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Pence vows: Next year in Jerusalem!

Recites Shehecheyanu prayer in the Knesset Vice President Mike Pence is welcomed by Prime Minister Netanyahu at the PM’S office in Jerusalem on Monday.

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Vice President Mike Pence promised the Knesset on Monday that the U.S. Embassy would move to Jerusalem “before the end of next year,” advancing the timeline of several years that was originally suggested by Washington.

Anticipating celebrations in April that will mark the 70th birthday of the modern state of Israel, Pence recited the Shehecheyanu prayer in broken Hebrew, earning him one of at least See Pence on page 4

‘Intersectionality’ riddles latest Women’s March Being an advocate for women is not enough, if you also support Israel In an “intersectionality” powerplay meant to further ostracise Jews from the progressive movement, Palestinian advocates boycotted last weekend’s Women’s March Los Angeles over the inclusion of Jewish actress Scarlett Johansson as a featured speaker.

Intersectionality is a dogma increasingly popular in left-wing circles that asserts that various forms of oppression — such as racism, sexism, classism, ableism and homophobia — are interconnected, and that anyone who proposes to oppose one form of oppression while supporting another is not welcome to take part in the struggle against any oppression. Since anti-Semites consider Zionism a form of racist

oppression, by their terms anyone who is not opposed to Zionism cannot join the struggle for women.

The Palestinian American Women’s Association and several other proPalestinian groups — including Jewish Voice for Peace — boycotted the march held on Saturday, one of dozens that took place across the United States to fight for women’s rights and progressive causes.

PAWA said Johansson’s “unapologetic support of illegal settlements in the West Bank” sent “a clear message that Palestinian voices and human rights for Palestinians do not matter.”

Johansson was a spokeswoman for SodaStream when its main plant was

Jewish actresses Scarlett Johansson, right, and Mila Kunis speaking onstage at the Women’s March Los Angeles on Jan. 20.

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in Judea. The plant has since moved to the Negev and now employs 1,400 people, one-third of them Bedouin Arabs. More than 70 of the West Bank Palestinians who worked for the company when it was located in Maale Adumim work at the new plant.

Johansson resigned as a goodwill ambassador for Oxfam because the United Kingdom-based organization supported a a boycott of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, such as the one in which SodaStream was located.

She collaborated with other women in Hollywood to establish the Time’s Up initiative to protect women from harassment and discrimination.

Safer in America than in Europe, but it’s not a lock like the citizens of Whitefish, Montana who a year ago demonstrated ahead of a planned neo-Nazi march targeting the town’s tiny Jewish community, and civic leaders who, in 2013, called on an Oklahoma lawmaker to apologize for using the phrase “jew down.”

In both cases and in many others, he said, the drive to counter anti-Jewish rhetoric came in places with small Jewish communities.

On Friday, the World Zionist Organization released a survey comparing perceptions of anti-Semitism

in the United States and Europe. 51 percent of respondents in Europe said that wearing Jewish symbols in public made them feel unsafe. In North America, that figure was 22 percent.

Forman, who for decades helmed the National Jewish Democratic Council, cautioned against making anti-Semitism a partisan issue, in response to a question about President Trump’s role in the increase of biased rhetoric.

It is critical, panelists said, not to treat anti-Jewish bias in isolation.

Whereas Jews in Europe faced an intensification of anti-Semitic rhetoric, hate speech and some violence,

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By Ron Kampeas, JTA It’s better here than there: That was the message of a panel of experts considering the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe.

“It’s far from perfect,” said Ira Forman, until January the international anti-Semitism monitor for the State Department. “We do it now better than we did 50 years ago [but] there’s no guarantee we will continue to do it.”

Forman cited American communities that spontaneously rallied to counter anti-Semitism in their midst,

other minorities — including Muslims, Roma and LGBTQ communities — faced spikes in violence, they said.

Survivors’ holograms interact with museum visitors

By Ellen Braunstein, JTA SKOKIE, Ill. — In an otherwise darkened theater, viewers gasped when they saw what appeared to be a seated 83-year-old man wearing a light green button-down shirt and khaki pants.

Aaron Elster of Chicago seemed to be answering questions about his unbelievable escape from the Sokolov ghetto in Poland as a 10-year-old.

Elster was forced to hide in a dark, filthy attic for two years during World War II. “Why didn’t your sisters run away with you [from the ghetto]?” asked Suri Johnson, 11, of Wisconsin. A docent repeated the question into a microphone.

“It was an impossibility,” Elster responded.

“There were hundreds of people guarded by Ukrainian soldiers with rifles. … There was no way they could have run. I crawled behind the people on my stomach. They didn’t see me.”

The testimony was remarkable, moving. But Elster wasn’t in the room. Instead the audience was interacting with a holographic image of the Holocaust survivor that was created two years before.

The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, located in this suburb about 15 miles north of Chicago, is the first to permanently showcase the New Dimensions in Testimony oral history project, which has created holographic images from extensive interviews of 15 Holocaust survivors shown on rotation. Seven of the survivors are from Chicago.

The images are produced by the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies, along with the USC Shoah Foundation — a nonprofit that famed director Steven Spielberg founded in 1994 to preserve Holocaust and other genocide survivor testimonies. The museum’s new $5 million center, titled Take A Stand, opened in October.

(The images currently on display are technically not true holograms — they are the product

A holographic image of Sam Harris ion display at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, Ill. Ron Gould

of two-dimensional technology and the Pepper’s ghost illusion technique — but are still vivid.)

At the Illinois museum, visitors can find the holographic displays in a theater dedicated to the exhibit. Before any conversation happens, viewers are shown a five-minute introductory video narrated by the featured survivor. After the video, which tells the survivor’s individual story,

the image leans forward and says, “But I have so much more to tell you. Now I’d like you to ask me questions.” Then it switches to interactive mode.

The hologram of each survivor can conceivably answer thousands of questions. Much like Apple’s Siri technology, the voice-recognition system responds to audience questions by picking up on key words.

After asking her question, Suri Johnson told JTA that she found the experience very “cool,” partly because she had no idea how it worked.

“It enables the most life-like conversational opportunity that you can possibly imagine,” said the museum’s CEO, Susan Abrams.

The project was envisioned by Heather Maio, the managing director of Conscience Display, which specializes in exhibition design and interactive storytelling. Her company typically creates realistic combat scenes, complete with visuals and dialogue, for military personnel to drill with.

Maio, who is married to Stephen Smith, executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation, thought an exhibit that allowed people to casually walk up to Holocaust survivors and ask them questions could create a powerful experience.

“This kind of visual imagery and interactivity will be the norm for the next generation, and that’s what we’re preparing for,” Smith said.

The project took a toll on Elster, an insurance agency owner who has lived in Chicago since 1947. He had to fly to Los Angeles two years ago for a grueling week of interviews, in which he wore the same clothes every day and sat still in a chair for hours at a time under bright lights and cameras, answering difficult questions — 2,000 in all — that brought up a painful past.

“It was very emotional. I cried initially and I don’t take to crying,” Elster said of the first time he saw his testimony played back for him.

Smith said the project could have been successful even if each survivor were asked fewer questions. But the comprehensiveness of each

testimony gave each testimony extra character depth.

“If you were just going to ask the question, ‘where were you born, or what camps were you in, or what did you feel like when you were liberated,’ we could do that quite easily in 200 questions,” Smith said. “But the point to which they say, ‘So tell me about the psychological consequences of slave labor,’ or something like that, then you have a more nuanced question, for which [the holographic display] has an answer.”

Elster, now 85, is quite pleased with the final product, and is confident his testimony will resonate with younger generations. On its own, the Illinois Holocaust museum, the third largest in the world and created partly in response to an attempt by neo-Nazis to march in this heavily Jewish suburb in the late 1970s, welcomes 60,000 students and educators annually.

“As survivors, we’re concerned and afraid that our pain, our loss, our surviving will be forgotten or homogenized,” he said. “They’ve created something that’s going to live on much after we’re gone.”

A New York Times documentary about the project, called “116 Cameras” and making the rounds of film festivals, shows the space-age contraption in which they film the survivors.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City began piloting the project in July. Its two holograms will be on display for the public through April.

Additional pilots, open to the public, are being tested at the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre in Toronto and the Holocaust Museum in Houston. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington ended its pilot on Labor Day after several months. The Candles Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute, Indiana, also has piloted the project and plans to install a permanent display that will open this fall.

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n Monday’s New York Times, columnist Max Fisher treated Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to Israel as just another expression of what he considers the divisive policies of the Trump administration. Even before Pence gave a rousing speech to the Knesset, Fisher wrote that Trump’s approach to the Middle East conveyed what he called “a particularly American notion of being ‘pro-Israel’.”

What critics of Trump and Pence get wrong is not so much their critique of the details policy as it is their resistance to the notion that America’s love for Israel is rooted in its religious heritage as well as its national interests.

How did sentiments such as Pence’s words on Jewish rights or even a recognition of the fact that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital come to be seen as just another front in America’s partisan wars?

Is it really the fault of Republicans or Christian conservatives? Or is rather that some on the left have come to embrace intersectionality — a view of the world in which Israel is falsely accused of being a colonial power oppressing a group that is identified as the moral equivalent of others who are made to suffer because of their race, gender or sexual preference?

But no matter how you feel about Trump, Pence or the views of evangelicals on social issues, what is really troubling is the way some left-wingers are quick to lash out at the administration’s stands in such a way as to demonize normative pro-Israel positions. here was nothing particularly controversial in either the president’s remarks on Jerusalem last month or Pence’s speech on

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Continued from page 1 a dozen standing ovations from the lawmakers.

“As I stand in Abraham’s ‘Promised Land,’ I believe that all who cherish freedom, and seek a brighter future, should cast their eyes here to this place and marvel at what they behold,” Pence said.

His address was a historic milestone, the first by a U.S. vice president to the Israeli parliament.

Pence referred to President Trump, who in December extended U.S. recognition to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and said the U.S. would move its embassy there from Tel Aviv, as “a leader who has done more to bring our two great countries closer together than any president in the past 70 years.”

“America stands with Israel,” the vice president said. “We stand with Israel because your cause is our cause, your values are our values, and your fight is our fight. We stand with Israel because we believe in right over wrong, in good over evil, and in liberty over tyranny. We stand with Israel because that’s what Americans have always done, and so has it been since my country’s earliest days.”

Pence called the decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “in the best interest” of peace, saying that “fact is the only basis for peace.”

He stressed that such recognition does not change the status quo arrangements on holy sites in the city and that the United States has not taken a position on final status issues such as borders.

He reaffirmed that “if both sides agree, the United States of America will support a two-state solution,” and praised Israel for being willing to come to the peace table. The U.S. “strongly urge(s) the Palestinian leadership to return to the table,” he said. “Peace can only come through dialogue.”

