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Re’eh • August 10, 2018 • 30 Av, 5778 • Torah columns pages 18 –19 • Luach page 18 • Vol 17, No 31

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The Jewish Star Members of the Five Towns Orthodox community, several hundred of whom attended a discussion on drug abuse on July 16, will participate in a Narcan training session on Monday, Aug. 13, from 7:30 to 9 pm.

Monday’s session is being held in response to “many heartfelt requests” from community members, said officials of the Gural JCC, which is hosting the training at its 207 Grove Ave., Cedarhurst, location.

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In Berlin, ‘Stolpersteine’ is laid outside my grandfather’s house By Leba Sonneberg of North Woodmere I don’t recall when I first heard about the Stolpersteine, but once I did, I knew that it would be my mission to have them installed in front of my grandparent’s home in Berlin. A few months after Kristallnacht, my grandparents were expelled from their home at 6 Lottumstrasse in Berlin and sent to the Cracow ghetto, where they lived until being forced out in 1940. They moved on to a small town called Mszana Dolna, not far from where they grew up. On Aug. 19, 1942, Heinrich Hamann oversaw the massacre of 881 Jews of Mszana Dolna and their burial in a mass grave. My father, who had fled in 1938, never returned to Berlin, nor did he travel to Mszana Dolna to visit the gravesite of his

first person parents. He lived with a great sense of survivor’s guilt. I decided to make the trip, hoping for closure. In 2013, my sister Rena and I visited Mszana Dolna, but the experience was not sufficient to ease the pain. In 2015, I read a newspaper article about Gunther Demnig, an artist who has dedicated himself to placing Stolpersteine at locations throughout Europe. The small brass plaques, installed in front of homes, memorialize those who were forced to leave by the Nazis. Each stone is engraved with the name of the person, the date they left, and where and when they died. Demnig personally removes pavement to

cement the Stolpersteine in. The concept interested me, and I decided to pursue it. In October 2017, I was told that my grandparents’ stone would be installed between March 15 and March 20, 2018. I had to commit to be in Berlin for the ceremony before Mr. Demnig could engrave the stones. I agreed immediately. Only then did it occur to me that I had no idea where to sleep, daven, or find kosher food. After many e-mails to rabbis and Chabad Houses, I finally had a plan. I would stay at a hotel next door to Chabad Alexanderplatz, within a mile of my grandparents’ home. Adass Yisroel, where my family davened, was also within a mile. I made arrangements to visit the Adass Yisroel cemetery where my great-grandmother is buried. See Berlin on page 2

They’re picture perfect! Chabad’s rabbis of LI Chabad’s Long Island rabbis gathered at the Chabad House in Brookville last month to share words of inspiration and discuss expansion of the Chabad Rabbinical Network of LI to represent all 51 Chabad rabbis and 34 Chabad Lubavitch Centers in Nassau and Suffolk. Front (from left): Rabbis Chaim Lieberman, Shmuel Butman, Moshe Goldman, Kasriel Kastel, Tuvia Teldon (regional director of Cabad Lubavitch of Long Island), Chaim Grossbaum, Mendy Heber, Mendy Goldberg, Leibel Baumgarten, Anchelle Perl, Levi Gurkov, Yaakov Saacks, Rafe Konikov. Middle (from left): Rabbis Efraim Mintz, Yaakov Wilansky, Mendy Teldon, Sholom Ber Cohen, Shmuel Lipszyc, Yona Edelkopf, Yossi Lieberman, Yonasan Biggs, Aizik Baumgarten, Asher Vaisfische, Motti Grossbaum, Shaya Hurwitz, Boruch Wolf, Levi Baumgarten, Aaron Shain, Yisroel Halon. Back (from left): Rabbis Yitzchak Goldshmid, Nochem Tenenboim, Berel Sasonkin, Yaakov Raskin, Yankel Lipskier, Eli Goodman, Mendy Paltiel, Dov Ber Paltiel, Shalom Lipszyc. IDs courtesy Rabbi Mendy Goldberg.

Berlin... Continued from page 1 In January 2018 I was notified that the Stolpersteine were engraved and that the ceremony would take place on March 19 at 9:15 am. I was a nervous wreck. This type of trip, traveling into the unfamiliar, was not my style, but neither is quitting. I had invested a lot of time and energy into this project, and I had to see it through. On Wednesday, March 14, my friend Tatyana and I boarded a Lufthansa flight to Tegel Airport in Berlin. It was mid-March, but the frigid temperatures that greeted us in Berlin were extremely winterlike. By Monday, the temperature had warmed up to about 30 degrees. At nine o’clock sharp, we arrived at 6 Lottumstrasse to meet Gunther Demnig for the Stolpersteine installation. The quiet was broken when a woman called to us from an apartment window, “Are you here for a stone laying?” She came outside, accompanied by her daughter, and was soon joined by other residents of the building, some holding roses. They pointed a glass case in the front door

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assistant drove off to another installation. I read a memorial text that I had prepared, torn between intense satisfaction and great pangs of anguish. One of the Lauder Yeshiva teachers spoke in Hebrew about my family and the ceremony. A young Israeli man said Kaddish, and another teacher recited Kel Malei Rachamim. I wish I knew the teachers’ names, but everything happened so quickly, and the children had to return to school. I took pictures, and the residents of the building scattered roses around the stones. One invited me and Tatyana inside to show us the apartment. By 10:30, everyone had returned to their Monday morning routine, and a sense of peace deLeft: Leba Sonneberg at the gravesite of her great-great-grandmother scended on 6 Lottumstrasse. Yentel Sussman z”l, in Adass Yisroel Cemetery in Berlin. Top: Dieter After some quiet time for reflecSanders (left), who helped coordinate the installation of the Stolper- tion, we walked back to our hotel, stein, outside the building where Leba Sonneberg’s grandparents lived, passing by the shul where my famwith Sonneberg and current residents of the building. A photo of Son- ily davened and my father attended neberg’s family hung in the front door. Courtesy Leba Sonneberg school, and the street where my greatgrandfather had owned a butcher where a photograph of my family hung, and their teachers, 12-year-old boys and girls store. We collected our belongings, and before asked about their fate. As we were speaking, from the Lauder Yeshiva. we knew it we were back at the airport for our I turned my head to see an amazing sight. At 9:15, Gunther Demnig drove up. With- return flight to JFK. Walking up Lottumstrasse was a class with out further ado, he started the preparatory This Shabbos is Rosh Chodesh Elul. The work on the cobblestone walk directly in front sixth of Elul falls out on Aug. 17, the anniof the house. He greeted me and shook my versary of the massacre at Mszana Dolna, hand, but waved away my words of apprecia- the yahrzeit of Natan and Leibe Stern and At the July 16 event, at Congregation Beth tion. He got down on his knees with a pickaxe the other 879 martyrs who share their grave. Shalom in Lawrence, Rabbi Dov Silver, found- and removed enough cobblestones to install In Mszana Dolna, the mayor will hold a cerer and executive director of Madraigos, said, four brass Stolpersteine in a neat square. emony at the gravesite with the town’s high “We’re in this problem because the world is in After some discussion, we decided to place school students, as is done every year. And this problem [and it’s] getting worse,” refer- the stones with my grandparent’s names on this year, at 6 Lottumstrasse, for the very first ring to drug and alcohol abuse in Orthodox top of the square. Directly underneath were time, the friends I made in Berlin will say communities. installed the stones for their children: my fa- Kaddish for my grandparents and pay tribute “No longer can you say not my son, not my ther, Isidor Stern, and my uncle Naftali. The to their lives. daughter, not my backyard, not my house,” said stones for Natan, Leibe, and Naftali were enThe photograph of my family remains on Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder. graved with their dates of birth, expulsion, display at the front entrance to the building, Rabbi Kenneth Hain of Beth Shalom said and death. The stone for my father was en- and the residents lovingly polish the stones that dealing with the problem was a matter of graved with his date of birth and date that he on a regular basis.In Berlin, my family is repikuach nefesh that required overcoming “the fled from his home. membered, and it brings me a small measure worry about shame, about discovery.” After the installation, Mr. Demnig and his of solace.

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August 10, 2018 • 30 Av, 5778 THE JEWISH STAR

Organizers of a brick-laying ceremony in Efrat distributed red caps bearing the slogan “Build Israel Great Again,” a gesture of thanks to President Sam Sokol Donald Trump, on Aug. 1.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks at a ceremony welcoming a new neighborhood in Efrat, on Aug. 1. Sam Sokol

or administrations, officials generally refrained from visiting areas over the pre-1967 lines, such as eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank. Huckabee’s and Friedman’s visits constituted a message that “we should separate between the positive and negative vectors in this area,” said Yesha Council Chairman Hananel Dorani, meaning, respectively, the 435,000 Israelis and 2.75 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Dorani described the Palestinians as a violent people who “believe in terror and educate to hate.” He said that lasting peace will only come when millions of Jews have settled in the West Bank and Palestinians realize that they have “no choice but to live side by side.” Yesha Council CEO Yigal Dilmoni was enthusiastic about the future, saying settlers felt like

there was “a new spirit in the period of Trump” and that the U.S. and Israel together could build up Judea and Samaria. Settlement leaders discounted the possibility that their embrace of Trump-style rhetoric could make settlements even more of a partisan issue. Polls show a majority of Republican voters support expansion, while most Democrats oppose it. “You can see the attitude of our PM, which [is] the same,” said Dorani, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump “truly loves Israel, and we think it’s an opportunity for us to get the process forward.” New York physician Joseph Frager, a vice president of the National Council of Young Israel and an organizer of Wednesday’s event, approved the Trumpian rhetoric, saying it “helped the president in the United States get elected.” “Judea and Samaria have to grow,” Frager said. “The president, I think, likes to see demonstrations of that fact. I think this catches his eye and his interest, and it could be helpful.” Israeli politicians and American Orthodox Jewish leaders have thanked Trump. At a recep-

