5DPEDP WDOPLGLP 'HSRUW WKLV EXWFKHU By Ed Weintrob On Yom Ha’Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the talmidim of Rambam Mesivta High School in Lawrence demonstrated that they remember — and they did so in an way meant to make it harder for others to forget. As he has done repeatedly over the years, Rambam’s dean, Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman (pictured), accompanied his students to a protest in support of am Yisroel — this time outside the Jackson Heights home of 92-year-old Jakiw Palij, believed to be the last remaining Nazi death camp guard living in the U.S. The Rambam rally attracted attention, and put Palij — and the students’ demand that he be deported — on the cover of Tuesday’s Daily News. See Rally on page 2
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By Ed Weintrob When you live in Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, you live with the unrelenting threat of terror. As Rina Ariel explained on Monday night at the Young Israel of Woodmere, living there’s not for everyone. Sometimes, tragedy strikes home.
When 13-and-a-half-year-old Hallel Yaffa Ariel Hy�d was murdered in her Kiryat Arba bed last June 30, her mother, Rina Ariel, comforted her other children, both girls younger than Hallel, and then resolved that Hallel’s memory will live on. She would remain See Mother on page 2
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By Ed Weintrob The keynote speaker at Sunday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Five Towns CommunityWide Holocaust Commemoration said that tolerance, obviously missing from Europe in the years surrounding World War II, is the essential ingredient for future peace. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Had there been respect and tolerance for one another some 70 years ago I would not be here this eveningâ&#x20AC;? to recount a dark history, 85-year-old Marion Blumental Lazan, a child survivor, author and lecturer, told the more than 1,200 people who crowded into Congre-
gation Beth Shalom in Lawrence. After recounting the story of her life during the Shoah and how she built a new life in America (she was 16 when she met her future husband, Nathaniel, now 82, in shul in Peoria on Yom Kippur; they have three married children and nine grandchildren), she spoke of the importance of sharing that period of our history, â&#x20AC;&#x153;particularly with our young people.â&#x20AC;? Acknowledging the fact that each year there are fewer survivors to give personal testimony, See Tolerance on page 3