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It’s Independence Day in America: Land of ‘herut,’ home of the brave

By Simon Klarfeld, JNS.org This Thursday, July 4, Jewish families all over the United States will join the rest of the country and stare up in wonderment as the sky lights up in an explosion of colors during Independence Day ďŹ rework displays.

But ďŹ reworks, like many things in life, are transient and will inevitably dissipate. Yet for those eeting moments in which they light up our world, they also shed light on that which is wrong with it.

America’s Declaration of Independence sought to rectify those wrongs. It sought to create a country in which all men are created equal, in which every person has the freedom to pursue his or her inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

For its own part, Israel’s Declaration of Independence more than a century and a half later articulated many of the same aspirations. Israel promised to “uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens�

and “guarantee full freedom of conscience.�

It is perhaps no coincidence, then, that the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, the iconic symbol of American independence, is engraved with the biblical passage from Leviticus that introduces the concept of freedom: “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.�

Both nations champion freedom. In the modern body politic, freedom became the guiding principle of democracy that is so cherished by both nations.

In Hebrew, freedom is translated in one of two ways — either as hofesh or herut.

The ďŹ rst deďŹ nition, hofesh, denotes freedom from external restraints, or the freedom that a slave acquires when he is released from bondage. The second deďŹ nition, herut, is liberty’s higher register. As Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, posits, “Freedom in the sense [of hofesh] can never be the basis for a free society, for an obvious reaContinued on page 7

From Holocaust’s ruins, a life of learning and teaching

By Malka Eisenberg

Photo by Malka Eisenberg

Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Leib Schwartzblatt

Burning conviction, faith in G-d, love of Torah and the will to live has driven Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Leib Schwartzblatt in all the years since he was removed by the Nazis from the ashes of his Polish town.

Schwartzblatt’s story, like those of many survivors, is worthy of a movie script. His vivid recounting of his ight as a boy from the Nazis, the loss of his family, hiding in a forest, joining Russian partisans, and building a life in America — including painful loses here as well — is a lesson in faith and perseverance.

His story was recorded by Steven Spiel-

berg — he was interviewed for more than six hours — and he was part of the “Names not Numbers� movie, interviewed by high school students recording the story of Holocaust survivors as part of a Yeshiva University program.

Schwartzblatt, 84, one of the mashgichim (kashrut supervisors) at the JASA complex in Far Rockaway, was born in 1930 in Vladymiretz, Poland, a small town with a small Jewish population, near Brisk. He said that his grandfather, whom he is named after, was from Brisk. Chaim’s father, who Schwartzblatt said “could have been a rov,� was a businessman, and Chaim and his parents and two older sisters lived in an apartment, where he

went to cheder, behind their general store.

His father also went from town to town selling fabric; his mother was a tailor. Although the government was Polish, 98 percent of the town was Ukrainian, he said.

War swept through Europe and the Germans invaded up to Brisk in 1939; the Russians held Brisk. “They were friendly,� he said of the Russians, and brought communism to the store making his father the manager even though he was the owner. “We didn’t realize then how lucky we were to have the Russians and not the Germans.� They were told that the Nazis were Continued on page 12

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One hundred and fifty years ago this week, a battle was fought that was destined to define our nation for all time — not through the strategic military prowess of our troops, although that was a factor, nor through our overwhelming military might, but rather through a two minute speech that was to be given over four months later on that same battle site.

The speech that followed the Battle of Gettysburg was to set the marker for the very re-definition of the cause and purpose of our republic.

What concerns us this week is the blood and sacrifice that led to the delivery of that great and memorable speech, and the role that the Jewish people, then resident in these United States, played in that struggle.

••• Until next month, KOSHER Yeshiva University MuBOOKWORM seum, and the American Jewish Historical Society, are presenting an exhibit entitled, “Passages through the Fire: Jews and the Civil War.” According to its sponsors, the Civil War was a major turning point in American Jewish history inasmuch as it gave the then extant Jewish community the Alan Jay Gerber ability to participate more fully in American life, in the military and on the civilian domestic commercial front.

Among the books showcased in the exhibit are a Yiddish edition of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” a soldier’s Haggadah, and numerous prayer books, diaries and photographs from the distinguished collection of Robert Marcus, including the one featured with this essay of an unidentified chasid and a Union naval officer taken in New York City in 1862.

According to the late Jewish Civil War historian Dr. Bertram Korn, there were five ma-

jor themes for American Jewry during this period: • The opportunity accorded Jews to fight as equal citizens and to rise through the ranks, something not granted by most of the world’s great armies at that time.

• Jews’ “total identification with their neighbors” — Northern Jews with the North and Southern Jews with the South. Jews demonstrated their loyalty and patriotism during the Civil War, and then boasted of it for many years afterward.

• Jews’ tenaciousness in courageously fighting for their rights. Soon after the war began, they organized to correct legislation restricting the military chaplaincy to “regularly ordained ministers of some Christian denomination.” In December, 1862, they rushed to the White House to fight General Grant’s notorious Order 11 expelling Jews as a class from his war zone. In both these cases they won empowering rights victories.

• The forthright repudiation of anti-Semitism by Abraham Lincoln, who overturned Grant’s order [“to condemn a class is, to say the least, to wrong the good with the bad. … I do not like to hear a class or nationality condemned on account of a few sinners”]. In the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis likewise repudiated anti-Semitism.

• The acceptance by the president and Congress of the principle of Jewish equality. Notwithstanding considerable wartime anti-Semitism, Jews achieved equal status on the battlefield, and Jewish chaplains won the right to serve alongside their Christian counterparts.

In his essay, “What the Civil War Meant for American Jews,” historian Jonathan Sarna noted that the 150th anniversary of the Civil War has drawn little attention in the organized Jewish community. Hopefully, the YU exhibition will be a harbinger of better things to come in Jewish communal attention, in our shuls and in our schools, with the advent of the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address this coming Nov. 19. The importance of this address and the battle and struggle it

personifies can not be underestimated.

According to YU Museum director, Jacob Wiese, “given that it was a civil conflict, it vastly accelerated the process of Americanization; and it laid the groundwork for Jews’ identification with America – and for America’s acceptance of Jews.”

Further, Dr. Jonathan Karp of the American Jewish Historical Society noted that “the Civil War was the first opportunity presented to Jews in large numbers to participate fully in American life. It was a war that let Jews demonstrate their belonging and membership. The Civil War battleground gave the same Jews the opportunity to perform numerous services – as soldiers, nurses, running patriotic fairs, being spies, also something very traditional – peddling.”

In what were possibly the two most expansive essays on the Jewish involvement to date in the Battle of Gettysburg, are hose to be found in “The Jewish Home” by Avi Heiligman, and in The Forward” by Dr. Jonathan Sarna. They both deserve your attention.

Heiligman’s essay focuses upon the person of Louis Leon, a German Jewish sharpshooter from Charlotte, North Carolina, whose diary is extensively quoted in last week’s The Jewish Home.

Dr. Sarna’s essay, “The Battle of Gettysburg; 150 Years Later” in last week’s The Forward, cites numerous Jewish combatants at Gettysburg, including the following: “To Jews of the time, the fact that they had fought and died on both sides of the bloody battlefield of Gettysburg demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt their patriotism, honor, and manhood. … The fact that Jews fought and died at the Battle of Gettysburg might nevertheless give us pause as we commemorate its 150th anniversary. For had Lt. Col. Edward Salomon, Joseph Greenhut, and so many others not held their ground during the battle, the Confederate forces that penetrated into Union territory in Pennsylvania would have threatened Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. The South might have won its independence.”

Collection of Robert D. Marcus

Young hasid posed with Union Navy Engineer Officer, ca. 1862.

Let me conclude with the following observation from Dr. Sarna’s essay: “The great question of the time, as Abraham Lincoln observed in his Gettysburg Address, was whether, ‘a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal’ could ‘long endure.’

The Battle of Gettysburg, which engaged soldiers of every kind – including Jews – helped to ensure that it did.”

Over the summer, as time permits, read and reread the Gettysburg Address. Take to heart its message and thus come to appreciate why so many of our people came to these shores over the past 150 years.

One thing for sure, had that battle not been won, and its message become a reality, there would never have been that opportunity for us to be here today. None, whatsoever.

‘Last Israelis’ / Novel imagines Israel’s destruction

By Jeffrey F. Barken, JNS.org “You and your crew of 34, Daniel. You are the last Israelis. You are all that is left. But you have no home. You must go somewhere else,” Gabriel Cohen, an IDF emergency contact officer stranded in Greece, informs the captain of the Israeli submarine “Dolphin” in Noah Beck’s latest novel, The Last Israelis.

Israel has been destroyed in a nuclear attack, and now Daniel and his crew must choose their course. Do they still fulfill their mission of retaliation and deliver a lethal strike to the enemy, or do they abandon ship?

For Israelis, a new era is dawning. Beyond the menace of constant terror and conventional warfare, there is the looming threat of total annihilation. The Last Israelis imagines the ultimate catastrophe of failed Middle East diplomacy, should Iran’s nuclear program be allowed to continue unchecked.

Sensing the historical moment of the P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran that took place in Baghdad in May of 2012, Beck submits his novel as a narrative summary of the crisis, highlighting the unique and important Jewish culture that is endangered by Iran’s increasingly menacing nuclear capability.