tion celebrating the U.S. Embassy’s move to Jerusalem, Orthodox Union President Mark Bane described Trump as “G-d’s messenger,” while Israel’s justice minister Ayelet Shaked called him “Churchill of the 21st century.” At the time, Dan Shapiro, who served as U.S. ambassador to Israel under President Barack Obama, said it was understandable that Israelis and American Jews were engaging in “hyperbole” because “it’s become accepted in international circles that the way to gain favor with President Trump is to engage in excessive flattery.” “The settlers are euphoric about Trump’s victory,” said Hagit Ofran of Peace Now. “Together with Netanyahu, they feel they can do whatever they want in settlements. Netanyahu is seizing the opportunity of the carte blanche he got from Trump to set facts on the ground in order to prevent the possibility of a two-state solution. This is bad news for anyone who cares about Israel and wants to see it living in peace and prosperity side by side with its neighbors.” In one of Obama’s last actions as president, the administration abstained on a U.N. Security Council resolution to declare Israel’s settlements illegal and demand the building stop. When the parties to the peace process seemed committed to restarting it a year ago, Trump cautioned Israel against settlement expansion, saying it could frustrate the process. Now that the process is dead, Trump and his administration barely mention settlement — a break from the Obama administration, which spoke out against any announced building. While happy without Obama-era censure, Dorani said settlement leaders still feel stifled. “During eight years of Obama we couldn’t build like we wanted, and now under Trump we are building but not enough,” the Yesha CEO said, asking Huckabee to intervene with the president. “There are still limits. We can’t build new settlements or big neighborhoods.”

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By Sam Sokol, JTA EFRAT — Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee laid bricks in a new neighborhood in this community’s Tamar neighborhood last week. During a ceremony reflecting President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” rhetoric, organizers distributed red caps with the slogan “Build Israel Great Again” and spoke of their gratitude for the president’s support. Leaders of the Yesha Council, which represents the movement to build Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, indicated that the ceremony was part of an effort to garner American support for expanding the Jewish footprint in what some in the West refer to as occupied territories. “I cannot tell you how proud I’ve been of the president as it relates to the land of Israel,” said Huckabee, a Trump supporter, talk show host and ordained minister. Speaking against a backdrop of “Build Israel Great Again” signs, settlement leaders took turns praising Trump and calling on him to lift limits on settlement construction. “We appreciate the American administration that appreciates the importance of us living here and the connection of the Jewish people to their homeland,” said Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi, and Yesha’s foreign envoy. Asking Huckabee to convey to the president what life is like in his city, Revivi said he hoped the White House would realize the importance of settlement building. While Trump initially declared settlement expansion “unhelpful,” he subsequently changed his tune, declining to condemn Israel’s approval of more than 2,000 settlement homes. According to Peace Now, Israel has approved plans for nearly 14,000 units since the 2016 election, a significant increase over the 4,476 units approved in the year-and-a-half before Trump’s victory. Earlier this week, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman paid a shiva call to the family of a terror victim in the Adam settlement. In pri-

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Settlers welcome Huckabee to Trump-style Efrat

Fire kites sting honey farms before Rosh Hashanah By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, JNS When you drive into Israel’s Sha’ar HaNegev Region in the northwestern Negev, the fields are burnt and black. The trees are broken, and the smell of acrid smoke stings the eyes and nose. “It is a very upsetting view,” said Zeev Meidan, manager of the Israeli Honey Council. Meidan, once employed as a beekeeper at the area’s Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, has been spending extra time in the southern district to support the region’s honey farmers, many of whom have been the target of arson attacks by Hamas. He said arson in the Gaza periphery via flammable kites and helium balloons has caused millions of shekels in damage to the beehives of Kibbutz Erez and Yad Mordechai in the period before Rosh Hashanah, the height of the honey harvest. On average, Meidan said, hives would produce as much as 50 kilograms of honey each. “After many months of labor, we were supposed to collect the honey from our hives,” said Boaz Kanot, chairman of the Israel Beekeepers Association. “The recent fires have burned dozens of beehives full of honey just before it was meant to be packaged and distributed. This is a huge loss.” Many beekeepers rely on income from this season to support themselves throughout the year, explained Yitzchak “Hakale” Amitai, manager of Kibbutz Erez’s building and infrastructure. He said beekeepers’ taxes go to the kibbutz, which will also suffer a financial blow. The government has committed to help offset the loss, but only about half of the funds have been transferred thus far, said Meidan. Amitai said the beehives are not located in the kibbutzim, but in open land around them. In addition to the bees themselves being scorched, the remaining bees cannot produce honey because there are no flowers on which to graze. “Flowers do not grow overnight, so in the near future there will not be enough flowers

Honey farmers inspecting beehives that caught fire due to attacks from the Gaza Strip. Alon Sigron

A beehive in flames at a honey farm in southern Alon Sigron Israel near the Gaza Strip.

The charred remains of a honey farm in southern Israel. Israeli Honey Council

to make honey,” he said. Fewer bees also mean “that they will not be able to pollinate the fields.” ‘Nearly all the grove was burnt’ According to Meidan, Israel produces 3,500 tons of honey per year; little or none is exported. It imports about 1,000 tons of honey, which together with local production just meets the needs of Israelis, especially around the holidays. He said Israel’s northern farmers and imports this year should make up for the loss in the Sha’ar HaNegev Region, and prices should remain stable through the High Holidays and Sukkot. Meidan said Israel has around 120,000 beehives, 5,000 near the Gaza border. Of those, some 200 have been destroyed and thousands more impacted by the fires. While annual plants can be regrown with little impact on next year’s honey season, he explained, other varietals, like eucalyptus trees, cannot be grown in a year. As such, there will be long-term impact on the industry that has yet to be determined. The situation has taken an emotional toll. “It is terrible to watch your hives burn up alongside eucalyptus trees, flowers and grazing land,” said beekeeper Ido Eden. “Nearly all the

grove was burnt, and with it, my hives ... I was planning to go on vacation with my family, but now I’m not so sure. It just feels terrible.” ‘It is not only hurting the Jews’ Yahel Ben-Aris, volunteer coordinator for the MetroWest New Jersey Federation-Kibbutz Erez partnership, expressed similar sentiments. “You just look out at the fields and see fire — another kite, another balloon — it’s crazy. It doesn’t make sense.” Ben-Aris lives in Kibbutz Erez. He said there are at least six fires a week, sometimes three a day. The kibbutz has put together a firefighting team with equipment purchased largely from donations by the MetroWest New Jersey Federation. There is a constant need to replenish items like fire hoses, which are quickly worn down. Retirees from across the country have volunteered to sit in watchtowers monitoring aerial attacks. Strikingly, even as their fields are destroyed and production frustrated, residents and leadership alike say they have empathy for the plight of the Gazans and do not want to go to war. Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council Mayor Alon Shuster told JNS that Gaza activists have set fires

near the border for years. Now, kites and balloons extend their reach. While he said that the results are tragic economically, emotionally and agriculturally, “we are lucky none of the burning kites have put people in danger.” He doesn’t want military action to be the only solution. “A war will just temporarily stop the fires, but it will not stop Hamas from attacking us again,” he said. “Of course, Hamas is a terrible partner for negotiations. … But we must move to a situation where Israel opens dialogue with Hamas — for the people of Israel and Gaza. While this is hard on us, the people in Gaza are suffering in ways we cannot even imagine or describe.” Meidan added, “Hamas should know that not only does the arson not help them, it is not only hurting the Jews. It is bad for nature and killing bees, innocent insects that don’t deserve to die.” He believes the people of the Sha’ar HaNegev Region are resilient. “We will not be broken.” Ben-Aris said the first flowers that pop up as the land starts to heal are red anemones, which he said will revive the fields in vibrant color. “It will be very pretty,” he said. “New life — that is the message I would send back to Hamas.”

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August 10, 2018 • 30 Av, 5778 THE JEWISH STAR

From left: Felicia Schwartz, Elana Oved, Judy Zborowski, Mitchell Schwartz, Scott M. Feltman, Rony Oved, Miles Fisher, and Shuly Fisher.

From left: Esther and Eli Arakanchi; Lawrence Deputy Mayor Michael Fragin, One Israel Fund Executive Vice President Scott M. Feltman, Nassau County Legislator Bruce Blakeman, and Phil Goldfeder.

Lawrence turns out to back One Israel Over 200 guests gathered at the Lawrence home of Rony and Elana Oved to support the One Israel Fund at a BBQ and Israeli wine tasting. The Oveds’ opening of their home to encouraging their friends and neighbors to

come and learn about the One Israel Fund is but one facet of their ongoing tzedakah and chesed. The July 25 event’s tasting featuring wines from Judea and Samaria presented by Tzvi Lauren from Heart of Israel Wines.

