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Israel Celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut Amid Optimism; F-35 Jets Featured at Air Show

Spectators gathered across the country to watch the Israeli Airforce display its new F-35 stealth fighter jets, along with other member of the IAF fleet, for an Independence Day flyover. The F-35s, made by US-based Lockheed Martin, were the highlight of the show, which marked 69 years of Israeli independence.

By: Fern Sidman

t Har Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on Monday evening, a torch lighting ceremony was held that opened the stream of events celebrating Israel’s 69th birthday. Also known as Israel Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzmaut), the annual high spirited celebration traditionally attracts a seemingly infinite number of people from across Israel and beyond. Each year, Israel commemorates Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) and Yom Ha’atzmaut on back to back days on the 4th and 5th days of the Hebrew month of Iyar. Yom HaZikaron is a somber day of reflection and an emo-

tionally charged commemoration of its brave citizens and volunteers who lost their lives in the line of duty; fighting to the defend the Jewish state and its eternal values from an onslaught of enemies. Yom Ha’atzmaut, on the other hand, is a exceptionally joyous event that is marked by a party atmosphere as it is ushered in only minutes after the conclusion of Yom HaZikaron. Speaking at the Yom Ha’atzmaut torch lighting event was Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu . “Every year the country gets stronger, advances and strengthens its status as a clear world power. Its accomplishments are great in the fields of security, economics, foreign relations, technology, science, culture, and every other

field.” “To youth among us, independence may be perceived as something natural; I say that Israeli independence is not a free gift. Generations of Jews were in exile and we have a home. We are pushing the State of Israel to new heights, and the accomplishments of the past give us great hope for the future,” he said, according to an INN report. Israelis must preserve national unity despite internal tensions and hatred, said Yuli Edelstein, the speaker of the country's parliament, at the ceremony. "Not everything in our lives is Right or Left," said Edelstein. "Not every right-winger is a rightist fascist, and not every left-winger is a leftist traitor.

If we continue down this unacceptable path, we will lead ourselves to factionalism and bring destruction on ourselves."

“Every year the country gets stronger, advances and strengthens its status as a clear world power” – Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu According to an i24 News report, the speaker dedicated the bulk of his statements to Jerusalem, with 2017 being the 50th anniversary of Israeli sovereignty over the entire city. "This year, all of us, all of us, are Jerusalem!"

he asserted. "Jerusalem is the source of the power and spirit of this people," said Edelstein. "Therefore, today we must preserve the unity of Jerusalem, but no less – we must preserve the unity of Israel." Among those who participated in the ceremonial torch lighting were, for the first time, two Americans representing the Jewish diaspora. Rabbi Marvin Hier, who delivered remarks at President Donald Trump's inauguration, and Michael Steinhardt, one of the founders of the Taglit-Birthright program.

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NYC Council Candidate Adds to His Anti-Semitic Repertoire By: Ben Sales

homas Lopez-Pierre says he’s not an anti-Semite. He just believes a cabal of “greedy Jewish landlords” is conspiring, funded by money from Israel, to conduct “ethnic cleansing” of black and Latino residents from Harlem. He believes the Jewish media are covering it up. And if his rhetoric makes Jews upset? “Too bad,” he says. “I don’t care. “Only now am I realizing that Jewish people can’t seem to separate themselves from each other,” he told JTA in an interview Friday. “An attack on greedy Jewish landlords is perceived to be an attack on all Jews. And you know what? Too bad. If that’s the way the Jewish community wants to take it, too bad.” Lopez-Pierre is running a primary campaign against Democratic City Council member

Mark Levine, who since 2014 represents a district covering much of West Harlem in Upper Manhattan. Lopez-Pierre previously ran for the seat in 2013, unsuccessfully. His screed against Jewish landlords is at the center of his campaign. His Twitter bio reads “Jewish landlords OWN 80% of private rental buildings in Upper Manhattan; GUILTY of GREED for pushing Black/Hispanic tenants out.” The Anti-Defamation League released a statement calling Lopez-Pierre’s statement a “deeply offensive anti-Semitic stereotype.” During a 20-minute conversation, I tried to extract why Lopez-Pierre thought the landlords’ religion was important. He repeated the 80 percent figure — but wouldn’t provide any evidence for it — and launched into a lecture on what he called “group economics,” or how members of a certain ethnicity or religion work together for

investment money from Israel, buy apartment buildings in the historically black neighborhood and push tenants out. “These Jewish landlords are using their ownership to engage in ethnic cleansing of black and Latino tenants,” he said. And he added that Jewish journalists choose not to report on it. “Your colleagues in the Jewish media, they don’t want to talk about this,” he said. “But maybe you have a pair of balls. I’d be impressed.” Lopez-Pierre says he’s a licensed real-estate broker. He’s also behind a series of apparent business ventures in Harlem to promote African-American patronage of African-American-owned businesses, but it’s New York City council candidate Thomas Lopez-Pierre believes unclear how active any of them a cabal of “greedy Jewish landlords” is conspiring, funded by are. money from Israel, to conduct “ethnic cleansing” of black and One venture was the “HarLatino residents from Harlem. He believes the Jewish media are lem Restaurant Book,” a guide covering it up. to black-owned restaurants in Lopez-Pierre alleged that the neighborhood. But now, class and religion. It’s a fantasy to believe otherwise. There there was a scheme among Jew- the website harlemrestaurantare Jewish neighborhoods, ish landlords in Harlem to take book.com is the homepage for their mutual benefit. “If they were Italian, I would say Italian,” he said. “We live in neighborhoods based on race,

there are Puerto Rican neighborhoods, there are Jamaican neighborhoods, there are Indian neighborhoods.”

the Harlem Family Eviction Prevention Fund, a tenants’ rights group also chaired by Lopez-Pierre. The fund has an empty events calendar, and its record of “bad landlord news” ends in 2015. Lopez also created a site for the Harlem Real Estate Fund, where he’s the only employee. At least one venture of Lopez-Pierre’s appears to have netted him some cash. According to the New York Post, he raised more than $5,000 with a crowdfunding campaign by pretending it was an effort to oppose him. Lopez-Pierre dismissed the idea that he was engaging in anti-Semitic bigotry. “If Jewish doctors are angry with me because I’m attacking greedy Jewish landlords, if Jewish social workers are upset with me because I’m attacking greedy Jewish landlords, too bad, I don’t care,” he said. ‘It’s not my job to care about their feelings.” (JTA)

Dietl’s Alleged Racist Comment May Cost Him the Mayoral Bid By Rebecca Gold

n Wednesday, April 26, during the Republican candidate forum for New York City mayor, possible front runner Bo Dietl made some comments that could potentially cost him the race.

"The judge looked like Chirlane de Blasio, and as soon as I saw her – as soon as I saw her – I knew I had a problem.” Dietl compared the judge who blocked him from running this year in the Democratic mayoral primary citing a paperwork error, to Mayor de Blasio’s wife. His remark is being called

racist, because both Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Debra James and the mayor’s wife Chirlane McCray are black. At the event, Dietl said, “I checked two boxes, because I wanted to run as an independent and a Democrat, but I always wanted that independent line. You know what happened? They threw me off. And you know what happened? I went to Supreme Court, and de Blasio had three lawyers there, and the judge wouldn’t even hear the defense. And you know what they said to me? They said to me, ‘You are a man with no party.’ That just got me – this is just de Blasio’s tentacles reaching – first of all, the judge looked like Chirlane de Blasio, and as soon as I saw her – as soon as I saw her – I knew I had a problem. She wouldn’t let me talk.”

now has shot himself in the foot. On Friday, April 29, during a press conference, Dietl explained that nothing about his comment was racist and there was no mal intent. Dietl said, “My thought was it looked like the mayor’s wife and I said maybe the mayor put his wife in there to make a judgment against me. I was kidding. You know what kidding is? In my mind I said to myself, ‘Wait a second she looks just like the mayor’s wife. She looks just like her.’ So where is the racist part in that? I don’t understand. She has the same smile, same eyes.” He added, “There was nothBo Dietl is hoping to run as the Republican candidate for New ing racial nor was there any raYork City mayor. cial offense intended.” 1010 WINS’ Sonia Rincon Now many Republicans are joke. calling on Dietl to withdraw Everyone knows Dietl has a reported that Dietl doesn’t really from the race, as he defends “shoot-from-the-hip style,” but feel there is anyone to apologize himself saying it was merely a all the papers’ are asking if he to.

Dietl said, “What would I apologize for Ms. McCray because she looks similar to the other lady, the judge? If they want me to apologize? If she really was affected? She doesn’t want to look like the judge? They’re both beautiful women.” The New York Post and Daily News both published editorials on Friday April 29, that called on Dietl to pull out of the race. Dietl response to both papers with even more determination, vowing to do whatever necessary to be in the race, even run as a third-party candidate. He said, “I am running for mayor, and I’m sorry New York Post and The New York Daily News, whoever doesn’t want to endorse me. I’ve got to let people know, all the people out there, I am running for mayor. I will be there in November.”

Sen. Golden Proposes NY Repeal State Mansion Tax, Save Buyers $380M By Charles Bernstein

tate Senator Marty Golden is pushing for the state mansion tax to be repealed, just after the state budget was passed with the exclusion of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposed city mansion tax, state Sen. Marty Golden wants to do away with the state mansion tax altogether. On the sales of residential properties that cost more than $1 million, New York state currently has a one percent tax. The Brooklyn democrat Senator Golden, who caucuses with Republicans, has introduced a bill to repeal this tax. He esti-

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struggling to come up with the cash to purchase a moderate sized, constructed and furnished family home.” The Real Deal reports, “The mayor — who’s unsuccessfully pushed for a mansion tax before — now wants a 2.5 percent tax on purchases above $2 million. City Hall estimated the tax would impact 4,500 residential real estate deals, generating $336 million in revenue in 2018. The $153.1 billion state budget, passed by the legislature on April 9, renewed the millionaires’ tax New York State Senator Marty Golden New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on residents who earn more mated that buyers could save In a sponsor’s memo, Gold- Since then, the average price added that the mansion tax than $1 million, but did not $380 million in tax payments en wrote, “The State’s ‘man- of a home in most parts of the has become a “burden on the include de Blasio’s proposed with the removal of the tax. sion’ tax was imposed in 1988. State has at least doubled.” He middle class, who are already mansion tax.” Arts and Culture

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15 NYC Hospitals Flagged by Dept of Health for High Patient Infection Rates By Hadassa Kalatizadeh

he NY State Health Department flagged 52 hospitals for having patient infection rates that significantly surpass the state’s average. Alarmingly, 15 of those hospitals are in New York City. SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, was one of the state hospitals cited in the consumer report, which is based on 2015 figures. There, patients had a central line-associated bloodstream infection rate of 3.43 percent, almost 3½ times the state’s average. These are infections where bacteria or other organisms enter the body through a tube placed into a large vein. As reported by the NY Post, five city-run public hospitals were mentioned in the report. Among them was Metropolitan Hospital in East Harlem, where

NY’s private hospitals were not exempt from the list. In Manhattan, Mount Sinai Hospital’s rate of infection from Clostridium difficile was 48 percent higher than the average. This bacterium can cause diarrhea and severe intestinal damage. At Morgan Stanley/ New York-Presbyterian Hospital the central-line infection rate was 39 percent higher than average. In Brooklyn, Brookdale Hospital had surgical site and bloodline infection rates 2½ times higher than the average. Brooklyn Hospital SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, was one of the Center and Wyckoff also had state hospitals cited in the consumer report, which is based on infection rates that were high2015 figures er than average. In the Bronx, patients had an 11 percent in- cent rate of chest infections for Lebanon Hospital’s infection fection rate for hip replacement coronary artery bypass, whilst rate for surgeries was more surgery, or 10 times the state the state average is 1.9 percent. than double the state average, average. Elmhurst Hospital had Woodhull Hospital in Brook- and St. Barnabas Hospital’s a 16 percent rate of infections lyn and Lincoln Hospital in the central-line infection rate was for colon procedures, which is Bronx both had a central-line double the average. Flushing nearly three times the average. infection rate that was double Hospital in Queens and St. John’s Episcopal in Far RockaBellevue Hospital had a 5 per- that of the state average.

Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn and Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx both had a central-line infection rate that was double that of the state average. way both also had central-line infection rates double the average rate. “The longer a person stays in the hospital, the higher the total risk of acquiring an infection,” said the state health department’s report. Bacterial infections can be fatal. “Infections are much more serious because the antibiotics don’t work. We have to reduce drug-resistant infections,” said former Lieutenant Governor, Betsy McCaughey, a member of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. See 15 NYC Hospitals Flagged, page 36

NYS Legislature Writes New Bill Aimed at Obtaining Trump’s Tax Returns By: Ilana Siyance

ew York Democrats have devised a plan to get President Trump to release his tax records. They have written a piece of legislation designed to obtain his state returns. The new bill, introduced this month in New York’s Senate and Assembly, would require the state to release five years of state tax information for any president or vice president who files a New York state return. While the bill does not name President Trump directly, it is directed to none other than him. The only others whom the requirement would apply to, are the state’s two U.S. senators and top state positions, namely Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Schneiderman and Cuomo have both already voluntarily released

their tax returns. While the President’s state return would not include all the details of a federal tax return. Supporters say though, that it would provide the public with a lot of additional information about the president’s potential conflicts of interest, and on how his tax cut proposals would impact his own finances. As per vosizneias, the Democrat-led state Assembly is likely to back the measure, whereas the Senate, which has a Republicans majority, is not likely to support it. “This sounds like a P.R. stunt,” said Scott Reif, a Senate GOP Spokesman. NY is not the only state to initiate new legislature. Over two dozen states have crafted bills that would require presidential candidates to release their federal tax returns as a prerequisite to having their names appear on that state’s ballot. Of

is a native New Yorker, NYS “is in a unique position to change the national conversation,” said Democratic Senator Brad Hoylman of Manhattan. Thus far, tax returns have been considered personal information and not the subject of public scrutiny. Still, since Jimmy Carter, every President has released his tax returns. So far, Mr. Trump has refused to release his taxes, saying he would do so when the Internal Revenue Service completes an ongoing audit. Demonstrators have rallied and marched in New York and othDemocratic Senator Brad er states, to demand President Hoylman of Manhattan said Trump release his tax returns. that being that Trump is a On Thursday, Treasury Secrenative New Yorker, then New tary Steve Mnuchin reiterated York State “is in a unique that the president has no intenposition to change the tion of release the documents, national conversation.” and that Americans already have course, none of those would “plenty of information” about his apply retroactively to President finances. According to George Yin, a Trump. Being that the president

Over two dozen states have crafted bills that would require presidential candidates to release their federal tax returns as a prerequisite to having their names appear on that state’s ballot. professor of law and taxation at the University of Virginia, the details about Trump’s finances may not even be included in Mr. Trump’s personal returns, but rather in the corporate returns for his numerous businesses. “The larger question is whether getting the state returns will provide the kind of information that people have been seeking, such as information about conflicts of interest and the effects of tax proposals on the president personally,” said Yin.

Four Candidates Jockeying for Governor’s Seat in NJ Democratic Primary By: Ilana Siyance

his year New Jersey is only one of two states to hold statewide elections. Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, will end his second and final term on January 16, 2018. The four candidates jockeying for the Governor’s seat in the New Jersey Democratic primary all pack impressive résumés. Nonetheless, so far voters seem uninspired or uninterested bringing the election to a decidedly sluggish start. Philip D. Murphy is as yet, considered the leading Democratic candidate. The most recent poll from Quinnipiac University, released in March, shows 57 percent of those surveyed to be undecided. In that poll Mr. Murphy had the most support, namely 23 percent of registered Democrats. The other candidates each had the support of between 4 percent and 6 percent of those polled.

Philip D. Murphy is as yet, considered the leading Democratic candidate

Mr. Murphy was the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 2009 to 2013. Before that, he served as finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee under Howard Dean. Before entering politics Mr. Murphy had a successful 23-year career at Goldman Sachs. The investment firm’s IPO upped his net worth to somewhere over $50

million. In his youth Murphy put himself through Harvard University, with student loans and part-time jobs. He then attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for his M.B.A. Murphy has spent much of his campaign focus on the economic aspect. He speaks of the establishment of a public and independent bank

for New Jersey, “owned by the taxpayers”, which would help investment in small business and state infrastructure. Ray Lesniak is another candidate running for Governor. He was the state senator in Trenton for nearly four decades. He prides himself on his unrehearsed “from the heart” style, and extended roots in the state. “That is what distinguishes me from the rest of the candidates: I never have a prepared speech,” Mr. Lesniak said in an interview. Prior to entering the state senate to represent the 20th Legislative District, Lesniak served in NJ’s General Assembly from 1978 to 1983. He worked as New Jersey Democratic State Chairman for Clinton/Gore and Gore/Lieberman. He is also an attorney with the firm Weiner Lesniak. Candidate Jim Johnson, a former undersecretary of the Treasury, has centered his campaign on ethics reform. He is the only candidate other than Murphy who is advertising on television.

Johnson qualified for matching public funds, receiving nearly $2 million so far, the largest amount. He has been working aggressively to chip into Murphy’s lead. "There is an absence of new ideas. There is an absence of approaches that are putting people back in government and back into civic life," said Johnson. "The Governor's Office is an important, a vital and an essential way to make the most change possible." Candidate John Wisniewski, a state assemblyman, became widely known for his work investigating the George Washington Bridge lane closures. He was also the state chairman for Bernie Sanders’ Presidential campaign. Mr. Wisniewski has qualified for matching state funds, and received nearly $700,000. His positions are the most liberal among the Democratic runners, with ideas for single-payer health care system, and tuition-free college for some students.

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MTA Employee Arrested for Abusing Orthodox Bklyn Synagogue Says Former Member Jewish Woman at Bklyn Subway Stop Attempting a "Hostile Takeover" By: Gene Wilkinson

By: Gene Wilkinson

olice arrested MTA employee, Mohammad Talukder, who they say sexually abused a 19-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman twice in the subway station, reports the New York Daily News. Police said that Mohammad Talukder, 63, groped the young woman last Wednesday at the 18th Avenue F train stop in Borough Park, states VIN News. According to The Daily News, the victim, who was on her way home from work, reported that when she would pass through the station Talukder would harass her by offering her gifts, ciga-rettes and money so that she would go on a date with him. On the evening of April 18th, Talukder pulled the woman into a remote construction zone in the mezzanine area of the station, pulled down her shirt and began to grope her, according to the po-lice. The victim told the police that she fought off Talukder, before fleeing the subway station and then avoiding that station for a week. But she returned to using that station on Wednesday, reports The Daily News. On Wednesday at 7:30pm, Talukder grabbed her, and once again groped her and started

Mohammad Talukder, 63, groped the young woman at the 18th Avenue F train stop in Borough Park

kissing her neck, reported the police. According to the Daily News, the young woman got away then ran home and told her boyfriend, who then contacted the police. VIN News reports that officers found Talukder in the station on Thursday and immediately ar-rested him for sexual abuse and forcible touching. Police say that Talukder—a Flatbush resident—has no other history of prior arrests and that his arraignment was pending Friday, reports The Daily News. In an unrelated note, a recent development in the New York Daily News, reports that MTA em-ployees are raking in close to $1 billion worth of overtime in 2016.

According to The Daily News report, across the board, 177 MTA workers brought in more than $100,000 in overtime in 2016—a 4% increase from the prior year. The worker with the most collected overtime was track foreman Ralph Golden, who brought in $256,155 in overtime on top of his $104,822 base salary, reports The Daily News. This is just $14,271 more than the agency’s then Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas Prender-gast—who retired in January, states The New York Post. MTA officials have not yet returned calls for comment on both the sexual abuse matter or the increase in overtime.

First Group of Cops with Body Cams Hit NYC Streets By: Eloise Albaret

he New York Police Department’s 34th Precinct rolled out its first group of officers equipped with body cameras in Washington Heights on Thursday, reports U.S News. This marks the first phase of a court ordered program in 2013 to deploy more than 5,000 cameras on officers by the end of 2019, says U.S News. A federal judge ordered this test of body cameras after ruling that the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactics were unconstitutional, states The New York Times The Police Department expects to send out 1,200 cameras throughout the city in the next few weeks, says U.S News. “I’m totally convinced now that this is the way forward,” said Police Commissioner James P. O’Neil, who had been skeptical at first of the cameras, but eventually changed his mind. “I truly believe that these cameras have the great potential to de-escalate, and the footage captured will benefit everyone involved.” The use of body cameras have escalated around the country, after a series of killings of unarmed black men and ambush killings of police officers in cities such as New York City, Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, says U.S News.

An NYPD sergeant demonstrates a department body camera

The Times states that Mayor. Bill deBlasio has pledged to have all 23,000 New York City patrol officers wearing body cameras by 2019. “This is the first day of the era of body-worn cameras,” said the mayor outside the precinct on Thursday. “And that means we are on a pathway to transparency and accountability that would benefit everyone.” However, not everyone is as optimistic about the body cameras. According to The times, the lawyers for the plaintiffs in the case, which ordered the use of said cameras, anticipate that the city would give “police officers and their supervisors too much discretion as to when to turn the cameras on” and it would make it easier for officers “to tailor their statements and

reports to match videos.” Benjamin Tucker, the first deputy police commissioner said that the officers in the 34th Precinct trained for two days on how to use the new body cameras by watching videos of likely scenarios, listening to lectures, and practicing with the new devices, reports The Times. After the device training, the fifty-eight officers who are part of the pilot program, have to do 90 days of field training in the precinct’s jurisdiction, says The Times. After a year, officers who were equipped with a camera will be measured against officers in different precincts, who were not equipped with cameras, in fields like job performance, citizen complaints and arrests, reports The Times.

eaders at Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom synagogue say a former congregant, who is accused of in-appropriate contact with young boys, is attempting to force his way into a leadership role, reports The New York Daily News. Zvi Geller, 40, sued the synagogue on Rodney St. in Williamsburg last August claiming that the board needed new elections and that the board refused to let him build a youth enter, according to The Daily News. The Daily News says that leaders at the last Orthodox, non-Hasidic Brooklyn synagogue claim that Geller is aiming at a “hostile takeover,” and that he is adverse to the selection of a new rabbi after its longtime leader retired. “Geller strongly opposed the Congregation’s attempt to seek a new rabbi and without being for-mally appointed, he began as if he were the effective rabbi of the Congregation,” says Martin Needelman, the synagogue’s president, in an affidavit filed Tuesday. The affidavit also accuses Geller of spending at least three Friday nights alone with a 16-year-old boy who joined him for the Sabbath on the synagogue’s property, says The Daily News.

Zvi Geller, 40, sued the synagogue on Rodney St. in Williamsburg last August claiming that the board needed new elections and that the board refused to let him build a youth enter, according to The Daily News.

According to the record, a local Jewish publication also posted an advertisement which accused Geller of being a molester, although he has not been officially charged with any criminal behav-ior. The Daily News reports that in the affidavit Needelman said Geller pressed the congregation “to construct facilities for his youth programs” which included building a dorm. In 2015, Geller was elected to be a trustee on the synagogue’s board and thus became their sec-ond vice president, but despite the recent accusations, Geller urges he is still in good standing.

"Geller's plans were of incredible concern to the Congregation, considering the un-refuted claims that he is a child molester — not to mention the potential liability arising therefrom,” stated Needelman. Geller apparently took steps toward creating a youth center, even though the board voted against building it, said The Daily News. According to The Daily News, Baruch Gottesman, Geller’s lawyer, has called the accusations of child abuse toward his client “completely bogus” and that Needelman is trying to “discredSee klyn Synagogue Says , page 38

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Obama’s Former Park Slope Townhouse Listed for $4.3M

Snap Inc. Expands Office to Occupy 121k SF in Former NYT Building

By Hannah Hayes

By Mark Snyder

or the first time since 1994, the beautiful brownstone located in Park Slope at 640 Second Street is on the market. The asking price for this historic home constructed at the beginning of the 20th century is $4.295 million. In addition to maintaining many of the building’s original details, another plus is that former president Barack Obama was once a tenant at this glorious residence in his “pre-Michelle” days. After graduating from Columbia University, Obama lived in the top floor apartment, back in the mid- 1980s, when the townhouse was a multi-family building. It has since been turned into a single-family home that spans five floors, and contains three bathrooms and five bedrooms. At around a total of 3,860 square feet, the asking price comes out to about $1,113 per square foot. Curbed reports, “The majority of the home has remained true to its original design, with details like four decorative fireplaces, original china cabinets, stained glass windows, wood wainscoting, and more. The kitchen has been renovated with lovely custom cabinetry and fancy stainless steel appliances along with a large breakfast nook that looks out onto the landscaped garden. There is also a full basement, washer/dryer unit, many closets, decorative wallpaper, and even a claw foot tub in one of the bathrooms.” “In ‘Barack Obama: The Story,’ author David Maraniss said the brownstone was owned by an employee of the Brooklyn Friends School in Park Slope, where his girlfriend worked as an assistant teacher,” according to The Real Deal. Public records show that since 1994 the home has been

640 2nd Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn (Photos courtesy Brown Harris Stevens)

This Park Slope brownstone used to be the residence of former president Barack Obama in the mid-1980s. (Photos courtesy Brown Harris Stevens)

he parent company of Scnapchat, Snap Inc., is already expanding its offices just mere weeks after its initial public offering of $3.4 billion. Snap just closed on a deal to lease 26,000 square feet in the former New York Times building located at 229 West 43rd Street in Midtown Manhattan. That will bring the company up to occupying 121,000 square feet of space. Back in February, the 10-year lease that is good 229 West 43rd Street in Manhattan was the headquarters of until June 2027 was signed. The New York Times newspaper from 1913 through 2007. (Photo This was disclosed before the Credit: Wikipedia)

Snapchat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel. (Photo Credit: Wikipedia)

property’s landlord, Columbia Property Trust, released its earnings report on Thursday, April 27. During an earnings call, the REIT’s CFO James Fleming said, “They came to us and wanted some additional space and said they would make a really long-term commitment and make this their home if we could provide it. We were able to move out a couple of smaller tenants to make room for [Snap] and that really enabled them to make this commitment to the building.” According to data from CoStar, in 2014 Snap leased the 15th and 16th floors in the

building. The company added 33,360 square feet on the fourth and seventh floors, which rent was listed for$70 per square foot, last year. In 2015, Blackstone Group sold the 481,000-square-foot, 12-story office condo occupying the top portion of the building, to Columbia Property Trust for $516 million. That same year, the four-story retail section, comprising 250,000 square feet, was purchased by Kushner Companies for $296 million. In addition to its space in the old New York Times building, Snap has a “pop-up” space consisting of 5,000 square feet at 5 East 59th Street.

NoMo SoHo Hotel in NYC to Debut Penthouse Suite By: Helen Zaboulani

640 2nd Street was built in 1903, and is now on the market for $4.295 million. (Photos courtesy Brown Harris Stevens)

owned by Claire and Michael

Robinson.

1st Floor Condo for Sale in the LateJoan Rivers’ Haunted House By Hannah Hayes

one-bedroom duplex condo in the limestone mansion in which the late Joan Rivers held residence in penthouse triplex, is now back on the market for $4.25 million. In 2015, the same apartment was listed for $6 million. The former residence of the beloved comedian, located at 1 E 62nd Street, is said to have another permanent tenant. The six-story building is supposedly haunted by a ghost that goes by the name “Mrs. Spencer.” The 1,100-square-foot unit includes 1½ bathrooms and a42-foot-wide edifice designed by architect Horace Trumbauer. Located just off the lobby, the apartment for sale was originally the mansion’s library. It has a gorgeous fireplace, dramatic windows and 14-foot high ceil-

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Beloved comedian Joan Rivers

1 E 62nd Street in Manhattan

ings. It was also once owned by the celebrity interior designer Geoffrey Bradfield. Bradfield told Gimme Shelter, “It was fabulous. I’d have big parties in the entrance hall. I’d clear out the furniture and it was like I was welcoming guests to my house.”

In 2001, Bradfield purchased the apartment for $910,000. He then sold it four years later for double what he paid, $1.87 million. According to The Real Deal, “During that time, the exquiSee 1st Floor Condo for Sale , page 36

oMo SoHo, the trendy five star hotel in NYC’s Soho district, is taking it up a notch. The 264-room luxury hotel will be unveiling a new 1,100-squarefoot signature penthouse suite, with an additional 1,000 square feet of outdoor terrace space. As reported by the Real Deal, the penthouse, located on the hotel’s 26th floor, will feature customizable space with a kitchenette, wet bar, large living area and a master bedroom. It will officially become available on June 1. Pricing for the suite has not yet been disclosed. “The penthouse is truly going to be one-of-a-kind and will offer SoHo visitors an extraordinary hotel accommodation to unwind or entertain and will also be available for long-term stays,” says Brian Sparacino, a NoMo SoHo brand representative. “Located at the top of NoMo SoHo hotel, the rooftop penthouse will overlook all that’s great in Manhattan and will be just steps away from Soho district’s premier shopping boutiques, art galleries, restaurants and New York City’s most compelling attractions.” The tasteful hotel is located on 9 Crosby street, a prime location for designer shopping and various art galleries. Little Italy and the Canal Street Subway are only a few blocks away. The hotel’s sense of style is inspired

NoMo SoHo, the trendy five star hotel in NYC’s Soho district, is taking it up a notch. The 264-room luxury hotel will be unveiling a new 1,100-square-foot signature penthouse suite, with an additional 1,000 square feet of outdoor terrace space

The tasteful hotel is located on 9 Crosby Street, a prime location for designer shopping and various art galleries

by the Jean Cocteau Film, "La Belle et la Bête". A fitness center, and bar & restaurant compliment the modern guest rooms. The rooms boast floor-to-ceiling windows, plasma-screen

TVs, down bedding and marble bathrooms. In 2014, ASRR & Gerard Guez purchased the hotel for $205 million from Deutsche Bank in a Foreclosure auction.

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Congress to Reimburse NYPD $68M for Trump Protection By: Hadassa Kalatizadeh

ongress has negotiated and unleashed its latest trillion-dollar spending deal. The deal is a must-pass omnibus spending package that will provide for the government for the remainder of fiscal 2017, which ends on Sept. 30. It includes $68 million in reimbursement for local law enforcement responsible for protecting President Trump and the first family. New York City’s NYPD will receive the largest portion of these funds. As reported by the NY Post, the allocated resources will also pay for security expenses already incurred from President Trump’s election victory and onward. The NYPD spent in excess of $2 million a week to protect Mr. Trump and his family while he resided at Trump tower before the inauguration. He spent weeks interviewing candidates for his cabinet at his namesake Fifth Avenue skyscraper. In all, NYC spent $24 million protecting the Trumps from the time of his election to the inauguration. “We don’t yet know how the $68 [million] will break down among the localities, but it’s

According to the Mayor’s office, NY’s police department continues to spend as much as $146,000 a day to secure Trump Tower, and will do so until First Lady Melania and 10-year-old Barron complete the school year and move to the White House

safe to assume we’ll get the majority since our costs are the greatest,” said a spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio. According to the Mayor’s office, NY’s police department continues to spend as much as $146,000 a day to secure Trump Tower, and will do so until First Lady Melania and 10-year-old Barron complete the school year and move to the White House. “We are getting what we are owed,” said de Blasio. “That’s good news for our city and the hard working police officers faced with this unprecedented security challenge.” “I am very pleased New

York taxpayers will not be on the hook for these critical and necessary expenses,” said New York Rep. Nita Lowey, who lobbied for the funds. Congress will vote on the bill this week, as their current short-term extension expires on Friday at midnight. Republicans originally hoped that the bill would also include funding for Trump’s promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, and include cuts to Planned Parenthood’s federal funding. Ultimately, in light of a looming threat of a government shutdown, those provisions were not included in this bill.

Overhaul of Amtrak’s Rails at Penn Station to Cause Major Delays By: Eloise Albaret

everal of Amtrak’s rails at Pennsylvania Station in New York City are planning to close this summer for serious repairs, Amtrak officials confirmed last Thursday. But Amtrak’s chief executive failed to say how many tracks will be closed and for how long, reports The New York Times. Thousands of commuters— who rely on this station daily— will have their lives disrupted by the decision to close the tracks on busy weekdays. Amtrak’s chief executive, Charles W. Moorman persistently declined to provide the public with the amount of tracks that will be closed and how disruptive the repairs will be, according to The Times. After the chaos this month where Amtrak’s eight of the station’s 21 tracks were closed, a federal official, who was briefed on Amtrak’s plans, is trying to limit the amount of rail closings to three or four tracks at once, says The Times. “It is our goal to cause the least amount of disruption in that station that we can,” said Mr. Moorman on Thursday. “There are going to be some tracks closed during some weekdays. It doesn’t mean that there are going to be lots of tracks closed every weekday for extended periods of time, and part of our goal is to make sure that we minimize that.” According to The Times, Amtrak would delay spending on

Several of Amtrak’s rails at Pennsylvania Station in New York City are planning to close this summer for serious repairs, Amtrak officials confirmed last Thursday

technological advancements in order to pay for the expedited replacement of the tracks, which Mr. Moorman estimated to cost “tens of millions of dollars.” Penn Station is North America’s busiest train station and it handles 600,000 passengers on 1,300 trains daily; a disruption such as closing several tracks could delay service on all the railroads. After the two recent train derailments, which led to mass delays across the tai-state area, Amtrak officials have determined that the tracks are extremely fragile and are in need of the urgent repairs, states The Times. “I’m not happy that it should’ve been done a long time ago and they didn’t do it,” said Gov. Chris Christie, who in the past has threatened to withhold payments to Amtrak, on Thursday. “But they’re doing it now,

and that’s going to be good for the commuting public over the course of the next couple of years when these improvements are made and service becomes more reliable.” Mr. Christie said that by Amtrak needing so many repairs, it is obvious that the recent troubles at Penn Station were “predominantly Amtrak issues”. The executive director of New Jersey Transit, Steven H. Santoro, said on Thursday that it was crucial that his organization have a chance to review the plan by Amtrak, so that they could determine the effect it would have on New Jersey’s commuters and economy, reports The Times. The Times also reports that Amtrak announced that Thomas F. Prendergast, the former chairman of the M.T.A, was to oversee a review of operations at Penn Station.

