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The JEWISH Nasso • May 25, 2018 • 11 Sivan, 5778 • Torah columns pages 16–17 • Luach page 16 • Vol 17, No 20

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Let’s make a peace deal? Fuggedaboutit Bibi knows PA hate will trump Trump

Prime Minister Netanyahu, after delivering a speech on Iran’s nuclear program earlier this month, now prepares for President Trump’s peace plan. Getty Images

By Jonathan S. Tobin, Columnist The Trump administration is reportedly only a few weeks away from announcing a new plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. According to the Associated Press, presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, along with U.S. Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, have been briefing American allies and involved parties about the contents of a peace plan. In the past, the mere hint of the possibility of an American blueprint would have rocked Jerusalem. But despite the taunts of his political opponents about these reports, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears unperturbed — and the reason for his calm is no secret. It’s not just that the anticipated plan isn’t as generous to the Palestinians as past offers put forward by his predecessors and American administrations. A scheme that involves a two-state solution on any terms would be fiercely opposed by the Israeli right and could potentially set off a coalition crisis. But Netanyahu knows that he possesses the same ace up his sleeve that enabled him to weather See Peace deal? on page 19

For YOSS boys, Torah comes to life As Shavuos approached, talmidim at Yeshiva of South Shore’s Early Childhood Center were treated to an in-depth lesson on the making of a sefer Torah. Asher Romer, a Pre-1A student, is pictured with the sofer, Rabbi Betzalel Katkovsky. The boys felt real cow hide that is used in making the klaf and were taught that kosher ink used to write the Torah is made from a special nut. The boys were especially excited to see their own names in the Torah and they joined the sofer in writing the last letter. Returning to their classrooms, the talmidim practiced writing the alef bais letters with ink and a feather, the way the sofer taught them.

Ed boss DeVos visits Far Rock’s Darchei By Jeff Bessen, Nassau Herald Students at Far Rockaway’s Yeshiva Darchei Torah introduced U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to some Jewish bless-

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Kindergarten students at the HAFTR Lower School marked Yom Yerushalayim by building walls around Jerusalem’s Old City. They listened to the story of the Eight Gates and how Israel’s brave chayalim entered the Lions Gate to capture the Old City. Working in groups, the young architects used blocks to build the walls, including the Eight Gates and the Kotel.

ings, what they’ve been learning about poetry, how they study in one-on-one settings and how they pray, and even what they’re See DeVos on page 14

Students at Yeshiva Darchei Torah students explain to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos what they’re learning about poetry. Jeffrey Bessen

NYU-Langone hospital ousts Hasidic volunteers Food fight, or an end-of-life feud? By Debra Nussbaum Cohen, JTA For years, Satmar Bikur Cholim volunteers have fanned out daily across New York City, boarding private buses and carrying bags full of kosher food cooked each morning at the organization’s commercial kitchen in Williamsburg. In addition to delivering food and briefly visiting any patient who requests it, the volunteers have also provided financial assistance to needy patients and, when requested, religiously-based recommendations to doctors and medical facilities. But at one of the city’s largest and most-respected medical centers, NYU-Langone Hospital in Manhattan, the volunteers are no longer welcome. The hospital now bans all non-family-members and friends from patient floors. “For the safety and privacy of our patients, we have limited outside volunteers, vendors, delivery people and other non-visitors and staff from going directly onto patient floors and into patient rooms,” NYU-Langone spokeswoman Lisa Greiner said in a statement. She did not respond to a question, repeated multiple times, about what specifically prompted the policy change. Greiner said that the policy isn’t specific to Satmar Bikur Cholim, though members of the group insist it is. They say that the NYU health system’s approach to end-of-life care has changed and conflicts with the Orthodox Jewish approach to issues surrounding ending life support and administering palliative care — and the hospital doesn’t want observers witnessing decisions that to Orthodox eyes may fall short of extending life by any means available. Satmar Bikur Cholim supporters are now urg-

The Ronald O. Perelman Emergency Center at NYU-Langone hospital in 2014.

ing Jews to steer clear of the hospital and are threatening to start a formal boycott, said the Bikur Cholim director, who did not want to be named. She said the hospital had become “almost like a legal killing machine.” Over the three-day Shavuot holiday weekend, circulars widely distributed in Brooklyn Orthodox neighborhoods warned that Jewish patients would be risking their lives by going to NYULangone. “Our patients are in danger when they go there,” said the Satmar Bikur Cholim director. Earlier this year, when the hospital instituted its new policy barring volunteers from patient floors, the five or six Satmar Bikur Cholim volunteers who have long gone each day to NYU-Langone tried slipping past security guards with freshcooked kosher food hidden inside Macy’s shopping bags. But they were followed into elevators and most recently stopped at the hospital’s front doors.

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They group serves anyone who calls and most of their recipients are not Hasidic, said the Bikur Cholim director. Rabbinical Alliance of America’s executive director, Rabbi Mendy Mirocznik, said he’s received to response to a letter sent to NYU-Langone’s leadership requesting that it find a way to allow Satmar Bikur Cholim to continue its work. Greiner noted that NYU-Langone has bikur cholim rooms stocked with kosher food in its main Manhattan hospital and its Brooklyn hospital, and is in the process of building one at its orthopedic hospital in Manhattan. It also has Jewish chaplains and four or five people it calls liaisons to the Jewish community. “We always have and will continue to address the cultural and religious needs of the communities we serve. If any family cannot visit the bikur cholim room, our volunteers deliver food directly

to them consistent with their medical condition. Most of the community and outside organizations understand and agree with this policy, but a few volunteers want unsupervised access to patient floors and rooms and have tried to distort the truth,” Greiner wrote in an email. Rabbi Meyer Leifer, the Orthodox Jewish community liaison listed by NYU-Langone for its Brooklyn hospital, declined to be interviewed, referring a reporter to Greiner. Greiner did not respond to a request for the names of the Jewish liaisons at its main hospital, and that information was not found on its website. The Satmar Bikur Cholim director said that they have had a longstanding relationship with NYU-Langone’s Orthodox Jewish chaplain, but suddenly he has stopped returning their calls. Earlier this year, Satmar Bikur Cholim leaders met several times with NYU-Langone’s Chief Clinical Officer and Senior Vice President for Clinical Affairs and Strategy, Dr. Andrew Brotman. The meetings were ultimately fruitless, said the volunteer group’s director. “We weren’t asking for anything more than to be able to continue our mission,” she said. “Why can’t we continue doing what we’ve been doing for 70 years? It’s his clients who are asking for it.” JTA’s request to speak with Brotman was declined by Greiner. The Satmar Bikur Cholim director says that the policy change “had to do with our advocacy in the hospital. Because we’re very big in patient care management and advocacy, the hospital did not like that we’re watching them so closely. NYU Hospital’s policies have changed and have become more difficult for the Jewish community. “Our advocacy has gotten more intense,” she said. “We’re very much pro-life and life being respected. Currently the hospital has initiated hospice and end-of-life care which goes against our community’s halachic perspective. It comes See NYU-Langone on page 14

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Mahane Yehuda shuk a nightly hipster hangout By Ben Sales, JTA JERUSALEM — In another life, Kobi Frig would have been sitting behind vats of spices in Jerusalem’s bustling, labyrinthine Mahane Yehuda market, hawking paprika, zaatar and cinnamon like his grandfather and father did before him. Instead, Frig obeyed his father’s wishes, went to college, and started a chain of events that transformed the market. He became a community activist, organizing art and music fairs in the market that opened it up to a young clientele and brought in a wave of cafes and restaurants. Last year, when Frig’s father retired, he shuttered the spice shop and leased the space to a bar. “The third generation didn’t see itself selling nuts and wanted to make a change,” said Frig, 42. “Whether it’s for the best is a matter of perspective.” The story of Frig’s family shop has been happening across Mahane Yehuda, known to locals simply as the shuk, Hebrew for market. By day, it’s a traditional Middle Eastern bazaar that serves the residents of Israel’s capital city. But by night, it is increasingly becoming a tourist attraction filled with cafes, bars and sit-down restaurants. The change, which began about a decade ago, is thrusting Mahane Yehuda’s older merchants into a new era. “It’s changed from end to end,” said Yosi Avrahami, who has sold nuts in the market for more than 40 years. “You used to see stores with vegetables and food — tons of vegetable stores. … I think that will be disappointing, if it will all become beer.” Covering a network of a dozen streets in central Jerusalem, the shuk is a crowded pedestrian mall with hundreds of shops. Since the market began operating in the late 19th century under Ottoman rule, most of those shops have sold such staples as produce, baked goods,

A dried fruit and nut seller gives change to a customer in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market.

meat, fish, spices, dried fruit, nuts and household items. Other stores have sold inexpensive clothing, Judaica, sweets or souvenirs. It has been the target of at least seven terrorist attacks since 1968 but invariably opened for business the next day, if not the same afternoon. It has undergone a few renovations since its founding: Merchants now sell their food from physical stalls, rather than tarps spread on the ground, and many have hung signs above their shops. But it’s still far less formal than a grocery store. Sellers will sit on stools at the front of their stores, hawking tomatoes, halva or chicken in loud, hoarse, competing voices. Regulars from all walks of Jewish Jerusalem life conduct business on a first-name basis — and pay in cash. The food is kosher — and the entire market shuts down for Shabbat before sundown on Fridays.

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On a recent weekday evening, the shuk’s central avenue looked like it has for decades. Shoppers lugged collapsible carts from stand to stand, doling out money and accumulating plastic bags of fresh food. Counters piled with olives, challahs, dried apricots and rice seasonings beckoned locals and tourists alike — though a branch of Israel’s largest coffee chain, Aroma, has also taken up shop there. In the center of the street, a young girl in a pink fleece played the recorder in front of a donation basket. Off to the side, a emissary of the Chabad Hasidic outreach movement checked his phone while manning a table with a pair of unraveled tefillin. But a side street looked like it came straight out of the city’s Zagat guide. A stand near the entrance sold fresh-pressed juice and smoothies — advertising an acai bowl in English and

Hebrew. Nearby was Fishenchips, one of the shuk’s first small sit-down places geared toward 20-somethings. Farther along was a gelato shop, and there were bars around the corner. Young people sat chatting over meals and beer at elevated tables. “It’s an amazing atmosphere — good people, always smiling, a fantastic atmosphere, bro,” said Dima Kasachuck, 20, who worked behind the counter at a Mexican restaurant and sported bleached hair, ear gauges and a longsleeve t-shirt emblazoned with a skull. The transformation began in 2006, when Frig persuaded merchants to remain open late one night for a party on the Jewish holiday of Purim. It ended up drawing 4,000 people. In subsequent years, he put on a series of art, music and culinary festivals in the shuk that exhibited its potential as a communal space for the city’s youth. Restaurateurs soon began renting out storefronts and replacing traditional sellers. Even merchants who have remained have contributed to the market’s new feel. Many of their gates are painted with graffiti portraits of Jewish historical figures, so when the stores close, the market becomes a public art exhibit. Baristas and waiters at the market’s newer shops say they love their workplace and its fusion of old and new. At Roasters, a third-wave cafe, Esther Bromberg said she loves hearing neighboring merchants yell their cappuccino orders to her — while she feels free to store milk in their refrigerators. “What I like the most about the shuk is the combination of the old-school Middle Eastern vibes and the hipster up-and-coming young vibes that we have going together,” said Bromberg, 24, an Australian expat. “We’re best friends. We make them coffee — obviously, it’s all free — because we’re all just neighbors and friends.” See Hipster hangout on page 14

