Shira Hanau/JTA survived the coronavirus together. Cartoonist Ilana Zafran made chalk drawings of animals all along Haim and Elisha Warburg streets. The initiative was created with backing from the municipality and the Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, which wanted to support its community of artists. Some 400 artists joined an initial Zoom meeting, and 300 submitted ideas, said Kron. “I told them that we need to reclaim the public sphere,” said Kron. “As artists, we don’t have to wait for someone to allow us to act.” Jessica Steinberg/The Times of Israel

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IN THE BEGINNING In the penitential season leading up to the High Holidays, could separation ‘intensify the experience?’ Jerome A. Chanes Special to The Jewish Week

irst there was Shabbos. What were we to do without shuls, without friends and family at Shabbat meals, without the spiritual and intellectual nourishment of ShabCoronavirus b a t To r a h Diary and Talmud classes? Then came Pesach. The extended family seder? Not a chance. For some, Zoom seders. (Ever tried singing as a group on Zoom?) All of these pale when we think

The penitential season — intense personal introspection mandated in a communal setting. What will it be like in this plague year? To scholar and author Rivkah Teitz Blau, the procession from Rosh HaShanah to Yom Kippur “is the build-up — the pent-up energy — of communal tension and community feeling. The idea of kehillah, community, is central to us. The very term that we use for ‘holiday’ — mo’ed — has the meaning of coming together.” Jewish public affairs analyst Marc Stern is of two minds on the question of High Holiday isolation.

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Sound and silence: “The spiritual work has to be done in a different way this year, beginning from Elul,” says Rabbi Rolando Matalon. WI KI M EDIA COM MON S about the months of Elul and Tishrei, about building up to the High Holy Days, about Rosh HaShanah, a supremely communal event highlighted by the blowing of the shofar and by the extended Mussaf service. And finally about Yom Kippur. Communal prayer nonpareil throughout the day, culminating in the closing moments of the day, the Neilah service, the crying out, as a community, “Adonai hu HaElohim!” — “God is The Lord!” — then the shofar blast, calling an end to the day and permitting us to engage in the activities of the new year. Jerome A. Chanes, a regular contributor, is the author of four books on Jewish public affairs and history.

On the one hand, he agrees that the absence of a congregational setting, whatever the movement, will be dreadful. (“Zooming” the service may work for some in the non-Orthodox world — but, asks Stern, “How do you Zoom a sixhour service?”) At the same time, he suggests that isolation “will generate its own atmosphere of introspection.” Stern offered his view that the Orthodox — and he is part of that community — “in reducing all sin to personal sin (a legacy of the Mussar movement), has not done a great job.” The Conservative and Reform branches, he says, “with an emphasis on political as well as personal sin, have done better.

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‘Architect of Modern Orthodoxy,’ Norman Lamm Succumbs at 92 The rabbi, author and administrator saved Yeshiva University while seeking a synthesis of Torah and contemporary culture.

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or several years a couple dozen widows of supporters of Yeshiva University and other members of the school’s community who were living alone would receive a phone call on Friday afternoon. The caller would ask about the people’s health, their family, discuss University events and wish the people a “Shabbat Shalom.” The caller was Rabbi Norman Lamm, the university’s president. “They were part of his relationships,” a longtime contributor to YU told The Jewish Week. “They came from a good Appreciation place.” The calls — part fundraising, part pastoral — were unpublicized facets of the life of Rabbi Lamm, who died on May 31 at 92 of natural causes at the home of his daughter in Englewood, N.J. Rabbi Lamm, who served as the third president of the school, from 1976 to 2003, was remembered this week as a combination of Torah scholar, administrator and fundraiser who both saved the Modern Orthodox movement’s flagship institution from the brink of bankruptcy and improved

“In a world always lurching ... to the extremes, [Rabbi Lamm, above] commanded the center as an ideal life, mandated by G-d,” Richard Joel, Rabbi Lamm’s successor as YU president, wrote in an email. LEH R HAU S

the movement’s standing in the wider Jewish and non-Jewish world. During his tenure at the school, he bolstered its academic standards. “It could not have been done without Rabbi Lamm,” Richard Parkoff, a real estate investor who has been a financial supporter of the school for several decades, told The Jewish Week. Rabbi Lamm was “both an architect of and a spokesman for Modern Orthodoxy, and using his position at YU as a perch, he helped buttress that ideology in a substantial way,” said Rabbi J.J. Schacter, a professor of Jewish history and Jewish thought at the school. “He was uncomfortable with the word ‘modern,’ so he in-

vented the word ‘centrist’ to describe his brand of Orthodoxy — between the extremes of totally favoring contemporary culture on the one hand and totally rejecting contemporary culture on the other.” Friends and colleagues praised Rabbi Lamm as a serious man with a vibrant sense of humor, a skilled orator who excelled in one-on-one conversations and a master teacher who could translate advanced Talmudic concepts into terms that someone with a minimal Jewish educational background could understand. He was also a devoted family man who would spend seder night with the family of a friend whose husband and father had

died suddenly in Israel, and a committed Orthodox Jew who maintained respectful relations with members of other branches of Judaism. “In a world always lurching with centrifugal force more and more to the extremes, he commanded the center as an ideal life, mandated by G-d,” Richard Joel, the rabbi’s successor as YU president, said in an email interview. “And he modeled that as if the world was at stake, because it was. As a scholar he was nonpareil, thorough and exacting while poetically philosophical.” “The purpose of Torah is neither some kind of arbitrary spiritual exercise, nor the beating of man into submission in order to aggrandize the divine ego,” Rabbi Lamm said in a 1971 sermon. “Rather, Torah is the divine instrument for man’s spiritual welfare and fulfillment. The Torah is God’s formula for man’s moral development. The prescriptions may be difficult, they may entail discipline and renunciation, but the purpose of Torah and commandments is the good of mankind.” “He was always growing, always learning, always writing,” said Rabbi Steven Weil, senior managing director of the Orthodox Union.

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Two Brooklyn Reform Synagogues in Merger Talks Covid-19 pandemic adds to financial woes at Beth Elohim and Union Temple. Shira Hanau JTA

s the Covid-19 pandemic forces businesses and organizations to lay off employees and close up shop, two historic Reform synagogues in Brooklyn are entering merger discussions to address their financial challenges. Congregation Beth Elohim and Union Temple announced the talks, which began in New York April, in emails to congregants on Thursday, according to the Forward. Beth Elohim, a large synagogue

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in the Park Slope neighborhood, saw declining revenue at the start of the pandemic as it was forced to cancel a number of its programs.

“This is the most urgent message I have had to write as CBE’s president,” Rob Raich wrote in a letter to the congregation in April. “While

I am prouder than ever to be part of this congregation, our financial health has been seriously impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.” Union Temple’s financial woes preceded the pandemic. According to the Forward, leaders of the synagogue, located a half-mile from Beth Elohim, announced last year that they would soon run out of money. In the email Thursday to congregants, Union Temple leaders said the synagogue was “not big enough, strong enough, or well-resourced enough as a congregation to do what we dream of doing on our own,” according to the Forward. ■

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Shuly Rubin Schwartz, currently provost, has generational ties to the Conservative flagship. Andrew Silow-Carroll Editor in Chief

Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm zt”l A masterful educator and dreamer; a tremendous leader and

huly Rubin Schwartz was named chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary Monday, the first woman to serve in the role in the 134year history of the Conservative movement’s flagship academic institution. Currently provost at JTS, Schwartz is a historian who has served as dean of List College, JTS’ undergraduate dual-degree program with Barnard and Columbia. New York She succeeds Arnold Eisen, who in 2007 became the seventh chancellor, and first non-rabbi, to serve in the role. In an interview with The Jewish Week, Schwartz said she appreciated the significance of her being the first woman to head the institution, but also said that given her long association with JTS “it made perfect sense.” Her first priority, she said, would be to navigate the institution — which includes undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as the seminary — through the Covid-19 crisis. “I would say that is our immediate challenge, because, first and foremost, we’ve an obligation to our students,” said Schwartz. “Whether it’s organizational structure, the finance, faculty, all things, this is certainly something we’re monitoring closely.” As provost, said JTS, she played an instrumental role in guiding the school’s transition to virtual learning amid the Covid-19 outbreak. She expects the campus in Upper Manhattan to be partly open in September, although learning will be a mix of face-to-face and remote instruction. Enrollment, she said, is “good. But, again, we’re living in an ever-changing moment. I think it’s going to take time to really understand what the impact of this pandemic will have.” Schwartz, who grew up in Wantagh, L.I., and lives on the Upper West Side, said she has a lifelong connection to JTS: Her grandfather graduated from its Teachers Institute 100 years ago, and both her parents were graduates. Her father, Rabbi Mordecai Rubin, served as spiritual leader of what was then the Wantagh Jewish

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eloquent spokesperson of centrist Orthodoxy; a philosopher who embodied the Jewish ideal of Torah U’Madda. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his children, Dr. Chaye (David) Warburg; Dr. Joshua (Rivkie) Lamm; Shalom (Tina) Lamm; son-in-law Rabbi Mark S. Dratch (Sara Lamm z”l); to his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Shuly Rubin Schwartz is set to become the eighth chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary.

May Hashem comfort the entire family amongst the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

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Center from 1951-1991. Her late husband, Rabbi Gershon Schwartz, who died in 2004, was a pulpit rabbi who was ordained at JTS. Their son, Rabbi Moshe Schwartz, the head of school at the Krieger Schechter Day School in Baltimore, was also ordained there. As dean of List, the school said, Schwartz “strengthened the college’s dual-degree programs” and launched social justice engagement initiatives, including the year-long Fellowship in Jewish Social Entrepreneurship and JustCity, a high school summer program. She was instrumental in the rise of gender studies at the institution. For the past 10 years, Schwartz has also served as dean of the Gershon Kekst Graduate School, where she was credited with the creation of an MA program in Jewish ethics, a joint Jewish ethics MA/MPH with Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health and a new certificate program in ethics and social justice. She has continued to teach American Jewish history; her study of the role of rabbis’ wives in the development of American Jewry, “The Rabbi’s Wife,” won the National Jewish Book Award in 2006. In an interview, she described Conservative Judaism as “the stream of Judaism that struggles with nuance in ways in which movements on the extremes do not. [We ask] what it means to be a modern Jew, to be deeply tied to tradition and to care about halacha, and yet to live fully in the modern world and to do so” in an expansive way and “not in a compartmentalized fashion.” Asked about the seminary’s relationship with Israel, especially at a time of ideological strains between

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Perhaps isolation offers an opportunity for individuals to expand their penitential horizons. But even with this, lack of community on Yom Kippur is inconceivable.” Rabbi Yosef Blau of Yeshiva University, who has for decades been a keen observer of trends in American and Israeli Orthodoxy, agreed. “The whole structure of Yom Kippur — the culmination of the High Holiday experience — is based on having a communal experience, the idea being that it is the communal that enhances, indeed enables, the personal.” “[Isolation] is inconceivable,” he declared. For Rosh HaShanah, “anyone can learn to blow the shofar. That doesn’t work on Yom Kippur.” Michael Strassfeld, who was an architect of the Havura movement and is the rabbi emeritus of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism (SAJ), the flagship of the Reconstructionist movement, starts with the most intense of the intensely personal, with the question that for many is the grimmest moment in the Yamim Nora’im (“Days of Awe”) experience. “Mi yichye u-mi yamut?!” (“Who shall live and who shall die?!”) asks the Machzor, the High Holiday prayer book. This stark and profound question, a central moment in the service of both Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, “will have a different resonance in isolation,” suggests Strassfeld. “Isolation could compel people to be more focused on the core messages and existential questions of the penitential season.” But Strassfeld, as do others, emphasizes the centrality of community in expressing the spiritual. “The idea of sitting with others,” he says, “hearing other voices, even in the silent portions, the Amidah, of the service, is a transcendent experience. It is one thing to miss Shabbos in community. But Yom Kippur? Not the least [problem with a Zoom gathering] is the impossibility of singing together.” Additionally, muses Strassfeld, is the problem of the service itself. “The service is long. Rosh HaShanah is six hours. Yom Kip-

pur is all day. There will be internal pressure to shorten the service.” And Zoom is not the answer. “‘Streaming’? Prayer is challenging; streaming is passive.” Finally, notes Strassfeld, “For those who don’t have the commitment: ‘Why am I doing this?’” Rabbi Danny Nevins, dean of the Rabbinical School at the (Conservative) Jewish Theological Seminary of America, agreed with Stressful on the possibility that isolation may be beneficial: “The separation could in fact intensify the experience. It’s the long tradition of hitbobedut — intense personal spiritual separation.” But, bemoans Nevins, “The loss will be terrible,” and the Conservative movement is exploring paths consistent with halacha that might enable technologies for remote services. Rabbi Rolando Matalon of B’nai Jeshurun, a progressive synagogue with Conservative roots on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, takes the long view. “The spiritual work has to be done in a different way this year, beginning from Elul — the very beginning of the penitential season and a full month before Rosh HaShanah — and ending with Hoshana Rabba at the end of Sukkot. We miss the intensity of the kehilla — the community — but we will make up for it by bringing all of our resources to bear: kavanot, intense spiritual moments; classes, and the like. We need to equip people to be able to stand by themselves before Hashem [God].” Plus, says Rabbi Matalon, “The few external distractions can lead us to greater internal introspection.” As for me, I am with Michael Strassfeld. The moment for me of the High Holiday service is “Mi yichye u-mi yamut?” — “Who shall live and who shall die?!” — cried out three times during this season. This iteration of creature-consciousness takes me beyond the rational, beyond even the existential, into wholly uncharted territory. It’s intensely personal, yes — but it is truly about community. And for historian Rabbi Shaul Seidler Feller, a regular at a charedi synagogue in Manhattan: “Yes, it’s uncharted territory. But I will stand before The Creator by myself. God will not be distant. I will not be alone.” ■

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Jews of color respond to the George Floyd protests. Josefin Dolsten JTA

s Enzi Tanner participated in an online Havdalah ceremony marking the end of Shabbat Saturday night, his city — Minneapolis — was being torn apart during a fifth night of unrest following the death of George Floyd, a black man, in police custody there last week.

