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Prime Minister Netanyahu was to meet President Trump on Wednesday, in the wake of Trump’s backpedling on some Israel-related issues. On Thursday, the Senate holds

a confirmation hearing for Trump’s ambassador-to-Israel designee, Long Islander David Friedman. Updates at TheJewishStar.com and Facebook.com/TheJewishStar.

Senate chief upbeat at Darchei in Far Rock Leaders of Agudath Israel, board members of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, representatives of local yeshivas, and community activists from Far Rockaway and the Five Towns met with state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan at a well-attended breakfast hosted by Darchei at its Far Rockaway campus on Sunday.

Rabbi Yaakov Bender, rosh ha yeshiva, thanked the senator for being a partner to the Jewish community and showing sensi-

tivity to its concerns.

Darchei board member Alon Goldberger spoke of the financial plight of many parents, including those earning a decent livelihood who nevertheless cannot meet yeshiva tuition costs. As strapped as they are, said Goldberger, these parents continue to give their children a quality yeshiva education at great personal sacrifice.

Government assistance, wherever legal and See Senate chief on page 25

In a Yeshiva Darchei Torah beis medrash on Sunday (from left): Rabbi Baruch Rothman, Darchei’s director of institutional advancement; Rabbi Shmuel Lefkowitz, Agudath Israel’s vice president for Community Affairs; state Senator John Flanagan; Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Agudath’s executive vice president; Rabbi Yaakov Bender, Darchei rosh ha yeshiva; and Chaskel Bennett, an Agudath trustee.

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By Ben Sales, JTA Jared Kushner was already a regular at the Harvard Chabad when he walked in one day, took a crumpled piece of paper out of his jacket pocket, put it down on the table and walked away.

It was a personal check for $18,000. “ ‘I have some deals that really went well, so I want to give something back to Chabad’,” Harvard Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi recalls Kushner, then a sophomore or junior, saying.

Rabbi Zarchi calls it “one of the largest checks we ever received, not just from a student, but even from a parent.”

Kushner, now son-in-law and senior adviser to President Donald Trump, established a constant, outsize presence at the Harvard Chabad during his time as a student there, Rabbi Zarchi and other students recall. Beyond the surprise donation, Kushner attended prayers and Shabbat dinner regularly, recruited students to Chabad’s programs, performed workaday tasks for the house and served as the emcee when Chabad dedicated a new building in 2003.

On a personal level, Kushner was a “like a part of the family” to Rabbi Zarchi and his wife, Elkie, the rabbi says. From his earliest days at Harvard through his senior year, Kushner attended the Rabbi Zarchi children’s birthday parties, sent flowers to the family and received chicken soup from Elkie Zarchi at his dorm when he came down with the flu.

“It was most apparent in the first impression what kind of mensch this young man was,” said Rabbi Zarchi, now 43, who was unabashed in his praise of Kushner. “How considerate and how polite and respectful and appreciative he was at that age.

He was always years beyond his age in the way he carried himself, the way he related to others, the way he led.”

In the years since Kushner came to Harvard, his family has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Chabad-Lubavitch institutions in the United States and Israel. In 2007, according to the Forward, his family’s charitable foundation contributed $150,000.

Chabad arrived on Harvard’s Cambridge campus in 1997, two years before Kushner’s freshman year. Speaking at the 2003 dedication, the 22-year-old Kushner, dressed in a suit, blue tie and small black kippah, stood in front of a small room filled

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with students, rabbis and donors. Kushner’s father, New Jersey real estate mogul Charles Kushner, sat smiling in the front row.

Jared complimented Rebbetzin Zarchi’s cooking, quoted Margaret Thatcher and praised the Chabad’s feeling of community.

At the end of his speech, he embraced Rabbi Zarchi.

“When people walk into your home, they enter as guests,” Kushner said to the Zarchis, occasionally stumbling over his words. “After conversing and experiencing your warmth, there is not a person who does not leave as another one of your children. We are all grateful for the selflessness and dedication that both of you show on a daily basis.”

Kushner’s relationship with Chabad began when he visited campus for a pre-freshman weekend and attended Shabbat dinner. During the subsequent four years, Rabbi Zarchi says, Kushner was instrumental in bringing undergraduates to Chabad, which had originally been geared to graduate students. Two

people who attended Harvard with Kushner told JTA that he was quiet, unassuming and dedicated to the Chabad mission.

Kushner would bring friends to Friday night dinner from the Fly, his “final club” (or Harvard-style fraternity), and would sometimes perform yeoman’s work for the rabbi. One night during his freshman year, after spending a few hours with Rabbi Zarchi studying Tanya, Kushner saw it had snowed outside, asked for a shovel and cleared the sidewalk in front of the house.

“When he saw importance in a project, he committed himself to it,” Rabbi Zarchi said. “He was able to galvanize his friends and his social circle to follow and collaborate with him.

If he got involved in the project, he worked the hardest. There was no task beneath him and no goal too high to reach.”

Since his graduation nearly 14 years ago, Kushner has stayed connected to Chabad. He has helped organize the institution’s alumni events, including a Shabbat dinner that he and his wife, Ivanka Trump, hosted a few years ago. In 2004 and 2005, while Kushner’s father was on trial in New Jersey, the family would occasionally eat Friday night dinners with the Zarchis at Harvard Chabad while Kushner’s brother, Joshua, was a student at the Ivy League school.

During that time, Rabbi Zarchi said, Kushner displayed the same total fealty to family that led him to shepherd his fatherin-law to the unlikeliest of election wins.

“You rarely see someone who’s more committed, more loyal to his family, than Jared was,” the rabbi said.

Kushner and his wife have bought a home near a Chabad house in Washington, and Rabbi Zarchi and Kushner have stayed in touch during and since Trump’s campaign. One week before the inauguration, the two spoke on the phone. Rabbi Zarchi recalls Kushner saying how he felt humbled by his new role, and excited for the opportunity he has in the White House, where according to Trump he would work on the Middle East peace process.

For his part, Rabbi Zarchi isn’t surprised by where his student now finds himself.

“You get used to that with Jared,” Rabbi Zarchi said. “He’s on the stage doing things. Whatever field it was, on the highest level, it’s Jared being Jared.”

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Rumors flew at the time that he caved in to pressure from wealthy Jewish donors, but Papp — born Joseph Papirofsky but muted in his Jewish identity most of his life — had a more personal explanation: “Having so recently reasserted his Jewishness but having never presented an Israeli or Palestinian play,” a JTA article explained, “he didn’t want his first statement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to be seen as pro-Palestinian.”

Papp’s decision was seen at the time as a small victory by the pro-Israel camp, an insult to the Arab community — and an embarrassment by champions of artistic freedom. But at a news conference where Papp explained his decision, I heard something else: a curious citizen of the world who didn’t want to enlist in anybody’s propaganda war.

I remembered the Papp incident when I read that Seattle Seahawks defender Michael Bennett and some other NFL players were backing out of a trip to Israel sponsored by the Israeli government and America’s Voices in Israel, an initiative of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Bennett apparently pulled out after reading an article about the trip in The Times of Israel, which included official statements by two Israeli Cabinet ministers saying the trip was intended to counter the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and the

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not going to Israel, complaining that “I was not aware, until reading this article about the trip in the Times of Israel, that my itinerary was being constructed by the Israeli government for the purposes of making me, in the words of a government official, an ‘influencer and opinion-former’ who would then be ‘an ambassador of good will.’ I will not be used in such a manner.”

He pledged to come to Israel one day, and to visit the Elsa/Getty ImWest Bank and Gaza, “so I can see how the Palestinians, who have called this land home for thousands of years, live their lives.”

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Shameful HIAS should return to its roots abraham h. miller

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magine you are an impoverished religious Jew living in Paris. You can no longer wear religious garb out of fear of being set upon by assailants from North Africa who will beat you to within an inch of your life, if not take it. Your children are bullied in school, as their teachers ignore their complaints, and might even take perverse satisfaction in their plight.

Even though French political figures make speeches condemning anti-Semitism and police are routinely sent to protect Jewish institutions, the anti-Semitism grows on the body politic with the onslaught of migrants from Muslim-majority countries who carry anti-Semitism with them as part of their cultural and religious socialization.

When immigrant mothers are angry at their children, they unabashedly call them “Jews” as if it were an invective, not caring who hears.

In 2014, a survey of 1,580 French respondents found that Muslims, who comprised onethird of the interviewees, were two to three times more likely to be anti-Jewish than French people generally.

You too would like to leave France, but you don’t want to go to Israel, where the standard of living is more down to earth than luxurious, where there is terrorism and a state of siege, and

where the language is difficult to learn.

Who will help you? In your grandmother’s day, there was the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society—the one and only agency that, with the help of private contributions, came to the aid of European Jews.

But the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society of your grandmother’s day no longer exists. It has dropped the “Hebrew” and has become simply “HIAS,” avoiding the word “Hebrew” because its clients are no longer Jewish, although the last fundraising letter I received flaunted Speaking at a HIAS-organized pro-refugee rally in New York on Sunpainful scenes of Jews trying day: Michigan Rep. Keith Ellison, a contender to head the Demoto escape Europe on the eve cratic National Committee whose past links to the Nation of Islam of World War II. and recent unsupportive views of Israel have worried Jewish leaders. he Jewish roots of HIAS its new source of funding—the federal governgo back to rescuing Jews from the Russian pogroms of the 19th ment. Refugee resettlement is big business, so century. Its role as a lifeline for Jews who had much so that it is difficult to parse whether the nobody else to help them is prominently dis- emphasis is on doing well or doing good.

HIAS is the only “Jewish” organization applayed in its fundraising pitched to Jews, but the word “Hebrew” might “offend” the Muslim proved by the federal government to resettle refugees from the Middle East that HIAS is now refugees, but it is a small player compared to the other religious and secular organizations in busy resettling in America.

No longer headquartered in New York, HIAS the business of refugee resettlement.

Still, HIAS CEO Mark Hetfield, in 2014, has moved to the Washington Beltway to be near

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A corrupted HIAS logo from David Horowitz’s Frontpage Mag.

commanded a salary of more than $318,000, plus $22,000 in benefits. In the eight years of the Obama administration, HIAS received funds exceeding $157 million, most of which came from the federal government. A small percentage of this funding is used to lobby the public at the grassroots level and to lobby legislators. Consequently, members of the American public pay for HIAS to convince them, and their elected representatives, to continue to sustain HIAS refugee programs with tax dollars.

There are 65 million displaced people in the world, so this is not a business that is going away. And after 120 days, when organizations like HIAS that bring in refugees can no longer support them and they have not found employment, the resettlement organizations take them to the local welfare office. The majority of Middle Eastern refugees are on some form of assistance, with 90 percent getting food stamps, 73 percent getting medical assistance and some 63 See Shameful on page 29

Don’t compare Jews in ‘30s with today’s refugees This article was written by a Jewish Star reader from Far Rockaway in response to last week’s column, “Shoah redux: Same flawed rationale.” Last week’s article was part of a point-counterpoint with a column titled “A clumsy launch but perfectly legal.”

By Rafi Metz n a column last week titled, “Shoah redux: Same flawed rationale,” Albert Kramer asserts a familiar case in opposition to President Trump’s temporary travel ban. That is,

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the U.S. today is committing the same egregious mistake it did in 1939 when it refused to admit the Jews of the St. Louis due to its strict immigration laws. After having been refused entry by a host of countries, the ship was sent back to Germany, where many of the passengers perished in the Holocaust.

The State Department’s reasoning, as Mr. Kramer points out, was its fear that Jewish refugees were actually spies for the Germans and thus presented a national security threat.

