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Chukas • June 22, 2018 • 9 Tammuz, 5778 • Torah columns pages 18 –19 • Luach page 18 • Vol 17, No 24

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OU, RCA, Agudah: Leave the kids alone Combined Sources In a rare move, three major voices of Orthodox Judaism in America have expressed common cause with more liberal Jewish organizations on a hot-button issue in the United States: the separation of young children from their parents in the Trump administration’s aggressive enforcement of border security. The Orthodox Union and the Rabbinical Council of America signed AG Jeff Sessions at onto a joint statement OU conference. OU with at least 25 other organizations “to express our strong opposition to the recently expanded ‘zero-tolerance’ policy that includes separating children from their migrant parents when they cross the border.” Agudath Israel of America issued a separate statement critical of the government’s actions, and the OU issued its own supplemen-

An child is accompanied by officers who were taking a group of Central American asylum seekers into custody near McAllen, Texas, on June 12. John Moore/Getty Images

tary statement. A few days earlier, the OU had come under fire from some quarters by honoring Attorney General Jeff Sesions at its annual Leadership Mission in Washington. The joint statement, addressed to Sessions and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, said the childseparation policy “undermines the values of our nation and jeopardizes the safety and well-being of thousands of people. “As Jews, we under- OU President Mark stand the plight of be- Bane. OU file photo ing an immigrant fleeing violence and oppression. We believe that the United States is a nation of immigrants and how we treat the stranger reflects on the moral values and ideals of this nation.” In its statement, Agudath Israel of America expressed “very deep concern and disapSee Kids on page 4

Cuomo hangs HAFTR mezuzah at mansion Cover made by students with a 3D printer presented as the governor delivered cash By The Jewish Star All hands were on deck at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited the school’s Lawrence campus to announce a $150,000 state grant to improve security at the school. HAFTR Vice President of Political Affairs Cal Nathan presented Cuomo with a mezuzah whose cover students made using a 3D printer in the school’s STEM lab. Cuomo later affixed the mezuzah to the governor’s mansion in Albany, tweeting: “Thank you to the STEM students from @OfficialHAFTR for this beautiful mezuzah now gracing the GoverSee HAFTR on page 9

Gov. Andrew Cuomo high-fives HAFTR students during his visit last week. Later, he hung a mezuzah students gave him on the governor’s mansion in Albany (left).

Senate bill mandating Shoah ed stalls in Assembly

YOSS remembers: Dora Siegelman was one of two Shoah survivors who met with students at the Yeshiva South Shore. See page 9.

By Anthony O’Reilly , Baldwin Herald The state Senate last week unanimously passed a bill to have the state Education Department tudy — and how — school districts teach their students about the Holocaust. As the legislature prepared to adjourn its session, the bill was stalled in the Assembly. The Senate bill was introduced by Elaine Phillips of Port Washington, its Assembly companion by Nily Rozic of Queens and Chuck Lavine of Glen Cove. A 2018 survey by the Conference on Jewish Claims Against Germany found that 31 percent of Americans, and 41 per-

cent of millennials, believe that two million or fewer Jews were killed in the Holocaust — the actual number is around six million. A 2017 Anti-Defamation League Report found that a quarter of Americans never heard of the Holocaust, and onefifth who did thought it was a hoax. According to the bill, the education commissioner would “conduct a study regarding courses of study on the Holocaust within the state,” focusing on which school districts offers courses on the genocide. It would also review each districts’ teaching guidelines on the subject. “We as a nation have an obligation to

remember and honor the lives of those murdered and to prevent one of the worst calamities in the history of mankind from happening again,” said Sen. Todd Kaminsky of Long Beach, a co-sponsor of the bill. This is the second year the act has passed the state’s upper chamber. Phillips introduced it last year after an Oswego County English teacher asked students to write an essay arguing for or against the Holocaust, to “analyze the issues, provide [their] Nazi point of view for our against the Final Solution and why, and thoroughly explain your support or opposition to the Solution.”

Circumcision ban final straw for Danish Jews lived in Copenhagen for the past six years. Whatever the forces driving the case against circumcision, the pending vote is causing Ruchama Elisabeth Munch — a 24-year-old Israel-born mother in Aarhus — to question her future in Denmark. At the circumcision last year of their firstborn, Yoav, Munch said she and her husband invited only close family partly because they “didn’t feel comfortable” inviting non-Jews to a ceremony often characterized in the media as child abuse. “But when we have more children, of course it will affect our decision whether to live here, if we get branded as criminals” over milah, she said. In a 2016 survey among 1,027 adult Danes, 87 percent of respondents supported a ban on nonmedical circumcision of boys. Amid the discomfort, Danish Jews are also adjusting to the new reality that followed the 2015 synagogue attack. At the Chabad synagogue, machine gun-toting troops wearing bulletproof vests over camouflage fatigues gently tap their feet to the melody during Friday night services. They smile and joke with Rochel Loewenthal, the wife of the local Chabad rabbi, who offers them kosher chicken and Visitors to Chabad Copenhagen flank Rabbi Yitzi Loewenthal, first row left, hummus dip. Security was at its peak last week during the annual Jewin 2015. Chabad of Copenhagen ish Culture Festival. Eight police and soldiers were on hand at an attended by about 15 teenagers. against Jews, Muslims and they can express anti-Semitism and xeBut Hannah Bentow, whose bat mitzvah was the target of the nophobia without admitting to it,” Finn Rudaizky, a former leader 2015 attack, doesn’t feel these measures are excessive. Weeks after of the Jewish community of Denmark, told JTA. the attack, someone smashed the window of Denmark’s only kosher Anecdotal evidence seems to support his view. Over the past decade, Denmark has developed some of Europe’s shop and sprayed it with swastikas. It was attacked again in 2016. strictest immigration policies, which the Washington Post last year And last year, a 17-year-old Muslim girl was convicted of plotting to called “a Muslim ban [that] was just called something else.” In blow up the Jewish school from which Bentow recently graduated. For Bentow and her younger brother, 8-year-old Elias, the 2015 2014, it outlawed the slaughter of animals without stunning them first, as required by Judaism and Islam. And in the 2015 elections, attack “introduced fear into their lives,” Mette Bentow said. Elias the Danish People’s Party, which the New York Times has labeled asked his father to stop wearing his kippah in public. Mette is deeply thankful for Danish society’s “embrace” of its “far right,” emerged as the second largest in parliament. That year, a Muslim cemetery was desecrated in Copenhagen, Jews following the 2015 attack. “I love Denmark, I love our royal house, I get goosebumps on and a Danish man tried to burn down a mosque with dozens of national holidays,” she said, as she sat with her family around a worshippers still inside. Against this backdrop, “the debate about circumcision in Den- table laden with sourdough Danish pastries. “But lately the more I mark is definitely part of a bigger picture where xenophobia plays live here, the more I get the feeling this is the wrong place to raise a role,” said Hagai Ben-Avraham, an Israel-born academic who has a Jewish family.”

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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA COPENHAGEN, Denmark — In 2015, a jihadist gunned down a Jewish guard outside the city’s main synagogue, where Hannah Bentow was having her bat mitzvah party. Bentow and dozens of teenagers stayed inside as police pursued and later killed the man who killed Dan Uzan. Her sense of security as a Jew in Denmark was shattered. But Bentow said her decision to leave for Israel as soon as she turns 18 was sealed by the steps taken this year toward banning nonmedical circumcision of boys. The Danish parliament is set to become the first in the European Union to vote on a nonbinding motion calling to prohibit the practice. The ruling parties said they would oppose a ban, but the debate about it “makes me feel like I don’t belong, and like Denmark doesn’t want me to belong, either,” Bentow said. Her words are echoed by many Danish Jews, who are questioning their future in a nation where they increasingly feel caught between Islamist extremism and the xenophobia it triggers. Denmark’s Jewish minority of 9,000 people is “so pressed already, with armed police at our school and armed troops at shul, this [debate on circumcision] is sucking the marrow out of wanting to be Jewish,” said Mette Bentow, Hannah’s mother. The language of the pending motion on circumcision cites child welfare concerns. “The introduction of an 18-year minimum age for circumcision puts children’s interests and rights at the forefront,” the text states. It calls for up to six years in jail for anyone who performs a circumcision, and holds parents responsible whether the act happened in Denmark or not. More than 50,000 people signed a petition on the Danish parliament’s website endorsing the text, which equates nonmedical circumcision of boys with female genital mutilation. In Denmark and other European countries, campaigns to ban nonmedical circumcision of boys milah for Jews and khitan for Muslims — have been brewing for years. But Danish activists saw a breakthrough, following a parliamentary amendment to bring to vote as a nonbinding draft motion any petition that receives 50,000 signatures within six months of its posting on the parliament’s website. The circumcision proposal cleared the hurdle in four. To many Danish Jews, arguments about child welfare hide the real motivation: xenophobia. In addition to children’s welfare activists, “many others use the situation to show that they are

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Members of the family Yachad honoree Caryn Pollak, a”h, a West Hempstead native. Abbi Sophia Photographyl

With Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin in Washington, from left: Hadassah Suffolk Region President Stacy Berman and members Lee Pinchuk, Pamela Diamond and Phyllis Abramson.

Suffolk Hadassah meets Rep. Zeldin in Capitol Members of the Suffolk County Region of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, met recently with Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin to advocate for Hadassah’s positions on women’s health equity, gun violence and support for the State of Israel. The meeting, in the Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, was part of Hadassah’s 2018 Day on The Hill advocacy outreach program. Hadassah Suffolk Region President Stacy Berman and members Lee Pinchuk, Pamela Diamond and Phyllis Abramson had just attended Hadassah’s second annual Women’s Health Empowerment Summit at the Capitol Hilton during National Women’s Health Week. The annual summit is a program

of the 28-member Coalition for Women’s Health Equity, which was convened by Hadassah in 2016. The year 2018 marks the 100th anniversaries of the Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO) in Israel, which is comprised of two Hadassah-owned hospitals in Jerusalem (Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus), and the Henrietta Szold Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Nursing. Hadassah is the largest Jewish women’s organization in the United States. With 330,000 members, associates and supporters, Hadassah brings Jewish women together to effect change and advocate on critical issues such as medical care and research and women’s empowerment.

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At last week’s NY Yachad gala in Lawrence, from left: Ahron Rosenthal, Dr. Jeff Lichtman, Ken Saibel, Young Leadership Award recipient Adira Katlowitz, and Rebecca Schrag-Mayer. Abbi Sophia Photography

An overflow crowd came out to support Yachad last week as NY Yachad held its first gala, at Congregation Beth Sholom in Lawrence. Three Yachad stalwarts were honored: •Adira Katlowitz, presented with the Young Leadership Award, has been involved with Yachad for more than 15 years, since she was in high school. She’s participated in many Miami and Jerusalem marathons and as a leader of the Friends of Yachad Alumni association. •Rabbi Abie Wahrhaftig, a pioneer in the camping world, brought inclusion to Camp Morasha at a time when the concept did not yet exist. Today, Yachad has 27 inclusive summer programs. •Caryn Pollak a”h of West Hempstead, a member of Yachad’s nascent programming over 30 years ago and later a Yachad employee. Rabbi Ahron Rosenthal, director of NY Yachad, spoke about the expansion of Yachad’s many services in Brooklyn, Riverdale and the Five Towns, where a community center recently opened. The dinner presented a glimpse into the impactful work Yachad does in promoting the inclusion in Jewish life of all individuals no matter their abilities. Dr. Jeffrey Lichtman, Yachad’s international director, urged attendees to view the evening’s presentation as reflecting only the tip of the iceberg of what NY Yachad can accomplish. For the evening’s success, NY Yachad expressed thanks to its dinner chairs, Blima and Yossel Druker, Leora and Yaakov Hauptman, Chani and Daniel Herrmann Tobey Karpel, Hannah Kelsen and Joy Glicker Lieber. Yachad is a division of the OU.

