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Will Trump’s Border Wall Be a Self-Sufficient Solar-Paneled Energy Producer??

According to Anthony Morali, co-founder and CEO of Renewable Energy Development (RED) in New York, building a solar paneled wall would "cost the government zero dollars, would employ 10,000 people, both long and short term, and the equipment and materials used in building it will be manufactured in the United States."

hile campaigning on a variety of polemical policy issues, none has attracted more of the attention of the nation and the media than President Trump's pledge to build a wall on America's southern border with Mexico. Quite candidly, the President has said that the express purpose of the construction of the wall is to stem the tide of vast illegal immigration. In his terse verbiage, President Trump has promised that not only would the wall be built but has assured a cash strapped nation that the hard working taxpayer would most defi-

nitely not be picking up the tab. He has insisted that Mexico would cover the exorbitant costs of such a mammoth project, despite the fact that Mexico has categorically stated that it has absolutely no intention of doing so. Subsequent to President Trump's address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in late February in which he told attendees that construction on a border wall "was moving quickly", the Department of Homeland Security posted a call for bids to "build the wall." DHS has said that the first round of submissions should be for “several prototypes of wall structures” in the “vicinity of the United States border with Mexico.” These prototypes will,

likely, go on to provide real-life feedback of how a border wall would work, or whether it would function at all—as well as provide a blueprint for the final border wall Trump promised during his campaign.

DHS has said that the first round of submissions should be for “several prototypes of wall structures” in the “vicinity of the United States border with Mexico.” In addition, DHS has said that it will focus initial construction efforts on several areas where a border fence

exists, but “where the fence or old brittle landing-mat fencing are no longer effective.” Target cities include El Paso, Texas; Tucson, Ariz.; and El Centro, Calif. Bidders will likely have to create their “wall prototypes” in those cities. They’ll also have to use American steel and raw materials, according to the memo, and first phase of construction will begin in September. Since that time the DHS has been deluged with a diverse array of bids from a panoply of architectural and engineering firms, but none has piqued the curiosity of the public more than the unique concept of constructing an energy efficient and self sustaining structure.

According to Anthony Morali, co‐ founder and CEO of Renewable Energy Development (RED) in New York, building a solar paneled wall would "cost the government zero dollars, would employ 10,000 people, both long and short term, and the equipment and materials used in building it will be manufactured in the United States." He said his vision of a border wall consisted of solar panels spanning across 2000 miles across Arizona, Nevada and California. The design can be modified, he said, by either placing the panels on the side of the wall or a

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Sheldon Silver Starts Appeal Process to Reverse Corruption Conviction By Hannah Hayes

isgraced former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has begun the process of appealing his corruption conviction. In his appeal to reverse the decision, Silver’s lawyer is siting a case against Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell in which by a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court, McDonnell avoided ethic charges. On Thursday, March 16, in Manhattan’s Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Steven Molo, the attorney representing Silver, used the determination made in the McDonnell case, which severely restricted the definition of corruption, in his arguments that he present-

ed to a panel of three judges. As previously reported by The Jewish Voice, the once-powerful political leader, who took advantage of his position to swindle $5.4 million in kickbacks and bribes, was originally scheduled to surrender back in August 2016 to begin serving his 12-year sentence. But Manhattan federal Judge Valerie Caproni, who handled Silver’s trial, decided to consent to his request to stay free on bail for a longer period. Caproni stated in her ruling that she believes Silver is guilty — even according to a new and much narrower definition of “official acts” constituting corruption established by a Supreme Court ruling in June. In that case, the court voided the conviction of former

and expensive gifts from a wealthy businessman seeking favors, ruling that just arranging meetings did not constitute official acts. “As stated previously, this case differs from McDonnell because most of the official acts presented to the jury — the provision of state grants, approval of tax-exempt state financing, and voting on legislation — are undoubtedly official acts under McDonnell,” Caproni wrote in her ruling. But she still granted Silver bail because of concerns that Disgraced former State her instructions to the jury Assembly Speaker Sheldon may have been inadequate unSilver has begun the process der the new standards estabof appealing his corruption lished by the high court. conviction “The charge given to the jury Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, did not contradict McDonnell. who had accepted cash, loans Nevertheless, the jury charge

did not include key language from McDonnell’s definition of official action,” Caproni further stated. In one example, Caproni said she was negligent in not instructing the jury to determine that Silver accepted kickbacks in exchange for actions that did not include such mundane acts as meetings or hosting of events to discuss issues. While no one can predict when the Manhattan appeals court will issue its ruling, Caproni’s decision almost surely lets Silver avoid jail for another year, an expert opined. “It depends on the complexity of the briefing, but certainly it could take a year — potentially more,” stated Michael Bachner of the law firm Bachner & Associates. “Could it be

quicker? I doubt it will be.” In a central element of the corruption charges against him, Silver directed $500,000 in state funds to Dr. Robert Taub’s former mesothelioma research center at Columbia University. Taub in return referred asbestos exposure victims to Silver, who advised them to utilize the law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, which then paid the Assembly leader more than $3 million in kickbacks. Under the court’s conditions, Silver can continue to reside in his Lower East Side home, but as of September 2016 he had to begin paying back part of the more than $7 million he owes in fines and forfeitures — meaning $5,846 per month.

NYPD Bribery Scheme Revealed to be Spread Across Brooklyn By Rebecca Gold

n Thursday, March 16, prosecutors said, that a member of a Brooklyn area watch group has given cash and gifts to officers throughout the borough in addition to bribing several officers in the gun-licensing division of the New York Police Department to obtain dozens of handgun permits. In Manhattan, in Federal District Court, the disclosure was made suggesting that new evidence of misconduct within the police department is continuing to turn up as part of a major federal probe into corruption. During the sentencing of

Alex Lichtenstein, a member of the shomrim which patrols the streets in ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities within Brooklyn, it was revealed that other officers had accepted gifts and cash. A judge sentenced Lichtenstein, known as Shaya, on Thursday to a 32-month prison sentence. The judge told him that he had betrayed the “public trust by bribing and corrupting New York City police officers.” Federal prosecutors hinted that their case against Lichtenstein had revealed new evidence “of money he was spreading to other police officers, throughout Brooklyn.” Prosecutors didn’t name the other officers, but said the list

dividual payments is possessed by the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan. Assistant United States attorney Russell Capone said, “He[Lichtenstein] kept detailed records.” He told Judge Sidney Stein, “I have them right here.” Beyond that Capone didn’t describe the records, he just said that they contained “more than 100 entries of payments made to — or things bought for — police officers” across Brooklyn. The New York Times reports, “Mr. Capone disclosed the existence of the records in arguing Alex Lichtenstein was that Mr. Lichtenstein’s bribery sentenced to 32 months in scheme was not limited to the prison last Thursday. small gun-licensing division in included “high-ranking offi- Police Headquarters. But it was cers,” and that evidence of in- not immediately clear whether

the United States attorney’s office intended to pursue these cash payments and gifts as a criminal matter. Mr. Lichtenstein was arrested last year amid a major F.B.I. investigation into influence-peddling and bribery within the New York Police Department. F.B.I. investigators ultimately charged three businessmen, including Mr. Lichtenstein, in court papers that described how self-appointed police liaisons within the Orthodox community, such as Mr. Lichtenstein, exercised such influence within Police Headquarters that police commanders would turn to them for support when seeking a promotion. In Mr. Lichtenstein’s case, the charges

“I have destroyed my life. I have hurt the people who mean the most to me. I am disgraced by these mistakes.” were related to bribing officers in return for rubber-stamping handgun license applications. The F.B.I. inquiry has so far resulted in charges against a police inspector and a deputy inspector, along with a sergeant and another officer.” On Thursday, the 45-yearold Lichtenstein said, “I have destroyed my life. I have hurt the people who mean the most to me. I am disgraced by these mistakes.”

NY to Scrap Literacy Test for Teachers Over Lack of Diversity By: Madeleine Weast

ew York education officials are expected next week to eliminate a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because a disproportionate number of African-American and Hispanic test takers were failing it. The state Board of Regents has looked to adopt a task force's recommendation of eliminating the Academic Literacy Skills Test, according to the Associated Press. "We want high standards, without a doubt. Not every given test is going to get us there," said Leslie Soodak, a professor of education at Pace University who served on the task force. The literacy test, which was

introduced in the 2013-2014 school year in an effort to raise the level of school teaching in the state, has alarmed some because of how minorities performed taking it. Only 46 percent of Hispanics and 41 percent of African Americans passed the test on the first try. Sixty-four percent of white candidates passed the literacy test on the first try. Proponents of the test say it helps improve the quality of the state's teachers and scrapping it will allow weak ones to work in New York classrooms, the AP reported. Leaders of the education reform movement have complained for years about the caliber of students entering education schools and the quality of the instruction they receive there. A December 2016 study

accepted students from the bottom half of their high school classes. Critics of the test argue it is redundant and a poor predictor of teacher performance. Some say it unfairly disadvantages minority candidates. In 2015, a federal judge ruled that the test was not discriminatory, but many see a lack of diversity among teachers as problematic. "Having a white workforce really doesn't match our student body anymore," Soodak said. Kate Walsh, the president of the National Council on TeachNew York education officials are expected next week to er Quality, which advocates for eliminate a test designed to measure the reading and writing higher standards for teachers, skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because a told the AP that African Ameridisproportionate number of African-American and Hispanic test cans and Hispanics do not score takers were failing it. as high on the literacy test due to by the National Council on percent of the teacher prepa- factors like poverty and racism. "There's not a test in the Teacher Quality found that 44 ration programs it surveyed

country that doesn't have disproportionate performance on the part of blacks and Latinos," Walsh said. Walsh also said getting rid of the test would be a "shame" because New York has become "light years ahead of other states" with its teacher certification. The Academic Literacy Skills Test has a series of reading sections that consist of multiple-choice questions, followed by a written section. The test is taken online and costs $131. Practice tests are available online for $20 on the New York Education Department website. According to Ian Rosenblum, the executive director of the New York office of the Education Trust, the literacy test is comparable to "a 12th grade-level assessment." (WASHINGTON FREE BEACON)

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DeBlasio: Fed Budget Cuts Will Hurt NYC Schools, Security & Housing By Racheal Shapiro

n Thursday, March 16, Mayor Bill de Blasio said that President Donald Trump’s budget “will have a hugely negative impact on his hometown.” Under the new budget proposal, which was released on Thursday by President Trump, the city may lose hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for schools, housing security and transportation. At a news conference in City Hall, de Blasio said, “New York City is directly in the cross hairs. This will make New Yorkers less safe, it will make it harder to get affordable housing, it will hurt our schools, it will hurt our hospitals.” According to the mayor and the city commissioners assembled to respond to the budget, it will cut $140 million from New York City schools and after school programs, $190 million from homeland security grants, and $370

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he will resist President Trump’s proposed budget cuts.

million from NYCHA, in addition to the public housing system’s already expected slash of $76 million. The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s community development block grant program will be completely eliminated, which is a loss of $136 million of funds that would be used to help make repairs and assist in

the enforcement of housing laws. De Blasio said, “I want to ask President Trump to think about what this budget will mean for his hometown. I want to ask him to come here and talk to the people affected. If this is the opening salvo from President Trump, I can tell you he’s about to be met with huge resistance all over this

country.” According to The Daily News, “Trump’s plan slashes $2 billion from transit projects — one of the few areas where Democrats had said they hoped to find common ground with the President. That could imperil the next phase of the Second Ave. subway and the Gateway trans-Hudson River tunnel project, de Blasio said. NYCHA stands to lose a whopping two thirds of its capital funds, $220 million — money used to fix crumbling roofs and elevators — plus another $150 million in operating money. On top of that, 700,000 New Yorkers would lose assistance paying their home energy bills, and $50 million for supportive housing and down payment assistance for home buyers would be yanked.” De Blasio only vowed to stand up against the plan, but offered no ways to deal with the repercussions if the new budget passes as is.

“This will make New Yorkers less safe, it will make it harder to get affordable housing, it will hurt our schools, it will hurt our hospitals.” He said, “We are going to fight. Every single one of these items can be fought.” De Blasio predicted Congress could stop the spending plan, and that mayors and governors from across the nation would also resist it. The budget cut proposed by Trump were mainly to transfer the extra funds to increasing the military. De Blasio said, “You’re going to see cities of all sizes hurt by this budget, you’re going to see towns hurt by this budget. A lot of things in President Trump’s budget will be very difficult for Republicans to vote for.”

Is Trump Tower Really Under Gov’t Surveillance? By: Anat Ghelber

aw enforcement authorities are under the gun in their frantic search for a missing laptop computer that contained floor plans at Trump Tower. The laptop was issued to a Secret Service agent. According to published reports, last Thursday, the laptop was lifted from the car belonging to agent Marie Argentieri who reported it missing. The question that authorities are grappling with is whether the theft was premeditated or whether it was the work of a random burglar. Sources have said that the NYPD is assisting in the investigation. “It’s a very big deal,” a police source said. “There’s data on there that’s highly sensitive. They’re scrambling like mad.” According to a report in the New York Daily News, sources and neighbors said the thief “stepped out of a dark-colored sedan, possibly an Uber, and darted into Argentieri’s Bath Beach driveway about 3 a.m. He grabbed the computer, a backpack, and other goods and walked away.” Earlier this month, President Donald Trump accused former

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of wire tapping his phones at Trump Tower during the 2016 national presidential election.

President Barack Obama of wire tapping his phones at Trump Tower during the 2016 national presidential election. President Obama has categorically denied any such actions but the President has continued with his accusations. Now members of the United States Senate have weighed in on the issue. Specifically, Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va) have provided the following statement regarding

President Trump being wiretapped by anyone during the 2016 election: “Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016.” This is a more certain denial of such action than that issued by Chairman Devin Nunes (RCA) of the House Intelligence Committee. On March 15th Chairman Nunes stated that the

committee he heads didn’t “have any evidence” of any wiretapping taking place. Chairman Nunes went on to qualify his statement stating that while there was no “actual tap of Trump Tower,” he thinks that President Trump was referring to general surveillance, not just wiretaps. He’s gone on to relate how Trump aides’ messages may have been gathered together as part of "incidental" collection. For himself, President Trump has spoken to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and told him that he would be releasing evidence of his accusations of being wiretapped “very soon.” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has reacted indignantly to what he saw as a double standard being applied by the media coverage of Senator Burr and Senator Warner’s denial of any wiretapping. At his daily press briefing, he said, "It's interesting to me that just as a point of interest, when one entity says one thing that claims one thing, you guys cover it ad nauseum. When Devin Nunes said it's very possible, there was crickets. When he said there was no connection to Russia — crickets. Where was your pas-

“Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016.” sion and where was your concern when they said there was no connection to Russia?” Senator Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.) and other lawmakers from the Republican side have expressed a desire for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to weigh in on the debate so as to settle the matter. Senator Graham has stated, “While I appreciate the House and Senate Intelligence Committees’ chairmen and ranking members putting out bipartisan statements indicating they have seen no evidence of surveillance of Trump Tower by the Obama Administration, I strongly believe that these statements by political leaders should not be a substitute for a public response from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice on this matter.”

NYC’s Public Health System Experiencing Serious Financial Woes By: Anat Ghelber

ccording to just released financial statements, hospitals in the New York City public health system have been operating at a loss to the tune of $776 million for the first half of the 2017 fiscal year. This is an unfortunate increase of 84.5% from two years ago, when it was reported that the public health system lost $420.4 million. After factoring in interest expenses and investment losses, the total loss for New York City public hospitals is $842.6 million. There are several factors leading to such a financial loss for the city’s public health sys-

According to just released financial statements, hospitals in the New York City public health system have been operating at a loss to the tune of $776 million for the first half of the 2017 fiscal year

tem, and most of it related to insurance. It’s been reported that while the city contributed $78.8 million to the health system in capital, there was still a $763 million net loss. According to the publication, Crain’s in January, while enrolling in MetroPlus provided some small financial gains; the public health system’s desire to be able to help more patients is in danger after the number of people utilizing the system at hospitals and outpatient clinics went down. While New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has expressed desire and support for means to bring New York City Health and Hospitals more prosperity, the results are disappointing-

ly contrasting. The amount of money being spent on different things is increasing faster than any money being brought in. As Director of research at the Citizens Budget Commission Charles Brecher, put it, "That's not how you close budget gaps.” Indeed, it’s been noted that this doesn’t bode well for the system in general. At the heart of the problem is insurance. A report by the Mayor providing an in-depth investigation of the system in 2014 found that 69% of the patients who sought treatment at New York City hospitals were either uninsured of used MedSee NYC’s Public Health , page 36

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Acting US Attorney Joon Kim Clears De Blasio’s Path to Re-Election By Hannah Hayes

n Thursday, March 16, federal and city prosecutors announced that Mayor Bill de Blasio and his aids will not be charged with doing favors for donors or with other fundraising crimes, which in turn clears that Mayor’s biggest block in his path for re-election. Crain’s News reports, “On his regular weekly appearance on the Brian Lehrer show, the mayor's heavy breaths reflected the burden that the investigations have placed on his administration for months. The most obvious result of acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim's decision to call off the dogs is that declared and potential challengers to de Blasio this fall lose a major line of attack. Though the mayor's approval rating has bounced around the 50% mark, he remains a heavy favorite to win re-election because of the power of incumbency, the institutional support he enjoys from several labor unions, and the city's overwhelmingly Democratic electorate. With declared and potential opponents' hopes for an indictment dashed, they will find it harder to raise money and gain traction for the September Democratic primary or the general election in November.” Many political and business figures will benefit from

Replacing Preet Bharara is the acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim

this decision while others will lose out. Among those in the winner’s circle are De Blasio lieutenants Ross Offinger and Emma Wolfeer who, unlike the underlings in many other fundraising schemes, will not have to take the rap for their boss. Real estate donors, business and unions are also benefiting, because Kim’s decision implies that they can keep up the less than ethical practice of making donations in return for winning contracts and gaining influence. Others that benefit from de Blasio staying in a position of authority include the United Federation of Teachers, since he is not big on giving nonunion charter schools public school space. Also, the mayor’s opposi-

tion to a prevailing-wage mandate for workers on subsidized housing projects makes the Real Estate Board of New York a fan of him. The most obvious loser, by de Blasio strike of good luck, is his republican mayoral challenger Paul Massey, who has been calling de Blasio the most corrupt mayor ever because of the probes. According to Crain’s, “Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., City Comptroller Scott Stringer and former City Council speaker Christine Quinn were probably only going to run in the Democratic primary if the mayor had been indicted; mainstream Democrats traditionally do not challenge incumbents in primaries. President Donald Trump has called de Blasio the worst mayor in city history and would have loved to see his frequent critic go down; Kim's decision came before Trump had a chance to appoint a replacement for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and will make it very difficult for a successor to bring case. Another de Blasio enemy, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, loses whenever the mayor wins. Bharara, whom Trump fired last week, was rendered a loser by his friend Kim's action because it means Bharara expended resources and political capital— giving de Blasio fodder for righteous indignation—and ended up with nothing to show for it.”

Temporary Ramp Built to Help La Guardia’s Traffic Troubles By Mark Snyder

n the afternoon of Wednesday, March 15, a temporary ramp was opened between La Guardia Airport and the Grand Central Parkway, to hopefully relieve some of the congestion on the roads within the airport, which has been going on since last summer when construction began to revamp the airport’s main terminal. The New York Times reports, “Sam Schwartz, a traffic consultant for the airport project, said the ramp opened just in time to avert a potential mess like one that occurred a month ago, which caused people to abandon taxis on the highway and walk to terminals. He said the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates La Guardia, had estimated that 7,300 travelers would pass through the airport between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Wednesday, a record for any hour.”

On Wednesday, March 15, a temporary ramp onto the Grand Central Parkway was built to ease congestion on the roads within La Guardia Airport.

told the NYT. Due to the snowstorm, last week, there were many flight cancellations on Tuesday, March 14, which resulted in what Schwartz estimated at about 85,000 passengers passing through La Guardia the following Wednesday. According to Schwartz, by midday traffic was already considered a code yellow, “some queues but not paralysis.” He said that with the ramp enough 7,300 travelers would pass through the airport traffic was rerouted to bring between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. traffic conditions back to green on Wednesday, a record — “moving well” — he said. “The temporary ramp will for any hour. be open only when necessary because its use forces a lane “Today was not projected of the Grand Central Parkway to be anything in particular to close, Mr. Schwartz said. without the storm,” Schwartz The ramp runs from the Delta

terminal at the airport to the westbound lanes of the Grand Central. Mr. Schwartz said he was sure it would be needed on Thursday and Friday, which were projected to be two of the busiest days of the year at La Guardia even before the snowstorm. The Port Authority said most flights on Thursday and Friday were fully booked and advised travelers to use mass transit to get to the airport,” reports the NYT. The original plan that involves demolishing the 53-yearold Central Terminal Building and creating new central terminal where there is now a parking garage, did not include See Temporary Ramp Built , page 36

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Williamsburg Man Sentenced to 4 Years for Beating Attack By: Daniel Perez

illiamsburg resident Mayer Herskovic has been convicted in Brooklyn's State Supreme Court for his role in a violent hate crime, the 2013 gang assault of 22-year-old Taj Patterson. The judge, however, immediately granted a 120 day stay of sentencing so that Herskovic's legal team can prepare their appeal. According to the Patterson, who suffered a broken eye socket in the assault and was blinded in his right eye, several of his assailants wore clothing identifying them as members of the Shomrim safety patrol. They attacked the victim from behind, knocking him to the ground and kicking him while shouting homophobic slurs. Detective Eric Sanchez of the NYPD Hate Crimes Unit testified during the trial that residents of the mostly Chasidic neighborhood were “uncooperative,” telling police that their cameras were turned off, or broken, at the time of the incident. After an initial police investigation that lasted only one day and yielded no results, Mr. Patterson's mother publicized the incident in local media, shaming the NYPD into reopening the case.

Williamsburg resident Mayer Herskovic has been convicted in Brooklyn's State Supreme Court for his role in a violent hate crime, the 2013 gang assault of 22-year-old Taj Patterson

Whereas the initial police report indicated only a single attacker and—according to a report by the New York Daily News—dismissed Patterson as “highly intoxicated, uncooperative and incoherent,” the second investigation led to five arrests. With the charges against two of the suspects dropped, and two others (Pinchas Braver and Abraham Winkler) receiving plea bargains, Herskovic is the only one facing jail time. Winkler and Braver sparked further public outrage when they

attempted to fulfill the terms of their agreement, which included 150 hours of community service in a “culturally diverse neighborhood,” by volunteering for the Chareidi non-profit “Chai Lifeline,” a respected charitable organization that nonetheless fails to meet the criteria set forth by the court. Judge Danny Chun stated at Herskovic's sentencing that Herskovic was “not the most culpable” for the victim's injuries, nonetheless, there was DNA evidence tying him to the incident. The suspect's attorney, Stuart Slotnick, disputes the evidence, maintaining that the DNA evidence “was completely and totally flawed.” “I wish I could take back what happened to Mr. Patterson,” said Herskovic—verbally distancing himself from the hate crime prior to sentencing. “I pray that Mr. Patterson finds peace for what he has suffered and endured.” In an interview with the New York Times, prosecutor Timothy Gough relates that Patterson's mental and physical trauma are ongoing, that Patterson is no longer the outgoing person he once was, and questions his own belief in God. In the face of a quintessential chillul Hashem, it appears that Mr. Herskovic's prayers may be too little, too late.

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Erik Ekstein Ups Sellout Price to $151M Abro Management Buys Two Brighton for Luxury Midtown Manhattan Condo Beach Rental Buildings for $46.9M By: Ilana Siyance

By: Helen Zaboulani

he new luxury condominium tower at 30 East 31st Street in Manhattan, is upping its target sellout price. According to a filing with the New York State Attorney General’s Office, Ekstein Development LLC is now looking forward to a $151 million sellout on the 40-story building. Back in 2015, for the first filing of construction plans, Ekstein set the target for $90 million. In June 2014, Certes Partners paid $15.5 million to purchase the NoMad development site that held the seven-story historic parish house of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church. It has been demolished and last October, Ekstein obtained a loan for construction in the amount of $54 million. Originally, Ekstein, in partnership with Pinnacle Real Estate, planned to develop 38 condominium apartments in the tower which would span 71,500 square feet. The developers have increased the total sellout by over 67 percent, while only adding four new units to the plan. The new target price would mean that the average price per

The new luxury condominium tower at 30 East 31st Street in Manhattan, is upping its target sellout price. According to a filing with the New York State Attorney General’s Office, Ekstein Development LLC is now looking forward to a $151 million sellout on the 40-story building

unit would be $3.6 million. As reported by The Real Deal, the original design was for the second through eighth floors to each hold half-floor apartments, while floors nine through 31 would have full floor apartments. Developers planned to construct duplexes on floors 32 through 37. Morris Adjmi is listed as the architect company for the project. The property will include a community room, a fitness room and a bike storage room.

While many developers have been shying away from today’s dwindling luxury residential market, Ekstein is apparently going all in. Of course CEO Erik Ekstein is no novice. He has significant interests in over 3 million square feet of residential, industrial, office and storage facilities in the tristate area. He is currently wrapping up construction of an 86-unit condo at 25-19 43rd Avenue in Long Island City.

Izaki Group Releases Plans to Build 20-Story Condo Tower on UES By : Hadassa Kalatizadeh

zaki Group Investments has released plans to build a 20-story condominium tower in the Upper East Side. As per The Real Deal, the firm, which is the U.S. division of Israeli based development company IGI, purchased the development site last month for $42 million. The company purchased the three adjacent walk-

The Izaki Group purchased the three adjacent walkups at 310314 East 86th Street, from Gary Barnett’s Extell Development

Eldad Blaustein, Chief Executive of IGI-US, said the company plans to build 40 condos, with two apartments per floor, to meet the rising demand for spacious apartments in the upscale neighborhood.

ups at 310-314 East 86th Street, from Gary Barnett’s Extell Development. The tower will be conveniently located near the Second Avenue subway , which was finally opened only weeks before the purchase. Eldad Blaustein, Chief Executive of IGI-US, said the company plans to build 40 condos, with two apartments per floor, to meet the rising demand for spacious apartments in the upscale neighborhood. According to public records, Bank Leumi provided a $26.8 million acquisition loan for the purchase of the site. The buildings come with as-of-right air rights and development rights from a

neighboring property, which will allow IGI to build its tower up to 210 feet tall. The building will span 71,240-square-feet. Owned and managed by Ron Izaki, IGI is one of Israel's largest and oldest private real estate development companies, with 60 years of experience. IGI-US, has already developed 20 projects in the United States. Most recent developments include the apartment towers at 93 Worth Street in Tribeca, with 92 luxurious lofts; and 15 Renwick Street in SOHO boasting 31 elegant residences. Aside from its Israel and New York investments, the company also has projects in London, Warsaw and Budapest.

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n Thursday March 16th, Abro Management, bought two neighboring Brighton Beach rental buildings from the Hudson Companies for $46.9 million, as reported by The Real Deal. The purchase includes 1125 Banner Avenue, which is 11 stories; and 2750 East 12th Street, which is seven stories. Together the South Brooklyn buildings span 115,000 square feet, and boast 102 apartments. The closing price works out to $408 per square foot in the deal, which was brokered by Steven Vegh of Westwood Realty Associates. The market-rate for the rentals range between $2,650 to $4,100 per square foot. Abro, the real estate and investment firm based in Woodmere, is owned by Richard Scharf. Abro is now the third owner to change hands on the buildings since they were built. In 2013, GFI Capital Resources Group developed the adjacent buildings. In 2014, Hudson Companies, led by David Kramer, purchased them for $39.5 million, as part of its $200 million fund set up to invest in New York City real estate in neighborhoods that were hard hit by Hurricane Sandy. The funds were provided by New York City Pension Funds. And now Abro has nabbed them. Abro had a busy year in 2016. The firm sold three Bronx build-

Abro Management buys two Brighton Beach rentals from Hudson Companies for $47M

The purchase includes 1125 Banner Avenue, (pictured above) which is 11 stories; and 2750 East 12th Street, which is seven stories

ings for $27.3 million and two more properties in Astoria for $13.6 million. It purchased a 47unit rental building in the East

Village for $28 million, as well as a share of a $60 million portfolio from Douglas Eisenberg’s A&E Real Estate Holdings.

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Garment District Rezoning Plan Opposed by Manhattan Officials

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Target Store to Open Across from Macy’s in Herald Square

By: Natasha Spyer

By: Kristina Stukalenko

he City of New York has instated a plan that will remove zoning requirements designed to keep manufacturing jobs in the garment district. The aim of the proposal is to relocate manufacturing space to the outer boroughs to counter the steep cost of rents in the area. Manhattan officials have expressed concern regarding the initiative and have submitted a letter to the Mayor’s office, the planning Commission and the city Economic Development Corporation expressing their negative opinion on the move. According to the Midtown Manhattan Patch, the letter was signed Manhattan borough president Gale Brewer, Congressman Jerry Nadler, State senator Brad Hoylman, Assemblyman Dick Gottfried, City Councilman Corey Johnson and two community board chairs. The letter drafted by the lawmakers reads “We ask that you delay any and all action on the plan and work with us and stakeholders in the Garment District to adopt a plan for public review.” The mayor first spoke at length of his plans to move the garment district to Brooklyn during his State of the City address last month. The new law will remove a 30-year old regulation that requires Midtown building owners to allocate at least half of their floor space to manufacturing compa-

City officials have actively opposed a plan that will remove requirements in place that will keep manufacturing jobs within the confines of the garment district

nies, thereby incentivizing manufacturing companies to move their operations to industrial centers in Sunset Park. According to Crain’s New York, the main grievance that local lawmakers have against the move away from Midtown is that the plan is being rushed and not thought out well enough to maintain the solvency of the industry. A move to Brooklyn can disrupt the coordination and the cohesion of the industry, as fashion houses, fabric retailers and manufacturers work in concert to make the industry profitable and to maintain New York’s elite status in the fashion world. Crain’s estimates that the fashion industry employees 180,000 people and accounts for approximately $98 billion in economic activity every year. Any abrupt changes to the status quo could

adversely affect these workers and disrupt the smooth operation of the sector as a whole. Moreover, the manufacturing end of the garment district is also an endangered concept as globalization has shifted manufacturing jobs overseas. According to statistics from the State department of Labor, the number of garment workers in the City has declined by 83%. Proponents of the City’s initiative to move the compact garment district to the outer boroughs argue that the regulations are outdated because there are not enough local manufacturers in Manhattan to rent to. This puts landlords in Midtown in a double bind. If they cannot fill the vacancies with local manufacturers, they are forced into breaking the law by leasing space to other companies from other sectors or else risk losing rental revenue.

All NY Households to Receive Broadband Internet Service by 2018 By: Svetlana Korikovsky

ccording to the New York Times, New York City’s rural residents are set to become the beneficiaries of an initiative that requires that all New York households, regardless of how remote or rural their location, receive mandatory broadband by the year 2018. The state wide initiative is part of an effort to generate new business opportunities in under populated rural enclaves in the city that currently suffer from inexistent or low internet speeds as a result of their remote locations. The initiative is designed to strengthen small businesses in remote areas. Alan White, a 54-year old farmer based in Halcott New York told the Times “I look at it this way; it’s very much like electricity was at one time. Electricity would never have come to our valley if it was based strictly on population. It’s not a luxury. It’s a necessity that we need to operate.” According to a study done by the Federal Communications Commission, there are an estimated 12.6 million American households that currently lack a broadband connection. According to another study from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and development, the United States ranks in 15th place when measuring broadband con-

New York is set to become the first state to receive broadband for all residents, regardless of how remote or rural their location, in 2018

nectivity, behind countries like Korea and Canada. An estimated 39% of citizens living in rural areas lack broadband connectivity as compared to 4% living in urban areas according to the Times. According to the Times, parts of rural Mississippi and Arkansas, and States with sparse populations like Montana have a broadband access rate of 30 percent, making it difficult for the population and local businesses to keep up with an economy that relies on the speed of wireless information in order to conduct business practices that are both timely and efficient. The problem with securing connectivity in rural areas is that the more sparsely populated a region, the harder and less cost effective it is to lay down wire

in order to establish broadband networks, making it necessary that the State mandate programs that will lower the exponential costs of laying down the wire. The damning statistics, which adversely affect small businesses, have prompted Governor Andrew Cuomo to launch his “Broadband for all initiative.” Under Cuomo’s plan, the Federal Communications Commission will be charged with identifying underserved or unserved areas, the program will then divide the State into census blocks. The state will then auction off grant money to each respective census block. The State will then award the grant money to companies that will bid for the lowest State subsidy.

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ccording to the New York Post, the national discount retailer, Target, is preparing to take on Manhattan once again. The retailer will lease 43,000 square feet in anticipation of opening a new store in October. The new location will be on 112 W. 34th street. The new store will be located across the street from the iconic Macy’s store that served as the backdrop for the film Miracle on 34th street. The Target store will be a small part of a larger 92,000 square-foot retail complex that will include a Sephora, a Foot Locker and a Swatch store. The grand opening of the new store will feature Target fashions and grab and go food. According to Target’s senior vice president Mark Schindele, it is the retailers hope that the prime location will attract visitors that flock to and from Penn station as well as the steady flow of tourists that can be seen shopping regularly in the area, which is famous for its mid-range retail stores. “Not only will we be able to serve the thousands of working professionals that travel through Herald Square each day, but we’ll have the opportunity to showcase Target’s exclusive brands and compelling offers for the many tourists

The Target store will be a small part of a larger 92,000 squarefoot retail complex that will include a Sephora, a Foot Locker and a Swatch store.

from around the world who shop in this vibrant neighborhood in Manhattan.” The recent move to midtown is part of a larger trend for the retailer, as it seeks to revamp its image, from a suburban-based retailer to own that is steadily on the move towards urban pastures. At present, Target has a store in Tribeca at 255 Greenwich Street, East River Plaza in Harlem and Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn. The retailer is also building new stores at 400 E. 144th street that is set to open in 2018, and one at 615 10th avenue in Hell’s Kitchen that will open in 2019. Anthony Malkin, CEO of Empire State Realty Trust will be Target’s new landlord on 34th street and spoke to the

Post of the difficult balancing act that up and coming retailers need to navigate when opening a new location. “Retail is very challenging around New York and it speaks to the strength of the location because today in New York City, if the retailers can’t make money, they won’t take the location.” Time can only tell whether or not Target’s decision to move to the mecca of 34th will be a worth the investment. The current rental price in the new Herald Square complex is $1,000 per square foot. As part of its effort to afford such high costs, Target will offer customers the option of ordering products online and picking them up at the store.

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'Are NY Taxpayers Funding Rabid Anti-Semite's Appearance?'

Straphangers to Air Grievances over Latest NYC Subway Fare Hike By: Kristina Stukalenko

NY Assemblyman demands Brooklyn Public Library pull lecture series by Hezbollah-supporting activist Norman Finkelstein By: Gary Willig

ew York State Assemblyman and intrepid Jewish activist Dov Hikind (D - Brooklyn) reacted angrily to the news that the Brooklyn Public Library would host a lecture by anti-Israel activist and Hezbollah supporter Norman Finkelstein. Finkelstein's “No Free Speech for Fascists” lecture series at the library may be funded by the municipality.

spread his hate to the public? Is the Library also using New Yorkers' tax dollars to pay this individual? Are they allowing children to attend this hateful lecture series? Will they allow the heads of the KKK and Neo-Nazi party to lecture at the library next?" “Hardly a day goes by without a bomb threat to a Jewish center filled with preschoolers and the elderly,” Hikind continued. “Every week, there’s a swastika painted, or a cemetery attacked New York State Assemblyman and intrepid Jewish activist Dov Hikind (D - Brooklyn) reacted angrily to the news that the Brooklyn Public Library would host a lecture by antiIsrael activist and Hezbollah supporter Norman Finkelstein (pictured above)

Finkelstein's “No Free Speech for Fascists” lecture series at the library may be funded by the municipality.

“It’s no secret that Norman Finkelstein is a despicable, self-hating Jew who has made sickening, dangerous statements like ‘We are all Hezbollah,’” said Hikind. “The question is why would the Brooklyn Public Library allow this vile propagandist to use their facilities to

in the middle of the night. That’s the current reality. And what is the Brooklyn Public Library’s response? To host a modern-day Goebbels who makes excuses for terrorism and denies the extent of the Holocaust. That’s shameful!” Finkelstein was denied tenure

at DePaul University and placed on academic leave for a year following his statements supporting terrorism and accusing Jews of exploiting the Holocaust. "DePaul University and Israeli authorities understood that espousing hatred leads to violence,” said Hikind. “The last thing we need in Brooklyn right now is someone who expresses solidarity with Hamas and Hezbollah under the guise of ‘academia’ stirring the pot of racial hatred.” (INN)

Owner of Illegal Midtown Hotel Settles Ongoing Suit with City for $375K By Hannah Hayes

ccording to recent documents in federal bankruptcy court, the owner of a sleazy apartment building in Midtown that has faced many lawsuits for years, has agreed to bring the property up to code and pay $375,000 to settle millions of dollars' worth of outstanding violations.

440 West 41st Street, New York, NY (Photo credit: Propertyshark. com)

Executive director of the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement Christian Klossner

One of the multiple owners of 44o W. 41st Street is Ben Zion Suky, who for years has been renting apartments in the building for terms less than 30 days which is in direct violation

of city code, according to City Hall. A lawsuit was filed in 2015 by the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement to collect damages and close down the illegal hotel. However, before the suit could be resolved Suky sold the 96-unit building to a company controlled by David Goldwasser. Once Goldwasser took possession of the property he filed for bankruptcy protection. According to the documents, the city tried to hold Goldwasser was responsible for over $2 million in outstanding violations and penalties. On the conditions that all illegal hotel activities are stopped and the property is brought up to code, the city has now agreed to settle the lawsuit

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with Goldwasser for $375,000. In a statement, executive director of the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement Christian Klossner said, "We will use every tool at our disposal to pursue bad actors who take affordable housing off the market." The statement also noted that fire codes are often openly disregarded by illegal hotels, which can put the guests in great danger. Crain’s News reports, “The settlement eliminates all fines and violations from the building's record provided that the infractions are remedied by the end of April. The city, however, will continue its lawsuit against Suky and the other prior owners over their past operation of the hotel.”

t’s an age old story, much like the song that doesn’t end that we all remember from elementary school that has settled into our subconscious and is revived every couple of years, the MTA is set to hike of the subway fare this coming Sunday. Predictably, straphangers are dismayed by the latest round of fare increases, particularly because service never seems to keep up with new pricing. New Yorkers complain that the daily inconveniences that disrupt their commute seem to persist in spite no matter how deep the MTA reaches into their wallets. Ray Nieto, a 41-year old stagehand from told the Post “You get less bang for your buck. It’s just going up and up. It’s not good. The money I put into it last week costs less next week. It doesn’t feel fair. There are no improvements.” The only relief comes from the fact that the new fare hikes are not as substantial as they have been in recent years. The new fare increases will see the cost of monthly Metro cards rise from $116.50 to $121.00, weekly Metro cards will rise by $1.00, going up to $32.00, while single rides will remain at $2.75. Program manager, Cecilie

The MTA is set to enact its latest round of fare hikes and straphangers are less than amused

Barnor said of the new fare increases “They keep raising the fare, but the service is horrible, especially on the weekend,” the 37-year-old complained. “You have to look at 10 different websites just to make sure your train is running.” Fifty activists from the Fair Fares Coalition gathered outside of Atlantic Avenue’s Barclays Center station in order to protest the hikes. The protesters are also in support of subsidized half-priced Metro cards for low income New Yorkers in order to offset the rising cost of transportation for people working for minimum wage jobs and struggling to make ends meet. Should the Mayor decide

to add the public subsidy to the 2018 budget, 800,000 New Yorkers would be eligible for the discounted MetroCards. . People rallying for the subsidy argue that for some New Yorkers it is becoming increasingly burdensome to afford to put food on the table because they cannot afford to get to work. Letitia Bouie of East New York told the Post of the MTA’s never ending stream of fare increases. “For me, it’s either groceries or a fare…Either you have to walk where you’re going and eat …or go without a meal that day. I just can’t talk about it anymore. I need to be out here doing something about it.”

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UWS Brightens Up for IAC Shabbos/Purim Celebration

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Once Prominent NY Doctor Files for Bankruptcy, Blames Ex

Edited by: JV Staff

By: Daniel Perez

ast Motzai Shabbos / Purim night, hundreds of New Yorkers gathered at B’nai Jeshurun for a special Israeli-American Council (IAC) Shishi Israeli program, which brings together Israeli-American and Jewish-American families of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate their shared culture and heritage. The popular program was celebrated from coast-tocoast over the weekend, with four IAC regions— Nevada, Arizona, Florida and New York—hosting Shishi on the same weekend, building a Jewish communal experience that bridges historical and geographical gaps across the American Jewish landscape.