It is undeniable, whether or not you support President Trump’s ban, that the State Department’s rationale for refusing Jewish refugees in 1939 was wholly unjustified and utterly bigoted, not based in either facts or reality. This notwithstanding, there is hardly any comparison between Jewish refugees in the 1930s and Syrian refugees today, for a variety of reasons: Jews are an ethnic group while Syrians are a national one; Jews were never a threat

to countries where they sought asylum while it is evident that radical Islamic terrorist organizations such as ISIS have ensconced themselves among Syrian refugees; there was no national conspiracy of German Jews to eradicate entire continents; Jews initially fled Europe because of Nazi persecution, not war; Jews had nowhere else to go while Syrian refugees have at their disposal the entire Middle East and beyond; opposition to JewSee Refugees on page 29

Masbia chief under fire for support of immigrants

By Josefin Dolsten, JTA Alexander Rapaport, a Boro Park Hasid, says his experience being the victim of anti-Semitism forces him to call out hatred against others.

So Rapaport, who runs the Masbia kosher soup kitchens, helped organize a communal show of support for a local Yemeni-owned bodega in reaction to President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.

Not everyone was happy about the gesture.

“I received your solicitation letter in the mail along with this phone number,” read a text message he received on Wednesday. “After seeing, though, that you protested President Trump’s executive order, and thus shamefully sided with those who are putting American lives in danger, I am no longer able to donate to your organization.”

The message, Rapaport told JTA, was referring to a fundraising letter he sent a few weeks ago to about 1,500 “top donors” — those who had given a one-time three-figure donation to Masbia, which operates soup kitchens in Flatbush, Boro Park and Rego Park.

Alexander Rapaport, attending a protest at NY City Hall last December after candiGetty Images date Donald Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S.

Rapaport said that other donors approached him in the street to complain about his stance on immigration following his show of support for Day N Night, a Yemeni-owned corner store in

Boro Park that caters to many Orthodox Jewish customers who live in the neighborhood by selling Hebrew and Yiddish-language newspapers and allowing observant Jews to buy things on

tab on Shabbat and Jewish holidays.

“I made a point of walking in there today,” Rapaport said on DATE, when Yemeni-America bodega owners closed their stores for eight hours to protest the president’s temporary travel ban. “I actually live a mile away. I just learned that they were Yemenite, and I was looking to do something in solidarity with the people affected by the executive order.”

Rapaport arrived with other community members and attached Postit notes with “messages of love and solidarity” on thestorefront.

This isn’t the first time Rapaport’s outspokenness has angered donors.

The 38-year-old father of seven got complaints after he spoke up for immigrants previously and lost funders who were unhappy that the strictly kosher soup kitchen serves anyone who wants a meal, regardless of religious background.

In December 2015, Rapaport attended a protest at City Hall following a call by Trump, then a presidential candidate, for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

While Rapaport has considered

being less outspoken, he said hiding his views wouldn’t be honest.

“I don’t want to take anyone’s money under false pretense. Yes, I am personally very pro-immigrant, and if that makes me unqualified for your donation, please don’t give it to me,” he told JTA. “Being a visible Jew in New York City, where I’ve been spat at, I’ve been yelled at and cursed at, I know exactly what hate means,” he said. “And to see this happening in an official capacity with no sensible real need for it, it forces me to call it out for what it is.”

The complaints come at a critical time for Masbia, which is seeking to raise $250,000 to complete renovations for its Queens location.

Masbia is now serving meals outside the old Queens building, which is being demolished, but weather conditions in the winter can make it impossible. That means on some days, the over 200 people served dinner by the soup kitchen may go hungry.

“We are serving hot food on the street in front of our old site, right under the scaffolds of that building,” Rapaport said. “This is not the way we want to feed people.”

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here is a story told by Rav Ephraim Oshry, one of the last rabbis of the Kovno Ghetto, in his monumental work of Holocaust responsum, Mima’amakim.

When the Nazis arrived in the small villages of the Ukraine with their accursed Einsatzgruppen units, they followed a specific recipe: the Jews were ordered to assemble, any thought of resistance was crushed, and the entire Jewish community was led out of town away from prying eyes, usually into the forests on the edge of town. The people were made to dig ditches, undress and pile their belongings in ordered piles, and then to stand in rows one group after another in front of the ditches. …

In one small village, as the Jews were assembled in a clearing in the forest outside of town, it was abundantly clear what was about to happen. The remains of the previous day’s action for a different nearby village were obvious; the ditches were already dug, the piles of clothing still present, and the machine guns set up on tripods opposite the ditches left no room for doubt.

In the midst of it all, one of the rabbis of the town stepped forward and addressed the SS officer clearly in charge: “Sir! Is it not customary for a prisoner to be granted a last request? I should like the opportunity to lead my congregation in one final blessing.”

Amused, the SS officer decided to grant the Jew this last request, whereupon the rabbi turned towards the community and recited out loud the morning blessing: “Blessed are you oh Lord our G-d, Master of the Universe, who did not make me of the nations of the world (shelo’ asani Goy). Then the rabbi led the community in the final Vidui (confessional) prayers.

The SS officer, now curious, asked the rabbi

what the prayer meant and the rabbi explained he was thanking G-d for having created them as Jews and not as Germans, whereupon the SS Officer roared with laughter: “Fool!” he said, “If you had been born a German you would not be standing in front of ditches about to leave this world! Why would you be thankful for being Jewish?”

And the Rabbi explained: “For whatever the reason G-d has decreed some will be murdered and some will be murderers, we are blessed not to be murderers.” ow does one explain the incredible faith the Jewish people have displayed through the millennium of exile culminating in the Holocaust? This week’s portion of Yitro suggests a fascinating possibility.

This portion, the apex of Jewish faith (including our first reading of the Ten Commandments), is named after a Midianite pagan (not withstanding that he was the father in-law of Moshe). What lesson of faith do we learn from Yitro?

The portion begins with Yitro’s arrival at Sinai.

“Va’Yishma Yitro, Kohen Midian, Kohen Moshe, Et Kol Asher Asah Elo-kim Le’Moshe, U’Le’Yisrael Amo’, Ki’ Hotzi’ Hashem Et Yisrael Mi’Mitzraim.” (“And Yitro, [High] Priest of Midian, father-inlaw of Moses, heard all that G-d had done for Moses and Israel His Nation: that Hashem took Israel out of Egypt.”) (Shemot 18:1) The Talmud (Zevachim 116a), noting that no one else outside of the Jewish people is recorded to have made the journey to Sinai, asks: “Ve’Chi Mah’ Shamah Yitro U’Vah’?” (“What did Yitro, who came [to Sinai] hear?” (Zevachim 116a) The Talmud suggests a number of possibilities: he heard of the battle of the Jewish people with Amalek, or of the imminent giving of the

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Torah at Sinai, or, according to another opinion, of the splitting of the sea. Why did it take the splitting of the sea or the battle of Amalek for Yitro to finally decide to come and see for himself what was going on?

And how could the Talmud suggest that it was actually the battle with Amalek, the nation which attacked the Jewish people after the splitting of the sea, that caused Yitro to leave Midian and come to see for himself what was going on? Why wasn’t he motivated by the ten plagues, or the great Exodus from Egypt without a shot fired, or even the splitting of the sea?

The Slonimer Rebbe in his Netivot Shalom suggests that while a person’s belief can emanate from a logical conclusion often based on the events of the day, a higher and purer form of faith is a person’s willingness to forgo logic and embrace an absolute and independent faith. Avraham, the first Jew, represents a classic example of this distinction. Avraham’s early decisions (that the idols in his father’s store did not create the world and neither was the sun the source of creation) led him, through logic and reasoning, that Hashem the source of all reality.

Nevertheless, Avraham is subjected to ten challenging tests, and it is only with the binding of Isaac (the Akedah) that Avraham rises to an entirely different level, in which he accepts Hashem’s command even though it is entirely beyond logic and even unreasonable: Why would G-d want Avraham to offer up his only son, given to him miraculously and of whom G-d promised would be Avraham’s successor? It makes no sense! Which is precisely the point. As long as faith is based on logic, as soon as logic dictates otherwise, the faith will not survive.

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his is a much higher and deeper level of faith, independent of reason and absolute.

It is the love of a parent for a child, independent of reason, remaining true no matter what the child does; it is the love we hope our children and all those we love will have for us, no matter what mistakes we make.

When Yitro sees that the Jewish people still follow G-d in the desert even after being attacked by Amalek, he understands something is happening that is an entirely new experience for the world.

Paganism was based on logic: Egyptians worshipped the Nile because it provided sustenance.

But if the Nile stopped overflowing its banks the Egyptians would defer to a different god assuming another force of nature now had the upper hand; pagan gods had to earn the peoples’ faith.

So even after the splitting of the sea, if Amalek could attack, then where was G-d? And yet, the people, despite their struggles, still believed.

Indeed, Jewish tradition notes that the numeric equivalent (gematria) of the word Amalek is equivalent to the word safek (doubt). Because the experience with Amalek, attacking the Jews when the entire world trembled before Hashem’s miracles, introduced doubt into the world.

And when Moshe hits the rock to bring forth water (itself an experience one might have thought unnecessary — why not just let it rain to begin with?) he does it from Mount Chorev (Shemot 17:6) which is another name for Mount Sinai (ibid. 3:1 and Rashi ad loc.) as if to suggest the Jewish people were meant to learn that Hashem is the source of reality. They were not ready for an absolute and independent faith which would now transpire with the giving of the Ten Commandments and the Torah at Sinai.

This is the secret to every meaningful relationship: can we move beyond the initial logic and reason that brings us together, and arrive at a level of faith in each other, and ultimately in G-d, that defies reason? Perhaps it is no accident that after the ultimate test of the Jewish people’s faith, an experience which defies all logic and undermines all sense of reason, that the Jewish people are finally coming home. … Shabbat shalom from Jerusalem.

Violin at heart of Oscar-nominated Shoah short

By Curt Schleier, JTA Filmmaker Kahane Cooperman hasn’t written an Oscars acceptance speech yet, but she likely will before the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 26.

Not to jinx things or appear overconfident, Cooperman told JTA, but “on the chance it happens, for fear of leaving someone out.”

Her film, “Joe’s Violin,” is up for an award for short documentary — a category typically ignored by viewers more interested in what Emma Stone is wearing. It’s a 24-minute, five-handkerchief weeper, a joyous paean to the human spirit and a testimony of how simple acts of kindness can have important and far-reaching implications.

The eponymous Joe is Joe Feingold, a 93-yearold Holocaust survivor from Poland. About three years ago, the lifelong violinist realized he no longer had the dexterity to play up to his standards.

“I had some good ideas of how a violin should be played,” he said, “and I couldn’t [do it anymore].

The violin was here, in its case in my apartment, and I thought I should make some use out of it.”

He considered selling the instrument, but then heard an announcement on WQXR, the New York classical music station. The station was looking for used instruments to be donated to needy New York City schoolchildren.

So Joe hopped on a bus and went to the collection point at Lincoln Center, where he left his treasured violin. Matters may have stood there were it not for the fact that Feingold and his instrument had a fascinating past and the recipient, Brianna Perez, 12 at the time, had this potentially amazing future: Two strangers connected by a fiddle.

Feingold was born in Warsaw in 1923. After the Nazis invaded in 1939, word reached the family that his father was about to be arrested. So Feingold and his dad fled to eastern Poland, then under Russian rule. But the Hitler-Stalin pact changed everything. Father and son were sent to separate Siberian labor camps and, while they both survived, Feingold’s mother and one of his two brothers who stayed behind did not.

Joe Feingold and Brianna Perez in the Oscar-nominated short documentary “Joe’s Violin.”

After the war, Feingold made his way to a displaced persons camp in Germany. One day he was at a flea market and saw a violin — like Proust’s madeleine, it brought back memories of happier times. Lacking money, he bartered a carton of cigarettes for the instrument.

Why a violin? “Because I had a violin since childhood,” he said. “I loved the violin. I studied it.

I played it. I wasn’t a great violinist, but the music I made, it meant something to me. I missed it.”

Music was central to his prewar life, Feingold said. His mother sang — especially the songs of Edvard Grieg — and the family performed weekly for guests.

In the film, Feingold downplays the significance of his donation. “I thought it was just a violin,” he said. “It was a simple thing. I don’t use

it. Let someone else have it.” But during our conversation he offers a different perspective.

