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Kushners aid Jewish causes in Israel, U.S.

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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA ATHENS — Amid preparations for her wedding 12 years ago, Errika Abouaf was happy to skip the mikvah, where Jewish brides traditionally undergo immersion before marrying in an Orthodox ceremony.

Her excuse for opting out was that her tiny Jewish community of Larissa in northern Greece has no mikvah.

“But it’s also because I didn’t feel like doing it,” said Abouaf, who now lives in Athens with her son and husband. “I felt an aversion of some kind.”

It’s a common sentiment in a country where 87 percent of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. Members of Greece’s present-day Jewish community of 5,000 perceives its Jewish identity as mostly cultural and independent to religion, community leaders say.

But Abouaf changed her outlook last year after visiting a mikvah for the first See Birthright on page 8

Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump in September 2015. Bobby Bank/WireImage/GettyImages

Jared Kushner, wife Ivanka Trump and their three children — Arabella, 5, Joseph, 3, and 8-month-old Theodore — are planning to move from New York to Washington.

The New York Post reported that while where they would reside was unclear, “the Orthodox Jewish pair may choose to be in Georgetown, within walking distance of the Kesher Israel synagogue, or in the Maryland suburbs of Silver Spring, Rockville or Potomac, where there are plenty of Orthodox synagogues.”

Bibi anticipates Trump talk WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said he is looking forward to speaking to Donald Trump about what to do about the “bad” Iran deal once Trump is president.

In remarks on Sunday by satellite feed to the annual Saban Forum, Netanyahu reverted to tough pre-deal rhetoric.

“I opposed the deal because it doesn’t prevent

Iran from getting nuclear weapons, it paves the way for Iran getting nuclear weapons,” he said.

Since the pact was reached, and Obama defeated efforts in Congress to kill it in September 2015, Israel and other opponents have emphasized enforcing the deal as opposed to killing it outright. Netanyahu’s defense minister, Avigdor See Bibi anticipation on page 8

2 states? Fuggedaboutit, Oren says Member of Knesset Michael Oren (Kulanu), the deputy minister for diplomacy in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, said Monday that the forthcoming Trump administration “spells the end of the two-state solution.”

Oren’s comments came during a gathering of international press in Jerusalem at the Jewish Media Summit, which was organized by the Israeli Government Press Office, the Ministry of Diaspora, and the Foreign Ministry. (For more on the summit, see page 17.)

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The charitable foundation of the parents of Jared Kushner, son-in-law of Presidentelect Donald Trump, has been generous to a wide range of Jewish institutions in Israel and America, the Haaretz newspaper reported this week.

Tax forms for 2010–14 show that the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation has given a few million dollars a year to charitable causes, with an average donation of between $5,000 and $10,000, Haaretz said.

Jared and his three siblings sit on the foundation’s board.

In 2014, the foundation pledged $18 million to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, in addition to $2 million it had committed earlier. It contributed $250,000 to the Ramaz School on the Upper East Side, which is attended by the children of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

The foundation pledged $315,000 over the course of three years to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

Among other Israeli institutions supported by the foundation are the United Hatzalah rescue service, $70,000; Maayanei Yeshua Hospital, $25,000; Rabin Medical Center, $23,000; the Shalva Children’s Center in Jerusalem, $20,000; the Israel Cancer Research Fund, $10,000; Meir Panim Lachayal, which supports Israeli soldiers, $4,000; the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, $2,500, and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, $1,000.

Among organizations and institutions in See Kushners on page 8

Lapid, and Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) — answered questions from Israeli and foreign journalists during separate sessions.

Bennett and Oren, Israel’s former U.S. ambassador, were asked what the Trump administration would mean for Israel.

Oren said “we don’t know entirely, we see possibilities … possibly moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem … the will to stand up to the Iranians.” Oren added that President Obama and President-elect Trump share similar policies on “America’s place in the See States on page 8

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Hashem’s lesson in sleep, through Yaakov avinu Rabbi binny FReedman The hearT of jerusalem

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ivil War General William Tecumseh Sherman said, “War is Hell.” But what exactly makes war “hell”? Sometimes the devil is in the details, and one aspect of military operations that does not get its due is pure exhaustion. It is hard to describe what it feels like to be expected to go on, after two and even three days with no sleep, when all you want to do is curl up on the ground and close your eyes but you can’t.

In Lebanon, I waited for terrorists who might come out of the darkness at any moment, desperately trying to keep my eyes from closing, with the only thing keeping me awake the fear of being asleep and caught by surprise in an attack.

Sleep. Why do we need it so? Why did Hashem (G-d) make it such an integral part of the human experience?

There is a fascinating detail in this week’s parsha, Vayetze, that is often overlooked. Yaakov, in last week’s portion, Toldot, is described as the “Ish tam Yoshev Ohalim” (the dweller of tents) (Bereishit 25:27). Rashi explains that Yaakov is naïve, unfamiliar with the ways of the world. In contrast to his brother, Esau the hunter, Yaakov is the innocent and passive son, a “mama’s boy” (the parsha begins with Yaakov fleeing his home before the wrath of Esau whom he [really his mother?] has deceived).

And yet, as Vayetze unfolds, Yaakov seems to come of age, rolling boulders off of wells, tricking the master con artist Lavan, and win-

ning his bride, his beloved Rachel, in the process.

What happened? Rashi also points out (ibid.) that Yaakov’s “tents” are actually the yeshiva tents of Shem and Ever, even noting (ibid. 28:9), based on 14 years that seem to be missing in the Torah’s chronology of Yaakov’s life, that Yaakov spent 14 years studying in the fabled yeshiva (Yeshivat Shem ve’Ever) where the select few studied monotheism and existential philosophy with Shem, the legendary son of Noach.

How did the dweller of tents immersed in Torah and living in the intellectual ivory tower (today’s equivalent of Harvard and Yale) come to be a hero and warrior? hen Yaakov leaves Beer Sheva, according to the midrash (see Rashi ibid.

29:11 ) he is accosted by Esau’s son Eliphaz who threatens to kill him until Yaakov succeeds in averting disaster by giving Eliphaz all his worldly possessions. His only solution seems to be to avoid conflict; he takes the passive route, which fits the character of the Yaakov we have come to know.

When seeking the blessings from his father Yitzchak, Yaakov does not confront Esau, rather deceiving him with his mother’s help. And yet, a short while later (ibid. 29:1-11), when arriving at the well on the outskirts of Haran where he will encounter his future father-inlaw, the cunning Lavan, Yaakov becomes larger than life, confronting the shepherds and rolling a massive boulder off the well!

How did this transformation come to be?

What happened in between Yaakov’s departure from his childhood home (and midrashically from the house of study) and his arrival at the well in Haran?

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he only real action Yaakov takes between leaving Beer Sheva and arriving in Haran is to fall asleep! The Torah, which does not normally pay attention to such details, takes the time to note that Yaakov arrives at “the place” (ibid. 28: 11) and sleeps there because the sun has set.

This, it seems, is no ordinary nap. Yaakov here has his famous dream of a ladder with angels and has a deep spiritual encounter with G-d who then promises that Yaakov will one day return to inherit the land (Israel) on which he lies.

Incredibly, though aroused from his slumber (ibid. v. 16), declaring his realization that he is in “the place of G-d,” he actually goes back to sleep! Only in the morning (ibid. v. 18), will he build an altar, subsequently continuing on his journey to Haran and the encounter with the shepherds at the well.

Why is his sleep important? The Torah could easily have told us that Yaakov encountered G-d, or even had a dream, from which we would have deduced that he slept. As an example, when G-d first comes to Avraham (ibid.

12:1) there is no mention of whether Avraham was awake or in a dream; a pattern that repeats itself throughout the encounters Avraham and Yitzchak have with G-d. (ibid. 15:1; G-d comes to Avraham in “a vision” but it does not say whether he was awake or asleep.)

So why is it so important here? Why the emphasis on Yaakov sleeping? What indeed is sleep all about? o how do you stay awake through the long dark hours of an all-night ambush in the middle of Lebanon after a harrowing day of patrols and almost no sleep? We got orders over the radio to proceed to a specific site where I was to lay down an ambush as we had received “highly reli-

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able intel” that terrorists would be coming through the valley below. I was given a new squad from our platoon as we had been on duty for 12 hours, but due to a shortage of officers I could not be relieved.

Our company commander specifically asked me: “Are you up to this?” My response: “Of course.” I was an idiot. And I kept telling myself I was an idiot for not begging off the mission as I lay there in the darkness desperately trying every trick I could think of to keep my eyes open.

And then I thought of Bahamdoun.

On Sept. 3, 1982, eight IDF soldiers were given orders to man a small outpost on a hill in Ba’hamdoun, in Lebanon. They were exhausted and they fell asleep, awakened by Haleem Ismaeel, right-hand man of Abu Jihad who surprised them with a small force of PLO fighters. They surrendered without a fight and all eight men were taken prisoner and held as POW’s for over a year until six were released in November 1983. Two of them were only released in 1985 in the Jibril exchange.

The thought of being a POW sent a chill down my spine and my imagination did the rest; I managed to stay awake through what, thank G-d, proved to be an uneventful night.

Settling into the back of the armored personnel carrier that transported us the 20 minutes back to base and commanded by a different officer, I could finally trust that it was safe to fall asleep. leep is about many things; it’s a healthy reminder that we are not invincible, and it’s a chance to recharge and reboot. But it’s also about trust. You finally fall asleep when you trust that you, and more importantly that your men or those you love, are safe.

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This story, in which people lost their homes, an artist’s life’s work of 40 years went up in flames, and people ran for their lives, has been largely absent from the general media. Its glaring omission speaks volumes.

After learning of the arson behind many of the fires, probably the greatest arson terrorist attack in history, it was hard for me to find appreciation in my heart for the PA firefighters who came and helped.

The metaphor of Solomon’s justice was put forward by many. Just as King Solomon identified a baby’s authentic mother by her refusal to have the baby hurt — even to the point of giving the child up as long as it remained intact — similarly, the thought went, does the burning of the land prove or rather disprove the Palestinians claim of ownership to the land of Israel. You simply don’t burn your own home.

I nodded approvingly at the thought of this biblical metaphor, a metaphor I used in this column a number of years ago to make a similar point.

At the news of the PA sending in help, I thought to myself: Incite people to violence, incite people to knifings, incite people to burning the land, and then we’re supposed to be feel grateful when the PA sends in help to put out the disaster they indirectly had a hand in creating?

