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Matos-Masei • July 13, 2018 • 1 Av, 5778 • Torah columns pages 18 –19 • Luach page 19 • Vol 17, No 27

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Five Towns confronts drug woes

By The Jewish Star While drug abuse may not be out of control in the frum community, “it is out there and rising,” an organizer of next Monday night’s Five Towns awareness-raising event told The Jewish Star. “We are trying to educate the community at large to be aware of it and what to do when help is needed.”

The evening, co-sponsored by shuls, schools and organizations in the Five Towns area, will begin at 8 pm on Monday, July 16, at Congregation Beth Sholom, 390 Broadway in Lawrence.

Some shuls prepped their members by addressing the issue in broad terms on Shabbat Chukat, June 23.

In advertisements headlined in red, “Our Kids Know About Drugs. Do We?” organizers proclaim, “Only as a community can we stand strong.”

Speakers will include rabbanim, physicians, first responders, law enforcement and mental health professions, and parents who have lived through the heartbreak that substance abuse can cause.

“Attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about this scourge, but most importantly, to hear the message of hope and find out about the many critical resources available right in our community to help address this growing problem,” organizers said.

A seven-member panel, moderated by Rabbi Boruch Ber Bender of Achiezer, will include Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt, assistant rabbi at the Young Israel of Woodmere and, at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, chairman of the Department of Medicine, chief of infectious diseases, and hos-

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By Josefin Dolstein JTA President Trump’s Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, a Republican establishment favorite who worked in the George W. Bush administration, has triggered reactions from Jewish groups ranging from furious to relieved.

Groups on the left spoke out against the pick, saying Kavanaugh’s record shows he would be a threat to reproductive rights and the separation of church and state, while the Agudath Israel of America Orthodox spoke favorably of his record on religious liberty.

Judge Brett KavaTrump announced on naugh at the Capi- Monday evening that he was tol on Wednesday. nominating Kavanaugh, a Chip Somodevilla/Getty federal appeals court judge in Washington, D.C., to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy upon his retirement at the end of July.

Within an hour of the announcement, the National Council of Jewish Women released a statement saying it was “incensed” by the See Supreme on page 4

pital epidemiologist; Rabbi Kenneth Hain, spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Sholom; Rabbi Dov Silver, founder and executive vice president of the Woodmere-based Madraigos, an organization whose programs help teenagers and young adults overcome challenges; Karen Bayer, LCSW, a social worker with more than three decades of experience who practices in Lawrence and Manhattan; Rivka Drebin, LMSW, a social worker and parent; Shlomo Katz, a senior Hatzalah paramedic; and Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder.

“Unfortunately, substance abuse, alcohol, marijuana and other drugs are a problem,” Rabbi Glatt said. “We need to make sure that everyone is aware of this.”

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discusses her Jewish pride, after a screening of “RGB” in Jerusalem on Thursday. On July 4th, she accepted the Genesis Prize for Lifetime Achievement. The text of her Genesis speech is on page 4.

By Sam Sokol, JTA JERUSALEM — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg described her gratitude for her Jewish heritage during a screening of a new documentary film about her life and career at the Jerusalem Cinematheque last Thursday.

“The demand for justice, peace and enlightenment runs through Jewish history and tradition,” she said, describing how she is reminded of this fact every day when she enters her judicial chambers and is confronted with a poster proclaiming the biblical verse “Justice, justice thou shalt pursue” (Deuteronomy 16:20).

“My room has the only mezuzah in the U.S. Supreme Court,” she said, noting that “growing up Jewish, the concept of tikkun olam, repairing tears in the community and making things better for people less fortunate, was part of my heritage. The Jews are the people of the book and learning is prized above all else. I am lucky to have that heritage.”

In Jerusalem to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Genesis Prize Foundation, Ginsburg — who is equally well known for her scathing dissenting opinions as for her lifetime commitment to gender equality — was feted by the Jewish state’s political and judicial elites.

In a speech honoring her American coreligionist at the award ceremony on Wednesday, Israeli Supreme Court President Esther Hayut praised Ginsburg as a spokeswoman for the marginalized See RBG on page 4 and ignored.

‘Never Again’ means don’t let memory die Commentary by Gila and Adam Milstein “History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.”

—Erik Qualman ast month, we had the opportunity to delve deeper into the devastating truths of the Holocaust. Traveling to six countries — the Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Germany —together with 100 leading American philanthropists and scholars, we attempted to comprehend the scope of the genocide carried out by Nazi Germany and its European collaborators.

We bore witness to the inhumane conditions suffered by the Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau, which existed for a single purpose: to eradicate the Jewish and Romani peoples. We visited mass graves in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland, where hundreds of thousands of Jewish families perished at the hands of firing squads. At the Rumbula Forest Memorial,

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we commemorated some of the 2.4 million Jews who were murdered in the hidden Holocaust by bullets, some betrayed by neighbors they had grown up alongside.

Far too many people view these places as historical sites, where you can learn something about the past but nothing about the future. Many, including some within the Jewish community, can’t grasp that the anti-Semitism of Nazi Germany might one day exist again. Seeing these horrors with our own eyes focused our attention on the relevance of the Holocaust to our lives. How can we ensure that “Never Again” isn’t just a slogan, but a mindset and an action plan? hree lessons from our journey stand out. First, events like the Holocaust don’t happen overnight. They result from a process of systematic racism, intimidation and discrimination that lasts over the course of many years.

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PA rages as US pushes for Gaza-centric peace

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By Lilach Shoval, Daniel Siryoti, Nitzi Yakov and Erez Linn, Israel Hayom via JNS The Palestinian Authority is furious over the White House’s intent to push a regional peace plan regardless of P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas’s objections, Ramallah sources told Israel Hayom on Sunday.

The plan being devised by the United States will focus on resolving the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip prior to dealing with the other cardinal issues involved in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Abbas declared that he would not engage with the United States on peace talks after Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last year and subsequently relocated the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — moves the Palestinian leader maintains illustrate Trump’s pro-Israel bias and disqualify America from acting as an impartial peace broker between Israel and the Palestinians.

Moderate Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have said that given Abbas’s position, they see no other choice but to go over his head and have decided to back Washington’s decision to present the peace plan directly to the Palestinian people.

According to Arab diplomats familiar with the details of the plan, the American scheme includes a long-term cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Gaza-based terrorist groups.

Once the cease-fire agreement proves lasting, a series of economic programs will be implemented to improve the situation in Gaza, where unemployment nears 50 percent. These projects, as well as a series of infrastructural rehabilitation plans including the construction of a special Palestinian port in Cyprus, will be sponsored by the international community.

The moderate Arab countries have urged Abbas to engage with Americans, warning him that he risks rendering his government irrelevant, but to no avail.

“Washington and Tel Aviv have decided to take out a hit on [Abbas] and delegitimize him in the eyes of his own people. This is nothing short of a coup,” a senior Ramallah official told Israel Hayom.

Hamas declined to officially comment on the White House’s intention, but one official noted

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that “Trump and Netanyahu can make all the plans they want for Gaza. It’s nothing but empty words. Only the Palestinian people will decide their future.”

Over the past few months, the defense establishment and several international agencies have been working on several plans to alleviate the dire situation in the coastal enclave.

Among the plans currently considered are one devised by Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj. Gen. Kamil Abu Rokon, which includes increasing Gaza’s fishing zone and allowing more materials into the enclave; one put together by U.N. envoy to the Middle East Nickolay Mladenov; and one suggested by the Americans, which includes investments in infrastructure and employment initiatives.

Senior Israeli defense officials told Israel Hayom that any humanitarian aid to Gaza is conditioned on the return of the Israelis being held there.

Hamas is holding the remains of Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul and Lt. Hadar Goldin, killed in the Gaza in 2014. Ethiopian-Israeli Avera Mengistu and Bedouin Israeli Hisham al-Sayed, both suffering from mental health issues, crossed into Gaza willingly in 2014 and 2015 and were captured by the terrorist group.

“It’s unthinkable that we keep hearing reports about a humanitarian solution to the crisis in Gaza, but not one word about Hadar and Oron,” said Goldin’s father, Simcha.

“No one is talking about how the majority of government ministers vowed that ‘no deal would take place until we bring our boys home.’ No one is saying anything about the fact that we have to ensure — from an international standpoint — that the captives are returned before any deal is finalized,” he said.

A statement by the U.S. National Security Council spokesperson said, “The U.S. wants to help the people of Gaza and prefers to work with the P.A. to help fix the situation there. We continue to consult with key partners and allies about the best way of accomplishing that goal.

Nevertheless, we cannot allow the P.A. to stop our efforts to help the Palestinians in Gaza, or to increase the difficulties in Gaza, and we are monitoring their actions very closely.”

Muslim Dem rips ‘apartheid’ Israel for doing ‘evil’ in Gaza

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A Somali-American Muslim woman running to replace Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) rejected accusations of anti-Semitism after her earlier references to Israel as an “apartheid state” guilty of “evil doings” in Gaza came to light.

“These accusations are without merit,” Minnesota state representative Ilhan Omar said in an interview with ABC News. “They are rooted in bigotry toward a belief about what Muslims are stereotyped to believe.”

The segment was titled “Progressive Democrats increasingly criticize Israel, and could reap political rewards.”

Earlier, in response to a critic who accused her of anti-Semitism, Omar had tweeted, “Drawing attention to the apartheid Israeli regime is far from hating Jews. You are a hateful sad man, I pray to Allah you get the help you need and find happiness.”

She added, sarcastically: “Well you know, if a Muslim says something negative about Israeli government, they must hate Jews. Didn’t you get that memo.”

Minnesota’s primary election is Aug. 14.

In November 2012, Omar, who is among

several American Muslim women running for Congress, tweeted that “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. #Gaza #Palestine #Israel.”

The tweet came two days after the IDF began Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza, triggered by the launching of 100 rockets at Israel from the strip over a 24-hour period. Omar has neither apologized for nor retracted the tweet.

She is running to succeed Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress. Ellison is running for attorney general in Minnesota and is not seeking re-election.

Omar has received some pushback on social media in recent weeks.

A tweet from a Twitter user with the handle @shabbosgoy called her a “proud Jew hater” after she made a brief appearance in a music video for pop group Maroon 5’s song “Girls Like You.” The ABC News segment also noted the recent upset primary victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York, calling her one of several progressives whose willingness to criticize Israel’s actions has paid off politically.

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munity Chest Treasurer Steven Liebman, catcher Yeugye Colon, Dime manager Chris Reide, and Community Chest VP Eric Keslowitz.

It’s a 5 Towns Cyclones double header Five Towners flocked twice to MCU Park in Coney Island, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones, to support local causes.

On Sunday, 50 members of Kulanu witnessed the return to the mound of Mets’ star pitcher Noah Syndergaard, who suffered an injury six

weeks ago. Syndergaard fanned seven as he finetuned his skills to the delight of the crowd during a match against the Staten Island Yankees.

On Jewish Heritage Night, June 26, Community Chest South Shore, supported by The Jewish Star, Nassau Herald, and Dime Bank,

sponsored 80 ticketholders from the Marion & Aaron Gural JCC Sustenance Hope Opportunities Place and kosher food pantry.

The Dime Bank’s Cedarhurst branch manager, Chris Reide, threw the ceremonial first pitch to catcher Yeugye Colon.

W. Hemp ‘Fund BBQ Over 125 guests converged on the West Hempstead home of Alan and Sharon Shulman on the evening of June 27 for a BBQ and Israeli wine tasting in support of the One Israel Fund.

The event was graced by the At One Israel Fund’s West Hempstead BBQ, in left photo: Vered Ben Sa’adon, presence of Vered Ben Sa’adon, winemaker and owner of the Tura Winery in the Shomron, is flanked by Yehoshua winemaker and owner of the Tura Werth and Tzvi Greg Lauren from Heart of Israel Wines. Right photo: Hosts Sha- Estate Winery in the Shomron, ron and Alan Shulman with Scott Feltman of the One Israel Fund. along with with Yehoshua Werth

and Tzvi Lauren from Heart of Israel Wines. A dazzling assortment of wines from all across Judea and Samaria was poured.

This was the third time that the Shulmans, longtime friends and supporters of One Israel Fund, hosted the event. They were honored with the Hakarat HaTov Award at the organization’s 19th Anniversary Gala Dinner in 2013.

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AMIT will hold its annual Long Island Yom Iyun, a day of learning for women and by women, on Wednesday, July 18, at Sephardic Temple in Cedarhurst, starting at 9:30 am.

The event will feature keynote speaker Yael Axelrod, who has more than a dozen years of experience as a Jewish educator and administrator.

She has been involved in middle school education, as both a Judaic Studies teacher and administrator, at HALB, Moriah School of Englewood, and Westchester Day School.

