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By Deborah Fineblum, JNS.org Inviting tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doctors to fall in love with Israel today.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the idea behind the American Physicians Fellowship for Medicine (APF), a specialized track within the Taglit-Birthright Israel program offering free trips to Israel for Jews ages 18â&#x20AC;&#x201C;26. For 11 years, APF has been showing tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medical professionals from across North America the Israel most of them have only seen in news reportsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;while creating memories, loyalties, and friendships designed to last a lifetime. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been to Russia and England, but when I met Israelis, especially the soldiers, the conversations were somehow personal as soon as we met,â&#x20AC;? said 22-year-old Brittany Bunkis, among 39 participants who returned from their APF experience last month.

Roughly half of them were, like Bunkis, students in medical school or other healthcare programs; the others were certiďŹ ed healthContinued on page 8

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By Jeff Dunetz, Jewish Star columnist In one fell swoop on Tuesday, a quarter century of standard language about Israel by either party was tossed out and new GOP platform language adopted which places Republican Party squarely behind the unity of Jerusalem, against BDS and in favor of removing the label of â&#x20AC;&#x153;occupierâ&#x20AC;? from Israel.

The pro-Israel amendement, presented

by South Carolina delegate Alan Clemmons, was adopted with a standing ovation by the Platform Committee and tears from some of those in the audience.

The new platform language keeps a previous reference to Jerusalem as Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital, but not as a shared city. The new wording emphasizes that â&#x20AC;&#x153;we recognize Jerusalem as the eternal and indivisible capital of the Jewish state, and call for the American embassy to be moved there in fulďŹ llment of U.S. law.â&#x20AC;?

The platform does not mention a â&#x20AC;&#x153;twostateâ&#x20AC;? solution or a Palestinian state and strongly rejects the approach to Israeli policy taken by the Obama administration with strong language: Continued on page 22

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emocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is hardly in a happy place at the moment. Now that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s avoided federal prosecution for compromising national security through her use of a private email serverâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a breathtaking turn of fortune that, critics say, would be denied to lesser

PokĂŠmon turns up at Auschwitz and Holocaust Museum

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has asked visitors to refrain from playing â&#x20AC;&#x153;PokĂŠmon Goâ&#x20AC;? after characters from the augmented reality game were found inside the museum. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Playing the game is not appropriate in the museum, which is a memorial to the victims of Nazism,â&#x20AC;? the museum said.

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those themes is anti-Semitism, which has had a presence throughout most of the current campaign cycle. Both candidates have had to deal with it. And both of them have done so in different ways.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consider Hillary Clinton ďŹ rst. Some readers will remember that during her speech to the AIPAC convention back in March, Clinton delivered a rousing message of support to Jewish students confronting anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism on university campuses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope you stay strong,â&#x20AC;? she told them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keep speaking out. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let anyone siContinued on page 6

era to detect PokĂŠmon characters with a technology that mixes the real and virtual worlds.

In just one week, the game has become a global sensation that is on the verge of overtaking Twitter in terms of active users.

PokĂŠmon ďŹ gures have also been spotted at other sensitive sites such as the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear that many Americans regard the November face-off with Donald Trump as involving the selection of the least troubling candidate. In terms of making a decision in the voting booth, we will need to rely, perhaps to a greater extent than we would normally be comfortable with, on the public statements and on-the-record positions of both candidates, as well as on their reactions to the broader themes underlying this election.

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By Jeffrey Bessen Faced with discontentment from the business people represented by the Cedarhurst Business Improvement District (BID), the Cedarhurst board of trustees decided on Monday to delay implementing a rate hike for parking meters in the villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10 lots, where new meters are being installed.

BID Chairman Steve Schneider presented a petition opposing the rate hike that he said was signed by 250 people.

Village ofďŹ cials wanted to increase the rate from 25 cents an hour to 25 cents for every 30 minutes, matching the price of onstreet parking spaces.

Mayor Benjamin Weinstock defended the plan to raise rates immediately after the new meters are installed as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;rip the BandAid off and do it at one timeâ&#x20AC;? type of thing so the sting is not so bad.

Now, â&#x20AC;&#x153;we will give it some thought and see what if anything we do,â&#x20AC;? Weinstock said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully what we accomplish will be good for everyone.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s politically wise or shopper-friendly to hit the customer right now with what will be perceived as a second increase,â&#x20AC;?

Schneider said, referring to the recent increase in the cost of on-street parking. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What it will do is increase the rep that Cedarhurst has had for years of being a place that is overly aggressive in ticketing and over zealous about generating revenue from parking meters.â&#x20AC;?

The mayor said that the village takes its responsibility to maintain its lots â&#x20AC;&#x153;very seriouslyâ&#x20AC;? and spends a lot of money to do that.

He added that a preliminary plan to redesign lot No. 1 in front of Gourmet Glatt might

create nearly 35 more spaces and would cost $500,000.

Tania Hammer who works in a ladies apparel store at lot No. 1, said that is she annoyed that she has to run out and place more money in the meter while she is busy with a customer. She had a suggestion for the trustees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For people who work you can have a sticker on the vehicle and we can be left alone to do our business which proďŹ ts you without paying a meter,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would help my customers without worrying about parking.â&#x20AC;?

Matrimonial lawyer Deborah Kaminetzky said her employees are not too happy because of the proposed increase and she is looking into ofďŹ ce space in Woodmere, where the

parking is free. Weinstock noted that the Town of Hempstead that oversees parking in Woodmere is considering adopting the hightech parking meters Cedarhurst installed.

Steve Silverman, owner of Mortonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Army Navy store on Central Avenue, said that people â&#x20AC;&#x153;are still processing the new metersâ&#x20AC;? and that too much change close together is too much and there could be pushback that shoppers decide not to come to Cedarhurst.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would hate to see something like this backďŹ re on us,â&#x20AC;? Silverman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wait a little bit and let everyone digest what is going on now.â&#x20AC;?

Jeffrey Bessen in editor of the Nassau Herald, where a version of this article appeared.

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Israeli Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold sent a scathing letter to the head of the United Nations Educational, ScientiďŹ c and Cultural Organization on Monday, criticizing a draft UNESCO resolution that Gold said ignores the historical bond between the Jewish people and the city of Jerusalem.

UNESCOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 21-member World Heritage Committee is set to vote on the resolution, a joint Palestinian-Jordanian initiative, during its annual meeting in Istanbul, which runs through next week. The resolution calls for a return to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;historic status quoâ&#x20AC;? on the Temple Mount.

In his letter, Gold wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;UNESCO is considering the adoption of a completely onesided draft resolution on the Old City of Jerusalem that deliberately ignores the historical connection between the Jewish people and their ancient capital. The resolution also fails to acknowledge Christianityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ties to Jerusalem. It refers to the area of the Temple Mount only as a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Muslim holy site of worshipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.â&#x20AC;?

Gold added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today, it is Israel that defends religious freedom for all of the great faithsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Judaism, Christianity, and Islamâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; against the tide of intolerance sweeping the Middle East region. â&#x20AC;Ś We urge you to oppose this effort to distort history, which will offend the members of the Jewish and Christian faiths, and undermine the credibility of UNESCO in the future.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Israel Hayom, Exclusive to JNS.org

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Taking control of our destiny and our world RABBI BINNY FREEDMAN THE HEART OF JERUSALEM

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appelling (or “sneppling” as it is known in Israel) is the sport of descending from a cliff by sliding down a rope that is sunken into the mountain above with stakes.

For our daughter’s 20th birthday last week, her brothers decided to plan a surprise birthday for her. So they told her she should keep motzaei Shabbat free, and having gathered a bunch of their and her friends, proceeded to blindfold her and take her to a cliff at the Northern edge of Efrat where they had arranged the chance to rappel down the side of the cliff into a dark abyss with all of her friends watching (only one other girl was brave enough to participate).

It is one thing to be doing this in the army, or even to tackle such an adventure out of necessity. But lowering yourself over a cliff while risking a 100 foot drop, is not exactly my idea of fun or a particularly great idea. And yet, there is something to be said for allowing our children to push the envelope and perhaps conquer their fears.

And make no mistake about it: we are speaking of pure, raw fear. Not so much in the actual descent as in the initial instant of lowering oneself over the side of a cliff. There is a moment, when you are still at the top, and it is all ahead of you, that you have to trust in the ropes, and the equipment, and the instructor directing you, and you have to lean way back over the abyss, relying on a single rope to save you from falling over the cliff to the rocks far below.

I remember, years ago, watching our children rappel at a young age while we were on a family vacation. It was nothing short of in-

spiring to watch the look of sheer terror on the kids’ faces as they leaned back and battled their fears, determined to overcome them and take this leap of faith on a rope into emptiness. And it was one of the more challenging moments we experienced as parents, to simply “let go,” knowing they were now on their own. n this week’s portion of Chukat, we transition from the period immediately following the grand Exodus to the generation about to enter the land of Israel. And Moshe seems to make a tragic mistake.

The Torah shares with us (Bamidbar 20; 1-13) that the people came to the desert of Tzin and there was no water. So they cried out against Moshe and Aaron demanding water and wondered why they had ever left Egypt, even suggesting that slavery in Egypt might have been preferable to dying of thirst in the desert.

Moshe and Aaron adjourn to the entrance of the tent of meeting whereupon G-d tells Moshe to take his staff (or perhaps Aaron’s staff), gather the people, and speak to a rock at which point water will be forthcoming.

Inexplicably, Moshe, after gathering the people along with Aaron, appears to castigate them, calling them “rebels,” after which he strikes the rock not once, but twice, whereupon water flows forth from the rock and the people are saved.

G-d tells Moshe and Aaron (ibid. v. 12) that — by virtue of the fact that they did not believe in G-d and did not sanctify Him in the Jewish people’s eyes — they will not bring the people into the land.

