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Israel to NATO: 'Allow us to defend ourselves' An interview with Israel's delegates to NATO's Parliamentary Assembly Spring Session here

By Marshall Weiss starvation. Israel claims Hamas The Observer commandeers the food and aid Member of Knesset Boaz entering the strip for itself.

Bismuth, formerly a veteran Through a U.S.-Israeli operajournalist and editor-in-chief of tion, JTA reports that aid is now Israel Hayom, kept checking his beginning to be distributed smartphone for the latest news. in Gaza, but amid chaos and The leaders of Canada, the deadly shootings at distribution United Kingdom, and France sites. had hours before issued a joint A member of Knesset since statement strongly opposing 2022 with Netanyahu’s Likud Israel’s expansion of military party, Bismuth drafted and led operations in Gaza. the passage of 2024 Knesset leg“The level of human sufferislation that banned United Naing in Gaza is intolerable,” the tions Relief and Works Agency statement read. It called for (UNRWA) operations in Israel, Hamas to release the remaining amid the IDF’s documentation Israeli hostages “they have so that UNRWA employees have cruelly held.” been in league with Hamas The statement operations and continued: “We terrorism.

Bismuth and have always supUNRWA proNir brought an vides Palestinians ported Israel’s right to defend extensive list with health care Israelis against terand educational rorism. But this es- of delegates to services. calation is wholly meet with on Bismuth and disproportionate.

Member of KnesWe will not stand the sidelines. set Sharon Nir, by while the Newith the Yisrael tanyahu Government pursues Beiteinu party, were Israel’s these egregious actions. If Israel delegates to the NATO Parliadoes not cease the renewed mentary Assembly Spring Sesmilitary offensive and lift its re- sion in Dayton, May 22-26. strictions on humanitarian aid, Both are members of the we will take further concrete Knesset Foreign Affairs and Deactions in response.” fense Committee. They arrived According to JTA, after in Dayton May 20.

Israel blocked humanitarian Israel is a major non-NATO aid from entering Gaza for two ally. In 1994, Israel joined the months, aid groups have said NATO Mediterranean DiaGaza’s 2 million residents face logue, which enhances regional

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security, military cooperation, joint exercises, and strengthens Israel’s ties with NATO countries.

“We’re observers,” Bismuth said of his and Nir’s roles as Israel’s NATO delegates.

“Look at the countries that form NATO. These are our friends. This is the free world such as Members of Israel's Knesset Sharon Nir and Boaz Bismuth attended NATO's Parliamentary I know. Yet, when Assembly Spring Session in Dayton, May 22-26. you look at the actions being taken by the international community these days, our country — especially in the Gaza war — we were surprised to see that they are angry at us for defending ourselves because Premier Retirement Living we want to win the war, we want to conclude. It’s unbelievable how we are viciously considered by some to be the aggressors.

“NATO, for us, is more something to get the credibility Israel needs nowadays in the changing world. We don’t come here to tell them, you do the work for us. No. But we come here in order to tell them, allow us to defend ourselves. Something AN ELEGANT GATHERING TO CELEBRATE that should have been so obvious, so straightforward.”

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Israel's direct attack on Iran's nuclear capabilities has been in the works for years. And now it's here, only days before Iran would have possessed nuclear weapons. With the Marshall situation changing minute by minute, Weiss stay with us at our Facebook page, facebook.com/TheDaytonJewishObserver, for continual updates from news sources I rely on.

In these pages, as we review the month that was, you'll find NATO-related coverage including interviews with two members of Knesset who attended the spring assembly here, and a direct look at anti-NATO/anti-Israel protests surrounding the sessions that no other local media outlet has reported on.

We also bring you a firsthand account of the Boulder, Colo. antisemitic firebombings of Run for Their Lives participants, in an interview with former Daytonian Brian Horwitz.

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this country was born in a war,” he said. “It’s not strange or odd to us. Yet this is an event that was not supposed to happen.”

He said no one speaks about the wounded. “If you walk through Tel Aviv and you go to a park, the amount of young kids — 20 years old is young to me — he doesn’t have a leg, a hand. So many. Meaning we’re living a one-and-only event that isn’t historical but biblical. In 500 years, people will talk about this event.”

Bismuth sees Judaism as a permanent journey, with hurdles in the middle.

“You see this young generation? We shall be much stronMK Sharon Nir: ‘We must bring the hostages home.

MK Boaz Bismuth: ‘In order to win the peace, you have ger. We didn’t even imagine After that, we must, must defeat Hamas. To bring back to win the war. In order to win the war, you have securi- that we’d have such an amazing the hostages is also a moral purpose. And to eliminate ty, stability, and maybe, maybe, have peace afterwards.’ generation. So brave. So tough.

Hamas is a security purpose. So we must do both of Determined to win the war. them.’

Anytime I go to a funeral, I’m In order to live and have a safe and without Hamas. Now, surprised. You see the warriors, border in the south of Israel, after Oct. 7, can Israel accept they come to you instead of you we must eliminate this terror an entity (Gaza) with terrorists Continued from Page Three thanking them as it should be, organization.”

(Hamas) ruling over it?

Italy would also publicly reas we do. They come to thank Nir prioritizes bringing the “Can you have both? Listen. buke Israel, calling on it to end you to allow them to finish the hostages home first. “The hosIn life, it’s very simple. If we its military campaign in Gaza. job. tages’ families are in the Knesnow tell the world it’s imposAlong with attending the “Here in Dayton, you would set. Every day, they come. They sible, that we have to choose, it like to see peace. In order to sessions in the NATO Village, Bismuth and Nir brought an ex- look in our eyes and they expect is impossible. But our message win the peace, you have to win to the world is kind of clear tensive list of delegates to meet — they should expect — govthe war. In order to win the ernment should bring back the — and the military pressure. with on the sidelines. war, you have security, stabilWould you believe any nation Bismuth’s daughter and Nir’s hostages that are left in captivity, and maybe, maybe, have ity in the tunnels of Hamas.” in the world would respect that peace afterwards.” son both serve in Gaza. “It’s a Dealing with Hamas, Nir Palestinians should live under very tough time in Israel now,” When asked if there’s said, is like dealing with serthe authority of Palestinian said Nir, a brigadier general in something Israel should do in pents. huns, barbarians like Hamas? the reserves who served more dealing with Hamas that it cur“We must bring the hostages So we do not just do the job for rently is not, in order to rescue than 31 years in the IDF. home. After that, we must, must us, we do the job for them.”

Nir was the first woman to the remaining hostages and defeat Hamas. To bring back AP reported that as of June command an operational comdefeat Hamas, neither Bismuth munications battalion. She was the hostages is also a moral pur- 11, the Hamasnor Nir had an pose. And to eliminate Hamas run Gaza health the first woman to command 'We didn't even answer. is a security purpose. So we ministry reported Israel’s cyber and communicaBefore attendmust do both of them.” more than 55,000 imagine that tion military school. She was ing the NATO The Times of Israel reported people in Gaza also appointed in 2016 as the we'd have such sessions, Bismuth, killed or pregender adviser to the IDF chief May 1 that Israeli Prime MinNir, representaan amazing ister Benjamin Netanyahu said sumed dead in of staff and expanded the roles tives from the that victory over Hamas, not the fighting and of women in combat. Like generation. So Consulate Genermore than 127,000 Bismuth, Nir was also elected to the return of the hostages, was al of Israel in New brave. So tough. York, and a Knesthe supreme objective of the Palestinians the Knesset in 2022. war in Gaza. injured since Oct. Determined “Every family in Israel has set staffer toured Three days later, The Times of 7, 2023. an impact from the Seventh of the Wolf Holoto win the war.' caust & Humanity Israel reported that IDF Chief of Those figures October,” Nir said. “Most of don’t distinguish the families in Israel have a son Staff Eyal Zamir warned govCenter in Cincinernment ministers that Israel between civilor daughter or a husband or nati, the National Museum of “could lose” the hostages in ians and combatants and are someone serving in the IDF in the U.S. Air Force in Fairborn Gaza in its full-scale maneuver questioned by Israel and the the Gaza Strip. All the Israelis and Prejudice & Memory: A there.

