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MOU gets Rice’s OK By Ed Weintrob South Shore Rep. Kathleen Rice cheered the Obama Administration’s memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Israel, announced last week, that ensures record levels of American aid to the Jewish state over the next ten years. “It’s more money than previous MOUs, that’s a good thing,” Rice told The Jewish Star as she toured the South Shore Community Chest’s fair in Cedarhurst on Sunday. “It reaffirms our commitRep. Rice at the ment to Israel and our fair in Cedarhurst. partnership with them.” The MOU guarantees Israel $38 billion in American military assistance over 10 years, from Fiscal Year 2019 through FY 2028, superseding a $30 billion MOU signed in 2007 that expires in FY 2018, according to the White House. “America’s commitment to Israel’s seSee RICE on page 5
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Let’s make friends! Lipman: Don’t ignore critics … or our kids
By Ed Weintrob We may not be able to flip Israel’s haters, but there are plenty of “intellectually honest” people who can be persuaded of the truth of Israel’s cause, Rabbi Dov Lipman, the first U.S.-born member of Knesset in 30 years, told a Nefesh B’Nefesh gathering in Jamaica Estates last week. “They can realize three things,” he said. “That it’s far more complex than they realized … that it’s not apartheid … and boycotts are counterproductive.” Rabbi Lipman, who made aliyah on the second NBN flight nine years ago and was elected to the Knesset in 2013, told The Jewish Star afterwards that beyond concern for Israel’s critics, those who love Israel need to focus close to home. “We have to begin educating our children about the conflict,” he said. “Meaning Israel can’t be just a rahrah march down Fifth Avenue.” “We are losing kids because when they get to campus they are not pre-
Rabbi Dov Lipman, American-born member of the Knesset, spoke at a Nefesh Ed Weintrob / The Jewish Star B’Nefesh event at Young Island of Jamica Estates.
pared for the negativity,” he continued. “Students for Justice in Palestine is so srong and our kids” — including those from Orthodox homes, he emphasized — “don’t have answers. They get confused by it.” Also, he suggested that Torah observant Jews kick their Zionism up a notch. “Let’s talk mitzvah level,” he said. “How is it that we, as religious Jews don’t talk about aliyah.” “We have to reaclaim Zionism in America, and get kids excited about it, so they’ll have passion and more confidence to stand up to whatever pressure comes their way.” Rabbi Lipman responded to an audience member who spoke about the difficulty some olim have had after moving to Israel, by conceding that it’s not easy. “For olim, planning is most important,” he said, urging people to enter the process with eyes wide open. Many groups, including NBN, work to assist olim, he said. NBN ferSee Lipman on page 2
Divide Jerusalem? Fuhgeddaboudit!
Israeli Minister of Justice Ayetet Shaked and Ambassador John Bolton, on Sunday at the Young Israel of Jamaica Estates. Ed Weintrob / The Jewish Star
the light wins,” she said. “Day after day the light overcomes the darkness,” and the clearest proof of this victory is the growth of the Jewish population in Judea and Samaria. Shaked shared the spotlight with former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, ZOA National President Morton Klein, and several other speakers. Klein said that use of the term “occupation” to describe Israel’s role in Judea and Samaria was “Orwellian.” “There is no occupation. This is an Orwellian propaganda lie,” he said, pointing out that most of the West Bank areas where Arabs reside are selfSee Divided Jerusalem on page 30
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By Ed Weintrob Israel’s Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked told a full house Sunday evening that the American-Israeli bond was “unbreakable and unshakable” and that the “importance of an undivided and unified Jerusalem” to the Jewish people meant that the nation’s capital would never be divided. “No terror attacks, no murder’s knife, will erode the iron will of the people of Israel and prevent our beacon from shining its lights,” she said during an event sponsored by the National Council of Young Israel in the Young Israel of Jamaica Estates. “In the continuing struggle for the right to be a free people in our land,
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Flanked by Mayor Weinstock at Sunday’s fair in Cedarhurst, Editor-Publisher Ed Weintrob shared news about The Jewish Star’s expansion. Starting this week, there are more pages, more news and more circulation throughout Long Island. See p. 31.