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3 New Incredible Bridges to be Built in NY By Rachel Shapiro

hree new diaphanous cable-stayed bridges that will have remarkable designs, are planned to rise in New York City. As cable-stayed bridges were multiplying across the globe, New York remained out of the bridge building business for the last 50 years. These types of bridges were fairly simple and economical to construct, and very aesthetically pleasing to any onlooker. These fad of fabulous bridges, just didn’t seem to reach New York, that is until now. On Thursday night, April 27, traffic between Brooklyn and Queens began crossing over the Newton Creek on the first of two-parallel cable-stayed bridges that are replacing the 78-year-old dilapidated Kosciuszko Bridge. According to The New York Times, “Rather than being enmeshed in a creaky Erector Set, drivers on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will travel between two tapered concrete pylons that rise from the Brooklyn shore and open like arms to embrace the sky. Just 56 cables, splayed outward from the pylons, support the six-lane bridge deck, which is 90 feet above mean high water — or 35 feet lower than the current bridge, which required infamously steep approach ramps. This summer, the original Kosciusz-

The new Kosciuszko Bridge in front, with the old one behind it.

ko is to be demolished, almost instantaneously, in a controlled explosion. A second bridge deck, hung from a second pair of pylons on the Queens side, will take its place. The $825 million project is to be finished in early 2020.” In a report in 2011, the transportation agency said, “The cable-stayed option provides the most dramatic visual experience for bridge users and for the local communities in both Brooklyn and Queens.” It said that the bridge will “act as a visual landmark for New York City.” The first of two cable-stayed crossings is scheduled to open in a few months to replace the Goethals Bridge that goes over the Arthur Kill, connecting Staten Island to Elizabeth, New Jersey. A third parallel cable-stayed

bridge is planned for 2018. It will replace the Tappan Zee Bridge to allow traffic to cross the Hudson River, approximately 10 miles north of the Bronx. This construction is named the New New York Bridge. The NYT reports, “All three bridge projects are rising on the watch of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who controls the State Department of Transportation (builders of the Kosciuszko), the New York State Thruway Authority (the Tappan Zee) and, with Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (the Goethals).” Governor Cuomo said that the cable-stayed technology will ensure that all the new bridges can “stand the test of time.”

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New York Times Hosts Anti-Israel Roger Waters near Trump Tower

Supreme Court of Kings County to Hold Annual Law Day Ceremony

By: Brent Scher

Edited by: JV Staff

he New York Times hosted leading anti-Israel activist Roger Waters last Wednesday night for an hour long discussion, in which the former Pink Floyd bassist indicated that his push to get Radiohead to cancel an upcoming concert in Israel had failed. Waters, whose upcoming album and tour are intended to be an "exercise in resistance" against President Donald Trump, was interviewed by Times music critic Jon Pareles in front of a sold-out crowd just blocks from Trump Tower in New York City. Asked by the Washington Free Beacon, which was in attendance for the event, about his latest attempt to push for a boycott of Israel, Waters said that members of Radiohead "seem to have decided that they are going to go ahead and do a concert in Tel Aviv."

Waters statement that he has "nothing against Jewish people" is at odds with his past actions, such as when he flew a giant pig emblazoned with the Star of David and Nazi imagery over a 2013 concert.

The New York Times hosted leading anti-Israel activist Roger Waters last Wednesday night for an hour long discussion, in which the former Pink Floyd bassist indicated that his push to get Radiohead to cancel an upcoming concert in Israel had failed.

"I have engaged in a correspondence with Radiohead, and they seem to have decided that they are going to go ahead and do a concert in Tel Aviv," said Waters, who endorses the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement that aims to destroy the Jewish state through economic warfare. "My personal view is that there is a valid picket line that has been organized by BDS, and I would prefer it if colleagues in my business did not cross that picket line," Waters said. Waters defended his anti-Israel stance, stating that all he wanted was for all of his "Palestinian and Arab friends" to have "equal rights," and that he has

"nothing against Jewish people." "They should have equal rights, and that is my only beef," Waters said. "That is what I want for my Palestinian friends, nothing more." "I am not trying to destroy Israel, I have nothing against Jewish people," Waters insisted. "They accuse me of being an anti-Semite because it is the only way they can attack this position—which is the basic position of BDS." Despite saying that he wanted nothing more, Waters then added, "BDS goes further, they want the right to return for the refugees who were kicked out of their homes by force in 1947 See New York Times Hosts , page 37

Lyft Business in NY Increasing in the Wake of Uber’s Problems By: Anat Ghelber

ber and Lyft are two privately owned companies that run taxilike services but with different automobiles than taxis typically use, including luxury sedans. They also both have apps available on smartphones that allow people to call up drivers to pick them up to travel to different locations. While there are differences between the companies (there are no options to tip Uber drivers on the apps to call them but there are for the Lyft drivers) the two have remained the business equivalents of Coke and Pepsi in the industry of private taxi services…two definitive businesses in their respective fields in fierce competition. But, despite being the smaller company, Lyft has been experiencing a surge in business.

Uber and Lyft are two privately owned companies that run taxilike services but with different automobiles than taxis typically use, including luxury sedans

locations have been deserting Uber and choosing Lyft instead. There have been several noted incidents of Uber drivers assaulting their passengers, since Uber apparently doesn’t screen its driver applicants very carefully to weed out anyone who might have criminal tendencies. Lyft investors have also These incidents have included a been informed that business at Lyft has been child being hit in the head with so good that it has beaten a hammer by an Uber driver and another driver for Uber allegedly any financial growth targets that the company raping a girl. In the wake of such incidents, set for itself. Lyft has experienced a rise in its number of bookings and riderLately, Uber has been experi- ship in the first financial quarter. encing problems at its manage- Lyft investors have also been inment levels that have ended up formed that business at Lyft has being to Lyft’s advantage. Also, been so good that it has beaten people looking to book rides to any financial growth targets that

the company set for itself. Despite all this, business has continued to be so fierce with Uber that there have been substantial losses as well. Lyft posted first quarter losses as well of over $100 million (it had projected losses of $130 million.) Its total losses last year were to the tune of $600 million. Uber’s losses by comparison as the larger company were $2.8 billion. Lyft investors, including the private equity firm KKR and asset manager Baillie Gifford are expecting Lyft to go public fairly soon. And, despite any financial setbacks, Lyft expects to deliver, informing these investors that it expects to double the number of first-quarter gross bookings from that of last year.

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he Supreme Court, Kings County, annual Law Day Ceremony will take place Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 12:45 PM. At the Ceremony, Administrative Judge for Civil Matters Lawrence Knipel will unveil plans for further reforms consistent with Chief Judge Janet DiFiore’s “Excellence Initiative”. Having already reorganized Pre-Trial Discovery, Guardianship and Foreclosure procedures, Judge Knipel plans to announce new areas of reform as part of an ongoing top to bottom self-critical analysis of courthouse operations as part of the “Excellence Initiative” envisioned by our Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, to determine which court processes and procedures are working well and what needs to be improved. The Law Day Ceremony provides a unique opportunity for the Court Administration, Bench and Bar to come together to achieve our common goal of improving the efficiency of our operations, expediting the hearing and resolution of cases, and enhancing the quality of justice in the Courthouse. As was reported in an interview conducted with Judge Knipel in April of 2015, the judge obtained his undergraduate degree from the State University

At the annual Law Day Ceremony, Administrative Judge for Civil Matters Lawrence Knipel (pictured above) will unveil plans for further reforms consistent with Chief Judge Janet DiFiore’s “Excellence Initiative”.

of New York of Cortland and his J.D. degree from NYU School of Law. He began his illustrious career in the arena of jurisprudence as an associate in the law firm of Vanginkei and Benjamin in 1979. Subsequently, he served as a law clerk for Judge Martin Schneier of the New York City Civil Court and for Supreme Court Justice Jules Supdek (1982-1990). In 1991, Judge Knipel answered the call of the bench when he made the transition to judge of the New York City Civ-

il Court. He was elected to the Supreme Court in 1998 and was re-elected in November of 2011 to a 14-year term ending in 2025. Judge Knipel’s stellar credentials in matters of adjudicating and deciding often nuanced cases came to the attention of Jonathan Lippman, Chief Judge of the State of New York and Chief Administrative Judge A. Gail Prudenti. The post became vacant when the former Administrative Judge Sylvia Hinds-Radix was appointed to the Appellate Division, Second Department in October of 2012. As the Administrative Judge for Civil Matters, Judge Knipel oversees the cases of 17 judges in civil court as well as 16 judges in housing court and at times “feels like a traffic cop.” “There are quite a number of people working in this court system and that includes each judge’s support staff which consists of aides, clerks and officers,“ he says. The categories of cases that fall under the purview of civil litigation include personal injury (auto accidents; industrial accidents, etc), Worker’s Compensation appeals, matrimonial cases (divorce and separation agreements), residential and commercial foreclosures (11,000 currently pending), guardianship matters for both children, the elderly and other incapable of handling their own affairs among others.

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Sea Gate Synagogue Hit Hard by Sandy Now Gutted by Fire By: Faygie Levy Holt

“The Torah has kept the Jews stored in a safe that Brikman had alive for thousands of years,” he trouble opening. He immediately called con- says by way of explanation for or the first two days of Passover, the Kneses Israel gregant Howard Londner, who his persistence. “Other societies are long gone, but we keep going Synagogue of Sea Gate— rushed to the scene. blocks from the ocean and adjacent to Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y.—was buzzing with activity. There were communal seders, inspiring talks and soulful prayer services, morning and night. But on April 13 shortly after midnight, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries Rabbi Chaim and Rivkah Brikman got a phone call from a local Hatzolah emergency-services member, telling them the synagogue they led—and just left, really—was ablaze. The rabbi rushed over to the synagogue, four blocks from his home, with one overriding A fire on April 13 ripped through Kneses Israel Synagogue of Sea thought: to save the Torahs. Gate in Brooklyn, N.Y., causing severe damage that could take “I’m amazed that everywhere more than $1 million to repair, according to Chabad-Lubavitch I went after the fire, the first emissaries Rabbi Chaim and Rivkah Brikman question from anyone I met was: “The firemen didn’t want to let because of the Torah.” ‘Were you able to save the ToAt last, he succeeded in getting rahs?’ ” Brikman tells Chabad. me in, but a police officer said he org. “They may not always come would go with me. I didn’t even the final Torah out of the buildto Friday-night programs or wait; I just ran inside,” says the ing. Londner suffered smoke inholiday services, but this so con- 63-year-old resident of Sea Gate. halation, but otherwise was fine. Though the synagogue extericerned them. You could see on “I didn’t even realize the officer the change on their faces, their wasn’t with me until I turned or still stands, the inside remains relief when they heard that the around to ask him for his flash- in shambles, filled with ruined light. Luckily, I had my iPhone prayerbooks, tallises and other Torahs were out.” spiritual items. Accomplishing that wasn’t so and used that for light.” “People are calling and coming He says he tried once, twice, easy. As the fire department worked and then a few more times to by . . . everyone is so emotional. to put out the flames, Brikman get the safe open, hearing crack- People tell me, ‘Rivkah, I had a and Rabbi Pinny Marozov, ling sounds nearby and feeling bar mitzvah here, or my son got co-director of Chabad of Coney the water being sprayed on the married here, or I say Kaddish Island in Brooklyn, N.Y., raced building. While the safe itself was here. Please save the structure of inside to save the eight Torah fireproof, it was potential dam- the shul.’ ” We Will Rebuild’ scrolls—some of which date back age from all the water that worBuilt in 1924 in the grand 150 years. They got seven Torah ried them. Londner remained European style of synagogues of scrolls out, but the last one was undeterred.

NYC Holocaust Survivor, 86, Returns to Auschwitz for the First Time Edited by: JV Staff

uschwitz-Birkenau survivor Bronia Brandman, 86, returned to the death camp last week for the first time since her liberation, accompanied by a delegation of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers and 40 Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) supporters from across the United States. A video of Brandman’s emotional journey may be viewed on You Tube: https://youtu.be/ SMW8pwu0OXo. Brandman was born in Jaworzno, Poland, and watched two of her sisters being sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Except for her older brother and cousin, who also reside in the United States, her entire family perished in the Holocaust. She has one daughter and two grandchildren who live in Israel. Brandman, who now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and had vowed never to return to Poland, decided to come to Auschwitz as part of the FIDF “From Holocaust to Independence” delegation to Poland and Israel for the first time since the Red Army liberated the camp in 1945. “I came to Auschwitz in 1943 as a child of 12. My parents and four siblings were consigned

(From left) IAF Commander of Aerial Defense Brig. Gen. Zvika Haimovich; Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor Giselle “Gita” Cycowicz; FIDF National Vice President Robert Cohen; Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor Bronia Brandman; and FIDF National Director and CEO Maj. Gen. (Res.) Meir Klifi-Amir walking through the entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau, beneath the infamous sign that reads “work sets you free,” in German.

to the gas chambers. The daily bestiality and dehumanization was beyond words, and the world’s silence was deafening,” said Brandman. “I never wished to return to that place of our degradation and annihilation, but to return in the presence of our noblest, the bravest of the brave – our IDF soldiers, allows my spirit to soar with pride and hope.” Brandman’s return to Auschwitz was among the highlights of the FIDF delegation to Poland and Israel. Chaired by

FIDF National Vice President Robert Cohen, who founded FIDF’s Washington, D.C., and Mid-Atlantic chapters, the 10day trip is spanning Jewish history, from its darkest moments to its most triumphant. Israeli soldiers and Holocaust survivors accompanied the FIDF supporters across Poland, starting in Krakow, once home to more than 60,000 Jews, tracing the community’s steps from the city’s ghetto to the Buczyna forSee NYC Holocaust Survivor, page 37

previous eras, Kneses Israel has seen generations of families pass through its doors. For the last 25 years, the community has been led by the Brikmans, who also

man’ losing all of his treats in the fire,” referring the gentleman who handed out sweets to the youngest members during weekly services.

The eight Torah scrolls inside were saved, some of which date back 150 years.

direct Chabad of Sea Gate/Coney Island. The couple was sent by the Lubavitcher Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. It was the Rebbewho urged Rabbi Brikman to accept the position as the rabbinic leader of the synagogue when it was offered to him. “This shul means so much to everyone in the community,” says Rivkah Brikman, “with each person affected on his or her own level.” She recalls a particular anecdote with the empathy of a mother, grandmother and teacher: “One of the children in the congregation is still very sad. He was worried about the ‘Candy-

The Brikmans estimate that it will take more than $1 million to repair the building and replace what was lost—something the small community cannot do on its own. “Thank G d, we have some insurance,” says Brikman, knowing they have a long road ahead. “People are telling us we will rebuild, bigger and better . . . and that G d is with us in this situation.” This is not the first time the synagogue has had to be restored. In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy sent water surging into Sea Gate homes and businesses. No one was spared, and neither was the synagogue. Water flooded the building, destroying the first two

floors. The Brikmans managed to renovate the main floor, but not the lower level. They have been using the upper floors ever since for daily services, Friday-night dinners, classes, youth programs and holiday events. The fire has brought them full-circle, once again facing the daunting task of refurbishing the grand synagogue that means so much to so many, but they plan to move ahead with the support, love and concern of the greater Jewish community. An emergency fundraising campaign for $50,000, launched right after the fire to help cover immediate needs, is within a few thousand dollars of being reached. “We are certainly moving forward,” affirms Rabbi Brikman. “We had a minyan the morning after the fire at my house, and we had one that Shabbat. What I want people to understand is the Rebbe’s message that what G d gives us is not our choice, but how we react to it is. We need to take everything and turn it into a positive. It has to be a catalyst, and we have to grow from it. “That’s why I say we have to build it better than before with even more programs. If G d sent the fire, then we must take the fire of our soul and our passion to do even more. We will turn around and say if there is a physical fire, there must be even stronger personal fire in Yiddishkeit. That is our message.” (CHABAD.ORG)

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Congressional Bill Would Pressure PA 100 US Senators to UN: to Cut Off Terror-Tied Payments Treatment of Israel ‘Must Change’ By: Eric Shawn

aylor Force was a West Point graduate who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was pursuing his MBA at Vanderbilt last year, and his future was certainly very bright. "Taylor was stabbed to death while he was in Israel by a Palestinian," says his mother, Robbi, matter-of-factly. Taylor, who was 28, was walking along the Mediterranean boardwalk promenade with friends in Tel Aviv, when he was savagely knifed to death on March 8, 2016. His killer was identified as a Palestinian terrorist, 22-year-old Bashar Masalha, who authorities say went on a stabbing spree that also severely wounded ten others before he was shot dead by Israeli police. "All dads and all moms are proud of their kids. Taylor basically did everything right, but he was humble about it," says his father, Stuart. Taylor's parents say their grief was compounded by the fact that the family of their son's murderer is making money off his death. The Palestinian Authority spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year paying jihadists and their survivors who were involved in acts of terrorism, and critics say some of those funds come from

Taylor Force was a West Point graduate who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was pursuing his MBA at Vanderbilt last year, and his future was certainly very bright.

U.S. taxpayer money that Washington sends to the P.A. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to meet with President Trump at the White House on May 3. It is expected that Trump will raise the issue of payments during the visit. A congressional bill named for Taylor, the Taylor Force Act, would cut off the U.S. aid unless the Palestinian Authority stops the payments. "Can you imagine growing up in a country where your government will pay you for killing someone else through a terrorist act?" asks South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham incredulously. He is the leading sponsor of the Senate legislation. "If you die as a terrorist, as a 'martyr,' your family will get an annual stipend greater than the

average Palestinian earns. In this case, the terrorist who killed Taylor Force...was hailed as a hero, was basically given a state funeral, and his family was given money by the state," Graham says. "The practice is inconsistent with American values, inconsistent with peace, and inconsistent with decency." The House bill is sponsored by Colorado Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn and New York Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin. "Taylor Force is an American hero," says Zeldin. "It’s about letting the Force family know that we stand with him and they stand with their son...the United States Congress and President Trump will do the right thing." Graham predicts that if the bill reaches Trump’s desk, he will sign it. The U.S. government gives the Palestinian Authority more than $300 million a year. According to the P.A.’s on-line budget, it shells out that same amount to the families, or about 7 percent of its total budget. "I think nobody, no Israeli or no American, would be happy to know that his taxpayer money is being used to be paid for families of terrorism," Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon told Fox News. "You actually encourage terrorism," he charges. (FOX NEWS)

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ll 100 members of the U.S. Senate signed a letter to the leader of the United Nations urging a comprehensive effort to remedy the organization’s “anti-Israel agenda.” The letter, which was sent Thursday to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, praised his recent decision to disavow an anti-Israel report from the U.N.’s Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia and identified four specific areas where further action could be taken to rectify the “unacceptable” treatment of Israel at the world body. The senators urged Guterres to eliminate or reform various standing committees focusing on issues relating to Israel, press members of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to stop advancing measures targeting Israel, reform the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, and to seek change in the Human Rights Council — in particular the elimination of Agenda Item VII, the only country-specific item on the council’s agenda, which specifically targets Israel. “Too often, the U.N. is exploited as a vehicle for targeting Israel rather than as a forum committed to advancing the lofty goals of its founders,” the senators wrote. “These actions

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaking at the United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 27, 2017

have at times reinforced the broader scourge of anti-Semitism, and distracted certain U.N. entities from their original mission.” The letter comes just days after Guterres, in an address to the World Jewish Congress in New York, denounced anti-Semitism and said Israel deserves to be treated at the United Nations like any other country. “As secretary-general of the United Nations, I can say that the State of Israel needs to be treated as any other state, with exactly the same rules,” Guterres said Sunday. In their letter, the senators issued no threats regarding funding to the United Nations, though they did note that the United States is the single largest contributor to the organization.

Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced it had canceled funding for the U.N.’s Population Fund, which provides family planning and contraception services to women in 155 countries. “As duly elected representatives of the American people, we take seriously our responsibility to conduct rigorous oversight of U.S. engagement at the United Nations,” the letter said. “We are deeply committed to international leadership and to advancing respect for human rights. But continued targeting of Israel by the U.N. Human Rights Council and other U.N. entities is unacceptable.” According to The Times of Israel, the letter was authored by Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Christopher Coons, D-Del. (JTA)

South Carolina Anti-Semitism Bill Gets Closer to Becoming Law Edited by: JV Staff

resident Donald Trump proclaimed May Jewish American Heritage Month, continuing a tradition maintained by every president since 2006. “During Jewish American Heritage Month, we celebrate our nation’s strong American Jewish heritage, rooted in the ancient faith and traditions of the Jewish people. The small band of Dutch Jews who first immigrated in 1654, seeking refuge and religious liberty, brought with them their families, their religion, and their cherished customs, which they have passed on from generation to generation,” read the proclamation issued late Friday by the White House. “The moral and ethical code of the Jewish people is inspired by their spiritual vocation of ‘tikkun olam’ the charge to repair the world. Through that vocation, the Jewish people have left an indelible mark on American culture. Today, it is manifested in the towering success Jewish people have achieved in America through a unique synthesis of respect for heritage and love of country.” President George W. Bush first proclaimed May Jewish Heritage Month in 2006, and it has been proclaimed annually by the sitting president ever since.

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K The legendary musical composer, George Gershwin

The proclamation by the Trump White House used the Yiddish term “Di Goldene Medina,” or the Golden Country, to describe how Jews looked to the United States to escape religious persecution and seek economic opportunity. Trump also said in the proclamation that, “The achievements of American Jews are felt throughout American society and culture, in every field and in every profession. American Jews have built institutions of higher learning, hospitals, and manifold cultural and philanthropic organizations. American Jews have even brought us our greatest superheroes Cap-

tain America, Superman, and Batman. American Jews have composed some of our defining national hymns like God Bless America, timeless musicals like The Sound of Music, and even famous Christmas songs. From Admiral Hyman G. Rickover to Albert Einstein, Richard Rodgers to Irving Berlin, Jerry Siegel to Bill Finger, Mel Brooks to Don Rickles, and Levi Strauss to Elie Wiesel, American Jews have transformed all aspects of American life and continue to enrich the American spirit..” The statement specifically mentioned Trump’s daughter, See Trump Proclaims May, page 38

enneth L. Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, made the following statement last week commending the South Carolina Senate’s higher education subcommittee for unanimously approving H. 3643, a bill to combat campus anti-Semitism: “We applaud the South Carolina legislators for standing up against the recent surge of anti-Jewish bigotry, and in a way that fully protects free speech on campus. We particularly commend Representative Alan Clemmons, the author of this critical and necessary legislation, as well as Representative Beth Bernstein, Senator Larry Grooms, and the members of the Senate higher education subcommittee. We also commend Joseph Sabag and the Israel Allies Foundation, as well as our colleagues at the Columbia Jewish Federation, the Charleston Jewish Federation, CUFI, StandWithUs, the Israel Project, and all the South Carolina students, educators, religious leaders and community members who came out yesterday to meet directly with legislators about the need to stop this hatred and bigotry in its tracks.” H. 3643 overwhelming-

Kenneth L. Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and a renowned anti-Semitism expert, testified at South Carolina House and Senate hearings on the anti-Semitism bill and was in South Carolina last week meeting with citizens, educators, religious leaders, and legislators.

ly passed the South Carolina House of Representatives, by a vote of 103 – 3, in March. Once the bill is considered by the full Senate, it will go to the Governor to be signed into law. H. 3643 will address growing anti-Semitism on campus and protect students’ rights to a learning environment free of unlawful discrimination. The bill provides South Carolina with a uniform definition of anti-Semitism in determining whether harassment, intimidation, assaults, vandalism or other discriminatory behavior is motivated by anti-Semitism. Contrary to misunderstandings

about the bill, it in no way regulates or restricts free speech and/ or academic freedom. Much anti-Semitic hate speech is constitutionally protected, just like racist and sexist speech. The bill will not change that. Rather, it ensures authorities consider the federal government’s definition of anti-Semitism when it is necessary to determine the intent of unprotected activities, including assault, battery and vandalism. Marcus, a renowned anti-Semitism expert, testified at South Carolina House and Senate hearings on the anSee South Carolina Anti-Semitism , page 36

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Trump Adviser Sebastian Gorka Leaves WH; Expects to Take New Role By: David Rosenberg

prominent national security aide to President Trump is on his way out of the White House, The Washington Examiner and CNN reported. Sebastian Gorka, who currently serves as a deputy assistant to President Trump and is a member of the Strategic Initiatives Group along with fellow White House aides Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon, worked in the past for the Gatestone Institute, Georgetown University, Breitbart News, and has been a frequent Fox News contributor. Gorka, a consistent supporter of Israel with a history of combating anti-Semitism in his native Hungary, was nonetheless the target of left-wing media outlets, which attempted to link him with a Hungarian nationalist group accused of collaborating with the Nazis during World War II. Trump’s appointment of Gorka was seen by many observers as a sign of a fundamental shift in US policy towards terrorism. Gorka has in the past emphasized the role of Islamic religious teachings rather than US policy in the Middle East and contemporary challenges facing the region as the primary cause of radical Islamic terrorism, a position which earned Gorka praise from the

Sebastian Gorka, a consistent supporter of Israel with a history of combating antiSemitism in his native Hungary, was nonetheless the target of left-wing media outlets, which attempted to link him with a Hungarian nationalist group accused of collaborating with the Nazis during World War II.

right and recrimination from many on the left. While multiple White House officials confirmed Sunday night that Gorka would be leaving his present position in the administration, the reasons behind the move and Gorka’s future with the Trump White House remain unclear. One source inside the administration claimed Gorka is expected to be transferred to a new position with the White House, while another said he had position lined up outside

of the White House. I24 News reported that at least 18 Democratic representatives signed a letter calling on President Trump to dismiss the top security adviser. “As members of the U.S. Congress who care deeply about fighting anti-Semitism at home and abroad,” the letter read. “We urge you to immediately dismiss senior White House counter-terrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka. Based on recent revelations about Mr. Gorka’s public support for and membership in several anti-Semitic and racist groups in Hungary, he is clearly unfit to serve in any position of responsibility in the White House.” Gorka’s departure is just the latest in a series of national security personnel changes the Trump administration has faced in its first 100 days. Trump’s first National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, was forced out in mid-February, after he concealed business dealings with Russian officials from Vice President Mike Pence. Earlier this month the administration announced that Deputy National Security Advisor, K.T. McFarland was being reassigned to serve as Ambassador to Singapore. In addition, senior Trump aide Steve Bannon was dropped from the National Security Council in April. (INN)

Chicago Jewish Couple Married 69 Years Die Moments Apart Holding Hands By: JTA Staff

Chicago Jewish couple who were married for 69 years died moments apart in the same hospital room while holding hands. Teresa Vatkin, 89, died at 12:10 a.m. Saturday at Highland Park Hospital, and her husband, Isaac, died at approximately 12:50 a.m. as they wheeled his wife from the room and their hands separated, according to local reports. A Chicago Jewish couple, Isaac and Teresa Vatkin, who were married for 69 years died moments apart in the same hospital room while holding hands.

Isaac and Teresa Vatkin on their wedding day 69 years ago. Teresa Vatkin had been suffering from dementia for the past decade. Isaac was her caregiver, staying by her side even when she entered a memory care facility.

Teresa Vatkin had been suffering from dementia for the past decade. Isaac was her caregiver, staying by her side even when she entered a memory care facility. “The moment he felt we removed her hand from his, he was able to say ‘OK, I’m done protecting her. I can go and rest as well,’” their son, Daniel, told the Chicago Sun-Times. “The ultimate in chivalry — so he could go to heaven and open the door for her.” “I saw it with my own eyes,” their daughter, Clara Gesklin, told the newspaper. “All of a sudden, when their fingers separated, he just stopped breathing.” Isaac Vatkin had been admit-

ted to the hospital with influenza and his wife with pneumonia. They were moved to the same room on Friday afternoon, when both were breathing shallowly and were unresponsive. The couple grew up in Argentina, on opposite ends of the country, and wrote love letters to each other three times a week until they married in 1947. Isaac, known as Alberto in Argentina to avoid anti-Semitism, was a leather maker. The Vatkins moved to Chicago in 1968, where Isaac worked as a kosher butcher and invested in apartments. On Monday, they were memorialized in a joint funeral. (JTA)

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Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Defender of Israel, to Retire Florida Representative and staunch defender of Israel and the rights of Holocaust survivors, to retire from US Congress. Edited by: JV Staff

ep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., a congressional leader who has been a staunch defender of Israel and the rights of Holocaust survivors, is leaving Congress. Ros-Lehtinen, a GOP moderate who has sharply criticized the policies of President Donald Trump, told the Miami Herald on Sunday that she simply no longer felt the drive to run again and is retiring at the end of her current term. “There was no epiphany. There was no moment, nothing that has happened that I’ve said, ‘I’ve got to move on,’” Ros-Lehtinen, 64, told the newspaper. “It was just a realization that I could keep getting elected — but it’s not about getting elected.” Ros-Lehtinen, who is Cuban-born of Jewish descent, took a special interest in Israel during her career. The stringent Iran sanctions she authored in 2006 were blocked by congressional procedure, but were the template for the sanctions Congress approved in 2010, and that helped force Iran to the negotiating table to limit its nuclear program.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., a congressional leader who has been a staunch defender of Israel and the rights of Holocaust survivors, is leaving Congress.

Elected in 1989 from her diverse South Florida district, she was the first Cuban elected to Congress, and the first woman to chair the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, from 2011-2013. She remained popular in a district that trended increasingly Democratic, defeating her rival by 10 points in November while Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, bested Trump by 20 points. Ros-Lehtinen broke with Trump on his immigration policies and his embrace of the far

right, and claimed not to have voted for him in the election. Bipartisan cooperation has been a hallmark of Ros-Lehtinen’s career; she chafed at recent pressure from the party to abjure cooperation with Democrats. Some of the most heartfelt farewells after the announcement came from her Democratic colleagues. “From the moment I arrived in Congress, Ileana has been a friend and a partner,” said Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., who is the See Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, page 38

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Generation Macron: EU Leaders Rally Behind French 'Kennedy'

UN Concerned About Mass Arrests in Turkey By: Walter Metuth

By: Jim Hargrave

he U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has voiced concern at mass arrests and renewal of the state of emergency in Turkey. Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Switzerland Monday, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said terror should not be tackled at the expense of human rights. "It is highly unlikely that the suspensions and detentions will have met due process standards," he said after the latest round of suspensions of civil servants and arrests of police in Turkey. Addressing the detention of Turkish members of the media, Zeid said that â€œjournalism is not a crime in Turkey, it is an issue the government must pay deep attention to."

Police arrest demonstrators as they march during May Day, in Istanbul, May 1, 2017.

Square to celebrate May Day. On April 26th, it was reported that Turkish authorities had arrested more than 1,000 people and suspended 9,100 policemen in an accelerated crackdown on alleged supporters of cleric Fethullah Gulen. The government blames the Zeid said that â€œjournalism exiled cleric for orchestrating last year's failed military coup is not a crime in Turkey, against President Recep Tayyip it is an issue the Erdogan. government must pay Officials said last week that deep attention to." 1,009 "secret imams" who infiltrated the police and other Meanwhile, Turkish po- state-run agencies were arrestlice used tear gas Monday to ed. More than 9,100 police perdisperse a group of protesters sonnel suspected of being Gulen and arrested dozens of them backers were suspended. "In Turkey, there was an atas they sought to defy a ban and march to Istanbul's Taksim tempted coup with a goal of

toppling the government and destroying the state," Erdogan told the Reuters News Agency. "We are trying to cleanse members of FETO inside the armed forces, inside the judiciary, and inside the police," he said using the government's acronym for the Gulen group. Turkey has arrested or fired more than 160,000 alleged coup organizers and participants since last July. Gulen, who lives in the state of Pennsylvania, denies playing any part in the coup. The State Department has balked at Turkey's demand for his extradition, citing a lack of concrete evidence. See UN Concerned About , page 36

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f Emmanuel Macron wins Sunday's French presidential runoff, Europe's proEU liberals will finally have their champion. For centrists who have been licking their wounds since Britain voted to quit the EU a year ago, the 39-year-old will be the gallant young hero who slew the most dangerous populist dragon of them all, the National Front's Marine Le Pen. From a Paris dinner party with the young leaders of Belgium and Luxembourg, to a conspicuous Twitter bromance with Italy's ex-premier Matteo Renzi, Macron has already built a circle of likeminded peers, unafraid to promote closer EU integration at a time when voters are being tempted by the hard right and left.

"Political action will completely change," Verhofstadt said.

If Emmanuel Macron wins Sunday's French presidential runoff, Europe's pro-EU liberals will finally have their champion.

ny's Angela Merkel. One senior German official said Macron's youthful stardust could give France some "Kennedy-esque" optimism. But the official also injected a sceptical note: Berlin was "willing to talk about Europe", he said, "but the discussion has to be about responsibility as well as solidarity."

Erasmus generation

Macron discussed his plans for Europe at a private dinner The young leaders present party in March at the home of themselves as fresh faces, free a French TV celebrity, attended of 20th-century baggage of left- by Belgium's 41-year-old Prime right class war. Minister Charles Michel and But to fullfill their dream of a Luxembourg's Prime Minister reinvigorated Europe, they still Xavier Bettel, 44. need to win over leaders from "It was a moment for sharing the old school, above all Germa- our commitments on Europe,"

Michel told Reuters of the dinner, which was kept secret until word leaked out in April. "In the coming months, we're going to have to relaunch the European project ... and for that we will need partners." The three men are part of the first generation of European leaders to come of age with the benefits of EU citizenship. "We are the Erasmus generation," Michel told Reuters, referring to an EU exchange program that lets students attend universities in other countries across the bloc. As France's youngest-ever president, Macron would step into the shoes vacated by

British PM May Braces for Difficult Brexit Negotiations By: Walter Metuth

ritish Prime Minister Theresa May expects divorce talks with the European Union to be difficult, she said on Sunday in response to the tough stance taken by EU leaders over the forthcoming Brexit negotiations. EU leaders endorsed stiff divorce terms for Britain at a Brussels summit on Saturday, warning Britons to have "no illusions" about swiftly securing a new relationship to retain access to EU markets and to be prepared for the complexity of issues such as residency rights for EU citizens. "What this shows, and what some of the other comments we've seen coming from European leaders shows, is that there are going to be times when these negotiations are going to be tough," May told the BBC. Brussels is concerned about the British government's state of preparation for enormously complicated negotiations and over the degree of understanding in London of what kind of compromises it will have to make to clinch any kind of deal. EU officials said that European Commission President JeanClaude Juncker and EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier's talks with May in London on Wednesday did nothing to ease that concern. German Chancellor Angela

British Prime Minister Theresa May expects divorce talks with the European Union to be difficult, she said on Sunday in response to the tough stance taken by EU leaders over the forthcoming Brexit negotiations.

Merkel, repeating a comment she made after Juncker's meeting with May, said she was still worried by "illusions" in Britain about the Brexit talks. May reaffirmed her position that she would be prepared to walk away from talks without a deal if she did not like what was on offer from Brussels.

'Strong hand crucial' "I wouldn't have said it if I didn't believe that," May said in a separate interview with ITV television. "What I also believe is that, with the right strong hand in negotiations, we can get

a good deal for the UK." May, who came to power after Britons decided last year to leave the EU, has called a national election in an attempt to win a public mandate and a bigger majority in parliament to help to execute her plan to leave the EU's single market and pursue a free trade deal with the bloc. Many of her European counterparts question whether May really is prepared to take Britain into legal limbo on March 30, 2019, if there is no deal. European Council President Donald Tusk has argued repeatedly that while such a move would be bad for the EU, it would be much costlier for Britain. Nonetheless, leaders stated in their negotiating guidelines, approved within minutes at Saturday's summit, that they would be prepared to deal with a situation in which talks collapse. The Belgian prime minister warned colleagues against falling into a "trap" set by British negotiators trying to divide them, while others cautioned May that it was in Britain's interests, too, to ensure the other 27 stick together. Noting the unusually harmonious mood of the summit, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny told reporters: "When the negotiations start and detailed, more complex discussions have to take place, obviously some countries will assign bigger priorities to different issues.