United States as likely inflated have to pay the price in this Holocaust Exhibit on display Zamir added that the war’s or inaccurate. situation.” there, met with leaders of Daytwo goals of defeating Hamas Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel Hamas, she said, is an existon’s Jewish community, and and rescuing the hostages “are reports more than 868 Israeli tential threat to Israel. “On the in Columbus, met with Ohio problematic in relation to each military killed, more than 800 Seventh of October, Hamas atelected officials, legislators from Israeli civilian killings, as well tacked families, babies, without other.” both parties, and clergy.

Bismuth told The Observer as the 1,200 people in Israel that notice. It was horrific attacks.

“The relationship to the JewHamas murdered on Oct. 7, But you know, the people in Is- both objectives are achievable. ish community in the United 2023. rael, the society in Israel is very “Of course, both. We have no States with the State of Israel other choice. The fact that you Bismuth said that since Oct. strong. I believe in the people is very important for us,” Nir have to bring back the hos7, 2023, he’s spoken at more fu- said. “And the close relationof Israel because, even when nerals of slain IDF soldiers than ship with the United States and we fight with each other, when tages urgently, this is a fact. he could ever have imagined we have tough times, we know The equation is simple: Hamas the State of Israel is very, very wants Gaza without the IDF, before that date. how to do it (come) together. important for the State of Israel. the hostages stay behind. Israel “We live in a country that has You have a very important role “We must eliminate Hamas. had so many wars, ever since We don’t have any other choice. wants Gaza without hostages in this.”

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With phalanx of police, no incidents at anti-NATO/anti-Israel protests

gogue, just south of Dayton city limits in Oakwood, also cancelled its Shabbat services and programs.

In the end, protest attendance May 25 was fairly low and police presence for the protesters' march across the river to its assembly at St. John's United Church on as a tool — to utilize their power over this movement.

Third Street downtown was high.

Story and Photos by Marshall Weiss, The Observer And the students are refusing."

At every intersection along the march downtown, "Whatever tactics you thought we threw at you Shaikh also denounced Cincinnati-based U.S. Rep. protesters were met with a phalanx of Dayton Police before, you just wait for what the student movement Greg Landsman, who is Jewish, as "one of the most on foot, on bicycles, and on horseback, augmented has to offer. You just wait for the vengeance that we egregious Zionist congressmen that we have seen." with law enforcement from across the region. Some have," said Laila Shaikh from University of CincinWith awareness of busloads of protesters from doz- protesters wore yellow security jackets and guided nati's Students for Justice in Palestine chapter in her ens of cities converging on Dayton May 25 to demonthe march on its path. Along with anti-NATO chants, 10-minute speech to about 300 cheering protesters at marchers shouted "Free, free Palestine" and "From the Deeds Point MetroPark, Sunday, May 25. "We will take strate against NATO's May 22-26 spring session here, everything in our power to end this genocide and stop Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton Security Director river to the sea, Palestine will be free."

The day before, on May 24, two groups of local these imperialist powers from oppressing our people." John Davis had advised the Jewish community to stay away from Downtown Dayton and all protests. anti-NATO/anti-Israel protestors converged across the Shaikh, who told the protestors she comes from a His assessment was based on the protests that river from RiverScape, according to The Dayton Daily family of Palestinian refugees, opened her speech with got out of control at NATO’s assembly in Montreal, News. One group began at Deeds Point and draped a a chant: "Intifada! Intifada! We are the Intifada!" She Nov. 22-25, 2024. Pro-Palestinian protesters shattered Palestine flag on the Wright brothers sculpture there, ended with "Long live all forms of our resistance and windows, lit cars on fire, and threw explosives at law crossed the Webster Street Bridge, went to the Rivlong live the student Intifada!" erside Drive Bridge, and "started yelling toward the In the middle, she gave a shout-out to the SJP chap- enforcement. And NATO's Dayton assembly would open only days after an anti-Israel protester murdered NATO compound" with a bullhorn. The other group ters that came to the protest march — billed as The two Israeli embassy employees at gunpoint in front of marched from Cooper Park downtown around the People’s Assembly for Peace and Justice: Stop NATO, the Jewish Capital Museum in Washington, D.C. NATO village. Among their chants was "Resistance is No to Endless War — from Chicago, Indiana, across Temple Israel, across the Miami River from Downjustified when people are occupied." The Daily News Ohio, Kentucky, and western Pennsylvania. also reported Ohio provided more than $5 million for She called out the University of Cincinnati and Case town Dayton and the fenced-off NATO village, deWestern: "They have tooken every inch of freedom that cided months ago not to hold Shabbat services or pro- the NATO assembly, including funding for state highgrams during the NATO sessions. Beth Abraham Syna- way patrol troopers and 150 law enforcement officers. we were given on campus. And they have tooken it

'Whatever tactics you thought we threw at you before, you just wait for what the student movement has to offer. You just wait for the vengeance that we have,' Laila Shaikh, About 300 protesters from cities including Chicago, Cleveland, and New York took part in an anti-NATO, anti-Israel rally at Deeds with Univ. of Cincinnati's Students for Justice in Palestine, Point MetroPark across the Mad River from Downtown Dayton, May 25. With a heavy police presence, protesters then marched told protesters May 25 at Deeds Point MetroPark. across the Webster Street Bridge, through downtown, and held an assembly at St. John's United Church.

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Northmont grad documented Boulder firebombing attack while aiding burn victims

Screenshot of a video by Brian Horwitz of firebombing suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman on the grass, about to be handcuffed by police, while people pour water on a burn victim (bottom L), June 1 in front of the Boulder, Colo. County Historic Courthouse. Several national media outlets distributed Horwitz's video footage after he posted it on social media.

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An interview with Dayton native Brian Horwitz

By Marshall Weiss, The Observer Since June 1, Brian Horwitz has given interviews to 20 news outlets including ABC, CNN, NewsNation, Scripps News, The Denver Post and the Dayton Daily News. The native Daytonian, who has lived in Denver for three years, arrived at the scene of the firebombing of Run for Their Lives participants in Boulder and recorded videos of a defiant Mohamed Sabry Soliman — accused of hurling two Molotov cocktails at the group— before police arrived. Run for Their Lives is a global movement that holds walks and runs each week to increase awareness about the Israeli hostages still held in Gaza.

Horwitz aided burn victims in front of the Boulder County Historic Courthouse and continued to record videos to document the terror attack until police apprehended Soliman. Fifteen people, including a Holocaust survivor, were injured in the attack according to local authorities. Horwitz attended Hillel Academy Jewish day school in Dayton through sixth grade and graduated from Northmont High School. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

because my mother-in-law called me immediately and said she would rather I not, for safety.

And when I got home from Boulder later that day, I looked at social media and so many people were getting it wrong. And there are some people who are even saying that it was Israeli protesters fighting proPalestinians that were there peacefully. So I was like, I have to get this out there.

Can you share exactly what happened?

My niece and nephew are visiting from Florida and my wife and two toddlers and I were all eating lunch (outside) after a hike that we went up to Boulder for.

We went to this food hall that's maybe 100 yards from the old courthouse. We saw the Run for Their Lives walk going down the street, and then they curled back around, came back up past us.

But about five, 10 minutes after, there was a woman who ran over across the street that started talking to some people saying she saw someone throwing flames at people. I immediately expected the worst at that point and understood that it was probably people attacking this group. And so I hopped the gate, I ran over to the courthouse square.

