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Eikev • August 3, 2018 • 23 Av, 5778 • Torah columns pages 18 –19 • Luach page 18 • Vol 17, No 30

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Trump pivots on Iran Will meet with ‘no preconditions’

By Ron Kampeas, JTA President Donald Trump says he is ready to meet with Iran’s leaders anytime with no preconditions, a pivot from his administration’s policy of encouraging “soft” regime change in Tehran by isolating Iran’s ruling elites.

“No preconditions, no, they want

to meet I’ll meet, anytime they want,” Trump said Monday at a press availability with Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy.

Responding to a reporter who asked if he would meet with Iran’s leaders, Trump said, “It’s good for the country, See Trump on page 2

This Torah, inscribed with the phrase “Property of Cong. B’nai Jacob, Ottumwa, Iowa,” has found a new home in Paraguay.

Courtesy Sue Weinberg

Iowa Torah goes south

By Victor Wishna, JTA One family after another hurried through Erin Jones-Avni’s door, anxious for a glimpse of the new arrival.

“People just kept coming, and they’d make a beeline for the Torah,” she told JTA from her home in Asunción, Paraguay’s capital and largest city. “They were overcome with emotion.”

“To have the Torah here, it is amazing,” Gabriela Alonso said. “It is a new beginning.”

It is a new chapter in a story that started a century ago, a continent away. The inscription on the scroll is faded but legible: “Property of Cong. B’nai Jacob, Ottumwa, Iowa.”

How this Torah found its way from the plains of Iowa to the hills of Paraguay is a See Iowa Torah on page 16

Friedman visits home of victim David Friedman made a rare visit by a U.S. ambassador to Israel to the family of a terror victim in Judea and Samaria.

Friedman made the condolence call Monday during the weeklong shiva period to Yotam Ovadia’s widow and two children, ages 2 years and 7 months, in the Adam community north of Jerusalem.

Ovadia was stabbed to death Thursday night outSee Friedman on page 2

Ambassador David Friedman.

Pence ‘sickened’

by Nazi vandals Happy campers on Central HALB’s Avnet Country Day School kicked up the summer experiences of its sixth through eighth grade girls, delivering them to Escape the Room, Hershey Park, lunch at Coffee Bar on Central Avenue (pictured), an oh-so-sweet visit to Rita’s, Aladdin on Broadway, and Club Getaway.

Vice President Mike Pence said he was “sickened and appalled” by anti-Semitic graffiti spraypainted on the wall of a synagogue in his home state of Indiana.

“Sickened and appalled by the cowardly act of vandalism at Congregation Shaarey Tefilla; a beautiful synagogue in Carmel, Indiana where I have many good friends.

See Pence on page 2

Vice President Mike Pence.

LIers use tech in bid to muffle JFK’s airplanes

By Nakeem Grant, W. Hempstead Herald The frequency of jet noise from Kennedy and LaGuardia airports has increased in recent years, according to the advocacy group Plane Sense 4 Long Island. “We’ve always had planes. Nobody’s disputing that, but not to this extent,” said Jana Goldenberg, co-chairwoman of the organization. “And that is why we need to get the word out about Airnoise.”

Airnoise, founded by software engineer and former U.S. Air Force test pilot Chris McCann, is a handheld device activated by pressing what looks like a clicker. The button automatically locates the nearest aircraft and registers a complaint with the appropriate airport.

“It’s a godsend,” said Goldenberg, who moved from Roslyn to Jericho due to jet noise.

Goldenberg said that she and Plane Sense co-chairwoman Elaine Miller of Malverne have tried to find easier ways to file noise complaints than the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s website, where residents have to fill out a form or call the jet noise hotline. With Airnoise, residents can file complaints with the push of a button.

“Nobody wants to fill out forms and file complaints all day long,” Goldenberg said.

“We have a life, too.”

In addition, Airnoise tallies complaints from each individual, whereas the Port Authority gathers complaints per household.

Since McCann’s first customer in March 2017, Airnoise has logged over 339,000 complaints.

McCann, who lives in San Diego, said that

he started to notice jet noise problems in 2016. “I started looking into the situation and realized what was happening in terms of the FAA and NextGen, and I realized that people were unhappy with the additional noise that they were getting,” he said.

He was inspired to create the Airnoise button after he heard about software designer Nathan Pryor’s Amazon’s Dash button hack, which enabled him to make a $5 donation to the American Civil Liberties every time President Trump angered him.

“I thought that was pure genius, so I used that as the nucleus of my idea,” McCann said, about the concept of having a button. “As a former Air Force pilot and a software engiSee Noise on page 17

Trump...

Continued from page 1 good for them, good for us and good for the world.”

Trump maintained a tough line on Iran, again congratulating himself for pulling out of the 2015 nuclear deal, which traded sanctions relief for a rollback in Iran’s nuclear activity, and calling for other nations to reimpose sanctions.

“The brutal regime in Iran must never be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon — never,” Trump said. “We encourage all nations to pressure Iran to end the full range of its malign activities.”

But he ridiculed the notion that refusing to meet leaders of enemy states was an effective means of pressure, noting renewed talks with North Korea to end its nuclear program that ensued after he agreed to meet its leader, Kim Jong Un, whom he once called “Little Rocket Man.” “Speaking to other people, especially when you’re talking about potentials of war and death and famine and other things, you meet,” Trump said.

The president’s willingness to meet the leaders of Iran is a sharp divergence from his policy of encouraging its people to rise up against them. A week ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech directed at the Iranian people in which he asserted that Iran “is run by something that resembles the mafia more than a government.”

“While it is ultimately up to the Iranian people to determine the direction of their country, the United States, in the spirit of our own freedoms, will support the long-ignored voice of the Iranian people,” Pompeo said.

In the Q&A following his speech, Pompeo said that Trump is prepared to have a “conversation” with leadership in Iran, “but not until such time as there are demonstrable,

tangible, irreversible changes in the Iranian regime that I don’t see happening today.”

Israel has joined calls for regime change, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posting on social media this week the tale of a fictional 15-year-old Iranian girl and the agonies she endures to live there.

National security adviser John Bolton had, before assuming his position earlier this year, encouraged hard regime change through U.S. military intervention. Trump himself appeared to threaten war against Iran last week in an all-caps tweet, responding to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s warning of have far-reaching consequences.

“NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE,” Trump wrote a week ago.

Within minutes of Trump’s news conference on Monday, Rep. Lee Zeldin (Republican of Long Island), who is Jewish and one of Trump’s most reliable backers in Congress, pushed back against any notion that Iran and the United States are peers.

“I have zero respect whatsoever for this Iranian regime, which will never be anything close to US equals,” Zeldin said. “They are not. They’re horrible people of worst kind with US blood on their hands; world’s largest state sponsor of terror and danger to all that’s good and humane in world.”

On Tuesday, U.S. officials moved to assure Israel there has been “no change” in America’s “aggressive policies” toward Iran, the Jersualem Post reported, quoting an unamed diplomatic.

According to the official, Israel is “in continuous contact” with members of the Trump administration.

Neither the Prime Minister’s Office nor the Foreign Ministry issued any public comment on Trump’s suggestion that he was willing to meet with Iranian leaders without any preconditions, the Post reported. —with JTA

Friedman...

Continued from page 1 side his home in the settlement of 5,000. His assailant was a Palestinian teenager who had climbed over the security fence surrounding the community. Two others were wounded in the attack. The teen was shot and killed by one of his victims.

“My heart was broken upon seeing the tragic consequence of the killing of Yotam Ovadia,” Friedman said upon leaving the family’s home.

“A young mother left alone to care for two toddlers, parents mourning their only son. There are no words that can describe the evil and barbarity of this act of terror.”

Friedman had already condemned the attack on Friday in a tweet.

“Shocked to hear of the brutal terror attack in Adam that left 31 year-old Yotam Ovadia dead and two others injured. My heartfelt prayers for all the families. All life is sacred, but premeditated murder cries out for condemnation. Not hearing it from Palestinian leadership,” he tweeted.

It was not Friedman’s first official visit to a Jewish settlement. In January, he visited Otniel to pay a condolence visit to Likud lawmaker Yehudah Glick following the death of his wife.

Friedman’s predecessor, Daniel Shapiro, also made condolence calls to lawmakers living in the West Bank. —JTA

Pence...

Continued from page 1 Those responsible must be held accountable.

These vile acts of anti-Semitism must end,” Pence tweeted Sunday.

A black swastika surrounded by a red back-

ground and the German and Nazi military Iron Cross were painted Saturday morning on a wall at Shaarey Tefilla, a Conservative synagogue near Indianapolis with 200 member families.

Shabbat morning services were held anyway, the synagogue said in a post on Facebook.

Pence served as governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017, withdrawing from his re-election campaign to become Donald Trump’s running mate on the Republican ticket. He served as a U.S. congressman from Indiana from 2001 to 2013.

Some comments on the tweet referred to the far-right rally last year in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left one counterprotester dead and featured slogans such as “Jews will not replace us.”

“I’m a member of that congregation,” Yaron Ayalon tweeted. “Perhaps you and your boss should have clearly denounced Charlottesville, white supremacists, Nazis, etc. before attacks like this happened, no?”

A reply by a Twitter user named David Belk read: “A lot easier to condemn anonymous vandals innit? Did Richard Spencer lend 45 some sugar? How about you address any one of the openly white nationalists, Nazis, neofascists, or pedophiles currently on the GOP ballot, by name? Then answer for the stolen kids in cages. #ImpeachTrump.”

Others, however, defended Pence.

One wrote: “reading the mean-spirited responses, as if VP and @POTUS created this hatred. Anti-Semitism is not a recent travesty.

These haters can’t get over their candidate loosing and jump on issues to prove a point that is non-existent, only displaying their own inability to be a grown up.”

Some of the comments also pointed out that Indiana is one of the few U.S. states without a hate crime statute.

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb called the vandals “cowards” and offered the assistance of the State Police “in bringing those behind the repulsive acts of desecration at the Congregation Shaarey Tefilla to justice.” —JTA

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Rita Levenson browses through the merchandise outside Zohar Shoes with her great-grandson.

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Cedarhurst hosts its 30th annual summer sale owns Sox World Plus with her father, Charles.

“The first day of the sale is almost always the best day.”

Stores had set up tables and racks full of merchandise along the sidewalks, giving shoppers an opportunity to peruse as they walked by.

Some showed up knowing exactly what they were looking for, while others were just window-shopping. Reizy Kramer of Far Rockaway pushed her 1-year-old son down the

By Tyler Marko, Nassau Herald The weather wasn’t enough to keep shoppers away from the 30th annual Cedarhurst Summer Sidewalk Sale, held along Central and Cedarhurst avenues in the village’s business district on July 25 through 29.

Scattered rain showers marred day one, but storeowners said business was barely affected.

“We had people lined up with umbrellas before we opened,” said Alicia Cascio, who

street. A veteran of the event, this year she said she had one thing on her mind.

“I’m looking for baby clothes,” she said, pointing to her child, who sported a teal polo shirt. “He’s growing out of everything and I was able to get about $100 worth of stuff for $10, so it was definitely worth it.” Kramer added that she had discovered a couple of stores she said she would otherwise have likely walked right past.

Rita Levenson, another Far Rockaway resi-

dent, took a different approach. “I just came to look around,” she said. “See if anything catches my eye.”

Teri Schure, executive director of the Cedarhurst Business Improvement District, said that roughly 90 businesses participated in this year’s event, and that shopper participation was up over last year.

“One only needs to drive by during the event to see that every store and restaurant is flowing with customers,” she said.

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Rabbi Boteach interviews a defensive Roseanne

By Josefin Dolsten, JTA Roseanne Barr still doesn’t think the tweet that got her TV show canceled is racist.

At a comedy club in Manhattan last Thursday night, the Jewish actress and comedian talked about plenty of random things while defending the bizarre tweet she aimed at Valerie Jarrett in May. Barr, 65, appeared in conversation with the prominent Rabbi Shmuley Boteach at Stand Up NY on the Upper West Side.

She had told Boteach in an earlier podcast that she regretted the tweet, in which she mocked Jarrett, a former adviser to President Barack Obama who is African-American. The tweet said the “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.”

The comment drew wide criticism and led ABC to cancel the hit reboot of her sitcom “Roseanne.”

Instead of sounding remorseful on Thursday, Barr said the tweet had been misunderstood.

“You apologized to her because you recognized that you had wronged her?” Boteach asked Barr, who had reached out to Jarrett following the controversy.

