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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA With The Jewish Star Woodmere attorney David Friedman is one of several Jewish members of President-elect Donald Trump’s cadre of advisers. The incoming president’s Jewish circle includes members of his own family — Trump’s daughter Ivanka identifies as an Orthodox Jew and is married to Jared Kushner — and he’s spoken fondly about having Jewish grandchildren (who attend Ramaz, a Modern Orthodox day school on the Upper East Side).

Here’s a look at President-elect Trump’s Jewish advisers, their views and possible roles in his administration. (Because of federal anti-nepotism regulations, he may not officially appoint family members to the Cabinet.)

David Friedman

Woodmere’s Friedman, 57, is one of two Jewish lawyers whom Trump has said he would appoint as his Israel advisers. There has been speculation that Friedman is being considered for service as U.S. ambassdor to Israel. A bankruptcy expert and partner at the Kasowitz law firm in Manhattan, Friedman is the president-elect’s longtime attorney. His family has a history of ties to See Trump Jews on page 3

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Continued from page 1 Republican presidential candidates (it hosted President Reagan for a Shabbat lunch in 1984). Friedman has expressed doubt about the future of the two-state solution, a longtime pillar of bipartisan U.S. policy. Prior to the Republican Party passing a platform that omitted references to the two-state solution, he said it might be time for the party to reject the concept. “The two-state solution might be one answer, but I don’t think it’s the only answer anymore,” he said in July. Friedman has also said that annexing the West Bank would not damage Israel’s status as a Jewish state.

his father was sent to jail for tax evasion, illegal campaign donations and witness tampering. In 2015, Fortune named Kushner to its 40 Under 40 list, its “annual ranking of the most influential young people in business.”

Ivanka Trump

Trump’s daughter Ivanka, 35, has served as the polished, softer face of her father’s campaign. A successful businesswoman whose brand is centered around empowering working women, she stood by him when decadeold recordings were released that caught the

Epshteyn, a Moscow native, moved to the U.S. in 1993. A fluent Russian speaker who has moderated a panel encouraging investment in Moscow, he may serve as an asset for Trump in navigating relations with Russia — Trump has expressed his desire to improve ties with President Vladimir Putin. Then again, Epshteyn’s temper may make him less of an asset to Trump. TV hosts described him as “very combative” and “abrasive,” and in 2014, Epshteyn was charged with misdemeanor assault after he was involved in a

Jason Greenblatt

Alongside Friedman, Trump named Greenblatt, 49, as an Israel adviser. Greenblatt has worked as a real-estate lawyer for Trump for 19 years. An Orthodox Jew and Yeshiva University graduate, Greenblatt studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion near Jerusalem. The father of six from Teaneck has said he speaks with people involved in the Israeli government but has not spoken to any Palestinians since his yeshiva studies.

He has cited the American Israel Public Affairs Committee as one of his main sources for staying informed about the Jewish state, and helped draft Trump’s speech at AIPAC’s annual conference in March. Greenblatt, who has said he supports the two-state solution, has implied that Trump will take a more laissez-faire approach to peace building. “He is not going to impose any solution on Israel,” Greenblatt told Israel’s Army Radio last week.

He also said that Trump “does not view Jewish settlements as an obstacle to peace.” Greenblatt does not have any political experience.

Jared Kushner

Kushner, the 35-year-old scion of one of New York’s most prominent real estate families, is the husband of Trump’s daughter Ivanka (married in 2009). An Orthodox Jew who lives with his wife and their three children on the Upper East Side where they belong to Kehilath Jeshurun, a Modern Orthodox shul, he played a crucial role in the president-elect’s campaign, especially with regards to Israel. He worked on Trump’s speech to the AIPAC policy conference that earned Trump a standing ovation, and helped plan a trip to Israel for his father-in-law last year. (Trump canceled the trip after Prime Minister Netanyahu criticized his call to ban Muslim immigration to the United States.) Trump appears to be smitten with Kushner, often referring to his “fantastic” son-in-law when boasting of his pro-Israel credentials. Kushner may have become a household name during the campaign, but he’s no stranger to the limelight. In 2006, at 25, he bought the New York Observer newspaper.

Two years later he became CEO of his father’s company, Kushner Properties, four years after

Steven Mnuchin

Mnuchin, 53, a former Goldman Sachs executive, worked as Trump’s national finance chairman during the campaign with the aim of raising more than $1 billion for the candidate. Trump and Mnuchin have been friends for 15 years, and prior to being in charge of Trump’s campaign finances, Mnuchin served as an adviser. Part of what the New York Times describes as one of Manhattan’s elite “most influential families,” Mnuchin and his father both got rich working at Goldman Sachs. The younger Mnuchin also co-founded the entertainment company RatPac-Dune Entertainment, which has worked on such Hollywood hits as “Avatar” and “Black Swan.” Some saw Trump teaming up with Mnuchin as unusual, considering that the real-estate mogul had consistently bashed Goldman Sachs. But it didn’t seem to get in the way of a good working relationship — Trump is now reportedly considering Mnuchin for the position of Treasury secretary, according to Politico.

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president-elect bragging about sexually assaulting women. Ivanka has reportedly tried — not always successfully — to have her father tone down or walk back some of his most inflammatory remarks, including having called Mexican immigrants rapists, according to New York magazine. She is the founder of the Ivanka Trump Collection, a fashion and lifestyle brand, and serves as executive vice president of development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization, her father’s company. Ivanka, who gave birth to her third child in March, has described her family as “pretty observant.” She made Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list in 2014, a year before her husband did.

Boris Epshteyn

Epshteyn, 34, is a Republican political strategist and staunch defender of Trump who has appeared as the president-elect’s surrogate on major TV networks over 100 times, the New York Times reported. A New York-based investment banker and finance attorney, Epshteyn worked as a communications aide for Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008, focusing his efforts on the Arizona senator’s running mate, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whom Trump is reportedly considering for interior secretary, according to Politico.

bar tussle. The charge was dropped after Epshteyn agreed to undergo anger management training and perform community service.

Stephen Miller

Miller, 30, joined the Trump campaign in January, quickly rising through the ranks to become “one of the most important people in the campaign,” as Trump’s campaign manager told the Wall Street Journal. He helped warm up crowds at rallies and draft speeches, including the president-elect’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. Miller, who has described himself as “a practicing Jew,” previously worked for seven years as an aide to Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., helping the lawmaker draft materials to kill a bipartisan Senate immigration reform bill.

Some of Sessions’ arguments contain similarities to Trump’s statements on the issue, such as calling for building a wall on the Mexican border and banning Muslim immigration to the country. Though Miller grew up in a liberal Jewish home in Southern California, he was drawn to conservative causes early. As a high school student he wrote a letter to the editor of a local paper in which he slammed his school for providing free condoms to students and for making announcements both in English and Spanish, among other things.

Eisenberg, 74, the private equity chief for Granite Capital International Group, serves as finance chairman for the Republican National Committee. He was one of a small group of Republican Jewish Coalition board members who did not flee from Trump’s candidacy (reportedly, only nine of 55 RJC board members gave to Trump) and was a major contributor to groups backing Trump’s election.

Alongside Mnuchin, he worked to raise funds for the candidate. Eisenberg who grew up in New Jersey, was chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. He has been floated as a possible pick for commerce secretary in the Trump administration. Eisenberg told JTA that he was “extremely enthusiastic” about a Trump presidency, calling him “a strong advocate for Israel, a strong advocate for justice and order.”

Michael Glassner

Glassner was not new to Republican presidential campaigns when Trump appointed him last year to serve as national political director.

He worked as director of vice presidential operations for McCain’s 2008 campaign and ran Geogre W. Bush’s campaign in Iowa in 2000.

He also worked with and Sen. Bob Dole, a former presidential candidate. Glassner is outspoken in his support of Israel. Prior to joining the Trump campaign, he worked as political director for AIPAC’s Southwest Regional. Glassner has praised the anti-establishment movement, and told Jewish Insider that his experience with Palin and the fact that he lives in New Jersey, not Washington, made him a good fit for Trump’s political outsider message. He also served as a senior adviser to Eisenberg when he was the Port Authority chairman.

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Analysis by Ron Kampeas, JTA With The Jewish Star Enforce the Iran deal. Violate the Iran deal.

Leave it to Congress. Do nothing.

Donald Trump will have an array of options when he assumes the presidency on Jan. 20.

What he will choose to do is unclear.

Trump’s indecision was evident when he spoke in March to the AIPAC policy conference and claimed that he both planned to enforce the deal and to scrap it.

“My No. 1 priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran,” Trump said at the time.

Then a few moments later: “We will enforce it like you’ve never seen a contract enforced before, folks, believe me.”

His two top advisers on Israel, David Friedman and Jason Greenblatt, released in the last days of the campaign an Israel position paper — on Jerusalem, Palestinian statehood and settlements — was notably circumspect on the Iran deal.

“The U.S. must counteract Iran’s ongoing violations of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action regarding Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons and their noncompliance with past and present sanctions, as well as the agreements they signed, and implement tough, new sanctions when needed to protect the world and Iran’s neighbors from its continuing nuclear and nonnuclear threats,” said the position paper from the advisers, two longtime lawyers for Trump.

That reluctance to directly confront Iran — “counteract,” not cancel; “when needed,” as opposed to “right now” — could stem from Trump’s professed warmth toward Russia, which is allied with Iran in its bid to crush rebels in Syria, or a realistic desire to keep his options open.

Here are some of the president-elect’s options on Iran:

Silence

The deal essentially is done. Sanctions are lifted, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program.

If he doesn’t want a headache, this is one way to go.

Drawbacks: A number of his former rivals for the Republican presidential nomination are back in their Senate seats, including Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida. They hate the deal, they want to be president in 2021 and they’re itching to distinguish themselves from Trump. Trump’s silence on Iran could hand them a huge opening for political disruption.

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Declare it dead, move on

Does Trump want to shut up Rubio and Cruz? Just declare the deal dead and do nothing. He ran a campaign successfully navigating the tensions between contradictory declarations and actions — why shouldn’t he get away with the same as president?

Drawbacks: The Iranians can point to a declaration of intent to withdraw in order to drop out of the program themselves and then start enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels.

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Scrap the deal

Trump has a number of mechanisms at his disposal that would immediately pull the United States out of the deal. All of them involve restoring an array of sanctions that targeted third parties that deal with Iran. (Direct dealings with Iran, with several exceptions, are still banned for U.S. entities.)