There's a large group of people on I can't imagine what you’re going through. the street watching everything hapEveryone keeps on telling me, "There's going pen, and 25 to 30 people inside the to be trauma for you." I'm waiting for it to really square. It was kind of limited to the hit me. I'm still processing everything. I feel an Brian Horwitz Run for Their Life participants and elevated sense of connection to what happened. maybe some friends that may have I feel like it's my responsibility to know as much as I come in to help. There were screams, yells of "Where can of what's going on. And I have a vested interest in are the police? Where are the ambulances?" the victims.

I started to look for where the attacker was and understand what was going on, because I obviously You must have been among the very first to put out wanted to stay away from anyone who had a gun or images and video of the attack. anything. I had no idea what weapons he was using. I I think so. I think there were three people recordlooked on the ground and I saw an exploded Molotov ing. I was even debating putting it on the Internet cocktail or exploded bottle really, that was all charred.

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And then there's the walked over. I called him a cocktail then and throw it. cases, that they never say in attacker, pacing back and piece of s---. And then the person. Far-right people or forth right in front of the old police told us to walk away. And nobody tried to take him ultraconservatives are saying courthouse, a small patch They separated all of us to down before the police came? they should have shot the guy of grass that was already get our accounts of what No, it definitely crossed, I'm dead, that this is what happens on fire as well. And he was happened. sure, a lot of our minds. For when you're in liberal, liberal erratic, holding two carafes me, I wasn't sure what else he Colorado and the Democrats with a red cloth coming Were you familiar with the had. I wasn't there from the have control of a state where out of it with a clear liquid.

Run for Their Lives walks? beginning. I didn't know what nobody is concealing and It smelled like gasoline all Yes. I'm on their chanwas still in his pockets. I didn't carrying. Some people said throughout. nel on WhatsApp. My wife see him turn around at all. So this is what they deserve, they He was saying, "F---ing and I have always wanted I didn't know if he had a knife brought this on themselves.

Zionists. You kill my people, to go and attend one of or anything behind him. It was That kind of stuff.

I kill you." He was saying, those walks. She had a lot tough to decide on what to do.

And then there are other pointing at different people, of trepidation of my going He was a very big guy. Even people who are just chiming in, "You're a killer. You're a to any of them, especially if I bull rushed him, there's no typing "Free Palestine." killer. How many children right after Oct. 7th. Two telling what would have hapI can't help but feeling that need to die? I'll kill you. I'll times ago when we were in pened. we as Jews and even the Paleskill you." I locked eyes with Boulder, we happened to tinians for that matter, are all his sunglasses at one point Screenshot of a video by Brian Horwitz of cross the square when they After you posted your videos pawns in this domestic politiwhen he said that, as I was firebombing suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman were doing the end of their at X on June 1, two days later, cal game in the last three years, June 1 in front of the Boulder, Colo. County trying to back away. walk. And so we stood with you added on Facebook, "So and it's just like nothing is ever Historic Courthouse after the attack.

I just took out my phone them, and we sang Hatikvah many have taken my post and going to change. to try and record him because and Shalom Aleichem. accounting of Sunday's BoulAnd so now you have opably in his early 60s, who was I figured, the worst that could der attack and twisted it into a posite sides of the coin and walking around with skin happen to me or the worst that How many other people were domestic political argument." people are kind of forced hanging off of his leg, his upcould happen, in my opinion, there, helping the victims What are people doing to the to identify with one or the per thigh. He ended up sitting is that this guy gets away with information you put up there? other when it should never be. down. He was the first person I when you were? something like this. I wanted I was surprised. In the entire It's your standard keyboard There's so much nuance to this tried to help. to make sure that we had video courtyard, there are maybe 15 warriors saying things, in some conflict. And it's just miserable.

And then I went over to the evidence of what he looked to 20 people that were either other side of the sidewalk and like. there were two elderly women, victims or attending to them.

I didn't want to be insensiA few others were sitting on both probably in their mid to tive and record the whole thing late 70s. One wasn't burned as benches that were elderly, who and not do anything to help. severely. Her friend was writh- weren't really victims, who are Then I overheard people again just sitting there watching. Reing around in agony and the saying, "Where are the police?" ally bizarre. But they were not first one said, "Help her, help Someone said that people have trying to walk away from it. her." And so I was pouring been trying to get through, but They were just sitting, removed water on her friend. She was it just rings and rings. So I tried lying face down on the grass. from the action, maybe 100 feet calling the police. After a couaway. And then there are the I poured water slowly on her. ple attempts, I got through and people who I think were part One pant leg was completely they said that everyone's been of the walk that were already burned off. She had taken off calling them, and they have a there, that weren't hurt. the pants. They were stuck ton of people on the way.

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I ran over to ber thinking to myself, God, and a guy is still the woman who I wish I had a gun right now. talking to him, is the Holocaust survivor, This would be the reason that empathizing with what he was burning from head to toe. I everyone says to have one. And saying, which was so weird, was seeing her nearly extinbut I thought he was doing it to maybe that's why everyone guished at that point. Everyone de-escalate the situation. else was lined up in the street was patting her down. I asked and not rushing in. They're just Another guy, he's a local to where can I get more buckets observing and waiting for the Boulder and he's friends with of water? Because people were police to get there. a lot of the people who were coming over from a restaurant I think people that were in walking, he's absolutely irate with a huge bucket of water, there were mostly part of the and runs up. He's just absoice. They're putting that on her. lutely berating the attacker walk. They were not going Six other victims that I saw to run away from their loved and also the guy talking to were lying around, sitting ones and the people they came the attacker, which was a bit around, walking around in there with, when their skin is antagonizing. shock. I got one of the resburning off their bodies. And, It felt like about 10, 15 Formerly Formerly taurant buckets and someone because they couldn't pull minutes before the police and pointed me to the running them away any farther. And if the paramedics got there, but fountain with recycled wathey could, they would have. based on the time stamps of Formerly ter right behind me. I started But in my mind, as long as my video, it was only three or Formerly jumping in there and just grabfour minutes. They apprehend- he didn't have a gun, I could bing water and passing it back theoretically run if I needed to, ed the guy very quickly. Once and forth to different people. if I saw him take out a lighter they took control of the scene, There was one man, proband try and light a Molotov he was still on the ground, I

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France, Germany, U.K. harshly critical of Israel in Gaza but have its back with Iran

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L to R) France's President Emmanuel Macron, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz meet at the European Political Community summit, Tirana, Albania, May 16

Alarm over nuclear weapons and Iran’s alliance with Russia play a role.

By Ron Kampeas, JTA WASHINGTON – A decade ago, Israel’s government and the three major powers in Europe were diametrically opposed to Israel on how best to stop Iran from going nuclear. Britain, France and Germany all favored the Iran nuclear deal; Israel did its best to keep it from happening.

Now, with Israel and Iran at all-out war, the European governments and Israel are — with minor tonal differences — on the same page. The leaders of all three European countries have said Israel’s right to self-defense and preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon are paramount.

The expressions of support for Israel since it launched attacks on June 13 on Iran’s nuclear and weapons systems are especially remarkable because leaders of all three countries have been sharply critical of Israel for its conduct of the war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Foreign policy experts attributed the comity on Iran to Europe’s alarm at the recent report by U.N. experts that Iran is closer than ever to nuclear weapons breakout. Another factor is Iran’s alliance with Russia in its war against Ukraine.

“Here’s the U.N. agency that says, for 20 years, the Iranians have been violating the terms of the (Nuclear) Nonproliferation Treaty,” Dov Zakheim, an undersecretary of defense in the George W. Bush administration, said in an interview, referring to an International Atomic Energy Agency report published just a day before Israel launched its attacks.

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“These three countries are totally committed to the NPT, and so their concern is, if the Iranians are violating the NPT — whether it’s within a month, six months, six weeks, six days — the Iranians are going to forge ahead and come up with a nuclear weapon,” said Zakheim, who now comments on foreign policy for The Hill newspaper.