“Well, I recognized that she thinks I wronged her,” Barr replied. “I’m sorry that anyone thought that was a racist and not a political tweet.”

As the conversation jumped from topic to topic, Barr at times sounded borderline incoherent.

“I made a vow at 3 that I would always fight against extremism because that doesn’t allow for Jews,” she said at one point. “Places where Jews are free are way better places than places where Jews are not free, and same for women, blacks, brown people, Asians, everybody.”

When Boteach mentioned that he had invited her to dine at a kosher restaurant following the event, Barr said that she “would have a Na-

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Roseanne Barr in conversation at Stand Up NY in Manhattan on July 26.

than’s hot dog in a heartbeat.” The popular hot dog brand is not kosher.

“My mom would eat hot dogs for all five meals per day,” she added.

Earlier in the day, Barr appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show and claimed that she was not aware that Jarrett was African-American when she wrote the tweet.

It wasn’t the first time Barr has drawn criticism for her social media usage. On Twitter, she has promoted conspiracy theories and posted comments criticizing transgender people. Some have also taken issue with Barr for her vocal support of President Donald Trump.

In the conversation with Boteach, some of Barr’s comments on Judaism left this reporter stumped. She spoke about her love of Sephardic Judaism, describing it as “source Judaism, it’s

about the Earth.” She did not elaborate on the connection.

Barr also said that she liked the Book of Esther because of her love of Sephardic Judaism.

The book tells the story of Esther’s rise to become queen of Persia, but it is part of the canon for Jews of all backgrounds.

She seemed to blame the Jarrett tweet on a vitamin deficiency.

“I didn’t have any Vitamin B because I can’t absorb minerals, so I was terribly emotionally unbalanced, and I felt myself to be so, and I told ABC that I knew I needed to get my meds checked because I knew I was in trouble. So there’s that,” the comic said. “And I wasn’t completely coherent when I woke up at 2 and wrote that tweet.”

Boteach, an author, speaker and adviser to

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several celebrities, praised Barr throughout the event.

“You’re a very high-profile Jewish woman who speaks about the Torah openly and unashamedly, and defends Israel unashamedly — very rare in Hollywood,” he said.

Boteach mentioned his and Barr’s admiration for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. several times, seemingly as a defense against claims of racism. As the night came to its conclusion, he praised Barr for apologizing in their podcast.

“The humility you showed in saying sorry for a mistake I thought was a phenomenal affirmation of Jewish values, and I told you at the time,” Boteach said. “I said that you had made a kiddush Hashem, that you had sanctified G-d’s name by saying you were sorry, and you did so in the name of Judaism, in the name of penance.”

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For the days when a swim in the pool or a twohour ride to a beach is not an option, when you’re stuck in the boiling asphalt of the city, the hot air feeling settled and oppressive, the fountains laced throughout the city are a sight for sore eyes.

The gentle sound of trickling water, the intensity of water jets — it transports you. y now, I have a personal tour that I walk each summer.

Near my home are Central Park’s Conservatory Gardens at 105th Street, with an elegant fountain in the center of a swath of emerald, manicured gardens. It could be Europe, but it’s right here. Nearby is a more modest, charming little fountain, and literary in nature: Mary and Dickon from The Secret Garden, sculpted in a not-so-secret New York City park.

Toward 90th Street is the Reservoir, a bluebird-blue body of water encircled by a walking See Summer in the city on page 21

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Birthright guides add taste of Palestinians’ view

By Ben Sales, JTA When Samuel Green talks about Israel’s security barrier with his Birthright groups, he first explains the Israeli view: it was built to prevent Palestinian terrorists from breaching Israeli territory; Israelis generally feel it has saved lives.

But then he’ll talk about what the barrier means for Palestinians: how it cuts into their land, how it has separated people from their farms, how they see it as an imposing wall.

“It’s a disservice to the people in front of me to leave out such information,” Green said. “If you’re trying to understand why there’s conflict, you have to understand why people are annoyed.

It’s important to talk about.”

That approach contrasts with the one viewed by 2.7 million people in a viral Facebook video taken by activists of IfNotNow, a group of young American Jews who oppose Israeli actions in Judea and Samaria. In the video, a Birthright tour guide spars with a participant over the status of the West Bank.

Rather than presenting a range of views, the guide says “Israel sees the West Bank as part of Israel” — a claim that does not reflect the legal status of the territory or the way most Israelis see it.

Soon afterward, several participants on the trip staged a walk-off to visit Palestinian areas, one of three in recent weeks, all organized by IfNotNow. The walk-offs have sparked a debate over whether Birthright has a responsibility to grapple with Israel’s control of Judea and Samaria. Some 40,000 young Jews, mostly from North America, go on Birthright tours every year.

For some it is their first exposure to the country.

But guides say the debate is unnecessary.

While acknowledging that they speak from an Israeli perspective, they said they make an effort to represent a range of opinions.

“In general, what tour guides are taught is that it’s not about us,” said Daniel Rubenstein, an immigrant to Israel from Texas. “It’s our job to

A Palestinian man walks by Israeli troops standing guard in Hebron in 2017.

teach what the various players in this region — in this conflict and in this shared society — are saying, and for us to articulate the basic vision of Zionism as well as Palestinian national identity.”

In addition to completing Israel’s two-year certification course for tour guides, Birthright guides complete a three-week course run by Birthright that focuses on how to engage groups in discussion, make Israel’s history and nature come alive, and relate to a North American audience.

But the course is light on politics. It instructs guides to represent a range of perspectives, but doesn’t provide a list of talking points.

Green scoffed at the idea that right-wing donors like casino mogul Sheldon Adelson dictate how they conduct their tours.

“They don’t have a lot of control,” Green said of Birthright. “They’re trusting the guides to execute their vision. It’s not like Birthright says ‘do this’ and the guide parrots something. We were encouraged to represent different points of view.

So this idea that Adelson is dictating how we talk about the conflict is bonkers.”

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Tours are inevitably given from an Israeli perspective. One of Birthright’s explicit goals is to strengthen American Jews’ connection to the country, along with their Jewish identity. Most of the guides are native Israelis, or Diaspora Jews who chose to make their lives in Israel.

“Personally, I’m going to value and weigh some perspectives differently than others,” said Rubenstein, who worked at AIPAC in Washington before becoming a guide after moving to Israel.

“I’m an Israeli by choice, so I’m not Wikipedianeutral, but people are looking to engage with me because of who I am. I strive to represent different perspectives and make sure all voices are heard.”

The tour is geared toward giving participants an appreciation of Israel’s natural, historical and cultural attractions. All trips visit the beachfront metropolis of Tel Aviv, the Kotel in Jerusalem’s Old City, and Masada, the ancient fortress where Jewish rebels held out against an invading Roman army before committing mass suicide.

Groups also visit the City of David, a Jewish archaeological site over Israel’s pre-1967 border.

Palestinians condemn it as an illegal settlement.

All groups receive a lecture on geopolitics from an Israeli expert. Meeting Palestinians is not part of the itinerary. Optional programs following the trip offer Birthright participants the opportunity to see Palestinian society.

“Part of tour education is that you’re educating about the things you see in front of you,” said a Birthright guide who asked to remain anonymous.

“If the route of your trip didn’t take the road next to the Israeli [security] barrier, you’re not going to start a discussion about the Israeli barrier.”

The guide said he presents Palestinian viewpoints, but that “it’s clearly not a comprehensive exposure to Palestinian views if you’re not meeting a Palestinian.”

Tour guides chafed at the suggestion that the conflict should be more of a focus. They said not all participants are interested in a political debate. And they appreciate that the trip’s focus is on Jewish identity.

“When IfNotNow says, ‘Oh, Birthright doesn’t present the full picture of the Palestinian occupation,’ well, OK, but that’s not the purpose of this trip,” said an American communal official who has organized many Birthright trips, but who didn’t want to be named without approval from Birthright. “The point of the trip is not to learn all of every single aspect of the occupation. It’s to learn about Judaism and Jewish heritage and make friends and have a good time.”

Plus, the official added, if Birthright is seeking to drive American Jews politically rightward, it’s doing a bad job. American Jews tend to hold markedly more liberal views on the conflict than their Israeli counterparts.

“I’m sure the Israeli government gives money [to Birthright] because they have whatever their goals are,” the official said. “I’m not sure how much that translates to a micro level. If their goal is to transform a generation of Jews into Likud supporters, they’ve clearly failed.”

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By Orit Arfa, JNS Religious Zionists would be the last Israelis to visit Berlin, let alone live there. As staunch Jewish nationalists, they’re often less forgiving of Germany’s past than their secular counterparts, who have made Berlin a leading destination for Israeli tourism and immigration.

But two young Israeli couples — Eliezer and Rotem Noy, and Netanel and Tehila Darmon — have not only settled in Germany’s capital as emissaries, but have built homes where Jews of all backgrounds can connect with their roots and feel a sense of family.

“Both of us, ideologically, didn’t leave Israel before,” said 36-year-old Eliezer Noy, director of Morasha Germany, a national student organization that provides Jewish learning and social opportunities for Jewish students and young professionals throughout Germany.

Eliezer grew up in Ramat Gan and studied at the Atzmona pre-military academy in Gush Katif before the 2005 evacuation. He completed an MBA at Tel Aviv University and worked as an accountant for KPMG. Rotem, 32, grew up in a religious Zionist family of German-Jewish descent near Petach Tikvah. With a master’s degree in history from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, she worked in an Israeli NGO fostering religious-secular dialogue.

When they were asked to head Morasha in Munich, they lived in Lod, where they organized communal Shabbat dinners for destitute and at-risk locals. At first, they rejected the German offer.

“We told them we have a pretty good life. Everything’s going well. We have successful careers.

We felt good with ourselves, even ideologically.

So give us a break,” Eliezer recalled at a Berlin cafe. He felt comfortable sporting his knitted kippah there, despite a spate of attacks and a community advisory to avoid wearing them in public.

Across the street was the heavily guarded Ortho-

Eliezer and Rotem Noy.

Netanel and Tehila Darmon.

dox synagogue complex that also houses a nursery school and rabbinical seminary, enabled by the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation.

But Morasha persisted.

“It wasn’t an easy decision,” said Rotem.

She serves as director of BAYIT, a Morasha affiliate that offers intensive, long-term Jewish learning programs for international students.

“It sounds very big, but I really felt this is what G-d wants us to do.”

After three years in Munich, they moved to the Berlin campus in the Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood, which includes their home, dorm apartments, a learning hall and an activity room where they also hold Shabbat and holiday communal meals. The Noys’ two children attend the Lauder Beth Zion Jewish day school nearby.

Tehila and Netanel Darmon, both 26, were recruited last year by an Israeli businessman involved in outreach who sought to connect Israeli Berliners with their roots. Today, the couple directs Zusammen (“together” in German), which

provides social and cultural activities in Hebrew.

The Darmons had built a track record of Jewish social entrepreneurship in Goa, India, where they set up an “open house.” There, they served Israeli travelers who often came for Shabbat meals, and sometimes for respite from at-risk behavior common to Goa partiers.

Netanel grew up in a Yishuv Ma’on in the Hebron Hills; Tehila in Beit Shemesh. Their last address before Berlin was in Bat Ayin, a hippieish community in Gush Etzion near Jerusalem.

“We knew there were many Israelis [in Berlin], but when we heard ‘Berlin,’ we thought: ‘What? Berlin? No!’ I immediately thought something very dark and unpleasant,” Tehila recalled from their apartment, a few blocks away from the Morasha campus. Zusammen and Morasha are separate organizations, but they sometimes assist each other.

Tehila usually sports a colorful head covering, while Netanel wears a hat in lieu of a kippah. Although the Darmons’ prejudices against

Berlin were not assuaged during a pilot trip, a sense of mission seized them.

“Most of the Israelis who moved to Berlin are disappointed with the country and politics, and they might have resistance to Judaism and religious Israelis,” explained Tehila. “We were turned on by the challenge.”

Germany’s Jewish population is an estimated 200,000, mostly Jews from the former Soviet Union who were invited there in the 1990s and had lost their connection to Judaism under communism. Among the estimated 100,000 Jews in Berlin, some 20,000 are believed to be Israeli. While the Noys naturally serve Israelis, their main activities are geared towards Jewish internationals or German Jews.

Under the Noys’ leadership, Morasha’s staff went from two to six, in addition to 80 volunteers. Activities include Shabbatons, learning programs and belated bar and bat mitzvahs.