He could simply stop waiving the sanctions already in place according to existing law.

Trump could, as President Bill Clinton did in 1995 not long after pro-Israel lobbying shifted to focusing on Iran’s nuclear program, issue an

executive order advancing new sanctions. Or he could invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, which gives the president broad sanctioning power.

Drawbacks: Any pullback from the Iran deal will raise the question of who is at fault for its collapse. The more proactive the United States is in killing the deal, the likelier that the international partners whose sanctions brought Iran to the table will blame the U.S. and continue trading with Iran, threats be damned.

Moreover, Trump may not have the ability to waive existing sanctions — the most passive option described above. That’s because the Iran Sanctions Act, which authorizes the sanctions, is set to lapse on Dec. 31. Congress broadly agreed that it needs to be reenacted, but there is little time to do so. Moreover, Democrats want a clean reenactment of the original law, no additions, while Republicans want to insert language making it harder for any president to waive the bill’s provisions. They have yet to settle on a compromise. Without renewal, the president would have to use executive action to impose penalties on Iran.

Enforcement

Worried that the world will turn away from the United States should it pull out? Then make it clear that the Iranians are at fault, say conservatives who oppose the deal.

“He has to start first enforcing it, second doing a bunch of stuff that’s allowed that the [Obama administration] hasn’t been doing,” said Omri Ceren of the Israel Project. “In other words, taking the deal seriously.”

“All that needs to happen for the deal to fall apart is for the Trump White House to do what the Obama administration has refused to do — enforce its provisions,” wrote Lee Smith, advancing a similar argument to Ceren’s in the Weekly Standard.

Drawbacks: Selling the notion to America’s partners that Iran is in violation might be hard.

Let Congress do it

If Congress fails to reauthorize Iran sanctions before it concludes its business, there are any number of Republican senators ready to write new ones. That way, Trump doesn’t get blamed for walking away from the deal.

Drawbacks: Democrats will likely filibuster any new legislation.

“There will be fights, and these will be fights J Street and other supporters of the deal will engage in with everything we’ve got,” said Dylan Williams, J Street’s vice president of government affairs.

And perhaps, from Trump’s perspective, that’s not a drawback: He satisfies hard-liners by encouraging them to come up with the toughest anti-deal legislation possible – and then watches it wither on the vine.

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Commentary by Morton A. Klein National President, Zionist Organization of America The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) recent statements criticizing the election victory by Donald Trump and Mike Pence are inappropriate and harmful.

The front page of the ADL’s website features a blurb and link to an ADL blog post entitled “White Supremacists Celebrate Trump’s Victory” (Nov. 10) that deceptively seems to tie President-elect Trump to former KKK leader David Duke and Jew-hating neoNazis — while never mentioning Trump’s repeated repudiations of David Duke and neo-Nazis. The ADL post also never mentions that the Trump/Pence platform is the most pro-Israel platform in decades, and is dedicated to combating the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and protecting Jewish students on American college campuses.

The front page of the ADL’s website also features a blurb and link to the ADL’s Nov. 10 press release entitled, “ADL Provides Guide for Educators and Families to Help Young People Process Election 2016.”

The release, along with the ADL’s accompanying resource guide, engages in fear-mongering tactics including advising parents and teachers to “Tell [young people] you will protect and fight for them”—presumably against supposed “evils” of President-elect Trump. Similar to the ADL’s “white supremacist” blog, the organization’s “help young people” press release and the resource guide never mention any of the positive truths about the Trump/Pence platform.

The ADL resource guide also tells parents and teachers to “encourage activism” against injustice (presumably against supposed “injustice” of a Trump/Pence administration). The resource guide then links to the ADL’s “Ways Youth Can Engage in Activism,” which encourages young people to demonstrate in the streets, saying, “Demonstrate: Marching in the streets enables students to express themselves while meeting and connecting with other people who feel passionate about the same issues. Demonstrations and protests can be uplifting and empowering and can help students feel like they are part of a larger movement.”

Instead of encouraging young people to demonstrate against the president-elect, it would be far wiser for the ADL to warn young people about the violence, lawlessness, and obscene rantings at many anti-Trump demonstrations, and about the virulent anti-Israel sentiment that appears to be instigating and supporting

Donald Trump and Prime Minster Netanyahu at Trump Tower in September. Netanyahu also met with Hillary Clinton. Kobi Gideon/GPO

many anti-Trump demonstrations.

Anti-Trump demonstrations have sometimes turned into violent riots. Demonstrators have set buildings and trucks on fire; piled debris onto streets; smashed car and shop windows while ignoring local business owners’ pleas to leave them alone; thrown glass bottles; ignited fireworks; blocked streets and major highways; defaced a memorial in New Orleans with spray-painted epithets including, “Die Whites Die,” “[Expletive] Trump” and “[Expletive] White People” and “Rape Melania;” and attacked innocent white people.

Notably, hordes of demonstrators in cities throughout the country are carrying professionally printed signs stating that they are from “AnswerCoalition.org,” an anti-Israel organization that is apparently fomenting and sponsoring the anti-Trump demonstrations.

“AnswerCoalition.org” is the very same group that has sponsored vicious anti-Israel demonstrations, including during the wars in Gaza.

This is even confirmed by ADL’s own archives, which explained in 2011, “Under the guise of an anti-imperialist and anti-war agenda, the Far-Left International Action Center (IAC) and its affiliate, the

ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition, have been at the forefront of injecting anti-Israel fervor and support for terrorism into the anti-war movement. … IAC and ANSWER have sponsored and organized numerous anti-Israel events, rallies and demonstrations in the United States. ANSWER in particular has positioned itself as the leading organizer of the large rallies against Israel that usually take place during periods of heightened tension. … These protests, often co-sponsored by other anti-Israel organizations, regularly featured anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic rhetoric, expressions of support for terror and offensive Holocaust imagery likening Jews and Israelis to Nazis. ANSWER and IAC have both repeatedly expressed support for terrorist groups determined to dismantle the state of Israel, including Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as ‘resistance’ groups fighting U.S. forces abroad.”

It has also been reported that the vicious anti-Israel billionaire and supporter of Hilary Clinton has been funding these rallies.

When one sees ads to hire organizers for these rallies, one questions if they’re truly spontaneous.

It’s clear that the Trump/Pence administration may very well become the most pro-Israel administration in history and a champion of the fight against anti-Semitism. The Trump/Pence administration has pledged to take strong legislative and diplomatic actions to combat anti-Semitic BDS and labeling campaigns; has pledged to have the Justice Department investigate the coordinated intimidation of Jewish and pro-Israel students on college campuses; rejects the anti-Semitic notion that Israel is an “occupier” of Arab lands; is committed to cutting funding to United Nations organizations that persistently slander the Jewish state; will end the Obama administration’s unconstitutional limitations on congressional defense aid to Israel; and is committed to pressuring the Palestinian Authority (PA) to stop promoting hatred and violence against Jews in PA schools, media, and speeches. The Trump/Pence administration has also pledged to finally move the American embassy in Israel to Israel’s capital — Jerusalem.

In recent years, Israel and Jews throughout the world have experienced more anti-Semitic attacks and defamation than they have at any time since the 1930s. A pro-Israel U.S. administration dedicated to combating this Jew-hating, Israel-bashing onslaught is what we desperately need. It’s time for the ADL to acknowledge who our friends are and to stop wrongly, even if subtly, condemning them.

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Reflecting on Leonard Cohen, my father and me Commentary by Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA Using his M-16 assault rifle as a pillow, my father awoke abruptly from a dreamless sleep by the pleading voice of a young woman outside his tent in the Sinai.

The woman, a uniformed volunteer, was urging reservists like him to forego shuteye to hear a musician whose name she did not know, but who had come from far away to perform for Israeli troops on the southern front of Israel’s traumatic 1973 war with Egypt and Syria.

Stumbling out of the khaki tent, my father and 12 other soldiers encountered Leonard Cohen, the eminent Jewish Canadian poet-singer whose death, at age 82, was reported Thursday, prompting passionate eulogies from fans all over the world, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin.

Cohen’s visit to the Sinai Desert, during which he wrote his haunting song “Lover Come Back to Me,” was the beginning of my family’s bigenerational love affair with his irreverent yet spiritual writing. Cohen’s benign sobriety has shaped me as very few other writers have.

In the best-known photograph from his tour of the front line, spending at least a week performing at gathering points and bases, a singing Cohen stands next to an attentive Ariel Sharon, the Israeli general and future prime minister who clinched victory from the jaws of defeat during that war. The Israeli virtuoso composer Matti Caspi is accompanying Cohen on guitar as dozens of soldiers huddle all around them — some wearing expressions that suggest deep reflection.

But the concert attended by my father, a noncommissioned communications officer in charge of connecting Sharon to higher-ups whose orders Sharon was notorious for ignoring, was somewhat less photogenic.

“So a dozen of us who agreed to wake up saw this sweaty Jew wearing dusty fatigues standing with a guitar in the sun,” my father recalled Friday upon learning of Cohen’s passing. “I’m pretty sure the other guys had no idea who he was and I doubt that that changed thanks to the concert, which, honestly, was kind of heart-wrenching.”

When they were finally dismissed, my father’s brothers-in-arms complained about the concert, which they found dull. They had hoped for a show by the ha-Gashash ha-Khiver, a famous Israeli comedy ensemble whose Hebrew name means “The Pale Scout.”

It was an awkward situation for Cohen, whom Netanyahu on Friday called a “warmhearted Jew” in recalling Cohen’s impulsive decision to come to the front lines — something the prime minister also experienced firsthand.

(At the time, Cohen was living in Greece with his girlfriend, Suzanne Elrod. A friend named Suzanne Verdal would serve as the inspiration for one of his best-known songs, titled “Suzanne.”)

Leonard Cohen performing at a concert in Ramat Gan, Israel, in September 2009.

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Leonard Cohen performing with Matti Caspi, on guitar, for Ariel Sharon, with arms crossed, and other Israeli troops in the Sinai in 1973.

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But my father was bowled over. He recognized Cohen instantly — his songs, he said, had hit him like a thunderbolt when he first heard one of his records some years earlier.