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sure up to the resulting consequence.

Rashi suggests that Moshe hit the rock instead of speaking to it, which would have been a much greater sanctification of G-d’s name. But what does that have to do with Moshe’s punishment of not being allowed to enter the land?

The Ramban suggests Moshe erred by implying that he and Aaron were bringing forth the water, allowing people to miss the fact that the water was coming from G-d. But one wonders whether Moshe could have really thought that and why the people’s possible misperception would result in such a severe consequence?

And the Rambam (Intro to Pirkei Avot chapter 4) suggest Moshe’s mistake was his anger; a leader cannot “lose it” with his charges. But then, losing it once after 40 years of immeasurable patience would seem to be … normal.

If Rashi is correct and G-d somehow deems it so important that the people see Moshe talking to the rock, why does he tell him to take his staff?

And why, upon seeing Moshe hitting the rock, could G-d not just TELL Moshe, “You need to speak to the rock”? here might be a different way to look at this story: Moshe hits the rock exactly as he was meant to.

It would be difficult to view this or any story in the Torah as one which unfolded contrary to Hashem’s will. If Hashem really did not want Moshe to hit the rock then He would not have sent him (and Aaron) with the staff.

Moshe was always meant to hit the rock. And how do we know that? Because that is exactly what happened!

Of course, that would mean that Moshe and Aaron were never meant to enter the land of Israel with the Jewish people. Moshe and Aaron provided the leadership that was needed for the Exodus but now, it seems, the people need something else. Why? The Talmud (Sanhedrin 8a and Baba Basra 75a), in explaining why Moshe cannot bring the Jewish people into the land and that role will instead be given to Yehoshua, says that “Moshe is like the sun, and Yehoshua is like the moon.”

The Jewish people were in awe of Moshe (after all, Moshe was their direct conduit to G-d Himself!). Indeed, when Moshe came back down from Mt. Sinai, they could not look at him because his face shone (Shemot 34:29-20) and he had to cover his face with a veil (ibid. 34:33).

In the desert Hashem was everywhere, and miracles abounded. Manna fell from heaven every day, water flowed from a miraculous well, the people were protected by clouds of glory such that even their clothing did not wear out in forty years (Devarim (Deuteronomy) 8:4) and pillars of fire and cloud ac-

If Hashem did not want Moshe to hit the rock, He would not have sent him with the staff.

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companied them on their journeys; indeed Hashem was everywhere they looked. And this was critical to the Jews’ Exodus from Egypt; in Egypt, as slaves it was the Master, the Egyptian taskmaster, who was everywhere and upon whom everything depended. In the desert, the Jewish people learned that the true source of reality and substance and goodness was not Egypt but G-d.

But of course, this created another problem, because if Hashem (G-d) is everywhere, then where am I? What does it matter what we do if G-d runs the world? You see this often with the children of very successful people — the parents are so “everywhere” that there is no room for the child, so eventually the child rebels, essentially saying “here I am,” make room for me! uccessful parents (as opposed to successful people who happen to be parents) understand that gradually they need to step back and allow the child to grow and “become” on his or her own. Indeed the Jews in the desert cannot seem to stop complaining and rebelling. But in all of the book of Yehoshua, which begins 30 days after Moshe’s death and the end of the Torah, the people do not complain once!

Moshe comes as close as a human being can to representing G-d Himself, and he is the faithful conduit to pass on Torah from G-d to the Jewish people without affecting the Torah he was transmitting. Moshe (and with him, of the same generation, Miriam and Aaron) is like the sun; you can’t look at the sun, its light is too powerful.

On the other hand, Yehoshua, who receives the tradition from Moshe, is reflected light, like the moon. You can look at the moon, which represents the idea that there is room for us to make a difference. When the moon is out and the sun is hidden, you can see the stars.

Hashem orchestrates this moment to help Moshe and Aaron understand why they will not be entering Israel with the Jewish people; because the Jewish people need to “become.”

Judaism believes that we have an impact to make in this world, and despite the fact that Hashem is the source of reality, He wants us to be his partners in making a better world.

Indeed, after this story, Moshe will send spies to Yaazer and the Jewish people will conquer the kingdoms of Sichon and Og, as they gradually transition to taking ownership of their destiny and preparing for the challenging transition that lies ahead: entering and conquering the land of Israel and creating a model society which will truly be a “light unto the nations.”

And on a personal level, this week’s portion presents an opportune time to ask ourselves where and how we need to take control of our destiny and be a part of making a better world.

Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem.

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he Democrats are at it again. They’re bragging how their platform committee rejected efforts to insert the words “occupation” and “settlements” in their platform when describing the Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria. While that is a positive step it is the equivalent of a failing student who raises his average to a “D.” The 2012 Democratic platform committee removed four basic pro-Israel planks; during the convention one (Jerusalem is Israel’s capital) was put back, over the objection of the delegates. The 2016 platform continues the Democratic Party’s giant step backwards regarding Israel, an indication that Hillary Clinton will continue President Obama’s anti-Israel policies and weakness on terrorism.

Here’s what the Democrats removed from their 2012 platform (pay special attention to the bold added for this column): The United States and its Quartet partners should continue to isolate Hamas until it renounces terrorism, recognizes Israel’s right to exist, and abides by past agreements. Sustained American leadership for peace and security will require patient efforts and the personal commitment of the President of the United States. The creation of a Palestinian state through final status

negotiations, together with an international compensation mechanism, should resolve the issue of Palestinian refugees by allowing them to settle there, rather than in Israel. All understand that it is unrealistic to expect the outcome of final status negotiations to be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949. Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel.

The parties have agreed that Jerusalem is a matter for final status negotiations. It should remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths The Jerusalem line was added back during the convention (it didn’t receive the needed a 2/3 vote for approval but the chairman said it was approved anyway to the boos of the delegates). The remaining planks were never added back, nor do they appear in the 2016 document.

Let’s take a deeper look at those missing planks and why they are important: • “The United States should continue to isolate Hamas until it renounces terrorism.” By continuing to omit this sentence, the Democrats are displaying their weakness in objecting to terrorism and possibly indicating they are getting ready to improve relations with Hamas. As secretary of state Clinton developed and strengthened relations with Hamas’ parent group, the radical Muslim Brotherhood, when it took over

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Egypt. In the U.S., Clinton actively supported Muslim Brotherhood-associated groups such as the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

On the GOP side, the 2016 platform is not yet available, but in 2012 the platform said, “... radical elements like Hamas and Hezbollah must be isolated because they do not meet the standards of peace and diplomacy of the international community.”

• “... should resolve the issue of Palestinian refugees by allowing them to settle there, rather than in Israel.”

While the number of Palestinian refugees in 1949 was somewhere between 800,000 and 900,000 (there were an equal number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands), today the number is over 4 million. The Palestinian refugee count is the only example in history where the number has grown without a population shift (the UN counts the original refugees, their children, grandchildren, first cousin twice removed on their mother’s side, friends, etc. as refugees). Since they cannot defeat Israel militarily, one of the Palestinians’ strategies is to flood democratic Israel with “refugees” so it will cease to exist as a Jewish Continued on page 8

No ‘occupation’ or ‘settlements,’ but the rest is likely bad.

Clinton and Trump need to banish antiSemitism from the election campaign Continued from page 1 lence you, bully you or try to shut down debate, especially in places of learning like colleges and universities.”

But what do you do when one of the most notorious of those bullies is the son of your closest adviser? This isn’t a hypothetical question. Clinton’s long-serving confidante Sidney Blumenthal is the father of the anti-Semitic writer Max Blumenthal, whose ravings about Israel are liberally quoted by extremists from white supremacists to leftist campus activists.

The younger Blumenthal has for years attracted the ire of American Jews.

More recently, several liberals and left-wingers have denounced him for offenses ranging from pitiful argumentation to careless sourcing — but most of all, for his enthusiasm in deploying the most hackneyed anti-Semitic tropes. Lest little Max should doubt his influence on the less salubrious members of our society, recall that Frazier Glenn Cross, the Klan devotee who went on a shooting spree at a Kansas City Jewish center in 2014, cited Blumenthal’s screeds approvingly.

Clinton has been aware of Max Blumenthal’s activities for some time. Among the emails examined in the wake of the brutal 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi were several exchanges with Sidney Blumenthal, who sent his boss links to Max’s articles.

“A very smart piece” and “he’s so good” were just two of the comments Clinton sent back. ver the last few days, however, it became untenable for Clinton not to address the deep anxieties among Jews

over her connections with the Blumenthal family. The trigger was Max Blumenthal’s libelous rant on Twitter about the legacy of Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate who passed away on July 2 at the age of 87.

Wiesel was a moral giant who spoke out not just on behalf of Jews. I remember in particular his impassioned defense of Bosnian Muslims facing genocide at the hands of Serb militias in the mid-1990s. But none of that prevented Blumenthal from slandering Wiesel as a supporter of apartheid and a friend of the very same people who incarcerated him in Auschwitz.

Faced with this sickness, and worried about the impact it might have on Clinton, her campaign issued a most welcome rejection of Blumenthal’s comments as “hateful” and “patently absurd.” The key point is this: Whether or not you believe Clinton’s sincerity, she is now on record as condemning one of today’s most noxious anti-Semites, in spite of her myriad connections with his father. This at least gives us a basis to judge her future responses on the same subject.

Donald Trump has done the same thing, except that his response to the latest of the several anti-Semitism scandals that have plagued his campaign merely expands our concerns, rather than contracting them. After retweeting an image sourced to a white supremacist website which showed a grinning Clinton superimposed onto a pile of money and a Star of David, Trump compounded the offense by blockheadedly sticking to his guns,

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criticizing his staff for deleting the tweet instead of “defending it.”

