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Tazria-Metzora • April 20, 2018 • 5 Iyar, 5778 • Torah columns pages 16–17 • Luach page 16 • Vol 17, No 15

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Israel remembers

the streets of the nascent state and brought silence to our country. And now once again time stands still. We halt our daily routine and stand still on streets across the country and on the side of roads. We stand together embracing our personal memories and grieving our national loss.”

“We unite in cemeteries, gather around memorial monuments and at IDF bases, and recall the lives that were lost in the darkness of memory — the lives of IDF soldiers and commanders, members of the intelligence community and the security forces that gave their Dayan in Woodmere this Shabbos: Ambassador Dani lives together to defend Dayan, consul general of Israel in New York, will celebrate the homeland.”

Israel’s 70th anniversary in the Irving Place Minyan, 111 Irving Pl., speaking at 11 am.

The Jewish Star / Ed Weintrob Along with Jews throughout the world, the incurable pain and longing every day the somber memorial day would morph that goes by,” Israel Defense Forces’ chief into a joyous Yom Ha’atzmaut, indepenof staff, Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, said in a dence day, as nigh fell on Wednesday.

At the national ceremony for the message to the troops.

“IDF commanders and soldiers, seven commemoration of Yom Hazikaron at See Israel remembers on page 21 decades have passed since sirens pierced JERUSALEM (JTA) — A siren sounded throughout Israel late Tuesday as people and cars came to a halt at the start of Yom Hazikaron, the Jewish state’s memorial day.

“On this day, we bow our heads alongside the bereaved families that are living

70th birthday for modern Israel The nation of Israel is timeless, and the Jewish connection with the Land of Israel stretches back millennia, but for 70 years on Wednesday Jewish national aspirations have had a home in the modern State of Israel. Meanwhile, Jewish religious study and practice thrive as never before throughout the Diaspara as well as in the Land.

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R’ Dovid Kramer, R’ Shmuel Kamenetzky, Chaya Burns, Barbara Silber, Ed Burns, Mark Silber, R’ Mordechai Kamenetzky, R’ Dovid Kramer and R’ Chanina Herzberg. The event raised money for the yeshiva, including its scholarship fund which distributes more than $1-million dollars a year.

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By Eliana Rudee, JNS In the weeks leading up to Yom Ha’aztmaut, pro-Israel students on more than 160 campuses across North America have been holding parties and celebrations for the Jewish state’s 70th birthday.

These festivities, which include birthday cakes and candles, balloons, music, posters and T-shirts, photo booths and even Tel Aviv-themed beach parties in California schools, are expected to reach millions on campus and online who have little or no knowledge of Israel, hoping to inspire a surge of pride for the Jewish homeland.

Alec Deer, a senior at the University of Iowa, told JNS, “We have planned a booth in the ‘population center’ on campus. We intend to have birthday cake, pictures and surfboards so students can enjoy the feeling of being in Tel Aviv while in Iowa City.”

According to Deer, the main goal of the party is “for students to see Israel in a positive light while having a discourse that allows them to better understand Israel.”

He said “many of the people on this campus have never left the country, let alone thought about going to Israel. It is our goal to show that it is not 100 percent war-torn, like shown on TV. That all over the country, people live normal dayto-day lives, just like we do here. What we see in the news is a small fraction of what actually happens there.”

Optimistic, Deer added that “I see a future where anti-Semitism on campuses is not an issue at all. I am lucky to attend a campus where antiSemitic incidents are rare. It is my hope that all community members and leaders on campus can have a civil discourse, and we can learn to appreciate one another.”

The “Celebrate 70” effort is a collaborative one between various funding organizations, including Jewish fraternity AEPi, Artists for Israel, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting

While she maintained that Berkeley is often thought of as an anti-Semitic and anti-Israel campus, “it is a very safe environment,” and she has not experienced the effects of the BDS movement on her campus so far. “We hope that with this celebration, other students get a taste of the marvelous Israeli culture that we have inherited as our own and get a glimpse of our identities. We also hope this carnival enables Jewish and pro-Israel students to showcase their pride and to celebrate their own history.”

While Breziner noted that Berkeley “is a pretty phenomenal environment because of our vibrant student activism,” she said that often, “our narrative gets told to us. It is misconstrued and it is truly unfair, especially at a place like Berkeley.”

Students attend Israel’s 70th Independence Day Celebration at Michigan State University.

Celebrate 70 She voiced her hope that students in the UC system will “seek out further eduin America, Hasbara Fellowships, Hillel Interna- places that are being targeted by BDS to pre-empt tional, Israeli-American Council, Israel on Cam- BDS. We are getting the upper hand by first intro- cation on a highly sensitive topic prior to creatpus Coalition, Jewish National Fund, Masa Israel ducing pro-Israel [materials] and presenting that ing such strong opinions, and that they choose to Journey, Milstein Family Foundation, StandWi- in advance so we are ahead of the game,” he said. engage in dialogue rather than create walls that thUs, and Students Supporting Israel.

He emphasized that if the pro-Israel commu- further divide our student bodies.”

She stressed that she would like “people to AEPi executive director Andy Borans said nity puts the time and effort into disseminating that the events will provide a powerful counter- positive education and material about Israel, as be pro-Israel because of the shared values that narrative to a campus discourse in recent years well as showing how BDS is “nothing more than Americans and Israelis hold. I would hope that that has been driven by Boycott, Divestment and anti-Semitism and anti-capitalism,” BDS will fail they become spaces for dialogue and relationSanctions (BDS) resolutions, anti-Semitic as- every time. But either way, he noted, “even after ships to flourish.”

So far, Borans said the events that have alsaults and displays, and the suppression of pro- BDS votes pass, not one school has ever divested ready taken place have gone very well, without Israel student’s free speech. one penny from Israel.”

“For years, BDS has worked to slander Israel Dalia Breziner, a second-year student at the any significant anti-Israel pushback. “Where and attack its supporters on campus. On this spe- University of California-Berkeley, helped orga- there was pushback, students have distributed cial birthday, we will counter this hate by bring- nize a carnival on her campus. “We will have educational materials, and most [naysayers] say ing to life the fun, passion and inspiration that multiple booths with many different activities, that they were unaware and are impressed.”

Borans is optimistic about the future of proemanates from Israel’s people and vibrant cul- ranging from trivia to Israeli food-tasting, as well ture,” said Borans. as a ‘Gratitude Wall,’ Israeli dancing and face- Israel life on North American campuses.

“By mobilizing and getting the word out, comAccording to Borans, BDS movements reach painting,” she described. only 10 campuses per year, while the Celebrate “We decided to hold a celebration for Israel’s municating with students one on one and making 70 parties will reach more than tenfold that 70th because we are proud Jews who advocate it fun, it’s just retail engagement. The future is very good.” number this April. “We are going way above the for the existence of a State of Israel,” she said.

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Israel at 70: How 1948 changed American Jews

By Ben Sales, JTA One year after Israel’s establishment, in the dead of night, three students ascended a tower at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and raised the Israeli flag. The next morning, the Conservative rabbinical school’s administration took it down.

That act of surreptitious Zionist protest was one of several at JTS during around 1948, when Israel gained independence, Michael Greenbaum wrote in an essay in “Tradition Renewed,” a JTS history edited by Jack Wertheimer. Students supported the new Jewish state. However, the seminary’s chancellor, Louis Finkelstein, opposed American Judaism focusing its efforts across an ocean, and also needed to appease a board wary of Jewish nationalism.

But the students persisted. Once, they sang the Israeli anthem “Hatikvah” following graduation ceremonies. Another time, they convinced their colleagues at the Union Theological Seminary, the Protestant school next door, to play the anthem from their bell tower.

Today, nearly all U.S. Jewish institutions are vocally, even passionately, pro-Israel. Seventy years ago, that feeling was not universal.

Before the Holocaust, Zionism itself was polarizing among American Jews. Many, especially in the Reform movement, felt support for a Jewish homeland would cause their loyalty to America to be called into question. The other side was represented by Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Supreme Court justice, who saw no conflict between American values and Zionist aspirations.

By the time Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948, American Jews, scarred by images of the Holocaust and Nazism and inspired by newsreels of tanned kibbutzniks, were largely supportive of Zionism. But they were not yet turning out for organized political advocacy and mass tourism to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Instead they were getting used to the idea of a Jewish sovereign state — gradually incorporating it into their culture, prayers and religious outlook.

North American Jewish support for Israel was turbocharged by the Truman administration’s quick recognition of the state, and by the Israeli army’s victory against the Arab states in its war of independence.

In February of that year, Golda Meyerson (later Meir), raised $400,000 in one day (the equivalent of some $4 million today) on behalf of the provisional state on just one stop in Montreal. In the weeks following independence, she started a drive in the United States and Canada for $75 million more (or about $750 million in 2018 dollars).

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David Ben-Gurion reads the new nation’s Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948.

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Zionism had won, and everyone wanted to link with the winners,” said Jonathan Sarna, a professor of Jewish history at Brandeis University. “It was growing very quickly, it took in all of these refugees, which solved that problem.”

After Israel secured its independence, American Jews began to engage with the new nation in small ways. There was no rush of tourism, but American Jews would show their support by purchasing goods from Israel, reading books about Israel or holding Israeli dance classes in their community centers.

“Here’s this new state they had to kind of develop this relationship with, [and] the cultural realm was really the place it was happening,” Emily Alice Katz, author of the 2015 book “Bringing Zion Home,” told the New Books Network podcast. “There were these years in which it wasn’t as much about rallying the troops for these massive outpourings of aid or political influence, but it was more of this coming to know Israel.”