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Israel Celebrates Yom Haâ€™atzmaut Amid Optimism; F-35 Jets Featured at Air Show Continued from page 1 Lighting a torch together, Steinhardt and Hier said that it was â€œin honor of the partnership among Jews all over the world in the fulfillment of our historic mission. In honor of the generations, that despite all of their suffering, never stopped dreaming of Jerusalem. â€œIn honor of the educators in Jewish communities, our emissaries in the most important and noble of all pursuits. And in honor of those who combat anti-Semitism, who lead the struggle for human dignity. In the fervent hope that we shall never lose our way or our identity,â€? they added. According to a Times of Israel report, Chana Henkin, a trailblazing educator of religious

Over flow crowds of joyous celebrants at Jerusalemâ€™s Western Wall on the 69th anniversary of the rebirth of the Jewish state of Israel

Jewish women, whose son Eit- the next torch to the scholars. am was murdered by Palestinian â€œI light this torch in honor of gunmen in October 2015 along the Torah scholars who, in their with his wife, Naama, dedicated study, continue the chain of tra-

Fireworks illuminate the night sky in Jerusalemâ€™s Rehavia neighborhood on the festive occasion of Israelâ€™s 69th Independence Day.

At Har Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on Monday evening, a torch lighting ceremony was held that opened the stream of events celebrating Israelâ€™s 69th birthday

dition and participate in building the spiritual strength of the State of Israel,â€? she said. The Times of Israel report added that Eli Amir, 79, a

Baghdad-born author and civil servant who immigrated to Israel in 1950, lit the first torch on behalf of all those who immigrated to Israel from around

Israeli soldiers celebrate during the official state ceremony of Israel's 69th Independence Day at Mount Herzl

the globe. Yaakov (Yaki) Hetz, who served in the Paratrooper Brigade during the campaign for Jerusalem in 1967, lit the second torch. He dedicated it to the families who lost relatives in Israelâ€™s wars. Miri Ehrental, 67, who along with her husband, Chaim, founded Zichron Menachem, a childrenâ€™s cancer support center set up in memory of their son Menachem who died of the disease at the age of 15, lit the third torch on behalf of those who choose to do national service outside the IDF. The final torch was lit by two soldiers: Ethiopian-born Major Yarus Yerushalayim, 30, who came to Israel when she was 4-years-old and serves in the Education Corps, and Lieutenant Dean Argil, 22, a See Israel Celebrates Yom , page 38

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For Israelis, Memorial Day is Filled with Personal Connection By: Alex Traiman

symbol of tremendous national While there are Memorial Day pride—are displayed on homes, parades in many towns, the day srael and the U.S. share businesses and roads across the does not take on a somber tone many values and tradi- country, while children go to nationwide. Beachgoers often go to the tions—including holding school and to ceremonies wearnearest shore, while baseball national days of commem- ing blue and white. Restaurants and other en- and barbecues are standard fare. oration for fallen soldiers. Yet there are sharp cultural differences marking the Memorial Day observances in each nation. “Yom Hazikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day) is so meaningful to Israelis, because everyone is directly connected to it. You’re never more than one person away from someone who was killed in battle, or someone who was killed by a terrorist. No one’s removed from it,” said Ari Kalker, director of housing and special projects at Israel’s Lone Soldier Center, an organization “dedicated to meeting all of the physical and social needs” of soldiers without relatives in Every military grave has had an Israeli flag with a black Yizkor Israel. ribbon laid on it. A somber day Yom Hazikaron is one of the tertainment centers are closed, As with most every national most somber days on the Is- and Israeli radio and televi- holiday in America—including raeli calendar, along with Yom sion play somber, nationalistic Presidents’ Day, Columbus Day HaShoah (Holocaust Remem- programming. Immediately as and Thanksgiving—Memorial brance Day) just a week earlier. Yom Hazikaron departs, Yom Day is commercialized with reYom Hazikaron is marked by Haatzmaut—Israeli Indepen- tail sales. While America has one nationwide sirens at 8 p.m. the dence Day—begins. Kalker calls of the world’s largest armies, preceding evening, and then at it a “palpable juxtaposition.” “You go from Israel’s sad- with hundreds of thousands of 11 a.m., denoting moments of silence where the entire nation dest day, to our happiest day,” troops serving overseas, there grinds to a halt. Even drivers he said. “It gives relevance to is not always a direct national pull over to the side of the road both. It makes Yom Hazikaron connection between the efforts and stand next to their vehicles. that much more inspirational and sacrifices made by the small In nearly every community because we understand what all percentage of Americans who volunteer for military service, and public school, ceremonies those sacrifices are for.” Connecting soldiers to and the civil liberties Americans recall the memories of those enjoy at home. Ceremonially, who died fighting for Israel or liberties In America, by contrast, Me- the U.S. president lays a wreath at the hands of terrorists seeking to destroy the country. Tens morial Day traditionally marks at Arlington National Cemeof thousands of Israeli flags—a the start of the summer season. tery, the country’s largest burial

UNESCO Adopts Resolution Denying Israel’s Rights to J’slm UN culture organization votes to adopt resolution denying Israeli rights to capital, Jerusalem By: Gary Willig

he United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Steering Committee voted Tuesday afternoon to adopt a resolution denying Israel's rights to its own capital, Jerusalem. The vote took place on Israel's Independence Day. 22 nations voted in favor of the resolution, compared to 10 which voted against it. 23 nations abstained. Among the countries which voted against the resolution were the United States, Italy, Britain, Holland, Lithuania, Greece, Paraguay, Ukraine, Togo and Germany The resolution declares that "all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, which have altered or purport to alter the character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and in particular the “basic law” on Jerusalem, are null and void and must be rescinded forthwith." The resolution also condemns Israel for the military conflicts with the Hamas terrorist organization, which rules the Gaza Strip. Israel's Ambassador to the

grounds for men and women who served, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on both Memorial Day and Veterans Day. According to Eve Harow, an Israeli tour guide and host of the weekly podcast “Rejuvenation,”

relate to a soldier falling while defending the land of Israel, and link it to a Jew’s ability to pray at the Western Wall.” Israel’s fight for independence continues Harow, who lives in the Efrat

Young boy lies on the grave of his father who lost his life in the line of duty

compared to Israelis, Americans simply “don’t appreciate the sacrifices that other Americans made for the freedoms that they take for granted, and to some degree even feel entitled to.” “Today you do still have soldiers fighting overseas, for democracy, for the values that America stands for, but it is not the same thing,” Harow told JNS.org. “It is very hard for most Americans to relate a Marine dying in Iraq to American freedom of speech in Chicago,” added Kalker. “It is much easier to

settlement of the Gush Etzion region in Judea, notes that Yom Hazikaron is commemorated on the day the Kfar Etzion Kibbutz fell in battle during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, just a day before Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion declared Israel as an independent state. “Part of the reason that I live and feel connected to Gush Etzion is to make sure that their sacrifice was not made in vain,” she said. “We fought for independence so that today Jews could once again live in Judea. In appreciation, I raise my chil-

dren where these brave soldiers battled.” Five of Harow’s children have served in the military, including one son who is currently a sergeant in a combat unit. Military service and reserve duty are mandatory for native Israelis, yet Kalker, a master sergeant in one of Israel’s elite combat units, views the “privilege of putting on our army uniforms not as a burden, but as a tremendous honor.” “My grandparents survived Nazi Germany. And I get to fight our enemies with a uniform with the Star of David on it, and giving commands to my soldiers in Hebrew. It is something that we have not been able to do for millennia,” he said. With that privilege, however, may often come the harshest of all responsibilities. Kalker has buried four close friends, including Michael Levin, an American who voluntarily came to Israel to serve in the military, and for whom the Lone Soldier Center is named. Knowing that your friends, children, spouses or other loved ones have fallen makes Yom Hazikaron particularly difficult for soldiers who currently serve, either in the standing army or in the reserves. “Part of you is thinking the entire time, ‘This may be me they are memorializing next year,’’ Kalker said. “It becomes a very scary thing to think about.” (JNS.ORG)

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UN, Danny Danon, slammed the resolution as an assault on the history of the Jewish people. “This biased and blatantly deceitful decision, and the attempts to dispute the connection between Israel and Jerusalem, will not change the simple fact that this city is the historic and eternal capital of the Jewish people. Israel will not stand silently by in the face of this shameful resolution,” Danon said. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ridiculed UNESCO during a question-and-answer segment in

the annual Tanach Quiz, saying that Israel does not believe in UNESCO. “We don’t believe in UNESCO,” said Netanyahu. The Prime Minister’s comment echoed a statement by Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) on Monday, in which she derided the UNESCO resolution and the denial of the fact of Israel’s sovereignty in Jerusalem as “fake history”. "This is absurd. We have become used to the concept of 'fake news'. Well, welcome to See UNESCO Adopts Resolution , page 38

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Rivlin, Netanyahu Consecrate Memorial Hall at Mt Herzl

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By: Ilana Messika

bereaved father disrupted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech at a Memorial Day ceremony on Sunday, saying he does “not forgive” the prime minister, presumably for the outburst at a bereaved father by Netanyahu’s Likud Party colleague, Coalition Chairman David Bitan, during a Knesset committee session in mid-April. Alongside Netanyahu, President Reuven (Ruby) Rivlin, Knesset Speaker Yoel (Yuli) Edelstein, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, and a host of dignitaries gathered Sunday at the national cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem to consecrate a new Memorial Hall. The hall, a swirl of white bricks containing the names of all 23,544 individuals who died during their military service, reaches a height of 18 meters. Each brick also contains a memorial light that will be lit annually on the anniversary of the individual’s death. To consecrate the site, Netanyahu lit a candle that will burn continually around the clock while President Rivlin affixed a mezuza to the new building, which Israeli actor Natan Datner called a “holy temple” that is “100 percent heroism, service, and values.” Datner said that “the candle is

Alongside Netanyahu, President Reuven (Ruby) Rivlin, Knesset Speaker Yoel (Yuli) Edelstein, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, and a host of dignitaries gathered Sunday at the national cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem to consecrate a new Memorial Hall. (Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir)

Consecration of Memorial Hall at Mount Herzl. (Photo Credit: Hillel Maier)

a sign of continuity and eternity. flame will remain lit in this hall In this and in future generations, forever more, as a sign that we we will continue to remember remember, that we are here.” our sons and daughters who fell See Rivlin, Netanyahu , page 37 in service of our people, and the

host of international Zionist organizations commemorated on Monday several hundred Jews who were murdered in anti-Semitic attacks around the world since the founding of the state in addition to the central ceremonies in Israeli cemeteries in remembrance of the Israeli soldiers who fell during their military service and thousands of people who were murdered in terror attacks from the beginning of the Zionist project in the Land of Israel. At a service in the plaza of the Jewish Agency headquarters building in downtown Jerusalem, Emmy Wybran-Sosnowski, widow of Belgian immunologist Professor Joseph Wybran, a Holocaust survivor and leader of the Belgian Jewish community who was murdered in 1989, remembered her husband: “He was a good, smart and decent man, dedicated to his family, his community and to

This year’s ceremony will center on victims of terror attacks in Belgium, including the Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting which killed two Israelis, Emanuel and Miriam Riva

Successful “Hugo Boss’ Model Makes Aliyah, Joins IDF A new IDF lone soldier left behind a successful modeling career to join the Israeli military because protecting the Jewish state took priority for him. By: UWI Staff

ames Hirshfield, a British native who immigrated to Israel from the US, leaving behind a successful modeling career with “Hugo Boss,” joined the IDF at the age of 31. Hirshfield’s grandfather is a Holocaust survivor who fled Poland at the age of nine, Ynet reported. During Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014, “I was working as a model in the US, and they were always reporting against Israel. I said to myself that I couldn’t walk on red carpets while my people was at war. I felt that I had to immigrate and enlist,” the grandson said in an interview. Hirshfield’s family had trouble understanding his decision to leave everything and immigrate to Israel, according to Ynet. “They told me that I’m a successful path and it’s a shame to waste it.” As soon as he landed in Israel, he felt at home, the report continues. “Everyone opened their arms and embraced me. They always make me feel like I belong. It’s a dream come true. I want to have a family here and be the best soldier that I can be.” Hirshfield originally faced resistance from the IDF due to

James Hirshfield, a British native who immigrated to Israel from the US, leaving behind a successful modeling career with “Hugo Boss,” joined the IDF at the age of 31.

his age. “I received ‘no’ after ‘no’ after ‘no,’” he told The Jerusalem Post in another interview. Due to his continued persistence, Hirshfield became an IDF soldier last week and started basic training. Although committed to only a year and a half of service – most serve for

three years – Hirshfield plans to remain in the army and attend officers’ school. ‘I Couldn’t Live Outside of Israel’ “I decided I couldn’t live outside of Israel while there are 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds protecting and giving their lives to defend the country that – if something were to happen – me and my family would go to,” he told the Post. “It was something I understood I had to leave behind – it was an experience I can learn and grow from, but it was much more important for me to come to Israel,” he explained. “I hope that I’ll be able to inspire people in Israel and all around the world to know what Israel stands for and how important it is to be here – and that without an army here, there might not be a country,” he said. “If perhaps something didn’t kind of start a fire in my heart that made me come to Israel, there’s a chance I might have carried on modeling,” he said. Each year, hundreds of young Jewish men and women from the Diaspora make the brave decision to serve in the IDF. They are among Israel’s “lone soldiers,” as they have no immediate family in the country.

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At a service in the plaza of the Jewish Agency headquarters building in downtown Jerusalem, Emmy Wybran-Sosnowski, widow of Belgian immunologist Professor Joseph Wybran, (pictured above) a Holocaust survivor and leader of the Belgian Jewish community who was murdered in 1989, remembered her husband:

the state of Israel who was killed in the parking lot of his university hospital only for being Jewish,” said Wybran-Sosnowski. Wybran-Sosnowski honored her husband for his good nature, incessant work for the Belgian Jewish community and interfaith dialogue with the Chistians. Wybran, who in 1988 became the chairman of the Coordinating Committee of Jewish Organizations in Belgium, was involved in a difficult campaign aimed at removing a Catholic convent from the grounds of what used to be the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. “The terror does not stop

at Israel’s doors, but is everywhere in the world,” argued Wybran-Sosnowski. According to the Jewish Agency statistics, approximately 200 Jews have been murdered in anti-Semitic attacks abroad since Israel’s establishment in 1948. This year’s ceremony will center on victims of terror attacks in Belgium, including the Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting which killed two Israelis, Emanuel and Miriam Riva. Their names appear on a memorial placed in the plaza for the duration of the ceremony. See Zionist Institutions Remember , page 38

69 Years of Independence: Israel in Numbers By: Ilana Messika

n accordance with its annual practice prior to Israeli Independence Day, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has published data this week that offer insight into the evolution of the Israeli population and economy. Israel’s population at its 69th year of existence is estimated at 8.68 million, almost eleven times its population of 806,000 at its establishment in 1948. A total of 6.48 million people, approximately 75% of Israel’s population, are Jewish. Arabs make up 21% of the population (1.8 million people), and the remaining 4.5% are Druze or of a different ethnicity.

The current Jewish population in Israel constitutes 43% of the global Jewish population, which is estimated to be 14.4 million. The current Jewish population in Israel constitutes 43% of the global Jewish population, which is estimated to be 14.4 million. By contrast, a total of 6% of world Jewry lived in Israel in 1948 when Jews numbered 11.5 million worldwide. The country’s overall population grew by 159,000 since last

Israel’s population at its 69th year of existence is estimated at 8.68 million, almost eleven times its population of 806,000 at its establishment in 1948.

Independence Day, an increase of 1.9%. During that period, around 174,000 babies were born, 44,000 people died, and 30,000 new immigrants arrived in Israel. The CBS has estimated that by 2048, Israel’s population will reach 15.2 million. A total of about 75% of all Israeli Jews were born in the country and more than half of them also have parents who are native Israelis. When the State of Israel was founded in 1948, only 35% of its Jews were born in the country. The figures list 44% of Jewish Israelis as being non-religious, 24% as being traditionalist, 12% as being religious-nationalist,

11% as being religious, and 9% as being ultra-Orthodox (Haredi). Among the non-Jewish population, 21% are listed as not religious, 23% are listed as not so religious, 52% are listed as religious, and 4% are listed as very religious. According to a pluralistic survey presented by the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), a significant majority of both Jews and Arabs do not think it is wise for them to live together. The survey shows that a majority of Jews believe that it is wise for secular and religious Jews to live together, but not for secular and ultra-Orthodox Jews to live together. In both cases, the group classified as totally secular was the most reluctant to encourage such mixing. JPPI President Avinoam Bar-Yosef stressed that “the fact that many Arabs living in the Jewish state define their primary identity as Israeli and feel comfortable and at home in Israel is very encouraging. Having said that, there is still much to be done to ensure full equality.” JPPI also found that Jews with political and/or intra-Jewish ethnic differences recommend living in the same neighborhoods. However, a significant majority of Muslim Arabs and the vast majority (more than 90%) of Christian Arabs in See 69 Years of Independ, page 37

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Abbas in DC: Can a “Peace Deal” be Brokered?

n Wednesday, the day the New York Jewish Voice hits the newsstands, President Trump will sort of welcome into the White House, a confirmed terrorist from the make-believe land of "Palestine." That would be Mahmoud Abbas also known as Abu Mazen. We refer to him as an unabashed Jew/Israel hater, Holocaust denier and a murderer. Abbas has been the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) since 1995 when he took over from his mentor, Yasser Arafat. Different names, faces but the same brutal, dictatorial rulers. We don't know the outcome from this meeting but we're hoping that President Trump will cold shoulder any proposal by Abbas for this country to change its new pro-Israel stance. Abbas will surely try to flim-flam our president to continue the disastrous Obama policies of recognition and support both moral and financial for the Palestinian dream of becoming a nation. He will surely bombastically demand that our nation force Israel to halt its settlement growth, repeat the nonsense dream of the right of return, call for final borders based on the 1967 lines and petition for the release of high level Palestinian prisoners currently serving sentences for murder and terrorism in Israel. Rather, we get the feeling (and pray) that Trump will talk to him straight out and read the riot act to this man whose 1982 PhD dissertation was published as, "The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism." According to the lies of Abbas, the Zionist movement encouraged and worked with the Nazis to persecute Jews in order to spur more Jewish immigration to Palestine. A quote from his paper: "The Zionists were the Third Reich's partner in crime." He also asserted that the claims of six million dead were exaggerated for political gain. His figures, "around one million." Far be it then, for us to remind President Trump that in a recent speech he gave marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, he denounced Holocaust deniers as, "an accomplice to this horrible evil" and Holocaust denial as one form of "dangerous anti-Semitism that continues all around the world." Why then, this meeting with a Holocaust denier?? There is another issue at stake here that Trump has to consider. And that's the murder of American citizens by Palestinian terrorists over the years and the financial support our nation's citizens give to these terrorists. Let's take a look at the outrage (finally) in Congress for the stabbing death last year of American, Taylor Force, a 28 year old U.S. combat veteran who served his country in Iraq and Afghanistan who was visiting Israel as a Vanderbilt University student. As a result of this continuing terror against

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PA President Mahmoud Abbas will surely bombastically demand that our nation force Israel to halt its settlement growth, repeat the nonsense dream of the right of return, call for final borders based on the 1967 lines and petition for the release of high level Palestinian prisoners currently serving sentences for murder and terrorism in Israel.

Americans in Israel Republican lawmakers introduced a bill, House Resolution 1164, called the Taylor Force Act, which would eliminate U.S. funding for the PA if it continues to provide stipends to terrorists and their families. To quote Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), "If a Palestinian is convicted in an Israeli court of being a terrorist, the longer they're in jail, the more their family receives from the PA." He noted that over $300 million U.S. taxpayer dollars flow to the PA each year and these funds are used to support and encourage the killings in Israel even of Americans. A family of 25 year old jailed terrorist receives a stipend of at least $3,000 per month as reward for his/her terrorism and imprisonment. Our funding of the PA encourages their terror activities. Let President Trump take this opportunity to stomp down on Abbas and his terrorist Palestinian Authority by telling him that this nation stands in total support of the state of Israel and that we will no longer be in cahoots with Islamic terror specifically as orchestrated by Abbas' supporters and followers. However, we are truly concerned that our president has lowered himself to even permit this terrorist to enter the White House and to sit side by side with the leader of the free world. We are as troubled as you are as to the outcomes of this meeting. Let's hope and pray that our president makes his visitor squirm and that Trump is as tough as nails during this meeting.

Israel’s Gifts to the World on her 69th B-Day!! The citizens of the most hated nation, ever, in the world have successfully survived a hair-raising 69 years of a day-to-day, life or death struggle to survive. Israel, or call it more accurately, The Jewish State, a member yet considered an outsider in the United Nations, surrounded by hateful, predator neighbors and daily fighting for its life against virtually uncountable terrorist attacks against its people, not only refuses to fade away but continues to hand over the most incredible discoveries and inventions to make life longer and even better for its vocal and physical enemies. Here we have a nation, barely 70 years old nurturing and protecting with vigor only 7.4 million people of all colors and faiths, sitting in a heavily fortified 8,000 square miles of land, much of it arid yet it is the perhaps the most giving, philanthropic, civilized and caring nation ever on this earth. How can that be? All of its children, both male and female, MUST serve for at least twenty four months in the military with extended reserve training for many more years, leaving the already minimal work force enormously reduced by their absence necessary to defend their country. And yet this pariah among nations refuses to cease developing and handing over gifts for the rest of the hostile world to benefit from technologically, medically and basically to make life easier and more comfortable for all of its most deadly enemies. Never, in the history of this planet has any nation ever been as philanthropic and caring for the rest of humanity

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in the situation as hazardous as Israel has found itself during these past often horrific 69 years. What parents in Iran have not benefited from the Babysense breathing monitor that prevents crib death among their infants? What Saudi prince has not been saved from intestinal cancer by the Pillcam video capsule that when swallowed takes pictures of the abdominal tract to detect cancer? What PLO member has not used his cell phone powered by the chip developed by Israel's Intel division? What up to date Muslim farmer has not used the drip method to hydrate his plants in order to conserve water and increase his yield? We can go on and on to relate the thousands of contributions, even to its harshest enemies, that Israel has gifted to the thankless world. In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation and has the highest number of scientists and engineers per capita than any other nation. All working to benefit the rest of the planet no matter how hateful they are to the Jewish State. So, happy birthday Israel from us at the Jewish Voice! And without doubt from all of the rest of humanity whom we pray will one day cease its hatred for you and finally, with G-d's help come to the realization that your nation, truly a heavenly gift, has to be admired, respected and held up as a blessing to all of us on this planet.

Dear Editor: A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by refection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It takes the form of a multicolored arc. Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section of sky directly opposite the sun. (Well, who doesn’t know that?) It was around 5:30PM (ET) on Monday, April 24, 2017 as we were driving in the Boynton Beach area of Florida, just after a misty rain when suddenly, we were treated to a perfect rainbow arc that appeared directly in front of us. It stretched from the horizon on our left to the horizon on our right. The view was perfect – totally unencumbered or obstructed by trees, structures or clouds; it was a true arc with all the colors as vivid and clearly defined as I have ever witnessed. From the red at the

top of the arc, to the orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet at the bottom of the arc – each color had its full value. As luck would have it, for the first time in a long time, I didn’t have a camera with me. But, in a way that was okay, because it allowed me to keep viewing this phenomenon with no break or distraction. And, I do believe that picture in full-color, is forever imprinted on my mind’s eye. I am convinced that this visual gift sent by our Creator, is meant to be a reminder that such fabulous beauty is symbolic of the miracles that are available to us, if only we have the faith to believe in certain things that we can see but, cannot touch or control. I am willing to believe that rainbows are exquisitely ethereal messages sent precisely to remind us this. Sincerely Mort Kuff

Loved the “Paul Cohen” Story Dear Editor: I have been a subscriber to the Jewish Voice for more than two years now. I keep up with the world by reading the content of this newspaper. However, this is the first time I’ve written a letter to the editor. I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed reading the two installments of the story of Paul Cohen, which appeared in your weekly arts and culture section. This is the narrative of a boy from Brook-

lyn who made it big in the music business. The borough of Brooklyn has contributed so much to the culture of New York and indeed the world! The presentation of Brooklyn-ites who have enriched the arts is something I look forward to reading more about in future issues. Hey Fern Sidman, keep up the great work!! Sincerely Matt Richards Plant City, Florida

Remembering Harvey Krueger, OBM Dear Editor: There are many tributes today, honoring and remembering Harvey Krueger, who passed on April 23, 2017. He is remembered as a brilliant business leader, a compassionate and active philanthropist in the Jewish community, a lover of Israel and justice, a deeply devoted husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and family man. And always, as the husband of Connie. All these things are true. But, today, I am remembering Harvey because he was my friend. I first met Harvey during a major contract negotiation, where I was struck by what a force he was—and how he got what he wanted. It was later that we again met through my work at Tanenbaum. At first, I knew him only as a member of Tanenbaum’s Leadership Council. Soon, we were in friendship, discussing everything from equity and fairness in the Middle East, to anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, tribalism, to Tanenbaum’s

peace building work and global workplace strategies, to our philosophies on marriage and life. He was always caring, always incredibly smart, and always made me think. When I last saw Harvey, not as a representative of Tanenbaum but as his friend, it was for lunch in his home. It was after Connie was gone, and he was not doing well. When the time came for me to leave, he said he wanted to do something for me. I told him there was nothing to do, that I had just come to visit. But he insisted, got his wallet and handed me what would be his last gift for Tanenbaum. That gift was not a large monetary gift. But it is was one of the most meaningful gifts I have received. It was a gift of the heart and a statement to our friendship. It was a privilege to call Harvey friend and, an honor, when he called me friend in return. I miss him. Joyce Dubensky

The Amtrak Debacle Dear Editor: Just how will Amtrak find the employees (known as Force Account in the transit industry) to perform all the promised previously unscheduled work to bring Penn Station back up to speed over the coming months and on weekends for over a year or more? Will Amtrak have to move workers previously assigned to support the $10.8 billion MTA LIRR East Side Access to Grand Central Terminal, $3 billion Moynihan Station Farley Building, $24 billion Gateway Tunnel, along with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of other Northeast Corridor Amtrak and New Jersey

Transit as well as Metro North (Bronx & Connecticut) New Haven line projects and programs to support work at Penn Station? This night have unforeseen consequences that could result in a domino effect of delays and cost overruns for many of these other essential state of good repair and system expansion projects. Sincerely Larry Penner (Larry Penner is a transportation historian and advocate who previously worked 31 years for the US Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office)

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CUNY’s Platform for Terror Sympathizer Linda Sarsour By: Assemblyman Dov Hikind

inda Sarsour, recently chosen as the commencement speaker at CUNY’s School of Public Health, has had a good run. Until recently, she’d convinced a lot of people that she stood for progressive liberalism, stood for feminism, stood for dignity, human rights and all of the things that people who favor the liberal left say they stand for, too. But there’s an old saying: You can’t hide the crazy. Rasmea Yousef Odeh tried to hide it, and was successful for a little while. Odeh — the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist convicted for her role in murdering two Jewish students in a 1969 supermarket bombing in Israel — lied to U.S. immigration about her blood-

thirsty past and is now being deported. But while she was hiding, she worked side by side with Sarsour, who told the public, on April 2, that she was “honored to be on the stage with Rasmea.” Yes, you can’t hide the crazy — those little slips that betray what Sarsour is thinking about the people she seems to consider her enemies: the Jews. And not just the Jews; Muslims who disagree with her are a target, too. Sarsour, the self-proclaimed feminist, wants to take their sexual organs away, she tells us in a tweet. “She’s asking 4 an a$$ whippin’. I wish I could take their vaginas away — they don’t deserve to be women.” But nothing betrays the dark side of Sarsour more than that single image she tweeted of a Palestinian child holding

Linda Sarsour was recently chosen as the commencement speaker at CUNY’s School of Public Health

rocks, with a caption she wrote: “The definition of courage. #Palestine.” Well-meaning progressives like City Councilman Brad Lander have defended Sarsour, claiming she can’t be an anti-Semite. After all, she visited his synagogue. And didn’t she raise money in a well-publicized effort on behalf of a vandalized Jewish cemetery? Of course she did. Sarsour has no lack of affec-

Freedom of speech, some say. I applaud freedom of speech. But giving this type of platform — the honor of a commencement address, which every graduating student must attend — to someone who’s an apologist for terrorism is a far cry from freedom of speech. It’s incitement. One doesn’t have to assemble a bomb to be part of a bombing. One doesn’t have to leave the bomb in a supermarket. Calling

Charles Manson never stuck the Hikind writes that there is no explanation for the “a$$ whippin’” that Sarsour wished upon anti-radical-Islam activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali (pictured above)

that. I was thinking it’s taken too long for people to start unmasking what Linda Sarsour is about. And it’s “there has been,” not “there have been.” Sarsour has no response to those who challenge her frightening pronouncements. No explanation for the “a$$ whippin’” she wished upon anti-radical-Islam activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. No defense of having glorified stones being thrown at Israelis whose crimes were nothing more than being Jewish and having the bad fortune to drive a stone’s throw from a bloodthirsty radical. Instead, Sarsour casts herself as the victim of religious persecution. Sarsour tells us that she has been embraced by faith leaders across the country. She thanks everyone who has supported her. Her “homies,” she calls them, lest we forget that she’s “street.” “This work that people like me do is sacrificial work. I could be working in corporate America and doing just quite right. . . . I will not allow anybody to criminalize me based on my faith, I will not allow anybody to criminalize me based on my ethnicity or my national origin.” But no one is doing that, Linda. People are simply holding up the things you’ve endorsed. And those things are, indeed, criminal.

physical knives in backs of his victims. Sarsour has had ample time to clarify (if indeed they need any elucidation) these actions of hers, but she refuses to do so. Instead, Sarsour’s only public While in hiding from law enforcement authorities, Rasmea response to these issues — all Yousef Odeh (the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine recently raised and highlighted terrorist convicted for her role in murdering two Jewish students with the arrest of her “homie” in a 1969 supermarket bombing in Israel and who lied to U.S. Odeh — has been in a video immigration about her bloodthirsty past and is now being posted on Facebook. Sarsour deported) was working side by side with Linda Sarsour. On spends 28 minutes to make her April 2, Sarsour said she was “honored to be on the stage with case. Rasmea.” “There have been another coup the media afterwards and ordinated right-wing attack on tion for dead Jews. This is the baffling part about claiming responsibility is suffi- me and I know you’re all think(REPUBLISHED FROM THE DAILY NEWS) CUNY’s invitation, which, if cient. Or holding up the bombing to yourself, like, what’s new they have a shred of decency, er and glorifying their actions to here? Like nothing new.” Hikind represents Brooklyn in Actually, I wasn’t thinking the state Assembly. impressionable young people. they should withdraw.

A Sad Day for American Jewish Media The editor of The Forward basically expresses her "dread, despair and embarrassment" that Israel avoided extermination in 1967 By: Rabbi Yaakov Menken

indigenous peoples in their homelands. Yet it is acceptable for "Palestinian" Arabs. Why the and blame it on "the occupa- difference? Because in this case, tion." Previous atrocities, from the victims are Jews. A photo caption to Eisner's the attack upon Petach Tikva in 1886, to the massacre of the article asserts that "Palestinians Hebron yeshiva and surround- surrender to Israeli soldiers." This is historical revisionism at its finest. Those surrendering to Israeli soldiers in 1967 did not describe themselves as "Palestinian," but rather "Jordanian." But of course, that level of honesty would vacate the claim that "indigenous Palestinians" are under "occupation."

their homeland — "legitimized Israel’s moral right to exist;" a militaristic, colonialist view ent is indeed a sad day when tirely foreign to Israeli Jews who an article by the editor of a lived through the crisis. major Jewish publication fully crosses the line in order to adopt an anti-Semitic narrative about Jews and Israel. But when it is the editor of The Forward who expresses her "dread, despair and embarrassment" that Israel avoided extermination in 1967, we can express our disappointment, but few of us are surprised. She states that as a child, she "truly believed" that Israel's survival was endangered — as if it were simply childish to imagine that "the extermination of Zionist existence" was the Arab agenda. She says that military victory Rabbi Menken writes that the editor of The Forward expresses — not the Balfour Declaration, her "dread, despair and embarrassment" that Israel avoided much less the eternal bond be- extermination in 1967 tween the Jewish People and Far from a "disaster for Pales- ing community in 1929, to the tinians," the Six-Day War gave threatened "momentous masArabs living in Gaza and Judea sacre" of 1948, and the terrorist Far from a "disaster for (what Jordan called the "West attacks of the 1950s culminatPalestinians," the SixBank" when they occupied it ing in the creation of the PLO Day War gave Arabs in1948) unparalleled oppor- terrorist organization in 1964, living in Gaza and tunities: universities, modern were all recognized as barbarJudea (what Jordan medicine, massive upgrades ic and evil. Today we are told called the "West Bank" to infrastructure. It also vastly that, on the contrary, "resistance when they occupied it improved their lives, from a hu- is not terrorism." The murder in1948) unparalleled man and civil rights perspective, of civilians was "indefensible" opportunities: compared to Jordan, Egypt and for the Irish Republican Army universities, and destroyed the Chechen any other Arab state. modern medicine, It also gave them something rebellion, although both conmassive upgrades to else: the opportunity to slaugh- stituted "resistance" to true and infrastructure ter Jews, celebrate barbarism, unquestioned occupations of

natives as Judea, because the original name made too obvious a connection to its natives: the Jews. Who are the "Palestinians?" Arabs, of course. Arabs who cannot pronounce "Palestine" in their language — the only purported indigenous people to lack a home-grown name for their so-called homeland. The same Arabs who colonized the Middle East and Northern Africa from their true homeland, a large expanse known as Arabiyya. After each failed attempt to massacre the Jews of Israel,

The "checkpoints" were not built in 1967, nor to promote "apartheid." They exist for precisely the same reason that we endure the humiliation of removing our shoes in order to board an airplane

The name "Palestine" is translated from the Roman Palaestina. It is a name associated with genocide and ethnic cleansing. Hadrian, the Roman Emperor, renamed the land known to its

they engaged in pogroms and ethnic cleansing of Jews from their homes across the Arab world; the majority fled to Israel. Today, Arabs point fingers at the descendants of these Jewish

refugees, and accuse them of racism towards Arabs. And Jane Eisner, editor of The Forward, joins their cry. The "checkpoints" were not built in 1967, nor to promote "apartheid." They exist for precisely the same reason that we endure the humiliation of removing our shoes in order to board an airplane. The barrier and checkpoints were built to stop massacres of Russian refugees at a discotheque and Holocaust survivors at Passover seders — not to mention families out to enjoy a pizza at Sbarro's. Eisner does not condemn any of these atrocities. Instead she implies that there is something evil in trying to prevent them. To traditional Jews, this is not entirely a surprise. The Forward has consistently favored welfare programs, but only as long as they aren't used by Jews. It incessantly obsesses over people leaving Orthodoxy, and groups that help them leave. Should we be surprised that the editor writes a hit piece against Israel, celebrating the canards of anti-Semitism — and on the day when the Jews of Israel celebrate being spared from death yet again? (INN)

Rabbi Yaakov Menken is the Director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, a public policy institute led by Orthodox rabbis, and the chief architect of the outreach website Torah.org.