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Dear Friends, I am reaching out to say thank you. I was deeply moved by the outpouring of love and support that I have received from all of you this weekend. It was a roller coaster of a weekend. The beautiful tribute Lisa and I received in our celebration of 10 years in the shul this past Shabbat was both touching and exhilarating. I returned home after Shabbat to learn that my family had experienced a loss. Again, I cannot express how precious it was to me having so many people reaching out, sending emails, texts, WhatApps, and participating in shiva meals to show they cared and were thinking of me and my family. As a rabbi, my most important role is to be there for people, to be there for you. Nobody is always successful, and I know that is true of me, but that is always my goal; and it is my treasured privilege. This weekend has been a role reversal for me. I cannot tell you what it means to me to feel my community there for me in all the ways I try so hard to be there for you. It shows me you value as deeply as I do the avodat hakodesh, the sacred work, we do together, and it reinforces for me that you care about me and family as much as I care about you and yours. In the next 10 years I hope to be there for all of you at all of your semachot, be there for you when necessary during difficult times, and be there for you on a daily basis as we work together to build a strong family of service to HaKadash Baruch Hu. May the joyous outweigh the challenging; may the challenging add meaning to the joyous; and may our community, our shul, and our family of friendship continue to flourish. With sincere gratitude, Yehuda Septimus, Rabbi Young Israel of North Woodmere

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QAnon: A theory that’s only slightly anti-Semitic By Charles Dunst, JTA “We are Q.” The slogan appeared on shirts and signs at President Donald Trump’s campaign rally Tuesday in Tampa, Florida, for a Republican congressman, Ron DeSantis, prompting confusion and concern from across the political spectrum. What is Q, exactly? “Q,” it turns out, refers to QAnon, a conspiracy theory growing in popularity among some on the far right. The conspiracy centers around an anonymous online figure, Q, who, according to The Daily Beast, claims to possess top-level security clearance. QAnon followers believe that there is worldwide criminal conspiracy controlled by top Democrats, and that Trump, always in control, has manipulated the Mueller investigation to trap the “real criminals” — Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and other leading Democrats. Posts by Q, dubbed “breadcrumbs” by loyalists, claim that even Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain is a target of Mueller’s investigation. The conspiracy has one overarching and optimistic message for its supporters: Trump is in charge of everything, and his enemies, largely Democrats and liberals, will soon fall. After the Tampa rally, a reporter asked White House press secretary Sarah Sanders if Trump “encouraged the support” of the participants in Q-related shirts. “The president,” Sanders responded, “condemns and denounces any group that would incite violence against another individual and certainly doesn’t support groups that would promote that type of behavior.” More QAnon supporters appeared at the president’s rally Thursday in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The conspiracy does not explain what the president’s enemies are being “investigated” for. Some accuse Clinton and Obama of colluding with Russian President Vladimir Putin, while others suggest that these Democrats, along with Hollywood figures and world leaders, are participating in a global pedophilia ring. According to the conspiracy, every American president before Trump was engaged in criminal conspiracy with pedophile rings, the “deep state” and pharmaceutical companies to enslave the American people. Is this any different? While some have criticized media coverage of QAnon for elevating the movement, the fact that hundreds of conspiracy theo-

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David Reinert holds up a large “Q” sign representing QAnon, a conspiracy group, while waiting in line to see President Donald Trump at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Aug. 2. Rick Loomis/Getty Images

rists are showing up to real-life rallies for the president, whom they see as a potential authoritarian savior of the country, strikes many as an ominous sign of an emerging lunatic fringe. Ted Mann, writing in Tablet, notes that Q posts are “framed as dispatches from the shadow war between the establishment and Trump, the intended audience for which was the weird, huge pro-Trump digital community.” Although once limited to marginal Internet message boards like 4chan and 8chan, Q over the past year has amassed a host of new believers and followers. A video explaining the theory has amassed nearly 200,000 views, while the QDrops app, which sends alerts related to the theory, climbed near the top of the Apple app store rankings earlier this year. QAnon counts numerous celebrities as fans, including Roseanne Barr and former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling. Its followers have demonstrated an increased propensity to affect the tangible world. In June, a man driving an armored vehicle and carrying two firearms forced the shutdown of a highway near the Hoover Dam. He held a sign referring to one of QAnon’s pet theories about Democratic criminal activity. Q has also targeted Michael Avenatti, lawyer of Stormy Daniel,

and has posted photos of Avenatti’s office and of a man standing outside it. Q later posted that Avenatti had been sent a “message.” “The frightening thing about QAnon isn’t that a bunch of Americans believe in a looney conspiracy theory (what else is new),” Slate writer Jordan Weissmann tweeted. “It’s that they’re waiting for Donald Trump to arrest his entire political opposition. “These people are ready for military rule.” So, is QAnon anti-Semitic? Although not specifically so, some of QAnon’s archetypical elements — including secret elites and kidnapped children — are reflective of historical anti-Semitic theories. “In all Western culture, you can argue that all conspiracy theories, no matter how diverse, come from the idea of the Jews abducting children,” Chip Berlet, the co-author of “Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort,” told The New York Times in April. “Stories about globalists stealing children for sex aren’t that far removed from stories about Jews stealing children to use their blood for making matzah.” In addition to these central elements, QAnon, as an opensource conspiracy theory comprised of Q’s relatively vague posts, gifts followers with ideological flexibility, enabling them to supplement the conspiratorial canon with additional, sometimes anti-Semitic theories. The QAnon narrative is “flexible enough to fold in just anything that makes the news,” the Daily Beast’s Will Sommer wrote in July. For example, when NBC’s Ben Collins recently attempted to explain QAnon, one supporter alleged that his script had been “written by Jacob Rothschild,” a reference to the Jewish banking family that has been at the center of anti-Semitic conspiracies for centuries. Others have expressed support for the Seth Rich conspiracy, which involves a Jewish staffer for the Democratic National Committee who was shot dead in 2016. “The vast majority of QAnon-inspired conspiracy theories have nothing to with anti-Semitism,” said the Anti-Defamation League’s 2017 “Anti-Semitism Globally” report. However, the report said QAnon followers, likely due to the conspiracy’s flexible nature, often refer “to Israel, Jews, Zionists, or George Soros” as boogeymen aligned with supposedly criminal Democrats in opposition of Trump. Q, rather than the mysterious individual’s followers, has referenced Jewish philanthropist Soros as an ally of the criminal Democratic cabal. For Q, Soros is an enemy. For some of Q’s followers, so are Israel, Jews, Zionists and the Rothschilds.

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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA DEVENTER, Netherlands — Four years ago, Tom Furstenberg proudly carried into his synagogue its first Torah scroll since the Holocaust. It was an important moment for the Beth Shoshana Masorti community established in 2010, in a city of nearly 100,000 residents 60 miles east of Amsterdam. It was proof that Jewish life had finally returned to a place from which it had been uprooted. “I felt that this was it, nothing could reverse our presence as part of this city,” Furstenberg, a 49-year-old teacher and chairman of Deventer’s Jewish community, told JTA. He had been overly optimistic. On Monday, he and a dozen other members of their congregation of 35 had to take away the scroll and all the other ritual possessions and load them into a white van. The Deventer synagogue was sold in January by the church that had owned it for decades. The developers, a Dutch-Turkish restaurant owner, evicted the congregants amid a legal fight over a plan to turn the place into an eatery. For Deventer, the eviction meant “the end of a Jewish presence in this city,” Sanne Terlouw, a founding member of Beth Shoshana, told JTA with tears in her eyes. But for many other Dutch Jews, the demise of the Great Synagogue of Deventer signals a broader demographic shift: Jewish life and heritage are becoming increasingly difficult to maintain outside Amsterdam, where most Dutch Jews live, because of secularization and the echoing losses of the Holocaust. “Of course it’s sad, we’re losing a piece of our history,” said Esther Voet, editor in chief of the NIW Jewish weekly in Amsterdam. “But the reality is that this small Jewish community cannot afford to stay in that huge synagogue. That’s just the way it is.” With no synagogue of its own, Beth Shoshana will move to nearby Raalte, where it will share space with an existing congregation. Voet says she finds this “a reasonable solution” born out of a “regrettable reality.” But in Deventer and beyond, the evicted congregants appeared less resigned. On Monday, the congregation gathered one last time in the building they had just emptied. Sipping black coffee and eating prune cake, they sang “Am Yisrael Chai” and “Kol Ha’Olam Kulo.” Some cried; others tried to console them. ‘This was our home for a long period,” Ehud Posthumos, 79, a retired Royal Netherlands Air Force officer, told JTA. “On win-

ter nights, we’d gather here in the cold — we never heated the place properly to save on utilities — and although outside it turned very dark early in the afternoon, here inside we had a great source of light. And now it feels like losing a home.” Maurice Swirc, the former editor-in-chief of NIW, called the synagogue’s sale “a scandal” and found it “very painful.” Dutch authorities, he said, “were partially responsible for the fact that Deventer does not have enough Jews to maintain she synagogue. The least they could do is help preserve it.” The affair prompted intense interest internationally. JTA’s video report of the community leaving the shul has been viewed more than 200,000 times. Ronny Naftaniel, a founder of The Hague Jewish Heritage group, said the synagogue’s sale is unusual “for a city such as Deventer, where authorities have a high awareness for heritage.” Deventer, where Jewish cattle dealers left an indelible mark and where Naftaniel’s family lived before the Holocaust, “could have set aside this space,” he said. Until recently, Furstenberg’s community held onto its synagogue thanks to the Christian Reformed Churches group, which bought

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the building in 1951 from the severely depleted Jewish community and turned it into a church, complete with a pipe organ. In 2010, Furstenberg and other local Jews asked the church’s permission to reestablish a synagogue in the hall, which they began renting at a subsidized rate. But the church sold the building this year. The highest bidder was Ayhan Sahin, the DutchTurkish developer, and his associate, Carlus Lenferink. This summer, the entrepreneurs announced their plan to turn the synagogue into a restaurant. Furstenberg objected and the city declined to approve the plan. Amid negotiations, Sahin was quoted said, “If need be, I’ll turn it into a mosque,” according to De Stentor regional daily. He later said he would allow the community to stay if it paid full rent, an unlikely prospect for the small congregation, which could barely afford maintenance fees. Maarten-Jan Stuurman, a spokesman for the Deventer municipality, told De Stentor that the city tried to help the community, but ultimately “it is not the city’s task to buy religious properties it does not use.” The issue of rent, he said, “is at the discretion of the owner.” Losing the synagogue is “a major step back for the city,” Furstenberg said, his voice echoing in the empty space. “Once again, the city is looking on as its synagogue is being destroyed.” Furstenberg’s j’accuse was a reference to the building’s wartime history. Unlike most Dutch synagogues, Deventer’s was not methodically confiscated. Instead, it was ransacked by Dutch Nazi mob on July 25, 1941. Under the watch of local police, they smashed furniture, hacked open the ark, tore up the scroll, pulled down the chandeliers and dislodged the bimah, which was built in 1892. Of the 590 registered Jews in Deventer, the Nazis murdered 401 — typical for a country where Nazis and local collaborators killed at least 75 percent of Jews, the highest death rate in Western Europe. Dutch Jewry, which numbered 140,000 before the Holocaust, never replenished its numbers. Today, Holland has about 45,000 Jews. Referring to the genocide, Furstenberg said “This is the reason there are not enough Jews to afford this place.” In the interior of the Great Synagogue, a tall building in the neo-Moorish style, he added: “This is not just a story about a dwindling faith community, like all those churches that get turned into a discotheques. This is an aftereffect of the Holocaust.”

