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Tetzaveh • Feb. 15, 2019 • 10 Adar 1, 5779 • Expanded Torah section pages 18–20 • Luach page 18 • Vol 18, No 6

Oh, Omar!

By The Jewish Star and combined sources Widespread condemnation and demands for punitive action are following the latest anti-Jewish tweets by Michigan Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Sunday’s tweets employed hateful antiJewish tropes and stereotypes.

The tweets by Omar — whose public statements about Jews have riled before, but not to this extent — accused the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the largest pro-Israel lobbying organization, of paying members of Congress to back Israel.

She made her accusation during a Twitter exchange with left-wing journalist Glenn Greenwald about threats

by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to punish Omar and Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib (DMich.) “over their criticisms of Israel.”

“It’s stunning how much time US political leaders spend defending a foreign nation even if it means attacking free speech rights of Americans,” Greenwald tweeted.

“It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” Omar tweeted, a reference to $100 bills in a 1997 Puff Daddy hit.

Forward opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon responded: “Would love to know who @IlhanMN thinks is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel, though I think I can guess. Bad form, Congresswoman.”

Without specifying her guess, Un-

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gar-Sargon added, “That’s the second anti-Semitic trope you’ve tweeted.”

Replying to Ungar-Sargon, Omar tweeted: “AIPAC!” “Anti-Semitism in any form is unacceptable, and it’s shocking to hear a Member of Congress invoke the antiSemitic trope of ‘Jewish money’,” said Bronx Democratic Rep. Elliot Engel. Engel is Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which Omar sits on.

While Democratic House leaders condemned Omar’s remarks, many congressional and Jewish communal voices that span the political spectrum demanded that House Democrats take

punitive against Omar similar to that taken by House Republicans against Iowa Rep. Steve King over King’s defense of white nationalism. King was stripped of his committee assignments.

Under mounting pressure, Omar issued an apology of sorts on Monday.

“Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes. My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole,” she wrote.

“We have to step back and think through criticism, just as I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity. This is why I unequivocally apologize.”

Then she linked the ADL to two notorious bogeymen of the left: “At the same time, I reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC, the NRA or the fossil fuel industry. It’s gone on too long and we must be willing to address it.”

Here’s a sampling of reaction, starting with members of Congress from Long Island and Queens and continuing with Jewish communal leaders: Rep. Kathleen Rice (Five Towns) At a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise across the country and around See Omar on page 4

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The Israeli news site CTech had reported that Osem, Bamba’s manufacturer, was negotiating with the food giant over the puffed peanut nosh that is wildly popular in Israel.

“Osem will continue to work diligently on marketing Bamba in North America through its U.S. subsidiary Osem USA,” Nestle spokeswoman Caroline Bietry told the JTA in an email. “Osem is not negotiating with Nestle over Bamba’s distribution.”

While Nestle would have provided wider distribution, Bamba is still available in a range of major stores, including Trader Joe’s and Target, as well as on Amazon.

Some fans point to a study suggesting that feeding Bamba to kids from an early age may prevent peanut allergies.

Mistreatment of beloved Shalva Band shows that the Orthodox do not really control Israeli politics

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Commentary by Rabbi Shlomo Brody JERUSALEM — A beloved group of Israeli musicians, the Shalva Band, gave up the chance of a lifetime rather than risk desecrating the Sabbath.

The group, which is comprised of musicians with various disabilities and diverse religious commitments, could not get assurances from the European Broadcasting Union that they would be able to avoid having to perform their Eurovision dress rehearsals on Shabbat.

This is quite ironic, since the annual song contest includes “Inclusion, Diversity, and Unity” as a headline on its official website.

The Shalva Band’s remarkable selfsacrifice for Shabbat is worthy of great admiration — and a sad moment for

From Central Park, Tehilla considers the band: P. 21 religious liberty. Beyond the missed opportunity for an inspiring group to represent Israel on the world stage, the incident says something larger about religion in the Israeli and European public squares.

After Netta Barzilai won the 2018 Eurovision, dictating that the following year’s competition would be hosted in her native country, Israeli politicians quickly insisted that the event would take place in Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.

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Yet the same leaders soon realized that hosting a major cultural event over Friday and Saturday would not be viable in Jerusalem, given the city’s religious sensitivities. So Tel Aviv was chosen, which many Europeans preferred anyway, since they did not want to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

But it seems that no one in the government stopped to think what would happen if a religious contestant wanted to compete in the international competition.

Israeli politics are dominated frequently by talk of alleged religious coercion. In the past year alone, for example, the ruling coalition nearly collapsed over disputes about open mini-markets and construction work on bridges over Shabbat. While some coalition members argued that shops should stay closed and construction should be halted to preserve the status quo, others lamented that such actions violated civil rights by imposing religious restrictions on shop owners and laborers.

Yet with all of this talk of “freedom from religion,” the right to “freedom of religion” sometimes gets overlooked.

Take, for example, the case of professional Israeli soccer players. In March, the government decided to extend permits to allow Israeli professional soccer matches to take place on Shabbat, in consonance with long-standing practice. This, however, was in spite of the fact that over 300 players from the top-tier leagues requested to find alternatives to Shabbat games, garnering significant support from the Israeli public. Some of these players asked haredi Orthodox politicians to intervene, given their ongoing protests against government work on Shabbat. Yet no one was willing to rock the boat on this issue.

Instead we are left with a situation in which secular mini-market owners feel threatened if they keep their stores open on Shabbat, while traditional or re-

ligious soccer players feel compelled to play on the holy day. Israeli politicians often battle over symbolic measures rather than ensuring adequate accommodations for both religious and secular citizens.

Does this “status quo” make sense? Not from the perspective of those who pride themselves on supporting religious liberty. Furthermore, a more sensible approach would be doing everything we can for Israelis of different religious commitments to participate together in sporting and cultural events, especially when they are taking place within the country and under internal control.

In the case of Eurovision, Israeli officials woke up too late to fight for religious accommodations.

Miri Regev, the culture and sport minister who was originally adamant that the competition should be held in Jerusalem, wrote an impassioned letter asking for European intervention.

Noting the organization’s ethos of diversity and inclusion, Regev pointedly wrote, “I am thus greatly concerned about the implications of strictly abiding by the rule of live performance on stage since it effectively prevents observant Jews, in Israel and elsewhere, from ever participating in the Eurovision Song Contest. Surely, you understand that such a result is the complete opposite of the lofty, humane and inclusive democratic spirit, which has made the Eurovision Song Contest such a powerful cultural phenomenon worldwide.”

Regev is absolutely correct, and the unwillingness of the European organizers to help says volumes about the direction of European inclusion.

Eurovision receives much praise from groups like Human Rights Watch for its LGBT inclusion.

Noting that a previous Israeli participant, Dana International, was the first transgender woman to win the award in 1998, Human Rights Watch exclaimed, “Her landmark victory was sweet revenge on everyone who said they felt ashamed that a transgender woman would represent a country at Eurovision.” Last year’s competition, which included several LGBT participants, showed countries like Russia that “LGBT people are not second-class citizens.”

One wonders, however, if Human Rights Watch and other human rights groups will come to the defense of the rights of the religious to participate

A street advertisement for the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv.

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in this event. I suspect not, and this makes one question whether Western demands of inclusion will also extend to committed religious believers.

As of the writing of this article, the Shalva Band has reportedly been offered to perform during an early stage of the contest, but not as competitors.

While a nice gesture, this is the epitome of being a second-class citizen. Are the regulations of the Eurovision so rigid that they cannot be slightly altered to incorporate one group? It’s hard to imagine other minority groups being excluded like these religious participants have been.

Ultimately, the shame rests with Israel for not doing more to ensure inclusion of religious participants in cultural and sports events. Partly to Regev’s credit, Israeli sports associations and unions have recently been required to make “reasonable” accommodations for inclusion of religious players.

Unfortunately, no one thought to make the same request from the organizers of Eurovision from the outset. It seems that some have forgotten the more basic duties of government: to ensure the liberties of its citizens, including those who want to maintain religious observance while remaining in the public sphere — and on the stage.

Rabbi Shlomo Brody is founding director of the Tikvah Overseas Students Institute.

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Backgrounder by Ron Kampeas, JTA WASHINGTON — Rep. Ilhan Omar started a firestorm by saying on Twitter that Congressional support for Israel “is all about the Benjamins,” alleging that AIPAC pays lawmakers to support the Jewish state. Both Democrats and Republicans have offered sharp rebukes, accusing the Minnesota Democrat of insinuating that Jews use money to get what they want.

But Omar’s tweets also display common misconceptions about how the American Israel Public Affairs Committee operates.

AIPAC does not pay candidates or politicians. But there’s more.

Does AIPAC fund campaigns?

It does not, and cannot under the law. The “PAC” in AIPAC stands for public affairs committee, not political action committee. But it could more robustly insert itself into the political process if it wanted.

As a 501(c)(4) under the tax code, AIPAC is classified as a “social welfare” nonprofit as opposed to a 501(c)(3), a charitable nonprofit. That primarily means that donations to AIPAC are not tax deductible, but it also would allow AIPAC considerably more leeway under the law to “intervene” in elections, according to the IRS, than a 501(c)(3) — as long as such “interventions” do not comprise a majority of its activity.

Some 501(c)(4)s push that intervention to the maximum. The National Rifle Association made clear in the 2016 cycle that it preferred candidate Donald Trump. Lobbies routinely make public scorecards rating lawmakers on their issues.

Not AIPAC, which carefully cultivates its bipartisan bona fides.

So how does it remain influential?

At AIPAC’s annual policy conference, a highlight has been the roll call: Top staff and lay leaders gather on stage and shout out the names of every lawmaker who has been in attendance. AIPAC mobilizes an army of supporters who are inclined to support pro-Israel candidates with their votes, time and money.

Walk out the big glass doors of the Washington Convention Center and get yourself invited to a private suite in a hotel within walking distance and, yes, AIPAC’s top donors are raising money for favored candidates.

It’s not exactly a secret: Since the early 1980s, AIPAC had at least trained its activists to cultivate friendly lawmakers by donating to their campaigns and campaigning for them. The AIPAC board member who introduces a major lawmaker at the policy conference gets that spot of honor because of some impressive fundraising.

So AIPAC and the pro-Israel community speak as one?

It’s always been a fine line between favoring issues and not candidates, and it’s become finer in recent years as Congress and campaigning have become more polarized. AIPAC, particularly, comes under pressure because for much of the last decade the majority of American Jewish voters and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have not been on the same page. While most Jews backed President Barack Obama, Netanyahu decidedly did not. The reverse is true with President Donald Trump.

In 2015, that meant AIPAC stumped for Netanyahu’s speech to Congress opposing the Iran deal, even though its own leaders well understood that Obama would see it as offensive, especially because then-Speaker John Boehner, a Republican,

organized it in secret with Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer. (AIPAC, for what it’s worth, also was kept out of the loop.)

And a year later, in 2016, when then-presidential hopeful Trump broke with protocol and dissed Obama from AIPAC’s stage, its leadership the next day issued an exceptional rebuke to the Republican candidate — and an apology to its members.

In addition, AIPAC has faced challenges from its left and right. J Street, AIPAC’s dovish rival, endorsed 88 Democratic House candidates and over half of the Senate’s Democratic caucus in the 2018 midterm elections. The Israel American Council and Christians United for Israel can both be more hawkish than AIPAC. Does AIPAC have an affiliate that pays candidates?

No, although other 501(c)(4)s unabashedly

do have affiliated political action committees: the NRA, for instance, and J Street. A number of pro-Israel political action committees do look to AIPAC for guidance on which legislative actions to embrace. AIPAC officials, for instance, routinely appear at lobbying days for NORPAC, the most influential center- to right-wing pro-Israel PAC. But these PACs have no formal affiliation with AIPAC. So if politicians want AIPAC’s support, all they they have to do is promise to support its issues?

Also not quite right.

Rule 1 for AIPAC-affiliated donors is to back friendly incumbents, even if the challenger is more aligned with AIPAC on legislation. In a system with historically low turnover — even in these tumultuous times, there were 91 freshmen in the House out of 435 — it makes little sense to aggravate sitting Congress members likely to keep their seats.

There are exceptions, but they often prove the rule: The most notable AIPAC “kills” in the 1980s came when the lobby signaled support for those challenging Sen. Charles Percy and Rep. Paul Findley, two Illinois Republicans. Both blamed AIPAC for their losses, but in fact both were weakened by unrelated controversies. The same goes for two Democrats defeated in 2002, Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and Earl Hilliard of Alabama. AIPAC-aligned money had a hand, but the incumbents were hobbled by controversy. McKinney, for example, had hinted that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an inside job.

AIPAC does not exactly shy from taking credit.

An inside joke about Findley at AIPAC, sometimes repeated in the open at conferences, goes along the lines that he buried himself — but if Findley wants to blame AIPAC, that’s good too.

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Continued from page 1 the world, we need to take extra care to engage one another in a respectful and inclusive manner. Anti-Semitic tropes have hurt Jewish communities for thousands of years, including last year’s horrific shooting in Pittsburgh.

We must speak out against anti-Semitism whenever we hear or see it, no matter what side of the aisle it comes from. This is an important conversation to have, and I hope my colleagues will keep an open mind on how to achieve justice for ALL persecuted and marginalized communities.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (Patchogue) Glad the Speaker broke her silence, but that apology won’t do. Rep. Omar should be stripped of her committee assignments, including @HouseForeign, & HRes72 should be voted on. Rep. S King apologized as well. Was still stripped of assignments & HRes41 passed nearly unanimously. [on Twitter] Rep. Tom Suozzi (Huntington) For weeks, several constituents have asked me to call out my colleagues Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib for what [they] described as anti-Israel comments, their support of BDS and, in some instances, anti-Semitic tropes.

In the past I had declined because, it seemed, Rep. Omar was distancing herself from some previous comments and I felt that these colleagues should be approached privately and given an opportunity to hear why things they were saying were hurtful and wrong…

Rep. Omar’s tweet yesterday went too far.

To suggest that pro-Israel support “is all about the Benjamins” and her follow up that she is referring to AIPAC is not only inaccurate, but conjures up the worst anti-Semitic stereotypes. …

My support for Israel is based upon our shared values, our national security interests, and the history of the region.

Rep. Grace Meng (Forest Hills) I was very disappointed to see the comments

by Rep. Ilhan Omar on Twitter last night, in which she perpetuated offensive and tired tropes about the role of Jewish influence in American politics.

These comments are particularly troubling at a moment in which Jewish Americans, alongside other religious and ethnic communities, face rising incidents of hate crimes and assaults. In the past year, I have seen firsthand the devastating impact and the rise of hate crimes motivated by anti-Semitism.

I hope Rep. Omar will be open to hearing the perspectives of her colleagues, particularly around the ways that coded language asserting undue influence of Jews in American life has historically been wielded to discriminate and delegitimize the Jewish people.

I will continue to remain an ardent supporter of the U.S.–Israel relationship, not because of lobbyists or special interests, but because of our strong partnership based on shared ideals, a commitment to democracy, and a desire for peace.

Rep. Gregory Meeks (Far Rockaway) Rep. Omar’s tweet, whether intentionally or incidentally, evoked an offensive stereotype insensitive to the history of Jewish people and anti-Semitic rhetoric.

Rep. Max Rose (Brooklyn-Staten Is.) When someone uses hateful and offensive tropes and words against people of my faith, I will not be silent. … At a time when anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise, our leaders should not be invoking hurtful stereotypes and caricatures of Jewish people to dismiss those who support Israel.

Orthodox Union The leadership of the Orthodox Union had previously stated that we were deeply offended by past statements made by Rep. Ilhan Omar — particularly her 2012 assertion that “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”

Two weeks ago, Rep. Omar said about that prior statement: “It’s now apparent to me that I spent lots of energy putting my 2012 tweet in context and little energy in disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used, which is unfortunate and offensive.”

In response, we said: “We remain concerned that Rep. Omar has publicly stated support for the anti-Israel BDS movement which seeks to

delegitimize Israel and we reject Rep. Omar’s view that Israel’s actions against the Hamas terror group in Gaza in 2012 were ‘evil.’ Given the threats Israel faces, the Jewish State and her leaders have the right and duty to act against Israel’s enemies.” We further stated: “We hope that Rep. Omar’s acknowledgement is the beginning of a process of engagement and dialogue that will lead to greater understanding.”

