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Tensions Rise in J’slm as Waqf Says Removal of Metal Detectors Will Not End Standoff

Workers dismantle metal detectors early Tuesday outside Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City. Palestinians and Arab MKs declared ‘victory’ Tuesday as Israel reversed security measures at the Temple Mount, and said their struggle for control over the compound also extends to the Western Wall.

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alestinians and Arab MKs declared ‘victory’ Tuesday as Israel reversed security measures at the Temple Mount, and said their struggle for control over the compound also extends to the Western Wall.

MK Taleb Abu Arar (Joint List) stressed that “Jews have no rights at al-Aqsa Mosque,” and added that Muslims’ fight against Israel would continue, regardless of the cabinet decision to remove metal detectors from the entrances to the Temple Mount compound.

“This is a proven fact, [even if] some people are trying to re-write history in order to strengthen their

mistaken claim to legitimacy over al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as to the occupied al-Buraq Wall (the Western Wall), which Muslims demand to be returned to our sovereignty.”

MK Masud Ganaim (Joint List) said the decision to remove the metal detectors, placed at the site following the murder of two policemen on July 14, was a “victory for the Palestinian public’s struggle and the demonstrations.

“It was a victory for the steadfast religious leadership and a victory for the political leadership in Jerusalem,” Ganaim said.

Ganaim’s declaration of victory closely matched views on the street in Palestinian cities in Judea and Samaria.

One resident of a refugee camp south of Jerusalem told Tazpit Press Service

(TPS) that Arabic-language traditional and social media were abuzz with the “triumph” over Israel.

“It was a victory for the steadfast religious leadership and a victory for the political leadership in Jerusalem,” Ganaim said.

“In general, and as I see in the Palestinian news and social media, Palestinians consider it as a triumph,” said the individual, who spoke to TPS on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals for “collaborating” by speaking to an Israeli media outlet. “The Israeli government changed its mind about

the magnetometers and metal detectors after a huge popular pressure represented by the refusal of using them to get into al-Aqsa.”

Another source, from a different region of Judea and Samaria, added that many Palestinians were angry at Jordan for agreeing to negotiate with Israel following the attack on the Israeli embassy , which he called “the killing of the Jordanian man at the Israeli embassy.” He also said that Palestinian society has been rife with conspiracy theories over the metal detectors since the crisis first surfaced.

“People saw the magnetometers as the beginning of Jewish dominance of al-Aqsa,” said the second source, who also spoke on condition of anonymity. They also spread rumors

about the cameras themselves, saying they would show the Muslims as fully naked, and that Jews would then see Muslim women nude.

“Unfortunately,” said the first man, who added that he enjoys close relationships with Israelis, including settlers, “the Israeli message to Israeli society over all this is to understand the bitter truth: The Palestinians, the Arabs and Muslims will not accept the concept of sharing the Temple Mount between both Muslims and Jews.

Jerusalem Mufti Mohammed Hussein said in a statement that Islamic officials would not consider the issue closed until Muslims had the right to

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After Subway Fire, MTA’s Lhota Blasts De Blasio’s Remarks as “Incendiary” By: Menachem Rephun

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omments by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio this week defending the right of New Yorkers to eat on the subway were criticized as “incendiary” by MTA chairman Joe Lhota.

“I’m in charge with trying to find ways to make the subway system more efficient, faster, cleaner and more responsive,” Lhota, who unsuccessfully campaigned against de Blasio for mayor in 2013, said, according to the New York Post. “You would think the mayor would

“I’m in charge with trying to find ways to make the subway system more efficient, faster, cleaner and more responsive,”

be supportive in those efforts.”

Undercutting Lhota’s proposed ban this week on eating on the subway, de Blasio said he believes that such a move would be unfair to commuters.

“From 1979 to 1999, I did not own a car and almost exclusively got around by subway,” the mayor said. “It would have been in those years inconceivable not to be able to eat on the subway.”

While he sympathized with hungry commuters, de Blasio acknowledged that “we need to encourage people to not be sloppy when they’re on the subway, but I can’t imagine personally the idea of people not being allowed to eat on the subway in a place as busy as this.”

Lhota, who was confirmed as MTA chairman in 2012 and returned to the position in 2017, took umbrage at this suggestion, emphasizing the need for cleanliness on New York

“I’m in charge with trying to find ways to make the subway system more efficient, faster, cleaner and more responsive,” Lhota, who unsuccessfully campaigned against de Blasio for mayor in 2013, said, according to the New York Post. “You would think the mayor would be supportive in those efforts.”

While he sympathized with hungry commuters, de Blasio acknowledged that “we need to encourage people to not be sloppy when they’re on the subway, but I can’t imagine personally the idea of people not being allowed to eat on the subway in a place as busy as this.”

subways.

“It’s nice to hear from the mayor, but it doesn’t help to be so incendiary in his advice,” Lhota told the New York Post after de Blasio’s remarks. “Everyone has a right to be on a clean subway.”

Lhota’s proposed ban is intended to prevent track fires, one of which occurred in Harlem Monday as a result of garbage on the tracks.

“I want to get to the point where we have no fires in the system,” Lhota told the New York Post following the incident. “These fires all start with trash being thrown down there.

We need to stop throwing trash on the tracks.”

At a news conference Tuesday, Lhota noted that he had seen garbage strewn on the trains himself.

“Just recently I was on a train … the number 2 train and

“Just recently I was on a train … the number 2 train and someone got on with a Styrofoam thing of Chinese food it looked like,” someone got on with a Styrofoam thing of Chinese food it looked like,” the MTA chairman said, according to AM NY. “There was a lot of rice and other things. Inevitably the rice fell.

It was all over the place. I want to avoid things like that.”

AM NY noted that 844 train delays occurred in April as a result of subway fires. According to Lhota, litter is the culprit behind most, if not all of them.

“These fires all start with trash being thrown down there,” he said. “Newspapers, as well as coffee cups. The goal is no fires.”

Bklyn DA Forum Features Fireworks Between Candidates By: Phoebe Taylor Vuolo

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he Criminal Justice Forum featuring the Brooklyn District Attorney candidates at St. Francis College last week featured fierce debate and a seemingly split audience showcasing just how close the DA primary might be this September.

Brian Vines, host of BRIC TV’s BK Live and BHeard Town Hall moderated the event which featured candidates including the acting DA Eric Gonzalez, Anne Swern, Ama Dwimoh, Marc Fliedner and Vincent Gentile.

The candidates discussed issues ranging from the cash bail system to closing Rikers Island.

“When you think about mass incarceration, when you think about the disproportionate contact among minorities with the criminal justice system,” said Swern. “There is no one, no one in the system, who wields more power than the DA.” The candidates talked “Broken Windows” policing, which

enforces low-level crimes such as turnstile jumping or carrying an open container, and the cash bail system, which many advocates argue is inequitable and puts low-income New Yorkers in jail.

Dwimoh said that “broken windows” policies were “criminalizing being poor,” and argued for “seasoned prosecutors” who had experience. Fliedner called “broken windows” offenses “survival offenses,” and argued that courts should not seek bail “on cases where we’re not seeking jail.”

Gonzales agreed that “when we set bail on people who can’t make bail, we’ve in essence criminalized the fact that they live in poverty.”

He held that he was the only one of the candidates to have changed bail policy to “only ask for bail when necessary.” He also argued that Brooklyn courts ask for the least amount of bail, compared to other counties.

When questions turned towards the issue of wrongful convictions, the debate heated up even more. Before his death in

Pictured From Left Are DA Candidates Marc Fliedner, Anne Swern, Vincent Gentile, Moderator Brian Vines, Acting DA Eric Gonzalez And Candidate Ama Dwimoh. Photo By: Phoebe Taylor Vuolo/KCP

2016, former DA Ken Thompson overturned 22 wrongful convictions with many being carried out by his predecessor Charles Hynes.

“That’s the worst thing you can say about a DA’s office,” said Gentile. “That a DA’s office is convicting innocent people and putting them in jail.”

Though all five of the candidates were eager to align them-

selves with Thompson, each pointed fingers when it came to Hynes, whose office has been accused with misconduct in recent years.

“I’m the only one here that did not go through the Brooklyn DA’s office, that was not part of the management of the DA’s office when those wrongful convictions were happening,” said Gentile, calling Gonzalez “a cre-

ation of Charles Hines.”

Fliedner also went after Gonzalez, accusing him of “a disregard for the rule of law, a lack of respect for victims, and outand-out acts of corruption.” He was met with some applause, but loud booing as well, some audience members calling out “and what about you?”

Swern also argued with Gonzalez over their respective records. She accused Gonzalez of claiming credit for a youth court initiative that her office had begun, and he attacked her for her role in Hynes’s office.

“When you led the office with Charles Hynes, you didn’t get it done,” said Gonzalez. “And you sat quietly when they talked about wrongful convictions, you were the first assistant DA.” The candidates continued to fire back at one another until interrupted by an audience member yelling “Justice for Gurley!” The room went silent, and Vines took the moment to move on to the next question, though calls for “Justice for Gurley” would continue for the next two hours.

“When you think about mass incarceration, when you think about the disproportionate contact among minorities with the criminal justice system,” said Swern.

“There is no one, no one in the system, who wields more power than the DA.” Akai Gurley, 28, was shot

by Police Officer Peter Liang in a stairwell at the Louis Pink Houses in East New York on Nov. 20, 2014. His aunt, Hertensia Petersen, was present in the audience, along with Victoria Davis, the sister of Delrawn Small who was killed by off-duty cop Wayne Isaacs during a roadrage incident in 2016.

“What will you do to ensure officers who kill New Yorkers face justice?” Davis asked the candidates, adding that past district attorneys had communicated sufficiently with victims’ families.

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Brooklyn BP Joins ‘Anti Semitic Bullying’ in Opposing Development By: Hadassah Kalatizadeh

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he Rabsky Group, a developer who been trying to rezone and redevelop 200 Harrison Avenue, can add Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams to its list of opponents. The Williamsburg-based developer has set forth plans to rezone the open land, which was once owned by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, and to create a colossal eight-building complex. The proposed mixed-use buildings would vary in height from 5 to fourteen stories and include a total of 1,146 residential apartments, and 62,800 square feet of retail space in Brooklyn’s Broadway Triangle.

As reported by DNA info on Friday, Adams aligned himself

with the project opposition, sending a letter of disapproval, recommending that the city deny the Rabsky Group's building plans. The project already has more than its fair share of critics, with several community groups protesting the project and disrupting and shutting down public meetings since last fall. Rowdy protesters from groups such as Churches United for Fair Housing, St. Nicks Alliance, Make the Road and Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A, argue that the plan perpetuates segregation in the neighborhood. The Broadway Triangle region, bounded by Broadway, Flushing Avenue and Union Avenue on the border with Bed-Stuy has long been an area infamous for tensions between neighboring Orthodox, Black and Latino communities.

As reported by DNA info on Friday, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams aligned himself with the project opposition, sending a letter of disapproval, recommending that the city deny the Rabsky Group's building plans

Those tensions are now being reignited. "[The project] represents a chance to evaluate the direction of development in Williamsburg and ensure that we are creating opportunities for everyone to afford to raise healthy children and families in this neighborhood," Adams said. "Any rezoning that the City grants must affirm the standard of diverse, not segregated, opportunity.” In his letter Adams sets forth a list of modifications without which he said the project should not be allowed to move forward.

The conditions include: the developer must work with the Department of Transportation on street improvements, earmark funds to fix the Flushing Avenue G train stop, add 24 more affordable apartments, and specify in writing how many

bedrooms the apartments will each have.

Adams’ letter was applauded by Rob Solano, the head of Churches United for Fair Housing, who said he hopes that the project is rejected at "every step of the ULURP process." The group contends that Rabsky Group has not disclosed how many bedrooms each of the 287 affordable apartments in the project will have, and they worry the development may favor large Orthodox Jewish families.

"It will continue the trend of exclusionary housing development in the most segregated neighborhood in our city," said Solano. "This plan is anti-black and anti-Latino and we are appalled that this project is still even being considered."

Rabsky Group has recurrently denied these claims, ar-

guing that the city will run the lottery selecting recipients to its affordable housing. The developers expressed disappointment in Adams for bowing to the "anti-Semitic bullying" by opposing the project. "It is difficult to understand why Borough President Adams, who prides himself on being someone who respects the law and enforces order, is in this case, putting those values aside to go against the most local representatives of the community and follow the lead of people who deploy some of the most thuggish, vitriolic behavior," said Lee Silberstein, a spokesman for the Rabsky Group. “As this process continues to unfold, we hope that the vulgar, hateful, anti-Semitic bullying is condemned, and not the project,” he said.

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Port Authority Holding Off On Plans to Sell Red Hook Container Terminal By: Yosef Delatitsky

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he Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will be putting plans to sell the Red Hook Container Terminal on hold due to political opposition and logistical challenges, according to a Crain’s report Friday. The 80-acre site will be maintained by the Port Authority for another five years, and will begin searching for a new five-year tenant in August. The lease of the terminal’s current operator, Red Hook Container Terminal LLC, expires in September 2018.

“We are working on an RFP that will be issued this summer for a new operator for Red Hook," a Port Authority spokesman told Crain’s. "The International Longshoremen's Association and elected officials are

Red Hook terminal, though the plan was halted due to political opposition In a 2016 report, Degnan said that Port Authority should sell assets such as the One World Trade Center and sites in Staten Island, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.

According to the Real Deal, an anonymous source close to the agency said Degnan was only referring to the Red Hook terminal, and that the agency would not be selling the World Trade Center site.

“A commitment by the Port Authority for continued conThe Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will be putting tainer and barge operations at plans to sell the Red Hook Container Terminal on hold due to the Red Hook Container Terpolitical opposition and logistical challenges minal is great news for Brookaware of this." lar projects such as the Gateway lyn and the region in terms of In the past, Port Authority Tunnel and a $10 billion bus environmental protection, job officials have considered selling terminal in Midtown. In June, creation, resiliency, homeland its non-essential real estate as- Port Authority chairman John security and removing trucks sets in order to fund billion dol- Degnan considered selling the from congested city streets,"

a spokesman for Rep. Jerrold Nadler, who has been critical of selling the Red Hook terminal, told Crain’s.

"All of the elected officials representing the area stand shoulder-to-shoulder as fully supportive of the port's continued critical work."

Speaking to Crain’s, a Port Authority spokesman said that “the pending RFP is not inconsistent with the agency's long-term interest in monetizing the Red Hook Container Terminal.”

Selling the terminal has been criticized by Nadler on the grounds that it would sacrifice jobs provided by the terminal, which Nadler says is beneficial environmentally for allowing cargo to be delivered by ship instead of by truck, cutting down on pollution.

Delays on Staten Island NY Wheel may be Devastating for EB-5 Investors

By Ilana Siyance

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ew York Wheel, the long awaited Staten Island attraction, faces yet another major impediment. Last week, the project’s developer fired its design and construction team, Mammoet-Starneth, delaying the project indefinitely. The developers are now searching for other contractors to complete the project.

The developer claims Mammoet failed “to meet multiple design and construction deadlines,” the Staten Island Advance reported. The delays have reportedly cost $16 million in damages and $20 million in lost profits. As per court filings, the New York Wheel has withdrawn its request for injunctive relief and a mandate that Mammoet keep working on the project.

from 429 EB-5 investors from regional center Canam Enterprises. Those loans mature in February 2021.

As reported by The Real Deal, experts say that the visas promised to the investors could be threatened, with investors facing deportation if the wheel doesn’t get back on track fast.

“This is potentially a disaster for the investors,” said Jim Butler, a lawyer for Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, who represents developers on EB-5 issues. EB-5 investors generally receive temporary visas after New York Wheel, the long awaited Staten Island attraction, their money is put in escrow. faces yet another major impediment. Last week, the project’s Two years later, in order to redeveloper fired its design and construction team, Mammoetceive the permanent visas, they Starneth, delaying the project indefinitely must show that the project has The delays will not only Rich Marin, who is a former been completed and the jobs impact Ferris wheel fans, but Bear Stearns executive, Eric have been created.

The wheel was expected to may prove devastating for its Kaufman, Meir Laufer, Jay financiers, particularly EB-5 Anderson, Lloyd Goldman create 5,844 jobs, and if the jobs investors. Project investors in- and Joseph Nakash. Another do not actualize, given all the clude New York Wheel CEO $206 million in funding comes delays, it is doubtful that the in-

vestors will receive their green cards and be permitted to stay in the country. “If their jobs are not created, that’s the end of the story,” Butler said. “It’s not like horseshoes, in that it’s close, and you tried, and it was good faith, and it didn’t work out.

The jobs must be created.” Butler expects there to be lawsuits from the EB-5 investors.

The project was introduced back in 2011. Enthusiasts were optimistic that building the world’s largest Ferris wheel, was a great way to spur tourism and projected that the revenue would even top that of the Empire State Building. The initial projected cost of building the 630-foot-tall wheel was $250 million. However, the project has been continuously inundated by infighting and rising costs, with the price tag escalating to about $600 million.

De Blasio: ‘New York Has Used the MTA as a Piggy Bank’

By Charles Bernstein

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ride on the F train on Sunday, July 23, was used by Mayor Bill de Blasio respond to Governor Andrew Cuomo and the MTA’s criticisms that City Hall has failed to keep the subway system in good working order, and he vowed to not give more funding for capital improvements.

De Blasio insisted that the public transit system’s “state of emergency” as Cuomo recently declared, was “not about the MTA needing more money.”

Also, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was accused by the mayor of not spending its capital budget.

As de Blasio stood with his wife First Lady Chirlane McCray, he told reporters, “The state of New York has used the MTA as

On Sunday, July 23, Mayor Bill de Blasio used his ride on the subway to fire back at criticisms from Governor Cuomo and the MTA.

a piggy bank.”

De Blasio was blamed last week by both Cuomo and MTA Chairman Joe Lhota for not using the over $4 billion budget

surplus to fix the underground subway system.

On Thursday, July 20, Lhota said, “They own it, they lease it, it’s their responsibility to fund it.”

MTA Chairman Joe Lhota says City Hall should do more to fix the subway system.

According to The Post, “City Hall responded by claiming that its pledge to fund $2.5 billion of the MTA’s current fiveyear, $32.5 billion capital plan was ‘unprecedented’ and ‘far in

excess of any legal obligation.’

Lhota has said he will ask the city for additional cash once he finalizes a 30-day review of the subway crisis by the end of this week.”

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1K NYC School Bus Drivers Were Disciplined for Misbehavior in 2015

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Lawyers Say Williamsburg Man Convicted in Student Assault was a ‘Scapegoat’

By Hannah Hayes

By: Anat Ghelber

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n 2015, just under 1,000 drivers and escorts of New York City school buses were fired or suspended for misbehaviors. Records show that this shocking number has increased significantly in recent years.

According to The Post, “One driver was seen dropping his pants outside a school, twice in one day. Another urinated in a bottle on a bus with a child aboard because he had a ‘bladder and bowel condition.’ One carried Coors Light; another reeked of pot. One denied dozing at the wheel but was caught on video by frightened attendants.”

760 drivers and 185 escorts have been listed as being disciplined by the city’s Department of Education (DOE). Even more troublesome, the majority were permitted to return to work after a short suspension, from a few days to six months, without pay.

186 cases, according to the DOE, involved harming or endangering children, with offenses including reckless driving, leaving kids alone or dropping them off with strangers or no one to attend to them at all. In one recent case, a child went missing the entire night after getting off a bus, to turn up at Kings County Hospital the following morning.

Just a mere 23 drivers and only seven escorts were fired, while a few others were arrested for DWI

In 2015, just under 1,000 drivers and escorts of New York City school buses were fired or suspended for misbehaviors.

or other crimes.

One escort had grabbed a child by the head and “began to shake it back and forth.” Another failed to stop a student from forcing another to perform oral sex.

While yet another kicked a special-ed student, calling the child a “motherf–ker.”

The city spends $1.1 billion each year on contracts with bus companies to transport 150,000 students to and from schools.

Around 12,000 drivers, escorts and mechanics are employed by the companies, while the investigation of complaints and disciplinary actions are the responsibility of the DOE’s Office of Pupil Transportation.

It took 20 months and a lawsuit by The Post under the Freedom of Information Law for the

DOE to release the 2015 disciplinary records.

According to The Post, horror stories in the records include:  “Getting lost: One driver rode around for four hours without notifying anyone. The kids on the bus were found “sweating, dehydrated and begging for water.” He was suspended nine days.  Injuries: A driver left a child at the bus stop bleeding from the head. His shocked parent took him to the hospital for stitches.

The driver was fired.  Wild rides: A scared student called his parents to report the bus “driving crazy.” A sharp turn threw kids out of their seats, including one who tumbled out a back door. Kids suffered back See 1K NYC School Bus , page 37

Bklyn’s Pavilion Theater Being Used to Display Haiku Poems

n December 2013, Taj Patterson, a gay African American fashion student, was assaulted by a group of 15-20 Hasidic Jews. The men chased Mr. Patterson down around Bedford Avenue as he was walking home intoxicated on Flushing Avenue. The attackers, incorrectly, believed that Mr. Patterson was responsible for breaking car mirrors on that street. They proceeded to beat him so severely that he ended up losing sight in one of his eyes. The only man to face trial for the attack was Mayer Herskovic, aged 23, a father of two who works for HVAC. He was convicted three years later in March of assault, unlawful imprisonment, and menacing.

Now, his conviction is being appealed as his lawyers are arguing that the prosecutors in the trial used faulty scientific methods to connect Mr. Herskovic to the crime by saying that his DNA was present. Furthermore, it’s being argued by his attorneys that this was done so to “scapegoat” Mr. Herskovic to help protect members of a Hasidic neighborhood patrol who have political connections.

It’s been reported that police officers with the 90th Precinct in Williamsburg, Brooklyn tried to close the initial case of Mr. Patterson’s assault without any investigation, but reopened it only

By: Jonathan Drexler

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I Haikus can be found on the marquee of the historic Pavillion Cinema. While the theater itself has been temporarily shut down, its marquee is still being used to display the arts, in this case poetry that pays homage to different movies.

film-themed haikus in Spring of this year. As she put it, “It felt like a canvas for poetry.”

Some examples of the type of haikus they have been allowed to display are one that was influenced by the Spike Lee film, “She’s Gotta Have It,” written by Molly Gross: Nola Darling dreams A story in black and white Loving herself first Another haiku was one inspired by the movie “Saturday Night Fever.”

Right down to my blood Fast-footed strut this disco Love these teenage feet The poet of that piece was Diane Mehta.

Yet another was even in-

spired by “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” This haiku was written by Karen Hudes, an editor with Zagat.

Seed from a book not The screen she cracked it open Under the skylight While it’s been enjoyable for the pair of poets to leave haikus on the theaters maquee, it hasn’t been easy. Mr. Pisarra states, “We didn’t know how laborious it would be to put the poems up. We came one morning thinking we were going to take the letters down and put the letters up, and we were here for, like, five hours.” The See Bklyn’s Pavilion Theater , page 37

In December 2013, Taj Patterson, a gay African American fashion student was assaulted by a group of 15-20 Hasidic Jews

after his mother notified the media. New York Police detectives have stated that while attempting to find who was responsible the following Spring in 2014, neighbors in the area were largely uncooperative. But, eventually, after enough witnesses were interviewed, five men were arrested and charged with assaulting Taj Patterson.

Unfortunately, the same witnesses withdrew their statements and legal prosecutors eventually dropped any charges against two suspects, Aharon Hollender and Joseph Fried. A man named Joel Itzkowitz was also named by witnesses, but never faced arrest.

Mayer Herskovic’s lawyer, Donna Aldea, states that she believes this is so because Joel Itzkowitz’s brother is Jacob Itzkowitz. Mr.

Itzkowitz is an organizer with the local Shomrim volunteer police group named the Williamsburg Safety Patrol. She’s said, "I think that it was a case that demanded that somebody be held accountable for what happened to Taj Patterson, and I think Mayer was a sort of easy target to go after.

What I think is striking is that not only is the evidence so weak, in fact, nonexistent against him— the evidence was so much stronger against the people who had their charges dropped or were not charged in the first place.”

The remaining defendants who had been arrested and charged with attacking Mr. Patterson gave pleas of guilty to charges of unlawful imprisonment and were sentenced to community service, as part of a deal with prosecutors.

Taxi King Freidman is Without 800 Medallions & a Law License

By: Anat Ghelber haiku is a Japanese form of poetry composed of three distinct lines. The first and third lines of the poem must have 5 syllables only (called a “mora” or sound) while the second must have seven syllables. While the lines rarely rhyme, creating a haiku is a skill in its own right.

Haikus have been written in books and on chalkboards in classes. Now, they can be found on the marquee of the historic Pavillion Cinema.

While the theater itself has been temporarily shut down, its marquee is still being used to display the arts, in this case poetry that pays homage to different movies.

The displayers of the filmthemed haikus currently decorating the Pavillion Cinemas marquee are locals Molly Gross and her childhood friend Drew Pisarra. Together they are the innovators behind Saint Flashlight (https:// twitter.com/saintflashlight) Molly Gross is 51 years old and grew up in Maryland.

Now, she lives in Park Slope, the same as Mr. Pisarra (who lives only a few blocks from the theater.) The two approached the Pavilion Cinema’s owners about using the theaters marquees to display

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n New York City, taxi driving as a profession was at it’s peak--numerically--at the turn of the 1930’s, during the Great Depression.That is when almost every man was unemployed with their life savings disappearing into thin air--almost all of them turned to using their personal car as a taxi throughout the city; as a means to make money. For some of those who had money left over--but were also unemployed--they even rented cars with the goal of becoming taxi drivers and remaining self sufficient. With the spike of tens of thousands of men now driving around the city and offering their services--with the addition of those who relied on taxi driving as a profession before the Depression. So the city intervened; aiming to keep a balance between the supply and demand for the sake of taxi industry.

New York City made it mandatory at that time that taxi drivers seeking to be recognized as legitimate workers need to purchase a medallion, This medallion is displayed on the windshield of each legal taxi driver and affirms their ability to operate as a business. At the time this method of tracking the profession was instituted; around twelve thousand were made available and went for just over two thousand dollars--and going today for over a million.

Gene Freidman owns approximately 150 medallions and his taxi business has expanded to Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and New Orleans as he tries to rebuild his business and public image after helping Mayor Bill De Blasio fundraise for his campaign

At that time; many of those who lost their self-employment lamented about the greed of the city--seeing that the system benefited by instituting a taxable union.

Fast-forward to 2015, “taxiking” Gene Freidman, a man originally from the former Soviet Union, controlled over 900 medallions in New York City. That was until early that year, while amidst the struggles of a failing marriage and public lawsuits-when 82 of his medallions were frozen by a court ruling in a suit filed by Citibank in an attempt to

accrue money back on an investment into the taxi business with Gene Freidman.

Freidman, who is also licensed to practice law, would ultimately reach a settlement outside of court before neglecting those payments as well until 2016--when he was brought to court again and ordered to pay restitution.

Originally making his way into the news as the small-man taking on the city during the Bloomberg Mayoral trilogy, Freidman battled the city in court for their institution of green cabs. His alleged the city was attempting to bully him by cutting down the value of his medallions in the taxi industry.

Therefore, alleged Freidman, he could not make good on paying back his investors with his business being sabotaged.

After a few more lawsuits in the public eye and filing for bankruptcy as a means to protect his remaining medallions and licenses from being seized, Freidman now believes that Uber is competitively good for what remains of his medallion monopoly.

Present day New York City, Gene Freidman owns approximately 150 medallions and his taxi business has expanded to Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and New Orleans as he tries to rebuild his business and public image after helping Mayor Bill De Blasio fundraise for his campaign.

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After 30 Years, Work Begins on Kabbalah Centre in NY to Purchase Redeveloping Historic Flushing Theater Fine Arts Building for $60M

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fter decades of multiple owners and failed attempts at development, work has begun by Xinyuan Real Estate on a condo project in Flushing, Queens, that will be constructed around the partially landmark historic building RKO Keith’s Theater.

According to permits filed with the Department of buildings, Gilbane Building Co. has been chosen to be the contractor by the Chinese company, which just finished work on the Oosten, a condo project along the Brooklyn waterfront.

Crain’s reports, “Xinyuan said that the project is moving forward on schedule, which according to documents submitted to the Landmarks Preservation Commission this spring, indicates that it is safeguarding and preserving the landmarked portions of the theater, which include the grand foyer and ticketing lobby. It then plans to shore up parts of the foundation supporting these areas before razing the rest of the building sometime this fall. The company is aiming to complete the project in 2020.”

In May, the commission granted Xinyuan approval on its plans to build 269 condos, ground-floor retail and community space on a site that the company bought for $66 million last August.

Since becoming a landmark in 1984, the theater has had seven different owners, all of

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his week, the Kabbalah Centre International entered a contract to purchase the Fine Arts Building at 232 East 59th Street between Midtown’s 2nd and 3rd Avenues. As reported

by The Real Deal, the seven-story, 58,000-square-foot property will be acquired from a group of Greek hedge funders for approximately $60 million, which is more than $1,000 per square foot. The deal is slated to close within three months.

The global nonprofit organiRendering of the site of RKO Keith's Theater. (Photo Credit: zation which offers Jewish mysCourtesy of LPC) ticism classes would not move into the building, at least not initially. The building is mostly being leased out by architecture and design firms. Current tenants include Bennison Fabrics, the Chinese Porcelain Company, Michael Dawkins Home Décor, and Gerald Bland. Presently asking rents in the building stand out $75 per square foot. Its 12 showrooms each average 8,600 square feet. Property records show that the Greek hedge funders purchased the building in 2013, for $34 million from the Battaglia Looking north across Northern Boulevard from Main Street at family. The cast-iron property Flushing RKO Keith’s Theater. (Photo Credit: Wikipedia) was built in the early 1900s as which had plans to construct the city issued its most recent a Former Bloomingdales stable hotels or condos, despite pro- permit on June 29, it stopped house. In 1962, it was converted test from preservationist who work on the site the same day to showrooms. wanted the theater restored. after inspectors discovered However, none of the plans the site safety manager and ever came to fruition and each site safety plan were not at the owner ended up selling the site property. An additional inspection is needed to resume work, instead.

According to Crain’s, “While the city said.”

Sephora to Lease Huge Times Square Store By: Ilana Siyance

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ephora is moving its Times Square location to a sprawling 18,000 square foot space. As reported by the Real Deal, the French makeup and beauty chain founded in 1969, has signed a lease with Vornado Realty Trust for 6,000 square feet on the ground floor and another 12,000 square feet on the lower level of 1535 Broadway. Vornado has a 20-year lease for 45,000 square feet of retail at the base of the renowned 49-story Marriott Marquis hotel. The price and terms of Sephora’s lease have not yet been disclosed. Sephora might have snagged a deal, as average retail rental prices have declined 18 percent this year in the area. As per the Real Estate Board of New York’s spring retail report, the average asking rentals for ground space are $1,930 per square foot, for the area on Broadway and Seventh Avenue between West 42nd and West 47th streets, which is illustriously known as the Times Square “bow tie”.

Vornado attained the retail space in 2012, from Maryland-based Host Hotels for a total of $213.2 million. In 2015, Vor-

Sephora is moving its Times Square location to a sprawling 18,000 square foot space.

nado leased 4,000 square feet of the ground floor space to T-Mobile with a starting rent of about $2,000 per square foot, or roughly $8 million. The cellphone retailer also took on the LED signage above the store for an additional $5 million. Shortly after, Laline, an Israeli bath-and-body shop, leased another 640 square feet of the prime retail space.

As per The Real Deal, Sephora will relocate from its current Times Square store at 1500 Broadway on 43rd street. That Tamares Group location, subleased with the Walt Disney Company, is only 3,000 square

feet and the lease expires in about two years. Sephora has other nearby NYC locations which it plans to keep. Among them is the three story flagship store at the Ernst & Young building, at 5 Times Square, between 41st and 42nd streets. The asking rent there was over $4.5 million annually for the 13,000 square foot store.

Sephora and Vornado representatives did not respond to requests for comment. Virginia Pittarelli at Crown Retail Services, who reportedly negotiated the deal on Sephora’s behalf, declined to comment.

This week, the Kabbalah Centre International entered a contract to purchase the Fine Arts Building at 232 East 59th Street between Midtown’s 2nd and 3rd Avenues

The Fine Arts Building in Manhattan

The Los Angeles based Kabbalah Centre, founded in 1922, has locations in more than 40 cities.

Among them, it owns the six-story, 21,400-square-foot building at 153-155 East 48th Street in, which it occupies and utilizes as its Manhattan learning center.

Representatives from the Kabbalah Centre and the previous owners did not reply to requests for comment. Colliers team of brokers, who are handling the sale, led by Richard Baxter, Stephen Shapiro and Jason Gold declined to comment.

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Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Bill Entrepreneur Elon Musk Plans Ackman Purchases $9M Beresford Unit “Hyperloop” From NY to Washington By: David Koppel

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ill Ackman, an American investor and hedge fund manager best known as the founder and CEO of the $10.8 billion hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, has purchased a $9 million unit at the Beresford, a luxury “pre-war” war apartment in NYC. According to a report Friday

by LLNYC, the purchase of the unit is the fifth for Ackman, who has lived in the 23-floor apartment since 2006. That year, he and then-wife Karen Herskovitz paid 26 $ million for apartments on the 17th and 18th floors. In June, Ackman, 51, purchased an eighth-floor unit in the apartment for $13.5 million, and another co-op for $8.578 million. According to Mansion Global, Ackman purchased the apartments in order to be closer to his three children, who live in the Beresford apartment.

Ackman is currently involved in a lawsuit filed against himself and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International over the latter’s attempt to take over Allergan Inc., a Botox-manufacturer, in 2014. Despite Allergan CEO David Pyott making clear to Valeant that he wasn’t interested in a merger, Ackman allegedly signed an agreement with Valiant to pressure Allergan into ac-

Bill Ackman, an American investor and hedge fund manager best known as the founder and CEO of the $10.8 billion hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, has purchased a $9 million unit at the Beresford, a luxury “pre-war” war apartment in NYC.

cepting the merger. Ackman’s hedge fund, Pershing Square, allegedly buying Allergan’s shares 9.7% of the company’s stock was accumulated ($3.2 billion). The partnership between Valeant and Pershing was unprecedented in being the first partnership between a major corporation and an activist hedge fund to buy out a rival company, as the New York Times noted in 2014.

In its 2014 report, the NY Times noted that Ackman scored a victory by acquiring $2.6 billion from selling his hedge fund’s 28.9 million shares in Allergan.

In less dramatic news, Ackman recently sent his first-ever tweet featuring a photo of him-

self eating Savor Wavs chipotle in Manhattan (Ackman is one of Chipotle’s largest shareholders). By patronizing the restaurant, Ackman made clear that he wasn’t afraid of a Norovirus outbreak this month at a Chipotle in Virginia. Reports of the outbreak resulted in a massive drop in Chipotle’s stocks, according to Fortune.com.

As for Ackman’s latest purchase at Beresford, LLNYC noted that the unit is unlisted, though it is believed to have been owned by the late Edith Rudolph, with her husband William Rudolph serving as executor. The report noted that Ackman has purchased other $multi-million properties in the New York area.

lon Musk, the billionaire innovator and entrepreneur known for the SpaceX program, Paypal, and others, claimed Thursday to have received “verbal” permission from the U.S. government to create a super-high speed underground rail system that could take passengers from New York to Washington in less than half an hour.

“Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NYPhil-Balt-DC Hyperloop," Musk tweeted Thursday. “If you want this to happen fast, please let your local & federal elected representatives know. Makes a big difference if they hear from you.”

Ever the visionary, Musk appeared to have been laying the groundwork for this plan several months ago, when he formed the Boring Company, whose purpose is to create enhanced tunnel-boring equipment needed to enable a massive project like the Hyperloop.

Following the intense response to his Hyperloop tweets Thursday, Musk clarified via Twitter that there was “still a lot of work needed to receive formal approval,” but said he was “optimistic that will occur rapidly.”

According to an NPR report this week, Musk said that if completed, the hyperloop would feature stations with “up to a dozen

Sprint Opens Mock Verizon Shop Called "Twice the Price" in Queens

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I Sprint’s Twice the Price store is also located directly next to an authorized retailer of Verizon.

A screenshot from the “promo film” on YouTube for the Twice the Price store.

September 30th, 2018 where it ond, then $30 / month for the rejumps up to $60 / month for the first line, $40 / month for the sec- See Sprint Open Mock-Verizon , page 37

or more entry/exit elevators in each city."

While the prospect of shortening the more than four-hour train commute from New York to Washington to a mere half hour will certainly appeal to many, some experts have thrown cold water on the project, voicing reservations about the logistics and expense of such a massive undertaking. In the blunt words of Institute of Transportation Studies associate director Madeline

JetBlue Seeks Partners to Build New JFK Terminal

By Hannah Hayes print set up a store mocking Verizon’s prices by calling itself Twice the Price.