The novel borrows themes from traditional Cold War literature. By replacing the Soviet adversary with Iran’s fundamentalist theocracy, however, Beck suggests that in the

Middle East, MAD, the concept of mutually assured destruction, may not be enough to prevent either side from pulling the trigger.

When Israel’s fictional prime minister in the novel receives confirmation that Iran has reached a critical stage in their weapons program, and that Israel no longer has the capability to attack their nuclear facilities, an irreversible chain of events is set in motion. The prime minister immediately puts Israel on high alert and warns the president of the United States that Israel will launch a preemptive attack. The crisis further intensifies when the prime minister succumbs to d iis rushed h d an acute neurological disease and to a hospital in Germany. Now the defense of Israel falls upon an inexperienced deputy prime minister and the crew of the Dolphin.

Although readers may find some of the subplots aboard the Dolphin submarine superfluous, this extremely well-researched book mines the depths of history and will be an important resource. Beck has skillfully populated his vessel with sailors representative of nearly every element of Israeli society.

There are Ethiopians aboard ship, secondgeneration refugees from Vietnam, Iran, Rus-

sia, and Christian Arabs. In their close quarters and under extreme stress, these men rally despite their differences. Between action sequences, Beck fleshes out competing contemporary opinions about Israel.

The sailors grumble that Israel is perceived as an aggressor, even when the country provides humanitarian aid. Likewise, many are frustrated that the country’s most accomplished professionals are snubbed when boycotted by certain western institutions in response to Israel’s “occupation” of Palestinian territories. What is most telling of the real political and emotional climate in Israel, however, is a haunting sense of fear that unites the crew.

D d of Iran’s anti-Israel rhetoric are Decades examined, but contradicting backgrounds and emotions prevent consensus amongst the crew. Through serious debate, many of the seamen conclude that a nuclear Iran is a brainwashed society on an unstoppable path to war with Israel, a modern Armageddon.

“How has the world not seen this for what it is?” one sailor, Eitan, asks after listening to his comrade list outrageous instances of Iranian propaganda. Beck’s sonar has detected a growing sense of abandonment in Israel and his characters echo the country’s malaise of

constant terror and chronic despair.

The notion of nuclear deterrence provides little comfort to the men tasked with delivering the missiles. They back away from the power they possess, concerned either that they don’t have the authority to attack, or that they will violate the laws of the Torah by killing so many innocent civilians.

This debate charts the crew’s descent toward anarchy. “The point is that everything about this boat—from who commands it to what we can do with the weapons on it—was determined by a society that apparently no longer exists any more,” argues Yisrael, the Dolphin’s second-ranking officer.

The Last Israelis contemplates a frighteningly realistic and rapidly unfolding nightmare of apocalyptic proportions. Beck, in his preface and epilogue, indicts the western powers for wasting the last opportunities to pressure Iran into giving up its nuclear program, yet his characters are less pessimistic.

“At some point, you just have to operate the sub on faith and a prayer,” Daniel, the Dolphin’s captain, thinks as he gives orders to dive through thrilling suspense and steers his vessel ever closer to confrontation.

Jeffrey F. Barken is author of “This Year in Jerusalem,” a collection of stories based on his experiences living on a kibbutz in Southern Israel.

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More than ‘relationships’ need to turn Irish eyes toward Israel Dear Editor: I read, with great interest, the article “Irish eyes aren’t smiling on Israel” [The Jewish Star, June 28] and the quote from Paddy Monaghan asserting that the Irish “are relational people. Israel needs to take the time to explain…”

Unfortunately, my two trips to Dublin, in the 1970s and 1982, convinced me otherwise.

My wife, Prof. Barbara Gluck, who wrote her dissertation on and had a University Press publish her book on James Joyce and Samuel Becket (both Irishmen who left their native country), wanted to visit Dublin in response to her expertise on the subject. On our first trip we visited Trinity College where Joyce had studied and the docent showing the various aspects of the University refused to discuss James Joyce, stating, “I will not discuss that infidel…” That much for rationality and relationality on one of the greatest authors of the 20th century, one of their own.

By 1982, Ireland recognizes that money could be made marketing Joyce, and organized a Joyce fest honoring my wife, among others, as a “Joyce Scholar.”

By now,we had made friends and enjoyed another Shabbat with the Orthodox Jewish Community (five synagogues,with a Circuit Chief Rabbi who takes turns every Shabbat at the different synagogues). But it was also the time that Israel fought its war in Lebanon and the hatred of the Irish against the Jews was more than palpable.

A Jewish nurse left the operating room because the anti-Semitic comments were so caustic she could not continue. She was among the hundreds, if not thousands, who left Dublin for Israel after that war. (Never mind that it was Christians who massacred the Palestinians.The Irish refused to recognize this and blamed it on the Jews.) The pubs we visited with fellow scholars, many of whom were Jewish, were saturated with antiJewish comments made by the local people.

It is not for nought that James Joyce’s most famous character, Bloom,is Jewish ( although his father and/or grandfather had already converted to Catholicism) and is made to suffer anti-Semitic barbs. Joyce identifies with Bloom and is sympathetic to his suffering.

LETTERS Yet, Joyce’s book was published in 1922,when no state of Israel existed, so the Irish hatred is pure Catholic vitriol, not political.

Instead of identifying with their and Israel’s common enemy, Britain,they preferred to denigrate the Jews when Israel’s birth was being aborted by the British.

I am pleasantly surprised there is an Irish Christian Friends of Israel. But I am far from confident that the Israelis and the Jews will ever get a receptive ear or the time from the Irish “to explain the rightness of their case.”

—Simon B. Gluck

The president, not Dunetz view, changed To the editor: In 2007, Jeff Dunetz wrote on his blog that Congress needed to pass legislation removing from FISA court supervision any surveillance involving phone calls made to or including persons outside of the United States. He claimed Congressional Democrats were stalling such legislation, writing that “[Congressional Democrats] would rather see people jumping out of a building like they did on 9/11 then monitor some international emails or phone calls.” (http://goo.gl/FgVma That legislation, strongly supported by the Bush administration, was the basis of PRISM. In 2004, President Bush signed an Executive Order called the President’s Health Information Technology Plan, to expand the use of electronic medical records. The reasons are obvious. The ability of doctors to more easily share patient records is more efficient, safer, and in the long run, much less expensive.

Jeff Dunetz sees it as a government takeover conspiracy theory, though he appears to have ignored it in 2004.

One wonders: Did Jeff Dunetz change his mind, or is it just that the party in the White House changed?

—Michael Brenner

‘JAP’s redux? ‘Princesses: L.I.’

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but a queen. On Shabbat, she or those Jews who have HIPPEST RABBI sits as the queen of her table, as wanted to “mainstream,” all those sing her praises. She is they got it. We’re now part of the Bravo equal opportunity the Eishet Chayil, the Woman of bashing brand in their offering, Valor, who sets the spiritual tone “Princesses: Long Island.” with her guidance, her love, and Along with the Housewives of her strength.

Beverly Hills, New York, Orange Perhaps Bravo should read County, New Jersey, Atlanta and the book, Yiddish Mamas: The a whole lot of Shahs, Bravo has Truth About the Jewish Mother, now turned to us, to prequel how by my friend Marnie Winston“perfectly normal” people can Macauley, and learn about the become fighting lushes with exproud tradition of Jewish womtensions, implants, and lips the en, both sung and unsung. Here size of canal boats. is a tiny sampling.

Rabbi Simcha Here’s the set-up: Lieutenant Frances Slanger: Weinstein “Princesses” follows six JewJewish nurse killed In World War ishy college educated girls from II luxe neighborhoods in Long Island: Chanel, Ellen Goodman: National Pulitzer Prize Erica, Ashlee, Joey, Amanda and Casey. De- columnist spite the fact that they’re pushing age 30, Rosalyn S. Yalow: Nobel Prize recipient they still live with mama and papa — and in medicine and physiology not due to custom, but to credit cards. These Barbara Walters: Noted interviewer and Millennials got the memo, and missed the star of television offensive jokes; you’ve heard them in the Judith A. Resnik: Second woman in 1980s. space What do you say to a baby Jewish AmeriHannah Solomon: Founder of the Nacan princess? tional Council of Jewish Women “Gucci Gucci Goo” Emma Lazarus: Poet and helper of imHow many Jewish-Amerimigrants can princesses does it take to Henrietta Szold: Role screw in a light bulb? model who helped to found What? And wreck my Hadassah nails?

Lillian D. Wald: Pioneer Knee-slappers? No. Acin public health concerns curate? Also no — which is Minnie Guggenheimer: why they died a fairly quick Fund raiser of Lewisohn death. Humor, even non-PC Stadium humor, must resonate, and Edna Ferber: Writer of the JAPy stereotype of the short stories, novels and over-indulged, over-attendplays ed, materialistic, manipuGerty Theresa Radnitz lative, spoiled, lazy, narcisCori: Nobel Prize recipient sist just didn’t fly. (Almost for medicine and physiolas catastrophic, it wasn’t ogy funny.)

