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The Jewish Star Editorial When terror struck in Jerusalem on Sunday, the world paid attention. News of the murder of four young Israelis spread quickly, along with messages of sympathy for a country in mourning.

The New York Times didn’t get the memo.

On Monday, America’s leading newspaper, long a reflexive voice against the Jewish state (and frequently a problematic voice on issues concerning Orthodox Jews) downplayed the story online and buried the news in its print edition. The Times report ridiculed Prime Minister Netanyahu’s assertion that the terror facing Israel “is part of the same ongoing battle against this global scourge of the new terrorism.” It linked the killings to talk of a U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem and it softpeddled the jubilant reaction of Palestinians to the murders.

On Tuesday, most of the “above the fold” page-one real-estate in the Times was turned over to a followup story headlined, “Israel Buries 4 Soldiers, but the Mourning Is Marred by Discord.” After dispatching with the humanity of the slain Israelis in one paragraph, the article focused on the convicton of IDF Sgt. Elor Azaria.

Last Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelming denounced the U.N. Security Council’s recent anti-Israel resolution. The House vote was a major rebuke to the outgoing Obama administration, with most Democrats joining Republicans, and the Senate is expected to take similar action. To the Times, this support for Israel was not fit to print. It posted an AP story online and ran nothing in its print edition.

Sometimes stories run, or don’t run, for inexplicable reasons. But the Times has been tried and convicted often for the deliberate and repetitive insertion of bias against our people. While many in the Orthodox community have given up on the Times, the continued respect afforded it by the larger community requires that we call it to account. What the Times prints and posts has real consequences; we need not go back as far as the Shoah to recognize just how serious those consequences can be.

On Monday, the Times announced the appointment of Ian Fisher as its new Jerusalem bureau chief. We wish him yasher ko’ach. We’ll be watching.

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Jerusalem truck-ramming recalls Nice, Berlin, 9/11

By Alex Traiman, JNS.org A Palestinian driver rammed a truck into a crowd of Israeli soldiers Sunday at the scenic Haas Promenade overlooking Jerusalem’s Old City, killing four and injuring 16 others in a terror attack that immediately drew comparisons to recent vehicular attacks in Europe.

“This attack is part of the jihad against us, and the [car-ramming] methods that are being employed are part of the same methods that we saw recently in Nice and Berlin,” Dr. Mordechai Kedar, senior lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University, told JNS.org.

Kedar’s comments echo those of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who also likened the attack to the truck-rammings in France (July 2016) and Germany (December 2016).

But Kedar took the comparison a step further, likening the Jerusalem truck-ramming to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

“It’s just like airplanes that were crashed into skyscrapers,” he said. “Whether it is a car, a truck or an airplane, it is the same idea—to take something which looks innocent, which looks peaceful, which looks constructive, and to turn it into a deadly weapon.”

Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman toured the scene of the attack before convening an emergency cabinet session to consider Israel’s responses.

“We know the identity of the attacker, and according to all the signs he is a supporter of Islamic State,” Netanyahu said.

The attacker was identified as Fadi al-Qanbar, a 28-year-old father of four from the Arab neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, which abuts the promenade in Jerusalem. Following the attack, Quds News Media reported that al-Qanbar’s sister praised the attack, stating, “Praise God. God chose him for this martyrdom.” The terrorist was shot dead in his vehicle by soldiers and a civilian tour guide.

Israeli Chief of Police Roni Alshich called the attack “vehicular terrorism.”

“We are fighting this plague, and will defeat it,” Netanyahu said. “We will overcome this terror, just as we overcame other attacks.”

The scene at Sunday’s truck-ramming terror attack in Jerusalem.

Resolution made Israel vulnerable The attack occurred several hundred yards from the Israel headquarters of the United Nations, which sits just atop the promenade. In late December, a council resolution calling ongoing Jewish settlement construction in eastern sections of Jerusalem and the West Bank a “flagrant violation” of international law.

The resolution “gives Israel the image of a weak country,” Kedar said. “In the Middle East, weakness does not prevent terror. Strength prevents terror, while weakness invites terror. ” The attack also took place just over 1 kilometer (0.62 mile) from the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem. President-elect Donald Trump and his ambassador-designate to Israel, David Friedman, have called to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem—a move that would recognize Israel’s sovereignty over its

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capital city against the demands of the Palestinian Authority, which retains hope that eastern sections of Jerusalem would be designated as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Friday that moving the embassy would increase violence in the region.

“You’d have an explosion,” Kerry said, “an absolute explosion in the region, not just in the West Bank and perhaps even in Israel itself, but throughout the region.”

Yet according to Kedar, the embassy is not to blame for rampant regional chaos. “Look at Syria, look at Iraq, look at Yemen, look at Libya, look at Sudan. We had this chaos before the idea was raised to bring the embassy to Jerusalem,” he said.

Defense Minister Lieberman refuted the concept that Sunday’s terror attack was a response to settlement building or plans to move

the embassy, telling reporters at the scene, “There was no other reason and no need to look for an excuse; not Jewish settlements and negotiations, but an attack inspired by ISIS.” Lieberman insisted the attack was carried out because “we are Jews and we live here in Israel,” vowing, “We will fight this terrorism with all tools at our disposal and I’m sure that will win.”

Where east meets west During the past several years, numerous terrorists have come from Jabel Mukaber, among the most radicalized Arab neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem. Jabel Mukaber residents routinely use the road along the promenade as their primary access point into western sections of Jerusalem.

The promenade is a common stop for tourists due its panoramic view of Jerusalem’s Old City, as well as the surrounding Jewish neighborhoods to the west and Arab neighborhoods to the east. The Israeli soldiers killed in the attack were touring the promenade as part of a cultural program to bring soldiers to important national and historical sites across Israel.

The promenade itself and the “peace forest” below it form part of a seam line between Arab and Jewish sections of the city, and cameras line the promenade to help provide security to tourists and local Jewish residents. A police station is also located nearby.

Several local citizens have worked to bolster security in the area. JJ Lewis, a volunteer with the Civilian Guard in Jerusalem, told JNS. org that “over the course of the past two years, there has been an increase in the number of civilians carrying firearms.”

Despite the presence of dozens of soldiers at the promenade Sunday, a civilian tour guide was one of the individuals credited with neutralizing the terrorist.

“The promenade has always been part of Israel,” Lewis said. “This wasn’t an attack on a far-out settlement, this was an attack into the heartland.”

In Kedar’s view, jihadists “are fighting against us because they don’t want us here at all. Neither in Jerusalem, nor in Tel Aviv, nor in Haifa, nor anywhere else. The whole existence of the state of Israel is a thorn in their eyes.”

Security Council, State Dept, Pentagon hit attack

By JTA The United Nations Security Council condemned the truck-ramming attack in Jerusalem that left four Israeli soldiers dead.

The statement tweeted late Sunday night

by Sweden’s mission to the United Nations “condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack” in the eastern part of the city on Sunday and expressed condolences to the families of the victims and the government of Israel. Sweden holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council this month.

“The members of the Security Council reaffirmed that terrorism in all its forms and manifestations constitutes one of the most serious threats to international peace and security,” the statement said, and that the council finds

any acts of terrorism “criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation.”

••• The U.S. State Department and the Pentagon condemned the truck-ramming attack.

“There is absolutely no justification for these brutal and senseless attacks,” the State Department’s deputy spokesman, Mark Toner, said in a statement issued hours after the attack. “We condemn the glorification of terrorism now or at any time and call on all to send a clear message that terrorism must never be tolerated.”

The Pentagon’s press secretary, Peter Cook, condemned “in the strongest terms possible today’s terrorist attack that targeted Israel’s defense forces and express our deepest condolences to the victims.”

Belgian paper fires hateful writer Brandenburg Gate lit in solidarity

Berlin’s famous Brandenburg Gate was lit in the colors of Israel’s flag in solidarity with the victims of Sunday’s terror attack in Jerusalem. Passers-by stopped to pay respects, kneeling to place candles and small Israeli flags on the snowy plaza near the gate and posing for selfies. Avraham Nir-Feldklein, deputy chief of the Israeli Embassy in Berlin, said on Israel’s Facebook page that Israelis were moved and thankful for the support from both the government and people of Berlin. Odd Anderson/AFP/Getty Images

A left-leaning Belgian newspaper fired one of its columnists following his praise for the slaying of four Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem.

A day earlier, Belgian Jews took to Twitter to condemn remarks by the columnist, Abou Jahjah, which included: “By any means necessary, #freepalestine.” He also wrote on Facebook that the attack was “not terrorism but resistance.”

Abou Jahjah, a Hezbollah supporter who has accused Israel of genocide, has written a weekly

column for De Standaard for three years.

“Debate has borders and for us the border lies short of support of violence of any kind,” De Standaard wrote in an editorial.

In an interview ast year, Abou Jahjah defended his claim that the Israeli flag is comparable to that of Nazi Germany “because both countries practiced ethnic cleansing.” He rejected claims that the statement and others by him were anti-Semitic.

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State Department’s 10 failed Mideast peace plans 5. The Road Map

By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org WASHINGTON—A former State Department official’s new plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace is the latest in a long series of Foggy Bottom proposals for a Mideast solution that went nowhere.

Writing on the op-ed page of the New York Times Jan. 5, former Assistant Secretary of State Martin Indyk argued that dividing control of Jerusalem between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is the key to “moving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process forward.”

Here are the State Department’s previous major proposals for Israeli-Arab peace:

A follow-up to the 1993 Oslo Accords, the “Road Map” was drafted by the State Department in 2002 and put forward by the Middle East Quartet (the United Nations, U.S., European Union and Russia) the following year. It outlined a three-phase plan leading to creation of an independent Palestinian state.

The plan fell apart when the Palestinian Authority (PA) failed to implement the phase one requirement to disarm and outlaw all terrorist groups.

4. The Golan Plan

Beginning in 2009, former State Department official Frederic Hof and Dennis Ross, now an adviser to President Barack Obama, attempted to bring about an Israeli surrender of the Golan Heights to Syria. The effort ended when the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011.

10. The Byroade Plan

Assistant Secretary of State Henry Byroade was the spokesman for a 1954 U.S. proposal for Israel to severely restrict Jewish immigration from around the world, because the Arab world considered aliyah “threatening.” A Jewish anti-Zionist group, the American Council for Judaism, helped shape Byroade’s plan.

3. The Ross Plans

9. The Rogers Plan

In a Dec. 9, 1969 policy statement, Secretary of State William Rogers called on Israel to withdraw to the pre-1967 armistice lines with only “insubstantial alterations.” The Israeli government under Prime Minister Golda Meir responded that if the Rogers Plan were implemented, “the security and welfare of Israel would be in very grave danger.”

8. The Reagan Plan

In the wake of the war between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon, the State Department persuaded President Ronald Reagan to put forth a peace plan.

In a Sept. 1, 1982 address, Reagan called for a halt to all Jewish settlements and “elections for a self-governing Palestinian authority,” followed by five years of “full autonomy.” He said the U.S. did not favor “an independent Palestinian state,” but he also said Israel should “withdraw [from] the West Bank and Gaza.” The Israeli cabinet unanimously rejected the plan as “a serious danger to Israel’s security.”

7. The Arafat First Plan

In 1988, State Department officials Dennis Ross and Daniel Kurtzer convinced outgoing Secretary of State George Shultz that Yasser Arafat was “moving in a moderate direction” and

President Clinton with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Arafat rejected the December 2000 “Clinton Parameters,” a State Department-drafted peace plan that called for a Palestinian state in 95 percent of the disputed territo-ries as well as Palestinian sovereignty over the Temple Mount and other parts of eastern Jerusalem.

As an adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Obama in 2009–11, Dennis Ross pressured Israel to allow cement into Gaza (which was later used by Hamas to build tunnels); in articles and speeches since then, Ross has called on Israel to halt most construction in its portions of the disputed territories. Israel froze settlement construction for 10 months, but the PA did not reciprocate.

2. The Kerry Plan

therefore deserved U.S. recognition. The U.S.-Arafat relationship collapsed 17 months later when a PLO faction attempted to massacre Tel Aviv beachgoers.

This five year-effort began with Obama’s May 19, 2011 call for a Palestinian state “based on the 1967 lines,” and culminated in Secretary of State John Kerry’s Dec. 28, 2016 speech urging “shared” control of Jerusalem and a halt to construction even within existing settlements. Israel’s leaders, joined

by Great Britain’s prime minister, said the Kerry Plan was onesided in its support of Palestinian positions and only “paid lip service” to the problem of Palestinian terrorism and incitement.

Drafted by Dennis Ross and other State Department officials, the Clinton Parameters were put forward in U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian talks in December 2000, just before President Bill Clinton left office. The plan called for a Palestinian state in 95 percent of the disputed territories as well as Palestinian sovereignty over the Temple Mount and other parts of eastern Jerusalem. Arafat rejected those terms.