These were my very initial reactions.

But then I heard of all the Arab villages and villagers — not official PA representatives with possibly cynical public relations motives, but ordinary people who opened their homes to strangers in their hour of need. Villages near the famously mixed Jewish-ChristianMuslim city of Haifa. And most notably, the Arab village of Abu Ghosh, just outside of Jerusalem. Then I thought differently.

We can all plan and lock away our copies of documents protected by computer software. But at the end of the day, we are all still just people, vulnerable to the elements of nature. Personally, I am old school. Most of my notes, recipes, drafts and thoughts are handwritten. I am one of those who could lose everything in a fire.

And when so many people did, others came out to help bind the wounds of those in need. he outpouring was so great that the Haifa municipality instructed the public: No more donations. The municipality was overflowing with electrical appliances, clothes and furniture.

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There’s still the West Bank Jewish communities of Neve Tsuf and Talmon, and Beit Meir, near Jerusalem, that need help.

Some people will literally need to start over from scratch.

Ynet reported on a 78-year-old Holocaust survivor, Abigail Ben Nun, who fled Belgium on the cusp of WW II: “She returned to her home in Halamish to discover that it had been incinerated in one of the fires investigators say was started by arsonists. ‘My goodness. All my money and success, my pictures and notes from my mother — everything gone. But at least we are alive’.”

Israeli photographers are volunteering their services to photograph families and help them start collecting family portraits and memories anew. A organization called MOED is focusing on collecting donations, specifically warm blankets for the now tens of thousands in need of new ones just as winter is upon us.

In our day-to-day lives, when we think of fire, we think of warmth, of cooking, of comfort, of glowing Shabbat candles and spreading light. But of course fire can also be a destructive force. Around this same time several years ago, Carmel — a place of strong biblical associations with Elijah’s fires, as well as his fiery personality — lost so many trees to the fires.

The terrorist element of these fires is obviously very serious. They must be addressed for the heinous acts they are.

But within this terrible attack, let us also not look away from the good people, the “anashim tovim be-emtsa ha-derech,” as Naomi Shemer wrote, who came out and helped.

In that spirit, I humbly suggest that on the upcoming Jewish holiday of Tu b’Shevat, next Feb. 11, perhaps some of these good Palestinian people who helped out can join Israelis in planting new trees in the soil of the land of Israel, as is customary on this holiday.

Granted, Tu b’Shevat is a Jewish holiday. But perhaps this gesture can symbolically serve to repair the tremendously painful damage that has been incurred.

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With ‘Birthright,’ it’s no longer ‘Greek’ to them…

Continued from page 1 time in Israel as part of the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project. The group, founded in 2008, runs subsidized, weeklong trips to Israel that aim to bring non-observant Diaspora women closer to Jewish practice — a so-called “Birthright for moms.” Thousands of women have participated in the trips, with each one bringing together about 400 women.

“The trip changed me and my fear of Judaism,” Abouaf said.

The excursions are popular in Jewish communities from Sydney to San Francisco for what participants describe as a bonding and empowering experience for women — not to mention the welcome break it provides from the grinding routine of parenting.

But they seem to have a particularly strong effect on women from small, crisis-stricken communities where mothers face a growing uncertainty over the viability of raising their children as Jews.

“Turkish Jews don’t have many options to choose from for Israel trips; this is not New York,” said Suzette, a mother of two and an organizer of Renaissance trips in Istanbul, who requested her last name be withheld for security reasons. “When we do go to Israel, it’s for family visits. A group visit to Israel, to really connect to the country, is very rare and meaningful.”

Abouaf visited Israel last year as one of 15 Greek participants in a Renaissance trip with women from several countries. She had visited Israel twice before but saw little of the country, as both trips were to undergo training for her volunteer position as a Jewish community guard. The Western Wall brought her to tears, but the hugs from other women in her group proved no less powerful.

“They didn’t ask what’s wrong, just hugged all the time that day,” Abouaf recalled.

In addition to connecting to Jewish sites and traditions, Abouaf said she was also scoping out the country as a possible alternative to Greece, where rising political extremism and the lingering effects of a financial crisis are major concerns.

According to a 2015 Anti-Defamation League survey, Greece is the most anti-Semitic country in Europe, with 67 percent of the population harboring anti-Semitic sentiments. It is also the only European country with a far-right party, Golden Dawn, whose rhetoric echoes that of Nazi Germany.

Golden Dawn, whose flag features a variant of the swastika against a red background, has 18 seats among the 300 in the Greek parliament, and its leaders have inveighed against Jews. The party’s main spokesman, Ilias Kassidiaris, sports a swastika tattoo, and Christos Pappas, the second highest-ranking

This Greek delegation to the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project visited Jerusalem in 2015.

official, said in 2014 that Greeks are the “eternal enemies” of Israel.

“I don’t see a future for Elias here,” said Abouaf of her 10-year-old son, who attends the only Jewish school in this city, the Greek capital. “When I was in Israel with the Renaissance project, I was looking at the country for the first time to see whether I could live there, what would my family do here.”

Lori Palatnik, the founding director of the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project, said the trips play a vital role in supporting communities facing rising anti-Jewish sentiment.

“Bringing women from countries like Turkey and Greece, which struggle with renewed anti-Semitism, is critical in keeping the strength of those Jewish communities alive,” Palatnik said.

The trip is designed primarily for women who do not observe Shabbat, though some participants said their application was approved even though they do observe. Most participants are not observant and the project, which has ties to the Jewish outreach organization Aish Hatorah, aims to bring that group closer to Judaism, organizers said.

In Greece, the project is run by Nechama Hendel, a France-born emissary of Chabad who recently participated, along with Abouaf and several other women, in a bread-baking festival in Athens. The women prepared challah that they learned to make during a workshop in Israel.

“Everyone from the Turkish Jewish community has been to Israel, but rarely in a group,” said Betty, one of two volunteers who helped organize the trips in Turkey. “We don’t have the wealth of study groups, missions and delegations to Israel that go to Isra-

On a Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project trip, Greek women bake challahs in Jerusalem.

el from America. So this is a rare opportunity for us to strengthen our attachment both to Israel and among ourselves.”

Betty and Suzette are unusual in their community because, unlike most Turkish Jews, they observe the Sabbath. Still, the trip to Israel strengthened Suzette’s resolve to observe the day of rest despite the temptation to violate religious laws by watching television or driving a car.

Trips to Israel are an expensive treat for the Jews of Turkey, where the average monthly salary is only $430. All expenses for the Renaissance trips are covered except for

Kushners… Bibi anticipation…

Continued from page 1 Judea and Samaria that have received Kushner funds are the American Friends of Beit El Yeshiva ($20,000 in 2013); the Etzion Foundation, which supports Yeshivat Har Etzion, Kibbutz Migdal Oz and the Herzog College teachers’ training institution, all located in the Gush Etzion bloc ($15,000), and Ohr Torah Stone, headquartered in Efrat ($5,000).

The foundation also supports American Jewish organizations including day schools, charities and cultural centers, according to Haaretz. Among its contributions are $30,000 to Chabad institutiutions and $20,000 to Kehillat Jeshurun, a Modern Orthodox shul on the Upper East Side that Jared and Ivanka attend. — with JTA

Continued from page 1 Liberman, when he addressed the Saban Forum on Friday night, avoided saying he wanted the deal killed and instead focused on enforcement.

Netanyahu’s reverting to decrying the deal as not merely flawed but inherently dangerous signals that his hopes to scuttle it have revived.

Trump has said the deal is a bad one, but has stopped short of saying he will pull out of it.

Netanyahu at Saban refused to count out a military strike against Iran as a means of stopping it from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

“I mean Israel is committed, and when I say we’re committed, we’re committed” to keeping Iran from getting nuclear weapons, Netanyahu said, when pressed by Haim Saban, the IsraeliAmerican entertainment mogul who funds the

flights.

The trips for Jews in “smaller Jewish communities like Greece and Turkey have the potential to affect their future dramatically,” said Dvir Kahana, director general of Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, which helps fund the trips.

Aware of the “big challenge to maintain Jewish life outside Israel and especially in small communities,” he said, Israel is “proud to give women from different backgrounds and places this remarkable opportunity to strengthen their Jewish identity ... [and] transfer this to their children.”

forum, on whether he would use military force.

Netanyahu said he was not concerned that Trump would diminish the U.S. role abroad. “He has a clear vision of America’s role and dominance in the world,” he said.

Also appearing at the Saban Forum was John Kerry, the outgoing U.S. secretary of state.

Asked if the Obama administration would, in its final weeks, back a U.N. Security Council resolution outlining the parameters of a final-status arrangement with the Palestinians, Kerry would not rule it out.

“If it is a biased and unfair and a resolution calculated to delegitimize Israel, we’ll oppose it,” he said, which left room to back resolutions that the U.S. would say it does not regard as biased.

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Continued from page 1 world,” noting that Trump favors isolationism.

“The advent of the Trump administration spells the end of the twostate solution,” Oren said.

Bennett said that with a Republican in the White House, Israel will set the course in its relationship with America.

“The question is not Donald Trump, it’s Benjamin Netanyahu and what the prime minister will ask for,” Bennet said, calling it a “oncein-a-generation opportunity” to work with a Republican U.S. president as well as Republican majorities in the House and Senate. — JNS.org

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fter years of silence, the Obama administration has finally spoken out about an American citizen who was killed in Israel.

There’s just one catch. The focus of the administration’s sudden concern is not one of the 141 Americans who have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists. It’s a Palestinian-American terrorist who tried to murder Israelis.

On Feb. 26, Mahmoud Shalan, a Palestinian with U.S. citizenship, attempted to stab Israeli soldiers to death at a security checkpoint near Ramallah. The soldiers shot in self-defense, wounding Shalan. Israel Defense Forces doctors and Magen David Adom emergency response personnel administered first aid to the terrorist, but he died of his wounds.

The U.S. Embassy in Israel demanded that the Israeli government launch a full-scale probe of the Shalan incident — but did not demand that the Palestinian Authority investigate why Shalan, a resident of PA territory, was trying to murder Israelis. Nor do I recall the U.S. embassy ever urging the PA to investigate when its own policemen have murdered American citizens in Israel.

The embassy’s concerns are quite selective.

Well, the Israeli government did conduct an investigation. The conclusions were straightforward. The Israeli Military Advocate General reported to the Obama administration that Shalan tried to commit murder and the soldiers were justified to shoot back. Therefore, the soldiers were not prosecuted.

