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Chatter about President Obama’s Affordable Care Act is everywhere, as each angle of the great reform is analyzed and debated; the U.S. Supreme Court got into the act when Justice Samuel Alito asked if through laws like Obamacare the federal government might proscribe kosher or halal butchering.

But few remember that in the 1930s, a small business defendant fought back

against a similarly ambitious federal institution and actually managed to topple it. Back then, too, key parts of the story, played out in Brooklyn, touched the kosher marketplace The facts of that 1930s case evoke eerie parallels. A new administration — in that case the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt — had a big plan to regulate not healthcare but industry. The idea was to make companies more efficient and thereby improve the struggling economy.

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Israel parade rhubarb puts focus on Jewish groups that oppose Israel More than 100 shofar-carrying protestors are expected to assemble on April 29 in front of the 59th Street headquarters of the UJAFederation of NY. On cue, they will raise their curved rams’ horns and wail to the heavens in visceral unison.

They are protesting their communal Edwin Black leadership.

Federation’s beneficiary, the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), is the chief organizer of the Celebrate Israel Parade on June 1.

The upbeat procession of floats, runners, and marchers is normally a public show of unity in support of Israel; but this year, the parade has become a maelstrom of disunity over the participation of the controversial New Israel Fund and other groups which recent revelations now link to the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement and the campaign to delegitimize Israel internationally.

The outrage in some American, Jewish, and Israeli circles over the NIF’s inclusion may be more than just a passing horn OVERVIEW

Chana Kramer, program director for Merrick’s Chabad, with daughter Leah before Seder. Photo by Donovan Berthoud

Before Pesach, trash goes poof blast. Just what constitutes the Jewish mainstream? Is American Jewry about to set limits on its open tent of inclusion, a precept the community wears as a badge of honor?

More than a few American Jews feel that their community has been hijacked from within by groups such as the J Street lobby, the New Israel Fund and others that constitute a powerful, well-funded minority able to wage war against Israel seemingly in the name of the Jewish people.

“These groups are anti-Jewish,” says Judith Freedman Kadish, special project director of Americans for a Safe Israel, “and they are funding groups that are anti-Semitic. They just veil their actions by saying they are trying to influence public

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policy and (end) occupation.” The accused organizations and their defenders in the Jewish media and within the Jewish activist community vigorously insist their activities are simply democratic dissent aimed at solving Israel’s problems.

The New Israel Fund, enabled by taxpayer subsidies of its 501(c)(3) status, has been a pivotal funder of the BDS movement that wages economic war against Israel. Until 2011, the NIF was a lead supporter of the Coalition of Women for Peace, which established a global BDS infrastructure. According to NIF financial records, in 2008 alone, the NIF bestowed $93,457 upon the CWP; over a period of years, NIF financing of this organization Continued on page 8

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his Passover was marred by the anti-Semitic shooting in Overland Park, Kansas, and the distribution of leaflets in Donetsk, Ukraine, calling for Jews over age 16 to register as Jews.

There is no surprise these incidents happened now, because Passover is a season for Jew hatred: Passover is blood libel season.

Jeff Dunetz Blood libel, a term with a specific and terrible history, refers to the scurrilous accusation that Jews kidnapped and murdered Christian children to use their blood to prepare Passover matzo. Charges of blood libel have spurred massacres of Jews throughout the centuries; the myth was revived by Hitler, and persists today in Russia, the Muslim world, and even in the United States.

Josephus recounts that even in Roman times, the Greeks spread rumors that the Jews slaughtered a Greek in the Temple in Jerusalem and ate his intestines as part of our rites.

The story of William of Norwich (d. 1144) is often cited as the first known accusation of European blood libel against Jews. The Jews of Norwich, England, were accused of murder after a Christian boy, William, was found dead. It was claimed that the Jews had tortured and crucified their victim. The Jews of the town were murdered.

The British blood libel spread throughout Europe. France’s first blood libel took place in Blois in 1171; 31 Jews were burned at the stake as Passover approached.

In 1840, an elderly Italian monk-priest, Padre Tommaso, and his servant, disappeared in Damascus, Syria, after having visited the city’s Jewish quarter. A French consul to the Ottoman Empire, Ratti-MenPOLITICS TO GO

ton, promoted a groundless theory of ritual murder of Tommaso that the local Muslim government largely accepted.

Jewish leaders were arrested and tortured; 60 of their children were held hostage and starved to pressure their parents into confessing. One source said that four adults died from the mistreatment; another states that two died and some were permanently disabled. Most of the rest confessed involvement in a ritual murder. The consul then requested permission from the Syrian government to kill the rest of his suspects.

That event is credited with introducing the blood libel myth to the Arab world, where it still circulates.

The blood libel is particularly disgusting since the Torah expressly forbids the ingestion of blood. In Vayikra 17:1014: “And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood, I will set My face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.” ometimes the blood libel story changes a bit. “Horrible Israeli soldiers deliberately killing children” is usually accepted by the mainstream and spread by the media without question even though it is false. One such blood libel, the al Durah hoax, involving a young child supposedly shot by Israeli forces, was picked up by the world media and helped to incite a wave of Palestinian violence causing the deaths of more than 1,000 Palestinians and Israeli citizens. A Palestinian cameraman who worked for one of the French TV Networks staged the entire thing.

Pamphlets distributed in Novosibirsk, Russia, recently warned: “Beware Russian

parents. Keep watch over your children before the coming of April 2008, the Jewish holiday of Passover. These disgusting people still engage in ritual practice to their gods.

