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S THAOK RE ST Illuminated Haggadahs on display

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o l oradans spendi n g Passover in Israel may want to visit Jerusalem hotel The Inbal for its annual illuminated Haggadah Fair on Monday, April 2.

The event will feature special speakers on topics related to the Ten Plagues, interactive presentations and activities on their fair’s theme, as well as displays of contemporary illuminated Haggadahs.

The theme of the exhibition will be “Playing with Plagues,” with activities including origami workshops on frogs to a shadow theatre for dark- A page of a modern illuminated Haggadah, ness. illustrated by Eliyahu Sidi.

Modern illuminated Haggadahs Kol HaOt, a Jerusalem-based orgaby renowned Israeli artists will also nization dedicated to combining visube featured at the fair. al and performance arts with Jewish The fair is organized together with texts, ideas, history and values.

Rabbi Lau honored as Guardian of Zion

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ormer Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau will receive the 2018 Guardian of Zion Award from the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar-Ilan University. Lau will deliver the annual Distinguished Rennert Lecture on May 22 on the topic “From Shoah to Revival: Reflections and Conclusions Regarding Dramatic and Historic Events.”

When Rabbi Lau was liberated from Buchenwald, “he was an eightyear-old child who said of himself that he could neither cry nor laugh,” said Prof. Joshua Schwartz, director of the Rennet center. “He grew up in Israel to be a man of many dreams, a visionary who brought and brings the message of Torah and the love of Torah to Jews the world over.”

Lau will join leading personalities who have received the award,

including former British Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and authors Herman Wouk and Prof. Elie Wiesel.

Lau was born in 1937 in Piotrków, Poland to Rabbi Moshe Chaim Lau, Chief Rabbi of Piotrków. The elder Lau was murdered by the Nazis at the Treblinka extermination camp, and his mother in the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women. He survived the war largely thanks to his older brother, Naftali, who protected him during their time in Buchenwald.

Following the war Lau immigrated to Israel in 1945. He served first as a congregational rabbi in Tel Aviv and was appointed Chief Rabbi of Netanya (1979), Chief Rabbi of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa (1988) and Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel (19932003). In 2005, he was re-appointed Chief Rabbi of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa and retired from this position in 2017.

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n the portion read on the first day of Passover, the Torah emphasizes the importance of educating children to ask questions. There is nothing natural about this at all. To the contrary, it goes dramatically against the grain of history. Most traditional cultures see it as the task of a parent or teacher to instruct, guide or command. Judaism is the rarest of phenomena: a faith based on asking questions, sometimes deep and difficult ones that seem to shake the very foundations of faith itself, as evidenced by Abraham,

Moses, Jeremiah and Job’s questioning of G-d in difficult circumstances.

Judaism is not a religion of blind obedience. Indeed, astonishingly in a religion of 613 commandments, there is no Hebrew word that means “to obey”.

Why? Because we believe that intelligence is G-d’s greatest gift to humanity.

Rashi understands the phrase that G-d made man “in His image, after His likeness,” to mean that G-d gave us the ability “to understand and discern.”

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March For Our Lives

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he march last Saturday was powerful. Seeing so many young people take to the streets was inspiring. Regardless of one’s political position on guns, it’s great to see a whole generation of people who care. That’s what democracy and freedom of expression are all about.

There was one aspect, however, that I found potentially troubling.

Some of the messages painted on placards were rather violent, and it made me wonder if this march could end up instilling fear and anxiety in some children.

According to the Washington Post, nearly 200 people have died from gunfire at school since 1999. Now, one is too many, but the statistic reveals that it is still incredibly unlikely that a given student will be killed at school due to a shooting. The more troubling statistic from the Post is

that 187,000 students have experienced a shooting. A far higher number, to be sure, yet still a relatively small percentage of students in this country.

The fact is that far more children die every year due to homicide-related gunfire, or traffic accidents, or from child abuse and neglect.

Government must respond in a substantive manner to the voices of America’s students who spoke out on Saturday. There is a real fear, and it must be addressed, not merely calmed. But I do have concern for those who are anxiety prone, that being surrounded by such strong messages and anger could instill a deep fear that they are in imminent danger.

Instead of empowered, they could end up just being scared.

Shana Goldberg may be reached at shana@ijn.com

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Treasure trove: Roman-era coins

team of archaeologists have unearthed a trove of rare bronze coins on March 26 dating from the last years of the Roman-Jewish War (66-73 CE) in a cave near the south wall of the Temple Mount.

The discovery was part of the Ophel excavation operated by Israeli archeologist Eilat Mazar of the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Included were dozens of bronze coins, as well as numerous fragments of pottery vessels from the difficult four-year rebellion of the Jews of Israel against Roman rule, known as the Great Revolt.

Mazar’s team believes that the coins were left by hidden Jewish residents of Second Temple Jerusalem, who sought refuge from the Roman siege in a cave that measures 7x14 meters.

The coins were dated to the period just prior to the destruction of the Second Temple, with most of them dating to the revolt’s final year.

Whereas coins in the earlier part of the revolt were decorated with Jewish symbols and bore the paleoHebrew words “For the Freedom of Zion,” the coins minted in Year Four,

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as the revolt began to break down, were etched with “For the Redemption of Zion.”

“A discovery like this — ancient coins bearing the words “Freedom” and “Redemption” found right before the Jewish Festival of Freedom, Passover begins — is incredibly moving,” said Mazar in a statement.

According to Mazar, the cave was virtually untouched since the Second Temple period and also contains a Hasmonean Period layer beneath.

In February, the Ophel excavation garnered international attention for uncovering a 2,700-year-old seal that may have belonged to the biblical Prophet Isaiah.

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PASSOVER Second Day.

CHOL HAMOED PESACH. First intermediate day of Passover.

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THE GREAT BIG PESACH ADVENTURE, sponsored by Bais Menachem. 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Heritage Amusement Park.

TUESDAY CHOL HAMOED PESACH. Second intermediate day of Passover.

FILM SCREENING of “The Invisibles,” sponsored by Mizel Museum. 7 p.m., Sie FilmCenter.

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CHOL HAMOED PESACH. Fourth intermediate day of Passover.

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CHOL HAMOED PESACH. Third intermediate day of Passover.

PASSOVER Eighth Day. Yizkor memorial service.

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“WHEN WILL THE SUN RISE on a World Without Genocide,” seventh annual breakfast, sponsored by Colorado Coalition for Genocide Awareness and Action. Speakers: Chanta Furaha and K. Nicole Robinson Asarch. 8 a.m., Mile High United Way CoBank Leadership Center.

YOM HASHOAH. Holocaust Remembrance Day.

17 TUESDAY YOM HAZIKARON program for Israeli Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers and terror victims. Sponsored by JEWISHcolorado. 7 p.m., Temple Sinai. Boulder program: sponsored by IAC with JEWISHcolorado, 6 p.m., Boulder JCC.

SURVIVORS MEMORIAL, honoring Colorado’s Holocaust survivors, organized by Survivors of the Shoah, co-sponsored by DU Holocaust Awareness Institute. Speakers: Osi Sladek, Ron Jones. 4 p.m., EDOS.

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20 FRIDAY YOM HA’ATZMA’UT. Israel’s 70th Independence Day.

24 TUESDAY GOVERNOR’S 37TH ANNUAL Holocaust Remembrance Program, sponsored by ADL. Theme: “My Silent Pledge.” Guest speaker: Sidney Zoltak. 6 p.m., Temple Emanuel.

29 SUNDAY AIPAC COLORADO Annual Event. Speakers: Michael Doran and Jake Sullivan.

6 p.m., DCPA Seawell Grand Ballroom.

JFS EXECUTIVE LUNCHEON. Speaker: Barbara Corcoran. Co-chairs: David Feiner, Rob Kaufmann. Doors open, 11:30 a.m.; luncheon, noon.

YOM HA’AZTMAUT Boulder celebration, sponsored by JEWISHcolorado. 5-8 p.m., Boulder JCC.

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L I V E LY O P I N I O N Anti-Semitism in France threatens much more than Jews

By SIMONE RODAN-BENZAQUEN Special to the Intermountain Jewish News

ireille Knoll was 85 years old. Born in 1932 in Paris, she owed her life to a miracle, managing to escape the roundup of the Vel d’Hiv with her mother in 1942. She found refuge in Portugal and came back to Paris after the war, where she married an Auschwitz survivor.

Seventy-six years later, on March 23, the devil that she escaped from came back to end her life.

Mireille was found dead in her apartment, burnt after having been stabbed 11 times.

According to her granddaughter, who lives in Israel, everything else in her apartment was burnt as well, “leaving the family with no memories, no photo albums, no letters, nothing. The only thing that we now have are our tears,” she wrote in her Facebook post.

Mireille Knoll’s murder haunts me. It is a painful reminder (as if we needed one) of the face of antiSemitism in France today, where a helpless, sick, 85-year-old Holocaust survivor can be killed in her apartment for one reason only: she is Jewish.

Mireille’s murder also reminds me of another recent anti-Semitic murder.

Nearly one year ago, on April 4,

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2017, a retired Jewish school teacher by the name of Sarah Halimi was killed in her apartment by a radicalized neighbor. He had beaten her nearly to death before finally throwing her out of the window.

At the time, all of France should

With Mireille Knoll, it seems that some lessons have been learned: the judicial authorities have reacted quicker, even though we still have to await the results of the trial.

The prosecutor has announced that the anti-Semitic motive will

one single Frenchman will be safe, in France or anywhere else in the world, as long as a Jew will fear for his life.”

Former Prime Minister Manuel Valls and others have understood that “France without the Jews is not France anymore,” just as Emmanuel Macron said only a few weeks ago: “We must never falter and we will never falter in the denunciation of anti-Semitism and in the fight against this scourge, there is no accommodation, no prohibition of language, no blindness possible, whatever the form that they take insult to aggression, stigma to murder, anti-Semitism is the opposite of the Republic. It is the dishonor of France. And we fight every day for a Republic of honor and fraternity, so we fight every day anti-Semitism

Not only did they murder a Holocaust survivor, they burnt her apartment, ‘leaving the family with no memories’ have reacted with shock, and should have risen up asking for truth and justice. But not much happened.

We were in the middle of a risky presidential campaign in which Emmanuel Macron was facing farright candidate Marine Le Pen. It took months until the mobilization of Jewish institutions, courageous and principled intellectuals, and finally President Macron himself got the media to shine a light on this horrible anti-Semitic murder. Even then, it took the courts nearly a year — after an exhausting back-and-forth between the family, the Jewish communal bodies, the prosecution and the judges — for the latter to recognize anti-Semitism as a motive for Sarah’s murder.

be taken into consideration, and two suspects, one of them a neighbor whom she had known since he was a child, have now been charged. The media have reacted faster as well. ut a fundamental question remains:Will France’s civil society finally wake up? Will it understand that the hate that kills today, and that has killed 11 French citizens since 2006 simply because they were Jewish, is not just “a problem for the Jewish community,” as the French media have a tendency to put it, but that it is a problem for France, for the Republic, for everything this country stands for and was built upon?

As the great French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre used to say, “not

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in all its forms.”

Those declarations are strong and they help French Jews feel less lonely, but it is not enough for them not to feel apart. Many French Jews believe that while they have tried to warn their fellow citizens that this hatred will spread and ultimately attack French people everywhere, only few have listened. hus, the question that haunts so many of us French Jews is: How many people were in the streets after the murder of Ilan Halimi in 2006?

How many were there after three Jewish schoolchildren and a father were killed by a terrorist in Toulouse in 2012?

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Simone Rodan-Benzaquen had it only been the kosher supermarket that was attacked and not also Charlie Hebdo?

How many were there last year after the murder of Sarah Halimi?

The answer is a few hundred at best, and most of them Jewish.

The words of the government are welcome and essential. They build trust in the authorities’ determination to fight this scourge. But so long as French citizens and the larger civil society do speak out with a strong voice, as brothers in solidarity with French Jewish citizens when such horrific crimes occur, those Jews will feel lonely, separated from the national community.

The fight against anti-Semitism was declared a national cause by former President Hollande. Now we need more people to feel moved, concerned, and therefore take an active part in this fight.

This is not just a matter of fighting “in solidarity” with the Jewish community; it is the whole French community’s own fight as well. It must be.

When anti-Semitic violence grows, democracy is at stake. When Islamists, for whom anti-Semitism is at the core of their ideology, attack Please see FRANCE on Page 5

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Dayyenu — was it really ‘enough’?

This ode to Passover was first published in the IJN in 1982 and has occupied this space before Passover many years since. ne of the most popular parts of the Passover seder is Dayyenu. Jews love it and sing it over and over. For many children, it is their earliest memory of the seder.

There is a problem, however. The words of Dayyenu seem to make no sense. Take this stanza: If He had given us the Egyptians’ wealth and had not divided the sea for us, it would have been sufficient.

Really?

We would have stood at the shores of the Reed Sea, the armed chariots of the Egyptians in hot pursuit. Our newfound wealth would not have stopped the Egyptians from slaughtering us or reenslaving us, not to mention retaking our wealth. Obviously, it would not have been sufficient had G-d given us the Egyptians’ wealth without an escape route.

What does this stanza of Dayyenu mean?

Still worse: This stanza is not an isolated case. In fact, the same question may be posed about every single stanza in the song. If He had split the Reed Sea but not taken us across on dry land, it would have been enough.

Really?

Either we would have drowned in the mud between the walls of water, or the Egyptians would have

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caught up with us there and killed us or re-enslaved us.

It is not just each of the miracles that seem not to have been sufficient; it is the spiritual gifts, too.

If He had brought us near Mount Sinai and not given us the Torah, it would have been suffi-

Who is “us”?

It is you and me. It is all Jews alive today and all Jews in every generation who sang Dayyenu — who were not at the exodus from Egypt. So how does the song include us?

Dayyenu is not a recounting of

person is obligated to see himself as if he personally has gone out of Egypt.

And each relived moment is selfsufficient.

When a baby boy is born, the question of how he will perform at his Bar Mitzvah does not enter

‘Dayyenu, enough’ — it would have been enough if G-d gave us Egypt’s wealth . . . then let the Egyptians kill us all? cient. If He had given us the Torah and not led us into the land of Israel, it would have been sufficient.

Really?

The nations of ancient Canaan have vanished. What made our ancient Israelite ancestors survive?

The unique religious mission defined by the Torah and shaped in the land of Israel. Without this mission, our ancestors would have blended into history, too. Without the Torah, no Jew would exist today.

No one would be celebrating Passover and singing Dayyenu!

How, then, would it have been “sufficient” for G-d to give us some of His gifts, but not the others? Didn’t we really need them all? Could the Jews really have survived without the Torah, or without Shabbos?

What does Dayyenu mean? he key is the first-person plural: “If G-d had not given us their wealth . . . not led us into the land of Israel . . . us . . . ”

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ancient events, not a record of history. Its meaning is directly related to another line in the Haggadah: “A person is obligated to see himself as if he personally has gone out of Egypt.”

Passover is not a celebration of the past. It is a reliving of the past, a moment of reexperience. When a person sees himself at the seder as if he personally has gone out of Egypt, he is living through all of the events of that era. He is reliving being enslaved, then reliving being liberated, all the way to entering the land of Israel and the eventual construction of the ancient Holy Temple.

Passover is each Jew’s personal identification with the ancient liberation, from beginning to end.

With this perspective, Dayyenu’s record of each major step in the liberation appears very different. At the seder we do not scrutinize these steps with detachment — with a cool, deliberate, intellectual apprehension. After all, they happened to us. We relive these steps — a

the parents’ consciousness. The moment, the miracle of birth, is utterly full.

When a young couple is married, the question of how it will manage retirement does not enter its consciousness.The moment, the gift of marriage, is utterly full.

It is self-sufficient.

Each major moment in the liberation from Egypt was utterly full.

No future moment entered the freed slaves’ consciousness.

They approached the Reed Sea. There was no hope. The Egyptians were thundering in back of them.

Suddenly, the sea opens up!

The greatest, most awesome, most unexpected, most amazing event unfolded before their eyes.

They were dumbstruck, overwhelmed, relieved.

The moment was utterly full.

G-d’s presence and salvation were overwhelming.

The present moment filled them completely.

No future moment could impinge on their consciousness.

Hillel Goldberg The splitting of the sea — indeed — was sufficient! Dayyenu.

So it was with each miracle, with each Divine gift, at each step of the way out of Egypt and into the land of Israel.

The Jew at the seder relives each of the these utterly full moments — relives the self-sufficiency of being in G-d’s presence.

This is Dayyenu, a song of relived moments of utter Divine presence.

Of utter fullness.

“If He had given us the Torah and not led us into the land of Israel, it would have been sufficient.” Of course it would have been sufficient! Our minds, our hearts, were utterly filled with this gift from the Holy One, blessed be He — the Torah! We were not thinking of the next moment.

So it is with each step — each stanza — in Dayyenu.

Dayyenu pulls us into the reality of G-d’s liberating power and presence. We who sing and rejoice over Dayyenu relive each step of the way in all of its self-sufficiency.

Dayyenu.

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THE READERS SPEAK UK Labour has antiSemitism problem Editor: We stand in solidarity with the British Jewish community in their demands to end tolerance for antiSemitism in the UK Labour Party.

We understand their frustration with Jeremy Corbyn’s repeated failure to listen to the community’s concerns when it comes to the far left’s obsessive hatred of Zionism and Israel.

Corbyn’s many statements opposing anti-Semitism are contradicted by his failure time and again to act against those who engage in antiSemitism.

It is high time for the British Labour Party to recognize that they have a serious problem with Jews and Israel.

We hope the British public at large shows broad rejection of anti-Semitism and support for the Jewish community.

In an open letter, the Jewish community of Great Britian said it had had enough of hearing that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

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“opposes anti-Semitism” while the mainstream majority of British Jews, and their concerns, are ignored by him and those he leads.

The statement cited Corbyn’s support for the artist who created a blatantly anti-Semitic mural, his expression of friendship with Hezbollah and Hamas, and his standing with those who support blatantly anti-Semitic views as a pattern that finds him siding with anti-Semites “again and again.”

JONATHAN GREENBLATT CEO, ADL New York, NY

STOP will safeguard children Editor: We applaud the US House for passing the bipartisan STOP School Violence Act of 2018.

The legislation authorizes federal funding to increase safety and security at all K-12 schools. It comes in the wake of last month’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. that left 17 students and educators dead.

Unfortunately, our community is well-acquainted with the need to protect children while they are at school and ensure they feel secure while they grow and learn.The STOP School Violence Act offers concrete steps to safeguard children against

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In denial about Mahmoud Abbas alestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas keeps telling the world what he thinks. The curious thing is not that he makes statements in which he delegitimizes Israel’s existence as a “colonial project,” as he did in January, or that he called the US ambassador to Israel a “son of a dog,” as he did two weeks ago. It’s why those whose vision of peace requires Abbas to be interested in that concept simply refuse to believe their lying eyes and ears when it comes to what he and his colleagues do and say.

The last contretemps involving Abbas stems from his reaction to a comment on Twitter from US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, in

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which he noted that the PA had not condemned terror attacks on Israelis carried out by Palestinians over the weekend.

Rather than take the opportunity to make it clear that he and his government opposed terror, he instead vented his spleen on Friedman, calling him a “son of a dog” and a “settler.”

That Friedman is a longtime supporter of the settlement movement is a sore point with the Palestinians and Jewish left-wingers, but Abbas is clearly not interested in meeting the Trump administration halfway as it prepares to issue a peace plan that’s probably not going to please the Jewish right.

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Jews, down the road they will end up attacking women, homosexuals, journalists, soldiers, policemen — they will attack all of France.

Indeed, every French citizen, every European, every democratic voice, every defender of human rights, should be worried for their future.

Such attacks deeply wound the foundation of the universal values that Western countries share and in which Western people believe. he Jew-hatred that kills today is the same that killed 10 other Jews before Mireille. The hatred that killed Jews in the Hyper Cacher in Paris is the same that killed four people in the supermarket of Trebes, it is the same hatred and ideology that took the life of France’s national hero Arnaud Beltram, the policeman who swapped

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places with a hostage and was consequently killed by a terrorist, who will receive a national funeral March 28 in the presence of President Macron.

Immediately after commemorating Arnaud Beltram’s memory, we will march to honor the memory of Mireille Knoll.

It was a long time ago, on May 15, 1990, when 200,000 people demonstrated against anti-Semitism after the desecration of the Jewish cemetery of Carpentras.

That was the last great moment of French solidarity with its Jewish citizens, in support of France’s values.

I think of it with great nostalgia and wonder whether anything like it can happen again.

Simone Rodan-Benzaquen is Director of AJC Europe. This commentary originally appeared in Huff Post France.

To the contrary,Abbas’s goal seems to be to burn his bridges with the US, and with moderate Arab nations like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which are sick and tired of his rejectionist attitude.

It’s easy to focus on the way Trump has reversed President Obama’s effort to create more “daylight” between Israel and the United States, and how he has cheered friends of the Jewish state by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

But it’s important to remember that Abbas didn’t meet Obama halfway either, even as he pushed policies that were clearly aimed at pressuring Israel to make concessions and tilting the diplomatic playing field in the direction of the Palestinians. ike his predecessor Yasir Arafat, Abbas has said no to peace so many times that we’ve lost count. Nor is his “son of a dog” comment about a US official the first time he has engaged in insults of this kind. This is the same man who incited the “stabbing intifada” by saying that “stinking Jewish feet” should not be allowed to profane the holy places of Jerusalem.

Instead of taking advantage of the opening Trump is giving him to negotiate — his recent moves didn’t preclude a two-state solution or even a redivision of Jerusalem if the parties agreed to it — Abbas is running away from talks of any kind.

Indeed, the Palestinians are gearing up to spend the weeks between now and the 70th anniversary of Israeli independence in May by doubling down on the narrative in which the existence of the Jewish state is a nakba, a “disaster” that must be reversed.

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such tragedies.

There is nothing more important than making sure children are safe wherever they are, but especially at school. That is why we have worked for many years at the federal level and in several states to

propose and implement school security funding programs.

MARK BANE President Orthodox Union NATHAN DIAMENT Executive Director,

Rather than show President Trump — a man who may still be laboring under the delusion that his masterful negotiating skills will produce the “ultimate deal” for Middle East peace — that he is ready to talk,Abbas and his minions are having none of it.

To the contrary, as Haaretz reports, the PA and various Palestinian groups are going to emphasize a campaign of demonstrations that will center on the “right of return” for descendants of the 1948 Arab refugees.

Somehow, this message—delivered in insulting, colorful language by the man who has been proclaimed the “moderate” peace partner, and repeated in official Palestinian media and schools on a daily basis—isn’t getting through to those who advocate for US pressure on Israel to allow Abbas to have a state in the West Bank, Gaza and a share of Jerusalem.

The very same day that Abbas responded to Friedman’s plea for a Palestinian stand on terrorism with an insult, Ronald S. Lauder, a prominent American Jewish philanthropist once considered a friend and ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, penned an op-ed in the New York Times demanding that Israel recommit itself to a two-state solution.

As Stephen Flatow writes, there are arguments against such a stand from a strategic point of view. It is also misleading to claim that a refusal to give the Palestinians a state — something that Israel has repeatedly tried to do in the past,

only to be rejected first by Arafat and then by Abbas — is undermining Jewish support for Israel. The growing distance between the Jewish state and the Diaspora has far more to do with demographic trends involving assimilation than anything Netanyahu is doing.

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auder and other critics of Israel aren’t listening to Abbas.As with so much of the discussion about peace that has been going on in the Jewish world for the last generation about settlements, what remains missing from the debate is what the Palestinians want, as opposed to what the Jews want them to want.

American Jews who long for peace aren’t just engaging in wishful thinking about a Palestinian Authority that adamantly refuses to stop subsidizing terrorism. They’re also denying agency to the very same Palestinian people whose plight engenders their sympathy.

It’s not really important what names Abbas calls Friedman,Trump or Netanyahu. He is an elderly, sick man who thinks protecting his legacy depends on ensuring that he will not be the one who signs a document that concedes defeat in his people’s century-old war against Zionism.

Sadly, his potential successors and his Hamas rivals have no more interest in peace than Abbas. Until that changes, those who ignore the Palestinian determination to never make peace with a Jewish state, no matter where its borders might be drawn, aren’t helping anyone.

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NEWS: Politics

Polish Holocaust law ‘dysfunctional’ Polish AG calls it ‘partly unconstitutional,’ but his opinion has no legal consequences

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ARSAW (JTA) — The Polish attorney general’s office described as partly unconstitutional a law passed last month that criminalizes blaming Poland for Nazi crimes.

Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro published a statement on the law on March 22.

The nonbinding opinion has no immediate legal consequences, but may be taken into account by the Constitutional Court in reviewing the law.

The legislation, which was enact-

ed earlier this month, imposes fines or up to three years in jail on anyone who ascribes “responsibility or co-responsibility to the Polish nation or state for crimes committed by the German Third Reich.”

The attorney generel’s office published its statement on the website of the Constitutional Court, which was tasked by the president with checking into the constitutionality of the law, the French news agency AFP has reported.

President Andrzej Duda signed the legislation last month after it

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was overwhelmingly passed by both houses of the legislature.

The office said that penalizing acts committed abroad independently of the laws in place there was against the Constitution, which opposes “excessive interference.”

It added that the law was “dysfunctional,” could have “opposite results than those intended” and could “undermine the Polish state’s authority.”

The law’s passing prompted a crisis in Poland’s relations with Israel, the US and Ukraine. Critics of the

law include Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called it “baseless.”

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, warned it was detrimental to debate accurate research of the genocide — and contradicted the findings of historians.

Israeli politicians, including the opposition lawmaker Yair Lapid, said it whitewashes what they called Polish complicity in the Holocaust — an allegation many Poles find offensive and that the Polish government rejects.

Jewish lobbyist helped UAE get Trump’s ear In conflict between UAE and Qatar, Broidy urged Trump to back Saudis and ally UAE

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ASHINGTON (JTA) — A major Jewish Republican donor accepted $2.7 million from an adviser to the United Arab Emirates to influence Trump administration policy at a time of tension between the UAE and its neighbor, Qatar, The New York Times reported.

Elliott Broidy, the deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee and a member of the board of directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition, was paid the money by George Nader, an adviser to the Emirates, in a bid to influence President Donald Trump.

Broidy was an early Jewish backer of Trump in the primaries.

Nader is now cooperating with Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor investigating alleged improprieties in the campaign, transition and presidency of Trump.

Nader and Broidy, according to the Times, coordinated an effort to bring Trump on the side of the UAE and Saudi Arabia in their recent confrontation with Qatar.

Trump has backed Saudi-led moves against Qatar.

Nader paid Broidy $2.7 million for “consulting, marketing and other advisory services rendered,” the Times reported, citing emails in its possession.

The paper said the payment “apparently” helped finance conferences at two conservative Washington think tanks, the Hudson Institute and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, that were heavily critical of Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood. Qatar maintains friendly ties with the Islamist organization.

The documents obtained by the Times suggest that the two think

if his funding was connected to any foreign governments or if he had business contracts in the Gulf,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies told the Times in a statement. “He assured us that he did not.”

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tanks were not aware of the ultimate origin of the funding.

“As is our funding policy, we asked

he Times previously reported that Broidy provided Nader with a “detailed report” about a private meeting Broidy had in in the Oval Office with the president. In that meeting, Broidy reportedly urged the president to meet informally with Nader’s client, UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.

He also called on Trump to back the UAE’s policies in the region and to fire Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, which Trump did earlier this month.

Broidy, a California-based investor with a strong interest in the Mid-

dle East, in a statement to the Times said his actions were consistent with outlooks he has long held.

“I have always believed strongly in countering both Iran and Islamic extremism, and in working closely with our friends in the Arab world in order to do so,” he said.

Broidy would not confirm the authenticity of all the emails, but his lawyers have accused Qatar of hacking his emails.

Broidy also denied any formal business relationship with Nader.

The Times quoted sources close to Broidy as saying that he had not been contacted by Mueller’s team.

Broidy and Nader also pressed Trump to take a more aggressive posture against Iran, seen by Saudi Arabia and the UAE as a deadly enemy. Qatar also maintains ties with Iran.

Journalist fired for refusing to cross herself In ‘dark situation,’ Colombian Jewish anchor forced to resign

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IO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A Colombian Jewish journalist was ordered to resign from her anchor post on a daily TV newscast after she refused to cross herself while she was on the

air.

Channel 1’s Cathy Bekerman was asked to resign after refusing the order by Yamid Amat, newscast director of the CM& broadcast network, the Agencia Judia de Noticias

My very best wishes for a Happy and Meaningful Passover.

website reported on March 21.

“He told me to cross myself, I did not do it and he asked me to resign at that moment, to which I did not agree,” Bekerman told Colombian media.

The case came to light after radio journalist Azury Chamah, who is Jewish, tweeted about it.

According to Graciela Torres, another well-known Colombian journalist, Bekerman showed up in the newsroom two days after the March 14 incident escorted by her father and a lawyer.

“It’s a dark situation for Yamid Amat and his newscast because they could be sued for religious intolerance in a country where there is freedom of worship,” Torres said.

“It is not enough that Cathy’s work situation is ‘solved.’ We expect a public apology from Mr. Amat in light of his discriminatory and violative behavior of freedom of religion guaranteed in the Colombian Constitution,” read a statement released by the Confederation of Jewish Com-

RECEIVED APOLOGY Cathy Bekerman munities of Colombia, the country’s Jewish umbrella organization.

Israel’s ambassador to Colombia

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also weighed in.

“A journalist with such a broad audience had the chance to use his position to raise awareness about antiSemitism,” Marco Sermoneta tweeted.

“Instead, he chose to level scorn on a serious anti-Semitic incident.This is not the way to fight against this scourge.

“Anti-Semitism is everyb o d y ’ s problem,” he tweeted.

Amat eventually published an apology on Channel 1’s website, reported Publimetro.

“One of my instructions, to accentuate a piece of news that was not about religious beliefs, provoked a rejection from my colleague Cathy Bekerman. Because I feel that I affected her religious convictions without that being my purpose, I offer her a public apology,” he wrote.

“May the Jewish community and other religious organizations always receive a respectful treatment from me.”

Chamah tweeted last week that Bekerman accepted the apology from Amat and “is ready to talk again about her return to TV.”

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NEWS: National security

Trump taps hawkish Bolton A refresher on the pro-Israel, anti-Iran, plainspoken former ambassador

By RON KAMPEAS JTA

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ASHINGTON — President Donald Trump replaced his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, with John Bolton.

The mixed reaction to the prospect of Bolton running national security — “mixed” as in apocalyptic among leftists and heaven-sent to many on the right.

Look no further than the pro-Israel spectrum for each side: “We are horrified by his selection to be national security adviser and believe this move by the president gravely imperils our country’s national standing and the fundamental security of the US and its allies, including Israel,” said Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of J Street.

“I have no doubt that the sensitivity and skill that permeates everything he does will be evident to the entire nation in his new role as President Trump’s national security adviser,” said Joseph Frager, the first vice president of the National Council of Young Israel, a hawk. “Mazel Tov, old friend, on your well-deserved appointment.”

Here is what is fueling this frenzy: • Bolton hates the Iran nuclear deal. Trump and the centrist and right-wing pro-Israel community also revile the agreement, which swaps sanctions relief for a roll-

APOCALYPTIC OR HEAVEN-SENT? John Bolton speaking at the First in the Nation Republican Leadership Summit in Nashua, NH, April 17, 2015.

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Beacon in August.

• Bolton does not believe two states is a Palestinian-Israeli option.

The US should “advocate for a three-state solution which would merge Gaza with Egypt, and parts of the West Bank with Jordan,” Bolton said last year accepting Bar-Ilan University’s Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies Guardian of Zion Award.

“I don’t think there is a viable Palestinian state. I don’t think there are institutions on the Palestinian side that can live up to the commitments of a treaty with Israel, that could give Israel or the US or anyone confidence that such a state could provide for the well-being of the Palestinian people or could resist takeover by terrorist elements.”

Trump has said he is agnostic on two states, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has retreated from his backing for the outcome.

Here is what you might not know or remember about Bolton: He still favors the Iraq War .

back in Iran’s nuclear program.

“Not only does the entire agreement reflect appeasement, but President Obama’s diplomacy produced weak, ambiguous and confusing language in many specific provisions,” Bolton wrote in a February, 2017 Wall Street Journal op-ed.

“These drafting failures created huge loopholes, and Iran is now driving its missile and nuclear programs straight through them.”

Naming Bolton suggests that Trump is ready to pull out of the 2015 agreement by May 12, the deadline to waive sanctions.

• Bolton believes preemptive strikes could prove useful in keeping Iran from going nuclear.

“I don’t make any disguise of the idea that ultimately it may take an Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear program to stop it,” he told the conservative Washington Free

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Bolton’s naysayers have been rushing to social media to point out that not only did he back the Iraq War, unlike many of its onetime backers who now say the war Please see BOLTON on Page 19

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NEWS

HARASSING IDF

EXTRADITION

Palestinian teenage girl takes plea

NYPD letter in Israeli court about pedophile

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ERUSALEM (JTA) — Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian teen arrested in part for slapping and harassing Israeli soldiers standing guard in a West Bank Palestinian village, will spend eight months in prison under a plea deal.

The teen has spent the last four months in prison after being arrested in the middle of the night at her home in the flashpoint village of Nabi Saleh.

She reportedly will plead guilty to four counts of assault, including the one in which she slapped a soldier in front of her house, which was videotaped and went viral on social media.

The military court must still approve the deal reached with the military prosecutor.

Her case has become a cause

célèbre in Israel and abroad, with critics accusing her and her family of orchestrating a PR campaign to discredit Israel, and supporters, mostly on the left, saying Israel is persecuting juveniles under the guise of security.

Ahed, 17, was charged with 12 counts, including aggravated assault, hindering a soldier in the line of duty, incitement, threatening a soldier’s life and rock throwing.

The indictment covers six incidents in recent months in which she was involved in altercations with Israeli soldiers, including the Dec. 15 slapping incident.

Ahed’s mother, Nariman, also was arrested and charged over her involvement in the slapping incident, in which she filmed Ahed

with a cellphone camera calling on her fellow Palestinians to stab Israelis, throw rocks at them and offer themselves as suicide bombers in order to “liberate Palestine.”

Nariman Tamimi also was charged with incitement to terrorism on Facebook for posting the video of the incident. She reportedly also has accepted a plea bargain.

Some 27 American cultural figures, including actors, civil rights leaders and sports figures, signed an open letter last month calling for Ahed’s release and supporting a bill introduced late last year in the US House of Representatives called the “Promoting Human Rights by Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act.”

NEW YORK Ties between Jews and Muslims good

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EW YORK (JTA) — The more that American Jews and Muslims interact with each other, the more likely they are to see the two faiths as more similar than different, a study of Muslim-Jewish relations in America has found last week Fifty-four percent of Jews and

65% of Muslims surveyed in a poll for the Foundation of Ethnic Understanding said that “Judaism and Islam are more similar to each other than they are different.”

Jews who had frequent exposure to Muslims said Islam is more inclusive, more evolving and more modern than those who were exposed

ISRAEL Investigates Facebook over data use

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ERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Justice Ministry has opened an investigation into Facebook amid reports of the transfer of users’ data from the social media platform to the British data-mining company Cambridge Analytica.

The ministry’s Privacy Protection Authority said in a statement on March 22 that it will “investigate whether personal data of Israeli citizens was illegally used in a way that infringes upon their right to privacy and the provisions of the Israeli Privacy Law.” Under the Israeli privacy law, personal data may only be used to the purpose for which it was given and with the consent of the individual.

Cambridge Analytica, a company launched by former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon and bankrolled by the Republican donor Robert Mercer, is alleged to have improperly received data on

potential voters from a researcher and app developer who had violated Facebook policy.

The Trump campaign reportedly paid Cambridge Analytica more than $6 million, according to federal election records. As many as 200,000 US citizens live in Israel and have the right to vote in the US election, Haaretz reported, citing iVoteIsrael.

Following the reports, Facebook’s stock took a hit, and American and British lawmakers called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in front of various government committees.

The CEO of Cambridge Analytica claimed to an undercover reporter posing as a potential client to have used Israeli companies and former Israeli spies in its intelligence gathering. The report by a British TV station did not connect the Israeli companies with the reported Trump operation.

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more infrequently.

The FFEU runs synagogue and mosque “twinning” programs and other interfaith activities for Jews and Muslims.

PSB Research conducted a national online survey of 1,000 respondents — 500 self-identified American Jews and 500 self-identified American Muslims — between Jan. 9 and Jan. 24, 2018.The study was sponsored

by Ory Capital Partners.

The study showed that the gaps between American Jews and Muslims were smaller than previously thought, and that the more devout the person was, the closer they aligned with the other religion.

Both American Muslims and Jews acknowledge that there is anti-Muslim sentiment in the American Jewish community, with 55% of Jewish respondents surveyed saying that there is “some” and 9% saying there is “a lot” of anti-Muslim sentiment among Jews, and 44% of Muslims saying there is some and 17% saying there is a lot.

Some 63% of American Jews polled and 65% of Muslim Americans agreed that it is very important for the two groups to work together to strengthen anti-discrimination laws.

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ERUSALEM (JTA) — A convicted pedophile from New York is wanted in the city for another alleged offense, according to a document issued by the New York Police Department that was presented in an Israeli court.

The document was presented March 22 at a preliminary hearing in Jerusalem District Court for a libel suit filed by the convicted pedophile, Yona Weinberg, against Rabbi Yanky Horowitz, an anti-abuse activist from Monsey, NY. According to the police document dated March 7, Weinberg’s move to Israel in 2014 with his wife and young children has prevented him from being arrested and charged with a new crime.

Weinberg spent about a year in prison after a 2009 conviction for abusing two boys in Brooklyn.

He reportedly notified the NYPD about his change of address when he moved to Israel, but the police did not pass on the

HATE CRIME If you think your victim is a Jew, but he’s not

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INCINNATI (JTA) — A Cincinnati-area man was indicted on a federal hate crimes charge for attacking a man he thought was Jewish.

Izmir Koch, 32, beat a man who was smoking a cigarette outside a local restaurant. He was charged March 21.

According to the indictment, Koch in February, 2017 asked people standing outside the restaurant if anyone there was Jewish.

When the victim responded in the affirmative, although he was not actually Jewish, Koch allegedly punched him, knocking him to the ground. Koch then continued to hit and kick him.

The victim suffered injuries

to his ribs and a fracture of the orbital floor, the bottom portion of his eye socket.

US Attorney Benjamin Glassman told reporters that the victim was not actually Jewish, but since Koch beat him because he believed he was Jewish, a federal grand jury indicted him on one count of committing a hate crime.

“Physically attacking someone because you think he’s Jewish — or Christian or Muslim or any other religion — is a federal crime,” Glassman said in a statement announcing the indictment.“This office prosecutes hate crimes.”

If convicted, Koch could spend up to 10 years in prison.

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he one issue where there was dramatic disagreement was Jerusalem, with 48% of all Jews surveyed either strongly or somewhat supportive of Jerusalem being designated Israel’s capital and 63% of Muslims either strongly or somewhat opposed.

Forty-four percent of Jews and 48% of Muslims say that a peaceful, mutually agreed upon solution to the IsraelPalestinian conflict is possible; 39% of Jews and 21% of Muslims say this is impossible.

The numbers that say it is possible increases in the subset of Jews and Muslims that have more frequent contact with each other.

“Muslim-Jewish relations are thought to be in conflict, but this study shows that they are in a state of cooperation,” said FFEU President Rabbi Marc Schneier.“This is the first definitive study of its kind to quantify that with cooperation and dialogue between the two groups, we are stronger together.”

information to the Division of Criminal Justice Services, which manages the Sex Offender Registry.

In April, 2015, Weinberg filed a libel claim against Horowitz after the activist posted warnings on Twitter about Weinberg’s criminal history and status as a registered sex offender in New York.

In Israel, there is no obligation to warn residents about the presence of sex offenders in the community as there is in the US. Horowitz appeared in court last week for the preliminary hearing in the libel case. Weinberg did not appear but was represented by his attorney, who argued that the NYPD letter is inadmissible in the trial, which is scheduled to begin in late October.

The tweet compared Weinberg to a terrorist in the 2014 massacre at a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem that left six worshippers dead.

Weinberg’s suit says the tweet went too far.

Iron Dome misfires

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ERUSALEM (JTA) — A Hamas military exercise set off Code Red alerts in southern Israeli communities and caused the Iron Dome anti-missile system to misfire.

At least 10 missile alerts were activated in Sderot and the regional councils of Hof Ashkelon and Shaar HaNegev on Sunday night, March 25.

In addition, the Iron Dome antimissile system activated, firing unnecessary missile interceptors, the Israel Defense Forces said later on Sunday.

The alerts and Iron Dome were triggered by a live-fire exercise in Gaza by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, the terror group that controls the Gaza Strip.

The exercise started on Sunday morning and was scheduled

to end on Monday morning.

