THE JEWISH January 30, 2015 • 10 Shevat 5775
STAR Vol 14, No. 5 • TheJewishStar.com
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70 years later World remembers Shoah, told Jews remain targets
Fighting on border
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By Celia Weintrob As women put a few coins or bills into the pushka just before lighting the Shabbos candles, they think of their family and friends who need a special blessing for health or peace, and of Jews facing difďŹ culties across the globe. Ner Echad (One Light) seeks to magnify the power of those blessings 1,000 -fold, allowing the ladies to tap into a worldwide sisterhood that is giving tzedakah and lighting candles together at the same auspicious moment. Ner Echad was founded this past Succos, on the third yahrzeit of Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky of Bnei Brak, by her husband, Rav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita, an acclaimed Talmudic scholar, through the efforts of close family friends, Rabbi Ernest Rothman and his son Yehuda. Many of the founding supporters of this new organization hail from the Five Towns. By all accounts, this unassuming Rebbetzin greeted scores each day with )RU WKH )LYH 7RZQV WKH EOL]]DUG RI WKH FHQWXU\ WXUQHG RXW WR EH ÂŤ QRW VR PXFK $OWKRXJK DFFXPXODWLRQV ZHUH QRWKLQJ OLNH WKRVH LQ 6XIIRON WKH VQRZ cheer and respect, leaving a DORQJ &HQWUDO $YHQXH LQ &HGDUKXUVW KDG WR EH FOHDUHG QRQHWKHOHVV $V DOZD\V mark upon countless hearts Continued on page 10 $FKLH]HU KHOSHG SUHSDUH IRU DQ\ HYHQWXDOLW\ VHH SDJH 0RQLFD 5]HZVNL
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By Vanessa Gera, AP BRZEZINKA, Poland â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A Jewish leader stood before 300 survivors of the Nazisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; most notorious death camp on Tuesday and asked world leaders to prevent another Auschwitz, warning of a rise of anti-Semitism that has made many European Jews fearful of walking the streets, and is causing many to ďŹ&#x201A;ee the continent. World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder made his bleak assessment on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, speaking next to the gate and the railroad tracks that marked the last journey for more than a million people murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. He said his speech was shaped by the recent terrorist attacks in France that targeted Jews and newspaper satirists. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For a time, we thought that the hatred of Jews had ďŹ nally been eradicated. But slowly the demonization of Jews started
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SHEAR YASHUV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Missiles ďŹ red by Lebanese Hezbollah terrorists struck an Israeli military convoy on Wednesday, killing two soldiers. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would respond â&#x20AC;&#x153;forcefullyâ&#x20AC;? to the attack, and the military launched aerial and ground assault on Hezbollah positions, including at least 50 artillery shells according to Lebanese ofďŹ cials. A Spanish peacekeeper was killed in the border ďŹ&#x201A;are-up in southern Lebanon. Hezbollahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attack was its deadliest assault on Israeli forces since a 2006 war. It followed a Jan. 18 airstrike attributed to Israel that killed six Hezbollah ďŹ ghters and an Iranian general. Hezbollah said its ďŹ ghters destroyed a number of Israeli vehicles and caused casualties among â&#x20AC;&#x153;enemy ranks,â&#x20AC;? and that the attack was carried out by a group calling itself the â&#x20AC;&#x153;righteous martyrs of Quneitra.â&#x20AC;? Ever since, Israel has braced for a response to the strike, beeďŹ ng up its air defenses and increasing surContinued on page 17
0RUH RQ SDJH to come back,â&#x20AC;? Lauder said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once again, young Jewish boys are afraid to wear yarmulkes on the streets of Paris and Budapest and London. Once again, Jewish businesses are targeted. And once again, Jewish families are ďŹ&#x201A;eeing Europe.â&#x20AC;? The recent attack in Paris, in which four Jews were killed in a kosher supermarket, is not the ďŹ rst deadly attack on Jews in recent years. Last May a shooting killed four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and in 2012 a rabbi and three children were murdered in the French city of Toulouse. Europe also saw a spasm of anti-Semitism last summer during the war in Gaza, with protests in Paris turning violent and other hostility across the continent. Continued on page 18