They kidnap small children and remove some of their blood and use it to prepare their holy food (matzo). They throw the bodies (of the children) out in garbage dumps.”

In a March 2010 speech on Al-Aqsa TV, Salah Eldeen Sultan, founder of the American Center for Islamic Research and the Islamic American University, stated: “The Zionists kidnap several non-Muslims — Christians and others … this happened in a Jewish neighborhood in Damascus. They killed the French doctor, Toma, who used to treat the Jews and others for free, in order to spread Christianity. Even though he was their friend and they benefited from him the most, they took him on one of these holidays and slaughtered him, along with the nurse. Then they kneaded the matzos with the blood of Dr. Toma and his nurse. They do this every year. The world must know these facts about the Zionist entity and its terrible corrupt creed.”

In the United States the blood libel is the language of the progressive left. The Daily Kos, the largest progressive website/social community whose annual convention, called Netroots Nation, has been addressed by former Secretary of State Clinton and her husband; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid, and President Obama, even though Kos often portrays Jews as blood-thirsty Nazis.

One political cartoon posted on the site shows a bloodstained Israeli flag with the “Jewish Star” morphed into a swastika.

The illustration for another Kos post, “Zi-

The blood libel is particularly disgusting because the Torah expressly forbids the ingestion of blood.

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onism was and remains a racist ideology” (since removed), shows Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman as Adolf Hitler. It includes the word Zionism in blood, and tattooed on his hand is a skull with a Star of David.

An article published two weeks ago in the Egyptian magazine Elkebar, “Jewish Vampires at Easter [Passover],” proves again that the anti-Semitic blood libel is alive and well. The article claims that Jews kill non-Jews during this holiday in order to use their blood in preparing matzos. The writer quotes “researchers” who describe this alleged Jewish custom, and lists the 1840 Damascus blood libel. It adds that to coverup their “crime,” Jews wrote stories and made films about vampires, or blamed their crimes on deranged individuals. The murders “committed” as part of their Passover rituals, the writer said, are “a drop in the ocean compared to the Jewish crimes that no one knows about” and thousands of missing children and adults around the world were likely victims of Jewish rituals.

Near the end of the Seder, Jews open the door to the outside; the purpose of which most people say is to symbolically invite the Prophet Elijah to join the meal. But others believe the reason has more to do with the prayer that comes next: “Pour out Thy wrath upon the nations that know Thee not, and upon kingdoms that did not call upon Thy name. For they have consumed Jacob, and laid waste his habitation. Pour out Thy rage upon them, and let Thy fury overtake them. Pursue them in anger and destroy them, from under the heavens of the Lord.”

Passover is the celebration of our freedom as a people. Perhaps the reason to open the door and make that prayer is a show to the haters like the slime who killed three in Kansas, or those who read the daily Kos, or even politicians who accept hatred in the name of votes, that as a free people we will not stand for their hatred.

Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

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hen you look at the image of Frazier Glenn Cross, aka Glenn Miller, the shooter who coldbloodedly murdered three Christians in a bloody eve-of-Passover spree at two Jewish community buildings in Overland Park, Kansas, what do you see?

I see the deadeyed stare, the pasty, blotched skin and lousy Ben Cohen, JNS teeth, the unkempt facial hair—exactly the kind of face we associate with anti-Semitic and racist thuggery.

In the 20th century, Cross could have been a concentration camp guard, wearing his ignorant, vulgar sneer as he shoved his Jewish victims into a gas chamber, screaming barely literate, anti-Semitic epithets along the way.

As we mourn the dead, we comfort ourselves by saying that such exemplary specimens of the “Master Race” as Cross are a rarity. Neo-Nazis are at the fringe of the fringe; most of them don’t have the guts to go beyond harassing their enemies on social networks, although the odd individuals who do engage in violence unfortunately have easy access to guns. What this means is that Jews and other minorities have to occasionally shoulder atrocities like the one in Kansas. It VIEWPOINT

absolutely does not mean that America is an anti-Semitic country, or that such attacks are a prelude to greater persecution.

The wider community’s reaction to the Overland Park murders showcased a humble, hard-working, tolerant America at its best.

We suffer and we pull through — just as we pulled through the shootings at Jewish Community Centers in Los Angeles in 1999 and Seattle in 2006. Just as French Jews pulled through 2012 murders by an Islamist of a rabbi and three beautiful children at a Jewish school in Toulouse. Just as Jews in Israel overcame the enormous pain that accompanied the Palestinian bombing of a Passover seder, which claimed the lives of 30 people, at a Netanya hotel in 2002.

But something is missing. By overly focusing on punks like Frazier Cross, there’s a danger that we ignore those elements in our broader culture that sustain and inspire them.

Look at some of the posts that Cross left on various neo-Nazi and white supremacist bulletin boards, and you’ll see what I mean.

Amidst his hate-drenched rants against Jews, he warmly recommended an article by “Jew journalist” Max Blumenthal, whom he complimented for exposing Israel’s “attempt … to buy the presidential election for the neo-con, war-mongering republican establishment … the kikes simply do not trust a lame-duck black president with the name Hussein.”

(Incidentally, it’s not unheard of for Nazis to recommend certain Jewish authors — Hitler

himself reportedly described Otto Weininger, a Viennese Jewish philosopher who lambasted the modern “Jewish” era, as a rare example of a Jew he admired.)

