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Vol 14, No. 34 • TheJewishStar.com
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Shabbos Project At 11th hour, NY rallies on Iran ‘Keep fighting,’ AIPAC urges returns Oct. 21 By Celia Weintrob The Shabbos Project is returning on Oct. 21, with organizers aiming for 3 million participants worldwide, up from 1 million last year. Orthodox communities along the South Shore, major players last year, are expected to be a big part of the success of this year’s movement, which is keyed to parshas Lech Lecha. The Shabbos Project, initiated in South Africa, aims to spread the beauty and spirituality of Shabbos to Jews of all backgrounds and religious practices everywhere. Observant Jews are asked to invite their less religious coworkers, neighbors, friends and relatives over for a Shabbos meal, communal challah baking and special shul events. For the Five Towns, the weekend of kiruv will open with a Wednesday night challah bake at the Sands Atlantic Beach. Last year’s bake, organized by Adina Fishlewitz and Sima Gefen, drew over 1,200 woman and girls who mixed and kneaded, learned about the spiritual aspects of challah, recited the brachah in unison, sang, danced and hugged. This year’s challah bake MC, author Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff, said he was expecting over 1,600 participants. “The amazing Adina Fishlewitz contacted me after reading my new book ‘Jew Got Questions?’ which is full of Qs&As on every Jewish topic secular Jews are interContinued on page 23
At Tuesday’s rally (from left): former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, GOP Presidential hopeful Sen. Lindsey Graham, and former Sen. Joseph Lieberman.
Just hours before vote-counters determined that opponents of the Iranian nuclear pact would fail to override a presidential veto should the Senate manage to vote against the deal later this month, New Yorkers rallied outside the Midtown Manhattan offices of Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer on Tuesday evening. Participants praised Schumer for opposing the deal and slammed Gillibrand supporting it. Speakers included former Connecticut Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman, GOP Presidential hopeful Sen. Lindsey Graham, former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, Rabbi Avi Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, and Boro Park Assemblyman Dov Hikind. Late Wednesday, AIPAC President Robert Cohen emphasized that although the Senate will not override a presidential veto, “we also know now that once the votes are talled, a bipartisan majority of America’s representaContinued on page 23
Bored Europe passes on deal debate By Alina Dain Sharon and Sean Savage The Iran nuclear deal has dominated the foreign policy debate in the U.S. this summer, with Congress in the midst of a 60-day period to review the agreement. But America is just one piece of the puzzle when it comes to the accord reached in July between Iran and the P5+1 world powers. Below, JNS.org examines how the Iran deal is being considered within the Western European nations that participat-
ed in the nuclear negotiations, and how es, British parliamentarians have simply Europe’s Jewish community has reacted to ignored this issue,” he said. the pact. Wilson explained that political conservatives in the U.K. can be divided among United Kingdom Tom Wilson, a resident associate fellow those who are similar in their views to at the Henry Jackson Society think tank in American conservatives and tend to opthe U.K., told JNS.org that “unlike in the pose the deal, and those who are politicalU.S. Congress, Britain’s parliament has ly isolationist. The isolationists, from ecoreally neglected to debate the agreement nomic and pragmatic perspectives, tend to oppose military intervention and support robustly.” Continued on page 21 “With the exception of a few lone voic-
Senate chief tours 5 Towns Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie toured Todd Kaminsky’s 20th Assembly District on Tuesday, posing with a group of Five Towns leaders in the headquarters of Achiezer, the community resource center based on Central Avenue in Lawrence. Standing from left: Nassau County Legislator Denise Ford, Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky of Yeshiva of South Shore’s Mesivta Ateres Yaakov, Achiezer Founder and President Boruch Ber Bender, Far Rockaway Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, Lawrence Trustee Michael Fragin, former Five Towns Emunah President Fran Hermes, UJA-Federation of New York Government Relations Director Jeffrey Leb; Assemblymen Kaminsky and Heastie; Rabbi Bruce Ginsberg of Congregation Sons of Israel in Woodmere, Lawrence School District Trustee Asher Mansdorf, Yeshiva Darchei Torah Director of Institutional Advancement Baruch Rothman, Cedarhurst attorney Jason Bokor, and Achiezer Development Coordinator Eli Weiss. Sitting from left: Cedarhurst Trustee Myrna Zisman, Cedarhurst Mayor Ben Weinstock, Rabbi Hershel Billet of the Young Israel of Woodmere, YU Vice President for Legal Affairs Avi Lauer, and Cedarhurst Trustee Israel Wasser.
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