Gertrude Berg: Star Even Judy Benjamin and writer of radio, stage (Goldie Hawn) in Private and television Benjamin found her mojo, Louise Nevelson: Sculpgrabbed her independence, tress became yutz-free — and Gertrude Elion: Nobel that was over 30 years ago! prize recipient in medicine In the premiere epiAbigail Levy Franks: sode of “Princesses: Long The epitome of a Jewish Island,” Chanel (the mamother in colonial America cher princess), insisted that Oh, and Sylvia Porter, women living with their the legendary financial parents in the manse until they find their writer was born — on Long Island! gelted prince is both a “Jewish thing” and a The modern Jewish young woman, “Long Island Thing.” Guess what? I live in whether she’s from Long Island or LukachuBrooklyn which is also on Long Island and kai, Arizona, is as far from this outrageous the last time my kinder saw a silver spoon stereotype as the notion that all New Jerwas in the Tower of London. sey housewives bask in evil Bada Bing lives.

Yet, Bravo is spreading this odious ste- Most work full-time, pay their bills, live on reotype to its viewers! their own or with roommates, value their The irony is that if it weren’t for the Jew- faith, give to the world, have pride in themish women, the Jewish people would still be selves and don’t expect a prince to pay for a enslaved in Egypt. When Pharaoh decreed tummy tuck. that all first-born Jewish males should die, My message is: say “No” to Bravo. the men became resigned to their fate and refrained from marital relations to save fuRabbi Simcha Weinstein chairs the Reture generations. The Jewish women did ligious Affairs Committee at Pratt Institute. not have such a near-sighted view and real- His latest book is “The Case for Children: Why ized that the Almighty would save them and Parenthood Makes Your World Better.” He bring them out of Egypt. was recently voted New York’s Hippest Rabbi The Jewish woman is not a princess, by PBS Channel 13.

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he second of this week’s portions, Massei, begins by describing the many journeys of the Jewish people in the desert on their way to entering the land of Israel.

Describing each stop along the way, the Torah delineates no less than 42 separate places the Jewish people passed through on their way to Israel.

From Ramses, the Egyptian suburb built

by Jewish slaves, all the way to the plains FROM THE HEART of Moab on the banks OF JERUSALEM of the Jordan River (Bamidbar 33:48-49), the Torah takes the time to list each and every part of the Jewish journey from slavery to freedom, leaving us to wonder why so much space is devoted to a delineation of geographic progression.

Why not just express that over 40 years the Jews made it up from Rabbi Binny Egypt to the staging Freedman ground along the Jordan, from whence the entry to Israel would begin.

Why the need for so many pit-stops?

In fact, the desert is all about space, and much less about place. It is the place that is really “no-place.” You don’t hike in the desert to get to a specific spot; you go so as not to be in any particular spot. In the desert, we can appreciate the vastness and beauty of no place, which is really about all place.

All of which is what makes this list of places and spaces in the desert so strange. It

is also interesting to note that these pit stops along the way are actually presented to us as separate journeys: “These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went forth from the land of Egypt according to their hosts [armies?] under the hand of Moshe and Aaron.

And Moshe wrote their departures according to their journeys, at the bidding of Hashem, and these are their journeys according to their departures.”

(33:1-2.)

Why are these stops described as separate “journeys” — are they not, in fact, all part of one journey, from enslavement in Egypt to establishment as a free nation in the land of Israel? Why does the Torah describe these stops as “masaei’ B’nei Yisrael,” “ the journeys of the children of Israel,” when they are really all part of the same journey?

And why the need to recall each and every stop along the way?

••• There is an interesting descriptive term being used here: “Motza’eihem” which is a word rooted in the Hebrew word “yetziah” or “departures.” Isn’t this entire journey a continuation of one departure, their Exodus from Egypt? Indeed, the term used everywhere in the Torah for this event is actually “Yetziat Mitzraim,” or the “Exodus (read departure) from Egypt.”

Why focus on where we have left, instead of where we are headed? Isn’t our own modern day establishment of the State of Israel more important than how and when we left the camps and shtetels of a 2,000 year exile?

It is interesting to note that Jewish tradition suggests that Mitzrayim, the Hebrew word for Egypt, is also a play on the word meitzarim or “narrow spaces.” “Read not, suggests the Talmud, “mi’Mitzraim from Egypt, but rather [as well], mi’meitzarim, from the narrow places; we are leaving the narrow confined experience of Egypt. And the land of Israel where we are headed is described by the Torah as “Eretz tovah u’rechava,” “a land which is good and spacious” (Shemot 3:8).

In other words, this journey is from the narrow confines of Egypt, to the wideopen spaces of the land of Israel. On a certain level, this is not just about geography; this is part of the goal of the entire process.

Rashi, in explaining why the Torah chooses to delineate each one of the stops on this long journey, suggests that it is: “Le’hodiah chasdav shel ha’Makom.”

“To make known the loving-kindness of G-d.” (33:1) One of the many names of G-d, which Rashi chooses here, is Makom, which means literally “the place.”

In other words, each stage in the journey affords us the opportunity to appreciate all

‘The ability to appre-

ciate what we have been given and where we have come from, is an essential ingredient without which we will never arrive at our destination.’

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that Hashem has done for us, by continuing to give us manna in the desert even while we were frolicking with the Golden Calf, and by transforming bitter water into sweet water at Marah, and allowing us victory in our battle with Amalek, and so on.

And of course, this is larger than just the Jewish people appreciating their journey 3,000 years ago; it is a recipe for our appreciation of our own journey each and every day.

••• Most people will concede that the ability to appreciate all the good that comes into our lives is a valuable part of the journey and even transforms the journey itself. But the Torah may well be suggesting something much more significant: perhaps the ability to appreciate what we have been given and where we have come from, is really an essential ingredient without which we will never arrive at our destination at all.

“Min ha’meitzar karati kah. Anani bamerchav kah.”

“From the narrow confines I call out to G-d, and he answers me from the wide open spaces.”

(Tehillim 118:5) Why does King David suggest that we call out to G-d from the narrow confines?

Wouldn’t it be just as important to call out to G-d from the open spaces?

Imagine you are lost in the desert, wouldn’t you naturally call out to G-d to save you? And why, if indeed a person is in the narrow spaces, does G-d only answer him from the wide open spaces? Wouldn’t it be more powerful for G-d to come into the narrow spaces where we are and be there for us?

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Matot-Massei / Listing our stops: The insignificance of Marah

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s the Torah depicts the early travels of the Israelites, small details from famous stops are recalled.

“They crossed the Red Sea toward the desert. They then traveled for three days through the Eitam Desert, and they camped PARSHA OF in Marah. From Marah THE WEEK to Elim — in Elim there were 12 water springs and 70 palms. … They left Alush and camped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.”

(33:8-14) Does the Torah intend to list stops on the journey, or to recall significant events? If the former, we should Rabbi Avi Billet just be reading destinations. But if the latter, the events of Marah should be mentioned.

Following the Sea splitting, the people traveled for three days without finding water. They came to Marah but could not drink of the water, “ki marim hem,” because they (either the waters or the people) were bitter.

Moshe placed a stick in the waters to sweeten them. “There G-d taught them a decree and a law, and there He tested them.” (Shmot 15:22-25) Why is nary a word recorded in our parsha about the three days before reaching Marah or about the miracle of the sweetened water?

The Alshich notes how the lack of water in Rephidim is described: “There was no water for the people to drink.” There was water — it just was not available for the people. They had Miriam’s well, but it had been sealed as a consequence of the people turning from the Torah teachings they had accepted in Marah when they complained about their food situation in Shmot 16.

Recall that their arrival in Marah followed three days of wandering during which water was not to be found. Even in Marah, where there was water, it was undrinkable because of bitterness. It is hard to understand how there was no water to be found when we consider the geography. The people had come straight from the Red Sea — were there no rivers, streams or springs extending from the Sea? They were so close to the ironically numbered Oasis of Elim (“12” springs and “70” palms), and yet they couldn’t find water?

Rashi tells us (Shmot 15:22) that Moshe literally had to drag the people away from the Sea after they were saved from the pursuing Egyptians because “the plundering of Egypt’s wealth was even greater at the Sea than it had been as they were leaving Egypt” with riches.

Perhaps seeing such riches, desiring such riches, and being told they were unavailable, embittered the people greatly. They were so depressed over the loss of the windfall profits that, through three days of blurry or mistyeyed travel, they could not see water, even though it may have been in abundance. And so, when they came to Marah, where there

was water, they could not drink it because “Marim hem” — they were bitter.

Was it the water that was bitter, or were the people bitter (Pesikta)?

Perhaps they felt G-d had abandoned them when they were forbidden from partaking of the Egyptian spoils? Perhaps they simply could not see a bright side to the story.

They may have been thinking, “Moshe! We had it all! We would have been taken care of for the rest of our lives! You made us leave so much behind at the Sea! How could you?

What were you thinking?”

The Ktav V’Hakabalah (Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi Mecklenburg) says the Torah claims the place was called Marah on account of the bitter water (which Malbim contends had been sweet until they arrived), so we would not think it was based on the people being bitter or Moshe becoming bitter on account of their depression. “This is not the place to recall bitterness and complaining, because they repented immediately and prayed to G-d.”

Perhaps a nod to the Marah experience is left out of the travel-roll because the lesson of Marah is no longer relevant. In Elim, the people’s eyes were opened to seeing G-d’s plenty. In Rephidim, the people learned not to complain. But the events leading to Marah were the opposite of appreciating G-d’s gifts.

