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Rubashkin: Emunah trumps all The Jewish Star / Ed Weintrob

Delivers words of chizuk at Agudath in Bayswater

Rabbi Shalom Rubashkin in Bayswater.

By Ed Weintrob Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin, recounting anecdotes from his years in prison, told an audience at the Agudath Israel of Bayswater last Wednesday night how his emunah sustained him.

A pasuk in Tehilim summed up his approach, he said — throw upon the Aibishter (Hashem) your problems and the Aibishter will sustain you.

“It’s up to us to have the emunah,” he said.

Bayswater’s rav, Rabbi Menachem Feifer, said that Rubashkin’s experience — he was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison and severed more than eight — reminds us “that we are in

golus (exile). Sometimes we get too comfortable in America, we think that this is our home. We are living in a land that is not ours, in a world that is not ours. Ours is the world of geulah (redemption), golus is not ours.”

Rubashkin’s final judicial appeal was denied on the seventh day of Chanuakah last December. Unexpectedly, on the eighth day of Chanukah, President Trump commuted his sentence, allowing him to immediately go free.

“At the darkest moments, the Yiddisher emunah flares up” and we’re reminded that “the Aibishter never abandons any Jew and it’s the job of every Jew to say connected to the Aibishter through Torah and mitzvahs.”

One of the first things Rubashkin needed to decide when entering prison was whether he would go along to get along. But this was no choice for a G-d-fearing Jew, he said.

The Jewish Star Rabbi Eli Biegeleisen was installed on Sunday as the mara d’atra of the Lido Beach Synagogue, Congregation Etz Chaim, at the eastern end of the Long Beach barrier island.

Rabbis from shuls on the island and beyond came to offer blessings to Lido’s new spiritual leader. Among those attending were Rabbi Yaakov Bender, Darchei Torah rosh yeshiva (where Rabbi Biegeleisen is director of community engagement,); Rabbi Yaakov Klass, presidium member of the Rabbinical Alliance of America/ Igud HaRabbonim; Rabbi Mendy Mirocznik, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America/Igud HaRabbonim; Rabbi

Chaim Yehoshua Hoberman, rosh yeshiva of the Mesivta of Long Beach; Rabbi Chaim Wakslak of the Young Israel of Long Beach, Rabbi David Bibi of the Sephardic Congregation of Long Beach, Rabbi Moshe Greene of the island’s Bach Jewish Center; Lido Beach Synagogue Rabbi Emeritus Daniel Mehlman, and Rabbi Mordechai Tober of Montreal.

The chairman of the REITS board, Rabbi Joel Schreiber, who is a member of the Lido shul, chaired the event. A proclamation was presented by state Senator Todd Kaminsky.

Lido Beach Synagogue Vice President Ariel Sutain formally installed Rabbi Biegeleisen by See New Lido rabbi on page 9

Cherish today’s immigrants, US Jews are urged The Jewish Star American Jews who have jumped onto the anti-immigration bandwagon should reconsider, Bret Stephens, the New York Times’ proIsrael columnist, said at a Touro Law Center event last Thursday.

“We too were foreigners in this country, Brett Stephens at Touro we too are only recently arrived,” Stephens said. “We should think about that when we think of the question of our attitude toward foreigners.”

As “the children of Abraham … we understand the value of independent thinking,” Stephens said at Touro, in Central Islip, on the occasion of receiving the college’s Bruce K. Gould Book Award. Immigrants bring fresh ideas and growth to America, he said.

As a columnist for the Wall Street JourSee Cherish immigrants on page 9 The Jewish Star / Ed Weintrob

Blessings for new Lido rav

He strove to keep mitzvot and to be a light to others despire his circumstances. “When a yid stands strong to do a mitzvah it’s not his strength, it’s the Aibishter’s strength,” he said.

New rav in town: Rabbi and Rebbetzin Biegeleisen at the Lido Beach shul. Jewish Star / Ed Weintrob

Elisheva and Yisroel remembered

At CitiField: From left: OU President Moishe Bane, state Sen. Majority Leader John Flanagan, and OU Executive Vice President Allen Fagin. Kruter Photography

Call it ‘FrumField’ More than 2,000 people came to Citi Field on Sunday — not

to root on the Mets, but to revel See FrumField on page 16

By Ed Weintrob Family, friends and members of the community who never met them filled Congregation Beth Shalom in Lawrence on Monday night for an evening of inspiration in memory of Elisheva Kaplan and Yisroel Levin a”h, who perished in a horrific car crash on the Nssau Expressway in Lawrence during chol ha’moed Pesach.

“Our entire community is still shaking from this loss,” said Rabbi Kenneth Hain of Beth Shalom.

Rabbi Moshe Brown of Agudath Israel of West Lawrence recalled that after 9/11 political leaders told a grieving country “to get back to normal.”

“That attitude is anathema to Torah Jews,” he said.

In a tearful address, Elisheva’s

father, Beth Shalom chazan Joel Kaplan, said that “the void and pain and emptiness is so unbearable it cannot be imagined. But in spite of that, my family has clearly experienced the beauty of am Yisroel” in the help extended to them following the tragedy.

“Everyday I wake up and go through the day with what I can only describe as a heavy stone on my heart,” he continued. “The stone is always with me, and I’m desperate for it to go away. So many of us have these stones.”

“What can we do to remove this stone?” he asked.

“The Kaplans and Levins know with absolute certainty that Elisheva and Yisroel are in a better place. And they are together, as they were desSee Elisheva and Yisroel on page 9

Remembered: Yisroel Levin and Elisheva Kaplan a”h.

Bibi proves Iran deal is based on lies by Tehran

By Jeff Dunetz, Jewish Star columnist Using information secretly removed from Iran and verified by the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu exposed on Monday major Iranian deceptions regarding the history of its nuclear weapons program.

Netanyahu displayed how the rogue regime has been lying to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); telling the truth to the IAEA is a core requirement of the Iranian nuclear deal.

Netanyahu said that the half a ton cache of files Israeli agents removed from a secret storage building in Tehran (see story on this page) shows that Iran has been “brazenly lying” about its nuclear weapons development program. (This is just one example of Iran’s non-compliance.

For more, see this week’s Politics to Go column on page 18.)

According to the IAEA, Iran said that it never had a nuclear weapons program, specifically denying the existence of Project Amad whose five principle goals were “designing nuclear weapons, developing nuclear cores, building nuclear implosion systems, preparing nuclear tests and integrating nuclear warheads on missiles.”

After 2003, Iran officially shut down Amad but carried on its work secretly using the same personnel. The person who ran the Amad program, Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is now running a clandestine “special activities” program whose work is carried out by SPND, an organization inside Iran’s Defense Ministry. Many of SPND’s key personnel worked under Fakhrizadeh on Project Amad.

It is important to note that the Netanyahu did not offer conclusive proof that the SPND was working on a nuclear bomb, although this may be the case. What he did prove is that Iran lied to the IAEA about their pre-deal program.

Per the JCPOA, the agreement was not to be implemented without that information. But Iran’s lies mean the entire deal is based on false-

During his televised address on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points to shelves filled with secret files documenting Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

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hood and never should have been implemented.

The files removed by Israeli intelligence from the storage building in Tehran prove that after the deal was made, “Iran continued to preserve and expand its nuclear know-how for use at a later date.” This contradicts this JCPOA stipulation: “Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.” To meet this stipulation, Iran should have gotten rid of the files; instead, it seems to be keeping the information for a rainy day.

Netanyahu ended his presentation with, “In a few days’ time, President Trump will make his decision on what to do with the nuclear deal. I am sure he will do the right thing, the right thing for the United States, the right thing for Israel, and the right thing for peace in the world.”

Mossad found and took the documents

By JTA Israel’s Mossad intelligence service broke into the anonymous Tehran building that housed Iran’s secret nuclear files and smuggled half a ton of documents and compact discs back to Israel the same night.

The New York Times quoted a senior Israeli official who spoke on condition of anonymity as saying that the Mossad discovered the warehouse in February 2016 and kept the building under surveillance since then. Mossad operatives broke into the building in January, took the original documents, and returned to Israel the same night, the official told the Times.

In his broadcast on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the hiding place of the documents. “This is where they kept the atomic archives. Right here. Few Iranians knew where it was, very few, and also a few

Israelis,” Netanyahu said. “Now, from the outside, this was an innocent looking compound. It looks like a dilapidated warehouse. But from the inside, it contained Iran’s secret atomic archives locked in massive files,” he said.

On stage with Netanyahu were shelves of binders and a moveable wall of CDs. “And here’s what we got. Fifty-five thousand pages. Another 55,000 files on 183 CDs. Everything you’re about to see, is an exact copy of the original Iranian material,” he said, adding: “You may want to know where are the originals? Well, I can say they’re now in a very safe place.”

The unnamed official told the Times that Trump was told of the operation to retrieve the documents by Mossad Director Yossi Cohen, when he visited Washington in January. The material was not unveiled until now because the documents had to be analyzed, and translated

from Persian, the official said.

Netanyahu said that the information had been shared with the United States and that “the United States can vouch for its authenticity.” President Trump is set to decide by May 12 whether the U.S. will remain in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the deal is known.

In a meeting with reporters in the White House Rose Garden shortly after Netanyahu’s presentation, Trump said that the disclosure “showed that I was 100 percent right” in criticizing the Iran nuclear deal. “That is just not an acceptable situation,” he also said.

Trump declined to say what he would decide on the Iran nuclear deal. “We’ll see what happens. I’m not telling you what I’m doing, but a lot of people think they know. On or before the 12th, we’ll make a decision. That doesn’t mean we won’t negotiate a real agreement,” he said.

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onight, we’re going to show you something that the world has never seen before. Tonight, we are going to reveal new and conclusive proof of the secret nuclear weapons program that Iran has been hiding for years from the international community in its secret atomic archive.

We’re going to show you Iran’s secret nuclear files.

You may well know that Iran’s leaders repeatedly deny ever pursuing nuclear weapons. You can listen to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei: “I stress that the Islamic Republic has never been after nuclear weapons.” You can listen to Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani: “Nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction have no place in Iran’s security and defense doctrine, and contradict our fundamental religious and ethical convictions.” This is repeated by Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif: “We didn’t have any program to develop nuclear weapons. Anyway, we consider nuclear weapons both irrational as well as immoral.”

Well, tonight, I’m here to tell you one thing: Iran lied. Big time.

After signing the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran intensified its efforts to hide its secret nuclear files. In 2017, Iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location in Tehran. This is the Shorabad District in southern Tehran. This is where they kept the atomic archives. Right here.

Few Iranians knew where it was, very few, and also a few Israelis.

Now, from the outside, this was an innocent looking compound. It looks like a dilapidated warehouse. But from the inside, it contained Iran’s secret atomic archives locked in massive files. Actually, they’re a little bigger than this, okay? few weeks ago, in a great intelligence achievement, Israel obtained half a ton of the material inside these vaults. And here’s what we got. Fifty-five thousand pages. Another 55,000 files on 183 CDs. Everything you’re about to see, is an exact copy of the original Iranian material. You may want to know where are the originals? Well, I can say they’re now in a very safe place.

Here’s what the files included: incriminating documents, incriminating charts, incriminating presentations, incriminating blueprints, incriminating photos, incriminating videos and more.

We’ve shared this material with the United States, and the United States can vouch for its authenticity. We will also share it with other countries, and we’ll share it with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

So, let me tell you the history of this material.

We’ve known for years that Iran had a secret nuclear weapons program called Project Amad.

We can now prove that Project Amad was a comprehensive program to design, build and test nuclear weapons. We can also prove that Iran is secretly storing Project Amad material to use at a time of its choice to develop nuclear weapons.

Here’s what Project Amad’s explicit goal was: creating nuclear weapons. This is an original Iranian presentation from these files, and here’s the mission statement: Design, produce and test five warheads, each with ten kiloton TNT yield for integration on a missile. You don’t need to read Farsi to read 10 kilotons here. TNT. This is the specific goal of Project Amad. That’s like five Hiroshima bombs to be put on ballistic missiles. his is an original Iranian spreadsheet from the archives of Project Amad. Look at what we have here. Yellowcake production, centrifuge enrichment process, warhead project, simulation project, and test. And indeed, when we analyzed what’s in these archives, we found that Project Amad had the all the five elements, the five key elements, of a nuclear weapons program.

I want to take them one by one.

The first element is designing nuclear weapons. This is an original Iranian illustration of a weapon. Again, you don’t have to read Farsi to understand this. This is U235—that’s enriched

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plicit condition for implementing the nuclear deal.

Iran has to come clean. So in December 2015, the IAEA published its final assessment of what it called the military aspects of Iran’s nuclear program. This is the report. This was Iran’s chance to fully come clean to the IAEA. They could tell the truth, they could say, we had this program, this secret program, it’s over, we shelved it, it doesn’t exist, we destroyed the material.

Here’s what Iran actually told the IAEA. It said, Iran denied the existence of a coordinated program aimed at the development of a nuclear explosive device, and specifically denied, get this, specifically denied the existence of the Amad plan. The material proves otherwise, that Iran authorized, initiated and funded Project Amad, a coordinated program aimed at the development of a nuclear explosive device. ere’s another document from the archive.

This is the master plan of Project Amad.

Iran said to the IAEA, no work has been conducted with multi-point initiation. This is multi-point initiation. You’ve got to forgive me, this jargon, this scientific terminology is something that is necessary to understand the production of nuclear weapons. But here’s what they say, no work has been conducted with MPI technology in hemispherical geometry. But again, the archive shows that this is a complete fabrication. Iran conducted extensive work with MPI technology in hemispherical geometry. There’s an example.