Enzi Tanner Tanner, a social worker who supports LGBT families experiencing homelessness, said the ceremony — hosted by Jewish Community Action, a local social justice group, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, a national organization — conveyed a powerful mesNew York sage for black Jews like him. “As the Jewish community reaches in and says how do we support their cause and how do we support the black community, it’s really important that people reach in to black Jews and other Jews of color and realize that we’re here,” Tanner said. “And we need our community.” JTA reached out to black Jews like Tanner to understand their feelings at this wrenching moment and what their message is for the broader Jewish community. Here’s what they said (their answers have been lightly edited for length and clarity). Yitz Jordan is the founder of TribeHerald, a publication for Jews of color, and a hip hop artist also known as Y-Love: “What am I feeling? Anxiety. That’s what I’m feeling. I had an anxiety attack on Friday. I live in the ’hood, I live in Bushwick, so I’m not really geographically in the Jewish community, but I know that somebody on Friday for instance was shot not too far from me and I was terrified as to what the response to that was going to be, were cops going to respond Shira Hanau contributed reporting.

and was rioting going to happen in my neighborhood? “And in the Jewish community, this is the kind of fight that I’m having: ‘This didn’t happen after the Holocaust, why are black people acting like this?’ It’s that role of explaining over and over again to people who quite often don’t want to listen. “I feel like the same split that’s going through America in ideological lines is going through the Jewish community … whatever percent of Orthodox Jews that support Trump, you see it more from these people. When we say the Jewish community in general, that also consists of people like JFREJ [Jews for Racial and Economic Justice] and Jewish Voice for Peace and these other organizations. But in the Orthodox world, the pro-Trump wing is where I’m hearing these types of conversations. And I’m seeing this, ranging from lack of knowledge to

Yitz Jordan callousness regarding people of color. There are some people who genuinely don’t know, and to whom a lot of these issues are very new. Especially chasidish people, for instance, this just isn’t part of the Shabbos-table conversation — police brutality, inequality, systemic racism. But you have some people who just show callousness.” Gulienne Rishon is a diversity expert and chief revenue officer for TribeHerald Media: “I am thankful for true allies, who understand that this is not the time to center their own experiences. I am thankful for true allies, who understand that the experiences they and their ancestors have had are to be used in this moment as empathy, and that no one is denying them their experiences in asking them to listen and learn. “But mostly, if one more white-presenting Jew tries to tell me today that they don’t have white privilege (not that they aren’t white, but that they don’t have white privilege) because they’re Jewish/the Holocaust/Jews got kicked out of schools, I might lose my mind. I should not have to deal with

Gulienne Rishon people telling me that my story (the black part) doesn’t exist because my story (the Ashkenazi experience) exists. But I do. And I am confident that part of why G-d put me in the skin of a biracial Jewish woman descended from a Kindertransport survivor, a WWII veteran who was kicked out of his Hamburg Gymnasium for being Jewish, and two Southern black Virginians, is to help us as a people face our sinat chinam and take responsibility for being the light unto the nations by helping, not closing our ranks and denying the pain others feel because of the freshness of ours. “Facilitating difficult conversations about race is literally my profession. Yet, some days, I’m just a person behind a keyboard on Facebook who came out of our day of rest hearing that the world erupted in flames, and I look at the beautiful brown skin of my daughter and her parents, and I’m angry and afraid. I’ve worked so hard to have these conversations with grace when you’re caught up in your feelings about the complexity. On a day when it’s not about the complexity, but processing and mourning actual death, can you please give the same grace to mine?” Isaiah Rothstein is a multiracial rabbi who serves as the rabbi-in-residence at Hazon: “Both sides of my ancestry hold a lot of pain of being othered and being oppressed. During these moments it’s sometimes hard to process and it’s a lot to integrate, but it’s a time where we’re expected to stand up and to speak up so I’m trying to find my voice every single day.

Isaiah Rothstein “On the one hand, I feel restless and frustrated and fed up. On the other hand, I think that like anyone who’s

reading or seeing the headlines, I feel frustrated because so many people don’t care enough, or they care adjacently or from the outside. So there’s those emotions but then on the flipside, I think that this moment is calling on all of us as Americans to stand up. “If I could say in short what do I think the Jewish community should be doing, I would want every community to have an educational platform for communities to contextualize discussions around race, specifically as it relates to the Jewish community. I would want to have platforms, summits, days of learning. I would want every community to sign on to have educational campaigns around racial equity and racial awareness and racial sensitivity, so that we could find a bridge to understanding and perspectives through history, through knowledge of the past, so that we could better create a stronger, healthier bridge for the future.” Evan Traylor is an educator, activist and soon-to-be rabbinical student at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion: “Right now, black Jews are grieving. We’re grieving for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. But

Evan Traylor we’re grieving for so many more lives, black lives that have been taken from this earth far too early because of brutal, systemic racism. And that pain isn’t going away tomorrow, or next week, or next month. It’s going to last for generations to come. And, if we want a better world, we have to change the system. “I’m grateful for so many white Jewish allies who have reached out, comforted me, supported me not just over the last week, but for years now. And right now, we need more from our white Jewish siblings, and more from our Jewish institutions — we need support, allyship, resources and strategies to confront racism in our community and in our world. We are all created in the image of God — it’s time to build the Jewish community and world that makes our Torah true in this age.” n

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U.S. to Bibi: Slow Down Annexation Process

Jared Kushner and other U.S. officials reportedly telling the prime minister to put sovereignty plans on hold for now. Marcy Oster JTA

erusalem — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a conference call with Jared Kushner and other top White House officials to

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siasm” for immediate annexation and to “greatly slow the process” since the attention of the White House is taken up by the current national protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis while in policy custody and the coronavirus crisis. Netanyahu was on the call with White House adviser Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law; Avi Berkowitz, White House Middle East peace negotiator; David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel; and Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Unnamed U.S. sources told Channel 13 that the officials asked Netanyahu if and how Israel would move forward with unilateral annexation, but did not receive an answer. The call followed a meeting between Friedman and Israel’s defense minister, Benny Gantz, who also holds the title of alternate prime minister, Channel 13 reported. Gantz on Monday ordered the Israel Defense Forces’ chief of staff, Aviv Kohavi, to “step up preparations for the IDF ahead of diplomatic efforts on the agenda in the Palestinian arena,” The Times of Israel reported, citing Gantz’s office. The statement did not specifically refer to annexation. Netanyahu said last week in a meeting with government ministers that he has a target date in July to extend Israeli sovereignty over about 30 percent of the West Bank, which is provided for in the Trump Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. They say that the prime minister’s annexation plan paves a path for Palestinian statehood and that it cuts off settlements from the rest of Israel. The settler leaders also said that the plan makes settlement expansion difficult. The New York Times reported Tuesday that Netanyahu was facing opposition from an unexpected source: Israeli settler leaders who have long pressed for annexation. The coalition deal between Netanyahu and Gantz permits annexation from July 1. n

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North America’s largely liberal Jewish community and Israel’s right-leaning body politic, she spoke of her family’s own Zionist roots, going back to a great-grandfather who insisted on speaking Hebrew at home in Eastern Europe. “My ties to the State of Israel are my joy, and my pride at the existence of the State of Israel is boundless,” she said. In describing broader trends, she used the metaphor of family. “Any and all conversations about the complexity of the State of Israel today, the politics of the State of Israel, all of those conversations, need to be had from a place of connection and commitment to the Israeli part of the Jewish people. In other words, we are all one people and one family. There are lots of things I don’t like about my family but they’re my family. I love them.” Asked if she would suggest a motto that would guide her tenure as chancellor, she laughingly declined. But she acknowledged that the name “Conservative,” given what it means in general parlance, is “an unfortunately misleading term. “I’m more concerned with ideas and visions and less concerned with the name,” Schwartz said. “If [our vision] resonates and works and enriches people’s lives, that’s what we want. We want to offer a meaningful, rich, vibrant, learned Judaism. And if we do that, whatever we call it, that’s good. We should do more of it.” n

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For Conservative Rabbis, Disinfectant and Plexiglass New guidelines for High Holidays urge at-risk clergy to recuse themselves from in-person services.

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he Conservative movement is urging rabbis, cantors and other prayer leaders to “consider recusing themselves from officiating” at High Holiday services if they are in a high-risk category for Covid-19. In addition, new guidance from the movement suggests that choral singing should New York not take place for this High Holiday season unless certain conditions are met to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The guidance states that all Conservative synagogues should reopen once “governmental and medical authorities allow and where the architecture of our prayer spaces permit.” The guidance was written by Rabbi Pamela Barmash and Toby Schonfeld and released by the Rabbinical Assembly last week. It comes as some synagogues are considering returning come Rabbi Gordon Tucker: Conservative Judaism Passionately Asks What’s Possible. Page 18

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greater during this time of pandemic and physical distancing,” the guidelines say, “and even though holding davening [prayer] in person as a community poses a significant challenge, our role as klei kodesh [instruments of holiness] and the needs of our communities for being together, even with physical distancing, call for us to rise to the occasion...” Among the preventive measures synagogues should consider are: physical distancing, requiring everyone to wear a mask, hand sanitizer for everyone, physical barriers around professional and semi-professional singers and speakers, curtailing Torah

processions and reducing the proximity to one another for those who are officiating. It suggests that the use of a microphone — standard in most although not all Conservative synagogues — might obviate or reduce muffling from a mask and says that a physical barrier such as a plexiglass or plastic shield be placed around the amud, or lectern. The guidance says the number of choir members should be held to a minimum, that each member of the choir should be behind a physical barrier like a plexiglass or plastic shield and that they should be separated from the choir director. Choir members must also wear a mask when outside the barrier, and a medical doctor should be consulted to determine whether the mask must be worn even behind the barrier, depending on the layout of the prayer space. Singing and loud speech has been shown to aerosolize droplets that can spread the coronavirus. In addition, all choir rehearsals must be done in a video-conferencing modality. The guidance stresses that this “is the only safe way to prepare repertoire prior to the High Holiday season.” It said also that there is no need for the clergy to wear gloves because everything on the amud should be disinfected between services. But it suggests that gloves might be appropriate should there be multiple Torah readers. “Someone who is going to read Torah could put on a fresh pair of gloves, touch the yad [pointer] and the Torah, and then discard those gloves immediately when s/he is done reading and sanitize his/her hands (in case s/he has not removed the gloves properly),” the guidance reads. “And the wearer should still be very careful not to touch one’s face while wearing gloves, as the wearer can still transfer the virus from gloves into the body through the eyes, nose and mouth.” Earlier this month the movement’s chief lawmaking committee ruled that rabbis could broadcast Shabbat and High Holiday services in response to the coronavirus emergency. ■

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father of a fellow student had tested positive for the virus the previous day, one of the first known cases in the region. The school, following the advice of state authorities, decided to close. Realizing the growing severity of the situation, Charendoff and two colleagues who had become trusted friends, Lisa Eisen, co-president of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, and Barry Finestone, president and CEO of the Jim Joseph Foundation, initiated a series of intense discussions, agreeing on the need for swift and radical action. Over the last few years, the trio has spoken regularly about programs and projects their institutions supported — some separately, and some overlapping — and about their common interest in funding initiatives that focus on education, leadership, engaging young people and Jewish identity. Collectively, the three foundations — with Schusterman based in D.C. and Tulsa, Okla., Maimonides in New York and Jim Joseph in San Francisco — operate on a national level and provide hundreds of millions of dollars a year in grants to a wide range of recipients. Over the next few days, Charendoff, Eisen and Finestone were bombarded with frantic calls from grantees fearful of the pandemic’s economic impact. Similar calls were taking place throughout the Jewish communal world. The three funders’ consultations soon led to the creation of the Jewish Community Response and Impact Fund (JCRIF), sometimes referred to as the Jewish super fund, which has grown to represent eight foundations and a pot of more than $90 million. Just this week, JCRIF finalized millions of dollars in initial grants to several nonprofits, including the Foundation for Jewish Camp, which partners with hundreds of day and overnight camps; Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools; and Repair the World, a service and social justice group that plans to launch a national service initiative geared to include camp counselors who have been sidelined this summer by the extensive closures due to the coronavirus. “This is just the beginning,” one funder noted. “Much more to come.” As the largest collective Jewish response to the pandemic, JCRIF is being heralded as an exemplary example of communal tzedakah, committed to sustaining key elements of Jewish organizational life. Based on interviews and conversations — most of them off the record — with more than a dozen funders, Jewish professionals, lay leaders and close observers of the community, it seems clear that the JCRIF is a uniquely generous, selfless and allimportant attempt to stabilize and advance the core infrastructure of Jewish life. But it has also raised questions about who gets to determine the fate and composition of the American Jewish ecosystem for years to come. Some have expressed concern that these weighty decisions are being determined by a relative handful of wealthy “machers” and their professional staffs. Lila Corwin Berman, an American Jewish history professor at Temple University whose specialty is philanthropy, believes the funders’ approach “privileges establishment groups and concentrates power in the foundations funding the initiative,” according to a JTA report.

Repair the World fellows in Crown Heights. The social justice group got some of the initial grants from the so-called Jewish super fund. R EPAI R TH E WOR LD/JTA How it came to be, what its leaders hope to accomplish — and how they are going about it — will have a major impact for decades.