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The Agenda for the Trump-Abbas Meeting There's a time limit on the Trump administration's tolerance of Palestinian shenanigans By: Caroline Glick

he day after Israel celebrates its 69th Independence Day, President Donald Trump will greet PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas at the White House. The date of their meeting, May 3, is notable not least for its timing. The timing of the meeting presumes a linkage between the establishment of Israel and the establishment of a Palestinian state. This is not merely obnoxious, it is also blind to reality. In reality, an independent state of Palestine has existed for the past 12 years in Gaza. Rather than build that up and declare independence, Abbas and his comrades surrendered Gaza to Hamas in 2007. Hamas, in turn, transformed independent Palestine into a base for jihad. Abbas’s failure to declare independence in 2005 – and the subsequent failure of his UStrained forces to defend their control over Gaza in June 2007 from Hamas terrorists – is generally overlooked. But it is critical that Trump understand the significance of his behavior before he meets with Abbas. Since the inception of the peace process between Israel and the PLO in 1993, the professed goal of the PLO has been to establish an independent Palestinian state on any territory

over which it was able to take control from Israel. Yet 12 years ago, when Israel withdrew its citizens and military from Gaza, the PLO refused to take responsibility for the area insisting ridiculously that Gaza was still controlled by Israel. Then 10 years ago, UStrained PLO forces fled to Israel rather than defend their control of Gaza when Hamas took up arms against them. There are, it seems, two main reasons for Abbas’s behavior. The first is directly related to how he understood Israel’s decision to withdraw. In December 2003, thenprime minister Ariel Sharon stunned the country when he adopted the platform of the Labor Party – which he had just massively defeated in the general elections – and removed all Israeli communities and military installations from Gaza, including from the border with Egypt, by the end of 2005. Israeli society was nearly torn apart in the one year and eight months between Sharon’s surprise announcement and the expulsion of Gaza’s Jews in August 2005. The media hemorrhaged with continuous propaganda that demonized the Israeli residents of Gaza and the religious Zionist community in general. A reminder of that toxic period came earlier this month, when Haaretz published a col-

umn by veteran reporter Yossi Klein in which he alleged that religious Zionists posed a graver danger to the State of Israel than Hezbollah. Abbas and his lieutenants viewed the domestic chaos that engulfed Israel at the time as proof of Israel being on its way off the stage of history.

Samaria after the 2006 elections. Why accept Gaza if all of Israel was about to be destroyed – by its own hand? The second reason that Abbas didn’t declare independence in Gaza, is because he had no interest in being held accountable for his behavior – as leaders of independent states are. If he accepted sovereign power, then the Palestinians as well as Israel and, presumably, the rest of the world

From media reports, it appears that Trump intends to discuss the Palestinian Authority’s subsidization of terrorism to the tune of $300 million each year, which it pays out as salaries to terrorists in Israeli prisons and as stipends to their families.

If this was how Israelis reacted to the destruction of 21 communities in Gaza (and four in northern Samaria) and the dispossession of 10,000 Israelis, it was clear to Abbas and his comrades that Israeli society would collapse if Sharon carried out his plan to reenact the Gaza withdrawal tenfold in Judea and

would be able to hold him to account for what happened within the territory he controlled. His ability to blame Israel for his failures would be diminished, at least in theory. Far better, Abbas concluded, to pretend that Israel’s withdrawal was meaningless and blame Israel for his failure to

govern his own territory. Both reasons for Abbas’s rejection of responsibility over Gaza are important because they also reflect the views of the Palestinians as a whole. Dan Polisar, from Shalem College, summarized in a recent article in the online magazine Mosaic, his study of more than 400 public opinion surveys of the Palestinians in Judea, Samaria and Gaza taken by professional pollsters over the past 23 years. Like Abbas in 2005, the overwhelming majority of Palestinians believe that Israel isn’t long for this world. In one 2011 survey, for instance, a mere 23% of Palestinians said they were certain that Israel will continue to exist 25 years hence. 44% were certain it would not. The fact that more than three quarters of Palestinians are uncertain if Israel will survive is not only a function of Israel’s own self-destructive behavior – it is premised as well on Palestinian ideology. The vast majority of Palestinians reject Israel’s right to exist. Indeed, a mere 12% of Palestinians believe that Jews have ties to the land of Israel. Polisar showed that, whereas a plurality to a bare majority of Palestinians accepts the premise of a twostate solution, the overwhelming majority reject any deal that would leave Israel intact as a viable state capable of defending itself. Equally im-

Abbas’s failure to declare independence in 2005 – and the subsequent failure of his US-trained forces to defend their control over Gaza in June 2007 from Hamas terrorists – is generally overlooked portantly, 68% of Palestinians believe that even if a Palestinian state is established in Gaza, Judea and Samaria with Jerusalem as its capital, they should continue to aspire to Israel’s destruction. In other words, even if the PLO signs a deal with Israel that says the conflict has been resolved, for 68% of Palestinians the conflict will continue. They oppose ending the education of their children to seek Israel’s destruction and accepting Israel as a peaceful neighbor. This then, brings us to Trump’s visit with Abbas, the day after Israel’s 69th birthday. What does he intend to discuss with Abbas? From media reports, it appears that Trump intends to discuss the Palestinian Authority’s subsidization of terrorism to the tune of $300 million each year, which it pays out as salaries to terrorists in Israeli prisons and as stipends to their families. In an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News earlier See The Agenda for the Trump-Abbas , page 37

Is Being a Zionist Worse than Being an Islamophobe? - Part 1 By: Phyllis Chesler

n classic Islamic fashion, I was dis-invited by the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Arkansas Law School one and half working days before the 8-day holiday of Passover began--a time when both I and many colleagues, including those who would be celebrating Easter the following weekend, would be away from our desks and unable to "break" any news. However, several most worthy colleagues stepped right up to the task. I am indebted to Yisrael Medad, at his site, My Right Word), and to all those who linked to his website; to Richard Landes who "fisked" the email chain that led to my dis-invitation, at his site The Augean Stables and to all those, beginning with Rochel Sylvestsky at Israel National News, who introduced and posted, or linked to, and tweeted out Landes' work. Finally, I am grateful to Winfield Myers of Middle East Forum (who worked long and hard on a piece that has yet to appear) and to Bruce Bawer whose piece will appear sometime this week. Despite this extraordinary and diligent collegiality, the specific significance of my dis-invitation still hovers far below the radar. We know that many worthy souls are also, almost routinely, dis-invited. I have been covering this precise phenomenon for the last fifteen years. In the last week

and months, many recent news stories and op-ed pieces have covered the threatened--and actual violence towards both Milo Yiannopolous and Ann Coulter; Charles Murray and Heather McDonald. Over the years, I have covered the hostile working conditions as well as dis-invitations that truth-tellers about Islam and about Israel have faced on campus: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nonie Darwish, Brigitte Gabriel, David Horowitz, and Robert Spencer, etc. In what way is my dis-invitation different? I was not delivering a standalone lecture but was a key part of a conference on a subject that I've been studying for many years. And, unlike some of the other dis-invited speakers, I have a half-century track record as a "public intellectual," lecturer, an academic. I was a Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies from the late 1960s on until the end of the 20th century. My books sold millions of copies and were translated into many European languages and into Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, and Korean. I had an international reputation as a human rights and women's right activist and leader long before the 21st century. But all that no longer seems to matter. History no longer exists or professors no longer know or care about it; objectivity, true facts, clear reasoning,

possible. Why had Law Professor Lisa Avalos invited me to speak? I was supposed to speak about honor killings and would have been the only scholar whom has actually published academic, peer-reviewed and feminist studies (four, so far) about the very subject of the conference. The other participants were two most honorable activists (Diana Nammi and Rashid Begum of the UK); a brilliant filmmaker (Ruth Beni, also from the UK); law enforcement officer Chris Boughey, who worked on the Noor Almaleki case in Arizona and Shahin Mehdizadeh who translated from the Farsi and assisted in the Canadian Shafia case. Shahin's translation cracked the case wide open and led to the successful prosecution of three honor killers who had killed three teenagers and a first wife. The law professor who had invited me, Lisa Avalos, has done very important work on sexual violence against women and has been circling the phenomenon of honor-based vioUniversity of Arkansas law professor Lisa Avalos (pictured above) lence. Avalos has relied on my work in this area as have many invited me Phyllis Chesler to speak about honor killings. She would have been the only scholar whom has actually published others. It is clear that the Professors academic, peer-reviewed and feminist studies (four, so far) who protested my appearance about the very subject of the conference had never read my academic tack dogs on a short leash. (This politically correct i.e. a left-wing studies. Had they done so, they describes people on many sides feminist, because I was defend- would have found my concluing Western civilization whose sions far from "Islamophobic." of the aisle.) My Original Sin: As of Sep- values and virtues made a 19th First, my concern is with the tember, 2000, when Arafat century abolitionist, and a 20th victims, most of whom are tribal launched yet another Intifada, century civil rights, as well as a girls and women of color: HinI seemed to change course as I women's liberation movement dus, Sikhs, and Muslims. The genuine intellectual diversity, the capacity for self-criticism, have all been banished from the Western Academy. Expertise consists of being a celebrity, preferably one who is either half-naked or wearing hijab; our new rulers are uncivil, provocative, vulgar, in short, they are celebrities who behave like at-

turned my attention to rising anti-Semitism, Big Lies about Israel, the denial that global terrorism was being perpetrated by Muslims—first against each other, then against infidels. As a feminist, I also focused on gender apartheid and honor-based violence, including honor killings. I was no longer a

History no longer exists or professors no longer know or care about it; objectivity, true facts, clear reasoning, genuine intellectual diversity, the capacity for self-criticism, have all been banished from the Western Academy. victims are Muslims. Second, while Hindus do perpetrate honor killings they do so only in India; Hindus do not bring the custom with them when they immigrate to the West. Only Muslims, and to a much lesser extent, Sikhs, do. Therefore, I concluded that this crime is tribal in origin. I held Islamic, Hindu, and Sikh leaders and communities responsible for not working to actively abolish a tribal custom which may not necessarily be rooted in their religious texts, even if ignorant people believe that it is. Contrary to myth, I do not view women as only victims and men only as perpetrators. My fourth and latest study concerns the role that women play in honor killing, as collaborators, instigators, and hands-on perpetrators. Professor Avalos wanted me to walk conference participants through my data, simplify it, arm them with it in a way that they could use. I had just about See Being Pro-Israel, page 36

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Mother of Invention - 'The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower' Reviewed by: David Isaac

n 1948, as Israel was heading into its first war, an IDF general sent a letter to David Ben-Gurion, Israel's new prime minister, politely declining his offer to become chief of staff because he had learned the Jewish State only had six million bullets. "We will need 1 million bullets a day in a war and I am not willing to be chief of staff for just six days," he wrote. The Weapon Wizards, an engaging look at Israel's weapons industry, is replete with such anecdotes. (Another that's hard to resist is how Jewish forces in Jerusalem held off Arab rioters with one gun and 11 bullets. Afterward, the commander criticized the "gratuitous use of ammo.") Such stories drive home how little Israel had militarily in its early years. Israel's humble beginnings make it even more remarkable that it has become a military power. The goal of the authors, Israeli journalists Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot, is to explain how that transformation came about. As they write, 60 years ago Israel's biggest exports were oranges and false teeth. Today, weapons make up 10 percent of Israel's exports.

The Weapon Wizards is at its best showing these characteristics in action, from amusing episodes to in-depth stories focusing on the development of certain weapons systems Like Start-Up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, Katz and Bohbot identify national characteristics that have led to a "culture of innovation." Leading the list is a creativity born of necessity. "With barely any resources beyond the human capital that had immigrated to the new state, Israelis had to make the most of the little they had," the authors write. Israel has even created a subunit of autistic soldiers to analyze satellite pictures.

The Weapon Wizards is at its best showing these characteristics in action, from amusing episodes to in-depth stories focusing on the development of certain weapons systems. For instance, when illustrating the advantages of the IDF's flexible hierarchy, the authors describe a visit by the U.S. Air Force's F-16 program director. During a tour of IDF squadrons, one of the participants started lecturing his commander on everything that was wrong with the plane. The U.S. representative, a lieutenant general, asked the person to identify himself. He was shocked to learn the critic was a lowly mechanic. In America, the authors write, it's unheard of to talk out of turn and argue with your commander, especially in front of a foreign officer. "In Israel, though, no one thinks in those terms. What the mechanic was doing was exactly what he had been trained to do and what he thought was expected of him—to speak his mind," the authors write. In a similar vein, Israel nurtures its best and brightest. A fascinating example of this characteristic is a program called Talpiot. Created in 1979, it pulls together some of Israel's most promising young people, who sign on for nine years of service in return for degrees in fields like physics, math, and computer science. Thousands apply each year; only 30 are accepted. Talpiot graduates, called Talpions, are seeded throughout the army where they have an impact far beyond their numbers. In 40 years, the program has produced roughly 1,000 graduates, but a single one can revolutionize a unit, the authors say. Although the program met resistance early on, within a few years generals were demanding to know: "Where is my Talpion?" The prime minister was forced to hold a special meeting to resolve the issue. Although Katz and Bohbot don't come right out and say it, it's evident that for all the encouragement of innovation, there remains resistance within the military one would expect

The Weapon Wizards, takes an engaging look at Israel's weapons industry is replete with captivating anecdotes. The book tells stories that drive home how little Israel had militarily in its early years. Israel's humble beginnings make it even more remarkable that it has become a military power. The goal of the authors, Israeli journalists Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot, is to explain how that transformation came about. As they write, 60 years ago Israel's biggest exports were oranges and false teeth. Today, weapons make up 10 percent of Israel's exports.

from any large establishment. Talpiot had to overcome naysayers before it was embraced, and so did many of the programs the authors discuss, from satellites to the Iron Dome. This suggests the IDF fosters innovation only after a fight. What appears to distinguish the IDF from other militaries is that innovative individuals don't quit. They also have an admirably dismissive attitude toward army regulations. The premier example is Brigadier General Danny Gold, who developed the Iron Dome. Gold met "overwhelming opposition" to his idea for a rocket

defense system. But he was undeterred, going "beyond the usual Israeli chutzpah," according to Katz and Bohbot. He told Rafael, Israel's state-owned defense company, to start developing the system and go into production as soon as it was ready—orders only the IDF chief of staff and defense minister can issue. Gold basically threw out the IDF rulebook. By the time the state comptroller issued a report chastising Gold, the Iron Dome had already proven a startling success. Gold is considered a national hero. Israel's satellite program is another example of innovation and

chutzpah (the title of the chapter is "Chutzpadik Satellites"). When Israel attempted to launch its first real reconnaissance satellite in 1993, instead of going into space, the satellite went into the Mediterranean. The failure was an embarrassment, prompting jokes about Israel's antisubmarine satellites. Less funny was the fact that money for the program had run dry, while opposition was building in the defense ministry. Instead of throwing in the towel, the program chiefs took a mock satellite not built for space and sent it into orbit within two years. Such stories inspire the imagination. But they also inspire a question: How is it that Israel, so advanced militarily, comes up so short politically? Katz and Bohbot are aware of the problem, noting in their conclusion that Israel's military advances are "meaningless if Israel's operations lack the international stamp of legitimacy. The state can develop, manufacture and even sell weapons around the world, but that won't mean much if the world refuses to support Israel's actions." What the authors don't say is that much of the fault lies with Israel. The 1993 Oslo Accords were the peak of Israel's self-destructive behavior. Israel resuscitated the PLO, on the ropes after the Gulf War and known worldwide as a terrorist organization. In the blink of an eye, the Jewish State legitimized it along with Palestinian Arab territorial aspirations. Israel remains trapped by a policy of its own making. Today, the Likud government seeks to strengthen and expand Jewish settlements even as it broadcasts its support for a two-state solution that grants Arabs political rights to the land the Jews are building on. The contradiction is easily exploited by Israel's enemies—and even some of her putative friends. The problem, of course, did not start with Oslo. It was the culmination of years of neglect. While the Jewish State might develop ingenious ways to counter physical weapons, it has done

What appears to distinguish the IDF from other militaries is that innovative individuals don't quit. They also have an admirably dismissive attitude toward army regulations. The premier example is Brigadier General Danny Gold, (pictured above) who developed the Iron Dome.

nothing to combat psychological weapons. And so the calumnies have grown with time. None of this is to excuse the civilized world, which gladly tilts a morally degenerate ear to Arab lies. No one spoke more forcefully of the need for Israeli countermeasures than Shmuel Katz, Irgun leader turned writer and publisher. He warned for decades in his Jerusalem Post columns of the dangers Israel faced by leaving anti-Israel propaganda unchallenged. In one, "Countering Propaganda," he wrote: "Israeli governments have not come to grips also with the nature of the war. It is not designed to achieve a change in this or the other policy of the Israeli government. Its aim is to put an end to the Zionist entity, to delegitimize Israel—by the assertion, endlessly repeated, that the Jewish people has no right to Palestine, and the Jewish State has no right to exist at all, that the land is Arab territory usurped by the Zionists with the aid of the imperialists." Putting Israel's public relations failure in military terms, he said, "our existing hasbara [information services] could be likened to See Mother of Invention, page 38

First German-Language Siddur in More Than a Century Published in Berlin Prayerbook is another sign of resurgent Jewish life in Germany By: Chabad Staff

F The Tehillat Hashem siddur with German translation includes nearly 1,400 pages.

or the first time in more than a century, a comprehensive new siddur (Jewish prayerbook) with a full contemporary translation into German has been published in Berlin. The one-volume siddur encompasses all daily and annual prayers, along with instructions and explanations. “This siddur has all the prayers that a person needs for the entire year, including the holidays, except from Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur,” said its publisher, Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin and the Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in the German capital. The Tehillat Hashem siddur, whose production spanned four years, features nearly 1,400 pages of clear print and attractive design, said Teichtal. It was published in conjunction and with the permission of the Kehot Publication Society in New York. “Publishing this siddur also marks the opening

of a new Jewish publishing house in Germany,” said the rabbi. While in the process of compiling the siddur, he decided to create the new Jewish publishing house, which he named Juedisches. This siddur is its first publication. The next stage is for Juedisches to print other foundational Jewish works in German, he continued. Presently, it is working to publish a sefer Tehillim (Psalms) with German translation; to date, approximately one-third of the job is already complete. “Aside from the technical advantage of translating the prayers into German, I feel that one way to encourage the younger generation to join us in remembering and honoring the past is by linking memories of the past to a revitalized movement of Jewish spirituality,” Teichtal told Chabad.org “The fact that specifically here, in a place where they attempted to exterminate European Jewry, there is now a vibrant, active Jewish community— as manifest by the publication of one of the most prominent and basic Jewish works in the German

language—attests to the spiritual force and power of humanity, and of the Jewish nation, in particular. I sincerely hope that this will be a source of inspiration and message of unity to a younger generation,” he said. Aside from the actual prayers, translation and elucidation, the siddur also includes Pirkei Avot; Torah readings for Mondays, Thursdays and holidays; and basic Jewish laws of prayer. The prayer section is divided into weekday, Shabbat, holiday and fast days. The project was completed by a team of five, including a main editor, translators and proofreaders, all of whom are members of the Jewish community in Berlin. The endeavor was made possible thanks to generous support of the community. Several copies of the siddur arrived in Germany this past week from Israel, where it was printed. The vast majority of the shipment will arrive in the coming weeks. The siddur will be available for purchase in German Jewish communities, on the Swiss Jewish website Books & Bagels and on Amazon. (CHABAD.ORG)

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Docudrama Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Six-Day War Premiers in US Theaters on May 23rd This One-Night Theatrical Event Includes Firsthand Interviews and Exclusive Additional Commentary Edited by: JV Staff

ifty years ago, following a 20-year Jordanian occupation, Jerusalem was re-unified with Israel, and now for the first time, these historic events will be brought to the big screen. With personal accounts, historical footage and professional reenactments, Israel’s 55th Paratrooper Brigade is celebrated in the feature-length docudrama, “IN OUR HANDS: The Battle for Jerusalem.” This special, one-night event comes to U.S. movie theaters on Tuesday, May 23 at 7:00 p.m. local time, from Fathom Events and the Christian Broadcast Network (CBN). Following the feature, CBN CEO Gordon Robertson will share the significance of the SixDay War and its implications on both current day and historical events. Tickets for “IN OUR HANDS:

Israel’s history will be featured on the big screen across the U.S. in stunning detail, the day beThe Battle for Jerusalem” can be every year in remembrance of fore Israelis celebrate Jerusalem purchased online by visiting these historic events known as Day.” “To know this story is to have www.FathomEvents.com or at the Reunification of Jerusalem. participating theater box offices. Fans throughout the U.S. will be able to enjoy the event in nearly 600 select movie theaters. For a complete list of theater locations visit the Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change). Less than 20 years after reforming as a nation, Israel was on the verge of extinction, but six days in early June 1967 changed the course of history. “IN OUR HANDS” tells the story of Israel’s 55th Paratrooper Brigade and how Israel’s defense forces risked everything for the sake of their homeland. With firsthand interviews and historical reenactments, this powerful docudrama focuses on the commitment and sacrifice of the soldiers who brought Jerusalem back under Israeli control. Israel still celebrates Jerusalem Day

Motta Gur’s paratroopers

Members of Israel's 55th Paratroop Brigade hold a captured Jordanian flag in Jerusalem

victory that returned to the Jews the Old City of Jerusalem and the Western Wall of the old Temple. One soldier called it ‘the returning to the nation its heart.’ Most accounts of the Six-Day War are straight documentaries, and The Battle of Ammunition Hill is a sentence or two. No film we know of actually recreates these pivotal scenes and events with such intense accuracy. For new generations of Jews and Christians, IN OUR HANDS is a must-see.” About Fathom Events Fathom Events is recognized as the leading domestic distributor of event cinema with participating affiliate theaters in all 100 of the top Designated Mar“IN OUR HANDS” tells the story of Israel’s 55th Paratrooper Brigade and how Israel’s defense forces risked everything for the ket Areas®, and ranks as one of the largest overall distributors sake of their homeland of content to movie theaters. “’IN OUR HANDS: The to tell it, particularly on the 50th Owned by AMC Entertainment Battle for Jerusalem’ features anniversary of the event,” CBN Inc. (NYSE: AMC), Cinemark the untold and unparalleled te- CEO Gordon Robertson said. Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK) nacity of Israeli forces,” Fathom “From the very Israeli para- and Regal Entertainment Group Events CEO John Rubey said. troopers who fought it, IN OUR (NYSE: RGC) (known collec“This significant moment in HANDS unveils the surprise tively as AC JV, LLC), Fathom

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Young Israeli Cellist Joins Moscow Virtuosi Tickets on Sale for Sid Jacobson JCC’s Randi Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall Concert and Bruce Pergament Jewish Film Festival Edited by: JV Staff

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-year old Israeli prodigy, cellist Danielle Akta, will join eminent maestro Vladimir Spivakov and the acclaimed Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra for a Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, June 7 at 8 PM. Joining them is the brilliant soprano and Metropolitan Opera star Hibla Gerzmava – last heard at the Met in 2016 as Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello, and recently made her La Scala Opera debut in the title role in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena. The eclectic orchestral program will include Mozart’s Divertimento No.1 in D major, K.136; Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony in C minor Op. 110, dedicated “To the Memory of Victims 14-year old Israeli prodigy, cellist Danielle Akta, of Fascism and War,” Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei Op. (pictured above) will join eminent maestro See Young Israeli Cellist, page 36

Brilliant soprano and Metropolitan Opera star Hibla Gerzmava

Vladimir Spivakov and the acclaimed Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra for a Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, June 7 at 8 PM

Eminent maestro Vladimir Spivakov

ickets for Sid Jacobson JCC’s Randi and Bruce Pergament Jewish Film Festival go on sale Monday, May 8 at 9 a.m. The festival, returning for the 24th year features documentaries, comedies and short films. The festival kicks off on Wednesday, June 21 at 7:30 p.m. with the documentary “On the Map” about the 1977 Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team that brought the first European Cup to Israel. On Wednesday, June 28 at 7:30 p.m. will be the The Women’s Balcony” which was Israel’s New York premiere for the comedy “Let Yourself number one film in 2016 will be shown on Go,” which tells the story of Elia, a psychoanalyst Wednesday, July 12 and Thursday, July 13. who lives on the same floor as his ex-wife who he is still in love with. The film will also be shown on Thursday, June 29 at 2 p.m. The festival runs from Wednesday, June 21 to Thursday, July 27 with a different film being

The New York premiere for the comedy “Let Yourself Go” will be on Wednesday, June 28.

Sid Jacobson JCC’s Randi & Bruce Pergament Jewish Film Festival opens with the documentary “On the Map” about the 1977 Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team on Wednesday, June 21.

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Karim Cheurfi: From the Cauldron of Prison to the Streets of Paris By: Patrick Dunleavy

kosher supermarket and killing those who have spent time in four hostages. Charlie Hebdo at- prison, the radicalization prohe initial reports re- tacker Said Kouachi, like Karim cess from conversion to viogarding Islamic terror- Cheurfi, came out of the joint lence is more accelerated. "Some ist Karim Cheurfi, the radicalized and ready to kill law individuals, particularly those man responsible for the enforcement, military person- who convert in prison, may be latest attack that killed French nel and innocent civilians in the attracted directly to jihadi violence...for this group, jihad reppolice officer Xavier Jugele name of Allah. and wounded several others, contained the all-too-familiar phrase – "known to authorities." What actually was known? Cheurfi had a predisposition for violence, animosity toward authority – he had tried to kill police officers twice before – and a sense of alienation. They also knew that he had spent a significant period of his life in a place that some authorities called a radicalizing cauldron, the French prison system. Inside those prisons, a small group of Islamic terrorists was effectively radicalizing other inmates who came in as petty criminals The initial reports regarding Islamic terrorist Karim Cheurfi, the with no religious leanings, said man responsible for the latest attack that killed French police Pascal Mailhos, past director of officer Xavier Jugele and wounded several others, contained France's domestic intelligence the all-too-familiar phrase – "known to authorities." agency. This problem is not unique resents a convenient outlet for Mailhos' warning proved prophetic as French prisons to France. Former inmates (their) aggressive behavior," the spawned terrorists like Mo- who turned to the violent path Central Intelligence Agency said hammed Merah, who in 2012 of jihad plotted or carried out in a report, "Homegrown Jihad murdered police officers and terrorist attacks in the United – Pathway to Terrorism." When you combine the inJewish school children in Tou- States, Belgium, Canada, Denlouse, and Amedy Coulibaly, mark, Germany and the United gredients of violent aggressive behavior, animosity toward who killed a police trainee be- Kingdom. For some, particularly for authority, incarceration, and fore storming the Hyper Cacher

radical Islamic ideology, you will almost certainly produce a deadly toxin. French prosecutor Francois Molins insisted that Cheurfi showed no signs of radicalization prior to the attack. Missing the signs could be the result of bad eyesight or, a lack

American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) seek to censor any mention of Islamic radicalization from American law enforcement and military training. In 2004, the FBI's official definition of radicalization was "the process of attracting and possi-

Scene of the most recent terror attack in Paris

of training. "We don't have anyone trained for anti-radicalization," said David Dulondel, the head of the union representing officers at France's Fleury-Merogis maximum security prison. "We can't say whether someone is in the process of radicalizing or not." Despite an acknowledged problem with insufficient training, groups like the Council on

bly converting inmates to radical Islam." They since have been pressured to change the term to "violent extremism." Removing warning labels from canisters containing caustic material does not render the substance inside harmless. It only increases the risk of a deadly incident. Toxic waste spills are often the result of carelessness. Prison radicalization should

When you combine the ingredients of violent aggressive behavior, animosity toward authority, incarceration, and radical Islamic ideology, you will almost certainly produce a deadly toxin. not be treated this way. We must put the tools in place to monitor and control this threat. Others have done it. Following last month's Westminster Bridge attack by Khalid Masood, British authorities announced the formation of a task force that will combine intelligence, law enforcement, corrections and probation personnel to look at literature, clergy, and other influences available in prisons. The task force will also closely monitor recently released inmates for changes in behavior or association with known radical mosques or people. France, which has suffered its share of jihadi violence carried out by ex-inmates, had to admit that its program to address prison radicalization had been an utter failure. Yet it has not made any significant changes. See Karim Cheurﬁ: From, page 36

A Saudi Arabian Endowment and its Ties to Sharia at the University of Arkansas By: Bruce Bawer

n April 13-15, the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Arkansas held a symposium on so-called “honor violence,” as exemplified by honor killings, forced marriage, and other such delightful acts. I'll get back to this – but first of all, am I the only person who still finds it jarring to see words like “King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies” in the same sentence as words like “University of Arkansas”?

Of course, this isn't the only so-called “Middle East Studies” shebang based at a Western university, named for a Saudi royal, and funded by Saudi cash The Center, as its website informs us, “was founded with a $20 million endowment from the Saudi government in the mid-1990s. An initial endowment of $2 million, dedicated toward language, literary translation and publication was followed by a much larger $18 million gift designed to spark the foundation of a comprehensive Middle East Studies program at the undergraduate and graduate levels.” Of course, this isn't the only

so-called “Middle East Studies” shebang based at a Western university, named for a Saudi royal, and funded by Saudi cash. Georgetown University famously boasts the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding – which, when you stop to think about it, is a strange name for a unit of a university, where you'd imagine that the idea would be not “understanding” in the touchy-feely sense suggested by the phrase “Muslim-Christian Understanding” but, rather, “understanding” in the sense of becoming informed about a subject. But anyway. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the regal moneybags behind Georgetown's lavish propaganda operation (as of last year he was the 41st richest person in the world) is also responsible for the Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh, the Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard, and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Islamic Studies at Cambridge, plus centers for American Studies bearing his name in Beirut and Cairo. In addition, according to Wikipedia, he's “Citigroup's largest individual shareholder, the second-largest voting shareholder in 21st Century Fox, and owns Paris' Four Seasons Hotel George V and part of the Plaza Hotel,” presumably the one in New York. A quick look at the prince:

he's tweeted that he wouldn't “visit Jerusalem...until its liberation from the Zionist enemy.” He's the guy who, after fifteen of his fellow Saudis laid down their

er of Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 2005 and son of that nation's glorious founder. Some fun facts on Fahd: when he was still just a princeling, he was named Min-

In an anonymously leaked e-mail sent to Thomas Paradise (yes, Paradise), head of the Fahd Center, three Center faculty members – Joel Gordon, Ted Swedenburg, (pictured above) and Mohja Kahf – slammed Chesler as “a prominent Islamophobe” who expresses anti-Muslim “bigotry,” commits “hate speech,” and has been published by “the ultra-right Breitbart forum” and other “right-wing platforms.”

lives for their God on September 11, 2001, gave then New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani a $10 million check and a lecture about the terrorist attacks supposed roots in U.S. policies. (Giuliani, to his everlasting credit, turned down the check, in response to which the prince suggested that he'd done so out of fear of “Jewish pressures.”) But back to Arkansas's King Fahd Center, named for the rul-

ister of Education, even though he is believed to have been functionally illiterate at the time. His contributions to Saudi history, following his ascent to the throne, include (and here I'm quoting from Wikipedia, which notoriously whitewashes and euphemizes anything untoward about Islam) his strengthening of the “separation of the sexes and power of the religious police” and his endorsement of the

idea that young Saudis should “avoid the path of evil by not travelling to Europe and the United States.” Some might consider Fahd a wee bit of a hypocrite, given his love of Monte Carlo, where he frequently gambled, drank, smoked, drove top-of-the-line Cadillacs, and consorted with more than one hot babe at a time. In 1991, when he feared that Saddam Hussein might follow up his conquest of Kuwait with an invasion of Saudi Arabia, Fahd, abandoning his deep concerns about the Western moral pollution of his holy kingdom, allowed infidel U.S. forces to sully it by their presence in order to defend it from Iraq. Who better to name an American center of education after? Anyway, I bring up the King Fahd Center – which, by the way, is within shouting distance of the Sam M. Walton School of Business and the Frank Broyles Athletic Center (sorry, I just can't get over the outrageous cultural incongruity) – because of this recent “honor violence” symposium, which would seem to mark some kind of advance. After all, if they're willing to acknowledge and discuss this appalling aspect of Islam, there must be something other than pure Islamic propaganda going on there, right? The most impressive sign of all was that one of the indi-

viduals invited to participate in the Arkansas symposium was Phyllis Chesler, who has researched honor violence extensively and may well be the world's foremost expert on the topic. Chesler, a psychotherapist and bestselling author whose name will be familiar to readers of this site, is a remarkable figure in many ways – one of the marquee names of second-wave feminism, a co-founder of such groups as the Association for Women in Psychology and the National Women's Health Network, and a founding mother of Women's Studies. In recent years, however, Chesler has been all but read out of the very movement she help found. Her 1979 book With Child recounted her own experience of pregnancy and new motherhood with a sensitivity and seriousness that unnerved some feminists, for whom the topic uncomfortably recalled old-fashioned conceptions of female roles. In Women's Inhumanity to Women (2002), Chesler committed the crime of admitting that the feminist concept of perfect sisterhood is an inane utopian fantasy. But Chesler's principal offense has been her recognition – and her readiness to say out loud, notably in The Death of Feminism (2005) – that the systematic misogyny she has spent See A Saudi Arabian Endowment , page 37

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New York City Police Department (NYPD) security cameras are seen outside Trump Tower on 5th Avenue in New York City, U.S., April 26, 2017. Picture Taken April 26, 2017.

