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The Jewish Star Just as a phantasmagoric United Nations vote that the sun rises in the west and sets in the south would be ignored by thinking people, the latest anti-Israel vote by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) would be better written about in satirical prose than discussed seriously in mainstream and Jewish media.

But UNESCO’s harebrained repudiaton both of established history and G-d’s words to his holy nation is too toxic to ignore.

It’s the latest salvo in an escalating war against the Jewish people

30,000 go Birthright This summer, 30,000 young Jews from 59 countries visited Israel on 10-day Birthright trips. Birthright said this week it would begin offering 7-day trips to allow busy young professionals to participate. Over 16 years, Birthright brought more than 500,000 young Jewish adults to Israel. Pictured: Birthright event in Jerusalem. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

and the state of Israel at the U.N. and elsewhere, and reports suggest that more anti-Israel action at the U.N. will follow the U.S. elections.

In the UNESCO action, its executive board formally approved a resolution on Tuesday that denies a Jewish connection to the Old City of Jerusalem. The approval came five days after the resolution passed in a preliminary vote of the executive board, at which point there were 24 in favor and 6 against, with 26 countries abstaining. The United States, the United Kingdom and Germany were among those that voted against the resolution. They were joined by Lithuania, the Netherlands and Estonia. Other European countries abstained.

On Monday, Mexico changed its vote from “in favor” to abstain, saying in a statement, “Changing the vote reiterates the recognition that the government of Mexico gives to the undeniable link of the Jewish people to cultural heritage located in East Jerusalem. It also reflects the deep appreciation that this government has for the Jewish community and in particular for their significant contributions to the welfare and economic, social and cultural development of Mexico.”

It’s the first time since 2010 that Mexico opposed a proposal by the Palestinian-Arab bloc in UNESCO. However, Mexico fired its Jewish ambassador to UNESCO, Andre Roemer, after Roemer walked out of last week’s preliminary vote in a personal protest, leaving his deputy to cast Mexico’s vote.

“Sadly, the ambassador to UNESCO was sacrificed, but it meant a change to the perennial tradition of following the vote of the Latin American bloc, which passed an absurd and biased resolution by a majority,” wrote Jewish Mexican news portal Enlace Judio.

The UNESCO resolution reportedly refers to the Temple Mount several times as Al Haram Al Sharif, its Islamic name, without mentioning that it is the holiest site in Judaism, according to UN Watch. It also uses the term Buraq Plaza, placing Western Wall Plaza in quotes, appearing to deny a Jewish connection to the site. The Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron is referred to as the al-aram al-Ibrahimi; Rachel’s Tomb, outside Bethlehem, is noted as the Bilal ibn Raba Mosque.

Following the vote, Israel suspended cooperation with UNESCO. Education Minister Naftali Bennett accused it of ignoring “thousands of years of Jewish ties to Jerusalem” and aiding “Islamist terror.”

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Harebrained UNESCO can’t rewrite history

Festival of joy

Rabbi Yona, at his station outside Gourmet Glatt in Cedarhurst, guided Five Towners in their selection of lulvaim and etrogim in the days leading up to Sukkot.

YOSS principal reps yeshivas Joins state panel to argue for fair shake for private schools private school students with mandated special education and related services.

To ensure that the local school districts are adhering to the new requirements of ESSA, the law has provisions requiring proper reporting by the districts and private schools.

The state education department has created the ESSA Non-Public School Workgroup to help NYSED develop the processes by which practices will meet the new requirements of this law. NYSED chose 27 public and nonpublic school representatives who will be meeting in Albany on a monthly basis.

Rabbi Fridman said after attending the first meeting of the workgroup, that the pros-

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Rabbi Avraham Fridman, general studies principal of Yeshiva of South Shore in Hewlett, was chosen to represent the interests of yeshivas and day schools at the ESSA Non-Public School Workgroup. He travelled to Albany the day after Rosh Hashana together with Sara Seligson of the Jewish Education Project and Avrohom Weinstock of Agudath Israel, where they met with officials of New York State Department of Education to discuss the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) governing K-12 education across the nation.

An important aspect of the law requires a higher level of accountability and participation by the local school districts in providing

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By Ron Kampeas, JTA of its wealth to line the pockets of corporate and political MIAMI BEACH — Donald Trump’s speech in West Palm interests.”

Beach last Thursday sounded familiar themes — familiar Trump’s counsel added: “Jonathan Greenblatt is mereto his campaign, but also to folks versed in anti-Semitism ly trying to divert the attention of the voters away from and in classic conspiracy theories of global control. these facts by fabricating connections to anti-Semitism.

The Republican presidential candidate never mentioned Jonathan Greenblatt seems to be willing to ignore Mr. Jews in his prepared text, which he read from teleprompters Trump’s lifelong commitment and support of Israel and with some extemporization. But in declaring that his Democratic the Jewish community, as well as his forceful rebuke of rival, Hillary Clinton, is somehow an instrument of a vast conanti-Semitism, but Mr. Trump will not allow anyone to spiracy involving scads of money and “international banks,” he hide the truth from the American people, no matter what entered what many saw as a territory where hostility to Jews illegitimate means they employ to try to do so.” perpetuates and thrives even in their absence.

“Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors,” Trump said.

“This election will determine if we are a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interA Jewish reporter for the political news website Poests rigging the system, and our system is rigged,” he said. litico has been targeted with anti-Semitic messages from “Our corrupt political establishment is the greatest a Donald Trump supporter. power behind the efforts at radical globalization and the A photoshopped image of Hadas Gold, editor of Politico’s disenfranchisement of working people. Their financial re“On The Media” blog, was posted Monday on Twitter, includsources are virtually unlimited, their political resources ing a bloody bullet hole in her forehead and a yellow star are unlimited, their media resources are unmatched.” worn by Jews in Nazi Germany pinned to her chest. She also Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt received emails with threatening and anti-Semitic messages. heard echoes between Trump’s rhetoric and classic anti“Don’t mess with our boy Trump or you will be first Semitic tropes.

Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Oct. 13.

Maria Lorenzino/Sun Sentinel/TNS in line for the camp,” read a message accompanying the “@TeamTrump should avoid rhetoric and tropes that historiphoto. “Aliyah or line up by the wall, your choice.”

The Trump camp denied that the speech echoed nefarious cally have been used against Jews and still spur #antisemitism,” The Twitter account that sent the message has been suspendthemes and criticized the remarks by the ADL’s chief.

Greenblatt said. “Let’s keep hate out of campaign.”

“Jonathan Greenblatt’s accusation that Donald Trump is evok- ed, according to Buzzfeed, which published a screenshot of the A number of others tweeted that the effect of Trump’s words ing themes that have historically been used against Jews is irre- image. A police report is being filed, said Politico in a statement. is toxic whether or not Jews were explicitly mentioned.

Politico writer Julie Ioffe was previously targeted with anti-Se“Trump is priming his supporters to believe the election was sponsible,” Jason Greenblatt (no relation), Trump’s chief legal ofstolen from them by a cabal of Jews, blacks, bankers and me- ficer and a campaign aide on Jewish affairs, said in a statement mitic attacks on social media, following a critical profile written in to JTA. “Jonathan Greenblatt is trying to connect the hatred and May about Trump’s wife, Melania. Ioffe retweeted the attack on dia,” said Todd Zwillich, a public radio correspondent.

“Is it just me or is much of this Trump speech Jew-baiting?” bigotry of some despicable individuals with the movement to Gold and in response a Trump supporter tweeted an image of the said Julia Ioffe, who suffered a barrage of anti-Semitic abuse Make America Great Again that Mr. Trump is leading. Note that, reporter’s face inside an oven, a reference to the Nazi death camps.

Several Jewish reporters covering the 2016 campaign have after writing a critical article about Trump’s wife Melania — at- in his recent comments, Jonathan Greenblatt did not dispute Mr. Trump’s description that Secretary Clinton is at the heart of a been on the receiving end of anti-Semitic abuse on social media. tacks Trump refused to repudiate.

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By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org WASHINGTON — A new leaked email shows that a speech

by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton last December left senior Israeli officials worried she might lean toward the Palestinians if elected president.

The WikiLeaks disclosure was found among emails sent by former Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat to senior Clinton adviser Jake Sullivan in 2015 concerning Israel and related topics.

In a Dec. 8 email, Eizenstat described a breakfast meeting he had with “a senior Israeli official who is very close to the Prime Minister.” Much of their talk focused on the Saban Forum, which had been held at Washington’s Brookings Institution several days earlier. Eizenstat did not name the official, however, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported “in all likelihood, it was Dermer,” since he participated in the Saban conference, referring to Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer.

Eizenstat informed Sullivan that the Israeli official was concerned “that most of the emphasis [at the Forum] was on the Palestinian issue, and he wonders if a Clinton Administration ‘will be a Saban Forum for four years’.” According to Eizsenstat, the Israeli official considered Clinton’s speech “95 percent good, although there was some moral equivalence language.”

Eizenstat described himself as a close acquaintance of Dermer, and offered to serve as the Clinton campaign’s “formal or informal emissary to Israeli government officials.”

Former U.S. Mideast envoy Martin Indyk, who has frequently clashed with Israel’s leaders, is the executive vice president of Brookings and organizer of the Saban Forum.

A careful analysis of Clinton’s speech suggests that the 95 percent figure may have been somewhat generous.

Blaming both sides

At several points in the speech, Clinton used what the Israeli official called “moral equivalence language.” Referring to the wave of Palestinian knife attacks against Israelis, Clinton said, “Brutal stabbings, shootings, and vehicle attacks that seek to sow fear among the innocent. Israeli children have been killed as have Palestinian children.” It was not clear which Palestinian children she was referring to aside from minors who were shot while trying to kill Israelis.

Later in her speech, Clinton referred to “the violence that

ing been “caused by the occupation, oppression, injustice, and aggression against our people.”

In her Saban Forum remarks, Clinton suggested that leaders on both sides were equally to blame for the absence of peace.