After eight months, Zusammen outgrew the Darmons’ apartment. They are currently seeking a larger campus, and have introduced Zusammen on an “Israelis in Berlin” Facebook page.

“We came with good intentions, saying ‘hello,’ inviting them to Rosh Hashanah,” said Tehila. “Really simple. We said we’re not trying to make anyone religious. We want to connect hearts, to encourage Israeli culture and creativity. People immediately went to my profile — we didn’t have a Facebook page — and they told us: ‘Go away from here.’ ‘We left Israel because of you.’ ‘Don’t make us religious.’ ‘You’re settlers.’ ‘What are your views?’ ‘Will you go back to the shtachim [territories] after Berlin?’

‘Can I come with Arab friends?’ ” Ultimately, Israelis who appear to shun tradition — with their tattoos, alternative lifestyles, left-wing politics, and non-Jewish partners — have become Zusammen regulars.

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Creating an allergy-friendly table Kosher Kitchen

JoNi SChoCKETT

Jewish Star columnist

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e have just returned from a wonderful journey down the east coast and back again. From Boston to Myrtle Beach, to Florida and back up to D.C., we visited with wonderful friends and cousins, ate at spectacular restaurants, got great ideas for recipes and saw thousands of miles of this beautiful country.

So what does one do after a month of relaxing on beaches and by pools and not cooking? I immediately went shopping, filled the refrigerator, cooked a meal and then looked for things to do. The next day we were off to Worcester, an hour away, for a Gluten-Free and AllergyFriendly Food Expo. I thought it might be a good place to explore the intersection between GF/AF foods and kosher certification.

The Expo included over 100 vendors, all of whom were happy to hand out free samples.

They all warned of possible allergens, and all booths were clearly marked.

For most people, allergies and gluten are non-issues, but for some, they are life-threatening. On our way home from DC, we heard the tragic story of a teenage girl who died within minutes of ingesting a cookie she thought was safe. My own son carries an Epipen due to a recently developed food allergy. Although he is an adult, like any mom, I worry.

Food allergies are so scary that companies have come up with a device that can check for allergens in any food. We saw it demonstrated at the Expo. You drop a bit of food into a lipstick-sized tube, add some water, shake and test with a strip. Within seconds, the pocketsized device tells you if a food is dangerous.

This $300 dollar machine can be a lifesaver for anyone with serious allergies.

At the Expo, I tasted many, many, foods and I have to report that most were delicious. Some did not appeal to me, but, then again, I am not gluten intolerant, so I can afford to be picky.

What was most astonishing to me was that most of the foods were certified kosher. Several vendors told me that it was a no-brainer, that many Jewish people have celiac disease, and that having kosher certification allowed all consumers to immediately see whether a product had dairy ingredients. Several others told me that their kosher certification was in progress, that it just took longer than other certifications. Only a few of the vendors were not kosher at all.

What this means is that observant consumers can buy hundreds of gluten-free, allergy-safe food products. Hundreds more are expected to hit the markets in the next few months.

You may never need GF or AF products yourself, but it is still important information. I have friends who are GF, one for celiac and one for a nonspecific sensitivity, and I now include GF dishes and desserts on a regular basis. They are delicious, and even my family and non-GF friends love them.

I always ask about allergies before I cook.

These foods, many cookbooks, Internet recipes, ingredients, and awareness will help make it easier for us all to be completely inclusive at every meal.

GF Fruit Crisp Topping (Pareve) This is great on a fruit crumble, as a topping for yogurt or ice cream, or alone as a snack.

1-1/2 cups old-fashioned oatmeal 3/4 cup gluten-free flour 1-1/4 cups almond flour or ground almonds 1 cup dark brown sugar 1/4 cup white sugar

1-1/2 sticks butter or pareve, trans-fat-free margarine, chilled, cut into small pieces OPTIONAL: 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, pecans, almonds or other nuts.

Line a large rimmed baking sheet with foil and then place a sheet of parchment paper over the foil. Set aside.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Place 1/2 cup oatmeal in the bowl of a food processor and pulse to reduce to a coarse flour.

Add the GF flour, the almonds, and brown sugar and pulse to blend. Add the chilled butter or margarine and pulse until the mixture is evenly sized in clumps. Add the oatmeal and pulse just to blend.

Pour the mixture onto the parchment lined baking sheet and, using your hands, tightly pinch small amounts of the mixture together forming little clumps. Form as many clumps as possible, though some of the mixture will stay loose. Make sure the mixture forms an even layer to ensure even baking.

Place in the oven and bake until golden, 15 to 25 minutes, rotating the pan two or three times.

Let cool and then break up any big clumps that have stuck together. Makes 4 to 5 cups.

GF Spinach and More Noodle Kugel (Dairy) 1 stick butter, divided 1 large red onion, finely diced 3 to 4 cloves garlic, finely minced 8 ounces sliced mushrooms 1 box gluten-free wide noodles 5 extra-large eggs 1 pint regular sour cream 1 pint small curd or whipped cottage cheese 8 to 12 ounces cheddar cheese, shredded Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste 2 pkgs. (10 oz. each) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry 2 to 4 Tbsp. GF flour Heat a large skillet and add 1/3 of the stick of butter. When melted and bubbly, add the onions and cook until lightly golden, about 8 minutes.

Add the garlic and cook another minute. Scrape the onions into a large mixing bowl and add another third of the butter.

When bubbly, add the mushrooms and cook until they reabsorb any liquid and turn golden, about 10 to 12 minutes. Add to the bowl with the onions. Pour any remaining butter from the pan into the bowl also. Mix well and set aside to cool.

Cook the noodles according to directions.

While the noodles are cooking, in another bowl, beat the eggs with a fork until well mixed.

Add the sour cream, cottage cheese and cheddar cheese. Season with salt and pepper and mix well. Add the spinach and the onion/mushroom mixture and mix well. Sprinkle with the GF flour and mix well.

When the noodles are cooked, drain well and pour into the bowl. Pour into the prepared casserole dish. Melt the remaining butter and drizzle over the top. Place in the oven.

Bake for 45 to 60 minutes until golden and bubbly. Serves 8 to 12.

Chocolate Fudgy, Extra-Chewy Brownies (Pareve or Dairy) 1 stick plus 1 Tbsp. butter or trans-fat-free, pareve margarine 3 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate 1-1/4 cups sugar 1/4 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar 3 extra-large eggs 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract 1 Tbsp. strong coffee (1 Tbsp. coffee dissolved in 1 Tbsp. boiling water) 3/4 cup GF flour 1 to 1-1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chunks or chips OPTIONAL: 1 cup chopped walnuts or other nuts

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Generously grease the bottom and sides of an 8-inch square pan, line it with an 8-inch square of parchment, butter the parchment and dust it with unsweetened cocoa powder. Set aside.

Place the butter and the chocolates in a small saucepan over a very low heat, stirring almost constantly until just melted. Remove from heat and mix to completely melt. Set aside to cool.

(You can also melt this over a double boiler or in the microwave in 10-second increments, stirring after each one.)

Beat the eggs and the sugars together, using an electric mixer, until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla and coffee and mix.

Remove the bowl from the stand and add the flour. Mix until evenly incorporated. Pour in the chocolate and mix until completely incorporated. Add the chips and, if you like, nuts and mix well. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top.

Bake for 15 minutes. Reduce the heat to 300 degrees and bake for another 15 to 20 minutes, until the top looks shiny and a toothpick comes out with a few moist crumbs attached.

Let cool in the pan. Run a knife around the sides and invert onto a plate. Gently remove the parchment and cut into squares. Store in an airtight container. Makes 16.

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Swap these holiday recipes for your old faves

By Shannon Sarna, JTA The sweetest time of year, Rosh Hashanah, will soon be upon us. And while most families have standard holiday dishes that they make year after year, sometimes it’s nice to swap in a new appetizer, alternating main dish, or quick but delicious new dessert.

Trade in your beet and apple salad for some sweet beet latkes. Instead of a brisket, try a slow-cooked pomegranate lamb stew.

And if you want the easiest, cutest apple dessert, you’ve got to try my friend Sheri Silver’s easy as apple pie cookies.

Wishing you and your family a sweet and delicious new year.

Appetizer: Beet + Sweet Potato Latkes

There’s no reason to save latkes for Hanukkah. And beets are actually traditional for the New Year, making these the perfect symbolic, sweet and satisfying dish to serve at the holidays.

Ingredients: 2 medium beets 1 small sweet potato (can also use 2 carrots) 1 medium Idaho potato 2 eggs 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1 tsp. fresh thyme 1 tsp. salt

Additional sea salt for sprinkling Directions: 1. Peel beets, sweet potato and potato. Cut each in half. In 3 or 4 batches, place vegetables through food processor for a coarse grate (you can also grate coarsely by hand).

2. Place mixture in a large bowl. Add eggs, flour, thyme and salt.

3. Heat around 1/4 cup vegetable oil in a large sauté pan over medium-high heat. Form bite-size mounds of latkes, taking care not to squeeze too much liquid out. Fry until brown and crispy on each side, then place on a wire rack on top of a baking sheet to cool. Immediately sprinkle with an additional pinch of salt while they are still hot.

4. Serve warm with applesauce, if desired.

Main Dish: Lamb Stew with Pomegranate

Brisket is the quintessential American Jewish dish for holidays. But in Israel and for Sephardim, lamb is far more common. This lamb is sweet and savory, and takes less time to cook than a brisket. It’s particularly striking due to the jewel-toned pomegranate seeds and fresh herbs on top. Perfect on top of fluffy couscous or rice.

Ingredients: 3 pounds lamb stew meat, cut into 2- to 4-inch pieces 1 large onion, sliced 3 garlic cloves, minced 1 to 2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. pepper

3 cinnamon sticks 2-1/2 to 3 cups water or stock 3 Tbsp. pomegranate molasses, plus extra for drizzling 1 cup pomegranate seeds, divided Fresh parsley, mint and/or cilantro for serving Directions: 1. Heat a heavy casserole with a little oil over medium-high heat. Sear lamb pieces on each side until lightly golden.

2. Remove lamb.

3. Add onion and sauté until translucent.

Add garlic and sauté for another 3 minutes.

4. Place lamb back into the pot and add salt, pepper, cinnamon stick, pomegranate molasses and half the pomegranate seeds.

5. Add 2 to 2-1/2 cups water or stock, until meat is cover. Bring to a boil.

6. Reduce the heat to low-medium, cover and continue to cook over low heat for about 2 hours. Check on stew periodically, and add more water if needed. Lamb should be fork tender when it is done.

7. Serve stew over couscous or rice. Drizzle top of stew with additional pomegranate molasses (around 1-2 tablespoons), the remaining pomegranate seeds and freshly chopped herbs such as parsley, mint and/or cilantro.

Dessert: Easy Apple Pie Cookies

By Sheri Silver This recipe comes straight from a dear friend and colleague who knows how to make dessert super easy, super adorable and super delicious. The secret to these cookies is a rich crumble topping and store-bought piecrust.

Ingredients: For the streusel: 4 Tbsp. unsalted butter, melted 3/4 cup flour 1/4 cup light brown sugar 1/4 cup white sugar 1/2 tsp. cinnamon pinch of kosher salt For the filling: 2 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and diced

2 Tbsp. brown sugar 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter juice from one lemon pinch of kosher salt 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1 store-bought refrigerated piecrust, at room temperature Directions: 1. Make the streusel: Line a small baking sheet with parchment paper. Combine the streusel ingredients in a bowl, breaking up any large clumps, and spread onto your baking sheet. Set aside to dry (can be made a day ahead; store covered at room temperature).

2. Make the filling: Combine the filling ingredients in a saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring until the mixture comes to a simmer. Cook for 5 to 10 minutes, until the apples are slightly softened. Remove from heat, drain the liquid and cool completely (may be made a day ahead; store in the fridge).

3. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease and flour a 12-cup muffin tin or line with parchment paper cups. Unroll your pie crust and use a glass or cookie cutter to cut circles that are slightly larger — about 1/4 inch — than the base of your muffin cups (I used a 2-1/2-inch cutter).

4. Place the circles in the bottom of each muffin cup, pressing gently along the sides and bottoms. Spoon some apple filling into each crust and top with the streusel.

5. Bake cookies for 20 minutes, or until streusel is golden brown. Cool completely in tins on a wire rack. Serve immediately or store, covered, for up to 3 days.