They had properly thanked and praised G-d for His heroics at the Sea. But then they were forced to withdraw from what seemed to be, at the time, the greatest gift of all — Egypt’s wealth, even more than what they had taken from Egypt during the Exodus.

Marah was its own entity, an event that stood by itself, frozen in time. It had been a place for teshuvah, a place of mental healing, and a place to learn a few mitzvot. But the mitzvot were relearned at Sinai, and the teshuvah and mental healing was more of the “we need to move past this” variety than the “we sinned” variety. Imagine spending your life harping over the stock you could have bought, the building you could have purchased, the spouse you could have married, the children you could have had, the community you could have moved to, the choices you could have made, the job or opportunity you let slip through your fingertips, never being able to let go of those “if only” thoughts.

Many life experiences can teach us very important lessons. Sometimes the lessons bear repeating (i.e., Elim and Rephidim).

Sometimes one event is life-changing and we never forget the lesson. And some events were important at the time, but became overshadowed by later events, making once-important episodes almost insignificant in the blueprint of history.

Marah was of the latter type: important in its time, but not worth a mention 40 years later. The money was by now inconsequential and they had experienced Sinai.

May we merit to heed these lessons — to appreciate G-d’s gifts, to have reputations of “not complaining,” and to let one-time events have their impact such that their significance become embedded in who we are, so they need not become what-if moments that we revisit time and time again.

‘Imagine spending your life harping over the stock you could have bought, the spouse you could have married, the children you could have had, choices you could have made, never being able to let go.’

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Rabbi Noam Himelstein

Rav Amital, Rosh Yeshivat Har Etzion This week we will mark three years since the passing of Rav Yehuda Amital.

He always appreciated simplicity, and educated his students not to depend on others, but rather to think and act in an independent fashion.

Hopefully, we may, even in a few paragraphs, remind ourselves of what we can learn from his actions and sayings.

Rabbi Noam Himelstein studied in Yeshivat Har Etzion and served in the Tanks Corps of the IDF. He has taught in yeshiva high schools, post-high school women’s seminaries, and headed the Torah MiTzion Kollel in Melbourne, Australia. He currently teaches at Yeshivat Orayta in Jerusalem, and lives with his wife and six children in Neve Daniel, Gush Etzion.

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Continued from page 1 son. Sooner or later, my freedom will conict with yours.â€? Rabbi Sacks goes on to explain that only with the acquisition of herut — a “constitution of libertyâ€? in which the rule of law is operational — can a society enjoy true freedom.

Herut is what signatories of both America’s and Israel’s Declarations of Independence had in mind for their respective nations. Herut makes it possible for my freedom to respect yours.

Yet for all their similarities, there is one startling discrepancy between the two declarations: America set out to deďŹ ne its vision of independence for all its citizens. Israel, on the other hand, included even those who are not its citizens — namely, the rest of the Jewish people.

As Americans, Independence Day marks the freedom we gained to pursue our inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But as American Jews, we feel a sense of freedom not only because we are American, but because a Jewish state exists.

In this sense, then, it is possible for both the American dream and the Zionist dream to work in tandem. It is a covenant that Diaspora Jews and Israelis entered into on the 5th of Iyar, 1948, and one that we are still bound by today. It is up to Jews in America and elsewhere to assist Israel in meeting the impossibly high standards that it set upon itself in its declaration — namely, to ensure that the dream of redeeming Israel is fulďŹ lled.

The redemption of Israel is a shared expression that is not based on where someone happens to live. Israel’s Declaration of Independence proclaimed to the world that its dream concerned far more than just a physi-

cal location.

Even in the United Nations, Israel reiterates time and time again that its responsibility lies not just with Israelis, but to the Jewish nation as a whole. And just as Israel will preserve the liberation, wellbeing and security of a Jew whether he sits in Texas or Tel Aviv, that same Jew shoulders the responsibility to help Israel realize its dream of redemption.

Americans may not have a Diaspora to take care of, but they assume responsibility in other avenues — one being the responsibility towards children. As future inheritors of this planet, Israel shares America’s core values regarding the education of its children. We share the commitment to imbibing our children with the knowledge and capacity to improve that inheritance. Educators from both sides of the ocean must “rally by each other’s sideâ€? to realize the vision that was deďŹ ned by the founding fathers and forefathers, respectively — helping the generations that follow us leave the world a better place.

So when we hold our children in our arms as they gaze up at the dazzling lights of the ďŹ reworks, let’s be sure to instill in them that as free Jews and free Americans it is up to them to take an active role in making that eeting light last.

Simon Klarfeld is executive director of Young Judaea, the oldest Zionist youth movement in U.S.

Continued from page 5 and you may notice that their root is always in the narrow perspectives we allow ourselves to fall into. Too often, we allow ourselves to remain conďŹ ned to our own narrow view of the world. And the way we tend to look at life as black and white, or from our own limited perspective, actually perpetuates that same narrow view.

Indeed, the ability to see things from other points of view, and include others who are different from us in our circle of thinking, actually creates space for more people. And the result of widening our own way of looking at the world to allow room for other perspectives and opinions, even though we choose to disagree with those same opinions, results in more people being able to “shareâ€? the same space, and actually transforms the narrow conďŹ nes we fall into, back into the wide open spaces the world is meant to be made up of.

This does not mean, incidentally, that we all have to agree — it just means you cannot disagree with someone until you ďŹ rst respect where they are coming from. ••• The ability to make room for other people’s way of looking at the world is often a form of largesse, itself a word denoting space. And when we refuse or are unable to do this, we will often be referred to as narrow-minded.

And of course, this is what chesed, or loving-kindness, is all about. It is about the ability to make room for someone else in your space.

This also means that the same applies to everyone else. Even the annoying person incessantly honking his horn in bumperto-bumper trafďŹ c is an important and even critical part of the fabric of the world, and

if I took the time to spend with him or her, I might even discover why. And doing that actually makes me a larger person, while making more room in the world.

Take for example, the current challenges we face in pursuit of peace in the Middle East. Is there anyone who doesn’t want peace? Everyone wants peace, and deep down, we even all want peace for the same reasons, but somewhere along the way we end up on different paths as to how to arrive at that peace. And, truth be told, sometimes we take the wrong paths and ďŹ nd ourselves heading in the wrong direction, maybe even towards war, simply in the pursuit of peace.

Crazy, isn’t it? ••• The way out of the narrow conďŹ nes we ďŹ nd ourselves in begins with appreciating that every life journey is really a series of little trips and destinations. We need to focus on the journeys we share in common, and learn to respect each other at the very least for where all our journeys began.

It is not accidental that all this is going on, and indeed this portion is always read, during the three weeks of mourning that mark the terrible period from the breaching of the walls of ancient Jerusalem by the Babylonians and Romans thousands of years ago, to the destruction of our Temples on the ninth of Av. This period is also known as “bein ha’metzarim,â€? which can mean between the tragedies, but also can mean, in between the narrow conďŹ nes.

Two thousand years ago, the rabbis believed we lost everything because we were too narrow, and did not know how to accept and respect each other’s viewpoints. Perhaps it is time to broaden our perspectives and do some rebuilding.

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Breaking and entering … leading to chocolate-covered cookie balls

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ave you ever been locked out of your car or home?

In the past, it rarely happened, as I tended to leave my front door open. I figured no one was going to try to break into the front door (actually, they could have just walked in). Yes, I know, it wasn’t very smart. There were times as well, when inadvertently, I, or my daughter Jordana, would forget to lock our cars.

One night last summer, my husband Jerry arrived home late, and after giving him dinner I went up to bed. He said he’d be right up, he was just going to check out how the Yankee top minor league prospects were doing. In hindsight, he could have just gone to bed, the Yankees obviously didn’t have much of a farm system, as was revealed this season.

Jerry fell asleep at the computer and woke up 2 a.m., at which point, he reWHO’S IN THE alized that he left his cell phone in his KITCHEN car. After retrieving it, he noticed someone stepping out of my car.

At a quick glance, it looked like my daughter’s boyfriend Dan. He wondered what Dan would be doing in my car. Turns out, Jerry was wrong. Jerry asked if that was his car and he said, ”Yes, I just misplaced my keys.”

Jerry wished him good luck in retrieving them and slowly walked into the house as he watched the boy leave the car and head down the block. Jerry then quickly called the police and was Judy Joszef outside with two squad cars and half a dozen police officers with flashlights searching up and down the block. When Jordana returned home and saw the scene, she panicked and asked, “What’s going on?” Jerry, in complete defiance of reality (A Life Is Beautiful movie moment) attempted to reassure her and claimed that everything was perfectly fine. This only intensified her fears, and she ran inside to make sure I was ok.

I dressed quickly and ran downstairs. Jerry explained what had happened, and I asked, “You did what???” You just let him walk down the street with Jordana’s wallet? Jerry replied that he didn’t want to confront the teen.

Now, let me explain something about my husband. He works out a few times a week, is very strong and is in amazing shape. He doesn’t do it because he cares what he looks like. He does it because being a child of Holocaust survivors, he said he wants to be as strong as he can be, so G-d forbid

anyone comes to round up the Jews again, he was going to stand up to them. I tried to explain that he would have only one shot and even that might be a stretch. He said, “I’ll go down fighting then!” I guess that strong macho talk was reserved for Nazi’s only.