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UWS home to 40,000 pieces of El Al memorabilia By Manny Strumpf, JTA Walking into Marvin Goldman’s apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side is like entering a museum dedicated to El Al, Israel’s national airline. In one room, shelves and tables display scale models of El Al’s earliest aircraft, and its most modern. Elsewhere are flight bags, china, pens, ashtrays, desk flags and other collectibles bearing the El Al logo that Goldman has acquired over the past 40 years. In a large walk-in closet are neatly hung uniforms and caps worn by flight crews from decades past. “One of my most prized items,” he proudly points out, is the first badge to adorn an El AL pilot’s hat. In all, more than 40,000 El Al items fill the apartment that Goldman shares with his wife Marilynn. Some people — including some the airline’s employees — aptly refer to him as “El Al’s #1 fan.” During his long career as an attorney for a prestigious Manhattan firm, Goldman flew on various airlines to countries throughout the world. About 100 of Marvin Goldman owns thousands of posters, El Al ads and photos. those flights were to and from Israel, for business or vacation, all on his favorite airline. preserving it.” Goldman has likely amassed the largest assortment of El Al’s Goldman says that he acquired his massive memorabilia inmemorabilia outside of the airline itself. Large cabinets also ventory from a variety of sources, including other airline enthustore hundreds of posters, advertisements, timetables, menus, siasts, airline memorabilia shows, El Al personnel (who shared postcards and historical documents about the airline. Some of their duplicates with him), and other travelers and retired El Al the posters were designed for El Al by well-known Israeli graphic employees who wanted a good home for items they had saved. designers, such as Franz Kraus and Dan Reisinger. He acquired a small fraction of his collection through online He communicates with other airline memorabilia collec- auction sites like eBay. tors worldwide, attends airline enthusiast shows and has been Some of the items in his home are so unusual that even El Al helped by past and present El Al personnel who recognize the was not aware of their existence. He maintains thousands of phomotivation behind his obsession: to “protect and preserve El Al’s tographs and computer images that trace the airline’s history and dramatic and unique history for the benefit of future genera- serve as historical research sources. Included are black and white tions.” prints of El Al’s very first airliner and flight crew; photos depicting He adds that “people can be divided into two categories — the mass ingathering of immigrants to Israel from Yemen, Iraq, the ‘thrower-outers’ and the collectors.” Ethiopia, the Soviet Union and elsewhere; and crew members of “I’m a collector, but a collector with a purpose. I began saving the El Al plane that flew the notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann from El Al memorabilia following my first trip to Israel in 1978 and Argentina to Israel in May 1960 to stand trial for his war crimes. have been doing it ever since,” Goldman said. “It started with The retiree’s collection serves as a source of information to mucollecting airline postcards. I joined the World Airline Historical seums, libraries and even to the airline itself. Some beneficiaries Society, and by attending their annual conventions, I learned have included the Israel National Library and Israel Museum in Jethat El Al memorabilia was especially hard to find. I took up rusalem, the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, Harvard University’s the challenge of finding and collecting the airline’s material and Widener Library, the El Al Moreshet Archive at Ben-Gurion Airport

and the Eretz Yisrael Museum in Tel Aviv. Items from his collection also have appeared in books, movies and documentaries. The El Al uniforms in the 1996 movie “The Man Who Captured Eichmann,” which starred Robert Duvall, were made with the help of images in Goldman’s stash. For a recent German documentary on the history of the bagel, Goldman provided images of the bagel and lox breakfast service introduced by El Al in the 1960s on flights out of New York, and the airline’s related booklet, “EL AL Looks Into the Bagel.” He is considered to be an unofficial historian for Israel’s airline and is often called upon to lecture before appreciative audiences. Because 2018 marks the milestone 70th anniversaries of both Israel and the airline — whose inaugural flight from Geneva to Tel Aviv took place in September 1948 — Goldman’s collection has drawn greater interest this year. One recent lecture in central New Jersey attracted over 200 people. Sheryl Stein, who is the manager of advertising, public relations and social media for El Al, often refers historical inquiries from curious travelers and researchers to Goldman. “Marvin has been a valuable source of information and images for us. He is one of our favorite frequent fliers,” she said. El Al was born in 1948 out of necessity. Shortly after Israel’s war for independence, the country’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, was in Geneva, and the Israeli government wanted to transport him home in an Israeli aircraft so that he could be officially sworn into office. There was a problem, however: Israel did not have a civil aircraft suitable for a trip of that distance, and the Swiss barred Israeli military aircraft from their country. Employing typical Israeli ingenuity and some chutzpah, Israel converted a four-engine DC-4 “Skymaster” plane into the first civilian aircraft registered in Israel. They named the new airline El Al, meaning “to the skies”— a phrase taken from the Biblical book of Hosea. The crew was selected from among the foreign aircrew volunteers who were serving in the transport arm of its War of Independence (a group called the “Mahal”). “Frequent fliers generally accumulate miles, points or other perks, but my fascination with El Al did more,” Goldman said. “It helped to create a new avocation for me — developing an exciting and different type of collection that would preserve the linked heritage of El Al and Israel.”

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Anger and apology over impolitic Temple photo

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in Judea. “The settler and terrorist David Friedman and his radical friends want to erase every Palestinian Muslim feature from Jerusalem and drive all the Palestinians out of the city,” said Habbash. “Friedman is nothing less than a criminal. His appearance, smiling next to a photograph from which Al-Aqsa was removed and replaced with the Jewish Temple, was provocative and inciting. It sends a racist message calling for the destruction of the Al-Aqsa mosque. Habbash continued: “The U.S. administration must remove the settlement called ‘the embassy’ [in Jerusalem] and take back its declarations on the status of Jerusalem [as the capital of Israel].” Joint Arab List Knesset member TaAmbassador Friedman with a photo illustration showing a Third Jewish Temple in place of the Dome of the Rock, as lab Abu Arar insisted that Friedman, a seen on the Israeli news website Kikar Hashabat. resident of Long Island’s Woodburgh, “take back your provocations,” saying an image of Jerusalem altered to replace the the diplomat was endangering the “fate of peace in the entire region.” iconic Dome of the Rock with a Third Temple. According to Israeli media reports, the pic“This is reckless, brazen behavior,” said Saeb Erekat, a close associate of P.A. leader Mahmoud ture was thrust into Friedman’s hands during Abbas. “It is aggression over Jerusalem. Anyone a visit to an organiztaion in Bnei Brak that who does this is blatantly trying to turn the con- works with haredi children with learning disabilities. The U.S. Embassy said in a statement flict into a violent one on the basis of religion.” Abbas adviser Mahmoud al-Habbash also that Friedman had not been aware of the image lashed out at Friedman, who in the past and and was “deeply disappointed” that his visit had was personally active in support of the Beit El been taken advantage of in that way. By Israel Hayom The Palestinian Authority expressed outrage on Wednesday after a photo pictured U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman next to

A quirky twist for Israel in Stacey A’s Geogia win By Ron Kampeas, JTA In Georgia’s battle of the Staceys, Stacey Abrams, the state’s onetime House minority leader, defeated former State Rep. Stacey Evans in the Democratic primary for governor. For the first time, an African-American woman is a major party candidate for Georgia governor. Nationwide, the win is seen as a bellwether in the battle for the Democratic soul between progressives, Abrams, and moderates, represented by her opponent. As for the Israel wrinkle— In a Jewish community debate in February, Abrams was asked about her 2016 vote against a bill strongly backed by Jewish groups. It would have penalized those who comply with the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel. Michael Jacobs, editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times, noticed something jarring about her response. Twice in a two-minute answer, she said, “I unequivocally believe in the right of Israel to exist.”

Jacobs was glad to hear it, but unnerved she had to say it. “In 2018, one of the leading candidates for Georgia governor sees Israel’s right to exist as an issue for debate, not an accepted reality,” he wrote. “I don’t think Abrams has any doubts about Israel’s existence, but her need to say it means she expects others in her progressive wing of the Democratic Party to disagree with her.” After she launched her candidacy, Abrams appeared to anticipate blowback and outlined her Jewish credentials in a Medium post last November. She joined a black-Jewish retreat in 2003 organized by Project Understanding, the group that sustains the black-Jewish alliance forged in the civil rights era. But she could not vote for the BDS bill, she said, for the same reason that other progressives who oppose BDS oppose such bills: It brings government in as a referee on boycotts and free speech, which, she said, should trouble those steeped in the history of civil rights.

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Just after 4 pm on Aug. 14, 2003, a massive going to receive a forecast for diseases,” he says. power outage struck the Northeastern United “What strain of the flu will be coming to which States, shutting down lights, phone service, air cities in the world? And how can we prevent an conditioning and mass transit for more than 55 outbreak? I think that within ten years, something like Ebola or Zika, which is now a million people, including those across global scare, is not going to be as scary the New York tri-state area. Most did when we know how to predict how not get their power back for two days. they will spread, control their spread Others were left in the dark for as many and be able to mitigate it online as the as two weeks. This was the second largpath penetrates social networking.” est power outage in world history, and The scientists in Barzel’s Network the most significant blackout ever to hit Science Impact Center create new North America. In early 2015, a widespread epidemmathematics, advanced big data techniques, sophisticated computational ic of Zika fever, caused by the Zika virus models, and high-powered computer in Brazil, spread to other parts of South simulations. And they incorporate and North America. It also affected several islands in the Pacific and Southeast Dr. Baruch Barzel at their discoveries into automated frameworks so they can deploy their Asia. In January 2016, the World Health Bar-Ilan University tools quickly for states, corporations Organization said the virus was likely to spread throughout most of the Americas by the end and others aiming to avoid the next cascading colof the year. It was a scare that terrorized millions lapse of their networks. Barzel could easily lead his network science reand had health workers the world over scrambling search anywhere in the world. Yet, he feels strongfor secure methods of treatment. What do the these calamities have in common. ly committed to conducting his vital work in Israel. “I believe that Israel has three primary advanAnd how do we prevent such catastrophes from tages for this kind of endeavor,” he explains. “First plaguing us in the future? The answer lies in “network science,” and the of all, it’s the pertinence — these questions that man at the forefront of this monumental task for we are addressing are actually at the heart of IsIsrael is Dr. Baruch Barzel, a top researcher, physi- rael’s many security platforms. “Infrastructure today is much more than a cist, applied mathematician and network specialist convenience. Breaches through cyber-attacks that at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan. “Network science has greatly evolved in the can cause a cascading failure are national security past decade, and is currently a leading scientific breaches. Is our infrastructure vulnerable? Can field in the description of complex systems, which we detect the weak spots? Can we create incenaffect every aspect of our daily life,” says Barzel. tives to create a more resilient infrastructure? The “We inhabit a world more interconnected and in- pertinence of this problem is crucial to the Israeli terdependent than ever before. Today, an Ebola state-of-life. I believe that these kinds of problems breakout in Africa can rapidly spread across the should be solved here in Israel where there is true globe; one disaster on a highway or water source motivation to actually solve them. From there, we can break the flow of transportation or drinking share our findings with the rest of the world.” Barzel arrived at Bar-Ilan University two years water for an entire city. And an attack on computer infrastructure can cut off power, communi- ago. His Complex Networks Dynamics lab is in the Math department, although his background was in cations or finances for millions.” Barzel and his team are working to uncover Physics. Barzel completed his Ph.D. at Hebrew Uniweaknesses in real world systems and find the best versity, then pursued his postdoctoral training at ways to make them more stable and resilient. This the Center for Complex Network Research at Northincludes improving the stability of power grids, eco- eastern University and at the Channing Division of systems, populations vulnerable to disease and more. Network Medicine at Harvard Medical School. “It’s not impossible that maybe within the next To contribute to Barzel’s research, contact Amerfive years, that just as today, after the headline ican Friends of Bar-Ilan University at 212-906-3900 news we get a weather forecast, we’re instead or AFBIU.org. Source: Bar-Ilan University.