“My family missed the national spirit of Shabbat in Israel, which begins on Yom Shishi—Friday,” “IAC Shishi Israeli has become a national movement of its own,” IAC CEO Shoham Nicolet said. “It is inspiring to watch the program growing so quickly, bridging together thousands of Israeli and Jewish Americans of all backgrounds around their passion to celebrate Shabbat in an Israeli style. It looks

Last Motzai Shabbos / Purim night, hundreds of New Yorkers gathered at B’nai Jeshurun for a special Israeli-American Council (IAC) Shishi Israeli program, which brings together Israeli-American and Jewish-American families of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate their shared culture and heritage.

like a new tradition is forming organically.” In New York, the welcoming environment provided families and individuals the opportunity to unite around a Shabbat table through a love of Jewish and Israeli culture, community building, family time and traditional ritual—and to dress up, paint, sing and celebrate Purim. “My family missed the national spirit of Shabbat in Israel, which begins on Yom Shishi—Friday,” said Yael Shapira, an Israeli-American. “Now, we again have family and friends coming together to welcome the Shabbat, with good food and the classic Israeli sing-along. It cre-

ates a unique home away from home.” “It has been inspiring to be part of this program’s development and rapid growth–and to witness how an Israeli-style Shabbat can powerfully connect and engage Jews of all backgrounds, ages, and levels of observance,” said Yehudit Feinstein, IAC Regional Director in New York. “IAC Shishi Israeli is bringing families and communities closer together around the magic of Shabbat in new and exciting ways across the country.” For more information about the Israeli-American Council, please visit www.israeliamerican.org

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n 2014, physician Eric Braverman, whose patients once included public figures like Gov. George Pataki and celebrities like Suzanne Somers, found himself in hot water with the New York State Attorney General for lying to patients, tell them that tests ranging in cost from $10,000 to $100,000 would mostly be covered by their insurance (they weren't). In 2015, he spent two weeks in jail for trying to steal confidential custody documents pertaining to his highly contentious divorce. Just one year later, he pled guilty when a Texas woman accused

Dr. Braverman’s patients included such celebrities as actress Suzanne Somers (pictured above)

Dr. Eric Braverman has spent $5 million on the divorce proceedings, which began in May 2011. This month, he filed chapter 11, claiming $10.6 million in assets and $20 million in liabilities

him of groping her. According to Braverman, the real cause of his woes is his ex-wife. Braverman has spent $5 million on the divorce proceedings, which began in May 2011. This month, he filed chapter 11, claiming $10.6 million in assets and $20 million in liabilities. His ex-wife Darya believes that Dr. Braverman is trying to get out of paying alimony. Darya's attorney, Betti Hindin of the firm Hindin Deutsch, maintains that the doctor owes her more than half a million dollars in arrears. Hindin points to Braverman's recent stay at a multi-million dollar estate on the island of St. Bart's as a evidence that the doctor's financial troubles are being exaggerated. For his part, Eric Braverman claims

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that he has been “wrongly vilified” throughout the divorce proceedings, which have “completely drained me financially, professionally, and emotionally.” Despite the string of scandals and the ongoing legal battle with his ex-wife, Braverman sees himself as down but not out. In a recent report by the New York Post, Braverman's attorney, Kevin Nash, claimed that his client is already on his way to making a professional comeback. “That,” says Nash, “is the focus of the bankruptcy. He wants to become [a] prominent doctor again.” In light of his recent notoriety, whether the doctor will be able to make that transition from “infamous” to just plain “famous,” remains to be seen.

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FBI Director Debunks Trump Wiretap US Bans Large Electronic Devices Claim, Confirms Russia Probe on Some Middle East Flights By: Ken Bredemeier

BI Director James Comey has debunked President Donald Trump's explosive claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped him in the weeks before last year's presidential election. At a hearing before the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Monday, Comey also confirmed that his agency is investigating whether Trump campaign aides criminally colluded with Russian interests to help him win. "I have no information that supports [Trump's] tweets" claiming that Obama eavesdropped on him at his Trump Tower headquarters in New York, Comey said. Despite that statement, White House spokesman Sean Spicer later said Trump will not withdraw his wiretapping allegation. "We've started a hearing, it's still ongoing," Spicer said. "There's a lot of areas that still need to be covered. There's a lot of information that still needs to be discussed." Comey told the panel that because the counterintelligence investigation of Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. election is classified, "I cannot say more about what we are doing and whose conduct we are examining." He said congressional leaders have been briefed behind

By: Walter Metuth

ritain said Tuesday that it would ban passengers from carrying laptops and other large electronic devices on flights into the country from six Middle Eastern nations, following a similar measure announced by the U.S. The new British directive will block carry-on electronics larger than 16 centimeters in length, 9.3 centimeters in width and with a depth of over 1.5 centimeters on direct flights from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, FBI Director James Comey has debunked President Donald Tunisia and Saudi Arabia. Trump's explosive claim that former President Barack Obama "Direct flights to the UK from wiretapped him in the weeks before last year's presidential these destinations continue to election. operate to the UK subject to his Twitter account, Trump these new measures being in closed doors. But Comey said he has been said James Clapper, the direc- place," a spokesman for Prime authorized by the Justice De- tor of national intelligence un- Minister Theresa May told repartment to confirm that the der Obama, and others "stated porters. "We think these steps Federal Bureau of Investigation that there is no evidence" that are necessary and proportionprobe "includes investigating he joined with Moscow to help ate to allow passengers to travel the nature of any links between his cause. "This story is FAKE safely." individuals associated with the NEWS and everyone knows it!" Trump campaign and the Rus- Trump declared. Two months into his presiden- The directive will require sian government, and whether there was any coordination be- cy, Trump said Democrats "made passengers to store tween the campaign and Rus- up and pushed the Russian story electronic devices larger as an excuse for running a terrisia's efforts." than a cellphone in Hours earlier, Trump derided ble campaign," adding that the checked baggage any suggestion that his cam- campaign of former U.S. Secrepaign colluded with Russian tary of State Hillary Clinton was interests to help him win the presumed to have a "big advanEarlier Tuesday, the U.S. White House, saying it was an tage" in the country's Electoral Transportation Safety Agency excuse "made up" by Democrats College that determined the out- issued a similar ban on passenfor losing the election. gers flying directly to the United See FBI Director Debunks , page 38 In a string of messages on States from 10 Middle Eastern

Partisan Divides Emerge in Gorsuch Senate Hearings

airports. The ban is not in response to some specific threat, the agency said in a statement, but rather due to “evaluated intelligence” that shows terrorist groups’ continued interest in targeting commercial flights. The directive will require passengers to store electronic devices larger than a cellphone in checked baggage. The TSA said it chose not to include cellphones due to logistical reasons. The TSA said it chose the airports “based on the current threat picture” and after consultation with intelligence officials, though more airports could be added in the future. “As threats change, so too will TSA’s security requirements,”

the agency said. Affected airports The airports affected by the U.S. ban are: Queen Alia International Airport, Cairo International Airport, Ataturk International Airport, King Abdul-Aziz International Airport, King Khalid International Airport, Kuwait International Airport, Mohammed V Airport, Hamad International Airport, Dubai International Airport, and Abu Dhabi International Airport. “Our information indicates that terrorist groups’ efforts to execute an attack against the aviation sector are intensifying given that aviation attacks provide an opportunity to cause mass See US Bans Large Electronic , page 36

Forbes: Trump's Net Worth Dwindled to $3.5 Billion

By: Michael Bowman

By: Walter Metuth

resident Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, federal appellate Judge Neil Gorsuch, made clear his conservative leanings by speaking out against judicial activism Monday during the first day of confirmation hearings before a sharply divided Senate panel. “It’s for this body, the people’s representatives [in Congress] to make new laws,” Gorsuch said. “If judges were just secret legislators, declaring not what the Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch arrives for his law is but what they would like confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on it to be, the very idea of a gov- Capitol Hill in Washington, March 20, 2017. ernment by the people and for the people would be at risk.” of professional work is defined spend unlimited sums of money by an unfailing commitment to to buy elections.” Republican praise; Trump nominated Gorsuch these principles.” Democrat concern “Our job is to assess how this to fill the seat once occupied by Republicans on the Senate nominee’s decisions will im- conservative Justice Antonin Judiciary Committee praised pact the American people, and Scalia, who died early last year. Gorsuch’s conservative judicial whether he will protect the legal He is the second nominee for philosophy, while Democrats and constitutional rights of all the lifelong position. Republivoiced concerns that he would Americans, not just the wealthy cans refused to consider former solidify what they view as the and the powerful,” said the com- President Barack Obama’s pick, Supreme Court’s pro-corporate mittee’s top Democrat, Senator Merrick Garland, arguing that Dianne Feinstein of California. no one should be elevated to the leanings. “The Supreme Court has the Supreme Court during the heat “No matter your politics, you should be concerned about the final say on whether a woman of a presidential campaign. Democrats made clear that preservation of our constitu- will continue to have control tional order, and most impor- over her own body, or wheth- the past is not forgotten. “Your name is part of a Retantly the separation of powers,” er decisions about her health said the committee’s chairman, care will be determined by pol- publican strategy to capture our Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Re- iticians and the government,” judicial branch of government,” publican. “Fortunately for every Feinstein added. “It decides Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois American, we have before us whether billionaires and large See Partisan Divides Emerge , page 38 today a nominee whose body corporations will be able to

The U.S. government is temporarily barring passengers on certain flights originating in eight other countries from bringing most types of electronics in their carry-on luggage

hile Donald Trump's political fortunes were rising, his net worth was dropping to a mere $3.5 billion, or roughly a third of what he claimed during his successful campaign for the U.S. presidency, according to the latest Forbes list of the world's billionaires. Trump tumbled more than 100 spots to No. 544 on the magazine's 31st annual list, largely because of the impact of the slumping New York real estate market on his holdings. "Midtown Manhattan real estate is down; therefore, so is Donald Trump's fortune," the business magazine said in a statement. The developer-turned-politician, who ranked No. 205 last year, fell further behind to Bill Gates, the list's perennial leader. Gates, the philanthropic co-founder of Microsoft Corp , was followed this year by Berkshire Hathaway Inc Chairman Warren Buffett at No. 2 and Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos at No. 3. While Trump's net worth slipped, more people were qualifying for the list. This year Forbes ranked a record 2,043 billionaires. "Booming stock markets, higher commodities prices and plain old-fashioned entrepreneurship helped make this a record year in terms of wealth creation around

President Donald Trump awaits the arrival of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at the White House in Washington, March 20, 2017.

the globe," Forbes editors Luisa Kroll and Kerry Dolan said. Trump's current $3.5 billion net worth compares with $3.7 billion in October, when Forbes published its list of the 400 wealthiest Americans and a month before his Election Day upset against Democrat Hillary Clinton. While campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination in May, Trump's team filed a personal financial disclosure form that said his net worth was more than $10 billion. Critics have said he has inflated the true value of his wealth, saying his tax returns would provide a more accurate snapshot of his financial status. But Trump has defied convention and refused to release his returns.

Neither the White House nor the Trump Organization, which Trump's sons have run since their father's inauguration, immediately responded to a request for comment on the Forbes list. Gates maintained his No. 1 spot for the fourth year in a row, with his $86 billion fortune up from last year's $75 billion. Buffett, the legendary value investor known as the "Oracle of Omaha," reclaimed the No. 2 berth after a two-year hiatus. His net worth surged to $75.6 billion from $60.8 billion. Third place went to Bezos, who apparently was the biggest winner on the 2017 list. His wealth jumped to $72.8 billion, a gain of $27.6 billion from last year, Forbes said.

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Will Trump’s Border Wall Be a Self-Sufficient Solar-Paneled Energy Producer?? Continued from page 1 canopy structure that stems off the top of the wall. "Our philosophy is that the wall be 100% renewable and sustainable, first and foremost. That can be achieved through allowing a joint effort with different countries,” said Morali. He added that rather than viewing the wall as a symbol of separation, "it can represent unity by providing the same solar energy to both sides of the border. He feels that as a result it will be "a symbol of a more collaborative future with our southern neighbors." He added that "not only would the wall continue to protect our border, but it would be a project that would create a significant amount of jobs as well as providing renewable energy on a global scale."

"Our philosophy is that the wall be 100% renewable and sustainable, first and foremost. That can be achieved through allowing a joint effort with different countries,” said Morali. When queried on the precise specifications of constructing a viable solar wall, Mr. Morali offered details in layman’s

terms. He said that 15 million organic based lithium-ion batsolar panels with 300KW ca- tery management system. Mr. Morali said that each pacity each would be needed in the building of a pre-fabricated panel will be equipped with its

sun hours per day, 365 days per year). Thereby making it one of the best places in the world for solar power.”

"Our philosophy is that the wall be 100% renewable and sustainable, first and foremost. That can be achieved through allowing a joint effort with different countries,” said Morali.

modular “tilt-up” steel frame. It would produce more than three Giga-watts of electricity, making it the largest solar power plant in the world. He also added that the fusion Solar Smart Energy War will include PV Technology with internet and info technology. Moreover, he said that through the use of Smart PV Technology 24/7 energy will be used with an

own micro-inverter and sensor along the 2000 miles and micro sensors will be able to detect all horizontal, vertical and below grade movements. “Actually the border can be a simple relay strip interacting with the smart wall similar to a futuristic force shield, “ he said. “The internal ideal location for a PV Wall is this part on the region which has an average of (11

Trump Admin To Boycott U.N. Council Over Anti-Israel Agenda In First, U.S. Will Not Attend U.N. Human Rights Council Meeting By: Adam Kredo

In terms of total cost for such an elaborate project, Mr. Morali offered a ballpark figure of $25 billion, and an approximate cost of $9 billion for infrastructure. He said: “We have financing and syndicated funds which fund the project. There is always a need for energy. The Smart Wall would create 1.5 billion dollars in electric revenue per year, to compensate

for its cost. The Wall will cost approximately $2,500 per linear feet ($25 billion dollars). This cost may be compensated by electricity produced and by established financial government programs in relationship to carbon tax credits.” Mr. Morali also noted that the wall is created by integrating 15 million American‐made solar panels and a lithium ion battery back-up system. Expressing his confidence that hedge funds are more than willing to finance the wall in its totality, Mr. Morali added that there may be a program to create cultural space in each of the towers along the wall. His plans include 200 interconnected towers which will be installed at 10 mile intervals. Each tower be part of a corporate sponsorship with cultural and museum spaces that identify the history of all the states. Vincenzo Grasso, a partner and associate of Mr. Morali told the Jewish Voice that “hedge funds love to invest in clean energy production. We already have many interested parties in the project but we can’t disclose their names.” Countering the often times visceral opposition to the construction of a border wall that is espoused by Trump detractors, immigrant rights groups and others, Mr. Grasso said that the regulation that is conducted at

15 million solar panels with 300KW capacity each would be needed in the building of a prefabricated modular “tiltup” steel frame. It would produce more than three Giga-watts of electricity, making it the largest solar power plant in the world. the border “is not an invention of President Trump. Nations have borders and every nation has to protect them. It is not about whether to decide to be pro or anti-Trump. It is a matter of being in favor of upholding the rule of law or being in favor or violating it.” Mr. Grasso added that, “We want exchange with Mexico; we want to regulate the migrants; we would like to know who is coming in from Mexico and what is coming from Mexico, The United States only wants to control the border so it can operate more efficiently.” Having spoken with a large cross section of individuals who consider themselves opposed to President Trump’s policies, Mr. Grasso said that these people often adopt a very different stance upon seeing a rendering of the wall. He said that people speculate that “If President Trump will build this wall, he will be remembered as the best president ever.”

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he Trump administration will boycott the United Nation's Human Rights Council, or UNHRC, due to its efforts to advance an anti-Israel agenda, according to senior administration officials familiar with the effort who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon. The UNHRC, which includes member countries cited for mass human rights abuses, is poised to adopt at least five anti-Israel resolutions, prompting outrage in the Trump administration over what officials described as the council's unjust bias against the Jewish state. The action on these items has prompted the Trump administration to boycott the council and refuse to attend the Monday meeting, according to administration officials apprised of the situation who spoke with the Free Beacon. The boycott comes on the heels of the resignation of a Jordanian U.N. official who had

The Trump administration told the Free Beacon it is fully committed to voting against "every resolution" targeting Israel and that it will encourage allies to do the same.

UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and other senior administration officials have determined that this anti-Israel bias must be addressed before the U.S. rejoins the council and gives it legitimacy, according to sources.

sought to advance an anti-Israel agenda opposed by the United States and other nations. Trump administration officials said the increased pressure on the U.N. is part of a larger effort by U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley to significantly reform the international organization and root out those who use it as a platform to push anti-Israel initiatives. On Monday, the UNHRC is set to consider an agenda known as the "human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories." It is said to include several anti-Israel declarations that the Trump administration fiercely objects to. Senior Trump administra-

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Russia Unfazed by US Election Hacking Hearings By: Charles Maynes

MARCH 24, 2017

Prague's Old-New Synagogue Gets First New Torahs Since WW II Prague's medieval Old-New Synagogue receives two new Torah scrolls, which were written in Israel and funded by donations; These are the first to enter the Synagogue since World War II

f much of the United States was transfixed by the Congressional testimony of two of America’s top intelligence officials on allegations of Russian meddling in the U.S. elections, the Kremlin claimed it had better things to do. “We have many concerns in the Kremlin and following that [debate] isn’t one of them,” said Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “New information we’re not hearing and doubtfully will hear,” said Peskov, who went on to compare the hearings to a “broken record” being played ad nauseam. "It’s an internal American issue ... our relationship to all this hysteria is well known.” During testimony before the House Intelligence Committee Monday, FBI Director James Comey confirmed his agency is investigating Russian attempts to interfere in the U.S. election, including whether President Donald Trump's campaign aides criminally colluded with Russian interests to help Trump win.

By: Walter Metuth

rague's medieval OldNew Synagogue received two new Torah scrolls on Sunday, the first ones since World War II shattered the country's once-thriving Jewish community. The Torahs, funded by donations to the Prague Jewish community, were written in Israel and brought into the synagogue President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov speaks to in a ceremony that included The Associated Press in Moscow scripting of the final letters by There was Vladimir Putin outside to blame.” The Russian guests and members of the comlast September insisting that leader went on to note that munity, and a street dance. Prague's medieval Old-New Synagogue received two new "After years when Torahs Torah scrolls on Sunday, the first ones since World War II “Russia on a state level has nev- Democratic candidates lost big er practiced” cyber intrusions. in election contests in the Con- were being destroyed, burnt ... shattered the country's once-thriving Jewish community. Putin also insisted the contents gress and Senate as well. “Is that also our work, my the community today celebrates of hacked emails were a public work?” asked Putin. with its rabbi a new Torah scroll service. after many, many years. That is There was spokesman Peskov, the best expression of the delast October, calling allegations Yahoo velopment of the Prague Jewish of Russian hacking of DemJust last week, the Kremlin community," said deputy head ocratic National Committee was at it again, denying U.S. of the Jewish Community of (DNC) computer infrastructure charges that Russian intelliPrague, Frantisek Banyai. simply “nonsense.” gence agents were involved in The Old-New Synagogue is And there was Putin, in his the hacking of millions of Yahoo over 700 years old, one of the annual news conference last users email accounts. oldest existing synagogues in December, dismissing allegaSpokesman Peskov said RusNyet, Nyet, and Europe. Apart from its signifitions Russian hacking tipped sia had only learned of the inNyet Again cance to the community, it is the the election in Trump’s favor or dictments of its agents and two main attraction of Prague's JewThe Kremlin has been noth- colluded with Trump campaign other men through the media, ish Town, a popular destination and hoped U.S. officials would The Torahs, funded by donations to the Prague Jewish community, ing if not consistent in its re- officials along the way. for visitors. Democrats who accuse Rus- soon shed light on the charges. were written in Israel and brought into the synagogue in a sponse to the allegations emaceremony that included scripting of the final letters by guests and nating from Washington. In a sia of such allegations, said PuSee Russia Unfazed by US , page 37 See Prague's Old-New , page 38 tin, “are looking for someone members of the community, and a street dance word: deny.

Watchdog Group Salutes U.N. Chief for Deleting Israel 'Apartheid' Slur Edited by: JV Staff

he organization known as UN Watch last week welcomed the resignation by Rima Khalaf from her post as head of a Beirut-based UN agency comprised of 18 Arab states, after what she described as pressure from secretary-general Antonió Guterres to withdraw a report accusing Israel of "apartheid." The report appears to have been deleted as of last week from the U.N. ESCWA agency's website. As revealed by UN Watch, the author of the report was disgraced ex-UN official Richard Falk, who had been denounced on repeated occasions by former UN chief Ban Ki-moon and other world leaders for espousing

9/11 conspiracy theories, blaming the U.S. and Israel for the Boston Marathon bombing, and spreading anti-Semitism. UN Watch called on the British government to consider whether under law Richard Falk should be expelled from the UK, where he is now lecturing, on account of his having been denounced three times by the UK government for racism. Earlier this week, U.S. ambassador Nikki Haley welcomed remarks by Guterres' spokesman distancing himself from the report, but she demanded that the UN "withdraw the report altogether." "Guterres deserves credit for doing the right thing," said UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer."But there is no question

that the initial moral voice here was that of U.S. ambassador Nikki Haley, and that it was U.S. leverage which prompted the UN to act." ABOUT RICHARD FALK, author of the UN report: 1) Falk Blamed Boston Terror Attacks on U.S. & Israel

“absurdity” of Mr. Falk’s continued service. The British Mission to the United Nations condemned Falk’s “antisemitic” remarks, highlighting it was the third time they had to do so. Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird condemned Falk’s “mean-spir-

The organization known as UN Watch last week welcomed the resignation by Rima Khalaf (pictured above) from her post as head of a Beirut-based UN agency

UN Secretary-General Antonió Guterres (pictured above) withdrew a report accusing Israel of "apartheid." The report appears to have been deleted as of last week from the U.N. ESCWA agency's website.

UN Watch called on the British government to consider whether under law Richard Falk should be expelled from the UK, where he is now lecturing, on account of his having been denounced three times by the UK government for racism.

Richard Falk sought to blame the April 2013 Boston terrorist attack, which left 4 dead and 300 wounded, on “the American global domination project” and “Tel Aviv.” Falk was condemned by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who said his comments “undermine the credibility and the work of the United Nations.” U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said that “someone who spews such vitriol has no place at the UN,” and noted the

ited, anti-Semitic rhetoric,” and noted that “the United Nations should be ashamed to even be associated with such an individual. Members of the U.S. Congress, Democrats and Republicans, including Rep. Mike Kelly, Senator Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rep. Doug Lamborn, Rep. Eliot Engel and Rep. Trent Franks, also condemned Falk. 2) Human Rights Watch Ex-

pelled Falk Human Rights Watch expelled Falk in December 2012, following the United Nations Watch complaint about his ethical breaches. 3) PLO Tried to Oust Falk Over His Support of Hamas As the UN’s rapporteur on Palestine, Falk was so extreme in his support for the Hamas terrorist organization that even the Palestinian Authority tried to remove him, on grounds that he was a “partisan of Hamas”: Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, said last week that the Palestinian Authority urged him to step down after he criticized the PA’s treatment of a UN war crimes report… Falk said PA officials formally approached him in February asking him

to resign… “Informally they say different things, things that are essentially untrue, that my health doesn’t me allow to do the job or that I’m a partisan of Hamas.” 4) U.N. Rights Chief & PM David Cameron, Condemned Falk for Anti-Semitic Cartoon Falk published on his website a cartoon showing a dog wearing a Jewish head covering, and with “USA” written on its body, urinating on a depiction of justice and devouring a bloody skeleton, for which he was condemned by British Prime Minister David Cameron and other public figures, including UN rights chief Navi Pillay. 5) UK Condemned Falk for Endorsing Anti-Semitic Book “The Wandering Who” See Watchdog Group Salutes , page 36

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Israeli Style to Headline NY Fashion Week in Sept of 2017 Edited by: JV Staff

ottex, Sabon, Ahava , Yigal Azrouel, Elie Tahari, the list is endless. When the world shops for the best in fashion, beauty and lifestyle items, Israel has proven its place in the market . Politics is nowhere in the equation when it concerns creativity and design . Around the globe, a savvy and chic consumer can find a product created by the vast talents nurtured in Israel.

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One of designer Yosef Peretz’s designs for Gindi TLV Fashion Week 2017, a white linen tunic painted with his familiar horse head image.

The Tahor Group, a New York-based Fashion and Consumer Marketing Advisory firm led by Tobi Rubinstein and Nancy Torres Kaufman and Cindy's Corners, a full service media and consulting company, headed by Cindy Grosz, will be collaborating for the second annual TLV RUNWAY NYC this coming September 2017 during New York Fashion Week. “We want to reveal Israel through the lens of fashion and beauty," states both leaders of the Tahor group. This event perpetuates the excitement of showcasing top Israeli Designers during the most visually important week in New York City. The initiative is open to companies interested in sponsorship opportunities. The support of the Israeli Govern-

This event perpetuates the excitement of showcasing top Israeli Designers during the most visually important week in New York City. The initiative is open to companies interested in sponsorship opportunities. The support of the Israeli Government includes, the Israel Consul General of New York

ment includes, the Israel Consul General of New York . “Speaking at TLV Runway NYC during New York Fashion Week last fall was one of my first public engagements as Consul General of Israel in New York, and I was filled with pride to see so many beautiful creations by Israeli designers featured on such a prestigious international stage,” said Ambassador Dani Dayan, Israel’s Consul General in New York. Already supporting the event is Ofir Fisher, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of OR Movement, one of the Israel's chic organizations representing fashion designers, art galleries and the Z Hotel chain. "OR Movement believes that art, fashion and design is crucial component to the regional development of the Negev and Galilee . Proven by the enormous continued growth in all areas of creativity . That is why we supporting and planning to partner with TLV RUNWAY GINDI TLV FASHION WEEK 2017: NYC in bringing up and coming Designers from Israel's desert Emerging Designers National and beyond to the fashion capiLottery Show tal of the world , New York City," stated Ofir Fisher.

“A number of Israeli designers have become household names, and it’s clear that the fashion industry in Israel is growing and has earned the respect and admiration of the fashion world," said Danny Dayan. It all began with a vision at the Gindi Fashion Week in TLV. Followed with an idea presented to the Mayor's office in Tel Aviv and continued with the full en-

When the world shops for the best in fashion, beauty and lifestyle items, Israel has proven its place in the market

dorsement from former Ambassador Ido Ahroni. "The goal is that Israel's talent will be showcased in NY; Israelis' second home. Through “TLV RUNWAY NYC”, the world has the opportunity to learn about the enormous amount of talent in the arts and design coming out of Israel. Ultimately, we will with the artistic expression of beauty that only Israel possesses." "I have been involved in many fashion shows featuring many nationalities and countries and always felt that Israelis in the business should have equal access to both the international audience and press," said Grosz, adding "This is not a Jewish, a certain political party

or even a religious issue, rather an appreciation for fine quality goods available for international buyers that range in costs and styles and for women, men and youth." Working with Israeli designers is nothing new to both companies. The Tahor Group works with celebrated couture bridal and evening wear designer Inbal Dror .Cindy Grosz featured designer Rinat Brodash and artist Noa Attias on her radio show and in print articles, just to name a few. Sponsorships are available by contacting The Tahor Group at info@tahorgroup.com or Cindy's Corners at info@cindyscorners.com.

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Could Israel be Headed for Early Elections? By: Andrew Friedman

ill there be early elections in Israel? For weeks, there have been growing signs pointing in that direction, generated by players both in and out the Knesset. One indicator is the recent announcements by former Likud MK Moshe Feiglin, former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, and independent MK Orly Levi-Abekasis, who resigned from the Yisrael Beiteinu party last week. All said they plan to form new political parties.

Recent demands by Shas and United Torah Judaism to strictly enforce Shabbat laws in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv seems to be an indication they believe the current government is fast approaching its sell-by date. Another sign is the very public row between Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Education Minister Naftali Bennet over the misogynistic remarks made by Rabbi Yigal Levenstein, who heads the Bnei David pre-military academy. If both men were convinced they would have to live together in the same political house for another two

years, this would have been handled more circumspectly. Then there are the Haredi parties, perhaps Israel’s ultimate bellwether parties, who have been flexing muscles over Shabbat desecration, an issue they normally ignore until they smell the whiff of impending elections. Recent demands by Shas and United Torah Judaism to strictly enforce Shabbat laws in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv seems to be an indication they believe the current government is fast approaching its sell-by date. Lastly, the Labor and Jewish Home parties are gearing up for party primaries, indicating that in both parties people are beginning to feel the countdown on the current government has started to tick. Even in the Likud, there are signs Netanyahu’s grip is loosening: One senior Likud minister said Friday that “Netanyahu has lost his marbles, he is irrational.” That feeling was reinforced over Shabbat, when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced on Facebook that he would renege on a verbal agreement with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon to agree to the establishment of a government-funded communications corporation. Netanyahu has fought to block the body since it was announced by then-ministers Gilad Erdan and Yair Lapid in 2014 to replace the Israel Broadcast Authority, but agreed last week to stand down from the

fight after meeting with Kahlon. Netanyahu said he decided to go back on the deal after meeting with IBA workers who would lose their jobs if the new body is created, but political opponents accuse the prime minister of trying to block the criticism that would likely emerge from the new broadcast body.

Netanyahu in the prime minister’s chair, meaning Netanyahu will be loathe to show Kulanu the door. Replacing the party with the current constellation of Knesset parties would be far from simple: At least three parties – Yesh Atid, Meretz and the Joint List, with 29 seats between them – would be unlikely to

Netanyahu has fought to block the body since it was announced by then-ministers Gilad Erdan and Yair Lapid in 2014 to replace the Israel Broadcast Authority, but agreed last week to stand down from the fight after meeting with Kahlon. Photo Credit: Shay Vaknin/TPS

According to Israel Radio, an unnamed senior coalition member called Netanyahu’s announcement a “yellow card” for Kahlon. Despite the crisis, however, it is unclear that the coalition is at risk of collapse. With a 68-member coalition, Kahlon’s 10-seat Kulanu faction does play a critical role in keeping

join a Netanyahu-led coalition in any scenario. As a result, Netanyahu cannot simply fire Kahlon and banish Kulanu to the opposition without losing the coalition’s parliamentary majority. Unless… Unless Netanyahu and Opposition Leader Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Camp) banded together to carry the government for

the next two years in order to avoid early elections. Politically the move makes sense for both parties: Polls released earlier this month show both parties taking a hit were elections to be held now, with Labor falling sharply, perhaps even to single digits. And Herzog has been clamoring to join the government since emerging as the second-largest Knesset faction in 2015. Aligning with the Zionist Camp would also allow Netanyahu to part ways with the Jewish Home party, and particularly with party members Bezalel Smotrich, Shuli Moalem-Refaeli and Moti Yogev. Led by the outspoken Smotrich, Jewish Home has repeatedly forced Netanyahu to support measures he does not agree with (such as the legalization law) and to support unbridled settlement building in contrast to Netanyahu’s belief that Iran, not settlements, is the number one issue on Israel’s agenda at the present time. Ridding the coalition of Smotrich et al would relieve Netanyahu of an ongoing headache. On the other hand, opposition to Netanyahu in the Labor Party is strong enough that it is far from clear that Herzog could convince the party to join forces, and even more unlikely he could convince the party’s electorate that the move makes sense when he has to stand for re-election in July. Like Netanyahu in the Likud Party, Herzog is deeply unpopular inside his

Labor Party and dodged loud boos, placards picturing Herzog alongside Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin during last year’s party convention. Currently, there are no serious challengers to Herzog’s grip on the party leadership, but he can ill-afford to move that would contribute to a push to remove him. In contrast to previous governments, a 2014 law requires opposition factions to present a viable alternative coalition in order to topple the current government. Herzog said during Shabbat that the faction would cooperate with a “moderate Zionist bloc” to replace the prime minister, but it is unlikely that Herzog could stitch together a coalition to replace the current one. Some pundits have toyed with the idea that Herzog could comply with that law by stitching together an alternative coalition, but it is hard to make those numbers add up. Herzog’s potential coalition partners – the Zionist Camp, Meretz, Kulanu parties, and the ultra-Orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism factions – total just 52 Knesset members, nine short of the 61 needed to replace Netanyahu. Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beteinu faction would likely join the new coalition were Liberman to be See Could Israel be Headed , page 36

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Rubio in Israel: The Jewish State is One of My Top Priorities

By: Nitsan Keidar

sraeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met Tuesday afternoon with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Netanyahu told the Chinese president that "we have signed many agreements, but I think that your decision to announce a comprehensive innovation partnership between China and Israel is a tremendously important decision, certainly for us in Israel, and I believe through our cooperation, for China as well.

By David Rosenberg

"So in this regard, I want to thank you, not only for the friendship you have shown Israel, but for the important strides we are by the Senate and working ample of what free people can making to make the world hard to restore the U.S.-Israel accomplish anywhere in the a better place for all of world, and the impact that unrelationship.” us." Florida Senator Marco Rubio (l) and Oklahoma Senator James Lankford visit Jerusalem’s City of David archaeological site, March 19, 2017 (Koby Harati/City of David)

During the trip, Rubio and his fellow senators met with US officials stationed in Israel to discuss US programs in the region. The delegation also learned first-hand about security threats to Israel from Iran following the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, as well as Iranian proxy groups including Hamas and Hezbollah. The Florida senator called the trip “an awe-inspiring experience”. “Israel remains a shining ex-

wavering American support and smartly targeted U.S. international assistance can have in advancing our interests and values abroad. As a senator, further strengthening the unique relationship between the U.S. and Israel remains one of my highest priorities.” “May God bless Israel, may God bless the United States of America, and may God always watch over our close alliance.” (INN)

Liberman: Terrorist Missile Threat is Intolerable Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman: 'The threat of missiles in the hands of terrorists is an intolerable threat' By: Mordechai Sones

he Meir Dagan Conference on Security and Strategy was held on Tuesday at the initiative of the S. Daniel Abraham Strategic Dialogue Center at Netanya Academic College. It was attended by IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, Mossad Director Yossi Cohen, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Former Gabi Ashkenazi, the Dagan family, former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo, former Mossad chief Danny Yatom, and others. Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said at the conference in Tel Aviv that "The threat of missiles in the hands of terrorists is an intolerable threat and we are acting against it. The State of Israel takes action when one of three cases arise, leaving no choice. The first is when fire is directed into our territory, the second is when significant weaponry is identified in the hands of one of the terror organizations, and the third is when there is a ticking bomb, that is, an imminent terrorist attack. If we can arrest, we arrest, and if not, we terminate. We do not want to get into one mess or another." Liberman added: "We are all missing the same target, and sometimes even me. We are in a volatile situation and we do not always have to be right. We are right, but we have to be wise. I uti-

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said at the Meir Dagan Conference on Security and Strategy in Tel Aviv that "The threat of missiles in the hands of terrorists is an intolerable threat and we are acting against it.”

lize common sense, and the most important thing these days is to remain close to common sense. As with large threats, so with small threats: From the Iranian issue to the Broadcasting Corporation issue, common sense must be the compass at the moment, the situation is explosive enough and should not be added to. "I expect that towards the end of the year, nearing the end of the election campaigns in the various European countries, and according to everything I see and hear, we expect the EU to attack the

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Netanyahu Meets Chinese President; ‘Innovative Partnership Created’

Florida Senator visits Israel as part of Senate delegation, calls trip 'awe-inspiring experience'

lorida Senator and 2016 Republican presidential contender Marco Rubio visited Israel over the weekend as part of a four-member delegation from the US Senate, wrapping up a tour of the Middle East. Rubio, a staunch ally of Israel, visited Israel twice before: once prior to winning his first term as senator in 2010, and again as senator in 2013. In a Facebook message posted just after he departed, Senator Rubio praised Israel as “an oasis of democracy and free enterprise” and expressed his hope that Ambassador-Delegate to Israel, David Friedman, will be confirmed by the full Senate. “From the moment one sets foot in Israel, the evidence of freedom, progress and tolerance are evident everywhere, as Israel continues to be an oasis of democracy and free enterprise in a tumultuous region plagued with difficult security, foreign policy and economic challenges,” wrote Rubio. “Upon arrival, I visited the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, where I look forward to soon seeing David Friedman confirmed

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State of Israel." Liberman also referred to the American administration, saying: "We do not have an option to quarrel with the Trump government. We went through eight tough years with Obama and right now there is a purely Republican administration - the Senate, the Congress, and of course the White House has a sympathetic Republican president. You have to understand that we are taken seriously in all matters related to various legislation. In Israeli terms, everyone speaks in terms of primaries and do not necessarily think of the implications of how it is received on the other side of the ocean. In the reality we live in, we have to be very, very careful. What is meant for the Likud Central Committee also reaches other places." The Defense Minister added: "This story of applying sovereignty over Judea and Samaria is also not feasible because we do not have the option and we are currently trying to form agreements with the White House; it is important to find the formula that will satisfy both sides and both sides can move forward. If someone thinks we can make unilateral moves, he has a mistaken understanding of the situation. We are a strong and important state and with all the self-esteem let us not develop delusions of grandeur, there are things that can and cannot be done unilaterally." (INN)

"We admire China’s capabilities, its position on the world stage and in history. We have always believed, as we discussed on my previous visit, that Israel can be a partner, a junior partner, but a perfect partner for China in the development of a variety of technologies that change the way we live, how long we live, how healthy we live, the water we drink, the food we eat, the milk that we drink – in every area.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met Tuesday afternoon with Chinese President Xi Jinping

"There are vast and rapid changes in technology, which Israel excels in that we believe that we could cooperate in. "We know that you have great scientists, great industrialists, great capabilities, and we think that by working together we can make the future better for our peoples, but also I think for humanity as a whole. "So in this regard, I want to thank you, not only for the friendship you have shown Israel, but for the important strides we are making to make the world a better place for all of us." Prior to his meeting with the Chinese President, Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife Sara laid a wreath at the Monument to the People's Heroes in

Tiananmen Square. The Prime Minister then proceeded to the Great Hall of the People where he met with National People's Congress Standing Committee Chairman Zhang Dejiang and told him, "We have made great strides in the 25 years that we’ve had this friendship. We have come a long way on cooperation about economic possibilities, about the betterment of life. And these are all real things that are happening, and I think it’s a great message to our people, but also to the people of the world." Zhang Deijang said that while Israel's population is only eight million, Israel is a leading global force in technology and it is worth maintaining close cooperation with it. (INN)

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IDF Chief of Staff: Next War Will Be With Hezbollah

State Control Committee Debates Free Speech vs. Incitement

By: Ilana Messika

DF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot said Sunday that Israel’s next war would be fought against Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group that currently operates in in the Bekaa Valley, the southern suburbs of Beirut and southern Lebanon, adjacent to the Israeli border. Speaking at a ceremony marking the transfer of leadership over the IDF Northern Command from Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi to Maj. Gen. Yoel Strick, Eizenkot said the IDF was not fooled by the recent silence from Hezbollah and that the IDF continues to follow developments in Lebanon and Syria with extreme vigilance. “The Hezbollah group continues in its efforts to mobilize and arm itself with increasingly precise and deadly weaponry in order to harm the Israeli heartland. We endeavor to protect the security interests [of Israel] and operate in order to prevent transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah, and we will continue to do so in the future,” Eisenkot said. In 2006 the two sides fought a 50-day war after Hezbollah kidnapped three Israeli soldiers in a cross-border attack. The Israeli air force destroyed much of Hezbollah’s military capability during the fighting but the group has steadily increased its strength over the ensuing years. More recently, the terror group

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot said Sunday that Israel’s next war would be fought against Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group that currently operates in in the Bekaa Valley, the southern suburbs of Beirut and southern Lebanon, adjacent to the Israeli border. Photo Credit: Shay Vaknin/TPS

the attack, but neither Damascus nor Jerusalem has responded to the report. Also last week, IAF aircraft attacked and destroyed a shipment of what has been reported as a strategic weapons shipment destined for Hezbollah. The IDF spokesperson confirmed the attack, but did not release any information relating to the target. The attack was in response to the Arrow missile defense system successfully intercepting incoming Syrian missile as an apparent See IDF Chief of Staﬀ, page 36

Shin Bet Arrests Gazan Who Diverted Aid Project Money to Hamas By: Ilana Messika

he Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) arrested Gazan Muhammad Murtaja, 29 years old, director of the Gaza Strip branch of coordinator of the Gaza branch of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) organization, a humanitarian assistance program run by the Government of Turkey. Murtaja is suspected of membership in Hamas’ military wing (Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades). The investigation revealed that Murtaja was recruited to Hamas in late 2008 and since 2009 has served in the group’s military wing. His activities have included, among others, military training and exercise, the manufacturing of weapons and explosive devices, as well as the digging of terror tunnels. Murtaja stored weapons including hand grenades and rifles in his home. His mission to Israel under the guise of his work for TIKA, was mainly aimed at gathering intelligence to help Hamas improve the accuracy of the rockets the group routinely fires at Israel. This deception was carried out with the involvement of senior Hamas figures in the Gaza Strip, headed by Ismail Haniyeh. TIKA defines its mandate to “promote humanitarian projects

he State Control Committee convened last week to discuss the democratic boundaries between freedom of speech and incitement, on the heels of a string of incendiary statements made by Rabbi Yigal Levenstein, founder and dean of the Bnei David pre-army academy in Eli. Committee Chairman and Yesh Atid MK Karin Elharar opened the session asking “What does the state do against those who attempt to destroy the public order in Israel?”

