HAFTR rainbow for Noach
In honor of this Shabbat’s Parshat Noach and its rainbow promise, 3- and 4-year-olds at HAFTR’s Early Childhood Center in Lawrence came together to form their own rainbow, with each class wearing a distinctive color.
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Nikki Haley, who has been a face of the Trump administration’s uncompromising support of Israel, is resigning as United States ambassador to the United Nations. The former Republican governor of South Carolina, who has served in the UN post since the beginning of the Trump administration, said she would step down at the end of year. “She’s done a fantastic job, and we’ve done a fantastic job together,” Trump said on Tuesday. “We’ve solved a lot of problems, and we’re in the process of solving a lot of problems.” Haley responded that the US is now respected again on the world stage. “They get it when the president says he means business,” she said. Early on in her tenure, Haley made it clear that she would no longer tolerate anti-Israel bias at the world body. During See Todah on page 17
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Combined Sources Israel Defense Forces and other security personnel were in pursuit this week of the Palestinian who murdered, executionstyle, two Israelis at the Barkan Industrial Park on Sunday morning. “We grieve today for Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and Ziv Hajbi, may G-d avenge their blood,” Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a synagogue dedication at the Ein Keshatot archaeological site in the Golan Heights. “We will catch this heinous killer and we will settle the score. Israeli blood will not be spilled in vain.” Yehezkel, of Rosh Haayin, a 29-year-old mother of an infant, was laid to rest on Sunday night in her hometown. Hajbi, a 35-yearold father of three from Rishon Letzion, was buried Monday afternoon in Moshav Nir Yisrael. Both had been tied up and shot at close range. They died of
their injuries at the scene. Sara Vaturi, 54, was moderately wounded. The killer was identified as 23-year-old Ashraf Walid Suleiman Na’alwa from the West Bank village of Shuweika, just north of Tulkarm. The horrific incident took place as the three victims were beginning their workweek at Alon Group in the large industrial park, one of the few commercial centers to employ both thousands of Israelis and thousands of Palestinians. Barkan, in central Samaria near the city of Ariel, 35 kilometers east of the Petach Tikvah, consists of 165 manufacturing facSee Unbearable on page 10
Unbearable tragedy
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Noach • Oct. 12, 2018 • 3 Cheshvan 5779 • Torah columns pages 18–19 • Luach page 18 • Vol 17, No 39
Family and friends at the levaya of Kim Levengrond Yehezkel on Sunday. Yehezkel was slain along with Ziv Hajbi (both pictured top right).
On campus: Bibi is Hitler, Jews are U.S. enemies MICHIGAN U A required lecture for University of Michigan art students featured a speaker who compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler. A slide that showed a picture
of Netanyahu and Hitler with the words “Guilty Of Genocide” written across their faces was displayed by Emory Douglas as a part of the Penny Stamps Speakers Series Presentation of the Stamps School of Art & Design. Below the photo was the definition of genocide. “During his tenure, Douglas cre-
ated powerful images to depict the reality of racial injustice in America and to promote the [Black Panther] party’s ideologies,” according to the school’s website. “His distinctive style established the ‘militant-chic’ style decades before the aesthetic became popularized and sought to See Michigan on page 6
HATE FLIERS Fliers blaming Jews for the sexual assault allegations against newly sworn-in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh were posted at Vassar and Marist colleges in Poughkeepsie, NY, at University of
California campuses at Berkeley and Davis, and elsewhere. “Every time some Anti-White, Anti-American, Anti-freedom event takes place, you look at it, and it’s Jews behind it,” the fliers discovered Monday read. The flier shows an image of KaSee Hate flyers on page 6