Today, in light of her most recent tweets and other public statements she has made over the past few weeks, we see that Rep. Omar is clearly not interested in such a process. She is more interested in continuing to maliciously traffic in anti-Semitic tropes and can no longer feign ignorance or be given the benefit of the doubt.

We appreciate the statements made so far by several Democratic Members of Congress repudiating Rep. Omar on this front. But in the face of an unprecedented rise in anti-Semitism in this country and around the world, we call upon all Members to speak up and be counted among those who explicitly reject anti-Semitism. And we call upon Speaker Pelosi and the Congressional leadership to immediately take concrete action to censure Rep. Omar for her offensive statements.

ZOA President Morton A. Klein These tweets from Rep. Ilhan Omar, along with several comments that she has made over the years, are pure, unadulterated, evil, frighteningly dangerous anti-Semitism.

The Zionist Organization of America calls on House Democrat leadership to (i) immediately remove Rep. Omar from her committee assignments; and (ii) call an immediate vote on Rep. Lee Zeldin’s H.Res 72, rejecting anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred in the United States and around the world.

ADL National Dir. Jonathan Greenblatt As Americans and Jews, we expect our politicians to condemn bigotry, not to fuel it. Words matter. At a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise in the U.S. and abroad, Rep. Omar is promoting the ugly, anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Jews have an outsized influence over politics.

The notion that wealthy Jews are controlling the government is a longstanding anti-Semitic trope and one of the pillars of modern anti-Semitism, a retread of ideas spread by bigots from David Duke to Louis Farrakhan. As the people’s House, the House of Representatives must not tolerate any bigotry against any community in our nation. We call on the House leadership to take immediate action, so that the message is clear: anti-Semitism will not be tolerated.

Unfortunately, making insensitive statements toward the Jewish community is not new for Rep. Omar. These tweets are part of a disturbing pattern of behavior that must end. The Congresswoman needs to understand that these comments promote dangerous stereotypes and are hurtful to her Jewish constituents and JewishAmericans throughout the country.

Strong bipartisan support for Israel is not a result of money or lobbying. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and a strong American ally in a strategically important region. AIPAC is an established, bipartisan organization comprised of countless Americans both Jewish and non-Jewish, who proudly support a strong U.S.-Israel relationship. Grassroots advocacy is a critical part of our robust democracy — and AIPAC has every right to work effectively with members of Congress to support the U.S.-Israel relationship.

National Council of Young Israel The so-called “unequivocal” apology proffered

by Rep. Omar is wholly inadequate and incredibly insincere. … By accepting Rep. Omar’s halfhearted “apology,” which was devoid of any true remorse, and taking no further action against the Congresswoman, the House Democratic leaders’ reprimand for her remarks falls far short. While we appreciate their condemnation, we wholeheartedly believe that additional steps must be taken [and we] call upon them to strip Rep. Omar of her committee assignments and convey very strongly that there are serious consequences for encouraging, espousing, and endorsing anti-Semitism and bigotry of any kind. If no further action is taken is taken by the House Democratic leaders after Rep. Omar knowingly and willingly perpetuated anti-Semitic tropes, it would be tantamount to their condonation of her reprehensible racist remarks.

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Continued from page 4 comments, the NCYI also reiterated its call for the House Democratic leaders to immediately bring to a floor vote H.Res.72, a congressional resolution introduced by Rep. Lee Zeldin, a New York Republican, that rejects anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred in the United States and around the world.

Zioness Movement [Omar’s apology] contains an inherently problematic comparison. There is no reasonable comparison between lobbying entities like the NRA and the fossil fuel industry — organizations focused on leveraging influence to generate profit — and a nonprofit organization advocating for the security of a marginalized community. There are approximately 14.5 million Jews on the face of the earth –– about 6.5 million of which live in Israel –– representing roughly .02 percent of the entire global population. Jews who engage on this issue are doing so to protect ourselves from legitimate threats of extermination.

We recognize that historical manifestations of anti-Semitism are not widely understood by those who have not suffered under this pernicious form of bigotry –– one of the oldest, most consistent and most deadly forms of hatred on earth. We commit ourselves to serving as a resource for those who sincerely want to engage to eradicate anti-Semitism, which, like all forms of bigotry, divides us and weakens our movements.

Hadassah Her statement claiming that support for Israel is “all about the Benjamins” is not only untrue, it normalizes anti-Semitic rhetoric.

The United States supports the State of Israel because it is the only thriving democracy in the Middle East; the State of Israel shares our values, our interests, and is our closest ally in the world.

At a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise, we expect to look to our leaders for moral clarity.

Hadassah’s two hospitals in Jerusalem that treat and employ people of all backgrounds in a country characterized by conflict earned us a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in 2005. We invite Rep. Omar to visit our hospitals and see one of the many reasons that the United States supports the State of Israel.

Conference of Presidents

By Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Chairman Arthur Stark and Executive Vice Chairman/CEO Malcolm Hoenlein.

We welcome Speaker Pelosi’s statement in response to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitic and bigoted Twitter comments. In the latest of a series of offensive tweets, she said, when referring to members of Congress who support Israel, “It’s

spending fossil fuel industry and the NRA. Republicans are pressuring the House Democratic leadership to remove her from the influential Foreign Affairs Committee, noting that Republicans removed Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, from committees after he questioned why it was taboo to embrace white supremacy.

King also apologized, but Trump did not call for his resignation. King was an early backer of Trump’s candidacy.

Critics of the president noted that he has not apologized for various comments they described as bigoted.

“Mr. President, Congresswoman @IlhanMN apologized for using an anti-Semitic trope and demonstrated leadership,” Chelsea Clinton, whose mother, Hillary, lost to Trump in the 2016 election, said on Twitter. Chelsea Clinton was among the first Democrats to call on Omar to apologize. “When have you ever apologized for your embrace of white nationalism and your exploitation and amplification of anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, racist, xenophobic, anti-LGBTQ hate?” Clinton asked Trump. all about the Benjamins baby,” and then attacked pro-Israel efforts in derogatory terms, including accusing pro-Israel organizations of buying the support of members of Congress. As much as this is offensive to the Jewish community and proIsrael Americans, it is an offense to all members of Congress, suggesting that their positions on issues are available for purchase. …

Both parties must have a policy of zero tolerance for intolerance. We hope there will be added vigilance to call out, isolate, and sanction those who appeal to the base instincts of antiSemitism, as with racism and bigotry of all kinds.

We also hope that the Democratic members of Congress will join their Republican counterparts in passing anti-BDS legislation. BDS is part of a vile campaign to delegitimize Israel, deny its right to exist, and deny Jews the rights accorded to all other people. The sharp rise in anti-Semitic assaults in the United States on campus and in communities — whether from extremists on the left or right- or other sources requires clear and unambiguous determination by America’s leaders on the federal, state and local level, law enforcement, judiciary, educational authorities, and influential members of every sector.

House Democratic Leadership Anti-Semitism must be called out, confronted and condemned whenever it is encountered, without exception. We are and will always be strong supporters of Israel in Congress because we understand that our support is based on shared values and strategic interests.

Legitimate criticism of Israel’s policies is protected by the values of free speech and democratic debate that the United States and Israel share. But Congresswoman Omar’s use of anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel’s supporters is deeply offensive. We condemn these remarks and we call upon Congresswoman Omar to immediately apologize for these hurtful comments.

As Democrats and as Americans, the entire Congress must be fully engaged in denouncing and rejecting all forms of hatred, racism, prejudice and discrimination wherever they are encountered.

Democratic Majority for Israel By suggesting pro-Israel views are paid for, Congresswoman Omar has driven headlong into the gutter, slandering America’s pro-Israel community and the vast majority of her colleagues of both parties, in the House and the Senate, who back a strong U.S.-Israel relationship.

Jewish Democratic Council of America [Progressive] We have repeatedly condemned Donald Trump and other Republicans for condoning and encouraging anti-Semitism, as well as other forms of discrimination, and we hold all public officials to the same standard.

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President Donald Trump called on Tuesday for Rep. Ilhan Omar, to resign from Congress.

“It’s terrible what she said and I think she should either resign from Congress, or she should certainly resign from the House Foreign Affairs Committee,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “What she said is so deep-seated in her heart that her lame apology, and that’s what it was, it was lame and she didn’t mean a word of it, was just not appropriate. I think she should resign from Congress.”

Omar, who is in her first term in the Congress, said Sunday on Twitter that the American Public Affairs Committee pays lawmakers to be pro-Israel. “It’s all about the Benjamins,” she said.

After condemnations from Republicans and Democrats, including the House Democratic leadership, she said she “unequivocally” apologized after speaking with “Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes.”

She continued, though, to immediately link AIPAC with the lobbying techniques of the fast-

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5 Jewish things about Sen. Amy Klobuchar

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By Ron Kampeas, JTA WASHINGTON — The race for the Democratic presidential nomination is starting to look like a CNN panel — more people fit than you think possible.

The latest entry is Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. She’s committed to bipartisanship, close to Republicans, like her late Senate colleague John McCain from Arizona and John Hoeven from neighboring North Dakota.

Klobuchar, 58, stands Amy Klobuchar at the 2018 DGA Honors Show in New York on Oct. 18, out for her grace under 2018. fire. That was apparent in September when she probed Supreme Court but were consolidated in 1998 when she was justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh about his elected County Attorney of Hennepin Counpast experiences with alcohol. Klobuchar ty, where the bulk of the state’s Jews reside. asked Kavanaugh about whether he ever (The county seat is Minneapolis.) blacked out while drinking. He barked back A mentor had been longtime state Demoat her, “I don’t know. Have you?” cratic legislator Gloria Segal, who died in She had just described her own father’s 1993, and Klobuchar remains close to her struggles with alcohol and did not flinch. daughter, Minneapolis City Attorney Susan “I have no drinking problem, Judge,” she Segal. said, not raising her voice. After a break, KaHunegs pointed out that as senator during vanaugh apologized. the Obama administration, she nudged along Among Klobuchar’s pluses, she consis- the federal appointments of Jewish Minnesotently wins elections by wide margins in a tans Andy Luger to become U.S. attorney in state that otherwise wavers between parties. the state and Sam Kaplan as ambassador to Minnesota is neighbor to Iowa, the first nomi- Morocco. (Presidents look to senators of their nating contest. Her pleasant and easy biparti- own party to recommend officials from their sanship provides a stark contrast to President states.)

Donald Trump’s angry partisanship.

Speaking last March at the annual conThat last one, however, could also be a mi- ference of the American Israel Public Affairs nus: Trump’s election revealed a taste in the Committee, Klobuchar relished telling how in electorate for devouring the nice. a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the IsShe’s from a state with a small Jewish pop- raeli prime minister lavished more attention ulation — estimated to be less than 50,000 on her than her colleague from New York, — but with an outsize presence in the state. Kirsten Gillibrand.

That includes four Jewish senators — two “He was noting to me that he has a lot Democrats, two Republicans — in the post- of relatives in Minnesota and he had been war period and two presidential nominees, there,” she said. “He said when I got back to Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and Walter Mon- our state I could tell them that I had met with dale in 1984, vice presidents who had strong the Israeli prime minister of Minnesota. That ties to the national Jewish and pro-Israel was kind of amusing, but what’s most amusing is he said it to me as I was sitting next to communities.

Klobuchar, who is of Slovenian descent, the senator from New York.”

Identification with Jews extends back genlikes to joke about how often she’s asked if she’s Jewish. No, but here are five things erations. In her autobiography, “The Senator Next Door,” Klobuchar writes how her about her that are.

Made her name in Jewish Minnesota. grandmother, Mary, seeking to nudge her son “She’s ubiquitous in the Minnesota Jewish Jim — Klobuchar’s father — toward a career, community,” said Steve Hunegs, the execu- touted a boy who had come from their town, tive director of the Jewish Community Rela- Ely. Simon Bourgin was making a name for tions Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas. himself as a journalist.

Klobuchar never turns down an opportu“Simon’s family also lived in the Slovenian nity to speak to the community, Hunegs said, part of town — they had come from Russia, and has featured more than once at events and they were one of only six Jewish famiof the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the lies in Ely,” Klobuchar wrote. “The way my umbrella body for JCRCs and public policy grandma saw it, if Simon could do it, Jimmy groups. could, too.” Jim Klobuchar made a career as A year ago she chaired the annual off-the- a journalist. record meeting between Senate Democrats She is the only one of 7 presidential and Jewish groups, a spot reserved for sena- hopefuls who voted with AIPAC tors especially close to the community. on an anti-BDS bill.

“She’s deeply popular among Democrats Among the seven declared or presumed and Republicans” in the Minnesota commu- presidential candidates in the Senate Demonity, Hunegs said. cratic caucus, Klobuchar was the only one Her ties to the community go back to the who voted Tuesday to approve a law that 1980s when Hunegs, then a law student, would consolidate $38 billion in defense asSee Klobuchar on page 7 first befriended Klobuchar, a young lawyer,

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Continued from page 6 sistance for Israel while protecting states that penalize businesses that boycott Israel. The entire caucus voted 25-22 in favor of the bill.

Democrats who oppose the bill back the defense assistance and oppose the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel, but say that penalizing boycotters impinges on speech freedoms. (The six presidential potentials who voted no were Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kamala Harris of California, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Sherrod Brown of Ohio.)

AIPAC lobbied hard for the bill, and getting a majority of Democrats — even a scant one — was a win for the lobby, which stresses bipartisan support for Israel. (All but one Republican voted for the bill.)

One of the first signals that Klobuchar was considering a run was her featured appearance last March at the AIPAC conference.

She explained her affection for the lobby in Minnesota terms: She liked its bipartisanship, and said it was important in a polarized environment to have a community that stood for its bottom-line values but was otherwise ready to reach out and work with others.

“A lot depends on the Jewish community in America because I believe that you can find common ground while still standing your ground,” she said.

She’s a go-to Democrat for the Orthodox.

Orthodox umbrella groups increasingly embrace policies (on Israel’s hawkish government, abortion and other social issues) that hew closer to the American right, but also endeavor to sustain friendships on both sides of the aisle.

They prize someone like Klobuchar, who unlike some colleagues in her caucus is not a fundamentalist on separating church and state and has advocated federal funding for the religious sector, including for energy efficiency and school safety.

She tried to explain feather boas to Ariel Sharon.

Klobuchar’s first visit to Israel was in 2005, when she was contemplating her first run for the Senate. Then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon explained to her group that he had broken away from the Likud party after decades of devotion to its cause to establish a centrist party, Kadima.

Klobuchar explained how Minnesota had recently opted for a centrist path as well, in 1998 electing Jesse Ventura on the Reform Party ticket.

Sharon got it and listened with interest until Klobuchar tried to describe Ventura’s earlier career as a pro wrestler whose signature accoutrement was a feather boa.

“Sharon did not appear to grasp the concept of a feather boa, and after pursuing the matter with his translator, Sharon still didn’t seem to get it, Klobuchar said,” the Star-Tribune reported at the time.

She stood by Al Franken until he stood down.

Klobuchar is close to Franken, the Jewish Democrat who resigned from the Senate at the beginning of 2018 after multiple women said he had groped them when he was a comic and writer.

Klobuchar refused to join a number of women in the caucus demanding that Franken quit. (Gillibrand led the call, and some in the party have yet to forgive her for it.) Instead, she counseled him in private.

“I felt I was in a different role as his colleague, that I’m someone that has worked with him for a long time, there’s a lot of trust there, and I felt it was best to handle it in that way,” she told CNN at the time.

And last April, Klobuchar said Franken, who had achieved success in comedy and as an author, is ready for a comeback.

“He’s had two acts and he’s still going to have a third,” she told a forum.

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Sick Gaza kids abandoned at Erez crossing Israel Hayom Staff The Israel Defense Forces’ Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit revealed a disconcerting phenomenon on Thursday: Sick children from the Gaza Strip who have received medical treatment in Israel are being abandoned at the Erez border crossing by parents or other guardians who took them into Israel for treatment and want to stay in Israel illegally to work.