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could delay brain development. Rosenfeld encouraged parents to get their kids’ pediatricians involved in devising plans to cut back on screen use time, and added that young people do not stop growing until they are 25 years old. Rosenfeld sympathized that it is difficult for parents to step in considering how widespread device usage is — and that they sometimes double as educational tools — but hammered on the importance of monitoring the situation. Rosenfeld noted that parents must be proactive the next time they see the “blue light coming out from under the sheets” from devices when they check on children in their bedrooms, and set ground rules as soon as possible in their development regarding when screens can be used and for how long. “It takes effort, it takes energy,” said Dr. Adhi Sharma, chief medical officer at South Nassau, adding, “but screens are not going away.”

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nytime is a good time for a great new cookbook. True, Mother’s Day has passed, but if you missed a gift, or are feeling like you need another one, this new cookbook is a sure winner. I love it but, the truth is, I bought it as a gift based on its title alone, “Millennial Kosher Cooking.” I am definitely NOT a millennial. However, I am the mother of one. So, when I saw this in a book store, I immediately thought it might be the book to spark in him an interest in cooking. I excitedly opened the book and almost instantly realized that the book had nothing to do with young people in the 20-something age bracket and then, after closer perusal, I decided that I was not about to give this book away. In fact, by the time I had looked through it, I had marked most of the recipes with sticky tabs so I could easily find them. This is a book for all cooks of all ages. As I discovered, the title is not about the age of the cooks who might like this book (though they probably will!); rather, it is about the recipes themselves. The author, Chanie Apfelbaum, has taken the roots of recipes from our heritage and reinvented them to reflect today’s bolder and spicier flavors. This book absolutely is a great one for new cooks no matter the ages — it makes a perfect engagement gift — but it is also great for seasoned cooks who want to step up their game. The beginning of the book offers some great food advice, such as Menus Matter, Track the Trends, Learn the Lingo, Be Resourceful, and more. here is a section that offers advice about the necessary tools and equipment needed in a today’s kitchen. She recommends a Sous Vide Machine and also an Insta-Pot. I may live without a Sous-Vide, but I love my Insta-Pot. The next section is all about Pantry Essentials and what a well-stocked pantry looks like. There is a lot to take in here, and a lot to shop for if you are just setting up a kitchen. I must admit that I do not have everything she recommends, so I advise buying what you think you will use. Trust me, you can live without pickled onions, if you choose to do so. So read the list and buy accordingly. According to Apfelbaum, staples are those things that one makes and uses frequently such as challah and preserved lemons. I lived without preserved lemons for my entire life. Then I tasted them in a delicious salad dressing. I will be making them this week! The first recipe that intrigued me was one in which hot coffee is poured over oatmeal reflecting the Italian treat, Affogato, in which hot coffee is pored over cold vanilla ice cream. I tried it and loved it. There are so many recipes here that look inviting and delicious in the gorgeous pictures that Apfelbaum has taken. I admit that I’m still not a fan of the new style of parts of the picture in focus and parts out of focus, but I see that style in so many cookbooks now, that I think I’m going to have to get on the bandwagon! Still, the photos are beautiful, inviting, and homey and I look forward to lots of delicious meals from this book that is NOT just for Millennials. I cannot wait to try Maple Chili Spatchcock Chicken, Crockpot Barbecue Pulled Beef, Kani Fried Rice, Pesto Zoodles with Flaked Lemon Salmon and many more. It may be time to buy a gift or two for those on your list who need a spring pick-me-up! And don’t forget to get one for yourself! Here are a few recipes to get you started.

Summer Berry and Feta Salad with Basil Lime Dressing (Dairy) 5 ounces frisee or arugula 1 cup sliced strawberries 1/2 cup blueberries 1/3 cup candied pecans 1/2 small red onion, thinly sliced 1 cup crumbled feta cheese Dressing: 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil, or light olive oil, or canola oil 3 Tbsp. freshly squeezed lime juice 2 Tbsp. honey 1/2 cup packed fresh basil leaves Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste Place all the dressing ingredients in the bowl of a food processor and process until smooth. Pour into a small pitcher or bowl. Set aside. Place the frisee or arugula on a plate and top with the berries and pecans. Sprinkle the cheese evenly over the veggies and fruit. Drizzle the dressing over all and serve. Serves 4. Place the oats in a large bowl. Pour the nut butter mixture over the oats and stir to combine. Spread mixture evenly on the prepared pan. Bake for 25 minutes, stirring halfway through. Remove from the oven and let cool. Break into small pieces, place in a large bowl and add the nuts. Mix. Makes about 3 cups. World’s Best Corn Muffins (Pareve or Dairy) 1-1/2 cups cornmeal 1-1/2 cups unbleached flour 1/2 cup sugar 2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. kosher salt 1 cup coconut milk or almond milk or regular milk (I prefer almond milk) 1/2 cup canola oil 1 large or extra-large egg 1 can (14.75 ounces) creamed corn Preheat the oven to 30 degrees. Line a 12-cup plus 3 more cups in muffin tins with cupcake liners. Set aside. In a large bowl, whisk the cornmeal, flour,

sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together to blend. In another bowl, mix the milk, oil and egg. Pour into the dry ingredients and blend with a fork. Add the creamed corn and mix to blend evenly. Scoop the batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Makes 15 muffins. House Rub (Pareve) Great for beef, chicken and even fish. I tripled the recipe and keep it in an airtight container. 2 Tbsp. coriander 1 tsp. freshly cracked black pepper 1 tsp. granulated garlic 1 tsp. onion powder 1 Tbsp. dark brown sugar 2 tsp. mustard powder 1 Tbsp. smoked paprika 1-1/2 tsp. kosher salt Mix all ingredients together and store in an airtight container. Sprinkle generously on chicken before broiling or roasting, hamburgers or steak before grilling and fish before broiling or roasting.

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NYU-Langone... Continued from page 2 up very often, weekly and sometimes daily where people call us with feeding tube issues or ventilator care.” Although halacha is complex when it comes to end-of-life issues, it essentially includes the premise that as long as the heart continues beating, a patient is considered alive. That brings Jewish law into conflict with medical professionals who want to remove brain-dead patients from life support or to not introduce a feeding tube for a terminally ill patient who is considered close to death. For example, said the Bikur Cholim director, “above a certain age, over 60 you won’t get a feeding tube no matter what” from NYU-Langone physicians who say the patient’s situation is irreversible. The hospital said disagreements over end-of-life did not play a role in the new policy. “The issue IS actually about visitors or volunteers being allowed to bring in food,” Greiner wrote. “Volunteers are not there to listen to or weigh in on medical decisions made by the physicians. That information is only for the patient or their families. This has nothing to do with the issue.” Scott Seskin, a medical malpractice and personal injury lawyer who is representing the Satmar Bikur Cholim, rejected the hospital’s explanation. “The problem is that the interests of the patient and the community aren’t aligned with the interests of the hospital. They don’t want to have the patients influenced by the Satmar Bikur Cholim,” said Seskin. “They want to be able to control the narrative and have family and patient follow their instructions so things go the way they want them to go. They’re using the food and visitation as the predicate for keeping them out, but that’s not what this is about.” Seskin and others suggested the frum community could hurt the hospital by boycotting it. “I would not be comfortable to go there as long as this question [of why the policy changed] remains unanswered,” the RAA’s Mirocznik told JTA. “The frum community is very close knit and word travels faster than the internet. News gets from one corner of Borough Park to Lakewood in 20 minutes,” he said. NYU-Langone is one of the largest hospitals in New York, with 27,000 inpatient visits, 127,000 outpatient visits, and 42,000 patients in the emergency room at its main hospital on Manhattan’s First Avenue, in 2017, according to the state Department of Health. NYU-Langone has other hospitals in its network, including the orthopedic Hospital for Joint Diseases, Bellevue Hospital, the former Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, and NYU-Langone Great Neck Medical. Disagreements over end-of-life care point to a conflict between the decisions doctors sometimes make — based in part on a patient’s quality of life and the hospital’s use of resources — and the premium halacha places on preservation of life. “Our technology has advanced to the point where it is getting harder to die in the ICU,” said Dr. Kenneth Prager, a pulmonologist and head of medical ethics at Columbia University Medical Center. “It raises questions of resource utilization, family distress, the moral distress of caregivers, and the suffering of the patient,” said Prager, who

himself is an Orthodox Jew. “There is a major, major ethical challenge that has developed over the last decade. Futile care was never a major factor in bioethics,” said Rabbi Moshe Tendler, a world-renowned Orthodox medical ethicist and dean at Yeshiva University. “These are major challenges to what has been until relatively recently a consensus. The halacha and the current practices in America were pretty well in line with each other. Now they’re at variance. Under the guise of some kind of hospice care patients are being removed from active treatment and being allowed to die months in advance.” But Prager added that continuing active treatment is not always the clear-cut moral choice. “A common example is inserting a feeding tube into a patient with end-stage dementia who has lost the ability to swallow. Will this patient ever recover? He won’t. But is it starving a patient to death by denying him a feeding tube [the halachic perspective] or causing the patient additional suffering by prolonging his death — which is a more conventional modern perspective? Medical ethics consultations are often sought in cases like this,” Prager said. The conflict in values isn’t limited to Orthodox Jews, but comes up for African-American, Hispanic and Asian patients too, he said. “People of other religions and nationalities feel very strongly that depriving people of nutrition and hydration in such circumstances is unacceptable,” said Prager, adding that he gets called in on cases like this 12 to 15 times a month. “How to mediate these issues can become very sensitive.” Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the division of medical ethics at NYU-Langone, agreed that “we’re adding more interventions … various drugs can be introduced to control infections people used to die from and control blood pressure. There are more choices to be faced.” However, said Caplan, doctors today bend over backwards to accommodate the wishes of a patient or their family members. “Doctors are more deferential to patients than they used to be,” said Caplan, perhaps the country’s best-known medical ethicist. “There’s misapprehension on the part of many doctors that they have to do what the patient wants. We got doctors to listen to patients but it’s swung toward ‘I can’t even challenge a patient’ or disagree with a patient.” He isn’t familiar with his employer’s fight with Satmar Bikur Cholim, Caplan said, but in terms of end-of-life care, “there’s nothing outlandish about what this hospital does.” What it comes down to, say some, is the incalculable value to a patient’s health of freshly prepared soup and a kind word. “Read the medical literature just this last year, what emphasis is being placed on the psychological welfare of the patient as it impacts the disease,” Rabbi Tendler said. “Anyone who sees these gentle women going around with the chicken soup and how careful they are to offer the patient nothing more than concern for his welfare cannot deny that this is a tzedakah, a chesed, and it’s also medical assistance to the patient.” “The idea of moving away from this wonderful humane service,” said Rabbi Tendler, “I can’t imagine why NYU would consider it.”