“I always thought it should mean something to the person who gets it, just as it did for me,” he said. “When I found out that the violin was given to a girl in the South Bronx, that’s exactly what I dreamed would happen.”

That girl, Brianna, is an old — or, at least, middle-aged — soul in a youthful body. She was a student at the Bronx Global Learning Institute for Girls, a K through 8 school where every pupil is taught violin from day one.

Relatively quickly, she grasped the significance of the gift. “That violin has so many secrets that nobody knows,” Brianna says in the film.

“She had an innate respect and profound understanding of why this violin was meaningful

beyond just a musical instrument,” said the filmmaker, a first-generation American whose father left Germany in 1934.

Cooperman heard about Feingold’s donation during a promotional segment on WQXR in 2013, which sparked the idea for the documentary.

As such, the earlier parts of the violin’s odyssey are told in a voice-over at the beginning of the film. But the viewers see everything else: We are at the assembly where a teacher chokes up as she tells students about the violin, its donor and announces Brianna will receive it. We are there when Feingold reads the letter Brianna wrote inviting him to the school. We watch him at a different assembly addressing the students and, later, as he listens to Brianna play the special Grieg number she painstakingly practiced.

Did any of the events take place because there was a camera there to film it? Cooperman says no, this violin and its tale would have been treated specially even if she wasn’t on hand.

“I think everyone knew that while all the 3,000 instruments donated in this drive had a story, there was something compelling about this one,” she said. “It stood out from the pack.”

Cooperman launched the film while still working as a co-executive producer on The Daily Show, a gig she got 18 years earlier because of her background as a documentarian. She quit the job, she said, to return to her roots.

“Making money was never part of this for me,” Cooperman said. “It was a labor of love.”

In fact, Cooperman and her producer, Raphaela Neihausen, needed Kickstarter to crowdsource the funding — it’s unlikely that all 277 backers of the film will be in the planned Oscar speech.

“I do not see ‘Joe’s Violin’ specifically as a Holocaust film — for me it’s more about human connection and hope,” Cooperman said. “But I am very proud that through Joe, we hear a first-person account [of what happened], especially when there are fewer and fewer voices left.”

“Joe’s Violin” can be viewed through a link at TheJewishStar.com.

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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the Jewish state’s largest aerospace and defense company, is adapting to that shifting landscape. The company announced this month that it is making significant gains in the cybersecurity field, with contracts totaling more than $100 million in 2016.

Israel hosted Cybertech 2017, the world’s second-largest cybertechnology exhibition, from Jan. 30 to Feb. 1 in Tel Aviv. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the gathering that it is “no coincidence that you are here in Israel” and “not an accident” that the Jewish state is a world leader in cybersecurity.

“We’re truly on the cutting edge of this new technology and we’ve had many successes in ensuring our security,” said Netanyahu. “It’s not an accident, as one would say. It’s not an accident that in the froth and gushing of this entire Middle East and beyond, Israel is a secure and safe environment. We have invested in our security in creative ways, successful ways.”

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Jerry’s week in Israel, with graddaughter Lea Rose Judy Joszef who’s in the kitchen

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am getting my article in later than usual this week (and it’s usually pretty late!). You see, my husband Jerry was visiting Israel, to see his marred son, married daughter and six grandchildren. I didn’t want to complete my article until he was buckled into his seat and ready for takeoff on his way back to New York.

You never know what you might miss, especially with Jerry in an airport, alone.

Leading up to Jerry’s departure last Tuesday, boxes were arriving daily. Each grandchild gets to pick out a bunch of gifts. The adults add on clothes for the kids and some things for themselves as well. One such thing was a pound cylinder container of activated carbon charcoal powder. What, you’ve never heard of it? Well, neither did I, until it arrived on my doorstep.

At that point there were literally dozens of items I had to cram into the suitcase Jerry was taking.

I told his daughter that the container was big and bulky. She said not to worry, just transfer it into a Ziplock plastic bag. Simple, you may think. Well let me tell you otherwise. I removed the lid and a huge black puff of smoke enveloped my hair and face. At first I panicked because it was also in my mouth and nostrils.

Thankfully it seems that, among dozens of uses, it can be made into a paste to whiten your teeth, massaged onto your face as a beauty regiment and it can be ingested as well. Long story short: By the time I transferred the charcoal powder to the bag, my counters, cabinet doors and floor were black. Oh, and so was I. Somehow I crammed everything into the

suitcase and it was just about the allowed 50 pounds; Jerry crammed his stuff into a carryon.

I drove him to the airport and awaited his call, that he was he checked in with no issues.

He called, and of course there was a story.

I aways remind him that security agents don’t care what he answers, they just want to check out his body language, to see if he’s nervous etc.

Here is what transpired this time.

“Mr. Joszef, what will you be doing in Israel?” Asked the agent. Jerry responded, “I’m visiting my children and grandchildren.” “What are their names?” he was asked. Jerry replied, “My daughter has Yisroel, Shaya and Alexader.

My son has Nadav, um, sigh, oh I can’t believe I forgot her name. That’s crazy. The youngest is Noa, but I can’t remember my granddaughter’s name. I feel awful,” Jerry said. “Don’t worry, just take your suitcase and check it in.” “No,” Jerry cried, “I have to remember her name, it’s just not right.” The agent, anxious to get to the next person on line, waved Jerry off and told him it was fine.

While checking in his suitcase, he lamented, “I feel so awful, how could I have forgotten my only granddaughter’s name?” The agent checking in his bag, assured him that it was fine and that he shouldn’t worry. Just then, he remembered her name. “It’s Lea Rose,” he shouted, grinning ear to ear. So very “Jerry like,” he ran back to the first agent, who was busy with another passenger, and gleefully shouted “Lea Rose, my granddaughter’s name is Lea Rose, I remembered!”

As he relayed this story to me, before he took off, I tried to explain to him that they didn’t know how many grandchildren he had, nor did they care. “Why didn’t you just make up a name?” He said he would never lie like that. Sigh … and he hadn’t even boarded the plane yet.

Jerry’s daughter told him there would be a fashion shoot in her apartment on Sunday morning. Not really knowing what she meant by a fashion shoot, he forgot about it. He woke up, and still with ear plugs in his ears, and his eye mask on, though on top of his head, he entered the living room in a t-shirt and shorts to scare the kids. He was mumbling loudly and staggering around Frankensteinesque. Much to his surprise, he was the one who was scared.

There were women posing for a fashion shoot, and music blaring. His daughter screamed, “Dad, didn’t you hear the music and remember we were having a fashion shoot?” He responded, “I didn’t even know what you meant by a fashion shoot, and I didn’t hear the music because I forgot to take out my ear plugs.” There’s one instance, where you hope, From Israel with Jerry, clockwise from top left: Shaya and Yisroel, first impressions don’t count.

The rest of his visit was Jerry and Alexander, Nadav and Jerry. non-stop fun with his kids and grandkids.I spoke to him before nce he got to his daughter, the fun began. The grandkids adore Papa Jerry, and he boarded his flight back to New York. He ashe spends every waking minute playing sured me there were no Jerry moments. This with them. Aside from the gifts the kids picked time, when asked to name his grandkids he out, he surprised them with talking Star Wars started to rattle them off. After two, the agent masks. Or he thought he surprised them. The said that was fine. Jerry said, “No, this time I’m kids have carte blanche to his Amazon account, prepared,” and he proudly recited all six names.

When asked if he had any weapons, he replied, so they knew exactly what was coming!

The masks were a hit and the three older “Only my mind.”

Safe travels, Jerry, and pleasant dreams of boys, along with Jerry, called themselves the The 4 Musketeers. Jerry taught them how to The 4 Musketeers.

Taking about Musketeers.… Check out this walk like Frankenstein, mumble loudly and scare each other. They all got really good at it week’s recipe — Three Musketeer Mississippi Mud — online at TheJewishStar.com — too much so, actually.

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To Bennett’s credit, he signals that he has an open mind, and that when he does visit, he’ll hear from both sides. If he does, he’ll experience an Israeli and Palestinian reality infinitely more complex — more multicultural, more historically aware, less reductive — than the patronizingly binary picture scrawled by the authors of the open letter.

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Rabbi Zev Goldberg

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Young Israel of Lawrence - Cedarhurst (4:30 p.m.)

Drasha before Musaf at the Leon Mayer Minyan (Shacharit 9 a.m.)

The Art of Jewish Survival Shiur Following Mincha (5:25 p.m.)

In celebration of Rav Hershel Schachter’s 50 years of teaching at Yeshiva University – Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

Rav Schachter will be receiving a special award at the Chag HaSemikha and a Sefer Torah is being commissioned in honor of the occasion. Please join us in Lawrence at the home of Lance and Rivkie Hirt for this special event.

Rav Schachter will present a shiur, followed by filling in letters in the Sefer Torah.

Dedication opportunities are available at many levels. Sponsors at the $1,000 level and above will have the privilege of filling in letters of the Sefer Torah. For more info and to RSVP, please email yulongisland@yu.edu or visit yu.edu/chag

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Still, my guess is the players didn’t know much about the organizers. Nor did they appreciate the politically charged nature of visiting the region. Every country has a tourism board that tries to entice celebrities with free trips and deluxe accommodations. In recent years, the Golden Globes swag bag has included round-trip tickets to Fiji and a free stay at a five-star resort.

The difference is that Fiji is not a global hot spot, and if anyone is boycotting Fiji it has more to do with a bad Yelp review than an organized political campaign. The BDS movement is intent on demonizing Israel and shaming celebrities who don’t revile the country or are open to hearing both sides of the story.

The day before Bennett announced he wasn’t going, the Nation published an “Open Letter to NFL Players Traveling to Israel on a Trip Organized by Netanyahu’s Government.”

Signed by Alice Walker, Harry Belafonte, Angela Davis and others, it is a model in the effort to de-normalize Israel. Quoting Erdan, they assert that the trip was “designed explicitly to improve Israel’s image abroad to counter worldwide outrage over its massacres and war crimes.” Addressing African-Americans like Bennett, it links the Palestinian cause to that of “black and brown communities in the United States.”

And their complaint is not just about the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, but a Jewish nation-state “with more than 50 laws that privilege Jewish citizens over nonJewish citizens.” One of its strangest passages compares Trump’s travel ban on refugees with Israeli restrictions on migrants trying to enter the country illegally from its tense border with Egypt. (Needless to say, the letter does not address why these “asylum seekers” from Sudan and Eritrea see Israel as a more desirable destination than the countries they are fleeing and the Muslim-majority countries they must pass through to get there.)

Like the Israelis, the BDS groups that signed the letter also employ celebrities in the battle of hearts and minds — citing musicians like Lauryn Hill and Roger Waters who have refused to play in Israel. The question for Israel is whether it should fight fire with fire — celebrity with celebrity — in waging public diplomacy.

The good news for Israel is that its opponents often overplay their hand. BDS is not a “peace movement” in the sense that it wants two viable, secure states for Israelis and Palestinians. The letter to NFL players says BDS will target Israel until it “complies with international law and guarantees Palestinian rights” — an intentionally unspecific formula that, coupled with the activists’ refusal to talk about a two-state solution or the Jews’ right to a state of their own, suggests their ultimate goal is a single binational state.

Perhaps Bennett and the other no-show players caved to the BDS side, although the NFL story is playing in Israel as a fumble on the part of Erdan and Levin. By making explicit the implicit purpose of the “mission,” they put the players in an untenable position. Israel is understandably eager to seize on signs of normalcy in the face of the BDS assault. But sometimes discretion is the better part of hasbara.

In recent years Israel has pushed the “Brand Israel” tactic of public diplomacy, backing efforts to promote Israel’s accomplishments in the arts, technology, science and gay rights.

When the government’s fingerprints are obvious, such events have inspired protests at film festivals, museums and theaters.