Pence called the Iran nuclear deal a “disaster” and said that the U.S. “will no longer certify this ill-conceived agreement.”

Monday from the point of view of the pursuit of peace. Neither Trump nor Pence precluded a twosolution or even a re-division of Jerusalem in order to accommodate a Palestinian capital if that was part of a peace plan accepted by both sides.

It was significant that Pence quoted George Washington and John Adams in his Knesset speech. Few American Jews know that the first U.S. president to endorse a Jewish state wasn’t Harry Truman or anyone else in the 20th century — it was Adams, the nation’s first vice president and second president. That demonstrates just how far back into America’s political history backing for Zionism goes. That vast numbers of Americans are inspired by the Bible to support Jewish rights in their ancient homeland isn’t so much a function of the left-right conflict as it is an integral part of the nation’s political culture.

Those turned off by Pence’s rhetoric need to ask what it is about a desire to respect Jewish rights and demand Palestinians give up their century-old war on Zionism that annoys them so much.

Nor is there anything intrinsically right-wing or crazy about Pence’s declaration that the Iran nuclear deal must be renegotiated to end the sunset clauses that will enable Tehran to legally seek a weapon once the accord expires within a decade. President Obama vowed to end Iran’s nuclear program and to never to allow Iran to obtain a bomb, but the only way those promises can be fulfilled are by the measures Trump and Pence advocate.

For those who can’t listen to anything coming out of this administration without re-interpreting it through the lens of the “resistance,” Pence’s moving comments about the ties between America and Israel may seem like a creepy conservative plot against liberal values. But if that’s how you heard it, the problem isn’t in Pence’s rhetoric, but in a rejection of a belief that the overwhelming majority of American still rightly view as a consensus issue.

He vowed that the United States would join Israel to fight Iran and said the U.S. would never allow Iran to achieve a nuclear weapon. “Unless the Iran nuclear deal is fixed, President Trump has said the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal immediately,” her said.

Pence asserted that “radical Islamic terrorism knows no boundaries” and called for the destruction of ISIS at its source. He added that the U.S. has committed more than $110 million to help Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East to rebuild after years of repressive wars, and called on Israel and others to join the effort to restore a “rich diversity” to the region.

Pence cited passages from the Bible and alluded to biblical history, as well as to parallels between the founding of the United States and Israel, many times during his 30-minute address. He praised Israel for returning “to the land which your fathers possessed.”

As he began to speak, Arab-Israeli lawmakers from the Joint Arab List alliance began waving signs protesting the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, leading to their expulsion from the Knesset chamber.

Among those in the Knesset chamber for the speech were the U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman; Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer; and the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt.

Prior to his speech to the Knesset, Pence met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem.

Following that meeting, in remarks to reporters, Pence called it “my great honor, on behalf of the president of the United States, to be in Israel’s capital, Jerusalem, following on the president’s historic decision.”

He said that he was “hopeful that we are at the dawn of a new era of renewed discussions to achieve a peaceful resolution to the decadeslong conflict that has affected this region.”

This is an abridged transcript of Vice President Mike Pence’s Knesset speech on Monday.

It is deeply humbling for me to stand before this vibrant democracy to have the great honor to address this Knesset, the first vice president of the United States to be afforded that privilege here in Jerusalem, the capital of the state of Israel. And I bring greetings from a leader who has done more to bring our two great countries closer together than any president in the past 70 years — the 45th president of the United States of America, President Donald Trump.

Thanks to the president’s leadership, the alliance between our two countries has never been stronger, and the friendship between our peoples has never been deeper. And I am here to convey a simple message from the heart of the American people: America stands with Israel.

We stand with Israel because your cause is our cause, your values are our values, and your fight is our fight.

We stand with Israel because we believe in right over wrong, in good over evil, and in liberty over tyranny.

We stand with Israel because that’s what Americans have always done, and so has it been since my country’s earliest days. …

America’s first president, George Washington, wrote with favor to “the children of the stock of Abraham.” Our second president, John Adams, declared that the Jews, in his words, “have done more to civilize man than any other nation.” And your story inspired my forebears to create what our 16th president called a “new birth of freedom.” And down through the generations, the American people became fierce advocates of the Jewish people’s aspiration to return to the land of your forefathers to claim your own new birth of freedom in your beloved homeland.

The Jewish people held fast to a promise through all the ages, written so long ago, that “even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens,” from there He would gather and bring you back to the land which your fathers possessed. Through a 2,000year exile, the longest of any people, anywhere, through conquests and expulsions, inquisitions and pogroms, the Jewish people held on to this promise, and they held on to it through the longest and darkest of nights. …

And this April … the state of Israel celebrates the 70th anniversary of its birth. As you prepare to commemorate this historic milestone, I say, along with the good people of Israel, here and around the world: Shehecheyanu, v’kiyimanu, v’higiyanu la’z’man ha’zeh. eventy years ago, the United States was proud to be the first nation in the world to recognize the state of Israel. But as you well know, the work we began on that day was left unfinished, for while the United States recognized your nation, one administration after another refused to recognize your capital. But just last month, President Donald Trump made history. He righted a 70-year wrong; he kept his word to the American people when he announced that the United States of America will finally acknowledge Jerusalem is Israel’s capital.

The Jewish people’s unbreakable bond to this sacred city reaches back more than 3,000 years.

It was here, in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, that Abraham offered his son, Isaac, and was credited with righteousness for his faith in G-d. It was here, in Jerusalem, that King David consecrated the capital of the Kingdom of Israel. And since its rebirth, the modern state of Israel has called this city the seat of its government.

Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. And, as such, President Trump has directed the State Department to immediately begin preparations to move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In the weeks ahead, our administration will advance its plan to open the United States Embassy in Jerusalem, and that United States Embassy will open before the end of next year.

Our president made his decision, in his words, “in the best interests of the United States.” But he also made it clear that we believe that his decision is in the best interests of peace. By finally recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the United States has chosen fact over fiction. And fact is the only true foundation for a just and lasting peace. …

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As I stand in Abraham’s ‘Promised Land,’ I believe that all who cherish freedom, and seek a brighter future, should cast their eyes here and marvel at what they behold.

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Vice President Mike Pence speaking to the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on Monday.

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he United States appreciates your government’s declared willingness to resume direct peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. And today, we strongly urge the Palestinian leadership to return to the table. Peace can only come through dialogue.

Now, we recognize that peace will require compromise, but you can be confident in this: The United States of America will never compromise the safety and security of the state of Israel.

Any peace agreement must guarantee Israel’s ability to defend itself by itself. …

Last year, in Saudi Arabia, President Trump addressed an unprecedented gathering of leaders from more than 50 nations at the Arab Islamic American Summit. He challenged the people of this region to work ever closer together, to recognize shared opportunities and to confront shared challenges. And the president urged all who call the Middle East their home to, in his words, “meet history’s great test — [and] conquer extremism and vanquish the forces of terrorism together.”

Radical Islamic terrorism knows no borders — targeting America, Israel, nations across the Middle East, and the wider world. It respects no creed — stealing the lives of Jews, Christians, and especially Muslims. And radical Islamic terrorism understands no reality other than brute force. Together with our allies, we will continue to bring the full force of our might to drive radical Islamic terrorism from the face of the Earth. …

As we work to defeat the scourge of terrorism, and give aid to those who have suffered at its hands, we must also be resolved and vigilant to prevent old adversaries from gaining any new ground. To that end, the United States will continue to work with Israel, and with nations across the world, to confront the leading state sponsor of terror — the Islamic Republic of Iran.

As the world has seen once again, the brutal regime in Iran is merely a brutal dictatorship that seeks to dominate its citizens and deny them of their most fundamental rights. History has proven, those who dominate their own people rarely stop there. And increasingly, we see Iran seeking to dominate the wider Arab world.

That dangerous regime sows chaos across the region. Last year alone, even as its citizens cried

out for help with basic necessities, Iran devoted more than $4 billion to malign activities in Syria, Lebanon, and elsewhere across the region. It has supported terrorist groups that even now sit on Israel’s doorstep. And worst of all, the Iranian regime has pursued a clandestine nuclear program, and at this very hour is developing advanced ballistic missiles.

Two-and-a-half years ago, the previous administration in America signed a deal with Iran that merely delays the day when that regime can acquire a nuclear weapon. The Iran nuclear deal is a disaster, and the United States of America will no longer certify this ill-conceived agreement. At President Trump’s direction, we’re working to enact effective and lasting restraints on Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Earlier this month, the president waived sanctions on Iran to give the Congress and our European allies time to pass stronger measures. But as President Trump made clear, this is the last time.

Unless the Iran nuclear deal is fixed, President Trump has said the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal immediately.

Whatever the outcome of those negotiations, today I have a solemn promise to Israel, to all the Middle East, and to the world: The United States of America will never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. Beyond the nuclear deal, we will also no longer tolerate Iran’s support of terrorism, or its brutal attempts to suppress its own people. … hile at times it may seem hard to see, those who call the Middle East their home have more that unites them than divides them — not only in common threats, but in the common hope for a future of security and prosperity and peace, and in the common ancestry of faith that runs throughout these very lands.

Nearly 4,000 years ago, a man left his home in Ur of the Chaldeans to travel here, to Israel.

He ruled no empire, he wore no crown, he commanded no armies, he performed no miracles, delivered no prophecies, yet to him was promised “descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky.”

Today, Jews, Christians, and Muslims — more than half the population of the Earth, and nearly all the people of the Middle East — claim Abraham as their forefather in faith. Only steps

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from here, in the Old City of Jerusalem, we see the followers of these three great religions in constant contact with one another. And we see each faith come to life in new and renewed ways every day.

At the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, we see a Christian child receiving the gift of grace, in baptism. At the Western Wall, we see a young Jewish boy being bar-mitzvahed. And at the Haram al-Sharif, we see young Muslims, heads bowed in prayer. In Jerusalem, we see all this and more.

And so today, as I stand in Abraham’s “Promised Land,” I believe that all who cherish freedom, and seek a brighter future, should cast their eyes here to this place and marvel at what they behold. ow unlikely was Israel’s birth; how more unlikely has been her survival. And how confounding, and against the odds, has been her thriving. You have turned the desert into a garden, scarcity into plenty, sickness into health, and you turned hope into a future. … Every day, the Jewish state of Israel, and all the Jewish people, bear witness to G-d’s faithfulness, as well as your own.

It was the faith of the Jewish people that gathered the scattered fragments of a people and made them whole again; that took the language of the Bible and the landscape of the Psalms and made them live again. And it was faith that rebuilt the ruins of Jerusalem and made them strong again.

The miracle of Israel is an inspiration to the world. And the United States of America is proud to stand with Israel and her people, as allies and cherished friends.

