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Rosh Hashana 1943: Danish freedom dash

By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org

Allan Sherman was a proud Jewish star

As the final minutes of Rosh Hashana ticked away, 13-year-old Leo Goldberger was hiding, along with his parents and three brothers, in the thick brush along the shore of Dragor, a small fishing village south of Copenhagen. The year was 1943, and the Goldbergers, like thousands of other Danish Jews, were desperately trying to escape an imminent Nazi roundup.

“Finally, after what seemed like an excruciatingly long wait, we saw our signal offshore,” Goldberger later recalled. His family “strode straight into the ocean and waded through three or four feet of icy water until we were hauled aboard a fishing boat” and covered themselves “with smelly canvases.”

Shivering and frightened, but grateful, the Goldberger family soon found itself in the safety and freedom of neighboring Sweden.

For years, the Allied leaders had insisted that nothing could be done to rescue Jews from the Nazis except to win the war. But in one extraordinary night, 70 years ago next month, the Danish people exploded that myth and changed history.

When the Nazis occupied Denmark during the Holocaust in 1940, the Danes put up little resistance. As a result, the German authorities agreed to let the Danish government continue functioning with greater autonomy than other occupied countries. They also postponed taking steps against Den-

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operation had the strong support of Danish church leaders, who used their pulpits to urge aid to the Jews, as well as Danish universities, which shut down so that students could assist the smugglers.

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changed his name to theirs — Sherman.

“It was his way of thumbing his nose at his mother and all she stood for. His mother’s life was a failure by living the life of a lie.”

Because of his “crazy mother and father and stepfather,” Sherman saw the “world as so completely mad and insane” that he “wasn’t interested in living a life of rules” and would “do what he wanted to do,” Cohen explained, and also “glorified childhood.”

Cohen sees Sherman as an “important

figure in Jewish life,” a “shrewd observer of Jewish life” and “insightful regarding Jewish American culture,” whose parodies took “memorable, extremely nonJewish songs, and made them Jewish.”

He hopes his book, the first expansive biography of Sherman, will “lift him up as an object of serious consideration.”

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Hailed as a pioneer humorist and inspiration for today’s Jewish comedians, Allan Sherman, the product of a broken home whose oft-married mother was determined to break the links to her Jewish past, broke the taboo against emphasizing Jewish identity.

On the 50th anniversary of Sherman’s Grammy Award-winning “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh,” Queens native Mark Cohen has published “Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman.”

“Allan Sherman was one of the first Jewish American comedians to openly embrace his Jewish identity and write about the Jewish community in America as it was actually living in the current daily life without sentimentality and nostalgia for the earlier immigrant period,” Cohen told The Jewish Star. “He wrote about the ordinary prosaic life of Jews in America,” with the song “Sarah Jackman” presenting a “portrait of JewishAmerican life in 1962.”

Sherman was a product of an unstable and disturbed childhood. His father left the family early on, his mother remarried several times, and they moved frequently throughout the country. His mother rejected Judaism and tried to hide her Jewishness, changing the family name to deJewify it.

Sherman, on the other hand, “was open and unembarrassed about being Jewish — he was proud of it, he loved being Jewish,” said Cohen.

Sherman was close to his grandparents who were openly Jewish and he

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By Gosia SzymaÐska Weiss, JNS.org The world of Polish-Jewish relations is confronting a crisis over kosher slaughter of animals. Both kosher and Muslim halal slaughtering rules forbid stunning the animal beforehand. Under Polish law, however, such stunning is mandatory. The Polish Constitutional Court recently struck down an exemption from that law for kosher and halal slaughter on a legal technicality. Last month the Sejm, the lower chamber of the Polish Parliament, failed to reinstate the exemption.

Jews in the United States and Israel reacted quickly to the Sejm vote. Misinformation about the roots of the legislation as well as a negative knee-jerk reaction based on certain perceptions — or misperceptions — of Poland’s history led many to the hasty conclusion that Poland today is no different than it was in the 1930s, when anti-kosher-slaughter legislation was part of a broad assault on Jewish rights.

Poles, on the other hand, seemed surprised by the criticism, and their reactions ranged from defensiveness to outright antiSemitic rhetoric. The office of Poland’s Chief Rabbi, Michael Schudrich, received an unprecedented number of anti-Semitic letters, emails, and phone calls. While anti-Semitism was not the root cause of the controversy over ritual slaughter, it reared its ugly head once the Sejm vote became a matter of public debate.

The kosher slaughter issue needs to be settled in favor of religious freedom, and reports from Poland suggest that this is likely to happen. But a positive resolution may prove no more than a Pyrrhic victory, since the tenor of the discussion has reopened old

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The Sejm, lower house of the Polish parliament, rejected reinstatement of legal religious slaughter. wounds in Polish-Jewish relations. The bleeding needs to stop before decades of efforts to heal this important relationship unravel.

All sides must realize that once this particular controversy is resolved, the relationship between Poles and Jews will continue, and everyone has an interest in strengthening it.

As a Polish Jew living in the United States, I have dedicated my work over the years to creating space between the images of horror associated with Poland’s World War II history and the bright, hope-filled scenes of modern times. I have witnessed the building of remarkable bridges of understanding through my work with the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) Polish-Jewish Exchange program — work that AJC had the foresight to launch more than 20 years ago. We cannot go backward. How we conduct our dialogue now will shape the quality of the relationship moving forward.

An understanding of the facts is key to progress in Polish-Jewish relations.

Poland legalized kosher slaughter in 1997

with the passage of a law regulating the relationship between the State and the Jewish community. The Animal Protection Act, also passed in 1997, rendered slaughter without stunning illegal, but included an exemption for ritual slaughter. In 2002, this exemption was removed, leaving the Animal Protection Act and the kosher slaughter law in conflict.

To resolve it, the Polish Minister of Agriculture, by decree, announced an exemption for ritual slaughter. It remained in effect until 2011, when Poland’s Constitutional Court — in an action brought by the country’s strong animal rights lobby — overturned the minister’s decree, but did not resolve the underlying conflict of laws. Following the court’s ruling, the government sought to protect religious freedom and the interest of farmers who produce kosher and halal meat for export by introducing the bill that would reinstate the ritual slaughter exemption.