“And it’s not just that the weapon is a threat to Israel. It’s a threat to the rest of the Middle East.”

Halie Soifer, a national security adviser to former Vice President Kamala Harris when Harris was a California senator, said the “E3,” as they are known, have for decades been at the forefront of keeping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

After the IAEA “revealed in the report that Iran was noncompliant, and had failed to disclose its enrichment, it was those three European countries that took the lead in introducing a resolution about it,” said Soifer, who is now the CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America. The resolution, she said, “calls upon Iran to urgently remedy its non-compliance.”

The IAEA report appeared to be very much front of mind for all three leaders in their comments after Israel launched what it said were preventive attacks.

French President Emmanuel Macron said in the immediate aftermath of Israel’s first strikes that Iran was principally responsible because it was accelerating its nuclear program.

“Iran bears a very heavy responsibility for the destabilization of the region,” Reuters quoted Macron as saying June 13. “Iran is continuing to enrich uranium without any civilian justification and to levels that are very close to what is needed for a nuclear device.”

Keir Starmer, the British prime min-

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz also spoke with Netanyahu. “Israel has the right to defend its existence and the security of its citizens,” he said June 15 in a social media post.

“Iran’s nuclear weapons program is an existential threat to the State of Israel.”

All three leaders were in Canada for the G7 summit of leading industrial nations. In a statement, the G7 allies, including President Donald Trump, affirmed Israel's right to self defense and called for restraint, de-escalation, and diplomacy between Israel and Iran.

The tone from the European leaders was markedly different from the harsh criticisms and threatened actions from the same leaders alarmed by reports that Israel is impeding the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza. Israel denies the reports.

In recent weeks, Germany’s govern-

ment announced it is considering the ban of the sale of some weapons to Israel, which would be unprecedented for the country that has traditionally been Israel’s strongest supporter in Europe.

France on June 16 curtained off an Israeli exhibit at a Paris arms expo, saying it had warned the Israeli manufacturers not to display “offensive” weapons.

Britain suspended its free trade negotiations with Israel and sanctioned two extremist ministers.

Laura Blumenfeld, a senior fellow at the Phillip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins University, said the three countries are committed to maintaining what they see as moral foreign policy positions because of their collective “guilt and history” as colonial powers and in Germany’s case, its Nazi past.

“From their point of view, Netanyahu’s assault on Gaza has gone from a reasonable response to Oct. 7,” when Hamas launched the current war with massacres inside Israel, “to a mad act of collective punishment on an enfeebled population,” Blumenfeld said in a text message.

“Iran by contrast is a vast territorial omnivore, a theocracy and threshold

'It's not just that the weapon is a threat to Israel.

It's a threat to the rest of the Middle East.'

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nuclear power, that has declared its intent to destroy the small State of Israel.

Israel is an ally,” she said. “The threat is existential.”

Also notable was the difference in tone from a decade ago, when the thenleaders of all three countries robustly backed the nuclear deal brokered then by the Obama administration — a deal that Netanyahu did his best to scuttle.

“We are confident that the agreement provides the foundation for resolving the conflict on Iran’s nuclear program permanently,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, and British Prime Minister David Cameron said in a Washington Post op-ed they coauthored at the time.

By contrast, Ron Dermer, then Netanyahu’s envoy to Washington and now one of his closest advisers, said on the same pages that the deal “makes things much worse, increasing the chances of conventional war with Iran and its terror proxies.”

In 2018, Trump at Netanyahu’s behest exited the deal, which triggered Iran’s accelerated rush to enrich weapons-grade fissile material.

The three European nations’ current backing for Israel is not inconsistent with their position a decade ago, said Ilan Goldenberg, who held senior Iranrelated positions in the Obama administration state and defense departments.

In both instances, he said, the Europe-

ans are seeking the best means to keep Iran from going nuclear; the difference is, Iran is now much closer to a weapon.

“Our European allies probably feel, ‘This is not what we wanted, but now that we’re here, we’ll certainly be happier if it ends in a way where Iran’s program is set back as much as possible,’” said Goldenberg, now a senior vice president at J Street, a liberal Jewish Middle East policy group.

Another factor in Europe’s wariness of Iran is its regime’s long history – essentially from its inception in 1979 – of deploying assassins and terrorists to Germany, France and other countries to eliminate its dissidents and enemies.

“We are preparing for Iran to target Israeli or Jewish targets in Germany,” Merz said in his statement.

Also at play is Iran’s alliance with and tactical assistance to Russia as its war against Ukraine drags on.

Zakheim said recent threats by acolytes of Russian President Vladimir Putin to go nuclear have deeply unsettled Europe. “All his henchmen keep talking about using nuclear weapons, which really terrifies Western Europe and the big Western European countries,” he said.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “is Putin’s arms dealer, a reliable supplier of drones,” Blumenfeld said. “And Israel is blowing up his business.”

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By Deborah Danan, JTA When they eventually looked outTEL AVIV — The booms from the side, they saw that the hotel next to night’s Iranian missile strike could be them had taken a direct hit — shieldfelt across the region, including in my ing their own building. Its facade home in Jaffa. In that moment, it felt — destroyed, cars were ablaze and shopto this former Londoner’s ears — like fronts lay in ruins. a scene from the Blitz, when the Nazis “The scariest part is knowing that pounded England with nightly bombs. these missiles aren’t targeting soldiers Then, Brits poured into Tube staor military sites, they’re targeting tions to wait out each night’s barrage homes, families, a baby sleeping in his together, before emerging and carrying crib,” Turner said. “That’s what stays on with their lives — in a pattern that with you, that someone wanted this to Israelis have sought to replicate during happen, and that’s crazy in my eyes.” the harrowing first days of war with Elsewhere in northern Tel Aviv, a Iran. missile slammed into an apartment After four days of Iranian misbuilding near the home of Kate Leasile strikes that have killed 25 people, man, a market analyst originally from wounded hundreds, and left thousands the United Kingdom. The blast shook without homes, Israel has settled into her own high-rise tower. “It felt like the a new kind of duality: fear of what lies bomb was on my building,” she said. ahead, and an effort to maintain some Leaman said that since the first night semblance of ordinary life. By Monof the Iranian strikes, she day afternoon, June 16, and her ex-husband had despite the devastation, It felt, to this decided to split up their beaches were full, shops even more so, and many former Londoner's two children because, people returned to work, ears, like a scene she said, “when they’re together it’s just chaos.” balancing between anxifrom the Blitz “It’s a temporary arety and routine. rangement just to get On Sunday night, through this. Because even we adults June 15, Gabriella Turner, a Jerusalem are overstimulated, it’s just too much.” resident, had come to help her sister Her daughter’s teacher was unable to Aydan in central Tel Aviv care for her 2-year-old nephew JJ after Aydan fell ill hold a planned Zoom class on Monday morning, June 16 after her own home with food poisoning. When the incomwas destroyed. Leaman was scheduled ing sirens began, they moved into the to join a work call, but could barely safe room.

“Out of nowhere, this massive boom, concentrate.

“I usually write the financial news the whole place shook like the floor and I’ve never missed a day, not during moved underneath us,” Turner said.

Hamas (rockets), not during Covid. But “We kind of flew on to each other and I did today,” she said. “But my Israeli for a second I really thought the buildcolleagues were acting like everything’s ing had been hit. I just froze, thinking: normal. Israelis are cut from a different What if I can’t get out?” cloth from us, aren’t they?”

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Deadly nights

Continued from Page 10 leyball and football games, but most of the players were young people, with few children or families in sight.

A day earlier in nearby Bat Yam, where a missile had slammed into a residential building the previous night, killing nine people including three children, the high street was open and busy. Shops with shattered windows from the shock waves continued to serve customers. A shoe store owner shrugged: “Why should I stay at home? What will I do there?”