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ummer entertainment is fun and relaxed — no formal tables or best china. In the summer, paper plates and hands-on eating rule the hot days and long evenings. Cold beer and lemonade are musts, as are foods that easily travel around the yard or pool. Sweet corn fresh from the farm, cold salads, fresh-picked tomatoes and more make summer a truly special time for get-togethers and parties. Burgers, hot dogs, even grilled fish can make a perfect afternoon or evening of entertainment. Add a kiddie pool and even a sprinkler for the adults, and you have the makings of a fun time. For an adult-only event, some great cocktails and some delicious appetizers before dinner outside can lead to a delightful meal inside before the mosquitoes descend. Great food does not have to be fancy. We sometimes operate under the misconception that only a multi-step dish is acceptable for company. Nothing could be further from the truth. The other night, I put together a dinner in about two hours from start to finish. Homemade hummus, grilled chicken, roasted cauliflower, zucchini potato cups, broccoli salad and lemon cake. What took the longest was cutting up the vegetables. I need a sous-chef! So if you want to celebrate the last month of summer, do it with some fun and easy eating. Enjoy the time with your guests. Use paper plates, real flatware and lots of napkins. Everyone will be relaxed and will love the fun and relaxed summer way to entertain. Broccoli Salad (Pareve) This is an old favorite that I continue to make to rave reviews. I add seeds and nuts for health, and it becomes a lunch the next day. Salad: 4 to 6 cups chopped fresh broccoli florets 1 cup chopped celery 1 cup scallions, green and white 1/2 cup chopped Vidalia or red onion 1 cup halved green seedless grapes 1 cup halved red seedless grapes 1 cup dried cranberries or dried snipped cherries 1/2 cup sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, slivered almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, pistachios, etc.

Dressing: 1 cup mayonnaise, regular or low-fat 1/3 sugar, more or less, to taste 3 to 4 Tbsp. white vinegar, to taste Place all salad ingredients in a large bowl and toss to mix. Whisk the mayo, sugar and vinegar together. Pour over the veggies and serve. Veggies can be made the day before, covered and refrigerated, but add the dressing just an hour or so before serving. Quick and Simple Baked Beans (Pareve) 6 cans navy or cannellini beans drained and rinsed 1 to 2 large onions, finely minced 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1 cup unsulphured molasses 1 can (3 ounces) tomato paste 1 cup water 1/2 cup dark brown sugar, to taste 3 tsp. dry mustard, to taste 1 tsp. powdered ginger 1/4 tsp. freshly ground black pepper 1 tsp. salt (to be added AFTER cooking) Drain the beans, rinse and place them in a deep 4 quart, oven safe, casserole. In another bowl, place the minced onion, vegetable oil, molasses, tomato paste, water, brown sugar, mustard, ginger and pepper. Whisk to

blend and pour over the beans. Mix well, cover and place in the oven. Bake for 1 to 2 hours, checking often to make sure the liquid does not evaporate. If it is too watery, remove the cover for about 15 minutes, checking often. If too dry, add more water. About 60 to 70 minutes into the cooking time, taste and adjust the seasonings. You might like to add some more pepper or even some smoked paprika or some red pepper flakes. You can add some lemon juice if you want to brighten the flavor or some more brown sugar if it is not sweet enough. You can also add some vinegar for a tangier flavor. This is a freestyle recipe and does well with many additions. For a fully fleishig dish, add some grilled hot dogs or spicy sausages. Charred Corn, Tomato and More Salad (Pareve or Dairy) 12 ears of corn 1 large Vidalia or Red onion, finely diced 1 quart cherry or grape tomatoes, cut in half 1 cup fresh basil leaves, rolled and thinly sliced 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice 7 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste OPTIONAL: Diced avocado, diced cucumbers, cooked farro, quinoa or other grain crumbled

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For the New Year, a chocolate babka challah By Chaya Rappoport, The Nosher via JTA There’s nothing more comforting than a slice of babka and a glass of milk to break a long fast. In my family, it’s pretty much all we eat. But I don’t always make babka, and I do always make challah, especially during the High Holidays season. So, for convenience, I started setting aside one portion of my challah dough, rolling it out like babka and filling it with chocolate, creating a babka-challah hybrid. It saves me time, tastes delicious and since my challah dough is pretty enriched, works just as well as my babka dough. Here I’ve adapted my challah recipe to yield just one round, perfect spiral filled with chocolate and spice. I’ve found that using both cocoa and melted chocolate in the filling creates the richest, gooiest interiors. I combine chocolate with a bit of olive oil, salt, sugar and spice in a pot, and while they melt, I spread the dough with oil, cocoa and sugar. Then I drizzle the chocolate over the cocoa spread dough. Rolled up in a log, twisted into a spiral and baked with a crown of buttery, cinnamon-flecked crumbs, it’s warm, melty and decadent. I can’t think of a better way to enter the New Year. Variations: You can use margarine or Earth Balance in place of oil in the crumble to make it completely non-dairy. Not a fan of margarine? You can also combine 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/2 cup of flour, 1/4 cup of vegetable, a dash of cinnamon and a sprinkle of salt for a butter- and margarine-free topping. You could even add a drizzle on top: Combine 1 cup of confectioner’s sugar with 1/4 cup of hot water, a splash of vanilla and a pinch of salt, and whisk it well to combine. Drizzle over the challah while it’s hot. Ingredients: For the challah: 3-1/2 cups all purpose white flour, plus more for rolling out 1 cup lukewarm water (around 105 F) 2 tsp. active dry yeast 1/3 cup white sugar 2 tsp. sea salt

Directions: 1. Make the challah dough: In a large bowl, dissolve the yeast and the sugar in the water; set aside for 5 minutes until a bit foamy. 2. Whisk oil into yeast, then beat in the eggs, one at a time, with the salt. Gradually add flour. 3. When dough holds together, turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead until smooth. Clean out bowl and grease it, then return dough to bowl. 4. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place for 1 hour, until almost doubled in size. 5. Punch down dough, cover and let rise again in a warm place for another hour. 6. While the dough rises, make the filling: Melt the chocolate with the oil in a pot over low heat on the stovetop. Add the sugar, salt and spices to the pot and stir to combine. Refrigerate to cool until needed. 7. On a floured surface using a rolling pin, roll out the dough to an 18- by 10-inch rectangle, with the long side nearest you. Brush the olive oil over the dough. Sprinkle the cocoa over the greased dough. Top with the sugar and mix with your hands to combine. 8. Top with the melted, spiced chocolate mixture and use a spatula to swirl it out over the dough. 9. Starting with the long side farthest from you, roll the dough into a snug log, pinching firmly along the seam to seal. Coil the log to form a round challah and place in a pan to rise, around 40 minutes. 10. Make the crumble: Combine all of the ingredients except for the butter in a medium bowl and give a quick stir to combine, making sure to break up any lumps of brown sugar. 11. Add the butter and use your fingertips to mix everything together until crumbs form. Set aside until needed. Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375 F. Brush the top of the challah with egg wash. Sprinkle with crumble. 12. Bake until the top is a deep golden brown, about 40 to 50 minutes. Transfer the challah to a rack and cool to room temperature. Serve.

2 eggs 3 Tbsp. vegetable oil 1 egg, whisked, for egg wash For the chocolate filling: 4 ounces dark chocolate, finely chopped 2 Tbsp. olive oil 1/4 tsp. fine sea salt 3 Tbsp. sugar 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon 1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg 1/8 tsp. ground ginger 3 Tbsp. olive oil 1/4 cup cocoa 1/4 cup sugar For the crumble: 1 cup all purpose flour 1/2 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar 1 tsp. fine sea salt 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon 1 stick unsalted butter, softened but cool

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Druze men protest outside the Haifa District Court, carrying both the Druze and Israeli flags.

buses are waiting to transport demonstrators to the mass protest in Tel Aviv. One of the activists, who insists on anonymity, passes between the buses and ensures that none of the protest signs are of a political nature. “We are not against the state or its symbols,” he says, showing me that every Druze flag is paired with an Israeli flag. “On Friday, there were some radical leftists here, and they were handing out little Palestinian Authority flags. Those flags went into the trash, and we demanded that the activists leave. With all due respect to the left-wing organizations and the pro-Palestinian organizations, our protest is not anti-Zionist or against the state.” In other Druze villages across the Israeli north, the consensus is that the protest has taken a turn that makes most Druze, even those

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who oppose the law, uncomfortable. “It is not acceptable for anyone to call MK Avi Dichter, who authored the law, a Nazi,” says Daliyat alKarmel Mayor Rafik Halabi, a former journalist and one of the leaders of the protest movement against the law. “You, in the media, are warmongers and inciters,” says Wahil, a Druze IDF officer in the reserves. “Most of the Druze don’t even care about the nation-state law. But there are these people who make sure to push the young people to protest. The people behind this are not part of the Druze community. They are radical left-wing activists. “Nowhere in the law does it say that the Druze people don’t have civil rights. We have never demanded national rights, and we have no problem with the State of Israel being the

nation-state of the Jewish people. Quite the contrary. The Druze people have linked their fate with the Jewish state of Israel in a covenant of blood. The Druze people have thrived here since the state of Israel was established, unlike the Druze people in other, neighboring countries, who are persecuted.” Dozens of buses begin making their way from the Druze villages towards Tel Aviv, heading for the protest. “There will be tens of thousands of people in the square, but our hope that this demonstration won’t come back to bite us,” says Wafa with a sigh. “Sadly, even people who don’t identify with this cause have to agree with it because that’s the trend in our community. It is true that they don’t listen to their elders, and it’s OK for them to have their own opinion. But they have to keep in mind that within our small, unique community, we have enjoyed and will continue to enjoy the protection of the State of Israel.” “I’m afraid that the Jewish public will think that we are coming out against the state,” he continues. “It is important to me and many like me to clarify: We are not Palestinian. We are not Palestinians living in Israel. We are Zionist Druze, who love the state and identify with its values and its symbols — 99 percent of the Druze sing the national anthem ‘Hatikva.’ We will continue to fight for the state that, over the course of its 70 years, has extended all the civil rights to its minorities.” Wafa adds that he hopes “those encouraging the youngsters to label Israel an ‘apartheid state’ and call the prime minister and the MKs ‘Nazis’ don’t end up causing an irreparable rift between the Druze and the Jewish populations in Israel. “Our young people need to understand that the moment they stop serving the interests of those encouraging them to protest against the state, they will disappear. And then what? The New Israel Fund will take care of them? Where were they until now?”