The IDF retaliated for the believed missile attack, striking two Hamas positions in the northern Gaza Strip using tank fire.

“No salvo was fired at territory in the State of Israel. The situation in the Gaza region is usual,” the IDF said in a statement issued late Sunday.

“The interceptions by the Iron Dome system were activated because of the firing of bullets from the strip. Nothing fell in Israeli territory. It is being checked whether mortars or rockets were even fired at all.”

It was the first time since Hamas took over Gaza in 2007 that a military exercise in Gaza was announced in advance, with warnings about live fire and the sounds of explosions, Haaretz reported.

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NEWS: Blackout lifted

Israel struck Syrian nuclear reactor 2007 attack confirmed; details released; North Korea was making it happen

By YONA SCHNITZER TPS

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n March, 2007, Israel’s spy agency Mossad obtained information that Syria was building a nuclear reactor in the Deir ez-Zur region near the banks of the River Euphrates.

Six months later, the facility was bombed and destroyed in an overnight air raid, which was attributed by foreign sources to Israel.

Syrian disguised the nuclear reactor as a farm This month the Israel Defense Forces officially confirmed it, over a decade later. A blackout of the all details of the affair has been lifted. Israel carried out the strike on the night between the fifth and sixth of September.

Last month, Member of Knesset Amir Peretz, who served as Israeli Defense Minister at the time the reactor was discovered and in the period leading up to the raid, gave his account of the months leading up to Israel’s daring mission in Syria in an exclusive interview with TPS. “We discovered evidence that the Syrians were building a reactor. Their cover was that it was an agricultural farm. It had no security apparatus surrounding it. There was no special military activity in the area, there was no missile defense system, or any other kind of system. Everyone who came showed up in civilian clothing, and they avoided any displays that would raise suspicion,� Peretz recalled.

Despite the innocent appearance of the facility, the intelligence obtained included one crucial detail — the presence of North Korean workers on the site. The assumption was that a reactor was being built using North Korean knowledge and materials. “The North Korean workers were essentially the smoking gun — the evidence that this was not an innocent facility,� Peretz said.

A decision was made to take action: the Syrians would not be

capacity to act.

The next step was to prepare operational plans. On April 14, 2007, a special team was put together, which included Peretz, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, the late Mossad chief Meir Dagan, and relevant IDF generals.

The Israel Air Force prepared various courses of action fitting multiple scenarios. “In actuality, the order was ‘prepare everything we’ve got,’ spare no expense, spare no effort, nothing.

The entire system was off to work,�

Peretz said.

Another crucial effort came on the diplomatic front. If Israel were to attack, it would have to warn and coordinate with its allies. Most importantly, the US. “Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and I had a conversation in which he decided that we have to tell the

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Peretz recalled.

On April 18, 2007 an Israeli team consisting of Meir Dagan and Prime Minister Olmert’s chiefs of staff set out for Washington, DC, where they were to inform President George W. Bush, as well as the American intelligence community of Israel’s plans to bomb the Syrian facility.

Simultaneously, Peretz, who had invited American Defense Secretary Robert Gates to visit Israel on an unrelated matter, showed up at his American counterpart’s Tel Aviv hotel room, along with Military Intelligence Director Amos Yadlin, where they presented Gates with the facts and necessary materials. “He was indeed surprised,� Peretz said of Gates’ reaction.

Former Israel Defense Minister Amir Peretz, Dec. 7, 2017, details lead up to Israel strike.

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NEWS: 20th-century miracle

Dead Sea Scrolls in Denver 930 manuscripts, over 10,000 fragments — the world’s largest jigsaw puzzle

DISCOVERY ALL STARTED WITH AN ERRANT GOAT Four fragments of the ‘The Song of Ascents’ (Shir ha-Ma’alot), composed by King David: ‘I turn my eyes to the mountains, from where [will my] help come?’

Photos: Aleksei Kolesnikov

By ANDREA JACOBS IJN Senior Writer

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n the second day of the “Dead Sea Scrolls” exhibition at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, parking is as scarce as tickets for this prestigious archaeological panoply.

Buying, smuggling, clandestine meetings Students and teachers, parents pushing strollers, the young, the elderly, academics and out-of-state

visitors flock to the museum entrance on this snow-chilled morning.

Organized by the Israel Antiquities Authority, the exhibit houses wealth beyond measure: 10 Dead Sea Scrolls, some of which have never been made public, and over 600 Hebrew artifacts.

The scrolls’ accidental discovery

by Bedouin teens in 1947, which reads like a spy novel set at the dawning of the State of Israel, began with an errant goat.

In 1947, shepherd Muhammed edh-Dhib and two companions lost

a goat amid the arid cliffs of Qumran, on the northwestern rim of the Dead Sea. Suspecting the animal might be in a cave, he went inside, threw a rock and broke a pottery jar.

There, among a collection of ancient jars, he found a parchment inscribed with timeworn writing wrapped inside torn linen.

Edh-Dhib unwittingly stumbled on one of the greatest historical and archaeological treasures of the 20th century Unaware of their worth, Edh-Dhib

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and friends brought a fragment to Kando, a Bethlehem antiquities dealer. Kando instructed him to go back to the cave and scour for more.

The Bedouins returned with seven scrolls, sold four to Kando and three to a dealer named Salahi.

Kando resold his to Archbishop Samuel, head of the Syrian Orthodox Monastery of St. Mark in Jerusalem.

When Hebrew University Prof.

Eliezer Lipa Sukenik got wind of these unusual scrolls, he arranged to meet with an Armenian dealer in the British-divided military zone of the Jerusalem border.

The Armenian held up a fragment and Sukenik peered through the

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en Dead Sea Scrolls — magnificent parchment scraps literally torn from history — are enshrined inside the museum, where hard scientific evidence can coexist with stubborn enigma.

No one understands this better than museum educator Jennifer Moss Logan, who accompanies the I NTERMOUNTAIN J EWISH N EWS throughout the exhibition.

What follows is not a step-by-step travelogue of artifacts dating 3,000 years before the scrolls’ discovery and chronicle the Israelites’ timeline.

It is a multi-faceted conversation about the Dead Sea Scrolls, a visible narrative of miraculous survival, and an academic hunt to

‘Where scientific evidence can coexist with stubborn enigma’

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barbed wire. Recognizing the archaic script, he went to see Salahi’s scrolls in Bethlehem, where he gazed incredulously upon a 2,000-year-old revelation.

Sukenik acquired photographs of three scrolls at St. Mark’s Monastery and published them in 1948.

The next year, Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Samuel smuggled his four scrolls to New Jersey.

In 1954, the archbishop placed an ad in the Wall Street Journal selling “The Four Dead Sea Scrolls.”

Yigal Yadin, Prof. Sukenik’s son, a celebrated archaeologist himself (and later a political leader), purchased the scrolls on behalf of the State of Israel.

Israel erected the Shrine of the Book to house all seven scrolls, finally together under one roof, in 1965.

Over the last 71 years, searches and excavations have uncovered 930 manuscripts and over 10,000 fragments crafted by the Essenes, an extinct Jewish sect, between 150 BCE and 70 CE. Ever since the scrolls awakened from their two-millennia-old slumber, archaeologists have gone toeto-toe with rival religious and academic factions to access their brittle secrets.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are the largest jigsaw puzzle in history.

understand the radical Jewish sect that created them — and abruptly vanished.

A puzzle of this magnitude can’t be solved in isolation Logan, who repeatedly pauses in front of artifacts preceding the muchanticipated Dead Sea Scrolls hall, says “our biblical texts speak of this straight-shot story to monotheism; for example, the breaking of household gods.

“It’s fascinating and enriching.

But what I love about this exhibition is how the artifacts fill in the gaps and tell the underlying, messier story,” she says, gesturing to a collection of miniature household idols circa the 7th to 10th century BCE. “What’s clear is that it takes time for people to catch up to the text.”

Whether perusing items from the First Temple period, destroyed around 586 BCE, to the beginning of the Second Temple period, circa 515 BCE and onward, Logan explains “that there many examples here where the archaeological evidence, pictorial evidence and biblical accounts come together.”

Logan arrives at the hall of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a magnificent space surrounding an illuminated circular base crowned by a pottery jar from the 1947 discovery.

The design’s rich simplicity bog-

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More than 600 artifacts in Denver The oldest texts of the Hebrew Bible came 1,000 years after the Dead Sea Scrolls gles the mind.

“Portions of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy were found in the collection of manuscripts and fragments,” Logan corrects a misconception.

The entire canon of the Hebrew Bible was found in some form among the Dead Sea Scrolls — and the oldest texts of the Hebrew Bible didn’t appear until 1,000 years later.

“You’re seeing biblical texts and commentary on biblical texts,” she says. “This was already in place.

That’s what you find in the scrolls’ non-sectarian and sectarian texts.”

The scrolls cover at least part of every biblical text — except the Book of Esther.

While its omission is currently inexplicable, it’s conceivable that the Purim narrative still sleeps beneath the earth.

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ue to preservation concerns, the scrolls will be rotated in June, halfway through the exhibit.

Rotation 1 contains Tohorot (Purities), on public display for the first time; Isaiah; Aramaic Levi; Communal Ceremony; War Rule; Community Rule; Psalms, (King David is cited as the author); Paleo Exodus (Paleo-Hebrew is the earliest form of Hebrew calligraphy); Papyrus Bar Kokhba 44; and Enoch.

Each scroll is presented in an identical manner: a brief explanation

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he Isaiah Scroll, designated 1Qlsaa and also known as the Great Isaiah Scroll, is one of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls that were first recovered by Bedouin shepherds in 1947 from Qumran Cave 1.

In addition to the Great Isaiah Scroll — the only completed book — several Isaiah copies were found in Qumran, suggesting the prophetic work detailing the Messiah’s return was uniquely valuable to the Essenes.

“It is definitely apocalyptic and associated with the Messianic times to come,” Logan says. “We know that for the Essenes, the imminent future is very important. We see this referenced in the biblical texts that were shared by all Jewish groups in this period.

“But we also see it in the Essenes’ other scrolls: the Community Rule and sectarian writings. It was extremely important.”

So who were the Essenes?

“A good question,” Logan says.

“The 300 or so members of the Qumran community were subsets of the original Essenes, who lived elsewhere. The group that dwelled in Qumran had to be male, unblemished and over 21.”

Qumran’s Essenes abandoned Jerusalem because they believed the city’s residents ignored the obligations of ritual purity.

“One of the things that makes a

ther to advance or delay Jewish holidays. For example, Jerusalem did not want a holiday like Yom Kippur to fall on a Friday or a Sunday.

“If it fell on Friday, no one could adequately prepare for Shabbat. If it fell on Sunday, you couldn’t make preparations for the feast. So

About 300 Essenes lived in Qumran

GAZING INTO HISTORY This wide-eyed visage is in the section on Persians, Greeks and Hasmoneans, who ruled Judea from 539-37 BCE. the communal collective were uniformly male. Only one or two oblique references to women are in the texts — but a few female skeletons were discovered in the cemetery.

“It’s a mixed message between what the text tells us and what

the archaeology tells us.”

The Essenes’ religious orientation differed significantly from the contemporaneous Sadducees and the normative Pharisees, she says.

“The Essene community obeyed the non-negotiable requirement nei-

Jerusalem did a little tweaking with the new moon so everything would work.

“Not the Essenes. You will not advance or delay a holiday. It will happen as it happens.”

Faced with a simple solution versus the most stringent approach, the Essenes would invariably chose the latter.

While the Community Rule includes considerable minutiae, Logan says the differences between the Essenes and other Jewish sects primarily reflected broader approaches regarding how to pursue their respective belief systems.

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GUIDE Jennifer Moss Logan, museum educator, at a section of Jerusalem’s Western Wall transported to Denver for the exhibit. of its contents, the actual parchment, a direct translation of the entire text and a high-resolution digital image.

The fragments — breathtaking, haunting and illegible to the untrained eye — are the centerpieces.

Visitors fall through a 2,000-yearold prism that temporarily displaces the present.

It’s magical.

person ritually impure is sexual activity,” Logan says. “The Essenes saw all of Jerusalem as part of the Temple, meaning every Jew in Jerusalem must be ritually pure.

“Yet because people lived there and had families, it was clear they were having sex, which is a defilement of the Temple. So they left.”

Logan says texts recovered from site suggest that the Essenes in

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Artifacts couched in display cases along the walls of Dead Sea Scroll room capture the Essenes’ daily life, from ritual practices to grooming tools: carved limestone cups used in the blessing before meals; a comb with large teeth for the hair and small teeth to remove lice: sandals; miniscule tefilin boxes; strips of linen.

‘The Essenes hastily put the scrolls in jars; and if they ran out of time, stashed them in caves’ “It’s a combination of religious and everyday economics coming together,” Logan says.

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he Siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War. Emperor Titus’ armies conquered Jerusalem, annihilated the Judean rebels and destroyed the Second Temple.

Qumran’s Essenes vanished during this seismic cataclysm. Given their apocalyptic gaze, it’s probably that they envisioned the end of the world.

“There was speculation that the Romans are going to destroy Jerusalem,” Logan says. “Masada is just a few years in our future.

The Essenes hastily put the scrolls in jars — and if they ran out of time, stashed them in caves.”

Some hypothesize that the Essenes fled to Masada, a fortress

AND NOW . . .

Visitors inspect 10 Dead Sea Scrolls, the circular centerpiece at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science exhibit. overlooking the Dead Sea. When the Romans attacked Masada at the end of the First Jewish-Roman War, 960 people, mostly rebels, committed mass suicide.

“A copy of one Dead Sea Scroll, ‘The Song of the Sabbath,’ was found at Masada,” Logan says,“which indi-

cates, perhaps, that members of the Essene community escaped there.”

Whether that particular scroll is non-sectarian, meaning it belonged to many, or is sectarian, which was applicable only to the Essenes, is undetermined.

Certain people speculate that Jesus lived with the Essenes before he began preaching in 30 CE. “While there are interesting examples associated with this exhibit that dig into this theory, I’d say it’s unlikely from a scholarly perspective,” Logan says. “We spoke about how important ritual purity was to the Essenes, and how rigid they were.

“The Jesus portrayed in the Gospels is just the opposite. Ultimately, this was not an overlapping mindset. But this critical

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fter spending nearly an hour talking about the Essenes in the presence of the scrolls, Logan heads for the final exhibit “where the story comes to a close.

“We’ve just seen all these things which are so connected to the Second Temple that we’ve brought a remnant of it here.”

A large stone from Robinson’s Arch, located at the southern edge of Jerusalem’s Western Wall, stands out from beneath a façade of the Sec-

Apocalyptic texts: what’s coming next?

DEAD SEA SCROLLS ERA Limestone jar, discovered in Jerusalem, dates back to 100 BCE-70 CE, when the Essenes compiled the Dead Sea Scrolls.

juncture in history was fundamental to the development of both Judaism and Christianity.

“Jews believed that G-d resided in the Temple. That’s where they brought their offerings for sacrifices.

When the Temple was destroyed, where did G-d’s essence go, and how do we talk to G-d?”

Logan says both Judaism and Christianity had to answer these questions. Rabbinic Judaism emphasized the Torah, mitzvot and prayer.

Preservation and chance coalesced in the survival of the Dead Sea Scrolls, she says.

“The fact that we have so many copies of Isaiah is noteworthy,” Logan says. “But beyond that, there’s a certain element of chance in what remained: what was hidden in jars, which jars broke, weather, animals.”

Preservation techniques, enhanced by technology and buttressed by common sense, have come a long way during the ensuing seven decades.

Logan mentions a “phenomenal image in the Rockefeller Museum that was taken in Jerusalem. You see this bright light shining down on these fragments, which are pieced together with sticky tape.And someone is smoking a cigarette!

“These are not the conservation practices we use today — no sunlight, no sticky tape, no cigarettes.”

Now scholars, linguists and amateur sleuths can access the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library online.

ond Temple.

“Yes, it’s real,” says Logan as she glides her hand on top of it.

“This is an opportunity for people to touch the Wall for the first time, or remember the last time they were in Jerusalem.

“Several of our visitors even have put notes in it.”

The missives are delivered to the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Walking around to the other side, Logan points to a wide webcam view of the Western Wall today.

Denver, the last stop on the seven-city US Dead Sea Scrolls tour that opened in New York, involved years of discussions between the Denver museum and the IAA. IAA senior curators, conservators and chemists frequently traveled to Denver to guarantee that exacting preservation methods would be followed to the letter.

Judging by the excitement on the faces of staffers, volunteers and visitors, it was worth it.

“You can see how the layers are built up on each other,” Logan says, “and how the stories in the written texts and the artifacts work together to create this rich tapestry of our shared history.”

The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science continues through September 3, 2018.

Andrea Jacobs may be reached at andrea@ijn.com.

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NEWS: A series on race

National Geographic’s racist past New editor — first female, first Jew — comes clean about magazine

By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN JTA

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EW YORK —The editor in chief of National Geographic Magazine made waves when she admitted that the magazine’s past coverage was tinged with racism.

“For decades, our coverage was racist. To rise above our past, we must acknowledge it,” Susan Gold-

Natives were pictured as ‘exotics, noble savages’ berg wrote in a letter for the magazine’s April issue, which marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination.

The letter forced readers and staff to grapple with the legacy of the magazine, which has been reporting on the world’s far-flung peoples and places since 1888 and has reflected — and been a reflection of — all the cultural changes, and prejudices, since then.

But Goldberg also made waves in 2014 when she became the first woman — and, incidentally, the first Jew — to serve as editor in chief of a magazine that has often stumbled in reporting on women and Jews.

“It was a place with a lot of white

SUSAN GOLDBERG Susan Goldberg is National Geographic Magazine’s first female and Jewish editor-in-chief.

National Geographic men,” she told JTA, referring to the magazine’s beginnings as the journal of the National Geographic Society, an elite club of academics, philanthropists and adventurers interested in travel and exploration.

Even an otherwise sympathetic article on the Jews in the July, 1919 issue suggested that their persecution by Christians “increased

their intense activity, their cunning in business, in order that they might live at all against such opposition, and it produced in them the traits that are now made the basis for denouncing them.”

In her letter, Goldberg details how she enlisted John Edwin Mason, a scholar of African history and the history of photography at the Uni-

versity of Virginia, to critically examine the magazine’s past.

He found that the publication largely ignored the lives of African Americans in the US until the 1970s, while also covering people of color outside the country in a way that perpetuated stereotypes.

Natives were pictured “as exotics, famously and frequently unclothed, happy hunters, noble savages — every type of cliché,” Goldberg wrote.

around race,” she said.

The April issue launches a series of articles on race, which will continue through the end of the year, but Goldberg felt it important that the magazine first look inward.

“I just really didn’t see a way to do an entire issue on race, and then spend the year covering race if we didn’t look into our history as well,” she said. “I just didn’t think we would be credible.”

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n a phone interview with JTA last week Goldberg, 58, said she was not surprised by Mason’s conclusions, pointing out that racism in the magazine had been written about previously, including in a book by Robert Poole.

Some of Mason’s most egregious findings did shock her, like a 1916 article on Aboriginal Australians that called them “savages” who “rank lowest in intelligence of all human beings.”

“It’s very difficult to read something like that,” she said.

Goldberg said the issue of race is especially important in light of recent events, such as the white supremacist and neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va. last year.

“After Charlottesville, if it wasn’t already clear, it became even more clear that we have a very fraught situation going on in the US with regard to any kind of discussion

oldberg, who identifies as a Reform Jew, grew up in Ann Arbor, Mich., the granddaughter of immigrants from Eastern Europe who came to the country in the beginning of the 20th century and settled in predominantly Jewish neighborhoods in Detroit.

“These neighborhoods were really so ghettoized that my mother, who

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How do grocers handle Passover?

Cleaning, covering, removing, arranging are challenging, but ‘worth it’

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to do is switch out their kosher aisle — it’s just a lot easier,” Bernstein said.

“But kosher markets, it keeps you up half the year.

This is the service industry. The tensions are high. All the employees are working crazy hours.”

It is indeed a lot easier in nonkosher supermarkets, said Kenya Friend-Daniel, a spokeswoman for the supermarket chain Trader Joe’s.

Because their stores stock kosher items year-round alongside plenty It costs Pomegranate, a gourmet kosher supermarket in Brooklyn, $75,000 of non-kosher every year to clean its kitchen for Passover.

Pomegranate goods, all Trader . . . Other people aren’t doing the To move refrigerated goods, he sets Joe’s markets have to do is buy extent we are, soup to nuts.” up freezer trailers outside the store. kosher-for-Passover packaged food, The fish and meat departments place it in the kosher aisle, maybe ungarian and Pomegranate, — and the kitchen — are even hardwhich are both fully kosher er. Both stores have to dismantle stores, described similarly some of their large-scale tools, like arduous timelines to pre- a meat slicer, to thoroughly clean pare for the holiday. Bernstein and boil them in water for the holadds eight people to his staff of 30 iday. Bernstein says that because each year for the process. They Jewish law prohibits koshering some both have to clear out their shelves instruments, he has to purchase new

By CHRIS LEPPEK and cover them, which eliminates ones for the holiday.

Four weeks ahead of time, Kirsche any trace of prohibited leaven.

IJN Assistant Editor Then they have to arrange all of makes his kitchen kosher for t the end of business today, the kosher-for-Passover items and Passover.

March 30, the Bagel Store, That entails a thorough cleanphysically conceal any forbidden food a popular source of baked because Jewish law prohibits even ing that takes two days, a 24-hour goods for the Denver Jewseeing leavened products in a kosher waiting period mandated by Jewish law and then dowsing all the ish community since 1976, will close shop. for Passover — and begin a new era.

Kirsche estimates that 40% of his surfaces in boiling water.

The southeast Denver bakery, purIn non-kosher stores,“all they have shelves are concealed over Passover. chased last year by Joshua Pollack, who merged the business with his Rosenberg’s Delicatessen, will be restructured, primarily as a kosher wholesale and catering business, and curtail its retail storefront hours to Fridays and holidays.

The changes will go into effect on Friday, April 13, Pollack told the INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS in a statement this week.

Pollack, whose deli outlets in Five Points and Stanley Park in Stapleton do not have kosher certification, obtained a hechscher from Scroll K in 2017 for the baked goods made at the Bagel Store, produced at its South Monaco location.

The certification for the Bagel Store’s bagels, challah and other baked goods remains in place, Pollack indicated.

“We are so grateful for the support we’ve received from our customers and the Jewish community during this endeavor,” Pollack said this week, “and continue to be dedicated to our original goal of providing kosher food to the masses, which we feel confident will be more successfully accomplished by re-shifting our focus to kosher wholesale and catering operations.

“We understand that this will be a difficult transition for longtime customers, which is why we made it a priority to keep our storefront open for Shabbos [Fridays] and holidays.

We will still offer kosher catering with two weeks’ notice and will do our absolute best to accommodate more sudden needs for britot [cirLeetsdale Drive • Denver, Colorado 80224 cumcisons] and shivas.”

EW YORK — Pomegranate, a gourmet kosher supermarket in Brooklyn, spends $75,000 every year getting its kitchen ready for Passover.

Hungarian Kosher Foods, a supermarket in Chicago, starts clearing its aisles for Passover eight weeks ahead of the holiday.

If you thought your Passover prep was complicated, you’ve got nothing on the managers of Jewish supermarkets.

“We have no choice,” said Isaac Bernstein, the culinary director of Pomegranate. “We have to do Passover. We don’t lose money, it’s just that a ton of work goes into it.

If you look at the effort required and the return, no one would [do it].”

Passover, which comes with its own maze of dietary laws that prohibit even an iota of leavened food (including pasta, beer, bread and pastry), is a boon to kosher and otherwise Jewish grocery stores that specialize in adhering to the restrictions.

But it’s also difficult for the staffs of those stores, which need to clear out their entire stock and deep-clean machinery to prepare for a holiday that lasts only eight days.

Even so, managers say the work is worth it. Staying open for Passover is a service to the stores’ often loyal local clientele. For smaller kosher markets that compete with local or national chains, being a reliable address for Passover is a way to raise awareness and attract customers the rest of the year.

“We service the community,” said Ira Kirsche, the owner of Hungarian in Chicago. “Even if it isn’t profitable, it pays throughout the year because people appreciate it, see what we’ve done and come back

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nd what happens to all of those unsold matzah boxes after the holiday? Stores were touchy about the ques-

tion.

Some said they discount the leftover Passover goods and others donate them to charitable organizations. But a couple preferred not to talk about Passover leftovers.

Whole Foods declined repeated requests for comment, and Seasons, a kosher supermarket in Manhattan, hung up on a reporter twice.

But Bernstein said leftovers aren’t really a problem. Profit margins are especially thin on Passover, so Pomegranate looks at what it sold the previous year and buys accordingly.

Bernstein said his biggest challenge is getting through the holiday, not dealing with what comes after.

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“Whether it’s any observance throughout the year, we just make sure we have those products,” FriendDaniel said. “Our level of preparation is what we do throughout the year to have the products on hand.”

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hrough his spokesperson, Rachel Feinberg, Pollack elaborated on his reasons for the Bagel Store changes, listing “staffing challenges” at the top

of his list.

“It’s proven exceptionally difficult to adequately staff the location with employees who are both skilled and reliable,” he said, Josh Pollack adding that wants to focus many Denver on catering. restaurants are facing similar challenges.

However, it “is especially difficult when in need of a staff that is vested in kosher law and Jewish food,” Pollack said.

The Bagel Store has also been suffering from slumping retail sales, he indicated.

“Our main goal with the Bagel Store merger was to provide expertly crafted kosher food to the masses, which has proven most effective through our catering and wholesale operations.

“Retail sales were less consistent, and to be completely frank, the lackof [business] was stifling on some days. This, coupled with the staffing challenges, took away from successfully executing our mission.”

Pollack acknowledged that his original concept for the Rosenberg’sBagel Store merger has not materialized.

“In practice, we found it hard to adapt the magic that was happening at Rosenberg’s Bagels and Delicatessen to a completely different business model, which left people wanting more from their experience,” he said.

“For example, not being able to serve sandwiches out of the kosher location proved to be a major disappointment to many customers, and that’s not who we are.”

In addition to the Rosenberg’s delis and at its own location on Fridays and holidays, the Bagel Store’s baked goods will continue to be available at a number of metro eateries.

Chris Leppek may be reached at IJNEWS@aol.com.

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NEWS: Israel at the UN

Danon: Changing the UN atmosphere Israel-bashing still goes on, ambassador says, but things are starting to change

By SEAN SAVAGE Jewish News Syndicate

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EW YORK — Despite the role of the United Nations in helping establish the State of Israel in 1947, the world body has long been a forum used by other nations to single out and condemn the Jewish state. While this targeting of Israel has not abated in recent years, including the passage of a slew of anti-Israel resolutions by UNESCO that deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem and the UN Human Rights Council “blacklist” of companies doing business in the disputed territories, there have been some signs of positive change for Israel.

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon spoke to JNS about changing the atmosphere at the world body, as well as his experience working the US Ambassador Nikki Haley, addressing the growing threat from Iran and Hezbollah, and the prospects of peace with the Palestinians.

Q: In the past two-and-a-half years, you have been selected to the UN Legal Committee and as vice president of the General Assembly — positions no Israeli ambassador has held before. At the same time, we have seen continued anti-Israel resolutions in UNESCO and the UN Human Rights Council’s blacklist.

Do you feel that the environment is changing there?

A: I think what we have seen in the last two years is that we were able to change the atmosphere in the UN. While you still have onesided decisions against Israel, we were able to take the lead and initiative. We have had many events initiated in the UN, [and] the fact that I was elected for the first time to chair a UN committee was a very important step for us.

I think today in terms of the atmosphere, it is different because of all the activities we have had.

For instance, we are going to hold an event about water technology with the president of the general assembly, and many speakers and experts from Israel. Then we will actually have a seder inside of the UN with diplomats and ambassadors.

We have ongoing activities that enable us to tell the true story about Israel.The UN isn’t anymore a place where you only see Israel-bashing.

It is no secret that Haley has shaken things up at the United Nations. Can you describe your relationship with her and any initiatives you are working on jointly to counter anti-Israel bias?

We appreciate the new spirit of Ambassador Nikki Haley; she has been very important and helpful.

It is a two-way relationship as well. We were the only country to stand with the US and vote against Resolution 11967, which condemns US economic sanctions against Cuba.

It is a real partnership, and we are grateful for that. We work very closely with Ambassador Haley and her team. We see similar issues, and understand the challenges and threats. That’s why you see the cooperation because we come from the same values.

What are your thoughts on President Donald Trump’s ultimatum on the Iran nuclear deal?

Our position about the Iran deal is very clear. As the [Israeli] prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu]

said, we should either fix it or nix it. And I think the approach by President Trump is the right approach.

You cannot ignore it. Some European countries tend to think they can ignore it, and everything will be OK. But that is not the case, and we believe that US leadership is capable of changing the reality.

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Given Russia and China’s veto power in the UN, what can be done against Iran?

I think that the UN should look at the existing Security Council resolutions that are not being accepted by the Iranians — the ballistic-missiles tests and other decisions of supporting terrorism in the region. They can start with enforcing those resolutions.

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NEWS: Potpourri

SAN FRANCISCO University president apologizes for anti-Semitism

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AN FRANCISCO (JTA) — The president of San Francisco State University issued a public apology to the campus Jewish community over continued allegations of anti-Semitism at the school, adding that “Zionists are welcome on our campus.”

The apology by Leslie Wong posted on the university’s website on March 23 came a day after Wong met with members of the campus Hillel Jewish student organization.

“During our meeting, I reaffirmed my support for our Jewish students, faculty and staff,” Wong wrote in the statement of the meeting.

In November, a federal judge in San Francisco dismissed a law-

suit filed in June against Wong, the university, a faculty member and the California State University’s Board of Trustees by former and current Jewish San Francisco State students alleging a culture of antiSemitism on campus.

The lawsuit was sparked by an April, 2016 speech on campus by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat that was disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters, making Jewish students feel unsafe.

An independent investigation of the Barkat incident initiated by the university determined that the school did not have the proper security protocol in place to handle a protest and Jewish students did not feel safe.

“My comments about Zionists and whether or not they are welcomed at San Francisco State University caused a lot of anguish and deeply hurt feelings. I am responsible for those words and, after study and reflection, I have come to understand how flawed my comments were,”Wong wrote in his apology.

“Thus, I want to sincerely apologize for the hurt feelings and anguish my words have caused. Let me be clear: Zionists are welcome on our campus.”

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n response to the apology, a San Francisco State professor, Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, who is Palestinian,

Fathers will not be charged in shooting

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The two fathers escorting the hike fired into the air to break it up, killing a Palestinian farmer.

The boys were ushered into a cave to keep them safe until Israeli security forces arrived, but they were harassed by the rioting Palestinians and some of their equipment was stolen.

Some Qusra residents attempted to help and protect the group of Israeli students.

The escorts’ version of the incident was backed by the testimony of a local resident who confirmed that the adult escorts fired in self-defense after rocks were thrown

at them, Ynet reported.

At least 27 alleged attackers were arrested. Several have been indicted by the Military Advocate General’s Office.

The legal NGO Honenu, which provided the men with representation, said in a statement.

“Immediately after their release from the hospital the fathers were taken to the police station for interrogation, and instead of receiving a commendation, they were considered suspects. The police insulted heroic men who, as citizens, performed a courageous act and protected the boys with their bodies.”

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EW YORK (JTA) — An aide to a longtime Brooklyn state senator compared a Parkland, Fla. high school student protesting against gun violence to Adolf Hitler.

Anthony Testaverde, an aide to Marty Golden, posted to Facebook photos of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student activist David Hogg and juxtaposed them with photos of Hitler.

One set of photos shows Hogg raising his right arm in the air and pumping his fist alongside a photo of Hitler raising his right hand in the Nazi leader’s ubiqui-

tous salute.

In a second set, Hogg is wearing a black mourning band on his upper arm and is next to a photo of Hitler with a swastika armband.

A caption reads:“I knew something was off about this kid.”

The images and an accompanying threat have since been removed from Facebook, but can be found in screen grabs on some websites.

Testaverde also shared a post that read “The Democrats are doing exactly what Hitler did . . . he used the Youth to disarm and control the People.This is scary!”

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ERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was taken to a Jerusalem hospital with a high fever and a cough but released hours later.

Netanyahu, 68, has a virus that attacked his upper respiratory tract, according to a statement from his office, and was sent home from Hadassah Medical Center with medication and told to rest.

He had been taken to the hospital by car on Tuesday evening, March 27.

Netanyahu wrote on Twitter

that he was on his way home and was “confident that a little rest and hot soup would resolve the issues.”

The Israeli leader was ill two weeks ago and had not rested sufficiently, leading to a worsening in his condition, his personal physician, Dr. Tzvi Berkowitz, said in an earlier statement.

At the hospital, Netanyahu underwent a series of tests.

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman said all the tests came up negative.

Golden, a Republican in a mostly Democratic borough of New York City, has been a state senator since 2003.

Golden in a statement called the Facebook posts “as wrong and offensive as they are misguided,” and said they had been deleted at his direction. He did not comment further on the future employment of Testaverde.

GOP ousts ‘Christians only’ leader

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ICHMOND (JTA) — Virginia Republicans have ousted a party leader who said only Christians should run for party positions.

Fredy Burgos was voted off the State Central Committee on Mon-

Teacher pushes for mandatory Holocaust ed

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RANKFORT (JTA) — Advocacy by a Catholic middle school teacher helped convince the Kentucky legislature to make teaching about the Holocaust mandatory in public schools.

The state Senate last week unanimously passed the Ann Klein and Fred Gross Holocaust Education Act. The House passed the bill earlier this month, the Jewish Louisville Community reported.

Gov. Matt Bevin is expected to sign the legislation into law.

New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Florida, Indiana, Illinois,

Israel delays deportation of African migrants ERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s deportation of African migrants will be delayed until after Passover.

On Tuesday, March 27, the Supreme Court agreed to a government request for an extension on the court’s order for a brief to outline the state’s deportation policy and related issues to April 9.

The original deadline was March 26.

The state said it needed more time to respond to the court’s request for clarification of the policy and said it will submit classified documents as part of its filing, which are believed to include information on the African nation that Israel is deporting

day, March 26, The Hill reported. He had been elected to the post.

Top Republicans in the state had called for his removal, noting his history of making controversial comments.

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hadi wrote.

The post was accompanied by a graphic reading: “I am anti-Zionist, I’m not anti-Jew. So don’t call me anti-Semitic.”

The Amcha Initiative, which monitors more than 400 campuses across the US for anti-Semitism, said in a statement that Abdulhadi “has repeatedly used her position and the program’s educational resources to fund a steady drumbeat of virulently antiZionist events, speakers and classes, including those that condone terrorism and violence towards Israel and its supporters.”

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WEST BANK ERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli prosecutors will not charge two Israeli fathers who shot into a mob of rock-throwing Palestinians, killing one, while escorting a West Bank hike in honor of a boy’s Bar Mitzvah.

On Monday, March 26, the Central District Attorney’s Office determined that the fathers shot their firearms in self-defense and closed the case.

On Nov. 30, at least 30 Palestinian men from the northern West Bank village of Qusra surrounded the children and their parent escorts and started throwing rocks.

in a post on the Facebook page of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas program at the university’s College of Ethnic Studies called Wong’s statement “racist, Islamophobic and colonialist.”

“I consider the statement from President Wong, welcoming Zionists to campus, equating Jewishness with Zionism, and giving Hillel ownership of campus Jewishness, to be a declaration of war against Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians and all those who are committed to an indivisible sense of justice on and off campus,” Abdul-

them to.

The state also said it likely will grant refugee status to Sudanese migrants from the Nuba area, as well as 300 refugees from Darfur.

The Supreme Court froze the deportations in mid-March in response to a petition.

For now, deportation notices will not be issued to women, children, fathers of children, anyone recognized as a victim of slavery or human trafficking, and those who had requested asylum by the end of 2017 but have not received a response, Haaretz reported.

There are up to 40,000 Eritreans and Sudanese living in Israel, including 5,000 children.

Michigan and California are states that require some measure of Holocaust and genocide education, according to the report.

The bill requires every public middle and high school in the state to include in their curriculum instruction on the Holocaust and other acts of genocide, as defined by the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Fred Whitaker, a science, religion and Holocaust studies teacher at St. Francis of Assisi School in Louisville — a Catholic middle school — has been lobbying for mandatory Holocaust instruction for 13 years.

He has involved his students in the process, bringing them to the capital, Frankfort, to testify before House and Senate committees on how Holocaust instruction has affected their lives, the Jewish Louisville Community reported.

Other St. Francis parents and students have worked the phones and social media and stood on the capitol steps with signs in what became a fullcourt press for passage, according to the report.

Whitaker will travel to Poland this summer on a Classrooms Without Borders seminar to see the Nazi death camps and walk through the Warsaw Ghetto.

Gross, a Holocaust survivor, and Linda Klein, daughter of the late Ann Klein, were on the floor when the vote was taken and received a standing ovation from the senators.

About 10,000 Jews live in Kentucky.

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NEWS: Spending bill

Security grants more than double Also wrapped in the new budget: survivor aid, Taylor Force act

By RON KAMPEAS JTA

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ASHINGTON — An omnibus spending bill approved by Congress more than doubles spending for security grants that have been overwhelmingly tapped by Jewish institutions.

The $1.3 trillion bill approved March 22 includes $60 million for the security grants, up from $25 million last year. More than 90% of the grants have been used to harden security at Jewish institutions since the nonprofit security grant program was launched in 2005.

Nathan Diament, the Washington director of the Orthodox Union, one of the lead advocates for the grants, said a spike in threats on

Jewish institutions over the last year drove the increase.

According to the ADL, anti-Semitic incidents in the US in 2017 increased by 43% over 2016, not including a spate of bomb threats carried out against Jewish institutions by a Jewish man in Israel.

“We didn’t have to educate members of Congress that the past year has seen an increased set of threats and activity,” Diament said in an interview.

Of the $60 million, $10 million for the first time will go to areas outside major metropolitan areas. Diament said that will allow Jewish institutions outside such designated areas to apply for the funds.

He named Monsey, in upstate New York, as an example of an area with a high Jewish concentration that until now has not been able to access the existing program.

Also advocating for the security grants over the years were the Jewish Federations of North America and Agudath Israel of North America.

The bill also includes $175 million over the next 10 years to improve security at schools, a provision that was accelerated after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla. last month.

The bill will fund training in violence prevention, police-school coordination and crisis intervention,

Danon: On Iran, we must act now DANON from Page 15

During the past year, you have brought evidence before the UN Security Council several times of Hezbollah’s violation of Resolution 1701. What steps are you taking in the UN to counter Hezbollah?

When you look at the reality in southern Lebanon, it is very disturbing. You see the number of weapons and missiles, and you see the violation of Resolution 1701. Every time we read the reports [on UNIFIL], I ask why no one mentions the fact that UNIFIL forces are not allowed to enter the villages and forests in southern Lebanon.They cannot actually stop anything because Hezbollah will not allow them into the region.

It is disturbing because if Hezbollah tries to use the rockets against Israel, we will retaliate. And then it will not be easy for the people in southern Lebanon, and I am sure the international community will convene immediately to condemn Israel. What I am trying to do is point out what is happening in order to avoid the next conflict, enforce Resolution 1701, stop the cooperation between the Lebanese army and Hezbollah, and remind the Lebanese army to stop allowing Hezbollah to stock weapons and missiles along the border.

Next door in Syria, Iran is making steady inroads. What can be done about that?

Some people in the international community say let’s wait till the Islamic State is defeated, then we will deal with Iran. This is a mistake; we have to act now. We have to stop Iran from extending their empire across the region.

Iran is sponsoring Shiite militias across Syria. This is unacceptable; we cannot accept the reality we have today. With Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, we cannot allow Iran to open a second front in the Golan Heights.

It was recently reported by Israel Hayom that Israel may abandon its bid for a Security Council seat. Could you confirm this report?

I cannot confirm that report. Israel is entitled to be in every body in the UN, including the Security Council. We try to espouse the true story about Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu came to the UN earlier this month to attend an exhibition about the archaeology of Jerusalem.

We will continue to have many events here at the UN to show the true face of Israel.

What are your thoughts on the recent firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Trump’s selection of CIA Director Mike Pompeo as his replacement?

We’ve had a very good relationship with the American administration, and we will continue to work closely with the State Dept. We’ve had a very good experience with Mr. Pompeo in his previous position, and I have no doubt he will continue to support the process.

Following President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to denounce it. What has been the reaction you have seen?

We applaud President Trump for his bold decision on Jerusalem.

After that [General Assembly] resolution, people moved on to other issues; it really shows that it did not have the concern people thought. I am optimistic that after the embassy moves to Jerusalem in May that more countries will announce their

moving as well. Guatemala also announced [it will] move their embassy, and we are in touch with other countries on the issue.