The Sejm voted 222-178 against the exemption, as a dissident minority faction of the governing party joined with the opposi-

tion party to defeat the government initiative. Anti-Semitic sentiments were nowhere publicly expressed in the discussions leading up to the vote. The most plausible explanation for the Parliament’s action is the political weakness of Prime Minister Donald Tusk— not anti-Semitism.

The controversy now rests again with the Polish Constitutional Court, which eventually will have to reconcile the conflict between the animal rights legislation and the law that regulates Poland’s relationship with the Jewish community.

Meanwhile, both Jews and Poles have work to do.

World Jewry must remember that it is 2013: Poland is a free and democratic country, a member of the European Union, with a strong civil society, which engages in lively public discussion. It is a friend of Israel and of the Jewish people. We must not alienate Poles and harm long-term Jewish interests by insinuating that there is a serious problem of anti-Semitism in the country.

Similarly, the Polish people need to better appreciate the historical context of Jewish sensitivities to matters affecting religious freedom, and must also take the recent antiSemitic outbursts as a wake-up call. PolishJewish cooperation, the protection of Jewish heritage in Poland, and the resurgence of Jewish life in Poland since the collapse of Communism, while impressive, are far from complete.

At stake is not merely ritual slaughter, but the future of Polish-Jewish relations.

Gosia Szyma ska Weiss is Assistant Director, International Relations, in the American Jewish Committee’s Los Angeles Region.

Anti-Morsi Egyptian group seeks to spike Israeli peace

By Israel Hayom, Exclusive to JNS.org After the Muslim Brotherhood did not overturn Egypt’s 1979 peace deal with Israel during its term in power, the liberal group that began the push to remove the party from power has begun collecting signatures in efforts to rescind the agreement.

The Tamarod (rebellion) movement, a grassroots effort to register opposition to now-deposed president Mohamed Morsi and force him to call early elections, helped launch the July 2013 protests in Egypt, which preceded the consequent military removal of Morsi. The same group is now demanding that Egypt sever ties with Israel as part of a wider campaign seeking to end dependence on U.S. aid, in light of recent sanctions imposed by Washington on the Egyptian army.

Tamarod is calling for a reversal of the 1979 peace agreement with the “Israeli entity, which is binding the hands of Egypt’s security forces in Sinai.” The movement’s activists wish to reformulate Egyptian security agreements with Israel in a way that will “ensure Egypt’s right to secure its borders.”

According to the organizers of the new Tamarod petition, the petition has so far garnered more than 300,000 signatures.

Israel is closely monitoring the initiative.

According to an anonymous Israeli official who spoke to Israel Hayom, “The fact that there are groups in Egypt trying to promote the issue, specifically now, and that they are calling themselves ‘liberals,’ suggests, more than anything, that their priorities are out of order and bizarre. Even if there is a public demand, the Egyptian leaders, regardless of their affiliation, are well aware of the inter-

ests that would best serve the Egyptian people.” Last Friday, the Israeli cabinet convened for a briefing on the topic.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed Israeli ministers and top government officials not to comment on the ongoing turmoil in Egypt, Army Radio reported Sunday. Media outlets, however, reported over the weekend that Israel was maintaining close ties to Egyptian Defense Minister Col. Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who led the military’s overthrowing of Morsi.

Western diplomats quoted by the New York Times said that Israel had promised Sissi that the U.S. would not cut off aid to his country.

“General Sissi and his circle appeared to be in heavy communication with Israeli colleagues, and the diplomats believed the Israelis were also undercutting the Western message by reassuring the Egyptians not to worry about American threats to cut off aid,” the New York Times reported on Saturday.

Jerusalem did not issue an official response to the report.

The Egyptian government, meanwhile, announced it had begun deliberations on whether to ban the Muslim Brotherhood, a long-outlawed organization that swept to power in the country’s first democratic elections a year ago.

For more than a month since the July 3 military overthrow of Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters have attacked and torched scores of police stations and churches in retaliation. Shops and houses of Christians have also been targeted.

Such attacks spurred widespread public anger against the Brotherhood, giving the military-backed government popular backing

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A protest against former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in Egypt in June. to step up its campaign against the Islamist group. It reminded people of a decade-long Islamist insurgency against Hosni Mubarak’s rule in the 1990s, which only strengthened security agencies and ended with thousands of Islamic fundamentalists in prisons.

The unrest in Egypt has raised international concerns over the country’s stability, and prompted U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday to condemn both the “violent protests,” in reference to Brotherhood’s rallies, and the Egyptian authorities’ “excessive use of force.”

The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, came to power in the summer of 2012, when Morsi was elected in the country’s first free presidential elections. The election came after the overthrow of Mubarak in a popular uprising in 2011.

The fundamentalist group has been banned for most of its 85-year history and was repeatedly subjected to crackdowns under Mubarak’s rule. Disbanding the group, experts say, would mean allowing security forces to have a zero-tolerance policy in dealing with its street protests, as well as going after its funding sources. That could be a serious blow to the Brotherhood, though it likely wouldn’t mean an end to a group that existed underground for decades.

While the possible Muslim Brotherhood ban was being debated, the Brotherhood itself floated a new theory—that General Sissi “is actually a Jew.” “Sissi and [Interim] President Adly Mansour serve the Zionists and want to turn Egypt into Syria,” said activist Tariq Aziz in Cairo.

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Prisoner release:

‘Justice, justice, thou shall pursue’

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n May 8, 2001, Koby Mandell and his just another mouth piece for the State’s bufriend, Yosef Ishran, skipped school. reaucratic roadblocks to justice.

The office has now been open for over When the children didn’t return, their parents began to worry. The boys’ bodies had eight years.

Since the signing of the Oslo Accords, been found brutally mangled in a cave outthere have been 71 Americans murdered side their community of Tekoa, Israel.

At that point, I had been working on by Palestinian terrorists in Israel or the disa piece of legislation to take the issue of puted territories. To date, this office has not Americans killed abroad away from the State brought a single one to justice.