Hundreds more documents prove it.

Iran said to the Agency, that it had not conducted metallurgical work specifically designed for a nuclear device. But the files again show that this is a lie. Iran conducted extensive metallurgical work specifically designed for a nuclear device. Here’s an original Iranian photo, plenty more in the archive.

So what I’ve shown you tonight is just a fraction of the total material that we have. But even from this sample, you can draw four main conclusions.

•First, Iran lied about never having a nuclear weapons program. 100,000 secret files prove that they lied.

•Second, even after the deal, Iran continued to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons know-how for future use. Why would a terrorist regime hide and meticulously catalogue its secret nuclear files, if not to use them at a later date.

•Third, Iran lied again in 2015, when it didn’t come clean to the IAEA, as required by the nuclear deal.

•And finally, the Iran deal, the nuclear deal, is based on lies. It’s based on Iranian lies and Iranian deception. 100,000 files right here prove that they lied.

So here’s the bottom line. Iran continues to lie.

Just last week, Zarif said this: “We never wanted to produce a bomb.” Again: “We never wanted to produce a bomb.”

Yes you did. Yes you do. And the atomic archive proves it. he nuclear deal gives Iran a clear pass to an atomic arsenal. It does so because it gives them the three components that are necessary to produce this arsenal. First, unlimited enrichment in a few years. And they plan to do that. They plan to have several hundred thousand advanced centrifuges with which they can enrich mountains of uranium for that core that I showed you before. For many, many such cores. Second, it completely fails to address Iran’s continued development of ballistic missiles. And third, and this is new, it completely fails to address Iran’s secret nuclear bomb program and its advanced work on weaponization. We just did.

So this is a terrible deal. It should never have been concluded. And in a few days’ time, President Trump will decide, will make a decision on what to do with the nuclear deal. I’m sure he’ll do the right thing. The right thing for the United States, the right thing for Israel and the right thing for the peace of the world.”

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uranium, right here at the core. That’s the only place where you find in the core enriched uranium. And here’s an Iranian simulation, original Iranian simulation putting all these components together. That’s the first component.

Second component — developing nuclear cores. Here’s a photo showing the casting process and a cast metal core, from the archives. And here’s a secret underground facility the Iranians were building to produce nuclear cores. We have hundreds of documents for each of these components.

Third component — building nuclear implosion systems. This is an original Iranian photo of a measuring device for implosions. And here’s a simulation of a nuclear implosion.

Fourth element — preparing nuclear tests. Here’s a map of five potential locations for a nuclear test in eastern Iran, One, two, three, four, five. We have many, many more such documents. nd fifth — integrating nuclear weapons on missiles.

Here’s a design for a nuclear payload on a Shahab3 missile, from the archive. Here’s the warhead, here’s the bomb. And I don’t have to remind you, I think, that Iran is continually expanding the range of its ballistic missiles, its nuclear-capable missiles. They started with 1,000 kilometers, they’re now up to 2,000, roughly.

They can reach Riyadh, Tel Aviv, Moscow, but they’re working on far, far greater ranges. They’re planning much longer range missiles to carry nuclear weapons.

So these files conclusively prove that Iran is brazenly lying when it says it never had a nuclear weapons program. The files prove that. But here’s what happened next.

Iran was faced with mounting pressure in 2003. You remember that, that was following the Gulf War, so it was forced to shelve Project Amad.

But it didn’t shelve its nuclear ambitions. So Iran devised a plan to do two things. First, to preserve the nuclear know-how from Project Amad, and second, to further develop its nuclear weapons related capabilities. That plan came directly from Iran’s top leadership.

There’s another document from the archive.

This is following the new directive of Iran’s Minister of Defense, Mr. Shamkhani, today he’s the director of the National Security Council. Following the new directive of Iran’s Minister of Defense,

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the work would be split into two parts, covert and overt. A key part of the plan was to form new organizations to continue the work.

This is how Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of Project Amad, put it. Remember that name, Fakhrizadeh. So here’s his directive, right here.

And he says: “The general aim is to announce the closure of Project Amad,” but then he adds, “Special activities”—you know what that is—“Special activities will be carried out under the title of scientific know-how developments.” And in fact, this is exactly what Iran proceeded to do. It continued this work in a series of organizations over the years, and today, in 2018, this work is carried out by SPND, that’s an organization inside Iran’s Defense Ministry.

And you will not be surprised to hear that SPND is led by the same person that led Project Amad, Dr. Fakhrizadeh, and also, not coincidentally, many of SPND’s key personnel worked under Fakhrizadeh on Project Amad.

So this atomic archive clearly shows that Iran planned, at the highest levels, to continue work related to nuclear weapons under different guises and using the same personnel.

I want to give you another example of Iran’s nuclear weapons related activity that continued after Project Amad.

You all remember the Fordow Facility? The Fordow Uranium Enrichment Facility. This was a secret underground enrichment facility that the Iranians built under a mountain.

You don’t put thousands of centrifuges under a mountain to produce medical isotopes.

You put them there for one reason: nuclear weapons, enrichment for nuclear weapons. But the files show that Fordow was designed from the get-go for nuclear weapons as part of Project Amad.

Here’s an original Iranian blueprint of Fordow.

And what happened was that Iran continued to build Fordow years, secretly building, years after Project Amad ended. Here’s what it looks like.

That’s the entrance. It goes under a mountain.

You also will not be surprised that Iran insisted on keeping Fordow. And amazingly, the nuclear deal enabled it to do it. It enabled it to do it, but this came with a hitch. ran was required by the nuclear deal to come clean to the International Atomic Energy Agency about its nuclear program. This was an ex-

These files conclusively prove that Iran is brazenly lying when it says it never had a nuclear weapons program.

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By Jeffrey Bessen, Nassau Herald The Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula, at its annual breakfast on Sunday, honored Long Beach native and 30year Far Rockaway resident Richard Altabe.

Altabe, 57, is principal of the lower school of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, which he attended as a child. The school recently relocated to Woodmere Altabe received the Audrey Pheffer Lifetime Achievement Award from the JCCRP, an organization that aims to “improve the cultural, educational, social, communal and religious welfare” within its communities, accord-ing to its mission statement.

Pheffer is the mother of Rockaways Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato. Hebrew Academy of Long For more than 25 Beach Lower School Prinyears, Audrey held cipal Richard Altabe at the the seat her daughter school’s Israel celebration now occupies. on April 19.

Jeffrey Bessen For 30 years, Altabe has served as a principal of Jewish schools, including Yeshivat Share Torah, Magen David Yeshivah High School, and nearly two decades at Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway before joining HALB. “I spent 18 years as general studies principal at Yeshiva Darchei Torah, and I view Rabbi Yakov Bender as my mentor in education,” Altabe said. “He taught me that education is much more than academics, rather it is the ability to foster the growth of the whole child.”

Altabe’s career in education nearly didn’t get started. After graduating Hillel High School in Lawrence (now the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway), he was accepted into New York University’s six-year dental program. His experience as a counselor at the old Hartman Young Men’s Hebrew Association in Far Rockaway helped him realize his true passion.

“I had the privilege to work with newly arrived Russian-Jewish children, and I helped them learn how to read Hebrew and to daven.

That success inspired me to pursue education.”

He helped to found the TOVA (Torah Viable Alternatives) Mentoring program in Cedarhurst. Based on the Big Brother/Big Sister concept, it’s an Orthodox Jewish program that matches students with young adults to help them overcome the challenges they face. Altabe is also vice president of CAHAL, a yeshiva-based program of self-contained classes for children with learning differences from kindergarten through high school, also based in Cedarhurst.

“Richard Altabe brings the warmth, the knowledge, the ability and the know how to better deal with children,” said HALB Executive Director Richard Hagler, who has known him for more than 25 years. “He knows the latest techniques in education, and is a warm, caring and devoted principal and person.”

Altabe said he grew up in “a non-Orthodox family,” and said he appreciated the efforts by others such as the late Perry Fish, then the regional director of the National Congregation Synagogue Youth, who guided him through his teenage years.

“I created TOVA Mentoring program to provide that type of guidance to children knowing that without a positive role model children can become at-risk,” Altabe said. NCSY uses social and recreational programs to develop a positive identity in Jewish teenagers.

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Shoah venues informed lynching victim memorial

By Ben Sales, JTA When Bryan Stevenson set out to build a memorial to the thousands of black people lynched in the United States, he thought about Germany and Poland.

Those countries, where millions of Jews died at the hands of the Nazis, have made sure to preserve the memories of the victims — and the places where they were killed. It’s inescapable when you walk the streets of Berlin, where “stumbling stones” bearing the names of murdered Jews protrude from the pavement. And it’s in stark view when you visit Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in Poland that remains largely intact more than 70 years after it was liberated.

“In Berlin there are dozens of markers and stones placed next to the homes of Jewish families that were abducted,” Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, told JTA. “Auschwitz is a place you visit. It sobers you with the horrors of the Holocaust. When you leave these places, you want to say, ‘Never again should we commit this kind of suffering and abuse.’”

Stevenson wanted to evoke the same feelings in Americans in the design for the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened Thursday in Montgomery, the first physical space dedicated to the victims of slavery, lynching, segregation and mass incarceration. The memorial and nearby museum was spearheaded by Stevenson’s nonprofit, which provides legal aid to those wrongly convicted of crimes.

On a hill overlooking the State Capitol build-

The names of lynching victims are inscribed on corten steel monuments at the National Memorial for Ricky Carioti/Washington Post via Getty Images Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala.

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cording to original research by the Equal Justice Initiative — about 800 victims more than had been previously documented.

“When you come to the United States, the landscape is largely empty of any reckoning, any acknowledgement of the horrors of our history,” Stevenson told JTA. “There are virtually no places that deal honestly with the legacy of slavery.

We tell a fictional story, a glorified story, a romantic story, about the era of the Confederacy.”

“The absence of any public acknowledgement of that history, I think, adds to the wound and the trauma,” he added. “The same can be said of the segregation era. We have not fully acknowledged the humiliation and damage that was done through the industry of segregation.”

The steel columns, hanging in rows above

a descending slope, display the names of individual victims of lynching, with others bearing only the word “unknown” for victims who have not been identified. Summaries along the walk tell the stories behind some lynchings. Sculptures outside represent the anguish of black Americans terrorized by white supremacy.

The initiative also has duplicates of the columns ready to send as memorials to counties where the lynchings took place, provided the groups requesting them have made efforts to advance racial and economic justice. And in the museum, housed nearby in a former warehouse of a slave market, shelves hold jars filled with soil from the sites of lynchings.

Stevenson told The New York Times that he does not intend for the museum to be punitive.

Rather, he hopes it will help “liberate America” from a racist history that has taken different forms over the years.

“I would not be comfortable traveling to Germany today as an African-American, knowing about that history, unless I knew German society had changed,” he told JTA. “We cannot expect people across the world to travel to the American South or feel comfortable in the American South until we reject this history of racial inequality.”

Germany, Stevenson said, was not the only country that has done a better job than the United States of confronting its sins. He pointed to the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda, which tells the story of that country’s genocide, its prelude and its aftermath through documents, photos, artifacts and video testimonies. He also praised the “cultural response” to apartheid in South Africa, which has its own museum about that era in Johannesburg.

“Collective shame about mass atrocities is a healthy thing because it moves you to get the point where you say ‘never again,’” Stevenson said. “We don’t say those words when it comes to the history of racial inequality.”

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By Ron Kampeas, JTA WASHINGTON — It’s like finding out that the White House has a mikvah in its basement and no one knows about it.

Up an elegant stairway next to the concert hall at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is the “Concert Lounge dedicated by the State of Israel.” It’s a delicate, quiet refuge from Washington that bursts with, well, Israeliness: Paintings and wooden reliefs feature biblical scenes by Israeli artists who were well known in their time.

Forty-seven years after it was inaugurated by Yitzhak Rabin in 1971, the lounge is about to get a makeover.

Mikhail Fridman, a Russian-Israeli philanthropist — the kind that art magazines like to call “oligarch” — is offering $1.25 million through his investment shop, LetterOne, to renovate the lounge. The Kennedy Center opened up the redesign to a competition. Submissions were closed in January, and the center is now making a decision.

Not that anyone in the Israeli or pro-Israel community here was even aware that one of the most prestigious spaces — the lounge is used for receptions for donors to the National Symphony Orchestra — in one of the capital’s most prestigious landmarks is named for the country they love.

“I had forgotten about it,” said one leader of an organization known to plan major events in the capital.

“Never heard of it,” said another.

And so it went across the pro-Israel spectrum, with a dozen officials saying that maybe they had seen the lounge once, and others saying they weren’t even aware of it. (Remarks were mostly not for attribution, even for a topic as unpolitical as an Israeli lounge.)

Israeli Embassy spokespeople did not return a request for comment, but a former staffer re-

A view of the Israeli lounge in the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.

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called that the embassy was surprised by the lounge’s existence nine years ago when the Kennedy Center’s curators sought information about its artwork.

Step inside the huge double doors and you enter a tiny version — 60 by 20 feet — of the lively, elegant and perhaps dated spaces found in Israeli museums, event halls, government offices and the Knesset.

That’s not surprising, considering the architect of the lounge, Raphael Blumenfeld, de-

signed the interior of the Knesset. Shraga Weil, whose painting of biblical scenes spans the lounge’s ceiling, sculpted the three main doorways to the Knesset. Nehemiah Azaz’s wooden sculpture depicting biblical musical instruments takes up a wall.