Given the murky political situation back home, turnover in the Trump administration and strained US-Palestinian relations, do you think it’s a good time for the Trump administration to unveil a peace plan?

We appreciate the work of the Trump administration on this issue.

I think when you have the US and other international partners involved it can support the process. But we believe that eventually, we are going to have to have direct negotiations with the Palestinians. It is the only way to move forward with peace, just like when we had peace with the Egyptians and the Jordanians.

But if you look at Mr. [Mahmoud] Abbas’ speech a few weeks ago at the UN, I am not very optimistic; he shows no interest in coming back and negotiating with us.

and will be extended to private and parochial schools as well as public schools.

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FNA praised the inclusion in the omnibus bill of $5 million for the Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program, double the amount of previous years. The program partners with Jewish institutions to deliver assistance to elderly Holocaust survivors.

“There are approximately 100,000 Holocaust survivors living in the US today, with an estimated 30,000 living in poverty,” said William Daroff, the Washington director of JFNA, in a statement.

“By doubling funding levels to $5 million, the program now will be able to provide immediate support to ensure that Holocaust survivors are able to live in dignity and comfort for the remainder of

their lives.”

Also wrapped into the omnibus is the Taylor Force Act, which slashes funding to the Palestinians until the PA stops payments to Palestinians killed or arrested during attacks on Israelis.

Taylor Force was an American who was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv in 2016.

Palestinian officials say that only a small portion of the targeted money goes to violent attackers, and that much of the money serves as a welfare program for Palestinians who are imprisoned by Israel, many without charges.

US funding for the Palestinians currently stands at about $260 million a year. None of the money targeted goes directly to the PA, instead funding programs run by NGOs that assist Palestinians.

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NEWS: March for Our Lives

Jewish youth march against guns Huge turnout in Washington and at 800 satellite rallies around the country

800,000 PEOPLE Jewish students leading the Reform movement to the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, March 24.

Hector Emanuel for the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

By RON KAMPEAS JTA

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They were able to get 800,000 people on and off of this city’s Pennsylvania Avenue in three hours.

They attracted A-list celebrities.

They turned out marchers at more

than 800 satellite events held around the world.

But the politics and logistics of the weekend often paled next to the simple — and harrowing — stories of the students who were inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 14, when a gunman roamed their halls and killed 17 students and faculty.

Israel’s 2007 strike on Syria’s nuclear reactor NUCLEAR from Page 9

From then on, Israel’s security forces were scrambling against time to complete their preparations to destroy the site before it was too late.

“We decided we must act a moment before the reactor becomes

‘We knew the attack might lead to a war — but a nuclear Syria was far worse’ operational, or a moment before the international community finds out, those were our two parameters,” Peretz told TPS.

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n order to determine when the reactor was to become operational, Israel kept a close eye on a pipeline being built between the facility and a water pumping station built on the banks of the Euphrates a few kilometers away.

We knew that once water started flowing from the station to the facility, the reactor would be ready, Peretz said.

“We conducted daily surveillance on the progress of the pipeline. That was the key point,” said Peretz,“From

that point on, we were on a race against time, trying to make progress as fast as possible.”

On June 14, 2007, Peretz held a meeting in his office, in which IAF commander Eliezer Shkedi informed him that the air force had completed its preparations and was ready to act. Around the same time, intelligence was received that the pipeline was nearing completion.

The next day, Olmert informed Peretz of his intention to replace him with former prime minister and IDF Chief of Staff Ehud Barak who was sworn in just three days later.

On the morning of September 7, 2007, Peretz received a phone call from Barak, who said “congratulations, mission accomplished.”

Although he was removed from office almost three months before the strike, Peretz says he was involved in the process leading up to the attack “at every step of the way.”

Was he worried that the attack might cause a war?

“Of course we were worried,” he says. “But firstly, we counted on Assad not wanting to be caught in a lie, because he was hiding the existence of the facility from the world.

“And secondly, yes, we knew it might lead to a war. But we made our considerations and came to the conclusion that a nuclear Syria is a far worse scenario than a potential war.”

On the stage on Pennsylvania Avenue on March 24, Aaliyah Eastmond and Samantha Fuentes described the terror they felt at Stoneman Douglas when the gunman burst in on their Holocaust studies class.

Two students in the class, Nicholas Dworet and Helena Ramsey, were killed.

Fuentes said she wanted a world where “you don’t have to worry about going into a Holocaust history class to learn about death, and then experience it before your eyes.”

She was so overcome with emotion describing the day, she threw up — and then completed her speech, with encouragement from the crowd.

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archers came from across the country, among them at least 2,500 Jewish teenagers from as far afield as California, Colorado and Minnesota.

They threw sleeping bags on the floors of local synagogues and Jewish community centers under the aegis of the Reform movement’s North American Federation of Temple Youth, or NFTY. It took 21 hours for 75 teens to bus in from Minneapolis-St. Paul.

They turned up outfitted in T-shirts that were colored orange for gun control and read #Dayenu — “it would have been enough” in Hebrew.

At an event in a ballroom deep in the bowels of Washington’s Marriott Marquis hotel in the hours before the march, the NFTY leadership — as with the wider demonstration, the Jewish presence was largely organized by teenagers — gave them permission to vent.

“We march today because it’s what we have to do to sleep tonight,” said Zoe Terner, the social action vice president for NFTY’s Southern Tropical Region. “This is how we grieve.”

Five of the slain at Stoneman Douglas were Jewish and the school is estimated to be 40% Jewish. Terner, 18, attends high school in nearby Delray Beach and has made

friends from Stoneman Douglas through the movement.

The night before, at a Shabbat service at Washington Hebrew Congregation in the capital’s Northwest quadrant, Terner pledged: “Tomorrow I will pray with my feet, and

“Those people we lost on that day, that’s who we’re here for,” Rumsky said.

“It hit home so hard,” Renert said.

“We have a lot of nervous energy,” Goodman said. “We’re using this as an outlet.”

March included at least 2,500 Jewish teens from as far as Colorado and Minnesota with every step, I will think of those few hours a month ago when I didn’t know if my friends were alive or dead.”

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o they grieved by telling their stories.

“I will not stand idly by the blood of my classmates,” survivor Zoe Fox-Snider told the marchers gathered in the hotel ballroom, paraphrasing Leviticus 19:16, “after spending two-and-a-half hours fearing for my life in the storage room of the media center.”

The evening before at Washington Hebrew, she told congregants about her thoughts in the storeroom.

“I was forced to text my mom, ‘I love you and everyone. This is real,’” she recalled.

At a media opportunity organized

by NFTY, Stoneman Douglas students Talia Rumsky, 16, Charlie Goodman, 15, and Kayla Renert, 15, started an interview by talking about the Jewish values that brought them to the march. But Renert soon lapsed into remembering the day, and the others started talking over her.

“We had to run past the middle school . . .” Renert said.

“We saw the SWAT team . . .” Rumsky said.

“We heard the gunshots . . .”

Renert said.

“My sister Sophie was in the middle school,” Goodman said. “I had no idea what was going on.”

They slowed down and got back to what brought them to Washington.

Rumsky later drew a placard reading “NRA, stop killing my friends.”

Marlee Gordon, a counselor at Camp Coleman, the Union for Reform Judaism camp in Georgia attended by a number of Stoneman Douglas High students, remembered when she heard that Alyssa Alhadeff was among the missing and presumed dead. Alhadeff had been a Coleman camper under another friend’s charge.

“He refused to believe she had died,” recalled Gordon, 19, who along with two other friends at the University of Georgia kept her fellow counselor company that night.

“We stayed with him all night waiting for Alyssa’s name to be said on the news, so we would be there.”

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he disciplined message, delivered to lawmakers on March 23, honed at the NFTY event the next day and reiterated again and again by the speakers at the main event on Pennsylvania Avenue, was multi-pronged.

It called for a ban on the purchase and sale of assault weapons, on the sale of high-capacity magazines, the institution of universal background checks for gun purchasers, and ending background check exemptions for purchases online and at gun shows.

There was plenty of glitz at the march itself, including performances

by Broadway stars Lin-Manuel Please see MARCH on Page 19

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NEWS

March included moments of faith ‘I represent the African-American girls whose stories don’t make the front pages’ MARCH from Page 18

Miranda and Ben Platt, by rapper Common and by pop stars Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande. (The survivors on stage, who sounded so wizened, became kids again when Grande finished singing “Be Alright,” rushing her for selfies, which she accommodated with a grin.)

‘Do not stand idly by while your neighbor’s blood is shed’ There was an acutely self-aware sense of why they were able to attract that star power.

“Gun violence disproportionately affects people of color,” said Rachel Berlowe Binder, a Duke University student speaking at the NFTY event.

“The death rate from gun violence is 10 times higher than among white children.”

One of the speeches that drew the loudest cheers was by Naomi Wadler, 11, from Alexandria, Va. “I am here today to acknowledge and represent the African-American girls whose stories don’t make the front page of every national news-

paper,” said Wadler, who is AfricanAmerican and Jewish.

“I represent the African-American women who are victims of violence, who are simply statistics instead of vibrant, beautiful girls who are full of potential.”

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here were the moments of faith. Marchers spilled out of churches along Pennsylvania Avenue.

Edna Chavez, who lost her brother to gun violence in south Los Angeles, crossed herself as she walked on stage.

Some Jewish marchers held signs emblazoned with words from Leviticus 16:19:“Do not stand idly by while your neighbor’s blood is shed.”

Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of the Orthodox Ohev Shalom Synagogue in Washington planned to walk the more than seven miles from his shul to the rally with 75 kids from around the country spending Shabbat with his community.

Jews and Muslims Acting Together also planned on marching, according to an organizer, Walter Ruby, carrying sings reading “Quran and Talmud say, ‘If you save one life, you save the world.’ Prevent Gun Violence Now!” The March 23 interfaith service at the National Cathedral began with the Washington Children’s

Trying to change the face of National Geographic RACIST from Page 13

she was five years old [and] she didn’t speak English, she only spoke Yiddish,” Goldberg said.

Growing up, her family celebrated Jewish holidays but was “probably more culturally Jewish than

Goldberg doesn’t plan to look into anti-Semitism at this time religiously Jewish,” she said. She was involved in the Habonim Labour Zionist youth movement, and at the age of 17 she lived for six months on a kibbutz in southern Israel.

Though she describes the experience at Kibbutz Grofit as “a fantastic thing to do as a very young woman,” she said it made her realize that she did not want to immigrate to the Jewish state.

“The lives of the women on the kibbutz were to my way of thinking kind of constrained. You didn’t have a world of choice. This was a small kibbutz in the middle of the desert, right on the border of a bunch of other countries, and it just made me realize that it wasn’t going to be the lifestyle for me,” she recalled.

Instead, she set her sights on pursuing a journalism career in the US. She enrolled at Michigan State University but dropped out to accept a job as a full time reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She later returned to Michigan State to pursue a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Throughout her career, she has been the first woman in many of her positions, including as managing editor of the San Jose Mercury News, editor-in-chief of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and executive editor of Bloomberg News’ Washington

bureau.

She joined National Geographic as executive editor in January, 2014, and succeeded Chris Johns as editor-in-chief a few months later.

Goldberg’s letter drew both praise, from those who lauded her for looking critically at the magazine’s coverage of race, and criticism, from others who wondered why it took the magazine so long to do so and said the letter did not go far enough in addressing the issue.

“I can’t explain why other editors haven’t done this directly. I’m not criticizing them in any way.What I will say is we’re in a moment of reckoning as a society, as a country, where people are willing to look back at actions of themselves or their organizations and lay out maybe a lot of really great history but [also] some things that weren’t so good,” she said.

Choir singing “Al Shlosha Dvarim,” a Hebrew song about the three pillars of Jewish faith.

Rabbi Jonah Pesner, the director of the Reform movement’s Religious

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raged by a mass shooting in an affluent, majority white community, and being all too silent when children of color are murdered every day,” he said.

Who is John Bolton?

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was catastrophic (most famously among them Trump), he still believes it was a good idea.

“I still think the decision to overthrow Saddam was correct,” he told the Washington Examiner in 2015.

“The people who say, oh things would have been much better if you didn’t overthrow Saddam miss the point that today’s Middle East does not flow totally and unchangeably from the decision to overthrow Saddam alone.” . . . but it wasn’t his hawkishness that sidelined him in 2006.

In 2005, President George W. Bush named Bolton as acting ambassador to the UN after Democrats blocked his confirmation, citing his disdain for the body expressed in 1994.

“The Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories,” he said. “If it lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.”

But that’s not what scuttled his bid: Some of his subordinates at the State Department stepped forward to testify that Bolton was a mean boss. One staffer described him as someone who “kissed up and kicked down.”The late Ohio Sen. George Voinovich, a Republican, stunned his colleagues when he sided with the staffers — and declared Bolton unfit.

“I’ve heard enough today that I don’t feel comfortable about voting for Mr. Bolton,” Voinovich said after a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in April, 2005.

“I think one’s interpersonal skills and their relationship with their fellow man is a very important ingredient in anyone that works for me.”

Bolton’s nomination made it out of committee but, largely because of Voinovich’s distaste for him, never made it out of the Senate. Bolton was a recess appointment, and that lapses once Congress is reseated for a new session. By the end of 2006 he was out.

He is an effective diplomat . . .

he magazine also plans to focus on Muslims, Latinos, Asian Americans and Native Americans. Though the magazine examines racism and other forms of bigotry there are no plans at the moment to look into antiSemitism, she said.

“That’s not to say in the future that we wouldn’t, but we don’t have anything that we’ve planned right now,” she said.

Goldberg, who lives in Washington, DC, with her husband Geoffrey Etnire, a real estate lawyer, said that since starting her position, her “biggest push” has been to increase gender, ethnic and racial diversity on the staff. Currently about a quarter of the staff are people of color.

“I just don’t think that you are going to end up with authentic stories if you’ve only got an all-white staff, and a majority male staff, and that is what it was,” she said.

“We’ve been working very hard to change it. We’re not there yet, but we’ve been making a lot of progress.”

Action Center, delivered a sermon based on Yom Kippur’s Al Cheit, a recitation of communal sins.

“Al Chet Shechatanu Lifanecha — for being understandably out-

However much Bolton might have wanted to lop off a goodly portion of the UN building, it appears he was capable of forging alliances there. As the assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs under President George H.W. Bush, he steered the UN General Assembly to a vote in 1991 that rescinded its notorious 1975 “Zionism is racism” resolution.

Bolton leveraged US economic assistance and the post-Iron Curtain chaos in Europe and the former Soviet Union to pull off a win. . . . with interesting friends.

Bolton breaks bread with folks that the mainstream Jewish community could do without. He wrote the foreword to The Post-American Presidency:The Obama Administration’s War on America, by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer.The ADL lists Geller as an “anti-Muslim activist.”

Bolton was annoyed by calls for President Barack Obama to “prove” that he was born in the US, but it

didn’t keep him from pointed jokes about Obama.

Speaking at a 2016 conference that the ADL called a “who’s who of the anti-Muslim movement in the US,” Bolton joked that Jordan’s King Abdullah (whom Bolton was holding up as a righteous pro-Western Muslim) “is not simply a Muslim king of a Muslim country, unlike our president.”

He got the pro-Israel community to do something unique.

Pro-Israel groups rarely endorse a nominee who needs Senate confirmation: There’s no point in alienating the other party, the thinking goes. AIPAC never does.

Bolton’s role in undoing the Zionism is racism resolution made him perhaps the most outstanding exception to that rule. In addition to AIPAC, groups that lobbied in 2006 for his confirmation as UN ambassador included the American Jewish Committee, the ADL, the OU, Agudath Israel of America, the Zionist Organization of America and the Republican Jewish Coalition.

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations quietly encouraged the endorsements.

“John Bolton is an important and very effective representative of the US at the UN and has consistently been a strong advocate for the US on issues that matter to the pro-Israel community,” Josh Block, AIPAC’s spokesman at the time, said.

Don’t call him neoconservative.

Bolton, because of his arduous Iraq War backing, is often lumped in with neoconservatives. He’s not.

He believes in intervention when what he sees as US interests are threatened — but he doesn’t want

to stick around to promote democracy and nation-building, preferring to hand off running the country to friendly dictators, if need be.

“He has little interest in exporting democracy or human rights or in restructuring other societies,” a contributing editor to Foreign Policy magazine wrote on Twitter.

“He supported the Iraq War, but his preference was to withdraw soon after Saddam was ousted rather than engage in nation-building.”

He differs with Trump on Russia . . .

Trump of late is picking folks he likes on TV — Fox News Channel, particularly, where Bolton is a contributor — to help him run the country. Bolton’s pronouncements on North Korea (meet with its leader, but maintain a credible threat of a military strike) and Iran (kill the deal) have pleased Trump.

But Bolton, if he was angling for the White House job, has not been shy about differing with Trump on to Russia.

Bolton believes the Trump administration should do more.

“If you want to punish a country for behavior you don’t accept, you need punishing sanctions that are broad, not targeted, and they need to be enforced,” Bolton said in a recent tweet. . . . but he’ll defer to the boss.

Bolton had an appearance scheduled on March 22 on Fox News when he learned Trump had released the news. The Fox interviewer put him on the spot about differences with Trump on Russia.

“I’ve never been shy about what my views are, but frankly, what I’ve said in private now is behind me, at least effective April the 9, and the important thing is what the president says and what advice I give him,” he said.

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DiCaprio invests in eco-certified hotel

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By REBECCA STADLIN AMIR Israel 21c eonardo DiCaprio is investing in a new eco-certified hotel in Herzliya. The Oscar-winning actor and environmental activist will join the project as an investor and partner, Hagag Real

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David Rockwell to design 180 rooms, including 130 timeshare Estate Development announced this month.

The hotel, located in the Herzliya Marina, will be designed by architect David Rockwell and will

include 180 suites (130 of them available as timeshare vacation homes) across two six-story buildings with a swimming pool in between.

According to the Hagag Group, DiCaprio will work to promote the hotel and ensure that it is designed to meet the highest environmental and hotel development standards.

“Green environmental development is a significant part of building communities that work in partnership with nature and not against it,” DiCaprio said. “As we seek to create a future that heads off the most severe effects of climate change, we need projects that push for new developments in environmental design.This project, designed

by David Rockwell and which meets the gold standard of LEED, will serve as a model for environmentally

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friendly hotel development for the entire world.” he new hotel is to be constructed in compliance with the US Green Building Council and certified by its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system, Hagag Group said.

LEED is a globally recognized symbol of commitment to environmental responsibility and provides a framework for creating highly efficient, cost-saving green buildings for almost any purpose.

Israel’s first LEED-certified building was Intel’s Development Design Center in Haifa, which was built in 2010 and received LEED Gold ranking.

Since then, other LEED-certified buildings have gone up around the country, including the Azouri

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First Brit tapped for under-40 Jewish philanthropy leadership ERUSALEM (JTA) — The director of a foundation in London is the first British recipient of the JJ Greenberg Memorial Award from the Jewish Funders Network.

Amy Braier, director of the Pears Foundation, is the 15th recipient of the award honoring foundation professionals age 40 and under engaged in grantmaking who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership in Jewish philanthropy.

She accepted the award March 15

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at the Jewish Funders Network conference in Tel Aviv. The award is named for an activist in Jewish outreach who was killed in a traffic accident at age 36.

Sir Trevor Pears, the foundation’s executive chair and trustee, said in a statement that Braier’s contribution to the foundation “is immeasurable. I am so glad it has been recognized in this way, as her quiet and humble manner means she rarely receives the accolades that she very much deserves.”

A graduate of the University of Cambridge, Braier has been director of the foundation since 2012.

In addition to overseeing the foundation’s grantmaking and operations, she leads its Holocaust education and higher education work, helping to establish the University College London Centre for Holocaust Education, the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, and the UK Task Force on issues relating to Arab citizens of Israel.

Pop duo signs $5 million deal ERUSALEM (JTA) — The popular Israeli music duo Static and Ben-El has signed a recording contract with Capitol Records reportedly worth $5 million.

The Israeli-American media mogul Haim Saban facilitated the sevenalbum, 10-year contract for the duo, whose real names are Liraz Russo, 27, and Ben-El Tavori, 26. Saban Capital Group brought the singers and Capitol Records together.

Saban first heard about Static & Ben-El from his nephew Gil Saban, the owner and CEO of Saban Brands Israel, Haaretz reported. It is his first major investment in Israeli singers.

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“I believe that the talents of Static and Ben-El will speak to music lovers around the world,” Saban said in a statement released from the group. “Together with their professional staff, we at Saban Capital Group are happy to support them in developing this next stage in their unique and successful career.”

While the duo sings in Hebrew in Israel, the contract will see them making English-language music.

Since November, 2015, Static & Ben El have released eight singles, all accompanied by music videos that have received tens of millions of views on YouTube, where they first became famous. Their most recent hit is “Namaste,” which includes Jamaican

and Indian elements.

Last summer, their hit song “Tudo Bom,” or “Everything is Good” in Portuguese, which tells the story of an Israeli guy flirting with a Brazilian girl in both Hebrew and Portuguese, led the Brazilian ambassador to Israel to publicly thank them for bringing a bit of Brazil to Israel.

The duo has served as judges on the last two seasons of Israel’s reality singing show “The Next Star.”

Their producer,Yarden “Jordi” Peleg, is currently a judge on the first season of “Israel’s Got Talent.”

Haaretz reported that the duo plan to keep Israel as their “main focus of activity.”

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Passover gift? Tax cut for Israeli families In 2017, Israel had a budget surplus of $69 million JERUSALEM — Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon said March 22 that he would cut income tax for “working couples” immediately after the Passover holiday.

While Kahlon did not specify exactly by how much he would cut taxes and in which brackets, it is believed that the cuts will be made in the 11,000 shekels ($38,300) to 20,000 shekels ($69,600) bracket.

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“We are in March, and three months into the year it seems that the economy is doing well with strong growth,” Kahlon told Army Radio.

“As I promised, immediately after Passover we will definitely make a decision on cutting taxes. The money from tax cuts will generate growth and help working couples by giving them more disposable income.”

The planned cuts follow a budget surplus of some $69 million in 2017 and a surplus of $8 billion for the first two months of the year.

Last April, Kahlon announced the $13.9 billion net family plan, which included subsidies for afterschool programs, extra tax credits for men and women with children up to six years old, reduced taxes on mobile phones, baby clothes and shoes and expansion of a tax rebate program for low wage earners.

Following that, in May, the finance ministry said that at the beginning of 2018, it would consider tax cuts for wage earners in the 11,000 to 20,000 shekels bracket.

JDC dedicates history center ERUSALEM (JTA) — A center for the historical records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee was dedicated in the group’s Jerusalem offices.

The Marshall M. Weinberg JDC Archives dedicated a climate-controlled, state-of-the-art facility that will house the historic archival records of JDC’s Jerusalem and overseas offices.

The archives, spanning 1914 to the present day, includes over three miles of documents, 100,000 photographs, a research library of more than 6,000 books, 1,100

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audio recordings including oral histories, and a collection of 2,500 videos. Since its founding during WW I, the JDC has provided humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in 70 countries.

“It’s critically important today that we, as Jews, understand how our past influences our present and future, Weinberg said in a statement. “When two of the leading archivists in America have stated that the JDC Archives is one of the most important collections of modern Jewish history and humanitarian assistance in the world, I know that invest-

ing in its safe-keeping benefits the Jewish people and all humankind.”

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin welcomed more than 100 JDC board members and guests from around the world to his residence to celebrate Israel’s 70th anniversary and JDC’s century-plus work in Israel.

Rivlin was shown a document from the JDC archives, a recently unearthed 1920 letter from his father’s cousin Rabbi Moshe Rivlin requesting JDC assistance for matzah and food for needy Jerusalem Jews at Passover.

The Bank of Israel has expressed opposition to tax cuts saying they would be countercyclical at this time.

Addressing the cabinet in late October, Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug said: “There is no reason to assume in advance that there will be more pleasant surprises through oneoff increases in tax revenues. “ E v e n though revenues were higher than forecast in the past four Israel Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon Ashernet years, there is no need to go too far back in our history to remem- ment, tax cuts at this time would ber years in which there was a sharp be pro-cyclical, meaning their condecline in revenue due to global eco- tribution to expanding economic nomic developments that are com- activity would be small.

“The pro-cyclicality will become pletely exogenous and outside of the control of policymakers in more serious if, as a result of current tax cuts, the need to raise Israel.”

Flug also noted that since the taxes increases if and when there economy is already at full employ- is a slowdown in activity,” Flug said.

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Will US foreign aid kill Israeli companies?

There’s a business-killing Obama-era stipulation ERUSALEM (JNS) — A comprehensive analysis by Israel’s Ministry of Defense of the effect of a US foreign-aid agreement signed at the end of former President Barack Obama’s term in office has concluded that Israel will be forced to lay off 22,000 workers at a cost of $2 billion (7

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weapons, systems and defense equipment from US companies.

According to Globes, Israel’s defense industry fears that hundreds of local companies will shut down, with tens of thousands of workers laid off.

The report, completed by the Ministry of Defense, has been present-

‘600 companies will simply not survive these years’ billion shekels) in gross domestic product.

The new agreement, signed in 2016, raises American aid to Israel from $34.4 billion in 2009-2018 to $38 billion in 2019-2028.

However, a clause in the agreement removes Israel’s option to convert 25% of the aid to domestic procurement from Israeli defense companies. Therefore, though aid will increase by $500 million a year, every dollar must be spent on

ed to Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and Ministry of Defense director general Major General (res.)

Udi Adam.

Manufacturers Assn. of Israel president Shraga Brosh called the figures “terrifying,” and said that about 600 companies “will simply not survive these years if the state does not intervene.”

Some larger Israeli defense companies are expanding into the US market in order to enable

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Israel to continue to procure from them.

Brosh said his organization will ask the Ministry of Finance to

increase the shekel defense budget in order to keep defense procurements from Israeli companies at their current levels.

Israel may, however, seek an amendment to the agreement under the new American administration.

Israel’s defense exports push Iran out of Africa ERUSALEM (TPS) — Israel is pushing Iran out of Africa, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said as he left Tanzania following a four-day trip to the continent that also included visits

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Exports at $275 million; cooperation on terrorism, organized crime to Rwanda and Zambia.

“Africa has huge potential and Israel as a world leader in advanced

technologies has exactly what Africa needs in agriculture, medicine, security, counter-terrorism and border defense.

“In every [African] country that we have alliances and agreements with, we are pushing Iran out and isolating her.

“If Israel doesn’t seize the opportunity to deepen cooperation, then others, in particular the Iranians, will do so in our place,” he warned.

During the trip, the first by an Israeli defense minister to Africa in decades, Liberman met with the defense ministers and chiefs of staff of Rwanda, Zambia and Tanzania.

While in Tanzania, Liberman and his host counterpart, Dr Hussein Mwinyi, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the two countries

“to share vital intelligence information to weed out all forms of security threats.”

The Tanzanian Daily News reported that the two ministers had agreed to cooperate in defense and security issues and to share crucial intelligence information “to combat rising cases of transnational organized crime, including terrorism.” report published ahead of Liberman’s visit in DefenceWeb, a portal on African defense issues, said Israeli arms sales to African countries are growing rapidly, with defense exports increasing 70% between 2015 and 2016 to reach $275 million.

The report said that while 2017

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be even higher.

DefenceWeb said African armed forces are interested in different types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), loitering weapons, communications systems and radars.

The DefenceWeb report said the Rwandan army is equipped with Israeli made Tavor assault rifles, and that in 2016, Rwanda received several ATMOS 2000 155 mm selfpropelled howitzers from Israel’s Soltam.

Last month, media reports in Israel tied military hardware sales to Rwanda to an agreement in which the east African nation will receive African asylum seekers from Israel.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, “Israel is one of a range of smaller suppliers of major weapons and other military equipment to sub-Saharan Africa.

“It has long sold or given weapons to a host of developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, and the deals are often accompanied by serving or retired Israeli military personnel and Israeli civilian contractors as instructors.

“Although Israeli arms exports, especially of major weapons, to sub-Saharan Africa are limited, Israeli weapons, brokers and instructors are likely to sometimes have a more significant impact than mere numbers of supplied weapons imply.”

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Gil Shwed wins Israel Prize in technology Check Point Software sweeps new Israel Prize category ERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli pioneer in cybersecurity will receive the prestigious Israel Prize in the field of technology and innovation.

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Leader in information and cybersecurity Gil Shwed, founder and CEO of Check Point Software Technologies, was announced as the winner in the new category established in honor of Israel’s 70th birthday. Education Minister Naftali Bennett made the announcement on March 4.

The Israel Prize is awarded each year in several categories in a special public ceremony on Indepen-

Abramovich’s $20 million funds research center ERUSALEM (JTA) — Russian-Jewish billionaire businessman Roman Abramovich donated $20 million to fund a research center for nuclear medicine at an Israeli hospital.

Abramovich, who owns Britain’s Chelsea soccer club, made the donation to Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, located near Tel Aviv to fund the cutting-edge research center.

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dence Day. Check Point, founded 25 years ago, is among Israel’s largest technology companies and a major world cybersecurity company. The company invented the world’s first firewall based on a patent held by Shwed.

Prior to founding the company, Shwed was part of the Israeli army’s elite Unit 8200, where he worked on military computer projects.

“Shwed’s contribution to Israel in the development of the high tech industry has been important for nearly 25 years,” the selection committee said in a statement.

“His company is a leader in information technology and cybersecurity, and has created thousands of

jobs, while demonstrating worldwide the excellence of Israel’s human capital.”

“Shwed engages in significant and extensive public activity to promote leadership and excellence among talented young people, with an emphasis on the socially outlying areas and his contribution in fostering the future generation in Israel. Gil Shwed’s influence on Israeli society and global technology is enormous. He has become a figure worthy of imitation in Israel and all over the world,” the committee also said.

A father of four who lives in Tel Aviv, Shwed began studying computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem while still in high school. He said in a statement that he was “moved to receive the announcement that I had been selected to receive the Israel Prize, especially in a field so greatly associated with our country and Israeli society.”

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Sheba has submitted its permit application to build a new 21,500square-foot, three-floor, diagnostic and research center for nuclear medicine and molecular imaging.

The entire basement floor will be dedicated to housing a cyclotron, a special nuclear reactor, which will produce small quantities of nuclear isotopes for use in molecular imaging, the medical center said in its announcement.

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Music revives Alzheimer’s patients Yiddish tunes stir memory

By SARAH SELTZER JTA EW YORK — It’s a bitterly cold winter morning in Brooklyn, but Brenda, a 101-year-old woman in a Jewish hospice facility suffering from severe shortterm memory loss, has a special group of visitors show up in her warm room.

Joelle Missry, a creative arts therapy intern, arrives with her guitar slung over her back and with her licensed music therapy supervisor by her side. She sits beside Brenda’s bed.

For the next 20 minutes, Missry holds Brenda’s hand and sings a combination of old Yiddish songs with help from her team and Brenda’s home health aide, who has learned some of the songs.

Brenda is largely sleepy and unresponsive, despite Joelle’s best efforts.

After going through a songbook that ranges from “You are My Sunshine” to the Yiddish favorite “Tumbalalaika,” the group gets up to leave.

Just as they’re about to exit, however, Brenda’s eyes pop open. Suddenly fully alert, she begins to croon the Yiddish standard “Bai Mir Bist Du Shoen,” looking straight at Missry. She goes through the song a few times, tapping her feet and looking very pleased.

This is the kind of moment for which the music therapy program at MJHS Health System, a Jewish health care service provider in

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MJHS Hospice, a Jewish health care service in New York, is unlocking memories through music therapy.

New York, was designed.

Hospice care, which is playing an increasingly central role in endof-life arrangements, isn’t just about administering palliative medical care and making sure loved ones are comfortable.

It’s also about relieving patients’ pain through meaningful interactions and experiences.

Proponents of music therapy say singing has medical benefits while also enhancing patients’ social and emotional health.

“Music therapy programs brings human dignity back into the picture,” Missry says.

ing the antibody immunoglobulin A and other immune system-boosting cells while reducing the stress hormone cortisol.

“We’ve found compelling evidence that musical interventions can play a health care role in settings ranging from operating rooms to family clinics,” Daniel Levitin, author of the recent book This is Your Brain on Music, told the American Psychological Association recently.“This is one reason why music is associated with relaxation.”

For Alzheimer’s patients specifically, a program called Music and Memory, featured in the documentary film “Alive Inside,” shows that music therapy can decrease medication usage in patients.

The theory is that music can trigger a kind of deep right-brain response, something beyond the reach of linear memory, so that even a patient who can’t string a sentence together might be able to remember or at least respond to lyrics from a song.

Music therapy isn’t just about singing old songs.The therapists are trained to deal with issues like hearing loss or agitation, as well as cul-

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tural sensitivities.

For some of the elderly Jewish patients, there’s an extra benefit to the treatment.

“Often with Holocaust survivors there is a reticence on the part of patients and on the part of family members to allow pain medication,” said Toby Weiss, director of cultural sensitivity and Jewish programming for MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care.

“There is a lack of trust and there is a prior history of trauma when it comes to medical issues and health care interventions. So when a patient is experiencing pain, as an example, if a music therapist starts to play a Yiddish song or a lullaby or something else from the patient’s childhood, the vital signs change, their effect changes.”

usic therapy is considered so important that MJHS Hospice now employs five full-time music therapists, as well as interns and part-time workers, all trained in a songbook that covers many of the languages and cultures in New York’s five boroughs.

For aging Jews, that means the Yiddish and Hebrew songs that bring back warm memories. The MJHS songbook ranges from American eyond easing pain, the expestandards like “What a Wonderful rience of bringing a patient World” to Hebrew songs like some music from their ear“Jerusalem of Gold” and “Hatikvah.” ly life can be powerful bondThe therapy itself is considered ing tool, allowing a potentially tense an “integrative therapeutic interfamily to come together — part of vention” — non-medical treatment the core mission of hospice care. that can have therapeutic results.

Please see MUSIC on Page 19 Studies show that a joyful singing experience can ameliorate pain and a patient’s symptom burden without the use of drugs.

It has an exercise component, encouraging healthy physical movement, such as feet-tapping and hand-waving.

Hospice workers say it also can help relax patients before treatments, like a blood draw or IV infusion, that might cause agitation or anxiety.

A growing body of scientific evidence supports the use of music therapies in various medical settings, from neonatal intensive care units to end-of-life and palliative care situations.

Music is shown to boost immunity and reduce Music therapy helps celebrate family connections one note at a time. stress and pain by increasMJHS Health System

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Big Idea: Tech day camp immerses kids Israeli branches open in Illinois, Maryland, elsewhere

By ELLEN BRAUNSTEIN JTA HICAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sam Rosen, a 10-year-old Minecraft player, builds virtual castles at his computer and protects himself from monsters. His mother, Carrie, a high school math teacher, knows the game teaches tech skills and engineering â&#x20AC;&#x201D; valuable skills he can build on in school.

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3-D modeling, coding, computer programming, web design So when JCC Chicago announced plans to roll out a tech day camp for the first time this summer, Carrie signed up Sam, understanding that he would learn programming or, as she calls it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the back end of games.â&#x20AC;?

The new specialty camp, offering different tech workshops for second- to ninth-graders, is one of the first North American partnerships for BIG IDEA in Israel.

BIG IDEA, a 10-year-old tech sleepaway camp located on the outskirts of Zichron Yaakov, is where 1,000 elementary to high school-aged children from around the world get a taste of Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culture of innovation every summer. It also runs travel trips and a gap year program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is pretty new and exciting for us,â&#x20AC;? said Dotan Tamir, the 34year-old founder and CEO of BIG IDEA Educational Projects, of the Chicago spinoff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of our mission to help kids in the Jewish world dream of a better world through innovation and creativity â&#x20AC;&#x201D; things Israel is known for.â&#x20AC;?

A second BIG IDEA day camp is starting this summer at the Bender JCC of Greater Washington in Rockville, Md. This summer will also mark the third year for a BIG IDEA program at the Kaplan JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, NJ. In its first two years in New Jersey, an all-Hebrew track drew day campers from an Israeli-American community already familiar with the BIG IDEA brand.

This year, an English track will open up the program to more families who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily want Hebrew immersion, said Aaron Atlas, the camp director at the Kaplan JCC on the Palisades.

The US camps offer two-week workshops in 3-D modeling, coding and computer programming, web design, DJ mixing, digital photography, robotics, jewelry design, graphic design, video production, animation and virtual reality.

Campers can enroll in one or more for multiple sessions.

No experience with the technology is necessary.

At the end of the two weeks, campers present a final project. All the software links are sent home for campers to keep working on projects.

Guy Goren, 8, is continuing to explore programming since he attended a coding workshop at the Tenafly JCC. He took a break from his computer to tick off all the fun

activities during his day at camp, including lunch. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I did like DJ,â&#x20AC;? Guy told JTA. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You choose a song and add a few things to it to make your own song.â&#x20AC;?

Omer Kariv, 19, is typical of the Israeli shlichim, or emissaries, who teach the workshops. He spent one summer in Tenafly after being released from the Israeli armyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Intelligence Corps.

A counselor at BIG IDEA in Israel, Kariv came to New Jersey knowing the latest technologies it offered back home. He is studying mechanical engineering and competes in robotics competitions. He hopes to attend MIT and then the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the way we make the kids interested in high tech,â&#x20AC;? Kariv said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We show them the high-tech world through their own games. Instead of the hard robotic stuff I learn in college, we add programmable robotics to Lego projects, making it fun and functional.â&#x20AC;?

The specialized workshops of no more than eight kids are combined with unplugged time for swimming, arts and sports. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good mixture with being outside enjoying summer, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s technology that my son is really into,â&#x20AC;?

Carrie Rosen of Chicago said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They really bring the Israeli technology spirit to kids,â&#x20AC;? said Guyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother Sharon Goren of Tenafly, â&#x20AC;&#x153;teaching them how to be more creative and expand their knowledge in a laid back environment.â&#x20AC;? ewish summer camps have been adding specialty camps at a fast clip in recent years, in everything from tech to targeted sports training, the arts, sciences and filmmaking.

The Foundation for Jewish Camp, which runs an incubator for specialty camps, said the options are necessary for attracting youth who are bombarded with competing programs and responsibilities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To make camp appealing,â&#x20AC;? the foundation wrote in a report last year, specialty camps â&#x20AC;&#x153;need to continue marketing their newness, to new campers coming for their first experience and returning campers who want to do something different from last summer.â&#x20AC;?

BIG IDEAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s satellite camps in North America provide campers with an introduction and feeder track to its programs in Israel.

Ariel Oren, 17, of Toronto, attended the camp in Israel for two summers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one as a camper for two weeks, the other as a counselor in training for four weeks. He remembers surfing in the morning, learning 3-D modeling and taking a course in entrepreneurship.

He and his team members created a survey and did market research for an app that connects young adults beset by mental illness with a therapist.

Business moguls judged the entry and gave feedback on the product and presentation.The session included a visit to a university where the campers were lectured on how to launch a startup. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really unique was the fact that this is really an international camp and I really connected with a lot of people who are now friends,â&#x20AC;?

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The Chicago JCC is committed â&#x20AC;&#x153;to bringing Israel to life for kids who have probably never been there,â&#x20AC;?

said Jamie Lake, its day camp marketing manager. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interwoven within the fabric of the camp, help-

ing kids connect to modern Israel, giving them a sense of pride in Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success in technology.â&#x20AC;?

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Bloomberg extols Israel finance minister Bloomberg: Israel’s economy ‘one of strongest in the world’

By ZEEV KLEIN Israel Hayom he policies of Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon have helped the Israeli economy thrive. His growing power base makes him a viable candidate for the position of prime minister in the future, the Bloomberg news agency commented earlier this month.

In an interview with Kahlon,“The Arabic-Speaker Who Might One Day Lead Israel,” Bloomberg lauded the Israeli economy’s robust performance in recent years and praised Kahlon for helping keep unemployment down and for stimulating growth.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued a report last week saying the Israeli economy is one of the strongest economies in the world today.

The interview said that Kahlon, 57, is one of a handful of individuals at the top of the list of potential successors to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I don’t dream; I’m realistic,” Kahlon told Bloomberg. “Being

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prime minister is difficult and carries a lot of responsibility. But I see myself as capable of doing any job.”

The interview noted that Kahlon, fluent in Arabic, could have an advantage in navigating the stalled IsraeliPalestinian peace process, and that he already has a productive rapport with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah.

Kahlon has often stressed that economic collaboration and finding ways to boost the Palestinian economy could pave the way to revive the peace process.

“It is our destiny to live here together.We need to leave the window open, even if it is only a crack. When the time is right for more political talks, a path for communication will have already been paved,” he told Bloomberg.

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ahlon, one of seven children of parents who came to Israel from Libya in 1949, frequently invokes his hum-

ble beginnings as the reason he entered politics.

He left Netanyahu’s Likud Party in 2012 to form his own party, Kulanu, which ran on a mostly economic-social platform, giving it a strong voter base in the periphery.