What it comes down to is the incalculable value to a patient’s health of freshly prepared soup and a kind word.

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DeVos... Continued from page 1 building, as the Cabinet member toured the Kthrough-12 school last Wednesday. In Rabbi Yehuda Deutsch’s third-grade class, DeVos listened as the rabbi discussed with the boys the importance of the blessings said for foods ranging from wheat to pomegranates. In the library, DeVos watched as literacy coach Eileen Cohen spoke with fourth-graders about the poem “Sun” by Valerie Worth. “To be a writer of poetry, we must be readers of poetry,” Cohen said. DeVos sat with a few students and spoke to them about what they are learning. And she spoke with teachers in the school’s special education wing, where a school official noted that a conference room had been transformed into space now being used for learning. Taking a hike across campus, DeVos saw the Weiss Vocational Center where students learn a range of skills from electrical wiring to plumbing. Junior Yehuda Reisman showed DeVos how copper piping is made malleable using an acetylene torch. “Thank you, thank you for what you do,” she said to Rabbi Moshe Lubart, one of the vocational instructors. Martin Hettrich, head of the school’s science department, led a class in the STEM lab through a chemical reaction experiment as DeVos watched and then had the students crowd around her for a photograph. Taking in the school’s large bais medrash, DeVos spoke with a few students about their devotion to Judaism. She did not speak to the media, but two Darchei parents and board members Michael Fragin and Eli Schwab answered media questions. Calling the visit “historic,” Fragin said that having DeVos there showed private school parents that their issues were being addressed.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in Rabbi Yehuda Deutsch’s third-grade class, with Darchei’s principal, Rabbi Yaakov Bender, at left. Jeffrey Bessen

“It’s really beautiful,” he said, “and this is the kind of thing that a parent like myself has waited for a long time. For a lot of our issues to be taken into consideration.” Fragin noted that private schools of all denominations receive “very little” of the money New York state doles out for education. He said that the state spends “in excess of $25,000 per student” — and in some districts, $30,000. “Parents here are spending a lot on their children’s education; education is the most important thing in the Jewish community,” he said. “We also look to the government for various services and funding where appropriate, and if we could expand that pie of funding that’s really critical overall for the Jewish community.” Schwab, a lawyer who is a Darchei Torah graduate, said he was flattered that DeVos came to Far Rockaway. “We’re all proud of this school,” he said.

Hipster hangout... Continued from page 4 But some of Bromberg’s neighbors feel differently. The market’s older occupants do not all appreciate the new atmosphere and clientele, who sometimes come along with loud music, drunkenness and loud conversation. Worse, they said, tourists are there to stroll, gawk and take selfies — not to actually buy the food they’re selling. “It used to be good, now it’s not,” said Chai Noach, a produce merchant. “It’s becoming an entertainment zone. People don’t come to buy. They come to hang out.” Some new stores have tried to bridge the gap between old market and new. The front of Beer Bazaar, which opened in 2015, could almost pass as a Middle Eastern market for Israeli craft beer. It’s narrow and crowded, advertising a wide range of Israeli breweries and selling varieties that can be hard to find elsewhere.

But the back looks like a comfortable pub, where patrons can order dinner along with their drink. One sandwich on the menu is named after filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, in honor of the time he ate there with his Israeli fiancee, Daniella Pick. Yarden Rivlin, who works at Beer Bazaar, pointed out that the bars and restaurants tend to keep different hours than the food stands, so there is not too much conflict. He feels the shuk has retained its character — even if the offerings have changed. “In the shuk, everyone needs to be friends with everyone,” said Rivlin, 25. “Everyone brings a different kind of personality. During the day, the stores are open and there are fruits and vegetables and nuts and sweets, and at night we open up the tables and the atmosphere changes. It’s a shuk — just a little different.”

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Sunday was full color at HALB Hundreds of HALB elementary school children and parents came together last Sunday at the school’s new Hewlett Bay Park campus to have a blast and celebrate HALB in “full color.” Donning T-shirts that started out white (but didn’t stay that way for long!), each grade ran together along a track manned by parent volunteers who showered the runners in color as they passed each mark. HALB’s middle school

principal, Rabbi Lubetski, ran alongside his children, and Rabbi Yehudah Fogel ran alongside his talmidim. In addition to the run, students had their faces painted, refreshed themselves with Rita’s ices, and enjoyed delicious pizza. The event was coordinated by HALB’s Women’s League and chaired by parent volunteers Ariella Freundlich and Hannah Berry.

From left: Valedictorian Joshua Weinstein and Salutatorians Batsheva Moskowitz and Zackary Plutzer.

Meet HANC High School’s Valedictorian, Salutatorians The Hebrew Academy of Nassau County High School has announced its Class of 2018 Valedictorian and Salutatorians who, in the words of the menahel, Rabbi Shlomo Adelman, “embody the core values of our yeshiva.” Valedictorian Joshua Weinstein is a pillar of the HANC community, a multi-faceted young man and outstanding academic performer. In addition to being at the top of his class and enrolled in HANC’s most challenging coursework, Josh was selected by the faculty to receive the Natan Sharansky Community and School Spirit Award, presented to the student who best exemplifies “a strong commitment to the HANC community and works selflessly in order to foster inclusiveness and strengthen school spirit.” Josh exhibits strong leadership qualities through his heading of the Peer Tutoring Society, being an editor of the yearbook, running the news section of the HANC Herald, and leading the HANC Public Affairs Committee. Traveling each year to Washington to participate in the AIPAC program, he has represented the school in the offices of senators and members of Congress. He even served as coordinator of the HANC contingent of the Shalva Team for the Jerusalem Marathon that included an astounding 47 students last March. Following a year of learning at Hakotel in Israel, Josh plans to attend the Macaulay Honors Program at Queens College to study history and psychology. Salutatorian Batsheva Moskowitz is compassionate and passionate, an incredible young lady with a maturity well beyond her years. From day one at HANC HS, Batsheva made her presence known. She challenged herself with many honors and Advanced Placement classes and has been rewarded for her efforts by being named to the General and Judaic Studies Honor Roll in every quarter. She was inducted into the National Honor Society and served as co-vice president as a junior and now as co-president. Last year, she received the Golda Meir School Spirit award, given to the student who best demonstrates a commitment to the HANC community and works selflessly to foster inclusiveness and strengthen school spirit. She was further recognized with the Brandeis Book Award, given to a

junior who is committed to social action or civic engagement. In the artistic arena, Batsheva is a force to be reckoned with, achieving greatness behind the camera. She has photographed nearly every school event, and helped create a photography club which this year attracted a record number of participants. She has starred in every school production, even drawing the “Playbill” cover and poster. She dances, writes, plays the piano, has taken gymnastics since she was three years old. She has even made art out of trash that she found on the side of the road. Next Year, Batsheva plans to attend Brandeis University to study English and Theater. Salutatorian Zackary Plutzer always has a thoughtful word for his peers and school faculty; his smile goes from ear to ear and brightens up even the darkest day. He leads by an example of diligence and thoughtfulness that makes those around him feel heard and valued. Academically, Zack is nothing short of a superstar. He is enrolled in some of HANC’s most difficult coursework both in general and Judaic studies. Ask any teacher at HANC and they will surely tell you that Zack is intelligent, but also that he is one of the hardest working students that they have ever encountered. He has been a member of the National Honor Society since the 10th grade, becoming co-vice president in 11th grade and co-president in the 12th grade. He is also an AP Scholar with Honor, a University of Rochester George Eastman Young Leaders Award Recipient, and a recipient of HANC’s Keter Shem Tov Award for excellent character and moral fiber. Renaissance man that Zack is, he contributes just as much to the HANC community as he does in the classroom. He has flexed his leadership muscles as captain of the college bowl team, chairperson of the blood drive, gabbai of morning prayers, and as a speaker at the AIPAC Policy Conference. He gives back through his four year commitment to both the Yachad Committee and the Jewish Elderly Committee. Zack has also represented HANC on both the basketball and hockey teams. Next year, Zack plans to attend the University of Michigan to study Sport Management.

At SKA, girls PAUSE for speech PAUSE — Pausing and Understanding Speech’s Effect — a new initiative led by 10th and 11th grade students under the direction of limudei kodesh teacher Sheva Mezei, was recently introduced at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls. The group began last year when 10th Grade Project Based Learning Chumash classes studied what happened to Miriam when she spoke lashon hara about Moshe. At the same time, 11th graders were motivated to form a committee about the effects of negative speech. To kickstart the program this year, the students heard from educator, author and relationship expert Slovie Jungreis Wolf who shared ideas and stories on how to speak and act positively.

“Go out of your bubble,” Mrs. Wolf implored. “Notice if your friend is in pain. You have the power to change a life.” SKA’s morning davening groups viewed a Chofetz Chaim video on “The Butterfly Effect,” indicating how one action can affect events on the other side of the world. After Mrs. Wolf’s talk, a gripping original video prepared by juniors Devora Schreier, Jackie Rubin, Talia Wein and Gavi Goldsmith on changing negative speech was shown. PAUSE committee members Rachel Kirschner and Chaviva Salzberg then introduced the daily learning on lashon hara and lashon tov that would take place in the 18 days leading up to Shavuot.