“His lyrics were poetry, not pop, they were deeply sober but almost never veered into neither the outright sarcasm nor the activism that one finds in Bob Dylan’s sung poetry, for example,” said my father, who has an acute allergy to anything that reminds him of the politicized art he experienced growing up in communist Poland.

As for me, I was a reflective and slightly morose

14-year-old when my father introduced me to the music of Leonard Cohen. I was mesmerized by his trademark levity, with which he explored deep and sometimes dark emotions. Like my father before me, I had never heard anything quite like it.

I was deeply influenced by the self-doubting words and nasal voice of this strange bird on a wire, forever searching for a perch from which to observe the human soul with love but without illusions.

His way of looking at the human psyche, which I hungrily analyzed in his songs and in

Cohen buried near parents in Montreal Leonard Cohen was buried in his hometown of Montreal hours before his death was made public.

Cohen died Nov. 7 in Los Angeles and was buried Nov. 10 at his family’s plot in the Shaar Hashomayim cemetery, according to reports citing a statement from Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, an Orthodox shul in the Westmount neighborhood.

“Leonard’s wish was to be laid to rest in a traditional Jewish rite beside his parents, grandparents and great-grandparents,” the statement said. He maintained “a lifelong spiritual, musical, and familial connection to the synagogue of his youth.”

The Cohen family plot is located just through the front gates of the Jewish cemetery near the base of Mount Royal, The Toronto Star reported. The only evidence of Cohen’s burial is unsettled earth covered by fallen brown leaves in front of an unmarked gravestone, according to the newspaper.

“Hineni, hineni, My Lord” and other lyrics to the song “You Want It Darker” from his latest album released in September were read during the traditional Jewish graveside funeral attended by family and close friends only, the French news agencyAFP reported.

The announcement of his death was made Nov. 10 after the funeral.

“My father passed away peacefully at his home in Los Angeles with the knowledge that he had completed what he felt was one of his greatest records,” Cohen’s son, Adam, wrote in a Facebook post. “He was writing up until his last moments with his unique brand of humor.” JTA

his two novels, shaped in no small part my own way of looking at the world.

Which is why it broke my heart to skip, for ideological reasons, his concert in Israel in 2009.

Under pressure from promoters of the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement not to perform in the Jewish state, Cohen partially buckled by saying he’d also perform in Ramallah as well as in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Gan. When that proved impractical, he agreed to donate the concert’s proceeds to organizations whose supporters refer to as peace groups.

It didn’t help that one of the organizations that received some of the proceeds was a group of bereaved Palestinian and Israeli parents who had lost children to the conflict. While I recognize the universality of grief, I found that the rhetoric of this particular parents’ circle risked creating a moral equivalence between terrorists and their killers. I had expected more from Cohen, whom I fortunately got to see, after all, when he toured Europe in 2012.

But my father took a different view. The discussions we had on this point became yet another case in which Cohen, from his tower of song, informed both my outlook and my relationship with my father, who is by far my best debate adversary.

“I can see why a man like Cohen … decided to try for and promote compromise instead of ignoring dissent,” my father told me.

I have changed my views on Cohen’s 2009 actions; I now see them as part of his legacy, which has taught me to adhere to my own convictions — as he did during the Yom Kippur War — without, out of insecurity, placing them over the convictions of others.

While Cohen’s music will stay with me forever, I’m ready to let him go. It’s a good way to say goodbye.

Regina Spektor: Anti-Semitism made me Jewish

By Gabe Friedman, JTA Regina Spektor’s piano pop music is often described as “bubbly” or “quirky” — and a whole range of other even more positive adjectives. The average listener would never guess that she lived through intense antiSemitism for years.

In an interview with the Guardian published on Sunday, the Russian-Jewish songwriter opened up about the anti-Semitism she faced growing up in Russia, where Jews were not allowed to practice their religion or customs for decades under Soviet rule.

She explained that that type of persecution forced Russian Jews to bond together.

“The only reason I’m Jewish is probably anti-Semitism. Think about Soviet Russia — religion is illegal. So there’s no cultural Judaism, no tradition. The only thing that made Jewish people marry other Jews is that they

didn’t want to be called ‘kikes.’ They knew they wouldn’t hear the word ‘zhid’ come out of their husband’s face when they had their first marital fight. So it’s the only reason a lot of us exist,” Spektor said.

She explained that she felt harassed for being Jewish even after her family moved to the United States around the time she was nine — during the late 1980s, when Jews were finally allowed to immigrate out of the country. The Spektors settled in New York with the help of HIAS, the Jewish immigration agency, and Regina attended the SAR Academy, a Jewish day school in Riverdale. “[I]nstead of being the Jewish girl in a Russian school I became a Russian girl in a Jewish school,” Spektor said. “I had dumb teenagers telling me to go back to my [expletive] country. Telling me we were taking their jobs. I got so pissed off I was like, ‘You’d better believe

I’m going to take your job, I’m going to take your job and three other jobs, too’.”

She added to the Guardian that her brother, a black hat-wearing Orthodox Jew, is still often a target of anti-Semitic harassment.

“They get on him, shouting ‘Shalom,’ that kind of thing. But I see anti-Semitism everywhere. It’s built into the fabric of our lives,” she said.

Spektor rose to fame in the mid-2000s after touring with bands like The Strokes, the Kings of Leon and Keane. However, she’s probably best known now for writing “You’ve Got Time,” the theme song for “Orange is the New Black.” She’s performed at a number of Jewish-themed events, from a concert on the National Mall commemorating the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel in 2008 to a White House reception celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month in 2010.

Regina Spektor at the SiriusXM Studio in New York on Oct. 7.

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remember that ride, passing Agam Karun (Karun reservoir) and then the road below the Beaufort fortress, imagining what that would have been like if the PLO still controlled that high ground.

Passing through Marja’oun and getting close to the border, you could taste; home was that close.

There was no shortage of stories of convoys being ambushed on this road and we were obvious targets in open safari trucks with no armor. Once you’ve been through such an ambush you no longer focus on the beautiful scenery of Lebanon; every tree could be cover, every turn could have something nasty waiting around the bend.

But when you crossed over the border and drove the last few kilometers into Kiriat Shmoneh, helmets came off, flak vests were torn open and the sound of Velcro openings filled the air. Heading to the central bus station in Kiriat Shmoneh, we’d pass an intersection which came to be known as Tzomet Hasaftot, or just saftot (grandmothers), named for the elderly women who would stand there waiting with piles of free Baguette sandwiches and drinks for the soldiers heading home.

It was a simple act of appreciation but it always meant the world to me; I got to recognize a few of their faces after a while and I still remember, after a particularly rough few weeks when we finally got out for a long weekend, one of the guys engulfing one of the saftot in a massive hug and lifting her up in the air.

It’s hard to explain what it felt like, to be back home, back in the place where you belong. But to this day, there is a feeling for me when I land back in Israel and get in the car and drive through the beautiful Judean hills home, of where I belong.

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his week in parshat Vayera we are introduced to a powerful idea by no less than Avraham himself. It’s hidden in the details of the powerful stories we read this week and we might miss it, which is perhaps why the Talmud takes pains to point it out.

Avraham has challenged no less than G-d Himself to save Sodom (Bereishit 18), but G-d has decreed that a society based on such evil must be destroyed, and finally (ibid.

18:33) Avraham “returns to his place.”

The next day, when G-d prepares to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, Avraham awakens early (the word used in the Torah, “vayashkem” implies a sense of mission and purpose) and again, “returns to the place where he stood before.”

The Talmud tells us (Berachot 6b) that from this moment we learn the halacha that a person should always pray in a set place, a makom kavua. In fact, Rav Chelbo quotes Rav Huna who says that whoever has a set place for his prayers is considered to be a true student of Avraham, and when he leaves this world it will be said of him that he is humble and pious.

What is so significant about the place where a person prays?

I am indebted to Rav Dovidl Weinberg, who teaches at yeshivat Orayta and who introduced me to the Shaarei Orah who has a magnificent idea on this topic.

The Mishna in Pirkei Avot (5:19) clearly contrasts Avraham with wicked Balaam. Whoever is humble and generous (literally “with a good eye”), says the Mishna, is a student of Avraham, and whoever is arrogant and stingy or with a negative perception, is a student of the wicked Balaam. The antithesis of Avraham is the way of Balaam.

Isn’t it interesting, says the Shaarei Orah,

that when Balaam sets out to curse the Jewish people (Bamidbar 22-23), every time he fails, he changes his place. Indeed, Balak (ibid. 23:13) exhorts him to follow him to a “different place” from which to curse the Jewish people and spiritually defeat us.

Again and again, Balaam changes his place to try and achieve his aims and yet, again and again, he fails. The implication is that Balaam’s failure is not attributed to who Balaam is, but rather to where he is. In fact, at the beginning of that story there is a tension between the messengers of the Moabite King Balak and Balaam precisely because Balak wants Balaam to come to a place where he can curse Israel and Balaam is not sure he can or should go. It never occurs to those wicked people that their failure is the result of their wickedness, they simply assume it is because they are in the wrong place. This is the classic perception of blaming the ills of society on the environment.

Avraham on the other hand, goes back to the same place to pray yet again, knowing he had failed there the day before (Sodom would still be destroyed). It is not where Avraham is, but who Avraham is that will make the difference. o be sure, environment is a powerful influence and Jewish tradition teaches (and Maimonides rules halachically in Hilchot Deot, the laws of character traits) that a person must distance him or herself from a negative environment. But that does not mean we can ever lay the blame totally on the environment.

Once we know that we cannot place the onus entirely on the environment we are challenged nonetheless to create an environment that will be a positive environment.

Way back when we are created, the first thing G-d does is place us in the Garden of Eden

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(Bereishit 2; 8 and 15), an environment conducive to spiritual growth.

Yet it does not work, we make the colossal mistake of eating from the Tree against G-d’s wishes and must leave Eden. Eventually, we will build a Temple twice in an attempt to recreate that spiritually conducive environment. (We, not G-d, had to build it, just as the second Tablets were formed by man.) e cannot completely rely on our environment but must nonetheless work to create a health environment. Perhaps that is why coming home to Israel is so special: nowhere else in the world is there a Jewish environment more conducive to growth than in Israel, both because of the history and energy imbued in this place by our holy ancestors long ago, as well as the fact that Israel is an entire country whose society and standing are determined by the Jewish people.