From the Nosher: Vegetarian mushroom moussaka

By Leah Koenig, The Nosher via JTA Greek Jews are no strangers to moussaka, the rich casserole traditionally made from eggplant and lamb and thickly layered with bechamel. But because kosher laws prohibit the consumption of milk and meat together, Jewish versions of the dish tend to either skip the bechamel, which is a shame flavor-wise, or make a dairy-free topping from fat, flour and stock.

In this take, the moussaka’s eggplant base is paired with cremini mushrooms instead of lamb, so it’s meat-free and perfectly suited for its creamy topping. Moussaka is warming, hearty and easily transportable, making it the perfect dish for al fresco meals on Sukkot.

Ingredients: 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus about 3/4 cup for greasing and brushing 4 small eggplants (about 1 pound each), peeled kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 medium onions, finely chopped 1 pound cremini mushrooms, stemmed and cut into 1/2-inch pieces 6 garlic cloves, minced or pushed through a press 1 Tbsp. dried oregano 1 tsp. ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp. ground allspice 1 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes

For the bechamel sauce: 6 Tbsp. unsalted butter 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 3 cups milk 1 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese

kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 3 egg yolks Directions: 1. Make the base and sauce: Preheat the oven to 400 F. and generously grease 2 largerimmed baking sheets with about 3 Tbsp. of olive oil each. Slice 3 of the eggplants into 1/2-inch-thick rounds. Arrange the eggplant slices in a single layer on the sheets, brush the tops generously with more oil, and season with salt and pepper. Bake, flipping the eggplant pieces once, until softened and lightly browned, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and set aside. Lower the oven temperature to 350.

2. Meanwhile, chop the remaining eggplant into 1/2-inch cubes. Heat the 1/4 cup of oil in a large sauté pan set over medium heat. Add the onions and a pinch of salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and translucent, 5 to 7 minutes. Add the chopped eggplant and mushrooms, turn the heat to medium-high, and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are very tender and the liquid has cooked off, 10 to 15 minutes. Stir in the garlic, oregano, cinnamon and allspice, and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in the crushed tomatoes, 1 tsp. salt and 1/2 tsp. pepper. Turn the heat to medium and simmer until slightly thickened, 5 to 10 minutes. Taste and add more salt and pepper, if desired.

3. Make the bechamel: Melt the butter in a medium saucepan set over medium heat.

Add the flour and whisk until fully combined, then slowly whisk in the milk. Simmer, whisking constantly, until the sauce thickens enough to coat the back of a spoon, 5 to 10 minutes.

Whisk in about half of the Parmesan, 1 tsp. salt and a generous amount of pepper. In a separate small bowl, whisk the egg yolks until smooth.

Whisking constantly, slowly drizzle about 1/2 cup of the hot bechamel into the yolks. Turn the heat under the saucepan to medium-low and slowly whisk the tempered egg mixture back into the bechamel. Remove from the heat.

4. Assemble the moussaka: Grease the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Layer half of the eggplant slices in the bottom of the baking dish and cover with half of the sauce. Layer the remaining eggplant slices into the dish and cover with the remaining sauce. Evenly pour the bechamel over the top, smoothing with a rubber spatula. Sprinkle with the remaining Parmesan.

5. Bake until bubbling and golden brown on top, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and let stand for 15 minutes before serving.

Serve hot. Store leftovers, covered, in the fridge for up to 3 days. Serves 8 to 10.

Reprinted from “Little Book of Jewish Feasts,”

by Leah Koenig, with permission by Chronicle Books, 2018.

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Yechiel was always open with his children bombed his Wielun, Poland, home. Soon after, he was placed in a Nazi concentration camp about being a Shoah survivor. And no matter where the family lived, he got along with and forced into slave labor for six years.

The numbers “1283” and a Star of David everyone, Helene said. At home he kept their was carved into his metal prison tag so he culture alive, spoke Yiddish, and from time to time, would bring up his ghetto experiences. could be identified as both a captive and Jew. “He would romanticize his experiences in When World War II ended, Kamioner journeyed to America with his wife and daughter, eventually settling in Riverdale. He left many things behind, his prison tag among them. Although he would never set eyes on the scrap of metal again, his daughter, Helene, has, thanks to the work of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Shoah memorial.

Yechiel was 92 when he died in 2002. He loved Riverdale for its strong and supportive Jewish community, Helene, now 68, said. He had married his wife, Chava, in Berlin after the war, had Helene, and then moved to the United States with help from the Hebrew Aid Society. They settled in northern New Jersey, where Yechiel worked as an egg dealer.

While Yechiel would sometimes talk about what he went Kamioner with her mother and father, Chava and Yechiel. through during the war, how Julius Constantine Motal he was beaten and starved, Helene never imagined something tangible from the labor camp in order to not scare us,” Hethat past — his prison tags — would resurface. lene said. “People would tell horror stories, and I don’t know if it was psychological for That is, until Evgeny Rozin contacted her.

An archivist who works in Yad Vashem’s him, but he minimized the story and somehow artifact division, Rozin discovered the connec- made it sound like a novel. He wanted us to tion between the discovered tag and a slave la- know about it, but he purposely didn’t want to borer who had worked in the HASAG-Pelcery burden us with horrifying history.”

Even abridged, Yechiel’s stories still deeply ammunition factory in the ghetto of Czestoaffected Helene. As she grew up and did her chowa.

Yechiel and his entire family were shipped own research, she internalized some of her fato Czestochowa, but he and his niece were the ther’s pain.

“I saw how horrible it really was and how only ones to leave alive. The rest of his family unimaginable it was that he went through,” was killed in a gas chamber.

“I believe that my father considered his life Helene said. “It affected me very profoundly.”

Knowing that his tag was found magnified and the fact that he was spared … a miracle,” Helene said. “My father was an extraordinarily the significance of the stories her father told, positive man, and he believed he would come Helene said. The tag was something that could not be denied, especially by those few who through this experience.”

The average life span for a worker at the claim the Shoah never happened.

“It brings back some memories and some HASAG factory labor camp was two months, and more than 50,000 Polish Jews died dur- comfort, especially to those people who are ing their time there. Those who did survive still searching,” Helene said. “The tag and the suffered from lice infestations, typhus, hypo- museum is constant proof, and it keeps the memories of those who were lost together, thermia and malnutrition.

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Israel salutes America: 70 who counted in 70

The Gottesman Family.

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Clark Clifford.

Michael Steinhardt (66 of 70)

By all accounts, Michael Steinhardt is a financial genius. As The New York Times noted, original investors in his hedge fund, which opened in 1967, made more than $462 for each dollar they had invested by the time he closed it in 1995.

Equally impressive has been his comprehension of the world’s social and political currents, particularly their implications for the fate of the Jewish people. While noting the freedom and prosperity Jews had found in America, Steinhardt understood that the ties that bound Jews to one another and to their ancient homeland were weakening.

For most of his professional life, Steinhardt has devoted himself to educating Jewish Americans to renew the memory binding Jews around the world to one another and to the State of Israel.

Steinhardt’s efforts to increase contacts between Jews in the Diaspora and Israel have been diverse and creative. Recognizing the importance of Hebrew for the future of the Jewish people, he has been engaged in the development of Hebrew charter schools and other educational initiatives.

Steinhardt’s greatest success has been the Taglit-Birthright Israel program, co-founded with Charles Bronfman in 1999 after conversations with former Knesset member Yossi Beilin, with the support of Prime Minister Netanyahu.

The idea behind Birthright was that a Jewish connection to Israel needs to be rooted as more than an abstract concept—it must be cemented by an experiential connection. But with fewer Diaspora Jews visiting Israel, the bond was fraying.

Thus, Steinhardt and Bronfman devised a program to bring young Jews from around the world to Israel on free educational trips. Birthright has brought more than 600,000 young Jews ages 18 to 29 to Israel, with tens of thousands participating each year.

For two decades, Birthright has been a major engine of Jewish continuity, a catalyst for lifelong attachment to Israel and many Jewish marriages. In many cases, Birthright participants have subsequently studied and worked in Israel. Many have made aliyah.

Both Israelis and non-Israelis have benefited from the inspired initiative of Michael Steinhardt.

ing administration opponent of recognition was Secretary of State General George Marshall, whom Truman greatly respected. To resolve the policy dispute, Truman chose Clifford, his most articulate aide, to present the case for recognition. Clifford’s arguments were so persuasive that Marshall never again spoke to him.

For the rest of his long career as a government official and an informal advisor to American presidents, Clifford remained a devoted friend of the Jewish state.

President Donald J. Trump (69 of 70)

Michael Steinhardt.

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Clark Clifford (1906–1998) (68 of 70)

Clark Clifford was tall, brilliant and witty. He combined Midwestern humility with courtly sophistication, qualities that endeared him to the four U.S. presidents whom he served.

But his defining characteristic, and the reason why four presi-

On Dec. 6, 2017, President Donald J. Trump did what the 12 American presidents who had been in office since Israel’s independence in 1948 had not done: he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

For more than 3,000 years, Jerusalem has been at the center of our national and religious life. Despite nearly 2,000 years of wandering and suffering, Jews across the world faced Jerusalem three times a day and prayed to rebuild it. Under wedding canopies and in houses of mourning, we remembered Jerusalem, never losing hope that “Next Year in Jerusalem!” would come true.

David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, knew this well when he moved his office to Jerusalem in 1949. “For the State of Israel,” he said, “there has always been and always will be one capital only: Jerusalem the Eternal. Thus, it was 3,000 years ago — and thus it will be, we believe, until the end of time.”

In June 1967, following the Six-Day War, Jerusalem was reunited under Israel’s sovereignty, and Israel’s policy of protecting the holy sites of all faiths was extended throughout the unified city.

As president, Trump has been a great friend of Israel. He has deepened intelligence cooperation between America and Israel, backed Israel unabashedly at the U.N., and confronted a dangerous Iranian regime that works for Israel’s annihilation.

But it is his bold decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the U.S. Embassy there that has earned him a unique and honored place in history.

The American People (70 of 70)

Gottesman Family (67 of 70)

A recent profile of investor and philanthropist David Sanford “Sandy” Gottesman noted a remarkable fact: both of his parents’ families have been generous contributors to Jewish causes in the land of Israel for nearly 150 years.

Gottesman’s grandfather Mendel, who came to the United States in the 1880’s, attained success in newsprint and banking.

He left part of his fortune to build homes in Jerusalem, in addition to funds allocated to help establish Yeshiva University.

Gottesman’s maternal family, the Garfunkels, came to the United States before the Civil War. Moses Garfunkel sent money to Sir Moses Montefiore to support the purchase of land in Palestine for those making aliyah.

The family does not court publicity and rarely gives interviews.

In 2016, Gottesman acknowledged to a Jerusalem Post reporter that he had contributed a major gift along with that of Sir Jacob Rothchild to fund the new building of the Israel National Library.

Already past his ninetieth birthday, he said that he hoped to see it open in 2020.

A study of the Gottesman Fund’s philanthropy reveals key support for dozens of projects in Israel, including the well-loved Derech Milton Bike Path and the Middle East’s first and only aquarium, located in Jerusalem. Other gifts include the construction of over 250 state-of-the-art school libraries throughout the state, and support to Birthright Israel.

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President Donald Trump.

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dents relied on him, was his judgment. At a fateful juncture, it would prove critical to the State of Israel.

Trained as a lawyer, Clifford had built up a thriving legal practice in St. Louis when World War II broke out. Well into his 30s, married and a father, he volunteered for the Navy. His legal training brought him to Washington, serving in the Truman White House first as an assistant White House counsel, and then in 1946 as White House counsel.

In that role, Clifford drafted key legislation, including the law authorizing creation of the CIA. He later became John Kennedy’s personal lawyer and served as Secretary of Defense under President Lyndon Johnson.

In the days leading up to his recognition of Israel, Truman relied heavily on Clifford’s advice. At the time, Arabists in the State Department tried to prevent U.S. recognition of the Jewish state.

Ignoring the president’s instructions, the State Department directed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Warren Austin to support a U.N. trusteeship of Palestine.

Truman understood that a trusteeship would thwart the creation of a Jewish state. It was largely Clark Clifford’s counsel that led America to ultimately vote in favor of the partition plan.

Early in May 1948, Truman had promised Chaim Weizmann, who would become the first president of Israel, that he would recognize the Jewish state when it declared independence. The lead-

Honorees include two presidents who made historic recognitions, senators and members of Congress who nurtured the U.S.Israel alliance, and diplomats who strengthened it. It includes soldiers who fought bravely, philanthropists who donated remarkable sums and journalists who brought truth to light. It includes faith leaders who inspired, public figures who lent prestige, and many others who were there for Israel when Israel needed them most.