Nevertheless, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs Anne Patterson asserted this week that the Obama administration “continues to have concerns about the death of this American citizen.” She vowed that the administration “will remain engaged with the government of Israel on this issue.”

Instead of expressing “concern” and threatening to “remain engaged” over the death of a terrorist, perhaps the administration should be showing some concern and engagement about the American victims of the terrorists.

At least 141 U.S. citizens have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists since the 1960s.

Yet the U.S. government has never asked the PA to extradite any of the terrorists for prosecution — even though many of the killers have been identified by name (by the Israeli government), and some are even serving in the PA police or security forces.

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terror victims on efforts to bring about the prosecution of the terrorists. Earlier this year, Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), chairman of the national security subcommittee of the House Oversight Committee, said at a congressional hearing that the OVT has “completely failed” to carry out its responsibilities. he Obama administration has a “Rewards for Justice” website that offers rewards for information leading to the capture of terrorists who have killed Americans abroad. The website almost completely ignores the Palestinian issue; it does not mention the names of the victims of the Palestinians. Only two of the many dozens of such attacks are even described.

Moreover, the website categorizes all Palestinian attacks under the misleading label of “Violence in Opposition to the Middle East Peace Negotiations” — with no acknowledgment that many of the attacks were sponsored by the PA itself, despite the PA’s alleged interest in Mideast peace negotiations.

Arnold Roth, the father of murdered teenager (and U.S. citizen) Malky Roth, testified at that congressional hearing. He said that one of his daughter’s killers, Ahlam Tamimi, is now the host of a Hamas-sponsored television show in Jordan, on which Tamimi has repeatedly boasted of her terrorist actions.

Rep. DeSantis turned to Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brad Wiegmann, who attended the hearing on behalf of the Obama administration, and asked, “What exactly is the Department of Justice planning to do about this terrorist who has the television show in Jordan?” Not surprisingly, Wiegmann was unable to provide a coherent answer to that question. o here we have four concrete steps the Obama administration could take, if it wasn’t so busy worrying about the death of a Palestinian-American terrorist: (1) Demand that Jordan extradite Ahlam Tamimi; (2) Demand that the PA surrender other Palestinians who have murdered Americans; (3) Offer rewards for the capture of Palesinian killers of Americans; (4) Keep victims’ families informed and updated on efforts to bring the killers to justice.

When Barack Obama first ran for president in 2008, he promised to bring about “fundamental transformations.” I don’t think any of us imagined he would try to transform a terrorist into a victim. But by refusing to take any steps to prosecute Palestinian killers of Americans, and instead going to bat for a Palestinian-American terrorist who tried to kill Israelis, Obama is doing just that.

Attorney Stephen M. Flatow is vice president of the Religious Zionists of America and the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iraniansponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.

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By Ron Kampeas, JTA WASHINGTON — Haim Saban, a major Democratic Party funder, said Rep. Keith Ellison’s election as chairman of the Democratic National Committee would be a “disaster” for the relationship between Jews and the party, signaling a looming crisis between the party’s progressives and the centrist pro-Israel community.

The scathing broadside delivered Friday by the Israeli-American entertainment mogul underscores the degree to which the Minnesota congressman’s campaign for DNC chief could erode relations between establishment Jewish groups and the party.

Additionally, the release Friday of the full transcript of remarks Ellison delivered in 2010 at a fundraiser organized by Muslim backers, in which he derides Israel as seeing the United States as an ATM, was likely to exacerbate establishment Jewish concerns about Ellison.

“If you listen to Keith Ellison today, and you see his statements he’s more of a Zionist than Herzl and Ben Gurion and Begin combined,” Saban said during the gala dinner at the annual Saban Forum, an event that brings together U.S. and Israeli leaders and influencers, organized by the Brookings Institution which he funds.

“It’s amazing, it’s a beautiful thing. If you go back to his positions, his statements, his speeches, the way’s he voted, he’s clearly an anti-Semite and anti-Israel individual.”

Saban seemed eager to get his thoughts on Ellison off his chest; he was given the courtesy of posing the first question to the evening’s speaker, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, but instead delivered his statement lambasting Ellison.

“Words matter, actions matter more,” Saban said, a baffled Liberman looking on. “Keith Ellison would be a disaster for the relationship

Haim Saban addresses the Saban Forum last FriSaban Forum day in Washington.

Rep. Keith Ellison at a news conference at the National Press Club on May 24. Chip Somodevilla/Getty

between the Jewish community and the Democratic Party. Now, I’ve said what I’ve had to say.”

Saban’s broadside — farther reaching, in calling him an “anti-Semite,” than even some of Ellison’s conservative critics — is significant because of the mogul’s relationship to the DNC. Saban was a leading backer of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee defeated last month by Donald Trump, but he has also been a major donor to the party. In 2002, he paid $7 million toward the building of the then-new DNC headquarters here.

Ellison has rallied progressive groups to his defense, including within the Jewish community.

“It is time to retire the playbook that aims to silence any American official seeking high

office who has dared to criticize certain Israeli government policies,” said a statement Friday from J Street, which noted it was not endorsing Ellison for the DNC spot.

Even before the results are known, the DNC contest is fraying ties between the Jewish organizational establishment and the party that were already thinned by last year’s contentious battle between the Israeli and American governments over the Iran deal and years of tensions under President Barack Obama over Israel’s settlement policies.

Ellison has come under fire in part because, in his youth, he was an activist with the Nation of Islam and defended some black nationalists who had hostile relationships with the Jewish community.

Running for Congress in 2006, he wrote a letter to the Minneapolis Jewish community apologizing for those associations. He has since enjoyed friendly relations with his state’s Jews.

Ellison went further Friday in an op-ed for the Washington Post in berating his younger self.

“These men organize by sowing hatred and division, including anti-Semitism, homophobia and a chauvinistic model of manhood,” he said. “I should have listened more and talked less.”

Since his election to Congress, however, he also has become a sharp critic of some Israeli actions that have earned him alliances among liberal Jewish groups like J Street, but the wariness of mainstream pro-Israel groups.

He spearheaded a letter in 2009 urging the Obama administration to press Israel to loosen restrictions on the Gaza Strip, where the Hamas terrorist group governs.

Ellison led an effort to have Congress consider parts of the U.N. Goldstone report, which said Israel may have committed war crimes in the 2009 Gaza War. Much of Congress, as well as the centrist and right-wing pro-Israel community, said the report was biased beyond redemption.

In 2014, he was one of just eight Congress members who refused to vote for additional funding for Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system during that summer’s Gaza War, saying he preferred to agitate for a cease-fire.

Ellison also has led efforts to promote recognition of Israel and rejection of Holocaust denial among Muslims, and is eager to take into account all points of view on the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. He has reliably supported defense assistance for Israel.

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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.”

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New at YU: High-level Talmud for HS girls A new initiative from Yeshiva University’s Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies (GPATS) will provide opportunities for local high school girls to engage in high-level Judaic studies with the support and mentorship of GPATS students and faculty.

Called “Sunday Night Learning: Empowered by GPATS,” the program will feature a series of events that are open to female students at any high school.

Each event will begin with a dinner and chavruta learning with current students in GPATS, a program designed to provide young women with opportunities to immerse themselves in post-graduate study of Judaic topics. The learning will be followed by advanced shiurim from GPATS and YU faculty on topics that range from Tanach to gemara and Jewish philosophy.

The first event of the series will take place from 7 to 9 pm on Sunday, Dec. 18, at Bais Medrash of Bergenfield, 371 South Prospect Ave., Bergenfield, NJ. Nechama Price, director of GPATS, will deliver a shiur titled, “These Are A Few of Their Favorite Things: Favoritism in Tanach.”

The idea for the program originated with Dr. Jessica Kornwasser, who was intrigued by Price’s discussion of GPATS and women’s learning at YU’s annual ChampionsGate Leadership Conference.

“After hearing Nechama Price and several other Stern College Judaic studies professors speak at Championsgate, I found myself wishing that my daughter, a sophomore in high school, could get a glimpse of the Torah learning that awaits her in college,” said Kornwasser. “The idea was met with enthusiasm by Nechama and several other mothers of high school girls, and Sunday Night Learning began to take shape.”

“I was really excited by the idea of spreading the message of women’s learning to a younger generation,” added Price.

For more information, contact Nechama Price at nechama.price@yu.edu.

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Joyous HANC Shabbaton in W’Hemp HANC 609 welcomed Rabbi Yaakov Sadigh to West Hempstead for the school’s Shabbaton last weekend.

Rabbi Sadigh opened the event with a drasha during davening at Congregation Eitz Chaim of Dogwood Park. He said: When you go through your day, choose to act in a way that will make your parents proud of you, and parents should make decisions that will make their children proud of them.

The celebration continued at the Friday

night oneg at the Young Israel of West Hempstead. Over 200 people enjoyed fun, friendship, Shabbat zmirot and lots of delicious treats. The HANC community was graced with the presence of Rabbi Kelemer from the Young Israel, Rabbi Soniker of Anshei Sholom, and Rabbi and Rebbetzin Greer of Eitz Chayim.

On Shabbat morning, Rabbi Sadigh gave the morning drasha at Anshei Sholom, followed by a festive kiddush.

The celebration continued at the melava

malka for the Nursery Bet and Kindergarten students and their families, which took place at Anshei Sholom. Nachum the Clown performed a program of magic tricks, juggling and humor that was enjoyed by the crowd of 200 people (pictured above). Following the performance, the children were treated to pizza from Hunki’s and ice cream sandwiches.

It was an inspiring Shabbat, demonstrating achdut in every way.

It’s party time at HAFTR as 2nd graders get chumashim

Mazal tov to HAFTR second graders on receiving their first chumash, the book of Genesis. At right, students performed songs that highlight-

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Haschalas Gemara celebration for YOSS 5th graders Fifth graders at Yeshiva of South Shore celebrated a Seudas Haschalas Gemara, marking their start in Gemara learning.

The rabbeim of this year’s fifth grader class (the largest in YOSS’ history) — Rabbis Scharhon, Steinharter, Burger and Jacobs — have the zechus of ushering the talmidim in to the world of Gemara by imparting not only the necessary skills, but also the ahavas HaTorah she’baal peh required for a lifelong yearning to learn and grow.

To mark the occasion the yeshiva held a three generational breakfast, learning together and an inspiring drasha by the roshei yeshiva and guest speaker Rav Yaakov Reisman. In addition, four talmidim, one representative of each class — Avi Burns, Jack

Wisefeld, Pinny Schwerd and Dovid Halpert — told over divrei Torah during the event.