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The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway held its 11th annual Golf Spring Classic and Spa Day at the Seawane Country Club in Hewlett Harbor in memory of Jacob Greenberg, a former HAFTR student. The outing is HAFTR’s second largest fundraiser, and school officials called it “a tremendous success.” From left: Stuart Mayer, Marc Yehaskel, Solomon Goldwyn and Gilad Kalter were one of the many foursomes.

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Hospitals eye a transition to war By Yaakov Lappin, JNS Under the guidance of IDF Home Front Command, Israeli hospitals are shoring up their ability to shift into war mode should conflict erupt without warning. Hospitals could find themselves under heavy fire, yet still must be able to care for existing patients and the war-wounded. Ziv Medical Center in Tzfat last week held an intensive drill simulating heavy rocket fire from Hezbollah, weeks after Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus held a similar exercise. Maj.-Gen. Merav Shavi-Sultan, head of the Hospital Preparations Department in the Home Front Command, told JNS that preparation for such emergencies goes on year-round. “The readiness of the State of Israel, in light of incidents in past years, causes us to always think about emergencies,” she said. “Hospitals are inseparable part of this event. They understand where they are.” During the exercise, for which staff spent months preparing, the medical center practiced receiving patients “injured” by enemy fire while the city sustained rocket barrages. All the while, the hospital experienced power failures and infrastructure crashes as part of the simulation. The point of the training is to see how effectively the hospital transitions from routine operations into war mode. This includes testing how quickly it can transfer patients and equipment away from departments that do not have rocketreinforcement protection to those that do, how able it is to create a “situation assessment of its resources, and whether or not they know what their red lines are when their resources deplete.” As soon as the hospital established that the

Ziv Medical Center in the Northern Israeli city of David Cohen/Flash90 Tzfat, on May 15.

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country was in a state of war, it began sending away “patients” who could be cared for elsewhere, clearing beds ahead of the arrival of dozens of incoming patients suffering from mockwar injuries. The hospital also had to check on its ability to function under a cyberattack, which could disrupt blood laboratories or patient records. It tested its ability to move patients to rocketproof protected zones—here, an auditorium fitted ahead of time with power supplies, water, gas and all of the necessary medical equipment. “When the day of the drill arrives, we check the ability of the hospital to run many simultaneous incidents in a short time,” said Shavi-Sultan. The drill included the scenario of direct rocket strikes on the hospital and the need to evacu-

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Plenty of summer fun around Long Island If Long Island trumps travel on your summer itinerary, don’t despair: There are plenty of activities in and around our home base that promise an enjoyable vacation experience. For some, Long Island means Nassau and Suffolk. Period. Others consider parts of Queens to merit the Long Island moniker. But Long Island extends through Brooklyn too, and if you add the boroughs of New York to your Staycation menu, there’s so much more to do! Suggest additional venues for future inclusion to Publisher@TheJewishStar.com

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SHAbbAT STAR ‫כוכב של שבת‬ Seeing is knowing, not necessarily believing

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Rabbi avi billet Jewish Star columnist

here’s an old saying “Seeing is Believing.” But while many idioms have truth, this one is factually inaccurate. I’ve watched many a magic trick, both live and recorded. I see things I cannot believe. I know they are tricking me. A more accurate statement is sometimes made in court: “Your Honor, I know what I saw.” I may not know the context, the background, or what happened after I left. I can speculate, but I only know what I saw. Our parasha begins with the word “Re’eh” — see, I have placed before you a blessing and a curse. We can argue that Moshe, who in Devarim is in some ways innovative but in others quite repetitive, is putting his cards on the table. He is not saying, “Re’eh! Behold!” He is saying, matter-of-factly, “Re’eh. Look. This is the reality.” As Chizkuni succinctly puts it, “Until now, he rebuked them to undertake ‘fear of heaven.’ From here and on, he begins to place the mitzvot before them.” You can preach fear of heaven from today until doomsday, but without practical steps for how to get there, such

as through the observance of mitzvot, the preaching will go nowhere. Moshe is saying to the people — Look. You have G-d. I think I’ve made the case for relating to Him. But look — you also have people. Your son, your daughter, your servants, the Levite, the stranger, the orphan and widow. There is a very clear balance that we must “see” — both a relationship with G-d, and a need to look out for our fellow man. t the Splitting of the Sea, the people saw Gd’s mighty hand, and they believed. Seeing did not lead to knowing, only belief. For Egypt, on the other hand, Hashem’s goal was that they “know that I am G-d.” Sure enough, as they realized they were trapped and that the water was about to come down on them, the Torah tells us “Egypt said ‘I will fall before Israel, because G-d is fighting for them’.” Egypt knew, yet Israel merely believed. How? Israel saw what Egypt saw, but their conclusions were a matter of perspective. Belief, by definition, comes from the unseen. I can believe the Mets have a chance, even though I see them losing. It requires a suspension of what I know to be true. If I know it, I don’t need to believe it; it is a certainty. At

the sea, everyone saw the result. They knew Egypt was gone. But while some believed in G-d, some may have believed Moshe was a god. Their knowing of G-d was suspect. Egypt, on the other hand, was facing their demise. When you witness a nation do the impossible — walk into the seabed on dry land — but you cannot follow suit, you know it comes from a higher power. How many people, at the end of their lives, know they are about to meet their Maker? For the best of us, there is a dawning moment of clarity where they no longer believe in G-d, but know He is there. But for the rest of us, perhaps there is a thought hiding, like Nathan Jessup said, “in a place we don’t talk about at parties,” a smidgen of doubt. I don’t know for sure — I can’t see! How can I know what I can’t see? I can only believe. he commentaries note that the language of the verse switches from singular to plural between “Re’eh — you the individual needs to see,” and “I am placing before all of you a blessing and a curse.” Perhaps re’eh is a call to every individual. You, the individual, can see and know if you only open your eyes. But your belief as a col-

The Jewish people never achieved what Egypt did.

Jerusalem, the center of the world From Heart of Jerusalem

Rabbi biNNY FReeDMaN

Jewish Star columnist

was at a wedding in LA when the family of the groom decided to daven mincha. Someone immediately asked, “Which way is east?” I was struck by the fact that in Israel, no one asks “Which way is east?” It’s “Which way is Jerusalem?” (My first time in Lebanon we prayed facing south, a strange feeling for someone who grew up in New York.) It is powerful to realize that any Jew, praying anywhere in the world, faces Israel. Every Jew in Israel faces Jerusalem. Every Jew in Jerusalem faces the Old City. Every Jew in the Old City faces the Temple Mount, specifically the place where the Temple once stood. Why is the Temple so important? The forerunner of the Beit HaMikdash was the Mishkan, which accompanied the Jews in the desert for nearly 40 years and was the center of spiritual life for hundreds of years after that. Throughout the reign of Yehoshua, the Judges, Shaul and David, there was no Temple, only a Mishkan. The Mishkan is a focal point of discussion throughout Shemot, Vayikra and Bamidbar. But interestingly, in the book of Devarim it is not mentioned even once! The Torah does describe in Devarim the idea of a place chosen by G-d, and although not named, the phrase “hamakom asher yivchar Hashem Elokecha,” the place chosen by G-d, occurs no less than 16 times in this week’s parasha of Re’eh alone. But if is the Mishkan would remain the spiritual center of the Jewish people, why is it no longer mentioned?

Why is the Torah so focused on a place that will not even be chosen until the end of David’s reign? here is an obvious difference between the Mishkan and the Beit HaMikdash: the Mishkan was always a temporary structure, whereas the Beit HaMikdash was meant to be permanent. In fact, ideally the Mishkan would never have been built: if not for the Golden Calf, the Jews would have left Sinai straight for Israel. Once it became clear the Jews would be spending longer than anticipated in the desert, they needed a spiritual anchor, a response to the vacuum that had caused the sin in the first place. So G-d enjoined them to build a Mishkan. Why did the ideal include a permanent structure in Israel? Because nothing lasts forever. We all need a way to recharge our spiritual batteries. So three times a year, every Jew took a break from the grind of life and journeyed to a place where the presence of Hashem could be more intensely experienced. Interestingly, in Divrei Hayamim, when G-d agrees that the people are ready for a permanent Beit HaMikdash, the mountain He designates is called Mount Moriah, the place of Akedat Yitzchak. Rav Soleveitchik suggests that there are two mountains in Judaism: Sinai and Moriah. Mount Sinai was where G-d gave to us; it was at Sinai that we received the ultimate gift: the Torah. Mount Moriah, however, is where we were willing to give everything up for G-d. It was there that Avraham was willing to offer up his son, whom he loved more than anything in the world.

