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Mispatim • Feb. 1, 2019 • 26 Shevat 5779 • Torah columns pages 18–19 • Luach page 18 • Vol 18, No 4

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Jews for BDS cross red line

Boston leads the way in severing ties with Jewish groups that reject Israel

Rabbi Avromy and Sternie Super recently moved to the Caribbean to open Chabad of St. Lucia.

Life’s a beach for Jews on tropical St. Lucia isle Chabad.org When Yaniv and Marcia Gliksman and their children moved a few years ago to St. Lucia — an idyllic island nation nestled among the Windward Islands at the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea — they found warm waters, inviting beaches and tropical forests. While the towering Pitons — St. Lucia’s

iconic twin volcanic spires — offered scenic vistas, a Jewish community was considerably harder to find. “We baked bread at home for Shabbat and did not have meat for [the first] several months,” said Yaniv Gliksman, a general manager for Diamonds International. More See St. Lucia on page 23

By Sean Savage, JNS The decision by the Boston Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) that any member organization supporting the BDS movement could be expelled from the council has generated a wider discussion among Jewish leaders as to where to draw red lines when it comes to Israel. The action is seen as setting a red line for the Jewish community to where it should stand on certain issues. In this case, Jewish groups that partner with or embrace antiZionism are viewed as outside of the Jewish “big tent.” The JCRC’s resolution, adopted overwhelmingly by a vote of 62-13 with eight abstentions, resolves that no member group “shall partner with — in particular by cosponsoring events primarily led or co-led by, or by signing on to statements primarily organized or co-organized by — a self-identified Jewish organization that declares itself to be anti-Zionist.” The resolution was primarily in response to a move by one of its members, the Boston Workmen’s Circle, in supporting a petition circulated by the anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace group, that criticized efforts by supSee BDS on page 4

Brandeis Shabbat

Perla Akerman, a Nursey 2 student at the Brandeis School early childhood center in Lawrence, practices lighting candles for Shabbat with her teacher, Erica Fuchs.

Hebron: City without a solution

In Hebron’s history museum, a memorial to the victims of the 1929 massacre, and at the Me’arat HaMachpela, a woman prays at Sarah’s kever. The Jewish Star / Ed Weintrob

Commentary by Jonathan S. Tobin Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision not to extend the mandate of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) observers is likely to be denounced as yet another obstacle to peace, as well as being politically motivated. Critics are probably not wrong about the latter point, as Netanyahu is in full campaign mode, hoping to compete for the votes of Israelis who are either residents of Judea and Samaria or their sympathizers. But the idea that the TIPH is a force for peace misunderstands the nature of the problem in Hebron. After more than 20 years, the TIPH has proven to be anything but temporary. The group was created in 1997 as part of a follow-up agreement to the Oslo Accords signed by Netanyahu during his first term as prime minister. Though his critics continue to promote a false narrative that after his 1996 victory he destroyed the peace process begun by Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, Netanyahu kept negotiating with the Palestinians. He allowed the Palestinian Authority partial control over Hebron, and he signed the Wye River Memorandum with then PA leader Yasser See Hebron on page 2

A member of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron in the Jewish district last November. The Jewish Star / Ed Weintrob


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