‘We Are With You’

he project took shape when Charendoff, Eisen and Finestone committed their foundations to each contribute $10 million to a collective pool and make joint decisions on how the funds are spent. Thousands of Jewish nonprofits — synagogues, schools, camps, JCCs, Hillels, human services organizations and others — were faced with cutting back projects, laying off staff, pivoting to online programming and confronting the very real prospect of shutting down, perhaps permanently. “We recognized that the need for funds was great — more than any of us could provide — and that we needed to reach out to other foundations to join us,” Charendoff recalled. The goal was to come up with a creative, flexible triage approach to deal with the flood of requests for aid, fully aware that the needs far exceeded the funding available in the Jewish philanthropic world. To cite just one example, communal officials believe that the JCC movement alone, with its network of 164 community centers and some 200 overnight camps in North America, would require more than $1.5 billion in lendable capital. The idea of a collective pool marked a major change in Jewish philanthropy. “Those of us in the foundation world coordinate with each other all the time. But we had never collaborated like this before — in the sense of pooling our collective resources as we are now” and making joint decisions, Finestone noted. Some of the JCRIF partners prefer funding startups and youth programs rather than day schools; others prioritize, say, education over camping. But those interviewed stressed a common commitment, in the face of the pandemic and financial crisis, to support key institutional networks that frame Jewish life, including schools, camps, social services and the religious movements. “We’re each willing, for the greater good, to fund things we don’t normally fund,” said Finestone. The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), which represents some 146 federations, has been a key partner of the funders’ group in this endeavor. Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO of JFNA, cited the group’s “selflessness” in putting aside their own foundations’ priorities — often concentrating on support for start-ups and youth engagement — to

shore up the communal infrastructure. “JCRIF’s help in sustaining core institutions in the community has been admirable and absolutely essential,” he observed. Charendoff, Eisen and Finestone drafted a statement to reassure their current grantees of continued support and to expand the effort by asking other Jewish foundations to sign on as well. Within days several more major foundations signed on, each committed to contributing either $5 million or $10 million to the collective pool. They include the Aviv Foundation, the Mandel Foundation, The Glazer Foundation, the Wilf Family Foundation and the Paul E. Singer Foundation. The initial pool of $70 million has grown, at last count, to $92 million. On March 13, “An Open Message to Grantees From The Funder Community,” signed by 19 Jewish foundations and citing Judaism’s mandate for Jews to be responsible for one another, was made public. Its goal was to let their grantee partners and other organizations in distress know that “we, your philanthropic partners, are in this together with you.” The letter assured the existing grantees that funding levels for current grants would be maintained, deadlines for benchmark reports would be extended and that the funders’ efforts would be coordinated. “Our message to our grantees was that we understand and share their concerns and that we’ll be there for them — that we’ll be as flexible and responsive as possible and won’t be operating business as usual,” Eisen said. The foundation leaders grappled with the enormity of the challenge, including which groups should receive funds, and how those decisions should be determined and distributed. “We have tried to approach this task with humility, knowing we can’t come close to meeting all the needs,” Eisen explained. “We sought advice from those in the field because it was important for us to be as inclusive as possible. In the end, this program is just one slice of the pie.” From the outset the foundations chose to work in partnership with JFNA, which had launched its own major effort to seek government aid for qualifying organizations. Fingerhut said that since the pandemic hit, his group has had “enormous rates of success” in lobbying aggressively to secure Small Business Association (SBA) loans for Jewish nonprofits. Fingerhut estimated that about $500 million in such loans have been given to Jewish groups, and

A Group Experiment

hile the JCRIF pot grew, its funders grappled with how best to distribute the dollars. They recognized that it was impractical to receive proposals from hundreds, if not thousands, of individual organizations. And they knew that leaders in each segment of the nonprofit world — schools, camps, synagogues, youth programs, social services, etc. — best understood the needs of their constituents. So the funders sought out key leaders in those fields to serve as advisors, advocates and intermediaries. Jeremy Fingerman, CEO of the Foundation for Jewish Camp, said he and his team work closely with JCRIF, “serving as a resource and advocate on both sides, providing the data and knowledge we have of the world of camps.” This allows the funders to make thoughtful decisions, he said. “It’s a group experiment. They want our feedback, and in this rapidly changing world, we each have an obligation to adapt as we go.” The funders decided early on that it would be most effective to offer interest-free loans to qualified beneficiaries, with up to four years for the recipients to pay back. The intent was to invest in “healthy institutions” that are being hit hard now but were fundamentally sound, one insider explained. “We want to help them weather the storm.” They soon realized, though, that some vital institutions needed immediate help to survive. So JCRIF agreed to set aside about 20 percent of its funds for outright grants. In practice, the funders make collective decisions on the loans; for the grants, they are “aligned” in their investigation but can make separate decisions about whether or not to fund, and for how much. Felicia Herman, executive director of the Natan Fund, was chosen to direct the JCRIF grants program. Shira Hutt, JFNA’s chief of staff, is heading up the loans effort. Both counsel potential beneficiaries and screen applications for the funders to review and make decisions. Everyone involved in these reviews has been overwhelmed by the volume of applications and the depth of need in the community. “Reading the proposals is both inspiring and heartbreaking,” noted Lisa Eisen of the Schusterman Foundation. “We recognize the human toll, how so many people are losing jobs. We hope our effort will help mitigate that and help organizations weather the storm.” Several key funders said they favored proposals that focus on innovation, cost savings and other efficiencies that could lead to a healthier, more

engaged and less duplicative institutional structure. Partnerships, shared services and collaboration, if not actual mergers, are welcomed as signs of recognizing the reality of the moment. Leaders of the religious denominations were pleased to be included in the process. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Reform movement, said that sitting together with funders and a wide range of communal representatives has increased his appreciation of “klal Yisrael [Jewish togetherness], people sharing ideas and resources.” He emphasized that synagogue innovation can come from large as well as small congregations, older as well as newer ones. “The key question is, ‘How do we strengthen Jewish community?’” he said, adding that “the coronavirus is forcing us all to transform in a good way. If you can’t deliver something impactful, move along.”

While some critics of the Jewish establishment have called on the funders to seize this opportunity to reshape the Jewish environment, that is not the goal of JCRIF. “We don’t necessarily want to see establishment organizations go away,” one key funder said. “We spent decades building up some of these organizations, making them more relevant. We’re looking at the Jewish community in terms of assets rather than institutions. Assets like leadership, talent and ideas. We’re asking ourselves, ‘How can we preserve our best assets?’” “We’ll make some good and some bad decisions, no doubt,” another core funder said, “but we’re doing the best we can and hope that others will step up and do their share as well. We’re living in a new reality, and we’re all in this together.” ■

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that approximately 90 percent of JCCs in the U.S. secured loans totaling close to $100 million. In addition, it should be noted, other major Jewish foundations stepped up with their own efforts. For example, The Harold Grinspoon Foundation launched a $10 million matching grant program for Jewish overnight camps. And local Jewish federations around the country went into overdrive, launching special campaigns to meet the need on multiple fronts. UJA-Federation of New York has allocated $46 million in grants and interest-free loans. “That was our initial emergency response,” said CEO Eric Goldstein. “Now we are going sector by sector in determining communal needs, focusing on ‘the day after.’ The challenge has never been greater.”

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LETTERS

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OPINION EDITORIAL

Rabbi Norman Lamm 1927-2020

n the 1970s, while the United chology, the Wurzweiler School of States was mired in a recession, Social Work and Talmud study for the only university in the coun- women at Stern College. try under Orthodox Jewish auspices Some of his ideas, like a business was awash in red ink. school at a yeshiva, drew criticism Because of poor financial proce- in some Orthodox circles. Rabbi dures in the previous years, Yeshiva Lamm’s powers of persuasion, and University was facing an uncertain the growth of the business school, future, with an uneven academic serve as testimony that he was on reputation and a total endowment the right path. of $25 million, a pittance compared Prior to coming to YU, he served to most universities. 25 years as spiritual leader of the Rabbi Norman Lamm, elected as Jewish Center on Manhattan’s UpYU’s third president in 1976 — the per West Side. In an earlier, littlefirst American-born leader of the known footnote to his life, he, as a school — is widely credited with college student majoring in chemisnot only saving Yeshiva from bank- try in 1948, helped contribute to Isruptcy but setrael’s success in ting it on a path the 1948 War of of prosperity. His Independence by Torah U’Maddah devising a forHe embraced and philosophy and mula for ammupersonality, comfor Jewish proclaimed a form of nition bining a strict soldiers’ firecommitment to arms. “It was one Modern Orthodoxy both halacha of the highlights (Jewish law) and of my life,” he advanced securecounted years for thousands of lar knowledge, later. helped persuade A misstep young men and a wide range that the rabbi of benefactors, admitted he had women. many from betaken in his first yond the Orthodecade in the dox community, YU presidency to support and advance the institu- clouded his reputation. Ten years tion and secure its future. after he retired as president, accuRabbi Lamm, who died on Sun- sations surfaced that he had failed day at 92, fortified YU’s endowment to take seriously enough sexual and advanced its academic standing abuse allegations against several as well as its reputation within and faculty members of the YU high beyond the Jewish community. As a school. At the time, he had the facskillful administrator, pulpit rabbi, ulty members dismissed but took Talmud scholar, author, orator, aca- no further action. When in 2013 he demic and Rosh Yeshiva of YU’s stepped down from his positions as rabbinical school for six decades, chancellor and Rosh Yeshiva, he he embraced and proclaimed a form sought forgiveness. “I acted in a of Modern Orthodoxy for thousands way that I thought was correct, but of young men and women at YU and which now seems ill conceived,” its sister school, Stern College. Rabbi Lamm wrote. Under his tutelage, Yeshiva UniHis willingness to admit his misversity established the Sy Syms takes, like the words of praise he School of Business, which offered earned from so many (see obituyoung Orthodox Jews the tools to ary on page 6), underscore Rabbi compete in a competitive employ- Lamm’s long life of leadership and ment market. He expanded the commitment. May his memory be a Ferkauf Graduate School of Psy- blessing.

36 Young Leaders Very Inspirational

Regarding your 36 Under 36 section: For a guy coming up on 83 years old, it is so good to see your list of young leaders. Very inspirational and with well-deserving individuals. It’s good to see recognition of those who are working to make a difference. Considering all the counterforces at work in our society, they deserve the title of one of the 36. Kol HaKavod to you and certainly to each of them. Art Braufman Berkeley, Calif.

Scrutinizing Trump’s ‘Pro-Israel’ Record

In response to the May 22 letter, “Trump’s Opponents Were AntiDemocratic”: Leaving aside the writer’s simplification and misunderstanding of the Michael Flynn prosecution and the Russia probe, we are told yet again that President Trump is “arguably the most pro-Jewish and pro-Israel president the U.S. has ever had.” Policies such as U.S. recognition of the Golan Heights as part of Israel and Jerusalem as its capital are symbolic moves. The long-awaited Kushner peace plan appears dead on arrival. We don’t yet know the long-term implications of our withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), but it appears to have resulted in Iran now violating the deal’s restrictions on stockpiling enriched Uranium after initially complying. More meaningful are the Obama administration’s completion of a $38 billion, 10-year military aid package prior to leaving office. Of course, many (especially right-wing) supporters of Israel opposed the JCPOA and resented the Obama administration’s objection to Israel’s expansion of West Bank settlements. Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League has documented a significant increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. during the last three years over prior years. How about Trump making a primetime speech denouncing his alt-right, white nationalist and neo-Nazi supporters and demanding an end to hatred and violence against Jews, Latinos, Asians, Muslims and other minorities? Wouldn’t that be something. Joseph Ades Tarrytown, N.Y.

Don’t ‘Swift Boat’ Biden on Allegations

Regarding the May 8 story, “Excruciating Situation for Jewish Women on

Biden”: Really? We have a president, in his own voice, bragging about assaulting women, and earlier, on the “Howard Stern Show,” his full-throated boasting of walking in on naked teenage girls at his beauty contests. The man has been accused by a half-dozen or more women of sexual harassment or worse. And Jewish women are in turmoil over Joe Biden? Tara Reade is certainly entitled to and has gotten her hearing in the court of public opinion, but her story has changed several times and she presents no corroboration. Add to this her exultation and admiration for Vladimir Putin. Certainly warning lights should register. Will The Jewish Week also run pieces about the women who claim Trump sexually assaulted them? I hope so. Let’s not “Swift Boat” candidate Biden. Norm Lerner Brooklyn

‘Annexation’ Is the Wrong Term

Regarding the editorial “The High Price of Annexation,” May 15: It’s true that annexation of the territory designated for Israel in the most recent peace proposal would be controversial and draw criticism from some. But the criticism doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, starting with the fact that what’s being considered isn’t actually annexation, a term which applies only to territory taken from another, rightful owner. Here’s what would be done: rule by military decree would be replaced with civilian Israeli law, a step that’s really long overdue. For half a century, Israel has given its enemies a veto power over the normalization of life for Israelis living in areas Egypt and Jordan captured and occupied after invading Israel in 1948. This hasn’t brought peace one step closer. Replacing military decree by civilian law won’t make things worse. The most powerful argument by those opposed to this step — mostly by people who automatically oppose everything Israel does — is that it would foreclose the so-called “two-state solution.” The record shows that argument is poppycock. The reunification of Jerusalem didn’t stop Israeli prime ministers Barak and Olmert from offering parts

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EDITOR’S COLUMN

The president is never going to be your consoler-in-chief.

hen President Trump lumbered out of the White House Monday to stand in front of a barricaded church and awkwardly pose with a Bible, two quotes came to mind. The first was from “Animal House”: “I think this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture.”

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The second was a lyric from the Israeli singer Shalom Hanoch: “Mashiach lo ba, Mashiach gam lo metalfen” — The Messiah isn’t coming, he isn’t phoning either. After a week of the kind of unrest not seen here since the 1960s, after three months and counting of a devastating public health and economic catastrophe, the country is yearning for calm, for reassurance. The apparent murder by police of George Floyd in Minneapolis, exposing yet again the epidemic of police violence directed at people of color, was the match. But a pandemic that fell most heavily on black and brown people had created the conditions for a conflagration. A typical president would have read the room, realizing that what was happening was bigger than him, bigger than politics. He would offer solace, as George W. Bush did in the days after Sept. 11, or deep empathy, as Barack Obama did after the school massacre in Sandy Hook, Conn., and the deadly shooting at a Charleston, S.C., church. A typical president would have understood his

role as consoler-in-chief. But Donald Trump is not a typical president. After a few brief remarks last week offering condolences to Floyd’s family and pledging to seek justice in his case, the president returned to form, retreating to and inside the White House, lashing out at political enemies via Twitter and, according to reports, ignoring advice that he speak to a raw and polarized nation in a way meant to find common cause. On Monday night, in remarks from the Rose Garden, he repeated the pattern. He gestured toward the Floyd killing but then quickly went full George Patton, calling on governors to call out the National Guard on violent protesters (which many had already done) and threatening to use military force if they didn’t. “I am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters,” he declaimed, as riot police used tear gas to clear peaceful protesters from the short path between the White House and St. John’s Episcopal Church. And then that photo-op, a futile gesture that said nothing so much as: “Here I stand, in front of a building I seldom enter, holding a book I rarely read, playing a role I’ll never fully understand.” Not that after three years of his presidency anyone expected anything different. Trump may be the most consistent president we’ve ever had, dependably regressing to his mean despite the hopes of opponents and allies that this time, just maybe, he might surprise us. Not this time, not ever: Trump must have calculated that his base would have interpreted empathy as weakness, so he returned to the kind of militaristic posture that plays so well at his rallies. For an antidote, I clung this week to some strong statements by those for whom religion is a guidepost, not a prop. Statements from Jewish