Rav Yaakov Reisman, Rabbi Emeritus of Agudas Yisroel of Long Island, explained the fascinating diversity of the streams of Torah, pointing out the wide range of geographic locations from where the meforshim who expound upon the Gemora, lived. Even the Gemora itself has 2 streams, the Talmud Bavli in Iraq and the Talmud Yerushalmi in Eretz Yisroel. He told the boys about the purity of learning of young children and stressed the great potential that each of them have.

During the seuda, the boys performed a stirring rendition of Abie Rottenberg’s famous Lulei Sorascha. The boys were accompanied by Rabbi Shlomo Drebin, the pro-

gram coordinator. Soloists included Yisroel Ackerman, Betzalel Englard, Dovid Fridman, Yaakov Meisner and Zalmen Twersky. Mordechai Ross also performed a trumpet solo.

Each talmid was called up and the rosh hayeshiva, Rav Binyomin Kamenetzky, shlita, who along with his son Rav Mordechai Kamenetzky, the menahel and the rabbeim, presented each talmid with a personalized shtender and a photo memento of the event.

To top off the excitement, raffle prizes were awarded, including the grand prize, a shas, which was won by Eliyahu Oami.

The talmidim of the 5th Grade will Im yirtza Hashem be maztliach in their learning as they begin to swim in the vast yam shel Torah. Mazel Tov to all of them.

Midreshet Shalhevet puts olam chesed yibaneh to work Chazal tell us that olam chesed yibaneh (the world was built through chesed).

Midreshet Shalhevet strongly believes that it is important to give to those less fortunate than ourselves. The school’s chesed program includes trips to local nursing homes, toy drives, tzedakah fundraisers, Tomchei Shabbos activities, pairing with special needs children, and more.

In honor of Rosh Chodesh Kislev, and with Chanukah upon us, Midreshet Shalhevet dedicated some class time to giving back. A schoolwide chesed trip took place, not only to emphasize the school’s commitment to chesed, but also to serve as an opportunity to further grade bonding.

The ninth grade volunteered at Masbia, soup kitchen and food pantry that provides meals to hundreds of people in desperate need of food distributes bags of groceries to those with not enough at home.

Masbia serves free, delicious meals for these people in a “restaurant,” with volunteer waiters serving each person with respect and dignity. The Midreshet Shalhevet girls learned about all the programs Masbia provides and helped package the weekly grocery bags.

“It was such a good feeling to know we helped out, and that so many people would get food because of it,” said freshman Arielle Saffran of West Hempstead.

The sophomores assisted the amazing staff at Bobbie’s Place, a store unlike any other. They have selection and assortment, customer service and a smile, but there is one key difference. At Bobbie’s Place, those

facing economic stress can shop stress free because Bobbie’s Place is free.

The Midreshet Shalhevet girls sorted, organized and labeled the clothing to make the shopping experience more enjoyable. “It was so eye opening,” said Maayan Sandowski of Woodmere.

Eliana Hirsch of West Hempstead reflected that “there are so many ways of doing chesed. It was really inspirational to see this one.”

Bobbie’s Place is a charity, but they aren’t in the business of giving out handouts, they are in the business of making people feel like the people they are, despite their economic

stature. The girls really took this message home with them. “It was so moving to be able to do this chesed for these people,” said Nava Yastrab of Woodmere.

The 11th and 12th grades travelled to the historic Silver Lake Cemetery on Staten Island, where they performed chesed shel emet by helping to restore the cemetery. While in poor condition both physically and financially, Silver Lake Cemetery is rich in history, telling the tale of Jewish immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Miri Dubrow of Brooklyn and Rebecca Wein of West Hempstead shared that they really felt they were doing a true chesed that

could never be repaid, and got a much greater understanding of why it is chesed shel emet.

The cemetery was a busy place from when it opened in 1893 until it was filled by 1909, with about 1,000 burials per year, at least half of them for infants and children. Now, the cemetery is not active and the graves are so old that very few people visit. The grounds are only requested to be opened to family around 10 times per year. The Midreshet Shalhevet juniors and seniors volunteered a few hours of time and collected over 50 bags of leaves and debris from the ground, helping the effort to keep the cemetery respectful to the 13,000 neshamot resting there.

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Kehillas Bais Yehuda Tzvi of Cedarhurst celebrated its 15th anniversary with an Evening of Tribute gala dinner at Congregation Ohr Torah in North Woodmere on Nov. 20.

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The agreement to create an alternative space where non-Orthodox men and women could pray at the wall according to their own customs was reached nearly a year ago but has not been implemented. The Orthodox Chief Rabbinate and the haredi Orthodox parties that are crucial to Netanyahu’s coalition oppose the deal. Asked during a luncheon appearance whether the failure to implement the deal represented a lack of “political courage,” Naftali Bennett, the minister of education and of Diaspora affairs, said bluntly, “That’s correct.”

The summit is designed to build, or maybe repair, a connection between the Diaspora and Israel, a connection that many here feel has frayed in recent years. More than one speaker pointed out the gap between the largely liberal American Jewish polity, which gave 70 percent of its vote to the Democratic candidate in the recent election, and the Israeli electorate, which seems content with a right-wing government that is expected to remain in power until Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s baby grandson starts collecting Social Security.

The Kotel agreement is both symbol and cause of this breach: As Naama Kelman, dean of the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College here, put it, “It is amazing how much

Bennett himself represents all the conflicts and contradictions of the Diaspora — by which I mean American Jewish — relationship with Israel. The son of parents who made aliyah from the liberal redoubt of Berkeley, California, Bennett leads Jewish Home, perhaps Israel’s most hawkish nationalist party. Bennett said he would place the Diaspora-Israel divide among his top three priorities, after national security and educating Israel’s peripheral populations.

“The average Israeli doesn’t think much about Diaspora affairs,” he said. Bennett said he’d like to change that to ensure a “viable future” for both Israelis and Jews in the Diaspora.

At the same time, Bennett remains perhaps the biggest skeptic, to put it mildly, of the twostate solution, which is consistently supported by a majority of American Jews. Instead of a Palestinian state, Bennett believes in “applying Israeli law” to — that is, essentially annexing — the communities in “Area C” of the West Bank.

As for the Palestinians, he proposes giving them “autonomy on steroids,” in which they would run most of their own affairs, while Israel would extend a sort of Marshall Plan in helping build their economy and tourism.

Bennett said he knows that kind of plan is unpopular among liberal and centrist Jews abroad and “alienates them,” but said he learned as a high-tech executive that a “customer can accept bad news if it is the truth. At least I am not fudging.”

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His ideological opposite spoke earlier in the day, and made the kind of case for a two-state solution that would go over ecstatically well in most non-Orthodox American synagogues.

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2. I am speaking metaphorically.

3. I am at a conference in the sub-basement of a Jerusalem hotel.

Here’s a hint: The weather was fine, and while apparently there’s plenty of sunshine, there’s not much clarity when it comes to the big issues afflicting this small place.

The Jerusalem Jewish Media Summit is a fourday affair run by Israel’s ministries for Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Affairs and the Government Press Office. Despite a name that should give the “alt-right” conniption fits, the “Jewish media” here refers not to a global conspiracy but to folks like me working for Jewish newspapers, websites, news services and radio stations. Among 50 people attending are editors and reporters from Canada, Romania, Germany, Uruguay, Turkey, Belgium, France and the United States.

Although the Diaspora is represented in all its far-flung glory, the concerns of the American media and its Jewish readers dominated the early days of the conference.

There was a panel discussion on the stalled agreement promising a new egalitarian prayer space at the Kotel, another on the impact of the Trump election, and a third on whether the Chicago Cubs World Series victory represented a harbinger of the coming of the Mashiach. I am exaggerating about the third thing, although I did have a serious discussion with a colleague about whether the Cubs championship represented such a tear in the time-space continuum that we slipped into an alternative universe in which a TV reality show host became president and picked a neurosurgeon as HUD secretary.

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Carmine, a retired social studies teacher, said he also sometimes forgets historical facts and dates. He did not hesitate, though, when spelling his last name.

“My last name?” he said with a smirk. “I’ll do it backwards. E-C-T-I … P-A-D.” His wife corrected him. “It’s E-C-I-P-A-D.” No ‘T.’ “This should be a part of the annual physical that is done by doctors every year, because it would raise the issue of memory loss or if someone should be on medication,” added Mary Jo, a retired nurse. “The earlier you [diagnose] it, the better it is.”

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Continued from page 18 al Memory Screening Day in 2003, and has screened about 3 million people since.

Qualified memory specialists conducting the assessments gave individuals recommendations to follow up with a physician for full evaluation if they scored below a certain threshold.

Charles Fuschillo, a former state senator and president and chief executive officer of the AFA, said people of all ages should get screened, and emphasized, “The best medicine is preventive medicine.” Earliest symptoms of the disease are gradual and often subtle, which is why brain health needs to be included in a patient’s yearly evaluation to differentiate possible dementia from normal signs of aging, he added.

“Some people take better care of their cars and change their oil every 3,000 miles,” Fuschillo said. “Some people do get an annual physical. But if you ask them how many physicians check their brain and their memory as part of their healthy check-up, many don’t.”

Joanne Newcombe, a registered nurse and SNCH’s vice president for community health development, said that the hospital would be offering more free screenings in the coming year, and added that it would be launching the assessments in area nursing homes in March.

As my Nov. 29 memory screening with Totaro continued, she said, “The next one’s timed.”

“What I want you to do is name as many animals as you can think of in 30 seconds. It doesn’t matter what they are, Totaro continued.” They can be any type of animal. I just don’t want you to repeat any, OK?” “Dog, cat, cheetah, zebra, lion, tiger,” I began. I got 18, and as Totaro tallied my score, I finished well above the threshold. She still recommended a screening each year for me, at age 23, and all participants.

Mary Jo and Carmine Dapice, of Baldwin, have been married for 50 years, and said they welcomed the opportunity to make an appointment after receiving an email about the free screenings. The couple were among 74 people who signed up.

“I’m 84 years old,” said Carmine, who has two siblings who suffer from memory loss.

“The thing is, she’s nine years younger, and

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Legacy of White Shul’s Rabbi Ralph Pelcovitz AlAn JAy Gerber Kosher BooKworm

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he Jewish Publication Society, the oldest Jewish publishing company in the United States, recently published “Modern Orthodox Judaism: A Documentary History,” by Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff, chief academic officer of the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago. Within this excellent 500 page anthology is a selection of major texts documenting the Orthodox Jewish experience in America. Also included are informative introductions to these works by Rabbi Eleff with biographical information of the authors of most of these primary historical works.