As U.S. ambassador to Israel in September 2000, Martin Indyk first publicly urged Israel to “share the governance of Jerusalem and its holy sites” with the Palestinians. Now, in his January 2017 New York Times op-ed, Indyk has urged the incoming Trump administration to push for dividing control of Jerusalem between Israel and the PA, which Indyk contends would “open See Failed Mideast on page 25

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Commentary by Lawrence Grossman American Jewish Committee director of publications

Foreign ministers of some 70 nations are expected to meet in Paris on Jan. 15, five days before the American presidential inauguration, for an international conference that is being advertised as dealing with the Middle East.

No, this high-level gathering will not address the major crises bedeviling the region such as the incalculably bloody civil war in Syria, the ongoing tragedy of Iraq, Iran’s destabilizing activities or the continuing barbarism of ISIS and other terrorist groups.

Rather France, the host country, is seeking to exercise its long-sought leading role in adjudicating the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told reporters that he expects the conference to “reaffirm the necessity of a two-state solution.” A “French diplomatic source” told Reuters that time was of the essence since the new American administration was likely to take a different course.

“You can see that it’s even more justified in this context,” the source said, Reuters reported.

The conference is going forward despite the strong objection of one of the two central parties to the conflict, Israel. In light of that objection, neither Israel nor the Palestinian Authority has been invited to participate, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will be asked, after the conference concludes, to discuss its results with President Francois Hollande, a lame-duck leader.

The Paris conference, which was postponed from Dec. 21, follows two other major diplomatic events ostensibly aimed at furthering the goal of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but which, like the gathering, will have the opposite effect.

On Dec. 23, a decision by the U.S. to abstain

World leaders on June 3, 2016, at a Paris conference aimed at reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Another conference is scheduled next week.

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rather than exercise its veto enabled the U.N. Security Council to pass, by a 14–0 vote, a resolution condemning and declaring illegal Israeli settlements on the West Bank and in eastern Jerusalem. The same resolution sets the 1949 armistice lines as the basis for negotiating the boundaries between Israel and a future Palestinian state — thereby declaring the Western Wall, the Temple Mount and the Jewish quarter of eastern Jerusalem to be Palestinian territory, pending negotiations. It also urges the international community to treat Israeli-controlled territory beyond the Green Line differently from Israel proper, in essence justifying an economic boycott of the territories.

Five days later, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a speech at the State Department justifying the U.S. decision to abstain and allow, for the first time in eight years of the Obama admin-

istration, a Security Council resolution critical of Israel to be adopted. While expressing his decadeslong support and admiration for Israel, Kerry nonetheless cited Netanyahu’s Dec. 16 statement describing his government as more committed to settlement building “than any other government in the country’s history” and warned that its actions were making a two-state solution impossible.

Both the U.N. resolution and Kerry’s remarks also contained criticism of Palestinian incitement to violence, but the attempts at evenhandedness were so muted as to seem pro forma. Indeed, the lack of any real balance in assigning responsibility could well encourage the most intransigent elements on both sides — the Palestinians to come away thinking they can achieve their demands through the United Nations and avoid direct negotiations with Israel, and the Israelis to conclude that since the

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The expected third leg of this diplomatic trifecta coming up in Paris is likely to reinforce the same pernicious pattern. Once again, as at the U.N., a multinational body plans to do the Palestinians’ work for them, inscribing maximalist Palestinian territorial aspirations into international diplomatic guidelines that Israel will be pressured to accept.

One possible scenario for the Paris gathering is a resolution endorsing the six-point framework that Kerry laid out in his speech, with the reference to the 1949 lines and hinting at an economic boycott, to be submitted in resolution form for the Security Council to approve before President Obama’s term ends. Another is for the conference to recognize the existence of a Palestinian state, despite the lack of viable, functioning Palestinian political and civil institutions, in total disregard of Israeli security concerns, and with no consideration of how a Palestinian state might be cobbled together given, among other realities, the current bitter divisions in Palestinian ranks between Hamas-ruled Gaza and the P.A. government on the West Bank.

Those involved in organizing the upcoming conference all subscribe, or at least say they do, to the view that true peace between Israel and the Palestinian people can come only through direct, face-to-face negotiations between the parties. Why, then, encourage Palestinian leaders to avoid that very necessity? Why double down on the previous misfires in New York and Washington to gang up on Israel in Paris? And why go ahead just days before the new U.S. administration takes office?

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Keeping the Kotel holy: Let my dad pray at the Wall leah aharoni women for the wall

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y dad is coming from the U.S. to visit us in Israel this week. As always, we will devote one morning to praying at the Kotel. As always, he will stop by the hugest worn-off stone—his regular spot—pull out a brown wallet and take out a pack of Post-it notes covered in Russian scribbles. As always, he will read the prayers and requests on those yellow squares and then will stuff them into a crevice between the stones. And then, he’ll cry for a few minutes before walking away.

For generations, whenever a Jew announced his plans to visit the Holy Land, his friends and neighbors would equip him with notes so that he would remember to pray for them. (Hence the practice of placing notes into the wall.) My dad is just another link in the tradition. Each time he comes to Israel, his friends flood him with Facebook messages and phone calls asking to say a prayer for their woes. A troubled marriage, a childless couple, a sick parent, a wayward child. The kinds of human tragedies that Jews have been pouring out on these stones for the past two millennia.

But some would like to see that changed. At a High Court of Justice hearing last week, Dr. Susan Weiss, representing Original Women of the Wall, revealed that her endgame is to dismantle the synagogue at the Western Wall and turn it into a public square. “Send the worshippers to their own synagogues,” Weiss told the court. All this to accommodate her client, comprising at best 20 women.

What strikes at first as the height of hubris is in reality a wellplanned political agenda—the vision of getting rid of the Kotel synagogue. Yet there comes a time when even the most ludicrous claims go over the top. The only reason the Western Wall has any kind of significance is because Jews have been praying next to it for so many years. There are three other walls of the Temple Mount, yet none of them stir the emotions aroused by the Kotel.

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The Western Wall is not a site of some amorphous “national heritage.” It is a holy place. And like all other holy places in the world, it is governed by a tradition. And it is precisely this tradition that the liberal groups are trying tear down. For as Anat Hoffman of Women of the Wall had said in the past, when you put the tradition into question at the holiest Jewish site, you can put it into question everywhere else.

This is why the small group of several dozen women has been so insistent on praying specifically at the Kotel, disturbing thousands of regular worshippers. This is why among Women of the Wall’s many demands for an alternative prayer site at the Robinson’s Arch section of the Kotel, equal size, funding and similar entry have played so prominently. The alternative site would enable the liberal movements to fashion their own version of the Kotel.

The activists of Women of the Wall are not out to get a place

to pray for themselves. They are trying to create a footbridge for the Reform movement (Hoffman’s full-time employer) in Israeli society and to reshape Israelis’ view of religion. Mixed-gender prayer is the hallmark of Reform and Conservative practice. So making mixed-gender prayer acceptable at the Kotel would pave the way for the liberal movements to influence the prevalent concept of religion.

But it will not work. It will not work because aside from the approximately 30 percent of American Jews who attend a Reform or a Conservative temple, throughout the world, whether observant or not, Jews see a traditional synagogue as a place of religion. It is because when my otherwise unaffiliated dad decides to go to a synagogue on a Shabbat or a holiday, he gets into his car and drives over to the nearest Chabad center, not to the Reform temple down the block.

A mixed-gender sanctuary and liberal prayers do not jive with his notions of a holy place.

Turning the Kotel into a public square is tantamount to erasing its sanctity. Without the tradition, it will become just another tourist site, where people touch a wall, smile, take a picture and leave. It will not have the emotional pull it has today. It will stop being a place of prayer.

On our upcoming visit, I’ll offer a prayer that the Kotel should retain its tradition, because this is how hundreds of thousands of worshippers want to see it. This is what a spiritual home looks like to them, no matter where they identify on the observance spectrum.

As to the liberal women, their cries of “wolf” over religious rights are unfounded. There is no shortage of venues they could use to pray any way they wish in the holy city of Jerusalem. And if they can’t find a place, they are invited into my living room. I’d be happy to accommodate them once a month.

I’d do anything to let my dad carry on the tradition of the Post-it notes, to have those moments at the Kotel, and for his friends’ prayers to make their way into the crevice between the stone.

It’s a precious tradition, after all.

Leah Aharoni is the co-founder of Women For the Wall, a grassroots organization devoted to preserving the sanctity of the Western Wall in the spirit of Jewish unity. Distributed by JNS.org.

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In one set of interviews titled “By Air, Land & Sea: Aliyah Under the British Mandate,” former Knesset Speaker Shlomo Hillel describes how he fled Iraq with his parents and worked in a Haganah munitions factory. Shmuel GilAdi recounts his escape from Iraq amid dark-

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ness in a covered truck, and the dangerous three-day overland journey he undertook through Jordan to reach Israel.

Concentration camp survivor David Ben David, the only member of his immediate family to survive the Holocaust, recalls in a quiet, controlled voice how he jumped off the overcrowded boat he had shared with hundreds of other desperate Jews for three months, as British troops climbed aboard the ship within sight of the Israeli coast.

“It was Friday afternoon. I struggled exhausted to the shore, with nothing. No clothes, no money, no family, no friends. I kissed the ground as every good Jew would do,” Ben David says. He recalls how he asked for directions to the meeting place of the Bnei Akiva Zionist youth movement, which he had affiliated with in his hometown, and observed his first real Shabbat in years.

Toldot Yisrael has recorded thousands of hours of these kinds of personal stories from more than 1,000 people during the past decade, videographer Levy explains.

“In order to get the full picture of this amazing period of history, it’s important to get testimony from people who were active in every part of it. We have interviews with Palmach, Haganah, Lechi and Etzel fighters. Everyone had a job, and collectively they impacted the British Empire,” says Levy.

Toldot Yisrael founder Halivni says the idea for the organization surfaced around the same time that Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation began to take testimony from Holocaust survivors.

“I figured someone must have done this already,” Halivni says. Once he discovered that there was no organized effort to document the stories of the formative years of the state of Israel, Halivni founded the non-profit organization with a steering committee that includes Member of Knesset Michael Oren, a historian and former Israeli ambassador to the U.S.; Ruth Wisse, a professor of Yiddish and comparative literature at Harvard University; and Michael Berenbaum, former president of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.

“I’m not a historian or a videographer, just a guy with an idea,” says Halivni, who worked for several national Jewish organizations in the U.S. and Israel before deciding to quit his job and devote his full attention to Toldot Yisrael.

Today, Toldot Yisrael is housed at the National Library of Israel but is privately funded, mostly by American donors, Halivni notes. The goal is to digitize all the interviews and integrate them with newspapers and photos from the period in order to make it a useable, accessible resource that will be used for educational as well as research purposes.

As is the case with the testimony of Holocaust survivors, time is of the essence. When Toldot Yisrael started a decade ago, an Israeli demographer estimated that the potential pool of interviewees ran to around 120,000 people. Halivni now believes that more than 70 percent of them have since passed away.

With this year’s commemoration of both the centenary of the Balfour Declaration and the 50th anniversary of Israel’s Six-Day War, Halivni feels Toldot Yisrael material can be put to good use to combat the expected flood of propaganda calling into question the founding and existence of the state of Israel.

Benjy Davis, Israel program manager for Nefesh B’Nefesh, explains why the aliyah organization sponsored the presentation at the Beit Hatfutsot Museum.

“Today’s Western immigrants are the pioneers of today, and we want to connect them with the heroes who made it all possible,” he says. “It’s part of our desire to bring inspirational programs to olim (immigrants). We all came out of a desire to be part of modern Jewish history, and whether in 1948 or 2017, we all have a hand in building the country.”

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By Judy Lash Balint, JNS.org The 1948–49 War of Independence was Israel’s longest, costliest and most fateful war, says one veteran, who at age 97 still speaks to audiences about his experiences.

Harold (Smoky) Simon, a South Africanborn accountant who became chief of air operations of the nascent Israeli Air Force in May 1948, is just one example of the kind of person whose story led an American immigrant to create an organization dedicated to preserving and publicizing the testimonies of those who founded the state.

On a recent evening at Tel Aviv’s Beit Hatfutsot Museum, Aryeh Halivni, 42, founder and executive director of the Toldot Yisrael (Chronicles of Israel) organization, introduced the dapper and articulate Simon to a large group of English-speaking immigrants brought together by the Nefesh B’Nefesh aliyah agency. Simon spoke in detail about the role of the 4,800 volunteers from abroad who came to fight in the War of Independence and the importance of the first planes purchased from Czechoslovakia that helped defeat the Egyptian army.

“We have a finite opportunity to capture and preserve the inspiring stories of the incredible generation that enabled the creation of the state of Israel,” Halivni said before screening several short films that featured moving descriptions by elderly Israelis who were drawn as young people to be present at the birth of the state.