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signed to strengthen and protect the family unit. Thus, we believe that immigration, asylum and border security policies must also be fashioned and implemented in a manner that takes all steps possible to keep parents and children united.” Bane justified hosting Sesions and presenting him with a plaque displaying the biblical verse, “Justice, justice shall you pursue.” “Sessions addressed the OU Leadership Mission to Washington on the important topic of religious liberty,” Bane said. “We are very appreciative of Mr. Sessions’ remarks on this topic, which are important to the welfare of our community.” Bane said that OU leadership met with Sessions privately and discussed the family separaton policy. “Over the course of decades, OU leaders have met with political officials across the spectrum for the purpose of advancing our community’s values and interests — and we will continue to do so. The Orthodox Union remains committed to effective advocacy work on behalf of our community.” In its statement, Agudah said: “The problem of illegal immigration is a serious one, and we support reasonable efforts by the administration and legislature to effectively stem the flow of would-be immigrants who have not been accepted through the legal immigration system. “But the United States, a shining beacon of freedom in the world, must always exhibit humanity and compassion in its laws and policies. Seeking to enforce our statutes does not relieve us of this moral obligation. The extreme anguish, fear and trauma born of separating undocumented immigrant family members, which is particularly harmful to children, deeply offend our highest values. It is wrong and unjustifiable. “As Jews, we find this practice particularly loathsome. For millennia, Jews in the diaspora have suffered many forms of persecution, including — among the most tragic — the forced breakup of our families. It is a punishment that neither parents nor children should ever have to endure.” The right-wing Orthodox daily newspaper Hamodia editorialized on Tuesday against Trump’s family-separation policy. “Such a policy is a disgrace,” the Brooklynbased Hamodia said. “It’s a national disgrace, and claiming it as a legal necessity until new legislation can be passed won’t do.” It said “the United States can and should enforce the immigration laws, but current policy borders on fanaticism.” The joint statement to Sessions and Nielsen that was joined by the OU and RCA, said, in part: “Taking children away from their families is unconscionable. Such practices inflict unnecessary trauma on parents and children … [It] is a cruel punishment for children and families simply seeking a better life and exacerbates existing challenges in our immigration system. … “Our Jewish faith demands of us concern for the stranger in our midst. Our own people’s history as ‘strangers’ reminds us of the many struggles faced by immigrants today and compels our commitment to an immigration system in this country that is compassionate and just. We urge you to immediately rescind the ‘zero tolerance’ policy and uphold the values of family unity and justice on which our nation was built.”

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OU advocates at the White House One-hundred Orthodox rabbis and communal leaders from across the country converged on Washington for the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center’s 22nd annual Leadership Mission. During the day-long event, participants met with top administration officials at the White House, heard from several U.S. senators, met with U.S. representatives and their staff to advocate for the Israel Anti-Boycott Act and to increase funding for the federal Nonprofit Security Grant Program NSGP, which awards religious schools, synagogues and other houses of worship grants of up to $150,000 apiece to improve building security. The OU Advocacy Center spearheaded the NSGP in 2005 together with the Jewish Federations of North America and other coalition partners and bipartisan leaders in Congress. Starting their day at the White House, OU delegates met with U.S. Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman to discuss U.S. policy toward Israel; Domestic Policy Council Director Andrew Bremberg to discuss school choice and other key issues; and Homeland Security Adviser Rear Adm. Douglas Frears to discuss programs to keep synagogues and schools safe. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) kicked off lunch on Capitol Hill where he and Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) delivered impassioned speeches in support of legislation such as the Israel Anti-Boycott Act; expanded NSGP funding; the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem last month, and other policies to protect Israel, such as the Taylor Force Act. Members of Congress who met with groups of OU delegates included Reps. Carlos Curbelo, Jerry Nadler and Eliot Engel (D-NY), Ron De-

At the OU Advocacy Leadership Mission to Washington at the White House, from left: OU President Moshe Bane, Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt, OU Advocacy Executive Director Nathan Diament, OU Board of Directors ChairOU Advocacy Center man Howard Tzvi Friedman, and OU Advocacy Center Chairman Jerry Wolasky.

Santis (R-Fl.), Ted Lieu (D-Calif.); Jamie Raskin (D-Md.); and Albio Sires (D-NJ). The Mission’s closing session featured an award presentation to Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) for his lead sponsorship of legislation passed in February that codifies a new era of fairness for disaster-stricken synagogues, churches and other houses of worship by making them eligible for federal disaster relief through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The OU delegates were then addressed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who announced the creation of the Justice Department’s “Place to Worship Initiative,” a religious liberty proposal focusing on protecting houses of worship

and other religious institutions rights to “build, expand, buy, or rent facilities” under the provisions of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. “Our elected leaders, by taking the time to meet with us, demonstrated that they heard and understand our concerns,” said OU President Mark (Moishe) Bane. OU Advocacy Center Director Nathan Diament added, “We appreciate the work of the Justice Department on behalf of religious freedom and the new initiative announced at our Mission to help ensure fair treatment for synagogues and other houses of worship.” Source: OU Advocacy Center

Agudah cheers push on ‘Place to Worship’ Agudath Israel of America welcomed last week’s announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions regarding the “Place to Worship Initiative.” Through this initiative, the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney’s Offices will act to strengthen awareness of protections afforded by the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. Agudath Israel helped craft and has promoted the act, litigating cases involving its application. Agudath Israel applauded DOJ’s filing of a lawsuit against the Borough of Woodcliff Lake, NJ, in which it alleges that the borough and its zoning board violated the act when it denied zoning approval to Valley Chabad to build a synagogue on its property. Zoning and land use rules that restrict where houses of worship may operate are “among the most formidable obstacles to the free exercise of religion today,” Agudah said. “This is particularly true in regard to the Orthodox Jewish community, whose Sabbath laws require synagogues to be within walking distance of its adherents, and therefore within, or close to, residential areas “The knowledge that ‘if you zone out Orthodox synagogues, you zone out Orthodox Jews’ has been an ugly reality that our families and communities have had to face,” Agudah said. “The Department’s action in bringing the Valley Chabad lawsuit shows that it is serious in backing up words with action when the law is not being followed.” Source: Agudath Israel of America

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plosive devices … the scope of damage from these devices [would have been] powerful.” Russo’s battalion took part in setting off the bombs in a controlled manner in villages around Nablus. The commander described how the battalion moved Palestinian civilians away from the scene of controlled explosions to prevent injuries, in contrast to Hamas’s tactic of hiding the bombs “in the middle of the villages, without concern for harming local civilians.” “As a reserve officer, to see the powerful explosions, [it] strengthened our sense of purpose and our [resolve to],” he said. “This was an organized, professional cell with many explosives that had major destructive power. I don’t recall such a cell in recent years that we broke up,” the battalion commander said. The counter-terrorism raids occurred during the highly sensitive month of Ramadan, he said, obligating the army to act with “greater sensitivity.” There were some clashes during the arrests in villages around Nablus, but the army dealt with them proportionately, said Russo, and there were no injuries in any of the incidents. The Shin Bet has detected and broken up approximately 250 large-scale terrorist cells since the start of 2018 alone, giving an indication of the scale of violence it has spared Israel’s cities and civilians. The latest episode illustrates “the motivation and efforts invested by the Hamas organization in setting up a terrorist infrastructure,” the Shin Bet said in statement. For his part, Russo said the battalion’s soldiers—made up of reserve soldiers from a variety of ages and backgrounds—will continue to “be called up to the flag, arrive every year for training and operations, and do their part for national security.”

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2 survivors visit YOSS Students in Yeshiva South Shore’s Mechina Division were visited by two Holocaust survivors, Jack Nayberg and Dora Siegelman. Rabbi Yoni Escovitz, a seventh grade rebbi at YOSS and rav of this brother and sister, led an interactive question and answer session for the sixth through eighth graders. They presented a glimpse of pre-war European Jewry and the incredible void that remained after the war. The talmidim heard about their harrowing experiences in the ghettos and concentration camps and on the death march, and were inspired by their miraculous survival. Afterwards, the students personally greeted and thanked them for sharing their stories. It was then that they were shown the numbers on Mrs. Siegelman’s arm, to be etched forever into their minds. “It is so important for the new generation to have first-hand testimony of the Holocaust,” said Rabbi Zev Davidowitz, menahel ha mechina. “Our talmidim need to be able to tell their children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren what they heard with their own ears and saw with their own eyes.” See story about a push to measure the quality of Holocaust education, and a photo from YOSS, on page 1.

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Continued from page 1 nor’s mansion. This is a long-standing Jewish symbol of protection. May this protection extend to all the people of New York.” Elected officials from every level of government attended the governor’s June 13 visit. Members of Teach NYS, an arm of the Orthodox Union’s Teach Advocacy Network that has been successfully advocating for an increase in state funding to private schools for security and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education, were also on hand. The visit follows an earlier announcement of the release of New York’s Securing Communities Against Hate Crimes grant funds which awarded millions of dollars in antihate grants to schools and nonprofits across the state. “This funding is critical in our efforts to enhance security and protect nonprofit schools, daycares and cultural museums at risk of hate crimes,” Cuomo said. “By supporting the diverse cultures and community centers found throughout this great state, we are setting an example for the nation while establishing a stronger, safer New York for all.” Maury Litwack, executive director of Teach NYS, thanked Cuomo for being a leader in school security. “This Governor understands that all students in all schools should be safe at school.” he said. “The safety of our schools is the paramount consideration, and we thank the governor for acting decisively on this critical imperative,” said OU Executive Vice President Allen Fagin. HAFTR Middle School has a dedicated STEM lab with a 3D printer and laser cutter. HAFTR’s director of STEM and Innovation, Benjamin Gross, said that previously awarded state aid was used to hire teachers for the STEM curriculum. He said students had been working on drone engineering, wearable technology and both virtual and augmented reality. Plans call for opening another STEM lab in the high school, in Cedarhurst, at the start of the next school year, Gross said. Some students held signs thanking the governor, and many seemed excited by the possibilities of improvements to the STEM

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program. Seventh-grader Sameul Spiess said he likes the class because, “I like building new things. We made robots and our final project was a rocket.” A group of sixth grade girls praised Gittel Grant, chair of the Science and STEM department. “I love it,” one of them yelled. “Kids need the best math and science instruction,” Litwack said. “Look at where the future jobs are heading. This is the technology they’ll be using.” He said that the state’s 400,000 nonpublic school students — who make up make up about 16 percent of New York’s students — deserved support. The Teach Advocacy Network is a nonpartisan organization advocating for equitable funding in nonpublic schools. It operates in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Pennsylvania, Maryland and California, covering 186,000 children. Nassau Herald reporter Tyler Marko contributed to this report.

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Striking up the grill: Mops, marinades and more! Kosher Kitchen

JonI SCHoCKEtt Jewish Star columnist

love grilling season. I love cooking outside and the perfume of grilling foods all over the neighborhood. That smoky odor says “home” and “relaxing” and “outdoor fun.” It’s like a Norman Rockwell painting for the nose. Often, that perfume is the result of sauces, rubs, and mops that have been lovingly created or poured from a bottle. These add flavor to the meat, chicken, fish or veggies, and even desserts that pick up those delicious grill marks while cooking on the grates. So how can we infuse flavor without using a barbecue sauce? There are so many ways. One way is to season the meat from the inside out. Rub seasonings under the skin of chicken, inject seasonings into steak and briskets with an infusion kit, or use a dry rub to massage into any meat or veggies. Another way to infuse flavor onto meat and veggies is with a mop. The name comes from President Lyndon B. Johnson’s grill master, who created a grill pit about 40 feet by 40 feet. He could not reach all the meat at once, so he dipped a huge mop into in a pail of seasoned liquid and “mopped” his meat from a distance. Today, you can buy a specialized grill mop. To ensure flavorful, long-grilling meats like whole chickens or briskets, it’s the thing to do! So what is the difference between a mop and a sauce? A sauce is thick, and a mop is about the consistency of water, with lots of flavor and very little sugar. Mops are often vinegar, beer or stock-based. Dry rubs also add a lot of flavor to foods and can usually be used before cooking, unless they have a really high sugar content. They are great

for all foods grilled, including veggies and salmon. The best way to get flavor from a rub is to gently massage the rub into the meat or onto the veggies, then let the rubbed food rest for several minutes in the fridge before cooking. Barbecue sauces should echo or complement the flavors on your rub or mop. They are thick and come in many forms. Some are sweet, some are hot and spicy. Some use lots of vinegar and others use a tomato base. But many people make the mistake of slathering their meat with barbecue sauce before grilling. Barbecue sauces need to be reserved for the absolute end of the cooking time. At that point, they can be slathered on and cooked without fear of turning the meat to carbon. The sauce will darken and produce a lovely light char that will be grill-licious! FYI: Eating meat that is burned to black has actually been linked to some cancers. Herb Infused Mop (Pareve) This mop is delicious on chicken, burgers, brisket, steaks and veggies. You can make it hot and spicy or kid friendly. 2/3 cup canola oil 1/3 cup tamari sauce 1/4 cup water mixed with 1 tsp. chicken, beef or vegetable stock powder or paste 3 tsp. Worcestershire sauce 3 Tbsp. red wine vinegar 2 Tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 tsp. grated garlic 1 Tbsp. grated onion 1 Tbsp. grated shallot 1 Tbsp. Dijon style mustard 1 Tbsp. dried parsley flakes 1 Tbsp. freshly minced chives 1 tsp. finely minced fresh thyme leaves 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. black pepper OPTIONAL: 1/2 to 1 tsp. cayenne pepper or Tabasco Sauce, to taste. Mix all ingredients in a jar with a tight-fitting lid and shake well to blend. Let stand for about

an hour to meld flavors. Taste, and adjust ingredients to taste. Shake again before using. Wet the mop with water and squeeze out excess. Dip mop into liquid and mop onto chicken as it grills. Mop several times until all liquid is used up. Makes enough for 1-2 quartered chickens, a small brisket, several burgers or steaks and lots of veggies. Apple Cider Mop (Pareve) 10 cloves garlic, chopped 1 onion, finely chopped 1 cup apple cider vinegar 1 cup canola oil 1 cup Worcestershire sauce 1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice 1/4 to 1/2 cup Tabasco or other hot sauce, to taste OPTIONAL: Substitute orange juice for the lemon juice. Slightly sweeter. Substitute 1 to 2 Tbsp. finely grated ginger for the onion. Place the onions and garlic in the bowl of a food processor and process until almost a liquid, scraping down the bowl a few times. Pour the rest of the ingredients into a large bowl and add the garlic/onion mixture. Whisk vigorously to emulsify. Wet the mop, squeeze dry. Divide mop sauce in half; reserve half in the fridge for later. Dip the damp mop into the sauce and mop on the meat, chicken or veggies. Makes about 5 cups. Signature Dry Rub for Everything (Pareve) I use this on everything from burgers, to steaks, chicken, potatoes, broccoli and more. 3 Tbsp. Montreal Steak Seasoning (it works the best) 4 Tbsp. granulated garlic 4 Tbsp. granulated onion powder 2 Tbsp. paprika 1 to 2 Tbsp. smoked paprika, to taste 1 Tbsp. black pepper 3 to 4 Tbsp. dark brown sugar