“I was one of Likud’s most popular lawmakers, and I could have stayed where I was comfortable,” Kahlon told Bloomberg.

“I had a choice: to stay and sell out my values, or take a chance and maintain them. I chose the latter.”

Praising Kahlon, Bloomberg wrote: “Kahlon rose to prominence as communications minister about eight years ago, when he crafted rules for mobile phone carriers that have helped cut consumers’ bills by 90%.”

It added that as finance minister, Kahlon “brings credibility and level-headedness” to one of the most challenging cabinet positions.

It also said that Kahlon has been involved in a number of clashes over attempts to undermine the Israeli judiciary. Last year, he “was the sole cabinet member to challenge Netanyahu in a fierce debate over creating a new public broadcaster — a plan the prime minister’s allies opposed because they said it would be packed with anti-government voic-

Moshe Kahlon, Israel’s finance minister. es.”

But the report was not without criticism, saying that Kahlon’s plan to rein in housing prices, which have skyrocketed in the past 15 years, has been far less successful than his mobile-phone reform.

“Discounts on land for develop-

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ers who promise to sell apartments at below-market prices have helped stabilize costs, but they’re still up sharply since Kahlon took office,” it said, adding that he has essentially failed to deliver on one of his party’s key campaign promises in the lead-up to the 2015 elections.

Israeli authority: Bitcoin is currency, not a securtiy

By YONA SCHNITZER TPS he Israeli Securities Authority has determined that cryptocurrencies when used as payment will be viewed as currencies such as dollars and euros, as opposed to investable securities such as stocks and bonds.

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The decision came after a committee was formed in August in order to determine the nature and standing of cryptocurrencies for tax purposes.

According to the decision, digital currencies which are used as forms

of payment, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum, will be viewed as foreign currencies, while various cryptocurrencies that have a centralized platform, as well as special features only available to users, such as STEEM and ETHOS, will be viewed

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as securities, and will be taxed as such.

That said, investors holding the former group of currencies for speculative purposes will be taxed as though they are holding securities.

“The question as to whether or not a cryptocurrency will be considered a security will be answered on a caseby-case basis while taking into account each case’s defining characteristics,” the report said.

“As a rule, cryptocurrencies which award users with special rights, similar to securities, such as share or bonds, will be considered a security, while cryptocurrencies that are obtained for the sole purpose of purchasing goods will not be con-

sidered securities, so long as the purpose of obtaining said currencies was not speculation,” the report continued.

The Israeli Bitcoin Assn. welcomed the decision made by the Securities Authority. “It’s apparent that thorough work was put into compiling the report, and we can see here elements that are crucial to the field.

“However,” they added,“it’s important to point out that the current report (by the securities authority) covers matters pertaining to existing legislation, but in the future, we will have to introduce new legislation which will properly establish the field of cryptocurrencies based on its unique characteristics.”

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The deal values Orbotech shares at $69, a premium of 15% on its closing price Friday, March 16.

Kobi and Judith Richter, the founders of stent manufacturer Medinol, will rake in some $180 million for their 5.4% share of Orbotech, while Richter’s brother Yochai holds a 2.1% stake in the company worth some $70 million.

The brothers were among the founders of Orbot, which later merged with Optrotech to form Orbotech.

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When government pays religious bodies Disaster and security aid are no longer controversial

By RON KAMPEAS JTA ASHINGTON — President George W. Bush’s first act as president, on Jan. 29, 2001, was to open an office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Church-state separations that had hindered such partnerships, he said in a statement, were “inherently unfair.”

Jewish groups, civil libertarians and Democrats immediately raised concerns, and the Bush administration soon dispatched the office’s then-director, John DiIulio, to a Jewish conference to make the office’s case and note that money would not directly assist churches and synagogues. Critics remained skeptical.

Fast forward 17 years: Congress passed a law last month that would allow federal disaster

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spend it on strictly secular programs, like child care or addiction recovery.

It was a political win-win.

“There was no political cost to be paid” by Obama in backing faithbased partnerships, said Marc Stern, the general counsel for the American Jewish Committee.

AJC opposed Bush’s office in 2001, but more recently lobbied to advance the disaster relief bill. Stern said Democrats were going to vote for Obama anyway, and Obama as the nominee had to tack to the center.

Additionally Obama, with his past as a community worker in a troubled Chicago neighborhood, had experienced the benefits of partnering with churches to alleviate strife.

“He disappointed the strict church-

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said William Daroff, currently the Washington director of the JFNA. (JFNA’s predecessor, United Jewish Communities, in 2001 also opposed the Bush faith-based initiative.)

of reaching out to people in the faith community.”

Meng noted that her bill included constitutional protections: Money could not go to “church pews and Bibles” but to secular services provided by a house of worship.

is an understanding that there is a need for a more balanced, more reasoned approach — one that looks to fairness and rejects discrimination against religious community organizations simply because they are religious.”

It’s not 1952

Judge not, lest ye be judged

Daroff said that much of the Jewish opposition to church-state partnerships derived from anxieties about majority privilege that have long since subsided.

“There was an era when Jews could not live in certain neighborhoods, Jewish doctors could not practice in certain hospitals,” he said.

“We’ve evolved as a country and we don’t need to be as fearful of government or of intrusion.”

Abba Cohen, who heads the Washington office of Agudah, the Orthodox interest group that advocated for nonprofit security grants and the FEMA grants, said hostility toward religion is abating.

“Society and the courts are rejecting absolutist policies of the past that too often evinced a hostility toward religion and religious institutions,” he said in an email. “There

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court has persisted since 1971, and it has left its imprint on church-state separations. Most recently, last year, the court ruled 7-2 that a church may receive government funds for secular purposes — in that case, repaving a playground.

Court rulings, Diament noted, tend to shape the overall debate by signaling to partisans what is winnable and what is not. He said he did not expect a fight on the FEMA law.

“To take an extreme position on that would be at odds with Supreme Court’s understanding of the constitution,” he said.

Democrats need religious voters.

Rep. Grace Meng, D-NY, the lead

The thinking on government aid for secular needs — such as shelter in times of disaster — has evolved relief to go straight to churches and synagogues.

President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan bill, ensuring that houses of worship and secular nonprofit organizations are treated equally when applying for disaster through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Hardly anyone blinked.

At least two Jewish groups unnerved by Bush’s actions welcomed the law, and the legislation included Democratic sponsors.

What happened? Interviews with a range of Jewish officials suggested a number of factors: Barack Obama, a Democrat, embraced the idea of partnering government with faithbased groups.

“Certainly from the Bush years and through the Obama years, it became a more consensus principle that it’s appropriate in certain concepts for government to partner with religious groups and even in providing religious groups funding,” said Nathan Diament, the Washington director of the OU, among the minority of Jewish organizations that welcomed Bush’s 2001 initiative. nce Obama had secured the nomination, in July, 2008, he pivoted to embracing Bush’s initiative, although Democrats had assumed that any Democratic president would scrap the Faith-Based office.

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Obama didn’t scrap Bush’s ‘faith-based’ one who used to teach constitutional law, I believe deeply in the separation of church and state, but I don’t believe this partnership will endanger that idea — so long as we follow a few basic principles,” Obama said in a speech in Zanesville, Ohio.

He outlined two principles the Bush office already observed: Do not use the money to proselytize, and

state separationists,” Diament recalled.

Obama once in office sweetened the deal for liberals, inviting them to join a 25-person advisory council (including three Jews) that tinkered for two years on recommendations that would protect the Faith-Based office from violating constitutional separations.

Under Trump, the office has been moribund, but he has aggressively embraced many of its principles. Just a month before the disaster aid bill had passed, he used his executive powers to remove the restrictions.

Democratic co-sponsor of the FEMA legislation, was brought up as a devout Christian and has a substantial Orthodox constituency in her Queens district. Those elements made the legislation a no-brainer, she said.

“As a representative of a diverse and multicultural neighborhood, people needed to know their government is there for them regardless of their faith,” she said. (Meng’s district was hard hit by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, right before she assumed office). “We in the Democratic Party need to do a better job

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It’s a short leap from security to disaster aid iament has led the charge for decades to direct more funding toward religious institutions. Activists like Diament have worked doggedly to codify the changes into permanent law in Congress — and they have picked their battles well.

In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the OU, Agudath Israel of America and the Jewish Federations of North America joined in advocating for nonprofit security grants, which reinforce protections for religious organizations. The program was launched under Bush in 2005.

More than 90% of the grants have gone to Jewish buildings.

“Assistance for security is different than assistance for some other things,” Diament said, explaining why the grants encountered little resistance. “It’s become a more pragmatic conversation than an ideological one.”

A key backer of the security grant program was Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., now retired, who had a sizable Orthodox Jewish constituency in Baltimore and the Washington suburbs.

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Algeria: End of Holocaust compensation 25,000 former Algerian Jews to receive $3,100 grant

By DEBRA NUSSBAUM COHEN JTA EW YORK — Nearly 80 years after being persecuted by the Nazi-allied Vichy French government, some 25,000 elderly Algerian Jews are being recognized for the first time as Holocaust survivors by the German government.

Algerian Jews had their French citizenship stripped in 1940 by the Vichy government, which then ruled the area. Nuremberg-like laws banned Jews from working as doctors, lawyers, teachers and in government. Children were kicked out of French schools.

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endured suffering that left families penniless and starving, and pariahs in their own country, the Conference on Material Claims Against Germany began taking their applications for recognition as survivors, making each eligible for a one-time “hardship grant” and additional services like food vouchers and in-home care.

“For the first time they’re being recognized as Nazi victims by the German government,” said Greg Schneider, executive vice president of the Conference on Material Claims Against Germany.

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many will make with a large group of Holocaust survivors, he added, since it was the only major population remaining without that recognition.

Each survivor approved will receive a hardship grant of 2,556 euros, the equivalent of approximately $3,100.

The euro figure is the equivalent of 5,000 Deutschmarks, a sum the Claims Conference negotiated with the German government in 1980.

The money will be distributed beginning in July. he youngest Algerian survivors, born in 1942, would today be 76 years old. Most, however, are in their 80s and 90s, Schneider said.

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for about five years to get this done, Schneider told JTA. Being recognized as victims of the Holocaust now entitles survivors to social services like home care, food and transportation to doctor appointments in local communities funded through the Claims Conference. he vast majority of people affected — about 20,000 — now live in France.

The Claims Conference opened a website where survivors can make an appointment to go to a help center.The first center opened in Paris last February.

Located across the street from the US Embassy, just a block from the Seine in the 8th Arrondissement, the center in the French capital

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This completes Germany’s $93 billion in compensation (1953-2016) As important as the money is, even more valuable is acknowledgment of their suffering, he told JTA in an interview from Paris, where he was getting the Help Center set up.

“They weren’t murdered,” Schneider said,“but there were lots of deprivations” under the anti-Semitic Vichy laws.

“There weren’t extermination camps in Algeria, but a person’s childhood was turned upside down because of this persecution targeting Jews.

“It becomes a huge part of a person’s identity. The experience during the war for so many people defines them, is the seminal experience of their lives.All these decades it’s never been acknowledged.”

Israel had earlier recognized Algerian Jews as Holocaust survivors. But the German government did not, and not being acknowledged as survivors has “undermined their core sense of self, especially when they see all the other groups getting recognized,” Schneider said.

“It’s a psychological trauma. The validation and acknowledgment, for so many people that’s what this will stand for.”

The Claims Conference has negotiated with the German government

will have a staff of 24 to assist the Paris area’s 12,000 Algerian survivors in assembling the documentation they need to establish that they lived there between 1940 and 1942.

Satellite centers to serve another 8,000 Jews will soon open in Marseille, Lyon and other French cities in the next few weeks.

The Paris center will be open through April.After that, people will be able to apply by downloading a form from the website and mailing it in.

Some 4,000 surviving Algerian Jews live in Israel. Since the Israeli government keeps a registry of survivors, their addresses were available to the Claims Conference. Letters to them were mailed out.

The rest of the survivors live in Francophone Canada, mostly around Montreal, according to the Claims Conference. Eventually they, too, will get assistance in applying for the new German recognition. he German government has spent nearly 75 billion euros, about $93 billion, on compensation and restitution to Holocaust survivors between 1953 and 2016, the most recent year for which there is a record, according to figures provided by Martin Chaud-

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huri, a spokesman for the German Finance Ministry.

Chaudhuri confirmed the compensation settlement for Algerian Jews.

“The JCC [Jewish Claims Conference] will decide about the individual cases, considering the guidelines which were decided upon together between the JCC and the German Federal Ministry of Finance.”

Today almost no Jews remain in Algeria — fewer than 50, according to the Jewish Virtual Library.

But in 1940 it was a different story. A Vichy government census showed about 118,000 Jews there, according to Wesley Fisher, the Claims Conference’s director of research.

They had been citizens of France since 1870. It was a community full of professionals and artists and writers.

The Algerian Jewish community was the most assimilated of any in a Muslim country, said Haim Saadoun, a professor at Israel’s Open University and director of the Documentation Center of North African Jewry During WWII. Though they were generally less religious than Jews in neighboring Morocco and Tunisia, there were still hundreds of synagogues in hundreds of cities, towns and villages.

Anti-Semitism had been a strong force in Algeria since the late 19th century. It was far worse even than in France during the Dreyfus Affair, said Saadoun.

Despite that, Jewish life was vibrant. Jews, he said in an interview, “were part of all the political life, the artistic life, in music, they were very involved in French and in Muslim society.The first local novels written in French were by Jews.”

Saadoun said over one-third of doctors in Algeria were Jewish, as were nearly one-quarter of the lawyers. ichy anti-Jewish laws, issued first in early October, 1940, stripped Jews of French citizenship and forbade them from working in military, press, civil service, industrial and commercial jobs.

They were then prohibited from working in education, law and medicine.

It was deeply traumatic, said Saadoun. The community did not know then that it would last just two years. Jews opened their own schools in Algiers, Oran and Constantine: 70 elementary schools and five secondary schools, he said, which were run by Jewish administrators but regulated by the Vichy government.

It did not permit the Jewish community to open its own university.

The Claims Conference has tried to keep this story under wraps until now, in part to make sure a system was in place to pay claimants directly without them having to pay attorney’s fees.

“On a communal level, we are unfortunately reaching the time when the stories of the Shoah pass from memory to history,” Schneider told JTA. “Germany recognizing the persecution is very important for the historical record. It helps combat Holocaust denial. Fifty years from now, 100 years from now, it will be much harder to refute.

“In the 1930s and ‘40s, Jews were abandoned by their towns, their friends, society and even the Jewish communities” in other places, he said. “We will never do that again.

“Even though it’s 70 years later, we’re still fighting. I wish it had been sooner.”

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Algeria: Stories from last survivor group Vichy Nazi regime stripped Algerian Jews of rights

By DEBRA NUSSBAUM COHEN JTA ERLIN — Andre Nathan was one of the very first survivors to apply for a hardship grant following Germany’s recent decision to compensate Jews who suffered persecution in the French colony of Algeria

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ern France.

In the years after Algeria declared independence from France in 1961 and extended citizenship only to Muslims, most of the country’s Jews left for France or Israel.

In 1962 his father was flown to

Stories: The Nathan family, the Gal family, both of Oran, Algeria during WW II. Now 77, Nathan arrived in February at the Paris office opened by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany to take applications.

Nathan was born in 1941, a year after the Vichy government revoked the French citizenship of Algerian Jews. The Nazi-allied government imposed laws banning Jews from working as doctors, lawyers, civil servants and journalists, and expelling them from schools.

As many as 25,000 now elderly Jews who suffered under Vichy’s anti-Semitic laws between 1940 and 1942 are eligible for a one-time hardship grant and additional services like food vouchers and in-home care.

Each survivor approved will receive 2,556 euros, the equivalent of approximately $3,100, or 5,000 Deutschmarks, a sum the Claims Conference negotiated with the German government in 1980. The money will be distributed beginning in July.

Nathan’s family lived in Algeria’s second-largest city, the port city of Oran, which had a substantial Jewish community. His father was a postal worker and his mother worked in an army equipment office.

Both lost their jobs as a result of the Vichy decrees, he told a Claims Conference worker who translated his answers from French into English in response to JTA’s questions.

France because of the lingering effect of his wartime injuries. Nathan said his mother and six siblings “had to flee by boat as Algeria declared independence.” He served in the French army.

“My father always taught me to be proud of my country,” Nathan said. “He told me ‘you must serve France’ . . . in his view I had to do it.” aniel Gal’s family left Oran in the late 1950s for Israel, eager to distance themselves from the country of his birth. In an interview from his home in Jerusalem, Gal told JTA “there is no such thing as Algerian Jews. There are Jews from Algeria, but they were at that time French.”

Gal, whose family name then was Drai, was the eldest of three siblings and in his first year of school when he was expelled for being Jewish.

His father was a winemaker at a local vineyard owned by a wealthy Jew, and lost his job when the vineyard, along with other Jewishowned property, was expropriated by the Vichy government. His mother began cooking and cleaning for a non-Jewish fishing family in the port city, Gal recalled.

His father scrounged up whatever odd jobs he could without a work permit. Christian refugees in

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Under the Nazis, Jews lost their jobs, kids were expelled from school His older sister, who was school age, was expelled.

Life before then was good for Jewish families in Oran, he recalled. His family lived near the heart of the city’s Jewish community, on the Rue de la Revolution.

“We celebrated holidays and life with other groups was generally harmonious, with the exception of anti-Semitic remarks from the Spanish community,” Nathan said. “I played the violin and my teacher was in the Spanish neighborhood, so getting there and back was sometimes difficult.”

His father had served in the French army and was wounded during WW I. For his father especially, the anti-Semitic laws “must have been awful as there was nothing he was more proud of than his French nationality,” Nathan said.

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ut his parents never spoke of their trauma. Nathan left in 1959 to study in Grenoble, a city in southeast-

Oran who had fled Franco’s Spain would share their food with the Gal family. Jewish doctors forced from their jobs began helping Jews in need of medical care. Teachers set up Jewish schools, which Gal began attending.

“Always in Algeria you had solidarity, especially among Jews,” he said, “and we never starved.”

His family left Algeria for Israel as soon as Gal finished high school, first living on a kibbutz. Gal met his wife on the last day of his Hebrewlanguage course and soon went to work for the Foreign Ministry, where he stayed for 40 years as a career diplomat.

Gal and his wife raised their children all over the world as he served as Israel’s consul general in Milan and in Montreal, and Israel’s ambassador to Costa Rica and Singapore.

Today Gal is 81, a father of three and grandfather of three — all his children live nearby and they spend every Friday night together — and

Andre Nathan, who was born the same year that the Nazi-allied Vichy government revoked the French citizenship of Algerian Jews, recalls taking this picture of his parents and siblings outside the Oran synagogue in the 1950s.

Nathan publishes a blog.

Nathan married in 1970 in France, where he stayed, and he and his wife had three children. He worked as the chief financial officer of several large companies, including HP and Massay Ferguson, he said.

The German decision last week to recognize the suffering of Algeria’s Jews took him by surprise.

“I did not expect this recognition of what my parents endured,” Nathan said.

If he is approved and receives the German government’s hardship grant, Nathan said he may use the money to travel to Israel. “I think it would be a good thing” to do.

Gal heard about the settlement a few days ago from a lawyer friend and said he will fill out the application as soon as it arrives in the mail. He said he expects to give the money, if he is approved, to charity.

The hardship grant, Gal said, means “we will have more money for poor Jews.”

“It’s not a huge amount of money. Symbolically we also deserve to be recognized as part of the Jewish people who suffered from the Shoah,” Gal told JTA. “I had felt a kind of discrimination” until now, he said, adding that “Jews from Morocco and Greece were recognized, why not us?”

At the Passover seder “we say that each Jew has to think of himself as part of the Exodus from Egypt. As

Jews we were also sitting in part of the Shoah,” Gal said.

With this recognition, “I feel that some justice was done.”

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Israeli-Palestinian agricultural joint ventures Business cooperation brings Israelis, Palestinians together

By ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN JTA n the first day of a pilot program pairing Israeli and Palestinian farmers interested in joint agricultural ventures, each population sat warily on opposite sides of the room.

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Biggest challenge: ‘Overcoming notions we have of the other’ of the trailblazing training program held at the Galilee International Management Institute (GIMI) on Kibbutz Mizra, significant social and linguistic barriers stood in their way.

“The biggest challenge was to overcome the notions we have of the ‘the other,’” says Silvana Nahmad, director of European and Mediterranean Affairs at GIMI. The program was funded by the European Union and developed in cooperation with a foundation that refuses to be identified.

To be considered for the program, applicants had to have at least a bachelor’s degree in agriculture or a related field, such as water management, and a willingness to work together over a period of two years to launch businesses growing and exporting olives or dates, two of Israel’s largest crops.

Nahmad chose 10 Israeli participants and the partnering foundation chose 15 Palestinian participants, mostly between the ages of 23 and 50.

Their initial seminars at GIMI last November focused on both the agricultural and business aspects of the future joint ventures.

Over the course of three five- to six-day learning modules at GIMI,

“the participants had a lot of opportunities to speak to one another.

They ate together in the kibbutz dining room and they went out to eat in Haifa and Acre together,” Nahmad tells Israel21c.

“Only some of the Palestinians were able to speak English or Hebrew, and they helped the others. At the end of the three seminars we already had a few ideas for projects they can do together.”

Every Palestinian and Israeli submitting an approved joint business plan will receive a seed grant of 20,000 euros from the EU. During the two years of the project’s duration, the participants also will receive additional funding and professional mentoring.

‘I hope we can work it out’ zvi Keren, 50, of Rehovot, applied to the program after returning from two years in Angola running an egg farm supplying the local military.

Keren was a biology teacher, ran a chicken farm in Israel, and developed bio-hydroponic growing systems using waste from chicken

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Selected business plans to receive 20,000 euros and fish farms.

He also has experience working with medicinal plants and permaculture.

“I saw this program as an opportunity to do something meaningful,” Keren says.

While GIMI personnel strove to avoid contentious topics, Keren says they inevitably surfaced and emotions sometimes flared.

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GIMI took the joint agri-business students on a study tour to an olive press in the Galilee.

“You had two groups in the middle of a political and cultural conflict and this was an elephant in the room,” he says.

Nevertheless, three Palestinian participants showed an interest in working with Keren. One woman who makes ceramic pots was intrigued by his plan for opening a hydroponic nursery that would sell products made in the Palestinian Authority territories. However, to move forward on this plan they will need a mentor to help them connect and communicate.

Another Palestinian participant, who grows greenhouse tomatoes, was interested in learning more about Keren’s organic water technologies; and another man who works in an agricultural supply company in Nablus promised to visit Keren in Rehovot the next time he goes to the nearby port of Ashdod

to pick up shipments.

“I’m not sure how we can cooperate but I do hope we succeed,” says Keren.

“I believe that it’s an important program and like every start it comes with challenges.”

‘They believe in cooperation’ IMI President Joseph (Yossie) Shevel acknowledges that joint initiatives like this are fraught with stumbling blocks and setbacks.

Just getting the training program off the ground was not a given.

“It’s never the right time and it’s always the right time” to launch such a program, he says.

“It’s not easy. There is a language barrier and we have to use interpreters. We will probably add a few workshops on conflict resolu-

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tion.

“But we feel this is our vision, our mission. We see ourselves as one of the only bridges between these populations and we never give up.”

Years of experience lie behind that statement. Last summer alone, GIMI gave a training course to Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli olive-oil producers, taught farmers from Palestinian Authority territories to grow avocados for export, and began planning a tele-course for Gazan computer engineers expected to be in high demand at Israeli companies as offshore contractors.

Cautiously optimistic, Shevel hopes at least three solid businesses will result from the two-year program.

All the participants, Shevel emphasized, “are very anxious to work together and develop relationships. They believe in cooperation.”

Rednik is Hadassah’s new chief development officer oshua W. Rednik, CFP, has been named chief development officer for Hadassah, announced Janice Weinman, Hadassah executive director andCEO. Rednik will supervise the planning, execution and implementation of all of Hadassah’s fundraising initiatives and campaigns in support of its programs and advocacy efforts in the US and the Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO), including its two hospitals in Jerusalem.

Rednik, who brings to Hadassah more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, managing organizations and developing and executing multi-million-dollar fundraising campaigns, will spearhead Hadassah’s recently-announced $91.2 million capital campaign which will renovate and expand HMO’s round building at the Ein Kerem campus in Jerusalem.

“Rednik’s successful record as president and CEO of the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation and

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Joshua W. Rednik his contacts in the Jewish community will be important assets for Hadassah’s fundraising strategies.”

During Rednik’s tenure as at diabetes foundation, 2014-2018, he and his team raised over $60 million to cure type 1 diabetes.

Rednik said,“Hadassah has a long and venerable history of support and

service to the land and people of Israel and a distinguished record of achievement in the US in advocacy for issues important to women.

I am eager to contribute my fundraising skills on behalf of this outstanding organization.”

Rednik was executive director of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater MetroWest in Whippany, NJ, 2008-2013. During his tenure, Rednik and his team created and implemented a $100 million endowment campaign, exceeding its original goal ahead of schedule.

Rednik has also held senior leadership roles within the major gifts and planning giving and endowment divisions of UJA-Federation of New York and the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington.

Rednik is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in Psychology and received his MSS in social service at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA. He resides in South Orange, NJ, with his wife and two children.

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West Coast Judaism — ‘less engaged’ Bay Area — fourth-largest Jewish community in the US

By BEN SALES JTA AN FRANCISCO — Andrew Kleinerman says he and his wife Amy share a “West Coast brand of Judaism.”

The Kleinermans live in San Francisco, attend services about once a month and have traveled to Israel.

Andrew is Jewish, Amy is not. Amy,

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with high affluent and economically needy.”

The study was conducted in 2017 between June and November with about 3,500 respondents.

It covers San Francisco and its surrounding counties, which include the Oakland area, the East Bay and

Only half attend a Passover seder; only one-third at High Holiday services who is Chinese-American, is thinking about converting to Judaism.

One of the congregations where they’ve felt most welcome is The Kitchen, a Jewish group that calls itself a “religious startup.”

Increasingly, families like the Kleinermans are the face of the Jewish community in the Bay Area, the fourth largest in the country.

According to a major new study, a third of Bay Area Jews are between the ages of 18 to 34.

The rate of interfaith marriage among the group is nearly twothirds, and nearly 40% of these Northern California Jewish millennials live in a household with a person of color.

The study, funded by the Bay Area’s Jewish federation and published last month, shows a community that is diverse, transient, educated, relatively unengaged with traditional institutions and economically divided.

The Jewish population of 350,000 — out of a total area population of some eight million — is the country’s fourth-largest Jewish community behind the New York area, southeast Florida and metropolitan Los Angeles.

Compared to the rest of American Jews, Bay Area Jews are less engaged Jewishly.

Only half attend a Passover seder, as opposed to three-quarters of Jews nationally per the 2013 Pew Research Center’s study on Jewish Americans.

Just over a third attend High Holiday services, compared to about 60% of American Jews, and a lower percentage say they are “very emotionally attached to Israel.”

Three percent of Bay Area Jews are Orthodox, 16% are Conservative or Reconstructionist, 37% are Reform and 41% don’t belong to a denomi-

the Silicon Valley area to the south.

It has a margin of error of 5.2%.

A quarter of Bay Area Jews overall live with someone who isn’t white, and one in 10 with someone who is LGBT. In total, more than a third of couples are intermarried.

Diane Tobin, the director of Be’chol Lashon, a San Francisco-based group that advocates for Jews of color, said that sensitivity work still needs to be done within the local

any of the results are like American Jewry, only more so,” said Steven M. Cohen, a Jewish sociologist who was a principal investigator for the study.

“More young adults, more liberals, more non-married, more intermarried, more disengaged with Israel, more socioeconomically diverse, more social class divisions,

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programming [we do], we want to be welcoming, we want to be inclusive.”

Cohen noted that the survey shows young Jews in the area are more engaged than their elders in certain ways. Young Jews do tend to have fewer Jewish friends, are less attached to Israel and don’t place as much importance on being Jewish as their elders.

Danny Grossman “It counters the narrative that people are seeking Jewish engagement, but they’re not finding it because we don’t know how to welcome them,” Cohen said.

“There are chickens and eggs floating around here: People who are engaged in being Jewish seek out situations where they connect with other Jews. People who connect with other Jews have stronger engage-

One-quarter of Bay Area Jews live with a non-Caucasian Jewish community.

Tobin wrote JTA in an email: “Until we prioritize diversity and inclusion in our own community, we cannot be effective partners in the national and global struggle for racial justice.”

Kim Carter Martinez, who is Jewish and African-American, told JTA that she frequently feels discriminated against in Bay Area Jewish spaces. She recently left her Conservative synagogue after a decade because she felt unwelcome there.

“I experience a lot of racism in the Jewish community,” she said.“In the Bay Area it often manifests itself in people questioning how I can possibly be Jewish, in many different kinds of ways. I’ve been asked how I’m Jewish, what’s my background.

At the synagogue I used to go to, I was asked if I was there to do the catering. It’s really pervasive.”

Amy Kleinerman also said that even though she feels welcome overall in the Jewish community, being an Asian-American gives her pause when she thinks about converting.

“Even if I decide to convert, am I going to decide that I fit in?” she

Median income for many: $115,000, but 20% just make ends meet nation. Nationwide, the corresponding numbers are 10% Orthodox, 18% Conservative, 35% Reform and 30% of no denomination.

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said. “Because every single marker says ‘you are different, you look different.’” he CEO of San Francisco’s Jewish Community Federation, Danny Grossman, said he is proud of the spectrum of identities in the community, and that he takes intermarriage and racial diversity as givens when crafting Jewish programs.

“We know that about our community; we’re a post-inter-group community,” he told JTA. “We sort of assume that any institution, any

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But Jews aged 18 to 34 attend services and Shabbat meals more than Jews older than 50, and more of them attend Jewish cultural events.

The survey also found that, across demographics, few Jews feel unwelcome in Jewish spaces.

ment.”

The survey also did not find significant opposition to Israel among Jews in the area, despite what the study’s architects called the area’s left-wing reputation. Forty percent of Jews overall have been to Israel,

and most of the respondents said they are attached to the country.

A similar percentage said they sympathized with Israel over the Palestinians, and half sympathized with both sides or are not sure. Only 8% sympathized more with the Palestinians.

“We need to at least divide the Jewish people regarding Israel into three main categories: Israel engaged, Israel disengaged and Israel opposed,” Cohen said. early half of Jewish adults in the area have a graduate degree. The median income of Jewish households is $115,000, which tracks with overall figures in San Francisco, but 20% of Jews said they were just making ends meet.

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‘Blended learning’ also means lower tuition Computers customize lessons for small-group instruction

By E.J. KESSLER JTA EW ROCHELLE, NY — In a third-grade classroom at Westchester Torah Academy, 23 students sit in a bright, overheated classroom on a cold, rainy day engaged in a variety of activities.

Along one wall, a bunch of eightyear-olds wearing headphones prac-

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adaptive to the needs of the child, so that the child is presented with materials that are appropriately challenging,” said Nellie Harris, WTA’s early childhood director.

Housed in a Reform temple in this leafy New York suburb, the academy opened just five years ago as one of several new Jewish day schools

‘All programs are interactive and adaptive to the needs of the child’ tice math problems on laptop computers. Nearby, a small group sitting at a table works quietly on a teacher-led project related to an upcoming holiday. At another “center,” a few girls read a fiction book together and answer questions about the story to write a book review.

After 20 minutes, a tone sounds and each group gets up and rotates to a different center. A teacher flits between them, helping students and answering questions.

Later, when the school day is over, the teacher will have a chance to monitor each student’s progress by logging into the adaptive computer programs they use for math, reading and other subjects and checking their performance.

Welcome to the “blended learning” classroom.

“All programs are interactive and

embracing a new model of instruction that uses computer technology to customize student lessons and blends that with small-group teacher instruction.

Champions of the approach tout blended learning’s effectiveness for pinpointing each student’s strengths and weaknesses through computer diagnostics, and delivering them tailor-made lessons based on their skill level. oosters also hail cost efficiencies that they say enable schools to keep down tuition because the data obviates the need to take children out of class to expensive “resource rooms” for enrichment or remediation.

At Westchester Torah Academy, an Orthodox school of 148 students from preschool to fifth grade, tuition

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is below $11,000 — about 50% less than at nearby Jewish day schools.

“Day schools could be at the forefront of the revolution of using technology as a tool for personalized instruction,” said Paul Bernstein, CEO of Prizmah, which promotes educational excellence and financial vitality among Jewish day schools.

“As the conversation shifts from the technology itself to how it can help every child advance, we see growing potential and exciting experiments across our schools and in the wider educational realm.”

Along with WTA, three other Jewish day schools nationwide are using an all-blended model: Yeshivat He’Atid in New Jersey, the Harkham-GAON Academy in Los Angeles and Bader Hillel High School in Milwaukee.

But scores of traditional Jewish day schools are also using some degree of blended learning programs, including the Denver Academy of Torah; the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach on Long Island; the Moriah School in Englewood, NJ; the Fuchs Mizrachi School in Beachwood, Ohio; and Tarbut V’Torah Community Day School in Irvine, Calif.

Jeff Siegel, who teaches third and fourth grade at WTA, said he worried at first that online learning might mean too much screen time.

But experience has allayed those concerns. Siegel’s students spend about an hour each day in front of the computer in three 20-minute increments — far less than the screen time of the average American kid at home.

Having worked for three decades in public schools, Siegel said the blended approach allows him to devote his attention to personalized teaching because the computer work takes care of the diagnostics.

“It’s less testing, more teaching,” he said.

Ellen Poe, who taught at public schools in Florida before joining WTA and now teaches kindergarten, said, “I like to get the children in a small group. They need so much one on one, and I’m able to do that.”

In grades K-4,WTA uses an online math and reading program called iReady, game-based instructional software called ST Math, and a webbased program for Hebrew and Jewish heritage called iTaLAM. hen WTA’s Israeli-born principal, Deganit Ronen, who also teaches fifth grade, assigns lessons on the weekly Torah portion, the computerized lesson reflects the Hebrew reading comprehension of each child in the questions it has them tackle.The same goes for math.

“You get a report which tells you which level and what should be the next step,” Ronen said.“The magic of teaching this way is the data helps you design your next day and week.”

Older children at WTA use blended learning for problem-based learning in which they present to the class projects that demonstrate essential skills and knowledge.

On one recent day, fifth graders doing an American history lesson were going over speeches they had written from a Native American perspective on how they felt about the colonists.

They were using the Summit Learning Platform for English and Social Studies and Ulpan-Or for Hebrew and Judaics.

Leslie Siskin, a NYU sociologist who has studied blended learning at Jewish day schools for the Avi Chai Foundation — it provides financial support to the day schools experimenting with the approach — said Jewish schools have adapted well to

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the new method because they lack the big bureaucracies and district structures that impede change at traditional public schools.

Even established day schools integrating blended learning more cautiously into their curriculums are moving faster than public and independent private schools, she noted.

The 650-student Moriah School in New Jersey is one traditional Jewish day school where blended learning is in heavy use.

When it was introduced five years ago, some teachers found the approach “a significant transition that was challenging and difficult,” and the school lost faculty because of it, head of school Rabbi Daniel Alter recalled.

Those who stayed, however, “are very supportive,” he said, “because in many ways this method speaks directly to the innate desire of every teacher that every student is engaged and thriving.”

The bottom line, Alter said, is that blended learning helps students both with learning and self-esteem. ichal Paley, mother of four students from preK to fifth grade at WTA, said she has seen the implementation of blended learning at the school evolve over the years as teachers come with different backgrounds and approaches.

“My kids love it,” Paley said.

“The children are in a warm and loving environment where technology and teachers complement each other. It gives teachers an ability to do more for each child.

“The school is proactively evaluating the tools they are using. There is constant evaluation, supervision and review. I feel like we are getting an excellent, high-end education at a good price.”

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The White City’s cost of living skyrocketed from the 34th most expen-

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sive city on earth, a distinction it held just five years ago.

Singapore was dubbed the world’s priciest city, followed by Paris, Zurich, Hong Kong and Oslo.

Tel Aviv is the most expensive city in the Middle East.

Asia was home to four of the 10

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most expensive cities in the ranking, with New York and Los Angeles falling to 13th and 14th respectively, due in part to the weakening of the US dollar.

The Israeli shekel’s appreciation has driven up consumer costs across the board, according to the 2018 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey published on A view of the Tel Aviv skyline.

Thursday.

Car ownership costs 79% more ing 11th in the latest world happithan New York prices, though the ness index.

“The World Happiness Report average Israeli income is less than 2018,” compiled by the UN Sushalf the American average.

An average loaf of bread which tainable Development Solutions Netcost $2.98 ten years ago cost $4.44 work, ranked 156 nations based on factors including GDP, social supfive years ago and $5.10 today. port structures, healthy lifestyles, eanwhile, Israel just social freedom, generosity and the missed out on a place in absence of corruption.

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In the latest list, Finland took the No. 1 spot, followed by Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden and Australia.

The US dropped four places in the latest index, falling to No. 18, just ahead of the United Kingdom (No. 19).

Israel’s neighbors Lebanon and Jordan ranked 88th and 90th respectively.

The Palestinians came in at No. 104, Iran No. 106 and Egypt No. 122.

The least happy nation, according to the index, is Burundi in East Africa.

The index also looked at the happiness of immigrants in 117 of the 156 countries on the list, and found that the level of happiness among immigrant populations correlated with the level of happiness in their new countries.

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Impact investment is a new charity option The idea is to fund causes and profit simultaneously

By BEN SALES JTA EW YORK — For all of its modern history, the American Jewish community has pursued most of its goals through philanthropy — funding programs and institutions through donations and charitable giving that relies heavily on the generosity of wealthy people.

But what if the community could achieve those same goals and also make money?

A growing number of activists are

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2012.

“They’re really powerful arenas, and we have so many social and environmental challenges,” she said.

“If we can use market solutions to fill in that gap, we’re in a better position.” ammerman is among a few people pushing for a fundamental shift in how the Jewish community thinks about funding and maintaining ven-

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The question is, whose Jewish values define the right investments? promoting a Jewish take on impact investing, which means investing in businesses that also promote a social good.

Advocates say investments like these — in anything from a solar energy company to a business employing disadvantaged Israelis — are more sustainable and can go further than just donating to charity.

“Business, finance, investments and economics are such powerful forces in the world, and they can be channeled for good or for evil,” said Julie Hammerman, a former Wall Street analyst who founded the JLens Investor Network, which promotes Jewish impact investing, in

tures that advance Jewish values.

They all stress that impact investing is meant to complement philanthropy, not replace it.

But they say that socially conscious investments can achieve two goals: applying Jewish values to how people spend their money, and promoting Judaism through programs that make money rather than lose it.

“How do we invest in companies that are actively thinking about their environmental footprint, how they treat their employees, what their government structures are?” asked Avi Deutsch, who with Vanessa Bartram co-founded Lavan, an organization that promotes impact

Julie Hammerman, who founded the JLens Investor Network, at the group’s 2017 conference on impact investing.

JLens investing within the Jewish community.

“Financial decisions are moral decisions, and they have an impact on our world, on our society, on our planet.”

Religious impact investing, says Hammerman, first became popular among Christians who would avoid so-called “sin stocks,” or companies involved in gambling, alcohol, tobacco, pornography or firearms.

Activists who push firms to divest from Israel, she adds, also are practicing a form of impact investing — though one many Jews oppose.

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Lavan’s cohort of 25 fellows is examining the intersection between impact investing and Judaism.

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ewish impact investing advocates want Jewish charities — like local federations or family foundations — to consider putting some of their endowments in impact investing rather than traditional investments, which aim to maximize profits.

A December conference in New York on that topic, run by JLens, drew representatives from 84 organizations.

But while impact investing has spread in the Jewish community, Hammerman says there’s a lot more work to be done. In addition to educating Jews about impact investing and helping foundations with investment strategies, JLens engages in shareholder advocacy campaigns to encourage public companies to behave more ethically.

“Business and investment capital has been channeled now for all sorts of campaigns and pursuits and goals, and the Jewish community has been absent,” Hammerman said.

“As there is a recognition of the power of this arena and our lack of participation, our lack of leadership, there has been an understanding that, wait a second, we should be

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New York’s UJA-Federation runs loan-guarantee funds in Israel for disadvantaged populations, among other initiatives.

San Francisco’s Jewish Community Federation is exploring starting a fund that would offer low-interest loans to capital campaigns at Jewish institutions.

“Impact investment doesn’t replace giving money,” said Sue Reinhold, the San Francisco federation’s managing director for philanthropy. “There’s all this money already put aside for philanthropy, and while it’s being stored, how can you put it to good use?”

There are a range of ways to make impact investments. Foundations and people can invest in groups of public companies that abide by their values.

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Palestinian backs $30 million shul in Berlin

Raed Saleh, left, a Berlin senator whose Palestinian family emigrated to Berlin when he was five, and the Berlin Jewish Community’s president, Gideon Joffe, hold an architect’s rendering of a planned reconstruction of the Fraenkelufer Synagogue.

