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NEVER AGAIN An unholy act in a holy place

In ‘Palestian street,’ cheers and sweets

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Elements of the “Palestinian streetâ€? cheered Tuesday’s massacre. Photos showed jubiliation, including ag waving, the distirbution of sweets, and masked Palestinians in Gaza holding axes and a gun. Republican Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, keynote speaker at next month’s pro-Israel Bet El dinner, said Palestinian radio hailed the killers “as martyrs [and] mosques blared congratulations through loudspeakers.â€? Those asking Israel to show restraint should “show restraint and keep their stupid mouths shut ror a change,â€? he said.

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Rav Twersky had links to Riverdale and Boston Combined News Sources Memorial services were held Tuesday night in Riverdale and Boston for Rabbi Moshe Twersky, Hy�d. Twersky was a “gifted and beloved teacher,� said Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt of the Riverdale Jewish Center in the Bronx. Twersky was from a prominent rabbinical family — his grandfather was Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik — and was the head of a religious seminary for English-speaking students in Jerusalem. Rabbi Rosenblatt is married to Twersky’s sister, the former Tzipporah Twersky. He was a “gentle, saintly scholar� who “lived his life with a kind of perfected modesty and precision,� Rabbi Rosenblatt said. “He lived in the image of a gentle G-d.� In the Boston suburb of Brookline, hundreds of people attended a service at the Maimonides School. Rabbi Twersky was a 1973 graduate of the school founded by Rav Soloveitchik. Naty Katz, a classmate of Twersky’s who now heads the school, 5DEEL 0RVKH 7ZHUVN\ spoke at the service. “I will always remember our friend Mosheh, his modesty, his brilliance, his smile, his kindness,� Katz said. “We are all heartbroken.� Another longtime friend, Danny Langermann, remembered Twersky’s skill as a football offensive lineman. Langermann also recalled a long-ago hug from his friend, the Boston Globe reported, saying, “If there is anything I will carry with me for the rest of my life it is that hug.� Twersky was the son of Rabbi Isadore Twersky, a founding director of Harvard University’s Center for Jewish Studies and a scholar of Jewish hisContinued on page 14

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Shas Party member Aryeh Deri, who was in the synagogue during the attack, told Army radio there was blood on the pews and oor, with wounded and dead worshipers still wrapped in their Talit and TeďŹ lin. “They were shouting ‘Allah Akbar,’ as they carried out the attack,â€? he said. Yosef Pasternak, also at the synagogue during the assault, told Israel Radio, “I saw people lying on the oor, blood everywhere. People were trying to ďŹ ght with [the attackers] but they didn’t have much of a chance.â€? Another witness recalled how “two people came out with their faces half missing, looking like they’d been attacked with knives.â€? A medical volunteer at the scene told Bloomberg that the attackers hacked off the arm of a worshiper who was wearing TeďŹ lin. Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, part of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), claimed responsibility for the attack, calling the attack a “norContinued on page 14

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By Jeff Dunetz, for The Jewish Star Two Palestinian terrorists barged into a synagogue in Jerusalem Tuesday morning yielding guns, knives and a meat cleaver, killing at least four worshipers and one policeman and wounding at least seven others. Three of the four murdered worshipers were Americans: Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky, 43, Hyâ€?d; Rabbi Kalmen Levin, 55, Hyâ€?d; and Rabbi Moshe Twersky, 59, Hyâ€?d. The fourth, Rabbi Avraham Goldberg, 68, Hyâ€?d, was a British citizen. The police ofďŹ cer Zidan Seyf, a Druze from the Arab town of Yanuh-Jat, died Tuesday evening from wounds incurred during the shootout, in which the terrorists died. The terrorists entered the Kehilat Yaakov synagogue on Shimon Agassi St. in the Har Nof neighborhood during Shacharit services at about 7 am. They opened ďŹ re and struck worshipers with a meat cleaver and knives.

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Temple Mount question: To pray or not to pray By Deborah Fineblum Schabb, JNS.org There are few subjects in Israel these days that arouse greater passion than prayer rights at the Temple Mount. The dramatic uptick in Palestinian terror attacks on Jews in Jerusalem in recent weeks, including Tuesday’s killing of four at a synagogue in Har Nof, has raised the temperature of the long-simmering debate over control of the holy site to a boiling point. Rabbi Yehudah Glick, a promoter of Jewish access to the Temple Mount, is still recovering from being shot by an Arab gunman on Oct. 29. Increased Muslim riots have prompted police to further clamp down on Jews visiting the site, especially on anyone making any gesture that could be interpreted as prayer. Today, a waqf (Islamic religious committee) manages the Temple Mount, though Israel provides security and enforces the waqf’s policies on access. The 37-acre compound is home to the Muslims’ Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock, sites that date back to the 7th century CE. But much earlier, the Temple Mount was revered by Jews as the spot where G-d created Adam, where Abraham was willing to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice, and where both Jewish Temples stood. Jewish tradition also says the third Temple is destined to be built there. Yet Jews are banned from praying on the Temple Mount, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel intends to maintain the “status quo” at the site. “From the day we captured the Old City [of Jerusalem] in ’67, the whole question of whether we should have the right to pray on the Temple Mount has been nothing short of bizarre,” said Jeff Bell, a resident of Ramat Beit Shemesh, which is located about 20 miles west of Jerusalem. “The real question is, why would we not have the right to pray at the Temple Mount, the holiest spot in the Jewish world? But now, if you are caught swaying, you can be arrested.” The office of Rabbi Binny Freedman, a columnist for The Jewish Star who is director of both the Jewish education organization Isralight and the Orayta Yeshiva, is located just blocks away from the Temple Mount in the Old City. Rabbi Freedman said he is concerned about the Israeli government’s attempts to limit Jewish prayer rights whenever Muslims become violent because that

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amounts to “rewarding the aggressor, a strategy that has been demonstrated to fail time and again, particularly in the Arab mindset.” Rabbi Freedman added that the controversy about Jews praying at the site “is not really about the Temple Mount.” “This issue is being used by Muslim and Arab protagonists with an agenda that is much broader. It is part of a struggle against the legitimacy of having a Jewish state to begin with,” he said. Yet Israeli-Jewish opinion on the issue is divided. That schism is reflected in a recent “Peace Index” survey by the Guttman Center at the Israel Democracy Institute and the Evens Program for Solution Conflict Resolution at Tel Aviv University. The findings said that nearly 40 percent of the Jewish population in Israel believes Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount should be allowed, whereas 56 percent maintain that Jews should not be permitted to pray there in order to “prevent friction with the Muslim world.” Kfar Saba resident Gaby Feigin describes

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the Temple Mount situation as “wide and explosive.” Though he is in favor of Jews being able to pray “in well-defined areas of the Mount,” he said he is “pessimistic about our future there” because there are advocates of Jewish prayer at the site who “don’t want dialogues between the various religious and ethnic groups, and some of them also want to destroy the mosques of Muslims on the Temple Mount and rebuild the Temple.” Mitzpe Jericho resident Leah Edelblum believes the Temple Mount issue is currently at a stalemate because “back in ’67 we got ourselves into this mess.” What she is referring to is Israeli general Moshe Dayan’s controversial move — after Israel won back Jerusalem’s Old City in the Six Day War of 1967 — to give jurisdiction over the Temple Mount to the Muslims, who had centuries earlier built a mosque on the site of the Jewish Temples. Israeli police still oversee the Temple Mount compound, in part to protect the vulnerable population of Jews praying around the clock nearby at the

Killer surprised victims weren’t Jewish Associated Press OLATHE, Kan. — An avowed white supremacist charged with killing three people outside two suburban Kansas City Jewish facilities on the eve of Passover said in a series of phone interviews that he was surprised none of the victims were Jewish. F. Glenn Miller Jr., 73, of Aurora, Missouri, told The Kansas City Star that he went to Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and a nearby Jewish retirement home “for the specific purpose of killing Jews.” Miller said learned from a newspaper story the following Saturday that the people he killed were not Jewish, The Star eported. “I was convinced there would be all Jews or mostly Jews” at the two centers, he said, but added that the attacks still accomplished his goal of making “Jews feel less secure.” Miller, who also goes by the name Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., is jailed in Johnson County on a charge of capital murder in the April 13 attacks. A preliminary hearing that was scheduled for last week was delayed so Miller could undergo a mental evaluation. Miller is accused of killing Dr. William Lewis Corporon, 69, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, who

were at the community center in Leawood for a singing contest audition. He also is accused of fatally shooting 53-year-old Terri LaManno, who was visiting her mother at the retirement home in Overland Park. Miller said he decided to carry out the attacks because it was something he wanted to do before he died. He said he suffers from emphysema and became concerned that he didn’t have much time left during an emergency room visit in late March. He said his one regret was the death of the “young white boy,” and several times during the interviews, Miller said he thought Reat Underwood was older. “The 14-year-old boy, he looked 20,” he said. Miller originally said he would not speak on the record unless The Star agreed to send a copy of the recorded interview to a longtime friend of his. The Star refused, and Miller eventually consented to an interview without any conditions. Miller also reached out to The Associated Press, but after he demanded similar conditions, the AP refused the conditions and he declined the interview. The Southern Poverty Law Center said

Miller has been immersed in white supremacy most of his life. During the early 1980s, Cross was “one of the more notorious white supremacists in the U.S.,” according to the Anti-Defamation League. He founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and served as its “grand dragon” before launching the supremacist White Patriot Party, the law center said. By 1987, he was the target of a nationwide manhunt for violating terms of his bond while appealing a North Carolina conviction for operating a paramilitary camp. Federal agents tracked him along with three other men to a rural Missouri mobile home stocked with hand grenades, automatic weapons and thousands of bullets. A federal grand jury indicted Miller on weapons charges and accused him of plotting robberies and the assassination of the law center’s founder, Morris Dees. He then served three years in federal prison. As part of a plea bargain, he testified against other Klan leaders in a 1988 sedition trial. Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe and Miller’s lawyer, Ron Evans, said they were precluded from commenting because of a judicial gag order.