“With regards to incitement to violence, has kept the border with Isra- town of Quneitra, located in the the state needs to el quiet, but military officials in Golan Heights near the Israeli establish a ‘reasonability’ Israel view Hezbollah as a well- border. The driver was killed in test,” Inbar said trained, well-equipped army. The group has taken an active role in the Syrian civil war, with Hezbollah forces fighting to keep President Bashar al-Assad in power. At the same time, Iran has helped the group expand its missile capability, both in terms of quantity and quality, and Hezbollah members have gained valuable combat experience in Syria. Eizenkot’s remarks followed a report this past Sunday by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirming that Israeli warplanes bombed a car on a road last Friday near the Syrian

The Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) arrested Gazan Muhammad Murtaja, 29 years old, director of the Gaza Strip branch of coordinator of the Gaza branch of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) organization, a humanitarian assistance program run by the Government of Turkey. Murtaja is suspected of membership in Hamas’ military wing (Izz adDin al-Qassam Brigades).

in the Gaza Strip in light of the blockade such as assisting in the equipment in the medical institutions.” The investigation revealed that Mourtaja deceived TIKA by exploiting the organization’s resources and budgets earmarked for humanitarian projects in the Gaza Strip for the Hamas military wing. As an example, Mourtaja transferred

to his managers in the TIKA organization lists of residents of the Gaza Strip as candidates “in need,” eligible for economic assistance when in fact these lists contained names of Hamas military terrorist operatives and their families. In addition, millions of shekels and aid packages were transferred to Hamas operatives before and during 2014 Operation Protective Edge. Shin Bet also uncovered that the IHH Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation has directly transferred finances to the military wing of Hamas. Head of the IHH Gaza branch, Mehmet Kaya, has transferred cash Turkey had earmarked for aid projects, to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and al-Qassam Brigades commander Raid Saad for the development of military programs and hardware. The funds were used to establish a training facility for the Hamas Naval force, as well as to purchase equipment and weapons. Murtajas interrogation yielded extensive operational information on tunnel routes, Hamas methods of tunnel digging, combat plans and weapons manufacturing methods. The Shin Bet affirms that intelligence gathered from the suspect indicates considerable efforts by Hamas to prepare for a military conflict with Israel, at the exSee Shin Bet Arrests Gazan , page 38

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Committee members acknowledged the friction between freedom of speech aimed at preventing a police state and criminal incitement. In addition to Levenstein’s description last summer of homosexuals as “deviants” and more recent denunciation of women who serve in IDF combat units, the debate also focused on cases including Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, who has called for discrimination against Arabs and women.

The State Control Committee convened last week to discuss the democratic boundaries between freedom of speech and incitement, on the heels of a string of incendiary statements made by Rabbi Yigal Levenstein, (pictured above) founder and dean of the Bnei David pre-army academy in Eli.

Alona Inbar, representing the state prosecutor’s office, explained that statements can only lead to prosecution if they fit within crimes in Israeli legislation such as incitement to commit violence or incitement to racism. “With regards to incitement to violence, the state needs to establish a ‘reasonability’ test,” Inbar said, “meaning to ascertain that there is a real possibility that the statements will lead to acts of violence causing harm to an individual or serious injury. For example, police opened an investigation after IDF soldiers were hung in effigy in several haredi neighborhoods in Jeru-

salem and Beit Shemesh. “However, when the inciting words are offensive, it becomes more complicated, and the law does not always provide the tools to prosecute,” Inbar added. Lieutenant (Ret.) Omer Nahmany, founder of the nascent Blue & White Pride movement aimed at “promoting a more integrated IDF,” severely criticized the government for continuing to fund rabbis such as Levenstein and the legal system for failing to act. “We, as citizens, pay for this rabbi [Levenstein] who incites against the army and threatens See State Control Committee , page 38

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The Jewish Voice

By: Viva Sarah Press

eam Israel had a great run at the World Baseball Classic tournament while it lasted. The ballplayers with a David vs. Goliath approach came out swinging hard and stunned the world with four consecutive wins in the preliminary and second rounds. But two losses in a row – a March 15th 8-3 loss to Japan and a 12-2 clobbering by the Netherlands (March 13) – made advancing to the finals a dream for the next global tournament. The last game started with five scoreless innings. But Japan blew open a lead in the sixth with five runs and added three more for good measure in the eighth. Israel scored all its runs in the top of the ninth. The World Baseball Classic is a tournament in which the best baseball players in the world compete. Team Israel had bookers betting against it even making the main event. But the blue-and-white uniformed ballplayers, who were ranked 41st going into the Classic, not only made it to the preliminary rounds but won an astounding four in a row at the tournament. Dubbed the Cinderella team of

Israel's catcher Ryan Lavarnway celebrates with his teammates after hitting a two run homer against Taiwan's pitcher Chen Kuan Yu during their first round game of the World Baseball Classic at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea, March 7, 2017.

the contest, Team Israel stunned Cuba 4-1 in the first WBC quarterfinal game at the Tokyo Dome and before that swept the first-round of games by beating South Korea, Taiwan and the Netherlands. Only three of Team Israel’s 28 players are Israeli; the rest are Jewish Americans. According to WBC rules, anyone eligible to hold citizenship in a country can play for its national team. There are other teams with players who do not hold passports for the country for which they’re playing.

“The players love playing for Israel,” Israel Association of Baseball President Peter Kurz told ISRAEL21c. “A lot of them want to come and visit after the tournament or after they retire.” For fans, that the ballplayers are proud to wear “Israel” on their uniforms and represent the country is more than enough. “I am a lifelong baseball fan, and it’s thrilling to see Israel competing on a world stage. But Israel’s participation in the World Baseball Classic is about See Fairy Tale Ends, page 38

ICRF Grant Recipient Receives 2017 Israel Prize in Life Sciences Edited by: JV Staff

rof. Yosef Yarden, a member of the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Biological Regulation, has been awarded the 2017 Israel Prize in Life Sciences. The Prize, which is the country’s highest honor, will be presented to Prof. Yarden in celebration of his crucial discoveries about the biochemistry of cancer, on Israel Independence Day. Over the course of his career, Prof. Yarden has made a significant and original contribution to the understanding of cancer, and has paved the way for new treatment protocols that have entered into clinical practice and saved lives. Focusing on the activity of hormone-like molecules called growth factors, Prof. Yarden’s discoveries have led to the development of several successful anti-cancer drugs. Much of Prof. Yarden’s research is centered on EGFR and HER2, which belong to a family of growth factor receptors that play a critical role in tumor progression. As a result of his work, several strategies for blocking these receptors were devised and approved for use with cancer patients. In 1988, The Israel Cancer Research Fund ( ICRF) awarded Prof. Yarden his first-ever grant – and he has received multi-

Prof. Yosef Yarden, a member of the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Biological Regulation, has been awarded the 2017 Israel Prize in Life Sciences

ple ICRF grants since. “While we are delighted to learn of this important recognition and well-deserved honor, we are not at all surprised,” said ICRF International Board Chair Bryna Goldberg, who with her husband has funded Prof. Yarden’s ICRF Professorship for the past seven years. “Prof. Yarden’s research has made a significant contribution to our understanding of cancer and to the development of effective treatments and innovative therapies.” Commenting on his relationship with ICRF in its 40th Anniversary Journal, Prof. Yarden wrote: “While I have received larger and longer research grants from the US Department of Defense as well as from the Na-

tional Cancer Institute (a Merit Award), ICRF has remained my first choice for especially original grants that help us follow serendipitous observations.” “That’s what we do at ICRF – and why it’s so important to support our work,” Goldberg said. “We find and fund especially promising young cancer investigators like Yosef Yarden and help sustain them through a lifetime of discovery." Most recently, the Yarden lab has been investigating strategies for circumventing the resistance that some lung cancer patients develop to anti-cancer immunotherapy. Combining an antibody that blocks EFGR activity See ICRF Grant Recipient , page 38

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Byzantine Coin Cache Discovered in Excavations Near Jerusalem

Fairy Tale Ends as Team Israel Loses Baseball Bid Ballplayers in blue-and-white will be remembered for their chutzpah at bat and Mensch on a Bench mascot in debut appearance at global baseball event

ISRAEL

By: Ilana Messika

sraeli archaeologists announced the discovery of a 1,400-year-old cache of coins, discovered during excavations for the widening of the Tel Aviv- Jerusalem highway. The cache, which consists of nine bronze coins dating from the Byzantine Period (324-638 CE), were discovered alongside a large two-story structure and an adjacent winepress, also exposed during the excavations. “The [coins were] found among a group of large stones that had collapsed alongside the building,” said Annette Landes-Nagar, director of the excavation on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The coins bear the images of three important Byzantine emperors, Justinian (483-565 AD), Maurice (539-602 CE), and Phocas (547-610 CE). They were struck at mints in Constantinople (Istanbul), Antioch, and Nicomedia, all located in modern-day Turkey. The coins feature an image of the emperor wearing military garb and carrying crosses, while the reverse indicates the coin’s denomination and are inscribed with the letter M. “It seems that during a time of danger the owner of the hoard placed the coins in a cloth purse that he concealed inside a hidden niche in the wall,” said

Israeli archaeologists announced the discovery of a 1,400-yearold cache of coins, discovered during excavations for the widening of the Tel Aviv- Jerusalem highway

Landes-Nagar. “He probably hoped to go back and collect it, but today we know that he was unable to do so.” She added that the location and the fact the cache was hidden indicates that it can be traced to the Sassanid Persian invasion in 614 CE. This invasion, was one of the factors that culminated in the end of Byzantine rule in the Land of Israel. Fearing an invasion and imminent danger, residents of the site buried their money against the wall hoping to return home at the end of the disturbances, which did not happen. The site was abandoned and destroyed, and ultimately covered over and incorporated into the agricultural terraces of today’s region.

The building and the winepress beside it belong to a larger site, unearthed about a year ago, on the other side of the highway. That excavation unearthed a Byzantine church, several settlements and way stations, some of which were near flowing springs, developed next to the road that was used by Christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. Recent investigations suggest the site actually represents a settlement named Einbikumakube, situated alongside the main road leading from the coastal plain to Jerusalem. The name would have been preserved by the neighboring Arab village Beit Naqquba, near Abu Ghosh. (TPS)

Kenyan Wins Jerusalem Marathon By: Andrew Friedman

wenty-six year old Kenyan Shadrack Kipkogey won the Jerusalem Marathon last Friday, finishing the race in 2:17:36. More than 30,000 runners, including approximately 3,500 international athletes representing 65 countries, thronged the streets of Jerusalem, clogging traffic but giving the city a festival atmosphere on a cool, overcast morning. “It’s not just a sporting event, it’s a spiritual event,” Mayor Nir Barkat told reporters ahead of the race Thursday. “We’re in the holy city of Jerusalem, running where kings and prophets walked, where the Bible happened.” Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) groups had threatened to disrupt the event with mass demonstrations around the country to protest the arrest of a yeshiva student earlier in the week on charges of draft dodging, but police prevented protesters from reaching the site. In Jerusalem, 40 people were detained adjacent to the course of the marathon, while on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway police stopped three buses of ultra-Orthodox Jews on suspicion they were planning to disrupt the marathon.

Running Without Shoes When the 30,000 runners hit the streets of Jerusalem last Friday for the marathon, at least one man was running in a dream –

Twenty-six year old Kenyan Shadrack Kipkogey won the Jerusalem Marathon last Friday, finishing the race in 2:17:36. Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir

and without shoes. “This is 42.2 kilometers on holy ground. Only makes sense to take my shoes off,” said 61-year-old Rick Roeber of Kansas City, Missouri. “Greater men than I have taken their shoes off in this place and shed blood in and for this city. So if I stub my toe here, I’ll be in good company,” he laughs. Roeber, now known as Barefoot Rick, discovered running at the age of 37, largely in order to put the demons of his early adulthood to rest. As a young man he was often homeless, addicted to alcohol and deeply troubled. He wandered around the United States, from New York, San Francisco, sleeping in homeless shelters and doing odd jobs. Eventually, he joined Alcoholics Anonymous, enrolled at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and began the arduous process of

finding himself. Running became a natural part of the recovery process. The rest, as they say, is history. Roeber, an assistant pastor from Abundant Life Church, near Kansas City joins 3,500 international runners from more than 60 countries in the Jerusalem Marathon. The race will be his 102nd marathon, and 84th without shoes. He’s run barefoot in virtually all weather conditions after developing sore knees as a result of wearing shoes during his first 18 marathons. A running coach said that Roeber was over-striding, meaning he was hitting each stride with his heel, sending a shock up the leg and it caused trouble for his knees. Running barefoot caused him to use more of the arch of his foot, which displaces the energy better. (TPS)

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EDITORIAL

The Jewish Voice

Supporting School Choice Under Betsy DeVos

etsy DeVos was recently confirmed by the Senate to be our new Education Secretary. As part of her campaign to have all of our nation's kids improve their current low level of learning, she has advocated taxpayer funding to include private, charter as well as religious schools. This has aroused all sorts of outcries from Liberal-Progressive-Democrats who claim she wants to do away with the "Separation of Church and State." In addition, they demand federal funds should not be given to schools that are not public schools and not run (down the tubes) and controlled by government officials. Mrs. DeVos has a job to do and that's to see that our kids are motivated to learn, achieve academically and using that basic education, to succeed in life. Not an easy task when you're up against the politically mighty teachers unions whose members are on the public payroll in our major cities. The goals of such as the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are to keep their constituents' salaries mounting and their membership soaring. Unlike those employed in business, there is no concern for success in the classrooms they control. Their employment does not depend on a well finished, ready for market product. Incompetent teachers are now flooding the classrooms in the public schools around the country. Their own academic inadequacies make them incapable of teaching the essentials to their students.

The New York Post recently revealed that some city high schools punched out graduates, with diplomas in hand, with only 1.9% having college readiness levels The New York Post recently revealed that some city high schools punched out graduates, with diplomas in hand, with only 1.9% having college readiness levels. In other words, they were not even ready to successfully complete junior high school. Their lives have been ruined. How can they function in a rapidly expanding technologically based world if they are denied learning just the necessary basics to get on with life? Many concerned parents want to send their

We join a panoply of pro-Israel organizations in applauding UN Sec General Antonio Guterres for his principled, forceful and swift rejection of the libelous ESCWA report.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres rejected a report published by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), a Beirut-based agency which is comprised of 18 Arab states, which accused Israel of maintaining an "apartheid" regime, according a report filed on the UN Watch web site The report's chief author is none other than the notorious Richard Falk, a former UN special rapporteur who has been repeatedly condemned by the United Kingdom and other governmental bodies for promulgating the most vociferous forms of anti-Semitism. In 2011, Falk was also denounced by his own boss, former U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, for espousing 9/11 conspiracy theories which accused the U.S. government, instead of Al Qaeda, of perpetrating the 9/11 terror attacks. The new report,

Letters to the Editor Concerned About Trump’s Security

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has a job to do and that's to see that our kids are motivated to learn, achieve academically and using that basic education, to succeed in life. Not an easy task when you're up against the politically mighty teachers unions whose members are on the public payroll in our major cities

kids to the schools of their choice, even religious ones as long as they do their job of educating their children. The political bureaucracy wishes to deny them these rights based on the bogus religious issue. Churches, synagogues and mosques are already publicly supported in that they pay no real estate taxes and are income tax free 501c3 corporations. The GI Bill funded by taxpayer $$ gives the green light for veterans to attend the Jewish Theological Seminary as well as colleges preparing candidates to be priests and ministers. There has never been "a religious issue" with the GI Bill. So why in public schools? Charter schools are another bone in the throats of liberals. They are publicly funded but can be privately run. their flexibility and lottery-based admissions increase the options of the poor and minority students who are often zoned to failing public schools. The good news is that only 7% of their staff, nationwide is unionized. Which means that lousy teachers lose their jobs. Ms. DeVos wants to enlarge the number of charters which will compete with and challenge their neighboring public schools to improve. In our society, competition delivers results. And good luck to our new Secretary of Education who wants only for our kids to get the breaks they deserve: A better education for a better life and a better society with federal funding. Good luck to her and her goals.

Kudos to Guterres for Standing for the Truth an you believe what we just heard?? Yes, folks, contrary to what you might be thinking there is actually an intrepid voice of truth at the United Nations and it has emerged this week.

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said a spokesman for Guterres’ “does not reflect the views of the Secretary General.” Moreover, UN Under-Secretary-General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf announced her resignation, saying she was pressured by Guterres to withdraw the report. The report has since been removed from ESCWA’s website. “When someone issues a false and defamatory report in the name of the UN, it is appropriate that the person resign. UN agencies must do a better job of eliminating false and biased work, and I applaud the secretary-general’s decision to distance his good office from it,” US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley stated after Khalaf stepped down. The UN, however, remains a reprehensible moral stain in our global society for its unabashed animus directed towards Israel. Its odious hypocrisy as it pertains to the incessant censuring of Israel while simultaneously ignoring the world's true violators of human rights is an outrage of epic proportions. Yet and still, we join a panoply of pro-Israel organizations in applauding Secretary General Guterres for his principled, forceful and swift rejection of the libelous ESCWA report. This is an important step by Secretary General Guterres in demonstrating his commitment to equitable treatment for all UN member states, including Israel. It is our fervent hope that the Secretary General will continue to posit himself as a bulwark against the constant siege against Israel. There is no doubt that US pressure played a pivotal role is making this come to fruition. Perhaps the news that the US (who is the largest financial contributor to the UN) is about to stop being the perennial cash cow has something to do with this. It would behoove the UN to start behaving like the responsible world agency for "peace and brotherhood" as its original mandate espouses.

Dear Editor: They hate him! The "They" is the media and the "Him" is President Trump. Never before in this nation's history has an incoming, elected president faced the challenges of such loathing and malice as has Trump. Obama, with a history of belonging to a white, Jew, American hating church for twenty years was never vilified by the single figured conservative portion of the media nor by Jews or Christians who had a pretty good (correct) idea of what his administration would be all about. Rather, he had an eight year honeymoon with the MSM that still exists to this day. But during Trump's barely first two months in office, a virtual stranger to politics, he has been suffocated by the constant, never ending negative, demeaning, news reports such as we have seen pouring out of the mouths of the progressive pundits who will pick up any well planned rumor, no matter how outrageous and implausible, toss it out like red meat to their dim witted audiences and readers as fact, run with it until it's exhausted and then jam another total falsehood into their rumor-ammo clip and fire it into the brains of their fans to further fan the flames of hate against Trump. His initial mind blowing victory over Hillary initially spawned calls for voter recounts. Obviously, his win was caused by voter miscounts. When that claim failed, the demand was made to toss out the Electoral College results since Hillary garnered more actual votes. The Constitution be damned! Next charge out of the blue was that the Russians caused Trump's win by their illegally tapping Hill's illegal E-mail server

and then broadcasting her nefarious messages to poison the election against her. Hence, Trump was put in office by Russia. He is their pawn and a danger to this country. Calls for his assassination by Hollywood stars, low-life rappers and in over 12,000 Tweets are chilling. Columnists for The London Sunday Times and the German, Die Zeit have called for killing Trump. Marchers and college rioters in our own country have openly called for his death. These are no idle threats. These are ideas implanted in the minds of lunatics and are scary indeed. Saturday night a car rammed into the White House gates and the driver claimed to have it rigged with a bomb. A fence jumper at the WH was barely caught before he broke into a door. This is not going to stop soon. It's going to escalate with nary an editorial in the chuckling MSM for sanity to rule over politics. They want his blood. Trump is being targeted by the Progressive Left, certainly with financial and personnel backing by Islamists who realize the dangers they face from a Trump administration. George Soros and his ilk within this country are ramping up the "Campaign of Violent Hate" against DJT that may very well imperil his safety. Surely, it will dominate his family's concerns and may very well slow down his agenda of meeting openly with his supporters and our citizens. It's a dangerous distraction. We face stormy and dangerous times ahead. Sincerely Alan Jamison

No Linkages Between Trump and Putin Dear Editor: The Battle of the Bulge, a frantic, last ditch effort to push Allied forces back over the channel and prevent the fall of the Nazi regime in WWII is being replicated in a less bloody fashion by the Democrats and their foot soldiers, the MainStreamMedia (MSM). They have mobilized to defeat the newly minted Trump administration with all sorts of nefarious rumors linking it to the bad, bad Russkies. After all, their earlier false narratives of miscounted ballots, the evil Electoral College all fell flat and another bogus excuse had to be made to cover up Hillary's failure to appeal to voters. Hence, the Russian angle which will eventually come back and do to the Far Left Fascists what the Allies did to the Nazi Fascists.....defeat them for good. There are absolutely no linkages between Trump and Putin, other than both guys lead the major military powers in the world. Remember, if you will just how cozy Obama was with Putin without the MSM blinking an eye. The open microphone incident in which Obama promised then Russian President Medvedev that as soon as he entered his second term in office he'd be able to work more closely with Putin. And didn't Obama come to the aid of the Ukraine when Russia attacked Crimea, not with armaments but with army rations of Meals Ready to Eat, so the beleaguered victims of Putin could have food while the Russians romped? And didn't Obama remove all of our anti-missile equipment from Poland and Czechoslovakia leaving those nations to be threatened by... the Russians. Additionally, didn't Obama, at Putin's direction, back down on his promise to punish Putin's puppet,

Syria's Assad for gassing his own people and then turned his back on the Syrian people as Russia and Iran both invaded that nation leading to hundreds of thousands of people dead and millions as refugees? And (another one!) didn't Obama, during a debate, chastise then presidential opponent Mitt Romney for calling Russia our greatest threat, giving Putin some well needed but false credibility? And didn't hubby Bill get paid 500 thousand dollars from a Russian financial institution in 2010 while Hillary was roosting as our Secretary of State? And didn't millions pour into the Clinton Fund and her presidential campaign from Russian sources that led to over 20% of our own uranium deposits being purchased by a Russian firm dominated by Putin, Uranium One? Add to the above proof of Democrat ass-kissing of Russia and Putin the nearly eighty year love affair that party has had with Stalin and Communism and it's obvious that the Dems are spitting into the wind with their baseless accusations that somehow Trump is in cahoots with Putin. Our current president never went to Soviet Russia for his honeymoon as Bernie Sanders did. The real threat to Russia is a Trump four year presidency. But we'll have to wait it out until the Republicans start to learn how to emulate their opponents by fighting fire with fire. We didn't win WWII and defeat the Germans by refusing to fight back. We won because we were fearless and in the right. Sincerely Sid Leshinsky

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Israel's Anti-Boycott Law is Correct and Overdue The economic war to destroy Israel is dealt a serious blow By: Morton A. Klein and Daniel Mandel

ast week, the Knesset in Jerusalem passed a law barring the entry of visitors who have called for a boycott on Israel or are otherwise actively engaged in the Boycott, Sanctions, Divestment (BDS) movement, which has been the subject of several anti-boycott laws passed in US states. The new law bars the entry into Israel foreign nationals who either knowingly and publicly call for boycotting Israel or who represent an organization that calls for such a boycott.

The new law bars the entry into Israel foreign nationals who either knowingly and publicly call for boycotting Israel or who represent an organization that calls for such a boycott. The BDS campaign, as openly affirmed by its originators, aims for the gradual elimination of Israel and its replacement by an Arab-dominated state by means of economic, diplomatic and social ostracism of Israel and Israeli institutions and enterprises. Its basis is the alleged illegal occupation of Palestinian Arabs by Israel and Israeli measures

to which they are subject. The problem with this is that it is utterly false and rewrites history. When speaking of “occupation,” BDS advocates speak with forked tongues. They regard every square inch of Israel as illegitimate and occupied but, when they speak of illegality,

whom Israel captured Judea/Samaria in 1967 in a war of self-defense. That is why the term ‘occupation’, so far as international law is concerned, doesn’t apply. ‘Occupation’ generally refers to one state taking and holding territory recognized as belonging to another sovereign state.

sequently takes that territory in the lawful exercise of self-defense has, against that prior holder, better title.” But, in truth, the territories are only an alibi, and a shabby one: for years, half of Judea/Samaria and all of Gaza have been transferred to Palestinian Arab control, with 98% of Palestinians in these territories no lon-

As former State Department Legal Adviser and former head of the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Stephen Schwebel (pictured above) has written: “Where the prior holder of territory had seized that territory unlawfully, the state which subsequently takes that territory in the lawful exercise of self-defense has, against that prior holder, better title.”

mislead many people into supposing they mean only the territories conquered by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War. In any case, this is a political lie. Judea/Samaria is un-allocated territory under international law. It did not belong to the unlawful occupier, Jordan, from

Accordingly, such conquest does not make Israel an illegal occupier. As former State Department Legal Adviser and former head of the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Stephen Schwebel, has written: “Where the prior holder of territory had seized that territory unlawfully, the state which sub-

ger living under Israeli administration, but under the control of Palestinian regimes: Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) in Judea/ Samaria (the West Bank) and Hamas in Gaza. The areas from which Israel has not withdrawn are virtually uninhabited, except for the 2%

where Israelis reside. Moreover, these territories form part of land earmarked for the Jewish national home and Jewish settlement by the San Remo Settlement of 1920, which has never been superseded by an internationally binding agreement. The terms of this settlement were incorporated in the British Mandate that followed and remain in force as per Article 80 of the UN Charter. The very name ‘Judea’ — a term which was commonly used by the international community through centuries until the Jordanian occupation in 1949 — is derived from the same root as the word ‘Jew,’ testifying to the deep Jewish connection to this land. Indeed, because Israel’s presence in Judea/Samaria is legal and UN Security Council Resolution 242, passed after the 1967 War, does not require complete Israeli withdrawal (as for example, the Security Council demanded of Iraq in 1990 regarding its unlawful invasion and annexation of Kuwait). The Oslo Accords recognize Israel’s right to remain in the territories, at least until a final settlement is reached and do not require Israel to dismantle any of the Israeli communities there. Accordingly, there is no basis to regard Israel’s conquest of the territories, Jewish residence within them, or continuing presence there (to the extent that it still exists) as either illegal or immoral.

The Oslo Accords recognize Israel’s right to remain in the territories, at least until a final settlement is reached and do not require Israel to dismantle any of the Israeli communities there There is, however, very strong cause to identify the BDS campaign to ostracize and malign Israel as an illegitimate state, illegal occupier and war criminal with anti-Semitic defamations across history. Like those earlier lies, the BDS lie serves as the pretext for seeking to harm Jews, with a view to turning the Jewish collective into an international pariah, as well as for murderous violence against Jews, both in Israel and abroad. In short, it is a vicious program to destroy Israel’s independence and existence. It is right and proper that foreign BDS advocates be identified in these terms and excluded where necessary with the force of law, as would be the case with activists seeking to enter any country whose independence they were seeking to subvert and destroy. (FRONT PAGE MAG) Morton A. Klein is National President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA). Dr. Daniel Mandel is Director of the ZOA’ s Center for Middle East Policy and author of H.V. Evatt & the Establishment of Israel (Routledge, London, 2004).

Shame On The Brooklyn Public Library By: Ronn Torossian

hose who stand against Israel should not be afforded open forums in New York City publicly funded venues. As New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind recently uncovered, the Brooklyn Public Library is offering a ten week class taught by Norman Finkelstein whom the ADL has deemed a “Holocaust denier” and anti-Israel propagandist.

In a letter posted on his Web site he states, "I did make a point of publicly honoring the heroic resistance of Hezbollah to foreign occupation ...Their historic contributions are...undeniable." He appeared on the official Hezbollah television network al-Manar, because, he said, "If I'm willing

Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering,” Finkelstein argues that the Holocaust “has become a straightout extortion racket.” Finkelstein is well known for his anti-Israel rhetoric and his claims that Jews have exploited the Holocaust to make money. He has said that he

Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.”

Who is Norman Finkelstein? In his book The Holocaust Industry, Finkelstein argues that "Jewish elites" have created an "industry" to perpetuate the memory of the Holocaust as a ploy to extort money and to gain influence, as well a tactic "to crush any dissent, any criticism, of the State of Israel." The New York Times' review of the book described its premise as a "novel variation" of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the fraudulent essay concocted in the late nineteenth century by the Czarist secret police which purports to uncover a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. Finkelstein has described Elie Wiesel as the "resident clown," and charges he is responsible for creating a "meaningless version of the Nazi Holocaust" and for only exposing "genocides that serve the interest of the US and Israel" (Salon.com, Aug. 30, 2000). Finkelstein “…lavishes praise on the terrorist group Hezbollah.

The Anti-Defamation League has described Norman Finkelstein as a “Holocaust denier” and antiIsrael propagandist

to appear on CNN – the main propaganda organ for America's terrorist wars–why shouldn't I appear on al-Manar?" The ADL describes Finkelstein as a “known Holocaust denier and anti-Israel propagandist, Norman Finkelstein.” They note that in his book, “The Holocaust

“truly honored” Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon for “having inflicted an exceptional and deserving defeat on their foreign occupiers,” and that, “I can’t imagine why Israel’s apologists would be offended by a comparison to the Gestapo.” Finkelstein has written, “The

In a December 2001 interview with CounterPunch Magazine, Finkelstein said: “If you understand terrorism to mean the targeting of civilian populations in order to achieve political goals, then plainly the U.S. qualifies as the main terrorist government in the world today …”

When asked whether he thought that “the West was in some way responsible for the tragedy of September 11,” Finkelstein replied:"Regrettably, it’s payback time for the Americans and they have a problem because all the other enemies since the end of World War Two that they pretended to contend with . . . were basically fabricated enemies. . . . Frankly, part of me says ... ‘you know what, we deserve the problem on our hands because some things bin Laden says are true.’ According to The Columbia Spectator, Finkelstein (at the foregoing event) characterized the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a "contrived and fabricated controversy"; he declared that "regardless of intent, Israel is in effect guilty of state terrorism"; and he alleged that the "only difference between Israel terrorism and Hamas terrorism is that Israeli terrorism is three times as lethal." At UC Irvine, Finkelstein said "I have no interest whatsoever in Hezbollah as a political organization. I have only one interest: ... Do the Lebanese people or does Hezbollah have the right to resist foreign occupiers? ... Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate." In response to this, the audience cheered loudly and shouted "Allahu Akbar" ["God is great"]. Simply, Finkelstein’s classes should be cancelled at The Brooklyn Public Library. The general public should show up to 10 Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, for his next classes on March 22 at 7:30 PM and call 7182302100

In his book The Holocaust Industry, Finkelstein argues that "Jewish elites" have created an "industry" to perpetuate the memory of the Holocaust as a ploy to extort money and to gain influence, as well a tactic "to crush any dissent, any criticism, of the State of Israel." The New York Times' review of the book described its premise as a "novel variation" of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the fraudulent essay concocted in the late nineteenth century by the Czarist secret police which purports to uncover a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world.

to demand cancellation. Ronn Torossian is CEO of 5WPR, one of America’s largest independently owned PR firms.

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No More Gravy Train for the United Nations Trump administration contemplates 50% reduction in U.S. funding. By: Joseph Klein

ureaucrats and diplomats at the United Nations are scrambling to adjust to the new Trump administration. One thing seems certain. The Obama days of wine and roses for the UN are over. The Trump administration is reportedly laying the groundwork for cuts of at least 50% to U.S. funding for United Nations programs. U.S. diplomats warned key UN member states to “expect a big financial restraint” on American spending at the UN at a meeting earlier this month in New York City, according to sources cited by Foreign Policy. The United States spent nearly $10 billion in total on the United Nations in 2015 alone, based on available data. This includes U.S. payment of 22 % of the UN’s regular budget and about 28.5% of its peacekeeping budget, which together add up to over $3 billion annually. The U.S. has contributed billions of dollars more in voluntary donations to various UN agencies, programs and flash humanitarian appeals. Based on available 2015 data, cutting just the U.S. voluntary contributions by 40 % would save about $2.7 billion a year. It has been estimated that the U.S.’s mandatory assessment for funding of the UN’s regular budget is more than that of 176

other UN member states combined. The 56 member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation are estimated to have constituted approximately 8.6% of global production in 2015. However, they only paid 5.6% of the UN’s regular budget and 2.4% of the UN’s peacekeeping budget. United Nations mandatory assessed budget funding is based on the socialist formula of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” The starting point is to calculate each member state’s mandatory budget assessments based on the proportion of each member state’s gross national product in comparison to the global gross national product. However, that is only the starting point. Many “less developed” nations’ assessments are then adjusted downward through manipulative concessions such as a debt burden discount and a low per capita income discount. Wealthier nations find themselves having to make up the shortfalls. The United States is bearing an unfair burden in the funding of the United Nations. Yet the U.S. has only one vote out of 193 member states in the General Assembly when it comes to approval of the final budget for which it pays the lion’s share. This redistributionist practice must end and give way to more equitable sharing of mandatory assessments so that all member

states have some real skin in the game. The UN is also way overdue for a major overhaul, including significant cuts in its bloated budgets.For example, UN bureaucrats based in New York have been receiving net remuneration (i.e., take-home salary)

cumbersome and non-transparent. One independent study published a few years ago concluded that “many of the UN agencies have an extremely bad record on transparency” and are “among the least accountable aid agencies.” UN agencies also carry heavy overhead costs, which reduce the amount of contributions from donor coun-

The Trump administration is reportedly laying the groundwork for cuts of at least 50% to U.S. funding for United Nations programs.

at a level about 25% higher than that of their U.S. equivalents, according to the International Civil Service Commission. There are highly generous benefits that the UN provides its staff on top of that. UN salaries and benefits need to be frozen, or even rolled back, to eliminate any differential that still remains with what comparable U.S. civil servants receive, as a condition for continued U.S. funding. The UN’s aid agencies are

tries going directly to those who need the assistance. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund “actually spend more on administrative costs than aid disbursements (129% and 125%, respectively),” according to the study. The UNDP also has the highest salary/aid ratio at 100 percent. Perhaps for that reason, the UNDP’s transparency record is particularly bad.

The United States in 2015 contributed $266 million to UNDP funding, out of which it made $74,500,000 in voluntary contributions without any specific direction as to how the money should be spent. At minimum, the Trump administration should eliminate this unspecified voluntary contribution until the UNDP can prove to U.S. auditors that it is in full compliance with U.S. government transparency requirements and that the UNDP has sharply reduced its overhead costs. There are some other UN budget items that the Trump administration should put on the chopping block for cutting U.S. contributions right away. For example, the United States is presently contributing more than $340 million a year to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). In 2015, the U.S. made $158,600,059 in voluntary contributions to UNRWA without any specific direction as to how the money should be spent. Since UNRWA’s establishment in 1948, the U.S. has spent approximately $5 billion propping up what was supposed to be an agency for temporary relief until the original refugees leaving Israel after it declared its independence could be resettled in neighboring countries. Today, while the U.S. throws more good money after bad, UNRWA hires terrorists, teaches hate against Jews in the

It has been estimated that the U.S.’s mandatory assessment for funding of the UN’s regular budget is more than that of 176 other UN member states combined schools it runs, and perpetuates a permanent refugee status for millions of Palestinian descendants whom UNRWA would still consider refugees even after an independent Palestinian state is established within which they can live. Continued U.S. funding of UNRWA should be put on the chopping block for major cutting, if not elimination altogether. The Trump administration should also reverse the Obama administration’s decision to join and fund the dysfunctional UN Human Rights Council. This travesty counts some of the world’s worst human rights abusers as its members, while it spends much of its time and resources hounding Israel. The 2016-2017 estimated budget for the Human Rights Council alone is over $43 million. The State Department should be directed to withhold from the U.S. contribution to the regular budget of the UN an amount equal to the amount that would be allocated for the United Nations Human Rights Council. The High Commissioner See No More Gravy Train , page 37

Living with Anti-Semitism in America By: Ron Jager

merican Jews and the Jewish organizations that represent them have demanded, in thundering pleas, that President Trump take action and end the current tsunami of anti-Semitic attacks on the American Jewish community. This is just and reasonable. Expecting political leadership not to abdicate their responsibility and at best act as conflict managers only allows a problem to fester and proliferate. Political leaders act to change a situation, leading a nation to a better place, allowing the people to feel secure and not under threat. This is a natural expectation that any normal public can expect of their national leadership.

American Jews have become consumed with trepidation and are beginning to realize that they have every right to stand up and demand that the president take action and end this vile anti-Semitism Despite anti-Semitic acts being a relatively common occurrence way before the presidential campaign, since President Trump's election, these ripples of anti-Semitic hatred have blossomed into a giant wave. American Jews have become

consumed with trepidation and are beginning to realize that they have every right to stand up and demand that the president take action and end this vile anti-Semitism. Local television channels in the United States are flooded with footage of small children holding the hands of adults walking next to them and trying to catch up with them. The adults, meanwhile, are seen trying to get the little ones to walk a bit faster without making them panic. From North Carolina to Maryland, from Alabama to Rhode Island, thousands of children have been evacuated from Jewish community centers and schools, as if it is happening everywhere. Yet this very same American Jewish leadership, who in recent weeks have been banging on the walls of the White House demanding that the current wave of anti-Semitism be stopped immediately, have for the latter part of the past quarter of a century demanded that the Israeli public, and the Israeli political leadership, continue with business as usual, despite the incessant Palestinian Arab incitement and blatant anti-Semitism in Israel. Palestinian Arab anti-Semitism has long been recognized as the Arab world's prominent vehicle for the hatred of the Jews. From academics teaching that Judaism permits murder and rape of non-Jews to religious leaders teaching that Islam demands the extermination of

and incitement the backbone of the Palestinian education syllabus from kindergarten and up. Is it any wonder that the world has gotten used to the hatred of Jews and a culture of unabated anti-Semitism? In America, the irony of all this is that over the past eight years of the Obama presidency, the administration opened the gates and encouraged millions of Muslims to flood into America. As with the Palestinians, anti-Semitism is rife in the Arab world, with over 80 percent of the Muslim public holding strongly anti-Semitic views. Yet this anti-Semitism, harbored by a large portion of Muslims, has never stopped these same Jewish organizations, these liberal Jews, from being at the front lines of demonstrations or political action when President Trump attempted to stop this unrestricted refuge admission into America. These Jews never ever expressed any concern that supporting this continuing addition of anti-Semitic Muslims to American society would creSince January 1, there have been 161 bomb threats made ate a breeding ground for the against Jewish community centers and synagogues across the kind of anti-Semitism that the U.S. and Canada American Jewish community Palestinian incitement to toward themselves and hatred is experiencing today. Amerimurder Jews has always been a towards the Jews of America. can liberal Jews have become natural outgrowth of anti-Se- Over the years, since the heyday infatuated with doing "Tikkun mitic incitement rampant in of the Oslo agreement, Ameri- Olam" and paving the way for Palestinian society, expressed at can Jews, liberal Jews, have bent flooding America with Muslim all levels without hesitation and over backward supporting the anti-Semites while ignoring the without sanction. In Palestin- case of the Palestinian Arabs, potential problems of admitting ian society, no one is ever held while here in Israel, the Palestin- an untold number of immiaccountable for anti-Semitic ians have made anti-Semitism grants from Muslim countries Jews, Palestinian anti-Semitism is a compelling force driving hatred and terror. The Palestinian Authority depicts Jews as the archetypal force of evil throughout history. Jews are said to be responsible for all the world's problems: wars, financial crises, even the spreading of AIDS. Palestinians have long claimed to receptive ears that Jews are a danger to humanity.

incitement. This has never prevented American Jewish leaders from meeting with and supporting the Palestinian people and their leaders. When Jews attack Jews, and when Jews deny the State of Israel the basic right of self-defense afforded to all nations of the world, thereby making it OK to express hatred of Israel, then they are invoking hatred

where extreme anti-Semitic sentiments are mundane and unrestricted. All this will not end well. With no tradition of assimilation or integration into Western societies, Europe being the best example of this, the restive Muslim minorities that have entered America by the millions over the past eight years will only grow louder, and the level of anti-Semitism will get much worse before it gets better. The myth of multiculturalism, propagated wholeheartedly by the American Jewish liberal community, will implode as the volume of anti-Semitism becomes louder and more brazen. The American melting pot, a symbol of America for the millions and millions of immigrants over the past century, will cease to exist, leaving these anti-Semitic and anti-American Muslim minorities to reproduce, in America, the anti-Semitic and cultural squalor they claim to have wanted to flee. Ron Jager is a 25-year veteran of the I.D.F., served as a field mental health officer and Commander of the Central Psychiatric Military Clinic for Reserve Soldiers at Tel-Hashomer. Since retiring from active duty, he provides consultancy services to NGO’s implementing Psycho trauma and Psychoeducation programs to communities in the North and South of Israel. Today, Ron is a strategic advisor at the Office of the Chief Foreign Envoy of Judea and Samaria.