Another aspect of the Clinton speech that may have worried Israeli officials was the imbalance in the actions that she urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to take. While calling on Israel to take specific steps on the ground, she urged the Palestinians to take actions that were verbal or unspecified.

For example, she said in order “to create conditions for progress,” Israel should “take steps … with respect to settlements,” while the Palestinians should refrain from “unilateral action at the United Nations.” At another point, she urged Israel to specifically provide the Palestinians with “access to water, protection of their agricultural lands, more investment,” while asking the Palestinians to “provide better security for Israelis,” without specifying what exactly she expected of them.

Bush vs. Clinton on settlements

Hillary Clinton, then secretary of state, with Prime Minister Netanyahu at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel in March 2009.

State Department photo by Matty Stern.

are [sic] coming from Palestinians toward Israelis and, again, let’s be honest, from some Israelis toward Palestinians…”

In her speech, Clinton was reluctant to criticize the Palestinian Authority for inciting and encouraging the knife attacks. She said, “Palestinian leaders should condemn and combat incitement in all of its forms,” but did not acknowledge that those leaders engaged in incitement. Clinton praised Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, saying, “he has certainly been willing to explore different ways of cooperation and confidence-building.”

She also took a swipe at Abbas’s critics, saying, “I think it’s been unfortunate that he’s been in many eyes marginalized when there really is as yet no alternative.”

Clinton did not refer to the controversial statement made

by Abbas in the official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, less than three weeks earlier on Nov. 17. Abbas called the wave of knife attacks “a peaceful uprising,” and justified the attacks as hav-

Clinton took a hard line against Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria. In response to a question, she asserted that “every administration, Republican and Democratic alike, have had the same policy on settlements. That’s just something that all American governments have [had] for the last decades. And we have tried different approaches to persuade the Israeli government not to be expanding the territorial reach of settlements.”

Actually, the George W. Bush administration took a different position regarding the large Israeli settlement blocs. On April 14, 2004, Bush wrote to then-Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, saying, “In light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centers, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of the final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949.”

As secretary of state, Clinton disavowed the Bush commitment.

She told reporters on June 17, 2009, that “in looking at the history of the Bush administration, there were no informal or enforceable agreements” with Israel regarding settlements. However, Elliot Abrams, the U.S. Mideast envoy who negotiated the language of Bush’s letter, responded in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the letter did constitute an agreement with Israel, which the U.S. had brokered in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza.

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Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s farright National Front Party, vowed on Sunday that if she is elected the country’s president she would ban all public displays of religious symbols and clothing, including kippot.

Le Pen is seeking to broaden an existing law, called the headscarf ban, that does not allow conspicuous displays of religious symbols in public schools, to include all public areas.

She called the ban a struggle against radical Islam, but added that Jewish and Christian symbols would have to be included in the ban in the name of equality and the “national interest.”

“I know it is a sacrifice but I think the situation is terrible these days. … I know that every French person, including [French] Jews can understand that if we ask for this sacrifice from them [in the framework] of the battle against the advance of Islamic extremism, they will make this effort and understand it,” she said. (JTA)

Australian Greens leader attacks Shimon Peres SYDNEY (JTA) — The leader of the Australian Greens party was slammed by fellow lawmakers and a Jewish group for attacking the late Shimon Peres in a speech in the Senate.

Speaking two weeks after the former Israeli president died at 93, Sen. Richard Di Natale sought to counter depictions of Peres as a statesman and a peacemaker.

“It is important to put on the record that Shimon Peres has been described as an architect of Israel’s nuclear weapons program, which to this day remains outside the scrutiny of the International Atomic Energy Agency; that he was the father of the settler movement, which involves the confiscation of large swaths of Palestinian land;

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Marine Le Pen talking to the media two days after the Charlie Hebdo attack. Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images

and that in 1996 he oversaw Operation Grapes of Wrath, which involved the death of 154 civilians in Lebanon and involved the shelling of a United Nations compound, which killed 106 sheltering civilians,” Di Natale said.

Parliament member Michael Danby of the Labor Party blasted the left-wing legislator’s remarks, saying that Di Natale, “to his shame, denigrated” Peres” and “again showed his total insensitivity and his hatred of a Jewish state.”

He added: “It was unprecedented for the head of a political party to attack the recently deceased head of state who was known for values of peace and reconciliation with which the fake Green party ostensibly identifies.”

Danby also defended Peres’ role in Israel’s acquisition of nuclear technology, calling it a “fail-safe” following the near extermination of European Jewry during the Holocaust.

Ivanka Trump said comments made by her father, Donald Trump, in a leaked 2005 audiotape were “inappropriate and offensive.”

“I’m glad that he acknowledged this fact with an immediate apology to my family and the American people,” the Republican presidential nominee’s Jewish daughter said in a statement to Fast Company published Monday.

The magazine included the statement in a profile of Ivanka Trump, in which she discussed the intense scrutiny she and her family have faced during the presidential campaign. Trump converted to Orthodox Judaism in 2009 before marrying Jared Kushner, a New York real estate magnate and publisher of the New York Observer who is now a top adviser to her father. (JTA)

4 arrested in Ukraine in beating of rabbi Police in Ukraine arrested four suspects, including two teenagers, in the beating of Chabad Rabbi Mendel Deitsch, 63, in the western city of Zhitomir earlier this month.

The suspects were apprehended Sunday at a bus station in the city, which they planned to flee because they believed police were closing in on them, according to a report by MIG News.

The report did not name the suspects, who are aged 40, 21, 16 and 13. (JTA)

Portman calls babies her ‘good luck charms’ Actress Natalie Portman said her babies are “good luck charms,” when asked about early Oscar speculation for her latest movie.

“They’re the best things. The best main miracles,” she said in an interview that aired on Sunday.

The Israeli-born actress, pregnant with her second child, is promoting the upcoming biopic, Jackie, in which she portrays former First Lady Jackie Kennedy.

She was pregnant with her first child, Aleph, now 5, when she won her first Oscar for Best Actress in 2011.

“I don’t necessarily connect it [to winning an Oscar],” she said. “But it is certainly a joy.”

Portman is slated to play Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish female U.S. Supreme Court justice, in another future film. (JTA)

Bibi to act on B’Tselem JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Netanyahu said he will act to amend the country’s national service law so that young Israelis will no longer be able to serve at B’Tselem.

Netanyahu’s statement comes a day after the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem called on the international community to take action against what they call the occupation of Palestinian lands.

B’Tselem currently is entitled to fill one national service slot, paid for in part by the government. “What these organizations cannot achieve through democratic elections in Israel, they try to achieve by international coercion,” Netanyahu wrote in a post on his Facebook page.

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Fran: I’ll bet you $10 ner won’t go up. Eliyahu: Yes, it will.

Beer delivered, it won’t. Fran: OK I owe you $10, Eliyahu. debt settled!” related by Sita Eliyahu’s good humor was laughingly — all this reportHess at the bar (just seltzer! Sheesh we were just getting ing makes a person thirsty): “When Sukkot dinner in their to know the Raskins, we went for Raskin boys have a tensuccah. During these dinners, the the evening in dency to sit in different seats throughout Adam drank more order to be good hosts. As my husband in the succah) do to apt is one throughout the evening (as seats and alternately Eliyahu and Yankel kept swapping he was calling both of sitting next to him. By mid-evening too gracious far were them Eliyahu. Eliyahu and Yankel just appreciated what to contradict him (or maybe they

be). I teased Adam an excellent drinking buddy he could about it for weeks! always been so warm “Eliyahu is a lovely person. He has up our succah last year. with us. He even delivered and set We wish him and Shaindy all blessings!” to relate her memoPamela Roth took the opportunity ries over dessert.

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one wants to hire. and mischief, was Eliyahu, a bright boy full of laughter the neighborhood’s born in Brooklyn Heights, and attended in fact, he was in the top-tier Kiddie Korner Preschool — at the United founding class. He continued his education and completed Lubavitcher Yeshivoth on Ocean Parkway, Heights. After two his schooling in Toronto and Crown he returned to his years as a junior shliach in California, outreach for CongreBrooklyn Heights roots and now does at Brooklyn gation B’nai Avraham through programming professionals.

Jewish Law School, and with local young B’nai Avraham This reporter interviewed excited of Eliyahu. I briefly guests about their recollections the comic book rabbi, caught up with Simcha Weinstein, snappy dresser, serious who blurted, “Eliyahu Raskin — dragged back into the doer … we love him!” before being sea of dancers. one of the shul’s After the bedeken, Penny Rosen, founders, shared her thoughts of Eliyahu. and have loved “I’ve known him since he was a baby, talk,” she said. “I was him dearly even before he could books to read to him often at the Raskin house, bringing mind, he easand Yankel. Eliyahu has such an inquisitive reading with me, and ily picked up on nuances. He loved Eliyahu prewell after the boys could all read themselves, ferred my voices for the characters.

Chalav Yisroel Swiss “I remember once finding some lunch, staking cheese, and Eliyahu coming for Shabbos cheese board so his out that block of Swiss on the marble brothers would not get it first. a little, but it him “My best memory might embarrass Bar Mitzvah age and is very sweet. He was approaching no longer could sit had to sit in the men’s section, could mitzvah, he gave me on my lap. The night before his bar world to me.” a last huge hug, which meant the I have alPenny added: “In addition to his intelligence, kindness to all.” ways been impressed by his innate chatted about her While refilling her drink, Sonia Beker warm wishes for the happy couple. guy and full of fun.