Halivni, who made aliyah from the U.S. with the help of Nefesh B’Nefesh in 2002, explains that a main goal of Toldot Yisrael is to inspire an understanding of the need for a Jewish state and to supplement the work of historians who have written about the state’s early history.

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spoke with a confidence borne out by the overAnalysis by Ron Kampeas, JTA WASHINGTON — Reps. Ed Royce and Eliot whelming 342—80 vote on Jan. 5: Two states Engel are that Capitol Hill rarity: a Republican would remain U.S. policy, he said, and the focus and a Democrat who truly have each other’s back. going forward, with a Trump administration and And nothing unites Royce, R-Calif., chairman a Republican Congress, would be to make sure the of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs world knows the blame lies more with the PalesCommittee, and Engel, D-NY, its top Democrat, tinians than it does Israel.

“If the president-elect is willing to work with like support for Israel.

Not simply Israel – Royce and Engel take their Congress as I think this new administration will cues on the issue from the mainstream pro-Israel be, we can focus on this issue of [Palestinian] incommunity, led by the American Israel Public Af- citement,” Royce said, citing plans to cut funds fairs Committee. unless the Palestinian Authority stopped payRight now, that means keeping the United Na- ments to the families of imprisoned terrorists. tions out of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, period, His party’s right has made it clear that they while backing a two-state outcome as the best and no longer favor a two-state solution, and the most most likely solution. recent Republican Party platform removed referSo like battle-hardened buddies, the two law- ences to the idea. makers stood together last week to face a roiling Nonetheless, “two states” would remain U.S. Congress as they sought to embody those princi- policy, Royce said, as long as Israel’s government ples in a nonbinding resolution: condemning the embraced it.

U.N. Security Council for its anti-settlements reso“A two-state solution has long been the policy lution last month and, by implication, the Obama of the U.S. government and more importantly Isadministration for allowing it through, while up- rael’s government,” he said. holding the goal of two states, “a Jewish, demoPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he cratic state living side-by-side next to a demilita- remains committed to two states, although some rized Palestinian state in peace and security.” members of his Cabinet say the idea is outmoded The measure passed, but the obstacles Engel or never supported it in the first place. and Royce overcame to get it through demonstrate Among Democrats, Engel won, but by a narthe erosion of a pro-Israel consensus in Congress: rower margin than a resolution favored by AIPAC: Royce faced down a right-wing agitating for a re- 109—76, with party leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., JANUARY 2017 treat from U.S. endorsement of “two states,” and 14—APRIL and Rep.10, Keith Ellison, D-Minn., a candidate to Engel grappled with a left wing that seeks more lead the Democratic National Committee, votroom to criticize Israel. ing against. Ellison explained that the resolution Royce, in an interview on the eve of the vote, See A House Divided on page 21

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ince I was about to leave on vacation, I figured this week’s column would be a straight recipe and that, when I return from vacation, I’d write about our cruise. But by the time we finished packing, Jerry had delivered enough material for this week’s article.

Jerry laid out all of his clothing, and as I began packing I realized he had eight pairs of casual pants. By casual pants, I don’t mean slacks or Dockers. Those, Jerry would wear to a wedding if I let him. I mean the pants that are made with what I call parachute material. They have pockets, lots of pockets, everywhere. They put handyman pants to shame. He says they’re really comfortable. I say, “Good, because I’m glad you have a reason to wear those ugly pants!”

Next came his shoes. There was the pair of ugly Crocks and the pair of even uglier ones. I’ve gotten used to the standard onecolor Crocs, but Jerry bought special rugged ones built for climbing through mountains and water. Then there are the ones that come with laces and an assortment of ugly colors.

I’m convinced these are created to annoy the wives and girlfriends of the guys who wear them. By the way, the one time he was actually climbing in the water on an island, he didn’t even wear them. When I asked why, he said because he knew I didn’t like them. I told him I didn’t like him to wear them when we go to the movies. When he’s hiking in the Dominican Republic he can wear them!

Then, the piece de resistance, he comes home and adds a pair of rugged mountain

hiking, waterproof, basically everything proof boots.

“What’s that for? We’re going to Miami, then a cruise to Aruba, Bonaire, Haiti and Curacao. Are you planning for a snow storm?” I asked.

He replied, “You never know what type of weather it will be when we land.”

I took the pair of boots out of the suitcase as I said, “You walk to shul in the dead of winter when there is snow outside and the temps are 30 or below and you’re wearing a shirt and no jacket. You can manage to walk outside and step into our friend’s car that will be waiting for us!” He sheepishly grinned.

Once packed we caught our flight to Miami, where we will be for two days till we board the cruise ship.

Jerry went to pick up our rental car while I waited with the luggage. Expecting him to return with the Altima he reserved, I was shocked to see a Mustang convertible. He said, “You have to hear the roar of this engine. It purrs like a lion.”

Hmmm … is this the Jerry I’m married to? Yes, no worries, it is. He might be driving with the top down, but he’s still wearing his LL Bean dozen pocket pants, while speeding along at 49 MPH in a 65 MPH zone.

Talking about convertibles, I found a great site on Facebook called Convertible Cooking.

These recipes, by Leanne Vogel Vegan, are gluten free and dairy free.

Zucchini Apple Breakfast Cake with Cashew Glaze

Ingredients: 2 cups finely ground almond flour (I use JK Gourmet) 1/2 cup quinoa flakes

5. Stir mixture until well combined, then fold in zucchini, grated apple, pecans and dried apples.

6. Drop mixture into prepared pan, place on the middle rack of the oven and cook for 50-60 minutes.

7. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 20 minutes. Serve with almond milk and drizzle with cashew glaze.

1/2 teaspoon himalayan rock salt 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 2 flax eggs (2 tablespoon freshly ground flax + 6 tablespoon water) 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted 4 Medjool dates, pitted 1/4 cup apple juice, room temperature 2–3 tablespoon yacon syrup (alternatively you can use maple syrup, I chose yacon for it’s slight molasses taste and lower GI) 3/4 cup zucchini, grated – squeeze out the moisture over the sink 1/4 cup apple, grated – leave the peel on!

– squeeze out the moisture over the sink 1/4 cup pecans, roughly chopped 1/4 cup dried apple or diced apples (I used regular salt instead of the Himalayan rock salt and maple syrup instead of the yacon syrup.)

Instructions: 1. Preheat oven to 350F and grease a 9×9 cake pan with coconut oil. (Alternatively you can use a 6 cup casserole dish.)

2. Prepare flax egg and set aside.

3. In a large bowl whisk together almond flour, quinoa flakes, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon.

4. Place coconut oil, dates, apple juice, and yacon in a blender. Process until smooth and transfer to the bowl of flour mix.

Cashew Glaze aka Soy Free, Vegan Cream Cheese Icing!

Serves: 1.5 cups of icing Ditch the soy-full alternative cream cheeses out there and opt for a healthful version! This cream cheese icing will not disappoint. It’s perfectly sweet, creamy, and has just the right amount of bitter cream cheese taste you know and love. Inspired by Vegan Baking.net.

Ingredients: 3/4 cup raw cashews, soaked in water for 4-6 hours 1 tablespoon coconut oil 3 tablespoon almond milk 2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1/4 cup sucanat sugar, ground fine – I used a coffee grinder 1 teaspoon vanilla 2–4 tablespoon almond milk – depends on how thick or thin you want it. I used 4 tablespoon to make it into a thin glaze.

Instructions: 1. Line a 2-cup glass container with cheese cloth.

2. Combine cashews, coconut oil, almond milk, vinegar, and lemon juice in a blender.

Process until smooth.

3. Pour the mixture into the container, cover and leave on the counter overnight.

In the morning, stir in sugar, vanilla, and almond milk. Refrigerate until ready to use.

Spicy Mexican-inspired cholent recipe

By Aly Walansky, The Nosher via JTA I grew up in a traditional Jewish home eating my mom’s cholent, which had been my grandma’s recipe. It was always one of my favorite meals; I often chose it for birthday dinners and special occasions.

When I moved out, I took the recipe with me — but it was time to modernize it a bit and make it my own.

I’ve always loved food packed with flavor, and I’m a big fan of Mexican food, so I decided to take the family cholent recipe and reimagine it with influences of carne asada or a rustic chili. The result is Mexican cholent. It’s spicy and comforting, and a favorite whenever I have friends over. I often pair it with a scoop of guacamole to cool down the heat (but you can always make it less spicy by cutting down

on the chilies in adobo sauce or halving the taco seasoning — be bold though!).

Ingredients: 2-pound brisket, fat trimmed (or you can use 4 marrow bones plus 1 pound cubed beef stew) 1 onion, diced 3 garlic cloves, minced 2 Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and chopped 1 16-ounce bag cholent bean mix OR 2 cups pearl barley and 1 cup dry red kidney beans, soaked in 2 cups warm water for 10 minutes 1 7-ounce can diced green chilies 2-3 tablespoons taco seasoning (or more to taste) 1 heaping tablespoon chipotle pepper in

adobo sauce (or more to taste) 32-ounce vegetable broth 1 cup brussel sprouts, cut in half (optional) fresh cilantro, guacamole or jalapenos for serving Directions: Spray the inside of your slow cooker with cooking spray.

Add brisket. (You can also substitute the marrow bones and cubed beef stew, or beef flanken.)

Add onion, garlic, potatoes, canned chilies, chipotle in adobo, taco seasoning, beans (or pearl barley plus red kidney beans) and enough vegetable stock to cover. Stir gently to make sure everything is mixed. Add brussels sprouts (optional).

Spicy Mexican-Inspired Cholent.

Shannon Sarna

Set slow cooker for 8 hours on low. After 4 hours, check and add more vegetable stock (or water) if it looks too dry. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Serve with fresh cilantro, guacamole or thin slices of jalapeno.

Aly Walansky is a writer and editor with a decade of experience in the lifestyles realm, and contributes to dozens of major publications regularly.

Challah french toast with chai spices recipe

By Shannon Sarna, The Nosher via JTA Summer Sundays are for yogurt parfait and long walks in the sun. But once the leaves start falling and the cozy sweaters are unpacked, it’s time to hunker down with pumpkin bread, pancakes and French toast on lazy, snuggly Sundays. After all, evolution says you need those extra calories for survival.

This challah French toast recipe is warm and cozy, sweet and spicy, and the perfect pick-me-up for weekends when you just want to hide under the covers.

Ingredients: 6–8 slices of challah bread

4 eggs 1-1/2 cups whole milk 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon allspice 1/4 teaspoon cardamom pinch ground cloves pinch ground black pepper pinch salt 2 teaspoons butter For serving: 1/2 cup powdered sugar 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves

Challah French Toast with Chai Spices. Shannon Sarna

additional butter (optional) maple syrup

Directions: Whisk together eggs, milk, vanilla and spices.

Soak bread in egg-milk mixture for 1-2 minutes.

Add 2 teaspoons butter to a large pan set over medium heat. When butter starts to bubble slightly, add 2 to 3 pieces of bread to the pan. Cook each side 2 to 3 minutes until golden brown. Flip and repeat 2 minutes.

Mix 1/2 cup powdered sugar with 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves. Top French toast with spiced powdered sugar, more butter and maple syrup.

Shannon Sarna is the editor of The Nosher.

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In Argentina, tide turns against Iranian terror Ben Cohen Viewpoint

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glimmer of hope in the fight against Iranian-backed terrorism shone forth from Argentina during the final days of 2016.

A federal appeals court ruled that former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will face a new investigation over allegations that she and her close colleagues made a secret pact with the Iranian regime over the probe into the July 1994 bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

Eighty-five people were murdered and hundreds were wounded on that fateful day, when a truck packed with primitive explosives rammed into the AMIA building. But the perpetrators of the atrocity, the Iranian mullahs and their Hezbollah auxiliaries, have escaped justice for more than 20 years. Under Kirchner’s government, the most tangible outcome of the probe into the bombing was to produce its 86th victim: federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment Jan. 18, 2015 — the day before he was due to unveil a lengthy, painstakingly researched complaint against Kirchner over her collusion with the Iranians.

Kirchner was defeated in last year’s presidential election, and under her successor, Mauricio Macri, there have been constant hints that the question of justice for both the original AMIA victims and Nisman himself is on the agenda once more. Specifically, Macri promised not to challenge a court ruling that the accommodation reached with the Iranians — formally described as a Memorandum of Understand-

Left: Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Right: Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez in Guatemala in 2008.

ing—was unconstitutional, and he promised that there would be a proper investigation into whether Nisman’s death was a suicide or, as is far more likely, an assassination.