Rabin, the future prime minister who was Israel’s ambassador at the time, had an acute understanding of American sensibilities. He perceived the importance to Americans of the Kennedy Center, a modernist, layered white structure that would arise from the Potomac and still beloved among Washingtonians as the capital’s wedding cake.

Sarit Arbell was the cultural attache at the Israeli Embassy nine years ago when the center called seeking information about one of the artists.

“I did a little research,” she said in an interview. “Rabin arranged it. He was so smart.”

The Kennedy Center opened just just eight years after President Kennedy’s assassination, recalling the idealism of the postwar period during an era riven by the Vietnam War and the Nixon presidency. Plenty of countries donated artwork to the Kennedy Center, but only three built lounges: the Soviet Union, next to the Opera House; China, next to the Eisenhower Theater; and Israel, next to the concert hall.

Its execution was a project not just of the Israeli government but of the Jewish community.

“The cost of the project is being borne in part by ‘Friends of the State of Israel’ in the Washington area,” JTA reported at the time. Blumenfeld said then it was “the first permanent exhibit of Israeli art outside of a museum.”

How did the lounge disappear out of the local Jewish consciousness?

It’s not clear, but the officials at pro-Israel groups who knew about the room’s existence said it was too small for receptions. It’s now used once a month for dinners for donors to the

National Symphony Orchestra. On the day a reporter visited, schoolchildren were attending a concert in the hall, and the lounge was reserved for children with special needs who might need a break.

An actual Russian oligarch, Vladimir Potanin, paid to renovate the Russian lounge a few years ago, and now it appears light and airy: Plush white furniture is set against a massive abstract painting suffused with spring colors, green and blue.

A Kennedy Center spokeswoman told JTA that the Russian lounge previously resembled the Israeli lounge: darker and more solid, the prevailing interior art and architecture of the 1970s. The center would preserve the existing artworks, but Fridman said in a statement that he was looking for something more “dynamic.”

The existing artwork would be preserved elsewhere in the Kennedy Center, the spokeswoman said. (Silk panels by Ezekiel Kimche were water damaged nine years ago and returned to his family.)

“When I first visited the Kennedy Center last spring, it was full of dynamic, creative energy,” Fridman said. “As an Israeli citizen, I thought it was important for the Israeli lounge to project that same dynamism, so that it can reflect modern-day Israeli culture as well as the incredible diversity of the Jewish heritage. We hope this competition can inspire a modern interpretation of the Israeli lounge.”

For some, though, it’s a stunning discovery, a sudden glimpse into a beloved far-off land.

Jeff Bernstein, a political science professor at Eastern Michigan University touring Washington, made a special trip to the Kennedy Center to get a glimpse and was disappointed to learn the lounge was closed for the duration of the concert for schoolchildren.

“My son saw it and loved it,” he said. “I’ve heard it’s fantastic.”

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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA BIRMINGHAM, UK— Like hundreds of Jewish institutions in the Diaspora, the King David School celebrated Israel’s 70th Independence Day with blue-and-white flags and group singing of the Hatikvah national anthem.

But the King David is not like most other Jewish schools.

Most of the dozens of students in the 53-year-old elementary school in a suburb of this gritty English city come from Muslim families — the result of a decades-long depletion in the size of most Jewish communities outside London and growing immigration from South Asia and the Middle East. According to parents and community observers, 80 percent of the students are Muslim.

The school declined to comment.

On Israel’s Independence Day, which this year fell on April 19, Esther Cohen, King David’s head of religious education, kicked off the ceremony in the school gym with the Modeh Ani morning prayer in Hebrew followed by the Shema Yisrael prayer.

The student body, hand-drawn Israeli flags at their feet, dutifully recited the words. Then they closed their eyes for what Cohen called “tefillah to Hashem.” Most of the boys were wearing some sort of head cover — some kippahs and others the larger Muslim skullcap called taqiyah. Many girls wore hijabs, the Muslim head cover for females.

Cohen showed the students two videos celebrating Israeli innovation and invited them to another tefillah, this time to “thank Hashem that he gave us Israel.” She asked the students to stand up to sing Hatikvah, which speaks of “being a free People in Zion, Jerusalem” — almost all of them sang the Hebrew-language anthem by heart.

Finally, the students were given permission to wave the flags after having been told not to fidget with them for the ceremony’s duration.

Ruth Jacobs, chairwoman of the Representative Council of Birmingham and West Midlands Jewry, describes the surreal reality on display at King David with typical British understatement.

“It’s a bit of an anomaly, really,” she told JTA of the school attended by both her children and grandchildren. “It’s an interesting scenario and a funny thing to see those Muslims saying Shema in the morning prayer.”

Rabbi Gideon Goldwater heard about King David long before he enrolled one of his two daughters there last year after moving here with his family from their native London to serve as the local director of Aish Hatorah, an Orthodox organization. The school once had an entirely Jewish student body, but he said that changed “as demographics changed.”

“I’ve always said this is a fascinating place, you won’t find this sort of situation elsewhere,” Goldwater said.

Students at the King David Elementary School in Birmingham celebrate Israel’s 70th anniversary on April 19.

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King David makes perfect sense to some Muslim parents, they said.

“It is a Jewish school but regardless of that, I think it’s a very good school,” said Fouad, a medical professional whose family is originally from Pakistan and whose daughter attends King David. “The best thing about it is that it has discipline that other schools lack. There’s zero violence, there’s very little bullying. It’s just not tolerated here.”

Fouad asked to be identified by his first name only.

“I’m not worried about the religious studies, Hebrew etc.,” Fouad said. “I actually think it’s good that children learn different religions.

It instills tolerance.”

Whereas excellent private schools are easy to find, non-Jewish parents are drawn to King David also because it’s a public faith-based school where admission is free. (In contrast to the United States, public funding for religious-based schools is allowed and widespread in the U.K.) The curriculum is determined by a foundation affiliated with Birmingham’s 162-year-old Singers Hill Synagogue. It also complies with state Education Ministry pedagogical requirements that include tuition-free schooling of approximately seven hours per day.

King David students are not taught about any other religion besides Judaism, according to Jacobs. Everybody celebrates Jewish holidays together and each Friday features a kiddush ceremony. But she said Jewish students receive more in-depth tutoring about Judaism that the non-Jews may skip. All the students also study some Hebrew.

Not all the non-Jewish parents at King David initially were as comfortable as Fouad. Runila, a mother of two students at the school, whose family comes from India, said, “I was concerned about indoctrination, but the Jewish education here is pretty mild,” she said. “I’m comfortable with it now.”

Among Jewish parents, too, King David took some getting used to.

“This is the only Jewish school in Birmingham, so it’s also the best,” said Goldwater, the Aish rabbi from London. Asked about the quality of religious studies at King David, he said “The Jewish education is what it is.”

But in terms of general education and pedagogical approach, “this school is really solid,” he added. “We’re impressed.”

Although Birmingham is Britain’s second largest city with 1.1 million residents, it has fewer than 1,700 Jews who are permanently based there, according to a 2015 census by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. Another approximately 500 Jews lived in the city as students attending the local university, the report said.

But 70 years ago, Birmingham “thrived as a provincial Jewish center” with many thousands of Jews, Jacobs said. The city, once an industrial hub, even used to have what the community now calls on its website a “Jewish area” where low-income families, many of them immigrants from war-torn mainland Europe, led “a ghetto-like existence.”

In addition to that population, tucked into the bustling red-brick streets and alleys around the Bull Ring indoor market, with its smells of seafood and exotic vegetables, Birmingham also had more integrated Jews who settled in leafy suburbs like Moseley. That’s where King David is located. But in the 1980s, many thousands of Jews left for London and Manchester, a communal decline that changed other large Jewish communities in Britain like Leeds, Bristol and Liverpool.

Jacobs’ council lists only four synagogues — three in Birmingham and one in the suburb of Solihull.

“When I was young, there were lots of children,” said Jacobs, the leader of a community that she characterizes as “graying.” She doubts there are even 100 Jewish children living in Birmingham today. Her own grandchildren, who lived in Birmingham until recently, were the only ones in her synagogue, save for the rabbi’s kids. Ruth Jacobs’ daughter moved to Israel. Her son recently left for Leeds.

When her two children attended Kind David, Jacobs said, their classroom of 30 students had 24 Jews. Now there are one to three Jewish children per classroom at the school, she said.

Jacobs said she finds the decline depressing, but not irreversible.

She noted that Manchester also had a dwindling Jewish population that is growing now thanks to rising housing prices in London. The same could happen to Birmingham as Manchester slowly becomes less affordable, she said.

“This place has everything necessary for a great, strong Jewish community: a Jewish school, a large university, synagogues and even a Jewish old-age home,” she said. “Now we just need nice, young Jewish families.”

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Lido Beach Synagogue: Among rabbis welcoming Rabbi Eli Biegeleisen were (from left) Chaim Wakslak of Young Israel of Long Beach, Daniel Mehlman (Lido’s rabbi emeritus), Joel Schreiber (REITS board chair and Lido member), and Rabbi Yakov Bender of Yeshiva Darchei Torah.

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Rabbi Mehlman, who filled the Lido pulpit for 38 years, recalled the shul’s founding and its early services in a local firehouse. “We’d lose our minyan before Yistabach” when firemen had to answer a call, he recalled.

He wished the community “achdus — a oneness — between the congregation and rabbi.”

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“What kind of packages? Packages of davening, of learning, of acts of chesed. [But] there’s one condition. To send a spiritual package you need to change a little, or a lot. … Don’t say I’ve been doing it this way for so many years or if I do this and this it’s not me. Whatever you accept is you. Don’t lose this opportunity make the stone lighter for yourself, and for the Kaplans, and for the Levins, and for everyone

who has a stone or two or three on their heart. … Send packages until all the stones have disappeared, until Moshiach comes.”

Something each attendee must take away from this evening is to better “appreciate what you have and who you have,” said Rabbi Ephraim Shapiro of Congregation Shaaray Tefilah of North Miami Beach.

“I hope I hug my children tighter,” he said.

“Those that are in our backyard, those that are nearest and dearest … don’t take anything or anyone for granted, but appreciate and love more often.”

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Continued from page 1 nal in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, Stephens became an outlier for his criticism of candidate Donald Trump. Moving to the Times, where an anti-Israel slant dominates both news and opinion pages, he again stands out both as a conservative and as a Zionist. Earlier in his career, he was editor of the Jerusalem Post.

In surveying conditions around the world, Stephens explained why the United States needs to fill the role of world policeman — although he emphasized that such a job does not entail getting involved in conflicts indiscriminately, avoiding places where intervention is not welcome.

“It would be lovely if the Brits could do it for us, but they can’t. It would be lovely if the Europeans would do it for us, but they won’t.

It would be lovely if the U.N. would do it for us, but they shouldn’t, because when the U.N. sends peacekeepers around the world what usually follows is a trail of sexual assault and non-security,” he said.

Over 70 years, the United States has had the two qualifications necessary to fill the world policeman’s role, Stephens said — “capacity and benignity.”

“You want the cop on the beat not to break anyone’s head but to send a signal to the perverbial good citizens of the world that we’re here and to the protential aggressors of the world that they should watch out,” he said.

“The tragedy of the 1920 and 1930s is that as the U.S. went into a period of isolationism, it opened the door for imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and Soviet Russia to destroy the world order,” he said, pointing out that “when we were dragged in, we lost close to a quarter million Americans trying to stamp that out.”

Stephens presented an ominous view of developments in the Middle East.

“Iran and Israel are heading into a war spiral and if I had to place a bet — and my bets aren’t always good — I think Iran and Israel will be at war in Syria by the end of the year,” he said.

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Continued from page 1 handing to him his Ksav Rabbanut. President Alex Berkovitch presented Rabbi Biegeleisen with a kiddish cup symbolizing future blessings.

Rabbi Biegeleisen spoke warmly of the community that welcomed him, his rebbetzin, Shira Biegeleisen, and their three young children.

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In short, I want my life to be easier when the warm weather comes, and I want Shabbat to also be an easier and more relaxed time.

I want to spend less time in the kitchen and more time in my garden and I want lighter foods that are easier to prepare — with some exceptions.

Enjoy this shortest of seasons and get out of the kitchen and enjoy the beautiful sunshine. It’s been such a long winter.

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pring is finally here. We want to be outside as much as possible, and we do not want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen on dinner prep. The kids are probably busy with after school programs and they also want more outdoor time.

What we want to eat also changes with the seasons. The second really warm weather sets in, my desire for meat fades as fast as a snow mound in 70 degree weather! I have no desire for hot chicken soup or heavy stews and briskets or even traditional roast chicken. I want salads and lots of vegetables and much lighter fare. Fish is wonderfully light and easy to prepare and veggies are fresh and bright in the markets.

Shabbat prep also changes. I love making challah during the winter. I can listen to the winds howl all day and watch it snow outside my window, while I relish the cozy warmth of my kitchen while dough rises on my counter. But once warmer weather comes, I want to be outside and I don’t want my kitchen to get overly warm. I can still make homemade bread, but I make knots or small rolls for Shabbat instead.

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Generously grease a 10-inch tube pan and set the oven temperature to 375 degrees.

Punch the dough down and break into 20-30 equal pieces.

Roll each piece into a ball and place half of them into the pan. Brush the dough with melted butter or olive oil and sprinkle most of the chives over the dough. Add the rest of the balls of dough. Brush with more melted butter, sprinkle with the rest of the chives and cover and set in a warm spot to rise for another hour. (Another walk, perhaps?)