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Living as a holy nation in a material world From Heart of Jerusalem

Rabbi biNNY FReeDMaN

Jewish Star columnist

any years ago I read a story regarding Rav Yitzchak Eisenbach from Jerusalem. As a young boy, Yitzele was walking to the Kotel through the Jaffa gate one Shabbat afternoon, in a section of the city which was densely inhabited by Arabs. He passed Arabowned cafes in which people were milling around. Suddenly he noticed a gold coin on the sidewalk. The value of the coin was such that it could support a family the size of his own for a month! The poverty in his home was wrenching, and he was thrilled at the prospect of being able to help his parents in their struggle for their family’s survival. However, because it was Shabbat, he would not pick up the golden coin. Instead, he put his foot on the coin to hide it from view, and decided to stand there until nightfall when Shabbat ended so he could take the coin home to his family. After Yitzele had been standing immobile in the street for more than an hour, an Arab teenager approached him and asked, “Why don’t you move on? Why are you standing here like a statue?” At first Yitzele didn’t answer, but when the larger and stronger boy persisted, he replied innocently, “I have something under my foot that I can’t pick up because it is the Sabbath today. I’m watching it this way, so that after the Sabbath I can take…” Before the last words were out of Yitzele’s mouth, the Arab boy shoved him to the ground, swiftly bent down, plucked up the coin and ran off. Yitzele lay in the street, stunned. By the time he got up, the culprit had long since disappeared over a fence, and Yitzele knew it would

be hopeless — perhaps even dangerous — for a Jew to chase an Arab in that neighborhood. Late that afternoon a dejected Yitzele made his way back to the synagogue of the Chernobler Rebbe, Rav Nachum Twersky, where his father prayed Minchah and ate the third Sabbath meal. Yitzele usually helped set up the chairs and tables and put out the food for the men who sat down to eat with the rebbe, but today he sat in a corner by himself. The rebbe, who loved little Yitzele, realized that something was amiss because the chairs and benches were in disarray. He looked around for a moment and then saw Yitzele sitting in a corner by himself, downcast. The Chernobler Rebbe approached the child and asked, “What’s wrong? You look so unhappy. We all need you at the table.” Yitzele told the rebbe what had happened earlier that afternoon, and explained how he felt about the opportunity he had lost. The rebbe listened intently, then, taking Yitzele by the hand, he said, “Come to the table with me now, and after Shabbat come into my house.” After the Shabbat, Yitzele followed the rebbe into his home, which was connected to the shul. The rebbe opened a drawer and removed from it a golden coin similar to the one Yitzele had seen near the Jaffa Gate that afternoon. “Here, this is yours,” said the rebbe. “However, I am giving it to you on one condition: that you give me the reward of the mitzvah that you did this afternoon.” The startled young child looked up at the rebbe. “The rebbe wants the reward in exchange for the coin?” “Yes,” the rebbe said. “You made a great kiddush Hashem by not picking up the money

because it was Shabbat. I just want the reward for such a great mitzvah and I’ll pay you for it with this coin.” Yitzele was astounded. Was the mitzvah that great? Was it really worth so much? He looked at the coin and thought fleetingly about what it could buy for his family. He looked up at the rebbe and said, “If that is what the mitzvah is worth, then the mitzvah is not for sale.” The rebbe bent and kissed the boy on his forehead. —From Rabbi Pesach Krohn, “In the Footsteps of the Maggid” hat is our relationships with the things we accrue in this world? To what do we attribute value? This week, in the parsha of Naso, we read of the Birchat Kohanim, recited by the Kohanim as they bless the people and customarily recited by parents who bless their children on Friday nights. There is a fascinating yet oft-missed question in the text of the blessing, which is essentially comprised of three lines: May G-d bless you and keep you. May G-d shine His face upon you and be graceful to you May G-d turn His face toward you, and grant you peace. The first line, which speaks of blessing, is generally considered to be a blessing of material wealth. In fact, it implies that there are dangers to material wealth, such that included is a blessing that Hashem will protect us from the negative side effects of wealth such as greed, cruelty, ingratitude, callousness, being spoiled, and the like. The second line speaks of almost the exact opposite: That we should be blessed with

Stepping away from a material existence is not the Jewish ideal.

a meaningful relationship with Hashem, including Chen which is the inner beauty that comes from a deep spiritual relationship with Hashem. In fact one understanding of Hashem shining His face upon us, is that we merit to reach the level where people feel connected to Hashem through us. Literally, that the light of G-d shines from us. Which begs the question: If the first line is a material blessing, whereas the second line is a spiritual one, why does the material blessing precede the spiritual one? In many ancient religions, these two ways of life, the spiritual and the material, were at odds with each other. For example, the Church considered a person to be holier when he eschewed material needs, preferring instead an ascetic existence. Perhaps this is why the Birchat Kohanim is in the same pasha as the laws of the Nazirite, who retreats from the physical world only to conclude his Nazirite period with a Sin offering suggesting that stepping away from a material existence is not the Jewish ideal. We are meant to impact the world and elevate it, from within. Yet there is a danger to the material world which can lead to arrogance and ingratitude and distance us from the spiritual without which life becomes a hollow meaningless shell. Do we remember that the things we accrue are vehicles towards our mission of being partners with Hashem in making a better world, or do we lose our ideals in the pursuit of pleasure? Which leads to the third line: Gd’s blessing of peace; of being whole, and at peace, content and fulfilled. The Birchat Kohanim is very much about our having a healthy relationship with money and materialism and the world around us, while not losing sight of the importance of the world within us. May we e so blessed. Shabbat shalom from Jerusalem.

Adjusting as necessary to get the job done Parsha of the Week

Rabbi avi biLLet Jewish Star columnist

he conclusion of parshat Bamidbar leads into parshat Naso with the description of the specific and detailed jobs of each family of Levi — Kehat’s job was to carry the most important vessels of the Mishkan; Gershon’s job was to carry the curtains, hangings, drapes, tapestries; Merari’s job was to carry all of the beams, poles, stakes, sockets, rings. How did they do all of this? At the end of Bamidbar, we learn that the holiest and most important vessels somehow carried themselves, and that the families of Kehat were meant to symbolically walk alongside/under the vessels to indicate to others that they were carrying, even though in reality they were not. As far as the Gershonites and Merarites, the text inform us in our parsha that “the princes of Israel, who were the heads of their paternal lines, then came forward. They were the leaders of the tribes and the ones who had directed the census. The offering that they presented to G-d consisted of six covered wagons and twelve oxen. There was one wagon for each two princes, and one ox for each one. They presented them in front of the Tabernacle. … Moses took the wagons and oxen, and gave them to the Levites. He gave two wagons and four oxen to the descendants of

Gershon, as appropriate for their service. To the descendants of Merari, he gave four wagons and eight oxen. [Both were] under the direction of Itamar, son of Aaron the priest.” (7:2-8) The Torah continues, informing us why the Kehatites did not need wagons, as explained above. As the Kehatites’ job is described as being largely symbolic, and relatively easy to accomplish because of the nature of the items they were responsible for, I don’t question whether the supplies they were given — or, more accurately, were not given — were sufficient. They didn’t need help! But for the others, the number of wagons seems insufficient for what needed to be carried. Once we add the fact that they were not likely traveling on a paved road, and didn’t have modern wheels and tires, how could the weight of the beams not cause the wagons to be unable to move? It certainly is possible that in that era the area on which they traveled was not sandy. “Midbar,” after all, means “wilderness” more than it means “desert.” Nevertheless, the fact remains that items of that volume and weight will not be a cinch to shlep. So how could they possible manage it with the materials described here?

ery few of the classic commentaries address this question in this way, which may suggest that I am a man of little faith. It may also suggest that they just didn’t think about this. Seforno says Moshe needed to be told to accept the wagons because he originally thought all families of Levi would get the same gift Kehat got, that their role would be largely symbolic because the items would carry themselves. Rashi, Chizkuni, Rabbenu Bachaye and others note that the Gershonites were granted fewer wagons because their jobs were lighter and easier (carrying curtains) than that of the Merarites, who carried beams and poles. It still seems insufficient. Comes Chizkuni with the saving insight. If they needed to add they’d add (wagons and oxen) because 12 cattle could not possibly pull 48 beams, and all of the sockets and poles and pillars that comprised the other structure components of the Mishkan. It almost sounds like any construction project. How often do we hear the phrase “Construction finished early and under budget?” Never. There are plans and then there is reality. In the case of the Mishkan, it could be that the princes thought six wagons would suffice. And then they actually had to take down the Mishkan and see how transport would work. And perhaps

We need not go with the flow but must be cognizant of the flow.

they discovered that it wouldn’t work. It’s the classic case of “Man plans and G-d laughs.” The Chizkuni’s simple comment is a reminder that we need not go with the flow, but must be cognizant of the flow. Nothing is perfect, nothing will be perfect, and when we need to adjust to circumstances, we should do what is necessary (legally and appropriately, of course) to get the job done. May we be blessed with nachas and success!

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Five Towns times from White Shul

Kosher Bookworm

AlAn JAy GerBer

Jewish Star columnist

his week’s column features a special report from Targum Shlishi that should be of interest to many of our readers. It concerns a translation into Hungarian of a new exhibition that will be seen in Hungary concerning the religious historic connection between the Jewish people and Eretz Yisrael. At the heart of this essay is the scholarship of the late Dr. Robert Wistrich, whose work on anti-Semitism was featured some years ago in this column. I hope that you will find this article to be of more than just of passing interest. Hungary has had a rather checkered history when it come to bigotry against Jews. Hopefully, this exhibit will, in some small measure, help to inform Hungarians as to the truth concerning the history of anti-Jewish bigotry, and to thus rectify the truth of our people’s connection to the holy land as well as to our people’s role in Hungarian history.

By Targum Shlishi The exhibition “People, Book, Land—The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People with the Holy Land,” produced by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, has traveled widely since its inception in 2014. Targum Shlishi is supporting the translation of the exhibition’s twenty-five text panels into Hungarian, in preparation for an exhibition in Hungary. The exhibition, authored by the late scholar Robert Wistrich, a professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is co-sponsored by UNESCO and the governments of Canada, Israel, and the United States. The exhibition traces the history of the Jewish people’s long relationship with the Holy Land, beginning with text panels focused on subject material including Abraham, Moses, David and Solomon, and the Prophets. The chronologically organized exhibition then moves through centuries of Jewish history before devoting several panels to exploring the recent past, from the late 1800s until today, in terms of the Jewish presence in the Holy Land. Professor Wistrich was a scholar of anti-Semitism who found significant parallels between today’s extreme anti-Zionism and the anti-Jewish sentiments so prevalent in Europe before the

Holocaust. Part of the purpose the Jewish people have an uninterrupted 3,500-year relaof the exhibition is to address tionship with the Holy Land.” and counter anti-Zionism. The exhibition’s early days “Israel just celebrated its were marked with controversy; seventieth Independence Day. its launch at UNESCO in Paris Unfortunately, there are perin 2014 was delayed by six sistent and aggressive assaults months due to opposition from on Israel’s legitimacy from the Arab block, which protestmultiple sources that range ed that the exhibition would from the international comundermine Middle East peace munity to college campuses. talks. The initial response to As the current climate demonthe exhibition demonstrates strates, this exhibition is more why this material is so relevant important than ever,” notes and how significant it is that Andrea Gollin, program direc- Prof. Robert S. Wistrich. Courtesy Douglas Guthrie via JTA thousands of people all over the tor of Targum Shlishi. “People, world have viewed this material Book, Land counters the delegitimization of Israel by clearly tracing the long since the show’s initial launch. The exhibition has traveled widely since its and profound connection the Jews have had inception in 2014 and been viewed by thouwith this land.” This is the first exhibition of its kind in the sands. Places where it has been on view, in adhistory of the UN. As Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean dition to UNESCO in Paris, include the UN in and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, New York, the US Congress, the Israeli Knesset, said on the occasion of the initial launch, the the Vatican, Copenhagen Town Hall, the New exhibition “outlines the historic raison d’etre for Delhi Gandhi Centre, the British House of Comthe UN decision to recognize a Jewish homeland mons, and the CCK Presidential Cultural Centre in Palestine in 1947: the indisputable fact that in Buenos Aires.