A video, which the company is calling a “promo film,” was also released by Sprint and it is a parody on a retro car salesman-type TV commercial, including cheap graphics and a catchy jingle. The video can be seen on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=VMfkM3DyHhc. Twice the Price has been set up in a Queens neighborhood mainly made up of immigrants, which is clear by the diversity represented in the video. Although Sprint labels the store as its Flushing, New York location, it is actually located in Maspeth on Grand Avenue.

The Twice the Price store is also located directly next to an authorized retailer of Verizon and was only operating for one day. The store contained random products, like toilet paper and motor oil, all with price tags double what the products would normally cost.

According to an article on theverge.com, “Politics aside, if you are interested in partaking in this deal, for now Sprint is offering up to four lines for $22.50 per month per line, with the fifth line free. That’s only good until

Elon Musk, the billionaire innovator and entrepreneur known for the SpaceX program, Paypal, and others, claimed to have received “verbal” permission from the U.S. government to create a super-high speed underground rail system that could take passengers from New York to Washington in less than half an hour.

Brozen, the costs of the project would be “incomprehensible.”

According to NPR, Brozen noted that underground projects are more costly. Brozen compared the Hyperloop to a California-based high-speed rail project which is expected between $7 and $10 billion. Putting things in perspective, Musk’s hyperloop would travel five times the speed of the California rail project.

“It’s quite easy to draw up enthusiasm for a project in 140 characters when you have 10 million followers on Twitter," Brozen said, according to USA Today.

"It’s a very different ball game when you’re trying to bring a mega-project to fruition."

Musk, whose other ambitious projects include the electric car company Tesla and a brain-computer interface called Neuralink (still in its infancy), appears to be undeterred by the skepticism.

In December of last year, Musk tweeted that “traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging.” A few hours later, Musk made clear that this was more than a passing whim, tweeting “I am actually going to do this.”

If nothing else, Musk has proven that he one of the hallmark qualities of any great inventor: the ability to approach problems from an unorthodox angle, and ask “what if?” Whether that “what if ” can overcome practical and logistical challenges, we shall soon see.

nvestors and developers are being sought out by JetBlue Airways Corp. to assist in the construction of a new Terminal 6 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York. The project is also considering an expansion that would include a second facility.

Exclusive rights are held by JetBlue to develop the site where Terminal 6 sat in JFK before it was removed. In a statement by the New York-based airline on Friday, July 21, it was announced that the replacement of the 1972 constructed Terminal 7 may also be part of this project.

In an interview, Chief Financial Officer Steve Priest said, “It’s prime real estate in a very congested airport. It’s got the potential to have great value for JetBlue, our customers and our shareholders.”

Bloomberg reports, “The carrier, which opened a new Terminal 5 at the airport in 2008, would lead the project, fitting in with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s $10 billion plan to expand or redevelop JFK’s facilities, add new security technology and improve road and rail access to the airport.

Last year, a public-private partnership started rebuilding the central terminal at LaGuardia

JetBlue’s Terminal 5 at JFK airport added an international extension in 2014.

Airport, also in New York. JFK is the busiest airport in the New York City area and ranks fifth in North America, with more than 56.8 million passengers a year, according to Airports Council International. JetBlue’s overseas destinations from New York include cities in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.”

Priest said, the it is still too early to provide specific project details, such as the cost of the project, terminal size, number of gates and number of JetBlue occupied gates. By the mid-2020s the new terminal is expected to be open, and Priest plans to officially request proposals before the end of the year. He said that because of the partnership, JetBlue shouldn’t need to allot “an

expansive amount of capital” to the project.

Regarding the possibility of an expansion, he said that it has not been decided whether or not JetBlue will expand their flights to travel across the Atlantic. According to Bloomberg, “the airline has said it sees Europe ‘as a great opportunity’ and holds the right to switch some planes ordered from Airbus Group SE to a version that would make such service possible.”

Priest said, “The one thing JetBlue is doing here is securing our future for the long term and making sure we have an avenue to grow. This enables us to think about long-term growth.”

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Restaurants Leaving Union Square NY Landlord Closes $35M Deal on 8 Area Due to Rent Increase Bldg; Multi-Family Package in the Bronx By: Asher Schlesinger

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s a result of gentrification and increasing rents in New York’s Union Square area, many restaurants are taking their business elsewhere. In a report Friday, Bloomberg noted several restaurants which have made the move, including Danny Meyer’s Union Square Café, which relocated in 2015 due to the skyrocketing rent, and one of the latest casualties, Republic, a noodle shop opened in Union Square West 22 years ago.

“The rent was relatively inexpensive for what it was,” Jonathan Morr, the restaurant’s founder, told Bloomberg in reference to its then-yearly rent of $22,000. “But remember, when I opened, Union Square was very different than it is today. There was very little there along with the drugs in the park. At the time we were taking a risk.”

In a May 2016 report, the Huffington Post noted skyrocketing rent in the New York area due to gentrification. The article cited the annual State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods report, which found that problems such as increasing rent and stagnating income were “magnified in the city’s gentrifying neighborhoods.” Per example, the HP report noted that rent in Brooklyn’s gentrifying Williamsburg and Green-

Danny Meyer’s Union Square Café

point neighborhoods have increased a whopping 79 percent since 2000. Citywide, rents have increased 2% between 1990 and 2000, the report noted, with most of that percentage focused in gentrifying neighborhoods.

Over 60 percent of those moving into gentrifying neighborhoods between 2010 and 2014 were millennials between the ages of 20 and 34, the report said.

In its report Friday, Bloomberg noted that Meyer’s Union Sqaure Café, a beloved fixture of the neighborhood, was forced to relocate due to a fivefold increase in rent over the past three years (the restaurant’s initial rent in 1985 was $4,500 a month).

The report cited LB Realty Services principal Leslie Siben, who warned that the growing

loss of restaurants in the Union Square area could create a “food desert.” Referring to Union Square West’s Blue Water Grill, a space now being marketed to tenants for upwards of $2 million, Siben noted that “no normal restaurateur with any experience would touch that as it is now.”

In its report, Bloomberg cited Stephen Sunderland, the senior managing director of NY tenant broker Optimal Space, who weighed in on the dilemma.

“When rents go up, it makes the viability of restaurants harder,” Sunderland explained to the news outlet. “You have to think of restaurants as artists, or neighborhood pioneers. They come into a neighborhood, it becomes hip, and that’s the source of their demise. They create the trends that undo them.”

ichael Rubin, a landlord in Long Island, has acquired a $35 million eight-building multi-family package in the Bronx, according to a Real Deal report Friday. The deal is significant in being the third time the properties have been traded in the past five years.

The properties, which consist of 226 units, two buildings in Marble Hill, and six in the Bronx, were sold to Rubin by Brooklyn-based investors Paradise Management. According to the Real Deal, the firm has an address at 199 Lee Avenue in Williamsburg, a location noteworthy for having the mailboxes of hundreds of Orthodox landlords which are used to collect rent checks and disguise the identities of some NY property owners.

The Real Deal also noted that since 1973, over 1,000 LLCs have been registered at the enigmatic location.

The deal between Rubin and Paradise Management, which closed this month for approximately $155,000 per unit, was mediated by Steven Vegh, the founder of New York-based real estate firm Westwood Realty Associates. In a profile of Vegh, the Real Deal noted that, despite being his firm’s only broker, Vegh closed over $1.5 billion in sales

The deal between Rubin and Paradise Management, which closed this month for approximately $155,000 per unit, was mediated by Steven Vegh, (pictured above) the founder of New York-based real estate firm Westwood Realty Associates

during the company’s first two years in operation (Vegh founded the company in 2012). In March, Vegh purchased a 222-unit rental building in the Bronx for roughly $38 billion. The eight-story property was sold to Vegh by Brooklyn landlord Benzion Kohn.

According to the Real Deal, the Bronx buildings which have now been purchased by Rubin through the deal facilitated by Vegh are located at 2322 Grand Avenue in University Heights, 41 West 84TH Street, 2291 University Avenue, 1986 Topping Avenue in Mount Hope, and Grand Avenue in Morris Heights, while the Marble Hill properties are located at 151 and 159 West 228th Street, respectively.

In addition to his properties in the Bronx, Rubin owns real estate in other boroughs, selling two Bronx buildings for a total of $14.5 million in January 2017.

On his website, Rubin bills himself as “one of New York’s top downtown agents,” noting that he has been “ranked as one of the leading agents for both sellers and buyers in the Chelsea, Flatiron and Gramercy areas based on total number of transactions and percentage over ask on StreetEasy.”

According to the site, Rubin’s past experience includes working as a senior account manager for a Manhattan-based specialty sales firm.

Brooklyn Investment-Sales Market Struggles in 2017 By: Mendel Asimov

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he Brooklyn investment-sales market wasn’t at its best during the first half of 2017.

According to an Ariel Property Advisers report cited by the Real Deal Friday, 570 transactions took place during the first six months of this year, while 756 properties changed hands with a total of $3.58 billion.

“Make no bones about it, the investment sales market struggled in the first half of the year, particularly during the first quarter,” Jonathan Berman, a director in the Investment Sales Division of Ariel Property Advisers, acknowledged in a statement, according to the Real Deal. “Having said that, activity noticeably bounced back during the latter part of the second quarter, indicating the market may have bottomed.”

In its report, the Real Deal noted discouraging signs for the investment-sales market this year, including a 20% decrease in transaction volume, a 16% drop in property volume, and a 7% decline dollar volume. Ariel Property Advisers attributes the struggling market to increased operating expenses and interest rates.

“Make no bones about it, the investment sales market struggled in the first half of the year, particularly during the first quarter,” Jonathan Berman, a director in the Investment Sales Division of Ariel Property Advisers, acknowledged in a statement, according to the Real Deal.

In a July 2016 report, the news outlet noted that investment sales volume decreased in the first half of that year. Citing a report at the time by brokerage TerraCRG, the Real Deal reported that approximately $3.62 billion worth of commercial property deals were closed in Brooklyn through the end of

June 2016, representing a 30% decrease from June of 2015.

At the time, TerraCRG CEO Ofer Cohen described 2015 as “a crazy year. We’re basically going back to more normal levels.”

Some, such as TerraCRG partner Adam Hess, predicted an increase in 2017 based on the market’s success at the end of last year.

“A lot of people didn’t know what was happening last year.

People sat on their hands the first half of the year," Hess told Forbes’ Bisnow section in January. "In the second half, we saw significant pickup, and what I’m seeing is people are optimistic that the overall business environment is going to improve this year and the next couple of years."

At the time, Cohen was also optimistic about the market’s prospects in 2017. In January, Cohen told the Real Deal that he expected the Brooklyn market to “stay strong” in 2017.

“With no major portfolio trade such as the Watchtower, total dollar volume will either plateau or decline slightly,” Cohen said at the time. “While inventory continues to be tight, prices of walk-up multifamily assets are expected to remain very strong.”

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THE HAMPTONS

Tennis Legend John McEnroe Sells Hamptons Estate for $11.25M

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attempting to transform his 1880s shingled house — which outhampton residents he purchased for $10.7 million are in an uproar over the in 2012 — into a 25-bedroom, plans of venture capital- 14-bathroom “McMansion,” acist Ken Fox to expand his cording to the New York Post. lake-front Victorian in South- And locals don’t just object to ampton Village. His plans have the perceived bad taste. been met with much resistance, and close to three dozen neighbors writing letters to the zoning As of Sunday, July 23, a board protesting his construcpetition on change.org tion. As of Sunday, July 23, a received 327 signatures petition on change.org received against his proposed 327 signatures against his proexpansion. posed expansion.

The Real Deal reports, “So The currently eight-bedroom why all the fuss? Fox, who runs The Stripes Group and has fi- house known locally as ‘Moconanced Blue Apron, Seamless manto’ is on both the state and and Grubhub, is accused of national historic registries, and

Fox’s house, ‘Mocomanto,’ is on both the state and national historic registries, and its grounds contain protected wetlands on the banks of Lake Agawam.

Venture capitalist Ken Fox is in a battle with his neighbors to expand his Victorian home in Southampton Village.

By Hannah Hayes

McEnroe’s 8,000-square-foot beach house finally sold for $11.25 million last month.

The property spans 2.17 acres in the historic Murray Compound, and of course it has a tennis court. According to Sotheby’s International Realty’s listing for the property, the main house contains eight bedrooms,

eight full bathrooms, an office, a library and features a vaulted ceiling, a sunroom and even a personal gym.

The identity of the savvy buyer who snagged this property has not yet been released.

Media Giants Viacom, Discovery Seek Lucrative Merger With Scripps By: Menachem Rephun

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espite reports of a possibly rabid squirrel biting people in Prospect Park, Brooklynites show no signs of fear.

When The Post asked parkgoers on Saturday, July 25, if they were concerned about being confronted by this aggressive critter, most said that the squirrel should be the one worrying about a confrontation with their boot.

While walking her Chihuahua, Savannah, Lakendra Tookes told The Post, “I would kick it and kill it.” A Crown Height publicist in her 30s, Tookes said, “I’m not gonna sit there and be a victim of some squirrel.” She insisted that despite her dog’s size, it would win a fight against a squirrel. “Between me and my dog, we could take the squirrel.”

49-year-old Carlos Nieves agreed that some fancy footwork should take care of a nasty squirrel. An electrician based in Sheepshead Bay, Nieves told The Post, “I’d pick up my [fishing] gear and I would stomp on it. I have a big foot.”

Between Tuesday and Thursday of last week a squirrel bit five people, including a 7-year-old girl, in Prospect Park, said City Health Department officials.

According to The Post, “The bites all happened near the Parkside and Ocean avenues en-

nfamous tennis star John McEnroe has finally sold his estate in Southampton; unfortunately, it went for much less than his original asking price.

Last month, McEnroe’s 8,000-square-foot beach house sold for $11.25 million, a pretty big percentage under his initial asking price of $14.5 million. In May 2016, he first listed his East End vacation house for $14.5 The property spans 2.17 acres in the historic Murray Compound, million, but after a year of not and of course has its own tennis court. sparking the interest of any buyers, he decided to let his glorious estate go for $3.25 million less.

Even with the significant price drop, McEnroe still made a hefty profit on the deal. In 1999, he purchased the house with his wife, singer and songwriter Patty Smyth, for just $4.2 million.

its grounds contain protected wetlands on the banks of Lake Agawam. The lake is considered environmentally fragile, and nitrogen runoff from fertilizer recently created a toxic algae bloom.”

In a letter to the zoning board, neighbor Chuck Scarborough and his wife Ellen wrote, “Mocomanto is one of the oldest and most architecturally significant structures on Lake Agawam.

Unless the design is modified to preserve the architectural integrity of the house, we urge you not to grant any variances or exceptions.”

When interviewed by the Post, Fox explained that even with his planned additions, his house would still be smaller Tennis legend John McEnroe than most of the neighboring and his Southampton estate homes.

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trance, and appear to have been from the same, unusually aggressive critter. There is no cause for alarm — only caution, officials stress. There have been no known cases of squirrels passing rabies to humans in the US, they say. No more bites have been reported since Thursday, and if the squirrel was indeed rabid, it has likely died by now, a spokesperson said Saturday. Still, the rodent could have infected other squirrels before dying, officials concede.”

The park is being monitored

by Parks Department staff and the Prospect Park Alliance in an attempt to locate the original “possibly rabid” squirrel and any other infected squirrels it may have bitten.

On Saturday, July 22, Parks Department staffers asked

49-year-old Tanya Burrell, who was volunteering at a charity book-bag giveaway near the park’s entrance on Parkside Avenue, and fellow volunteers to be careful, and steer clear of ‘suspicious’ looking squirrels.

However, that’s not how they roll in Brooklyn. Burrell told The Post she would stay and fight any menacing little animals.

“They let us know, the Parks workers. He said if you see it, run,” Burrell told The Post. “I’m not running. I got a bad leg. If he comes out and shows his face, I’m gonna fight him.”

Artist and Flatbush resident, Sebastian Marc, agreed, telling reporters, “I’m pretty peaceful.

But if it would start chasing me, I would kick the soul out of that squirrel. I would play football with him.”

iscovery Communications and Viacom are reportedly seeking a merger with the Tennessee-based media company Scripps Networks Interactive, according to a USA Today report this week. Scripps stock underwent a more than 14% boost following reports of the merger, increasing to $76.85 a share, according to Knoxville News Sentinel.

“People ask me all the time about our success and why we’ve been able to be successful for twenty-some years,” Scripps President and CEO Ken Lowe said this week, according to KNS. “I think it goes back to the fact that we early on established this relationship with viewers…we constantly try to stay on top of trends, changes.”

News of the merger was broken by the Wall Street Journal, though the companies have yet to comment. A Variety report this week noted that Discovery is valued at $15 billion, while Scripps is valued at $8.8 billion. Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, the OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, and many others are part of Discovery Communications’ portfolio. Viacom is valued at $14.5 billion, according to USA Today, and owns numerous channels, including Comedy Central, MTV, BET, and Nickelodeon. |

Discovery Communications (pictured above) and Viacom are reportedly seeking a merger with the Tennessee-based media company Scripps Networks Interactive, according to a USA Today report this week.

Discovery had approached Scripps with hopes of creating a merger in 2014, though the deal ultimately fell through.

According to USA Today, Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wieser wrote in a note to investors Wednesday that all three companies “are in particularly difficult positions, especially relative to owners of broadcast networks including Disney, Fox and CBS.” "Discovery, Scripps and Viacom each lack sports programming or much in the way of other high-end original content on their core US networks,” Wiese elaborated. “Each of them will generally have a harder time persuading distributors to increase the fees paid by much,

or to ensure carriage of every network."

As USA Today noted, the three media giants may hope that the merger will allow them to boost their offerings in response to consumer cord-cutting, i.e., ending a cable subscription in favor of a wireless/internet-based service.

According to CNBC, a merger between Scripps and Discovery would create a cable network worth $19 billion, specializing in non-scripted programs.

“It appears to us that the advantages that may be realized are probably less strategic than financial so far as we can tell," Wieser wrote in his message to investors.

"Further, whether or not any of these combinations actually occur is harder to assess."

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Trump Exhorts GOP Lawmakers to Overhaul Health Care Law

By: Walter Metuth

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resident Donald Trump's aides are reportedly scrutinizing special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team, exploring potential conflicts of interest among team members as aides explore ways to discredit his Russia inquiry, according to news reports late Thursday.

A member of Trump's outside legal team, Jay Sekulow, said the lawyers "will consistently evaluate the issue of conflicts and raise them in the appropriate venue," even complaining to Mueller directly if needed.

The president has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the probe, The Washington Post reported, quoting one person involved. A second person told the Post that Trump’s lawyers have been discussing the president’s pardoning powers among themselves.

According to a report by The New York Times, aides are

In recent weeks, Trump has expressed anger about the probe after being informed about the legal questions that he and his family could face.

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, the special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 election, departs Capitol Hill following a closed door meeting, June 21, 2017.

pursuing the professional and political backgrounds of the investigators, looking for conflicts of interest they could use to discredit the probe or build a case against Mueller.

This latest development is another sign of a looming showdown between Trump and Mueller, who has assembled a team of high-powered prosecutors and agents to examine whether any of Trump’s advisers aided Russia’s campaign to disrupt last year’s presidential election and look into Trump’s financial history.

While Trump’s legal team declined to comment on the issue, one adviser told the Times that the president has simply

expressed a curiosity in understanding the reach of his pardoning authority, as well as the limits of Mueller’s investigation.

"This is not in the context of, ‘I can’t wait to pardon myself,' ” a close adviser said.

Irritation with probe News reports say sources have said the president is irritated by the notion that Mueller’s probe could reach into his and his family’s finances.

Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.; his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort; and Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser who also is See Reports Say Trump Team , page 37

resident Donald Trump is telling Republican lawmakers they have "a last chance to do the right thing" and overhaul the country's health care law after years of campaign promises saying they would.

Trump, in a Twitter comment Monday, exhorted the Republican-controlled Senate to repeal and replace the law championed by former President Barack Obama that is commonly known as Obamacare. Trump is speaking about health care and the repeal effort later in the day.

The Senate is headed toward crucial votes this week on whether to repeal the seven-year-old law, which national surveys show Americans view more favorably than Republican proposals to replace it.

But with unified Democratic opposition to repealing Obamacare, it is unclear whether Republican Senate leaders have enough votes to even formally start debate on changes in the law.

Republicans hold a narrow 52-48 edge in the chamber, meaning they can only lose two dissenting votes, with Vice President Mike Pence casting the deciding repeal vote in the event of a 50-50 tie.

Several Republican lawmak-

“The terror attack last week, in which two Israelis were killed, is a tragic reminder of why metal detectors are needed for the safety of all visitors and personnel.”

ers, despite Trump's campaign vow to upend Obamacare, have announced their opposition to starting debate on the repeal effort, either because they contend that the changes do not go far enough to undermine the law or go too far and would curb health insurance coverage for millions of people, particularly impoverished Americans.

During the past month, the Senate has looked at two versions of health care bills, one that would both repeal and replace Obamacare and another that would repeal the law, with a two-year delay to give lawmakers time to figure out a replacement.

Both bills face total opposition from Democrats and so far enough resistance from Republicans that neither measure has

advanced far in the legislative process.

Republican Senator John Thune said Sunday that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will hold a procedural vote sometime this week on a health care bill that would open up the measure to debate and amendments.

What is not clear is which bill will be voted on. The House of Representatives passed its own repeal-and-replace legislation in May, a bill Trump applauded at a White House rally after its passage and then later described as "mean." He instead called for the Senate to approve legislation with more "heart."

"We don't know whether we're going to be voting on the House bill, the first version of See Trump Exhorts GOP , page 38

'“President Trump is prepared to impose new and serious consequences on Iran unless all unjustly imprisoned American citizens are released.'

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here is a broad consensus among American Jewish leaders in support of Israel’s use of metal detectors to intercept terrorists on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations “supports taking the necessary and appropriate steps to assure security for all and to protect the sanctity of these holy sites,” the umbrella group’s executive vice chairman and CEO, Malcolm Hoenlein, told JNS. org.

Herbert Block, executive director of the American Zionist Movement, said, “If the authorities responsible for security feel certain measures are necessary to meet their responsibility to protect those who visit for prayer or as respectful visitors, it is no different than security considerations at the Vatican, at the [U.S.] Capitol or any other significant location where public access is permitted under ap-

Trump's health care speech comes after the latest of his administration's meetings with what the White House calls "victims of Obamacare."

White House Demands Iran Return Imprisoned Americans

American Jewish Leaders Defend the Use of Metal Detectors on Temple Mount By: Rafael Medoff

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Edited by: JV Staff

T There is a broad consensus among American Jewish leaders in support of Israel’s use of metal detectors to intercept terrorists on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

plicable law.”

“In a world where security measures are being enhanced in major gathering places, it’s only surprising that the Temple Mount didn’t have such measures until now,” American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris told JNS.org. “The terror attack last week, in which two Israelis were killed, is a tragic reminder of why metal detectors are needed for the safety of all visitors and personnel.”

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) and B’nai B’rith International are taking similar positions.

“It is not the presence of metal detectors that leads to violence, rather the unrelenting incitement to violence on the part of the Palestinian Authority that does not

cease,” said Betty Ehrenberg, the WJC’s executive director for North America. “In the interest of protecting the safety and security of all visitors to the Temple Mount and in keeping the peace at the holy site, the metal detectors need to remain in place, as they are at the Western Wall and in many sensitive and holy places around the world, including Mecca and the Vatican.”

B’nai B’rith International said in a statement provided to JNS. org that the Israeli government “cannot look the other way in the face of acts of violence, especially in light of the killings of its police officers. Metal detectors are one way, used globally, to keep the public safe. There may be other See American Jewish Leaders , page 36

he Trump administration called on Iran to return a Jewish-American man who disappeared from Iran in 2007 while working on behalf of the CIA. The statement issued Friday by the White House said the United States is “redoubling efforts to bring home all Americans unjustly detained abroad,” naming specifically Robert Levinson, an American former law enforcement officer, as well as businessman Siamak Namazi, 48, and his father, Baquer, both jailed on espionage charges.

Levinson, 68, of Coral Springs, Florida, was a private investigator and former agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation who also was a part-time consultant for the Central Intelligence Agency.

He has been missing since disappearing from Iran’s Kish Island during what has since been revealed as a rogue CIA operation.

In March, the Levinson family sued Iran in federal court for unspecified damages, in part for inflicting emotional distress on his wife and seven children.

An Iranian court sentenced the Namazis to 10 years in prison last October on charges of spying for the United States.

The White House statement also called for the release of “all

Robert Levinson, 68, of Coral Springs, Florida, was a private investigator and former agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation who also was a part-time consultant for the Central Intelligence Agency.

He has been missing since disappearing from Iran’s Kish Island during what has since been revealed as a rogue CIA operation.

other American citizens unjustly detained” by the Iranian government and posed what appear to be more economic threats.

“President Trump is prepared to impose new and serious consequences on Iran unless all unjustly imprisoned American citizens are released and returned,” it said.

In response, Iran countered that the United States should release Iranian citizens in its jails.

“America should quickly release Iranian prisoners in the

“America should quickly release Iranian prisoners in the country,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said, according to the Iranian Students’ News Agency. “The statements of the White House, as usual, are an example of interference in Iran’s internal affairs and the demands are unacceptable and rejected.”

country,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said, according to the Iranian Students’ News Agency. “The statements of the White House, as usual, are an example of interference in Iran’s internal affairs and the demands are unacceptable and rejected.”

President Donald Trump has maintained that the return of Levinson is a top priority, now backed up by the White House statement.

(JTA)

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Tensions Rise in J’slm as Waqf Says Removal of Metal Detectors Will Not End Standoff Continued from page 1 enter the al-Aqsa compound unfettered by any Israeli security measures, and demanded a commission of inquiry to study “Israeli aggressions” on the Temple Mount.

Israel Radio reported that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) will convene his advisors this evening to discuss the crisis.

Abbas also dispatched veteran Fatah spokesman Nabil Shaath to the Israeli media to push the Palestinian position.

“Israel’s actions at al-Aqsa Mosque are intended to serve Israel’s political needs, under the guise of security,” Shaath said.

But according to some observers, the only party that matters on the street in eastern Jerusalem in the current instance is the Jordanian-administered Waqf, who are seen as having beaten Israel in the standoff over al-Aqsa.

of approval, or the Waqf is trying to capitalize on its newfound (and unexpected) power to develop its own positions in order to poke its finger simultaneously in the eyes of both the King and the Palestinian Authority. The second scenario seems likely to me,” Tzidkiyahu said.

In a related development, dozens of Hebron residents took over the Hebron building known as Beit Hamachpela late Tuesday afternoon, in what they said was a response to the massacre of three members of the Salomon family in Neve Tzuf on Friday, according to a TPS report.

Some 15 families are believed to have entered the three-storey building near the Tomb of the Patriarchs, which settlers say they purchased from private Palestinian owners. In 2015 however the IDF Civil Administration rejected their ownership of the building saying they had not “proven purchase of the

gal or moral justification,” representatives of the 15 families said.

“At this time when Jewish blood is being spilled, we call on the government to proudly raise the flag of settlement in the Land of Israel. In the face of the murder of Jews and national stammering, we demand that the government of Israel allow the families to take up residence at Beit Hamachpela forthwith.

der ‘occupation’” and said that Israeli policy vis-à-vis the Palestinians is “racist and discriminatory,” and last week warned that Israel should not “expect the Islamic world to passively accept the humiliation of Muslims caused by the new restrictions at the Noble Sanctuary,” using the Arabic term for the holy site, Haram al-Sharif.

According to a report on

More than 10,000 Israelis descended on the city of Modi'in for the joint funeral of Yosef, Chaya and Elad Salomon, who were butchered in their home last Shabbat by a 19-year-old Arab terrorist

Arabs rioting in East Jerusalem

Outside Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound on July 24, 2017 before Israel announced it was removing metal detectors from the entrances to the compound

Even before the current crisis, Abu Mazen and the Palestinian Authority were deeply unpopular amongst Palestinians, both for maintaining security collaboration with Israel and for failing to provide a political outlook. The Waqf ’s successful demand for Israel to abandon security demands following a terror attack is likely to delegitimize the PA even further in the eyes of many Palestinians.

“The Waqf has emerged from this as an authentic Jerusalemite leadership group, and the strongest one” said Eran Tzidkiyahu, a licensed tour guide who specializes in Jerusalem who has served as a special adviser to various religious leaders, including the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, the Heads of the Local Churches of the Holy Land, the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Waqf and Religious Affairs.

“If we assume that the metal detectors were removed as part of a deal between Jordan’s King Abdullah, who ‘officially’ controls the Temple Mount, and Prime Minister Netanyahu, then we can only draw one of two conclusions: Either the Waqf ’s ongoing refusal to end the crisis has Abdullah’s stamp

property, nor the possession of it.”

Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Minister of Environmental Protection Ze’ev Elkin praised the move at a meeting of the Likud Knesset faction, and called on the prime minister and the defense minister to allow the families to remain in the building as an “appropriate nationalist response.”

Dozens of Hebron residents took over the Hebron building known as Beit Hamachpela late Tuesday afternoon, in what they said was a response to the massacre of three members of the Salomon family in Neve Tzuf on Friday The settlers have occupied the building before in the past, but have been evicted twice, in 2009 and 2015.

“Beit Hamachpela was purchased several years ago, but the government of Israel shamefully prevents the families from taking up residence in the property they purchased without any le-

In yet another related development, Israel has closed all diplomatic missions in Turkey as tensions between Ankara and Jerusalem continue to heat up over the ongoing standoff at the Temple Mount.

According to unconfirmed reports, the foreign ministry said that the decision to temporarily shutter the embassy in Ankara and the consulate in Istanbul was undertaken as a precaution, rather than in response to a concrete incident at either mission.

The move follows on the heels of Sunday’s stabbing of a security guard at the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan, which ended with the assailant and another person shot dead and the diplomatic staff on lockdown inside the embassy compound It also comes a year after Israel and Turkey signed a reconciliation deal following a six-year diplomatic standoff. Relations between the countries tanked when nine Turkish nationals were killed as they attacked Israeli navy seals enforcing Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip in May, 2010. Activists on the deck of the Mavi Marmara, one of the ships that participated in the flotilla, attacked the soldiers as they boarded the ship off the Gaza coast; Turkey expelled Israel’s ambassador over the incident and recalled the Turkish ambassador from Tel Aviv.

Last year, Israeli officials had hoped that the reconciliation deal, which included an Israel payment of $20 million in compensation to the victims (technically, a contribution to an international fund) would temper Erdoğan’s venom towards the Jewish state and help repair ties.

However, there has been scant evidence of that happening. In May, Erdoğan asserted that “every day Jerusalem is un-

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Ynet, two threatening demonstrations and mounting cases of vandalism against synagogues in Turkey—apparently carried out with the regime's tacit support against the backdrop of the Temple Mount crisis —are raising concerns among the country's Jewish community.

On the night between Thursday and Friday, dozens of demonstrators attacked the Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul,

threw rocks at the synagogue, kicked its doors and tried to break in.

At the entrance to the synagogue, a local leader of the Great Union Party, Korsat Michan, spoke out and accused Israel of "harassing our Palestinian brothers and damaging their freedom of worship."

"Either the Zionists get a grip, or we will come back here again," he said, according to the Ynet report.

Some protesters shouted, "If you do not let us enter our holy place, we will not let you enter your holy place."

As protesters kicked the doors of the synagogue, two demonstrators climbed up the building and hung signs with pictures of the Dome of the Rock.

The Jewish community was stunned that the police patrol car—which regularly protected the synagogue as it is a target for terror attacks—had left the area shortly before the demonstration started.

On Saturday, the ancient 15th century Ahrida synagogue in Balat, Istanbul was also attacked. As in the first case, the police car also left before the demonstration began, and the demonstrators charged the synagogue, blocking entry and chanting anti-Israel slogans.

The fact that the police left the area in both cases may indicate that the demonstrations were held with the quiet consent of the authorities, which made it possible to "let out steam" against the Jews.

(TPS & YNET)

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Britain Goes for Front of the Line in US Trade Talks

EU to Turkey: Respect for Rights ‘Imperative' to Join Bloc

By: Luis Ramirez

By: Walter Metuth

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he United States and Britain launched preliminary talks Monday in Washington on a trade deal that will set up a new trade relationship between the two countries, after Britain’s exit from the European Union.

Britain hopes removing barriers under its current EU arrangement will boost trade with the United States by $40 billion by 2030.

No one is expecting these to be easy negotiations, but British trade officials said they are confident they had the support of the U.S. leadership, including the U.S. Congress, but especially of President Donald Trump.

The U.S. leader, speaking on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hamburg this month, said he wanted to move “very, very quickly” on a trade deal with Britain.

Britain is poised to secure a place at the front of the line on trade negotiations with the United States, just more than a year after then-President Barack Obama warned the British about the future trade relationship if they voted to leave the European Union. In remarks that stoked anger among pro-Brexit campaigners, Obama said Britain would go to the “back of the queue” on trade deals with the United States if the British voted

Britain hopes removing barriers under its current EU arrangement will boost trade with the United States by $40 billion by 2030.

to leave the European Union.

cussion for us to have.”

Fox led the British delegation Free, open on a two-day trip to Washington trading wanted where he was to meet with U.S. British Prime Minister The- Trade Representative Robert resa May’s government hopes Lighthizer and other top U.S. that Brexit and U.S. President officials.

The talks are only prelimiDonald Trump’s America First policy can avoid the pitfalls of nary. Britain has no authority to isolationism and protectionism. enter trade agreements until it is “It is very important that we completely out of the Europekeep the United States orientat- an Union, and that is two years ed towards an open, free trad- away. ing approach because it is the world's biggest economy and Domestic politics what happens there will affect at forefront everybody else,” British Trade But laying down the groundSecretary Liam Fox said last work early is important not only week in Geneva. “So I think that practically, but politically, espedirecting the debate away from cially as the popularity of May’s some of the protectionist noises leftist rival, Labour Party leader into a free market, rules-based See Britain Goes for Front , page 37 debate is a very important dis-

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he European Union on Tuesday delivered its most public criticism yet of Turkey's security crackdown since last year's failed coup, saying there could be no progress on Ankara's bid to join the bloc without an end to human rights abuses.

Speaking after a meeting with Turkey's foreign and EU affairs ministers in Brussels, the European commissioner who oversees the membership talks said he needed to see “a reversal of the trend” towards authoritarianism.

“Human rights, the rule of law, democracy, fundamental freedoms including media freedom are all basic imperative requirements for any progress towards the European Union,” Johannes Hahn told a joint news conference with Turkey's top diplomat Mevlut Cavusoglu, EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik and the EU's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.

Tensions on display Despite what Mogherini described as a constructive and open meeting, the tensions over Turkey's aspirations to join the EU were on show, as both sides sparred publicly over whether new areas of negotiation, or chapters, should be opened.

Cavusoglu also responded to Mogherini and Hahn's criticism

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, left, and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, speak at a press conference in Brussels, July 25, 2017.

gan, the extent of the crackdown and the deterioration of human rights have alienated Brussels.

Although a deal with Turkey to prevent migrants leaving its shores for Europe is still holding, many areas of negotiation on upgrading diplomatic and economic ties with Ankara are now T‘Charage’ blocked, including talks on viTurkey's imprisonment, pend- sa-free travel for Turks in the EU ing trial, of 50,000 people and the and deepening free trade links, detention or dismissal from their the EU diplomat said.

“Turkey is clearly moving jobs of some 150,000 more have brought its decade-long talks to away from EU standards. The join the EU to a halt. One EU destruction job against human diplomat described the accession rights and rule of law continues,” the diplomat said, noting bid as a “charade.”

While the EU has condemned some EU countries now wantthe July 2016 coup attempt See EU to Turkey: Respect , page 37 against President Tayyip Erdoof the trial of prominent journalists and the arrest of 10 rights activists by telling the bloc not to be misled by “pseudo-journalists who help terrorist activities.”

“There are those journalists, soldiers, politicians who helped the coup attempts last year.

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Embassy Staff Return to Israel After Amman Shooting Incident

PA chairman refuses to accept deal with Jordan, demands all security measures on Temple Mount be cancelled

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its aftermath.

During the phone call, the Jordanian monarch stressed the need to find an immediate solution and remove the causes of the ongoing crisis at the Temple Mount compound. According to Petra he also called for the situation at the compound to be restored to what it was prior to the outbreak of the crisis and to reopen the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

While the report did not mention Israel’s stationing of metal detectors at the entrance to the Temple Mount compound in response to the killing of two Israeli policeman at the site on July 14, it said that King

alestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced Tuesday that the PA's freeze on contacts with Israel would continue despite the removal of the metal detectors from the entrances to the Temple Mount.