Maybe the problem is contained in the word “mission,” borrowed by Jews from Christian evangelists and suggesting a trip meant to win converts. Perhaps a better model for these kinds of trips is a symposium or

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Silvia and Abraham Borenstein.

W. Hemp’ers among YU HS honrees The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB) and the Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls (YUHSG) will honor Silvia and Abraham Borenstein of West Hempstead as YUHSG Parents of the Year, at the schools’ annual Dinner of Tribute on Feb. 28.

Other honorees at the dinner, which marks the centennial celebration of YU High Schools for Boys, include Alan, David and Alex Goldberg; Nathan Lewin; Jacqueline and Dov Borgen; Rabbi Shlomo Tiechtel; and Rabbi Shimon Schenker.

The Goldberg family has been a pillar of the YU high schools for generations, Alan, of Riverdale and Atlantic Beach, is a member of the Yeshiva University, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and YU High Schools Board of Trustees.

For reservations to the gala, at Marina del Rey in the Bronx, contact Elissa Schertz at 212-960-5223 or elissa. schertz@yu.edu.

Shulamith Torah champs

HANC students at ‘first Jews’ exhibit in NYC Students in Laura Eisner’s AP US History Class at HANC High School, along with Librarian Laura Schutzman, enjoyed a trip to the New York Historical Society on Feb. 7, visiting an ehibit on the first American Jews.

Students viewed artifacts dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries, including a kashrut certificate from a rabbi in Philadelphia from the 1700s, and a Torah scroll burned by the British during the Revolutionary War. This was a complement to the American history curriculum, enabling students to understand the role of Jews in American history as well as the impact of American history on the Jews.

New dean at Touro Pharm Heidi Fuchs has been appointed assistant dean for admissions and enrollment management at Touro College of Pharmacy.

“Heidi will ensure that our applicants receive the highest levels of student service, responsiveness and satisfaction,” said Dean Henry Cohen, PharmD. “There are so many rewarding and exciting career paths available to the next generation of PharmDs,” said Fuchs. “The career is especially suited for those in the Orthodox community who seek a challenging, sciencebased profession that enables them to maintain strict religious observance and achieve a work life balance. Our graduates are charting career paths that their grandparents could never have imagined.”

Founded in 2008, Touro College of Pharmacy is the only pharmacy school in Manhattan, providing an exceptional education that gives students two years in the classroom followed by two years in the field on rotations.

The Shulamith Torah Bowl team continued its winning ways last week. Team members are learning more parshiyot to be ready for the upcoming playoffs and, hopefully, the championship soon after.

Rambam-Yachad inclusion

On Feb 1, countless Rambam talmidim sported Yachad’s signature colors, blue and orange, to help raise awareness about the importance of Inclusion on “Rambam/Yachad Inclusion Day.”

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DRS in Israel

Every year, DRS rabbeim visit alumni learning in nearly 20 different yeshivot in Israel, to reconnect with them, and continue to strengthen the rebbe-talmud relationship for which DRS is famous. Rabbi Storch and

Rabbi Kaminetsky meet with every student, documenting each of their experiences in order to better serve DRS students when helping them make their decisions of where to go to yeshiva in the future. A reunion is held

in Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh, overlooking the Kotel, where nearly 100 DRS alumni join together for another taste of DRS. Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, a popular DRS rebbe, holds a sholosh seudot reunion as well the following Shabbos.

March 1 job fair at YU

Siddur party at HAFTR HAFTR’s Chagigat Siddur took place on Sunday. First graders, who received Koren Youth siddurim with their Hebrew names printed on the cover, captivated more than 600 people who filled the HAFTR gym. The event, which was livestreamed, can be viewed at livestream.com/HAFTR/chagsiddur2017.

Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future and the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration will host their annual Jewish Job Fair on Thursday, March 1 at the Max Stern Athletic Center on YU’s Wilf Campus, 2501 Amsterdam Ave. at 185th Street in Manhattan. The event is free and open to the public from 7 to 9 pm.

In addition to showcasing a variety of professional opportunities at Jewish day schools, organizations and nonprofits, the event provides a robust networking opportunity for job-hunters seeking information on careers in the Jewish community.

“It is an incredibly exciting event—it’s very fulfilling and uplifting to be in a room filled with hundreds of committed and aspiring Jewish educators and nonprofit professionals, collaborating to imbue Jewish schools and institutions with great learning, great teaching and the passion to make a difference,” said Dr. Rona Novick, dean of Azrieli. “Yeshiva University and Azrieli are proud to serve the community by providing this unique opportunity.”

More than 60 Jewish day schools from 15 states and diverse organizations from across North America and overseas will be in attendance.

To book appointments with day school employers in advance and to receive email updates about which employers will be attending as well as to submit a resume before the fair, register at yu.edu/jewishjobfair/video

State fair

Shulamith fifth graders staged state fairs last week, drawing lots at the end of November to determine which state they would research. The girls learned a great deal about their states, while honing skills that they will need for the rest of their lives.

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“This serious allegation is a negative precwife, Chana, worked around the clock for weeks to show off their community and city to the edent that we had never seen directed at a rabbi many foreigners in town for the Winter Olympics before in Russia, and it is a very, very big problem for us,” Gorin told JTA. in Sochi.

Behind the expulsion of Edelkopf and the other The Chabad emissaries from the United States came to the city on Russia’s Black Sea rabbis, Gorin added, is an attempt by the state to coast in 2002. By the time the Olympics opened, limit the number of foreign clerics living in Rusthey could offer three synagogues, five informa- sia — an effort that has led to expulsions not only tion centers and 24/7 kosher catering to thousands of people in the city, which has only 3,000 Jews.

The Edelkopfs were celebrated in the local media for these considerable efforts, which the Kremlin marketed as proof that Russia welcomes minorities — including by inviting a Russian chief rabbi to speak at the opening.

This month, the couple is in the news again but for a different reason: They and their seven children have been ordered to leave Russia after authorities flagged Ari Edelkopf as a threat to national security — a prec- Rebbetzin Chana and Rabbi Ari Edelkopf in 2009 in Sochi, Russia. edent in post-communist Russia that community leaders call false and worrisome. of rabbis but also of imams and Protestant priests.

“It’s not targeting the Jews,” he said.

Occurring amid a broader crackdown on foreign Alexander Boroda, the president of Gorin’s and human rights groups under President Vladimir Putin, the de facto deportation order against federation, told Interfax that he was “dismayed” the Edelkopfs is to many Russian Jews a sign that by the expulsion and suggested it was the work despite the Kremlin’s generally favorable attitude of an overzealous official eager “to check off the to their community, they are not immune to the ef- box” after being ordered to curb immigration.

Boroda recalled how Putin’s government has fects of living in an increasingly authoritarian state.

And it is doubly alarming in a country where many facilitated a Jewish revival in Russia, including Jews have bitter memories of how the communists by returning dozens of buildings; educating to tolerance; adding Jewish holidays to the national repressed religious and community life.

The Edelkopfs’ deportation order drew an calendar, and offering subsidies to Jewish groups. unusually harsh reaction from the Federation of Lazar, who was born in Italy, often contrasts the Jewish Communities of Russia, a Chabad-affiliat- scarcity of anti-Semitic violence in Russia with its ed group that has maintained friendly and mutu- prevalence in France and Great Britain.

The government has also tolerated criticism by ally beneficial ties with Putin.

The order, which included no explanation or the Chabad-led community. Under Lazar and Boroconcrete accusation, “raises serious concerns for da, the Federation has largely ignored xenophobia the future of the Jewish communities in the coun- against non-Jews but consistently condemned any try,” Rabbi Boruch Gorin, a federation spokes- expression of anti-Semitism — including from man, told the L’chaim Jewish weekly last week. within Putin’s party and government.

The federation even spoke out against RusGorin is a senior aide to Beral Lazar, the chief sia’s vote in favor of a UNESCO resolution last rabbi who spoke at the Sochi opening ceremony.

Gorin also called the order “an attempt to year that ignores Judaism’s attachment to the establish control” on religious communities in Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Still, the Edelkopf deportation is part of a Russia, including the Jewish one, which he said is serviced by some 70 Chabad rabbis, half of string of recent incidents in which Jews have suffered the effects of growing authoritarianism in whom are foreign.

Many Sochi Jews consider Edelkopf a popular Russia — a country where opposition figures are and beloved spiritual leader with an impeccable routinely prosecuted and convicted.

Last year, a court in Sverdlovsk convicted a record and a close relationship with Lazar. They reacted with dismay and outrage to the deporta- teacher, Semen Tykman, of inciting hatred among tion order. Typical of such discussions, comments pupils at his Chabad school against Germans and

by Russian speakers abroad tended to be more propagating the idea of Jewish superiority. Authorities raided his school and another one in 2015, outspoken than the ones authored domestically.

“Somewhere along the way our country confiscating textbooks, which some Russian Jews changed without our noticing,” wrote Petr Sher- suggested was to create a semblance of equivasher, a 69-year-old Jewish man from Khabarovsk lence with Russia’s crackdown on radical Islam.

Before that affair, a Russian court in 2013 who lives in the United States. “We’re suddenly not among friends and compatriots but in anoth- convicted Ilya Farber, a Jewish village teacher, of corruption in a trial that some Jewish groups er brutal and indifferent atmosphere.”

Since the fall of communism in 1991, the Fed- dismissed as flawed, in part because the proseeration of Jewish Communities of Russia — es- cution displayed some anti-Semitic undertones sentially Chabad’s Russia branch, and by far the in arguing it.

While the incidents differ in their local concountry’s largest Jewish group — only on a very rare occasion had publicly questioned the viabil- texts in the multiethnic behemoth that is Russia, ity of Jewish life in the country or the authori- seen together they demonstrate that after thriving under Putin, the Jewish minority is feeling the ties’ tolerance of religious freedoms.

The strong reactions to the Edelkopf edict “collateral damage as the government drastically seem to be less connected to the actual expul- tightens its grip on all areas of life,” according sion — at least seven rabbis have been sent pack- to Roman Bronfman, a former Israeli lawmaker ing over the past decade over visa and residence from Ukraine and a staunch critic of Putin.

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The irony of the Purim Shpiel AlAN JAy Gerber Kosher BooKworm

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he base themes of the holiday of Purim are survival and the smile. Irony in my opinion is a smile with a clear understanding of the inner meaning of the biblical text, in this case that of the Book of Esther.

In a recently published book, “Unusual Bible Interpretations: Ruth, Esther, and Judith” (Gefen Publishing) by the renown scholar and musmach of Ner Yisrael, Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin, we learn a lot of how irony serves at the backbone of the holiday’s meaning of Jewish physical survival.

These lessons of history come to make us better appreciate what our rabbis sought to teach us in terms of how humor and irony are brought together and thus can be thematically blended and endow us with a precious and more memorable observance of the festival of Purim.

Please note this sampling of a series of ironies as brought together by Rabbi Drazin: “Esther is the only megillah read twice, once in the evening synagogue service of Pu-

rim and a second time during the morning services on Purim.

“It is the only megillah that is called ‘the Megillah,’ the only one that is universally read from a parchment scroll, the only one in which the synagogue reader recites a blessing before and after reading the scroll, and the only one for which many Jewish households purchased their own parchment scroll to use in following along silently during the synagogue reading.”

Here are some more ironies to ponder: “Esther was not a heroine. She repeatedly expressed hesitation, from the moment that Mordecai requested that she speak to the king to save the Judeans from Haman’s decree to every encounter she later had with the king.

“Mordecai is the hero of Purim. It is he, not Esther, whom the book praises in its conclusion.

“Purim today is not celebrated as Mordecai asked the people to do, and as they agreed to do. The original holiday was observed for two days, on Adar 14–15. Later, for unknown reasons, it was changed to a single-day holiday observed on Adar 15 in walled cities such as Jerusalem and on Adar 14 elsewhere.

“Both Esther’s and Mordecai’s names, although considered Jewish names today, are Persian names most likely based on Ishtar and Marduk.