On Feb. 5, the father of a 4-year-old Palestinian child abandoned him at the crossing in northern Gaza. The boy had received medical treatment in Israel and when it came to time to return home via the crossing, the father left him with a stranger and remained in Israel illegally.

It was not the first such case. Children have been found without their parents at the crossing several times a month. The phenomenon began a few months ago and isn’t showing signs of slowing down, the army said.

The commander of COGAT in Gaza, Col. Iyad Sarhan, said “the parent who was supposed to accompany his child and provide him with a sense of security chose to remain in Israel as an illegal resident and send his child back to Gaza alone, without any familiar faces leading him home.

“This is an unacceptable phenomenon. As a father myself, I don’t understand how a parent abandons his child and leaves him in the hands of a stranger, without worrying about his welfare and safety.

“Those who choose to stay in Israel are violating the conditions of their entry permits,” he added. “As a human being and as a father, I hope that this will stop and the residents of Gaza will start prioritizing their children above everything else.”

Fixing Israel’s problem with race Commentary by Haftam Yizhak-Heathwood I am Ethiopian and I am Jewish. I am proud of my Ethiopian heritage as well as my Jewish heritage, but I feel that my cultures are not proud of me. Ethiopia rejected its Jews, and now Ethiopian Jews struggle to fit in with the native Israeli population. We need to figure out how to break the systemic oppression that forces Ethiopians to fight to survive.

It is a tough pill to swallow to admit that your country has a race problem, but Israel certainly has one. Damas Padaka, a decorated Israeli soldier, was confronted and beaten by police unprompted while on leave from active duty. Rabbi Eliyahu Asulin, a mohel, instructed his students to practice circumcision on Ethiopian babies despite not completing their training “because that’s where you learn. They’re cannon fodder.”

And last Friday, Yehuda Biadga, who suffers from mental illness as a result of PTSD from his army service, was holding a knife.

His family called the police so that he would not hurt himself or anyone else. But instead of defusing the situation, the police killed him.

Many would be quick to credit these incidents to coincidence, but numbers do not lie. According to police reports, violent acts against Ethiopians committed by police doubled from 6 percent to 12 percent of total acts from 2007 to 2015. The following three years of statistics are being withheld, but the trend continues through firsthand accounts and reports that continue to make headlines.

Immediately after Yehuda Biadga’s shiva, an estimated 20,000 people took to the streets of Tel Aviv in a peaceful demonstration. Not only Ethiopians but people of all races were sounding the alarm on a pattern of discrimination with chants and signs such as “Racism? Not in my country.” At the conclusion

Ethiopian Israelis protest police violence against Ethiopians, in Tel Aviv, Jan. 30. Tomer Neuberg/Flash90

of the protest, police blocked the entrance to a train station, causing minor scuffles in an otherwise successful and peaceful demonstration.

The Ethiopian Jewish community, not just in Israel but all over the world, has again been awakened. We are outraged. These events are a continuation of years of oppression.

Minorities all over the world have been systematically pushed down by society, and a byproduct of this oppression has led to the stigma that minorities are dangerous. In response, police are pulling the trigger sooner than they would against those who are white.

As these protests get louder and my fellow Ethiopians take to the streets, we must come together and address this problem directly. Thankfully there are several concrete steps that can and should be taken in order to start doing so.

First, police must learn to interact with the Ethiopian Israeli population in a more positive and proactive way, and should implement training and discipline for those who do not follow proper protocol.

Second, Ethiopian Israeli history and culture, especially their amazing story of aliyah, should be taught in schools at a young age, so that the next generation of citizens can be more inclusive. Education is the best way to combat injustice, and teaching our collective history would be an important step.

And finally, Ethiopians need to be more integrated into Israeli society and involved in the organizations that aim to find solutions. Arrest records of those who have not committed a crime should be expunged, as it limits their ability to find jobs and integrate into society.

I fear for my family, myself and my friends. Morally, I cannot justify sitting idly by as my brothers and sisters fall victim to oppression; nor should the rest of the world. We are all brothers and sisters, and any abuse of power by police or any form of systemic racism should ignite outrage and reaction from everybody. Just because you do not have black skin does not mean you cannot take a stand.

Let us be an example to the world. In a time where new problems ignite faster than existing ones are extinguished, where minorities all over the world are oppressed, let us give the world something to admire and, just maybe, be able to leave our children a better place to live.

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Chocolate for my February birthday Kosher Kitchen

JoNi SCHoCKeTT

Jewish Star columnist

F

ebruary is the month of my birth. I was, my parents told me, supposed to be born on February 14, a day neither of my parents celebrated as it was not on the Jewish calendar. But that year, my dad, hoping I would arrive soon, bought my mother a huge box of chocolates and some flowers to help cheer her up in the final days of pregnancy.

My mother did not go into labor. She did, however, eat the entire box of about 5 pounds of chocolate — or so I have been told — in about 4 days, and, as my dad said, she was not really big on sharing.

By Feb. 18, the chocolate was gone and my mom went to play canasta with some friends.

She and her partner were winning when suddenly my mother went into labor. They all said it was probably just a stomachache from the ungodly amounts of chocolate she had consumed and insisted she remain until the game was over.

I was born on the 19th, and my dad swore I came out screaming for chocolate — a fact I truly believe, because chocolate has been my passion since childhood.

When I grew up a bit and could actually eat chocolate, I happily discovered that my grandparents handed out Hershey Bars like they had stock in the company. In fact, my paternal grandfather kept dozens of bars in the bottom drawer of his bureau. Whenever we were there, we were allowed to take one candy bar home.

We could not eat it in the house, probably because the meals we 11 grandchildren were all there for was meat. So my older cousins would sneak us out of the apartment before dinner to sit on the stairs and eat our chocolate. When we got caught, the adults would take our candy bars and we would have to wash up and sometimes even brush our teeth with the horrid tooth powder my grandparents used. But there were always brand new Hershey Bars to take home.

Decades later, I learned that there is a whole world of chocolate beyond those cherished candy bars of my early childhood. Today there are too many brands and kinds of chocolate to taste in one lifetime! Dark chocolate is quickly catching up to milk chocolate as a favorite, and scientists have discovered that chocolate — pure cacao, actually — is very good for you!

Many gourmet chocolates are certified kosher and pareve, making it possible to create the

most impressive desserts with the best possible chocolate for every meal from Shabbat to chagim and more.

So celebrate my birthday — or yours — or any day of the week with something chocolate.

It will help the cold months pass more quickly and, at the very least, will make you smile — because no one can eat chocolate without being happy!

GF Triple Chocolate Nut Dreams (Pareve) 2 cups ground hazelnuts 1 cup ground almonds 1-1/4 cup (scant) Dutch process pure cocoa powder 1 Tbsp. coffee (2 tsp. instant coffee plus 1 tsp. hot water) 3 cups confectioner’s sugar 4 extra large egg whites 1 Tbsp. pure vanilla extract 2/3 cup bittersweet/semi-sweet chocolate chips or chunks 1/2 cup pareve white chocolate chips Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 large rimmed baking sheets with parchment. Set aside.

Place all ground nuts in a bowl and mix well. Spread evenly on one of the prepared baking sheets and bake in the oven for 7 to 10 minutes, mixing twice and watching carefully to avoid burning. When fragrant and slightly browned, remove from the oven and let cool for 10 to 15 minutes.

Place the cooled nuts in the bowl of an electric mixer and add the cocoa and confectioner’s sugar. Mix with a fork until completely, evenly blended.

Discard the used parchment and re-line the pan with new parchment.

Place the bowl on the mixing stand and add the eggs, cooled coffee and vanilla while the mixer is on slow speed for about 60 to 70 seconds. Scrape as needed. When just blended, remove the bowl from the stand, scrape down with a spatula and add the chips, folding them in evenly.

Drop by spoonfuls on the prepared pans.

Place in the oven and decrease the temperature to 320 degrees. Bake for 14 to 18 minutes, until there are cracks in the tops of the cookies, which will look dry and cracked a bit. Remove from the oven and let cool completely. Peel them from the parchment and place on a flat plate.

Makes about 14 to 18 cookies, depending on size. If you make really small drops, they will cook faster and yield about 18 to 24 cookies.

The Best Hot Fudge Sauce in the Whole World (Dairy) There is nothing as delicious as homemade hot fudge sauce: rich, thick and devoid of chemicals. This sauce becomes very thick when chilled, so store it in a wide-mouth jar or microwave safe container for future use.

1/2 cup heavy cream 3 Tbsp. unsalted butter 1/3 cup white sugar 1/3 cup dark brown sugar 1 tsp. instant coffee dissolved in the cream 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract 1/3 cup sifted, unsweetened Dutch process cocoa powder 2 oz. bittersweet chocolate grated Place the cream and butter in a small heavy saucepan over a medium-low heat. Stir until the butter is melted and the cream just comes to a low boil. Add the sugars, coffee and vanilla, and stir constantly until they are completely dissolved. The best way to tell if the sugars are dissolved is to taste a bit of the mixture. You will be able to feel any grains in your mouth, so continue until there are no sugar grains left.

Reduce the heat and add the cocoa. Stir briskly with a wire whisk until the cocoa is well incorporated. Add the grated chocolate and whisk until the chocolate is completely melted.

Remove from the heat and serve over ice cream.

A True Chocoholic’s Fudge Cake (Dairy) This is one of my family’s favorite chocolate cakes. It makes three layers. You can use a white chocolate ganache in the middle and chocolate frosting outside.

2 sticks of butter at room temperature 8 extra large eggs at room temperature 1-1/2 cups sugar 1 Tbsp. vanilla 2 cans Hershey’s syrup (use 1 can dark syrup, if you like) 2 squares (2 ounces) bittersweet chocolate, finely ground 2 cups cake flour (self-rising)

In a mixer, cream the butter and the sugar.

Add eggs one at a time, blending after each. After all the eggs are added, beat on medium-high for about one minute. Reduce speed and add the syrup and vanilla. Remove the beater blades and stir in the flour by hand in three or four additions. Grate the chocolate with a grater or in a food processor until very finely grated, almost flour-like. Add the chocolate to the batter and mix well.

Grease and flour three 9-inch pans and divide the batter equally among them. Bake at 350 degrees, 25 to 30 minutes. Let cool and turn out the cake layers on a plate dusted lightly with cocoa powder. Serves 10 to 15.

Chocoholic Frosting (Dairy) 8 squares unsweetened chocolate 2/3 cup light cream or half and half 6 Tbsp. butter at room temperature 1-1/2 to 2 boxes confectioner’s sugar Melt the chocolate with the cream, stirring almost continuously. Do not boil. Remove from heat and transfer to bowl of mixer. Mixing slowly, add the sugar and butter. Beat on medium-high until cool and a spreadable consistency. Makes enough for three layers. Frosted cake serves 10 to 12.

Triple Threat Brownies (Dairy) 1-1/2 sticks butter, cut into pieces 5 oz. unsweetened chocolate, chopped 2 tsp. instant coffee or espresso (you can use decaf) 1-1/2 to 1-3/4 cups sugar (to taste) 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract 4 extra-large eggs 3/4 cup unbleached flour 1 cup semi or bittersweet chocolate chips or chunks (generous) Filled chocolate candy bars that come in bars that can be divided into 24 small squares about 3/4 to 1-1/2 inches square. I like raspberry or caramel filled squares. But mint is delicious, as is coconut, praline, toffee, etc.

Butter a foil lined 13x9 brownie pan. Set aside. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.

Place the chocolate, butter and coffee in a large saucepan. Heat over medium-low heat until the chocolate and butter are melted. Remove from heat. Add the sugar and vanilla and whisk until smooth. Add the eggs one at a time and whisk until completely blended. Add the flour and mix until smooth. Add chips and mix until evenly distributed.

Pour batter into the pan and smooth with a spatula.

Evenly space 24 chocolate candy bar pieces over the brownies in a 4 by 6 piece grid. Press down gently to slightly submerge the candy.

Smooth the batter if needed.

Bake until a tester comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, 25 to 30 minutes. Drizzle.

Makes 12 to 24 brownies.

Chocolate Drizzles: 2 oz. white chocolate 2 to 3 tsp. butter 2 oz. semi or bittersweet chocolate 2 to 3 tsp. butter Melt the white chocolate and butter in a microwave proof bowl until melted and smooth.

Pour into a plastic baggie and twist the top closed. Snip a tiny corner off the bag and drizzle the chocolate in any design you like over the brownies. Repeat with the dark chocolate and a clean bag.

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How to make Russian piroshki just like grandma

By Sonya Sanford, The Nosher Piroshki are a popular Russian pastry of filled buns that are either baked or fried. Most piroshki are made with a soft yeasted dough that is enriched with egg, but some are made with a pastry dough of butter/margarine that becomes flaky when baked. Fillings can range from savory to sweet, and include meat, vegetables, fruit, and jam.

Piroshki typically come in two sizes: meal-size or snack-sized.

The larger form is often the size of a sandwich and can be served as a main dish, and the smaller kind is about the size of a Twinkie and is typically served alongside soup.

The word piroshki can confuse non-Russian speakers with its closeness to pierogi, which is Polish for dumplings. You may be familiar with pierogi, traditionally filled with potato or cheese, and in Russia there is a similar type of dumpling called vareniki.

Piroshki are definitively not dumplings, but are more akin to an empanada. While filled buns of all kinds exist across cultures, piroshki originated in Russia. Their appeal has extended beyond Eastern Europe and into parts of Greece, where they are called piroski, to Iran, where they are called pirashki, to Finland, Central and East Asia, and even to Japan (where they are still called piroshki).

Both my grandmothers are from the former Soviet Union. My grandmother Fanya loved to cook and eat rich foods. She liberally used butter, sugar, salt and oil (and she lived past 90, for those concerned). My other grandmother, Mira, loved to eat healthily, opting for olive oil instead of butter, and preferred baking to frying.

They were equally talented cooks, and piroshki were something they both made often. Fanya used a yeasted dough and would deep-fry the piroshki, while Mira used a piecrust-like dough and baked. But the fillings they made were similar: potato with caramelized onion, simply seasoned ground beef or chicken, or braised cabbage and carrot.

If I’m visiting Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, where there is a high concentration of Russian Jews and Russian food, my favorite piroshki are the giant ones sold from carts on the street that are most definitely fried, are the size of my head and cost around a dollar. If I’m making piroshki at home, then I opt for a yeasted dough and prefer to bake the piroshki instead of deep-frying them. In either case, I love cabbage piroshki best — the vegetable lends itself to the perfect combination of savory, sweet and hearty.

The recipe here is for cabbage piroshki that pay homage to both my grandmothers. The dough has a light airy texture just like Fanya’s, and it gets baked, glossy and browned like Mira’s. I love to serve

these with borscht or chicken soup, but they are good all on their own as a comforting, portable snack.

Ingredients: Dough: 1 package active dry yeast 1 tsp. sugar 1-1/4 cup warm water 4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more as needed 1/4 cup oil (sunflower, avocado, or canola) 1 large egg 1-1/2 teaspoons Diamond brand kosher salt 1 egg with a splash of water, for egg wash Filling: 2 to 3 Tbsp. oil 1 lb. or 1/2 large head of cabbage, shredded (about 6 cups) 2 medium carrots, shredded (about 2 cups) 1/2 large yellow onion, thinly sliced 1 tsp. sweet or hot paprika, or to taste Salt and pepper, to taste Directions: 1. Combine yeast, sugar and warm water (between 90 and 110 F.). Allow yeast to activate and become foamy for 5 to 10 minutes.

2. Add the flour to a large bowl or stand mixer with the dough hook attachment. Make a well in the center of the flour. In a separate

bowl, combine the oil, egg, and salt.

3. Add the yeast mixture and the egg mixture to the well in the flour. Gently combine the wet and dry ingredients. Once the ingredients are just combined, begin to knead the dough. If using a stand mixer, start mixing on low until the ingredients are combined, then increase the speed to medium. Knead the dough until silky, very soft and smooth, about 8 to 10 minutes by hand or 5 to 6 minutes in the mixer. If the dough sticks too much to your hands, add a little more flour 1 Tbsp. at a time.

4. Once the dough is kneaded, transfer it to a lightly oiled bowl, cover the bowl with plastic wrap or a lightly damp towel, and allow the dough to rise for 1 hour or until doubled in size.