“Eliyahu was always a high energy his siblings and other He loved socially interacting with streak. He was fearmischievous benign, a had and kids, invincible and unless, loved to take risks, always feeling still quite small, he endaunted. I remember when he was and fell, footing his missed tree, a thusiastically climbed But his energy injuring his head and requiring stitches. by this mishap. level and zest for life were not diminished sensitive young “Today, Eliyahu is a warm, humorous, family and everyone man, full of good spirits towards his to his rabbis and teacharound him. He was a great asset his knowledge and ers in his studies, and he’s applying B’nai Avraham as excellent people skills at Congregation now very busy climba teacher and in outreach work. He’s great success and joy ing the tree of life, and we wish him truly love him.” in his work and in his marriage. We vigorous dance set, While cooling off from a particularly was the very first kid Naomi Weinberger noted that Eliyahu bar mitzvah. She also she ever heard recite a maimer at his a group to tap out a recalls him sneaking away at times from ping pong, played often tune on her keyboard. “And he loved be volleying and then, at our home,” she added. “You would from Eliyahu.” giggling of lots and slam a “wham!” — line-by-line each Fran Bast related the following story I’ll bet you this bantime her dance line passed by. "Fran:

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Hispanic evangelicals widening support of Israel

By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org WASHINGTON — When Hispanic-American pastors from around the country met in the nation’s capital last week, the main issue on their agenda was not immigration or health care — it was Israel.

The pastors represented evangelical congregations from Connecticut to Oklahoma.

This rapidly-growing portion of the U.S. Latino electorate could have a significant impact on American policy toward Israel in the years ahead.

The mobilization in Washington was the work of the Hispanic Israel Leadership Coalition (HILC), an arm of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, which represents 40,118 Hispanic evangelical congregations across the country.

HILC president Pastor Mario Bramnick told JNS.org the purpose of the all-day gathering was to “pray together, to consult with our Israeli and Jewish friends, and to strategize practical ways to help the Jewish state.”

Building bridges

An estimated 160 pastors took part in a morning session Oct. 5 at the Israeli Embassy, where they met privately with Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer. Bramnick, the spiritual leader of the New Wine Ministries Church in Cooper City, Florida, said they discussed “ways to engage the Hispanic-American community and build bridges between Hispanic Americans and Israel.” He said, “[Israeli] Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and Amb. Dermer clearly understand the importance of reaching out to Hispanics.”

In the afternoon, several dozen of the pastors and other Hispanic evangelical activists held strategy sessions at a hotel in suburban Silver Spring, Maryland.

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Bramnick then discussed the HILC’s recent political action initiatives, saying that Christians have a moral obligation to serve as “Daniels, Josephs, and Esthers,” by speaking out for Israel. He cited the HILC’s opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, its successful lobbying to strengthen the Israel plank of the Republican Party’s platform, and its campaigns against Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) efforts in Florida and California.

Bramnick told JNS.org he and his followers “strongly condemn” the recent resolutions ad-

opted by mainline Protestant denominations, such as the Lutherans and the Presbyterians, calling for divestment from Israel and a cutoff of U.S. aid to Israel.

Bramnick sees a connection between those denominations’ liberal positions on social issues and their turn against Israel. “Just as they have strayed from what the Bible says about family and social matters, so too are they disregarding what G-d says about the Land of Israel belonging to the Jewish people,” Bramnick said. “Once you reject G-d’s word on some issues, it’s only a matter of time before you do the same on other issues.”

Jesse Rojo, of the Philos Project, which educates young Hispanics about the Middle East, said that “some young Latinos are confused about Israel as a result of what they hear from the media or on campus.” Nonetheless, he added, “young Hispanics are naturally predisposed to being pro-Israel, because you can’t read the Bible and not see that G-d wants us to support Israel.”

Several Jewish organizations are working closely with the Hispanic pro-Israel activists.

Among the speakers at the strategy session were Betty Ehrenberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress-North America; Jorge Diener, Hadassah’s director of special projects, and Sammy Eppel of B’nai B’rithVenezuela, who co-chairs the Latin America division of the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism.

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Demographic trends suggest that Hispanic evangelicals will enjoy increasing political and social influence in the years ahead. According to Bramnick, that bodes well for Israel, “because the number of Hispanic evangelical voters is growing quickly, and for many of them,

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Israel is an important issue on Election Day.” Evangelical Protestants are the largest single bloc of Christians in the United States, about 26 percent of the national population.

Catholics make up 21 percent, and mainline Protestants constitute approximately 14 percent. While the evangelicals have maintained their percentage of the population in recent years, the number of mainline Protestants has been decreasing.

Among evangelicals, Hispanics are the largest ethnic minority group. About 11 percent of evangelicals are Latino and 6 percent are African-American. By comparison, among mainline Protestants, only 6 percent are Hispanic and 3 percent are black. Evangelicals as a whole are becoming more ethnically diverse: 24 percent of evangelicals were members of ethnic minorities in 2014, up from 19 percent in 2007.

Although the majority of Hispanic Americans are Catholic, their numbers have been diminishing rapidly. In 2010, 67 percent of U.S. Latinos were Catholic, but by 2013 that slid to 55 percent. By contrast, Protestants — most of them evangelicals — were just 12 percent of America’s Hispanics in 2010, but reached 22 percent by 2013, according to the Pew Research Center, which tracks and analyzes religious trends in the U.S. Hispanic adults are an increasingly potent force in American politics. California has the largest percentage of Latinos — more than one-third of its residents — which in presidential races almost always backs the Democrat candidate. But a number of presidential battleground states also have significant Latino populations. In Arizona, they constitute 21.5 percent of eligible voters. In Nevada, 17 percent, in Florida, 18 percent and in Colorado 14.5 percent.

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On college campuses around the world, hackathons — 24-hour technological innovation marathons — encourage creative thinking and partnerships. But because they typically occur on Saturdays, religious Jews can’t participate. The YU hackathon provides a forum for observant Jews to connect, brainstorm and partner together to build anything from apps to robots to self-driving cars.

This year’s event features an Israeli Tech Startup Fair where participants can meet with representatives from Israeli companies, learn about the products they create and hear tech talks from professionals in a wide range of fields. These professionals will also be available to mentor students and offer insight or feedback on the projects they’re working on throughout the event.

“We’re pioneering a brand new way for students to step into the world of Israel,” said Tamar Shiller, one of the event’s organizers.

“The goal is to build an experience for students that will help them create tools for and learn more about Israel’s tech community.”

The event is free and open to students at any high school or college between the age of 16 and 26. Knowing how to write code is not a requirement to participate.

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STAR SCHOOLS Beyond self at SKA The Aseret Yemei Teshuvah took on greater meaning for the students of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls in Hewlett Bay Park on Oct. 6, with “Beyond Yourself,” an uplifting schoolwide program encouraging sensitivity to others and careful speech.

While seniors worked on a lashon hara and speech awareness “Word Watch” created by SKAers Shani Axelrod and Leba Wilamowsky, ninth, tenth and eleventh graders created their own Code of Conduct.

All of the girls viewed videos produced

by SKA Media Coordinator Jordana Mallin and attended workshops where they wrote out strategies for management of bein adom l’chavero.

Seniors also heared from faculty member Shira Manne, who shared reflections about learning Shmirat Halashon and its impact on the different arenas of her life.

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From left: Rabbi Lt. Eli Skaist; Rabbi Dovid Kupchik, menahel; Rabbi Judah Hulkower, student activities coordinator.

During Aseret Yemei Teshuva, the Shulamith Middle Division hosted a panel discussion on the topic of teshuva.

The panelists — Devorah Resnick, a parent of two Shulamith graduates; Morah Adina Wolf, a member of the high school faculty; and Morah Nava Eisenberg, a middle division faculty member — answered questions posed by students on the topic of drawing closer to Hashem.

Students said they were inspired by the many ideas presented by the panelists: “It’s not nebby to talk about being close to Hashem. It’s cool to have a relationship with Him!” “Lo alecha hamelacha ligmor — you just have to try to grow closer to Hashem, and He will help you.”

“If you think about Hashem when you’re in a beautiful place, you will be-

gin to think about Hashem everywhere you go.”

Seventh grader Miriam Abittan appreciated the idea that there’s no such thing as a small improvement.

Even the smallest change can be a big deal when it comes to doing teshuva.

Students agreed that the session offered practical ideas for how to strengthen one’s connection to Hashem.

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Father-son kinus teshuva at DRS Generations bonded while learning Torah together at DRS’s annual Father-Son Kinus Teshuva program, held on Oct. 9.

After selichot and davening, DRS Menahel Rabbi Kaminetsky addressed the packed Beis Medrash about unique relationships rooted in and revolving around Torah between a father and son.

Following breakfast, each DRS rebbe presented a stirring shiur on topics related to teshuva and the Yomim Noraim.

Keynote speaker Rabbi Efrem Goldberg, Mora D’Asra of the Boca Raton Synagouge in South Florida, delivered an inspiring shiur about finding one’s true purpose and mission in the world.

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During aseret yemei teshuva, on Tzom Gedalya, the students at HAFTR Middle School heard from Rabbi Eli Skaist, a lieutenant and chaplain in Tzahal-IDF and rebbe at the Ashreinu Yeshiva in Israel.

Rabbi Skaist spoke about the meaning of teshuva and suggested that it is a response to Hashem’s calling out to us. He challenged the students to think about what kind of year they want to have and told stories about chayalim who answered their call in very heroic ways.

He made specific reference to two of his dear friends, Ezra Schwartz a”h and Rabbi Nechemia Lavi a”h, who were killed in Israel last year. The students were inspired to hear directly from a chayal who is defending Medinat Yisrael on many fronts.

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HANC HSers attend predebate talk Laura Eisner’s AP Government class at HANC High School participated in a predebate event at Hofstra University — right across the street — on Sept. 22.

A panel of two journalists — Eugene Robinson, of the Washington Post and Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard — agreed that this election is one-of-a kind and the issues would play second fiddle to the character and personalities of the candidates.

MDS students build ‘extreme sukkahs’ Before Sukkot, Rabbi Klein’s seventh and eighth grade dinim class at Manhattan Day School learned all about extreme sukkahs.

First, they constructed the world’s smallest halachic sukkah. After learning the laws for the smallest dimensions for a sukkah, they proceeded to construct a tiny sukkah using cardboard and a great deal of duct tape.

The class then learned the halachot relating to how large a sukkah may be. Following an inspection of the rooftop playground, which included measuring the walls and the height of the support beams, it was determined that it could be turned into a halachically acceptable kosher sukkah.

The only problem the students had trouble solving was where would MDS find enough schach to cover such a large sukkah? Perhaps that will be next year’s dinim project!