At the same time that Trump engages in anti-Semitism denial—something he does every time the issue of his white supremacist supporters comes up—his campaign pursues the tiresome tactic of putting his Jewish daughter and Jewish son-in-law before the media in his defense. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, went as far as publishing an op-ed in his New York Observer newspaper insisting, in a faux hurt tone, that Donald doesn’t hate Jews.

Except that nobody serious has called Trump an anti-Semite. The charge is that he tolerates anti-Semites and even enables them when it suits him to do so. Citing your Jewish relatives and friends is a favored method of the Israel-haters — “Some of my best friends are Jews!” — and most Jews aren’t fooled by it. They also aren’t fooled by Trump, who further insults our community by insinuating that we’re stupid enough to believe that he understands what constitutes anti-Semitism better than we do.

What both candidates need to do is declare a zero tolerance policy for anti-Semitism around their respective campaigns. As things stand, Clinton has responded to that demand far more satisfyingly than has Trump.

Thankfully, we haven’t reached a stage in this country where anti-Semitism is tearing up established political parties as it has done in Europe, with both the United Kingdom’s Labour Party and Germany’s nationalist AfD Party. Nor is anti-Semitism serious enough to be the issue upon which voters, Jewish or otherwise, make their choice. But come November, if the odor of this garbage persists, it could be a very different story.

Ben Cohen is senior editor of TheTower.org and The Tower Magazine.

Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ethiopian National Project, Israel has much to offer the African continent, but the beneďŹ ts are not necessarily readily appreciated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many of the African countries are historically anti-Israel, but only because they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really know Israel,â&#x20AC;? Akele told JNS.org.

In line with the stories of many other Ethiopian-born Israelis, Akele crossed Ethiopia by foot at the age of 20, walking 800 kilometers (500 miles) to Sudan before arriving in Jerusalem in December 1983 during Operation Moses.

Akele suggested that Ethiopian Israelis â&#x20AC;&#x153;can be a good bridgeâ&#x20AC;? between Israel and Ethiopia, which holds a key diplomatic position in Africa and was the ďŹ nal stop on Netanyahuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trip. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ethiopia is an extremely important country.

Most of the African Congress is sitting in Addis Ababa (Ethiopiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital). When Israel and

Ethiopia are in good relations, it is very easy for Israel to contact the other nations through Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ambassador in Ethiopia,â&#x20AC;? Akele said.

Israel, meanwhile, â&#x20AC;&#x153;can do a lot to help Ethiopia in the areas of agriculture, high-tech. â&#x20AC;Ś Israel can also provide assistance in education, particularly in the areas of modern technology,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Mazel agrees, saying that Israel â&#x20AC;&#x153;has a lot to proposeâ&#x20AC;? to nations across Africa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It really has a lot to offer in terms of economy, trade, science, sport, and more,â&#x20AC;? he said.

While Mazel sees tremendous value in Netanyahuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uncommon multi-state trip, he suggested that the trip should be followed up immediately with constructive efforts to build on the gains of the four-day tour. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One trip to Africa is not enough. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good

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Mazel argued that Israeli ofďŹ cials should travel to Africa â&#x20AC;&#x153;twice or three times a year.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;First of all, we should send our professional ministersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of agriculture, of trade, of science.

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Similarly, Mazel noted that African ofďŹ cials should be invited to Israel. He said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We should regularly invite them to events in Israel, invite them to see the universities, and to explain the possibilities of cooperation.â&#x20AC;?

Mazel would also like to see the Israeli government build on Netanyahuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four-nation trip by visiting the rest of the 50-nation continent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We should go to all of them,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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By Alex Traiman, JNS.org Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a historic multi-nation trip to Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Ethiopia this week, stressing the importance of improved diplomatic ties and economic cooperation after several decades of strained Israeli relations in Africa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Israel is coming back to Africa and Africa is coming back to Israel,â&#x20AC;? Netanyahu said during a meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, a mantra the Israeli prime minister repeated throughout the trip.

In the ďŹ rst decades of Israeli statehood, the Jewish state had good ties with many countries across the 54-nation African continent. But following decisive military victories by Israel over its Arab neighbors in the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Arab nations pressured many of those countries to break off relations as part of a decades-long diplomatic assault to isolate Israel.

Yet today, with Israel growing into an economic, technological, and military leader, African nations are understanding the potential value of renewed cooperation with the Jewish state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From the point of view of international relations, economy, science, sport, trade, political cooperation in the United Nations, it is very important. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obvious, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absolutely obvious,â&#x20AC;? said Zvi Mazel, whose former roles include Israeli ambassador to Egypt and deputy directorgeneral of Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Foreign Ministry in charge of African relations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Netanyahu is doing right now is very important, but it should have been done a long time ago. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overdue,â&#x20AC;? Mazel told JNS.org.

Mazel explained that the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians â&#x20AC;&#x153;changed the way most third-world countries looked at Israel,â&#x20AC;? noting that once the peace agreement was signed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;many African nations renewed relations with Israel.â&#x20AC;?

Following the signing, in the mid-1990s, Mazel traveled across much of Africa, including to Ugandaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Entebbe Airport, the site of the dramatic rescue of 100 Jews and Israelis taken hostage on an Air France ďŹ&#x201A;ight on July 4, 1976. The rescue mission was led by Yoni Netanyahuâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the current prime ministerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brotherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who was the only Israeli commando killed during the otherwise successful operation.

Prime Minister Netanyahuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diplomatic tour began in Uganda with a July 4 ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the Entebbe rescue. Netanyahu proceeded to Kenya, where the current presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father and Kenyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst president, Jomo Kenyatta, had permitted an Israeli Hercules C130 aircraft to land and refuel during the rescue operation 40 years ago.

In addition to marking the historic rescue and his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tragedy, Netanyahu went to Africa to re-establish diplomatic ties with nations that are culturally worlds away from Israel, despite what Mazel described as being â&#x20AC;&#x153;just a few hours away by plane.â&#x20AC;?

As both prime minister and foreign minister in the current Israeli government, Netanyahuâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with the help of Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Goldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has made signiďŹ cant efforts to improve diplomatic ties with many nations across the Middle East, as well as neighboring Africa. Gold visited South Africa this past March, in advance of the ďŹ rst visit by an Israeli prime minister to Sub-Saharan Africa in nearly 30 years.

A primary goal of Netanyahuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Africa visit was to engage the diplomatic support of African nations, particularly in the U.N., whose numerous anti-Israel resolutions are often passed with the relative strength of the 22-nation Arab League and the 27-nation European Union (which recently lost the United Kingdom as a member).

According to Mazel, African nations voting in favor of Israel can help tip the scales on key U.N. resolutions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are 193 countries in the United Nations. Every country has an equal vote and every vote is very important,â&#x20AC;? Mazel said.

According to Roni Akale, director-general of

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Along with must-see Israeli sites including the Kotel in Jerusalem, Masada and the Dead Sea, the 10-day APF journey was packed with tours that exposed the group to the strengths and challenges of Israel’s healthcare field.

“The trip enables them to begin a lifelong process of trying to integrate their emerging identities as medical professionals, members of the Jewish community, and supporters of Israel,” said APF PresidentElect Dr. Jeffrey Devries, who accompanied the group.

“They have ‘skin in the game’ in each of these domains, and they should understand that not only are they not contradictory, but they can strengthen one another.”

Trip participants formed a tight-knit community in a short amount of time. Being with others in the field was a big plus for Jonathan Gabriel, 25, who is heading to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine this fall. “It was cool being with a lot of smart people—the Americans and the Israelis,” he said. “We got into good discussions over the things we’re all going through.”

One focus of the tour was the values that make Israel and its medical community stand out. Dr. Ofer Merin, who heads up the trauma unit at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center and is commander of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Field Hospital Unit, told the group that the unit can establish working field hospitals within six hours of arriving at a crisis location.

“It just happens to be that Israel, which

is on the forefront of biomedical engineering and treatment of trauma and stroke, is a sterling example of altruism in responding to crisis all over the world—exemplary both in medical innovation and in moral vision and caring. It treats its enemies with the same dedicated care that it provides its citizens,” said Rabbi Yitzhak Breitowitz, a former law professor who was already a noted expert in medical matters while he was working as a rabbi in Silver Spring, Md., before making aliyah.

Jewish values were also spotlighted when the group visited the Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) facility outside of Tel Aviv, where participants witnessed children with heart conditions from around the world being brought in for the latest cutting-edge treatments.

As part of its visit to SACH, the team met Dr. Asael Lubotzky, a man Devries describes as “a true hero.” Lubotzky risked his life to rescue fallen comrades during the Second Lebanon War of 2006, when an explosive was fired into his tank.

He now walks with the aid of crutches and braces, but his injuries did not stop him from living his dream. Lubotzky is in the pediatric residency program at Shaare Zedek in Jerusalem.

At an IDF base where physicians and medics are trained, the APF participants experienced a simulated attack scene complete with sounds of whizzing bullets, sirens, explosions, and flashing lights.

Through this exercise, the medical professionals and students learned to keep calm and function under emergency conditions.

“It’s amazing to see what a small country can do, to train their doctors and EMTs to be ready for anything on a daily basis,”

said Kathryn Shapero of Boise, Idaho, a veterinarian who just finished school and has started her first job. “These are challenges that American medical schools don’t have to think much about.”

Indeed, the pressures and threats Israel faces immediately resonated when the APF participants were waiting for their flight back to the U.S. and heard of the news of June’s shooting attack at Tel Aviv’s Sarona market, in which four Israelis were killed.

“It shook us,” Jonathan Gabriel said.

“But then we got home and heard about the mass killing in Orlando, and I started thinking maybe we’re safer in Israel after all.”

For many of the students, the trip was a way to combat the negative anti-Israel messaging they often hear on their campuses.