Bringing mercy and kindness to the world Torah

rABBi dAvid eTenGoff

Jewish Star columnist

ur parasha, Naso, is the source of Birkat Kohanim, one of the most stirring acts in our prayer experience. Nearly anyone who has witnessed this tefilah senses its drama and majesty. Chazal’s analysis of the introductory verse to Birkat Kohanim, “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying: ‘this is how you shall bless the children of Israel, saying to them (amore lahem)’,” (Vayikra 6:23) illustrates their abiding sensitivity to the Torah’s text. They note that the word “amore” (saying) is written in its complete grammatical form (maleh, with the Hebrew letter vav), rather than in the more usual manner (chaser, without the Hebrew letter vav). While initially this appears to be nothing more than a minor linguistic change, Midrash Tanchuma (Buber) Parashat Naso, Siman 18, details its profound significance: “[Amore] is spelled maleh in the phrase ‘amore lahem.’ The reason why you [the Kohanim] should bless the Jewish people is not

merely because I [G-d] have told you to do so [as if this act was some kind of burdensome chore.] Therefore, you should not bless them as if you were forced to do so (b’angaria, Hebrew - Greek) and in a rapid [unthinking and automatic] fashion. Instead, you [the Kohanim] should bless them [the Jewish people] with complete intention (b’kavanat halev) in order that the blessing should totally encompass them (she’tishlot habracha bahem). This is why the Torah writes: ‘amore lahem’ [in the maleh form]. In sum, the midrash informs us that our verse’s unusual spelling of amore urges the Kohanim to recognize that it is a singular honor to bless the Jewish people, and that they should have total kavanat halev during the recitation of the blessing to ensure its complete fulfillment. he great mid-18th century Chasidic master, Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Halevi Epstein, known to the world as the holy Me’or Vashemesh after the title of his most famous work, notes that many meforshim focus

upon the question as to why the term amore is used instead of the normative word dabare, which connotes “speak” in its imperative form. In so doing, he highlights the emotions the Kohanim must have prior to ascending the bimah: “In my opinion, the answer to this well-known question of the meforshim is found by recognizing that our verse suggests that an individual [kohane] who desires to bless the Jewish people must have within him the behavioral quality of one who loves his people with a powerful love – equivalent to the love he has for himself and his own being (k’nafsho u’k’lavavo).” (Sefer Me’or Vashemesh, Parashat Naso) Next, the Me’or Vashemesh explains that the love that the Kohanim have for the Jewish people must include each and every member of our nation, and depicts what this kind of love will achieve: “[The love that the Kohanim have] must include even the lowliest of the low of the Jewish people, for even such individuals they must

It is a singular honor to bless the Jewish people.

love as they love themselves. Through this kind of love, the Kohanim will glorify the Jewish people before their Father in Heaven until the highest imaginable heights, and thereby bestir great mercy and kindness — and bring upon them every variety of blessing.” Clearly, the Kohanim have a crucial role to play in improving the status of our people before Hashem. Yet, the vast majority of us are not Kohanim. As such, how can we bring mercy and kindness to the world? The Rambam (Maimonides) answers this question in a manner that underscores the notion that anyone, Jew or gentile, can be sanctified to the point wherein they emulate the Kohanim: “Not only the tribe of Levi, but any one of the inhabitants of the world whose spirit generously motivates him and understands with his wisdom [how] to set himself aside and stand before G-d to serve Him and minister to Him and to know G-d, proceeding justly as G-d made him … is as sanctified as holy of holies. (Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Shemitah v’Yovel 13:13; translation by Rabbi Eliyahu Touger) With the Almighty’s help, may we be counted among those who develop profound and wise understanding, so that, we can become spiritual “Kohanim,” and bring Hashem’s blessings to to all mankind. V’chane yihi ratzon.

Parashat Naso’s blessing of wholeness Torah

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any people feel the need to be noticed. They dye their hair neon green, or they wear immodest clothing, or they say things that are intended to shock. They will do anything to keep the limelight focused on themselves, telling a stream of jokes, speaking without listening to others, taking “selfies” and sending them to anyone and everyone they can think of. The message they convey is: NOTICE ME. Underlying this thirst for attention is the deep feeling of unworthiness, the fear of not being noticed. Also underlying this exhibitionism is the desire to stand above the crowd, to be distinguished in some way from the normal run of humanity.

Human beings are often (always?) frail and insecure. They need to be reassured that their lives mean something to others. They dread being ignored or forgotten. It is as though they evaluate the worthiness of their lives by how others respond to them. Their feelings of success or failure in life are determined by others. The ancient Chinese philosopher, Confucius, taught: “What the Noble Person seeks is in himself. What the petty person seeks is in others.” The challenge is to be the Noble Person. Naso, this week’s Torah portion, includes the Priestly Blessing. The Cohanim are commanded to bless the people, serving as the conduits for G-d’s blessings. The third line of the blessing states: May G-d shine His countenance upon you and give you shalom. Shalom, usu-

ally translated as peace, has the connotation of wholeness. The blessing is recited in the singular (lekha, not lakhem), meaning that it is aimed at each particular person, not at the people at large. The blessing is for each individual to feel a sense of completeness within him/herself, to feel secure and unafraid. The blessing is to understand that the value of our lives is dependent on ourselves, not on the opinions of others. When G-d shines His countenance upon an individual, that person comes to understand that life is ultimately defined by the relationship of one’s self with G-d. G-d’s light eliminates the shadows and doubts. he kabbalists and musar writers have long emphasized the virtue of “hitbodedut,” being alone with oneself.

Our value is dependent on ourselves, not on the opinions of others.

Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan translated hitbodedut as meditation. A person needs time to think deeply and alone, to separate inner reality from outer illusions, to receive G-d’s light and move out of the shadows. Hitbodedut helps a person develop the inner wisdom and inner poise that lead to internal shalom. Hitbodedut is a means of seeking the self and, at the same time, transcending the self. Albert Einstein wrote: “The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness.” May G-d shine His countenance upon you and give you shalom.

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The media lies about Hamas’ Gaza violence Politics to Go

Jeff Dunetz

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hile the celebration of the opening of the American embassy was happening in Jerusalem, a long-promised violent Hamas protest was also happening. After the Hamas force defied repeated Israeli warnings not to rush the border fence area, IDF soldiers were forced to protect their country. According to the Palestinian Authority, more than 58 were killed, and over 2,000 injured, a human sacrifice to Hamas terrorism. Inventing a narrative, mainstream media blamed the violence on the embassy move or on the Trump administration and accused Israel of a disproportionate response. The media lied about the Gaza violence to support their anti-Israel agenda. Not all mainstream media but most. Even Fox News had people like Shepard Smith talking about Israel’s disproportionate response, and reporter Judith Miller asking if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will ever compromise enough to give the “Palestinians” some hope. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough seemed to blame the Gaza Violence on Ivanka Trump. “For the rest of the world you saw an administration, a White House, and — we’ll say it since Ivanka Trump was there — a family completely out of touch with the realities of the region that they’re dealing with,” Scarborough said. “You had a split screen of what looked like a VIP camp at the Belmont Stakes, and they just seem oblivious to what was going on not so far away,” Mika Brzezinski added. “They don’t care.” Hillary Clinton sycophant Andrea Mitchell’s blamed an empowered Israel and President Trump’s announcement about the Iran deal. “I’ve never seen anything like that,” she said. “Even the strongest supporters of Israel in administrations Republican and Democratic would at that point say, ‘Be proportional and be cautionary’.” Mitchell added: “There was no restraint. Israel is now so empowered because of the administration’s enmity with Iran that they now feel that they can do anything. It’s just to me appalling that we have no vision at all, we got nothing for it, no pullback on settlements. There’s no balancing act here.” enerally, the media’s lies about the Gaza violence has surrounded seven points, including: 1) The New U.S. Embassy is in Palestinian territory. Wrong! Half of the new embassy is on the Israel side of the 1949 Armistice lines. The building crosses the Armistice lines but is not on the land the Palestinians claim as part of

Palestinians at the border fence with Israel in Gaza City on May 14.

a Palestinian state — it passes into what used to be called “no-man’s land,” in-between the territory Israelis and Jordanians respectively held between 1948 and 1967. The particular location housed a U.S. consulate from 2010 until May 14, 2018, at which point it was dedicated as the new embassy. When it was a consulate, there were no complaints about its location. 2) Israel does not believe in a two-state solution. Wrong! On June 14, 2009, four years after Israel pulled out of Gaza, and during a speech at Bar Ilan University, Netanyahu said: “In 2000 and again last year, Israel proposed an almost total withdrawal in exchange for an end to the conflict, and twice our offers were rejected. … And here is the substance that I now state clearly: If we receive this guarantee regarding demilitarization and Israel’s security needs, and if the Palestinians recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people, then we will be ready in a future peace agreement to reach a solution where a demilitarized Palestinian state exists alongside the Jewish state.” Not only has Netanyahu recognized the need for a two-state solution, but every prime minister after Yitzhak Rabin has recognized the need for a two-state solution. Rabin was the last prime minister of Israel who did not support the creation of a Palestinian state. Days before he was assassinated, Rabin made a speech that called for “an entity which is less than a state and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.” 3) U.S. recognition of Jerusalem precludes a future Palestinian state from having a capital in Eastern Jerusalem. Wrong!

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The U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to relocate its embassy is not a position on the final status of Jerusalem; neither is it a recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians claim for their future capital. Additionally, the official position of the U.S. is to support a twostate solution if that’s what the parties want. As President Trump said in December 2017, “The United States remains deeply committed to helping facilitate a peace agreement that is acceptable to both sides. I intend to do everything in my power to help forge such an agreement. Without question, Jerusalem is one of the most sensitive issues in those talks. The United States would support a two-state solution if agreed to by both sides.” 4) The U.S. Embassy ceremony incited the violent Palestinian protests. Wrong! Every year the Palestinians have protest marches on May 15 to commemorate the Nakba (catastrophe), what they call the creation of the state of Israel. This year, Hamas called for weekly violent protests after Friday prayers each week beginning on March 30. Participants in each of the weekly riots were told to rush the border and gain entry into Israel. The biggest protests were supposed to happen on May 14 as an attempt to ruin Israel’s 70th-anniversary celebration and May 15 (their Nabka day). This “schedule” was announced long before the American announcement on Feb. 23 that the embassy opening would occur this May (many years head of previous predictions). The day before the attack, Hamas posted instructions for the violence on two different

Facebook pages and a Palestinian discussion group. The directions said in part: “Rebelling young people, treat seriously and do not take lightly the requests to bring a knife, dagger, or handgun, if you have one, and to leave them under your clothes and not use them or show them, except if you identify one of the [Israeli] soldiers or settlers. Do not kill Israeli civilians, instead hand them over to the resistance immediately, because this is the point that Israel fears, as it knows that the capturer can set any condition he wants.” The instructions went on to explain how to rush the fence and that if any of their buddies were injured or killed they should be left on the ground as the focus should be on the fence. 5) Iran incited the violent Palestinian protests because of the U.S. leaving the JCPOA nuclear deal. Wrong. While Iran is paying for the string of violent protests during the past few weeks, their anti-Israel attacks have been ongoing since February when they sent a drone loaded with explosives from their base in Syria toward Israel. The week before the Palestinian attacks in Gaza, Iran sent 20 missiles at Israel and the Jewish state counterattacked. 6) The Palestinian protesters are peaceful and unarmed. WRONG. Along with guns, there are pictures of the Palestinian attackers using arson kites, rocks, burning tires, Molotov cocktails and other explosives. 7) All the violent Palestinian protesters who were killed were innocents. Wrong! Hamas admitted that 50 of the 62 were members of the terrorist organization; another terrorist group Islamic Jihad claimed three of the 52. The media isn’t reporting that Hamas exploited many of the non-terrorists as human shields. According to reports, destitute Gazans received $100 per family to approach and dismantle the security fence. Hamas threatened their recruits as well: either storm the fence or die. Even the cause of the most tragic of deaths, that of an eight-month-old little girl, was misreported. As we learned later, “A Gaza doctor told the Associated Press that an eight-monthold girl who died, did not die from inhaling tear gas as Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry had claimed, but from a preexisting medical condition.” The death of or injury to any innocent is a tragedy. However, the blame for the misfortunes resulting from the violent Hamas-let protests of May 14 should be placed squarely on the shoulders of Hamas. Israel and IDF soldiers were protecting civilian communities, the closest of which, Nahal Oz, is only four-tenths of a mile from the scene of the riots at the Gaza fence.