Israel had placed metal detectors at the entrances to Jerusalem's Old City and Temple Mount after three terrorists stabbed two policemen on the Temple Mount on Friday, July 14. However, the Waqf (the Jordanian trust which runs the Temple Mount) refused to comply with the new security measures, sparking rioting and

Abdullah had “emphasized the necessity of removing measures adopted by the Israeli side since the outbreak of the crisis and the importance of agreeing on measures to prevent the reoccurrence of such escalation in the future, in a manner that ensures respect for the historical and legal status in Al-Haram al-Sharif [the Arabic name for the Temple Mount.”

Following the call, Netanyahu held a consultation with his security cabinet to discuss a possible “technological solution” that would replace the metal detectors. The meeting was ongoing as of time of writing.

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Abbas: Freeze in Contacts with Israel to Continue

By: Ilan Evyatar he staff of Israel’s embassy in Amman, returned from Jordan on Monday night, hours after a telephone call between King Abdullah and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) head Nadav Argaman visited the Jordanian capital earlier in the day to facilitate an end to the crisis which erupted Sunday after a security guard at the embassy shot dead two Jordanians after one of them stabbed him in the back. The security guard was among the staff who arrived at the Allenby border crossing after reports from Jordan had suggested security officials would prevent his return.

A short statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said that the return of Israel’s diplomatic emissaries had been enabled thanks to “close cooperation between Israel and Jordan over the past day.”

The statement added than Netanyahu had spoken on the phone with the security guard and with ambassador to Jordan, Eynat Schlein, after they crossed back into Israel.

Jordan’s Petra news agency said earlier in day that King Abdullah and Netanyahu had spoken to discuss the Temple Mount crisis, but made no mention of the embassy incident and

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Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced Tuesday that the PA's freeze on contacts with Israel would continue despite the removal of the metal detectors from the entrances to the Temple Mount.

attempts to harm Israeli security The PA announced that it was forces. cutting off all contact with Israel, including security cooperation, in response to the placement of the metal detectors. The PA also called for a "Day of Rage" against the security measures, sparking further violence.

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Jordanian King Abdullah reached an agreement to allow the removal of the metal detectors Monday evening.

The Security Cabinet released a statement that it had "accepted the recommendation See Abbas: Freeze in Contacts , page 38

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In 1925, Yankel Hirsh Segal and his family emigrated to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv. Brothers Elhanan and Yehezkel established Israel’s first distillery in the German colony Sharona in Tel Aviv.

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Thousands Attend Salomon Family at Funeral in Modi’in

Mother of Terrorist who Killed 3 in Stabbing Attack Arrested for Incitement

By: Andrew Friedman

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ore than 10,000 Israelis, including Housing Minister Yoav Galant, Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, Communications Minister Ayoub Kara, Opposition Leader Yitzhak Herzog and a swath of MKs from the Labor, Likud and Jewish Home parties descended on the city of Modi’in for the joint funeral of Yosef, Chaya and Elad Salomon, who were butchered in their home in the Samaria town of Neve Tzuf on Friday night.

Yosef Salmon’s wife, Tova, was seriously injured in the incident while several other family members, who had gathered for Shabbat to celebrate a birth in the family, were home at the time of the attack but escaped unharmed.

Ran Menzli, who is married to one of the Salomon’s daughters, eulogised his sister-in-law Chaya as a heroine who used her last ounce of strength to stagger out of the house to call help after she had been fatally stabbed, thus preventing a greater tragedy.

He also spoke about Elad Salomon, whose middle name, Menachem, means “comforter” and noted that the murders occurred ahead of the Hebrew month Av, traditionally a time for tragedy to strike the Jewish people. Menzli called his brother-in-law a “hero who fought the accursed terrorist” and prevented him from getting

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he mother of 19-yearold Omar al-Abed, who stabbed three people to death in Friday's terror attack in Halamish, was arrested overnight Monday on suspicion of incitement. According to a statement from Israeli security forces, she made recent state-

More than 10,000 Israelis, including Housing Minister Yoav Galant, Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, Communications Minister Ayoub Kara, Opposition Leader Yitzhak Herzog and a swath of MKs from the Labor, Likud and Jewish Home parties descended on the city of Modi’in for the joint funeral of Yosef, Chaya and Elad Salomon, who were butchered in their home in the Samaria town of Neve Tzuf on Friday night

upstairs to murder more people, before breaking down in tears .

“But how do you console five innocent children?… You gave your life for your wife, Michal, and the kids. We will take care of Michal, of Avinoam, of Reut, of Amitai, of the sweet baby twins Ariel and Avishai. Please pray to God that we have had enough suffering,” Menzli said.

Several hundred mourners formed a human chain from the Salomon home to the cemetery, with Israeli flags lining the winding road from Neve Tzuf towards the coastal plain.

Rabbi Yonatan Glass, rabbi of the community, eulogized the victims as a family that were centered “on spreading happiness.”

“Only a person with no glim-

mer of humanity could have acted against Yossi (Salomon) and his family. Yossi made everyone he was around happy. He was a generous donor, both to community causes and to poor families,” Glass said.

Ahead of the funeral service, Rafi Mendel, the husband of one of the surviving sisters, said the appropriate reaction to the terror attack would be to annex the West Bank.

“Please, God, grant your wisdom and understanding to our prime minister. It’s time to understand that we need to end the Palestinians’ illusions that they will ever have control over our land.

“It is time to impose our sovereignty over all of it,” Mendel said.

(TPS)

The mother of 19-year-old Omar al-Abed, who stabbed three people to death in Friday's terror attack in Halamish, was arrested overnight Monday on suspicion of incitement.

According to a statement from Israeli security forces, she made recent statements calling for Jews to be attacked.

Omar al-Abed entered a house on Friday evening in the Jewish settlement of Halamish and stabbed four members of a family as they as they sat down to a traditional Sabbath dinner to celebrate the birth of a new grandchild in the family. Yosef Salomon, 70, Chaya Salomon, 46, and Elad Salomon, 36, a grandfather and his two adult children, died of their wounds.

ments calling for Jews to be attacked.

In the wake of the attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was "an act of terrorism committed by a beast incited by wild hatred."

Omar al-Abed entered a house on Friday evening in the Jewish settlement of Halamish and stabbed four members of a family as they as they sat down to a traditional Sabbath dinner to celebrate the birth of a new grandchild in the family.

Yosef Salomon, 70, Chaya Salomon, 46, and Elad Salomon, 36, a grandfather and his

two adult children, died of their wounds.

Tova Salomon, 68, the wife and mother of the deceased, was seriously injured.

Young grandchildren present at the dinner were hidden in a room by their mother, Elad's wife, during the attack.

The Israeli army, police, internal security agency (Shin Bet) and border police arrested a total of 26 people in overnight raids on Monday in the West Bank. Twenty-two were suspected of terrorist activity and violence towards civilians and soldiers.

(I24 NEWS)

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Friedman, MKs Underscore Strength of US-Israel Alliance

Justice Minister: Had Supreme Court halted Disengagement, it would have hurt democracy; people must turn to government and Knesset.'

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J US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said Tuesday that the United States helped bring a brewing political crisis between Israel and Jordan to a rapid end Monday, including involvement by American officials “at the highest levels.” Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir/TPS

‘joined at the hip.”

The ambassador that in the week leading up to Tisha B’av, the anniversary of the destruction of the First and Second Temples in ancient Jerusalem, it was critical for the relationship to be strong.

Friedman noted that according to legend, before the Roman emperor Titus attacked Jerusalem, his aides told him to hold off on the attack, saying that the the Jews were already killing each other. “So especially at this time of year, it is critical for people who share the values of

See Friedman, MKs Underscore , page 38

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) participated Tuesday in a gathering in the town of Nitzan, marking the 12th anniversary of the uprooting and demolition of Gush Katif communities and of five communities in northern Samaria.

Nitzan was built to house some of the Gush Katif evacuees.

During her speech, Shaked reiterated her position that the Supreme Court must refrain from intervening in government and Knesset decisions.

"If the Supreme Court would have stopped the Disengagement, that would have been the end of democracy ... people should not to turn to the High Court, but to the government and the Knesset; that is how it is in a democratic system.

"With regard to the Disengagement and the handing over of terGush Katif prior to the expulsion of its long time Jewish residents in 2005

See Party to Right of Likud , page 38

Israel’s NeuroDerm Bought Out for $1.1B By: Zachary Kerman

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A 2,700-year-old water system has been unearthed during works for a new residential neighborhood in Rosh Ha’ayin, about 30 kilometers east of Tel Aviv, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said. Officials said the underground storage facility features wall engravings including human figures, crosses, and a vegetal motif that were likely carved by passersby in a later period.

Ministry of Construction and Housing, Rosh Ha’ayin Municipality officials and the Israel Antiquities Authority all said the site will remain an open area accessible to the public, adjacent to the new residential neighborhood

Persian period, and that the reservoir was still in use until modern times.

The find joins a list of discoveries in the Rosh Ha’ayin area in recent years dating to the First Temple period, particularly farmhouses that were built in the area, possibly at the time of the Assyrian Empire, by people looking to settle near the western border of the Empire.

“The structure exposed in this excavation is different from most of the previously discovered farmsteads. Its orderly plan, vast area, strong walls, and the impressive water reservoir

ustice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) participated Tuesday in a gathering in the town of Nitzan, marking the 12th anniversary of the uprooting and demolition of Gush Katif communities and of five communities in northern Samaria. Nitzan was built to house some of the Gush Katif evacuees.

the State of Israel and the United States respect each other and work together,” Friedman said.

Friedman also acknowledged his controversial background – before becoming ambassador he said that left-wing Jews were “worse than kapos” for supporting land-for-peace policies with the Palestinians. But he said his goal to navigate the US-Israel relationship is to listen, more than to speak.

“I’ve been known to hold some fairly strong views – when

Ancient Water Storage Facility Discovered in Rosh Ha’ayin 2,700-year-old water system has been unearthed during works for a new residential neighborhood in Rosh Ha’ayin, about 30 kilometers east of Tel Aviv, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said Thursday.

Officials said the underground storage facility features wall engravings including human figures, crosses, and a vegetal motif that were likely carved by passersby in a later period.

“It is difficult not to be impressed by the sight of the immense underground reservoir quarried out so many years ago,” said Gilad Itach, director of excavations for the IAA. “In antiquity, rainwater collection and storage was a fundamental necessity. With an annual rainfall of 500 millimeters, the region’s winter rains would easily have filled the huge reservoir.

In a release, Itach said the water system exposed is nearly 20 meters long and reaches a depth of over four meters. The excavations show a reservoir built beneath a large structure with walls that are all nearly 50 meters long. Some of the shards found on the floors of the rooms probably belonged to vessels used to draw water from the reservoir.

The IAA said the structure was likely built at the end of the Iron Age (late eighth or early seventh century BCE), but probably abandoned during the

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Party to Right of Likud will Prevent Another 'Disengagement'

By: Andrew Friedman S Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said Tuesday that the United States helped bring a brewing political crisis between Israel and Jordan to a rapid end Monday, including involvement by American officials “at the highest levels.”

“We managed to quickly neutralize a situation that could have ended differently,” Friedman said.

In a statement following the Security Cabinet meeting late Monday night, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu thanked US President Trump for helping to diffuse the crisis by directing Jared Kushner and dispatching Jason Greenblatt to help with Israel’s efforts to bring the Israeli embassy staff home quickly.

Speaking at a Knesset reception hosted by the parliamentary lobby for Israel-US relations attended by former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, Lobby Chairmen Nachman Shai and Avraham Negosa, Opposition Leader Yitzhak Herzog MKs Amir Peretz, Yehuda Glick, Micky Zohar, Rachel Azaria, Elazar Stern, Aliza Lavie, and a gaggle of media, Friedman said the Israeli and American governments are

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apanese company Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation announced a deal Monday to acquire Israeli pharmaceutical company NeuroDerm Monday for $1.1 billion in cash A clinical-stage pharmaceutical company located in Rehovot, Israel, NeuroDerm, founded in 2003, was purchased for $39 in cash per share, a premium of 17 percent over the closing stock price last Friday. The NASDAQ traded Israeli company develops next-generation treatments for central nervous system disorders and has three clinical stage product candidates in development that offer a form of treatment for almost every Parkinson’s disease patient, from moderate to the

A clinical-stage pharmaceutical company located in Rehovot, Israel, NeuroDerm, founded in 2003, was purchased for $39 in cash per share, a premium of 17 percent over the closing stock price last Friday

very severe stage of the disease.

The deal, expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2017, is the largest ever for an Israeli pharmaceuticals company and the big-

hewn beneath it suggest that the site was administrative in nature and it may well have controlled the surrounding farmsteads.”

High-school students majoring in the Education Ministry’s Land of Israel and Archaeology track also contributed to the discovery.

Ministry of Construction and Housing, Rosh Ha’ayin Municipality officials and the Israel Antiquities Authority all said the site will remain an open area accessible to the public, adjacent to the new residential Japanese company Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation neighborhood. headquarters (TPS)

gest buy out by a Japanese company, surpassing the $900 million acquisition of Israeli chat app Viber by Rakuten in 2014.

“We believe that this transaction will yield important benefits for NeuroDerm’s shareholders and the Parkinson’s disease patients that urgently need new therapies, said NeuroDerm CEO, Oded Lieberman. “Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation has demonstrated development and commercialization expertise in the field of neurology and we are confident that the combination of their resources and the robust data supporting ND0612, our Phase III Parkinson’s disease product candidate, will help make this important new therapy available as broadly and rapidly as possible.”

Mitsubishi Tanabe was founded in 1678, having the longest history of any listed company in Japan. Trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Mitsubishi Tanabe specializes in regenerative medicine.

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EDITORIAL

The Jewish Voice

Wishing Sarah Huckabee Sanders Much Success

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espite the ubiquitous tales of “palace intrigue” and purported White House imbroglios that are incessantly spewed forth by the growing number of fake news outlets, this past week, the American people received some ecstatic news. Subsequent to the abrupt resignation of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, it was announced that his replacement would be none other than his incredibly talented deputy, Ms. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

For anyone with eyes to see and ears that hear it should be way beyond crystal clear that Ms. Sanders is not only a highly effective communicator, but is quite adroit at handling the palpable animus that reverberates in the White House press room during daily briefings. And while we are on that note, there is no doubt that despite the fact that Mr. Spicer was thoroughly pummeled by a White house press corps with an axe to grind he held his own; either with or without cameras present.

On various days, Spicer had Sanders fill in for him, and now that she has ascended to one of the most powerful posts in the current administration, the American people will be enlightened about the president’s legislative agenda in ways that were hitherto unknown.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s stellar record speaks for itself. In 2010, Time Magazine voted

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David Ben Hooren, the publisher of the Jewish Voice, is pictured here with the newly minted White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her father, the former governor of Arkansas and FOX TV talk show host, Governor Mike Huckabee. The three were photographed together during President Trump’s recent visit to Israel.

her as one of the 40 under 40 top personalities in the world. That year she helped run Senator John Boozman’s successful campaign. In 2014, she helped Senator Tom Cotton win his election bid for the Senate.

But most of all, she is a chip off the old block. Just like her dad, FOX TV talk show host Mike Huckabee Sarah is a very caring person, a proud patriot and an exemplary American. The Jewish Voice wishes her G-d speed in her new position.

definitely do not deserve. If history repeats itself, as it surely will, this latest wounded, captured jihadist, al-Abed will shortly be released in some sort of deal with the Palestinians. In the meantime, his family will happily receive the monthly payments from the PA and subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, to comfort them in his absence. There is now no incentive for these killers to cease their operations.

So, something has to be done quickly by Palestinian leaders to put an end to this terrorism emanating from their communities. It is they themselves who have to convince their own people to quell their murderous primitive instincts. They have to be forced into action to understand that they all will pay the penalty for more terrorist acts. They have to bear the communal responsibility for these murderous rampages that have Israelis continuing to hold funerals for their murdered loved ones while Muslim cities and villages within and neighboring Israel go on with their normal lives unconcerned that a Jewish terrorist is lurking around the corner or sneaking into their homes armed with knives or firearms to murder them. We propose that the Israeli leadership announce that the villages or neighborhoods from which these terrorists crawl out will be given five days after any such acts of terror to vacate their homes, leave their cities and have that area demolished as a penalty for such demonic acts.

It is only when the pain of punishment is felt by the communities themselves that these horrendous actions will cease. A farfetched solution that will have the entire world community screaming but one that will strike fear into the leadership of the Palestinians and perhaps it will hit home. Terror can be a two way street in the Middle East.

The Enemies of the Israel Anti-Boycott Act

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e're sure you've heard of J Street which is on the same team as T'ruah, Jewish Voice for Peace and the age old, Americans for Peace Now. All of the above are so called "Jewish" groups whose job it is to fake out the American Jewish community into getting that "anti-Israel feel." And they are also at the beck-and-call of the Democrat Party. J Street, ruled by Jeremy ben-Ami, is the real political culprit in the group founded in 2008 to garner Jewish support for then presidential candidate Obama. All of these groups now have their marching orders to defeat, in any way they can, the pro-Israel anti Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) legislation now being rammed through Congress by a rare union of conservatives and liberals.

And these groups are furious. Working hand in hand with and following the lead of the Far Left ACLU, they are attempting to sway the American Jewish community to rally against this law which would make it illegal to join in the boycott of Is-

Letters to the Editor Second Avenue Subway – Phase 2

As the Bloodshed Continues in Israel emember the Fogel family knifed to death in their home by Palestinian terrorists six years ago? The resulting furor over such a dastardly act and the many proposals offered to stem this Islamic induced violence against Jews have all but disappeared as they usually do over time. As proof, just this past Friday, Yosef Salomon and his two children, Chaya, 46 and Elad Salomon, 36, were brutally stabbed to death in their city of Halamish home by Omar al-Abed, a 19 year old Palestinian from the nearby village of Kobar, during a shabbat celebration of the birth of a grandson. This proves that with the unrelenting incitement by PA leader Abbas and the encouragement of the world community this tide of terror has only increased.

Just last week after the murder of two Israeli troopers at the Temple Mount, Israel introduced metal detectors at that site to prevent weapons from being brought into that "Holy Shrine." That prompted Mr. Abbas to whine that the Israelis were preventing Muslims from their required prayers and he further stoked his people with words of encouragement to defy the security measures.

We must remind Abbas and our readers that not one Jewish religious service can be conducted in Gaza or in the Palestinian controlled territories because.... well, no Jews are permitted in these areas.

"Yudenrein" is the law of their land. Talk of chutzpah of these Muslims who have been treated with kid gloves by the Israelis who are constantly on the defensive, standing by helplessly, seeing their soldiers, citizens and international guests being slaughtered like sheep while Palestinian leaders continue to call out for more blood-letting at the same time that they enjoy all the freedoms and comforts they

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raeli goods. This law, The Israel Anti-Boycott Act, introduced in March by Sens. Ben Cardin, D-Md and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, would make those adhering to boycotts against Israel to be the subject of fines. The BDS movement , inspired by the Arab League way back in the 1970's has been remodeled, again by Muslim governments, with the intention of strangling Israel by having their products blacklisted. And they need Jewish groups in this country to support them.

Just last week, J Street VP Dylan J. Williams, in a copy-cat note wrote to House staffers that his group opposed the legislation because of its impact on free speech. He recommended that they consult with free speech experts on possible Constitutional concerns with the bill. He claimed it was in "direct violation of the First Amendment."

Then a leader of J Street's college chapter at Johns Hopkins U. took a different tack by stating that if Israel would end its occupation, permit Arab resettlement and share Jerusalem, there would be no need for any BDS laws.

Dear Editor: Don't count on "Dozens of New Developments Planned Along the 2nd Avenue Subway Route" (Charles Bernstein -- July 14) for Phase 2 between 96th & 125th Street any time soon.

Albany MTA Capital Program Review Board just approved a $3 billion 2015 - 2019 MTA Five Year Capital Plan Amendment increased the total dollars from $29 billion to $32 billion. It included $700 million more for Second Avenue Subway Phase 2. This increased the overall MTA financial commitment for Phase 2 from $1.035 billion to $1,735 billion to support preliminary environmental, design, engineering and utility relocation work for Phase Two north from 96th Street on to 125th Street.

There is still the need of $4.265 billion in total funding for actual construction of Phase 2.

The MTA will have to find a minimum of $2.265 billion in local dollars in the next MTA Five Year 2020 - 2024 Capital Program. This would bring the total local funding commitment up to $4 billion. This is necessary for the MTA to count on any chance of the US DOT Federal Transit Administration New Starts program providing $2 billion in additional federal funding for a total of $6 billion. These dollars are necessary to fully fund Second Avenue Subway Phase 2. Add $15 billion more down the road for Phases 3 & 4 to complete the full length of Second Avenue Subway south to Hanover Square.

There is no legal federal commitment to fund Second Ave Subway Phase 2. All the United

States Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration provided to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in December 2016 was grant permission to enter Phase Two of the Second Avenue Subway into the Project Development Phase of the US DOT New Starts Program.

The initial approval of the proposal to enter the “project development” phase represents only the first step, and the project still faces myriad hurdles. Completion of this work includes the USDOT FTA issuing an environmental finding, along with reaching agreements with the MTA concerning proposed project budget, scope and milestones. This averages several years.

This is followed by the project being given permission by USDOT FTA to advance to the next stage known as "final engineering." Progression of final design and engineering from 30% to 100% averages several more years.

This could include review and approval by various city, state and federal permitting or regulatory agencies along with MTA HQ, MTA Office of Capital Construction and New York City Transit financial, user, operations and maintenance groups.

Sincerely,

Larry Penner (Larry Penner is a transportation historians and advocate who previously worked 31 years for the US Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office.)

Shocked by MK’s Statement on Israeli Murders Dear Editor: I was shocked to hear MK Yisrael Eichler of the Agudas Yisroel political party assign blame for the heinous and barbaric murders of three members of the Salomon family in Neve Tsuf on Jewish “nationalists” who, he claims are seeking Israeli control of the Temple Mount. There is certainly room in our national dialogue to argue whether it is permis-

sible or not to ascend the Temple Mount however, in this case, I truly feel that MK Eichler crossed a red line. During this 9 day period prior to Tisha B’Av when we observe the laws of mourning, we would do well to understand that what is needed now, more than ever is true Jewish unity.

Sincerely

Rabbi A Wolpin

Between War and Peace Dear Editor: Perhaps not since Josephus Flavius, two millennia ago, has there been as gripping an account of the fall of Jerusalem -- a third time -- as is now available for the first time in English.

The account comes in the form of a diary extract in a newly translated book describing the fall of Jerusalem in 1948, neighborhood by neighborhood, synagogue by synagogue, yeshiva by yeshiva, as recorded in real time by Shear Yashuv Cohen, then a frum soldier, before and during his capture by the Arab Legion and his appointment by the Jordanians and by the Israelis -- long distance -- as chaplain of his fellow prisoners.

He was later elected deputy mayor of Jerusalem encompassing the period at the time of its reunification in the 6-Day War in June of 1967, and he was subsequently selected to deliver the benediction at the signing of the Peace Treaty of Israel with Jordan October 26, 1994;

in the interim, he was elected Chief Rabbi and Av Bes Din of Haifa, and head of the prestigious Machon Harry Fischel, among many other leadership roles.

The book is entitled Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen -- Between War and Peace, by Professor Yechiel Frish and Rabbi Yedidya HaCohen (Urim, 2017).

There is still time to arrange for Rabbi Aaron Reichel, Esq., who co-edited and supplemented the English translation, to find a spot on his ongoing book tour to address your synagogue, hotel, bungalow colony, or camp about the book on the Shabbat before Tisha B'Av or even during Tisha B'Av itself. In the alternative, he will still be available, at Reichelaa@aol.com, at later times, especially during this 50th jubilee year since the recapture of the Har HaBayis Sincerely

Rabbi Aaron I. Reichel

Anti-Semitism on the Rise Dear Editor: The other day innocent civilians were murdered by Arab terrorists in Israel while sitting at their Shabbat meal. Most of the liberal media did not report on this incident and certainly except for the Jews, I doubt most of the world cares. We have learned nothing from the Holocaust. The world sat in silence while six million died. The NY Times and London Times, even though they knew mass murder was occurring by the end of 1942, wrote very little about it. Instead of protesting about the separation of men and women praying at the kotel and threatening to hold back donations to Israel, liberal Jews should protest the anti Semitism and anti Zionism prevalent throughout the world.

If you look at the various newspapers we see

stories about Lakewood pious Jews and Medicare fraud. The story is repeated over and over.

Last week the same story regarding an Orthodox Jew molesting a child was blasted daily in the local secular newspaper. In both cases, what the Jews did was a desecration, however the responses by readers are totally anti-Semitic. Politicians believe that Jared & Ivanka run the White House and are making a fortune. Read today's papers. Jews, are you blind? Don't you recognize that anti-Semitism is rising daily.

While it is nice to join with Muslims for Shabbat dinner, it is nicer to protect our fellow Jews when they are massacred at their own Shabbat dinner.

Sincerely

Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg

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Metal Detectors and Palestinian Lies By: Bassam Tawil

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he controversy surrounding the Israeli authorities' decision to place metal detectors at the gates of the Temple Mount calls to mind the famous Arab saying, "he beat me and cried then came to me to complain."

This inversion of reality is a common among perpetrators who pretend to be victims.

The decision to install the metal detectors came after Arab terrorists murdered two Israeli police officers at the Temple Mount on July 14. The three terrorists -- Israeli Arab citizens from the city of Umm al-Fahm -- used a submachine gun and knives to carry out their attack.

The weapons were easily smuggled into the Temple Mount thanks to Muslim worshippers not having been required to pass through metal detectors or undergo body searches by policemen stationed at the gates.

Incredibly, the Palestinians have since been waging daily protests against the new Israeli security measures, demanding that the metal detectors be removed from the entrances to the Temple Mount. As part of the protests, Palestinian leaders have urged Muslim worshippers not to enter the Temple Mount through the metal detectors and instead to pray at the entrances to the holy site.

The Palestinian Authority (PA), Jordan and other Arab and Islamic countries are accusing Israel of violating the status quo at the Temple Mount by installing the metal detectors.

One listens in vain for a denouncement of the terrorists

who murdered the two Israeli police officers -- these are the people responsible for defiling the sanctity of the holy site.

We also hear no condemnation of the murder of the officers, who belong to the Druze community in Israel and who were entrusted with preserving law and order at the Temple Mount. The slain officers were stationed there to ensure the safety of Muslim worshippers.

On the contrary -- many Palestinians and Arabs have applauded the terror attack as a "heroic operation" against the "Zionist enemy." The three terrorists, who were killed by Israeli policemen during the attack, are being hailed as "martyrs" and "heroes" who sacrificed their lives in defense of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Sadly, many Israeli Arab leaders have refused to condemn the terror attack carried out by three of their fellow citizens.

The metal detectors have one goal: to prevent terrorists from smuggling weapons into the Temple Mount. That is the act that should be viewed as a desecration of a holy site.

Yet, rather than supporting the Israelis' attempt to thwart bloodshed on this sacred soil, the Palestinians and other Arabs blame Israel for seeking to safeguard the well-being of all people -- not least of all Muslim worshipers -- through basic security measures.

The Palestinian spin doctors are attempting to divert attention from the terror attack by making it look as if the crisis began when Israel installed the metal detectors and not when two police officers were

murdered.

The Palestinians and other Arabs are now crying to the international community that Israel is seeking to change the status quo at the Temple Mount through a series of security

Mount unless the metal detectors are removed. Palestinian leaders and officials the Waqf (a religious trust that manages the Temple Mount compound) were the ones who urged Muslim worshippers to stay away

Approximately 4,000 Palestinian Muslims pray outside the entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem, on July 19, 2017, in protest at the installation of metal detectors at the entrances to the Temple Mount.

measures. They are also trying to make it look as if Israel is preventing Muslim worshippers from entering and praying at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The facts, however, tell a rather different story.

First, the security measures, including the placement of the metal detectors, was not an Israeli initiative but came as a direct and necessary response to a specific terror attack. The Israeli government did not convene and take a decision to install the metal detectors in order to alter the status quo or stop Muslims from praying.

Second, it was the Palestinians who took the decision not to enter into the Temple

from the Temple Mount and hold prayers in the streets and public squares in protest against the metal detectors. The Muslim worshippers prefer to pray in the streets and public squares rather than enter the Temple Mount through metal detectors.

But now the Palestinians and the Waqf are lying to the world by telling it that Israel is denying Muslims access to their holy sites.

The Palestinian propaganda machine is working overtime to market the false impression that the metal detectors are part of an Israeli scheme to spark a religious war with Muslims and destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque. It appears, however, that quite the

opposite is true. The incitement of Palestinian and Waqf officials suggests that it is they who are hell-bent on triggering a religious war with Israel and Jews.

This incitement began more than two years ago, when Palestinian and Waqf leaders started telling their people and the rest of the world that Israel was planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and that Jews visiting the Temple Mount were "defiling with their filthy feet" an Islamic holy site. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was the first to pronounce this blood libel, which triggered a wave of knife and car-ramming attacks against Israelis that continues to this day.

The three terrorists who carried out the July 14 attack were acting precisely in accordance with the instructions of Abbas and other Palestinian and Muslim leaders: that it is the duty of Muslims to defend the Al-Aqsa Mosque from Jews. In that sense, this attack should be seen in the context of the ongoing wave of terror attacks against Israel that began in late 2015 and which is known as the "Knife Intifada."

Since then, the Palestinians have been using visits by Jews to the Temple Mount as an excuse to launch terror attacks against Israel. Palestinian officials and media outlets continue to depict these peaceful visits as "violent raids by Jewish settler gangs into the Al-Aqsa Mosque." The truth, however, is that no Jew has set foot inside the mosque.

The visits are restricted to tours of the Temple Mount compound -- something that non-Muslim tourists have been doing since

1968.

In reality, it is the Palestinians themselves who are desecrating the sanctity of the Temple Mount, using the site to launch violent attacks against Jews by hurling stones at Jews praying at the nearby Western Wall.

They have also been smuggling various types of weapons into the Temple Mount in order to throw firebombs and stones at Jewish visitors and policemen. The Palestinian leadership and Waqf officials have also encouraged Muslims to harass Jewish visitors and police officers by hurling insults at them.

One wonders -- if the draw of the Al-Aqsa Mosque is prayer, why worry about metal detectors? Thousands of Palestinians pass every day through metal detectors on their way into Israel, and all that happens is that they get to work. Similarly, Palestinians and Israelis alike pass every day through metal detectors at shopping malls and state institutions, such as the Post Office, the National Insurance Institute, hospitals and medical centers. Where is the outcry?

The Palestinian opposition to the metal detectors at the Temple Mount means one thing only: that the Palestinians are determined to turn the holy site into a weapons cache and use it as a launching pad to carry out terror attacks against Israelis. If the mosque were then actually destroyed in the process, guess who would be blamed? Possibly that is even the real agenda.

Who among the international community would like to sign off on that? (GATESTONE INSTITUTE) Bassam Tawil is a Muslim based in the Middle East.

Let My People Pray at the Temple Mount – Let the Arabs Learn a Lesson By: Yisrael Medad

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his past Wednesday, I ascended to the Temple Mount, as I have done many scores of times, and, following the police security check, was permitted to enter the compound Muslims call the Haram A-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary. The precincts were empty, totally so. I did not see more than a half-dozen Muslims there, except for eight tourists who appeared to originate from an Asian country. Despite this dearth, there were more policemen than usual and they appeared more heavily armed and quite tense. This was under-

Israeli law protects the right of prayer and free access to holy sites — well, except for Jews at the Temple Mount. standable, given that two Israeli police officers patrolling outside the Mount had been killed the previous week by terrorists who had stashed their weapons in the complex beforehand.

That we were allowed in at all was a minor miracle, as visits by Jews had been halted during the morning window for non-Muslims to be present. Someone

had apparently opened a Jewish prayer book, an act that is forbidden. There actually is a list of some twenty actions a Jew (or a Christian, for that matter) cannot do at the holiest site in Judaism. That includes murmuring, moving ones lips as if praying, bowing or shaking in a ritual fashion. That ban of such activities is the practical translation of what is known as the “status quo.”

This week’s developments, with Muslims refusing to enter the Mount and choosing instead to conduct prayer assemblies outside, is all because of a perceived change in that status quo – the planned introduction of metal detectors in response to the terror attack. Who would have thought that a metal detector was such a powerful instrument?

A fortnight after the Six Day War, then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan formally delegated the internal administration of the Temple Mount to the Jordanian-run Waqf Islamic Religious Trust, and agreed to a status quo arrangement that no Jews would be permitted to pray therein. At a meeting in October 2015, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave Jordan’s King Abdullah II and then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry this assurance:

“Israel re-affirms…the status quo of the Temple Mount, in word and in practice. Israel will continue to enforce its longstanding policy: Muslims pray on the Temple Mount; non-Muslims visit the Temple Mount”

Hebron is Palestinian.

This is why I was cheering on the Women of the Wall. A fight over a religious location; violent repression of free expression; an obscurantist adversary; an issue of freedom of worship: all the ingredients were present, but

The author, Yisrael Medad pictured earlier this week at the Temple Mount

In doing so, Netanyahu continued Israel’s 50-year commitment, upheld numerous times by the country’s High Court, to the status quo. This, more than anything else, has contributed to the delegitimization of the standing of Jews at the site most sacred to the Jewish nation. You can see this when organizations like UNESCO claim that the Old City is not Israeli, and that the Tomb of the Patriarchs in

when pressed on the obvious parallel between the Temple Mount’s ban on Jewish prayer and the Western Wall’s ban on some forms of female Jewish prayer, Member of Knesset Tamar Zandberg of the leftist Meretz party declared in 2013 that while every person of any religion has the right to pray in the places he or she considers holy, “Jews will only be able to pray in the places holy to them

after the occupation ends and Jerusalem is [re]divided.”

Israeli law protects the right of prayer and free access to holy sites — well, except for Jews at the Temple Mount. Not only that, but the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty stipulates: Each Party will provide freedom of access to places of religious and historical significance…The Parties will act together to promote interfaith relations among the three monotheistic religions, with the aim of working towards religious understanding…freedom of religious worship, and tolerance…

So then why on Saturday did Jordan’s minister in charge of the Waqf hold Israeli authorities “responsible for the mounting tension and violence in the holy compound,” when it was three Arab terrorists who had murdered two Israeli policemen?

Were his words in line with the peace treaty’s goals?

I am not sure if the metal detectors will be in place by the time this piece is published, but it would be a tragic error if Israel withdraws and retreats from the plan due to Muslim pressure. It would only be the latest instance where such pressures endangered people of all faiths on the Temple Mount, including tourists. Palestinian pressure on the Waqf forced Jordan to abandon

I am not sure if the metal detectors will be in place by the time this piece is published, but it would be a tragic error if Israel withdraws and retreats from the plan due to Muslim pressure. the idea of 24-hour surveillance cameras last year, even though it was the King’s idea, which Secretary Kerry had promoted enthusiastically and even Palestinian Authority President originally didn’t oppose. Those cameras perhaps could have prevented last week’s terror attack.

Once again — as with the 1937 Peel Partition, the 1947 UN Partition Plan, Menachem Begin’s 1977 Autonomy idea, the 2000 Camp David II negotiations and Ehud Olmert’s left-behind map in 2008 — the Palestinian Arabs willingly sabotage any attempt to inject rationality and equity into the Arab conflict with Israel and Zionism. They have threatened violence to achieve their political goals since the Pesach Riot of 1920. Waqf officials are now calling for mass prayers outside the compound, and I presume that riots are their ultimate goal.

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The Coming War with Hezbollah – Part 2 By: Jonathan Rosenblum (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK)

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nd it led to American passivity in Syria, and the vacuum into which Russia eventually stepped on the side of Iran and its Syrian and Hezbollah proxies. The Russian presence has, at minimum, greatly complicated Israel's ability to defend itself. Israel no longer dominates the airspace above Syria, which now contains Russian fighter jets and is protected by Russian anti-aircraft missiles.

Hezbollah, as Iran's critical ally in its strenuous efforts to create a Shiite crescent from Iran, through Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, has greatly benefitted from the effort to placate Supreme Leader Khameini Hezbollah, as Iran's critical ally in its strenuous efforts to create a Shiite crescent from Iran, through Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, has greatly benefitted from the effort to placate Supreme Leader Khameini. In a September 2016 meeting with Syrian opposition groups, then Secretary of State John Kerry is reported to have thanked the leaders for their fight against ISIS and Al Qaeda affiliates,

but to have told them that they could expect no help from the United States in their battle with the Assad regime or against Iran's surrogate Hezbollah. "Hezbollah is not plotting against us," Kerry told the opposition groups, They understood Kerry's message: The United States would do nothing to endanger the fragile Iran nuclear deal by angering the Iranians.

As always, the United States acted as if the nuclear deal were a favor from the Iranians.

As it turned out, Kerry was not even right about Hezbollah's plotting against the U.S. Hezbollah retains greater capabilities than any terrorist group in the world. In June, Marc Johnson reports in National Review, the Justice Department announced the arrest of two Hezbollah operatives, both naturalized American citizens, who were indeed plotting against the U.S. – i.e., casing the American and Israeli embassies in Panama and assessing the security weaknesses of the Panama Canal, in the case of one; analyzing security at airports, military and law enforcement facilities in New York, in the case of the other.

