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Shabbos Project caps the holidays, Oct. 23 actualizing the unifying theme of Succos. By Celia Weintrob The Jewish Star urges its readers to share Shabbos Parashas Lech Lecha, Oct. 23 to 24, marks the third annual Shabbos Project, the wealth. One way to do this in our frum a worldwide movement that unites Jews — communities is for each of us to invite less- or non-observant Jewish co-workers, including those who may not neighbors, friends and relatives to regularly be observing Shabbos experience Shabbos at our home. — in honoring the day and fulBeyond that, consider invitďŹ lling its mitzvos. ing Jewish female friends to the The unity experienced in “Great Challah Bake, Long Island bringing together the lulav and Style,â€? a ladies-only event at 8 esrog during Sukkos will be pm on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at the replicated as Jews of all stripes Sands Atlantic Beach. 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I repeat: do not let the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told world leaders on questions about Jewish or Shabbos tradiPalestine Liberation Organization olive branch fall from my hand.â€? Wednesday that he is no longer bound by agreements that have deIn visual terms at least, the tions; colleagues who remember being at leader Yasser Arafat addressed ďŹ ned relations with Israel for the past two decades and are meant their grandmother’s house for the Jewish the entire world from the rostrum contrast between Arafat in Noto form the basis for a two-state solution to the Middle East conict. holidays and happily recall those amazing of the United Nations General As- vember 1974 and Palestinian AuBut what sounded like a potentially explosive declaration was thority (PA) President Mahmoud meals, or neighbors who might enjoy a social sembly. blunted by the lack of any detail on how he plans to move forward. Always a master of spectacle, Abbas on Sept. 30, 2015, couldn’t night of talking and singing with others inAddressing the United Nations General Assembly, Abbas stead of eating alone. Arafat cut an arresting ďŹ gure as have been greater. stopped short of speciďŹ c threats that would irrevocably put him At the General Assembly rosBy doing so, you will share and spread he strode towards the podium in on a collision course with Israel, such as suspending security cothe beauty and joy of Shabbos to others, and a tieless black shirt and owing trum, the portly, drab Abbas deoperation. Instead, he closed on a conciliatory note, saying that cream jacket, with a perfectly- livered a speech so rhetorically spark increased ongoing observance among eventual peace between Israelis and Palestinians is “in the intercoiffed kefďŹ yeh wrapped around labored and dull that I found my- those close to you. Which is the perfect maniest of our future generations.â€? his head. A holster without its self wondering whether he’d had festation of Succos achdus as we move forIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ofďŹ ce issued a ward from this season of our joy. gunâ€”ďŹ rearms are forbidden in second thoughts about dropping statement in response, saying that Abbas had delivered a “speech Continued on page 21 Someone you know needs Shabbos now! the General Assembly Hall—was of lies that encourages incitement and unrest in the Middle East.â€? draped by his side pocket, comNetanyahu called on Abbas to “act responsiblyâ€? and answer pleting the aesthetic effect of a his proposal for direct negotiations with Israel without any prePalestinian Che Guevara. conditions. “The fact that time after time he (Abbas) does not Arafat, however, wasn’t going respond is the best proof that he has no intention of reaching a to let U.N. protocol ruin the drapeace agreement,â€? he said. matic impact of his speech. 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