Our Supreme Court is etched with the Department and put it in the Justice Departwords, “Equal Justice Under the ment. State’s mission is diploLaw.” Don’t these Americans demacy. If “justice” were the name serve equal justice, as well? Or are on the door, I reasoned, there GUEST VIEW they just the disposable, forgotten would be more of a chance of Americans? getting a crack at justice, unconAll of this history recently betaminated by diplomatic factors. came very relevant, when Israel I knew I had to call Sherri, agreed to release 104 Palestinian Koby’s mother, a beloved friend terrorists, all with blood on their of mine from Silver Spring, Md. hands. The first wave of 26 were I wanted to find some words of released last week. They were welcomfort. I asked her if she would comed home as conquering heroes. like to name the bill in memory The true obstacle to peace is a culof Koby. ture that praises terrorists as mar“I can just see Koby jumping tyrs and heroes and continues to up and down in heaven to have a incite for more terrorism. law named after him,” she said.

Sarah N. Stern Among the 26 was Al Haj OthI vowed to myself at that moman Amar Mustafa, the terrorist ment that I would not rest until who murdered former U.S. Marine that bill was signed into law by Steven Frederick Rosenfeld. the U.S. president.

In 1989, Steven was taking a hike in the To make a very long story short, The Koby Mandell Act was passed and signed into law Judean Hills when he was stopped by three

by President George W. Bush in December Arabs who engaged him in pleasant converof 2004. In May of 2005, the Office of Jus- sation. Within a short amount of time, they tice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism was stole a pocket knife from his backpack, and used it to kill him. opened in the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) is circulating a The victory, however, was merely pyrrhic.

The stated mission of the Office of Justice congressional letter to demand that Mustafa for Victims of Overseas Terrorism (OJVOT) is and all the other terrorists who have killed “to ensure that the investigation and prosecu- American citizens be brought to these shores, tion of terrorist attacks against American citi- indicted and prosecuted.

We would like to believe that most Amerizens overseas remain a high priority within the Department of Justice.” When the OJVOT cans are decent people who want justice for was opened, Attorney General Gonzales said, all their citizens, regardless of religion, or “This new office guarantees a voice for vic- where they were maimed or murdered. And tims and their families in the investigation we know that, as Judge Louis Brandeis said, and prosecution of terrorists who prey on “Justice is truth in action.”

Sarah N. Stern is Founder and President of their victims overseas.”

It’s clear that this office was supposed to EMET, the Endowment for Middle East Truth, be an advocacy shop within the DOJ for the an unabashedly pro-Israel and pro-American victims of terrorism. Instead it has become think tank and policy shop in Washington, DC.

Jews should not ignore plight of Syrian civil war refugees

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ot for the first time, events elsewhere phone interview. “We need to focus on the in the Middle East — the renewed refugees, not the war.” bloodshed in Egypt and Israel’s deciBennett explained that the Coalition is sion to release 104 Palestinian terrorists be- focusing on the Syrian refugees in Jordan cause of American pressure — have pushed because the Hashemite Kingdom “is rethe Syrian civil war out of the limelight. But ally feeling the brunt of this crisis.” Of the in the limelight is where it belongs.

1.6 million refugees who have fled Syria, Given that we are facing a humanitar- around 500,000 have arrived in Jordan. By ian crisis on a scale not witnessed since the the end of this year, that number is expectgenocide in Rwanda in 1994, the ed to reach around one million. seeming indifference towards the When you factor in the 500,000 continuing slaughter of Syrian refugees from Iraq currently reVIEWPOINT civilians, along with the numersiding in Jordan, it is clear that ous accounts of rape and torture the very stability of the country carried by those fleeing the fightis at stake, and as I noted in this ing, is a none-too-edifying refleccolumn in early July, we cannot tion of where our priorities as expect Jordan’s record of surviva society lie. During a week in ing as a sovereign state against which United Nations inspectors the odds to continue indefinitely. traveled to Syria to investigate While Bennett’s appeal to the serious allegations of chemical Jewish community is principally weapons use, that old chestnut based on moral imperatives, she known as “war fatigue” seems to too observes that important strahave trumped our better instincts tegic considerations in Jordan once again. are at stake. “A destabilized JorBen Cohen The Jewish community, nordan is not a good thing for Israel, JNS.org mally responsive to humanitarian and Jews need to keep this in emergencies, has sadly not been mind,” she said. immune.

Bearing in mind the oft-repeated conspirFrom 2004 onwards, American Jews mo- acy theory that Jewish groups seized upon bilized to counter Darfur genocide, invoking the Darfur genocide to divert attention from our own past experiences of murder and the Palestinian question, I asked Bennett persecution to underline the moral impera- whether the new relief coalition would wear tive of preventing further ethnic cleansing. its Jewish origins front and center.

The April 2006 rally for Darfur in Wash“We’re not hiding the fact,” she said. ington was a particularly proud moment. “HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) is Largely organized by Jewish groups, the involved as HIAS, World Jewish Relief is rally brought thousands of people onto The there as World Jewish Relief.” Citing Torah’s Mall, where they heard speeches from en- injunction not to stand idly by “while the tertainment celebrities and political leaders. blood of your neighbor is shed,” Bennett beFor Syria in our own time, nothing re- lieves that the presence of Jewish humanimotely comparable to the Darfur response is tarian organizations can contribute, at least visible. In terms of understanding why this in a small way, to breaking down some of is the case, there are some deceptively obvi- the barriers erected through the war waged ous explanations. The region-wide spectacle against Jews and Israel by the Arab states. of repressive, authoritarian governments Complacency or aloofness should not alcombating Islamist insurgents has led many low us to forget that.

Jews to wish for a plague on both houses.

Moreover, Syria’s historic record of enmity towards Israel, as well as the rife discrimination suffered by its small Jewish community, means that we are not particularly well-disposed to the country in the first place.

Ironically, the same logic could have also been applied in Darfur. After all, Sudan, a member of the Arab League, is a historic enemy of Israel. And while the perpetrators of the Darfur massacres were Muslims, so were To the editor: I very much appreciated your article on the vast majority of the victims: remember that Islamist factions were present among the recent Nefesh B’Nefesh flight [July 26]. the armed groups combating the onslaught Not only did you cover all of the facts, but of the Sudanese army and its ally, the noto- the piece made me feel as if I actually knew the people that you mentioned in the story. rious janjaweed militia.