And so we will “pray for the peace of Jerusalem,”that “those who love you be secure,” that “there be peace within your walls, and security in your citadels.” And we will work and strive for that brighter future where everyone who calls this ancient land their home shall sit “under their vine and fig tree, and none shall make them afraid.”

With an unshakeable bond between our people, and our shared commitment to freedom, I say from my heart: May G-d bless the Jewish people, may G-d bless the state of Israel and all who call these lands their home, and may G-d continue to bless the United States of America.

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By Deborah Fineblum, JNS For some retirees, it can come down to choosing to spend their golden years overlooking the Mediterranean instead of a golf course in Boca Raton. For others, it’s a matter of following the kids—or more to the point, the grandkids—to Israel, or the fulfillment of a lifelong dream to live in the Jewish state. But whatever the motivation, empty nesters are now the second-largest group immigrating to Israel today.

Yet as fulfilling as it can be to make Israel their new home, it’s not unheard of for retirees who make aliyah to face a series of challenges.

These challenges take a formula of strategy, planning, humility and patience to conquer. And a sense of humor? It certainly doesn’t hurt.

“We’ve learned to be flexible and open to new ways of doing things,” says Karen Simpson, who along with her husband Brian and their terrier made aliyah to the central Israeli city of Rehovot from Manchester, England. “Building a new life takes time and a willingness to change—we eat a lot more fruits and vegetables than we did in England, for instance. It’s healthier and part of Israeli life that you begin to appreciate.”

Among the most important early decisions you’ll need to make is locale. Older olim tend to focus on how best to access markets, banks, medical services and public transportation (especially if they don’t expect to own a car). The experts also recommend that olim initially rent a home or apartment, postponing a purchase until they’re convinced that a specific community is the best fit.

Finding the right community is key, says Galia Berry, a Los Angeles native who made aliyah with her husband Joe and three children in 1983, only to return to the U.S. six years later. Now they have been back in Israel since last March and are much happier in their new home: a small village in Israel’s north.

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by those in the know. They fell in love with Moreshet, 30 minutes northeast of Haifa. Though technically old enough to retire — he’s 69 and she’s 60 — they’ve decided to keep working to afford to build a home.

They’ve left much behind — four married kids and 16 grandchildren — but Galia says they are “very happy we made this move at this time in our lives. Here we have an amazingly supportive community with friends of all ages.”

Skype, WhatsApp and other means of communication now make it possible to maintain relationships with kids and grandkids even thousands of miles away. “Skype allows us to stay close,” says Simpson, whose two children and grandson remain in England. “You learn to be family in a different way and, at the same time, your Israeli friends become family.”

For 60-somethings Margie and David Hamm, moving from Brooklyn to Jerusalem’s Ramot Bet neighborhood more than a year ago means “I no longer have to pay airfare to see my grandchildren,” she says. Now that their son and family have also moved to Israel (their daughter preceded them by 12 years), all 10 grandchildren ages 8 months to 21 years are now in Israel.

“My husband had to talk me into moving but now I love it here,” Margie says. “And we certainly do get more requests for babysitting.”

But even those with children and grandchildren in Israel — creating a natural magnetic pull— still need to consider the best spot in the Jewish state for them to live. Some, finding themselves with the time to enjoy cultural offerings, will prefer the Jerusalem or Tel Aviv areas, whereas others will opt for a quiet country life.

“Seventy is the new 60,” says Miriam Naiman, a post-aliyah adviser for Nefesh B’Nefesh. “So, whether married or single, even with kids here, they need a life of their own.”

In addition to the many efforts of NBN to make new olim feel at home — including a Facebook page dubbed “English Speaking Olim 50+” — a new Orthodox Union group reaches 60 to 75 year-old aliyah-minded singles.

“Coming to Israel alone, I know how important it is to form a social network,” says Chana Spivack, who made aliyah from Florida in 2011.

A volunteer coordinator at the OU Israel Center, Spivack organized the new group, which attracted 60 singles to its first event last week.

The best advice for new olim is to never give up, says LiAmi Lawrence, 54, who made aliyah in 2014 from Los Angeles and now runs Keepolim. org to help immigrants meet various challenges.

“You need a backbone to live here,” says Lawrence. “Whatever happens, you need to believe, ‘Israel is an amazing place. It’s where I want to be and I will make it work’.”

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L’Oréal’s Muslim model recalls firm’s Nazi past also labeled Israel a “child murderer” that Allah will ultimately defeat.

According to the British government’s 2016 definition of anti-Semitism, “claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor” and “applying double standards by requiring of it [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation” are examples of the phenomenon.

On Monday, Khan said she is stepping down from the L’Oréal Paris Elvive World of Care campaign because “the current conversations surrounding it detract from the positive and inclusive sentiment that it set out to deliver.”

“I deeply regret the content of the tweets I made in 2014, and sincerely apologize for the upset and hurt they have caused,” she wrote on Instagram.

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A spokesperson for L’Oreal Paris told the BBC, “We agree with her decision to step down from the campaign.”

The Khan incident wasn’t the first L’Oréal scandal involving Israel, either. In 1995, L’Oréal’s American affiliates agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle an investigation by the U.S. Department of Commerce looking into complaints that the company was complying with the Arab boycott against the Jewish state.

And to many French Jews, the hiring of Khan recalled a far larger and older scandal involving the firm’s ties to the Nazi occupation of France.

The founder of the L’Oréal cosmetics company, Eugene Schueller, was a Nazi sympathizer who helped bankroll and offered office space in the 1930s to La Cagoule, a violent far-right organization that was virulently anti-Semitic.

Its members planned to overthrow the French government and attempted to assassinate Prime Minister Leon Blum, the country’s first Jewish and socialist leader.

After the war, many supporters of the collaborationist Vichy government found employment and refuge at L’Oréal. Schueller’s daughter, Lillianne, married André Bettencourt, a French politician who was a member of La Cagoule.

“What a regression for a company whose director, André Bettencourt, published anti-Semitic articles in the collaborationist weekly The French Soil,” JSSNews wrote.

This week, the company told BCC: “We have recently been made aware of a series of tweets posted in 2014 by Amena Kahn, who was featured in a UK advertising campaign. We appreciate that Amena has since apologized for the content of these tweets and the offense they have caused.

“L’Oreal Paris is committed to tolerance and respect towards all people.”

It wasn’t the first time that a recruit who was celebrated for a contribution to diversity put L’Oréal on the spot.

Last September, the brand dropped the British model, DJ and transgender activist Munroe Bergdorf for racist comments against white people just one week after she was hired as part of the brand’s #allworthit campaign intended to promote diversity and appeal to its wide and varied consumer base.

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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA L’Oréal made history last week when it became the first major cosmetics firm to feature a Muslim woman wearing a head covering in a mainstream international ad campaign for hair products.

The signing of Amena Khan, a British blogger on beauty, as the newest face of L’Oréal Paris generated a lot of positive publicity for the French firm, with CNN lauding the company for “breaking barriers” and “becoming more diverse” in an article that also flattered Khan for “empowering women.”

But the response was less enthusiastic in some French Jewish media like JSSNews, where Khan was denounced as “an anti-Semite of the worst kind” for her remarks on Twitter in 2014 calling Israel an “illegal and sinister state.” She

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Trump aids confronted with immigrant histories

By Ben Sales, JTA During a combative news conference in early August, White House adviser Stephen Miller told reporters that the United States should prioritize immigrants who speak English.

“Does the applicant speak English?” Miller asked, describing a bill to reduce the overall number of immigrants and reform immigration requirements. “Can they support themselves and their families financially? Do they have a skill that will add to the U.S. economy?”

But if English proficiency had been an immigration requirement a century ago, Miller’s own great-grandmother may not have been allowed into the country.

That’s what journalist Jennifer Mendelsohn discovered that same day while working on a new project she calls Resistance Genealogy. Using public records and genealogical websites like Ancestry.com, Mendelsohn wants to show immigration hard-liners their own immigrant family trees.

“When you do genealogy, you’re constantly confronted with the reality of our immigrant past,” Mendelsohn told JTA. “It appears from some of the attitudes and stances that people are taking publicly that they’re forgetting that.”

In Miller’s case, Mendelsohn tracked down his great-grandmother’s line item in the 1910 census.

The entry noted that four years after arriving in the United States, she spoke only Yiddish, not English.

Mendelsohn has performed similar searches for the immigrant forbears of a handful of President Donald Trump’s advisers and supporters, seeking hard data to support the idea that America is a nation of immigrants. She’s found out about Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s greatgreat-grandfather, conservative pundit Tomi Lahren’s great-great-grandfather and Rep. Steve King’s grandmother, who arrived in the United States from Germany at age 4. (“We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies,” the Iowa Republican tweeted in March.)

On Jan. 9, Dan Scavino, the White House director of social media, called for an end to “chain migration,” which refers to immigrants bringing their relatives to live in the United States. But Mendelsohn discovered that the practice had brought Scavino’s great-grandfather, Gildo, to the country.

“So Dan. Let’s say Victor Scavino arrives from Canelli, Italy, in 1904, then brother Hector in 1905, brother Gildo in 1912, sister Esther in 1913, & sister Clotilde and their father Giuseppe in 1916, and they live together in NY,” Mendelsohn tweeted, listing his family members. “Do you think that would count as chain migration?”

In recent days, with Congress and the White House locked in a bitter battle over a federal funding bill and the children of undocumented immigrants, Mendelsohn published her research in Politico, was interviewed on MSNBC and was cited in Breitbart News.

Miller did not respond to a JTA request for comment. But he says the reforms he’s advocating would preserve blue-collar jobs for American workers while making sure the people who arrive on America’s shores will contribute to the country.

“We want to have an immigration system that takes care of the people who are coming here and the people who are already living here by having standards, by having a real clear requirement that you should be able to support yourself financially, by making sure that employers can pay a living wage,” he said at the August news conference.

Mendelsohn, a freelance journalist from Baltimore, has been an amateur genealogist for years, mostly focusing on her own family, friends and adoptees seeking their biological parents. She calls her own family’s genealogy a “classic Eastern European Jewish immigrant story,” and disputes the idea that people need to have skills in order to be welcomed into the United States.

Only one of her grandparents was born in America, and the others came as unskilled immigrants. (Her brother, the classicist Daniel Men-

delsohn, wrote about their extended family in his 2006 memoir, “The Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million.”) Now, she says, two of those immigrants’ great-grandchildren have doctorates.

“I grew up exquisitely aware that we were proud and patriotic Americans, but we came from other places,” she said. “We came here seeking more opportunity and we were allowed to have that opportunity. I feel it’s my obligation to remind other people that that’s what happens when you let the kind of immigrants people are looking down on now into this country.”

To trace the family trees, Mendelsohn first finds the names of public figures’ immediate families, then takes those names to search databases for obituaries of grandparents, great-grandparents and other relatives. She then uses paid services to track down birth, death and marriage

certificates, and also searches public census data from 1940 and earlier. Censuses before that year contain personal data on nearly every person in the country.