President Trump waved a Bible at a photo-op Monday, but never opened it. GET T Y I MAGES organizations were admirably nonpartisan and deeply heartfelt. The Orthodox Union said it was “saddened, sickened, and outraged” by the video of Floyd’s death, before calling on all Americans to “work in partnership toward eradicating all forms of bigotry and racism and making the United States the ‘more perfect union’ we all pray for it to be.” The Reform movement’s Central Conference of American Rabbis spoke angrily about police violence and systemic racism, as well as the vandalism that has marred peaceful protests. Its statement called for specific reforms, while expressing solidarity with the “good, noble, anti-racist law enforcement officials whose good names have been tarnished by these horrific crimes.” The Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly also urged political action that would “dismantle the systemic racism all too embedded still within American law enforcement and its justice system.” And it quoted Torah: “[W]e will not stand idly by while our neighbor’s blood is shed” [Lev. 19:16]. I almost got whiplash Monday night, watching the president’s speech and photoop live on cable while Zooming in to a fundraising gala for

T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. Among the activists honored at the gala was Maharat Rori Picker Neiss, who as executive director of the Jewish Community

Relations Council in St. Louis organized rabbis in support of mail-in voting during the coronavirus epidemic. She quoted Talmud: “Once permission is granted to the destroyer, it does not distinguish between the righteous and the wicked” [Bava Kamma 60a]. She might have been talking about the coronavirus, or racism, or toxic partisanship that erases our common humanity. Mashiach will come before President Trump appeals to the better angels of our nature, or to our common humanity. The Hanoch song reminds us that we’re on our own, at least for now. And if we are to find comfort in these difficult times, if we are to achieve a healing of body and a healing of spirit, we will have to muster our own resources, draw on our own traditions and take our own actions – in common cause. n

Respect for Others’ Beliefs David Wolpe

ow important was respect for our Sages? The Talmud discusses whether one can carry a lit candle on the Sabbath. In Talmudic times of course, without a candle the night was entirely dark. It relates that when Rabbi Abbahu was with Rabbi Joshua Ben Levi, he would carry a candle, but when he was with Rabbi Johanan, he would not [Yebamot 14a]. Explaining the difference, we are told that Rabbi Abbahu would act in accordance with the beliefs of his colleagues. Although he shared Rabbi Joshua Ben Musings Levi’s belief that it was permitted, out of respect for Rabbi Johanan, when he was with him he would follow the practice of not carrying a candle. I have often seen people accede to the desires of others but also making sure their sentiments are known. “I’ll take my shoes off in your house, but I think it is silly. I will wear a mask if you insist, but there is no good reason for it.” That is not how Rabbi Abbahu behaved. He simply accommodated the beliefs of Rabbi Johanan because he understood that derech eretz, decent and thoughtful behavior, was more important than insisting upon his own position. Rabbi Abbahu, how badly we need your example in our day. 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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History Calls. Trump Lets it Ring.

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Conservative Judaism Passionately Asks What’s Possible in Light of the Impossible

he Jewis h Week ’s coverage of how Conservative Judaism has addressed livestreaming Shabbat services has repeated the old chestnut that my movement is “positioned between strictly traditional Orthodoxy and the liberal Reform and Reconstructing Judaism movements.” The center, it is said, bespeaks paucity of passion, and perhaps even a laziness about ideological stances. Yet occupying what looks like a middle — and thus middling — position may more accurately be seen as seeking a point of balance between values that Gordon Tucker is senior rabbi emeritus at Temple Israel Center in White Plains, a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and adjunct assistant professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

beg not to be ignored. At hand is not simply a question about technology on Shabbat; it is about how to maintain both a spiritually meaningful prayer life and the sanctity of holy days under Covid-19. What the movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards has undertaken is not an “accommodation to modernity.” As present conditions cast doubt on whether the usually prescribed norms are sufficient to fulfill the intentions behind them, it embarked on a penetrating analysis of halacha and its precedents in order to seek a resolution that respects both the history and the intent of Jewish law. This is the very opposite of insipid moderation and ideological laziness. Legal systems are always challenged by the unprecedented and unexpected. Halachic history includes considerations

Gordon Tucker Is it God’s will to thwart Shabbat prayer? of how to resolve the tensions that arise when the law’s plain prescription may subvert its underlying intent. A relevant halachic principle — supported by great Talmudic figures — is that we cannot deduce what is acceptable under normal conditions from what is acceptable when

normal actions are impossible (“ein danin efshar mishe-i-efshar”). But notice: This principle assumes that special rulings are called for when normal actions are impossible. That is precisely why those rulings are not extendable to normal circumstances. The reverse must therefore also be true: from the possible, one cannot infer the impossible. A Talmudic discussion (Sanhedrin 45b) deals with precisely this matter. It addresses how, or whether, a law is to be carried out when it cannot be carried out according to its literal meaning. That discussion ends by quoting from a tractate of the Mishnah dealing with the metzora (“leper”). The biblical rite of purification requires the daubing of sacrificial blood on the right ear of the healed metzora. But what if this unfortunate — and fully healed — individ-

ual has no right ear? The majority ruling in the Mishnah insists that the rite must be performed exactly or not at all. The wretched subject is condemned to a life sentence of impurity. Only Rabbis Eliezer and Shimon disagree, and propose what we might call a “Plan B,” so as to carry out the intent of the law, if not its exact letter. And as if to challenge our own thinking, the Talmud takes no position on this debate, and leaves it with the conclusion that “it is a matter of dispute among the earliest Talmudic sages.” So we ask: What would God want of us today? What shall we do when the rule that a minyan have at its core 10 people “present together” founders on the Covid-19 reality that “present” today cannot safely, or even legally, mean “physically present in one space”? Or when Shabbat restrictions —

Our Holy Obligation to Make Black Lives Matter

believe in equality and equity. I fight against racism. I believe every human being is created in God’s holy image. And yet, I previously grimaced when I heard the rallying cry “Black Lives Matter.” I grimaced really for one reason only: the stance the Movement for Black Lives platform took on Israel back in 2016. The comprehensive document referred to Israel as an “apartheid state” and condemned the United States for its “alliance with Israel and [being] complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people.” Such rhetoric broke my heart.

Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky is a senior rabbi of Beth El Synagogue in Minneapolis.

For the past four years, every time I saw a “Black Lives Matter” placard, I shuddered at the anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic themes it raised for me. It evoked a generations-old rift between the Jewish and the black community, one that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel so vehemently tried to repair over 50 years ago. A rift that I worked to repair during my time with the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York when I was a college student. But something changed for me this past week. St. Louis Park, Minn., has been my home for the past 12 years. St. Louis Park was George Floyd’s home, too. But we lived in, and related to, two different worlds. Tragically, that was because

Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky It’s on all of us to bridge a historic divide. of the color of our skin. Watching George’s senseless death shook me something fierce. For me, it was a haunting image that rocked me to my core. And still, my black friends and neighbors told me they saw something

more than that. They saw a history of police brutality. They saw hundreds of years of neck-kneeling oppression. They saw white privilege leaving the black community behind. They saw a society and country that has repeatedly failed them. And then I realized I was thinking “they” and not “we” — an implicit communal divide. Growing up in central New Jersey, I had friends from all walks of life, diverse races and religions. I was raised in a home where we welcomed all peoples and treated everyone equally. But equality is not the same as equity. Living here in Minnesota I notice the disparity even more. I see that my children’s circle looks different than mine did growing up,

simply because of the geographic makeup of our communities. And part of that is the intrinsic racial divide in this state. The Twin Cities were once a hotbed for racially restrictive deeds and covenants. Mapping Prejudice, a project that exposes the use of racial covenants to reserve land for the exclusive use of white people, according to its website, has revealed in its research over 30,000 racist property deeds there dating back to 1910. A once racially integrated state became a center for segregation and anti-Semitism alike. The creation of Olson Memorial Highway in the 1930s, and subsequently Interstate 94 in the 1970s, destroyed and isolated neighborhoods on the north side — and the black community that thrived there.

which have reasonably grown over the centuries to in-clude actions (such as closing electric circuits) that were hitherto not contemplated — today prevent davening Jews from hearing and responding ht ear? to a musaf kedushah prayer, or hearing a weekly ty ruling in theparashah read from a scroll? ts that the rite I was one of those davening Jews. After nearly ormed exactlythree months without communal worship on ShabThe wretchedbat, I felt empty; what I felt was the hunger to ndemned to arespond to a kedushah, and to answer a blessing of impurity.made over the Torah. When the shul I belong to Eliezer andbegan to stream Shabbat services, I felt the uplift gree, and pro-and the heightened sense of the Presence surely e might call aintended by our rituals. as to carry out If one believes in a personal God aware of what the law, if nothappens in the world, one surely cannot believe r. And as if tothat God willed the deaths of hundreds of thouown thinking, kes no position , and leaves it lusion that “it dispute among lmudic sages.” And that really is just a glimpse into the systemic : What would historic divide. By nearly all measures — poverty, s today? What unemployment, at-risk youth, homeownership — when the rule the disparity between those with white skin and n have at its those with brown bodies is one of the largest in the e “present to- country. ers on the Co- Jewish tradition teaches that we are to be a that “present” “light unto the nations.” But when we spend so safely, or even much time shining and speaking and teaching, n “physically we simply aren’t doing enough listening. And I e space”? Or am very much guilty of that. I know that I need to restrictions — listen more.

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Just like not all white people are evil and not all cops are bad cops, not all members of the black community are anti-Israel or anti-Semitic. When those around me say “Black Lives Matter,” they don’t mean “cursed be Israel.” They se of the geo- don’t mean Jews are the enemy or that Israel is an up of our com- apartheid state. They mean: “We people of color part of that is have been oppressed for centuries. And you have acial divide in not put us on your priority list of urgent changes in this world. And we are hurting and suffering ities were once — and our children are dying. Why don’t we acially restric- matter to you? Why does it seem like we only nd covenants. matter to us?” udice, a proj- To my black brothers and sisters: I see you now, ses the use of I hear you now. Black lives do matter. George nts to reserve Floyd’s life mattered. “Black lives matter” doesn’t exclusive use mean that other lives don’t matter or that all lives ple, according don’t matter. But all lives cannot matter unless we , has revealed work to ensure that black lives matter. h over 30,000 In 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the world y deeds there changed. Now it is on us to make certain that o 1910. A once George Floyd’s death will not be in vain. We can rated state be- argue and joust and cry about Israel another day. for segregation Today, we have a categorical moral imperative to tism alike. The hear the pain of our black brothers and sisters. We son Memorial have to recognize the holiness in their struggle he 1930s, and and their plight. And I know in my heart of hearts Interstate 94 in that I have to stand with them. We have to stand troyed and iso- with them. And so now and evermore we must all rhoods on the say Black Lives Matter. And it is high time for the and the black world to wake up to that reality, welcome it and at thrived there. assimilate it. ■

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sands of innocent people from the destructive power of a virus. So, the pandemic must be seen as among those contingencies that God or-dained for the world, in order that human life be morally meaningful. Would God then will it that an “inference from the possible to the impossible” thwart seekers of God’s Presence in Shabbat community prayer for months, without a foreseeable end? Or might God see such a posture as another form of idolatry — in this case, the worship of the literal meaning of laws given in human, and therefore non-omniscient, language? These are the serious halachic and theological issues that have animated Conservative Judaism’s

struggles with this crisis, as they have with the weighty moral issues of women’s rights, LGBTQ persons and our relationships with the gentile world. It is not a paucity of passion that puts one at a midpoint between the authority of the past and the discoveries of the present and future. It is, instead, a special kind of passion, for reaping the benefits both of the insights of the classics and of the ongoing revelations that come from life’s experiences. I take pride in being a player in that “striving for the sake of Heaven.” It is important that your readership be given more good windows into that sacred stage. ■

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Tokar “was asked to come back the next day. He understood.” The coronavirus pandemic has impacted all aspects of the Jewish mourning ritual: There are few in-person funerals; eulogies are recited at graveside and attendees are limited in number; some cemeteries require attendees to remain in their cars; and shiva gatherings are done on Zoom. And as the Covid-19 crisis has dragged on through the spring, the Hebrew Free Burial Association has also become overwhelmed with bodies of indigent Jews who need burial. Mount Richmond Cemetery is owned by the association, which was founded in 1888. It handles all burials of Jews who die without funds for funeral expenses. Since 2010, it has averaged about 360 burials annually. But so far this year the number is nearly 300 “and the year is not even half finished,” according to Amy Koplow, the organization’s executive director. “We did 10 burials in one day,” she recalled. “That was a record breaker. But the next week, we did 11 burials in one day. … The majority of our cases are from the five boroughs, with most coming from Brooklyn and Queens. Now, there have been many cases from Nassau and Suffolk and Westchester, as well as from New Jersey and Rockland. We serve everybody who is Jewish.” “It’s been crazy,” said Rabbi Plafker, the cemetery’s chaplain for more than 45 years. He observed that the most difficult part has been “keeping up with the schedule.” Normally when bodies arrive, they are taken to a building where they are prepared by the chevra kadisha, volunteers who prepare the body for burial in accordance with Jewish law. But because of the increasing number of coronavirus victims, Koplow said they ran out of room and bought a free-standing refrigerator to store an additional four bodies. “We quickly saw there was no way that would be sufficient either, because the week of March 29 we did 25 burials,” Koplow said as she looked through her diary. “In two weeks, we had gone from 10 to 25 burials and of those, 14 were Covid-19. So on April 3, we had to buy a 40-foot refrigerator trailer and had a carpenter go in and build shelving to store 100 bodies. “The trailer cost us $12,200 and it cost us money to have it delivered on a flatbed truck. Then we hooked it up to a diesel generator that we rented at a cost of $100. I eventually paid a contractor to hook it up to electricity because it was getting too expensive.”

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ebrew Free Burial raised about $1 million last year in donations. Koplow said it will need to raise $2 million by the end of this year because of all the added expenses. She noted that UJA-Federation of New York recognized the need earlier this year and already awarded a grant of $250,000. Because of the surge in burials, Hebrew Free Burial was on the verge of running out of the prayer shawls in which bodies are interred. In early March

it had about 60 taleisim, but they were gone by the second week of April. A call went out for more and within 48 hours 150 had been collected. It now has at least 2,000 that have been donated from as far away as Oregon and Florida. Although the number of deaths per day from Covid-19 has been declining since early May, Hebrew Free Burial plans to keep the refrigerator trailer in the event of a surge. New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner may also release bodies now being stored in its refrigerated trailers. A spokesperson for the medical examiner said the city has as many as 1,500 bodies in “permanent storage” awaiting their family’s plans regarding cremation or burial. She did not know how many might be Jewish.