Axelrod will discuss Yael Axelrod the time period known as Bein Hametzarim, as well as our current state of exile, and explore the root causes of the destruction of the Temple. She will explain how something as simple as tears can be an effective tool for redemption.

“Our Yom Iyun has motivated hundreds of women to come together to learn, as a chabura, many valued and insightful lessons from our Torah and beyond,” said Mimi Mehlman, who has chaired the event for the past 19 years.

Axelrod’s experience as a Jewish educator aligns with AMIT’s mission to provide cutting-edge, Jewish values-based education to more than 34,000 Israeli children throughout Israel, many of whom live in the periphery.

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Ginsburg honors heritage of Jewish women U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received the inaugural Genesis Lifetime Achievement Award in Israel on July 4. Here’s a transcript of her remarks: saac Bashevis Singer had a remembrance that bears retelling on an occasion like this.

Singer’s grandfather was a renowned Orthodox rabbi who in a sermon put this question to his congregation: “Why is the Almighty so eager for praise?

Three times a day we pray to Him, saying how great he is, how wonderful. Why should the Creator of all the stars and all the planets be so eager for praise?

The sage rabbis answer: the Almighty knows from divine experience that when people stop praising him they begin to praise one another.”

This thing, his grandfather said, is what the Almighty does not like, but Henrietta Szold small people that we are, Singer added, we enjoy sometimes some praise especially when it comes from the mouths of good people. Just so, I am enjoying this event and my revisit to Israel. t is fitting on this occasion to speak of two Jewish women raised in the USA whose humanity and bravery inspired me in my growing up years.

First, Emma Lazarus, elder cousin to the great jurist Benjamin Nathan Cardozo. Emma Lazarus was a Zionist before that word came into vogue. Her love for humankind and especially for her people is evident in all her writings. She wrote constantly, from her first volume of poetry, published in 1866 at age 17, until her death from cancer far too soon at age 38. Her poem “The New Colossus,” etched on the base of the Statue of Liberty, has welcomed legions of immigrants including my father and grandparents, people seeking in the USA shelter from fear, and longing for freedom from intolerance.

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Continued from page 1 “Law is about justice, and the experience of injustice gives one profound insight as to what justice should look like,” Hayut said, the Jerusalem Post reported. “Through her decisions, Justice Bader Ginsburg upholds the values without which democracy would be an empty vessel.”

Former Israeli Supreme Court President Aharon Barak made a similar statement, calling Ginsburg “one of the great legal minds of our time; an outstanding Jewish jurist whose fearless pursuit of human rights, equality and justice for all stems from her Jewish values.”

Speaking at the ceremony, Ginsburg evoked the memory of Anne Frank, who questioned common gender roles in her famous diary.

“When I became active in the movement to open doors to women, enabling them to enter occupations once closed to them — lawyering and judging, bartending, policing and firefighting, for example — I was heartened by the words of a girl of my generation,” said Ginsburg, 85. “I am a judge, born, raised and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice, for peace and for enlightenment runs through the entirety of Jewish history and Jewish tradition. I hope, in all the years I have the good fortune to continue serving on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I will have the strength and courage to remain steadfast in the service of that demand.”

Initially offered the Genesis Foundation’s annual Genesis Prize, which comes with a cash grant, Ginsburg said she demurred, worried that

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg receives Genesis Prize lifetime award. From left: Former Irael Supreme Court Judges Miriam Naor and Esther Hayut; co-founder and chairman of Genesis Prize Foundation Stan Polovets; Ginsburg; and former presidents of the Israeli Supreme Court Aaron Barak and Dorit Beinich, Eran Lamm/Lens Productions

My next inspirer: Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold.

Born in 1860, 11 years after Emma Lazarus, Szold lived until 1945. My mother spoke of her glowingly, also of Henry Street Settlement House founder Lillian Wald, who lived from 1867 until 1940.

Szold knew how to say “no” better than any other person whose words I have read.

Szold had seven sisters but no brother. When her mother died, a man well known for his community spirit endeavors, Haim Peretz, offered to say the Kaddish, the mourner’s prayer that ancient custom instructed could be recited only by men. Szold responded to that caring offer in a letter dated Sept. 16, 1916. You can read it in full in “Four Centuries of Jewish Women’s Spirituality” and in the Jewish Women’s Archive curriculum, “Making Our Wilderness Bloom.” I will read the key passages.

“It is impossible for me to find words in which to tell you how deeply I was touched by your offer to say Kaddish after my mother.

The Kaddish means to me that the survivor publicly manifests his intention to assume the relation to the Jewish community which his parents had, so that the chain of tradition remains unbroken from generation to generation, each adding its own link. You can do

that for the generations of your family. I must do that for the generations of my family.

“My mother had eight daughters and no son, yet never did I hear a word of regret pass the lips of either my mother or my father that one of us was not a son. When my father died, my mother would not permit others to take her daughters’ place in saying the Kaddish, and so I am sure I am acting in her spirit when I am moved to decline your offer. But beautiful your offer remains, and I repeat, I know full well it is much more in harmony with the generally accepted Jewish tradition than is my family’s conception. You understand me, don’t you?”

Szold’s plea for celebration of our common heritage while tolerating, indeed appreciating, the differences among us concerning religious practice, is captivating. I recall her words even to this day when a colleague’s words portray a certain lack of understanding. hen I became active in the movement to open doors to women, enabling them to enter occupations once closed to them—lawyering and judging, bartending, policing, firefighting, for a few examples—I was heartened by the words of a girl of my generation. She wrote: “One of the many questions that has often bothered me is why women have been and still are thought to be so inferior to men. It’s easy

the presence of Israeli politicians on the selection committee would run afoul of the Constitution’s emoluments clause prohibiting government officials from receiving gifts from foreign powers.

She said it was only after the foundation agreed to create a new lifetime achievement award whose selection committee was apolitical that she relented and agreed to be honored.

The award later went to actress Natalie Portman, who declined to attend the award ceremony because of her political differences with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Addressing the crowded theater after the screening of “RBG,” Ginsburg made two pleas.

The first was a call for renewed bipartisanship in Washington, specifically when it comes to confirming federal judges — a process that has become deeply politicized in the years since her ascension to the Supreme Court. The announcement last week that Anthony Kennedy will be retiring as the high court’s frequent swing vote, and the nomination battle ahead, did not come up in her onstage interview with Benjamin Freidenberg, an Israeli filmmaker.

Ginsburg also reiterated her longstanding support for the adoption of an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. Holding up a pocket copy of American’s foundational legal text, the justice said that she would like to be able to show it to her great-granddaughter and tell her “your equality is a fundamental tenet of the United States.”

Asked what she would do if she weren’t a judge, Ginsburg, who is well known for her love of opera, replied that if she could choose any other career, she would be “a great diva.”

“But sadly for me I’m a monotone,” she said, “so I can be [a diva] only in my dreams and occasionally in the shower when I sing.”

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Other left-leaning groups, such as the Workmen’s Circle, a Jewish organization with roots in the labor movement, denounced Trump’s pick.

The Anti-Defamation League said it was wary that the nominee’s judicial record “does not reflect the demonstrated independence and commitment to fair treatment for all that is necessary to merit a seat on our nation’s highest court.”

Agudath Israel of America has not yet taken an official position on the nomination, but its Washington director, Rabbi Abba Cohen, called Kavanaugh “a very impressive candidate.”

Rabbi Cohen was happy about Kavanaugh’s rulings related to religious freedom, based on an initial overview of the judge’s record. Agudah and other Orthodox groups favor rulings that would exempt religious groups and individuals from generally applicable laws that clash with their beliefs.

“We’re gratified that he’s given due deference to religious liberty and that he has been supportive of a greater involvement of religious organizations and institutions in society,” Rabbi Cohen told JTA. He cited Kavanaugh’s opinion in a case relating to contraceptive care exemptions for religious groups, Priests for Life v. HHS. The appeals court agreed that religious employers did not have to provide contraceptives, but had to file a form telling the government they were not doing

to say it’s unfair, but that’s not enough for me.

I’d really like to know the reason for this great injustice. Men presumably dominated women from the very beginning because of their greater physical strength. It’s men who earn a living, beget children, and do as they please. Until recently, women silently went along with this, which was stupid since the longer it’s kept up the more deeply entrenched it becomes. Fortunately, education, work, and progress have opened women’s eyes. In many countries, they’ve been granted equal rights.

Many people—mainly women but also men—now realize how wrong it was to tolerate this state of affairs for so long.

“Yours, Anne M. Frank.”

This insightful Emma Lazarus comment was one of the last entered in her diary. Anne Frank, people in this audience know, was born in the Netherlands in July 1929. She died in 1945 while imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen, three months short of her 16th birthday.

I was asked some years ago by the AJC [American Jewish Committee] to supply a statement on how my heritage as a Jew and my occupation as a judge fit together. I responded this way: “I am a judge, born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice, for peace, for enlightenment, runs through the entirety of the Jewish history and Jewish tradition. I hope that in all the years I have the good fortune to continue serving on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I will have the strength and courage to remain steadfast in service of that demand.”

With thanks for your patient audience, and once again deepest appreciation to Aharon Barak and to the Genesis Foundation, may I say to all gathered here, Shalom v’todah rabba. so. Kavanaugh in his dissent argued that the filing requirement violated the plaintiffs’ religious freedom.

“We support that position, we think that’s giving proper deference to religious rights, and we don’t think that’s in any way a retreat from the rights of others, so that’s one area where we are pleased about,” Rabbi Cohen said.

The Orthodox Union told JTA that it was studying Kavanaugh’s record before deciding whether to take a position on his nomination.

During his time in private practice, Kavanaugh took on pro bono cases, including that of a Reconstructionist synagogue, Adat Shalom in Bethesda, Maryland, which was facing challenges from its neighbors in constructing a building. In 2000, a U.S. District Court sided with the synagogue, saying a permit issued to the congregation was consistent with the Establishment Clause. The synagogue confirmed to JTA that it was represented

by Kavanaugh but did not return a request for further comment in time for publication.

Many on the left are concerned that a Trump appointee could join a conservative majority in taking away abortion rights and overturn Roe v. Wade, which Trump made a campaign promise. In 2006, Kavanaugh said he would respect Roe v. Wade, but Rabhan said that did not assuage her concern.

“Trump has said that overturning Roe v.

Wade is a litmus test for anybody on his shortlist for the Supreme Court, and he has made antiabortion [views] a litmus test for folks he’s nominated to lower courts,” said Jody Rabhan, who directs NCJW’s Washington operations.

Rabhan cited a 3027 case, Garza v. Hagan, in which Kavanaugh opposed a detained undocumented immigrant minor’s right to obtain an abortion.

Questions surround Woodmere Club deal

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By Tyler Marko, Nassau Herald Despite Woodmere Club’s lawsuit against the Town of Hempstead, town officials moved on July 3 toward creating a park district, agreeing to hire outside counsel to perform a study.

Frederick P. Clark & Associates, a Rye, NY, planning firm, will “conduct a financial report of what it would cost the town to make the Woodmere Club either a park district of a Town of Hempstead park,” Councilman Anthony D’Esposito said. The study is expected to cost under $100,000.

The 110-year-old golf club on Meadow Drive, was purchased by Weiss Properties and 2020 Acquisitions in April last year for over $9 million, with the stipulation that it remain open until 2022.

It is believed that single-family homes will be built on the property, but how many remains a point of contention that has thrown the community into turmoil, resulting in a new civic association, a building moratorium currently the subject of the club’s lawsuit, and the town board debating the creation of a park district or a town park. A survey showed that developers could build at least 240 homes on town-allowed 60 x 100-foot lots.

As proposed, a town park would be open to all Hempstead residents and be funded by town taxes.

A park would only be open to residents of that district, and as only those residents’ taxes would pay for it, the financial burden would likely be higher.

“The goal here is to make sure we have all the information that we need before a decision is made before moving forward,” D’Esposito said. “We can’t make the proper decisions on parks or park districts without having the proper information.”

The town would have to buy the club from developers and prepare for another lawsuit. “In the light of the fact that there has been absolutely no

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communication with us regarding our property, this sounds a lot like eminent domain, which we will vigorously fight against in court,” said Weiss Properties principal Robert Weiss.

The moratorium, enacted in November 2016, probably can’t be extended after a 180-day extension was granted in May this year.

A park district would restrict building on “environmentally sensitive” land,. Inwood Country Club and the Gold Club at Middle Bay in Oceanside would be included in the proposed district.

“We’re not going to comment and speculate about whether we’ll be sued,” Councilman Bruce Blakeman said. “We do everything within the letter of the law, and at that point if someone decides to initiate the action that’s their right.” He said the board has asked Town Attorney Joe Ra to expedite the process, so residents can know their options.