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Journalist David Bedein Examines the Origins of the Palestinian Authority in New Book Reviewed by: Amram Sherby

n "Genesis of the Palestinian Authority" journalist David Bedein who runs the Israel Resource News Agency and the Center for Near East Policy Research, takes us inside the world of the Palestinian Authority, which Bedein has covered for the past 23 years, since the day of its inception in 1994. The book is also masterfully edited by Holocaust historian and noted writer, Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg. Here are a number of topics that Bedein’s book and research shed light upon:

The Palestinian Authority:

are my brothers." David Bedein was the first journalist to research the Palestinian Constitution, which very few people know even exists, in which the “right of return” to homes and villages from 1948 remains a fundamental right. Bedein noted that this document makes no mention of civil rights and to this day the PA regime still calls for the destruction of Israel. This book also reports on David's coverage of the new PA armed forces – often trained in the US – who have included terror groups in their midst and who have repeatedly turned their weapons against Israeli soldiers and civilians and violated human rights within the PA.

immigration. Abbas is also quoted in the book praising Hajj Muhammad Amin Al-Husseini – Jerusalem’s Mufti – who took part in planning the Nazi extermination of the Jews.

scribing UNRWA’s assistance as “meaningless”, since it does not improve their day to day lives in the slightest, but rather holds out hope for the destruction of Israel at which time – and only then – UNRWA refugees would

David Bedein was the first journalist to research the Palestinian Constitution, which very few people know even exists, in which the “right of return” to homes and villages from 1948 remains a fundamental right. Bedein noted that this document makes no mention of civil rights and to this day the PA regime still calls for the destruction of Israel.

In 1993, the PLO and Isra- Fatah: el signed the Oslo accords, in Bedein brings down numerwhich the PLO agreed to fight ous sources which document terror and disarm Hamas, end that the “moderate” faction of incitement against Israel and the PA still calls for the destruc-

At the Nobel Peace Prize press conference in 1994, Bedein asked PLO leader and Nobel peace laureate Yasser Arafat as to whether Arafat would disarm the Hamas, to which Arafat responded that "I do not understand the question. The Hamas are my brothers."

In "Genesis of the Palestinian Authority" journalist David Bedein who runs the Israel Resource News Agency and the Center for Near East Policy Research, takes us inside the world of the Palestinian Authority, which Bedein has covered for the past 23 years

tion’s takeover of UNRWA is well documented in this book, which explains how it used UNRWA schools and facilities to Abbas has never retracted be allowed to return to their vil- store and fire rockets at Israel. Bedein writes numerous arthese views, yet he is viewed lages. It makes no effort to seek worldwide as a moderate Pales- long-term solutions for descen- ticles which are cited in this dants of refugees who have wal- book which point that the news tinian leader. Bedein notes that Abbas has lowed in the indignity of refugee media, along with successive American and Israeli adminisused the PA security forces to life for nearly 70 years. The Hamas terror organiza- trations have turned a blind eye stop dissent, retaliate against critics and opponents and pursue Palestinians selling land to Jews – a crime punishable by death in the PA.

UNRWA:

The book also brings documentation that names PA president Mahmoud Abbas was the financer of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.

cancel the PLO covenant which called for Israel’s destruction. Bedein hired an Arab TV crew who filmed the PNC (Palestinian National Council) session where the PLO covenant was being discussed, and was the first reporter to reveal that the PLO covenant was never cancelled. At the Nobel Peace Prize press conference in 1994, Bedein asked PLO leader and Nobel peace laureate Yasser Arafat as to whether Arafat would disarm the Hamas, to which Arafat responded that "I do not understand the question. The Hamas

tion of Israel. The book has several quotes of Fatah leaders calling for war against Israel, with the end goal being its destruction. The book also brings documentation that names PA president Mahmoud Abbas was the financer of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. It also does not sugar coat Abbas’ PhD thesis, which concludes that the Zionist movement worked with the Nazis, Jews, collaborating with them because the Zionist leaders viewed “Palestine” as the only legitimate place for Jewish

"Genesis of the Palestinian Authority" is also masterfully edited by Holocaust historian and noted writer, Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg. Rabbi Rosenberg also edited the recently published book entitled, “Echoes of the Holocaust”

Numerous articles in the book document how UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) resettle refugees to end their plight, UNRWA – created specifically on for Arab refugees in 1949 – has confined 650,000 refugees from 1948 to 59 refugee camps, passing refugee status to roughly five million descendants. UNRWA was formed in order to promote the supposed “inalienable right” of Arab refugees to return to villages where they lived before to 1948. To this day UNRWA continues to confine hundreds of thousands of descendants of Arab refugees to their refugee facilities, where they languish under the premise and promise of the “Right of Return” to villages that no longer exist. Bedein’s provides voluminous research which documents how UNRWA camps have become breeding ground for terrorists and their school system calls students to join the armed struggle to realize the “right of return”. Paletinian Arabs are quoted throughout the book as de-

to Arab incitement and terror, instead attempting to push forward the peace process, while the Palestinian leadership has done everything besides promote peace. This book should serve as a guide to policy makers about which mistakes should not be repeated in the pursuit of a lasting peace

You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn

Written by: Wendy Lesser Reviewed by: Ira Wolfman

ouis I. Kahn is widely considered one of the greatest American architects of the 20th century. Wendy Lesser’s comprehensive new biography includes evocative chapters about five of Kahn’s remarkable buildings. Of course, she also tells the story of his life. It’s a startling tale. For one thing, Kahn was severely burned as a child, leaving him with disfiguring facial scars. More astonishing is how Kahn maintained three different families simultaneously. Besides his wife Esther and daughter Sue Ann, Lou had children with two other women. These other families were generally unacknowledged until 2003, when My Architect, a documentary film by Kahn’s son Nathaniel, brought the arrangement to public awareness. The ways in which Kahn’s

Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2017, 354 Pages, $27.00, ISBN: 9780-37471-331-7

Jewish identity affected his career are also intriguing. While it is not a major theme, Lesser explores how Jewishness was important as well as irrelevant to Kahn, helpful at times and harmful at others. She calls it a “kind of mask, defining him in the eyes of WASP Philadelphia . . . [and] the echt-Protestant architecture world, but less fully defining him to himself.” Today, Kahn is revered in

Bangladesh as the architect of the country’s capital building and mosque, and celebrated for his First Unitarian Church in Rochester, New York. There are no Jewish buildings, however, in Kahn’s portfolio of masterpieces. Why not? Lesser suggests Kahn’s limited knowledge of Jewish tradition was partly to blame. Born in 1901 on an island off the coast of Estonia, Lou came to Philadelphia with his family when he was five. He grew up poor, and discovered his life-defining passion for architecture in high school. To fund his way through the University of Pennsylvania, he took numerous part-time jobs. “He had a battle, being Jewish and going to Penn,” recalled one of Kahn’s former employees. Nonetheless, Kahn graduated with an architecture degree. At first, Lou received modest commissions—a Philadelphia synagogue, a New Jersey JewSee You Say to Brick, page 38

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Jewish American Heritage Month Celebrates Contributions of American Jews to Our Nation JAHM’s 2017 theme is American Jews in Medical Research Edited by: JV Staff

ewish American Heritage Month (JAHM), a national commemoration of the contributions that Americans Jews have made to the fabric of our nation’s history, culture, and society, announces the theme for the May 2017 celebration. This year, JAHM celebrates Americans Jews who have made a significant impact in the field of medical research. Now in its 12th year, JAHM encourages people of all backgrounds to learn about and draw inspiration from the more than 360year history of Jewish life in this country.

Neuroscientist Eric Richard Kandel (b. 1929) received the 2000 Nobel Prize for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons

“The stories of American Jews are woven into the rich history of this diverse nation,” says Ivy Barsky, CEO and Gwen Goodman Director of the National Museum of American Jewish History. “By celebrating JAHM, we honor the values of inclusion, acceptance, and religious liberty cherished by this country. This year’s focus on American Jews in Medical Research invites deeper exploration of one of the many facets of American life impacted by this community.”

wide Jewish American Heritage Month is now in its second decade and it has never been so important,” shares Greg Rosenbaum, President of Palisades Associates, Inc. and member of JAHM’s Board of Directors. “In nervous times where anti-Jewish sentiments and actions appear to be on the rise, telling the story of Jewish contributions to making all Americans’ lives better is a way to educate our fellow citizens and counter stereotypes.” Virologist Jonas Salk (1914-1995) created the first vaccines against polio

According to Dr. Gary P. Zola, Executive Director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and a member of JAHM’s Board of Directors, “The Jewish experience in America constitutes a soaring tribute to the noble ideals upon which this republic was founded. It is a timely story that will lift our national spirit by assuring us that liberty and opportunity ultimately triumph over bigotry and divisiveness.”

JAHM’s 2017 theme provides an opportunity to recognize the many American Jews who have made invaluable contributions to the field of medical research. American history is full of notable examples. Biochemist Gertrude Elion (1918-1999) developed life-saving drugs, including the first chemotherapy for childhood leukemia and treatments for lupus, hepatitis, arthritis, gout, and other diseases. Virologist Jonas Salk (19141995) created the first vaccines

Geneticist Baruch Blumberg (1925-2011) both discovered the Hepatitis B virus and helped develop the first vaccine to prevent it.

Medical physicist Rosalyn S. Yalow (1921-2011) became the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine when she shared the 1977 prize for her work in the development of radioimmunoassay, a technique used to measure minute amounts of substances in the body.

against polio, and geneticist Baruch Blumberg (1925-2011) both discovered the Hepatitis B virus and helped develop the first vaccine to prevent it. Mathilde Krim (b. 1926), the founding chair amfAR (the American Foundation for AIDS Research), received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000 for her commitment to AIDS patients and research; neuroscientist Eric Richard Kandel (b. 1929) received the 2000 Nobel Prize for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons; and medical physicist Rosalyn S. Yalow (1921-2011) became the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physiology

“The stories of American Jews are woven into the rich history of this diverse nation,” says Ivy Barsky, CEO and Gwen Goodman Director of the National Museum of American Jewish History According to Dr. Gary P. Zola, Executive Director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and a member of JAHM’s Board of Directors, “The Jewish experience in America constitutes a soaring tribute to the noble ideals upon which this republic was founded. It is a timely story that will lift our national spirit by assuring us that liberty and opportunity ultimately triumph over bigotry and divisiveness.” “The celebration of a nation-

or Medicine when she shared the 1977 prize for her work in the development of radioimmunoassay, a technique used to measure minute amounts of substances in the body. The groundbreaking medical research conducted by these dedicated individuals, among countless others, continues to improve and save lives. JAHM’s interactive website, JAHM.us, provides educational resources to facilitate the nationwide engagement around this year’s celebration. All are encouraged to submit their JAHM-related events to the calendar, whether it is an exhibition, concert, gallery talk, film screening, lecture, or other program. Website visitors will also find stories about American Jews, a historical timeline,

Biochemist Gertrude Elion (1918-1999) developed life-saving drugs, including the first chemotherapy for childhood leukemia and treatments for lupus, hepatitis, arthritis, gout, and other diseases.

The National Museum of American Jewish History, located on historic Independence Mall in Philadelphia, brings to life the more than 360-year history of Jews in America.

lesson plans, reading lists, programming ideas, and more. Visit JAHM.us for more information and updates in the lead-up to JAHM.

Mathilde Krim (b. 1926), the founding chair amfAR (the American Foundation for AIDS Research), received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000 for her commitment to AIDS patients and research

ence, government and military service. For more information, visit www.JAHM.us and connect on Facebook and Twitter.

About Jewish American Heritage Month

About the National Museum of American Jewish History

Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) is a national month of recognition of the more than 360-year history of Jewish contributions to American culture, celebrated in May. JAHM acknowledges the achievements of Jewish Americans in fields ranging from sports and arts and entertainment to medicine, business, sci-

The National Museum of American Jewish History, located on historic Independence Mall in Philadelphia, brings to life the more than 360-year history of Jews in America. Tracing the stories of how Jewish immigrants became Jewish Americans, the Museum invites visitors of all backgrounds to share their own stories and re-

flect on how their histories and identities shape and are shaped by the American experience. An open door for all, NMAJH honors the past and contributes to a better future by sharing the power of imagination and ideas, culture and community, leadership and service, in ways that turn inspiration into action. The National Museum of American Jewish History is located at 101 South Independence Mall East at the corner of Fifth and Market Streets in Philadelphia. Connect with the Museum on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest. For more information, visit NMAJH.org or call 215.923.3811.

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ISIS Expands Terror Network to North Africa – Western Interests Threatened By: Bill Gertz

new Islamic State affiliate is gaining strength in sub-Saharan Africa as part of efforts by the Syrian-based Islamist terror group to take over large parts of the continent. A relatively new group known as the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara has stepped up terrorist attacks in the swath of north Africa known as the Sahel. The Sahel is a semi-arid region that stretches from the western states of Mali and Nigeria, through Niger, Chad, and Sudan and into part of Ethiopia. ISIS-GS, as the group is identified in U.S. intelligence reports, was formed in 2015 from al Murabitun, an Islamist terror group once linked to al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Militants from Murabitun and a second AQIM splinter group called al Mulathamun Battalion founded ISIS-GS. According to a State Department security report, al Murabitun was "one of the more active militant groups in the Sahel" and carried out the November 2015 attack on the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali that killed 20 people. The March 8 report by the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), a State Depart-

ment-private sector group, said the new ISIS-GS had been relatively quiet for about a year before reemerging with three significant terror attacks in late 2016. The Islamic State officially recognized ISIS-GS in October in what security analysts regard as an indication the broader terror movement is stepping up operations in northern Africa. "Since the Islamic State proclaimed its so-called caliphate in June 2014, it has expanded in both symbolic and real terms in North and West Africa," said a report by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. The OSAC report said the official ISIS recognition of the new group likely reflects "the group’s desire to strengthen its African presence after setbacks in Libya, creating a possibility that this new group could receive increased material support from ISIS in the future." The Islamic State suffered setbacks in Libya, where it had controlled key parts of the largely ungoverned state. ISIS in Libya had imposed its ultra-violent version of Sharia law, with sex slaves and beheadings, in the city of Sirte. It was driven out of the port city in December by Libyan government forces. Marine Corps Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, commander of

Africa Command, told a Senate hearing last week that ISIS is regrouping after its expulsion from Sirte and that many of its militants were moving to southern Libya.

continent," he said. "The multiple militias and fractured relationship between factions in east and west Libya exacerbate the security situation, spilling into Tunisia and Egypt

A relatively new group known as the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara has stepped up terrorist attacks in the swath of north Africa known as the Sahel. The Sahel is a semi-arid region that stretches from the western states of Mali and Nigeria, through Niger, Chad, and Sudan and into part of Ethiopia.

In prepared testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Waldhauser said countering the ISIS threat in both the Sahel and Libya is among one of five "lines of effort" for his command. "The instability in Libya and North Africa may be the most significant, near-term threat to U.S. and allies' interests on the

and the broader Maghreb, allowing the movement of foreign fighters, enabling the flow of migrants out of Libya to Europe and elsewhere." The terrorist groups are working to incorporate large areas of Africa under Islamist ideology and are networking and targeting young people for recruit-

ment, he said. Waldhauser also stated that Africa Command "must be ready to conduct military operations to protect U.S. interests, counter violent extremist organizations, and enable our partners’ efforts to provide security." Jason Warner, an assistant professor at the Combating Terrorism Center, stated in January that ISIS headquarters delayed recognizing the Sahel affiliate until after the attacks in late 2016. The attacks "signaled to the Islamic State that ISIS-GS was more than just a nominal fighting force," he said. Warner said ISIS-GS appears better organized than two other new ISIS affiliates in Africa: the Islamic State in Somalia, in northern Somalia, and the southern Islamic State of Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. "While recent news on the Islamic State centers on the siege of Mosul in Iraq, the group's ideological hold in sub-Saharan Africa has been quietly growing, and not simply in relation to its well-known merger with Boko Haram," Warner wrote in the West Point journal CTC Sentinel. "Indeed, over the past yearplus, three new Islamic State affiliates have gained prominence in sub-Saharan Africa."

ISIS-GS "is the only one of these groups to have carried out multiple attacks," Warner said. The Sahel affiliate of ISIS is led by al Murabitun commander Adnan al Sahrawi, who pledged his group's loyalty to ISIS in May 2015. ISIS-GS conducted its first attack in Burkina Faso in September on a border post. That was followed by attacks in October in Burkina Faso and an assault on a prison in Niger in an apparent bid to free jihadists that could bolster its forces. The Islamic State conducted similar prison attacks in Iraq prior to taking over large portions of Iraq and Syria in 2014. ISIS-GS is also suspected of carrying out the December 2016 attack on a military convoy in Burkina Faso that killed 12 soldiers. "The emergence of an ISIS affiliate in the Sahel will likely increase the security threat to the private sector, as western interests are routinely targeted by militant groups in the Sahel," the report said. The Islamic terror group Boko Haram, active in Nigeria, aligned with ISIS in March 2015, another sign of the terror group's growing influence on the continent. (WASHINGTON FREE BEACON.COM)

An End to the Grievance-Based Counterterrorism Approach By: A.J. Caschetta

hen a British jihadi named Jamal alHarith became an Islamic State (ISIS) suicide bomber last month, he killed not only Iraqi soldiers but also the naïve theory that nations can effectively fight terrorism by listening to the complaints of terrorists and then making the appropriate conciliatory adjustments. Harith (born Ronald Fiddler) was granted every conceivable concession, but none of them stopped him from becoming the latest smiling suicide bomber.

The grievance-based approach to counterterrorism is a fantasy of the peace studies & conflict resolution crowd What Melvin E. Lee calls the "grievance-based approach" to counterterrorism holds that by addressing the stated grievances of terrorists, their motivations for committing acts of violence can be stopped and further acts preempted. It is a surprisingly popular idea among both academics and politicians. But evidence in the real world suggests that it is little more than a fantasy of the peace studies and conflict resolution crowd. The grievance-based ap-

proach can be applied both on a structural (group) level and on an individual level. On the group level, for decades it was the preferred approach taken by the government of Sri Lanka with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Successive Sri Lankan governments negotiated continuously with the Tamil Tigers since the 1980s, and whenever there was an impasse, the Tigers struck. It was not until 2009 when president Mahinda Rajapaksa ended negotiations and with his brother Gotabaya, who ran the military, declared war on the LTTE that peace came back to the island state. Israel was locked into a decades-long grievance-based approach in its struggle with the Palestinian people. The memories of Oslo make it unlikely that major concessions are forthcoming. However, the Jewish state is under tremendous pressure from the UN, the EU and for the past eight years, the US, to make yet more concessions. On the individual level, the grievance-based approach is at the heart of the erroneous explanation that poverty and lack of education are the "root causes" of terrorism, despite the plethora of engineers and medical doctors who have joined the global jihad. It was also favored by the Obama administration. In 2015 State Department spokesperson (and current Fox

News analyst) Marie Harf suggested a grievance-based approach when she opined that a jobs program might effectively keep unemployed Muslim men from becoming jihadists. Harf

ling group was still in the Sudan and then moved to Afghanistan when Osama bin Laden relocated his operations there. Harith was captured in Afghanistan in March 2002 by US troops and

When a British jihadi named Jamal al-Harith became an Islamic State (ISIS) suicide bomber last month, he killed not only Iraqi soldiers but also the naïve theory that nations can effectively fight terrorism by listening to the complaints of terrorists and then making the appropriate conciliatory adjustments. Harith (born Ronald Fiddler) was granted every conceivable concession, but none of them stopped him from becoming the latest smiling suicide bomber.

explained that we need "to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups, whether it's lack of opportunity for jobs." But Harith didn't need a job. In fact, he was a millionaire. He was an original al-Qaida member who joined when the fledg-

sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Since he was a British citizen, his government lobbied for his repatriation. When the Bush administration complied in 2004, Harith was sent back to Britain and granted his freedom. He faced no charges in spite of the circum-

stances of his case. But that wasn't enough. Harith sued the British government and won a million-pound settlement. Not only were his grievances thoroughly redressed, but he was compensated with a fortune. If the theory upon which the grievance-based approach is based were correct, Harith's new fortune and freedom would have ended his jihad. But it didn't. And in another apparent case of insufficient government surveillance of a known terrorist threat, Harith fled to Turkey in 2014 and then to Syria to join ISIS under the name Abu Zakariya al-Britani. Becoming a millionaire did not temper his taste for jihad and his thirst for martyrdom. The idea that a job or money could stop Harith from rejoining the global jihad could only be entertained by someone who does not understand his reason for becoming an al-Qaida member to begin with. Negotiating with terrorists is rarely a good idea, but nations that reach out to Islamist terrorists, as Melvin Lee explains, "misunderstand the enemy and its nature." Harith gleefully embraced his death, convinced of the rewards he would reap upon completion of his attack. This element of the jihadi mindset has eluded us since 1983 when witnesses were baffled by the smiling sui-

cide attacker who drove his explosive-laden truck into the US Marine barracks in Beirut. The grievance-based approach to terrorism asks what else might have been done for Harith or given to Harith to dissuade him from his attack. It looks at his life and asks how society might have made it better, so that he would never have contemplated jihad against the West.

Poverty and lack of education are not the 'root causes' of Islamist terrorism Until we acknowledge the ideology that attracts men like Ronald Fiddler, and then fight that ideology, addressing specific grievances of specific individuals or groups is futile. Or as Melvin Lee put it, "Acquiescing to political grievances will not alter the fundamental incompatibility between Lockean precepts of tolerance and current interpretations of Islam: Only Islam's fundamental reform will resolve the conflict." Until then the suicide bombers will continue. Smiling like Harith. (MIDDLE EAST FORUM) A.J. Caschetta is a Shillman-Ginsburg fellow at the Middle East Forum and a senior lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology

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A member of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) looks at names on the memorial during the ceremony marking the 15th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center at The National September 11 Memorial and Museum in Lower Manhattan in New York City, U.S. September 11, 2016.

Sept. 11 Families Sue Saudi Arabia Over 9/11 Attacks (VIN) Hundreds of relatives of those killed on Sept. 11 have sued Saudi Arabia, joining many others who have tried to hold the kingdom responsible for the attacks. Like other recent actions, the lawsuit filed Monday capitalizes on last year’s decision by Congress to let victims sue Saudi Arabia. It seeks unspecified damages. Earlier attempts to hold Saudi Arabia responsible over the past 15 years have failed. Fifteen of the 19 attackers who hijacked planes to carry out the attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania were Saudis. The 9/11 Commission report found “no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded” the attacks. But the commission also said there’s a “likelihood” that Saudi-government-sponsored charities did. Lawyers for Saudi Arabia did not immediately comment.

out of poverty and up the economic ladder for all of our fellow citizens, including strong public education from pre-K to college. And, we need to invest in the fragile bridges, tunnels, waterlines, public buildings, and roads that we all depend on.” The letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Associated Press, endorses a plan that would create new, higher income tax brackets for top earners to raise a projected $2 billion. Many of those signing the letter are millionaires and all make more than $650,000, making them members of the state’s top 1 percent when it comes to income. The proposal is being pushed by the Fiscal Policy Institute, a liberal-leaning economic think tank. Ron Deutsch, the Fiscal Policy Institute’s executive director, said it was “refreshing” that so many of the state’s richest residents are willing to contribute more. Their proposal faces significant political obstacles in the state Legislature. While the Democratic majority in the Assembly has its own plan to increase taxes on millionaires, the Republican-led Senate opposes the idea. Lawmakers are now negotiating the details of the state budget and hope to have a deal in place by April 1. “They support higher taxes on themselves so the state can fund our glaring human and physical infrastructure needs and have adequate revenue in place to handle pending federal cuts,” he said. A similar letter last year was largely ignored by lawmakers.

Rich New Yorkers ask state to raise their taxes (VIN) Some of the wealthiest New Yorkers are asking the state to raise their taxes. Eighty people including George Soros, Steven Rockefeller and Abigail Disney wrote to lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying they and other top earners should pay more to support schools, roads, bridges and programs to help poor and homeless residents of the state. “Now is the time to invest in the long-term economic viability of New York,” the letter reads. “We need to invest in pathways

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U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara speaks during a Reuters Newsmaker event in New York City, U.S., July 13, 2016.

ar in residence, the school announced on Tuesday. In a statement provided by the school, Bharara said he was honored to join NYU, and welcomed the opportunity “to continue addressing the issues I so deeply care about - criminal and social justice, honest government, national security, civil rights, and corporate accountability, to name a few.” Bharara was fired by Trump on March 11 after refusing to step down. He had been among 46 U.S. attorneys who were told to submit their resignations a day earlier. The firing was a surprise because Bharara had told reporters in November that Trump had asked him to remain in the job. As the chief federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan, Bharara oversaw several notable corruption and white-collar criminal cases, as well as prosecutions of terrorism suspects. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School, Bharara has been a frequent visitor to NYU, the law school said in the statement.

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Journeyman National Basketball Association (NBA) forward Omri Casspi (pictured), the first Israeliborn player in the league’s history, has reportedly agreed to sign with the Minnesota Timberwolves for the rest of the current NBA season. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Omri Casspi, itinerant Israeli-born NBA player, finds a new home in Minnesota

(JNS.org) Journeyman National Basketball Association (NBA) forward Omri Casspi, the first Israeli-born player in the league’s history, has reportedly Fired US Attorney in agreed to sign with the MinneManhattan Joining sota Timberwolves for the rest of NYU Law School the current NBA season. The New Orleans Pelicans re(VIN) Former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whom cently waived the 6-foot-9 Casspi President Donald Trump fired after he suffered a broken thumb earlier this month, will join New in his first game with the team. York University’s law school on The Pelicans had acquired him April 1 as a distinguished schol- from the Sacramento Kings as

part of their trade for All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins in February. The Timberwolves are Casspi’s third team this season. Casspi, a native of Holon, has averaged 8.4 points and 4.2 rebounds per game, while shooting about 37 p ercent from three-point range in eight NBA seasons for the Kings, Pelicans, Cleveland Cavaliers and Houston Rockets. After posting career-best averages of 11.8 points and 5.9 rebounds per game last season for the Kings during his second stint with the team that drafted him in 2009, the 28-year-old Casspi— Israel’s only current NBA player—had seen his playing time and numbers drop this season before the trade to New Orleans.

Israeli delegation meets with US officials on settlement construction

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (DMd.), and Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley will all speak at the March 26-28 convention in Washington, D.C. In the realm of foreign leaders, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will address the conference, AIPAC said. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were both not included on AIPAC’s list of top-level speakers. Netanyahu, who typically appears at the conference, already visited Washington to meet with Trump last month. Trump spoke at the AIPAC conference last year, when he was a presidential candidate.

Tillerson: US objects to UN human rights (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to body’s ‘biased agenda against Israel’ JNS.org) An Israeli delegation arrived in Washington, D.C., Sunday to meet with representatives of President Donald Trump’s administration regarding the U.S. request that Israel rein in settlement construction. Prime Minister’s Office Chief of Staff Yoav Horowitz and Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer were set to hold meetings Monday with an American team led by Trump’s international negotiations representative, Jason Greenblatt. The Washington meetings come just three days after the end of Greenblatt’s visit to Israel, where he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in addition to meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. Netanyahu said last week that efforts to reach an understanding with the U.S. on settlements are ongoing, but he did not reveal the content of his discussion with Greenblatt.

Vice President Mike Pence (pictured) will address AIPAC’s 2017 policy conference. Credit: White House.

AIPAC: Pence, UN envoy Haley, Canada’s former PM among confab’s top speakers (JNS.org) The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), whose annual policy conference draws more than 15,000 people and is arguably the world’s largest pro-Israel gathering, Thursday announced the highest-level dignitaries who will address the lobby’s 2017 conference later this month. U.S. political leaders Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.),

(JNS.org) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has warned that without “considerable reform” of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the U.S. might withdraw from that body. Addressing U.N. advocates and human rights groups, Tillerson conveyed skepticism of the UNHRC’s devotion to defending human rights, basing his critique on the body’s allowance of nations with poor human rights records—such as China and Saudi Arabia—to be involved with the council. Tillerson said that as of now, the U.S. would continue participating in the 47-member council, but added that America “continues to evaluate the effectiveness” of the organization. The secretary of state also noted the Trump administration’s “strong principled objection to the Human Rights Council’s biased agenda against Israel.” The UNHRC has repeatedly singled out the Jewish state for criticism and has passed more resolutions censuring Israel than any other nation in the world, including notorious human rights violators such as Iran, Syria and North Korea.

Trump budget cuts won’t reduce US aid to Israel, State Department says (JNS.org) U.S. foreign aid to Israel will not be reduced under President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts, the State Department said Thursday. “Our assistance to Israel is… guaranteed and that reflects obviously our strong commitment to one of our strongest partners and allies,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said, Reuters reported. Trump is proposing a 28-percent cut for American diplomacy and foreign aid for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. Currently, annual U.S. aid to Israel stands at $3.1 billion. Last September, the Obama administration and the Israeli government signed a Memorandum of Understanding to increase aid for Israel to $3.8 billion annually for the fiscal years from 2019-2028.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

Netanyahu touts security and economic ties during visit to Beijing (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touted security and economic cooperation during his visit to Beijing Monday, which marked 25 years of diplomatic relations between the Jewish state and China. “We are in a technological age, on the one hand, and I think Israel and China can discuss many ways for technological cooperation, which I think seize the future,” Netanyahu said during remarks with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang. “And at the same time there’s a great deal of convulsion in the world…and I’d like to have the opportunity to exchange views with you to see how we can cooperate together for the advancement of security, peace and stability—and prosperity,” Netanyahu added. Li said that “the Chinese people and the Jewish people are both great peoples of the world.” Earlier Monday, Netanyahu met with the heads of nearly a dozen of the largest corporations in China about investment in Israel. Israel and China signed three bilateral agreements, including one allowing 20,000 Chinese workers to obtain visas permitting them to work at Israeli construction sites. Chinese and Israeli officials also agreed to accelerate the establishment of a Free Trade Zone between the two countries.

Japan eliminates Israel from World Baseball Classic, ending surprising run (JNS.org) After its four-game winning streak to start the World Baseball Classic (WBC) shocked the world, Team Israel saw its run in the international tournament come to an end March 15 with an 8-3 loss to Japan in the crowded Tokyo Dome stadium. Team Israel’s back-to-back losses last week to Japan and the Netherlands meant that the lovable underdogs did not advance to the tournament’s semifinals in Los Angeles. Earlier in the competition, Israel had defeated the Netherlands as well as baseball powerhouses South Korea, Taiwan and Cuba. All the while, the Israeli team’s run garnered significant attention from major mainstream media outlets. ESPN ran a feature article dubbing Israel’s the “Jamaican bobsled team of the WBC,” given its current underdog story. The New York Times ran with the headline, “With Mirth and a Mensch, Israel Up-

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The Jewish Voice attempted to conceal his income from authorities by hiding money in a bank based in Ramallah. Barghouti also allegedly hid income from book royalties and a global speaking tour in a U.S. bank account. The Israel Police supported the charges against Barghouti with transaction records and credit cards discovered at the BDS founder’s residence. MIDDLE EAST Following an interrogation by Reports: Israel launches authorities in Haifa, Barghouti more strikes in Syria, was released on bail, but is subIsraeli drone downed ject to a travel ban and cannot (JNS.org) Israeli jets struck leave the country. Barghouti has advocated for targets in Syria twice within 24 hours and three times in three the destruction of Israel, saying days, unconfirmed reports said in 2013, “We are witnessing the rapid demise of Zionism, and Tuesday. According to Syrian media, nothing can be done to save some of the targets in the latest it…I, for one, support euthanaalleged Israeli strikes included sia.” a Hezbollah weapons convoy and Syrian military targets near the Lebanon-Syria border. The Israeli military, meanwhile, confirmed that one of its Skylark drones had been downed in the Syrian part of the Golan Heights over Quneitra. News of the suspected Israeli strikes and downing of an Israeli A cache of 1,400-year-old coins military drone came as tensions discovered in excavations near between Syria and Israel esca- Jerusalem. Credit: Yoli Shwartz, lated following an Israeli drone courtesy of the Israel Antiquities strike Sunday, which reportedly Authority. killed a militia commander of a 1,400-year-old coins group supporting Syrian Presidiscovered near dent Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Christian pilgrimage military responded to the incisite in Jerusalem dent by firing on Israeli Air Force planes. (JNS.org) The Israel AntiqLast week, Israel’s Arrow long- uities Authority (IAA) Sunday range missile defense system in- announced the discovery of tercepted a Syrian missile, mark- 1,400-year-old coins in excavaing that system’s first operational tions near Jerusalem. use in its 17 years of existence. According to the IAA, the cache of nine bronze coins— BDS movement founder discovered in a large complex Omar Barghouti that served Christian pilgrims arrested for tax fraud en route to Jerusalem—serves as (JNS.org) Israeli authorities “evidence of the Persian invasion have arrested Omar Barghou- at the end of the Byzantine periti, co-founder of the anti-Israel od.” The coins feature the imagBoycott, Divestment and Sanc- es of three Byzantine emperors: tions (BDS) movement, for Justinian (483-565 AD), Maurice evading taxes on $700,000 of his (539-602 CE) and Phocas (547610 CE). income. The excavation that led to the The Israeli business news outlet Globes reported that Bar- finding occurred in June 2016 as ghouti “is suspected of evading part of the expansion of Israel’s taxes on some $700,000 that he Highway 1, which connects Jeearned between 2007 to 2017 rusalem and Tel Aviv. A massive while serving as the director of two-story structure and an elabthe Ramallah-based National orate wine press were revealed Computing Resources, which in the excavation, and the coins markets and rents ATMs and were found among large stones other technology within the Pal- that had collapsed alongside the building. estinian Authority.” “It seems that during a time of The BDS founder, who lives in the Israeli city of Acre, had danger, the owner of the hoard

sets South Korea in WBC,” re- against Israel at the U.N.” ferring to the team’s mascot, the “It is time to put an end to popular plush Hanukkah toy practice in which U.N. officials Mensch on a Bench. use their position to advance their anti-Israel agenda,” Danon said. “Over the years, Khalaf has worked to harm Israel and advocate for the BDS movement. Her removal from the U.N. is long overdue.”

Rima Khalaf (pictured), the executive secretary of a United Nations agency that released a controversial report accusing Israel of implementing “an apartheid regime,” resigned from her post Friday after U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asked her to withdraw the report. Credit: Chatham House via Wikimedia Commons.

UN official resigns over secretary-general’s request to withdraw anti-Israel report (JNS.org) Rima Khalaf, the executive secretary of a United Nations agency that released a controversial report accusing Israel of implementing “an apartheid regime,” resigned from her post Friday after U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asked her to withdraw the report. Earlier, Guterres had said through a spokesperson that the report, released by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, “does not reflect the views of the secretary-general” and was published without consulting the U.N. leader. The report has been withdrawn. The report from the U.N. body led by Khalaf, a Jordanian national, stated that “available evidence establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that Israel is guilty of policies and practices that constitute the crime of apartheid.” Further, the report’s author was Richard Falk, a discredited former U.N. special rapporteur for human rights who has an extensive record of virulently anti-Israel rhetoric. Falk has previously praised the Palestinian terror organization Hamas, likening the terror group to the French resistance of World War II. After Khalaf ’s resignation, Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon called Guterres’s approach on the issue “an important step in ending the bias

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placed the coins in a cloth purse that he concealed inside a hidden niche in the wall,” said Annette Landes-Nagar, director of the excavation on behalf of the IAA. “He probably hoped to go back and collect it, but today we know that he was unable to do so.”

fate of Israel’s state broadcaster. The Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) is slated to be replaced by the new Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation, and Netanyahu had requested that Kahlon delay the closure of the outgoing IBA for six months. Netanyahu’s request drew ire from Kahlon, who became suspicious of the prime minister’s intentions, declaring, “You aren’t really interested in public broadcasting, but rather control. You need to understand, I left the Likud and you won’t be doing things like this to me. When things become difficult, you disIDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot appear. When there are achieve(second from left), then head of ments, you appear.” the Israeli military’s Northern The dispute between NetCommand, is pictured at the Hila anyahu and Kahlon—leaders of Lookout in northern Israel. Israel’s the Likud and Kulanu political next armed conflict will likely be parties, respectively—became with Hezbollah and other more visible last Thursday, when Lebanon-based terrorist groups, Kahlon said in Tel Aviv, “How is Eizenkot said Sunday. Credit: IDF. it said these days? Kahlon and IDF chief: next war Netanyahu are no more.” will likely be with Shas party member Deri said, Hezbollah, Lebanon- “I do not intend on staying in based terror groups a malfunctioning government (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to which lives on mistakes and on JNS.org) Israel’s next armed con- ‘destroying one another.’ If everyflict will likely be with Hezbollah one doesn’t come to their sense, it and other Lebanon-based terror- is better to hold elections.” ist groups, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Arab Knesset member reaches plea deal to Eizenkot said Sunday. serve 2 years in jail “Terrorist groups and new for security offenses threats have taken the place of enemy armies. The relatively (Israel Hayom/Exclusive quiet security situation of the to JNS.org) Basel Ghattas, an last decade is an interest Israel Arab member of Israel’s Knesset and Lebanon share and consid- who was indicted for allegedly erable efforts have been made to smuggling cellphones and other ensure it lasts. But the IDF is not materials to Palestinian security fooled by this lull and it remains prisoners, will plead guilty and vigilant, aware of the changes in serve two years in prison as part the Syrian and Lebanese sectors,” of a plea bargain he signed with Eizenkot said during a ceremony the Israeli State Attorney’s Office at the military’s Northern Com- Thursday. mand headquarters. As part of the deal, Ghattas “Hezbollah continues its ef- is required to resign his Knesset forts to obtain more accurate, seat immediately. The amended deadlier weapons to target the indictment against the lawmaker Israeli homefront,” he said. “Re- includes charges of smuggling cent statements from Beirut have cellular phones into prison, vimade it clear a future war will olating Israel Prison Service dihave a clear address—the state of rectives, providing the means to Lebanon and the terrorist groups carry out acts of terror, fraud and operating on its soil with its con- breach of trust. The indictment sent.” now excludes the original charge of aiding and abetting a terrorist Israeli minister organization. threatens Netanyahu The Movement for Quality with early elections Government in Israel urged State (JNS.org) Israeli Interior Attorney Shai Nitzan to deny the Minister Aryeh Deri threatened plea bargain. “The legal proceedings in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the prospect of cases involving elected officials early elections, following a feud must be exhausted in a court of between Netanyahu and Finance law,” the group wrote in a letter Minister Moshe Kahlon over the to Nitzan.

PAGE 25 Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan took to social media to criticize the deal. “I have trouble understanding why the State Attorney’s Office would suffice with two years in prison for Ghattas for aiding terrorism, when they have such solid evidence,” Erdan tweeted.

A test launch of the Arrow missile defense system, a joint U.S.-Israel venture. Israel reportedly intercepted a Syrian anti-aircraft missile Friday by utilizing the Arrow system, marking that system’s first operational use in its 17 years of existence. Credit: U.S. Navy News Service via Wikimedia Commons.

Israel intercepts Syrian missile in Arrow defense system’s first operational use (JNS.org) Israel reportedly intercepted a Syrian anti-aircraft missile Friday by utilizing the Arrow long-range missile defense system, marking that system’s first operational use in its 17 years of existence. After Israeli Air Force jets struck and destroyed several terrorist targets in Syria overnight Thursday, the Arrow system intercepted the Syrian missile in Israeli airspace early Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed. Reuters quoted an IDF source as saying that the Arrow system had identified an “incoming threat” and shot down the Syrian missile. The Arrow system, a joint Israeli-American venture, is part of the Jewish state’s multilayered missile defense program. Other systems that have been jointly developed and funded by the U.S. and Israel include the Iron Dome, which intercepts shortrange missiles and rockets, and David’s Sling, the missile defense program’s middle tier. Following the development of Arrow 1 and Arrow 2, the system’s forthcoming Arrow 3 iteration will have the capability to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles outside of the Earth’s atmosphere.

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By: Michael Catalini

ew Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s decision on March 15th to eliminate security funding for nonpublic school students has sent shock-waves throughout the private school community. The proposed budget cuts left many observers struggling to comprehend how the governor could leave 150,000 children virtually unprotected during a time when anti-Semitic incidents have skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. Ironically, Governor Christie’s proposed budget was released just as Rabbi Avi Schnall, director of Agudath Israel of New Jersey, was in an Assembly budget hearing, praising the governor for increasing security funding just a few months earlier. Rabbi Schnall was referencing the Secure Schools for All Children Act which passed the legislature by unanimous vote and was signed by Governor Christie in September. The new law would have raised the per-child allocation from $50 to $75. Rabbi Schnall also lauded the bill’s sponsor, Assemblyman Gary Schaer of Passaic, for standing up for New Jersey’s private school community by crafting what he described as “monumental” legislation that addressed the critical need to provide all New Jersey schoolchildren with schools that are both safe and secure.

Governor Christie’s proposed budget was released just as Rabbi Avi Schnall, (pictured above) director of Agudath Israel of New Jersey, was in an Assembly budget hearing, praising the governor for increasing security funding just a few months earlier. Rabbi Schnall was referencing the Secure Schools for All Children Act which passed the legislature by unanimous vote and was signed by Governor Christie in September. The new law would have raised the per-child allocation from $50 to $75.