OPTIONAL: 1 tsp. to 1 Tbsp. cayenne pepper, to taste Place all ingredients in the bowl of a food processor and pulse a few times to blend and break up the brown sugar. Pour into a container with a tight-fitting lid and store in a cool, dark place for weeks. You can increase the amounts to make enough to last all year round. Dad’s Barbecue Sauce (Pareve) My dad never measured; he tasted! Follow his advice and adjust to your taste. You can add as much “heat” to this as you like. 1 to 2 cups ketchup 1 small can (3 ounces) tomato paste 1/2 to 1 cup molasses, to taste 1 large onion, very finely minced or grated 2-12 cloves garlic, finely minced, to taste 1/4 to 1/3 cup dark brown sugar, to taste 1/3 cup apricot jam 2/3 cup canola oil 1 to 3 tsp. liquid smoke, to taste OR 1-2 tsp. smoked paprika 1 to 3 tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice OPTIONAL: Tabasco sauce to taste Cayenne pepper to taste Red pepper flakes to taste Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste Heat a small skillet and add 2 to 3 Tbsp. canola oil. Add the onion and garlic and cook until translucent. Make a well in the onions and add more canola oil. Add the tomato paste in a thick round in the center of the pan, and cook, undisturbed, until the edges begin to brown. At that point, mix the tomato paste into the onions with a silicon spatula. Pour into a large bowl to cool for about 5 minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients and whisk to blend. Add some water if the sauce is too thick. Adjust ingredients to taste, and pour some into a small bow to use for brushing on cooked meats for the last 3 to 5 minutes of cooking time. Use some as a sauce to put on burgers, etc. Makes about 4 cups. Refrigerate after use. Lasts several weeks.

hook, mix together the flour, 1/3 cup sugar and 2 teaspoons vanilla. 2. In a medium saucepan, scald the milk (bring almost to a boil, until milk is just simmering). Allow to sit for 1 minute to cool just slightly. 3. With mixer on low, add the water-yeast mixture, milk and melted butter. Add eggs one at a time. 4. When the dough begins to come together after 2 to 3 minutes, turn off the mixer and scrape down the sides. Raise the speed to high and mix for another 5 to 10 minutes until the dough is shiny, elastic and smooth. It may seem like a long time to mix, but the result is worth the wait. (You can also knead vigorously by hand for 10 minutes if you don’t have a stand mixer.)

5. Place dough in a greased bowl with a damp towel on top. Allow to rise 1 to 2 hours. 6. Prepare the 3 greased loaf pans. 7. To make the crumb topping: Place all ingredients in a bowl. Using a wooden spoon, mix until crumbs form. 8. Cut the dough into 3 equal parts (use a food scale for precision). Roll out one part into a rectangle. Spread with one-third each of the chocolate hazelnut spread, then marshmallow fluff, and then sprinkle with graham cracker crumbs and roll up along the shorter side. 9. Once the dough is formed into a swirled log, cut it straight down the middle so the filling is exposed. Cut 1/2 inch off each end. Layer each cut piece on top of one another and twist. Place in a greased loaf pan. 10. Repeat with the other 2 pieces of babka dough. Lightly drape a kitchen towel over the top of pans. 11. Allow to rise another 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 350 F. while the dough rises. Top with crumb topping. Bake for 30 minutes. 12. Allow to cool for 5 to 10 minutes. Using a butter knife, loosen sides of the babka from the pan and place on a wire rack to cool. Makes 3 babkas.

S’mores Babka recipe By Shannon Sarna, The Nosher via JTA Babka is an Eastern European yeasted cake with deep Jewish roots and also great American popularity. One of babka’s most notorious moments was in an episode of “Seinfeld”: Jerry and Elaine head to Royal Bakery to pick up babka for a dinner party, and when there is no more chocolate babka, they are somewhat devastated to be forced to bring cinnamon, “the lesser babka.” I’ve experimented with lots of babka flavors: sweet, savory, Latin-inspired and just about everything in between. This s’mores babka, which is ideal for summertime or brunch or dessert or just because, is featured in my cookbook “Modern Jewish Baker” along with several other flavors. It’s not the chocolate babka; it might be a little better. I think even Jerry and Elaine would agree. Ingredients: For the dough: 1 Tbsp. dry active yeast 1/3 cup plus 1/2 tsp. sugar 1/2 cup lukewarm water

4 -1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 2 tsp. vanilla 1/2 cup whole or 2% milk (or almond milk) 3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) unsalted butter (or margarine), melted 2 large eggs For the filling: 1/3 cup chocolate hazelnut spread 1/2 cup marshmallow fluff 1/4 cup crushed graham cracker crumbs For the topping: 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1/3 cup packed brown sugar 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted 1 -1/3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 1/4 tsp. fine sea salt

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Can we talk baseball for a minute? Who’s in the Kitchen

JuDY JoszEf

Jewish Star columnist

s you know I’m a born (but not bored, like Mets fans are today) and bred in New York diehard Atlanta Braves fan. I have the MLB package and from opening day until my team is out of contention. I don’t miss a game unless it’s on Shabbat or Yom Tov (and in those cases I usually tape them to watch later). I watch my games every night as well as all the games within my division. If they are playing at the same time as Atlanta, I’ll flip back-andforth between commercials or follow the other games on the MLB app on my phone. I treat the first game the same as I would a playoff game; every single game counts. I don’t like hearing “but today it’s only May: or it’s “only midway through the season, there’s plenty of time left and plenty of games to play.” In the end it could be a matter of one game that separates your team from the playoffs. I always believed that I was just a run of the mill old-fashioned reasonably passionate baseball fan. Of course, I had no barometer of how sports fans are supposed to act and properly demonstrate their love for their team. My parents and brother and sister were only “average” sports fans and none of my friends were actually “REAL” fans, just casual at best, I was never correctly indoctrinated in “proper fan protocol. I approached fan-hood by focusing on wins and losses only. This resulted in my demonstrating my love for the Braves by dancing and tomahawk-whooping and chanting when they won,

and I howling and tantruming when they lost. Jerry always claimed to love his Yankees and followed them passionately. But as I carefully watched him I began to suspect that he was a Yankee fan imposter, a wannabe at best. The proof was, as I was watching my Braves and every other team in the division on a nightly basis (as if our kitchen was a sports bar), I would, on occasion, generously ask if he wanted to watch his Yankees for a couple minutes. Jerry, for most of the season would casually respond, “No, Ju, you watch your Braves.” He’d periodically check the Yankee box score, displaying conspicuous lack of passion. No yelling. No tantrums. I questioned whether he was the real Slim Shady as a fan. However, under closer scrutiny, I determined that Jerry was a Yankees fan undercover operative. He began to share with me how he approaches being a Yankees fan. He closely follows the performance of each of the Yankee’s top 25 prospects, every game, every night. OK, so maybe he is a true fan, but not as obsessed as I am. One night a few weeks ago, one of my rival division teams was playing on the East coast, and so with the rain delay, the game was still on at 2 am. Jerry, who had been downstairs watching a taped basketball playoff game, entered our bedroom and thought I was sleeping, because the lights were off. He reached over to shut the radio, when suddenly my hand shot up and grasped his wrist, just like in those horror movies when the monster, presumed dead, springs to life and attacks his unsuspecting victim. “Ju, its 2 am your and team isn’t even playing. Why are you listening to the game?” he asked. “Because I’m rooting against the Nationals, that’s why,” I responded. As of June 18 the Braves lead the NL East by

3-1/2 games, which is the biggest lead in any of MLB’s six divisions. They’re tied with Milwaukee for the league’s best record at 42–29. Somehow the Braves’ starters have the second-best ERA among NL clubs and the third-best in baseball. Looks like they might be contending in 2018 as opposed to their projected year of 2020. Now I’ve gotta run … have to catch the Yankee-Nationals game. Let’s go Yankees! Get the Nats. If you don’t follow baseball, you could make these cookies instead. Disney’s BRAVE Empire Biscuits Makes about 9 large biscuits (cookies) Cookie dough ingredients: 1 stick of butter, softened to room temperature 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp. baking powder 1 egg 1 tsp. vanilla extract Cookie dough directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer. Add in baking powder and flour. Mix well. Next, add in the egg and vanilla. Mix on medium-high until sides of bowl are clean and dough begins to form a ball. Remove dough and knead by hand. Form into a ball and place in plastic wrap. Cover and set in fridge to chill 30 minutes. Remove chilled dough and place on flourdusted surface. Roll out to 1/8-inch thickness. Using a shot glass or round cookie cutter, cut into 1 1/2-inch diameter circles. You should have 18 circles. Place them on a parchment-lined cookie sheet 1 inch apart. Bake in preheated oven for 8 minutes at 350 degrees. Remove from oven and let cool on cooling racks. Now move on to the

Making Entenmann’s danish at home By Sonya Sanford, The Nosher via JTA

I grew up in a home where almost every meal was made from scratch. In retrospect, I’m grateful for the delicious healthy food, but at the time I coveted my friends’ fruit roll-ups and Capri Suns. Even though I wasn’t allowed to eat sugar cereals or drink most juice boxes, a few processed food items inexplicably got a pass. With a fair degree of regularity, my father would come home with a white-and-blue rectangular box in his hand, the cursive Entenmann’s logo visible. A wave of anticipation would follow. Was it crumb coffee cake? Doughnuts? Cheese danish (please no, not this time)? Was it a really good day? Did he get a raspberry danish twist? Maybe Entenmann’s got the junk food pass for its affordability (my father’s claim), or maybe it was because of its kosher dairy status. Price and kashrut may have been the reason my dad first bought an Entenmann’s cake, but it’s unlikely the sole reason we kept eating its pastries. Entenmann’s was founded in 1898 in Brooklyn by a German immigrant. Later the company moved to Long Island and expanded its business with a home delivery service. Frank Sinatra was a regular customer. In 1959, the Entenmann family invented the now-ubiquitous see-through cake box. Since then, the company has been bought and sold by multiple corporations, but continues to make similar products to this day. As a kid, anything iced and sweet was A-OK by me, but as I got older, Entenmann’s lost its appeal and I all but forgot about its existence. Then one day at work, someone brought in a box of Entenmann’s donuts. I felt the excitement of my youth. I opened the box and smelled the familiar cakey vanilla. I took a bite into the waxy chocolate shell and instantly remembered eating the doughnut, standing at the kitchen counter of my childhood home. My next thought: “This is not quite as good as I remembered.” I looked at the list of ingredients: palm oil, soy, unpronounceable preservatives, food

dye, corn syrup and other ingredients that never found their way into any bubbe’s kitchen. I will always maintain a soft spot for Entenmann’s products, and I mean no disrespect. But it occurred to me that I could capture some of the joy of my youth by making a homemade version of my favorite flavor of Entenmann’s: the raspberry danish twist. Danishes are made traditionally with puff pastry, but Entenmann’s deviates from the norm. Instead of puff pastry with its flaky croissant-like texture, it uses enriched dough more akin to brioche. To get that waft of vanilla, I use vanilla powder. I generally favor vanilla bean and vanilla extract, but there’s something about the powder that works here. Maybe it’s also because it reminds me of my grandmother, who put vanilla powder in all of her desserts. Once the dough has risen, form the danish and fill it with good raspberry jam. After it has baked and cooled, top it with a layer of icing. You can form this dough into a variety of shapes and sizes, but I prefer to keep mine Entenmann’s-sized: small and rectangular, with a good proportion of fillingto-cake ratio and a generous amount of icing. The only other thing this needs is an accompanying cup of coffee — and some lively Jewish banter. Note: This recipe can be made one day ahead of time, rewarmed and iced prior to eating. Keeps for 2 days in an airtight container at room temperature. Ingredients: Danish 1 cup milk 1/3 cup sugar 1 packet active rise yeast 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting or as needed 1 Tbsp. vanilla powder or 1 vanilla bean (split, seeds scraped out) 1 tsp. kosher salt