At the Bat Yam strike site, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had just toured, police maintained a cordon while soldiers were handed energy drinks. A Chabad outreach truck known as a “mitz- Rescue workers and civilian volunteers respond in the aftermath of a deadly vah tank” played music nearby, while Iranian missile strike in Bat Yam, adjacent to Tel Aviv, June 15. another van belonging to the Na Nach Nachman subsect of the Breslover Chasidic movea health clinic and a bank without success. When the ment — a group known for dancing atop their vehicles sirens blared, the mood shifted, and people scrambled — stood idle and silent. Its driver, who arrived in Bat through the streets. An Orthodox man standing on the Yam from his home in the Golan Heights, said he had sidewalk pointed to stairs leading down to a synahoped to lift spirits with music but changed his mind gogue. after arriving.

No one else was there at first. I sat down next to the “It didn’t feel quite right,” he said. “But when it is, Ark, vaguely recalling the many social media posts I’ll fire the music up. Everyone has their part to play. of Torah scrolls that had miraculously survived past One brings food, another first aid, another joy.” attacks intact and figuring it could be my best chance The scenes of destruction also reignited debates over of survival. But then the Orthodox man returned and Israel’s shelter infrastructure on June 16. State Compgestured for me to move, pointing to the ceiling panels troller Matanyahu Englman, visiting the Bat Yam site, above blown out by shock waves from the previous noted that roughly a quarter of Israel’s population night’s strike. I moved to sit next to a woman in a tank lacks access to proper bomb shelters. top reading from a book of Psalms. “There’s no service In local WhatsApp groups, Israelis argued over in here, what else are we going to do?” she said. whether public bomb shelters or private safe rooms ofAnother woman, Jenny, originally from Congo fered better protection. One poster insisted Deborah Danan underground shelters were safer, while another pointed out that many public shelters are decades old, poorly maintained and not designed for modern threats.

Others emphasized that while private safe rooms are built to absorb shockwaves and shrapnel, they have never been tested against the kind of heavy ballistic missiles fired by Iran.

“Better to be in a mamad than risk being buried under rubble,” one person wrote, referring to the newer in-home safe rooms.

The debates extended to the practicalities of sheltering: Some reported that their public shelters were stifling hot after vandals stole air-conditioning units while others complained that neighbors refused to shut the heavy door, despite repeated warnings that included, in one case, a visual aid using a plastic bottle to demona Congolese immigrant taking shelter in a Bat Yam synagogue, shows strate the relative ease of crushing it with Jenny, the app indicating where missiles are expected, June 15. and without its cap.

Yana, who lives near the site of the Bat Yam strike, and living in Israel for 16 years, apparently did have said she usually stayed in the stairwell during Hamas service, and was showing others her Red Alert app, and Houthi attacks rather than going outside to public filled with red pins indicating where sirens had been shelters. activated.

“I feel bad leaving my cats alone. But this time I She had been on her way to visit relatives hospitalfelt I had to go. These aren’t launches from Gaza,” she ized from the Bat Yam strike — her sister, brother-insaid. law, and brother — when the sirens sounded again.

Nearby, Rom, a teenager with a large tattoo on his Her 8-month-old nephew, physically unscathed, had shin, said he had come “to check out the pretty cops.” become unresponsive overnight. “Yesterday he was Like Yana, he had no shelter in his home. “But I’m not laughing, smiling, eating. Today he’s doing none of moving. I sit on my couch and wait for those Iranian those things,” Jenny said. bastards,” he said. “If it’s my time, it’s my time. God “I have high blood pressure which was starting to will protect me.” relax after nearly two years of Hamas but now it’s Around 4 p.m., as early warning signals began to skyrocketing,” she said. “I know God is always worksound again, people quickened their pace but showed ing extra hard in this country, but still, I’m very, very little panic. This reporter searched for shelter, checking scared."

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‘The price to pay for attacking Iran has dramatically dropped’

Former Jerusalem Post Editor Yaakov Katz on the Israel-Iran war so far JTA Why did Israel attack Iran now? Is Israel trying to force regime change, or end Iran’s nuclear program? And how is Israel able to assassinate Iranian officials with pinpoint accuracy while struggling to defeat a more ragtag foe closer to home?

We posed these questions and more to Yaakov Katz, the former editor of the Jerusalem Post, the host of The Jewish People’s Podcast, and the author of Israel vs. Iran: The Shadow War, Shadow Strike: Inside Israel’s Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power, and the forthcoming While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East.

Katz spoke with Ami Eden, the CEO and Executive Editor of 70 Faces Media, JTA’s parent company, June 16, after returning to Israel via tugboat after being stranded abroad because of the war. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

What are the most important takeaways so far from the escalating war between Israel and Iran, and what’s most surprised you?

The Iran threat is a threat that has had the potential of becoming an existential threat for a long time and Israel’s been dealing with it for 30 years in many different ways, trying to sabotage equipment and facilities, to assassinating scientists, to using cyber warfare and all these other different kinetic attacks and covert attacks — all of it meant to delay the Iranians. But a couple of things have changed over the last two years.

The first thing that has changed is, while Oct. 7 itself was a disaster, and no doubt what led to it was a massive failure that Israel is still paying the price

for, there’s the flip side to Oct. 7, which has been the re-engineering of the Middle East. The Middle East today is a very different Middle East than it was on Oct. 6 or Oct. 7. What I mean by that is what the Iranians did, from a strategic perspective, was they always wanted to be on the threshold of having all the pieces and components of a nuclear capability in place. And they also wanted to create their army of proxies and create a belt of fire around Israel.

This was meant to achieve two things: One is to deter Israel from ever attacking.

Number two is that if we do attack, we will pay a price. But what’s happened in the two years since Oct. 7? The proxies are gone. Hezbollah is beaten back, it’s weakened. It still has capabilities, but nothing like what it had prior to this.

The presumption always was within the Israeli military establishment that you attack Iran and you will get hit really hard by Hezbollah. Hezbollah is coming out on its own and saying, “We’re not going to get involved” — that’s dramatic.

So Hezbollah is gone. Hamas doesn’t really exist anymore.

Yes, they’re still there. They have hostages. We have to deal with it, but they have no offensive capability against Israel.

Assad, Iran’s ally in Syria, is gone. Right when he fell, and Ahmad Al-Sharaa took over, Israel in four days destroyed all of Syria’s strategic weapons, their fighter jets, their navy, their ballistic missiles, the Scuds, their chemical weapons.

All gone. And then there was last year, in April and October, we exchanged blows with the Iranians. We destroyed the S-300 sophisticated Russian air defense systems. So when you think about this for a moment, that belt of fire, that proxy army, doesn’t exist anymore.

So, what do you think?

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So the price to pay for attacking Iran has dramatically dropped. And then there’s two other things that have also changed. One is we have developed capabilities over the years. We have more advanced capabilities today than we had in the past. Offensive and defensive. We have the best missile defense architecture that anyone in the world could ever imagine. It’s not going to be perfect. There’s no such thing as 100% and the consequences are tragic. But we’ve also developed capabilities to penetrate underground, hardened infrastructure. We do it in the tunnels of Gaza, and we’re now applying that also to the facilities in Iran.

And then, of course, there’s Donald Trump, who came into office, and things changed, and we now know that there was close coordination, and even, I would say, an act of deception, that was coordinated between Israel and the Americans to fool the Iranians into thinking that this wasn’t going to happen.

So when I look at why we took advantage of this window of opportunity, that’s the answer.

Now where we are in this is we’re just in the beginning, right? And I know that’s hard to hear, because everyone wants this over but there is more to do.

The reason this will keep going is we haven’t completed the main mission, and that is the elimination of as much as possible of Iran’s nuclear program.

Is eliminating the nuclear program still Israel’s main mission, or has it shifted to regime change?

The nuclear program was the focus at the beginning. We heard the prime minister even say, there’s intelligence that they’re moving forward on weaponization. There was this

window. We had no choice.