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More than 60 parents attended a Silverstein Hebrew workshop for parents with child psychologist, Dr. David Pelcovitz.

This was the first of many programs that the Great Neck school has organized to give parents free access to Pelcovitz’ teachings.

“Dr. Pelcovitz’ vision on raising children in a challenging and confusing world is well respected, and we are honored to connect him with our students’ parents,” said SHA Associate Head of School Chanie Geisinsky.

Pelcovitz has published and lectured extensively on topics related to education, parenting and child mental health. Issues he commonly advises on include how to set limits for children, saying “no” without damaging the parent-child relationship, and the balance of using digital-technology as a tool without over-exposing children.

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Ask the children at HALB Lev Chana Early Childhood Center to describe their weekly physical education class, and the answer you’ll hear most often is “FUN!” Little do they realize how much thought and planning Mrs. Tamar Sicklick, Lev Chana’s PE Instructor, put into developing our physical education program. Specifically geared to HALB’s preschool aged children, the activities are aimed at developing body and spatial awareness skills, learning to follow instruction, and allow for opportunities for skill practice, assessment and the chance to fine tune motor skills.

Morah Tamar explains that “games like Simon Says (played without the elimination process) teach children body-part identification. When children stand inside a hoop, or on a carpet square, and you invite them to reach as high, bend as low, and stretch as wide as they can, they begin to understand the realm of their personal space and what they can do within it.

“When you challenge them to jump, first like rabbits and then like kangaroos, they practice the loco motor skill of jumping, while also using their own weight to strengthen muscles. Additionally, they will develop the bodily control necessary for moving both lightly and strongly.”

Mrs. Sicklick’s goals for our children include helping them develop confidence in their ability to play games like other children, coordination that will enable them to throw a ball, dance or engage in other physical activities, and develop healthy fitness habits.

“Children who feel good about their physical abilities have a better overall view of them and are less likely to become sedentary later in life.”

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Fourth eighth graders from the Shulamith School for Girls in Cedarhurst joined Kulanu students for a pre-Sukkot activity on Oct. 13.

Creativity abounded as the students created sukkot out of pretzel sticks, sour sticks and marshmallow fluff. They also made collages and decorations of oranges and besamim.

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dren jump and wake up very quickly. He added that we need to remember that Hashem is the king.

Rabbi Oppen told the children that when a king comes to a town, the soldiers line up and blow long trumpets, announcing his arrival. That is the tekiyah sound, announcing that Hashem the king is here. The shevarim and teruah are broken sounds that remind us to do teshuvah, to break up our haughtiness and pride, as we stand before Hashem, our king.

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Some children held their ears, some looked up in wide-eyed wonder, and some laughed joyfully as Rabbi Akiva Oppen, sofer, baal tokaya, and owner of Oppen Scrolls, blew many different shofarot from many different kosher animals at the HALB Lev Chana Early Childhood Center.

Shofarot from such kosher animals as antelopes, deer, kudus, ibex, avcan, gazelles, mountain goats, goats and rams crammed the table as Rabbi Oppen demonstrated how a kosher shofar slips off the bone that grows from the head of the animal. He assured the children that it does not hurt the animal at all.

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By Robert Gluck, JNS.org One of the leaders in the fight against breast cancer is Dr. Tamar Peretz Yablonski, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, whose tenacity and determination to find a cure inspires her and countless others.

“My parents always taught me to fight, to look on the bright side,” Yablonski, director of Hadassah Medical Center’s Sharett Institute of Oncology in Israel, told JNS.org.

As Hadassah continues its important research work in finding a cure, the organization celebrates 20 years since its researchers discovered that the risk of carrying the BRCA1 gene mutation – which is tied to increased cancer risk — is 1 in 40 for Ashkenazi women, compared to 1 in 100 for the rest of the population.

Following this discovery, Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO) developed a simpler blood test to detect the presence of these genes, the organization reported.

Hadassah’s findings have had a major impact on breast cancer management, according to Yablonski. “We now know this mutation in the BRCA gene predisposes to the development, not only of breast cancer, but also to the development of ovarian, colon, pancreatic, prostate in males and other diseases,” she said.

From left: Maxx Schube with daughters Alana and Rochelle.

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Genetic testing has potentially saved the lives of an untold number of women whose examples are often highlighted in news accounts, such as Hollywood actress Angelia Jolie, who famously in 2013, touted the benefits of genetic testing and surgery to prevent hereditary breast cancer.

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Breast cancer survivor, Maxx Schube, who lives in Atlanta, and her two grown daughters, Rochelle and Alana, all tested

positive for the BRCA genetic mutation, which helped them individually decide their best course of action.

“After my sister’s death from ovarian cancer and my breast cancer diagnosis, my doctors suggested I undergo genetic testing,” Schube said. “I tested positive for the BRCA1 mutation. With the knowledge acquired from BRCA genetic research, we realized, I could have passed it on to my children.

So, when they were in their 20s, it was suggested each one be tested. Both daughters tested BRCA1 positive, my son was spared. Hadassah developed the blood test that can detect if a healthy woman carries the BRCA mutation. When my 23-year-old daughter felt a lump in her breast, she wasn’t taken seriously until she revealed she was BRCA positive. I shudder to think she might have been overlooked.”

When Schube speaks at Hadassah’s breast cancer awareness campaign events – including those in October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness month - she tells audiences that cancer doesn’t discriminate based on a woman’s age.

“We emphasize that even in college, when you are busy with school or focusing on your future, there is no future unless you keep up with your health, medical checkups or do a thorough breast self-examination,” Schube said.

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At first, it might seem like good news President Obama’s administration finally acknowledged and criticized the horrendous glorification of terrorist attacks we read about almost every day.

Until you notice the State Department forgot to mention one little thing — the identity of those it condemned. Who exactly has been making statements “glorifying” the attack? Who called the terrorist a hero and a martyr?

Who defended and justified the murder of an Israeli Jewish grandmother?

The answer is Fatah, whose chairman is Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas.

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) created the PA in 1994 to govern territories from which Israel was withdrawing. Yasser Arafat, head of the PLO, was the first head of the PA. After he died, Abbas succeeded him.

Why won’t the State Dept. refer to Abbas and Fatah by name?

police.” False claims about Jews “defiling” other people’s religious sites have been used throughout the ages to stir up anti-Jewish hatred and violence. It’s called blood libel.

At the same time, the Jerusalem branch of Abbas’s Fatah issued a call to Arab shopkeepers to go on strike “in memory of the souls of the martyrs of Palestine and this morning’s martyr.” The PA’s official Voice of Palestine Radio broadcast called for the strike “due to the death of the Shahid Abu Sbeih.”

So why won’t the Obama administration acknowledge the truth about what Abbas’s Fatah is doing? Why won’t it refer to Abbas and Fatah by name? Because here’s what would happen.

Obama would have to put Fatah back on the U.S. list of terrorist groups. (Supporting and encouraging terrorism is one of the criteria for getting on the list.)

He would have to stop giving Abbas $500 million each year, since it’s against the law to give U.S. funds to terrorist groups. And Obama would have to give up his dream of forcing Israel to permit the creation of a Palestinian state led by Abbas, Fatah and the PA. Obama’s political agenda — his entire policy concerning Israel and the Palestinian Arabs — conflicts with telling the truth about Fatah.

No matter how loudly Abbas’s Fatah cheers for terrorists, the Obama administration will never do more than make vague allusions to “the statements glorifying this reprehensible and cowardly attack,” without ever identifying who is doing the glorifying.

Stephen M. Flatow, an attorney in New Jersey, is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.

The PLO consists of eight terrorist organizations, Fatah being the largest. Arafat was chairman of Fatah and the PLO. Following his death, Abbas become chairman of Fatah and the PLO. In other words, Abbas — hailed as a “moderate” by the Obama administration, the United Nations and the international news media — is chairman of the movement that is spearheading the glorification of the Jerusalem terrorist attack.

Within hours of the most recent Oct. 9 attack, Fatah’s Facebook page featured a large, fullcolor cartoon depicting a hand with a machine gun waving from the top of Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock. On the ground below are two Israeli army helmets in a pool of blood. They represent Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Wikimedia Israeli police officer Yosef Kirme, The Fatah posting described the terror29 and the grandmother, Levanah Malichi, 60, murdered in the attack. Evi- ist as “one of the most prominent people in dently, Fatah regards Israeli grandmothers as Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

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Fatah’s Facebook page also featured an victed of in Israeli court constituted “ribat,” announcement praising “the shahid (mar- an Islamic term referring to praiseworthy retyr) Musbah Abu Sbeih, the one who carried ligious conflicts over Muslim land. The postout the operation.” Abbas’s Fatah uses the ing further justified his attack, claiming “the word “operation” when referring to terror- occupation authorities persecuted him.” bbas’s Fatah further justified the attack ist attacks. That’s because it doesn’t consider by falsely claiming, “The occupation murdering Israelis as terrorism. Palestinian government … is granting permission Media Watch notes, “Defining a dead murderer as a shahid indicates that, according to the settlers to invade it, defile it, and desto Fatah, the murder of Israelis is sanctioned ecrate its sanctity on a daily basis under the umbrella and protection of the occupation and even desired in the name of Islam.”

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“The rest will have other genes that are involved. It may be a mistake to test only for BRCA. In the last two years, we’ve researched other genes that are involved in the development of breast cancer. We identified specific mutations in the gene, called p53 [a tumor suppressor protein], which predisposes to the development of breast cancer at a very young age. We know there are at least 26 genes that are involved in the predisposition of breast cancer.”

Yablonski stressed treatment too. “How genetic predisposition affects treatment is important,” she said.

Looking ahead “Those with the BRCA1 and “There were many questions BRCA2 are more sensitive to on how we should proceed since a specific chemotherapy drug about half of the women diag[platinum-based]. If a woman is nosed with breast cancer in Israel Dr. Tamar Peretz Yablonski suffering from breast cancer, we are non-Ashkenazi,” Yablonski Renee Young, Hadassah know this drug should be used said. and is effective.”