Since Argentina is saddled with a notoriously corrupt judiciary, it’s hard to predict definitively whether the hoped-for progress will be made in the coming year. Much depends on which judge is appointed to handle the AMIA case. Some of the judges who served under Kirchner may well be guilty themselves of collaborating in the Nisman cover-up, but there are also others being considered for the renewed investigation who are more independently minded. s we await the next developments, it’s important to remember how we got to this sorry juncture. One of the key influences on Kirchner was the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Riding the wave of an oil price boom in the early 2000s, Chavez joined the pantheon of left-wing dictators with loud mouths and wide appeal. His policies were defined by short-term social welfare

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programs in some of the country’s poorest towns and cities, oil subsidies to his Cuban friends worth at least $7 billion a year, and a shrill foreign policy founded upon both antiAmericanism and anti-Zionism.

Under Chavez, anti-Semitism, which up until then had not been particularly significant in Venezuela, surged through the media, through both attacks upon Israel’s legitimacy and the lampooning of opposition leader Henrique Capriles, a devout Catholic who nonetheless proudly acknowledges his Jewish heritage. As a result, many of Venezuela’s Jews have sought refuge in Israel and other countries.

At the same time. and not by coincidence, Venezuela’s relations with Iran also surged.

There were at least two significant outcomes from that relationship.

First, Iran, along with Hezbollah and its allies, massively boosted its fundraising, criminal activities, intelligence and terror-planning operations throughout Latin America. Second, Chavez used his influence on Kirchner to undermine

Nisman’s investigation into Iranian culpability in the AMIA bombing, which had already led Interpol to release five “red notices” for the Iranian suspects, some of them diplomats at Tehran’s embassy in Buenos Aires. Nisman was also the target of direct Iranian threats. Hence the suspicion, as yet unproven, that Kirchner ordered his assassination, or at least acquiesced in it.

Out of that triangle—Kirchner, Chavez and the Iranian regime—only one still stands strong.

Kirchner has been utterly discredited and may eventually find herself in prison. Chavez, too, is no longer with us, and the Venezuela he bequeathed to his successor, Nicolas Maduro, has collapsed into criminality, political thuggery, and chronic shortages of basic food and medicine; what was once one of the wealthiest countries in Latin America now has more in common with Zimbabwe under the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe. n contrast, Iranian power continues to rise, cemented by an alliance with Russia, a dominant military position in Syria, and the political collusion of the Obama administration. (Shamefully, that same administration didn’t even stop to consider the moral turpitude of abstaining on the recent U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334 condemning Israel, even though Iran’s Venezuelan allies were among its sponsors.)

Hence the importance of real progress, and soon, in the Nisman case. Argentina’s courts are once again in a position to convict the Iranians for the unpunished crime of the AMIA bombing.

Doing that will generate momentum to take on Iranian-backed terror globally, from Buenos Aires to Gaza, and from Aleppo to Kurdistan. If Iran’s allies in Latin America can crumble, after all, then so too can its allies elsewhere. The pain they have caused, though, can never be undone.

Ben Cohen is senior editor of TheTower.org.

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‘Fotonovela’ eyes Argentine Jewish center bombing

By Jack Riemer, JNS.org Do you know what a fotonovela is?

I didn’t either until I read “Once@9:53am: Terror in Buenos Aires,” a fascinating book that has renewed relevance, thanks to the recent reopening of an investigation into former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s alleged covering up of Iran’s role in the bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) Jewish center, an attack that killed 85 people and injured hundreds more.

The moment was 9:53 am on July l8, 1994, when a truck drove up to AMIA center, the major Jewish institution in Buenos Aires, and set off explosives. Nobody has been arrested for this crime, which is widely believed to have been perpetrated by Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists. The Jewish community and the people of Argentina have not yet recovered from the trauma of this awful event.

How do you describe what that day was like in words? Marcelo Brodsky, a talented photographer, and Ilan Stavans, a scholar of Latin-American Jewish life, enable us to understand what happened in a book that is part documentary, part chronicle and part fiction.

Minute by minute, Brodsky takes us through the three hours that led up to 9:53 that morning. El Once, the Buenos Aires neighborhood where the AMIA center was located, consisted of shops and run-down houses, something like what the East Side of Manhattan must have looked like a couple of generations ago. All kinds of ethnic groups lived side by side: Koreans, Poles, Peruvians, Armenians, Russians, Germans, Chinese and Jews. Even some ex-Nazis to whom the Juan Perón government gave a home in Argentina

Memorial for the victims of the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing, in Buenos Aires in July 2015.

probably lived in El Once, bumping into their former victims on the crowded streets, with neither group ever acknowledging the other.

Brodsky takes his camera and walks the streets of El Once starting at 7 am, and reproduces what the neighborhood must have felt like that day. He enables us to watch as the stores open, as the blinds come down, as people hustle across the streets on their way to work, as life returns to the area after a night of quiet. He lets us listen in to the small talk that storekeepers, garbage collectors, customers and young people on their way to work exchange with each other as the day begins. To the average viewer, the people on the street seem to make up a faceless

crowd, but Brodsky’s camera catches them in close-ups and enables us to see them as individuals: this one old, this one young, this one tense, this one happy, this one on the way to his yeshiva, this one on the way back from his night out.

We see these people stop and browse at the newspaper stands. All the front-page news is about yesterday’s soccer game, and nobody has any idea what’s about to happen will be tomorrow’s front-page news.

Brodsky sees a blonde woman dressed in a red suit, walking with three men who seem out of place, and for some reason he is attracted to her. He follows her, clicking away at her with his camera. She and the

three men walking with her are annoyed that Brodsky is taking pictures of them, and they try to get away from him by darting in and out of some stores on the street, but he keeps pursuing them.

Only three hours later will Brodsky realize who they are and why they are so eager to avoid him and his camera, but by then, it will be too late.

The photographer stops to schmooze with a young religious girl who is carrying some balloons, and he tries to explain what photography is all about. He tells her that he puts his eye behind the camera, and lets it carry him along, revealing the hidden treasures that it sees. He tells her sometimes he does not see the hidden treasures until he develops the film.

Throughout the morning, Brodsky keeps stopping to point his camera whenever he sees something significant. He has taken more than 200 pictures so far, but still does not know whether they add up to one coherent story or whether they are only records of casual encounters. He still keeps looking for the blonde woman and the three men, but they are nowhere to be seen.

At 9:32 am, they find him. The three young men jump him and beat him. They take his camera and throw it into the back of a garSee Fotonovela on page 23

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arlit Wendell is a Holocaust survivor who lives in Jerusalem. Marlit, her mother and older sister were able to survive Auschwitz and the war together. Their arms bear the imprint of three consecutive numbers. (I believe they are the only living family with three consecutive numbers.) Eventually, they were able to join their brother in America after the war.

In October 1938 in the middle of the night when all the kids were asleep, three Gestapo agents came to their house and burst into the living room. They were taken to Gestapo headquarters after being told there was no need to take anything with them as they’d come back home, but they never saw their home again. Imagine what that must have been like for a seven year old. Seventy-five years later, Marlit still wishes she could go back to her home to see it and what she left behind, one last time.

The parents were out late; when they came home and saw all the lights on they understood something was wrong, so their mother came in but her father ran away, assuming the Gestapo might be looking for him. They never saw him again.

After the war they found out he had been caught in a roundup in a shul and sent to Sachenhausen; in 1942, after Himmler was assassinated, the Nazis lined up all the Jews and shot every tenth man; he happened to be the tenth man in the line-up.

From Gestapo headquarters they were taken to the border between Poland and Germany and dumped there with thousands of Jews. Germany expelled them, Poland did not want them; for weeks they were stuck between the borders until

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finally Poland let them in.

Eventually they ended up in the Warsaw Ghetto where they managed to stay together until the summer of 1942 when the Ghetto was liquidated, and they were all sent to Auschwitz. She ended up with her mother and older sister, while her two brothers were sent to the men’s camp. Her older brother swore he would stick with their younger brother who was only seven years old.

But one day in 1942, the older brother, Eddie, got really sick and could not get up, so they moved him to the infirmary. Which was good as he did not have to go out to work, but dangerous as there were barely rations, and eventually whoever was there for a week was selected and sent to the gas. After a few days he managed to get some strength back; cut his finger to make his cheeks red with the blood and get back to his bunk; but when he got back his brother was gone; he had been taken in a selection and was murdered.

Eddie survived the Holocaust, but he never got over it, never forgave himself for “abandoning” his younger brother. After the war he eventually married but refused to have children; he would not bring children into such a cruel world.

For nearly eight years Marlit Wendell had no idea what happened to her father; she never had a chance to say goodbye. Eddie Wendell never had the chance to say goodbye to his younger brother; to this day he has no idea exactly what happened, how his brother died, or what he was thinking in his last moments. And none of them ever had the chance to say goodbye to their childhood. ne of the fascinating questions we are left with when considering the story of Yosef and his brothers is, simply put: did Yaakov know

that his sons had deprived him of his beloved Yosef for 22 years? Did he know they had thrown him in a pit and that through their hatred, insensitivity and anger, had caused their own brother to be sold as a slave?

If he did know, it becomes equally challenging to understand why he never confronts his sons.

Even on his death bed, though he castigates them for other instances of flawed behavior (such as cursing Shimon and Levi’s anger, alluding to their killing an entire city when Dena was taken to Shchem) he does not even allude to, much less mention, the most infamous event — Joseph’s being sold as a slave at the tender age of 17.

When Yaakov dies we assume that the book of Bereishit will end. Yaakov blesses his sons, is buried in the cave of Machpela with his father and grandfather Yitzchak and Avraham, and the baton passes to his 12 sons, now in Egypt. But there is one last scene: a strange discussion between Yosef and his brothers: Yosef’s brothers saw that their father had died, and they said, “Perhaps Yosef will hate us and return to us all the evil that we did to him.” So they commanded [messengers to go] to Yosef, to say, “Your father commanded [us] before his death, saying: So shall you say to Yosef, ‘Please, forgive now your brothers’ transgression … for they did evil to you. … Forgive the transgression of the servants of the G-d of your father.’ Yosef wept when they spoke to him. His brothers also went and fell before him. … But Yosef said to them, ‘Don’t be afraid, for am I instead of G-d? Indeed, you intended evil against me, [but] G-d designed it for good, in order to bring about what is at present to keep a great populace alive’.” (Bereishit 50:15-20) But the Torah does not record Yaakov ever ac-

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tually saying this to his sons. And the commentaries are divided on whether Yaakov said this or the brothers made it up to ensure peace amongst brothers. f Yaakov did indeed say this (as the Sforno suggests) it would mean that he knew of his sons’ conspiracy and crime against their brother Yosef, which would leave us wondering why he never confronts them.

On the other hand, if Yaakov did not actually say this (as Rashi suggests), it might mean that he never knew what the brothers had done, perhaps believing Yosef had indeed been attacked by a wild animal and sold to Egypt without their brother’s knowledge.

Either way, there is a powerful message hidden between the lines of the end of Bereishit. The sons of Yaakov will be the first Jewish brothers who succeed, all of them, in remaining true to their Jewish heritage. Avraham has two sons, but only Yitzchak carries on the Jewish tradition as Yishmael leaves the fold. And Yitzchak also has two sons, but one of them, Esau, also leaves the fold. The sons of Yaakov however, come back to together, and it is from this rapprochement that the family of Yaakov will ultimately become the Nation of Israel. We are founded on the idea of coming together.

And this happens either because Yaakov, despite knowing what happens, lets go and is able to move on, or because his son Yosef does.

The miracle of the State of Israel and the flourishing of the Jewish people in their land after 2,000 years is in no small part due to an incredible generation of Holocaust survivors who, despite their indescribable losses and pain, were able to move on. Despite the lack of closure in their past, they came together to build us all a more certain future.

And just as the brothers came together to honor their father Yaakov’s memory and create a united Jewish people, we today owe that incredible generation no less.

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Non-kosher Anatomy of ‘mom’ quits a ceasefire Mother Kelly’s, one of the last remaining treif restaurants in Cedarhurst, is closing following the sale of its building, the Nassau Herald reported this week.

Mother Kelly’s will end 45 years of service at its prominent location opposite the Cedarhurst train station on Sunday, Aug. 31, said Glenn Gobetz, who runs the establishment with his brother Mark and sister Lisa.

“Over the years the local community has become an Orthodox town,” Glenn said. “Our father was Jewish, but our mother isn’t. We would have to keep kosher to run this restaurant.”

In 1969, Marvin Gobetz and his wife, Dorothy, took over the restaurant, originally located on Columbia Avenue. Its previous owners named it Mother Kelly’s, and Dorothy decided to retain the name. Marvin died in 1984.

Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department Commissioner Joe Fitzgerald praised Mother Kelly’s philanthropic efforts. “I have never known them to turn down anyone’s requests to donate to charities,” he said.

By Dmitriy Shapiro, JNS.org Washington Jewish Week After at least 11 failed attempts at achieving a lasting ceasefire between the Hamas terrorist group and Israel, negotiators in Cairo on Tuesday announced that they reached an indefinite ceasefire deal. But will the agreement, whose parameters are not yet fully apparent, hold up this time around? Some experts are skeptical because the talks leading up to the deal lacked the three major elements they believe are required for a successful ceasefire: negative leverage, positive leverage, and a credible third-party broker.