Uncover and bake at 375 degrees for about 40 to 50 minutes, until golden brown. Remove from the oven and immediately sprinkle with the parmesan cheese and garlic powder.

Let cool for several minutes.

Remove from pan. Dough will pull apart into individual pieces. Makes one large loaf.

Roast Salmon with Citrus and Honey (Pareve)

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2 to 3 pound salmon fillet skin on 5 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil, divided Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper to taste 3 ruby red grapefruit to equal 1-1/2 cups juice and 1 grapefruit in segments

3 Tbsp. finely minced shallots 1/2 to 1 tsp. grated fresh ginger 4 Tbsp. honey or pure maple syrup, to taste Juice from one lemon, about 3 tbsp.

Pinch cayenne pepper 3 Tbsp. thinly sliced scallions Thinly sliced basil leaves or finely minced fresh parsley Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Line a large rimmed baking sheet with foil and then with a piece of parchment paper.

Brush the parchment with olive oil. Set aside.

Pat the salmon dry and brush the skin side with olive oil. Place on the prepared pan and brush the top with olive oil. Season with kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper. Set aside.

Peel the grapefruit with a knife and cut off just enough skin to expose the flesh in each segment. Cut out the segments and place into a bowl. Set aside. (Do the same with the oranges, if using oranges.)

Juice the remaining fruit until you have about 1-1/2 cups. Set aside.

Heat a small skillet and add the remaining olive oil. Add the minced shallots and cook until softened and slightly golden. Add the ginger, honey or maple syrup, some of the lemon juice and the cayenne. Add the grapefruit juice and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until reduced by half, 10 to 15 minutes. Taste and add more lemon juice or honey or cayenne as desired. Add the scallions and mix. Add the fruit segments and heat through. Remove from the heat.

As soon as you reduce the heat under the sauce, place the salmon in the oven. Roast until cooked through, but not overdone. Salmon should be just opaque.

As soon as the sauce is reduced, brush the salmon with some of the sauce as it cooks.

When the salmon is cooked through, remove from the oven. Let rest for several minutes and then transfer to a serving platter.

Drizzle the sauce over the fish and place the fruit segments around the fish. Garnish with the thinly sliced basil leaves or fresh minced parsley, if you prefer. Serves 4 to 8.

Simple Roasted Garlicy Sweet Hot Green Beans (Pareve)

2 pounds green beans, trimmed, washed and drained 5 to 7 large cloves garlic, very finely minced 1/3 cup dark brown sugar Pinch cayenne pepper, to taste Pinch kosher salt 2 Tbsp. canola oil Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with foil and set aside.

Place the prepared green beans in a large bowl. Place the garlic, sugar, cayenne, salt, and canola oil in a small bowl and whisk to blend. Pour over the beans and toss to coat evenly. Pour the beans onto the prepared pan and spread them evenly. Scrape out any remaining marinade over the beans. Place in the oven and roast until blistered and charred in a few places. Remove from the oven and place in a serving bowl. Serves 6 to 10.

By Chaya Rappoport, The Nosher via JTA I had never been much of a rugelach baker until this recipe. While I gravitated toward challah and babka, I always found store-bought rugelach to be a bit bland and disappointing.

But to my great delight, rugelach are supremely easy to make. Most recipes rely on a 1-to-1 ratio of butter and cream cheese in the dough for flavor and flakiness. I stick with that classic method (don’t mess with perfection!), but also add a bit of sour cream for an extra tender texture. The dough comes together in seconds with the help of a mixer (or food processor) and, after a short rest, it’s ready to be rolled out. But don’t forget to rest and chill your dough!

These rugelach are perfect for spring, for Shavuot, or just because homemade rugelach are delicious.

Notes: These will store well in an airtight container for up to 1 week at room temperature, and will freeze well for up to 3 months.

Ingredients: For the dough: 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cubed 1-1/2 teaspoons fine sea salt 1/2 pound cream cheese, chilled and cubed 2 Tbsp. sour cream 1/3 cup sugar 1 egg, lightly beaten

raw sugar, for decorating For the strawberry filling: 3/4 cup good strawberry jam 2 Tbsp. sour cream 3 ounces cream cheese 2 Tbsp. sugar 1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract pinch salt 1 tsp. lemon juice Directions: 1. Add your cubed butter and flour to your mixer with the paddle and attachment and mix until the butter is broken up well and the mixture looks like wet sand.

2. To the mixing bowl, add in the salt, cream cheese, sour cream and sugar. With the paddle attachment on medium speed, mix everything together quickly, until the mixture is crumbly, wet and mostly coming together.

3. Turn the dough out onto a sheet of foil, press down on it slightly, and form the dough into a thick disk. Wrap the disk tightly in the foil and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

4. Make the filling: Using a stand mixer fitted with paddle, beat the sour cream, cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and salt on low speed until smooth, about 1 minute. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, add 1/4 teaspoon of lemon juice and mix to combine. Taste filling — add more juice if needed. Transfer to a bowl, cover with plastic

and refrigerate until ready to use.

5. When your dough has chilled, preheat your oven to 375 F. and line a few baking trays with parchment paper.

6. Sprinkle the parchment paper with some raw sugar.

7. Remove the dough from the fridge and unwrap the dough. Flour your work surface

extremely well, roll the dough into a ball, then press it down until it’s about 3/4-inch thick. The sides may crack a bit at first, but just keep working it until you have a smooth sided disk, adding more flour as needed.

8. Roll the dough out into a 13- to 14-inch circle of even thickness.

9. Fold the dough into a half-moon and use a pizza cutter or sharp knife to cut away any uneven sides, as you want the circle to be as symmetrical as possible for even cookies. Unfold the dough so it’s a full circle again.

10. Brush the dough with the cheese filling and then top with the strawberry jam. Swirl the jam over the cheese.

11. Use a pizza cutter or sharp knife to cut the circle into 16 equal-sized wedges.

12. Roll up each wedge, starting with the bigger side, tightly and carefully, to make the classic rugelach shape. Place the rugelach seam side down onto your parchment.

13. Brush each cookie with egg wash and sprinkle with raw sugar.

14. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, rotating the trays halfway through baking, until the cookies are a nice golden brown. Allow to cool before moving and serving.

Chaya Rappoport is the blogger, baker and picture taker behind retrolillies.wordpress.com, currently a pastry sous chef at a Brooklyn bakery.

Spiced lamb and hummus-stuffed arepas recipe

Venezuelan cuisines. My Mami Lucy (she never liked being called grandmother because it made her sound old) was born in Colombia but told me that Venezuelans are known for making more elaborate arepas, and that Colombians keep them pretty simple. These spiced lamb arepas with hummus are definitely not your traditional arepa, but the flavors work so well together with the mild corn flavor in the masa (dough).

I sauteed them to achieve a char on the out-

side, which creates a delightful crunch that is met by the creaminess of the hummus. Spiced ground lamb then coats your tongue, and the sweet tomatoes, mint and pine nuts ] bring the whole thing together.

Ingredients: For the homemade arepas (can also use prepackaged arepas): 2 cups masarepa (I used the Goya brand) 1 tsp. salt 4 cups warm water Olive oil, for sauteeing For the lamb: 1-1/2 lbs. ground lamb 1 tsp. kosher salt 10 turns of freshly ground black pepper 1/2 tsp. ground coriander 1/8 tsp. cinnamon Pinch of ground allspice 1/2 tsp. onion powder 1/2 tsp. garlic powder 1/2 tsp. paprika 1 Tbsp. olive oil For serving:

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By Sandy Leibowitz, The Nosher via JTA I must have been about 6 or 7 years old, and eye level to my grandmother’s stove. I saw these white, round things frying up in oil. What I vividly remember was the distinct hole on the edge of these round patties and wondering what they were. Then I watched my grandmother take a fork and use the hole as an anchor to flip what I would later learn were her arepas (Colombian corn pancakes). The oil would make the dough puff up into a small balloon, and it was always such a treat to see, and of course taste.

My grandmother recently confirmed that this is the way they did it in Colombia when frying arepas, since the hole is needed to safely flip. (It wasn’t just her little trick.) Although these arepas were fried in oil, they had a light and airy quality to them and a sweetness that came through from the corn. They were golden brown pillows of joy!

Arepas are essentially griddle cakes made from pre-cooked cornmeal. The beauty of this is that arepas can be prepared in a myriad of ways: grilled, fried or sauteed in oil. In addition they can be stuffed, topped with ingredients — or extra ingredients can even be mixed into the dough. They also can be made on the sweet side (my grandmother would put a little sugar in the dough), but they are more commonly served as a savory dish.

Arepas are a popular staple in Colombian and

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1/2 to 1 cup store bought or homemade hummus 1/4 cup fresh mint leaves, chiffonade 1/2 cup tomato, diced 1/4 cup red bell pepper, diced (optional) 1/4 cup toasted pine nuts Directions: 1. Mix the masarepa, water and salt in a bowl until well combined. Let stand for a few minutes until the mixture sticks together.

2. Separately, in another bowl, season ground lamb with all the spices.

3. Heat olive oil in a saute pan over medium high heat. Cook lamb until fully browned. Keep warm (covered) until ready to serve.

4. Form arepa patties about 3 to 4 inches across and 1/2 inch in thickness using hands.

5. Coat a saute pan with olive oil and cook arepas until brown (or charred, depending on preference) on both sides. Both sides should be crispy.

6. Allow to cool and then slice the arepa lengthwise without cutting all the way through.

7. Spread hummus on the top and bottom flap of the arepa. Add the spiced lamb mixture and top with diced tomato, diced pepper (if using) pine nuts and mint. Serve immediately or room temperature. Serves 8 arepas (4 servings).

Sandy Leibowitz is a trained chef, recipe developer and food blogger. Find more of her recipes at thekoshertomato.com

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Barr said she believes that moving the embassy is “the first step to peace in the world.”

She was ill on Sunday but still attended the conference, noting that she promised she would and “because it’s a great chance to [show] how much I hate the BDS.” “I hate everything that’s a lie based on anti-Semitism, and I’m a Jew” she said. “Jews

By Shiryn Solny, JNS Roseanne Barr, star of the hit revival “Roseanne” on ABC TV, talked on Sunday about wanting to move to Israel and potentially run for office there.

“I want to move to Israel and run for prime minister,” Barr said during a discussion on stage at the annual Jerusalem Post conference in New York. “In 2012, I said I was gonna run for president of the United States and prime minister of Israel, a twofer. But I do have that fantasy, [and] if G-d calls me, I’ll go, of course.

“I want to make aliyah, I do, and before all the stuff is sold—all the real estate. I wanna get a nice house. … I still have the fantasy of being an old Jewish lady living in the Jewish homeland.

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who are against other Jews have always been a problem since the first story in Torah. So maybe this time, we can do something about it and change it. We need to love each other.

Jews need to love each other, and it has to stop because it threatens our existence.”

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Britain Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn— who in 2009 called Hezbollah and Hamas his “friends” — said he would not attend a dinner commemorating the centennial of the Balfour Declaration. Prime Minister Theresa May she would attend “with pride” and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu would be her guest.

“We are proud of the role we played in the creation of the State of Israel and we will certainly mark the centenary with pride,” May said. “I am also pleased that good trade relations and other relations that we have with Israel we are building on and enhancing.”

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or the Palestinians, the year zero is not 1948, when the state of Israel came into being, but 1917, when Great Britain issued, on Nov. 2, the Balfour Declaration—expressing support for the establishment of a “Jewish national home” in Palestine.

So central is the Balfour Declaration to Palestinian political identity that the “Zionist invasion” is officially deemed to have begun in 1917—not in 1882, when the first trickle of Jewish pioneers from Russia began arriving, nor in 1897, when the Zionist movement held its first congress in Basel, nor in the late 1920s, when thousands of German Jews fleeing the rise of Nazism chose to go to Palestine.

The year 1917 is the critical date because that is when, as an anti-Zionist might say, the Zionist hand slipped effortlessly into the British imperial glove. It is a neat, simple historical proposition upon which the entire Palestinian version of events rests: an empire came to our land and gave it to foreigners, we were dispossessed, and for five generations now, we have continued to resist. Moreover, it is given official sanction in the Palestine National Covenant of 1968, in which article 6 defines Jews who “were living permanently in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion” as “Palestinians”—an invasion that is dated as 1917 in the covenants’ notes.

As the Balfour Declaration’s centenary approached, this theme is much in evidence.

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Speaking in Ramallah, Abbas also said that Jews do not have a historical connection to the land.

“Israel is a colonial project that has nothing to do with the Jews,” he told the Palestinian National Council, and the “Europeans wanted to bring the Jews here to preserve their interests in the region.”

Abbas, who called his speech a “history lesson,” also invoked an agreement whereby Hitler facilitated the immigration of Jews to Israel.

In that short-lived arrangement, over 60,000 German Jews moved to Palestine during the 1930s, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. While Holocaust deniers say the agreement showed collaboration between the Nazis and Zionist leaders, Holocaust historians like Deborah Lipstadt and Rainer Schulze say it was a narrow, cynical agreement on the Nazis’ part, agreed to by a Zionist group in an attempt to save as many Jews as possible at a time of increasing German persecution.

Abbas has faced accusations of Holocaust denial based on his 1982 doctoral dissertation titled “The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism.” The dissertation said the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust is a grossly inflated figure and that the “Zionist” leadership cooperated with the Nazis.

Abbas reiterated that he would not accept an American peace deal in the wake of the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to move its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv later this month.

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Starr Mirza, who spent nearly two decades trying to convince doctors she was sick. “But because I am female, I was just considered hysterical all these years.”