2 large eggs, at room temperature 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cubed and at room temperature 1 cup raspberry jam 1 egg yolk plus one teaspoon of water, for the egg wash Icing 1 cup sifted powdered sugar 1 1/2 tablespoons milk or water 1 tsp. vanilla powder or 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract Directions: 1. Grease two 8-by-6 baking dishes and line with parchment paper. You can also make one large danish in a 9-by-11 baking dish. 2. Heat the milk until warm to the touch but not too hot, about 100 F. Add the sugar and active dry yeast, and allow to proof for 5 to 10 minutes. The yeast will get foamy and bubbly; if it doesn’t, your milk may have been too hot or too cold and it is best to start again. 3. In the bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, combine the flour, salt and vanilla powder. Alternatively, you can make the dough by hand; you will just need to mix and knead for longer. 4. Add the milk and yeast mixture to the dough, along with the 2 eggs. On medium, mix until a very

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icing. Icing ingredients: 1 cup confectioner’s (powdered) sugar 1/4 tsp. almond extract 1 to 2 Tbsp. hot water Icing directions: Place all ingredients into a small bowl and mix well with a spoon, adding hot water as needed until you have a thin, gravy-like consistency. Set aside. Other ingredients needed: 1 jar raspberry preserves Maraschino cherries, roughly chopped into quarters Assembly directions: Take one of the cooled cookies and place bottom up on a plate. Top with a tablespoon of the raspberry preserves. Now, set a second cookie on top and gently press down, creating a sandwich. Spoon a dollop of icing on top and spread with the back of the spoon. Finish off with a bit of chopped cherry. shaggy dough is formed. With the mixer still on medium, add the butter one cube at a time; allow each piece to incorporate before adding the next. Once all the butter is incorporated, the dough will appear smoother and stickier. Switch the paddle attachment for the dough hook and mix on medium speed for 5 to 6 minutes, or until a soft, smooth, elastic dough is formed. It will start out looking sticky, but will ball around the dough hook toward the end. If it looks too wet and does not start forming a ball, you can add a few tablespoons of flour to help with the consistency. 5. Gently transfer the dough to a lightly greased bowl (it will be very soft and pour out), and cover with a damp clean kitchen towel. Allow the dough to rise until roughly doubled in size, 1 to 2 hours, depending on the temperature in your kitchen. 6. Once the dough has risen, punch it down and divide it in half. You can make two 8-by-6 raspberry danish twists at this time, or freeze half the dough for future use (just allow it to defrost and come up to room temperature). Dust a clean surface with flour, then take one-half of the dough and divide it into 3 equal balls. Roll each ball into a strand that is about an inch longer than the length of the baking dish, then gently twist each strand and fit them in lengthwise into the baking dish. Cover with a lightly damp clean kitchen towel and let the dough rise again for another 15 to 20 minutes. 7. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Add the jam to the danish. 8. Between the 3 strands of dough, you’ll make 2 strips of jam, each about a 1/4 cup worth of jam, or 1/2 cup per danish (if using a larger dish, simply evenly add jam between each strand). I gently nudge the stands apart and, with a spoon, fill with jam between the strands. Brush the top of the dough with the egg wash. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until deep golden brown on top. Rotate once halfway through baking. 9. Once baked, allow to cool on a rack. While the cakes are cooling, make the icing. Once mostly cooled, you can ice the cakes by drizzling the icing free form with a spoon, or by filling a small Ziploc bag with the icing and snipping off a corner to ice in any design you prefer.

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Israel salutes America: 70 who counted in 70

Israel-friendly New York City majors, from left: Fiorello La Guardia in 1940 (World Telegram & Sun/Fred Palumbo). Ed Koch with Israeli Prime Minsiter Yitzhak Shamir (GPO). Rudy Giuliani speaking to the AIPAC Policy Conference in 2016 (Ron Sachs).

On the occasion of the Jewish state’s 70th anniversary, the Israeli embassy in Washington, in partnership with the Jewish News Syndicate, celebrates 70 of the greatest American contributors to the U.S.-Israel relationship Many of the people and organizations chosen for this acknowledgement will be readily recognized by readers of The Jewish Star, others less so, but their powerful stories build a collective history that reflects the broad base of American love and support for the Jewish state. This week, The Jewish Star pubishes the fourth part of a series that will cover all of the “70 who counted.”

James Angleton (1917–1987) 28 of 70 James Jesus Angleton served in the CIA for more than 30 years, and for more than two decades as counter-intelligence chief. Angleton’s connection with Israel began early in his career, when he led the CIA’s secret relationship with the Mossad and Shin Bet. This fledgling relationship proved fruitful for both nations. The first major exchange paved the way for decades of intelligencesharing. In 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave a shocking speech to the 20th Soviet Communist Party Congress, a scathing criticism of Josef Stalin and his gruesome crimes. This top-secret text was highly guarded, shared only with leaders of the Eastern Bloc. However, a Polish-Jewish journalist fortuitously obtained a copy from his girlfriend, a secretary for the Polish Communist Party. Having decided to move to Israel, he offered the document to an intelligence officer at the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw. As a result of Angleton’s fostered relationship, Israeli intelligence immediately delivered the coveted text to the CIA, greatly helping the United States at a critical time in the Cold War. This incident reinforced Angleton’s belief that a powerful and trusting relationship with Israel counterparts was critical for achieving America’s strategic goals. Angleton continued to cultivate close ties with Israel over his career, a relationship that resulted in combating Soviet infiltration, countering terrorism and planning covert operations around the world. In 1978, George F. Keegan, the former chief of U.S. Air Force Intelligence, declared that the American military “owes more to the Israeli intelligence input than it does to any other single source of intelligence.” The extraordinary alliance between America and Israel is tightly bound to intelligencesharing, for which the foundations were laid by the tireless efforts of James Angleton. His death was marked in Jerusalem in 1987 by a secret tree-planting ceremony and memorial stone dedication. Attended by the highest-

ranking members of the Israeli intelligence establishment, it was a testament to Angleton’s unique contribution to the Jewish state.

Lynn and Charles Schusterman 29 of 70 Maimonides noted the importance of both “welfare of the soul” and “welfare of the body.” Though spiritual matters are ultimately on a higher plane, the spirit cannot flourish if the body is neglected. Lynn and Charles Schusterman have strengthened both the body and soul of the Jewish people and the Jewish state. Born in Kansas City, Lynn was raised in Oklahoma by her Jewish mother and stepfather. As a child, her stepfather, an investment manager, would take her to meet with widows in order to teach them to manage their finances. At a young age, she learned the importance of tikkun olam. Lynn later moved to Tulsa and married Charles Schusterman, founder of Samson Resources, one of the largest independent oil and gas companies in the United States. She remembers their second date fondly: he was busy assisting the United Jewish Appeal, and she learned that they were both passionate about helping others. In 1987, the Schustermans set up the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, which has become one of the nation’s most important charities. The foundation supports efforts to improve public education in the United States, enhance the quality of life in the Schustermans’ hometown of Tulsa, and strengthen the Jewish community and Israel. After Charles Schusterman passed away in 2000, Lynn took charge of the foundation and became a trailblazer in the world of Jewish philanthropy and a role model to women who hope to play a greater role in it. Among the groups she has funded are the Israel on Campus Coalition, an organization dedicated to ensuring fair representation of Israel at universities; the Israel Institute, which is building the field of Israel studies in the U.S. and around the world; the Succat Shalom Center for Children and Families, an emergency shelter in Jerusalem for those in need; and the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at Brandeis University. She is also a founding member of Birthright Israel, which brings young Jews to Israel to deepen their connection with the Jewish state. Schusterman’s commitment to Israel reaches beyond monetary contribution. In 2006, after Israel was barraged by Hezbollah rockets, her foundation sent emergency aid as well as 600 young volunteers from 17 countries to refurbish communities in the north of Israel. Through their far-sighted generosity, the Schustermans have strengthened Jewish body and soul alike.

Bayard Rustin (1912–1987)

30 of 70 One of the most important leaders of the civil-rights movement, Bayard Rustin was a consistent advocate for Israel and a determined opponent of anti-Semitism. Born in West Chester, Pa., Rustin moved to Harlem in his early 20s. In 1941, he helped organize the first “March on Washington.” The following year, he was arrested, beaten and jailed when he refused to sit at the back of a bus headed south. In 1947, he led a Freedom Ride. Arrested once more, he served time on a chain gang. In 1953, Rustin helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He assisted Martin Luther King Jr. in his rise and taught him about Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas of nonviolent resistance. As one of the two main organizers of the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” in 1963, Rustin stood alongside King as he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. “An unflagging supporter of Zionism,” in the words of historian Randall Kennedy, Rustin saw his support for Israel as an extension of his commitment to civil rights. As Rustin put it, “since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel’s existence.” He was particularly antagonistic to the antiSemitism displayed by some black nationalists in 1968 during New York’s teacher strike. Rustin was vociferous in criticizing those black leaders who showed sympathy for the PLO, a group he described as “committed to racism, terrorism and authoritarianism.” A longtime contributor to Commentary magazine, Rustin observed that autocratic Middle Eastern regimes promoted Israel hatred so that they would not have to “liberate their people from poverty.” In 1970, Rustin called for the United States to sell fighter jets to Israel. Earlier, in 1966, he had served as the chair of the Ad Hoc Commission on the Rights of Soviet Jews. This was a passionate cause for him during the last two decades of his life, when he worked for Soviet Jewry alongside Sens. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson. This fight would play a pivotal role in bringing one million Russian-Jewish refugees to Israel.

Abba Hillel Silver (1893–1963)

31 of 70 Most of the great Zionists were men of action. But Abba Hillel Silver, a crucial figure in the history of Zionism, was also an outstanding scholar. Born in Neustadt, Lithuania to a line of Orthodox rabbis, Silver was brought to the United States in 1902 and grew up on New York’s Lower East Side. There, at age 11, he co-founded a Hebrew-speaking Zionist organization, the HerzlZion club. Deeply interested in Jewish theology and history, Silver enrolled at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, graduating in 1915 as its valedictorian. By 1917, when he was just 24, Silver had

become head of Cleveland’s influential Congregation Tifereth Israel, where he remained throughout his life. Within 10 years, Tifereth Israel was the largest synagogue congregation in the United States. Silver was a leading figure the Reform movement, which in the first half of the 20th century had an uncertain attitude towards Zionism. Silver himself had flirted with a “cultural” Zionism that excluded political sovereignty. But during World War II, he saw the need for an independent Jewish state and began to rally his fellow American Jews to the cause. As historian Allan Arkush recounts, Silver’s electric speech in August 1943 at the WaldorfAstoria Hotel in New York helped unite wavering American Jewish leaders behind the idea of a Jewish state. “Are we forever to live a homeless people on the world’s crumbs of sympathy?” he asked. “Should not all this be compensated for finally and at long last with the reestablishment of a free Jewish Commonwealth?” After the war, Silver served as president of the American Zionist Organization and the Central Conference of Rabbis, continuing to push aggressively for a Jewish state. He put added pressure on President Truman to follow a proIsrael course by persuading the Republican Party to add a pledge of support for Israel to its 1948 platform. In the decade after the establishment of Israel, Silver’s continuing advocacy for Israel set a precedent for principled, forthright AmericanJewish engagement in support of the Jewish state.

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Zev Wolfson immigrated to New York City at the age of 17 after being deported by the Soviets from Lithuania to Siberia. Despite his impoverished youth, he quickly became an American success story, excelling in real estate, business, politics and more, and amassing tremendous wealth. Yet despite his wealth and influence, Wolfson remained humble. When the chairman of Merrill Lynch asked how he gained his fortune, he responded: “G-d gave it to me.” His humility, piety and generosity were evident in all his actions. Considering himself obligated to secure the growth of the Jewish people both physically and spiritually, Wolfson created and donated to hundreds of education and outreach programs. Exemplifying Maimonides’s praise for anonymous charity, Wolfson took no credit for his donations, making a complete account of his giving difficult to compile. But his support was extensive, much of it directed to schools and educational programs. In his last decades, he gave particularly generously to causes that highlighted Judaism and made its teachings more widely accessible. Wolfson brought about change without fanfare. The columnist Jonathan Rosenblum recounts that when a group of young professionals asked Wolfson how they could become more active in Jewish communal work, he reContinued on next page

The Mayors: Fiorello La Guardia (1882–1947) Ed Koch (1924–2013), Rudy Giuliani 33 of 70

The Jewish people had no better friend than New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. The “little flower,” as La Guardia was called, spoke Yiddish and was a progressive champion of the rights of Jews, particularly immigrant garment workers on the Lower East Side. But his finest hour would come in the early 1930s, when Hitler was rising to power. At a time when so many were silent, La Guardia raised his voice against the evils of Nazi Germany. While La Guardia died before the establishment of the State of Israel, his brand of fearless leadership continued under two of his successors, Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani. Mayor from 1977 to 1989, Koch was a proud Jew and lifelong lover and supporter of Israel. Known for a gregarious personality, he was proud to count many Israelis, such as longtime Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, as dear friends. During his tenure as mayor, Koch made clear that New York stood behind Israel in its efforts to achieve a lasting peace. As a loyal Democrat, he led efforts to bolster the long tradition of pro-Israel support within the Democratic Party and never put loyalty to party above speaking the truth. He crossed party lines in 1993 to support fellow Israel defender, Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani. Throughout his career, Giuliani, 73, has been a strong, consistent and courageous advocate for Israel. In the 1990s and 2000s, he consistently called on Palestinians to end violence and return to negotiations. In more recent years, he has been one of the most articulate voices warning of the dangers of a nuclear Iran to America, Israel and the entire world. From La Guardia to Koch to Giuliani, mayors of New York have built a remarkable legacy of support for the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

Bayard Rustin in 1965.