Our son, Rabbi Moshe Rothchild, went Fortunately, not everyone has abandoned hope that Jews in America and elsewhere on aliyah with his family about three years will open their hearts and pockets to the ago as part of a Nefesh B’Nefesh flight. We plight of Syrian refugees. Last week, a co- stayed with them at JFK until they boarded alition of 16 Jewish groups announced the and watched their arrival on a video link formation of the Jewish Coalition for Syrian provided by NBN the following morning.

Your article brought back such vivid Refugees in Jordan. The coalition has already dispatched $200,000 to humanitarian memories that I felt that I was a part of this groups working on the ground, and it plans latest group, which you so beautifully deto raise further funds for the provision of scribed. Keep up the good work.

Bill Rothchild, New York food, clean water, shelter and similar basic requirements.

When it comes to Syria, said Georgette Bennett, a philanthropist and inter-faith activist who kick-started the Coalition, “We’re Some of our regular contributors are on not talking about an enemy state, but about break this week and will return soon: Jeff people in a devastating situation who have Dunetz (Politics), Judy Joszef (Who’s in the fled that state.”

Kitchen), Rabbi Binny Friedman (From the “It’s extremely important to separate the politics of the region from the humanitarian Heart of Jerusalem), and Rabbi Simcha crisis,” the feisty Bennett told me in a tele- Weinstein (Hippest Rabbi).

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Lesson of Elul: Stop cheating, stop stealing, stop deceiving ourselves

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his week’s essay will focus upon some timely observations and precious words to learn and study for the remainder of the month of Elul.

Rabbi Avi Shafran is perhaps one of the most perceptive observers of the Jewish scene today and the following observation by him deserves your attention: “For those who take this time of the Jewish KOSHER year seriously — and BOOKWORM all of us should — Elul’s days can be daunting. There is so much that should be part of our lives but isn’t, and so much that is but shouldn’t be. There are resolutions we accepted at this time last year and fulfilled only imperfectly, if at all.

And new resolutions that beckon from a betAlan Jay Gerber ter place, “Picking a flower to present to one’s wife or adding that hot pepper your husband so likes to the cholent doesn’t take much time or effort. But small things can bespeak, and help advance, a relationship.

“That’s a good word for Elul: Relationship. The month’s name’s initials are famously said to stand for ‘I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine’ (Song of Songs, 6:3).

What we seek during the coming weeks, in the end, is a stronger, more healthy, relationship, with our Creator and with His other creations.” (“Little Is Much,” by Rabbi Avi Shafran, 2013)

With this wisdom as prologue, let us continue with the next teaching from Psalm 27, from my dear friend, Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran of the Orthodox Union, who relates to us the following that we learn from the last phrase of this sacred psalm: “Among the students coming for a new year at a college was a young man who hobbled on crutches, a young man who was particularly friendly and optimistic. During the year, he won many academic honors along with the respect of his classmates. One day, a classmate asked the cause of his deformity. With a shrug, the young man said, ‘Infantile paralysis.’

“This intrigued the classmate and so he asked, ‘With a misfortune like that, how can you face the world so confidently?’

“The young man leaned on his crutches and smiled.

‘Oh,’ he replied, ‘the disease never touched my heart.’”

Rabbi Safran concluded this teaching with the following: “The world is filled with problems and challenges. There are serious issues that we must resolve, difficult questions to answer, and seemingly impossible crises to tackle – but let us be as the young man and not let those things touch our hearts. For the Jew, the glass is always half full for it is G-d who has poured it.”

“Be strong and of good courage, and hope in the Lord.” (Psalm 27: Jewish Optimism by

Rabbi Eliyahu Safran, 2013) Another timely teaching is from Rabbi Reuven Spolter, whose observation below should sound familiar to many of you.

As you read this little vignette, consider the very early timing that our holidays are placed this year and of their impact upon our lives and routines. This early factor will be further played out even more profoundly later this year.

“We take our vacations not based on the Jewish calendar, but on the secular one. … The Jewish calendar cares not for summer vacation or secular school schedules.

“While we were on vacation, the month of Elul began, ushering in the first pangs of the High Holiday season. For men who attend shul in the morning, the Shofar reminds us that Rosh Hashanah is coming.

But for many women, and especially for our children who are enjoying their vacation, Elul has yet to enter their consciousness.” (Elul During Summer Vacation by Rabbi Reuven Spolter) This series of teachings and observations conclude with the following from Far Rockaway resident, and Sh’or Yashuv veteran teacher, Rabbi Yehoshua Kurland from his newly published book, “A Bit of Wit: A World of Wisdom” (Gefen Publishing House, 2013).

I chose to quote from a chapter that is entitled, most timely — especially given the news lately from the questionable activities

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stemming from an organization in our community — “Repentance: Help Me Stop Stealing!”

The author first presents us with the following: “We can actualize our full potentials by recognizing the greatness in ourselves.”

“People from New York get a bum rap. I don’t know why they have a reputation for being selfish and self-centered. Why, just the other day, I observed two New Yorkers sharing a cab. One guy was taking the battery, and the other guy was taking the tires!”

Rabbi Kurland continues for the next two pages in his little book analyzing this scene and gives us his take on Teshuva from this rather zany tale.

What follows is his learned conclusion. Its truths are self evident: “Repentance boils down to one thing. We have to stop stealing! We have to stop cheating! We have to stop deceiving ourselves!

“We have to stop living in a finite, ‘soulless’ dream world, and accept the reality that we are created in G-d’s image. We must recognize that we have been gifted with magnificent inner strength that gives us limitless prospects.

“We must always keep uppermost in our minds the holy words of a great Chassidic Rabbi, that the way in which one goes beyond the letter of the law in his observance of the prohibition of ‘Do not cheat your fellow man’ is to avoid cheating oneself!”

We ignore this admonition from Rabbi Kurland to our community’s peril and it behooves all of our leaders, without exception, to see to it that these admonitions are strictly enforced.

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By Malka Eisenberg When Moshe Feiglin spoke with the Jewish Star the day after the charedi enlistment bill reading, he appeared tired but sharp and determined, clearly and unequivocally stating his views with conviction.

Feiglin is against releasing terrorists and against freezing construction in Israel. “It starts from the fact that the leadership doesn’t believe that the land belongs to the Jews,” he said. “The handshake between the leaders of Israel and the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization), the organization that wants to liberate the Land of Israel from the Jews, means we accept the rationale that the land belongs to them not us.”