For the next two weeks I will focus on the career of Rabbi Ralph Pelcovitz; last Shabbos, Knesset Israel, the White Shul, in Far Rockaway, celebrated 65 years of his serving there as a rav. This communal tribute featured as scholar in residence the noted historian Dr. Shnayer Leiman, author of “Rabbinic Responses to Modernity.”

Leiman devoted a large portion of his Shabbos Toldot presentation to the career of Rabbi Pelcovitz, who was ordained by Yeshiva Torah Voda’at in Brooklyn and served several out-of-town synagogues before coming to the White Shul in 1951. He “was part

of a long tradition of dedicated rabbis who not only transmitted Torah teaching from one generation to the next, but who also was particularly sensitive to the needs, spiritual and mundane, of his congregants,” Leiman said. The professor shared notes of his Shabbos presentation with your columnist.

In his remarks, Leiman adding a personal note: “I was present in the White Shul 65 years ago, in 1951, when Rabbi Pelcovitz gave his first sermon. He was the first rabbi of the White Shul to speak regularly in the vernacular. The two previous rabbis delivered their sermons in Yiddish.

“Derashos, sermons in English! And, every sermon had a beginning, a middle, and an end. Every sermon had a message based upon the teaching of our sages. He was articulate, and sweetened his presentations with stories and parables and even aphorisms from the wisdom of the nations. He taught us Torah, not with fire and brimstone, but with love, sensitivity, and tolerance.

“He learned from the teachings of the Gedolim of the past, from the likes of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin [d. 1821], and transmitted that teaching to thousands of young men and women here at the White Shul, and to audiences throughout the U.S.” Leiman outlined the mesorah that Rabbi Pelcovitz represented as a teacher of the Jewish tradition: “In one of the presentations, I detailed

Rabbi Ralph Pelcovitz in 2011, on the occasion of his 60th anniversary at the White Shul.

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some of the connecting links between Rabbi Pelcovitz, and the graduates of the Volozhin Yeshiva, the founding yeshiva, the eim hayeshivos, of all the yeshivas that exist today.

“Briefly: Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzenski [d.1940], a graduate of the Volozhin Yeshiva, and the rabbi of Vilna, was rabban shel kol bnei ha-golah at that time. In 1935, when the rosh yeshiva of Mesivta Torah Voda’at in Brooklyn, Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz, and the yeshiva’s menahel, Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, parted ways, a new rosh yeshiva had to be appointed. Rav Shraga Feivel consulted Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzenski who selected the rosh yeshiva of the R’Mailles Yeshiva in Vilna,

Rabbi Shlomo Heiman, to succeed Rabbi Leibovitz. By sending Rav Heiman and his wife to America in 1935, Rav Chaim Ozer almost certainly saved their lives.

Vilna Jewry was decimated during the Holocaust.

“Rav Shlomo Heiman served with distinction as Rosh Yeshiva at Torah Voda’at from 1935 until his passing in 1945. During that period, he produced a cadre of distinguished disciples, among them, Rabbi Ralph Pelcovitz, who received his semicha from Rav Heiman.

Leiman concludes his narrative with the following heartfelt tribute: “Just as Rav Heiman brought new life to Mesivta Torah Voda’at, so too Rabbi Pelcovitz would give life to the Far Rockaway Jewish community. Under his watch, Far Rockaway became an “ir ve-em be-Yisrael” (a metropolis of the Jews).

Next week, in a second part of this essay, I will focus on one of Rabbi Pelcovitz’s most telling essays as cited by Rabbi Eleff in his valued documentary history referenced above.

Alan Jay Gerber is a columnist for The Jewish Star.

Parsha Vayetzei: Meet Leah, the hated wife rAbbi Avi billet Parsha of the weeK

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n Parshat Ki Tetze we are told about a man who has two wives, one who is beloved (ahuva) and one who is detested (s’nuah) (Devarim 21:15). Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch notes that the term used there is the same as that used by G-d (29:31) and

by Leah (29:33) in describing her own situation with respect to her husband.

In Ki Tetze, Rabbi Hirsch quotes the Talmud (Yevamot) to suggest that the word s’nuah is the Torah’s way of expressing disapproval of a marriage. He then mentions the sifre where the word describes one who is “discriminated against undeservedly.”

Through his analysis of the difference be-

tween the word s’nuah and s’niah, Rabbi Hirsch raises a third possibility: that the term implies a wife who is “less loved.”

In considering this week’s parsha Vayetzei, Rabbi Hirsch calls her “the hated” (i.e., the less beloved) wife, and notes that “G-d chose precisely the one who felt slighted and disadvantaged, and made her the principal ancestress of His people.

The names that this lessloved wife gave to her sons show us that, precisely in her feeling of disadvantage, she exuded love for her husband; the names show us that she uplifted herself to fully appreciate the role of motherhood in the destiny of woman and the happiness of marriage, and that for both she

cast her burden on G-d, Who sees and hears all and causes His Presence to dwell between man and woman.

“Her husband’s love was her goal, and with every child born to her, she hoped to add another layer to the foundation of this love. In the end, her hopes were fulfilled. What was denied to the bride and wife was granted to the mother of children.”

When faced with trying to understand the relationship that Yaakov had with Leah, if we want to be myopic, we can pretend to understand Yaakov on a level each of us might feel in such a situation.

Consider these possibilities: •He liked Leah as a cousin, but never

Considering leah’s many good qualities, it is sad that the stain of being ‘s’nuah’ is on her resume.

wanted to marry her.

•He had been tricked into marrying her, and hated her because he was victim of a rouse.

•He had been tricked into marrying her, and he hated her because of her role in not owning up to her true identity.

•She was a detestable woman, so he hated her.

Some of these don’t really make sense.

Because if Yaakov really hated her, it stands to reason he would have divorced her. After all, his marriage to her was made under false pretenses.

So what does it mean that “she was hated?” abbi Hirsch suggests that a lot of this could have been in Leah’s mind, as she compares herself to her sister. It’s not farfetched to say that she was “less loved,” as the Torah doesn’t mince words in describing Yaakov’s love for Rachel. But was it real See Leah on page 21

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ur parasha, Toldot, focuses on Rachel Emeinu and the intense psychological pain and suffering that resulted from her inability to bear children: “And Rachel saw that she had not borne [any children] to Jacob, and Rachel envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, ‘Give me children, and if not, I am dead’.”

(Bereishit 30:1).

Rashi, basing himself upon the midrash, explains the somewhat unusual phrase, “give me children,” as meaning, “Did your father [not] do

that for your mother? Did he not pray for her?”

In other words, Rachel pleaded with Jacob to pray to the Almighty on her behalf, just as his father, Isaac, had done for his mother, Rebecca, when she failed to conceive.

Rachel, however, did not receive the response from Jacob she sought. Although the Torah informs us that Jacob “loved Rachel more than Leah,” he responded to her in what appears to be a harsh manner: “And Jacob became angry with Rachel, and he said, ‘Am I instead of G-d, Who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb’?” (30:2) Rashi explains the content of Jacob’s words in the following fashion: “Am I instead of G-d: Am I in His place? Who has withheld from you: You say that I should do as my father did. I am not like my father. My father had no sons [at

the time he prayed], but I have sons. [It is thus apparent that] He has withheld [children] from you, not from me.

Finally, after waiting for what must have felt like an interminable number of years, Rachel was blessed with her own child: “And G-d remembered Rachel, and G-d hearkened to her (vayishmah aleah Elokim), and He opened her womb. And she conceived and bore a son, and she said, “G-d has taken away my reproach.” So she named him Joseph, saying, “May the L-rd grant me yet another son!” (30:22-24) ashi interprets the phrase, “And G-d remembered Rachel,” as referring to her kindness in telling her sister, Leah, the secret signs between herself and Jacob, to spare Leah untold disgrace on her wedding night.

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sion, “vayishmah aleah Elokim,” which may literally be translated as, “and G-d listened to her.” This leads us to ask, “To what did G-d listen?” We are fortunate that some of the great thinkers of Judaism applied themselves to this question.

Onkelos translates and interprets, “vayishmah aleah Elokim,” as “v’kabill tzelotah Hashem,” i.e. “and Hashem accepted her prayers.”

The Netziv (Rav Naftali Tzvi Yehudah Berlin) follows Onkelos’ approach and notes, “She [Rachel] engaged in a great deal of prayer [before the Almighty].” The Malbim (Rav Meir Leibush ben Yehiel Michel Wisser) continues in Onkelos’ footsteps, and formulates his interpretation in a highly nuanced fashion, “for now (“ki atah”) she [Rachel] prayed.” As noted earlier, See Rachel on page 21

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Continued from page 20 hatred that was going on here?

Reb Bunem of Pshischa had a different perspective in explaining Leah’s being “hated.” He suggests it is impossible that Yaakov hated her. Rather, she was hated by herself, the same way that a truly righteous person is very hard on his or herself. She saw her own flaws, knew her inadequacies, may have had leftover feelings of sadness from the thought that at any time Yaakov might divorce her, leaving her open to being picked up by Eisav.

As on target as Reb Bunem might be in protecting Yaakov from being a hater, the idea that Leah feels so inadequate is nonetheless sad to consider (even though I think it is a great explanation). We all know and see people who live lives of [personally inflicted] inadequacy. Some feel they can never date or marry due to some flaw they see in themselves. Some feel they can never get the kind of job they want or do the things they want to do because they won’t do it perfectly, or even well, or because they are “no good at anything.”

A wise woman I know likes to say, “There will be plenty of people who will put you down in your lifetime. Don’t ever be a person who puts yourself down.”

Leah carries the title of one of the imahot of the Jewish people because of her many good qualities. It is sad that this stain of being s’nuah is on her resume, even if it helped her become a great mother and cemented her place as the wife buried next to her shared husband.

Then again, maybe she became so great because of or in spite of her hated status. And that’s a thought worth mulling over.

Rabbi Avi Billet is a columnist for The Jewish Star.

Continued from page 20 when Rachel beseeched Jacob to “give me children,” she was actually asking him to pray to Hashem on her behalf, just as Isaac had done for Rebecca. Suddenly, like a beam of light that pierces the darkest night, Rachel realized that she was the one who needed to pray, and that now was the time to directly encounter the Almighty through tefilah. By so doing, she taught a vital lesson that was followed many years later by the childless Hannah when she, too, came before Hashem in profound and heartfelt prayer: “And Hannah arose after eating and after drinking, and Eli the priest was sitting on the chair beside the doorpost of the Temple of the L-rd. And she was bitter in spirit, and she prayed to the L-rd, and wept.