We gave the opportunity to the Trump administration. Five rounds of talks, 60 days, wasn’t leading to anything. Something had to move. I’m not sure that we need to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. It’s important to remember in 1981 that when Israel bombed Iraq’s reactor, then Menachem Begin was the prime minister, the assessment in the Israeli defense and security establishment was at the time that we’d set back Saddam one year. Saddam Hussein never got nuclear weapons, right? Always we understood that there’s only so much we could do. Take out some parts of the facility of the process, kill some of the people that’s needed, set them back for a year, two, three, maybe, but it has to be followed up with something. What exactly is that follow up? Maybe it’s these reports that we’re now hearing that Donald Trump just spoke about a couple hours ago, that the Iranians are begging to come back and sit down and talk. So maybe now that they’re bleeding and they’re hurting, they’re going to be willing to really negotiate and agree to a deal that takes enrichment out of Iran, as an example, and removes the full enriched stockpile of uranium that they have, which Israel has been careful not to bomb, because that could spread radioactive material.

But I think that with the success what we are starting to see is maybe we can actually bring about a regime change.

And this sometimes happens to countries who are at war, that they begin to think that maybe they can manipulate reality with their own hands. I urge extreme caution on that. I think that we should be very careful.

I think that it’s very possible that maybe this will lead to the downfall and the toppling of the regime, which would be a bracha for the world, a blessing. But I also think that we should be a bit modest and have humility of what we can potentially do, because it could also have the opposite effect.

It could see the Iranian people unite behind the regime, and the regime then really races towards a nuclear bomb. So we should be ready to stop potentially, when we feel we’ve done enough of the damage to the nuclear program, and stay focused on that. I wouldn’t want to see us go down a route of

where we make mistakes, like we made in Lebanon in the first Lebanon War back in the 80s, or like mistakes the Americans made in Afghanistan and Iraq and other places, including Iran back in the 1950s. We should be careful with what we think we can potentially do here.

During the Six Day War, Israel very quickly achieved “air sovereignty,” to use your term.

But there were limiting factors, most notably fear of the Soviet Union stepping in to protect its client states. Now that Israel has complete control of the skies this time around, is there any limiting factor?

I think the greatest limitation and restraining factor here will be the Trump administration.

So when the president will say to Israel, “Guys time to wrap this up,” that will begin to be the end or the off ramp, and it could be that more negotiations is what’s also going to lead to the end of this. And by the way, it’s in Israel’s interest.

Again, Israel knows it can’t destroy everything. It knows at the most it can set them back for hopefully the longest period of time as possible, which might be 18 months or two years or less. We need the Americans to follow up with some sort of political process here, and the two go hand in hand, and it’s in our interest for that process to take place.

I just want to push you to explain your thinking on that point. If this is a sudden, previously unimaginable opportunity to knock out a regime that has as one of its foundational principles a dedication to eradicating Israel as a Jewish state, why is this a time for humility?

What is regime change?

When do we hit that point? Are we going to kill Khamenei and the president and some of the other cabinet members, and then someone else will be appointed. They’re not going to be Zionist, pro-Israel, pro-West, so we’re going to kill that guy too?

Or are we going to come in, take the son of the Shah, who is in exile, and we’re going to install him? These things don’t end well. This is not our issue.

The Iranian people are good people and they should break free. I don’t know if that’s for us to do. For us, it is to take care of our security, which right now is the elimination of their Continued on Page 23

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July 13 Commemorating numerous calamities that fell on the Jewish people on this day, this fast is observed from dawn until dusk. Among the calamities were the breach of the walls of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 B.C.E. and by the Romans in 70 C.E. Marks the beginning of the Three Weeks, a period of mourning for the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem, culminating on the Ninth of Av.

RELIGION

CONGREGATIONS

How many Jews in U.S.? Global study of world religions offers new estimate.

As always, how exactly to count the number of Jews is up for debate.

By Grace Gilson, JTA In its landmark study of American Jewry in 2020, the Pew Research Center reported there were an estimated 7.5 million Jews of all ages in the United States.

Now, in a new study released June 9, the center says the number is actually more like 5.7 million.

What happened to 1.8 million American Jews? For the purpose of its latest report, which focuses on global religious population change, Pew is counting only those who self-identify with Judaism as a religion rather than those who identify as Jewish due to “ethnicity, culture or family background.”

The metric was used because the goal of the project was to “report which religion, if any, people around the world identify with,” according to Conrad Hackett, senior demographer and associate director of religion research at Pew. In order to generate a number that could be comparable

to, say, the number of Presbyterians, researchers needed to use a metric that could apply across communities.

But the metric also means that 1.8 million Americans who identify as Jewish but do not say they are Jewish by religion are excluded from the tally.

The tally also does not detect growth in that population — by Pew’s previous assessment, the fastest-growing segment of American Jews.

The analysis, focused on population change, found that the population of Jews by religion in the United States grew by just 30,000 between 2010 and 2020.

In contrast, it found that the

Jewish population of Israel — as measured by the Israeli government — increased by 1 million, to 6.8 million, during that time.

In multiple other regions, Africa and Europe, the Jewish population fell substantially, largely reflecting widespread emigration.

The European Jewish population fell by an estimated 8%; the Latin America-Caribbean region decreased by 12%; and the sub-Saharan African Jewish population dropped 37%, to just 50,000 in 2020, according to the report.

The overall growth in the world’s Jewish population did not increase their proportion of the world’s religious adherents because of the much faster growth in other populations.

The study found that Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group, up 21% since 2010 with a total population of 2 billion.

Various efforts to count the number of Jews in the world have yielded an array of tallies, all below the Jewish population alive before the Holocaust.

The Pew report quotes one demographer focused on Jews, Sergio DellaPergola, as noting that Jewish population counts are “permanently provisional” because of both data quality issues and the fact that the question of who is a Jew does not have a fixed answer.

Pew is counting only those who identify with Judaism as a religion.

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Adam and Julie Waldman of Dayton are elated to announce the engagement of their daughter, Zoe Claire Waldman, to Noah Jacob Roos, son of Rabbi Jonathan and Elizabeth Roos of Bethesda, Md. The wedding will take place on Aug. 31 at the Dayton Art Institute. Noah proposed to Zoe in Dupont Circle in D.C., and they were later joined by both of their families to celebrate their engagement.

Zoe attends The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. Noah is an attorney at the Department of Labor in Washington, D.C.

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Rebecca Blumer graduated from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. with a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a double major of Jewish studies and business administration. After another stint as kitchen steward at Goldman Union Camp Institute in Zionsville, Ind. this summer, she will begin her role as a Hillel International Springboard Fellow at Indiana University. Rebecca is looking forward to her role of connecting Jewish students on campus with one another through IU Hillel programs and services. Charlie and Rebecca's parents are Molly and Jeff Blumer.

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By Susan Barocas The Nosher Biscochos are the beloved Sephardic oil-based cookie, usually shaped into a circle and topped with sesame seeds.

But since these simple cookies traveled to many places, there are numerous variations in shape, flavoring and toppings, influenced by local customs and family tradition.

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However they are shaped and topped, biscochos are neither sweet like most cookies nor savory, and yet, they are somehow quite habit-forming.

The subtle flavor can be from vanilla alone or the addition of anise or almond extract, anise liquor, orange blossom or rose water, or grated rind from a lemon or orange.

Total Time: 1 hour-1 hour 15 minutes Yield: 4 dozen larger or 6 dozen smaller cookies For the cookies: 5 large eggs, divided 1 cup good neutral oil (avocado, sunflower, grapeseed) 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1 tsp. baking powder 5–6 cups all-purpose flour Optional flavoring additions: finely grated rind from 1 large orange or lemon 1 tsp. anise or almond extract ½ tsp. rose or orange blossom water

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For the topping: ½–1 cup sesame seeds or

½ cup sugar mixed with 1 Tbsp. cinnamon Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cover baking sheets with parchment or spray lightly with oil.