“The best argument against that is to be exposed to the real Israel,” said Devries.

“Once they see the way things really are, that is the most powerful argument.”

Each trip participant interviewed by JNS.org said they left Israel wanting more of the Jewish state in their lives. Gabriel is thinking about completing an elective rotation in Israel.

“I have a friend who did part of his training in Uganda. Why not Israel?” he said.

“My dad is Catholic and my mom is Jewish, and I didn’t really know how I felt. But on this trip, I was able to connect the dots when I saw that my values are more Jewish than I ever realized,” said Bunkis.

“I came back and said, ‘I think I really am a Jew, that being Jewish really is part of my life.’ Now I am thinking all kinds of new things, like coming back [to Israel] and doing some clinical rotations.

“I think I could really have an impact there.”

platform…

Continued from page 6 state via election. That is why the 2008 platform included the refugee statement. The fact that the Democrats took it out and continue to omit it this year is an indication that the party and its standard bearer are open to the Palestinian strategy.

While the 2016 draft GOP platform is not yet available, earlier platforms stated that the Palestinian refugees should settle in a Palestinian state.

• “… All understand that it is unrealistic to expect the outcome of final status negotiations to be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949.”

President Obama walked away from that big time in May when he called for Israel to begin negotiations by agreeing to return to the 1949 lines rather than making it a product of negotiation. He was basically telling Israel to make concessions before any negotiation. The original post 6-Day-War resolution by the UN (UN 242) didn’t call for a return to the 1949 lines and the 2008 Democratic Platform said a return to the 1949 lines was unrealistic. But in 2012 and again in 2016 the Democrats removed that plank.

The 2012 GOP platform said, “We support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state with secure, defensible borders” — an indication of their realization there must be adjustments to the 1949 armistice lines.

To reach Jeff Dunetz, write to Columnist@ TheJewishStar.com

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s most of you know, from my previous articles, my daughter, Jordana, married Daniel (Dan) Weichselbaum (whom I adore) on July 3, in a beautiful, outdoor chuppah followed by a night of dining and dancing. From the beginning to the very end, it seemed perfect to me, just like I dreamed about since she was a little girl.

But … the weeks leading up to the wedding … let’s just say, were nightmarish at times.

Where shall I begin? Invitations were a breeze. Rise Kaufmann was amazing! The photography and videography by Three Star Photographers was a pleasure. The caterers, Avi and David Abikser, of Genedeen Caterers, couldn’t have done any more for us — we were treated as family! The orchestra? Ike Walkover; need I say more?

Being that the kids got engaged 13 months before the wedding, you would think I would have had time to find a gown I liked. To my surprise I couldn’t find anything I loved.

Wait, that’s not totally true, I did find some that I loved, but thought it wouldn’t be wise to take out a second mortgage on my home to pay for it. Then there were the gowns that would have been perfect, but did not come in the correct color, were sleeveless without he ability to add sleeves, etc.

So in April I began looking for material, and decided I would have a gown made. The seamstress was totally booked solid with Me-

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I raced back with the gown and waited downstairs, because there were no parking spaces available. I told her to take a picture of the back of the gown for Jordana’s approval.

Half hour later she returned with gown, and explained that it was steamed and stuffed and not to be opened till the day of the wedding. She showed me a picture of the back of the gown, and said, although the buttons look awful, they are just crooked, because it wasn’t on Jordana. It will look perfect when fitted to her body.

As I drove away. I realized she had to try the gown on as soon as I came home with it.

I didn’t trust anything at this point.

So there we were in front of a full-length mirror as I zipped the gown up. Not sure how to describe the fit of the gown, but horrific comes to mind. The buttons looked as if they were all drunk. The fit on top of the gown, on the back, was now gaping with the weight of the buttons.

Normally I downplay anything bad to her but I had to be honest. She could not wear

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By morning the office manager returned my five panicky emails and said the owner was out of town, and that she felt the gown was a perfect fit and that Jordana was just not standing up straight. She finally agreed to let Jordana go directly to the seamstress, to redo the buttons.

Do I bring it back to the seamstress who thought it was perfect? No, I couldn’t trust her. I decided to ask a seamstress I had used in the past, who was a perfectionist. She was horrified to see the buttons and the ill-fit in the back. She saved the day (and Jordana and me from a nervous breakdown)! Jordana looked like a princess on her wedding day. ot to be left out, Dan had a little drama as well. I didn’t hear this story till after the wedding. Smart of Dan and his parents to keep this one under wraps. Not sure my nerves could have taken any more stress.

Shabbat afternoon, Dan’s mom asked if he had his new tuxedo ready to go. He said yes.

A few hours later she said that she didn’t see it anywhere in the house. He assured her he had it, no need to panic. Then he realized he didn’t. Where could it be? After retracing his steps he remembered he brought it in to have the jacket altered and never picked it up. The store didn’t open till 11 and he had to be at the hall dressed and ready by 11. Somehow, they got the number of the owner, who met him early in the morning. He was cool and calm Continued on page 20

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morial Day weddings and finally squeezed me in four weeks before the wedding. When she saw me panicking, she told me to relax, “August 3 is not that close, we have plenty of time,” she said. I corrected her, “it’s July 3!”

Then we both panicked in unison.

Midway through the process, I was told the base fabric I chose was not going to work with my design. So 10 days before the wedding I ran into the city, purchased new material, and on the Sunday before the wedding, started over. Thank you Raphael for coming through in the end. And to the staff members at the hotel, I know it was an accident that you stepped on the bottom of my gown, which set off a chain reaction of unraveling.

Many thanks to Roxy, who kept sewing me back together, and thanks to Ilyce who decided not to pull away the small piece of material that was trailing my gown, as we walked down the aisle, that would have unraveled a 3-foot piece of backing which gave the fishtail its body. ordana’s gown was a story in itself.

Jordana had her gown custom made in Brooklyn. After months of appointments, there were a few minor alterations left to do, but were told that when the gown would be picked up, it would be steamed and stuffed and not available to be tried on anymore. We were told to trust them, all would be perfect.

So Jordana and I picked up the gown and the ball gown skirt (that was detached after the chuppah to reveal a fitted gown) and were on our way. Half an hour later, I received a call, in which a panicked office manager asked how far I was. She went on to explain that they forgot to attach the tiny buttons down the back of the gown. Though

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden 1000 Washington Ave., 718-623-7200 â&#x20AC;¢bbg.org

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Louis Armstrong House Museum 34-56 107th St., Corona, 718-478-8274 â&#x20AC;¢louisarmstronghouse.org

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New York Hall of Science 47-01 111 St., Corona, 718-68809995 â&#x20AC;¢nysci.org

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Noguchi Museum 9-01 33rd Rd., Long Island City, 718-204-7088 â&#x20AC;¢noguchi.org

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Linda Baron-Katz brings a message of hope for those in the Orthodox community living with a mental illness

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A former Great Neck couple, who lived an unassuming life, left a $400-million legacy gift to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Lottie Marcus died last December at age 99, just two months short of her 100th birthday, while Howard died in 2014 at age 104.

They were retired in San Diego.

Their gift is believed to be the largest bequest on behalf of an Israeli university and may be the largest donation ever made to beneďŹ t any institution in the State of Israel.

The funds will be used to establish a permanent endowment in support of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, which will yield endowment assets that more than double the size of the current University endowment. A substantial portion is earmarked for BGUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world-renowned work in water research at the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading water institute. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Both Howard and Lottie lost nearly all members of their German-Jewish families â&#x20AC;&#x201D; families that were annihilated by the Nazi Holocaust. Their legacy is a triumph over the forces of evil that very nearly erased them from the face of the earth more than 70 years

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and 1945 are the thousands of small memorials integrated into the life of modern Berlin. Throughout the city, and it is a big city, there are art installations and commemorative plaques and murals that drag the past into the present and make it a part of Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daily life.

Most of these were created in the past 20 or 30 years, as Germany came to terms with its past.

New generations have taken brave steps forward in acknowledging the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conďŹ&#x201A;icted history. They have brought the story of that time out of the shadows, forcing people who come and go to work and school to consider what took place in this city 70 years ago.

For example, at the busy Friedreichstrasse train station stands a sculpture of children, in remembrance of the thousands of Jewish children who were sent to England in the famous Kindertransports of 1938 to 1940.

In one pocket park there is a sculpture of an ordinary kitchen table and a toppled chair, evoking the sudden intrusion into normal life, as SS soldiers raided Jewish homes. In one neighborhood, there are recreated banners posting the Nuremberg Laws of 1935: Jews may not own businesses, may not work as doctors, may not attend university, must wear Stars of David, may not vote, may not travel, may not own pets, and the pets they have must

be killed. Today, ordinary Berliners live their lives with these banners fully visible.

And in the old Jewish neighborhoods where only a handful of Jews survive, there are small bronze steppingstones, or stolperstein, embedded in the sidewalks in front of many apartment houses. These tiny plates, 3.9 inches square, state the name of the former Jewish resident, the date he or she was deported and to which camp. Begun in 1992 by artist Gunter Demnig, the project now includes more than 55,000 steppingstones throughout European countries formerly occupied by the Nazis.

The Nazi reign was unique in its brutal efďŹ ciency. The meticulously organized plans to exterminate the Jews and â&#x20AC;&#x153;undesirablesâ&#x20AC;? of Europe were effective. Jewish citizens who felt as German as I feel American were driven from their homes and slaughtered.

Many of the large museums include areas called â&#x20AC;&#x153;voids,â&#x20AC;? deep dark spaces, or dead ends, an artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concept of what the annihilation of an entire people connotes. What happened here speaks to a horriďŹ c lapse of humanity and common decency â&#x20AC;&#x201D; another kind of void.