Mario Alex Joseph, president of the Five Towns Civic Association, which opposes development of the Woodmere Club, said he is concerned that the list of possible uses is “narrowed by a failure of imagination,” adding that the town had previously eliminated the park option.

“The attorney is certainly needed, but I would guess that a multi-disciplinary team or task force would finally produce the thoroughly researched alternate uses that everyone hopes for,” he said.

Community members have raised concerns about the impact of more residents. “Broadway is already a nightmare,” said Hewlett resident Julie Pareles, referring to heavy traffic.

Development of the property could also exacerbate flooding, which is currently mitigated by the club’s open land, said David Friedman, president of the Hewlett-Woodmere Business Association. “The water has got to go somewhere.”

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Israeli immunotherapy offers a cancer hope

By Michele Chabin For Israel Cancer Research Fund There’s a war raging in Israel, with life and death consequences worldwide. There are no tanks or tunnels. The enemy is not Iran or Hamas.

This war is waged in science labs, on the battlefield of the human body. The enemy: cancer.

Israeli scientists are experimenting with immunotherapy, which manipulates the immune system to destroy cancer cells.

While immunotherapy has been around for decades, new advances in the field, coupled with recent drug approvals by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, have intensified interest, for especially late-stage cancers that resist conventional treatments. Immunotherapy drugs already are helping patients with melanoma, lung, stomach, liver and bladder cancers, as well as some blood cancers.

“Cancer immunotherapy is exciting because, as opposed to other forms of therapy, it engages the body’s own highly sensitive system for detecting cancer cells and destroying them,” said Dr. Mark Israel, executive director of the Israel Cancer Research Fund. “This area will have a major impact on cancer outcomes going forward.”

That potential is what drew Technion’s Dr. Nathan Karin to immunotherapy research. He’s studying whether the cellular mechanisms driving autoimmune diseases like Type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis can be utilized to create immunotherapy drugs to fight cancer.

Karin and his team are researching the interplay between two types of cells vital to the immune system: regulatory T cells and effector T cells. Regulatory T cells tame immune system re-

sponses and prevent autoimmune diseases. But by suppressing effector T cells, they impede the body’s ability to fight cancer. “We believe that if you amplify regulatory T cells you can treat autoimmune disease, and if you block their activity you can thwart cancer,” Karin said.

Karin is among dozens of researchers receiving financial support from the Israel Cancer Research Fund. For the organization, which raises money in North America to support cancer research in Israel, it’s a challenges to decide which projects to fund. ICRF received 160 grant proposals in 2017 alone. Only a fraction will receive funding.

That’s where the U.S.-based Cancer Research Institute, known as CRI, comes in. Starting next year, ICRF and CRI will be partnering to identify and fund the most promising immunotherapy research being conducted in Israel.

A joint scientific review panel including experts from the U.S. and Canada will meet every fall to evaluate research proposals on the basis of innovation, feasibility and likelihood of impact. The initiative is called The Immunotherapy Promise.

The FDA approved the first immunotherapy drug recently, but the field dates back to 1891, when William Coley, a physician and cancer researcher, observed that some cancer patients infected by Streptococcus bacteria experienced spontaneous improvement. He began injecting the bacteria into his patients, with mixed results.

Amid skepticism and the advent of radiotherapy, the treatment was nearly abandoned.

Today, however, new avenues of research are underway, and immunotherapy is among the most promising, said Jill O’Donnell-Tormey, CEO and director of scientific affairs at CRI.

Neta Milman, a scientist at Rambam Clinical ReICRF search Institute in Haifa.

“There’s still more research that needs to be done in order to realize immunotherapy’s full potential,” O’Donnell-Tormey said. “By partnering with the Israel Cancer Research Fund, which is well known among Israel’s top academic research centers, we will be able to support more lifesaving science in a country that is home to some of the world’s most talented research scientists.”

Neta Milman, a scientist at the Laboratory for Applied Cancer Research at Rambam Clinical Research Institute in Haifa, is among ICRF’s recent grantees. She is studying pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, tumors that contain mostly non-cancerous cells but include a group of immune cells that promote tumor growth by producing small particles that transport genetic information to cancer cells. The small particles are called exosomes.

“We’re trying to figure out what the exosomes are sending,” Milman said. One day they could be a treatment delivery system, because they can be engineered to target cancer cells, she said.

Dr. Michal Lotem, who heads the Center for Melanoma and Cancer Immunotherapy at Hadassah, received funding to support work on a checkpoint receptor called SLAMF6, found in immune cells. When activated, these receptors modulate the immune system so that there isn’t too strong a response against normal tissues. But when it comes to cancer, the goal is to inhibit these proteins, so that the immune response against cancer will be as strong as possible.

“If you target this protein effectively, it can double or triple the effect of immune cells when they attack their target, Lotem said.

Gideon Gross and his team at MIGAL-Galilee Research Institute in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shemona are developing immune gene therapies, a treatment where a patient’s T-cells are modified in a lab to attack cancer cells.

Gross, a pioneer in the field, together with Zelig Eshhar at the Weizmann Institute of Science created in the 1980s the first chimeric antigen receptors, cancer-fighting molecules constructed in the laboratory and inserted into T-cells. For his ICRF project, Gross hopes to improve their performance.

For Karin, known for cutting-edge research into autoimmune diseases, the fund’s backing enabled his first foray into cancer research. “ICRF’s support was the motivation for me to get into cancer immunotherapy research,” he said. “Now most of our attention in the lab is on melanoma. Without them, we wouldn’t be doing what we’re doing.”

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The JEWISH STAR Wine & Dine It’s hot and spicy for hot days of summer Kosher Kitchen

Joni SCHoCKeTT Jewish Star columnist

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write this from the sweltering heat of Florida. Florida in July is often cooler than the Northeast in July, but not this summer — Florida has been under a heat wave of epic proportions.

Temperatures in the high nineties every day, with heat indexes as high as 112. It’s too hot for the beach and too hot for the pool.

I was in the kosher butcher and grocery shop the other day, and one of the chefs came over and asked if he could get me something. I told him I wanted something to eat in this awful heat, but that it was too hot for anything but iced tea and popsicles. He told me to follow himto the display of cooked chicken, where he handed me a bag labeled “VERY Hot and Spicy Chicken Wings.”

I thought he was crazy. I love spicy — not too spicy, but some heat — but hot and spicy in this blistering heat would be too much.

I took the wings and served them as an appetizer for dinner. They were very hot, very spicy, and very delicious. Soon after I ate them, I noticed that despite the 96-degree temperature at 7:30 pm, I wasn’t so hot anymore. The wings had worked! My mouth felt the heat of cayenne and Tabasco, but I was cooler. If only the Jews in the desert had had red pepper flakes and cayenne!

So what is the mechanism that causes hot foods to cool you off? It’s called “gustatory facial sweating.” Hot foods cause you to sweat. For some people it’s merely a gentle moist coating; for others it’s a full, dripping sweat that cools you off.

Unlike a cold drink, which wears off as soon as you take the last sip, the effects of spicy food last quite a while.

Make some heat in the heat and cool down. I hear there’s another heat wave coming!

Hot and Spicy Chicken or Beef Stir Fry (Meat) 1 to 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts or lean beef, such as London Broil 1-1/2 tsp. cornstarch 3/4 pound mixed mushrooms, oyster, shitake, button, trimmed and cut in half 3/4 pound snow pea pods 1 red pepper cored, seeded and cut into strips or small pieces 1 carrot, julienned 3 to 4 Tbsp. Canola oil, more if needed MARINADE: 2 Tbsp. tamari sauce 1 to 2 Tbsp. rice wine (Mirin) 1/2 to 1 tsp. toasted sesame oil 1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper SEASONINGS: 1/2 cup minced scallions, white and green 2 to 3 Tbsp. finely minced garlic 2 to 3 Tbsp. minced onion 2 Tbsp. minced fresh ginger

OPTIONAL: 1 tsp. hot chili paste or sriracha sauce, more to taste SAUCE: 3/4 cup chicken, beef or vegetable broth 1 Tbsp. cornstarch 3 Tbsp. tamari sauce 2 Tbsp. rice wine 1 to 2 tsp. sugar, to taste 1 tsp. dark brown sugar, more to taste 1 tsp. toasted sesame oil Cut the chicken or beef into thin slices, about 1/3 inchthick, and place in a non-reactive bowl. Sprinkle with the cornstarch and toss to coat. Mix the marinade ingredients and pour over the chicken or beef. Cover and refrigerate for one hour, tossing once.

Cut and dice all vegetables as directed and set aside, keeping each vegetable separate.

Heat a large wok and add half the Canola oil. Add the chicken or meat pieces and cook over high heat, stirring until cooked through. Remove to a bowl.

Take about 2 tablespoons of the chicken, beef or vegetable stock and add it to the tablespoon cornstarch in a small cup.

Stir well. Mix the rest of the sauce ingredients together in another bowl and set aside. Reheat the pan and add the remaining oil. Add the seasonings and stir about 20 seconds.

Add the red peppers and stir for about 45 seconds. Add the mushrooms and stir for about 45 seconds. Add the snow peas and carrots and stir for about 1 to 2 minutes. Add the sauce to the pan and, when hot, add the cornstarch mixture. Stir constantly to prevent lumps. Add the chicken or beef and cook for about 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Serve immediately over noodles or rice, or serve plain to save carbs. Serves 4 to 8 depending on whether you add rice or noodles.

NOTE: Kids love this without the chili paste, served with crispy noodles.

Hot and Spicy Chickpeas (Pareve) 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil 2 tsp. to 1 Tbsp. cumin 2 tsp. to 1 Tbsp. coriander

1 tsp. freshly grated ginger 2 shallots, thinly sliced 2 cloves garlic, finely minced 1/4 cup chicken or vegetable stock 1 tsp. sugar 1 28-ounce can chopped or diced tomatoes 2 15-ounce cans chickpeas, drained and rinsed Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste.

1/3 cup fresh parsley, finely minced OPTIONAL: 1 to 2 Tbsp. harissa sauce, to taste Pinch to 1/2 tsp., cayenne pepper, to taste Heat a large skillet and add the olive oil. Add the cumin, coriander, and ginger and stir constantly to cook the spices, about 1 minute. Add the shallots and garlic and cook until translucent and fragrant, about 2 to 3 minutes. Add the vegetable stock and cook until reduced by half. Add the chickpeas and tomatoes, including juices, and mix well. Add the sugar and mix well. Cover and cook for about 15 minutes. Mix and taste. Add the harissa, if desired, for more heat. Add salt, pepper and parsley. Mix. Adjust seasonings to taste. Makes 4 to 6 servings.

Hot and Spicy Grilled Chicken Thighs (Meat) 1/2 cup dark brown sugar 1 Tbsp. chili powder 1 Tbsp. sweet paprika or smoked paprika, more to taste 3 Tbsp. onion powder 3 Tbsp. garlic powder 1 tsp. cayenne pepper, more or less to taste 1-1/2 Tbsp. black pepper 2 to 3 Tbsp. kosher salt 10 to 15 chicken thighs or legs 1/2 to 1 cup canola oil Place oil in a bowl and dip all chicken pieces in the oil to coat.

Shake off excess and place on a foil lined rimmed baking sheet and sprinkle the run generously on all sides of the chicken.

Set aside for 15 minutes. Sprinkle again and let sit 5 minutes. Place on preheated, well-oiled grill and cook until cooked through, turning as needed. Sprinkle again once during cooking. Serves 5 to 7.

The original’s gone, but black-and-white lives on

By Joni Schockett, food columnist for The Jewish Star Of all Jewish desserts, there is none more iconic than the black-and-white cookie. It comes in all shapes and sizes, but if you’re looking for authenticity, only the round one counts. If you don’t care, you can buy it in a heart shape for a certain holiday, or the shape of magen david, a dreidel, and more. But it is the large, round, thicker-in-the-center cakey cookie that conjures up deliciousness in everyone’s mind.

So why bother writing about a dessert that is no one’s favorite and is always on the dessert table? Because last week, the creator of the half-and-half, half-moon, or black-andwhite, shut its doors. This was not so much about another family bakery closing down, although Manhattan’s Glaser’s Bakery was in business for 116 years, but about the original recipe going away with them.

According to the New York Times, “The origin of the blackand-white cookie in New York City is commonly traced to Glaser's Bake Shop in Yorkville, founded in 1902 by Bavarian immigrants. The black-and-white cookie was among the original

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recipes used by the bakery.” The Glaser family brought the recipe for drop cake — the black-and-white’s cookie base — from Bavaria. It was one of the first recipes they used when they opened their bakery 116 years ago.