By releasing terrorists, deep inside, they see them as POWs, freedom fighters, not terrorists, he said.

“And when someone writes graffiti on an Arab mosque they are afraid that it will wake up conflict that we are on the right side of the argument, fear of Israel’s leaders from dealing with our own justification for being here. It starts with mental withdrawal. We need leadership that understands what we are doing here in Israel. We have to talk about justice, not pragmatism. You are not willing to give away land so easy if you know that it’s yours — Zo Artzeinu (This is our land).”

Zo Artzeinu was a movement cofounded in 1993 by Feiglin with Shmuel Sackett to protest the Oslo Accords. In 1995 a mass act of civil disobedience initiated by Zo Artzeinu blocked 80 intersections throughout Israel. Feiglin was sentenced to six months in prison for sedition that was later commuted to community service. In 1996 Manhigut Yehudit grew out of Zo Artzeinu as a Jewish leadership movement, becoming a faction of Likud in 2000. Feiglin won a seat in this, the 19th Knesset, becoming deputy speaker.

“The solution is to annex the land,” he said. “We declare to all nations this is our land and only Israel has sovereignty on Har Habayit (the Temple Mount). That is the heart of the land, the holiest place of the Jews.”

When the land is annexed, he said, “prices will go down, Aliyah will increase. We will encourage Arabs to find a fu-

MK Moshe Feiglin ture in different countries by transferring the money spent on Oslo to help those Arabs express their will to leave. All this will lead to a new Middle East where the next generation, 20 years from now, will have a secure and successful Jewish state to lead. It’s just a question of the right leadership and the will.”

Now, he said “I see a lion that thinks he’s a rabbit. We need more Knesset members to put their political future on the line to stop it.”

He said that he went almost every month on to Har Habayit, the Temple Mount. (Some rabbis forbid the entry of Jews to the Temple Mount but others promote it after proper ritual purification, the proper state of mind, and going with someone who knows precisely where one is permitted to enter according to rabbinic recommendations.) He condemned the government for prohibiting him from ascending to the Temple Mount (Jews are the only ones the Arab Wakf restricts — not allowing Jewish prayer on Judaism’s holiest site).

“We need to build Jewish leadership,” he continued.

“More are coming to my point of view. People understand that the Oslo solution is a disaster. People are afraid of the Arabs and don’t believe in themselves.” He said they think if they “keep quiet” the Arabs will disappear “instead of dealing with the enemy.”

Feiglin is against forced conscription — Charedi and not Charedi — he said. He said that the IDF doesn’t need extra manpower and forcing the Charedim to serve is “not the way to achieve it. I think every Israeli should go to the army for a short period of time — two months at age 18,” noting that yeshiva students can enter bain hazmanim (between learning semesters in the summer), and men and women should be in the army but segregated.

Then, he posited, they should be offered a good salary and professional and academic training and will have “high creditability” in Israeli society and accept those who want to serve. He said that this will make the army stronger, saying that about fifty percent are not needed. If G-d forbid more will be needed, he said, everyone already had basic training — in his plan.

He also said that the yeshivot shouldn’t get less government funding than the universities and the government should be less involved with the life of the citizens but if already subsidizing academy learning it can’t be that Torah learning gets less.

Said MK Feiglin to the Jews in America, ”Come to Israel to help and help yourself by helping Israel — you will have future generations come.”

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By Jeffrey Bessen Faced with rising operating costs, hospital units that lose money and a need for space, St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, the only remaining hospital in Far Rockaway since last year’s closing of the Peninsula Hospital Center, is taking measures that administrators hope will keep it a viable facility.

The 257-bed hospital shut down its chemical dependency unit, which was losing $1.4 million per year, according to St. John’s ofďŹ cials. The space will be converted into a medical and surgical unit with an additional 15 beds.

Family practice, internal medicine and pediatrics clinics previously located in St. John’s were moved to the Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Centers, at 1288 Central Ave. in Far Rockaway, and at 6200 Beach Channel Drive, in the Arverne section of Queens, as of Aug. 1. “EHS is considering all necessary action, including possible layoffs, to adjust expenses with income in order to preserve the viability of health care operations,â€? said interim Chief Executive OfďŹ cer Richard Brown, referring to Episcopal Health Services, which owns the hospital and its two nursing homes.

Louisiana-based Pitts Management runs the hospital’s daily operations, and employs its CEO, chief operating ofďŹ cer and chief ďŹ nancial ofďŹ cer.

The changes will give the hospital the room ofďŹ cials say they need for a planned $15 million expansion of the emergency department. When the project is completed in 2015, St. John’s will be able to accommodate 50,000 patients annually. It currently treats

Photo by Donovan Berthoud

Supporters rallied last week to keep St. John’s Episcopal Hospital open.

30,000 emergency patients per year in a space built for 15,000.

The initial phase of the renovations is being funded with $4.3 million in state grant money and is expected to begin this fall, according to Brown, who succeeded Nelson Toebbe in July. Toebbe stepped down due to health reasons, hospital ofďŹ cials said. The remainder of the money is expected to be raised by the hospital’s fundraising Development Board and secured through further grants.

In addition, the hospital is in the process of selling its nursing homes, Bishop Charles Waldo McLean, in Far Rockaway, and Bishop Henry B. Hucles, in Brooklyn, to Michael

Melnicke, who owns six such facilities. The sale is awaiting approval from the State Department of Health.

State Health Commissioner Nirav Shah said that the community has severe health care needs and the state is working to preserve St. John’s. “We have to ďŹ gure how best to meet these needs short-term and longterm,â€? Shah said.

With the fate of Peninsula Hospital fresh in the minds of Local 1199 union members, and the possibility of layoffs looming at St. John’s, Steve Kramer, executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, said that an Aug. 14 rally, held near St. John’s, accomplished three things. “We

have united the political leadership, united the clergy in the area and sent a very, very strong message that the workers disagree with what management is doing,� Kramer, whose union has approximately 1,000 members working at St. John’s, said of the shutdowns and shifts in services.