The Temple was built in the place that represents our willingness to give, to be partners with G-d in making a better world. Devarim, especially Re’eh, see no mention of the Mikdash because they are all about the Jewish people readying themselves to enter Israel. Moshe enjoins the people to create a society that will be a role model for the world. It’s hard to build an ethical society next door to people who commit murder, adultery and robbery, or have no ethical courts. They need a spiritual center to foster Jewish unity. The book of Devarim makes clear that the goal is a society and land with G-d at its center, on a permanent basis. The Mishkan is not the focus here. The Beit HaMikdash is. e are living in incredible times. Physically, the Jewish people are finally returning home after 2,000 years of wandering. The largest Jewish community in the world is in Israel. Soon, the majority of the Jews in the world will be there. We are witnessing a worldwide debate on Jerusalem’s status as the capital, the center of the Jewish people. This is not an accident. At stake is the question of whether we are a people chosen by G-d, whose prayers face a place and a mission chosen by Him. What lies at the center of our lives? What direction do we face? Is it a spiritual goal? Do we have a place to retreat to, and experiences that will allow us to change and to experience G-d and deeper meaning in our lives? And can we make such moments last? Shabbat shalom from Jerusalem.

Ideally, the Mishkan would never have been built.

lective will remain belief. There is always a skeptic in the crowd, unless, like Egypt knew at the sea, we know that we are going to meet our maker. With all its cynics, the Jewish people as a whole have never achieved what Egypt achieved in the moment the water crashed down upon them. Individual Jews have come to know G-d personally. But what do they need to see in their lives to get there? Hopefully only blessing and goodness, but sometimes suffering and hardship. Many of us believe in G-d. But belief, which requires a small leap of faith, doesn’t come from what you see. It comes from what you don’t see. When you don’t know, you can still hang onto belief. Was that injury, accident, financial loss, illness, healing, coincidence, finance deal, Gd’s message to us? I believe so. But I don’t know. With Elul upon us, of course we need to work on our relationship with G-d. But more importantly, in many cases, we need to work on our relationship with our fellow man. If we can only see our task at hand, when we do our part, we can be confident, hopefully knowing that G-d is here, that our relationship with Him is strong; and as He sees that we look out for our family, as well as the vulnerable, we will have confidence in His blessing for the coming year.

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AlAn JAy geRbeR

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t is with deep heartbreak that I write this obituary upon the untimely passing this week of one of our country’s greatest scholars of the Jewish book, and a longtime dear friend, Rabbi Dr. Yaakov Elman, of blessed and sacred memory. I first met Yaakov as a student at the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School on the Lower East Side in the early 1960’s, when he was the manager of the legendary Rabinowitz Hebrew Bookstore on Canal Street. There, he cultivated my blossoming love for Jewish books, especially theology, history and biography, during my daily lunchtime visits. He always had time for me, to teach me the definition of a high quality book. It was a love that would define my life work as a teacher and a writer. Yaakov recognized the potential that my interests repre-

sented at this early stage of my life, and I am eternally grateful. Membership in the People of the Book has brought with it a deep appreciation for those who wrote, marketed, and made books available to a little boy. With this personal tribute, I would now like to bring to your attention a short biographical sketch of who Yaakov really was. In a brief note, one of our people’s great historians, Dr. Shnayer Leiman, wrote to me, “I was at the funeral. It is a tragic loss, though we thank G-d for the many years we were fortunate to have him with us. His scholarly accomplishments were astounding, given his late start, the accident, and its aftermath. He has left an incredibly rich legacy for the Jewish scholars of the future. But I will remember him not only for the breath and depth of his scholarship, but also for his warmth, kindness, and intellectual honesty.”

He recognized my potential, and I am eternally grateful.

For the sake of peace Torah

RAbbi dAvid eTengoff

Jewish Star columnist

ur parasha, Re’eh, contains the obligation to physically destroy all objects used for idol worship: “You shall tear down their altars, smash their monuments, burn their idolatrous trees with fire, cut down the graven images of their gods, and destroy their name from that place” (Devarim 12:3). This destruction must be total, without compromise. Every trace of avodah zarah must be expunged from every corner of Eretz Yisrael. In stark contrast, the next verse enjoins us: “You shall not do so to the L-rd, your G-d” (Devarim 12:4). One of the laws derived from this verse is the prohibition of erasing Hashem’s name, even by one letter. Paradoxically, however, Sefer Bamidbar presents us with the obligation to erase Hashem’s name. Part of the Sotah process,

determining the status of a woman accused of infidelity, entails writing a document that contains the name of the Almighty, which is then completely erased in the bitter waters of the Sotah ritual. We are met with a true contradiction. On the one hand, in our parasha, the Torah commands us to treat the Name of Hashem with all the holiness it deserves. We are warned against destroying even one letter of His holy Name. Yet, the Sotah process mandates the destruction of that very Name! How are we to understand this inconsistency? ot surprisingly, our Sages wrestled with this problem. One of their clearest resolutions is found in Talmud Yerushalmi, Sotah 1:4, where Rabbi Meir’s students witnessed a woman spitting in the face of their beloved teacher, and felt that he had been mistreated. Rabbi Meir, however, had instructed

Good, bad, or both? Angel for Shabbat

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re human beings basically animals who need to be tamed by the forces of civilization? Or are humans angelic beings who sometimes get dragged down by the external forces of nature? Thomas Hobbes coined the proverb “homo homini lupus” — man is wolf to man. We can’t trust each other, or ourselves, to act in a nonwolfish pattern; we need to be controlled by laws, to be forced to behave morally. The role of religion and civilization is to curb our innate tendency toward aggression and violence. On the other hand, some argue that humans are innately kind and cooperative; we descend into violent behavior because of pressures from outside ourselves — feeling threatened by others, living in an environment of poverty or drug addiction. If we could clean up the external negative features of society, we would all live nice,

side from selling books, Yaatexts of our tradition. He was very kov was the author of the secmuch involved in both graduate tion on Nevi’im in The Living and undergraduate teaching for most of his life, a skill honed to near Torah series founded by his dear perfection through his many years friend Rav Aryeh Kaplan, zt”l. This at Rabinowitz. volume was unique for its maps He was to become a professor of and diagrams, something never atJudaic studies at the Bernard Revel tempted before. Graduate School of Jewish Studies, He also wrote Hazon Nachum: Rabbi Dr. Yaakov Elman dividing his time between Yeshiva University and Harvard, where he Studies in Jewish Law, Thought and History, was an associate at its famed Center for Jewish presented and dedicated to Studies. He was to receive his M.A. in AssyriolRabbi Dr. Norman Lamm for ogy from Columbia University and his PhD in his 70th birthday. He was also Talmud from New York University. Rabbi Dr. Yaakov Elman left a lasting impresthe author of Reading the Hebrew Bible: Two Millennia of sion on my own life’s work, in my eternal love of Jewish Biblical Commentary, books, appreciating those who might differ with as well as Authority and Tra- me, and those who have come to appreciate my dition in Talmud Babylonia. work. He passed away at way too young an age. Among my favorites was his Nevertheless, he will always be viewed by this popular Immortality, Resurrection and the Age writer as a man of lasting integrity, a sage both in his own youth, and in the 75 years of his gifted of the Universe: A Kabbalistic View. He published widely in the field of Talmudic life as a teacher among our people, especially, study, rabbinic theology, rabbinic legal exegesis among our youth. I will miss him forever. and the cultural context of the major rabbinic

the woman to do so. The seemingly disparaging interaction ultimately served a holy purpose. “If the Holy Name that was written in total kedushah must be obliterated in [bitter] waters in order to bring about peace between a husband and his wife, should we not act in the same manner?” Rabbi Meir’s response to his students enables us to view the Sotah ritual, and its concomitant obliteration of Hashem’s name, in an entirely new light. Though at first glance it may appear to be a trial by ordeal, nothing could be further from the truth. In the vast majority of cases, the authentic purpose of the Sotah process was to reunite a couple in marital harmony. Given the holy purpose of reconciliation, nothing should stand in the way. Even the destruction of the Divine Name itself is a small price to pay to achieve peace. The Rambam applies Rabbi Meir’s explanation to clarify how one should act in the following halachic dilemma: “What should one do when there are insufficient funds to buy oil

for both the Shabbat lights and the Chanukiah (Menorah)?” He answers, “The Shabbat lights take precedence since they bring about marital harmony. After all, G-d’s Name itself is obliterated [in the Sotah process] in order to bring about peace between a man and his wife. Great is peace, for the entire Torah was given to bring about peace in the world” (Mishneh Torah, Sefer Zemanim, Hilchot Chanukah 4:14). Once again, peace in its broadest sense, and shalom bayit in particular, are prime imperatives within the authentic Jewish mindset. The connection between the unique holiness of Hashem’s Name and the pursuit of shalom is a natural one, for as Chazal teach us, one of the names of G-d is “Shalom” (Talmud Bavli, Shabbat 10b). In his commentary on this Talmudic phrase, Rabbi Shmuel Eidels (1555 – 1631) explains that this is the case because “[Shalom] is not found in man in any sense whatsoever. As such, the Name of the Holy One, may He be blessed, is quite fittingly Shalom because it is He and He alone who makes peace in our world.” (Maharsha, Chidushei Aggadot, Shabbat 10b). Rav Eidels’ words are reminiscent of the concluding words of Kaddish that have echoed throughout the ages: “May He who makes peace in His high places, make peace for us and all Israel.”