A few days later, the detective called and said they might have caught the kid, and wanted Jerry to see if he could pick him out of six different photos. To say he was nervous was an understatement. “What if I pick out the wrong kid? I could ruin someone’s life. Imagine if I think it’s him but it’s really not. It was dark, I didn’t really get a good look.”

So there we were in the precinct with Jerry pouring over the photos. The first looked like him, but then no, the second did, too. The third seemed to look closer to the kid than the first two and the fifth and sixth photo had some resemblances. He told the detective he couldn’t in good faith pick any of the five that he thought it might be, as he wasn’t sure enough.

The detective laughed and said it was just as well as the one they caught was the only one Jerry didn’t even consider.

After the night my car was broken into, I realized that the house and all cars had to be locked at all times. Of course there was a time or two when I locked my key in my trunk, or couldn’t find my key, but Chaverim, a wonderful organization run by religious Jews, just for the sake of helping out a person in need and receiving a mitzvah at the same time, came to my rescue.

Just this past week after arriving home with eight bags of groceries and ready to cook for Shabbat, I realized, I didn’t have my key. I called Chaverim and sheepishly asked if they broke into homes as well as cars. “All the time,” Sherry Waldman replied. She calmed me down and then called me back less than five minutes later to tell me she had someone on the way.

Minutes later, Natan Friedman and Eli Goldstone arrived.

They were on a mission. They were not leaving my house till they found a way to get me inside. Lucky for me they were able to figure out a way to break into my house. …

And on that note, why not take a BREAK from your oven with these delicious rich cookie chocolate balls, that are easy to prepare and no baking involved. And should you find yourself locked out of your car or home, call Sherry at Chaverim 718-337-1800. Tell her Judy sent you.

No bake chocolate covered cookie balls Ingredients: ■ 1 lb. of your favorite vanilla cookies or graham crackers ■ 1 cup of Nutella

1 cup of peanut butter, almond butter or praline paste.

12 ounces of semi sweet chocolate or chips. If you like you can use white chocolate (without nuts) ■ ■

Directions: Crush the crackers or cookies and add them to a mixing bowl along with the Nutella and peanut butter. Spray your hands with Pam and mix well.

Rinse and dry your hands, then form the mixture into balls (any size you like is fine) and place on waxed paper.

Chill in the refrigerator until firm, about 15 minutes.

Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or the microwave.

Dip each ball into the chocolate and shake off the extra chocolate, then place on waxed parchment paper. Before chocolate starts to harden, sprinkle on your favorite topping, You can use a few different toppings and have an assortment.

Some good choices are; toasted coconut, sprinkles, crushed nuts or cocoa Once balls are dry and firm place in an airtight container and serve within two days or freeze.

Judy Joszef is a pastry and personal chef as well as a party planner. She spent 18 years as a pastry chef at Abigael’s, The Cedar Club, Centro and T42 in the Five Towns, before launching her current business, Soiree. She can be reached at judy.soiree@ gmail.com

Will the House stand firm against Senate’s immigration bill?

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he Senate passed the “Comprehensive Immigration Bill” by a wide margin.

The bill was full of pork — it had something for everybody with the one exception that it did not have anything for those who wanted the United States’ borders secured.

The border security amendment praised in the press had holes in it so large you could drive a space shuttle through any of them.

It seems that every Senator was able to put an exception into POLITICS TO GO the bill that supported some local voting bloc (Alaska Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich had an Alaska seafood provision added, for example, and New York’s Chuck Schumer added a requirement guaranteeing a minimum number of Irish immigrants). Ted Cruz (RJeff Dunetz Tx) on the Senate floor might have revealed the most frightening provision, one fining small businesses that hired American workers over the provisionally legal immigrants.

Nevertheless, an immigration bill passed in the Senate and attention is turned to the

House of Representatives which, unlike the Senate, has a Republican majority. Will the House leadership stand firm and create a bill that protects our borders, or will they fold under the pressure as they have done so many times before?

I asked a friend, a House GOP aide, if the leadership realized that “rubber-stamping” the Senate bill would split the party and perhaps force conservatives to leave the GOP. His answer was that leadership was “smarter than the base gives them credit for.”

I’m not sure if my friend’s words were that reassuring, but what was calming was the petition of more than 70 members of the House GOP Caucus (including Long Island’s Peter King) who demanded/forced a caucus meeting. At the meeting, Speaker Boehner was told in no uncertain terms that an immigration bill like the Senate’s would cause a revolt in the GOP ranks. Boehner told the caucus he would not bring the bill to the floor unless it had the support of a majority of the caucus.

On Thursday, during his weekly press conference, Boehner said the Senate bill isn’t going anywhere in the House.

“The House is not going to take up and vote on whatever the Senate passes,” Boehner said before going on to attack the Senate version as too weak on border security.

In reality, Speaker Boehner and the

House GOP leadership have three choices: ■ Do Nothing. Immigration reform is a key item on the Democratic Agenda, but not a priority to the American people. The last Rasmussen poll that looked at voter priority of national issues had immigration ranked tenth behind economy, health care, jobs, social security, government spending, corruption, taxes, education and national security. Boehner could simply announce that the economy, jobs, and the deficit are more important, and the House will take up immigration after they are done with the other nine items.

■ Pass their own version of a comprehensive bill and send it to a conference committee. This is both the least likely to happen and the one which frightens the conservative base the most. Agree or disagree with him, Boehner is not a stupid man. This option has no upside because the Democrats will not agree to any compromise that protects the border. Boehner will not go this way.

■ Piecemeal: This approach gives the speaker the most options and therefore is the most likely approach. He will split the issue into its component parts and bring up each part as a separate bill.

The first step will be border security. The House will pass a border security bill, which will die in the Senate.

At the same time the House will ready a

bill that fixes our present immigration system and a third bill offering a pathway to citizenship. Most conservatives realize the pathway has to be done eventually because in the end, those 11 million illegals aren’t going anywhere. However, the only way Boehner will be able to get this through is if a border security bill is passed by the Senate first (very unlikely).

That will be his carrot: If the Senate passes the secure border bill, the House will be ready to pass the next two. But in order for this approach to work, each of the bills must be simple, no half-ton of paper-type, something-for-everyone type of bill. Simple and transparent is the way the House needs to go (as opposed to the tome coming out of the Senate).

I wouldn’t worry about anything happening too fast since all of Congress is on vacation for the July 4th holiday. They come back for two weeks and then they go into recess till September.

When the House comes back in September, their first two priorities will be the debt ceiling and the budget (and don’t forget the ongoing Scandalabra). It will be very surprising if the House takes up immigration in a major way before the clock strikes 2014.

Stay calm about the bill passed in the Senate last week, because the gang of eight had their moment in the sun; that monstrosity isn’t going anywhere.

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The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and the Maritime Administration (MARAD) announce their intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to assist in the evaluation of a deepwater port license application submitted

by Liberty Natural Gas. Liberty proposes to own, construct, and operate the Port Ambrose Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Deepwater Port located in the Federal Waters in the New York Bight approximately 17 nautical miles southeast of Jones Beach, New York and 24 nautical miles east of Long Branch, New Jersey. The pipeline would tie into the existing Transco Lateral approximately 2.2 nautical miles south of Long Beach, New York and 13 nautical miles east of Sandy Hook, New Jersey. New York and New Jersey are both adjacent coastal states by definition in the Deepwater Port Act of 1974, as amended. The Application, notices, supporting materials, and comments may be viewed at the Federal Docket Management Facility website: http://www.regulations.gov under docket number USCG-2013-0363.

The USCG and the MARAD are now in the scoping period and invite public comments relating to the scope of the EIS. We will hold an informational open houses and scoping meetings at the locations listed below. These are open to the public and all interested parties are encouraged to attend. Written and oral comments will be accepted at the public meeting as well as throughout the scoping process.

The Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an EIS, initiating the comment process, was published in the Federal Register on June 24, 2013 (78 FR 37878). We normally allow 30 days for scoping following publication of the NOI. The NOI erroneously indicates that scoping will end July 14, 2013. We intend to publish a correction to the NOI extending the scoping period until at least July 23, 2013; 30 days from NOI publication date.

• The open house and public meeting in New York will be held on Tuesday, July 9, 2013. Open House: 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM; Public Meeting 6 pm to 8 pm. These events will be held at: the Allegria Hotel, 80 West Broadway, Long Beach, New York, 11561. Phone: 516-889-1300. Free street parking is available and the parking lot at the Long Island Railroad Station Long Beach near Park Place and Park Avenue is available 5 pm to 5 am. In addition, there is free valet parking at the hotel for those that want/and or need this service.

• The open house and public meeting in New Jersey will be held on Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Open House: 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM; Public Meeting 6 pm to 8 pm. These events will be held at: the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center, 97 Sunfield Avenue, Edison, New Jersey. Phone: 732-417-1400. Free parking is avail able at the Center.

We encourage you to submit comments and related materials regarding this project. If you do so, please include your name and address, and this notice reference number (USCG-2013-0363). You may submit your comments and materials by mail, hand delivery, fax, or electronic means to the Department of Transportation, Docket Management Facility. To make sure your comments and related materials are not entered more than once in the docket, please submit them by only one of the following means by July 23, 2013 or such later date if noticed in the Federal register.