It’s not an accident that today’s Nazis are attracted to left wing, viscerally anti-Zionist writers like Blumenthal. Both share the view that the so-called “Israel Lobby” drove the U.S. into foreign wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both believe that politicians kowtow to Jewish interests because they fear the costs of not doing so. And both are convinced that the type of “Jewish supremacism” practiced in Israel makes a nonsense of American Jewish appeals for tolerance and understanding. wo years ago, Blumenthal mocked the Department of Homeland Security for describing Jews as a community facing “special risks.”

“It’s clear what’s going on here,” he said, in a nod towards undue Jewish political influence. Blumenthal has also actively promoted the idea that Judaism itself is a hateful religion, a slander propounded by his Israeli collaborator, Yossi Gurvitz, who has stated that “Rabbinical Judaism is a Judaism that hates humans.” On Twitter, meanwhile, Blumenthal has used his own account to retweet the rantings of one David Benedetti, who taunted a Jewish user with Holocaust imagery, saying “your grandmother also made a nice lampshade.”

Now that the Kansas atrocity underlines that Jews do, in fact, face serious risks, Blumenthal has shifted tack, writing on the anti-

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Semitic website Mondoweiss on the alleged similarities between Frazier Cross’s Nazi ideology and Zionism. Elsewhere on the same website, which receives part of its funding from conservative businessman Ron Unz, another contributor, Annie Robbins, wondered aloud whether Kansas was an Israeli conspiracy.

Why does any of this matter? Left-wing anti-Zionists are increasingly regarded as acceptable company in the intellectual mainstream. Blumenthal has, for example, recently addressed the New America Foundation, a leading liberal think-tank in Washington, DC, which was apparently unperturbed by his flock of Nazi admirers, or by the fact that he was the subject of a flattering profile on Press TV, the official mouthpiece of the Iranian regime.

How much longer will we buy into the ludicrous idea that Blumenthal carries no responsibility for the way his screeds are interpreted? Similarly, when we read leading political scientist Stephen Walt, co-author of the miserable book “The Israel Lobby,” telling Haaretz that 9/11 was Israel’s fault, why do we continue to view his discourse as more sophisticated then the bigots who parrot him?

People like Frazier Cross don’t emerge from a vacuum. They are enabled by the same deadly ideas about Jews and Israel that have become so fashionable in parts of the media and academia. In the wake of the hate crime in Kansas, it’s time to start highlighting those links.

Ben Cohen is the Shillman Analyst for JNS. org. Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

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Resurrection of the blood libel: Why now?

Challenge of seeing our people as one, always T

he sound of the train pulling in to the Kfar Saba station filled the air on another beautiful afternoon. Hundreds of people getting on and off a second train across the platform, beneath the beautiful FROM THE HEART new glass and stone OF JERUSALEM ceiling of the modern new station opened only two weeks before.

At the entrance to the crowded station any number of people are coming in and going out, beneath the alert eyes of a security guard who, like thousands of other security guards across Israel, holds the line in the Rabbi Binny newest frontier in the Freedman war against terror.

One teenager, a boy who looks like any other, with spiked blond punk-style hair, perhaps on his way to a night out with friends, walks in the middle of the crowd towards the arriving train. Was it his eyes? There is always something in the eyes.

Or perhaps the raincoat, worn closed over a t-shirt on an unseasonably warm afternoon?

Something makes the guard take notice, and he approaches this teenager. A brief exchange of words, and the guard reaches out to grab the boy’s arm, an instant before this peaceful sunny afternoon turns into a maelstrom of fire and death as an explosion rips apart the station killing the security guard and leaving countless others wounded and fighting for their lives.

Police experts would later state that the

alert actions of this brave guard, Alexander Kostyuk, a Russian immigrant living in Bat Yam, prevented what would most certainly have been the massacre of over 250 people milling about between the enclosed space of the two trains not 40 yards away, who would have had nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.

One week later, this scene practically repeats itself outside of a Tel Aviv pub (Mike’s Place), as again, an alert security guard gives up his life while preventing a terrorist bomber from entering the crowded bar, saving dozens of people.

Sometimes, our heroes come in the most unlikely shapes and sizes, somehow rising to the moment they were destined to meet.

Is there a lesson to be gleaned from these tragic events? his week’s portion, Kedoshim, begins with a powerful challenge: “Kedoshim Te’hiyu’, Ki Kadosh Ani Hashem Elokeichem.” (“You shall be holy [kadosh] because I, G-d, your G-d, am Holy.”

(VaYikra 19:2) What does it mean to be holy? And why is this mitzvah seemingly tied to the fact that G-d is holy? If we are meant to be kadosh, it should be enough that Hashem tells us this; why does it seem here that G-d has to give us a reason? Why does Hashem have to justify, so it seems, His commandment that we be holy by adding that Hashem is holy?

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nected to our mission to emulate or imitate G-d (imitatio deos), how does one accomplish this, and is this really possible?

It is interesting to note that the abovementioned verse actually begins with words of introduction not often found in the Torah: “And G-d spoke to Moshe saying: Speak to the entire congregation of Israel, (“Kol Adat B’nei Yisrael”) and say unto them you shall be holy (kadosh) because I, G-d, your G-d, am Holy.” (19:1-2) Why is this particular mitzvah is stressed as being for the entire congregation of Israel; isn’t every mitzvah meant for the entire congregation? Rashi points out (based on the midrash) that this mitzvah was given to the Jewish people in a congregated gathering (hak’hel), because “most of the body of the Torah is dependant on it.” (Rashi 19:2) There seems to be a basic underlying question here that requires our attention: Is this a promise, or a command?

Perhaps G-d is promising us that we will, ultimately, be a holy nation. And if that is the case, it will result merely from our belief in that same G-d and our willingness to align ourselves as members of His holy nation. Holiness then becomes a function of what we believe.