Part of the reticence to support Israel stemmed from the ethos of 1950s America, with its focus on suburban growth, the “melting pot” and assimilation. Against that backdrop, American Jews were trying to prove they belonged as social and cultural equals in American society, fearful of “dual loyalty” charges.

In a watershed moment in that debate, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion sent a letter in 1950 to Jacob Blaustein, president

of the American Jewish Committee, which for many years had been hesitant to throw its support behind the Jewish national movement.

Ben-Gurion pledged not to speak for American Jewry or intervene in its affairs, and to dial down his insistence that American Jews move to Israel. In exchange, Blaustein recognized “the necessity and desirability” of supporting Israel in its nation building.

Israel began to show up in American Jewish religious practice.

A Conservative prayer book published in 1949 had readings about Israel, but not the prayer for Israel that is now standard in many prayer books. Religious schools gradually shifted their pronunciation of Hebrew from European Ashkenazic to Sephardic-inflected Israeli. Non-Zionist religious leaders, like Finkelstein of JTS, eventually were sidelined.

The biggest shift, Sarna said, was American Jewry viewing Judaism’s history as one of “destruction and rebirth.” That outlook posed the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel as its two poles and, Sarna said, remains dominant in American Jewish thinking today.

He noted that Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day and its Independence Day are commemorated about a week apart by design.

“The theme of destruction and rebirth becomes a very important theme in the lives of American Jews,” he said. “So much so that American Jews don’t know the history of Zionism going back, and have bought the idea that it’s all about the Holocaust being linked to the birth of the State of Israel.”

American Jews became more open in their celebration of Israel about a decade after 1948. “Exodus,” the 1958 novel by Leon Uris that painted Israel in heroic terms, was a national best-seller and was adapted into a popular movie in 1960 starring Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint. In 1961, the Yiddish star Molly Picon starred in a Broadway musical about a visit by American Jews to Israel, “Milk and Honey,” which ran for over 500 performances. A few years later, the Israel Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair showcased the country’s charms. And as Cold War tensions continued into the 1960s, Israel began to be seen as a U.S. ally against the Soviet Union.

In 1967, Israel’s existence was again threatened by Arab armies.

Between the anxious buildup to that war and Israel’s lightning victory, American Jewish acceptance of Israel had turned to adulation, placing the Jewish state at the center of their identity. The few dissenters are found on the non-Zionist left, among various haredi Orthodox movements, and in the quiet grumblings of some mainstream leaders and rabbis who think the emphasis on Israel has thwarted the development of distinctly American Judaisms.

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Wonder Gal cries over zeide video

By Gabe Friedman,JTA Israeli actress Gal Gadot said she got teary when her assistant showed her a video of her late grandfather on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Gadot, star of “Wonder Woman,” explained in an Instagram post on Thursday that she had not been able to find a photo of her grandfather Abraham Weiss, who lost his entire family in Auschwitz, the night before. But on the way to practice some stunts for an upcoming “Wonder Woman” movie, her assistant randomly sent her a video of what she thought was Gadot and her granddad, not knowing Gadot had been looking for an image of him.

“She had no idea today is Holocaust Remembrance Day,” Gadot wrote, “and didn’t know I was looking for a photo of him/us all night.”

“I wasn’t surprised … My grandpa is always with me … That’s not the first time he pops out of nowhere,” Gadot wrote.

“I’ve never seen this video before and it made me cry,” she continued. “And as I think of you today, at this very moment of remembrance, which is also a call for all of us to act against discrimination of any kind. Anywhere in the world.”

Gadot previously mentioned Weiss, who died in 2013 at 85, in an article last summer.

“His entire family was murdered — it’s unthinkable,” Gadot said in Rolling Stone. “He affected me a lot. After all the horrors he’d seen, he was like this damaged bird, but he was always hopeful and positive and full of love.”

Crowd cheers PLO speaker; muted reception to Israeli

By Ron Kampeas, JTA WASHINGTON — Sen. Ben Cardin, a proIsrael stalwart in the Democratic Party, lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a J Street conference on Monday, breaking with a party tradition of avoiding confrontations with Israel’s leaders.

In his speech, Cardin, D-Md., stood by his bill — opposed by the left-wing J Street — that would criminalize some forms of boycotting Israel. He also extolled the closeness of the U.S.Israel relationship.

The most rapturous cheers on Monday were reserved for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who was — as has been his custom — sharply critical of Netanyahu.

But Cardin’s remarks about the prime minister were unexpected. Cardin noted that he had opposed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal — a key policy win for J Street and its allies — but nonetheless decried Netanyahu for using Congress as a platform to speak out against it.

“When the prime minister accepted an invitation to address the joint session of Congress, creating a partisan division in our own country, we speak out against that decision,” said Cardin. Democrats saw Netanyahu’s March 3, 2015 speech, coordinated solely with Republicans, as an unseemly attack on then-President Obama and Democrats.

Cardin also likened Netanyahu’s plan to deport African asylum seekers to President Trump’s policies severely restricting refugees

Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., speaking at J Street’s conference in Washington on April 16.

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arriving from some Muslim majority countries.

He also noted Trump’s failure to unequivocally condemn white supremacists during the demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia. In each case, he said his objections arose from “a responsibility to speak out against the policies of Israel or the United States that are not consistent with our Jewish and Democratic values.”

“We speak out!” he said in a call and response that earned applause.

Cardin said he was still open to modifying his bill targeting the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel, but defended it as a necessary means of countering pressure on companies to boycott Israel. He also defended the bill’s inclusion of boycotts targeting Israeli settlements. That policy is very unpopular at J Street, which opposes BDS overall, but does not oppose settlement boycotts.

Sanders’ speech especially decried Israel’s actions recently on the Gaza Strip border, where 30 Palestinian protesters were killed and hundreds wounded in clashes with Israeli soldiers.

“Though the overwhelming majority of these protesters were nonviolent, we know that some of them were not, and when Israeli soldiers are in danger we can all agree that they have a right to defend themselves,” Sanders said. “I don’t think that any objective person can disagree that Israel has massively overreacted to these demonstrations.”

Sanders and Cardin are both Jewish, and so is Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, who called for more openness among Democrats to different expressions toward Israel. He said his views on Israel, emphasizing a two-state outcome, should be considered centrist, but, “In Congress I am at the left edge and that cannot hold.”

Husam Zomlot, the Palestine Liberation Organization envoy to Washington, received a warm welcome. He noted that of the three parties to efforts to renew Israeli-Palestinian talks, only the Palestinian negotiators still were committed to two states, while the Trump and Netanyahu governments had retreated from endorsing that outcome. He especially decried Trump for his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

“Jerusalem is the key to peace,” Zomlot said. The recognition “did not do justice to the history of Jerusalem.”

Addressing that history, Zomlot said that Christians, Jews and Muslims have lived in the city for “millennia” — unusual for Palestinian officials, who often refrain from noting Jewish connections to the city. A Palestinian capital in the city alongside a Jewish one, Zomlot said, “will not only recognize the Jewish connection to Jerusalem but will celebrate the Jewish connection to Jerusalem.”

Zomlot earned loud applause, which was noticed by Merav Michaeli, the Zionist Union Knesset member who spoke after him and Schatz. She chided the audience for being more enthusiastic in cheering Palestinians than Israelis.

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Row over kippah wearer at the Anne Frank House Israeli-Arab human rights organization that freBy Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA AMSTERDAM — When Barry Vingerling asked quently criticizes the government. NIF is also crithis employers at the Anne Frank House whether it ical of Israel’s plans to deport tens of thousands was okay for him to start coming to work wearing of African asylum-seekers, leading Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accuse it of working a kippah, he did it mostly as a courtesy.

“I hadn’t expected this to be an issue,” Vinger- for the “erasure of the Jewish character of Israel.”

In announcing the partnership, the Anne ling, 25, told the Dutch-Jewish NIW weekly in an interview. “I work at the house of Anne Frank, who had to hide because of her identity. Should I have to hide mine in that same house?”

His bosses’ answer to this question appeared to be “yes.” Suggesting at first that he wear a hat on top of his skullcap, they dithered for six months on whether to allow it before Vingerling forced their hand by wearing a kippah without permission.

In a statement, the Anne Frank House said it did not have a policy on the wearing of religious symbols by employees and that it needed a few months to hammer out one.

They finally announced last week Tourists outside the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. Getty Images that they would allow employees Frank Fonds wrote that “the New Israel Fund is to wear religious symbols to work.

Vingerling’s predicament may have had a the leading organization promoting democracy happy ending. But the fuss nonetheless illustrates and equality in Israel,” and that “[t]his partnerhow Jews in Western Europe are affected by a ship with NIF is designed to strengthen Israeli debate usually focused on Muslims, immigration civil society.”

Caroline Glick, a right-leaning journalist and and religious tolerance.

In the Netherlands, a 2015 law made it illegal Jerusalem Post columnist, criticized the deal in a to wear face-covering clothes in schools and hos- column for Ma’ariv Friday, stating that NIF “seeks pitals, government buildings and public transpor- to make Israel a country devoid of singular Jewtation. Belgium has an even stricter policy since ish characteristics,” whereas Frank herself was 2011, as does France, aimed at the Muslim niqab, both a Dutch patriot and a proud Jew. Kugelmann declined to say how much money or face veil.

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Taking stock as we resume our life of chometz JONI SCHOCKETT KOSHER KITCHEN

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or Passover, we thoroughly cleaned out our cabinets and refrigerators. Now, as we finish putting back all the chametz foods, we can look at what we have and take stock of our eating habits.