“The general thought was While breast cancer is no longer an auwomen of any ethnic origin should be aware of the possibility of developing breast cancer tomatic death sentence, it remains a serious on the background of genetic predisposition. illness.

“We should be very cautious in deciding It was suggested the medical [insurance] coverage, as it exists today, will allow women to give therapy or not and be very precise from all ethnic groups to be tested for BRCA. and personal on what kind of treatments There was also the question of whether other to give, the dosage, the possibility of side genes were involved, and this is one of the effects, close follow-up and when to stop,” Yablonski said. points of the research we are doing today.”

“Newly diagnosed patients and those carNew studies show that other genes should not be ignored in the diagnosis of breast can- rying the mutated gene face a bewildering array of treatment options and opinions. This cer.

“If we look at the prevalence of any muta- will change. Treatment will become increastions in women who develop breast cancer ingly personalized, structured according to on a background of genetic predisposition the many factors involved, from genetic to only 40 percent to 50 percent will have the emotional. Decisions will be easier and results will be better.”

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Gingersnap and apple challah recipe

By Tami Ganeles-Weiser, The Nosher This bread bursts with ginger from gingersnap cookies and fresh ginger, the flavors straight out of the Germanic regions, like Alsace-Lorraine, Germany and Austria, where Jews lived for many centuries and many were a vital part of spice business. It’s distinctly sweet, mildly hot, richly spiced, and it’s all supported with the warm undertones of apples.

Enrobed in the enriched challah dough, this really is a treat. It makes a wonderfully fragrant, complex loaf that is great for any autumn or winter celebration.

When you spread the filling over the three sections of dough, make sure to leave a clean edge of at least 1-1/2 inches to prevent overflow and allow for good bread-to-bread stickage. Don’t be afraid to give it a good pinch to seal it. Then roll up into a tube. Next, I slash the tubes about halfway through to the bottom — not more — so you can see all that yummy filling, but not enough for it to fall out and burn.

Then they are braided.

If you prefer, you can make this challah into a shtreimel shape, the coiled round loaf that is traditional for Ashkenazi fall holidays. I make a very long single tube shape, increasingly and gradually thicker at one end than the other (by about 1 to 1-1/2 inches). I do not usually slice or slash it, but it’s possible as long as you don’t get carried away and cut it too deep.

To coil: Starting with the thinnest part of the tube, twist and wind it like a snake coiled up onto itself, and tuck the end down into the center to make a spiral that seemingly has no end. You can also start the coil from the inside out, starting with the thickest part for the first small tight coil.

Ingredients: For the dough:

1 (1/4 ounce) packet instant yeast (about 2-1/4 teaspoons) 1/4 cup plus 2 teaspoons (9 grams) granulated sugar, divided 2/3 cup warm water, between 85 and 95 F 3-3/4 cups bread flour, plus more for dusting 3 large eggs, divided 3 large egg yolks 1/4 cup canola or any mild flavored oil 2 teaspoons kosher salt 2 teaspoons water For the filling: 18 to 20 gingersnap cookies 1/3 cup apricot jam or preserves 1-1/4 teaspoons roasted ground cinnamon 3/4 teaspoon roasted ground cardamom 3-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and grated finely (about 3 tablespoons) 1/3 teaspoon ground allspice 6 to 10 scrapes fresh nutmeg 6 tablespoon apple butter Directions: Prepare the dough: In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook, combine the yeast, 2 teaspoons of the sugar, and the 2/3 cup warm water. Mix to combine. Let stand for 2 to 3 minutes, until the yeast starts to foam. Add 1-3/4 cups of flour to the yeast mixture and mix to combine.

In a mixing bowl, whisk the remaining sugar, 2 of the whole eggs, the egg yolks, oil, and salt together until combined. Add this to the yeast and flour mixture and mix at low speed until thoroughly incorporated, about 1 minute.

Add the remaining 1-3/4 cups flour, and once fully incorporated, knead at medium speed for 6-7 minutes. The dough should be smooth, soft, and slightly sticky.

Transfer the dough to a large bowl and cover with plastic wrap and a damp kitchen towel; refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight.

When the dough is chilled, remove it from

the refrigerator. Line a 12-by-18-inch rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper or a nonstick silicone pad and set aside. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Make an egg wash by whisking the remaining egg and the water in small bowl and set aside.

To make the filling: Place the gingersnaps in the bowl of a food processor and process for 15 to 20 seconds until finely ground. (You will have about 1 cup of crumbs.) Add the apricot jam, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, allspice, and nutmeg and process for 10 to 20 seconds, until it has the consistency of a paste. Set aside.

Lightly flour a work surface and a rolling pin.

Turn the dough out onto the work surface and divide it into 3 equal pieces (about 330 grams each). Cover 2 of the pieces in plastic wrap and set aside. On the work surface, roll the remaining piece of dough into a rough 10-inch square.

It should be about 1/8-inch in thickness. Spray a silicone spatula with nonstick vegetable oil spray and use it to spread about 1/3 cup of the filling across the dough, and then spread 2 tablespoons of apple butter on top, leaving a 1/2inch border uncovered on the side furthest from you. Use a pastry brush to brush a small amount of the egg wash over the uncovered edge.

Use a pastry scraper or spatula to help you lift up the filled edge of the dough and roll it up into a tube, jelly roll-style, as tightly as you can, toward the exposed edge. Pinch the seam closed with your fingertips. Gently roll the tube back and forth over the work surface until it spreads lengthwise to about 12 inches long.

Cover the first tube with plastic wrap and set aside while you repeat with the remaining dough and filling, working with one piece of dough at a time.

Slash the tubes: Line up the 3 rolled, filled tubes on the prepared baking sheet. With a

very sharp, long knife, make a lengthwise slash through each tube, cutting halfway down the depth of the tube, but making sure not to cut all the way through to the bottom.

Roughly measure the center point of the tubes (about 6 inches in from the ends). Working outward from that point, braid the tubes together, crossing one of the outer tubes gently over the middle one. Then cross the other outer tube up and over the new middle one. Repeat, working your way down to the end. Half of the tube should be braided. Then turn the parchment paper around and braid the other side, from the center point to the end, so that the entire loaf is braided.

Spray a piece of plastic wrap with nonstick vegetable oil spray and cover the bread with it, sprayed-side down. Allow the bread to rise for 40 minutes. Uncover and brush liberally and completely with the egg wash.

Bake for 50 to 60 minutes, until the crust is a warm brown and crusty, and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the bottom of the loaf reads about 200 F. If you tap it gently on the bottom, it should sound hollow.

Cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Then transfer to a rack to cool completely before serving.

Schmearing Utah: Bagel-making at Salt Lake

By Uriel Heilman SALT LAKE CITY (JTA) — When Robb Abrams first moved to this mountain city from the New York area six years ago, he loved the idea of living in an outdoorsman’s paradise.

But there was one thing in particular he found very troubling: He couldn’t find a decent bagel anywhere.

What began as a casual hunt quickly turned into an obsession — and, eventually, a profession.

A technology executive by training, Abrams had limited experience in the kitchen. Until his wife’s career at Goldman Sachs precipitated their relocation to Salt Lake City, Abrams managed a $12 million operation for the jeweler Tiffany & Company. But newly jobless in Utah, Abrams had a lot of time on his hands. He spent much of it griping about the lack of quality bagels and lox in town.

After three years, his wife told him to shut up, quit his job hunt and make some bagels of his own.

“I thought she was absolutely crazy,” Abrams recalls. “I’m a technology guy. I had never baked before in my life.”

Fast forward three years and Abrams, 45, is building a business as the city’s resident artisanal Jewish bagel maker (not that he has much competition on that score in his overwhelmingly Mormon town).

Abrams’ shop in the city’s northeastern Liberty Wells neighborhood, The Bagel Project, sells 6,000 bagels and bialys a week, in addition to lox and whitefish salad, and many mornings the line snakes out the door. Abrams has fended off offers from local markets that want to buy his bagels wholesale, and he was set to open a second location downtown to keep up with demand.

It took Abrams months of research and experimentation to come up with the recipe for what he says is the perfect bagel: crusty on the outside, chewy on the inside. The key, he says, is a circa-1900 formula he found online that uses a sourdough preferment that takes about 15 hours to mature.

“I stumbled across a formula used by Jews in the Lower East Side when they migrated to New York and brought their bagel recipes over from the Old Country,” he said. “We’ve been using it ever since.”

Figuring out the magic formula was no easy feat. A tinkerer more accustomed to fiddling with his mountain bike, Abrams spent months testing out various flours he’d ordered from all over the country. He visited bagel shops in New York, where he says he was horrified to discover many bakers were using preservatives and dough condi-

A former technology whiz from the East Coast, Robb Abrams has forged a new identity as a bagel maker in Salt Lake City. Uriel Heilman

tioners to make the dough more pliable. He baked bagels nonstop, sending his two children to school with leftover samples to share.

The kids’ friends in their Mormon-majority public schools found it a little strange that the children kept turning up at school with bags of bagels, he said, but they figured it was probably something New York Jews did all the time back East.

Once Abrams perfected his bagel recipe, he began to be inundated with requests from his kids’ friends and teachers. He opened a bagel booth at the Salt Lake City Downtown Summer Farmers Market in 2013, usually selling out in the first four hours. The next summer he started making schmears from scratch and curing salmon to make gravlax.

He opened his neighborhood store with a $50,000 investment in January 2015, selling plain, salt, sesame, poppy seed, garlic, onion, everything and cinnamon raisin bagels, in addition to bialys, for $1.75 a pop. He often sells out. Abrams estimates his customer base is split evenly between native Utahns and transplants from California or the East Coast.

Having mastered the bagel and recently finalized his formula for challah, Abrams says what he really wants to do is focus on appetizing — the smoked and cured fish Jews traditionally eat with bagels.

“The mission statement is really to bake and cure Old World, turn-of-the-century Jewish soul food on the parve side of the kosher diet,” he said. “It’s really a dying breed. Not many people here even know what appetizing means. Our goal is to bring appetizing back to the country — and eventually to open up additional locations outside Utah.”