When the Jews began coming back home to Israel in the nineteenth century it was anything but an objectively wonderful place to live. As Mark Twain pointed out in a famous article he wrote for Harper’s magazine after visiting Israel at the time, “it was a barren place better suited to wild beasts and marauders, rather than habitation by civilized man.”

But we were never meant receive a place, we were always meant to be partners in building it; so, with G-d’s help, the desert of Palestine has been transformed into the modern State of Israel which is a veritable Garden of Eden in ifulfillment of the verse from Isaiah: “Va’yasem Midbara ke’Eden” — There will come a time when the desert will be transformed into the Garden of Eden.”

Perhaps one day soon the entire Jewish people will realize there is nowhere else that is truly home, and we will succeed at long last in building together a model of what a healthy society can be, as a model for a better world.

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At MDS, Isaac Silverman reports on Donald Trump’s path from career through presidential candidate (photo by Michael Rehfield). At the Shulamith School for Girls, Mrs. Danyel Goldberg played Hillary Clinton and Mrs. Rivky Markowitz played Donald Trump.

Shulamith and MDS play prez politics Presidential politics was at play at the Shulamith School for Girls in Cedarhurst and Manhattan Day School on the Upper West Side.

At Shulmaith, Mrs. Danyel Goldberg played Hillary Clinton and Mrs. Rivky Markowitz portrayed Donald Trump, presented the candidates’ platforms, including their opinions on Israel, the economy, and education. The debate was moderated

by Morah Chana Schwartz. lots: Trump won by had a chance to cast ballot and Trump won by a huge margin, 164 to 28. Each class was as-

signed electors based on its size, and Trump won all ten electors.

At MDS’ Meet the Candidates night, over 100 seventh and eighth graders presented projects — science fair-style — focusing on the current candidates and on past presidential elections.

“I liked the project because it was an independent assignment and we were able to explore the subjects completely,” says Sarah Kratka, who reported on President Wilson. “Even if we didn’t have the most famous President, we still had so much information to work with.”

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The Yeshiva University Board of Trustees has announced the appointment of Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman as the fifth president of Yeshiva University. He will officially begin his tenure in July 2017.

“Rabbi Berman is a dynamic and inspirational leader, scholar and educator,” said YU Chairman Moshael J. Straus, who led the Presidential Selection Committee. “He possesses a deep, lifelong commitment to our mission and is a superb choice to lead Yeshiva University forward with excellence.”

Rabbi Berman is the current head of the Hechal Shlomo–Jewish Heritage Center in Jerusalem, where he is leading a transformation of the historic organization into an international modern Orthodox center for Jewish life, learning and leadership. He also serves as a lecturer of rabbinic literature in Herzog College’s Department of Jewish Studies and was selected to sit on its Executive Leadership Council, the governing body that establishes policies and sets direction for all major issues regarding the operation of the college.

Prior to moving to Israel, Rabbi Berman served as rabbi of The Jewish Center in New York City and led the prominent institution through a period of growth in which it experienced a significant rise in congregational satisfaction, membership, programming, services, outreach, public activities and financial strength.

Simultaneous with his pulpit at the Jewish Center, Rabbi Berman served as an instructor of Talmud in the Irving I. Stone Beit Midrash Program at Yeshiva College. He is married to Anita Berman and they have five children.

“Yeshiva University, with its distinct mission and singular ability to teach how to integrate the world around us within our Torah lives, is uniquely positioned to educate the next generation of students and enable them to capitalize on the blessings of this era,” said Rabbi Berman. “I am deeply humbled to follow in the path of the illustrious Jewish leaders who preceded me and am excited to work with each member of the YU family to build on our past, envision new directions for our future and maximize the enormous potential of our beloved institution.”

Rabbi Berman graduated from four YU schools with distinction, earning honors for his academic work in both secular and Jewish studies. He was recognized by the YU-affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) for his written scholarship and was chosen to speak on behalf of the graduating student body at his Chag HaSemikhah [rabbinic ordination ceremony]. He was also selected as a Fellow in the Kollel Elyon, the three-year post-ordination study program for RIETS’ most promising students and future rabbinic leaders. He graduated from Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys, received a bachelor’s degree from Yeshiva College, and earned a master’s degree in medieval Jewish philosophy from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. While in Israel, he earned a doctorate in Jewish thought at Hebrew University.

Rabbi Berman will succeed President Richard M. Joel, who became president in 2003. Over the course of his tenure, President Joel was instrumental in moving YU beyond the walls of the University — from expanding professional and rabbinic programs and service learning missions worldwide to establishing new student life programs and The Mordecai D. and Monique C. Katz School of Graduate and Professional Studies.

“Rabbi Berman lives the values of Yeshiva University,” said President Joel. “His optimism, scholarship and abilities as a speaker and writer will serve YU well as it rises to its next level.”

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Eying their futures at HAFTR open house HAFTR High School opened its doors to more than 350 people on last Sunday for its Class of 2021 open house.

The day’s program began with speeches from the HAFTR’s principals, Naomi Lippman and Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen, in addition to presentations by Zachary Schwartz, Rachel Sacks

and Ethan Oliner, current HAFTR students.

Parents sat in on four model lessons which included presentations by directors of college and Israel guidance, as well as a science experiment led by Science Chair Rita Sinensky, and a current events lesson from Social Studies Chair Jason Gelman.

Students were divided into four groups which ventured on a virtual tour of the school while watching a 360 degree video on a virtual reality headset, followed by a Q & A with current HAFTR students.

The program showcased the various extracurricular activities available at HAFTR High.

From left: Students utilized VR headsets to take a 360 tour of HAFTR, and a panel of HAFTR’s leaders —Naomi Lippman, Rabbi Gedlaiah Oppen, Joshua Wyner, Ethan Oliner and Rachel Sacks.

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YCQ girls getting ready for their bat mitzvahs By: Ahuva Shachar Sixth grade girls at the Yeshiva of Central Queens and their mothers attended a bat mitzvah workshop.

The program began with inspirational d’var Torahs by Rabbi Landsman, principal, and Morah Hadas Fried, the girls’ Naavi teacher and bat mitzvah coordinator. The program was a bonding experience for the girls and their mothers, as the girls learned about the importance of becoming a bat mitzvah and the responsibilities they will take on as members of the Jewish community.

The girls and their mothers began their Namesake Projects where they will research the people they were named after or write about why their parents chose their names and what they are going to do to better themselves to be like those namesakes. They attended a workshop on values and priorities and the evening ended with simcha dancing.

The families learned on YCQ’s protocol for celebrations as well as the tzedakah projects they will participate in as a class and others they could take on as individuals.

SKA hosts annual Shabbaton It’s hard to top an annual Stella K. Abraham school event, but this year’s Shabbaton 5777 was declared the best ever!

The ruach, achdut, talent and warmth felt in the Hudson Valley Resort last weekend was out of the ordinary. The weeklong prep — with Shabbat parties, chulent kickoffs, and class sessions on hakarat hatov — heightened the sense of anticipation in the school.

The glorious grounds and weather, the inspirational presentations on the theme of hakarat hatov by guest speaker Mrs. Jackie Bitton, and the dynamic Senior Class program contributed to a wonderful Shabbat, as did beautiful student-delivered divrei Torah and delicious food.

The incredible Talent Show, the melave malka with spirited dancing, and the powerful kumsitz ended the evening on a high.

Each SKA student who attended truly “saw the good” in this enhanced and very special Shabbat.

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Warmth and love of Yiddishkeit at YOSS On Motzei Shabbos, Parshas Lech Lecha, the sixth grade at Yeshiva of South Shore joined their rebbe, Rabbi Yehoshua Meltzer for an exciting kumzitz.

This special event took place at the Woodmere home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Schuckman, parents of Eli, a talmid in the class. The boys partook of a delicious melava malka and then went outside to be warmed by the heat of a bonfire, roasting marshmellows and making smores.

Most importantly they were uplifted by the niggunim that they sang, and the live professional music that accompanied them.

Eli Schuckman played along with

his drums and Shuey Wald played the bongo. The boys were treated to a special visit by the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, who came to participate with the talmidim and share words of chizuk. Dovid Tzvi Daskel, Dov Hirsch, Yehuda Kestenbaum and Eli Schuckman delivered inspiring words of Torah.

The kumzitz offered the boys a unique way to spend time with their rebbeim and friends, while infusing themselves with a love of Yiddishkeit and Torah.

The Yeshiva has tremendous appreciation to the Schuckman family and to Rabbi Meltzer for preparing this amazing event.

sophomores Sabina Benzaquen and Shira Rosenzweig.

Bottom photo: Seniors Bracha Book, Naomi Fox, Anael Florian and Tehila Mammon.

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Linda Burton, Susan Levitt, Suzie Schwartstein, Sori Klein, and Ruthie Klagsbrun, who led the challah mixing demonstration and was dubbed the “Queen of Challah” by her companions. “I just love making challah,” she said. “Bread is love!”

Penina from Richmond Hills and Tova from Far Rockaway …and some very colorful challah …at the entrance to last week’s Great Challah Bake Long Island Style.

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In addition to the Great Challah Bake Long Island Style at the Sands Atlantic Beach, shuls, schools and other organizations staged their own events last week. At HAFTR (above), more than two hundred families participated in the school’s annual bake. Students, parents and staff members mixed the ingredients, participated in hafrashat challah HAFTR photo (separating challah) and braided the challot.

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IT’S TIME TO BAKE THE CHALLAH!

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It’s time to prep the challah! 1,300 LI

PARTY TIME AT THE SANDS: Inspiration combined with mitzvot brought smiles to the faces of the 1,300 women and girls who participated in last Thursday night’s Great Challah Bake Long Island Style, at the Sands Atlantic Beach, a lead-up to last week’s international Shabbos Project.

TOP ROW, FROM LEFT: Jackie Bitton, the Mistress of Ceremonies for the evening, watched as Ruthie Klagsbrun demonstrated how to mix the challah dough. While the dough rose, enthusiastic dancing and singing filled the hall. Pictured at right: Riuky Kail and Sari Fein.