Does your cupboard have boxes and boxes of processed foods? Are there many boxes of rice pilafs and mac and cheese and other kinds of ready-to-make foods that, supposedly, make our lives easier? Well, maybe they do — but at what price?

At the very best, these foods are quickly prepared and taste OK. They are the go-to for a quick side dish for that leftover chicken or a quick vacation week lunch or part of a lunch-togo for the office. At worst, they are loaded with chemicals and preservatives and too much salt, sugar and fat.

I’m not lecturing here, I am as guilty as anyone of using these foods and, for a while, I even relied on them for my children. Oy! But that was before I actively educated myself on health and nutrition. I decided if I was going to write about food, I was not going to contribute (too much) to the health issues in America that come from the approximately 15,000 new processed foods that hit shelves every year. was raised by a mother who served a salad at every dinner. She served vegetables also, often canned, sometimes frozen, and, in season, fresh. But she also fried a lot of foods (her homemade French fries were outstanding!) and came to rely on the newest processed foods. Like many women of her time, she knew little about nutrition; she thought margarine was more nutritious than butter. She followed the latest food trends and marveled at things like Cool Whip, canned anything and more. I once placed six or seven cans of food on the table and told her I was making dinner!

I followed suit to some degree, buying canned and boxed foods and telling myself they were better because they were organic. But, I soon began to realize that they were not healthful foods.

So I read nutrition books, consulted nutritionists (my closest friend has a PhD in nutrition) and read all kinds of vegetarian, Ayurvedic and vegan cookbooks. It helped. I tossed canned things and boxed things and discovered that I was giving up tons of salt, sugar, and unhealthful fats and lots of chemicals.

It took a while to adjust, but my kids were healthier and I felt better about what I was giving

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them. I’m not a vegetarian, though I eat and cook with a lot of vegetables. I am not vegan, though I like to use vegan-friendly foods as much as possible. I avoid adding salt to most of the foods I cook — guests can add as much as they like — because I like the taste of the vegetables that I use and the herbs that infuse these vegetables with color, health and flavor. But I think I am better off for not using these convenience foods.

Yes, I still love chocolate and mocha chip ice cream and a French fry every so often. And it’s hard to pass up a really good potato chip. But I have cleaned out my cabinets for spring and it feels good.

(If you would like to learn more about the added salt, sugar and fat in processed foods, read “Salt, Sugar and Fat” by Michael Moss.)

Salad with Leftover Chicken or Salmon or More (Pareve, Meat)

This is a delicious and highly nutritious salad that uses up leftover salmon, chicken, steak or can even be made with canned tuna.

2 (15-ounce) cans Cannelini or Navy beans, drained and rinsed 1 bunch arugula 1 head radicchio, roughly chopped 1 hear romaine, trimmed and cut into bite sized pieces 1 to 2 carrots, shredded 6 radishes, shredded or sliced 2 to 3 stalks celery sliced diagonally and thinly 1 cucumber, thinly sliced 1 pint cherry or grape tomatoes Leftover slices of chicken or steak or pieces of salmon Parsley and Chive Vinaigrette or your favorite salad dressing Place the arugula, romaine and radicchio in a large bowl and toss with the Parsley Vinaigrette dressing or your favorite dressing. Place on a serving platter.

Place the beans in the bowl and add the carrots, radishes, and celery. Add more dressing, toss and pour over the center of the greens. Garnish with cucumber and tomatoes around the

beans and top with the chicken, meat or salmon.

Serves 4 to 6.

Parsley and Chive Vinaigrette (Pareve) 2 cups packed, flat leaf parsley 1/2 cup minced fresh chives 1 garlic clove 4 Tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 Tbsp. white wine or champagne vinegar Pinch sugar Pinch salt and pepper 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil 1/4 cup canola oil Place garlic in a food processor and pulse. Add the parsley and chives and pulse 2-3 times. Add the lemon juice and vinegar and pulse to blend.

Add the oils and pulse until emulsified. If too thick, add a bit of water. Add the sugar, salt and pepper, pulse 1-2 times and scrape into a container with a tight fitting lid. Makes about 1-1/3 cups.

Mostly Baked Cauliflower Latkes (Dairy)

1 head cauliflower 1 large onion finely minced and drained 2 eggs 1/2 to 2/3 cup cheddar cheese, grated 1/2 cup panko or whole wheat panko 1/4 to 1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper 1/4 cup finely minced fresh parsley 1 to 2 Tbsp. finely minced dill Freshly ground black pepper, to taste Olive oil Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a large, rimmed baking sheet with foil. Set aside.

Fill a large pot with water and bring to a boil.

Cut the cauliflower into small florets and add them to the water. Cook until tender, 10 to 15 minutes. Drain completely in a strainer in batches and press gently to remove excess water. Place on paper towel lined plates to drain further.

Transfer the florets to a large bowl and mash coarsely with a potato masher. Add the onion, cheese, panko, cayenne, herbs and pepper. Mix well and form into 3-inch patties. If they feel too wet, add a bit more of the panko crumbs.

Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat and add just enough olive oil to generously coat the bottom. Place the patties in the pan, leaving

a generous amount of room for turning. Cook until they are deep golden brown, 3 minutes.

Turn carefully and cook the second side until golden, 2 to 3 minutes.

Place on the prepared rimmed baking sheet.

Repeat until all the mixture is used and then place in the oven. Bake for about 10 to 15 minutes. Serve with plain yogurt or sour cream. Garnish with fresh dill and parsley. Makes about 12 to 18 latkes.

Simple Chicken and Rice in One Pan (Meat)

1 chicken cut into 8 pieces, breasts cut in half or 6 to 8 chicken pieces 3 to 5 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil 2 onions, chopped 3 to 5 cloves garlic, finely minced 2 carrots, finely chopped 2 stalks celery, very thinly sliced 1-1/2 cups long grain white or basmati rice 1-1/2 cups low-sodium chicken stock 1-1/2 cups water 1/3 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice Oregano Onion powder Garlic powder Paprika Black pepper Salt, if desired Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

Heat a large skillet and add the olive oil.

Sauté the onions and garlic until lightly golden, 6 to 10 minutes. Add the carrots and celery and cook another 4 to 5 minutes, until softened. Pour into a large roasting pan. Add the rice and stir to mix. Spread evenly. Place the chicken pieces on top and season with the oregano, onion and garlic powders, paprika, salt and pepper. Pour the stock and water evenly around the chicken and cover tightly with foil. Bake for 35 minutes. Uncover and check to make sure there is still plenty of liquid. Add more if needed. Place back in the oven and roast for another 20 minutes, until the chicken is golden. Serves 4 to 6.

How to make a Georgian cheese boat (khatchapuri)

By Shannon Sarna, The Nosher via JTA I first fell in love with adjaruli khatchapuri — Georgian cheese bread or cheese boat — at the Marani Kosher Georgian Restaurant in Rego Park. This cheesy-carby deliciousness is basically all the comfort food you could possibly crave in one dish: cheese, runny egg yolk and butter, all held by homemade bread.

Khatchapuri and khinkali, a dumpling most often stuffed with meat and spices, are two of Georgia’s most recognizable dishes (and yes, I am talking about the country, not the state).

And they are pure comfort food, even if you’ve never been exposed to Georgian food. The Jews of Georgia date back to the Byzantine Empire and have had a long existence there. Separate from the Ashkenazi Jews who lived in Russia, they maintained a unique culture that was influenced by the diverse surroundings of the re-

gion and the Silk Road, the ancient routes of trade through Eurasia.

Since my introduction to khatchapuri a few years ago, I have traveled back to Marani several times, but I wanted to enjoy this cheesy specialty in the comfort of my own home, so I recently set out to conquer the dish.

This dough is very easy to make, comes together quickly and doesn’t require a long rise.

Which means you don’t have to feel intimidated about making it at home.

Could you use a store-bought pizza dough?

Absolutely, just keep in mind it will not stretch quite as easily or as large as the traditional khatchapuri dough, which is softer. And also, it’s not quite as authentic. Not that I am judging.

After many trial runs and some research, I suggest using a combination of mozzarella

cheese, Muenster cheese and brynzda, which is feta-like. I found that feta can be too salty for this dish, so if you cannot find brynza but have access to several different kinds of cheese, go for one that is slightly less salty, such as a Bulgarian-style.

Ingredients: For the dough: 2/3 cup warm water 1 tsp. dry yeast 1/4 tsp. sugar 1-1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 1-1/2 tsp. sea salt 1 Tbsp. olive oil plus more for brushing For the filling: 1-1/2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese 1-1/2 cups shredded Muenster cheese 1 cup brynzda cheese (can also use feta) 4 tablespoons butter 2 egg yolks, carefully separated from the white Special equipment: pizza stone or dark baking sheet, parchment paper Directions: 1. Combine warm water, yeast and sugar See Georgian cheese boat on page 14

JudY JoszEf

who’s in the kitchen

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ince I began writing this column in December 2011, I’ve been asked over and over, “Are all the stories about your husband Jerry true?”

“It’s not possible that he actually did all those things, is it?” “I finally met Jerry in person. All along, I thought he was this short, fat and bald guy. I was shocked to see that he’s actually in great shape and 6’1,” or “You didn’t write about Jerry this past week, we love when you write about him.”

So, to answer that burning question: Yes, every “Jerry” story is authentic. Not one bit is made up, which actually is kind of scary, because the stories sound so far-fetched.

One day, when I had a mental block about what to write about, I was in Trader Joe’s, when someone came up to me and said, “You look so familiar, where do I know you from?”