“If you know your grandparents were Ida and Hyman Cohen and they lived in Milwaukee, it will pop up [and] it will show you their addresses, their ages, their places of birth,” she said.

Mendelsohn hasn’t heard back from any of the officials she’s researched, and doesn’t expect to.

But she’s still tracing their lineages. On Sunday, she posted a revelation from one of the genealogical sites she uses.

“Stephen Miller is your fourth cousin thrice removed’s husband’s great nephew’s wife’s second cousin twice removed,” it read.

“Does this mean I have to invite him for Passover?” she tweeted.

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Celebrating Tu B’Shevat with fun and meaning JONI SCHOCKETT KOSHER KITCHEN

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u B’Shevat is a wonderful, fun holiday that celebrates the birthday of the trees. It’s always meant that spring would be coming soon and that I could plant a tree to celebrate the birthday of one of my favorite plants.

When I was a kid, we had two huge weeping willow trees on the side lot of my house.

Those trees seemed hundreds of feet high and many feet wide. The vine-like branches hung to the ground at least 5 feet from the huge trunk.

The donut-shaped space under the leaves was my favorite place to play. I didn’t even mind the Japanese Beetles that occasionally made their home with me and I explored their green black bodies as I watched them eat the long, slender leaves.

One year, my father announced that the trees were sick and that, to avoid them crushing our house, they had to be removed. I cried.

I was 9 and wanted my trees to continue to provide my place to read, write my stories and write and imagine. I needed the lullaby of the branches’ gentle rustle to help me fall asleep on summer nights. Sadly, the trees came down and the man who did the deed showed me the rotted insides and told my father we were lucky that they didn’t destroy our house.

That winter, as Tu B’Sh’vat arrived, I came home from Hebrew School and announced that we had to plant new trees. I decided we would plant apple trees as a birthday gift to my beloved willows. Despite the fact that our house was right on a busy thoroughfare, my dad planted three apple trees where the two willows had stood before. Five years later, we gathered enough apples to make two pies. I was ecstatic. Though these were not my beloved willows, they were beautiful, healthy trees. Each year, we marked their birthdays on Tu B’Shevat.

Tu B’Shevat is a holiday to celebrate the bounty of the earth and the trees that give us so much, including the very air we breathe. We owe them — and our precious earth —our care and respect.

There is a lovely seder that is performed for Tu B’Sh’vat. During the seder, four different kinds of juices and, traditionally, 15 different kinds of fruit are eaten. It is fun to work with your children to find the different kinds and colors of fruit juices and fruits for this ritual. Let them add their own touches to the holiday by

making simple fruit and dried fruit treats. Some easy recipes for children to make are baked apples stuffed with dried fruits and nuts, and dried apricots stuffed with almonds and dipped in chocolate. Enjoy the holiday … and remember to plant a tree!.

Breakfast with Almost all the Species (Pareve or Dairy)

1 cup dried cranberries 1/2 cup raisins 1 cup puffed barley cereal 2 cups what flakes or small shredded wheat 1 cup oat flakes, or rolled oats 1 cup dried apricots, chopped 1 cup chopped dates 1/2 cup chopped walnuts 1/2 cup sunflower seeds 1/4 cup shredded or flaked coconut 3 Tbsp. pomegranate molasses 1 Tbsp. pure maple syrup, dark amber 2 cups plain or vanilla yogurt or non-dairy almond milk yogurt Place the first 10 ingredients in a bowl and toss to mix. Place the pomegranate molasses and the maple syrup in a small bowl and whisk to blend. Spoon some yogurt onto a glass mug or bowl and top with some of the fruit/cereal and nut mixture. Drizzle with the pomegranate sauce. Repeat for a second layer. Makes about 4 “sundaes” with the cereal mixture left over for another treat.

Mushroom Onion Barley Kugel (Pareve or Meat) Freezes well and is really delicious 1 cup pearl barley 2 cups water 12 to 14 ounces mushrooms, sliced button, or mixed 2 large onions, diced 1 leek, abut 4-5 inches, white part only, chopped 2 stalks celery, diced 1 carrot, finely chopped 2 to 3 cloves garlic, minced 2 to 3 Tbsp. canola oil 2 cups vegetable broth or Pareve chicken broth or chicken broth or stock 1/4 cup flour salt and pepper to taste Place the water and barley in a large pot and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 60- 75 minutes, adding more water of needed, until the barley is chewy, but not hard. Drain, cover, and set aside.

Meanwhile, heat a large skillet and add the oil. Add the onions and leek and sauté until deep golden, about 5-9 minutes or so. Add the celery and carrot and sauté for about 2 minutes. Add the garlic and stir for about 1 minute. Add the mushrooms and sauté until the mushrooms give off their juices. Stir constantly for about 4 to 5 minutes until most of the liquid is reabsorbed.

Add half the stock to the pan and mix to blend.

Reduce heat to low.

Pour the remaining half of the broth into a small bowl and add the flour. Whisk until well blended and lump-free and pour over the vegetables. Increase heat to medium, stir well and simmer for about 10 minutes, stirring constantly to thicken slightly. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Turn off the heat.

Add the cooked barley to the mixture and mix well. Grease a 9X13 glass or ceramic baking dish, and pour the barley mixture into the dish.

Spread evenly and bake at 375 degrees for about 30 to 45 minutes, until golden. Serves 8 to 12.

Simple Pomegranate Dressing (Pareve) 3 Tbsp. Pomegranate Molasses 3 Tbsp. pure pomegranate juice 2-3 Tbsp. red wine vinegar, sherry vinegar or white balsamic vinegar 1-2 Tbsp. Dijon mustard, to taste 1-2 Tbsp. honey, to taste 2/3 cup extra virgin olive oil or Canola oil or a mixture Salt and black pepper, to taste

Use tahini to create delightful s’mores

By Sheri Silver, The Nosher via JTA Tahini is certainly having “a moment.” This ancient condiment is just about everywhere these days — including in sweet treats and desserts.

This savory ground sesame seed paste taste lends an unexpected flavor and texture to so many different kinds of desserts, without overpowering.

Even better, it can provide some and dimension to otherwise “one note” sweets. Like marshmallows.

At the end of the day, a marshmallow is nothing more than a pillow of sweet, spongy sugar.

So I knew it would be the perfect foil for a generous swirl of tahini.

Ingredients: 1 cup cold water, divided 3 envelopes unflavored kosher gelatin 2 cups sugar 3/4 cup light corn syrup pinch of salt 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons tahini

confectioner’s sugar white and dark chocolate squares graham crackers, cut in half to form squares Directions: Cut 2 squares of parchment or wax paper, to fit the bottom of a 9-by-9-inch baking pan. Coat the pan with non-stick cooking spray, place one of the paper squares in the bottom and spray the paper. Place 1/2 cup of the cold water into your mixer — sprinkle with the kosher gelatin and let set. Place the remaining 1/2 cup cold water into a medium saucepan, along with the sugar, corn syrup and salt. Bring to a boil, stirring until the sugar is dissolved. When the mixture boils, cover the pot and cook for 5 minutes. Remove the cover, attach a thermometer and continue to cook, without stirring, till the temperature reaches 240 F. Remove from heat, turn the mixer on low and slowly add the sugar mixture. When the mixture

starts to thicken, gradually increase the speed, eventually bringing it up to high. Beat for 5 minutes.

Mix all ingredients, except the oil in a container with a tight fitting jar. Add the oil and shake vigorously to emulsify. Makes about 1 cup.

Date-Apricot-Fig Loaf (Dairy) 1 (1 lb.) package pitted dates, chopped 1 cup (firmly packed) dried apricots, chopped 1/3 cup chopped figs (optional) 2 tsp. baking soda 1-1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup butter, softened 2 eggs, slightly beaten 2-1/2 cups flour, sifted 1-3/4 cups boiling water 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract Generously grease two loaf pans. Set aside.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Chop the dates and apricots and figs, if using. Measure the apricots and place all in a large bowl. Add the baking soda, sugar and butter to the bowl. Add the boiling water and vanilla. Mix well until the butter is completely melted. Set aside to cool. Add the eggs, mix well and add the flour. Mix by hand until moistened. Batter will be lumpy.

Pour batter into 2 standard loaf pans that have been greased. Bake at 350 degrees 1 to 1-1/2 hours, until a tester comes out moist, but clean. Let cool before cutting.

Add 1/2 cup tahini to the mixture and quickly but gently fold in, using a greased rubber spatula (do not overmix, so that you can still see the swirls of tahini throughout). Transfer to your baking pan and drizzle over the remaining 2 tablespoons tahini. Use a thin knife to swirl the drizzle. Spray the reserved piece of parchment paper with nonstick cooking spray and place, sprayed-side down, over the marshmallow. Press gently to level and even out the top. Wrap with plastic wrap and let sit overnight.

Sprinkle a work surface with confectioner’s sugar; place more in a medium bowl. Remove the top sheet of parchment from the marshmallow and invert onto the work surface. Peel off the bottom sheet of paper and sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar. Use a greased knife to cut squares, then roll the cut edges of each square in the bowl of sugar.

Make your s’mores by roasting the marshmallows and sandwiching them with a piece of chocolate between 2 graham cracker squares.

Marshmallows may be stored in an airtight container at room temperature.

Mir-bound DRSers are laid over in Goose Bay

Man threatened CNN, Jews A Michigan man arrested after allegedly calling CNN 22 times and threatening to kill its employees also made disparaging statements about Jewish people and African-Americans.

In one call he whispered: “I’m coming for you CNN. I’m smarter than you. More powerful than you. I have more guns than you. More manpower. Your cast is about to get gunned down in a matter of hours.” He also referred to “fake news.

In an affidavit, the FBI did not specify what the caller said about Jews or name any Jewish individuals.

On Monday, the suspect’s father told the Washington Post that “this whole thing has been a mistake. He really didn’t mean any of it.”

The father added: “He didn’t know what he was saying, the seriousness of it. We’re not even gun owners or anything like that. We don’t have any, neither does he.”

In September, the suspect called an employee at an Islamic center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and made derogatory comments about the mosque and Muslims, the affidavit said, according to CNN.

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By Tyler Marko, Herald Community News What was to be a 12-hour trek from JFK airport in Queens to Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv became a nearly 27-hour test of endurance for passengers aboard an El Al flight, including Rabbi Dovid Willig and 20 of his 12th grade students from the Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva for Boys High School in Woodmere.

The plane was delayed for 12 hours in Goose Bay, Newfoundland, necessitated by a fire in the landing gear. The DRS boys were headed to the Mir Yeshiva and to visit yeshivas they may want to attend during their gap year.