Rabbi Schnall said that he was stunned by Christie’s proposed budget. “With bomb threats pouring in at JCCs all over the country, acts of anti-Semitism taking place nationwide and Jewish cemeteries being vandalized, there could not be a worse time to cut security funding for schoolchildren,” remarked Rabbi Schnall. Rabbi Schnall noted that by approving an $11.2 million allowance to protect private school children this past fall, the governor had sent a clear message to Garden State residents that the safety of private school children

was no less important than that of their public school counterparts. He asked, “what message is the governor now delivering by eliminating the entire nonpublic school security program?” With the New Jersey Legislature set to review the newly-released budget, Rabbi Schnall called on the public to express their opposition to Governor Christie's decision to eliminate security funding for nonpublic school students. Constituents should call their Assembly Members and Senators and ask them to reinstate security funding for nonpublic school students.

oe Piscopo won’t run as a Republican in New Jersey’s upcoming governor’s race, but the comedian best known for his Frank Sinatra impression on “Saturday Night Live” says he is “more serious than ever” about joining the field as an independent. Piscopo was a longtime Democrat who recently became a backer of Republican President Donald Trump. His potential candidacy to replace Republican Gov. Chris Christie has been a constant question mark in New Jersey, which along with Virginia is one of only two governor’s races in the United States this year. The news that the radio host is skipping the Republican primary and leaving the party to become an independent comes ahead of a pending registration deadline and sets him up for a long-shot third-party bid. “I am more serious about this than ever before. We’re coming up with initiatives. It’s all working out,” he said. “I’m very, very excited to have an opportunity to help the people of New Jersey. I’m not being coy. I’m very careful and respectful.” He said he reached the decision because of the pending April 3 deadline to declare in the primary, which would force him to quit his radio job because of rules mandating that candi-

he first explorer to discover the shores of New Jersey was Giovanni de Verranzano in 1524. This European sailor drifted along the central Jersey coast, before anchoring off the Sandy Hook shores where he hung out for a while, then moved on.

sey — with its lengthy shorelines, and abundant riverways -- was also being populated by new, curious, and hopeful arrivals. Cape May was founded in 1692, Burlington and Salem in 1694, and Gloucester in 1686, and a number of the homes that were built during that era are still standing today. Here are 12 of the oldest

1699. Nathan Bartlett bought the house in 1824 and enlarged the entire structure, burying the original portion in the center. That section is believed to be the oldest home in Ocean County. The Andrews-Bartlett Homestead is located near the Tuckerton Seaport and Baymen's Museum on Main Street in Tuckerton.

Revell House circa 1685

The original section of the Andrews-Bartlett Homestead in Tuckerton Seaport is actually completely surrounded by an addition that was built in 1824.

In 1609, Henry Hudson sailed through Newark Bay, landed in the Garden State and claimed the land for the Netherlands, naming the area New Netherlands. From that moment, small villages and trading colonies began to pop up in what is Hoboken and Jersey City today. The first permanent European settlement was Bergen, founded in 1660, but the British took over in 1664. At the same time, South Jer-

buildings. Know of any centuries-old buildings that we should check out? Let us know in the comments section below.

Andrews-Bartlett Homestead circa 1699 The original section of the Andrews-Bartlett Homestead in Tuckerton Seaport is actually completely surrounded by an addition that was built in 1824. Mordecae Andrews built the original two-room home in

Built in 1685 by Quaker distiller George Hutchinson, the Revell House is known as the oldest building in Burlington County. However, it's known as the Revell House because it served as the office of Thomas Revell from 1696 to 1699. Legend says Benjamin Franklin once purchased gingerbread and dined in the home on his way to Philadelphia. Franklin wrote in his journal that when he arrived in Burlington on a Saturday to take a boat to the city, he discovered none were running until Tuesday. "I returned to an old woman in the town, of whom I bought gingerbread to eat on the water, and ask'd her advice. She invited me to lodge at her house till a passage by water should offer, and being tired with my foot travelling I accepted the invitation." This story lead to the building sometimes being called the Gingerbread House. The Revell House is located at 213 Wood Street in Burlington.

dates get equal time on public airwaves. He also cited the need to set up campaign committees, which he hasn’t yet done. He now faces a June 6 deadline to file as an independent, but says he hasn’t decided when he will. Piscopo, 65, gained fame as a member of the “SNL” cast, impersonating fellow New Jersey native Sinatra as well as latenight host David Letterman. He also appeared in films, hosts a political talk radio show in New York and is a spokesman for the Boys and Girls Club.

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Living History: 2 of the Oldest Homes in N.J. By: Kelly Roncace

Joe Piscopo won’t run as a Republican in New Jersey’s upcoming governor’s race, but the comedian best known for his Frank Sinatra impression on “Saturday Night Live” says he is “more serious than ever” about joining the field as an independent.

Piscopo was seen as a potential buoy to Republicans, whose leading candidate is Christie’s top deputy, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno. Christie’s approval rating is as low as it’s ever been, and Democrats are feeling optimistic in a state that has about 800,000 more Democratic voters than Republicans. Piscopo trailed Guadagno in recent polls of GOP voters, but not by much. While unaffiliated voters make up the biggest registration category in the state, political experts say that isn’t likely to lead to victory. Not since the 19th century has New Jersey elected anyone other than a top-party candidate. Most recently, former environmental official Chris Daggett finished with about 6 percent of the vote in 2009. Independents lack party structure that can help get the vote out and raise money, said Peter Woolley, a politics professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. “We can say it is well-nigh impossible to win the general election as an independent.” Brigid Harrison, a political science professor at Montclair State University, called the effort “nearly insurmountable” “The fact is that short of an enormously well-funded challenge, it is nearly impossible to gain traction against New Jersey’s parties,” she said.

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The Next Ride – Cycling Alongside the Dead Sea for a Good Cause Edited by: JV Staff

n March 2nd, 35 cyclists found themselves alongside the Dead Sea doing something they never imagined — helping raise money for Israelis with limbloss. The 155 kilometer “Gran Fondo” took them along sweeping desert vistas and daunting mountain climbs but the toughest challenge faced was by those that inspired them and joined them along the way. One of the riders who joined was a 15 year-old girl named Chaya, a Jerusalem native who

of Ma’ale Akrabim, a perilous 3.5 kilometer climb with steep dropoffs and no guardrails. Ever the champion, Chaya undertook this challenge, not for herself, but rather to help raise awareness and money so that others could walk again with the help of prosthesis. Her unbridled enthusiasm and bubbly personality attracted the attention of Paz Bash, a top Israeli professional cyclist with several wins under her belt who was inspired by the spunky teenager that refuses to give up despite her disability. Paz, who Chaya I. (followed closely by her trainers) is the first female that later that weekend placed first handcycled the treacherously-steep climb up Ma'ale Akrabim

Osnat H., Tehila C. showing their support to cyclist Binyamin Iflah

is wheelchair-bound due to her stunted legs and paralyzed from the waist down. But her motto is “No legs, no problem!” And indeed, using a handcycle, she rode 100 kilometers of the route including the formidable climb up the steep winding switchback

in the women’s category, rode with Chaya along the Dead Sea Gran Fondo route, to guide her protege that she has personally undertaken to train. There to support riders along the way and at rest stops were two wonderful young wom-

Chaya I. (L), Paz Bash (second from left) and other cyclists on their way to Ma'ale Akrabim

en named Osnat H. and Tehila C., who themselves suffer from limb-loss, as well as many family members from the organization. They greeted the rides, helped them refuel, and encouraged them to keep pedaling.

Due to a terrorist bombing, Tehila lost both her legs at age eight. With the help of the Next Step organization, Tehila will soon receive a new set of advanced prosthetics that will enable her to walk more natu-

Cyclists forming up to begin the ride

rally and replace the crude ones she presently uses and which tire her quickly during her dayjob as a social worker. But that didn't stop Tehila that day! She was walking around and helped distribute drinks and energy bars for the cyclists that made their way over Ma’ale Akrabim. Osnat, who hails from a family of 12 in Bnei Brak was the star of the trip. If any of the riders come back from this trip with one bright memory, it’s of the young woman who just 4 months ago had her life turned upside-down in a multi-vehicle car accident and several days later woke up in a hospital to learn that she lost her cousin, her sister, and her left leg from above the knee. With the help of the Next Step, she visited the United States this past February and was fitted with an advanced prosthetic that enables her to walk again.

Osnat, who works in the fashion industry, is not shy at all about her new reality and, to the contrary, she has embraced it. During her February trip to the US, she visited Magen David Yeshivah elementary school in Brooklyn, NY to address an auditorium packed with rapt children who listened to her words of encouragement. The upper grades were inspired by her story and committed to help fundraise - which they did superbly. Her perseverance was adequately demonstrated and quite surprising when over the beautiful Shabbat we spent together at a Jerusalem hotel, she walked back and forth twice to Kotel HaMa’aravi, the Western Wall, and both times refusing assistance, a wheelchair or a car ride for either ‘leg’ of the trip. On extended group rides See The Next Ride, page 37

Pop-up Hotel in Lifeguard Hut Opens on Tel Aviv Beach Winners of a tourism contest to stay in the beachfront luxury suite replete with butler, room service and perfect sea views By: Viva Sarah Press

arrying a suitcase over a sandy beach may not sound like much fun but for the winners of an online contest run by the Israeli Tourism Ministry and the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, it is worth the effort. After all, it’s not every day visitors to Israel get to stay in a lifeguard tower that has been converted into a five-star hotel. The international campaign #TAKEME2TELAVIV invites tourists to enjoy a unique experience in the city. And really, what is more unique than staying a night in a converted lifeguard hut that is now a luxury suite replete with

butler, room service and perfect views of the Mediterranean Sea? The Tourism Ministry and municipality — in cooperation with hotels.com — launched the international contest in February by calling on wouldbe visitors to upload a photo of themselves, wearing beach gear that they would bring with them, and taken against the background of their hometown, carrying a sign that reads #TAKEME2TELAVIV. Brown Hotels Urban Collection lead designer Aline Langlieb and graffiti artist Edgar Rafael transformed the lifeguard tower into a one-of-a-kind seashore hotel suite, complete with luxurious space and amenities. Fifteen couples were chosen

The view from the popup hotel on Frishman Beach is incomparable. Photo by Guy Yehieli

as winners and from March 14 to April 4, they’ll take turns staying in the pop-up suite on Frishman Beach. The winners get free flights to Israel, one night in the lifeguard tower hotel and two nights in a Brown Collection Hotel. German bloggers Sandra Lechner and Izabella Meczykowska from the website Beach Inspector are the city’s first guests at the first pop-up hotel of its kind in the world. “As with other areas, so it is with tourism in the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo – it was and always will be creative and groundbreaking. This lifeguard tower is an amazing opportunity to come and enjoy the city and our wonderful beach. I am sure that

The popup hotel in a lifeguard tower on Frishman Beach, Tel Aviv, March 14, 2017. Photo by Guy Yehieli

the guests in the lifeguard tower will share their impressions of the city with their friends all over the world,” said Mayor Ron Huldai at the official opening of the beachfront digs on March

A designer from Brown Hotels Urban Collective decorated the inside of the popup hotel suite in a lifeguard tower on Frishman Beach, Tel Aviv. Photo by Guy Yehieli

The popup hotel even has an outdoor sitting area with a fantastic view of the beach. Photo by Guy Yehieli

14. The goal of this joint initiative is to showcase Israel as a leading the Director-General of the tourist destination in the winter Ministry of Tourism there has and “shoulder” seasons. According to Amir Halevi, See Pop-up Hotel in Lifeguard , page 36

The popup hotel is steps from the water at Frishman Beach, Tel Aviv. Photo by Guy Yehieli

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The “Jewish” Shark Tank Comes Alive By: Ronn Torossian

hat do a snoring noise-cancelling technology inventor, a decorative deli container holder manufacturer and an automated retractable wall company have in common? They all appeared before the “Moguls” at the latest session of BizTank, an innovative New York City based program that brings the famed “Shark Tank” capital-raising format to Jewish entrepreneurs and investors. Entrepreneurs pitch their companies to a panel of successful Jewish investors (the “Moguls”), asking for investments of up to $5 million, all while fielding tough and pointed questions from the investors. Watching a session of BizTank is like sitting in on a business school seminar – except that it brings real money to busi-

Watching a session of BizTank is like sitting in on a business school seminar – except that it brings real money to businesses nesses. BizTank is the creation of haredi business management consultant Joel Klein, CPBC and CEO of Brooklyn-based Immediate Marketing and Business Consulting (IMBC). Klein got his start in business consulting after helping local companies in Brooklyn understand how to better serve customers, reorganize their business functions and unlock hidden value. He quickly became the goto consultant for many in New York City and beyond, and has since helped his clients build multi-million dollar businesses across the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel.

Cozy Cuddlerz presenting before BizTank “Moguls”

BizTank “Mogul” Adam Margules examines BibbySitter product BizTank “Mogul” Gedaliah Weinberger gives a presenter “thumbs up”

The idea of starting BizTank came to Klein when he realized that many in the haredi community needed better access to capital. Taking haredi and other orthodox Jewish entrepreneurs to the next level isn’t a matter of finding talent or great ideas – there are plenty of both to go around. These entrepreneurs need investment partners to provide the capital, and expertise, to help their businesses grow. At a recent round of BizTank, prominent investors including David Schottenstein, Eli Verschleiser and Gedaliah Weinberger fired hard-hitting questions at the presenters, seeking to understand the busi-

of BizTank is any indication, the program is sure to grow, and will yield some great companies ness models, products, sales and that we’ll all come to recognize outlooks for each company. Pre- in the near future. It’s great in senters had to be on their toes, and whether they got a deal or not, each of them walked away with a better understanding of how they can improve their businesses. If the energy and excitement from the latest round

If the energy and excitement from the latest round of BizTank is any indication, the program is sure to grow, and will yield some great companies that we’ll all come to recognize in the near future

a community that creates so much goodness. Ronn Torossian is CEO of 5WPR, a leading independently owned PR Agency.

Joel Klein, CPBC, founder of BizTank (center) prepares presenters behind the scenes at BizTank

Of Soup Kitchens and Trees: a Jerusalem Bar Mitzvah with Heart and Soul By: Deborah Fineblum

t his recent bar mitzvah celebration, Lavi Gimpel’s great-grandmother handed him a check that she said was “enough for seven trees.” “One for each member of your family. When I come to the farm someday, I want you to show each tree to me,” said the great-grandmother, Chaya Wexler. Trees are not a typical bar

said regarding the Hineni Jerusalem soup kitchen. “They’re feeding poor people. I love supporting what they’re doing there.” In fact, among the topics Lavi studied leading up to the bar mitzvah with his father, Rabbi Jeremy Gimpel, were the Jewish laws governing agriculture in Israel and tzedakah (charity). Hineni Jerusalem, a mostly volunteer-run “humanitarian restaurant” (a term manager Benjamin Philip prefers over

For the American-born Rabbi Jeremy Gimpel with his wife Tehila, who live in the Neve Daniel settlement in the Gush Etzion region, the fact that the oldest of their five children opted to emphasize the “mitzvah” over the “bar” doesn’t come as much of a surprise. “We’re raising our children in the spirit of the land of Israel, without TV commercials,” Rabbi

“We’re raising our children in the spirit of the land of Israel, without TV commercials,” Rabbi Gimpel told JNS.org. “We want them to know and appreciate what a gift this land is.”

Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat with Hineni Jerusalem director Benjamin Philip at the Anne Frank exhibit

mitzvah gift. But Lavi Gimpel is not a typical bar mitzvah boy. Not only did he ask his guests— and a bunch of crowd-funders, too—to help him populate the farm his family is establishing in the Judean Hills with trees, but he also chose to have his Feb. 19 bar mitzvah party at a soup kitchen in downtown Jerusalem. “The place is awesome,” Lavi

“soup kitchen”) serves lunch to some 250 people Sunday through Thursday. It’s a feat made possible by donors from near and far as well as the diners who are able to pay—often far more than the suggested 18-shekel (about $5) donation. Now, for the first time, a family like the Gimpels has hosted a major Jewish lifecycle event there.

Gimpel told JNS.org. “We want them to know and appreciate what a gift this land is.” Their love of—and commitment to—the land of Israel is why the Gimpels, along with three other families, are establishing the farm in Gush Etzion’s Judean Hills. Their projected move-in date is Hanukkah 2017. The rabbi said he envisions the farm as “a center where people can come to experience the land of Israel in a holistic and organic way through the Hebrew Bible.” That includes growing the seven species that the Torah teaches are indigenous to the land of Israel, and holding seminars on everything from Jewish learning and tradition to Jewish prayer and parenting.

Lavi Gimpel and his father Rabbi Jeremy Gimpel (in front) attend President Donald Trump's inauguration. Credit: Courtesy of Gimpel family.

Bar mitzvah boy Lavi’s choices also didn’t shock his aunt, Avigail Gimpel. “He’s a smart kid with a firm belief system, and he knew he wanted something simple and something that helped others,” she said. Indeed, bar/bat mitzvahs provide youngsters with the opportunity to explore and strengthen their emerging values, and to make choices that reflect those values. “At a bar mitzvah, you see them and their values beginning to mature. It’s a time of saying goodbye to the boy and welcoming the young man,” said Rabbi

Lavi Gimpel at the site of the farm his family is establishing in the Judean Hills. Credit: Courtesy of Gimpel family.

Gimpel, a teacher as well as the co-founder of thelandofisrael. com, an English-language broadcast network based in Jerusalem. One way that Lavi expressed his values was through a crowd-funding campaign on the Indiegogo online platform. Asking $20 for one tree all the way up to $500 for an orchard of 25 trees, he has so far raised $11,000 toward his $20,000 goal, and has gotten 25,000 hits on a YouTube video for which he wrote the script himself. “I believe we need to see it as a transitional time, a bar mitzvah season,” Rabbi Gimpel said. Along Lavi’s journey to the Jewish rite of passage, the fa-

ther-son tandem enjoyed the highlight of receiving tickets for and jointly attending President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January. “It was an experience that fused [Lavi’s] passion for international politics with our values of being involved in events that will impact Israel, along with the entire world,” the father said. When her son read the Ten Commandments from his Torah portion, Yitro, it struck Tehila Gimpel, who practices and teaches law, that there is a message in the commandments for parents and children alike. “Even though we received them together as an entire people, the 10 commandments are actually worded in the singular,” she said. “God is talking to each one of us as an individual, and giving each of us a path to find Him. Lavi had to have the kind of bar mitzvah that was meaningful for him.” “Something has changed about him in the days since his bar mitzvah,” added the mother. “His posture has changed. He stands more like a man.” But does Lavi himself believe he has changed? “Maybe a little,” he acknowledged. “I guess I do feel a little different. But it’s too soon to know exactly how. I guess one thing I learned is that, even though it’s hard to be a Jew—all the mitzvahs and stuff you have to do— it’s also cool because the mitzvahs are awesome…they’re not easy, but they’re good.” (JNS.ORG)

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Ackman Bails on Valeant, as Stock Price Continues to Plummet By: Daniel Perez

hat has been a nightmare for Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management has become a dream come true for short sellers. The stock for Valeant Pharmaceuticals International peaked at over $262 per share back in August 2015. When Ackman began buying shares, he predicted the price could climb as high as $330. Those hopes were dashed in large part due to an accounting scandal, which in turn created a snowball effect. Ackman's efforts reassure investors, which included replacing many of the company's board of directors and top execs, only delayed the inevitable. Since then, shares have dropped by some 96%, down to $11 per share as of this writing. By the time Pershing Square sold off its 8% stake in Valeant, the firm had taken a loss of roughly $4 billion, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. This major loss for Ackman and company has been a boon for those who bet against him. Short selling, or “shorting” a stock is the practice of selling shares one does not own. An investor borrows those shares for a fee, sells them, then buys them back at the new (hope-

For Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management, buying shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals has not gone as expected

fully lower) price. They are anticipating that the stock's value will decline, and if it does, they pocket the difference between the price of the stock when it was borrowed, and when it was sold, minus the aforementioned borrowing fee. In the case of Valeant, short sellers have more than tripled their investment even with the costs of shorting factored in. Though it might appear that Valeant stock has hit rock bottom, interest in selling short continues to increase. With Pershing Square out of the picture, short interest has risen to 52 million shares ($583 mil-

lion), up from 29 million ($422 million) at the end of 2016. The fact that the increase in the overall value of shares is not proportional to the increased number of shares in play reflects the stock's ongoing decline. In February, the Jewish Voice reported that during a presentation before his hedge fund's annual investor dinner, Ackman noted that he is in the process of investing in two separate entities that he did not name them outright. The Post reported that one of them is valued at $436 million, or 4 percent of his fund’s $12 billion capital. Ackman noted that the investment in question had been acquired in late 2016. The second of Ackman's investments is much larger and involves 9 percent of his capital, or $981 million. The later was acquired in early January. Ackman noted that the first investment is in a “high-quality business that generates predictable, recurring cash flows” with a “best-in-class management team.” According to the Post, Ackman’s refusal to disclose the names of the companies outright is a testament to his caution in getting ahead of himself in response to his hedge fund's poor performance in recent years. Pershing was down by 13.5 percent in 2016 and 20.5 percent in 2015.

Airbnb to Go Public in 2018, Hints CEO By: Cameron Farnsworth

t a recent Economic Club of New York luncheon at the New York Stock Exchange, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky indicated that his company could launch an IPO as soon as next year. “We are halfway through the two-year process of getting ready to go public,” he said.

In February, Airbnb acquired the Montreal-based Luxury Retreats, a vacation rental company specializing in high-end accommodations

by leaps and bounds. The company has raised over $3 billion from investors since its inception in 2008, including over $1 billion this month alone. All this as city and state governments across the U.S. continue to pass legislation specifically to curtail their operations, and in some cases, are considering banning the service entirely. Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky In February, Airbnb acquired indicated that his company the Montreal-based Luxury could launch an IPO as soon Retreats, a vacation rental comas next year. “We are halfway pany specializing in high-end through the two-year process of getting ready to go public,” accommodations. Staying on the leading edge, he said. however, may require the AirbDespite an ongoing series of nb to diversify its services. Right legal hurdles—in New York, for now, it is primarily known as a instance, the law generally pro- service through which homehibits the leasing of residential owners lease (or renters sublet) spaces for less than a month— their homes in the short term for Airbnb is valued at over $30 a quick profit, and travelers can billion, and continues to grow find lodging at lower rates than

at traditional hotels. But Chesky sees his company as branching out into aviation, tourism, and other areas of travel, as with other vacation booking sites. “I want to sell end-to-end trips where the home will be the minority of what we do,” Chesky explained. One such example here in New York City is the launch, announced this week, of “Trips,” where Airbnb users can book neighborhood tours led by local residents that “go beneath the surface and help guests discover local treasures that typical guidebooks and tours might miss.” The first such tours are taking place in Harlem. Incidentally, Chesky noted that, during his latest visit to New York City, he rented—via Airbnb, of course—a Harlem brownstone.

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Despite Promising Debut, Snap Stock Hits New Low By: Tyler Jacobowitz

nap Inc., parent company of the popular Snapchat app, seemed poised to take the stock market by storm. Just one day after its $3.4 billion IPO at $17 per share, the company was listed on the New York Exchange where its stock price exceeded expectations, shooting up to $24. Add to that a cash infusion by NBC Universal to the tune of half a billion dollars, and the initial enthusiasm regarding this newest addition to the social media scene becomes understandable. As was reported last week in the Jewish Voice, Snap offered 200 million Class A shares, which do not include voting rights. The company, not wishing to dilute its power in decision making, has set up a three tier share structure. Class B shares carry one vote for each share. Founders Evan Spigel and Bobby Murphy will have the maximum voting rights with ownership of Class C shares, which carry 10 votes for each share. But after a brief honeymoon

company co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel is just 26 years old. Snap might not be sunk just yet, however. The company is now being evaluated by a dozen different bank analysts, and got a 3.5% boost Monday morning when it received its first “buy” rating. Monness Crespi Hardt recommended the stock to its investors, with a price target of $25. That recommendation wasn't without some reservations, with analyst James Cakmak cited in the New York Post as saying “We recognize that we After a brief honeymoon are potentially giving too much period, Snapchat’s stock credit for unproven skills in price dipped back down building a business, rather than below $20 last week amid just a product.” Nonetheless, he concerns over its unproven went on to speak of the combusiness model (viewed by investors as experimental), and pany's potential to outpace its competitors in terms of revenue largely untested corporate growth. leadership—company coSix of the analysts currently founder and CEO Evan covering Snap Inc. recommend Spiegel is just 26 years old. selling, five others give it a hold period, the company's stock rating. So for the moment, Cakprice dipped back down below mak would appear to be the $20 last week amid concerns only pro-Snap voice among over its unproven business them. If the the company's revmodel (viewed by investors as enue model proves itself viable, experimental), and largely un- however, he may simply be the tested corporate leadership— first of many.

Paul Singer Accuses Aluminum Company's Top Brass of Vote Buying By: Douglas Myers

illionaire investor Paul Singer is taking flack from Arconic (a manufacturer of metal parts for airplanes and automobiles) after accusing the company's top leadership of buying votes to secure their own position within the company. Singer, who back in February called for the removal of Arconic CEO Klaus Kleinfeld, was incensed by the company's announcement this week of an agreement with investment firm Oak Hill Advisors, a quid pro quo where Arconic absolved the firm of certain existing debts and Oak Hill agreed to vote with Arconic's management at shareholder meetings for the next two years.

Releasing those financial claims unilaterally was not management's prerogative, according to Singer's Elliot Management Corporation (EMC), and their failure to disclose the deal immediately constitutes a “breach of fiduciary duty” to their shareholders. On February 1st, Singer’s hedge fund, Elliot Management, sent a letter to shareholders of the aluminum producer, trying to unseat the company’s current CEO. “The consistent and growing disconnect between Dr. Kleinfeld’s rhetoric and the reality of the business’s performance adds to our and other shareholders’ serious concerns

Billionaire investor Paul Singer is taking flack from Arconic (a manufacturer of metal parts for airplanes and automobiles) after accusing the company's top leadership of buying votes to secure their own position within the company.

about management’s judgment and grasp of the business,” Dave Miller, portfolio manager of Elliott wrote in the letter. As reported by the NY Post, the letter came only a day after Arconic released its fourth -quarter earnings. Kleinfeld, defended his company’s performance saying, “I’m very happy that it’s doing so well”. “Let the facts speak,” Kleinfeld said, referring to the metal maker’s earnings. Releasing those financial claims unilaterally was not management's prerogative, according to Singer's Elliot Management Corporation (EMC), and their failure to disclose the deal immediately constitutes a “breach of fiduciary duty” to their shareholders. In a statement, EMC demanded an inspection of Arconic's financial records. While Aronic continues to resist efforts to oust Kleinfeld and other members of the executive

board, it is perhaps worth noting that Singer himself is famous for his tenacity. In 2016, he made headlines as one of a handful of “holdouts” to reach a tentative agreement with the Argentinian government over billions of dollars in sovereign debt going back 15 years. In fact, much of Singer's fortune was built on purchasing distressed debt from companies and national governments and going after them for payment. For this, critics have dubbed him a “vulture capitalist,” and EMC a “vulture fund.” Of course, even vultures play a much needed role in the ecosystem, or, as Singer himself put it, his way of doing business is simply “a fight against charlatans who refuse to play by the market’s rules.” When understood in those terms, his ongoing battle with Arconic, whose top leaders appear to be buying their own jobs at that shareholders' expense, is not only understandable, but laudable.

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Passover Cakes, Cookies and Ice Cream You can’t pass over these delicious desserts. By: Elizabeth Kurtz

akes, cookies, ice cream bars, all perfect for Passover. These delicious desserts are perfect for a sweet ending to a great Yom Tov meal, a morning treat, or a refreshing afternoon sweet tooth. They all can be made ahead of time and either frozen or refrigerated until ready to serve.

CHOCOLATE TEA CAKE

Serves 8 • ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder • 1 cup unsalted, roasted almonds, plus 2 tablespoons chopped • 7 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped • ½ cup olive oil • 1 teaspoon kosher salt • ¾ cup granulated sugar, divided • 4 large eggs, separated • 1 tablespoon sugar Preheat oven to 325°F. Lightly grease a 8½x4½" loaf pan with nonstick spray or oil. Pulse cocoa powder and 1 cup almonds in a food processor until very finely ground, about 1 minute. Microwave chocolate and ¼ cup water in a microwave-safe bowl in 15-second intervals (or heat in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water), stirring occasionally, until melted. Whisk in oil and salt, then almond mixture and half of granulated sugar, then egg yolks. Using an electric mixer on high speed, beat egg whites until frothy. With motor running, gradually add remaining granulated sugar; beat egg whites to firm peaks. Gently fold egg whites into chocolate mixture in 2 additions, folding just until incorporated each time. Scrape batter into prepared pan; top with chopped almonds and sugar. Bake cake until top is firm when gently pressed and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, 50–60 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and let cake cool in pan 15 minutes. Turn out onto rack and let cool completely. Do Ahead: Cake can be baked 4 days ahead. Store tightly wrapped at room temperature.

LEMON MOUSSE WITH CINNAMON CRUMB TOPPING AND FRUIT

Makes 8 Lemon Mousse • 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest • ½ cup fresh lemon juice • ½ cup (1 stick) chilled unsalted margarine, cut into pieces, divided • ½ cup sugar, divided • 4 large egg yolks • 1 large egg • ½ cup chilled pareve cream

spoon of sugar until finely ground (alternatively you could use about ½ cup ground walnuts and rolling pin until small chunks form; add to the mix with sugar). Take the nuts out of the food Cinnamon Crumb Topping walnuts. processor and place in separate bowl. Using the • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon In a large saucepan, melt the stick of margarine same processor, pulse the chopped chocolate with • ½ cup light brown sugar over very low heat. Add the brown sugar and co- 1 tablespoon sugar, until chopped into pieces of • 1/3 cup chopped pecans coa powder and whisk until smooth. Slowly driz- varied sizes, from coarse meal, to ¼-inch bits. • 1/3 cup chopped walnuts zle the egg and vanilla into the saucepan, whisk- Add chocolate to nuts and then mix in orange zest • 3 tablespoons margarine, softened • 2 tablespoons potato starch or matzo cake ing, until thickened, 2 minutes. Mix in the walnut (if using) and salt. mixture. Press the mixture into the prepared bakmeal ing dish in an even layer and refrigerate the cookie • 1 cup strawberries base for 30 minutes. • 1 cup blueberries Spread 1-1/2 pints of the ice cream over the For the mousse: Bring lemon zest and juice, ¼ cup margarine, and ¼ cup sugar to a simmer over cookie base and freeze for 2 hours. Reserve the medium heat in a medium saucepan, stirring to remaining ice cream for another use. In a medium saucepan, combine the chocodissolve sugar. Remove from heat. Whisk egg yolks, egg, and remaining ¼ cup late and pareve cream and the remaining 2 tablesugar in a small bowl until pale and thick, about spoons of margarine. Heat over very low and stir 2 minutes. Whisking constantly, slowly pour hot until the chocolate is melted and smooth. Let cool lemon mixture into egg mixture. Transfer back to room temperature. Pour melted chocolate over the ice cream and to saucepan and cook over medium-low heat, whisking constantly, until curd is thickened and spread it evenly. Freeze for 2 hours, until set. Cut whisk leaves a trail, about 5 minutes. Remove into small bars and serve. from heat and add remaining ¼ cup margarine, CHOCOLATE WALNUT TORTE CHOCOLATE WALNUT TORTE whisking until melted and curd is smooth. Transfer curd to a bowl and cover with plastic Using a mixer, beat egg whites until creamy This is a meringue torte so it's light and filled wrap, pressing directly onto surface. Chill until with chocolate and walnuts. It’s deceptively moist white and soft peaks are formed. Gradually add cold, at least 2 hours. and speckled (kinda tweedy) and has no flour or the remaining ½ cup sugar until egg whites are Whip cream in a small bowl to soft peaks and egg yolks. It’s gluten free too. I like it with some glossy and stiff, but not dry. gently fold into curd. Keep mousse chilled. Pour half of the chocolate mixture over the egg pareve whipped cream on top. For the crumble: In a medium bowl, combine whites and fold together. Repeat with remaining Serves 10-12 cinnamon, brown sugar, and both nuts. Add mar• 1 cup walnut pieces (or a full ½ cup of ground chocolate mixture and fold until thoroughly comgarine and potato starch/cake meal and work into walnuts) bined but do not overmix. mixture until it is sticking together with some Scrape the batter into pan and spread evenly. • ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar, divided clumps. Break it into crumbs. • 9 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped (or Bake for 25-30 minutes until the torte is puffed Preheat oven to 350°F. and golden brown on top. With a tester inserted in use semi-sweet) Pour crumble onto a baking sheet in a single the center should come out moist and with some • Zest of 1 small orange, optional layer. Bake for 12 – 18 minutes or until crumble melted chocolate stuck to it. • ⅛ teaspoon salt is lightly toasted. Run a knife around sides of pan before releas• 7 egg whites To serve: Place lemon mousse in decorative • ¼ teaspoon kosher for Passover cream of tar- ing the springform. The cake can be prepared up bowls. Spoon crumble and berries over mousse. to 3 days in advance and stored covered at room tar, if available, or omit Do Ahead: Lemon mousse and crumble can be temperature or frozen, well wrapped for up to 3 • Pareve whipped cream for topping made 3 days ahead. Store mousse in refrigerated, Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease the bottom and months. Defrost in the refrigerator and serve at covered. Store crumble in airtight container or in sides of a 9-inch springform pan. room temperature with whipped cream and fruit. freezer. Slice berries just before serving. In a food processor, pulse walnuts with 1 table(AISH.COM)

CHOCOLATE LAYERED ICE CREAM BARS

These are a fantastic treat on Passover. They taste sweet and salty and are a favorite for Yom Tov day meals. They are also great because they can be made weeks ahead of time and stored in the freezer, tightly covered. Defrost slightly before cutting. Makes 12-16 bars • ½ cup walnuts (2 ounces) • ¾ cup matzo farfel, toasted, and coarsely crumbled or ½ cup matzo cake meal • ½ cup broken Passover cookies or macaroons • 1 stick plus 2 tablespoons unsalted margarine, cut into tablespoons • ¼ cup packed dark brown sugar • ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder • 1 large egg, beaten • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract • 2 pints pareve Passover ice cream, (I like to use mint chocolate chip, chocolate chip or vanilla swirl), slightly softened or sorbet • 5 ounces dark chocolate, chopped • 2 tablespoons pareve whipping cream Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line an 8-by-8-inch baking dish with parchment paper, leaving a few inches of overhang all around. Spread the walnuts on a baking sheet and bake for about 5 minutes, until lightly toasted. Cool, chop and transfer to a large bowl. In a food processor, pulse the farfel until fine crumbs form; add to the walnuts. In a resealable plastic bag, crush the cookies/macaroons with a

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How a New World of Consumers Discovered Handmade Matzah Traditional shmurah matzah was still a rarity in post-WWII New York By: Dovid Margolin First in a two-part series on the dramatic growth in the use of handmade shmurah matzah in the last 60 years.

here’s nothing more pleasant on a cold New York winter’s day than the smell of freshly baking matzah wafting up the street. Outside the Lubavitch Matzah Bakery’s metal doors in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, sits the world as it is, cold and blustery; inside it is Passover. They have been baking handmade shmurah matzah since at least October, churning out the flaming discs to meet demand, which has grown dramatically in the last 60 years. In 2017, more than 1 million pounds of the traditional round variety will be produced in the United States alone. It was in 1954 that the Rebbe— Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—first began talking about the importance of eating authentic shmurah matzah, encouraging his followers to distribute it to every Jew they met. From New York to Boston and Chicago to Los An-

geles, early Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim began ordering matzah from the Lubavitcher matzah bakery in New York and giving it out in their respective Jewish communities. As the network of Chabad emissaries grew, so did the annual matzah distribution. Jews who had just a short time earlier not even known of the existence of shmurah matzah’ started to rely on it for their seder, forming new family customs. Today, far from being a niche product, handmade shmurah matzah can be found in national supermarket chains such as Costco, Pathmark, Jewel-Osco, Albertsons and Stop & Shop. As 81-year-old Brooklyn-born Tzal Rotter remembers, authentic shmurah matzah was once a rarity.

The Lower East Side to Brownsville Express At Primo Hatters, a blockand-a-half from the bakery in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, Rotter sits, the morning paper folded over his knee and a newsboy cap resting on his head at a jaunty angle. He grew up in the borough’s Brownsville

its twine string, they’d rush back to Brownsville with the round shmurah matzah, arriving home shortly before the holiday began. That evening, Rotter’s father would lead the seder with the special matzah. “There weren’t many people who used shmurah matzah,” Rotter says. “My friends, they mostly had boxed machine matzah: Streit’s or Manischewitz or whatever.” The sixth Rebbe—Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory—had arrived in New York from war-torn Europe in 1940, re-establishing his yeshi- As 81-year-old Brooklyn-born Tzal Rotter remembers, authentic vah in America. Eight years later, shmurah matzah was once a rarity. (Photo: Eliyahu Parypa/ in 1948, Rotter’s father trans- Chabad.org)

neighborhood, at the time a lower-middle-class Jewish neighborhood packed with immigrants and their American-born children. His father was a kosher butcher who had emigrated from Poland in 1928, and Rotter and his siblings spent the weeks before Passover helping their father in the butcher shop, packing orders and delivering them at night. “We had to take out the chicken pupiks [Yiddish for ‘gizzards’] without opening them up,” recalls Rotter. “Before Pesach, you had to do it very carefully—to clean it out so the chometz in the stomach didn’t get into the rest of the chicken.” On the eve of Passover, after finishing up the final holiday meat and poultry orders, Rotter’s father would close up shop and the two of them would make the long trip to Manhattan’s Lower East Side, taking a bus over the Williamsburg Bridge to get to the Poilisher handmade matzah bakery, a mom-and-pop shop run by Chassidic Jews of Polish stock. “I remember it being the only matzah bakery around,” says Rotter. “It was in a tiny house with a storefront, and the bakery was downstairs in the basement.” Packing up boxes of handmade shmurah matzah. (Photo: Carrying the box carefully by Eliyahu Parypa/Chabad.org)

ferred Tzal (short for Betzalel) to the Lubavitcher Yeshiva. “That was the first time I saw shmurah widely used, when I came to Lubavitch,” he says. “I was 12.”

A Bakery of Their Own

In 1954, Rabbi Yehoshua Korf, who passed away in 2007 at the age of 102, opened his shmurah matzah bakery at 109 Broome St. on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

In 2017, more than 1 million pounds of the traditional round variety will be produced in the United States alone.

Back in January 1950, two years after Rotter joined the Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s younger division, 20-year-old Rabbi Gedalya Korf arrived from Europe to join the older one. The Russian-born Korf had escaped from the Soviet Union together with his family in 1946, and after making it to a displaced persons

camp in Germany, the family landed in Paris. Korf reached New York at what proved to be a time of momentous change. Not long after disembarking Korf and a few fellow yeshivah students entered the sixth Rebbe’s office for a private audience, a day that turned out to be the last Sunday of the saintly rabbi’s life. R. Yosef Yitzchak passed away not a week later, on the 10th of the Jewish month of Shevat, which that year corresponded to Jan. 28. One year later, on the first anniversary of R. Yosef Yitzchak’s passing, his sonin-law, the Rebbe, formally accepted leadership of the Chabad movement. Korf remembers only two shmurah matzah bakeries in operation at the time, both on the Lower East Side and catering to a small Orthodox clientele, primarily Chassidic Jews. “The Rebbe Rayatz [a Hebrew acronym for R. Yosef Yitzchak] received his matzah from the Poilisher bakery,” recalls Korf. On the morning of the eve of Passover, a delegation of yeshivah students would take the subway to the bakery and personally prepare the sixth Rebbe’s matzahs. In 1953, Korf’s parents and sibSee How a New World, page 37

Uniting a Community Through Torah Bukharian Jewish Leaders Meet, Lay Groundwork for new North American rabbinate By: Daniel Perez

n historic gathering took place on Sunday (9 Shevat/February 5) at Yeshiva Ohel Simcha in Kew Gardens Hills, wherein some of the New York Bukharian community's leading rabbis and askanim met to discuss the future of their community, not just in Queens, but throughout North America. The meeting opened with divrei Torah and words of encouragement (in Hebrew—all of the day's proceedings were conducted in the Holy Tongue) by the Rav of Ohel Simcha, Rabbi Yigal Haimoff. Rabbi Ilan Meirov, who along with his brother Yaniv directs CHAZAQ, the Queens-based Jewish outreach organization whose positive influence has resonated most strongly with Bukharian public school students, explained the reason for the conference: “The purpose of

this event is to get everyone in the Bukharian community on the same page. Baruch Hashem the community is growing, both in numbers in terms of religious observance, and in terms of political activism, and by having this agudah (union) we assure that the community is getting the proper guidance in both a spiritual and physical sense.” The Borough of Queens, which is home to the largest Bukharian Jewish community in North America, boasts a population in the range of 50 to 60 thousand. Other communities exist in Canada, and throughout the United States, with the largest such group outside New York having settled in Phoenix, Arizona. And while those kehillot weren't represented at the Ohel Simcha meeting in person (those in attendance were primarily from the New York City metro area), delegates informed us that leaders in those communities were consulted prior to the meeting and have lent

their endorsement. “Everyone has their own viewpoints, and we respect each other's viewpoints,” says Meirov. “But we want to find a common ground, to work together, to take this community to the next level, over the next ten years, b'ezrat Hashem.” The primary function of this

new rabbinical council, he explained, is to establish religious policy in a highly fractured community. There is currently no beit din (rabbinical court) catering specifically to the Bukharian Jewish community, but “that's what's going to be formalized in the very near future.” At the meeting, discussion occasionally became heated as stringent new guidelines were

HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yisraeli shlita, whose appointment as chief rabbi of the new Bukharian Rabbinical Council was ratified by representatives of numerous Bukharian communal institutions on Sunday.

pronounced for anyone in the community to receive authorization to administer or officiate gerut (conversions to Judaism), kiddushin (marriages), or gittin (divorce documents). Rabbi Meirov envisions an office where all the community's religious records are centralized and organized, so that these and other major life events affecting one's status on the community can be verified by the proper institutions when needed. In any case, one of accomplishments of this meeting of the (halakhic) minds was to set a new standard that everyone in the Jewish community could rely upon, resting easy with the knowledge that these matters are being conducted in a Torah-compliant manner. Another goal of the weekend gathering was to reaffirm the community's support for Rabbi Yitzchak Yisraeli as the newly acclaimed mara d'asra—that is to say, their uncontested spiritual leader and final arbiter on matters of Jewish law. “Rabbi Yisraeli merited learning by leading Sep-

Yeshiva Ohel Simcha, the site of the historic meeting

hardic rabbis such as Rav Benzion Abba Shaul and Rav Ovadia Yossef zt”l, and he brings Torah and mussar (ethical teachings) that will without a doubt bring about positive change in the community,” declared Meirov. Furthermore, prominent members of the Israeli rabbanut have been consulted, and stand poised to officially recognize Rabbi Yisraeli See Uniting a Community , page 36

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When Can Haughtiness be Good? Vayakhel-Pikudei 5777 By: Rabbi David Bibi

e have often heard the complaint that the children of the community think they are special. Critics note that among the youth there is a sense of haughtiness and pride. This they find unacceptable, typically quoting Maimonides where he states that “There are certain character traits which a person is forbidden to accustom himself in, even in moderation. Rather, he must distance himself to the opposite extreme. One such trait is haughtiness. For the ideal path is not that one be humble alone; he must be lowly of spirit and exceedingly unassuming.