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HALB is purchasing the 6.67-acre site, which includes a 80,170-square-foot school building, for $8.5 million plus $2.7 million that will be held as a guarantee that Lawrence Board of Education realizes at least $565,000 in annual savings on what the district now spends on transportation and special education for HALB students.

“I actually believe that the annual savings will far exceed that estimate — if [HALB’s] student enrollment stays close to what it is today, the numbers will be higher,” said HALB President Lance Hirt.

In two years, HALB is expected to move its Long Beach-based elementary school — which houses kindergarten through eighth grade, currently 800 students — from a beachfront building on West Broadway to the Church Avenue site, officials previously said.

HALB expects to sell its Long Beach building.

“We know that our initial plan will be rejected given the fact that we are making some minor changes to the current layout and use of the site,” Hirt said.

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Having the initial plan rejected is part of the process, he said. The zoning board reviews proposed changes, and then either denies them or grants approval.

Previously HALB said that renovations to the building are needed to make better use of classroom space and public areas, install a new roof and windows to improve energy efficiency, put in a state-of-the-art heating and air conditioning system, along with new electrical and plumbing systems that comply with current building codes.

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HAFTR chanukiah and a modern miracle

On the fourth night of Chanukah, third graders participated in the Hadlakat Nerot ceremony of the Rocket Chanukiah at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School (left photo).

This chanukiah, welded from rockets targeted at the city of S’derot, was created by artist Yaron Bob and made possible by the Bokor Family.

Perhaps the event’s most poignant moment was the song, Mizrach-Ma’arav, about a time when Jews will gather from the four corners of the world and come home to Eretz Yisrael.

Other Chanukah events at HAFTR included the annual Family Chanukah chagigah.

Rabbi Kupchik, menahel N-8, lit the giant chanukiah with the help of fifth grader Joey Cohen. The audience chimed in with Hanerot Hallalu and Maoz Tzur.

Morah Tali’s third and fourth grade dance performance was spectacular. Uri Davidi and the EvanAl Band had the students, faculty, parents and even grandparents singing and dancing.

The chagigah was sponsored by the PTA; the Wallach Family in memory of Matityahu ben Tzvi haCohen on his yartzeit; Ronite and Matthew Margulies Smadar and Avi Preston; Chani and Jack Jeter, and Chava and Avrohom Popack.

Cupcakes make chesed extra sweet for Shulamith girls

Lisa Abittan brought her cupcake decorating techniques to eighth graders at the Shulamith school in Cedarhurst. The girls then visited the LI Assisted Liv-

ing Center in Far Rockaway where they shared cupcakes with the residents. Pictured cupcake-holders: Shana Furman, Ayelet Rosman and Tamar Stern.

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Rabbi Paysach Krohn, world-renowned speaker, author and mohel, addressed the Middle School of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway on Monday as it inaugurated CPH, Chesed Program at HAFTR. Rabbi Krohn presented inspiring stories about the impact of even one act of chesed.

His first message was that the goal of doing chesed for someone else is to make that person feel special and to do it with dignity. He then shared a second message: that chesed has powerful outcomes in this world.

He said that “any fool can count the number of seeds in an apple, yet only Hashem can know how many apples will come from one seed.”

Rabbi Krohn explained that the acronym, CPH, relates to CPR. “CPR is a breath of fresh air, and CPH shows that we care.”

Each student received a Chesed A Day Journal in which they can record an act of chesed they performed each day.

The program was sponsored Lisa and Arthur Perl in honor of their daughter Eliana’s upcoming bat mitzvah.

‘Hands-on’ math at YOSS Sixth-graders at Yeshiva of the South Shore, under the guidance of Rabbi Nossie Burger, utilized their knowledge of fractions and ratios in a “hands-on” manner. The boys were given a difficult task which required

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Chanukah at SKA: Hachnasat orchim at faculty homes

It was a freilichen Chanukah at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls.

The festivities began when groups of students enjoyed breakfast and hachnasat orchim at the homes of SKA’s faculty, playing dreidel, making cupcakes and singing Chanukah songs (some fed geese in a backyard pond).

Throughout the week, there were yom tov lectures for mothers and alumna arranged by SPARKS (a Torah lishma

initiative by SKA students) given by Rabbi Isaac Rice, head of the Torah She’bal Peh Department, limudei kodesh teacher Rochel Chafetz and associate principal Deena Kobre.

Chesed and Chanukah combined with Otzar participants feted by ninth graders, Ivdu students entertained by tenth graders, and a clothing drive for Yad Leah spearheaded by eleventh graders. Pre-schoolers at Lev Chana had a leibidik time sharing Chanukah simcha with SKA seniors.

DRS There was joy and excitement as DRS celebrated Chanukah with inspiring Hallels every day, songs of hallel and hoda’ah offered to Hashem. Each shiur visited a rebbe’s home for chagigot; and shiurim visited nursing homes to liven the spirits of residents. A game show pitted class against class in a slew of different challenges and activities, and the school hosted its first ever four-corner dodgeball game. The DRS Student Band, accompanied by Rabbi Kaminetsky, broke out into a spontaneous performance in the school lobby as the entire yeshiva danced together.

A joyful color war at Shulamith

By Aliza Friedman, Eighth Grade During a fire drill on the fifth day of Chanukah, Shulamith students streamed out of the building and saw a big red fire truck in the yard. G.O. Presidents Shaked Harari and Rachel Schwartz, and Vice Presidents Lili Paritzky and Shayna Wasser, jumped out of the truck and announced, “It’s Color War!” Drenched from the rain, everyone reentered the building ready for battle.

In honor of Chanukah, the Color War theme was nissim, and each of the three teams was assigned a team name and a middah to work with. The red team, nissim shebechol yom imanu (Daily Miracles) was led by Malkie Derdik and Adina Adelman; the green team, nes galui (Open Miracles), was led by Sarah Leiderman and Elisha Schecter; and the blue team, nes nistar (Hidden Miracles), was led by Aliza Fruchter and Mimi Altmark.

Many performances were dedicated to Hallel Yaffa Ariel, H”yd, a 13-year-old girl who was murdered in Israel last summer. On the night before the terror at-

tack that took her life, Hallel had performed at a dance recital. Traditionally, the students of Shulamith daven together during Color War, and this year, in addition to the special tefillot for Chanukah and Rosh Chodesh Tevet, the students dedicated their davening to the memory of Hallel so that her neshama would have an Aliyah.

Students were thankful for the efforts of Mrs. Billet, associate principal; Dr. Gross, Morah Chana, Mrs. Steiner and all of the other teachers, and to Woodmere Fire Marshall Chevy Kail, mother of sixth grader Mindy Kail, for bringing the fire engine.

Congratulations to the red team on their victory, and to all of the team captains and generals for leading their respective teams so masterfully. Everyone had a good time dressing up in their team colors and, of course, having no classes for one day. Even though Mrs. Billet only announced one winner, all of the students at Shulamith felt like winners, because we all had so much fun.

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Continued from page 8 makes the goal of a two-state solution “less achievable,” and charged that the “Republicans were more interested in attacking President Obama in his last weeks as president.”

How Royce and Engel each faced dissent within his respective party is a telling signal of what’s in store for pro-Israel activism going forward.

Royce, backed by his leaders, crushed a bid by conservative Republicans to remove “two-state” language from the resolution.

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, a Tea Party congressman who was one of the first to endorse Donald Trump’s candidacy, advanced an amendment to strike from the resolution any mention of two states.

Royce got the Rules Committee to kill the King amendment before it even came to the floor. On Thursday, prior to the vote, Royce ceded his right

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to introduce the resolution on the floor to Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the House speaker. The overall effect was to signal that the big guns in the party were lining up behind AIPAC’s agenda and its commitment to two states, and to bipartisanship.

“Our historic alliance with Israel transcends party labels and partisan bickering,” Ryan said.

“We see that bipartisanship right here on the House floor today in condemning this anti-Israel resolution.”

Engel, by contrast, delivered a mixed message. He stood by the resolution he coauthored with Royce while simultaneously agreeing to back an amendment introduced by Rep. David Price, D-N.C., and backed by J Street, AIPAC’s left-wing rival. Price’s amendment would have removed language blaming the Obama administration and placed more emphasis on the two-state solution.

As Engel no doubt expected, Royce had the Rules Committee nix it along with King’s the day before the vote.

Speaking to JTA on the night before the vote, Engel sounded torn between the two versions, fluctuating between the outrage he felt toward the Obama administration for abstaining on the U.N. Security Council resolution and not exercising its veto power, and his attraction to the more positive message in Price’s amendment.

“I’m a supporter of the two-state solution and I was outraged by the U.S. lack of a veto in the United Nations,” he said. “While we have a reference to the two-state solution in our amendment, the one Price is doing talks mainly of a two state solution.

“When I look at the whole issue, I’m always in favor of a two-state solution, I have never deviated from a two-state solution. What I resent is that when negotiations fail, people blame Israel.”

Engel attached his name to Price’s amendment, and so an odd scene played out on the floor the day of the vote. Usually the main sponsor of a piece of legislation calls on other lawmakers who support it to speak on its behalf, while a House member is chosen by the opposing party’s leadership to decide who should speak against it. When a resolution has bipartisan support, the lead sponsors take turns asking members of their party to speak.

On Thursday, Royce directed Republican traffic in support and Engel led the Democrats – but he also ceded some control to Price, who in turn solicited speeches by Democrats who shared his opposition to the resolution.

Thus there was a three-way debate on the merits of the resolution and of Price’s amendment -- although it was now moot – and on what it means to be pro-Israel.

Each speaker included a declaration of affection for Israel and an expression of commitment to its alliance with the United States.

For Royce and Republicans, the emphasis was on the nefariousness of the United Nations and the recalcitrance of the Palestinians. Engel’s Democrats stressed upholding the U.S.-Israel alliance and preserving the two-states option. Price and the Democrats who backed his amendment focused on saving Israel from its government.

“In this period of great geopolitical turmoil and uncertainty, we must reaffirm those fundamental aspects of our foreign policy, including our strong and unwavering support for Israel, while also demonstrating to the world that we are committed to a diplomacy that defends human rights and promotes Israeli and Palestinian states that live side by side in peace and security, a formulation that has characterized our country’s diplomacy for decades,” Price said.

There was even a brief fourth argument, calling itself pro-Israel, voiced by Rep. Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, in favor of removing two-state language.

“I can’t vote for the resolution when we are advocating what Joel 3 says will bring judgment down upon our nation for trying to partition Israel,” he said, citing a biblical warning of divine judgment on nations that try to “divide up” the land God gave to the Jewish people. Gohmert was one of four Republicans who voted against the Royce-Engel measure.

The outcome allowed all the competing visions, save perhaps for Gohmert’s, to claim victory. AIPAC applauded passage, saying the RoyceEngel resolution “reiterates congressional support for direct, bilateral Israel-Palestinian negotiations resulting in a two-state solution that resolves all See Divided on page 21

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J Street said the robust Democratic turnout for the Price’s amendment, which the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group backed, underscored the inroads it had made.

“A very significant portion of the Democratic Party is saying that there is no longer going to be a go-along-toget-along approach for every single policy and worldview for the sitting government of Israel,” Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street’s director, said in an interview just before the vote.

He correctly predicted that 70 or so Democrats would be opposed to Royce-Engel.

AIPAC’s influence is not under immediate threat. Among those in the House who declined Price’s entreaties and backed the Royce-Engel resolution bill were Jewish progressives like Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Jerrold Nadler of New York, David Cicilline of Rhode Island and Jared Polis of Colorado. King, the Iowa Republican who had tried to remove the “two-state “ language, ultimately voted in favor, too.

In the Senate, meantime, where AIPAC is backing a similar resolution, the two lead Republican sponsors, Marco Rubio of Florida and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, just months ago had declined to sign an AIPAC-backed letter to Obama urging him not to take action because it included references to two states. Now they are on board with the concept.

But the divisions are not disappearing. Price is reintroducing his amendment as a separate resolution. King has legislation in the pipeline saying the House “rejects” the twostate solution, explaining that the approach “has failed to result in a secure environment for either Israel, a free country, or the Palestinians, who are led by Islamists and autocrats.”

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., once an AIPAC stalwart and now a headliner at J Street conferences, offered a contrasting vision of pro-Israel. In her remarks during the debate, she called the U.S.-Israel bond “unbreakable” and the two-state solution “the only way Israel can continue as both a Democratic and a Jewish state” while declaring that the United States must be willing to tell its friends in Israel that “the building of settlements is an obstacle to achieving that goal.”

“I stand here as a proud Jew and someone who, throughout my entire life, has been an advocate for the State of Israel,” she said, “and I am standing here to oppose” the Royce-Engel resolution.