We figured maybe from shul, or just the neighborhood, when she suddenly said “You’re…” and before she had time to say anything else, I sheepishly replied, “Yes, I write the weekly column for The Jewish Star called Who’s in the Kitchen.” She immediately said, “You’re married to Jerry Joszef, right? I love reading all about Jerry Joszef, he is so hysterical.”

Part of me wanted to scream, “Hey, I’m the one who put Jerry on the map. It’s my articles that introduced him to his “fans.” I held myself back, and told her I was indeed his wife. She rattled off at least six of her favorite ”Jerry” escapades.

And talking about Jerry stories…

The week leading up to Passover was very hectic, as most of you who stayed home know all too well. I barely slept. I was running back and forth to the city, visiting my granddaughter Arielle, shop-

ping, cleaning, changing over and filling my cabinets at home. Then came the baking, cooking and setting up the guest rooms for company. I think I slept three hours a night Tuesday and Wednesday night. Thursday night I might have slept an hour and a half, if that much. When Friday morning came around, I was beyond exhausted.

Dani Lasky of Plum Pro Pluming and Heating graciously agreed to install my new sink faucets because one had broken, and I decided I would replace the one in my other sink as well, because I felt it was on its way out, and it would be better to do both the same time. Of course the faucets promised to be delivered on Wednesday did not arrive until late Thursday night, but thankfully Dani squeezed me into his schedule.

The plumber removed both old faucets and I took them out to the street so that bulk could pick them up. And then it happened. The faucet in my meat sink was factory-defective. I ran outside to retrieve the faucet we had thrown out 45 minutes before and it was gone. I did not have a faucet in my meat sink. Since I wanted the two faucets to match, and this faucet was not available in any stores, I was stuck over the holiday with one sink.

I wasn’t a happy camper. erry, who was about to leave to work, was putting small bottles of orange juice into the freezer. The only time he does that is when he plans on going to the gym. I looked at him, and you know that look, and said, “You’re planning on going to the gym today?” “Now now,” he said. “I was planning on running over when I got home from work.”

The moment those words left his mouth, he regretted saying them. I’m not sure if it was because he realized he probably shouldn’t be going to the gym, after he basically did nothing for the Pesach prep and I was killing myself, or if it was because I had that killer look in my eyes.

When he returned home at 3:30 pm I was still the same place in the kitchen, cooking and prep-

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ping. The only time I left the house was to bring the chametz to be burned at the local fire station (thank you for organizing it, Jay Goldmark!).

Wouldn’t it have been nice if Jerry would have found the time to do that like most of the other husbands, but then he would ruin his record of doing absolutely nothing for Pesach.

But wait, he actually did do something —the bedikat chametz the night before. It went something like this: “Ju, what should I do?” I responded, “Are you seriously asking me that question?

You don’t know what to do? Just put the pieces of bread out and then do the bedika,” I said. “I know that, I just meant like where should I leave the pieces of bread?” I’m not going to repeat exactly what I said but you get the idea.

Back to it being about three hours before Yom Tov, when Jerry was taking his frozen orange juice out of the freezer. I told him to pick up his shirts from the cleaners on Central Avenue and then to pick up an extra dozen of eggs from Smitty’s (both stores within a quarter of a mile from my house) on his way home from the gym.

He called me up an hour and a quarter later.

“You’re out of the gym already” I asked. “I didn’t go in the end, I figured it wasn’t a good idea” he replied. “What were you doing for the last hour and a quarter?” I asked. “I bought the eggs and picked up the shirts” he answered.

“Both those stores are two blocks from each other and a five minute drive from our house!” I

said “I got lost”Jerry replied. I honestly thought he was kidding. There was no way he could’ve gotten lost, not even him! He’s been living in this neighborhood for 12 years. He tried to explain that after he picked up the shirts he just kept going straight trying to find Rockaway Turnpike and then turn around. What he did to was end up on 878 and then he decided to go to Costco an hour before Yom Tov to buy a dozen eggs that he could’ve bought basically around the corner.

Yes this actually happened. And there you have it, this week’s Jerry story, which leads to this week’s recipe…

Tom and JERRY Batter By Genius Kitchen 6 eggs, separated 1⁄2 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 lb powdered sugar 1 (7 ounce) jar marshmallow cream (I use marshmallow fluff) hot water rum brandy nutmeg Directions: Separate the 6 eggs Beat egg whites with cream of tartar until stiff.

Mix in the powdered sugar and set aside.

Beat egg yolks until thick and light colored.

Stir in the marshmallow cream (fluff) with a wooden spoon.

Fold egg white mixture into egg yolks. refrigerate all leftovers.

To make a Tom & Jerry: Boil water.

Spoon several heaping tablespoons of batter into a mug.

Pour a shot of R&B (rum/brandy mix) or about 1/2 a shot each of rum and brandy (or whatever amount you care for). Pour hot water into the mug until fill.

The batter will rise to the top.

Sprinkle with nutmeg.

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Today, the ruins of the city can be found inside Tel Zafit, an Israeli national park, where it has become a major archaeological site. Since 1996, Aren Maeir, professor of archeology at BarIlan University, has been the director of the Tell es-Safi/Gath excavation. He and his team have dug up such remarkable findings as a Philistine temple, the ruins of a Crusader era castle, and countless ritual items dating back to the Iron Age — a period that, Maeir says, would be parallel in biblical terms to the era of the first Temple.”

Prior to the Gath expedition, Maier — who was born in Rochester, NY, and moved to Israel in 1969 at age 11 — has participated in, and directed, numerous archaeological excavations in Israel, including at Jerusalem, Hazor, Yoqneam, Tell Qasile and Beth-Shean. He has unearthed a literal treasure trove of ancient pottery and other artifacts that date back some 3,000 years, many of which are on exhibit in his department of Land Of Israel Studies at Bar-Ilan. Yet what impresses him the most, he said, is the rapidly changing nature of how the work on these archeological sites has evolved over the past two decades.

“Today we have field-labs on our excavation site that allow us to get testing results almost immediately,” he says. “The instant data that we can collect on things such as stones and pottery, or the micro data such as DNA and Carbon-14 is nothing short of miraculous. It allows us to get a rich and immediate reconstruction of daily life from centuries ago, which we upload into the cloud to form an instant digital archive. I would say it is almost as though the profession that I studied some 30 years ago is practically a different vocation from what we are doing now.”

As for an encounter with the Biblical Goliath, Maier hasn’t personally run into him as of yet.

However, he and his team has found some artifacts that might hint to King David’s monstrous adversary. “We uncovered a stone inscription with a pair of names that are very similar to the name Goliath from the Philistine levels of our digging.

And there are the inevitable humorous moments when we get asked if a large soaking tub was Goliath’s bathtub, or if the stone archway to a temple might have been Goliath’s temple entrance.

“More important than finding any specific remains on this site is that we get a vivid picture of how people from these ancient cities once lived — where they came from, what their health was; who they were socially and economically involved with.”

Maier, who did his undergraduate and graduate studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and did a post-doctorate at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology and MIT, been been teaching Bar-Ilan since 1992, said this is “a chance to uncover our roots in the land of Israel and deepen our sense of history.”

For information on how to support Aren Maier’s historic excavation in Israel, contact American Friends of Bar-Ilan University, 212-906-3900, AFBIU.org. Source: Bar-Ilan University

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Remembering, celebrating, and praying for peace Rabbi binny FReedman

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t is hard to describe what it takes to be a combat infantry soldier in the Israeli army, but those who succeed in the elite Golani brigade are few and far between. To be chosen from amongst them to be an officer means you have something special, and David Golavensas was one of those rare few made of that “special stuff” it takes to be a combat officer. You don’t get drafted to such a role, you have to earn it and you have to be invited to it, and ultimately you have to choose it.

On Yom Hazikaron, we remember those who gave everything so that we might have a state, after which we celebrate the 70th anniversary of that state. Then on Shabbat here in Israel, we will, appropriately, read the portions of Acharei MotKedoshim, which when read together translate literally as “After the deaths of the Holy ones.”

And so it is that we are tasked with celebrating the blessing of living in our homeland, in a modern Jewish State, immediately after remembering and experiencing the pain of all those we lost in the process. It is one of the most difficult transitions there is, and this year 72 families will struggle with this fresh, personal pain for the first time.

Shimon and Esther Golavensas and their children will experience the sharp agenizing pain of Yom HaZikaron as a bereaved family, for the first time, having entered the family of those who have lost their beloved soldier-sons this year. It is a club to which we accord the highest honors, but it is a club no one really wants to join.

David Golavensas, a Golani combat officer, was killed defending against terrorists in Hebron last summer, and his father Shimon will tell you that the pain is as fresh today, and in some ways more so, then on the day they received the terrible news. hat does it mean to be a kadosh, a holy one?

Growing up, I remember studying about the idea that a person could die Al Kiddush Hashem, in sanctification of Gd’s name. And traditionally this meant a Jew was faced with a horrible choice: faced with the choice of being killed unless he murdered, committed adultery, or worshipped idols, his willingness to choose death rather than violate one of these three great commandments was a sanctification of G-d’s name.

Indeed, Rav Unterman (one of the early Chief Rabbis of the state of Israel, in his Shevet Mi’yehudah) suggests that it was precisely this choice that created the sanctification of G-d’s name. This of course implied that if a person had no choice, he was not actually sanctifying Hashem’s name, leading some to suggest that all of the millions of Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, were not considered to have died Al Kiddush Hashem, in sanctification of Hashem’s name, because they had no choice; the Nazis simply murdered them all. Indeed there are those that have suggested that the Holocaust was and remains inherently the greatest Chilul Hashem or desecration of Hashem’s name in Jewish History.