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By TOBY AXELROD JTA ERLIN — Raed Saleh, a Palestinian born in the West Bank, wants to rebuild a synagogue in the German capital. Now the dream of this Berlin politician is a bit closer to reality.

Standing in front of the Fraenkelufer Synagogue on a chilly March morning, the senator and leader of the Social Democratic Party here announced plans for the reconstruction of a building that was largely destroyed in the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938.

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Rebuilding a shul destroyed in Kristallnacht Saleh’s goal, endorsed by Berlin Jewish Community President Gideon Joffe, is to make a statement against growing anti-Semitism in the capital city — and against discrimination targeting Muslims, too.

“If you say you want to support Jewish life in Germany and Berlin and Europe, and you don’t just want to pay lip service, then you have to carry it out concretely,” said Saleh, 40, who immigrated to Germany with his family when he was five.

He first proposed the project in November in a column in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. His thinking: “He who builds castles can also rebuild synagogues.”

So Saleh campaigned for and won support from the Berlin Senate. The project is still a vision, but no longer

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It’s an idea that would have stunned Joffe 12 years ago, when he was first elected president of the Jewish community.

“I would never have thought that a Berliner of Palestinian background would help the Jewish community,” Joffe said, standing beside Saleh, who was born in a village

orphanage on Auguststrasse, converting it into what would be Germany’s first Jewish trade school.

There already is a Jewish high school in Berlin, but the new school would cater to students who are not necessarily moving on to college.

Noting that many Jewish kids have transferred to Jewish schools because of anti-Semitism, Joffe said

see it become a place for exchange between people, a place where they can get to know Judaism.” raenkelufer, which sits on the banks of one of Berlin’s many canals, is located in a multiethnic neighborhood with many Arab residents, a colorful market and shops with Arabic signs.

For Saleh, that makes it the perfect location for such a project,“especially in a time of increased anti-Semitism, also coming from migrants; especially given that there increasingly are schools where teachers complain that they are overwhelmed with a situation that they

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‘I would never have thought that a Berliner of Palestinian background would help the Jewish community’ near Nablus. “I find it to be a fantastic story that allows us to look with hope into the future.”

Also announced this month was a plan to renovate a former Jewish

he hoped the new facility would open in the next two years.

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His idea, still in the early stages, is to build a structure resembling the classical 1916 synagogue by architect Alexander Beer. But rather than erase the recent past, the reconstruction would emphasize the violent rupture of the Holocaust and represent hope for the future.

Saleh said the project is likely to take several years to realize and would cost nearly $30 million.

The senator pledged to secure state and federal funding, as well as raise funds from German industry and private donors — including his own young sons. He said they each pledged 20 euro, about $25, from their own savings.

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An exterior view of the surviving adjunct building of the former Fraenkelufer Synagogue in Berlin, March 15, 2018.

is not a new phenomenon in Germany. Since the 1990s, particularly with the influx of some 200,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union, big cities and small towns have taken on projects to build new Jewish houses of worship or rededicate old ones that had been used as storehouses or even barns over the years.

The projects were often intended as proud symbols of a new Germany.

But aside from some in larger cities, like Munich and Dresden, few became hubs for growing, active Jewish communities. More often they were used as museums and interfaith meeting centers. efore WW II, Berlin had some 175,000 Jews and numerous synagogues. The original Fraenkelufer Synagogue could house up to 2,000 worshippers. A few years after it was destroyed in the 1938 pogrom, the architect Beer was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where he was murdered in 1944.

Today, the traditional congregation is small but growing thanks to an energetic group of younger Jews, including native Germans along with those born in Israel, the US and elsewhere.

One of more than a dozen active congregations in Berlin, its members meet in Beer’s small former youth synagogue, which has a balcony for holiday overflow. Men and women sit separately, though without a mechitzah, or divider. There are regular Friday night meals and visiting Jewish educators.

The new building would not be used for prayer services but rather for classrooms and other gatherings, including interfaith events.

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It is among several projects in Berlin meant to bring together Jews, Muslims and Christians against the backdrop of increased xenophobia and populism. Conservative Rabbi Gesa Ederberg is joining with colleagues to start a multi-faith kindergarten.

Fewer than 10,000 Jews belong to the official community.

Recent statistics show an increase in anti-Semitic crimes in Berlin, with 288 reported incidents last year compared to 197 in 2016.

Though there is no silver bullet for combating anti-Semitism, inter-

The 1916 synagogue was designed by Alexander Beer, who was murdered by the Nazis in 1944 The “House of One” — a concept stuck in the planning stage — would be a place of shared worship.

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est estimates are that there are some 30,000 Jews in Berlin, a city with a population of about 3.5 million.

faith meetings are an important plus, said Jonathan Marcus, a gabbai, or sexton, at the Fraenkelufer congregation and one of several volunteers who explain Jewish traditions to visitors.

He recalled a group of visiting Arab teenagers who — surprised by

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the similarities between the two faiths — asked, “Why are we always fighting with each other?’”

“I said, ‘Probably because we normally look only at our differences, and not at what we have in common.’”

Marcus, who became a Bar Mitzvah here, also had the chance to welcome Saleh one Friday night and explain Jewish tradition to him.

On March 15, Saleh told reporters that he had “fallen a little bit in love with this community.”

When fellow Muslims question his commitment to his own community, he tells them that he “would not be a good Muslim if I did not take a stand; a Christian would not be a good Christian if he would stand by while refugee homes burn; and a Jew would not be a good Jew if he stands by when someone tears the headscarf off a woman.”

“I am convinced,” Saleh added,

“that one can only combat hate and prejudice with an open door, and this will be a place of open doors.”

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Private schools seek increase in funding ‘$10 billion a year, unspent’

By ELIZABETH KRATZ Jewish News Syndicate EW YORK — Hundreds of Jewish day-school students from all over New York streamed into the legislative chambers on March 13 in Albany, NY, to advocate for increased education funding for private schools at the state level.

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Students, Orthodox Union, lobbied New York’s legislature Organized by the Orthodox Union’s teach advocacy network — and accompanied by teachers, faculty, administrators, lay leaders and parents — the young lobbyists-for-a-day interacted last week with their state senators, representatives, budget and finance chairmen, and even the majority leader.

Founded in 2013, the teach advocacy network is the OU’s advocacy arm, created to pursue increases in state-funding assistance for private and parochial schools. It operates in six states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida and California.

This geographic array encompasses between 80 and 90% of Jewish day-school students nationwide.

New York’s advocacy arm is referred to as “Teach NYS.” The participating students hailed from Jewish day schools and yeshivahs in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Westchester and Rockland counties, as well as from Long Island.

The primary focus of the day’s advocacy was on the need for equitable education dollars for students who attend private schools in New York, which comprise 15% of the total students educated in the state.

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“New York state spends $20,000 per student to provide a public-school education for every child, and there are about 400,000 non-public stu-

fairness, some reasonable portion of that savings should be used for private-school students whose parents are also paying taxes.”

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agin shared that the students advocated in Albany for two targeted funding increases.

First, they lobbied for an

In New York state, private schools receive less than 1% of state funding dents in New York state. That’s $10 billion dollars a year that they don’t spend,” said Allen Fagin, executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, in an interview with JNS after the event.

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increase in funding for school security, a topic that is front and center for all families in light of the mass school shooting in Parkland, Fla. The second request added on to an achievement made last year by Teach NYS:“To partially fund STEM

advocacy to extend STEM education.”

Fagin noted that the STEM request, in particular, got a favorable reception.

“Representatives from the governor’s office and budget department

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of young adults, sought assistance for human service needs — housing, health care, employment and related areas.

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Cohen said human services could be a way for legacy institutions to attract Jews who thus far have not entered their doors for religious or cultural programming. For Cohen, this is something of a shift: In 1970, he took part in a protest urging Jewish institutions to focus more on Jewish identity building and less on funding Jewish but nonsectarian places like hospitals.

But funding social services by Jews and primarily for Jews nowadays, he said, could be a way to answer the most pressing concerns of young Jews. “We need to address felt human needs and the ways people actually approach being Jewish,” Cohen said.

“The finding that people are looking for help in finding jobs and housing is an area where the Jewish community can make a connection.”

really understand the importance of STEM education in the lives of every student in the state,” he explained.

“We highlighted the fact that STEM ed is a classic ‘win-win.’

“It’s good for non-public schools, and it’s also a win for the state because it means that our kids are going to be well-educated in the kinds of fields required for the economy of the future.

“In the process, they will become not only well-informed and productive citizens, but also be beneficial to the health of the state and its tax base.

“We met with dozens of legislators — both from the New York State Senate and Assembly,” continued Fagin.

“The kids had a wonderful opportunity to participate in how state government works. It was a practical application of how we can work to move government in the direction we care about.”

‘Sending the loudest, clearest message’ n addition to individual legislative visits was a public session in which representatives from both sides of the aisle addressed the group as a whole.

Legislators in attendance included New York Senate Majority Leader and State Sen. John J. Flanagan (R-East Northport), Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Sen.Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach), Sen. Jeffrey D. Klein (DBronx), Assemblyman Walter T. Mosley (D-Brooklyn), Assemblywoman Carmen De La Rosa (DInwood),Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D-Queens), Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal (D-Queens), Assemblyman David I.Weprin (D-Queens) and New York Senate Finance Chair and State Sen. Cathy Young (R-Olean).

Following the speeches, the students and lay leaders broke into groups and went to the statehouse, where they met with more than 60 state legislators.

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Intersection of Jewish values, the market INVESTMENT from Page 15

in this space.”

Impact investing shouldn’t be seen as a reason not to donate money traditionally, said Andres Spokoiny, the president of the Jewish Funders’ Network.

Spokoiny praised the partnerships that impact investing creates between nonprofits and the business sector, but said philanthropy

can fill needs that will never be profitable but are still essential.

“I wouldn’t want people thinking every problem in the Jewish community can be addressed by impact investing,” he said. “Some philanthropy exists because they’re market failures, things the market cannot address even if you help them, even if you level the playing field.”

Deutsch says impact investing

could address some issues the Jewish community has traditionally addressed through nonprofits. He suggests a ski travel business to engage young Jews, or a real estate fund that could buy up unused Jewish infrastructure, freeing up capital for synagogues and community centers to use more productively.

“The Jewish world is throwing everything it can at the issue of nextgen engagement,” he said. “How

come we aren’t seeing foundations invest in these types of companies?

How come no Jewish foundation that cares about intermarriage invest-

Lauren Thurin, a current fellow who comes from a philanthropic family in Australia, and who works for Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

STEM education a focus of lobbying effort to get more state funding

Avi Deutsch, who co-founded Lavan, says Jewish values should apply to investing as to other aspects of Life.

Lavan ed in JDate,” the Jewish dating website. o promote that type of thinking, Lavan is running a fellowship for young Jews with money to invest to explore the intersection of Jewish values and the market.

The 25 fellows meet to learn from investment professionals and discuss investment opportunities, from Israelis making high-tech physical therapy tools to startups tackling global poverty.

At the end of the course, each fellow commits $10,000 toward an impact investment of their choice.

“One thing that stuck out in particular was tikkun olam, the notion of transforming the world and working individually and collectively to create a more perfect world,” said

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New York Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said, “I want to impart to you that the work that gets done [here] really is important.

Your advocacy — and I am particularly talking to the young boys and

girls who are here — your personal advocacy makes a difference.

You strengthen my resolve to work with my colleagues to ensure that your trip is productive in the short term and the long term.”

“For years, we were told by the leadership here in Albany that lob-

by missions are a gauge of how powerful an issue’s support is,” said Maury Litwack, executive director of the teach advocacy network. “Today, we are sending the loudest, clearest message to Albany — our schools are here to stay, and we need full funding of the STEM program.”

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Advocates for church-state separation acknowledge the gains of those wanting increased church-state partnerships — but they say it may be deceptive, and fleeting, a side effect of a politically liberal community that is preoccupied with battling so much else associated with the Trump administration.

David Barkey, the ADL’s religious freedom counsel, said popular opposition to eroding church-state separations persists. He pointed to a 2012 ballot initiative in Florida— a “purple” state representative of national trends — that would have removed state restrictions on funding for religious institutions. It failed 55-45%.

“We have a large constituency that has never been comfortable with” government funding for houses of worship, he said.

Stern of the AJC also said that the issue was likely not dead and buried: He noted that the FEMA bill, despite having Democratic lead sponsors, had trouble attracting Democratic co-sponsors in both chambers.

Meng is the sole Democrat sponsoring the House bill, and Sen. Claire

McCaskill of Missouri was the sole Democrat on the Senate version.

Jack Moline, a Conservative rabbi who leads the Interfaith Alliance, a coalition of faith groups that backs vigorous church-state separations, said the issues that have galvanized separationists in the past would continue to engage them. For example, houses of worship may come to regret the new policy.

“Even though a house of worship may think that accepting money after a flood is an appropriate grant, the government now has a reason to look into the funding of a house of worship because of federal funds,” he said.

Barkey said another issue is how the money is used for hiring purposes: Would houses of worship reject contractors or fire staffers who did not adhere to certain religious beliefs or practices?

“Even houses of worship acting with the best of intentions may use the money for unconstitutional purposes,” Barkey said.

Diament said he was not letting his guard down.

“In advocacy, you need to be very patient,” he said, contemplating the 17-year trajectory from the Bush office to the FEMA bill. “It can take decades.”

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“It was always important to me, but I didn’t know why it was important to me.”

As part of the fellowship, the fellows examine Jewish texts that inform how money should be invested. In one class, they compared the vertically integrated structure of SolarCity, Elon Musk’s solar energy company, with a rabbinic story about the Tower of Babel in the book of Genesis.

In another class, they examined the Jewish idea that “the poor of your city should come first.”

“Everything is about living more consciously and making choices based on your Jewish values,” said Rabbi Amitai Fraiman, who helped build the Lavan fellows’ curriculum.

“And if we can add another realm of your life where you’re doing that, that’s good.”

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“I’ve done some of the Yiddish songs with the families present, and the family didn’t know the person knew this song,” said Meredith Ferrel, creative arts therapy Team leader at MJHS Hospice.

“You have that chance to have the family connecting or singing together. It’s an added gift that the loved one is giving the family Yiddish-language songs at the end of life and sharing songs with their grandchildren. There is a celebration of culture.”

Music therapy often offers family members a chance to see a side of the patient that might long have been in retreat.

Ferrel recalled how one woman invited all her neighbors into a music therapy session to “meet” her husband with dementia — the music unexpectedly had brought out a glimmer of his former personality.

Charla Burton, a music therapist with MJHS Hospice, said the music sometimes induces primal emotions, catharsis and joy that makes the experience especially meaningful for patients and their families.

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EW YORK — Two of my family’s favorite dishes are schnitzel and rainbow cookies, and I have a feeling your family may feel the same. Here’s some great news about both: They very easily translate into Passover-friendly versions with minor adjustments.

While you could serve them for your seder meals, both are great to enjoy during chol hamoed, the intermediate days of the holiday, when you may be tired of eating leftover brisket and coconut macaroons.

Special equipment: three square baking pans, offset spatula, food scale Directions:

PASSOVER-FRIENDLY CHICKEN SCHNITZEL Schnitzel is satisfying and easy to make, and will be the perfect dinner served with some roasted potatoes and a simple green salad.

2 lbs. chicken cutlets Salt and pepper 2 eggs, beaten 2 tsp. kosher-for-Passover mustard or hot sauce 1 tsp. water 1 1/2 cups matzah meal 1/2 cup almond meal 2 tbsp. sesame seeds (optional; for kitniyot eaters only) 2 tbsp. dried parsley 1/2 tbsp. smoked paprika 1 tsp. sea salt 1/2 tsp. black pepper Vegetable or canola oil for frying Directions: 1. Combine eggs, mustard or hot sauce and water in a large bowl.

Combine matzah meal, almond meal, sesame seeds (if using), parsley, paprika, salt and pepper in another large bowl.

2. Dredge each chicken cutlet into egg mixture, then into matzah meal mixture, pressing down to ensure the entire piece is cover. Lay flat on a plate or baking sheet.

3. Pour oil into large sauté pan to about 1 1/2 inches high over medium-high heat.

4. Fry chicken cutlets in batches, 2-3 at a time, until golden on each

Passover-friendly rainbow cookies side — depending on thickness of chicken, around 3 minutes each side.

Take care not to overcrowd the pan or chicken will not cook properly.

5. Remove from pan and allow to cool on a wire rack.

6. While chicken is still hot from pan, sprinkle each cutlet with additional pinch of salt.

PASSOVER-FRIENDLY RAINBOW COOKIES

beloved American staple. The task may seem intimating, but once you make your own — especially this Passover-friendly version — you will never go back to the store-bought version.

For the cake: 4 eggs 1 cup white sugar 4 oz. almond paste, broken into little pieces or processed in food processor for 30 seconds

Shannon Sarna

2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter or margarine 1/2 cup matzah cake meal 1/2 cup blanched almond flour (not almond meal) 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. kosher-for-Passover vanilla extract Red and green food coloring (about 8 drops each) For the chocolate glaze: 1 cup dark or semisweet choco-

1. Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease your pans. Add parchment paper to bottom of each pan. Grease again and add light dusting of matzah cake meal. Tap pan to remove any excess flour.

2. Using a hand mixer (or whisk attachment to stand mixer), mix eggs and sugar until thick and yellow.

Add crumbled almond paste and combine.

3. Add melted butter (or margarine), matzah cake meal, almond flour, salt and vanilla.

4. Divide batter into three even amounts. (Try using a food scale if eyeballing is too difficult). Leave one plain. Add green food coloring to one batch of batter. Add red food coloring to the other batch of batter.

5. Pour batter into prepared pans.

Bake for 8-9 minutes, or until just set and no longer wet in the middle.

6. Allow to cool completely.

7. Place chocolate, shortening and pinch of salt in a glass bowl.

Microwave for 30-second intervals until melted. Stir vigorously to ensure there are no clumps.

8. Place a piece of parchment paper on top of a platter or baking sheet.

Add red cake layer to parchment paper. Spread thin layer of raspberry jam. Top with white layer. Add another thin layer of raspberry jam.

Top with green cake.

9. Carefully spread half the melted chocolate on top. Place in refrigerator for 15-20 minutes or until completely hard.

10. Turn over and spread remaining chocolate on other side. Place back in refrigerator for 30 minutes or overnight.

11. Trim edges and slice into cookies.

Rainbow cookies are such a

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‘Resource Day’ at JFS, NewCAJE for 500 educators, April 20, open to public July 29-Aug. 1, at U of Hartford JFS will host a resource day on Friday, April 20, noon to 2 p.m., at 3201 S. Tamarac Dr. in Denver. It is free and open to the public.

The following resources will be available so that participants can learn about many community programs in one convenient place.

Employment and family support: Meet with CrossPurpose representatives to explore job training and personal development options to get a good job earning $15 per hour or more.

Learn about a culinary training and skills development program for both women and men from Work Options for Women. Enjoy a cooking demo with free food samples.

Pet Pantry: Colorado Pet Pantry will distribute free pet food to those who qualify from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

JFS Weinberg Food Pantry: From noon to 1: p.m. sign up for access to the food pantry. No appointment is necessary. Bring photo ID, proof of address (a lease or utility bill), and verification of income for the entire household.

Denver Preschool Program:

Obtain help finding a quality preschool for your 4-year-old child, regardless of your neighborhood or income. Tuition assistance is available.

Parenting resources: Learn about free parenting resources from SafeCare Colorado, which offers in-home support to help you childproof your home, meet your child’s health needs, and improve your interactions with your young child (newborn to 5 years old).

Medicare benefits: A trained Medicare specialist from United Healthcare will help you apply for Medicare benefits.

Denver Dumb Friends League: Learn about the spay/neuter program for pets and other educational information.

Lunchbox Express: This free JFS program provides free lunches for kids all summer long.

In addition, free kids books will be distributed and there will be drawings for gift cards.

Information: Shelly Hines, Family Safety Net director, 303-597-5000 or shines@jewishfamilyservice.org.

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By Lisa Greenstein,

Passover traditions icture this: There’s an epic BBQ competition about to take place. All the top kosher chefs will be competing for the Ultimate Korban Pesach. Simply put, the ultimate roasted lamb dish. Can you imagine the excitement?

Finally eating lamb on Passover.

No longer looking at that pitiful, scrawny bone on the seder plate.

Well, maybe one day. For now, it’s just that sad, little bone. The Gourmet Lamb Competition won’t take place until mashiach (messiah) comes.

For now, we’ll just stick to the basics. That’s right, down home Eastern European Passover cooking.

Each family has its own tradition that makes the seders special. Our family has an annual charoset competition. Textures and flavors span the spectrum from Poland to Morocco. We also avoid using matzah or cake meal in any cooking or baking for the first two days. Some families are die-hard matzah ball fans and others actually eat their matzah out of a bag to avoid so much as one crumb touching their plate and getting wet.

We have a tradition of making egg noodles from scratch, to serve in our chicken soup. The delicate, paper-thin crepes are made on a French crepe pan.

Have patience with this one.

It will pay off.

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HOME-MADE EGG NOODLES Serves about 12-15 12 eggs 12 tbsp. potato starch 1/2 tsp salt (or more to taste) 2 cups luke warm water 2 tbsp. oil French crepe pan

Dissolve the starch in water.

Whisk in the salt and oil. Add the eggs, salt and starch combination into your blender and purée until smooth.

Be prepared to continuously whisk the mixture while making the crepes. The starch settles if it’s not mixed.

Heat up your crepe pan on medium-high. You may need to hold the handle with a towel during cooking because it gets quite hot.

Once the pan has heated completely spray with cooking oil.

Using a ladle, gently scoop about 1/4 cup of the batter onto the pan.

Carefully swirl the batter around the pan until the base is covered. Wait 30 seconds to 1 minute and carefully flip the crepe. This part is a learning curve. You may find that using a spatula is easiest or your fingers. Yes, you will ruin the first several, but eventually you’ll find a way to make it work.

Once flipped leave the crepe for an additional 30 seconds prior to removing. As you turn out crepes stack them on top of each other on a plate.

Once you have used up all the batter cover the plate and stack of crepes with plastic wrap.

Tightly seal and place in the refrigerator until you are ready to serve. Noodles will last about 5-7 days in the fridge.

Just prior to serving use a sharp knife to cut thin strips. Yes, finally you have noodles.

Wishing everyone a delicious yom tov! This year — or next — in Jerusalem! See you at the Gourmet Lamb competition!

Dr. Lisa Greenstein is a family dentist in Cherry Creek North.

Follow her Instagram @drsweeteeth.

At NewCAJE, educators gather for four days of learning.

Five hundred Jewish educators will gather at the ninth annual NewCAJE conference, July 29 — Aug. 1, 2018, at the University of Hartford in Connecticut.

Early bird registration closes April 26; scholarships are available.A preconference Shabbat is also offered.

The 2018 conference will bring together clergy, principals, educators, lay leaders, early childhood educators, artists, youth directors, and musicians for four days of learning,

entertainment, prayer, and networking opportunities.

There are also programs for high school students and those in the first five years of their career.

Highlights among NewCAJE9 include 240 workshop sessions designed to provide educators with the skills and tools to spread innovations in Jewish education.

New this year, NewCAJE is offering three certificate programs for principals, new teachers and early

childhood educators.

Cherie Karo Schwartz, Denver based Jewish storyteller, author and educator said: “CAJE and NewCAJE have nurtured my soul and raised me as a Jewish professional for nearly four decades.

“This conference is an annual boost of spirit, kinship and knowledge that every Jewish educator needs, no matter your age or level of experience.”

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‘Conflict over Jerusalem’ lecture

by Islam expert, BMH-BJ, Apr. 10 Prof. Mordechai Kedar, an Israeli authority on Islam, will speak in Denver, Tuesday, April 10, 7 p.m., at BMH-BJ about the conflict over Jerusalem.

Specifically, Kedar will address the announcement that the US will move its embassy to Jerusalem and how it impacts the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians, its Arab neighbors and the Muslim world. He will also discuss the implications of the embassy move on the prospects for peace.

Kedar will also comment on the changing dynamics within the Arab Middle East and how this may affect Israel in the years ahead.

Kedar is an authority on Islam, Islamic and Arab culture, the Arabs of Israel,Arab media and Arab political debate.

He is fluent in Arabic and has

Prof. Mordechai Kedar, IDF intelligence officer for 25 years, fluent in Arabic. been interviewed on Arab TV. Kedar served in intelligence in

the Israel Defence Forces for 25 years and retired as a colonel. He is a professor at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv, where he teaches Islamic studies and the politics of the Arab world.

ActionIsrael, together with many Jewish institutions in Denver, is hosting the event. ActionIsrael Chairman Dr. Herzl Melmed, said “if we are to understand the complexity of the Middle East and the challenges and opportunities facing Israel, we need to hear from someone who has devoted his career to studying Islam and Islamic and Arab culture and can show us the challenges as seen through Arab eyes.

“Prof. Kedar is a great teacher and this is a lecture that everyone who has an interest in the Middle East conflict will want to hear,” Melmed said.

Matzah campaign in CO Springs Chabad-Lubavitch of Southern Colorado held its annual prePassover matzah distribution campaign, which has been running annually since the branch was founded in 2001.

The idea originated with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in 1954 when he encouraged his emissaries to reach out to Jewish people in their communities and distribute special shmurah matzah for the seder night.

Shmurah matzah means that the wheat was guarded by strict rabbinical supervision from the time of harvest.

“Matzah is known in kabbalistic sources as the bread of faith, particular of the first night,” says Rabbi Moishe Liberow, director.

“It’s our goal that every Jew in Colorado Springs get a piece of this special matzah,” says Zeldie Liberow, co-director.

According to Rabbi Liberow, 145 Jewish households in the Colorado Springs area were reached. Matzah was also distributed to surround-

Rabbi Moshe and Zeldie Liberow prepare the matzah packages.

ing communities including Manitou Springs, Woodland Park, Fountain and Monument.

Through its Roving Rabbis program, Chabad world headquarters sends volunteer yeshiva students to help with the distribution campaign.

In Colorado Springs, the Liberows’ son, Menachem Mendel, was joined

by Yisroel Boruch Eisenberg of New Morristown, NJ to deliver matzah.

“Each Jew can experience Pesach with this special mitzvah of eating matzah on the seder night.”

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For ‘Papa Smurf’ — aka Prof. Adam Sacks — cooking at Olympics was ‘coming full circle’

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ccording to the USDA, the average moderately active man requires 2,600 calories per day. For athletes though, it’s a different story, with some requiring up to 10,000 calories per day.

It all comes down to need, and Adam Sacks is an expert in not only figuring that out — but preparing the food too.

The southern California native

Beijing in 2008; Pyeongchang in 2018; Tokyo in 2020 is a professor of culinary nutrition at Johnson and Wales. He recently returned from Pyeongchang, where he led a team of chefs cooking for the US ski and snowboard team.

The experience was like coming full circle, he says, because his team was largely comprised of former students.

Sacks, a professional chef and registered dietician, is a leader in the field of culinary nutrition.

Sixteen years ago, he developed an Athletic Performance Cuisine course for Johnson and Wales.

According to Sacks, J&W is one of the few higher education institutions in the country that offers a degree in culinary nutrition.

“It’s a very small community,” says Sacks. His longevity in the industry means that he’s connected to sports nutritionists across the country.

“Many of the people now in charge of sports teams [culinary wise] come from Johnson and Wales, and most of them came from me, because I’m the one who started the program. I’m kind of like the grandfather,” says Sacks, who laughingly dubs himself Papa Smurf.

“My alumni are all over the place doing everything that I could only dream about.”

Not that Sacks isn’t fulfilling his dreams. Aside from his daily passion for academia and teaching, he’s answered the call twice now to cook at the Olympics.

And it all comes back to his students. In 2008, Sacks recounts, “There was an alum who was working at the training facility in Colorado Springs. He called me up and said, ‘Hey, chef, I need you.’

And I said, “Awesome, I’m there for you.”

At the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Sacks was the executive chef for the US track and field team.That meant managing a local crew — all Chinese, all Mandarin speakers. “They didn’t know a word of English,” says Sacks. “I had translators, but they all quit on me, so we had to devel-

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Adam Sacks, in chef’s whites, with his team, most of whom were former students at Johnson & Wales. L-r: Megan Chatowsky, Dee Iraca, Cada Fabian, Brett Eisen, Sacks, Allison Peterson. op charades and symbols.”

He adopted a chef ’s classical brigade, where he would find who was best at what, and have them do it, “24/7,” he says. “Their work ethic and skill set were far superior than anything in the States,” says Sacks.

This past February’s Olympics in Pyeongchang was much simpler; Sacks was working primarily

other competitions?

“At this kind of competition, you’ve got to understand that Olympics is pretty high up there,” says Sacks.

“When I say high, I mean expectations are high, rewards are high, pressure is high.”

What that means for the food being served is that it must be familiar, “comfort based,” says Sacks.

“It’s understanding [that] anxiety

‘I love cooking with an extreme state of mind; if they win gold, I win gold’ with other Americans, so there was no language barrier. On the other hand, as a professor, it was more complicated, since Sacks had to take about a month off mid-semester.

There’s another reason the two Olympics were so different, and that has to do with the types of sports Sacks was cooking for.

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is going to fit in, pressure is going to fit in. So it’s better to adopt a more familiar food plan than something exotic and wild. Because if they’re not going to eat it, that compromises their goals.”

That relationship between food and performance is the crux of Sacks’ approach. There’s no better venue to put it into practice than the Olympics.

“I love cooking with that extreme state of mind. Everything is at play. If they win a gold I win a

gold.”

But one person’s comfort food is not another’s, a challenge more present in the summer Olympics, says Sacks. When it comes to snow sports, the athletes are relatively homogenous, from certain parts of the country. Track and field, however, “attracts a lot of people in a lot of different areas in the world.”

The US team in Beijing, he says, had athletes from all over the country, and even some who originally came from overseas, including Jamaica and Africa.

The caloric need within track and field also ranges enormously, says Sacks, “because you get everything from the sprinters to the endurance . . . from a 100-lb. runner to a shot putter who may weigh 300 lbs.” Factor in likes and dislikes, and the “buffet was grand,” says Sacks.

By contrast, ski and snowboard athletes generally take in a “phe-

nomenal amount of calories because they’re spending a lot.” That means calorie-heavy, nutrient dense food, protein, starch, and fat.

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says Sacks, “is to convince them that it is not a generic cuisine, it’s very individualized. We look at sport and even within the sport it makes a difference.”

Take football for example. “You’ve got linebackers, you’ve got wide receivers, you’ve got quarterbacks.

Theoretically, even though they’re eating from the same training table, they might be eating differently within that training table.”

Not only does it vary sport to sport and person to person, “It really

Credentials and education have bolstered his standing, because “I can say, yes, I’m a certified chef.

Yes, I’m a registered dietician. So they can see me as a credible authority as opposed to a hack. I wanted to be that person who is nutrition.

So I learned it, I teach it, I breathe it.”

We dig a little deeper into the nutritional aspect.The basics of what Sacks espouses is universal, not athletics-specific.

“I’m a nutrition person. I usually emphasize what is truly important for the body to consume. I

sport because there’s big money. But once they leave the sport, if they don’t recognize [adjusting their eating habits] as important then it just goes downhill from there.”

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side from fulfilling nutritional needs, the Olympics poses its own logistical issue: how to get the food the athletes want and need.

The first step, says Sacks, is to assemble the menu. The chefs get a list of the athletes’ likes, dislikes and allergies and then

What happens when athletes, conditioned to eat great amounts of food, stop playing professionally? de-emphasize the importance of processed foods and sugars. But I encourage healthy fats. I encourage fruits and vegetables and whole grains and high quality protein.

“Everybody needs about the same in terms of what makes a food good and what makes a food bad. I don’t think of foods as absolute. I think of foods as playing a role or a function.”

Enter the metabolically more active athletes.

“That caloric intake is just to back &W is playing a key role in fill- up the sport,” Sacks explains. “If ing that need because its culi- there’s no sport, there’s no need.

“A lot of athletes almost train nary nutrition graduates “know food and they know the sci- themselves to eat a certain way.With sports, you’re eating by schedule, not ence.”

This confluence of food and sport by hunger. You’re drinking by schedwas the ideal fit for the self-described ule, not by thirst. By the time they’re “health freak.” He says he was thirsty they’re already dehydrated. always interested in the relation- By the time they’re hungry they’re ships between food and health and already depleting. And they can’t wellness outcomes, and gravitated perform.

“Over time, you’re just conditioned toward the sciences. Along the way to culinary nutrition he picked up to eat great amounts of food without recognizing signs of hunger or thirst.”

The issue arises when athletes stop playing sports.

He acknowledges that there isn’t much of an exit program, so most athletes will still be conditioned to eat “when they’re not biologically hungry or thirsty.”

That, he says, is when you get ex-athletes rapidly gaining enormous Sacks with Brett Eisen, in Pyeongchang. amounts of a degree in environmental biology weight.

“They have to be de-conditioned. and learned the scientific method.

“I learned how to look at things That’s the hardest part,” he says. and ask those serious questions,” a “There’s not much infrastructure skill he still uses, and passes on to to support the inactive players.

“There’s a lot of support for the his students. depends on their goals, their outcomes, their performance outcome, their body composition goals. Preseason. Season. Post-season. It all vacillates, it all modulates.”

It’s the job of the registered dietician or strength coach to make sure each athlete is getting what he or she needs at any given stage.

“Nutrition is a big part of sports,” says Sacks, “especially now. We’re getting to the point where we can’t separate performance and food.”

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set to work. “From a menu comes a list of ingredients,” he says. Staples were shipped to South Korea, but most of the perishables were procured there.

“There’s always a variable because you just don’t know what you’re getting until you get there,” he says.

“We take for granted that we’re a country that can get basically anything very easily, and there it’s not like that.”

For example, alternative flours and sugars aren’t staples in South Korea.

Neither, to Sacks’ surprise, were the myriad spices that Americans cook with.

“You would think in Asia there would be lots of spices,” he chuckles, “but no.” It was basically salt, pepper — “variations of cayenne pepper” — Asian staples like soy sauce, sesame and ginger, but not much else.

When the goal is preparing comfort food, that can present a challenge, says Sacks.

If an athlete is looking for a good burrito, “I’m going, well, I’ll do my best with ketchup,” he At such a high-pressure competition, the food being served must quips with a hearty guffaw. be familiar, comfort based, says Sacks. Not surprising, Nutella makes When it comes to cooking for the cut. a diverse group of people, Sacks takes it all in stride. “There’s a Notwithstanding the difficulty he husband of Stephanie handful that didn’t want gluten.

Botvin and father of DJDS stu- of being away from home for that There’s a handful that didn’t want dent Micah Sacks, eight,Adam extended period of time, Pyeonglactose. There may be a handful of Sacks says he loves the “ath- chang will always be a special memvegetarians.” leticism, pure competition and the ory for Sacks, who calls it coming His “building out” approach is spirit of it all,” he says, smiling while full circle. practical, and could readily be recalling some of the events he Being Papa Smurf, or Papa Chef, applied by home cooks. For exam- attended, or even just meeting Cana- to his former students was “aweple, “If we’re serving enchiladas, dian bobsledders in the elevator. some. Here I am the teacher. They’re we don’t serve them with cheese “There has to be some level of com- beyond the school but when I need on top. We put cheese on the side. petition, but when it comes down them I called them to action and That way you can mass appeal it,” to it, if someone does an awesome we all went to the Olympics togethhe says. job on the ice or in the snow or in er.”

Ultimately, the goal is that the the air you’re just going, ‘that was One student, Brett Eisen, came athlete has the food he or she wants awesome,’” he says, clapping. to J&W inspired by Sacks’ stint at without having to think about it.

He’s grateful for his family’s sup- the Beijing Olympics in 2008. “Then “We don’t want them thinking port, as well as the university’s. “My ten years later, me and him are at about their food,” Sacks says. wife was the trooper,” he says. “She the Olympics. It’s perfect.”

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Millions around the world could be of Jewish descent

By ANDREW FRIEDMAN TPS committee appointed by Israel’s Diaspora Affairs minister says that there are close to 100 million people around the world with an “affinity” to Judaism or Israel, according to a new government report commissioned by the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs.

A spokesman for Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who also serves as Minister for Diaspora Affairs, declined to comment on the report, saying it has not yet been published.

But individuals familiar with

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the committee’s deliberations told TPS that the goal of the report is to offer the descendants of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities the opportunity to connect with Israel and with Judaism, not to formally convert them.

“We are not missionaries and we are not interested in imposing our views on anyone,” said Ashley Perry, the president of Reconectar, an Israeli NGO that offers assistance to Spanish and Portuguese cryptoJews, known in Hebrew as Bnei Anusim, or the descendants of indi-

viduals who were forced to convert.

“The type and extent of that restored connection is up to the indi-

‘Offer people a way to connect’ vidual. Our goal is to be a hub of information.”

According to the report in Haaretz, the committee, which was set up in 2016 to study communi-

ties around the world of crypto-Jews, found that there are currently nine million people around the world who are eligible for immigration to Israel under the terms of the Law of Return.

In addition, there are some 95 million individuals who are likely descended from Jews but who no longer identify as Jews, including 35 million people “with known affinities to Judaism” and as many as 60 million “unrecognized peoples with affinity to Judaism and Israel.”

Notable communities include the

Bnei Menashe, a tribe from northeastern India who believe they are the descendants of the ancient tribe of the same name; Ethiopian Falash Mura; and Subbotniks, a Russian Christian group that adopted Judaism during the 19th century.

Other groups can be found in Africa, South America, China and farther afield.

The report does not propose offering Israeli citizenship to crypto-Jews, but does suggest creating a legal framework for them to visit in order to learn about Judaism and Israel.

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Uncovering Passover secrets at the Met Museum

By DEBRA NUSSBAUM COHEN JTA EW YORK — I have roamed the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Egyptian wing many times, marveling at sarcophagi, statues of Horus and Ra, and portraits of young men on ancient panels who gaze back at visitors, looking shockingly familiar and contemporary.

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down to Egypt with their father.

“It was very interesting to see actual artifacts, representations of words we see in the Torah,” said Lori Leifer, 37, a Yiddish singer and computer database programmer.

The Exodus tour is one of five Jewish tours Selavan offers at the Met through his company, Torah Intermedia.

Exploring Jewish texts, history through ancient artifacts Passover, I viewed the artifacts as I’d never before seen them: through the lens of the Exodus story, which we retell each year through reading the Haggadah.

Nachliel Selavan, a Jewish educator and self-taught museum guide whose specialty is looking at Jewish texts and history through ancient artifacts, guided a group of about 20 through the Egypt section, pausing at statues, carvings and the Book of the Dead scroll. Before setting off he distributed source sheets with canonical Jewish texts in Hebrew and English.

For more than two hours Selavan connected items and ideas mentioned in the texts with the artifacts on view.

Selavan had us look at a passage from Deuteronomy in which Moses details what will befall the Israelites if they don’t live up to their end of the covenant with G-d.

We looked through cases at the Met displaying little replicas of Egyptian life discovered in the tombs of embalmed rulers, intended to accompany the deceased on their journeys to the afterlife.

In the Bible, the Israelites are told they will be flattened by insufferable ailments and curses, and that the L-rd will “will bring you back in boats to Egypt,” so undesirable they can’t even sell themselves back into slavery. Selavan pointed inside one of the ancient dioramas to show what those boats would have looked like.

“The Jewish people and Tanach do not exist in a vacuum,” Selavan, using a term meaning the Hebrew Bible, said after the tour. “Understanding the context for the text is key to our identity. Artifacts help us realize that ‘oh wow, these were real people.’

“What was daily life like for regular Philistines or regular Israelites?

What were they seeing as they traded and mingled with another culture? When you see material culture like this, it makes it real.”

Another focuses on artifacts from the time of the Maccabee revolt and oriented toward Chanukah.

More Passover-themed tours are planned for the festival’s intermediate days.

“When you’re able to not just learn a text but see the stuff it’s talking about, the learning goes to a whole other level,” said Rabbi Ethan Tucker in an interview.

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elavan brought us to several examples of reliefs carved with the names of the Egyptian ruler, or paro/pharaoh, noting how important names were to them. In Hebrew, he noted, the Book of Exodus is known as Shemot, or names, which begins with the names of the sons of the patriarch Jacob, who went with their own families

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elavan is one of a handful of individuals and companies that offer private Jewish tours at major art museums.

David Thomas, associate coordinator of groups and visitor services at the Met, said the museum does not share the number of tours led by outside guides like Selavan.

“I’m not aware of any other tour guides who offer Jewish-themed tours, but there may be some,” Thomas said. “Many synagogues, universities and other Jewish organizations also bring groups.”

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capoeira around Israel. At 25 he earned an undergraduate degree at a Jerusalem teachers’ college and in 2013 came to the US to teach.