About five hours into the flight, which departed from JFK at 12:41 am EST, the pilot made an emergency landing at a military base in Goose Bay. The base sometimes accommodates smaller commercial planes, but not typically a 747. Be-

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Knowing our destination before we move on Rabbi binny FReedman

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ne of the saddest stories I ever heard was from a holocaust survivor who would say Kaddish on the tenth of Tevet every year, in the shul I grew up in as a boy. He was given the privilege of leading the services on that day and for a long time I thought he just had yahrtzeit on the tenth of Tevet. Then one year I found out he said Kaddish for his whole family on this day, the tenth of Tevet chosen to remember those whose exact date of death is not known.

One year he spoke on Yom Hashoah in the shul’s Hebrew school and I went to hear him speak. It transpired that he had escaped the Warsaw ghetto by hiding under a pile of dirty uniforms being taken for cleaning and he had begged his parents and two siblings to come with him but they had refused.

This was before the infamous ghetto wall had been constructed and the Germans were promising that things would improve. His parents were Volksdeutsch (native Germans) who had been deported to Poland. For a period, these Jews were treated better than Polish Jews as they knew German and carried themselves as Germans. His parents believed the Germans when they said things would get better and tried to convince their son it was too dangerous to leave.

After years of German propaganda they simply could not imagine where things were headed, so they refused to leave, essentially dooming themselves and his siblings to their tragic end.

Ultimately he was the only survivor; the rest of his family was murdered in Treblinka. They simply could not bring themselves to leave when there was still time.

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his week’s parsha, Beshalach, contains a fascinating insight into the challenges that lie behind this seemingly endless question.

The Jewish people are finally free, having left Egypt at the behest of no less than Pharaoh himself, who at the end of last week’s parsha, Bo, cannot even wait until morning to be rid of them, calling Moses and Aaron in the middle of the night (Shemot 12:31) to send the Jewish people on their way. It seems as if the future is bright and sunny when suddenly, everything changes; in an instant, the Jewish people find themselves caught with the Sea with Egyptian army bearing down behind them.

What caused Pharaoh to change his mind so suddenly?

The Torah tells us: “And it was told to the King of Egypt that the people had escaped, and Pharaoh’s heart and the hearts of his servants were turned, and they said: ‘what we have done, that we have sent Israel away from serving us’?” (14:5) What does this mean that Pharaoh is told the people have escaped? Didn’t he just send them away in the midst of the tenth plague? Indeed, Pharaoh himself summoned Moshe and Aaron in the middle of the night saying: “Get ye’ up and get out from amongst my people, you and the children of Israel a well, and go and worship G-d as you have said.” (12:31) Why is Pharaoh concerned with what the Jewish people will do when they leave Egypt?

Isn’t it enough to say ‘get out of Egypt’? He was sending the Jewish people out of Egypt to worship G-d; one wonders whether he knew that the Jews are leaving for good. Could Pharaoh have been so naïve as to believe that once released

from bondage, the Jews return?

This seems to be exactly what Moshe wanted Pharaoh to think. When Moshe and Aaron first meet Pharaoh, their initial request is: “So said Hashem, the G-d of Israel: Send out my people that they may celebrate [to] me in the desert.” (5:1) o wonder Pharaoh did not take Moshe (and for that matter, G-d) seriously, when all he is asking for is a three-day weekend!

Pharaoh might well be thinking that if G-d were so powerful, he would be talking about freedom, not a few days off.

And, lest we think this was just a tactic dreamed up by Moshe, a careful look at the beginning of Moshe’s entire mission at the burning bush is revealing: “And now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may take my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” (3:10) To which Moshe responds: “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should take the children of Israel out of Egypt?” (3:11) To which G-d responds: “For I will be with you, and this shall be for you the sign that I have sent you: when you will take the nation out of Egypt, you shall serve G-d (The G-d) on this mountain.” (3:12) The point of this exercise seems to be for the Jewish people to get out of Egypt so they can worship G-d on “this mountain,” which according to Jewish tradition, as Rashi points out, is in fact Mount Sinai. Indeed, G-d, when describing to Moshe what he will say when first meeting Pharaoh, actually says: “And you shall come, you and the elders of Israel to the king of Egypt and say to him: G-d, the Lords of the Hebrews appeared to us and now please let us go on a three

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Before we can move forward, we have to let go of what has been holding us back.

day journey into the desert that we may offer up to Hashem our G-d.” (3:18) Why isn’t the plan to just ask Pharaoh to “let my people go?” Why is there a need for this deception? Clearly, the plan is to leave Egypt for a lot more than three days, as G-d tells Moshe to tell the elders of Israel: “I will bring you up from the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites… to the land flowing with milk and honey.” (3:17) hroughout the ten plagues G-d visits on Egypt, Moshe consistently asks Pharaoh, in G-d’s name to: “send my people that they may worship me in the desert.” (7:16, 26, etc.)

The Ramban suggests a fascinating possibility: According to the Torah there were 600,000 men between the ages of 20 and 60 (military service age) leaving Egypt, which, when adding the old and young men, women and children, would mean the Jewish people actually numbered in the millions.

Consider the implications, then, of walking out of Egypt into the desert with millions of people — who would feed them, where would they find water … and where were they going? Israel (nee’ Canaan) was occupied at the time by seven fierce and war-like tribes including the Philistines and the Amalekites; how would an unarmed (from Pharaoh’s perspective) and untrained mass of rabble hope to conquer this land from its inhabitants?

Who would take such a plan as “let my people go” seriously?

In truth, the question was never whether G-d could take the Jewish people out of Egypt; the question is when the Jewish people will be ready to leave. And so the first mission is to get the Jewish people out of Egypt to Mount Sinai, because only when the people stand before G-d, away from the pagan and evil world that is Egypt, will they be capable of letting go of the hold Egypt has on their minds and hearts.

Physically, G-d could certainly have moved See Jerusalem on page 15

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When our lives are in the pillars of cloud and fire Rabbi avi billet

Parsha of the week

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hen describing the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire that accompanied the Israelites out of Egypt, the Torah tells us that the cloud did not leave during the day and the fire did not leave at night.

The phrase the Torah uses to express that the pillars never left is extremely uncommon — “Lo yamish.” It appears only one other time in the Torah in this format (Yehoshua never leaving the tent), once in the book of Yehoshua in a slightly different format (“lo yamush”) once in each format in Yeshayahu, and once in the book of Nachum in the form of “lo yamish.”

It always refers to something not leaving or departing. And yet I wonder if there’s a deeper meaning behind the word, as well as if there is a difference to be gleaned from the distinction between Yamish and Yamush.

The Tosefta in Sanhedrin compares the appearance of Yamish in Shmot 33:11 — “G-d would speak to Moses face-to-face, just as a person speaks to a close friend. [Moses] would then return to the camp. But his aid, the young man, Joshua son of Nun, did not leave the tent” — to Yamush of Yehoshua 1:8: “This book of the Torah shall not leave your mouth; you shall meditate therein day and night, in order that you observe to do all that is written in it,

for then will you succeed in all your ways and then will you prosper.”

While the Tosefta doesn’t distinguish between the two formats, it does say that as Yehoshua never left Moshe’s tent, due to his dedication to the study of Torah, certainly the missive in the book of Yehoshua is appropriate. Isn’t that “the Torah never leaves from your mouth” one of our long-term goals? Isn’t that the goal of paying all those tuition dollars?

What is fascinating is that the verse that describes Yehoshua’s not ever leaving the tent is preceded by Moshe’s clear communing with G-d (Who speaks to him through a cloud) at the entrance to his tent. The fact that Yehoshua was present and did not leave the tent indicated he had access to the very intimate conversations Moshe had with the Master of the world.

This is the same Yehoshua who is told by G-d, after the death of his teacher Moshe, that the Torah should never leave his mouth. n the verse describing the movements of the pillars of clouds and fire, the commentaries mostly fall into three schools. One is that the Israelites were never left without protection — the cloud didn’t leave until the fire showed up, and the fire didn’t leave until the cloud returned (Pesikta, Mechilta, Rashi, Rabbenu Bachaye). This is the image Rabbi Yosef (a talmudic rabbi) used to explain to his wife the

importance of lighting Shabbos candles before sunset — while the daytime clouds are still visible, the fire of Shabbos should be kindled!

A second school focuses on the grammatical differences between yamish and yamush. Funny enough, even those confident enough to chime in on the dikduk differ in understanding the tenses of yamish and yamush. Since I am not an expert in this field, I’ll leave it to you to look up Rashbam, Ibn Ezra (Peirush Ha’Arokh), and others.

The third school focuses on what the pillars did, or how they illuminated. Mechilta describes the cloud and fire as helping to illuminate tumah status. Netziv’s commentary in B’haalotkha suggests that the cloud illuminated like fire in the night. (It’s unclear to me if he wonders whether there was fire at all).

Beyond this, it’s worthy to note two outlying comments. Ibn Ezra, in his peirush hakatzar claims the clouds were only present through the splitting of the sea. His proof is that there are other mentions of clouds appearing, both at Sinai and with the inauguration of the Mishkan. As a result, it seems the cloud had a very specific time-limited purpose.

We also have the Bal HaTurim, who jumps on the connection of “lo yamish” here and in chapter 33, showing how Yehoshua’s dedication to study, to never leaving the tent of Torah, imitating the pillars which protected the Israelites, is

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what merited him to be the next true “shomer Yisrael.” If we think about it, through all rules of the world, by all rights Moshe’s own sons should have taken over for their father. But they never demonstrated Yehoshua’s dedication. They were unworthy. nd I think that is the message. There is an essential connection between the “lo yamish” of the clouds and fire and the “lo yamish” of Yehoshua from the tent which goes to the heart and soul of who we are as a people, which is also reflected in the “lo yamush” through which Yehoshua undertook his final life-calling.

Do we put in the time and dedication that it takes to become a leader of tomorrow? Do we make sure not to close off one opportunity before the next opportunity is in place and ready? Do we not only talk the talk of valuing Torah, but make sure it is constantly on our lips, something we talk about, delve into, discuss, to further enhance our understanding of it and dedication to it?

Most importantly, do we allow it to illuminate the parts of our life which are unclear?

Some will argue all answers can be found in the Torah. Some argue some aspects of worldliness can be learned and gleaned from other sources.

Some argue that everything should and must be seen through the prism of Torah.

Whichever approach is correct, let us be able to live a life in which the “lo yamish” and the “lo yamush” has the right impact, where, like from the cloud and fire, we can see and understand G-d’s imprint in the world, and like Yehoshua’s dedication, we can also dedicate ourselves wholly to the holiest pursuits of our existence.

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Finding meaning in Jewish texts Kosher BooKworm Guest column by Rabbi Gil Student his is the story of the making of the book, “Search Engine: Finding Meaning in Jewish Texts.” I don’t normally talk about myself but I find it hard to refuse a request from my good friend, Alan Jay Gerber.