But beyond individuals, Israel owes a debt of gratitude to the American people. For without their support, the alliance between the United States and Israel would be nothing like it is today.

The idea of a Jewish state resonated with Americans long before the establishment of Israel. Nearly a century before the first Zionist Congress, John Adams hoped for the restoration of Jewish sovereignty in Judea, and decades before Israel declared independence, Lincoln called that restoration “a noble dream shared by many Americans.”

America and Israel are not merely countries. They are causes.

Lincoln called America the last best hope — a beacon of opportunity for people across the world, carrying the torch of freedom for all humanity and entrusted by history with securing liberty’s future.

Israel is the hope of the Jewish people, offering opportunity for all its citizens, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, and safeguarding freedom in one of the darkest regions on earth, securing the Jewish future.

As long as Americans and Israelis have a sense of destiny, America and Israel will share a sense of destiny.

On Israel’s 70th Independence Day, Israel honors all Americans who recognize that shared destiny and who have supported Israel decade after decade.

May G-d bless America, may G-d bless Israel, and may G-d bless their great alliance.

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Torah scroll travels from Iowa to Paraguay…

Continued from page 1 remarkable story of Jewish geography. Through the efforts of more than a dozen strangers, one sunset of Jewish life provides a spark of vitality in another.

“It almost reminds me of the story of Queen Esther,” JonesAvni said. “The only reason that this worked is because of all these little things that taken out of context would not seem like big things at all. But when you put them all together, you have this miraculous event.”

A dying community More than 5,000 miles away, on East Main Street in downtown Ottumwa, the sanctuary of Congregation B’nai Jacob is pristine and silent. When the building was dedicated in 1915, the community numbered more than 100 families. Today, it counts perhaps three active members. It has been over five years since it held a Rosh Hashanah service.

“It was a wonderful community,” said board member Sue Weinberg, 60, who spent her childhood in Ottumwa before leaving for college in Iowa City. Her great-grandparents helped found B’nai Jacob and donated one of its four Torah scrolls.

Arriving in New York from Russia in the late 1800s, her great-grandfather arrived in Ottumwa as a peddler, eventually opening a hardware store, which morphed into an appliance shop. The 1915 Ottumwa city directory listed some two dozen Jewish-owned businesses, from grocers and mattress manufacturers to clothiers and shoemakers — many of the shopkeepers’ names are still embedded in the sidewalk along East Main Street.

A Jewish cemetery had been established by an earlier settlement of German Reform Jews, and the Orthodox influx from Europe expanded it and established B’nai Jacob in 1900. Other institutions — B’nai B’rith, Hadassah — followed. By the early 1960s there was even talk of building a larger synagogue.

“It was like one big family,” said Bernie Ullman, who was born in Ottumwa in 1939 and now lives in Kansas City. “You didn’t even knock on the door, you just walked in.”

Over time, the synagogue evolved from Orthodox to Conservative. Eventually Ullman’s and Weinberg’s generations left.

Those who remained largely intermarried and lost connection with the community. By 1970, B’nai Jacob could no longer support a rabbi, though the High Holidays continued to see many former Ottumwans return.

“I can [still] see where everyone was sitting — there were probably a couple hundred people, and the personalities were so vibrant,” said Allan Gonsher, who, from the 1980s, trekked to Ottumwa from Omaha, Nebraska, to lead High Holidays services.

“For communities that close, there are communities that open.”

Most of Paraguay’s 1,000 Jews live in Asunción, where B’nai Jacob’s Torah has found a new home.

“Very few really knew how to daven, but they understood.

If you gave them an aliyah, they saw that as the most valuable thing. When the Torah was walked around, people would kiss it. This was a community that felt their Yiddishkeit — in the shul. Outside — pork, shrimp, whatever. But inside the shul, there was a sanctity.”

Every year, Gonsher used a different scroll, because otherwise, he said, “the ink dries out. If Torahs are not read, they’re not breathing, they’re not living.”

The community continued to dwindle, even as Ottumwaborn philanthropist Ida Rosenman Sands had the scrolls refurbished and sank hundreds of thousands of dollars into a refurbishment of the synagogue, which Ullman’s mother Bessie endeavored to have added to the National Register of Historic Places. She also arranged for the city to take over care of Ottumwa’s Jewish cemetery.

“She saw the writing on the wall,” Ullman said.

Politics and prayer A continent away, a different transition was taking place.

Of Paraguay’s nearly 5 million people, approximately 1,000 are Jewish. Most live in Asunción, where a traditional congregation, Union Hebraica, has existed since the 1920s.

At the end of 2017, as a result of one of Judaism’s most timeless traditions — synagogue politics — Julian Vainstein, Gabriela Alonso’s husband, found himself discharged from the

Congregation B’nai Jacob used to fill up more often, as pictured here during Sue Weinberg’s 2006 wedding.

Courtesy Sue Weinberg

Courtesy Erin Jones-Avni

Hebraica pulpit he had served for eight years, months before his daughter’s bat mitzvah. He announced that he would lead Shabbat services at home if anyone wished to join. He and Alonso prepared for perhaps a dozen people; nearly 70 arrived.

A new congregation was born.

“I told my husband, this is my house, and here women count for the minyan,” Alonso said. “And when the time comes that we have a Torah, women can make an aliyah.”

Thus, the minyan became Paraguay’s first egalitarian synagogue.

In its first months, they averaged 40 worshippers on Friday nights, fewer on Saturdays. More than 60 attended its first Passover Seder in April.

Jones-Avni’s young family arrived in Asunción from Washington nearly two years ago, when her husband, Dani, a Foreign Service officer, was posted to the U.S. Embassy. Although they are the only Americans, congregants “have gone out of their way to make sure that we’ve had a really positive experience here,” said Jones-Avni.

One day, someone said, “Erin, we need to ask a favor of you,” Jones-Avni recalled. “We would like to find a Torah.

You’re from America. There’s lots of Torahs there … maybe you know of one?”

A Torah’s new home The last minyan at B’nai Jacob took place in May, when Weinberg and another 40 people gathered to decommission the synagogue. Esther Hugenholtz of Iowa City’s Agudas Achim Congregation led a ceremony, and the Torahs were read from the pulpit one last time.

“We are here to fulfill a difficult and heartbreaking mitzvah: to accompany this community to its dignified end, to provide good Jewish homes for its sacred scrolls and other implements,” Hugenholtz said. “Although B’nai Jacob will not continue in its present form, we … will place the sacred fragments of this beautiful community in our collective ark and carry it with us into our own Jewish future.”

The Weinbergs’ scroll traveled back to Agudas Achim, and a search began to place the other three.

Two weeks later, Agudas Achim hosted Juan Mejia as its scholar-in-residence. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, now based in Oklahoma City, Mejia is the Southwest/Latin America regional director for Bechol Lashon, a San Francisco-based organization that promotes Jewish diversity. Hugenholtz introduced him to Weinberg, who shared the story of Ottumwa.

Days later, Mejia was at a wedding in Colombia. So was Vainstein, who had accepted a new job in Barranquilla.

“He said, ‘There’s this new community and they need a Torah’,” Mejia recounted. “And I said, ‘Well, funny you should mention that’.”

Word traveled, to Weinberg and to Alonso, and then to Jones-Avni. A native of Colby, Kansas, who had also studied in Iowa, she realized that if someone could get the Torah to Kansas City, her parents could bring it to Paraguay on a planned visit.

It was a race against the clock. Jones-Avni tapped a friend in Chicago, Leah Jones, to mine her social network. Within an hour they had found a family in Fairfield, Iowa who would be passing through Ottumwa on a visit to Kansas City. Retrieved from B’nai Jacob, the Torah rested at the Kansas City home of Bruce and Gayle Krigel, before a friend of a friend, Amy Ravis Furey, had it picked up, wrapped in the tallit of Gayle Continued on next page

technology, people are picking up on it and building these connections that bind them to Torah.”

With new scrolls costing tens of thousands of dollars, it is important to connect older communities with resources to those whose primary asset is spirit.

“When you bring them together,” Mejia said, “they can achieve great things.”

Recalled to life The Jones family’s luggage was rerouted through Chicago. When the Torah finally touched down after 11 pm, 19 hours later than scheduled, nearly a dozen members of the minyan were there to receive it.

The next morning, every adult member of the community was called to an aliyah. The next Shabbat, July 21, the Avni family was called up to name their infant daughter, and Alonso and Vainstein’s daughter Sofia read from the Torah as a bat mitzvah.

It was bittersweet for the family: A few days later, they made the permanent move to Colombia with Vainstein. The Avnis, too, will leave Asunción in November for another post in Mexico. But they feel secure about the community’s future now that there is a Torah — and perhaps a new building. Plans are in the works for the minyan to move into an old Sephardic synagogue, boarded up for 25 years.

Meanwhile, a third B’nai Jacob Torah is destined for a home with a congregation in Israel. What will become of the fourth, as well as the shul building itself, remains to be seen.

The only thing sure to grow as more Ottumwans come home for good is its cemetery.

A few days before its Torah arrived, Minyan Igualitario voted to adopt a new name: B’nei Iacob.

“In honor of … this concern for other Jews in another corner of the world that they did not know, we chose to identify with that name and continue with their legacy,” Vainstein wrote on Facebook. “The Torah that was read in B’nai Jacob of Ottumwa, we will now continue reading, in B’nei Iacob of Asunción.

The heart of Am Yisrael is still beating.”

Berlin…

Noise…

Continued from page 7 ed to their warmth, nonjudgmental attitudes, and, of course, home-cooked Shabbat and holiday meals. The wives take pains to chop Israeli salads, with the help of volunteers. They serve meals on real dishes to create a homey atmosphere, appealing to the environmentally conscious. Their multilingual children (the Darmons have three) chatter with the guests.

Idan Chabasov, a 32-year-old gay Israeli high-tech professional who has lived in Berlin for four years, attends the Noys’ Shabbat dinner twice a month. “They give me the feeling of family,” he said. “I know I could talk with them about everything and they really care … they really appreciate your presence.”

Keren Golub, a high-tech professional who traded Tel Aviv for Berlin last year, sought an Israeli communal outlet to ease the cultural alienation.

“I missed the way Israelis speak to each other — the way we get mad all the time and it’s not a big deal, the way almost everything isn’t a big deal,” she said. “When Zusammen found me, and I walked into that room with 30 people going ‘Shalom, Keren!’ it felt like a physical relief.”

The Noy and Darmon families have also softened to Berlin.

“I still think Israel is the place where Jews need to be, but I also learned from people who live here,” Rotem said. “I find their journey to be Jewish very inspiring.”

Rotem lives near the former home of grandparents who fled Germany in the 1930s. While she’s eligible for citizenship, which comes with economic and social benefits, she’s not looking to redeem it any time soon.

“I don’t think they [my ancestors] are happy I’m in Germany, but I think and hope they’re proud of what we’re doing and think it’s an important thing. I hope they’re proud of us.”

Continued from page 1 neer, I feel like I kind of have a unique view into the world in terms of what might be done to solve the problem.”

Plane Sense came across Airnoise almost a year ago. Goldenberg and Miller said that since the group has shared Airnoise with its members starting in December 2017, residents have filed over 65,000 complaints to JFK, and over 2,600 to LaGuardia.

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Continued from previous page Krigel’s late father. Furey packed the Torah in a hard-sided golf club travel case, which Avni-Jones’s brother-in-law collected on a Friday morning and brought home to Randolph, Kansas — a 300-mile round trip — so it wouldn’t have to travel on Shabbat.

Jones-Avni came to Judaism in her early 20s, and it was her non-Jewish family’s first interaction with a Torah scroll.

“I am moved by the number of Christians that were deeply involved in this effort,” Furey added, including her own husband, who did the actual schlepping. “Those people that love us are also deeply connected to the Jewish people and will help us to flourish as a community with their commitment.”

Jones-Avni’s parents stopped for the scroll on their way through to Kansas City International Airport, where they checked the precious cargo for the flight to Asunción.

Only then did word start to spread: a Torah was on the way.

“If it didn’t work out,” Jones-Avni said, “we didn’t want people to be disappointed.”

Looking toward the future The journey of B’nai Jacob’s Torah is dramatic, but is becoming common as small communities dwindle and others arise.

“This is what we hope congregations will do,” said Noah Levine, senior vice president of the Jewish Community Legacy Project, which helps synagogues plan for their dissolution.

Last year, his group facilitated the transport of a Torah from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to an emerging community in Guatemala.