MIDDLE ROW FROM LEFT: Sima Gefen (second from right) an making challah together: Aliza, Elana, Chana, Tulia, Shaina, R Leah Solow, Shira Becker, Rachel Krasnow, Esther Rena, Sarah Fliegelman; Gitty from Far Rockaway and Yael from Lawrence Rikki from Lawrence, Bayla from Far Rockaway, Michali from C darhurst and Rosie from Lawrence; A group of sisters and cousin Melanie from Hewlett, Eliana from Woodmere, Sharon from Oce Rachel from Woodmere; Rosie Genack, Rikki Belsky and Michal

Gefen (second from right) and her granddaughters, all na, Chana, Tulia, Shaina, Rivkie, and Ariella; Rachel asnow, Esther Rena, Sarah Mindl Aidelson and Ruthie ay and Yael from Lawrence; Tamar from Cedarhurst, r Rockaway, Michali from Cedarhurst, Mikki from CeA group of sisters and cousins came together to bake: oodmere, Sharon from Oceanside, and Rebecca and ck, Rikki Belsky and Michali Goldfeder.

BOTTOM ROW FROM LEFT: Naomi from Far Rockaway, Zeldie from Cedarhurst, Leah, Rachel and Bella from North Woodmere, Pearl and Esti from Cedarhurst, Shani, Sharon, Michaela and Rochelle from North Woodmere; Youra Lightman, Leah Lightman, Aliza Friedman, Rivky Kal, Yehudis Yankelelwitz, Miriam Herskovits, Kayla Cohen and Devorah Taub; Adina, Miri and Malkie from Lawrence, Atara and Ceil from North Woodmere, Elizabeth and her daughter Rachel from South Bellmore, and Judi and Gitty from Lawrence. Judi said, “This is my first time baking challah in my entire life,my friends brought me so I could learn how”; Five friends from Woodmere Middle School: Elizabeth, Madison, Zoe and Rafi, all from Hewlett Harbor, and Alyssa from North Woodmere.

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At the Sands, a taste of Shabbos At “a HAFTR Middle School table” (top left): Chaya and Rivka from Far Rockaway, Beth from Baldwin, Randy from North Woodmere, Leora from Kew Gardens Hills, Esther from Far Rockaway, Alyson from Kew Gardens Hills, Tali from Far Rockaway and Chani from Cedarhurst.

Top right: Miri Schuss and Basja Bender Bottom right: Melissa from Oceanside, Amy from Far Rockaway, and Heather from Long Beach.

Bottom left: Celia Weintrob of The Jewish Star interviews participants in the Great Challah Bake LI Style.

In Jerusalem, it’s challah for Israel’s soldiers Five hundred Jewish mothers from around the world bonded over baking challahs for Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem last Thursday in The Great Big Challah Bake run by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project (JWRP) as part of the global Shabbat Project.

The women — 400 of whom were visiting Israel Nov. 6–16 on a JWRP “Momentum” trip — baked over 1,000 challahs for two hours, then packaged the loaves to donate to Israeli soldiers.

The visitors, from Canada, the U.S., Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, are touring Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the Galilee and other popular destinations as part of the Momentum trip, which features exten-

sive itineraries and curated curricula encompassing everything from Jewish values to contemporary Israeli society.

The Momentum trips are designed to inspire Jewish mothers to connect deeply with their Jewish heritage and transform themselves, their families and ultimately their communities and the wider world. More than 10,000 Jewish mothers from 26 countries around the world have already participated in the Momentum trips.

The Great Big Challah Bake was in partnership with Shabbat Project, a global movement that unites Jews of all denominations and backgrounds to celebrate the transformative power of Shabbat.

Shabbat Project in 1,150 cities, 94 countries Following one of the most bitter, divisive and exhausting presidential races in the history of the United States, the Jewish world took a well-deserved collective deep breath this past Shabbat.

The 2016 global Shabbat Project — now in its third year — outdid its predecessors on all fronts, reaching 1,150 cities in 94 countries around the world, and attracting record numbers of participants. An estimated one million people took part in celebrations on and around the Shabbat of Nov. 11–12 — not just in unique Shabbat programs, but in city-wide pre-Shabbat “Challah Bakes” and post-Shabbat “Havdallah Concerts.”

“The response to this year’s Shabbat Project has been stronger than ever,” says South Afri-

can Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein, founder and director of The Shabbat Project. “It has been so inspiring to see how The Shabbat Project connects with millions of Jews from every kind of background, and how people around the world have worked in partnership to make this a sublime moment of Jewish unity, all centered around Shabbat.”

The Shabbat Projects brought together Jews of diverse backgrounds and persuasions in ways never seen before and many of the participants observed Shabbat in full for the first time in their lives. In the U.S., there were 543 participating cities.

“We’ve witnessed an outpouring of emotion across the Jewish world, as Jews from all walks of life have embraced The Shabbat Proj-

ect, putting aside their differences and gathering together in a spirit of love and unity,” says Goldstein. “There is a real thirst worldwide for true Jewish unity and for a genuine connection to Judaism. And people really resonate with the way Shabbat carves out a sacred space of tranquility and togetherness amidst the frenzy of modern life.”

Stories big and small from across the globe are already beginning to emerge — 8,000 at a challah bake in Buenos Aires; 15 families in the tiny Jewish enclave in Cancun, Mexico, keeping Shabbat for the first-time; 850 Sydneysiders “seaing” in Shabbat at a musical Kabbalat Shabbat service on Bondi Beach; a Shabbaton on board a cruise ship in the Atlantic; and a lone Jew in Karachi, Pakistan,

keeping Shabbat with the rest of the Jewish world.

This year, thousands of Israelis from 160 cities and towns, including also joined events across the Jewish state, including 1,000 Tel Avivians eating Friday night dinner together and a Havdalah ceremony with 2,000 people in Raanana. Entire buildings across Israel hosted “Kiddush Binyani” services, with residents gathering in the buildings’ lobbies for Shabbat meals.

France boasted 19 participating cities, including Paris, Strasbourg, Grenoble and Nice.

For first-time participants in Metz, The Shabbat Project coincided with the anniversary of the liberation of the city’s Grand Synagogue in 1944, and various Shabbat celebrations were held commemorating the event.

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ast time I wrote about our kids’ pets, it was about Abbey, the cat belonging to Jerry’s daughter, Elana, and Murphy, the dog belonging to my daughter and son-in-law, Jordana and Dan. Since then, there has been a new addition to the family. My son Jeremy and his lovely wife Darya are now the proud puppy parents of Penny (Pollack).

Penny arrived on a flight into LGA, and I met the kids and puppy there to drive them into the city. I was loaded with treats and toys from Petco along with the essentials that the kids didn’t have time to purchase the night before. They were given a 24 hour notice of Penny’s arrival, so I pitched in to help as much as I could.

I could see it was love at first sight. Penny couldn’t stop licking Darya and Jeremy’s faces, and the feeling of love was mutual.

I dropped the kids and Penny in front of their apartment and went to search for a parking spot. Who was I kidding? There are no spots on the Upper East Side. After an hour I gave up and parked in a lot.

I watched as Penny bonded with her new parent and I fell in love with her as well. Being that they are both attorneys and work full time, they realized they would have to put her in doggie day care, until she was used to be left alone.

Problem was she couldn’t got to doggie day care until she had all her shots. That would be in about a week and a half. I volunteered to dog sit. It was actually fun. I would hang out with her in their apartment until Jordana came home

Peanut Butter & Applesauce Cookies for your dog

because Murphy is allowed to have people food at times, but Penny isn’t. They don’t want her used to people food. Murphy is fine with that, more prime ribs bones from Bobby Judy, for him. Yes, I know I go overboard, but, hey, they’re my grandchildren. Nothing is too good for them! I find myself gravitating toward the pet aisle in TJMaxx, Home Goods, etc.

Just last week I bought the cutest little jacket for Murphy. Penny already has an adorable pink parka that her maternal grandmother bought her (it matches her Chewnel — Chanel for Dogs — purse that a friend bought her). I used to make fun of people like this. Now I’m one of them.

Hmmm, Jerry Joszef, there just might just be hope of a dog in your future after all.

Might, being the key word.

Meanwhile, I found this yummy recipe for peanut butter and applesauce cookies for dogs.

The Cookie Rookie Ingredients: 3 c whole wheat flour 2 c quick-cook oats 1 c peanut butter (smooth or chunky, your choice!)

1 c unsweetened organic applesauce 1 t baking powder 1/4-1/2 cup olive oil or coconut oil, optional Instructions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees and cover 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.y are having. In a mixing bowl, combine all ingredients well. Knead dough on a lightly floured surface.

If the dough is too loose and crumbly, you can add a 1/4-1/2 cup olive oil or coconut oil at this point.

Use a rolling pin to roll the dough to about 1/4 inch thick and then cut into shapes with cookie cutters. If you don’t want to use cookie cutters, simply make small dough balls.

Place cookies on baking sheet, approximately 1/2 inch apart. Bake in preheated faces over for approximately 25 minutes or until lightly browned. Let cool and then serve.

Store uneaten cookies in an airtight container in the fridge for up to one week.

(NOTE: some dogs are allergic to flour/ wheat. if you want to make these wheat free, you can use rice flour of coconut flour as a replacement. they will work, but might change the consistency a bit.)

Contact Judy Joszef: Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

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from her teaching job, and we would head to the dog park. Whoever heard of a dog park when we were kids? Not in Boro Park! It was definitely a challenge walking together with two dogs.

You see, these “cousins” are inseparable when they are together. Within two minutes their leashes are all tangled up. So I ended up carrying Penny all the way to the park while Murphy, knowing where he was headed, ran.

As soon as we got to the dog park Murphy was big man on campus. All the dogs ran over to him. Of course he likes to play with the livelier ones. At first I couldn’t look. It didn’t seem like playing. It was more like, “Let’s see who can bite each other’s face off first.” Jordana tried to reassure me, that if he’s not growling or barking, then they are just having fun. Once I was able to accept that, I started to take videos of Murphy, while Penny nestled in Jordana’s arms on a Bench.

As I was videoing, I saw the cutest white bull dog trying to play with Murphy and his “chevera.” A minute later I hear the owner of that dog say, “Come on Sandy, let’s find some one that wants to play with you, you don’t need them.” I was mortified. I actually heard myself saying,”Murphy, you and friends should really play with Sandy.” By then Sandy had found her way to the other side of the dog park.