In 2004, I started a blog on a whim. I saw a Conservative Jew offer a halachic analysis on his blog and decided to start my own with which to argue. I found the experience satisfying and continued writing on issues of halachah and hashkafah. In those days, blogs were cutting edge and contained fascinating arguments in the comments section. Because mine was among the early Jewish blogs, it took off. People kept coming back to discuss Torah.

I tried to vary the topic and style, usually writing at least three original essays a week plus some translation or quotation from a sefer. At the time, the blog was a form of social media and created a community of writers and commenters. As media tried to catch up with technology, they paid attention to blogs, perhaps too much. But in the world of technology, everything is a fad. The era of blogs ended as Twitter and Facebook took off. In recognition of this trend, I turned the blog into an online magazine.

What is the difference between a blog and a magazine? Both feature articles that are posted online. A blog can be prettied up to look like a magazine. The main differences are style, oversight and community. A blog is written casually, often in the first person. It has no editorial staff and emphasizes the conversation between read-

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ers. A magazine uses more formal language, has editors to keep the writers in check and emphasizes the writing, not the conversation. The Torah Musings website publishes formal essays, is overseen by an editorial board and limits comments to contributions material to the article’s subject.

My philosophy on writing is that the material has to be short and simple. Even complex issues have to be chopped into small components, each clearly explained. I’m not an original thinker. I popularize other people’s thoughts, particularly under-utilized Rishonim and Acharonim. I believe that halachah is inspiring; it has an underlying hashkafah, a meaning that can be inferred and generalized. When I write about halachah, I try to tease out that hashkafah. n general, I try to keep safe. I don’t issue new halachic rulings but rather survey what respected authorities have said, pointing out some of the proofs and counterproofs. In hashkafah, I also avoid breaking new ground. That just isn’t my role. Instead, I bring Rishonim and Acharonim to bear on the issues under discussion. Over the past few years, I have been focusing on some great rabbanim of 150 to 200 years ago, like Rav Yaakov Ettlinger (Aruch La-Ner), Rav Yosef Shaul Nathanson (Shoel U-Meishiv) and Rav Yosef Zechariah Stern (Zeicher Yehosef). I find their insights brilliant, deeply true and remarkably relevant.

Whenever possible, I use a clever or controversial title to draw readers into taking the time to read a full essay. Some people get offended by this practice but usually they have no experience spending hours writing an article that few people read because the title is boring — or maybe they have too much experience with this and think it is normal. I’ve been told that Torah doesn’t need marketing. They are right but I teach to people and people need marketing in order to pay attention.

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I try to be an early adopter of new technology. Not too early, because I can’t keep up. But I experiment with new apps and websites to see whether I can use them to spread my message. I am fairly active on Facebook and Twitter. Instagram doesn’t really work for me because it is about pictures and I focus more on words. I don’t like Snapchat because it deletes things and I want to keep Rabbi Gil Student them. I have tried other, newer types of social media, but for now focus on Facebook and Twitter. I don’t use them socially. I keep my personal life off the web, particularly guarding my children’s privacy. I don’t essays deal with current questions (e.g., isbelieve it is fair to my children to share their sues related to Skype), some with future quespictures or information. I use social media to tions (e.g., use of combat exoskeletons on Shabshare ideas, find articles and useful thoughts, bos), some with theoretical questions (e.g., how halachah should guide super heroes), and some and even test ideas and sensitivities.

In 2010, I published a collection of essays with questions from the past that reflect the long about shul and prayer in a book titled Posts journey from the Talmud to today. Halachah has Along the Way. It was supposed to be the first evolved in one sense, although not as religious in a series but life got in the way. It required too radicals may wish. Questions that were once much editing and revision. However, with the debated have been authoritatively concluded, transition to a magazine, the writing quality im- creating new precedents with which future quesproved and the editorial process became much tions can be addressed. I find this fascinating, easier. A friend pointed out to me how easy it and include a few essays on how halachah has would be to collect articles from the new for- evolved (e.g., wearing pocket watches and extinmat. I looked at the articles and realized I had guishing home fires on Shabbos).

In my day job, I work as an actuary. Outside enough for three books so I separated them by topic. Volume 1, on Jewish life, has been pub- of that, I am the publisher and editor-in-chief lished. I am already editing volume 2, which is of TorahMusings.com. I also write frequently in about Jewish leadership. Then I will work on Jewish newspapers and magazines. I serve on the volume 3, on Jewish thought. All three should executive committee of the Rabbinical Council of America, on the editorial board of the Orthodox be out within a year.

Volume 1 contains essays on timely halachic Union’s Jewish Action magazine, and as the magissues, written in easily accessible style. Some azine’s book editor.

Hashem reigns, now and forevermore rAbbi dAvid etenGoff

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ne of the outstanding sections of parsha Beshalach is the Shirat HaYam Suf, the song of joy and thanks to Hashem for having miraculously saved us from Pharaoh and his hordes of chariots and soldiers. Toward the end of this unparalleled poetic hymn we find, “Hashem yimloch le’olam vo’ed” (“the L-rd will reign to all eternity”). Many of our classic Torah commentators discuss whether our verse refers to the actual moment of salvation at the Sea of Reeds, or a yet-to-be realized period in human history when Judaism’s ultimate visions will be realized.

The Ramban (Nachmanides) presents both of these approaches in his Commentary on the Torah:

Jerusalem…

Continued from page 14 the Jewish people out of Egypt, but if the Jews don’t really want to go, then what’s the point? his was precisely the issue at the core of Moshe’s mission 3,000 years ago. After 200 plus years in Egypt, having suffered the pain and agony of persecution at the hands of a bestial society which at the time set the standard for evil and cruelty in the world, the time has finally come to set the Jewish people free, but if Hashem forces them to leave then they may be physically leaving, but emotionally and psychologically they will remain in Egypt.

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“This is to say that, at this time, He enabled the world to see that He is the King and the Ruler over everything, and that He is the One who saves His servants, and destroys those who rebel against Him. So, too, should it be His will before Him to act in this manner throughout all generations forevermore. [This means] that He will never withhold [the favor] of His eyes from before the righteous, nor hide His eyes from before the wicked who act in an evil manner. There are numerous verses that underscore these ideas: ‘The L-rd will reign forever!

Your G-d, O Zion, to all generations. Hallelujah,’ ‘May the name of the L-rd be blessed from now and to eternity,’ ‘And the L-rd shall become King over all the earth; on that day shall the L-rd be one, and His name one.’ hile the Ramban essentially views our verse as a statement of both present day reality and that which will one day be, the Netziv (Rabbi Naphtali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin), in his work, Ha’emek Davar, opines that it is a prayer of hope that all people will one

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at Sinai, in the desert, away from the paganism and wickedness of Egypt, can the Jews discover who they are meant to be. And that is also why it is so important for them to accept the Torah, as illustrated by the words they speak as one at the foot of Sinai (24): “Na’aseh ve’nishma” (“We will do, and will hear”) which means they chose to accept their mission as a people.

Before we can move forward, we have to let go of what has been holding us back. The Talmud (Tractate Rosh Hashanah 10b) suggests that changing one’s environment can change everything. If a person wants to lose weight he has to walk out of the bakery before he can get to the gym. And perhaps as a people, to move forward, we have to leave the exile behind so that we can see where it is we could be headed.

Shabbat shalom from Jerusalem.

day recognize Hashem’s kingship over the entire universe: “They [the Jewish people at the Sea of Reeds] prayed that His kingship would be eternal. This means that, in the future, the whole world will recognize that He, [and He alone,] may He be blessed, is the driving force (manhig) behind the Kingship of Heaven. And this prayer will be fulfilled in the Days of the Messiah, for then Hashem will be [recognized as] King over the totality of the Cosmos.”

The Rav (my rebbe and mentor, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik zatzal) adopts a different, but complimentary, approach to both the Ramban and the Netziv. He interprets our verse as referring to a crucial distinction that obtains between the natural law, which has been in effect since the creation of the world, and the moral law, wherein Hashem’s sovereignty is yet to be recognized: “In one sense, G-d is the sovereign now, but in another sense, He will only be sovereign in the future. G-d’s reign expresses itself in two ways: through the natural law and the moral law. At this time, the Kingdom of G-d is to be found solely in the natural law. His primordial Will created and regulates all of creation, both organic and inorganic, intelligent beings as well as the beast. Nature behaves in accordance with regulated patterns, a behavior which attests to His absolute sovereignty. Man has no control over the laws of nature; no one can rebel against G-d in this sense, since no one can change the natural law. We therefore do not need to pray for the establishment of G-d’s sovereignty over nature. ‘Hashem yimloch le’olam vo’ed’ denotes that G-d is currently King of the Universe. nfortunately, as the ongoing cruelty of humankind attests, there is a marked contrast between our recognition of Hashem’s sovereignty in the natural realm and the acknowledgement of His dominion over the moral law: “As far as the moral law is concerned, G-d’s

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[Therefore,] this verse expresses our belief that in the future all of humanity will eventually crown Him as King of the Universe. Man will ultimately accept the moral law in the same way that he now acknowledges the natural law.

May the time come soon and in our time when Hashem’s moral hegemony will be universally recognized, so that all people will enjoy the benefits of true and lasting peace and witness the fulfillment of Zechariah’s most celebrated vision: “The L-rd shall become King over all the earth; on that day shall the L-rd be one, and His name one.” V’chane yihi ratzon.

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ake up and smell the cholent! The blind loyalty of American Jews continues to give the Democrats freedom to maltreat the Jewish community without fear of losing Jewish votes.

A senior policy adviser to Democratic Senator Patty Murray said her office in the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) does “not care about anti-Semitism,” according to two people who attended the meeting. The comment was in reference to anti-Semitic slanders against a presidential nominee.

The HELP committee was evaluating the nomination of Ken Marcus for the position assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education. Marcus also served in the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights during the administration of George W. Bush. During his tenure, Marcus issued a guidance which

stated that the Office for Civil Rights would protect the rights of ethnic groups that also share a religious faith, stating that they were both a religion and people. This policy has been applied to protect Jewish, Muslim, and Sikh students.

Since his nomination by President Trump, Marcus has been subject to an aggressive slander campaign by leading anti-Israel groups seeking to kill his nomination because he has worked to combat the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement on college campuses and is the founder of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, an organization that among other things, fights anti-Israel slanders.

The BDS movement has one purpose: to delegitimize Israel and to deny the Jewish people their right to self-determination. The State Department has declared that denying that the Jews have the right to have their own state is a form of anti-Semitism.

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ccording to a report in the Washington Free Beacon, during a meeting on Nov. 28 with Sarah N. Stern, a former colleague of Marcus and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, a senior adviser to Murray on the HELP committee told Stern the committee: “We don’t care about antiSemitism in this office. We care about transgenders, we care about blacks, we care about Hispanics, we care about gays, we care about lesbians, we care about the disabled.”