5. While the dough is rising, make your filling. Using a food processor, grater, or sharp knife, thinly shred the cabbage and carrot.

Thinly slice the onion into half moons.

6. Add oil to a large skillet. Over medium heat, add the onion to the pan. Sauté the onion for 5 to 6 minutes, or until softened. Add the shredded carrot and cabbage to the pan and season generously with salt and pepper. Sauté for an additional 6 to 8 minutes, or until cooked and softened and tender.

7. Allow the filling to cool slightly before assembling the piroshki; filling can also be made a day in advance and refrigerated.

8. To assemble the piroshki: Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment.

9. Once dough has risen, punch it down a few times and divide it into 16 equal-sized balls. On a generously floured surface, form the piroshki by rolling each ball into a thin circle, about 5 inches in diameter. Add 2 Tbsp. of filling into center of the circle of dough. Fold dough upwards towards the center, equally on each side, and pinch the piroshki closed along the top. The piroshki will be oval shaped.

10. Place the formed piroshki onto the parchment-lined baking sheets, 8 per sheet with 2 to 3 inches between each pastry. Cover the piroshki with loose plastic wrap or a clean kitchen towel and allow to rise again for 30 minutes.

11. Once the piroshki have risen a second time, beat an egg with a splash of water. Brush with the egg wash and bake for 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, rotate the baking sheets and bake for another 10 to 15 minutes, or until the piroshki are evenly golden brown.

12. Transfer to a rack to cool slightly, and serve warm or at room temperature. Piroshki can also be reheated easily. They freeze well, too. Serves 16.

Bugless, kosher, cleanest and fresh

By Elizabeth Kratz While leafy greens contain essential vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber, they are particularly susceptible to infestation. Unwashed greens commonly house tiny insects such as aphids, thrips, leaf miners and cabbage worms.

Checking greens for creepy-crawlies takes a lot of time for many kosher-keepers, and others might decide to skip salad altogether, deciding that intensive checking isn’t worth the effort.

While triple-washed or greenhouse-grown salads have become available in kosher stores, they have been limited to basic lettuce blends, and have varied in quality and freshness.

“Until recently, kosher-observant Jews haven’t had the opportunity to eat many different produce types because of infestation. As our technique and technology improve we hope to be able to offer every kind of crop for kosher consumers to enjoy,” said Israel Ellen, owner of a new company now releasing ultra-washed greens under the label Kosher Crops. The product in-store is fresher than anything else currently available with a hechsher.

“This is a great new line of high-quality, prechecked lettuce,” said Dani Secemski, owner and manager of Glatt Express in Teaneck. “It’s been selling great so far, and our customers love it.”

A manager at another local Teaneck store, Cedar Market, Oscar Cuevas noted that freshness sets the new product apart. “It comes into the store the day after it’s been washed, so it’s a very fresh product compared to other brands. We hope our customers will try it and see the difference,” he said, noting that Cedar Market sells the entire line except for kale, which they will offer on request.

Ellen, a businessman and Montreal native now based in Pennsylvania, started out just wanting a nice salad. “We didn’t have any kosher salad available to us: no Bodek, no Positiv,

no Kosher Gardens, we didn’t even have Fresh Express,” he said. “So I got a Keystone-K [Community Kashrus of Greater Philadelphia] hechsher and pitched the product to a local Acme store. Once they approved the product, I hired a mashgiach and a packer, and we started selling 80 boxes of lettuce a week. Shortly after that, we got listed in ShopRite and then House of Kosher.”

Under the Keystone-K in Philly, he provides bok choy, broccoli, cauliflower, watercress, baby arugula, baby spinach and kale, in addition to romaine stalks and mixed salad greens. “But to sell nationally, you need a Star-K, which is the most thorough and machmir hechsher for bug-checking by far. So I applied. The process was arduous, but Rabbi Sholom Tendler and Rabbi Dovid Stern both helped us improve our techniques and taught us how to streamline the process.”

“Star-K requires all produce to be thoroughly washed and checked to make sure not even one insect is found. The method we use is known as the ‘thrip cloth’ method, which is widely considered the most effective way to check produce,” Rabbi Stern said.

“We source the produce from a variety of farms: some greenhouse, some hydroponic and some organic. It really depends on quality. Interestingly, at different times of the year, different farms produce better crops,” explained Ellen.

“Because we wash and we don’t grow, we’re able to source the absolute best produce available.”

Kosher Crops uses sophisticated drying techniques and tamper-evident packaging to ensure that salads remain fresh for seven days past the date printed on the package. While some Kosher Crops products are not yet available under the Star-K, Ellen is working to provide as much variety as is allowable under each hechsher.

Future plans for Kosher Crops include hech-

Kosher Crops mashgiach checks lettuce with the Star-K method of using a light with a thrip cloth.

shered super-green blends with spinach, arugula or spring mix to serve as bases for high protein, non-animal based prepared salads.

“We’d like to be able to offer healthy graband-go meals that are fresh, filling and good for you. The days of having to buy ‘salad’ that is basically iceberg [lettuce] in a vacuum-sealed bag are finally over,” said Ellen.

He is also looking into producing a line of fresh vegetable juices, and hopes to expand into Florida, Chicago and California by Passover time.

After securing the Star-K, Ellen headed to Teaneck and Passaic to pitch his products. Kosher Crops products are now available in every kosher grocery store, including Seasons, Glatt Express and Cedar Market.

“We’re now selling just under 1,000 boxes a

week. Each five- to seven-ounce box of produce costs $5.99 to $6.99, and has a shelf life of seven days. We hope to launch in stores in Baltimore and service more ShopRite stores in New Jersey.

We’re also in talks to get other hechsherim so we can sell in New York, Monsey and Williamsburg.”

Ellen’s background in business has made him confident that he can make his new salad endeavor a success. He owned a company in Montreal called Achoo Tissue, which did private labeling of hygienic products mostly for pharmaceutical companies in Canada and the United States.

“When I sold that business in 2007, we were one of the largest private label hygienic companies in Canada. After that, my wife and I moved to Israel. We were fortunate to be able to live there and learn full-time for 10 years before moving to Philadelphia so we could be close to her family,” he explained.

Launching Kosher Crops for the Philadelphia metropolitan area was a chesed project for Ellen, as his primary work is now in real estate. But as the salad business is growing outside the region, it’s starting to take more of his time.

“I also wanted to create opportunities for Jewish community members who need jobs,” he added. “This week we washed just under 300 pounds of produce. At our current rate of growth, we hope to be at 600 pounds per week by mid-March, and then we’ll be focused on Pesach. There’s a lot of competition at that time, including imports and pop-up washing businesses, for romaine. Our goal isn’t to be the biggest; our goal is to provide the freshest and cleanest produce.”

Adina Shmidman of Bala Cynwyd, Pa., the Orthodox Union’s director of women’s initiatives, is pleased with the produce and happy that Ellen has entered the kosher marketplace.

“Supporting a local Jewish startup, no bugrelated worries and ease of function, it’s a win all-around,” she said. “As a kosher consumer, I’m exceptionally grateful.”

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By E.J. Kessler for the OU Everyone knows that accumulating credit card points can reap significant awards. Now select young Jews returning home from Birthright trips to Israel can accumulate a different kind of points toward a unique kind of reward.

Sam Diament, 28, a New Jersey technology consultant, earned points for taking on Jewish ritual observances, like putting on tefillin every day and making Havdalah at the end of the Sabbath.

Alexa Summers, 20, a junior and computer science major at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, earned points for signing up for a Top Israel Internship next summer, hosting Shabbat dinners and volunteering as a computer support technician for Jewish Family Service of Greater Kansas City.

Both Summers and Diament were on Birthright buses selected to participate in Bring Israel Home’s 100-Day Challenge. The program seeks to keep alumni of the free 10-day trips to Israel connected to Judaism, Israel and each other by rewarding them for staying involved in Jewish activities.

Bring Israel Home awards points for a range of Jewish activities: lighting Shabbat candles, advocating for Israel, studying Hebrew texts, volunteering for Jewish organizations, attending a Jewish event or even reading an Israel-themed article. Participants who reach 100 points are invited to join their tour guides and Israeli counterparts at an all-expenses-paid reunion weekend.

“Gamification has seeped into every aspect of our lives,” said Rabbi David Pardo, 32, executive director of Bring Israel Home.

Since 1999, when Birthright began taking Jewish college students to Israel for free with the aim of connecting them to their Jewish identities, Israel and each other, organizers have faced a daunting challenge: how to keep the momentum going once participants return to North America.

Some 650,000 young people have gone on Birthright trips to date, but follow-up has been a challenge. A 2009 study by researchers at Brandeis University found that only 4 percent of Birthright alumni participated in five or more Jewish activities of any kind in the two to three years after their return.

Some of the original philanthropists involved in Birthright tried to mount an effective follow-up program with Birthright Next, a program that sought to steer program alumni into a suite of American-based programs. The effort floundered, however, ultimately winding down in 2015 amid criticism that it was ineffective and duplicated existing efforts.

A Birthright follow-up offers alumni points for doing Jewish ritual observances or pro-Israel activities like Israel advocacy. Bring Israel Home

Bring Israel Home was launched in 2012 by an odd-couple pairing of Birthright service providers: the Orthodox outreach group Aish Hatorah and the Union for Reform Judaism. It since has been brought under the auspices of the Orthodox Union, the mainstream Orthodox group.

“What we do is, we get on the buses on the last day of the trip and say, ‘What would you do for a reunion with the Israelis you met on this trip six months from now?’” said Pardo, who has worked for some years in informal education, including at Brandeis as part of the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus.

Bring Israel Home, he noted, is user-driven.

“No one tells you what to do,” he said. “If you’re into advocacy, if you’re into Shabbat, that’s great, we offer that, too. We’re not going to tell you how to channel the inspiration from your Birthright trip. There’s something for everyone.”

In 2018, about 2,000 individuals joined the Bring Israel Home challenge, according to Pardo. Since the program’s inception, 6,204 individuals have participated and completed 107,855 Jewish activities, including 25,134 last summer alone, according to the Bring Israel Home website. The website aims to harnesses young people’s winning instincts with an interface that’s a mashup be-

tween social media platforms and reality TV-style competitions.

“All they want is to be connected to each other and to re-create the Birthright experience,” Pardo said. “They’re actually forming their own roadmap of Jewish involvement and community.”

For Summers, a native of Overland Park, Kansas, who says she “didn’t grow up that Jewish” and didn’t attend synagogue as a child, that has meant a whirl of Sabbath dinners, a Chanukah feast and time volunteering for the local Jewish Family Services housed at her JCC. The activities have “brought myself and my friends closer together,” said Summers, who is studying to become a software engineer. “I had wanted to become more involved, but I wasn’t sure how.

“It really encourages you to become more involved. It’s pretty neat, has fun ideas and is user friendly. It’s easy to keep track of your activities and to see what others were posting. I enjoyed it a lot.”

Diament and Summers were among the alumni who qualified for the all-expenses-paid reunion weekend in November at a resort hotel in Connecticut. At the reunion, Summers woke up early each morning to practice her Hebrew during breakfast with the Israelis who came. Now she’s looking forward to finding a tech-related internship next summer in Israel.

For Diament, who attends a Conservative synagogue every Sabbath with his family and has visited relatives in Israel, the 100-day challenge provided the impetus to deepen his religious observance. Before participating, he’d never really put on tefillin, but ever since he has worn them every day, he says. Diament now also regularly says blessings over food and ritually washes his hands before eating bread.

The Connecticut reunion wasn’t just about Birthright, but also included workshops and lectures. Avi Arieli, a former top official with Israel’s domestic intelligence service for three decades and an envoy to the CIA and FBI, led one session. He said he was blown away by the reunion.

“I saw the Americans being united with the Israelis, and the look on their faces,” he said. “I said to myself, yes — there is hope.

There is a future. They are together, and we are one nation.”

Diament says he was most impressed by how far participants traveled for the Birthright reunion.

“There were people who flew in from Florida and Texas,” he said. “People really cared.”

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12,181.86 39260 03150

315 PIFKO MARC & AVIVA

11,749.31 39260 03230

323 PIFKO MARC & AVIVA

1,504.79 39260 03240

324 PIFKO MARC & AVIVA

810.39 39260 03250

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2,700.08 39351 00340 JHJ ENTERPRISES LLC

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3,306.41 39462 02360

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5,559.37 39594 00010 NIR R

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40045 00440

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40071 00110

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40088 00260

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40089 01090 HIRSCH YAEL

401000100770

77-82 RED ROCK EQUITIES LLC

40104 01010 ENGEL ADELE

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40124 01260

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40126 00500

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40127 00800

80-81 KENNY BERNARD T & JUNE L

40129 01650

165-169 FLORES EDUARDO O

40134 02760

276-277 ABRAMOV RAHAMIN

40136 00010

1,3 BOYLE JAMES F

40138 03900

390-391 BELTRAN RICARDO

40140 04880 BELTRAN RICARDO

40140 04890 SICILIANO LE W SICILIANO,C

40145 01070 HERNANDEZ O FLORES & E

40145 01090 190 118 LLC

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5-6 121 SHERIDAN CORP

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40148 00480 RISTANO LORRAINE CLAIRE

40157 00060

6,7 MOTT AVE REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS L 40157 02120 LANZILOTTA RICHARD & ROSEANNA 40164 00070 ITEN PETER

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40166 00150 ROSENWALD LINDSAY TRUST & LOBEL 5,326.06 40176 02280 BERGMANN IONA

7,526.68 401810101030 NAYMAN MATIS

3,370.55 401810208810 BARRETT PEARL

1,222.77 40184 00950

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98,99 421 DOUGHTY REALTY LLC

36,239.75 40187 00810 NAYMAN CHAYA & JACOB

20,363.94 40188 00160 RAVEN SAUL & ROSE

2,985.28 40190 00580 HANCE ETAL DAVID

19,842.33 40191 00100 ROUSSO ESTHER LIFE ESTATE

3,924.19 40192 00050 HYMAN JUDAH & YAEL

3,046.69 40193 00070 DUDLEY WAYNE & JEAN

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22,289.78 40205 00010 YOFFI 201 LLC

4,581.24 40206 00550 HAAS ARI & ALIZA

9,381.37 40208 00250 BENZAKEN DAVID & ORNA

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2,726.04 41100 02050

205 & 314 MAYER BARRY & ELIZABETH

4,173.27 41100 02160 OCEAN BLVD LLC

8,888.23 58 E 01310 OCEAN BLVD LLC

4,056.82 58 E 01320 FLIPPING MIRTH LLC

8,415.41 58002 00290

29-31 MALKIN JUSTIN

3,718.57 58011 01110 DRANGSLAND HAROLD

451.53 58012 00030

3-4 FRIES CHARLES SCOTT

11,573.50 58018 00420

42-43 LUBY JACQUELINE L

1,585.17 58019 00470 BLUMNER HENRY

1,557.17 58020 00560 OCEAN BLVD LLC

43,665.53 58032 00010

1-20 OCEAN BLVD LLC

12,201.95 58032 00210

21-25 OCEAN BLVD LLC

8,828.89 58032 00260

26-30 SCHANTZ IRA & KATHERINE

2,899.19 58043 00300

30-31

1,812.18 SCHANTZ IRA & KATHERINE 58043 00320

32-33 PHOENIX 83 HOLDINGS LLC

5,268.43 58044 00100

10-13 COOPER DEBORAH

3,807.54 58044 00670 TORTORICI FRANK

17,333.43 58049 00630

63-64 MERMELSTEIN HOWARD & ELISA 454.40 58052 00240 MERMELSTEIN HOWARD & ELISA 473.45 58052 00270

27-28 KIRMAN WILLIAM J

2,636.15 58053 00440

44-47 88 DUTCHESS LLC

5,759.29 58056 00010

1-2 JURGRAU MARIANNE

16,990.39 58057 00500

50-52 STEINER MICHAEL

6,413.00 58062 01210

121-122 ESFS BAY LLC

16,678.57 58065 00170

17-20,41-44 MILLIUS PETER & MCCALLUM SOPHIE 9,480.54 58075 00170

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58075 00200 MILLIUS PETER & MCCALLUM SOPHIE 1,718.60 58075 00210 MILLIUS PETER & MCCALLUM SOPHIE 1,718.60 58075 00220 RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2,421.51 58075 0065UCA00460 65 CA 46 UNIT 16 TUFANO KIM