But many years ago, I recall Rav Shlomo Riskin quoting Rava who says (tractate Sanhe-

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drin 47a) that even a wicked person who is cruelly murdered by non-Jews simply because he is a Jew, receives atonement for his transgression.

And Rav Soleveitchik suggests that such a person can indeed be considered to have sanctified Hashem’s name and is a kadosh.

Perhaps these two opinions are not so far apart. Even if a person has no choice as to whether he will die, he still has a choice as to how he will die. And when Jewish men and women risked everything in the camps to wear a pair of tefillin or light Shabbat candles, they sanctified Hashem’s name in every moment.

We are blessed to be living in a time where Jewish blood no longer comes cheap. And unlike 70 years ago when so many Jews could only choose how to die, today we are blessed to choose how we live.

But we owe this privilege in no small part, to the young men and women who choose every day, to put themselves in harm’s way, that we might freely walk and hold our heads up high, in a Jewish state. t the shiva, a soldier showed up to the Golavensas home and seemed to be broken, in an extreme state of pain and mourning; he even asked if he could say Kaddish for his beloved commander, David. Hugging David’s father Shimon, he told him that his son “was the first person who ever really believed in me, he was the first person who really saw me; how do I continue?

The response he received speaks volumes about who David was, as well as the wellspring

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from which he was born: “Just think of David; ask yourself what he would tell you to do, and then trust enough in him and in yourself, to do it, and he will live on in you.”

David chose not only what to do for those around him, but as well, how to see those around him; to see the best in them, the potential in them.

His parents described all the hundreds of hugs, and letters they received sharing with them what a difference their son had made; how he would visit them in their homes; deliver food to underprivileged families, and always see the best in them.

It is not accidental that 51 mitzvot are to be found in the parsha of Kedoshim, including almost all of Maimonides’ essential mitzvot for becoming an ethical human being.

••• This year, yet again, at 11 am on Memorial Day, at Har Herzl, Israel’s National Military Cemetery, I will, be’ezrat Hashem, stand at the grave of Dani Moshitz of blessed memory, who is still, and will always be to me, 20 years old, which is how old he was when he was killed in an ambush at the Kasmiyeh Bridge in Lebanon, in 1985. I will see his youthful face, and his amazing smile and the tears will well up again, threatening to overcome me, fresh as that awful day back in 1985. And then, instead of leaving, I will walk over to David Golavensas’ grave and perhaps catch Shimon his dad for a hug and a moment which has no words.

And I will dream of the day when, finally, there are no fresh graves.

I have a stone this year that I brought back from Auschwitz which I hope to place on David’s grave. Because 70 years after Auschwitz, we can choose to be better, and to see a better world, just like David did.

Shabbat shalom, and chag Ha’Atzmaut sameach!

Rosh chodesh brings thoughts of renewal, at 70 Rabbi avi biLLet

Parsha of the week

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he calendar this year aligned to have rosh chodesh at the beginning of the week, and the celebration of Israel’s 70th birthday — Yom Ha’Atzma’ut — in the same week. (When Yom Ha’atzmaut is observed Tuesday or Wednesday, rosh chodesh is in the previous week). What a momentous time for the Jewish people!

In truth, every birthday of the Jewish state is something to marvel over. One of my friends who lives in Israel once told me why he chose to make aliyah. “We are living in a time of what is perhaps the greatest experiment of Jewish history. Israel should be around forever! But if something should happen and we were to lose it,

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I’d like to be able to say that I was there.”

So in this week of rosh chodesh, here is a thought that relates to both renewal and the number 70.

The word chodesh is reminiscent of chiddush – which either means renewal or a new idea altogether. The commentaries say “chodesh,” meaning “month,” comes from the word chiddush because the New Moon always coincides with rosh chodesh, when it achieves its monthly renewal.

Two points recounted by the Midrash Aggadah surrounding the first rosh chodesh are a. that of all nations since the dawn of time, G-d chose to love the Israelites, evidenced by giving them Rosh Chodesh as a monthly celebration, and b. “The new moon is for you — G-d emphasized that he could have given it to Adam, or any human beings in history, but “I gave it to the humans that comprise My people — the Children of Israel at the time of the Exodus.” abbenu Bechaye says about kiddush ha chodesh, and about blessing over the New Moon: “One who stands and blesses the moon is giving testimony about the chiddush of the world, which is a fundamental concept of faith. He recognizes G-d’s existence, He who renews the moon each month.”

But perhaps the most profound idea of Chiddush can come from the Mechilta, who notes how there are similarities between months and years in how the moon determines the length of each.

In the lunar calendar, a month is a little over 291/2 days, which makes each month in the Jewish calendar 29 or 30 days. The year is usually 12 months, but owing to the need to always have Pesach in the spring, we sometimes need to add a month, making a leap year, and we do that at the end of the year, as we do when there is a Jewish leap year and a second Adar.

And so the Mechilta says, “Just as a month gets the added day at the end of the month, so does a year have its addition at the end.”

And I think that in light of a number of views of the number 70, we can take the message of the Mechilta to its next logical step.

Tehillim 90, one of the paragraphs we read as part of the morning service on Shabbat and holidays, says this: The days of our lives are 70, and with increase, 80. … It passes quickly and we fly away.” We ask of G-d two verses later “Teach the number of our days so that we shall acquire a heart of wisdom.”

May I suggest that the next logical step of “the extra of the month is at the end of the month, and the extra added to a year is at the end of the year,” that the extra added to a life is at the so-called end — meaning the latter part — of the average life? resident Lincoln hoped in his Gettysburg Address that the nation would have a “rebirth of freedom.” According to the verse from Tehillim 90 — it can be argued that anything after 70 is a gift. This can be applied to both the state of Israel and to every person’s life. We can look to the post 70 time as a renewal, something which can be looked at a with a new set of eyes.

R Samson Raphael Hirsch, in his inimitable style, actually makes this point. “Your perception of the renewal of the moon should inspire you to undertake a similar renewal,” he writes. “The sanctification of the new moon is an institution for the moral and spiritual rejuvenation of Israel, to which Israel must always strive anew at regular periods, and which it will achieve through its re-encounter with G-d.” As the sages put it, “The renewal of the month is a model for you” to have a constant renewal. Reenergizing when the excitement of any activity or recommitment ends, we

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find something new. We begin again.

The Daf Yomi finishes a tractate. They make a siyum and they go onto the next one. We finish reading a parsha. By Mincha, we’re reading the next one. We finish reading a Book of the Torah, we begin the next one right away. On Simchas Torah, when we finish the Torah, we have another Torah in the wings, ready to begin with Bereshis.

Before the month ends we bless the month that will be coming.

And when we have our renewal of life at 70, especially if the question hasn’t been asked yet, each person must ask the question of “how am I making the most of my add-ons?” The state of Israel needs constant revision — how do we renew the Zionist spirit when our country is built and is so highly successful in so many ways? How do we deal with poverty, how do we resolve our internal conflicts? How do we deal with our enemies? How do we engage the world? How do we remain the Start-Up Nation?

Dov Gruner, one of the more famous Irgun fighters, who was executed by the British court in Palestine in 1947 at the age of 34, wrote to Menachem Begin when he was in prison awaiting his execution or the staying of it, “Of course I want to live. Who does not? But if I am sorry that I am about to ‘finish’ it is mainly because I did not manage to do enough.” Little did he know that his “not enough” is more heroic than most people achieve in full lifetimes.

Every year the New Moon is very close to Yom Ha’atzmaut. As noting its renewal is meant to be a recognition of G-d’s existence, and if 70 for each of us and for Israel is to be looked at as more than a gift and add-on, but as a rebirth of freedom that challenges us to make whatever comes after 70 to be even greater than what came before, then we all have our work cut out for us, don’t we? If we are blessed with such longevity, we should not ever feel like Dov Gruner that we did not do enough.

May Israel live long and prosper now and forever!

With liberty and with justice Kosher BooKworm

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t its Yom Ha’atzma’ut event this Wednesday evening, the Young Israel of Woodmere will hear former Senator and vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman discuss “Reflections on Israel’s 70th: Being a Strong Zionist.”

As part of my personal welcome, it is my honor to briefly review a new book that he recently authored, published by the OU Press and Maggid Books, with readings themed to the upcoming holiday of Shavuot, titled, “With Liberty and Justice: The Fifty-Day Journey from Egypt to Sinai.”

OU’s Jewish Action’s includes this description of this work, linking Shavuot and Pesach: “Unfortunately, for many Jews, the Pesach Seder is not only the most important Jewish night of the year, it is the only Jewish night of the year. But the Jewish calendar links Pesach with the festival that follows it seven weeks later, Shavuot. This book aims to explore and explain this connection, and to consider how events of the first Pesach eve, when the Jews became a free people, reached their culmination at Mount Sinai, where we received our moral and legal ‘Constitution.’ Fifty short essays take the reader through each day of the Omer, thus

linking Pesach to Shavuot and providing a path for those who attend a Seder to continue on and make the spiritual journey to Shavuot.”

Lieberman’s take on this Jewish calendar experience and link between the liberation from slavery with the giving of the Ten Commandments can be seen in the brief statement, “Freedom is not enough.” We have to consider these four short words as a guidepost to a vital theme in world history, and not just a parochial era in our people’s history. Indeed both holidays serve as bookends to a theological drama where one event at the beginning remains incomplete without the giving of the law seven weeks later.

If there is one other sentence that drives this book’s theme for the average Jew it is: “I believe that Shavuot is the most under-appreciated holiday on the Jewish calendar.”