Western Wall. “We gave [the Temple Mount] away when it was not ours to give, but G-d’s,” Edelblum said. “Now we are dealing with the ramifications of that bad decision.” At the same time, many observant Jews stay away from the Temple Mount out of fear of accidentally walking over the spot of the Holy of Holies, the room in the Jewish Temple where the high priest entered each Yom Kippur to beseech G-d on behalf of the entire nation. Among the observers endeavoring to demystify the complexities of the Temple Mount is Rabbi Stewart Weiss, a Jerusalem Post columnist whose day job is directing the Ra’anana-based Jewish Outreach Center. Though many Israelis don’t think Jews should be able to pray at the Temple Mount — whether out of fear of angering Muslims or accidentally trampling over the Holy of Holies — Weiss argued “that we not allow ourselves to be intimidated by rioting, which then results in the police clamping down further on Jews on the site.” The claim that a Jewish presence on the Temple Mount “inflames” Muslim sensitivities and invites disaster is disingenuous, according to Weiss. “While today the Mount may indeed be a flashpoint for [Muslims], last week it was the light rail, and tomorrow it may be the Malcha Mall [in Jerusalem],” he said. “What shall we do when they riot en masse at the Kotel, or at the Cave of Machpela (Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs). … Shall we forbid Jewish worship there, too?” Yitzhak Sokoloff agrees that the issue goes well beyond this trapezoidal piece of land. A veteran political analyst and the president of Kesher, an educational tour business, Sokoloff called the Temple Mount situation “very dangerous stuff.” “It’s being used to manipulate the Muslims — anytime their political leadership wants to create violence on the streets, they fire up their followers with talk about the Jewish ‘settlers’ attacking the Temple Mount,” he said. “In recent years it’s become a very clever rallying cry.” Indeed, in October, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned that “we have to prevent the settlers from entering the Temple Mount by any means. It is our mosque and they have no right to enter and desecrate it.” So what is likely to be the fate of the Temple Mount? Like Feigin, many Israelis are pessimistic about the situation. The “Peace Index” survey found that less than one-third of Israeli Jews (31 percent) believe there is now a chance to reach an agreement that will allow both Jews and Muslims to pray there on a regular basis. But Sokoloff sees a ray of hope, however thin. “We will always stick to the idea that holy places have to be shared,” he said. “We make it clear that we are not fighting to turn it into the third Temple but that, yes, Jews have a right to pray up there, as do Muslims.” Weiss said a synagogue should be built on the Temple Mount, at a reasonable distance away from both Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock. “It wouldn’t threaten [Muslims worshippers] in any way,” he said. “There is plenty of room up there, that’s not an issue, and it can be built in a place that in no way raises halachic concerns [about trespassing on the Holy of Holies].” “It can be done peacefully,” added Weiss. “But when it comes to the Muslim ideology that Israel is Muslim land and they’re the only ones who should be allowed to pray in this country, we need to make it very clear that this is our country and we can’t be gunshy.”

Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is condemning what he calls an “unacceptable” attack on a Jerusalem synagogue and is calling for Israel and the Palestinians to take “courageous” steps to forge peace. Francis told his weekly General Audience on Wednesday that he was greatly concerned by the “alarming increase in tensions” in the Holy Land. Two Palestinian cousins carried out the attack Tuesday, killing five people. Francis, who hosted the Israeli and Palestinian presidents for a daylong peace prayer in the Vatican gardens last summer, said he was praying for all victims. He urged both sides to end the “spiral of hatred and violence and take courageous decisions for reconciliation and peace.”

C’hurst to pay for more security By Jeffrey Bessen, Nassau Herald To address concerns raised by recent minor crimes, the Village of Cedarhurst is working with the Nassau County Police Department’s 4th Precinct South auxiliary police to establish a security patrol to augment the law enforcement already provided by the NCPD and the volunteer unit. The patrol, still in the planning stage, may comprise offduty auxiliary police officers, who would be paid by the village using grant money set aside for law-enforcement-related activities, Trustee Ari Brown explained. “It’s not a matter of not enough policing,” Brown said. “We can always do better. The police are not at our beck and call, and certain areas of the village have had incidents over the past few years. This is to enhance the residents’ quality of life.”

Jewish man beated on Brooklyn subway Associated Press Authorities are investigating the beating of an Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn as a possible hate crime. It happened in Williamsburg at the Marcy Avenue train station just before 4 pm Monday. The Daily News says 53-year-old Rabbi Haim was waiting at the station when one of three suspects tried to take something out of his pocket. When the victim confronted the man, police say the man grabbed the victim’s umbrella and beat him over the head while yelling anti-Semitic slurs. Two other suspects also assaulted Haim and a bystander who tried to intervene before all three fled onto train.

Welcome to YI Woodmere Last Motzei Shabbat. a new members event at the Young Israel of Woodmere drew a “standing room only” crowd of both new and seasoned congregants. A video showed the history of the shul since its establishment in the 1950’s; Toby Jungreis and Hillel Tuchman entertained. Pictured at the Sisterhood-sponsored event are committee chairperson Dena Goldblatt and committee member Bernie Goldblatt.

The patrols would use Cedarhurst’s code enforcement vehicles for shifts lasting at least four hours, ideally scheduled at times when crimes like vehicular break-ins and damage are most likely to occur — typically late at night and early in the morning, according to Deputy Inspector Danny Gluck, the commanding officer of the 4th Precinct South auxiliary police unit that patrols the Five Towns. The squad has nearly 40 members, and is the largest auxiliary unit in the county. Over the past year, there have been several vehicle breakins during which property was stolen, and more than a few vehicles were “keyed” — deliberately scratched — during a rash of incidents this summer. “We want to use the people who know the community, are licensed security people and are looking to make extra money,” Brown said. “These individuals are our neighbors and friends that have a vested interest in our community.” One incident that raised concern among Cedarhurst residents was the reported robbery of a 60-year-old woman in the village who was allegedly attacked by four women at 7:15 p.m. on Nov. 9. The woman was walking from the Cedarhurst Long Island Rail Road train station when the women converged on her, punched her in the head and took her pocketbook, police said. “[The mugging] of a woman at the corner of Leroy Avenue and Fifth Avenue, which is near where I live, is very concerning to me,” said resident Michael Fried, “and aroundthe-clock patrols, or at least night-time random patrols, could cut down on this violent crime.” Should the patrols be deployed at other parts of the day, when there are fewer auxiliary police available, Fried said he would want officers to enforce traffic laws. “The roving patrols could also address the citizenry walking in the street, creating a hazard for drivers,” he said. “I also think the security patrol should be able to issue citations for certain matters such as double parking and driving while using a cell phone without a hands-free device.” Both Brown and Gluck said the details of the program — how many patrols there would be, when and how long they would work and how much they would be paid — are still being worked out. “We want to get this going as quickly as possible,” Brown said. “Hopefully in the next two weeks.”

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happens next? Fundamentally, Western negotiators are being hampered by the same knowledge and intelligence gaps that have dogged the entire Iranian nuclear saga for more than a decade. Put simply, the Iranian regime’s deliberately obstructive strategy has been to prevent inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from building up a true, veriďŹ able picture of Iran’s nuclear installations and capabilities. While IAEA experts are frequently very good at guessing what they haven’t been told, the fact remains that the Obama administration is pushing for a deal without the critical data on which success depends. Indeed, so unreliable have the Iranians been that the Joint of Plan of Action agreed to in Geneva on Nov. 24 last year wasn’t actually implemented until January of this year, leaving Iran’s uranium and plutonium production programs “signiďŹ cantly closer to breakout capacity than if the Joint Plan of Action had been implemented on November 24, 2013,â€? according to former IAEA deputy director general Dr. Olli Heinonen. When I conducted a long interview with Heinonen earlier this year, he sounded a warning that may come to haunt those seeking an Iranian deal at almost any cost. “Everything that happens [with Iran’s nuclear program] is at a known, declared place,â€? he said. “There is no assurance that there isn’t another enrichment plant under construction somewhere else.â€?