Stern’s aide Jennifer Dekel confirmed the comments and said she was taking notes during the meeting. Eli Zupnick, a spokesman for Sen. Murray, questioned the accuracy of the remarks attributed to the senior adviser, saying, “This is not an accurate quote and certainly doesn’t reflect the position of the office.” The senior adviser did not immediately respond to request for comment.

Since Jews blindly vote Democratic, why should the party care about Jews and Jewish issues?

The campaign against Marcus is being spearheaded by numerous anti-Israel groups, including the Arab American Institute, led by James Zogby. Zogby’s referred to Israelis as Nazis and described members of Congress as “Israel Firsters,” an anti-Semitic charge that implies dual loyalty to the Jewish state.

“Zogby has two goals: to make Arab Americans more powerful than Jewish Americans and to be their preeminent leader,” Yehudit Barsky, a fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy, wrote in a profile about Zogby’s anti-Israel attitudes.

Another of the groups slandering Marcus is the National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which has members who have openly celebrated murderers of Jews; and Palestine Legal, which has defended professors who have posted anti-Semitic comments online. SJP is an extremist organization that maintains affiliations with Arab and Islamic terror groups, is overtly anti-Semitic, incites hatred and violence against Jewish students, and rejects the existence of the state of Israel in any borders.

Jewish students on campuses across the United States have been victimized by anti-Semitic See Democratic Jews on page 19

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n his important book, “Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition,” the scholar David Nirenberg makes the persuasive case that Islam has faced similar theological challenges to Christianity in assessing its relationship to Judaism. On the one hand, Nirenberg argues, Islam regards the Jews as “enemies” of Muhammad’s prophecy; on the other, Islam realizes only too well that, without the existence of the Jews and their practices to begin with, there would have been no subsequent prophetic tradition and faith to follow.

“How to appropriate the prophetic claims of Jewish communities without ‘Judaizing Islam’?” writes Nirenberg, summarizing the core of the Muslim dilemma. “How to contain or exclude them without severing Islam from its Abrahamic foundations?”

I’ve mused a great deal on this passage in recent weeks, as I’ve reported on three separate occasions on anti-Semitic sermons of varying ferocity at three different mosques in the U.S.,

all posted on social media platforms and then unearthed by the Middle East Media Research Institute. What these sermons have in common is that they were delivered on Friday, Dec. 8, 2017 — the same week that President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

All of them drew on similar images, themes and quotations.

All of them utilized language and sentiments that would be regarded by any rational calculation as unambiguously threatening towards Jews. he worst example was the sermon delivered at the Islamic Center of Jersey City by Sheikh Aymen Elkasaby, who told those gathered for prayers that the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem was “under the feet of the apes and pigs” — a commonly expressed derogatory term for Jews, that is based upon a sura (chapter) in the Quran which claims that in his anger towards the Jews, G-d “made some as apes and swine.”

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“So long as the Al-Aqsa mosque remains a humiliated prisoner under the oppression of the Jews, this nation will never prevail,” the sheikh continued. “Allah, wreak vengeance upon the plundering oppressors! Count them one by one, and kill them down to the very last one. Do not leave a single one on the face of the Earth.”

On the same day, in Houston, Sheikh Raed Saleh AlRousan asserted that Judgment Day “will not start until Muslims fight the Jews … in Palestine.” Al-Rousan then quoted a popular hadith (saying) of Muhammad concerning the Jews.

“The Muslims will kill the Jews,” he recited, “and the Jews will hide behind the stones and the trees, and the stones and the trees will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him, except for the Gharqad tree, which is one of their trees.”

Islam, like Christianity, staked its claims in the name of Jewish truth, but guaranteed those claims with Jewish falsity.

A version of that hadith also turned up in the sermon about alleged American and Israeli iniquities given by Imam Abdullah Khadra of Raleigh, NC. “At the End of Time,” as Khadra rendered it, “we will fight those Jews until the rocks and the trees will speak: ‘Oh Muslim, this is a Jew behind me.’”

In the aftermath of all three sermons, I want to stress, I came across some reassuring signs that in America, we deal with these issues with an honesty that is absent in much of Europe and certainly the Middle East. In the New Jersey case, Sen. Cory Booker quickly issued a thundering denunciation of Elkasaby’s anti-Semitism, at the same time telling his friend, Islamic Center President Ahmed Shedeed, to “publicly and unconditionally denounce Imam Elkasaby’s hateful rhetoric, which was delivered at your house of worship before your congregants.”

In the case of Al-Rousan, the Islamic Society of Greater Houston condemned him for making “inflammatory remarks about our Jewish community in a deeply disturbing tone.” In the case of Khadra in Raleigh, an email exchange I had with him revealed some awareness on his part of the negative impact of his remark, and a desire to meet with local Jews to mend fences See Scholar on page 19

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n the age of Trump, the unusual has become the norm. But what happens when the usual is treated as the unusual? What happens when behaviors considered typical going back decades are distorted by their proximity to the 45th president?

That’s my interpretation of the dust-up last week surrounding the Frisch School, an Orthodox Jewish high school in Northern New Jersey that is the alma mater of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser.

Haaretz reported that some parents at the school objected when students were encouraged to write thank-you notes to President Trump supporting his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The email, sent to students Tuesday morning from Rabbi David Sher, Frisch’s director of Israel education and advocacy, included a form letter from a local pro-Israel political group, as well as instructions on how to sign and send it.

The headline of the Haaretz article charged that “kids” at Frisch were “urged” to “write letters sucking up to Trump — and parents are fuming.”

By the time the story made it to Newsweek, its headline declared the school “is making children write letters of support to Donald Trump.”

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n fact, some parents did criticize the email due to their opposition to Trump and his policies. (It’s not clear if that meant the Jerusalem decision in particular.) Frisch says three parents called the principal, Eli Ciner, to complain, and Haaretz reported criticism of the email found in a private Facebook group for Frisch parents.

Ninety minutes after the initial email, Ciner sent a followup email emphasizing that the campaign was voluntary. In a subsequent statement, Ciner said that Rabbi Sher sent out the email on behalf of the school’s pro-Israel student group.

The original email also made clear — twice — that writing a letter to Trump was voluntary.

The move to declare Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “was heavily criticized and it is therefore important that each person who believes that the president made the right decision have their voice heard,” the email read. “We are therefore encouraging every student who believes that the president’s decision was correct to contact the White House with words of support. It will take approximately 2 minutes of your time.”

In a statement to JTA, Ciner emphasized that such advocacy on behalf of a policy affecting Israel was standard operating procedure at the school. Sher is, after all, Frisch’s director of

Israel advocacy.

“As a religious Zionist school, we encourage our students as civic minded American citizens to write to the administration when they agree or disagree with the government’s policies regarding the State of Israel,” Ciner said in the statement. “In this particular case, many of our students strongly supported the president’s decision recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.” issing in much of the reporting was the fact that, like much of the mainstream Jewish community, most Jewish schools see teaching about and advocating for Israel as a central part of their mission and a key to instilling Jewish identity. If anything, Israel advocacy training has increased as Jewish organizations invest more resources in fighting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement aimed at Israel.

Avi Chai Foundation, a leading supporter of Jewish day schools, includes on its website a section on Israel Education and Advocacy. It requires all schools receiving its support to abide by a statement saying that they “seek to instill in our students an attachment to the State of Israel and its people as well as a sense of responsibility for their welfare.” It provides books on defending against anti-Israel campaigning on college campuses.

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And well before Trump, such advocacy was political.

In April 2002, day schools throughout the country — Block Yeshiva High School in St. Louis, the Ramaz School in New York, and the Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago, to name a few — sent students by bus or plane to a proIsrael rally in Washington. The rally was political and skewed heavily to the right. Its speakers — including Benjamin Netanyahu, Rudy Giuliani and the deputy secretary of defense at the time, Paul Wolfowitz — called on the Bush administration to support Israeli policies in fighting terrorism and to refuse negotiations with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

“They drove us to every single rally,” said Shira Galston, a 2004 graduate of Ramaz. “There was no question [of] do you want to go to the rally. We’re going to the rally. Whenever there was something that happened, there was never a question of what side the school was on.”

Sivan Zakai, a professor of Jewish education at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, said that most Jewish schools focus on general solidarity with Israel as opposed to taking a specific position within the Israeli political spectrum. But she added that Israel activism of any kind at school is itself political.

A statement like “we are a Zionist school or we believe that part of American Judaism should be about helping students connect not only to the American polity but this other national identity,” she said, “is a political act by definition.”

JTA staff writer Ben Sales contributed reporting to this column.

On display: Adolf Eichmann’s capture and trial tehilla r. goldberg

view from central park Our columnist visited the Museum of Jewish Heritage exhibit, “Operation Finale: The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann.” She regrets only making it there on its final day, with three hours to go until closing, but even a quick view was breathtaking, she reports. he exhibit path was launched by walking through a tunnel, black and white photos and copy about the Holocaust on each side. An eerie red light shone. These were the consistent colors of the sparsely decorated exhibit: black, white and red.

The aesthetic vibe was that of newspaper sheets. An espionage story unfolding. Executed to perfection.

One room was devoted to the entire team.

Instead of just listing their names, or perhaps the more conventional displaying of their photographs, it was a dimly lit room, with faceless, black, life-size cutouts of people, their names and roles on their backs, their backs to the viewers, conveying the shrouded-in-secrecy element of the operation.

The genesis of the seizing of Eichmann in 1961 began with a tale of boy meets girl. An expat German family in Buenos Aires, not publicly Jewish, began to suspect that the teenager their daughter was dating was, in fact, the son of Adolf Eichmann. After finding out the whereabouts of his residence and feeling confident they had found Eichmann, this information was passed on to a friend of the family, a high ranking Jewish German lawyer living in Germany. He contacted the Mosad.

After a few trips to Buenos Aires with photos in hand, they knew 100 percent: it was Eichmann. peration Finale, to capture the “dybbuk,” the Mosad’s code name for Eichmann, was launched. Based on the exhibit, this successful capture was nothing short of brilliant. The depth of thought that went into the details is simply astonishing.

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An example: a man was found with features similar to Eichmann, or perhaps his face was made to look similar to Eichmann’s. He was photographed and his photo identification papers were brought along on the mission. He was dubbed some name other than Eichmann (say, “Jose Ramirez”). In the event that the Mosad agents would be captured in the midst of the kidnapping and accused of kidnapping Eichmann, the agents could claim that the man they were with was not Eichmann but “Jose Ramirez” — and show “Ramirez’s” papers, and still proceed to smuggle Eichmann out of the country.

Speaking of smuggling him out of the country, how did they do it? Agents drugged him.

Then, using the phony ID papers they had drawn up, claimed he was the pilot of their plane who had fallen deathly ill, as he was carried by two Mosad agents onto the plane. (As I was reading this, I was thinking, now where have I heard this story before — feigning illness or death, smuggling a person out of a city, last time in a coffin.