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ast week’s column dealing with the teaching of Rav Avraham Pam, zt”l, concerning the United Nations has resonated with many readers, both here and abroad. Now, several of readers have brought to my attention two essays dealing with the scholarship of Bernard-Henri Lévy of France — one, a review of his new book, “The Genius of Judaism,” and the other an essay by Lévy, “Israel, Obama and the United Nations,” featured last week on the Algemeiner website.

In his review, Dr. Neil Rogachevsky, distinguished Tikvah postdoctoral fellow at the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at my alma mater, Yeshiva University, discusses Lévy’s Jewish scholarship: “Lévy freely admits that he is not the greatest knower of Jewish things. He barely knows Hebrew, though he offers a few fairly interesting readings of classic texts in the book. But he displays no knowledge of the Judaism of everyday life. His preference for a universalistic Judaism is obviously not related to his ignorance, and indeed lack of curiosity, about the ritual life and practices that are observed by Jews and no others.

“He thus gives no further thought to how the participation in such practices might prepare the way for a certain kind of ‘universal though still Jewish’ reflection of which he might

approve. While Maimonides, whom Lévy cites, sought to turn his intelligent readers to universalistic thoughts, he tried to do so through the cultivation of particular practices proper to the Jews. Lévy knows nothing of this Maimonides.”

With this point so noted, we come to Lévy’s recent essay on events at the U.N. that have left a searing impression upon many of us these past few weeks. Lévy shares his frustrations and anger over the rude and crude manner in which the Security Council dealt with the state of Israel.

Consider Lévy’s points regarding Resolution 2334 which, in Lévy’s words, “called upon Israel to ‘immediately … cease’ what some view as the colonization of the occupied Palestinian territories.”

Point one: “There was the source, of course: the U.N., an organization that for decades has not ceased to condemn, vilify, and ostracize Israel, becoming in the process one of the last places on earth where one could expect to encounter, on this question as on many others, a balanced or courageous stance.”

Point two: “Then there was the spectacle of those fifteen raised hands, the same hands that were so pointedly NOT raised a few days before to stop the massacre in Aleppo. How could they dare to portray little Israel as the great barrier to peace? How could they imagine that by doing so they might recover in the applause of those in attendance a share of their lost honor? And what is one to make of the splintered and anemic international community trying to repair itself on the back of the Jewish state?

All of this was as pathetic as it was ghoulish.”

Point three: “There was the poor wording

of the text of the resolution, which, despite the phrase condemning ‘all acts of violence against civilians, including acts of terror’, assigned responsibility for blocking the peace process primarily, if not solely, to Israel. What about Palestinian obstinacy? What about the doublespeak of the Ramallah government? What about the Christmas trees on which, in some quarters of Arab Jerusalem, people hung, in place of garlands, photos of ‘martyrs’ killed in ‘combat’ — killed, that is, while trying to stab Israeli civilians? None of that, for the drafters

of the resolution or for those those who voted for and celebrated it, apparently was an ‘obstacle to peace.’ Nothing was equal in perfidy to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policy of expanding the settlements.”

I skip to Lévy’s final point: Point five: “And finally there was, for the first time in forty years, the surprise abstention of the United States delivered by Ambassador Samantha Power, followed a few days later by Secretary of State John Kerry’s long speech in support. People can say what they will about this. But to see this administration, which has conceded so much to Iran, offered so little resistance to Russia, and invented, in Syria, the doctrine of a red line that turned out to be red only with the blood of Syrians sacrificed on the altar of a renunciation of power and of law; to see that same administration trying to compensate for all this by speaking up at the last minute against the planet’s black sheep, the scruffy prime minister of Israel — what could be more abject?”

These are tough words coming from a French philosopher and distinguished filmmaker. But, for a man who claims to be a proud Jew, despite certain theological limitations, these words would well serve both his intellectual acumen and his integrity.

Now, if only others, who claim to be our friends but who did not raise their hands and voices in support, would have only done so, then all who truly believe in honest governance would definitely have cherished the climate of both peace and sanity. But, alas, that did not happen. True peace and the cause of honest governance will have to wait for another day.

Birkat Ya’akov and Kiddush Hashem Rabbi david etengoff

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irkat Ya’akov, the Blessing of Jacob, is the most celebrated narrative of our parasha, Vayechi. It contains Jacob’s hope-filled and prophetically inspired blessing to ten of his sons. In stark contrast, two sons, Simeon and Levi receive one of the greatest admonishments in the entire Torah: “Simeon and Levi are brothers; stolen instruments are their weapons. Let my soul not enter their counsel; my honor, you shall not join their assembly, for in their wrath they killed a man, and with their will they hamstrung a bull. Cursed be their wrath for it is mighty, and

their anger because it is harsh. I will separate them throughout Jacob, and I will scatter them throughout Israel.” (Bereishit 49:5-7) There are many exegetical challenges in our passage. The first pasuk in particular, is quite difficult to understand. This is the case, since a straightforward reading of the phrase, “Simeon and Levi are brothers,” suggests that it is superfluous, for after all, the Torah has already taught us regarding Leah: “… She conceived again and bore a son, and she said, ‘Since the L-rd has heard that I am hated, He gave me this one too.’ So she named him Simeon. And she conceived again and bore a son, and she said, ‘Now this time my husband will be attached to me, for I have borne him three sons; therefore, He [Hashem via an angel] named him Levi’.” (Bereishit 29:33-34) Clearly, then, “Simeon and Levi are brothers” cannot be understood in its simple sense;

both classic and modern meforshim have, therefore, grappled with this problem. Rashi suggests: “[They were] of one [accord in their] plot against Shechem and against Joseph.

[Therefore, the Torah states:] ‘And they said one man to his brother … So now, let us go forth and kill him [Joseph]’.” (37:19-20) Rabbi Isaac Karo, the uncle and rebbe of Rabbi Joseph Karo (Shulchan Aruch), focuses on the juxtaposition of our expression to the phrase “stolen instruments are their weapons,” and interprets “Simeon and Levi are brothers” as referring to their consistent actions as comrades in arms, rather than as a reference to their familial relationship. (Toldot Yitzchak, Bereishit 49:5-7) The Ramban (Nachmanides), in his Commentary on the Torah, offers one of the most extended treatments of “Simeon and Levi are brothers” and in so doing underscores the rationale as to why Jacob declared, “Cursed be

their wrath for it is mighty, and their anger because it is harsh”: “And in my estimation, the proper explanation of the statement, ‘Simeon and Levi are brothers,’ is that they were thoroughly brothers in the sense that they emulated one another and acted in filial fashion toward each other in both their strategic planning and actions.” t this juncture, the Ramban begins his analysis of Jacob’s highly critical perception of Simeon and Levi’s behavior: “Moreover, I have already explained (34:13) that Jacob was furious with Simeon and Levi when they killed the men of the city [Shechem] because they acted with gratuitous violence. This was the case, since the men of Shechem [except for Shechem, himself,] did not sin against the brothers in any manner; instead, they entered into a covenant of peace See Ya’akov on page 23

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hen Ephraim and Menashe are presented to Yisrael, he has the older grandson placed on his right side, while the younger is placed on his left. As Yisrael is in a bed, we can imagine that each young man (they are both are in their 20s) is on a different side of the bed.

Going against the natural setup, the Torah tells us that Yisrael put his right hand on Ephraim, who was to his left, and his left hand on Menashe. “He deliberately crossed

his hands, even though Menashe was the firstborn.” (48:14) In acting out this scene with children dozens of times while I was sitting in a chair (which is presumably not as wide as a bad), I can attest that the placement of Yisrael’s hands is extremely awkward and uncomfortable, not to mention very difficult to accomplish without saying to the persons, “Come closer as I can’t reach.” It is also VERY noticeable. The idea that Yosef did not notice this until after verses 48:15-16 had transpired is difficult to accept. And why didn’t Yisrael simply ask the boys to switch sides?

Kli Yakar asks this question in a slightly different way, “Why didn’t Yosef stop his father before he gave the blessing?” The first answer he gives is that perhaps Yosef thought the left

was more important, and that Menashe was being given a blessing of intelligence, reflective of the heart (in those days thought to be the source of wisdom) which is on the left side. This is also hinted to in the word “sikel” et Yadav — the word “sikel” (switched), describing the move he did with his hands, is spelled the same as the word “sekhel” (intelligence). In this light, Yosef was expecting his father to give two separate blessings to his sons, with Ephraim getting a blessing of the physical world (gashmiyut), reflective of the liver, which is on the right side of the body, which was viewed as the source of physical desires. Only after seeing that his father gave the boys one shared blessing did he intervene to say this was incorrect.

Another view Kli Yakar shares is that Yo-

sef surely had seen his father switch his hands around, but he assumed that his father thought Yosef had brought the first-born on his own (Yosef’s) right side, and the younger son on Yosef’s left, which is why his father switched the hands. hen Yosef realized that Yaakov was finished with the blessing and that the proper hands were on the incorrect heads, he told his father to take a mulligan and give the blessing over as Yosef had presented the young men in the way they should have come to Yisrael — with Menashe at his grandfather’s right, and Ephraim at his grandfather’s left. But Yisrael explained that he knew exactly what was going on, and it was deliberate. Perhaps in this sense, “sikel” See Difficult on page 23

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Continued from page 22 means he used his own intelligence to give the blessings he wanted without asking the boys to switch sides (which would have been embarrassing to all). umping on this idea of not embarrassing anyone through asking them to move, Malbim indicates that the word Sikel comes from the word Hiskil â&#x20AC;&#x201C; he demonstrated that he knew Menashe was older by putting his left arm above the right arm in his switch-move, so that even though Ephraim gets the right hand, Menasheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first-born status is indicated through Yisraelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s higher hand being on the Menashe. As the Torah depicts it, he put his right hand first on Ephraim, which would necessitate him to put his left hand on Menashe, which could really only be accomplished through having the left arm go over the right arm. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sekhelâ&#x20AC;? demonstrated here becomes a logistical one, in realizing that the only way the left arm would be above the right arm is if he puts the right arm on the younger son first, instead of putting the hand he intended to put on the older one, his left arm, onto the older son first (read that again!).

The logistics of the matter still bother me as Yisrael, at age 147, could not have had an easy time doing this. But what do I know?

When thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a will, sometimes thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a way. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen grandparents who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pick themselves up from the floor get down on the floor to play with their grandchildren.

And I know from personal experience that a grandmother can make each of her grandchildren think he or she is THE favorite. I think that in this story the only person who is insulted is Yosef, on behalf of Menashe. And I also have seen this to be the case with parents. They want to steamroll a path and protect their children.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had conversations with fathers who were livid over how they perceived their children being treated in circumstances that were objectively not a big deal (in school, in shul, at a social function), and when I asked the same children what they felt about it, they told me â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about.â&#x20AC;? In other words, everything was fine.

Sadly we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t protect our children from everything. And, for better or for worse, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always know what is absolutely best for our children, or what our children actually think about what happens to them in their lives, unless we ask them.

We can rely heavily on our own life experience and intuition, but our children also need to have failures and setbacks so they too can toughen up and grow to be the most equipped to face the world that we can raise them to be.

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Continued from page 22 with them and were willingly circumcised. As such, they performed an act of teshuvah and thereby returned to Hashem. As a result, the men of Shechem became members of the House of Abraham, and were included in those about whom the Torah states, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the souls that they [Abraham and Sarah] had made in Haranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.â&#x20AC;?

(Bereishit 12:5) The Ramban now suggests an additional, and in some ways more holistic, reason why Jacob maintained his furious stance with Simeon and Levi: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Another reason Jacob was incensed was in order to ensure that the people of his time would not think that the matter [of Shechem] was a result of his advice. [If this had been their perception,] there would have been a profanation of the Divine name [if a prophet such as he would have advised his sons to act as brigands and demonstrate this degree of violence]. This, then, is precisely why Jacob avowed, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;let my soul not enter their counsel;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; it was his declaration that he was not part of their [Simeon and Leviâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] plan which resulted in the treacherous mistreatment of them [the men of Shechem].â&#x20AC;?

The Rambanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus on the avoidance of chilul Hashem as one of the driving factors underscoring Jacobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrath against Simeon and Levi is congruent with a crucial passage found in Maimonidesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mishneh Torah: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In addition, there are deeds which are also included in [the category of] the desecration of [G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] name, if performed by a person of great Torah stature who is renowned for his piety deeds which, although they are not transgressions, [will cause] people to speak disparagingly of him. This also constitutes the desecration of [G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] name. â&#x20AC;Ś Everything depends on the stature of the sage. [The extent to which] he must be careful with himself and go beyond the measure of the law [depends on the level of his Torah stature.]â&#x20AC;?