Penny, meanwhile, had lots of fans in the park as there aren’t many English Cocker Spaniels in New York. Both cousins had a great time that afternoon. And so each day I drove to the city and watched Penny, then met Jordana in the afternoon for a trip to the park then back to Jordana’s apartment. It got a little tricky

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Artists, geeks revel at Jewish ‘Comic Con’ staged in a Crown Heights shul turned activist with Jewish roots. Jewish historian Rafael Medoff and comics historian Craig Yoe sold an anthology of political cartoons from the 1940s called “Cartoonists against the Holocaust.” Isaac Goodhart, 29, hawked his comic, Postal, about a detective working in a town full of criminals, where he includes Hebrew writing and Jewish themes. Jordan Gorfinkel, who worked as part of the management team of the Batman comics, displayed samples of his weekly comic strip “Everything’s Relative,” which appears in the New York Jewish Week.

Gorfinkel moved around a lot as a kid and

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said he found his “best friends” in superheroes who acted as role models he could always trust.

He now runs a workshop at Jewish schools and camps, where he teaches children the rudiments of comic art and has them reimagine a story from the Bible through drawing.

He is working on a graphic-novel version of the Passover Haggadah complete with traditional text. Gorfinkel says it will engage kids through dynamic art in a way a traditional seder cannot.

“Kids, and adults that are kids at heart, need to connect to our Jewish texts in entertaining Continued on page 29

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By Ben Sales, JTA After Brett Parker’s great-grandfather fled the pogroms in Europe and came to the United States, he opened a drug store where he sold comic books.

Each week he would give his grandson, Parker’s father, five comic books to take home.

Growing up during the early years of Superman instilled in Parker’s dad a lifelong love of comics — many of them written by Jews — that he passed on to his son.

“Imagine if he kept them,” Parker said laughing, picturing the first editions of Superman that would now fetch high prices. But as a kid, Parker preferred another superhero, also created by Jews: Batman.

“What I liked about Batman was that he didn’t have any superpowers,” Parker said. “This is so Jewish: He didn’t have any superpowers, he studied, he learned, he perfected himself, he taught himself, he was very intellectual, he had a gadget for everything.

“And more than that, it was all about ‘tikkun olam’ for him,” he added, referring to the Jewish imperative to repair the world.

Parker and his son Bayard, 9, were two of the 140 or so attendees at the first Jewish Comic Con, a comics convention hosted in a small Modern Orthodox synagogue — Congregation Kol Israel — in Crown Heights.

The gathering — mostly adults with some children — gave Jewish artists a space to show their work, talk shop, delve into the historical connection between Jews and comics, and analyze Jewish characters from the vast universe of comic books.

The major Comic Cons in San Diego and New York draw well over 100,000 people each and are held in vast convention centers with broad atriums filled with stands and super-fans in costume. They are destinations for actors, Hollywood types and geeks alike who want to spend a few days with their ilk.

Sunday’s convention was a much more intimate, low-key and, well, Jewish affair. It opened with Shacharit, the morning prayer service, and broke in the middle of the day for Mincha. Two rows of tables in the shul sanctuary were set up in front of wooden pews that had been pushed to the wall, while guests in kippahs, tzitzit or long skirts perused comic books retelling liturgy, Holocaust stories, Jewish history or biblical tales.

The convention had little of the involved costumery that colors the larger Comic Cons, but attendees wore Batman, Superman or Marvel Comics shirts, and a kid in a Spider-Man costume played by the Torah ark.

“I thought it was a story that was important to present,” said Fred Polaniecki, who organized the convention. “I thought it was even more important to present the people who are following in the footsteps of the Kirbys, the Lees and the Kanes” — meaning Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and Bob Kane, three legendary Jewish comic artists.

Some of Kirby, Lee and Kane’s followers at the convention — both artists and enthusiasts — said the Jewish role in creating the comic book industry sparked their interest in the field.

Julian Voloj, who is writing a graphic novel about one of the creators of Superman, Joe Shuster, said Jewish immigrants could relate to how Superman balanced two competing identities.

“What made Superman appealing was that he was, to use a Yiddish term, a ‘gornisht,’” said Voloj, using a word meaning “nothing.” “But in reality he was a superhero. In a way it’s a metaphor for the immigrant experience. You’re one thing, and you’re seen by people as one thing, but in reality, you’re so much more.”

The variety of comics and graphic novels for sale reflect the variety of current Jewish comics efforts.

At the event, Voloj sold his graphic novel, “Ghetto Brother,” about a Bronx gang leader

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Thanksgiving in daily prayer AlAn JAy Gerber Kosher BooKworm

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ith Thanksgiving Day to be observed next week I would like to bring to your attention the Jewish liturgical roots of that holiday’s theme and purpose.

The theological basis for the act of giving G-d thanksgiving is to be found in the daily recitation of Psalm 100 in the morning service.

This psalm has been the focus of numerous English commentaries; two of them constitute the theme of this week’s review.

First we will consider Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb’s commentary in the Koren Tehillim (Koren Publishers, 2015).

“There is something about gratitude,” explains Rabbi Weinreb. “It can’t be expressed in solitude. Sure, it is a very spiritual feeling. It makes you feel close to G-d. But it also makes you shout for joy. It makes you sing and dance. It makes you want to tell your story. It makes you want to throw a party.”

Rabbi Weinreb further brings to our attention the following: “There is a circular relationship between

gratitude and faith. The person of faith is more likely to experience gratitude; for he realizes that he is entitled to little, so that every one of his benefits is experienced as a divine blessing.

“Gratefulness also produces faith, because it is an emotion which demands expression.

There is no more effective expression of that emotion than prayers of praise to G-d.

“Our Psalm also suggests that not only is thankfulness naturally shared with others, by all men on earth, but it resounds forever, throughout eternity: His faithfulness lasts through all generations.”

Rabbi Weinreb concludes by further universalizing the theme of thanksgiving: “A perfect world certainly is a world in which gratitude prevails. Our task is to cultivate gratitude even in the imperfect world, which we occupy.

“Our Psalm inspires us, and enables us to perform this task effectively.”

Rabbi Chaim Miller, in his commentary, The Kol Menachem Tehillim-Psalms (Shottenstein Edition, 2013) teaches us the following from the text of Psalm 100: “Even when the significance of sacrifices and prayers becomes curtailed in the future era, the practice of thanksgiving will remain significant.’’

Further, Rabbi Miller teaches from the Midrash Rabah: “In the future all sacrifices will be annulled, but the Thanksgiving-offering will not be annulled.

All prayers will be annulled but thanksgiving will not be annulled.”

The very title of this psalm has within it the concept of saying thanks — “Mizmor L’Todah,” a Psalm of Thanksgiving.

For us, everyday is thanksgiving. The pilgrims of early New England, and the founding fathers of our republic, saw fit, despite the secular nature of our governance, to institute an annual thanksgiving commemorative. This surely speaks well of these early American leaders and still sets the tone for the sacred recognition by our country of the beneficence of the deity.

For us American Jews there is an ever

further spiritual take. The recitation of liturgy from the Book of Psalms s e r v e s as the sacred basis of the Jewish worship service. It behooves us to further familiarize ourselves with the content of the deeper inner spiritual as well of the linguistic meaning of this biblically based liturgy.

Enjoy you holiday by giving this Psalm, 100, closer attention in your prayers.

Contact Alan Jay Gerber: Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

A call to every Jew: Dare to be like Avraham! rAbbi dAvid etenGoff

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here are two times in Sefer Bereishit when we encounter the phrase, “Va’ye’he acharei hadevarim ha’aleh” (“And it came to pass after these matters”), toward the conclusion of this week’s parasha Vayera and, later, in parasha Vayechi: And it came to pass after these matters, that it was told to Abraham saying: “Behold Milcah, she also bore sons to Nahor your brother.” (22:20) And it came to pass after these matters that [someone] said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is ill.” So he took his two sons

with him, Manasseh and Ephraim. (48:1) Each pasuk portends a significant turning point in Jewish history. The first is a prologue — “And Bethuel fathered Rebecca” — announcing the birth of the future wife of Isaac, and mother of Jacob and Eisav; the second pasuk foreshadows the passing of Ya’akov Avinu, the transition from the Age of the Patriarchs to the Age of the Jewish Nation and the ultimate creation of the covenantal community following Kabbalat Hatorah (the Receiving of the Torah).

Rashi analyzes the meaning of “va’ye’he acharei hadevarim ha’aleh” as it pertains to our parasha in the following fashion: And it came to pass after these matters: When he returned from Mount Moriah, Abraham was thinking and saying, “Had my son been slaughtered, he would have died without children. I should have mar-

ried him to a woman of the daughters of Aner, Eshkol, or Mamre.” The Holy One, blessed be He, announced to him that Rebecca, his mate, had been born, and that is the meaning of “after these matters,” i.e., after the thoughts of the matter that came about as a result of the Akeidah (the Binding of Isaac).

Rashi’s midrashically-inspired comment focuses upon three major points. Firstly, he explains that “after these matters” refers to Abraham’s thoughts and anxieties subsequent to the Akeidah. This clarification is necessary, as confusion could result from the intervening verse between the end of the Akeidah and the words, “and it came to pass after these matters.”

Secondly, Rashi’s gloss reveals Abraham’s remorse concerning his failure to find a wife for Isaac prior to the Akeidah since, theo-

retically, this omission could have resulted in Isaac dying without issue, signaling the end of monotheism, the most spiritually transformative movement in world history.

Lastly, Rashi notes, “the Holy One blessed be He, announced to him [Abraham] that Rebecca, his [Isaac’s] mate, had been born.” he second Sochatchover rebbe, Rav Shmuel Bornsztain zatzal, raises a penetrating question regarding Rashi’s explanation of our phrase, “and it came to pass after these matters.” He asks, “Why did it matter to him [Abraham] what had happened in the past [when he had not found a wife for Isaac], since Isaac had not been slaughtered [at the time of the Akeidah]?”

(Sefer Shem Mishmuel, Parashat Chayeh Sarah, 1911, this and the following translations and brackets my own.) In other words, why See Dare on page 24

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Mt. Moriah and the import of focus in prayer rAbbi Avi billet Parsha of the weeK

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hen we consider the story of the binding of Yitzchak, one of the characters, who played a significant role until this tale is conspicuously missing from the narrative. That person, of course, is Sarah.

In Pirkei D’Rabi Eliezer, chapter 32, he notes the absence of Sarah, but also suggests that when Sarah heard about where Avraham and Yitzchak were going and why, she cried in a manner echoing the sound of the shofar (this suggests we blow shofar in this memory, not for the mother of Sisera, which can easily be explained as a mistake in pronunciation, as the Torah Shleimah claims: it should be the cries of “Ema Sarah” not “Ema d’Siserah”).