But Judaism does not see holiness this way. Holiness is not about what we believe, it is about how we behave. Rav Abraham

We are all one people: soldiers and doctors, plumbers and Knesset members, Talmud scholars and janitors.

Yitzchak HaKohen Kook (in Orot pg. 32) suggests that holiness (kedushah) is not about sanctifying our will and desires; it is rather about elevating and sanctifying our actions.

Perhaps this is why this entire portion proceeds to outline the modes of actual behavior that are expected of each and every one of us, so that all together we will become, as we were promised long ago, at the foot of Sinai, a “kingdom of priests and a holy Nation.”

(Shemot 19:6) Incidentally, this is part of why we are called the chosen people. But that does not mean we are necessarily better than anyone else. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. To be chosen does not mean to be better; it simply means to be different. To be chosen means to have a particular purpose, or mission in this world. In fact, everyone and indeed everything is chosen. The question is what they are chosen for.

The question is not whether I am chosen, but what am I chosen for? And what do I choose to do with the gifts I have been given? hich brings us back to our original question: Why is this particular mitzvah given to the Jewish people as a whole congregation (in a state of assembly, or hakhel, as Rashi points out)?

You see, if kedushah is about how we behave to live up to our mission as a people, the Torah is telling us here that we can’t get there until we recognize that each and every one of us has that same potential. Every Jew can be kadosh, if he or she so wills it.

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behind portions of your field for the poor and indigent. Don’t steal, deny claims or lie. Don’t swear falsely using G-d’s name. Pay your workers on time. Don’t curse the deaf or lead the blind to stumble. Be just in courts — no preferences for the poor or the rich.

Don’t gossip or stand idly by when your neighbor is in peril. Don’t bear hatred in your heart — admonish a neighbor (who will listen). Don’t take revenge, nor bear a grudge.

Love your neighbor as you love yourself. No crossbreeding of livestock, species of seeds, or of wool and linen.

The list goes on and includes reminders about how to cut facial hair, not to make gashes and tattoos in the skin, and to avoid seeking advice from oracles or mediums.

Respect those who are older as well as the strangers among you (such as converts or those of the nations who have decided to live under your laws). Do not cheat in business with inaccurate weights and measures.

This is hardly a list of spiritual acts.

In Eichah Raba (Pesichta 17), Rabbi Aba hu learns from Tehillim 69:13 that the nations of the world (certainly in times of destruction of Israel) mock the Jewish people for, among other things, observing the Shabbat, and thinking that the purchases they make during the week should be saved for and enjoyed on Shabbat – when they don’t have wood with which to cook, they break their beds and cook with that fuel, and thus sleep on the earth rolling in dirt. All because of how deeply they care about Shabbat. Ha!

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Rav Tzadok of Lublin quoted this midrash (Pri Tzadik, B’haaloskha), which shows the dedication the Jews had to Shabbat, comparing the efforts of the Jewish people to rise in their ruchnius (spirituality), suggesting that per the rate of a person’s kedusha preparations during the week a person feels that much more kedusha on Shabbat.

Quoting the Pri Etz Chaim, Rav Tzadok says Kedusha is achieved through one’s thoughts, speech, and actions. And it is enjoyed on Shabbat through embracing the neshama yeseirah (additional soul) and through following the laws of Shabbat to the tee.

In a sermon on Parshat Shemini, Rabbi Yechezkel Panet defined spirituality as the main source for life, stating that spirituality is to be nourished by, and can only be achieved through,consumption of tahor food (what we would call kosher).

Reb Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev (Kedushas Levi on our parsha) discusses how kedusha is achieved — through tefillah (prayer) on the one hand (based on Taanit 2a), and through the character trait of humility (based on Mishlei 22:4).

There is certainly room for an element of ruchnius in an observant Jewish life. And perhaps the act that leads to it, which would seem most “spiritual,” is prayer.

But everything else that points to the goal of being kadosh in imitation of G-d includes only actions that are fulfillments of mitzvoth — keeping the Shabbat properly, and being humble.

What contemporary Jews refer to as “spir-

Holiness and spirituality are attained through action.

Challenge…

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Whether the esteemed rabbi getting off the train, or the Russian security guard standing outside the station, we are all one people: soldiers and doctors, plumbers and Knesset members, Talmud scholars and janitors.

Last week marked the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising; now, as then, our enemies remind us that if we don’t learn to live together, we will certainly learn to die together.

Only when we learn to really see each other as a people in this way, will we be ready to become the light that will allow us to see the entire world in the same fashion.

Shabbat Shalom.

Rabbi Binny Freedman is Rosh Yeshivat Oryata in Jerusalem. He can be reached at Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

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arsha Kedoshim begins with the charge to the children of Israel to be kedoshim, G-d is, He explains, Himself kadosh.

The words kedoshim and kadosh have several possible meanings. The midrash focuses on the concept of separation (Rashi jumps on PARSHA OF these coattails) — from THE WEEK immorality, from idolatry. Ramban focuses on the concept of separation, leading us to understand that the word kodesh is meant to be demanding a higher ethic of the children of Israel.

Many will look at the words and associate the concepts of sanctification and holiness Rabbi Avi Billet with kedusha.

No matter what the words mean, perhaps what follows the opening instruction is most informative in our understanding of what it means to achieve kedusha — separation, holiness, sanctification, etc.

What may come as a surprise to some of our Jewish brethren is that the concept of holiness (if indeed this is an accurate translation) has nothing to do with “spirituality.”