In his second year teaching Bible at the Netivot Montessori Yeshiva in East Brunswick, NJ, he took fourth-graders to see the Met’s exhibit “From Assyria to Iberia.”

‘Actually seeing the stuff takes the learning to a whole other level’ rabbi/tour guide/archaeologist in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, and was educated at yeshivas. He discusses references from Mishna comfortably with a Satmar chasid on his tour but dresses more like a Brooklyn hipster. Asked how he identifies religiously, Selavan replied, “I’m on the Orthodox spectrum but not sure where I fit.”

Like the Met’s galleries, Selavan’s journey took a winding route. After yeshiva Selavan, now 34, began teaching the Brazilian martial art

Another visitor, overhearing him, asked if he read Aramaic and led him to the Tel Dan stele, a 2,800year-old inscribed stone on loan from the Israel Museum.

Reading what turned out to be paleo-Hebrew, Selavan was struck by the power of seeing the earliest known reference to “Beit David,” the seat of the Davidic dynasty, which is his hometown.

“Then people started asking me questions,” Selavan said.

At the start of the 2016-17 school

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year, he started networking with other yeshivas to lead tours and quickly expanded into leading adults.

Last summer he took about 20 groups through the Met, he said, and now leads synagogue and Hillel groups as well.

He gave a Jewish tour of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts to members of a synaoguge in suburgan Newton, and is now planning to do the same with area day school groups.

Selavan lives in Crown Heights, the Brooklyn, and is finishing up a long-distance master’s degree program in Jewish education at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and enrolling in a Jewish history master’s program at Yeshiva University.

in the surrounding moat. He noted that the Hebrew term taneen, found in Ezekiel and Exodus, is generally translated as “serpent,” but more likely meant crocodile, as they infested the Nile.

“My dream is to do things like this with museums around the world,” he later told JTA. “In Spain, London, France and so on. And to live in Jerusalem.”

n the Passover tour, as the group approached the Temple of Dendur, the massive sandstone shrine set in a grand sunlit interior plaza, Selavan pointed out a replica crocodile

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Study Judaism — then get a free trip to Paris Aryeh Osifov of the Siberian city of Tomsk. A graduate of the Taglit-Birthright program of subsidized trips to Israel for young adult Jews, he had been to West-

to the point of near extinction amid communist repression, assimilation and mass emigration.

The Eurostars program, he said, grew out of an earlier framework in which rabbis offered cash payments to Jews who agreed to take part in Jewish studies programs by Jews.

“Some rabbis were having trouble attracting people to class even with payments; other rabbis felt it tainted their congregations,” Wilansky said.

“That’s how we arrived at the idea of giving a trip, though in many cases the social dynamic that forms in the study groups is its own reward.”

That was the case for Ruth Galeyeva, a participant on the 2015 trip.

She hails from Orenburg, a city located 800 miles east of Moscow, near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan.

Galeyeva attended Jewish education programs as a child, but as a university student “I felt suddenly that I no longer had that framework in my life,” she said. “So I joined the Eurostars program just to belong to a community again.”

As a former design student, she also wanted to see Paris.

“Everything was so beautiful there,” Galeyeva recalled. But all that beauty, she added, “seems so superficial now compared to the feeling I got just by being surrounded again by my own people.”

I joined the Eurostars program jus to belong to a community again

ern Europe before coming with Eurostars.

“I didn’t need Eurostars to see Europe, I can afford going on my own,” Osifov said. “But I liked that feeling of togetherness.”

Unlike the TaglitBirthright program, which participants can only attend once, Eurostars students can go up to three times.

Russian participants in the Eurostars trip to France in 2015 at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ Zolotov had a “powerful conJTA nection” with Jewish texts early on in the study proLast May, they and groups like bloody history of anti-Semitic per- gram, according to Wilansky, the rabOSCOW — Growing up in a working-class family in theirs from more than 40 cities across secution in all three countries. bi.

“It made me feel what the JewRussia’s Far East, Sergei the former Soviet Union gathered Nonetheless, financial incentives Aryeh Zolotov knew the in Moscow for a weeklong trip cost- ish tradition of survival and renew- are a necessity in a poor country French Riviera only from what ing many millions of dollars that al is about.” where Jewish life had been driven was paid for in donations to Chabad he’d seen in James Bond movies. o Berel Lazar, a chief rabA student in his 20s from the of Russia. bi of Russia, the program’s With visas pre-arranged for them city of Khabarovsk, 4,000 miles east success — participation has of Moscow, Zolotov had the means by the Chabad-affiliated Federation quadrupled over the past neither to travel to the sunny beach- of Jewish Communities of the Com- six years — is indicative of a major shift in European Jewry.

It was vividly on display during the 2015 trip to France, Lazar said, when he led participants on a solidarity visit to the Hyper es of southern France nor to obtain monwealth of Independent States, Cacher kosher shop in Paris, the visa that Russian citizens need the approximately 1,000 participants where earlier that year an boarded two chartered airplanes to Islamist killed four Jews. to enter the EU. “I remember a time when the Luckily for Zolotov, he didn’t need Barcelona, Spain. They toured the to worry about any of that. All he sites connected to that city’s rich Chabad emissary to France would go around kosher shops to colhad to do to visit the famed beach- Jewish heritage.

Traveling in 20 buses, they board- lect nearly expired products to es of Cote d’Azur was to show up for a few months of weekly Judaism ed a Grandi Navi Veloci cruise ship send them” to Russia, he told JTA. classes at his local synagogue, thanks to Italy and Monaco, giving the “Now we are returning to France to Russia’s Eurostars program for latter’s tiny Jewish community the to extend our support to that comyoung Jews from the former Sovi- largest Jewish event in its history. munity.”

Then they flew from Nice to visit At a time of record immigraet Union.

Launched in 2012, the program Auschwitz before returning to Rus- tion to Israel by French Jews because of France’s anti-Semitakes hundreds of Jewish men and sia.

Matchmaking is part of the tism problem, Lazar said, “It’s a women aged 18-28 on fully subsidized trips each spring to Europe. Eurostars raison d’etre, according very important sign of solidariThe Eurostars trip features a to Rabbi Mendy Wilansky, head of ty.”

Some Eurostars participants visit to the former Nazi death camp the Yahad special programs platof Auschwitz in Poland along with form, which is responsible for had a better idea than Zolotov different destinations every year. Eurostars within the Federation of of what to expect, including Lev Rabbi Berel Lazar placing tefillin on a participant of the Eurostars But to earn a free ticket, partici- Jewish Communities.The cruise feapants must attend 85% of a year- tured popular speed dating evenings, long program studying Torah and he said.

“In a huge country like Russia Jewish traditions.

Coming from Khabarovsk — a with massive assimilation, of course landlocked and icy place situated it’s an opportunity for shidduch,” he 800 miles northeast of the North said.

Among those seizing the opporKorean capital of Pyongyang — “I never thought I’d get to go on a tunity were Yosef and Sarah VasiMediterranean cruise,” Zolotov lyev, participants on the 2015 recently told JTA in Moscow, where Eurostars trip.

Yosef, a Jew from the Siberian city he moved last year to work as an economist. Zolotov attended the 2017 of Tyumen, became engaged to Sarah from the nearby city of Chelyabintrip.

“Frankly, I signed up because a sk just days after returning from friend told me it’s a classy cruise France.

Their wedding in the synagogue with guys and girls for free,” he said.

But Zolotov said the utilitarian of her hometown was a rare celeapproach changed as he connected bration for her graying community to Rabbi Yaakov Snetkov and his and featured prominently in its newsletter that month. small but warm community.

Zolotov also came on the Eurostars The connection “changed me forever, more than any cruise ever program hoping to meet his “other half,” but it was the visit to Auschwitz could,” he said.

Following the trip, Zolotov had a that ended up changing his life, he said. belated circumcision.

“It burned a hole in my soul,” Zoloor eight months in 2016, Zolo- tov recalled. “It made me think of tov joined a handful of other how we, Jews from Russia, walked Eurostars participants in and sang in Hebrew in Spain, before Khabarovsk who studied the remembering our brothers killed Sergei Aryeh Zolotov, left, and Lev Aryeh Osipov at Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Cenweekly Torah portion on Sundays. in Poland,” he said, referencing the ter, Jan. 31, 2018.

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Dust in charoset — and other Passover factoids

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EW YORK — Here are eight things that many likely wouldn’t know about the Festival of Freedom:

1. In Gibraltar, there’s dust in the charoset.

The traditional charoset is a sweet Passover paste whose texture is meant as a reminder of the mortar the enslaved Jews used to build in ancient Egypt. The name itself is related to the Hebrew word for clay.

In Ashkenazi tradition, it is traditionally made from crushed nuts, apples and sweet red wine, while Sephardic Jews use figs or dates.

But the tiny Jewish community of this small British territory at the tip of the Iberian Peninsula takes the brick symbolism to another level, using the dust of actual bricks in their recipe.

2. Abraham Lincoln died during Passover.

The 16th American president was shot at Ford’s Theatre on a Friday, April 14, 1865, which coincided with the fourth night of Passover. The next morning, Jews who wouldn’t normally have attended services on the holiday were so moved by

Lincoln’s passing they made their way to synagogues, where the normally celebratory Passover services were instead marked by acts of mourning and the singing of Yom Kippur hymns.

American Jews were so affected by the president’s death that Congregation Shearith Israel in New York recited the prayer for the dead — usually said only for Jews — on Lincoln’s behalf.

3. Arizona is a hub for matzah wheat.

Chasidic Jews from Brooklyn have been increasingly sourcing wheat for their Passover matzah from farmers in Arizona. Excessive moisture in wheat kernels can result in fermentation, rendering the harvest unsuitable for Passover use. But rain is scarce in Arizona, which allows for a stricter standard of matzah.

Rabbis from New York travel to Arizona in the days leading up to the harvest, where they inspect the grains meticulously to ensure they are cut at the precise moisture levels.

highlight of the meal is the afikomen — a broken piece of matzah that the seder leader hides and the children search for; the person who finds the afikomen usually gets a small reward. Most scholars believe the word afikomen derives from the Greek word for dessert.

Others say it refers to a kind of post-meal revelry common among the Greeks.

Either theory would explain why the afikomen is the last thing eaten at the seder.

Many of the Passover seder rituals are intended to re-create the sensory experience of Egyptian slavery, from the eating of bitter herbs and matzah to the dipping of greenery in saltwater, which symbolizes the tears shed by the oppressed Israelites.

Some Jews from Iran and Afghanistan have the tradition of whipping each other with green onions before the singing of “Dayenu.”

5. Israeli Jews have Abraham only one seder.

Israeli Jews observe only one Passover seder, unlike everywhere else where traditionally two seders are held, one on each of the first two nights of the holiday. Known as yom tov sheni shel galuyot — literally “the second festival day of the Diaspora” — the practice was begun 2,000 years ago when Jews were informed of the start of a new lunar month only after it had been confirmed by witnesses in Jerusalem.

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Because Jewish communities outside of Israel were often delayed in learning the news, they consequently couldn’t be sure precisely which day festivals were meant to be observed. As a result, the practice of observing two seder days was instituted, though now it continues due to tradition.

7. For North African Jews, after Passover comes Mimouna.

Most people are eager for a break from holiday meals when the eightday Passover holiday concludes. Not the Jews of North Africa!

The holiday’s end is the perfect time for another feast, Mimouna, marking the beginning of spring.

Celebrated after nightfall on the last day of Passover, Mimouna is marked by a large spread of foods and the opening of homes to guests.

The celebration is often laden with symbolism, including fish for fertility and golden rings for wealth.

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6. Afikomen isn’t Hebrew.

For many seder participants, the

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Gefilte fish is one of the easier finds at Passover.

EW YORK — When I see the giant gefilte fish and matzah display at Costco in late February, it sends me into a panic. I think, is it time for gefilte fish already? I think that finding the holiday foods, including that gigantic jar of gefilte fish, is not easy and maybe I should stockpile now.

I start thinking about how many people I’m having for Passover — a lot or a little? One manageable table or an impossible four?

Most of the year I’m a pretty normal American woman. I look normal. I dress in a fairly normal manner. I walk in grocery stores and have a vaguely normal shopping list.

Yes, there are certain Jewish holidays here and there where I’m maybe shopping for 20-pound bags of potatoes in the winter, apples and honey, round challahs and smoked fish in the fall, or poppy filling in March. All a little odd.

But then there’s Passover.

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Though I’m willing to bounce back and forth between its kosher smoked fish case and the Passover display, both forming a miniature Pale of Settlement in the store for Jewish shoppers to cling to, eventually I must venture out to the Jewish section of the regular grocery stores, to their Pesach tables, and to the kosher stores to get everything else I need. hopping for Passover is like being on the most intense scavenger hunt ever. My grocery list looks like it was written in medieval Poland. I need a really big brisket. Like maybe an entire cow. And chicken livers. Like the whole chicken.

And maybe 10,000 eggs.

I need horseradish — red and white. I need fish and potatoes, matzah and parsley. Coconut and carrots.Apples and walnuts and honey and wine. Oh, and they wouldn’t happen to have four shankbones hanging around, would they?

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One time when my mother was alive, she had a craving for real kishke. I went to the store with her instructions: I needed rendered fat and casings. The butcher seemed mystified.

How did I become my mother? Or, rather, my grandmother, greatgrandmother and great-great-grandmother, all the way down the line?

How did I get so fascinated with the butchers at all the grocery stores in town, interrogating the staff about their briskets, their chicken livers, the weights and when they’re expected?

When I’ve bought everything on my list, I start cooking very meticulously. I cling to the idea that if I’m organized about this, I can be ready. I can’t really be ready.

Sometimes while I’m out shopping, I run into the rest of the world.

There they are, happy normal people, out shopping for regular groceries, like bread, or in the Easter aisle buying chocolate eggs.

I’m somewhat surprised that the world is just ticking along as normal, and there’s not an emergency in their kitchens like there is in mine.

Because no matter how far ahead I start, no matter how much I’m sure I’m finished the night before, it

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Where — and why — they love matzah all year long

By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ JTA

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NSCHEDE, Netherlands — For most matzah bakeries, Passover is their lifeline and only claim to financial viabil-

ity.

After the weeklong holiday, during which Jews are commanded to consume matzah to commemorate their ancestors’ hurried flight out

Eaten by millions of non-Jews! of Egypt, demand for the famously tasteless cracker drops sharply.

Except, that is, in the Netherlands.

A centuries-old and proud Jewish community here has made matzah a household product that is sold in supermarkets and consumed yearround by millions of non-Jews who swear by it as their breakfast bread of choice.

That’s one reason why Pieter Heijs, a co-owner of Hollandia Matzes in this eastern city, is probably the only matzah maker in the world who braces for losses, not earnings, during Passover.

Almost all the profits of his matzah bakery — the only one in Holland — comes from sales to non-Jews of a product that lacks the “kosher for Passover” certification.

However, for four weeks ahead of Passover, Hollandia also produces kosher-for-Passover matzah, which “costs more to make than what we get for it,” Heijs said.

The factory, which produces about 40 million matzah crackers annually, also makes small amounts of shmurah matzah — the specialty variant that is even costlier because of its stringent adherence to the kosher rules for the seder.

To prevent even the hint of leavening, the wheat and flour never come into contact with moisture from the time of the harvesting until the dough is kneaded and the sheets are baked.

Still, Heijs remains committed to making matzah that is kosher for Passover.

“It’s a matter of tradition, and it means a great deal to me,” said

Passover Features Pieter Heijs showing one of the products of his Hollandia Matzes factory in Enschede, the Netherlands, March 19.

Heijs, who is not Jewish. “Even if it comes at the expense of our profit margins, we will continue to produce Passover kosher matzah for as long as we can.” he losses, however, are dwarfed by the boom in Hollandia’s sales during Easter, which often coincides with Passover. On the Christian holiday, millions of Dutch buy and eat matzah as part of a nationwide tradition that testifies to centuries of Jewish influence on the general population.

A liberal nation that was home to one of Europe’s most illustrious Jewish communities before its near annihilation by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust, the Netherlands has other examples of interfaith borrowings (take the oliebol, a deep-fried winter snack in Holland that many trace back to the Chanukah doughnut called sufganiyah).

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sible in the Netherlands partly because many Protestant Christians here emphasize the Hebrew Bible over the New Testament. But Heijs said “it’s because Dutch Jews were so integrated into the fabric of society.”

The matzah became a year-round household food in recent decades as supermarkets replaced smaller

‘No additives, no preservatives, highly nutritious. What more could you want?’ grocery stores, according to Jonah Freud. He published a book in 2012 about the Dutch Jewish cuisine based on her research for the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam.

“I think it may be connected to how matzah is perceived as healthy,” Freud said.

Heijs concurs.

“Many of our clients want matzah because it’s such a pure product,” he said.“No additives, no preservatives, highly nutritious. What more can you ask of a health food?”

In an overture to the health-food crowd, one of the first moves by Heijs and his business partner, Udo Karsemeijer, who also is not Jewish, after they bought Hollandia in 2004 was to add an organic matzah product to the lineup.

It includes matzahs in two sizes, a whole wheat variety and one with spice herbs.

Hollandia now exports products to Scandinavia, Germany and even France, where several matzah bakeries compete for a market with 500,000 Jews. eijs and Karsemeijer bought the Hollandia factory from a Jewish family named Woudstra.

The founding family built the factory in Enschede because it had a large Jewish community, and because of the arrival to the eastern Netherlands of thousands of Jews who fled the Nazis in nearby Germany.

When the Nazis invaded in 1940, the Woudstras went into hiding and the Nazis closed down Hollandia.

Before the invasion, the Netherlands had several matzah bakeries, according to the Dutch Bakers’

H A shopper browsing for matzah at the Amsterdam Noord branch of the Jumbo supermarket chain, March 17.

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Museum.

Among the best known and oldest was the De Haan bakery in the picturesque fishing village of Marken, north of Amsterdam.

It operated only ahead of Passover, and after the baking of the last matzah each year, De Haan employees would march to music through the village dressed in white sheets

and ceremoniously extinguish the ovens.

One of the production line machines inside Hollandia, a stateof-the-art factory with 18 employees who work year-round inside a three-story building, dates back to 1924. Inside the room where it now operates, the local Jewish community briefly ran a Jewish school for the children who were expelled from the general education system under the Nazis.

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sion: Matzah requires no eggs, no salt, no sugar — all commodities that were in very short supply immediately after the war,” Heijs said.

Whatever the reason, he added, the reality was that Hollandia was “one of the first bakeries that were restored” after the war, thus entrenching its status as a household brand.

Heijs, 55, remembers enjoying Hollandia matzah as a boy ahead of and also directly after Easter.

“I understand that matzah is not considered a delicacy exactly among Jews, who substitute bread for matzah for [eight days] each year,” he said. “But for us, who had it in addition to everything else, it was a treat that went very well with chocolate and butter.”

Karina Ahles-Frijters, who lives in Hilversum, near Amsterdam, wrote in 2016 on her parenting blog Trotsemoeders that her three children like to experiment with matzah toppings (her eldest prefers whole wheat matzah with butter and sugar-coated anise seeds, she wrote).

One day a year, the Hollandia factory is open to anyone interested

‘A treat that goes very well with chocolate and butter’ II, during which the Germans killed 75% of the prewar Dutch Jewish population of 100,000. The community never replenished its numbers.

By then, however, matzahs had developed a non-Jewish following. he eye-catching and instantly recognizable packaging of Hollandia matzah boxes — an orange-colored octagonal cardboard box with a nifty camera-aperture opening — was a marketing coup cooked up by the Woudstras, Heijs said.

The matzah became even better known to the Dutch immediately after the war because the Hollandia factory received generous subsidies under the Marshall Plan for financial aid to rebuild war-torn Europe, according to Heijs.

He said the funding was meant also as a gesture acknowledging Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.

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in making his own matzahs.

But not everyone is a fan of the matzah.

“Frankly I couldn’t tell you why so many Dutchmen like matzah — I don’t think it’s tasty at all,” said Roger van Oordt, the director of the Netherlands-based Christians for Israel group, which organizes matzah-baking activities in solidarity with Israel and the Jews. “If I have to think about eating nothing but matzah for two weeks, it makes being Christian look easy.”

Although he is not Jewish, Heijs regards matzah as much more than a commodity.

“After 14 years of making matzahs, of course I developed friendships and bonds with many Jewish people,” said Heijs, who on Passover eve this year will attend his first seder dinner with his wife at the invitation of a Dutch Jewish community in northern Holland.

“But matzah is part of the Dutch story regardless.”

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Sports

Hall of Fame Photos and Cutlines

By GERALD MELLMAN IJN Sports Editor JOHN ELWAY, left, passing in his prime, made the pro football Hall of Fame in 2004.

In 2011, as general manager, Elway drafted future Hall of Famer Von Miller, right.

Will Elway pick another Hall of Famer in this year’s draft, April 26-28?

Weekly Jewish events . . .

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DENVER & BOULDER FRIDAY

March 30

(Chabad Stapleton), 7 p.m., Doubletree Hilton Community Passover Seder (Aspen), 7:30 p.m., Chabad JCC (also March 31, 8 p.m.)

First Seder Current Events, 10 a.m., JFS@JCC Senior Connections Community Passover Seder (Aspen Jewish Cong.), 5:30 p.m., Viceroy Snowmass Seder of the Southwest (Santa Fe), 5:30 p.m., Drury Hotel Communal Passover Seder (Cheyenne), 6 p.m., Mt. Sinai Communal Passover, 6 p.m., Temple Emanuel Communal Passover Seder (Salt Lake), 6 p.m., JCC Bilingual Community Passover Seder, 6:30 p.m., Western Center for Russian Jewry Community Passover Seder (Chabad Westminster), 6:30 p.m., Front Range Community College Community Passover Seder (Chabad Vail), 6:30 p.m., Grandview (also March 31, 7:45 p.m.)

Communal Passover Seder, 7 p.m., Chabad Lone Tree

Community Passover Seder, 8:30 p.m., Bais Menachem (also March 31)

SATURDAY

5:30 p.m., Temple Shalom Community Passover Seder (Westminster), 5:45 p.m., B’nai Torah Seder in the Desert, 6 p.m., B’nai Havurah Community Passover Seder, 6 p.m., Temple Micah

Community Passover Seder (Beth Evergreen), 4:30 p.m., Mt. Vernon Country Club Community Passover Seder (Greeley), 5 p.m., Beth Israel Community Passover Seder (Morrison), 5 p.m., B’nai Chaim Community Passover Seder (Boulder), 5:30 p.m., Har HaShem Community Passover Seder (Frisco), 5:30 p.m., Summit County Community & Senior Center Congregational Seder, 5:30 p.m., Temple Sinai

MONDAY April 2

FIRST SEDER, MARCH 30 SECOND SEDER, MARCH 31

Lunch & Learn, 11:30 a.m., Temple Emanuel Passover BBQ, 5 p.m., Rodef Shalom

Passover, Third Day

The Exodus Through Visual Midrash (Boulder), noon, Har HaShem

Second Seder

Passover, Fifth Day Lunch & Learn, 11:30 a.m., HEA

The Great Big Passover Adventure (Chabad Colorado), 11 a.m., Heritage Square

March 31

Passover Meal (Beth Ami), 3:45 p.m., East Boulder Community Center

Passover Celebration (Boulder), 10:30 a.m., Bonai Shalom

TUESDAY

THURSDAY April 5

Passover, Sixth Day Lunch & Learn, noon, Temple Sinai Torah Thursday (Cheyenne), noon, Mt. Sinai

Second Night Seder (Trinidad), 6 p.m., Temple Aaron

April 3

Communal Second Night Seder (Har Mishpacha), 7 p.m.,

Passover, Fourth Day

Women’s Passover Seder, 6 p.m., Temple Emanuel

Active Minds: “Take a Bite of the Big Apple,” 10 a.m., JFS at the JCC

Bernstein the Composer: “Age of Anxiety,” 7 p.m., Boulder JCC

Teen Club Seder, 7 p.m., Chabad Lone Tree Community Passover Seder (Santa Fe), 7:45 p.m., Kol BeRamah Community Passover Seder, 8:15 p.m., Chabad Westminster

SUNDAY April 1

Community Passover Seder, 7 p.m., Steamboat Grand

Passover Potluck Seder (Ft. Collins), 5:30 p.m., Har Shalom

Passover, Second Day

Community Passover Seder

Second Night Seder (Colo. Spgs.),

Hallel & Havruta

Potpourri of Jewish Questions (Albuquerque), 1:30 p.m., JCC Passover Cooking for Kids, 4:30 p.m., Boulder JCC Milestones in the Development of Zionism: “1967” (Ft. Collins), 7 p.m., Har Shalom

WEDNESDAY April 4

FRIDAY April 6

Passover, Seventh Day 8th Night Passover Seder (Judaism Your Way), 6 p.m., Rodef Shalom Campfire Shabbat, 6 p.m., Temple Sinai

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Leisure & Entertainment PERFORMANCES • RENAISSANCE

At Jewrovision, European youth rock out

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New crop of Paulie’s Passover Predicamant

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The Passover Parrot

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The Spy Who Played Baseball

200 kids from 10 countries

Search for the Shamir

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Passover and beyond

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EW YORK — A talking parrot saves the family seder and a moose-musician is eager to host his perfect first Passover meal in a pair of delightful new children’s books for the holiday. A third book celebrates the rich diversity of the Jewish people through photographs.

Looking beyond Passover, a new crop of Jewish children’s books beckons for the spring that includes a picture book on Moe Berg, the Jewish baseball player who became a spy for the US government; and an adventure chapter book that travels back to the days of King Solomon.

Paulie’s Passover Predicament

By Jane Sutton illustrated by Barbara Vagnozzi Kar-Ben; ages 3-8

Paulie is a guitar-playing moos-ician who is hosting his very first seder and wants it to be just perfect. At the grocery store, he piles his cart with boxes of matzah, candles and lots of grape juice.

But Paulie’s guests — a porcupine, bear, bunny and others — giggle and poke fun at his seder plate with its really big ostrich egg, saltwater with pepper, and pine cones rather than walnuts for the ceremonial charoset.

Kids will get in on the action when Paulie sets out to search for the hidden afikomen — until the basement door closes shut behind him.

Paulie ingeniously solves the problem and later leads his friends in a rousing rendition of “Dayenu”; he is especially grateful for his freedom.

Jane Sutton’s playful story, enhanced by Barbara Vagnozzi’s brightly colored illustrations, captures the excitement of celebrating Passover with a tender touch that reinforces the importance of being kind to friends.

The Passover Parrot

By Evelyn Zusman illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker Kar-Ben; ages 3-8

By PENNY SCHWARTZ JTA Lily lives in a brownstone in Brooklyn with her parents and six brothers and sisters.

She loves swinging on a tire swing that hangs from a large tree in their New York City backyard.

As the family prepares to celebrate Passover, a neighbor who is moving drops off her pet parrot as a gift that delights Lily — her mom, however, doesn’t share the excitement. The parrot’s name is Hametz, the word for bread and other leavened food not eaten during Passover.

Lily is determined to recite the Four Questions in Hebrew at the seder, but everyone is too busy to help her practice. Except Hametz, that is, who repeats the questions back to Lily.

With a houseful of guests for the seder, Lily’s father is not amused when Hametz chimes in with Lily and he banishes the parrot to the girl’s room.

Will the seder be ruined when Lily discovers Hametz and the afikomen missing from her room? Lily solves the mystery and the seder comes to an uplifting end.

This is a newly illustrated 35th anniversary edition of this story by Evelyn Zusman, who was a Hebrew school teacher in New York and Los Angeles. A lively Lily and playful Hametz are center stage throughout the book’s large, colorful illustrations by Canadian artist Kyrsten Brooker.

She draws readers in on the scenes that evoke a nostalgic feel of urban Jewish life in the early to mid-20th century.

We Are Jewish Faces

By Debra B. Davick Apples & Honey Press; ages 5-8 This joyful collection of colorful photographs conveys the rich diversity of Jews today, with the faces of Jewish children and teens with their grandparents, friends, brothers and sisters.

While the recommended age range is 5-8, the lively but simple photographs will appeal

MSTERDAM (JTA) — Each spring, the televised Eurovision song contest captivates the continent.

While Jewish pride is a sidebar at the $180 million contest — in the form of support for the Israeli contender — it is front and center at Jewrovision. The Jewish version of Eurovision took place on March 18 in Milan for the 19th consecutive year.

Approximately 200 youths from 10 countries participated in the event, organized for Jewish European youth by the World Bnei Akiva movement.

The winning song for the 2018 Jewrovision was “Am Echad” — Hebrew for “one people” — sung by the German group Krefeld.

to even younger ones, who will be fascinated by the smiling, cheerful faces of other kids.

The settings traverse the globe and the Jewish life cycle and calendar, from blowing the shofar, eating matzah and lighting a Chanukah menorah to graduations, Bar Mitzvah celebrations and other milestones.

Kids are dressed in contemporary clothes and traditional elaborately decorated Yemenite clothing.

In an author’s note, Debra Davick writes that she was first inspired to create the book by visiting her children’s Jewish day school many years ago — a community that included Jewish children from an array of Jewish families.

Here are some new Jewish titles on the springtime bookshelves: The Spy Who Played Baseball

By Carrie Jones illustrated by Gary Cherrington Kar-Ben; ages 5-9 Nothing says spring like baseball. This new book introduces kids to the unusual story of Moe Berg, a Princeton-educated, multi-lingual major leaguer from the 1930s who was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

During WW II, Berg became an intelligence officer for the US war efforts, including in Nazi-controlled Europe.

Search for the Shamir

By Eric A. Kimmel illustrations by Ivica Stevanovic Kar-Ben; ages 6-9 This is the second in the “Scarlett and Sam” series, a Jewish chapter book for older readers. Eric Kimmel, a popular and award-winning author, delivers a fun adventure story with returning fictional twins Scarlett and Sam, who travel back in time to ancient Jerusalem, where they face the challenge of finding the insect called the shamir that the ruler needs to build the First Temple.

But the song had stiff competition in 13-year-old Emma Schipper from Amsterdam, who came in second with a Hebrew-language song titled “Halom” (dream). It speaks about G-d’s interventions to save the Jewish people. She selected the slow R&B-like ballad to show off the versatility of her metallic, full-bodied voice.

Schipper attends Amsterdam’s only Jewish high school and studies music with two Israeli teachers. She reached the auditions last year of the kids’ version of her country’s “The Voice” talent show, performing with her sister as the Emma & Laila duo.

While showmanship is important to the organizers and judges of the contest, it takes a back seat to the real goal of Jewrovision: Providing a meeting point for young Jewish teens from small and often isolated Jewish communities with an assimilation problem.

“It is exciting each time anew to see contestants from so many countries in Europe go on one stage and sing about their connection with the State of Israel,” said Roi Abecassis, director of the World Bnei Akiva movement.

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nei Akiva is not the only Jewish organization that decided to harness the power of song to connect communities. In February, the Central Council of Jews in Germany held its 17th consecutive Jewrovision song contest in Dresden, though that competition is mainly for contestants in Germany.

A favorite in the Milan competition came from one of Europe’s smallest Jewish communities. Eden Avidan, 13, has competed in various national contests in Finland, including one last year in which she won second place.

“The song I sang in the [Jewrovision] competition was about Jerusalem, a city I very much like,” she said.

Faced with such seasoned competition, it is easy to understand why 16-year-old Micha Guskin of Zurich, Switzerland, was a bit apprehensive about performing in Milan.

Guskin was a student of Denverbased musician Andreas Schmid.

Unlike for Avidan and the Schippers, it was Guskin’s first real performance — not counting singing in his synagogue back home, where he began leading prayers a few years ago in recognition of his cantorial skills.

But perform he did, singing “Israel is Our Home,” a song about the country as “a source of pride,” Guskin said.

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Health More camps focus on farming, healthy food Don’t worry, pizza still on offer — but so are smoothies, gluten-free options

By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN JTA

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EW YORK — The letter Cy Golanski wrote to his grandmother last summer was short, to the point and a little different from the typical note home from sleepaway camp.

“The food here is so good. Please ask my mom when the cookbook is coming out,” the 11-year-old wrote, adding a request that his grandmother make the same tomato soup he

was eating at camp.

This year, he will head to his fifth summer at Eden Village Camp, a Jewish camp in Putnam Valley, NY, with a focus on farming, food and wilderness. Kids there eat meals such as baked fish with chimichurri rice pilaf, Moroccan vegetable tagine and green curry with tofu and vegetables, all made from scratch with organic, local and consciously sourced ingre-

Drs. Oz and Roizen Counterfeit drugs; Rain and joint pain

By MICHAEL ROIZEN, MD, AND MEHMET OZ, MD IJN columnists Q: I heard there was a big influx of counterfeit prescription pills on the market — pills that look like the real thing but are fake. Is that true, and how dangerous is it?

Jason D., Annandale, Maryland A: It is true. Since there’s been a crackdown in Florida and elsewhere on pill mills that cranked out scripts for legally manufactured pain pills, and because responsible doctors are growing more conservative about prescribing them to patients, there’s been an increase in made-in-the-USA counterfeit pills.

The Drug Enforcement Agency says that an influx of pill-making machines is what’s pushing these deadly counterfeit drugs onto our streets. Industrial-grade pill presses can turn out 170,000 pills per minute, while handheld ones can press only a dozen at a time.

The worst part of it is that fake pills — masquerading as prescription painkillers, like Oxycodone, hydrocodone, Percocet and Xanax — often are laced with fentanyl.

Fentanyl is 25 to 50 times more powerful than heroin and is responsible for thousands of accidental overdoses.

Recently DEA agents in San Francisco followed a delivery of a suspicious industrial pill press to a home, where they found five more presses and 30 pounds (13.6 kilograms) of synthetic fentanyl.

One law-enforcement agent said that if someone had just one kilogram of fentanyl (wholesale $3,500 to $5,000), a pill press (about $1,000) and the binding material, they could potentially make $10 million worth of fake pills. Hello, “Breaking Bad.” Most pill presses and synthetic fentanyl are made in China. So Chuck Rosenberg, an administrator for the DEA, went to China last January and met with officials about keeping synthetic fentanyl and pill presses from being shipped illegally to the US. Let’s hope that they will agree to step up.

In the meantime, if you’re dependent on opioid pain pills, see your doctor about getting treatment for your addiction, and do not buy these drugs on the black market.There’s likely no second chance with a fentanyl-laced fake.

Q: My orthopedic surgeon

says it’s all in my head, but I swear, after my recent spinal fusion with a new disc, four screws and two posts, I get more achy when the weather gets cold and rainy. Isn’t there any science to that?

David M., Rome, New York A: There’s ample anecdotal evidence of the relationship of rainy weather to joint pain: People have said for generations that their arthritis acts up when it rains.

Some doctors will back you up, too.

On the other hand, temperature doesn’t seem to have much to do with it.

What happens when it rains is that barometric air pressure changes (barometers have been predicting storms for a long time) and the moisture in the air (humidity) becomes more dense. People with sensitive joints from arthritis or injury insist that they can feel the change as pain or discomfort.

In contrast, kids and adults with healthy joints don’t ever complain about the way the weather makes their joints feel.

So what physical changes could account for the rain-pain-joint problem? One orthopedic surgeon in Brandon, Fla., believes that changes in barometric pressure affect the fluid in your joints, causing swelling, and nerve receptors in those joints react, registering pain.

Others agree. Dr. Robert Bolash, a pain-management specialist at the Cleveland Clinic, said, “Weather changes actually can affect chronic pain — specifically joint pain.”

While admitting that there’s not a lot of scientific evidence, he points out that air pressure and humidity don’t affect nerve or stomach pain, but if you have chronic joint pain, you are much more likely to be susceptible to changes in the atmosphere.

So, David, know that once you’re fully healed up from your surgery — stay on your physical therapy!

— you won’t be a walking barometer. It could take a full year, but it will get better, and you’ll even forget your umbrella on a cloudy day.

Email your health and wellness questions to Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen at youdocsdaily@sharecare.com. © 2018 Michael Roizen, MD and Mehmet Oz, MD

dients.

Sleepaway camps are traditionally associated with institutional food that is more filling and bland than delicious and health-conscious.

But camps are becoming more focused on promoting healthy eating in an enticing way, said Michele Friedman, director of new camp initiatives at the Foundation for Jewish Camp.

“It’s been a growing trend in the last five to 10 years, trying to promote healthy eating among young children and help them develop good eating habits, and at the same time make it fun,” Friedman told JTA. Eden Village Camp, which launched in 2010 and is opening a new location this year in Richmond, Calif., is one of several sustainable living camps that the foundation has helped launch through its incubator programs.

Kids help grow vegetables at Eden Village Camp in New York The camp is home to a four-acre State.

Eden Village Camp farm and some 80 fruit trees, and kids help to grow and harvest produce.

Farming makes vegetables more appealing to kids, founding director Yoni Stadlin told JTA. “When they’ve got their hands on growing broccoli, they’re much more likely to eat it,” he said.

Camp Zeke, which launched in 2014 in Lakewood, Pa., promotes healthy living through nutrition and exercise.

“I think a lot of families are really focused on healthy living at home, and they are looking for Campers prepare and bake their own challah. camps that reflect those values in the camp,” said Isaac Mamaysky, who serves as the camp’s director with his wife, Lisa.

At Camp Zeke, the canteen offers a smoothie bar and trail mix instead of the traditional candy and chips.

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LEGAL NOTICES COLORADO DIVISION OF INSURANCE SYNOPSIS OF ANNUAL STATEMENT FOR PUBLICATION Required pursuant to §10-3-109(1), C.R.S. FOR YEAR 2017 As Rendered to the Commissioner of Insurance SHELTERPOINT LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY NAIC Number 81434 1225 Franklin Avenue - Suite 475 Garden City, New York 11530 Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $114,915,495 Liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $53,947,916 Capital and Surplus/Policyholder Surplus. . . . $60,967,579 DIVISION OF INSURANCE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the SHELTERPOINT LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY organized under the laws of New York, subject to its Articles of Incorporation or other fundamental organizational documents and in consideration of its compliance with the laws of Colorado, is hereby licensed to transact business as a Life insurance company, as provided by the Insurance Laws of Colorado, as amended, so long as the insurer continues to conform to the authority granted by its Certificate and its corporate articles, or its Certificate is otherwise revoked, canceled or suspended.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the official seal of my office to be affixed at the City and County of Denver this first day of March, 2018.

Marguerite Salazar Commissioner of Insurance First Publication: March 9, 2018 Last Publication: March 30, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News DISTRICT COURT, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO Court Address: 1437 Bannock St. Denver, CO 80202 Case No.: 2018CV30475 Div: 424 Plaintiff: DANIEL A. JENSEN v.

Defendant: HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF LEO R. MATHRE a/k/a LEO REX MATHRE, Deceased Attorney for Plaintiff Name: Karsh Fulton Gabler Joseph PC Fred Gabler, #8978 Alan E. Karsh, #1620 Address: 1546 Cole Blvd, Bldg. 5, Suite 100 Lakewood, CO 80401 Phone #: 303.759.9669 E-mail: fgabler@karshfulton.com akarsh@karshfulton.com SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the Complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response.

You are required to file your answer or other response within thirty-five (35) days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the Complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within thirty-five (35) days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the Complaint without further notice.

This is an action affecting title to the following described real property: The North 1/2 of Lot 48, all of Lots 49 and 50, Block 23, WINDSOR, City and County of Denver, State of Colorado.

Also known as 629 Osceola Street, Denver, Colorado 80204 (“Property”).

Dated: March 5, 2018.

Published in the Intermountain Jewish News First Publication: March 9, 2018 Last Publication: April 6, 2018 Fred Gabler, #8978 Attorneys for Plaintiff (This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(g), Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure. This form should not be used where personal service is desired.)

(TO THE CLERK: When this summons is issued by the clerk of the court, the signature block for the clerk or deputy should be provided by stamp, or typewriter, in the space to the left of the attorney’s name.) *Rule 12(a), C.R.C.P., allows -35 days for answer or response where service of process is by publication. However, under various statutes, a different response time is set forth; e.g., §38-6-104, C.R.S. (eminent domain); §38-36-121, C.R.S. (Torrens registration).

COLORADO DIVISION OF INSURANCE SYNOPSIS OF ANNUAL STATEMENT FOR PUBLICATION Required pursuant to §10-3-109(1), C.R.S. FOR YEAR 2017 As Rendered to the Commissioner of Insurance THE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY NAIC Number 67091 720 East Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53202-4797 Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $265,048,751,894 Liabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $244,198,522,872 Capital and Surplus/Policyholder Surplus $20,850,229,022 DIVISION OF INSURANCE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the THE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY organized under the laws of WI, subject to its Articles of Incorporation or other fundamental organizational documents and in consideration of its compliance with the laws of Colorado, is hereby licensed to transact business as a Life, Accident and Health insurance company, as provided by the Insurance Laws of Colorado, as amended, so long as the insurer continues to conform to the authority granted by its Certificate and its corporate articles, or its Certificate is otherwise revoked, canceled or suspended.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the official seal of my office to be affixed at the City and County of Denver this first day of March, 2018.