Rashi, among others, attaches Sarah’s

death to the news of the binding and sacrifice of her son. And yet, that is not the only interpretation, as the age of Yitzchak at this time is subject to debate as well. And if it is true that he was younger than 37 (his age at the time of his mother’s death) at his binding, then Sarah’s death would not be connected to the news of his near-death.

This is the approach I once found in a book called “Yismach Moshe” (though I don’t think it was the Satmar Rebbe’s book with that same title) in which the argument is presented that Sarah’s life was cut short on account of the way she treated her husband (and Hagar) in chapter 16.

It is interesting to note that the passage in Pirkey D’Rabi Eliezer describes how Mt. Moriah became a significant hotspot for the

patriarchal family after the day of Isaac’s binding. Rabbi Yehuda explains that after 20 years of infertility, Yitzchak brought his wife to the place he had felt closest to G-d in his lifetime, so they could pray. It was in that spot that Yitzchak prayed and was heeded to, so his wife could become pregnant.

When it was time for her to give birth and the labor pangs were driving her insane, Rivkah went “to seek out G-d” at a pure place: Mt. Moriah.

And of course, Yaakov’s dream and prayer on his way to Lavan’s house are also credited with having taken place there.

It is incredible that Mt. Moriah became a place associated with prayer at such an early time in our history. And that most of the prayers mentioned here were aimed at

looking out for the longevity of our people for generations to come.

securing the future through the next generation. Though she is not there, Sarah cries out for her son when he is there at that place.

Yitzchak prays to have children. Rivkah prays that her children can be born and that she could survive to raise them. Yaakov is thinking about his journey ahead, but he knows he is looking to find a wife, which will hopefully lead to his having children.

One can make the argument that Sarah’s prayer really set the stage for the experience that turned Mt. Moriah into a place not just of sacrifice, but of prayer. Not only of prayer, but of the kind of prayer that gets and almost immediate response to those who seek out G-d in a sincere way.

Mt. Moriah may not be available as a place of prayer to us today (as we say, the only people discriminated against as an official policy, unrelated to security concerns, in Israel are Jews looking to pray on the Temple Mount) but it does not take away from the See Moriah on page 24

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Continued from page 22 did Abraham have such depth-level angst concerning the past, when, after all, Isaac was alive and potentially able to begin a family? I believe Rav Bornsztain’s deeply insightful answer to this question captures the very essence of Abraham’s persona: This matter [of Abraham’s consummate anxiety regarding the past] is based on the underlying notion that Abraham thought he was the reason as to why Isaac was not slaughtered [at the Akeidah]; since he had not found Isaac a wife and he had not fathered children.

As such, it was impossible for the Holy One blessed be He’s words, “Please look heavenward and count the stars, if you are able to count them. … So will be your seed” (15:5) to be fulfilled. This [i.e. the outcome of the Akeidah as we know it], however, would not have been the case, in Abraham’s view, if Isaac had already fathered children, for, then the Holy One blessed be He would have chosen Isaac for a korban olah (a completely consumed burnt offering). This, then, is the reason for Abraham’s consternation [after the Akeidah,] since he felt he had diminished his service to the Holy One blessed be He by not having found Isaac a wife.

In sum, we can now begin to appreciate the degree of devotion that Abraham had for Hashem.

True, he certainly must have rejoiced that Isaac was alive; yet, he nonetheless was pained to the depth of his being that “he had diminished his service to the Holy One blessed be He by not having found Isaac a wife.”

As Rav Bornsztain so aptly notes, “When one carefully examines the subject [of the Akeidah and Abraham’s ensuing reaction,] we can see the [spiritual] heights that he achieved and his [overwhelming] love for the Holy One blessed be He.” (Sefer Shem Mishmuel, Parashat Vayera, 1913) Based upon the second Sochatchover rebbe’s keen analysis, we now know that Abraham’s life was the embodiment of the second verse of the Shema: “And you shall love the L-rd, your G-d, with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your means.” (Sefer Devarim 6:5) According to Rashi, these three terms convey the following meaning: With all your heart: … Another explanation; “with all your heart,” is that your heart should not be divided [i.e., at variance] with the Omnipresent (Midrash Sifrei).

And with all your soul: Even if He takes your soul (Midrash Sifrei; Talmud Bavli, Berachot 54a, 61a).

And with all your means: … Another explanation of this is: You shall love G-d with whatever measure He metes out to

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Continued from page 22 significance of that space, and of the important focus in prayer – focusing on the wellbeing of our children and of future generations of our people.

This is the guiding principle that governed Sarah’s thinking in Chapters 21 and 22, when she alone seemed to be the only one looking out for Yitzchak’s wellbeing (even though Avraham had other considerations driving him).

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former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton; guests of honor Nira and Ken Abramowitz; Shomer Eretz Yisrael award recipients Alan and Marc Berger; and Young Leadership honorees Pinny and Yael Farkas.

The 4,000 year old story of Bet El continues on Sunday, Dec. 4, when American Friends of Bet El draws Israel-boosting headliners to its 34th annual dinner at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan — former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton and Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Danny Danon.

Ken and Nira Abramowitz will be guests of honor at the gala. The Shomer Yisrael award will be presented to Marc and Alan Berger, Pinny and Yael Farkas will receive the Young Leadership award, and Larry Gordon will receive the Builder of Bet El award.

Bolton, who has been mentioned as a possible choice for secretary of state in the Trump administration, is chairman of the Gatestone Institute, an international champion of Israeli causes.

A steadfast supporter of Prime Minister Netanyahu, Bolton has said that Palestinian statehood “would inevitably lead to a terrorist state on the other side of the border with Israel.”

Danon, who previously served a member of the Knesset, has said that he has three agendas — to use the U.N. as a vehicle through which to share Israel’s technological, medical, agricultural, scientific and other gifts with the world; to vociferously fight the systemic prejudice against Israel that plagues the U.N.; and to “go on the attack” against the promotion of a boycott of Israel and incitement against the Jewish state.

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Star columnist says Bannon is no anti-Semite Jeff Dunetz politics to go

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ith the appointment of Steve Bannon to a senior position in the Trump administration, the media talons came out. The man is a white supremacist and an anti-Semite, said the critics.

The claims of anti-Semitism start with allegations made by his wife during a contentious divorce several years ago. When they considered sending their daughters to the Archer School for Girls, Bannon’s ex-wife claimed that he “went on to say the biggest problem he had with Archer is the number of Jews that attend.

He said that he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiney brats’ and that he didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews.”

They ultimately decided to send their daughters to Archer, and Bannon denies he made those statements.

Other protestations regarding the Bannon appointment claim that under Bannon, the Breitbart website had become anti-Semitic.

Keep in mind that Andrew Breitbart and his

friend Larry Solov conceived of I know Joel well enough to Breitbart News with “the aim say if he thought there was the of starting a site that would be slightest anti-Semitism coming unapologetically pro-freedom from Steve Bannon he would and pro-Israel.” It boggles the have left Breitbart a long time mind that Andrew Breitbart ago. would choose Bannon as a Also on Monday, another friend and adviser if he had Jew, David Horowitz, denied the slightest touch of anti-Semthe charge of anti-Semitism itism. against Bannon, writing: It was certainly that way “CNN, which has been parwhen I worked there and, to ticularly vicious, did a nasty atbe honest, I haven’t seen any tack on Bannon using another change from the Jewish/Israel of the thinnest reeds available: point of view. Certainly, Larry This was a headline at BreitSolov, who was the late Anbart.com calling Bill Kristol a Steve Bannon drew Breitbart’s closest friend ‘renegade Jew.’ In fact, neither and now Breitbart CEO, would Breitbart nor Bannon is remake public protestations if the Breitbart sites sponsible for that statement. A Jew is. I wrote became anti-Semitic. In fact, it was under Ban- the article, which was neither requested nor non’s tutelage that Breitbart expanded into Je- commissioned by Breitbart. And I wrote the rusalem. headline: ‘Bill Kristol, Republican Spoiler, Renn Monday morning, when the venomous egade Jew’.”

When Horowitz’s article was published, I allegations of Bannon’s anti-Semitism began to break, Joel Pollak, a senior editor referred to it as anti-Semitic “click-bait.” David at Breitbart (who I worked for at Breitbart) and and I spoke about it and agreed to disagree, an Orthodox Jew, tweeted: “I’ve worked closely but none of it reflects on Steve Bannon, the w/Steve Bannon at Breitbart. He’s an American same way that just because MSNBC has a oncepatriot who also defends Israel & has deep em- a-week Al Sharpton program, it doesn’t mean the entire network is anti-Semitic. pathy for the Jewish People.”

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Another Jew, David Goldman, a well-known economist and author, wrote a column for PJM which said in part, “I know Steve Bannon, and have had several long discussions with him about politics. Steve is fervently pro-Israel, and it is utterly ridiculous to suggest that he is anti-Semitic.”

So there you have it. Aside from statement by his ex-wife, there is nothing in the public record showing Steve Bannon to be an antiSemite. There are no anti-Semitic incidents, no complaints by Jewish employees, etc.

One would think that a guy who spent ten years in the Navy, had a senior position at Goldman Sachs, and ran Breitbart (which employs many Jews) might have had at least one slip-up — but nothing! If Bannon is such a big Jew-hater, why can’t I find anything?

I didn’t write much for Breitbart after Andrew passed, therefore I never met Bannon.

But based on the evidence, to this particular Jew who is a former Breitbart writer, the claims that Bannon is an anti-Semite is what we call in the mamma loshen, bik drek.

As Joel Pollak said on CNN Monday evening, “the worst thing Steve Bannon has done is win the White House.” And that really seems to be what is animating the witchhunt against Bannon — the impotent rage of those who wanted “anyone but Trump.”

Jeff Dunetz: Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

Key decisions facing President-Elect Trump Ben Cohen Viewpoint

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onald Trump is now America’s master. As improbable as that outcome might seem to metropolitan Americans, it is actually quite consistent with the pattern of politics during the last decade. Many of Trump’s fundamental beliefs — his aversion to foreign engagements, his portrait of long-standing American allies as free-loaders, his deferential attitude towards Russian President Vladimir Putin — have been on prominent display during President Obama’s two terms.