909.32 58075 0065UCA00460 65 CA46 UNIT 30 KASS AKA KABBASSI ALI

20,954.03 58085 00490

49,55 LEHRMAN DOUGLAS W

2,233.18 58143 00420

42-43 SENDERS JANE GURAL

9,425.43 58148 00170 LEONARD THOMAS

9,445.60 58153 00150 KAPLOWITZ CHRISTINA

5,029.02 58157 00030 Town of North Hempstead School:7 Great Neck UFSD Name

Amount Parcel

Group Lot BALAZADAH FARSHAD & ILANIT

3,369.05 01017 02100 KOSHKI HAMID

11,657.25 01020 00610

61-63 ETESSAMI FARSHAD & E

9,232.38 01020 02590 GRAYSON LE S CEWZAN, MYRA

31,444.60 01042 01290 BROADLAWN HARBOR ASSOC INC 1,387.93 01046 00720 SHOR LEON & DORIS

45,549.00 01065 00120 REAL ESTATE SERVICES

66,364.34 01066 00140 KHALILY EDNA

23,132.24 01077 01370 SARSFIELD JAMES B & MARY

10,196.02 01081 00090 KOSHKI HAMID

19,722.14 01081 01720 JJJ ASSETS LLC

33,895.37 01088 04580 ALACBRO ASSOC LLC

18,320.74 01088 04590 CHANCHALASHVILI MICHAEL & ILYA 29,625.47 01096 00060

6-10 LIVIAN RONIT & EDWIN

3,005.43 01099 00640

64-66,167 DARVISHZADEH JERALD

2,212.86 01099 03160 DARVISHZADEH JERALD

534.18 01099 03330

333,342 NAGGERS LLC

17,247.36 011060201120 NAZMIYAL YAARA

15,968.23 011060302110 GABBAIZADEH EBRAHIM & YAFA

2,831.65 01113 00580 BH BAY RIDGE PARTNERS LLC

10,474.82 01122 00410 KASHANI MORDECHAI

16,536.74 01128 00040 BELL GERTA & JONES ALINE

4,756.31 01128 00050 ROZWADOWSKI ANDRZEJ & SHARMIN 11,000.58 01128 02330 MATIS LLC

21,404.39 01128 02940 KASHANI MORDECHAI

8,944.77 01128 05480 HAKIMI BIJAN E & HAKIMI CAROLIN 13,374.21 01129 03640 HU QIAN

15,280.09 01136 01590 DILAMANI LILA

343.21 01136 01790 ARYEH ESKANDER & HEZGHIA

2,223.55 01140 00220

22 HASSAN AYHAN

3,374.33 01142 00910 MOGHADAM P GOLBARI & ISHAGH 3,780.24 01144 00590 VANHALEM CHANNAH

31,096.83 01148 00340 SAMIMI GHANGIR & HELEN

24,434.39 01156 00040 BRIMAR CORP

2,556.26 01177 00580 MOVTADY SHIDROKH TRUST

56,039.62 01177 00620 MOINIAN MOIN

1,859.71 01178 00150

2,358.71 MOINIAN MOIN 01178 00400 MOINIAN MOIN

139,072.25 01178 00520 WONG SWAN EI KO & SAI-KHEE

49,323.22 01179 00150 SIVAN AVI & REGINE

6,618.03 01179 00230 WYKOWSKI HENRY & STEPHANIE TRUS 4,580.97 01182 00410 GALLEGO BERNARDA

5,737.08 01182 00810 BIJARI SHAHRAM

2,652.54 01185 00060 BADKHSHAN REZA & ESMAT

343.55 01188 00150 WEBER CELIA

4,536.09

01189 00380 BALAZADEH FARID & SOORI ELHAM 16,797.27 01189 00490 COHEN DAVID & TALYA

5,983.23 01190 00260 BANILIVY MOUSSA & JAVAHER K LIF 23,073.92 01190 00340

34 NEMAN DAN

31,418.87 01195 00070 NAZARIAN MARIAM

4,319.55 01195 00190 OKHVAT FERIDOUN & M

2,549.99 01201 00130 FEIN DIANE & FEIN ELLIOT B

4,869.48 01201 0046A

46A-46B BARATIAN ARMIN

2,652.39 01201 00530 NADDER ROOFEH

3,561.43 01201 01340

134 ARYEH TRUST

10,465.42 01201 01470

147 ARVEH RALPH & MAHIN

360.69 01201 01480

148 SCHMUELIAN ELANA & NATANIEL 17,309.03 01202 00080 SCHMUELIAN ELANA & NATANIEL 3,460.85 01202 00090 LI JING & ZHU DAKE

2,223.44 01203 00300 HARARI KELLY

42,810.50 02006 00160 PERMANENT MISSION OF THE UNITED 1,278.09 02007 01370 PULVER JEFFREY & RISA

34,063.70 02045 01270 103 GREAT DEVELOPMENT INC

28,284.41 02050 02670 11 NORTHERN BLVD LLC 231,142.60 02054 00890

89-93 380 NORTHERN BLVD LLC 102,687.15 02085 00140

14,16,28,30-31 RABINOWITZ MICHAEL

14,984.16 02085 00220 CINGANELLI CARLA

33,348.57 02090 03230 HUANG XIANG MING & ZHOU XIANG W 6,247.21 02093 00110 TENG XIAOYE

28,929.06 02095 00150

15,20 SUN MIN MIN & YAO PING

7,128.03 02099 01050 SCHULTZ ANDREW B & ENID H

29,172.01 02100 00140

14-15 RAGIN HAMPTON

15,626.27 02107 00430

43-45 JACKSON ETAL ALBERTINE

10,764.11 02121 00060

6-7 JPA ROSE INTERNATIONAL LLC

11,969.73 02133 04370 ADERET FARSHID

2,625.90 02148 00310

31-34 KATZ RONNIE

6,776.53 02153 00070

7-10 HASSID SHAHRAM & OSNAT

9,480.79 02155 00040

4-6 POPKIN ERICA

7,772.77 02167 00550

55-59 POPKIN ERICA

21,605.57 02167 00600

60-64 FRIDMAN ILYA & HOROWITZ MELISSA 8,538.87 02173 01100 JANG HYUN PARK & HANG

12,219.30 02190 0310UCA00260 310 CA 26 UNIT 105 8700 REALTY LLC

143,529.83 02197 01270 SAFI ZERGONA

23,599.08 02212 0167UCA01960 167 CA 196 UNIT 510 LIN LINAI

4,861.93 02237 00120 T/U/W FEINMAN ROBERT & FEINMAN 16,972.52 02269 01110 WINSTON GROUP LLC

25,047.49 022820400430 YANG LI

10,954.76 022830200510 DIAMANT ALLEN LIFE ESTATE

2,636.27 022830400030 772 HUMBOLDT REALTY CORP

27,179.04 02286 00210 772 HUMBOLDT REALTY CORP

2,890.56 02286 00220 MAHFAR BENHOUR

17,755.27 02292 00190 COHEN DAVID & YAFFA

6,188.91 02296 00050 NABAVIAN BIJAN & VIDA

34,009.13 02297 00220 RANGKAR DANIAL

2,077.06 02301 00220 AKHAVAN EMILLIA

13,303.22 02311 00170 SAIDIAN NAVA

35,399.52 02315 00150 OMARI SAM & DONNA

34,481.01 02318 00040

4,24 BROOK DONNA

16,898.11 02329 00550 TZENG C WU & SHYANG-JENG

5,535.91 02334 01160 YEROSHALMY MORIS & BROWKHIM ELE 7,493.92 02337 00380

38 MA ALEXANDER & EMILY

5,223.69 02343 00270 LEE CHANG & KUM

2,281.67

02346 00200 DARVISHZADEH YAGHOUB & POURAN 21,444.96 02354 00010

1 PARK JU YOUNG

11,996.70 02354 00560 SILVA DEVELOPMENT GROUP LLC 11,317.02 02358 00210

21 MAHFAR ROUBEN & ANGELE

7,698.67 02371 00030

3 PLAZA GATE LLC

62,043.62 02376 00080

8 MAHFAR HILDA

12,226.17 02376 0052UCA00830 52 CA 83 UNIT 202 NOORI SAKINEH

13,118.26 02376 0053UCA01600 53 CA 160 UNIT 308 KHAZZAM ETAL ALFRED

1,769.18 02376 0053UCA01600 53 CA 160 UNIT 400 ONE HUNDRED CUTTERMILL ASSOC 372.41 02376 0053UCA01600 53 CA 160 UNIT 628 E CHEN

359.48 02376 0055UCA01870 55 CA 187 UNIT 12 E CHEN

359.48 02376 0055UCA01870 55 CA 187 UNIT 13 E CHEN

2,095.33 02376 0055UCA01870 55 CA 187 UNIT 408 OBLA GODWIN O

1,195.99 08 A 0901UCA02720 PUTHUSSERIL ABRAHAM & MARIAKUTT 5,464.99 08 B1300780 ANTHONY ROBERT C

2,624.35 08 K0200140 HAN MEI

12,331.98 08229 00220 SEIDEN JESSICA (TRUST)

4,992.12 08235 00370 TERMS OF SALE Such tax liens shall be sold subject to any and all superior tax liens of sovereignties and other municipalities and to all claims of record which the County may have thereon and subject to the provisions of the Federal and State Soldier’s and Sailors’ Civil Relief Acts. However, such tax liens shall have priority over the County’s Differential Interest Lien, representing the excess, if any, of the interest and penalty borne at the maximum rate over the interest and penalty borne at the rate at which the lien is purchased. The Purchaser acknowledges that the tax lien(s) sold pursuant to these Terms of Sale may be subject to pending bankruptcy proceedings and/or may become subject to such proceedings which may be commenced during the period in which a lien is held by a successful bidder or the assignee of same, which may modify a Purchaser’s rights with respect to the lien(s) the property securing same. Such bankruptcy proceedings shall not affect the validity of the tax lien. In addition to being subject to pending bankruptcy proceedings and/or the Federal and State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Acts, said purchaser’s right of foreclosure may be affected by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act (FIRREA), 12 U.S.C. ss 1811 et. seq., with regard to real property under Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) receivership. The County Treasurer reserves the right, without further notice and at any time, to withdraw from sale any of the parcels of land or premises herein listed. The rate of interest and penalty which any person purchases the tax lien shall be established by his bid. Each purchaser, immediately after the sale thereof, shall pay to the County Treasurer ten per cent of the amount from which the tax liens have been sold and the remaining ninety per cent within thirty days after such sale. If the purchaser at the tax sale shall fail to pay the remaining ninety per cent within ten days after he has been notified by the County Treasurer that the certificates of sale are ready for delivery, then all deposited with the County Treasurer including but not limited to the ten per cent theretofore paid by him shall, without further notice or demand, be irrevocably forfeited by the purchaser and shall be retained by the County Treasurer as liquidated damages and the agreement to purchase be of no further effect. Time is of the essence in this sale. This sale is held pursuant to the Nassau County Administrative Code and interested parties are referred to such Code for additional information as to terms of sale, rights of purchasers, maximum rates of interest and other legal incidents of the sale. Furthermore, as to the bidding, 1. The bidder(s) agree that they will not work with any other bidder(s) to increase, maintain or stabilize interest rates or collaborate with any other bidder(s) to gain an unfair competitive advantage in the random number generator in the event of a tie bid(s) on a tax certificate. Bidder(s) further agree not to employ any bidding strategy designed to create an unfair competitive advantage in the tiebreaking process in the upcoming tax sale nor work with any other bidder(s) to engage in any bidding strategy that will result in a rotational award of tax certificates.

2. The tax certificate(s) the Bidder will bid upon, and the interest rate(s) bid, will be arrived at independently and without direct or indirect consultation, communication or agreement with any other bidder and that the tax certificate(s) the Bidder will bid upon, and the interest rate(s) to be bid, have not been disclosed, directly or indirectly, to any other bidder, and will not be disclosed, directly or indirectly, to any other bidder prior to the close of bidding. No attempt has been made or will be made to, directly or indirectly, induce any other bidder to refrain from bidding on any tax certificate, to submit complementary bids, or to submit bids at specific interest rates.

3. The bids to be placed by the Bidder will be made in good faith and not pursuant to any direct or indirect, agreement or discussion with, or inducement from, any other bidder to submit a complementary or other noncompetitive bid.

4. If it is determined that the bidder(s) have violated any of these bid requirements then their bid shall be voided and if they were the successful bidder the lien and any deposits made, in connection with, said bid shall be forfeited.

This list includes only tax liens on real estate located in Town of North Hempstead, Town of Hempstead. Such other tax liens on real estate are advertised as follows:

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SHAbbAT STAR ‫שבת‬ Keeping memory alive

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Parsha of the Week

Rabbi avi biLLet Jewish Star columnist

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year ago, 17 families’ worlds and lives were turned upside down, as were the lives of countless relatives, friends and communities with the horrific shooting in Parkland, FL. A year later, we can and must remember. Not just because five of those families are Jewish, but because all 17 families were victims of a senseless criminal act that is now part of history, but very much remains part of our collective present.

There is no word for “history” in older Hebrew. In modern Hebrew, the word used is historia, but in older Hebrew, history was defined based on the root zechor — to remember. What people remember and carry as memorials — that defines history.

Tetzaveh is filled with memory, all aimed at teach Bnei Yisrael about their history. In Chapter 28, we are told: “Place the two stones on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod as remembrance stones [zikaron] for the sons of Israel, and Aharon will carry the names, before G-d, on his shoulders as a remembrance [zikaron].“ (28:12) t seemed pretty clear from the first mention of zikaron that the stones atop the shoulder straps of the Ephod, on which were engraved the names of the 12 tribes, were meant to be me-

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morial stones for the tribes of Israel, both the individual sons of Yaakov and their descendants. This memorial is something Aharon was to carry with him always, in his role as kohen gadol.

The 12 stones of the choshen were also a zikaron. Aharon was to carry the names of Bnei Yisrael, on the choshen as a zikaron before Hashem (28:29). The very next verse describes how the choshen had the urim v’tumim and that they were placed on Aharon’s heart (28:30). Aharon’s job was to carry the laws or judgment of the Children of Israel on his heart always.

There was one more burden Aharon was to bear. When the tzitz, the forehead plate, is described, we are told that it was to be on Aharon’s forehead.

“Aaron shall thus carry the device that expiates errors in the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate as holy gifts. It shall be on his forehead at all times to make [these offerings] acceptable for [the Israelites] before G-d” (28:38).

Aharon was to carry the burden of mistakes in the sacrifices that Bnei Yisrael would bring.

It would be on his forehead tamid. Before G-d.

Always.

To summarize: On his shoulders, a zikaron remembers the past. On his heart, the names of the tribes of Israel were a zikaron before G-d, a concern for the present. Finally, on his forehead, he

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carried the missteps of the holy offerings — the future. This is the totality of the story of the Jewish people. This is what Aharon carried.

What do we carry on our shoulders, on our hearts, on our minds? Burdens? Cares? Loved ones? Do we think about others? Pray for others? Wish the very best for others? Try to help people have both a healing of the body and the soul, both of which are so needed today? What we carry on our hearts, shoulders and minds is something to think about. It reflects the past, the present and the future. hat is a zikaron lifnei Hashem — a memory before G-d? Doesn’t He see everything, know everything? How could He possibly need a reminder for anything?

Memory is something humans have. “I recall a memory.”

“If memory serves me right.”

“I’m losing my memory.” “I have no memory of that.”

Memory is for us. We see the tzitzis and we are supposed to remember the mitzvos of Hashem. We have a Seder to remember Yetzias Mitzrayim, how G-d was there for our ancestors and remains there for us now. We remember Amalek so we can make every effort to ensure that they not rise again. We have reminders, through the mezuzah, through certain seasonal mitzvos, through the Shema, of where we stand with relation to G-d.

We need reminders. G-d does not. And yet the memory is “before Hashem”?

Netziv explains that G-d’s memory is essentially triggered when a salvation is needed.