“Purim, too, is not a Hebrew word. The

book had to define ‘pur’ as a lottery. Thus the holiday’s name is based on Haman’s superstitious notion that a lottery could reveal the auspicious day for exterminating Judeans.

“The primary practices of Purim include feasting, drinking alcohol and sending gifts.

This reflects how the pagan Ahasuerus celebrated … there is nothing Jewish about this kind of celebration.

“The requirement to read the book of Esther during the holiday is not mentioned in the book and was instituted later.”

Now, consider still more ironies: “The book of Esther contains many obscurities, and the first chapter is an excellent example of this: Why did Ahasuerus wait until the third year of his reign to start his celebration? What was he celebrating?

“If it requires wives to speak the language of their husbands, what is the relevance of this command to the story; why did the king command it?

“Why did Vashti have a separate party for women, given that history reveals that Persian men and women ate and drank together at banquets?”

This volume is indeed filled with loads of irony that prompts us to ask questions that, when given a closer look, prompt us even further to detect a certain comedic theme that is hidden

just below the surface of impending disaster.

Purim is a fun holiday, yet the questions posed by these and the many other ironies cited in this learned work should surely lend an air a sobriety to the holiday’s historical themes and events.

Yes, even a smile can have a serious face to it.

FOR FURTHER STUDY A recently published anthology of essays

by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, zt”l, entitled, “By His Light” edited by Rabbi Reuven Ziegler (Maggid Publishers), contains a scholarly essay dealing with Purim as first presented in 1984, entitled, “If You Remain Silent at This Time: Concern for the Jewish People.”

This serious essay goes deep into the relationship between Esther and Mordecai in how they attempted to strategize their efforts at preventing Haman’s plans of genocide of the JewSee Purim on page 23 ish people.

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hough this week’s parsha begins with a story of Yisro, its chronological relationship with the rest of the Exodus narrative is debated by the commentaries. If we ignore this story for a moment, we can see that the events in Refidim, where Israel fought Amalek, and at Messah U’Meribah, where they were provided water, were precursors to their arrival at Mt. Sinai.

And yet, when they were attacked by Amalek, they were forced to band together to fight a common enemy. While this unity on the military front is not surprising, it did not last in the continued sojourn through the desert, until they got to Mt. Sinai, a place which caused them to come together as one. As Kli Yakar puts it, “the seeking of honor and appointment was the reason behind every fight and plague,” but once they realized how small

Mt. Sinai actually was, “then they saw that G-d chooses the humble.”

Seeing Sinai caused them to embrace the feeling of submission and avoid strife so that they could embrace peace. The essence of the mountain, modesty and humility, is what brought about peace among the factions of Israelites who previously had strife with one another.

The Torah speaks in the plural: they came to the Sinai Wilderness (19:1) and they traveled from Refidim, they came to the Sinai wilderness, and they camped in the wilderness, a singular Israel at the Mountain (19:2).

Wilderness-wise they were still many people, many opinions, not united. But when they got to the mountain, realizing G-d would reveal Himself at this particular and specific place, they realized the key ingredient to accepting the Torah was humility. Then they were “as one heart, as one man.”

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Rashi explains the “hatred” or the “destruction” to the nations of the world as meaning their moral compass was demonstrably skewed because they did not accept the Torah.

I do not believe this means that people who are not guided by the Torah can’t live a moral life, nor does it mean that those who live by the Torah can’t be immoral. There are exceptions to any rule. It just means that the moral compass has a different source.

And yet who did accept the Torah? Not the Israelites as individuals, each with a unique personality, but the Israelites as a group. They were united at Sinai because the mountain demonstrated for them that the Torah isn’t just for the mighty and lofty and powerful, it is for everybody. And everybody has a personal challenge, to ask, how am I making the Torah mine?

The Ten Commandments are written in the singular. It is as if G-d was speaking to every Jew, tête-à-tête, so that each Israelite could internalize the message and apply the Torah as an individual mandate with each individual a cog in the collective nation of Israel.

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see, hear, nor speak, because [of the fact that] they make peace, the Torah said, ‘You shall not wield iron upon them’ (Devarim 27:5), how much more so [are we certain that] one who makes peace between husband and wife, between family and family, between man and his fellow, will have no troubles befall him!”

Additionally, in the original version of the mechilta, Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai brings the verse, “You shall build the altar of the L-rd, your G-d, out of whole stones (avanim shleimot tivneh) (Devarim 27:6). He notes the etymological similarity between “shleimot” and “shalom,” and states, “[These] are stones that bring about peace.” (Mechilta d’Rabbi Yishmael, Mesechta d’b’Chodesh, parasha 11) Therefore, based on the mechilta and Rashi’s formulation of same, it is clear that the underlying rationale of the prohibition of “constructing an altar from stones that have come in contact with metal” is the pursuit of shalom

between man and G-d (through the offerings brought thereupon) and, metaphorically, between man and his fellow man. he Rambam helps us further define the holistic import of shalom, and its pursuit through a seminal halachic and philosophical statement that appears as the final words of Sefer Zemanim. Therein, he discusses a situation of financial triage in which one has extremely limited funds. He presents two scenarios: One has money to purchase either Shabbat or Chanukah candles, and one has money to buy Shabbat candles or wine for kiddush. What takes precedence?

Maimonides is unequivocal in his response: “Ner beito kodem meshum shalom beito” (“Shabbat lights must be purchased prior [to either Chanukah candles or wine] because of the peace of his home”). We must remember that the Shabbat lights in this historical context may very well See Yitro on page 23

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“It’s a play on words,” says Rav Kahana.

Sinai reflects nissim (miracles) done for Israel. The Talmud responds, “In that case, it should be called Mt. Nisai!”

The next suggestion is that Sinai almost sounds like siman tov, a place where good things happened to Israel. Well, in that case, the Talmud recommends “it should be called Mt. Simanai!”

The last suggestion is that Sinai reflects the place where sinah (hostility) was descended toward the nations at this mountain.

Another argument of the Talmud is that the mountain’s real name was Horeb, reflective of the hurbah (desolation) which descended to idolators from that place and time.

source of this mitzvah is G-d’s statement, exalted be He: ‘[When you build a stone altar for Me,] do not build it out of cut stone. Because your sword was lifted against it, [you have profaned it].’ If one builds an altar from such stones it is invalid and offerings may not be brought on it.” (Sefer HaMitzvot) The Mechilta d’Rabbi Yishmael is the halachic midrash to Shemot. Rashi bases himself on this work’s explanation of our verse in his interpretation as to why metal-hewn stones result in a desecration of the stone altar: “The altar makes peace between Israel and their Father in heaven. Therefore, the cutter and destroyer shall not come upon it. The matter is a kal vachomer [a fortiori] conclusion — for if [concerning the] stones, which neither

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Continued from page 22 Rabbi Lichtenstein’s analysis of the events, especially the dialogues between them, are a lesson for our people’s leaders to read and emulate. Mordecai, in dealing with Esther’s hesitations uses as part of his argument with her two key phrases: â€˘â€œDo not imagine that you will escape in the king’s palace from all the Jews.â€? â€˘â€œFor if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews elsewhere, but you and your father’s house will perish.â€?

These admonitions by Mordecai to Esther conclude with the following: “Who knows, perhaps for the sake of a time such as this you have come to join the royalty?�

This sober reflection with all its inherent political reality must serve as a severe admonition to all of our leaders today when they consider their actions on behalf of our people.

Given current events they must do no less on our people’s behalf.

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It was called Sinai, because from there “sinah went down upon the nations� — it doesn’t mean hatred, it just means that there’s a difference between “us� and “them� and that difference is that we received the Torah. Thus, it is important to remember that while “loving one’s

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Continued from page 22 have been the only lights in the home. Therefore, without this small amount of illumination, family members would trip over one another, arguments would ensue, and the Shabbat evening would become a dark and fractious time.

As a result, and in an effort to buttress shalom bayit, Maimonides codifies the law that Shabbat candles take precedence over fulfilling either the mitzvah of kiddush or Chanukah candles. Clearly, the value of shalom bayit outweighs these other mitzvot. His concluding words, though few in number, are a virtual paean to shalom: “Behold, [one must remember] that the Divine Name itself was erased [in the Sotah process] in an effort to bring about peace between a man and his wife. Great is the ultimate peace, for the entire Torah was given to bring about peace in the world. As it states (Sefer Mishle 3:17): “Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace.� (Hilchot Megillah and Chanukah, 4:14) “[May] He Who makes peace in His heights, may He in His compassion make peace upon us and upon all Israel� (The Complete Artscroll Siddur).

May this blessing of peace be placed upon all mankind, soon, and in our days. V’chane yihi ratzon.

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On Sunday, Nefesh B’Nefesh will host a free Israel Mega Event in Manhattan.

Throughout the day, sessions will tackle the many questions facing Jews planning — or just thinking about — relocating to Eretz Yisroel.

The Mega Event will take place at John Jay College, 524 W. 59 St. For the complete itinerary, see a Nefesh B’Nefesh ad on page 3 of this week’s Jewish Star.

On Monday, Kef International Director Adam Perlman will share “everything you need to know about shipping to Israel,� during a free talk at Congregation Aish Kodesh, 894 Woodmere Pl. in Woodmere, at 7:30 pm.

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Cautious words from Maimonides, about Trump Ben Cohen Viewpoint

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f anyone can be said to have discovered the formula for a world without evil, that accolade belongs to the great medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides. “For through cognition of the truth,” Maimonides wrote, “enmity and hatred are removed and the inflicting of harm by people on one another is abolished.”

The successful search for truth is a necessary condition for a world in which peace reigns. As the Book of Isaiah, cited by Maimonides, declares, “Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.” The accent here on “keeping the truth” is significant; it suggests that truth is not something that we passively receive, but something that we strive for, and something that we hold dear in the face of competing claims based on falsehoods and misrepresentations.

At the same time, this vision is the polar opposite of the reality of politics as it has been practiced during the last several centuries. Politics revolves around conflict, competition and cooperation: over power, over resources, over territories, but ultimately, over how those whose destiny is to be ruled interpret the world around them. In that vein, history shows us that there have been periods of relative intellectual harmony, when certain basic truths

about humanity are generally recognized, and periods—like now—of notable rancor, when the very assumptions that guide not just our thinking, but our values and identities, are dug up by the roots.

In the most widely quoted passage of President Trump’s pre-Super Bowl interview with Bill O’Reilly, Trump reiterated his respect for Russian dictator President Vladimir Putin. “But he’s a killer,” O’Reilly cut in. Trump retored: “There are a lot of killers. You think our country’s so innocent?”

In the wake of this comment, legions of pundits expressed horror that the sitting U.S. president, less than one month after an inauguration in which he pledged fealty to the Constitution, would compare this nation to Russia—America’s traditional foe, whose political system is designed to restrict, rather than expand, the freedom of the individual.

In place of elite platitudes about the enduring importance of personal liberty, a free press and fair elections, Trump inserts a hefty dose of his own brand of realism: everyone does bad things, including Americans, and Americans therefore shouldn’t use their own standards to judge those with whom, like Putin, they seek to cooperate.

That is why, in my view, the White House will remain unmoved by protests based on the facts that Putin shoots and poisons his opponents both at home and abroad, that Russia is a mafia state, and that the Russian security apparatus—whose media constantly pushes conspiracy theories about American military operations—is likely responsible for one or two “false flag” terrorist outrages of its own.

Such indifference leads to a deeper fear: that rather than just negotiating with these adversaries, as all presidents have done, we will start adopting their habits and their ways of thinking. hose who don’t instinctively recoil at such a prospect should consider what the world would look like now had America adopted such a stance in, for example, the 1970s, when the political climate—what with oil crises, recessions and terrorism—was arguably just as ripe for the kinds of populism we’ve seen emerge in America and Europe.