Since politics is never smooth and is chockfull of unintended consequences, the election of a man without experience in government, the military, the judiciary, or public service is

not as outlandish as it first may seem, once you consider the context. Indeed, the absence of such experience made Trump more appealing to the masses who turned out to vote for him.

No one should be under any illusions that Trump will follow through on the promise to unite this fractured country that he made during his victory speech, if only because his supporters won’t let him. Understandably, Trump’s loudest cheerleaders are looking forward to a long period of gloating, and he won’t let them down. The gutter politics and semi-literate screeds that have defined pro-Trump media outlets like Breitbart are now standing at the doors of the White House. The political consequences can, at this stage, only be imagined.

I am not, therefore, going to gaze into a crystal ball and predict the future. But I will identify a few general trends that should be of concern to all Americans, regardless of how we voted.

The political center is dead

Under Obama, confidence and pride in liberal democracy as the best form of government eroded dramatically. Trump is a product of that negativity. The Republicans are now a populist party and there is every reason to suspect that the Democrats will follow suit by shifting further left.

Grievance-based identity politics, not rational debate, will determine the desirability of policies both domestic and foreign. Don’t be surprised if these transformations sometimes generate points of consensus; the extremes of left and right have a great deal in common when it comes to trade deals, economic protectionism, and foreign policy. It’s why many supporters of Clinton’s socialist rival Sen. Bernie Sanders helped secure Trump’s victories in states like Michigan and Pennsylvania.

The effects of globalization are more persistent than you think Five years ago, it was the Occupy Wall Street movement that was railing against fi-

nancial markets, international banks, and the free flow of capital across borders. That turf now belongs firmly to president-elect Trump.

The reaction of those markets to his poll triumph, a panic far greater than that produced by the United Kingdom’s Brexit vote earlier this year, portend what lies are ahead over the next four years. Reversing the effects of globalization will not to be achieved without significant pain, assuming it can be achieved at all. Trump is banking, probably correctly, that many American voters will interpret any future economic recession as a war between their president and the global financial elites that he denounced in his last campaign ads. In other words, an economic crisis will work to Trump’s political advantage, at least in the medium-term future.

Our world will be defined by spheres of influence Donald Trump wants to insulate America from the threats to the homeland posed by See Decisions for Trump on page 27

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amously, last week’s Torah portion, Lech Lecha” (ranslated “Go To Yourself”) speaks of journeys. Specifically, Abraham’s journey. He was called upon by G-d, and he responded.

When one thinks of the essence of Abraham, it is emunah (faith) that comes to mind. Among Abraham’s stellar attributes, such as extending himself in hospitality in service of the other, audacious prayer on behalf of those whose lives are threatened, devotion to G-d’s will by undergoing a painful bris, and so much more, somehow faith seems to be his overriding quality.

Even when all the odds were stacked against him, Abraham stubbornly and faithfully believed.

When he and his wife are past childbearing years, even though the core of the covenant with which G-d earlier blessed him was that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky and the sand on the shoreline, Abraham doesn’t budge. This blessing, this promise, flew in the face of reality, yet Abraham persisted in his faith and in his way of chesed (kindness).

Biblical commentator Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch etymologically links the word emunah (faith) to the word for artist or sculptor (oman). When there are moments that try our belief, our emunah, the idea is to dig deep and find the oman, the artist or sculptor, within ourselves.

Faith is not a static thing. Rather, like an artist, there is an art of faithfulness. Like an artist molds, shapes, builds and often beautifies the world, so does our faith.

What will the texture, the aesthetic, the art form of your faith look like? How will you merge and mobilize your omanut (artistry) to be one with your emunah (faith)?

In fact, this challenge is encoded within Abraham’s very name. He is referred to as “Abram the Ivri.” The Talmud asks, why the appellation “Ivri”? According to Rabbi Judah, it is because

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“the world stands on one ever, one bank of the river, while Abraham stands on the other.” braham stood alone. This is the quality of the descendants of Abraham. He withstood the loneliness of faith. A contrarian, he challenged the status quo of the masses of his time. He was unafraid, and unwilling to blindly follow. He challenged what he saw and blazed a path on one side of the world, while the rest of humanity remained on the other side.

In face of this solitary experience, from where did Abraham draw the strength? He gave himself over to faith. To, as Rabbi Hirsch says, becoming an artist of faith.

Sometimes sticking to your principles means standing me-ever, “on the other side,” standing alone.

Sometimes it feels like the world is on one side of the bank of a river, and you, solitary, are on the other side.

That is part of our spiritual legacy from Abraham. In such moments, encountered in a society that might feel estranged from our values, we excavate the deepest recesses of ourselves, and move forward, guided by that unique dimension of faith.

The Talmud says: A person who utters amen upon hearing someone else recite a blessing is considered greater than the one who uttered the blessing itself.

“Amen” is emunah. Amen is affirmation.

Amen is reaching inside with ongoing faith, despite hardships or harsh realities that seem to contradict what is right in the world. Amen is the artistry of faithfully molding and sculpting the world around us, especially while one might experience the loneliness of me-ever, of being on the other side, alone.

This is Abraham. Faithful and unflappable in his course and calling to influence and be of service to the world.

I went to cheer some runners at the New York Marathon. Parodying the famous Star Wars line, “May The Force Be With You,” a Tshirt flew by with the words, “May The Course Be With You.” Even when he was alone on the other side, Abraham stayed the course.

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abraham stood alone, as do his descendants.

Benjamin Netanyahu will be warm and productive. But I fear that Trump’s lack of experience and admiration for Putin will be a major risk should Israel be dragged into a destructive war with the terrorists of Hezbollah, for example. Ditto with the Iran nuclear deal, where any pushback by the new administration will at some point have to confront opposition from Putin, who is aligned with the Iranians and the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

Even more fundamentally, a Trump embrace of Israel may gravely deepen the divide among American Jews and make it infinitely harder to sustain support for Israel as a bipartisan principle. A situation in which opposition to Israel is an integral component of the opposition to Trump should not be welcomed by anyone who cares about American-Israeli relations.

These are the realities that, when the gloating stops, Trump and his acolytes will have to deal with. Let us hope, however forlornly, that wisdom will be their guide.

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Continued from page 26 the outside world. His clean sweep will likely ensure that he has legislative backing to take radical measures on preventing immigration and tightening America’s external borders.

These measures will be part of a new international consensus that divides the world into spheres of influence — something that Putin understands well. The consequences will be profound.

We are already seeing the manifestations in Europe, where established political parties are giving way to insurgents on left and right in places like Poland, Hungary, Greece, Spain, and the U.K. Don’t be surprised if Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s historically fascist National Front political party, moves into the Elysee Palace after the elections next year.

It is this environment that will be the critical determinant of how America engages with Israel and the Middle East during the next four years. There are good reasons to be confident that, at least initially, relations between Trump and the Israeli government of Prime Minister

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A history lesson was presented at Sunday’s annual commemoration of the yahrtzeit of Rachel imeinu, organized by Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation at the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center.

The keynote speaker, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, discussed “Roots and Redemption.” Dr. Alexander Gelman spoke about linking today’s Jews with their ancestors through the tracing of DNA. IDF Sgt. David Haies gave a look at the life of an American turned Israeli soldier, and his experiences in the Gaza and Lebanon

Gelman, PhD., who discussed Jewish Ancestry and DNA; Rabbi Yaakov D. Cohen, Breaking the Silence Award; Evelyn Haies, founder and president of Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation; Councilman Chaim Deutsch; Cantor David Presler; Sgt. David Haies, Lone Soldier, IDF Givati Unit.

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wars. Manhattan Beach Councilman Chaim Deutsch also spoke.

Rebbetzin Henny Machlis z”l was posthumously awarded the Rachel Imeinu Actualist honor, memorialized by her niece Esti Dershowitz. Robin Ticker, co-president of Brooklyn American Friends for a Safe Israel, accepted the Memorial Recognition Award for super-activist Charlotte Wahle z”l.

Writing contest winners Sarah Scop and Kayla Wolpin were presented the “Good Deeds Matter” award by Malky Grunwald, the 2007 Actualist awardee. The theme of

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Rabbi Yaakov Cohen was honored with the Breaking the Silence Award. Tanya Sarah Sheivester received the Young Leadership Award, presented by Tiferet Levy.

The evening was hosted by the organization’s founder and president, Evelyn Haies, and by Dr. Paul Brody, master of ceremonies.

Chazan David Presler provided a musical interlude, singing Evelyn Haies’ latest song, Shira B’Shelach (Song of the Sea).

Continued from page 21 ways,” he said. “When you’re sitting around the seder table with a book, what’s the most logical way to bring the story to life? Using a modern medium that also happens to be one Jews created.”

Like many Jewish conventions, this one couldn’t help getting snarled in the thorniest of Jewish debates. At a panel on Jewish characters in comics, the discussion opened by asking who, exactly, counts as a Jewish character.

“If you have one [Jewish] parent and identify as Jewish, you have a lot of characters, including the third Robin,” shouted someone in the audience, referring to Batman’s sidekick.

The man was seated, along with a few others, on a repurposed synagogue pew, while most of the audience of several dozen people sat on folding chairs.

On the walls, presenters at the conference advertised comic art for auction, with the proceeds going to the synagogue. One panel had a drawing of the Star Wars villain Darth Vader saying the Hebrew word for “repentance.”

While Sunday’s gathering was a far cry from the largest comic cons, in a certain sense, said artist Dean Haspiel, it was the most appropriate feel for the genre. While Marvel and DC Comics films are booming, he said, comic book artists — like Jews — remain a small community invested in its tradition.

“Even though comic books have become popular in movies and costumes, the actual comic book is becoming like a rare breed,” Haspiel said. “What I admire about the Jewish people that were here, they have each other’s backs through thick and thin, and that’s the same way we feel as cartoonists.”

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in Crown Heights with was born in Brooklyn and raised Bais Rivka and her brother and six sisters. She attended office assistant everyhas been, since graduating, the

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:

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.

Eliyahu had to “My son Josh remembers all the times as the Rabbi stood pick up Rabbi Raskin on his shoulders crazy faces. As for and waved his arms and Eliyahu made cheesecake assistant, me, I remember Eliyahu as my best in Shternie’s kitchen. baking cheesecakes for Shavuoth for the crust.”

He smashed the graham crackers Heights, on The couple will be residing in Brooklyn Clinton Street.

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