This week, Heinonen was again highlighting Iran’s duplicity with regard to what’s known diplomatically as the PMD (Possible Military Dimensions) of the Iranian nuclear program. Speaking to the Sunday Times in London, Heinonen offered an independent assessment of Iran’s nuclear capacity — speciďŹ cally that Iran could have up to 5,000 IR2m centrifuges, rather than the 1,008 it has claimed. The IR-2m devices are up to ďŹ ve times more effective in enriching uranium than their predecessor model. Then, on a conference call organized by The Israel Project, Heinonen explained that with only 1,000 IR-2m centrifuges, Iran could enrich enough natural uranium to make a weapon in just one year. Were the Iranians to use their stockpile of 3.5 percent enriched uranium, the same number of centrifuges could produce the same result in six months. The addition of more centrifuges would simply speed up this process. None of that exactly suggests that a forthcoming deal would arrest the mullahs’ desire — which they insist they don’t have! — to weaponize their nuclear program. Even the looming Nov. 24 deadline hasn’t curbed the Iranian determination to circumvent restrictions on any nuclear activities that they are able to. And we are compelled to ask not just how insistent the Obama administration is being with the Iranians, but whether they are now engaged in outright wishful thinking. Reuters recently reported that “Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham gave no indication that Iran had stopped feeding natural uranium gas into the so-called IR-5 centrifugeâ€? — a more advanced device that also speeds up the enrichment process. Yet the same report says that “Washington said on Monday Tehran had ceasedâ€? such activity. Frankly, that is just abbergasting. Our own administration is conďŹ rming Iranian compliance before the Iranians themselves do so. If you read what the Iranians have to say, you will learn that they regard the whole centrifuge problem as an irritating irrelevance. As regime mouthpiece Press TV reported, “sources close to the Iranian negotiating team say the main stumbling block in the way of resolving the Western dispute over Iran’s nuclear energy program remains to be the removal of all the bans imposed on the country, and not the number of centrifuges or the level of uranium enrichment.â€? Iranian President Hassan Rouhani — long-feted as a moderate despite his own shadowy role in the development of the Iranian nuclear program, not to mention the appalling human rights abuses that have marked his time in ofďŹ ce — is also getting fed up with anything that sounds like a demand from Western negotiators. On Wednesday, he told his cabinet, “Iran has made its utmost efforts and made the necessary adjustments to its demands and we hope that all the P5+1 countries, particularly the U.S., which occasionally seeks excessive demands in the nuclear talks, will understand the circumstances.â€? In other words, shut up and make a deal. President Barack Obama, sadly, may not need much convincing. By writing secret letters to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Obama has proved that he wants a ďŹ nal accord, and getting one on Nov. 24

THIS WEEK PAST: STAR FLASHBACK — Vendors at an Israeli fair tell why they’ve come. — Rambam students, on the march again, mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht with a rally in front of the Queens home of a former SS guard. — The president of the Lawrence district school board, Dr. Asher Mansdorf, reports receiving anonymous death threats mailed to his home and ofďŹ ce. Chanting “No SS in the U.S.,â€? 500 students from Machon Hatorah’s HAFTR division picketed Germany’s mission to the United Nations, then 200 students from the Rambam’s division of Machon HaTorah rallied outside the home of a Nazi war criminal in Jackson Heights. — A couple of headlines from page 1: “Orthodox Jewish community sweings an election — No, not hereâ€? and “Catching autism early is catching on.â€? — Orthodox Union President Stephen Savitsky was among with 15 Jewish leaders to meet President Obama at the White House. He recounted this encounter, at a talk in Kehilas Bais Yehuda Tzvi in Cedarhurst. The lead story tells how worn books, including seforim, can be restored instead of discarded. — A red swastika is superimposed on a graphic image of shattered glass along with the headline, “Kristallnacht still cuts deep.â€? — A program at the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County teaches Torah to developmentally disabled children. A Catholic priest who is a shoah expert speaks at the Young Israel of Woodmere and signs his book, “Holocaust by Bullets.â€? — Columnist Jeff Dunetz tells “How the GOP should regroup from its election defeat.â€? — Two Five Towners who were there, recall Kindertransport.

will, he calculates, limit the damage that might be done once the Republicans take control of the Senate in January. Republicans, however, have launched an immediate push to secure the approval of Congress for any deal. We can also expect a ďŹ ght if the president decides to use any of his executive powers to override congressional pressure. In that sense, failure to reach a deal on November 24 should be welcomed, because the only deal that can be made in the limited time remaining is a bad one. True, it would mean that Obama’s ambition of a historic peace with Iran falls by the wayside. But what the president understands as peace will — for other countries in the region like Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates — be interpreted as the green light for further Iranian expansion in the Middle East. It would also be a game-changing shift in the regional balance of power that an eventual Iranian nuclear weapon would usher in. Thankfully, our federal legislators seem to understand the stakes involved here. For the time being, then, the main brake on Iran’s further accumulation of power and inuence lies in the U.S. Congress. Ben Cohen is the Shillman Analyst for JNS. org and author of “Some Of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitismâ€? (Edition Critic, 2014).

ALAN JAY GERBER KOSHER BOOKWORK

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he very words, Chillul Hashem (the defamation of G-d’s name), should make every observant Jew cringe by its very sound and meaning. Much grief has been experienced by our people because of Chillul Hashem. Unfortunately this defamation of G-d’s name casts a pall over all that we all stand for. It is the only stricture in Jewish law that carries G-d’s name together with its opposite twin, Kidduch Hashem (the sanctiďŹ cation of the name of G-d), and of the afďŹ rmation of our people’s adherence to Torah. There must be a reason for this, and in considering the complex factors involved, the afďŹ xation of the Almighty’s name is most warranted in this context. In a newly released work from the Orthodox Union, “Headlines: Halachic Debates of Current Eventsâ€? by Dovid Lichtenstein, much space is devoted to a discussion of our tradition’s attitude toward Chillul Hashem. Given the increase in Chillul Hashem this past year, any public treatment and discussion on this topic is most appropriate. This subject, whether it pertains to our rabbinical leaders, lay leaders or just plain amcha, is all worthy of public discussion. In this, this book succeeds, providing halachic sources and rational arguments from legitimate sources as the bottom line for the author’s opinions and ďŹ nal conclusions. Further, we must consider the perspective

that provides us with what must be considered in considering the sadness of this topic. The Orthodox Union, in publishing this work freely acknowledges that Orthodox Jews are no strangers to controversy, both from within and without. Chillul Hashem is perhaps the most hurtful of all sins in that it could be avoided, is the product of greed and lust, and is deliberate in that it reects a total and absolute disregard for our G-d, our faith, and our people. According to the author, the basis of this command is atin Leviticus 22:32, “You shall not profane My sacred name.â€? “Many people intuitively assume that dishonoring the Jewish People or the Jewish faith in the eyes of non-Jews transgresses this most grievous prohibition, for which, as the Talmud [Yoma 86a] famously establishes, atonement can be achieved only through death. This essay will explore the deďŹ nition and parameters of the prohibition of Chillul Hashem in order to determine whether it indeed requires us to avoid defaming the Jewish people in the eyes of gentiles.â€? In setting the above statement as his marker for what is to follow, Lichtenstein goes into detail parsing this topic into various subtopics for further analysis and evaluation. It matters little to him, or to the reader for that matter, whether the sin being discussed occurred in Lawrence, Washington, Atlanta,

or in a charitable agency that daily interfaces with public ofďŹ cials in the name of helping the poverty stricken. A sin involving Chillul Hashem is a severe sin that ďŹ nally is discussed in this work in a sober presentment within the holy parameters of our sacred, holy faith. This review will not go into details which are far too extensive to warrant summary at this point. It is just enough for me to state that this book, should be a must on your learning list. The Orthodox Union has, through the OU Press, performed a great service in this regard. The OU has in the past provided to adherents of our faith the kosher food that goes into our mouths; with this work by Dovid Lichtenstein, OU has extended its service to include what comes out of our mouths, governing our actions both in private and in public, as our G-d mandates us to do. n a related theme, another excellent work, briey referenced recently, deals with “Taxes and Dina De Malkhuta Dina: Must one pay local taxes?â€? and “Reporting Criminals: If someone has evidence incriminating a fellow Jew, should he report it to authorities?â€? In dealing with these two topics, Rabbi Shlomo Brody’s “A Guide to the Complexâ€? (Maggid Books, 2014) briey but completely details his psak on these two sensitive issues,