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hen I was a little girl, living a sheltered religious childhood where profanity was unheard and unacceptable, whenever I would hear people speak of “Aza,” Gaza in Hebrew, I would blush because to my child’s ear, it sounded like an abbreviation for “Azazel,” Hell. I thought Aza was Hell, and I was embarrassed to hear what to my mind was someone cursing. In later years, we’d laugh about this little misinterpretation of mine. I’m not laughing anymore. Only tears for the regular simple people of Gaza. It seems that Gaza, after all, is Hell on Earth. I’ve seen the terrible, tear-inducing video of the poverty there. It’s as if Gaza were a third world country, maybe worse. Sewage in the streets. Even clean water is not a given. Hungry, wide-eyed children. So desperate is it there that when their corrupt leaders, Hamas, offer them money to go to the border to get hurt, maimed or even killed, there are takers. Many takers. Of course, it is Hamas who has intentionally created the misery of Gaza in the first place. Remember, there is not a Jew left, nor a centimeter of Israeli territory left, in Gaza. In 2005, Israel removed the thriving Jewish community in Gaza, so as to take a first step toward an independent Palestinian state. When the Israelis left, they left behind a horticultural economy as a foundation on which Gazans could build and develop their own economy. There was no blockade on Gaza.

n their first democratic elections, Gazans chose Hamas, a terrorist organization sworn to Israel’s destruction, as part of their leadership. Hamas then violently threw out the other Palestinian leaders and took over Gaza. Palestinians destroyed the greenhouses and suppressed the development of a normative economy, such as building schools, shelters and medical facilities. Instead, Hamas pocketed funds sent to them by international bodies and diligently developed a terrorist economy, investing in building deep-in-the-earth terror tunnels to Israel, so as to invade the country and store their weapons. Each day the misery of their deprived citizenry increased before their eyes. In time, Hamas turned the newly acquired independent Gaza into a launching pad of rocket terror upon Southern Israel, endangering the Israeli communities that border Gaza. That’s when the blockade began. Without compunction, Hamas visits calculated disaster upon their own communities. Recently, it attacked Kerem Shalom, the border crossing through which Israel sends Gaza humanitarian aid. During the last Israel-Gaza war, I visited Kibbutz Alumim in southern Israel. If not for a thin mesh wire separating it from Gaza, I could have stood one foot in Alumim, one in Gaza. We’re talking a proximity of centimeters. The fence where recent Gazan “protests” escalated to the unfortunate situation of loss of life

is the border of Israel. I put protests in quotes because 40,000 people storming the border — some meat-cleaver wielding, some kite-bomb flying, some Molotov-cocktail throwing, some tire-burning to the point of the billowing clouds of smoke blocking visibility — as blaring megaphones called for crossing the border so as to reach and rip the hearts out of Jewish bodies — sorry, but a protest it was not. This was a premeditated, armed, attempted invasion of a sovereign state with the express intention to kill and kidnap Israeli citizens. This was war. DF soldiers at the border prevented nothing short of a bloodbath from happening in Israel. Imagine thousands of Gazans breaching the border, infiltrating Israel, the hate in their heart all too ready to execute the Hamas charter’s call to destroy Israel. Yet even if the moral clarity is with Israel, which it is, a situation that results in loss of life is distressing. I am also distressed by the media’s biased coverage. Intentional or not, it is nothing less than terrorist sympathizing. And those paying the most devastating price for the media’s misguided moral confusion are the desperate children of Gaza. I am distressed by the downright misleading and ridiculous split screen style coverage juxtaposing the dedication of the American embassy in Jerusalem and the violence on the border, with the j’accuse vibe, as if to imply Israel was celebrating while were Gazans dying. How low can you go? Especially when ironically, quite the op-

This was an attempted invasion of a sovereign state with the intent of killing and kidnapping Israeli citizens.

Peace deal? Bibi knows there’s not a chance… Jonathan S. tobin JNS editor-in-chief

Continued from page 1 every past attempt to revive the peace process since he returned as Israel’s leader in 2009: The Palestinians will reliably say “no” to any peace deal. That Trump’s peace plan will be dead on arrival is a virtual certainty. Understandably, the timing for a revival of negotiations could not be worse. Both the Fatah Party-led Palestinian Authority and Hamas have been making it crystal-clear for months that they are more interested in competing with each other to demonstrate hatred for Israel—and the United States—than in negotiating for an independent state. rump’s shift from his predecessor’s belief that more “daylight” between America and Israel is the formula for peace has angered the Palestinians. Although Barack Obama oversaw the most pro-Palestinian American administration in recent history, the Palestinians weren’t even interested in meeting him halfway. P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas torpedoed former Secretary of State John Kerry’s 2014 efforts to revive negotiations by making an end run around the United States to the United Nations and prioritizing reconciliation with the Hamas terrorists over peace with Israel. Now that Trump has demanded that he stop subsidizing terrorists and chose to recognize the reality that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, Abbas won’t even talk to the Americans. Abbas’s latest anti-Semitic rant made it clear that he would never recognize Israel’s legitimacy or end the ongoing conflict. As for

Hamas, its attempt to revive interest in the so-called “right of return” with marches designed to produce Palestinian deaths demonstrated that its opposition to peace is as implacable as ever. Nevertheless, the Trump plan will likely contain planks that will enrage the Israeli right. Any two-state plan would involve giving up settlements and agreeing to Palestinian sovereignty in much of the West Bank. Israeli acceptance of those terms could split Netanyahu’s supporters. But Netanyahu knows that even if Abbas wanted peace, Trump’s offer won’t tempt him. The P.A. has educated Palestinians to think of Israel and Jews with hatred, and to regard compromise as unthinkable. The fact that the Palestinian state Trump is reportedly offering Abbas is one that has the Jerusalem suburb of Abu Dis as its capital, rather than the eastern sector of a re-divided Jerusalem, is a guarantee of a Palestinian rejection. Since his predecessor Yasser Arafat twice rejected a peace plan that offered the Palestinians a share of Jerusalem—and Abbas himself walked away from an even more generous deal in 2008—the notion that he or a potential successor (the 82-year-old leader, who is currently serving the 14th year of the four-year-term to which he was elected, is in very poor health) would agree to such a pact is pure fantasy. According to diplomatic sources, earlier this year Abbas was told by the Saudis to take what Trump offered him, and the Palestinian reportedly refused to do so. etanyahu knows that in the diplomatic game of chicken in which the first party to say “no” to America loses, the Palestinians will always jump first. It is this that allows him to avoid a conflict with the settler movement and its backers. Under these circumstances, surely even a novice like Kushner knows that his plan is a

In 1994 (from left) Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize for their roles in the Oslo Accords. A permanent peace did not follow. Wikimedia Commons

fool’s errand. Why then are they doing it? Obama’s lack of understanding of Palestinian nationalism caused him to think that all that was needed to make peace was more pressure on Israel. Similarly, Trump has boasted that his negotiating skills could forge the “ultimate deal.” Perhaps Kushner is also naive enough to think that he can solve this insoluble problem. But by now, surely even Trump knows that the Palestinians are too invested in their century-old war on Zionism to be able to abandon it even for the sake of an independent state. And if he didn’t already know it, it’s likely that his new foreign-policy advisers— Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton—have set him straight.

At this point, the purpose of the Trump plan is not an Obama-style messianic quest for peace. Rather, it’s a diplomatic diversion that can give some cover to Sunni Muslim states like the Saudis, Egypt and Jordan as they join with the United States to pursue their real priority: rolling back the gains Iran made under Obama. If the Palestinians were capable of making peace, then there would be no way any Israeli government could say no to such a plan, even if it was a dangerous gamble that would risk putting a radical Islamist regime in charge of much of the West Bank. But Netanyahu knows he has nothing to worry about: As long as the Palestinians’ only answer is “no,” he will never be put to the test. Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.

19 THE JEWISH STAR May 25, 2018 • 11 Sivan, 5778

Gaza is Hell on earth. Why is that?

posite was true. The only ones celebrating the deaths in Gaza was Hamas itself. Its mission was accomplished, the international media rising to the bait like Pavlovian dogs. Rejoicing in death is antithetical to Israeli and Jewish culture. No mainstream reaction like that has ever transpired. A pattern in Jewish teachings is specifically not to rejoice in victory against your enemy, as all humans are created by G-d. At the Passover seder we remove wine droplets from our goblets to symbolize and remember the loss even our enemy’s lives in the process of our redemption from bondage. Another well known example is that of King David who could not build the Temple, since the same hands that were instruments of war cannot be the hands that lay its stones. By contrast there are the well documented, vulgar Palestinian rejoicing at the murder of Jews by Palestinian terrorists. The mainstream media know this perfectly well. They should also know that Egypt also borders Gaza. It is a third player in the relationship between Israel and Gaza. Somehow that piece has been consistently absent in the reporting. fail to understand how much of the mainstream media and U.N. bodies and NGOs who want to help Gazans don’t see how, by supporting Hamas and excoriating Israel for defending itself, they actually achieve the opposite goal. I know Israel has done all it can. And yet, I wonder, what more can we do for a long term solution for Gaza? Gazans’ bad luck of being born under Hamas rule and trapped in a blockaded Hell, as justified and necessary as it is for Israel, is painful to watch. The real tragedy here is that right now there doesn’t seem to be a realistic solution at hand, be it from the right or the left of the Israeli political spectrum, But what pains me the most, is the thought of war again in Gaza. Of the IDF soldiers being sent into Hell. Because after all these years of Hamas rule, it seems that my childlike misunderstanding was sadly right after all. Aza truly is Azazel. Copyright Intermountain Jewish News