When viewed in tandem, the analyses of the Rambam and the Ramban enable us to understand Jacobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fury and contempt for Simeon and Leviâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s violent behavior. Jacob, like his father Isaac and grandfather Abraham, was a consummate knight of faith. As such, he passionately sought to guard Hashemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s honor and glory, and strongly opposed anyone, including his own children, who could potentially defame the Almightyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name in this world. Therefore, he roundly censured Simeon and Leviâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions in Shechem in his final verbal will and testament.

With Hashemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help, may we, like Yaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;akov Avinu, reject every manner of chilul Hashem.

Moreover, as the Rambam writes, may we be counted among those â&#x20AC;&#x153;who refrain from committing a sin or perform a mitzvah for no ulterior motive, neither out of fear or dread, nor to seek honor, but for the sake of the Creator, blessed be He.â&#x20AC;? In this way, may we may sanctify His great and holy name. Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;chane yihi ratzon.

of Nice and of Berlin and now Jerusalem, where trucks hurtled down the streets killing innocent people who were in their path.

You think of San Bernardino and of Orlando, where terrorists opened fire on people who were at an office party or at a nightclub. You think of Ankara, where the Russian ambassador was shot while dedicating an exhibit at an art gallery, or of Tel Aviv and many other places in Israel, where obscene acts like these have occurred so oftenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at bus stops and in cafĂŠs, at train stations and in airports. You realize this is a book that all of us need to read and study, so that we never get accustomed to atrocities and never take them for granted.

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have identified the killers and led to their apprehension. Or, as Ilan Stavans makes clear in the afterword to this book, perhaps it would not have changed anything, because the Argentine government, politically and economically aligned with Iran, might not have looked at the pictures or cared about what they showed.

Nobody who reads this book will remain unaffected by the story that it tells. It gives a measure of immortality to those who died in the AMIA Jewish center attack that day.

And it teaches us the enormous power of the camera to expose the truth.

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Continued from page 12 bage truck, and they run off, leaving him on the ground. At 9:53 am, the explosion goes off, and the world changes forever for those who are killed, for those who are wounded and for those who knew the victims.

The explosion smashed into the souls, if not into the bodies, of the loved ones of these casualties, into the hearts of people who live in Mexico, Miami, Moscow, Berlin, Tel Aviv and who knows where else. The fotonovela ends with these matter-of-fact words: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eighty-five people died that day; more than 300 people were injured; the perpetrators were never captured; and the camera that saw the killers and that saw so much else that day remains lost.â&#x20AC;?

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residential candidates since Bill Clinton have promised to move the United States embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. While none has kept the promise in office, all indications are that when he enters the White House, Donald Trump will keep his promise and move the U.S. Embassy to Israel’s capital city, Jerusalem. But the “moderate peace partners” of the Palestinian Authority are threatening the president-elect that they will react with violence if the embassy is moved to Israel’s capital. The question is: Will their threats stop Trump from making the move?

The PA’s supreme sharia judge and President Abbas’ adviser on religious affairs, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, declared during Friday prayers that an embassy move would be considered “a declaration of war” on all Muslims. His sermon was broadcast live on Palestinian TV with Abbas in the audience.

According to the translation by Palestinian Media Watch, Al-Habbash said that moving the embassy to Jerusalem “harms” Muslim faith, and then he warned that “such a step, for every Muslim, is a declaration of war on all Muslims. It’s a declaration of war on all Muslims.”

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama pose with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a reception at the Metropolitan Museum in 2009.

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Al-Habbash continued: “When something harms our faith and our existence, we cannot stand by and do nothing. We will not agree to this under any circumstances.

This will not pass in silence. … The entire Muslim world will not accept it, and the entire Christian world will not accept it.

“Occupied Jerusalem is our eternal capital,

the capital of our existence and the capital of our state. In politics there can be compromises here and there. … In politics there can be negotiation.

However, in matters of religion, faith, values, ethics and history, there can be no compromises.

Therefore, it isn’t possible to compromise on or negotiate over Jerusalem. This of course does not mean that we will prevent anyone from considering Jerusalem their direction of prayer. Our Jerusalem will remain open to all believers as it has been. Open to all of the monotheists.”

From the sound of it, Al-Habbash isn’t a big believer in the Qur’an, which refers to the existence of both temples in verse 17:7. In this passage, the Qur’an deals with how the children of Israel will be punished for their transgressions: [We permitted your enemies] to disfigure your faces, And to enter your Temple as they had entered it before, And to visit with destruction all that fell into their power.

The word translated as Temple by Abdullah Yusuf Ali (and by the influential translator Marmaduke Pickthall before him) is masjid. This word, which is usually translated as mosque, has the meaning of a sanctuary wherever it appears in a pre-Islamic context. The usual Muslim exegesis of this verse (including that of Abdullah Yusuf Ali) holds that it refers to the destruction of the First and Second Temples.

Muslim tradition is especially adamant about the See Holy war on page 25

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ast Wednesday, when a manslaughter conviction was handed down against IDF soldier Elor Azaria, was a complex, difficult and sad day for Israel. Some in Israel called it a black day; others touted it as a Victory Day. While I stand by the legal verdict, I fall somewhere in the middle.

I don’t believe in extra-judicial killings, and if a court of law proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Azaria’s act of killing was not one of self-defense, but one of revenge, then justice was served. No one ought to be above the law.

But the essence of this story is that the

conviction appears to establish that killing a terrorist is a crime. A terrorist who only minutes before attempted to murder a Jew. I am not aligning myself with those who claim Azaria’s pure innocence, or with those who claim he is a Jewish hero for killing a terrorist. But emotionally, and perhaps even morally, many of us can relate to a sentiment of “a murderous terrorist deserves to die.”

The day the Azaria verdict was handed down was an especially painful one for the survivors of terrorism. We are talking here about a person who just saw his friend hurt by this terrorist, and reacted emotionally. It was wrong, but not humanly incomprehensible. et us not confuse who represented the evil in this situation, involving a premeditated terrorist act versus a momentary instinct of anger and revenge. In Azaria’s words: “The terrorist who hurt my friend deserves to die.” Of course, soldiers can’t wield See Azaria on page 25

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Continued from page 24 weapons and make life-and-death decisions from such a place. But simple this is not. This is not a murder case of an innocent civilian caught in the crosshairs of an evil or violent, gun-wielding person.

Also as a result of this is the dangerous possibility that in the future, IDF soldiers will fear reacting reflexively to real and present dangers, instead pausing, weighing the situation cerebrally, with the cost of such a delay being innocent blood spilled.

In this case, it seems that the clear and present danger had passed. The terrorist had been neutralized and apparently no longer presented a threat, according to Azaria’s commander, who communicated this to his soldiers.

I’ve also heard people express mourning for what, to their minds, was the final consensus in Israeli society: standing behind IDF soldiers.

Exacerbating that is the thought of terrorists in Israeli prisons receiving decent treatment, even permission to study for college degrees, while an Israeli soldier’s life is ruined for killing a terrorist.

Which leads to an aspect of this case that is particularly infuriating: the B’Tselem NGO. Immediately following the incident, Elor Azaria had in fact been reported by his IDF commander as someone who committed an unauthorized shooting. Immediately, the IDF military put this un-authorized shooting under investigation. Justice was being served. The case was headed for the military court.

B’Tselem, however, seems to have been foaming at the mouth at the chance to expose an IDF soldier and harm Israel in the process, so it took video footage to the meda. As if without its involvement, justice would not have been served.

Well, that’s a lie. The case was under investigation and had nothing to do with B’Tselem or its thinly veiled claims of standing for justice.

For the sadness of the pressure that IDF soldiers face while making in-the-moment decisions that inevitably they may sometimes get wrong and then ultimately have to pay for with their lives — and for the malevolent B’Tselem, which seems to relish harming Israel — even if justice was served, it a sad day for Israel.

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Continued from page 4 the way to negotiation on other final-status issues like the borders of a Palestinian state.”

Political historian Gil Troy, of McGill University, told JNS.org that the State Department’s plans regarding Israel often have been driven by appeasement rather than principle.

Kerry’s recent warning against moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem “wasn’t a principled argument, but was simply based on fear of violence by extremists,” and “is exactly the kind of cowardice that comes from State and which [incoming President Donald] Trump will abhor,” Troy said. He predicted that “the chance of a clash between a tweet-driven, populist, seat-of-thepants Trump White House and the striped-

pants types at the State Department is huge.”

Prof. Troy is the author of a recent book about U.S. Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan’s fight against the U.N.’s “Zionism-is-racism” resolution and Moynihan’s clashes with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Moynihan “feared that too many State Department bureaucrats were so concerned about how their actions would be perceived on the cocktail party circuit in Scarsdale, that it inhibited them from acting effectively—true then, true now,” Troy said. “Many State Department officials forget Moynihan’s essential lesson that diplomacy doesn’t just mean being nice, but requires using many different tools—because in a tough world, you can’t always play nice.”

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Continued from page 24 existence of the First Temple, built by Solomon, who appears in the Qur’an as a prophet and a paragon of wisdom. Verse 34:13 is an account of how Solomon summoned jinn (spirits) to build the Temple: They worked for him as he desired, (making) Arches, Images, Basons as large as wells, And [cooking] cauldrons fixed [in their places]. l-Habbash isn’t the only Palestinian Authority leader who is making threats about the U.S. embassy move. Palestinian Media Watch also reported: • Abbas’ adviser on NGOs, Sultan Abu Al-Einein, declared: “Transferring the American embassy to Jerusalem will lead to bloodshed” • Head of the Supreme Muslim Council and head preacher at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, said: “What this means is that America recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of the Jews, and in doing so America will declare a new war against the Palestinians and also against the Arabs and the Muslims” • Secretary-General of the PLO Executive Committee, Saeb Erekat, threatened: “If you transfer the embassy and agree to the annexation of the settlements in the West Bank, you will drag the region into a state of anarchy, extremism, and lawlessness” • Spokesman for President Abbas’ Fatah Party,

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Osama Al-Qawasmi, warned: “Any step regarding transferring the American embassy from Tel Aviv to East Jerusalem will directly cause an explosion” These threats may represent the first test of President Trump’s resolve in foreign affairs. Will the PA attempts to blackmail his administration deter his plans to move the embassy?

It is doubtful that the Palestinian incitement will deter or delay moving the embassy. Justifiably, Trump criticized President Obama for not standing up to foreign threats and making the United States appear weak. If Trump was honest in his criticism of Obama’s feckless foreign policy (and I believe he was) he will not let the PA dictate his foreign policy decisions.

Whether or not their incitement leads to violence, the Palestinians should be very careful because more than just trying to bully a U.S. president who can’t be bullied, they may be pushing the Congress and the president to rethink all of the foreign aid that the PA leadership is using to line their own pockets.

Montana rallies in solidarity with local Jews

By JTA Several hundred people turned out in subzero-degree weather for a rally in Whitefish, Montana, to show solidarity with the Jewish community, which has been targeted by a neoNazi website and where a rally of gun-toting neo-Nazis is planned for Jan. 16.

Saturday’s rally was sponsored by the Love Not Hate organization, which the Daily Stormer has accused of threatening white supremacist leader Richard Spencer’s mother, who lives in the town along with him.

The rally included speeches from city and faith leaders, local singers and storytellers, Montana Public Radio reported.

“This is indeed a community where the voices that speak love and acceptance are so many more numerous than those that speak for hate and division,” Jessica Loti Leferrier, a Love Not Hate rally organizer, said.

The Daily Stormer said last week that it had filed the paperwork for an armed neo-Nazi march designed to harass Whitefish’s small Jewish community. The march was moved to Jan. 16, which is Martin Luther King Day this year, a day later than originally scheduled.

Andrew Anglin, who runs the neo-Nazi website, asserted that nationalist groups from the United Kingdom, Sweden, France and Greece will attend the march. He also said that “a representative of Hamas will be in attendance, and will give a speech about the international threat of the Jews.”

The Daily Stormer published a blog post last month calling for followers to “take action” against Jews in Whitefish by writing and calling them with anti-Semitic messages. The post included the names, phone numbers and addresses of Jewish Whitefish residents, as well as their photos emblazoned with yellow stars.

There are about 100 known Jewish households in Whitefish and nearby Kalispell, part of the Flathead Valley. Whitefish has a population of about 6,000 full-time residents and is home to a ski resort on Big Mountain called Whitefish Mountain Resort.

FBI acts on JCC security

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security will be assisting local Jewish community centers in bolstering security after 16 JCCs received bomb threats on the same day.

Officials scheduled a conference call on Wednesday with U.S. Jewish communal leaders to discuss Monday’s incidents and how to craft protocols to handle such incidents in the future. Some communities already receive federal grants to provide for security.

The bomb threats, none of which appear credible, hit JCCs up and down the East Coast, in addition to two in the United Kingdom, prompting evacuations of buildings and campuses. According to Jewish communal security officials, the bomb threats came both from robocalls and from live telephone calls. It remains unclear whether one person or group was behind all the threats.