The original cakes were covered in chocolate and white fondant, a stiff, powdered-sugar-based covering that can be rolled out and cut to fit. Fondant is not very flavorful, and it

was soon replaced by the fluffy white and deep chocolate frostings that we know today. The pastry was a hit, and they are now sold all around the world under many different names.

Half Moons, as they are called in the Northeast, even made a cameo appearance on the Seinfeld show when Jerry Seinfeld commented that two colors of frosting could get along.

He held it in the air and said, “Look to the cookie” — and suddenly the cookies that had once only spawned discussion about whether to eat the chocolate or the white side first, was now a cultural icon of racial relations.

A few years later, then-candidate Barack Obama called it the “Unity Cookie.” It stuck through the election, but then fizzled. No one messes with a black-and-white.

On July 1, Glaser’s closed its doors forever, but you can get a black-and-white in almost every bakery in almost every city in almost every state of this country and beyond. And, if you prefer, you can make them at home and get a bit creative with both the cake and the frostings. Pink-and-Purple, anyone?

Click the food tab at TheJewishStar.com for black-and-white recipes.

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Meatless hot dogs for vegan BBQ Who’s in the Kitchen

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ow that summer is in full swing and barbecue invitations are plentiful, I have to curb my penchant for hot dogs.

You see, at a barbecue, I can easily scarf down three hotdogs, aside from chicken and a burger. I’m normally very careful about what I eat and try to limit my calories to 1000 or 1200 a day, but barbecues are my downfall, especially hot dogs. I try to reason with myself that it’s OK because I don’t eat the buns, but who am I kidding?

That said, I decided to research who invented hot dogs to begin with.

Sausage is one of the oldest processed foods, mentioned in Homer’s Odyssey back in the ninth century. Frankfurt-amMain, Germany, is traditionally credited with inventing the frankfurter. But, when further researched, there are those who insist that the sausage — known as a “dachshund” or “little-dog” sausage — was created in the late 1600’s by Johann Georghehner, a butcher living in Coburg, Germany. It’s thought that Georghehner later traveled to Frankfurt to promote his new product, and that the frankfurter was developed there in 1487.

The people of Vienna (Wien), Austria, for their part, point to the term “wiener” to prove that the hot dog originated there.

In Chicago 1847, the Colombian Exposition brought hordes of visitors who consumed large quantities of sausages sold by vendors. Many liked the food because it was convenient, inexpensive, and easy to eat. Hot dog historian Bruce Kraig, Ph.D., retired professor emeritus at Roosevelt University, says the Germans always ate the dachshund sausages with bread.

Since sausage culture is German, it is likely that Germans introduced the practice of eating what we today know as the hot dog nestled in a bun.

But as with the hot dog, many disagree on the origin of the bun. Some say a German immigrant sold them, along with milk

rolls and sauerkraut, from his pushcart on New York City’s Bowery during the 1860’s. In 1871, Charles Feltman, a German baker, opened the first Coney Island hot dog stand, selling 3,684 dachshund sausages and milk rolls in his first year.

Many historians disagree with the famous story that places the introduction of the hot dog bun during the St. Louis “Louisiana Purchase Exposition” in 1904. As the story goes, Bavarian concessionaire Anton Feuchtwanger loaned white gloves to his patrons to hold piping hot sausages. Because most of the gloves were not returned, supplies began running low.

He reportedly asked his brother-in-law, a baker, for help. The baker improvised long, soft rolls that fit the meat.

Everyone wants to claim the bun as their own invention, but the most likely scenario is that the practice was handed down

by German immigrants and gradually became widespread.

Another story that riles serious hot dog historians is the origin of the term “hot dog.” Some say the word was coined in 1901 at the New York Polo Grounds on a cold April day. Vendors hawked hot dogs from portable hot water tanks, shouting “They’re red hot! Get your dachshund sausages while they’re red hot!” A New York Journal sports cartoonist, Tad Dorgan, hastily drew a cartoon of barking dachshund sausages nestled warmly in rolls. Not sure how to spell “dachshund,” he simply wrote “hot dog!” The cartoon is said to have been a sensation, thus coining the term “hot dog.” However, despite Dorgan’s enormous body of work and his popularity, historians have been unable to find this cartoon.

Kraig and other culinary historians point to college magazines where the phrase “hot dog” began appearing in the 1890s. The term was current at Yale in the fall of 1894, when “dog wagons” sold hot dogs at the dorms. The name was a sarcastic comment on the provenance of the meat.

References to dachshund sausages and ultimately hot dogs can be traced to German immigrants in the 1800s. These immigrants brought not only sausages to America, but dachshund dogs. The name most likely began as a joke about the Germans’ small, long, thin dogs. In fact, even Germans called the frankfurter a “little-dog” or “dachshund” sausage, thus linking the word “dog” to their popular concoction.

For those of who are vegan and want a hot dog that is not made from the typical meat-based ingredients, I searched

the web and found this recipe, from BlacksGoi n g Ve g a n . com Best Vegan Carrot Dog Recipe Ever • 8 to 10 organic carrots, resembling hot dogs in size and shape • 2 cups of water Marinade • 2 Tbsp. liquid smoke • 1/4 cup Bragg’s Aminos or Tamari sauce • 1 tsp. granulated garlic • 1 tsp. kosher salt • 1/4 cup low sodium vegetable, not-chicken broth, or water • 1/4 cup red wine vinegar • 1 Tbsp. maple syrup Directions: • Peel the carrots, shaping them with peeler to an even roundness. Trim the ends to fit your buns in length.

• Place about 2 cups of water in a skillet and heat to boiling; add carrots and cover, simmer along for 8 to 10 minutes or until carrots are fork tender. Do not overcook!

• While carrots are cooking, prepare your marinade by combining ingredients into a small bowl.

• When carrots have cooked sufficiently, immediately pour contents of pot into a colander and drain, then run cold water over carrots to stop the cooking process.

• Place carrots in an airtight container large enough for all the carrots to lay flat (a zip style plastic freezer bag also works well). Place in refrigerator and allow carrots to marinate for 6 to 24 hours.

• Place carrots and a few tablespoons of marinade in a hot non-stick skillet, and cook, allowing marinade to caramelize the carrots and create a nice brown exterior coating.

• If you prefer, you can bake the carrot dogs in their marinade for 10 to 15 minutes at 350 degrees, turning halfway through to brown evenly. OR you can grill them over low coals.

Serve with your favorite sides and toppings.

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Israel salutes America: 70 who counted in 70

Arthur Goldberg speaking with Golda Meir.

On the occasion of the Jewish state’s 70th anniversary, the Israeli embassy in Washington celebrates 70 of the greatest American contributors to the U.S.-Israel relationship.

Many of the people and organizations chosen will be readily recognized by readers of The Jewish Star, others less so, but their stories build a collective history that reflects the broad base of American love and support for the Jewish state.

This week, The Jewish Star publishes the seventh part of a series on “70 who counted.”

Stanley Fischer (49 of 70)

Stanley Fischer has held many important academic, business and policy-making positions at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and Citicorp. From 2014 to 2017, he served as vice chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. But from 2005 to 2013, Fischer was governor of the Bank of Israel, and therein lies a story.

Born and raised in Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe), Fischer was a passionate Zionist by his bar mitzvah. In 1985, with Israel’s economy in crisis, Fischer joined his friends and frequent coauthors Michael Bruno and Rüdiger Dornbusch in crafting a plan that drastically cut Israel’s deficit and used wage and price controls to stabilize its currency. It was a bold move, whose implementation is regarded by some as the beginning of Israeli capitalism.

Two decades later, Fischer accepted the post of governor of the Bank of Israel. Fischer helped navigate Israel through the late ’80s financial crisis calmly and brilliantly and by early 2009, Israel’s housing market sharply rebounded. Israel passed through the financial crisis with a stable economic system and extremely strong economic growth.

Jeane Kirkpatrick (1926–2006)

(50 of 70) An article about Jeane Kirkpatrick called her Israel’s “Champion at the U.N.,” an apt description for Reagan’s first U.N. ambassador and the first American woman to hold that office.

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Herman (“Hank”) Greenspun in Las Vegas.

Born in Oklahoma and raised in Southern Illinois, Kirkpatrick had firm faith in American principles. Among her first meetings at the United States Mission to the United Nations was with Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum.

Appalled by the condescension with which the Holocaust survivor was treated by her aides, Kirkpatrick ordered them out of the room, promising Blum that “no one will be treated better in this mission than Israel.”

Kirkpatrick kept her promise. She defended the Jewish state, never hesitating to condemn what she called “the obsessive vilification of Israel” at the United Nations, and forcefully upheld Israel’s right to defend itself. She once observed that U.N. diplomacy regarding Israel and the Arab states “has nothing to do with peace, but is quite simply a continuation of war against Israel by other means.”

After her passing, political leaders on both sides of the partisan divide praised her unrelenting commitment to morality. For America and Israel, Jean Kirkpatrick was an Iron Lady of truth and moral clarity at the United Nations.

Daniel Inouye (1924–2012)

(51 of 70) Daniel Inouye was the first Japanese-American elected to the House, and the first to preside in the Senate. He was a staggeringly brave man, serving as a medical volunteer when Pearl Harbor was attacked. In 1943, when the U.S. allowed men of Japanese ancestry to serve in the military, Inouye promptly signed up. He distinguished himself, eventually winning the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Leading a unit in France, Inouye was shot in the chest; he survived because some lucky coins blocked a bullet. In Italy, just as he pulled the pin from a grenade, he was struck by an enemy grenade, which lopped off much of his right arm. He used his left hand to pry the lit grenade from his nearly severed right hand and

Stanley Fischer with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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lob it at the Germans, destroying the gun nest.

Later, his right arm had to be fully amputated.

While recovering, Inouye heard about the Shoah horrors from a veteran who had been among the liberators of a death camp. Thereafter, he felt a kinship with the Jewish people. He made money to pay for his education by selling Israel bonds, and more than once said that he had considered converting to Judaism.

As the longtime head of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Inouye had great power.

Over and over, he used it to help Israel. Israeli Ambassador Sallai Meridor noted that Inouye “led the American support for the development of multi-layered Israeli initiated missile defense system, from Arrow, through David’s Sling, to Iron Dome.” Honoring his invaluable contribution, Israel named a defense missile facility after him, marking the first time that the country has named a military facility after a non-Israeli.

Inouye also sponsored legislation calling the United States to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. And he was pointed in giving credit to Israel, knowledgeably remarking that “Israel’s contribution to U.S. military intelligence is greater than all NATO countries combined.”

Herman “Hank” Greenspun (1909–1989) (52 of 70)

Herman “Hank” Greenspun, born in Brooklyn in 1909, initially followed a common path for young Jews at the time. A son of immigrants, he earned a law degree in 1934 and joined a wellknown New York law firm upon graduation.

After enlisting in the U.S. army in 1941, he was decorated for his bravery in combat.

After the war, Greenspun moved to Las Vegas, beginning a number of publishing ventures and serving as a publicity agent for the Flamingo Hotel, run by Jewish gangster “Bugsy” Siegel. After Siegel’s murder in 1947, Greenspun quit to focus on newspapers. He wrote major muckraking articles on public figures of the day, such as the

Diplomat Jeane Kirkpatrick.

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virulently anti-Communist Sen. Joe McCarthy.

In 1947, war loomed over the horizon for alestine. As bloodthirsty Arab rhetoric escalated, many American Jews feared a second Holocaust.

Determined to aid in the war effort, Greenspun devised an elaborate and illegal scheme to ship weapons to the military wing of the yishuv, which would become the IDF after statehood. He would buy parts for machine guns and airplanes in Hawaii, and ship them to Israel via Mexico.

He was fearless: once, upon testing a potential explosive for the Haganah, the device failed to detonate. Greenspun volunteered to inspect the bomb by hand.

Greenspun was eventually caught by the FBI and put on trial in Los Angeles for smuggling, in violation of the Neutrality Act. He was found guilty and fined the significant sum of $10,000, but avoided prison time. He called his conviction one of the proudest moments of his life and said that he was honored to have been able to contribute to the founding of Israel. He was pardoned by President John F. Kennedy in 1961.

Upon his death in Las Vegas in 1989, Israeli leaders celebrated Greenspun as a hero. It is not an exaggeration to say that without him, the War of Independence may not have been won.

Arthur Goldberg (1908–1990)

(53 of 70) In many ways, the life of Arthur Goldberg exemplifies the American Jewish experience. Born in Chicago in 1908 to poor Jewish immigrants from Russia, Goldberg graduated at the top of his law school class at Northwestern and became a prominent labor attorney. He was a central figure in shaping the post-war labor agreement landscape, and was a staunch advocate for free speech and workers’ freedom of assembly.