“It’s been crazy,” said Rabbi Shmuel Plafker, the chaplain of Staten Island’s Mount Richmond Cemeter for more than 45 years. He observed that the most difficult part has been “keeping up with the schedule.” Top right, a Hebrew Free Burial refrigerator trailer the group plans to keep in the event of a surge of Covid deaths. P HOTOS COU RTESY OF H EB R EW F R EE B U R IAL ASSOCIATION Koplow said “we expect at some point when the medical examiner’s office does its research that there will be many, many cases of Jewish people whose bodies were not claimed. We get cases like that in non-Covid-19 times.” The medical examiner’s office does an initial investigation to identify families of unclaimed bodies. If none are found, the case is turned over to the public administrator, whose office administers estates and protects the deceased’s property from waste, loss or theft; makes burial arrangements when there are no close relatives, and conducts an investigation to discover all assets. If no relatives can be found, a public administrator looks for evidence of the person’s religion, such as a mezuzah or a Chanukah menorah in the home. If the person is Jewish, the Hebrew Free Burial Association handles the burial. But, said Lois Rosenblatt, the public administrator for Queens, “because we are under a lockdown, our staff is not going into people’s apartments at this time.” As a result, unclaimed bodies are buried in New York’s City’s potter’s field on Hart Island, one of the largest public cemeteries in the United States.

If a relative is later found, or the deceased’s religion is eventually determined, “people will be disinterred and buried where they properly belonged,” said Rosenblatt. Koplow said if Hebrew Free Burial Association learns of a Jew who was buried in potter’s field, it will ask to disinter and then rebury the body “with a Jewish burial in our cemetery.” “We are dealing with a Queens disinterment right now,” she said, noting that her organization pays all the costs. A day after being asked to wait, Michael Tokar, who lives just two miles from Mount Richmond Cemetery, returned for his father’s burial. He sat in his car near the grave and listened on his cell phone while Rabbi Plafker officiated at the burial service while wearing a protective suit, mask and gloves. Tokar said later that his father, who emigrated from the former Soviet Union 25 years ago, had gone to the hospital after experiencing kidney pain, was diagnosed with Covid-19 and died two days later. Tokar said he first learned that his father had been ill only when the hospital called to say he died. ■

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THE ARTS A Friendship of ‘Rothian’ Proportions

Ben Taylor chronicles a long-running conversation ‘neither [of us] could live without.’ Sandee Brawarsky Culture Editor

hilip Roth and Benjamin Taylor first met in 1994 at a party for a mutual friend. In a quick conversation, Roth asked Taylor what he was reading (Bellow’s “Herzog”), followed by Roth quoting the book and then suggesting, “Let’s have lunch, kid.” But that wouldn’t happen for a few BOOKMARKS years, although the two men, separated in age by two decades, eventually became the closest of friends. In the summer of 1998, Taylor, an author and critic, wrote to Roth after reading the proofs of “I Married A Communist” and then a few days later, Roth called. A conversation punctuated with laughter began, with Roth clearly leading, Taylor ably following. “Then he hung up without notice and I felt I’d been danced off the edge of the world,” Taylor writes in “Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth” by Benjamin Taylor (Penguin). Three years after that, they had that long-delayed lunch, the first of hundreds of meals and thousands of hours together. Theirs was a friendship of empathy, ease and high energy forged in the celebrated author’s later years — when Roth was in his 60s and Taylor in his 40s. Both were the grandchildren of immigrants, Roth from Newark and Taylor from Fort Worth, Texas. That they were both Jewish men, Taylor tells The Jewish Week, “gave us a lot of common ground.” “It was a friendship without ulterior motive on either side; we delighted in each other’s company,” Taylor says, recalling his history of friendship with people of his parents’ generation, “a generation I am rather in awe of.” They laughed well together and spoke of dreams, baseball, food, fic-

tion, Bette Davis and Ava Gardner (Roth had an affair with her in London in the 1980s) and especially their shared interest in American history — and Roth enjoyed comparing notes on their sexual history. “I can’t be the first gay man to have been an older straight man’s mainstay,” Taylor writes, adding, “The degree of attachment surprised us both. Were we lovers? Obviously not. Were we in love? Not exactly. Sufficient to say that ours was a conversation that neither could have lived without.” Two years after Roth’s death, three biographies are in the works — an official biography by Blake Bailey, who wrote biographies of John Cheever and others and has had exclusive access to his papers; Steven Zipperstein, who is writing for the Yale Jewish Lives series; and Ira Nadel, a professor at the University of British Columbia who is working on a more academic book. A memoir, “Here We Are” is permeated with love. Taylor writes masterfully about his best friend (as they called each other) and readers get to witness a kinder, more generous and loving Roth than they might have imagined. It’s a story of real life, or as Roth called it, “the unwritten world.” The author of the award-winning 2017 memoir “The Hue and Cry at Our House”; two other works of nonfiction, “Proust: The Search” and “Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay”; along with two novels, “Tales Out of School” and “The Book of Getting Even.” Taylor also edited several literary volumes including “Saul Bellow: Letters” and Bellow’s “There is Simply too Much to Talk About: Collected Nonfiction.” A founding faculty member in the New School’s Graduate Program of Writ-

Ben Taylor says he and Roth laughed well together and spoke of dreams, baseball, food, fiction, Bette Davis and Ava Gardner (Roth had an affair with her in London in the 1980s) and especially their shared interest in American history. A L L I SO N W E ST ing, he also teaches in the Columbia University School of the Arts. Taylor knows Roth’s novels well, and uses them to advance the narrative while separating Roth’s life from the lives of his characters. He recalls a line from “Sabbath’s Theater” that “the tenderness was out of control” and says that sometimes one felt that in Roth’s presence, “so different from the crusty public image, the flinty public persona. That wasn’t Philip.” The author says that he knew there were many “Roth haters” in the world, and he has heard from many since the book was published. But he wasn’t prepared “for the other extreme, the people who are protective of his memory and feel I betrayed his trust.” In response, he emphasizes that the memoir was Roth’s idea. Frequently, Taylor would spend a week with Roth at his home in Connecticut, with Roth retreating to his studio during the days and Taylor writing in the main house. “After teasing through something, he was full of joy. He could be very buoyant. Nothing invigorated him like a good day’s writing. Add to this that he had no interest in alcohol — a great advantage,” Taylor says. Early on in their friendship, Roth told Taylor: “What I care about is individuals enmeshed in some nexus of particulars. Philosophical generalization is completely alien to me — some other writer’s work. I’m a philosophical illiterate. All my brain power has to do with specificity, life’s proliferating minutiae. Wouldn’t know what to do with a general idea

if it were hand-delivered. Would try to catch the FedEx man before he left the driveway. ‘Wrong address, pal! Big ideas? No, thanks!’” What for Taylor is “Rothian,” is that “alongside this well-known tough-mindedness there is the Rothian tenderness, the momentary way back out of all complexity, back to when he’d just been Bess and Herman’s boy, not yet also Franz Kafka’s and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s…” The Weequahic section of Newark was his Eden. Roth speaks of his family life as being very happy, with no trace of the overbearing Jewish parents he would write about. About “Portnoy’s Complaint,” the best-selling novel that attracted a firestorm of attention, including condemnation from Israeli philosopher Gershom Scholem, Roth says, “The book had too much impact. I was not Norman Mailer. Trouble was not my middle name. The book made me too famous, determined too much of my life to come. People don’t believe me when I say this, but I wish I’d just let the individual chapters stand in those magazines. (The book was first excerpted in Esquire, Partisan Review and New American Review.) Taylor, who accompanied Roth when he received an honorary doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2014, says that Roth was genuinely pleased by the recognition, that he had felt misunderstood by many in the Jewish community. At JTS, he was greeted with a standing ovation. “He would on no account have

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YEMENITE MEN AND WOMEN AND THEIR MUSIC Musicologist Barak Oded will show the uniqueness of Yemenite song and prayers as they were distinct from other communities on the Arabian Peninsula. Prayers were chanted, and there wasn’t and still isn’t music and song in liturgical services. Men would sing songs based on Jewish texts, in Hebrew, while women would sing in Arabic about daily life. This presentation focuses on the men. — Sunday, June 7, 12 p.m., American Sephardic Federation, americansephardi. org. Free.

Israel. — Monday, June 8, 11 a.m., Virtual Streicker, emanuelnyc.org/streickercenter/virtual. Free.

‘MOSSAD’: VIRTUAL SCREENING & Q+A When an American tech billionaire is kidnapped in Jerusalem, the CIA decides to send its own agent

Avenue for the first-ever day-long Virtual Museum Mile Festival, as culture enthusiasts from around the world will now be able to join New Yorkers during this unprecedented moment. — Tuesday, June 9, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., The Jewish Museum, thejewishmuseum.org. Free.

‘THE ELECTRIFIERS’ “The Electrifiers” won the 1984 Best New Artist Award, but have been stuck in traffic on the highway to international stardom ever since.

Hannah Weiss on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th century: splitting the atom. Weiss believes the weapon’s creation will secure an end to future wars, but as a Jewish woman living under the harsh rule of the Third Reich, her research is belittled, overlooked and eventually stolen by her German colleagues. — Wednesday, June 10, 12:30-1 p.m., Jewish Book Council, jewishbookcouncil. org. Free.

versation with legendary Broadway producer Emanuel “Manny” Azenberg, moderated by acclaimed journalist Budd Mishkin. — Wednesday, June 10, 7:30 p.m., Folksbiene!LIVE, nytf. org/live/.

‘CHAINED’ After 16 years on the police force, Rashi (Eran Naim) is suspended after an incident at work. His world is thrown into disarray, and so is that of his family. An intensely realistic profile of a seem-

‘PEACHES AND CREAM’: VIRTUAL SCREENING & Q+A Zuri Shostack (a neurotic film director played by the comedy film’s director, Gur Bentwich) experiences a breakdown on the night his new film is released. His fears of failure, death and losing control rise to the surface and lead to a wild night of hijinks. — The film will be available for ticketholders to stream from Saturday, June 6, 8:30 p.m. EDT, until Sunday, June 7, 8:30 p.m. EDT. The live virtual Q+A with actor/director Gur Bentwich, actor/editor Maya Kenig and other cast members is on Sunday, June 7, 4 p.m. EDT. — Israeli Film Center Festival, israelfilmcenterstream. org/festival-schedule. $8.

CHEF MICHAEL SOLOMONOV’S EDI BLE JOU RN EY ACROSS ISRAEL Food isn’t just the sustenance we ingest; it’s comfort and creativity, love and hospitality. James Beard Award-winning chef, author and owner of Philadelphia’s Zahav restaurant will offer all of that — and a doorway into the heart and soul of

A scene from “There Are No Lions in Tel Aviv,” about the man who fulfilled a longtime dream to build a zoo in Tel Aviv. Part of the Israel Film Center Festival, which runs virtually from June 7-14.

VIRTUAL MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL Join the Jewish Museum and seven other New York City museums along Fifth

Thirty years after their win, no one remembers their hit song, and the aging band still struggles to catch its real big break between gigs at nursing homes and cheap dives. Boaz Armoni’s comedy film features cameo appearances by real-life ’80s Israeli pop icons. — It will be available for ticket holders to stream from Sunday, June 7, 7 p.m. until Sunday, June 14, 11:59 p.m. A live virtual Q+A will stream Tuesday, June 9, 5 p.m., Israel Film Center Festival, israelfilmcenterstream.org/ festival/festival-schedule/. $8.

JAN ELIASBERG: ‘HANNAH’S WAR’ Jew¬ish Book Coun¬cil sits down with Jan Eliasberg, author of “Hannah’s War,” for a quick 30-minute chat. The wartime thriller features groundbreaking physicist Dr.

‘THE ART OF WAITING’ Liran (Roy Assaf) and Tali (Nelly Tagar) are a married couple in their thirties dreaming of having a child together. Pressure from their families and the challenge of fertility treatment threaten their relationship with comedy and hardship that accompany the process of becoming parents. Will their love pass the test? — The dramatic comedy film will be available for ticketholders to stream from Sunday, June 7, 7 p.m., until Sunday, June 14, 11:59 p.m. The live virtual Q+A with director Erez Tadmor is Wednesday, June 10, 5 p.m., Israeli Film Center Festival, Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, jccmanhattan.org. $8.

FROM THE BRONX TO BROADWAY A re-broadcast of a con-

‘DAYAN: THE FIRST FAMILY’ “Moshe Dayan was radioactive,” says his grandson, Sa’ar, as he tries to explain how throughout Dayan’s life and decades after his death, his family still struggles with the large shadow cast by one of the most interesting and enigmatic characters in Israel’s history. The TV series follows five generations of the Dayan family — “The Israeli Kennedys” — whose story mirrors that of Israel itself. — The series will be available for ticketholders to stream from Sunday, June 7, 7 p.m. until Sunday, June 14, 11:59 p.m. The live virtual Q+A with director Anat Goren will be Sunday, June 14, 4:30 p.m., Israel Film Center Festival, israelfilmcenterstream.org/festivalschedule. $8.

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to join the Israeli Mossad team’s rescue operation. A hilarious international espionage caper ensues as the Mossad and the CIA compete to save the world from an international terror organization, ala “Airplane!” and “Naked Gun.” Starring Tsahi Halevi (“Fauda”), Efrat Dor, Tal Friedman (“Eretz Nehederet”), Adi Himelbloy and Dvir Benedek. — The film will be available for streaming June 7-14, for 48 hours after the ticketholder clicks play for the first time. The live virtual Q+A with director Alon Gur Arye is on Monday, June 8, 5 p.m. EDT, Israel Film Center Festival, israelfilmcenterstream.org/ festival-schedule. $8.

available for ticketholders to stream from Sunday, June 7, 7 p.m. until Sunday, June 14, 11:59 p.m. The live virtual Q+A with director Duki Dror will be Friday, June 12, 4 p.m., Israel Film Center Festival, israelfilmcenterstream. org/festival-schedule. $8.

ingly strong man whose questionable claim to power may lead to tragedy. — The film will be available for ticketholders to stream from Sunday, June 7, 7 p.m. until Sunday, June 14, 11:59 p.m. The live virtual Q+A with director Yaron Shani and producer Naomi Levari will be Thursday, June 11, 5 p.m., Israel Film Center Festival, israelfilmcenterstream.org/ festival-schedule. $8.