Recall the great anxieties of the Jewish people back then: Would Israel have survived the Yom Kippur Moses Maimonides War? Would rays of light have opened for the Jews imprisoned in the Soviet Union? All these triumphs of survival might not have been possible had America been disengaged and morally detached. As for where it would leave us now, we’d probably be dealing with Putin in his capacity as the secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Additionally, the American public might not have been such an authentic base of support for Israel had they been relentlessly told that U.S. allies are a drain on the country’s resources, and that America shares some of the features of a police

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state. Would successive decades of polling have shown that a comfortable majority of Americans share some sense of common purpose with the people of Israel? I’m not so sure, if only for the reason that when you look sullenly inward, it’s difficult to see anything benevolent on the outside.

None of that precludes having shared interests with other states, but shared interests are very different from the proposition that it is shared values—the bedrock of the U.S. relationship with Israel and other democracies—which stand between today’s America and a reworking of the catastrophes of the 20th century.

While we might therefore embrace some of the policy decisions of the Trump administration, such as its tougher line on Iran and its warmth toward Israel, we shouldn’t be under illusions about the worldview underlying it. You don’t need to be an ardent advocate of democracy promotion to recognize the corrosive effects of no longer distinguishing between democracies and tyrannies.

No society has wrestled more with the realization that the “purposes, desires, opinions, and beliefs”—in the words of Maimonides—of human beings frequently lead to more evil outcomes than has the U.S. You might say that this awareness of imperfection is what makes Americans free and gives them moral purpose. It also teaches them—realists take note—that in an anarchic world, casually tossing aside your most precious values in full view of those who already disdain them is a sign of weakness, not strength.

Ben Cohen is senior editor of TheTower.org

Understanding the outposts in Judea and Samaria stephen M. Flatow

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o hear the news media tell it, Israel’s Knesset has approved extreme right-wing legislation that will steal Palestinian land by legalizing illegal outposts and thereby demolish the last hopes for Middle East peace.

The truth, of course, is very different.

The Israeli government has not authorized the establishment of a new Jewish community in Judea and Samaria since 1992. That was the policy decreed by then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and followed by his successors, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

But the 1993 Oslo Accords did not resolve the status of empty land in those territories. And there is a lot of empty land out there—as anybody who has ever traveled in the territories knows.

In 1998, then-Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon became concerned that a combination of Palestinian encroachment and international pressure would result in the Palestinian Authority (PA) taking de-

facto control of those disputed regions. He was particularly worried about hilltops in the vicinity of existing communities, because if they fell into Palestinian hands, they would pose a grave strategic threat to the nearby Jewish residents.

Speaking on Israel Radio in November 1998, Sharon declared, “Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the [Jewish] settlements because everything we take now will stay ours. … Everything we don’t grab will go to them.”

Over 19 years, about 100 such hilltop outposts have been established, many with just a handful of residents. A few of the outposts have been torn down by the government; a few were retroactively recognized as neighborhoods of existing communities.

In 2012, the government established a commission, headed by former Israeli Supreme Court justice Edmund Levy, to examine the status of the outposts. The commission recommended that the outposts be legalized. The new legislation follows from that recommendation.

Obviously, the legislation is a political hot potato. The Israeli left is vehemently against it. Various governments have denounced it. The world news media are portraying it in the gravest terms. But when one cuts through all the name-calling and media distortions, certain basic facts emerge.

First: The right of Jews to build throughout the land of Israel has always been a basic principle of the Zionist movement. The state of Israel would not exist if decisions had been made on the basis of “Will it make the world angry?” or “Are there Arabs living in the general vicinity?”

Second: The outposts have not displaced any Palestinians. They were set up on empty hilltops. Nobody has been harmed by the creation of the outposts.

Third: The land in question is not “private Palestinian land,” as Israel’s critics constantly claim. Prof.

Eugene Kontorovich of the Northwestern University School of Law points out, “In the overwhelming majority of cases, no individual Palestinians have come forward to claim the lands. Indeed, in most cases, no property claimants asserted their interests for decades after houses were built.” In some cases, including the controversial Amona community, “the lands claimed by the Palestinian petitioners only slightly overlap with those on which the Israeli homes stand,” Kontorovich explains.

Fourth: The Jewish claim to the land in question is much stronger than the Arab claim. The Jews’ right is firmly anchored in the Bible, history (a Jewish presence dating back 3,000 years), and international law (the Balfour Declaration and the League of Nations mandate).

Palestinians who have made claims, however, are basing their ownership on “broad give-aways of state land by the King of Jordan during the Hashemite occupation (1949-1967).” That, of course, raises a question: Did the King of Jordan have a right to nullify the Jewish claim to the land of Israel?

For those who forget King Hussein’s record, I should mention that he was the king who decreed that all 57 synagogues in the Old City of Jerusalem should be destroyed; that Jewish gravestones from the Mount of Olives cemetery should be used for latrines in Jordanian army barracks; that all Jews should be barred from visiting the Western Wall during the years his regime occupied it.

This is the man who decided to “give away state land” in Judea and Samaria to local Palestinian Arabs. Why should his illegal dissection of the Jewish homeland be considered valid?

Israel’s leaders will have to decide how to address the political and diplomatic complications stemming from the new legislation. But let’s be clear about the bottom line: King Hussein had no right to give away the Jewish homeland, and Jews have no obligation to consider his actions valid or binding in any way.

New Jersey attorney Stephen M. Flatow the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.

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In a Darchei classroom (from left): Rabbi Baruch Rothman, Darcheiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director of institutional advancement; Yeruchem Silber, a member of Agudathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vaad Hanhalah and executive director of the Boro Park Jewish Community Council; Chaskel Bennet, member, Agudath board of trustees; Rabbi Yaakov Bender, Darchei rosh ha yeshiva; Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Agudath executive vice president; state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

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Among Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speakers, pictured clockwise: Rabbi Yaakov Bender, Darchei rosh ha yeshiva; Agudath Israel of America Chairman of the Board Shlomo Werdiger; Agudath Israel Vice President for Community Affairs Rabbi Shmuel Lefkowitz; and Agudath Israel Executive Vice President Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel.

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Senate chief upbeat at Agudath Far Rock brunch Continued from page 1 constitutional, is urgently needed, he said.

Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Agudath Israel executive vice president, noted that as former chairman of the Senate Education Committee, Flanaganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grasp of education issues and his appreciation for the needs of the special education population have been a great blessing to the religious community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reinvigorating and inspiring to gather together on a yearly basis, to have the opportunity to speak to the leadership of the Senate who has done so much for our community,â&#x20AC;? Rabbi Zwiebel said.

Rabbi Shmuel Lefkowitz, Agudath Israel vice-president for community affairs, stressed the Torah communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gratitude to Flanagan for ably representing its views in the legislature on a variety of educational, religious and ethical issues.

In addition to thanking the majority leader for his consistent support for education tax credits, Rabbi Lefkowitz also drew attention to the substantial gains obtained last year in Albany thanks to Flanaganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backing. These in-

clude sizeable new allocations for reimbursements to New York State yeshivas for mandated educational services, as well as for new and upgraded safety and surveillance equipment.

Rabbi Lefkowitz cited other senators in Albany who represent Orthodox communities and are serving their constituencies with dedication.

They include Senators Simcha Felder and Martin Golden of Brooklyn; Elaine Phillips of Great Neck; Andrew Lanza of Staten Island; William Larkin of Kiryas Yoel; and Terrence Murphy of Westchester.

In his remarks, Flanagan pointed out that as the result of his prior chairmanship of the Education Committee, education will always be one of his top priorities. The resounding support he still elicits from that committee speaks to the deep reservoir of trust he built during those years, he noted.

He said that for a school to succeed in its mission, three things are necessary: A safe building, competent teachers, and money. He vowed to continue his fight for educational priorities that are important to the religious

community, as well as other issues of paramount concern to its members. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maximizing government support for our yeshivos and day schools has always been a major priority for Agudath Israel and with the help of public officials like Senator Flanagan, we hope to continue to deliver tangible results,â&#x20AC;? said Shlomo Werdiger, Agudath Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chairman of the board.

Agudath Israel-sponsored breakfast re-

ceptions with the senate majority leader prior to the legislatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crafting of the annual budget have become a yearly event. They provide a venue in which community leaders can discuss with the senator legislation that may reach the Senate floor in the coming weeks. As majority leader, Flanagan has significant influence over the budget and the flow of legislation from Albany. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Source: Agudath Isarel

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IMPORTANT tHe naMeS oF oWneRS SHoWn on tHiS liSt MaY not neceSSaRilY Be tHe naMeS oF tHe PeRSonS oWning tHe PRoPeRtY at tHe tiMe oF tHiS aDVeRtiSeMent. SUcH naMeS HaVe Been taKen FRoM tHe 2017/2018 tentatiVe aSSeSSMent RollS anD MaY DiFFeR FRoM tHe naMeS oF tHe oWneRS at tHe tiMe oF PUBlication oF tHiS notice. it MaY alSo Be tHat SUcH oWneRS aRe noMinal onlY anD anotHeR PeRSon iS actUallY tHe BeneFicial oWneR. Town of Hempstead School:15 Lawrence UFSD name amount Parcel group lot MicHelina RealtY inc 32,267.55 39 a 10030 lanZilotta RonalD & JeSSica 9,118.58 39120 00330 2,430.57 ZeileR SURViVoRS tR&ZeileR FaMi 39149 00630 63-65,79 cHeSneR RoBin g 14,629.13 39153 00590 59-61 ZiPKin Jeannette 2,521.17 39154 00850 eDnalino eDgaR Y & linDa e 9,332.48 39160 00430 BRoDY SteVen & SURi 17,894.10 39179 0139a 139a-139B BaUSK MicHael & HeiDi 5,473.96 39180 00200 20-22 Klein DaViD & DeBRa 28,929.89 39183 00660 66,73-74 HaRRiS SteVen & RUtH 1,764.61 39188 00740 74-76 MacKeY anDReW 4,802.48 39189 00060 6-10 WolFSon DaViD M & toBY 5,329.59 39194 00380 38-41 MilleR SHelDon & aRlette 11,045.45 39199 00810 PRaSHaD naRaYan 31,398.43 39242 00430 eHRMan DeBBi 12,667.35 39246 00100 HalPeRin BaRRY & ellen 18,735.43 39251 05170 SPeZiale VictoR & FRanceS 5,805.02 39253 02120 212 & 310 gelBStein BeRel & FaigaH 1,948.31 39260 00080 8,18 eiSenBeRgeR JoSePH & Deena 8,843.85 39260 03170 317 PiFKo MaRc & aViVa 3,501.56 39260 03230 323 PiFKo MaRc & aViVa 460.43 39260 03240 324 PiFKo MaRc & aViVa 254.35 39260 03250 325 ZalcMan SaMUel 3,852.45 39261 01250 125,215 elSaMi RealtY coRP 5,824.90 39261 02140 Flaton BeRnaRD 9,013.71 39262 00080 8-9 JU Ro Real eState coRP 44,270.85 39264 01030 liotta StePHen & RoSeMaRie 5,678.49 39270 00240 24-26 caPoZiello MattHeW & JUDitH 2,545.31 39276 00190 19-20 ali aZeeM 19,682.54 39290 00540 amasalem Shoshana 6,511.73 39292 01140 MoRDecHai Roee 10,972.58 39294 00390 elcocK tR aRtHUR R & Helen e 4,155.08 39294 00430 FeitMan YaaKoV & YocHeVeD 2,938.25 39294 00570 Uriel Property Mngmt llc 13,158.44 39296 00080 8-10 eiSenBeRgeR JoSePH & Deena 10,024.61