Hadassah Hospitals’ medical and research centers have led to breakthroughs in treatments of such diseases as multiple sclerosis, melanoma and macular degeneration. In America, where the women’s organization has over 300,000 members, Hadassah has been focusing on education and grassroots advocacy, particularly when it comes to equity in women’s medical research.

Jill Lesser, president of Women Against Alzheimer’s, one of the original members of the Coalition for Women’s Health Equity, says it’s important that the conversation about women’s health issues not be limited to women’s reproductive parts — “bikini medicine” — such as breast cancer, ovarian cancer and death during childbirth.

Alzheimer’s, for example, is predominately a women’s disease: Nearly two-thirds of the 5.4 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s are women, according to Women Against Alzheimer’s.

“When we talk about women’s health and women’s health equity, we really need to talk about women’s health at all ages, not just the ‘bikini health’ thinking about women’s reproductive organs,” Lesser said. “That’s why what Hadassah is doing by convening this coalition is so important.”

Hershkin says Hadassah’s work in this area is just beginning.

In conjunction with the summit, Hadassah will be hosting a women’s health and advocacy conference in Washington, “From Passion to Action,” May 15–17. On the 17th, Hershkin will be leading a delegation of women from across the country for a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill.

“Women’s health doesn’t advance itself,” Hershkin said. “We have to fight to advance it.”

This article, distributed by JTA, was sponsored by and produced in partnership with Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America.

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By Abigail Pickus By the time Starr Mirza went into cardiac arrest at age 22 and nearly died, she had spent a lifetime trying to convince doctors she was sick.

“The doctors were always pulling my parents aside and saying, ‘She’s doing this for attention. There is nothing physically wrong with her. You need to send her to a psychiatrist’,” recalled Mirza, now 38. But despite seeing more than 100 doctors during her teenage years to treat extreme fatigue and regular fainting spells, it wasn’t until Mirza went into cardiac arrest in 2002 that her doctors finally did the tests necessary to determine her diagnosis.

They discovered Mirza has Long QT syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects the heart’s rhythm and sometimes causes sudden death.

“The electrical part of my heart was shortcircuiting,” Mirza said. “But because I am female, I was just considered hysterical all these years.”

She’s not alone. Recent studies have shown that female patients routinely are undertreated and forced to wait longer than males for appropriate medication — by doctors of both genders. Women also are likely to receive less aggressive medical treatment than men in their initial encounters with the health care system until they prove that they are as sick as male patients. That phenomenon was dubbed the “Yentl syndrome” by cardiologist Bernadine Healy in 1991 after the Isaac Bashevis Singer character, a young shtetl girl who pretends to be a boy so she can study in a yeshiva.

The gender disparity extends to all sorts of areas. Women metabolize drugs differently than men and often present symptoms differently.

Yet medical research, diagnostic tools and treatments usually are centered on male physiology — even in animal and cellular research subjects.

As a result, women suffer greater risks from inadequate prevention strategies and medical treatment.

For example, an advanced artificial heart that was designed to fit 86 percent of men’s chest cavities fit just 20 percent of women’s. The original prescribed dose for the sleep aid Ambien turned out to have dangerous side effects for women; it had been tested exclusively on men.

Women under age 55 experiencing a heart attack are seven times more likely to be misdiagnosed and sent home from the emergency room than males presenting with the same symptoms, according to research recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, has made leveling the playing field for women a top priority. Two years ago, Hadassah launched the Coalition for Women’s Health Equity, so the nation’s most prominent women’s and health organizations could create a unified force to advocate for women’s health equity. Today, the 28-member coalition is focused on raising awareness and advocating for policies to address women’s health disparities.

Coalition members helped push legislators in Congress to introduce the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act of 2017, a bill to help reduce the death rate among mothers during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. The United States ranks 50th globally for its infant mortality rate and is one of eight countries where the rate is climbing.

During last year’s back and forth over the Affordable Care Act, the coalition pushed Senate leaders to oppose changes in the law, informally known as Obamacare, that would have limited access to preventive health services, disproportionately affecting women of color, women with disabilities and low-income women.

On May 16, Hadassah and the coalition will host the second annual Women’s Health Empowerment Summit in Washington, to coincide with Women’s Health Week (May 13–19).

“Hadassah is committed to pooling our organization’s wisdom, experience and resources in the fight against gender disparities and inequities in all aspects of health,” said Ellen Hershkin, Hadassah’s national president. “We believe every woman deserves quality, affordable and equitable health care, and we will continue to work alongside coalition members and policymakers until we achieve that.”

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hile much of the first part of Parshat Emor speaks of rules of the Kohanim, there is a greater theme in the Torah portion on the periphery to being a Kohen, and it has to do with the desecration of G-d’s name and things that are holy.

The Kohanim need to be separate for holiness so they shall not desecrate the name of their G-d (V’lo y’challu shem elohayhem”) and Aharon and sons were to be careful when it came to the offerings (“V’lo y’challu et shem kodshi”).

Any non Kohen who ate the holy foods had to pay the Kohanim back, because they had taken from that which was designated for the Kohanim (“V’lo y’challu et Kodshei bnei Yisrael”).

The daughter of a Kohen had to conduct herself on an even higher level of purity and discretion, lest she be guilty of defiling her family position (“Et avihah hi m’chalellet”).

There are times when the Kohen Gadol may not leave the Mikdash lest “yechallel at

mikdash elohav.” Were a Kohen who is not allowed to serve on account of some kind of blemish to nonetheless come close, he is warned not to desecrate the space (“V’lo yehcallel et mikdashai”).

Even eating forbidden meat from animals improperly slaughtered or which died naturally — which is a prohibition for all Jews — is an extra desecration for the Kohanim. f I can take a slight leap off the page, I think there’s one more example in the parsha — that of the blasphemer, the young man who is the son of Shlomit Bat Divri and an Egyptian man who curses G-d. In the aftermath of this story, we are told that they were to take out the mekallel (the blasphemer). The Israelites were further told that a man (“ki y’kallel Elohav v’nasa chet’o”) who curses G-d must bear the burden of his sin.

The word mekallel and the word yekallel sound very much like mechallel and yechallel.

The linguistic rules which allows for the interchanging of letters indicates deeper teachings and understandings from the text.

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tainly meant to remind ourselves of how to not desecrate. But even more so, we ought to remind ourselves how to consecrate.

This is a particular challenge for those of us who do what we do by rote, without injecting kedusha into our prayers, Torah study, and day-in-and-day-out behavior.

When we neglect, for example, basic concerns for our fellow man, or if our middot indicate a lackadaisical attitude toward others’ well-being, including not caring about the response to our question of “How are you?” or being mindless to the mess we and/or our children leave behind in a restaurant, store, or public bathroom, we are certainly not consecrating.

The correct attitude should never be “I only do what I like.” It should be, “I do what is right!” Always. Sometimes, even, when I don’t know or understand everything. hile certain aspects of Jewish life require precision and exactness and don’t have much flexibility, many aspects of Jewish life are fluid, flexible, and subject to one’s own personality and personal input.

Our attitude should be, “I do what is right!’ Always.

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e should not be surprised by the similarities between Judaism and the surrounding cultures, one of my professors, Rabbi Menachem M. Brayer, PhD zatzal, once noted. After all, they were in the same geographic area and essentially faced the same daily challenges, he said, adding however that what we should focus on are the differences rather than on the similarities.

A telling example of such a parallel is found in the following two sources: “If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. If he break another man’s bone, his bone shall be broken.” (Hammurabi’s Code of Laws, Numbers 196-197, translation, L. W. King) “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot, a burn for a burn, a wound for a wound, a bruise for a bruise. … And a man who inflicts an injury upon his fellow man just as he did, so shall be done to him, [namely,] fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he inflicted an injury upon a person, so shall it be inflicted upon him.” (Shemot 21:24-25 and Vayikra 24:19-20) These passages are strikingly parallel in both subject matter and content. This is particularly fascinating since Hammurabi died in 1750 B.C.E., approximately 500 years before the Exodus and Hashem’s gift of the Torah to our ancestors at Mount Sinai.

The two are starkly different, however.

The verses from Shemot and our parasha do not entail any manner of physical revenge. Instead, our Sages understood them as referring to financial restitution, and Rambam (Maimonides) codified the Torah’s verses in the following manner: “When a person injures a colleague, he is liable to compensate him in five ways: the damages, his pain, his medical treatment, his loss of employment, and the embarrassment he suffered. All these five as-

sessments must be paid from the highest quality of property that he owns, as is the law with regard to payment for damages.

The Torah states in Leviticus 24:20: “Just as he caused an injury to his fellowman, so too, an injury should be caused to him,” should not be interpreted in a literal sense. It does not mean that the person who caused the injury should actually be subjected to a similar physical punishment. Instead, the intent is that he deserves to lose a limb or to be injured in the same manner as his colleague was, and therefore he should make financial restitution to him. (Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Chovale u’Mazik 1:1 and 3) he Rambam deems the exegetical analysis of our passages to be a necessary but insufficient refutation of any Torahbased notion of physical retribution. Therefore, he strengthens his position by invoking the masorah (the accepted body of received and revered opinion) and case law as the final conclusive proof for how we ought to understand “an eye for an eye”: “Although these interpretations are obvious from the study of the Written Law, and they are explicitly mentioned in the Oral Tradition transmitted by Moses from Mount Sinai, they are all regarded as actual halachic practice. This is what our ancestors saw in the court of Joshua and in the court of Samuel of Ramah, and in every single Jewish court that has functioned from the days of Moses our teacher until the present age.” (Ibid. 6, emendation and note my own) The Rambam’s suggestion of halacha l’maaseh as the final arbiter for understanding our verse is completely unprecedented in the Mishneh Torah — especially since this is the only reference to this expression in the entire work! Beyond question, something unique has taken place in this body of laws. Therefore, we must ask, “What is the Rambam communicating to us by calling upon masorah and employing the phrase ‘hala-

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cha l’maaseh,’ rather than relying upon his own textual analysis and interpretation?”

Without a doubt, Maimonides was one of the most extraordinary thinkers of all time. Yet, he saw himself as operating within the context of the masorah, instead of relying solely on his own intellect. In other words, as cogent as his own analyses were, he nonetheless accepted Chazal as the ultimate decisors of truth.

Given this notion, it is little wonder that the Rambam began the Mishneh Torah with a restatement of the chain of Torah transmission from the ever-sounding Voice at Sinai until his own time.

The message is clear: We are free to critically research and examine every aspect of the halachic universe. Yet, when it comes to halacha l’maaseh, we must embrace the authority of Chazal in order to serve our Creator in authenticity and truth.

Maimonides saw himself operating within the masorah, not relying solely on his own intellect.

How each of us prays — that’s up to each person to decide. How we study — that’s also up to each person to decide. Even what we study we decide on our own, as is our degree of involvement in Jewish life. How important and how much we want to emphasize the Jewish side of our individual experience — that’s up to each person to decide.

Every Jew is a Jew 365 days a year. We don’t turn it on and off, emphasize sometimes more or sometimes less. We live a Jewish life all the time. That is who we are.

We must do the opposite of challel (desecrate) and kallel (curse), because these are very negative character traits! Our job is to be m’kadesh, to sanctify, to bring holiness in, to bring G-d in. That is why we observe the mitzvot between man and G-d, and that is surely why we must keep the mitzvot between man and man as a top priority.

G-d is easy! He forgives quickly.

But man is left with a very bad impression which is hard to shake. So the impression we leave must always be a good one, especially when we are relating to people who will judge us and our faith based on how we conduct ourselves.

May we be blessed to be models of sanctifying G-d’s name in the eyes of G-d and man.

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Continued from page 1 in Jewish learning. Thirty-eight scholars led classes on traditional and contemporary Jewish topics at the Orthodox Union’s second annual Torah New York.

The event, which the OU says is the largest of its kind in North America, offered 45 classes along with special programs for high school and college students. Among the topics were Jewish politics, addictions, end-of-life issues, and #MeToo. Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, OU executive vice president emeritus, spoke about addiction in Orthodox Jewish communities.

“Five years ago we had a problem with OTD (‘Off The Derech’), today it’s OD (over-

dose),” said Rabbi Weinreb, who has a doctorate in clinical psychology.

Sivan Rahav Meir, a prominent political reporter for Israel’s Channel 2 News who became Orthodox as a teenager, addressed a session titled Emunah in an Age of New Media, considering how Israel was merging new technologies with age old values.

She spoke about the pleasure of disconnecting from Facebook, WhatsApp and other social media platforms for the Sabbath and quoted Reb Nachman of Breslov who suggested that Jews “take Shabbos into Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday” in terms of its aura and values.

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hree years ago Koren Publishers released a unique liturgical work dedicated to Yom Ha’atzma’ut and Yom Yerushalayim. Among its essays, one written by Rabbi Berel Wein, titled simply “Yom Yerushalayim,” explores the holiness and historic significance of the events that occurred 51 years ago on this day.

To mark Yom Yerushalayim, I present Rabbi Wein’s essay on the sacred role that Jerusalem has played as the center of Jewish faith and as the national center of Jewish governance.

By Rabbi Berel Wein It is strange for this elderly Jew to have to write an article about the importance and meaning of Jerusalem. If there ever was anything in Jewish life that was self-understood — axiomatic and integral to Jewish societal and personal life and consciousness — it was the centrality of Jerusalem to the Jewish soul. “Next year in Jerusalem!” was not simply an expression of hope, prayer, and longing, but a symbol of Jewish defiance and continuity.