The union is calling for St. John’s to merge with the North Shore LIJ System. St. John’s currently has a working agreement with North Shore regarding its lab work. “The board is exploring opportunities for mergers with other health systems,� Brown said. “To date, no overtures to EHS have been made by North Shore LIJ. At this point, all talks are exploratory.�

Kramer said that the hospital’s dialysis unit could also be closed. “Everybody knows when you lose dialysis, you lose a large amount of your cardiopulmonary patients,â€? he said. The unit recently underwent a $1.5 million renovation, and has 15 state-of-the art stations and individual at-screen TVs with cable service.

Hospital ofďŹ cials have not commented on the dialysis unit, but Brown reiterated that adjustments need to be made. “St. John’s is under ďŹ nancial and regulatory pressures, but EHS is also committed to making necessary changes to keep St. John’s Episcopal Hospital the principal provider of quality health care and education in the Rockaways and surrounding communities,â€? Brown said, adding that the hospital is seeking reimbursement from the federal and state government for the $3 million cost of serving as a storm center after Hurricane Sandy.

This article ďŹ rst appeared in this week’s Nassau Herald.

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Fairway’s flagship store opened 80 years ago on Broadway and 74th Street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. That store — which for many years carried pre-wrapped kosher items — is still there “but bigger,” said Rebecca Martin, director of catering for Fairway.

The chain, known for carrying diverse foods and produce, has expanded greatly in recent years to Connecticut, New Jersey, other areas in New York City, Long Island and Westchester, and plans to open at least two new stores each year.

“We saw the need,” said Martin, referring to the kosher consumer.

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Ki Tavo / Learning to walk in the ways of Hashem text, the phrase is two words, “V’halakhta B’drakhav.”

Another example of this is the phrase “Zeh eili v’anvehu” (Shmot 15:2) – this is my G-d and I will glorify Him. In Mesekhet Sofrim 3:17, this verse is utilized to explain how a Jew should go the extra mile to fulfill mitzvot with nicer products rather than with inferior products.

Some examples include: decorating the sukkah, finding the best lulav set, using the best materials (ink, quill, parchment, etc.) when writing a Torah, mezuzah or putting together tefillin.

The original phrase was uttered by the people in the context of the Song of the Sea, and while perhaps not a throwaway line, it is certainly not viewed as a mitzvah! While the people may have accepted upon themselves a commitment to glorifying G-d, this does not turn their “chumrah” choices (stringencies) into an absolute requirement.

Similarly, the notion of “V’halakhta B’drakhav” could arguably be viewed in the same way. How does one best fulfill commandments? Or more accurately, how does one behave in the most complete and perfect fashion? Through walking in His ways. The same source in Mesekhet Sofrim (and Yerushalmi Peah 1:1) quotes Abba Shaul as saying, “Just as He is merciful, you should be merciful.”

And yet Maimonides takes the verse and extracts what is, in his count, the

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8th commandment in the Torah: To Imitate G-d. Maimonides claims the mitzvah appears elsewhere as well – see Devarim 8:6, 10:12, 11:22, 13:5, 19:9, 26:17, 30:16 – and yet he uses our verse as his prime example of the mitzvah, utilizing the teaching of “Just as He is merciful…” which also appears in the Sifrei on Eikev to describe exactly how one walks in G-d’s ways.

In describing this mitzvah, Ramban quotes the passage in Sotah 14a (Maimonides mentions it in passing) which further describes the imitation of G-d’s ways as “clothing the naked, visiting the sick, comforting the mourner and burying the dead” each of which G-d did for Adam, Avraham, Yitzchak and Moshe respectively.

Considering the seven other places where this idea occurs in the book of Devarim, it is hard to argue that “Walking in G-d’s ways” should not be a mitzvah. Each verse in its context clearly says it is a mitzvah. But it is still curious that Maimonides chooses the phrase in 28:9 as the poster phrase for this mitzvah.

The verse is not quoted in the entire Talmud. And were it to appear alone in the Torah, without the seven supporting verses, perhaps we would be able to argue that “walking in G-d’s ways” is no more of a mitzvah than “this is my G-d and I will glorify Him.” Meaning, it is a helpful instruction, but by no means one of the six hundred and thirteen commandments!

I think a difference between this verse and all the others is that 28:9 is the first mention of imitating G-d that appears after Moshe’s big speech. Devarim 5-26 has been one long monologue of Moshe telling the people a mixture of narrative and commandment, perhaps lending itself to people thinking Moshe was adding things of his own accord. Perhaps people felt that “Moshe’s ‘throwaway lines’ were added touches, but were not meant as commandments” because they did not see G-d’s strings pulling Moshe’s teachings.

Now that the big speech is over and Moshe is again quoting G-d, 28:9 is the first time he mentions to walk in G-d’s ways.

Maimonides is merely jumping on this appearance of the idea in order to make it clear to those with doubts that this is not a throwaway line – it is a commandment like any other, and it comes from G-d.

The preparations for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur require us to square away wrongs we have committed against our fellow man and wrongs we have committed against G-d. The mitzvah of imitating G-d is meant to help us accomplish both. If we are always being like G-d, we can not possibly wrong G-d. And if we follow the examples that the Talmud brings of how we are to treat man through imitating G-d, we will become the most caring individuals.

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In the middle of PARSHA OF the blissful depiction THE WEEK of Divine Grace, we read, “The Lord will establish you as His holy people as He swore to you, if you observe the commandments of the L-rd, your G-d, and walk in His ways.”

(Devarim 28:9) The simple reading of this verse seems to be descripRabbi Avi Billet tive and straightforward. G-d will do “Y” for you on account of your having done “X.” Nowhere does there seem to be a commandment in this verse. While not exactly a throwaway line, the phrase “walk in His ways” on a base level does not seem to be an instruction as much as it is an example of how to observe the commandments. In the original

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Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah…

Continued from page 1 eneh Moments of Broadway.”

He objected to the excessive singing of “White Christmas,” written by Irving Berlin, a Jew, saying that he was “drowning in Christian culture.”

Sherman’s “Ballad of Harry Lewis,” to the tune of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” was an “over-the-top melodrama,” Cohen said.