And she vowed a vow, and said: to L-rd of Hosts, if You will look upon the affliction of Your bondswoman, and You will remember me, and You will not forget Your bondswoman and You will give Your bondswoman a man-child, and I shall give him to the L-rd all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head. And it was, as she prayed long before the L-rd, that Eli watched her mouth. But Hannah, she was speaking in her heart, only her lips were moving, and her voice was not heard, and Eli thought her to be a drunken woman.” (Shmuel I: 9-13) As we know, Hannah was anything but a drunken woman. Instead, as she herself professed to Eli, “No, my lord, I am a woman of sorrowful spirit, and neither new wine nor old wine have I drunk, and I poured out my soul before the L-rd.” (Shmuel I:15) In sum, Hannah was an intensely spiritual being who, like her mentor Rachel, recognized the power of personal prayer and its potential to burst through the very gates of heaven.

May the Almighty give us the strength and wisdom to daven to Him from the depths of our being, so that with Rachel and Hannah as our guides, we, too, may, “pour out our souls before the L-rd.”

V’chane yihi ratzon.

Rabbi David Etengoff is a columnist for The Jewish Star.

Continued from page 4 out (tractate Berachot 26b; Rashi ibid. 28:11) that Yaakov instituted the nightly prayers of Maariv — so before he fell asleep, Yaakov prayed.

Imagine what must have been going through Yaakov’s mind: forced to run from home, facing an uncertain future, penniless and close to being destitute; what did he have left? Only trust, that if Hashem had determined he was meant to be in this position, this was obviously his path towards who he was meant to become.

The Rabbis (Rashi ibid.) note that if the Torah calls this spot “The Place” it is obviously a special place and they conclude that it would eventually be the site of the Temple. Yaakov, heading north from his home in Beer Sheva, might well have wanted to stop at Har Hamoriah (mount Moriah, today’s Temple Mount) where his own father was almost sacrificed, in the binding of Isaac.

In this place Yitzchak demonstrated the ultimate trust, in his father and in G-d, laying himself bare on an altar and essentially declaring that our lives are a gift, our challenge only to struggle with what Hashem wants of us and how we can best make the world a better place.

Indeed the evening service essentially represents the same idea: that in the darkness of the night, when life is often so unclear, we take comfort in the fact that our loving Father, Hashem, know best, and that somehow things will work out. Our challenge then becomes how we fit into the picture.

Perhaps Yaakov concludes that it is time for him to take a stand and be a partner in changing the world. And before he takes that step he reminds himself that it has to be based on a deep trust that he is trying to discern and fulfill Hashem’s will, to be a partner in making a better world. Four thousand years later, it is a message we would do well to hear.

Shabbat shalom from Jerusalem.

Rabbi Binny Freedman is a columnist for The Jewish Star.

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Is there a conspiracy to discredit the ADL? Jeff Dunetz politics to go

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n 800-word letter was sent last week to leading ADL activists by ADL President Jonathan Greenblatt, to counter what he said was an “organized, concerted effort” to delegitimize the group.

As someone who has been criticizing the organization for the past dozen years, I must counter Greenblatt’s charges. Not only is there nothing organized about the criticism, but the charges against the group are nog meant to delegitimize the group but to get it to return to its original mission.

According to its website, “The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 ‘to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.’ Now the nation’s premier civil rights/human relations agency, ADL fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all.”

(emphasis added) Greenblatt listed the supposed myths and charges against the group, among them, that the ADL does not support Israel; that it no longer combats anti-Semitism; that it supports the movement to boycott Israel, and that Greenblatt is a Democratic operative.

Actually, those are not the real complaints about the ADL. There is one basic charge against the ADL, and the charge was raised way before Greenblatt became its leader.

That is that the Anti-Defamation League cares more about Democratic Party politics than its stated mission. This began in the term of Greenblatt’s predecessor, Abe Foxman, who made Democratic Party politics ADL’s primary concern. n 2011 ADL led an effort asking Jews not to criticize President Obama’s anti-Israel policies. It asked Jews to pledge not to make Israel a wedge issue in the 2012 campaign. The real purpose of their effort was to isolate Jewish groups that wished to point out the failings of President Obama’s policy towards Israel — because ADL had a vested interest in ensuring that Jews continued to vote Democratic and re-elect President

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Obama. They feared losing access to the White House.

In 2007, ADL joined the Democratic Party in criticizing the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the laws against partial birth abortion. The criticism against ADL in this matter was not over support or opposition to partial birth abortion, but whether or not it is an issue for the ADL.

At the end of 2010, President Obama was trying to sell the much criticized “Start Treaty.” At the time, John Podhoretz said the proposed treaty creates “a parallelism between American strength and Russian strength that is a very, very bad precedent in terms of how we ourselves think about American power.”

Many others criticized the treaty as one-sided in favor of Russia, but the ADL stepped outside its mission.

In a letter sent to all members of the Senate, it urged Senators to put aside reservations about the treaty or its protocol in the interest of the greater goal of preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. No Kidding!

He wanted the Senate to believe that! More likely Foxman was trying to show himself a leader of the progressive movement.

The ADL issued a White Paper promoting the progressive negative spin against the Tea Party movement and refusing to acknowledge the blatant anti-Semitism in Occupy Wall Street until a campaign by Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com embarrassed them into making a statement.

When Prime Minister Netanyahu schedSee ADL on page 23

The crimes of Assad can’t be ignored Ben Cohen Viewpoint

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t was one of the most dramatic moments so far in the five-year civil war that has torn Syria apart.

In August 2014, a man disguised with dark glasses and a hood, and known as “Caesar,” testified before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee. A former sergeant in the armed forces of the ruling regime of President Bashar al-Assad, Caesar had worked as a photographer; his principal job was to document the gruesome torture and murder of the thousands of ordinary Syrians taken into custody. As he explained matter-of-factly to the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee, “I had the job of taking pictures of the dead — before and after the revolution. Our work increased greatly after the revolution.”

The spectacle of cruelty and brutality that Caesar was exposed to over the course of two

tor like Assad, just as they did to his father, the late tyrant Hafez al-Assad.

In 2013, Caesar escaped from Syria, faking his own death and even having relatives and friends stage a funeral. He took with him 55,000 of the images he’d photographed, stored on memory sticks which he hid inside his shoes. As he told the Foreign Affairs Committee, the images were gruesome proof that Assad’s drive to retain power would lead him to kill “his own brother” if necessary. “I endangered my life by coming to the U.S., testifying before Congress in hopes for justice and appealing to the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets with Syrian moral conscience of free Americans,” Ceasar said. “I now believe that with President Bashar al-Assad.

UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe this bill, Congress has taken the first years would quite probably have driven most step toward justice and accountability in my human beings insane. Not just dead bod- wounded nation.” ies, but maimed bodies, bodies with their The bill Caesar was referring to, designed eyes gouged out, bodies emaciated from to bring the perpetrators of these atrocities the effects of enforced hunger, bodies of to justice, began making its way through men, women, and children alike. The sorts the U.S. legislature two years ago, with both of atrocities that come naturally to a dicta- strong bipartisan support and backing from

Syrian-American groups working to highlight the profound human cost of Assad’s war. H.R. 5732, also known as the Caesar Civilian Protection Act of 2016, in recognition of the critical role played by the provider of the evidence, passed through the House this week in a voice vote. The bill includes tough sanctions against individuals and entities associated with the Assad regime, in such vital sectors as banking, airline and energy.

In addition, it would mandate the president to report to Congress on the prospects for a no-fly zone in Syria, as well as requiring the president to make available to Congress the names of Syrian regime war criminals, with an eye on future prosecutions for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Now the bill needs to pass through the Senate and be signed into law by the president. There is no shortage of reasons for the importance of this legislation, foremost the assault by the Assad regime — backed

by Russia and Iran — on Aleppo, where 250,000 civilians have been told they will be “annihilated” if they do not leave. In case See Assad on page 23

Continued from page 22 there was any doubt as to Assad’s intentions, it’s worth pointing out that medical facilities and hospitals have been targeted at least 30 times during the regime’s all-out assault on Aleppo.

Human rights groups working on Syria are hence calling on U.S. Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) to push through the bill via an expedited process called “hotlining,” which bypasses committee review and would allow the legislation to be introduced directly on the floor before Congress goes home for the year. redictably, progressive and far-left opponents of firm action on Syria are now marshaling their arguments. Some of what is being said (for example, the smear that Caesar is a confidence trickster peddling fraudulent evidence) is only to be expected from the folks who were, just more than a decade ago, defending Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist regime in neighboring Iraq from

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Western pressure.

A more conventional set of objections is that the legislation would drive resources away from the fight against Islamic State, risk conflict with Russia, and threaten the survival of the nuclear deal with Iran. It’s certainly true that under President Obama, the Russians have made enormous strides in Syria, to the point where the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier is now deploying S-300 and S-400 missile batteries in defense of Assad — and Russian defense officials have made clear that they will use them.

The argument about Islamic State is specious, because Assad and his Russian, Iranian, and Hezbollah allies have spent much time fighting other rebel groups while en-

the Iranians; there is little to suggest that he would make a different calculation this time around. As for President-elect Trump, the shape of his foreign policy remains indistinct, and we have no idea whether his desire for an alliance with Russia against Islamic State terrorists will be the final guarantee of Assad’s long-term survival.

The Senate should be urged to pass the Caesar Act as resoundingly as did the House.

As Evan Barrett says, “it will demonstrate to the president-elect that both parties in both chambers of Congress seek greater accountability for war crimes in Syria.” It will also send a message to those who believe that Assad is now safe from international justice.

Many past dictators, from Benito Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, thought that they too would go on forever. And they were wrong.

Ben Cohen is senior editor of TheTower.org.

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Continued from page 22 uled his March 2015 speech to Congress, Foxman again took the Democratic side, telling the Forward that Netanyahu should stay home.