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together four eggs, oil, sugar, and optional flavoring additions, if using, until the mixture is lighter in color and getting foamy.

In a separate bowl, mix baking powder and flour until well blended. Add dry mixture to the egg mixture a little at a time, beating constantly first with a whisk and then with a wooden spoon.

Switch to using your hands to mix in flour once the dough is a bit firm to the touch.

Use as much of the flour as is needed to create a smooth dough that is pliable, but not sticking to your hands or the surface when rolled.

If the dough is too sticky, add a bit more flour. If it gets too crumbly, add a bit more oil.

Working quickly, make several small balls. For larger biscochos, each ball should be about the size of a large marshmallow or a walnut in the shell (about 1/8 cup).

Roll each large ball into a strand or rope 4-5 inches long and about ½-inch wide, about the width of a woman’s finger.

For smaller biscochos, make the balls from a slightly overfilled tablespoon of dough and roll each into a strand 2-3 inches long and about 3/8 inches wide.

For twisted ropes, either left straight or shaped into circles, roll thinner strands. For any size, make each strand smooth and even its entire length.

For each shape, make the strands consistent in length by cutting off extra dough and using it for another cookie.

Shape your cookie with one of the following methods (as you work, place each shaped cookie on the prepared baking sheet about 1 inch apart): 1. Make the circle shape by bringing the ends together or overlapping them slightly.

Slightly flatten the strand, then fold in half. Make small cuts, about ½-inch apart on the edge of the strand, then form the circle shape.

Create the circle, then make a design around the outside edges by gently pressing a fork.

2. For twists, role strands longer and skinnier. Fold a strand of dough in half and twist the ends in opposite directions. Leave straight or shape into a circle, gently pressing the ends together.

When all the dough is used, beat the remaining egg well in a bowl. Put sesame seeds and cinnamon-sugar in wide shallow bowls or dishes.

Working a few at a time, lightly brush a little egg on top of each biscocho, then sprinkle with topping or dip each cookie in topping of choice.

During baking, the biscochos will puff up a little but not spread a lot.

Bake for 30-35 minutes until lightly golden brown.

Notes: Store in an airtight container, unrefrigerated, for three weeks or freeze, wellwrapped, for up to three months.

To crisp biscochos that have softened while stored or frozen, reheat in a 300-degree oven for 10-12 minutes.

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By Stephen Silver, JTA at the event and suggests that for that In Midas Man, the first biopic about reason, she’d like to have a Jewish wedthe late Beatles manager Brian Epstein, ding herself. an early, pivotal scene is set in a synaLater, we see Harry’s funeral, where gogue. the cantor sings the prayers and they In it, Brian (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd) do the traditional rending of garments, is with his parents, Harry and Malka and at another point in the film, Ep(Eddie Marsan and Emily Watson), as stein meets future business partner Nat they sit in the pews together as the only Weiss (played by James Corrigan), they people in a Liverpool synagogue after say “L’chaim” as they toast, and Weiss services are over, each man wearing addresses him as “boychick.” a kippah and tallit. Malka, who was The notes are the only ones the film called Queenie, says to her son, “It hits about Epstein’s Jewish upbringing seems like only yesterday you and your and identity, which were so prominent brother were up there.” that Beatles frontman John Lennon They discuss Brian’s future and his routinely invoked them while poking desire to be in the music business, leadfun at his friend. (Lennon quipped that ing an initially skeptical Harry to allow Epstein’s biography ought to be called Brian to sell rock and pop records as an Queer Jew, according to a biannex to the family’s furniture and retail business. The It deals more ographer who traveled with the band.) success of this side venture Brigit Grant, the film’s coultimately propelled him to with Epstein screenwriter, wrote for the become the manager of an being a British publication The Jewish exciting new band — The News about how Epstein was Beatles — and the Jew most closeted born on Yom Kippur, how associated with Beatlemania. gay man Epstein’s grandfather was Over the years, Epstein — a Yiddish-speaking refugee sometimes considered the from Lithuania, and how she learned “Fifth Beatle” — has been the subject from an uncle that when Epstein of multiple books and, more recently, a studied for his bar mitzvah, he initially statue in Liverpool. Midas Man replearned the wrong Torah portion but resents the first film to make him the learned quickly enough to give a “very center of attention. competent” reading of the correct one.

While the movie is on the Jewish film Epstein also sought out Yom Kipfestival circuit, Epstein’s Jewishness is pur services while on the road with the not its focus. It deals more with Epstein band and resisted entreaties to change being a closeted gay man, his music his surname, she wrote. career, and his relationships with The Beatles and his family.

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JEWISH FAMILY EDUCATION

Speechless Sacred Speech Series

There was once a cruel king who challenged the Jews of his city to a silent duel. A losing contestant would receive 100 lashes, and if no one volunteered, it would mean death for the entire community.

Hoping to save his fellow Jews, a poor farmer stepped forward. The king began the duel by pointing one finger

Candace R. Kwiatek upward. The farmer responded by pointing straight down.

When the king pointed two fingers at the Jew, he pointed one finger at the king.

The king then thrust his entire hand at the Jew, who countered by holding up his fist.

The king held up a bottle of red wine. The farmer held up a wedge of white cheese.

“Enough!” cried the king.

He ordered the farmer richly rewarded and never bothered the city’s Jews again.

The royal servants were perplexed, so the king explained.

“I asserted the Jews are as numerous as the stars, but the farmer implied they are grains of sand under my feet. Then I declared there are two gods, of good and evil, but the Jew insisted there is only one. When I indicated the Jews are scattered, the farmer maintained they are united. Finally, I proclaimed the farmer’s sins are as red as wine, but he argued they are as white as cheese."

Meanwhile, the farmer told his fellow Jews a different story. “The king pointed up, saying I would hang, so I pointed down, saying he could go to hell! Then he threatened to gouge out my eyes, but I reminded him an eye for an eye! When he readied to slap me, I warned him not to try it.

Finally, he offered me a drink of wine, so I decided to share my cheese!”

Not all communication is oral, nor does it always involve words. Sign language is a prime example, a visual language of hand signals and gestures that primarily expresses concepts or ideas, not individual words.

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of speechless communication that are innately human.

While Judaism places great importance on the power of speech, it also acknowledges the potency of non-verbal communication.

Peppered throughout the Bible, wordless episodes are particularly adept at conveying emotions and expressing meaning.

After eating the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, Adam and Eve sewed fig leaves to cover their nakedness, bare skin that just Buster Keaton in The Love Nest, 1923. moments earlier had no physiWhen entering or exiting cal or moral significance. a Jewish home, the custom Then, hearing God’s voice of touching the mezuzah is on the breeze, they hid amid a silent declaration of reverthe garden’s trees. ence for God and Torah and Sitting by a well in Midan acknowledgement of God’s ian, Moses observed a band of abiding presence. shepherds tormenting young The act of reclining during women watering their flocks. the Passover meal proclaims Moses stood up and rescued the Israelites’ liberation from the women. slavery and the Seder’s themes Desperate to escape from of personal dignity, royalty, the murderous King Saul, and freedom.

David fled to enemy Philistine Facing toward Jerusalem for territory where he was soon prayer is a nonrecognized. Alverbal declaration lowing spittle While Judaism of remembrance to run down places great and reverence for into his beard Israel’s ancient as he scratched importance on history, for its aimlessly at the Promised Land, city gates, David the power of and especially for deliberately speech, it also God’s holy city and transformed his acknowledges its Temple Mount. demeanor into the potency Every person’s that of a harmfirst language is the less otherworldly of non-verbal inborn’s capacity lunatic and for nonverbal facial escaped the city communication. and body lanunharmed. guage which, just like a spoken Woven throughout Jewish language, must be learned in culture and worship, speechorder to be effective. less rituals express a wide But it is rarely taught berange of concepts and values. yond infancy. Consequently, Lighting a yahrzeit candle on the anniversary of a beloved Rabbi Erica Brown notes, “Sometimes we don’t realize individual’s death conveys the way our faces talk.” respect for the departed, honOr the way our bodies ors their legacy, and affirms speak, either. A single verse the value of remembrance, all in the Talmud remedies that without words.