Every day, Amsterdam activist harasses anti-Israel protesters

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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA AMSTERDAM — On one of the Dutch capital’s busiest squares, a middle-aged Jewish man draped in an Israeli flag bellows insults at another man holding a Palestinian flag and posters promoting a boycott of Israel. The shouting startles a woman buying a herring sandwich from a food truck parked between the men on Leidse Square on a recent Friday. “Don’t worry about him, love, he’s harmless,” the vendor tells her of Michael Jacobs, the man wearing the Israeli flag. Jacobs is a retired motivational speaker and photographer who has devoted the past two years to picketing and heckling activists from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. He may appear harmless to Jacobs to passersby, but he is giving fits to the Dutch BDS movement. He got the city to curtail some BDS activities in Amsterdam’s main square and ended their monopoly on the street-level Israel debate. These achievements have turned Jacobs into something of a hero among some Dutch supporters of Israel. But these recent successes required considerable sacrifices. Since 2016, police have detained Jacobs a dozen times. In September that year, he was fined for disturbing public order and spent six days in jail because he refused to promise the judge that he would stop picketing BDS activists on Dam, Amsterdam’s main square and home to its best-known monument for the victims of the Nazis during World War II. “I’m a law-abiding citizen,” Jacobs said. “So why should I agree to such a demand? No law forbids me from standing next to Simon Vrouwe and the other anti-Semites,” he said, naming a well-known BDS activist with whom he has clashed frequently — and at whom he shouted insults on Leidse Square. (Vrouwe dismissed Jacobs’ accusations of anti-Semitism. But Vrouwe also told JTA that he does not think that Jews have a right to their own country “because there is no ‘Jewish People,’ only religion.”) Jacobs’ willingness to cause a scene made him a regular at police stations. But by 2017, it also prompted the city to ban Vrouwe and other BDS activists from standing at the Dam on most weekdays. The BDS promoters are now allowed to stand there only four days a week. Jacobs and other activists regularly confront them at the Dam and elsewhere from a distance of 35 yards, as required by police. The police and the judiciary’s heavy-handed handling of Jacobs prompted an outcry among Dutch Jews. In November, prosecutors dropped charges against him for causing public disorder. And Amsterdam’s police apologized for detaining him in November for carrying a sign accusing BDS supporters of lying. In February, it was Simon Vrouwe’s turn to get arrested. Police also confiscated his flyers and fined him about $250 because he was soliciting donations for the BDS movement without the city’s permission. Today, Jacobs monitors municipal cameras that provide streaming video footage of some main squares. “As soon as I see them, I grab my kit and I’m off to greet them,” he said of the BDS activists. Standing alone with the Israeli flag and a banner accusing the BDS movement of antiSemitism, Jacobs is often exposed to harassment and even violence, he said. “Sure, there’s the spitting, the screaming and the pulling,” he says, smiling. The Israeli flag around his shoulders is tied to his jacket but fastened around his neck only with a clothespin so that “when they pull it from behind I won’t get choked,” he said.

Michael Jacobs, shown in Amsterdam in April 2017, has been detained by police around a dozen times. Courtesy of Jacobs

When Jacobs first started coming to the square, he stood there along with a group called Time to Stand up for Israel, which was founded by Sabine Sterk, a non-Jewish woman who lived in Israel as a child because her father worked there for the United Nations. She told JTA that Jacobs deliberately provoked the BDS activists by standing near them and heckling them. His behavior and the media’s coverage of it — the Het Parool daily devoted a double spread to the fight between pro- and anti-Israel activists on the Dam in 2017 — exposed the group to threats by extremists, leading her and other group members except Jacobs to leave the square. “It got to a point where, partly because of Michael’s provocations, I felt I couldn’t take the responsibility anymore of standing there with activists I had brought there,” she told JTA. “I think he went too far. He’s a fanatic. I also value his devotion and courage but I think that if he acted more reasonably, it would have helped the cause.” Jacobs “went further that any of us,” said Sterk, the mother of four children. “But then, he can afford to. He doesn’t have children. He doesn’t have a job that he’s likely to lose if he’s taken into custody for six days.” Sterk and her group have since returned to the Dam. They come there every week. Jacobs said he is “not committed to any group — only to truth and justice.” He also said that his decision not to heed police instructions was a direct lesson from the Holocaust, which his parents narrowly survived. “In this country, the local police rounded up more than 75 percent of the Jews for the Nazis to murder,” he said — the highest rate of any country in Nazi-occupied Western Europe. “So when the police say go right, I go left. When they say go left, I go right.” He also acknowledged that he may be traumatized by the Holocaust, like many “second generation” Jews. Jacobs recounted his maternal grandfather’s legal fight until 1938 to keep his cigar factory near Dresden, Germany from being confiscated by the Nazi government. And, his voice cracking with emotion, he recalled during an interview on Leidse Square how his father was the only one from his nuclear family who survived the genocide. Oblivious of the legal skirmishes and cat-andmouse battles between BDS and its opponents, local supporters of Israel and many Israeli tourists are delighted to see Jacobs and his fellow protesters. They often buy the protesters drinks and pose for selfies with them. “Finally, someone is doing something!” Avishai Ziman, a tourist from Jerusalem, said as he posed with Jacobs on Leidse Square. “Thank you, bro, I come to Amsterdam all the time and see these BDS posters full of lies and I keep wondering why there is nobody speaking for us!”

By Renee Ghert-Zand, AJPA JERUSALEM — In 1903, American evangelist and Christian Zionist William E. Blackstone sent Theodor Herzl a personal Bible. It was a gift with a specific message. Blackstone had heard that at the Sixth Zionist Congress Herzl had proposed a territory in East Africa as a haven for Eastern European Jews. Opposed to the Uganda Scheme and convinced that a Jewish homeland should be created only in the Holy Land, Blackstone highlighted for Herzl the biblical passages referring to the restoration of the Jews to the Land of Israel. One hundred and fifteen years later, “The Israel Bible” does for today’s readers what Blackstone did for Herzl — and more. Centered around the Land of Israel, the people of Israel and the dynamic relationship between them, this new Tanakh provides explanations and commentaries that amplify Blackstone’s message and bring it up to date 70 years after Israel’s founding and a half-century after Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, resulting in Israel’s capture of the biblical heartland and unification of Jerusalem. “The Israel Bible” speaks to all who believe in biblical prophecy and that the Jews have a G-dgiven right to the entire Land of Israel. Religious Zionist Jews are an obvious target audience, but so are the world’s 700 million evangelical Christians. “The Israel Bible” editor Rabbi Tuly Weisz predicts it will be a game changer. “The Bible that has been a source of division between Jews and Christians can now be what brings unity,” he said. Weisz is founder and publisher of Israel365, an Israel-based, Jewish-owned and run media company targeting evangelical Christians interested in connecting with the Holy Land from biblical and prophetic points of view. “The Israel Bible,” published by Menorah Books, a division of Koren Publishers Jerusalem, uses the Maso-

Rabbi Tuly Weisz predicts “The Israel Bible” will be a game changer.

retic Hebrew text and a modified version of the 1984 New Jewish Publication Society English translation. Key names and places appear in transliteration, as do all highlighted verses denoting G-d and the people of Israel’s connection to the Land of Israel or Jerusalem. Commentaries range from the teachings of classical Torah scholars such as Rashi and Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel, to snippets of speeches by Israeli prime ministers Menachem Begin, Golda Meir and Benjamin Netanyahu. A representative commentary comparing Israeli settlers in Hebron to the biblical Caleb emphasizes loyalty to G-d and willingness to

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fight for the land. It mentions the anti-Jewish violence and terror that have plagued the city for decades and how these settlers “bravely preserve both their own community and the rights of the entire Jewish people to pray in the holy Cave of the Machpelah” in Hebron. The book includes maps showing the entire biblical Land of Israel as belonging to the modern state of Israel. Though many contemporary maps used in Israel show the same, Israel’s own government has never formally recognized the West Bank as part of Israel. Inspired by the account of Blackstone and Herzl, Weisz began a project that would eventu-

ally lead to the publication of “The Israel Bible.” He carefully read through all 24 books of the Tanakh, making note of every single mention of the Land of Israel. He ended up highlighting at least one verse on almost every page, and found hundreds of mentions of Jerusalem alone. This was enough to convince Weisz to leave Columbus, Ohio in 2011, make aliyah and to establish Israel365 as a way to engage non-Jews in their biblically prescribed role in the ingathering of the exiles and the rebirth of Israel. “I wasn’t necessarily looking to write a book for Christians. Our staff is Jewish and we wanted it to be authentic,” he said. “But it was important for it to speak in a universal way so that non-Jews could understand the references and nuances.” Rev. David Swaggerty, senior pastor at Charisma Life Ministries in Whitehall, Ohio, recently toured Israel with a copy of “The Israel Bible” in hand. “This is a necessity for the library of any student of the word of G-d,” Swaggerty said. Swaggerty emphasized that most evangelicals already believe wholeheartedly that “G-d gave the Land of Israel to Abraham and his seed.” “However, this Bible solidifies this for those who question. And the contemporary commentaries, like those of Netanyahu and [Jewish Agency Chairman Natan] Sharansky bring it up to date, showing that the prophecy is unfolding today and nothing can stop it,” Swaggerty said. Rabbi Shomo Riskin, chief rabbi of Efrat and founder of the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation, who contributed a foreword, views “The Israel Bible” as a tool to ensure biblical literacy among Jews. Rabbi Riskin wrote, “If we are to truly enjoy the Land of Israel, it is incumbent upon us to continually study the Torah. ‘The Israel Bible’ provides us the lyrical content to express our joy in living in the Land that G-d calls holy.”

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‘Israel Bible’ links Judaism to the Land of Israel

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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. A Cultural Celebration: The Gold Coast Arts Center in Great Neck will be hosting the 70th Anniversary Of the State of Israel: A Cultural Celebration featuring Senator Elaine Phillips and author, Francine Klagsburn. Free admission. 7 pm. 113 Middle Neck Rd, Great Neck. RSVP 516-829-2570. Halacha Shiur: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Yoni Levin at Aish Kodesh for a halacha shiur. 9:30 pm. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

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

Sunday May 27

Timely Torah: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Ya’akov Trump for a shiur on halachic and philosophical topics. Coffee and pastries. Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst. 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] Rabbi Moshe Sokoloff gemara shiur at YI Woodmere. 9:15 am. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950. Torah 4 Teens: [Weekly] Program for high school boys and young adults with Rabbi Matis Friedman. 9:15 am-12:30 pm. 410 Hungry Harbor Rd, Valley Stream. Torah4teens5T@gmail.com.

“Seeing Things Clearly- Learning to View Our World and Our Lives Through Positive Lenses. 8:45 pm. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

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There’s yiddishkeit in Brooklyn beyond Boro Park-Flatbush, Crown Heights and Williamsburg. There’s Brooklyn Heights, heart of the borough’s Manhattan-centric Brownstone belt. The neighborhood’s Orthodox shul, Congregation B’nai Avraham, celebrated its 29th anniversary last week at the Tillary Hotel. Pictured from left: Rebbetzin Shternie Raskin, Couple of the Year Melissa and Avi Turetsky and their children, Man of the Year Akiva Free, and Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin.

L’Chaim 5K: The YI of Jamaica Estates presents the 17th annual L’Chaim 5K. 83-10 188th St, Jamaica.

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