Marguerite Salazar Commissioner of Insurance First Publication: March 9, 2018 Last Publication: March 30, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2018PR30225 In the Matter of the Estate of TAMAS KALLOS, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before July 16, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

NILZA P. L. KALLOS Personal Representative 10 Edgewater Drive, Apartment 7D Coral Gables, FL 33133 MICHAEL A. SMEENK, Esq. Atty. Reg. #: 38921 Attorney for the Personal Representative Frascona, Joiner, Goodman and Greenstein, P.C. 4750 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80305-5541 Phone Number: (303) 494-3000 FAX Number: (303) 494-6309 E-mail: mike@frascona.com First Publication: March 16, 2018 Second Publication: March 23, 2018 Last Publication: March 30, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE To whom it may concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: Sheriff’s Foreclosure Sale No.18000265 was commenced on January 8th, 2018 in the office of the undersigned Sheriff relating to the Deed of Trust described below: James B. Rollins Original Grantor(s) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for American Brokers Conduit Original Beneficiary Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee for American Home Mortgage Investment Trust 2006-1 Current Holder of Evidence of Debt December 28, 2005 Date of Deed of Trust Denver County of Recording January 12, 2006 Recording Date of Deed of Trust: At Reception No. 2006009084 Recording Information Receipt No. and/or Book No. and Page No. $244,181.00 Original Principal Balance $232,075.44 Outstanding Principal Balance Pursuant to C.R.S. § 38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the Deed of Trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. CONDOMINIUM UNIT 113, BUILDING 1631 EMERSON STREET, SWALLOW HILL RESIDENCES, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED OCTOBER 7, 2002 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 2002179997 AND SUPPLEMENT TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED FEBRUARY 14, 2003 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 2003025154 AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR SWALLOW HILL RECORDED OCTOBER 7, 2002 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 2002179996 AND SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION RECORDED FEBRUARY 14, 2003 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 2003025153 IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO, TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE PARKING SPACE UNIT 113 AND STORAGE LOCKER UNIT 113, AS LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 1631 Emerson Street #113, Denver, Colorado 80218 NOTICE OF SALE The current Holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction at 10:00 a.m. on May 3rd, 2018, at the front steps of the City and County Building, 1437 Bannock Street, Denver, Colorado 80202, sell to the highest and best bidder, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale, and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS PAYABLE TO THE REGISTRY OF THE DENVER DISTRICT COURT. NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED. IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN C.R.S. § 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN C.R.S. § 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor P.O. Box 4503 Denver, CO 80203 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (800)222-4444 (855)411-2372 http://www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov/complaint http://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint Date: February 6, 2018 Patrick Firman, Sheriff City and County of Denver, Colorado By: Deputy Sheriff Sergeant R. Line The name, business address and business telephone number of the attorneys representing the legal holder of the indebtedness are: David A. Shore, Attorney Reg. No. 19973 Martin H. Shore, Attorney Reg. No. 1800 Stephen A. Hall, Attorney Reg. No. 38186 Hellerstein and Shore, P. C., 5347 S. Valentia Way, Suite 100, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 (303) 573-1080 THE ATTORNEYS ABOVE ARE ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE First Publication: March 9th, 2018 Last Publication: April 6th, 2018 Name of Publication: Intermountain Jewish News LEGAL NOTICE First Mortgagees of Abington Condominiums, Units 1755, 101, 102, 103, 104, 201, 202, 203 and 204, 1755 and 1759 Gilpin St., Denver, Colorado 80218.

Pursuant to Section 38-33.3-217 of Colorado Revised Statues this is notice by the Owners of Abington Condominiums that they intend to amend the Condominium Declaration for Abington Condominiums which was recorded on October 15, 2002 at Reception No. 2002188257 of Denver County, Colorado records.

Pursuant to the statue set forth above, each first mortgagee has the right to object to the Amendment.

If no communication from you is received by April 21, 2018, you will be deemed to have approved the amendment.

A copy of the proposed Amendment may be obtained by calling CHRIS O’DELL at 303-436-9200x1.

First Publication: March 23, 2018 Last Publication: March 30, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2018PR30231 In the Matter of the Estate of SHARON VAURENE WILLIAMS, a/k/a SHARON V. WILLIAMS, and a/k/a SHARON WILLIAMS, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before July 16, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

HOWARD WILLIAMS Personal Representative 810 Locust Street Denver, Colorado 80220 JESSICA L. BRODERICK, Esq. Atty. Reg. #: 40260 Attorney for the Personal Representative 633 17th Street, Suite 3000 Denver, Colorado 80202 Phone Number: (303) 299-8446 FAX Number: (303) 298-0940 E-mail: jbroderick@sah.com First Publication: March 16, 2018 Second Publication: March 23, 2018 Last Publication: March 30, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 18PR0012 In the Matter of the Estate of ELIZABETH GRACE MASTERSON aka LIZ MASTERSON, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before July 16, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

MARGARET E. HAYDEN Personal Representative 300 Corral Ck Rd. Evergreen, CO 80439 Phone: 303-674-0242 First Publication: March 16, 2018 Second Publication: March 23, 2018 Last Publication: March 30, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 18PR0140 In the Matter of the Estate of JENNIE MORENO, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before July 16, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

PATRICK MORENO Personal Representative 646 Kalamath St. Denver, CO 80204 First Publication: March 16, 2018 Second Publication: March 23, 2018 Last Publication: March 30, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News COLORADO DIVISION OF INSURANCE SYNOPSIS OF ANNUAL STATEMENT FOR PUBLICATION Required pursuant to §10-3-109(1), C.R.S. FOR YEAR 2017 As Rendered to the Commissioner of Insurance THE CINCINNATI LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY NAIC Number 76236 6200 South Gilmore Road Fairfield, OH 45014 Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,407,172,258 Liabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,212,034,131 Capital and Surplus/Policyholder Surplus $195,138,127 DIVISION OF INSURANCE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the CINCINNATI LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY organized under the laws of Ohio, subject to its Articles of Incorporation or other fundamental organizational documents and in consideration of its compliance with the laws of Colorado, is hereby licensed to transact business as a Life insurance company, as provided by the Insurance Laws of Colorado, as amended, so long as the insurer continues to conform to the authority granted by its Certificate and its corporate articles, or its Certificate is otherwise revoked, canceled or suspended.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the official seal of my office to be affixed at the City and County of Denver this first day of March, 2018.

Marguerite Salazar Commissioner of Insurance First Publication: March 9, 2018 Last Publication: March 30, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News COLORADO DIVISION OF INSURANCE SYNOPSIS OF ANNUAL STATEMENT FOR PUBLICATION Required pursuant to §10-3-109(1), C.R.S. FOR YEAR 2017 As Rendered to the Commissioner of Insurance MONARCH LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY NAIC Number 66265 330 Whitney Avenue, Suite 500 Holyoke, Massachusetts 01040-2857 Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $669,483,207 Liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $665,141,068 Capital and Surplus/Policyholder Surplus. . . . . $4,342,135 DIVISION OF INSURANCE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the MONARCH LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY organized under the laws of Massachusetts, subject to its Articles of Incorporation or other fundamental organizational documents and in consideration of its compliance with the laws of Colorado, is hereby licensed to transact business as a Life insurance company, as provided by the Insurance Laws of Colorado, as amended, so long as the insurer continues to conform to the authority granted by its Certificate and its corporate articles, or its Certificate is otherwise revoked, canceled or suspended.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the official seal of my office to be affixed at the City and County of Denver this first day of March, 2018.

Marguerite Salazar Commissioner of Insurance First Publication: March 9, 2018 Last Publication: March 30, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 18PR00080 In the Matter of the Estate of DORIS BEVERLY TUTEUR, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Arapahoe Probate Court, Colorado, on or before August 3, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

SHELLEY TUTEUR Personal Representative 13735 East Marina Drive, Unit B Aurora, Colorado 80014 Telephone: (720) 629-8737 JACQUES S. RUDA Attorney for the Estate 6000 East. Evans Ave., Suite 1-211 Denver, Colorado 80222 Telephone: (303) 297-3800 First Publication: March 23, 2018 Second Publication: March 30, 2018 Last Publication: April 6, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2018PR30087 In the Matter of the Estate of CARL EDWIN KUHLMAN, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before July 16, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

JOHN M. ESTES Personal Representative 1610 Hover Street, Suite 203 Longmont, Colorado 80501 DANIEL P. KAPSAK, Atty. Reg. #: 21362 Attorney for the Personal Representative The Kapsak Law Firm, LLC 1610 Hover Street, Suite 203 Longmont, Colorado 80501 Phone Number: 303-651-9330 FAX Number: 303-485-3714 E-mail: dkapsak@kapsaklaw.com First Publication: March 16, 2018 Second Publication: March 23, 2018 Last Publication: March 30, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 18CV30883 Courtroom 320 In the Matter of the Petition of: TIFFANY CORNIER for Minor Child: ISA CORNIER For a change of Name to: AIDEN JAMES CORNIER Public Notice is given that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Minor Child was filed with the DENVER DISTRICT Court on March 13, 2018.

The Petition requests that the name of ISA CORNIER be changed to AIDEN JAMES CORNIER. By: SABRA MILLETT, Clerk of the Court First Publication: March 23, 2018 Second Publication: March 30, 2018 Last Publication: April 6, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 17PR31176 In the Matter of the Estate of RICHARD WAYNE CARLSON, also known as RICHARD W. CARLSON also known as RICHARD CARLSON, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before July 22, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

CHRISTINE GARCIA Personal Representative 5087 S. Elkhart Court Aurora, CO 80015 FRANCIS J. EVANS, Atty. Reg. #: 8965 Attorney for the Personal Representative 5299 DTC Boulevard, Suite 750 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Phone Number: 303.773.1144 FAX Number: 303.773.2255 Email: frank@frankevanslaw.com First Publication: March 23, 2018 Second Publication: March 30, 2018 Last Publication: April 6, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2018PR030256 In the Matter of the Estate of ADRIENNE ELIZABETH STOKES, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before August 6, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

AMBER MARTINEZ Personal Representative 1626 Washington Street Denver, CO 80203 DAVID L. WORSTELL Attorney for the Personal Representative Worstell & Associates 1626 Washington St. Denver, CO 80203 Phone Number: 303-832-8225 Fax Number: 303-832-4515 Email: Jennifer.weiser@1626washingtonlaw.com First Publication: March 23, 2018 Second Publication: March 30, 2018 Last Publication: April 6, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 18PR0043 In the Matter of the Estate of SHIRLEY VIVIAN WARGON, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before July 19, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

BRENT I. SNYDER Personal Representative 9175 E. Kenyon Ave., Suite 200 Denver, CO 80237 First Publication: March 16, 2018 Second Publication: March 23, 2018 Last Publication: March 30, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2018PR30034 In the Matter of the Estate of CAROL LEE VANDYKE, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before July 30, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

JERALDINE “JERRY” FITZGERALD Personal Representative c/o STEVEN M. WEISER, Esq. Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher, LLP 360 S. Garfield St., 6th Floor Denver, Colorado 80209 STEVEN M. WEISER, Esq. Atty. Reg. #: 27535 Attorney for the Personal Representative 360 S. Garfield Street, 6th Floor Denver, Colorado 80209 Phone Number: 303-333-9810 FAX Number: 303-333-9786 E-mail: sweiser@fostergraham.com First Publication: March 30, 2018 Second Publication: April 6, 2018 Last Publication: April 13, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 18PR0169 In the Matter of the Estate of ALFRED JACKSON SMITH, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before July 30, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

JANNICE ROCHELLE GROOMES Personal Representative 4056 Lisbon St. Denver, CO 80249 First Publication: March 30, 2018 Second Publication: April 6, 2018 Last Publication: April 13, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICE OF LEVY OR SEIZURE Notice is hereby given that on May 2, 2014, a judgment against Frank K. Rodriguez from the District Court of Denver County, Colorado, entered in favor of ODS Financing, LLC, as assignee of Palace Lofts Condominium Association, in the amount of $102,450.97, and that on September 8, 2017 the Clerk of the Denver District Court issued a Writ of Execution commanding the Sheriff of Denver County to levy, seize and take into possession the following real estate, to wit: CONDOMINIUM UNIT 506, (TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE PARKING SPACE(S) B2-121 AND B2-122, AND STORAGE SPACE S236) WATERSIDE LOFTS CONDOMINIUMS ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2002, WITH RECEPTION NUMBER 2002173931, IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN WATERSIDE LOFTS CONDOMINIUMS CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2002, WITH RECEPTION NUMBER 2002173930, IN SAID RECORDS, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. Otherwise identified or referred to as 1401 Wewatta Street, Unit 506, Denver, Colorado 80202 (the “Property”).

Now therefore, you FRANK K. RODRIGUES take notice that within fourteen (14) days from the date of service hereof, if served within the state, or if served by publication, within fourteen (14) dates after service hereof, exclusive of the day of service, you may file with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court, a written claim of exemption which you may have under the statutes of the State of Colorado; and in case of your failure to make and file such written claim of exemption with the Clerk of said Court you shall be deemed to have waived your right of exemption under the statutes of this state.

Witness Patrick Firman, Sheriff of Denver County, Colorado, signed this day of , 2017.

Patrick Firman, Sheriff By: CERTIFICATE OF LEVY STATE OF COLORADO COUNTY OF DENVER I, Patrick, Firman, Sheriff of Denver County, Colorado, do hereby certify that by virtue of a judgment entered on May 2, 2014 against Frank K. Rodrigues, a Transcript of Judgment Recorded on June 11, 2014 at Reception No. 2014067366 and a Writ of Execution from the District Court of Denver County, Colorado, issued September 8, 2017, in favor of ODS Financing, LLC, as assignee of Palace Lofts Condominium Association, no levy upon the following real estate, to wit: CONDOMINIUM UNIT 506, (TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE PARKING SPACE(S) B2-121 AND B2-122, AND STORAGE SPACE S236) WATERSIDE LOFTS CONDOMINIUMS ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2002, WITH RECEPTION NUMBER 2002173931, IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN WATERSIDE LOFTS CONDOMINIUMS CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2002, WITH RECEPTION NUMBER 2002173930, IN SAID RECORDS, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. Otherwise identified or referred to as 1401 Wewatta Street, Unit 506, Denver, Colorado 80202 (the “Property”).

Witness Patrick Firman, Sheriff of Denver County, Colorado, signed this day of , 2017.

Patrick Firman, Sheriff Plaintiff: RODRIGUES, FRANK K. Defendant: SCHUBACH, HILLARY et al WRIT OF EXECUTION Original Judgment Amount: 102,450.97 Judgment Date: May 02, 2014 Revived Judgment Amount: $.00 Judgment Date: Judgment Status: UNSATISFIED Additional Remarks: CREDITOR NAME CHANGE FROM NATL PALACE LOFTS ASSOC LP TO ODS FINANCING LLC 04/15/16 Debtor(s): FRANK K RODRIGUES, 1401 WEWATTA STREET, UNIT 506, DENVER, CO 80202 Creditor(s): ODS FINANCING LLC Balance of Judgment to Date: $102,450.97 To the Sheriff of Denver County, You are commanded to satisfy the above judgment plus interest and costs executing against any property legally subject to levy of the abovenamed judgment debtor(s) and to return this execution within 90 days from the date of issue, unless sale is pending under levy made.

First Publication: March 30, 2018 Second Publication: April 6, 2018 Third Publication: April 13, 2018 Fourth Publication: April 20, 2018 Fifth Publication: April 27, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2018PR030228 In the Matter of the Estate of PATRICK EUGENE CARVER, a/k/a PATRICK E. CARVER, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before August 3, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

SANDRA KAY CARVER Personal Representative 5000 W. 26th Avenue Denver, CO 80212 JOHN F. GRIEBEL, Esq. Atty. Reg. #: 278 Attorney for the Personal Representative 681 Grant Street Denver, CO 80203 Phone Number: (303) 830-2783 FAX Number: (303) 860-1758 E-mail: John@JFGlawfirm.com First Publication: March 23, 2018 Second Publication: March 30, 2018 Last Publication: April 6, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 18PR30196 In the Matter of the Estate of THOMAS CECIL MILLER, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe, County, Colorado, on or before August 10, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

DAVID WORSTELL, #6492 Personal Representative 1626 Washington Street Denver, CO 80203 DAVID L. WORSTELL, #6492 KARLA H. CARRIGAN, #33761 Attorney for the Personal Representative Worstell & Associates 1626 Washington St. Denver, CO 80203 Phone Number: 303-832-8225 Fax Number: 303-832-4515 Email: amartinez@1626washingtonlaw.com Email: karla.carrigan@1626washingtonlaw.com First Publication: March 23, 2018 Second Publication: March 30, 2018 Last Publication: April 6, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News

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LEGAL NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 18C02042 Courtroom 186 Public Notice is given on March 6, 2018 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Denver County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of RAQUEL NAOMI ZAMORA be changed to RAQUEL NAOMI KINGZMEN By: Deputy Clerk of the Court First Publication: March 30, 2018 Second Publication: April 6, 2018 Last Publication: April 13, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 18PR30296 In the Matter of the Estate of GILBERT JOSEPH SUAZO, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before July 30, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

G. AARON SUAZO Personal Representative 7400 E. Orchard Road, Suite 3025N Greenwood Village, CO 80111 IAN Z. SHEA #36766 Attorney for the Personal Representative HECKENBACH SUAZO LLP 7400 E. Orchard Rd. Suite 3025N Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Phone: 303-858-8000 FAX: 303-858-8001 E-mail: ishea@familylawcolorado.com First Publication: March 30, 2018 Second Publication: April 6, 2018 Last Publication: April 13, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News

DISTRICT COURT, DENVER COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 1437 Bannock Street, Denver CO 80202 Plaintiff: PALACE LOFTS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, a Colorado non-profit corporation, Defendants: FRANK K. RODRIGUES; THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 2002-21A; U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION N.D.; CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT; THE LAW OFFICES OF MURRAY AND DAMSCHEN, P.C.; ODS FINANCING, LLC; DEB JOHNSON AS PUBLIC TRUSTEE FOR DENVER COUNTY; STEVE ELLINGTON AS TREASURER FOR DENVER COUNTY; UNKNOWN TENANT(S) IN POSSESSION. SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION Case Number: 18CV030156 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: FRANK K. RODRIGUES You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response.

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This is an action for judicial foreclosure of an assessment lien in and to the real property situated in Denver County, Colorado, more particularly described on Exhibit A, attached hereto and by this reference made a part hereof.

Exhibit A CONDOMINIUM UNIT 5B, TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE PARKING SPACES B1-31 AND STORAGE AREA S1-13, PALACE LOFTS CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 27, 1998, AT RECEPTION NO. 9800029350, IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN PALACE LOFTS CONDOMINIUMS CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION RECORDED FEBRUARY 27, 1998, AT RECEPTION NO. 9800029349 AND TECHNICAL AMENDMENT RECORDED MARCH 13, 1998 AT RECEPTION NO. 9800038353 IN SAID RECORDS, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known as: 1499 Blake Street, #5B, Denver, CO 80202.

Dated: February 16, 2018 WINZENBURG, LEFF, PURVIS & PAYNE, L.L.P. By: Wendy E. Weigler Attorneys for Plaintiff: WINZENBURG, LEFF, PURVIS & PAYNE, LLP Wendy E. Weigler, #28419 Address: 8020 Shaffer Parkway, Suite 300 Littleton, CO 80127 Phone Number: (303) 863-1870 This Summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(h), Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure First Publication: March 30, 2018 Last Publication: April 13, 2018 Published in Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2018PR030294 In the Matter of the Estate of JAMES ELWOOD HARDMAN aka JAMES E. HARDMAN aka JAMES HARDMAN aka JIM ELWOOD HARDMAN aka JIM E. HARDMAN aka JIM HARDMAN, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Disctrict Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before July 30, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

CHRISTINA NOVARIO Personal Representative c/o MR. ANDREW STATHOPULOS, Esq. Stathopulos & Associates, P.C. 6900 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 350 Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111 ANDREW STATHOPULOS, Esq. Atty. Reg. #: 15251 Attorney for the Personal Representative Stathopulos & Associates, P.C. 6900 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 350 Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111 Phone Number: (303) 773-1500 Fax Number: (303) 773-1722 First Publication: March 30, 2018 Second Publication: April 6, 2018 Last Publication: April 13, 2018 Published: Intermountain Jewish News

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Illionois: Pritzer wins nomination

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ASHINGTON (JTA) — J. B. Pritzker, the scion of a hotel family with deep Jewish community ties, handily bested his opponents in a Democratic primary for Illinois governor. He will face incumbent Bruce Rauner, who is seen as vulnerable.

Pritzker took a substantial lead in what had been depicted as a close three-way race against Daniel Biss, who, like Pritzker, is Jewish and Chris Kennedy, a scion of the legendary American political family. Pritzker garnered 45% of the vote to Biss’ 27% and Kennedy’s 24%.

Pritzker, whose sister Penny was a Commerce Secretary under President Barack Obama, has credited his Jewish upbringing in the family that founded the Hyatt hotel chain for shaping his outlook.

A longtime backer of Hillary Clinton, Pritzker is seen as firmly ensconced in the party’s establishment.

Rep. Dan Lipinski, the incumbent Democrat in Illinois’ 3rd District, comprising a part of Chicago and its southern and western suburbs, squeaked past a progressive challenger in a primary race where Israel emerged as an issue.

Arthur Jones, Lipinski’s opponent in November, is an avowed neo-Nazi, who ran uncontested for the Republican nomination in a district that votes overwhelmingly Democratic.

Lipinski, a conservative Democrat, had infuriated much of the Democratic Party with his refusal in 2012 to endorse Obama, with his anti-abortion stand and with his votes against Obama’s health care reform and the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

The vote against the Iran deal led J Street to back his opponent, Marie Newman, through its affiliated political action committee.

Also backing Newman were an array of reproductive rights advocacy groups.

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The ad was altered to remove the Israel references, but it helped spur centrist and right-wing pro-Israel support for Lipinski. Lipinski bested Newman 51 to 49%.

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ipinski now faces the Republican candidate, Arthur Jones, who once led the American Nazi Party.

The state and national Republican parties have vigorously disavowed Jones, who took advantage of the fact that the party chose not to back a candidate in a district that has for decades been handily won by Democrats.

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“Hatred and anti-Semitism have no place in our politics or in the public square,” said its director, Sara J. Bloomfield, in a statement.

“Whenever proponents of antiSemitism, neo-Nazi ideology or Holocaust denial seek a public platform, civic and political leaders from across the political spectrum must continue to speak out and condemn those ideas.

“We commend the unequivocal rejection of Jones‘s anti-Semitism and racism by leaders like Illinois Governor Rauner and the Illinois Republican Party. The broad repudiation of his toxic ideology and his candidacy speaks louder than the hatred of one man.”

Also condemning Jones was the Republican Jewish Coalition.

More camps focus on farming CAMP from Page 13

Campers can participate in a variety of exercise programs, such as yoga, martial arts, dance and climbing.

While kids still eat traditional camp offerings, such as pizza and chicken wings, they are made in healthy ways.

“We serve many of the things that you would find in other camps, it’s just they don’t come out of a box, they’re not frozen, and we’re making them from scratch and we’re making them in the healthiest possible way,” Mamaysky said.

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amp Zeke also caters to kids with food restrictions and has a separate chef dedicated to their needs.

In recent years, the program has seen an increase in requests for vegetarian and vegan fare, as well as the trendy Paleo diet, Mamaysky said.

Friedman said the Foundation for Jewish Camp has seen camps increasingly catering to kids with dietary limitations, such as gluten allergies and sensitivities and lactose intolerance.

“There is a lot more in terms of food sensitivity and food allergies that have caused camp to amend the way the menus are developed and the kind of food that they’re serving,” she said.

In 2011, NJY Camps, a network of Jewish camps in Milford and Lakewood, Pa., opened a gluten-free kitchen to cater to kids with celiac disease and gluten sensitivity.

The camp decided to do so after staff noticed an increasing number of campers following gluten-free diets, said Janet Fliegelman, the chief operating officer.

“What was happening is people were sending food for their children, so that they could follow their diet, and it was isolating,” she told JTA, adding that there were also crosscontamination issues.

NJY Camps tries to make glutenfree meals similar to the day’s regular meal so that campers won’t feel left out. “The idea of it is that a child who is gluten-free can come to camp and not feel pointed out, not identified.They can have a completely inclusive experience,” Fliegelman said.

NJY Camps also accommodate children with other dietary restrictions, such as nut allergies and lactose intolerance, according to Fliegelman.

Friedman said the focus on healthy eating stems from inside and outside influences.

“I think what’s happening is that the trends that you see in society in general certainly have infiltrated summer camp, and specifically Jewish summer camp, because I think food is a big part of the tra-

dition,” she said.

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he fact that kids help to grow some of the food brings an added significance to Jewish rituals, Stadlin said.

At Eden Village Camp, kids tend to, harvest, winnow, thresh and grind wheat in order to make challah.

“The coolest thing about it is that when that’s done, and they’ve seen this big field turn into a small container of flour and then that turns into a little loaf of challah, and they know how much work went into that, at the end of that you don’t need to convince kids to say the motzi,” he said.

Golanski’s mother, Gina Schmeling, a nonprofit consultant living in Brooklyn, said her two sons are never quite as healthy as when they return from Eden Village Camp at the end of the summer.

“When my kids come back, they are just radiating good health, they both seem really fit, they both seem really calm, they both seem really generous and helpful in a way that they are not regularly during the school year,” she said.

The brothers also become more active participants at home in the kitchen, Schmeling said.

“They have ideas or suggestions about food, what to make, or how to prepare things that I know a more traditional camp wouldn’t provide,” she said.

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Molly Lipsman

Frank Avruch

Johan van Hulst

Dr. Murray Hoffman

Molly Lipsman, a Denver resident since 2009, passed away on March 20, 2018.

Rabbi Brian Immerman officiated at the March 22 graveside service at Mt. Nebo Cemetery. Feldman Mortuary made the arrangements.

In September, 2017, Molly celebrated her 100th birthday with many family members and friends.

Molly was born Sept. 6, 1917, in Omaha, Neb., to Abraham and Esther Lipsman.

She lived most of her life in New York City, where she worked in the movie theater industry.

Molly, who enlisted in the Women’s Marine Corps during WW II, loved traveling, theater, art, music and family.

“May she rest in the peace,” the family said.

Molly Lipsam is survived by her sister and brother-in-law Marian and Lou Gelfand of Denver; sister-in-law Marcia Lipsman of Omaha; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Contributions may be made to the charity of choice.

BOSTON (JTA) — Frank Avruch, a Jewish entertainer known for his portrayal of Bozo the Clown on television, has died.

Avruch, a longtime Boston television personality, died March 20 at his home there from heart disease, his family said in a statement to WCVB-TV. He was 89.

He played Bozo from 1959 to 1970, when local TV stations franchised a character originally created by another Jewish American, record producer Alan W. Livingston.

Avruch became the first nationally syndicated Bozo the Clown.

“He had a heart of gold,” manager Stuart Hersh told AP last week. “He brought the Bozo the Clown character to life better than anyone else’s portrayal of Bozo the Clown.”

Avruch was an active philanthropist and a board member of UNICEF’s New England chapter. He toured the world performing as Bozo for UNICEF, the UN organization dedicated to helping children in need.

In an interview for “TV Party,” Avruch, who was born in Boston to Russian-Jewish parents, revealed that he did not use his real last name when he first started out in television.

“You had to go on television, you had to change your name. Frank Stevens was my name. And when I came out of the Army, I decided to use my real name,” he said.

The decision to use his real name was after seeing “a very famous announcer from the network television called Andre Baruch,” he recalled in the interview.“And I said, well, if he can do it, I can do it, too.”

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Johan van Hulst, a Dutch seminary leader who saved hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust and later became a senator, has died at the age of 107.

Van Hulst and resistance activists smuggled the children to safety over several months. He was the director of a Protestant religious seminary in Amsterdam with a yard that bordered on the nursery section of a facility in which the Nazis and collaborators imprisoned Jews before their dispatch to concentration camps.

The late director, who died March 22, hid in his school the children from the nursery of the Hollandsche Schouwburg, whom he and his helpers would hoist over the hedge that separated the two yards. From there, resistance activists and fighters would smuggle the children to safehouses, sometimes in laundry baskets and other times on bicycles, pretending that the children were their own.

Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum in 1973 recognized Van Hulst, who after the Holocaust became a senator for the Christian Democratic Appeal party, as a Righteous Among the Nations — a title for non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust.

In 2012, Van Hulst’s heroism was immortalized in a film titled “Sussman.”

In 1943, a Dutch Education Ministry official named Fieringa discovered several Jewish children at Van Hulst’s Hervormde Kweekschool and asked for the meaning of their presence there and whether they were Jewish. In a 2012 interview, Van Hulst recalled telling him after a long silence: “You don’t really expect me to answer that, do you?”

Fieringa, an inspector, did not report back on what he had seen.

The grounds of the Hervormde Kweekschool currently houses the National Holocaust Museum of the Netherlands. The joint wall carries a permanent exhibition in his honor.

Separately, Yad Vashem earlier this month recognized as a righteous gentile a police officer from the town of Beverwijk, near Amsterdam, and his wife and another couple, Willem and Ali Bleeker, for their rescue of a Jewish girl, Dolly Drilsma. The Bleekers hid the girl, whose parents went into hiding without her.

When the Bleekers suspected that the Nazis were watching them, they transferred Dolly to the police officer, Leo van der Hoorn. Days later her parents were found and sent to be murdered. As a police officer serving the Nazi occupation forces, van der Hoorn risked stiff punishment, including a summary execution, had he been found out.

The Netherlands has more than 5,000 righteous gentiles, the world’s highest number after Poland.

It also has the highest death rate among Jews in the Holocaust of any Nazi-occupied country in Western Europe, largely due to widespread betrayal of Jews and collaboration with the Nazis by locals.

Dr. Murray S. Hoffman, a longtime Denver cardiologist and former chief of cardiology at National Jewish Hospital, passed away peacefully on March 23, 2018, in Denver.

Rabbi Steven Foster and Cantor Elizabeth Sacks officiated at the March 26 service held at Temple Emanuel.

Interment followed at Emanuel Cemetery. Feldman Mortuary made the arrangements.

“Dr. Hoffman was a devoted family man who cherished time with his wife and children,” the family said.“Known for his gentleness and wisdom, he was a trusted doctor who was loved by his patients, his immediate and extended family.”

Dr. Hoffman was born April 15, 1924, in Denver and attended East High School.

He earned his MD from the CU School of Medicine in 1947 and graduated first in his class. He completed his residency at the University of Cincinnati.

Dr. Hoffman did his fellowship in cardiology and internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

During the Korean War, he served with the US Public Health Service.

Upon his return to Denver, he had a private cardiology practice for many years at Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital, Rose Medical Center and other private hospitals in Denver.

He married Eleanor Hoffman Reeves 55 years ago.

Dr. Hoffman was chief of cardiology at National Jewish Health. He closed his practice in 1992 and joined the faculty at the CU School of Medicine as a professor of medicine and cardiology.

Due to his ongoing relationship with the Mayo Clinic, he was a founding member of the Doctors Mayo Society and was president of the National Mayo Alumni Assn.

President of the Colorado Heart Assn. and board member of the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Hoffman received numerous honors and awards.

An ardent traveler and reader, he was able to maintain his quest for new knowledge until his death.

Dr. Hoffman is survived by his wife Eleanor Hoffman; children Rachel Hoffman (Brad) Greenwald of Denver, Dr. Eric (Jennifer) Hoffman of Iowa City, Iowa, and Hugh (Diana) Hoffman of Minneapolis, Minn.; grandchildren Eliana, Max, Grace, Oliver, Emma, Greta and Isabella; and members of the Barter family, with whom he was very close.

Contributions may be made to the Colorado Heart Assn., Temple Emanuel and the Mayo Clinic.

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Lviv designs memorial for Reform temple

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IEV (JTA) — Municipal authorities in the city of Lviv in Ukraine are designing a monument marking the site where one of the region’s first Reform synagogues once stood before the Nazis destroyed it.

A preliminary design calls for paint or red-tinted bricks that would trace the contours of the Temple Synagogue, whose foundations lie under Old Market Square, the website TvoeMisto reported earlier this month.

“We also want to add greenery and remove a few kiosks so that they do not block the entrance from the tram stop to the relevant part of the square,” architect Olga Krivoruchko, who is preparing the project in consultation with Jewish organizations and local business owners, told the news website.

Temple Synagogue was a classical building with a large dome that was inspired by the Viennese Main Synagogue. The Nazis blew it up in 1941.

Temple Synagogue was built in 1845 on the foundations of an earlier, Orthodox synagogue. It was one of the first Reform synagogues built in Galicia, an area that is now split between Ukraine and Poland, and which has changed hands many times among those countries, Russia and Germany.

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he plans for commemorating are part of a memorial initiative in Lviv that began with the 2016 incorporation of the ruins of the Golden Rose Synagogue into what the city calls the “Space of Synagogues” — a parklike area with some commemorative plaques and subtle design elements.

In Lviv, some Jews, including the Chesed-Arieh association, supported the “Space of Synagogues” concept. But it was opposed by others, including Meylakh Sheykhet, Ukraine’s director of the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union.

Actor Yelchin’s parents settle over fatal accident

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OS ANGELES (JTA) — The parents of actor Anton Yelchin reached a confidential settlement with the makers of the car that crushed him to death in his driveway two years ago.

The settlement was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court late last week, People magazine first reported. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, which manufactures the Jeep Grand Cherokee, confirmed the settlement.

Yelchin’s publicist said the settlement would go to the Anton Yelchin Foundation and to the filming of a documentary on his life.

The foundation assists young people in the arts who face career challenges due to debilitating disease or disability.

Yelchin, 27, who starred in the rebooted “Star Trek” movies, was

found dead at his home in Studio City, Calif. on June 19, 2016, after being crushed by his 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Friends found Yelchin pinned between his car and a brick pillar; the vehicle was in neutral and running. Yelchin was presumed to have returned to his house to get something, which is why he was outside of the car while it was running.

The Jeep was part of a global recall of 1.1 million vehicles in April, 2016.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration urged the recall because of complaints from drivers that a problem with the gear shift made it difficult to tell whether the car was in park. When not in park, the vehicle could roll away. A class-action lawsuit was filed in that case.

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S Y N A G O G U E METRO DENVER Aish Denver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303-220-7200 9550 E. Belleview Ave. Greenwood Village, CO 80111 . . . . aishdenver.com Rabbi Yaakov Meyer . . . . . . . . . . . ymeyer@aish.com Bais Menachem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303-329-0213 400 S. Holly, Denver, CO 80246 . . . www.baismenachemdenver.com Rabbi Yisroel H. Engel . . chabadcolorado@msn.com Beth Evergreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303-670-4294 2981 Bergen Peak Dr., POB 415, Evergreen, CO 80437-0415 Rabbi Benjamin Arnold. Hal Stein, Pres . . . . . . . . . . . leah@bethevergreen.org . . . www.bethevergreen.org Beth Shalom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303-794-6643 P.O. Box 3107, LIttleton, CO 80161 . www.cbsdenver.org Rabbi Jeffrey Kaye . . . . . . . . cbsdenver@yahoo.com BMH-BJ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303-388-4203 560 S. Monaco Pkwy., Denver, CO 80224-1227. . . . . . . . . www.thedenversynagogue.org. Rabbi Yaakov Chaitovsky, Cantor Joel I. Lichterman. Jeff Kline, Pres.

B’nai Chaim of SW Denver . . . . 303-697-2668 4716 So. Coors Ln., Morrison, CO 80465. . . . www.bnaichaim.org Rabbi Kim Harris. Susan Bergkamp, Pres.. . . office@bnaichaim.org B’nai Havurah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303-388-4441 6445 E. Ohio Ave., Denver, CO 80224-1459 . . . www.bnaihavurah.org Rabbi Evette Lutman. . . . . . . office@bnaihavurah.org Chabad of NW Metro Denver . . . 303-429-5177 4505 W. 112th Ave., Westminster, CO 80031 . . . www.thechabadhouse.com Rabbi Benjy Brackman. . . . . . MileHighChabad@aol.com Chabad of South Metro Denver . 303-792-7222 9950 Lone Tree Pkwy., Lone Tree, CO 80124 . . . info@DenverJewishCenter.com www.DenverJewishCenter.com Rabbis Avraham Mintz, Meir Simon Congregation B’nai Torah . . . . . 303-552-0498 3990 W. 74th Ave., Westminster, CO 80030 . . www.bnai-torah-colorado.org Rabbi Anat Moskowitz. . . . . . . . . . . . bnaitorahpres@gmail.com DAT Minyan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720-941-0479 6825 E. Alameda Ave., Denver, CO 80224 . . . . . . . . . .

Rabbi Joseph Friedman. David Fishman, Pres. . . . . . . . info@datminyan.org . . . . . . . . . . . . www.datminyan.org East Denver Orthodox Synagogue . . . 303-322-7943 198 S. Holly, Denver, CO 80246.. . www.edosdenver.org Rabbi Daniel Rapp. Joseph Fried, Pres. . manager@EDOSDenver.org Hebrew Educational Alliance (HEA) . . 303-758-9400 3600 S. Ivanhoe St., Denver, CO 80237 . . www.headenver.org Rabbis Bruce Dollin, Salomon Gruenwald, Cantor Martin Goldstein. Lynn Geller, Pres. . . . . . . . info@headenver.org Jewish Life Center . . . . . . . . . . 720-515-4337 8380 E. 29th Ave., Denver, CO 80238 . www.jewishstapleton.com Rabbi Mendel Popack . . rabbimendel@jewishstapleton.com Kavod Senior Life Chapel . . . . . . . 303-355-0232 22 S. Adams, Denver, CO 80209 . . . . info@kavodseniorlife.org Kehilas Bais Yisroel. . . . . . . . . . 303-720-0818 295 S. Locust St., Denver, CO 80224 Rabbi Aver Jacobs. Jeff Wilson, Pres.

Kohelet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720-301-2282 428 S. Forest St., Denver, CO 80246. . . . . www.kohelet.org Neiel Baronberg, Joel Barach Co-Pres. . . neielbaronberg@gmail.com Ohr Avner — Bukharan Community . . . . 720-388-2704 11100 East Mississippi Ave., Aurora, CO 80012 Rabbi David Araiev Rodef Shalom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303-399-0035 450 S. Kearney St., Denver, CO 80224 . . . www.rodef-shalom.org Rabbi Bernard Gerson, Cantor Dr. Saul Rosenthal Marty Zimmerman, Pres. . . . mainoffice@rodef-shalom.org Shalom Al Yisrael . . . . . . . . . . . 303-399-3059 694 S. Flamingo Ct., Denver, CO 80246 . www.rabbihenochdov.com Rabbi Howard Hoffman Tehilat Hashem (WCRJ) . . . . . . . 303-399-8917 295 S. Locust St., Denver, CO 80224 Rabbi Aharon Sirota. Barry Karp, Pres.

Temple Micah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303-388-4239 5209 Montview Blvd., Denver, CO 80207 . . www.micahdenver.org Rabbi Adam Morris. Helen Spiegel, Pres.

Temple Emanuel . . . . . . . . . . . . 303-388-4013 51 Grape St., Denver, CO 80220. . . www.congregationemanuel.com Rabbis Joe Black, Brian Immerman, Cantor Elizabeth Sacks Mark Idelberg, Pres. . . . shalom@EmanuelDenver.org Temple Sinai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303-759-1827 3509 S. Glencoe, Denver, CO 80237 Rabbis Richard Rheins, Susan Miller Rheins Rabbi Raymond Zwerin, emeritus. Lawrence Jacobson, Pres.

Zera Abraham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303-825-7517 1560 Winona Ct., Denver, CO 80204 Rabbi Tzvi Steinberg. Chaim Abrams, Pres.

BOULDER Adventure Rabbi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303-417-6200 5353 Manhattan Circle, Ste. 103, Boulder, CO 80303. www.adventurerabbi.org Rabbi Jamie Korngold . . . . info@adventurerabbi.org Boulder County Ctr. for Judaism. . 303-494-1638 4900 Sioux Dr., Boulder, CO 80303 . . . . . www.boulderjudaism.org Rabbi Pesach Scheiner . boulderjudaism@gmail.com Chabad at CU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303-444-2775 718 14th St., Boulder, CO 80302 . . www.jewishcu.com Rabbi Yisroel Wilhelm . . . . . . . . rabbi@jewishcu.com Congregation Bonai Shalom . . . 303-442-6605 1527 Cherryvale Rd., Boulder, CO 80303. . www.bonaishalom.org Rabbi Marc Soloway. Bruce Wildman, Pres.

Congregation Har HaShem . . . . 303-499-7077 3950 Baseline Rd., Boulder, CO 80303 . . . www.harhashem.org Rabbi Fred Greene. Ira Greschler, Pres.