My mother would remind us that as a Gindi, she was the daughter of a Kohen and although we ourselves were not priests, we still descended from Aaron HaKohen and Pinchas ben Elazar his grandson and zealot; their blood flowing in our veins But can there be a good haughtiness? Where does one draw the line between positive self-esteem and pride? We all know that self-esteem is a very important ingredient for a successful and happy life. A person can be blessed with intelligence and talent but if he or she lacks self-esteem, this can be an ob-

stacle in achieving success in a job, a relationship and in virtually every area of life. When can one have an elevated heart? We discussed this in class this morning based on a class by Rabbi Pinches Friedman and I recalled that my mother may she be blessed, worked diligently to build our self-confidence and she continues to do so. As children we heard in Synagogue that we should never forget that our father’s family descended from the Davidic dynasty. I had to remember that I was a child not only of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I was the son of Judah, of Nachshon who with deep faith stepped into the sea until it split, of David who slew Goliath and wrote Psalms and of Solomon the father of Wisdom and author of Song of Songs, Kohelet and Proverbs. My mother would remind us that as a Gindi, she was the daughter of a Kohen and although we ourselves were not priests, we still descended from Aaron HaKohen and Pinchas ben Elazar his grandson and zealot; their blood flowing in our veins. My dad would temper the fact that we were born with the crowns of Royalty and Priesthood with the reminder that we must earn on our own the crown of Torah. As young adults our group of friends knew that we were special. There was a sense of communal pride, a level of camaraderie and a feeling that there was no place better. We made friends with Saudi princes who had more money and things

than we could even imagine, but it was they who wanted to be with us. I had a friend who was a Kennedy, true American royalty and wealth, but again, we were the cool ones. We knew actors, famous designers, athletes and models, but we felt we had the good life; a life far better than anything out there.

mon practice of the world is to first make a house, and afterwards one puts the utensils in it.’ Moses responded, As you said is what I heard from the mouth of Hashem.’ Moses then compliments his student using a play on his name explaining, ‘you were in G-d’s shadow (be’tzal El), for indeed,

We know that the walls of the Mishkan were made from shittim or cedar wood and the Torah lists “atzei shittim” among the items that were to be donated to the Mishkan

What is the source of this pride? We read in the second perasha this week the portion of Pekudei, “ Betzalel … did all that Hashem commanded Moshe.” How does Betzalel know all that Hashem told Moses? This verse implies that even regarding matters which Moses had not related to him, Betzalel was able to figure out. Rashi explains, Moses commanded Betzalel to make the utensils first and the Mishkan afterwards. Betzalel said to him, ‘The com-

that is what Hashem commanded me.’ And that is what he (Betzalel) did.” It makes sense that one builds the house first and then builds the furniture. The house is more than a place for furniture. The house protects us from the world outside as the Mishkan protects the Jewish people and our Kedusha from the nations of the world. We know that the walls of the Mishkan were made from shittim or cedar wood and the Torah lists “atzei shittim” among

the items that were to be donated to the Mishkan . Again we turn to Rashi who asks where one gets shittim or cedar wood in the desert? Rashi answers, that Yaakov Avinu planted “shittim” trees in Egypt, and when he was dying, he commanded his sons to take them up with them when they would depart from Egypt. He told them that Hashem would command them in the future to make a Mishkan of “shittim” wood in the midbar. See to it that you should have them ready at hand. The Zohar explains that Jacob went to the trouble of planting cedar-trees in Egypt so that it would be his kedushah that would serve as the middle bar, bridging the beams—that were made from the very trees that he had planted— from one end to the other. And this leaves us with another challenging question of why Yaakov planted cedars in Egypt in anticipation of the building of the Mishkan. This is seemingly surprising. For, we find a passuk that explicitly associates the cedar with haughtiness with regard to the Parah Adumah, the red heifer. “There shall be taken two live, pure birds, cedar wood, a crimson tongue of wool, and hyssop”. Rashi explains: “Cedar wood, because afflictions come because of haughtiness. Crimson wool and hyssop, because what is required for his remedy and cure? He should lower himself from his arrogance like a worm and like a hyssop.”

That being the case, why did Yaakov plant trees for the Mishkan that symbolize haughtiness? Let us suggest an explanation. When Yaakov was preparing to go down to Egypt, where immorality was prevalent, he became gravely concerned. He wondered how his children would maintain their sense of morality during the exile in Egypt. Therefore, he devised the plan to plant cedar trees in Egypt, in order to inculcate in Yisrael a sense of haughtiness related to kedushah. Thus, they would not be ashamed on account of their names, their language or their dress, when confronted by the Egyptians. There is a verse in Divrei HaYamim describing the King Yehoshafat – Vayigbah Libo – And his heart was elevated in the ways of Hashem. We can understand that there is a time when one needs an elevated heart. The lesson of Jacob being, that by emulating the tall proud cedars his great grandchildren would succeed in maintaining their kedushah – their holiness in Egypt. I would venture to say that we live today in a world which closely resembles Egypt. The draw towards society, fame and wealth can be irresistible. How does one compete in a realm where the grass is always greener next door? Rabbi Friedman explains that we should not mistakenly believe that since the Mishkan has been concealed away, the wall See When Can Haughtiness , page 36

Still Loving Every Jew – Special Memories of Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, a’h By: Moshe Mordechai Zalman Shulman

here was no one in the world greater than Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis A"H in my humble opinion. On paper the Rebbetzin's accomplishments were beyond compare. A Holocaust survivor who instead of letting the holocaust defeat her, defeated as it were the Holocaust, by bringing thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people back to G-d, building a magnificent family that bear the names of the holy Rabbis and Rebbetzins of her family who sanctified G-d's Name in the mentionable horrors of the holocaust, and who did kindness to those same thousands upon thousands and tens of thousands more. Entire families were saved from assimilation by G-d through the Rebbetzin. That's on paper, yet the person

the Rebbetzin A"H was actually far greater in person. Is it even possible one could think, to be greater. Yes the Rebbetzin A"H was greater in person. The more one got to know the Rebbetzin A"H the more one saw how genuine her love was, how heartfelt, how much she truly cared. The Rebbetzin must have emailed me hundreds upon hundreds of times just letting me know that everything was going to be alright. That G-d is with me, and there is nothing to fear ever. At just the right times I would see an email from 4 in the morning or 3 something in the morning, saying "Dear Moishele, never fear G-d is with you!" "Blessings and Love, Rebbetzin" — even thinking about it now makes me want to cry. The Rebbetzin was not only Klal Yisrael's Bubbe, she was the Bubbe of each person in Klal Yisrael even more so! I never met someone with such aston-

above, and seeing our plight on earth in the way that she would have wanted to if she could have had such nearly unlimited sight on earth. Don't believe me? I will give you a for instance. My friend a great Rabbi who is full of joy at all times, and does tremendous chesed, sincere chesed, drove me to the Rebbetzin A"H's Shiva home. And home again too. It was told to me later by him, that he had 2 or 3 dreams of the Rebbetzin whom he had never met or seen before appearing to him in his dreams telling him thank you, and also relaying to him a The more one got to know the Rebbetzin A"H the more one saw request to help me in a certain how genuine her love was, how heartfelt, how much she truly personal area. He seemed just cared. as surprised as I was, but it was ishing sensitivity, combined with and seemingly unstoppable, so a sign of the Rebbetzin's unconsuch genius, a heart that was so unstoppable that it seemed im- ditional love and care extending good and loving, so loving, that possible that death would ever from the Heaven's above. The it melted everyone's heart who take her, in fact I know it hasn't. Rebbetzin saw my friend drive I know she is still with us, me to the Shiva home. The Rebheard her words, with a mind that was also so powerful and even more so than ever before, betzin knew what I needed help keen. Her energy was infectious praying for us in the Heaven's with.

Undoubtedly she knows what all of us know, and all the more so the Almighty G-d Who loves us beyond unconditionally and with such love that even the Rebbetzin's love, as infinite and beyond compare as it was, it is even infinite and beyond compare to that. May we smile and know that we are being well taken care of, and may we live life in the way that would make the Rebbetzin truly proud, and life the way that Hashem our beloved Father in Heaven, truly wants us to live, and make Him the most proud! Thank you so much. May the Rebbetzin, Esther bas Avraham HaLevi Jungreis ZT"L be in the highest level of Gan Eden, and may we greet her in Yerushalayim speedily in our days, with Moshiach Tzidkeinu please Hashem, please, soon, very soon, please Hashem, please.

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Falk’s cover endorsement of a virulently anti-Semitic book entitled “The Wandering Who” was condemned by the British Foreign Office. 6) Falk Accused Israel of Planning “Palestinian Holocaust” In 2007, Falk accused Israel of planning a “Palestinian Holocaust.” 7) U.N. Chief Condemned Falk for 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Falk has become one of the world’s most high-profile supporters of 9/11 conspiracy theorists, lending his name to those who accuse the U.S. government of orchestrating the destruction of the Twin Towers as a pretext to launch wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He promotes the writings of David Ray Griffin, a disciple and close friend of Mr. Falk who has produced 12 books describing the World Trade Center attack as “an inside job.” Falk contributed the Foreword to Griffin’s 2004 book “The New Pearl Harbor,” where he praised the author’s “patience,” “fortitude,” “courage,” and “intelligence.” In turn, Griffin credits Falk for getting the book published. Falk has repeatedly appeared on the “TruthJihad.com” show of Kevin Barrett, a 9/11 conspiracy theorist and Holocaust skeptic who rails against the “ethnic Jews” who he says run Washington and the media, a show on which Falk has endorsed Barrett’s “good work” while also

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icaid as their primary insurance provider. For emergency room visitations, that number rose to 80%. The problem with treating mostly Medicaid patients, it turns out, is that health insurance programs for low-income people doesn’t cover the full costs that arrive after care has been given. This is as opposed to more privately run New York

City hospitals where 36% of patients were uninsured or used Medicaid with the number increasing to 58% for emergency room visits. This has all led to a possible $1.8 billion budget deficit for public hospitals in 2020. Those speaking for the Health and Hospitals program have dismissed any financial loss issues, stating that it’s simply a matter of bad timing regarding payments involving

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The Trump administration told the Free Beacon it is fully committed to voting against "every resolution" targeting Israel and that it will encourage allies to do the same. "The argument that the U.S. has to participate in bodies like the United Nations Human Rights Council or risk losing our influence over it is ridiculous," said one senior administration official familiar with the boycott. "The UNHRC is, like its predecessor, morally bankrupt and the

only good news is that its actions have little practical effect in the real world. We've wasted enough time and money on it." The declaration signals a vast departure from the Obama administration, which, in its final days in office, helped craft and garner support for a fiercely anti-Israel resolution. The Obama administration's efforts, which were widely condemned by Israel and U.S. pro-Israel groups, broke with decades of U.S. policy when it promoted this effort. Newly installed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated recent-

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casualties and inflict significant economic damage, as well as generate overwhelming media coverage,” the TSA statement said. Airlines were notified of the increased security measures Tuesday and have until Friday to comply. No end date was included in the order, meaning it will extend indefinitely. Several British airlines will be impacted by the British ban — including British Airways and low-cost carrier Easyjet as well

as package-vacation carriers Thomas Cook and Thomson. The British ban affects in-bound flights from Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. It is unclear why the U.S. and British bans do not exactly match when it comes to the airports and countries included. No U.S. airline is impacted by the U.S. electronics ban — none fly direct to any of the countries listed by the Department of Homeland Security, which warns militants are seeking "innovative methods" to bring

Temporary Ramp Built an alleviate the problems that the construction has created. According to the NYT, “The the ramp, said Schwartz. He explained that the ramp was one managers had already moved the of the “dramatic changes” made taxi stands away from the front by the project’s managers to try of the central terminal to imContinued from page 5

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praising Iranian tyrant Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In 2011, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took the floor of the Human Rights Council to issue an unprecedented condemnation of Mr. Falk’s 9/11 remarks, saying they were “preposterous” and “an affront to the memory of the more than 3,000 people who died in that tragic terrorist attack.” U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice denounced Falk’s 9/11 remarks as “despicable and deeply offensive,” condemned his “one-sided and politicized approach,” deplored his comments for being “so noxious that it should finally be plain to all that he should no longer continue in his position,” and noted that “the cause of human rights will be better advanced without Mr. Falk and the distasteful sideshow he has chosen to create.

the government and rules for their accounting which count costs not involving cash, such as depreciation. According to them, the hospital will still be able to decrease a gap in its budget by $770 million by adding to its revenues while decreasing costs. Apparently another $270 projected as a loss is instead, "noncash costs that do not impact system operations.” These include depreciation and the non-current part of pensions and post-employment benefits. ly that the United States intends boycott the UNHRC until it implements much needed reforms, chiefly its anti-Israel bias. The latest move is meant to bolster this policy and send a message that the UNHRC's bias against Israel must cease before the U.S. considers the group legitimate. The Trump administration intends to vote against every U.N. resolution against Israel and will urge other nations to do the same, according to officials. The administration also is pushing other nations to criticize the UNHCR's anti-Israel bias and promote significant reforms.

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as head rabbi of North American Bukharian Jewry. “The key thing is that political representation from now on for the Bukharian community will be through this rabbanut, religious representation will be through this rabbanut, everything will be through this rabbanut, and no other person or organization can say that they are representing the Bukharians anymore, besides this newly-formed

the Bukharian community, and one can't help but be excited to see the extent to which this commoetzet of the Bukharian community will continue to develop munity led by Rav Yisraeli, which and thrive under Rabbi Yisraeli's is nearly unanimously accepted benevolent guidance and, it goes without saying, a little help from by all Bukharian Rabbis.” In a Jewish ethnic community above. so beset by factions, the attempt Daniel Perez is a freelance to establish a new centralized authority isn't without potential pit- writer and editor based in Brookfalls. But the organizers pushing lyn, whose work has been feafor this new rabbinical council tured in dozens of publications have clearly done their home- and media outlets, including the work. Their aims appear noble, Jewish Press and Israel's Arutz and this latest meeting demon- Sheva News Service. Mr. Perez strated an emphasis on leading can be reached at Daniel@Perezby consensus. It is a new day for Consulting.org.

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offered a senior cabinet post, but with just six seats the group would remain three short of a plurality. Neither side would consider joining forces with the Joint List. Which leaves the center-left Yesh Atid party, headed by Yair Lapid. In many ways Lapid is a natural coalition partner for Herzog: Their parties share views about peace negotiations with the Palestinians, center-left economic visions and social policies and more. However, the personal competition between the two leaders is unlikely to bear fruit. Neither is thrilled about the prospect of working with the other: Many observers and political insiders, including some close to the Herzog’s Labor Party establishment, regard the former television talkshow host as a political

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novice with a pretty face but little substance to offer. Sources close to Yesh Atid have told this reporter that Herzog “does not have what it takes” to lead the country, often is particularly unflattering terms. But Lapid has been working methodically over the course of the current administration to present himself as a sort of “shadow” foreign minister, in an attempt to show both Israeli voters and to the international community not only that he is a viable alternative to Netanyahu, but also to illustrate something of what his administration would look like in action. As a result, both men would likely see themselves as the leader of a partnership and demand the prime minister’s chair, hardly a recipe for a successful coalition. Even more importantly, polls published in recent weeks show

Yesh Atid scoring well over 20 seats were elections held now, with Likud taking a hit, and Labor (Zionist Camp) falling sharply, possibly to single digits. That gives Yesh Atid party little incentive to join a Herzog-led coalition with the ultra-Orthodox parties, for the simple reason that participating in that coalition would likely cost the party votes in the next election. All of which leads to the following scenario: Netanyahu wants to avoid early elections but can’t afford to oust Kahlon from the coalition. Herzog wants to avoid early elections but can’t necessarily convince his party to join a government headed by Netanyahu. Kahlon wants to avoid early elections and would likely join a government headed by either Netanayhu or Herzog, but that is unlikely to emerge because Yair Lapid won’t do anything to enable elections as long as his star appears to be on the rise. (TPS)

Halevi said the Tourism Ministry is planning a similar pop-hotel for Jerusalem’s Old City. Meanwhile, Israel’s incoming The initiative is part of the Two Continued from page 27 Cities One Break campaign that tourism figures rose some 20 perbeen huge interest in the life- encourages tourism to Tel Aviv cent in the first months of 2017 as compared to the same timeframe guard tower campaign, which and Jerusalem. The temporary lifeguard hotel in 2016. has received more than 300 mil“The dramatic increase teachlion views and more than a mil- in Tel Aviv will be taken down in es us that Israel is seen as an atlion clicks since the campaign two weeks. But for tourists who missed tractive and varied tourism desbegan. “Creativity is the name of the game in the world of mar- out on the Tel Aviv contest, there’s tination,” said Tourism Minister Yariv Levin. no need to fret. keting,” he said. (ISRAEL 21C)

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down jets amid concerns that bombs will be hidden in laptops. A U.S. intelligence official dismissed claims by some security experts that the ban is as much politics-led as security-informed. He told VOA: “The ban is reflective of how sophisticated al-Qaida is becoming in the next generation of devices their bomb-makers are trying to develop.” U.S. intelligence agencies have long been focused on militants in the Middle East exploring a new generation of non-metallic explosives unlikely to be detected by current airport security equipment. prove the flow of traffic, he said. They also renamed the waiting areas that had been called ‘cellphone lots,’ he said, because some people mistook them for places where mobile-phone reception was particularly strong. Now they are simply called waiting areas, he said.”

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of kedushah provided by the beams of the Mishkan no longer protects the Jewish home and family. The Torah emphasizes the point that they – the shittim beams will remain standing for all eternity. In every generation, it is imperative that we follow in the footsteps of our forefather Yaakov, who planted cedar trees in Egypt. He did so to teach us to remain strong and steadfast in the ways of the Torah that

was handed down to us—like the cedar. And like the cedars to be proud of who we are, where we come from and what we have. Rabbi Abittan z’sl often reminded us of Benjamin Disraeli’s response to the taunts of his Jewish roots by Daniel O’Connell , “Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon”.

A healthy dose of self-confidence, a bit of haughtiness and pride, a reminder that we are the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, of Moses and Aaron, of David and Solomon, of great scholars throughout the ages. Oh yes, we are very special, and none are as special as us. We are the Chosen people because we Chose and accepted the Torah. We need to be reminded and remember and if we do, we will confidently remain separate from the goyim and their ways. My mom taught me that. I hope my children teach their children the same.

arrangement for Syria as long as doesn’t include the permanent presence of Iran or one of its March 9 to discuss Iran’s aspira- proxies near the Israeli border. Continued from page 16 The prime minister and Detions to establish dominion over message to Russian President parts of Syria, including plans to fense Minister Liberman have reVladimir Putin that Israel will act construct a naval base at Latakia, peatedly stated that Israel will not to block weapons shipments and following the conclusion of the permit Iran to transfer advanced weaponry to Hezbollah and will not tolerate Iranian involve- civil war. Netanyahu told Putin that Is- would act to defend the country’s ment near the Syria-Israel border. Netanyahu met with Putin on rael does not oppose any political security. (TPS)

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sold, stay in Israel,” says Yemini, whose previous ventures include ZAG Industries (bought by A second product, Shine, a Stanley Black & Decker), Hydro hair conditioning device utiliz- Industries (bought by Suncast) ing the same technology, is set and Polymer Logistics. He’s also for global release following reg- on the board of hot startups ulatory approval later this year. Aquarius Engines and Nano The company is also developing Dimension. additional applications of its ParaSonic technology platform. TechCare plans to open an ParaSonic has developed a office in New Jersey. The head- patented comb-like device feaquarters and manufacturing will turing rows of teeth made of remain in Israel. “All the com- electrical creosote ceramic mapanies I invest in, even when terial that produces ultrasonic

waves meant to destroy head lice and their eggs in a single combing. The mechanism does not allow for the lice to develop resistance as they do to chemicals. The company, based on a patented IP by entrepreneur Mor Cohen, was incubated in 2014 at NGT3 in Nazareth and has raised $1.6 million from a private American investor on top of 3 million from NGT3 and the Israeli Innovation Authority. “When Mor approached us with the idea, we did due diligence and learned the market

is very large and there is a great need for better alternatives,” says Zohar Gendler, CEO of NGT3. “There are many techniques for destroying lice, but destroying eggs is complicated and destroying both is even more complicated.” ParaSonic is managed by former fighter pilot David Tavor, former CEO of companies including CURE Medical, Hadas Natural Products, and Fluorinex, which was acquired last year by Colgate. Tavor expects a “reasonable”

regulatory pathway for ParaSonic’s device. “We are in the process of completing clinical trials at Herzliya Medical Center. In parallel to the trial, we redesigned the device and we estimate that at the end of June we’ll be able to proceed toward production of prototypes and be in the market by the first quarter of 2018,” he tells ISRAEL21c. “We’ll focus on Israel and the US initially and have started the process of getting FDA and CE approvals. Interest is enormous.”

business ideas which the Rebbe advised against. When he informed the Rebbe that an opportunity had come up to open a bakery and asked whether that was the path for him, the Rebbe immediately gave his blessings. In 1954, Korf opened his shmurah matzah bakery at 109 Broome St. on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. “I was more than involved” in helping to set up the bakery, recalls his son, Rabbi Gedalya Korf. Although it, too, was a small bakery, the younger Korf began implementing a number of innovations. He set the bakery up with distinct zones, starting

with the room where the flour and water are mixed, followed by the rolling station, and lastly, the oven for the baking. He also built separate rooms for the flour and water, each containing a window, with the mixing area situated between them. These innovations, which streamlined and simultaneously ensured a more kosher baking process, were subsequently adopted by other matzah bakeries and are today industry standards. Although Korf ’s shmurah matzah bakery was a private business, for Lubavitchers— many of whom had risked their lives in Soviet Russia for the sake of baking and consuming the ancient food of faith—it became a community institution.

Finally, they had a matzah bakery of their own—one they did not have to keep hidden from persecuting authorities and prying neighbors, an American coming-of-age for a movement scarred by Russia. Korf was a respected Chassid who throughout his long life served as a mentor within the Chabad community. After his bakery opened, Korf ’s punctilious attention to halachic strictures quickly became widely known. According to Rabbi Pesachya Korf, the famed Rabbi Moshe Feinstein—one of the foremost halachic arbiters of the 20th century—insisted on purchasing his personal matzah from Korf ’s bakery. In the spring of 1954, not

long after Korf ’s bakery opened, the Rebbe began publicly speaking about the importance of distributing round, handmade shmurah matzah. Chabad emissaries, at the time still small in numbers but already widely scattered geographically, took the Rebbe’s words to heart and began handing out the crispy, irregularly shaped matzahs (since they are made by hand, each one comes out looking different, as opposed to the square machine type, which are all uniform). The Rebbe’s insistence that shmurah matzah be made available around the country emerged in curious ways. In one notable example, the Rebbe arranged that Chabad’s central educational organization, Merkos

L’Inyonei Chinuch, pay for Korf ’s shmurah matzah advertisements in Chicago through the Chabad emissary there at the time, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Hecht. The Lubavitch Matzah Bakery, now owned and operated by Rabbi Yitzchak Tenenbaum, moved to the Crown Heights in the late 1960s, and this year will have produced north of 100,000 pounds of matzah. Today, a half-century since opening as the first shmurah matzah bakery to look outside the confines of the Chassidic community, it continues its mission: supplying Jews of all backgrounds with the food of faith—the same round matzah their ancestors once ate.

along us with their self-fashioned riding prosthetics. Over the course of five days we met some incredibly inspiring people both young & old, toured Masada & the Dead Sea area, a few even rode from the Dead Sea’s -430.5m elevation (-1,412 ft) up to Jerusalem where we all spent an engaging Shabbat with the company of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (yes, even he rode!). The ride was organized by Shoshana Dessler-Jacobs and

Sam Waldman of the Next Step (‫)אבה דעצה‬, a division of the Israel Medical Fund, a non-profit organization strongly dedicated to helping Israelis of all ages and backgrounds facing such challenges. They both advocate for, directly help amputees obtain advanced prosthetics and undertake the critical role of providing rehabilitation, both physical and mental for those coping with these disabilities and the social support crucial to that task.

Approximately 1,600 people undergo amputation in Israel annually. Limb loss refers to any level of amputation: partial finger to full upper and/or lower extremity. While limb loss is mostly an orthopedic issue, it often results in full disability and affects normal family and social status. The exorbitant cost of prosthetics is also prohibitive to most families struggling with the regular household burdens. And that’s before therapy.

Rehabilitation is no “walk in the park” either. While the ride took most six hours to completeone can now begin to appreciate what it means for Osnat whom faces six hours of grueling therapy sessions every day (and for the foreseeable future). Isaac B. a cyclist hailing from NYC reminisces fondly about the final section of the ride, when forced to do roadside repairs due to mechanical issues, he looked up and caught a glimpse of a

smiling Ofer Shtal flying by and overtaking him shortly before the finish line. But it didn’t matter because, at the end of the day, they were all winners in their shared mission to help others in need.

spent. The UN’s own Internal Audit Division found virtually no oversight of usage of funds that have been given to UNHRC’s various partners. The U.S. voluntary contributions for unspecified purposes is far larger than any other country. It should be pared way back, pending a complete examination and approval of the UN’s refugee vetting program and UNHRC’s oversight mechanisms. Starting in 2020, the more “developed” countries, including the United States, are supposed

to contribute collectively $100 billion a year to a UN Climate Fund. The U.S. could find itself paying about $22 billion a year into this unaccountable UN fund, if a formula similar to that used to calculate the U.S.'s regular UN budget assessment is utilized. As one of his last acts as president, Barack Obama pledged half a billion dollars to the UN climate fund as sort of a down payment. The Trump administration should cancel Obama’s pledge and make it clear that the U.S.

has no intention of contributing the many billions of dollars the UN will be looking for from the United States starting three years from now. A 2014 report by the UN’s own Office of Internal Oversight Services found a “persistent pattern of peacekeeping operations not intervening with force when civilians are under attack.” Little has changed since the report was issued, as evidenced by UN peacekeepers in South Sudan doing nothing to stop South Su-

danese troops from attacking civilians last year. Whistleblowers have been silenced. Mid-level people have been scape goated, while senior management has been shielded from any real accountability.

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ly hatched lice and to prevent reinfestation. The kit, containing the cap, machine and four capsules, will sell for about $49, while a pack of four capsules will be $12-$15. On March 1, Yemini and TechCare COO Arbel presented their Novokid product to investors at The Wall Street Conference in Florida.

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lings crossed the Atlantic to settle in New York. His father, Rabbi Yehoshua Korf, who passed away in 2007 at age 102, was born in Kremenchug, Ukraine, and educated in underground Chabad yeshivahs throughout the Soviet Union. (He served as director of the secret yeshivah in Kharkov in 1929, before it was closed due to pressure from authorities). Not long after moving to New York, the elder Korf decided to open a business. According to his grandson, Rabbi Pesachya Korf, the elder Korf approached the Rebbe with a number of

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where camaraderie and friendly words typically provide the encouragement to push through the sheer physical exertion, Shlomi Aiger, Michael Kasanelson and Ofer Shtal —all amputees— physically helped push along some of the struggling riders at the back of the pack as they rode

No More Gravy Train budget of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Human Rights. This should not al-Hussein, has on more than be repeated while Zeid al-Husone occasion attacked President sein remains in charge. Trump for pursuing policies In 2015, the United States resulting in what he reckless- made $150,300,000 in voluntary ly claimed were human rights contributions to the Office of the abuses and violations of interna- United Nations High Commistional law. In 2016 alone, the U.S. sioner for Refugees (UNHCR) made a voluntary contribution of without any specific direction $17,439,877 towards funding the as to how the money should be Continued from page 20

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Peskov added that Russia had never been involved in any illegal state-sponsored hacking. "We have said repeatedly that there can be no discussion of any official involvement of any Russian office, including the FSB (Federal Security Service), being involved in any unlawful cyber activities," said Peskov.

Better days gone Trump’s victory in the November election was heralded by many here as an opportunity, after years of deeply antagonistic relations with the Obama administration, a chance for a Trump White House

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to cooperate with the Kremlin on a host of issues – including Syria and the fight against terror. Even sanctions relief over Russia’s actions in Ukraine was considered within the realm of possible. Yet the continued and open-ended investigation into Russian interference in U.S, elections has Russian officials acknowledging the tough road ahead. "It's doubtful to consider [the hearings] a constructive in the development of joint relations," noted Peskov, speaking Tuesday in Moscow. Time and again, Russian officials have portrayed the Congressional investigations as attempts

by Trump's enemies in Washington to derail the president’s calls for improved U.S.-Russian relations at any cost. Continued from page 39 President Trump appeared to acknowledge the potential con• #46 among public institustraints the election scandal pre- tions nationally sented to détente with Moscow • #78 nationally during his first official news conUS News & World ference last month. "Probably Putin assumes that Report: Marxe he’s not going to be able to make School of Public and a deal with me because it’s politi- International Affairs cally not popular for me to make a deal," said Trump. Kremlin officials appear to agree. They openly quote from President Trump’s own tweets on the matter, calling the continued focus on Russia “paranoia”, and a “witch hunt” reminiscent of the red-baiting McCarthy era during the Cold War.

Magazine Names Baruch For the 2018 edition, US News reposted its 2017 rankings list released in 2016. The next ranking cycle is expected in 2020. In the 2017 list, Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs, now renamed the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, garnered top rankings in

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All three were unsuccessful. Lesser cites “Lou’s insufficient Jewishness” as part of the probaround the world. The wider lem at Mikveh Israel: “He could Continued from page 21 Jewish world took notice. Kahn’s not conceal . . . his own lack of ish Community Center. Finally, projects included a new sanctu- religious education.” Bizarrely, in the early 1960s, his design for ary for the historic Philadelphia Kahn used Christian terminolothe Salk Institute for Biological congregation Mikveh Israel, the gy during discussions, calling the Studies in La Jolla, California, restoration of Jerusalem’s ruined sanctuary a church and the sukHurva synagogue, and the de- kah a chapel. When he lost that brought him major success. Soon, Louis Kahn Archi- sign of a Holocaust memorial in commission, his daughter Sue Ann called it “one of the greatest tects was doing prestigious jobs New York City.

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with two additional monoclonal antibodies, Prof. Yarden successfully inhibited cancer cell proliferation in a mouse model of lung cancer, and slowed overall tumor growth. This “triple antibody” methodology may someday form the basis of tailor-made, personalized strat-

egies for combating cancer in humans. An alumnus of the Weizmann Institute who completed his PhD in 1985, Prof. Yarden has been a faculty member since 1988. He has served as Dean of the Faculty of Biology (19971999), Vice President for Academic Affairs (1999-2001), the first Director of the MD

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the cohesion of the IDF. We all know what the Torah says about homosexuality. By calling us ‘deviants,’ he effectively endangers our lives when we already risk them for the country”. “How much proof do you need to establish ‘reasonability’?”, Nahmany responded to Inbar. “Another Yshai Shlissel? Another 16-year-old Shira Banki killed?” Rabbi Uri Regev, a lawyer, one of Israel’s leading Reform

clergy and founder of the Hiddush organization to fight religious coercion, told Tazpit Press Service (TPS) that Israel has yet to come to terms with the threat constituted by theological challenges to the state’s democratic foundations. “It’s one thing for individuals who hold different opinions to debate them, it is quite another when these views are preached by civil servants [who receive state salaries]. In my opinion, Israel has the right to say that if someone wishes to be part of the

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come, and still lost. In other tweets Monday, Trump said "the real story that Congress, the FBI and all others should be looking into is the leaking of Classified information. Must find leaker now!" Trump has often complained about leaks of information that have cast a wide shadow on his performance. The White House last week suggested that Obama may have asked the British intelligence agency to wiretap Trump. But Admiral Michael Rogers, the director of the country's National Security Agency, told the

House panel that did not occur and that the U.S. and Britain do not spy on each other under a long-standing agreement between the allies. Comey said that Obama could not have unilaterally ordered a wiretap on a U.S. citizen such as Trump and would have had to secure a court order to do so, which did not happen. For more than two weeks, Trump has refused to back down on his wiretapping allegation, even as a string of officials, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and the top Republican and Democratic lawmakers on both the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, have

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pense of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. Major General Yoav (Poli) Mordechai, Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), wrote on the COGAT website in Arabic: “The egoistic terrorist organiza-

tion Hamas is stealing the international aid money from needy Gazans, living at their expense and financing terror – how long will the world and the Gazans ignore this?” “This investigation illustrates Hamas’ various methods of fraud against the international community and humanitarian

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Moross Institute for Cancer Research (1999-2001), and Dean of the Feinberg Graduate School (2001-2007). He is the director of the Dwek Institute for Cancer Therapy Research of the Moross Integrated Cancer Center. In addition to the ICRF Professorship, Prof. Yarden is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the MERIT Award of the U.S. National Cancer Institute, and the 2007 EMET Prize in Biochemistry. civil service, there are accompanying limitations. “Israel has been far too lenient, and closed its eyes for far too long to cases like the one of Rabbi Eliyahu, rabbis who claim the right to speak against the judiciary, Knesset legislation or the army by arguing merely on interpretations or applications of halachic (Jewish) law. “The Attorney General has refrained for decades from applying criminal law or disciplinary measures against theological challenges to democracy, in part due to a strong political element,” Regev concluded. (TPS)

said there is no evidence to support the president's March 4 claims made in a series of Twitter comments. Republican Congressman Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House panel, acknowledged at the outset of the hearing that there was no evidence of the Obama wiretap on Trump, which Comey later confirmed under questioning from the committee's top Democrat, Congressman Adam Schiff. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who oversees the Justice Department and was a staunch Trump supporter during the presidential campaign, said last week he never gave the president any reason to believe he was wiretapped in the weeks before the November election. aid organizations,” stated the Shin Bet. “These frauds, involving senior members of the organization, lead to the embezzlement of funds and resources intended to rehabilitate the Gaza Strip and its needy population. This deceit allows Hamas greater maneuvering room in exploiting material and economic resources [of the Strip] for terrorist activities and military buildup.” (TPS) Jewish Communities estimates 15-20,000 Jews live in the Czech Republic now, although only about a quarter is registered with Jewish communities or other Jewish groups.

disappointments of his life.” Other disappointments followed. His concept for the Memorial to the Six Million in New York’s Battery Park was a solemn formation of glass pillars. It went through various iterations, but none of his proposals satisfied some committee members: “They did not see their sorrow and their pain expressed in these abstract pieces of glass.”

The Hurva synagogue was a thrilling opportunity in the newly conquered Old City of Jerusalem. After three rounds of drawings in the early 1970s, Mayor Teddy Kollek told Lou he felt ready to begin building. Sadly, Kahn died shortly thereafter. In You Say to Brick (the title comes from a talk by Kahn about respecting the quality of building materials), Lesser ex-

said, addressing Gorsuch directly. “That is why Senate Republicans kept this Supreme Court seat vacant for more than a year. “The Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee will extend to you a courtesy which Senate Republicans denied to Judge Garland: a respectful hearing and a vote,” Durbin added.

Experience not in doubt Republicans

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Democrats would have done the same had a Republican president been in a position to name a high court nominee in the waning months of an administration, and that Gorsuch’s legal qualifications are beyond reproach. “I would encourage my colleagues to carefully consider the nominee on the merits and nothing else,” said Senator John Cornyn of Texas. No Democrat implied that Gorsuch, who has been a federal judge for more than a decade,

single inning of baseball — are drawn to Team Israel out of deep Jewish pride. Not because they are Israelis, but because they aren’t — they are largely American Jews who have decided to wear uniforms emblazoned with the Jewish star and don kippot during Hatikvah, to identify as Jews in such a public way,” says Klein. American rapper Kosha Dillz (Rami Matan Even-Esh) even

made up a song about Team Israel. Japan’s win today over Israel means it advances to the semifinals in Los Angeles along with the Netherlands. Japan finished Pool E with a 3-0 record, Cuba 0-3, Israel 1-2, and the Netherlands 2-1. Team Israel will also be remembered for its hilarious mascot, Mensch on the Bench, a stuffed doll that was the Jewish answer to the popular Christmas toy and story “Elf on the Shelf.” (ISRAEL 21C)

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so much more than baseball,” Elie Klein, an associate partner at Finn Partners Israel who calls himself a “rabid New York Mets fan,” tells ISRAEL21c. “While baseball fans around the globe have taken notice of Team Israel due to their surprising athletic prowess, Jews around the world — many of whom have never watched a

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like Goya, El Greco, Velazquez, Titian, Rubens, and Van Dyck. Nearby, the Thyssen-Bornemisza is a private museum displaying Italian, German, and Dutch masters—favorites like Chagall, Renoir, Klee, and Van Gogh— and even works from the Hudson River School. Nearby, there are exhibits at the gorgeous Palacio de Cibeles, where the rooftop offers amazing city views. It’s also fun to have a drink on the rooftop of the ME hotel on Plaza de Santa Ana. Madrid’s architecture also lures visitors to make it the home base of a Jewish heritage vacation. It’s a city with 17th-century Hapsburg architecture near the Plaza Mayor, ornate 18th- and 19th-century buildings during the Bourbon reign, and early 20th-century opulence along the vibrant Gran Via. And, there’s lots to do: the Rastro, a Sunday morning market at Puerta del Sol, designer boutiques along Calle Serrano, the gardens of Buen Retiro, and restaurants and galleries galore. From Madrid, it’s easy to visit smaller cities where vestiges of the once vibrant Jewish community survive. Traveling on day trips via high-speed AVE trains is an easy and comfortable way to go, luggage-free. The train from Madrid’s Atocha Station to Toledo—which

tolls Kahn’s brilliant work, examines his messy life, and considers his contradictory Jewish identities. She provides another insight about Lou with this anecdote: “‘I’m too religious to be religious,’ he told a friend after a synagogue commission . . . died after years of conflict. Perhaps,” Lesser adds, “he also meant that his sole religion was architecture.” (JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL) lacks the experience to serve on the Supreme Court. “[Corporate] Special interests … are now spending millions and millions of dollars campaigning to push your nomination,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. “They obviously think you will be worth their money. These special interests also supported the Republican majority keeping this seat open. Republicans responded by noting that many of them voted to confirm liberal high court nominees despite disagreeing with them on ideological grounds.