The U.S. JCCs affected ranged from one in northern New Jersey to several in the Southeast — including in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. In addition, JCCs in Maryland, Delaware, Tennessee and Pennsylvania received threats. Several other Jewish institutions also received bomb threats last week.

The simultaneous threats were unprecedented, according to Paul Goldenberg, the director of the Secure Community Network, a group affiliated with the Jewish Federations of North America that coordinates security for the Jewish community.

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in Crown Heights with was born in Brooklyn and raised Bais Rivka and her brother and six sisters. She attended office assistant everyhas been, since graduating, the one wants to hire. and mischief, was Eliyahu, a bright boy full of laughter the neighborhood’s born in Brooklyn Heights, and attended in fact, he was in the top-tier Kiddie Korner Preschool — at the United founding class. He continued his education and completed Lubavitcher Yeshivoth on Ocean Parkway, Heights. After two his schooling in Toronto and Crown he returned to his years as a junior shliach in California, outreach for CongreBrooklyn Heights roots and now does at Brooklyn gation B’nai Avraham through programming professionals.

Law School, and with local young Jewish B’nai Avraham This reporter interviewed excited of Eliyahu. I briefly guests about their recollections the comic book rabbi, caught up with Simcha Weinstein, snappy dresser, serious who blurted, “Eliyahu Raskin — dragged back into the doer … we love him!” before being sea of dancers. one of the shul’s After the bedeken, Penny Rosen, founders, shared her thoughts of Eliyahu. and have loved baby, a was he since him “I’ve known talk,” she said. “I was him dearly even before he could books to read to him often at the Raskin house, bringing mind, he easand Yankel. Eliyahu has such an inquisitive reading with me, and ily picked up on nuances. He loved Eliyahu prewell after the boys could all read themselves, ferred my voices for the characters.

Chalav Yisroel Swiss “I remember once finding some lunch, staking cheese, and Eliyahu coming for Shabbos cheese board so his out that block of Swiss on the marble brothers would not get it first. him a little, but it “My best memory might embarrass Bar Mitzvah age and is very sweet. He was approaching no longer could sit had to sit in the men’s section, could mitzvah, he gave me on my lap. The night before his bar world to me.” a last huge hug, which meant the I have alPenny added: “In addition to his intelligence, kindness to all.” ways been impressed by his innate chatted about her While refilling her drink, Sonia Beker warm wishes for the happy couple. guy and full of fun.

“Eliyahu was always a high energy his siblings and other He loved socially interacting with streak. He was fearkids, and had a benign, mischievous invincible and unless, loved to take risks, always feeling still quite small, he endaunted. I remember when he was his footing and fell, thusiastically climbed a tree, missed energy his But injuring his head and requiring stitches. by this mishap. level and zest for life were not diminished sensitive young “Today, Eliyahu is a warm, humorous, he could be). I teased Adam family and everyone $10 an excellent drinking buddy man, full of good spirits towards his Eliyahu: Yes, it will. Fran: I’ll bet you to his rabbis and teach- ner won’t go up. about it for weeks! around him. He was a great asset owe you $10, Eliyahu. Beer delivered, always been so warm his knowledge and it won’t. Fran: OK I “Eliyahu is a lovely person. He has year. ers in his studies, and he’s applying delivered and set up our succah last B’nai Avraham as debt settled!” related by Sita with us. He even excellent people skills at Congregation Eliyahu’s good humor was laughingly now very busy climbWe wish him and Shaindy all blessings!” a teacher and in outreach work. He’s (just seltzer! Sheesh — all this reportto relate her memogreat success and joy Hess at the bar Pamela Roth took the opportunity we were just getting ing the tree of life, and we wish him ing makes a person thirsty): “When truly love him.” ries over dessert. in his work and in his marriage. We we went for Sukkot dinner in their Eliyahu had to vigorous dance set, to know the Raskins, “My son Josh remembers all the times the Raskin boys have a tenWhile cooling off from a particularly Rabbi stood the very first kid succah. During these dinners, Rabbi Raskin on his shoulders as the up was pick Eliyahu in that evening noted the Naomi Weinberger seats throughout crazy faces. As for bar mitzvah. She also dency to sit in different and waved his arms and Eliyahu made she ever heard recite a maimer at his As my husband Adam drank more as my best cheesecake assistant, a group to tap out a order to be good hosts. the succah) me, I remember Eliyahu recalls him sneaking away at times from the evening (as one is apt to do in Shavuoth in Shternie’s kitchen. for throughout often played cheesecakes pong, ping baking loved he tune on her keyboard. “And kept swapping seats and alternately the graham crackers for the crust.” be volleying and then, Eliyahu and Yankel he was calling both of He smashed at our home,” she added. “You would Heights, on sitting next to him. By mid-evening from Eliyahu.”

The couple will be residing in Brooklyn “wham!” — a slam and lots of giggling and Yankel were far too gracious line-by-line each them Eliyahu. Eliyahu what Clinton Street.

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“We’re in a completely different world now than we were a couple years ago,” Goldenberg told JTA. “What is unprecedented is in the shortest period of time we received a substantial number of bomb threats. These offenders are leveraging technology to intimidate and/ or terrorize communities.”

Anti-Semitic note in Md. A Maryland couple found an anti-Semitic note on their car with a drawing of a Nazi yellow Star of David and the word “Jude” written on it. The note was left on Saturday, days after they hung a Black Lives Matter flag on the window of their home, BuzzFeed reported.

Sonya and Mikey Franklin, who moved to the U.S. from London, also reported that their home in Rockville was vandalized with toilet paper and eggs.

The couple had been forced by their condo association to remove the Black Lives Matter sign on Friday, a day before the attack, though a sign for the movement remained visible in their car.

Palermo gets a synagogue The Roman Catholic Church in Palermo is ceding to Jewish ownership the use of part of a church and monastery complex built atop the ruins of a medieval synagogue. The move is being viewed as a gesture of reconciliation more than 500 years after the expulsion of Jews from Sicily.

The church will finance renovations in the space to create a new synagogue and Jewish heritage center for the several dozen Jews who now live in the city.

The donated space is the Oratory of Santa Maria del Sabato, in the lower part of the building under the church complex of San Nicola da Tolentino, Rabbi Pierpaolo Pinhas Punturello told JTA. Punturello is the emissary to Sicily of Shavei Israel, an organization that focuses on outreach to Jews who have lost connection to their Jewish roots and identity, including “bnei anusim,” or the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Catholicism under Spanish rule.

Based in Israel, he serves as Palermo’s rabbi, traveling once a month to the city.

The handover will take place during a conference on Jan. 12, the anniversary of the expulsion of Jews from Sicily by Spanish rulers in 1493. Shavei Israel’s founder and chair, Michael Freund, who played a key role in arranging the donation of the space, will be among the conference speakers.

There is no formal Jewish community in Palermo; the owners of the space will be a local cultural and educational organization, the Sicilian Institute of Jewish Studies-the Istituto Siciliano di Studi Ebraici, or ISSE, which is affiliated with Shavei Israel.

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RIO DE JANEIRO — Four skinheads who were carrying knives and axes as well as the Nazi propaganda, were arrested Wednesday in Anhangabau. They were intending to attack Jews as well another skinhead group, the R7 news portal reported.

Police seized posters with “Jews out” messages in Portuguese, as well as advertising material featuring Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

Last May, two Brazilian skinheads were sentenced to eight years of detention for promoting Nazism on Facebook. Soon after, three swastikas were found painted on walls in a Rio de Janeiro neighborhood that is heavily populated with middle class and elderly Jewish residents. According to Brazilian law, promoting Nazi or Nazi-related propaganda can lead to a prison sentence of two to five years, plus a fine.

briefs Sao Paulo is home to 60,000 Jews, more than half of Brazil’s Jewish population.

Philly windows smashed The stained-glass windows of a Philadelphia synagogue were shattered by rocks for the second time in two months.

Rocks the size of a baseball were thrown through three windows at Temple Menorah Keneseth Chai, a nearly century-old Conservative synagogue in the city’s historic Tacony neighborhood, shortly before 7:30 pm Friday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

On Dec. 2, a rock was thrown through one of the same windows in the second-floor sanctuary just before the start of Friday night Sabbath services, according to the report. No one was injured in either attack.

Profs say no to boycott The Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association voted down a resolution endorsing an academic boycott of Israel. The 113–79 vote came at MLA’s annual convention in Philadelphia.

Delegates also approved a proposal rejecting all academic boycotts, including of Israel, 101–93.

The text of the anti-boycott resolution said that endorsing the boycott of Israeli academic institutions “contradicts the MLA’s purpose to promote teaching and research on language and literature” and could “curtail debates with representatives of Israeli universities … thereby blocking possible dialogue and general scholarly exchange.”

The anti-boycott resolution will go to the MLA executive council for review before it moves to all 24,000 MLA members.

Eye Bibi, bizman talk JERUSALEM — The main corruption case against Benjamin Netanyahu involves a taped conversation of the prime minister said to be offering benefits to a businessman in exchange for his political support.

The businessman on Sunday was revealed

by Israel Channel 2 news to be Arnon Mozes, publisher of the Yediot Acharonot newspaper.

Accusations of a quid pro quo discussion between the two men, who are said to be major rivals, are backed up by the tape, Haaretz reported Sunday.

Netanyahu has been questioned twice over the case in the past week. Mozes reportedly also has been questioned.

Haaretz reported that the tape helps confirm that the two men struck a deal that would have Netanyahu use his influence to convince American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson to either close his pro-Netanyahu newspaper Israel Hayom or at least cancel its weekend edition. Less competition from Israel Hayom, a free tabloid, would help Yedioth Acharonot.

In exchange, according to reports, Yediot would drop an investigative report on Netanyahu’s son, Yair.

Netanyahu’s office has not commented on the reports, but the prime minister said at the weekly Cabinet meeting: “Now that I know what is being investigated, I can tell you with certainty there will be nothing because there is nothing.”

Coldplay near Dead Sea The British rock band Coldplay will play two “peace concerts” for Israelis and Palestinians on Nov. 3 and 4 at an outdoor location north of the Dead Sea, Israel’s Channel 2 reported Monday.

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Planting Yerushalayim’s future

Gov. Mike Huckabee assists Maale Adumim Mayor Benny Kasriel in planting an olive tree at planned expansion of the 41,000-person city outside Yerushalayim (above). Expansion has been stymied for eight years, causing the younger generation to make their homes elsewhere. The mayor and governor were joined by public policy officers of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce (OJC), who brought Huckabee to Israel, some wearing caps that read, “Build Israel Great Again,” expressing hope for increased cooperation between Israel and the incoming Trump administration. Pictured below with Huckabee and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat (from left): OJC Vice President Dr. Paul Brody; Barkat; Yisroel Stefansky; Huckabee; Ken Abramowitz; Israel Executive Director of Ateret Cohanim Daniel Luria; OJC Vice Presidents Odeleya Jacobs and Dr. Joe Frager; and OJC Founder Duvi Honig. Barkat joined the group in their enthusiastic anticipation of the US Embassy moving to Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Israel.

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Non-Jewish Poles don kipahs in solidarity Before the delegation arrived, hundreds of people joined a Facebook group calling for a boycott of the cafe over the unverified — and hotly disputed — charges of anti-Semitism.

Hundreds more joined a rival Facebook group vowing support for Café Foksal, whose management has categorically denied the anti-Semitism accusations. They claimed the patrons were tossed for engaging in anti-Christian hate speech about the Virgin Mary while under the influence of alcohol.

The media, including the prestigious Gazeta Wyborcza daily, were sucked into the ensuing debate. That’s what prompted Schnepf to organize the kippah-wearing expedition in a bid to show that Jews were welcome at Café Foksal and that anti-Semitism is not tolerated in Polish society.

“It was friendly and fun,” Schnepf wrote on Facebook about his visit to the controversial cafe, where he was photographed wearing a kippah. “That’s how you do it, for tolerance and friendship.”

Café Foksal’s management also expressed its satisfaction with the event, sharing a picture of it on their Facebook page.

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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA On a quiet Thursday evening, Café Foksal in central Warsaw suddenly filled up with about 50 people wearing kippahs.

The event was unusual for a city with very few observant Jews and an insignificant number of Israeli tourists. What made it exceptional is that almost none of the yarmulke wearers were not Jewish.

It was the latest twist in a media storm that has brewed around Café Foksal since a bartender, on New Year’s day, was accused of anti-Semitic behavior toward two patrons, who were ejected allegedly for discussing Israel.

Amid counter allegations that the complainants provoked the bartender with antiChristian rhetoric, the affair highlighted the polarization between liberals and conservatives that is dividing Polish society.

Led by Ryszard Schnepf, a former ambassador of Poland to the United States, the kippah wearers — journalists, activists and others — came to Café Foksal aiming to defuse the tensions stoked by the media’s publication of the allegations, which the bartender claims are false.

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