“Yes, some people assimilate and disappear,” Mejia said. “But for the people who come out, there are people who come in. For communities that close, there are communities that open.”

Hugenholtz stressed that the Internet has awakened ties to Judaism like never before.

“That is, I think, the vision that the prophets had, that without coercion, we are disseminating a very beautiful and ethical and sacred way of life,” she said. “And because of

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It’s never too early to think about Yom Kippur Parsha of the Week

Rabbi avi billet Jewish Star columnist

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ead through Siman 312 in the Shulchan Aruch, and you will come to the conclusion that the greatest invention of all time is not the telephone, the Internet, or even sliced bread.

Siman 312 speaks of the challenge of cleaning oneself after using the restroom on Shabbos.

Since the advent of toilet paper, we who live in First World countries, thank G-d, will find the entire discussion irrelevant. But the subject should remind us how lucky we are to have the privileges of modern living.

Gifts handed to us (such as modern medicine) require an element of gratitude that is too often overlooked. In our parsha, R’ Yosef Bchor Shor makes a comment worthy of attention because of the surprising gratitude it expresses.

In Eikev, Moshe spends a lot of time giving history lessons. He tells the second generation what their parents did wrong at the time of the Exodus. Part of the Golden Calf story focuses on the luchot — the two tablets he was first given, which he smashed, and the other set, which he brought down at the end of his third trip down the mountain.

Moshe recounts that he “stood on the mountain for 40 days to get the second set of luchot”

(Devarim 10:10). R Yosef Bchor Shor expands on this: he was praying for forgiveness.

The Torah was given on 6-7 Sivan. The Golden Calf and breaking of tablets occurred on 17 Tammuz. Three days later, Moshe went up the mountain for 40 days, coming down on the 30th of Av. The next day, 1 Elul, he went up again for 40 days, coming down with the second tablets on … Yom Kippur.

Rav Yosef Bchor Shor calls Yom Kippur a gift to the Jewish people. “G-d listened to [Moshe] and forgave the people. He brought the second tablets and news of forgiveness on Yom Kippur. That day was established as a day of forgiving.” don’t know how many people view Yom Kippur as a gift, but that is what it is. A yearly retrospect. A yearly opportunity to clear the air with our Creator, and, if we use it correctly, our fellow man.

And what an opportunity it is!

One of the big turnoffs from religion in our time is the seemingly endless rules about everything — as Tevye says, “how to eat, how to sleep, how to work, even how to wear clothes.”

But we know more than that. We get into detail about whether we can trigger a sensor on Shabbos. Whether accidentally using a meat knife to smear butter makes our whole kitchen

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treif. Whether if someone looks the wrong way on Shabbos is their kashrus acceptable. Whether an invisible bug makes all New York City water undrinkable. Whether a bird that looks like a chicken, sounds like a chicken, acts like a chicken and smells like a chicken, and is even called a chicken, really is a chicken.

Tevye doesn’t know how this Tradition got started, because Tevye’s lines are not written by a traditional Jew. But we know. It’s called Sinai. And Sinai means Revelation. And Revelation means the Torah. And the Torah means the luchot and everything that came with them.

Yes. We do have rules for everything.

And what happens if we don’t do it right? Depending on what it is, we view ourselves in violation of a mitzvah or a halacha. Sometimes it’s between us and G-d, and sometimes we’ve thrown a monkey wrench into our relationship with our fellow man.

How do we mend these relationships — because it’s sometimes very hard to own up to our mistakes? Sometimes we say “Forget it. That person’s not worth my time anyway.”

Comes Yom Kippur and G-d says, “You’re worth My time. And you better believe your relationship with your fellow man is worth your time.”

It is a yearly opportunity to clear the air with our Creator.

Sweating the small stuff From Heart of Jerusalem

Rabbi biNNY FReeDMaN

Jewish Star columnist

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y first 21 months in the IDF were spent in course after course: basic training, tank training, three months in the field, intense preparation for the tank commander’s course, infantry officer’s course, tank officer’s course — just reading the list still makes me weary.

With officer’s bars finally on my shoulders, I was stationed in Lebanon’s beautiful Beqaa valley and looking forward to dealing with “big picture” issues. After the minutiae of life in an IDF course, making sure your blanket was properly tucked or your boots sufficiently polished, here was the chance to be a real soldier.

In a course, you never have a cartridge in your gun unless you are on a shooting range or in a live fire exercise. Even then, every firing exercise is preceded by a command. You will never see an IDF soldier on leave with a cartridge in his gun, even if a round is not chambered. IDF soldiers take firing their guns very seriously.

But in Lebanon, as soon as we finished briefing, even before leaving the base, we put cartridges in our guns. And as we exited, we immediately chambered a round, keeping the safety off. Half the time I found myself reminding the men to keep their fingers off the triggers to avoid accidentally discharging the guns.

At first the awareness of the fully loaded weapons was enormously stressful, but soon it wore off. It was difficult getting the men to keep their pouches closed, their canteens filled and even their flak vests properly secured — not to mention reminding them to oil and clean their guns every night.

For many of them, this was their second or

third tour, and wondered if it was worth the hassle. Maybe I was better off relying on their experience and trusting that they would get the job done, regardless of their finger placement.

Until one day, one of the men accidentally fired his M16 rifle as he left base, narrowly missing one soldier and hitting another soldier in the arm. Luckily, the bullet barely grazed him, and he spent more time being interrogated by the military police than being treated by the medic, but the guys got the point: it’s the small stuff that makes the big stuff work. his week’s parsha, Eikev, contains a fascinating contribution to this topic.

“And it will be if you fulfill these laws and keep and do them, Hashem your G-d will fulfill His covenant … which He promised to your fathers” (Devarim 7:12).

The phrase is interesting: “vehaya EIKEV tishme’un—it will be if you fulfill.” Rashi notes that the unique word “eikev” has the same letters as the word akev, heel, suggesting that this refers to mitzvot that one normally does not take seriously, trampling them underfoot.

But why is Rashi limiting our fulfillment of mitzvot to the less significant ones? It does not even fit into the context of the verse. This week’s portion is about the bigger picture — one of the most famous chapters in the Torah, the second paragraph of Shema, all about the reward and punishment of living a Torah life. So why does it start with the mitzvot we barely notice?

Imagine that you are standing under the chuppah on your wedding day. The music pauses, the guests have taken their seats and the rabbi takes the microphone. There is an air of anticipation mixed with joy that fills the air, and the rabbi has a brief moment to speak. Imagine that he looks at the groom and says, “You should take out the garbage every day!”

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He might be right, but it would certainly not be a great moment of the wedding. So why is Rashi suggesting that the covenant depends on those details?

Perhaps because it is the point of departure from romance to true love. e indeed start with the big picture: receiving the Torah in a magnificent display of G-dly glory. After 40 years of manna and clouds of glory, the wedding ceremony is over and the second generation of the Jewish people is ready to enter the land.

But Moshe gives them pause. Before expressing the bigger picture, he reminds them not to forget the details. No matter how magnificent the wedding or how beautiful the romance, if the garbage is not taken out and the dishes pile up in the sink, eventually, no one can eat there, and the relationship falls apart.

We are easily excited by major events. But are we committed to the everyday?

I never heard back talk about closing flak vests as we headed into a Gaza firefight. When the enemy opened fire on our safari truck, the men responded within seconds. It was only when nothing was happening that the minutiae took more energy to enforce.

No one struggles with concentration during Kol Nidrei, but do we focus equally on Asher Yatzar? No one struggles with wearing the tallit the Shabbat before his wedding, but do we ascribe the same level of meaning to donning tzitzit every morning? And we pause before eating matzah at the Seder, but do we value equally a drink of water from the school water fountain?

Eikev teaches us that the big picture is built on the small details — something worth considering as we leave the Temple mourning and head closer to the Days of Awe. Shabbat shalom from Jerusalem.

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IDF soldiers take firing their guns very seriously.

And how do we know that people believe this, in their heart of hearts? Because Yom Kippur has a highee attendance rate at shuls around the world than any other day of the year. I know of a Conservative synagogue in Texas that rents a sports arena for Yom Kippur because they get thousands of people.

We can argue that they come for Yizkor.

But many come for Kol Nidrei, when there is no Yizkor. So why are they coming?

Because it’s a Day of Atonement. A day of forgiveness. A day of building bridges, of knocking down walls, of reconnecting with G-d and with our fellow man.

The time to see this gift of Yom Kippur is now. Like the blessing of medical care and hygiene, there is no time better than the present to get teshuvah in order.

Let us not wait until Elul. Let us apologize, make amends, move on. Let bygones be bygones. Talk civilly with someone to get through issues. But don’t get hung up. In most cases, it’s not worth it.

In these six remaining weeks before Rosh Hashana, and an additional week after that, we have an opportunity to embrace Yom Kippur. But we can only cash in on it if we prepare.

And the way we begin is by humbly apologizing, or by graciously accepting an olive branch that is bravely tossed in our direction by someone who once again wants to be a friend.

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Five Towns times from White Shul

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ith the warm weather now upon us, walking tours of New York City’s historic communities beckon to us. This week’s review features one such community, which is dear to me and my family.

For over a century, the Lower East Side of Manhattan was regarded by most major historians as the largest Jewish immigrant community in America. It was the area of first settlement when Jews arrived upon these shores. They were to spend their first, and for many families, their second, generations in that neighborhood, acculturating to a new and strange world that would alter their lifestyles and religious observances almost beyond recognition.

Now, the beginning of the 21st century, this

area of first settlement has become the focus of nostalgia by the fourth- and fifth-generation descendants of the original immigrants, who make occasional forays into der alter heim to satisfy old sentimental notions or just plain curiosity.

As a native of that community, my interest lies within the religious roots of American Judaism, personified by the experiences of the original settlers so long ago.

A detailed history and guide to the sites of this community was published by Columbia University Press.

Titled, “Lower East Side: Remembered and Revisited,” the book was written by Joyce Mendelsohn, a lecturer on the history, culture and architecture of New York at the New School. hat makes this guide so special is that it is not just a tourist trap. It is a serious historical and geographic guide to a neighborhood that I hold dear. The sights and sounds of my

childhood resonate within the pages of this book.

It is truly a volume of history, fact, and a study of a community that still lives on in its descendants, no matter where they live — from the Five Towns to Beit Shemesh. Consider the following: Every Young Israel shul owes its origins to the Lower East Siders who, 98 years ago, established the first Young Israel. Every graduate of Yeshiva University owes their education to the Lower East Siders who first established their yeshiva in humble surroundings. Every American yeshiva boy and Bais Yaakov girl owes their day school education to the founders of the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School, der mama yeshiva, and the original Bais Yaakov, both founded and nurtured on the Lower East Side.

The greatest poskim of a generation, who set the pace for halachic responsa on the American continent for generations to come — Rav Moshe

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Observing mitzvot, big and small Torah

RAbbi dAvid eTengoff

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ur parsha, Eikev, begins with the wellknown verse, “And it will be because you will heed these ordinances and keep them and perform [them], that the L-rd your G-d, will keep for you the covenant and the kindness that He swore to your forefathers” (Devarim 7:12). Our meforshim focus upon the uncommon expression, “eikev tishme’un,” that begins our verse. It is an unusual way to refer to mitzvot observance.

Rashi suggests the following interpretation: “Eikev literally means heel. [The connotation is,] ‘If you will heed the minor commandments which one [usually] tramples with his heels [which a person treats as being of minor importance]’.”

The Midrash adds clarity to this brief comment: “The Torah … contains 613 commandments, comprised of minor and major commandments. Many people pay the minor little heed, instead, they toss them under their heels [and treat them with disrespect]. Even King David was afraid of judgment and declared to the Almighty: ‘Master of the Universe! I am not

afraid of [my failure to fulfill] the major commandments of the Torah … of what, then, am I afraid? I am afraid of the minor commandments. Perhaps I violated one of them or failed to fulfill [one of them], precisely because it is a minor commandment” (Midrash Tanchuma Eikev, section 1). he Talmud Yerushalmi helps us understand the meaning of minor and major commandments: “Rabbi Abba bar Kahana said: ‘The Torah equates the most minor commandment with the most major. What is the most minor commandment among the kalot? This is the commandment of sending away the mother bird [prior to taking her eggs or young]. [And what is] the most major commandment among the chamurot? This is the commandment to honor one’s father and mother. [The reward for both is the same,] as it is written [in each instance] ‘and you should lengthen your days’ (Peah 1).”