In 1961, Kennedy named him Secretary of Labor. Less than two years later, with the retirement of Felix Frankfurter, Kennedy appointed Continued on next page

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making him Israel’s first general, and perhaps the first general of a Jewish army in almost 2,000 years.

Marcus’s frankness and humor meshed well with the Haganah, and he effectively managed and united fighting forces under a single organizational structure. He helped develop a field manual, mostly based on his memorization of the U.S. Army’s, and identified critical weak points in the Jewish army’s defenses and logistics.

During the 1948 War of Independence, Marcus helped organize and command critical operations such as the building of the famous Burma Road, an alternative route to Jerusalem. Tragically, he was killed near the end of the war by a guard who mistook him for an enemy soldier.

Marcus’s story eventually reached millions of Americans through the movie “Cast a Giant Shadow,” starring Kirk Douglas as Marcus.

David Ben-Gurion summed up what so many felt: “He was the best man we had.”

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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s maternal grandparents were Sephardim, who fled Ottoman persecution to the relative safety of Cuba. At the age of 8, she and her family left Cuba, fleeing Castro’s oppressive regime. A practicing Episcopalian, RosLehtinen remains proud of her Jewish heritage.

Ros-Lehtinen was the first Hispanic woman and first Cuban-American elected to the House of Representatives. Throughout her tenure representing Florida, she has been a tireless advocate for the Jewish people and state, authoring legislation that bolstered the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Israel and protecting the national security and interests of both nations.

In 2006, she spearheaded the law to block U.S. aid to the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority until it denounced violence. She is a powerful voice in Congress condemning Iran’s aggression and, through multiple bills, has advocated for increasing sanctions.

Regarding the U.N. and its affiliates, RosLehtinen has been a staunch defender of Israel, pressing for reform of the international body.

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His experiences in World War II war convinced him of the need for a Jewish state. Parachuting into Normandy on D-Day, accompanying delegations to wartime conferences, and helping to rehabilitate millions of displaced persons, Marcus stared Nazi atrocities in the face.

Meanwhile, as the Jewish struggle in Palestine intensified, David Ben-Gurion realized that the Haganah, which had become skilled at guerilla operations, was unprepared for conflict against regular armies. He sent emissaries to America to find officers willing to train future soldiers of the soon-to-be Jewish state, Marcus agreed to help. He was given the title Aluf,

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Continued from previous page Goldberg to the “Jewish seat” of the U.S. Supreme Court. This position was also short-lived; in 1965, Lyndon Johnson persuaded Goldberg to take the position of Ambassador to the U.N. Goldberg, an outspoken Zionist, served at a tense time for the U.S.-Israel relationship: during the 1967 Six-Day War. Goldberg negotiated a successful cease-fire between Israel and its Arab neighbors, and a few months later, co-drafted the groundbreaking Resolution 242, a cornerstone of the Israeli-Arab peace process. It outlined the dual principles of Israel’s need to withdraw from territory gained during the war along with the need for Arab recognition of Israel’s sovereignty and right to live in peace. Understanding the Israeli position that pre-1967 borders were indefensible. Goldberg left ambiguity as to which territory Israel would have to vacate for peace.

According to Goldberg, this was intentional, representing the United States’ position that prioritized Israel’s right to a secure border, which may preclude withdrawing from all territories.

In cementing this position in the resolution, Goldberg helped establish a status quo of American support for Israeli security that has continued for decades.

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“Too many manufacturers treat cybersecurity as an afterthought rather than a priority.

This is particularly true and frightening as it pertains to the auto industry.

“Most important is a lack of education. We teach our kids not to take candy from strangers. We teach them how to cross the road carefully.

But we don’t teach them Internet safety.

This is likely because we don’t know how to behave online.”

One of the main threats that Professor Lindell cites as a potential danger to our own online security is our everyday Yehuda Lindell use of social media.

“Cambridge Analytica proves that cyberattacks via social media are a threat to our democracy.

It can be used to learn our preferences and exploit them against us. It can lure young and old people into dangerous situations; it can be used to reveal something ‘dirty’ about someone who can then be blackmailed. We can’t be too careful about what we share publicly.”

As for the future of Israel’s cybersecurity, Professor Lindell shares some insight into the team’s current projects. “We are conducting a lot of research on how to utilize private data without revealing it. We are also doing work on showing how machine learning algorithms are fragile and vulnerable to cyberattacks. This is crucially important since it is being deployed everywhere, without taking the dangers into account.”

One cyberattack that Professor Lindell does not forecast for Israel is a hack of the national elections. “Fortunately, Israeli elections are still paper ballots. I hope that it will stay this way, and that our politicians will understand that digital voting without a paper trail is a massive danger.”

Bar-Ilan University is now building a new computer science laboratory, giving Professor Lindell and his team every technological advantage.

“To stay ahead of the bad guys, we are training a new generation of students who have expertise in cyber research. This group will strengthen the workforce, government, military and so on. However, it’s a long process, and we are in for the long haul.”

Source: Bar-Ilan University

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Rockets raining down from Gaza. Suicide bombers slipping through terror tunnels. Terrorist threats from all angles. Soldiers on the Syrian and Sinai borders, along with nationwide security checkpoints help to neutralize physical threats. But how does our Jewish homeland stay protected from an infiltration of enemy data hackers and cyber-saboteurs?

Professor Yehuda Lindell heads the Center for Research in Applied Cryptography and Cyber Security at Bar-Ilan University, home to Israel’s number one cybersecurity lab. Lindell and his team of more than twenty trained experts work tirelessly to keep one step ahead of those attempting to breach Israel’s most sensitive data.

“We’re already in the era of cyberwarfare and cybercrime, and we’re completely unready,” says Professor Lindell. “Malware enables terrorists to easily turn a phone into a tracking or a listening advice. They can remotely turn on your microphone or camera and can get hold of your location. Talk about powerful!

Imagine the threat that this poses to both our military and civilians.”

In 2016, Hamas hackers targeted male Israeli soldiers on Facebook with photos of attractive women, attempting to lure them into downloading an app full of malware. Thankfully, Israel’s top cybersecurity team detected and exposed the threat before any IDF soldiers could be harmed.

“We are in a digital world where it is just not safe,” says Lindell. “But unlike the physical threat, people aren’t even aware of it.”

Yehuda Lindell earned BS and MS degrees in computer science from Bar-Ilan University.

He then obtained a PhD from the Weizmann Institute in 2002. Lindell received a Raviv Fellowship and spent two years at IBM’s cryptography research group at the T.J. Watson Research Center before returning to Israel in 2004 to take up his position at Bar-Ilan.

The innovations developed by Lindell and his team are not only critical to Israel’s national security, but, according to Lindell, have global ramifications. “We have ongoing collaborations with all of the major universities in Israel and America, and we work with researchers from IBM, Microsoft, VMware, NEC, NTT, and more.”

His expertise holds valuable lessons for anyone who uses a digital device. He says there are three main factors that make us vulnerable to information bandits seeking to seize our private online data.

“One is the ubiquity of computing where everything is now a computer: your smartphone, your car, your home appliances. The more devices you own with your private data stored on

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Why synagogues began displaying American flags

By Josefin Dolsten, JTA Jewish tourists from North America are likely to notice one big difference when visiting synagogues around the world. Though a plethora of symbols such as Stars of David and menorahs may be displayed, national flags are rare inside the sanctuary.

Meanwhile, in the United States and Canada, an American or Canadian flag (and sometimes both) are commonly displayed on the bimah, often alongside an Israeli flag.

When did this uniquely North American Jewish custom originate and why?

According to historian Gary Zola, you can thank a patriotic wave during World War I and, later, the birth of Israel.

About a decade ago, a student asked Zola about the history of flags in American synagogues. So Zola set out to find the answer. That led to a study of the history of the American flag and how it was viewed at different periods in time. He is currently working on an article summarizing his research.

Though the American flag was officially adopted in 1777, featuring only 13 stars to represent the original colonies, it grew in significance in 1814, the year Francis Scott Key composed what became the national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” after seeing the American flag flying defiantly above Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the War of 1812. The creation of the anthem ignited “the birth of flag culture,” Zola said.

“The flag then becomes much more than just a banner for identifying things,” he told JTA in a phone interview. “We all are familiar with the American eagle, but the American eagle doesn’t resonate with the same kind of deep, deep patriotic feelings that the flag does, and that helps you understand the transformation that takes place as a result of the poem, and the idea that the banner becomes the embodiment of the American people and nation.”

In the following decades, the flag began to be used by politicians as part of their political campaigns and was flown over public buildings, banks and churches. Zola found evidence of some synagogues at the time being decorated with American flags, though it does not seem to have been ubiquitous.

The Civil War was the flag’s “big transformational moment,” Zola said. At the Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861, Confederate forces bombed the fort, causing its main flagpole to fall down.

The Fort Sumter Flag became “the martyr symbol of America,” and was shown all around the North and used to raise money for

Union war efforts. “It becomes the tangible symbol of why they were fighting this war,” Zola said.

The Stars and Stripes were carried into the battle by the Union troops. Following President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, flags abounded as he was mourned and his body was transported from Washington to his burial place in Springfield, Illinois. Zola found evidence that some synagogues displayed American flags inside the sanctuary as rabbis eulogized the president.

Still, the flags were not a permanent fixture in American synagogues until World War I, with the popularization of the service flag, a banner that used stars to symbolize family members who were fighting or killed in the war.

“These service flags, while they were not literally the American flag, they had a familiarity, they had stars on them and they

were American colors, and churches and synagogues began to fly those service flags inside the sanctuaries as a tribute to the soldiers and as a patriotic symbol,” Zola said.

This opened the gates to American flags being displayed as a permanent fixture inside synagogues, he said, usually flanking the bimah, the sanctuary’s main stage. Photos from Jewish confirmation ceremonies in the 1920s and 1930s show American flags in the background, and by World War II the practice of displaying flags next to the bimah was “almost ubiquitous,” according to Zola.

Still, for some synagogues the decision to add an American flag was triggered by quite a different event: the emergence of Zionism and creation of the state of Israel. After both the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and Israel’s Declaration of Independence in 1948, synagogues wanted to fly the Zionist or Israeli flags. But many members felt that flying a Jewish nationalist flag without an American flag wasn’t right, so they added both.

In most cases, however, the flying of the American flag was not a way for Jews to prove their patriotism, but rather to participate in a defining cultural practice, Zola said.

“American Jews, like in everything else, want to do what Americans are doing. And just as the flag becomes a part of American culture and begins to take on the emotional effect that it has over a period of time, American Jews want to participate,” he said.

Many synagogues didn’t come lightly to the decision to fly a flag. In 1957, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein said secular symbols like flags had no place in the sanctuary; however, since the display of flags does not violate halacha, or Jewish law, a congregation is not required to remove them.

Synagogues tend to follow the etiquette in the U.S. Flag Code, which says the Stars and Stripes should be placed on the leftmost pole, and the other flag to the right (from the audience’s perspective).

North American Jews are so used to the practice today that they may not realize that to most Jews around the world, a flag seems out of place in a house of worship.

“We are so familiar with this in America, it’s so common whether it’s a Reform synagogue, Conservative and even some Orthodox [synagogues] that we take it for granted, it’s almost unnoticed, but when you travel the world you begin to realize, ‘Gee, this isn’t the way it is everywhere.’”

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In a statement, StandWithUs praised Gov. Henry McMaster for signing the proviso.

“We need to define snti-Semitism in order to defeat it,” said Roz Rothstein, the group’s CEO. “Thankfully, South Carolina is leading the way.”

NJ boro blocked Chabad The federal government is suing a New Jersey borough over allegations that it improperly restricted an Orthodox Jewish congregation from expanding its house of worship.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a civil lawsuit against Woodcliff Lake, a Bergen County suburb.

As reported by NorthJersey.com, the Valley Chabad congregation operated a 3,194-squarefoot building on a 1.27-acre site since 1998, of-

ten holding events off-site, as it claimed the site did not meet its needs. The congregation has attempted to relocate at least three times since 2005, but could not because of action by the borough council or its members.

“Federal law protects all religious communities from discrimination and unlawful barriers when they seek to build a place of worship,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said in a news release.

Gov: Anybody but Nazi The governor of Illinois, who called on a neoNazi candidate for a Chicago-area congressional seat to drop out of the race, has called on voters to “vote for anybody” else.

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axim Cohen was born in Morocco and made aliyah as child. He enlisted in the IDF, but left Israel with his parents after the Six-Day War to live in France.