The mitzvot of this parsha are very mundane or matter-of-fact. No tingly feelings. No musical enhancement. Only good old-fashioned observance of the law.

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ituality” and “meditating” and “bringing G-d into our lives” through a process that does not include observing the laws of kosher, observing the Shabbat according to all of its laws, and living by the higher ethic as imposed by this parsha, stems from an image of Judaism that does not have a true foundation in the Torah. Certainly not in the parsha that instructs how to become kadosh just as G-d is kadosh.

Holiness and spirituality are attained through action. And through humility. Emotions are a wonderful thing. But they are mostly personal. It is how we focus our lives on Shabbat, and how we relate to others, that creates the real kedusha, the real spiritual high that brings us closer to the Divine.

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Teen cooking program delivers tasty chesed

Looking for something to do while your child is in school?

By Malka Eisenberg A Merrick program that helps women coping with cancer and other illnesses is mobilizing teenagers to learn traditional cooking and then bring the tasty results to families in need.

The next in a series of monthly Cooking for Hope classes is set for Tuesday, April 29, 7 to 9 pm, at the Chabad House, 2083 Seneca Gate, Merrick. Eight Merrick youngsters participated in the first class in March, preparing gefilte fish, chicken soup and hammantashen.

The classes, are a part of the Circle of Hope project of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life. Circle of Hope, is a joint effort of the Merrick, Bellmore, Wantagh and nearby communities.

Coordinator Michele Krebs Moscovitz said this “is an amazing opportunity for our teens to come together for an incredible cause.”

“The best part of Cooking for Hope is that after the teens learn to cook and bake, we can personally deliver the dishes to community members who are not well — a cheerful visit with a home-cooked care package can do wonders,” she said.

The students will learn to cook a full gamut of kosher delicacies and be able to perform the added chesed of bikur cholim.

The monthly cooking lessons — also planned for May 13, June 10, June 8, Aug. 6 and Sept.

9 — will be led by Sheri Fisch and Hannah David of Merrick.

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nity is such a great feeling,” said Cooking for Hope volunteer Sheri Fisch. “Inspiring teens to cook and give to a good cause is what we hope and want our teens to do.”

More than 30 women are involved on the committee, said Moscovitz, with some delivering meals and others assisting in other ways. She said that three to six meals are dropped off each week in Merrick and Bellmore with more during the holidays.

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Circle of Hope holds health seminars to educate about early detection and treatment.

Cancer survivors can donate wigs they no longer need to the Circle of Hope wig bank for new patients to use; they are washed and set by Beautiful People Salon. They also teach patients makeup application, focusing on eyebrows and eyelashes. Circle of Hope offers financial assistance when necessary, helping with insurance co-pays, meals, transportation to treatments, and summer camp scholarships for children.

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By Malka Eisenberg The Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns will host its third annual interactive concert for individuals with autism and their families this Sunday, April 27.

This free event is presented by Music for Autism, established in the United Kingdom in 2002 by musicians John Lubbock and Christine Caims, parents of a son with autism, who wanted to share their love of music with others impacted by autism. In 2007, Robert Accordino brought Music for Autism to the United States where the organization initially worked with the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center “to reach and treat underserved individuals with autism through screening and recruiting practices.”

Professional musicians volunteer for the concerts, with Sunday’s featuring the Doug & Dmitri Klezmer Duo playing a mix of klezmer, Yiddish, Hebrew, Broadway music, standards and comedy related to Passover.

Gayle Fremed, director of special needs at the Greater Five Towns JCC, explained that members of the autism community “can be hypo and hyper sensitive and the movements can be startling. In between pieces there is no clapping,” she said. “Transitions are hard for people with autism. After each piece the audience touch fingers.”

Fremed cited a recent Centers for Disease Control report that one in 68 U.S. children identified with autism spectrum disorder.

“The numbers are exploding,” she said, noting that April is Autism Awareness Month.

Fremed’s 27 year old daughter has autism and is “lower functioning” she said. Although the people in the community are inclusive,

when you take a child out “you always have agita, you never know how they are going to react.” In a concert such as this, geared to the autistic community, others have “no judgment;” if the person with autism has “inappropriate vocalization, everyone understands.” In other situations “people would get frustrated,” she said.

Children and adults with autism will be at the concert; it transcends age with participants from five to 50. The concert is usually at the Grove Street building but it was displaced to the early childhood center by a program for Holocaust survivors since that day is also Yom Hashoah. “It’s a small JCC with a lot going on,” Fremed stated. “Sometimes we have to accommodate other programs.”

Femed said that both children and adults with autism love the concert. “If they are verbal they articulate their enjoyment. If they are nonverbal they have smiles and happiness on their faces,” she said. “There is a part where they take instruments and participate.

The parents and kids are so happy. They use sticks, tambourines, triangles and shakers. It’s interactive. The musicians say ‘let’s do this.’

Last year they marched around the room.”

Fremed said the JCC is the sole recipient of a “Canvas” grant designed to teach autistic 17 to 22 year-olds about Jewish holidays through art. “We are collaborating with local synagogues who will display the art work during each specific holiday,” she said.

Sunday’s event begins at 11 am in the JCC Early Childhood Center at Temple Israel, 140 Central Ave., Lawrence. RSVPs are essential — click the Concert Calendar at musicforautism.org or by calling 877-863-7473.

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Continued from page 1 trucks drove along the streets starting from 7 am, collecting any bagged garbage left at the curb. This service was to end at 1 pm but continued till 4:30 pm. Calls to Sanitary District 1 for special pick-ups on erev Pesach were also taken.