New York Girds Itself for Trump's First Visit as President (VIN) New York is bracing for President Donald Trump’s first trip back to his hometown since taking office in January in a Thursday visit that is expected to draw protests and snarl traffic in the United States’ most populous city. The trip could mark a repeat of the chaotic 2-1/2 months between the real estate developer’s Nov. 8 election and Jan. 20 swearing-in, when crowds of protesters and admirers flocked outside his home in the gold-metal-clad Fifth Avenue Trump Tower. The early days of the Trump administration have brought aggressive rhetoric and moves to crack down on immigration as well as roll back environmental regulations, much of which has ruffled feathers in the liberal northeast city. Anti-Trump activists, some of whom have organized marches across the country since Trump’s stunning election victory, are planning loud protests to mark the native son’s return. “A very hot welcome is being planned for Mr. Trump,” said Alexis Danzig, a member of Rise and Resist, an informal group of activists which formed as Trump came to power. “We’ll be out in full force to voice our grievances.” Trump’s business dealings and romantic fallouts were constant city tabloid fodder in the 1980s and 1990s. His television show, “The Apprentice,” broadcast Trump to the world as the ultimate Big Apple dealmaker during the 2000s. While the Trump brand is internationally associated with New York, fewer than one in five city residents voted for him. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo, both Democrats, have said his stance on immigrants has put him at odds with a city where nearly a third of residents are foreign-born NYC Council Bill Would Cre-

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NEWS IN REVIEW ate Sex Education Task Force (VIN) A bill before the New York City Council would create a task force to study how — and whether — sex education is being taught in schools. The New York Times (http:// nyti.ms/2pBhRjr ) says compliance has been spotty despite a 2011 Department of Education requirement that all middle and high schools teach sex education as part of health class. According to department data, about 43 percent of eighth-graders in New York City had never taken a semester of health class. Nearly all graduating 12th-graders had taken health. But that doesn’t always include sex education, which the department does not track. The department does not oppose the creation of a task force but questions whether it’s possible to review sex education at more than 1,500 schools.

that perhaps something else had happened. It took months before Ben Lieberman was able to get a subpoena for the driver’s phone, which proved that the driving had been texting just before the fatal crash. Determined to make sure that his son’s death had not been in vain, Lieberman worked with a technology company to create the textalyzer, a device that allows police officers to see recent activity on the phone, complete with a time stamp. More than just phone calls and text messages, the textalyzer can also indicate which apps were open and in use, as well as showing any taps or swipes to a smart phone screen. The textalyzer could also prove if a cell phone was being used in hands free mode, which is legal in New York. Engineer Lee Papathansiou who is working on the development of the device being produced by a company called Cellebrite demonstrated the textalyzer to Albany lawmakers last week. Papathansiou said that the device could be modified to comply with laws that may differ from state to state.

NATIONAL Watch out, Empire State drivers. The textalyzer may be heading your way.

New Device May Give Police Ability to Determine if Motorists Involved in Crashes Were (VIN) A new bill currently being bandied about in the New York State legislature would allow police officers to use an electronic device to track whether drivers involved in accidents were using portable electronic devices while operating their vehicles. The bill, S2306, is being sponsored in the Senate by Senator Terrence Murphy, who represents portions of the Hudson Valley, and in the Assembly by Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer of Yonkers. It was the 2011 death of 19-year-old Evan Lieberman that prompted the development of the textalyzer, reported NPR (http://n. pr/2ppj7r2). Lieberman was wearing his seatbelt when he was a passenger in the backseat of a vehicle that crossed the center line of an Orange County roadway, striking another vehicle head on. He suffered major internal injuries and died one month later. While the 19 year old driver of the vehicle told police he had fallen asleep while driving, Evan’s father Ben Lieberman suspected

Think tank sues Homeland Security over hiding potential funding of Islamist groups (JNS.org) A Philadelphia-based think tank focusing on Mideast issues has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the Obama-era Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) grant program. The Middle East Forum (MEF) said the grant program, which was designed to assist communities to counter violent extremist recruitment and radicalization, may have given funds to American Islamist groups with their own ties to radical Islam. In January, days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, MEF filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with DHS seeking documents about the selection criteria and specific decisions regarding CVE grants. DHS failed to reply within the 20-day period mandated by law. DHS informed the think tank March 23 that no documents had been found. MEF filed a federal lawsuit April 26 alleging DHS “violated the law” by failing to produce the documents. “We filed a detailed FOIA request, specifying the documents we were looking for and where

they likely were,” said MEF Director Gregg Roman. “DHS not only failed to produce the documents, it failed even to conduct a search and closed our case without bothering to tell us. This is not just unacceptable, but illegal.”

their original missions." The letter condemns several U.N. bodies, including the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, the Human Rights Council and the cultural body UNESCO. The senators urged the Human Rights Council to address “the many AEPi fraternity pressing human rights challenges posthumously inducts of our time in countries such as American victim of Russia, China, North Korea, SyrPalestinian terror ia, Cuba, Venezuela, and South (JNS.org) Ezra Schwartz, a Sudan,” rather than singling out Massachusetts native who was Israel for criticism. UNESCO, killed in a November 2015 Pal- meanwhile, last year passed two estinian terror attack during his resolutions denying Jewish ties to pre-college gap year in Israel, was the Temple Mount holy site. posthumously inducted into the Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) international Jewish fraternity Sunday at New Jersey’s Rutgers University. Schwartz, who was planning to attend Rutgers, was on his way to deliver food to Israeli soldiers in the Etzion Bloc junction when terrorist Mohammed Abdel Basset al-Kharoub opened fire on a line Sebastian Gorka (pictured), a of traffic with an Uzi submachine controversial adviser to President gun. The 18-year-old Schwartz, Donald Trump, will reportedly 51-year-old Israeli teacher Yaakov leave his White House post this Don and 24-year-old Palestinian summer for an appointment to a resident of Hebron Shadi Arafa federal agency. Credit: Gage were killed in the attack. Skidmore. In a ceremony coinciding with Controversial Trump Israel’s Memorial Day for falladviser Sebastian en soldiers and terror victims, Gorka reportedly Schwartz was inducted as an honleaving White House orary member of the fraternity he never had the chance to join. (JNS.org) Sebastian Gorka, a “It means a lot,” said his father controversial adviser to President Ari Schwartz, MyCentralJersey. Donald Trump, will reportedly com reported. “It really does. It leave his White House post this seems like the entire world has summer for an appointment to a reached out to us in order to sup- federal agency. port us through this tragedy. AEAccording to two sources, GorPi’s gesture today is another exam- ka’s new role within the adminisple of that. I very much appreciate tration will deal with the “war of the gesture of inducting me into ideas” in countering radical IslamAEPi as well.” ic extremism, the Washington Examiner reported. All 100 US senators A former Breitbart News edidemand end to UN’s tor born to Hungarian parents in ‘anti-Israel agenda’ the U.K., Gorka, who has served (JNS.org) All 100 U.S. senators as deputy assistant to the presisigned a letter, sent to United Na- dent, has come under fire for his tions Secretary-General Antonio ties with the Hungarian far-right Guterres, demanding that the group Vitézi Rend, which has hisworld body end its “anti-Israel torical links with Nazism and anti-Semitism. agenda.” Gorka has served as both a naThe letter, authored by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Chris- tional security adviser and on the topher A. Coons (D-Del.), called Strategic Initiatives Group (SIG), on Guterres to “ensure that Israel an organization within the White is treated neither better nor worse House. Yet Gorka reportedly failed than any other U.N. member in to get National Security Council clearance. good standing.” A source told the Washington Further, the letter noted that “too often, the U.N. is exploited Examiner that Gorka’s role on the as a vehicle for targeting Israel SIG was “temporary,” and suggestrather than as a forum commit- ed Gorka had been placed there ted to advancing the lofty goals of while Trump administration offiits founders. These actions have cials created a terrorism-related at times reinforced the broader position for him elsewhere. Wisconsin student measure scourge of anti-Semitism, and distracted certain U.N. entities from faults Israel for US police violence

MAY 5, 2017 against minorities (JNS.org) The student council at the University of Wisconsin-Madison unanimously passed a provocative anti-Israel divestment resolution April 26 that faults Israel for U.S. police violence against minorities. “While the resolution addresses a number of serious injustices facing Black, Latino and indigenous communities in the United States, it also contains deeply disturbing rhetoric regarding other issues,” the pro-Israel education group StandWithUs said. The resolution blames Israel for police violence against blacks, citing American police exchange programs with Israel. “There are exchange programs in which a small number of senior American police officials travel to Israel, but they go to learn about counter-terrorism, not community policing or crowd control,” StandWithUs said in its response to the resolution. During the debate on the measure, anti-Israel activists demonized Jews as “oppressors” and mocked Jewish students by saying the resolution threatens their “white privilege.” Pro-Israel students also accused student council members of violating an agreement made in March that Israel would be left out of the resolution, which was instead slated to focus on “unethical” corporations. According to University of Wisconsin Hillel, a Jewish member of the student council claimed to have been harassed by other council members. The university’s administration distanced itself from the resolution, saying the student council “does not control UW-Madison policies or practices” and the vote “will not result in a change” in school policy.

INTERNATIONAL German minister’s Holocaust argument widens diplomatic row with Israel (JNS.org) German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel came under fire Friday for grouping together Jews and members of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) as victims of the Holocaust. “Social Democrats were, like the Jews, the first victims of the Holocaust. The Social Democrats were the victims of political persecution, the others (Jews) were victims of race madness,” Gabriel, SPD’s former chairman, wrote in Germany’s Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper.

MAY 5, 2017 The op-ed sparked fresh outrage following a diplomatic spat between Israel and Germany last week, which resulted in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceling a meeting with Gabriel due to the latter’s meetings with nonprofit organizations that campaign against Israel’s military. “Gabriel’s claim is a negative exploitation of the memory of the Holocaust,” said Dr. Efraim Zuroff, head of the Israel branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. German historian Dr. Elvira Gruzinger told Yedioth Ahronoth, “Equating Jewish victims who were murdered for being born Jewish, and Social Democrats who were political rivals [to the Nazis] is unacceptable.” Amid the controversy, Gabriel’s article was amended to state, “The Social Democrats, like the Jews, were the first victims of the Nazis.”

North Koreans bow in front of the statues of former leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il at the Mansudae Grand Monument. North Korea threatened Israel with “merciless, thousand-fold punishment” following comments by Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman regarding the implications of tension in the Korean Peninsula for the Jewish state. Credit: J.A. de Roo via Wikimedia Commons.

North Korea threatens Israel with ‘merciless’ response after Lieberman’s comments (JNS.org) North Korea threatened Israel with “merciless, thousand-fold punishment” following comments by Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman regarding the implications of tension in the Korean Peninsula for the Jewish state. In an interview with Israeli media outlet Walla last week, Lieberman referred to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a “madman,” and accused Kim’s regime of being part of an “insane and radical group” allied with Iran, Syria and the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah that works to “destabilize the entire world.” The defense minister also said tensions between the U.S. and North Korea have “direct implications” for Israel.

The Jewish Voice “The reckless remarks of the Israeli defense minister are sordid and wicked behavior and grave challenge to the DPRK (North Korea),” the North Korean Foreign Ministry said. The Pyongyang regime accused Israel of a “cynical ploy to escape the world denunciation,” and of being an “occupier of the Arab territories and culprit of crimes against humanity.” “We warn Israel to think twice about the consequences to be entailed by its smear campaign against the DPRK to cover up the crimes of occupying Arab territories and disturbing [the] peace process in the Middle East,” the ministry added.

near Paris. She added, “I would say that I think that 90 percent of abattoirs (slaughterhouse) are halal.” Le Pen’s comments come after her strong showing in the first round of the French presidential election Sunday, which caused Jewish leaders to express concern. Following her statement on banning ritual slaughter, French Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia accused Le Pen of “fomenting hatred and war between the government and religions, as well as interreligious animosity,” saying her stance “undermines the foundations on which France was built.”

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Tombstones vandalized in Romanian Jewish cemetery (JNS.org) Some 10 tombstones in a Jewish cemetery in the Romanian capital of Bucharest were vandalized April 23 as Israel marked Holocaust Remembrance Day. Aurel Vainer, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania, confirmed the vandalism in a post on his Facebook page, saying the incident was “a serious act of vandalism and anti-Semitism.” “The aggravating circumstance that the violent destruction of the 10 funerary monuments occurred precisely on the day when Jewish people around the world commemorate the deaths of the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust cannot be explained by a mere coincidence,” he said. The Israeli Embassy in Romania also condemned the vandalism, expressing its “sorrow and revolt on the brutal anti-Semitic act aimed at destroying the funerary monuments in the Jewish cemetery in Bucharest.”

French candidate Le Pen supports ritual slaughter ban (JNS.org) Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen indicated that if elected, she will move to ban ritual slaughter of animals in France, as well as other methods of slaughter that do not utilize stunning. Although Le Pen only specifically referenced a ban on Islamic halal slaughter, if implemented, the move would also outlaw kosher shechita slaughter. “Slaughter without stunning, I’m sorry, it should have special labels. Furthermore, I think that slaughter without stunning should be prohibited,” Le Pen said during a campaign visit to a meat market

A view of Quneitra, Syria, near the Israeli border. The Syrian Army rejected reports of an Israeli Air Force strike Saturday in the area of southern Quneitra. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Syria denies reports of Israeli strike on military base in latest border incident (JNS.org) The Syrian Army rejected reports of an Israeli Air Force (IAF) strike in the area of southern Quneitra near the Israeli border Saturday. According to Arab media and Syrian opposition forces, explosions were heard Saturday night at a base belonging to the Syrian Army’s 90th brigade. The explosions were initially attributed to the IAF, with Syrian media reporting sightings of Israeli planes in the Quneitra area and Sky News Arabic reporting that Israeli choppers were spotted in the area. Syrian military sources later denied the reports through the Al-Miyadin network, a media outlet affiliated with the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah. No casualties were reported, and Israeli officials have not commented on the incident. Saturday night’s events follow the IDF’s confirmation that it downed a Syrian drone violating Israeli airspace over the Golan Heights Thursday. Also Thursday, Syrian state media reported that Israel launched an airstrike near Damascus International Airport on an Iranian weapons cache destined for Hezbollah.

NEWS IN REVIEW arrival of some 30,000 new immigrants, while about 44,000 Israeli residents died. Almost 35 percent of Israel’s residents are under age 18, while about 54 percent are ages 19-64. Slightly more than 11 percent of Israelis are 65 and older.

Israel’s new national Hall of Remembrance for fallen soldiers. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Memorial hall for fallen Israeli soldiers unveiled on Mount Herzl (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israeli Defense Ministry Thursday unveiled the newly constructed national Hall of Remembrance for fallen soldiers on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. The new hall is made up of a mountain of stones, reaching a height of 60 feet. More than 23,000 bricks comprise the walls, each with the engraved name of a fallen soldier, the date the soldier was killed and a candle to be lit on the anniversary of the soldier’s death. The hall will also include a bell of light made of more than 6,000 steel bricks that were designed and manufactured by the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Merkava Tank Administration. Construction of the memorial began in January 2015 and has cost $25 million.

At 69, Israel’s population stands at 8.68 million (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel has approximately 8.68 million residents, more than 10 times the population at its founding in 1948, and is on track to reach more than 15.2 million residents by 2048, the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics reported Thursday ahead of the country’s 69th Independence Day. Currently, there are 6.48 million Jewish residents in Israel, accounting for 74.7 percent of the population, and 1.81 million Arab residents, comprising 20.8 percent. Permanent residents who, according to the Interior Ministry’s Population Registry, are neither Jewish nor Arab—including most non-Jewish immigrants, many of whom are non-Arab Christians or have no religious affiliation— make up 4.5 percent of the Israeli population. The figures do not take into account foreign workers and others not considered permanent residents. Israel’s population has grown by 159,000 residents since Independence Day 2016, an increase of about 2 percent. The past year saw the birth of 174,000 babies and the

PAGE 25 public in May, Israel’s Channel 10 reported this week. The new neighborhood is slated to be built near the security fence close to the Qalandia checkpoint, at the abandoned Atarot Airport, which was deserted during the second intifada due to fears that Palestinian terrorists would shoot down airplanes. Additional sites designated for construction under the plan include Jewish-owned areas west of the airport in Judea and Samaria.

Small flags lay on graves of fallen Israeli soldiers at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem April 27, ahead of Israel’s Memorial Day. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Graves of Israel’s fallen soldiers adorned with flags for Memorial Day (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Slowly and silently, a group of IDF soldiers moved from section to section of the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem April 26—from the graves of soldiers killed in the 1948 War of Independence to the casualties of 2014’s Operation Protective Edge—to honor Israel’s fallen soldiers. Carrying out the “Flag for the Fallen” initiative, in its 16th year, the soldiers placed a small Israeli flag marked with a black ribbon at each headstone. The graves were decorated in preparation for the events of Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism. IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot told those gathered at the Mount Herzl cemetery, “IDF soldiers and officers will continue to operate in the spirit of the legacy of the fallen—a legacy of love for their country and a deep sense of devotion.”

Israel to build 10,000 homes in new Jerusalem neighborhood (JNS.org) Israel’s Housing Ministry has revived a plan to construct 10,000 homes in a new neighborhood in Jerusalem. The plan for the new neighborhood was established by the Jerusalem municipality several years ago, but was frozen due to the Obama administration’s strong disapproval of Israeli construction beyond the 1967 lines. The construction plan was brought back following President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January and is due to be made

A 1,500-year-old mother-of-pearl tablet, etched with a menorah, that was recently discovered in Caesarea. Credit: Clara Amit/ Israel Antiquities Authority.

Ancient menorah tablet shows ‘clear Jewish presence’ in Caesarea (JNS.org) Israeli archaeologists last week announced the discovery of a 1,500-year-old mother-ofpearl tablet etched with a menorah in the ancient town of Caesarea. According to Israel Antiques Authority archaeologist Peter Gendelman, the tablet, dating back to the late Roman-Byzantine period of the 4th or 5th centuries A.D., “points to clear Jewish presence at Caesarea during this period.” Archaeologists speculate that the pearl menorah tablet was likely part of a structure used to hold a Torah scroll. The slab was uncovered near the temple devoted to Augustus Caesar, constructed by King Herod in the 1st century B.C. The discovery was made in early April, a few days before Passover, and was publicized last week as part of a press conference regarding a new $27 million renovation project in Caesarea. The artifact is the first archaeological discovery of its kind made from mother-of-pearl, a smooth and shiny substance forming the inner layer of the shell of some mollusks. THE JEWISH VOICE EXPRESSES A SPECIAL THANKS TO JNS.ORG FOR PROVIDING THE ABOVE NEWS BRIEFS

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Will N.J. be Home to Trump's Summer White House? By: Kathleen O’Brien

Neck, he chose the Bedminster immediate surroundings, it usuclub as the place to interview ally asks local law enforcement ill he or won't he? prospective cabinet members to secure the adjoining roadways, security experts have said. Will the presi- there shortly after the election. Since Bedminster's police In town, the assumption is dent of the United States spend that Trump - a creature of habit force is small, such round-thehis summer weekends in - will be spending at least some clock duties trigger a lot of weekends in New Jersey this overtime. In its request for reBedminster? imbursement, the township esAnd if he does, who's going to summer. pay for it? With temperatures in West Palm Beach already in the mid80s and the social season there nearly over, officials in Somerset County are bracing for the possibility Donald Trump will switch his weekend White House northward, to his golf course here. It's already clear he won't make abundant use of Camp David, the traditional - and secure - summer retreat for presidents. Shortly after taking office, Trump told a group of foreign journalists, "Camp David is very rustic, it's nice, you'd like it. You know how long you'd like it? For The clubhouse at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. about 30 minutes." "Nobody's officially told me timated it could spend as much it's going to happen on this as $302,000 a year to cover just date or that," said Mayor Steve seven Trump family visits a year. Officials in Somerset The township recently passed County are bracing for the Parker. "I think we're preparpossibility Donald Trump ing, assuming that it's going to its $6.6 million municipal budget - one that did not include exhappen." will switch his weekend The township still hasn't tra expenses for police overtime White House northward, heard back from the federal to guard the president. The reato his golf course here. government on its request for son was simple: officials there reimbursement for the cost of have to abide by a 2 percent cap Although he also owns golf- guarding the golf course. While on the overall budget increase. "We didn't blow our two-pering properties in suburban Vir- the U.S. Secret Service provides ginia, Briarcliff Manor in West- protection of any building that cent cap on things the federal chester County, N.Y, and Colts a president visits, along with its government might cover," he

NJ’s Menendez Raises Money from Rivals Within the Trump Family

said. While the president has surprised Washington with the frequency of his trips to Mar-A-Lago, acquaintances have said he's simply doing what he's always done in the winter, spending his weekends in Florida. The question being asked

While the president has surprised Washington with the frequency of his trips to Mar-A-Lago, acquaintances have said he's simply doing what he's always done in the winter, spending his weekends in Florida.

in Bedminster now is, does that mean he'll now come to Trump National a lot? Trump has praised the property and his neighbors, but it remains unknown at this point if that will translate into frequent summer visits during his administration. "He spent an awful lot of time there before (he ran for office)," Parker said. "It seems to be a

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Senator Bob Menendez is a US senator who represents the State of New Jersey. He is up for re-election next year, and like all politicians in such a situation, needs to raise funds in order to run. Apparently, some of those funds have unexpectedly come from the family of President Donald Trump, specifically from a part of the family that is fighting with the father of the President’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. A total of $20,000 in political contributions were made from Lee, Marc, Jonathan and Aryeh Kushner (in the sums of $5,000 each) all in the same day in January of this year. Lee Kushner is Murray Kushner’s wife, the brother of Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner’s father. Marc and Jonathan are the children of Lee and Murray. Apparently, Charles and Murray Kushner have been quarreling for quite some time in well-documented disputes. These arguments between the two of them have even enabled a federal criminal inquiry that left Charles Kushner convicted in 2005 of tax evasion, tampering with witnesses and making unlawful contributions to the campaign of Chris Christie, who was then a U.S. Attorney. Allegedly, Jared Kushner has been imploring President Trump to not allow Chris Christie to have any

serious role in his administration as a result of these events. Senator Menendez, meanwhile, is apparently not above reproach himself. He’s going on trial in September of this year on charges of corruption, although he’s stated that he expects to be absolved of all charges and will be running for re-election. Reports filed by his office show that he has raised funds of $1.2 million between the months of January through March and finished up the financial quarter with $2.8 million. Senator Menendez is a noted proponent of Israel who has openly disagreed with President Barack Obama on arranging a nuclear agreement with the nation of Iran. He has a histo-

for children ages 9 through 16 - which could prove to be a draw for Trump's youngest son, Barron, who continued to live at Trump Tower in Manhattan with his mother since the inauguration. In addition, it plays host to the U.S. Women's Open in mid-July. While the main clubhouse is

the former estate manor of maverick carmaker John DeLorean, the club also has stables that were converted to "bungalows" so members can spend the night there. While New Jersey commuters were inconvenienced when then-president-elect Trump came by motorcade to the course last November - briefly closing down the Lincoln Tunnel and portions of I-78, that scenario is unlikely to be repeated now that he's president. The reason? Trump National has a helipad. Now that Trump is president, however, flight security rules would be considerably more stringent than the three-mile airspace buffer zone in effect when he was the mere nominee. President Trump would likely fly into either Newark Liberty International Airport or Morristown Airport, then arrive in Bedminster by Marine One helicopter. There would be a no-fly ring of 10 miles around the club for the duration of his visit. For that inner ring, no flights can enter or leave without formal TSA screening, according to the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Other flight restrictions would be imposed on a wider ring of 30 miles that would limit flight training, sightseeing, and other aviation activities, according to the group. (NJ.COM)

NJ Institute Explores Israel Through the Lens of the ’67 War

By: Anat Ghelber

A total of $20,000 in political contributions were made from Lee, Marc, (pictured above) Jonathan and Aryeh Kushner (in the sums of $5,000 each) all in the same day in January of this year. They are first cousins of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner

place that as a private citizen he enjoyed a lot. I can't give you any numbers, because nobody tracked it. But anecdotally, he spent a lot of time there." The club prides itself as being family-friendly, holding summer camp sessions specializing in golf, tennis and swimming

ne fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Fifty years later, Israel continues to face numerous existential threats. Beginning Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 8:30 a.m. (at the Gottesman RTW Academy) and 7:30 p.m. (at the Chabad of Randolph), the Chabad of Randolph will offer a fascinating new six-session course from the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) called Survival of a Nation: The Randolph, New Jersey Jewish community are seen here Exploring Israel Through the celebrating Chanukah Lens of the Six-Day War. Commemorating 50 years since the Six-Day War, the course invites participants to experience a captivating account of what was at the time considered by many to be the most improbable and astonishing victory in all of military history. “Traditionally, Jews maintain a fervent allegiance to Israel and lobby against human rights violations around the globe” said Rabbi Avraham Bekhor of Chabad of Randolph, the local JLI Instructor in Randolph. “This course explores the compatibility of these two values, exBeginning Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 8:30 a.m. (at the amining Jewish perspectives on Gottesman RTW Academy) and 7:30 p.m. (at the Chabad of Randolph), the Chabad of Randolph will offer a fascinating new controversial human rights accusations leveled against Israel.” six-session course from the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) If Judaism is a religion of called Survival of a Nation: Exploring Israel Through the Lens of

ry of raising money from the Kushner family, as they also have been supporters of Israel in the past. He previously raised $21,000 from them in 2012 in a successful campaign. Lee, Marc, and Aryeh Kushner alone contributed a total of $15,000. Senator Menendez isn’t the only Democrat that the Kushner family has donated to, despite their family connections to the head of the Republican Party. Marc and Murray Kushner also contributed $15,600 in 2013 to Democratic Senator Cory Booker from Newark, when he was campaigning. Senator Booker even raised another $10,400 from both Jared Kushner himself even Donald Trump’s own the Six-Day War. daughter, Ivanka.

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Medical Research by American Jews Celebrated as Heritage Month Begins The 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, begins today, May 1. 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 360-year history of Jewish life in this country.

rector 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.”

Virologist Jonas Salk (1914-1995) created the first vaccines against polio

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

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

Stanley Cohen (born November 17, 1922) is an American biochemist who, along with Rita Levi-Montalcini, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for the isolation of nerve growth factor and the discovery of epidermal growth factor

“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, the lead sponsor of JAHM. “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.” According to Dr. Gary P. Zola, Executive Di-

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

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

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.

“The celebration of a nationwide 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.” JAHM’s interactive website, JAHM.us, provides educational resources to facilitate the nationwide engagement around this year’s celebration. A va-

riety of events taking place across the country are listed on the events calendar, and all are encouraged to submit their own exhibitions, concerts, gallery talks, film screenings, lectures, or other related programs. Website visitors will also find stories about American Jews in the medical field and other industries, a historical timeline, lesson plans, reading lists, programming ideas, and more. The Medical Pioneers digital booklet highlights stories of three noted researchers. JAHM’s 2017 theme provides an opportunity to recognize the many American Jews who have made invaluable contributions to the field of medical research. 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 (1914-1995) created the first vaccines against polio, and geneticist Baruch Blumberg (1925-2011) discovered the Hepatitis B virus and helped develop the first vaccine

to prevent it. Mathilde Krim (b. 1926), the founding chair of 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 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. Visit JAHM.us for more information, and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #JAHM.

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Runway Models Take Center Stage at Gala Dinner for Soroka Hospital at Pierre Hotel Edited by: JV Staff

Barry Slotnick and Donna Slotnick attend American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Annual Gala at The Pierre Hotel on April 26, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Presley Ann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Guests attend American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Annual Gala at The Pierre Hotel on April 26, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Presley Ann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Shouly Maslavi and Abraham Maslavi attend American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Annual Gala at The Pierre Hotel on April 26, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Presley Ann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Ronit Fischer, Ambassador Dani Dayan, Edwina Sandys, Tali Silberstein, Joseph Gil and Rachel Heisler Sheinfeld attend American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Annual Gala at The Pierre Hotel on April 26, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Presley Ann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

whose life achievements included exceptional commitment and bold leadership in the fashion industry, great humanitarianism in championing women’s health in the workplace, and extraordinary vision in helping establish Soroka Medical Center together with David Ben-Gurion. He was proud to support the young state of Israel. Dubinsky raised $1 million dollars in 1955 at the request of Moshe Soroka and David Ben-Gurion, to build the hospital and facilitate the great Zionistic dream of helping the desert bloom. As Dubinsky championed healthcare for the women workers in NYC’s garment industry, this event spotlighted Soroka’s extraordinary women’s health initiatives. Soroka Medical Center, located in Be’er Sheva, is one of Israel’s largest and most strategic hospitals, in one of the country’s most diverse areas. The sole major medical center for the entire Negev, Soroka serves over one million residents, including over 400,000 children, in an area that comprises 60% of Israel’s land. We offer recognized excellence and innovation across the entire medical spectrum: prevention, research, diagnosis, education and world-class integrated care for all medical areas including cancer, genetics, brain and trauma. Soroka is essential to meeting the medical needs of the Israel Defense Forces. Soroka is a pure symbol of peaceful coexistence providing exceptional healthcare for all, regardless of race, religion or politics. Our unique healthcare institution is a true national treasure of Israel. With 17,000 babies born here each year, Soroka’s department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is the busiest in Israel with extraordinary staff and stellar outcomes for our patients. Our world-class team’s very strong focus on research delivers state-of-the-art care. Including the Saban Family Foundation Birth & Maternity Center, the Margery Price Breast Cancer Education and Support Center, and the Ilana Ashany Memorial digital mammography at the Breast Health Center, Soroka makes a real difference in the lives of the women of Israel’s south and their families.

Jovani Fashion Models attend American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Annual Gala at The Pierre Hotel on April 26, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Presley Ann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Leadership Award, where she now serves as the Global Chair of the Board of Directors. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of The Mount Sinai Medical Center.

merican Friends of Soroka Medical Center hosted their fifth annual gala benefit dinner on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at the Pierre Hotel in New York City. The Gala benefited women’s health projects which included Soroka’s Breast Health Center, Negev Center for Eating Disorders, and the Saban Birth & Maternity Center. Angela Retelny served as the Gala Chair and Dan Abrams of WABC news served as Master of Ceremonies. CoChairs of the extraordinary event were renowned philanthropists Nira & Ken Abramowitz ‚David & Hengameh Kimiabakhsh, Caroline & Shlomo Freidfertig and Ruth & Jeffrey Steinberg. Shouly and Abraham Maslavi received the Fashion Industry Leadership Award. Shouly & Abraham are brothers who lead Jovani Fashions, a global fashion company. Jovani is a family-owned business founded in 1980 by their father, Jacob Maslavi. Jovani Fashions has grown into a fashion superpower, world-renowned for exquisitely designed special occasion dresses. Jovani is based in the heart of New York City’s garment district, recognized for their fashion-forward and classic designs that harmoniously blend classic styles and modern creative twists. The Maslavi family are passionate supporters of Israel. Sonia Gardner was the recipient of the inaugural Dubinsky Humanitarian Award. Ms. Gardner is President, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Avenue Capital Group, a global alternative investment manager with over $10 billion in assets under managements focused on distressed and undervalued debt and equity in the U.S., Europe, and Asia with 11 offices across the globe. Ms. Gardner is the Partner in charge of managing the firm, and distressed investing has been the focus of her professional career over the last 29 years. Ms. Gardner is a noted humanitarian who is committed to women’s issues, healthcare and social justice. She was the recipient of the 100 Women in Hedge Funds’ 2008 Industry

Jovani Fashion Models attend American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Annual Gala at The Pierre Hotel on April 26, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Presley Ann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

The evening was a celebration of the fashion industry in honor of Soroka’s American founding father David Dubinsky, the longest serving president of the ILGWU from 1932 –1966,

Dan Abrams and Ryna Segal attend American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Annual Gala at The Pierre Hotel on April 26, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Presley Ann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Committee Board attends American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Annual Gala at The Pierre Hotel on April 26, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Presley Ann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Caroline Freidfertig, David Goldberg and Gale Lidmen attend American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Annual Gala at The Pierre Hotel on April 26, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Presley Ann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Jovani Fashion Models attend American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Annual Gala at The Pierre Hotel on April 26, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Presley Ann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

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Harvey Krueger, Lehman’s Pioneer of Israeli Market, Dies at 88 By: Laurence Arnold

arvey Krueger, the Lehman Brothers Inc. executive who opened an early investment pipeline between Wall Street and Israel that helped finance companies such as Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., the world’s largest generic drugmaker, has died. He was 88. He died on April 23 at his home in Manhattan, according to the office of Elizabeth Krueger, a New York state senator who represents a district on the east side of Manhattan. As president and chief executive officer of Kuhn Loeb & Co., Krueger helped pull off its 1977 merger with Lehman Brothers to create one of the world’s largest securities firms. Krueger became a senior managing director and vice chairman of Lehman Brothers. Following Lehman’s bankruptcy in 2008, and subsequent acquisition by Barclays Plc, Krueger became a vice chairman of Barclays.

cals) or over lunch at a refinery on the shores of Lake Tiberius, despite my making it quite clear that, married and with family, I had no intention of moving to Israel,” he wrote in HaShiur, a publication of Manhattan’s Central Synagogue.

Tel Aviv He returned a year later to help another bank arrange financing, and this time, on a crowded street in Tel Aviv, was “struck by the idea that I was actually looking for myself. It has been a long time since, but through Israel and because of Israel, I know who I am and what I am.” Following the 1973 war between Israel and its Arab neighbors, “the few other international bankers who had been intermittently active in Israel left, and I was the only remaining international investment banker,” he wrote. The Israeli government’s 1985 campaign to reduce spending and inflation made the nation

Harvey Krueger, the Lehman Brothers Inc. executive who opened an early investment pipeline between Wall Street and Israel that helped finance companies such as Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., the world’s largest generic drugmaker, has died. He was 88.

His introduction to Israel’s markets came in 1961, when, as an associate at Kuhn Loeb, he was dispatched to help Bank Leumi Le-Israel plan its first offering of shares in the U.S. As an American Jew, he didn’t feel an immediate affinity with the Jewish homeland. “Wherever I went I was proselytized, whether at the Dead Sea Works (now Israel Chemi-

more attractive to international investors, and Krueger -- whose firm was then Shearson Lehman Brothers -- helped underwrite the 1987 offering of shares of Petach Tikva, Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical. That deal, he said, marked “the first time any institutional investors had invested in Israel equity.” Another career highlight was

the 1996 sale of 100-year bonds in the government-controlled Israel Electric Corp. Krueger called that successful offering “both economically and psychologically significant, because now Israel could say, ‘Look, the markets believe we are here to stay.”’