is a key ingredient for survival and happiness. In his book Beyond Revenge, Michael McCullough describes the evolution of the forgiveness instinct. Just as we have an urge to take revenge, we also have a strong streak within us that encourages us to forgive. ewish tradition has long understood that human beings are complex, that we have both positive and negative inclinations. Judaism does not view humanity as a group of individuals struggling for survival by engaging in aggression; nor does it view humanity as an innately peace-loving, altruistic group. We like to think that we are essentially good and that we have the power to overcome our evil inclinations. In this week’s Torah portion, we find the instruction to share with the poor: “You shall not harden your heart nor clench your fist from your needy brother” (Devarim 15:7). Rabbi Yitzhak Shemuel Reggio, a 19th century Italian Torah commentator, notes: “One who holds himself back from helping a poor and impoverished person needs to harden his heart, because compassion is part of human nature.” In

other words, we are essentially good, compassionate individuals who naturally want to help others. Only by hardening our hearts can we overcome our natural tendency to do good. This optimistic assessment of human nature was alluded to in a comment attributed to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. The Rav noted that according to Freudian psychology, human beings at root are filled with animal instincts. If you scratch deeply enough into the human psyche, you will find aggressiveness, hostility, jealousy. The Rav contrasted this viewpoint with the classic Jewish teaching. If you go as deeply as possible into the human psyche, you will find holiness, a profound crying out for G-d. As the Psalmist declared, “Mimaamakim keraticha Hashem,” from our depths, we call out to G-d. This week’s Torah portion reminds us of the obligation to do that which is upright and good, to live a morally responsible and respectable life. The optimistic Jewish view suggests that these are goals to which we are naturally disposed. We only sin if we deviate from our basic desire to live generously and compassionately. Yes, we do have negative inclinations, and yes, these inclinations can drag us down. But the hallmark of a truly religious person is the recognition that at root and in our depths, we are endowed with a grand spirituality that is the key to an upright, good and happy life.

Even the destruction of the Divine Name is a small price to pay for peace.

quiet, moral lives. Proponents of the Hobbesian view draw on the notion of “survival of the fittest.” According to this theory, humans (and all animals) are engaged in an ongoing struggle for survival. There is a never-ending competition for resources; only the strongest prevail and reproduce. Weaker animals are killed or die out. Thus, the best strategy for survival is to destroy the competition. Yet this theory has been seriously challenged by a growing number of contemporary researchers. In his important writings, Frans de Waal has demonstrated that animals — and human beings — actually enhance their prospects for survival by cooperative behavior. By working together with others, they are better able to maintain the safety and security of their groups. In his book The Age of Empathy, de Waal points to nature’s lessons for a kinder society. Being nice is not only an abstract moral principle; it

As we have an urge for revenge, we have one to forgive.

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New ‘Anne Frank’ is NOT about ICE and illegals Politics to go

Jeff Dunetz

Jewish Star columnist

hen I first read about it, the report made me so angry I was about to burst. It was nothing short of disgusting — Director Stan Zimmerman was staging a new version of “The Diary Of Anne Frank” that would change the narrative from a young girl hiding in an attic from Nazis who wanted to kill all of the Jewish people, to a story about Immigration and Customs Enforcement arresting illegal immigrants. It was nothing short of Holocaust denial. Actually, it was a far cry from Holocaust denial, because the reports about the play were nothing short of a falsehood. Getting ready to pounce on Zimmerman, I went through his twitter feed. One tweet linked to an Instagram post on his account, which said: “Great first read last night. Big thanks to @iamjuliegale for assembling this gifted cast. Contrary to Breitbart and the Drudge Report, I am NOT changing the Nazis to ICE. As I’ve stated, I was inspired after hearing about a Jewish woman in LA who created a Safe House for a Latina mom & her daughter when her husband was deported. I thought, what if this Jewish woman gave the script of ‘The Diary of Anne

Frank’ to the family and they started reading it out loud? So please take a breath and see it before you judge it. This is coming from a place of love and honor and compassion.” Yet Deadline Hollywood said the Nazis were represented as ICE agents, Jews as illegal immigrants. The Daily Caller wrote, “A new play recreating the famous story of Anne Frank and her family hiding from the Nazis is coming soon, but instead of evading the Nazis, the Franks will be an illegal Latino family in California hiding from ICE.” The Daily Mirror wrote, “A new stage production of ‘The Diary Of Anne Frank’ will reimagine the story as one about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents hunting for illegal immigrants, rather than Nazis persecuting Jews.” The truth is that all reports of the Nazis and Jews being replaced with ICE agents and illegal aliens in the production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” are wrong. The play being directed by Zimmerman is a word-forword presentation of the 1997 Broadway script that starred Natalie Hershlag (later Natalie Portman) and was nominated for two Tony Awards. So where’s the controversy? ccording to the show’s website, the new staging is inspired by the true story of a Jewish woman in Los Angeles who created a “safe house” for a Latina mother and her two daughters after her husband was deported. “This made me think,” Zimmerman said. “What

More important than politics and semantics is the truth.

would happen if this Jewish woman handed out the play to families that she’s hiding and they all begin to read it aloud? Couldn’t the story of Anne Frank be essential today since a recent New York Times survey found the memory of the Holocaust is fading?” Per my email exchange with Zimmerman, at the beginning of the performance, the “Jewish woman” character literally hands out scripts, and they begin reading the play. The play features mostly LatinX [a genderneutral term for Latinos and Latinas] actors. Although the “readers” at the beginning of the staging are hiding from ICE, this “Diary of Anne Frank” is still a story about Jews hiding from Nazis. It still takes place in the top floors of the annex to an office building in Amsterdam. But Zimmerman is mounting this production because he believes it’s important to tell Anne Frank’s story as is. He wrote to me: “We are here to honor Anne Frank’s story and to educate. Shockingly, we found when auditioning young actors that they didn’t know the story of Anne Frank. I thought the book or play was read in all schools.” I totally disagree with Zimmerman’s politics. In my humble opinion, the Jewish woman in Los Angeles who created a “safe house” was aiding and abetting illegal immigrants breaking the law. I believe that arresting people who are in the country illegally is one of ICE’s jobs, along with preventing other crimes like child trafficking and MS-13 murders. From what I have read

about Zimmerman, he probably wishes I would call them “undocumented” rather than “illegal.” But more important than politics and semantics is the truth. And the truth is that while Zimmerman’s play may be told by a Jewish woman and a family illegally in the U.S. hiding from ICE, what the audience will see and hear is the real, undoctored script of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” the same one that was nominated for Tony Awards two decades ago. Jeff Dunetz played Otto in a production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” at SUNY Oswego in 1977.

UNIFIL has another opportunity to do its job Ron PRosoR Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations

ood riddance. These words are a proper sendoff for Maj. Gen. Michael Beary, the commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, who is about to complete his four-year term. Beary had one job: to prevent Hezbollah from spreading south of the Litani River. He consistently refused to enforce this, insisting that the terrorists moving south of the river were actually shepherds and hunters. Even during his farewell interviews, he could not utter the word Hezbollah.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has lambasted Beary for shirking his duty, calling him a disgrace to the organization and “blind.” His conduct is also the reason why for the past year I led an international campaign to have him replaced. The United Nations has appointed Maj. Gen. Stefano Del Col in his stead. He is to enter the job on Tuesday. I hope that when the outgoing and incoming commanders sat down to discuss the transition, the word Hezbollah came up. But since there is no way to trust Beary on this most basic task, I have a few suggestions for Maj. Gen. Del Col. Maj. Gen. Del Col, I am not so naive as to think UNIFIL can single-handedly remove Hezbollah from southern Lebanon, and no one expects you to actively take it on. But here is what you can do: First, go out and enforce your mandate to

“take all necessary action in areas of deployment of its [UNIFIL] forces and as it deems within its capabilities, to ensure that its area of operations is not utilized for hostile activities of any kind.” Currently, UNIFIL troops are too scared to operate after sundown and refuse to enter Hezbollah-held areas. Second, use the tools you have at your disposal. I am not sure if Beary told you about the drones your troops have in storage. They can monitor Hezbollah’s activities and relay the footage to control rooms around the world, with almost zero risk for troops on the ground. It is time you unbox those drones and start using them. The third thing you have to do is report findings accurately. You are taking over an organization that is at a low point. Your predecessor

has made it into a laughingstock, and has undermined its credibility and deterrence. It is hardly surprising that no one takes UNIFIL seriously in this region. Restoring credibility will also restore deterrence. As a proud Italian, you are probably fond of drinking wine from Tuscany. Israel’s Tuscany, the Galilee, is being threatened by Hezbollah’s presence in southern Lebanon. You have the power to ensure that the Galilee continues to produce fine wine for many years to come. We are going to monitor UNIFIL, and if you carry out your job faithfully, you have my word that I will send you several bottles of wine from the Galilee. Ron Prosor is head of the Abba Eban Chair of International Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations.

stephen M. Flatow

Jewish News Syndicate

ight Jewish organizations this week signed a statement accusing Israel of, in effect, racism. Seven of them were left-wing groups whose harsh criticism of Israel is old news. But one was the National Council of Jewish Women, a venerable organization that ordinarily does not associate itself with such vile smears. The statement, distributed on July 31 as an online ad, accused “the Prime Minister and Government Ministers” of Israel of engaging in “dangerous incitement” against Israel’s Arab citizens. That is a serious charge. A regime that deliberately incites hatred against citizens of a particular ethnic group is behaving on the moral level of the worst authoritarian regimes in memory. So what’s the evidence? Where’s the proof that the Israeli government has degenerated into a mob of racist inciters? The declaration cites three pieces of “evidence.” he first was an incident in April. An Israeli news report claimed that some fans at a soccer game in the Israeli Arab village of Sakhnin refused to stand, or booed, during a

moment of silence for Israeli victims of a recent flood. The article was then posted on the Facebook page of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with a statement by the prime minister calling the fans’ behavior “an utter disgrace.” Criticizing individuals for their behavior is not “racist,” and it’s not “incitement.” In this case, however, as soon as doubts arose concerning the accuracy of the report, the prime minister’s staff removed it from the Facebook page. Certainly, it was careless of them not to have looked further into the story before publicizing it. But that’s not the same as deliberately and maliciously trying to whip up hatred of all Israeli Arabs. The other “evidence” in this week’s declaration was even less credible. It pointed to the fact that two cabinet ministers strongly criticized the pro-terrorist statements and actions of Arab Knesset member Ayman Odeh. The ministers didn’t criticize Odeh for being an Arab. They didn’t call for Arabs to be banned from the Knesset. In fact, they didn’t call for any action against Arabs at all. They called for action against Odeh because of his indisputable record of supporting terrorism and terrorists. For example, in an interview with Israel Army