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Six-Day War should not be the basis for territorial acquisition, it was no way “ambiguous.” It insisted upon “termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every state in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force.” Rostow observed that “speaker after speaker made it explicit that Israel was not to be forced back to the ‘fragile’ and ‘vulnerable’ Armistice Demarcation Lines.” In speeches and articles, Rostow pointedly affirmed that the original U.N. Mandate for Palestine explicitly permitted Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria. As an expert on the Geneva Convention, he also noted that claims that it applied to Jewish settlements were absurd since the convention prohibits the “mass transfer of people into and out of occupied territories for purposes of extermination, slave labor or colonization. … [But] the Jewish settlers in the West Bank are most emphatically volunteers. They have not been ‘deported’ or ‘transferred’ to the area by the Government of Israel.” These would be among Rostow’s greatest battles in the public arena. Even when political tides turned, he never flinched from defending the truth of Israel’s legal rights.

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34 of 70 A great legal mind can be used in many ways. Eugene Rostow used his to aid the cause of American democracy — and Israel. Born into an immigrant family in Brooklyn, Rostow soon revealed himself to be an intellectual prodigy, graduating with the highest of honors from Yale at age 19. By 1937, he was a member of its law-school faculty. Back problem prevented Rostow from serving in combat during World War II, but he put his legal skills to work in the State Department, guiding the lend-lease program. He returned to Yale University Law School as Dean and turned it into one of the country’s best. Rostow later served as Lyndon Johnson’s Undersecretary of Political Affairs and helped author U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, informing his frequent commentary on its many misinterpretations. He noted that while the resolution said that the outcome of the

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Continued from page 14 sponded: “You’re not interested in becoming involved. If you were interested, you would just do it and not talk about it.” When it came to Israel, he followed his own advice. Shortly before the first Persian Gulf War, Wolfson’s met with Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii and asked if there was anything in the American arsenal that could protect Israel from Iraqi Scuds. Inouye told him about the Patriot missile batteries, and said that Israel had not asked for them. Wolfson immediately relayed this to Israeli leaders. The next day, a New York Times headline read: “US to Supply Patriots to Israel.” Despite his riches, and long into his old age, Wolfson always flew to Israel in economy class, a humble and wise servant of the Jewish people.

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School News Send news and hi-res photos to Schools@TheJewishStar.com Deadline Mondays at Noon Co-Valedicatorian Akiva Schuck

Co-Valedicatorian Michael Akhavan

Salutatorian Doniel Fodiman

Rambam’s Vals and Sal Co-Valedictorian Michael Akhavan Michael Akhavan distinguished himself early on at Rambam and was quickly known as someone with exemplary midos, as well as someone eager to contribute to the school culture and to Am Yisroel. As gabbai of the Sepharidc minyan, Michael strove to create an atmosphere of Ahavas Hashem and achdus. He shepherded the school’s weekly Torah publication, Hamasmid. He was a debate captain and a stalwart member of Rambam’s basketball team and Yachad club. He is a member of the Arista Honor Society and even won Rambam’s CBS Survivor Tzedakeh Challenge. Michael is kind, humble, and epitomizes the idea of a ben Torah. He plans to study at Sha’alvim next year and continue his Torah learning in the U.S. while attending the Queens College scholars program. Co-Valedictorian Akiva Schuck Conscientious, creative, and a stellar character are the trademarks of Akiva Schuck. His academic prowess was recognized from the time he applied to school four years ago and was named a Rambam scholar. During high school, his achievements earned him membership to the Arista/National Honor Society. Excelling in all of his academic studies and

being a budding talmid chochom, Akiva is respected by Rambam’s administration, faculty, and student body. His wonderful midos endear him to everyone who meets him. He is a wellrounded individual who participates in various sports teams, extracurricular activities, was involved in the school’s weekly Torah publication, Hamasmid, and is frequently found in the Bais Medresh “just to learn.” Akiva plans to attend Yeshiva University after spending time in Israel in Yeshivas Netiv Aryeh. Salutatorian Doniel Fodiman Doniel Fodiman is always seen walking around with a sefer and a book. His commitment to halacha, intellectual curiosity, and drive for truth set him apart as the quintessential Torah U’Madda man. Doniel was integral to the success of the school’s Torah Bowl, Poetry, and Tennis teams. He founded the Rambam Medieval Jewish Poetry Club while writing for AIPAC and serving in Lev Leytzan, the Compassionate Clown Society. Doniel plans on learning in Yeshivat Har Etzion (Gush) and then staying in Israel to continue both his kodesh and college studies. Wherever he goes, there is confidence he will have a meaningful thought, a kind word, and a warm smile for everyone he meets.

Chesed at Shulamith In honor of their becoming Bnot Mitzvah, sixth graders at the Shulamith School for Girls in Cedarhurst, graders Bayla Axelrod, Sarah Farkas, Miriam Landau and Kayla Prero, organized a beautiful and meaningful chesed project. They invited the entire grade to decorate

glass vases. Then on Eruv Shabbat/Shavuot, they delivered the special vases, filled with fresh flowers, to residents of Premiere Nursing Home and Rehabilitation. They made the residents so happy and the girls felt so good bringing smiles to their faces.

HAFTR girls: Soccer champs HALB ‘Names Not Numbers’ HALB eighth graders presented the culmination of their year long “Names Not Numbers” project. This is a unique Holocaust oral history documentary project in which the students themselves collect oral histories of survivors and create a film based on this experience. As part of the project, there are sessions related to Shoah education, interviewing techniques, and videography. The culminating event is a dinner in which the students’ film is shown; it is then archived in Yad Vashem and the National Library of Israel. The HAFTR Middle School girls defeated North Shore Hebrew Academy on June 5 to capture the girls’ middle school soccer championship. The hard-fought game ended in a 5–2 HAFTR victory, with Annaruth Boxer scoring two goals, Abbi Kammerman scoring one goal, Gabby Fuchs scoring one goal, Emma Pine scoring one goal, and Shirly Gottlieb doing an amazing job in goal. HAFTR, which looks forward to raising its first ever soccer championship banner in its new Scott Satran Arena, congratulates team and coach Harold Hernandez for an incredible championship season.

The eighth grade girls shown in this picture are standing with Jack Rybstein, a 93-yearold survivor who lives across the street from HALB’s new Woodmere campus and whose story was recounted in a series of articles in The Jewish Star. Rybstein, along with the other survivors who were interviewed, may have been treated by the Nazis as mere numbers. But through the efforts of HALB’s eighth graders, under the leadership of Marjorie Wein and Morah Eliana, their humanity will live on into the future.

HANC visits space center The sky was the limit for sixth graders at HANC’s Samuel and Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, during their visit to the Buehler Challenger and Science Center in Paramus, NJ. Over the past several months, the students have been learning about mission STS-51L set for January 1986. Unfortunately, the astronauts lost their lives in a horrible disaster due to a malfunctioning O-ring. The Buehler Challenger and Science Center allows for the students to complete the mission of the astronauts and gather information about Halley’s Comet. The students had the opportunity to build a

probe and calculated the coordinates to determine where the Comet was located. Once they completed the calculations, they were able to “send” the probe into space to collect information about what the Comet is made of. During the course of the mission, an emergency arose and just like actual astronauts, the students had to work together to determine the best course of action to resolve the problematic issue. Buehler is an excellent experience that is designed to foster team work, leadership and experimentation through inquiry-based learning.

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Warmest congratulations to the graduates in the Class of 2018 on their admissions to the following yeshivot, colleges and universities:

Adelphi University Barnard College Boston University Brandeis University CUNY at: Baruch College Brooklyn College City College Guttman CC Hunter College/Scholars John Jay College Kingsborough CC Lehman College NYC College of Technology Queens College/Scholars CUNY Macaulay Honors College at: City College Hunter College Queens College Cooper Union Cornell University Drexel University Fordham University Hofstra University Hofstra University BS/MD Program Johns Hopkins University Long Island University at Brooklyn McGill University Miami University of Ohio

Muhlenberg College New York Institute of Technology/DO Program New York University NYSCAS-Touro College Plaza College Princeton University Rutgers University SUNY College/University at: Albany Binghamton Buffalo Farmingdale Fashion Institute of Technology Nassau CC Stony Brook Syracuse University Touro/Lander College University of Connecticut University of Delaware University of Maryland/Honors University of Massachusetts University of Miami University of Michigan University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Vanderbilt University Yale University Yeshiva University and Stern College/Honors

GIRLS’ SEMINARIES Ba’er Miriam Emunah Ve-Omanut Machon Maayan Midreshet Amit Midreshet Harova Midreshet Lindenbaum Midreshet Moriah Midreshet Torah Va-Avodah (TVA) Midreshet Torat Chesed Migdal Oz Nishmat Tiferet BOYS’ YESHIVOT Mechinat Keshet Yehuda Yeshivat Aish HaTorah Gesher program Yeshivat Ashreinu Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi Yeshivat HaKotel Yeshivat Har Etzion (Gush) Yeshivat Kerem b’Yavne (KBY) Yeshivat Lev HaTorah Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh Yeshivat Orayta Yeshivat Reishit Yerushalayim Yeshivat Shaalvim Yeshivat Shaarei Mevaseret Zion Yeshivat Torat Shraga

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Chukat: The intertwining of life and death From Heart of Jerusalem

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here are so many things in life that are impossible to understand. Yet every now and then, we are afforded a glimpse, as if through a momentary clearing of the fog, of what it’s all about. How important is it for us to comprehend all that we do? Where lies the balance between pure faith and our need to understand? This week’s parsha, Chukat, provides the ultimate example of that which is impossible to comprehend: the parah aduma (Bamidbar 19:1-2). Somehow, this mitzvah is unique amongst all the laws of the Torah. And, it seems, what makes it so unique, is that it is impossible to understand. Rashi, quoting the Midrash, explains that this law is by nature impossible to comprehend, and therefore one should not, perhaps even may not, attempt to fathom it. It is G-d’s decree. The nature of this particular mitzvah is indeed difficult to understand, even bordering on the bizarre. When a person comes into contact with a dead body, he is rendered tamei, or spiritually contaminated. In order to again achieve a state of ritual purity, he must undergo the ritual of the parah aduma, the red heifer. Paradoxically, while the ashes of the parah aduma purify the person who is impure, they also cause the pure person who gathers the ashes to become impure! It is this incomprehensible phenomenon, that the parah aduma purifies the impure while contaminating the pure, that causes the Talmud to declare that even King Shlomo could not fathom the mitzvah of the parah aduma.