When President Obama tried to sell his Iran deal with words that William Daroff Senior, vice president for public policy and director of the Washington office of the Jewish Federations of North America, said echoed the false anti-Semitic canard that Jews pushed America into Iraq War, the ADL was silent. When the president criticized Israel for allowing Jews to purchase homes in East Jerusalem (in a land deal between two individuals), basically saying that there were places in the world were Jews were not allowed to live, the ADL was silent at this antiSemitic criticism. hen there are the two most recent examples, with the ADL’s false charges of anti-Semitism against Stephen Bannon, and its protection of Keith Ellison against valid charges that he is anti-Semitic and antiIsrael. The ADL criticized Republican Bannon, who has a history of supporting Jewish causes, and protected Democrat Ellison, who has a history of Anti-Semitism and opposing the Jewish state. Greenblatt backed off both positions after he received overwhelming criticism.

Whether or not the reason behind the ADL’s stance on Ellison and Bannon had anything to do with their party affiliations cannot be proven, however it does follow an ADL trend. In his letter, Greenblatt says that criticism of the ADL is part of a larger U.S. trend.

“Much of this campaign reflects wider trends of our time: the dangerous polarization in the U.S., Israel and within our community fed by the dogma that if you are not 100 percent with me you are the enemy, as well as the phenomenon of ‘fake news’ where agenda-driven half-truths are presented as fact, reinforcing these hardened positions,” said Greenblatt’s email, one of whose recipients posted the contents on Facebook.”

Again, I disagree with Greenblatt. Criticism of the ADL has nothing to do with the polarization of America or “fake news.” The criticism is based on what the ADL claims in its mission statement: that it is an organization fighting defamation and for the civil rights of all people, versus what it turns out to be in practice — a one-sided political organization.

Jeff Dunetz is a columnist for The Jewish Star.

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abling, indirectly and sometimes even directly, the Islamic State advance. The net result of this has been to make the war even more complex and enduring, as outside powers like Turkey and Iran have used the ostensible fight against Islamic State to pursue their own agendas — in Tehran’s case, building a Shi’a crescent through the region, in Ankara’s case, waging brutal war against the Kurdish minority in both Syria and Turkey.

Yet the Assad regime remains the core of this sectarian cauldron. Its “war crimes drive ISIL (Islamic State) recruitment and hamper the rebel forces fighting ISIL,” Evan Barrett of the Washington-based Syria Emergency Task Force told me.

Even so, it’s an open and vexed question as to whether Obama would sign the bill into law before he leaves office. After all, Obama backed down on taking military action against Assad out of his desire to please

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Were claims of Israel’s ‘arson intifada’ overblown?

Analysis by Andrew Tobin TEL AVIV — As wildfires threatened Israel last week, rhetoric linking arson to terrorism heated up.

For about a week, fires across the country burned huge swaths of land, destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses, and forced tens of thousands of people to flee. Dozens were injured, though few seriously.

Though no one doubts there was some arson involved, motives remain unclear.

“It’s still too early to rule nationalistic motives,” police officials told Channel 10 on Tuesday. “Yes, there were incidents of arson, but nationalistic motives are far from being definitively concluded.”

As the blazes raged, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said several times that they were set by arsonists and amounted to acts of terrorism.

He and other ministers pledged to work to revoke the residency of those found guilty —- a threat typically reserved for Arab Israelis.

“Every fire caused by arson, or by incitement to arson, is terrorism,” Netanyahu told reporters at a briefing in Haifa, where tens of thousands were evacuated from their homes. “Anyone who tries to burn parts of the State of Israel will be punished severely.”

Netanyahu was not alone in singling out Israel’s Arab residents and citizens. Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and Culture Minister Miri Regev both to revoke the citizenship of arsonists. Education Minister Naftali Ben-

An Israeli firefighting airplane trying to extinguish a blaze raging in Haifa on Nov. 24, and Prime Minister Netanyahu speaking at a briefing in Haifa about the fires raging in the northern city and elsewhere in Israel, Nov. 24, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/Israeli Government Press Office) (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

nett described the blazes as “terrorism in every sense of the word.” And Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman called for expanding settlements in Judea and Samaria in response.

But now that the fires have been stamped out by the heroic efforts of Israeli and foreign firefighters and rain has finally come, it appears that some of the claims about terrorism may have been premature. Amid ongoing investigations, fire and security officials investigating the blazes have been much more cautious about drawing conclusions than Netanyahu and his government partners.

“In most areas you won’t find many things that say whether it was arson,” Ran Shelef, the Fire and Res-

cue Authority’s chief investigator, told the Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

A day earlier, the authority’s Northern District investigator Herzl Aharon said, according to Israel’s Channel 2: “We still don’t know anything. I wish I had a direction. I go to a place and get an insight — and then I go to another place and everything changes. This is what you call a illusion of the topography, the bedlam of the mountainous region, and it is very difficult to investigate.”

At least 35 people were arrested on suspicion of committing arson or inciting others to do so, mostly Palestinians and the rest Arab Israelis.

But by Saturday, only 10 remained in custody for suspected arson, with the

rest released unconditionally, Channel 2 reported.

Only two suspects have been indicted, and one claims he was just burning garbage.

In the absence of proof, some have criticized the rush to judgment.

“The habit of inflaming the atmosphere by politicians is playing into the hands of the terrorists,” Yoram Schweitzer, a former Israeli intelligence official and the head of terrorist research at the Institute for National Security Studies think tank, told JTA. “A basic principle of fighting terrorism is to differentiate between the community who is allegedly or potentially supportive of such acts and the terrorists themselves.

“This is the first principle that was breached,” he added.

Police officials have said they suspect arson in 29 of the 39 major fires, and in about one-third of the 90 total fires they investigated.

There are no suspects in the large fires in Haifa and Zichron Yaakov, nor clear proof of arson.

One Arab Israeli who was arrested and held for three days on suspicion of inciting arson was released after police admitted they had mistranslated his sarcastic Facebook post. The tweet was meant to condemn those supporting arson on social media and ended with the hashtag “Sarcastic, not serious.”

Orit Perlov, who researches Arab social media at the Institute for National Security Studies, said self-critical humor became the dominant tone on Arab social media as the fires in Israel raged. Initially, she said, there was widespread rejoicing and talk of divine punishment under the Arabic hashtag “Israel is burning.”

Schweitzer, the terrorism researcher, said it was noteworthy that the arson had flamed out on its own, despite the incendiary comments

by Israeli politicians. Among other things, he said, that was because Arab Israelis are “part of the victims and part of Israeli society.”

“Instead of calming the population, which is the task of leaders, Israeli politicians did the reverse and claimed an ‘arson intifada’,” he said. “That’s just not wise, to put it very mildly.”

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“Israel will be so much more secure when Israel has a clear border,” Shaffir said in an on-stage interview. “They know it, but they are afraid of telling the truth.”

If the right is so opposed to the Oslo Accords, she asked, why don’t they move into Ramallah and Jenin and stop the security cooperation that keeps the Palestinian Authority in charge there? If leaving Gaza was such a mistake, why don’t they re-occupy it?

“They are not acting in the name of Israeli security,” Shaffir said, “but in the interest of personal political interests.”

Discussing the Kotel restrictions on egalitarian and women’s prayer, Lapid described Israel as “the only country in which there is no freedom of religion for Jews.” He recalled how American Jews lobbied against the Iran deal on Israel’s behalf, but how Israeli rabbis and politicians then turn around and insult the religious practices of Reform and Conservative Jews, whose ranks include the very politicians who stood up to their Democratic president.

Yair Sheleg, a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute, suggested how the two issues — national security and the Orthodox rabbinate’s power to define religious status in Israel — come together.

“The real issue is the definition of the state of Israel. If we are a nation state of the Jewish people, then Israel has to give an equal status to all trends within the religion,” he said.

“But if we are a religious state and not a nation of the Jewish people, we will strengthen the claims of the anti-Zionists that Judaism is a religion and not a nation. If religion is the most important pillar in our identity, we are

Continued from page 13 In 2009, Ellison traveled with a colleague to review postwar destruction in Gaza. Unlike the colleague, Ellison made the complicated travel arrangements necessary to review the destruction on Israel’s side as well.

Last month, in a statement to JTA, he explicitly rejected the boycott Israel movement.

Right-wing groups like the Zionist Organization of America and the Republican Jewish Coalition have said since Ellison announced his candidacy that he is unfit. The RJC has even fundraised off the matter: A Dec. 1 email pitched with the subject line “An antiSemite running the Democrat Party?” listed Ellison’s youthful associations without noting his multiple disavowals of them.

But his complex record has also meant that centrist Jewish groups have agonized over just how to treat his candidacy. The Anti-Defamation League at first said his past raised questions that needed answering.

Then, in the past week, a snippet from the 2010 fundraiser was released by the Investigative Project on Terrorism in which Ellison said, “United States foreign policy in the Middle East is governed by what is good or bad through a country of seven million people.” The ADL said that disqualified him.

The National Jewish Democratic Council said in a statement Friday -- before Saban’s comments -- that “the accusations that [Ellison] is somehow anti-Semitic are false, reprehensible and shameful.” It also said his record on Israel was “mixed,” notable for a group with a mission of lauding Democratic incumbents, and said it “strongly disagreed” with his 2014 vote on Iron Dome.

Ellison countered that his 2010 remark had been taken out of context and noted that the Investigative Project’s founder is Steven

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endangering our sovereignty itself.”

The organizers of the Jewish Media Summit were happy to present these arguments about security and religion and state, but also urged participants to tell a fuller story of Israel -- how its civil society is dealing with education and women’s rights, how its tech sector is thriving, the strengthening of its relations with the Sunni Arab world, Asia and Africa. Which I think most of us do consistently, although sometimes it can feel like the punchline to the old joke, “Otherwise, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the show?”

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict isn’t the only story in Israel, although it’s one that shapes, and distorts, every other one. The Kotel dispute may not be a matter of national security, but in terms of creating a sense of common cause between many American Jews and the Jewish state, it’s symbolism cannot be exaggerated.

Emerson, who was featured in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s recently released guide to anti-Muslim extremists.

Ellison displayed in his talk to the fundraisers a degree of nuance in his views on Israel and the Jewish community. He held up Jewish lobbying for Israel as a model that Muslims should emulate and admonished his audience when it apparently recoiled after Ellison said he had met with activists at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference.

The lawmaker said he has a “moral and legal” obligation to meet with all his constituents.

“I want to hear what everybody has to say. Right?” he told the group. “And I want you to know that the level of organization that they display is considerable.” Ellison also said that “this is not to say that I don’t want the U.S. to be friends with Israel.”

But he also indulged tropes about Israel and Jews that would likely irk many in the pro-Israel community and has not raised in his meetings with Jews.