Another continuing pre-Pesach service, instituted six years ago at the behest of Cedarhurst Mayor Andrew Parise and then-Lawrence Mayor Jack Levenbrown, were opportunities to drop off garbage at set locations, with garbage trucks parked at the Lawrence and Cedarhurst Long Island Railroad stations from 7 am to 3 pm on erev Pesach. Additional trucks were also placed outside the Young Israel of Woodmere from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm and at Temple Hillel in North Woodmere from 7 am to 2 pm.

“People enjoyed the service,” Sanitary District 1 office manager Andrew Reilly told The Jewish Star. He said they gathered 31 truckloads that day, “more than on a regular day.”

“Superintendent George Pappas was very instrumental to make the extra pick ups happen. We always try to help the customers,” Reilly said.

“Every year the district makes the service more helpful and more efficient,” said Avi Fertig, special assistant to Hempstead Senior Councilman Anthony Santino. “They do it because they care.”

Fertig pointed out that the Sanitary District has been instituting other innovative programs. In October it held a shredder day and although 110 people participated, many others said that they had not heard about it and would have come if they had been informed. The district is planning another shredder day, where residents can bring documents to a designated location to be shredded for free. The district rents a shredder truck for a set amount of time so it can only be within those hours.

Fertig said he made the rounds observing the pickups the Monday before Pesach and found the sanitation workers “were working hard but with a smile.”

Popular pre-Pesach programs: At left, Sanitary District 1 picking up last-minute chametz trash in Woodmere. Right top and middle, burning chametz at Woodmere Firehouse. Bottom, burning chametz at Congregation B’nai Avraham in Brooklyn Heights.

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reached a strong six-figure sum, which included both direct grants and those where the NIF acted as a go-between for other donors, a technique they called “donor advised funding.”

The NIF no longer provides money to the CWP, which is now strong enough to gather its monies from other sources. But detractors say the irreparable damage was done. Moreover, the BDS movement today is fortified by a conveyor belt of brutality and oppression accounts — some legitimate, some exaggerated, some invented — force fed to the world by agitation NGOs, including many financed by the New Israel Fund.

NIF’s financial records for 2012 indicate that it granted $109,615 to Breaking the Silence, $255,477 to B’Tselem, and $209,161 to Adalah. These three groups are among dozens of NIF grantees that critics accuse as operating on the front lines of anti-Israel information and distorting the facts about international law as it affects Israel. Numerous Knesset members and Israeli military men have gone on record to decry the NIF as a well-financed, foreign, multinational NGO, hell-bent on “destabilizing the Israel Defense Forces” and erasing the Jewish identity from the State of Israel.

For example, the admitted mission of one NIF recipient, Adalah (the “legal center for Arab minority rights in Israel”), is to erase Israel’s Jewish identity and get Israelis prosecuted for war crimes in foreign capitals. On its website, Adalah brags of its robust role in the now-retracted Goldstone Report that accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza. B’Tselem provides cameras to agitators involved in orchestrated confrontations with Israeli soldiers, even as it tolerates repeated child endangerment by Palestinian provocateurs in the process.

Another NIF recipient, the online publication +972, published a Photoshopped image graphically depicting Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and

other Israeli leaders in their underwear holding their crotches while carrying rifles, as well as a cartoon depicting former Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barack raping and eating the limbs of Barack Obama in outer space.

On its website main page, Partners for a Progressive Israel, prominently encourages the boycott of such Israeli products as Ahava and Sodastream. If the Sodastream facility was being run by Mormons from Utah, Polish nuns from Warsaw, or Mennonites from Indiana, it would be up for a Nobel Prize. Moreover, when confronted and called on it, no one can reliably cite the international law Sodastream is allegedly violating with its factory known to treat all equally.

Now, several Jewish and Zionist organizations are vociferously demanding that the NIF, B’Tselem, and Partners for a Progressive Israel all be excluded from marching in the upcoming annual Celebrate Israel Parade. The NIF has participated in prior years.

These grass-roots groups and individuals include Rabbi Elie Abadie of the architectonic Edmond de Safra Congregation in Manhattan, the Zionist Organization of America, Americans for a Safe Israel, and the campaign’s central mover, JCC Watch, headed up by Richard Allen, a private individual.

The anti-NIF protestors have been dismissed as a “fringe.” The Jewish Week ran an NIF op-ed defaming the protestors as a “tiny extremist group.” Ardent Israel supporter Alan Dershowitz decried the exclusion effort. The Anti-Defamation League in a statement and New York’s Jewish Week in an editorial, denounced JCC Watch for a protest flyer featuring a photo of the 1933 iconic “April First” Nazi boycott of Jews in Germany.

In his flyer, Allen of JCC Watch was referencing that the organized international Arab boycott against Jews began on April 1, 1933, after the Mufti of Jerusalem imported Hitler’s April First boycott into the Continued on next page

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Continued from page 8 Arab and Islamic world. Few remember that April First Nazi boycott was launched by Hitler after a million-man, anti-Nazi protest in Madison Square Garden and elsewhere a few days earlier on March 27, 1933. Even fewer recall that the March 27 rally was preceded earlier that month by a scraggly, rag-tag assemblage of Jewish War Veterans, who marched in New York City calling for a pre-emptive boycott of Nazi Germany. As they marched, those JWV were vociferously denounced, disowned and marginalized by the leaders of organized Jewry who labeled them as “nobodies” and “extremists,” saying they “speak for no one.”

