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October 10, 2014 • 16 Tishrei 5775
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In Congress race, no Israel split: Rice By The Jewish Star Staff Democat Kathleen Rice said this week that she and her Republic rival Bruce Blakeman were on the same page regarding Israel — they are both strong supporters. Rice, the Nassau District Attorney, told The Jewish Star “you will ďŹ nd there is very little dissent between usâ€? over Israel. Rice and Blakeman are seeking to succeed retiring Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, a Democrat, in the 4th CD that covers much of Nassau’s South Shore, including the Five Towns. Like Blakeman, Rice visited Israel during this summer’s Gaza conict. She said it was her second visit — the ďŹ rst was through Touro College 25 years ago. During an hour-long interview which covered a range of issues important to the district, Rice highlighted her efforts as district attorney to combant anti-Semitism and other bias crimes in Nassau County, which she termed “signiďŹ cantâ€? but not “an epidemic.â€? Rice criticized President Obama’s posture toward Prime Minister Netanyahu, stating that “Israel has an absolute right to defend itself and to say anything other than that is to show a lack of suport.â€? Excerpts from The Jewish Star’s interviews with Rice and Blakeman will appear in the newspaper’s Oct. 24 edition.
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Sukkah: Living in vulnerability By Noam Zion, JNS.org The sukkah, even in the Torah, seems to straddle two different ecosystems: the desert and the settled agricultural land. Both are alien to our contemporary urban and suburban lives, but still offer metaphors for life. What does the sukkah represent? Eretz Yisrael (the land of Israel) or the desert? An agricultural structure for the harvest in the ďŹ eld, or a nomadic shelter in the desert? The era when Jews were farmers celebrating the end of the harvest season, or when Jews were refugees from Egypt during the Exodus and wandering? The achievement of material prosperity, or the perennial exposure to the vicissitudes of dependence? Torah weighs in on the side of desert consciousness, reliving transitions, being on the move, and hence, feeling how exposed we are to the shifts in autumn weather and how much we rely on Divine grace. “You shall reside in sukkot for seven days; every citizen of Israel shall reside in sukkot, so that for generations you will [remember and] know that when I took the children of Israel out of Egypt, I settled them in sukkot [in the desert before reaching Eretz Yisrael]. I am Hashem your G-d.â€? (Leviticus 23:22-23) Eating and sleeping in a sukkah without the special Continued on page16
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The organized opposition to the Metropolitan Opera’s staging of the terrorism-glorifying “The Death of Klinghofferâ€? plan to demonstrate with 100 wheelchairs outside Lincoln Center on Monday, Oct. 20, at 6 pm. Leon Klinghoffer, an American Jew, was conďŹ ned to a wheelchair when he was slain by Palestinian hijackers who pushed him off the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985.
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By The Jewish Star Staff The lives of people in the Five Towns, Far Rockaway and adjacent South Shore communities are on the line because of the state’s continued delay in rebuilding State Route 878 — Nassau County’s infamous Rockaway Turnpike and Queens’ Rockaway Boulevard — said participants at a rally in Lawrence on Sunday. Rabbi Elozer Kanner, coordinator of Hatazalah of Rockaways and Nassau County, spoke of families who stayed in their homes instead of evacuating during Hurricane Sandy because they did not want to brave the Rockaway Turnpike trafďŹ c. This put both themselves and ďŹ rst responders in danger, he said. Local advocates want the Nassau Expressway, which exists in expressway form only as short appendages off the Belt Parkway and Van Vyck Expressway to the north and off the Atlantic Beach Bridge to the south, connected by an expressway-quality road past JFK and through Lawrence. Gov. Cuomo has pushed back previously scheduled work until 2025.