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both of which are on the cusp of Chillul Hash em. They too, warrant your attention in ligh of current events. And, ďŹ nally, we have “The Ethics of Gen esisâ€? (Kodesh Press) by Rabbi Dr. Abba En gelberg, wherein we read in an Appendix 8 segment entitled, “Honesty and Lying in Ju daism,â€? the following teaching: “Lying is common in the book of Genesis averaging about one per weekly portion Even if even one can be justiďŹ ed, the net re sult might be a society where people canno rely on each other. On the other hand, since sometimes the lie was told by someone in mortal danger, there was little alternative.â€? Further on he continues: “Telling the truth is a means of generating love and harmony among mankind. SpeciďŹ c ways of being truthful might be very situa tion-dependent, and so it might be hard to properly formulate a general law. Although many Biblical verses seem to indicate a pro hibition against lying, most of them are no considered to be the source for such a law.â€? Sources for these teachings accompany this appendix detailing Biblical sources, and their relationships to each topic. As with anything else that demonstrate absolutes, there are always the exceptions, in this case charts and narratives that list when the Talmud allows for lying, as well as rule for telling the truth. All the above is noted to demonstrate tha Chillul Hashem, and the behavioral element that spur it on, can serve to self-justify itsel with some of the items presented in Rabb Engelberg’s essay. A good reading of his work will further enhance your understanding o the complexity of this topic and on how to avoid the violations of Chillul Hashem.

Statement by AIPAC on the situation in Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee 7HUURULVW DWWDFNV DUH RQ WKH ULVH • On Nov. 18, two Palestinians armed with knives, axes and guns attacked a Jerusalem synagogue during morning prayers, killing four Israelis. Three of the victims were dual U.S.-Israeli citizens. • While [Palestinian President Mahmoud] Abbas issued a statement condemning the attack, he also demanded an “end to invasions of Al-Aqsa Mosque.â€? TawďŹ q Tirawi, a Fatah Central Committee member, justiďŹ ed the attack as “a reaction to the recent crimes of the occupation‌â€? • Separate Palestinian car-ramming attacks on Oct. 22 and Nov. 5 killed four Israelis and wounded at least 23. Abbas’ advisor Sultan Abu Al-Einein praised the driver responsible for the death of a three-month old dual U.S.-Israeli citizen. • On Oct. 29, a Palestinian terrorist gunned down Rabbi Yehuda Glick, an advocate for Jewish access to the Temple Mount and dual U.S.-Israeli citizen in a drive-by shooting in Jerusalem. After the terrorist responsible for the attack was killed in a ďŹ reďŹ ght with Israeli forces, Abbas sent a condolence letter to his family calling him a “martyr.â€? • Palestinian terrorists also carried out two separate stabbing attacks on Nov. 10, killing two Israelis and injuring several others. $WWDFNV IROORZ QHZ LQFLWHPHQW E\ $EEDV DQG KLV )DWDK SDUW\ • In an address to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 26, Abbas perpetuated the vicious lie that Israel committed genocide against the Palestinian people. He accused Israel of “war crimesâ€? and called on Palestinians to “resistâ€? and to ďŹ ght against Israel. • Abbas elevated his anti-Israel rhetoric

on Oct. 17 when he called on Palestinians to prevent Israeli “settlersâ€? from entering the Temple Mount “by any means.â€? The PA president incited Palestinians to violence, saying, “We must prevent them from entering the Noble Sanctuary in any way. ‌ We must confront them and defend our holy sites.â€? • Following major riots, Israel closed the Temple Mount for security reasons. Abbas called the decision a “declaration of war,â€? and his Fatah party called for a “day of rageâ€? to protest the closure. • In a Nov. 11 address commemorating the tenth anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death, Abbas said he will not allow the Tem-

ple Mount to be “contaminated by Jews,â€? that Jewish prayer at the site would cause a “devastating religious war,â€? and that Israel has no claim to Jerusalem. • Also on Nov. 11, jailed terrorist and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti called for “comprehensive resistance and the rieâ€? against Israel. • Newspapers and social media accounts tied to Fatah and the PA published a series of cartoons praising and advocating car-ramming attacks on Jews. Several cartoons designed to spread fear and to convince Palestinians that Jews intend to capture and deďŹ le Al-Aqsa Mosque were also published.

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0HDQZKLOH ,VUDHO KDV WDNHQ LPSRUWDQW VWHSV WR GH HVFDODWH • On Oct. 27, Israel allowed PA PM Rami Hamdallah to visit the Temple Mount. • During trilateral meetings in Jordan between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Secretary of State John Kerry and King Abdullah of Jordan, Israel agreed to permit Palestinians of all ages to visit the Temple Mount complex. • Netanyahu has also made clear that the status quo will be maintained on the Temple Mount and urged Israeli politicians to refrain from any statements or actions that could iname the situation. The Palestinian Authority must take serious steps to de-escale the situation and end incitement.. • Abbas must cease all inammatory language against Israel which has the effect of provoking violence. • Abbas must condemn terror and make it clear that terrorism undermines prospects for a better future for Israelis and Palestinians. • The PA must continue security cooperation with Israel and take responsibility for controlling the border crossings into Gaza. • Secretary Kerry called on the Palestinian leadership to take action to de-escalate the situation. The Palestinian Authority “must begin to take serious steps to restrain any kind of incitement that comes from their language, from other people’s language, and exhibit the kind of leadership that is necessary to put this region on a different path.â€? • U.S. law predicates PA funding on evidence that it is “acting to counter incitement of violence against Israelis and is supporting activities aimed at promoting peace, coexistence, and security cooperation with Israel.â€?

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Taking a stand, by not taking a stand RABBI BINNY FREEDMAN THE HEART OF JERUSALEM

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ometimes, you have to be willing to take a stand, even if your goal is just to keep standing. I don’t remember what it was that Barak had done that had so angered our sadistic first sergeant, but I have a vivid memory of the dressing down he was receiving, in front of the whole company. It was Friday afternoon, we were stuck on base for Shabbat in the middle of advanced tank crew training (Tzamap) and Barak was enduring a dressing down the likes of which would have caused most men to wilt. But, incredibly, he just stood there taking it, with a smile on his face. Realizing his screaming was not having the desired effect, the sergeant ordered Barak to run and get the 05 machine gun off of his tank. Moments later, he made Barak lift it over his head and begin to run. Now, the 05 is an enormously heavy gun, and running with it is extremely difficult; running with it held high over your head is next to impossible. But Barak would not break. Shabbat was coming and I guess he realized they could not run him past sunset and he was determined to hang on. Incredibly, as they ran him around the tanks again and again, he never let the smile leave his face. Eventually, the sergeant realized he had lost the gambit and a different commander came out, maybe 20 minutes before Shabbat, and dismissed all of us, including Barak. We all made it back to our barracks where Barak collapsed on his bunk; he spent the rest of Shabbat recovering. (In the IDF there are no army maneuvers on Shabbat.) But he had taken a stand, by not making a stand. ll of which leaves us wondering about the wisdom of Yitzchak’s behavior in one of the more challenging series of events in his life, found in this week’s portion of Toldot. There is, once again, a famine in the land of Canaan, and Yitzchak journeys to the coastal region of Gerar (probably today’s Gaza strip area), to king Avimelech (likely a Philistine title such as Pharaoh in Egypt and

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was not the actual name of this ruler). Although the natural thing to do in a severe famine would have been to follow in his father Avraham’s footsteps and head south towards Egypt, G-d tells him not to go to Egypt (Bereishit 26:2-3), so he stays in Gerar. Despite the famine, Yitzchak was very successful, with crops yielding 100 fold the normal yield, and he becomes a wealthy man (26:13-14) — which makes the local Philistines jealous. So the Avimelech tells Yitzchak he has become too wealthy and powerful, and essentially demands that he leave town (26:16). Ramban and other commentaries suggest the Philistines were embarrassed to have a Jew in the area wealthier than the king. Yitzchak offers no argument and promptly moves to Nachal Gerar, in the valley below (26:17). All of the wells his father Avraham had dug in this area had been stopped up and filled with earth by the local Philistines (in an attempt, perhaps, to later “discover” and thus lay claim to them) as soon as Avraham died (26:15), so Yitzchak his son now re-claims these wells as his property by digging them up anew. And once again, the Philistine shepherds of Gerar argue with Yitzchak’s shepherds over the wells (26:20), saying that the water is theirs. But one wonders whether the argument is really over water, as the people of Gerar had been managing without these new wells prior to Yitzchak’s arrival. If anything, one might have expected the Philistines to recognize that Yitzchak was making an important contribution to the area, with an influx of wealth and new wells, something that could clearly be of benefit to the entire community. But hatred and enmity need not make a whole lot of sense; sometimes it is important to recognize when our enemies are not arguing in order to get something, but rather are much more interested in getting rid of something: us. And again, there does not seem to be any attempt at an equitable solution; instead Yitzchak simply digs another well (26:21),