Far from becoming a law-abiding member of the international community after the signing of the nuclear deal, Iran and its proxies have stepped up their quest for regional hegemony. Revolutionary Guard commander Qassem Solemaini has been spotted several times in Iraq, where Iranian Shiite mili-

tias are participating in the fight against ISIS, in the country's Sunni areas. Meanwhile the Iranians, and other Shiite groups under their command, together with Hezbollah, are moving through the Sunni heartland of Syria towards the Syrian-Iraq border. Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon is the westernmost edge of the Shiite Crescent being created.

American and Saudi ships in the Red Sea. The Iranian presence endangers both Israeli and Jordanian shipping through the Gulf of Aden. Finally, Iranian weapons smuggled through Sudan and Eritrea are destabilizing the stability of Egypt, Libya, and most of North Africa.

The $150 billion dollar boost to the Iranian economy by virtue of the nuclear deal has, in

Hezbollah forces in Lebanon

Nor does that represent the full extent of Iranian aggression, Shoshana Bryen of the Jewish Policy Center points out. Iran is also trying to encircle Saudi Arabia. That effort includes support for Houthi rebels (Shiite) in Yemen to Saudi Arabia's south and destabilizing Bahrain to its east. Houthi rebels have fired Iranian-made missiles at both

Bryan's words, been employed so that Iran can play its self-appointed role as "guardian of Shiite Islam and director of Shiite armies to defeat first Sunnis in the Middle East and then the rest of the world." So much for the moderating impact of the nuclear deal.

With Syrian airfields open to it, in part courtesy of the Rus-

sians, Iran is much freer that formerly to fly in weapons for With Syrian airfields open both its Syrian and Hezbollah to it, in part courtesy of allies. That too has ramped up the Russians, Iran is much tensions with Israel. freer that formerly to fly IN DETERMINING HOW in weapons for both its TO RESPOND to the Hezbollah Syrian and Hezbollah threat, particularly if it should allies. decide to launch a preemptive strike aimed at Hezbollah's underground weapons production it would have been under Pressites, one crucial question for ident Obama.

The Middle East Media Research Institute has published numerous comments made in recent years by senior Revolutionary Guard commanders and other Iranian officials describing a tacit agreement with the Obama administration that Iran can produce ballistic missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers.

Though that agreement is not found even in the secret annexes of the JCPOA for obvious political reasons, the Iranians have been consistently more accurate than were their American negotiating partners in describing the agreements reached.

In any event, the Iranians are perfectly content for now with the 2,000 kilometer limit, as Israel is well within that range, a Israeli policymakers will be an fact that surely did not escape assessment of the likely level of the Obama administration.

So if Israel has to act as deciAmerican support.

Within the Trump adminis- sively against Hezbollah, as we tration, there would probably be argued above it likely will, she multiple viewpoints – the for- can at least be grateful that a eign policy establishment versus U.S. administration other than Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki that of former president Obama Haley, Vice-President Pence, will have its back. and other key Trump advisors.

(ORIGINALLY POSTED IN THE YATED But that is certainly better than NE’EMAN)

The Jewashing of George Soros Millions of Jews are anti-Semitic for calling out an anti-Semite By: Daniel Greenfield (The content of the following op-ed article strictly reflects the views of the author and does not necessarily reflect the editorial policies of the Jewish Voice) George Soros hates Jews.

He collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust and insisted that helping confiscate property from Jews brought him no guilt. “There was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets that if I weren't there of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would.” He described the season of these horrors as “the most exciting time of my life.”

Soros grew up in a "Jewish, anti-Semitic home". He called his mother a “typical Jewish anti-Semite” who hated his first wife because she was “too Jewish”. After undergoing psychoanalysis, he was able to understand that his shame was rooted in his Jewishness. He had a special contempt for Jewish philanthropies after a failed attempt to defraud a Jewish charity in London.

He was booed when he undermined the presentation of an award to a Holocaust survivor by comparing Israeli Jews to Nazis. Elie Wiesel had declared in disgust, “I heard what happened. If I’d been there—and you can quote me—I would

Soros” than a single restrained criticism.

Do the thousands of hit piecof? Has Israel sent drones to the have walked out.”

That same year, Soros blamed Soros estate? Did Mossad agents es from the New York Times the Israeli government for a “re- drag George out of his feather- count as a “War on Israel? That surgence of anti-Semitism in bed to face the justice of those includes the aforementioned Mairav Zonszein screed on SoEurope”. He might have been injured through his actions? ros which in true Sorosesque No. more honest if he took responsibility considering his funding of groups that traffic in anti-Semitic smears. And his own anti-Semitic allegations that “attitudes toward the Jewish community are influenced by the pro-Israel lobby's success in suppressing divergent views."

Soros has defended Hamas and Hezbollah who have called for the extermination of the Jews. He championed the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt despite or because of its support for Hitler. Yusuf al-Qaradawi had claimed that Hitler had been sent by Allah to punish the Jews. “Allah will- Op-Ed writer Daniel Greenfield opines that George Soros ing,” the Brotherhood’s spiritual “collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust and insisted leadersaid, “the next time will that helping confiscate property from Jews brought him no be at the hands of the believers guilt” (Muslims)."

The “war” consisted of one fashion pivots from defending There’s no denying that George Soros is a warped and statement. The Israeli Foreign an anti-Semite to launching twisted man. Especially when it Ministry condemned Soros for bizarre and hopelessly factless undermining smears at the Jewish State. comes to the Jews. But he’s also “continuously Mairav claims that Israel is the money man behind a great Israel’s democratically elected deal of leftist activism. Especial- governments,” and backing hate now aligned with “illiberal, augroups “that defame the Jewish tocratic states like Russia, Turly anti-Israel activism.

And so he must be defended. state and seek to deny it the right key and Egypt.” That would be An editorial at New York to defend itself.” Not only is it news to Turkey which just accused Israel of a “crime against Times by a figure linked to the true, but it’s underwhelming.

Even by the low fake news humanity” and backs Hamas. +972 anti-Israel hate site decries “Israel’s War Against George So- standards of today’s extremist Or to Russia, which backs Iran ros”. That’s right up there with media, you expect something and whose S-300 missiles guard Poland’s war on Nazi Germany. more from a headline scream- Iran’s nuclear program against What does this war consist ing “Israel’s War Against George an Israeli strike. But using the

stopped clock principle, getting one of three right isn’t bad for the New York Times.

Soros and the Times were aligned with the illiberal autocratic Muslim Brotherhood’s takeover of Egypt under a leader who had urged Muslims to “nurse our children and grandchildren on hatred” of the Jews.

But there’s nothing anti-Semitic to see there.

According to the New York Times, criticizing an anti-Semite whose Jewishness can only be found with a DNA analysis is anti-Semitic, but attacking millions of Jews defending themselves against genocide isn’t.

The government that represents millions of Jews is anti-Semitic for calling out a left-wing anti-Semite. And the millions of Jews, and even the recently deceased Elie Wiesel, probably are too.

According to Mairav Zonszein, Israel’s criticism of Soros aligns it with anti-Semites. “It takes some gall on the part of Mr. Netanyahu to choose this moment to kick Mr. Soros while he’s down — not only because Mr. Soros is, once again, a victim of anti-Semitism,” Mairav fumes.

By “down”, Mairav means he’s the world’s 22nd richest man and dictates policy to entire governments.

Mr. Soros has not refrained from kicking Israeli families when they were being shot and stabbed by Islamic terrorists.

He hasn’t stopped funding hate

Soros has defended Hamas and Hezbollah who have called for the extermination of the Jews. He championed the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt despite or because of its support for Hitler against Jews or blaming Jews for anti-Semitism.

George Soros funds BDS, an organization run by a terrorist and one that defends the murder of Jews. But there’s mean ole Mr. Netanyahu kicking the 22nd richest man in the world when he’s down.

This shameless Jewashing is despicable and typical. The left shrugs at the murderous anti-Semitism in the Muslim world. And at times it even defends it. It loves Jewashing its hatred of Jews by putting activists with a Jewish last name up front in its anti-Semitic activities. And it will defend anti-Semites like George Soros as victims of anti-Semitism at the hands of the government of millions of Jews.

When it’s convenient, George Soros takes a break from fond recollections of the most exciting time in his life, helping rob Jews, to play a victim of the Holocaust. And if it’s useful, he’ll even take a break from defending Hamas and HezbolSee The Jewashing of George, page 37

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BOOK REVIEW

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David Horowitz Introduces Milo at Freedom Center Book Launch "Milo was put on this planet to teach conservatives that fear is the enemy of freedom, and that mockery and flippancy are Kryptonite to the left."

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ditor's Note: Friday evening, July 14, the David Horowitz Freedom Center hosted a book launch for Dangerous, the debut political manifesto by flamboyant conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos. Although self-published after Milo's book deal was rescinded by a cowardly Simon & Schuster in the face of pressure from the left, Dangerous now stands at an astounding #4 on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction. That puts it just ahead of a memoir by the far-less fabulous, far-left senator Al Franken.

Milo was introduced to a very enthusiastic, packed house at the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles by Freedom Center founder David Horowitz. After an affectionate hug between the two political provocateurs, Milo began by confessing that David was one of his heroes and joked that he would aspire to be like him, "but I'm too lazy." Milo then went on to deliver a speech, interrupted frequently by applause, that was as serious and inspiring as it was irreverent and entertaining.

State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton: “You are a liar and a crook.”

No other Republican would have dared to utter such words publicly because Hillary and Rosie are females, and Republicans, being properly bred and well-mannered, understand they must be deferential to women, even if those women happen to be pigs and crooks.

If Republicans spoke the blunt truth in the prevailing political climate, they would be cast out of polite society and become unpersons. Most importantly, their expulsion would be at the hands of the entire culture – left and right - from Donna Brazille and Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Paul Ryan and Jeb Bush. They would be universally condemned in the collective culture as sexists, which is the gender-version of “racists,” “homophobes” and other traducers of the marginalized and the oppressed.

Prior to the advent of Trump, the effect of this politically correct gender cowardice on the right was to unleash some of the most vicious tongues in our national life – belonging of course to Hillary, Pelosi, Eliz-

damned.

Every leftist political advance during America’s fifty-year decline has been achieved through the use of human shields, allegedly representing the underdogs and victims – blacks, women, gays, illegal aliens, misunderstood jihadists and so on. The left’s overwhelming advantage in the culture war has been achieved through a litany of moral indictments – racist, sexist anti-gay, everyone who opposes us go away.

to do this.

But before Donald Trump there was Milo Yiannopoulos, who was not a political figure and who would have been thrown out of the Republican Party if he had been one. Milo was a cultural justice warrior who already possessed the keys to defeating the totalitarian left.

As much an original as Trump himself, and as politically sharp, Milo exploded into the nation’s consciousness with a tour of the fortresses of political correctness, America’s benighted college campuses. Deploying Milo was introduced to a very enthusiastic, packed house at a theatrical verbal jiu-jitsu, he the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles by Freedom Center founder David Horowitz. After an affectionate hug between the two political provocateurs, Milo began by confessing that David was one of his heroes and joked that he would aspire to be like him, "but I'm too lazy." Milo then went on to deliver a speech, interrupted frequently by applause, that was as serious and inspiring as it was irreverent and entertaining.

Although self-published after Milo's book deal was rescinded by a cowardly Simon & Schuster in the face of pressure from the left, “Dangerous” now stands at an astounding #4 on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction.

Prolific writer and orator, David Horowitz.

Last November at the Freedom Center's Restoration Weekend, Milo was awarded the organization's annual Annie Taylor Award for Courage. Milo will also be appearing at this November's Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach, Florida The transcript of Horowitz's introduction is below: Good evening. An introduction to the phenomenon known as Milo Yiannopoulos, must begin with a brief tour of the cultural landscape he entered and helped to transform. Otherwise, there is no way to understand the earthquake that followed – an upheaval inextricably linked to the man he impishly refers to as “Daddy,” Donald Trump.

For fifty years, the political left – the anti-capitalist, anti-freedom, anti-American left - has been winning the culture war, while the political right – the free market, free people, patriotic right has been losing it. The fortunes of this war took a dramatic turn when Donald Trump threw his hat into the political ring in 2015, and when – in front of 17 million Americans on national TV – he called Rosie O’Donnell a fat slob and a pig, and then before 50 million Americans said to Secretary of

abeth Warren, and Rosie - and to shield the wielders of verbal poison from retribution and reproach. The political result of this Republican self-censorship has been all the defeats on healthcare, borders and budgets that Republicans have inflicted on themselves - despite their control of Congress. They inflicted defeat on themselves because they were afraid that if they did not surrender they would be called racists, sexists, and homophobes, and dumped into the basket of deplorables.

For fifty years the left has depended on its ability to exploit what is in effect America’s national myth - the romance of the underdog who overcomes adversity - in the service of its destructive agendas. In the left’s version of this myth the underdog is recast as a victim of social injustice, while political opponents of the left are condemned as oppressors.

As a messianic movement, the left also plagiarizes religious themes, specifically the Christian paradigm. Social Justice is the promised heaven where the last shall be first, where every valley shall be exalted and every mountain brought low.

And every non-believer shall be

These moral indictments are codified and enforced by the progressive party line, otherwise known as “political correctness,” which is a totalitarian idea invented by history’s greatest mass murderer, Mao Zedong. Its success has caused it to be internalized by the left’s political opponents, crippling their responses.

This is why Republicans - and conservatives generally – are unable to fight fire with fire if the aggressor is female or black or gay, or pretends to be a defender of the same. As Hannah Arendt observed, and as Milo quotes her in his new book, “The aim of a totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions, but to destroy the capacity to form any.”

Every leftist political advance during America’s fifty-year decline has been achieved through the use of human shields, allegedly representing the underdogs and victims – blacks, women, gays, illegal aliens, misunderstood jihadists and so on Andrew Breitbart famously said that politics is downstream from culture. But this almost understates the equation. The culture war –the war against political correctness, against the totalitarian party line – is the political war. Without defeating political correctness, the political war cannot be won. Until the advent of Trump, there was no Republican political figure able

stripped the self-righteous of their carefully constructed fig leaves and left them stuttering and screaming (literally) in his flamboyant wake. In the course of what he called his “Dangerous Faggot Tour,” Milo became a political rock star, creating a youth battalion that poured into the streets to swell the ranks of Trump’s presidential army.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a warrior the likes of whom no Republican Party or conservative movement has ever seen. As a gay man, and a flamboyant one, he is in his own person a weapon against the left’s preposterous claim to speak on behalf of the so-called marginalized and oppressed. Not that being gay has protected Milo from vicious personal attacks, intended to destroy him. Being

gay threw his enemies off balance so he could deliver many coups de gras. But rank hypocrisy or belief in their own b.s. has never proved an obstacle to leftwing malevolence. Few individuals have ever been subjected to the kind of personal abuse that Milo has had to suffer in his service to the cause. But Milo - for all his fey limp-wristedness - is an incredibly strong and brave man.

There are few political figures who have displayed the kind of courage that Milo has regularly shown on the field of battle.

Milo has two incomparable assets – the creative force of his imagination and, paradoxically, his intellectual seriousness. Both are on display in his new book Dangerous, which we are here to launch in Los Angeles tonight.

Dangerous is the Communist Manifesto of the Counter-Revolution. Savagely clear-eyed and compelling in its arguments, profound in its understanding of the political left, and impossible to put down because of its irreverent humor, Dangerous is a combat manual for cultural justice warriors - a guide to the defense of individual liberty and the return to common sense.

Milo’s prescription for the battle is this: be fearless, and flip the equation. Troll them into exposing their private parts. Take their bullets, dig them out, and shoot them back. On the left, as Milo reminds us, feelings trump facts, especially hurt feelings.

Milo’s riposte – immortalized in

a YouTube clip of his encounter with a whining feminist: “Fuck your feelings.”

Milo’s goal, as he tells readers, is “to teach you how to cause the same sort of mayhem I do in defense of the most important right you have in America: the right to do, think, say and be whatever the hell you want. In short order, I have assimilated to the American ways of unapologetic free speech, and of putting facts, fun and fabulousness ahead of feelings.”

As a gay man, and a flamboyant one, he (Milo) is in his own person a weapon against the left’s preposterous claim to speak on behalf of the socalled marginalized and oppressed Milo Yiannopoulos was put on this planet to teach conservatives that fear is the enemy of freedom, and that mockery and flippancy, are Kryptonite to the left. Laughter strips them of their moral high ground, and leaves their hypocrisy to fry in the sun of the blunt truth. As Milo himself puts it: ‘I’m no hypocrite. I tell the truth, always. That’s my whole fucking problem…. I am the left’s worst nightmare.” Yes you are. It is my great honor and privilege to present the incomparable Milo Yiannopoulos.”

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New York Museum Recreates Riveting Scene of the Adolf Eichmann Trial By: Walter Metuth

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alf a century after Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was convicted and hanged in Israel for engineering the deaths of millions of Jews, the bulletproof-glass booth where he sat facing justice has come to New York for a multimedia, you-are-there recreation of the courtroom.

It's part of an exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Jewish Heritage that opened a week ago. It was created by a former agent of Israel's Mossad intelligence service that captured Eichmann a decade after he fled to Argentina.

Surrounding Eichmann's ac-

“The House on Garibaldi Street” by Isser Harel details the capture of the notorious Nazi chieftain, Adolf Eichmann

The 1960 forensic crime lab file comparing photos of Adolf Eichmann in World War II and as Ricardo Klement in Argentina are displayed in the "Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann" exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, July 14, 2017

Avner Avraham, former Israeli Mossad agent and curator of "Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann," stands among silhouette cutouts of the 11 agents who caught Eichmann in Argentina, in the exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in New York, July 14, 2017

tual booth are screens with original video footage — seven minutes culled from 350 courtroom hours — that makes visitors feel like they're spectators at the 1961 proceedings. They hear the voices of survivors who testified against the SS lieutenant-colonel, as well as the prosecutor and the defense attorney.

The balding, 55-year-old German who once planned the routes of cattle-car trains that brought Jews to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and other camps sits stone-faced in footage rolling on a screen right behind the original booth. To the right is another screen beaming the traumatic, tear-drenched testimonies, with one man collapsing to the floor in exhaustion after he speaks.

"Here with me stand 6 million prosecutors," chief prosecutor Gideon Hauser intones in Hebrew, with a subtitled English translation. "Their blood cries to heaven, but their voices cannot be heard."

The trial was held in a Jerusalem theater converted into a courtroom — an appropriate setting for the last act of what unfolds like a sensational cloakand-dagger story, starring the organizer of Hitler's "Final Solution."

The details drew Avner Avraham, who left the Mossad two years ago to collect materials for the exhibit, which takes its title "Operation Finale" from the code name of the undercover Eichmann mission led by Israel's still-budding intelligence

The bulletproof glass booth in which Adolf Eichmann testified during his trial in Jerusalem District Court is displayed in the "Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann" exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York

force in the 1950s. Its agents fanned out across Europe and Argentina, assembling the pieces of a puzzle that ended with Eichmann's hanging.

Avraham said the proof they had the right man came down to his left ear.

Eichmann was abducted by the Mossad in 1960 as he got off a bus while heading home from work at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Buenos Aires. They confirmed it was him by comparing his ear to a photo of Eichmann in a pre-World War II German army file.

In 1957, Avraham said, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion ordered the Mossad to bring back a high-value target "for one big, huge trial — a live Nazi.'"

Eichmann was drugged for

the trip to the airport "because he could start screaming, saying, 'Hey, they take me to Israel. I'm an Argentinian citizen!"' the former Mossad agent said. "I mean, today, you cannot get to the plane with a small bottle of perfume, so you want to bring a Nazi?"

Once in Israel, Avraham said, authorities had Eichmann under constant medical watch and made sure he was well-fed so he could stay healthy for the trial.

Characters who populate the 4,000-square-foot exhibit include cardboard figures of the 11 key Mossad agents, including one woman, who closed in on Eichmann after tracking him for months. He was taken to Israel aboard an El Al plane, camouflaged as a cabin attendant in the airline uniform.

Summer Yiddish Song Celebration A concert in celebration of the rich breadth of music with Yiddish lyrics including Yiddish Theater Songs, Yiddish Folk Songs, and Yiddish Art Songs. Singers include Eléonore Biezunski, Miryem-Khaye Seigel, and Eliza Bagg.

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edicated to performing and developing new work, Brooklyn-based soprano Eliza Bagg has worked closely on projects with a number of prominent and emerging composers including John Zorn, Michael Gordon, Chris Cerrone, Judd Greenstein, Bill Britelle, Amy Beth Kirsten, Olga Bell, and Emily Hall, among others. Her '16-'17 season includes John Zorn's Commedia dell'Arte at the Guggenheim, Infinite Palette's presentation of electro-acoustic art songs by Bill Britelle, Missy Mazzoli, and Daniel Wohl at the Palm Springs Art Museum, Claire Chases's Density Project at The Kitchen, an excerpt from Michael Gordon's Van Gogh with the Bang on a Can All-Stars, a presentation of Hildegard Von Bingen chant at The Met Museum with Jacqueline Horner of Anonymous 4, and a performance of David Lang's Death Speaks, along with numerous collaborative projects with emerging composers and premieres of new works written specifically for her. Bagg has been noted for her unique sound and artistry, having had her "haunting vocals" compared by Pitchfork to "a lovelorn alien reaching out from the farthest reaches of the galaxy.” www.elizabagg.com Eléonore Biezunski is a singer, violinist and archivist. She was trained in classical violin, klezmer music, Yiddish song and voice. She has collected Yiddish songs and melodies between Paris and New York, where she has founded or joined groups (Shpilkes, The Klezmographers, Shtetl Stompers, Les Égarés and Yerushe), written plays (“La Complainte du Balluchon”, “Le Petit Peuple de Ruth Rubin”) or joined theater companies, to which she lends her voice and her bow and plays a little comedy (Cie La Courte Échelle; Der Lufteater; Cie 0,10). She released her second album "Yerushe" in 2016, drawing from the Ruth Rubin Collection and other Yiddish music archives. Her first album “Zol zayn” came out in 2014 with the band Shpil-

kes. When she is not on stage, she teaches (Maison de la Culture Yiddish, Workmen's Circle, Institut Européen des Musiques Juives), hosts a radio show about “Zing!” on the online Radio "Yiddish Pour Tous” and serves as Sound Archivist in the The Max and Frieda Weinstein Archives of Recorded Sound at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (NYC), where she prepares, alongside Lorin Sklamberg the publication of the Ruth Rubin Collection online.

Waletzky) through the Center for Traditional Music and Dance. She published an article about Yiddish Songs about New York "East Side Story. Mémoires sédimentées de l’expérience migratoire juive à New York à travers une chanson yiddish", in. Marianne Amar, Hélène Bertheleu, Laure Teulières (dirs.), Mémoires des migrations,

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel is a Yiddish singer, songwriter, actor, and researcher in the field of Yiddish culture. A fluent Yiddish speaker, Miryem-Khaye has performed, lectured and taught throughout North America and in Poland and Australia. She's appeared frequently with the Folksbiene (National Yiddish Theater) and Hankus Netsky's Hebrew National Salvage, and shared the stage with many luminaries of the Yiddish and klezmer scene.

Eléonore Biezunski is a singer, violinist and archivist. She was trained in classical violin, klezmer music, Yiddish song and voice.

singer, songwriter, actor, and researcher in the field of Yiddish culture. A fluent Yiddish speaker, Miryem-Khaye has performed, lectured and taught throughout North America and in Poland Dedicated to performing and developing new temps de l'histoire, Presses Universitaires François and Australia. She's appeared frequently with work, Brooklyn-based soprano Eliza Bagg has Rabelais, Paris, 2015. When she was in Paris, she the Folksbiene (National Yiddish Theater) and worked closely on projects with a number of was the Assistant of Hervé Roten at the European Hankus Netsky's Hebrew National Salvage, and prominent and emerging composers including Institute for Jewish Music, where she participat- shared the stage with many luminaries of the John Zorn, Michael Gordon, Chris Cerrone, ed in the publication of a 6-CD set "Jewish Music Yiddish and klezmer scene. Her research project Judd Greenstein, Bill Britelle, Amy Beth Kirsten, in Paris in the Aftermath of WWII", Eds. E. Bie- “The Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Olga Bell, and Emily Hall, among others. zunski, L. Couderc & H. Roten, Éditions de l'In- Theater” received the 2011-2012 Joseph Kremen She is a 2017 recipient of the New York State stitut Européen des Musiques Juives, Paris, 2015. Memorial Fellowship at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Toyznt tamen = A thousand flavors is Council on the Arts' Folk Art Apprenticeships Her website: www.eleonorebiezunski.com Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel is a Yiddish her first solo album. www.amks.wordpress.com (for the study of Yiddish Folksongs with Josh

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The Real Jihadist Threat No One Is Watching By: Abigail R. Esman

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ost people can tell you who the potential jihadists are, especially the ones in Europe and the USA. You can point them out in a group: they are immigrants, or more often, the children of immigrants, who came from the Middle East or North Africa. They often converse among one another in Arabic. Many want to join the Islamic State and other terror groups in Syria, or have gone and since returned. They are mostly men, usually around age 20 or less, and have grown up feeling alienated from the societies in which they live.

Most of this is wrong.

In fact, the UK-based Henry Jackson Society has found that "those who convert to Islam are four times more likely to be-

In fact, the UK-based Henry Jackson Society has found that "those who convert to Islam are four times more likely to become terrorists than those who are born Muslims."

come terrorists than those who are born Muslims." And in 2015, the Washington Post warned that converts have emerged "as some of the most dangerous and fanatical adherents to radical Islam."

Now a recent study in the Netherlands shows that "the share of converts to Islamist extremism tends to be significantly higher" than those born into the faith. As many as 17 percent of Dutch converts have joined the caliphate, the study's authors claim – seven times more than the percentage of converts to the entire Dutch Muslim community. And most of those are women.

That study is supported by previous reports that show that as many as 25 percent of the French Muslims who have made hijrah to Syria are converts from other faiths. Figures are slightly lower – one in six, or about 17 percent– in Germany. In the UK, according to the Economist, though converts comprise fewer than 4 percent of all Muslims, they account for 12 percent of "home-grown jihadists."

And in America, while one-fifth of Muslims are converts, twofifths, or 40 percent, of those arrested on suspicion of ISIS ties

in 2015 had converted.

A review of recent attacks confirms this. Converts were involved in the attempted 2015 Garland, Texas attack on a contest to draw the prophet Mohammed; the killing of four people outside London's Houses of Parliament; and the London

guaque, who blew herself up in Iraq in 2005. And in America, Colleen La Rose, aka Jihad Jane, collaborated with another convert, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, in a failed plot to murder Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist who had drawn cartoons of Islam's prophet Mohammed.

And in 2015, the Washington Post warned that converts have emerged "as some of the most dangerous and fanatical adherents to radical Islam."

July 7, 2005 bombings. Samantha Lewthwaite, the "white widow" said to be responsible for the deaths of more than 400 people – including those killed in the 7/7 attack, is a convert, as was the Belgian Muriel De-

The number of women among them is notable: according to the BBC, unlike the men, the "vast majority" of women who join ISIS from the West are converts. Similarly, according to the Dutch report, of the Dutch

converts who have joined the Islamic state, 61 percent were women – a figure that seems consistent with other countries, as well. Among the more wellknown: Jaelyn Delshaun Young, a University of Mississippi chemistry student, apprehended en route to the Islamic State in 2015; Fatima Az Zahra, neé Maria Giulia Sergio, an Italian Roman Catholic convert whom the Italian media now calls "Lady Jihad"; and British expunk-rocker Sally Jones, whom counter-terrorists consider an active, effective, and therefore dangerous recruiter.

To read more about social media and recruiting women, click here.

Also of note in the Dutch study is the age of the individuals who have gone to Syria: they are on average 23 (though according to other analyses, the average German and American who makes the trip is 26). The average ISIS-jihadist, in other words, is older than many believe these young radicals to be.

None of this is accidental, according to Mubin Shaikh, a former Muslim radical turned counterterrorism professional and the author of Undercover Jihadi: Inside the Toronto 18.

In the early days of the Islamic State, he said in a recent phone interview, ISIS recruiters "would get a bonus if they brought women over. There were units dedicated to recruiting Western women to use as propaganda, specifically targeting converts."

All of which suggests that our current "profile" of your average radicalized Muslim may need updating. And perhaps, too, we should be tweaking elements of counter-terrorism approaches worldwide. Shaikh believes the primary focus needs to be on "human intelligence" and better monitoring within the (Muslim) community. "That's where the best tips come from," he said.

"But it's a sensitive topic. Do we need to send more spies into the community? Then the community feels they can't trust anyone anymore. But that's the price you pay. If a threat is coming from a particular community, you need to convince them to come forward."

That community includes converts' families, who often are too uninformed about Islam, and rarely pay attention to what or who has influenced the new convert's decision. And See The Real Jihadist , page 37

Funding Terrorism to Fight Terrorism Why are we funding Islamic terror in Israel?

By: Daniel Greenfield

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aster Sgt. Haiel Sitawe, the father of a newborn baby, and Kamil Shnaan, who was newly engaged, were murdered in an Islamic terrorist attack in Jerusalem. The two Israeli police officers were members of the Druze community in Israel. The terrorists who shot them were killed by other police officers.

While Israel will compensate the families of the dead police officers, the Palestinian Authority will compensate the families of the terrorists. And American taxpayers will compensate both.

This is typical of a foreign policy in which we fund both the terrorists and the terrorized.

Sooner or later, we are going to have to choose a side.

This mad policy is facing its biggest threat with the Taylor Force Act. The bill, named after a murdered Afghanistan and Iraq War veteran stabbed to death in Tel Aviv, would strip funding from the Palestinian Authority unless the terror state stops giving money to terrorists and their families for their crimes.

The Taylor Force Act has plenty of support in Congress.

But the Palestinian Authority has made it abundantly clear that it will not stop paying terrorists to kill Israelis. PA terror boss Abbas is gambling that our

Act, the call is on for a “Taylor Force like” bill that would be politicians will blink first rath- the Taylor Force Act. Instead like it the way that a $25 Rolex er than stop sending him hun- it’s holding out for some “re- being peddled from a wheelbarvised” version that would make row outside Central Park is like dreds of millions of dollars.

And the tragedy of it is that he it meaningless while attracting a real Rolex.

There are calls for a more bipartisan support. Meaningless appears to be right.

Everyone condemns the Pal- pro-Israel measures that pass “targeted” bill that would go afestinian Authority’s policy of with huge majorities are AI- ter some, but not all of the PA’s funding terrorists. Typical ad- PAC’s bread and butter. They’re funding.

But what would a targeted bill jectives include “abhorrent” and its political Potemkin villages. “abominable”. But don’t expect them to actually cut off the cash.

Senators are scurrying to neuter the Taylor Force Act. There are dire warnings that if we stop funding the biggest Islamic terrorist group in Israel, it will collapse and make way for more terrorism.

If we don’t stop giving Islamic terrorists money to commit terrorism… the terrorists will win.

This sums up the insanity of our foreign policy in which we fund terrorism to fight terrorism, and in which the “moderate” Islamic terrorists of the Palestinian Authority and the Master Sgt. Haiel Sitawe, the father of a newborn baby, and Muslim Brotherhood are our Kamil Shnaan, who was newly engaged, were murdered in an best hope for restraining the Islamic terrorist attack in Jerusalem. The two Israeli police officers really scary “extremist” Islamic were members of the Druze community in Israel. The terrorists terrorists of ISIS and Al Qaeda. who shot them were killed by other police officers.

Senators have been comThe ideal Taylor Force Act, actually target? There are calls plaining about the act’s “All or nothing” approach. All or noth- according to AIPAC, most to exempt humanitarian aid. ing means that the Palestinian Democrats and some Republi- Never mind that much of the Authority would have to stop cans, would condemn terrorism humanitarian aid really finds funding terror or lose fund- without cutting a cent in foreign its way into the pockets of PA ing. And since the Palestinian aid to the Palestinian Authori- and Hamas leaders. Then there Authority won’t stop funding ty. It would contain a national is the “security assistance” that terror and they don’t want to security waiver and plenty of enables the terrorists to pretend cut its funding, they hate all or gimmicks that would actually to fight terrorism.

And then there’s all the inincrease funding for terror. nothing.

Instead of the Taylor Force stitutional support to maintain AIPAC hasn’t gotten behind

the corrupt authoritarian institutions of the PA while still providing all of the social services that the PA is supposed to provide, but doesn’t. We have to build roads and schools, and provide electricity and fund hospitals for our worst enemies.

If we can’t cut social services to the biggest terrorist welfare state in the world or security assistance to its terrorist armies, what can we cut?

You guessed it. Nothing.

Cut social services and we’ll just “radicalize” and “embitter” them further. Cut security assistance and they’ll have no choice but to resort to more terrorism.

What can we do except give them more money?

A Taylor Force like bill will just move money around. And nothing will change. Senators will pat themselves on the back.

And the State Department will see to it that the terror funding continues.

Just to make a madly irrational policy even more absurdly insane, critics of the Taylor Force Act claim that ending funding for terror will undermine Israeli security. The basis for this claim comes from what is usually described in umpteen news stories as a coalition of retired Israeli military officers.

But Caroline Glick has already exposed Commanders for Israel’s Security as a left-wing group with links toObama and Soros. CIS holds positions that undermine Israeli security. And it’s part of a pattern of recruiting

retired Israeli security personnel and military people as fronts for anti-Israel agendas.

Prime Minister Netanyahu supports the Taylor Force Act. As do top former military officials. The first name on the list belonged to former Defense Minister Ya’alon; no friend of Netanyahu. The letter concludes by noting that, “The Knesset is considering passage of a law calling for deducting the amount the PA pays terrorists from the money Israel transfers to the PA. It is legislation sponsored by members of all parties, except the far-left Meretz and the Joint Arab List.”

And yet we have politicians and pundits who insist that “we should listen to the Israelis” and keep on funding the PLO. The “Israelis” they want us to listen to are not the country’s elected government and its voters, but a fake organization with an agenda and links to Israel’s opponents.

And so here we are funding terrorism to fight terrorism and listening to Israelis by ignoring them.

Sarah Yerkes of the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace argues that threatening to defund the PA unless it stops funding terrorism could lead to it refusing to change its policy of funding terrorism. If the PA doesn’t stop financing terror out of the goodness of its heart, we’re utterSee Funding Terrorism , page 36

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Zuccotti Park, shortly before 5 p.m. on Sept. 17, 2013.

The police had been concerned about crowd control, and handcuffed Kass after he refused to move inside the park or “keep walking.”

In June 2015, a federal judge rejected the city’s argument that the officers involved were immune from Kass’ claims.

But the appeals court overturned that ruling. It said that while sidewalks are “generally The rail crossing in Valhalla, NY open to the public,” the city’s where the Deadly crash interest in maintaining public occurred. safety and order outweighed Rail design led to Kass’ First Amendment right deadliness of NY to listen to the protesters. train crash that The appeals court said it killed Jewish mom lacked jurisdiction over Kass’ (VIN) Federal investigators remaining state law claims, for have concluded that a fiery malicious prosecution and ascrash between a commuter sault and battery. train and an SUV that killed six people in the New York City suburbs in 2015 was extra deadly because of an unusual rail design, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on Monday.

The Metro-North Railroad train crashed into an SUV on the tracks at a crossing in Valhalla, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of New York City. The impact sparked an explosion and flames blast- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ed into the passenger area, Netanyahu meets with a burning out the first car of the delegation of US senators led by train. The driver of the SUV US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in PM and five people aboard the Netanyahu's office in Tel Aviv. train were killed. More than a April 04, 2013. Photo by Kobi dozen others were injured.

Gideon / GPO/FLASH90 National Transportation NY Sen. Gillibrand: Safety Board investigators Netanyahu does ‘not found that about 340 feet of electrified rail was pulled up have a plan for peace’ from the ground, penetrated (VIN) Israeli Prime Ministhe SUV’s fuel tank and then ter Benjamin Netanyahu does sliced into the train, according “not have a plan for peace,” to the official, who was not au- said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, thorized to discuss an ongoing D-N.Y. also calling for a U.S. investigation and spoke to the “call for action” to Israel.

AP on condition of anonymi“I am concerned that Prime ty.

Minister Netanyahu does The rail was an “under-run- not have a plan for peace, ning” or “under-riding” de- and doesn’t have a vision for sign where a metal “shoe” slips peace,” Gillibrand said Saturunderneath the electrified day at a town hall meeting in third rail, rather than skim- the Bronx in New York City, ming along the top. Questions in remarks first reported by were raised after the crash Mondoweiss, an anti-Zionist about whether the collision news site. caused the shoe to pry up the Her remarks were signifthird rail. icant for their sharpness in NTSB investigators are also tone and for the robust aprecommending risk assess- plause she received. A decade ments be conducted for grade ago, it would have been uncrossings, the official said. imaginable for a New York senator to publicly rebuke an NYC wins appeal over Israeli leader. Wounds opened Wall Street lawyer when Netanyahu openly sided arrested at protest with Republicans in 2015 to A Wall Street lawyer arrest- counter the Iran nuclear deal ed in 2013 after he stopped have yet to heal.