Rashi seems to suggest that we are not allowed to attempt an understanding of this type of mitzvah: “It is a chok, a decree from before Me, and you have no right to ponder it” (Rashi, Bamidbar 19:2). Maimonides on the other hand, openly espouses the value of attempting to understand: “Even though all the chukim in the Torah are decrees … it is worthy to explore them, and everything to which you can assign a reason, give to it a reason” (Hilchot Temurah 4:13). So which is it? Should we be attempting to understand that which Hashem asks of us, or are we perhaps better off relying on pure faith? It is interesting to note that this week’s portion is actually the bridge between the first generation of Jews who left Egypt, and the second generation, born largely in the desert, who are about to enter the land of Israel. In this week’s portion, both Miriam and Aaron die (20:1; 22-29), and in the infamous incident at Mei Merivah, Hashem decrees that Moshe too, will not enter the land. s such, it is strange that the laws regarding a person who becomes impure through contact with death are only mentioned now, on the eve of entering the land of Israel. Indeed, the Talmud suggests (Gittin 60a) that this mitzvah was given nearly forty years earlier, and yet the Torah chooses to place it here! In fact, the theme of Chukat is the quintessential experience we can never comprehend: death. It’s about coming into contact with death, the deaths of Miriam and Aaron, the decree of Moshe’s approaching death. The verses even share with us some of the wanderings of the

forty years in the desert, during which the entire generation of Egypt dies out as well. Ultimately, there is no portion more fitting for a mitzvah we cannot understand as Chukat, which is all about death, the ultimate mystery. It is similarly no accident that this week we encounter the concept of the righteous who suffer, when the three leaders of the Jewish people (Moshe, Aaron, and Miriam) are not allowed to enter the land. The Jewish people here begin the transition from life in the desert, where everything was clear, to the entering the land of Israel, where the great questions of life abound. Understanding anything is comprised of three things: its reason, its purpose, and the implications we draw for ourselves. It would be absurd to imagine that we can ascertain the reason for a mitzvah. A reason is essentially causation; something caused something else. But G-d is not caused to do or command anything; G-d is the cause. If the Torah comes from G-d, the mitzvot cannot have a cause; they are the cause. Thus, we can only consider the purpose and/or implications of a given mitzvah. Sometimes, Hashem allows us to tap into the purpose of a mitzvah, either by stating it explicitly in the Torah, as in Shabbat, or by creating us with the faculty to hone in on what a particular mitzvah accomplishes for both individuals and the larger society. But sometimes, we are not privy to the purpose of a mitzvah, and this may be what chukim are about. The purpose of fulfilling such a mitzvah, and how the world changes as a result, may be beyond our grasp, but this does not mean we cannot consider its implications.

There’s a time to understand, and a time for pure faith.

y definition, the lessons I glean from a closer examination of anything in life will inevitably make it more meaningful and further study may cause me to reassess my understanding. This would seem to be the Torah’s approach to all of life’s paradoxes and mysteries, death chief amongst them. To imagine that we as limited human beings could ever understand death and human suffering would be supreme arrogance. Yet the process of grappling with the challenge of death, and attempting to learn from the process, can be a valuable one, within these parameters. Tumah, often translated as “impurity,” represents contact with death. Every instance of tumah in the Torah is the result of it, be it a dead lizard (a sheretz), or the loss of potential life after the breakdown of the uterine lining (niddah). And taharah, purity, which comes after immersion in a ritual bath full of water that represents life, is the reemergence of the individual into the mainstream. This, then, is the paradox of the red heifer — the intertwining of life and death, and the impossibility of understanding why it so often seems that the pure become impure (the righteous suffer) and the impure become pure. Perhaps this was why King Shlomo viewed this as the ultimate mystery, because we are not meant to understand the purpose of experiences beyond our comprehension, such as death. And yet King Shlomo does try, because we are, as the Rambam suggests, meant to try. We can at least draw implications from even these most difficult mitzvot. We live in a world full of mysteries, with realities impossible to comprehend. But the decision is in each of our hands to find meaning in every moment and every piece of every mitzvah, and it will be the determining factor between grabbing life and being reborn every minute, or losing life and dying day by day, one slow second at a time. A version of this column originally appeared in 2012.

Following G-d’s words, right to their very letter Parsha of the Week

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n Bamidbar 20:2-4, the nation is depicted three different ways: once as an edah (a united group), once as ha’am (the nation, though less united than an edah), and once as kehal Hashem, the congregation of G-d. One of the main issues G-d raises against Moshe and Aharon in the aftermath of the Mei Merivah story is “Since you did not have faith in Me, to sanctify Me to the people...” In other words, there needed to have been a kiddush Hashem name from which the people would see and understand that G-d is here; that He is the One Who brought forth water from the well; and that Moshe and Aharon are his messengers who helped us, the people, learn these important lessons. Clearly, in Bamidbar Chapter 20, Moshe and Aharon did not do that. They were given three and a half instructions: 1. Take the staff. (Which staff is a subject of debate.) 2. Gather the edah. 3. Speak to the rock before the eyes of the people (so that water comes out on its own). 3.5. If that doesn’t work, you shall bring forth water for the people (in a manner that you know — the viewpoint of Netziv) In terms of following G-d’s command, they only do the first.

1. He took the staff, “as he had been commanded” (20:9). 2. They gathered the kehal (a different group than the one they had been instructed to gather). 3. They spoke to the people, but it was more critical than inspirational. 3.5. Because nothing happened, Moshe hit the rock to bring forth water. t is noteworthy that there was a time when Moshe’s hitting the rock was appropriate, in which he did exactly as G-d told him (Shemot 17:1-7). And there was another time when G-d told Moshe to speak to the people, and through his actions, he demonstrated G-d’s power, causing perhaps the greatest expression of faith that the Jewish people had ever experienced until that time: the Splitting of the Sea. In Shemot 17, the people fight with Moshe, just as they do in Bamidbar 20, in both cases called the am. They similarly complain about being taken out of Egypt to die in the wilderness. In Shemot, Moshe is told to contend with the am. In Bamidbar, he is instructed to deal with edah — in other words, to ignore the am. Instead, he contends with the kehal. Another major distinction between Shemot 17 and Bamidbar 20 is that in Shemot, Moshe is instructed to “take your staff,” not an ambiguous staff, “and strike the rock, and water will come out, and the people will drink” — and Moshe did exactly what he was told to do (17:6). In Bamid-

bar 20, the only confirmation we have of Moshe following orders is in 20:9, after he took the staff, but before anything else happened. This leads us to Shemot 14, the lead-in to the Splitting of the Sea. As the Egyptian army is pursuing, the people ask Moshe why he took them out of Egypt. Moshe tells the am not to be afraid (other factions were presumably waiting for instruction), and then G-d tells him, “What are you screaming at Me for? Speak to the Israelites and they should move! As for you, lift your staff and spread your hand over the sea and split it” (14:16). In the remaining verses, whenever the “miracle-working device” is referenced, it is always Moshe’s hand, in verses 21, 26, 27, and 31. And what is the end result? “The people see the hand of Moshe, and they believed in G-d and in Moshe [as] His servant.” The formula is: follow what G-d tells you to the letter. Do not make your stick into a magic wand. Make sure the people see your hand as an extension of the power of the Almighty. And this is in fact the problem in Bamidbar 20. Look at verse 11, where Moshe “removes his hand,” (according to Kli Yakar), then uses his staff to bring about a miracle — one which nobody attributes to G-d. What should follow is a declaration of the faith of the people, as we see in Shemot 14:31. Instead, Moshe and Aharon declare to the people “Will we bring forth water for you from this

Don’t turn your stick into a magic wand.

rock?” instead of “will G-d bring forth water for you from this rock?” The critique they gave when they were told to speak comes to haunt them. They not only spoke inappropriately, but completely left G-d out of the picture. Our job is to remember to invoke the name of G-d’s at every opportunity. Perhaps in that merit, we, too, will merit to see a return of all of Israel to the Promised Land.

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Jewish Star columnist This week’s column is devoted to a review by Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin of “The Spiritual Revolution of Rav Kook” by Rabbi Ari Ze’ev Schwartz (Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem, 2016). Rabbi Drazina, musmach of Ner Yisrael, is a distinguished author of literary and scholarly works on Bible commentary and Jewish history. The “The Spiritual Revolution of Rav Kook” is a simple, user-friendly introduction to the uniqueness of Rav Kook’s hashkafah. Rabbi Drazin subtitles his review, “The Writings of a Jewish Mystic,” from which you may surely discern his perception of Rav Kook’s unique views. By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin ven rationalists like me can read, enjoy, and learn from the writings of mystics. We do not have to accept everything they say as being true, but there are things they say which are true. Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook was born in Latvia in 1865 and died in Jerusalem in 1935. His father was a Mitnagid, opposed to mysticism. His mother was a descendant of Chabad, a Chasidic group. When asked “What will you be?” he answered “I will be both.” In 1920, at the age of 55, he moved to Jerusalem and became its chief rabbi. Rabbi Kook’s writings are generally, but not

always, very mystical and difficult to understand. However, Rabbi Ari Ze’ev Schwartz’s book “The Spiritual Revolution of Rav Kook” unravels the writings with a new translation, with each chapter divided into clearly stated topic headings added by Rabbi Schwartz, such as the individual, Torah, G-d, teshuvah, prayer, creativity, Zionism, science, and vegetarianism. Rabbi Schwartz also introduces each section with a clear explanation of what Rabbi Kook is saying. Rabbi Kook became chief rabbi long before the State of Israel was reestablished in 1948. He lived during a period when the vast majority of pioneers were irreligious Jews, often antagonistic to religion. He is properly credited for working to draw all people close, even those who rebelled against religion. He taught that each person should want to influence friends and be influenced by them for the greater good. It is through the combining of different talents within each individual that a society is formed. He also taught that everyone should find a personal Torah and realize that there is not just one type of Torah, but an endless variety that can speak to countless individuals in different ways. The following are some of Rabbi Kook’s ideas: The highest type of thinking is never reject any idea in the world. No one has a monopoly on truth. There is truth in other religions. Secular knowledge is important. We must teach our children what is necessary for them to know how to confront the trials of life. I walk around with an overwhelming jealousy

of the secular world. It is a jealousy that consumes me. For is it really possible that the power of creativity has ceased within the religious world? Atheists may be on the right track. They may be denying an immature and distorted image of G-d. In other words, their denial of G-d is really a deeper quest for a higher, more sophisticated understanding. Atheism comes to purify the dirt, the embarrassments, that have stuck to a religion that lacks any comprehension. Religious people should understand this, and pay attention to what is bothering them. One should not only study a religious text to receive a new idea; it should serve as a tool toward understanding oneself. he role of an author of any book is to begin the discussion of an idea, yet it is the reader’s responsibility to respond by searching for their own personal meaning. The ideal perfection of a person can only be accomplished by focusing one’s energy on improving one’s own individual self as much as possible. Yet at the same time a person should keep in mind that one’s own individual perfection will never be completed until the Jewish people have success-

To the nation, who was Aharon? Torah

rABBi dAvid eTenGoff

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haron was the first Kohen Gadol, and one of the greatest people in the history of our nation. Yet, as King Solomon taught us long ago, “There is no righteous man on earth who does good and sins not.” Unfortunately, this verse rings true in Aharon’s case as well, especially regarding his involvement in the creation of the Golden Calf. What could have caused him to fall to this level? At first glance, it seems that he was motivated by fear. Sanhedrin 7a relates that Aharon’s nephew, Chur, was murdered for refusing to participate: “He saw Chur lying slain before him and said: If I do not obey, they will do unto me as they did unto Chur, and so will be fulfilled the prophet, ‘Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the Sanctuary of G-d?’” But even fear of death would not be sufficient cause to engage in avodah zarah, since, as the Ramban notes, “one should be willing to die rather than violate” this command. Why, then, did Aharon choose to play a role in the construction of the Eigel Hazahav? A convincing answer is found at the end of our Talmudic passage: “Shall the priest [i.e. Aharon]

and the prophet be slain in the Sanctuary of G-d?” [If so,] they [the Jewish people] will never find forgiveness. Better let them worship the Golden Calf, for which they may yet find forgiveness through repentance.” In short, in a poignant act of self-sacrifice, Aharon compromised himself and his reward in the world to come in order to prevent permanent damage to the Jewish People. What was his motivation? In my estimation, he did this because of his unlimited love for the Jewish people, and his desire to bring about peace and love between them. This idea is found in Rashi’s commentary on a verse in this week’s parsha: “The whole congregation saw that Aaron had expired, and the entire house of Israel wept for Aaron for thirty days” (Bamidbar 20:29). Rashi opines: “The entire house of Israel [refers to both] the men and the women, for Aaron had pursued peace; he promoted love between disputing parties and between man and wife.” Rashi’s comment is based upon a fascinating passage in Midrash Aggadah, underscoring the most prominent aspects of Aharon’s personality and the unparalleled manner in which the Jewish people perceived him:

“And the entire house of Israel wept for Aaron for thirty days — that which was said regarding Aharon was greater than that which was said in regards to Moshe. [In Moshe’s case the Torah states: “And the sons of Israel wept for Moshe in the plains of Moav for thirty days — only the men, whereas in Aharon’s case the text states, “the entire house of Israel,” which included both men and women.]” e are immediately taken aback by the difference between the people’s reaction at the passing of Aharon and that of Moshe. In Aharon’s case, all of the Jewish people cried for thirty days upon his death, whereas in regards to Moshe, only the men cried for this period of time. This is difficult to understand. It seems that Moshe should have received the greater emotional response. As Hashem’s messenger, he led the people out of Egypt, helped them cross the Sea of Reeds, brought them to receive the Torah at Mount Sinai, and continuously taught them the Torah! Our Midrash explains: “This [reaction] took place because Aharon pursued peace, loved peace, and brought about harmony between a man and his wife and between a woman and her friend. As the text states: ‘In peace and righteousness he went with Me, and he brought back many from iniquity

Upon his death, the people cried for 30 days.