and again, the Philistines argue with Yitzchak over this well and again, incredibly, Yitzchak simply moves on, relocating to a new area, and he digs another well! Finally this time, having traveled far north of Gerar, there is no argument over the well, and they call the well Rechovot, from the root Rachav, or broad, because: “Now, G-d has made broad space for us, and we can be fruitful in the land.” (26:22) What is going on here? What happened to the power and greatness of the family of Abraham? Is Yitzchak afraid? Did not his father, who fought and defeated no less than five kings and the mightiest army the world had seen up to that point succeed in teaching his son that you have to be willing to fight for what is right? What sort of a message does this send to the future generations of the Jewish people? And finally, the conclusion of this odd series of episodes ends with another new well the servants of Yitzchak have dug. And Yitzchak calls it Sheva, for which Be’er Sheva is named “until this day” (26:33) — all of which is very strange, considering that the verse (26:23) tells us Yitzchak arrived in Be’er Sheva, long before this new well was ever dug! In fact, the Torah tells us that it was really Avraham, a generation earlier, who named the city Be’er Sheva (21:31) over his own treaty (of seven ewes) with Avimelech — so why is this now ascribed to Yitzchak? :KDW LV JRLQJ RQ KHUH" To understand this story and the deeper message hidden in between the lines, we need to understand what differentiated Yitzchak’s mission from that of his father. Avraham was the first; the beginning; Yitzchak was the continuation; these are entirely different roles and represent different parts of the process that created the nation that would become the Jewish people. Avraham is a lone voice in a world that is a morass of pagan idolatry; his mission is to introduce to the world the idea that there is One G-d who created the world and that there is therefore one objective ethic, which

We want everything NOW — peace now and Mashiach now. But life, and peace, doesn’t always work that way.

can guide the world to peace. Avraham’s life experience is a burst of outward energy; he is constantly being tested, always journeying — he arrives in Israel and travels the land, only to have to go down to Egypt as the result of a famine; he fights wars and climbs mountains. Ultimately he brings into the world the first Jewish child, but the Jewish people is not yet ready to be born. Avraham’s life is active, and Yitzchak’s is passive. Avraham digs wells and signs treaties, but Yitzchak simply (for the most part) re-digs the wells his father had already dug. Avraham has to offer his son up on the altar, and Yitzchak is the passive sacrifice. Yitzchak never leaves the land of Israel. Yitzchak’s mission is to cultivate the fields his father planted, which is perhaps the most difficult part of the journey; it is neither the departure, which holds with it the excitement of embarking on a new path for points unknown, nor is it the fulfillment of arrival, with the knowledge that the long hard journey has been worthwhile. hich brings us back to our story: Yitzchak is not naming this place Be’er Sheva; he is re-naming it, and that is why it continues to be called Be’er Sheva till this very day. And perhaps this is why Yitzchak is not fighting Avimelech, because that is not what Yitzchak is about. His job is to perpetuate the dream of Avraham, by demonstrating that he is not there by virtue of his mighty army, but by virtue of the fact that his father dug the wells. His goal is to perpetuate the claim of the Jewish people to those wells, in the land of Israel, forever. We would do well in our challenging times, to learn carefully the messages of the life of Yitzchak. We live in a generation that wants everything NOW. We want peace now and we want Mashiach now, and all our technology allows us to have everything at our fingertips. But life, and certainly peace, doesn’t always work that way, and that has been our challenge. In 1993, the State of Israel was ready for Yaakov, but perhaps we had not yet toiled enough with the long journey of Yitzchak. May Hashem bless us all with the perseverance and patience needed to do this hard and difficult work, with our Arab neighbors, with our fellow Jews, and especially with ourselves.

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Yitzchak and Avimelekh’s utopian peace talks RABBI AVI BILLET PARSHA OF THE WEEK As the main character in the story of the book of Bereshit, our forefather Yitzchak gets all of one chapter before the tale switches its focus to Yaakov. Towards the end of chapter 26, Yitzchak is approached by Avimelekh, king of Gerar, with whom most of the prior encounters of the chapter resembled proverbial head-butts, and he is offered a peace treaty. Yitzchak’s response is classic: “Why have you come to me? You hate me! You sent me out of [your land]!” (26:27) Unfazed by the bold accusation and criticism, Avimelekh and company respond, “We have surely seen that G-d is with you, so we declare that an agreement should exist between us — between us and you — and we’ll forge a covenant with you, that just as we did not touch you, you will do no harm to us. We

did only good to you and [we] let you leave in peace.” (26:28-29) If only peace with the enemy was so easy to come by! Some of the midrashim on these verses point to how Yitzchak used a tactic employed by his father, of straight unadulterated criticism. This kind of argument — pointing out the flaws without holding back — brings an honest second party to realize their ills, embrace their flaws, and come to appreciate and even love the accusing party. In the case of Avraham, and now at least a half century later with Yitzchak, the method brings about an agreement to cease hostilities and to truly live in peace at least until the death of either covenant-maker breaks the bond of agreement. The Or HaChaim notes that Yitzchak was compelled to say what he said, not because he had any objection to making peace (on

the contrary, Yitzchak was intent on living up to the covenant that had been made with his father) but because he believed his own success caused his adversary chose to break the prior agreement. In Yitzchak’s view, the hatred they’ve harbored towards him was on account of their jealousy. Or HaChaim notes what is “known,” that any hatred that is based on some reality dissipates only when that reality changes, except for the hatred that comes from jealousy. Hatred from jealousy doesn’t drop unless there is a complete overhaul in the perception of what causes the jealousy. Yitzchak’s critique is biting, but as Rabbenu Bachaye points out, it opens the door for him to receive from Avimelekh a pointby-point rebuttal. We have no reason to suggest that the peace made this time was not honored through the time the Israelites went

We see that G-d is with you, and we want to honor any treaty that is mutually beneficial.

down to Egypt, if not later. (Mechilta on Beshalach suggests one of the reasons the Israelites, when leaving Egypt, did not return to the Land through the land of the Philistines is because of this treaty!) We pray for a time when the other nation within the Land, within the borders of the Land promised to Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov, can follow the model of Avimelekh. It is ok to be jealous of the success of the family of Yitzchak. It is even ok to have animosity due to that success. But there has to come a point in time when all the cards are put on the table and the realization hits that the best move is to just make peace. Why? Because the other nation within those borders will come to the realization of “we see that G-d is with you,” and we want to honor any treaty that is mutually beneficial to all — that you (the Jews) can have the peace that you want and we (the other nations in the Land) can benefit from the success and the bounty that you’ve brought to this Land. It’s a utopian vision for peace. But didn’t someone once say something like, “If you will it, it doesn’t have to be a dream?”

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Rambam marks 76th anniversary of Kristallnacht Rambam Mesivta Nov. 9 and 10 marked the 76th anniversary of “The Night of Broken Glass.” Since its inception over two decades ago, Rambam has commemorated this day of infamy with special programming, speakers, and often time rallies outside the homes of Nazi war criminals. This year’s program was a combination of a study of history and Torah perspectives. Mr. Joel Berkowitz, noted Rambam Jewish history teacher, summarized what transpired and shared with the students original newspaper clippings and rare historical documentation of the pre-Holocaust era. He pointed out that the “groundwork for anti-Semitism” was put in place in Germany during years of Martin Luther. “The decree of Luther called for Germany to confiscate Jewish property, burn Jewish books, destroy their houses of worship and the arrest Jews on the street — exactly those very same

anti-Semitic laws promulgated by the Nazi regime,” he said. Rabbi Yotav Eliach showed gripping footage of Kristallnacht and reminded the talmidim that evil can flourish

when good people fail to act. “It has been our tradition to speak out against evil — because it is in fact our obligation to do so,” he said. Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman identified

some of the lessons we can derive from Kristallnacht. He pointed out that contrary to many historians — the Holocaust did not “begin with Kristallnacht, but rather began with the virulently anti-Semitic Nuremberg laws in the early 1930s.” He shared that “Torah teaches us that Yaakov Avinu noticed the subtle facial expressions of Lavan and responded accordingly. We too face threats from Iran, Hamas and their ilk and must do what we can in a proactive manner to thwart the threat.” He mentioned that human nature does not change the fact that evil people have within them the potential to perpetrate the worst atrocities under conditions that will allow it. Ultimately, said Rabbi Friedman, “We must do everything in our power to defend klal Yisrael, which includes utilizing the tools on earth which are available to us with a life of Torah and mitzvos which hopefully will enable us to merit Siyat DisHmaya.”