‘THERE ARE NO LIONS IN TEL AVIV’ In 1935, Max Shorenstein left his position as chief rabbi of Copenhagen to fulfill a longtime dream: to build a zoo in Tel Aviv. Against all odds, the Tel Aviv Zoo became one of the city’s greatest attractions. Yet envy, greed and corruption eventually saw Shorenstein banished from the paradise he built. — The film will be

The story of a remarkable athlete who captured the spirit of a nation, and how he ultimately triumphed despite the odds. In the summer of 1976, Aulcie Perry was spotted by a scout for Maccabi Tel Aviv while playing basketball in Harlem, and was signed immediately. Just a year later, Perry, who took the Israeli basketball team to their first European championship, started dating supermodel Tami Ben Ami, converted to Judaism, and became one of Israel’s biggest athletes. But not all was well behind the scenes. — The film will be available for ticket holders to stream from Sunday, June 7, 7 p.m. until Sunday, June 14, 11:59 p.m. The live virtual Q+A with director Dani Menkin will be Sunday, June 14, 6 p.m. Israel Film Center Festival, israelfilmcenterstream. org/festival-schedule. $8.

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hat does it take to establish trust? In a sense, the entire narrative thrust of the Book of Numbers is about the process of the Israelites learning to trust in God, to be ready to enter the land that has been promised to them. But for a people who have been slaves and illtreated by their harsh taskmasters in the past, basic trust is hard to come by. That is true even at the most fundamental level of society: the family unit of husband and wife, which is illustrated by the ritual of the sotah in this week’s Shabbat parsha, Naso. If two people Naso in a relationship do not have faith in one other, and can’t assume that each has the best interests of the other at heart, there is no basis for the relationship to continue. When there is a suspicion of a breach, a way forward must be created. That is what the sotah is about. It is a one-sided test of the wife’s fidelity, to be sure, in that only the husband can test the wife. But remember that before DNA testing to establish paternity existed, a woman would have more certainty than the man about the actual father’s identity. Under the strict mores of biblical society, men were anxious that offspring who are not their blood relations would inherit their property. It might seem odd for the Torah to discuss at such great length this trial by ordeal, the only one of its kind in the Torah. But if we place it into the context of the need for trust, we can begin to grasp why there are 31 verses devoted to it. At its core, according to Jacob Milgrom in his JPS commentary on Numbers, is the oath that the suspected adulteress must make [Num. 5: 19-24]. The oath says that if the woman has in fact had relations Beth Kissileff is the author of the novel “Questioning Return” and editor of the anthology “Reading Genesis.”

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continued from page 21 wanted to go through life as anything other than a Jew,” Taylor says. While he had instructed Taylor and others that he didn’t want any Jewish ritual at his funeral and burial in the Bard College Cemetery, he did agree that his friends could cover the casket with dirt, the Jewish custom, as he told Taylor he had first witnessed at Saul Bellow’s funeral in Vermont. What would Roth have thought of the present moment in America? “He would have felt the tragedy of ghastly leadership in a time of national peril. He was in awe of Lincoln and Roosevelt; he saw it as the American luck to have had two such leaders at the two most painful moments of our history. With Donald Trump he felt our luck had run out,” Taylor says. When Roth stopped writing — or as Taylor points out, more correctly, stopped making art, as he kept writing all matter of notes — he would sometimes say he had never been happier, and at other times that “a great dynamism has left me and I feel it.” As

with another man, that God should ery Rosh HaShanah. What I find make her a curse and imprecation pleasing about this story is that among her people [5: 21], and the it is Hannah’s knowledge of the woman must say “amen, amen ” laws of sotah and how they work [Num. 5: 22]. The words are writthat enables her to reach her goal. ten on parchment and dissolved in It is the trust she puts in God to water [Num. 5:22-23], which she carry through with the law as it must drink. is written that changes her fate. If she is guilty, she will be inferKnowledge of law, however it tile. If she is not guilty, “she shall disadvantages the woman, creates be unharmed and willing to retain agency for her, as well as the outseed” (i.e. she is fertile and can come she seeks. Beth Kisseleff bear a child). She and her spouse This portion of Naso is always can have children together, free of read immediately after Shavuot, How do you concern about paternity and full of the holiday when the Torah is restore faith trust in the exclusivity of the relagiven. It is a time to think about tionship. what it takes to have a relationship in a broken One woman in the Bible who both with another human and with was unable to bear a child had her God, through the medium of underpartnership? trust in God eroded. The biblical standing our holy texts. We see that Hannah was bitter and unhappy the process of building trust can be and went to the sanctuary at Shiloh to pray. There, complicated and fraught and can be easily eroded. according to the Talmud in Brachot 31, she threat- However, both social rituals and knowledge of the ened God, brazenly. According to the Talmud, she law and its intricacies can aid in increasing harmony declared, “of all of the hosts and hosts that You cre- and trust in a society. ■ ated in Your world, is it difficult in Your eyes to grant me one son?” She then threatens a ruse to RiveRside gain a child: She “will go and seclude myself with MeMoRial Chapel another man before Elkanah, my husband. Since For 212-362-6600 Generations I secluded myself, they will force me to drink the RiversideMemorialChapel.com A Symbol of Jewish Tradition. sotah water to determine whether or not I have committed adultery. I will be found innocent, and since Shabbat Shalom You will not make Your Torah false, I will bear chilCandlelighting, Readings: dren.” As proof, she quotes our parsha: “And if the Candlelighting: 8:06 p.m. woman was not defiled, but was pure, then she shall Torah reading: Numbers 4:21-7:89 be acquitted and she shall conceive” [Num. 5:28]. As we know, the ploy works — God does enHaftarah: Judges 8: 2-25 able her to conceive and bear Samuel, the future Shabbat ends: 9:06 p.m. prophet, and her story is read as the haftarah ev-

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Taylor writes, “He missed the bonfire he’d been.” Over the years, Roth would gift his friend pages of manuscripts, new typescripts and other papers. After Roth’s death, Taylor gave the material to the Manuscripts Division of Princeton’s Firestone Library for safekeeping. He did keep one gift bequeathed to him — the map of Newark that Roth kept with him from his days at the University of Chicago until his death. It hung in his Manhattan apartment, and now is in the front hallway of Taylor’s apartment, where he sees it every day. “I miss him most when there’s something funny that I urgently have to report,” Taylor says. “Inwardly, I do, several times a day. The conversation goes on. Death is powerless to end a conversation like that.” ■

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continued from page 16 of Israel’s capital to the Palestinian Arabs. Nor did the application of Israeli civilian law to the Golan Heights prevent prime ministers Rabin, Peres, Barak, Olmert and even Netanyahu from offering to withdraw in order to achieve peace. Except for the unavoidable separation be-

tween Gaza and the Judea and Samaria portion, the territory slated to be given to the Palestinian Arabs in the American plan is contiguous and is far more viable than the scattered pieces the original United Nations Partition Plan slated for what became Israel, but the Zionist leaders accepted that plan. Improvements can be made, but they require negotiations between the parties and an interest in a peaceful resolution of differences. Israel is eager for both, but it doesn’t have a partner. Indeed, it’s now a dozen years since Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas last pretended to negotiate seriously and four years since his foreign minister declared the Palestinian Arabs would never again negotiate directly with Israel. Let’s leave the invalid criticism of Israel to our enemies. Alan Stein President Emeritus, PRIMER-Connecticut Founder, PRIMER-Massachusetts and PRIMER-Israel Promoting Responsibility in Middle East Reporting

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CAPRI REAL HOLDINGS LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 5/22/20. Off. Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served & shall mail proc.: c/o Christopher Stout, 25 Shadyside Ave., Staten Island, NY 10309. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10

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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

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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 DILSHAAD VAD RE LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/27/2020. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 220 East 65th St., Apt 4C, NY, NY 10065, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26 DM Boss Realty LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/27/2020. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 12 Roberta Ct, Valhalla, NY 10595. General Purpose. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 EDR SURVEY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/31/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 574 Yale Dr, Oceanside, NY 11572. Registered agent address c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/8,15,22,29 6/5,12 Edson Trade Support LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/9/2009. Office in Bronx Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 1321 Needham Ave., Bronx, NY 10469. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Principal business location: 11 West Prospect Ave., Unit 102, Mount Vernon, NY 10550. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26

EMPLOYEE CHECKPOINT LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/21/2020. Office in Nassau Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC\~ whom process may be served.\~ SSNY shall mail process to 1140 Franklin Ave., Ste. 206, Garden City, NY 11530, which is also the principal business location.\~ Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 ESSENTIAL USA, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/06/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 17 Beth Lane, Plainview, NY 11803. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26 FRANCIOSA 2910 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/15/20. 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, 784 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10462. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/8,15,22,29 6/5,12 FRKFLO 3551 LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 6/20/2018. Cty: Bronx. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Linda Goodman, 679 West 239th Street, Apt. 5B, Riverdale, NY 10463. General Purpose JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 GRIFFIN SOLUTIONS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/11/20. 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, 48 Grand Street, New Rochelle, NY 10801. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26 GSB OLIVER LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/21/2020. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 441 Central Park Ave., Ste. 2, Hartsdale, NY 10530. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 GTPK INVESTORS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/26/20. Latest date to dissolve: 12/31/2119. 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, 65A & 67 Cuttermill Road, Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 HALO ACTIVATION LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/15/20. 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, 330 Forest Avenue, Suite 101, Locust Valley, NY 11560. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26 Hawkins Realty LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/15/2020. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 546 Sherman Avenue, Thornwood, NY 10594. General Purpose JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 HERTZ ENGINEERING, 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, 515 Anderson Street, Baldwin, NY 11510. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Professional Engineering. JW 5/8,15,22,29 6/5,12 JAAK, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/13/20. 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, 50 Margaret Avenue, Lawrence, NY 11559. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26 KEGB HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/29/20. 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, 970 N Broadway, Unit 301, Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/8,15,22,29 6/5,12

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26 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, 76 Powell Place, Farmingdale, NY 11735. Registered agent address c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3

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

MARIPOSA THERAPY SERVICES LCSW, PLLC Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: MARIPOSA THERAPY SERVICES LCSW, PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/23/2020. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the 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 served upon him/her is The Llc, 26 Court Street, Suite 2208 Brooklyn, NY, 11242. Purpose/character of LLC: For the practice of therapy. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 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

KING’S LANDING PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/14/2020. Office in Richmond Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 66 Plumtree Ln., Staten Island, NY 10309, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10

MR & MRS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/27/20. Latest date to dissolve: 12/31/2119. 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, 614 Jericho Turnpike, New Hyde Park, NY 11040. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26

LCO VENTURES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/28/20. 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, 100 Lido Boulevard, #188, Point Lookout, NY 11569. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10

Mytherapysearch, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/23/2020. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 727 Bleeker Ave., Mamaroneck, NY 10543. General Purpose. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26

Leahy Specialties, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/20/2020. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Kristin Ciorra, 51 Whippoorwill Road East, Armonk, NY 10504. General Purpose JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 Leander, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/30/2020. Cty: New York. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Jerry Gorovoy, 12 E. 18th St., 5th Fl, NY, NY 10003. General Purpose. Latest date to dissolve: 12/31/2045 JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26 LITTLE GUYS GAL LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/29/09. 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, 437 Ocean Avenue, Massapequa Park, NY 11762. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 LOJA & GONZALEZ LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/21/2020. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 922 Lyman Ave., Peekskill, NY 10566, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 LONG HAUL SNACKS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/14/20. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Hassin Law Group, 330 Sunrise Highway, Suie 200, Rockville Centre, NY 11560. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/8,15,22,29 6/5,12 MAIN STREET SOCIAL LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/27/20. 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, 71 Gazza Boulevard, Farmingdale, NY 11735. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 MARGARETAVE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/13/20. 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, 50 Margaret Avenue, Lawrence, NY 11559. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26

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 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 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 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 1458 E87TH ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/25/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1458 E 87th Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11236. Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10

Notice of Formation of 1450 Laurel Ave LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/13/20. Office location: Westchester County. Princ. office of LLC: 15 Marcourt Dr., Chappaqua, NY 10514. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Jason Amster at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 Notice of Formation of 1866 REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/22/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1864 86th Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11214. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 Notice of Formation of 375 Wyandanch Avenue LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/22/20. 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, 210 Jericho Tpke., Mineola, NY 11501. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 Notice of Formation of 3900 GREYSTONE AVE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/19/20. Office location: Bronx County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Neil C. Dwork, Esq., c/o Rosenberg & Estis, P.C., 733 Third Ave., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful activity JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 Notice of Formation of 4 Cox LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/22/20. 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, 135 Crossways Park Dr., Ste. 300, Woodbury, NY 11797. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 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 458 GROUP LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/24/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 458 68th Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11220. Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 Notice of Formation of 56 INWOOD ROAD LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/13/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP, Attn: Jennifer V. Abelaj, Esq., 605 Third Ave., NY, NY 10158. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 Notice of Formation of 6 RICHARDSON LANE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/15/20. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Cohen & Cohen, LLP, 767 Third Ave., 31st Fl., NY, NY 10017. The regd. agent of the company upon whom and at which process against the company can be served is Richard N. Cohen, Esq., Cohen & Cohen, LLP, 767 Third Ave., 31st Fl., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 Notice of Formation of 8 FRANKLIN PLACE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/13/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Davdioff Hutcher & Citron LLP, Attn: Jennifer V. Abelaj, Esq., 605 Third Ave., NY, NY 10158. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19

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 ESNY-IBMYORKTOWN, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/21/20. Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 80 State St.,Albany, New York, 12207. Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10

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 BRENDA AND DIDI, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/29/20. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 6 Island Drive, Rye, NY 10580. Purpose: any lawful act. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3

Notice of Formation of FELICIA TRICOME HMUA 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 500 W 56th Street, Apt. Ph09, New York, New York, 10019. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19

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 Buying Boardwalk LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/03/2020. Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 50 Clinton St Suite 200, Hempstead, New York, 11550. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19