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omission by teaching the skills and foundational principle of facial and body language.

The first-century scholar Shammai used to say: "You should receive kol ha’adam b’sever panim yafot, every person with a pleasant cast of countenance.”

Kol ha’adam: Greet or welcome every person. Not just someone you know or like, but also those you find annoying or intolerable, and even the stranger. A person should feel like they’re noticed.

B’sever: Turn your thoughts away from other tasks or interests and toward the person you greet. The Hebrew also implies turning your body toward the person, to express interest or focused attention on the individual, even if only for a brief moment. A sense of shared humanity, an I-Thou connection rather than an I-It relationship, is the goal.

Panim: The Hebrew word for face is always plural, brilliantly capturing its multifaceted constantly changing nature.

Look at each other, face to face, eye to eye, and really see one another in the moment.

Yafot: Beautiful or pleasant are two positive visages among the up to 10,000 distinct expressions that one can create using the human face’s 43 facial muscles. Convey the message that you are happy to see the person you greet.

Ahead of his time, the 19thcentury religious thinker Rabbi Israel Salanter was known for encouraging mindfulness about the emotional and social impacts of one’s demeanor on others.

It’s likely he would agree with this revised version of his oft-quoted words: “A person’s countenance (and body language are) like public property.

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the cabinet. In 2012 he claimed Barack Obama stopped him. He always came up with excuses. I wasn’t sure he would have the guts to go across the finish line.

And I have to say that even as somebody who’s not his fan, I think what he has done is unquestionably and unequivocally the right move for the State of Israel.

Can you put the decision to attack Iran in the context of the Israeli political discourse?

This is the most unpolitical issue in the most political and politicized country, where everything is politics. (Opposition leader) Yair Lapid has said pub- How is Israel able to carry out licly, I disagree with Netanyahu an attack with such precision on almost everything. We are so far away, while in Gaza the bitter political rivals. On this, I number of civilians killed and stand completely alongside him. destruction of civilian infraThis is an issue that every prime structure is so much higher? minister has dealt with.

Ultimately, the way that From Bibi’s first term in office Hamas embeds itself in civilian in the 90s, we have been facinfrastructure is very different ing off against Iran. Everyone than what we see in Iran. Iran has seen it the same. Everyone is a country with a convenhas taken action, every prime minister, every Mossad director, every IDF chief of staff, every commander of the Air Force. I used to be a military correspon- Robert Armin Buerki, Springdent. I would sit in the office of field resident, passed away the Israeli Air Force commander. June 7 in Dayton. He was born I’m telling you, 12, 13 years ago, in Madison, Wisc. to the late with maps out on the table, and Robert and Gail (Banks) Buerki him explaining to me which and was preceded in death by squadron is going where – 12, 13 his in-laws, Lester and Pearl years ago. So it’s something that (Farber) Stein and brother-inis very unpolitical. law, Eric Stein. His blessed memory is now cherished by So Israelis aren’t engaging in his wife, Leslie (Stein) Buerki; their usual speculation about son and daughter-in-law, Robin whether the prime minister is (Amy Gilbert) Buerki; beloved acting to save his coalition or to granddaughters, Lenox, Zaavoid his legal problems? die and Marni; cousin, Mark I mean there are people who Rider; sister-in-law, Sherri Stein; can’t see beyond their animosity nieces, Erin and Jillian (Max) towards Netanyahu. I’m no fan Lipset; brother-in-law, Michael of Netanyahu. Anyone who’s (Maureen) Stein; nephews, read me over the years knows, Kevin and Mark; and dear colI can be very critical, and I have leagues, friends, and former stubeen. I think, on this issue, the dents. He was an intrepid USAF idea that this is being politically spouse of 46 years, a pharmadriven is ludicrous. There is an cist, educator, author, editor, objective, what I described beand professor emeritus at The fore, window of opportunity.

Ohio State University College of There is intelligence that Pharmacy. He was recognized Israel has claimed to have that nationally and internationally shows they’re moving faster and in health care ethics, continuforward with the weaponizaing education, and pharmacy tion. This had to be done. And history writing and research. for that reason, you see how He was an active leader with everyone in the government and the American Institute of Hisin opposition stands together on tory of Pharmacy (University this. of Wisconsin-Madison) for over What will happen to Netan60 years, where he endowed yahu’s career as a result of this the academic George Urdang is a different question. I would Chair and graduate fellowpredict that politically, he will ships. Interment at Arlington see a boost. To be honest. I’m National Cemetery. If desired, surprised he did it. I wrote a please consider a memorial gift piece back in December after the in Bob’s memory to the Colonial October clash that we had with Williamsburg Apothecary, the the Iranians, in which I said, University of Wisconsin, Ohio Israel needs to attack Iran now. State University Foundations, And not that I had any prophTemple Beth Or, or Springfield’s ecy. I just said I saw how the Temple Sholom. pieces had lined up, that there was a unique opportunity. But I It is with great sadness that didn’t believe Bibi would do it, we share the passing of Mark because he balked at it so many Chesler at the age of 88. Mark times in the past. In 2010 he was the beloved father of claimed he couldn’t get it across Deborah Char (the late David)

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tional military that has bases are. The reason that Israel is not and has military headquarters bombing Isfahan in a way that and military targets. The IRGC would really destroy the facilintelligence headquarters isn’t ity, is because we don’t want to underneath the Tehran hospisee radioactive material leak out tal, right, unlike what you see into urban centers. It’s because in Gaza. And as a result, you we care about them. I mean, know, I think we all understand, I think it always really comes I hope that we all understand, back to the main difference Israel has never had any interest between us and our enemies in killing any civilians. is that we care more than they If we look back to operations themselves care about their own that we fought in Gaza before children.

Oct. 7, we went to the craziest And I know that's hard to lengths to avoid civilian casual- square when you look at what’s ties and collateral damage that happening in Gaza right now, we now look back and say, were and I recognize that complexity, we crazy? What were we doing? but I strongly believe that it is Being so, so careful. Look at really still true. how we get attacked, it really do anything at the end of the day.

Can you talk more about And I think we understand that President Trump's role in all of that’s just because of who we this? Was Israel going against

his publicly stated desire to give negotiations more time, or was he part of a ruse? Or both? Was Netanyahu going it alone, like Levi Eshkol in 1967, or was Trump giving a wink or a nudge unlike anything we have ever seen from a U.S. president?

Trump kept saying, I believe a deal is possible. I’m optimistic we can get to a deal. We can get to a deal. At the same time, Israel had convinced the president that an operation was required, that an operation was needed.

And I really believe that in this case, and from what I’m hearing, it wasn’t that Trump said green light — guys, go for it. But he also didn’t give the red light.

And that created a gray zone that Israel could maneuver in.

OBITUARIES and Naomi Chesler (Dan Sidney), husband of the late Joan Chesler, grandfather of Benjamin Char, Jonathan Simmons (Ashley), Josephine, Amelia, and Ruby Sidney, and greatgrandfather of Mayson, Lily, and Lawren Simmons. Mark Chesler was a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Michigan and a founding faculty member of The Program on Intergroup Relations, conducting research, teaching, consulting and organizing on issues of social justice and personal/organizational change around race and gender equity, and of the psychosocial impact of childhood cancer. Professionally and personally, he was a friend and mentor to many, connecting with his empathy, intelligence, and wry sense of humor. He created and arbitrated the "Chesler humor rules,"

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