Cohen had what he described as minimal Jewish education, with Hebrew school and a Bar Mitzvah. He grew up in Queens, attended SUNY Binghamton, earned an MA in English from Tufts and an MS from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. He noted that his home was “an oasis of Israeli culture,” furnished with “big brass tables, unusual Hebrew documents on the wall, a collection of chanukiyot” and Sephardic, Greek, Macedonian and Jewish cooking, “not traditional American Jewish delicacies.”

His mother was from Bukharian Jews, his father was Sephardic. His family was in the garment industry.

“I grew up with Allan Sherman,” Cohen said. “We had two of the albums, ‘My Son, the Folksinger’ and ‘My Son, the Nut.’ It was very clever stuff. I had no idea of the original

songs he was parodying.”

The idea for the book began about ten years ago, when Cohen discovered and read Sherman’s autobiography, “A Gift of Laughter.” He visited Sherman’s old high school in Los Angeles and saw the newspapers Sherman had written for in the 1930s and ’40s.

“I said, ‘I have to do something with this,’” he recalled.

In 2005, Warner Brothers records came out with a box set of Sherman’s works called “My Son, the Box.” Cohen wrote the 6,000 word liner notes for the set. He began work on the book and realized that the 50th anniversary of Hello Muddah would be the “one great opportunity for the book to come out,” so he wrote it with that deadline in sight.

He worked on the book for three years and wrote it in one year, he said.

In Europe, Sherman’s grandparents were musicians and one was a rhymer who recited grammen (long rhymed songs or poems at times made up spontaneously at festive occasions), giving Sherman an almost genetic ability to practice his craft of hearing alternate Jewish rhymes.

His comic abilities grew through high school and college and he later worked at making connections with celebrities and

musicians to facilitate a career in television and music. He ultimately achieved fame through his song parodies, releasing three very popular records in the early 1960s. “My Son, The Folk Singer,” Sherman’s first Jewish song parody album release in 1962, was one of the fastest-selling records in history and made him a star. He also released in short order “My Son, The Celebrity” and “My Son, The Nut.” All three albums went gold, selling over a million each. At the original release, critics didn’t see it moving beyond a Jewish audience, but they were wrong. President Kennedy told Sherman that he liked one of his albums, with a member of the White House staff citing its humor as helping them get through the tension of the Cuban missile crisis.

Sherman could not escape his yearnings for the ideal of a happy childhood and, though married and the father of two children, he continued his earlier downward spiral of eating to excess, alcohol, and womanizing. A heart attack eventually killed him just shy of his 49th birthday.

His legacy of humor and Jewish-yiddishist connection lives on, with today’s popular comedians — Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Larry David, Rick Moranis, and Weird

Mark Cohen, Allan Sherman biographer Al Yankovic — citing him as their inspiration and their comic father, explained Cohen.

Sherman’s comedy was “rooted in ordinary life, the suburbs, food, automation, work. It’s still funny today—it’s the world we are living in today.”

Dane’s Rosh Hashana dash to freedom, 1943…

Continued from page 1 mark’s 8,000 Jewish citizens.

In the late summer of 1943, amid rising tensions between the occupation regime and the Danish government, the Nazis declared martial law and decided the time had come to deport Danish Jews to the death camps.

But Georg Duckwitz, a German diplomat in Denmark, leaked the information to Danish friends. Duckwitz was later honored by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations. As word of the Germans’ plans spread, the Danish public responded with a spontaneous nationwide grassroots effort to help the Jews.

The Danes’ remarkable response gave rise to the legend that King Christian X himself rode through the streets of Copenhagen on horseback, wearing a yellow Star of David, and that the citizens of the city likewise donned the star in solidarity with the Jews.

The story may have had its origins in a political cartoon that appeared in a Swedish newspaper in 1942. It showed King Christian pointing to a Star of David and declaring that if the Nazis imposed it upon the Jews of Demark, “then we must all wear the star.” Leon Uris’s novel Exodus, and the movie based on that book, helped spread the legend. But subsequent investigations by historians have concluded that the story is a myth.

A midnight escape On Rosh Hashana — which fell on Sept.

30 and Oct. 1 in 1943 — and the days that followed, numerous Danish Christian families hid Jews from Holocaust persecution in their homes or farms, and then smuggled them to the seashore late at night. From there, fishermen took them across the Kattegat Straits to neighboring Sweden. This three-week operation had the strong support of Danish church leaders, who used their pulpits to urge aid to the Jews, as well as Danish universities, which shut down so that students could assist the smugglers. More than 7,000 Danish Jews reached Sweden and were sheltered there until the end of the war.

hard to believe, but we were now safe. We cried and the Swedes cried with us as they escorted as ashore. The nightmare was over,” Esther recalled.

‘It can be done’

Courtesy forthcoming book “Cartoonists Against the Holocaust,” by Rafael Medoff and Craig Yoe

This 1943 cartoon by Arie Navon contrasts the rescue of Denmark’s Jews with the farcical refugee conference that the Allies staged earlier that year in Bermuda. Its Hebrew title means both “lifeguards” and “rescuers” — the lifeguards, smoking a Churchill-style pipe and wearing Roosevelt-style glasses, are standing next to an unused life preserver labeled “Bermuda.” The scrawny man diving into the swastikainfested ocean to rescue a drowning person is labeled “Sweden.”

Esther Finkler, a young newlywed, was hidden, together with her husband and their mothers, in a greenhouse. “At night, we saw the [German] searchlights sweeping back and forth throughout the neighborhood,” as the Nazis hunted for Jews, Esther later recalled. One evening, a member of the Danish Underground arrived and drove the four “through streets saturated with Nazi stormtroopers,” to a point near the shore.

There they hid in an underground shelter, and then in the attic of a bakery, until finally they were brought to a beach, where they boarded a small fishing vessel together with other Jewish refugees. “There were nine of

us, lying down on the deck or the floor,” Esther said. “The captain covered us with fishing nets. When everyone had been properly concealed, the fishermen started the boat, and as the motor started to run, so did my pent-up tears.”

Then, suddenly, trouble. “The captain began to sing and whistle nonchalantly, which puzzled us. Soon we heard him shouting in German toward a passing Nazi patrol boat: ‘Wollen sie einen beer haben?’ (Would you like a beer?)—a clever gimmick designed to avoid the Germans’ suspicions. After three tense hours at sea, we heard shouting: ‘Get up! Get up! And welcome to Sweden!’ It was

The implications of the Danish rescue operation resonated strongly in the United States. The Roosevelt administration had long insisted that rescue of Jews from the Nazis was not possible. The refugee advocates known as the Bergson Group began citing the escape of Denmark’s Jews as evidence that if the Allies were sufficiently interested, ways could be found to save many European Jews.