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 AG MONARCH LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/22/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 50 Battery Place Ste 9t, New York, New York, 10280. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 Notice of formation of ALBION VENTURES LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/16/08. 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, 255 Executive Dr Plainview, NY 11803. Purpose: Any lawful purpose JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26 Notice of Formation of Amazon Sellers GHF LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/21/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 230 5th Avenue, New York, New York, 10001. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 Notice of Formation of Artine Advisory, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on February 10, 2020. Office location: New York County . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy to principal business location: 332 Bowery #4, New York, NY 10012. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 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 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 BALDOR FISH, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/30/20. Office location: Bronx County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Baldor Speciality Foods, Inc., 155 Food Center Dr., Bronx, NY 10474. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 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 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 CASCIATO 20201 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/08/20. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Chris Casciato, 941 Park Ave., Apt. 10A, NY, NY 10028. 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 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26 Notice of Formation of CASCIATO 20202 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/08/20. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Chris Casciato, 941 Park Ave., Apt. 10A, NY, NY 10028. 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 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26 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 DGO GROUP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/11/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26 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 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 ERIKA GROBAN PSYCHOLOGY, PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/15/20. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC 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. Purpose: Psychology. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3

Notice of Formation of Geoffrey Keezer Songs, LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/8/20. Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 45 Lee Avenue, Ossining, Massachusetts, 10562. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 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 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 HDM ASSOCIATES, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/05/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Howard Marsh, 62 Private Rd., Mill Neck, NY 11765. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 Notice of Formation of HOLT MACHINERY NEW YORK LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/22/20. Office location: Richmond 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. Any lawful purpose JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 Notice of Formation of Home Comberation LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/1/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 4905 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, 11230. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 Notice of Formation of JNO GROUP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/11/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26 Notice of Formation of JUNKO & HUNTER LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/12/20. Office location: Nassau County. Princ. office of LLC: 36 Fairview Ave., Great Neck, NY 11023. 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 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 Notice of formation of Klondike, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/22/2020. Off. loc.: Richmond Cnty. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 464 Klondike Ave., Staten Island, NY 10314. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 Notice of Formation of QQJ REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/12/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1629 70th St, Brooklyn, New York, 11204. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19

Notice of Formation of LEJL BAUM, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/27/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1430 Stevenson Rd., Hewlett, NY 11557. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26 Notice of Formation of Lifekey Health LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/27/2020. Office location: Nassau County . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy to principal business location: 59 Middle Ln, Jericho NY 11753. Purpose: To engage in any lawful activity. JW 5/8,15,22,29 6/5,12 Notice of Formation of MadeOfHonor LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/6/2020. Office location: New York County . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy to principal business location: 1500 Lexington Avenue Apt 10J, New York, NY 10029. P urpose: Any lawful act or activity. JW 5/8,15,22,29 6/5,12 Notice of Formation of MINDFUL NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES, PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/11/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Cullen and Dykman LLP, Attn: Hayley Dryer, Esq., 100 Quentin Roosevelt Blvd., Garden City, NY 11530. Purpose: Profession of Psychology. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26 Notice of Formation of MUCHAN AIR LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/04/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 Notice of Formation of Nancy Cohen Genetic Counseling, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/13/2020. Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 14 Juniper Pl, Briarcliff Manor, New York, 10510. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 Notice of Formation of NEW THINK 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 390 Rugby Road, Suite L1, Brooklyn, New York, 11226. Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 Notice of Formation of NLP VENTURES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/19/20. Office location: Westchester County. Princ. office of LLC: 228 Trenor Dr., New Rochelle, NY 10804. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 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 RMO GROUP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/11/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26

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 Formation of Siyi American Damper Equipment Technology LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/07/19. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 58 Dutchess Ave Staten Island, New York, 10304. Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10

Notice of Qual. of AE ASSOCIATION ENDEAVORS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 04/09/20. Office location: Westchester. LLC formed in DE on 6/2/2017. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 76 River Road Briarcliff, New York, 10510. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19

Notice of Formation of Sophie Halter Consulting LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/24/20. 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: 421 East 65th Street, Apt. 7, New York, NY 10065. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26

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 Formation of SSAJ REALTY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/20/20. Office location: Richmond County. Princ. office of LLC: 4244 Hylan Blvd., Staten Island, NY 10312. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 93 Wright Ave., Staten Island, NY 10303. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3

Notice of Qual. of ARES MANAGEMENT LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 5/13/20.\~ Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 12/27/2001. 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 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26

Notice of Formation of THE HANDLE HELPER LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/20/20.Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 26 Hynard Place, Baldwin Place, New York, 10505. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19

Notice of Qual. of JR-HD ENTERPRISES I, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/29/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 4/22/20. 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 5/8,15,22,29 6/5,12

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 Qual. of LES STUDIO SPACE LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 03/16/20. Office location: Westchester. LLC formed in DE on 6/2/2017. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 76 River Road, Briarcliff, New York, 10510. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19

Notice of Formation of VALLEYRITE MANAGEMENT PROS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/11/20. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Adrienne Flipse Hausch, 194 Old Country Rd., Mineola, NY 11501. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26 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 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 REDROC, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/21/20. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 2/3/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 31 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11211. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19

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 RIVERDALE STUDIO SPACE LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 03/20/20. Office location: Westchester. LLC formed in DE on 6/2/2017. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 76 River Road Briarcliff, New York, 10510. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19

Notice of Qual. of 501 MONTGOMERY LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 03/12/20. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 10/19/2015. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 507 Bethany Road, Burbank, California, 91504. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19

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 Qual. of WEST HARLEM SPACE LLC.Auth. filed with SSNY on 03/16/20. Office location: Westchester. LLC formed in DE on 6/2/2017. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 76 River Road, Briarcliff, New York, 10510. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 Notice of Qual. of XYST, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/21/20. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 2/3/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 31 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11211. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 Notice of Qualification of 140 SUMMER PARTNERS ONSHORE LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/26/20. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/07/20. Princ. office of LP: 1450 Broadway, 28th Fl., NY, NY 10018. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Jessica Davis at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal & Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 Notice of Qualification of AHP HH&H Holdco, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/29/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/15/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o BlueMountain Capital Management, LLC, 280 Park Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10017. The regd. agent of the company upon whom and at which process against the company can be served is 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 DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 Notice of Qualification of ANRP (TW II INTERMEDIATE DC Z), LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/05/20. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/20/19. Princ. office of LLC: One Manhattanville Rd., Ste. 201, Purchase, NY 10577. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: John J. Suydam, 9 W. 57th St., 43rd Fl., NY, NY 10019. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with The Secy. of State of the State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 Notice of Qualification of ANRP II (AIV TW II-L), L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/24/20. Office location: Westchester County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/20/19. Princ. office of LP: One Manhattanville Rd., Ste. 201, Purchase, NY 10577. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: John J. Suydam, 9 W. 57th St., 43rd Fl., NY, NY 10019. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with The Secy. of State of the State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 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

Notice of Qualification of ANRP II (OVERSEAS INTERMEDIATE HOLDINGS), L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/24/20. Office location: Westchester County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/20/19. Princ. office of LP: One Manhattanville Rd., Ste. 201, Purchase, NY 10577. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: John J. Suydam, 9 W. 57th St., 43rd Fl., NY, NY 10019. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with The Secy. of State of the State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10

Notice of Qualification of APOLLO ETLIC MANAGEMENT, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/04/20. Office location: Westchester County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/17/20. Princ. office of LP: One Manhattanville Rd., Ste. 201, Purchase, NY 10577. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the Parnership, Attn: John J. Suydam, 9 W. 57th St., 43rd Fl., NY, NY 10019. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with The Secy. of State of the State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3

Notice of Qualification of ANRP II (TW II INTERMEDIATE DC A), LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/24/20. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/20/19. Princ. office of LLC: One Manhattanville Rd., Ste. 201, Purchase, NY 10577. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: John J. Suydam, 9 W. 57th St., 43rd Fl., NY, NY 10019. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with The Secy. of State of the State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10

Notice of Qualification of ARTZA, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/08/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Georgia (GA) on 04/29/20. Princ. office of LLC: c/o 25Madison LLC, 853 Broadway, Ste. 905, NY, NY 10003. 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. GA addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 40 Technology Parkway South, #300, Norcross, GA 30092. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State GA, 2 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. SE, Ste.313 West Tower, Atlanta, GA 30334. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3

Notice of Qualification of ANRP II (TW II INTERMEDIATE), LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/24/20. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/20/19. Princ. office of LLC: One Manhattanville Rd., Ste. 201, Purchase, NY 10577. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: John J. Suydam, 9 W. 57th St., 43rd Fl., NY, NY 10019. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with The Secy. of State of the State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10

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 ANRP II (TW II) HOLDINGS, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/24/20. Office location: Westchester County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/20/19. Princ. office of LP: One Manhattanville Rd., Ste. 201, Purchase, NY 10577. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: John J. Suydam, 9 W. 57th St., 43rd Fl., NY, NY 10019. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with The Secy. of State of the State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 Notice of Qualification of APOLLO ETLIC MANAGEMENT GP, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/04/20. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/17/20. Princ. office of LLC: One Manhattanville Rd., Ste. 201, Purchase, NY 10577. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, Attn: John J. Suydam, 9 W. 57th St., 43rd Fl., NY, NY 10019. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with The Secy. of State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 OZKARE, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. 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

Notice of Qualification of CHELSEA HOTEL OPERATOR, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/29/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/21/13. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 Notice of Qualification of CORVEX GP III LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/14/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/14/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 667 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10065. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 Notice of Qualification of CSIP VI DEBT ACQUISITIONS, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/21/20. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/24/20. Princ. office of LP: 575 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10022. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the Partnership at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, State of DE, Dept. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10

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Notice of Formation of KOVLER CONSULTING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/22/20. Office location: Nassau County . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy to principal business location: 61 Sugar Maple Drive, Roslyn, NY 11576. Purpose: Any lawful purpose JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10

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for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/21/20. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/24/20. Princ. office of LP: 575 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10022. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the Partnership at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, State of DE, Dept. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 Notice of Qualification of DRWANTED.COM LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/13/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/14/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Ted Finkel, Controller, c/o Medical Search International, 23 Vreeland Rd., Ste. 210, Florham Park, NJ 07932. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3

Notice of Qualification of EPH MEMBERS FEEDER, LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/19/20. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/31/20. Princ. office of LP: 1700 Broadway, 37th FL., NY, NY 10019. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP 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. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John B. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Real estate investments. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 Notice of Qualification of FRIENDLY ADVANCED SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY I, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/06/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/19/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 Notice of Qualification of HCP RB HOLDINGS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/15/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/14/20. Princ. office of LLC: 767 5th Ave., 44th Fl., NY, NY 10153. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: John Peter Gutfreund 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 of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal & Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 Notice of Qualification of IDEMIA NATIONAL SECURITY SOLUTIONS, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/07/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/30/98. Princ. office of LLC: 675 N. Washington St., Ste. 350, Alexandria, VA 22314. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26

Notice of Qualification of INTER-OCEAN INDUSTRIES LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/01/20. Office location: Nassau County. LLC formed in New Jersey (NJ) on 12/05/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Regina Weinstock, 28 Burton Ave., Woodmere, NY 11598. NJ addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., Princeton South Corporate Center, 100 Charles Ewing Blvd., Ste. 160, Ewing, NJ 08628. Cert. of Form. filed with State Treasurer, 33 W. State St., #5th, Trenton, NJ 08628. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19

Notice of Qualification of PPC PURDY DEVELOPER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/28/20. Office location: Bronx County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/31/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (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, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/8,15,22,29 6/5,12

Notice of Qualification of PPC PURDY GP LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/28/20. Office location: Bronx County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/31/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (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, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/8,15,22,29 6/5,12

Notice of Qualification of LG x Borgo LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/17/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/30/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 Worth St., NY, NY 10013, Attn: Ryan Goldman. Address to be maintained in DE: 1012 College Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10

Notice of Qualification of PPC PURDY MANAGER LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/11/20. Office location: Bronx County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/31/20. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP 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 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26

Notice of Qualification of MULTIFUELS MIDSTREAM GROUP, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/21/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Texas (TX) on 01/01/16. Princ. office of LLC: 125 W. 55th St., NY, NY 10019. 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. TX addr. of LLC: CSC d/b/a CSC-Lawyers Incorporating Service Co., 211 E. 7th St., Ste. 620, Austin, TX 78701-3218. Cert. of Form. filed with TX Secy. of State, 1019 Brazo St., Austin, TX 78701. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 Notice of Qualification of OCCUDO LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/10/20. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/06/20. Princ. office of LLC: 445 Hamilton Ave., Ste. 1200, White Plains, NY 10601. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Xiaoxiao Shi at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 Notice of Qualification of OCCUDO QUANTITATIVE STRATEGIES LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/10/20. Office location: Westchester County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/06/20. Princ. office of LP: 445 Hamilton Ave., Ste. 1200, White Plains, NY 10601. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Xiaoxiao Shi at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 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

Notice of Qualification of PPC PURDY MM LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/28/20. Office location: Bronx County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/31/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (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, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/8,15,22,29 6/5,12 Notice of Qualification of PWP GEF SLP II, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/12/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/11/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be . 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, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 Notice of Qualification of PWP GEF SLP III, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/12/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/11/20. 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. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 Notice of Qualification of STERILEWAVE LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/04/20. Office location: Nassau County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/22/20. 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. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19

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 SNL/ERI 2019 HOLDINGS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/08/20. Office location: Nassau County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/19/19. 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 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 DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St.-Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/22,29 6/5,12,19,26 Notice of Qualification of SOUND WALL WALK LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/04/20. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/30/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1061 Bayhead Dr., Mamaroneck, NY 10543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 Notice of Qualification of TMI COMPANY STORE HOLDING, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/22/20. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Nebraska (NE) on 08/01/16. 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. NE addr. of LLC: 9394 W. Dodge Rd., #140, Omaha, NE 68114. Cert. of Form. filed with NE Secy. of State, 1445 K St., Ste. 2300, Lincoln, NE 68508. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 Notice of Qualification of TRIAN PARTNERS SPV XIV GENERAL PARTNER, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/20/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/27/20. Princ. office of LLC: 280 Park Ave., 41st Fl., NY, NY 10017. 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: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, State of DE, Dept. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 Notice of Qualification of TRIAN PARTNERS SPV XIV GP, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/20/20. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/27/20. Princ. office of LP: 280 Park Ave., 41st Fl., NY, NY 10017. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the Partnership at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, State of DE, Dept. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19