Gillibrand described a on the sidewalk to talk with Occupy Wall Street protesters meeting she had last year cannot seek damages from when she led a delegation of New York City and its police senators to Israel.

“In our meeting with Prime for false arrest and imprisonment, a federal appeals court Minister Netanyahu, the question we asked is, what is your ruled on Monday.

By a 3-0 vote, the 2nd U.S. vision for peace, and he didn’t Circuit Court of Appeals in have one,” she said.

“He just said my only hope Manhattan said police acted reasonably in arresting Ste- is that I protect my people phen Kass, an environmental from rockets,” Gillibrand said. lawyer at Carter Ledyard & “If you don’t have a vision, if Milburn who was 73 at the you don’t have a plan, then it time, in downtown Manhat- is never going to happen. And so we do need to require more tan.

Kass was cited for disor- of our world leaders, and I derly conduct after refus- think a call to action to Israel’s ing several requests to stop government to have a plan for talking with protesters from peace is really incumbent on a sidewalk, outside barricades all of us.”

Gillibrand was respondthat had surrounded them in

ing to a questioner — whom Mondoweiss identified as belonging to Jewish Voice for Peace — who challenged her support for a bill which targets the Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement.

The American Civil Liberties Union has said the bill impinges on speech freedoms.

The bill extends existing bans on cooperating with boycotts sponsored by countries to those sponsored by international organizations. It also encompasses boycotts of settlement goods. Defenders of the bill say it is narrowly defined to target only businesses that proactively provide assistance to boycotts organized by international organizations.

“The way I read the bill is not the way you read the bill,” Gillibrand said to the questioner. “I saw the bill as an extension of foreign policy to not allow companies to side with foreign entities that were doing boycotts.”

Gillibrand said she was ready to meet with the ACLU to discuss the bill, however.

“I am open to looking at [the bill] again because I do not want to undermine people’s free speech rights on any level,” he said.

NATIONAL New Jersey town orders to remove pipes showing boundary for 'Eruv' (VIN) A town in New Jersey has ordered an Orthodox Jewish organization to take down its eruv, or religious boundary, by early next month.

Mahwah, which is located across the New York state border, told the South Monsey Eruv Fund to remove the white plastic piping from utility poles that it uses for the symbolically enclosed area by Aug. 4. An eruv allows observant Jews to carry objects and push strollers outside of their homes on Shabbat.

The Orthodox community told The Associated Press that it had been given permission to hang the piping by the utility company. But town officials said the piping is banned because it is considered signage.

More than 1,200 people have signed an online petition calling for the eruv to be taken down. Many of the dozens of comments accompanying the petition, titled “Protect the Quality of our Community in Mahwah,” refer to “these people” and express concerns about falling property values.

Most of them are anonymous.

“I don’t want these rude, nasty, dirty people who think they can do what they want in our nice town,” one of the comments reads.

Another says: “I do not want the town of Mahwah to turn into an undesirable place to live. These people do not assimilate with other people outside their community. I do not want them controlling our school board and siphoning funds for their yeshivas. Also, they buy houses which they claim is for religious purposes and do not pay taxes. They should stay where they are and leave our town alone.”

Rabbis dispute ADL’s alt-right list, issue own list of the far left

fly to Israel. I wasn’t even able to get as far as checking my bag,” said Wise, according to (JNS.org) The Anti-Defa- a JVP statement. She added, mation League’s (ADL) new “I’m heartbroken and out“hate list” of top alt-right fig- raged.”

Israel’s move falls in line ures “gives a free pass to anti-Semitism coming from left- with the Knesset legislature’s wing activists,” a rabbinical recent approval of a bill forbidding BDS activists from group is asserting.

The Coalition for Jewish entering the Jewish state.

Values, which represents 200 Orthodox rabbis in the U.S. INTERNATIONAL and Canada, also charged that “political motives” were beIsrael and France set to hind the ADL’s inclusion of launch joint micro-satellite to Corey Stewart, a prominent monitor climate change Virginia conservative who is (JNS.org) Venus, a miseeking the Republican nom- cro-satellite weighing 585 ination to oppose Sen. Tim pounds that was jointly deKaine. signed by Israeli and French The Coalition countered the aerospace firms, will launch ADL’s list by releasing a top 10 Aug. 1 with the aim of monilist of left-wing activists who, toring climate change. it says, are “far more guilty The mission, which will of anti-Jewish defamatory closely monitor the impact of speech” than those named by human activity on vegetation the ADL. The Coalition’s list as well as monitor water and includes Linda Sarsour, the carbon levels, aims to observe feminist activist and BDS pro- 110 sites on five continents moter; Hatem Bazian, founder every two days, according to of Students for Justice in Pal- Venus project leader Pierric estine, arguably the most ac- Ferrier. tive anti-Israel group on colThe micro-satellite was built lege campuses; Rachel Gilmer, as part of collaboration beco-author of the Black Lives tween Israel Aerospace IndusMatter platform, which ac- tries and France’s space agencused Israel of genocide; and cy. Additionally, Israel’s Rafael Rebecca Vilkomerson, execu- Advanced Defense Systems tive director the anti-Zionist provided the micro-satellite’s organization Jewish Voice for electric propulsion system Peace. and Elbit Systems provided its high-resolution camera.

“Venus is a Franco-Israeli satellite with a scientific as well as a technological goal,” said Jean-Yves Le Gal, president of the French National Center for Space Studies, Reuters reported. “Scientific, because it will enable us to observe vegetation with a twoday frequency and a high precision…It is definitely a satellite at the service of the fight Feminist activist and BDS promoter Linda Sarsour (pictured) against climate change….And technological, because for the is on a top 10 list of left-wing first time we are going to use activists produced by the a plasmic propulsion designed Coalition for Jewish Values.

by Israel and it will enable us Credit: Festival of Faiths via to test this propulsion while Wikimedia Commons. on orbit.”

Anti-Israel activists prevented from boarding flight from Washington to Tel Aviv

(JNS.org) A group of five prominent anti-Israel BDS movement activists were prevented Monday from boarding a flight from Washington, D.C., to Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport.

The anti-Zionist organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) had coordinated the “interfaith delegation” to Israel. When the group attempted to check in for a Lufthansa flight to Tel Aviv at Dulles International Airport, they were informed the Israeli government had ordered they not be allowed to board.

The activists prohibited from boarding included JVP members Rabbi Alissa Wise, Alana Krivo-Kaufman and Noah Habeeb, as well as Rick Ufford Chase of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and Shakeel Syed, a national board member with American Muslims for Palestine.

“We were told at check-in that the airline has a letter from the Israeli government saying we are not allowed to

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from left) with European leaders at the Visegard Group summit. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

JULY 28, 2017 door meeting with the leaders of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, unaware that his microphone was broadcasting the conversation to journalists outside the room.

Netanyahu urged the European leaders to implement stricter border controls for refugees entering the EU from Africa and the Middle East.

“The European Union is the only association of countries in the world that conditions the relations with Israel, that produces technology in every area, on political conditions.

The only ones! Nobody does it,” he said.

“It’s crazy. It’s actually crazy,” Netanyahu added, in reference to the EU’s insistence on pressuring Israel to make concessions in negotiations with the Palestinians as a precondition to certain deals with the 28-nation bloc.

Chinese president promises ‘unremitting efforts’ towards IsraeliPalestinian peace (JNS.org) Chinese President Xi Jinping last week pledged to make “unremitting” efforts towards promoting Israeli-Palestinian peace during a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Beijing.

Abbas was on a three-day visit to China as part of an effort to gain political and economic support from the world’s second-largest economy.

“As the Palestinian people’s good friend, partner and brother, China hopes Palestine and Israel can achieve peace as soon as possible and live and work in peace. China will make unremitting efforts for this,” Xi said after meeting with Abbas, who presented the Chinese leader with a Palestinian medal of honor.

China has historically had a low-profile role in dealing with Middle East conflicts, preferring to instead maintain more pragmatic economic relationships centered around its need for energy. But as the country continues to grow its global influence, China has shown signs of stepping up its diplomatic engagement with the region.

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Netanyahu overheard lambasting EU’s ‘crazy’ Israel policy (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was overheard harshly criticizing the European Union (EU) during his visit last week to Budapest, where he took part in the Visegrad Group summit with the leaders of four central European nations.

“I am not very politically correct. I know that’s a shock to some of you….But the truth is the truth—both about Europe’s security and Europe’s economic future. Both of these concerns mandate a different policy towards Israel,” Netanyahu said in a closed-

Palestinian rioters in eastern Jerusalem, near the Old City, protest Israel’s new Temple Mount metal detectors following Friday prayers July 21, 2017.

Credit. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel removes Temple Mount metal detectors in favor of ‘advanced technologies’ (JNS.org) Israel decided Monday to remove the met-

JULY 28, 2017 al detectors at the Temple Mount, which had been installed following the recent terror attack that killed two Israeli policemen near the holy site, in favor of “security measures based on advanced technologies.”

After Palestinian-incited riots and terror attacks that came in response to Israel’s Temple Mount security measures, the Israeli security cabinet announced it accepted a recommendation by security agencies to incorporate “smart checks” and other security measures instead of metal detectors “in order to ensure the security of visitors and worshippers in the Old City and on the Temple Mount.”

“Until the implementation of the plan, the Israel Police will reinforce its units and carry out additional actions as necessary in order to ensure the security of visitors on the Mount,” the security cabinet said in a statement, adding that Israel has allocated a budget of up to $28 million to implement the plan during a timeframe of up to six months.

The violence that followed Israel’s installation of the metal detectors included a Palestinian terrorist’s fatal stabbing of three members of an Israeli family—Yosef, Chaya and Elad Salomon—in the Samaria community of Halamish last Friday night.

The ZAKA volunteer emergency response group—including its chairman, Yehuda Meshi Zahav (pictured in front, center)— cleans up the scene of Friday night’s deadly Palestinian terror attack at the Salomon family home in Halamish. Credit: Yehezkiel Itkin/ZAKA.

Palestinian terrorist kills three Israelis in ‘bloodbath’ in Samaria (JNS.org) Three Israelis were killed and a fourth was wounded Friday in a Palestinian terrorist stabbing attack in the Samaria community of Halamish. The terrorist was shot by an off-duty IDF soldier and is in the Israeli defense establishment’s custody.

The victims were Yosef Salomon, 70, his daughter Chaya, 46, and son Elad, 36. Yosef ’s wife, Tova, 68, was wounded and rushed to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

Doctors said Sunday her condition had improved.

The terrorist, 19-yearold Omar al-Abed, from the nearby village of Kaubar, is a known Hamas sympathizer.

The IDF carried out several raids in Kaubar and other Palestinian villages over the weekend, arresting 29 people, including nine Hamas members.

Abed breached Halamish’s security fence. Once inside the Salomon family home, whose

The Jewish Voice door was unlocked, the terrorist immediately embarked on a frenzied attack. The family was gathered around the table for a festive Shabbat meal.

“The scenes of a bloodbath that greeted us when we arrived on Saturday evening at the Salomon home shocked us all to the core—even the most veteran ZAKA volunteers,” Yehuda Meshi Zahav, chairman of the ZAKA emergency response group, told JNS.org.

IDF spokesperson Brig.

Gen. Ronen Manelis said Abed told investigators the attack was inspired by events on the Temple Mount. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his “profound sorrow” over the deaths of “Yosef, Chaya and Elad, who were murdered by a human animal driven by incitement to hate Jews.”

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for the survival of the local inhabitants of the area during dry seasons.

“It is difficult not to be impressed by the sight of the immense underground reservoir quarried out so many years ago,” Itach said. “In antiquity, rainwater collection and storage was a fundamental necessity. With an annual rainfall of 500 millimeters (20 inches), the region’s winter rains would easily have filled the huge reservoir.”

Within the reservoir, the archaeologists also discovered engravings of human figures, crosses and a vegetal motif that were likely carved by a passerby in a later period.

“Overall, we identified sevIsrael hit with rocket en figures measuring 15–30 fire from Gaza multiple centimeters (6-12 inches). times amid Temple Most have outstretched arms Mount tension and a few appear to be hold(JNS.org) Israel was hit ing some kind of object,” Itach with rocket fire from Hamas- said. ruled Gaza multiple times Israeli guard stabbed since Sunday morning, amid

by Jordanian terrorist the tension over the Temple returns home after Mount holy site in Jerusalem. diplomatic standoff A rocket fired from Hamas-controlled Gaza land(JNS.org) An Israeli emed in Israel’s Eshkol Regional bassy security guard who was Council in the northwestern stabbed by a Jordanian terNegev Sunday night. An IDF rorist Sunday has returned to tank responded by attacking Israel following a tense dipHamas outposts in Gaza. lomatic standoff between the The ELLI-Q robot of the Israeli “As a terrorist organization, neighboring countries. start-up Intuition Robotics. Last Hamas is the ruler of the Gaza All Israeli diplomats serving week, Intuition announced a $14 Strip, and it is responsible for in the Arab nation, including million financing round headed any attempt to harm the state Ambassador to Jordan Einat

by Japan’s Toyota Research of Israel,” the IDF said.

Institute. Credit: Intuition Robotics Shlain and the security guard, Earlier Sunday, a rocket arrived in Israel Monday via Facebook. from Gaza was fired at the Is- night.

Israeli robotics start-up raeli coastal city of Ashkelon.

“All are in good health,” the announces $14 million The rocket exploded midfundraising round air and caused no injuries or (JNS.org) The Israeli start- damage, according to the IDF. Israel decided Monday to up Intuition Robotics, which is developing a robot that aims remove metal detectors at the to improve quality of life for Temple Mount, which had seniors, last week announced been installed following the a $14 million financing round deadly Arab terror attack near headed by Japan’s Toyota Re- the holy site July 14, in favor of “security measures based search Institute.

The Israeli company’s EL- on advanced technologies.”

LI-Q robot is designed to help seniors cope with emotional issues, such as loneliness, and encourages them to live a more active lifestyle.

“The world’s population is aging rapidly,” said Dor Skuler, co-founder and CEO of Intuition Robotics, the Israeli financial news outlet Globes reported.

“The proportion of the population that will soon be 65 or older has grown to 30 per- Israeli students participate in a cent...life expectancy in the recent dig near Rosh Ha-Ayin, West is already nearing 86-87, which resulted in the discovery of and continues to climb,” he a 2,700-year-old ancient water said. “The result is many years reservoir. Credit: Gili Stern, Israel without an employment or so- Antiquities Authority. cial framework for people who Israeli students help are still mainly healthy and luuncover 2,700-yearcid. The result of this isolation old Assyrian-era is accelerated dementia, dewater reservoir pression and death.”

(JNS.org) Israeli high school students working in Israel to build $3.9 conjunction with the Israel million memorial Antiquities Authority (IAA) honoring Zionist unearthed an “impressively pioneer Jabotinsky large” 2,700-year-old ancient (Israel Hayom/Exclusive water reservoir near Rosh JNS.org) The Israeli cabinet Ha-Ayin in central Israel that Sunday approved plans to dates to the period around the build a memorial for revision- destruction of the Kingdom ist Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabo- of Israel in 720 B.C., when the Assyrian empire dominated tinsky in Jerusalem.

Expected to cost some 14 the region.

According to Gilad Itach, million shekels ($3.9 million), the memorial will take director of excavations at the the form of a museum aimed IAA, the reservoir was crucial at teaching the public about Jabotinsky’s ideology and life.

The memorial will be administered by Israel’s Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Ministry, headed by Jerusalem Affairs and Environmental Protection Minister Ze'ev Elkin.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took part Sunday at an event marking 77 years since Jabotinsky’s death and 68 years since the death of his wife, Johanna Jabotinsky. Netanyahu called the decision to memorialize Jabotinsky “an important decision that will preserve the memory of one of the founders of Zionism.”

Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said, adding that the diplomats’ return “was made possible by the close cooperation that took place in the last 24 hours between Israel and Jordan.”

Amid Israeli-Jordanian tension over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount holy site, Mohammed Jawawdeh, 17, a worker who was at the Israeli embassy compound in Amman to install furniture, had stabbed the Israeli security guard in the stomach with a screwdriver before being fatally shot Sunday. A Jordanian doctor, who owned the building where the attack took place, was hit by a stray bullet during the incident and also died of his injuries.

The Jordanian Islamic Waqf administers the Temple Mount, where Israel had installed metal detectors to prevent future terror attacks such as the July 14 killing of two Israeli policemen. Israel decided Monday to remove the metal detectors in favor of “security measures based on advanced technologies.”

PA must pay damages for torturing Palestinians, Israeli court rules (JNS.org) In a landmark case, a Jerusalem court this week ruled that the Palestinian Authority (PA) must pay damages to 51 Palestinians who were imprisoned and systematically subjected to “unimaginable torture” by the PA

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The court’s 1,860-page ruling was published July 19 after 90 court sessions and a painstaking review of the plaintiffs’ allegations that they were physically and mentally harmed—some for several years—after being detained by the PA on suspicion of collaborating with Israel.

Plaintiffs said the PA sought to extract confessions by brutally beating them, extinguishing cigarettes on their bodies, pulling out their teeth, forcing them into painful positions for extended periods of time, and denying them food and drink. Several of the plaintiffs also stated their genitals were harmed, rendering them sterile.

In other instances, prisoners said they were locked inside blistering hot metal containers, interchangeably soaked with boiling and freezing water, forced to drink toilet water and sit on shards of broken glass, forced to watch executions of other suspected collaborators with Israel, and regularly denied access to medical care.

The PA admitted to the imprisonment of several of the plaintiffs, but denied all allegations of torture.

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Borough of S. Toms River to Sell Old Municipal Building Online Edited by: JV Staff

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town in New Jersey has ordered an Orthodox Jewish organization to take down its eruv, or religious boundary, by early next month.

Mahwah, which is located across the New York state border, told the South Monsey Eruv Fund to remove the white plastic piping from utility poles that it uses for the symbolically enclosed area by Aug. 4. An eruv allows observant Jews to carry objects and push strollers outside of their homes on Shabbat.

The Orthodox community told The Associated Press that it had been given permission to hang the piping by the utility company. But town officials said the piping is banned because it is considered signage.

More than 1,200 people have signed an online petition calling for the eruv to be taken down.

Many of the dozens of comments accompanying the petition, titled “Protect the Quality of our Community in Mahwah,” refer to “these people” and express concerns about falling property values. Most of them are anonymous.

“I don’t want these rude, nasty, dirty people who think they can do what they want in our nice town,” one of the comments reads.

Another says: “I do not want

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eginning July 1, 2017, anyone interested in purchasing the old municipal building located at 144 & 148 Mill Street in Toms River, NJ now has their chance.

The Borough of South Toms River is selling the property via online auction on the government auction website GovDeals.com.

The property for sale consists of two separate buildings.

The main building is the South Toms River Municipal Complex, which totals 4,294 square Piping has been installed on some Mahwah utility poles feet of gross building area, not including the partially finished basement space that was occupied by the South Toms River Police Department.

In addition, there is a 1,058-square foot building that was occupied by the South Toms River Sewerage Authority. The total gross building area is 5,352 square feet. The total site area is .95 acres or 41,382 square feet.

Additional information can be viewed in the detailed appraisal report attached to the auction page.

The borough opened the bidding to the public on July 1st, Putting up the eruv and will run the auction for 60 the town of Mahwah to turn and siphoning funds for their days, ending on September 1st into an undesirable place to live. yeshivas. Also, they buy houses also at 3:15pm. Bidding starts at These people do not assimilate which they claim is for religious $250,000, with a $5,000 deposit with other people outside their purposes and do not pay taxes. required to bid and no reserve. community. I do not want them They should stay where they are Those wishing to inspect the controlling our school board and leave our town alone.” (JTA) property prior to bidding can

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do so by contacting the borough and scheduling an appointment.

Hours for inspection will be Monday-Friday, 9am-4pm.

Joseph Kostecki, Borough Administrator who is facilitating the auction, has advised that the entirety of the borough has been designated as an “area in need of rehabilitation” which provided them the authority to offer the new buyer a five-year tax exemption or abatement as a financial incentive to encourage rehabilitation of the area.

Before selling their surplus items online, the borough held in-person public auctions, with most items being purchased by

those who live locally. With the addition of online auctions, Borough of South Toms River has expanded their potential bidder base nationally, helping return more capital to the municipality, which will use the funds to help reduce the borough’s debt.

The Borough of Toms River places items up for auction as they are declared surplus and all auctions are open to the public.

Interested bidders can view the building and all other auctions at www.govdeals.com/SouthTomsRiverRealEstate. New bidders can complete their free registration from the GovDeals home page.

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Gucci Takes Modest Dressing Mainstream By: Lieba Nesis

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n the past two years, the fashion industry has gone through tremendous change as designers Alber Elbaz of Lanvin, Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy and Raf Simons of Dior have been given the boot. However, the greatest transformation in the industry has been the appointment of Alessandro Michele who has singlehandedly transformed Gucci into the "it" collection. His long sleeved shirts, over-the-knee skirts and matching tights combination are less form fitting and show less skin than most Williamsburg attire.

How was he chosen to lead Gucci? Michele, an avid antique collector, was appointed creative director of Gucci in January 2015 after Patrizio di Marco and Frida Giannini were abruptly fired. In that short period he has caused a fashion revolution by producing covered-up attire that is more

BeyoncĂŠ heads to Jay Z's office in head-to-toe Gucci

sensual than sexual-leaving a lot to the imagination. His clothing can be worn to Synagogue or an orthodox wedding without any alterations needed. Before he was chosen, rampant speculation abounded as to who would replace Marco and Giannini with names including Joseph Altuzarra, Riccardo Tisci and Tom Ford being floated around.

It came as a tremendous surprise when little known Alessandro Michele was chosen; a man who had spent 12 years working in Gucci's accessories department with the last three serving as assistant to Giannini. Michele took over in January 2015 and was given just five days to put together a men's collection to be shown in Milan. In 120 hours he created a collection that ushered in his ascendancy in menswear and continues to improve with each collection. Why choose Michele?

After years of sluggish sales and mixed reviews the billion dollar behemoth named Gucci decided to head in a new direction and felt Michele had a more "contemporary vision." Michele was tasked with being in charge of all of Gucci's collections as well as its global brand image-a job five fashion veterans would have trouble performing.

He has taken the fashion world by storm with his "grandma chic" clothing-mixing prints and patterns with pinned bows and plaid hats-creating a look that is distinctively Gucci. The tiger sweaters, snake designs and starry dresses have injected a joyful whimsy into a fashion world that had become gloomy. The pared down sexy look of Tom Ford's Gucci which caused a sensation in the 90's has been turned on its head with Michele. The "maximalist" modest look debuted by Michele is a look that can be worn by the most religious individual. It is hard to imagine that Hollywood, which has become a glorified Burlesque show, would embrace his designs so enthusiastically.

Yet the fashion and entertainment universe is obsessed with all things Gucci. Even his fur loafers have become ubiquitous with both men and women of the fashion elite clamoring for this reasonably priced $995 luxury item. His new shoe designs allow you to put clip-on bows on pumps and stickers on sneakers. His consistent innovation is astounding. Moreover, the bags in navy blue and turquoise with bows, flowers and lions are coveted by the masses and are in the acceptable price range of $1,000-$4,000-especially compared to a $12,000 Birkin. Even his belts have gained traction and with a price point of $400-$1,000 they may soon supersede the omnipresent Hermes belt which starts at $800.

His dresses are astronomically expensive ranging from $2,000 for the most basic dress to upwards of five figures. However, everyone will compliment your Gucci and admire your commitment to fashion. He even collaborated for the past two years on a perfume called "Bloom" which will be making its debut shortly. How has one man been able to accomplish so much in such a short period of time? Firstly, he relishes his job with an over-the-top contagious enthusiasm.

More importantly "his Genius has no boundaries" akin to the prolific Karl Lagerfeld; and I dare say for the first time in decades we are seeing a designer of that caliber.

Born in Rome in 1972, this 45-year-old phenom studied at the Accademia di Costume e di Moda in Rome and started as Senior Accessories Designer at Fendi before being tapped by Tom Ford in 1992 to join Gucci's London based Design Office. Since Michele's rise to creative director he has received the 2015 and 2016 International Fashion Designer of the Year award at the British Fashion Awards and the 2016 CFDA International Award-incredible achievements in a limited time period. His slovenly appearance only adds to his mythological status-his look is "Jesus meets heavy Jewish Voice fashion and entertainment metal rock star in a Williamsburg cafe". And in reporter Lieba Nesis on the appointment of case you haven't noticed, celebrities get photoAlessandro Michele to head up the iconic graphed when they were in his modest garb-take Gucci fashion line note Emily Ratajkowski.

The first time he designed for the Oscars in 2016 was an astounding success. Brie Larson wore a flowy royal blue Gucci-needless to say she won the Oscar and best dressed. Ryan Gosling and Jared Leto love Gucci with Gosling wearing it to the Oscars, Cannes and numerous premieres.

And let's not forget Beyonce who appeared in a $3,400 head-to-toe Gucci ensemble to visit her husband, Jay Z's, office. Her pleated metallic midi skirt coupled with a blush colored Intarsia Merino butterfly wool knit sweater was the most talked about look of 2016-more than any of her sleazy ensembles. Moreover, when she showed up to a basketball game in a $20,000 Gucci kimono the press went wild. These modest looks may be part of the Hollywood shift to more demure attire. If you make money from exposing body parts like Nicki Minaj, the Kardashians and the Hadids you may never adopt this look (although Kim recently wore a sheer Gucci bra as a "shirt"). However, talented artists who want to be admired for something other than the size of their butt desire his attire.

Case in point, superstar Salma Hayek wears almost exclusively Gucci. Melania Trump made headlines when she showed up in a pink "pussy One of his maximalist designs from Resort 2017 bow" $1,100 Gucci top to her husband's 2016 de- Collection bate. I would be remiss if I failed to mention Nicole Kidman's Green Gucci sequined dress with a parakeet sewn into the plunging neckline which she wore to the January 2017 SAG awards. This dress had the Twitter universe in a tizzy and was largely applauded by the fashion police. This fearless design was paradigmatic of the label's unapologetic move into high fashion with bold attire.

Celine Dion was recently photographed in a floral Gucci dress as well as normally barely covered Dakota Johnson. How have sales fared?

In the first quarter of 2017, Gucci's revenues increased by 50 percent-retail sales went up 34 percent and wholesale increased by 37 percent. It's parent company Kering, reported Revenue of $3.9 Billion thanks in large part to Gucci-who even outsold Kering's other lucrative Hedi Slimane Saint Laurent brand. If this past May's resort collection in Florence, where the likes of Elton John, Dakota Johnson, Kirsten Dunst, and Salma Hayek turned up to applaud the extravagant Renaissance collection is a harbinger of things to come; then it is fair to say the unstoppable ingenue named Alessandro Michele has brought tzniut dressing to mainstream America.

Brie Larson Wears Gucci to 2016 Oscars

Celine Dion in Gucci in July 2017

Alessandro Michele at his 2018 Fashion Show

Jared Leto wears Gucci Tuxedo to 2016 Oscars

Melania Trump wearing pink pussy-bow blouse to debate

Nicole Kidman at 2017 SAG Awards in Gucci

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High-Tech, Low Barriers: New Study Advances the Digital Future of Jewish Learning By: Deborah Fineblum

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y day, Liora Brosbe is the family engagement officer for the Jewish Federation of the East Bay in Berkeley, Calif., where she reaches out to the community with a menu of opportunities for “connecting to Jewish life and each other.”

But when she’s not at work, Brosbe’s main job is raising three kids, ages 2, 6 and 8. Their home? A laboratory for Jewish learning strategies.

“Yes, they’re little petri dishes,” their mom, who is also a psychotherapist, says with a laugh.

“Like most families, screen time is a huge issue at our house, both for time and content. But I tell families it’s also an amazing opportunity for low-barrier Jewish engagement.”

With the avalanche of new technologies, many of them being tapped for Jewish learning, educators, funders and parents are often befuddled about where to invest their money and their kids’ or students’ time. A new report on the implications of the wave of educational technology and digital engagement is designed to guide the Jewish community through this complex space.

Sponsored by the Jim Joseph Foundation and the William Davidson Foundation, “Smart Money: Recommendations for an Educational Technology and Digital Engagement Investment

Strategy” examines many of these innovations and provides suggestions for navigating the high-tech world.

The study’s recommendations include: using virtual and augmented reality—a user could, for example, experience the splitting of the Red Sea; creating games based on alternative scenarios for “Jewish futures,” such as rebuilding Jewish life after the Roman destruction of the Second Temple; offering opportunities for students to learn coding and other technological skills, which can foster connectedness among Jewish youths and introduce them to Israeli high-tech companies; and increasingly using video, music, podcasting and other platforms.

The report is garnering far more attention than expected, according to the sponsors.

“We did not originally intend for this to be a public report,” says Barry Finestone, president and CEO of the Jim Joseph Foundation. “But the substance of the findings and recommendations really challenge us, as funders, to think strategically, creatively and collaboratively about how we can utilize educational technology and digital engagement to advance our Jewish educational missions.”

For the report, Lewis J. Bernstein and Associates interviewed 50 experts, investors and educators from both the Jewish and secular worlds to create the recommendations.

dom,” says the Jim Joseph Foundation’s Miller. Ironically, he says, that means disconnecting once a week “because of our 4,000-year-old tradition called Shabbat, which reminds us that that life isn’t only about the little rush you get every time you get a text.”

Like all powerful forces, technology should be utilized in moderation, one observer notes.

“There is no question that high-tech, which is so much a part of the lives of young Jews, needs to be part of their Jewish educational experience as well,” says Brandeis University’s Dr. Jonathan Sarna, a leading expert on Jewish education and American Jewish history as a whole.

“History suggests, however, that these new technologies will certainly not substitute for effective teaching. Now, as in the past, educators should look for modest gains from the introduction of new technologies, and should be wary of high costs and hype.”

A picture that is included in “Smart Money,” a newly released Lisa Colton—who specializes study intended to help the Jewish community navigate the in implementing digital strategies high-tech world. Credit: Lewis Kassel, courtesy of Moishe House. for synagogues, day schools and Regarding technology’s po- artificial intelligence to answer camps—agrees that technology tential value to the Jewish world, students’ questions from a pool alone is not the answer.

“Technical savvy is the easiest the Jim Joseph Foundation has of 2,000 pre-recorded survivor thing to find and hire, but smart “certainly dipped our toe in, responses.

“It looks and sounds like design requires you to put yourbut we knew there was so much more to understand,” says the you’re talking one-on-one with self in your user’s shoes,” says foundation’s chief program offi- the survivor,” says USC Shoah Colton, chief learning officer Foundation spokesman Rob for See3 Communications and cer, Josh Miller. founder of Darim Online. “But “The report is giving us a Kuznia.

“The gigantic opportunity the [‘Smart Money’] report does roadmap for how to focus our efforts,” he says, adding, “Train- for the community is the new give educators a new way to uning a good educator doesn’t ways we can access Jewish wis- derstand today’s audience, impli“It’s a huge media marketplace out there and most Jews are exposed to the same information as the rest of the world,” says Lewis J. Bernstein, a former producer of Sesame Street and the report’s lead researcher.

“Parents and educators have difficult choices to make, and Jewish learning and wisdom compete with the secular world.”

change but, as educational technology and digital platforms do, teachers and tech producers are working together to create educational opportunities.”

For example, as the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles, the Los Angeles-based USC Shoah Foundation recently initiated “New Dimensions in Testimony,” a program that uses

“Technical savvy is the easiest thing to find and hire, but smart design requires you to put yourself in your user’s shoes,” says Colton, chief learning officer for See3 Communications and founder of Darim Online. cations for innovative design, and the all-important relationship between content and technology.”

At the same time, there is already a growing field of Jewish organizations specializing in educational technology and digital engagement, including Sefaria, Reboot, BimBam and Let it Ripple.

“The report is the start of legitimizing the technical Jewish world and the practice of investing in it,” says Brett Lockspeiser, co-founder and chief technology officer of Sefaria, an online library of Jewish texts that welcomed 460,000 online users last year. “It’s helping everyone become more comfortable taking that risk.”

Back in Berkeley, Liora Brosbe recommends a four-minute Jewish 101 video on BimBam for first-time parents who are welcoming new babies. Meanwhile, as she cooks dinner in her own home, her children engage with Jewish music and content through the Spotify app.

“They’re going to have screen time anyway,” she says. “So why not Jewish ones?”

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At a Meeting of the Cognitive Jewish Warriors By: Phyllis Chesler

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once hosted a meeting at my home. The doorbell rang and the man who stood there introduced himself as "Daled Amos."

Okay, sure, why not?

The next gentleman who arrived introduced himself as "Elder of Zion."

At some point Sultan Knish and Ibn Warraq also joined us; Brian of London was too far away. These pseudonyms, clearly required in these times, ensure them a place in history.

Once everyone had arrived, my living and dining rooms literally vibrated with wit and brilliance and passion. The Cognitive Warriors had assembled.

Last night was a night just like that.

Yes, Elder was happily here again but this time he was joined by my dear friends Dr. Mordechai Kedar and his charming wife, the musician and singer, Rhyna; Tuvia Tenenbom and his deceptively quiet but all-perceptive wife and collaborator, Isi; and Naomi Wolinsky and her husband Steve, my beloved shul mates and Torah study partners.

Kedar held forth. Tenenbom held forth. Every word mattered. Kedar explained that the word "peace" in Arabic is misunderstood.

"Any Muslim peace agreement with infidels is a cease fire, not a peace which leads to normalization of any kind."

While such a cease fire might allow for a limited number of

projects that benefit the Muslim, Arab country (military security, water-power, employment of Arab Muslims), it does not mean that Israel and its people will be welcomed, visited, and embraced or that Arab Muslim delegates won't walk out when an Israeli diplomat takes the floor.

Once, after a long and friendly dinner, Kedar asked two Arab Muslim diplomats for any other reason that a "cold peace" could not lead to a real and enduring peace.

Their answer was heartbreaking. Essentially, they said—they could not afford to treat Israel any better than one Arab country treats another!

Kedar also explained: "Today, Israel is almost on the back burner. The real fight is now between two streams of Sunni Islam. One (Wahabi-style Islam) supports the government or the monarchy no matter what. The other (Muslim Brotherhood-style Islam) supports opposing any government which is not enforcing Sharia Law. And both streams oppose Shiia Islam."

And there is the matter of Qutar and Iran....oh, the words flew hotly and thickly.

Tenenbom, a most colorful character, but no clown, a divine and outrageous truth-teller, has a new book coming out shortly.

It is titled: Hello, Refugees! It reveals the horrifying and hidden reality of the refugee camps in Germany—the very camps for which Chancellor Merkel takes

The other Tenenbom, Tuvia, penned a bestselling book with the title “I Sleep In Hitler's Room.” Apparently, there is a bed in a hotel room, somewhere deep in the heart of Germany, in which Hitler actually once slept. Tuvia-the-comic took off on a fantasy in which Jew after Jew comes to sleep in the dead Hitler's room.

A grim and pointless comeuppance, but unexpectedly funny.

so much pride, perhaps as cover for the rising anti-Semitism in Germany and everywhere else.

And for Germany's long-time racism.

On July 25th, in NYC, Tenebom will be debating Peter Beinart at the Jewish Theater. I'm planning to attend what is bound to be a spectacle-for-the-ages.

Isi Tenenbom had the most interesting tale which she shared. Once, when she was covering a world conference in Jordan for the German media, she asked the Arab diplomats, all of whom exited when the Israeli diplomat got up to speak, why they did so.

"As a woman, they did not take me seriously, they thought that I really did not, could not, understand. Women are all helpless little girls. Thus, they told me the truth."

"We cannot stay and listen to an Israeli diplomat speak. Israel is not on our maps. It is not in school books. Israel does not exist. How, then, can we stay and hear someone from a non-existent Israel speak?"

The other Tenenbom, Tuvia, penned a bestselling book with the title “I Sleep In Hitler's Room.” Apparently, there is a bed in a hotel room, somewhere deep in the heart of Germany, in which Hitler actually once slept.

Tuvia-the-comic took off on a fantasy in which Jew after Jew comes to sleep in the dead Hitler's room. A grim and pointless comeuppance, but unexpectedly funny.

Kedar and I talked about a tribal culture in which anything one says is as true as anything else that can be said.

Lies—really Big Lies—if they increase one's honor and the honor of one's people are, by definition, true. One must truly comprehend this about the East if one is to understand anything.

