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Erev Yom Kippur • Friday, Sept. 29, 2017 • 9 Tishrei 5778 • Luach page 22 • Torah columns pages 22–23 • Vol 16, No 36
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With a pomagranate in hand, Shira Gross, first grader at the Shulamith school in Cedarhurst, is holiday-ready.
With thanks to Hashem, we express our gratitude for a fruitful 5777 (last week’s Rosh Hashana edition was our biggest ever!), and pray that 5778 finds us continuing in our efforts to grow this newspaper as one that merits the support of our exceptional community. As careful as we are about what we publish, and despite our upbeat view of the community we serve, publishing a newspaper is a stressful 24/6 endeavor that carries the risk that someone might inadvertently be hurt by something printed in the paper, by something omitted from the paper, or even in the process of assembling the paper each week. In these Aseret Y’mei Teshuva, The Jewish Star, and its editor-publisher individually, asks mechilah, forgiveness, from anyone who feels they were wronged. And we are mochel, granting forgiveness, to anyone who may have wronged us in some way. G’mar Chasima Tova to all. —Ed Weintrob
Justice G’burg speaks at DC synagogue Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told Rosh Hashana worshippers at the nondenominational Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in downtown Washington that being Jewish has helped her have empathy for other minority groups. Ginsburg, 84, said that Jewish values have guided her work on the bench. “The Jewish religion is an ethical religion. That is, we are taught to do right, to love mercy, do justice, not because there’s gonna be any reward in heaven or punishment in hell. We live righteously because that’s how people should live and not anticipating any award in the hereafter,” Ginsburg said.
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Exodus flashback
Before the eyes of the international media, British troops violently forced the ship’s passengers — most of them Holocaust survivors — onto ships back to Europe. The resulting reports helped turn public opinion in favor of the Zionist movement and against the pro-Arab British policy of limiting Jewish immigration to Palestine. But much else was happening in the aftermath of World War II, and attention soon shifted elsewhere. One of the few journalists to stick with the story was Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent Robert Gary, who filed a series of reports from displaced persons camps in Germany. Seventy years later and decades after his death, Gary is again drawing attention to the “Exodus Jews,” albeit mostly in Israel. An album of 230 of his photos will be sold at the Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem on Oct. 31, and a number of the imChildren posing for a photo in hats that read “Exodus 1947” in a disages reveal the reality inside the Robert Gary placed persons camp in Germany, September 1947. See Exodus flashback on page 18 By Andrew Tobin, JTA TEL AVIV — In the summer of 1947, when the British turned away the SS Exodus from the shores of Palestine, the world was watching.
Our Jewish birthright under attack We must counter destructive move by anti-Israel JVP Commentary by Jonathan Greenblatt, JNS Most Jews look on the fragment of our community that hates Israel and Zionism with a mixture of disdain, irritation and puzzlement. Despite data indicating that a split between American Jewry and Israel is deepening, the organized Jewish world has yet to seriously and effectively address the problem. Now, that fragment has decided to attack Birthright, the largest educational organization in the world, for offering free trips to Israel to young Jewish adults from ages 18 to 26. It would be a good time finally to get serious about a response. The campaign against Birthright comes from the anti-Israel organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). This group may be the single most misnamed organization in the history of
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as a cudgel against the people with whom they claim to identify. They aren’t “for peace.” They’re in league with and providing cover for some of the planet’s worst Jew-haters. The Anti-Defamation League has even published a thorough takedown of them. They explicitly support a Palestinian “right of return,” which is to say they support the end of the Jewish state, whose founding they refers to as a “nakba”— Arabic for catastrophe. They are, at least in the positions they espouse in writing, in line with the terror organization Hamas and more radical than the Palestinian Authority. The JVP anti-Birthright manifesto reads like the kind of self-centered, labile poetry an adolescent might write. Despite being the See Jewish birthright on page 21