I personally have never read such lines in any other book on this subject but, truth be told, these words bring to us the sad reality that they ring true for us, reflecting the shallowness of our religious observances. The essays in this work should serve as 50 correctives to this situation. Hopefully they will guide readers of all denominations to link the liberty achieved on Pesach with the code of laws that were revealed for all time on Shavuot.

The irony of Lieberman’s visit here themed to the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the modern state of Israel reinforces the sefirah observance that continues a few weeks later with Yom Yerushalayim. Both days fall within the sefirah and give what was historically a sad

time on the calendar a new tone of religious and nationalist optimism that, in effect, refines and redefines the course of our people’s history.

We welcome Senator Lieberman to our community Joseph Lieberman and thank him for his teachings that center on “With Liberty and Justice,” words that drew our forefathers to these shores, and words that serve to preserve the observance of our faith in safety for all time to come.

FOR FURTHER STUDY In following up study on Lieberman’s theme concerning Zionism, may I bring to your attention the recent timely publication of “The Zionist Ideas” by Gil Troy (Jewish Publications Society, 2018), an anthology of essays dealing with the Zionist ideology from various ideological perspectives.

One brief essay featured within this 500 page volume is authored by Esther Jungreis of blessed memory, a long time resident of our community, entitled, “Zionism: A Challenge to Man’s Faith.” Written in 1977, she shares her heartfelt grief over the fate of our people down through history, ending her thoughts with the following sad and haunting observation: “To have waited 2,000 years, to have suf-

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fered the agonies of exile, to have dreamt and hoped, to have been given the land only to reject it. How will Jews in exile answer to future generations when they ask, ‘Where were You’?”

Hopefully, by our continued devotion to our faith and the state of Israel, we will come to witness and experience our liberation, both spiritually and physically.

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ur parshiot, Tazria and Metzora, focus on the halachot of tumah and taharah (the Laws of ritual purity and impurity), some of the most complex subjects in the Torah. An entire section of the Mishnah is entitled “Taharot” (“Purities”), and page after page of the Talmud discusses the intricacies of this fundamental area of Jewish law. Unfortunately, however, very few people today, regardless of their level of intellectual acumen and scholarly achievement, have mastered this area of study.

This lack of mastery was noted as early as the 12th century by the Rambam (Maimonides), in his paradigm-changing work, Commentary on the Mishnah: “And you know that today, because of the multiplication of our sins, that if you were to encounter the leaders of the yeshivot throughout the Jewish people, and all the more so, those of the various synagogues, you would find that this entire subject remains difficult for them. This is the case, [even though] there are many explicit Torah verses and Mishnaic passages [that discuss this area of Halacha] and sources that are even clearer and simpler than these works.

Perhaps the challenges we face when encountering tumah and taharah stem from the inherent nature of these laws. The best-known example of

Clarification

Dr. Yitzchok Levine, whose work was excerpted in last week’s Kosher Bookworm column titled “Secular studies in yeshivas today and in tradition,” objected to some references in the column by its author, Alan Jay Gerber, and by the editor.

Levine pointed out that a version of his work appeared in the Jewish Press not as a “letter,” but rather as an op-ed column.

And he objected to the editor’s referring to Simcha Felder as a “Boro Park State senator.”

“Simcha Felder is not a ‘Boro Park state senator’,” Levine said in an email to the editor. “He represents

this category of commandments is the Parah Adumah (Red Heifer), which the Torah introduces with the famous words: “This is the statute (chukat) of the Torah which the L-rd commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the children of Israel and have them take for you a perfectly red unblemished cow, upon which no yoke was laid’.” (Bamidbar 19:2) From the Torah’s use of the term “chukat,” we learn that the Parah Adumah is a statute, in contrast to the prohibition of murder, for example, that is a mishpat.

The Rambam defined the main difference between these classes of mitzvot: “The mishpatim are those commandments wherein their rationale is revealed and the value that obtains as a result of their performance is manifest in this world. For example: the prohibitions of stealing and murder, and the obligation to honor one’s father and mother.

[In contrast,] the chukim are those commandments whose rationale is unknown.” y definition, as chukim, the rationale of tumah and taharah is unknown. Yet, there is more at stake here than our failure to discover the underlying basis of this area of Halacha; in actuality, there are no rationally-conceived principles as to why something renders an object or person tamei (ritually impure) or tahor (ritually pure). These are not physical processes; rather, the consequent changes in status are brought about through the absolute will of Hashem. The

following Midrash sheds light on this matter: “[Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai’s students] said to him: ‘You dismissed the [the question of the non-Jewish inquirer regarding tumah and taharah] with a reed [in a simplistic manner,] yet, how will you respond to us regarding the same inquiry?’ He said to them: ‘The dead person does not [in some physical manner] render [a person or an object] ritually impure, and neither does water bring about ritual purity [in a physical fashion,] rather, both of these effectuate [these] changes based solely upon the edict of the Omnipresent One (gezeirato shel Hamakom). For the Holy One blessed be He declared: A statute I have proclaimed! A prohibition I have declared! And you have no permission to violate my edict’.”

(Pesikta Rabbatai, Ish Shalom edition, Piska 14, Parah) It appears that the Rambam was strongly influenced by this midrashic passage, and utilized it as the underpinning for the following halachic decision: “It is a clear and explicit concept that the various forms of tumah and taharah are a divine decree of the Torah. They are not in the class of those matters wherein man can use his intellect to make determinations. [Instead,] they are in the category known as chukim. So, too, when it comes to the instance of immersion in a ritual bath (mikvah) to remove ritual impurity — it is in the category of chukim. This is the case since ritual impurity is neither dirt nor bodily excretions that will be removed by the water – rather, the purification process is a divine decree of the Torah – and the entire matter is dependent upon one’s intention (kavanat halev) [and not just the physical immersion].” (Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Mikvaot 11:12)

You have no permission to violate my edict.’

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district 17. This district includes much more than Boro Park. Indeed, Felder’s office is located on Avenue J in Flatbush, and he is my state Senator. I do not live in Boro Park. To categorize him as a Boro Park senator is to lead people to believe that he primarily represents Chassidim. This is false.”

Felder’s district includes nearly all of Boro Park, as well as parts of Midwood (referred to as Flatbush), Madison and portions of Kensington and Ditmas Park.

Levine served as a professor in the department of mathematical sciences at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, before retiring in 2008.

He then taught as an adjunct at Stevens until 2014.

His column, Glimpses Into American Jewish History, appears the first week of each month in the Jewish Press.

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t this juncture, the Rambam provides us with a startling philosophic and spiritual tour de force. In relatively few words, he enables us to gain a deep insight into the elusive world of tumah and taharah and its meaning for our time: “Nonetheless, the Torah provides a hint of understanding [of tumah and taharah]: Just like an individual with the proper intention to purify himself once he immerses himself becomes ritually pure, even though nothing new has been created in his body, so too, one who has the intention to purify his soul from spiritual impurities such as wicked and evil thoughts, since he has made a heartfelt decision to remove himself from those shameful ideas, will be able to bring his soul back to the waters of pure and unsullied thought. …

May Hashem in His great mercy purify us from all inadvertent and purposeful sins, and from all manner and variety of guilt.” (Ibid.)

In my view, the Rambam is teaching us that the ultimate purpose of the body of law focusing upon tumah and taharah is to serve as a model for how we can engender substantive change in ourselves, in order to become better than who we are today. The laws of tumah and taharah, therefore, offer the greatest hope known to the Jewish people, the hope that Hashem will help us return to Him in spiritual purity so that we may glorify His Name in the world. As Rabbi Akiva taught us so long ago: “Joyous are you O’ Jewish people, before Whom are you purified, and Who purifies you?

Your Father in Heaven. As the texts state: ‘And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you will be clean; (mayim tehorim u’tahrtem) from all your impurities and from all your abominations will I cleanse you,’ (Sefer Yechezkel 36:25) and ‘The L-rd is the source of the hopes of Israel (mikvei Yisrael)’.” (Sefer Yirmiyahu 17:13, Mishnah Yoma 8:9) Shabbat shalom.

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Iran at home in Syria: Drone was a flying bomb Jeff Dunetz politics to go

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report last Friday added context and background to recent Israeli actions in Syria.

The report, by the IDF, dealt with an incident in February, when Israel shot down an Iranian drone. That drone, it turns out, was armed with explosives and was enroute to carry out a bombing attack in the Jewish state.

“After flight path analysis and an operational and intelligence-based investigation of the Iranian UAV that infiltrated Israeli airspace on 2.10.2018, the IDF concluded that the Iranian UAV was armed with explosives and was tasked to attack Israel,” the IDF said. “By intercepting the Iranian UAV, IAF combat helicopters prevented the attack Iran had hoped to carry out in Israel. The UAV was identified and tracked by Israeli defense systems until its destruction, effectively eliminating any threat the Iranian UAV posed.”

In other words, thanks to its growing presence in Syria, Iran is able to turn its rhetoric into action.

Even more worrisome is the fact that the drone entered Israeli airspace in a well-populated area

near Beit Shean. If the drone had been used for an attack there, it was likely that many civilians would have been killed or injured.

This announcement explained a lot, not just about Israelis counterattack to the Iranian drone entering her airspace in February, but also Israel’s attack on Syria last week.

In February, there were rumors the drone was armed but they were unconfirmed.

The structure and technology of the drone were similar to an American unmanned aerial vehicle that Iran seized in 2011, including a “low signature” aimed at avoiding detection. srael’s retaliation for the February drone incursion was quick. Eight Israeli f-16 planes swept into Syria carrying out strikes deep inside the country, blowing up the truck that controlled the drone and the Syrian T-4 airbase that was also hit last week. T-4 is the Syrian home of Iran’s drone program. The Syrians reacted with anti-aircraft missiles and one F-16 crashed in an empty field near the town of Harduf in northern Israel after both pilots were able to parachute to safety. Although not confirmed by the IDF, the plane was likely hit by an anti-aircraft missile.