Abrams makes his gravlax from sushi-grade salmon he buys from a local wholesaler who has it flown in fresh every day. The whitefish comes from Brooklyn. Abrams has employees pick out the bones by hand rather than pulverize them, so the whitefish maintains its natural texture. The store also sells Jewish favorites like hamantaschen and mandelbrot.

Abrams — who used to rise at 3 every morning to make the bagels himself — has trained staff to do the baking. After giving the sourdough starter 10-15 hours to mature, they mix in flour, water, salt, malt and yeast, and let the dough rest a bit.

Then they hand-shape the dough into circles, place them on wooden boards dusted in corn meal and store them in a cooler for 24 hours. The chilling time helps give the bagels a more complex, tart flavor, according to Abrams.

When the bagels are ready for baking, they are boiled for about 30-45 seconds, taken out, seeded and flavored, and then baked for about 20 minutes. The formula is adjusted slightly from summer to winter to account for changes in the local barometric pressure that can affect the final product.

“I never thought it was such a hard thing to make a bagel,” Abrams said.

Aside from running his own business, which he says is now turning a profit, Abrams says it is very satisfying to be doing something for a living that’s part of the American Jewish tradition.

“It’s more than just providing for my family for the future, it’s really about the experience around the food that we grew up with,” said Abrams, who grew up in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, and later lived in New York and New Jersey.

“Having Jewish food at the table during holidays or at special events during the year was a part of my childhood,” he said. “Now there’s nothing more rewarding than to see my children eat my products with the same type of joy that I had growing up.”

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Unsporting behavior: Israel’s enemies in athletics Ben Cohen Viewpoint

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ne of the most enduring images of last summer’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro captured Islam El Shehaby, an Egyptian judo competitor, or judoka, turning his back on the outstretched hand of his opponent, Or Sasson, after the Israeli athlete’s victory in a bout that earned him the bronze medal.

As El Shehaby stomped off to the locker room, the referee called him back for the customary bow to the opponent, which resulted in a curt nod. As he turned around again, loud booing emerged from the crowd. Because of the handshake refusal, El Shehaby was sent home from the games in disgrace.

Many Israel advocates regarded El Shehaby’s actions as emblematic of an Arab and Muslim loathing of Israel that manifests in all contexts as soon as there is an opportunity. Quite a few of them took to social media to slam the Egyptian personally. In my view that was unfair. True, El Shehaby hardly endeared himself to the spectators, and he may well share the hostile views toward Jews expressed by 75 percent or so of his countrymen, but I don’t think he had much of a choice. Before the fight with Sasson, he’d been warned on social media that competing against an Israeli was a violation of the Islamic faith, and so he did something to save face. Competing and then behaving in such a disgraceful fashion is marginally better than boycotting the contest outright, as was done by the Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili, whose refusal to fight the Israeli Ehud Vaks

at the 2004 Olympics in Athens garnered him much praise from the regime in Tehran.

Iran and Egypt aren’t the only Muslim-majority countries to boycott Israel and its athletes, violating every norm of good sportsmanship in the process. In 2009, the United Arab Emirates denied Israeli tennis star Shahar Pe’er an entry visa, forcing her to pull out of that year’s Tennis Championship in Dubai.

Since then, Arab states have grudgingly granted visas to Israeli athletes, including Pe’er, but have discriminated against them in other ways.

At an international swimming competition in Dubai and Qatar in 2013, Israeli competitors were excluded from broadcasts and endured protests from officials, who refused to say the word “Israel.” When Amit Ivry won the silver medal in the 100m Individual Medley, the Israeli flag was blanked out in broadcasts of the award ceremony.

In the world’s most popular sport, soccer, Israel has regularly taken an off-the-field battering from the game’s international authorities (on the field, the national team has failed to qualify for every World Cup since 1970, but that’s for another column.) Last year, in the midst of an unprecedented corruption scandal which resulted in the exit of most of the international governing body FIFA’s leadership, Israel’s soccer authorities fought a Palestinian challenge to have them expelled.

Now, the Palestinians have adapted their campaign to a targeted boycott of six teams based in Jewish communities in the West Bank.

All of these teams are lower league sides, and

are a million miles from making it to the glamour of European competitions, where even Israel’s top teams struggle to get past the group qualifying stage. But that doesn’t matter to the Palestinians who – not satisfied with their own membership of FIFA, which was never opposed

by Israel – are insisting that a body that governs soccer (very badly) is in a position to adjudicate Israel’s borders.

They’ve also turned to the U.N., which has, unsurprisingly, indicated that it supports the move to force Israeli clubs to move behind the Green Line. Meanwhile, FIFA’s president, Gianni Infantino, has said the issue must be resolved before his organization’s congress next year, which conveniently falls during the major anniversaries commemorating Israeli military victories in the 194748 and 1967 wars.

If FIFA does take action against Israel over these clubs, then it will have to get ready for a volley of accusations concerning double standards. After all, if Israel has to face consequences for national league teams that have no impact on the ability of Palestinian teams and the Palestinian national side to play the game – the national side is currently competing for a place in the 2018 World Cup competition – then why have a different rule for Iran, which bans women from attending matches, an act of gender discrimination that defies several international conventions?

FIFA is in an even weaker spot when it comes to Qatar, the tiny oil-and-gas emirate arguably its most powerful member, having secured the

Arab and Muslim loathing of Israel manifests in all contexts as soon as there is an opportunity.

hosting rights to the 2022 World Cup following a corrupt bidding process. Qatar is politically close to Jibril Rajoub, the Fatah leader who heads the Palestine Football Association, and will therefore do whatever it can to boost him, even if that means tarring the sport with the sectarian hatreds of the Middle East.

More importantly, FIFA is facing legal action in Switzerland over the abysmal treatment of the migrant workers constructing soccer stadiums in Qatar; under the emirate’s kafala system of labor importation, these workers are little more than slaves, enduring medieval working conditions for pennies in exchange. Now a Dutch labor union is suing FIFA for complicity in these abuses, on behalf of Nadim Sharaful Alam, a Bangladeshi migrant worker. If FIFA, kowtowing to the Qataris, couldn’t demand the abolition of the kafala system as a condition of hosting the World Cup, then what legitimacy can be assigned to any future act of punishment directed against Israel?

Most soccer fans, and sports aficionados in general, detest the imposition of political conflicts on athletic competitions. Moreover, boycotts and acts of discrimination can backfire.

When the UAE excluded Shahar Pe’er, Venus Williams issued a condemnation and Andy Roddick withdrew in solidarity before the Wall Street Journal pulled its sponsorship.

These are important precedents that need to be drawn upon in any situation in which Israeli athletes face discrimination. Come 2018, Israel will have been an independent state for 70 years (and a member of the U.N. for 69 years.) Whatever trouble Israel experiences on the global stage, it’s past time for these vindictive attempts to exclude it from world sports to end for good.

Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org

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NESCO’s history-defying vote asserting that the Temple Mount is sacred only to Muslims, echoes anti-Israel propaganda across the Middle East and ignores that the ancient Greeks, Romans, Christians, and even

the ancient Muslims, considered Jerusalem and the Temple Mount the property of the Jewish people.

For the ancient Muslim, Greek and Roman authors, Jerusalem was a Jewish city. Their texts indicate a unanimous agreement that Jerusalem was Jewish by virtue of the fact that its inhabitants were Jews, it was founded by Jews, and the Temple in Jerusalem was the center of the Jewish religion.

A 2008 report by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs explained: Greek historian Heca-

taeus of Abdera (c. 300 BCE) wrote that the Jews were thrown out of Egypt. “Therefore, the aliens were driven from the country.” While some went to Greece, most “were driven into what is now called Judaea … at that time utterly uninhabited. … On taking possession of the land, he [Moses] founded, besides other cities, one that is the most renowned of all, called Jerusalem. In addition, he established the temple that they hold in chief veneration, instituted their forms of worship and ritual, drew up their laws and ordered their political institutions.”

(Hecataeus “On the Jews,” in Against Apion I, 198-199; Stern, I, V, No.12, 36-37) The Palestinians allege that there is little archeological evidence that either Temple existed, ignoring the fact that no digging is allowed on the Temple Mount in respect of its holiness to the Muslims. But when the Muslims themselves dug up part of the Temple Mount to add to their mosque, they dumped tons of dirt with artifacts outside the holy city. Before UNESCO’s vote, Israel prepared a See UNESCO’s lies on page 30

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A wild British Simchat Torah alan Jay GERbER kosher Bookworm

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hat an irony. I always knew that the first commentary on a Sukkot machzor describing the rather sharp medieval reaction to a British-based Simchat Torah service would come from the pen of a former British chief rabbi, in this case, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. This strange chapter in Jewish religious history, and Rabbi Sacks’ interest in it, was foreshadowed last month in an essay by the rabbi on his website entitled, “The Deep Power of Joy,” wherein he relates to us the following: “On 14th of October 1663 the famous diarist Samuel Pepys paid a visit to the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in Creechurch Lane in the city of London. Jews had been exiled from England in 1290 but in 1656, following an intercession by Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel of Amsterdam, Oliver Cromwell concluded that there was in fact no legal

barrier to Jews living there. So for the first time since the 13th century Jews were able to worship openly.”

In the introduction to his liturgical commentary in the new Koren Sukkot Machzor, Rabbi Sacks relates the details — quoted in archaic medieval worded English, from Pepys’ diary — of a visit that Pepys made to this synagogue on Simchat Torah to witness firsthand a Jewish worship service. Pepys’ impressions are quoted at length in the machzor and, separately, in an essay by historian, Dr. Eliezer Segal, entitled, “Mr. Pepys’ Outrageous Outing.”

After detailing the holiday rituals he observed, Pepys’ sympathies undergo a decidedly weird deterioration and he writes: “But, Lord! To see the disorder, laughing, sporting, and no attention, but confusion in all their service, more like brutes than people knowing the true G-d, would make a man forswear ever seeing them more and indeed I never did see so much, or could have imagined there had been any religion in the whole world so absurdly performed as this.”