Oh yes! — the Talmudic Rabbi Yochanan. In a small, perhaps unintended way, there was an historic Jewish facet to the operation as well.)

El Al Airlines was the air carrier that had flown in the Mosad team, ostensibly a group of leaders joining in national festivities and celebrations in honor of Argentina’s 150th birthday. But El Al was not merely the air carrier. Aside from

the Mosad agents, the pilot knew the real purpose of the trip. None of the staff or other passengers along for the celebrations had an inkling.

After Eichmann’s capture, the Mosad agents collectively risked their lives by deciding to remain in Buenos Aires. They sent only Eichmann and two agents back to Israel. The priority was to get Eichmann to Israel, whatever would be their fate in the next crucial days in Argentina.

As it turned out, the complete Mosad team all made it back safely. he exhibit includes fascinating artifacts enclosed in glass cases. Item by item, they tangibly weave the story of capture. I learned some surprising and disturbing facts as I wove my way through the exhibit.

I didn’t know Eichmann was a high school dropout and a failed salesman. Unfortunately, he was also a master at logistics and efficiency.

His penmanship was perfect. And he escaped Germany as Ricardo Klement with the help of the Red Cross! The Red Cross! Another shocking fact: two days prior to his execution, Eichmann pleaded for clemency.

Until the end, the very bitter end, he assumed no responsibility for his crimes.

The pace of the exhibit is that of a fascinating espionage tale. You know the outcome at the outset, but you follow each fascinating step of how it was executed. Then comes the final

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room, which hits you with such force, like a punch to the gut.

It’s the booth. The booth, bulletproof, in which Eichmann sat as he was tried. This room transports one to the courtroom of the trial.

The walls on either side of the booth are covered in moving footage of the survivors who sat in the bleachers, circling the booth. The raw pain and emotional outbursts are searing.

In the center of it all, in the booth, is live footage of Eichmann, sitting, ever so indifferently sitting, expressionless. As survivor after survivor bears witness, an ordinary looking man sits. Vacant, vacuous eyes. Nothing. Chillingly expressionless.

Instantaneously, “banality of evil” is what pops into my head. Hannah Arendt was right; when you see Eichmann like this, those three words seem to say it all. s I was paralyzed, mesmerized, horrified at “seeing” this “ordinary” human-monster, I was suddenly jolted from my reverie by the museum personnel, explaining that the exhibit has now closed and asking me to leave.

I started walking toward the exit, when I noticed them repeating this same request to a man standing nearby, quickly snapping pictures, trying to get all you can in before they kicked us out.

I said something about unfortunately coming to see the exhibit at the last minute. Last minute? he responded. This was his fifth time coming.

Today, he is a history professor. When he was 19, he was in Israel on a summer program. A lottery was drawn for a few students to be admitted to witness the trial. He won a spot. At the time, he was pre-med. After the trial, he switched to history. You know, Hitler could look the part of an evil freak, but Eichmann, day after day during his long trial, just came across as a regular guy.

You would never have known.

The professor’s mantra today is: “Live in the present, learn from the past, plan for the future,” he told me as we were well on our way out of the exhibit, rounding the corner with the breathtaking view from Lower Manhattan in sight, Lady Liberty’s silhouette far out across the water.

“Operation Finale: The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann” opens at the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg on Feb. 10.

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Parsha Shiur: [Weekly] Join Michal Horowitz at the YI of Woodmere for a special shiur on the parsha. 9:30 am. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950.

Iyun Tefilah: [Weekly] Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum at the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst. 9:45 am. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhurst.

Learn Maseches Brachos: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Eliyahu Wolf at the YI of Woodmere for a shiur on Maseches Brachos. 5:15 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950.

Halacha Shiur: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Yoni Levin at Aish Kodesh for a halacha shiur. 9:30 pm. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Friday January 26

Erev Shabbos Kollel: [Weekly] Eruv Shabbos Kollel starting with 6 am Chassidus shiur with Rav Moshe Weinberger and concluding with 9 am Chevrusah Learning session with Rabbi Yoni Levin. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Saturday January 27

Conversations over Sushi: The White Shul invites all high school girls to a melaveh Malka and discussion about emunah and bechirah with Rebbetzin Feiner. For members only.

729 Caffrey Aven, Far Rockaway.

Sunday January 28

Timely Torah: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Ya’akov Trump, assistant rabbi of the Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, for a shiur on relevant Halachic and philosophical topics related to Parsha Moadim and contemporary issues. Coffee and pastries. 8 am. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhurst.

Learning Program: [Weekly] At Aish Kodesh led by Rav Moshe Weinberger following 8:15 Shacharis including 9 am breakfast and shiurim on subjects such as halacha, gemara and divrei chizuk. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

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516-295-0950.

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410 Hungry Harbor Rd, Valley Stream. Torah4teens5T@gmail.com.

Monday January 29

Women’s Shiur: [Weekly] Dr. Anette Labovitz’s women shiur will continue at Aish Kodesh.

10 am. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Seeing Things Clearly: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Shalom Yona Weis at Aish Kodesh for a shiur for women and high school girls titled “Seeing Things Clearly- Learning to View Our World and Our Lives Through Positive Lenses. 8:45 pm.

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Tuesday January 30

Women’s Shiur: [Weekly] Rebbetzin Weinberger of Aish Kodesh will give a shiur on the “Midah of Seder in our Avodas Hashem.” 11 am.

894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Paint Night: Shaare Emunah Sephardic Congregation of the 5 Towns presents a ladies paint night. $20 per person. 8 pm. 539 Oakland Ave, Cedarhurst. RSVP 516-455-7710.

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So central is the Balfour Declaration to Palestinian political identity that the “Zionist invasion” is officially deemed to have begun in 1917—not in 1882, when the first trickle of Jewish pioneers from Russia began arriving, nor in 1897, when the Zionist movement held its first congress in Basel, nor in the late 1920s, when thousands of German Jews fleeing the rise of Nazism chose to go to Palestine.

The year 1917 is the critical date because that is when, as an anti-Zionist might say, the Zionist hand slipped effortlessly into the British imperial glove. It is a neat, simple historical proposition upon which the entire Palestinian version of events rests: an empire came to our land and gave it to foreigners, we were dispossessed, and for five generations now, we have continued to resist. Moreover, it is given official sanction in the Palestine National Covenant of 1968, in which article 6 defines Jews who “were living permanently in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion” as “Palestinians”—an invasion that is dated as 1917 in the covenants’ notes.

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Britain Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn— who in 2009 called Hezbollah and Hamas his “friends” — said he would not attend a dinner commemorating the centennial of the Balfour Declaration. Prime Minister Theresa May she would attend “with pride” and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu would be her guest.

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Continued from page 16 vandalism, verbal attacks, and outright violence at the hands of SJP members. nder Marcus the Brandeis Center sent several letters to universities “decrying racism against Muslims and AfricanAmericans on their campuses,” according to Sarah Stern.

For instance, in November 2015 he wrote to the president of San Diego University denouncing an attack against a Muslim student, saying, “While our organization primarily addresses the rights of Jewish college students, we support the right of all students to be free from invidious discrimination.” Marcus condemned the incident, in which a female Muslim student was grabbed by her headscarf and called a terrorist, as a “hate crime.”

“We are appalled by this act of hate, and we urge you to take immediate action by condemning this incident and announcing that hate crimes of any kind will not be tolerated at SDSU,” Marcus wrote.

“Does this sound like the sentiment of a racist or an Islamophobe?” Stern asked. “Yet while I was recently talking about Marcus with a senior policy adviser to the Democratic ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the adviser interrupted me with the response, ‘We do not care about anti-Semitism in this office’,” she said.

Instead of refuting the hatred, Senator Murraym, who is the ranking member of the HELP committee, has been quiet. Palestine Legal praised Murray for “grilling” Marcus during his confirmation hearing.

Last week, Marcus’ nomination was approved by the committee in a straight party vote (12 to 11). Every very Democrat on the committee voted for the BDS group position.

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The gap between how Republicans and Democrats view Israel is widening, a Pew Research Center poll found.

The poll posted Tuesday showed 79 percent of Republicans but only 27 percent of Democrats sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians. Pew said this was the widest divide since 1978. The poll showed that 42 percent of Independents sympathize with Israel more than Palestinians.

The drop among Democrats was especially sharp in recent years; in April 2016, 43 percent of Democrats said they were likelier to sympathize with Israel. The rise among Republicans has also been sharp since 2001: In that year, 50 percent of Republicans said they sympathize more with Israel.

This year’s poll showed 6 percent of Republicans sympathize with Palestinians more and 25 percent of Democrats sympathize with the Palestinians more. Overall, 46 percent of Americans sympathize more with Israel, about the same amount it has been since 1978. —JTA

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Murray’s staffer and much of the Democratic Party are influenced by their voters. Progressives have become the most important voting bloc in the Democratic Party and they tend to be anti-Israel (just check the last two DNC Platforms) and many are also anti-Semites.

That progressive power is why Keith Ellison is so popular in the party, why Jews like Jerrold Nadler and Adam Schiff ran to support Obama’s love affair with the Iranians, why people like New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Governor Andrew Cuomo have been supportive of anti-Semites like Linda Sarsour.

It’s not only the anti-Semitism of the progressives, it’s also the blind loyalty of the majority of Jews to the Democratic Party. If Jews will blindly vote Democratic no matter how the Democrats act, why should the party care about Jews and Jewish issues.

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such rhetoric is judged in the American context as an actual threat to the Jews living here, and therefore a potential threat to most precious norms and conventions of the nation at large.

That this recognition exists strikes me as a decent enough foundation for a more transparent dialogue between Judaism and Islam in America. As a country with no official religion, whose citizens nonetheless embrace different faiths in vast numbers, America is the ideal location for such a conversation. And it needs to begin by recognizing that there is, as Nirenberg says in his book, a strong message in the Quran and in other key Muslim texts that “Islam, like Christianity, staked its claims in the name of Jewish truth, but guaranteed those claims with Jewish falsity.” Hence the temptation for Muslim preachers to address contemporary issues like Jerusalem through the filter of Jewish deceit and Jewish disobedience — “they believed, then disbelieved, therefore a seal was set on their hearts so they do not understand,” the Quran says — that permeated the depiction of the Jews in the early world of Islam.

Nobody can pretend that these anti-Jewish texts, beliefs and traditions do not exist. But the experience of Jews with the Catholic Church during the last half-century — in which fundamental doctrines about the demonic nature of the Jews dating to the time of St. Paul have been dispensed with — suggests that there is very little in this world that is immovable.

Certainly, those of us who believe that JewishMuslim coexistence can only be achieved on the basis of mutual respect, as well as mutual commitment to civic, secular government and

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