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n 1860, a relatively unknown one-term congressman named Abraham Lincoln stunned the country by prevailing over three prominent rivals — William Seward, Salmon Chase, and Edward Bates — to win the Republican nomination for President.

But even more surprising was what he did after being elected president: He appointed all three to his cabinet — Seward as secretary of state, Chase as secretary of the treasury, and Bates as attorney general.

••• The commentaries note a fascinating detail in this week’s portion of Tetzaveh: This is the only portion in the last four books of the Torah (after his birth) with no mention of Moshe’s name.

The Midrash suggests that when Moshe, in his attempt to save the Jewish people after the Golden Calf, pleas before G-d to be “erased from His book, if you will destroy this people” (Shemot 32:32), the decree of such a righteous person must be fulfilled to some degree. So Hashem leaves out Moshe’s name in this week’s portion.

The obvious question then is why this portion?

This is the second of two portions that discuss the mitzvah to build a Mishkan, and it focuses largely on the role of the kohanim — the daily lighting of the golden menorah, the special clothing they wore, some parts of their daily service, and the special ceremony inducting Aaron and his sons into the priesthood.

In short, this portion introduces the kehuna, the priesthood, even though the dedication and commencement of their service will only begin in the next book, Vayikra.

One might have expected to find some jealou-

sy or at least hesitation on Moshe’s part, considering this was a role neither Moshe nor any of his offspring would ever enjoy.

Yet Moshe displays not a hint of jealousy or struggle. And, perhaps to make this point, does not even include his own name in the entire portion. t is interesting to note that Moshe perhaps followed Aaron’s lead. When Moshe is first told to lead the Jewish people out of slavery, he suggests to G-d that Aaron might be a better choice. Yet Hashem’s response is, “Aaron your brother will come out to greet you, and will rejoice in his heart” (ibid. 4:14). Aaron displayed no envy when Moshe was appointed leader, he simply rejoiced in Moshe’s arrival.

This is significant given the enmity often found between brothers in the Torah: Cain and Abel, Yitzchak and Yishmael, Yaakov and Esav, Yosef and his brothers.

One wonders where these brothers, along with their sister, learned this impressive humility. They must have had incredible parents.

Yet we know very little about their parents; the first time we find mention of them, they are simply described as a man and a woman (“ish” and “isha,” ibid. 2:1-2).

This same term is used in Pirkei Avot when describing the value of stepping up when there is no one else to do the job: “Bemakom she’ein anashim, hishtadel le’hiyot ish.” In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man (Avot 2:6).

As a teenager (ibid. 3:11), Moshe ventures out and sees the suffering of his brothers, and sees an Egyptian beating a Jew. He “looks back and forth, and sees there is no man [ish]” (ibid. v.12). Here, too, Moshe is not named, he is described as a “lad.”

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Moshe’s greatest trait was his extreme humility.

In fact, Pirkei Avot (end chap. 4; see Maimonides: Rambam Hilchot Deot 2:7) tells us there are three things that remove a person from the world: jealousy, desire, and pursuit of honor. What these three flaws have in common is that they involve a person placing themselves at the center, rather than the higher purpose they are meant to serve.

If a person is envious of what someone else has, it is a clear indicator that he or she has not accepted that G-d has a different role in mind for them.

Healthy systems of government have a separation or balance of powers, through which leaders realize not only what they are meant to do, but what they are not meant to do. When the president interferes with the judiciary, things get complicated. And the same is true of healthy institutions in general: if the CEO is too involved with the accounting department, it doesn’t work. nd one last thought, which provides a great example in the realm of education: Our portion opens with the mitzvah of the kohen to light the menorah every day in the Mikdash. From the word “leha’alot” (ibid. 27:20) which literally means the kohen is to raise up the flame in lighting, the Talmud (Shabbat 21a) infers that he is meant to kindle the flame until it rises on his own. The kohen would not remove his hand from the wick until there was an independently strong flame.

The Talmud suggests in numerous places that the menorah symbolized Torah (see Bava Batra 25b as an example). Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch suggests, therefore, that when we educate our children, our job is to make ourselves unnecessary. We have to get the flame to burn on its own.

Success in education is when our students or children can stand on their own. The wis-

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four “and he remembered”s refer to G-d remembering Noach during the flood, Avraham while Lot was being saved from Sodom, Rachel after her claim that she would die if she has no child, and Israel in Egypt and His promise to Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov.

Aharon’s carrying the zikaron on his shoulders and on his heart was meant to serve as a constant reminder of the love G-d had for Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov and their children.

This is also why Rosh Hashana is called Yom HaZikaron — a time when the memory of Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov is invoked in order to bring about what is hopefully a salvation for the Jewish people. hile there are certainly some whose lives are devastated forever on account of tragedies, some manage to continue to live, even with a deep hole in the heart. And that hole should never be filled. Because if it is filled, there is no memory.

What we all must take from the memory of those lost to terrorism and senseless acts of violence is to do good in memory of those whose lives were cut short. We make their memory a blessing when we do chesed and fulfill mitzvos in their name. In their memory. Or change policy — such as the Taylor Force Act to stop funding Palestinian terrorism. That’s how we imitate Aharon, who carried Bnei Yisrael as a zikaron before Hashem tamid.

Having a memory, having a sense of history, is meant to inspire us to be better people. Sadly, we must live life with caution. But we must also promote the memory of our forebearers and those who can no longer do good things, by bringing goodness to the world in their name, in their memory and on their behalf.

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dom of a good educator is knowing when to step back in order to let the child fly.

If we step back too soon, it can be disaster, as when the Jewish people (according to some commentaries) felt abandoned at the foot of Sinai in the debacle of the Golden Calf. But if we get it right, then they, our children and students, can build a Mishkan, a temple all their own.

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y interest in the relationship between a person and their clothing goes back to my early days in graduate school. I was taking a course on human personality, under the tutelage of a remarkably insightful and erudite woman, Dr. Mary Henle. I was so enthusiastic that I asked her to supervise my master’s degree thesis.

I remember the morning I shared my proposed topic with her. I thought that one of the ways to assess personality was to take note of the kind of clothing that a person wore. I further postulated that not only does a person’s clothing tell us a lot about him or her, but the clothing that we wear actually has an impact upon us. Our clothing helps make us who we are.

Dr. Henle tactfully deflated my ego. She said, “That’s just an old wives’ tale. Our personalities are very profound, subtle, and complex.

At most, our clothing reflects just a superficial aspect of our identity. You give too much credit to the saying, ‘Clothes make the man.’ It is really only a wisecrack attributed to Mark Twain.

There is nothing more to it than that.”

I subsequently chose another topic for my master’s degree thesis.

any years have passed since that encounter, and Dr. Henle has long since passed away, although I remember her respectfully. During those years, I have learned that she was mistaken on many grounds.

For one thing, the saying, “Clothes make the man,” did not originate with Mark Twain. Centuries before the American humorist, the 16th century Catholic theologian Desiderius Erasmus wrote: “Vestis virum facit,” which translates as, “Clothes make the man.” Not long afterwards, none other than William Shakespeare put these words into the mouth of the character Polonius in his famous play Hamlet: “The apparel oft proclaims the man.”

Statements about the relationship between person and clothing go back much further than a mere several centuries. Such statements originate in the Bible, and a passage in this week’s Torah portion, Parshat Tetzaveh (Exodus 27:2030:10), is a case in point. We read: “You shall bring forward your brother, Aaron, with his sons, from among the Israelites, to serve Me as priests … Make sacral vestments for your brother Aaron, for dignity and adornment. Next you shall instruct all who are wise of heart … to make Aaron’s vestments, for consecrating him to serve Me as priest.”

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here are two well-known verses in Shemot that express the concept of Hashem’s dwelling among the Jewish people. The first instance appears in last week’s parasha, “And they shall make Me a sanctuary and I will dwell (v’shachanti) in their midst,” and the second in our Torah portion, Tetzaveh, “I will dwell (v’shachanti) in the midst of the children of Israel and I will be their G-d (v’hayiti lahem l’Elokim)” (25:8 and 29:45).

The first pasuk presents the idea of Hashem’s dwelling amongst us as a result of our constructing the Mishkan, and the second adds the notion that based upon His dwelling amongst us, He will be our G-d.

Taken in tandem, the following formula emerges: Construction of the Mishkan results in v’shachanti in our midst, which leads to v’hayiti lahem l’Elokim.

Although they initially appear to convey similar content, v’shachanti and v’hayiti lahem l’Elokim are dissimilar concepts, indicated by their phrasing. This approach was followed by both the Sforno and the Ha’emek Davar in their respective commentaries on Shemot 29:45.

According to the Sforno, v’shachanti refers to Hashem’s ready desire to accept our prayers and our avodah. In contrast, v’hayiti lahem l’Elokim does not refer to the content of what Hashem will accept, but rather that He will do so bikvodo ub’atzmo — without any go-between. This is similar to the manner in which He took us out from Egypt: “Not through the efforts of an angel, not through the exertions of a ministering angel, and not as a result of a messenger — but solely by the Holy One blessed be He, in His honor and glory” (Haggadah).

he Ha’emek Davar differs from the Sforno by suggesting that “v’shachanti in our midst” denotes an everlasting connection between the Almighty and the Jewish people: “Even in the absence of the Mishkan, where Hashem’s glory was explicitly manifest, [Hashem] will continue to ever be in the midst of the Jewish people. This means that His Presence will never depart from the community of Israel … even though it will not appear manifestly evident to all.”

In addition, he takes a different tact from the Sforno in his explanation of the second phrase, “v’hayiti lahem l’Elokim,” as signifying that Hashem is continually attuned to and “watchful of our needs and will fulfill them.”

Whether we follow the Sforno or the Ha’emek Davar, both agree that v’shachanti and v’hayiti lahem l’Elokim refer to Hashem’s commitment to an eternal personal relationship with the Jewish people.

In my view, this is the counterpoint to our passionate song at the Yam Suf: “This is my G-d, and I will ever praise Him, the G-d of my father, and I will exalt Him” (Shemot 15:2). We were G-d-intoxicated at the Yam Suf, and could not hold ourselves from bursting out in a song of everlasting love. Now, so to speak, it was Hashem’s turn to proclaim His never-ending love for the Jewish people.

We can now better understand a celebrated phrase that we joyfully proclaim each morning: “Ashreinu mah tov chelkeinu, u’mah na’im goraleinu, u’mah yafah yerushateinu!” (“We are overjoyed in the goodliness of our portion! And how pleasing is our fate! And how desirous is our inheritance!”)

In my estimation, the terms portion, fate and inheritance refer to our holy Torah and the dynamic relationship we share with Hashem. For truly, zeh Keli v’anvehu and v’shachanti v’hayiti lahem l’Elokim!

With Hashem’s help, may we ever be able to appreciate the depth and beauty of this unique relationship.

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but symbolic of a specialized responsibility. With the donning of the gant the person gained the self-assurance of authority and power. he late 15th-century commentator Rabbi Isaac Arama, in his classic Akedat Yitzchak, provides even stronger support for our contention that clothes make the man. He identifies a similarity between the Hebrew word for the kohen’s uniforms — madim — and the Hebrew word for ethical character — middot.

Rabbi Arama notes that in Latin, too, the word habitus refers to both a special garment (e.g., a nun’s habit) and a character trait (e.g. a good habit). He persuasively argues that “just as it can be determined from a person’s external appearance as to whether he is a merchant or a soldier or a monk, so too, the discovery of our hidden inner personality begins with our external behaviors.”

For Rabbi Arama, that our clothing is metaphor for our moral standing is evident in this biblical verse: “Yehoshua was clothed in filthy garments when he stood before the angel. The latter stood up and spoke to his attendants: ‘Take the filthy garments off him!’ And he said to him: ‘See, I have removed your guilt from you’” (Zechariah 3:3-4).

Finally, there is another biblical verse that demonstrates the central role of clothing in “making the man.” And here we go back even further in history than this week’s parsha. Indeed, we go all the way back to the first parsha in the Torah, Bereishit: “And the L-rd G-d made garments of skins for Adam and his wife, and clothed them” (Genesis 3:21).

Nechama Leibowitz comments: “Everything in the way of culture and civilization was given to man to discover and develop on his own, with his own capacities. Nothing in the way of repairing the world and settling it was given to him

by G-d. Neither the discovery of fire nor farming nor building houses was revealed to man by G-d.

Rather, he was required to invent all these procedures on his own. Only clothing was given to him from Above. ‘And the L-rd … made garments.’”

G-d made clothing for man, and clothing makes the man.

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emerge from the Biblical text, writes: “A High Priest who serves in the Temple with less than his eight vestments, or an ordinary priest who serves with less than his four required vestments … invalidates the service performed and is subject to punishment by death at the hands of Heaven, as if he were an alien who served in the Temple … When their vestments are upon them, their priestly status is upon them, but without their vestments their priestly status is removed from them…” (Hilchot Klei HaMikdash, 10:4). hese vestments are external manifestations of the royalty and majesty of the priestly role. The clothing literally makes the man. Without the clothing, each priest is “ordinary” — one of G-d’s subjects for sure, but without any regal status. With the clothing, he is not only bedecked with “dignity and adornment,” but has become a prince, and can play a royal role.

Rabbi Moses ben Nachman, Ramban, makes this even more explicit. He writes, “These are royal garments. These cloaks and robes, tunics and turbans are even today [he lived in 13th century Spain] the apparel of nobility … and no one would dare to wear the crown … or the tekhelet except for royalty.”

From this perspective, clothes make the man.

With them, he is imbued with the spirit of royalty and can carry himself with regal bearing.

Others interpret the function of the sacred garments differently, but all agree that garments influence the wearer. Rashi comments that in Frace, when a person received a new official position, the nobleman would put gloves upon him, indicating that he now had the authority of a new position. He uses the Old French word gant, which reference books translate as a “decorative glove.”

This would indicate that the garments were a type of official uniform, not necessarily regal,

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ntil 1968, American’s celebrated February 12 as Abraham Lincoln’s birthday and February 22 as George Washington’s birthday.

These commemorations were then replaced with Presidents’ Day on the third Monday of February.

This was widely perceived as a downgrading of American veneration of Lincoln and Washington.

With the growing pressures for egalitarianism and multiculturalism, it was to be expected that great national heroes be cut down to size.

After all, they were flawed human beings, not much better or different from ourselves.

In his perceptive book, Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era, Dr. Barry Schwartz traces the dramatic drop in Lincoln’s prestige, especially since the 1960s. He writes: “Ours is an age

ready to live without triumphal doctrine, an age in which absolutes are local and private rather than national, a post-heroic age in which national greatness is the epitome of the naive and outmoded” (p. 191). n the post-heroic era, it has become fashionable to focus on the evils of American society and American history. Our “heroes” have now tended to be athletes and entertainers rather than singularly great political figures.

Indeed, to identify a public figure as “great” is to invite a barrage of criticism from the politically correct opposition, stressing that person’s numerous sins and shortcomings.

Those of us who spent our childhoods before the mid to late 1960s are still the biggest fans of Lincoln. Those whose childhoods were in the late 1960s and later were less likely to study about the great Abraham Lincoln that we knew: the common man born in a log cabin who went on to become one of America’s great presidents; the man of homespun wit and wisdom; the president who saved the Union; the president who eman-

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cipated the slaves; the president who was deeply religious in his own special way.

As children, we learned not just to respect Lincoln, but to see in him a quality of excellence to which we ought to aspire. Lincoln’s greatness was an inspiration; he represented the greatness of America and the American dream. his week’s Torah portion tells of the eternal lamp that was to be lit with pure olive oil in the Mishkan, the wilderness sanctuary of the Israelites. The eternal lights in our synagogues derive from this ancient practice of our ancestors. The significance of the lamp — symbolizing the Divine Presence — is that it was “eternal,” always to be lit.

It was not a large torch or bonfire; it was not part of a huge powerful structure: it was a small, quiet light; its virtue was in its steadiness. It was always lit, always giving light and inspiration.

Perhaps we ought to think of greatness in terms of the eternal light. Greatness does not entail having all the virtues and strengths; greatness does not depend on external pomp and glo-

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t is interesting to note the absence of Moshe from the parsha of Tetzaveh. For once, Moshe, the hero, the leader, the liberator, the lawgiver, is off-stage, and the only instance where the name of Moshe is not mentioned at all in any parsha since the one in which he is born.