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once had the largest Jewish population—takes 35 minutes. Jews, Muslims, and Christians lived in this multicultural medieval. Of 10 synagogues, two that were converted into churches post-1492 survive. Sinagoga del Tránsito is now Museo Sefardi, and the 12th-century Sinagoga Santa Maria la Blanca has stunning Mudejar arches and floor tiles (notably, it’s on the street of the Reyes Catolicos, the Catholic kings). The El Greco Museum is worth a visit, and so is the Parador. The AVE rail trip to Segovia leaves from Chamartin Station and arrives 35 minutes later. The former Sinagoga Mayor, now the Corpus Christi church, opens the Jewish quarter. Segovia’s highlight is the medieval menorah that dates from the Jewish Golden Age in Spain. It is located at the Jewish Museum in the Judería within the former home of a prominent resident Abraham Seneeor. Córdoba, a UNESCO World Heritage Sight, is less than two hours via AVE from Madrid. The Juderia—near the Tourist Office in Plaza Juda Leví—is notable because its 14th-century synagogue is the only one in Spain not turned into a Christian building, and because there’s a monument to Maimonides, the Jewish doctor and religious thinker. More time is required for some destinations. By adding an

overnight, visitors can leave Cordoba for Seville in time for dinner and stay at a charming, small four-star hotel in Santa Cruz, Sevilla, called Hotel Casas de la Juderia. It’s located on Calle Santa Maria de la Santa, next door to a church with that same name that once was a synagogue. This hotel resembles a tiny village comprised of a series of pastel townhouses, some dating to the 16th century, fronted by flower-filled courtyards and siding narrow paths. There are arches and columns, expansive rooms, and suites. Add another day for Granada, where the Fountain of the Lions at the amazing Alhambra Palace was a gift from the Jewish community. At the entry to the palace, visitors can see artisans at work creating taracea—geometric patterns inlaid into wood boxes, tables, and chessboards. In Cosmopolitan Barcelona, just two and a half hours from Madrid via the AVE rail, Jews, including the 13th-century sage Nachmanides, once comprised 15 percent of the population. Here, like many places in Spain, there are hints of a vanished world—but one that I never tire of exploring. (JNS.ORG) Originally published by www. Jewish.Travel, the new online travel magazine. Irvina Lew (www.irvinalew. com) is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the Society of American Travel Writers.

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BGU Announces New Technique to Magazine Names Baruch College Among Protect Video & Pics From Hackers the Best in 2018 Grad School Rankings By: Viva Sarah Press

Edited by: JV Staff

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher has developed a new technique that could provide virtually 100 percent protection against cyber attacks launched through internet videos or images, according to a university statement. “Any downloaded or streamed video or picture is a potential vehicle for a cyberattack,” says Professor Ofer Hadar, chair of BGU’s Department of Communication Systems Engineering. “Hackers like videos and pictures because they bypass the regular data transfer systems of highly secure systems, and there is significant space in which to implant malicious code.” Cybersecurity is a hot-button issue in today’s digital world. Recent WikiLeaks allegations against the Central Intelligence Agency of hacking techniques that bypass security encryption, made the issue even more urgent. Hadar says downloaded and shared videos and images are a growing target for cyberattackers. To counter this emerging threat, Hadar developed a series of algorithms that can completely prevent attackers from being able to infiltrate and extract information through videos or pictures. His techniques combat steganography — a process that involves hiding a message in an appropriate carrier, such as an image file. Using steganography, the carrier can be sent to a receiver without anyone else knowing that it contains a hidden message. “We are dealing nowadays with the use of steganography to insert malicious codes within videos and photos to attack the viewer,” says Hadar. “We have developed algorithms to find a solution to that problem in the ‘compressed domain.’ The idea is to manipulate the file’s ‘payload’ to remove the malicious code without damaging the data quality.” Hadar’s approach, which he has dubbed The Coucou Project, addresses two potential attack

Downloaded and shared videos and images are a growing target for cyber attackers. Photo via Shutterstock

scenarios. Both scenarios assume that basic malware has been planted on the victim’s servers/hosts by means of social engineering, such as phishing scams or other means of exploiting data vulnerability. From there, the malware gathers classified information from the victim’s data center. In the first scenario, once the user uploads an image or a video to a social network, the malware embeds the classified information into the uploaded content (making it accessible to the attacker). In the second scenario, the attacker uploads infected content to a social network or any other shared server where the malware can extract the malicious code and execute it. “Preliminary experimental results show that a method based on a combination of Coucou Project techniques results in virtually 100 percent protection against cyberattacks,” says Hadar. “We envision that firewall and antivirus companies will be able to utilize Coucou protection applications and techniques in their products.” The Coucou Project receives funding from the BGU Cyber Security Research Center and the BaseCamp Innovation Center at the Advanced Technologies Park in Beersheva. (ISRAEL 21C)

or another consecutive year Baruch College secured top rankings in the 2018 U.S. News & World Report’s Graduate Schools list. The Zicklin School of Business jumped 28 spots for the full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) program and now ranks #57 among the 377 schools included on the national list. Among public institutions, Zicklin School of Business secured the #1 spot for both fulltime and part-time MBA programs in New York State and New York City. Nationally, the School ranks #32 for full-time and #46 for part-time programs. Along with Baruch College, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), University of Chicago, Columbia University, New York University, and Cornell University are among the colleges and universities receiving high marks on the 2018 list.

Training Future Business Leaders “The Zicklin School of Business has been training future business leaders for generations,” said H. Fenwick Huss, PhD, Willem Kooyker Dean of the Zicklin School of Business. “The key to our success is anticipating our students needs and adapting to give them the

The Zicklin School of Business (pictured above) jumped 28 spots for the full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) program and now ranks #57 among the 377 schools included on the national list.

real-world knowledge and opportunities they need to be New York smart and world-class ready.” Dean Huss added that the Zicklin School of Business will offer a one-year MBA for highly qualified applicants, beginning in June 2017. The program will allow students to save both time and money in the pursuit of professional advancement. Later in the fall 2017, the School will offer an Executive Doctorate in business for senior corporate executives looking to thrive in the C-suite. At a Glance:

Full-Time MBA Programs • #1 in New York City and

New York State among public institutions • #3 in New York City among all institutions • #5 in New York State among all institutions • #32 among public institutions nationally • #57 nationally; jumping from #85 in 2016

Part-Time MBA Programs • #1 in New York City and New York State among public institutions • #2 in New York City among all institutions • #4 in New York State among all institutions See Magazine Names Baruch , page 37

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Israeli Early Learning Program Welcomed by Asian Countries An Israeli home instruction program for parents and preschoolers already in use in 14 countries is now expanding to South Korea and China By: Israel 21c Staff

oung families in South Korea and China will now be able to access HIPPY (Home Instruction for Parents and Preschool Youngsters), an Israeli-developed early learning program already reaching 20,000 families at 440 program sites in countries including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Israel, Liberia, New Zealand, and the United States. HIPPY-inspired programs also operate in Denmark, Finland, Holland, Sweden and Turkey. HIPPY partners with par-

in Korea. In these Far East countries, the HIPPY model was expandents to prepare kids for success Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ed and transformed to better Lombard started an early ed- serve upper- and middle-class in school, particularly targeting children disadvantaged ucation program in Israel that populations. Professional teachby poverty, limited education aimed to teach parents with lim- ers will train the parents, and and language deficits. HIPPY ited formal education to be their the goal is to bring the children peer parent educators from the children’s first teachers for better to a higher level of academic success. community make home visits future success in school. to provide 30 weeks per year of culturally and linguistically relevant curriculum activities and books directly to parents. In some countries, the program is partly subsidized by the government or HIPPY’s regional partners. HIPPY originated in 1969 and was developed by Dr. Avima D. Lombard, a researcher at the NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education at The

A mother in Somalia works with her child using HIPPY materials. Photo: courtesy

A father and son share a HIPPY moment. Photo: courtesy

Research has shown that children who participated in the HIPPY program at age 3, 4 or 5 appear to benefit long-term in their scholastic achievement. Expansion to South Korea and China was facilitated by an agreement signed by Yissum Research Development Company, the technology-transfer company of the Hebrew University, with Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network (ASDAN) in China and Lolo Educational Services (LES)

Jewish Day Schools Remain Strong Despite Threats Edited by: JV Staff

s Jewish communities around the world begin their Passover preparations to commemorate the emancipation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt, we turn our focus to what it means to defend our freedom as a Jewish people. A core lesson of Jewish tradition maintains that in freedom begins responsibility. Jewish history teaches us that as part of our responsibility, we must be vigilant to protect the freedoms we hold dear, to practice our Jewish way of life, and to preserve the communal institutions that define us. More than 150 Jewish institutions around North America, including many JCCs and Jewish day schools, have been called upon to respond to anti-Semitic threats since January. During this time, Prizmah has actively supported day schools in a variety of ways, by being responsive to the needs and circumstances of individual schools and offering vital information from recognized experts to the entire field. • Prizmah staff members have reached out to each of our targeted communities to offer personalized resources. • Prizmah held webinars to review emergency procedures, examine crisis management plans, and navigate the application process for Department of Home-

Prizmah has actively supported day schools in a variety of ways, by being responsive to the needs and circumstances of individual schools and offering vital information from recognized experts to the entire field

land Security nonprofit grants. • Prizmah collected and generated materials on effective practices both for preparing schools in anticipation of an emergency and managing in the aftermath. • Prizmah facilitated peer-topeer groups designed to support heads of school and lay leaders. • Prizmah is leveraging the power of the day school network by collecting resources relevant to our schools, including sample letters to parents and to the wider community, approaches to speaking with students during frightening times, and resources for parents to use at home. Many of these resources can be found on the Prizmah website. • In the coming weeks, there will be additional opportunities for our school leaders to learn from experts in the security field and from an expert in cyber security. See below (and RSVP here) for information about an upcoming webinar with top security experts.

The Board of Directors of Prizmah has made security preparedness a priority. They are currently investigating additional sources of funding to enhance campuses, as well as initiating communication with elected officials to stimulate advocacy for day schools from the U.S. and Canadian governments, locally and nationally. Despite the threats and uncertainty, our communities remain strong. An outpouring of support from neighbors, both Jewish and non-Jewish has shown what true friendship and acceptance means. Last week, a U.S. senator visited one of our day schools to offer encouragement and denounce the latest threats. The professionals, lay leaders, and parents at Jewish day schools have stayed resilient and have been tireless in their appropriate responses to senseless threats. They are also sharing their experiences broadly and demonstrating the power of a Jewish day school education.

New wave of parent involvement The Korean program will begin with a six-month pilot involving 100 parents in three sites in Seoul. The official launch of the program is planned for late summer of this year. “HIPPY has been steadily growing worldwide over the last 10 years. South Korea and China are the first programs in Asia where we will be adapting the core program model for a very different and more highly ed-

Young families in South Korea and China will now be able to access HIPPY (Home Instruction for Parents and Preschool Youngsters), an Israeli-developed early learning program already reaching 20,000 families at 440 program sites in countries including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Israel, Liberia, New Zealand, and the United States

ucated consumer,” said HIPPY International Director Miriam Westheimer. DJ Dongjun Lee, CEO of Lolo Educational Services, commented, “We were very impressed by the proven added value that HIPPY offers in preparing children for school and studies. I hope HIPPY can help Korean parents to better understand the benefits and importance of their involvement in their children’s education and that our partnership will bring a new wave of parent involvement to the Korean education market.” ASDAN China CEO Yichan Yuan added, “Today, we declared our commitment to work together with HIPPY to help preschool children reach

high-quality education at home, benefiting them in the long run. “As a country with a large population, there are currently hundreds of millions of preschool children in China. Parents are willing to prepare their children for school by educating them at home; however, they lack of informative guidance makes it extremely difficult for them to succeed in this task. “The collaboration between HIPPY and ASDAN China will provide parents with the support and information they need in order to help their children excel in school. We believe that this initiative can have a big impact on education of children in China,” Yuan concluded. (ISRAEL 21C)

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Jewish Spain’s Myriad Attractions Leave No Time For A Siesta By: Irvina Lew

by visiting Jewish communities simple roast chicken. Skewered siesta. Small shops are still shutand attempting to understand beef was served to a nearby tered in the afternoon, while large department stores like El y passion for what happened there, if not ever table. speaking Spanish, comprehending why. I visited Chamberí, Madrid’s watching Flamenco, drinking Rioja, old Jewish quarter (Judería admiring artwork, walking a Vieja), for the first time last labyrinth of narrow streets, and November to have lunch at La inhaling the scent of orange Escudilla, the city’s only kosher blossoms intensifies on every restaurant. Its address on Calle de la Santísima Trinidad (Sacred visit to Spain. These interests influenced Trinity Stret) and close to the my choice of careers as a Span- Iglesia (Church) subway stop ish teacher and travel writer. illustrates a common practice On repeated trips studying at in Spain: after the Jews were exthe University of Salamanca, pelled in 1492, Christians took walking the Camino de Santi- over the former Jewish neighA plaque dedicated to Maimonides at the synagogue in the ago, driving to Galician wine borhoods and Christianized the Juderia in Córdoba. Credit: Irvina Lew. estates, vacationing in Mallorca public sphere. (almonds)—and discuss where Railroad Station, and the MuseViviana, the chef and owner, and Marbella, experiencing spas to dine. Raciones (small plates um of Reina Sofia. in Bobadilla and Alicante, at- personally serves homemade Reina Sofia is a must-see, for to share) are available a la carte tending the Expo in Seville and Sephardic dishes: hummus, and some are vegetarian—tor- me, to pay homage to Picasso’s the Olympics in Barcelona, the beets, eggplant, carrots, and a tillas (egg and potato pies) and Guernica, the iconic anti-war culture continues to fascinate tomato-onion-cucumber salpapas bravas (roasted potatoes painting the artist created afme. It also prompts me to pay ad followed by a bright, vegewith a spicy tomato sauce), or ter Franco bombed the little respect to my Jewish heritage table-studded couscous and a pan tomate, (tomato puree on Basque village. General Franco toast). Tapas can either precede had previously invited Picasso to display a painting at the dinner or replace dinner. The name Lavapiés, the World’s Fair in Paris 1937, and A statue of Maimonides at the synagogue in the Juderia in “new” (pre-1492) Jewish quarter the famed cubist artist refused Córdoba. Credit: Irvina Lew. of Madrid, is a reference to the to give the mural to Spain until She suggested that I visit Beth Corte Inglés, where the Gour- tradition of the washing feet be- after Franco’s death. Reina Sofia is one of three Yaacov Synagogue, where I was met Department stocks kosher fore entering the ancient Temple. Today the area is a multieth- major art museums in the Mutold that the Jewish community foods, remain open all day. Dining at 10 p.m. is another nic mix of artists, intellectuals, seum Triangle on or near Paseo numbers 3,000-4,000. If you go, make an appointment and take cultural pattern that endures. and immigrants who mingle at del Prado, a beautiful tree-lined Tourists notice this because tapas bars that line the streets. boulevard dominated by The a passport for security checks. Viviana also recommended restaurants are empty be- I was introduced to a gem: La Prado Museum and extraordithe nearby Carnicería Elias, a fore 9:30 p.m. Spaniards meet Musa de Espronceda, where the nary early 20th-century palace kosher food store. When I ar- friends at casual Tapas bars at bar is lined with platters of huge hotels: the Ritz and the Westin rived, it was closed for a mid-af- 8 p.m. and have a sherry, beer, portions of open-face Basque Palace. The Prado houses externoon work break (2 or 3 p.m. or wine served with tapas— sandwiches. It’s just a short walk traordinary works by artists to 5 p.m.) and I was reminded of manchego (cheese), aceitunas from the church of San LorenHotel Casa de la Juderia in Santa Cruz, Sevilla. Credit: Irvina See Jewish Spain’s Myriad , page 38 the once-prevalent practice of (olives), and salted almendras zo, a former synagogue, Atocha Lew.

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Study Finds Clues to Blood Cancer in Arabs and Jews Some risk factors for B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma are the same in both groups, while others are unique to one or the other By: Israel 21c Staff

ew light has been shed on the interplay between genes, environment and disease with the publication of an Israeli study on risk factors for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in Jewish and Arab populations. As of 2012, Israel ranked first in the world in NHL incidence rates. This blood cancer represents the fifth most common malignancy in Israel and the eighth most common malignancy among West Bank Palestinians. Yet despite living in close proximity, the two populations tend to differ in terms of lifestyle, health behaviors and medical systems. Israeli and Palestinian researchers, led by senior hematologist Dr. Ora Paltiel, director of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public

Health and Community Medicine, conducted a large-scale epidemiological study of medical history, environmental and lifestyle factors among 823 Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL) and 808 healthy controls. Until now, most epidemiological studies of NHL have been carried out in North American and European populations, with a few focusing on East Asian populations and very few on B-NHL in Middle Eastern populations. Using data from questionnaires, pathology review, serology and genotyping, they uncovered some risk factors common to both populations and other factors unique to each population. The data, reported in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE, showed that in both populations, overall B-NHL was

associated with recreational sun exposure, black hair-dye use, a history of hospitalization for infection, and having a first-degree relative with a blood cancer. An inverse association was noted with alcohol use. Some exposures, including smoking and greater-than-monthly indoor pesticide use, were associated with specific subtypes of B-NHL. The data also pointed to differences between the populations. Among Palestinian Arabs, risk factors included gardening and a history of herpes, mononucleosis, rubella, or blood transfusion, while these factors were not identified in the Israeli Jewish population. In contrast, risk factors that applied to Israeli Jews only included growing fruits and vegetables, and self-reported autoimmune diseases. The researchers concluded that differences in the observed risk factors by ethnicity could

New study finds risk factors for B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Jews and Arabs. Image by Mohd Bahiri Bin Ibrahim/Shutterstock. com

reflect differences in lifestyle, medical systems and reporting patterns, while variations by lymphoma subtypes infer specific causal factors for different types of the disease. These findings require further investigation as to their mechanisms. The fact that risk factors operate differently in different ethnic groups raises the possibility that environmental exposures don’t have the identical effect

in individuals of varying genetic backgrounds. But this could also be a function of many other factors such as diet, cultural habits, environmental and housing conditions. “Apart from the scientific contribution that this research provides in terms of understanding risk factors for NHL, the study was an important research cooperation among many institutions,” said Paltiel.

Those institutions included Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center; Al Quds University; Augusta Victoria Hospital; Beit Jalla Hospital; Hebrew University; Palestinian Ministry of Health; Rambam Medical Center; Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; Chaim Sheba Medical Center; Meir Medical Center; and Tel Aviv University in Israel, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. “The study provided opportunities for training Palestinian and Israeli researchers, and will provide for intellectual interaction for years to come. The data collected will also provide a research platform for the future study of lymphoma,” said Paltiel. “Epidemiologic research has the potential to improve and preserve human health, and it can also serve as a bridge to dialogue among nations.” The study was supported by a MERC/USAID grant, by the Israel Science Foundation and by the Hadassah University Hospital Compensatory Fund. (ISRAEL 21C)

Harvard-Technion Study Suggests New Parkinson’s Theory Toxic protein behind disease may simultaneously affect all parts of the nervous system inside and outside of the brain By: Viva Sarah Press

esearchers from the Technion and Harvard are offering a new theory on how Parkinson’s disease develops that could change the way the neurological disease is treated. Associate Professor Simone Engelender of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and her colleague Ole Isacson

at Harvard Medical School say the toxic protein behind Parkinson’s may not spread like an infection from nerve cell to nerve but rather that the protein, called alpha-synuclein, may simultaneously affect all parts of the nervous system inside and outside of the brain. They describe this “threshold theory” of Parkinson’s for the first time in a report recently published in Trends in

Neuroscience. “Instead of studying how proteins move from one neuron to another and searching for compounds that prevent the ‘spread’ of aggregated a-synuclein, we need to study why a-synuclein accumulates within neurons and how these neurons die in the disease, and search for compounds that prevent the general neuronal dysfunction,” said Engelender. Brain scan of patient with Parkinson's. Photo via Shutterstock

Taking An Innovative Nontoxic Approach to Lice Israeli startups have invented poison-free solutions for an itchy problem, one using vaporized vinegar and the other ultrasound waves By: Abigail Klein Leichman

he global head-lice epidemic is a real head-scratcher. In the United States alone, up to 12 million children get infested with head lice each year. Across the world, the head-lice treatment market has reached $1.8 billion worth of special shampoos, conditioners and combs promising to vanquish the little wingless parasites. Combing is tedious and may leave some lice or eggs behind, while hair products aren’t always effective against resistant “super lice” and can contain strong chemicals. Two Israeli companies – TechCare and ParaSonic – have innovative nontoxic approaches to tackling this itchy problem.

TechCare

Israeli startups unveil nontoxic technologies to vanquish head lice. Photo illustration by Lightspring/Shutterstock.com

TechCare of Rosh HaAyin is soon launching Novokid in Israel. The kit contains disposable capsules of a natural vinegar-based solution, which are connected to a vaporizing device that blows the dry particles into a hair cap, suffocating the lice within 10 minutes. No shampooing is necessary.

The patented system is based on research by graduates of Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science and is expected to receive CE approval for Europe shortly and FDA approval for the United States in 2018. “We have a robotic manufacturing line at our production site so we can ramp up to mass production quickly,” says TechCare CEO and Chairman Zvi Yemini, a serial entrepreneur and chairman of Israel’s Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. About $4 million was invested into the development, testing and commercialization of Novokid. “We’ve achieved high effectiveness rates and extremely positive reviews,” says Yemini. A repeat treatment or weekly treatment is recommended to catch any remaining or newSee Taking An Innovative , page 37

Parkinson’s disease destroys nerve cells throughout the body, especially key neurons in the brain that produce a compound called dopamine that helps to control movement and posture. The disease grows worse over time, and there is no known cure. More than one million people in the United States have the disorder, according to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation. The disease is caused by accumulation of a-synuclein,

which overwhelms and destroys nerve cells. The most commonly-held theory about the disease suggests that patients get progressively worse as clumps of a-synuclein spread between neurons, almost like an infection. But Engelender and Isacson think the scientific evidence points to a different model of the disease. Instead of spreading from neuron to neuron, they say, aggregations of a-synuclein develop throughout the

body at the same time. Different parts of the nervous system vary in how much of this toxic protein they can tolerate, depending on how well the cells in that part of the system work together to compensate for any destroyed cells. The researchers say their theory fits better with patients’ symptoms. “The only specific treatment that is and will continue to be beneficial is the replenishment of dopamine in the brain, through the intake of the supplement L-Dopa, to improve the motor symptoms,” said Engelender. “This has been done for several decades and should be continued to be done since it can at least alleviate the motor symptoms for a few years, even if does not cure and does not prevent the progression of the disease.” “Nevertheless, I believe that the search for compounds that specifically decrease a-synuclein levels are the only hope to provide a real and more effective treatment for the disease,” said Engelender. (ISRAEL 21C)

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Faster Healing with Surgical Implants Zapped by Plasma Israeli company’s technology to modify the surface of surgical implants, from dental to breast, relies on the unusual properties of cold plasma By: Abigail Klein Leichman

unique cold-plasma activation platform from Israeli company Nova Plasma is poised to hasten healing and reduce infection after the placement of all kinds of surgical implants, from dental to breast. The first application of the company’s Active+ Plasma Capsule is a desktop device that modifies the surface chemistry of dental implants in a 30-second procedure right before implantation, for maximum effectiveness. Plasma, a partially ionized gas, has only recently been discovered to have vast potential

in medical settings to weld tissue, control bleeding, enhance tissue repair, disinfect and even destroy cancer cells. Nova Plasma was cofounded in 2012 by two Israeli brothers, CEO Ronen Lam and CTO Amnon Lam, along with Chen Porat. The Lams pioneered the activation of cold plasma at their previous company, IonMed, which is focused on sealing incisions. They remain shareholders in IonMed but the two companies do not share any intellectual property on their very different technologies. Ronen Lam tells ISRAEL21c that Nova Plasma originally intended to develop a product for tooth-whitening. And then

a commercial company told them of the unmet need for improving the surface of dental implants. “Many articles and trials have shown plasma’s amazing effect on the surface of implants but there was no way to do this practically because the plasma effect on the surface is limited

in this direction.” Nova Plasma signed a licensing agreement with a leading player in the dental market, and is moving from development to production in preparation for introducing Active+ later this year. Nova Plasma’s cold-plasma platform technology could be applied to many other implants, including pacemakers, artificial joints and catheters. Lam explains that the integraDental implant image by Edward Olive/Shutterstock.com

A dental implant activated with Nova Plasma’s cold plasma. Photo: screenshot

Active+ Plasma Capsule desktop unit. Photo: screenshot

in time and thus not possible to be performed in the factory, so they asked us to build a ‘chairside’ machine designed to be operated in the dental clinic. We did feasibility studies and saw that our cold plasma does the job in a perfect way. Then we came up with a very sophisticated idea for applying the plasma in the clinic, and all the IP went

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tion and stability of all implants are improved by their wettability (hydrophilicity). Plasma is great for activating hydrophilicity, but the effects deteriorate in the time lapse between manufacturing and implantation. Nova’s Active+ Plasma Capsule solves that problem by activating the plasma surface treatment immediately before

implantation. The resulting “super hydrophilic” implant reduces average healing time by half, improves implant anchoring in the jaw, and reduces post-surgical complication rates. No training is required for operating the machine. “It’s really easy and intuitive,” says Lam. A $1.5 million financing round has just been launched to advance Nova Plasma’s next product, Active Si, for modifying the surface of silicone breast implants before they are dipped in antibiotic solution prior to implantation. Pre-clinical studies show that this method eliminates biofilm formation on silicone. “This product is at the end of development, preparing for clinical trials starting in October,” says Lam. “The need is huge in the field of breast implants because there are complications in up to 30 percent of

cases. In addition, the aesthetic results are expected to be improved using Active-Si technology. We’ll start taking it to market in a controlled manner in a few leading medical centers in Europe. We believe it will be at a fully commercial stage in 2019.” Based in Kibbutz Megiddo, Nova Plasma has until now been financed by current shareholders, including many of its medical and IP advisers and entrepreneurs. “One of the biggest assets of our company, besides a strong and beautiful platform technology with huge potential, is our development team’s knowledge. I can say without exaggeration that it may be one of the world’s best teams in bringing cold plasma to market, and applying it through regulatory obstacles while meeting the business model,” says Lam. (ISRAEL 21C)

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: KINGS COUNTY U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc., Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-WF2; Plaintiff(s) vs. MAXINE PARK; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein on or about April 21, 2016, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder in Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. On April 20, 2017 at 2:30 pm. Premises known as 586 Chester Street, Brooklyn, NY 11212 Block: 3624 Lot: 45 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. As more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale. Approximate amount of judgment $739,574.02 plus interest and costs. INDEX NO. 20541-13 Dominic J. Famulari, Esq., Referee

Notice of Qualification of SC ELEARNING, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/2/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/22/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. [3/17-4/21]

Notice of Qualification of Pin Oak Energy Partners LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/2/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Ohio (OH) on 3/18/15. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, Fl. 13, NY, NY 10011. OH address of LLC: 209 S Main St, Akron, OH 44308. Cert. of Formation filed with OH Secy of State, 180 E Broad St, Columbus, OH 43215. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, Fl. 13, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. [3/17-4/21]

Notice of Qualification of QUOGUE SPORTS LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/7/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/27/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 101 Central Park W, Ste 1F, NY, NY 10023. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [3/17-4/21]

Notice of Qualification of SCHWANOG, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/27/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Indiana (IN) on 11/19/04. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. IN address of LLC: 1630 Todd Farm Dr., Elgin, IL 61023. Cert. of Formation filed with IN Secy of State, 302 W Washington St, Rm E018, Indianapolis, IN 46204. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. [3/17-4/21]

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Notice of Qualification of SCMP US LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/6/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/3/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 475 5th Ave, Fl. 9, NY, NY 10017. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. [3/17-4/21]

PRIMA KITCHEN NEW YORK LLC. Art. of Org. ﬁled with the SSNY on 02/06/17. Oﬃce: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 1412 Madison Avenue, Apartment 2B, New York, NY 10029. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [3/17-4/21]

Notice of Formation of RED HOOK FALAFEL COMPANY LLC. Arts. of Org. ﬁled with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/08/17. Oﬃce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [3/17-4/21]

Notice of Formation of SCARLETT WORKS FOR YOU LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/08/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 350 W. 37th St., Apt. 15F, NY, NY 10018. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [3/17-4/21]

Notice of Formation of YH 2nd Ave. Estates LLC. Arts. of Org. ﬁled with NY Dept. of State on 2/28/17. Oﬃce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Andrew W. Heymann, Esq., Solomon Blum Heymann LLP, 40 Wall St., 35th Fl., NY, NY 10005, principal business address. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [3/17-4/21]

Notice of Qualification of Thor 975 Walton Avenue LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/28/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/5/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Thor Equities, LLC, 25 W. 39th St., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10018. DE address of LLC: 874 Walker Rd., Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [3/17-4/21]

Notice of Qualification of Landmark Fiduciary Management LLC. App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/2/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/28/15. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the DE address of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Road, Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [3/17-4/21]

Notice of Formation of MONOCHROME MARKETING LLC. Articles of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/30/2017. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Thomas Potts, 332 Lefferts Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [3/10-4/14]

Notice of Qual. of COMMUNITY ENERGY SOLAR, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 11/08/2016. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 06/17/2009. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: CT Corporation System 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. Address required to be maintained in DE: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington DE 19801. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [2/10-3/17]

Notice of Qualification of MHN Government Services LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/20/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 2370 Kerner Blvd., San Rafael, CA 94901. LLC formed in DE on 9/21/05. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., 13th Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [2/10-3/17]

Notice of Formation of BOBBY'S PRIME LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/01/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 40 Central Park South, NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Ricky Passarelli at the princ. office of the LLC, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Restaurant. [2/10-3/17]

Notice of Qualification of CA 485 COUNTY ROAD LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/31/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/06/16. Princ. office of LLC: 767 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10153. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [2/10-3/17]

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (PLLC). NAME: KOSTINA LAW GROUP, PLLC. ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE OF NEW YORK (SSNY) ON 11/8/2016. NY OFFICE LOCATION: KINGS COUNTY. SSNY HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS AGENT OF THE PLLC UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST IT MAY BE SERVED. THE POST OFFICE ADDRESS TO WHICH THE SSNY SHALL MAIL A COPY OF PROCESS AGAINST THE PLLC SERVED UPON HIM/HER IS: 3111 OCEAN PARKWAY, 2G, BROOKLYN, NY 11235. PURPOSE/CHARACTER OF PLLC: FOR THE PRACTICE OF LAW. [2/3-3/10]

Notice of Registration of Tanenbaum Keale LLP. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/18/17. Office location: NY County. LLP registered in ¬¬¬New Jersey (NJ) on 1/6/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the principal office of LLP: c/o National Corporate Research, Ltd., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. Purpose: to practice the profession of Law. [2/10-3/17]

Notice of Qualification of NARIHIRA CONSULTANTS, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/24/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/3/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: NRP Holding Corp., 110 W. 40th St., Room 2103, NY, NY 10018. DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [2/10-3/17]

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Notice of formation of New Arbor, LLC. Articles of Organization ﬁled with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/23/2016. Oﬃce location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [2/10-3/17]

Notice of Formation of Rag & Bone Management Aggregator L.P. Certificate filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/26/2017. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 425 W. 13th St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10014. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Term: until 1/26/2092. Purpose: any lawful activity. [2/10-3/17]

Notice of Formation of Phillips Art Holdings LLC. Arts. of Org. ﬁled Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/30/17. Oﬃce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Michael S. Arlein, Esq., Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any purposes permitted by applicable law. [2/10-3/17]

Notice of formation of 53RD STREET EVENTS LLC Arts. of Org. ﬁled with the Sect'y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/20/2016. Oﬃce location, County of Kings. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 170 53rd St., Ste. 304, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Purpose: any lawful act. [2/10-3/17]

Notice of Qualification of SARATOGA PROXY CONSULTING LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/20/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/08/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, Attn: John Ferguson, Managing Member, 520 8th Ave., 14th Fl., NY, NY 10018. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [2/10-3/17]

Notice of Qualification of SELSER LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/20/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/09/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Herrick, Feinstein LLP, Attn: B. Karaahmet, Esq., 2 Park Ave., NY, NY 10016. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [2/103/17]

Notice of Formation of RELATED-ROCKFORD FAUST AHP LENDER, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/25/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [2/3-3/10]

Notice of Formation of RELATED-ROCKFORD FAUST S LENDER, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/25/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [2/3-3/10]

PAGE 46 Notice of Application for Authority of Chamisa Software LLC, a foreign limited liability company (LLC). Application for Authority filed with Secy. of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/31/2016. LLC organized in New Mexico on 01/23/2012. NY office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Incorp Services, Inc., One Commerce Plaza, Albany, NY 12210. No office is required to be maintained in the jurisdiction of this formation. The address of the principal office of the foreign LLC is: 101 W 90th St. Apt 8H, New York, NY 10024. Copy of Articles of Organization on file with Secy. of State of NM, Brad Winter, 325 Don Gaspar, Suite 300, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity. [2/3-3/10]

Notice of formation of CMD Investors LLC. Articles of Organization ﬁled with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on January 20, 2017. N.Y. oﬃce location: New York County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to CMD Investors LLC, 11 Park Place, Suite 1705, New York, New York 10007. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. [2/3-3/10]

Notice of Qualification of Technology Humans and Taste LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/10/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/5/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 108 Wooster St., C2, NY, NY 10012. DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [1/27-3/3]

215 ST. JAMES PLACE LLC Articles of Org. ﬁled NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/24/2016. Oﬃce in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Daniel A. Greenbaum, 101 W. 12th St., PH-H, NY, NY 10014, which is also the principal business loc. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [1/27-3/3]

MARCH 24, 2017 WELLNESS BY DESIGN ACUPUNCTURE PLLC filed Articles of Organization with the Dept of State of NY on 12/16/2016. Office Located in NY County. The Secretary of State of NY ("SSNY") has been designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process served to: Law Office of Robert Witherwax, 15 Maiden Ln., #600, NY NY 10038. Purpose: Acupuncture. [2/3-3/10]

KOSTINA LAW GROUP PLLC ﬁled Articles of Organization with the Dept of State of NY on 11/08/2016. Oﬃce Located in Kings County. The Secretary of State of NY ("SSNY") has been designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process served to: 3111 Ocean Parkway, suite 2G, Brooklyn, NY 11235. Purpose: legal/attorney services. [2/3-3/10]

DLJ Capital, LLC App. for Auth. filed w/ SSNY 1/26/17. Off. in New York Co. Arts. of Org. filed w/ SSDE 11/7/69. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 11 Madison Ave, NY, NY 10010. Add. req. to be maintained in DE: 2711 Centerville Rd, Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Name & add. of the auth. officer in DE where copy of Arts. of Org. filed: DE Sec. of State, Div. of Corp., John G. Townsend Bld, 401 Federal St, Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [2/17-3/24]

Notice of Qualification of SRV LabelCo, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/30/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 2220 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90404. LLC formed in DE on 1/20/17. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [2/17-3/24]

Notice of Formation of GoldSilver, LLC. Arts. of Org. ﬁled with NY Dept. of State on 6/23/16. Oﬃce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: The LLC, 1325 Ave. of the Americas, Suite 0703-2, NY, NY 10019, principal business address. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [2/17-3/24]

23 NEWKIRK PLAZA LLC. Art. of Org. ﬁled with the SSNY on 01/27/17. Latest date to dissolve: 12/31/2070. Oﬃce: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o David Spindler, Esq., 1431 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11226. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [2/17-3/24]

Notice of Qualification of IGI E86 LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/2/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/12/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is National Registered Agents Inc, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [2/17-3/24]

Notice of Qualification of TLLULE BOWERY LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/6/14. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/16/14. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 299 Broadway, NY, NY 10007. DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Rd., Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [2/24-3/31]

Notice of Formation of 5805 6TH AVENUE LLC. Arts. of Org. ﬁled with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/08/17. Oﬃce location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 5805 6TH AVENUE LLC, 5805 6TH AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11220. Purpose: any lawful activity. [2/24-3/31]

Notice of formation of G ALEXANDER CONSULTING LLC Arts. of Org. ﬁled with the Sect'y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/20/2016. Oﬃce location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Incorp Services, Inc., 99 Washington Ave, Suite 805-A, Albany, NY 12210-2822. Purpose: any lawful act. [2/24-3/31]

Notice of Formation of CAPITAL ACCESS METRO, LLC. Arts. of Org. ﬁled with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/16/17. Oﬃce location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The Company, 5904 18th Ave., Ste. 54, Brooklyn, NY 11204. Purpose: any lawful activities. [3/3-4/7]

Notice of Qualification of Shapiro Settlement Solutions, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/17/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Texas (TX) on 6/5/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Capitol Services, Inc., 1218 Central Ave., Ste. 100, Albany, NY 12205. TX address of LLC: 11211 Taylor Draper Ln, Ste. 210, Austin, TX 78759. Arts. of Org. filed with TX Secy. of State, P.O. Box 12887, Austin, TX 78711-2887. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [3/3-4/7]

Notice of Formation of 848 President Holder, LLC, Art. of Org. ﬁled with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/10/17. Oﬃce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 256 W. 116th St., NY, NY 10026. Purpose: any lawful activities. [3/3-4/7]

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Notice of Qual. of 607 West 47th Street Owner LP,

Notice of Qualiﬁcation of CARLYLE GLOBAL

Notice of Formation of SHADOWBOX DUMBO

Auth. ﬁled Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/28/16. Oﬀ.

INFRASTRUCTURE OPPORTUNITY FUND, L.P.

LLC. Arts. of Org. ﬁled with Secy. of State of

loc: NY Co. LP org. in DE 12/15/16. SSNY desig.

Authority ﬁled with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on

NY (SSNY) on 01/07/16. Oﬃce location: Kings

as agent of LP upon whom proc. against it may

2/23/17. Oﬃce location: New York County. LP

County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon

be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI,

formed in Cayman Islands (CG) on 4/6/16. SSNY

111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE oﬀ. addr.: 160

is designated as agent of LP upon whom process

Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert.

against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process

of LP on ﬁle: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE

to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. CG address of

19901. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at

LP: Cayman Corporate Centre, 27 Hospital Rd,

SSNY. Purp: any lawful activities. [3/3-4/7]

George Town, Grand Cayman KY1-9008, CG. List of names and addresses of all general partners

Notice of Qual. of 520 West 41 Mezz B Funding LLC, Auth. ﬁled Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/9/17. Oﬀ.

whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Daniel R. Glazer, 192 Perry Ave., Norwalk, CT 06850. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [3/24-4/28]

Notice of Formation of LAFAYETTE 199, LLC. Arts.

available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership

of Org. ﬁled with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on

ﬁled with CG Secy of State, 133 Elgin Ave, George

01/27/17. Oﬃce location: NY County. Princ. oﬃce

loc: NY Co. LLC org. in DE 1/9/17. SSNY desig.

Town, Grand Cayman, KY1-9000, CG. The name

of LLC: 199 Lafayette St., NY, NY 10012. SSNY

as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may

and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation

designated as agent of LLC upon whom process

be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI,

System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any

111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon

lawful activity. [3/24-4/28]

whom proc. may be served. DE oﬀ. addr.:160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on ﬁle: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp: any lawful activities. [3/3-4/7]

to Arthur Karpati, The Lafayette Commercial Condo, 195-207 Lafayette St., NY, NY 10012.

Notice of Formation of MANOR BROOK CIRCLE

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [3/24-4/28]

GROUP, LLC. Arts of Org. ﬁled with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/7/17. Oﬃce location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon

Notice of Formation of Structure Safety Group,

against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process

whom process against it may be served. SSNY

Notice of Formation of 212 BEEKMAN, LLC. Arts. of Org. ﬁled with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on

shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

03/15/17. Oﬃce location: NY County. Princ. oﬃce

LLC. Articles of Org ﬁled with Secy. of State of

The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT

of LLC: Florindo Valpacchio, 1150 Fifth Ave., NY,

NY (SSNY) on 11/21/2013. Oﬃce location: NY

Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

NY 10128. SSNY designated a,s agent of LLC

County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom

Purpose: any lawful activity. [3/24-4/28]

upon whom process against it may be served.

LLC amended to Structure Compliance Group,

process may be served to 633 3rd Ave., 17th Fl,

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service

NY, NY 10017. Principal Business Address: 633 3rd

Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, regd. agent

Ave., 17th Fl, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any Lawful Business Purpose. [3/3-4/7]

Notice of Qualification of CGIOF GENERAL PARTNER, L.P.Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/23/17. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Cayman Islands (CG)

upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Own and operate real estate and any other permissable purpose. [3/24-4/28]

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company.

on 4/6/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LP

Name: Urban Green Equities II, LLC (“LLC”).

upon whom process against it may be served.