Notice of Qualification of UD 120 5TH AVENUE MEMBER, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/04/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/17/20. Princ. office of LLC: 12 East 49th St., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Breitenecker & Associates, 45 Rockefeller Plaza, FL20, NY, NY 10111. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St.-Ste.4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Commercial Real Estate Investment and Management. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 Notice of Qualification of UPWARD STRIDE, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/07/20. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/22/20. Princ. office of LLC: 36 Random Farms Circle, Chappaqua, NY 10514. 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, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 NYC 15TH STREET LLC App. for Auth. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/20/2018. LLC was organized in NV on 3/31/2017. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC\~ whom process may be served. SSNY to mail process to c/o Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP, Attn: Jason P. Reska, Esq.,\~ 850 Third Avenue, 14th Fl, NY, NY 10022, which is also the principal business location. Cert. of Org. filed with SSNV, 202 North Carson St., Carson City, NV 897014201.\~ Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 PAULIES PLAZA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/22/20. Latest date to dissolve: 06/01/2050. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 24 Woodsbridge Road, Katonah, NY 10536. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 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 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 PURE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/4/2020. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served.\~ SSNY shall mail process to 50 Riverside Blvd., Apt 20B, NY, NY 10069, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 R & P DINHOFER, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/07/20. 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, 77 N. Centre Avenue, Suite 311, Rockville Centre, NY 11570. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 REUSABLE GOWN SERVICE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/30/20. Latest date to dissolve: 05/01/3020. 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 Madison Avenue, Hempstead, NY 11550. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/8,15,22,29 6/5,12

Romano Legal Consulting Group, PLLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/7/2020. Cty: Richmond. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Susan Romano, 96 Hillcrest Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10305. Purpose: Law JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 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 Salty Coffee LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/6/2020. Cty: Bronx. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Wanda Suero, 1853 Anthony Avenue, Apt. 9B, New York, NY 10457. General Purpose JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 SCEP LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/26/2020. 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 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 SHALMER ONE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/27/19. 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, 540 Atlantic Avenue, Lawrence, NY 11559. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 SHALMER THREE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/27/19. 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, 540 Atlantic Avenue, Lawrence, NY 11559. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 SHALMER TWO, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/27/19. 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, 540 Atlantic Avenue, Lawrence, NY 11559. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19 SHORE DRIVE 1490 LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/15/2020. Office in Westchester 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. Principal business location: 48 Hickory Ln., Bedford, NY 10506. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 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 SPAGHETTI THE CAT LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/26/20. 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 Rudy Callegari, 165 Vally Road, New Rochelle, NY 10804. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10

SPECTRUM PROPERTY GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/11/20. 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 Joanne Ricciardella, 364 Grasslands Road, Valhalla, NY 10595. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3

THOMAS P. MAHER DMD PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/06/20. Office: Richmond 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, 103 Malone Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10306. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Dentistry. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3

STERILYFT LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 5/12/20. Off. Loc.: Bronx Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to the LLC, 540 Main Street, Bronx, NY 10474. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. JW 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10

TOXO REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/28/20. 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, c/o Alton & Irena Papavangjeli, 607 7 Ave, New Hyde Park, NY 11040. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/8,15,22,29 6/5,12

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

TENORLIS REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/07/20. 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, 214-05 39th Avenue, Bayside, NY 11361. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3

THE ANNUAL RETURN OF THE JACQUES & YULLA LIPCHITZ FOUNDATION INC. (“Foundation”) for its fiscal year ended February 29, 2020 is available at its principal office located at c/o H.D. Mott, Esq. 15 W 81 St., New York, NY 10024 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal Manager of the Foundation is Hanno D. Mott.

THE ANNUAL RETURN OF THE MORRIS & DVORA SCHARF FOUNDATION INC for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 is available at its principal office located at 4908 BEACH RESERVATION BROOKLYN NY 11224 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal Manager of the Foundation is MORRIS SCHARF

THE ANNUAL RETURN OF THE MR. & MRS. RAYMOND J. HOROWITZ FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS, INC. for the calendar year ended 12/31/2019, is available at its principal office, located at 730 Fifth Avenue, 7th\~ Floor, New York, N.Y. 10019, telephone number 212-4396800, for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal Manager of the Foundation is Warren Adelson.

THE DOBBS GROUP, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/04/20. Latest date to dissolve: 04/27/2070. 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, 55 1st Street, Unit 406, Pelham, NY 10803. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/15,22,29 6/5,12,19

TRIBECA TUNES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/15/2020. 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 6/5,12,19,26 7/3,10 UNITY ENTERPRISE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/05/19. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Legalinc Corporate Services Inc., 1967 Wehrle Drive, Suite 1, #086, Buffalo, NY 14221, which also serves as the registered agent address. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/22,29 /5,12,19,26 Yeezy Plug NY, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/20/2020. Cty: Richmond. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Edward J. Chow, 364 Decker Ave, Staten Island, NY 10302. General Purpose. JW 5/8,15,22,29 6/5,12 YORK 13 CONSULTING, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/9/2020. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 9 Round Hill Place, Chappaqua, NY 10514. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JW 5/8,15,22,29 6/5,12 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 LAW FIRM OF SEAN LIAM KIELY PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/23/20. 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, 1402 Bay Boulevard, Atlantic Beach, NY 11509. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Law. JW 5/29 6/5,12,19,26 7/3 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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Dave’s character fuels a classic fishout-of-water story, with Dave swimming in a pool with more settled and sure-of-themselves people. I couldn’t stop watching. “Transparent” focuses squarely on L.A. Jewish culture (and raises the bar on the genre), juggling that very location-specific culture with Jewish Week’s resident culture kvetch Judaism. Being Jewish in Los Angeles be touched by a show that is beyond isn’t a focal point in “Dave,” but the what he knows? (I know, there is much show does humorously references it competition for the role.) from time to time. The show is about a white middleDave is successful in his music caclass Jewish rapper with reer, but he is unable to hip-hop talents who wants capitalize on it. His music to be both a star (rapper videos get millions of hits, moniker: Lil Dicky) and a his tweets go viral and he regular person (name from even pulls off social media bris: Dave). He’s the kind coups with parodies of Jim of person who calls his Carrey in “The Mask.” But parents before cashing out he attracts attention that his bar mitzvah money 15 leaves his rapping peers years after the celebration unimpressed. Eli Reiter to pay a famous hip-hop I see myself in Dave artist to collaborate with him on a song. because he’s grappling with not falling Dave calls his parents out of respect; into the trap of being someone he isn’t. Lil Dicky hands the money over. Dave Whether the character is mild-mannered worries he was scammed after being Dave (trying to be a nice guy and not ghosted by a would-be connection who hurtful to anyone around him) or the rappromised to deliver a collaboration with per Lil Dicky (trying not to be too much a more established artist; Lil Dicky rips a part of rap culture in a way that would it in the studio with the rapper YG. seem inauthentic), I identify with him; He calls his parents about money, I too am often the occupant of rooms and his father, in an exchange about where I’m the minority and face a simitechnology and new means of informa- lar dilemma. Do I try to fit in to the world tion sharing and financial income (Dave around me or stay true to myself? mentions the 15 million views of his I find myself rooting for Dave and YouTube videos), asks the question ev- his quest to upgrade from being a “Youery dad asks, “But why can’t you profit Tube Rapper” to something more “seoff all those views?” rious.” He rolls with a ragtag posse: a With the affect of a nice Jewish Boy, childhood friend turned sound engineer,

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Lamm for his endorsement of a kollel, a learning and community service program for married yeshiva students, begun in Boca Raton, Fla., when Brander was a pulpit rabbi there. Rabbi Lamm “supported the concept out of his desire to promote young people’s capacity to learn Torah and engage with the larger Jewish world and society through Torah values,” he said. Jeffrey Gurock, a professor of American Jewish history at Yeshiva University who served for a time as Rabbi Lamm’s academic assistant, said the rabbi prepared extensively for speeches and sermons and never spoke in public without notes — “even two or three lines” of key words and concepts. Lack of preparation, the rabbi would say, “showed disrespect for his audience.”

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31 Rabbi Lamm’s career. “It’s not his legacy,” Rabbi Billet said. continued from page 6 “The greatest asset of his leadership was leadership through ideas — through speaking and through After stepping down from the YU presidency in writing. He wasn’t afraid to take a stand,” Rabbi 2003, Rabbi Lamm continued to serve as chancellor Dratch told JTA. of the University and Rosh Yeshiva of YU’s Rabbi Although a spokesman for the Modern OrthoIsaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He retired dox movement, Rabbi Lamm urged Orthodox synin 2013 amid accusations that the University had agogue groups to cooperate with bodies of Reform taken an insufficiently forceful stand against acand Conservative Judaism regarding problems cusations of abuse leveled against staff members confronting the American Jewish community. “A during his tenure. withdrawal,” he said, “is a symbol of the splitting of Orthodoxy from the rest of the American JewPrimacy of Torah ish community.” Brooklyn native, Rabbi Lamm studied In 1989 and 1990 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir asked the rabbi to help defuse the crisis at the Mesivta Torah Vodaath yeshiva related to the “Who is a Jew?” issue, which had before entering Yeshiva College, where erupted when a Reform convert wanted he majored in chemistry and graduated to make aliyah. Rabbi Lamm devised a summa cum laude in 1949, as class valesolution for the denominational crisis that dictorian. Upon graduation, he pursued required delicate diplomacy as well as advanced scientific studies at the Polygood will on all sides. technic Institute of Brooklyn. He was orRabbi David Ellenson, chancellor dained at YU in 1951; he earned a PhD in emeritus of the Reform movement’s HeJewish philosophy from the University’s brew Union College-Jewish Institute of Bernard Revel Graduate School in 1966. Religion, called Rabbi Lamm “a person During Israel’s War of Independence in of great integrity and great scholarship. 1948, he worked on a munitions research “His devotion to Torah, the Jewish project under the direction of Dr. Ernst D. people, and Yeshiva University was absoBergmann, who later became the head of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission. lute, and people felt that when they were The rabbi’s first pulpit job was in in his presence. I think that was a key to Springfield, Mass., where he founded the Rabbi Norman Lamm welcomes New York City Mayor Ed Koch to an his great success while in office,” Rabbi Orthodox scholarly journal, Tradition, event in 1986. YESH IVA U N IVER SIT Y P HOTO DEPT. Ellenson said in an email interview. “He which dealt with contemporary matters was always personally gracious to me and of Jewish law and reflected his position between ‘I was wrong’ he invited me several times to speak with his stuabbi Lamm’s career was stained at the dents at both YU and RIETS. This surely testifies the Orthodox and secular worlds. He was also the author of more than a dozen books. end by his acknowledgement that he had to his expansive spirit. The Jewish people have lost He served for 17 years on the YU faculty, culfailed to respond adequately to allegations a great leader.” minating in his appointment as the Erna and Jakob of sexual abuse lodged against faculty members Rabbi Lamm’s writings and teachings on JewMichael Professor of Jewish Philosophy in 1966. at YU’s affiliated high school for boys in the ish law have been cited in two landmark decisions Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, spiritual leader of Ohev 1970s and ’80s. of the U.S. Supreme Court: the 1966 “Miranda Sholom-The National Synagogue in Washington, When he retired, in failing health, from the decision” regarding police interrogation of suspects D.C., said in a Facebook posting this week that he mostly ceremonial post of chancellor, the rabbi held in custody and a 1967 case involving guaranhad attended the rabbi’s “dorm talks” while study- surprised many people by writing a resignation tees against self-incrimination. Also in 1967, Dr. ing at the school, and found them “provocative and letter that included an apology for mishandling the Lamm testified before a U.S. Senate subcommitoften light years apart from the roshei yeshiva of allegations. He said he was aware of concerns about tee on the right to privacy from the perspective of the school.” two staffers, one an administrator who allegedly Jewish law. Rabbi Herzfeld remembered when his father groped students and rubbed himself against them His wife, Mindella, died April 16 of Covid-19 took his sister, then 2, to The Jewish Center, the Up- during wrestling bouts, and the other a teacher who at 88. In his later years, Lamm faded from public per West Side congregation where Lamm served as allegedly sexually abused and sodomized students. life as he suffered from an illness that affected his assistant rabbi and senior rabbi from 1958 to 1976. Lamm wrote that he regretted handling them the memory, a family member said. “My sister made noise during the services and an way many such incidents were treated at the time: Lamm was hardly the only famous member of announcement was made that people had to control quietly and internally. his family. His brother Rabbi Maurice Lamm, who “At the time that inappropriate actions by individ- died in June 2016, was the author of a classic howtheir kids better during services or better not to come. Since my sister was the only child there my uals at Yeshiva were brought to my attention, I acted to book, “The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning,” father was especially embarrassed,” Rabbi Herzfeld in a way that I thought was correct, but which now among other works. His sister’s son, Shalom Auswrote. “On the way out, Rabbi Lamm, who was at seems ill conceived. I understand better today than lander, wrote a popular 2007 memoir, “Foreskin’s that time assistant rabbi, stopped my father and told I did then that sometimes, when you think you are Lament,” about rejecting Orthodoxy, and also wrote him not to listen to that announcement and to still doing good, your actions do not measure up,” Rabbi and created Showtime’s “Happyish.” Lamm wrote in his letter. “True character requires of bring my sister to shul.” Lamm is survived by two sons, Shalom, a real Rabbi Heshie Billet, longtime spiritual leader of me the courage to admit that, despite my best inten- estate developer who at one point was involved in the Young Israel of Woodmere, said Rabbi Lamm tions then, I now recognize that I was wrong.” a controversial chasidic development in the upstate Rabbi Mark Dratch, Rabbi Lamm’s son-in- New York village of Bloomingburg, and Joshua was motivated by “idealism … a belief in the YU mission, the primacy of Torah confronting and liv- law and executive vice president of the Rab- Lamm, a psychiatrist; and a daughter, Chaye Waring in the modern world. He transcribed the skill binical Council of America, has said that his burg, an occupational therapist in Teaneck, N.J. His of the European Orthodox rabbinic orator into the father-in-law was plagued by guilt over his role daughter Sara Lamm Dratch died in 2013. in failing to halt the abuse. “That people suffered American Orthodox synagogue culture.” Lamm also is survived by 17 grandchildren and Rabbi Kenneth Brander, a former YU vice presi- was tremendously bothersome to him, and he numerous great-grandchildren. n dent who serves as president of the Ohr Torah Stone regretted that,” Rabbi Dratch said. He added that educational institution in Israel, praised Rabbi the controversy will “cloud” but not “define” JTA contributed to this story.

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