• By Mail: Docket Management Facility (USCG-2013-0363), U.S. Department of Transportation, West Building, Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001 • By Personal Delivery: to the room and address listed above between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

• By FAX: To the Docket Management Facility at (202) 493-2251.

• Electronically: Through the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) website: http://www.regulations.gov under docket number USCG-2013-0363.

If you have questions about the proposed Port Ambrose deepwater port license application, you may contact Mr. Roddy Bachman, U.S. Coast Guard at 202-372-1451 or Roddy.C.Bachman@uscg.mil or Ms. Tracy Ford, Maritime Administration, at (202) 366-0321 or Tracey.Ford@dot.gov.

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By Steven Stotsky, JNS.org Controversy continues to simmer in the upscale Boston suburb of Newton over the use of biased and substandard instructional materials to teach students about the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.

The controversy began two years ago when a parent, looking over his daughter’s reading assignment, discovered a handout that accused Israeli soldiers of abusing and murdering imprisoned Palestinian women.

The selection came from The Arab World Studies Notebook, a textbook that had already been exposed for its advocacy of Islam and for making ludicrous claims — for example, that Muslim explorers discovered America and that Iroquois Indians had Muslim names. The outcry that followed prompted the school administration to remove it.

But that turned out to be just the tip of the iceberg. A more widespread problem was revealed when it was learned that a leader in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel had given a seminar to history teachers on teaching about the Middle East. Soon, more evidence of inaccurate and anti-Israel materials used in the schools came to light.

Last November, to head off the controversy, the vice chairman of the Newton School Committee published an op-ed in local papers offering reassurance that anti-Israel materials were not systematically used in Newton schools. He denounced town residents who had raised the issue for engaging in “McCarthyesque” tactics, and added, “Does it really sound plausible that for years virtually everyone has unknowingly been the victim of the teaching of such horrible material?”

Sadly, the most recent batch of handouts used in the 10th grade honors class offers new evidence of a continuing problem. It contains a timeline titled “POV: History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” that purports to cover both “An Israeli Perspective” and “A

The anti-Israel “Arab World Studies Notebook,” pictured, has been used to educate students in Newton, Massachusetts, schools.

Palestinian Perspective.” It was compiled in 2001 by a young intern with no apparent expertise on the subject.

The author thanked Professor Mark LeVine of University of California, Irvine for reviewing the document. LeVine is an agitator against Israel who publishes on the English website of Al Jazeera. In a guest column in The Huffington Post on Jan. 13, 2009, he likened Hamas’s fight against Israel in Gaza to “the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.” LeVine contended that Israelis have an “addiction” to violence and suffer from “collective mental illness.”

The timeline ignores the religious and ideological component of Arab rejection of the Jewish state. For example, the only reason given for the Arab rejection of the United Nations partition resolution in November

1947 is that the Arabs “considered the proposal unrepresentative of the demographic distribution of Jews and Arabs living in Palestine.” There is no discussion of the religionsanctioned rejection of the Jewish state, or of Palestinian leader Haj Amin Al Husseini’s use of religious and racial bigotry to inflame Arab sentiment against the Jews.

An accompanying class discussion guide called “Class notes for Israel Palistine [sic] (Student & Teacher Discussion)” also dismisses the religious component, stating, “This is a conflict over land.” What lies behind the downplaying of the religious component is an attempt to cast Israel as a neo-colonial state usurping the land of the indigenous population. This narrative, fashionable among anti-Israel academics, designates the Arabs as indigenous people while denying that status to the Jews whose continuous history on the land goes much further back.

The class guide asserts, “Jewish nationalism (Zionism) and Palestinian nationalism seek essentially the same goal: a state that can provide security, economic opportunity, and a connection to a land.” This feigned evenhanded approach promotes a falsehood, for both the Palestine Liberation Organization and Hamas charters call for the dismantling of the Jewish state. An accurate recounting of Palestinian nationalism shows that opposition to the Jewish state came first, while the demand for a Palestinian Arab state emerged only later.

Instead of reading the works of distinguished scholars, Newton students are exposed to dogma peddled by anti-Israel activists and fringe academics or to error-prone pages pulled from the Internet.

Students are told that in 1948, “Fighting breaks out between the newly declared State of Israel and its Arab neighbors,” not that the surrounding Arab states attacked the Jewish state on the day after it was formally recognized by a resolution of the United Nations.

The careful wording of United Nations Se-

curity Council Resolution 242 to not require Israel to withdraw from all of the territories captured in the 1967 Six-Day War is described as only the English-language version.

The handout contends that altered versions in other languages are equally valid.

Students are told that “rightwing Israelis” call the West Bank “Judea and Samaria”— without being informed that the label “West Bank” originated with the Jordanian occupation from 1949 to 1967. Palestinian terrorism is downplayed, while rare instances of Israeli violence are highlighted.

The first terrorist act inside Israel and the West Bank specifically mentioned is the 1994 attack on Palestinian worshipers by Baruch Goldstein. The murders of 37 Israelis in the coastal road massacre in March 1978 and of 26 Israeli schoolchildren and teachers in Ma’alot in May 1974 are not mentioned.

Students are not told that while Goldstein is reviled in Israel, Palestinian perpetrators of terror attacks, like terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, are held up as role models to be emulated by Palestinian children.

Students are told that the Oslo Accords meant that the two sides “were no longer claiming that the other did not have the right to exist as a state of peoples on that land.”

Students are not informed that at the Fatah Party Congress in 2009 participants cheered as Palestinian Authority officials vowed never to recognize the Jewish State and reaffirmed their commitment to armed struggle.

A complete and accurate account of the conflict should not be sacrificed on the altar of evenhandedness. With all the upheaval in the Middle East and its impact on America, parents cannot count on schools to ensure that accurate and quality instruction occurs.

Parents need to make their voices heard so that their children aren’t fed Pollyannaish revisions of reality.

Steven Stotsky is a senior researcher for the 65,000-member, Boston-based Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.

Public Broadcasting’s immaculate deception

By Eric Rozenman, JNS.org If a scandal festers in Washington but no one reports it, is it still scandalous?

Forget, for a moment, headlines about the National Security Agency, Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department reportedly snooping on or obstructing ordinary citizens, political opponents or journalists. Consider instead the less dramatic but longer-running example of an under-the-radar scofflaw federal agency.

The agency is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). One result of its virtual impunity continues to be National Public Radio (NPR) coverage biased against Israel.

The federal Telecommunications Act of 1967, as amended in 1991, requires, among other things, “strict adherence to objectivity and balance in all programs or series of programs of a controversial nature.”

The act established CPB, now tax supported at approximately $450 million annually. Most of that money is passed through to stations, outside producers, and, directly or indirectly, to NPR and television’s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

In November 2005, CPB’s presidentiallyappointed, Senate-approved board members were discomfited by a report from the corporation’s inspector-general. He found CPB operations deficient in eight areas. One of those was objectivity and balance oversight.

This was not news to CAMERA—the 65,000-member, Boston-based Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. Our research, available at www. camera.org, details hundreds of NPR’s ArabIsraeli reports that violate the objectivity and balance standard.

According to I-G Kenneth Konz, CPB had failed to fulfill its legal obligation to “review, on a regular basis, national public broadcasting programming… for objectivity and balance….” In fact, he determined that it had never established a mechanism—set standards and assigned staff—to do so.

Today, eight additional years later, it still hasn’t.

Responding to their inspector-general, CPB board members upgraded corporation practice in the other seven areas relatively quickly. But when it came to instituting regular reviews for objectivity and balance in national programming, progress slowed.

Board members and CPB senior officials talked. They hired a consultant. They requested objectivity and balance “white papers” at $15,000 apiece from journalism professors. Call it death-by-process.

Congress possesses oversight authority regarding CPB, but many members don’t want to exercise it. Why risk charges of “trying to kill Big Bird” or “censoring freedom of the press”? This even though public broadcasting, unlike private news media, takes the

King’s shilling. House and Senate oversight committees satisfy themselves annually with receipt of a CPB report that says, in essence, “we’ve checked and we’re doing a great job.”

Nevertheless, a few members of Congress, including Democratic Representatives Brad Sherman (Calif.), Steve Israel (N.Y.), and Steve Rothman (N.J.), Republican Eric Cantor (Va.) and Republican Senator Sam Brownback (Kan.) urged CPB to meet its statutory requirement for regular review of national programming to ensure objectivity and balance compliance.

CAMERA did so in testimony during CPB’s annual “Open to the Public” hearings, letters to board members, meetings with CPB senior staff and written statements.

All to no avail.

Instead, the CPB board eventually revised its existing ombudsman’s office, which the I-G had found irrelevant to the required objectivity and balance reviews. The corporation hired a journalism professor who’d submitted one of the “best practice” white papers as new ombudsman, and congratulated itself.

What CPB had not done, however, was institute regular reviews of national programming for objectivity and balance. It had not tasked any employees with responsibility to make such reviews or set guidelines, such as traditional journalism standards of accuracy, context, comprehensiveness, fairness (to the

subject matter covered, not necessarily the sensitivities of those involved) and prompt correction of errors.

The ombudsman, an outside contractor acting on his own initiative and without CPB guidelines for “regular reviews,” did not have the means to supervise objectivity and balance compliance. Nor was he or she expected to recommend withholding corporation funds for repeat violators.

Before CPB established the office of ombudsman, both NPR and PBS had created their own. NPR in particular did so in response to repeated charges of anti-Israel bias.