(Malachi 2:6).’ “When Aharon heard that two men, or a husband and his wife, were in the midst of a dispute, he would walk toward one of them and say to him: ‘Your friend has come to me, and he is totally upset that he has angered you. Moreover, he/she beseeched me to come to you to seek permission for him to approach, so that you may forgive him.’ In addition, Aharon would not leave the aggrieved individual until he had effectively removed all hatred from his heart. In this way, he would set the stage for peace between them, and only then go on his way.” Aharon emerges as the people’s counselor and advocate, driven by his everlasting dedication to shalom: “When one of the injured parties would encounter their friend, following their session with Aharon, they would embrace one another. So too was his approach when he heard about a fight between a man and his wife — he would not take leave from them until they achieved reconciliation. Therefore, both the men and the women cried for Aharon upon his passing.” We live in a fractious world of unending dissension. It appears that Aharon’s approach is desperately needed to help heal the endless discord that impacts us all. As Hillel taught us so long ago: “Be of the students of Aharon — loving peace, pursuing peace, loving your fellow beings and bringing them close to the Torah” (Pirkei Avot 1:12). May these words be realized soon, with Hashem’s help, and may we, too, be counted among the students of Aharon.

Sometimes, leaders have to deal with ‘gloomititus’ Angel for Shabbat

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he people were thirsty. In desperation, they complained bitterly. Moshe and Aaron did not know how to respond; they retreated to the tent of meeting and fell on their faces. G-d then commanded them to speak to a rock, and water would come forth. Moshe and Aaron gathered the people: “Hear now, you rebels! Are we to bring you water out of this rock?” Moshe struck the rock twice, and water came forth. G-d then informed Moshe and Aaron that they had failed to sanctify G-d, and that they would therefore not lead the people into the

promised land. Moshe and Aaron would die before reaching their goal. Biblical commentators have tried to understand what they did to incur G-d’s displeasure. Some suggest that they sinned by speaking disdainfully to the Israelites, referring to them as “rebels.” Others suggest that Moshe struck the rock rather than speaking to it, not following Gd’s specific instructions. Perhaps, though, there is another way of understanding this story. The people were thirsty and were growing increasingly distressed and angry. Why hadn’t Moshe and Aaron themselves noticed the shortage of water? Why did they need the people to come to complain to them? Shouldn’t leaders be looking out for the welfare of their people, and shouldn’t they realize when the people’s basic needs are not being met? Why didn’t Moshe and

Aaron pray to G-d for water well in advance of the people’s complaints? They could have entirely avoided the crisis if they had been more in touch with the people. Perhaps their error was not being sufficiently aware of the needs and the moods of the people. When leaders lose touch, they open the door to dissatisfaction, complaints, and disaffection. In his book, “Other People’s Trades” (Summit Books, New York, 1989), Primo Levi writes about an assignment given to a sixth grade class. Students were asked to describe an invented animal. One of the students wrote of a huge animal of incredible strength that had bones harder than steel. This animal “has twelve hearts and sixty ribs and could be feared as invincible and immortal; however he is afraid of only one disease, gloomititus, which for him is fatal” (p. 41). “Gloomititus” is fatal because it saps the ani-

mal of self-confidence and the ability to act. Even though this monster is so powerful and seemingly invincible, it is undermined when it succumbs to gloom. It sinks into a helpless stupor. It would seem that the people of Israel fell victim to “gloomititus.” They forgot about all the miracles that had brought them this far and that continued to sustain them. They forgot about the many wonderful things that Moshe and Aaron did for them. Instead, they lost heart; everything seemed bleak; they thought that death was preferable to their current situation. Moshe and Aaron had been unable to foresee or fend off the “gloomititus.” This, it may be suggested, was the “sin” that disqualified them from entering the Promised Land. They had fallen out of touch with the needs and feelings of the people, and thus they were no longer able to lead them properly.

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No one has a monopoly on the truth

fully reached national perfection. People should realize that being totally perfect is unattainable and should understand that a person’s true greatness is found in the journey of constantly striving to become a little better. More than asking G-d to forgive our misdeeds, we should learn to forgive ourselves and work to assure we do not repeat our mistakes. Personal growth requires us to first clarify what is the character trait we want to assume, and only after knowing this try to embody it. A person who thinks that prayer changes G-d’s will is blaspheming. The demand for physical activity is enormous. We need healthy bodies. But we have focused on our souls and have forgotten the holiness of the body. We must agree with Maimonides who taught that the stories of creation told in the Torah should not be understood literally; rather, they have a deeper lesson to teach. It is hard to believe that G-d created a world that Genesis 1:31 calls “very good,” and yet made it impossible for humankind to survive without distorting its moral sensitivity by murdering animals.

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Trump, Kim and the ‘good citizen’ Viewpoint

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ne of the memorable scenes in “The Lives of Others” — an exemplary German movie whose plot centers on the Stasi secret police in the late, unlamented German Democratic Republic — involves a joke about Erich Honecker, the Soviet puppet who served as the GDR’s head of state. Honecker came out onto his balcony one morning, spotted the sun and greeted it accordingly. “Good morning, Comrade Honecker!” the sun replied cheerfully. At midday, Honecker did the same thing. “Good afternoon, Comrade Honecker!” the sun trilled back. That evening, Honecker popped out onto the balcony for one last time and wished the sun goodnight. “Get lost,” the sun answered. “I’m in the West now.” Dark jokes like these served as a coping mechanism for repressed and exhausted citizens across Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe, and as a way of expressing basic truths about communism’s assault upon the soul. In a 2013 interview, Natan Sharansky, the figurehead of Jewish resistance to the Soviet ban on aliyah, explained what a “good citizen” meant in the Soviet environment. “It is to say what you are supposed to

say, to read what you are permitted to read, to vote the way you are told to vote, and, at the same time, to know that all this is a lie.” In 1989, the monumental lie unraveled. As East Germany, and then the Soviet Union, crumbled into fleeting dust, it seemed to many observers that the collapse of communism would foster a new culture of political liberty. As a prediction, it was wrong. Yet behind it was a deeper insight into the ills of communism — and, indeed, all forms of government where party, state and ideology converge under a supreme leader. In a week when the president of the United States met with the dictator of North Korea, it is worth restating. e had absorbed (or so we thought) the knowledge that any political system in which opposition is proscribed and dissidents locked up can never be legitimate. As 1989 reminded us, political legitimacy is rooted in the informed consent of the people. We also realized (or thought we had) that anti-democratic systems contribute to their own dissolution from birth; in the case of Nazi Germany, the process took 12 years, and in the case of the Soviet Union, it took 72. In that light, even those Communist governments that survived 1989 — China, Cuba and Vietnam, among others — seemed to be living on borrowed time. Their economies sank, and public demands for democracy surfaced. President Donald Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-Un in Singapore does not, I submit, under-

cut the validity of these observations. When it comes to North Korea, even former Secretary of State John Kerry, an arch-appeaser of the Cuban and Iranian regimes, found it within himself to describe the ruling Kim dynasty as the “illegal and illegitimate regime in North Korea.” Moreover, since the end of the Cold War, the regime’s primary goal has been to secure its own power. Unlike dictators such as the late Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, who lavished goods and financial windfalls on the poor when oil prices were high, the Kim dynasty has always kept its incarcerated population cold, hungry and abidingly fearful of not being the sort of “good citizens” described by Sharansky. nce the Cold War ended, this human suffering fueled the perception of North Korea as being on the verge of collapse — that is, until the regime’s acquisition of nuclear weapons meant that it could shield itself effectively from a U.S.-centered world order. But now, North Korea has apparently agreed to engage in a process aimed at achieving its emasculation, in terms of hard power, by 2020. There are many reasons to consider such an outcome fanciful, but the historical example of the Soviet Union, where disintegration followed disarmament, is the most compelling of all. The Soviet Union didn’t go under because the United States refused to guarantee its external borders; it happened because of the pressures from within. By the same logic, without its nukes, North

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at the Capella Hotel in Singapore on June 12. White House

Korea cannot remain a shuttered society, with the Kim regime the sole focus of enforced public devotion. Should the regime turn its back on future negotiations, dread at the political consequences of opening up brains and markets — what the Soviets called “glasnost” and “perestroika” — will likely be why. So however absurd and distasteful Trump’s encomiums to the tyrant of Pyongyang are, engaging the regime in dialogue is not in itself objectionable. It all depends what the goals are. Many of the people now advising Trump are longtime advocates of regime change in North Korea because they understand that political reform in an enslaved state is outlandish, unless, by some extraordinary twist, the regime decides of its own volition to devolve power or even surrender it entirely. But, as the sun clearly understood from its conversation with Erich Honecker, history has never worked like that. So far.

Anti-Semitism at U.N. can no longer be ignored JONatHaN S. tOBiN

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t was just another day at United Nations. As it has done innumerable times in the last 50 years, on June 12, the General Assembly devoted an entire day of debate, procedural wrangling and voting to an effort to condemn Israel. Once again, it succeeded. The resolution in this case condemned Israel for the recent violence along the Gaza border. It placed the sole blame on Israel which, it said, used “excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate force.” For good measure, among a laundry list of anti-Israel talking points, the Jewish state was also blamed for the plight of the people of Gaza and called for the end of the blockade of the strip by both Israel and Egypt. While it purported to be motivated by sym-

pathy for the Palestinians who died, nowhere in its text was any mention of the fact that the demonstrations have not been peaceful, but were led by armed persons throwing rocks, fire bombs and grenades, and launching incendiaries aimed at burning Israeli fields and forests. Nor did it mention the role of the Hamas terrorist group in organizing an attempt to breach an international border. Also left out is the fact that the purpose of this so-called “March of Return,” which has been happening on a weekly basis for months, represents an active attempt to eradicate the Jewish state. America’s Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley valiantly strove to add a paragraph to the resolution condemning Hamas, but although dozens of countries were ready to support it, a coalition of 100 nations either voted against or abstained on her amendment, causing its defeat. In the end, the unbalanced anti-Israel measure passed with an astonishing 120 votes in favor, 45 abstentions and only eight opposed. The eight who voted no were the United States, Israel, Australia and the

Ambassador Nikki Haley addresses the 10th emergency special session of the General Assembly on “Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.” U.N. Photo/Evan Schneider

four Pacific nations of the Marshall Islands: Micronesia, Nauru, Togo and the Solomon Islands. But while Haley was applauded for her elo-

quent denunciation of the resolution, the reaction from most friends of Israel was exasperated indifference. The General Assembly is just a talking shop with no power to enforce its antiIsrael screeds. The same goes for the various other of its agencies, such as the Human Rights Council, which are similarly biased and spend a disproportionate amount of their time scheming against Israel rather than dealing with genuine human-rights crises like, for example, the utter catastrophe in Syria, with 500,000 of its citizens killed in the last seven years. This is deplorable and isn’t made up for by the humanitarian work done by the United Nations on other issues. We’re so used to such bias that every new resolution that it’s hard to separate them from the general din of anti-Zionist prejudice emanating from Turtle Bay or the U.N.’s headquarters in Geneva. very now and then, the United States sends an ambassador to New York to stand up against this tide of prejudice. Figures like See U.N. on page 23

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etiv Ha’avot means Path of the Forefathers. Until last week, it was a neighborhood of about 15 families in Gush Etzion, Israel. And then the families were evicted. The homes they built will be bulldozed. Thousands of supporters came to be with the families on this painful day, yet other voices were conspicuously absent. Where were the human rights groups who mount battle cries when a terrorist’s bedroom is destroyed by Israel in response to his crime? Not that I compare these beautiful, upstanding Jewish families to terrorists, but it’s the principle: Where were the voices who justifiably raised a ruckus when the plight was that of a Bedouin tribe about to be uprooted? Their silence speaks volumes. There is no Arab claimant in the Netiv Avot dispute. Its destruction is absolutely for nothing. No Arab is going to gain the land (because no owner was ever identified). The case was brought not by an Arab claimant but by third parties that seem to relish seeing Jews forced

from their homes, cruelty for cruelty’s sake. Yesh Din, one of those third parties, found bird’s-eye view photos from long ago that suggested that Netiv Avot had been built on a vineyard. Despite valiant efforts to identify a person linked with this land, none was found. Yesh Din’s theory has never been proven. The photos themselves cumulatively add up to a swath of land occupied by a bit of a house here, a corner of a house there, in piecemeal fashion. The families were willing to remove the corners of their houses in question. Yet the court ruled that the entirety of the homes must be destroyed. How it decided this is beyond me. f the police were bracing for rage, violence and disobedience in response to this injustice and the pain of the families, the opposite unfolded. The families were nothing short of inspirational, dignified and restrained. In their pain, they modeled the depth of the words ashrei ha’am, “happy is the nation.” To be forced into exile, in your own land, at the hand of your own government, for no rational reason, for no benefit to anyone, is devastating. Instead, these families taught us an even deeper commitment to Jewish values: of building, of brotherly love, of peace, of commitment, of dignity, despite the painful cost. “The police are not our enemy; they are our

With a large Israeli flag in one hand, and a mezuzah in the other, the last family of Netiv Avot walked out for the last time. After hours of singing and huddled dancing and tears, silence reigned. This was “the last stand” of Netiv Avot, as Josh Hasten, the journalist who made this story public one year ago, so poignantly put it. This was “the last stand” of Jewish people, acting with nobility in the face of pain, Israeli police evacuate Jews from a home in Netiv Ha’avot in Gush of beautiful, dedicated families Etzion on June 12. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 evicted from their homes with no one to gain. Thankfully, no human life brothers. They are simply carrying out their job was lost, only inanimate wood and stone that and their duty.” In one home, the elderly grandfather, made up the sanctuaries filled with love and Yitzchak Kopp, sat among the youth singing memories. As Laura Ben David, who joined Netiv Avot song after song, pulling at the heartstrings. Decades ago, he fought for the Gush Etzion bloc, on that day, said: “As the families were evicted guarding Jerusalem with his own body in the Six from their homes, they walked flanked by two Day War and fighting to regain his lost home. On lines of police and soldiers, who seemed to be the family’s final walk out of their home, he was standing in respect, and perhaps they were … the one to unscrew the mezuzah from the lintel but it felt eerily like seeing the mourner’s proof his granddaughter’s home. Again, their home cession at a funeral … and in many ways it was.” Copyright Intermountain Jewish News in Gush Etzion was lost.