"Today, Israel is almost on the back burner. The real fight is now between two streams of Sunni Islam.” Dr. Mordechai Kedar Thus, when debating a pro-Palestinian UN employee about "Palestine," one must ask the usual and always unanswered questions about what the names of the Palestinian King and capital city were 100 years ago; what kind of currency was used 100 years ago, etc.

Then, one can really be mischievous by pointing out that the Jews were the only indigenous people in Israel for thousands of years in a sovereign Judea and Shomron; and that when our ancestors were obeying the law, (or at least had a law to disobey!), their ancestors were drinking alcohol and worshipping idols—hardly an Islamic thing to do.

"Or, in a debate, one can ask: When did the Palestinians first emerge as a people? One's opponents might answer: Ten thousand years ago. Then, one must say: No. It was thirty thousand years ago! How can this be rejected since it increases the honor of the Palestinian Lie. One can also insist that Palestinians were there even before the dinosaurs...."

Jews have to laugh at the insane and diabolical Big Lies that we are forced to confront.

We lingered, how we lingered late into the evening...

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"Jewels" Dazzles at 50th Anniversary Lincoln Center Gala By: Lieba Nesis

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hile George Balanchine may have died in 1983, his legacy has only strengthened as the years have passed. One of the greatest choreographers to have ever lived, he has remained the father of American ballet cofounding the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet (NYCB). "Jewels" is a ballet which celebrates his iconic status and pays tribute to this heterogeneous genius. Balanchine trained as a dancer at the Mariinsky Theatre in his birthplace of Saint Petersburg, Russia; had an artistic breakthrough when he departed for Paris in 1924 and was appointed choreographer of Ballet Russes; and, finally settled in America in 1933 to found his two famous ballet companies.

How seamless it was that the three greatest ballet companies in the world-Bolshoi, New York City Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet-joined forces on this Thursday evening July 20th to dance the monumental ballet "Jewels" in a historically unprecedented night as part of the Lincoln Center Festival being held from July 10-30. This Russian-American collaboration did not appear on CNN's Breaking News; however, it was no less noteworthy as these countries got together to stage one of the most exhilarating nights I have experienced to pay homage to the world renowned Balanchine.

Many Ballet enthusiasts commented they could feel Balanchine in the room and Creative Director of NYCB Peter Martins who danced this piece in

1968 under Balanchine's tutelage told me he was feeling extremely nostalgic.

There were others who felt similarly wistful as indicated by the sold-out tickets with decent seats starting in the $450 range and a pre-dinner held which cost $2,500 per person. This was an evening for ballet lovers many of whom paid a $1,000 fee to join the Producer's circle so a premium seat could be bought. Expectations were high and there were those who flew in from France, Russia and elsewhere to experience this once-in-a-lifetime event. "Jewels" which premiered April 13, 1967 in this theater, now called the David Koch theater, at Lincoln Center was inspired by Balanchine's visit to Van Cleef & Arpels where he posed for pictures with ballerinas wearing gem-encrusted tiaras.

the best costumes of the evening, designed by Elena Zaitseva. The white sequined tutus and headpieces were reminiscent of "Swan Lake" and their placement at the end of the program with overthe-top costumes gave them an unfair advantage.

If CNN had been present they surely would have reported that Trump and Putin had colluded in favor of the Russians. All joking aside, the ballet entitled "Diamonds" the most precious of jewels-easily surpassing emeralds and rubies-allowed the Russians to shine bright with soloists Olga Smirnova and Semyon Chudin astounding the crowd.

Chudin did stationary fouette turns and pirouettes that floored the audience-the effortlessness was incredible. As the ballet concluded with a lengthy standing ovation for the Russians, guests headed to Tavern on the Green for an after-party with most of the Bolshoi, the New York City and Paris Opera Ballet dancers in attendance as well as Peter Martins, Jacque d'Amboise and Festival director Nigel Redden. Redden told me he has been working on putting this together for the past five years and this was a tribute to Balanchine who has changed the world of ballet with his fast technique and laserlike focus on the body.

He also said Balanchine had a musicality that was second-to-none.

Jewish Voice society and entertainment reporter Lieba Nesis files a live report from the 50th Anniversary Lincoln Center Gala

The Rubies Ballet

Nigel Redden Director of the Lincoln Center Festival, and Kathy Brown Executive Director of the NYCB. (Credit for all photos: Lieba Nesis)

Meryl Rosofsky with former soloist Jacque d'Amboise, and Principal dancer Joaquin Deluz

Left to right - Eric Cabezas, Ben Cubenas, Christian Zimmermann and Richard Kielar

Bolshoi dancers left to right - Katya Zavadina, Victoria Litvinova, Daria Bachkova and Alena Kovaleva

"Jewels" is a plotless ballet where the audience's interest must be sustained without the assistance of a storyline. Tonight, the three dance companies had no trouble holding the audience's attention especially with the varied styles with which they executed the ballets. While, it would be unfair to view this as a competition, if it was I think the United States and Russia nailed it with the NYCB putting on a spectacular performance the likes of which I have rarely seen. I would bet there was an element of rivalry spurring on each company as they performed their pieces with an alacrity and enthusiasm that dazzled.

The first act entitled "Emeralds" was performed by the Paris Opera Ballet in green costumes designed by Christian Lacroix with the music of Gabriel Faure. This act was pleasantly melodious and lulled me into an anodyne state-something I wish more dance performances would do. After a lengthy intermission, the dynamic part of the evening began, with NYCB dancers clothed in red tutus wowing in the Stravinsky piece entitled "Rubies."

Joaquin De Luz regaled the audience with his soaring jumps, replacing the formerly inimitable Edward Villella, by dancing this part with an enthusiastic ease. Megan Fairchild and Teresa Reichlen gave one of their most astonishing performances to date with Fairchild's growing confidence placing her amongst New York City's top dancers. Tonight I was proud to be an American but was anxiously anticipating what the Bolshoi had in store with its new director Makhar Vaziev being heralded by the press for his exacting eye.

It is safe to say the Russian's were great and had

Australian Columnist Leo Schofield and Bolshoi Director Makhar Vaziev

Reiterating the preeminence of Balanchine, was legendary dancer Jacque d'Amboise who first danced with Balanchine in 1942 and then joined as a lead in the production of "Jewels" 50 years ago.

The most notable characteristic of Balanchine, d'Amboise told me, was "his exquisite manners."

If Balanchine was sitting at a table instead of just saying to Jacque grab a chair he would go and bring a chair to the table for him. Balanchine's diffidence extended to the dance arena where he would politely ask Jacque if he would rather dance with Allegra Kent or Suzanne Farrell giving him the choice despite the fact that he needed Jacque for a specific partner. This side of Balanchine is scarcely known and it was riveting.

Jacque sadly recounted arriving at Roosevelt Hospital minutes after Balanchine died with doctors later discovering his life had been taken by mad cow disease. At that moment Creative Director of the Bolshoi, Makhar Vaziev, who has the demeanor of a Russian movie star, took to the microphone to thank everyone for participating.

He later told me how excited he was to bring these three companies to Moscow and Paris to perform this dance tour de force for a global audience.

Corice Raman, George Wong, Libey Leung, Xin Fu, Laure Vienot, Maureen Footer and Max Roesle

Joanna Fisher, Dancer Joaquin De Luz, Dancer Harrison Ball, Dancer Emilie Gerrity, and Famous Publicist Jon Marder

Hal Witt, Olivia Flatto, Dana Cowin and Peter Martins

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Israeli Start-up Bancor Wants Digital Currency to go Mainstream By: Adam Abrams

Bancor Network Tokens (BNT) became congested while thou- in its platform.

DAap projects such as the and returns the currency to the sands of users simultaneously he latest innovator from attempted to acquire a stake in Bancor protocol are crowd-fund- buyer’s digital wallet.

When Ether is sent to the BanIsrael’s “start-up nation� the new project, causing a crash ed through ICOs, which allow to score an international in the price of the network’s dig- investors to send Ether directly cor smart contract, it is “added breakthrough is seek- ital currency, Ether, from $320 to the project’s developers in ex- to BNTs reserves, new BNT is ing to make digital currency go to as low as $0.10 before a quick change for tokens that represent a minted for the buyer, and both recovery. A total of 10,885 buyers share in the new project. ICOs are the supply and price of BNT rises mainstream. a new way of crowd-funding cap- according to the Bancor protocol In late June, the Tel Aviv-based participated in the offering. blockchain start-up Bancor Foundation raised $153 million on the Ethereum digital currency network, in a record-setting initial coin offering (ICO) at the time. Blockchain is a distributed database in which transactions made in digital currencies are recorded chronologically and publicly. “Tel Aviv has proven, as in other technology verticals, to be a hotbed of innovation in the blockchain ecosystem,� Galia Benartzi, Bancor’s co-founder, told JNS.org.

The Bancor protocol aims to make the exchange and creation of digital currencies accessible to the masses, and is developing a simple online interface that will be available by the end of 2017. “It will be as simple as using Galia Benartzi, the Bancor Foundation’s co-founder, explains how the Israeli start-up’s digital Squarespace or Wix for website currency protocol was inspired by British economist John Maynard Keynes. Credit: YouTube. creation,� Benartzi said, adding, Benartzi called the ICO “a ital, akin to an IPO (initial public formula,� Benartzi explained. “It will be the first time in blockThe value of BNT is based on chain history that a mainstream historic event� in which Bancor offering) on a stock market. But product will offer access to users “was able to navigate tremendous unlike an IPO, an ICO is not sub- the protocol behind it, which creates an ecosystem allowing digital with no technical requirements.� network congestion to give the ject to government regulation.

In the case of the Bancor proto- currencies such as Ether or BitBancor’s endeavor to simplify project its foundational capital.�

The Bancor protocol is an ap- col, a buyer can acquire a share in coin to be exchanged and used as digital currency caused excitement among enthusiasts in that plication based on Ethereum, a the project, even after the ICO, by legitimate currencies. “Bitcoin’s primary purpose is sector, leading to the Israeli ven- programmable network with its sending Ether to a digital “smart ture’s record-setting ICO in June. own digital currency that allows contract� created by Bancor’s de- to be a medium of exchange—a The Bancor ICO was so pop- for the creation of decentralized velopers. The smart contract au- currency. Ether’s primary purular that the Ethereum network applications called “DAaps� with- tomatically exchanges Ether for pose is to be the fuel that DAaps

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and smart contracts use on the Ethereum network. BNT’s primary purpose is to create a network of fully liquid smart tokens,� said Benartzi.

She added, “These may be community and local currencies all over the world, business loyalty points, project tokens and new types of value networks that the Bancor Network ecosystem will enable.�

Bancor’s vision—the so-called “democratization of currencies�—is to enable the instant, automated and direct exchange of various stores of value such as national currencies, business loyalty points and user-created currencies. These stores of value, many of which previously had no use outside of their respective communities, would become usable forms of currency. “The inspiration for Bancor,� Benartzi said, “came from a Keynesian proposal at the end of World War II, when the British suggested a supranational currency (called the Bancor) to facilitate global trade without favoring a specific nation.� “As the world moves into its next era of geopolitical organization, and cryptocurrencies improve in adoption, security and stability, we can imagine a new financial world order which is based on algorithmically ensured balance rather than politics,� she said. “You can think of this like automating central banks according to transparent and immutable formulas.�

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“Tel Aviv has proven, as in other technology verticals, to be a hotbed of innovation in the blockchain ecosystem,�

Galia Benartzi, Bancor’s co-founder, told JNS.org has attracted economic titans to join its advisory team, including Bernard Lietaer, co-designer of the Euro, and American billionaire and venture capitalist Tim Draper.

In addition to serving as a decentralized point of exchange, Bancor enables users to create a new type of digital currency called a “smart token,â€? which can be traded for other cryptocurrencies. “One year from now the Bancor Network will encompass a wide plethora of smart tokens, both user-generated and created by us and other companies‌our network of token-changers will be the most efficient and low-cost method of exchanging cryptocurrencies directly with each other, independent of exchanges,â€?

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Favorite Summer Salad Recipes Tasty, healthy and easy to make By: Gitta Bixenspanner

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inally some hot days to enjoy the weather the great outdoors, and easy recipes that do not take up too much time. Who wants to sit in a hot kitchen laboring over elaborate meals when all the kids want is to grab a bite and run! With produce at their peak this time of year, take advantage and load up on nature’s bounty.

Delicious fruits and vegetables abound at farmers' markets and in your local grocery. Besides being low in calories, produce is loaded with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber.

Save the oranges and apples for fall, and load up on fresh berries, melons, a variety of greens, tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, beets, pea pods, and all the super-nutritious and low-calorie as well as delicious ripe fruits of all kinds..

Salads are the most popular on hot summer days. Many salads can be converted into a whole meal, when adding some protein such as feta/any cheese, fish, poultry or nuts. There are so many varieties of salad out there something for every taste and palate.

Here are some smart ways to spruce up your salads and add variety to your dishes!

1. Add fruit to salad greens.

Consider adding fresh fruits like strawberries, blueberries, apples, or grapes. Or toss in some

dried fruits like cranberries, apricots, and golden raisins.

2. Avocados, olives, and toasted nuts add a whole new taste dimension, not to mention some heart-healthy oils. Cooked whole grains such as hard wheat berries, quinoa, and bulgur add fiber. Beans or chickpeas add protein and fiber.

3. Choose from a variety of tasty greens: some are sweeter, like Boston, green and red leaf Romaine, Napa lettuce, and bok choy while others have a nutty or bitter taste, like endive, radicchio, arugula, watercress, dandelion and spinach. Mix the tastes and textures and even throw in a few herbs like dill or cilantro so that each bite surprises your taste buds.

4. Pull your salad together with dressing. Choose a ginger dressing for Chinese chicken over a mix of crisp romaine and watercress. Try lime-cilantro vinaigrette for that steak, black bean, and avocado salad. You can make your own healthy vinaigrettes by infusing vinegars with some of your favorite herbs…and you can turn high-fat creamy dressings into healthier vinaigrettes.

You'll have a salad you'll be proud to serve to your family and guests!

Here are a few salad recipes that are tasty, healthy and easy to make. Be brave and try incorporating any veggies you have at hand into any vegetable salad.

Avocado-Corn Salsa

AvocadoCorn Salsa This colorful salsa comes together in a snap with avocado, fresh corn and ripe tomatoes.

Delicious served with tortilla chips or any other cracker or just as a topping over your favorite green lettuce. Salads are refreshing and healthy as they are full of unsaturated fats and other healthy nutrients.

Ingredients • 2 avocados diced • 1 cup thawed frozen corn kernels • 2 plum tomatoes, chopped • 2 tsp chopped fresh cilantro/ basil • Lime juice, to taste • Salt, to taste Directions Mix all ingredients in a bowl.

Sprinkle lime juice and dressing over the salad and spoon into 4 individual bowls adding some crackers for dipping.

Preparation time 10 min Serves 4

Fresh Corn Salad Ingredients • 5 ears of corn, shucked

Fresh Corn Salad

• ½ cup small-diced red onion (1 small onion) • 3 Tbs apple cider vinegar or lemon juice • 3 Tbs olive oil • ½ tsp kosher salt • ½ tsp garlic fresh chopped /powder • 1/3 tsp freshly ground black pepper (optional) • ½ cup chopped fresh basil leaves or Romaine lettuce Directions In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook the corn for 3 minutes until the starchiness is just gone. Drain and immerse it in ice water to stop the cooking and to set the color. When the corn is cool, cut the kernels off the cob, cutting close to the cob.

Alternatively you can just shuck the fresh corn and use it raw.

Toss the raw or blanched kernels into a large bowl with the red onions, vinegar, olive oil, salt, and pepper. Just before serving, toss in the fresh Romaine/ basil. Taste for seasonings and serve cold or at room temperature.

Preparation time: 15 minutes Serves 4-6

Corn and bean salad

Corn and bean Salad I like to cook various beans when I have the time available and then freeze them in one pound containers, so I have them available for any recipe that calls for beans. The ingredients of this salad make it a full protein and a meal onto itself!

Perfect for a quick meal!

Ingredients • 6 cups torn romaine lettuce • ½ lb/ 250 gr. Black beans, cooked, drained (or 19 fl oz/ 540 mL can) • 1 cup chick peas cooked and drained • 4 corns shucked from cob • 1 red pepper cut in strips • 1 yellow pepper cut in strips • 1/4 cup vinaigrette dressing i.e. 3 Tbs. lemon juice , 3 Tbs. oil, salt, pepper and garlic powder to taste • 1 cup broken tortilla chips Directions COOK beans for two hours or until tender, adding salt and pepper and garlic powder to taste. For a quick fix canned beans can be used.

PLACE lettuce on serving

Chinese Coleslaw with Peanut Dressing

platter or in bottom of glass serving bowl.

COVER with layers of bean, corn and red pepper.

DRIZZLE with dressing; sprinkle with chips.

Optional: Add feta cheese if serving with a dairy meal.

Cooking time for beans- two hours Assembly 15 minutes Serves 6

Chinese Coleslaw with Peanut Dressing Summer is a great time to experiment with the various lettuces available this glorious season. My family favors Napa lettuce above all others.

It is easy to check; incidentally I have yet to find a bug on it! It’s sweet flavor lends itself to any salad!.

Ingredients • 1 chilled head of green cabbage, outer leaves removed • A wedge of purple cabbage, for color • 4 Napa leaves See Favorite Summer , page 36

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JULY 28, 2017

Mourning the Mikdash By: Rabbi David Bibi

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n all of our offices, for my entire life, there has always been one painting on the wall. It is the painting of a fine, distinguished and handsome man, my great grandfather Joseph A Bibi. I guess all our related family companies find their American origins in him, so it’s fitting that his image graces the wall. What I never noticed until I walked by my dad’s desk and checked the Yahrzeit (or as I was corrected

by Dr. Stevan Dweck of California, I should as a Sephardic Jew be using the term Mishmar) list a few moments ago was that my great grandfather passed away in 1927. I always imagined that my father who bears his grandfather’s name had a relationship with the man, but I am not sure how much of a relationship they had in 2 ½ years.

I do know that Joseph A Bibi was a world renowned Artisan who traveled the globe more than a century ago. He was a talmid hacham who studied the sodot of the Torah and as the patriarch of the family, who sacrificed so much and helped design his community, we owe him much. But when the 19th of Elul comes around each year, aside from giving a class in his

Clearly, a mourner is sad because he has experienced a loss. In order for one to mourn the loss of the Bet haMikdash, one must realize what has been lost and how it relates to him individually, to the Jews as a nation and to the entire world.

memory and saying a hashkava or memorial prayer, I don’t really mourn his passing. The picture makes me think of him more than any of my other great grandparents and the stories I heard give me a connection, but its just a long distance connection. The Rabbis have a concept for this, its called aveylut yeshana – “old” mourning.

Chas VeShalom – heaven forbid – when someone passes away and a relative mourns for them, we call this “new” mourning or avelut chadasha.

In halacha – Jewish Law – the closer one is to the tragedy the greater the level of mourning because we feel it. That person was here yesterday and now that person is gone. It’s tangible. It’s emotional. We have someone to mourn.

Hashem has created us so that over time following the loss of a loved one, we get over our mourning. We learn this from our forefather Yaakov’s mourning for his son Joseph. Our Rabbis teach us that we can only begin to forget someone, and start to feel relief from the pain of mourning, after the person dies.

Yaakov continued to mourn his son Joseph, for a full 22 years, because Yosef his son, was not dead.

When referring to the Chorban – the destruction of the Temple – the Rabbis again use the term, “old’ mourning.

The fact is that the chorban is difficult to relate to. The vast majority of us cannot begin to conceptualize the significance of the loss. We cannot imagine the enormous quantity of animals being slaughtered, cut and burned on the alter as smoke rose up. Even those who have gone through Daf Yomi and have at least briefly reviewed the

Talmud cannot understand the Ketoret or incense offering. The fact is that the entire chapter of Jewish Law relating to the Temple is relatively unknown.

How does one mourn for that which one finds difficult to imagine? I see my great grandfather’s picture every day. I knew who he was, where he was born, where he lived, what he did and how it relates to me and still I acknowledge his passing, but without tears.

fact one of the reasons Hashem burned the stones of the Mikdash was to teach us that it’s not about the cover, it’s about what the cover encases and represents.

Pirkei Avot teaches that ten miracles were performed for our ancestors in the Bet HaMikdash: 1. No woman miscarried from the smell of sacrificial meat.

2. Sacrificial meat never spoiled.

When referring to the Chorban – the destruction of the Temple – the Rabbis again use the term, “old’ mourning. The fact is that the chorban is difficult to relate to.

How are we to cry over a building?

Clearly, a mourner is sad because he has experienced a loss.

In order for one to mourn the loss of the Bet haMikdash, one must realize what has been lost and how it relates to him individually, to the Jews as a nation and to the entire world.

And although the Gemarah is Sukkah writes, "one who has not seen the Bet HaMikdash has never seen a majestic building”, we are certainly not mourning the loss of a building, per se. In

3. No flies were present where they sacrificed animals.

4. The Kohen Gadol never had an emission on Yom Kippur.

5. The fire on the Alter was never extinguished by rain.

6. The pillar of smoke was never moved by the wind.

7. The Omer, the Two Breads and Lechem HaPanim (left in the Sanctuary for a week at a time, and eaten on the following Shabbat) were never found to be invalid.

8. The people would stand crowded but have room to bow

down.

9. Snakes and scorpions never hurt people in Jerusalem.

10. No one ever said to his friend that there is no place for me to stay in Jerusalem.

Why are these so important?

I believe that they show us that the Bet HaMikdash was the place where the Jew encountered Hashem. Imagine walking towards Jerusalem and seeing the Temple on the mount in the distance, knowing it was windy but seeing a column of smoke go straight without wavering. Then stepping into the gates and witnessing people from all walks of life looking to connect. Each of the miracles brought Hashem to life. Imagine being packed in and then seeing there was room for everyone to lay down. You were in a place beyond the constraints of time and space. Each miracle experienced, made Hashem’s presence real. They say that the time spent in Hashem’s house was one of heightened consciousness to the point that we encountered Him just by being there.

If you could meet anyone in history, who would that be?

Choose anyone and I have a better choice, G-d! So we mourn the disconnection from Hashem.

And I think part of the problem is that so many of us only mourn the event once a year.

We don’t take to heart, “If I forget thee Jerusalem”. It’s a song and a statement before breaking a glass and celebrating. We don’t feel ourselves break with that glass. We need to think of Jerusalem and mourn the loss each time we pray the Amidah in the blessings of Boneh Yerushalayim and Masmiach Keren Yeshuah. We need to feel a bit of pain every time

Sadly too many of us who call for Mashiach would probably tell him upon his arrival, “wait we need to take care of things, give us some notice and come back when we are ready”.

We ignore the threats of our enemies which should prompt us to recall that we want and need Mashiach, we see the Kotel with a golden dome behind it. We need to say Tikun Chasot reading the words, “remember Hashem what we had … our inheritance has passed to strangers, our house to foreigners … we are orphans … why do you abandon us …” And if not Tikun Chasot at some point in the day, stop and try to imagine what we had and what we lost and what we want.

Sadly too many of us who call for Mashiach would probably tell him upon his arrival, “wait we need to take care of things, give us some notice and come back when we are ready”. We ignore the threats of our enemies which should prompt us to recall that we want and need Mashiach, We must remind ourselves daily because by nature we forget.

Rabbi Abittan’s z’sl teacher, Rav Soloveitchik explained that a mourner is enjoined from crying too much for his relative because, as the Rambam writes death is part of the natural course of events in this world.

But the destruction of the Bet HaMikdash was an unnatural event. The Temple was much See Mourning the Mikdash , page 36

Making Tisha B’Av Relevant How do we mourn what we do not know?

By: Slovie JungreisWolff

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isha B’Av night we sit on the floor and read from the Book of Lamentations. In a mournful voice we chant “Alas, she sits in solitude! The city that was great with people has become like a widow. She weeps bitterly in the night and her tear is on her cheek.”

We grieve for our Temple that was destroyed. We recall a once golden Jerusalem that now sits in darkness, abandoned. The streets of the city run red with rivers of blood. Lamentations describes a glorious nation being led out in chains as the fires of destruction fill the air. We cry “for Mount Zion which lies desolate, foxes prowled over it.”

On Tisha B’Av we are asked to remember the destruction of our holy Temple nearly 2000 years ago. This is our national day of mourning. But it is difficult to feel loss for a Temple we never saw with our very own eyes. Can we feel the pain of exile today?

When the Western Wall became ours again in the 1967

battle for Jerusalem during the Six Day War, Israeli soldiers embraced the stones with their tears. It was an indescribable moment. But two soldiers stood back, somehow feeling distanced. They had not grown up with a connection or an understanding of the Wall. Suddenly, one soldier began to sob.

“Why are you crying?” his friend asked.

Mourning for our Temple means that we feel the solitude, the loneliness, the heartache of being a Jew in the world today.

“I am crying for not feeling the need to cry.”

Many of us did not feel the need to cry for the destruction of our Temple in Jerusalem. We did not relate to the devastation, the sorrow and the pain of exile. Though we heard about the tragedies of Tisha B’Av throughout our history, grief eluded us.

But today is different.

It has been a difficult time for our nation. Three sweet souls were kidnapped, cruelly

taken from their families and murdered. Missiles rain down upon our people as sirens pierce the air. Brave soldiers sacrifice their lives as mothers, fathers, siblings, young widows and children weep over freshly dug graves. Sophisticated tunnels are discovered, dug deep beneath the ground, to ambush and kill the innocent while the world turns its back on our plight.

Anti-Semitism has reared its ugly head across the planet.

Shards of glass cover the streets of Paris, shouts of ‘Yiddishe shvein’-‘Jewish swine’ are once again screamed in Berlin and I am reminded of childhood stories my parents and grandparents told me long ago. “Jews the End is Near” says graffiti in Rome. We are threatened, told to go back to the ovens, or into the sea. Meanwhile the world calls us Nazis as we battle for the very survival of the Jewish nation.

“She has no comforter from all her lovers; all her friends have betrayed her, they have become her enemies…and they say: We have devoured her! Indeed, this is the day we longed for; we have actually seen it!” (Lamentations)

The Anguish of Exile Mourning for our Temple means that we feel the solitude, the loneliness, the heartache of being a Jew in the world today. We have been scattered throughout the four corners of the earth and taken into exile. And though we may have settled in our countries, built homes and businesses, created synagogues and schools, we are spiritually homeless. We lack the Bais Hamikdash, the holy Temple where the presence of God was seen and manifested clearly for the entire world to witness.

In the times of the Temple, prophets walked the streets of Israel. We experienced miracles. Jews came together to Jerusalem, celebrated the holidays and spiritually reconnected. The nations recognized our clear relationship with God. Each time we entered this holy place we knew that we were standing in God’s home. Every stone spoke to our soul. We encountered holiness. The Temple Mount was the channel through which prayers from the ends of the world would ascend above.

There was a tangible emotion of meeting heaven on earth despite the physical limitations. We felt sheltered; protected by our

Father.

And though today we are blessed with our land and can caress the Western Wall, a holy remnant of our Temple in Jerusalem, we are still experiencing the trauma of Jewish exile. Unless we take time to ponder we fail to perceive God’s obvious plan or sense His enduring love.

We lack vision and do not see clearly. We are frightened. We feel vulnerable. Though we are part of the world we have been cast as ‘Zionists’ and ‘Jews,’ isolated and embargoed.

On Tisha B’Av we were expelled from our Father’s home.

It is not just the holy Temple that we mourn. We grieve for ourselves, for our people, for our mighty connection to all that was sacred and now lost.

If we want to experience a true Tisha B’Av we begin by understanding the tragedy of exile that has distanced us from our God until today.

Restoration

The author, Slovie Jungreis Wolff, writes that the book of Eicha (Lamentations) that we read on Tisha B’Av describes a glorious nation being led out in chains as the fires of destruction fill the air. We cry “for Mount Zion which lies desolate, foxes prowled over it.”

purpose. Take the sadness and use it as a catalyst to rebuild. Replace destructive emotions with constructive actions. Resolve that today will bring us opportunity to realize our spiritual potential.

What can we do?

Once we comprehend the 1. Boundless Love true meaning of Tisha B’Av we During the Second Temple, can begin our path toward res- our strength lied in our unity. toration. The point of the day is When we descended into petty not to wallow in pointless grief bickering, malicious gossip and or melancholy. Judaism guides See Making Tisha B’Av , page 36 us to always live with a sense of

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Parshas Devarim – Sense and Sensitivity By: Rabbi Yisroel Ciner

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his week we begin the Sefer {Book} of Devarim {Deuteronomy}.

“Aileh haDevarim asher debair Moshe el kol Yisroel {These are the things that Moshe told to all of Israel}.[1:1]” The Ramban explains that in Devarim, also known as Mishne Torah, many of the mitzvos that Moshe had taught earlier to the generation that left Mitzrayim {Egypt} are now repeated (the root of ‘mishne’ is sheni–repeated) to the generation that will be entering Eretz Yisroel {the Land of Israel}. Some are repeated in order to further clarify the way to properly perform the mitzvah. Others are repeated in order to add on a warning that had not been previously mentioned.

Additionally, the Ramban writes, although all of the mitzvos had already been taught to Moshe during the first year of the Exodus, Moshe had not yet divulged all of these mitzvos to Bnei Yisroel {Children of Israel}. Some wouldn’t take effect until we’d enter the land and therefore there was no purpose in teaching them earlier. Others, because they were rarely occurring were only taught to the inheritors of the land. These commandments are introduced

for the first time in Devarim.

However, before Moshe began to teach any of these mitzvos, he first rebuked Bnei Yisroel by gently and subtly pointing out how they had acted so rebelliously while Hashem was showering them with such overpowering acts of kindness. This would deter us from returning to such behavior while at the same time strengthening our realization that Hashem would always show us His kindness. It was crucially important for us to know now, as we were entering the Land of Israel, that Hashem would work with us even as we make mistakes. This realization brought the inheriting of the land within our reach.

As I mentioned above, this was done in a gentle and subtle way. The sins were not openly stated. Rather, Moshe mentioned places, some fictitious, which were actually plays off the words which described their sins. Rashi explains that Moshe offered his rebuke in such a way out of deference to the honor of Bnei Yisroel. In order to save them the embarrassment and humiliation of having their sins explicitly mentioned.

Rav Chaim Shmuelovitz explains that the basis for this honor lies in the extraordinary potential that Hashem has planted

holy as Hashem Himself… The passuk therefore continues and says: “Because I (Hashem) am holy”–My holiness is greater than yours–says Hashem.

We who don’t recognize the heights that a person can reach don’t even understand the question that was posed. How could I have even imagined that we are commanded to be as holy as Hashem?! Why was there a need for the second part of the verse?

Our Sages, however, who fathomed the potential of man, were unsure of just how much holiness was being demanded from Rav Chaim Shmuelovitz this man. Perhaps, there was explains that the basis for this even a demand to reach a holihonor lies in the extraordinary ness equal to that of Hashem… potential that Hashem has Moshe knew who he was planted in us. Our Sages speaking to. He understood explain a passuk {verse} who he was rebuking. He therein Vayikra in the following manner: “Kedoshim tih’yu {You fore showed the utmost respect for their feelings and honor by shall be holy}[Vayikra 19:2].” offering his rebuke in the way I might think that we are that he did. commanded to be as holy as Rav Mottel Hornisteipler was Hashem Himself… The passuk a holy man who, not wanting to therefore continues and says: indulge in physical pleasures, “Because I (Hashem) am would eat very little. Once, howholy”–My holiness is greater ever, while traveling, he stopped than yours–says Hashem. for a meal, tasted the soup and in us. Our Sages explain a pas- then quickly polished off the ensuk {verse} in Vayikra in the tire bowl. Those accompanying following manner: “Kedoshim him were even further shocked tih’yu {You shall be holy}[Vay- when he asked the proprietor if ikra 19:2].” I might think that there was any more soup.

Delighted that his guest was we are commanded to be as

enjoying the food so much, he rushed into the kitchen and brought out another bowl, full of the same type of soup. Rav Mottel finished off that second bowl, asked for another refill and proceeded to clean out that bowl too. When he asked for his fourth serving, the proprietor apologized, explaining that there was no more to be had.

Rav Mottel thanked him and then continued on his way.

Sensing the shocked curiosity of his disciples, the Rebbe explained that when he had tasted the soup, he realized that the cook had inadvertently poured kerosene into the pot. Had the proprietor tasted it, he would have been furious with the cook. “In order to save the cook that humiliation, I ate the entire pot…”

Every one of us have our daily encounters where we too can show sensitivity and honor to others by suppressing a laugh or even a grin. My brother who is a star when it comes to helping others and not causing others embarrassment once found himself in a situation where not laughing demanded superhuman strength.

When we were teenagers, we were going to be working at a hotel and needed a car. Our father, who was then working as a

Moshe knew who he was speaking to. He understood who he was rebuking. He therefore showed the utmost respect for their feelings and honor by offering his rebuke in the way that he did. physical therapist, told us of an elderly couple he was treating who wanted to get rid of their car. They only drove it twice a week, from one side of the street to the other, in order to allow the street cleaners to do their job. It was solely an ‘alternateside-of-the-street-parking’ car.

The car was about thirteen years old and needed some work before it would even pass inspection. We offered him a hundred bucks which he gladly agreed to and off the three of us went for a ‘test drive’.

“She may be old but she starts like a Caddy!” the seller exclaimed as we made our way to the car. “Always starts right up.

Never gives any problems. Starts like a Caddy. You boys are getting yourself one great car. She starts just like a Caddy. Just wait and see.”

After a few minutes we See Parshas Devarim – Sense , page 37

Parshas Devarim - Eternal Love By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis

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he Shabbos preceding Tisha B’Av is called Shabbos Chazon. It draws its name from the first word of the haftorah which contains Isaiah’s rebuke of the Jewish people: “I raised and nurtured children, but they betrayed me. An ox knows its keeper, a donkey the hand that feeds it, but Israel does not know - My people do not perceive.”

But the prophet also shows us the way to return to G-d and to start a new life: “Cleanse yourselves, purify yourselves...desist from doing evil...learn to do well, seek justice....”

Is it possible for a person to really cleanse himself and start life anew?

And here too, the prophet assures us, “Let us reason together. If your sins be red as scarlet, I will make them white as snow” is the promise of G-d. In these prophecies we can discover the unconditional, eternal love of our Heavenly Father. Even as He instructs His prophet to admonish us, to rebuke us for our betrayal, in the same breath He

also shows us how to return to Him, and He assures us of His total forgiveness.

How can any of us resist such an offer? Let this Shabbos Chazon, which ushers in Tisha B’Av, the most tragic day in the Jewish calendar year, the day when all our sins were visited upon us; the day when both Temples were destroyed and Jerusalem was razed; the day when all the major calamities that befell us throughout the centuries occurred – let that day once again become a Yom Tov” in which we are reunited with our G-d and rediscover our Divine calling.

Perhaps it is because of this that this saddest Shabbos in our calendar year is called Shabbos Chazon which means “The Shabbat of Vision”, for even in the midst of our darkness, our vision of Jerusalem and our Temple rebuilt is never lost.

and admonishes the nation. We learn from Moshe, the master teacher, how to rebuke without alienating and offending. We live in a culture that is not accepting of criticism. “People just don’t want to hear it.” The motto is “mind your own business, don’t interfere”, so even parents have refrained from voicing their criticism.

admonishment is “a must”, but the words have to be couched in love. This teaching may be seen throughout our rabbinic literature which instructs those who would criticize to “push away with the left hand and simultaneously draw near with the right.”

But perhaps what is most telling is that even as Moshe

strated to them the extent of G-d`s great love, for despite their rebelliousness, the Almighty always forgave them and the people flourished.“HaShem your G-d has multiplied you and behold, you are like the stars of heaven in abundance”. (Deut.

1:10) Herein lies another lesson - we should never feel that, because of our sins, we have so distanced ourselves from G-d that we can no longer come back to Him. G-d is our loving compassionate Father, and is waiting for all of us to return to Him. Nevertheless, we dare not abuse this love. Never should we rationalize that it’s okay to sin, because G-d will forgive. Nor should we feel that we are doomed because of past mistakes. If our repentance is sincere, G-d will always embrace us and we will merit seeing our Temple in Jerusalem rebuilt in our own days. “He who mourns for Jerusalem will be there to rejoice in her”

Shabbos Chazon means “The Shabbat of Vision”, for even in the midst of our darkness, our vision of Jerusalem and our Temple rebuilt is never lost.

dik” - lucky for us. Therefore, all dangerous activities must be avoided or postponed until after Tisha B’Av. This includes elective surgery, court cases, etc.

We do not listen to music or visit places of entertainment, go to the beach or swim. We do not eat meat or fowl, or drink wine (including grape juice) except for the Shabbat when all laws of mourning are suspended.