This quote teaches us a sober and somber lesson concerning the raucous behavior that

we have come to witness on this feast.

Rabbi Sacks continues his teachings by detailing for us the historical background to Simchat Torah, including the logic behind the holiday, sans some of the craziness that has been prevalent from medieval time unto our own day.

Rabbi Sacks performed a valued service, lending an air of long overdue sobriety to this often misunderstood festival. Both Rabbi Sack’s work, and that of Dr. Segal, deserve your attention and study.

Another feature in Rabbi Sack’s Sukkot machzor is his excellent introduction and commentary to the Book of Kohelet Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (Ecclesiastes). Given

the joyous nature of this holiday, the reading of this somber book benefits from this sober interpretation by one of this generation’s leading theologians. This feature is not some sidebar interpretation, but long overdue expansive interpretation.

“Sukkot is the time we ask the most profound question of what makes a life worth living,” writes Rabbi Sacks. “Having prayed on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to be written in the Book of Life, Kohelet forces us to remember how brief life actually is, and how vulnerable. ‘Teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom’.”

Further on we learn that, See Wild on page 27

Fall fear factor: Dropping a Torah scroll Rabbi avi billEt Parsha of the week

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here are few things in life that can elicit a collective gasp from everyone in a room. A real shocking twist in a novel is limited to the reader, while the same twist in a film might be expected by a percentage of the viewers. But there is one moment I can visualize that can deflate a Jewish crowd in a second: when a Sefer Torah falls to the ground.

Here are two examples I experienced.

One Simchat Torah, I was witness to overexcited dancers grabbing a 75-plus year old man who was holding a Torah. Down they all went. And down went the spirits of those hakafot. Some people tried to rev up the room once again, but they were unsuccessful.

The second example: One Shabbat, the Torah was not put back securely before Mussaf. During the recitation of Eitz Chaim, the Torah tipped over and fell inside the Holy Ark. Thankfully it was a deep box and the Torah did not fall to the floor.

The quick-reacting gabbai saw it as it was happening, and caught the Torah before it could fall further. The energy was very clearly sucked out of the room as the congregants realized they had almost witnessed what is considered by many to be one of the worst possible desecrations of the Torah.

What is the proper response to incidents like these? What are we to do?

Many people are familiar with the custom, spelled out most clearly by Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried in his Kitzur Shulchan Arukh

(28:12) that the person who dropped the Torah, and the witnesses, are to fast in response.

What is the source for this custom? Is it absolutely necessary for people to fast?

The best responses I have found to this question are the Divrei Chaim (Sanzer Rebbe), in Yoreh Deah 1:55, and Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef in Yabia Omer Orach Chaim 2:28.

In essence, the custom has no basis in the Talmud or the words of the rabbis.

Some compare it to a similar law related to an individual dropping his own tefillin. Others argue it may stem from the duties to mourn over a Torah scroll that has been destroyed in a fire. But a Torah that falls and is otherwise undamaged does not require a fasting of those responsible and the

the congregants almost witnessed one of the worst possible desecrations of the torah.

witnesses to the event.

Rabbi Chaim Sanzer even distinguishes between an accidental drop and a purposeful drop, the latter being committed by a person who is just trying to “stir coals.” I would venture to bet that 99.9 percent of dropped Torahs are accidental.

While both seem satisfied with these approaches, they do stress that the custom has been established to fast and it is certainly a wake-up call to all the witnesses to commit to more Torah study and to be ever more careful about honoring the Torah.

No one will argue that any of these are bad things for those present to undertake.

It is certainly my hope that no Torahs drop over the coming holiday, chas v’shalom.

And if something should happen, every community, with the guidance of its rav, will decide how to best deal with the situation.

Sometimes fasting is appropriate. Sometimes it is not.

Like everything else in life, however, we See Fall fear on page 27

The Torah in now: Above and beyond time Rabbi david EtEnGoff

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he public kriah (reading) of King Solomon’s Megillat Kohelet is one of the highlights of Shabbat Chol Hamoed Succot.

According to many commentators, it is a précis of its author’s philosophy of life. In particular, the first eight verses of the third chapter of this powerful work have become renowned throughout much of Western culture: Everything has an appointed season (l’kol zeman), and there is a time for every matter (v’ate l’kol chafetz) under the heaven. A time to give birth and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot that which is planted. A time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break and a time to build. A time to weep and a time to laugh; a time of wailing and a time of dancing. A time to cast stones and a time to gather stones; a time to

embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. A time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away. A time to rend and a time to sew; a time to be silent and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

A straightforward reading of the verse, “Everything has an appointed season (l’kol zeman), and there is a time for every matter (v’ate l’kol chafetz) under the heaven,” would seem to indicate that it is a preface to the various times that are discussed in the succeeding pasukim (verses). Rashi, however, takes a different approach: “Let not the gatherer of wealth from vanity rejoice, for even though it is in his hand now, the righteous will yet inherit it; only the time has not yet arrived, for everything has an appointed season when it will be.” For Rashi, then, the phrase, “l’kol

zeman,” is a specific reference to the ultimate transfer of wealth from vain and self-serving people to deservedly righteous individuals.

The Maharal of Prague (Rabbi Yehudah Loew ben Bezalel, d. 1609) did not follow Rashi’s approach in viewing these pasukim as referring to the legitimate transfer of wealth. He did agree, however, that our pasuk has its own unique identity and is far more than an introduction to the rest of the perek. In addition, the Maharal suggests that “l’kol zeman” and “v’ate l’kol chafetz” refer to entirely different subjects, the former emphasizing physical objects and actions, and the latter focusing upon the intellect: Those matters that are [discussed in Midrash Kohelet Rabbah on our verse] are physical in nature, including Adam entering Gan Eden and his exit therefrom, the destruction of the world [at

Everything has an appointed season, and there is a time for every matter under the heaven.

the time of Noach] and its repopulation, and Avraham’s brit milah. [Incontrovertibly,] the body is subject to time.

It is fitting, therefore, to use the expression, “l’kol zeman,” when referring to these matters. In contrast, something that is purely intellectual in nature, namely, Kabbalat HaTorah, which is divorced in its very essence from all physical matter, is not subject to time [and its multiple strictures]. As such, [when referring to Kabbalat HaTorah, Megillat Kohelet, therefore,] deploys the phrase, “v’ate l’kol chafetz” — because “the now” (“atah” with an ayin, that is etymologically similar to “ate” with an ayin) serves as the bridge between the past and future, yet, in and of itself, is not part of time. (Sefer Tiferet Yisrael, Chapter 25) The Maharal then builds upon this analysis and uses it as an opportunity to elaborate on the unique nature of Torah: This means that the matter [Torah] is completely of the intellect and, therefore, is not under See Torah on page 27

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Continued from page 24

“Most majestically of all, Sukkot is the festival of insecurity. It is the candid acknowledgment that there is no life without risk, yet we can face the future without fear when we know we are not alone. G-d is with us, in the rain that brings blessings to the earth, in the love that brought the universe and us into being, and in the resilience of spirit that allowed a small and vulnerable people to outlive the greatest empires the world has ever known.”

Torah…

Continued from page 24 the control of time. As such, it is permanently in the present (b’atah), even in regards to when it was given [at Mount Sinai] at that particular time.

The Torah was neither given it prior to that exact moment or afterwards … for it would not have been proper to have given prior to leaving Egypt [before acquiring our physical freedom]…

Thus, according to the Maharal, the Torah is permanently in the present (b’atah) and, therefore, above and beyond any concept of time. This idea is quite powerful, and helps us understand why the phrase, “asher anochi metzavecha hayom” (“that I am commanding you this day”), is employed no less than 19 times in Sefer Shemot and Sefer Devarim in reference to the Torah and its mitzvot. As Rashi, basing himself upon the Midrash Sifrei, so beautifully explains, “They (the words of the Torah) should not appear to you as an antiquated edict which no one cares about, but as a new one, which everyone hastens to read.” (Commentary on Sefer Devarim 6:6) We will soon be celebrating Simchat Torah.

With Hashem’s help and our heartfelt dedication, may this joyous festival be one wherein we recognize that the Torah is truly above and beyond time, and is commanded to us anew each and every day. V’chane yihi ratzon.

Shabbat Shalom and Chag Sameach!

Contact Rabbi David Etengoff Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

FOR FURTHER STUDY

Israeli theologian and teacher, Rabbi Alex Israel, has an interesting essay online entitled, “Simchat Torah: Where is the Joy?” (thinkingtorah.blogspot.co.il) in which he begins with the following observation: “Simchat Torah is not an easy holiday. I think that there are few people who feel an innate rush of energy that propels them to dance endlessly with the Torah. It is for this reason that people stand at the side and talk, people resort to the kiddush option; many people only truly participate in the dancing to give their kids an authentic Simchat Torah. But how many participants are rejoicing with the Torah, celebrating its completion, reveling in the beautiful synergy of Torah and the Jewish people?”

And now one last observation that is intended to foreshadow an upcoming review.

As we begin a new cycle of reading the Torah, please give your attention to a newly published book of parasha essays by one our country’s most perceptive interpreters of Torah inner teachings, Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, entitled, “The Person in the Parasha: Discovering the Human Element in the Weekly Torah Portion” (OU Press, Maggid

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Continued from page 24 must be able to distinguish between what my children call an “ow-ee” (some call it a “booboo”) and real destruction. A falling Torah is not comparable to a burned Torah, much like most people don’t remember the anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center attack but remember vivid details of September 11, 2001, including, most obviously, the date.

While obviously sad, and a cause for introspection and renewed commitment, the accidental drop is not necessarily a life-shattering event that changes our lives forever.

This column originally appeared in 2008.

Contact Rabbi Avi Billet: Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

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May I take this opportunity to once again wish you, my dear readers, a most joyous and safe holiday experience.

Contact Alan Jay Gerber: Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

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UNESCO’s lies…

Continued from page 22 brochure about some of the Temple Mount archaeological finds and provided it to every member of the committee, to no avail.