Iran has an advanced drone program, includ-

ing suicide drones it distributes to proxies including Syria and Hezbollah. In 2017 Iranian allies and proxies fired drones toward U.S.-backed forces in Syria and into Israel; rhe Iranians released footage of one of their drones shadowing American forces the day before that attack. In January, Iran began mass-producing offensive drones meant to be loaded with precision bombs. Apparently, the drone sent into Israeli space was one of those offensive drones.

Israel recently issued several stern warnings about the increased Iranian involvement along its border in Syria and Lebanon. Speaking the week after the February drone attack, Prime Minister Netanyahu warned, “Last week its brazenness reached new heights.”

“We will act without hesitation to defend ourselves,” Netanyahu said. “And we will act if necessary not just against Iran’s proxies but against Iran itself.”

Israel’s admission, in late March, that she was behind the 2007 bombing of a Syrian nuclear reactor, was a warning to Iran. Israeli Intelligence minister, Israel Katz, tweeted, “The [2007] operation and its success made clear that Israel will never allow nuclear weaponry to be in the hands

It’s about selfpreservation.

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of those who threaten its existence — Syria then, and Iran today.”

As observed in last week’s column, the April 9 action had nothing to do with Syria’s use of chemical weapons and everything to do with the Iranian drone program. uring his Yom HaShoah speech a few days after the attack on T-4, Netanyahu warned, “I have a message for the leaders of Iran: Don’t test Israel’s resolve.” To the Iranian people, he said, “The regime is oppressing you and when this regime disappears off the face of the earth, then our two peoples can live together once more in coexistence.”

The February drone attack was the first time Iran attacked Israel directly instead of through a terrorist group such as Hezbollah. It was the crossing of a giant red line. With bases in Syria, Iran can now “breathe down Israel’s neck.” Israeli concerns have to go beyond a drone packed with conventional explosives. It’s not a big leap for Iran to load a drone with the chemical weapons Syria is using, or even the drone equivalent of a dirty bomb (radioactive nuclear waste material and conventional explosives).

Now we know why Israel attacked Syria’s T-4 base. Look for her to continue to attack Iran’s drone infrastructure in Syria. It’s not about making a statement, it’s about self-preservation.

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Warsaw Ghetto: Epitome of rightful resistance Ben Cohen Viewpoint

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t’s hard to say for sure whether the following fable was really told in the Warsaw Ghetto, but it’s grimly funny enough to warrant repeating.

The story goes that at the height of the World War II, Winston Churchill consulted with the Chassidic Rabbi of Gur about the best way of bringing down Nazi Germany. The rabbi told the British leader that there were two ways he could think of: one natural, the other supernatural.

“The natural way would be if one million angels with flaming swords descended on Germany and destroyed it,” explained the rabbi. “The supernatural way would be if one million British paratroopers descended on Germany and did the same thing.”

“Supernatural” may be too weak a word to describe how the very idea of outside military assistance must have seemed to the approximately 70,000 Jews who remained in the Warsaw Ghetto on April 19, 1943 — the first night of Passover — as Nazi troops launched their final liquidation. But by the time they finished that operation on May 16,

with the symbolic burning of the Warsaw Great Synagogue and the deportation to death camps of the surviving inhabitants, hundreds of the invaders lay dead or wounded after nearly a month of savage fighting with the poorly armed, impossibly brave Jewish fighters in the ghetto.

As the 75th anniversary of the uprising approached this week, there’s been a great deal of solemn commemoration of its heroes and victims. We think, for good reason, of the Warsaw Ghetto ultimately as a tragedy to be mourned, the culmination of the process of eliminating the Jewish population of the Polish capital that began in 1939. Yet the passage of time should encourage us to think a little less mournfully. A story of great hope revolves around the events of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising that needs to be heard, particularly at a time when — as a survey carried out by the Jewish Claims Conference revealed this month — the public’s general knowledge of what the Holocaust involved is diminishing. here is a lot of talk these days, especially on the far left, about the imperative to “celebrate resistance.”

For many supporters of Israel, phrases like that

cause an instinctive rolling of the eyes. In the last decade or so, that same concept has been behind the global demonstrations during the 2006 Lebanon War, in which anti-Zionist fanatics — a motley crew of well-heeled hipster leftists and diehard Islamists — proclaimed “We Are All Hezbollah.” It was behind the riot started by pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside a Paris synagogue during the summer 2014 war in Gaza with a full congregation inside. And it is what informs the basic worldview of those activist groups on American campuses and leftist parties in Europe that depict Israel as the embodiment of colonial villainy.

What the Warsaw Ghetto uprising demonstrates is that this concept doesn’t belong to these groups alone. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising is not just a key aspect of the Holocaust, but one of the most inspiring stories that history has ever recorded in the general struggle for liberty. The American revolutionaries understood that human beings have an inherent right to resist tyranny regardless of who the tyrant is, and that same understanding was what drove the Jewish fighters.

Moreover, the Jews of Vilna and Warsaw were

One of the most inspiring stories in the struggle for liberty.

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not the only communities to fight back against the tyranny of Nazism. A circular in November 1943 from the surviving Jewish underground fighters in Poland reported on Jewish armed resistance in the city of Bialystok, and in the Treblinka and Sobibor death camps, as well as in smaller towns — Tarnow, Bedzin, Czenstochow, Borislaw — whose names ring few bells with us almost a century later. All of these uprisings broke out in the weeks and months after news of the resistance in Warsaw had spread; in the words of the report, they were “a continuation of the chain of heroic deeds which the Warsaw Ghetto initiated.”

That same report also proudly observed how Jewish Communists and the socialist, non-Zionist Bund had “joined hands with all Zionist underground organizations” in the Warsaw Ghetto.

“Our comrades lived and worked with the others just as members of a close family. A common aim united us,” it said. “During this entire period of over half a year, there were no quarrels or struggles, which are common among adherents of different ideologies.”

There is, in those words, an unmistakable sense of victory, even as the rest of the report records defeats, setbacks and other difficulties. Those fighters knew, as the end engulfed them, what they had achieved. Enough time has now passed for us to judge that even if they did not live, they won. For that, they deserve our eternal gratitude.

that state through Zionism — embracing different schools of Zionist thought. It could be Religious Zionism or left-leaning Labor Zionism or rightZionism leaning Revisionist Zionism or Cultural Zionism.

In honor of Israel’s 70th birthday, I just published “The Zionist Ideas,” updating Arthur Hertzberg’s classic anthology “The Zionist Idea.” Adding ERUSALEM — All too often, when I ask cam- the “s” broadens the conversation, from the 38 pus organizations that are pro-Israel and thinkers in his book to the 170 in mine. As part of deeply Zionist why they avoid using the “Z- its publication and in honor of Yom Haatzmaut, word” in their messaging and literature, I’m told, Israel’s Independence Day, I am urging readers to host Zionist salons, home-based conversations “Zionism doesn’t poll well.”

True, not polling well is one of today’s great addressing “what Zionism and Israel mean to me sins. But imagine what our world would be like today.”

Establishing Israel in 1948 fulfilled the Zionif our ancestors feared the polls. The American ist idea — that powerless Revolution wouldn’t have Jews need a state as a polled well. Suggestions refuge, immediately, and that Northerners crush slavas a platform to flourish ery in 1860 wouldn’t have and express Jewish valpolled well. And proposing ues, long-term. Seventy a new Jewish state in 1897 years later, debating Zionwouldn’t have polled well ist ideas welcomes debate either. At the time, most from left to right, religious European Jews believed and nonreligious, about enlightened Europe was what Zionism and Israel outgrowing anti-Semitism can mean to me as Jew, as — that polled well. a person – and how some Let’s learn from our heof these ideas can help Isroic predecessors — and rael become a model defrom feminists, gays and mocracy.

African-Americans, whose That’s why Zionism first attempts to defend their didn’t end in 1948 — the rights didn’t poll well either. debates continue.

Take back the night, resist If Zionism as an idea internalizing our oppres- Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, leaning over the balcony of the asserts that Jews are a sors’ hatred of us.

Reclaim the Z-word: Zi- Drei Konige Hotel during the first Zionist people with a homeland, Congress in Basel, Switzerland, Aug. 29, and Zionism as a moveonism.

GPO via Getty Images ment builds, protects and You cannot defeat those 1897. perfects the state, Zionism delegitimizing Israel by surrendering Zionism, the movement that established as a value is more personal. Zionists see it as a way Israel. If a century ago Zionism brought pride back of explaining Judaism as a culture, a civilization, to the term “Jew,” Jews and non-Jews today must an ethnicity, a tradition, not just a religion. It anchors us in a self-indulgent, throwaway society, bring pride back to the term “Zionist.”

In his book on “the strange career of the trou- providing a sense of community in an often lonely, blesome” N-word, the African-American Harvard alienating culture, and a sense of mission in an ofLaw professor Randall Kennedy explains the “pro- ten aimless world.

Reclaiming Zionism often entails moving tean nature” of political words. Groups can triumph with linguistic magic by defining themselves from Political Zionism — asking what we can do and their aims; when enemies define them, they for our country — to Identity Zionism — asking, lose. Kennedy warns against allowing the hater to with apologies to JFK, what your country can do for you. There’s a reason why Israel ranks 11th on define the hated, and that’s what is happening.