Radio on Oct. 6, 2015, Odeh was asked about that week’s Palestinian murders of U.S. citizen Eitam Henkin and his wife, Na’ama, in front of their four young children. At first, Odeh avoided endorsing the murders, but then he asserted that Palestinians have “a right to struggle” against Israel. He cited the first intifada — with its thousands of bombings, shootings and other attacks — as an example of “struggle” that is “fully justified.” Pressed as to whether throwing rocks at Jews is legitimate, Odeh said, “I always blame the occupation for being guilty. I cannot tell the nation how to struggle, where and which target to throw the rock. I do not put red lines on the Arab Palestinian nation.” Knesset member Itzik Shmuli denounced Odeh’s statements as “disappointing.” Shmuli represents the Labor Party. One of the eight groups signing this week’s statement was Ameinu, better known as the U.S. wing of the Labor Party. I wonder why they didn’t include Shmuli in their denunciation of “incitement.” I guess if “our guy” says it, then it’s not incitement. In an interview with Al-Arabiya TV on March 4, 2016, Odeh was asked about the wave of Palestinian knife attacks against Israelis. He replied: “We should examine our history and the history

The ‘evidence’ is even less credible.

An end to illusions in Egypt Jonathan s. tobin

Jewish News Syndicate

he Egyptian government recently passed a new law against spreading “rumors.” By “rumors,” President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi means anything that might undermine confidence in his regime. El-Sisi runs a military dictatorship that puts journalists who report factually about events in the country — or anyone with a Facebook account — in potential peril. Such offenders have swelled the already high population of dissidents in Cairo’s jails. Egypt’s record on human rights has gone from bad to worse as the regime tightens its grip on power. But in a development that set off a predictable chorus of opposition from Trump critics, the U.S. State Department lifted restrictions on military aid to Egypt, put in place a year ago to register American dismay at Cairo’s human rights record and ties with North Korea. The decision is being denounced as yet another indication that Trump likes dictators. But American policy toward Egypt isn’t a function of the president’s soft spot for strongmen. To the contrary, doubling down on American back-

ing for El-Sisi is a reflection of sober analysis. It shows that Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are aware of the mistakes Obama made in Egypt and why they shouldn’t be repeated. he same things that can be said about ElSisi were said about Hosni Mubarak, who led Egypt from 1981 to 2011 after the assassination of Anwar Sadat, murdered by radicals for making peace with Israel. Mubarak, determined not to suffer the same fate, avoided it by a combination of brutal repression and ice-cold peace with Israel. Successive U.S. administrations were queasy about his authoritarianism, but kept billions in U.S. aid flowing to Cairo, the price to keep a dubious ally and the status quo. When the Arab Spring protests began in 2010, Obama believed it was the moment. to embrace change. As many conservatives embraced the notion of spreading democracy in the Middle East during the Bush administration, Obama thought supporting democracy was consistent with American values and strategic interests. But Obama’s attempt was as much a disaster as Bush’s. When demonstrations against Mubarak began, Obama pushed an ally out. It

seemed like the right thing to do, but Obama was either oblivious or mistaken with respect to the question of succession. There was only one entity in Egypt with the strength to mount a successful national campaign: the Muslim Brotherhood. While Obama and a credulous Western press fell for the Brotherhood’s depiction of itself as a band of Islamic democrats, their goals were very different. The Brotherhood was an Islamist group ready to fill the vacuum left by Mubarak’s collapse — and that’s what they did, sweeping to power in the 2012 election and putting Mohamed Morsi in Mubarak’s chair. Over the next year, Egyptians watched in horror as the Brotherhood sought to transform their country into a Sunni theocracy. Morsi ignored American efforts to support democracy. When protests against the Brotherhood spread, Obama warned the Egyptian military not to try to overthrow Morsi. But as tens of millions took to the streets to oppose their nation’s drift towards extremism, the army, led by El-Sisi, ignored Washington and deposed Morsi. The United States is still hated by Islamists for all the reasons they always have, but now it has

It was the price America paid to keep a dubious ally.

A Tale of two heroines? Not exactly. View from Central park

tehilla r. goldberg

Intermountain Jewish News

hed Tamimi, the Palestinian teenager who beat up IDF soldiers on camera, was released from Israeli prison after eight months. She thrives on attention. She has verbalized her support for terrorism. She has a history of beating IDF soldiers, and comes from a family of terrorists. Her aunt, Ahlam Tamimi, was an architect of the 2001 Sbarro suicide bombing. In an infamous video, Ahlam expresses pride that three children were among the victims. When the interviewer

corrects her — seven children were killed — a smile spreads across her face. The family are known terrorist sympathizers and supporters. This week, upon Ahed’s release from jail, an Israeli woman on Facebook placed a photo of Tamimi next to Sara Aaronson, who spied for the British against the Ottomans during World War I, when they systematically starved the local population. The photo was captioned something like, “Two heroines: one Jewish, one Palestinian.” The post accrued over 1,000 likes, and was shared over 200 times. Certainly every camp has extremists. But with this level of support, you start wondering where “conventional” ends and the fringe begins, if comparing Ahed Tamimi to Sara Aaronson is just another run-of-the-mill Facebook post. The side-by-side photo showed a striking

physical resemblance between the two. But I see only one heroine. aronson was in her twenties when she became active in her family’s espionage work. Famously, they were known as NILI, an acronym of the verse, “Netzach Yisrael lo yeshaker.” She chose to join NILI from a place of maturity and thought. Tamimi is a teen, a pawn in the hands of her family, who slaps IDF soldiers to score cheap points. Aaronson became a spy against the Turks after witnessing the her horror of the Armenian genocide as she traveled from Istanbul home to Zichron Yaakov. Unlike the Ottoman Turks, the IDF soldiers on duty near Tamimi’s village act as humanely as possible. Despite their visible guns, Tamimi is comfortable enough to walk straight up to them

of the nations to determine strategies. There is no doubt that a popular intifada is most beneficial to the Palestinian people. I, from my place, cannot tell the Palestinian people how to resist.” ust six weeks ago, on June 18, Odeh took part in a conference in eastern Jerusalem sponsored by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). The PFLP and the DFLP are terrorist groups that have murdered and maimed many hundreds of Israelis — and Americans — since the 1960s. That’s who Ayman Odeh chooses to associate with. And that’s why he deserves to be criticized. I’m not surprised that J Street and Americans for Peace Now signed the “anti-incitement” declaration. Pointing a finger at Israel has become their trademark. But I am profoundly disappointed that the National Council of Jewish Women would sully its good name by allowing itself to be dragged into this smear of the Jewish state. I give the NCJW the benefit of the doubt, assuming that they were misled by the other signatories. Perhaps they did not see the final text before they gave their approval. Maybe they didn’t carefully research the claims that are made in the anti-Israel declaration. They can rectify this error by immediately disavowing the declaration. Attorney Stephen M. Flatow is a vice president of Religious Zionists of America.

been blamed for Egypt’s year under the Brotherhood’s tyranny. Though he did so reluctantly, even Obama had to admit that his policies had failed. He grudgingly restored most of the aid he sought to withhold after the coup. hile the United States wasn’t wrong to wish for the spread of democracy in the Arab world, Obama had learned that there were only two choices in Egypt: a tyrannical military that would violate human rights but not seek to destabilize the region; or Islamists who would be just as tyrannical but would also constitute a threat to U.S. and Israeli interests. The only rational thing for America to do was to join Israel in backing El-Sisi. For all of the horror it has inflicted on dissidents, El-Sisi’s government has allied itself with Israel against Islamist radicals, including the Hamas government in Gaza (an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood), and an Iranian regime that seeks regional hegemony. It’s easy to criticize Trump for supporting a violator of human rights, but we already know what happens when a U.S. president tries the alternative. Repeating that disaster is unthinkable. The El-Sisi regime is as brutal, corrupt and incompetent as Mubarak’s. It is an unreliable ally. But it’s better to have a weak and unsavory ally running the most populous Arab country than a strong and ruthless Islamist enemy. Say what you will about Trump’s foreign policy acumen, but even he knows better than to repeat Obama’s blunder. Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS.

and slap, on video. She is confident that no IDF soldier will lay a finger on her. Encouraged by her family, Tamimi has been at it for years. She has no mature understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She does not act out of principle. She does not understand recent modern history, how her leaders have again and again rejected Israeli offers of peace. Aaronson acted in secrecy. She didn’t seek to become a media darling. Fame was not her goal. She endangered her life for the pro-British espionage network, a woman of deep character, who worked to thwart a cruel, genocidal dictatorship. But Tamimi is all about PR. Her antics are always videoed and executed, almost as a performance, in view of a camera lens. For her, it’s all about publicity and attention. It’s hard to see the gap between Israeli political extremes, and to have a beloved heroine of modern Jewish history beside a terrorist-sympathizing, terrorist-promoting Palestinian teen. Copyright Intermountain Jewish News

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shiur. 9:15 am. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950. Torah 4 Teens: [Weekly] Yeshiva program for high-school age boys & young adults with Rabbi Matis Friedman. 9:15 am-12:30 pm. 410 Hungry Harbor Rd, Valley Stream. Torah4teens5T@ gmail.com.

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