Children at Hebrew Academy of Nassau ink classroom compact and each signed a Classroom Compact, in front of their teacher, Mrs. Spitalnik, and their peers. As part of the compact the students promised “obedience in class” and that they would come up with rules for their classroom that were “just and equal.” As part of the lesson the students discussed that while Americans today take for granted that everyone will be

treated equally, the idea was a new concept when the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact because in Europe, friends of the king were treated better than the average person. The students also discussed that even today people continue to come to America in search of a better life with greater opportunities and fair and equal treatment of all people.

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HANC Fifth Graders in Mrs. Spitalnik’s Social Studies class at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, brought American History to life when they signed their very own “Classroom Compact”. While learning about the Mayflower Compact, the students crafted

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By Stephen M. Flatow, JNS.org Bessen, Nassau Herald The scenario has been repeated more times than I can remember: Palestinian terrorists murder Israelis. The Obama administration condemns the attack. And that’s it. No change in U.S. policy, no penalties or consequences for those who encourage and praise the killers. The Palestinians are, quite literally, getting away with murder. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the Nov. 18 slaughter of four Jews in a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood. He even acknowledged that it was “a pure result of incitement, of calls for days of rageâ€? by the Palestinian leadership. Indeed it was. It’s too bad it took a massacre to get Secretary Kerry to admit that. If only he had spoken out against Palestinian incitement weeks or months ago. But “speaking outâ€? is not enough. Bland verbal condemnations of incitement don’t make any difference. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and has colleagues don’t take America’s words seriously. There have to be actions. The Palestinian leaders need to see that there will be real consequences for their incitement. Secretary Kerry said that Palestinian leaders “must begin to take serious steps to restrain any kind of incitement that comes from their language, from other people’s language, and exhibit the kind of leadership that is necessary to put this region on a different path.â€? But what if they don’t? What’s he going to do about it? Back in 1998, President Bill Clinton’s administration established a Trilateral Committee on Incitement. (That’s what Israel received in exchange for agreeing to the Wye River Memorandum.) But the committee turned out to be a farce. The Israeli members of the committee would complain about Palestinian leaders making inciting statements, and the Palestinians would respond by pointing to some individual Israeli newspaper columnist who said something strongly critical of the Palestinians, and they would say that, too, was incitement. The problem was that the Clinton administration refused to deďŹ ne “incitement.â€? It refused to acknowledge the difference between what a Palestinian ofďŹ cial said and what an individual Israeli pundit said. The U.S. preferred to play the

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“both sides are guilty� game. It was like putting Holocaust survivors and Holocaust deniers in a room together and declaring that each side has its own equally valid perspective. President Obama’s response to the Har Nof massacre took the same “both sides� approach. He declared, “At this sensitive moment in Jerusalem, it is all the more important for Israeli and Palestinian leaders and ordinary citizens to work cooperatively together to lower tensions, reject violence, and seek a path forward towards peace.� Calling on “Israeli and Palestinian leaders� to “lower tensions and reject violence� is saying that they are both currently not doing enough to lower tensions or reject violence. Both sides are to blame. Both sides need to act. This kind of moral equivalency is false and outrageous. Israel has done everything possible to lower tensions. Israel is the victim. The Palestinians are the aggressors. But President Obama

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refuses to acknowledge that simple truth. If the Obama administration is really interested in lowering tensions and getting the Palestinians to reject violence there is plenty it can do. Here are a few ďŹ rst steps: •Revive the Trilateral Commission on Incitement, but start by deďŹ ning incitement, and then impose real penalties on the inciters. •The PA has a policy of paying salaries to Palestinian terrorists who are imprisoned by Israel. Whatever they pay the prisoners should be deducted from America’s $500-million annual aid to the PA. The PA also pays the families of terrorists who are killed in action — meaning that the families of the Jamal cousins, who carried out the Har Nof massacre are about to receive large checks from the PA. Deduct that from the U.S. aid package, too. •The Har Nof attack was perpetrated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. It’s the second-largest faction in the PLO, of which Abbas is chairman. The U.S. should demand that Abbas expel the PFLP from the PLO. If he refuses declare him to be partially responsible for the Har Nof attack and put him on the “U.S. Watch List,â€? which prohibits terrorists from entering the U.S. •There is a park in Ramallah, Mahmoud Abbas’s capital, that is named after Dalal Mughrabi, leader of the Palestinian terror squad that murdered 38 Israelis in a 1978 attack including the niece of U.S. Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Every Palestinian child who walks those streets gets the message— he sees who is regarded as a hero, who he is supposed to emulate. The U.S. should demand that Mughrabi’s name be removed. And if Abbas refuses, there need to be consequences I am ying to Israel this week with a heavy heart. I am ďŹ lled with grief for the families of the latest terror victims. I am worried about my children who live there and have to go to work every morning, not knowing if they will return home that night. And I am anguished by the thought that my own government could do so much to combat Palestinian terrorism—and yet chooses to do next to nothing. Stephen M. Flatow is a New Jersey attorney whose daughter Alisa was murdered in a 1995 bus bombing by the Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad.

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An unholy act‌ Continued from page 1 mal reaction to the crimes of the occupation.â€? The claim was posted on the movement’s Facebook page and through other social media. At a press conference Tuesday, Prime Minister Netanyahu angrily pointed to the incitement coming from the Palestinian Authority and Fatah Party, both controlled by Mahmoud Abbas, as a primary reason for the attack. “Abbas condemned the attack, but it is not enough. Later on, the continuation of that sentence, after he condemned the murder today, he connected it to all sorts of imaginary events that ostensibly Israel performed in Temple Mount which did not take place,â€? Netanyahu said. “There’s daily incitement every single hour and they turn those murderers into heroes, into cultural heroes. But there is ongoing incitement against the very existence of the state of Israel, against the security of the citizens of Israel, constantly through the schools, in the media, in the mosquesâ€? He also called on world leaders to end their dishonesty regarding terrorist attacks against Jews. “The world looks upon this massacre, but unfortunately it does not demand the Palestinians to stop this awful incitement against Israel, which is the very root of the conict. I call to all the leaders of the cultural world, the civilized world — I would like to see shock, I would like to see a condemnation, a real uprooting, non-compromising of these deeds of these murders of Israelis, the murders of Jews.â€?

Secretary of State John Kerry agreed with Netanyahu. Kerry’s statement condemning the massacre linked the attack to Palestinian incitement. “To have this kind of act, which is a pure result of incitement, of calls for ‘days of rage,’ of just irresponsibility, is unacceptable, Kerry said. “The Palestinian leadership must condemn this and they must begin to take serious steps to restrain any kind of incitement.â€? While its leader condemned the attack, President Abbas’ Fatah party celebrated the attack, announcing on its ofďŹ cial Facebook page that people under their rule were passing out candy. Fatah spokesman Jamal Tirawi said on Tuesday the group “welcomed the martyrdom-seeking operation in Jerusalemâ€? and were “escorting the martyrs of the Abu Jamal family to paradise.â€? On Wednesday, the day after the attack, the morning minyan at Kehilat Yaakov synagogue was larger than normal. Among the worshippers were residents of the Har Nof neighborhood, people wounded in or present at the scene of the attack, and Economics Minister Naftali Bennett and MK Dov Lipman. Har Nof resident Akiva Pollack, a paramedic who was one of the ďŹ rst to the terror scene on Tuesday was there Wednesday morning, stressing the importance of returning to normal. “When I see the synagogue full, I know they are the people who believe the synagogue will not close but will be strengthened. What we need to do is come back here and pray.â€?

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Rav Kupinksy grew up in Michigan By Corey Williams, Associated Press DETROIT — Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky, Hyâ€?d, grew up north of Detroit in Oak Park, said Beverly Phillips, a spokeswoman for Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Detroit. He was the third of ďŹ ve siblings and attended the formerly named Young Israel of Oak Park synagogue, just north of Detroit, said ex-neighbor Esther Schwartz. His parents moved to Israel about 30 years ago when he was about 10, Schwartz said Tuesday from her winter home in Boca Raton. “All morning I couldn’t stop crying,â€?