Based on this passage, the terms kalot and chamurot reference the ease with which commandments can be performed. In other words, if a mitzvah is relatively easy to perform, as sending away the mother bird, it is labeled a minor commandment. Conversely, if it is difficult to fulfill in terms of time and effort, such as hon-

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oring one’s father and mother, it is known as a major precept. Fascinatingly, the Torah assigns the exact same reward to both of these mitzvot.

Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi writes, “You should be as careful in the performance of a minor commandment as with a major commandment, since you do not have the ability to know the reward of the mitzvot” (Pirkei Avot 2:1). Precision and alacrity in all mitzvot are the watchwords of Torah observance. Particularly since, in general, “we do not know the reward of the mitzvot.”

At first glance, this seems to contradict another well-known rabbinic dictum: “L’fum tzaara agra — according to the pain is the gain” (Pirkei Avot 21). This appears to state that the greater the effort undertaken to perform a mitzvah, the greater the reward. As such, a major commandment should have a greater reward than a minor commandment. What, then, does the statement, “we do not have the ability to know the reward of the mitzvot” actually mean? abbi Moses Almosnino (1515-1580) is renowned for his commentary on Pirkei Avot, entitled Pirkei Moshe. There, he suggests the following insight: “The kind of reward that is meant [by “we

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do not know the reward of the mitzvot,”] is beyond the standard notion of reward, and is therefore not connected to the statement ‘l’fum tzaara agra,’ or the essence of the mitzvah itself. Instead, it refers to one’s desire and degree of perfection of kavanah in fulfilling the commandments — and such reward is, by definition, unknown to us. Therefore, one must be exacting and act with speed regarding both commandments, since even if we know the normative reward, which is based upon its difficulty, its ultimate reward remains hidden, as it is immeasurable” (page 33).

Rav Almosnino’s explanation is nothing short of a spiritual tour de force. In a few words, he revolutionizes our understanding of the status of the mitzvot, and teaches us that they are all equal in their ultimate reward — as long as we infuse each with our deepest and most fervent kavanah.

In my estimation, this is reminiscent of David Hamelech’s passionate proclamation, “Tzama nafshi l’Elokim, l’Kel chai — my soul thirsts for G-d, for the living G-d” (Tehillim 42:3), which may be interpreted as referring to his devotion to Hashem and ardent longing to fulfill the mitzvot from the depths of his being.

Little wonder, then, that like Avraham and Moshe before him, Hashem calls him “My servant David” no less than ten times throughout Tanach.

May each of us seek to connect with our Creator through sincere observance, so that we may be counted among those whose souls thirst for Him as authentic ovdei Hashem.

Why didn’t the Jews pray for Moshe?

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n last week’s parsha, Vaetchanan, we read of Moshe’s plea to the Almighty to let him enter the Promised Land. With consummate humility and piety, Moshe prayed that G-d would allow him the satisfaction of completing his mission as leader of the Israelites. He had devoted forty difficult years in the wilderness in the hope of bringing the people of Israel into the land of milk and honey.

In spite of Moshe’s heartfelt prayer, the Almighty did not rescind His verdict that Moshe was not to enter the Promised Land. G-d told him to ascend the mountain and look at the land in the distance — that was as close as Moshe would get to his goal.

A question arises: why do we hear nothing at all about the Israelites’ reaction to G-d’s decree?

Why didn’t they pray on behalf of their faithful

leader? Why didn’t they announce to G-d that they themselves would not enter the Promised Land unless Moshe were allowed to enter with them? Why was there no expression of loyalty to or empathy with Moshe?

After all that Moshe had done for them, it would seem obvious that the people of Israel would have sought G-d’s mercy and kindness to their leader and teacher. But there is no record of their concern at all.

Perhaps this week’s Torah portion, Ekev, offers a hint of an answer. Moshe reminds the Israelites that during their forty years in the wilderness G-d provided them with Manna from heaven; He provided them with clothing that didn’t wear out; He protected their feet from swelling. In short, the Israelites did not have to worry about their day-to-day provisions. In a certain sense, then, they grew complacent.

Their material needs were provided to them miraculously. While this was certainly a good thing for them, it also had a downside. They became

so self-satisfied, that their ability to empathize about the needs of others was diminished. A Judeo-Spanish proverb has it that one with a full stomach does not understand the pain of the one who is hungry.

The Israelites had wandered for forty years.

They were anxious to get into the Promised Land. Their focus was on their own needs.

They didn’t think much about the feelings of Moshe.

After all, if G-d judged that Moshe should not enter the Land, then so be it. They didn’t have time or interest to create a stir: they wanted to move forward, with or without Moshe didn’t really matter very much. he Torah may be teaching us — by the silence of the Israelites — something very deep (and troubling) about human nature.

It wasn’t that the Israelites were bad people. No, they were simply “normal” people who wanted to get on with their lives. They “used” Moshe as long as he was available. When he could no

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longer deliver them goods and services, they turned their thoughts to the next leader and to their future journeys. When G-d told Moshe he would not enter the Promised Land, the Israelites offered no resistance, no prayers, no solace to Moshe. In their eyes, he had become a “lame duck”.

While the behavior of the Israelites was “normal,” it nevertheless should raise questions in our own minds. If we were in their situation, would we have shown empathy for Moshe?

Would we have joined him in praying to G-d?

Would we have made a clear demonstration of loyalty and appreciation?

In our modern society, one of the common complaints is that people are expendable. Loyalty and devotion are made subservient to utilitarian concerns and “market forces”. People are used, then discarded.

The behavior of the Israelites — as so much of modern behavior — is “normal.” Yet, our task isn’t to be satisfied with being “normal”.

We need to strive for true righteousness. True righteousness requires us to be sensitive, compassionate, loyal, and appreciative.

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Remembering the Lower East Side

Feinstein, Rav Eliyahu Henkin and Rav Tuvia Goldstein, all of sacred and blessed memory, lived their lives and saw their teachings flourish first in the Lower East Side community.

The histories of the shuls alone are worth the read — the still-vibrant Bialystoker, once the pulpit of the great Rabbi Dr. Mitchell Eskolsky, father and grandfather to the Dr. Fred Rosner and Rabbi Sholom Rosner families; the Bais Medrash Hagadol, once pulpit to Rav Ephraim Oshry, whose responsa during the Holocaust stand as a monument to the strength of our religious traditions; and the Young Israel of Manhattan, where the revival of Orthodox Judaism in America began for under the spiritual leadership of Rabbi Dr. David Stern.

Whether as a prep for visiting the neighborhood or as an exercise in history, it is worth your while to buy and read Lower East Side: Remembered and Revisited. If you choose to visit, I suggest that you contact the Tenement Museum (tenement.org) and the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy (nycjewishtours.org), who will serve as valuable resources in planning your visit.

But don’t forget the guide. A good reading will make your visit all the more informative.

A version of this article appeared in 2010.

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Syrian border heats up — and it’s not just Iran Politics to go

Jeff Dunetz

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s the old Chinese saying goes, “May you live in interesting times.” As the Syrian civil war spills into Israel, things are getting interesting indeed. Last week, Israel had to fire missiles to protect itself, not from Iranian drones as has happened before, but from Syrian government forces.

On July 24, two David’s Sling defense missiles were launched from northern Israel toward Russian-made SS-21 short-range ballistic missiles that had been fired from Syria toward Israel. This was the first time David’s Sling had been used in combat. Unlike the Iron Dome, David’s Sling is not mobile, but its extended range allows it to protect the entire country.

The Israeli missile commander decided to attempt the intercept based on the SS-21 trajectories, and the possibility that one or both could land in Israel. Some reports indicate that the initial projection showed the SS-21 reaching as far as the Sea of Galilee.

The missiles reportedly landed in Syria, short of Israeli territory, the closest within a kilometer of the border. When it became apparent that the Syrian missiles would not reach

Israel, the David’s Sling projectiles were destroyed mid-air. his was not a purposeful attack on Israel; it was a spillover of the Syrian civil war.

And the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) that is supposed to enforce a buffer zone between Israel has been impotent since its formation over four decades ago.

Things got even worse in 2013, when Al-Qaeda kidnapped two dozen UNDOF peacekeepers, and they have not recovered any authority, or ability to guarantee combatant separation between Israel and Syria, since then.

Although the UNDOF mandate continues to be renewed and is in place through December 2018, the actual mission has been a sham since 2014, when UNDOF was forced to abandon its headquarters. It has always been a sham, as the “peacekeepers” are toothless. But since 2014, peacekeeper activities in the zone have been for all intents and purpose defanged by various Syrian factions.

Realizing that Syria is protected by the Russia, Netanyahu is engaging in diplomacy with Russia and the U.S. to ensure the best outcome for Israel under present conditions.

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be firepower on either side, and the firepower of the wildcard United States.

Netanyahu owns the guns on one side.

He has made it clear that his “red line” is advances by Iran or Iranian-proxy forces on the threat zone that now directly abuts the Israeli Golan. But a red line isn’t the same thing as a posture for a settlement, once ISIS has been annihilated. Instead, it’s a trigger notification: a statement of what Israel cannot tolerate, and to which she must react.

But despite his talks with Russia, Netanyahu does not trust Putin for the long term.

There can be no “peace plan” with Palestinian Arabs without consideration of the security in the Golan Heights, which is just as unpredictable as the madness in Gaza. Israel cannot be sure what and when the threat will be on any given day.

With the Trump administration, it is as difficult as it was with the Obama administration to perceive whether there is a comprehensive strategy at work, and even more difficult to divine what it might be. With Obama, we knew that punches would invariably be pulled. “Leading from behind” was meant as it sounded.

With Trump, there are regular demonstrations of will, but regarding Syria and the im-

With Trump, there is no visible strategy.

Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘existential threat’ Viewpoint

Ben COHen

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n the evening of Monday, July 23, the parliamentary group of the British Labour Party held what Sky News called an “emotionally charged meeting,” during which they endorsed the definition of anti-Semitism used by hundreds of government departments, law-enforcement agencies, municipal authorities and community associations around the world.

The Labour MPs’ decision was a slap in the face to both their party executive and to their party leader, Jeremy Corbyn — yet again the culprit for the latest episode of anti-Semitism in a party plagued by it since Corbyn took the helm in 2015.

This time, as has been reported, it took the form of Labour’s refusal to endorse the full definition of anti-Semitism of the Internation-

al Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) because of their inclusion of many rhetorical devices — Jews choose Israel above their own countries, Israel is born from a racist endeavor, and so on — that are invoked by Palestinian solidarity activists who attack the relationship between the Jewish state and Jewish communities abroad.

Corbyn, however, was not in the room to feel the sting of MP anger on Monday. In a twist worthy of an Elizabethan court drama, the leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition was instead meeting with a “foreign prince” — and not minor royalty, mind you, but the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. handful of bloggers commented acidly on the leader of a party rooted in the labor movement posing happily with the ruler of a Gulf emirate whose population ratio — five disenfranchised, non-unionized, starvation-waged migrant workers to each citizen — sounds like something we used to call

“apartheid.” Still, choosing to bow to protocol, Corbyn did not raise the plight of Qatar’s migrant workers during his audience.

Had he done so — had, say, Corbyn publicly told Al-Thani that Qatar risked a Labour boycott for its abuse of South Asian construction workers building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup — even some of his most devoted critics would have been stumped by the display of principle. But in that moment of truth, Corbyn showed that he can be just as much of an establishment figure as the ruling Conservatives he loathes.

In fact, if, as many in the British Jewish community fear, Corbyn becomes prime minister in what would be the United Kingdom’s second general election of the Brexit referendum crisis, he would be wise not alienate Qatar. Or Russia. Or any of the foreign powers that will seek political and financial leverage over the U.K., should its voters choose a government committed to the

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pact of the civil war on the region, no visible strategy. srael, for obvious reasons, is doing virtually all of the border monitoring. The day after the first David’s Sling firing, Syria crossed it, and Israel’s military shot down a fighter jet that crossed into its territory. The Syrian Sukhoi-22 jet was shot down by two Patriot missiles launched from Tzefat after penetrating two kilometers into Israeli airspace.

The IDF says Israel monitored the plane as it sped toward Israeli airspace, and that warnings were given in a number of languages and on several channels before it was shot down.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement calling the incident a gross violation of the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement: “Our air defense systems identified a Syrian Air Force jet that took off from the T-4 Syrian Air Force base and penetrated Israeli airspace.