I wish everyone could visit Berlin. It is a thrilling city, with modern construction, provocative art and world-class museums. The streets are bustling, the people welcoming. But I

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hope visitors would take a moment to notice the memorial plaques on the sidewalks in front of many residential buildings throughout the city.

Six million is an incomprehensible number.

So, consider just one. A small bronze steppingstone in the entranceway to one apartment in the former Jewish neighborhood of Charlottenberg reads (translated): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here lived Hans Jacobson, born 1910, deported 1943, murdered in Auschwitz.â&#x20AC;?

To date, thousands of stolperstein have been installed in Berlin. The artist says they are there not so much to say that the person died, but that he or she lived.

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walked up to the concierge at my hotel and asked him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can you direct me to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe?â&#x20AC;?

He said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh yes, madam, let me show you on the map. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a short walk from here.â&#x20AC;? As if I were inquiring about a stroll to a cafĂŠ.

It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until I walked out into the street that I realize how bizarre the exchange was, how strange my inquiry and how banal his reply. We were talking about a memorial site in Berlin that stands in remembrance to the six million Jews who were killed by the Nazis.

My week in Berlin has been an education and an immersion in history, illuminating and disturbing. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect to feel the particular power of being here, in the place where so many suffered and died. In our home communities, most of us have heard survivors bear witness, seen photos of the synagogues torched on Kristallnacht and viewed the awful memorabilia of the war in Germany. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all read our share of histories and novels about the Nazi era. We are not uneducated about the Holocaust. Still, being here is different.

Three days ago, when I stood at the former Gestapo headquarters in the center of Berlin, now the Topography of Terror Exhibit, I felt the chill of those dark years. I realized that only accidents of time and place put my family in a new, safe country, out of harmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way.

It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even the prominent exhibits and museums that focus oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention so acutely. What speak to the depth and breath of the evil perpetrated by the Nazis between 1933

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t is now 40 years since the famous Entebbe raid to liberate the hostages from the terrorists of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. This week’s essay is timed to the yahrtzeit date, the 6th day of Tammuz, this year, the 12th of July 2016.

In 1976, the civil date was July 4th, the Bi-Centennial, the 200th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. It was a day celebrated by all Americans with a gusto that I had never witnessed before, or since.

However, that joy was to turn to absolute terror with the Entebbe hijacking.

Occupying center stage to that event was the brave yet sad role played by Jonathan “Yoni” Netanyahu, commander of the rescue force, who was to be the only Israeli military fatality that day. This essay is dedicated to his memory, and will center on an introductory essay by the great American writer, Herman Wouk, to the book, “The Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu” (Gefen Publishing House, 2001, introduction, 1980). Also, his younger brother, Dr. Iddo Netanyahu, authored the authoritative work, “Yoni’s Last Battle: The Rescue at Entebbe, 1976” (Gefen Publishing, 2013) that should be required reading at this time. This narrative is based on interviews with almost every member of the operation. It is an accurate and dispassionate portrayal of an older brother, a lasting tribute that deserves an honored place upon your bookshelf.

I will leave it to the reader to familiarize him

or herself to the facts and details of this tragedy, and thus I will devote the bulk of this essay to Wouk’s heartfelt words. Given current ongoing events, Entebbe must resonate on our minds and memory, and serve as both an inspiration and a source of grief for what, by now, many thousands experience every year, worldwide.

Please read on and learn from Herman Wouk’s pen and mind: “Strange, slender, but strong threads tie me to this young soldier, whom I never met, and never heard of until he died in the rescue mission, now called in Israel, ‘Operation Jonathan.’ His grandfather and mine, it turns out, both studied the Talmud at the great Volozhin Yeshiva in Lithuania. He and I were both born in America. My parents, like his, were Zionists.

But his father and mother returned to Palestine, where they had lived as youngsters, to raise their children; the father is a distinguished historian, the mother read for the bar in London, and both have been serious workers in the Zionist movement. For my parents America was the land of present promise, Zion a dream. I grew up on the streets of New York; Jonathan, in the pleasant green byways of Jerusalem. When the State of Israel was created in 1948, I was thirtythree and my first-born son, Abe, was two years old. Jonathan was then Abe’s age.

“My wife and I lost Abe in a tragic and senseless accident, a month or so before his fifth birthday. The Netanyahus lost Jonathan shortly after his 30th birthday. If parents are fated to mourn a son, and if one can envy such bitter bereavement, my wife and I can envy the Netanyahus.

Their son died for his people and for all men, in the full flush of manhood, doing a famous deed.

In his death he helped save more than a 100 lives, brought glory to Israel, and gave the world a blaze of hope in a very dark time.

“I may say that he sanctified the name of G-d. For our son, we have only the tears and the scar of a senseless waste. By the power of this book, the two sons seem to blend in my mind and heart; and in mourning Lieut. Col. Netanyahu I mourn Abe, and what might have been. …

In Jonathan’s death there is the redeeming dawn of Israel. He could fight, and he fought.”

Further on in his essay, this gifted writer wrote the following that, in hindsight, should still resonate in the ongoing tragedies that envelop us to this day. Written in 1980, Wouk makes the following telling observations: “I write this preface at a time of national sorrow and self-doubt in our own country.

Iranian terrorists, with the criminal connivance of their government, have held American hostages for half a year. An Entebbe-like attempt at their rescue has failed. By the time these words see the light, may those hostages

by G-d’s grace, be home safe! I believe that, as there are a 100 Yonis in tiny Israel, there are in America a thousand Yonis.”

In reading Wouk’s conclusion, please remember that this was written in 1980, just prior to the election of Ronald Reagan to the American presidency.

“If the United States of America is not another preposterous historical anomaly — the last gasp on earth of the dream of freedom, in a world collapsing into authoritarianism or

benighted chaos; if America is still the great beacon in dense gloom, the promise to the hundreds of millions of the oppressed that liberty exists, that it is the shinning future, that they can throw off their tyrants, and learn freedom and cease learning war — then we too, like Israel, need our Yonis to stand guard in the night.”

I conclude with the following from Herman Wouk of the actions, letters and writings of Yoni found in these books: “Fortuitous, not a deliberately created work of art, that succeeds in exposing an intimate dimension of a remarkable young man. And of the Entebbe operation itself, its fame does not dim … in the continuing struggle of civilized men against the mounting global crime of terrorism.”

And I repeat once again, “Entebbe shines, a beacon in a dense gloom.”

May the sacred memory of Yonis and all the others who sacrifice themselves for our freedom serve as a blessing to all for all time, Amen.”

To contact Alan Gerber, write to Columnist@ TheJewishStar.com

Entebbe inspires fulfillment of ‘social obligations’

By Deborah Danan, JNS.org Forty years have passed and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Maj. Gen. (res.) Doron Almog’s memories of Operation Entebbe (also referred to as Operation Yonatan or Operation Thunderbolt) run the gamut. Perhaps it’s from something as innocuous as chewing a piece of gum or the pain of witnessing his friend, Yoni Netanyahu—the hero after whom the successful military counter-terrorism hostage rescue mission is named—die.

Almog recalls sitting on the plane enroute from Ben Gurion Airport to save the hostages in Entebbe, Uganda, alongside his subordinates, the IDF special forces unit he commanded, and a Mercedes limousine that had been sprayed black to look like the one that former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin traveled in.

The plan was to fake Amin’s return to Entebbe from a diplomatic trip in order to infiltrate the airport terminals and free the 106 people being held hostage there. But there was one problem: The airborne limo was leaking gas.

“So we blocked the hole with chewing gum,” Almog said.

Almog describes the July 4, 1976, hostagerescue mission as being a “one-of-a-kind military operation.”

“The mission showed the commitment, determination, and dedication of the State of Israel for any Jew, anywhere in the world, whose life is in danger. This is what has characterized the Jewish people all through their history—that we are all responsible for one another,” he said.

Almog took that lesson from Entebbe and turned it into his lifelong calling. Partnering with Jewish National Fund (JNF), in 2003, Almog established Aleh Negev-Nahalat Eran, a sprawling rehabilitative village for people with severe physical and cognitive disabilities.

‘abba’ (father), and yet he was the greatest teacher in my life,” Almog said.

In April 2016, Almog was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize in recognition of his contributions to society. The prize, Almog said at the ceremony, belongs to Eran for giving him the chance to change the lives of society’s weakest members for the better.

3ULPH 0LQLVWHU %HQMDPLQ 1HWDQ\DKX VSHDNV DW D FHUHPRQ\ PDUNLQJ Sorin Hershko is WKH WK DQQLYHUVDU\ RI 2SHUDWLRQ (QWHEEH Haim Zach/GPO another hero of the Entebbe operation. SeAleh Negev is home to 220 residents and verely wounded during the mission, Hershko provides services to 12,000 outpatients an- was left paralyzed and confined to a wheelnually. The 25-acre village empowers people chair. Yet he never gave up. with severe disabilities—who may have oth“It’s true there are many things I can no erwise spent their lives confined in institu- longer do, but there are many more that I can tions or hospitals—to interact with the outside and I choose to concentrate on those,” he said. world and live with dignity.

In Hershko’s view, Entebbe taught the Almog calls Aleh Negev a “social Entebbe.” world the lesson to never give up in the face “The severely disabled, the elderly, the of evil. weakest members of our society—they are also “We gave a model example to the world the hostages of our society,” he said. “Entebbe that you can fight terrorism and beat it and is a moral imperative for the Jewish people, you don’t need to surrender,” he said, adding and an example for how to fulfill our social that the daring operation completely changed obligations and not just our military duties.” the way the world viewed the tiny Jewish Almog fathered his own “hostage of soci- state. ety,” Eran, who was born with brain damage.

But even though Hershko maintains that Shortly after Aleh Negev was founded, his son the IDF is a far better army today than it was died at age 23. Following Eran’s death, the vil- in 1976, he is doubtful that a similar operation lage was renamed Aleh Negev-Nahalat Eran in would be successful now. his memory.