Congregation Nevei Kodesh . . . 303-443-4567 1925 Glenwood Dr., Boulder, CO 80304 . . www.neveikodesh.org Rabbi Sarah Bracha Gershuny info@neveikodesh.org Kehillat Orot Yisrael PO Box 20762, Boulder CO 80301. . . orotyisrael@gmail.com Pardes Levavot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303-563-2110 7077 Harvest Rd., Boulder CO 80301. . www.pardeslevavot.org Rabbis Victor & Nadya Gross . . . rabbis@pardeslevavot.org

COLORADO Aspen Jewish Congregation . . . 970-925-8245 Aspen Chapel, 0077 Meadowood Dr., Aspen, CO 81611 Rabbi Emily Segal. . . . . . . . . . www.jewishaspen.com Beth Israel Congregation. . . . . . 970-353-0869 POB 867, Greeley, CO 80632-0867 . . . Rabbi Sara Gilbert Naomi Johnson, Laura Manuel Co-Pres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.bethisraelcolorado.org B’nai Butte Congregation . . . . . 970-349-7742 PO Box 2537, Crested Butte, CO 81224 . www.bnaibutte.com Rabbi-Cantor Robbi Sherwin . . bnaibutte@gmail.com B’nai Vail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970-477-2992 Vail Interfaith Chapel, 19 Vail Rd. Vail, CO 81657. . www.bnaivail.org Rabbi Joel Newman., Mark Gordon, Pres . . . . . admin@bnaivail.org Chabad Jewish Center of Longmont . . . 303-678-7595 195 S. Main St., Ste. 4, Longmont, CO 80501 . www.JewishLongmont.com Rabbi Yakov Borenstein . . . rabbi@JewishLongmont.com Chabad Jewish Center of Northern CO . 970-407-1613 1220G W. Elizabeth St., Ft. Collins, CO 80521 . . . . . www.jewishnco.com Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik. . . . . . rabbi@jewishnco.com Chabad of Aspen . . . . . . . . . . . . 970-544-3770 435 W. Main St., Aspen, CO 81611 . . . . . . www.jccaspen.com Rabbi Mendel Mintz . . . . . . . . . . . . info@jccaspen.com Chabad of Vail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970-476-7887 1000 Lionsridge Loop, Suite 3B, Vail, CO 81657. . . . www.jewishvail.com Rabbi Dovid Mintz. . . . . . . . . . . . info@jewishvail.com Har Mishpacha . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970-457-4270 PO Box 776106, Steamboat Springs, CO 80477 . . . . . www.harmishpacha.org Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman, Joella West, Pres.

Har Shalom (Durango) . . . . . . . . 970-375-0613 2537 County Road 203, POB 9199, Durango, CO 81302-9199 Lisa Smith, spiritual leader . . . www.harshalomdurango.org Har Shalom (Ft. Collins). . . . . . . 970-223-5191 725 W. Drake Rd., Ft. Collins, CO 80526. . www.congregationharshalom.org Rabbi Shimon Moch . . . . . office@congregationharshalom.org Judaism in the Foothills . . . . . . 303-679-0613 3959 Ponderosa Ln., Evergreen, CO 80439 . www.jitf.org Rabbi Levi Brackman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . info@jitf.org Longmont Shabbat Group . . . . . . . . . . 303-651-6822 Susan Scruggs . . . . . . . . . . shabbat1818@gmail.com

D I R E C T O R Y Neshama Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970-925-9568 PO Box 8064, Aspen, CO 81612 Rabbi Itzhak Vardy. . . . www.neshamacenteraspen.com Ohr Shalom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970-243-2491 441 Kennedy Ave., Grand Junction, CO 81501 Gayle Gerson, Pres.

Synagogue of the Summit . . . . . . 970-468-1444 PO Box 4625, Frisco, CO 80443 . www.synagogueofthesummit.org Jonathan Knopf, Pres. . . . . . . . . jcknopf@gmail.com Telluride Jewish Center . . . . . . 970-729-8016 PO Box 3953, Telluride, CO 81435 . . . www.telluridejewishcommunity.com Rabbi Michael Saftler Temple Emanuel . . . . . . . . . . . . 719-544-6448 1325 N. Grand Ave., Pueblo, CO 81003 . . mikeeaa@coloradobluesky.org Rabbi Birdie Becker. Michael Atlas-Acuna, Pres Temple Or Hadash . . . . . . . . . . . 970-407-7896 PO Box 272953, Ft. Collins, CO 80527 . . www.templeorhadash.org Rabbi Hillel Katzir. Brooke Freeman, Pres.

United Hebrew Center . . . . . . . . 719-544-9897 106 W. 15th St., Pueblo, CO 81003 Gerald Rosenblatt, Pres.

COLORADO SPRINGS Air Force Academy . . . . . . . . . . 719-333-2636 2348 Sijan Dr., Suite 100, USAF Academy, CO 80840 Chaplain Rabbi Michael Bram Chabad Southern Colorado . . . . 719-634-2345 6616a Delmonico Dr., Colo. Spgs., CO 80919www.thejewishflame.com Rabbi Moshe Liberow . . . . Rabbiliberow@gmail.com Temple Beit Torah . . . . . . . . . . . 719-573-0841 522 E. Madison St., Colo. Spgs., CO 80907 . www.beit-torah.org Rabbi Steve Kaye, Jeff Ader, Admin. . . . . . . tbt@beit-torah.org Temple Shalom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719-634-5311 1523 E. Monument St., Colo. Spgs., CO 80909 Rabbi Jay Sherwood. Brent Mellow, Pres.www.templeshalom.com

IDAHO Ahavath Beth Israel . . . . . . . . . . 208-343-6601 11 North Latah St, Boise, ID 83706 . . . . www.cabi-boise.org Rabbi Daniel Fink. Sharon Ledsema, Pres.office@cabi-boise.org Chabad Jewish Center of Idaho. . . 208-853-9200 3813 W. State St., Boise, ID 83703 Rabbi Mendel Lifshitz . . . . . . . . . . www.jewishidaho.com Wood River Jewish Community . . . . . . 208-726-1183 Box 837, Ketchum, ID 83340 Rabbi James Mirel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.wrjc.org

MONTANA Aitz Chaim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406-322-2705 525 Central Ave., Ste. U4, Great Falls, MT 59401 www.aitzchaim.com Beth Aaron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406-248-6412 POB 187, Billings, MT 59103 . . . . . . . . www.cbamt.org Beth Shalom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406-556-0528 2010 W. Koch St. Bozeman MT, 59718 . www.bethshalombozeman.org Rabbi Ed Stafman, Richard Wolff, Pres.

B’nai Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406-782-2100 327 W. Galena St., Butte, MT 59701 David Canty, Pres.

Chabad of Missoula . . . . . . . . . . 406-529-3196 518 Evans Ave., Missoula, MT 59801 . . . . . . . www.JewishMontana.com Rabbi Berry Nash. . . . . . . . rabbi@jewishMissoula.com Chabad of Montana . . . . . . . . . . 406-585-8770 8755 Huffman Ln, Bozeman, MT 59715 . . www.JewishMontana.com Rabbi Chaim Bruk . . . . . . . rabbi@jewishMontana.com Glacier Jewish Community . . . . 406-261-4830 PO Box 615, Kalispell, MT 59903 Rabbi Francine Roston Har Shalom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406-549-9595 POB 3715, Missoula, MT 59806-3715 . www.Har-Shalom.org Holly Kingsford, Pres. . . . . . . . . info@Har-Shalom.org

NEW MEXICO Beit Tikva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505-820-2991 POB 24094, Santa Fe, NM 87502 www.beittikvasantafe.org Rabbi Martin W. Levy. Cantor Ephraim A. Herrera Paul Grace, Pres. .. . . . . admin@beittikvasantafe.org B’nai Shalom Havurah . . . . . . . . 505-737-2878 810 Dillion Lane, Taos, NM 87571 . . . . Bette Myerson, Pres.

Chabad Jewish Center of Santa Fe . . . 505-983-2000 230 W. Manhattan Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501 . . . . www.chabadsantafe.com Rabbi Berl Levertov, director. . ChabadSantaFe@aol.com Chabad of New Mexico . . . . . . . 505-880-1181 4000 San Pedro NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110. . . www.ChabadNM.org Rabbi Chaim Schmukler Chabad of Las Cruces . . . . . . . . 575-524-1330 2907 E. Idaho Ave., Las Cruces, NM 88011 . . www.ChabadLC.org Congregation Albert . . . . . . . . . 505-883-1818 Rabbi Harry Rosenfeld, David Janik, Pres. admin@congregationalbert.com Congregation B’nai Israel . . . . . 505-266-0155 4401 Indian School Rd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110 . www.bnaiisrael-nm.org Wayne Bobrick, Pres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . office@bnaiisrael-nm.org Kol BeRamah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505-216-6136 1409 Luisa St., Ste. A, Santa Fe, NM 87505 . . www.kolberamah.org Rabbi Ron Wittenstein. Dr. Daniel Israel, Pres. . email@kolberamah.org Los Alamos Jewish Center . . . . 505-662-2140 2400 Cannon Rd., Los Alamos, NM 87544 Rachel Adler, Pres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.lajc.org Nahalat Shalom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505-343-8227 3606 Rio Grande Blvd., NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.nahalatshalom.org Rio Rancho Jewish Center . . . . . . . . . 505-892-8511 2009 Grande Blvd., Rio Rancho, NM 87124 . . . . . . www.riorjc.org Temple Beth El . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505-524-3380 3980 Sonoma Springs Ave., Las Cruces, 88011www.tbelc.org Rabbi Lawrence Karol. Ellen Torres, Pres. . . . admin@tbelc.org Temple Beth El of Carlsbad . . . 575-885-3699 1002 Pate Street, Carlsbad, NM 88220 Bill Kingston, Pres.

Temple Beth Shalom . . . . . . . . . 505-982-1376 205 E. Barcelona Rd., Santa Fe, NM 87501 Rabbi Neil Amswych. Ken Warner, Ethel Hess, Co-Pres.

SOUTH DAKOTA Synagogue of the Hills . . . . . . . 605-348-0805 417 N. 40th St, Rapid City, SD 57702 . . . www.synagogueofthehills.org

UTAH Brith Sholem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801-392-7688 2750 Grant Ave., Ogden, UT 84401 Jaques Behar, Pres. . . . . . . . . . . . www.brithsholem.org Chabad of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801-467-7777 1433 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84105 Rabbi Benny Zippel . . . . . . . . . . www.chabadutah.org Chavurah B’Yachad . . . . . . . . . . 801-325-4539 PO Box 9115, Salt Lake City, UT 84109-9115 Ben Luks-Morgan, Pres. . . . . . . . www.cbyachad.org Congregation Kol Ami . . . . . . . . 801-484-1501 2425 E. Heritage Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84109 Rabbi Ilana Schwartzman. Boaz Markewitz, Pres.www.conkolami.org Chabad of Park City . . . . . . . . . 801-553-4196 1327 Park Ave., Park City, UT 84060 Rabbi Yudi Steiger . . . . . . . www.jewishparkcity.com Temple Har Shalom . . . . . . . . . . 435-649-2276 3700 N. Brookside Ct., Park City. . www.templeharshalom.com Rabbi David Levinsky, Miriam Eatchel, Pres.

WYOMING Chabad of Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-462-0847 POB 9818, Jackson, WY . . . . . www.JewishWyoming.org Rabbi Zalman Mendelsohn . . . . info@JewishWyoming.org Jackson Hole Jewish Community . . 307-734-4754 PO Box 10667, Jackson, WY 83002 . . www.jhjewishcommunity.org Laramie Jewish Community Center. . . . 307-760-9275 POB 202, Laramie, WY 82073 . . . . . . www.laramiejewishcommunitycenter.org Laurie Richmon, Pres.

Mount Sinai Synagogue . . . . . . . 307-634-3052 2610 Pioneer Ave., Cheyenne, WY 82001 . . www.mtsinaicheyenne.org Rabbi Larry Moldo. Dave Lerner, Pres.

Temple Beth El . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-237-2330 4105 S. Poplar; mailing: POB 50933, Casper, WY 82605-0933 Sam Wiseman, Gen. Sec. . . . . www.jewishcasper.org

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Aish Denver 9550 E. Belleview Ave. • (303) 220-7200 Rabbi Yaakov Meyer Orthodox congregation.

FRIDAY, EREV SHABBOS/ EREV PESACH — Candlelighting, 7:03 p.m. Mincha, 7:05 p.m.

Kiddush not before 7:57 p.m.

SATURDAY, SHABBOS/PESACH First Day — Shacharis, 9 a.m. Mincha, 6:50 p.m. Candlelighting from existing flame, after 8:04 p.m.

SUNDAY, PESACH Second Day — Shacharis, 9 a.m. Mincha, 6:55 p.m. Yom Tov ends 8:05 p.m.

WEEKDAYS — Shacharis, Mon.-Thurs., 6:45 a.m. & 8:15 a.m. Mincha-Maariv, Mon.-Thurs, 7:10 p.m.

THURSDAY — Candelighting, 7:09 p.m.

FRIDAY, PESACH Seventh Day — Shacharis, 8:45 a.m. Candlelighting from existing flame, 7:10 p.m. Mincha, 7:15 p.m.

Bais Menachem 400 S. Holly St. • (303) 329-0213 Rabbi Yisroel Engel Orthodox congregation.

FRIDAY, EREV SHABBOS/EREV PESACH — Candlelighting, 7:04 p.m. Mincha, 7:10 p.m. Maariv 8:04 p.m. Community seder, 8:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, SHABBOS/PESACH First Day — Shacharis, 9 a.m. Mincha, 7:04 p.m. Candlelighting from existing flame, after 8:04 p.m.

Community seder, 8:30 p.m.

SUNDAY, PESACH Second Day — Shacharis, 9 a.m. Mincha, 7:05 p.m. Maariv 8:05 p.m.

WEEKDAYS — Shacharis, Mon.-Thurs., 6:30 a.m. & 8:30 a.m. Mincha, Mon.-Weds., 7:10 p.m.

THURSDAY — Candelighting, 7:10 p.m. Mincha, 7:15 p.m.

FRIDAY, PESACH Seventh Day — Shacharis, 9 a.m. Candlelighting from existing flame, 7:11 p.m. Mincha, 7:11 p.m.

BMH-BJ 560 S. Monaco Pkwy. • (303) 388-4203 Rabbi Yaakov Chaitovsky Cantor Joel Lichterman Modern Orthodox congregation.

FRIDAY, EREV SHABBAT/EREV PESACH— Mincha, 7 p.m. Candlelighting, 7:02 p.m.

SATURDAY, SHABBAT/PESACH First Day — Shacharit, 9 a.m. (Sanctuary), 9:15 a.m. (Chapel).

Taste of Torah, 10 a.m. Mincha, 7 p.m. Candlelighting, 8:05 p.m.

SUNDAY, PESACH Second Day — Shachar-

it, 9:15 a.m. (Chapel). Mincha, 7:15 p.m. Havdalah, 8:05 p.m.

WEEKDAYS — Shacharit, Mon.-Thurs., 6:20 a.m. Mincha-Maariv, Mon.-Thurs, 6:30 p.m.

THURSDAY — Candlelighting, 7:08 p.m.

FRIDAY, PESACH Seventh Day — Shacharit, 8:15 a.m. Candlelighting, 7:09 p.m. Mincha, 7:05 p.m.

Chabad Jewish Center South Metro Denver 9950 Lone Tree Pkwy. • (303) 792-7222 Rabbi Avraham Mintz Rabbi Meir Simon A congregation without labels.

FRIDAY, EREV SHABBAT — Candlelighting, 7:04 p.m. Friday eve service, 6:45 p.m. Community seder, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, SHABBAT/PESACH First Day — Kabbalah class with Rabbi Meir Simon, 9:30 a.m. Morning service, 10 a.m. Children’s program, 11 a.m. Rabbi Mintz’s sermon, 11:30 a.m.

Kiddush at noon. Candlelighting, 8:03 p.m.

Community seder, 7 p.m.

SUNDAY, PESACH Second Day — Morning service, 10 a.m. Kiddush at noon. Holiday ends, 8:04 p.m.

TUESDAY — Morning minyan, 7 a.m.

THURSDAY — Evening services, 7 p.m. Candlelighting, 7:10 p.m.

FRIDAY, PESACH Seventh Day — Morning service, 10 a.m. Kiddush at noon. Evening services, 7 p.m. Candlelighting, 7:11 p.m.

East Denver Orthodox Synagogue 198 S. Holly St. • (303) 322-7943 Rabbi Daniel Rapp Orthodox congregation.

FRIDAY, EREV SHABBOS/EREV PESACH — Candlelighting, 7:04 p.m. Mincha, 7:10 p.m.

SATURDAY, SHABBAT/PESACH First Day Shacharit, 9 a.m. Mincha, 7 p.m. Candlelighting, 8:05 p.m.

SUNDAY, PESACH Second Day — Shacharit, 9 a.m. Mincha, 7:10 p.m. Havdalah, 8:06 p.m.

WEEKDAYS — Shacharit, Mon.-Thurs., 6:30 a.m. Mincha-Maariv, Mon.-Weds., 7:15 p.m.

THURSDAY — Mincha, 7:10 p.m. Candlelighting, 7:10 p.m.

FRIDAY, PESACH Seventh Day — Shacharit, 9 a.m. Mincha, 7:15 p.m. Candlelighting, 7:11 p.m.

C A L E N D A R March 31 - April 7 14 Nisan - 22 Nisan Friday, March 30, 2018 Light Shabbat candles (Denver): 7:04 p.m.

Light Shabbat candles (Boulder): 7:05 p.m.

Light Shabbat candles (Aspen): 7:11 p.m.

Passover Pentateuch: Exodus 12:21-51 Prophet: II Samuel 6:1-7:17 Fast of the First Born Erev Passover First Seder, in evening Saturday, March 31, 2018 Light candles after (Denver): 8:04 p.m.

Light candles after (Boulder): 8:05 p.m.

Light candles after (Aspen): 8:10 p.m.

Passover, First Day Second Seder, in evening Sunday, April 1, 2018 Passover, Second Day 1 Omer Monday, April 2, 2018 First Intermediate Day Passover 2 Omer Tuesday, April 3, 2018 Second Intermediate Day Passover 3 Omer Wednesday, April 4, 2018 Third Intermediate Day Passover 4 Omer Thursday, April 5, 2018 Fourth Intermediate Day Passover Eve of Passover, Seventh Day Light candles (Denver): 7:10 p.m.

Light candles (Boulder): 7:12 p.m.

Light candles (Aspen): 7:17 p.m.

5 Omer Friday, April 6, 2018 Light Shabbat candles (Denver): 7:12 p.m.

Light Shabbat candles (Boulder): 7:14 p.m.

Light Shabbat candles (Aspen): 7:19 p.m.

Passover, Seventh Day 6 Omer Saturday, April 7, 2018 Light candles after (Denver): 8:15 p.m.

Light candles after (Boulder): 8:17 p.m.

Light candles after (Aspen): 8:22 p.m.

Passover, Eighth Day Yizkor 7 Omer MORNING

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Ambassadors from Rwanda, Belgium, Argentina, Angola the Dominican Republic and the Philippines attended a festive model seder in Tel Aviv, hosted by Israel Project and World Jewish Congress. Senior diplomats from the US, UN, EU, UK and China also participated.

Avishai Zigman Mort, who is Jewish, walks into a bank in New York City and asks to see a loan officer.

“Come into my office,” invites the loan officer. “How may I help you?”

“Well, I’m going to Israel on business for two weeks and I need to borrow $5,000,” Mort says.

“That’s not going to be a problem,” the man says.“But we will need some kind of security.”

“Of course,” says Mort, who hands over the keys to his new Ferrari, which is parked in front of the bank.

The men go outside, the loan officer examines the car and title, and everything checks out.

“Yes, we can use the car as collateral,” the loan officer says.

They complete the papers, Mort receives a check for $5,000 and leaves the building.

A young bank employee then drives the fancy car to an underground garage and parks it there.

Later, as the loan officer informs the bank president about Mort’s loan, the president starts laughing.

“It’s a good loan,” he chuckles,“but I just can’t believe this Jewish man used a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral against a $5,000 loan!”

“We aim to please,” the loan officer says.

Two weeks later, Mort returns to the bank and repays the loan in full, including $25.41 in interest.

“Sir, we are very happy to have done business with you, but we are

a little puzzled,” the loan officer says.

“While you were in Israel, we checked you out for possible new ventures and found out that you are a multi-millionaire!

Now it’s Mort’s turn to laugh.

“OK,” he smiles.“You tell me where else I can park my car in New York City for two weeks for only $25.41 and know it will be here when I return?”

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John Keith, then and now munities, which has built at least 600 homes in the Denver metro area since 1992. John was born in Short Hills, NJ. He received a BA in history from the University of Vermont and an MA in landscape and urban design from Harvard. John has served on the board of New Hampshire Public Radio, the Home Builder’s Assn. of Metro Denver and has been active in the United Way’s Tocqueville Society. He volunteers for Lunchbox Express and men-

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tors at-risk youth . . . Correct guessers are aunt Vivian Sheldon Epstein, Sheryl Goodman, Ruth Epstein, Norman Chandler, Raeann and Ed Lampert, Bob Davidson, Barry and Diane Samet, Paul Kramer, Scott, Barbara and Traci Hailpern, Stacey Greenberg, Michael Zeitlin, Dr. Floyd Russak, Marilyn and Jerry Snyder, Jane Romberg of Steamboat Springs . . . Janet Smith guessed Dafna Michaelson Jenet last week . . . Next week’s Guess Who, pictured in 1993, came to Denver in 1991 when he became executive director of the Allied Jewish Federation (now JEWISHcolorado). A child survivor of the Holocaust, he’s an instructor in religion and philosophy at the Academy Guess Who? for Lifelong Learning and OLLI. He belongs to Temple Emanuel. Our Guess Who shares his first name with the 19th-century poet Mr. (first name goes here) Waldo Emerson.

His last name is the same as that wacky talk show host Mr. Howard “blank” (also rhymes with “turn”).

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• • • PATRICIA HEBERER-RICE, PhD, will facilitate a panel discussion on “Children in a World of Genocide: From the Holocaust to 21st Century Refugees” on Monday, April 9, 7-9 p.m., at Eaton Humanities on the CU campus. The Program in Jewish Studies and CU Anschutz’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities are hosting the 2018 Holocaust Awareness Week lecture.

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Across 1. Jazzman, __ Getz 5. Saved by Puah and Shiphrah 10. Three: comb. form 13. Schnorrer (Eng)?

14. Tevye’s daughter 15. Tallit material?

17. Ginzburg publication 18. Equipment for Chagall 19. Anne Frank’s pop 20. Pray (Yid) 22. Observes Shabbat 24. Hee __ 25. That woman 26. Modern graphic artist 28. __ Fifth Avenue 30. Uris novel 32. “Never Again” to JDL 35. Bea _, Golden Girl 38. Betty Friedan’s org.

40. Tuches (Eng) 41. “Hello Mudder ...” songster 43. “BayWatch” star Bleek 45. Sephardic shekel?

46. G __ K connector 48. Prayer purpose 49. Beelzebub 51. Pesky bird 53. Power for Rickover 55. Shacharit time?

56. Lion’s foot 59. Preserves 61. Tower 63. Methuselah’s dad 65. “By Babylon’s river” 67. Prepares shiva garments 69. Babylonian Talmud editor 70. Roasted Seder item 71. Toklas biographer 72. Knesset position 73. Last degree

74. Ted Key comic strip 75. Diarist Down 1. Sukkot 2. Books of Moses 3. Angel of Death path 4. Schnozz (Eng) 5. Prior to Christians 6. Benjamin’s boy 7. Al Rosen, at times 8. First lady and her namesakes 9. Added to Seder water 10. Zilpah’s sons 11. Nicknamed “The Brain” 12. Bissel (Eng) 16. Shiva mood 21. Seventh minor prophet 23. Levenson or Gompers 27. Biblical weight 29. Carol Burnett show regular 30. Neck 31. Simcha

33. Tsahal chariot 34. Solomon’s digs 35. Eden denizens?

36. Actress, __ Perlman 37. The Torah is the first 39. Salted at Pesach 42. Shikker’s sip 44. Like Moses’ face 47. Bill Dana character 50. City of Benjamin 52. “Private Benjamin”, Hawn 54. Sea of Reeds 56. “Project Runway” host 57. Hid Jericho spoils 58. Kittel color 59. Jewish Welfare Board 60. Long time 62. Zeta __ Tau, fraternity 64. Resnik’s Org. 66. Alephbet member 68. Andy Kaufman’s comedy revue

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Thursday, April 26. Writers include Jamie Ford (Love and Other Consolation Prizes), Dhonielle Clayton (The Belles) and Cynthia Swanson (The Glass Forest).

• • • JEWISH TEENS spoke about their desire to put an end to gun violence during Temple Sinai’s Shabbat services March 23, the day before Denver’s anti-gun protest march.

• • • JOHN FIELDER, Colorado’s eminent wildlife photographer, has donated a selection of nature images to the USS Colorado, recently commissioned in Groton, Conn. Fielder, who attended the ceremony, donated the scenic photographs to brighten up the sailors’ lives.

• • • AT JEWISH Council for Public Affairs’ Advocacy Day on March 15, 40 leaders networked with US Reps. Ted Deutch (D-FL), Nita Lowey (D-NY) Lee Zeldin (DNY) and Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Bob Menendez (DNJ) on the federal budget, ending gun violence, criminal justice reform,

immigration and International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace.

• • • RINO ART District recently teamed up with DriNkRiNo for a neighborhood clean-up day. Over 125 volunteers tackled trash and coordinated recycling. Denver’s Keep Denver Beautiful program sponsored the event.

• • • JTA 82 years ago. “The publisher and the manager of Cuba’s only Yiddish publication, the weekly Havaner Lebn, were put under house arrest today.They were charged with printing proclamations by leftist Cuban students and workers calling for a general strike against the civil and military authorities in their plant. Police charge that 7,000 copies of the proclamation were found on the weekly’s premises. Publisher S.M. Kaplan and manager Isidore Bochner were scheduled to be tried today by the Revolutionary Tribunal.

If found guilty, they face a year’s imprisonment.” Havana, Cuba, March 30, 1936.

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tehilla.r.goldberg

ijn columnist

They have stolen Pesach from us! ’ve been inundated with them.

The many social media posts about Pesach holiday cleaning.

Some have been anxiety ridden, most, humorous.

There’s the guy who posted himself eating his erev Pesach falafel sandwich — mind you this was

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this year she decided she was taking the radical step of skipping the whole bathroom cabinet clean-up and organization. “It’s a slippery slope,” one person wrote, among the many funny responses, with comments like “living on the edge” etc., “next thing you know you will skip

generation to generation wouldn’t accept anything short of laboratory level sterility as the Pesach preparation standard. He joked about the three legal categories of Jewish law, noting he was following the third: not de-Oraita (written law), not de-Rabbanan (rabbinic oral law),

Cinderella in reverse: Decked out in her finery — Purim; rag-clad — Pesach (cleaning) one week before Pesach commences.

The photo showcases a bowl full of falafel balls. No pita pocket to be seen. Humorous responses in the spirit of the post followed.

One woman wrote she hadn’t felt this rebellious since her teen days when she defied her mom and got a second ear piercing, but

scrubbing the windows and before you know it you will claim that dust is not chametz. Watch out.”

Then there’s the guy-husband, cleaning out his kitchen refrigerator, outfitted in full gear for the job: a hiking headlamp; his status update clarifying he is following in Jewish tradition, whose women from

but the hybrid patois third category: de-Rebbetzins (relax, it’s a joke, not meant to imply cleaning for Pesach is solely a woman’s province).

Then there were the online rabbinic disagreements. One rabbi sent out an article titled: “If It Takes You More Than a Day To Clean For Passover, You Are Doing Spring

Reflections by

amy.lederman

ijn columnist

A story of faith and hope was born and raised in northern New Jersey but haven’t lived there since 1976, when a college degree, combined with wanderlust, led me to Arizona, where I’ve happily remained ever since.

I’ve listened to many jokes over the years about being a “Joisey girl.”

I’ve tried desperately to lose my Jersey accent, although I never quite

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commanded by G-d, to become the first community organizer, to inspire independent thinking and action.

What tools did Moses have to take the Egypt out of the Jews? The two key ingredients in the Passover recipe of redemption through Revelation were these: faith and hope.

Perhaps the best “self-help” book of all times is what the 600,000 slaves

and unfair — like the death of a child, a horrific accident or an act of terrorism.

Faith is often the portal to hope.

It provides an inner buoyancy that keeps us afloat when we are ready to sink. Hope is what keeps us moving forward. Hope is what inspired the Hebrew slaves to give up all they knew for the idea that

Enter Moses, commanded by G-d, to become the first community organizer succeeded as my children remind me every time I “tawk” to my parents on the phone — proving, it seems, that “you can take the girl out of New Jersey but you can’t take the New Jersey out of the girl.”

It might appear like a stretch but I think there’s an instructive metaphor here in the Passover story. As a leader, Moses was tasked not only with taking the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt but with taking the “Egypt” out of the Hebrew slaves.

In fact, the Hebrew word for Egypt, or Mitzrayim, stems from the root meaning to bind, shackle or imprison.

For the Hebrew people, living in Egypt meant over 210 years of bondage, poverty and powerlessness.The midnight escape may have been treacherous, but the real challenge was liberating the Hebrew psyche so that generations of slaves could become freethinking men and women.

Back then, there were no seminars on self-empowerment or selfhelp websites. Enter Moses,

received seven weeks after their escape as they stood together for the first time at the foot of Mt. Sinai. n a moment which can only be described as formative as well as transformative, the Jewish people entered into the covenant with Gd with the ultimate words of faith: “We will do and we will understand.”

Those words are the words of a barely formed, fledgling belief that indicate that a ragtag group of exslaves could become, as the Torah instructs, “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.”

They are words that suggest, it is often through doing that we can acquire a deeper sense of knowing.

In Hebrew, the word for faith is emunah, which means “to believe.”

Having faith means that we believe and trust that there is a greater order to the world, though we may not be able to perceive or understand it.

Faith can give us a sense of hope from within a despairing world; it can help us respond to events and circumstances that seem senseless

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they could have a better life in the Promised Land.

A midrash teaches us that when the Hebrew women left Egypt, they left everything behind except the copper mirrors they had used to help beautify themselves and entice their husbands to intimacy, so they could have children. These mirrors represented hope in the future, so they were used to create the priestly basin in the Tabernacle.

Passover teaches us that hope may be the single greatest act of defiance against the politics of powerlessness. assover encourages us to examine two very Jewish values: faith and hope. It teaches us to examine what enslaves us in our daily lives and gives us the courage and inspiration to leave that behind and move towards something better.

Like our ancestors, if we put our faith in that inner voice that guides us along the way we can hope that if we make the journey, we too may find our own “promised land.”

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Cleaning, Not Passover Preparation.” To which another rabbi responded how unrealistic that is and why make people feel bad, like their effort is relegated to plain old spring cleaning when in reality it is labor suffused with meaning because of its religious significance. In fact, this rabbi emphasized, such assertions are reminiscent of the seder’s wicked son, no less, who irreverently asks: What is this avodah — work-labor — you are engaged in?

The Disney style graphic that went around of the Cinderella story in a two-part visual, just chronologically reverse, said it all. The first graphic of Cinderella decked out in finery, ready for the ball, said “Purim,” while the second one of a rag-clad Cinderella slaving away on the floor, said, “Pesach.” It’s good to laugh! was reminded of a Pesach post from last year by an Aviad Hazani, a captain in the Israel Defense Forces, who addressed the Pesach Grinch situation. It was was circulated by journalist Sivan Rahav Meir: “This morning at the bus stop I heard two older women discussing how there is nothing to eat during Passover. Yesterday, a friend mumbled to me with sadness something about matzah and stomachaches.

During the past couple of weeks I have come across dozens of social media posts about people suffering from cleaning for Pesach. Friends!

They have stolen Pesach from us!!

“Pesach is the most revolutionary holiday in human history. A nation of slaves dares to challenge the great

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world power of the time with the result of shaking the shackles of slavery off, going into freedom accompanied by incredible miracles, while displaying heroism and national pride. Pesach is a holiday of faith in man: taking a bruised, wounded slave and whispering in his ear that he is not just a number — that he has a mission; telling him about the previous generations and educating him to have true confidence that he can follow in their footsteps.

“Pesach is a holiday of a struggle of a nation, of their willingness to walk a long way, to go through a process of deep internal searching.

Pesach is a holiday of simplicity: flour, water, and then straight to the oven.

“It is a holiday that prompts us to internalize how to enjoy the genuine, simple, unsophisticated things in life.

“Think of Pesach. Live Pesach. Do not allow the superficial conversations to steal its joy and meaning away from you. In final analysis, most of the Pesach aspects that are difficult are our decisions to embark on projects and cleaning operations. The Pesach laws themselves are simple and not daunting. They are meant to be there as a way of facilitating an inner process of a spiritual journey.

“Do not make the things of ancillary importance become the essence of the holiday. Do not rob yourselves of Pesach!!”

How so very true. No more excesses. Just simplicity. Enjoy every minute!

Chag Sameach, dear readers!

To celebrate Israel’s 70th Independence Day, the Embassy of Israel in Washington, DC is honoring Americans who made a uniquely valuable contribution to Israel or to its alliance with the US. In honor of Israel’s 70th anniversary, the IJN is publishing a selection of these honorees.

EMMA LAZARUS 1849-1887 oday, Emma Lazarus is best known as the writer of the words engraved on the pedestal of New York’s famed Statue of Liberty.

However, in her tragically short life (she died at the age of 38 in 1887), Lazarus accomplished so much more than penning “The New Colossus.”

In addition to being a member of America’s literary elite and receiving praise from the top critics and authors of the day, Lazarus fought tirelessly for the welfare of Jewish immigrants and was one of the earliest American public advocates of Zionism.

Lazarus was born in New York City in 1849 to Moses and Esther Nathan. Her family traced their ancestry to the early Sephardic community in America and had become quite prosperous. While other branches of the family were proudly and openly involved in religious Jewish life — her grandfather and uncle both served as parnas, or president, of Congregation Shearith Israel, while another uncle was the chazzan, or cantor — Moses wanted to assimilate into elite American society.

Lazarus began to write from an early age, receiving accolades from famous authors of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, who became her friend and mentor.

Although she received virtually no Jewish education, early in her career she showed interest in the theme of Jewish national revival. One clear example is her poem “In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport,” a reference to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Jewish Cemetery at New-

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port.” While Longfellow declared that “dead nations never rise again,” Lazarus concluded “the sacred shrine is holy yet.” ith the explosion of European anti-Semitism leading to a massive influx of Jewish immigrants, Lazarus felt a call to action. She responded by personally assisting and organizing institutions geared toward helping Jewish immigrants.

At the same time, she began to explore her Jewish identity, turning again and again to Jewish figures and subjects in her writings.

She also began to call for a return of the Jews to the land of Israel. In her “Epistle to the Hebrews,” (1882) Lazarus urged Eastern European Jews to emigrate to Palestine.

A powerful example of her proto-Zionism (the term was not even coined until 1891) is her poem “The New Ezekiel.” Recasting the prophet’s vision of the dry bones from a modern perspective, Lazarus proclaims that the bones, which have been dried by “twenty scorching centuries of wrong” would yet live, with G-d stating “and I shall place you living in your own land.”

A visionary ahead of her time, Emma Lazarus is an incredible example of dedication to Jewish peoplehood and the ideal of Jewish national rebirth in the land of Israel.

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20 • Section C • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS — Passover Edition • March 30, 2018

Editorial KUDOS Four praiseworthy Jewish community addresses LINDA HAMO

RABBI BOCK

SHLOMO FRIED

TOBY MOWER

LIAISON

LEADERSHIP

ACTIVISM

PHILANTHROPY • ART

Sometimes finding just the right reference, key person or critical nugget of information can prove frustrating and time-consuming — unless the voice on the other end of the phone or email is that of Linda Hamo. Need an expert on Rosh Chodesh? Need a time for an event? Need an update on a former student? Need a historical or Judaic fact? Linda Hamo of the Denver Academy of Torah has the appropriate answer every time. When in doubt, Linda Hamo is the go-to person for solutions that aren’t even part of her job responsibilities, which are office manager — and art teacher — and school nurse (K-8). Linda is simply a gracious, helpful and kind human being.

Rabbi Eliav Bock, director of Ramah Outdoor Adventure camp, blows into the IJN like an uncorked genie about to grant his first wish.

Is Shlomo Fried a committee? A community dictionary? When one lists the organizations, agencies, synagogue, projects, dinners and other events that Shlomo Fried takes a leadership position in, one may be forgiven for thinking that “Shlomo Fried” is much more than a single human being.

Dr. Toby Mower and her husband Dr. Mort Mower collaborate on all things.Yet, through her sheer force of will, Toby Mower’s influence in the Jewish world, especially JNF, have made men take notice and follow her lead. So pardon us for shining the spotlight on her — but it’s the perfect moment.

Mower, who hails from Baltimore, first demonstrated her expertise and chutzpah as a nurse.

Recipient of an MA in clinical counseling, she joined the board of the Recovery House for Addicted Jewish Men — but discovered there was no center for women.

Mower put on her fighting gloves and made it happen. She spoke her mind despite cultural taboos.

One didn’t say no to Toby!

DAT parents, students, teachers, administrators,volunteers, suppliers and security personnel have known this since 2006.The person at the front desk of a school sets the tone for everything that goes on at the school. Linda Hamo sets the perfect tone.

What neither the camp insiders nor the wider world — nor even Rabbi Bock himself — could have known during the first seven seasons of the camp was the challenge he would face in its eighth. Last August, a fire broke out in the middle of the night. From the first flames until the last camper was safely resettled in a new camp location — all within 36 hours — Rabbi Bock, as the national head of Ramah camps put it, showed he “is exactly the kind of leader you want in a crisis. He combines intelligence and seriousness with a light way of dealing with people.”

But here it is: For years now, virtually every activity at EDOS has Fried’s fingerprints on it.

Beyond EDOS, countless dinners of Hillel Academy have listed him as chair. Tomchei Shabbos?

Fried is not a “leader”; if ever there were a person who gets down to the details and makes certain a project turns out the way it is designed, it is Shlomo Fried. Purim carnivals? Concerts? Annual dinners? Guest speakers? Shabbatonim? Fundraising? Remodeling?

Table-and-chair setup and dismantling? Gabbai? You name it, Shlomo Fried invests not only the brains but the sweat equity.

Rare is the person who can bring all of her training and interests to a single position. But that’s what Linda Hamo has done. She earned a BA in history and Judaic studies from Smith College and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and she received a nursing assistant diploma at Denver’s Emily Griffith Technical College. All this finds its way into the daily routine of an unfailingly welcoming person in our community. Judaism speaks of the ba’alat middot, the exemplary ethical personality.

We have a living example in Linda Hamo.

Thus the IJN introduced Rabbi Bock shortly before the opening of the outdoor adventure camp, Ramah in the Rockies, in 2010.

As hundreds of campers now well know, Rabbi Bock has been uncorking a unique spiritual genie ever since, the spirituality of the outdoors: sunsets, rafting, animals in the wild, rock climbing, each day begun with prayers and each week stopped for Shabbat. The world took note as Rabbi Bock was awarded the coveted Covenant Pomegranate Prize for Jewish education two years later.

Needless to say, the HEA, which provided temporary quarters in the middle of the night, and JCC, which offered its Ranch Camp for the remainder of the season, stepped up in exemplary fashion.

That is the kind of loyalty and commitment Rabbi Bock inspires.

And this only includes his leadership that cannot be hidden.

Behind the scenes, still another Shlomo Fried Committee unfolds.

The thing is, he loves it all. No one is forcing him. He doesn’t really care whether he’s recognized for all his work. He just wants to make it happen.

You can’t bottle and sell the Shlomo Fried Committee. You can’t process the formula and make him available more widely. When it comes to love of community and desire to see it grow, the only formula that counts is love and flair.

There is no patent on them. But Shlomo Fried owns them in spades.

JNF has been an integral part of Mower’s life since 1965. Now on national boards and task forces, she recalls when the Sapphire Society approached the JNF board about building a small town in the Negev. “The board said, ‘These crazy women want to build something in the desert!’” Three years later, the board decided to build up the Negev. “It took the women to show them the way,” Mower says.

This is only one major JNF project seeded at Mower’s insistence.

Toby Mower — the petite lioness who consistently struggles for women’s respect in a man’s world — has contributed to the renaissance of female empowerment. But it doesn’t end there. She enjoys and shares the vast Mower art collection — from Renoir to Picasso — striving to enrich all of humanity, because it’s right.

Every year the IJN salutes people who bring freedom into our lives.

Passover, with its message of gratitude to G-d for our freedom, is the appropriate moment to say thank you.

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