It is prohibited, cut one’s hair, buy new clothing, paint or renovate our homes. This is a time for introspection and prayer; a time when we shed tears for POSITIVE CRITICISIM the pain of our people, for the pain of Jerusalem and all the This week, we commence Reciting Megillas Eicha (the book of Lamentations) on Tisha glory and majesty that has been the fifth Book of the Torah - B’Av. LAWS FOR THE lost since the destruction of our Devarim (Deuteronomy) This Temple. Please note on ShabThere is no one to tell it as it recounts the names of all the REMAINING fifth Book is also called Mishna bos the laws of mourning are Torah - A Review of the Torah. is, and the damage is evident ev- places where the Jewish people NINE DAYS Prior to his death, Moshe Rab- erywhere. Moshe teaches us that angered G-d during their forty We must bear in mind that suspended. benu reviews the entire Torah if you truly love someone, then years of sojourning, he demon- this month of Av is not “mazel(HINENI.ORG)

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Sen. John McCain Continued from page 42 That means three to six weeks of follow-up treatment with radiation therapy alongside longer-term oral chemotherapy to try and kill off as many loose cancer cells as possible, Alexander said.

In the past, doctors would irradiate the whole brain to try and kill stray tumor cells, but cancers would still recur near the original site, Alexander said. Standard therapy now calls for targeted radiation aimed at the area around tumor location.

Glioblastoma also resists attempts to kill it through chemotherapy, in part because standard chemotherapies generally are designed to not get into the brain, Alexander said.

"Most of the time you don't want toxic therapies getting into the brain," Alexander said. "That's been a challenge over the years, in terms of developing the right kinds of drugs for this tumor."

Glioblastoma also tends to contain a lot of different kinds of tumor cells within it, which makes finding the right chemotherapy even more difficult, Al-

Mourning the Mikdash Continued from page 34 more than a physical structure.

It symbolized the relationship between Hashem and the Jewish people. It was the focal point of spirituality in the world. When we mourn the loss of the Mikdash, we are not crying for the wood and the stones. We mourn the fact that we no longer see Hashem’s presence as clearly in the world and that our relationship with Him is strained. We long for the day when the Jewish people will reunite with Hash-

em and feel his closeness once again. In other words, we hope for the day when the world will return to its natural state. That is why we are obligated to cry on Tisha B’Av ( and commanded to remember our loss every day) and there is no limit to our mourning because the loss of the Bet HaMikdash is a reality we can never come to terms with.

Think about that, “the loss of the Bet HaMikdash is a reality we can never come to terms with”.

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(HEALTHDAY NEWS) We know that people are born and people die. We know we had ancestors, some we met, some we heard of and some who are both nameless and without story to us. We remember those we can, we respect them and mourn their loss.

But the loss of the Temple is not a loss of a building or even a relative. It’s the loss of a connection. It’s the loss of clarity. It’s the loss of reality.

May we all merit to properly mourn the Bet HaMikdash each and every day and especially on Tisha BeAv and therefore be present to rejoice in its rebuilding. ions Toss to distribute.

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of the guesswork out of Shabbat observance,” added Rabbi Raskin.

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Funding Terrorism Continued from page 23 ly helpless to do anything except keep shoving more money into its dirty and bloody hands.

The consequences of not funding terrorism are too terrifying to contemplate. What else can we possibly do except nothing?

Cutting off money to the terrorists would just lead to more terrorism. That’s the sum of all the arguments. And there’s a word for it. Blackmail.

We can’t figure out how to stop paying blackmail money to Islamic terrorists. The most powerful nation on earth can’t stop writing big checks to one of

the oldest active Islamic terror groups on the planet.

But it’s easy. You just stop sending the checks.

You stop worrying about stability, further radicalization and an imaginary peace process. You can’t buy stability by paying the biggest terrorist group to keep the smaller ones down. If you’re going to do that, you might as well start subsidizing the mafia to keep other criminals in line.

The PA, Fatah and the PLO constantly promote and celebrate Islamic terrorism. They’re not as bad as ISIS, but does that mean we should be funding every Islamic terrorist group less terrible than ISIS?

Finally, if the PA won’t stop funding Islamic terrorists who kill Israelis decades after signing what was supposed to be a peace accord with Israel, talk of a peace process is hollow nonsense.

The United States shouldn’t need a special bill to defund an Islamic terrorist group that has murdered many Americans over the years. We can’t end terrorism tomorrow. But we can at least stop funding it.

If only we can figure out how to stop writing the checks.

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Continued from page 10 methods, as well, but doing nothing is not an option.”

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism has not taken a position on the issue, but several prominent Conservative rabbis are speaking out in favor of the metal detectors.

Writing from Israel, Rabbi Neil Cooper of Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El, near Philadelphia, pointed out that not only do many Israeli malls and restaurants have metal detectors, but in addition, “When one enters the Western Wall Plaza, one is required to pass through metal de-

tectors. It is expected, anticipated and reasonable.” Cooper said he was surprised to learn that metal detectors have not been used on the Temple Mount until now.

“It should be welcomed by everyone who abhors violence and will impede those desiring to harm others,” he said.

Rabbi Joel Meyers, executive vice president emeritus of Conservative Judaism’s Rabbinical Assembly, noted, “Most of us in the United States go through metal detectors daily in order to enter public buildings and most Israelis go through metal detectors to even enter a shopping mall, so if needed to help secu-

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Personalized Medicine Continued from page 43 and further efforts toward the creation of personalized medicine,” Davidson said.

Therapix Biosciences’ lead compound, THX-TS01, is currently in Phase 2 clinical trials for Tourette’s syndrome. The company intends to initiate a Phase

1 clinical study of another compound, THX-ULD01, for the treatment of mild cognitive impairment, for which no FDA-approved therapies currently exist.

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JULY 28, 2017 rity on the Temple Mount, there should be no discussion.”

Among dovish groups, Dr. Michael Koplow, policy director of the Israel Policy Forum (IPF), told JNS.org, “IPF’s position is that metal detectors at the entrances to the Temple Mount are a commonsense and relatively unobtrusive way to protect the safety of both Jews and Muslims on the Temple Mount and its environs, and that erecting them does not alter the site’s status quo.”

Americans for Peace Now agreed that “security measures are obviously necessary at this spot,” although the organization added that it “reserves judgment on the specifics of the security tools utilized in Jerusalem’s Holy Basin.”

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Making Tisha B’Av Continued from page 34 animosity, we lost our Divine protection. The Chofetz Chaim writes: “If these sins had the power to cause a standing edifice to be destroyed, then certainly their continued presence among the Jewish people will prevent a new Temple from being rebuilt. We have no choice but to strengthen our efforts to correct this sin… for how long are we to remain in exile?”

Do not allow this time to pass you by. If someone you know is feeling pain, imagine what it is like to live in their shoes.

Ask yourself: what can I do to make this better? Even a daily call, an encouraging card, an offer to do an errand would help alleviate the burden. Don’t underestimate the power of one.

Just as one painful word may destroy, all it takes is one kind word to rebuild. Stop yourself from spreading gossip, sarcastic

we find ourselves, we can restore our souls. This is our hope for the future; the key to the put downs or senseless fighting. end of our exile.

Feel the pain of our brothers and sisters in Israel. Pray each 3. Mourn for day for our soldiers. Ask God to Jerusalem watch over our boys and guard Do we really feel the void them well. We must show God that exile has brought? Do we that we are once again His unit- ever stop and think about the ed children. destruction of God’s home?

When we stand under the 2. Spiritual chuppah we break a glass to Connection remember Jerusalem. When Though our Temple was building or renovating a home, destroyed, our connection to we leave a small area unfinished God has endured the centuries to recall the destruction of our through the study of Torah. We Temple. In our greatest mohave survived inquisitions, po- ments of joy we are compelled groms, crusades and holocausts to realize that our happiness is because we remained faithful incomplete. How can we celeJews. Today many of us have brate a house when God’s home grown spiritually disconnected. has been burned?

Let us take a moment and And even if we have the knowledge, often the passion for Ju- mourn. Let us recall the Temple daism is lost. Reclaim the joy of that once stood in all its glory. mitzvot and begin the spiritual Search deep inside and yearn reconstruction that is required for the Divine connection that for us to rebuild our nation. sheltered us. Shed a tear today God has granted us the gift of for our nation and all that we Torah so that no matter where have lost.

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JetBlue Seeks Partners Continued from page 7 In 2014, an international ex-

for JetBlue as well as its 38 foreign-based partners. JFK has the busiest operations for JetBlue; tension was added by JetBlue to out of the airport’s 925 daily Terminal 5. The new terminal departures, as many as 175 are will have international gates through JetBlue.

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Reports Say Trump Team Continued from page 10 Trump's son-in-law, will testify next week about their meeting last year with a Russian attorney.

In recent weeks, Trump has expressed anger about the probe after being informed about the legal questions that he and his family could face.

The Post reports that he has told aides he was especially disturbed after learning Mueller would be able to access several years of his tax returns.

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Breaking a tradition that began with President Jimmy Carter, Trump has repeatedly refused to make his tax returns public after first claiming he could not do so because he was under audit or after promising to release them after an IRS audit was completed.

In an interview with the Times Wednesday, the president said Mueller was leading an investigation riddled with conflicts of interest, and said the special counsel should not

The Jewashing of George Continued from page 20 lah, from funding the types of terrorists who call the murder of Jews “resistance” and from supporting Islamist groups that praise Hitler, to play the victim of anti-Semitism.

George Soros hates Jews. So do his apologists and supporters. They just can’t say so in public. Yet. There are a thousand euphemisms. They’re not anti-Semites, they’re anti-Zionists. Yes, they just happen to be reviving the Nazi boycott against the Jews. And their favorite Muslim Brotherhood hate groups drew organizational inspiration from the Third Reich. But they’re only concerned for social justice. The

social justice they’re concerned with just happens to require the persecution of the Jews. They just happen to disrupt Holocaust memorial events and Jewish holidays to bring attention to the cause of the oppressed Muslim terrorists whose heroic figures had egged on Hitler to wipe out the Jews.

And if you doubt their commitment to opposing anti-Semitism, watch them defend George Soros. Then when the Jewashing is done, they can go back to demanding that we fund the terrorists murdering Jews.

George Soros is not a Holocaust survivor. He has spent much of his life collaborating with totalitarian movements whose goal is the extermination

Parshas Devarim – Sense Continued from page 35 reached the car. The seller eased his way into the driver’s seat while my brother, who already had his license, settled into the front passenger seat. I slid into the back seat as I heard once again that “she starts like a Caddy.”

With a smile and a flourish he inserted the key and attempted to start the car. AHEH AHEH AHEH HAaaa… AHEH AHEH AHEH HAaaa… AHEH AHEH AHEH HAaaa… AHEH AHEH

AHEH HAaaa…

Not wanting to embarrass the man by laughing, I was literally pinching myself as I was ducking down behind the front seats.

Then the thought hit me. I can hide back here but how was my poor brother in the front seat handling this!? I timidly lifted my head to get a look at him, while the sound of the starter grated in the background…

And then I saw him… Sitting with his head wedged upside down between the seat and the passenger door. When I

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expand the probe to include the financial dealings of his family.

“I think that’s a violation," Trump said. "Look, this is about Russia.”

Mueller’s team has begun examining financial records, and has requested documents from the Internal Revenue Service related to Trump’s former campaign chairman, Manafort, the Times reported, citing a senior American official. The records are from a criminal tax investigation that had been opened long before Trump’s campaign began. Manafort was never charged in that case.

of the Jewish people.

He is not a victim of anti-Semitism. He is a perpetrator of anti-Semitism.

The only thing more despicable than the left’s obsessive hatred of Jews is its Jewashing of anti-Semites. Hating Jews is anti-Semitic no matter what your last name might be. Collaborating with the murderers of Jews is attempted genocide no matter what your DNA may say. When you defend Hamas, fund BDS and defend anti-Semitism, no amount of lies and spin will Jewash your hatred and guilt away.

Continued from page 12 ed a discussion on cutting the money that Turkey receives to help it prepare for eventual EU accession.

Turkish officials say the scale of the crackdown, which has broad popular support at home, is justified by the gravity of events on July 15, 2016, when rogue soldiers commandeered tanks, fighter jets and helicopters, bombing parliament and government buildings in their

attempt to seize power.

Turkey's message EU officials had initially held back from public criticism of Turkey, a vital ally of the West in the war against Islamic State militants and in tackling Europe's migrant crisis.

But Turkey's escalating row with Germany over access to Turkey's NATO air bases and the detention of the head of Amnesty International in Turkey have driven relations to a new low.

the problem, he said, is that many of these younger converts "don't actually convert to Islam. They convert to extremism." Hence families, especially parents, "need to be vigilant.

Identify what they are converting to. People need to know who these groups are. Who are Salafis? Who are Sunnis? Sufis?

You need to find out what their ideology is."

But this alone is not enough.

"I'm a big believer in sting operations," Shaikh said, "because you often can't talk them out of it. They continue to go down the route of extremism to the road of terrorism." And even if the community goes to the authorities, he pointed out, "how often do we hear 'he was known to the police'? Two of the three London attackers were 'reported to the police.' But what does that mean? So you need more human intelligence. You need spies."

At the same time, Bart Schuurman, an assistant professor at Leiden University's Institute of Security and Global

Affairs and co-author of "Converts and Islamist Terrorism," a policy brief produced by the International Center for Counter Terrorism in The Hague, cautioned in a recent interview, "We don't want all converts to be seen as a terror threat. The vast majority do not get involved in terrorism whatsoever." Hence, despite the "overrepresentation of converts" among terrorists and extremists, he said, "conversion itself should not be seen as a risk factor for violence."

Yet the number of violent, radicalized converts to Islam also shows that many current counterterrorism initiatives may be misplaced. Both Schuurman and Shaikh point to popular proposals for Muslim bans in the United States and several European countries. Those bans are especially ineffective, noted Shaikh, if they only involve specific Muslim regions of the Middle East and North Africa. "It's too quickly expanding," he said, referring to radical Islam. "And ultimately it doesn't work anyway, because the majority threat is coming from the inside." Similarly, Schuurman observed,

"If you want to prevent people from doing harm to your society, it helps to understand what makes them do harm in the first place; and if you have a 'Muslim travel ban,' if you feed into the narrative that the West is at war with Islam, it doesn't help security in Amsterdam or Chicago."

What does help, said Shaikh, who practices Sufism – a mystic, spiritual movement within Islam – and whose wife converted to Islam from Catholicism, is to create a different narrative, both for those born Muslim and for converts. "I don't think we can stop the conversion. But there is a pro-Western argument to be made that the Muslims who are flourishing in the world are doing so in non-Muslim countries, expressly because of their interfaith, secular cultures. Where in the world has radical Islam brought wealth, or success, or dignity? Name me one place, and I'll sell up and go live there.

Because it doesn't exist."

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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative Continued from page 5 journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. process involved each of them posting a letter stuck on a suction cup attached to a long stick crouched down and over to get a better look, I saw a constant drip of tears dropping from his eyes but not a murmur of laughter coming from his mouth. (The Continued from page 7 car finally did get started and actually made it through the summer.) maining lines. If you’re only getThe seller ended up with his ting one line, you may be better honor intact and we had a car off signing up for one year of free which was almost intact. As I service for switching to Sprint, said–my brother’s pretty special which is currently on offer until when it comes to other people’s July 31st.” feelings.

In a report by Sprint’s Vice “Aileh haDevarim asher debair Moshe.” Moshe showed the utmost concern for the feelings and honor of others. Only then could he teach them. (TORAH.ORG)

ems on the Pavilion Cinemas marquees until 2018, when the theater reopens. As Ms. Gross onto the marquee one at a time, states, “We like the idea of crewith letters sometimes having ativity in public spaces. This is definitely our biggest project to be pried out by hand.

Despite any difficulties, they to date. We hope that this inintend to display different po- spires people.”

Sprint Open Mock-Verizon president of brand and advertising Tracy Palmer said, "Verizon's No. 1, we're No. 4. We're absolutely willing to have some fun, be a little playful and go after the big guys."

Verizon's responded by saying it is staying focused on providing customers with a good

1K NYC School Bus Continued from page 6

Kings College London. “It could get very, very controversial.”

For the British, agriculture is Continued from page 12 “I am not sure that the British a major sticking point. Critics government is going to have the point to big differences between Jeremy Corbyn, grows and so do whole public opinion behind U.S. and British farming methconcerns that a U.S. trade deal it in striking a trade deal with ods when it comes to the use of may mean opening up Britain’s the United States,” said Angelos antibiotics and genetically modnational health care system, the Chryssogelos, a European in- ified crops, neither of which are ternational politics professor at welcome on British store shelves.

NHS, to U.S. firms.

EU to Turkey: Respect

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pain and scrapes. The driver was suspended for 10 days.  Warnings ignored: When kids cried out that a driver was speeding, “he laughs.” The same driver smoked cigarettes and stopped at McDonald’s, with the engine running. Suspension: 90 days.  Carelessness: An escort did not secure a disabled child who “fell on his head” while being taken off the bus. The driver left Mogherini met the secretary a message with his company and general of Amnesty, Salil Shetty, before the meeting with the Turkish officials and was photographed holding up a petition signed by almost a million peoContinued from page 43 ple calling for the release of rights activists in Turkey.

“The European Union has to ple make exercise routine, Haurecognize that with the arrest of senblas said, they may notice a the Amnesty chair and director, "host of psychological benefits," Turkey is really signalling that such as feeling more energized they don't really care about any and less stressed.

It's effects like those that kind of consequences,” Shetty can help keep people on track, told reporters. hey need to also face the sen- agreed Dr. Pamela Peeke, an tences that are necessary,” Cavu- ACSM spokeswoman.

"The more that physical acsoglu said.

took off. Both were suspended for 60 days.  Rudeness: A driver “humiliated” the mother of a disabled child who urinated on the bus, telling her the fluid could have started an electrical fire and advising that her 14-year-old son wear diapers.

Suspension: 5 days.”

In the mere 12 months, between December 1, 2014 and December 2, 2015, 945 drivers and escorts were suspended or fired, compared with only 1,300 being disciplined during the five years

Americans Want to Be Fit tivity becomes a habit, and you notice how good you feel, the more you miss it when you're not active," said Peeke, a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Unfortunately, poor body image keeps some people from ever becoming active -- especially women, Peeke said.

"If you feel bad about your

experience. Spokesperson David Weissman said, "The Verizon network consistently comes out on top in network testing nationally and in New York including our recent Root Metrics win for New York City and the Tri State area. We deliver consistent network experience for our customers by continued focus and investment in the latest technologies.” between 2008 and 2012.

This doesn’t surprise Manhattan mother Sara Catalinotto, who founded Parents to Improve School Transportation (PIST).

She say that a decision made by the Bloomberg administration in 2013, which eliminated job protections for bus drivers, is to blame. The change led to a month-long strike as well as curbing contract costs, which resulted in a lot of lwered paid and less qualified workers. Catalinotto said simply, “What they’re doing to save money ends up hurting the kids. You get what you pay for.” body, the last thing you want to do is strut into a gym," she said.

Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to be active other than hitting the gym, Peeke pointed out.

"Get up and walk," she said.

"That's the No. 1 way of getting the ball rolling."

Peeke said she avoids the term "exercise," in favor of encouraging people to move whenever they can -- in a world full of escalators, remote controls and desk jobs.

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Trump Exhorts GOP Continued from page 10

Trump's health care speech comes after the latest of his adthe Senate bill, the second ver- ministration's meetings with sion of the Senate bill, a new ver- what the White House calls "vicsion of the Senate bill, or a 2015 tims of Obamacare."

Trump also used Twitter bill that would have repealed the Affordable Care Act," said Re- late Sunday to continue pubpublican Senator Susan Collins licly pressuring Republicans in Congress to meet his campaign of Maine.

Friedman, MKs Underscore Continued from page 17

has been a fundamental change to the relationship since January.

“Under the previous adminyou care about, it is natural to istration, I felt like we were seen have differences of opinion.

“But we have to live together. as part of the problem. Now, we There is only one State of Israel, are seen as part of the solution.

“But that also comes with reone United States, and one bond between those two countries,” sponsibility, to work creatively to advance solutions that reflect he said.

Former Israeli Ambassador [regional] realities,” Oren said.

Nearly all speakers addressed to the United States Michael Oren also mentioned the shared American involvement in liaisvalues between Washington and ing between Israel and Jordan Jerusalem, but added that there on Monday in order to prevent

Party to Right of Likud Continued from page 17

Sharon ignored the result of a referendum on the Disengageritories, stopping the move is not ment voted on by Likud memthe purview of the court, but of bers because the results were the government or the Knesset. against expelling Jews from The public needed to press the Gaza. He ejected the two religovernment and the Knesset to gious Zionist ministers who voted against it from the cabinet. stop the move and resign."

Shaked recalled that "the LiThen prime minister Ariel

Abbas: Freeze in Contacts Continued from page 13 of all of the security bodies to incorporate security measures based on advanced technologies ("smart checks") and other measures instead of metal detectors in order to ensure the security of visitors and worshippers in the Old City and on

the Temple Mount.”

However, the agreement was not enough for Abbas, who demanded that all security measures designed to prevent the smuggling of weapons onto the Temple Mount be removed.

"Unless all measures go back to what they were before July 14, there will not be any chang-

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promise of revamping the health care system that critics say is too expensive and unfairly requires Americans to buy health insurance or pay a fine if they do not.

"If Republicans don't Repeal and Replace the disastrous ObamaCare, the repercussions will be far greater than any of them understand!" the president wrote. a breakdown in ties over a stabbing attack at the Israeli embassy in Amman Sunday in which attacker was shot and killed. MK Amir Peretz (Labor) said the incident is proof that solutions and agreements can be made when that is what leaders want to achieve. Opposition Leader Yitzhak Herzog, who was recently ousted as chairman of the Labor Party, also praised President Trump for his help in navigating the crisis and called on the administration to intervene earlier in future.

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kud is the party that could have stopped the Disengagement," and today, "a party to the right of the Likud is the one preventing the next disengagement."

"The court has to minimize intervention in government and Knesset decisions; whoever is in favor of intervention is in favor of judicial activism and I am totally opposed to that," stressed the Justice Minister.

(INN) es," Abbas said in a speech ahead of a meeting with the PA leadership Tuesday evening.

"All the new Israeli measures on the ground from that date to the present are supposed to disappear," he added. "Then things will return to normal in Jerusalem and we will continue our work after that in relation to bilateral relations between us and them."

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Continued from page 39 Known as a school that attracts future leaders in business and real estate among other diverse fields, Baruch College is known for its Zicklin School of Business. It was established in 1919 and is named after financier and alumnus Lawrence Zicklin. The current dean is H. Fenwick Huss, formerly dean of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. Zicklin is the only unit of the City University of New York that is accredited by the Association to Advance College Schools of Business (AACSB).

Zicklin offers the following degree programs: BBA, MBA, Executive MBA, MS in finance, MS in information systems, an MBA in Health Care Administration, and an MS in Industrial and Labor Relations. Joint degrees are available with other institutions, such as a JD/MBA (with Brooklyn Law School

“We held Peter Liang responsible for what he did,” Gonzalez responded, though the audience reacted, yelling out “bull” and “how about jail time?”

“You can disagree with the sentence recommendation, but the Brooklyn DA’s office was the first DA’s office that

Subotnick Financial Services Center, which includes a functional trading floor with 55 professional workstations, providing experiential learning opportunities.  Weissman Center for International Business, which supports international opportunities for students, including international internships, study abroad programs, and seminars with international executives.  Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity, which provides a forum for discussion of issues related to business ethics, including: transparency of corporate reporting, corporate governance, legal and ethical corporate behavior, executive accountability, corporate responsibility in global business development, risk assessment and amelioration, conflicting corporate stakeholder interests, and the role of governmental regulation.

or New York Law School, and a Ph.D. in Business (with the CUNY Graduate Center).

The BBA program offers majors in Accountancy, Computer Information Systems, Economics, Finance, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, International Business, Management, Marketing Management, Real Estate, and Statistics and Quantitative Modeling.

Zicklin also has a number of specialized or cross-disciplinary centers and institutes, including:  Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship, which draws together faculty, students, advisors, alumni and volunteers to support start-ups and established businesses and the college’s constituents.  Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, which provides applied research, continuing education (Bert R. Dweck is the president and conferences to the real estate of the Young Journalists Initiatives industry.  Wasserman Trading Floor/ at the Jewish Voice)

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held a police officer accountable in a very long time in this city,” shot back Gonzalez, adding that he was always open to meeting with families of victims.

But Petersen argued that Thompson had never met with her family to explain to them what was going on, adding that Fliedner was the

one who had been willing to talk to them, and that most of the information they had received was through the media.

“The Brooklyn DA has failed each and every one of us,” said Petersen, facing Gonzalez and pointing at him. “Do not run on Ken Thompson’s coattails. Run on your own vision. Give the people of Brooklyn what you want for your family.”

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Money Magazine Ranks CUNY’s Baruch College as # 1 in Best Public Colleges By: Bert R. Dweck

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ne of the complicated issues that dominated the 2016 presidential election was that of the struggles of a new generation seeking a college education. Because annual tuition costs have essentially skyrocketed at both private and public colleges, the affordability factor as well as the mounting student debt that would be incurred have left parents and students in a quandary as to whether there are sufficient merits in even obtaining an undergraduate degree.

Yet, there appears that good news is on the horizon. While unrelenting critics have severely critiqued the CUNY system for

decades, it now appears that at least two of the colleges in their impressive network have been prestigiously ranked by Money Magazine.

Utilizing data based on employment results of graduates and salary earnings, the magazine has ranked CUNY’s Baruch College as number 1 on the list of the best public colleges.

According to a Washington Post report, this year Money Magazine added a new set of data records in which to proffer their college ranking justification. Known among the denizens of the higher education sphere as “Chetty data”, it is eponymously named for Raj Chetty, a distinguished professor at Stanford who has headed

In 1919, the City College of New York established a School of Business and Civic Administration, offering its first MBA program one year later. The school was renamed in 1953 in honor of Bernard M. Baruch, noted statesman and financier, who was instrumental in the school's formation

The Zicklin Business School is the only unit of the City University of New York that is accredited by the Association to Advance College Schools of Business (AACSB)

up a team of economists who have gained access to anonymous tax records that span generations. In January, the group

tracked students from nearly every college in the country and measured their earnings more than a decade after they left

The current dean of the Zicklin Business School is H. Fenwick Huss, formerly dean of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.

The Zicklin Business School offers the following degree programs: BBA, MBA, Executive MBA, MS in finance, MS in information systems, an MBA in Health Care Administration, and an MS in Industrial and Labor Relations

campus, whether they graduated or not.

Moreover, the data clearly showed that CUNY’s Baruch College transformed into a virtual powerhouse for propelling almost six times as many low income students into the middle class and beyond, as all eight Ivy League campuses combined.

tance rate. The average tuition costs are approximately $14,500 for out-of-state tuition with a financial aid rating of 80%. The SAT scores of prospective applicants are 1090-1360 in reading and math.

History

In 1919, the City College of New York established a School of Business and Civic Administration, offering its first MBA Utilizing data based on program one year later. The employment results of school was renamed in 1953 in graduates and salary earnings, the magazine honor of Bernard M. Baruch, noted statesman and financier, has ranked CUNY’s Baruch College as number who was instrumental in the school's formation. In 1968, af1 on the list of the best ter the addition of arts and scipublic colleges. ences departments and degree programs, Baruch became a According to the Princeton senior college within the CUNY Review, each year there are over system.

20,000 applicants to Baruch ColSee Money Magazine Ranks , page 38 lege and there is a 31% accep-

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Belated Bar Mitzvahs for Five College Students in Vienna Lauder School students are joined by families and friends from Europe and around the world By: Chabad Staff

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oined by their families from Switzerland, Germany, Hungary and Ukraine— and their friends and fraternity brothers from around the world—five young men from the Lauder Business School in Vienna were called to the Torah and celebrated their bar mitzvahs last month for the first time.

The young men studied over a seven-week period with Rabbi Boruch Sabbach, co-director of the Jewish Heritage Center on the school’s campus with his wife, Chaya Mushka. The lessons covered Judaism and various areas of Jewish practice, including the observance of tefillin. The bar mitzvah program is a joint project of Chabad on

Campus International and the Alpha Epsilon Pi International fraternity, of which they are members.

The Lauder Business School, founded in 2003 with the assistance of philanthropist Ronald Lauder, is especially welcoming to Jewish students from Europe and abroad. Operating as a university of applied sciences in the Austrian education system, it is the one of the only universities in the European Union to be closed on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. In addition, the Jewish Heritage Fund scholarship program grants stipends to students that cover up to 80 percent of their housing and dining costs.

Dani Markus of Hungary spoke about why he decided to have a bar mitzvah nearly 10 years after the traditional age

Enjoying a celebratory luncheon with family and friends. (Photo: Jewish Heritage Center)

No simcha is complete without dancing. (Photo: Jewish Heritage Center)

of 13: “In my family, Judaism was never a core subject of conversation. But since I arrived at the business school, I felt that I needed to know more. During the preparation period held by the rabbi, we got to know the how’s and why’s of Jewish customs and traditions.�

The students were still savoring the experience weeks after they were called up to the Torah in the presence of 60 family members and friends. The next day, they prayed in their new sets of tefillin—arranged by the rabbi with the help of the Chabad on Campus Interna-

The bar mitzvah boys and AEPi members with friends. (Photo: Jewish Heritage Center)

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Five students from the Lauder Business School in Vienna celebrated their bar mitzvahs for the first time, surrounded by family and friends. From left are: Dima Solovei, Benjamin Pretzer, Peter Vandor, Yvegen Sholudchenko and Dani Markus. (Photos taken at the Sunday event.)

tional Tefillin Bank—and then shared a celebratory meal.

For Peter Vandor, also from Hungary, “knowing about my roots and getting closer to them was the main purpose� for participation in the program. “But even in my wildest dreams, I never thought it would be this successful,� he said. “I feel like we, as five Jewish students, made a huge step forward with our Jewish identity. I give a huge shout-out to Rabbi Boruch for guiding us as our mentor and making this program possible."

Although studies at the Lauder Business School are in English, the emotions associated with the event were distinctly European. Magdolna VĂĄrkonyi, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who came from Hungary, wept as she described how

moved she was to see her first great-grandchild, Benjamin Pretzer, have a bar mitzvah celebration.

Sabbach said the success of the program exceeded his expectations. “It was extraordinary to guide these five young men through this important Jewish milestone. They showed a real commitment to the lessons, and their questions demonstrated a seriousness about the subject and their Judaism.�

Equally important, he emphasized, was the impact on the participants’ families: “Several of the parents spoke about a new commitment to Judaism and a desire to send their younger children to Jewish schools.�

Six students have already signed up for a similar program for next year.

(CHABAD.ORG)

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7 Awesome Summer Travel Solutions – Part 1 By: Merilee Kern (‘THE LUXE LIST’ EXECUTIVE EDITOR)

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We all know the summer ban design with the Impact VocoPro’s new CarryOkeBell is months represent an ideal time Clear Urban Edition Case from a truly portable karaoke system for family getaways and vacatech21. Inspired by minimalistic with the microphone, amplifier tions. This fact is not lost on streetwear, The Urban Edition and speaker built into one easy- criminals as, according to the offers a unique geometric pat- to-carry device. The CarryOke- FBI, July and August have the tern with sleek and clean lines, fit for the fashion-conscious smartphone user looking to coordinate their case with their outfit in a subtle manner. tech21 products feature a highly advanced impact protection material called FlexShock, which is an ultra-thin and lightweight material that absorbs and dissipates force and can withstand drops up to 6.6 feet. With enhanced UV yellowing resistance and a durable, scratch resistant finish, your phone, and your case, will look better for a longer period of time. It’s available in two different styles and two Thinking of new and fun ways of entertaining on the road this colors (Brushed Black or Clear summer? How about karaoke? VocoPro makes that easy White) for the iPhone 7 and with its new CarryOkeBell product, the world’s first handheld, 7 Plus. Combining urban de- completely self-contained karaoke system sign with clear materials and advanced drop protection, the Bell unit has on-board digital highest rates of burglaries comUrban Edition can keep your mic effects to help users sound pared to other months of the phone as beautiful as the day like a star, or to transform the year. As a result, summer is also you took it out of the box. sound of their voice using the the perfect time for homeownvoice changer with seven fun ers to evaluate the strength and CarryOkeBell vocal effects. Karaoke enthusi- stability of their home securi(www.VocoPro. asts can sing at home or on the ty system. And, a great way to com) - $89.00 road, using Bluetooth technolo- secure your home while you’re Thinking of new and fun gy and a “smart” device to access away on vacation is with secuways of entertaining on the their favorite karaoke tracks on-

Jamaica’s First-Ever Kosher Restaurant Opens in Montego Bay

The EZVIZ Husky 1080P Outdoor Home Security Camera offers wide-angle video recording that allows you to see every detail.

rity cameras from EZVIZ. For one, the EZVIZ Husky 1080P Outdoor Home Security Camera offers wide-angle video recording that allows you to see every detail.

The Husky has an IP66 rating, which means it is dustproof, waterproof and can handle a wide range of temperatures. With a built-in IR sensor, the camera can see objects in the dark up to 100 feet away. You can easily set up the Husky using your Wi-Fi network. Keep an eye on your pets and tell them to get off the couch while you’re away from home with the EZVIZ Mini 360 Plus—another effective model the company offers. This panand-tilt indoor home security camera features a 92-degree field of view and 360-degree capability that lets homeowners view the entire room.

The camera offers night vi-

sion range of up to 33 feet when it’s dark, and it also includes two-way audio. Another option is the EZVIZ Mini Plus, which is a compact indoor camera that can be set up almost anywhere with its optional magnet base.

The Mini Plus has amazing detail for its small size. It records in 1080p and sends all the video to your phone or computer.

The camera offers a 135-degree viewing angle and two-way audio. No matter where you are, EZVIZ cloud services and smart home video technology can help you feel like you’re home—right from the palm of your hand.

Rachio Smartphone Sprinkler Controller (www.Rachio. com) – $249.99 Take control of your watering See 7 Awesome Summer , page 36

LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF FIREWORKS.

‘Chabad’s Kosher Hot Spot” Makes Jamaican “Jerk’ Cuisine Accessible to Strictly Kosher Tourists Edited by: JV Staff

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or decades, Jewish travelers to Jamaica have bemoaned the fact that the island’s signature “jerk” cuisine was off limits due to a lack of Kosher supervision.

Thanks to the Chabad of Jamaica, who opened the doors of the first-ever Kosher restaurant in Jamaica last week, the classic Caribbean culinary experience is now within reach for the thousands of strictly-Kosher tourists who visit the island every year.

Known as “Chabad’s Kosher Hot Spot,” the Kosher eatery is the newest addition to the “Hip Strip” in Montego Bay, an expansive array of restaurants and shops that runs the length Gloucester Avenue. The Chabad of Jamaica announced the grand opening via its dedicated Facebook page, inviting international tourists and longtime residents of Jamaica to join them at the Kosher Hot Spot to enjoy traditional Jamaican jerk dishes, Red Stripe beer and stunning views of Montego Bay’s white sand beaches.

“Chabad’s Kosher Hot Spot was made possible by sponsors locally and internationally, and we are so thankful to them

Chabad’s Kosher Hot Spot, the first-ever Kosher restaurant in Jamaica, is open for business in Montego Bay.

all. This is a place where you can taste delicious Israeli and Jamaican falafel, and also purchase Judaica and all kinds of Jewish Jamaican souvenirs. We encourage everyone to come visit – we will feed your body and soul,” said Rabbi Yaakov Raskin, co-director of Chabad of Jamaica.

The arrival of Rabbi Raskin and his wife, Mushkee, to Montego Bay in 2014 signaled the beginning of a new chapter for Jamaican Jewry. Located in the tourist hub of the island, and only a 90-minute drive from Kingston, Chabad’s “Jewish Welcome Centre” has quick-

ly become a haven of religious life in Jamaica, maintaining a unique Jewish Jamaican flavor and transforming the island into a fully-accessible Jewish travel destination – a tropical escape for even the most observant.

In addition to facilitating Shabbat services, holiday parties, and Jewish children’s programming for locals and tourists alike, the Raskins run a professional Kosher kitchen that prepares a wide selection of strictly Kosher meals for delivery to any hotel in Jamaica. The Kosher Hot Spot, which is locatSee Jamaica’s First-Ever , page 36

Wishing the Jewish communities a healthy and happy Independence Day. And if you’re still looking for a place to enjoy fireworks, there’s no better place than the Pocono Mountains. We have over 67,000 acres for you and your family to explore or just chill and watch some fireworks.

See all that we have to offer and start planning your escape at PoconoMountains.com.

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Sen. John McCain Faces a Tough Cancer Foe The median survival for glioblastoma patients is about 15 months, oncologists say By: Dennis Thompson

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en. John McCain faces an uphill battle fighting the aggressive cancer discovered in his brain last week, experts say.

The cancer, glioblastoma, is the most common malignant tumor that originates in brain cells, as opposed to cancers that spread to the brain from elsewhere in the body, said Dr. Manmeet Ahluwalia, dean of the Cleveland Clinic's Rose Ella Burkhardt Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center.