The Bergson Group sponsored a series of full-page newspaper advertisements about the Danish-Swedish effort, headlined “It Can Be Done!” On Oct. 31, thousands of New Yorkers jammed Carnegie Hall for the Bergson Group’s “Salute to Sweden and Denmark” rally.

Keynote speakers included members of Congress, Danish and Swedish diplomats, and one of the biggest names in Hollywood— Orson Welles, director of “Citizen Kane” and “The War of the Worlds.” In another coup for the Bergson Group, one of the speakers was Leon Henderson, one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s own former economic advisers (Henderson had headed the White House’s Office of Price Administration).

In blunt language that summed up the tragedy—and the hope—Henderson declared: “The Allied Governments have been guilty of moral cowardice. The issue of saving the Jewish people of Europe has been avoided, submerged, played down, hushed up, resisted with all the forms of political force that are available… Sweden and Denmark have proved the tragedy of Allied indecision… The Danes and Swedes have shown us the way…

If this be a war for civilization, then most surely this is the time to be civilized!”

Dr. Rafael Medoff is director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, in Washington, D.C. His latest book is “FDR and the Holocaust: A Breach of Faith.”

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In the face of unprecedented violence against Coptic Christians in Egypt that has left hundreds dead, the church’s leadership has condemned the Western media’s biased coverage of events in Egypt.

“We strongly denounce the fallacies broadcasted by the Western media and invite them to review the facts objectively regarding these bloody radical organizations and their affiliates instead of legitimizing them with global support and political protection while they attempt to spread devastation and destruction in our dear land,” reads the statement, according to a Google translation.

“We request that the international and western media adhere to providing a comprehensive account of all events with truth, accuracy, and honesty,” the statement added.

The Coptic Church also reaffirmed its support for the military-backed government, calling on the army and security forces to continue their fight against the “armed violent groups and black terrorism.”

One of the oldest communities in Christianity, Coptic Christians have survived numerous persecutions in the past. But the recent violence is unprecedented. The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), an independent human rights organization, has documented 39 attacks against Coptic Christian churches, schools, monasteries and businesses since late last week, NPR reported.

Coptic Christians constituted a majority of Egypt’s population until the Middle Ages, when Islam, introduced by Arab invasions in the 7th century, eclipsed them. Coptic Christianity are 10 percent of Egypt’s 85 million people, making it the largest single Christian community remaining in the Middle East.

Latin America on tap

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is working to improve economic ties with politically friendly Latin American countries to compensate for the crippled economy of Israel’s main trading continent, Europe.

The new effort to increase Latin American trading, particularly with Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico, will complement Netanyahu’s simultaneous effort to increase economic ties with China and other East Asian countries.

These four Latin American countries formed the freetrade Pacific Alliance last year and account for about 36 percent of the continent’s gross domestic product (GDP).

Brazil is Israel’s main trading partner in Latin America, taking in Israeli exports at about $1.1 billion per year and importing to Israel at about $400 million per year. In June, Israeli President Shimon Peres signed a free-trade agreement with Colombia.

tinian identity be rooted in your hearts and minds. Allah willing, one day Palestine will be Palestine again,” the radio announcer said in the Aug. 8 broadcast.

Additionally, an Aug. 14 crossword puzzle in the PA daily newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, identified Jaffa as “a Palestinian city,” according to Palestinian Media Watch.

Avoid Turkey The Israeli government issued a travel advisory on Monday warning Israelis to avoid visiting Turkey, a popular vacation destination for Israelis over the summer and during the upcoming Jewish holidays, Israel Hayom reported.

The threat issuing from Turkey is defined as an “ongoing potential threat,” a mid-level threat on the bureau’s five-level scale. Turkey is now on the same threat level as countries where jihadi terror cells are known to be operating, including Nigeria, Kenya and Azerbaijan.

Israel Newsbriefs from JNS.org

PA radio sees no Israel

A broadcast on Voice of Palestine, the official Palestinian Authority radio station, looked forward to a future without the state of Israel, Palestinian Media Watch reports.

“Greetings to all our listeners and happy holiday to you, our people in occupied Palestine, 1948 Palestine, the 1948 territories…

Greetings to our people in Acre, Nazareth, Tiberias, Haifa and Jaffa… May your Pales-

Anti-Israel bias at U.N.

In a rare admission, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday that there is U.N. bias against Israel.

Speaking to university students at the U.N. Headquarters in Jerusalem, Ban stated that Israel, as a U.N. member, should get the same treatment as other nations. “Unfortunately, because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel has been weighed down by criticism and suffered from bias and sometimes even discrimination,” he said.

Judea/Samaria housing

Housing prices in Judea and Samaria continue to rise at a rate faster than in the rest of Israel.

High demand and low supply characterize the housing market in various Judea and Samaria communities, the Israel Hayom newspaper reported.

Israel recently announced plans for 1,200 new housing units in eastern Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, a decision that was slammed by the United States due to concern over the fate of Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations. Secretary of State John Kerry, who led the efforts to renew negotiations, said Aug. 12 that the U.S. “views all of the settlements as illegitimate.”

Touro artifacts: No deal

Talks between the historic Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI, and a New York City synagogue that claims ownership over the Touro Synagogue and its artifacts broke down this week after a U.S. District Court judge declared the mediation failed, the Providence Journal reported.

According to the Journal, a dispute between Congregation Jeshuat Israel, which uses the historic Touro Synagogue that was built in 1763, and New York City’s Congregation Shearith Israel, which was given the deed to the synagogue in the early 19th century when the original Jewish community left, arose over plans to sell the synagogue’s 18th-century finial bells to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for $7.4 million.

Touro Synagogue is the oldest synagogue building that is still standing in the U.S.

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Individual teshuva and national teshuva Rav Yehuda Alkalai (17981878) distinguished between individual teshuva (repentence), in which one strives to improve oneself in all areas, and national teshuva, in which the nation, as a unit, returns to its land.

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