“We had the element of surprise that is “He wore diapers, never once said the word missing from today’s world,” he said. “No one

expected us to get there. The terrorists in Entebbe thought they were in a hotel, that nothing could touch them.”

En route to Entebbe, Hershko settled down before the action to catch some sleep, using the roof of the Mercedes as a makeshift bed.

He remembers leaning over and seeing the operation’s commander, Yoni Netanyahu, looking jarringly relaxed while reading an Englishlanguage book.

“I was stunned by his sense of calm,” he recalled. “I couldn’t believe he could just sit back and read a book while the atmosphere was so tense. He was an impressive and extraordinary personality.”

Like Almog, Hershko took his experiences from Entebbe and melded them into his life’s purpose. In the mid-1990s, Hershko joined the team that founded Lotem-Making Nature Accessible, a non-profit with the mission of making nature and trails accessible for 30,000 Israeli adults and children with physical and mental disabilities.

A JNF partner organization, Lotem provides a host of nature activities, accessible hikes, and outdoor workshops that afford participants the chance to experience nature’s rehabilitative powers.

“I wanted to give a better quality of life to children in the same situation as me. So many of them can’t do something simple, like going out and getting to know nature,” he said.

When asked if he has a message for the world, Hershko is modestly dismissive.

“I don’t feel big enough to give messages to the world or even to Israel,” he said. “I can’t tell other people how to live their lives. I can only say that in retrospect, I think I chose the best way for me to get over my own challenges. Today, I am very proud of the choices I made and I have tremendous satisfaction from what I do.”

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Continued from page 14 endary investor, Benjamin Graham. Lottie worked as the head of the secretarial pool at a major Wall Street firm. She met Graham through the Wall Street Ski Club in the 1930s.

They became lifelong friends and, in the early 1960s, Graham told Howard and Lottie about a student of his at Columbia Business School, a young man he thought a prodigy.

He invited that student, Warren Buffett, to meet with Howard and Lottie and they put most of their nest egg in Buffett’s new partnership, which later became Berkshire Hathaway. With annual compounding that investment grew.

Warren Buffett says, “I met Howard and Lottie more than 50 years ago — through a mutual friend, my lifetime hero Ben Graham.

We hit it off and they joined my investment partnership. Knowing them, it comes as no surprise that they elected to use their financial success to enhance the lives of thousands of Israeli young people.”

The Marcuses became involved with BGU in 1997 after meeting Philip Gomperts, AABGU’s Southwest Regional Director. They became fascinated by the University’s work in desalination and desert farming, among other areas. “They believed that peace could come to the Middle East if water scarcity could be addressed,” Gomperts explains.

But they were interested in Israel for other reasons as well.

“The Marcuses escaped Hitler’s Germany and lost their families,” says Gomperts. “They came to believe that if Germany – ‘the most civilized nation in the world’ – could descend to barbarity and to the mass murder of Jews,

it could happen anywhere. A strong and secure State of Israel, they concluded, would have saved their families and was essential for the future.”

Subsequently, the couple decided to give nearly all of their estate to BGU with a special emphasis on water research at the Zuckerberg Institute. Through their longstanding support of the Institute during their lifetimes, Lottie and Howard endowed student scholarships and provided visionary support for research initiatives that helped generate breakthroughs in water research, and made possible the Marcus Artificial Aquifer Laboratory.

“For the Marcuses, it was always about more than philanthropy; it was about people.

They believed in the work of the University because they believed in its presidents, first Avishay Braverman and then Rivka Carmi, and they were devoted to those with whom they became closely linked here in the U.S.,” says Doron Krakow, AABGU executive vice president.

“More than anything else, Howard and Lottie were like second parents to me. They were warm, giving, wonderful people and I miss them every single day,” says Gomperts.

In 2004, Lottie and Howard were awarded honorary doctoral degrees by BGU in recognition of their pioneering spirit, exceptional philanthropy and unstinting dedication to Israel and to Ben-Gurion University. The Marcus Family Campus in Beer-Sheva, named for them in 2005, reflects their magnanimous commitment to the University and to the fulfillment of David Ben-Gurion’s vision to build a world-class institution of education and research in the Negev desert.

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tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incredible what time can do to a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s maturation process, in how one deals with adversity. Oh, and how having a strategy can help a person cope with the curveballs of life.

Of course, not having a strategy is what separates the proverbial â&#x20AC;&#x153;men from the boysâ&#x20AC;? in seeing how people deal with life-challenges â&#x20AC;&#x153;in the moment, when a plan canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be put into effect because no plan exists.

In Bamidbar 20, we see a situation that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen before: the people complain because they have no water to drink. In the past, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen that Mosheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response to this kind of complaining has spanned from crying out to G-d (Shmot 15:25) to getting into a ďŹ ght with the people (Shmot 17:2) to thinking he was going to be killed (17:4).

And after the infamous rock incident in this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parsha Chukat, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see Moshe ignore the people completely (21:5-6) when they complain about lack of water again.

So what is the strategy that is so helpful to Moshe in Bamidbar 20? The strategy is what we saw in two places in last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Torah portion. The ďŹ rst was in 17:3-5 when Elazar was instructed to hammer out the copper ďŹ re pans and attach them to the altar

â&#x20AC;&#x153;as a sign and remembranceâ&#x20AC;? to people who are not Kohanim not to encroach into places they do not belong. The second was Aharonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blossomed staff that was to be placed near the Ark to serve as a testimony to those who rebel.

We do not see challenges to Aharonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in the Torah, nor do we see challenges to Mosheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role on par with Korachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rebellion. But we do see similar affronts to Mosheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leadership when there is no water. And here, unlike at the last episode in Shmot 17, we watch as the water dispute does not lead to a ďŹ ght between Moshe and the people.

Because instead of taking the complain personally, as he did in the past, Moshe knows all he needs to do is produce Aharonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blossomed staff, the symbol that is meant to put down insurrection and stop rebellion, and the people will remember what happened with Korach, and they will back down. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly what happened. G-d tells Moshe to take out the staff, which turns out to be the one that was â&#x20AC;&#x153;before G-d as G-d had commanded him.â&#x20AC;? (20:9) And the strategy would have worked, had Moshe not felt the need to say what he said in Shmot 20:10. Because all that was needed

was the symbol â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the people would have looked, seen the staff, and remembered to back down.

So what went wrong here? oshe followed G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s instruction, but he let his emotions get the better of him. Even the best-laid strategies canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cover for every contingency plan.

One major difference here is that while the people fought with Moshe in Shmot, it is clear here that they are ďŹ ghting with G-d (20:13) (this may help us understand why the complaint in Chapter 21 goes in the direction it goes, with the snakes unleashing G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrath against complainers).

There is no question that had Moshe followed the plan of bringing the staff out and showing it, waiting for the people to process what they were to glean from seeing it, this story would have panned out differently. But when Moshe chastised the people as well, with all the implications his words included, his fate was somehow sealed.

We need to have plans for the challenges life will present, hopefully with the ability to anticipate the twists of any circumstance.

People who have aging parents, or parents with declining health need to have a plan.

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Even the most exceptional human beings have weak spots. Moshe did not anticipate his weak points.

While it is not easy to decide where a person wants to be buried, making such decisions (and paying for them in advance) eases a tremendous burden off of loved ones. What happens in the case of an unanticipated accident â&#x20AC;&#x201C; where do the children go? How are they to be raised? Who will take responsibility?

Can each spouse manage alone â&#x20AC;&#x201C; because inevitably one person will be widowed? Is there a plan for how to cope, how to deal with the loneliness? Will children be involved in keeping the widowed parent occupied and looked after when that time comes?

Part of the problem Moshe and Aharon faced in this story is that seemed unprepared for the death of their sister. Remember that she died immediately before this story, and Alshikh notes the devastation they were dealing with at the time that the people came to complain about lack of water.

Even the most exceptional human beings have weak spots. Mosheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planning did not anticipate his weak points â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the loneliness that came from the loss of his sister, the inability to let G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategy of showing the staff work itself out, and the inability to restrain himself from giving a rebuke at the same time as he was giving water to the people.

May our lot be to create strategies for challenging times and to implement them in the most effective ways.

To contact Rabbi Billet, write to Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

Chukat and Red Heifer: Mystery of the mitzvot RABBI DAVID ETENGOFF

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rotagoras, the ďŹ fth century Greek philosopher, boldly proclaimed: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man is the measure of all things.â&#x20AC;? This idea has been championed by many Renaissance, Age of Reason, and Enlightenment writers and thinkers and their followers until our present moment. In their view, manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intellect and inherent abilities are limitless, and nothing can defy his relentless march toward greater progress and unbounded success. In stark contrast, Judaism repudiates this notion in unequivocal terms and declares, â&#x20AC;&#x153;G-d, not man, is the measure of all things and man is but his servant.â&#x20AC;?

The mitzvah of the Parah Adumah (Red Heifer) is found at the beginning of our parasha. It is the greatest example of manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inability to truly grasp the inherent rationale of Hashemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commandments.

The purpose of this precept is to purify an individual who has become tamei (ritually impure) due to contact with a corpse. Yet, it is intrinsically paradoxical and mystifying, since during the process of its fulďŹ llment, it ritually puriďŹ es the impure, while simultaneously rendering impure the ritually pure.

Sefer Melachim I: 3:5-12 teaches us that Shlomo Hamelech was the wisest man who ever lived. He received the greatest daâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;at (native intelligence) from Hashem. Moreover, with G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help and love, he acquired the most profound binah (insight into the interrelationship of things) that any man could ever achieve.