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39301 00050 5-6 naDaV PRoPeRtieS llc 39307 01180 naDaV PRoPeRtieS llc 39307 01220 BRUcK JonaH 39312 00840 84-85 antonY tHoMaS 39312 01130 englaRD BetH FaitH & aleXanDeR 39316 02220 PallaDino cHRiStine & PeteRSen 39318 00070 ananD HaRBHaJan & ViDYa 39320 01160 MeRgRUen FReD & eDitH 39323 00320 HaBSY WaSHington llc 39325 00190 caPone concetta liFe eState 39326 00030 SVeRDliK iRVing & FloRentina 39328 01660 343 BeacH llc 39330 00230 23-24 PanUccio BRUno 39331 02220 caMPBell V RiVaRa & liSa 39337 00220 22-23 RoSentHal SanFoRD & DoRiS 39340 00280 28-30 HeRSKoWitZ JeFFReY & eStHeR 39341 03170 lanZilotta RicHaRD & RoSeanna 39342 00800 80-83 DlJ MoRtgage caPital inc 39344 02220 WalSH JaMeS 39347 01120 JHJ enteRPRiSeS llc 39347 01160 caVanagH JR JaMeS t & KaRen 39349 02100 JHJ enteRPRiSeS llc 39351 00010 1-2 JHJ enteRPRiSeS lllc 39351 00320 JHJ enteRPRiSeS llc 39351 00360 gaMlieli aliSa 39419 01410 141 Real eState acQUiSitionS llc 39421 00100 MeRcZYnSKi MaRY & aBRaM 39422 01200 lalloUZ HaiM & BRigitte 39424 00310 oStReicHeR DaViD & MicHelle 39463 00400 HelD MaRilYn 39463 00450 RoSenBeRg caRolYn 39485 00370 aRUtUnYan geoRge & nina 39567 00310 PacKin eUgene & ita 39568 00310 MaRKFelD ZVi & oFRa 39585 00220 HoFFMan MelVin & cHaRlotte 39592 00100 PeRSaUD DaViD 39594 00010 HelleR toni H 39595 00140 ZMiSHlanY MicHael & RacHel 39596 00270 Pena JoSe 39598 00080 noe aMY 39599 00040 FeintUcH BeRnaRD liFe eState 39600 00090 Pinto eUgene & RoBeRta 39601 00030 FeDeR aDaM & Monica 39601 00080 SHaHaR Ron 39601 00210 MitelMan ilYa & Diana 39602 00030 DinceR eRDinc & Hale 39602 00250 MoHaMaD geneVieVe & SHeiK 39612 00080 MURoFF HaRRY & anne 39613 00160 BalliRaM ViSHWanaUtH & RaMPeRSa 39613 00250 SaMUelSon geRalD & SHiRleY 39617 00160 leVine HaRRiet e tRUSt 39627 00730 JJa RealtY llc 40 B 00350 JMS Mill StReet llc 40 B 01830 Pelican Real eState coRP 40 B 02130 WeiSeR tRUSt 40 B 0227Uca02600 WolF le HoWaRD & eSteR 40 D 01170 SaVoY FReD 40 l 00060 6-7 SieRRa eliZaBetH M 40002 00300 30-31 HenRY RoBeRt

7,175.13 6,373.08 14,048.00 1,294.25 2,954.18 1,834.91 2,270.43 4,085.00 5,510.88 1,970.38 2,044.50 2,778.50 5,052.51 5,404.04 1,757.68 6,925.47 9,568.54 19,489.71 9,092.16 838.98 1,856.29 10,352.40 19,016.34 11,968.71 3,724.61 3,298.82 2,830.84 3,171.37 2,399.39 22,676.85 5,142.67 2,339.11 3,766.23 10,422.60 14,062.18 6,234.56 5,161.86 6,552.91 6,322.97 4,292.73 12,119.67 6,701.57 2,237.82 5,007.36 3,160.87 3,282.85 9,807.52 1,911.83 10,534.67 1,970.30 5,923.10 6,672.00 14,484.34 107,397.12 4,778.10 10,777.07 16,397.52 8,465.81 8,446.38

40003 01030 103-104 D’aloia oRlanDo & aiDa 40007 00160 Zaina inDUStRieS 40014 00050 Pettit MaRgo 40014 00170 Big c HolDingS llc 40015 00800 80-81 Big c HolDing llc 40015 01820 FReaR loiS M 40018 01960 196 287 BURnSiDe aVenUe llc 40020 00110 287 BURnSiDe aVenUe llc 40020 00120 12-14 aYala JaiMe 40023 00390 39-42 266 PeaRl StReet llc 40023 01050 eageR oWen M 40031 00190 Sal Dali Seven Holding llc 40033 00010 1-4 cHaUDHRY JaVaiD & Ming-MaK cHee 40037 00270 JJ & a RealtY llc 40039 03140 gRant WenDY 40045 02240 DelUca tHoMaS a 40046 00360 36-37 SUPeR JoHn & SUSan 40046 01380 cReDit SHelteR tRUSt 40046 01440 MenDoZa DoUglaS 40047 02550 Delia etal SelMa 40053 00030 aBRaMoV RaHaMin 40054 00260 aeB PRoPeRtY Mgt llc 40054 00600 60-61 leVine aUDRian SMitH & V 40057 00470 20 SHeRiDan BlVD llc 40057 01900 WHetStone Maggie 40057 02020 WiMMS otiS & B 40061 00030 aDDona SteVen 40062 00010 1-3 aRMSteaD Diana 40062 00270 27-29,126 FielDS JaMeS & Bennett SUlie 40062 01200 ZeigleR JonatHan 40063 00420 42-43 SoRRo DeMenic & aRcongela 40064 00650 R tinYeS & Son RealtY inc 40064 00760 76-79 RaMiReZ SalVaDoR 40066 00450 175 Mott aVe llc 40071 00110 11-12 DaUgUStino JoHn le 40072 00210 21-22 RoBeSon & BRoWn FUneRal HoMe in 40072 00320 St JoHnS BaPtiSt cHURcH 40075 01030 St JoHn BaPtiSt cHURcH oF inWoo 40075 01630 St JoHnS BaPtiSt cHURcH 40075 01750 45 BaYVieW aVe HolDingS inc 40082 03180 FUteRSaK RiVKY 400840200020 ScHWaRtZ SiDneY & JUDitH 40085 00290 HeRRiS RoDneY g JR 40086 00100 FielDS SHeRRan 40087 03120 MoSeS RoSetta 40087 03200 einHoRn JoSHUa & iSaac 40088 00170 17-18 PaiZ caRloS 40088 03690 MacHon BaSYa RocHel inc 40090 00140 14-15,105 MUnDell MaRK S 40090 00300 leBoVic tRUSt 40097 00400 RaBinoWitZ eStHeR & BeneDict 401000103600 KUlKa Daniel 40107 00200 engel aDele 40108 00110 RUBin MaRK & naoMi 40110 00360 SiPP JoHn & nancY 40120 05060 SiPP JoHn & nancY 40120 05080 508,512 tRanSon tR alBeRt 40124 01260 126,326 JaRViS caPital gRoUP inc 40129 01440 144-145 SalDUtti JoSePH & gaYle

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9,528.76 4,412.49 9,340.87 8,331.11 7,368.88 9,865.88 3,346.68 37,360.40 4,576.57 3,212.09 6,994.23 4,801.69 9,942.98 3,011.97 4,887.32 386.13 8,293.03 29,872.60 3,150.70 2,181.66 3,869.17 3,559.50 8,533.07 44,391.33 3,751.24 4,930.62 3,350.59 2,245.65 7,642.10 7,017.83 19,663.39 6,958.49 2,213.02 18,516.60 9,364.61 7,014.08 8,390.51 6,620.47 7,012.49 23,922.57 18,704.84 16,130.48 7,356.99 1,590.53 8,842.69 2,075.46 8,344.07 878.86 9,733.87 19,081.59 5,849.98 8,993.47 3,910.43 7,052.79 1,431.56 23,142.82 4,561.37 9,245.85 3,311.22

40134 02970 297-298 HeRSH YaaKoV & BaYla 40140 04940 494-495 ReDMan geoRge JR 40146 01380 oPeola ReUBen J o 40147 00120 312 BaYVieW Real eState HolDing 40147 00220 RiStano loRRaine claiRe 40157 00060 6,7 MoUltRie eUlaH lee 40157 02120 SalDUtti tHoMaS 40158 00860 86,186 leiBoWitZ MaRtin a 40158 03930 John Street llc 40160 02350 lanZilotta RicHaRD & RoSeanna 40164 00070 SanDeRS SanDRa & toni 40166 00210 PincHaSoV aVRaHaM 40169 00330 RoSenWalD linDSaY tRUSt & loBel 40176 02280 KRaUSMan SteVen & liSa 401810204790 WigginS leWiS M & KiM BRYan 40184 00960 96-97 421 DoUgHtY RealtY llc 40187 00810 naYMan cHaYa & JacoB 40188 00160 HaMel RolanD M & eVelYn 40188 00170 BeRgeR JoSeF & naoMi F 40190 00210 neWMan gitta 40190 00470 BeRnaRD WaYne & caRMen 40191 00010 HoURiHan KatHleen 40193 00020 HYMan JUDaH & Yael 40193 00070 DUDleY WaYne & Jean 40194 00180 213 Juniper llc 40197 00170 FReDeRic S & ViRginia 40200 00130 MeRMelStein elaine M tRUSt 40201 00010 aDleR gaBoR & SHoSHana 40205 00010 teSSleR YitZcHaK 40206 00550 349351 centRal llc 41048 00110 S D J MgMnt coRP 41048 02400 240,243 neUMann Milton 41060 03130 laUFeR MiRiaM 41077 00340 golDStUFF HYMan & annette 41085 04510 55 SealY inc 41086 01280 ScHeinFelD SoloMon 41086 01760 ScHWaRtZ gYla B 41089 00130 13-17 ScHWaRtZ MaRtin Z & gYla 41089 05070 MaYMaY oPeRationS llc 41089 08250 825 KleinMan RUtH 41094 00600 60-62 PUlatani QUaZiM & nURiJe 41096 00030 3,172 143 WaSHington llc 41096 00150 15,167 348-350 centRal aVenUe coRP 41097 01080 goRDon JacoB M & Jill M 41100 00120 SteRn Joanne 41100 00580 SteRn Joanne 41100 03090 aBeHSeRa, JoSHUa & naoMi 41113 00120 SiSKinD tRUSt 41114 00070 tHe neW PlaZa llc 58 e 01310 tHe neW PlaZa llc 58 e 01320 BeacH cHannel HolDingS llc 58006 01290 129,130 SSc HolDingS llc 58007 00260 26-27 SSc HolDingS llc 58007 00280 28-29 SSc HolDingS llc 58007 00300 SSc HolDingS llc 58007 00310 SSc HolDingS llc 58007 00320 32-33 DRangSlanD MaRgaRita 58013 00450 45-46 HilleR SaMUel l 58013 00490 49-50 ciao enteRPRiSeS llc

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15,299.48 441.14 249.86 1,194.69 3,411.98 2,216.00 12,435.63 3,533.52 2,542.70 4,286.36 5,633.46 4,165.58 9,034.42 16,494.75 4,031.54 2,611.61 5,508.67 11,606.13 11,228.44 2,383.50 14,179.63 10,043.45 6,778.50 3,116.73 942.86 16,856.73 20,013.12 516.85 14,680.17 3,384.48 21,082.17 5,887.05 8,108.17 5,533.83

3,597.74 7,247.83 10,643.28 5,541.21 66,224.79 312.52 7,584.06 24,566.06 499.58 21,863.15 4,574.37 12,231.66 2,074.14 2,098.39 1,706.09 6,742.23 7,640.10 5,144.60 3,636.53 2,034.00 26,656.62 11,826.59 12,598.03 2,369.69

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70,962.31 9,704.50 15,705.73 8,322.55 2,871.78 6,767.15 8,952.50 1,721.00 2,029.21 2,937.83 4,976.98 12,675.83 239.13 2,302.49 10,022.08 7,302.11 3,255.97 36,000.54 2,521.14 62,433.14 17,876.26 35,008.27 476.65 50,225.94 6,730.68 2,356.91 6,097.75 252,241.80 4,100.25 4,046.84 9,843.59 17,313.20 20,686.84 6,155.89 15,577.30 28,763.64 21,352.22 27,999.29 25,046.55 20,847.19 19,655.19 20,255.74 21,438.66 12,642.17 16,089.51 16,348.70 5,285.93 12,254.07 391.84 6,492.06 1,920.79 2,702.68 9,092.23 2,836.36 32,657.77 8,389.32 14,694.64 4,197.84 3,156.16