In Jewish thought and society, Jerusalem, not Rome, is the Eternal City; Jerusalem, not Paris, is the City of Lights. The great Rabbi Meir Simĥa HaCohen of Dvinsk, at the beginning of the 20th century, wrote prophetically: “Woe to those who somehow think that Berlin is Jerusalem!”

Jerusalem may have had many imitators, but it had no replacements. Jerusalem remained the heart of the Jewish people just as Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi of 12th-century Spain insisted that the people of Israel was the heart of all human-

ity — the strongest of all human organs and the most vulnerable of all the organs of the body. The metaphor that all of the lifeblood of Jewish life is pumped throughout the Jewish world by the heart of Jerusalem was self-understood in past Jewish generations. It needed no explanation or repetition, no reinforcement or defensive justification.

When the Jewish people as a whole were physically and politically separated from Jerusalem, Jerusalem was not just a memory or nostalgia; it remained a real and an imposing presence in Jewish life and thought. If to some individual Jews it became just another imaginary place because of its distant location and unattractive reality — an old, poverty-ridden, dilapidated, small, and backwater city buried in the expanse of the Ottoman Empire — in the core Jewish soul, the reality of the city lived and thrived.

Over the past three centuries, Jews slowly have made their way back home to Jerusalem.

Under terrible physical trials of privation, persecution, and derision, the Jewish community in Jerusalem grew. By the middle of the 19th century, Jews constituted the majority population in the city. They began to settle outside of the walls of the Old City and establish new neighborhoods. The ancient mother city responded to the return of its children to its holy precincts, and Jerusalem became alive again. fter the restoration of Jewish sovereignty in parts of the Land of Israel, Jerusalem became the capital of the State of Israel.

Its population grew exponentially, and the building cranes became ubiquitous all over the areas of the city’s expanded boundaries.

After the Six-Day War, it was united, and again the Western Wall and its adjacent Temple Mount became the center of the Jewish world.

A new special day was added to the Jewish

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calendar to mark the rebirth of the physical Jerusalem in Jewish life and prayer. The Jewish population grew, and the building of the infrastructure of the city continued apace.

The mixed blessings of automobile traffic and constant construction projects affect all Jerusalemites, but they only serve to highlight the unimagined change in the face of the city that occurred over the last century. Jerusalem reborn is the miracle of our times.

But much of the world resents Jerusalem’s revival. The United Nations wants it to become an “international city,” though the rebuilding of the city worked, and there never has been such successful city management in all of human history. No one really seemed to notice the hard fortunes of the city until the Jews be-

gan to remake history there.

The Muslim world especially, little concerned with the fate and fortunes of the city until the Jews began to arrive and rebuild it, wants it to be exclusively Muslim dominated and populated.

The United States State Department does not recognize united Jerusalem as being part of Israel, let alone as its capital city. And all of the latent and obvious anti-Semitism that still poisons the Western world is directed against Israel and Jerusalem.

In their frustration, jealousy, and misplaced religious fervor, Muslims encourage and perpetrate violence in Jerusalem and publicly celebrate the killing of its innocent inhabitants. The attitude seems to be, “Better no Jerusalem than a Jewish Jerusalem.” Jerusalem has always been a flash point as its key place in history and faiths make it a sensitive issue. Today, to a great extent, Jerusalem is the one issue that drives the world’s thoughts and policies.

Jerusalem possesses the eternal quality of focusing human attention to think about holiness, closeness, and the struggle for faith. This view of what Jerusalem is all about makes the celebration of Yom Yerushalayim the necessary Jewish response to the opposition and enmity of the world to Jerusalem — to a Jewish Jerusalem.

Yom Yerushalayim is the proper response of Jews to everything that is currently going on in the world. Rejoice in the fact that our generations have lived to see Jerusalem rebuilt in body and spirit, beauty and strength. Walk its streets and breathe its air, see its visions and bask in its memories. Appreciate the gifts that the Lord has granted us, and express one’s thanks for living in such a momentous and historic time.

That is what Yom Yerushalayim represents.

That is why it is so special and sacred. That is why it is worthy of commemoration and celebration.

Hallel on Yom Ha’atsma’ut: Do we bless it or not?

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hortly after his election as Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel in the early 1970s, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef visited New York City and spent Yom Ha’Atzma’ut here. He gave a shiur for rabbis, at Congregation Shearith Israel, and a shiur for students at Yeshiva University. I attended both — and I was distressed.

Both of these shiurim were on the same topic: Is it permissible according to halakha to recite Hallel with a blessing on Yom Ha’Atzma’ut, Israel’s Independence Day? Rabbi Yosef gave a very learned discourse, peppered with numerous references to halakhic sources. His conclusion: It is not permissible to say Hallel with a blessing on Yom Ha’Atzma’ut.

Moreover, it is preferable not to recite Hallel in the normal place after the Amidah, but rather one may add psalms of Hallel at the end of services. If congregations already had the practice of reciting Hallel with a blessing, they should refrain from reciting the blessing. If they had the practice of chanting Hallel in its usual place (after the Amidah), they need not change, although it would be desirable for them to do so.

(For a full discussion of Rabbi Yosef’s views on

Hallel on Yom Ha’Atzma’ut, see Rabbi Binyamin Lau’s book, Mimaran ad Maran, pp. 163f.)

So on his auspicious and highly publicized visit to New York, instead of highlighting the religious significance of Medinat Yisrael and deepening our love of Israel, chief rabbi of Israel chose to diminish its religious significance. s a young rabbi who viewed the establishment of the Jewish state as a monumental event in Jewish history, I was deeply distressed by Rabbi Yosef’s shiurim. His lectures were surely very learned, but — to use an analogy — they focused on the trees and didn’t see the forest. It was as though halakha is a self-enclosed system of arguments and counter-arguments that doesn’t open its eyes to see new realities.

How very different was the approach of Rabbi Benzion Meir Hai Uziel, who served as the Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel from 1939 until his death in 1953.

Rabbi Uziel’s student, Rabbi Abraham Shalem, cites the words of his teacher: “This day (Yom Ha’Atzma’ut) is a festival day for [the people of] Israel residing in the land and all the places of the dispersion, for our generation and for all

generations to come — to praise G-d’s compassion, to announce in a voice of singing, happiness and praise: this is the day that the Lord has made, let us celebrate and rejoice on it.”

Rabbi Shalem, following the teachings of Rabbi Uziel, taught that “it is our great obligation to praise and thank the Rock of Israel and its Redeemer for His miracles and wonders that He performed for us and our children in our holy land.

All who belittle and cast aspersions on the might and salvation of the Creator of the universe, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, behold they repudiate His goodness and mercy. … It is a mitzvah to read Hallel in public with a blessing on Yom Ha’Atzma’ut, the day of the first blossoming of our redemption and freedom of our souls in the land of our ancestors.” (R. Abraham Shalem, Eshed haNehalim, vol. 2, p. 20).

Rabbis Uziel, Shalem and Yosef all relied on the same halakhic sources and yet came to very different conclusions. Perhaps we can see this debate as a difference in religious vision.

For Rabbi Yosef, religious questions and answers essentially are technical halakhic mat-

ters. The halakhic system includes a vast number of texts, and the posek is obliged to study the texts, evaluate them, decide which texts are applicable to any given situation. One’s eyes are focused on the “four cubits of halakha” which contain all the information we need. or Rabbis Uziel and Shalem, halakha is not a closed system of texts and authoritative sources. The posek surely must know the texts; but the posek must also open his eyes to outside realities. The establishment of the State of Israel, after nearly 1900 years of exile for the Jewish People, is a historical and halakhic novum.

Given this amazing new reality, we naturally want to pour out our hearts with a meaningful and joyful religious response. Our religious souls want to recite Hallel, with a blessing, in joyful recognition and appreciation of G-d’s providence.

Not to recite Hallel with a blessing would seem to be a sign of blatant ingratitude to G-d.

The question about saying Hallel with a blessing on Yom Ha’Atzma’ut has much broader implications. Is halakha a closed system that operates solely within its four cubits? Or is halakha a system of life that responds in a living way to the realities of our lives?

I recite Hallel with a blessing on Yom Ha’Atzma’ut. I am grateful to Rabbi Uziel and Rabbi Shalem (my own rabbi when I was a teenager growing up in Seattle) for leading the way, for sharing their vision of Israel, of halakha, and of service to the Almighty.

with OU Kashrut Division CEO Rabbi Menachem Genack entitled “The Journey, from to Freedom to Matan Torah” which also addressed contemporary issues.

Among rabbis who taught sessions were Hershel Schacter, Mordechai Willig, Dr. Abraham Steinberg, Elazar Muskin, Efrem Goldberg, Yosef Tzvi Rimon, and Eli Mansour. Their tops topics included Jewish Poli-

tics (Moral Concerns vs. National Interests); Quality of Life as a Consideration in Halachic Determination at the End of Life; #MeToo through the Prism of Megillat Esther; Perfecting or Transcending Humanity (a Debate in Jewish Thought); Liberty and Justice between Pesach and Shavuos; and the Convergence of Sefardi and Ashkenazi Traditions in Contemporary Israel.

OU President Moishe Bane said he was thrilled with the record attendance and the commitment to learning in the community.

“Learning Torah has always defined and shaped our community, giving meaning and

context to everything, from how we pray, to how we conduct our business affairs, to how we interact with our family and with society, at large,” he said.

“This event highlighted the rich diversity of the Orthodox community,” said OU Executive Vice President Allen Fagin. “We were thrilled to welcome speakers and guests from near and far, bringing different points of view and new perspectives on the most pressing issues of our time.”

The event was held in convention space inside the Mets’ nine-year-old stadium in Flushing, Queens.

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“Congress has become more like warring tribes,” he said. “They have lost sight of common national goals and the Constitution. We may need to have a national crisis to overcome this before we can correct this problem.”

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Is Iran complying with the JCPOA? No way!

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etween now and May 12, President Trump will announce his decision on whether or not the United States will pull out of the JCPOA, the nuclear deal with Iran.

This reporter’s prediction is that the president will announce that the U.S. will exit the Iran deal — but this announcement won’t be the really big one. The big one would be due two months later when the U.S. decides on reimposing American sanctions against the terrorist regime; doing so will break the deal apart.

But whether you agree with the president or not, it should be known that any claim that we should stay in the deal because Iran is complying with the JCPOA is simply not true.

President Trump has said his final decision about the JCPOA will be based on achieving three improvements to the deal, none of which have been made.

1. Eliminate the provisions under which key nuclear restrictions expire over time.

2. Stop Tehran’s nuclear-capable long-range missile program.

3. Allow for the inspection of military sites where the regime conducted clandestine nuclear activities in the past and may be doing so now.

Allowing a nuclear-capable long-range missile program and the expiration of nuclear restrictions were concessions made by the spineless team of Obama and Kerry.

Regarding the third item, because of a secret side deal revealed by the Associated Press long before the deal was signed, Iran gets to self-inspect the Parchin military base with no IAEA inspectors present. While the inspection of other military bases are allowed under the JCPOA, Iran has stated more than once that it will not allow inspections of military sites, thus hampering the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which, under the agreement, is “to undertake the necessary verification and monitoring of Iran’s nuclear-related commitments for the full duration of those commitments under the JCPOA.”

This lack of access led to the IAEA’s announcement last August that it has been unable to verify a key part of the JCPOA, “Section T,” which outlines “activities which could contribute to the design and development of a nuclear explosive device.”

We don’t know if Iran is violating Section T. But because they are not allowing inspections on military sites and because the IAEA won’t push the issue of military site inspections, we do not know if they are complying either.

This alone makes it impossible to say Iran is complying with the JCPOA, but there are other examples. ran has been non-compliant with its obligation to reveal its nuclear history. According to the JCPOA, the rogue nation was supposed to reveal the all the details of its nuclear program that existed prior to the deal. In fact, The IAEA was required to publish a report by year-end 2014 on Iran’s past nuclear work on its military sites as part of the agreement. The historical knowledge is necessary to understand

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what the Iranian nuclear program was so the IAEA will know how, when, and where to inspect their program in the future. (On Monday, Israel exposed this history. See pages 2 and 4.)

Twice in 2016 Iran broke the terms of the heavy water provisions of the deal but Obama let them “off the hook.” According to the Obama/Kerry capitulation — err, JCPOA — the rogue regime was to keep no more than 130 metric tons of heavy water (which is used to manufacture weapons-grade plutonium).

But the Iranians kept producing the heavy water and were over the cap in February and November 2016.

Iranian heavy water production overages put Obama’s Iranian deal (his only foreign policy legacy besides screwing Israel) between a rock and a hard place. Either the Obama administration could find someone to purchase the excess heavy water (which would allow Iran to make a profit off of violating the deal) or announcing that Iran was in noncompliance of the deal, which would put Obama’s legacy in danger.

The first time Iran went over (in February) the Obama administration purchased the overage for $8.6 million. Sensing a way to make See JCPOA on page 23

‘Anti-Zionist and Jew:’ Unmasking the hate Viewpoint

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n “Anti-Semite and Jew,” Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, “I refuse to characterize as opinion a doctrine that is aimed directly at particular persons and that seeks to suppress their rights or to exterminate them.”

This was the French philosopher’s answer to the contention that anti-Semitism is merely an “opinion,” when it is more properly understood as a “passion” rooted in a hatred that lies outside of reason. “If the anti-Semite is impervious to reason and to experience, it is not because his conviction is strong,” Sartre observed.

“Rather his conviction is strong because he has chosen first of all to be impervious.”