But it's a very tough cancer to treat. Glioblastoma is difficult to surgically remove, resists at-

tempts to kill it with radiation and chemotherapy, and nearly always comes back, cancer experts said.

"The tumor many times responds to treatment initially but it tends to grow back," said Dr. Kurt Jaeckle, a neuro-oncologist and co-director of the Gerald J. Glasser Brain Tumor Center at Overlook Medical Center's Atlantic Neuroscience Institute in New Jersey. "It's not unusual to have to treat it again."

It's the same type of cancer that killed Sen. Ted Kennedy at age 77 in 2009.

McCain, 80, underwent a procedure on July 14 to remove a blood clot from his brain just

above his left eye. On Wednesday, his office reported that the blood clot was associated with glioblastoma.

Until last year there was no medical evidence that people older than 70 benefited from the standard treatment for glioblastoma, said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society.

has outstanding functional capacity for someone of his age," Lichtenfeld said. "I suspect his family and care team are going to strongly consider treatment.

Other individuals may choose not to do that."

Glioblastoma arises in the supportive tissue of the brain and typically is highly malignant, with finger-like tentacles that reach deep into the brain, according to the American Brain Tumor Association Sen. John McCain faces an uphill battle fighting the aggressive cancer discovered in his brain last week, experts say

After completing his military service, Senator John McCain is pictured here being welcomed by the late President Richard Nixon

Glioblastoma represents about 15 percent of all primary brain tumors, with an estimated 12,390 new U.S. cases predicted for this year, according to the ABTA. Median survival for glioblastoma patients is about 14.6 months, the association says, and about 30 percent of patients are still alive after two years.

But a study presented in June 2016 at the American Society for Clinical Oncology's (ASCO) annual meeting was the first to show that people over 70 in otherwise good health could benefit from aggressive treatment, Lichtenfeld said.

"Sen. McCain is obviously a very active gentleman and

(ABTA).

Glioblastoma represents about 15 percent of all primary brain tumors, with an estimated 12,390 new U.S. cases predicted for this year, according to the ABTA. Median survival for glioblastoma patients is about 14.6 months, the association says,

and about 30 percent of patients are still alive after two years.

Treatment for glioblastoma tends to be a holding action, rather than something that completely cures the patient, said Dr. Brian Alexander, a leading radiation oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

"Generally it's one of the toughest problems we have in oncology," said Alexander, who's also a brain cancer expert for ASCO. "Successful treatment delays a growth coming back rather than curing the tumor, in most cases. We do know of patients who are years out after treatment that haven't had a recurrence of their tumor, but that's more of an exception than the rule."

The first challenge of treating glioblastoma is to surgically remove as much of the cancer as possible from the brain, Ahlu-

walia said.

Brain surgeons have gotten better at clearing out tumors thanks to real-time MRI scans that they can consult during an operation, Ahluwalia said.

"The surgeon can check with the MRI how much tumor is left behind," Ahluwalia said.

"The hope is to get the greatest amount of tumor out without hurting the patient."

Unfortunately, glioblastoma tends to aggressively infiltrate the brain, and even successful surgery will likely leave behind some cancerous brain cells, Alexander said.

"Even if you treat everything you can see with surgery, there are still cells that are infiltrating the normal brain, so you can't just take it all out," Alexander said.

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CBO: Obamacare Repeal Plan Would Increase Uninsured by 32M in 2026 By: Maureen Groppe

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bill the Senate plans to vote on next week to repeal parts of Obamacare without a replacement would make the insurance market unstable, raise premiums and increase by 32 million the number of uninsured people, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

While repealing billions of dollars in taxes imposed under Obamacare to pay for expanding health coverage to millions more Americans, the legislation would still decrease deficits by $473 billion over 10 years because of the spending reductions.

The repeal bill is similar to one approved by the House and Senate in 2015 but vetoed by then-president Barack Obama.

The legislation would immediately end the Affordable Care Act mandates for people to obtain insurance and employers to offer it and also scrap in 2020 the federal subsidies to help people pay for coverage. But it would keep the regulations on what insurers have to cover and the requirement that they not turn down sick people seeking coverage or base premiums on their health status.

As a result, the pool of people buying insurance would be older and sicker, prompting in-

surers to increase premiums. Insurance plans could cost about 50% more right after subsidies are eliminated and could double in 10 years, the CBO estimated.

The White House and congressional Republicans have pushed back on CBO health care estimates as Congress has considered various proposals. In a statement Wednesday night, the White House responded to the latest analysis: "We continue to believe that CBO’s methodology is flawed, and this score fails to take into account the President’s full plan, which includes a replacement for Obamacare and administrative actions to reduce costs and expand access to quality, affordable care."

CBO predicts that under the repeal proposal, faced with fewer customers with higher expenses, some insurers would likely stop selling plans. About half the country could have no option in the first year after subsidies are eliminated. After 10 years, three out of four Americans might not be able to buy a plan on the individual market, according to the CBO. “That's a true death spiral,” tweeted Larry Levitt, senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The bill would also end in two years the extra federal funding the ACA made available to states to expand eligibility for Medicaid to those earning slightly more than the poverty level. But unlike the bill the House passed

and the Senate was unable to bring up, a repeal bill would not reduce federal support for traditional Medicaid.

Still, the rollback of Medicaid expansion is expected to significantly increase the number of people without health insurance.

remains in place.

Republicans say the bill's twoyear delay before the insurance subsidies and Medicaid funding are repealed would give Congress time to come up with an alternative program. But they have so far been unable to agree on what that might be. Two ver-

The rollback of Medicaid expansion is expected to significantly increase the number of people without health insurance.

CBO concludes that because of both the Medicaid cuts and elimination of private insurance subsidies for people who don’t get coverage through an employer, the number of people who are uninsured would rise by 32 million in 10 years.

By 2026, about 21% of Americans under age 65 could be without insurance, compared with a projected 10% if the ACA

sions of a bill that would repeal parts of the the ACA and change some other provisions have not won enough GOP support to move to the floor over the past several weeks. Those bills would also result in millions more Americans not having insurance, according to CBO estimates.

GOP leadership still had not decided Wednesday which ver-

sion of the bill would be voted on next week, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., contended that it would be better to pass an overhaul than a straight repeal. Administration officials headed to Capitol Hill on Wednesday night to huddle with Republican senators to see whether a deal on a repeal-and-replace bill could be worked out.

“I think we all agree it’s better to both repeal and replace, but we could have a vote on either,” McConnell said at the White House on Wednesday. It is not clear McConnell has enough Republican support to bring a repeal-only bill to the floor, as three of the 52 GOP senators have already said they would oppose even debating such a bill and agreement by 50 senators is required to bring up any measure.

Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker told reporters that lawmakers were concerned about the brain cancer diagnosis of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., which was announced Wednesday, but acknowledged that "the math" also would be difficult if the Arizona senator was out since he was assumed to be a "yes" vote on the bill.

"We had a very substantive discussion," Corker said about the meeting of Republican lawmakers Wednesday night, but wouldn't go into detail. Corker is not one of the lawmakers of

By 2026, about 21% of Americans under age 65 could be without insurance, compared with a projected 10% if the ACA remains in place concern on the bill.

Calling the latest version “repeal and run,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the CBO analysis shows it’s a horrible idea.

“President Trump and Republicans have repeatedly promised to lower premiums and increase coverage, yet each proposal they offer would do the opposite,” Schumer said in a statement.

Like the earlier versions, the bill would block Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funding for a year. The federal government already prevents Medicaid patients from receiving abortion services. But the bill would also block them from using Planned Parenthood for contraception, testing for and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and other services.

The taxes and fees the bill would repeal or delay include those the ACA imposed on investment income, higher earnings, tanning beds, sectors of the health care industry and on high-cost employer-provided insurance plans.

(USATODAY)

Personalized Medicine and Cannabinoids Deal Inked

Americans Want to Be Fit, But Most Don't Put in the Effort

CURE Pharmaceutical and Israel’s Therapix Biosciences sign MoU with Israel's Assuta Medical Centers to develop first-in-class therapeutic products

Survey finds three-quarters think appearance is 'very important,' yet only 31 percent work out regularly

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herapix Biosciences of Tel Aviv, a specialty clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing cannabinoid-based drugs, last week signed a memorandum of understanding with California-based CURE Pharmaceutical to enter into a research collaboration with Israel’s Assuta Medical Centers.

The two biopharma companies will jointly advance, research, develop and commercialize potential therapeutic products in the fields of personalized medicine and cannabinoids. Assuta will support the early research and development of potential projects at its eight hospitals and medical centers.

Robert Davidson, CEO of CURE Pharmaceutical, noted that Israel “is at the forefront of cannabinoid-based research in the world” and therefore is “the perfect place to start the development of these products.”

“As CURE focuses on targeting unmet needs in traditional pharmaceutical markets that could be disrupted by cannabinoid-based options, we are continuously looking to help bring new therapeutic cannabinoid-based products to market See Personalized Medicine , page 36

By: Amy Norton

Photo illustration of Israel’s medical marijuana industry by Kobi Gideon/FLASH90

Therapix Biosciences’ lead compound, THX-TS01, is currently in Phase 2 clinical trials for Tourette’s syndrome. The company intends to initiate a Phase 1 clinical study of another compound, THX-ULD01, for the treatment of mild cognitive impairment, for which no FDA-approved therapies currently exist. Approvals for these indications may lead to other applications including pain, cancer, anti-inflammatory, dermatology, and psychiatric disorders.

ost Americans want to be in better shape, but few are putting in the work to get there, a new survey shows.

More than three-quarters of U.S. adults said that being in shape and looking good were "very important" to them, the survey found. A similar number wanted to change something about their body appearance.

Many people judged themselves as "too fat," or worried that they were not physically strong enough.

Despite those feelings, only 31 percent said they make exercise a regular "habit." And 45 percent admitted they weren't active at all, according to ReportLinker, a French technology company that did the survey.

The survey, conducted online in May, included more than 500 U.S. adults.

"Get up and walk," she said. "That's the No. 1 way of getting the ball rolling."

None of the results surprised exercise experts.

It's well-known that most U.S. adults fall short of physical activity recommendations, said Heather Hausenblas, a professor

More than three-quarters of U.S. adults said that being in shape and looking good were "very important" to them, the survey found. A similar number wanted to change something about their body appearance.

of kinesiology at Jacksonville University in Florida.

In fact, only about one-fifth of Americans meet exercise guidelines, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For adults, the guidelines call for 2.5 hours of moderate aerobic activity each week, along with some kind of muscle-strengthening exercises at least two days out of the week.

Both the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American Heart Association say Americans should exercise for at least 30 minutes five times a week.

But if so many Americans

think they're out of shape and want to look better, why aren't they exercising?

For one, body dissatisfaction is not the best motivator.

"If that's the reason you're starting to exercise, you're probably not going to stick with it," said Hausenblas, who studies physical activity and body image.

"On the other hand," she said, "if health reasons are your main motivation, you're more likely to stay active."

That's partly because the health benefits of exercise go beyond the physical. Once peoSee Americans Want to Be Fit , page 37

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Notice of Formation of 915 Saint John's HPG Investor II LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/30/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 20 W. 22nd St., Ste. 1601, NY, NY 10010, Attn: Drew Popkin. Purpose: any lawful activities. [7/289/1]

Notice of Qualification of KETAMINE TREATMENT CENTERS OF PRINCETON LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/03/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in New Jersey (NJ) on 03/05/14. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 1 Palmer Square East, Ste. 420, Princeton, NJ 08542. Address to be maintained in NJ: Corporation Service Company, Princeton South Corporate Ctr., Ste 160, 100 Charles Ewing Blvd, Ewing, NJ 08628. Arts of Org. filed with the NJ State Treasurer, 33 W. State St., 5th Fl., Trenton, NJ 08608. Purpose: to practice the profession of Medicine. [7/28-9/1]

Notice of Qualification of Denver Solutions, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/10/17. Office location: New York Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/22/16.

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. [7/28-9/1]

Notice of Qualification of VHA Mid-Atlantic Insurance Services, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/18/17. Office location: New York Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/18/11. 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. [7/28-9/1]

Notice of Formation of Quadra Office Interiors LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/13/17. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 140 58th St, Bldg A-6L, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Purpose: any lawful activity. [7/28-9/1]

Notice of Formation of 300 MADISON AVENUE BAKERY, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/5/17. 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.

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Notice of Formation of JNE IDF Member LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/12/17. Office location: NY County.

Principal business location: 387 Park Ave. South, 7th Fl., NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Attn: General Counsel, 387 Park Ave. South, 7th Fl., NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of formation of FITZ & PIERRE LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/24/2014.

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. [7/28-9/1]

Notice of formation of MY PHOTO PRESERVATION, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/20/2017. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [7/28-9/1]

Notice of Qualification of 40-56 Tenth Owner LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/14/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/13/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 1407 Broadway, 41st Fl., NY, NY 10018. DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [7/28-9/1]

Notice of formation of IN OUR HEADS PRODUCTIONS LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/15/2017.

Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Judith Halsey, 730 Schenck Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11207. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [7/21-8/25]

Notice of Qualification of Citigroup Index LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/8/17.

Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 388 Greenwich St., NY, NY 10013. LLC formed in DE on 7/1/03. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Suite 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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Notice of Qualification of Seven Valleys Capital LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/27/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 6/12/17. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, Attn: CT Corporation System, registered agent upon whom process may be served. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [7/21-8/25]

Notice of Formation of 108 W 80TH LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/13/17. 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: 825 3rd Ave, Fl. 37, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity. [7/21-8/25]

Notice of Formation of CCA 270 ST. NICHOLAS LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/30/17. 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. [7/21-8/25]

Notice of Qualification of WARBURG PINCUS FINANCIAL SECTOR GP, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/11/17. Office location: New York Co. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/1/17. 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. [7/21-8/25]

Notice of formation of SMALL MALL USA LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/2017. Office location: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 347 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [7/21-8/25]

Notice of Qualification of RNW ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS, PLLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/28/17. Office location: New York Co. PLLC formed in Texas (TX) on 6/22/14. 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. TX address of PLLC: 3009 Post Oak Blvd, Ste 2000, Houston, TX 77056.

Cert. of Formation filed with TX Secy of State, James E. Rudder Bldg., 1019 Brazos St, Austin, TX 78701. Purpose: Engineering. [7/21-8/25]

Notice of formation of collective please llc filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/28/17.

Office loc.: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail copy of process to is M. Burr Keim Company, 2021 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA 19103.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [7/21-8/25]

Notice of Qualification of SYNCARPHA CAPITAL, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/12/17. Office location: New York Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/17/15.

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. [7/21-8/25]

Notice of formation of MARGOLIN & PIERCE, LLP. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/31/2017. Office location: Unknown. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The Partnership, 200 West 57th Street, Suite 601, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [7/218/25]

121 SAINT JAMES PLACE LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/16/2017. Office in Kings Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Groupe M at Merrill Lynch, 601 Lexington Ave., 47th Fl, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Principal business loc: 121 Saint James Pl., Brooklyn, NY 11238. [7/21-8/25]

Notice of Formation of ESNMC Subsidiary CDE X, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/23/17. 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: 633 3rd Ave, Fl. 37, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: being certified as, and performing as, a certified community development entity eligible to receive an allocation of new markets tax credits under the new markets tax credit program. [7/14-8/18]

Notice of Formation of ESNMC Subsidiary CDE XI, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/23/17. 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: 633 3rd Ave, Fl. 37, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: being certified as, and performing as, a certified community development entity eligible to receive an allocation of new markets tax credits under the new markets tax credit program. [7/14-8/18]

Notice of Formation of ESNMC Subsidiary CDE VIII, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/23/17. 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: 633 3rd Ave, Fl. 37, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: being certified as, and performing as, a certified community development entity eligible to receive an allocation of new markets tax credits under the new markets tax credit program. [7/14-8/18]

Notice of Formation of ESNMC Subsidiary CDE VII, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/23/17. 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: 633 3rd Ave, Fl. 37, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: being certified as, and performing as, a certified community development entity eligible to receive an allocation of new markets tax credits under the new markets tax credit program. [7/14-8/18]

Notice of Formation of ESNMC Subsidiary CDE XV, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/23/17. 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: 633 3rd Ave, Fl. 37, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: being certified as, and performing as, a certified community development entity eligible to receive an allocation of new markets tax credits under the new markets tax credit program. [7/14-8/18]

Notice of Qualification of WESTMINSTER STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/11/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/09/17. Princ. office of LLC: 299 Park Ave., 20th Fl., NY, NY 10171. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Attn: General Counsel, 299 Park Ave., 42nd Fl., NY, NY 10171; however, as amended by Cert. of Amendment filed with SSNY on 05/18/17, name changed to LIONHEART STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT LLC, also amended on 5/18/17, SSNY shall mail process to c/o Lionheart Strategic Management LLC, Attn: Mr. Billy Jacobs, 299 Park Ave., 20th Fl., NY, NY 10171.

DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [7/14-8/18]

Notice of Formation of MSHP ACO, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/22/17.

Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1099, NY, NY 10029, principal business address. Purpose: any lawful activity. [7/14-8/18]

Notice of formation of 181 ELK STREET LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/28/2017. Office location: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Matthew Mahanna, 123 Washington St., Apt. 51G, New York, NY 10006. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [7/148/18]

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THE TITUS SCHOOL, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/3/2017. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Natalie Brandefine, 38 Demarest Ave., Closter, NJ 07624. Purpose: To operate and maintain a school for children with disabilities as well as any lawful purpose.

[7/14-8/18]

Notice of formation of MAPLE HAPPY LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/05/2017. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Andrea Dyson, 100 Jay St, Apt 9E, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [7/7-8/11]

Notice of Formation of ASRGP 2016 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/27/17. 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: 429 E 52nd St, Apt 4A, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity. [7/7-8/11]

Notice of Formation of BRIGHTON SOLUTIONS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/26/17. Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [7/7-8/11]

Notice of Formation of DJSGP 2016 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/27/17. 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: 429 E 52nd St, Apt 4A, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity. [7/7-8/11]

Notice of Formation of 1431 Cromwell LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/23/17. 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 CT Corporation, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [7/7-8/11]

Notice of Qualification of Q HOLDINGS LLC. The fictitious name is: Q BRANDS LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/25/16.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/30/15. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 110 Wall St, Fl. 4, NY, NY 10005. DE address of LLC: 108 W 13th 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. [7/7-8/11]

Notice of Qualification of THE ENGLISHSPEAKING UNION OF THE UNITED STATES NEW YORK BRANCH, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/27/17.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/01/16. Princ. office of LLC: c/o The English-Speaking Union of the United States, 144 E. 39th St., NY, NY 10016.

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. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 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. [7/7-8/11]

Notice of Qualification of REVIVE ELECTRONICS, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/22/17. Office location: New York Co. LLC formed in Indiana (IN) on 12/5/12. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. IN address of LLC: 525 Congressional Blvd, Carmel, IN 46032. Cert. of Formation filed with IN Secy of State, 200 W Washington St, Rm 201, Indianapolis, IN 46204.

The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [7/7-8/11]

Notice of formation of TIN TIN REALTY LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/23/2017. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: TIN TIN REALTY LLC, 1230 76TH Street, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [7/7-8/11]

Notice of Qualification of CHAVERWARE, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/29/17. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/24/17.

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, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John J. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [7/7-8/11]

Notice of Qualification of BC PARTNERS ADVISORS L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/26/17. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/29/17. Princ. office of LP: 650 Madison Ave., 23rd Fl., NY, NY 10022. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with The Secy. of State of the State of DE, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [7/7-8/11]

Notice of Formation of Prime Core Basics LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/26/17. Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Kane Kessler, P.C., 666 Third Ave., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful activity.

[7/7-8/11]

Notice of Formation of 1211 Franklin Avenue LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/26/17. 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 Phipps Houses, 902 Broadway, 13th Fl., NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful activity. [7/7-8/11]

Notice of Qualification of NEWZOOM HOLDINGS LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/23/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/18/15. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 252 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [7/7-8/11]

Notice of formation of JOURNEY GROWTH CAPITAL & ADVISORS, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/16/2017. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Jennifer A. Guzman, 311 East 11th Street, Apt #2A, New York, NY 10003.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [7/7-8/11]

Notice of formation of MATTHESS LEMONADE LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/13/2017. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: MATTHESS LEMONADE LLC, 115 W 16 St, Basement, New York, NY 10003. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of Farley Developer LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/13/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 210 Route 4 East, Paramus, NJ 07652.

LLC formed in DE on 6/12/17. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [6/30-8/4]

Notice of Qualification of Farley Property Manager LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/13/17. Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 210 Route 4 East, Paramus, NJ 07652. LLC formed in DE on 6/12/17. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [6/30-8/4]

2177 CLARENDON MANAGEMENT LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/26/2017.

Office in Kings Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Legalinc Corporate Services, 1967 Wehrle Dr., Ste. 1 #086 Buffalo, NY 14221, which is also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [6/308/4]

Notice of Qualification of 187 Broadway Development LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/20/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/2/17. 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. [6/30-8/4]

Notice of Qualification of TRUVEN HEALTH ANALYTICS LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/19/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/2/16. 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.

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Notice of Qualification of 187 Broadway Retail LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/20/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/2/17.

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. [6/30-8/4]

Notice of Qualification of 187 Broadway TRS LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/20/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/2/17.

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. [6/30-8/4]

Notice of Formation of ALPHA SQUARED PARTNERS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/15/17. 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 James Kruvant, 270 Park Ave. South, Apt. 9F, NY, NY 10010.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [6/30-8/4]

JULY 28, 2017 Notice of Qualification of 31 WEST 27TH STREET PROPERTY INVESTORS IV, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/20/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/12/17. Princ. office of LLC: 430 Park Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John B. Townsend Bldg., 401 Frederal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [6/30-8/4]

Notice of Formation of AA 2040 White Plains LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/21/17. 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. [6/30-8/4]

Notice of Formation of Maple Avenue Flushing LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 06/16/17. 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 C T CORPORATION SYSTEM, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

[6/30-8/4]

Notice of Qualification of SILOETT, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/14/17. Office location: New York Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/3/17. 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 15801. 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. [6/30-8/4]

Notice of Qualification of Macquarie Energy Partners GP LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/12/17. Office location: New York Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/5/17. 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.

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Notice of Qualification of 163 Varick Funding LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/12/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/7/17.

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. [6/30-8/4]

Notice of Qualification of ML FOOTWEAR, LLC. The fictitious name is: ML FOOTWEAR (NEW YORK), LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/13/17. Office location: New York Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/15/17. 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. NV address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, #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.

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JULY 28, 2017 Notice of formation of GAUDY BOY, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/01/2017. Office location: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Jee Leong Koh, 3 W 122nd Street, Apt. 5D, New York, NY 10027.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [6/30-8/4]

Notice of Formation of SWCGP 2012 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/12/17. 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: 411 E 53rd St, NY, NY 10022.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [6/30-8/4]

Notice of Qualification of TIF Partners, LLC. Fictitious name in NY State: Technology Impact Fund Partners, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/16/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/1/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 250 University Ave., Ste. 400, Palo Alto, CA 94301.

DE address of LLC: Cogency Global Inc., 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. [6/30-8/4]

Notice of Formation of Zero Squabble LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/21/16. 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: 150 E 58th St, Fl. 39, NY, NY 10155. Purpose: any lawful activity. [6/30-8/4]

BILLY & CHRISTO LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/20/2017. Office in Kings Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 4 Russell St., Brooklyn, NY 11222, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [6/30-8/4]

Notice of Formation of TROON ELECTRIC OF NEW YORK, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/5/17. 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.

[6/30-8/4]

Notice of formation of ANGLO AMERICAN NYC LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/12/2017. Office location: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Mark Pettit, 225 – 5th Avenue, Apartment 5J, New York, NY 10010.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [6/23-7/28]

Notice of Qualification of Anon Atelier II LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/8/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 4400 Harding Rd., One Belle Meade Pl., Nashville, TN 37205. LLC formed in DE on 6/5/17. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [6/237/28]

Notice of Qualification of Grey State Apparel LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/2/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/10/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 305 7th Ave., Ste. 13A, NY, NY 10001. DE address of LLC: 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

[6/16-7/21]

The Jewish Voice Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: PoK 23 Acad, LLC (“LLC”).

Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on June 1, 2017. NY office location: New York County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to PoK 23 Acad, LLC, 333 Park Avenue South, Suite 4E, New York, NY 10010.

Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. [6/16-7/21]

Notice of Qualification of Blackstone Core Equity Partners – CA L.P. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/12/17.

Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/8/17. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the DE address of LP: c/o Intertrust Corporate Services Delaware Ltd., 200 Bellevue Parkway, Ste. 210, Wilmington, DE 19809. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Cert. of LP filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [6/23-7/28]

Notice of Qualification of 85 BROAD STREET PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/24/17. Office location: New York Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/18/17. 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. [6/16-7/21]

Notice of Qualification of NEREUS GP, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/9/17. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/8/17.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Stephen Huang, Manager, c/o Nereus Capital Partners, 110 W. 40th St., Ste. 604, NY, NY 10018. DE address of LLC: 1675 South State St., Ste. B, Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [6/23-7/28]

PAGE 47 Notice of formation of SAFARI RESTAURANT NYC, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/18/2014. Office location: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Maymuuna Birjeeb, 215 W. 116 Street, New York, NY 10026. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

[6/23-7/28]

Notice of Formation of BX 10 CCP LLC. Arts.

Notice of Formation of INGERSOLL SENIOR IH LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/02/17. Office location: Kings County. Princ. office of LLC: 150 Myrtle Ave., 2nd Fl., Brooklyn, NY 11201. 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. [6/16-7/21]

of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/21/17. 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 Cohen Commercial Properties, 10 E. 40th St., Ste. 3105, NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [6/30-8/4]

Notice of Formation of FIELD TEST LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY)

Notice of Qualification of VATIC FUND I, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/08/17. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/08/17.

Princ. office of LLC: 315 Madison Ave., 19th Fl., NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Chris Dey at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [6/23-7/28]

on 06/07/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 116 W. 23rd St., Ste. 500, NY, NY 10011. 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.

[6/30-8/4]

Notice of formation of ONCE UPON A SKIRT – STATEN ISLAND, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/31/2017.

Notice of Qualification of Mizzen and Main LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/2/17. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Texas (TX) on 5/7/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the TX address of LLC: Attn: Kevin S. Lavelle, 1444 Oak Lawn Ave., Ste. 545, Dallas, TX 75207. Arts. of Org. filed with TX Secy. of State, 1019 Brazos, Austin, TX 78701. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [6/16-7/21]

Notice of Qualification of Tyrus Capital Americas, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/9/16. Office location: New York Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/7/16. 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.

[6/16-7/21]

193 B2BR LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/17/2017. Office in Kings Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2057 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11230.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [7/21-8/25]

1933 E 12 ST LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/30/2017. Office loc: Kings County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 50 Jericho Tpke, #201, Jericho, NY 11753. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [6/9-7/14]

Notice of formation of LAB 26 APPAREL LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/12/2017. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: LAB 26 APPAREL LLC, 6402 8th Ave Suite 403, Brooklyn, NY 11220 Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [6/16-7/21]

LIAO FAMILY BROOKLYN PROPERTIES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/22/17. Office in Kings Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Cornicello, Tendler & Baumel-Cornicello, LLP, 2 Wall St., 20th Fl., NY, NY 10005. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [6/23-7/28]

Office location: Richmond County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Joanna Obiedzinki – Once Upon A Skirt, 850 Route 3 Suite 230, Clifton, NJ 07012.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [6/23-7/28]

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

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TO ADVERTISE IN THE JEWISH VOICE CALL: 800-998-0885

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JOBS & SERVICES HELP WANTED

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AIDE/ COMPANION. PT/ FT. Experienced Aide in all aspects of care seeks job caring for the elderly. Excellent references and NYS driver’s license.

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HEALTH / SOCIAL SERVICES

9930

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9043

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9970

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9040

9950 PIANO FOR SALE. Baldwin

2 MARIO’S. Stoops, Blue Stone, Brickwork, Pavers & Repairs. Commercial & Residential. CALL ME LAST! 516-984-9943 LM0804

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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

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9025

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New Guinea and African Art, selling personal collection, all prices considered.

917-374-4038

LM0825

PLAYER PIANO, 1 octave short of being full piano with 23 rolls, $850. Also, LARGE PILLOW SECTIONAL, brown velour, $500. You are responsible for shipping if you are outside of Long Island. 631-665-7255 LM0728

ENTERTAINMENT

9044

Serious Singers, Groups needed for Record Deal and

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HELP OFFERED

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REAL ESTATE OPEN HOUSES BROOKLYN

1638

MIDWOOD OPEN HOUSE. EVERY SUN, 1-4PM. 1773 Ocean Ave & Ave M. One store + 1 family house for sale. Totally renovated, semi-detached garage. Asking $1.38 million.

Galaxy Fortune Realty. Call Agent Betty Yee 917-337-3336 LM0901

COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES FOR RENT BROOKLYN

1050

EAST 4TH ST OFF AVE M. 2nd floor, 1,500 sq ft. 8 offices, 2 bathrooms. C/A/ht. Elevator bldg. Near transportation/ shopping. Will assist with reconfiguration. 347-661-7300 LM0811

MANHATTAN

2050

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

QUEENS

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

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

NEW YORK STATE

LONG ISLAND 7050

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

COMMERCIAL / PROPERTIES FOR SALE NEW YORK STATE 7060 MALONE, NY. 103 Acres for Sale in the Country. 10 Miles West on 11B, Property is on Spalding Road. Power on the property. Just outside the Adirondack Park. $110,000 Or Best Offer. Call 802-767-3311 LM0825

OUT OF STATE

8060

EAST STROUDSBURG, PA. Building Lot For Sale. Level, treed lot in Winona Lakes, clubhouse, 2 pools, more! $2,000. 570-369-2595 LM0804 TOMS RIVER/ OCEAN CTY, NJ. For Sale, user/ investor opportunity, 9,000 sq ft Commercial building on 1.74 acres with 2,700 sq ft leased to national tenant. Multipurpose building, drive-in doors, great for all type contractors. Traffic counts over 44,000 cars per day.

REMCO REALTY 732-253-0888 x 11 LM0916 JERSEY CITY. Builder’s Dream! Exclusive, residential lot is located on a quiet street East of Garfield Ave. Asking $225,000. Hurry! Won’t last!

Call Grisell Romero at Exit Preferred Realty 201-6533948 LM0902

APARTMENTS FOR RENT BROOKLYN

1010

AVE U BETWEEN EAST 2ND & 3RD STREET. Second floor, private house. 2BR, 1 bath, newly renovated kitchen. Near transportation & shopping. $2,100 including utilities. Call Owner 917-865-6465 LM0811

6010

SAG HARBOR. 5 BEDROOMS, 3.5 BATHS, NEW SALT GUNITE POOL. Available 8/6-9/2 weekly ($6k-$8k, depends on week.) Contact 917-509-6189 LM0804

MONTAUK. Hear the ocean!

Private setting. 4 bedrooms, 2 ½ baths. Extensive decks.

Outdoor shower. Walk to ocean bay & town. Available August through September 10. Weekly stays welcome.

Call for website. 516-458-5810 LM0728

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

MADISON. KINGS HIGHWAY & E 20’s. Semi-det 1 family home centrally located to Avenue P, Ocean Ave & Kings Highway. Home features 3 bedrooms, on 2 nd floor with full bath. FLR & FDR on Main floor with large EIK, wood cabinets. Mud room & half bath. Full basement, plenty of storage. Attic with full stairs possible dormer. New roof- 2 years old with 25 year warranty. New Gutters, pointing of chimney and chimney cap.

New heating unit and hot water unit were just put in Oct 16. Two car garage with new garage door and new roof. Large yard for additional parking or patio.

Lots of light. Call for more information. Welcome Home Realty 718-513- 0240 LM0818

LAGRANGE TOWN OF, $350,000 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) SWIMMING POOLS

HOUSES FOR SALE BROOKLYN

1040

MARINE PARK/ AVENUE P. Huge 1 family, fully detached home on 40 x 100 lot with long private driveway in Marine Park!

Enclosed front porch set up as modern home office. Formal living room with wood-burning fireplace. Open concept to Formal Dining room, parquet floors. Spacious modern Eat-in-kitchen with stainless steel appliances. Sliders to large deck. ½ bath. Oversized Master Bedroom, plus 2 additional large bedrooms.

Full bath. Basement is full with kitchenette and huge full bath with Jacuzzi tub, stall shower and cedar closet. High ceilings throughout the home. Lots of windows and light! Gas heat.

Lots of storage! Long private driveway with one car garage.

Yard. Call for more information.

Welcome Home Realty 718-513-0240 LM0818

East 34th St./ I & J Gut renovated 1 family semi-det triplex, 6BR's, 4.5 baths, kosher kitchen, fin bsmt w/2BR apt. Solar panels, C/AC, pvt drv/ gar. $959K. Call (917)774-5554 LM0804

BRONX

4040

BRONX. DREAM LOCATION! Throgs Neck Tranquility. Steps from City Island Sound and Pelham Park. Minutes from shopping, transportation and I-95. 2 family (2100 square feet total); patio, backyard & shed.

Great investment property!

Buyer/ Brokers Welcome.

Contact: Joanne 917-232-8616 LM0804

LONG ISLAND

6040

MERRICK S. Hi Ranch, 2.5 New Baths, updated granite kitchen, 4BR, Luxurious IGP, Stone Gas Fireplace, SD25. $669K. 516-379-6608 LM0901

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

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

LM0703

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OUT OF STATE

8040

COZY LOG CABIN FOR SALE IN MASTHOPE COMMUNITY

7040

FOR SALE BY OWNER

Fishkill, Townhouse, Deer Crossing 1br, 2b 1,365sqft, built 1992, 50-unit dev, end unit, on cul de sac, c/a, gas ht, LR, DR, Den, Laundry Rm, Gar, refrig, d/w, range. New roof, eff. hvac (2009), cath ceil in LR, Den dbls as gst BR next to full BR,lLoft w/skylt and adj strg. rm, lg Mstr BR - 2 (1 walkin) CA closets, access to clubhse & pool. Beautifully landscaped-woods behind All-glass sunroom. $279,900. See Zillow for addl pics.914.841.3237

3 Bedrooms 1.5 Bath Stone Fireplace Attached Spa Room, Rap Around Deck & Finished Basement - and much more a must see. $258,000.00 By appointment only call Richard Mansfield 772-220-8339 LM0901

PLOTS FOR SALE

9065

MOUNT ARARAT. East Farmingdale. Section 68, Range D, Plot 1, 2, 3 & 4. Great location. Photos available. $24,000 for all 4 graves. Call 516-241-0915 LM0901 WELLWOOD. 4 Plots- Lot 23, Div. J. Price Negotiable.

631-665-1140 LM0728

PINELAWN Garden of Normandie. 1 Plot for 2. $5,600. 631-220-4887 LM0901

POMPANO BEACH FL - Atlantic Blvd, Briny Ave.

BETH ISRAEL IN WOODBRIDGE, NJ. Outdoor Mausoleum, Crypt for 3, Building 23, Section 21, Level 4, Crypt # 38. Valued at $20,000.

Asking $10,000 neg. Call 917445-5293 or 718-894-7728 LM0818 KING SOLOMON MEMORIAL PARK, CLIFTON, NJ. 1 plot, Lebanon B, $1,550 plus $300 paid directly to Cemetery for maintenance and preservation.

Call Ruth at 713-667-1483 or 281-660-5380 LM0811

FLORIDA

9080

Looking for a fantastic, fully upgraded 2BR/ 2 bath condo in Pompano Beach? What are you waiting for? Your South Florida oasis awaits! Call Rob Yacovone @ 561-777- 4225 LM0818

AVENTURA. Mint condition 2BR, 2 bath condo, split-plan, gorgeous, unobstructed marina view, spa- separate bldg, newer 3 ton a/c, 24 hr sec & valet, charter school, pets. BONUS: Deeded 2 covered parking spots. Priced to sell! By Owner. Leave Message for Appt.

786-252-4400 LM0901

2BR, 2BA, 2nd flr, corner unit.

Sm bldg, balcony remodeled, newly painted & low maint fee.

Brokers protected. S659,000.

Rent min 4 mos; $18,000 + sec.

203-610-1868 LM0929 PALM BEACH GARDENS, FLORIDA. PGA National Spa

FOR SALE • ORLANDO VICINITY 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

& Resort. Prime Location.

Beautifully renovated, det 1 fam house with private backyard & garage. 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. One floor.

782145

Seeking Top L.I. Realtors ready to make a deal on a good investment property. Investor seeking to buy below market.

Bonus. Call 516-693-3995 LM0804

Selling for $317,000. Also, for rent. Winter Rental $5,400. 4

ASKING $625K

BY OWNER 443-875-9204

months preferred.

917-301-6180

LM0811

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

CATSKILL MT./HUDSON VALLEY HOME FOR SALE 4 BEDROOM HOME IN-LAW 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

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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