These included a 32-page CAMERA monograph in 2000, “A Record of Bias: National Public Radio’s Coverage of the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” and a letter in 2003 from 11 Democratic members of the House, led by Sherman and Rep. Eliot Engel (N.Y.). But the ombudsmen too often functioned as shock absorbers or apologists for the networks rather than empowered examiners of journalistic performance.

This returns us to Congress’s failure to notice the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s failure to uphold the law when it comes to reviews of objectivity and balance in programming by recipients. One of those recipients, NPR, still violates the objectivity and balance standard with some regularity. It’s a scandal.

Eric Rozenman is Washington director of CAMERA.

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Facts an afterthought in teaching about Israel

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From Holocaust, a life of teaching and learning…

Continued from page 1 killing the Jews. He said that in 1941 a Russian General commander was a traitor and told the Russians to clean all their weapons that day — the Germans invaded and the Russians fled, but many were shot by the invading Nazis. Some managed to flee and formed partisan groups to fight the Nazis.

The Jews were forced into a ghetto and made to wear a yellow circle on their front and back, “a target,” he said, “so they can shoot at the Jews if they try to escape the ghetto.” The Schwartzblatts were chased from their home into an apartment in the ghetto shared with three or four families.

His father spoke many languages and was called in to the Nazis to collect gold from the Jews “if they want to stay alive.” Gold was collected a few times this way.

••• Two weeks before Rosh Hashana in 1942 — “I remember exactly,” he said, bitterly — “it was a Friday at 10 a.m., the 15th of Elul, a beautiful day. Some Germans came but mostly Ukrainians. We were told that the mayor of the town wants to talk to us.

It seems my father knew that they were not talking. I saw he put on his tallis and tfilin to go to the place, the marketplace. They came into every house.”

He said that his mother fainted, and his father revived her and the family walked hand in hand saying the Shema.

“All our neighbor friends were celebrating like it was a big holiday — they knew what was happening and they were very happy. They would take our house.” Some were shot on the way if they stepped out of line as they were rushed to the site. “A lot of Jewish men had their talis and tefilin on,” he recalled.

The Germans separated those who said they knew a trade and some families gave their little children to those, “if they kill us the children will stay with them. And then Reb Aharon a very tall man with a beard yelled in Yiddish, ‘yidden! Jews, save yourselves! Start running!’

Some listened, some not.

••• “We started to run to the forest about a mile away, running, saying Shema, holding hands. The police started to chase us with guns and shooting. The Jews started dropping as they were being shot. My instinct was ‘don’t look around.’ I was running, saying Shema over and over.” They were using machine guns. And he kept running.

He saw one of the attackers was a Ukrainian friend who would visit and eat at his house and sit at the family table. “I didn’t see my father. I didn’t see my mother.” He collided with another young boy who had been shot in the leg and fell into a pigsty, rolling under the threshold and he lost his sister.

The Ukrainian who had shot his father and mother, the family friend, was looking for him. Chaim lay quietly, his hand on the other boy’s mouth to quiet his groans and tied his bleeding leg with a handkerchief. He saw the Nazi’s boots above on the door step and heard him say, “there is nothing here

but pigs.” But then he heard his sister’s voice pleading with the Ukrainian not to kill her after he poked her with his bayonet.

“I’m doing you a favor,” he said, and shot her. His older sister, age 17, had been taken to work in Russia as a telephone operator when the Russians had invaded but at that point they thought that she was dead as well.

He found out later that the remaining Jews were lined up on their knees by a pit dug four days before and shot in the head.

After the Nazis left the area, Chaim and the other boy, Sender Applebaum, staggered into the forest. Sender went to one of the huts in the forest to care for his leg. (Chaim never saw him again but found out later that he survived and moved to Israel.)

Chaim ran deeper into the forest, familiar with the area since he had accompanied his father on sales to the nearby villages after his day in cheder. He found a brook for water and stayed in the forest for a few days pleading for food from some Polish shepherds — until one of their fathers grabbed him and dragged him off, turning him over to the Ukrainian who killed his family in exchange for some salt.

The Ukrainian put a collar around his neck and tied him to his horse, forcing him to run or be dragged alongside for ten kilometers back to town. It was Thursday and he was thrown in prison to be killed the next day.

As he lay in the cell, a bruised and bloodied non-Jew was thrown in, suspected by the Nazis of being a partisan though he wasn’t.

Chaim davened and he fell asleep. His mother came to him in a dream, as clear “as if she was alive.” She said that he would be killed the next day and he had no time and must escape. He awoke and fell asleep again and she came again, urging him to take a stool from near the non-Jew and the matches from his pocket, go to the closed, barred window and escape.

“With Hashem’s help you’ll do it.”

He groped around in the dark, found the stool and the matches, set the stool by the window and pushed his way up. He forced the window open pushing his head between the bars, grasping the bars in both hands.

He was stuck; the stool fell away and he was left hanging. He pulled on the bars — somehow they spread and he was able to squeeze his body through, sliding out the window onto the ground beneath and fainted. Outside stood a Nazi guard with a barking dog. The non-Jew woke up and shouted, “The little Jew escaped!”

Nazis ran into the cell and shouted to the guard outside to run down the street to catch him. Chaim came to and ran across the road into the brush and the forest beyond. “I heard the dog barking. I ran the whole night until I didn’t hear the dog. And then the shephard’s father grabbed me again.”

Chaim couldn’t understand why he was there — it was a different forest! “G-d wants you to stay alive,” said the man.

••• Chaim’s mother came to him in a dream that night as well, and told him where to meet Chaim to save him. The man convinced everyone in the village to take in Chaim for

‘We ran to the forest

about a mile away, saying Shema, holding hands.

The police started to chase us with guns and shooting. The Jews started dropping as they were being shot One of the attackers was a Ukrainian friend who would visit and eat at his house and sit at the family table.’

Photo by Malka Eisenberg

Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Leib Schwartzblatt, unshaven for the Three Weeks, in the JASA house in Far Rockaway, where he is a mashgiach. a day each so all would be implicated in his survival and none would dare give him away.

This lasted a few months until the area was overrun by the Nazis.

Chaim ultimately sought out the partisans and their commander recognized him from his hometown and welcomed him. He became a messenger boy for them until after the war. He then found his sister in Tashkent in Uzbekistan — he was 16 and she was 21.

She had lost touch with Judaism but under his guidance returned. He introduced her to someone he knew from his town whose father was a Stollener Chosid and who had learned in the Kletzker yeshiva. Rav Aharon Kotler sent visas for Chaim, his sister and her husband, Nissan Shor.

After learning in Lakewood, Rav Kotler advised them to seek a way to support a family and Shor opened a restaurant and catering business in Forest Hills, New Forest caterers.

Young Chaim sought a place to learn in the summer when he arrived but the yeshivas were closed. “I was very upset, in Europe there was no such thing as vacation from learning.”

••• He was tested by Rabbi Mendel Zacks, z”l, in Yiddish at Yeshiva University. He said that he learned in Yeshivas Sheayris Haplayta that traveled from Poland to Prague, Paris, back to Poland, and to the U.S. He pointed out that he learned Chumash with Rashi, Navi, davening, Shir Hashirim, Tehilim. Later, in yeshiva, he learned mishna and gemara. “I was so hungry for learning I learned Torah day and night.”

When Chaim began to “yell and cry” when he was told by Dr. Samuel Belkin, z”l, of Yeshiva University, after he passed his test, that school was closed for the summer, Belkin contacted Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and attended Torah Vodaas’ camp. He received smicha (rabbinic ordination) from Rabbi Dovid Lifshitz a rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) at YU. He said he always prepared for the shiur — he studied in Yiddish, and he was known as the “Kleine (little) Rebbe.” He worked

in the diamond center at 47th Street, eight hours a day and studied education at night at the Herzliya teachers’ college in Manhattan and then went to Israel in 1958 for a one year scholarship to Hebrew University.

There, at a friend’s aufruf in Rishon Letzion, he led the davening and was approached by a man who asked him to marry his niece.

“I had to teach her. She wasn’t religious enough.” They married in Israel in 1959 and returned to the States.

He taught for 40 years at Yeshiva Hudson County, and the Talmud Torah in Westchester and the Yonkers Jewish Center. Twenty years ago, a Rabbi Shulman in Far Rockaway asked him to be a mashgiach at the JASA houses where he is today.

Rabbi Schwartzblatt and his wife, Rivka Rachel, a”h, had three children. All three married and had children but one daughter died in a car accident. His son Berel, a member of Kehillas Bais Yehudah Tzvi in Cedarhurst, died, leaving three children.

••• Schwartzblatt narrates his story colorfully, animatedly yet modestly, almost as an observer of history and not as an active participant. He recounted in a tone of amazement that when he sat in a lecture on farming at Hebrew University he turned to see a man in shorts and an eye patch sitting beside him. “I said, ‘You look like Moshe Dayan.’ The man responded, ‘Zeh Hu’ (this is he).”

His deep understanding and love of davening and Torah study and the importance of teaching Torah continues to sustain him. The prayer before the Shema, he said, stresses “to learn and to teach, if it says to teach you have to teach! I brought a lot of people closer.”

He said that he was once in Israel with his son and his family, davening in an American minyan. “Abba,” said his son, “somebody is staring at you.”