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Dolph tells unsung story of Jewish NBA giant By Matt Robinson, JNS.org Baseball Hall-of-Famers Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax are household names both in their sport and in the pantheon of Jewish professional athletes. But why has basketball Hall-of-Famer Dolph Schayes not achieved similar name recognition? Noted sports historian Dolph Grundman, author of the newly published biography “Dolph Schayes and the Rise of Professional Basketballâ€? (Syracuse University Press), blames demographics and technology. “I think Dolph is not better known because he played in a small city before televised sport became so pervasive,â€? he says. Only after the “domination of the Boston Celtics in the late ’50s and the ’60sâ€? did the popularity of basketball expand across the nation, says Grundman. Though he may y under the radar, Schayes occupies a special place in National Basketball Association (NBA) history. Named to the NBA All-Star team 12 times, he was known for his high-arcing jump shot (named “Sputnikâ€? by opposing players) and lifted the Syracuse Nationals (who later became the Philadelphia 76ers) to the 1954-55 NBA championship while leading the league in minutes per game, rebounds, and points per game. He was also the NBA’s Coach of the Year in 1966 and coached the U.S. team to a gold medal in Israel’s 1977 Maccabiah Games, an event for which Schayes raised attention and money. His NBA career even extended to ofďŹ ciating, as he supervised the league’s referees from 1966-70. Despite his varied and accomplished basketball resume, Schayes’s story has not been signiďŹ cantly documented—until now. Grundman’s book details the life and career

NBA Hall-of-Famer Dolph Schayes (left) and his biographer of the same ďŹ rst name, Dolph Grundman. Sporting News Archives and courtesy of Dolph Grundman

of a son of Romanian Jewish immigrants who the author would watch on television as a teenager. The NBA star and his fan had one unique thing in common. “In one sense, he was one of the few people with a national presence who shared my ďŹ rst name,â€? says Grundman, a professor of history at Metropolitan State University in Denver, noting how unpopular the name “Adolphâ€? was in the 1940s. In fact, Grundman says his own basketball coach at Michigan-based Albion College “morphedâ€? his name to Dolph due to that Holocaust-related stigma. It was not until he started doing basketball research in the 1980s that Grundman

became aware of Schayes again. “It struck me as odd that there was no biography of one of professional basketball’s great players who also happened to be Jewish,â€? Grundman says. Though some NBA coaches and owners (such as Eddie Gottlieb, Ben Kerner, Les Harrison, Red Holtzman, and Redâ€?Auerbach) were Jewish, Grundman explains that there was a dearth of Jewish players when he was growing up. “At the professional level, there were few Jewish basketball players who had signiďŹ cant careers,â€? he says, noting that Max Zaslofsky is the only other one he can name “off the top of my head.â€?

While Schayes’s playing career may be under the radar historically, he did start a legacy by giving birth to successful athletes, including his son Danny, who played in the NBA. Dolph Schayes’s grandchildren, then, were medal-winning athletes at the Maccabiah Games. While some may attribute this to good genes, Grundman suggests a different reason. “Children of immigrants were encouraged to play sports,â€? explains the author. “In this sense, there was nothing unusual about Dolph.â€? The fact that he was the tallest person in his family may have made Schayes stand out in one particular crowd, but Grundman says it took more than height for him to stand out among his NBA peers. He suggests that it was Schayes’s immigrant work ethic that allowed him to be so successful. “Schayes was the ďŹ rst to practice and the last to leave,â€? he says. “He demonstrated that hard work paid off.â€? Grundman hopes his book will help Schayes achieve more fame and recognition, and that the NBA legend’s story will inspire other players and Jews to act in the same way that he did. “He was a role model, although he never thought of himself this way,â€? Grundman says.

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what? I will ďŹ ght until my last drop of blood for Haaretz and Israel Hayom to be able to express their views. Who are you, democrats or Bolsheviks?â€? he said. Politics aside, critics of the bill believe the measure ies in the face of capitalism and is motivated by the desperation of Israel Hayom’s reeling competitors. According to market research by Target Group Index (TGI), Israel Hayom has been the top-read daily newspaper in Israel for more than four years. The latest TGI survey on the subject said Israel Hayom has a 39.8-percent market share — which is more than ďŹ ve percentage points higher than the next-highest-read Israeli print newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth. In fact, Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon (Noni) Mozes is rumored to be behind the bill. “It should be obvious to anyone who reads about this that the amount of power Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Noni Mozes has is unspeakable. He can tailor a bill just so he can eliminate competition,â€? American-Jewish philanthropist and casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, the owner of Israel Hayom, said in an interview with his newspaper earlier this year. The future of democracy in Israel is also at stake, analysts say. On Nov. 12, the same day the bill passed in its preliminary Knesset vote, Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, head of the Media Reform Project at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), submitted a legal opinion to the Knesset that opposes the bill. Altshuler argued that the bill “impinges on the right of freedom of expression and the press, and is a threat to democracy.â€? Altshuler’s opinion did acknowledge that Israel Hayom poses a problem for the Israeli newspaper market. The problem “is not that Israel Hayom is distributed for free,â€? she wrote, but rather that the newspaper is driving down the cost of advertising. Advertisements cost nearly three times lower in Israel Hayom than in Yedioth Ahronoth, but this issue “is not mentioned at all in the proposed law, despite its tenfold impact on the newspaper market that the bill seeks to assist,â€? Altshuler wrote. IDI’s opinion urged the “transparency and full disclosure of economic and political interests underlying press coverage.â€? “This includes both general disclosure and the need to deal with branded content that is being published in order to promote a political agenda, the achievements of a government ministry, or a particular member of Knesset, without disclosure that it is spon-

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sored content,â€? wrote Altshuler, who called on Israel’s state comptroller “to issue an opinion or statement whether a situation in which a wealthy person funnels money to a media outlet without a business model, with the aim of supporting a particular political candidate whose identity is clear, constitutes a violation of Israel’s election ďŹ nancing laws.â€? In the United States, Dershowitz wrote, even Supreme Court justices who dissented on the court’s ruling “that spending money is protected speech ‌ agree that imposing any

constraints on newspapers owned by wealthy families (such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe) would run afoul of our First Amendment.â€? Yossi Fuchs, an attorney with 15 years of experience in Israeli constitutional law, explained that unlike America, Israel does not have a formal written constitution. What Israel does have is a set of “Basic Lawsâ€? which have been passed since the country’s founding in 1948 and have “the weight of constitutional laws,â€? he told JNS.org in July. One “can’t legislate a law which contradicts a Basic Law,â€? said Fuchs, who believes that is the case with the proposed bill to ban free newspapers. As such, the notion that the bill’s preliminary passage in the Knesset could shut down Israel Hayom might be premature. According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “to become law, a regular state bill must pass three readings in the Knesset,â€? while private bills have four readings. Voice of Israel radio’s Knesset insider Jeremy Saltan, who is also a Central Committee member of the Jewish Home party, explained on the Josh Hasten Show that the bill’s next destination is the Knesset House Committee, which must review the law and send it back to the Knesset for another vote, followed by another House Committee review and a ďŹ nal Knesset vote. The next Knesset vote might not be imminent because the House Committee is chaired by MK Yariv Levin, a member Netanyahu’s Likud party. Even if the bill does pass a ďŹ nal vote in the Knesset, “it is my assumption that it will fall in the [Israeli] Supreme Court,â€? Fuchs said.

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Left to right: Sheldon Adelson, Israeli-American Council (IAC) Chairman Shawn Evenhaim, and Haim Saban, at the IAC national conference in Washington. Shahar Azran

JNS.org Jewish philanthropist Sheldon Adelson, a major funder of the Republican Party, told a gathering of Israeli Americans that U.S. political parties are “on the same sideâ€? when it comes to supporting Israel. “Everyone in this room, whether you’re a Republican, a Democrat or Independent ‌ when it comes to Israel, we’re on the same side,â€? Adelson said at the ďŹ rst national conference of the Israeli-American Council in Washington. He made his remarks while sharing a stage with Israeli American phi-

lanthropist Haim Saban, a top funder of the Democratic Party. Though the media often focuses on Adelson’s political giving, he is also the world’s leading private donor to Jewish education, the Taglit-Birthright Israel program, and Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial. He owns Israel Hayam, the largest-circulation newspaper in Israel. Adelson also commented on the nuclear negotiations wuth Iran. “I wouldn’t just talk, I would take action,� he said. “Not taking action is too costly.�

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By Jacob Kamaras, JNS.org hat message is the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) sending to the Jewish community through its recent selection of White House aide and social entrepreneur Jonathan Greenblatt to succeed longtime National Director Abraham Foxman? While some are praising ADL for thinking outside the box with its hire and trying to appeal to a younger demographic, others are concerned that Greenblatt is too visibly partisan and that his past experience may signal ADL’s de-emphasis of the fight against antiSemitism in favor of civil rights work. The 74-year-old Foxman, will retire from ADL, one of the highest-profile American Jewish organizations, in July 2015. As ADL’s national director since 1987, he has become almost an institution unto himself and is considered by some to be a de facto spokesman for the Jewish people. “When you [as an organization] are coming off of a period that has been so dominated by a leader, the history is that the next person often becomes kind of a human sacrifice,” said Ed Rettig, a consultant for Jewish organizations and former director of the American Jewish Committee’s Israel office. ADL’s mission statement says that it “fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals, and protects civil rights for all.” At a time when global anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism (and the convergence of the two) is on the upswing, particularly in Europe, some Jews have criticized ADL for taking too many detours into alternate issues and fear that Greenblatt’s lack of experience in the area of anti-Semitism will exacerbate the trend. Greenblatt, a 43-year-old grandson of a Holocaust survivor, currently serves in the Obama administration as Special Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation in the Domestic Policy Council. He also founded the Impact Economy Initiative at the Aspen Institute think tank and co-founded the bottled water producer Ethos Brands, which donated to global clean water programs and was eventually acquired by the Starbucks Coffee Company. “We had a number of terrific candidates, and it was a difficult decision,” ADL National Chair Barry Curtiss-Lusher told JNS.org in an email statement. “What set Jonathan apart was his passion for our mission, how he articulated his core values and his Jewish identity in the context of our mission, and his experience (and success) in ‘thinking outside the box’ as a social innovator. We think he represents continuity of purpose and policy, but with a fresh approach.” Yet the fact that Greenblatt’s area of expertise is “social domestic policy” suggests that ADL “wants to continue moving in the direction of emphasizing liberal social policy positions, as opposed to emphasizing fighting anti-Semitism and defending Israel,” Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Mort Klein told JNS.org. Charles Jacobs — head of the Bostonbased advocacy group Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT), which has clashed with the ADL New England Region over what it calls ADL’s rush to exonerate the Newton, Mass., public school district in a controversy over anti-Israel texts in high schools — believes Foxman’s legacy “consists mainly in his refusal to have the ADL shift its focus to take on the ‘new anti-Semitism,’ an ideology created by left-wingers and Muslims engaged in a global campaign against the Jewish state and its supporters.” “ADL used Jewish donations to push for such things as immigration reform, gay marriage, and women’s rights, seemingly uncomfortable with focusing ADL’s work primarily

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on fighting to protect Jewish interests, even in these daunting times,” Jacobs told JNS.org. Echoing that sentiment is Chicago-based attorney Joel J. Sprayregen, a former national vice-chair of ADL who ended his involvement with the organization about a decade ago. “The ADL has been a great champion for civil rights over the years, but of course it’s a defender of the Jewish people, and I think they’ve blurred that mission in recent years, getting involved with things like bullying which are not part of an essential civil rights or Jewish mission,” Sprayregen told JNS.org.

rabbi who has served for decades, Rettig said that it is usually not the immediate successor, but rather “only the next person who is able to build something new.” “I’m sure that ADL is aware of this difficulty, but I don’t know how much you can do about it,” he said. Windmueller explained that fundraising may be a challenge for Greenblatt because donors “identified with Abe and gave to Abe on behalf of their interests in fighting anti-Semitism, or building advocacy for Israel, or dealing with civil liberties issues and other matters that are a focal point of ADL’s agenda.” He said the question for ADL will be, “How will they be able as an institution to hold on to and retain the loyalty and support of traditional donors who were so tied to and so aligned with Abe, so that they can continue to flourish and grow their agenda?” ay Ruderman, president of the Ruderman Family Foundation, which prioritizes disability issues, Israel-Diaspora relations, and modeling the practice of strategic philanthropy, said Greenblatt might be faced with the challenge of living in Foxman’s shadow. “I don’t think Abe’s going to disappear,” Ruderman told JNS.org. “I think he’ll be out

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Social entrepreneur and White House aide Jonathan Greenblatt, the next national director of the ADL, at the group’s annual meeting on Nov. 6. ADL

With the hiring of Greenblatt, Foxman and ADL “have doubled down on this tragic abandonment of Jewish interests in favor of an ill-defined universalism,” said Jacobs. ADL’s Curtiss-Lusher, however, denied any shift away from the organization’s prioritization of fighting anti-Semitism. “We do advocate for civil rights for all people, and have done so since our founding in 1913,” he said. “But what makes ADL special is distinctly our focus on anti-Semitism. That is needed in today’s world more than ever, and our succession committee had that in mind when we selected Jonathan.” Ed Rettig argued that ADL’s multiple priorities don’t come “at the expense of the other.” “It’s not a zero-sum game between the two, they’re all part of the same picture,” he said. Dr. Steven Windmueller, a professor of Jewish communal service at the Los Angeles campus of Hebrew Union College and the author of an assessment of ADL’s role in American Jewish life for the organization’s centennial in 2013, praised ADL for choosing a successor to Foxman whose “story reflects the new generation of Jewish leaders, whose careers have joined together social entrepreneurship and political activism.” “With his array of business and political connections, Jonathan should be able to attract a broad circle of millennials and Gen Xers to the ADL enterprise while retaining the loyalty and commitment of the agency’s existing leadership base,” Windmueller told JNS.org. “The fact that ADL reached out to an achiever like Greenblatt bodes well for the organization,” said Rettig. “It shows a lay leadership with creativity, willing to reach outside its comfort zone.” Yet even those who commended ADL’s hire acknowledged the difficulty of this particular succession process. Giving the example of a synagogue with a

Vice President Joe Biden sings “happy birthday” to Abraham Foxman, ADL national director, at ADL’s centennial gala in 2013. David Karp

there on the stage. And [Greenblatt] will probably have to work to redefine the organization. A lot of people are looking to see the direction the organization takes. Organizations do change. There are leadership changes, with staff leadership and lay leadership, and that’s okay. But they have to find their place and their voice, and the role that they play in the community.” Leading up to ADL’s leadership transition in the summer of 2015, it is Foxman’s voice rather than Greenblatt’s that will likely continue to come under scrutiny. Amid this year’s controversy over the New York Metropolitan Opera’s production of “The Death of Klinghoffer” — an opera that Jewish communal observers have protested for its glorification of terrorism and promotion of anti-Semitic stereotypes — Foxman said in June, “While the opera is highly problematic and has a strong anti-Israel bias, it is not anti-Semitic.” “If ADL can’t recognize the Klinghoffer opera as anti-Semitic, do we really need an ADL?” said Sprayregen. “Let’s hope Greenblatt can restore ADL’s reputation to what is was under former national executives [Ben-

jamin] Epstein, [Arnold] Forster, and [Nathan] Perlmutter.” Foxman also took heat for recently saying that the White House, by criticizing an anonymous senior Obama administration official’s “chickensh*t” insult of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, brought “closure” to the controversy surrounding the usage of that slur. “It is wrong for the ADL to seek to silence the rest of the Jewish community by unilaterally declaring that the case is now closed,” ZOA said in a press release on Nov. 7. “ADL does not speak for the Jewish community, only for themselves and their supporters. … This closure statement is really a dereliction of ADL’s sworn duty to fight defamation of Jews and Israel.” Was ADL’s stance on “chickensh*t” a sign of things to come? ZOA’s Klein fears that might be the case, calling it unwise for ADL to hire a visibly partisan figure such as Greenblatt. “How will he be able to criticize President Obama when he takes over [for Foxman]? He’ll never do it,” Klein told JNS.org. Further partisan-related concerns have surfaced regarding the ties of the Aspen Institute think tank, Greenblatt’s former employer, to liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros. The think tank has received at least $400,000 in funding from Soros’s Open Society Institute. Soros has funded a number of anti-Israel organizations that are aimed at delegitimizing Israel globally, shifting U.S. public opinion against Israel, and promoting fringe political opposition groups inside Israel, according to the watchdog group NGO Monitor. Soros also funds the left-wing lobby J Street, which says it exists to bring about a two-state solution but has often come under fire for partnering on programming with anti-Israel organizations such as the campus group Students for Justice in Palestine. Sprayregen said Greenblatt’s ties to Obama and Soros “are cause for concern, but Mr. Greenblatt is entitled to be judged on what he accomplishes for ADL.” “We feel strongly about the importance of being non-partisan,” said Curtiss-Lusher. “Many of the candidates had affiliations of various sorts, political and otherwise. Jonathan joins us to lead ADL. There is nothing partisan about that, nor should there be.” Windmueller said the move from Foxman to Greenblatt might be eased by the fact that ADL’s agenda “is so potent, so significant at this moment.” “I think that there may well be a natural transition because of the alarm that has gone off with regard to whether or not we’re seeing a kind of resurrection of some new forms of anti-Semitism, or some old forms of anti-Semitism in new coverings,” said Windmueller. Similarly, Curtiss-Lusher said, “The advent of a new leader creates an opportunity to talk about our strength as the leader in the fight against anti-Semitism and all forms of hatred, bigotry, and discrimination.” Yet according to APT’s Jacobs, ADL has set the wrong priorities in the fight against bigotry by campaigning against “Islamophobia,” which he called “a false concept created to block any criticism of radical Islamic doctrine and behavior.” “Foxman has said this stance [against ‘Islamophobia’] would prompt Muslims to join Jews in fighting against anti-Semitism,” he said. “This hope has not materialized.” “ADL will continue to lose relevance,” added Jacobs. “Jews who want to fight against the clear and present dangers of Islamic Jew-hatred and left wing anti-Zionism will step up their support of organizations that seriously engage these threats on the campuses, in our communities, and in the media. Jews will continue to abandon an ADL that has abandoned them.”

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Yeshiva Winter Break 2015

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