On Yom Kippur in 1973, Cohen was in the synagogue during afternoon prayers when his wife arrived in a car. He immediately knew something was wrong. He rushed outside to discover that war had broken out in Israel, and ran to the Israeli embassy in Paris, where soldiers clamored to return to Israel and join the war effort.

Cohen was attached to an armored force fighting the Egyptians in the Sinai. His unit eventually crossed the Suez Canal, and after three weeks of intense combat, arrived at the outskirts of the city of Suez on October 24 — the last day of the war.

The IDF decided to attempt to conquer the city, a key strategic point on the canal. Preparations were rushed and the breaching forces received little intelligence. Cohen found himself part of an armored column rolling into the city.

Suddenly, on an apparently empty street, an inferno was unleashed. The Israelis were trapped in a wall of fire. Bazooka rockets, anti-tank missiles, and thousands of grenades and bullets from automatic weapons rained

down on the Israeli force, which dispersed in every direction.

The battle continued for hours. Cohen’s commander was hit, along with many soldiers. Cohen maintained composure under heavy fire and proceeded to evacuate the wounded while running over enemy troops.

Without concern for his own safety, he drove back into the city and the heart of the inferno again and again to save more wounded troops.

He was later awarded the Medal of Courage for his resourcefulness, composure, and for putting his own life in danger to save the lives of his brothers.

What motivates a Jew safely living in France to drop everything at a moment’s notice for a land he was not even born in? his week, we will read the double parsha of Matot-Masei, concluding the book of Bamidbar, which sees the transformation of the family of Yaakov into the nation of Israel. Bamidbar begins with a census, suggesting the value of each individual, something of a theme throughout the book.

There is a flow to it, both in terms of its events as well as the historical unfolding of the Jewish journey, which makes its conclusion odd: The final verses of the entire book of Bamidbar (36:1-13) return us to the story of the daughters of Tzelafchad and their

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n ancient times, if a person killed someone else accidentally, a trial could sentence the perpetrator to exile in a city of refuge, for a term that would last until the death of the kohen gadol.

Why? The Sifrei explains: The kohen gadol was supposed to bring G-d’s presence to the people, and lengthening their lives. The murderer, obviously, shortens life. This is why he may not be in the presence of the kohen gadol. But why should his freedom be tied to the kohen gadol’s death?

The Sages teach that the death of the righteous, particularly the kohen gadol, brings atonement.

Rosh Chodesh Av, this year on Friday July 13, is the yahrzeit of the first kohen gadol, Aharon HaKohen. And every year, as his yahrzeit ushers in the Nine Days, we are reminded of how desperately we need a kohen gadol.

Who cares if his death brings atonement? Does he deserve to die to set a murderer free, albeit an accidental one?

The Talmud in Makkot suggests that the kohen gadol’s death is connected to the accidental murderer’s freedom because he shares the blame. Had he been in tune with the needs of his people, no senseless deaths would have occurred. It also tells us that the kohen gadol’s mother would bring treats and sweets to the exiles so they would not pray for her son’s death, or so they would pray that he not die.

The two views are very different, but they leave us with the same question. If the kohen gadol’s mother inspired them to pray that her son not die, her investment would be worth the while. If they refrained from praying for his death, there might

quest to honor their fathers’ name by inheriting his portion in the absence of sons.

After G-d Himself rules that they should receive their father’s portion, the leaders of Menashe approach Moshe with a legitimate complaint: if the women marry outside the tribe, the land they inherit will end up in a different territory. G-d rules the question legitimate. The women can inherit their deceased father’s portion, but must then marry within the tribe.

Why this concern with where the land ends up?

Aren’t we all one nation in the end? This seems like a less than inspiring idea with which to conclude one of the five books of the Torah.

It’s also surprising that this story is not placed with the daughters’ original query to Moshe, back in last week’s parsha. Why are the two parts separated?

Perhaps the Torah is making an important point. In truth, the daughters’ initial request was very individual: to uphold the name of their father and acquire land for their family.

(Thus it appears in Pinchas, whose theme is clearly the power of individual action.)

But it takes a lot more than healthy individuals to build a society. It takes willingness to compromise to be part of a larger whole.

It is no accident that the Jewish people are counted by tribes; each group brings some-

not be an added push from G-d to end his life. But in either case, why would they listen to her? If they wanted to go home, his life had to end! his passage teaches us a valuable lesson about prayer. In one line of thinking, the kohen gadol’s insufficient prayer causes all of this to happen. His inability to inspire the people created a spiritual void that opens the door for accidental murder. Is he deserving of death for this?

No. But he is responsible for not being a stronger spiritual presence in the lives of the masses.

His mother is concerned about the prayers — even of murderers. As to why she might have asked people to pray that her son not die, and why they might have listened, perhaps her seeing the desperation of the prisoners would make her think “My son deserves to die! But I don’t want to lose him!” And they, in turn, seeing this sad and pathetic woman, might have a change of heart.

Maybe she wanted them to not pray for her son to die, and maybe, as a favor, they complied.

Maybe they continued to pray, but not as wholeheartedly.

Or maybe when she came to the city and saw vengeful relatives waiting outside, biding their time until the murderer stepped out of his refuge and made himself a target, maybe this tugged at her heartstrings. Until her son died, they would have a free pass to kill the accidental murderers. In other words warranted, justified and unpunishable killing could continue as long as her son was alive.

What a burden to bear!

I don’t envy the kohen gadol’s mother, faced with wanting her son to live while witnessing misery that could only end with his death.

But perhaps we are missing an even deeper lesson. Maybe there is no causality in terms of the kohen gadol’s death. The Sforno tells us that G-d sends people into exile with careful timing, based on how long they need to be there and when the kohen gadol is going to die anyway.

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thing special to the nation while maintaining a level of individuality alongside its group identity. The Tribe is a paradigm of compromise between the individual’s need for selfexpression and the need to sacrifice one’s wants and desires for a greater good.

And so the book that begins with the counting of every individual concludes with an expression of the danger of individual expression left unchecked. The Torah affirms the value of subjugating one’s desires to a greater good, without completely losing the value of the individual and the group to which one belongs.

Forty-five years ago, Maxim Cohen, safe and sound in Paris, gave it all up for something greater than himself, but through all the battles he fought, he never lost his individual religious identity.

We live in a society that prioritizes the right to individual expression above all else.

Whether debating prayer at the Kotel, or the right of every individual to choose the lifestyle he or she feels most comfortable with, we try to be sensitive to the needs and different forms of expression of every person.

But it is not accidental we always read these words during the Three Weeks between the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple.

In our desire to be sensitive to every individual, we cannot lose the beauty and value of the larger group that has kept us together all these thousands of years.

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his year, it is once again my honor to bring to your attention another work of great scholarship by Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb — his beautiful translation of the Kinot liturgy for Tisha B’Av, published BY OU Press and Koren Publishers. The Koren Mesorat HaRav Kinot is a work of gifted scholarship.

In his introduction to this work, Rabbi Simon Posner relates his perspective on Rabbi Weinreb’s role in this liturgical effort: “The English translation of the Kinot by Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, the executive

vice president emeritus of the Orthodox Union, was commissioned especially for this edition of the Kinot. I was delighted that Rabbi Weinreb accepted the challenging task of composing the Kinot translation, and the Jewish community is indebted to him for a lucid, literate and inspiring rendering of the Kinot in English.

“Over the years, Rabbi Weinreb’s Tisha B’Av Kinot learning sessions, and more recently his Tisha B’Av webcasts, have been an inspiration to the Jewish community worldwide. It is most fitting that this translation of Kinot for this edition was undertaken by Rabbi Weinreb, who has made the annual Tisha B’Av presentations one of his signature educational efforts.”

Rabbi Weinreb received rabbinic ordination from the Yeshiva Rabbi Jacob Joseph, and after teaching there for a few years he assumed the spiritual leadership of Congregation Shom-

rei Emunah in Baltimore before his appointment at the OU. He holds a Ph.D in Clinical Psychology from the University of Maryland and has served for many years as a practicing psychotherapist. For over twenty years, he has presented an annual Tisha B’Av webcast that reaches thousands of people.

This year’s special program is planned to focus on the following: 1. The significance of the Temple and its destruction 2. The moral failures leading to its destruction, as we learn from discussions in Masechet Gittin 3. Other historic catastrophes, including the Crusades, the Inquisition, pogroms, contemporary tragedies including terror, and the deaths of

Matot-Masei: Conquering baseless hatred Torah

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e are now approaching the end of the Three Weeks, the saddest period of the Jewish year. It concludes with Tisha b’Av, commemorating the destruction of two Holy Temples.

In an oft-quoted Talmudic passage, our Sages famously ask, “Why were the two Holy Temples destroyed?” Their answer informs every aspect of Jewish life until today: “Why was the first Sanctuary destroyed?

Because of three things: idolatry, immorality, bloodshed … But why was the second Sanctuary destroyed, seeing that in its time they were occupying themselves with Torah…? Because sinat chinam, baseless hatred, prevailed. This teaches you that groundless hatred is considered equal to idolatry, immorality, and bloodshed together” (Yoma 9b).

In sum, the second Beit Hamikdash was destroyed because of sinat chinam — even though

our ancestors got everything else right. Moreover, hatred creates such a toxic environment that it is equal to idol worship, immorality, and murder combined — the three cardinal sins for which individuals must give up their lives rather than violate.

If sinat chinam was the poison that destroyed the second Beit Hamikdash, it stands to reason that love of all Jews is the necessary antidote. This may very well be the reason that Rabbi Akiva famously declared that the words “And you should love your fellow Jew as yourself” are the most overarching principle of the Torah (Nedarim 9:4).

Rabbi Akiva’s dictum is reminiscent of a passage in Shabbat 31a. “A certain non-Jew came before Shammai and said to him, ‘Make me a proselyte, on the condition that you teach me the entire Torah while I stand on one foot.’ [Shammai] threatened him with the builder’s tool in his hand. [In contrast,] Hillel said to him, ‘What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor — that is the whole Torah; the rest is the commentary. Go and learn!’”

In his Torah commentary Kli Yakar, Rabbi Shlomo Ephraim ben Aaron Luntschitz explains that the responses of Shammai and Hillel stemmed from two very different perceptions of the nonJew who came before them. Whereas Shammai thought he was acting in a disrespectful manner, Hillel perceived him as a would-be ger tzedek who had approached him in an authentic fashion: “For in truth, [the potential ger] honestly sought from him the pillar of Torah upon which all the mitzvot stand, in order that he not fall into the grip of forgetfulness that might be found in a convert who had not learned anything about Torah during his youth. Therefore, he asked [Hillel] to transmit one overriding principle that encapsulates the entire Torah … in order that he would be able to remember all of the mitzvot” (Commentary to Vayikra 19:18).

Based upon the statements of Hillel, Rabbi Akiva and the analysis of the Kli Yakar, ahavat Yisrael emerges as one of Judaism’s ultimate val-

It is equal to idol worship, immorality, and murder combined.

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abbinic literature includes the names and teachings of many great and well-known sages. Yet, the rabbi who is mentioned most often in our liturgy is Rabbi Chanania ben Akashya — an obscure figure about whom we know almost nothing. We quote him at the end of our Mussaf service, before the Kaddish, and after every public Torah study session, to introduce the recitation of Kaddish.

“Rabbi Chanania ben Akashya says: The Holy One, blessed be He, wanted to increase the merit of Israel; therefore He increased the Torah and mitzvot for them.”

This one statement is Rabbi Chanania’s claim to immortality; this is what he has left to posterity. Without this statement, he would be totally forgotten. Why has this statement proven so meaningful to the Jewish people?

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Rabbi Chanania offered a positive perspective on Judaism. While some might complain that having to observe so many commandments is a burden, Rabbi Chanania taught that these commandments are actually blessings for us. The more Torah and mitzvot that we have, the more opportunities we have to perform good and productive deeds. Rabbi Chanania’s words reflect enthusiasm about embracing Torah and mitzvot as a great privilege and honor, not as a heavy responsibility.

Rabbi Eliezer Azikri, of 16th century Safed, echoed Rabbi Chanania’s teaching.

We received many mitzvot and are supposed to observe all of them. The wide variety of mitzvot, though, provides each individual with the opportunity to become a “specialist” in at least one mitzvah.

There are so many mitzvot from which to choose — certainly we can each find one area of mitzvot that is particularly suited to our personalities and spiritual needs. We can each excel in at

least one mitzvah, whether it is hospitality, charity, visiting the sick, prayer, Torah study, business ethics or Shabbat observance.

Rabbi Chanania was not only giving us a positive attitude toward Torah and mitzvot, but was teaching us that we each have a role to play in the fulfillment of the commandments and ideals of the Torah.