Yet, even though King Solomon was blessed with the most prodigious intellect in history, he was nonetheless stymied by the Red Heiferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seemingly irreconcilable contradictions. Little wonder, then, that he

plaintively and poignantly declared: â&#x20AC;&#x153;All this I tested with wisdom; I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I will become wise,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; but it was far from me.â&#x20AC;? (Sefer Kohelet 7:23; this and all Bible translations, The Judaica Press Complete Tanach) According to a variety of Midrashim, the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;? in our verse speciďŹ cally refers to the mysterious and mystical Parah Adumah, whose meaning proved continuously elusive to the greatest mind in history.

Rabbi Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik zatzal is known to posterity as the Beit Halevi after the name of his groundâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;breaking work of Torah analysis.

In his commentary on Sefer Shemot 31, he presents an original and incisive exposition of the Parah Adumah.

He notes that the phrase, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the statute of the Torah (zot chukat haTorah) that the L-rd commanded, saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Speak to the children of Israel and have them take for you a perfectly red unblemished cowâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? is very unusual, since the commandment of the Red Heifer is singled out as being the â&#x20AC;&#x153;statute of the Torah.â&#x20AC;?

The Beit Halevi therefore asks: â&#x20AC;&#x153;At face value, the Parah Adumah is simply one of the [613] mitzvot of the Torah. Why, therefore, is it given the unusual label of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;statute of the Torah?â&#x20AC;? His answer expresses some of his fundamental beliefs regarding the our relationship to the Commandments: â&#x20AC;&#x153;For it is precisely from the Parah Adumah that it is revealed to man that he, in reality, does not know anything regarding [the true meaning inherent] in any mitzvah of the Torah, since, [based upon this verse,] the entire Torah is a statute (chukah) [that deďŹ es our understanding]. And the explana-

tion of this concept is the following, behold all of the Commandments are inextricably attached to, and interwoven with, one another.

Moreover, each one depends upon the other â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just as we ďŹ nd in reference to lowly man who has 248 limbs and 365 sinews â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all of whom are attached one to another, and all of whom depend upon one another. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the case, as well, regarding the mitzvot wherein the 248 Positive Commandments and the 365 Negative Commandments are attached to one another and form one unit.

[As a result,] it is impossible to comprehend even one of the mitzvot without understanding all of them. Therefore, when we encounter the Parah Adumah and we do not understand its underlying principle â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it is clear that we really know nothing at all [regarding the mitzvot].â&#x20AC;? iven the aforementioned, the Red Heifer emerges as a protection against manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural hubris and potential intellectual arrogance: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Parah Adumah is, therefore, a fence and a protective measure for man who utilizes his intellect (hamitbonane bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sichlo) to examine the reasons inherent in the Commandments; to prevent him from erring in their regard if he were to follow his [mere] intellect and thereby burst forth [against the mitzvot] and declare: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am the one who sees to know their rationale!â&#x20AC;? In this manner, one would be able to err and add or subtract [from them]. â&#x20AC;&#x153; In the Beit Haleviâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s view, there is only one way to demonstrate loyalty to, and acceptance of, the Commandments: â&#x20AC;&#x153;One must perform all of the mitzvot, with all of their speciďŹ c details, according to what we have received from our Rabbis according

The Red Heifer emerges as a protection against manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural hubris and potential intellectual arrogance.

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to the overarching rules of the Torah and the established Halacha without any deviation whatsoever from the words of the Shulchan Aruch. This is the case since he himself recognizes that he does not comprehend the depth of these mattersâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? (All translations and emphasis my own) In sum, the Parah Adumah may be viewed as the mitzvah par excellence that teaches us a great deal about all other mitzvot. It reminds us, perhaps more than any other commandment, that G-d is the measure of all things With the Almightyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help, may we be zocheh (merit) to serve Him with humility, integrity, and heartfelt devotion as we strive to fulďŹ ll His majestic and, on occasion, mysterious mitzvot. Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;chane yihi ratzon.

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Ingredients for ďŹ lling 1 large orange 5 oz. dried Mission ďŹ gs 1/2 c. walnuts 1/4 c. raisins 1/4 c. honey 1-1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon 1 large egg Coarse sugar crystals Directions Divide dough into 3 pieces. Flatten each piece into a disk; wrap each in plastic wrap.

Refrigerate dough at least 2 hours or overnight, until ďŹ rm enough to roll. Grate 1/2 teaspoon peel and squeeze 3 tablespoons juice from an orange. In a food processor combine orange peel and juice, ďŹ gs, walnuts, raisins, honey, and cinnamon. Pulse until mixture is well blended but still has a coarse texture.

Cover and set aside until ready to use.

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With spatula, carefully place cookies, 1 inch apart, on ungreased large cookie sheet.

Spoon 1 level measuring teaspoon ďŹ g ďŹ lling onto center of each cookie. Fold each cookie in half over ďŹ lling; brush with egg. Sprinkle with sugar crystals if you like. (If dough becomes too soft too work with at any time, place in freezer 10 to 15 minutes to ďŹ rm up.)

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ike millions of others, I was gripped by Elie Wiesel and felt a connection to him.

My dream was to walk with Elie Wiesel, and this year I tried to arrange meeting with him. He was too ill; it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t to be.

A part of me always dreaded the moment when â&#x20AC;&#x153;the conscience of the worldâ&#x20AC;? would be called from this world. He shared his journeys with us â&#x20AC;&#x201D; his pain and sorrow, his loneliness and isolation from the G-d with Whom he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop quarreling and dialoguing, his literary beggars and legends, mystics and misďŹ ts, his profound wisdom in understanding Biblical personalities, his endless niggunim and love of chassidut.

What I got from Elie Wiesel was that his quarrel with G-d couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t part him from his cherished Yiddishkeit. Molded by the smokestacks of Auschwitz, his formative years were the Holocaust years. A young, impressionable teen ripped from his shtetl life, ripped from his sister and parents, his soul wounded forever. Elie and the Holocaust would never be separated.

His struck me as a modern day prophet â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like Jeremiah, the prophet of the catastrophic destruction. The distraught prophet who, in Wieselâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s words (quoting from a midrash on the damning words, â&#x20AC;&#x153;haragta vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;lo chamalta,â&#x20AC;? daring to implicate G-d â&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x153;the only one who had foreseen the catastrophe, lived the catastrophe, and remembered the catastrophe, and wrote about it â&#x20AC;Ś Jeremiah who was forever torn between G-d and Israel â&#x20AC;Ś an outsider â&#x20AC;Ś in short, a survivor â&#x20AC;Ś of all the prophets, he alone predicted the catastrophe, experienced it, and lived to tell the tale!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Forever torn,â&#x20AC;? in his words, this was Elie Wiesel. alf a century after the searing indictment of G-d in his earlier writings, he penned an article in the New York Times, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Prayer for the Days of Awe,â&#x20AC;? which begins, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Master of the Universe, let us make up. It is

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time. â&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x153;Does this mean that the wounds in their [survivorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;] soul have healed? They will never heal.

As long as a spark of the ďŹ&#x201A;ames of Auschwitz and Treblinka glows in their memory, so long will my joy be incomplete. â&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x153;In my testimony I have written harsh words, burning words about Your role in our tragedy. I would not repeat them today. But I felt them then. â&#x20AC;Ś In my childhood, I did not expect much from human beings.

But I expected everything from You.â&#x20AC;?

You can almost hear Abraham, Moses, Habakkuk and other voices from the past emerge in his. Ultimately, what marked Elie Wieselâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life was an elusive question mark.

He taught that the simple, pat answer is not the path, that it is presumptuous and, regardless, incomplete. He taught that the power of some, if not many, questions lie in the unanswered questions themselves.

Now we can imagine that Elie Wiesel is stirring things up in the heavens. Elie Wiesel and G-d, so to speak, burning the midnight oil. We will not be privy to these new conversations in the continuum of Elieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quarrel with G-d. But we can only imagine.

In one of Wieselâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essays about Biblical Joseph, he writes: â&#x20AC;&#x153;One recognizes the value of a text by the weight of its silence. Here the silence exists and it weighs heavily. First, there is Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s astounding silence during the brutal scene at Nablus. All the brothers [except Benjamin] participated in it in one way or another. One imagines their discussions, one sees them hurling him into the snake pit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They wanted to kill him; they were about to kill him. And Joseph was silent. Face-to-face with his brothers â&#x20AC;Ś who now have turned against him â&#x20AC;Ś looking into their murderous eyes, he became mute â&#x20AC;Ś at the most critical moment of his life he let them deliberate, decide his fate, without uttering a word. Rabbinical tradition stresses that he began to weep, to

plead for mercy only when his brothers prepared to sell him into bondage. â&#x20AC;Ś More striking still is Jacobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s silence. â&#x20AC;Ś He lived outside language, beyond hope. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bathed in silence and penetrated by it, he was distant and inaccessible. He seemed to have cut his ties with the world and its creator.

For, on another level, there was also the silence from above. G-d no longer spoke to Jacob and Jacob no longer addressed himself to G-d. The break was total.â&#x20AC;? or 10 years after the war, Elie Wiesel took his own vow of silence. Only then did he begin publishing about the Holocaust, and his voice came crashing through. He became a voice for millions of survivors and for all of the voiceless and vulnerable in the world.

As he famously said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.â&#x20AC;?

As in the above passage, he brought his unique survivor voice in peeling away layers of Torah wisdom, too. He saw the world of text through the prism of his own catastrophe, a layer of depth only the likes of his depth of emotion could bring.

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Of course, Elie Wiesel raised his voice on behalf of Israel, on behalf of Jerusalem: â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me, the Jew that I am, Jerusalem is above politics. â&#x20AC;Ś Its presence in Jewish history is overwhelming â&#x20AC;Ś it belongs to the Jewish People and is much more than a city, it is what binds one Jewish person to another in a way that is hard to explain. When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the ďŹ rst time, it is not the ďŹ rst time; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a homecoming. The ďŹ rst song I heard was my motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lullaby about and for Jerusalem, its sadness and its joy are part of our collective memory.â&#x20AC;?