First, “shame on them”: Shame on the anti- the world “Happiness Index,” despite the nation’s Zionists who single out Jewish nationalism, mean- many challenges. Most Israelis are instinctively ing Zionism, in a world organized by nationalisms, Identity Zionists. Their identity blossoms from and call it “racist.” Shame on them for libeling a the Zionist state — which appreciates strong famdemocratic movement. Shame on them for ignor- ily values, robust community ties, deep patriotic ing Judaism’s national-religious duality, which al- feelings – and a broader sense of mission in life. lows non-Jews to convert into the Jewish religion That’s part of the package Birthright participants and join the Jewish nation, making Zionism among and other tourists appreciate when visiting Israel. the least biologically based, least racist, most per- And that’s the recipe that makes so many Israelis meable forms of nationalism. And shame on them happy despite the rush-rush of their society and for racializing the national conflict between Israe- the roar-roar of some Palestinian neighbors delis and Palestinians — inflaming hatred, making manding their destruction.

Zionism isn’t the only way or the best way, peace more elusive.

Alas, shame on us, too. Zionism should be a it’s just my way, my people’s way. I’m not smart more popular term than “Israel.” Until 1948, Zi- enough to improvise another framework.

Identity Zionism includes commitments to onism was the movement affirming that Jews are a people with a homeland and that like other Jewish education, Jewish action, to making Jewnations, Jews have the right to establish a state ish ethics come alive, to Jewish peoplehood and on that land (others may, too — nationalism in- Jewish community — these are core Zionist values volves collective consciousness, not exclusive land I, for one, would — in Churchill’s words — never claims). Since 1948, Zionism has been the move- surrender.

Today, the #MeToo conversation spotlights ment to perfect that state.

Like all countries, Israel makes good and bad how often victims — especially women — intermoves. If you’re anti-Zionist, you reject Israel’s nalize persecution, letting bullies win. Anyone invery existence. If you’re critical of Israel somehow, terested in abandoning Zionism first should ask: How much of this internalizes the delegitimization you’re a thinking human being.

America’s president offers an opportunity to campaign?

If we don’t stand up for ourselves, who are we? understand that distinction. The 77 percent of American Jews who hate Donald Trump still re- If we let those haters win, what are we? And if we main proudly American. Why can’t we love Israel don’t start celebrating and reclaiming the Z-word and Zionism regardless of particular prime minis- now — at Israel’s 70th — then when?

Gil Troy is the author of “The Zionist Ideas,” ters or policies, too?

Here’s the real question for Jews: Do you feel which updates Arthur Hertzberg’s classic work “The connected to Israel, today’s great Jewish people Zionist Idea,” and was just published by The Jewish project? If so, you stick with it because you be- Publication Society. He is a Distinguished Scholar of long to the Jewish people. And you help perfect North American History at McGill University.

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‘Am Yisrael Chi’ is legal greatest”) at them. When he shouted back “Am Yisrael Chai,” he was immediately taken into custody by police, who told him he broke the law.

Ben Gvir called his court victory “a gift to the Jewish people on the eve of Israel’s 70th Independence Day.” “I believe that the time has come for the courts to rule that Jews are allowed to pray on the Temple Mount, just as Muslims are permitted to pray at the site,” he said. “There can be no wrongful discrimination at the most important site for the people of Israel.”

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Continued from page 1 the Kotel, Eisenkot stressed that Israel’s military would protect the Jewish state.

“Against every threat, our soldiers stand firm on the frontline and together with technology, prove that there on the fortress around the country there is a powerful army, an army that holds unprecedented capabilities and for a reality of security and prosperity,” he said.

President Reuven Rivlin said at the ceremony that Israel’s military supersedes politics.

“We did not leap into the tunnels as rightwing or left-wing, we did not lay in the trenches as the periphery and moshav communities, we did not storm the enemy as kibbutzim, villages and cities,” Rivlin said. “We will continue to be a society that fearlessly and relentlessly holds back any enemy which disputes our right for a home in our land. At the same time, we won’t let any rift, gap or divide ingrain itself amongst us.”

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The Jerusalem Magistrate Court ruled on Monday that it is permitted for visitors to the Temple Mount to yell out “Am Yisrael Chai” (“The nation of Israel lives”) because it is a patriotic declaration, rather than a prayer.

In an agreement made between Israel and Jordan following Israel’s capture of Jerusalem’s Old City during the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel maintains security control of the Temple Mount, while Jordan’s religious Waqf controls religious practice. Because of the arrangement, Jews are barred from praying on the Temple Mount.

Monday’s ruling is in the case of attorney Itamar Ben Gvir, who in 2015 was ousted from the Temple Mount. Ben Gvir was touring with a group of Jews when he was accosted by a Muslim woman who yelled “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is the

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around the world participated in an English-language memorial ceremony at the Latrun Armored Corps Memorial. The students are part of the yearlong Masa program, which organized the event.

The ceremony focused on fallen lone soldiers.

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and Education Minister Naftali Bennett, also the Diaspora minister, joined Jewish leaders from the United States and other countries for the memorial.

Some 23,646 soldiers have died defending Israel. Seventy-one names were added to the list since last Yom Hazikaron, including 30 disabled veterans who died from complications of their service-related injuries. The day also memorializes the 3,134 terror victims; 12 names were added to that list since last year.

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894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Friday April 20

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

Sunday April 22

Timely Torah: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Ya’akov Trump, assistant rabbi of the Young Israel of Law-

rence-Cedarhurst, for a shiur on relevant Halachic and philosophical topics related to Parsha Moadim and contemporary issues. Coffee and pastries.

8 am. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhurst.

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

Gemara Shiur: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Moshe Sokoloff at the YI of Woodmere for a gemara shiu.r 9:15 am. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere.

516-295-0950.

Torah 4 Teens: [Weekly] Yeshiva program for high-school age boys & young adults with Rabbi Matis Friedman. 9:15 am-12:30 pm. 410 Hungry Harbor Rd, Valley Stream. Torah4teens5T@ gmail.com.

Family Mitzvah Morning: YI of Jamaica Estates invites children to make candy Har Sinais for Shavuos to be donated to Tomchei Shabbos. 9:3011 am. 83-10 188th St, Jamaica Estates.

Jerusalem-Washington Connection: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) will be the featured speaker at Behind the Scenes: The Jerusalem-Washington Connection. 2:30 pm, 365 Edward Ave, Woodmere. 516-620-3224.

Helen’s Run/Walk: People of all ages are invited to come to the Sands Point Preserve for Helen’s Run/Walk 2018 to support the Helen Keller National Center for Dead-Blind Youths and Adults.

718-522-2122.

YIW Dinner: The YI of Woodmere is holding its 58th Annual Dinner at The Sands at Atlantic Beach. 6:30 pm. 1395 Beech St, Atlantic Beach.

516-295-0950.

Monday April 23

Women’s Shiur: [Weekly] Dr. Anette Labo-

vitz’s women shiur will continue at Aish Kodesh.

10 am. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Seeing Things Clearly: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Shalom Yona Weis at Aish Kodesh for a shiur for women and high school girls titled “Seeing Things Clearly- Learning to View Our World and Our Lives Through Positive Lenses. 8:45 pm. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Tuesday April 24

West Hempstead Breakfast Connect: [Weekly] Breakfast Connect is a business and networking group that meets for breakfast at Riesterer’s Bakery and to discuss business and networking opportunities. 7:30-8:30 am. 282 Hempstead Ave, West Hempstead. 516-662-7712.

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

894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Jewish History: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Evan Hoffman at the YI of Woodmere for a talk on Jewish History. 8:15 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950.

Halacha Shiur: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Moshe Sokoloff at the YI of Woodmere for a halacha shiur. 8:40 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere.

516-295-0950.

Gemara Shiur: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt at the YI of Woodmere for a gemara shiu.

9:15 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516295-0950.

Wednesday April 25

Healthcare Cocktail Reception: UJA invites Long Island Healthcare Professionals to a cocktail reception at Shelter Rock Jewish Center.

Couvert: $180. 6:30 pm. 272 Shelter Rock Rd, Roslyn.

Timely Tanach: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Ya’akov Trump of the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst for a shiur on Sefer Shoftim. 8 pm. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhurst.

Chumash and Halacha Shiur: [Weekly] Shiur with Rabbi Yosef Richtman at Aish Kodesh.

8 pm. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Shiur and Tehillim Group: [Weekly] Join the women of YI of Woodmere at the home of Devorah Schochet. 9:15 pm. 559 Saddle Ridge Rd.

Thursday April 26

Bret Stephens at Touro Law: The New York Times columnist and author of “America in Retreat: The New Isolationism” will be presented with the Bruce K. Gould Book Award. Free, by RSVP to events@tourolaw.edu ot 631-761-7066.

Touro Law Center, 225 Eastview Drive, Central Islip. See ad on page 3.

Sunday April 29

Torah New York: The Orthodox Union presents Torah New York at CITI Field with 30 different speakers. $50. 8:45 am to 6 pm. 123-01 Roosevelt Ave, Queens.

Talking to Our Youth: YI of Kew Gardens Hills will be holding a talk on “Talking to Our Youth About Puberty and Mature Relationships.”

8 pm. 70-11 150 St, Kew Gardens Hills. Magennewyork@gmail.com.

Hatzalah Event: The annual dinner to celebrate and support Hatzalah of the Rockaways and Nassau will take place at Sands Atlantic Beach.

1395 Beech St, Atlantic Beach. See ad on page 5.

Sunday May 6

Wellness Event: Pregnant Island Health and Wellness Event will take place at HANC. $25. 12 to 2:30 pm. 25 Country Dr, Plainview.

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