Sartre’s characterization of anti-Semitism as outside “the category of ideas protected to the right of free opinion”—a clear statement that Jew-baiting is the preserve of knaves and fanatics—has more or less prevailed in the Western democracies since his eccentric yet invaluable study was first published in 1944. Perhaps the

best evidence of that, today, is the fact that someone described as an anti-Semite almost always objects that this is a personal insult, rather than a provocative observation about the manner in which they interpret the world around them. As to what they call themselves, some of them are “patriots,” “nationalists” or “socialists;” others use terms like “anti-racist.”

Most will see at worst no harm, and even some honor, in the descriptor “anti-Zionist.”

That is one critical reason why—in an opinion piece billed as an apology for the anti-Semitism that has plagued the British Labour Party since he became its leader in 2015—Jeremy Corbyn felt compelled to point out that “antiZionism is not in itself anti-Semitic, and many Jews themselves are not Zionists.”

There are, Corbyn conceded, “a very few [sic] who are drawn to the Palestinian question precisely because it affords an opportunity to express hostility to Jewish people in a ‘respectable’ setting.” In other words, the intentions of anti-Zionists are usually noble, and a few bad apples should not let us lose sight of that. o, as Sartre might have asked, is “antiZionism” simply an “opinion”—a legitimate and perhaps valuable component of the discourse aimed at securing Palestinian

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national rights? Or is it, in his words again, “a doctrine that is aimed directly at particular persons and that seeks to suppress their rights or to exterminate them?”

In answering that question, I want to briefly take at face value Corbyn’s claim that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, even though there are some dubious persons who try to smuggle antiSemitic ideas and memes into the mix. Let us, with him, assume that these two phenomena are separate until definitively proven otherwise.

The first thing placed in front of us is the following distinction: Anti-Semitism is hostility to-

wards Jews in general, whereas anti-Zionism is political opposition to the colonial project that transplanted Jewish settlers into Palestine at the expense of the indigenous Arab nation.

So enlightened, we investigate further why it is legitimate to oppose Zionism. We discover that Zionism is the source of colonialism and apartheid, the essence of a regime in which Jews enjoy greater civil and political rights and privileges than non-Jews—an affront, if that were true, to the basic principles of democracy. We learn the moral narrative that the Palestinians are the victims of the Jews, blamed and chased from their homes for a crime committed by the Germans and their collaborators on another continent. As we face up to this injustice, we are reassured of any lingering concerns we have about anti-Semitism by the revelation that many Jews also grasp this reality and oppose Zionism accordingly. These Jews, we conclude, represent an open and honest response to the lies and fictions of the Zionists among them—and us.

Thus disabused, we gain renewed confidence in dismissing complaints of anti-Semitism as Zionist smears. Even if the example before us includes a cartoon of a hook-nosed banker or a claim that the Holocaust never happened, we See Viewpoint on page 23

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ometimes a cluster of unrelated events transpiring in close succession seem to have an invisible dialogue all its own. Last week was just such a week.

It started with the milestone of modern day Israel’s 70th anniversary celebrations, with an emotional pinnacle being the prestigious Israel Prize ceremony whose centerpiece featured the stirring words of Israel Prize recipient Miriam Peretz. At the heart of her speech, it seemed as though Peretz was conducting a private conversation with fellow Israel Prize recipient, David Grossman.

Peretz is an immigrant from Casablanca,

religious, to the right of Grossman on Israeli politics. He is first and foremost a noted Israeli author, but also an outspoken leftist, often highly critical of government policy. Both are bereaved parents. Grossman buried a son and Peretz buried two. The land has absorbed the blood of each of their kin.

The visage of Grossman during Peretz’s espically loving and wise speech said it all. In case there was any doubt, the heartfelt hug afterward by Grossman and Peretz left no doubt. This was a moment rich in humanity, brave and humble and real.

Along with this precious high note of authenic, vulnerable unity, came the announcement by Natalie Portman that she was reneging on accepting in person the Genesis Prize at an upcoming ceremony in Israel. After many re-

acted to what felt like a serious betrayal and insult from one of their own, a “Member of the Tribe,” she clarified that her choice stemmed from her dislike of Bibi Netanyahu. No one actually knows her reasoning. hat we do know is that back in November, no one put a gun to Portman’s head when she was offered the $2 million prize and accepted it. Bibi was prime minister. To dis Israel so rudely and publicly, on her 70th birthday, and at a time when she is already so vulnerable, was a huge mistake and the damage is real.

It also smacks of deep hypocrisy when Portman has had no issue participating in award ceremonies and work projects in China, a government whose signature is human rights abuses.

Possibly, the victory Portman handed on a

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golden platter to BDS and its philosophical partners was an unintended consequence of someone so disconnected from her people, so desperately wanting to ingratiate herself with an anti-Israel leftist milieu, that it blinded her.

It is upsetting to have someone who sits in the safety of a distant country criticize a government for protecting its borders to ensure that their own citizens can live in the same safety she already enjoys. But what struck me was the contrast of Portman’s criticism and statement — which rang very hollow as well as Jewishly vacuous and detached, never mind problematic and shallow — to the presence, criticism and commitment to Israel of outspoken critic David Grossman.

He disagrees with current Israeli policy, and he paid the highest price. But he showed up. rossman’s political views usually don’t resonate with mine. As a reader of his literature I have great respect for him as an author and writer. He is an important voice balancing See Portman on page 16

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Who owns the term, ‘Never Again’? I An editor’s report

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abbi Meir Kahane never copyrighted it, despite the fact that the leader of the Jewish Defense League popularized its use on the streets of Brooklyn. Nor did those who first used the words “Never Again” when referring to the murder of 6 million Jews in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust establish a permanent claim on this language.

For decades, these two words were associated only with the Shoah, symbolizing the determination to draw conclusions from history and never to allow the Jewish people to be left defenseless in the face of foes determined to destroy them.

But not anymore.

David Hogg, one of the teenage survivors of the Feb. 14 mass school shooting in Parkland, Fla., began using “Never Again” as a hashtag to push for more restrictions on gun ownership after the tragedy. The phrase has now taken on a new meaning in current popular culture, which has upset people who see the phrase as the in-

tellectual property of those who care about preserving the memory of the Holocaust. Among their number is ZOA President Morton Klein, a child of Shoah survivors, who said Hogg is “coopting and politicizing” something that ought to be used only when referencing the Shoah.

Is he right? The short answer must be no, although the passage of time probably makes something like this inevitable. he irony of Hogg’s appropriation shouldn’t be lost on us. It also should make us consider the way we think about the Holocaust as the ranks of the survivors grow fewer with each passing year.

Though the overwhelming majority of American Jews eventually rejected him as a divisive and even despised figure, long before Rabbi Kahane moved to Israel and became the leader of a movement dedicated to evicting all Arabs from the country, he was the leader of the Brooklyn-based Jewish Defense League.

Though its employment of violence ultimately served to discredit it, the JDL was embraced by

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some young Jews a half-century ago because it represented a desire to end a tradition of Jewish powerlessness.

The group also became the shock troops of the movement to free Soviet Jewry in the years before the cause became generally accepted. Most of all, Rabbi Kahane embodied a desire to draw conclusions from the Holocaust, rather than merely mourn it. His belief in Jewish self-defense was rooted in the logic behind the meaning of those words, and though few Americans would today embrace his “Every Jew a .22” slogan, it resonated with some who burned with a desire to reject the passivity of previous generations.

That “Never Again” could be transformed from a justification for the acquisition of and use of firearms to a phrase associated with the attempt to ban weapons is deeply ironic. But it also should make us wonder about whether our understandings of the concepts of Jewish powerlessness and empowerment have changed since Rabbi Kahane helped turn those two words

It’s necessary to hold onto the truths that ‘Never Again’ represented.

into a semi-sacred Jewish slogan. t’s almost impossible to imagine anyone appropriating “Never Again” the way Hogg has done 30 or 40 years ago. But while Holocaust education has become ubiquitous, new generations have also emerged that no longer remember it in a personal way. Few can also recall the fear Jews felt in May 1967 as the Arab world threatened a second Holocaust as it prepared to launch a war of extermination against Israel. (And, for the record, that was before the Jewish state’s acquiring of the West Bank and Jerusalem was put forward as an excuse for the conflict.) Nor do many seem to remember the lonely early years of the struggle for freedom for Soviet Jewry, when the fall of an anti-Semitic Communist empire seemed pure fantasy.

Today’s young Jews grew up in an era when Israel has become a regional superpower with a First World “startup nation” economy. To all too many, the particular Jewish lessons of “Never Again”—let alone a reason for individuals to arm themselves—remain alien concepts.

Although we can’t prevent its appropriation for a different cause, it’s still necessary for us to hold onto the truths that “Never Again” represented.

Jewish survival depends on the power of memory and the ability to draw conclusions from the past that ensure that “never again” will Jews be defenseless. As long as we do so, it won’t matter what words are used for hashtags.

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.

Europe’s Jew-hating ghosts are not of its past FiAmmA nirenStein

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n April 25, the day set aside to commemorate the end of Nazi occupation in Italy during World War II and the victory of the Resistance, the story that dominated the Italian news involved people chanting “Throw out the Jews!” (in Milan), “Ban them!” (in Rome) and a declaration that it was good that they were exterminated (at the Risiera di San Sabba, the Nazi concentration camp in the Northern Italian town of Trieste).

The day was devoted to the delegitimization of the State of Israel, the exaltation of the BDS movement, and the intent to annihilate the collective Jew: the Jewish state.

All this is called anti-Semitism, and of course, many seem to be shocked by it, despite the fact that it unites its cronies — especially on the left, but also on the right — around the Palestinian flag.

This, in a compact European framework in which Berliners hold a “kippot-wearing protest”

while that omnipresent ghost of the past stands over their shoulders and by now won’t accept to be exorcised (there have been demonstrations in Germany in which people screamed “Death to the Jews!” including one last year with participants zealously waving Hezbollah flags, and last week a German Justice minister announced that “anti-Semitism is becoming socially acceptable again”); where the French now consider anti-Semitic murders and aggressions typical events, its intellectuals collecting melancholic signatures while President Emmanuel Macron explains that France would no longer be the same without Jews (who fortunately are, in the meantime, packing their bags); and where the British have at the head of its noble historical left, the Labour Party, a full-fledged antiSemite who condones terrorism. nd the bell also tolls for America, where Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan, smiling in a photo alongside former President Barack Obama, announces to general indifference that “time is up” for the Jews, calling them a satanic force.

In Italy, its national celebration got caught

up in the linguistic spiral for which “resistance” by now means anti-Semitism. My goodness, can it be called resistance in which poor Palestinians from Gaza seek — armed, nonetheless — to penetrate Israel’s borders en masse in order to bring about the death and destruction of the Jewish state? Poor people, they just want to demonstrate their “resistance,” despite openly declaring their desire to kill Jews and practice mass terrorism.

Is it “resistance,” as Hanan Nasrallah repeats daily, what Hezbollah from Lebanon and Syria are doing by stockpiling missiles to destroy Israel?

And in the end, in line with the same logic, is it also not “resistance” orchestrated by the Iranians, who are trying to eradicate “like a cancerous tumor” the hated criminal Zionists, and their Jewish supporters and friends all over the world?

On one hand, they are Jews, persecuted and exterminated, but also liberators who fought in the Jewish Brigade (my father was one of them); and on the other, they are the object of a homicidal-suicidal hatred, fueled by today’s overwhelming Islamic presence in Europe and

The bell also tolls for America.

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throughout the world. Leading the legitimization of this crazy conceptual conversion is the left, which has been able to use the vocabulary of “human rights” as a line of defense in which to hide its own deep-seated discrimination and arrogance.

We need to thank the United Nations and the European Union, as well as Corbyn and those like him, if in Italy the word “resistance” now camouflages the slogans of Haj Amin Al Husseini, who with Hitler planned the extermination of the Jews during a notorious meeting, father of the terrorism that has now come to terrorize the entire world.

Maybe the Europeans just didn’t understand it. But they, too, will be victims because antiSemitism is the engine behind history’s greatest tragedies.

Civilization, it appears, is again teetering on the brink of collapse.

Journalist Fiamma Nirenstein, a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, was a member of the Italian Parliament (2008-13), served in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, and established and chaired the Committee for the Inquiry Into Anti-Semitism. She has written 13 books, including “Israel Is Us” (2009). Translation by Amy Rosenthal.

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In 2018, unlike 1948, Israel is a strong country, and while we greatly appreciate and welcome the support of Diaspora communities, we no longer depend on it. After 70 years of the Diaspora Jews helping Israel, it is time for Israel to help Diaspora Jews.

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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA AMSTERDAM — The debate about wearing a kippah in Western Europe returned only a decade or so ago, but it has nonetheless come to follow a rigid pattern even in that short period of time.

The cycle – there have been dozens of such cases — begins with an anti-Semitic assault. It prompts a Jewish community official to warn congregants not to wear the Jewish skullcap in a certain area or at certain periods to avoid inviting further violent attacks.

This triggers a wave of indignation that often exceeds the reaction to the original assault.

International Jewish groups hold up the warning as a sign of how bad Western Europe’s anti-Semitism problem has become.

Some of these groups criticize only the relevant authorities. Others also blast the local Jewish official who advised others not to wear the kippah, saying he or she should support a higher community profile, not a lower one. Finally, some local Jews downplay the official’s concerns and the media move on – until the next incident.

That’s exactly how things are playing out this week in Germany, when a non-Jewish man wearing a yarmulke was assaulted on April 17 by an attacker shouting “Jew!” in Arabic. The victim was an Israeli Arab who said he donned the kippah to test whether it had actually become dangerous to wear a yarmulke in Germany.