Stockton Partners In 1993 Krueger, while still a senior managing director at Lehman, helped formed a private investment company, Stockton Partners Inc., to steer venture capital to the Middle

(From left to right) Henry Kissinger, Bernard Lewis, Mortimer Zuckerman, Harvey Krueger

Early Career Krueger worked at New York-based law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP until 1959, when he moved to Kuhn Loeb. He became a partner in 1965, head of corporate finance in 1970, and president and CEO in 1976. “My job has always been troubleshooter around here,” he said, according to a July 1977 article in the New York Times. “People come to me to think things through.” Four months after that article came the announcement that Kuhn Loeb and Lehman Harvey Krueger and his wife, Connie, who passed away in 2016 would merge. Lehman’s Peter East. The New York-based firm Who and Irving Krueger’s death G. Peterson retained his titles, chairman and president, at the now invests primarily in medi- notice in the New York Times. He received a bachelor’s de- merged firm, a holding comcal devices and life sciences. Lehman opened its first gree in 1951 from Columbia pany called Lehman Brothers branch in Tel Aviv in 1994. That University in New York and Kuhn Loeb Inc., with Krueger helped the firm become a top graduated from its law school becoming head of investment banking. choice for mergers and acqui- in 1953. sitions involving Israeli companies, Investment Dealers Digest reported in 2003, when Lehman partnered with Credit Suisse First Boston to advise on Teva’s $3.4 billion acquisition of Irvine, California-based Sicor Inc. Krueger and Lehman also advised Teva on its 2006 takeover of Miami-based Ivax Corp. for $7.6 billion. Krueger was chairman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1983 to 1992, and of Tel Aviv University’s board of governors from 2010 to 2012. Harvey Mark Krueger was born April 16, 1929, and raised in Hackensack, New Jersey, the first of two sons of Irving Krueger, also known as Isadore, and the former Isabel Kurzman, according to Marquis Who’s

As a member of the firm’s executive committee, Krueger had a front-row seat to the famous battle between Peterson and Lewis Glucksman for control of Lehman, which ended in Peterson’s departure and, in 1984, the sale of Lehman for about $375 million to Shearson/American Express Inc. Glucksman died in 2006. Krueger’s wife, Connie, died in 2016. In addition to Elizabeth Krueger, known as Liz, they had three children -- Cathy, Abigail and Peter. Peter Krueger, who was vice president in charge of European furniture at Christie’s auction house, died in 1988 of complications from AIDS. The family founded the Peter Krueger Center for Immunological Disorders at Mount Sinai/Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. (BLOOMBERG.COM)

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Cholent: A Delicious History Traditional and exotic recipes for this genuinely Jewish dish By: Karen Wolfers Rapaport

hat makes a recipe authentically Jewish? It’s not a simple question; Jews are known for adapting their cuisine from the various countries they have lived in. But there is one dish that many identify as genuinely Jewish – the iconic Shabbat Cholent. Why cholent? Because cholent was born out of need. The Torah asserts that we are not allowed to kindle a fire on the Shabbat (Exodus 35:3). In addition, cooking is among the 39 categories of work not allowed on Shabbat. Because of this, the Jewish community had to become creative with their cooking on Shabbat. There’s an added benefit too. It’s a mitzvah to delight in the light of Shabbat. How better to do this then with a hot meal shared with family and friends! Cholent’s origins are from the Middle East. From there it spread to North Africa, and by the 9th century, it was already found in Spain. In time, it made its way to Eastern Europe. (1) Ashkenazi-style cholent was first mentioned in 1180, in the writings of Rabbi Yitzhak of Vienna. Before the birth of electricity in Europe, a pot with the collected, uncooked ingredients was brought to the local baker

before sunset on Fridays. The lids of the pot were sealed with a paste of flour and water to ensure proper cooking. With the baker’s oven fired up, the pots found a home. Nothing was disturbed until the next midmorning, when the baker would open the door and give the still-hot pots back to the families on their way home from Synagogue. The same practice was observed in Medieval Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Uzbekistan where black pots of Adafina, Scheena, D’fina, and Bokla, respectively, were placed overnight in the baker’s ovens. The different components in this overnight stew are a reflection of the Jewish geography they originate from. For example, the Moroccan Scheena is often made with chickpeas, rice or hulled wheat, potatoes, meat, and whole eggs, while the Tunisian D’fina often incorporates lamb’s feet and cardoons, a relative of the artichoke. Before the “slow cooking” style became all the rage, we had our cholent……and whatever style of cholent you choose to cook, you will no doubt appreciate the glorious scent that will encircle your home. For this is the aroma of Shabbat….and this is the aroma that our people have come to love and cherish throughout the ages.

MORROCAN

SCHEENA Serves 8  2 cups raw long grain white rice  3 tablespoon vegetable oil  4 pounds of short ribs or other fatty meat  1 medium onion halved  1 cup of cooked chickpeas, prepared from half a cup  4 dates  1 whole garlic head, unpeeled  6 to 8 raw eggs (one per person) in their shells  4 medium boiling potatoes, peeled and halved  4 medium sweet potatoes peeled and halved  2 tsp of salt  1 tsp of pepper Sauté the rice in a small skillet, for three minutes, with a tablespoon of oil, stirring constantly. Wrap the rise loosely in cheesecloth and set aside. In a large skillet, sauté the meat and onion in the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil until browned, approx. 10 minutes. Put the chickpeas and dates in a deep lidded pot, Dutch oven, or crockpot. Place the meat and garlic head on top. Put the rice, in its cheesecloth, on top of the meat. Arrange the eggs in their shells on top of the rice. Top with both kinds of potatoes. Add the salt and pepper, and enough water to cover the ingredients. Bring to a boil, simmer for 15 minutes, cover and remove from stove.

Cholent - Slow-cooked stew for Shabbat

Place in a crockpot on low and cook overnight. To serve, separate the contents, placing the eggs in one dish, the rice in another and the potatoes and meat in another. Recipe from The Sephardic Table, Pamela Grau Twena, 1998.

TUNISIAN D’FINA OR HARISSA Serves 8  4 to 5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil  1 large onion sliced  1/2 head of garlic chopped  2 lbs. of chuck meat, cut into chunks  1 lb. of cracked wheat (can get in any Middle-Eastern store)  4 carrots peeled and cut in 2" to 3"pieces  3 to 4 stalks of celery cut in 2" pieces  1 teaspoon harissa (mild or hot, your choice)  1 tsp. ground coriander  1/2 tsp. ground caraway  1/4 tsp. pepper  3/4 tsp. salt  Water to cover

Morrocan Scheena

Tunisian Harissa

In a heavy Dutch oven, sauté the onion and garlic in olive oil until lightly golden. Add meat chunks and continue to sauté the meat. Add the cracked wheat which you will have checked for pebbles, etc. and rinsed in cold water and drained. Add spices, harissa, and chunks of carrots and celery and cover with water to about 2" above the contents of the pot. Bring to a boil and simmer for at least 1 hour, until most of the water has evaporated. Just before Shabbat, transfer to a crockpot on low. Check the water level, and add some more if needed and let it continue to cook overnight. Recipe provided by Simone Greenbaum, Jewish Food List.

 Garlic powder to taste  Paprika to taste  2 potatoes quartered  1 sweet potato cut into thick slices  1 carrot, peeled and quartered  Half a cup of Barley  One Fourth of a cup of wheat berries  3 to 5 tablespoons of Tamari Soy Sauce  1 Bay Leaf The night before you prepare this dish, put all the beans in a large bowl and cover with cold water. Allow to soak overnight. Before cooking, drain beans and discard any stories and driedout beans. Take out a 6-quart pot. Season chicken with spices, salt and pepper (if desired cumin and coriander can also be used). Place chicken on bottom of pot. Add potatoes, sweet potato, onion, carrot and drained beans. Add water to cover. Add barley and wheat berries. Bring cholent to boil. Add tamari and bay leaf and simmer for at least one and a half

ASHKENAZI STYLE CHOLENT Serves 6 to 8  Half cup of Aduki beans  Half cup of Lima beans  4 to 6 Chicken quarters (legs and thighs)  Salt to taste  Pepper to taste

See Cholent: A Delicious History, page 37

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Lessons from Sefirah By: Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss

s we engage in the seasonal mitzvah of counting the sefira and observe the national period of mourning for the tragic deaths of the 24,000 disciples of Rabbi Akiva, we should take the time to reflect upon what these experiences are supposed to teach us. Firstly, the Gemora informs us that Rabbi Akiva’s disciples died from the horrible disease of askara, a type of lethal diphtheria or croup. The Maharsha informs us that this is a punishment for the sin of loshon hora, evil gossip. This should jolt us with the realization that even rarefied b’nei yeshiva, lofty Torah scholars, can succumb to this deadly sin if caught unaware! Thus, at this time of the year, we should be stimulated by our abstention from music etc., to pick up the Chofetz Chaim’s laws on loshon hora and become more aware of the many intricacies of the directive to guard our tongues! Without the proper perusal of these laws, it is all too possible that we might engage in this ugly sin, chas v’shalom, without realizing our transgressions. Take for example the Chofetz Chaim’s comments in Klal Yud #12, where he informs us that if someone fails to do you a favor, which is not something terribly bad, and you reveal this to others, it is absolutely considered loshon hora! In the same vein, if you went to a town and you weren’t greeted warmly, and subsequently relate this to your townspeople, you are guilty of defaming a whole town. (This mandates that we must be very concerned about making offhand remarks like, “The people in that Shul aren’t friendly.”) In Klal 9 #5, the Chofetz Chaim

charges us not to hesitate to berate our young children if we hear them talking badly about people. He elaborates that the neglect of this sort of chinuch is a primary reason for the proliferation of this sin in adults. Obviously, if children grow up saying whatever they want, even upon maturity when they later on they realize they are engaging in the heinous crime of loshon hora, it is a very hard custom for them to change. It is therefore incumbent upon us as parents to cultivate in our children a natural inhibition to speak badly about others, just like we condition them from a very young age to watch that they don’t put forbidden food into their mouths! Regarding to the mitzvah of sefiras ha’omer, the Chinuch explains that we are making a statement, on a national level, that the one commodity Jews counts towards, as one counts excitedly to a vacation or wedding day, is the day of Mattan Torah (Shavuos). This is our public declaration that our number one national treasure and identity is the Torah! However, as in all areas, Hashem doesn’t want mere lip service from us. Thus, the true spirit of Sefira is to examine our daily schedules and see if we give enough time to our Torah studies. The Gemora informs us, “Tchilas dino shel adam ayno ela b’divrei Torah — Man’s final judgment will begin with none other than a grilling about his time spent on Torah study.” In Masechtas Shabbos [31a], the Gemora elaborates that we will be asked by the heavenly tribunal, “K’vata ittim LaTorah — Did you fix times for Torah study?!” The Shulchan Oruch (Orach Chaim 155:1) defines this responsibility as putting aside a specific time of the day for learning and to ensure that you will not violate this set time even if it means

losing substantial profit. The Mishnah Berurah (ibid #4) adds if one must miss his appointed time, he should ‘pay it back’ by learning double the next day!

Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss, shlita writes: “At this time of the year, we should be stimulated by our abstention from music etc., to pick up the Chofetz Chaim’s laws on loshon hora (pictured above) and become more aware of the many intricacies of the directive to guard our tongues!”

The Biur Halacha (ibid) informs us that in Yoreh Deiah (246:1), we are further instructed that one should have a fixed period during both the daytime and nighttime. He suggests therefore having a study period right after the morning prayers and again in the gap between mincha and maariv. Of course this prescription will not fit for everyone, as some people must rush out immediately after shacharis to catch a bus.

Perhaps they might make their set time before shacharis, while other people who daven maariv right after mincha might establish their nightly schedule right after maariv. Whatever our lifestyle, we should carve out two fixed times for Torah study from our daily life, even if it’s initially only five minutes each, so that we can be certain to be able to answer the question that will determine our eternal fate (after 120 years of good life) with a resounding affirmative! The Mishnah Berurah offers us the following guidance as to what we should learn. He explains that one who only has a limited amount of time for Torah study should learn practical halochos in order to know how to live like a proper Jew. Additionally, we are guaranteed that one who studies halochos every day (ibid. Shaarei Teshuvah, who states a minimum of two) can be assured of a place in the Afterlife! One should also include in his budgeted time a review of the weekly Torah portion. This not only promotes one’s emuna, as assured by the Chofetz Chaim in his letters, but also increase one’s longevity, as stated in the Gemora in Masechtas Berachos. An inclusion of a learning seder in Mishnayos is helpful in protecting one from the fires of Gehennom (stated in the preface to Medrash Talpios. Finally, one should include a regimen of Mussar study (Torah ethics and lessons of self-analysis and improvement). First, this will assist us in acquiring the fear of Heaven which is our primary purpose in life. Secondly, as the Baalai Mussar tell us, by including Mussar in our learning, we will make sure that we will find even more time to learn!

Thus, the true spirit of Sefira is to examine our daily schedules and see if we give enough time to our Torah studies. When planning this most important of scheduling, I recommend strongly that one should sit down with one’s wife and have her input in the chosen times. This will give her a great cheilik (portion) in the mitzvah and will insure that you don’t fix a time that you’ll have to habitually break (e.g. before candle lighting on Shabbos or carpool time.) Finally, the Mishnah Berurah cautions that we should not consider our “fixed” times as the only times we have available to study Torah. A Jew must study Torah at all available times! Rather, these fixed times are the ones that are sacred and not to be trespassed upon except in cases of extreme urgency. In the merit of having a regular daily diet of Torah study may we all merit the blessing of, “Orech yomim b’yamina b’smola osher v’kavod — Long life to the Torah’s right and wealth and honor to Her left!!” Please learn and daven for the refuah sheleima of Miriam Liba bas Devorah, b’soch shaar cholei Yisroel. Sheldon Zeitlin takes dictation of, and edits, Rabbi Weiss’s articles. Start the cycle of Mishna Yomis with Rabbi Weiss by dialing 718.906.6471. Or you can listen to his daily Shiur on Orchos Chaim l’HaRosh by dialing 718.906.6400, then going to selection 4 for Mussar, and then to selection 4. Both are FREE services. Rabbi Weiss is currently stepping See Lessons from Seﬁrah, page 36

After 130 years, an Eruv Marks Poughkeepsie’s Jewish Rite of Passage By: Phil Jacobs

t isn’t the super-sized Jewish experience of New York City or some of its suburbs. But for an observant Jew living in New York State’s Mid-Hudson Valley, the area still has plenty to offer. You could try out “chair yoga,” play more than your fill of Bingo, attend a weekly Torah class, immerse in a beautifully maintained mikvah or even attend a Jewish War Veterans meeting. Yet in the rich, nearly 130-year history of the organized Jewish community in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., pushing a stroller or carrying any possession in public areas on Shabbat—without violating the laws of the day of rest—was out of the question.

After a six-year effort by a dedicated force of nature named Harold Warren, that has changed. Warren, a retired court stenographer and the second vice president of Poughkeepsie’s historic Congregation Schomre Israel, saw many young couples leave the area for several reasons, including the lack of an eruv—a boundary allowing Jews to carry in public spaces on Shabbat. In modern times, an eruv’s boundaries are typically marked by wires mounted on telephone poles. Warren dared to delve into the daunting tangle of red tape involved in eruv construction, such as unknowing utility companies and unfamiliar municipal officials. It’s difficult enough to put an eruv together in a larger city, but for non-Jewish residents

Harold Warren, second vice president of the historic Congregation Schomre Israel, stands at one of the boundaries for the new eruv in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Credit: Courtesy of Harold Warren

Poughkeepsie’s historic Congregation Schomre Israel

of a smaller town like Poughkeepsie, the word “eruv” is absolutely foreign. As Poughkeepsie’s younger Jews “became more educated than their grandparents,” they “expected more infrastructure” for the local Jewish community, Warren told The Jewish Link. The area once had a Solomon Schechter Day School (affiliated with Conservative Judaism), but it closed. With no kosher food sold in the immediate vicinity and no eruv, young Jews started leaving. “It became more difficult to keep people here,” Warren said. “My wife and I became more observant, and we joined Schomre Israel 10 years ago. I said that we needed an eruv. We needed an eruv first, so we could start a day school.” But the synagogue—with 84 member families, a part-time rabbi and a budget deficit—faced an uphill climb.

“We don’t have that many people to keep a community going,” said Warren, noting the community’s loss of Jewish young professionals who formerly worked for major companies in the area, such as IBM and Texaco. After obtaining a foundation grant for the eruv, Warren started the process of explaining the Jewish legal concept to the region’s Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. as well as Verizon. Then came meetings with two different municipal government agencies—the City of Poughkeepsie and the Town of Poughkeepsie. The city consists of some 25,000 residents, while the town is comprised of unincorporated villages and is home to more than 140,000 people. Warren worked closely with Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer from Monsey, N.Y., an expert in eruv construction and planning. There was a great deal of

Warren worked closely with Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer (pictured above) from Monsey, N.Y., an expert in eruv construction and planning

“jumping through hoops,” Warren recalled. Over the course of six years, when elected offices changed hands, Warren would need to repeatedly explain the eruv to new officials who were unfamiliar with the concept. Finally, with the utility companies on board and the municipal officials up to speed on their Jewish knowledge, the eruv received the proclamations and resolutions it needed earlier this month. The new task, according to Warren, is “to get the word out” about Poughkeepsie Jewry’s crucial rite of passage. “This is the beginning of reviving an old and friendly Orthodox community,” he said. The next step will be a Jewish day school, but “first we need children,” he added. The synagogue vice president moved his family to Poughkeep-

sie because he always found New York City “too crowded and fastpaced,” and was offered a job in Poughkeepsie. “It’s a nice small town with a couple of local theaters and golf courses. The Mowhawk Preserve is a lovely place for hikes,” said Warren, who expressed the desire to ensure Poughkeepsie is “on the Jewish map.” “Once we’re known, we need to know what’s involved in running a day school,” he said. “We need to offer homesteading to people willing to move up and stay here. That will be a tough sell.” “I felt I had to do something,” Warren added. “I have to succeed or fail when I’m still young enough to move. I’m doing something because it has to be done. I don’t want to move, I want to stay here. I would rather slug it out where I am.” (JNS.ORG)

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Identical Goats on Different Paths Speaks of Us – Parshat Acharei Mot – 5777 By: Rabbi David Bibi

he first Aliyah of Acharei Mot which we read on Shabbat afternoon and Monday morning and which we will read again on Thursday morning and Shabbat and again on Yom Kippur describes what is perhaps the strangest and most dramatic element of the Avodah – the priestly service on Yom Kippur. It is the ritual of the two goats brought to the High Priest who randomly places lots on each where one will be offered as a sacrifice and the other sent away into the desert “to Azazel.” The rabbis explain that these two goats were for all intents and purposes indistinguishable from one another. The Talmud teaches that they were chosen to be as similar as possible in size and appearance. Then lots are drawn and although they start out identical, their fates are as drastically different as can be. The one on which the lot “To the L-rd” fell was offered as a sacrifice. One is literally LeHashem – To Hashem and his blood is sprinkled within the Holy of Holies. The other may think that he has been spared, and although his twin went for a Holy cause, at least he gets to live. But then the second stands as the Kohen Gadol confessed the sins of the nation. He is then taken away into the desert hills outside Jerusalem. Perhaps again he thinks, they are sending me to freedom to roam these hills in peace. Standing on the cliff, he looks out at his new domain and appreciates his luck. If this goat had any idea of why he was being taken to this rocky cliff, he would not be thinking anything close to these thoughts. Poor goat, if he only knew that he would end up being tossed off the mountainside into the sharp stones

below, he would never think himself lucky. First let us consider the lesson offered by the great, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch who explains that the two goats represent the choices each one of us makes every day of our lives. Two may start out exactly the same, but their fates based on their choices may be polar opposites. We decide to follow the right path which may appear more difficult or the easy path which may appear to be paved and easily crossed. Some of us choose the moral path and we accept that it comes with sacrifices. We assist others and give charity even though it appears that by giving up our time and money, we lose. Religiously, we may choose to observe the laws of Kashrut which means we’ll be spending more on food and have considerably less choices. Compare this first individual to the one who chooses a life free from religious or moral rules. He gets to relish in what he sees as a life of earthly indulgences without restriction. He thinks this will bring him joy and happiness, yet we see that forgetting even his end, that most that chose this path don’t even enjoy the initial contentment which eventually loses its appeal. Rabbi Hirsch explains the word Azazel as a contraction of az azel - strength departs. The hedonistic path will in the end bring us neither bliss nor contentment, but it will eventually zap our strength. He cautions us to endeavor to direct our energies and resources to holier quests which are a guaranteed investment for the future. This is a beautiful lesson, but as I reviewed this on the morning we commemorate yom hazikaron ("Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, zt’l, explains the word Azazel as a contraction of az azel - strength departs. The hedonistic path will in the end bring us neither bliss nor contentment, but it will eventually zap our strength. He cautions us to endeavor to direct our energies and resources to holier quests which are a guaranteed investment for the future.

Victims of Terrorism" is Israel's official Remembrance Day, enacted into law in 1963), I had a second thought. When I said the Hashkava this morning for one man’s brother who died in the Six Day War of 67 and another man’s friend who died in the Yom Kippur war of 73, the thought of the two who begin the same yet follow different paths struck me. Although Rav Hirsch divides them because of choices made, the thought that the goats had no choice and were selected by lottery or Heaven yielded this second perspective. I still recall the first time, more than thirty years ago when we were working on the Hilton Hotel and spent a

weekend in Tel Aviv and prayed in the Aleppo Synagogue which was near the hotel. On one of the walls was a memorial to fallen soldiers. Although I didn’t know a single one of those who had fought for the Jewish people and gave his life for the cause, I knew every one of their names. The names on the wall were the exact same names as those of my dearest friend and relatives. There were Gindis and Tawils and Kassins and Suttons and Cohens and Dwecks. And I stood there, not much older than most of those boys on that wall when they gave their lives. And whether I knew them or not, those boys are and will always be my cousins, my friends and my brothers. Hashem may have sent us on different paths, but there is no question that we are the same. And as a cousin, a friend and a brother, I mourn their deaths as I do each of the soldiers who gave their life for me and for us. I spoke with my son Moses this morning as he was returning from a service on Har Herzl. Mount Herzl has been the site of the main Israeli Defense Forces cemetery since 1949, with graves and memorials dedicated to soldiers who have fallen in the line of duty since Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. He told me of the many people there today and he stopped to sit and speak with an older woman as she sat by her son’s grave. She told him all about her son and he was sure that in listening to her, she was in some ways comforted from some of the deep pain she must feel every day of her life. When we would ask Rabbi Abittan z’tl, about traveling the world to visit the graves of the righteous, he would quote the RIshon LeSiyon. Rav Ovadia Yosef z’sl who would ask why travel the

world, quoting the Gadol HaDor, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach who would stand across from the national cemetery on Mt. Herzl and say: "These are the graves of the righteous who died sanctifying Hashem's Name.”. Although by the time you read this, Memorial Day will be over and we will have celebrated Yom HaAtzmaut, when we read of the two goats on Shabbat, the two twin goats separated by lottery, we should not only be reminded to make sacrificial choices as Rav Hirsch suggests, we should be reminded of the sacrifices our brothers have made and continue to make for us. This period as Rav Ovadia writes, should not only serve as a day to mourn our fallen soldiers whose death is as painful to us as the destruction of the Bet Hamikdash, but it should also serve as a time of self-introspection (Isnt this what the Omer is about?). We must strive to uphold the traditions of our ancestors by returning to the Torah as the verse states, “Return to Me and I shall return to you.” So many of our fallen brethren have made the ultimate sacrifice in order to ensure the continuation of our nation, a nation dedicated to Torah and Misvot. Where is our sacrifice? If we had iPhones in those days, I would have certainly taken an image of the wall in the Synagogue in Tel Aviv and placed it by my desk as a reminder. If perhaps one of you has an image, please send it to me. May Hashem avenge their blood and may their souls stand, each as a melitz yashar; an advocate for us, their brothers and sisters, cousins and friends, in the Heavenly courts. May Hashem end our pain and bring Mashiach Bimhera NeYameynu, Amen!

Parshas Acharei Mos–Kedoshim - The Path to Spirituality By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis

any people will tell you that while they may not be observant, they are spiritual. What exactly does that connote? Does it mean meditating? Vegetarianism? Jogging? It is none of the above, for all the aforementioned are self-focused. In this week’s parsha, we discover the meaning of spirituality. Kedoshim t’heeyou lee - “You shall be holy unto Me, for I, the L-rd Your G-d am holy...” (Leviticus, 19:2) is the proclamation of G-d. What is the path to holiness? The parsha details for us the steps that we must take to attain that goal. Therefore, most of the mitzvoth of the Torah are mentioned in this parsha, for it is through the adherence to the mitzvot that we become holy and spiritual. These mitzvoth range from revering parents to

loving our fellow man as ourselves, to refraining from taking vengeance or holding a grudge, to being on guard against gossip, to being kind to the stranger, to paying the day worker his wages on that self-same day, to keeping the Sabbath and not worshiping or fashioning idols, and many more. These mitzvot are so critical to

Jewish life that every Jew - Kol Adas Bnei Yisroel, had to be present when they were taught (Leviticus 19:2). Another reason advanced by our sages for teaching these commandments to the entire congregation is to underscore the fact that sanctity cannot be attained through a hermit-like existence, but only through reaching out to

others in chesed - kindness, thereby bringing them closer to HaShem. One of the mitzvoth mentioned in this parsha is “not to place a stumbling block in front of a blind person “(Leviticus, 19:14). This means that we must be careful not to give misleading advice. We also have to insure that we do not have hidden

agendas and that our motivations for giving advice are pure. The question that must occur to all of us however, is why does the Torah not simply state that we are not permitted to mislead others. Why this convoluted passage - “putting a stumbling block in front of a blind man?” The Torah wants to impart to us the seriousness and the importance of trust. Even as no sane individual would countenance tripping a blind person or allowing him to walk in front of a moving vehicle, so too, misleading someone who is unaware, is equally deplorable. We all know how painful it is to discover that we have been betrayed by people in whom we placed our trust, so we should take care not to do this to others. All relationships are built on trust. Neither individuals, nor families, nor societies can survive when trust is missing. When we come to the understanding that to deceive or mislead someone is no

One of the mitzvoth mentioned in this parsha is “not to place a stumbling block in front of a blind person “(Leviticus, 19:14). This means that we must be careful not to give misleading advice different than pushing a blind man down, then we will surely be sensitive to every word that we pronounce. The path to spirituality and sanctity as outlined in this parsha is to strive for discipline, for moral and ethical excellence and to emulate the attributes of G-d. Even as He is compassionate, so must we aim to be compassionate; even as He is forgiving, so must we must aim to be forgiving, and that is the meaning of “You shall be holy unto Me, for I the L-rd your G-d am holy.” (HINENI.ORG)

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Here in the United States, it is imperative that the Justice Department and the FBI revise the Correctional Intelligence Initiative Program to include the proper vetting of clergy and a post release component to track people who were radicalized

or previously incarcerated for terrorist crimes. The initiative started in 2003 with a mission to "detect, deter, and disrupt efforts by terrorist and extremist groups to radicalize or recruit within all federal, state, territorial, tribal and local prison populations." Failure to effectively address

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that normally accompanies the experience of having been forced into such suffering, usually by your mother or grandmother, and traditionally, at the hands of a female butcher. In the West, misguided concepts of "multi-cultural relativism" and fear of offending an

In the days immediately after the incident, United Airlines took a $1.3 billion loss in value after its stock (UAL) tumbled. Subsequent polling of flyers showed customers were significantly less likely to purchase tickets from UA after the incident, with nearly 44% of people who had heard about flight 3411 saying they were not fly UA, even if an alternative flight would cost 33% more and in- Continued from page 6 clude an extra stop over. (INN) sitely decked-out home was featured in publications including Architectural Digest. ‘Joan Riveach other's mobile numbers. ers was a gracious neighbor and They text all the time." a wonderful woman,’ Bradfield Guy Verhofstadt, the liberal says, adding that he never had former Belgian prime minister, Brexit negotiator and champion of more federal EU powers, sees in Macron not just an ally who wants to end old habits of stateto-state wrangling in the EU, but Continued from page 4 an example of how social media and networking is changing polThe State Health Department icymaking — and maybe policy said the consumer report will too. prompt hospitals to improve. "Political action will com- “New York State will continue pletely change," Verhofstadt our aggressive efforts to help said. hospitals decrease infection rates and improve patient outcomes,” said spokesman Ben Rosen. said those comments were proof that Berlin supported the coup. The latest arrests came a little more than a week after Turkish voters narrowly approved a referendum to expand Erdogan's Continued from page 20 presidential powers and weaken parliament — a move the completed this lecture when she opposition says could destroy called to dis-invite me. Turkish democracy and secular I was only slightly shocked. traditions. There had been absolutely no Supporters say it will bring sign of a gathering storm. stability to Turkey after years of In 2003, I may have been one political uncertainty that came of the earliest American profeswith power-sharing coalition governments.

increasingly hostile Muslim and African immigrant population has condemned those girls and women who live among us and who deserve their rights under Western law. Whether FGM is understood to be a religious or a tribal custom, like polygamy, child marriage, normalized daughterand-wife battering, incest, and

the ongoing threat is not an acceptable option. At some point there will be a price to pay. (INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM)

IPT Senior Fellow Patrick Dunleavy is the former Deputy Inspector General for New York State Department of Corrections and author of The Fertile Soil of Jihad. He currently teaches a class on terrorism for the United States Military Special Operations School. human sacrifice aka "honor killing," it has no place in the West. Those who choose to live here should obey our laws; the freedoms for which we have fought should extend to all Americans, not only to some. (FOX NEWS)

Dr. Phyllis Chesler is a fellow at the Middle East Forum and Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies. She is the author of 4 studies about honor killings and 16 books.

In 2015, Saudi royal Muhammad bin Fahd bought Rivers’ penthouse triplex for any run-ins with the ghost of $24 million. Fahd is currently Mrs. Spencer, who was J.P. Mor- renovating the apartment and gan’s niece and the building’s has not had any super natural experiences. original tenant.” Douglas Elliman’s Ivan Her“I remember some talked about her, but you’d have to hit nandez is the listing broker for the bottle pretty hard to encoun- the single bedroom duplex that just hit the market. ter the spirit,” Bradfield added.

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15 NYC Hospitals Flagged Many of the hospitals named were quick to rebut the claims, saying that the infection rates are under control. “We take this matter very seriously and continue to aggressively address this and other concerns with potential to affect any hospital,” said Ron Najman, spokesman for SUNY Downstate. A

spokesman for NYC Health + Hospitals, which directs the five public hospitals mentioned in the report, responded: “The identified 2015 infection rates were all dramatically lowered in 2016. Our hospitals consistently check and recheck to ensure that evidence-based practices to reduce infections are being applied consistently, and when we identify new infections, we react quickly.”

One minute I was a beloved Jewish and feminist professor; the next moment, I was being jeered, sors who faced a near-riot for jostled, and accused of racism daring to answer hostile ques- and "Islamophobia" because, tions about Israel and Palestine in when asked about "Israeli aparta truthful way. (That was not the heid" I dared to deny its existence subject of my speech but clearly and pointed out that the largest some agent provocateurs had set practitioner of both religious and out to unmask me as a Zionist.) gender apartheid happens to be This happened at a free-standing Islam. (INN) grassroots conference at Barnard. (TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK)

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ti-Semitism bill and was in South Carolina last week meeting with citizens, educators, religious leaders, and legislators. He is an award-winning author of two books, The

Definition of Anti-Semitism (Oxford University Press: 2015) and Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America (Cambridge University Press: 2010) and the associate editor of the Journal for the Study of Anti-Semitism. He is the former

staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, was delegated the authority of Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights and is the individual who drafted the policy by which the U.S. Department of Education investigates anti-Semitism claims.

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her career decrying reaches its apex in Islamic cultures, and that all too many of her former feminist allies, motivated by a misguided multiculturalism, refuse to address this fact. Indeed, while today's feminist establishment has a problem with Chesler's criticism of Islam, it has no trouble welcoming into its ranks pro-sharia Muslims such as Linda Sarsour (a leader of the recent Women's March in

Washington). It was, therefore, refreshing – shocking, actually – to learn that a Center for Middle Eastern Studies named for King Fahd of Saudi Arabia had invited Chesler to take part in a symposium on honor violence. Had the world suddenly gone sane? Alas, no. In an anonymously leaked e-mail sent to Thomas Paradise (yes, Paradise), head of the Fahd Center, three Center faculty members – Joel Gordon, Ted Swedenburg, and

69 Years of Independence per capita grew from NIS 20,200 to NIS 137,500, approximately a Israel do not believe that their 700% increase. While only two institutes of respective groups should live higher education (the Technion together. According to CBS statistics, and the Hebrew University of the country’s GDP was NIS 25.6 Jerusalem) existed at the estabbillion in 1950 (approximately lishment of the state, there are USD 7.03 billion) while today 63 such institutions around the it is 46 times greater at over NIS country today, including nine 1.17 trillion (USD 322 billion). universities and 33 colleges. The biggest population cenDuring that period, the GDP Continued from page 17

Rivlin, Netanyahu Rivlin said the consecration of the new hall was a “landmark “Bereavement passes over no moment” for the State of Israel. one. As a society, we are a tap- “Memory does not only mean estry of cultures and communi- remembering the past. The secret ties… linked by collective memo- of the power of Israel’s memory is ry, as a nation and as individuals,” continuity – memory that begins in the past and passes through Datner added. Continued from page 17

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and 1948, and again in 1967 after the war." "I personally agree with that—I think that to be turfed out of where you live and where you've lived for hundreds of years is wrong," Waters said to raucous applause and a few cheers of "I agree" from the

crowd at the Times event. Waters statement that he has "nothing against Jewish people" is at odds with his past actions, such as when he flew a giant pig emblazoned with the Star of David and Nazi imagery over a 2013 concert. The stunt led to Waters being labeled as "an open hater of Jews" by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which

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PAGE 37 over Chesler's presence, and insisting that despite his “disagree[ment] with issues of stifling free speech” (yeah, right) there was no choice but to disinvite Chesler. And so – voilà! – Chesler was disinvited. The result: a symposium at which none of the participants was a published scholar on the subject. (They were all either activists or law-enforcement officers.) “Being dis-invited,” Chesler e-mailed me the other day when I asked her for a comment, “confirms that the Western academy is ruled by BrownShirts; that the professoriate are

Mohja Kahf – slammed Chesler as “a prominent Islamophobe” who expresses anti-Muslim “bigotry,” commits “hate speech,” and has been published by “the ultra-right Breitbart forum” and other “rightwing platforms.” (It's true that, of late, Chesler has written less often for leftist than conservative outlets, this one included: she's done so because the latter tend to be far more open to a diversity of views than the former.) Chesler's views, the three Arkansas professors wrote, were so far out that they simply could not be “tacitly accepted

as part of the discourse.” But then, what else can you expect from lackeys of a foreign government that exerts severe and (when necessary) violent control over “the discourse” – in addition to denying religious freedom, imprisoning dissidents, and executing gays and apostates? There ensued an e-mail exchange between Paradise and the Center's Lisa Avalos in which Paradise was palpably panicking (“It is getting ugly and they are rallying”), worrying that “campus Muslim organizations” would make noise

ter in Israel is Jerusalem which numbers around 865,000 residents while the smallest is Neve Zohar in the south, which houses just 71 individuals. Bar-Yosef insisted that the JPPI survey showed that the Jewish state’s greatest success has been the integration of Diaspora Jews from more than 90 different countries. “They wish to live together, form families together, and build a common future,” he concluded.