But Elie Wieselâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice was not always a somber one. His humor would shine through, too, such as in 2013 when he was presented with the World Jewish Congressâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Theodor Herzl Award. Accepting it, he said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were two great men in Europe at that time, Herzl and Freud. Luckily they never met. Just imagine Herzl knocking on the door of Freud: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Doctor, I had a dream,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and Freud would have responded with: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sit down. Tell me about your dreamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.â&#x20AC;?

He was a beacon of our time, a beacon of our people, a beacon of humanity.

In Elie Weiselâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own exquisite words, heard through the parting words of Elijah to his disciple Elisha as Elijah ascends heavenward: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you see me go away, if you know how to look, how to participate in all events, if you know how to face pain and despair and go beyond them, and if later you will be capable of telling about them, your wish shall be granted: you will have my powers and yours as well.

And you will need them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am your master but you are the survivor. â&#x20AC;Ś You will tell people what you have been, what you have lived and what I have seen and endured. â&#x20AC;Ś And yet, the ďŹ re that will carry me away will not stay with me; it will stay with you. Forever.â&#x20AC;?

Elie Wiesel, zichrono livracha.

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Rwanda and the Holocaust: Is analogy valid?

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t a memorial in Rwanda to the victims of the 1994 genocide, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week wrote in the visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; book that he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;reminded of the haunting similarities to the genocide of our own people.â&#x20AC;?

Certainly all instances of genocide have some characteristics in common. But perhaps the most compelling analogy between the Holocaust and the Rwandan slaughter concerns the international communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apathetic response to the news of those genocides.

During the Holocaust, news of the Germansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mass killing of the Jews was slow to reach the Free World, but Allied leaders still found out in plenty of time to rescue some of those who were targeted. The Allies publicly conďŹ rmed in December 1942 that the mass murder was underway; yet the killing continued through the spring of 1945.

In the case of Rwanda, the news arrived quickly.

In April 1994, machete-wielding militias of the Hutu tribe in Rwanda began carrying out the slaughter of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ethnic minority, the Tutsis. Within three days, the New York Times (in a front-page story) cited Red Cross eyewitnesses reporting that â&#x20AC;&#x153;tens of thousandsâ&#x20AC;? had already been murdered, with

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corpses piled â&#x20AC;&#x153;in the houses, in the streets, everywhere.â&#x20AC;? As early as April 23, a Times editorial stated, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What looks very much like genocide has been taking place in Rwanda.â&#x20AC;?

The Bill Clinton administration received detailed intelligence about the mass killings from its diplomats on the scene as well as other sources. But the president did not see any compelling reason to intervene.

The U.S. wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t willing even to help maintain the United Nations peacekeeping force

in Rwanda. Ten peacekeepers were murdered during the ďŹ rst days of the slaughter, and some of the sponsoring-nations wanted to cut and run. On April 12, 1994, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Madeleine Albright, sent a cable to the State Department, urging the U.S. to advocate a withdrawal of all the peacekeepers except for â&#x20AC;&#x153;a skeletal staff.â&#x20AC;?

There was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;window of opportunityâ&#x20AC;? for U.N. forces to escape, Albright emphasized.

But there would be no escape for the Tutsis.

Later, in her autobiography and in media interviews, Albright blamed the State Department and the National Security Council for urging the withdrawal of the U.N. forces from Rwanda. She also falsely claimed that â&#x20AC;&#x153;we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know about the massive aspect [of the killings]â&#x20AC;? at the time of the discussion about withdrawing. But recently released cables revealed the truth about her pivotal role.

Tragically, Secretary of State Warren Christopher followed Albrightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s advice. He threw his support behind the withdrawal proposal, and the U.N. Security Council voted to pull out almost 90 percent of the 2,548 peacekeepers. During the next three months, Hutu death squads slaughtered some 800,00 Tutsis. America watched in silence. e know about some of the behind-thescenes discussions within the Clinton administration at the time, thanks to Samantha Power (who today serves as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations). In her Pulitzer Prize-winning 2002 book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Problem from Hell,â&#x20AC;? Power cited internal memos showing the State Department was

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;worriedâ&#x20AC;? that publicly acknowledging the Rwanda genocide â&#x20AC;&#x153;could commit [the U.S.] to actually â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;do something.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Susan Rice, who today is President Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national security adviser, also ďŹ gured prominently in those 1994 discussions.

At the time of the genocide, Rice was director of Africa affairs for the National Security Council. According to Power, Rice remarked to her colleagues, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we use the word â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;genocideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November [Congressional] elections?â&#x20AC;?

The Allies could not have saved every Jew from the Holocaust. The Clinton administration could not have rescued every Tutsi. But just because you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t save everybody doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that you shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t save anybody. The problem, in both cases, was not ignorance.

Nor was the problem an inability to reach the victims or interrupt the killing. The problem was moral blindness: the refusal to recognize our humanitarian obligation to intervene against genocide, and the willingness to put narrow political considerations above moral responsibilities.

In this sense, Netanyahu was correct. The similarities between then and now are indeed â&#x20AC;&#x153;haunting.â&#x20AC;? And they should continue to haunt us, until the day our government ďŹ nally resolves to undertake a meaningful response to genocide.

Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and author of 16 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. Distributed by JNS.org

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Continued from page 1 “We reject the false notion that Israel is an occupier,” the platform reads. “Support for Israel is an expression of Americanism, and it is the responsibility of our government to advance policies that reflect Americans’ strong desire for a relationship with no daylight between America and Israel.”

It also recognizes that the “BDS movement is anti-Semitic in nature and seeks to destroy Israel” and calls for federal legislation “to thwart actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with Israel, or persons or entities doing business in Israel or in Israeli-controlled territories, in a discriminatory manner.”

In introducing his proposal, Clemmons made an emotional speech in which he said that “the platform we present today places our support squarely behind Israel’s sovereign right to decide her own future with G-d’s help. It does not foreclose any possible solution to the conflicts Israel faces, including the two-state proposal. Instead it affirms that we will be here to support our greatest ally in solving her challenges as she sees fit in her own superior judgment.”

Clemmons continued: “Today we send a clear message to the tens of millions of proIsrael Republican voters who must see that our party stands on faith and principle — our support for Israel’s wellbeing is of paramount concern, and will not be sold out or dumbed down for the sake of petty interests ever again.”

Political consultant and pro-Israel activist Jeff Ballabon, who helped write the new platform, told The Jewish Star that “this is a huge victory and an historic moment for the U.S.-Israel relationship.”

“A major party has finally rejected the lie that Israel is an occupier and has lifted the brutal ultimatum that conditions America’s support for Israel on the creation of a terror state in Judea and Samaria. G-d Bless America,” Ballabon said.

This is the full text of the Republican Party platform position on Israel: Like the United States of America, the modern state of Israel is a country born from the aspiration for freedom, and standing out among the nations as a beacon of democracy and humanity. Beyond our mutual strategic interests, Israel is likewise an exceptional country that shares our most essential values. It is the only country in the Middle East where freedom of speech and freedom of religion are found.

Therefore, support for Israel is an expression of Americanism, and it is the responsibility of our government to advance policies that reflect Americans’ strong desire for a relationship with no daylight between America and Israel. We recognize Jerusalem as the eternal and indivisible capital of the Jewish state, and call for the American embassy to be moved there in fulfillment of U.S. law.

We reaffirm America’s commitment to Israel’s security and will ensure that Israel maintains a qualitative military edge over any and all adversaries. We support Israel’s right and obligation to defend itself against terror attacks upon its people, and against alternative forms of warfare being waged upon it legally, economically, culturally and otherwise.

We reject the false notion that Israel is an occupier, and specifically recognize that the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement is anti-Semitic in nature and seeks to destroy Israel. Therefore, we call for effective legis-

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By Jeff Dunetz, Jewish Star columnist Ater the Democratic Party platform was announced in 2012, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) tried to get the Republicans to weaken the pro-Israel language in the Republican platform so one party would not appear more pro-Israel than the other, the Washington Free Beacon reported last week.

Attorney, political consultant and pro-Israel activist Jeff Ballabon, with whom I collaborated on the Coordinating Council on Jerusalem, worked closely with delegates involved in the 2012 GOP platform process. He confirmed to me the accuracy of the Free Beacon story.

He added that AIPAC was the unnamed “Jewish groups” he wrote about in a February 2015 Washington Times article: “In 2012, Jewish groups pushed to have long-established language on Jerusalem as Israel’s capital reinstated in the Democratic platform: language that was loudly booed and jeered by the delegates live on camera when it was brought to a vote at the Convention.”

“Less well known is the work those same groups did on the Republican side in 2012.

There, a number of Republican delegates tried — three times —- to change the GOP platform from supporting only the ‘Two-State Solution’ to more unambiguous and unconditional support for Israel’s pursuit of peace. This is more in line with the sentiments of the Republican base and undeniably more helpful to Israel. Unfortunately, the GOP instead caved to lobbying from ‘pro-Israel’ groups who did not want evidence of the partisan schism. Sorry, Israel.”

lation to thwart actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with Israel, or persons or entities doing business in Israel or in Israeli-controlled territories, in a discriminatory manner.

The U.S. seeks to assist in the establishment of comprehensive and lasting peace in the Middle East, to be negotiated among those living in the region. We oppose any

measures intended to impose an agreement or to dictate borders or other terms, and call for the immediate termination of all U.S. funding of any entity that attempts to do so.

Our party is proud to stand with Israel now and always.

Jeff Dunetz’s column this week, on page 6, deals with the pending Democratic Party platform positions on Israel.

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