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479.18 238.12 1,376.63 119,273.58 3,240.02 5,968.17 37,928.95 24,357.86 15,039.27 14,701.80 3,235.24 10,641.00 16,022.08 3,800.88 2,535.14 10,012.05 31,263.42 3,509.94 3,390.56 2,080.27 29,434.26 16,809.99 14,395.17 6,763.59 8,280.41 12,786.04 28,913.16 2,587.53 3,357.47 2,822.19 2,890.52 2,231.97 24,268.69 2,435.61 3,281.95 13,029.76 5,744.13 30,354.54 28,250.47 5,291.24 3,008.37 5,603.20 6,758.96 31,752.20 30,970.15 26,518.65 3,708.31 11,424.98 1,335.69 19,704.24 6,063.94 12,855.30 3,514.51 29,182.64 1,954.81 19,337.63 5,373.35 5,097.97 23,841.23

02367 00220 22 WIESNER LILLIAN 53,438.21 02376 00080 8 RAHMANI SHIRIN & RODNEY 13,565.09 02376 0053UCA01600 53 CA 160 UNIT 416 ROACH DONALD & BARBARA 15,258.44 08 B0701870 PUTHUSSERIL ABRAHAM & MARIAKUTT 2,522.79 08 B1300780 URSITTI JR DANIEL A TRUST 7,085.34 08 B1400900 CHRISTIAN ROBERT 12,505.23 08125 01180 PICA GENE V & SADIE 6,103.61 08228 00020 BROLLY JAMES & LISA 5,917.77 08229 00100 HAN MEI 5,456.74 08229 00220 EVANS MARGARET 4,488.78 08246 00230 PAUL PATRICIA 3,626.68 08277 00290 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 Soldiers’ 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 tax 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) and 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 Nassau County Treasurer reserves the right to intervene in any bankruptcy case/litigation where the property affected by the tax liens sold by the Treasurer is part of the bankruptcy estate.

However,it is the sole responsibility of all tax lien purchasers to protect their legal interests in any bankruptcy case affecting their purchased tax lien, including but not limited to the filing of a proof of claim on their behalf, covering their investment in said tax lien. The Nassau County Treasurer and Nassau County and its agencies, assumes no responsibility for any legal representation of any tax lien purchaser in any legal proceeding including but not limited to a bankruptcy case where the purchased tax lien is at risk. The rate of interest and penalty at 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 for 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 amounts 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 shall 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 the sale, rights of purchasers, maximum rates of interest and other legal incidents of the sale. This list includes only tax liens on real estate located in the Town of North Hempstead, Town of Hempstead. Such other tax liens on real estate are advertised as follows: Town of Hempstead Dist 1001 HEMPSTEAD/UNIONDALE TIMES NASSAU COUNTY WEBSITE NEW YORK TREND NEWSDAY UNIONDALE BEACON Dist 1002 HEMPSTEAD/UNIONDALE TIMES NASSAU COUNTY WEBSITE NEWSDAY UNIONDALE BEACON Dist 1003 EAST MEADOW BEACON EAST MEADOW HERALD NASSAU COUNTY WEBSITE NEIGHBOR NEWSPAPERS NEWSDAY Dist 1004 BELLMORE HERALD MERRICK/BELLMORE TRIBUNE NASSAU COUNTY WEBSITE NEIGHBOR NEWSPAPERS NEWSDAY Dist 1005 HICKSVILLE ILLUSTRATED NEWS LEVITTOWN TRIBUNE NASSAU COUNTY WEBSITE NEIGHBOR NEWSPAPERS NEWSDAY Dist 1006 NASSAU COUNTY WEBSITE NEWSDAY SEAFORD HERALD CITIZEN

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his might not be such a bad time for photographers. For years, old pros — meaning experienced and skilled professional photographers, as well as myself — have been complaining that everyone was becoming a photographer and that the public in many ways has lost respect for photographers. Now I am seeing a slow yet measurable reversal of this trend.

True I can give you a dozen great reasons why the photo industry is super depressed.

But as digital cameras reach incredibly high resolution and continue to be infused with even greater computer-like intelligence, oldfashioned film is more popular than it has been in nearly ten years! With audio CDs long eschewed in favor of MP3 files and the abundance of online streaming sources, the simple vinyl LP record is in resurgence and you can buy an LP player more easily than was possible ten years ago.

Most of the burgeoning ranks of today’s professional photographers will never be able to amass the experience they need to master their craft. There simply are too few concerned and critical clients who care enough to invest in meaningful imagery to give countless amateur pros the numbers of gigs, shoots and projects they would need to hone their skill set to what it should be. But the discerning client is realizing this, and that is a positive thing.

Sophisticated technology can salvage image opportunities by avoiding catastrophic camera

settings and steering them to produce decent record shots or the occasionally good shot. But the properly experienced photographers’ mind interprets the moment to make a meaningful image, while technology only salvages the moment to keep it as a memory. It makes sense that those investing money in a photographer would value meaningful imagery. So while many of today’s pros boast having experience in the dozens and many cite experience in the hundreds, few will ever benefit from the experience that only thousands of weddings can provide the professional and translate to satisfaction for the more critical consumer.

Craftsmen can only think in the terms they know. There are so many photographers out there today who desperately want to know more and be better, but it is impossible for them to find anyone who knows more and is willing to teach. Listening in on photographers chatting we visit online photo forums filled with desperate questions, mostly superficial answers, and the always popular rules of thumb. Fact is that photographers may be categorized by the approach they take to business more than by their images which generally are either more posed or less posed.

Customers want to be educated consumers.

It is easy to read up on the latest trends and compare those. That is why gimmicks are selling. But just as audiophiles turn to LPs, and traditionalists chase the look of film, discerning clients are realizing that the intangibles are the true values that will make their investment in imagery special, and that excites me about 2017 and the years to come.

Gary Rabenko is artistic and technical director of Rabenko Photography and Video Arts.

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By JTA A student leader at Montreal’s McGill University is refusing to resign amid rising Jewish anger on campus following his urging on Twitter to “punch a Zionist today.”

At what was described as a tense meeting of the student union legislative council on Thursday, council member Igor Sadikov did not relent, instead doubling down on his stance, arguing that Jews were not a “a legitimate ethnic group,” according to witnesses who attended.

Sadikov, who also is active in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, has denied he is anti-Semitic, noting that his father is Jewish and his mother is half-Jewish. He said his original tweet, which he later deleted, was meant to criticize a “political philosophy,” not Jews.

McGill has condemned Sadikov, joining B’nai Brith, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

The university’s undergraduate arts society formally called on Sadikov to resign and B’nai Brith asked police to investigate whether Sadikov had incited hatred with his tweet.

The campus newspaper, The McGill Daily, which Sadikov once served as editor, recently enacted a policy to ban “pro-Zionist” opinion from its pages.

Spanish courts nix boycott

Two Spanish courts reversed municipal resolutions on boycotting Israel and approved a criminal investigation into possible discrimination by organizers of a music festival who sought to bar the Jewish singer Matisyahu.

The rulings were issued independently by courts in Valencia and Barcelona, according to a report last week by the pro-Israel ACOM

briefs able to make such irresponsible statements,” said Rabbi Boruch Gorin, the spokesman for the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, AFP reported.

The president of the Russian Jewish Congress told AFP that it was “clear to any normal person that these lawmakers are of Jewish descent and that he means Jews.”

The, urged the Russian government to condemn the remarks.

“Milonov’s rhetoric invokes dangerous anti-Semitic hatred that has historically been used to justify widespread violence against Jews in Russia,” said the National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry, an American nonprofit advocating for Jews in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

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Photo families at meal This photo seen ‘round the world, of Jewish and Muslim families at an anti-immigration-ban protest in Chicago, led the families to a Shabbat dinner. See stories in BRIEFS.

group, which has obtained similar reversals in at least a dozen other Spanish municipalities in recent months.

The courts cited various principles, including jurisdictional issues and an irreconcilable infringement of anti-discrimination laws.

More than 50 Spanish municipalities have endorsed the principles of BDS, the Boycott,

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Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, the highest number in any European country. The Spanish judiciary has in recent months taken a tougher stance on the practice.

In neighboring France, promoting the BDS movement is illegal under legislation from 2003 that lists efforts to bring about the singling out of nations and their peoples as a form of hate crime. Similar legislation is being prepared in Britain, the government said last year.

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Amazon has removed books that deny the Holocaust from online stores in countries where Holocaust denial is illegal, but they remain available in the United States and the United Kingdom.

The British newspaper The Independent reported the books were removed in some countries, including Italy, France and Germany, after Amazon was contacted about the sale of such books by The Sunday Times of London.

Among the books still available on Amazon’s U.S. and U.K. online stores are “Did Six Million Really Die?” by Richard Harwood; “The Six Million: Fact or Fiction?”, and “The Myth of the Extermination of the Jews.”

“Every day, Amazon promotes a selection of literature advocating Holocaust denial and Jew hatred,” Gideon Falter, chairman of the British charity Campaign Against Antisemitism, told The Independent. “Anybody searching Amazon for books about the Holocaust, including children working on school projects, will inevitably be shown Amazon’s squalid cesspool of neo-Nazi titles.”

One Amazon customer who complained to the company told The Sunday Times he received a message from Amazon saying, “If you feel this book constitutes hate speech and malicious lies, then please check out the other hundred thousand books we carry to find something you like. I hope this helps!”

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A Russian lawmaker in President Vladimir Putin’s party said the ancestors of two Jewish opposition politicians had killed Christians.

“Christians survived despite the fact that the ancestors of Boris Vishnevsky and Maksim Reznik boiled us in cauldrons and fed us to animals,” Vitaly Milonov said Sunday, according to Agence France-Presse.

“For a State Duma deputy, it is unaccept-

The two families captured in a viral photo taken at O’Hare Airport in Chicago during a demonstration of President Trump’s travel ban had a Shabbat meal together.

On Friday night, the Yildirim family, who are Muslim, joined Jordan Bendat-Appell and his family at their home in Deerfield, Illinois.

As a gift, the Yildirims brought a drawing by their 7-year-old daughter, Meryem, of the photo that brought them together. The photo, taken by Chicago Tribune photographer Nuccio DiNuzzo, shows a Jewish boy wearing a kippah and a Muslim girl wearing a hijab holding protest signs while they both sit on their fathers’ shoulders during the airport protest.

The families had exchanged contact information at O’Hare after talking about sharing a Shabbat meal in celebration of peace, the Tribune reported.

Bendat-Appell and Fatih Yildirim told reporters the two had been discussing where to find a good kosher steakhouse when the photo was taken.

Hitler valentine at college An anti-Semitic Valentine’s Day card distributed at a party hosted by the College Republicans at Central Michigan University was not created by a student and the group was unaware of its distribution, school leaders said.

The leaders said the woman responsible admitted her “misguided action” in including the card, which featured a Hitler photo and a Holocaust reference, in a party gift bag.

“The grossly offensive action of one individual, a nonstudent, has deeply distressed our campus community and others across the nation,” the university’s president, George Ross, said in a statement. “With heavy hearts and great embarrassment, we apologize. To those of Jewish descent, rest assured that we stand with you and vow to continue the effort to educate others.”

The student group later apologized with a message on its Facebook page, saying the “very inappropriate card” was distributed without its knowledge.

Israel bars Peru fugitive Israel says Peru’s fugitive former president, Alejandro Toledo, who is wanted on corruption charges, would not be allowed to enter the country.

He was said to have chosen to flee to the Jewish state because his wife, Eliane Karp, holds Israeli citizenship, and because Israel does not have an extradition agreement with Peru, the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio reported.

Toledo is a visiting professor at Stanford University, located near San Francisco, where he earned a doctorate in economics.

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