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eyes of Holocaust survivors and IDF officers,” said FIDF National Director and CEO Maj. Gen. (Res.) Meir Klifi-Amir. “It’s telling the story of our near-extinction in Europe, the creation of a Jewish homeland, and the new generation of Jewish defenders of the Jewish people who safeguard our legacy today. By marching together into the dreadful Auschwitz-Birkenau camps with IDF soldiers and the survivors who somehow endured that torture, we send a powerful message to the world that we remember, and that the Holocaust cannot and will not ever happen again. ‘Never again’

est, where the Nazis executed more than 800 children. The delegation also visited the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camps. Today, the entire delegation flew on an Israeli Air Force (IAF) transport jet from Poland to Israel, where they will visit IDF bas(TPS) es, commemorate Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and the present to the future. Jewish victims of terror, and celebrate and Israeli memory connects the Israel’s 69th Independence Day. past and present with the future “This historic delegation is and plants within us strength, as tracing the modern history of individuals and as a nation.” the Jewish people through the “In this Memorial Hall we promise to treasure the past, but with the same determination and persistence, love and hope, we also promise to treasure and create a future,” Rivlin asserted. (TPS) Continued from page 20 Trump meeting with Abbas – on May 3 or at any other time – this week, Prime Minister Bin- then he should send the followexplained that Waters was using yamin Netanyahu urged Trump ing message to Abbas and to the "a classic disgusting medieval to hold Abbas to account for his rest of the world. To date, the US has supanti-Semitic caricature widely massive budgetary outlays to used by both Nazi and Sovi- terrorists and their families. He ported the goal of Palestinian et propaganda to incite hatred asked that Trump demand as statehood, because it convinced against Jews." well that Abbas stop the PA ’s in- itself that the Palestinians were Waters has previously com- doctrination of the Palestinians interested in a state that would pared playing shows in Israel, to seek the annihilation of Israel live at peace with Israel. The US pressured Israel to make conceswhich he describes as an "eth- and the murder of its citizens. nic cleansing and the systematic This is well and good. But it sions to the Palestinians in order racist apartheid Israeli regime," seems a bit beside the point. to encourage them to accept Isto playing in Nazi-controlled The point is that 69 years ago, rael. And the US funded the PA territory during World War II. the Jews established our state. A thinking that doing so would Palestinian state was not estab- advance the cause of peace. It (WASHINGTON FREE BEACON) lished then or since, not because trained and armed PA security Israel was unwilling for such a forces for the same reason. To date, the Palestinians, the  Innsbruck 90 km (approx. 1 state to come into being, but because the Palestinians refuse to PLO and the PA have not lived hrs) up to their side of the bargain – Hotel Address: accept Israel’s right to exist. If any good is to come from on anything. Dorfbahnstrasse 64 6534 Serfaus - Austria Tel:+43-5476-6492 Fax:+43-5476-6492-7

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PARVE (VEGETARIAN) CHOLENT Serves 6 to 8  1 cup of mixed beans of your choice  Half a cup of barley  2 large onions, diced

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Bruce Bawer is the author of “While Europe Slept,” “Surrender,” and "The Victims' Revolution." His novel "The Alhambra" has just been published. is not a platitude; it is our people’s solemn promise.” “This mission was one of the last opportunities for these survivors to return to Auschwitz and tell of its horrors,” said Cohen. “It has been a rollercoaster emotional experience for everyone involved. We passed through the gates of hell, ignoring the false promise that ‘work sets you free,’ where countless Jews suffered from unimaginable cold, hunger, and despair. We were surrounded by those who survived within the camps’ walls, and also by those who make sure they are not forgotten – the brave soldiers who protect their legacy: the State of Israel and the Jewish diaspora around the world.” They have not come to terms with Israel’s existence; they have not abjured terrorism; and they have not accepted responsibility for the areas under their control, either in Gaza, or in Judea and Samaria. Since his is a new administration, Trump is willing to give Abbas the benefit of the doubt for three months. In that time Abbas needs to stop all financial transfers to terrorists and their families – in and out of prison; he needs to change the names of all the public sites now named after terrorists; and he needs to purge all anti-Jewish content from his PA -controlled media and mosques. If Abbas fails to do all of these things by August 3, then the Trump administration will abandon its support for Palestinian statehood and its recognition of the PLO . (FRONT PAGE MAG)

Add water if necessary (the cholent has to be covered with a layer of liquid in order for it not to dry out overnight)  2 large potatoes, cubed Place on Shabbat hotplate  1 large sweet potato, cubed  4 to 6 cloves of garlic, minced (blech) or place in a crock pot on low until lunch is served.  2 tablespoons of olive oil Recipe from The Seven Fruits  1 tablespoon salt of the Land of Israel, Chana Bra 2 teaspoons pepper cha Siegelbaum, 2014  2 teaspoons onion powder  2 teaspoons paprika (AISH.COM)  2 teaspoons of Hawaich (Yemenite spice, optional)  2 teaspoons of turmeric  Pinch of ginger (optional) Soak the beans overnight in water. Drain. Heat olive oil in a large pott and sauté onions for five minutes or more until translucent. Add the remaining ingredients and continue to sauté until slightly browned. Add 4 cups of boiling water and cook, covered, on low heat, for about one and half hours.

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willing dhimmis; and that even the good people are too terrified to stand against those who wish to close their minds to truth and to shut honest inquiry down and replace it with Orwellian propaganda.” In short: yet another disgraceful episode in the ever-lengthening chronicle of campus compromise and cowardice on the topic of Islam.

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NJ Institute Explores and explores Jewish positions about Israel’s moral obligation ideas, why do Jews care so concerning territories captured much about land? Why does Is- in the Six-Day War. Like all JLI programs, this rael perpetually raise the ire of the entire world? And what are course is designed to appeal to the ethics of preemptive strikes people at all levels of knowledge, and collateral damage? The including those without any pricourse also inquires how Israel or experience or background in might protect itself against an Jewish learning. All JLI courses enemy that uses human shields, are open to the public, and atContinued from page 26

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top Democrat on the House Middle East subcommittee, which is currently chaired by Ros-Lehtinen. “We have worked together countless times from championing equality to strengthening the U.S. – Israel relationship.”

Ros-Lehtinen’s championing of her favored causes has not abated. On Sunday, the day she announced her retirement, she joined Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in blasting UNESCO, the United Nations cultural arm, for advancing another resolution targeting Israel. Last week, she was a leader in introducing

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ly is the best option. Some people’s bad bites catch up with them when they are in their 20s. For others those bad bites won’t create significant problems until they are in their 60s. “But eventually your bite will catch up with you,” Reynolds says. “Dealing with bite issues proactively is much less painful, less labor intensive, and less expensive than dealing with bite problems later.” About Dr. Jamie Reynolds

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a Republican-backed bill that would condition U.S. funding of the United Nations on its treatment of Israel. She told the Herald that a continued focus would be advocacy for Holocaust survivors. Earlier this year, she reintroduced a bill that would expand the rights of Holocaust survivors to sue insurers that did not make good on Holocaust-era policies. (JTA) Dr. Jamie Reynolds (www. AskDrReynolds.com) is recognized on an annual basis as one of the top orthodontists in metro Detroit. His book, “World Class Smiles Made in Detroit,” puts an emphasis on the many benefits of having a great smile. Reynolds – who is a national and international lecturer on high-tech digital orthodontics and practice management – attended the University of Michigan for both his undergrad education and dental studies, and did his orthodontic residency at the University of Detroit-Mercy.

thousands of years, Christian civilizations knew the area as Judea and Samaria. Yet Israel Israel builds its much-maligned itself continued to use the term Continued from page 21 settlements was the West Bank West Bank long after Jordan a single fishing smack confront- [of Jordan] for only the 19 years had left. Reading The Weapon Wizing a fleet of a dozen battle ships Jordan controlled it. Ironically, only two countries recognized ards, one can't help wishing Isfiring all its guns." One small, semantic exam- Jordan's sovereignty since it rael would create a Talpiot for ple of that failure that especially had seized the territory in the politicians. incensed Katz: The area where 1948 war. Until that time, for (WASHINGTON FREE BEACON)

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always bind, the Jewish people to the United States and its founding principles,” the proclamation said. “We recognize the faith and 2008. Continued from page 10 “This month, I celebrate with optimism exemplified by AmerIvanka, and her husband, Jared my family including my daugh- ican Jews is what truly makes Kushner, who both serve as se- ter, Ivanka, my son-in-law, Jared, America ‘The Golden Country,’ nior advisers in the White House. my grandchildren, and our ex- and we express our Nation’s gratIvanka Trump converted to Juda- tended family the deep spiritual itude for this great, strong, prosism before marrying Kushner in connection that binds, and will perous, and loving people.” (JTA)

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Zionist Institutions Remember Continued from page 17

Wybran-Sosnowski’s sentiment was echoed by Aryeh Riva, twin brother of Emanuel Riva. “Terrorism today is not only the inheritance of the Jewish people in its own country. Terrorism also harms the rest of the world,” said Riva. The ceremony was organized by the Jewish Agency in cooperation with the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish National Fund, Keren Hayesod, the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and UIA Canada. Belgian ambassador to Israel Olivier Belle was also in

attendance. “The national institutions and the Jewish Agency are doing a lot to strengthen the security of Jewish communities in the Diaspora,” said Natan Sharansky, Executive Chairman of the Jewish Agency. “But our main weapon is strengthening the connection of the Jewish people with the State of Israel, fortifying communities, continuing the process of ingathering of the exiles and immigration,” Sharansky added. The Jewish Agency of Israel revealed on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Emergency Assistance Fund for Jewish

Communities designed to assist Jewish communities around the world in protecting themselves. The fund provides for security details for Jewish communities including Argentina, Greece, Brazil, and South Africa. The Fund will also assist communities in implementing special security measures in schools, in community centers and synagogues along with updating security material such as video surveillance, CCTV. alarms, locks, gates and reinforced walls and windows. “Members of the Jewish people support each other, help each other and remember each other,” concluded Sharansky. “Memory is our power.” (TPS)

ligious, since Geller believes that the synagogue lost its way after it the case that (Geller) brought the re-tirement of the rabbi, reports The Daily News. against them.” "That's what the lawsuit is Gottesman still maintains that his client is a member in about, that he wants it to be run good standing and says that the as an Orthodox congregation," heart of the lawsuit is purely re- said Gottesman. Continued from page 5

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'fake history',” said Hotovely. "UNESCO has long been politicized and unfortunately has become a tool in the service of Palestinian propaganda against Israel. "Such absurd and historically baseless resolutions undermine UNESCO's mission of safeguard-

ing humanity's cultural heritage. "We, as Israelis, don’t need UNESCO's approval of our history in our land. However, for the countries voting tomorrow, I must say in the clearest terms: if you cherish history and affirm UNESCO's duty to respect historical truth, there is no choice other than to vote against this latest attempt to subvert inter-

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third-generation Israeli serving in the Paratroopers. His grandfather served in the Paratrooper Brigade during the campaign for Jerusalem. On Tuesday, i24 News reported that scores of spectators gathered across the country to watch the Israeli Airforce display its new F-35 stealth fighter jets, along with other member of the IAF fleet, for an Independence Day flyover. Three of Israel's five stealth fighters took to the skies along the Mediterranean coast off Tel Aviv as thousands of people gathered at the waterfront to watch. The F-35s, made by US-based Lockheed Martin, were the highlight of the show, which marked 69 years of Israeli independence. Israel has received the initial five jets since December with the aim of allowing it to maintain its

military superiority in the turbulent Middle East, particularly regarding its arch-foe Iran. It plans to purchase a total of 50 F-35s. Its first jets are to be operational this year. While other countries have ordered the planes, Israel — which receives more than $3 billion a year in US defense aid — says it will be the first outside the United States with an operational F-35 squadron. Israel is buying its first 33 F-35s at an average price of about $110 million (103.5 million euros) each — and the price tag has been criticized both in Israel and elsewhere. Among its main features are advanced stealth capabilities to help pilots evade sophisticated missile systems. The single-pilot jets can carry an array of weapons and travel at a supersonic speed of Mach 1.6, or around 1,200 miles per hour (1,900 kilometers per hour).

MAY 5, 2017 The lawyer who is representing the synagogue, Leopald Gross, says the suit is not about religion, rather it’s a takeover. "Geller is attempting a hostile takeover of a synagogue," said Gross. "He now hopes to achieve this result through the courts." Both sides are expected to appear back in court on Friday. national institutions in order to attack Israel." Italy was the only European nation to come out against the resolution before the vote. Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano denounced the vote as “another politicized resolution on Jerusalem.” "Our opinion is very clear. UNESCO cannot be the place for a permanent ideological confrontation," Alfano said. (INN)

The pilot's ultra-high-tech helmet, at a cost of about $400,000 each, includes its own operating system, with data that appears on the visor and is also shared elsewhere. Thermal and night vision as well as 360-degree views are possible with cameras mounted on the plane. Also, on Tuesday, it was reported that the annual Nakba march (Catastrophy Day) that is marked by Arabs who view Israel’s rebirth as the sovereign, independent and autonomous Jewish state as the alleged source of their oppression, was cancelled. According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Israeli police claimed that the event was refused due to their inability to provide police presence necessary for a march expected to be attended by 25,000 Palestinians and their supporters, saying that “it’s unfortunate that the organizers decided to conduct the march exactly on the day of Independence Day, when there are hundreds of approved events throughout the country.”

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Berlin to See Its First Jewish Campus After the Holocaust Seven-story building will be dedicated to Jewish education, prayer and heritage By: Kirsten Grieshaber

abbi Yehuda Teichtal doesn’t get much sleep these days, but says it’s well worth it. The community rabbi and head of the Jewish outreach group Chabad in Berlin has been campaigning relentlessly to turn his dream of creating a Jewish campus in Germany into a reality. For years, he’s lobbied the German authorities, raised millions of euros (dollars) in funds and bought a 3,000 square meter (32,000 square feet) plot of land next to Chabad’s synagogue in the German capital’s Wilmersdorf district. More than just a new facility, Teichtal sees the center as a step

toward Chabad’s goal of re-establishing a vibrant Jewish community in the former Nazi capital, in part by welcoming and integrating Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union and encouraging interactions with non-Jews. “Everyone in Europe talks about fears and uncertainties; we’re talking about going forward,” said the 44-year-old Orthodox rabbi, looking across the large empty plot where a few containers have been set up as a temporary extension of Chabad’s kindergarten. The planned seven-story building will be dedicated to Jewish education, culture and sports, the first of its kind in Germany. If all goes to plan, the

ny’s flourishing Jewish community of more than 500,000 before the Nazi period, with some groundbreaking is scheduled for 120,000 Jews in Berlin alone. Overall, some 6 million EuroSeptember and the entire campus is slated to be finished in late pean Jews were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. 2019. Because of its history, GermaGerman authorities approved some of the still-outstanding ny took in some 200,000 Jews permissions earlier this month. from the former Soviet Union

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal sits at his desk during an interview about the construction of a new Jewish communal campus in Berlin, Germany.

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal looks down from a roof top to the area with a temporary circus tent, where he is planning to build a Jewish campus.

A poster with the planned new Jewish campus is displayed at the Chabad Educational Centre in Berlin.

“With all the challenges we’re facing today, building this campus is a signal: We’re here to stay—otherwise we wouldn’t build,” says Teichtal, who wears a traditional beard, a velvet kipah and a black caftan. Germany has experienced a strong influx of Jews in recent decades and Berlin has the biggest Jewish community in Germany, with about 40,000 members. Those numbers are still a far cry, however, from Germa-

since the fall of communism in 1989—most of them secular and with only little knowledge about their own religion. When Rabbi Teichtal and his wife Leah set out from Brooklyn to Berlin 20 years ago, they came with the goal of reaching out to this group, but also to the established German Jewry. Though New York-based, Chabad members are sent out as “Jewish messengers” around the globe with the aim of getting mostly unaf-

filiated Jews in touch with their religion. In the last two decades, the Chabad community in Berlin has kept growing and there are now around 600 to 700 families who regularly take part in the community’s offerings, Teichtal said. Chabad has a synagogue, an educational center, a kindergarten, an elementary and high school—but the facilities are spread over the city and so popular that the Jewish group can’t offer places to all the applicants. With the establishment of the new 7,000 square-meter (75,300 square-feet) campus, all Chabad schools will all be united under one roof and also offer more facilities, including a library, cafeteria, movie theater, concert hall, and a ballroom for

weddings and other festivities. The sports center will include an indoor basketball court and opportunities for soccer and other ball games. Outside, there’ll be a playground and a garden. The cost of the entire campus is projected at around 18 million euros ($20.3 million). It’s being funded by the federal government, Berlin’s state government, several German foundations and private donations. Unlike most Jewish institutions in Germany, which are behind fences and tightly guarded against anti-Semitic attacks, Teichtal says he wants the Jewish campus to be open to everyone. “It should become a place where Jews and non-Jews can come together and meet,” he said. (AP & CHABAD.ORG)

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Teach NYS Delivers Historic Win for Jewish Schools By Nachama Soloveichik

munities, brought legislators to NYS started four years ago, nonJewish schools to give them on- public schools received approxithe-ground understanding, and mately $110 million from New or decades, Jewish parents arranged grassroots missions to York State. In this yearâ€™s budget, legislators allocated nearly $300 have grumbled about the Albany. â€œWe all pay school taxes be- million to nonpublic schools, â€œtuition crisisâ€? â€“ the problem of sky-high tuition at cause we want to make sure all including Jewish day schools and private Jewish day schools. From children have access to a good yeshivas. Shabbos tables to PTA meetings, the search for the elusive solution has plagued many communities. Teach NYS and its parent organization, the Orthodox Union, are starting to chip away at the problem. Teach NYS started four years ago with the goal of fighting for fair funding for nonpublic schools. The inequity in education funding is stark: Nonpublic school students in New York make up 16 percent of the student population, but receive less than two percent of state education funds. To maximize it impact, Teach NYS opted for a new paradigm, â€œThis yearâ€™s budget is a groundbreaking achievement for the borrowing strategies from major New York Jewish community,â€? said Allen Fagin, CEO of the trade associations and corpora- Orthodox Union. tions. The OU hired lobbyists in This yearâ€™s budget battle set Albany and partnered with Jew- education,â€? said Cal Nathan, a ish day schools, parents, lay lead- HAFTR parent and Teach NYS the stage for historic achieveers, and volunteers across New board member. â€œBut that should ments. While Jews across New York. They organized meetings apply, no matter what kind of York were searching their homes with legislators, hosted informa- school a child attends. Doesnâ€™t for chametz on the eve of erev tional meetings in Jewish com- every child have a right to the Pesach, the New York legislature same top-notch math and sci- and Gov. Cuomo passed and ence education? Doesnâ€™t every signed a groundbreaking budget child deserve to go to school in a that allocates a record-setting In this yearâ€™s budget, $40 million in security funding safe environment?â€? legislators allocated Elected officials in Albany to nonpublic schools. nearly $300 million This security funding demonare listening. Over the past four to nonpublic schools, years, Teach NYS has steadily in- strates just how much progress including Jewish day creased government funding for Teach NYS has made in only schools and yeshivas. nonpublic schools. Before Teach four years. Before 2013, New

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York nonpublic schools received zero dollars for security purposes. In 2013, Teach NYS advocated for a modest $4.5 million for this purpose. This number grew to $15 million last year, and now a record-breaking $40 million in this yearâ€™s budget â€“ the largest

lic school students in Jewish day schools and yeshivas. â€œThis yearâ€™s budget is a groundbreaking achievement for the New York Jewish community,â€? said Allen Fagin, CEO of the Orthodox Union. â€œWhile the initial STEM funding is a relatively

For the first time in the history of the Empire State, the legislature made a conscious decision to invest directly in the education of all children â€“ including nonpublic school students in Jewish day schools and yeshivas.

security allocation for nonpublic schools in the country. This wasnâ€™t the only historic breakthrough this year. The $300 million in state funding includes money to begin to reimburse nonpublic schools for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers. For the first time in the history of the Empire State, the legislature made a conscious decision to invest directly in the education of all children â€“ including nonpub-

small piece of the $300 million victory, it represents a tremendous shift in how New York State invests in nonpublic schools, including our Jewish day schools. If we continue down this path, we will make a real difference for Jewish families in day school affordability.â€? Teach NYS worked closely with the Governor Cuomoâ€™s office and legislative leaders in Albany to make this historic budget a reality. One of the pro-

gramâ€™s biggest backers is Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who represents parts of Suffolk County. â€œThe STEM funding is a huge victory for everyone who cares about education,â€? Sen. Flanagan said. Itâ€™s a recognition that New York has a vested interest in making sure all children have the educational opportunities for success.â€? For school principals and administrators, working with Teach NYS has been a transformative experience. â€œOur school has been working with Teach NYS for a couple of years, and they have changed the way the Jewish community fights for our schools,â€? said Rabbi Perry Tirschwell, executive director at Shulamith School for Girls. â€œHiring quality math and science teachers is a tremendous expense, but a critical part of preparing our students for the future. Growing the STEM program and eradicating the inequity in education funding will be a game changer.â€? For Teach NYS and the OU, this historic budget is not the end, but a solid beginning. â€œWe are in this for the long game,â€? added Maury Litwack, executive director of Teach NYS and the larger Teach Advocacy Network. â€œThis is a comprehensive strategy to impress upon legislators the importance of our nonpublic schools and the fundamental inequity in the way education funding is allocated in this state. The STEM and security programs are just the beginning.â€?

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A Summer Experience in the Holiday Village of Sefraus, Austria - 2017 Kosher Summer Vacation with The Feder family & Tour Olam Edited by: JV Staff

around the village will lead you to the starting points of walking tours on marked paths. An unSerfaus, Austria derground train passes through the center of the village enabling June 27 - August 26 2017 The pretty holiday village of free travel to the starting points Serfaus is hidden in the folds of walking tours, bicycle tours of the Tirol Mountains in the and cable car trips up into the Western part of Austria. The surrounding mountains. village streets are filled with hotels, restaurants and shop- Activities ping centers. You will enjoy There are tens of marked walking down the picturesque paths around the village for streets and seeing the well kept, walking or bicycle tours. During spotlessly clean houses and gar- these tours you will be exposed dens of this tourist village with to an abundance of plants growa rustic atmosphere. The main ing in the green surroundings pedestrian mall in the village is and you will feel that you are bustling with all sorts of attrac- drowning in a sea of flowers tions such as music boxes, street and a sea of experiences! You musicians, and wagons which can also take the cable car up can be used for exciting tours to the peaks of the surrounding in the surrounding hills. The mountains and stand in awe at information centers scattered the splendor of G-d's creation.

The pretty holiday village of Serfaus is hidden in the folds of the Tirol Mountains in the Western part of Austria

want? Didn't we say it's "the activity center of the Tirol Mountains"?

There is the possibility of The Alte Schmide renting a bicycle for personal or family riding. A riding Hotel counselor will guide you to the The Alte Schmide Hotel, maximum enjoyment from the which will host our guests this marked paths. The free cable summer vacation, is located in

There are tens of marked paths around the village for walking or bicycle tours. During these tours you will be exposed to an abundance of plants growing in the green surroundings and you will feel that you are drowning in a sea of flowers and a sea of experiences!

An enchanting village bustling with life and with ample activities, the perfect location for tours – what more could you want?

car excess will bring you to attractions on the mountains like boggling, mini sking, water games and more Serfaus also serves as a starting point for a variety of tours in the area: A visit to the Silbergbergwerk Schwaz silver mines, the Swarovski crystal factory, royal castles, Linau on the BodenSee, and the towering Zugspitze Mountain. An enchanting village bustling with life and with ample activities, the perfect location for tours – what more could you

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the center of the village next to the shopping centers and underground train. The fancy **** (four star) Alte Schmide Hotel has advanced modern equipment. All the hotel rooms have private bathrooms and showers, a hairdryer, television, telephone and safe. There is a gorgeous lobby with wireless internet, synagogue, dining rooms, sauna, Jacuzzi, fitness, a playroom for children, billiard and tenis. There are a variety of rooms for hosting families, spacious

fancy suites, and rooms of different sizes. You can select the room which suits you and your family.

homelike atmosphere, delicious food with the most grand validation and in abundance, trip plans, lot of will and all the experience will be at your service The team & to make your stay pleasant. All the catering is left for you to do is to reserve And after this informative your place. description, the emotional completion that covers the experi- Kashruth ence awaiting you in the sumThe Kashrut is under supermer holiday of “Tour Olam” in vision of Rabbi D.S. Zoldan the Austria will be provided by the Dayan of the Seret-Vishnitz Feder family to you. They re- community in Haifa. duce the distance from home, New !! Meal packages or take they disperse atmosphere in the away distant environment and fulfill For the first time it will be all your wishes. They take care possible to book daily meals in of your needs and will wrap you, a package price. as usual, with personal warm, It is up to you, to have the which even threatens the ice- meals at the hotel restaurant or berg. Prayers, torah lessons, See A Summer Experience , page 37 social activities, Sabbath with

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Airline reaches settlement agreement with Dr. David Dao, a passenger violently ejected from his seat on a UA flight to make room for staff. By: David Rosenberg

nited Airlines, which suffered a public relations disaster this month when a passenger seated on a UA flight was violently ejected to make room for UA employees, has agreed to settle a lawsuit with the injured passenger out of court. The settlement agreement was announced by the passenger’s attorney last Thursday, ending a lawsuit against the company for injuries suffered by the passenger during the incident. The settlement includes a non-disclosure agreement, preventing Dr. Dao or his attorney from publicly stating the amount of compensation United Airlines has agreed to pay. Estimates on the sum paid out range from $5-10 million, though given the unique nature of the case, the figure could be potentially much higher. Dao’s attorney, Thomas

Estimates on the sum paid out range from $510 million, though given the unique nature of the case, the figure could be potentially much higher.

On April 9th, Dr. David Dao, a physician in Kentucky, was injured while airport security officers from O’Hare Airport in Chicago dragged him from the seat he had booked and paid for on UA flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville. Dr. Dao and three other passengers had been ordered off the plane after being boarded, when the UA crew discovered that it was required to ferry four UA employees from Chicago to Kentucky for work on a separate flight out of SDF airport the next day.

Demetrio, praised United Airlines and its CEO, Oscar Munoz, for the terms of the agreement accepted by UA. “Mr. Munoz said he was going to do the right thing, and he has,” said Demetrio. In addition, the airline announced a series of policy changes on Thursday, intended to prevent a repeat of what happened on flight 3411. On April 9th, Dr. David Dao, a physician in Kentucky, was injured while airport security officers from O’Hare Airport in Chicago removed him from the

seat he had booked and paid for on UA flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville. Dr. Dao and three other passengers had been ordered off the plane after being boarded, when the UA crew discovered that it was required to ferry four UA employees from Chicago to Kentucky for work on a separate flight out of SDF airport the next day. The crew offered volunteers $400 in vouchers to any passenger who voluntarily vacated See United Airlines Reaches , page 36

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The 3 Cancers Jews Need to Worry About Most — And How to Reduce the Risks – Part 1 By: Niv Elis

s if Jews don’t have enough to worry about. Geopolitical threats to the Jewish people may wax and wane, but there’s another lethal danger particular to the Jewish people that shows no signs of disappearing anytime soon: cancer. Specifically, Jews are at elevated risk for three types of the disease: melanoma, breast cancer and ovarian cancer. The perils are particularly acute for Jewish women. The higher prevalence of these illnesses isn’t spread evenly among all Jews. The genetic mutations that result in higher incidence of cancer are concentrated among Ashkenazim — Jews of European descent. “Ashkenazim are a more homogenous population from a genetic point of view, whereas the Sephardim are much more diverse,” said Dr. Ephrat Levy-Lahad, director of the Medical Genetics Institute at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. But there is some hope. Susceptible populations can take certain precautions to reduce their risks. Recent medical advances have made early detection

Jews are at elevated risk for three types of the disease: melanoma, breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

easier, significantly lowering the fatality rates from some cancers. Cheaper genetic testing is making it much easier for researchers to discover the risk factors associated with certain cancers. And scientists are working on new approaches to fight these pernicious diseases – especially in Israel, where Ashkenazi Jews

deaths, and U.S. melanoma rates are on the rise. It’s also one of the most common forms of cancer in younger people, especially among women. Just a decade ago, Israel had the second-highest rate of skin cancer in the world, behind Australia. One reason is that Israel has a lot of sun. Some credit bet-

Melanoma is the deadliest type of skin cancer, representing some 80 percent of skin cancer deaths, and U.S. melanoma rates are on the rise. It’s also one of the most common forms of cancer in younger people, especially among women.

make up a larger proportion of the population than in any other country. Understanding risk factors and learning about preventative measures are key to improving cancer survival rates. Here’s what you need to know.

ter education about the dangers of sun exposure for helping reduce Israel’s per capita skin cancer rate, now 18th in the world. But the sun isn’t the whole story. Jews in Israel have a higher incidence of melanoma than the country’s Arab, non-Jewish citizens. Melanoma What makes Jews more likely Melanoma is the deadliest to get skin cancer than others? It’s a combination of genettype of skin cancer, representing some 80 percent of skin cancer ics and behavior, according to

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Dr. Harriet Kluger, a cancer researcher at Yale University. On the genetics side, Ashkenazi Jews — who comprise about half of Israel’s Jewish population — are significantly more likely to have the BRCA-2 genetic mutation

studies from Israel showing that secular Jews have more melanoma than Orthodox Jews,” Kluger “There are said. epidemiological studies So what’s to be done? from Israel showing that “Other than staying out of the secular Jews have more sun, people should get their skin melanoma than Orthodox

Jews,” Kluger said. are Evolving (e.g. changing), or are just plain Funny looking. Light-skinned people and redheads should be most vigilant, as well as those who live in sunny locales like California, Florida or the Rocky Mountain states. If you insist on being in the sun, sunscreen can help mitigate the risk, but only up to a point. “It decreases the chances of getting melanoma, but it doesn’t eliminate the chances,” Kluger warned. As with other cancers, early detection can dramatically increase survival rates. In the meantime, scientists in “Ashkenazim are a more homogenous population from a Israel – a world leader in melagenetic point of view, whereas the Sephardim are much more noma research – hold high hopes diverse,” said Dr. Ephrat Levy-Lahad, (pictured above)director for immunotherapy, which corof the Medical Genetics Institute at Shaare Zedek Medical rals the body’s immune mechaCenter in Jerusalem. nisms to attack or disable cancer. that some studies have linked to screened once a year,” Kluger At Bar-Ilan University, Dr. Cyrille said. “In Australia, getting your Cohen is using a research grant higher rates of melanoma. The other factor, Israel’s abun- skin screened is part of the cul- from the Israel Cancer Research dant sunshine, exacerbates the ture, like getting your teeth Fund to implant human melanoma cells in mice to study whether problems for sun-sensitive Jews cleaned in America.” You can spot worrisome moles human white blood cells can be of European origin. That’s why Arabs and Israeli Orthodox Jews, on your own using an alphabetic genetically modified to act as a whose more conservative dress mnemonic device for letters A-F: “switch” that turns on the human leaves less skin exposed than See a doctor if you spot moles immune system’s cancer‐fighting does typical secular attire, have a that exhibit Asymmetry, Border properties. irregularities, dark or multiple lower incidence of the cancer. (ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND) “There are epidemiological Colors, have a large Diameter, (TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK)

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Is A Bad Bite Only About Your Smile? Michigan Doctors Indicted in 1st Case of Female Genital Mutilation in the US 5 Long-Term Health Consequences If Your Teeth Don’t Line Up Right

Edited by: JV Staff

By: Phyllis Chesler

ith May being National Smile Month, people with significant bite issues aren’t always that enthused about showing off their pearly whites. Maybe it’s crooked teeth that have thrown your bite out of whack. Maybe you suffered an injury, or perhaps the cause is dental work that wasn’t quite right. Whatever the reason behind a bad bite, pain is usually the result. “And that’s too bad because having a great smile can improve a person’s self esteem and confidence,” says Dr. Jamie Reynolds, an orthodontist, national and international lecturer and author of “World Class Smiles Made in Detroit” (www.AskDrReynolds. com). A bad bite leads to more than a reluctance to smile, Reynolds says. Overall dental health is affected. Here are a few of the long-term consequences when teeth don’t line up quite right: • Tooth pain. A bite that is off by a fraction of a millimeter can cause tooth pain. Improperly adjusted dental work can irritate a nerve. Tooth pain from these factors usually happens quickly and is usually the result of trauma or dental work. It’s important to have the eventual position of the tooth corrected to prevent longterm issues. • Jaw-joint (TMJ) pain. The

L “Ashkenazim are a more homogenous population from a genetic point of view, whereas the Sephardim are much more diverse,” said Dr. Ephrat Levy-Lahad, (pictured above) director of the Medical Genetics Institute at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

jaw joint is made up of two bony parts: the temporal bone in the skull and the lower jaw (the mandible). Put the temporal bone and the mandible together, and you get the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). Occasionally trauma to the joint can create a crackling or popping sound when you open or close your jaw. For most people, that’s no big deal, Reynolds says. But, if you have a hard time opening your jaw, can’t open it at all, or have significant pain during jaw movement, you should be evaluated for TMJ problems. • Muscular pain. Muscular pain is the most common finding

Dr. Jamie Reynolds, an orthodontist, national and international lecturer and author says that “having a great smile can improve a person’s self esteem and confidence.”

in people with jaw-joint problems and is largely responsible for the pain associated with many headaches. • Tooth wear. Your teeth function as a chewing machine. And, just as with any other machine, the parts need to fit together properly to prevent premature wear. Over time, teeth can wear so that the inside part of the tooth becomes exposed. Once tooth wear progresses to a certain point, significant dental work and orthodontics are necessary to correct the problem. Preventing significant tooth wear before it happens is the best approach. See Is A Bad Bite Only, page 38

et's be clear: FGM (female genital mutilation) is illegal in the United States. That fact did not stop Drs. Humana Nagarwala, Fakhruddin Attar, and his wife Farida Attar, from allegedly performing these criminal and human rights atrocities against two vulnerable 7-year-old girls in the Detroit metro area. The physicians and Attar's wife have all been arrested. According to Fox 2 News in Detroit the three have been charged with female genital mutilation and conspiracy. The doctors are also charged with making false statements to investigators and trying to obstruct the investigation. For years, many Muslims have insisted that the practice of FGM has nothing to do with Islam, that it is, originally, an African and pagan custom. This may be true. However, many Muslims believe it is religiously required. Boldly, cleverly, the Detroit-area physicians are arguing that FGM is a "religious prac-

The Detroit-area physicians are arguing that FGM is a "religious practice" and that to interfere with it is tantamount to religious discrimination.