We can each find something in Torah that speaks directly to us and brings out the very best in us. Rabbi Chanania’s singular specialty was his understanding of the power of Torah and its appeal to the unique character of each person. There is room for every individual to make a singular contribution and to provide an inspiring example to others.

This week’s Torah reading, concluding the book of Bamidbar, closes with a reminder: “These are the commandments and the ordinances which the L-rd commanded, by the hand of Moses.”

Keeping Rabbi Chanania’s words in mind, these words are uplifting, happy and challenging.

it doesn’t impact the here and now, it is stored for a time and place when it will. If the death of the righteous brings atonement, perhaps it is because we unite in mourning, pushing grievances aside.

The murderers don’t cause the death of the kohen gadol. Each individual serves the time

he is meant to in G-d’s Master Plan. And the people are united again when they appreciate the magnitude of their loss.

With the Nine Days upon us, we must once again unite in prayer, and unite in mourning what has been missing for two millennia —

We can each find something in Torah that speaks to us.

ues. On measure, it is the most effective means of counteracting sinat chinam. How can we perform ahavat Yisrael in our daily lives?

We are fortunate that the Rambam provides us with a clear response that incorporates both positive action, and Hillel’s meta-axiom of Torah behavior: “We are commanded to love others in the same manner that we love ourselves.

My mercy and love for my brother should be exactly like the mercy and love I have for myself … and everything that I wish for myself, I should desire for him. [Conversely,] anything that I would hate for myself or for anyone who associates with me, I should find hateful to him in the exact same fashion” (Sefer Hamitzvot, Positive Commandment 206).

In sum, the Rambam urges us to be considerate and caring of others in precisely the same manner we would like to be treated. We must ever be on guard against behaviors that would be hateful to both others and ourselves.

I believe that if we fulfill the mitzvah of ahavat Yisrael on an ongoing basis, we will be well on our way to ending sinat chinam in our time.

Moreover, we will set the stage for the imminent arrival of the Mashiach and the rebuilding of the Beit Hamikdash, soon and in our days.

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Judaism, practiced in its most raw and most Torah-based form.

G-d’s Master Plan is not for us to figure out.

But hopefully, we will merit to see this time turned into a time of joy, with a kohen gadol uniting us all the wings of G-d.

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great men and women including Rabbi Shteinman and Rabbi Hadari, as well as noteworthy personalities like Charles Krauthammer and the distinguished historian Dr. David Wyman.

4. Special focus will be cast upon the Holocaust, with material drawn from diaries of victims and survivors.

Throughout these sessions, the liturgical focus will center upon Rabbi Weinreb’s translation of the Kinot, which will serve as the primary liturgical backdrop to the day’s proceedings.

There will be a special focus on the recitation of Holocaust Kinot, featured exclusively in the OU Press/Koren edition.

The program, “Generations of Tears: An Eternity of Hope,” will be broadcast live from the OU Israel Center at 22 Keren Hayesod in Jerusalem, starting at 9 am New York time, at OU.org/TishaBAv. Listen and be inspired.

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Time to wake up the simpletons Politics to go

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he criticism of White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley made it clear that some American Jews have forgotten the words of the late Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky.

In his famous essay, “The Iron Wall,” Jabotinsky wrote, “It is incredible what political simpletons Jews are. They shut their eyes to one of the most elementary rules of life that you must not ‘meet halfway’ those who do not want to meet you.”

Aboard Air Force One with President Trump last Tuesday, Gidley held a press gaggle. The subject of America’s relationship with Israel came up: Reporter: “What evidence are you referring to when you say the U.S. is more beloved around the world?”

Gidley: “You’ve seen the relationship with Israel that is greatly enhanced because of this president. It’s the only democracy in the region, and it was virtually thought of to be an enemy of the American people in the last administration. …

Under the Barack Obama administration … they almost viewed them as an enemy, it seemed like,

in some ways with the way he treated Netanyahu.

And so, this president came in and changed the relationship.”

Some Jews in politics criticized Gidley’s statement. Tamara Cofman Wittes, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs in Hillary Clinton’s State Departmen, claims he was lying. “This is a preposterous distortion of the facts, as stated clearly and on multiple occasions by both the Israeli and American leadership throughout the period in question,” she said. “Distorting and denigrating the long record of USIsrael partnership is not an act of friendship.”

During Wittes’s tenure, Israel became the Obama administration’s whipping boy.

“From the moment he entered office, Mr. Obama promoted an agenda of championing the Palestinian cause and achieving a nuclear accord with Iran.

Such policies would have put him at odds with any Israeli leader,” former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren revealed in his book Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide.

But Obama posed an even deeper challenge by abandoning two core principles of alliance.

“The first principle was ‘no daylight.’ The U.S. and Israel always could disagree but never openly. Doing so would encourage common enemies and render Israel vulnerable,” Oren wrote. “The other core principle was ‘no surprises.’ President Obama discarded it in his first meeting with Mr. Netanyahu, in May 2009, by abruptly demanding a settlement freeze and Israeli acceptance of the two-state solution.

“The following month the president traveled to the Middle East, pointedly skipping Israel and addressing the Muslim world from Cairo.

“Israeli leaders typically received advance copies of significant American policy statements on the Middle East and could submit their comments. But Mr. Obama delivered his Cairo speech, with its unprecedented support for the Palestinians and its recognition of Iran’s right to nuclear power, without consulting Israel.

“Similarly, in May 2011, the president altered 40 years of U.S. policy by endorsing the 1967 lines with land swaps — formerly the Palestinian position — as the basis for peace-making.”

Right after Gimley’s statement, Dennis Ross,

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Denmark faces Islamism integration Viewpoint

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mam Mundhir Abdallah is a good example of the dilemma facing Danish politicians when they respond to extremism among the country’s 300,000 Muslims, most of whom are first- or second-generation immigrants.

In May 2017, the Danish Jewish community filed a complaint against Abdallah for a sermon he delivered two months earlier, in which he implored Muslims to kill Jews on “Judgment Day” and urged the “liberation” of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem from “the filth of the Zionists.”

Danish authorities had been aware of Abdallah for at least two years before that. In February 2015, a man named Omar al-Hussein attended Abdallah’s mosque in Copenhagen; two days later, he embarked on an armed terror rampage, gunning down Dan Uzan at Copenhagen’s main synagogue before being shot by police. So when audio of Abdallah’s 2017 sermon surfaced, the reaction was forceful — and not only from Jews.

Speaking for the government, minister of immigration and integration Inger Støjberg denounced Abdallah’s words as “horrible, anti-democratic and abominable.” Columnist Tarek Ziad Hussein wrote in the newspaper Politiken, “It is with a heavy heart that I must admit that we in Muslim circles have serious problems with anti-Semitism.” Addressing the core of the matter — in a country famous for resisting the Nazi deportation of its Jews — Hussein asserted against anti-Semites that “Danish Jews have the right to be treated equally, regardless of their political views [on Israel].”

There are 7,000 to 9,000 Jews in Denmark.

Even compared to other small Jewish communities in Europe, Jewish Danes constitute a tiny fragment —0.16 percent — of an overall population of 5.5 million. And yet for much of this decade, they have endured anti-Semitic attacks and abuse wildly out of proportion to their numbers.

Most of that hostility comes from the Muslim community. Surveys conducted in Denmark during the last decade show that Muslims are much

more likely to hold anti-Semitic beliefs, with one poll demonstrating that 75 percent agree with statements such as “Jews incite war and blame others,” and “Jews want to dominate everything.”

Yet anti-Semitism in the wider population is relatively low, with a 2015 ADL survey revealing that 9 percent of Danes hold anti-Semitic views, compared to 29 percent of Spain’s population and 37 percent of France’s.

In Denmark, as elsewhere, the rise of antiSemitism among Muslim communities is closely connected to other alarming trends, most obviously terrorism. Along with Copenhagen, Brussels and Toulouse are two other cities that have witnessed terrorist attacks on Jewish targets in recent years.

After the week of terror in Paris in January 2015, which began with a terror operation against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and ended in a hostage-taking siege at a kosher supermarket, Europeans were faced with the realization that a rise in anti-Semitism can result in attacks on the general population as well.

The plan requires mandatory instruction in Danish values.

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who worked for Clinton, Bush, and Obama, urged Israel to “repair its ties to the Democratic Party.”

He told the Jerusalem Post, “Given the strong opposition by Democrats to Trump, Israel risks getting caught up in that conflict,” adding, “There will be a post-Trump U.S., and we’re seeing a huge gap in Democratic and Republican approval of Israel.”

“Israel risks a backlash because the Trump administration has caused such deep alienation among Democrats, so it’s essential that there is outreach by Israel to Democrats on all levels, be it national, state and municipal,” he said. “If you identify with only one party, sooner or later another party might come to power. Historically speaking, Republicans used to be tougher on Israel, so the pendulum swings.”

What is Ross suggesting? Should Israel should allow Palestinian terrorists to kill Israeli civilians?

Should it demonize Jews, as DNC Deputy Chairman Keith Ellison has? Perhaps it should use antiSemites as advisors, as Obama used Al Sharpton?

During the selling of the Iran deal, it was Obama himself who suggested that Jews pushed America into the Iraq war. William Daroff, senior vice president for public policy and director of the Washington office of the Jewish Federations of North America, quoted Obama in a meeting with Jewish leaders on the deal. Daroff tweeted, “Jews are leading effort to kill #Irandeal. ‘Same people opposing the deal led us into Iraq war’,” adding, “Canard: Jews got us into Iraq War.” See Politics on next page Many European countries have now introduced extensive civic education programs for immigrants, but it is the pending legislation in Denmark that has led to a wave of concern about racism and discrimination.

In part, that’s because of the unique conditions that prevail there. New welfare benefit laws passed at the end of the 1990s effectively froze immigrant populations in the urban neighborhoods where they originally settled by assigning them to a specific municipality in order to receive welfare payments. As of 2013, these 25 areas — where crime, unemployment and government dependency are primary features of daily life — are known officially as “ghettos.”

Understandably, the use of the word “ghetto” has been widely criticized as insensitive, and does the government no favors in persuading critics that its policies are not racist. But the policies in themselves, part of a plan to break up the ghettos by 2030, should be welcomed by anyone who has observed the havoc wrought in Europe by Islamist extremism, as well as anyone concerned that the far-right will capitalize on tit.

Included in the proposed legislation is mandatory instruction in “Danish values” for ghetto children, starting from age 1, for 25 hours per week.

Parents who force children on extended visits to their ancestral countries, where the work of integration can be rapidly undone, could face prison See Viewpoint on next page

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t’s never wise to get into an argument about the Holocaust with Yad Vashem.

That’s the moral of the story of Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt to resolve a quarrel with Poland’s government over its Holocaust law.

Netanyahu erred badly by agreeing to a joint declaration with the Poles that misrepresented both the Polish government-in-exile and Polish people during the war, earning a justified rebuke from Israel’s Holocaust Museum.

But as much he was wrong, those who treat this as a reason to continue an age-old conflict are missing the point. We should never agree to falsify history, but Netanyahu was right to try to put the issue to rest and forge a new and productive relationship with a nation that now wants to be friends with Israel and the Jewish people.

Netanyahu may have thought he had ended the problem when he announced an agreement with Poland on June 27 after Warsaw amended the law that made it a crime to claim Poles aided Nazi efforts to murder the Jews.

The statement contained much good in that it acknowledged the magnitude of the Holocaust, condemned all forms of anti-Semitism and pledged that nothing in Polish law would interfere with Holocaust research or free speech

about the subject.

Poland stirred up a storm of protest by passing a law last year that pleased nationalists infuriated by references to “Polish death camps.”

They’re right that the camps were the work of Germany and not Poland, but the law, and a general revisionist campaign, didn’t stop there.

Warsaw seems to want to cover up a long history of Polish anti-Semitism, including that of the pre-war independent republic. But its leaders also wish to deny the truth that many Poles either collaborated with Nazis or engaged in anti-Jewish violence on their own, both during and after the war. etanyahu correctly values good relations with the nations of Eastern Europe, most of whom seem more interested in close ties with Israel than do their Western European counterparts, who are focused on attacking the Jewish state for its measures of self-defense. He was right to see Poland’s Holocaust law as an issue that needed to be resolved in order to facilitate closer ties, including persuading Warsaw to move its embassy to Jerusalem.

But though he involved Yad Vashem historian Dina Porat in negotiations with the Poles, she wasn’t shown the final document. That was a mistake. The published statement claims the Polish government-in-exile in London tried to

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ears ago, my mother clipped a newspaper column for me to read. At that point, I was more Israeli than American, and when I saw the long last name of the writer, “Krauthammer,” I associated it with intelligence and sharp writing. From then on, my mother would regularly clip Krauthammer columns for me. They would be stacked up on my dresser upon my visits home.