After the davening the man approached and asked, “Were you ever a teacher in Yonkers? I was your student.”

“He hugged me. He became frum, made aliyah, studied in yeshiva in Yerushalayim, got smicha, koshered his parent’s kitchen and made them frum.

“He give me credit for this.”

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By Malka Eisenberg A report based on voluminous statistics gleaned from employer interviews and culled into a detailed report by Israel’s Ministry of Economy under Knesset Member Naftali Bennett’s direction has just been translated and made available to the English speaking public.

From academics in computer science and accountants to welders and whitesmiths, 195 jobs are tallied and categorized into easily understood columns of number of job openings per region, employees per region, starting monthly salary and rank by demand.

The document was translated by Israel Empowered, an Internet outreach group,

an organization whose stated goal is to “promote Jewish and Zionist values developing a sense of pride in one’s Jewish heritage and immigration to Israel.”

“The Ministry of the Economy had done this for years,” Baruch Gordon of Israel Empowered and a director of the Israel Defense Forces Preparatory Academy in Beit El told The Jewish Star. He founded the English Arutz Sheva in 1995.

“They culled this data constantly and never compiled it as a simple accessible report,” Gordon explained. “Bennett said, ‘This is huge! Why don’t we compile this?””

Gordon said that translating the information “took a lot of effort,” but the information is important.

“The key is that with the current

economy in America, key players in the American economy, investors, those on Wall Street, they don’t see it getting better, they are not optimistic. It makes this all the more relevant — more will be thinking about Israel as a viable option in their lives.”

“Anyone remotely thinking about aliyah or expressing interest of aliyah” would be a candidate to peruse the information, Goldon stressed.

Some of the jobs most in demand include civil engineers, computer engineers and construction carpenters. Dry cleaners and dairy production workers are at the lowest end of the demand scale.

A misgiving voiced by some of those inquiring about jobs involved Israeli salaries.

“In America,” emphasized Gordon, “the cost of living is insanely higher.”

The tuition for the most expensive university in Israel is equivalent to $3,500 a year, he said; child care is much more accessible and reasonable; socialized medicine is 20 to 30 times lower in medical care costs; education is free; rental apartments are inexpensive, and basic commodities — fruits, vegetables and bread — are “Tastier! Holier! Cheaper!”

“With thousands of job openings, a prudent observer choosing an education, will study the report before choosing what field to major in,” concluded Gordon.

For more information and to access the report, go to youtu.be/3D_EhRIUPJ4 or email aliza@israelempowered.com.

Israel-friendly slant in ‘WWZ’ peeves Palestinians Palestinian supporters accuse Brad Pitt’s latest apocalyptic movie “World War Z” of pro-Israel bias by depicting Israel as one of the few countries in the world not immediately destroyed by zombies.

The viewers point to one scene showing a horde of zombies slowed by an enormous wall built around Israel, which they say resembles the security fence separating Israel from the West Bank. “In ‘World War Z’, Israel’s apartheid wall apparently helps keep out a massive horde of zombies … not cool,” one Twitter user posted, according to Israel National News.

Other viewers pointed out that Israel’s real security fence is intended to prevent Palestinian terrorists from entering Israel.

Depending on one’s interpretation of “World War Z,” the wall in the movie may actually function as a unifying force rather than a source of division. In the movie, both Jews and Muslims try to escape the zombies behind the wall.

“In the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a wall is a heavily fraught symbol.

But here it turns into an instrument of... peace?” arts and entertainment writer Steven Zeitchik wrote on “World War Z” for the Los Angeles Times.

Jewish-American slain at Egyptian demonstration Andrew Driscoll Pochter, a Jewish student at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, was fatally stabbed June 28 in Alexandria during clashes between government supporters and protesters trying to oust Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, who was reportedly deposed by the Egyptian military on Wednesday.

Pochter, 21, from Chevy Chase, Md., was observing the Egyptian demonstrations, according to the U.S. State Department.

He had a special talent for making others feel welcome — especially when inviting them into the Hillel House on the campus of Kenyon, a private liberal arts college two hours south of Cleveland.

A religious studies major, Pochter spent the last academic year as co-manager of the Hillel House at Kenyon. He became a resident of the house and was responsible for all Jewish life programming that took place on campus. He was often the first person students came in contact with upon entering the Hillel House.

“He really made Hillel House an all-inclusive place that people felt comfortable enter-

Israel Newsbriefs from JNS.org ing no matter their background,” said Marc Bragin, Kenyon’s Hillel director and Jewish chaplain.

Pochter traveled to Egypt at the end of the academic year as an intern for AMIDEAST, an American nonprofit organization engaged in international education, training and development activities in the Middle East and North Africa. He taught English to Egyptian children and lived in an Egyptian home. He planned to return to Kenyon in the fall to begin his junior year and wanted to spend next spring’s semester in Amman, Jordan, to attain fluency in Arabic.

“Andrew’s voice and spirit will be missed on campus,” Bragin said. “When one shining light gets extinguished it’s up to us to continue his vision of peace, inclusiveness and fairness for everybody.”

Skeptical on Kerry A large percentage of Israelis and Palestinians view peace efforts by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry with skepticism, says a new poll conducted by Harry S. Truman Institute at Hebrew University and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.

The poll also revealed that while 57 percent of the Israeli respondents supported mutual recognition of Israeli and Palestinian national identity in a final status agreement and 37 percent opposed that step, only 42 percent of Palestinians supported mutual recognition and 56 percent were against it.

According to the poll, only 27 percent of Palestinians and 10 percent of the Israelis think the two sides “will return to negotiations and violence will stop,” while 34 percent of Israelis and 31 percent of Palestinians “believe that negotiations will resume but some armed attacks will continue as well.”

Forty-four percent of Israelis and 15 percent of Palestinians think that the two sides will not return to negotiations and that “armed attacks will not stop.” A strong majority of both Israelis (68 percent) and Palestinians (69 percent) do not think there will be a Palestinian state within five years.

Since taking office in February, Kerry has made five visits to Israel and the Palestinian territories in a bid to restart peace talks. After concluding his most recent trip on Sunday, Kerry expressed disappointment in the conduct of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

PM on Herzl On the day U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was set to arrive in Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu said peace “is founded on security, not goodwill.”

“Without security we will not be able to defend ourselves, and any peace we have will unravel,” Netanyahu said Thursday at a ceremony in Jerusalem commemorating the 109th anniversary of the death of the father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, Israel Hayom reported.

“We remain faithful to Herzl’s vision: to establish here an exemplary state, a modern state, a state that is rooted in our land, the Land of Israel, but also a state that above all is able to give the Jews what was lost to them in their years of exile—the ability to defend themselves, by themselves, against any threat,” Netanyahu added.

McDonald’s boycots Ariel McDonald’s Israel has said it will not open a branch in the city of Ariel, citing its location beyond the Green Line as the reason, Calcalist reported.

According to Tzahi Nahmias, owner of the Mega Or construction firm, which is marketing space in the Ariel mall that offered to host McDonald’s, other chains have also expressed concern over opening branches in Ariel because of its location, but refrained from naming them because they have yet to finalize their decisions.

“The mediators told us that branches operating abroad and other companies holding rights in Israel for international brand names are worried about the potential negative response toward their businesses [by consumers] abroad if they open shop in the mall,” Nahmias told Calcalist.

Rami Levy, owner of the Rami Levy supermarket chain, which operates beyond the Green Line, told Calcalist that Arabs would be among those hurt by the apparent boycott of the area.

“I don’t agree with bringing politics into business,” Levy said.

Flames lick Nasrallah In Lebanon, the “flames have begun to lick [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah’s robe,” IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz said Thursday at the Israel Air Force

166th cadets’ graduation ceremony, according to Israel Hayom.

Gantz’s somewhat unusual, direct statement on Nasrallah was made following Israeli defense establishment assessments that strategically, Hezbollah is currently experiencing one of its lowest points in years, as the Shiite terror group is engaged on three fronts: against Israel, inside Syria and within the internal Lebanese arena.

Archbishop backs Israel’s right to exist in security The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, affirmed Israel’s “right to exist in security and peace,” during his visit to the Jewish state on Thursday.

Welby, on a five-day tour of Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian areas, met with members of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem, visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, and prayed at the Western Wall.

“The clear policy of the Church of England, [and] my own very clear and very fluent feeling, is that the State of Israel is a legitimate state like every other state in the world and has a right to exist in security and peace within internationally agreed boundaries,” he told a press conference at the Israeli Chief Rabbinate.

Soon after becoming archbishop in November 2012, Welby discovered that his father was Jewish. He also recently learned that he had lost relatives in the Holocaust.

In light of his family’s history, he called his visit to Yad Vashem “an extraordinarily personal and emotional moment.”

‘Christian Birthright’ A group of 17 Christian college students recently traveled to Israel to take part in a three-week program to bolster their skills as pro-Israel advocates.

Described as “Christian Birthright,” a reference to the popular 10-day Taglit-Birthright program for young Jewish adults, the Israel Experience College Scholarship Program, which is in its 10th year, offers a wide range of students a free trip to Israel to expand the knowledge and skills that will enable them to be stronger advocates for Israel in college and in life.

According to the program’s website, the students learn about the Jewish roots of their faith, a history of Christian anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, modern Zionism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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