Notice of formation of Explorism LLC ﬁled with the

Articles of Organization ﬁled with the Secretary

SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY

Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/8/17. Oﬃce loc.: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent

of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on

10011. CG address of LP: Cayman Corporate

January 27, 2017. NY oﬃce location: New York

Centre, 27 Hospital Rd, George Town, Grand

County. The SSNY has been designated as

Cayman KY1-9008, CG. List of names and

agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Urban Green Equities II, LLC, 333 Park Avenue South, Suite 4E, New York, New York 10010. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. [3/10-4/14]

addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership ﬁled with CG Secy of State, 133 Elgin Ave, George Town, Grand Cayman, KY1-9000, CG. The name and address

activity. [3/24-4/28]

of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/03/2017. Oﬃce location: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [3/10-4/14]

process to is Jeremie Lahmi, 52 Vanderbilt Ave., Suite 403, New York City, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [3/24-4/28]

Notice of Formation of ECP-PF: NY (PLATTSBURGH), LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/13/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 35 Old Tavern Rd., Ste. 200, Orange, CT 06477. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to ECP-PF Holdings Group, Inc., c/o Fred Dreibholz at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [3/24-4/28]

158 MONTGOMERY HOSPITALITY LLC, Arts. of Org. ﬁled with the SSNY on 03/03/2017. Oﬃce loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 465 Tenth Ave, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [3/24-4/28]

Notice of formation of CD JORDAN, LLC. Articles of Organization ﬁled with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/06/2017. Oﬃce location: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [3/24-4/28]

of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful

Notice of formation of A BIG AGENCY, LLC. Articles of Organization ﬁled with the Secretary

of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail copy of

Notice of Qualification of EFF FOREIGN INCOME BLOCKER LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/09/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/06/16. Princ. office of LLC: Goldman Sachs AIMS, 200 West St., 38th Fl., NY, NY 10282. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [3/24-4/28]

Call In Your Subscription Today at: (212) 920-6700 Ext. 10 or Fill Out This Form

Notice of Qualification of Family Dollar Services, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/23/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in North Carolina (NC) on 1/16/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to:10401 Monroe Rd, Matthews, NC 28105. NC address of LLC: 10401 Monroe Rd, Matthews, NC 28105. Cert. of Formation filed

otice of Application for Authority of UNCAS

with NC Secy of State, POB 29622, Raleigh, NC

INTERNATIONAL, LLC, a foreign limited liability

27626. Purpose: any lawful activity. [3/24-4/28]

company (LLC). Application for Authority ﬁled with

TEL:

Secy. of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/21/2017. LLC organized in Rhode Island on 01/27/2014.

(718) 998-7600 FAX: (347) 922-7366 E-MAIL: info@jewishvoiceny.com

Notice of Qualiﬁcation of TOR INVESTMENT

NY oﬃce location: NY County. SSNY designated

MANAGEMENT LLC. Authority ﬁled with Secy. of

as agent of LLC upon whom process against it

State of NY (SSNY) on 12/13/2016. Oﬃce location:

may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process

NY County. LLC formed in DE on 12/15/2015.

to: 1600 Division Road, West Warwick, RI 02893.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process

Oﬃce address in jurisdiction of organization: 1600

may be served and shall mail copy of process

Division Road, West Warwick, RI 02893. Copy of

against LLC to: Corp. Center, 1209 Orange

Articles of Organization on ﬁle with Secy. of State

St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Principal business

of Rhode Island, 148 West River St., Providence,

address: 1745 Broadway, 17th Floor NY, NY 10019.

RI 02904. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity.

Certiﬁcate of LLC ﬁled with Secy. of State of

[3/10-4/14]

DE located at: 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act. [3/24-4/28]

Notice of Formation of Times Square 43 LLC. Arts of Org. ﬁled with New York Secy of State (SSNY)

Notice of Qualiﬁcation of KYNIKOS TACTICAL

on 2/15/17. Oﬃce location: New York County.

FUND, L.P. Authority ﬁled with NY Secy of State

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom

(SSNY) on 1/13/17. Oﬃce location: New York

process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail

County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/12/17.

process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose:

SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom

any lawful activity. [3/10-4/14]

process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail

Notice of Formation of MONOCHROME

of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. List

process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address

MARKETING LLC. Articles of Org ﬁled with Secy.

of names and addresses of all general partners

of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/30/2017. Oﬃce

available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership

location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as

ﬁled with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4,

agent upon whom process against the LLC may

Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the

be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Thomas

Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th

Potts, 332 Leﬀerts Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225.

Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [3/10-4/14]

[3/24-4/28]

Summer Address:

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

9000

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ITALIAN RESTAURANT FOR SALE. $750K-$800K per year. Glen Cove, Busy Rd. Turnkey $365K. Fully Equipped. Seats approximately 110 people. Agent 917-478-3527 LM0324 GREAT OPPORTUNITY to own well established family restaurant business. All new equipment, parking for 50 vehicles in a high traﬃc area of Larchmont. Turn Key Operation. Motivated Seller. For more info, Call 917-577-8464 LM0414

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HAIR SALON FOR SALE. Huntington/ Dix Hills location. Established over 20 years. Clientele. Owner relocating. Contact 631-897-2507 or 631-732-1373 LM0414 INTERESTED IN EARNING INCOME WORKING FROM HOME? Part Time Hours. Full Time Income Potential. Call 516-482-1432 LM0324 OCEAN COUNTY “Your Senior Times” newspaper. Bi-monthly. Great paper. Circulation – 40,000. Great Opportunity. Turnkey system. Call Ron 732-244-5217 LM0930

FARM WITH US. NORTH DAKOTA. RED RIVER VALLEY FARMER. SEEKING INDIVIDUALS INTERESTED IN INVESTING IN FARMLAND. WOULD SHARE CROP OR LEASE. PARTIES WELCOME TO VISIT AND OBSERVE ALL ASPECTS OF PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SEE: WWW.SPROULEFARMS.COM CHECK OUT OUR U-TUBE FARM VIDEO. 218-779-1571 LM0729

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INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY

9010

INVESTORS WANTED. High End Art Broker & Appraiser of High End Art Transactions. National & International. Very Proﬁtable. Over 40 Years Experience. Please Call & Ask for Pat 904-566-3785 LM0407

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INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY IN FACTORING COMPANY. UP TO 12% APY, MONTHLY INCOME, BONUS BREAKPOINT POSSIBLE. CALL VINCE AT PORTFOLIO ADVISORS ALLIANCE 212-812-8900, OR EMAIL VHOBAN@ALLENPS. COM FOR MORE INFORMATION. PORTFOLIO ADVISORS ALLIANCE IS REGISTERED BROKER DEALER WITH FINRA AND SIPC. INVESTMENTS IN ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. PLEASE CAREFULLY READ THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE INVESTMENTS AND CONSULT YOUR ACCOUNTANT/ INVESTMENT ADVISOR/ ATTORNEY, PRIOR TO MAKING ANY INVESTMENTS. SECURITIES ARE ONLY OFFERED THROUGH A PROSPECTUS. EACH POTENTIAL INVESTOR SHOULD READ THE ENTIRE OFFERING MEMORANDUM, INFORMATION STATEMENT OR PROSPECTUS PROVIDED AND CAREFULLY CONSIDER ANY AND ALL RISKS OF INVESTMENT. SECURITIES ARE ONLY OFFERED IN STATES WHERE BOTH THE FIRM AND ITS REGISTERED REPRESENTATIVES ARE LICENSED. SECURITIES ARE ONLY OFFERED TO SUITABLE INVESTORS PURSUANT TO FINRA RULE 2111. PLEASE CONTACT THE FIRM FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. LM1021

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TO ADVERTISE IN The Jewish Voice CALL: 800-998-0885

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JOBS & SERVICES HELP WANTED

9020

SOCIAL MEDIA P/T OR F/T. For Jewish Voice. Please Call 718-998-7600 LM0317 TAX PREPARER. Small Accounting ﬁrm needs Tax Preparer, PT, ﬂexible hours for tax season. 845-297-0031 LM0303 Customer Service position. Full time, Mill Basin area. Some experience necessary. Call 888-704-3435 CB0224 DRUMMER LOOKING FOR LEAD GUITARIST, RHYTHM GUITARIST, BASS GUITARIST & KEYBOARDIST to do original material & covers. Dependability is a must. No time wasters! Call John 929-403-8082 LM0317 ELECTRICIAN NEEDED 3 plus yrs exp Must have own tools And able to work alone 718-522-3893 HS0506

RENTAL AGENTS WANTED FT-PT Work From Home Earn Good Income Will Train Call Ben 347-866-5619 718-266-9700 HS0429

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COMPANIONS & CERTIFIED NURSING AIDES NEEDED for non-medical senior home care. Flexible hours. Now hiring for Suﬀolk & Nassau County. Driver’s license & car required. If you enjoy working with the elderly & would like to work for a company that truly values their employees, call 516-629-5650. LM0217 BOOKKEEPER P/T For Jewish Voice Please Call 718-998-7600 LM0318

AREA CLAIMS WRITER AND PROPERTY INSPECTORS.

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HEALTH / SOCIAL SERVICES

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18 YEARS EXPERIENCE. Good

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LM0421

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LM0205

LM0407

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718-949-9233

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LESSONS

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WRITING SERVICES Are you looking for a

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TUTORING

9970

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9043

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HANDYMAN

9960

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9950

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CB0210

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9980

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• Circulation Manager • Telemarketers for Classified • & Subscription Sales • Sales Manager • Web Content Manager • Daily Email Blast Expert • Writers • Office Secretary

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LM0224

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JUNK REMOVAL

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PERSONALS

9025

MALE SEEKING FEMALE, skinny, non-smoker, 40-45 years old, who likes dogs. Bensonhurst only. Call 347-856-1937 LM0421 Male Looking for Skinny Female, 18-50. Call 929-365-1376 LM0407 SEEKING A 65-75 YEAR OLD JEWISH GENTLEMAN FOR A 69 YEAR OLD JEWISH LADY. Please Call Me At 646-3225535. Thank You! LM0317 Kohen – 52, state Employee, kind and compassionate, Attends shul daily seeks easygoing, friendly, and considerate lady (NonDivorcee) for marriage. Call718-219-5212 or email joseph13k@msn.com CB0303

FOR SALE

AUTOMOTIVE

REAL ESTATE

HYUNDAI ACCENT 2011, 4-door, White, Excellent Condition, 57,000 Miles. 914-332-1901 LM0331 NISSAN ROGUE SV SL 2013, AWD, 37,400 miles, excellent condition, new tires, negotiable, transferable 100,000 miles, 84 month warranty. $14,800 OBO. 845-225-3396 LM0407 MERCEDES 380 SLC 1981, rare, low production model, 2-door, silver blue, V-8 auto, runs ﬁne, fully loaded, no accidents, never ﬂooded, sun roof, garage kept, non-smoking. $3,900. 203-261-0175 LM0310 HONDA CIVIC LX 1999, 168,000 miles, great running condition, new timing belt, new water pump, new distributor, new rear shock absorbers, front struts, new exhaust system. $4,800. Call 845-269-7958 LM0324 NISSAN ROGUE SV SL 2013, AWD, 37,400 miles, excellent condition, new tires, negotiable, transferable 100,000 miles, 84 month warranty. $14,800 OBO. 845-225-3396 LM0407 2004 VOLKSWAGON PASSAT GLX. Platinum Silver, Gray Leather Interior. 71,000 Miles. Excellent Condition. $4,000. Call Mon- Sat, 10AM-4PM 845226-6149 LM0303

9040

HAY SALE. Good Quality 1st & 2nd cutting of Hay for sale. Call 845-361-2480 LM0414

BOATS FOR SALE 9052

BROOKLYN

QUEENS

1638

GRAVESEND OPEN HOUSE. One family detached brick in Gravesend area. 36 x 50 on 5694 sq ft lot. Full ﬁnished basement, detached 2 car garage, 3BR, 2 full baths, EIK, living rm, dining rm, basement, 2 large rms, kitchen, ½ bath. Owner Motivated! Call Agent Gina- Remax 917-584-4539 HS0712

OPEN HOUSE. EVERY SUN 1-4PM. 2910 Nostrand Ave (Kings Hwy & Ave P.) Drastic price reduction! Price includes roof terrace and parking. New 2 and 3 Bedrm Condos, 1,3751,451 SF, 2 baths, 2 kitchen sinks, elevator. Tax abatement. Final C of O. Wilk R.E. 718-3760606 HS0626

COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES FOR RENT BROOKLYN

1050

37th Street Between 1415 Avenue, 350 SF oﬃce, large windows, high ceiling, including furniture, internet & utilities Call 347-721-5244 CB0120

Oﬃce Space For Lease Flatbush 3,400 Sq Ft 1 Flight up, 7300 Sq Ft Lower Level, 10 Ft Will Divide, Build To Suit Call: Moshe 718-614-4646 CB1230 41 Marine Trader Sail Boat, refurbished, rebuilt diesel engine. New plumbing-wiring, Teak interior: Bedroom, living/ dining, 2 heads, galley kitchen. Price $39K. John 917-568-2754 LM0127

2050

OPEN HOUSES

CB0224

9044

MANHATTAN

34th St #252 W Betw/7th &8th ave.STORE 1800 SF + MEZZ 1500 SF New Storefront, BrokersWelcome Falcon Properties.com, 212-302-3000 HS0808

10 Beautiful Newly Decorated Classrooms. Air Conditioned. Immediate Rental. Central Bklyn Location. Serious Inquiries only. Available Immediately. Call: 718-837-3916 Leave Msg CB0113

ANTIQUE SLOT MACHINES. 1930 Mils, 5 cent & 10 cent, $1,650 each. 1920 NCR brass cash register, excellent, $1,550. 1950 Coke 3 button sign, $550. Penny Fortune Teller Scale, $500 & more. Call 516-2443563 LM0303

We buy and Sell Gold, Silver, Sterling Pieces, Bullion and Collectible Coins. We even buy old and broken pieces. Highest CA$H Prices Paid. Call 646379-3566. Eli@USCoinSpot. com *Meetings By Appointment Only CB0224

WANTAGH: 3BR, 1 1/2 baths, Iarge pool. Low taxes. $599,000. Nancisue Rosenthal 516-316-1030, Paulette Viola 516-668-8316. Coach Realtors of Hewlett 516-374-0100 LM0414

Avenue L/Nostrand Ave. 3 rm oﬃce, $1750, all included. Please call 718-513-6911 x101

30 Ladders, 6 compressors, 100 tools, vending brakes, alum. ramps, 8 lug tires & rims, comm. roll-ups, trains, toys, cameras, ammo & acc., plastic chippers +. Anytime. 732-267-8889 LM0317

ENTERTAINMENT

WAREHOUSE FOR RENT CONEY ISLAND near NEPTUNE AVE 11,000 sq ft, No Columns, M1 Zone $12,000 / month Call Mr. Harry @ ALPINE REALTY 718-238-1788 HS0724

9050

Boro Park/ 17th Ave, Dahill RdBeaut, newly renov oﬃce, pvt entr, bsmt 400 sq ft, sunlight, bth, c/a, room for 7/8 desks, pre-wired. Call: 347-871-1661 CB1118

OFFICE FOR RENT. AVE U & E 4th ST. Second ﬂoor. Great location. Call David at 718-9987600 Ext 10 LM0729

3050

RICHMOND HILL OFFICE FOR RENT. Corner space. Near courthouse, JFK Airport & hospital. Suit to fit. $1,600 per month includes all except for electric. Leave message 9AM5PM at 917-446-1658 LM0819 WAREHOUSE MASPETH, QUEENS 5,000 sq ft, NEW BUILDING, 2nd floor w/ Elevator & PATIO. 8,500 sq ft, ground floor, 30 ft ceilings. OWNER 347-739-1976 or grandproperty1@aol.com LM0317

HOWARD BEACH Medical Office for rent, established location across from shopping center, waiting room, reception area, 4 exam rooms+x-ray room. Handicap bathroom, 1st floor handicap accessible w/electric lift, 1800 sq. ft. parking easily available, 347- 322- 3614. HS0729 L I C- 460sf or 370 sq offices ,well managed building wf private, private bathrooms,views,of Manhatten.3-8 Minute walk to LIRR, 7 train,restaurants & shops Easy access 5to Midtown Tunnel , LIE & BQE Call 718-7848100 HS0701

BRONX

4050

3060 EAST TREMONT AVE: STORE FOR RENT. Top retail location, high pedestrian traﬃc, 3000sf, can be divided. For details: Raﬁ- 718-364-1400 or 347-495-0614

STATEN ISLAND

5050

DONGAN HILLS. Perfect for Psychologist, Accountant, Attorney, Financial Planner. Cozy 2 rooms with waiting area. $600 + utilities. Call Owner at 718-979-7458 LM0812 STATEN ISLAND STOREFRONT SPACE AVAILABLE FOR RENT ON BRADLEY AVE. High traﬃc area. Near school & temple. Please Call Dawn at 718-370-9700 LM0324

Well-Established Allstate Agency For Sale. Marine Park area. Agent wants to retire. Must be able to obtain your own financing & currently be .in the insurance business Call 917-301-2477

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6050

RETAIL STORE FOR RENT. 550 Northern Blvd. Great Neck (Across from Leonard’s.) 1600 sq ft. Fully renovated. Parking lot. Signage. HVAC. New LED lighting. New electric. Separate Gas, Electric, Taxes included. $7,500. By Owner 516-829-1244 LM0414

NEWLY FURNISHED & AFFORDABLE OFFICE SPACE For Psychotherapist & Related Professionals in Great Rockville Centre Location. Shared Waiting Room. Free Street Parking. Call 516-316-0096 LM0224 SOUTHAMPTON. Restaurant , wine bar, catering, wine tasting, patio dining, valet parking, chef’s garden. Over an acre. Jitney stop at property. Branding, hospitality, events, long term or pop-up. 702-378-6338 LM0106 FRANKLIN SQUARE OFFICE FOR RENT. Join Prof bldg w/ dentists & med doctors, good location, lots of parking. 1,000 sq ft avail. $22-$24/ per sq ft. 516-485-9740 LM1216 OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT LEVITTOWN A-1 Prof. Bldg. 1-2-3 Rm. Suites. From $399/ Mo.Free Utilites. 516-735-6681 LM0911

LONG ISLAND COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES FOR 6060 SALE SMITHTOWN, L.I. Excellent 3-story oﬃce building. 18k SF gross plus prkg. 85% occupied. Near LIRR, Rte 25, Proj 6%+ cap rate. $2.7M. Ron @ BESEN (646)424-5317 LM0324

NEW YORK STATE 7050 SUFFERN/ BARDONIA- PRIME OFFICE SPACE AVAIL. FOR RENT. One on Lafayette Ave next to Hospital in Suffern (good for doctors.) Another on 304 in Bardonia. 845-425-8880 LM0317 KENT Office/ Retail Space on Route 52 corridor. Move your business from your basement or use our space for your pop-up or incubator business. Spaces range from 750 sq ft to 2,000 sq ft. Rent ranges from $950 to $2,200. Short and long term leases available. 845-878-7833 LM0106 OSSINING. Commercial garage space, 2200 sq ft. Zoned for auto repair & body work. Also, commercial outside storage. Frame equipment for sale. Rental or sale available. 914-941-3239 or 914-804-3461 LM1216 OSSINING/ BRIARCLIFF. Certified Orofacial Myofunctional Therapist looking for Office Share for a professional in health related field. Asking rent $825/ month including utilities. Oromyologist.com 914-302-6983 LM1125

OSSINING. OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE BY OWNER: In the heart of Ossining, Spring & Main St. Walk to RR. 45/ min to NYC. Ideal professional space, suitable for professional and varied businesses. Spacious 3,200 sq ft room, can be divided into two offices, 1,600 sq ft/ each. One 400 sq ft office. Suite w/ conference room, kitchenette & 5 offices. Elevator access for ADA accessibility. Storage space available. TWO Municipal parking lots available w/ 3 free hours. Please Call Angelo 914-3375903 (O) or 914-282-9973 (C) LM1021

KATONAH- Office Suite for Rent. Charming Victorian House converted into professional office space. Furnished, sublet (400 sq ft) located on 2nd flr of bldg. Perfect for counselor or therapist. 2 min walk to train station. Call 914-232-4000

COMMERCIAL / PROPERTIES FOR SALE BROOKLYN

1060

SUNSET PARK 50’s. M-1-2 zone warehouse- 4,200 sq ft, with modern house- 3,000 sq ft. Delivered vacant. $13,000 combined. Ask for HarryAlpine Realty 718-238-1788 LM0210

Avenue M/ East 2nd Street. Approximately 1500 square feet basement, private entrance, 9 foot ceiling. Call 845-274-5886 CB0127

OUT OF STATE

8060

SWIMMING POOLS

TOMS RIVER/ OCEAN CTY, NJ. For Sale, user/ investor opportunity, 9,000 sq ft Commercial building on 1.74 acres with 2,700 sq ft leased to national tenant. Multipurpose building, drive-in doors, great for all type contractors. Traffic counts over 44,000 cars per day. REMCO REALTY 732-253-0888 x 11 LM0916 JERSEY CITY. Builder’s Dream! Exclusive, residential lot is located on a quiet street East of Garfield Ave. Asking $225,000. Hurry! Won’t last! Call Grisell Romero at Exit Preferred Realty 201-6533948 LM0902 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. Wilkes Barre, PA. 4 family income, $2200 a month, 4 garages, $150,000. Deli and 2 Apts, $120,000. We will hold mortgage. 570-825-8631 KK0911

LM1202

Building For Sale 15,000 sq. ft. 1,000 sq. ft. office 2 loading docks Linden, NJ Heimishe Area 30 min from Boro Park Call: 347-882-8037

PEEKSKILL COMMERCIAL PARKING SPACE AVAILABLE. Located at 1814 Crompond Rd, Route 202. For more information, Call 914-469-9178 LM0902

RW1230

ELMSFORD. 4,000 Sq Ft. High Bay Warehouse with office. 14 Ft overhead door. Drive in, no automotive. Call 914-5927229 LM0708 OFFICE SPACE OR HAIR SALON FULLY EQUIPPED FOR RENT, Rt. 6, Mohegan Lake, NY. For Information, Call 914282-6602 LM0708 WHITE PLAINS AREASTORAGE & PARKING RENTAL. Clean & convenient enclosed storage shed & outdoor truck parking. Perfect for contractors or landscapers. Call 914-923-3429 LM0701

BRONX COMMERCIAL FOR SALE 4060 13% Return on Investment Shopping Center, 27% Return on Equity with Depreciation. Built ’97 . 40,361 Sq .Ft. 12,000 Cars/Day. Low $ Down. Seller Financing. Bronx: Development 44 Apartments, Approved Plans: Mixed Use Elevator Little Italy 12% Return On Investment: Vacant Lot: Queens: 9 + MultiFamily 14% Projected Return on Investment 800-242-9888 AL@ LichtensteinRE.com CB0120

OUT OF STATE

8050

Desirable warehouse space near NJ Turnpike entrance & all major highways, close to all, 1st fl, multiple loading options, high ceilings, drive in doors, lots of vehicle parking, from 2,000 sf to 100,000 sf. Also refrigerator and freezer space avail. Call owner: 646-457-0517 CB0120 MIDDLETOWN/ RED BANK. Professional Office Suite in Bank Bldg at 75 Hwy 35 North, 1st floor, 650 sq ft. 732-741-3313 LM1223 OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT. BRICK, NJ. 775 sq ft. Office Space. 2 Suites available. Great high visibility location. Perfect for attorney or the like. $1,250/ month. 732-2455119 LM1125 OAKHURST, NJ. Office space for rent. 1 block off Rt. 35. $295. Large office, $475. Both include utilities + wait area. 732-859-2296 LM1230

For Sale – Brooklyn Industrial Warehouse & Dev Site (M1-4) 30,000 Built SF + 150’ Wide Dev Site Call Marcus Jecklin Epic Commercial Realty (646) 278-4674

MANHATTAN

2060

WELL ESTABLISHED AMERICAN DINER LOCATED IN THE MIDTOWN EAST AREA. GREAT OPPORTUNITY. REASONABLE PRICE. RENT LISTED UNDER MARKET VALUE. FOR FURTHER INFO. CONTACT NICK(646) 209-2671. RW

QUEENS

3060

2 WAREHOUSES FOR SALE IN LONG ISLAND CITY. Unique Opportunity for a Visionary Investor, or Best Use! LONG ISLAND CITY WITH WALKING DISTANCE TO 9 TRAIN LINES. R, N, Q,W, E, F, 7, M, AND G TRAINS. Less than a Mile to RFK, Tri-Borough, Pulaski Bridges and Midtown Tunnel. SUPER CENTRAL LOCATION! Please CALL 347-539-0052 LM1223

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY FOR SALE QUEENS, GLENDALE, NY 25 SQ FT REFURNISHED. BIG STORE FRONT WINDS & LARGE OFFICE WITH 3 PARKING SPACES. GOOD FOR MEDICAL OFFICE OR RETAIL BUSINESS CONTACT : SAL @ (917) 921-5239 RW0423

NEW YORK STATE 7060 FISHKILL/ PUTNAM VALLEY. 34 acres- $149K, 47.5 acres$249K, both sub-dividable and best offer. Putnam Valley- 21 acres, sub-dividable, $245K or best offer. 914-462-2620 LM0428

PAWLING, NY. Four Lots for sale in Cushman Farms. Lots have ample acreage & are set up to start building your dream house. Views are breathtaking. Great place for your family or retirement. Call 914-949-2000 Ext. 428 LM0923

APARTMENTS FOR RENT BROOKLYN

1010

WILLIAMSBURG. NO FEE! Renovated 2BR Apt, $2,496. Ceramic Tile & Parquet Floors. 3 Blocks to Williamsburg Bridge. “BROKERS WELCOME.” Call Zhana 917302-2394 LM0407 AVE I/ E 15th ST. Studio apt, 3rd ﬂoor walk-up. No Fee. Principals only. $900. Call Owner 718-575-9600 LM0407 AVE X BETWEEN EAST 7 ST &; CONEY ISLAND AVE. 1 bedroom walk-in apt, move-in condition. $1,400 per month. No pets, no smoking. Call Owner 646-752- 6641 LM0224 AVE Y near Ocean Pkwy. 2 BR apt, new kit/applncs, terrace, 2nd ﬂr. Move in cond. 718-9743884, 347-574-1814 CB0127 OCEAN PKWY/L & M. First Floor 1 BR apt. Mod Kit & bth. Private house. All utilities included. $1,500. Call 917-559-5447 CB0113 Midwood For rent studio (also can be used for office) 2,3,4 Bedrooms Apts Call 718.376.4444

MANHATTAN

2010

UPPER WEST SIDE – West End & 99 St.Seeking, roommate, spacious, 7RM, Apt.BR, Shower, shared kitchen, DR,$2,000/mo E; adyassky@ aol.com / 212-864-5288 HS0506

BRONX

4010

Bronx Tremont. 1820 Clinton Ave & 175th ST. Beautiful 1 Bedroom In A 3 Family House No Pets. $1000. See Landlord SAT ONLY. Call Owner 718-299-8347AE0115

LONG ISLAND

6010

COMMACK. Rent 2 rooms. 1 Large Bedroom, 1 Sitting Room & Private Bath. No smoking, no pets. Private. 631-864-3015 LM0407

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REAL ESTATE EAST NORTHPORT- 1 Bedroom Apartment. Newly Painted, Private Entrance. Offstreet Parking. No Smoking. No Pets. $800/ month. 2 months’ security; background check. 516-662-2187 LM0303 LINDENHURST: Gorgeous, All New! 1BR, Eat-in kitchen, full bath, closets, no smoking, no pets, references a must! 1 month rent/ security. $1,650/ all, includes flat screen/ fios/ wifi. 516-661-7539 LM0127 FARMINGDALE. New, Very Large Apt, 1453 sq ft, 3 big bedrooms, walk-in closet, central a/c, central heat. Near LIRR. Private entrance. Immediate! $2,350 + utilities. 1 month security. No pets, no smoking. References checked. 631-252-0720 LM0113 DEER PARK. Small 1BR, small kitchen, driveway parking. No smoking, no pets. 2 month’s security. $850 + utilities. Available now. Owner 516-848-5631 LM1202 SOUTH HEMPSTEAD. Rockville Centre schools, 3BR, 2 baths, EIK, DR, LR, deck, in-ground pool 16x32. Near Molloy College. Gorgeous Apt. $2,700. 516-385-2165 LM0923

NEW YORK STATE 7010 NEW ROCHELLE/ WESTCHESTER. 1BR apts available. Extra-large rooms, eat-in kitchen. Near shops/ beach. No pets. $1625/ $1550/ $1490. 914-478-2442 LM0715

OUT OF STATE

8010

WEST NEW YORK, NJ. 3BR, LR, DR & garage. ½ block from Blvd East. $2,300. Call Mariana at Coccia Realty 201893-6257 or 201-867-2100 LM0515

L.I. APT. RENTAL WANTED

LONG ISLAND CONDO FOR SALE

SEAFORD HARBOR: RENTAL WANTED: apt or studio. Sandy survivor seeks to move back to Seaford Harbor. Call Don 516-428-8916 LM0619

APARTMENTS FOR SALE / CONDOS BROOKLYN

1020

Bed Stuy Get more bang for your buck with this LARGE 1007 SqFt condo ,located on a beautiful tree lined block .$600,000. NEGOTIABLE . 347-493-6976 HS0506

MANHATTAN

2020

NYC, West End Avenue, 84/85 St. lg 7rm Condo for sale. 2500 sf, 5 BR, 3 bths Drmn bldg, no bkrs, $ 4.75M 917806-5080 HS0311

QUEENS

3020

KEW GARDENS CONDO FOR SALE. 116-24 Grosvenor Lane. Modern & renovated 2BR, 1 bath, balcony, gym, common room, rooftop terrace, concierge. Low floor. Immediate parking available. Walk to temple. Asking $499K. Call Jason at Prime Realty 718-229-2922 LM1113

LONG ISLAND

6020

RONKONKOMA / NOB HILL – End unit, second floor, 2BR condo. Pergo & new tile in kitchen bath & balcony. Pool & tennis/ $222K. Call Owner 631-806-3488 LM0318

HOUSE FOR RENT 6030 PLAINVIEW. 3 Year Old Colonial! 4BR, 3 baths, 22’ EIK with island, 15’ FDR, 30’ MBR Suite. Huge Bsmt. Job Relocation Forced Sale. $5,100. Realtor 516-316-8551 LM0708

NEW YORK STATE 7020 Winter and Summer Vacation Rental. Beautiful nine Bedroom house in South Fallsburg, New York, (sleeps up to twenty five), two fireplaces, huge kitchen and dining room, living room, oversized porch. Available for family retreats. Please call 347-309-8485 to reserve your weekend. CB0217 Scarsdale is located in beautiful Westchester County a residential community only 24 miles north of New York City and rated as a leading upscale community, has an outstanding school system with 99% of its graduates going on to higher education. There are over 20 parks and playgrounds, 26 public tennis courts, a municipal pool, and two 18-hole golf courses with Scarsdale Boundaries. The downtown Village Center, with its Tudor architecture, has a variety of stores, professional offices and residential units and the Metro North Railroad. It so situated so that you can enjoy city life, suburban life, country life and ocean life within relatively short distances.

114 BIRCHALL DRIVE. OPEN HOUSE SATURDAYS 2-3:30PM OR APPOINTMENT.. Call Ray 212 602 1137 This house is located in the prestigious Murray Hill location near the finest school system, five minutes from the Metro North and thirty five minutes outside of Manhattan. Truly a great value being offered by a Motivated Seller. Built in 1933 as a small mansion on one acre, this house has been upgraded to a larger home with attached 2 car garage for a growing family. Enter into a formal foyer with half bath right into a large country kitchen, granite island with bright breakfast area leading into Mother-in-law or Media Room. The house has a formal 35 foot long dining room with fireplace and wet bar. The 1400 sf. family room contains three exposures, a 30ft cathedral ceiling, and a second fireplace. Exit onto onto a wrapdeck which spirals down to a 600 sf. patio overlooking the rear of the property / gardens. The second floor features 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, a master bedroom with cathedral ceiling, and a Romeo Juliet balcony overlooking the family room. Marble Master bathroom with jacuzzi tub and separate glass shower. Servants’ quarters converted into bedroom and laundry room. The basement level features large rec- room with Lap Pool and lower den with FDR fireplace. Exit the den onto a large patio overlooking large rear property, with babbling brook ample for garden & children’s play.

OUT OF STATE

8020

CONDO FOR SALE FLORIDA BAL- HARBOR/RITZ CARLTON Great investment w/income potential Rarely avail 2 BR.2 ½ bth,sub-P/H suite in best line (14/15) w/ spectacular ocean & city views ,pvt foyer & elev.fully furn designer décor, world class amenities & services the ONLY deeded garage space in hotel Nr “The Shul “ Contact Douglas Elliman R.E Betsey Lee Turner 305-310-6888 HS0115

HOUSES FOR RENT BROOKLYN

AVE L & M/ NEW YORK AVE. 3BR, 2 ﬂoors, 1 ½ baths, living rm, dining rm, kitchen, hook-up for washer & dryer available. Master bedrm has balcony. Also available, bsmt apt with separate entrance. Owner 718-554-1001 LM0317 Ave N/ Bedford, Very large,Mod,1 Fam,3 BR 2 Bth,Duplex, pvt drv,gar,lrg deck,Must See1 $3,950, Bkr 718-382-4839 HS0610

NEW YORK STATE 7030 DOBBS FERRY- 2BR with porch, W/D, parking, close to schools & transportation. Good schools! 20 minute train ride to Manhattan. No pets. Available immediately. 917-838-9040 LM1209

CHARMING 1880 WHALERS HOME. Near Sag Harbor on Ferry Road, bay access, greenery: 4BR, 2 baths, ﬁreplace, remodeled kitchen/ bath. (10/15-6/30): $3,500 per month; Or (10/15-5/23): $2,500/ month. Call/ text 303476-0159 LM1016

QUEENS

NEW JERSEY SEASIDE HEIGHTS: OPEN HOUSE Sat/Sun 1-4, 1 Blvd New Condos Starting @ $399,900 Ocn & Bay views 1 Blk-Bch shopping & restaurants, upgrades everywhere. Mike Seaside Rlty Inc 732-330-6651 HS0527

YOUNGSVILLE, NY (CATSKILLS) CHARMING LARGE FARM HOUSE ON 16 ACRES W BARN & DETACHED 2 CAR GARAGE, 3-4 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS, LARGE ATTIC AND BASEMENT. CLOSE TO DELAWARE WATER ACTIVITIES AND BETHELWOODS ART CENTER. ASKING $225.000. CALL OWNER AT 201-681-7980

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1030

3030

FLUSHING, N.Y. Location, Location, 3BR TUDOR detached. Garage, Kitchen w/new SS appliances, Large Dining Rm, Living Rm w/ Fireplace, Sun Porch, W/D Walking Distance to Synagogue, near all LIRR. 10 min to Whitestone Br. MLS + 2% rebate. Asking $888.000. Call 718-308-7184 www.choicearea. com HS1211

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RANCH ON .66 ACRES, BUILT 1957, 1983 SQ FT, 7 RMS 2 BATH, 4 BED RMS, LIV RM, DIN/SUN RM 14 X 24, FAM/ TV RM, KITCHEN, LAUNDRY RM OFF KITCH, BASEMENT 250 SQ FT BEDROOM WITH BATH + 2 CLOSETS, 2 CAR GARAGE. IN GND POOL,16 X 32, 12 X 12 SHED. HOT WATER BB HEAT, 200 AMP ELEC SVC, CENTRAL AIR, KITCHEN REMAKE 2010, 3 OVENS, HARD WOOD FLRS THRUOUT, RECENTLY FINISHED PATIO AND WALKWAYS, NEW LANDSCAPING, MANY EXTRAS, ARLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, COMBINED TAXES 2015 $5278, 12 MINUTES FROM METRO NORTH OR TSP. 845-471-6874 OR JJD414GC@AOL.COM (APPOINTMENT ONLY)

OUT OF STATE

8030

NEW YORK STATE 7040

DEAL, NJ. Outstanding Townhouse in the Heart of Deal. Living room, dining room, designer kitchen, 4BR, 3 ½ baths, full ﬁn bsmt with BR & bath. Garage. $3,800/ month. Credit check. Call Dot Schulze Agency 732-229-2600 LM0902

HOUSES FOR SALE BROOKLYN

SOMERS. Charming, move-in ready 4BR, 3 baths, raised ranch, located on cul-de-sac in Somers school district. Home features new kitchen/ master bath, central air, pool, automatic generator and lots more. $595,000. Owner 914403-1243 LM0414

OUT OF STATE

8040

1040

GLADSTONE, VA. Large Cape Cod, Spacious, Full Basement, 5BR, on 88 Acres, w/Guest House & Pond. $879,000. Yoder Properties 434-547-9131 LM0421

FLORIDA

No. Miami Beach. 4 houses for sale in heart of Jewish community. Also Miami Bch. Lic Real Estate Broker Call Erica 305-761-1612 CB0127 KEY WEST. CONDO FOR RENT. January 7- January 14, 2017. 2BR’s, 2 baths, $1,800. 631-722-3026 LM1216

PLOTS FOR SALE

GRAVESEND (PRIME). 2 family,

9080

9065

double buildable, 40x100 lot, $1.375 Million. 2360 & 62 East 1st Street. Barbara Puccia Realty- Brokerage Cell 718755-1609 www.BarbaraPuccia. com LM0127

QUEENS

3040

KGH- 68TH RD. Well kept det. Lot 48 x 100. 4BR/ 3 baths, laundry, oﬃce, large EIK, 2nd ﬂoor BR with balcony. 347-455-0066 HS0902

BRONX

4040

* NE Bronx Residential Area * 3 BR Duplex, lg rms., ﬁn

Waterford, CT $749,000. 6bed, 4.5bath home. Au pair/In law/ Close to beaches/ New London. Outdoor pool. Tranquil/quiet. Immaculate like new! Call 806-912-3377 HS0821 BRICK. 4 Family on Metedeconk River. Extremely unusual property. Bulkhead w/dock. Long deep driveway. Opportunity to own on river & still earn income from 3 other apts. Owner anxious. Reduced to $569K. Exit Realty 732-920-2060 LM0421

PINELAWN Mausoleum for 2. Zinnia Ct. $20,000. 918-406-2624 LM0421

MT. ARARAT Section #51, Beautiful Location, 1 Plot, 2 Graves, No Annual Grave Care Bills. Value is $14,000. Selling for $8,000. 917-287-0005 LM0414 2 GARDEN CRYPT, Eye Level at Holmdel Cemetery. Valued $12,000. Asking $8,500. 908783- 8475 LM0324 PLOT FOR SALE: ROSEHILLS MEMORIAL PARK. Beautiful elevated GARDEN E level 5. $7,500 or best oﬀer. 203-595-5414 LM0217 BETH DAVID CEMETERY, ELMONT, NY. Two single plots. $4,000 neg. for both plots. Good location. Row CC. Graves 3 & 4. Call 954-472-3429 LM0310

FRANKLIN LAKES. GATED RETREAT ON 3 PRIVATE ACRES, ELEVATOR, LAVISH GOURMET KITCHEN, EXTRAORDINARY FEATURES, $1,899,999. DEBBIE 201-925-7667 OR WWW.811COLONIAL ROADFRANKLINLAKES.COM LM0113

bsmt, 2 complete mod bths, lg fenced bkyd, Mod Kit, garage

Spacious Lakefront With Water Views Single Family 5 Bdrms – 2 Master Bdrms w/Sep Bths, 4.5 Bths All, LR, DR, Gourmet Kit, 3 Car Gar, Huge Lake w/Endless Boating & Fishing, Private Boat Dock Can Be Built

owner 718-882-4665 MK0220

782145

FOR SALE • ORLANDO VICINITY

ASKING $625K BY OWNER 443-875-9204

CATSKILL MT./ HUDSON VALLEY HOME FOR SALE 4 BEDROOM HOME INLAW APART. OFFI CE SUITE 2 1/2 HRS FROM NYC FLEXIBLE SPACE ADD. LAND AVAIL SUITABLE FOR FAMILY COMPOUND WWW.24JOELMAUSTIN.COM 518 622-9647 LM1002

+ driveway. Priced to sell! Call

STATEN ISLAND

5040

Staten Island Mountaindale: 3 BRs. htd Fl arm, ﬁn bsmt, 2 bths, lg EIK, some furniture. Heated & A/c’s. Mint condition.

Mill Basin Exclusive: Semi attached 1 family 6.5 room 3 Bedrooms, 2 Bath duplex. Full ﬁnished basement. Parking.. ASKING $569,000 JS511

All new appliances. Nr. shul. 917-453-6926. HS0729

LONG ISLAND

6040

2 Family Attached BRICK. Owner has 6.5 rooms duplex. 3 bedrroms, 3 baths, private parking for 2 cars, yard and deck. 4 room. 2 bedrooms Rental JS510...........................$889,000 BEST SELLER #1 Properties 718.646-6900

WANTAGH: 3BR, 1 1/2 baths, Iarge pool. Low taxes. $599,000. Nancisue Rosenthal 516-316-1030, Paulette Viola 516-668-8316. Coach Realtors of Hewlett 516-374-0100 LM0414

SPACIOUS TOWNHOUSE FOR SALE LOCATED IN THE HEART OF DEAL, NJ. THREE LEVELS, 3/4 BEDROOMS, 3-1/2 BATHS, BASEMENT, GARAGE AND MORE. WALK TO BEACH, SHOPPING, HOUSES OF WORSHIP. EASY LIVING ON THE JERSEY SHORE. PRICED TO SELL @ $548,000. CALL MARY TAWIL @ 732-693-8210.

MERRICK-WATERFRONT HOME, HAMPTONS IN MERRICK, 4BR, 2.5 BA, Dock your boat in backyard, 2 car garage, Low taxes. No damage from Sandy. Walking distance to house of worship. $839K 516-532-4626 CENTER MORICHES. By Owner. 4 Crosby St. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, kitchen, living room, den, 2.5 car garage with shop. $319,000. Call 631-987-5764 LM0501

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