Instead, our focus is on his elder brother Aaron who, elsewhere, is in the background.

Indeed, virtually the whole parsha is devoted to the role Moshe did not occupy: that of priest.

It is important that we have a parsha dedicated to priestly role. However, need this focus remove Moshe entirely? Is there any larger significance to his absence?

The commentators offer various suggestions.

One given in the Talmud refers to Moshe’s encounter with G-d at the burning bush. Moshe repeatedly expressed reluctance to lead the people out of Egypt, saying, “O L-rd, please send someone else to do it.”

“Then the L-rd’s anger burned against Moshe and He said, ‘What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and his heart will be glad when he sees you. You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do’” (Exodus 4:13-15). he Talmud records a debate about the consequences of that moment when Moshe, as it were, refused one time too many. To decline a leadership challenge once or twice is a sign of humility. To continue to do so when G-d Himself issues the challenge risks provoking divine anger.

“Then the L-rd’s anger burned against Moshe” — Rabbi Yehoshua ben Karcha said: every instance of [divine] anger in the Torah leaves a lasting effect, except in this instance. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai said: here too it left a lasting effect, for it goes on to say, ‘What about your brother, Aaron the Levite?’ Surely Aaron was a priest [not just a Levite]. Rather, what G-d meant was: I originally intended that you [Moshe] would be a priest and he [Aaron] would merely be a Levite. But now [because of your refusal], he will eventually become a priest and you will

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only be a Levite.”

According to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, Moshe’s reluctance to lead meant that one leadership role — priesthood — would go to Aaron rather than him.

Based on this passage, Rabbi Yaakov ben Asher suggests that Moshe’s name is missing from Tetzaveh “to spare him distress” on seeing Aaron acquire the priesthood that might have been his.

There is also a more fundamental message.

One of the recurring themes of Genesis is sibling rivalry: between Cain and Abel, Yitzchak and Yishmael, Yaakov and Esav, and Yosef and his brothers.

There is an identifiable pattern to this set of narratives. The story of Cain and Abel ends with murder. Yitzchak and Yishmael, though they grow up apart, are seen together at Abraham’s funeral. Yaakov and Esav meet, embrace and go their separate ways. Yosef and his brothers are reconciled and live together in peace, Yosef providing them with food, land, and protection.

Fraternity is not simple or straightforward. It is often fraught with conflict and contention. Yet slowly, brothers can learn that there is another way. On this note Genesis ends. But it is not the end of the story.

A taste of Purim from Rabbi Fohrman Kosher bookworm

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here is no end to commentary on the Book of Esther, and this year’s pick by me is not the last word. However, the popularity of Rabbi David Fohrman’s work in our community (he is the rabbi of the Nusach Sefard minyan at the Young Israel of Woodmere) prompts a review of his teachings on Megillat Esther, that, in my opinion, is worth your attention.

The Queen You Thought You Knew [OU Press, 2011] goes into great detail in describing the human, as well as the divine, dynamic that envelops the plot that underlines the holiday of Purim.

The mitzvah of hakarat hatov, showing gratitude to others — one of the most remarkable mitzvot that our faith mandates in terms of personal human relations — generates peace among us. This mitzvah, as it relates to the Purim theme, is given big play by Rabbi Fohrman.

One segment of Rabbi Fohrman’s book reminds us of the deeds of our ancestors— Judah, a son of Leah, and Benjamin, a son of Rachel.

In Genesis, it was Judah who stepped up to the

plate, at great personal risk, to defend his halfbrother Benjamin from possible captivity in Egypt.

Fast-forward to the story of Purim. The Jewish people in Persia, the vast majority of whom were Judeans (thus the title Jews), were under dire threat of being murdered by government fiat. Queen Esther, a descendent of Benjamin, was in a position to reciprocate Judah’s heroic deed of antiquity. She could have easily walked away from the situation, given her royal position. n a segment entitled “A Debt Repaid,” Rabbi Fohrman writes: “But Esther does not take this path. Instead, she chooses to risk her life — and to reciprocate a centuries-old act of selfless kindness.

“Judah had once promised Jacob that he would guarantee the safety of Benjamin, come what may. But never had Judah suspected how harshly destiny would call upon him to back up every inch of that promise. How tempted must Judah have been simply to give up and go home when Benjamin was found with the silver goblet in his sack. Yes, he had pledged to safeguard Benjamin, but what was he supposed to do now?

No one asked Benjamin to steal the cup! Judah could have easily rationalized that it was time to cut his losses; time to give up on Rachel’s child Benjamin and save his full-blooded brothers, the other children of Leah.

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appeal to the Egyptian [Joseph] to save Benjamin — and he put his own safety in jeopardy to do it.

“Yes, there had been a time when Judah had abandoned the child of a rival mother, when he allowed a child of Rachel to languish in slavery while he and his other brothers went home to their bereaved father. But it will not happen again. This time, Judah will willingly become the slave so that a child of Rachel may go free.”

Rabbi Fohrman continues: “When did Benjamin ever repay Judah?

“It took centuries, but the answer is — right now, right here in the Megillah. Judah had been safe, but had traded his own safety for the life of Benjamin, a child from the other side of the family.

And now, centuries later, Esther, a descendant of Benjamin was safe. But she would sacrifice that safety, so that the Judahites, from the other side of the family, might have a chance at survival. In so doing, Esther knows the historical significance of her actions.

“And she rightfully echoes Judah, the man whose kindness she now repays.”

Rabbi Fohrman closes with the following observation:

ry. Greatness, like the eternal light, needs to be steady, to give light, to inspire from generation to generation.

It is futile to argue that Abraham Lincoln — or any human being — was absolutely perfect and without shortcomings. Yet this does not negate the possibility of human greatness, any more than it would be to negate the greatness of the eternal light because it was not a larger, stronger light.

A great human being is one whose life offers a steady light and inspiration to the generations, whose words and deeds have had profound positive impact on others, whose existence has helped transform our world into a better place.

Abraham Lincoln was a great man with a lasting legacy to his country and to the world. His spirit is well captured in the closing words of his second inaugural address, delivered on March 4, 1865: “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as G-d gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”

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he drama has a fifth act: Moshe and Aaron.

Here, for the first time, there is no hint of sibling rivalry. The brothers work together from the outset of the mission. They address the people together. They stand together when confronting Pharaoh. They perform signs and wonders together. They share leadership in the wilderness together. For the first time, brothers function as a team, with different gifts, talents, roles, but without hostility, each complementing the other.

Their partnership is a constant feature of the narrative. But there are certain moments where it is highlighted. The first occurs when G-d tells Moshe that Aaron “is already on his way to meet you, and his heart will be glad when he sees you.”

Aaron would have many reasons not to rejoice. The brothers had not grown up together.

Moshe had been raised in an Egyptian palace, while Aaron remained with the Israelites.

Moshe, fearing for his life after his assault on an Egyptian taskmaster, had fled to Midian.

Besides this, Moshe was younger, and yet it was he who was about to become the leader. In the past, when the younger had taken something the elder believed belonged to him, there was jealousy, animosity. Yet G-d assures Moshe: “when Aaron sees you, he will rejoice.” And so he did.

The second fascinating clue is in a strange See Brothers on page 23 “Over time, that rivalry between the children of Leah and the children of Rachel would continue to express itself. Ages later, rival kings would lead the two halves of the family, and the bitter divide would reassert itself.

“But, eventually, at the close of the Bible, in the Megillah, there is a ray of hope. Judah’s healing words once again find an echo. Esther risks all for the Children of Leah, and Judah’s heroic act is knowingly reciprocated. The long arc of a circle had finally been closed.”

The actual Megillah narrative is, in some respects, a bit more severe than that interpreted above by Rabbi Fohrman. We are all cognizant of Mordechai’s admonitions to Esther that finally prompts her actions.

Those admonitions and the motivations behind the players in this drama are sharply dealt with by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein in his eloquent essay, “If You remain Silent at This Time: Esther’s Moral Development and Ours” [Yeshivat Har Etzion, 5744].

I suggest that you and your families read this essay before Purim, together with Rabbi Fohrman’s work as well as his video on this theme, to place you in a proper frame of mind as we enter, with G-d’s grace, this most joyous holiday season.

A version of this story appeared in 2014.

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Shalva touch stars, only not on Shabbos I

’ve been enchanted by The Shalva Band’s magical performances on Israel’s Kochav Haba, “Rising Star,” starting with a mind-blowing rendition of the Beatles’ “Here Comes The Sun.” Two blind girls, the primary singers, continued to perform while blithely unaware that they had just won the night’s highest score, unable to see the flashing fireworks that erupt as a sign of victory.

It really did feel like the sun was shining in a new way, the dawn of a new day when people with disabilities who have reached for the stars will be stars.

The final song I saw was “I see The Good In You,” an original composed and set to music by The Shalva Band. This song is unforgettable. Anael writes and sings about her journey and traveling the path of disability. Her message: seeing good in people —not just in others, but in yourself as well.

The entire country was rooting for The Shalva Band to win the competition and represent Israel at the Eurovision. When is the next Shalva video coming out, I wondered. hen the news hit. Shalva was pulling out of the “Rising Star” competition — so close to winning — due to the news that whoever represents Israel at the Eurovision will need to perform on Shabbat.

I couldn’t believe it.

Here was Shalva, an organization for people with disabilities, about to break a record, to set an international precedent and bring Israel incredible, inspiring glory, but they pulled out.

Because of Shabbos. Wow. Aside from the upsetting aspect of the story — one would think that Eurovision would take Shabbat into account, for, after all, Israel is the Jewish State (and apparently Israel tried to work with the European Broadcasting Union to change the scheduling, but to no avail) — Shalva has just modeled another lesson for us all.

I am reminded of the movie “Chariots of Fire” and the message of Shabbat uber alles, of Olympic runner Eric Liddell who refused to breach his Sabbath.

Shalva has now not only brought musical glory to Israel, not only inclusion awareness to the world in the name of Israel, but it has tripled its powerful message, leadership and influence: Shalva has brought Shabbat to the world.

For many of us, who honor Shabbat with relative ease, who only hear of the challenges of Shabbat observance from days of yore, it doesn’t really take much sacrifice to keep Shabbat. Those stories about Jews who gave up opportunities in order to guard the Jewish Sabbath are from a bygone era.

Yet here comes The Shalva Band, removing itself from the Eurovision opportunity.

It has taught us all that some things are worth more than any glory in the world.

Some things are priceless. Shabbat is one of them.

As Asher Ginsburg, known as Ahad Ha’am, famously said: “More than the Jews have kept the Shabbat, the Shabbat has kept the Jews.”

Shabbat. Inclusion. And extraordinary musical talent. Shalva is already an Israeli legend.

Eurovision 2019 just lost the best thing it had going for it.

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Omar on Jews and ‘the Benjamins’: Please don’t say I didn’t warn you Politics to go

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he hatred spewed by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has gone from bad to worse.

In a Sunday evening Twitter rant, she suggested that Republicans support Israel because rich Jews bribe GOP members of Congress through AIPAC. Omar’s diatribe was motivated by GOP criticism, first by Long Island Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin, then by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California.

Two weeks ago, Zeldin introduced House Resolution 72, which states that the House of Representatives rejects anti-Semitic and antiIsrael hatred. The introduction to the resolution points to anti-Semitism from different elements of American society, specifically naming Louis Farrakhan, Students for Justice in Palestine, Linda Sarsour and Pittsburgh shooter Robert Bowers.

Zeldin also mentions two members of Congress — Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (DMI): “Whereas, on Nov. 16, 2012, Representative Ilhan Omar, who also supports the BDS movement, tweeted, ‘Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel’.”

HR 72 ends with “Now, therefore, be it Resolved; That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that — That the House of Representatives rejects anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred in the United States and around the world.” eldin’s resolution should have been uncontroversial. It doesn’t ask for a border wall or tax cuts, only for the House to reject hatred. But HR 72 is a rejection of a significant part of the Democratic Party base — members of the extreme left who are not fans of Jews, along with two brand new members of the Democratic Caucus. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic leaders declined to bring Zeldin’s bill to the floor, or to condemn the Democratic freshmen for their anti-Semitism.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy demanded that Democratic leaders at least rebuke progressive freshmen for their antiSemitism. He pointed out the GOP’s punishment of Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King: after King questioned why the terms “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” were considered offensive, he was stripped of all

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ican politicians to be pro-Israel.”

She answered with one word: “AIPAC!” As a not-for-profit organization, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee doesn’t donate directly to candidates. Its members do give money to political campaigns, as do members of any other advocacy group, from labor unions to the Iranian American Political Action Committee (IAPAC). Interestingly, AIPAC’s influence amongst Republicans has diminished since they tried to get the party to change its 2016 platform because it was too pro-Israel.

Freshman Rep. Max Rose, Last week’s Jewish Star reported on a Twitter feud between LI Rep. Lee Zeldin and Rep. Ilhan Omar over Omar’s support of BDS. Democrat from Staten Island and Brooklyn, told his colleagues, his committee assignments by the McCarthy “Congresswoman Omar’s statements are deepand the GOP caucus leadership. ly hurtful to Jews, including myself.”

“There’s situations in our conference where Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley adda member does something that is wrong — I ed her condemnation, tweeting Omar: “To think you’ve seen from my own actions that see this at the UN was a fight every day. This I take action,” McCarthy said. “I think when CANNOT be tolerated in our own Congress by they stay silent, they are just as guilty.” anyone of either party. In a time of increased McCarthy added that he believes it’s pos- anti-Semitism, we all must be held to account. sible to be critical of the Israeli government No excuses.” without being anti-Semitic, but Omar and egular readers know I have been warning Tlaib’s vociferations were over the line. And of anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party “if it is allowed to happen in the halls in Confor over a decade. And on Monday, after gress, it would only perpetuate the problem being pressured by Jewish Democrats in the and grow to something much more than we House, the party leadership finally addressed would desire it to be.” an anti-Semitic incident.

McCarthy warned that if the Democrats Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader didn’t act, he would.

Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Majority Whip James “I think this will not be the end of this, and Clyburn (D-SC), Assistant Speaker Ben Ray if they do not take action, then I think you will Luján (D-NM), Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jefsee action from myself,” he said. fries (D-NY) and Caucus Vice Chair Katherine wo days later, Glenn Greenwald, most Clark (D-MA) issued a statement condemning famous for publishing secret American all anti-Semitism and calling “upon Congressdocuments supplied to him by Edward woman Omar to immediately apologize for Snowden, tweeted support for Omar. “GOP these hurtful comments.”

Leader Kevin McCarthy threatens punishment House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler for @IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib over their (D-NY) made a passive-aggressive statement. criticisms of Israel,” the tweet said. “It’s stun- While condemning Omar’s words, continuing ning how much time US political leaders spend his insensitivity toward Jewish causes that bedefending a foreign nation even if it means at- gan with his support of the Iran deal, he didn’t tacking free speech rights of Americans.” blame Rep Omar. Instead, as Omar did, he proOmar responded with, “It’s all about the moted a false canard about Jews and took the Benjamins baby,” a reference to $100 bills. The opportunity to stereotype a different group.

Minnesota representative was referring to an “And even as this is the case,” wrote Nadler, old, and particularly disgusting, claim of anti- “one must also note and be concerned about the Semites — that Jewish money fuels American concerted right-wing tactics aimed at advancsupport for Israel. ing their agenda by distracting and dividing One response to Omar asked, “Would love those committed to equality and social justice.

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Liberal Zionists must fight BDS, not ally with it answering these lies were left-wingers, who were able to make the case that being a Zionist wasn’t incompatible with being a progressive. ast-forward 50 years, and some still make the same claim. The conceit of the J Street lobby is that it follows in the footsteps of those students with its “pro-Israel, pro-peace” mantra. J Street thinks its critiques of the Netanyahu government give it the standing to speak for the tradition of liberal Zionism that is in tune with the political leanings of the vast majority of American Jews.

Radical anti-Zionist groups like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and their Jewish auxiliaries at IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), maintain a strong presence on many campuses these days.