History immutably records that the JWV actually spoke for many — and long before others were willing to speak at all.

JCC Watch and its anti-NIF coalition might be a so-called “fringe,” with an unpolished website, inelegant rhetoric and few dollar resources, but its message has struck a chord, perhaps wailed by one hundred shofars on a street corner in Manhattan. Maybe … just maybe … something is happening.

The movement for the Jewish community to draw lines may have gained traction as a result of an unrelated event on April 11. The controversial J Street lobby, which applied for membership in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organization, was subjected to what The Forward called “a grilling” by the Conference’s membership selection committee over J Street’s ties to other BDS movement organizations, such as Jewish Voices for Peace. A source described the session as “passionate, intense — a lot of arguing.” Ultimately, she added, “the selection committee declined to vote, making it procedurally very difficult” for J Street to join the Presidents’ Conference.

The esteemed Presidents’ Conference epitomizes the Jewish communal mainstream, reflecting a vast gamut of views — from Americans for Peace Now, highly-critical of Israel, to the staunchly defensive Zionist Organization of America — 52 organizations in all.

In the days before the selection committee’s “grilling,” leadership of several organizations and well-known commentators expressed dismay that J Street — sometimes accused of fronting for the Arab Lobby — would even apply. An opinion piece in The Jerusalem Post last fall declared, “[J Street] Founder and president Jeremy Ben-Ami refuses to recognize Israel as a ‘Jewish state’ … co-founder Daniel Levy has described Israel’s creation as ‘an act that went wrong.’ … Ben-Ami was also proven to be a serial liar when, despite his repeated denials, the anti-Israeli George Soros was exposed as one of his major contributors.”

Now, as Jewish and Israeli media buzz with the kitchen-table revolt cooked up by JCC Watch, Rabbi Abadie, and others railing against the NIF’s participation in the Celebrate Israel Parade, the umbrage against the NIF’s participation is only growing. Rabbi Abadie has threatened to pull his congregation’s participation and financial support for the parade, and like-minded Sephardic congregations have promised to join him.

An article in The Algemeiner likened the NIF’s parade inclusion to “appeasement.”

Earlier this month, Member of Knesset Nissim Ze’ev joined flag-waving protestors in a Manhattan demonstration against the JCRC. MK Ze’ev declared, “Any Jewish organization which supports the BDS [movement] has no place among supporters of Israel. The UJA and JCRC, as leading organizations of American Jewry, must adhere to this policy if they are to be considered supporters of Israel.”

Israeli Knesset member Rabbi Dov Lipman, formerly of Maryland now of Beit Shemesh, marching with Israel’s delegation at last year’s Celebrate Israel parade.

The Jewish Star photo by Tom Callan

An April 4 article in the Jerusalem Post led with the subhead: “Diaspora Affairs Ministry reconsidering its funding of future parades.”

Subsequent reports conveyed confusion over whether the ministry was considering pulling funding or simply reallocating its budget. A source in the Celebrate Israel Parade management, not authorized to speak to the media, stated, “The parade derives its revenue from registration fees, float sponsorship, private philanthropy, and a grant from the Israeli government.” A second parade management source added, “The money from the Israeli government is not reduced but each year comes from different ministries and offices in tweaked amounts.”

In an interview, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch defended his group stating, “Some of these folks are saying that the NIF is now synonymous with the boogie man. … We get blamed for everything. It is patently absurd. It bears

no relation to reality. It would be laughable if (it) wasn’t so sort of sad.”

Clearly, a key demonstration of Jewish unity for Israel has now transmogrified into roiling divisiveness. That’s the opposite of the parade’s intent. For this reason, NIF supporters call for the open tent of inclusion to be broad enough to allow the most dissident factors in.

The Jewish community is now looking at its own mainstream and some are asking if the riverbanks need to be more defined and steeper. Some are also asking whether the open tent, so precious to all, can survive if burning flames are brought inside.

Edwin Black is the award-winning author of international bestseller IBM and the Holocaust.

This article is drawn from his just-released Financing the Flames: How Tax-Exempt and Public Money Fuel a Culture of Confrontation and Terrorism in Israel. Copyright 2014 Edwin Black. All Rights Reserved.

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y the time you’re reading this, you’re likely setting back into the chametz routine. Back in your pantries are the cereals you love, the snacks your kids missed and your regular baking ingredients. And, if you’re like me, those new products will be WHO’S IN THE nestled amongst the KITCHEN left over unopened boxes of matzo farfel, cake meal, matzo meal, potato starch, Passover noodles, puddings, soup bases, potato chips and marshmallows — lots of bags of marshmallows.

Every year I tell myself this year will be different. I don’t Judy Joszef need that many of each item, and I actually listen to myself, that is until the day before the chag. At that point I buy an additional three of everything just “in case.”

Next year should any of you see me in the stores the day before, repeat these words to me: “Stand back and take your hands off the items; you have enough!”

If you were away for Pesach, I’m guessing that your laundry is done, your refrigerators and pantries restocked, and things are back to normal. I’ve heard a few horror stories about missed flights, delays and lost luggage, but, hey, you have to take the good with the bad.

Talking about missed flights … My stepson, who I adore, was set to meet his wife and two kids in Israel. They left earlier in the

week, and were already at her parents’ home in Efrat. He was scheduled on a Thursday night flight, but stayed just a tad too long at work and then somehow got onto a train in the wrong direction. Although he got to the airport an hour before the flight, the gates were closed and some lucky standby customer was in his seat. If he didn’t get on the next flight, he had one chance on Saturday night, and if that didn’t pan out he wouldn’t make it to Israel for Pesach.