In the recorded remarks, he said Israel treats the United States as a cash machine, demanding funding without being responsive to American needs.

“We’re Americans, right? We can’t allow another country to treat us like we’re their ATM. Right? And so we ought to stand up as Americans,” Ellison said.

He also depicted Jews as uncritical, saying that Israel “has mobilized its Diaspora in America to do its bidding.” Ellison depicted himself as putting Israel supporters who questioned Obama’s anti-settlement policies on the spot.

“That is the policy of my president,” he said, “and I want to know if you’re with the president.”

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The young men of DRS spent last shabbos with their rabbeim and their families in the Poconos (above), absorbing divrei Torah while building camaraderie and participating in a variety of fun activities.

While the DRS students were engaged in spiritual pursuits at their shabbaton in the Mount Laurel Hotel, five students from the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County High School were honing their political skills last week, participating in the annual AIPAC Schusterman Advocacy Institute High School Summit in Alexandria, Virginia. (SKA girls also participated ; see page 12.)

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This is no less true of the Conservati ve spiritual leader’s latest article, about Donald Trump’s election victory. But this is less the voice of Gordis’s usual scholarly insight and moderation, and more a page from Lamentations reminding us of his love for Israel and the “danger” that a Trump victory brings the world’s two largest Jewish communiti to es.

Strange. Living in America, I viewed the Trump victory as opening a new and glorious era for American Jews, even though most of them are too wedded to their Democratic Party identification to comprehen d what the Obama administration has meant for the Jewish community.

For the last eight years, Barack Obama, the man who allegedly slept at the feet of the anti-Semitic and anti-American Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his messages of black liberation theology, has refused to have Title VI enforced by his administration on behalf of Jewish students. This has meant that while the obscenities of racism and various forms of bigotry are virulently attacked on college campuses with the full weight and power of the federal government, anti-Semit ism is not. In fact, as Paul Miller has documente d, anti-Semitism on college campuses has become a growth industry.

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A majority of Orthodox Jews voted for Donald Trump for president. They did so upon the twin bases of rejecting Hillary Clinton as the candidate of continuity (for a “third Obama term”) as well as policies Trump proposed on key issues.

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On the domestic front, Mr. Trump committed himself to improving education opportunities for American children through school choice initiatives. The cost of Jewish education is the preeminent domestic issue in many Jewish households. Trump broadly spoke of redirecting $20 billion in federal education funds to school choice programs.

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Google removes ‘are Jews evil’ search suggestion

By JTA As of Monday, Google’s automatically generated search algorithm no longer suggested the phrase “are Jews evil” to users who typed in only the words “are Jews,” the Guardian reported.

Google also removed suggestions for other offensive search phrases pertaining to women that were brought up Sunday in a Guardian article. The phrase “are Muslims bad,” another wording brought up in the article, still appears when a user types in “are Muslims.”

“We took action within hours of being notified on last Friday of the autocomplete results,” a Google spokesperson told the Guardian on Monday.

“Our search results are a reflection of the content across the web. This means that sometimes unpleasant portrayals of sensitive subject matter online can affect what search results appear for a given query. These results don’t reflect Google’s own opinions or beliefs — as a company, we strongly value a diversity of perspectives, ideas and cultures.”

The spokesperson said the autocomplete predictions are generated algorithmically based on the search activity and interests of users.

“Users search for such a wide range of material on the web — 15 percent of searches we see every day are new. Because of this, terms that appear in autocomplete may be unexpected or unpleasant. We do our best to prevent offensive terms, like porn and hate speech, from appearing, but we acknowledge that autocomplete isn’t an exact science and we’re always working to improve our algorithms,” the spokesperson said.

Social media outlets vow to cut terror content Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube have pledged that they will partner to curb the spread of terrorist content online.

“There is no place for content that promotes terrorism on our hosted consumer services. When alerted, we take swift action against this kind of content in accordance with our respective policies,” said a statement Monday by the social media firms.

The companies said that they will create a shared industry database of unique digital fingerprints, called hashes, for violent terrorist imagery or terrorist recruitment videos or images that were removed from their services.

Social media has become a tool for recruiting and radicalization by the Islamic State terror group and others.

Online petitions urges Trump to move embassy The Orthodox Union has started an online petition calling on President-elect Trump to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.

The move would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s “chosen capital,” the O.U. petition on Change.org says. It also notes that June 2017 will mark the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.

Trump pledged during the 2016 campaign to move the embassy to Jerusalem.

Berlin museum official defends fired director BERLIN — The firing of the director of the Polish Cultural Institute in Berlin has led to a diplomatic brouhaha in the German capital after some asserted that she focused too much on Jewish topics.

The Jewish Museum also has become involved in defense of Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska, who was let go last week by the Polish Foreign Ministry, ostensibly because of the Jewish topics issue — a charge the Polish Embassy is vigorously denying.

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Labour Party’s Corbyn visits Theresienstadt

British Labor Party head Jeremy Corbyn visited the former Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt during his visit to the Czech Republic. He’s pictured in a Saturday Tweet that said, “Yesterday, I visited Terezin Memorial — a World War II concentration camp and former Jewish ghetto. Never forget.” Corbyn’s visit comes in the wake of a report by British lawmakers on the Home Affairs Select Committee, who accused him of doing too little to curb rampant anti-Semitism among party members and lawmakers, some of whom have been suspended for making racist and anti-Semitic statements on social media and in other public forums.

German media reports emphasized that the Polish ambassador to Germany, Andrzej Przyłębski, recently criticized the Polish Cultural Institute in a private memo for, among other things, spending more time on JewishPolish themes than on Polish-Ukrainian or Polish-Lithuanian dialogue.

Restitution group Warsaw database counters limits Responding to legislation deemed harmful to efforts to return privately-owned Jewish property in Warsaw, a major restitution group said it was building a database to facilitate claims.

The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) announced the new tool on Monday, three months after regulations went into effect that drastically limited the window for filing claims for property nationalized by the Polish government directly after the Holocaust, in which 90 percent of Polish Jewry was murdered.

NYPD sees ‘huge spike’ in hate crimes post-election The New York Police Department said it has seen a 115 percent rise in hate crimes following the presential election, with the majority of incidents directed at Jews.

In total, hate crimes have increased 35 percent from 2015, the NYPD’s chief of detectives, Robert Boyce, said Monday morning.

“We had a huge spike right after Election Day, it’s somewhat slowed a little bit,” Boyce said. “We’re seeing across the board an increase right now.”

Besides Jews, other targeted groups included Muslims, whites and the LGBTQ community, according to Boyce.

House version of Senate bill on campus anti-Semitism WASHINGTON — A bipartisan slate of leading House members introduced a bill that would expand how the Department of Education defines anti-Semitism in advising learning institutions on how to identify discrimination.

The bill introduced last Friday by Reps.

Peter Roskam, R-Ill., and Ted Deutch, D-Fla., replicates a similar bill passed last week by the Senate, which was sponsored by Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Bob Casey, D-Pa. Senior House of Representatives members including Reps. Eliot Engel and Nita Lowey, both D-N.Y., and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., are backing the bill.

The measure expands previous guidelines sent periodically to educational institutions receiving federal funding to define anti-Semitism according to a definition first published by the State Department in 2010.

That bill adopts the definition set forth by the European Parliament Working Group on Anti-Semitism: “Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/ or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

Both definitions also outline when criticism of Israel crosses into anti-Semitism, citing the “three D’s” first advanced by Natan Sharansky, the Israeli politician and former prisoner of the Soviet gulag: Demonization, double standard and delegitimization.

Jewish head of teachers union defends Keith Ellison The Jewish president of a U.S. teachers union came to the defense of Rep. Keith Ellison, slamming claims that the Minnesota congressman holds anti-Semitic views.

On Saturday, Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers praised Ellison as “an agent of change” and called claims that he held anti-Semitic views “maddening.”

Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, is a leading contender to head the Democratic National Committee.

“I can feel and smell anti Semitism. Keith Ellison is no anti-Semite, and it is maddening when anyone who doesn’t know him or his record makes that ugly accusation,” Weingarten wrote in a Facebook post in which she called herself “a proud American Jew and a progressive Zionist.”

“There’s a lot of anti Semitism and Islamaphobia in the world. Don’t pretend it exists in Keith Ellison’s heart or soul,” she concluded.

The Brooklyn mother who lost seven of her children in a house fire said in her first public remarks on the March 2015 tragedy that she wants to build a center for families on the site of her razed home.

“What consoles me most is working on the positive — not lamenting on the negative,” Gayle Sassoon told the New York Post in her first interview since the fire in the Midwood neighborhood.

Sassoon and one daughter, Siporah, 16, escaped by jumping out a window on the second floor.

Sassoon ran into the fire to try to save her children, leading to third degree burns on 45 percent of her body, including her face, which is covered with an elastic medical mask.

The family center she envisions, which has already been designed by an architect, has seven pillars to represent the children that would each bear one of their names and a “magnificent atrium for Siporah,” she told the Post. In 10 days on GoFundMe, the project has garnered $111,000 in pledges out of a $1 million goal.

An investigation determined the cause of the fire was a hot plate left on for Shabbat.

Golden statue of Netanyahu is topled in Tel Aviv A golden statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared overnight in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, and was knocked down hours later.

Israeli sculptor Itay Zalait placed the sculpture mounted on a white platform as a political statement and called on the public to “topple” it. He said it was the first in a series of political-artistic acts he is planning.

The appearance of the statue was the top story on news reports Tuesday morning and created lively debate on Facebook. Some referred to the piece as a “golden calf,” using a biblical reference, and many stopped to take selfies with it.

$38M gift to Hillel Hillel International is receiving $38 million, its largest gift ever, from a foundation established by the co-founder of Home Depot.

The Marcus Foundation, established by Bernard Marcus and his wife, Billi, said Monday it would make the multi-year donation to a new Hillel staffing initiative, Talent Grants, that seeks to “recruit, train and retain talented professionals who will inspire every Jewish student to make an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning and Israel,” according to a statement..

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The municipality of Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority, will dedicate a street to the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro as a “gesture of gratitude.”

“Castro bravely faced the world, the Palestinian people admire and love him,” said a statement from the PA, according to the Latin American Jewish news service Iton Gadol. The decision was made by the city’s Central Council “in recognition of Castro’s support for the Palestinian people and former leader Yasser Arafat.”

Located six miles north of Jerusalem, Ramallah serves as the de facto administrative capital of the Palestinian Authority, where Arafat established his headquarters,

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