The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, the institution overseeing the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, carried out excavations on the Temple Mount between 1996 and 1999 as part of the construction of a subterranean mosque in an area known as Solomon’s Stables. Tens of thousands of tons of dirt — roughly 400 truckloads — were excavated by heavy machinery, without the supervision of archaeologists, and were dumped outside the Old City.

Archeologists have been sifting through the dirt for years (the Temple Mount Sifting Project), and have found artifacts from the holy Temples. For example, in 2005 an archaeologist found what is now known as the Gaalyahu Seal, which in Hebrew says belonging to Gaalyahu son of Imer. The house of Imer was a well-known priestly family at the end of the First Temple period, roughly from around the 7th to 6th centuries BCE. The UNESCO vote also ignores references to the Jewish Temple in texts the Muslims consider sacred. he Qur’an refers to the existence of both temples in verse 17:7.

In this passage, the Qur’an deals with G-d’s punishment of the Children of Israel for their transgressions: “[And said], ‘If you do good, you do good for yourselves; and if you do evil, [you do it] to yourselves.’ Then when the final promise came, [We sent your enemies] to sadden your faces and to enter the temple in Jerusalem, as they entered it the first time, and to destroy what they had taken over with [total] destruction.”

The word translated as “temple” by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, the British born Muslim scholar who translated the Quran into English (and by the influential translator Marmaduke Pickthall before him) is masjid. This word, which is usually translated as mosque, has the meaning of a sanctuary wherever it appears in a preIslamic context. The usual Muslim interpretations of this verse (including that of Abdullah Yusuf Ali) holds that it refers to the destruction of the First and Second Temples.

Muslim tradition is especially adamant about the existence of the First Temple, built

by Solomon, who appears in the Qur’an as a prophet and a perfect example of wisdom.

Verse 34:13 is an account of how Solomon summoned jinn (spirits) to build the Temple: “They made for him what he willed of elevated chambers, statues, bowls like reservoirs, and stationary kettles. [We said], ‘Work, O family of David, in gratitude.’ And few of My servants are grateful.”

The very verse in the Quran that makes the Temple Mount holy to Muslims also proves that the spot was occupied by the Jewish Temple: The Islamic sanctity of the Haram al-Sharif [what the Muslims call the Temple Mount] is based upon verse 17:1: “Glory to (Allah) Who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did bless, in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who heareth and seeth (all things).”

This is the textual proof of the isra’, the earthly segment of the Night Journey of Muhammad: overnight, Muhammad was miraculously transported, round-trip, from “the Sacred Mosque” (al-Masjid al-Haram) — that is, the Ka’ba (or its vicinity) in Mecca — to “the Farthest Mosque” (al-Masjid al-Aqsa).

Later Muslim tradition came to identify “the

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Farthest Mosque” with Jerusalem. But during Muhammad’s lifetime, no mosque stood in Jerusalem; the Muslims conquered the city only several years after his death. Abdullah Yusuf Ali’s commentary on this verse summarizes the traditional explanation: “The Farthest Mosque,” he writes, “must refer to the site of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem on the hill of Moriah.”

When Muslims did build a mosque on this hill, Muslim tradition holds that it was built deliberately on the verified site of earlier sanctuaries. According to Muslim tradition, when the Caliph Umar visited Jerusalem after its conquest, he searched for David’s sanctuary or prayer niche (mihrab Dawud), which is mentioned in the Qur’an (38:21). (David was believed to have chosen the site on which Solomon built.) When Umar was satisfied he had located it, he ordered a place of prayer (musalla) to be established there. This evolved into a mosque that was a precursor of the Aksa Mosque. Thus began the Islamization of the complex that later came to be known as the Haram al-Sharif. It became the tradition of Islam that Muslims restored the site to its earlier function as a place of supplication venerated by all the prophets, including Abraham, David and Solomon. he official 1925 Supreme Moslem Council (Waqf) guidebook to Al-aram AlSharif recognized the presence of the Jewish Temples atop the Mount. Paragraph on two on page four reads: “It’s [the Temple Mount] identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute.”

The Jewish Temple is also mentioned in the Christian Gospels which pre-date Islam.

Merchants were selling doves that were sacrificed by the poor who could not afford grander sacrifices. According to Mark 11:16, the founder of Christianity then put an embargo on people carrying any merchandise through the Temple — a sanction that would have disrupted all commerce. In the Gospel of John 2:15-16, the founder refers to the Jerusalem Temple as “my Father’s house,” He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables; and to those who were selling the doves, he said, “Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a place of business.”

What does this all mean? Ancient text — including Muslim and Christian texts —agree that there were two Jewish Temples to G-d on top Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. So it’s well past time for the American and other world Governments to stop denying history, press the BS button on UNESCO and point out the truth.

What makes the vote even more incredible is that Christian majority countries such as Mexico and Brazil denied their Christian heritage by voting for the resolution, as did Christian majority countries such as Italy and France by abstaining.

UNESCO can pass one million resolutions and it won’t matter. Israel is the heart of the Jewish people, Jerusalem is the heart of Israel, and the Temple Mount is the heart of Jerusalem. No amount of lies, not from UNESCO, not from the Palestinians, not from any other country of organization in the world … no one except G-d himself can take the Temple Mount away from the Jewish people. And it is up to us living in the galut to make that clear to the politicians running (or attempting to run) our countries.

Contact Jeff Dunetz: Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

The official 1925 Waqf guidebook to Al-Daram AlSarif said that the Temple Mount’s ‘identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute.’

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5 Towns still incensed over JFK flight noise

By Diana Colapietro Lynda Madanick said she has recently been “inundated with very disruptive low flying planes.”

The Hewlett resident of 45 years added that it is altering her quality of life and has reached out to multiple officials to find a solution.

“We live in Hewlett Harbor. It is one of the highest taxed neighborhoods in this state,” Elayne Kirshner of Seawane Drive, said. “This is disgusting,” she added, of the increased airplane noise in her community.

As someone who lived in Hewlett Harbor for 40 years, Kirshner said she understands that air traffic factors into her quality of life. She began to notice the uptick of plane traffic this past summer and said that “on a weekend, it’s insane,” of the volume and frequency of planes flying overhead.

John F. Kennedy International Airport, only a few miles from the Five Towns, has six operating terminals and four runways.

According to statistics reported by the FAA on its website, there are 23,911 commercial flights everyday and 7,000 aircraft in the sky at any given time above the 26,000,000 square miles of oceanic airspace and 5,000,000 square miles of airspace in and around the U.S. Woodmere resident of 43 years, Tamar Waldhauser, said that between 6:15 and 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 13, she heard 10 planes flying above her home on Brower Avenue. She has noticed an increase in air traffic over the last few months and described the noise as “the worst it’s ever been.”

PlaneSense4LI, a community group collaborating to reduce air traffic noise and pollution on Long Island, held an informational meeting this Wednesday at Bryant Library in Roslyn at 2 Papermill Rd. The meeting addressed the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) NextGen pro-

gram which intends to “enable aircraft to move more directly from Point A to Point B,” according to the FAA’s website, in an effort to reduce environmental impacts. There was also a question and answer period.

A noise study currently being conducted by the FAA and the Port Authority is expected to quantify and analyze the airplane noise over the communities closest to both airports. “Toward the end of the year, there should be more concrete results,” Town-Village Aircraft Safety & Noise Abatement Committee (TVASNAC) Executive Director Kevin Denning, previously said. Former executive director Kendall Lampkin added that the Port Authority and FAA were at first hesitant about conducting the study, but were pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and work began last year.

TVASNAC is made up of 13 Town of Hempstead communities: Atlantic Beach, Cedarhurst, East Williston, Floral Park, Garden City, Hewlett Neck, Inwood, Lawrence, Malverne, New Hyde Park, Stewart Manor, Valley Stream and Woodsburgh.

Their representatives attend monthly meetings and meet with FAA and Port Authority officials.

Now, some good news gAry rAbenko photo prose

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y Photo Prose column began years ago, as clients, photographers and studio owners told me that I think too much and analyze too much or that I was too sensitive. Wow, shouldn’t we care about what others will be viewing? I believe meaningful imagery demands thought on both sides of the lens.

But some of those planning events actually admit that they really don’t care much about this or that, they just want to get it done.

They might never take the time to watch the video or crack open the photo album, eat the main course or enjoy the floral décor.

Last year we had very little good news and plenty of bad news with new bad news on a weekly basis. There was so much in the way of important news for this paper to cover, that I voluntarily faded out my column. I love The Jewish Star and appreciate that it is all about meaningful, timely and significant content.

For years I have been telling the publishers how I would love to see a heavier, thicker and beefier Jewish Star. Give me more pages to read whether I am reading it a few doors north at the beloved Pious Pizza, or steps in the other direction at the highly regarded Gotta Getta Bagel, which I must admit looks especially beautiful these days with magnificent photographs of their bagels and so much

more! (They are my photographs so you be the judge of that while enjoying piping hot coffee, jumbo sandwiches or fresh salads.) am thrilled at the expansion of The Jewish Star to a larger paper and know that its already large, loyal readership will be expanding accordingly with more to read, more to enjoy and even more reason to advertise.

So I am back to continue periodically supplying a whimsical viewpoint on serious issues or serious takes on the more lighthearted.

Many agree that communication is important. But how can communication occur when there are so many isolated viewpoints?

Photographers value perspective. We know that what we see is so very much based on where we are standing at the moment.

As technologies allow us to experience 360 degree and drone views, why can’t viewpoint awareness lead to more respect between peoples as viewpoints are shared?

How difficult it is to truly admit one is wrong.

Can any mutual respect — so vital to peaceful coexistence — develop, in an environment where each of the many sides only see their own view, and only know their own history?

A perfect example of such isolationism exists in this presidential election where exposure to the other side’s “facts” may never occur for persons who simply will not change the channel on their TV or pick up a different newspaper than the one they read daily.

Future good news will depend on people being willing to consider many perspectives.

Gary Rabenko is artistic and technical director of Rabenko Photography and Video Arts, 1053 Broadway, Woodmere, gary@rabenko.com , 888-722-3656

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