I held my breath hoping he would make it standby that night, but it was not to be.

I picked him up from JFK and he spent the night at our house. His mother-in-law booked him on a Saturday night flight, for which he had to be at Newark at 8:45 pm.

I thought he should stay at a hotel near the airport for Shabbat, but he was confident he could make it from Teaneck to the airport and be checked in, in 25 minutes. Chip off the old block.

My husband Jerry was not always on time. Take, for instance, when he and his then wife were flying back from Miami to JFK. His father-in-law (who was the nicest, most gentle man imaginable, always calm and collected) was going to pick them up.

Jerry’s thought process was to allot just the exact time of travel to get to the airport.

Traffic and other mishaps were never part of the equation. Naturally, they were late.

They rushed to the counter, checked their bags and ran toward the gate. Once there, they were told the gate was closed and they had to take the next plane out. “But our bags are on this plane,” Jerry said. It didn’t make a difference; the gates were closed and so was this conversation. Being this was over 30 years ago, it wasn’t an issue that the bags

were on the plane without their owners on board; they managed to get onto a flight that was leaving a few minutes later — to LaGuardia. But they had no time to call his father-in-law (there were no cell phones back then). Meanwhile, back at JFK, his father-in-law watched as all the luggage was taken off by passengers, while waiting for his daughter and son-in-law. Soon he was the only one left and the only remaining luggage was that of his kids, going around and around and around. Panic set in; this usually calm and collected man started asking, then demanding, then screaming, “What did you do to my daughter and son-in-law?

Where are they? Are they kidnapped? Their luggage is here, where are they, what did you do to them?”

It took an hour before LaGuardia security was able to inform JFK security that they were safe and sound and waiting in LaGuarida to be picked up. From then on Jerry never missed another flight. Unfortunately, except for being on time to say kaddish, Jerry continues to be late to everything else, fully unredeemed.

For those of you ready to delve into something other than matzo-based products, here’s something that’s yummy and different. I received this recipe from a friend of a friend; not sure where she got it from, but I love it, so I thought I would share it with you.

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Place dough on a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth. Place into a large, oiled bowl and rotate dough so it is evenly coated in oil. Cover with a damp cloth and let rise for 45 minutes or until doubled in volume.

Punch dough down and divide into 8 equal portions. Shape each one into a 4 inch round ball and place on lightly greased baking sheet, sprinkled with corn meal.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Beat the egg white and 1 tbs water in a small bowl and brush the loaves with half the mixture.

Bake for 15 minutes, then brush with remaining egg wash and bake for 12 minutes more. Cool on wire racks Once cool, cut a 1/2 inch thick slice on the top of each loaf and scoop out centers careful to leave a 3/4 inch thick shell.

Right before serving, fill with your favorite soup.

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Continued from page 1 lator, the National Recovery Administration, to write codes governing each sector of industry — and even non-industrial companies, like poultry firms, were included.

The administration took its new agency seriously: the NRA’s emblem was the American eagle, and its launch was celebrated by a ticker tape parade in Manhattan. Together, industry and regulators wrote numerous rules. In the case of the poultry industry, those rules included health regulations, wage regulations, regulation of hours worked.

But just as now, Amity Shlaes the new rules sometimes conflicted with common sense.

Companies were losing money in the Great Depression, yet the NRA demanded they raise wages. NRA codes also intruded in areas where government had not gone before: Paul Rivoche the poultry codes, for example, denied wholesale costumers the right to pick the chickens they bought.

Yet one of the essential features of the meat marketplace was that customers could select animals for slaughter.

The Roosevelt administration was determined to fight for its law, and so investigated company after company and prosecuted violators relentlessly. The Department of Justice, then as now, played a role. It targeted the Schechter Brothers, kosher butchers on Brooklyn’s Ralph Avenue. After an intrusive review, the government charged the Schechters with breaking dozens of rules, and even contended they sold a sick chicken. In a time before antibiotics, such an allegation as enough to put a company out of business.

Joseph, Martin, Alex and Aaron Schechter were new immigrants, and they felt ambivalent about fighting Roosevelt. The men scarcely spoke English, after all. But the charges the government levied were criminal, and the brothers did not want to go to jail.

So in a courthouse in Downtown Brooklyn — in the building that is now the bankruptcy court and Brooklyn’s main post office — the Schechter Brothers’ lawyer, Brooklyn Law School graduate Joe Heller, defended them.

Although they lost, the Schechters took their case to the Supreme Court, where the justices asked the same kind of questions people ask today about the healthcare law.

Meanwhile, the Schechter cause was gaining national sympathy, since many were questioning the NRA. The justices sided with the Schechters unanimously and ruled the NRA unconstitutional. Getting into a punning mode, one justice said the NRA must fall “bone and sinew.”

The humble Brooklyn chicken had prevailed over the mighty federal eagle. “America Stunned!” read the headlines in foreign papers. The Schechter victory marked a turning point for Roosevelt’s New Deal — the New Dealers never pushed through such an ambitious law again.

We can make of Schechter Poultry what we will. The main thing is to be sure more New Yorkers are aware of such background.

A few years ago, with the help of Schechter descendant Glen Asner, I told the Schechter story in my book, The Forgotten Man. Now artist Paul Rivoche has brought the Schechters to life in another old Brooklyn tradition, the graphic novel.

Rivoche’s illustrations capture the frustrations of a small business. The Forgotten Man/Graphic aims to inform more Americans about the 1930s, and help give them a context for evaluating current events.

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