The myth of a demilitarized Palestinian state stePhen M. Flatow

he phrase “demilitarized Palestinian state” is the very definition of an oxymoron — “a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.” Proponents of Palestinian statehood use the term “demilitarized” as a propaganda weapon. They know that Palestinian Authority spokesmen have consistently rejected the idea of a demilitarized state, and they know that the idea of demilitarizing a dictatorship has never been successfully implemented. But they use the phrase because it’s the only way to sell their awful plan. The creation of a Palestinian state in most or all of Judea-Samaria means that Israel, at one point, would be nine miles wide. The idea that a Palestinian state would have an army of its own is nothing less than terrifying. It means that Israel would be in mortal danger from the moment “Palestine” is created. So the only way for Palestinian advocates to push their cause is to pretend that somehow, such a state would be demilitarized. Look at the new poll by the American Jew-

ish Committee about attitudes among American Jews and Israelis. The appropriate wording for a question about a Palestinian state might have been: “Do you support the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, which would then be nine miles wide?” At a very minimum: “Do you support the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel?” Instead, here’s how the American Jewish Committee phrased it: “In the current situation, do you favor or oppose a two-state solution through the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state on the West Bank?” Well, when you phrase it that way, it doesn’t sound too bad — and sure enough, 31 percent of American Jews “strongly favor” such a state, with another 28 percent favoring it “somewhat.” Thus, the headline: “59 percent of American Jews Support Palestinian State!” But that’s a lie. They don’t “support a Palestinian state.” They support a mythical state that can never come into being, because it’s an impossibility. he truth, in fact, is that the P.A. regime is already militarized. The Oslo II Accord of 1995 permitted the P.A. to have a 12,000-

man security force in Judea-Samaria. That force now numbers more than 30,000. A new report from the Washington Institute on Near East Policy, which leans left with regard to Israel, analyzes the history and the status of the P.A. security forces. The report was authored by a former senior P.A. official, Ghaith AlOmari, together with journalist Neri Zilber. “By late 1998,” they write, “the P.A. security services, as they were then known, had in almost every regard violated the letter of the agreements reached with Israel. … [The P.A. became] one of the most heavily policed territories in the world.” The P.A. was supposed to provide Israel with lists of those it was hiring for the forces, so Israel could veto known terrorists. Instead, “Israeli government officials were also aware that the P.A. was not submitting complete lists of these security personnel, to obfuscate the total number under arms and to bypass Israeli background checks for those with terrorist backgrounds.” The report continues: “Similarly, a proliferation of weapons was occurring, both in quantity and quality, well beyond that stipulated in Oslo

The PA’s security forces already constitute an army.

II. By one estimate, there were at least 40,000 more weapons than allowed in the agreement, including RPGs, mortars, mines, grenade launchers and sniper rifles; also being developed was a small-scale indigenous manufacturing capacity for hand grenades and other ammunition. ” The P.A.’s security forces already constitute the nucleus of an army. If the P.A. were to become a sovereign state, there would be no way for Israel to prevent it from turning those forces into a full-fledged army, except by invading. What is the likelihood that any Israeli government would order an invasion of “Palestine,” knowing the international sanctions and pressure Israel would face as a result? Of course, in such a scenario, all the “peace” activists who are now claiming there could be a demilitarized state would be the first to argue that “Palestine” needs tanks, planes and missiles to “defend itself.” How sad that a long-established and respected organization, the American Jewish Committee, is knowingly perpetuating the dangerous myth that a Palestinian state could be demilitarized. Attorney Stephen M. Flatow is a Vice President of Religious Zionists of America and father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.

Refusing to acknowledge Islamization of Europe Melanie PhilliPs

nce again, Hezbollah flags flew in London at the annual Al Quds march. No matter that Hezbollah, proxy army of the Iranian regime, is responsible for numerous murderous attacks on Jews, Americans and other Western interests. The march, featuring calls for Israel to be wiped from the map, was led by a man who previously made the deranged claim that “Zionists” were behind a London apartment fire last year in which more than 70 people died. In Germany last week, 14-year-old Susanna Maria Feldman was raped and murdered. A failed Iraqi asylum-seeker with a long police re-

cord was subsequently arrested by Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq, at the request of the German police. Mass Muslim immigration is taking a terrifying toll on Europe. A report published in April by Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office revealed an increase of nearly 500 percent in migrant sex crimes during the past four years. In Sweden, the number of gang-related shootings has surged by 43 percent in the last three years, and reported rapes by 34 percent in the last 10 years. Police and others say this is due to huge increases in Muslim migration, and that the Swedish legal system is collapsing as Islamist extremists take over whole neighborhoods. Between 2012 and 2017, Muslim terrorists murdered 250 people in France. In March, four people were killed in the small town of Trèbes. In the same month, 85-year-old Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll was murdered in her Paris

apartment by a Muslim youth, the 11th French Jew to have been murdered in an Islamist terror attack in the past 12 years. According to official figures, anti-Semitic violence in France increased last year by 26 percent. et Europe is paralyzed from attributing this catastrophe to the Islamic world. Yes, many Muslims refuse to subscribe to this, and millions lead unblemished lives in the West and are themselves targeted by Islamist extremists. But the silence over this widespread extremism is contributing to its acceleration. In Britain, virtually no concern is expressed for the thousands of young white girls targeted by rape and pimping gangs of overwhelmingly of Pakistani Muslim-heritage. Despite trial after trial, following years of silence and cover-ups, no one questions what this means for British society. A similar silence has descended over the national See Islamization on page 23

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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. Advanced Yiddish Lessons: [Weekly] YI of Woodmere will be offering advanced Yiddish reading lessons. 10:30-11:30 am. 516-295-4212. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 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. 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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Trump, assistant rabbi of the Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, for a shiur on relevant Halachic and philosophical topics related to Parsha Moadim and contemporary issues. Coffee and pastries. 8 am. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhurst. Learning Program: [Weekly] At Aish Kodesh led by Rav Moshe Weinberger following 8:15 Shacharis including 9 am breakfast and shiurim on subjects such as halacha, gemara and divrei chizuk. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere. Gemara Shiur: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Moshe Sokoloff at the YI of Woodmere for a gemara shiu.r 9:15 am. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950. Torah 4 Teens: [Weekly] Yeshiva program for high-school age boys & young adults with Rabbi Matis Friedman. 9:15 am-12:30 pm. 410 Hungry Harbor Rd, Valley Stream. Torah4teens5T@ gmail.com. Family Extravaganza: Chazaq and QJCC community wide Jewish Family Cultural Extravaganza. Free admission. 1 to 4 pm. 718-285-9132.

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, John Bolton and now Haley earned a place of honor in the hearts of friends of Israel with their courage and refusal to treat anti-Semitism as normal. But they’ve been the exceptions. Yet even most of us who care about these issues tend to treat it as mere rhetoric. While this is true, we’re wrong to treat days like June 12 as deplorable though not worth getting all that upset about. While what goes on in the United Nations is, in a sense, just talk, it’s far more dangerous than that. What we forget about these sessions in hypocrisy is that they give official imprimatur to anti-Semitism. As Obama’s State Department certified, a “rising tide of anti-Semitism” is sweeping across Europe and Southeast Asia. Arab and Islamic hatred for Israel, as well as the conviction of some Western elites that the Jews are the one people on the planet who aren’t entitled to a homeland, drive this trend. If other countries are willing to give Hamas a pass for terror and to bash Israel for defending its border in a way no differently (if not far more humanely) than almost all of the nations condemning it, then that is an act of prejudice against the one Jewish state on the planet. To note this fact is not to assert that Israel is perfect or above criticism. But when a world body treats attacks on Israel as of no interest and vilifies it for doing what any other nation would do, that is called hate. The Obama administration treated the United Nations like a sacred multilateral cow. But it’s time for the Trump administration to put even more pressure on the United Nations that it already has done, cutting the U.S. allocations that keep it going and withdrawing from farces like the Human Rights Council. By regarding everyday hate as ordinary, we are, even if only because of exhaustion and a sense of futility, enabling it. That has to stop. We must never allow ourselves to get used to U.N.-certified Jewhatred. The United Nations must be made to understand that decent persons won’t tolerate this practice indefinitely without consequences.

implications of proven attempts to infiltrate and Islamize some Birmingham schools. The British government claims that the Hezbollah marchers support its political wing, which it deems legitimate, rather than the terrorist wing that Britain proscribes. The fact that Hezbollah has effectively taken Lebanon hostage is disregarded. The fact that it has embedded among southern Lebanon’s civilian population 130,000 missiles pointing at Israel is disregarded. In lockstep with this refusal to acknowledge Islamic religious fanaticism, anti-Semitism is once more openly stalking Britain and Europe. Put to one side the anti-Semitism of the left that hides behind hatred of Israel. There is almost total silence over Muslim anti-Semitism and its symbiotic role in Islamist terrorism. Hezbollah is riddled with Jew-hatred. “If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion,” stated its secretarygeneral Hassan Nasrallah, “we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice I do not say the Israeli.” Medieval and Nazi-style anti-Semitic texts and images pour out of the Muslim world. Many if not most Muslim migrants into Europe are bringing with them profound, paranoid and sometimes violent hatred of the Jews. Yet Europe treats this as a marginal issue. They don’t understand that Jew-hatred drives Islamist hatred of the West, which they believe is controlled by the Jews. They don’t understand that the Muslim world doesn’t hate Jews because it hates Israel; it hates Israel because it hates the Jews. And they don’t understand that anti-Semitism is the signature motif of an eclipse of reason. ny leader who subscribes to such lunacy should be treated as a pariah. Yet Europe continues to insist that the Iranian Supreme Leader, who is consumed by a genocidal obsession to wipe out the Jewish people, is someone

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they can do business with. In France, the justice system refused to regard as anti-Semitic the murder of Sarah Halimi, who was tortured and thrown from her apartment window by a Muslim neighbor after vainly reporting his anti-Semitic threats. In Britain, attacks on Jews by Muslims are disproportionate to their number in the population. The same is true of anti-Semitic comments by members of the Labour Party which, despite convulsing over anti-Semitism in its ranks, never makes this point. Indeed, anyone who brings up Muslim antiSemitism is accused of Islamophobia. Worse, this is equated with anti-Semitism. The comparison is odious. Anti-Semitism is based on lies and demonization. It is paranoid and unhinged. It ascribes to Jews a demonic power to control the world. It treats the Jews in ways applied to no other people or cause. It has nothing in common with Islamophobia, a term constructed by Islamists to silence legitimate criticism. Yet for so many in the West, the only people whose views are beyond the pale are those classified as “right-wing,” “nativist” or “Islamophobic.” This includes those who legitimately defend Western culture and oppose Islamization. People demonized by such labeling often defend Israel and the Jewish people far more robustly than socalled anti-fascists who, faced with Islamic cultural encroachment and Muslim anti-Semitism, look the other way. This does not mean, though, that we should support this “populist” tide. Decent people should shun those who hate all Muslims, or really are neo-Nazis, or are thugs who may hide their contempt for the rule of law behind claims of being martyred for the anti-Islamist cause. But the threat from such unsavory types is minimal compared to the scale of the threat from Islamization and the desperate battle to defend the West. And the only reason such types are

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Britain Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn— who in 2009 called Hezbollah and Hamas his “friends” — said he would not attend a dinner commemorating the centennial of the Balfour Declaration. Prime Minister Theresa May she would attend “with pride” and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu would be her guest. “We are proud of the role we played in the creation of the State of Israel and we will certainly mark the centenary with pride,” May said. “I am also pleased that good trade relations and other relations that we have with Israel we are building on and enhancing.”

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