The brilliant columnist with the long last name would mold my way of thinking. Long before I ever dreamed of becoming a columnist, it was Krauthammer’s Pulitzer-quality writing that became my benchmark.

His colleagues’ summation of his work says it all: “Towering intellect.” “Piercing clarity.”

“Voice of a generation.” “Agree or disagree, you had to consider what he wrote.” “Timeless wisdom.” He was the unequalled mind, the unequalled writer, an unequalled role model. I, along with millions of Americans, have been touched by his writings and by the life he lived.

As the years passed, when political developments arose, I often found myself thinking what would Krauthammer say? His column brought clarity and insight; he made me think.

His words were my political North Star.

Krauthammer’s passion for politics was a motif in many of his columns. As he wrote in “Are We Alone In the Universe,” there could be no greater irony: “For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics. Because if we don’t get politics right, everything else risks extinction … fairly or not, politics is the driver of history.”

What resonated the most for me were his rare personal columns. While the implied wisdom of Socrates that “the unexamined life is not worth living” is a given, in “Beware The Study of Turtles,” Krauthammer balanced that

important as the historical record. s much as we must honor the truth, Poles deserve to have their suffering at the hands of the Nazis honored. Poland’s independence and safety were sacrificed in the18th and 19th centuries, and then again during the Second World War. They were not the perpetrators of the Holocaust. The Poles were not all marked for death by the Nazis as the Jews were, but nearly 2 million died in the war, and hundreds of thousands were put in the camps. Poles also fought bravely to resist the Germans.

None of this excuses the crimes of individuals or the indifference of officials, but 70 years later, it’s clear that the Polish people are trying to distance themselves from anti-Semitism.

At a moment when Poland is threatened by a resurgent Russia and Israel by its Islamist foes, surely the two should emphasize what they have in common. Those who wish to turn this issue into a cause célèbre are not doing Jews or Poles any favor. As much as the historical record must be defended, it would be wrong to condemn Netanyahu too harshly for trying to find a path towards friendship with Poland.

Yes, Poles need to be persuaded to back away from myths that make them feel better about their past. In the meantime, Jewish groups, including Yad Vashem, would do well to lower the temperature and work towards finding common ground with a people who want to turn the page on a sordid past.

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.

Marcel died on Tuesday, January 17. It was winter.”

Throughout the column, a love of sports shines through their boyhood: “For those three months of endless summer, Marcel and I were inseparable, vagabond brothers shuttling endlessly on our Schwinns from beach to beach, ballgame to ballgame. Day and night we played every sport ever invented . . . for a couple of summers we even wangled ourselves jobs teaching at the splendidly named Treasure Island day camp nearby.”

At the end of his first year of medical school, Krauthammer took a day off to enjoy the outdoors. In a freak diving accident, his fate was sealed. A strapping six-foot-one athletic young man was paralyzed from the waist down.

How did he go on?

“I don’t like when they make a big thing about it,” Krauthammer commented in a Washington Post interview in the 1980s. “The worst is when they tell me how courageous I am. There’s nothing ennobling about disease. And there’s nothing degrading about it. It’s a condition of life.” He did not want his accomplishments to be measured by a handicapped yardstick.

Writing afforded his ideas the opportunity to be evaluated on their own merit, his handicap invisible to the reader. The same went for television — the table, or screen, masked his

wheelchair. People had no clue. Just as Krauthammer wanted it. n Krauthammer’s last column, he wrote: “… the catastrophe that awaits everyone from a single false move, wrong turn, fatal encounter. Every life has such a moment. What distinguishes us is whether — and how — we ever come back.”

Not only did Krauthammer come back, his superhuman and dignified life of accomplishment, endurance and overcoming difficulty with grace modeled the essence of coming back. To witness to the life of Charles Krauthammer was to witness resilience in action.

His final column was titled, “A Note To Readers.” Without a trace of bitterness, he bid farewell in his characteristically humble manner: “I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation’s destiny … I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life, full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended.”

I mourn a man who had great influence on my life.

Charles Krauthammer died on Thursday, June 21. It was the first day of summer.

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raise awareness of the murder of the Jews, and that the official resistance force to the Germans “created a mechanism of systematic help and support to Jewish people.”

Both claims are false. While Polish exiles were responsible for the mission of Jan Karski, the heroic non-Jewish officer who personally brought word of the Holocaust to the Allies, including President Franklin Roosevelt, such efforts were limited. And far from systematically helping the Jews, the Home Army was openly hostile.

Although, as the statement says, many Poles could be counted among as “righteous among the nations,” such heroes were quite rare. That’s especially the case when compared to the large numbers of Poles who collaborated or acted against the Jews on their own.

It was shocking for Israel to sign on to such a statement, putting the Jewish state’s seal of approval on a document that doesn’t tell the truth about the Holocaust. This opens up the government to difficult questions. Surely, Netanyahu — a man who is steeped in Jewish history — knew these sections were false. Did he not read them carefully, or was he just too interested in papering over differences?

But those crying foul over this exchange need to acknowledge something that’s just as

view by warning of “the too-examined life.”

“Perhaps previous ages suffered from a lack of self-examination. Our problem is quite the opposite.”

“It is an overrated pursuit,” as is our obsessive “quest for self-love.”

He encouraged an organic, hard-working approach to self-love with a compressed phrase: “self-esteem follows achievement.” He counteracted paralyzing self-absorption with “Act and do and go and seek.” ut Charles Krauthammer “was not only just one of the best columnists of our time,” as he described his friend and colleague Meg Greenfield. His thoughts were outgrowths of a unique life — a man of letters, with philosophy a degree from Oxford; a man of science, with an MD from Harvard. He was Jewishly educated.

More than anything, though, Charles Krauthammer was indomitable.

He poignantly captures a universal spirit of growing up, painting a picture of his idyllic childhood — “the golden youth of our childhood” — shared with his only brother. “Ever brothers. Ever young. Ever summer,” ends the column in “Marcel, My Brother.” “My brother

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Some critics have lambasted the proposal as an exercise in racial profiling. One commentator even compared the policy to Australia’s repression of its Aboriginal population. But racist legislation by definition targets specific groups; in this case, all residents of the ghettos will be governed by the same rules, with the goal being social assimilation instead of further marginalization.

Talking about mass “Christianization” or mass loss of citizenship obscures the real debate: whether these measures will introduce peaceability and a degree of prosperity to mainly-Muslim immigrant communities. Many Europeans, not least the continent’s Jews, will be hoping they do.

Continued from previous page Ross is correct that Israel and American Jews shouldn’t deliberately damage relations with the Democratic Party. But neither should they reward anti-Israel policies. They also shouldn’t try to make Republican platforms less pro-Israel, as AIPAC did in 2012. What we need to do is make Democrats and Republicans fight for our votes.

Candidates’ positions are influenced by their voters. Progressives have become a critical voting bloc in the Democratic Party.

On the Republican side, many GOP candidates are pro-Israel to win the evangelical vote. But if the evangelical base ever loses influence, unless Jewish issues become

genuinely bipartisan, neither party will care. There is only one way to avoid that.

First of all, Jews need to start voting for the other guys — not blindly, but looking at Republican candidates with an open mind.

The other thing the Jewish community has to do is stop donating to groups whose leadership blindly support progressive politics. There are plenty of Jewish charities to give money to besides the blatantly political ADL, Jewish Federation, American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, and other organizations that use donations to fund Democratic Party policies.

Only by shifting the Jewish vote and moving our money away from Democratic organizations masked as Jewish ones will we be able to make both parties fight for our support by backing Israel and other issues relevant to the Jewish community.

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

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

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

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Continued from page 1 He said he hoped that Monday’s event would spur further discussion and “prevent anguish.”

“People should not be embarrassed to attend, because it is an educational opportunity and a step toward preventing future drug abuse,” Rabbi Glatt said.

Drug problems cut across many different communities, Bayer said, and although it has become more prevalent in recent years, many people are reticent to talk about it.

“I became trained to deal with families with drugs because that’s what I was seeing,” she said, adding that counseling such families is painful. She said that at Monday’s event she would discuss “very specific corrective goals” for family members and parents.

Bayer wants to spread the word that help is available. “Intervention and psychotherapy works — it helps,” she said. “We just need to open our eyes and help each other, and seek the sources that are available, and don’t think you’re the only one” with a problem or who knows someone with a problem.

Rabbi Silver said that substance abuse has been complicated by e-cigarettes and other forms of vaping.

“We want to educate,” he said. “At these events, you can’t cover all the topics that are needed, but it gets people to talk, to hear.

And that’s always a great start.”

When Madraigos held events focusing on parenting in the internet era, in November and April, more than 1,000 people attended, Rabbi Silver said. “We wanted to give concrete ideas to parents to help navigate children today,” he said.

A 2015 pilot study of the Jewish population of the U.S. and Canada, conducted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Md., found “that a significant portion of the Jewish community knows someone affected by an addiction and that over 20 percent have a family history of addiction.”

Recognizing potential problems at an early stage is key to preventing substance abuse, Rabbi Glatt said.

“I’ve seen tremendous medical harm that can come from substance abuse. I’ve seen religious harm,” he said.

Those who attend Monday’s event will see that “there are alternatives,” Rabbi Glatt added.

Jeffrey Bessen of the Nassau Herald contributed to this report.

1.6 million Jews from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia, who had endured harsh anti-Semitism and hatred. More recently, rising anti-Semitism in Venezuela brought more than half of the country’s Jews to Israel. When it comes to the security of the Jewish people, Israel has changed the game.

This point was driven home by Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, the former commander of the Israel Air Force, who accompanied us to Auschwitz. In 2003, Eshel led a squadron of IAF F-15s in a flyover of Auschwitz, issuing an eternal promise from the cockpit that the Israel Defense Forces represents “the shield of the Jewish people and its nation, Israel.”

Remembering the Holocaust is not enough. We must turn the tragedies of the past into lessons for the future. It’s in our hands to ensure that “Never Again” really means “Never Again.” Nothing less than the continuation of the Jewish people is at stake.

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Continued from page 1 nti-Semitism had long been present across Europe. Nazi Germany harnessed that hatred to humiliate, marginalize and weaken the Jewish people as it prepared to unleash the largest genocide in history.

During the first six years of Hitler’s rule, more than 400 decrees and regulations Boycotted, Delegitimized and Sanctioned all aspects of Jews’ public and private lives. Jews were dehumanized in the eyes of the public until non-Jews believed that genocide was a reasonable solution.

The parallels to recent events should not be lost on us. In the last two decades, America, and in particular Europe, have seen a steady rise in anti-Semitism from the radical right, radical left and radical Muslims. A growing alliance between radical leftists and radical Islamists has produced figures like Jeremy Corbyn, the head of the British Labour Party, who ignores and even espouses vile anti-Semitism.

This alliance has driven the rise of figures on the radical right in Germany, Poland, Italy, Estonia and elsewhere who are committed to denying the Holocaust and trading in anti-Semitic stereotypes.

The only thing shared by all these radical movements is hatred of the Jewish people.

While European governments publicly express strong support for their Jewish communities, history tells us that nothing lasts forever.

We witnessed this trend up close. In many of our meetings, European officials blamed the Holocaust solely on Germany, ignoring the collaboration of their leaders. None of these countries took ownership of their actions, and this denial has become public policy.

For instance, a law recently passed in Poland made it illegal to acknowledge Polish complicity in death camps. At the same time, some Germans, including the third-largest party in the parliament, are working to minimize the Holocaust, claiming it was a “small speck of bird poop” in their 1,000 years of glorious history.

This brings us to our second lesson. We must recognize and fight anti-Semitism with all our power, whenever we encounter it.

When we don’t act, we legitimize anti-Semitism, allowing it to become mainstream. We become an accomplice to its growth.

Before and during World War II, Jewish communities across Europe cried out for help. World powers were silent. Jews trying to flee

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were turned away, with Britain blocking access to what is now Israel.

Unfortunately, some Jewish communities in Europe and elsewhere now downplay or ignore the dangers the Jewish people face.

In some of our conversations, European Jewish leaders expressed unwavering confidence in their local government’s willingness and ability to protect them.

Jews in America have the power to stand up, speak out and fight back. We should use this power now, while we have it. his brings us to our third lesson. We must support Israel — the homeland of the Jewish people and ultimate insurance policy for all Jews.

Israel did not exist during the Holocaust. It has already saved millions of Jews fleeing anti-Semitism around the world. In its infancy, Israel accepted Holocaust survivors from Displaced Persons camps. It launched countless operations to save Jews facing existential threats across the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Europe. In the 1990s, the Jewish homeland welcomed approximately

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