In response, Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, publicly advised Jews to avoid wearing kippahs in urban settings. (At a rally Wednesday night in Berlin, Schuster emphasized that his statement was that individuals should not go out alone with a kippah. He said he felt misunderstood and wanted to clarify.)

In response, Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi, David Lau, and a Brussels-based Jewish organization called on German Jews to continue to wear kippahs and, in Lau’s words, “be proud of their Jewishness.”

Meanwhile, non-Jews in Germany organized a solidarity protest in which marchers wore kippahs — a gesture that has taken place in Sweden, Denmark, France and Poland in recent years.

In 2016, a community leader in France, Tzvi Amar, provoked a similar debate when he warned Marseille Jews to avoid wearing kippahs.

And in 2014, a Danish Jewish school in Copenhagen urged its students to come to school wearing baseball caps over their yarmulkes.

But to countless Jews across Western Europe, these debates featuring high-profile figures, politicians and Jewish community leaders have little bearing on their own personal choice. Not waiting for anyone’s invitation, hundreds of thousands of them have been hiding

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their kippahs and other Jewish symbols for years now in Paris, Marseille, Brussels, London, Amsterdam and many other European cities with a large population of Muslim immigrants.

At least a quarter of Europe’s Jews had resolved not to wear their kippahs or any other Jewish symbol publicly before any of the debates even took place, according to a 2013 survey in nine countries.

In that European Union poll of 5,100 Jews — the most comprehensive study of its kind — 49 percent of 800 Swedish respondents said they refrained from wearing clothing that identified them as Jewish.

In Belgium, whose capital city is the seat of the European Union, the figure was 36 percent.

In France, 40 percent of the approximately 1,200 Jews polled said they avoided wearing such items in public.

“It’s a matter of preserving one’s sanctity of life – an elevated value in Judaism,” said Prosper Abenaim, the only rabbi living in Paris’ poor and heavily Muslim neighborhood of La Courneuve.

On Shabbat, Abenaim wears a hat over his kippah as he takes the miles-long walk from his home in the affluent 17th district to La Couneuve’s dwindling synagogue. He advises his congregants to do the same – and immigrate to Israel, he said.

Jews like Abenaim are not being paranoid. The Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union in its 2017 overview of anti-

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So central is the Balfour Declaration to Palestinian political identity that the “Zionist invasion” is officially deemed to have begun in 1917—not in 1882, when the first trickle of Jewish pioneers from Russia began arriving, nor in 1897, when the Zionist movement held its first congress in Basel, nor in the late 1920s, when thousands of German Jews fleeing the rise of Nazism chose to go to Palestine.

The year 1917 is the critical date because that is when, as an anti-Zionist might say, the Zionist hand slipped effortlessly into the British imperial glove. It is a neat, simple historical proposition upon which the entire Palestinian version of events rests: an empire came to our land and gave it to foreigners, we were dispossessed, and for five generations now, we have continued to resist. Moreover, it is given official sanction in the Palestine National Covenant of 1968, in which article 6 defines Jews who “were living permanently in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion” as “Palestinians”—an invasion that is dated as 1917 in the covenants’ notes.

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In France, most anti-Semitic violence is perpetrated by Muslims, according to the National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism.

That category of crime, as well as hate speech, rose sharply in the early 2000s in France and other Western European countries during the wave of terrorist attacks in Israel known as the second intifada and Israel’s actions to stop it. In those years, the number of antiSemitic incidents reported to authorities soared from a few dozen a year to hundreds, never returning to pre-2000 levels.

Heavily Muslim areas like La Courneuve are considered especially risky, although Jews living in richer areas with fewer Muslims also refrain from wearing kippahs and other Jewish symbols in public.

Philippe Karsenty, a local politician and pro-Israel activist from the upscale Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, a few years ago warned a younger relative not to wear a Star of David pendant.

Karsenty remembers telling him: “Nothing good will come to anyone from you wearing it.”

In France today, a Jewish symbol is likely to “escalate a parking dispute to a stabbing,” Karsenty said.

Perhaps ironically, anger and opposition to Muslim extremism in Europe is creating additional problems for Jews who wear kippahs.

Several European countries have banned the wearing of face-covering veils, a Muslim custom. While these recent bans in Belgium, France and the Netherlands clearly target Muslims, they are nonetheless creating an atmosphere that is more restrictive of wearing all and any religious symbols, including the kippah.

In the Netherlands, an employee of the Anne Frank House last year waited for six months in vain for his bosses to decide on whether he could wear a kippah to work. He declined their suggestion that he come to the office wearing a hat and ultimately decided to wear a kippah without permission, forcing them to hammer out a policy on the matter. They finally permitted him to wear the kippah.

The leader of France’s far-right National Front party, Marine Le Pen, has been candid about her plan to ban the wearing of the kippah in public — not because she opposes it, she has said. Rather, she said in an interview last year, French Jews should “sacrifice” the freedom to wear a kippah in public in favor of the fight against radical Islam.

But Le Pen also cited the fear of many French Jews in downplaying the significance of the sacrifice she was asking.

“Honestly, the dangerous situation in which Jews in France live is such that those who walk with a kippah are in any case a minority because they are afraid,” Le Pen said.

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CAlendar of Events

Send your events to Calendar@TheJewishStar.com • Deadline noon Friday • Compiled by Zachary Schechter Thursday May 3

Sunday May 6

Parsha Shiur: [Weekly] Join Michal Horowitz at the YI of Woodmere for a special shiur on the parsha. 9:30 am. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere.

516-295-0950.

Iyun Tefilah: [Weekly] Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum at the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst.

9:45 am. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhurst.

Learn Maseches Brachos: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Eliyahu Wolf at the YI of Woodmere for a shiur on Maseches Brachos. 5:15 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950.

Lag B’Omer Family Fun Day: The Jean Fischman Chabad Center of the Five Towns presents the 23rd annual Lag B’Omer Family Fun Day. 257 Cedarhurst Ave, Cedarhurst. 5:30-8 pm.

Murderous Night at the Museum: The HAFTR Players present “Murderous Night at the Museum.” $12 advance, $20 at the door. 8 pm.

389 Central Ave, Lawrence. 516-680-6423.

Halacha Shiur: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Yoni Levin at Aish Kodesh for a halacha shiur. 9:30 pm.

894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Friday May 4

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.

Saturday May 5 Art Auction: Art for Kids and JEP are teaming up to present an art auction at The Cedarhurst Center to raise funds for JEP. 9:30. 445 Central Ave. Cedarhurst. 516-374-1528 x240.

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

Groundbreaking Ceremony: Beis Haknesses of North Woodmere invites the Five Towns Community to celebrate its Groundbreaking Ceremony. 9:30 am. 665 Hungry Harbor Rd, North Woodmere.

SHEEFA: Women are invited to hear Rav Judah Mischel give a talk on “K’ish Echad B’lev Echad: Cultivating Heartfulness.” $10. 10:15 am. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere. 516-6-SHEEFA. Wellness Event: The 5th Annual Pregnant Island Health and Wellness Event will take place at HANC. $25. 12-2:30 pm. 25 Country Dr, Plainview.

Monday May 7

Women’s Shiur: [Weekly] Dr. Anette Labovitz’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 May 8

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 May 9

Saluting Israel at 70: Celebrate 70 years of Israel at the Five Town and Greater South Shore Annual Community Event at Sephardic Temple.

775 Branch Blvd, Cedarhurst. 646-274-9649.

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.

Sunday May 13

Sheefa: Women are invited to here Mr. Charlie Harary speak on “Unlocking Greatness in Preparation for Kaballas HaTorah.” $10. 10:15 am. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere. 516-6-SHEEFA.

Monday May 14

MAY Annual Dinner: Mesivta Ateres Yaakov will be holding its annual dinner at The Sands. 7 pm. 1395 Beech Street, Atlantic Beach. 516-3746465.

Tuesday May 15

Shor Yoshuv Reunion Dinner: Sh’or Yoshuv will be having its annual reunion dinner in honor of its devoted rebbeim. 6:30. 1 CedarLawn Ave, Lawrence. 516-239-9002 x102.

Rosh Chodesh Chagiga: All women and girls are invited to celebrate at a Rosh Chodesh Sivan Chagiga to raise money for families who lost a parent or child to illness or tragedy lilui nishmas Masha Bas Meir Leb. $20. 240 Hempstead Ave, West Hempstead. 516 668-7781.

Gift of Clarity: CHAZAQ and Shaare Emunah present an all women event with Rebbetzin Tzipora Harris with “Shavuos- The Gift of Clarity.” 8 pm. 539 Oakland Ave, Cedarhurst.

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Continued from page 17 don’t necessarily assume that the perpetrator has bad intentions towards Jewish people.

Sometimes, sadly, that will be the case. But rarely, because as we know, anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. We oppose Zionism because we oppose wars and empires and corporate exploitation of occupied nations. Out of this viewpoint, the tactics flow naturally: Campaigns to boycott Israel’s universities, propaganda that paints as Israel as the world’s blood-thirstiest country, the deployment of slogans like “resistance” and “return” in justifying why a single Arab state should replace the Jewish one in the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.

And then, if we are honest with ourselves, we come to the realization that the movement of resistance and return with which we are aligned is soaked in theological and ideological enmity towards “the Jews”—Islamists like Hamas and Hezbollah, Marxists like the PFLP, nationalists like the militant youth of Fatah. We find that some of those who share our hostility to Israel come from surprising quarters: from Polish ultranationalists who believe that they, like the Palestinians, are the victims of a Holocaust swindle, to Salafi preachers who explain that moderate violence against one’s female partner is the key to a successful marriage. t this point, we are entitled to wonder about the true nature of the goods we are being sold. It will start to dawn that for all the apparent differences between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, we spend—through our determined opposition to the Jewish state—an enormous amount of time thinking and speaking negatively about Jews as a group.

A few nostrils might start to curl by now, but not all. Certainly, not those of Jeremy Corbyn, who, like Sartre’s anti-Semite, “has chosen first of all to be impervious.”

To his supporters, this will be another welcome example of good old “Jeremy” sticking to his principles. To the rest of us, it’s another dismal example of the mindset that may yet get him elected prime minister.

Continued from page 17 some extra spending money for the Ayatollah, Iran violated the JCPOA deal again in November by over-producing the heavy water.

When asked, State Department spokesperson Mark Toner refused to call the overproduction a violation — “I’m not going to use the V word necessarily in this case” — and the Iranians eventually found someone else to purchase the excess. In parenting, refusing to call a violation a violation and buying Iran’s excess heavy water would be called rewarding bad behavior, which was something the Obama administration was unusually adept at. nother area where Iran is suspected of violating the deal is in measures against acquiring nuclear-related materials outside the approved channels. As re-

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had also run 13-15 IR-6 centrifuges in a cascade that was supposed to be limited to ten centrifuges.” Some of their other centrifuges broke down, putting them in compliance again.

Here’s the bottom line according to ISIS: “Iran has repeatedly tested the boundaries of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and in many cases crossed the line into a violation. Many of these violations and efforts to push the boundaries have not been reported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in its quarterly reports to member states, reflecting a failing on its part.

But the information is not classified, and we have reported on these violations and controversies in previous reports.”

The IAEA can only report that Iran is in compliance with the JCPOA because of its refusal to report Iranian violations, along with its refusal to push the issue of military site inspections per the terms of the JCPOA deal, thus giving the rogue regime cover to violate the deal wherever and whenever it wants.

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Continued from page 19 the Israeli discourse — not to mention that, heartbreakingly, he paid with the ultimate sacrifice for the State of Israel. Grossman shows how to disagree with Israeli policy — by being part of Israel, not by throwing Israel under the bus.

Another comment in Portman’s statement — something to the effect of Israel being founded 70 years ago as a refuge for survivors of the Holocaust — could not have been more inaccurate.

Yes, the unfathomable genocide of the Holocaust no doubt impacted the U.N. vote to establish Israel. But on the eve of WWII, before the Holocaust, Palestine had over half a million Jews and the city of Tel Aviv was more than 30 years old. Herzl’s dream for a reborn revived modern Israel had already been conceived in the previous century, and students of the Gaon of Vilna had started making their way to the land about 80 years before that.

Yes, having experienced the Holocaust in our time, the Jewish people regard Israel as that much more precious and poignant and fraught.

Thank G-d for Israel. Thank G-d we have a homeland. Since when is there a perfect society that does not need repair? By all means, what demands repair ought to be repaired. But Israel a home for our people. An incredible home to be proud of that is constantly building, contributing, growing.

So instead of fleeing when times get tough, we need to stick with Israel and stay the course during the good and also during the challenging times.

To paraphrase President John F. Kennedy and to echo the writings of earlier Yiddishists, now more than ever we need to internalize the words “Ich Bin a Yid” and stand with our people and our country.

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ported by the Institute for Science and International Security (known by its unfortunate initials ISIS): “The procurement channel set up under [JCPOA] … was designed to regulate Iran’s imports of nuclear and nuclear-related dualuse goods for nuclear or non-nuclear use.

Given that Iran’s non-nuclear industries have often imported nuclear dual-use goods, this finding raises the question of whether the procurement channel, and its associated Procurement Working Group (PWG), is simply not being used, but illicit, nuclear dual-use supplies are still going to Iran. … The United States and its allies should augment efforts to detect and intercept the flow of any strategic goods from China to Iran and from other potentially illicit supplier countries to Iran.”

Like the provisions of Section T, the issue is not non-compliance but we cannot be sure Iran is complying.

Iran was in violation of the provision limiting the number of advanced centrifuges — “It

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