As a result, liberals believe that only groups with a progressive orientation like J Street U, which is deeply critical of Israeli policies while still claiming to be pro-Zionist, can effectively represent Jewish interests and, in effect, save Jewish youth for the pro-Israel camp.

It makes sense. Or at least, it would if that’s actually what J Street U was doing.

In the past few years, there have been many reported instances of J Street U chapters making common cause with SJP or JVP in criticizing the efforts of pro-Israel groups like the Maccabee Task Force or Hillel, castigating those organizing trips to Israel or holding events with Zionist speakers.

In many other instances, J Street U chapters have

jointly sponsored events with SJP or JVP groups.

J Street dismisses these charges as unimportant. It takes the position that it’s only natural for student groups to make alliances where possible, and it doesn’t mean that J Street has abandoned its core principles. They say that by engaging with the far left, they are building understanding and enabling people who hate Israel to see that not all Zionists are bad guys like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, AIPAC representatives and others who have different opinions about the conflict. et’s leave aside for a moment, the assertion that it makes sense to encourage Israel’s foes to divide Jews into “bad Jews” who support Israel and “good Jews” who are uncomfortable with it. The problem with outreach to Jew-haters is that far from persuading them to think more kindly of Israel and the Jews, appeasing them in this way reinforces their conviction that supporters of the Jewish state are pariahs who should be isolated and destroyed.

The only people who appear to be influenced by such contacts appear to be those who cling to the title of liberal Zionists, but who don’t seem comfortable with any assertion of Jewish nationalism or even the most minimal self-defense.

More to the point, the line between J Street U, JVP and IfNotNow — groups that actively oppose Israel’s existence and even at times engage in anti-Semitic libels — is rapidly being blurred as they form alliances on campuses to isolate

groups like the highly effective Maccabee Task Force or even the centrist and nonpartisan Hillel, which are home to much of the Jewish activity on most college campuses.

It’s still true that for many young Jews, anything that can be branded as non-progressive — let alone pro-Trump or pro-Netanyahu — is anathema to their worldview. Mainstream Jewish groups, including those that identify with the Zionist right, need to take into account that reaching Jewish millennials requires a different approach than the ones that worked with their parents and grandparents, who identified with the struggle for freedom for Soviet Jewry or who remember what a world without a Jewish state meant for persecuted Jews around the world.

But it is also true that a Zionist approach that eschews support for Jewish rights and self-defense — and which is neutral about anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist groups that seek Israel’s destruction and stigmatize its supporters — is not doing the Jewish people any good.

To the contrary, alliances with Jew-haters only strengthen the enemies of the Jews and make it that much more uncomfortable for Jews to be open about their identity on college campuses.

If J Street U can’t be relied upon to fight JVP and IfNotNow, then its claims to the mantle of progressive Zionism aren’t merely falling flat, but are a lie that both liberal and conservative Jews with any sense of pride or a shred of principle must reject.

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS.

Netanyahu making deals with devil?

gration in a campaign against the concept of the Western nation-state. In progressive circles, Orbán is the devil incarnate because he’s the most pugnacious and undeniably authoritarian advocate of the new nationalism, now a formidable threat to a liberal internationalist world order. he core issue of our time, in the Western world, is the battle between nationalism and universalism.

Universalism, otherwise known as globalization, is the defining creed of the Western political establishment. Its core premise is that the nation-state is the principal source of division and aggression. So it must be supplanted by transnational institutions and laws, while cultural identity based on history, religion, institutions and traditions must be replaced moral and cultural relativism.

Across the West, millions are in revolt against this dogma — an uprising that has taken the form of Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and the rise of parties in mainland Europe standing for national values and defending their country’s borders. Some of these parties, such as Germany’s AfD or Austria’s Freedom Party, have views which indeed put them beyond the pale. Democratic politicians should enforce red lines against fascists, racist hooligans or present-day anti-Semites.

But the reason these groups are gaining power is because the Western political establishment abandoned the cause of historic cultural identity, creating a vacuum to be filled by moral decline and Islamization.

Many Jews think nationalism threatens their safety and interests. They are wrong. The main threat to Jews arises when societies are no longer confident in their own identity. That’s why anti-Semitism is now rampant in Britain, Ireland, France, Sweden and others where liberal universalist dogma holds sway.

To liberals and many Jews, all nationalists are incipient Nazis and anti-Semites. Untrue. And Holocaust revisionism may be driven by a different impulse. To some of these nationalists, pride in their country means sanitizing its terrible past. This is reprehensible, but it’s hardly in the same league as, say, the Palestinian or Iranian agenda of murdering Jews and wiping out Israel.

Yet these regimes are given a free pass, or are even actively supported, by many of those who portray Orbán and other European nationalists as enemies of humanity.

The battle between nationalism and universalism is making for some messy choices and uncomfortable bedfellows. But in these confused and complex times, liberal hypocrisy is perhaps the most deadly charade of all.

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here was a time when Israel and the organized Jewish world didn’t hesitate about supporting left-wing Jewish student groups. Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, groups like the North American Jewish Students Network were often harshly critical of the government led by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the years after the Six-Day War. But Meir and her colleagues still considered such groups to be allies in the struggle to defend Israel against an Arab world that was determined to stick to its stance of “no peace, no recognition and no negotiations” with the Jewish state.

While left-wing Zionists differed with Israel’s government, they still played a valuable role in confronting the virulent anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism that had emerged among the so-called “New Left” in the 1960s.

Whereas socialists had heretofore identified with the Jewish people’s struggle for self-determination, the movements that emerged during the Vietnam War protests instead bought into the lie that Zionism was a form of colonialism. And the people who were most adept at

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sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been criticized for cozying up to dictators, autocrats or governments that deny their country’s role in the Holocaust.

Among those he has either visited or hosted are Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who boasts of creating an “illiberal democracy,” and President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, who once compared himself to Hitler. The next summit of the Visegrád group, an alliance of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, will be held this month in Jerusalem.

Much of Eastern Europe has an appalling history of Jewish persecution and complicity in the Holocaust. Their governments are intent on sanitizing their past. According to an American study published last month, Holocaust revisionism is on the rise in Europe, with some of the worst offenders in Poland and Hungary.

While it’s true that many Poles were themselves murdered by the Nazis and that some helped save their Jewish neighbors, Poles carried out murderous attacks against the Jews before, during and after the Holocaust. On Holocaust Memorial Day last month, the Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, again failed to acknowledge Polish complicity in the genocide,

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blaming instead the Germans. (Last year, Warsaw passed a law prohibiting people from blaming Poland for Holocaust atrocities. After strenuous objections by Israel, the law was watered down, and Netanyahu tried to bury the hatchet with a weak compromise statement.)

A few days later, Netanyahu welcomed to Israel Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.

Nearly all of Lithuania’s 200,000 Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Its government, however, has promoted a joint memorial day for all victims of totalitarianism, blurring the distinction between the Nazis and the communists who fought them. It wants to ban the sale of books citing the extensive collaboration of the local population with the Nazis. And it has resisted calls to remove plaques commemorating anti-Soviet fighter Jonas Noreika, despite revelations that he took part in the murder of thousands of Jews.

Yet when Netanyahu visited Vilnius last year, he praised Skvernelis for taking “great steps to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust” and for fighting modern-day anti-Semitism.

Netanyahu similarly welcomed President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine, whose parliament recently designated the birthday of wartime collaborator Stepan Bandera a national holiday. Bandera’s forces fought alongside the Nazis and were implicated in the murder of thousands of Jews.

Netanyahu should be doing more to voice concerns about revisionism. he issue, however, is far from straightforward. Are critics suggesting that Israel should not make alliances with any of these countries and opt instead for dangerous isolation?

What about the despotic Arab world that pumps out deranged anti-Semitism and has waged war on Israel for a century, but where Egypt and Jordan nevertheless have peace treaties with Israel and where there’s now a tacit alliance between Israel and the Gulf states? Are Poland and Hungary worse than Egypt or Saudi Arabia?

Poland and Hungary may be shameful Holocaust revisionists, but they are also staunch supporters of Israel. Hungary, where Orbán’s government has earmarked $3.4 million to combat European anti-Semitism, is one of the safest countries in Europe for Jews.

Yet Orbán is regularly called an anti-Semite for two reasons. He has praised Hungary’s wartime leader Admiral Horthy, who collaborated with Nazis and allowed the deportation of thousands of Hungarian Jews. And he has ferociously attacked the Hungarian Jewish financier George Soros, depicting him as a global subversive force working in secret against the interests of the country.

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Due to an editing error by JNS, last week’s column by Gary Schiff on Sephardim and Islam included an incorrect reference to Rabbi Fabian Schoenfeld. The intended reference was to Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg of Austin, Texas, who has been associated with Texas pastor John Hagee in the development of Christians United for Israel.

Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,” she said on Twitter. “My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole.” Then came the BUT. “At the same time, I reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC, the NRA or the fossil fuel industry. It’s gone on too long and we must be willing to address it.”

Anti-Semites complain about AIPAC being this huge monstrous lobby — but it’s not true. They don’t donate money directly to candidates, and when it comes to lobbying they are relatively tiny. Based on 2017 Open Secrets

data, AIPAC lobbying spending doesn’t even make the top 100. In 2017 AIPAC spent only $3,402,651 in lobbying. Putting that in perspective, the 100th biggest lobbyist, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, spent $8,100,000, almost two and a half times that of AIPAC. Time will tell if Democratic Party leadership will continue to point out the anti-Semitism in their ranks. I am not optimistic.

As for Rep. Omar’s half-apology: Based on the fact that she used her apology to demonize AIPAC, it is doubtful she is really chastened. This column and The Jewish Star will continue to keep a watchful eye on Rep. Omar and on all political parties.

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Continued from page 20 passage that traces the descent of Moshe and Aaron: “Amram married his father’s sister Yocheved, who bore him Aaron and Moshe. Amram lived 137 years … It was this same Aaron and Moshe to whom the L-rd said, ‘Bring the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.’

They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing the Israelites out of Egypt. It was this same Moshe and Aaron” (Exodus 6:20, 26-27).

The repeated phrase, “It was this same,” is emphatic, even in translation. It is all the more so when we note two peculiarities of the text.

The first is that the phrases place the names of the brothers in a different order: “Aaron and Moshe,” then “Moshe and Aaron.” Even more striking is the grammatical oddity of the phrase. Both times, the third person singular is used. Literally, they read: “He was Aaron and Moshe,” “He was Moshe and Aaron.” The text should have said “they” — all the more so since “they” is used in the middle of the passage: “They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh.”

The implication is that they were like a single individual. There was no hierarchy between them: sometimes Aaron’s name appears first, sometimes Moshe’s.

There is a wonderful Midrash that bears out this idea, based on the verse in Psalms (85:11) “Loving-kindness and truth meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other.”

“Loving-kindness — this refers to Aaron.

Truth — this refers to Moshe. Righteousness — this refers to Moshe. Peace — this refers to Aaron.”

Moshe and Aaron were quite different.

Moshe was the man of truth, Aaron of peace.

Without truth, there can be no vision to inspire a nation. But without internal peace, there is no nation to inspire. Aaron and Moshe’s roles were in creative tension. Yet they worked side by side, respecting each other’s distinctive gift.

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Wednesday Feb. 13

Anniversary Dinner: Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns celebrates 16 years. Honoring Dr. & Mrs. Joshua Fox, Mr. & Mrs. Zev Hertz, and Rabbi & Mrs. Nesanel Snow. 7 pm. 728 Empire Ave, Far Rockaway. 516-295-8900 ext. 4; dinner@YGFT.org.

Saturday Feb. 16

Parent-Child Learning: Torah, pizza, raffle prizes, hosted by Young Israel of Jamaica Estates. Bring your own material, or have it provided for you! Open to children and teens of all ages. 7 pm. 83-10 188th St, Jamaica. Email youth@YIJE.org.

Tanach Shiur: Please join us for the 23rd season of the community-wide Tanach shiur. Noted Mishpacha columnist Rabbi Eytan Kobre will be learning Perakim 60-61 of Tehillim. 7:15 pm. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhurst.

Sunday Feb. 17

Beth Din Seminar on contemporary Beth Din practice, with sessions by Rabbi Mordechai Willig, Rabbi Yona Reiss, Michael Helfand, and more. presented by Beth Din of America, YU, RCA, and OU. CLE credit available. 9 am to 1 pm. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhurst. BethDin.org/register.

Sefer Torah: Rabbi & Mrs. Mordechai & Devorah Yaffe invite the community to participate in a Hachnasas Sefer Torah in memory of their parents. 10:30 am. 131 Washington Ave, Lawrence. AteresYaakov.com/yaffetorah.

Wednesday Feb. 20

Bake’n’Buy: This is a bake sale to benefit the children of Chai Lifeline’s i-Shine afterschool program. Drop off baked goods or buy your own! 4 to 9 pm. 88 Margaret Ave, Lawrence.

917-763-1109.

Thursday Feb. 21

Bake’n’Buy: Bake sale to benefit Chai Lifeline’s i-Shine afterschool program. Drop off baked goods or buy your own! 10 am to 7 pm.

88 Margaret Ave, Lawrence. 917-763-1109.

Friday Feb. 22

Shabbaton: Yehuda Daphna shares “Memoirs of an intelligence officer” at at Cong. Bnai Avraham. Evening services 5:20 pm; dinner 6:20 pm. 117 Remsen St, Brooklyn Heights. 718-5984840. Members $36; non-members $45.

Saturday Feb. 16

Tanach Shiur: Please join us for the 23rd season of the community-wide Tanach shiur. Rabbi Shaya Cohen will be learning Perakim 62-63 of Tehillim. 7:15 pm. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhurst.

Saturday Feb. 23

Scholarship Concert: Young Israel of Long Beach’s annual Robert Chiger Scholarship concert, featuring Uri Davidi. 8 pm. 405 East Broadway, Long Beach. 516-431-9715. $30.

Sunday Feb. 24

Rambam Dinner: Honoring Dr. Alex & Ilyse Sternberg; Joseph and Estee Lichter; Michael Edery; and Avi Herschman. 5 pm. 1395 Beech St, Atlantic Beach. 516-371-5824 ext. 102.

Tuesday Feb. 26 Shaare Emunah Dinner: Shaare Emunah, The Sephardic Congregation of the Five Towns, invites you to its second annual dinner. Honoring Rabbi & Mrs. Yonatan & Avital Saban, Mr. & Mrs. Raphael & Annie Afriat, and Dr. & Mrs. Ralph & Betty Benzakein. Keynote address by Charlie Harary. 6:30 pm. 390 Broadway, Lawrence. ShaareEmunah.org. $450 per couple.

Wednesday Feb. 27

Explore Creativity: Adult art classes with Clarisse—find your inner artist! Sketch and paint in a relaxing atmosphere. All levels of experience welcome. Charcoal, pastels, watercolor, acrylic, oil. 10 sessions! 8 pm to 9:30 pm. 83-10 188th St, Jamaica. Sign up at YIJE.org. $300.

Thursday Feb. 28

Talking Anti-Semitism: Michael D. Cohen, Eastern Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, addresses the rise of anti-Semitic hate crimes. Includes Q&A session. 7 pm. 140 Central Ave, Lawrence. 516-239-1140.

Tzaddik Ba La’Ir: We have the honor of welcoming the Spinka Rebbe, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchok Kahana shlit”a, who will spend Shabbos in our community. For more information or to schedule a private audience, call 516-216-0605.

Saturday March 2

YCQ Dinner: Yeshiva of Central Queens. 21 Old Westbury Rd, Old Westbury. YCQdinner. com; 718-793-8500 ext. 300.

Sunday March 3

Kidz Zone Expo: RichnerLive hosts the Kidz Zone Expo at the Friedberg JCC, featuring a slime bar by Mad Science, live DJ, free giveaways, arts and crafts, balloon art, face painting, and goodie bags. 11 am to 3 pm. 15 Neil Ct, Oceanside. LIHerald.com/kidzzone. Free.

Wednesday March 6

Explore Creativity: Adult art classes with Clarisse—find your inner artist! Sketch and paint in a relaxing atmosphere. All levels of experience welcome. Charcoal, pastels, watercolor, acrylic, oil. 10 sessions! 8 pm to 9:30 pm.

83-10 188th St, Jamaica. Sign up at YIJE.org. $300.

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