Along with Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, Dr. Fakhruddin Attar (pictured above) and his wife Farida Attar were indicted for performing the criminal and inhuman act of female genital mutilation on two vulnerable 7-year-old girls in the Detroit metro area

tice" and that to interfere with it is tantamount to religious discrimination. There is some proof that Mohammed allowed a female "exciser" to perform this mutilation -- but he advised her not to "overdo it." FGM is practiced most widely in the Islamic world in the Arab Muslim Middle East, both in the Gulf and African states (such as Egypt, Somalia, Sudan); it has, increasingly, spread to Muslim communities in Central Asia (parts of Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran), and to the Far East (Malaysia and Indonesia). Female genital mutilation (FGM) is not at all like male circumcision. Not only is the capacity for sexual pleasure destroyed, complications are rou-

tine and include bleeding, painful urination, cysts, dangerous and recurrent bladder and urinary tract infections, the growth of scar tissue that make marital intercourse a nightmare and that turns childbirth into an experience of danger and torture. It also increases the likelihood of newborn deaths. In addition, some girls and women develop fistulas and become incontinent. They are doomed to defecate and urinate without control. Absent effective surgery, this is a life-long condition which leads to a woman being shunned by her family. And then there is a life-long post-traumatic stress disorder See Michigan Doctors Indicted , page 36

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Notice of formation of NEW YORK I SEE YOU LLC. Arts. of Org. ﬁled with the NY Sect'y of State (SSNY) on 12/12/2016. Oﬃce located in Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Daria Ishutenko, 2615 Ave Apt 6L, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose: any lawful act. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of Formation of GOODS FOR GOOD I LLC. Arts. of Org. ﬁled with NY Dept. of State on 4/6/17. Oﬃce location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal address: c/o Marron Capital LLC, 9 W 57th St, 31st Fl., NY, NY 10019, Attn: Donald B. Marron, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: all lawful activity. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of Qualification of InTandem Fund GP, L.L.C. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/4/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/23/17. 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. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of Qualification of InTandem Capital Partners Fund, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/4/17. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/23/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership 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. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of Qualification of 85 Broad Street Property Owner LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/12/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/6/17. 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. 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. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of Qualification of HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS IV LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/4/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/27/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 19387 US 19 N, Clearwater, FL 33764. 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. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of Qualification of RFR/K 117 ADAMS OWNER LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/21/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/7/17. 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. 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 National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. [4/21-5/26]

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Notice of Qualification of 375 Myrtle Avenue Property Owner LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/7/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/15/17. 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. [4/21-5/26]

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS UMB BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE OF MART LEGAL TITLE TRUST 2015NPL1, Plaintiff AGAINST Michael Singh a/k/a Michael J. Singh, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated June 17, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on May 25, 2017 at 2:30PM, premises known as 83 COOPER STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11207. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK 3433, LOT 51. Approximate amount of judgment $514,368.24 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 5137/2013. Robert A. Abrams, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 [4/21-5/12]

Notice of formation of Briana Marshall, LLC. Articles of Organization ﬁled with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/15/2017. 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. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of Qualification of OTR PROPERTY LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/08/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/06/17. Princ. office of LLC: 500 Old Town Rd., Southampton, NY 11968. 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: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of formation of EJP ENTERPRISES, LLC. Arts. of Org. ﬁled with the NY Sect'y of State (SSNY) on 03/24/2017. Oﬃce located in NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Michael F. Sweeney, Esq., One Financial Plaza, Suite 1800, Providence, RI 02903. Purpose: any lawful act. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of formation of SDMC 2880 Exterior Promote LLC Arts. of Org. ﬁled with the NY Sect'y of State (SSNY) on 2/16/2017. Oﬃce located in NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Storage Deluxe, 26 W. 17th St., Ste. 801, NY NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful act. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of Qualification of Post Construction Services, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY on 3/23/2017. Office location is NY County. LLC formed in KS on 11/23/2016. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to its principal business address at 550 N. 159th St. Suite 2000, Wichita, KS 67230. Certificate of LLC filed with KS Secy. of State at 120 SW 10th Ave., Topeka, KS 66612. Any lawful act. [4/21-5/26]

213 ASHLAND LLC App. for Auth. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/28/2017. LLC was organized in AK on 9/8/2016. Office in Kings Co. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to 184 Dekalb Ave., Brooklyn, NY, 11205, which is also the principal business location. Required office at 101 East 9th Ave., Ste. 12-B, Anchorage, AK 99501-3651. Cert. of Org. filed with SSAK, 550 W. 7th Ave., Ste. 1500, Anchorage, AK, 995013567. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of Qualification of CHESHUNT LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/29/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/15/15. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 180 Riverside Blvd., Ste. 607, NY, NY 10069. DE address of LLC: c/o Intertrust Corporate Services Delaware Ltd., 200 Bellevue Pkwy., Ste. 210, Wilmington, DE 19809. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of Qualification of Pollen Health (US) LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/4/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/4/17. 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 Intertrust Corporate Services Delaware, Ltd., 200 Bellevue Pkwy., Ste. 210, Wilmington, DE 19809. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of Qualification of ALRAI CAPITAL FUND II, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/30/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/27/17. 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. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of Qualification of MORROW SODALI INTERNATIONAL LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/17/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/10/17. Princ. office of LLC: 509 Madison Ave., Ste. 1206, NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [4/215/26]

Notice of Qualification of ALRAI CAPITAL GP, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/30/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/27/17. 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. [4/21-5/26]

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Notice of Qualification of ALRAI MANAGEMENT LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/30/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/11/16. 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. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of Qualification of Broad Street Real Estate Credit Partners III, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/27/17. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/28/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership 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. [4/7-5/12]

Notice of Qualification of Broad Street Real Estate Credit Partners III Offshore Fund, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/27/17. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Cayman Islands (CG) on 2/13/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. CG address of LP: Maples Corporate Services, POB 309, Ugland House, Grand Cayman KY-1104, Cayman Isls. List of names and 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 of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. [4/7-5/12]

Notice of Qualification of BNY Mellon Performance & Risk Analytics, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/23/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/9/98. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 225 Liberty St, NY, NY 10286. 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. [4/7-5/12]

Notice of Qualification of Broad Street Real Estate Credit Partners III GP, L.L.C. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/27/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/6/17. 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. [4/7-5/12]

Notice of Qualification of HCS TENS SERVICES LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/6/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/7/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 19387 US 19 N, Clearwater, FL 33764. 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. [4/7-5/12]

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Notice of Qualification of GELFAND, RENNERT & FELDMAN, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/29/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/22/16. 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. [4/7-5/12]

Notice of Qualification of Branded Cities New York – TR, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/21/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/8/13. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 2850 E. Camelback Rd., Ste. 110, Phoenix, AZ 85016. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [4/7-5/12]

Notice of Formation of 102 Candy LLC. Arts of Org. ﬁled with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/23/17. Oﬃce location: New York County. 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. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. [4/7-5/12]

Notice of Qualification of MSG CAP, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/23/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/20/17. Princ. office of LLC: 2 Pennsylvania Plaza, NY, NY 10121. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [3/315/5]

Notice of Qualification of Hester Holdings LLC. Fictitious Name in NY State: Hester Knitwear LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/27/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/21/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Craig Dent, Esq., Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10036. DE address of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Road, Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any purposes permitted by applicable law. [4/7-5/12]

Notice of Formation of Fillmore6C LLC. Arts of Org. ﬁled with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/29/17. Oﬃce location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 187 Wolf Rd, Ste 101, Albany, NY 12205. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Business Filings Incorporated, 187 Wolf Rd, Ste 101, Albany, NY 12205. Purpose: any lawful activity. [4/7-5/12]

Notice of Qualification of GEN IV INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/23/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/20/15. Princ. office of LLC: 1700 Broadway, 35th Fl., NY, NY 10019. 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: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [3/31-5/5]

Notice of formation of Tay Foods, LLC. Articles of Organization ﬁled with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/27/2017. Oﬃce location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Erica Fabrikant, 268 Cumberland St., Apt. 4A, Brooklyn, NY 11205. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [3/31-5/5]

Notice of Qualification of Fusion TV, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/15/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/13/17. 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. 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. [3/31-5/5]

Notice of Qualification of SM 220 Fifth Investor LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/22/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/17/17. 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. [3/31-5/5]

Notice of Qualification of KCP OPERATING COMPANY, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/13/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/6/17. 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. [3/31-5/5]

Notice of Formation of LYNN NEWMAN, LLC. Arts of Org. ﬁled with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/8/17. Oﬃce location: New York County. 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. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. [3/31-5/5]

Notice of Formation of ANDIMOR L.P. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/22/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LP: 568 Broadway, Rm. 401, NY, NY 10012. Latest date on which the LP may dissolve is 3/17/2117. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LP at the addr. of its princ. office. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [3/31-5/5]

Notice of Formation of ANCHOR SLIP L.P. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/22/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LP: 568 Broadway, Rm. 401, NY, NY 10012. Latest date on which the LP may dissolve is 3/20/2117. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LP at the addr. of its princ. office. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [3/31-5/5]

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 TOR INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/13/2016. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 12/15/2015. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: Corp. Center, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Principal business address: 1745 Broadway, 17th Floor NY, NY 10019. Certificate of LLC filed with Secy. of State of DE located at: 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act. [3/24-4/28]

Notice of Qualification of KYNIKOS TACTICAL FUND, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/13/17. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/12/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership 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. [3/24-4/28]

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]

Notice of formation of MS GAMES, LLC. Articles of Organization ﬁled with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/19/2016. Oﬃce location: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Jodi Maggio, 359 West 11th Street, Apt 7A, New York, NY 10014. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [3/315/5]

Notice of Qualification of A24 Music LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/17/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 3/10/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 31 W. 27th St., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10001. DE address of LLC: 850 New Burton Road, Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [3/31-5/5]

Notice of Qualification of WME ENTERTAINMENT PARENT, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/17/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/16/13. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, DE Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [3/31-5/5]

Notice of Formation of GREY HOUSE PR, LLC. Arts of Org. ﬁled with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 03/09/17. Oﬃce location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Nour Seikaly, 124 Remsen Street Apt 11, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose: any lawful activity. [3/31-5/5]

MAY 5, 2017 Elliot Staples Creative LLC. Filed 2/23/17 Oﬃce: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 231 W 16th St, Apt 5E, New York, NY 10011 Purpose: all lawful. [3/315/5]

Notice of Formation of STORY PATROL, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/05/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: Jonathan S. Katz, 460 Park Ave. South, 12th Fl., NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o James A. Janowitz, Esq., Pryor Cashman LLP, 7 Times Sq., NY, NY 10036. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [4/14-5/19]

Notice of Formation of Samaritan Daytop One Boone LLC. Arts. of Org. ﬁled with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/11/17. Oﬃce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Samaritan Daytop Foundation, Inc., 138-02 Queens Blvd., Briarwood, NY 11435. Purpose: any lawful activity. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of Formation of Nexus Second Avenue LLC. Arts. of Org. ﬁled with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/10/17. Oﬃce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 41 Wooster St., No. 2, NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activity. [4/21-5/26]

Notice of Qualification of Barclay Investments LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/13/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/19/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 254 W 54th St, Fl. 16, NY, NY 10019. DE address of LLC: 874 Walker Rd, Ste C, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [4/28-6/2]

Notice of Qualification of Employee Capital Partners, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/13/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/11/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 95 Horatio St, NY, NY 10014. 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. [4/28-6/2]

Notice of Qualification of ECP Opportunity I, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/13/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/11/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 95 Horatio St, NY, NY 10014. 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. [4/28-6/2]

Notice of Qualification of PEP V GP, L.L.C. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/14/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/5/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. 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. [4/28-6/2]

Notice of formation of NEW YORK HANDCRAFTED LLC. Articles of Organization ﬁled with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/03/2017. Oﬃce location: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Victor Serrano, 528 W 152nd St. Apt GF, New York, NY 10031. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [4/28-6/2]

PAGE 47 Notice of formation of ALMODOVAR BARRETTO LLC. Articles of Organization ﬁled with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/21/2017. 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. [4/28-6/2]

Notice of Formation of Everslope LLC. Arts.

Notice of Qualiﬁcation of CONSOLIDATED

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

SERVICES GROUP, LLC. Authority ﬁled with NY

on 3/23/17. Oﬃce location: NY County. SSNY

Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/28/17. Oﬃce location:

designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail

New York Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/19/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

process to: 1732 1st Ave., #20370, NY, NY

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

10128. Purpose: any lawful activity. [5/5-6/9]

NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation ﬁled

Notice of formation of BERNHARD BAUER, LLC. Articles of Organization ﬁled with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/30/2017. Oﬃce location: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Klaus Bernhard Bauer, 36 W 35th St PHC, New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [4/28-6/2]

Notice of formation of PLAZA STREET PRODUCTIONS LLC. Articles of Org. ﬁled with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/08/2017. Oﬃce located in Kings county. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: Plaza Street Productions LLC, 20 Plaza St East, Apt B12, Brooklyn, NY 11238. Purpose: Any lawful activity or purpose. [4/28-6/2].

with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Notice of Qualiﬁcation of Maple K 43-10 23rd

Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the

St Owner, LLC. Authority ﬁled with NY Secy of

Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th

State (SSNY) on 4/28/17. Oﬃce location: New

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

York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on

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4/20/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

Notice of Qualiﬁcation of AG Direct Lending

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

Fund (TX) GP, LLC. Authority ﬁled with NY Secy

10011. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste

of State (SSNY) on 4/28/17. Oﬃce location:

101, Dover, DE 19904. The name and address

New York Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on

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. [5/5-6/9]

4/25/17. 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. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of J 242C LLC. Articles of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/13/2017. Office located in Kings county. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: Ridgewood Realty Group LLC, 17 Wyckoff Avenue 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11237. Purpose: Any lawful activity or purpose. [4/28-6/2].

Notice of Formation of Oak Group Associates, LLC. Articles of Org ﬁled with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/15/2011. Oﬃce location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served to 633 3rd Ave., 17th Fl, NY, NY 10017. Principal Business Address: 633 3rd Ave., 17th Fl, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any Lawful Business Purpose. [4/28-6/2]

Notice of Formation of 10698 CONKLIN STREET HOLDINGS LLC. Arts of Org. ﬁled with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/12/17. Oﬃce location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The Community Preservation Corporation, 28 E 28th St, Fl. 9, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity. [4/28-6/2]

[5/5-6/9] Notice of Qualification of 2HLB Investor LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/25/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/17/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/7/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail

address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101,

process to: 1370 Ave of the Americas, Fl. 19, NY,

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

NY 10019. 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

4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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

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Notice of formation of PARK VIEW BUILDING MANLLAGEMENT LLC. Articles of Org. ﬁled with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/16/2017. Oﬃce located in Kings county. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: Bentley Shang Zhao, 4918 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [5/5-6/9]

Notice of Formation of 215 WEST 80, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/24/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 215 W. 80th St., NY, NY 10024. 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. [5/5-6/9]

ST, LLC. Authority ﬁled with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/21/17. Oﬃce location: New York Co.

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

Notice of Formation of 10756 ROSE STREET HOLDINGS LLC. Arts of Org. ﬁled with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/9/17. Oﬃce location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The Community Preservation Corporation, 28 E 28th St, Fl. 9, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity. [4/28-6/2]

Notice of Qualification of 24-16 QUEENS PLAZA CONSTRUCTION MANAGER II LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/25/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/25/17. Princ. office of LLC: 152 W. 57th St., 60th Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [5/5-6/9]

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13 UNIT INVESTMENT. Excellent condition, fully rented. Overlooks the Hudson River. 3 blocks to the ferry & Metro North Station. $75,000 per unit. 914-213-2834 LM0217 Invest small, with a minimum investment of $7,500 for a big return!! With a Legal Legitimate Investment company. For more information or appointment call: 212-256-1158 extension 103 This offering is only for accredited investors under Regulation D under Rule 506 (c) of the Securities Act Of 1993. The Company shall take reasonable steps to verify the accredited investor status before making Any offer and sale. Any accredited investor that does not provide the information necessary to the company To satisfy the verification requirement will not be deemed an accredited investor and may not participate in the offering. LM0911

AIRCRAFT SERVICES Private jet services-Pesach. NY-Israel.$26K.RT per seat.NYFL $5700RT per seat. Limited seats. 388-784-1221

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

WE PROVIDE FRESH CUT BG, SBLC AND LOAN. WE HAVE A GENUINE PROVIDER FOR FRESH CUT BG AND SBLC AND 3% APR LOAN WHICH ARE SPECIFICALLY FOR LEASE. OUR BANK INSTRUMENT CAN BE ENGAGED IN PPP TRADING, DISCOUNTING, AND SIGNATURE PROJECT(S) SUCH AS AVIATION, AGRICULTURE, PETROLEUM, REAL ESTATE AND E.T.C. OUR LEASING PRICE IS 6+2 AND OUR ISSUING BANKS ARE HSBC LONDON OR BARCLAYS BANK LONDON. OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE REASONABLE AS OUR PROVIDER IS READY TO SEND RWA OR SWIFT M799 BEFORE WE PROCEED. KINDLY CONTACT ME FOR FURTHER INFORMATION VIA EMAIL: BGCONSULTANT@OUTLOOK.COM

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JOBS & SERVICES HELP WANTED

9020

ADMIN ASST. Full time. Entry level with opportunity to advance. Support managers & employees. Assist in daily oﬃce needs. Call Steve 516-524-3792 LM0512

SR. MECHANIC, COPIAGUE, L.I. FOOD PLANT. $50/HR + OT. High-speed portionpack condiment machines. Excellent electric skills. Able to troubleshoot & keep production running. Seeking a professional, a self-starter, who keeps to a clean work environment & maintains equipment in good working order. Weekend Calls Accepted. Mr. Roll 516-241-6880 LM0505 65 YEAR OLD MALE, 5’11”, 300 Lbs. Looking for Open-Minded Woman. Call 718-217-9788 LM0428

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 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

MANAGER FOR LEGAL NOTICE DEPARTMENT WANTED! To work at The Jewish Voice newspaper. Brooklyn location. Call Stuart Katz 718-998-7600 Ext. 19 DRIVER. Wheel-chair van. Must have CDL-C, paid training. Plenty overtime/ PTO. $12/ hr. Health beﬁts. 914-266-0219 LM0205

SALESPEOPLE WANTED. To work at The Jewish Voice newspaper. Brooklyn location. Call Stuart Katz 718-998-7600 Ext. 19 AREA CLAIMS WRITER AND PROPERTY INSPECTORS. Interviewing now. Excellent income, pt/ ft ﬂexible hours. Training provided. 732-801-1532 acwinspector@gmail.com

HEALTH / SOCIAL SERVICES

9930

HOUSE-CLEANING AVAILABLE. I Clean Houses, Apartments, Condos, Oﬃces. 5 Years Experience. Excellent References. Call Ana 646-302-7609 LM0602 I am looking for Live-In or LiveOut CNA position. I’m available 7 days per week. Excellent references from hospital, nursing home & private. Call 516-466-3923 LM0526

LANDSCAPING SERVICES. Spring Clean-ups, Land Developing, Bushes, Trees & Flowers Planted. Serving Woodmere & The Five Towns over 25 years. Full Service Company. Aiclandscaping/facebook 516-220-5780 LM0421

THE JEWISH VOICE IS HIRING FOR:

SENIOR SITTER. If it’s not safe for Mom or Dad to be home alone, I can “sit” for them. Excellent references. $15.00/ hour. Call 516-473-3011 LM0526

Experienced Shomer Shabbos woman available to care for elderly woman at night or 24 hours. Can also babysit. Refs avail. Call: 646-266-1421 CB1125

HOUSECLEANING AVAILABLE. Complete Housecleaning Services, INCLUDING LAUNDRY! Experienced, references, English-Speaking. FREE ESTIMATES! ILEANA 914-373-9224 LM0428

CAREGIVER/ ELDERLY AVAILABLE. Responsible, reliable, 17 years experience. Take care of client, household, and errands. Excellent checkable references. Looking for live-in job. Own car. Clean driver’s license. Call Manana 917-407-7525 LM0127

HOUSECLEANING AVAILABLE. Responsible, reliable. All cleaning and laundry. MondaySaturday. Good references. Alexandra 917-669-5628 LM0526 MY PERSONAL CONCIERGE BY DEBZ is the solution to your sanity! Let me save the day! Errands of every kind are my specialty (including housesitting.) A temporary need for help or a permanent personal assistant, let me coordinate & complete what you couldn’t get done. You can email me at mypersonalconciergebydebz@ gmail.com Call or text: 631-299-1310 LM0512 LOOKING FOR HOUSEKEEPING POSITION. 3-4 Afternoons per week. Cooking, laundry, errands, shopping. Lower Westchester. References. 718-409-0799 LM0421 EXPERIENCED CAREGIVER. 18 YEARS EXPERIENCE. Good references. Clean driver’s license. Live Out. Call Norma 347-209-8606 LM0407 Helpful, Responsible, Dependable, Mature College Grad will help with errands and taking to appts. Also, can babysit & tutor. MondayFriday, own car. Experienced. References. I am in the Port Washington area. 917-608-9837 LM0324

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A LOVING CAREGIVER? Excellent experience & references. Can live in or live out. Please Call 917-971-9205 LM0210 EXPERIENCED WOMAN Is Looking for a Job Taking Care of the Elderly. 30 Years Experience. Excellent References. Call 917-854-3153 LM0217

ELDERCARE AVAILABLE. Energized, motivated women take care of Elderly including Alzheimer Patients. 15 years experience. Call Pearl 914-6193303/ 914-909-0224 LM0120

Prior busn ownr seeking employment. Resume available upon request call 845-558-8105 - Thank you CB1211 I’M LOOKING FOR ELDERCARE JOB. I have 30 years experience & excellent references. Live-in or live-out. Full time. Call 347-485-9133 LM1118 SENIOR CARE. WORRIED ABOUT YOUR LOVED ONES? I will care for your loved ones like my own. 15 years experience. Reliable, responsible. Live-in Monday- Friday. Excellent References available. Call Jean 917-991-5041 LM1111

WRITING SERVICES Are you looking for a professional writer? Business or personal? Website content, newsletters, songs, poems, scripts etc. Impact writing. Call: Sara Gross 443-564-1590 CB1230

PETS

9043

GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPPIES. Date of Birth: 3/27/17. Taking deposits. www. sharonsshepherds.com 631-284-3611 LM0526 ZEN PUPPIES. Whelped 11/15/16. 2 females, 2 males. Shetland Shibu. 1st shots. $750. 914-743-1756 LM0414

HANDYMAN

9960

NEED WORK DONE AROUND THE HOUSE? Don’t have the time? Tired of having a “to-do list?” Handyman, all phases of work. 516-313-5158 LM0313

NUTRITIONIST

9965

Certiﬁed Intuitive Eating Counselor Bonnie Budman LCSW Winter Special, 3 one hour sessions for $127. Call 516-967-0675

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

Jewish voice is one of New York’s premier Jewish newspapers, distributing hundreds of thousands of papers in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan. In addition, the Jewish Voice publishes specialty magazines and major websites, and is very active in social media.

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TUTORING

9970

**ALL Subjects 1-on-1 Tutor** Grades K-12, Specialize in Math & Essay writing. Intensive Prep for Specialized Science High School Entrance Exam, SAT, & HS Regents Exam available. Email: ALL.As.Tutor.NYC@ gmail.com

LESSONS

9980

PIANO/VOICE LESSONS – Your Home/My Home Local Well Known Teacher. Call Today *** 954-485-0065 *** MK

HOME IMPROVEMENT

9950

DREAM HOUSE OF LONG ISLAND. We Provide excellent services with guaranteed satisfaction. We Specialize in: Carpentry, Painting, Landscaping, Masonry, Power Washing, Cleaning Services. FREE ESTIMATES!! Licensed/ Insured. 631-316-2764 www. dreamhousecustom.com LM0609 2 MARIO’S. Sealcoating, Repairs. Stoops, Blacktop & Concrete. Driveways, Sidewalks, Cement, Asphalt, Brickwork, Belgium Block & Pavers. Commercial & Residential. CALL ME LAST 516984-9943 LM0609 DAN KELLY. 1 CONTRACTOR FOR ALL OF YOUR NEEDS. All interior/ exterior work! Home improvements from A-Z. ALL WORK FULLY GUARANTEED! #13VH06566200, 732-609-7764 LM0421 CUSTOM CLOSETS TO CUSTOM KITCHENS. By The Master, Peter B. Kearney 914-787-8095 LM0414 GUTTERS AND LEADERS Installation and Service. Fast, licensed, fully insured. Call Robert for FREE Estimate. LIC #13VH02822500 732-773-0666 mrgutternj@yahoo.com LM0407 Painting (Interior & Exterior), Trim, Tile, Baths, Bsmt., Kitchens, Doors, Windows, Floors, Masonry, Carpentry, Fence, Rooﬁng, Siding. Senior Discount 10% Oﬀ. Lic. # 13VHO2433500. CALL NOW: YURY- YP HOME IMPROVEMENT 732-207-4006 LM0324

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INTERIOR- EXTERIOR, PLASTERING & TAPING, WALLPAPERING, WALLPAPER REMOVAL, SHEET ROCKING, DEMOLITION, TILE- FLOOR & WALL LEAVES CLEANED, INSTALL DOOR LOCKS, SMALL CEMENT JOBS, REPAIR WINDOWS, FIXES WINDOW SCREENS, KITCHEN & BATHROOM PLUMBER REMOVE CARPETING, FIXING FLAT ROOFS. PROFESSIONAL QUALITY. FREE ESTIMATES. REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

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JB CARPENTRY, ELECTRIC, PLUMBING, PAINTING, FLOORING, DECKS & KITCHEN/BATHROOM REMODELING. RESPONSIBLE & REASONABLE. ALL JOBS WELCOME! JOE: 347-215-1960

Famous Hagstrom Street Atlas 5 Boro – Shows All Streets

MAPS FINAL $24.95 EDITION 800-327-7992 ALL PURPOSE TREE SERVICE. TREE & STUMP REMOVAL, STORM DAMAGE, SCREEN TOP SOIL, LAND CLEARING, STUMP GRINDING, CHIPPER SERVICE, LANDSCAPING, FIREWOOD & SNOW REMOVAL. SPRING CLEAN UPS. REASONABLE RATES. NJ CALLS ONLY. CALL TIM 732-664-7510 LM0331

ANNIHILATOR EXTERMINATION INC. GOT BUGS/ "Place Your Trust With Us, We'll Treat You Like Family!" Professional Pest Management Services For a Healthy, Safer and Pest Free Environment. Fully Licensed & Insured. Commercial & Residential. License: NYS DEC 13915 NJ Business Lic. 99201A. 43 Allen Place, Staten Island, NY 10312. Scott FoxOwner/ Operator 718-227-5001 Email: scott@yougotbugscom Website: www.yougotbugs.com

JUNK REMOVAL

9952

Abra-Cadabra Junk Be Gone. Family Owned & Operated. Junk Removal, Clean-Outs, Demolition. Same Day, Dependable Service. Best Prices. Licensed & Insured. Visa/ MC/ Amex. Serving Ocean & Monmouth County, NJ. 732-262-9779 LM0519

PERSONALS

9025

SWF SEEKING MALE OR FEMALE (55-70) FOR FRIENDSHIP. I enjoy dining out, movies. No smokers please. Call 516-658-1918 LM0526 65 YEAR OLD MALE, 5’11”, 300 Lbs. Looking for Open-Minded Woman. Call 718-217-9788 LM0428

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

FOR SALE

9040

1966 FORD 4500 TRACTOR. With Front Bucket and three point hitch. Extra snow bucket and rear grading blade. $5,300. 203-921-6625, 203-531-9249 LM0602

1932 COMPLETELY RESTORED DARK WALNUT DINING ROOM SET. Large buﬀet, server, china cabinet, table & 4 high back chairs. $2,500 negotiable. Call 609-597-4630 LM0526 MAYTAG WASHER, 2 years old, excellent condition. Asking $200. Cash only. If interested, Call Mary at 609-971-3529 LM0414 BEAUTIFUL DINING ROOM SET. Dark Cherry, Georgian Style, Top Quality, Table 46” w, extends to 124” L, Knife Drawer at each end, 2 Upholstered Master Chairs with arms, 6 Side Chairs, including Custom Made Window Treatment- matches chair fabric, $1,500. Leave Message 732-671-2399 LM0414

REAL ESTATE 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

DINING ROOM SET: Brand New, $1,200. BEDROOM SET: Used, Fortunoﬀ, 7 pieces, $1,000. LIVING ROOM SET: 5 pieces, $800 & Other Misc. Items. MUST CALL FOR APPT 551-404-3237 donaldeckhard@ gmail.com LM0407

MANHATTAN

2050

COMPLETE WAREHOUSE EQUIPMENT FOR SALE. Forklift, racks, and more. Viewing by appointment only. 917-921-0195 LM0505

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

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

OPEN HOUSES

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

BROOKLYN

QUEENS

ENTERTAINMENT

9044

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

AUTOMOTIVE

9050

FORD 1966 T-Bird, all original, 67k, excel cond, 428 cu in matching #’s. $19,950. 516-809-9445 LM0505 MERCEDES 2006 E350 4matic sedan, snrf, 6 cyl, 75k mi, navy/ beige, $8,850. Call 516248-5676 or Email: mreis@ dreiscompany.com LM0505 1967 CASE 530 BACKHOE. Diesel cab. Good condition. Extra parts, tires, etc. $5,100. 203-869-2726, 203-921-6625 LM0602

VOLKSWAGON PASSAT SEDAN 2008, 2.0 turbo, grey, under 58,000 original miles, mint condition. Too much to list! Asking $8,500 neg. Call 631-355-9748 LM0512 INTERNATIONAL HOOK TRUCK 1992. 6 wheel hook lift container truck. 2 year old rebuilt engine and transmission. In great shape and ready to work. Perfect for landscapers. Call for price. 914-380-3111 LM0512 LINCOLN TOWN CAR 2006. 116,800 miles, very good condition, Black exterior, just put on 2 brand new tires. $11,000 OR BEST OFFER. 732-691-8927 LM0505 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

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 Avenue L/Nostrand Ave. 3 rm oﬃce, $1750, all included. Please call 718-513-6911 x101 CB0224

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

6050

WESTBURY PROFESSIONAL OFFICE FOR RENT. Attorney/ Accountant, 12x18, Full Service, Conference Room, Secretary Space, Private Parking. $1,300/ month. 516-213-2200 LM0512 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

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

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

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 LM1202

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

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 SALE 6060 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

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 4060 SALE 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

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

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

COMMERCIAL / PROPERTIES FOR SALE 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

SWIMMING POOLS

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 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 RW1230

3060

APARTMENTS FOR RENT BROOKLYN

1010

MIDWOOD- Large 3 bedroom apt with eat-in kitchen, living room & 1 bath. Heat & hot water included. $2,000 per month + 1 month’s rent & security deposit. Call Agent 917-567-4665 LM0512 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

8050

MIDDLETOWN/ RED BANK. Professional Office Suite in Bank Bldg at 75 Hwy 35 North, 1st floor, 650 sq ft. 732-741-3313 LM1223

BROOKLYN

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

FISHKILL. 10 Bay Building on Route 9, Close to I-84, ONE UNIT, 1600 sq ft. Garage Door Back, Store Fronts 12’W x 14’H, Garage Doors, 18’ High Ceilings, Three Phase Electric. Diesel Mechanic, Auto Mechanic, Plumbers, Carpenters, Electricians, All Trades Welcome! Nick 914-755-4544 LM0526 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

OUT OF STATE

AVE Y near Ocean Pkwy. 2 BR apt, new kit/applncs, terrace, 2nd ﬂr. Move in cond. 718-9743884, 347-574-1814 CB0127 Midwood For rent studio (also can be used for office) 2,3,4 Bedrooms Apts Call 718.376.4444

MANHATTAN

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 8060

TOMS RIVER. Ocean County Business Park Commercial Condo. Rt. 9, 900 sq ft. Asking $115,000. Call Owner 732-300-6878 LM0505

2010

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

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6010

EAST HAMPTON SPRINGS. Beautiful, clean contemporary. 3.5 miles from town. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, fireplace, multiple decks, outdoor shower. 7/1- Labor Day, $18,000; July- $9,000; August- $10,000. 212-7777229 or 917-273-5142 LM0609 COMMACK. Rent 2 rooms. 1 Large Bedroom, 1 Sitting Room & Private Bath. No smoking, no pets. Private. 631-864-3015 LM0407 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

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 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 LONG ISLAND CONDO FOR SALE

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

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

HOUSES FOR RENT

3020

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 JEFFERSON VILLAGE/ YORKTOWN FOR SALE. 1BR and 2BR Condos in Jefferson Village Senior Complex. Totally renovated, new kitchen & bath, new doors and trim, new windows. Still time to pick some interior items. Call for showing. 914-760-3763 LM0512 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.

BROOKLYN

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

1030

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

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

OUT OF STATE

8030

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

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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1040

GRAVESEND (PRIME). 2 family, 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

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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)

BRONX

4040

* NE Bronx Residential Area * 3 BR Duplex, lg rms., ﬁn bsmt, 2 complete mod bths, lg fenced bkyd, Mod Kit, garage + driveway. Priced to sell! Call owner 718-882-4665 MK0220

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. All new appliances. Nr. shul. 917-453-6926. HS0729

LONG ISLAND

6040

SOUTHAMPTON. 50 Inlet Rd. East. Architectural Designed home, 10 Kilowatt solar system and Geo Thermal Heating & A/C, 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths. Master suite with balcony, rooftop patio. Breathtaking views overlooking Cold Spring Pond and The Great Peconic Bay. Asking $1,199,888. Cindy Manzolillo, CBR. Century 21 AA Realty Cell- 516-236-6962 Http://www. CindyMcentury21aa.com LM0609

FOR SALE • ORLANDO VICINITY

782145

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

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

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.

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 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

NEW YORK STATE

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 914-403-1243 LM0414

OUT OF STATE

8040

OCEAN, NJ. 5/ 6 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, living room, dining room, family room, open ﬂoor plan, full basement, $529,000. 2806 Logan Rd. Ocean, NJ 07712. For more info. SUMMIT REALTY SERVICES 732-918-9008/ 732-778-0894 LM0609 BRICK, NJ. Ranch Home. $265K. 3BR, 2 Baths, Kitchen with Stainless Steel Appliances, Den/ Dining Room, Living Room, Fenced Yard, 100 x 100 Corner Lot. In-ground Pool. MAKE AN OFFER! PreApproved Serious Buyers Only. For Sale By Owner. 908-278-9006 LM0505 BRICK, NJ. 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 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

9080

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

PLOTS FOR SALE

9065

BETH DAVID CEMETERY. Elmont, NY. 1 plot, 6 graves.

BETH ISRAEL IN WOODBRIDGE, NJ. Outdoor Mausoleum, Crypt for 3, Building 23, Section 21, Level 4, Crypt # 38. Valued at $20,000. Asking $15,000 neg. Call 917-445-5293 or 718-894-7728 LM0526 PINELAWN- Gladiola Ct. Mausoleum. 1 Crypt/ 2 Entombments, $11,900. Row 438/ Tier A, 1st level. 704-660-6408 or 704-798-9232 LM0512

Plot 2013, Section 4, Path 9. Asking $18,000 neg. Call 516-840-4756

LM0602

HOLMDEL, NJ. Hillside Crypt for 2.Valued at $12,000. Asking $9,000 or best oﬀer. Please Call 732-718-6965

LM0526

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

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

Mill Basin Exclusive: Semi attached 1 family 6.5 room 3 Bedrooms, 2 Bath duplex. Full ﬁnished basement. Parking.. ASKING $569,000 JS511 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

7040

CARMEL/ KENT. $450,000. You must see this beautiful property for sale by owner. 2 newly renovated farm houses on 11.5 acres in a beautiful setting. The main house has 3BR’s with 2 jacuzzis, 2nd house has 2BRs & 1 bath. Financing available for persons with good credit. OPEN HOUSE is on Saturdays & Sundays (1152 -1154 Peekskill Hollow Road, Carmel, NY.) Located in the town of Kent, in a good school district. It’s time to move to Florida. For more information, Call Mike 914-774-2121 LM0602 MONSEY, NY. Price reduction! Only $429,900 for a single family of 4 bedrooms, 2 ½ baths, living/ dining room, family room, 1 car garage and an extra room with separate entrance. Large property. Low taxes. Close to Shuls. Michal Jacobi 845-548-1942 LM0428

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