This is a gross violation of the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement with Syria. I have reiterated and made clear that we will not accept any such violation. We will not accept any such penetration of, or spillover into, our territory, neither on the ground nor in the air. Our forces acted appropriately. We insist that the Syrians strictly abide by the Separation of Forces Agreement between us and them.”

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most radical policies since the World War II. These include a mass housebuilding program, nationalization of key industries, an end to limits on pay for public-sector employees, the abandonment of the U.K.’s nuclear deterrent and the potential closure of the U.K.’s nuclear power stations, with Brexit itself yet to be resolved. n a week when three of Britain’s Jewish newspapers have united in a joint front page warning of the “existential risk” of a Corbyn government to British Jews, some might answer that the risk applies to Britain as a whole.

One doesn’t have to share this apocalyptic viewpoint to see that the underlying concern revolves around how a Corbyn government would behave towards those opposed to its program.

As resilient as the structures of British democracy are, Corbyn might try to borrow from the political playbook of his hero: late Venezuelan socialist dictator Hugo Chávez. In times of both boom and bust in this oil-rich, historically stable nation, Chávez found that anti-Semitism — once virtually unknown in Venezuela — had its political uses. Chávez asserted himself as the linchpin of a global alliance against imperialism with repeated attacks on Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, deploying the imagery of See Corbyn on page 23

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s I write these words, news broke that ISIS launched its first major attack on Syria, targeting a Druze town on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights and killing 100 innocent civilians. Israel shot down a Syrian fighter jet last week that entered Israeli airspace, and two mortar shells launched from the Syrian side of the Golan landed near the Sea of Galilee, miraculously resulting in no injuries.

All this within the past 24 hours.

After a seven-year civil war, Syria is a failed state, surviving on oxygen from Iran and Russia. Its instability provides fertile territory for an array of terrorist groups, from the Sunni Jabhat al Nusra and ISIS, to the Shi’ite Hezbollah, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the “Al Quds Force.”

Syria depicts the Hobbesian state of war of man against man. The tragic events have led to at least a half-a-million casualties, approximately 6 million refugees and at least that many internally displaced people.

Iran has taken advantage of the situation

A picture taken from the Israeli side depicts smoke rising near the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights during fights between the rebels and the Syrian army on June 25, 2017. Basel Awidat/Flash90

to entrench its military infrastructure in Syria. Syrian President Bashar Assad has enabled this by giving its terrorist proxies Syrian military uniforms. Iran is determined to build a land bridge from Tehran to Beirut to Damascus to the Mediterranean.

Earlier this month, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei repeated his ominous exhortation that Israel is “a cancerous tumor that must be removed.” And Hossein Salami, the deputy Commander of the IRGC in Syria, said he is “awaiting orders to eradicate the evil regime of Israel,” and that Israel has “no strategic depth,” so “this can easily be achieved.”

Contrast this with the Israeli side of the Golan Heights, an island of stability in a sea of chaos.

The Golan Heights — captured during Israel’s defensive 1967 Six-Day War and retained from invading Syrian forces in 1973 — affords Israel a unique topographical advantage, giving it the eyes and ears to stare down into Syria and Lebanon. All of this intelligence is shared readily with the United States. n 1981, the Israeli government formally annexed the Golan Heights. This is a consensus issue that almost every Israeli, whether politically left, right or center, agrees with. As Major Gen. (ret.) Giroa Eiland of the Israel Defense Forces wrote, “Israel does not possess a plausible solution to its security needs without the Golan Heights.”

The demarcation line of the Golan Heights divides freedom and tyranny —a failed authoritarian regime against a vibrant, healthy state based on Western democratic values.

Tens of thousands of Syrians would love to flee into Israel, if given the opportunity.

That is why 422 Syrians who are part of the White Helmet Groups, a humanitarian volunteer organization, were rescued by the Israelis and given safe passage to Jordan.

That is why the IDF was able to provide tons of truckloads of supplies to the Syrian refugees, including medicines, baby formula, food, feel

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and shoes.

And that is what enabled the IDF to quietly arrange for 4,000 Syrians wounded in the civil war to be treated at Israeli hospitals, without asking any questions, and then to be quietly delivered back to the Syrian side of the border.

It is in America’s national security interests to recognize the Golan Heights as Israel’s sovereign territory. Israel provides an island of tranquility in the chaotic Middle East. And the line between chaos and stability cuts right through that border. After all, after Friday prayers in Tehran, the chant is not only “Death to Israel,” but “Death to America.”

By including the Golan Heights in the category of “occupied territories,” the international community perpetuates the Syrian-IranianRussian axis, and the pernicious delusion that the area is still in play. It keeps Israel’s northern front a possible area of conflict that can flare up at any point.

American recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights will finally put an end to these dangerous delusions.

In an age when Iran constitutes the greatest menace to the region and one of the greatest to the world, it would constitute an effective and potent form of “reality therapy.”

Sarah N. Stern is founder and president of EMET, a pro-Israel think tank and policy institute in Washington.

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ne of the most mendacious and widely propagated myths of the Middle East is that Israel’s defensive actions — against hostile Arab initiatives whose sole aim is to murder Jews because they are Jews — constitute “racism.”

The apparent reason for these accusations is rooted in the fact that some of the coercive measures necessary for the effectiveness of these actions are carried out differentially (and therefore, allegedly, discriminatingly) against Palestinian Arabs on the one hand, and Israeli Jews, on the other.

In principle, the claims that counteroffensive actions against the hostility of an adversary, are tainted by some sort of group prejudice are clearly unfounded — conceptually, morally and practically.

In the particular case of the Israeli-Palestinian clash, such claims are even more baseless.

To call on any entity to treat a violent rival in precisely the same way that it treats its own members is not only patently irrational, but also patently immoral. For, in effect, it includes the inherent demand to forgo — or at least, to curtail — the right of self-defense; i.e., the right to protect both the collective and its members from the aggression of the rival entity.

There is nothing in the theory of democratic governance that precludes the possibility of a democracy — even one totally devoid of racial prejudices — from having enemies. Likewise, there is nothing to preclude the possibility that the ethnic identity of the enemy will differ from that of the democracy’s majority.

So, does this mean that measures intended to deter or punish aggression against a democracy violate some hallowed rule of proper conduct?

Moreover, how is it possible to claim any ethical flaw in the behavioral code of a democracy when it identifies its enemy and treats it as such? hen couched in these terms, the answer seems simple and straightforward — almost self-evident.

Sadly, however, this is not true for Israel —

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Continued from page 5 path. At the center is a geyseresque jet of water, coming to life and shooting up toward the sky, reminding me of Geneva’s Jet d’Eau. On your walk, sometimes it seems smaller and sometimes as if you can reach out and touch it, but you always see it spraying upward, moving with you.

In the eighties, on the Upper East Side, flanking each side of the Met are cascades that rise and fall with a crash, all too thrilling to hear.

In the heart of Central Park, off 72nd Street, is the iconic Bethesda Fountain. Even before you reach it, as you approach the top of the grand terrace overlooking it, its angelic bronze cherubs come into view. The lake beyond is the backdrop, rowboats gliding along the water. Music from a street performer punctuates the air. It’s perfect.

The fountain in front of Lincoln Center is round and low, concentric circles of low jets of water surrounded by granite, almost like a bench. The noise of the water is mesmerizing.

Hypnotic. It transports you, especially late at

night — it’s dark, the plaza is empty, the fountain framed by the distant arches of the performing arts center.

One night I sat there people-watching, the sound of the water jets drowning out all thought in almost meditative bliss, then boom! The fountain shut off, and the street clamor came alive again. In a snap, I was back in NYC. The Lincoln Center fountain shuts off at midnight. Be advised! olumbus Circle is yet another round fountain, but more of a series of thin, graceful waterfalls surrounding a monument, not full-on thick jets. At the center of a traffic circle, a wraparound fountain with yellow cabs whizzing in circles all around you — it’s so New York.

There’s a Whole Foods right there, so I’ve sat there with friends, sipping drinks, lit-up arcs of water enveloping us. It’s loud and noisy, yet like all fountains, it is an oasis in the middle of the city.

Rockefeller Center is next. But on the way there, near Radio City Music Hall, you pass another fountain. A huge square block right in the

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especially when it comes to the Palestinians.

In this conflict, democratic Israel is confronted with a bitter, irreconcilable adversary that wishes to inflict harm on the Jewish state and its citizens, a desire that is for all intents and purposes its raison d’etre.

Certainly, in the declarations of its leaders, the text of its foundational documents, and the deeds of its militants, the Palestinian collective has defined itself as Israel’s enemy.

Accordingly, it would be wildly unreasonable to expect Israel to restrict the measures it employs against Palestinians to those it employs against its own citizens!

This, then, is the context, in which Israel’s countermeasures should be perceived — such as travel restrictions on certain roads; intrusive security inspections at checkpoints; preemptive administrative detentions; demolition of convicted terrorists’ homes; dawn raids on households suspected of harboring members of terror organizations; and so on.

However, the enforcement of these coercive countermeasures is not motivated by a doctrine of racial superiority, but by well-founded security concerns for the safety and security of Israel’s citizens — concerns that are not the product of arbitrary malice, nor of delusional prejudice.

To the contrary, they are the result of years of bitter experience, of death and destruction, wrought on Jews by Arab hatred.

One might dispute the wisdom or the necessity of these measures, but not the reason behind their use.

Israel would do well to clarify — forcefully and resolutely — a simple truth, which has been either unintentionally forgotten or intentionally obscured: Identifying one’s enemy as the enemy is not “racism” — it is an imperative dictated by common sense and by a healthy instinct for survival.

Martin Sherman is founder and executive director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.

The answer seems selfevident, but not for Israel.

middle of a busy pedestrian sidewalk, it doesn’t lend itself to the usual mellow feeling, but it’s lovely nonetheless.

At Rockefeller Center is the famous golden Prometheus, a wall of water rushing behind it. It’s the center of a skating rink in winter, a summer tea garden in summertime.

And Bryant Park, that charming tall-tree’d, Parisienne park, flowers blooming along its wrought iron gates, a carousel in the heart of midtown Manhattan. In a valley of skyscrapers, you can see dusk Bb337 through the fountain at Conservatory Garden in Central Park.

Bryant Park, as the rainbow mist gives way to the radiance of the sun setting, ones I visit on hot New York City days or nights bathed by steel shadows from the narrow, mod- with time on my hands. What are the fountains ern buildings crowding the outskirts of the park. you love in your city?

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Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park will be alive with the sound of Jewish music, next Tuesday evening. Starting with a “Gourmet Glatt Spectacular” pre-show at 7 pm, the Village of Cedarhurst’s Tuesday summertime series Jewish Night will headline Beri Weber with music by SABABA, at 8 pm, under the gazebo. The park is at Cedarhurst and Summit avenues and admission is free.

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The Formation of the Talmud Bavli: Both women and men are invited to Join Rabbi Dr. Ari Bergman for a shiur on “The Formation of the Talmud Bavli: Historical, Literary and Theological Dimensions.” 9 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950.

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Continued from page 20 the Jews as â&#x20AC;&#x153;crucifiersâ&#x20AC;? that resonated in this deeply Catholic country. Taking that position did not advance the Palestinian cause, nor did it alter Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategic advantage, but it did contribute to the majority of Venezuelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jewish community of 20,000 fleeing ChĂĄvez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, for safety abroad.

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And Tuesday was not the first time that aircraft from Syria infiltrated Israeli airspace.

On July 13th, a Syrian drone was shot down by a Patriot missile after flying in the demilitarized zone. Earlier, on February 10th, the IDF intercepted an Iranian drone loaded with explosives that had been launched from Syria, and in response, struck several Syrian Air Force and Iranian military targets in Syria. While the IDF struck these targets, the Syrian Air Force shot several missiles and hit an Israeli Air Force F-16, severely injuring the pilot.

After years of silence, Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s border with Syria is heating up, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just Iran that

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er. But it is notable that there has been, once again, a rise in discussion among British Jews about whether they have a future under a government led by Corbyn. The fear that he has normalized anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, coupled with unwavering loyalty to Palestine solidarity activists who have dragged Labour into the mire of Jew-baiting, leads many to conclude that what has already happened in the party will unfold next in the country.

My own view is that it is too soon to draw such a conclusion, although I certainly understand why others do. The possibility remains that the scandal of Labour anti-Semitism will backfire on Corbyn as growing number of Britons express disbelief at the time he spends fighting with a community of 300,000, when an opposition leader serious about securing power would be focused on sweeping away the most divided and unstable British government this century. On this front, Corbyn has yet to convince.

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